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VOLUME XXIII. NO. 38. 
pierced with nails ; those hands,- which hove' debts ; two I lend ; and two I give for the Lord's 
spread out the heavens, are extended and nailed , sake.' 
to the cross ; the body the holy tabernacle of the "This is a mystery which I cannot solve, re- 
Divinity, is bruised, and pierced with a spear ; plied the King." 
and life remains in the tongue, that prayer may "Then I will solve it for you," said the far- 
be offered for those who crucify him, He who mer. "I have two old parents at home,who kept 
reigns in heaven with the Father is grievously me when I was weak and needed help ; I keep 
afflicted for our sins, upon the cross. The son of them ; this is my debt towards which I pay two 
God suffers ; the Son of God freely sheds his I groschen a day. The third pair of groschen,which 
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A TRUE STORY. 
"Father is late," said the Watching boy ; 
"I'll run through the woods to meet him, 
For I love to see hie smile of joy 
When his little son comes to greet him. 
"I'll take his ax from his weary hand, 
And lay it over my shoulder : 
Ill go to the clearing, and help him too, 
When I am a few years older," 
The boy set out through the forest dim—
There were prowlers watching his feet—
But the wild beasts waked no fears in him, 
He would soon his father meet. 
"On, on he walked, till his little feet 
Ached, and were growing weary ; 
"I'll rest," said he, "on this mossy seat, 
For the way is long and dreary. 
"I cannot hear the woodman's as, 
So I think their work is done, 
And father will surely pass this way, 
For other there is none." 
He sat him down on a tall tree's root, 
- To watch for his father's coming ; 
But soon a mist came o'er his eyes, 
And his ears heard only a humming. 
And down he dropped by the tall tree's foot, 
Never thinking of (ear or joy ; 
And a kind little whirlwind heaped the leaves 
All over the sleeping boy. 
The father turned his weary feet 
Towards his home of joy 
And he thought of the welcome awaiting him there, 
And he thought of his darling boy. 
He cast his eyes upon the ground, • 
And close by the side of the way ; 
He stooped to note a strange little mound, 
Heaping up of leaves so gay. 
He passed along, then turned—impelled 
By a thought both strange and wild—
Ile cast the varied spread aside, 
And saw his sleeping child. 
He raised him gently in his arms, 
And in his place he laid 
A log of wood, and covered it o'er 
With the leaves of the forest glade. 
Then he withdrew to a sheltered spot, 
For he heard a fearful howl, 
And soon the wolves came creeping out 
And round the mound they prowl. 
As they cast the light gay leaves aside, 
And their glaring eyes were seen, 
The father strained his child to his breast, 
As he thought of what might have been! 
Then he homeward strode, but the boy slept on, 
As over the ground they flew ; 
Of the danger threatmed he nothing dreamed, 
Of the rescue lie he nothing knew. 
And the father's feet never stopped or stayed 
Till he passed the forest wild,. 
And said, as he sunk on his own door stone, 
"Thank God, l've saved my child "' 
So, Christian, dost thou walk life's maze 
While hidden foes surround thee; 
So all unconscious oft art thou, 
Of strong arms thrown around thee ; 
For angel hands do bear thee up, 
Lest thou should'st fall and perish ; • 
Aye, one that's stronger still, His lambs 
Doth ever fold and cherish. 
And when that foe who seeks thy soul 
To ruin and devour, 
Shall find thee helpless and alone, 
Oh, fear thou nut his power ; 
For One that's mightier far than he 
Will to thy rescue come ; 
He'll take thee in his own strong arms, 
And bear thee to his home. 
Right to One Promise. 
RIGHT TO ALL. 
The promises can be no more divided than 
Christ can be divided, or than heaven can be 
divided ; the promises are not like loose pearls, 
but as pearls made into one entire chain. He 
that can lay his hand upon that promise in Matt. 
v. 6—"Blessed are they which do thirst after 
righteousness, for they shall be filled," and truly 
say, this promise is mine, may safely lay his 
hand upon that promise, verse 8—"Blessed are 
the pure in heart for they shall see God," and 
say, this promise is mine ; and the same he may 
say of the rest of the precious promises that are 
specified in verses 3, 4, 5, 7, 9, 10, 11, of that 
chapter. He that can lay his hand upon any 
one promise that God has made for them that 
love him, and truly say, this promise is mine, 
may safely lay his hand upon every promise that 
God haS made to them that love him, and say 
these are mine. He that can lay his hand npon 
any one promise that God has made to faith in 
Chriit, to believing in Christ, and truly say this 
promise is mine, may safely lay his hand upon 
every promise that God has made to faith in 
Christ, to belief in Christ, and say all these 
promises are mine. He that can lay his hand 
upon any one promise that God has made to the 
returning sinner, and truly say, this promise is 
mine, may securely lay his hand upon every 
promise that God has made to the returning sin-
ner, the repenting sinner, and say all these are 
mine. He that can lay his hand upon any one 
promise that God has made to the waiting soul 
and truly say,this promise is mine, may without 
peradventure lay his hand upon every promise 
that God has made to the waiting soul, and say, 
all these are mine. Prove but your right in one, 
and you may safely infer your right to all.—
Brooks. 
A Look at the Cross. 
Behold, 0 faithful soul, the grief of the cruci-
fied, the wounds of him hanging on the cross and 
the agony of the dying Saviour ! That head, so 
glorious to angelic spirits,is pierced by thethick-
ly-plaited thorns ; the face excelling in beauty 
the sons of men, is marred by the abuse of the 
impious ; those eyes brighter than the sun, are 
dimmed in death ; those ears, which were famil-
iar with angelic praises, are stunned with the in-
sults and sarcasms of the wicked ; those lips, 
which trembled with eloquence divine, and which 
taught angels,are touched with vinegar and gall ; 
those feet, for which the earth is a footstool, are 
blood.---Gerhardt's Meditations. 
Jesus is the Resurrection. 
Man sinned, and therefore man died. Jesus 
over death, lie keeps the key of the grave. Res-
urrection is in his power. He will raise us up 
from the dust of death. By virture of our union 
to him,by the putting forth of his power upon us 
he will raise us up exactly like himself. Our 
bodies will be spiritual. No more the seat of 
pain. No more diseased or deformed. No more 
log and hinderance to the soul. They will be 
beautiful, healthful helps to the soul, glorious. 
Because Jesus arose,We shall arise ; for he arose 
as the first fruits of them that slept, and as the 
first fruits are presented to God, and accepted of 
God, the whole harvest shall be gathered in. Pa 
rent, thy child, which died in Jesus, shall arise 
again. Child, thy deceased parent, who fell 
asleep in Jesus, shall arise again. Weeping 
widow, thy sainted husband shall arise again. 
They died in the Lord. They retain their con-
nection with the Lord. They will be raised to 
glorify the Lord. For Jesus will "come to be 
glorified in his saints, and admired in all them 
that believe." The corn of wheat which fell into 
the ground and died, will appear a beautiful 
plant, and its fruits will shake like Lebanon. 
Then this corruptible shall put on incorruption, 
and this mortal shall put on immortality; and 
then shall be brought to pass the saying that is 
written, "Death is swallowed up in victory." 
Christ alone ! Christ alone ! 
A Contented Farmer. 
Once upon a time,Frederick, King of Prussia 
surnamed "Old Fritz," took a ride and es-
pied an old farmer ploughing his acre by the 
wayside, cheerfully singing his melody. 
"You must be well off, old man," said the 
King ; "does this acre belong to you, which you 
so industriously labor ?" 
"No sir," replied the farmer,who did not know 
that it was the King. "I am not so rich as that ; 
I plough for wages." 
"How much do you get a day ?" asked the 
King. 
"Eight groschen," said the farmer. 
"This is not much," replied the King; "can 
you get along with this ?" 
"Get along, and have something left." 
"How is that ?" 
• 
The farmer smiled, and said :— 
"Well, if I must tell you, two groschen are 
or myself and wife ; with two I pay my old 
I lend away, I -spend for the children, that they 
may receive a Christian instruction ; this will 
eome handy to me and my wife when we get old. 
With the last two groschen I maintain two sick 
"He Reads and I Pray." 
Alice M—had received a fine education. 
Her mind had been naturally and evenly devel-
oped. She had committed many select texts of 
Scripture to memory, and had enforced their les-
sons on her own heart. The Spirit of God took 
of the things of Christ and showed them unto 
her. She received the truth in the love of it. 
Her Bible and her closet were dear to hear. Her 
happiest hours were her seasons of communion 
with her Saviour. The sabbath was to her a 
heaven below. 
Alice was but twenty-one years of age when 
she became the wife of a ship-master some four 
or five years older than herself. He was going 
to America in a new ship, and had a state-room 
fitted and furnished for her accommodation, and 
she consented to accompany him to sea. Their 
wedded life began upon the deep. The husband 
was a stranger to the power of grace. He ad-
mired and loved his wife for her earnest piety. 
On her return home from her first voyage, she 
confided to a friend who had been her spiritual 
adviser, that they had lived a life of prayer even 
on shipboard. 
"Was he willing to pray with you ?" asked the 
friend. 
"No," replied Alice, "but we had prayers to-
gether every day, and he seemed glad to have 
it so. He read and I prayed." 
Ts it strange that within two years that hus-
band's soul was brought to the foot of the cross, 
and that the time came when she read and he 
prayed ? 
Are there not many for whom this case wil 
furnish an example, and who will be encouraged 
by it to do likewise ? 
sisters whom I would not be compelled to keep ; 
died, and therefore man shall rise again. The 
doctrine of the resurrection is a precious doctrine. this I give for the Lord's sake. 
 
Martha believed-it, but she looked upon it as The King well pleased with this answer, said : 
tied to a particular time: "I know that he shall —"Bravely spoken, old man ! Now I will give 
 
rise again, at the resurrection at the last day, you something to guess. Have you ever seen me 
 
Jesus said I am the resurrection." He has power before ?" 
"Never," said the farmer. 
"In less than five minutes you shall see me fifty 
times, and carry in your pocket fifty of my like-
nesses. 
"This is a riddle which I cannot unravel." 
said the farmer. 
"Then I will do it for you," replied the King. 
Thrusting his hand into his pocket, and count-
ing him fifty new gold pieces into his hand,stamp-
ed with his royal likeness, he said to the aston-
ished farmer, who knew not what was coming : 
"The coin is also genuine, for it also comes from 
our Lord God, and I am going to be his pay-
master." 
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THE ADVENT HERALD. 
ael, our great prince, and his angel Gabriel, who known that Irving's aberrations were not the 
only resembled Michael, we know what the Re- whole of Irving, and that, sorrowful as was his 
velator meant when he said that Jesus Christ re- sunset, his morning was full of promise, and his 
ceived the revelation from God, and ("he Christ noon of brightness. 
From the London Quarterly Journal of Prophecy. 
"Memorial of Blowing of Trum- 
pets." 
In reference to this feast we read in the 81st 
Psalm, "Blow up the trumpet in the solemn feast 
day, for this was a statute for Israel, and a law 
of God of Jacob. This He ordained in Joseph 
for a testimony, when he went out through the 
land of Egypt ; where I heard a language that 
I understood not. I removed his shoulder from 
the burden ; his hands were delivered from the 
pots. Thou calledst in trouble, and I delivered 
thee ; I answered thee in the secret place of 
thunder." In this we have a key by which we 
can discover the true intent of the feast ; of what 
it is commemorative ; and why fear and hope 
and affliction and joy are so intermingled in its 
celebration. These several things then are in-
cluded in the celebration of the feast—a remem-
brance of a remarkable blowing of trumpets 
which took place in the past, during their deliv-
erance from Egypt—a time of great distress 
and perplexity to Israel in connection there-
with ; an urgent appeal to God under these cir-
cumstances, and God's favourable answer from 
"the secret place of thunder." Associations 
of these things lead us at once to the foot of 
Mount Sinai, and in and around that consecrat-
ed mountain we hear the echo of those lessons 
which God wished the children of Israel to re-
member by annual celebration and by solemn 
commemoration. the few verses quoted from 
this psalm are an epitome of what took place on 
this awfully grand occasion, and in the 19th and 
20th chapters of Exodus we have the full re-
cord. 
In the 19th chapter of Exodus, we read, "It 
came to pass on the third day, in the morning, 
that there were thunderings and lightnings, and 
a thick cloud upon the mount, and the voice of 
the trumpet exceeding loud ; so that all the peo-
ple that was in the camp trembled. And mount 
Sinai was altogether on a smoke, because the 
Lord descended upon it in fire ; and the smoke 
thereof ascended as the smoke of' a furnace, and 
the whole mount quaked greatly. And when 
the voice of the trumpet sounded long and wax-
el louder and louder, Moses spake, and God an-
swered him by a voice." We see in this two of 
the things mentioned in the psalm,viz., the blow-
ing of trumpets, and the fear and trembling of 
the people, with all the fearful accompaniments 
of darkness, of lightnings, and thunders and 
earthquakes ; but we do not see the request of 
the people, nor the answer of God. In the 20th 
chapter of Exodus and 19th verse, we have the 
request of the peopla—"Speak thou with us, and 
we will hear ; but let not God speak with us,lest 
we die." In the 5th chapter of Deuteronomy 
and 28th and 29th verses, we have God's an-
swer to this request ; and he says—"I have 
heard the voice of the words of this people,vvhich 
they have spoken unto thee ; they have well said 
all that they have spoken. 0 that there were 
an heart in them that they would fear me, and 
keep all my commandments, that it might be 
well with them, and their children after them. 
As for thee, stand thou here by me, and I will 
speak unto thee all the commandments, and the 
statutes, and the judgments, which thou shalt 
teach them, that they may do them in the land 
which I gave them to possess it." 
Thus all the Sinaitic wonders and terrors 
which made Moses himself "exceedingly fear 
and quake," wrung from the children of Israel 
an urgent request for a mediator, and God ap-
proved of their request, and gave them in an-
swer, Moses as mediator for the time then be-
ing. 
From the Northern Christian Advocate. 
My Heart and I. 
Heart, in thy loneliness, languor and pain, 
Seeking for brotherhood, seeking in vain, 
Turn from the careless, the hard and the cold, 
Turn from companionship warily doled ; 
Heart, in thy wistfulness lifting the eye, 
God, in his listfulness, heareth the cry. 
Heed not the carelessness ; let the weak arms 
Fall not in prayerlessness ; fearless of harms, 
Pass through the tempest, the darkness, the fire, 
Christ walks beside thee, till thou rise higher 
Still, in security thou may'st be, 
God, in his purity smileth on thee. 
Weak and imperfect, fearful and frail, 
Faith, that is fixed on him, never can fall ; 
Looking to Jesus, and washed in his blood, 
Seeking to serve, and to glorify God ; 
Heart, in thy lowliness, bending the knee, 
God, in his holiness, bendeth to thee. 
Nearer, and nearer, he draws to thy side, 
Dearer, and dearer, whatever betide; 
A. reef in the ocean, but be not afraid, 
He walks on the water,the flood-tides are stayed ; 
Safe in this ocean wide, learn thou his will, 
"Peace, troubled ocean-tide,peace,be thou still !" 
Bearing so wearily, life's heavy load, 
Looking so drearily, out on the flood ; 
Storm-clouds and sunshine, darkness and light, 
Kindness, injustice, the wrong and the right, 
Gladness and truthfulness, weakness and might, 
Keep thou thy truthfulness, all shall be right. 
Live thou in blamelessness, thou art God's own ; 
Look up in shamelessness, dreading no frown ; 
Life's incompleteness, and vanishing, all, 
All of earth's sweetnesses, turning to gall. 
From this hot crucible, truths will unfold ; 
Dross is reducibie, not the pure gold. 
Still, thou art heedlessly turning to earth 
Searching, so needlessly, over its dearth ; 
Seest thou not the calm smile, and the hand, 
Guiding thy steps through this desert of sand ? 
Over this desert path, Jesus once trod, 
Search out his footprints, and follow thy God. 
Now, the sun glistening, poureth its heat 
On thy path, blistering worn, weary feet; 
Now slaking thirst 'neath the oasis tree, 
On the horizon, heart, what dost thou see? 
Raise thou thy telescope over the sand, 
'Tis no kaledoscope, faith sees the end. 
No more weak flounderings under life's load ! 
No more lone wanderings over life's road ! 
Life's seething furnace, desert simoom, 
Mountain waves rushing on,threatening thy doom, 
Panting breath,struggling over life's rough moun- 
tain, 
Heart, thou art welling up Like a sweet fountain. 
From the Crisis. 
The Fellow Servant of John and the 
Prophets. 
"Then he said unto me, See thou do it not ; 
for I am thy fellow servant, and of thy brethren 
the prophets, and of them which keep the say-
ings of this book. Worship God."—Rev. 
9. 
"Then he said unto me See thou do it not; I 
am the fellow servant of' thee, and of thy breth-
ren the prophets, and of those that keep the 
words of this book. Worship God."—Wm. Kel-
ley's translation of the book of Rev. 
That the angel which served John was the fel-
low servant of the prophets, appears a matter of 
certainty when we compare the personal appear-
nce of each as given by Daniel and John. 
DANIEL'S ANGEL. 
"Then I lifted up mine eyes, and looked, and 
behold, a certain man clothed in linen, whose 
loins were girded with fine gold of Uphaz."—
Dan. 10: 5. 
"His body also was like the beryl, and his 
face as ,the appearance of lightning."—Dan. 10: 
6. 
"And his eyes as lamps of fire."—Dan. 10: 6. 
"And his arms and his feet like in color to 
polished brass."—Dan. 10: 5. 
"And the voice of his words like the voice of 
a multitude."—Dan. 10: 6. 
JOHN'S ANGEL. 
"And in the midst of the seven candlesticks 
one like unto the Son of man,clothed with a gar-
ment down to the feet, and girt about the paps 
with a golden girdled."—Rev. 1: 13. 
"And his countenance was as the sun shineth 
in strength."—Rev. 1: 16. 
"And his eyes were as a flame of fire."—Rev. 
1:14. 
"And his feet like unto fine brass, as if they 
burned in a furnace."---Rev. 1: 15. 
"And his voice as the sound of many waters." 
---Rev. 1: 15. 
Whether this angel of' Daniel be the Son of 
God himself, or "one like unto the Son of man," 
as both Daniel and John express it, matters but 
little since two angels were present in both cases; 
the Son of God and his angel both resembled each 
other in personal appearance. We learn from 
Daniel (8th chap.) that the name of one angel is 
Garbriel ; and (10th chap.) that Michael was 
sentito help Gabriel,and that there is "none that 
holdeth with me (Gabriel) in these things but 
Michael, your prince." Daniel 10: 21. Then if 
the unfolding of prophecy be committed to Mich- 
or Michael) sent and signified it by his angel (Ga 
briel) unto his servant John." 
More may be learned about this celestial ser 
vant Gabriel by consulting Luke 1: 19,26. This 
same man (for thus Daniel calls him) clothed in 
linen,swore that three times and a half and these 
"wonders" should be finished." Dan. 12: 6 7. 
And this same angel swears to John 
(Rev. 10: 5-7.) that the three times and a half 
are ended,and then the "mysteries" or "wonders" 
are finished. We also have in the 10th of Dan-
iel the secret why angels are so frequently called 
"a certain-man." Verse 16, one like the "multi-
tude of the sons of men," "the appearance of 
men." 
Then if the angel which. served Daniel, John 
and the prophets, is called a man when he was a 
man only in "similitude or "appearanc," let us 
not countenance this fable of these last days,that 
angels are the spirits of dead men ; but let us 
rather believe that man (like Jesus when he took 
upon him the form of man,) "was made a little 
lower than the angels." 
Since angels then, though a higher order of 
beings than man, are yet the servants of men, 
from this let us learn a lesson of humility, and 
become the servants of mankind, that we may 
one day be (not angels, but) "as the angels of 
God in heaven." Matt. 22: 30. 
V. P. SIMMONS. 
Danielsonville, Corm. 
As the one who appeared to John as,described 
in Rev. 1: 13-15e, said of himself, "I am thd 
First and the Last : I am He that liveth, and 
was dead" &c, He can be no augel but our Lord, 
the same whom Daniel says. An angel however 
was also present on each occasion. 
From the London Quarterly Journal of Prophecy. 
Edward Irving. 
Whether the memory of Edward Irving will 
ever emerge from the smoke and shadow which 
the last five years of his great life threw up 
around him, is not a little doubtful. Can it so 
emerge ? will be the question of some.; Ought 
it to do so ? will be that of others. Nor will 
these two last questions be asked by his enemies 
and detractors alone ; many of his true admir-
ers, many of the warm lovers of the man him-
self, and the cherishers of his memory, will be 
inclined to ask them, though, perhaps, they may 
be slow to give the answer. 
Whether the aberrations of his latter years 
deserve all the epithets that have been flung at 
them with such singular goodwill,by many whose 
acquaintance with the circumstances was at best 
one-sided and distant, is a point which we do 
not touch. But the eagerness with which these 
deviations were seized, and hurled with indis-
criminate animosity against the entire man and 
his whole life, suggests some sorrowful thoughts 
as to the candour and equity of the verdict. It 
is not that his extraordinary success threw him 
across the slander of envious pens and lips. We 
know how to measure the assault in such a case, 
and to make allowance for the ungenerous detrac-
tion of' disappointed ambition. But our busi-
ness, as writers in a journal dedicated to proph-
etic inquiry, lies beyond this. We read in the 
overcharged assaults made upon the man Ed-
ward Irving, the expression of dislike to millen-
narianism, and of delight at the fall of a millen-
narian standard-bearer. We can easily see the 
distaste at all prophetical studies giving edge to 
the weapons with which one of its students is 
assailed. The fierce denunciation of' what is un-
sound in this great man seems to us the utter-
ance of the pent-up fury against what we consider 
sound and true. Had Irving not been a milieu-
narian, we have courage enough to believe that 
he would have been weighed in more honest bal-
ances. The man and his errors would have been 
patiently separated ; the sweep of condemnation 
would have been somewhat limited ; evil and 
good, true and untrue, would not have been bu 
ried in the same grave ; and justice would have, 
ere this time, found some way of letting it be- 
Yet not the less do we refuse to endorse his 
errors. They were grave enough to cast a sha. 
dow. They, cannot but lead us to scrutinise his 
later words suspicioasly, and to hinder the con-
fidence in his previous expositions which other-
wise we should have felt. Nor do we speak 
vaguely,as too many of his detractors have done. 
We speak what we know and have pondered. 
We have gone through his whole works, (not to 
mark the strange inconsistencies between his 
first and his last, but for higher ends,) and have 
weighed his words. Why should we hesitate to 
saythat he erred most grievously, and that to an 
extent and in ways which those who have not 
studied his later treatises would hardly credit ? 
Not to speak of his statements regarding Christ's 
humanity, and its "proclivity to evil"—not to 
speak of his declared belief in propheeies and 
miracles, which soon falsified themselves, we 
might just point to one of the latest and saddest 
proclamation of his faith, that we are saved by 
the righteousness infused into us by the Spirit ; 
righteousness, as he expresses it, "inherent but 
derived." This is no surface error. It shifts 
the foundations of our peace from Christ to self, 
from divinity to humanity. It would have hor-
rified Luther, and, not much less, Irving himself 
in his better days. But we do not mean to be 
expositors of his errors ; though an exposition of 
these would not be unprofitable, either as illus-
trations of the man, or elucidations of the truth 
which in his later years he so wildly denounced, 
as in his earlier he had so eloquently maintain-
ed. 
From his childhood he had been brave, gener-
ous, genial, noble-hearted ; and as he grew on,he 
shewed himself a man of no common stature, 
either of mind or body. The child was father 
to the man ; and from early years, "the word" 
(as Chaucer says) "was cousin of the deed." As 
in later years he lived much in the future, so in 
his boyhood he dwelt much in the far past, de-
lighting in the solemn shades of covenanting 
story. Tradition says, that once, when a lad, 
he set off from his father's house alone on some 
secret expedition, and returned ere nightfall with 
an old relic of the Covenant ;—a tombstone ;—
which he deposited on his father's hearth. His 
frequent allusions to the Reformation and its 
grandeurs, to the Covenant and its martyrdoms, 
show how deeply these lights and shadows had 
taken possession of his soul ; how completely he 
had identified himself with the men of another 
and more sombre, as well as more stormy age. 
Many are the stories which we have heard 
from his old pupils, both at Haddington and 
Kirkcaldy, relating both to his mind and body, 
both of which always bulked largely before the 
eye of all with whom he was brought into con-
nection. We have heard them tell of his severi-
ties in school, and of the times when both hand 
and foot were called into requisition in order to 
inflict the needed amount of chastisement. We 
have heard, too, of the high order of his teach-
ing qualifications ; how thorough the drill and 
discipline of the school, how rapid the progress 
of the scholar, how great the confidence in the 
teacher, and how satisfactory the remembrances 
of school-days with such a preceptor. We have 
heard, too, of feats of bodily strength ; of the 
length of the arm that was stretched down to 
unbar a door that had been barred against him 
in the total forgetfulness that he was a being ap-
proaching to six feet four in height, with an arm 
proportionate to his stature. 
We have heard, too, of his tempestuous elo-
quence as a preacher,ere the church or the world 
had opened their ears to listen to him. Some 
may perhaps have caught the following story,too 
illustrative to be lit slip, yet not very remarka- 
ble in itself :—Preaching one day, (our inform-
ant said at or near Haddington,) he was so de- 
monstrative, both in voice and gesticulation, as 
Ito strike visible terror into some of his younger 
hearers. One little girl sat listening in a eon, 
and clung to her mother through dread of mor-
tal injury. As she left the church, she clung 
still more closely, exclaiming, "Oh,mither, yon's. 
 enmemmanimEMW 
 
The Imperialists have a small force here, and 
occasionally meet marauding bands of the rebels, 
The experience of the apostolic ags is often but they can accomplish but little toward driving 
repeated in our day, where followers of Christ them away without the aid of foreign arms. Since 
must abandon parents, friends and property to my arrival here I have sometimes counted six or 
follow Him. It requires no little moral tour- eight burning villages, and the rush of villagers 
age and attachment to the Saviour to come to towards this place, flying for their lives, some of 
such a decision, but he rewards the self-denial a them disfigured and bloody, tells of the terrible 
hundred fold. A missionary of Turkey sends scourge of civil war. It is bad enough in our 
the following incident to the Maine Evangelist : own loved land ; but where it occurs without the 
There was one pleasant-looking boy of sixteen ameliorating influence of civilization, is truly 
or seventeen, who has been for several weeks horrible. * * * Until the past year or two, 
driven out from his home by his wicked father, the rebels had the sympathies of foreigners. The 
because he persisted in reading the Testament little known of them was favorably regarded. The 
and coming to the Protestant chapel. His fath- imperial government was thoroughly rotten. The 
or forbade all of the same trade to give him any people were oppressed by petty officials. The 
work, so that he has been unable to earn any- country was ripe for rebellion. Neover was there 
thing to support himself. If he will only forsake a more flattering prospect for such an uprising. 
the truth, his father promises to do a good deal . . . . The rebels were successful in for-
for him ; but he says he will not give up the Bi- eign negotiations,' and destroyed the prestige of 
ble and Bible truth. While we were talking in the Emperor. Several of the richest provinces 
the chapel, his father sent for him, wishing him of China were under their control,and they only 
to leave the Protestants. He told his brother, needed to push on with the energy which had 
who came for him that he would return, but with hitherto distinguished them, to obtain possession 
four conditions, first, he must not be compelled of the imperial city. But success appears to 
to work on the Sabbath ; second, he must be per- have demoralized them. 
mitted to read the Testament ; third, he must be Many people interested in the welfare of Chi- 
allowed to speak of Gospel truth ; and fourth, na had regarded the rebellion as the dawning of 
he must be allowed to attend the Protestant a glorious reformation upon one third of the hu-
chapel. His father consented to the first and man race. But the leaders puffed up with pride 
second, but not to the third and fourth ; so the assumed divine honors. Nankin became the 
young boy remains without a home, sleeping seat of the heavenly king ; and the rebel forces 
sometimes at the chapel, and sometimes at the lost sight of the object of the rebellion,and have 
houses of Protestants, who are all very kind to since contented themselves with overturning and 
him. Perhaps he will • yet come to the Khar- devastating the country in their possession. In-
foot Theological School, and you may at some stead of encouraging business and getting the 
time hear of him again. When we asked him good will of the people, the cities which they 
why he did not go back and forsake the Testa- hold have become mere barracks for soldiers,and 
meet, or do as his father wished, his first and to the country people the term 'rebel' is connect-
ready reply was, "Christ has said, he that lov- ed with all that is cruel and blood-thirsty. 
eth his father and mother more than me, is not Meanwhile, the new government at Pekin, 
worthy of me." Pray that this persecuted boy headed by Prince Kung, seems favorably dis-
may be indeed worthy of Christ, and that this posed toward foreigners. This fact, with the ev-
wicked father may repent and love the Gospel ident lack of constructive power in the rebellion, 
too. 
exercising as it does a very prejudicial effect up- 
on commerce—has apparently influenced the rep- 
The Rebellion in China. resentatives of England and France to make com- 
mon cause with the Imperialists, for the purpose 
e following extract is from a letter from an of driving the rebels away. The foreign force 
lk 
 
American resident of China, dated Shanghai, has recently been increased, and further addi-
A pril 3, 1862. After stating that the successes tions are shortly expected from Tientsin. 
Renouncing all for Christ. 
THE ADVENT HERALD. 
299 
an awfu' man ! It's a gude thing ho was steekit grinding it to powder. Some have thought this 
in yon box ; had he gotten oot, he would have stone to foreshadow Christ or his spiritual king. 
come doun and felled us a' 
dom. Now that the spirit should suddenly glide 
(To be continued.) 
from the representation of an outer and earthly 
kingdom to that of an invisible and spiritual one, 
 
.......... 
We find the following from a correspondent of is neither in analogy with reason nor with the 
the Sabbath Recorder, of Sept. 11, and give it subject. 'In the days of those kings,' (that is, 
a place in the Herald simply to show what non- of the European monarchs,) 'God shall set up a 
sensical views can be held of the teachings of kingdom that shall stand forever. The stone 
prophecy, where all is seemingly so plain and must represent a political power. This stone is 
Her.
ED. 
simple.
represented as being cut out of a mountain. A 
Prophecy Concerning America 
 
 mountain is a symbol of some established gov- 
. 
eminent. This stone must have been separated 
In these times of sorrow it is well to remind from some government of which it was a part. 
 
This republic had its origin in an established 
each other that Our Father rules this troubled 
governrhent, Great Britain being the mountain 
world of ours, and that if we, his children, are 
afflicted, he permits it ; he directs it ; he will not from which it was cut. 
 
" 
permit us to be punished beyond what we can "It was 'cut without hands'—that is, estab- 
lished by Providential means. All our history 
bear, and he will surely bring ultimate good out 
of our added evils. 
demonstrates that it was God's own doings es- 
tablishing this republic, and it is 'marvelous in 
In March last I listened to a sermon by the 
Rev. Levi Weed, then of Stamford, Ct. on "The our eyes.' 
 
Prophecies Concerning America." I do not know "Now, in the 12th chapter of Revelations we 
 
that this sermon, or any part of it, has been pub- have the ecclesiastical origin of this nation. The 
lished---as, indeed, I think it should have been--- woman is the emblem of the true church of God. 
The 'great wonder' was not in the appearance of 
but I have a skeleton of it, which, with your 
permission, I will lay before your readeas, al- the woman, but in the birth of the child. The 
though, from your correspondent's imperfections child bore in his hand a rod of iron—a symbol 
not of tyranny, but of sovereignty ; he represents 
as a reporter, I fear the reverend gentleman will an enlightened nationality. In heaven—that is 
be made to suffer in this second-hand setting in the political firmament—this child has its 
forth of his views upon the "American subject." birth of this woman, that is, of the 'church of God. 
The sermon was founded upon the 12th chapter 
"Our ancestors had no idea of forming an em- 
of Revelations ; the text, "And there was war in 
heaven ;" the outline of the sermon is as follows : Aire ; they came to this wilderness for conscience 
 s 
"That such a nation as the United States, so sake. From the beginning to the end of their 
 
remarkable in origiu and development, should aims and efforts there was but one prominent 
 
have no place in prophecy, has puzzled many thought : 'Freedem to worship God.' This child 
was caught up to God ; that is, in the history of 
minds, has been a grief to many. Our very ex- this Republic, God's providence was to be dis- 
istenee is of recent date. An obscure prophecy 
cannot be understood until fulfilled and thus ex- played ; God was to care for it. How has this 
plained, hence mistakes may naturally be ex. been verified in our history ! 
petted in interpretations of prophecies until the 
"The analogy between Daniel and John is 
c 
actual occurance of the events prophesied. Many complete ; the nationality born of the church of 
 God. This republic is the nationality symboliz- 
of the interpretations of prophecy have been 
long accepted, long belived ; so that prophecies ed by Daniel and prophesied by John. 
 
"This great red dragon—a symbol of what ? 
concerning America,its struggle with the powers Of something which the child is to destroy. 
of Darkness or Tyranny,and its ultimate destiny, 
"This brings us to the text : "there was war 
would naturally be,and in my opinion have been, 
misinterpreted. Nor can it be expected that in- in heaven, Michael and his angels fought against 
terpretations which have been long fixed in the the dragon ; and the dragon fought,and his angels 
minds of men should be given up until they are and prevailed not, neither was their place found 
proved to be erroneous. This land was but a any more in heaven,' &h. Who Michael repre-
sents, and who the dragon, has been a puzzle to 
few years ago unknown to what was then and 
from the beginning has been 'the world.' Earlier commentators. I consider this a representation 
 of tyranny, of' the powers of darkness, of rebel- 
commentators not yet knowing of the existence lion. This war in heaven 'is actual war,is a civil 
of this western continent, not dreaming of the, as 
yet, unborn nation which has here sprung into' way ,the struggle of loyalty against rebellion, 
existence in these latter days, could not rightly and the triumph of loyalty. Such an interpre-
interpret any prophecies which might relate to tation would involve a unity—would represent 
America, 
the child and his party warring with the dragon 
and his party. Michael and his angels represent 
"That we have•anational recognition in the the genius of popular freedom. The fight in 
prophecies is, in my opinion, unquestionable. 
"While other prophets speak more or less ful- heaven ;that is, in a portion of the political fir-
moment ; for, in the issue, the dragon and his 
1y of this republic, Daniel fully shadows forth angels were cast out into the earth : that is, into 
America, or the system of government that has 
taken root in America, and is destined to over- the old countries, which then constituted 'the 
run the earth, 'a kingdom which shall stand for- earth, or so much of it as was hnown to men. 
'And the dragon fought and his angels, and pre- 
ever ,"which shall break in pieces and consume veiled not; neitherwas their place found any more 
all other kingdoms, and shall stand forever.... 
Vide Daniel 2: 44. 
in heaven. And the great dragon was cast out, 
"The dream of Nebuchadnezzar (Dan. 2) was that old serpent called the Devil,and Satan,which 
concerning the systems of government from that deceiveth the whole world, he was cast out into 
' 
time to the end. 'Thou. 0 king, sawest, and be- the earth, and his angels with him. Listen to 
hold a great image. This great image, whose the song that celebrate their overthrow : "And I 
brightness was excellent, stood before thee, and heard a loud voice saying in heaven, Now is 
 
the form thereof was terrible," 
come salvation and strength, and the kingdom of 
Daniel plainly our God and the power of his Christ; for the 
tells Nebuchadnezzar, 'Thou (that is, the Assy- 
rian kingdom,) art this head of gold ! 
accuser of our brethren is cast down, which ac- 
"The legs of iron were the Roman Empire 
cused them before our God day and night.' Sla- 
; 
the toes symbolizing its division, ten being the very has been most emphatically an accuser. This 
exact number of kingdoms into which the Bo_ war has been one of principle. They overcame 
man Empire was se arated corres onding with him by the blood of' the Lamb and by the word 
p 
p 
, 
of their testimony.' 
 loved not their lives 
the nations of Europe. 
" 'Mixture of iron and clay' is a symbolic re- unto death.' How true of our many brave mar-
presentation of the union of the church and state, tyrs to liberty, who, without hope of fame or 
of elements 'partly weak and partly strong.' 
 
 chance of renown, have freely offered themselves 
"The vision is of one image, not of several a sacrifice for freedom and their country ! 
, 
formin 
 
 
"The prophecies, then, set forth Despotism 
g a grand representation of a government, 
Which forthe
destroyed, popular liberty universal, the rod of 
want of a better word, I shall call the child ruling the whole earth, and that long, 
Despotism, 
cycle of ages represented by the millennium ush- 
"Another kingdom is represented in the form ered in." 
GENEVA. 
11 
of a stone, rolled upon the feet of the image, Is any comment needed on the above ? 
of the rebels,and especially the capture of Ning. 
Po about eight months ago,had encouraged them 
to begin operations against Shanghai with a force 
which has been estimated as high as 100,000, 
the writer goes on to say : 
"They notified the foreign authorities that 
their object was to possess the Chinese city— 
that they would not interfere with the foreign 
settlement. For certain reasons it was deemed 
advisable to prevent them, if possible, from ob- 
taining a lodgment there. Under the supervi- 
sion of foreign engineers, but at the expense of 
the Chinese Government, a ditch wide and deep 
enough to float gunboats had been constructed 
around the city, and the embankment mounted 
with effective guns. 
The English have a regiment of Sepoys quar-
tered in the settlement, and also a company of 
artillery, while the French have about 1000 men 
stationed in the city. There is also a strong na-
val force, French and English anchored just off 
the settlement. 
In addition to this force, immediately upon 
the apprehension of danger most of the young 
men in the settlement formed themselves into a 
volunteer corps, and more recently a company of 
cavalry and artillery have been organized. The 
expenses of the volunteer companies have been 
paid by the foreign community, $10,000 having 
been raised without the slightest trouble. 
The volunteers are intended for 'Home Guards, 
and meet for drill twice a week. * * * I may 
mention that the commanding officer, a gentle. 
man at the head of one of the largest English 
houses in China, in addressing his men a few 
evenings since, remarked respecting the various 
nationalities comprised in the corps, that the 
Americans stood the highest, the Germans nexi, 
and his own countrymen third. * * 
The foreign settlement and city of Shanghai 
has now a native population of nearly a million. 
Be patient with the little ones. Let neither 
their slow understanding nor their occasional 
pertness offend you to provoke the sharp reproof. 
Remember the world is new to them, they have 
no slight task to grasp with their unripened in-
tellect the mass of facts and truths that crowd 
upon their attention. You are grown to matu-
rity and strength, through years of experience ; 
and it ill becomes you to fret a child who fails 
to keep pace with your thought. Teach him pa-
tiently as God teaches you, "line upon line, pre-
cept upon precept, here a little and there a 
little." Cheer him on his conflict of mind : in 
after years his ripe, rich thought shall rise and 
call you blessed. Bide patiently the endless 
questionings of your children. Do not roughly 
crush the rising spirit of free inquiry with an 
impatient word or frown, nor attempt, on the 
contrary, a long instructive reply to every casu-
al question. Seek rather to deepen their curi-
osity. Convert, if possible, the careless ques-
tion into a profound and earnest inquiry. Let 
your reply send the little questioner forth, not so 
much proud of what he has learned, as anxious 
to know more. Happy, thou, if, in giving your 
child the molcule of truth he asks for, you can 
wet his curiosity with a glimpse of the moun-
tain of truth lying beyond ; so wilt thou send 
forth a philosopher, and not a silly pedant into 
the world. 
Bear patiently the childish humors of those 
little ones. They are but the untutored pleadings 
of the young spirit for care and cultivation. Ir-
ritated into strength, and hardened into habits, 
they will haunt the world of life like fiends of 
despair, and make the little ones curse the day 
you were born ; but corrected kindly and patient. 
ly, they become elements of happiness and use-
fulness. Passions are but fires, that may either 
Be Patient with the Little Ones. 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
300 
 
 
THE ADVENT HERALD, 
 
 
 
The love of the believing heart to Jesus Christ 
is the most wonderful of all affections. It stands 
alone, amid the friendships and attachments of 
earth. Here is a Being whom the men of our 
generation have never seen, whom they have 
never heard, who lived almost two thousand 
years before they were born, and yet he is lov- 
ed. Yes, he is loved-not merely feared or rev- 
erenced or held in high remembrance but "lov-
ed," and that, too, with a fervor and strength be-
fore which the strongest attachments of earth 
fade into insignificance. There is nothing to 
which we can compare this love. It finds no 
parallel in the history of mankind. We read of 
men who, while living by a secret power attract. 
ed and attached to their persons the hearts and 
services of the most opposite characters. Their 
presence was a tower of strength, and their name 
nspired more than human courage. But ere 
they died, the staff of their power was broken, 
and after death the magic of their influence pass. 
ed away. But in the cause of Jesus Christ, 
death has made no change, except to strengthen 
the love of his followers, so that now, after so 
many centuries have rolled around, he is adored 
by millions, who would die for his name, and 
whose very life derives its joy from the smile of 
his countenance. 
This is one of the most remarkable facts in 
history. Philosophy cannot explain it, reason 
cannot account for it. Revelation alone solves 
the mystery. He whom we love is Immanuel, 
God with us. He is the desire of all nations, 
the hope of Israel, and unto him shall the gath-
ering of the people be. In him dwelleth all the 
fullness of the Godhead bodily, and the human 
heart finds both its being and its bliss in loving 
and worshipping Jesus. 
In the new creation, the soul is delivered from 
the bondage of fear and dread, and lives and acts 
under the principle of love to Christ. The love 
of God to us awakens in us a tender affection 
towards him. It is not, therefore, a poetical 
figure when we speak of the soul loving God. It 
is a blessed reality. It is a sensible glow of the 
affections towards Christ. The heart, in the lan-
gnage of another, is "strangely warmed." The 
thoughts, desires, and outgoings of the soul are 
all toward him. The Savior becomes the center 
of the affections-the chief among ten thousand, 
the one altogether lovely. lie is our beloved 
and he is our Friend. We have none on earth 
that we desire besides him. He is the Prophet 
of our ignorance, the priest of our insufficiency, 
the King of our defencelessness, the Immanuel 
of our earthliness, the Redeemer of our ruined 
nature. He is our Rock, our Refuge, our high 
tower, our Deliver. He is all that can attract, 
and endear, and delight, and satisfy the soul for-
ever. 
It is because of this that the strength of at-
tachment to Christ is so great and undying. 
When desire fails and the heart loses its hold on 
earthly interests and attachments, this divine af-
fection lives and glows with the freshness of 
youthful love. Many waters cannot quench it, 
neither can the floods drown it. Poverty and 
peril and nakedness and the sword cannot destroy 
it. Old age,which palsies all else besides,leaves 
it green,and from the very grave of earthly hopes 
spring forth plants of fairest trust and piety. 
Love to Christ. 
the block, to give the first name in full, and also to 
have " Mrs." or " Miss," as the case may be, pre-
cede the name of all our female subscribers. We 
Would therefore request those whose names now 
come only a first initial, to give us their name in 
full ; and we would like information in respect to 
any prefix or affix, proper in any instance, that is 
now omitted. Money for the Herald might be sent 
at the same time ? In transfering to blocks we may 
also have omitted or misplaced some name, and 
therefore we would like prompt notice of any irregu-
larity in the receipt of the Herald. 
The readers of the Herald are most earnestly besought to 
give it room in their prayers; that by means of it God may 
be honored and his truth advanced ; also, that it may be 
conducted in faith and love, with sobriety of judgment and 
discernment of the truth, in nothing carried away into 
error, or hasty speech, or sharp, unbrotherly disputation. 
Is IT YOUR PAPER?-We are anxious to hear a 
word from those of our subscribers who are reading 
our paper, and not theiv own ! For our receipts, 
they will notice, are so light as to inconvenience us. 
P. S. The War News, this Tuesday, Sept. 16, 
shows great successes in driving the rebels out of, 
Maryland back into Rebeldom ; but as we are just 
going to press we have no space or time to enlarge. 
Secretary Stanton, not as we supposed last week, 
appears to be still at the head of the War Depart-
ment. 
Correspondents, on matters pertainsog solely to 
the office, should write " Office," on the envelope, 
to have their• letters promptly attended to, if the 
editor be temporarily absent. 
Correspondents who give only their town and not 
their State, or who fail to, put on the actual P. 0. 
address to which their paper is directed, so es 
put us to a great inconvenience,and a search of 
hours to find the name. 
Our subscribers will remember that we can find 
their names on our books only by their giving us 
the Post Office direction to which their paper is 
sent. 
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cents. 
THE CLEANSING OF THE SANCTUARY. 
Continued. 
III. Such being the treading down of "the place 
of the sanctuary," and such the sanctuary's defile-
ment, what is to be understood by the sanctuary's 
cleansing ? This question also involves the consid-
eration of another, wheiher the ending of the 2300 
days is to be marked by the full cleansing of the 
sanctuary, or only by some incident marking the in-
itiary steps, or some one of them, in its progress ! 
It is clear that the predicted cleansing must be 
some event of greater significance than any trans-
piring during the long period of the 2300 days con-
tinuance; and consequently, to show that those days 
ended in 1790, 1822, 1844, or any other date that 
has been supposed to mark their termination, it 
must be made evident that the occurrence relied up-
on was of greater importance in that direction; han 
any proceeding event since Judea'vas over spread 
by the ensigns of Pagan Rome ; with the armies of 
which and "the abomination of desolation spoken 
of by Daniel the prophet," the words of our Savior 
show an undisputed connection. We may then 
well enquire whether at either of the dates referred 
to, or since then, there have been any events more 
indicative of the termination of those abominations, 
than were those of the removal of the heathen mon-
uments from Judea after A. D. 323 and the erec-
tion of Christian temples on all the sacred sites ; 
which was thought at the time to he the fulfillment 
of the prophecies respecting the New Jerusalem? 
AD VENT HERALD. 
Exposition of Daniel's Prophecy. 
CHAPTER XI. 
of Assyria, and the outcasts in the land of Egypt, 
and shall worship the Lord in the holy [koh-flesh] 
mount at Jerusalem, Ib. 27: 13. "Even them will 
I bring to my holy [koh-desh] mountain and make 
them joyful in my house of prayer" Ib. 56: 7. me 
that putteth his trust in me shall possess the land, 
and shall inherit my holy [koh-desk] mountain." 
What, then, is signified by the cleansing ? "Jos-1Ib. 57 : 13. "And in this mountain shall the Lord 
tified" is the marginal! reading-restored. That is, of hosts make unto all people a feast of fat things, 
it shall be pia* in a position as if it had never a feast of wines on the lees, of fat things full of 
been defiled. When the days shall end, the times marrow, of wines on the less well refined. And 
of the Gentiles will have then been fulfilled. The He will destroy in this mountain the face of 
true God will alone be worshipped in the Sanctuary the covering cast over all people, and the vail that 
land. All heathen rites and false religions of every is spread over all nations. He will swallow up death 
kind will have been banished from it forever ; and in victory ; and the Lord God will wipe away tears 
Daniel's prayer, that the Lord would cause his face from off all faces ; and the rebuke of his people 
to shine on the Sanctuary that is desolates (Dan. 9: will he take away from off all the earth : for the 
17,) will have been fully answered. 
Lord hath spoken it. And it shall be said in that 
There are other Scriptures which throw light on day, Lo, this is our God ; we have waited for Bira 
this predicted restoration. Micah prophesied that and he will save us : this is the Lord, we have wait- 
after Zion's desolation, "In the last days it shall ed for him, we will be glad and rejoice in his salva-
come to pass that the mountain of the house of the tion," Isa. 25 : 6.9. 
Lord shall be established in the top of the moun- 'And many people shall go and say, Come ye, 
tains, and it shall be exalted above the hills : and and let_ us go up to the mountain of the Lord, to 
people shall flow unto it," Mic. 4 : 1, See also Isa. the house of the God of Jacob ; and he will teach 
2: 2. 
us of his ways, and we will walk in his paths : for 
The phrase, "in the last," in both Isaiah and out of Zion shall go forth the law, and the word of 
Micah, from the Hebrew ah-gharuth, which de- Lord from Jerusalem." Isa. 2 : 3. 
notes the end or farthest part, as in Psa. 37: 37, From the foregoing it is apparent that the sanc- 
"for the end of that man is peace ;" v. 38, "the end tuary, the nature of its defilement, and its predicted 
of the wicked shall be cut off ;" 73 ; 17, "then un- cleansing, justification, or restoration, require that 
derstood I their end ;" Prov. 14: 13 "and the end the latter should take place at the epoch of the con-
of that mirth is heaviness ;" 23 ; 32, "At the last flagration predicted by Peter, and consequent upon 
it biteth like a serpent ;" 25 : 8, "what to do in which we are to look for a new heaven and a new 
the end thereof ; Eccl. 7: 8, "better is the end of a earth wherein dwelleth righteousness. For thus 
thing ; Isa. 46: 10, "declaring the end from the be- saith the Lord, "I will ease me of mine adversaries, 
ginning." These examples iustify the rendering of and avenge me of mine enemies ; and I will turn my 
this phrase, "It shall come to pass in the end of the hand upon thee, and purely purge away thy dross, 
days," &c., e. in the end of the gospel dispen- and take away all thy tin : and I will restore thy 
sation , and synchronizing with "the consummation judges as at the first, and thy counsellors as at the 
of Dan. .9 : 27, to which time the holy place was to beginning : afterwards shall thou be called the city 
be desolated, 
of righteousness, the faithful city. Zion shall be 
"The mountain of the Lord's house" that is to be redeemed with jndgment, and her converts with 
established in the top of the mountains, can be no righteousness. And the destruction of the trans-
other than mount Moriah on which the Lord's house I gressors and of the sinners shall be together, and 
wns erected by Solomon ; of which the prediction they that forsake the Lord shall be consumed," Isa. 
was made : "Zion for your sakes shall be ploughed 1, 24-28. Theu will the koh-desh land have been 
as a field, and Jerusalem shall become heaps, and restored,and the koh-desh people will again wor-
the mountain of the House as the high places of the ship the Lord in the New Jerusalem. 
forest. But in the last days it shall come to pass "In view of those scriptures there need be no 
that the mountain of the House of the Lord shall be question respecting the events which will mark the 
established in the top of-the mountains, and it shall termination of the 2300 days. As no such events 
be exalted above the hills." Micah 3 : 12 ; 4: 1. have yet transpired, that period cannot have termin- 
The word "established," in both Isaiah and Mi- ated. And as no such events can transpire until 
cah, (Heb. koon) conveys the idea of permanence. the revelation of Jesus Christ in flaming fire,taking 
Tuus it is rendered, in Joh, 21 : 8 "Their seed is vengeance on them who know not God and obey not 
established in their sight ;" Psa. 57 : 7, "My heart the Gospel, the predicted period must extend to 
is fixed ;" Psa. 92: 2. "Thy throne is established ;" that epoch. 
Prov. 4 : 18, "shineth more and more unto the 
perfect day." 
The phrase, "in the top of," is from the Hebrew 
rohsh, which signifies the head, or chief, that which 
has the pre-eminence, as 'inlay be seen by its render-
ing in Ex. 6 : 14, "the heads of their father's hous-
es ;" 12 : 2, "the beginning of months ;" 30: 2 3, 
"Take thou also unto thee princtpal spices ;" Num. 
14 : 4, "Let us make a captain :" 31 : 26, "the 
chief fathers of the congregation ; Josh. 11: 10, 
.the head of all those kingdoms ;" 1 Sam. 9 : 22, 
"in the chiefest place among them ;" 1 K. 21: 9, 
"set Naboth on high among the people ;" 1 Chron. 
16: 7, "David delivered first this Psalm r" 23 : 20, 
Micah the first ;" 26 : 10, "Simri the chief;" 2 
Ch. 20: 27, Jehosaphat in the fore front of them ;" 
Psa. 141: 5, "it shall be an excellent oil ;" Isa. 7 : 
8 "the head of Syria is Damascus, and the head of 
Damascus is Rezin ; Isa. 29: 10, "The prophets and 
your rulers." 
Also the phrase "and shall be exalted," which is 
from the Hebrew nah-sah, signifies pre-eminence, as 
in Isa. 57 : 15, "the high and lofty One ; Est. 5: 
11, "he had advanced him above the prince." 
The whole passage, then, may read, "And it 
shall come to pass at the end of the days, that the. 
mountain of the Lord's House shall be established as 
the chief of the mountains, and have precedence of 
the hills"-that is, when the times of the Gentiles 
have been fulfilled, the now desolated site of the 
Holy Temple shall become again the great center of 
the Divine government on earth. 
This restoration is,evidently,. the predicted cleans-
ing of the place of the Sanctuary, now trodden. 
down. For thus we read of it : "The glory of Le-
banon shall come unto thee, the fir-tree, the pine 
tree, and the box together, to beautify the place of 
my sanctuary ; and I will make the place of my 
feet glorious," Isa. 60 : 13. "They shall not hurt 
nor destroy in all my holy [koh-desh-i. e. sanctua-
ry] mountain i for the earth shall be full of the 
knowledge of the Lord, as the waters cover the 
sea," lb. 11 : 9. "And it shall come to pass in that 
day, that the great trumpet shall be blown, and they 
shall come which were ready to perish in the land 
scorch us with their uncontrolled fury, or may 
yield us a genial and needful warmth. 
Bless' your little ones with a patient care of 
their childhood, and they will certainly conse-
crate the glory and grace of their manhood to 
your service. Sow in their hearts the seeds of 
a perennial blessednsss ; its ripened fruit will 
afford you a perpetual joy.-Mich. Jour. of Ed-
ucation. 
Particular Notice. 
Our readers, have perceived that their papers now 
come to them by a printed, instead of a written di-
rection as before. It is not improbable that many 
names have been misspelled, in being transferred to 
blocks, or something omitted. We will therefore be 
obliged to any,who notice any inaccuracy,f or prompt 
information that we may correct the same. We 
would like always, where there is room to put it on 
BOSTON, SEPTEMBER 20, 1862. 
SYLVESTER BLISS, EDITOR. 
For if no events have since transpired equalling 
those in importance, or pointing with more signifi-
cance in the required direction ,-and there surely 
have not,-then the prophetic period which could 
not then have terminated, cannot yet have ended ; 
so that for its completion we must look for some 
event, the like of which history has no parallel. 
Tine War. 
As was antici rated on the issue of the last Her-
ald, the Rebel army have crossed the Potomac and 
invaded Maryland, threatening Pennsylvania, with 
a large force. Their movements, however, and the 
plans and movements of the Union forces, are invol- 
ved in mystery. It is a time of gloomy anxiety,and 
solicitede. The Hartford Courant truthfully say : 
"We are likely to lose, in the fall, pretty much 
all we gained in the spring campaign at the West. 
We have surrendered, temporarily at least, pretty 
much all Tenneessee,Nashville included,by Baell'sre-
treat and order to evacuate Nashville. Morgan's army 
ateurnbarland Gap will probably be captured,for at 
the last advices it was on half rations, all communi-
cation cut off, a rebel army in its front and rear,and 
no possibility of its being reinforced. Gen. Buell's 
army is also on half rations, and retreating, and 
where it may turn up, it is impossible to say. Gen. 
Grant's position at Corinth must be untenable,after 
Buell's retreat and he will probably fall back on 
Memphis and the gunboats. Our ironclad boats now 
constructing will enbale us to hold the Mississippi 
very firmly ; and we have naval force enough there 
now, to keep it within our grasp. The moral we 
draw, is, that as heretofore, the Navy is the best re-
liance of the North ; and that the vast geegraphietd 
area in which our armies operate at the South 
and West, causes them to be lost in the vastness of 
the space." 
There is, we t hink, another moral that is not suf-
ficiently dwelt upon in this crisis, viz. that Gad is 
not necessarily with the heaviest cannon, nor with 
the largest battalions ; that it is not by numbers that 
victory is to be decided, hut by the arm of Him who 
rules the world. Tne spirit of werldiness and Sab-
bath desecration which prevails in our land is most 
fearful to contemplate. Last Sabbath, at the mili-
t
ary encampment at Readville, a few miles out of 
Boston, it was estimated that some eight thousand 
visitors were present. At the Camp-meting lately 
held on Martha's Vineyard,it is thought that on the 
Sabbath there were more than ten thousand present, 
„.........seeree 
not one fourth of whom came nsar the preacher's 
stand, or seemed to care anything for the ordinances 
of God's day, or the preaching of His word. At 
anoth,r campmeeting we have heard of, we are told 
preachers 
 
had their book-stands, and sold their 
books the same on that as on other days. There is 
more riding out of this city for amusement on Sun-
day than on any other day of the week ; and the 
cars and ommihusses,—in neither of which have we 
ever set foot on the Sabbath—never go more crowded 
than on that holy day ; and they are often patroni-
zed in their Sabbath desecration, by those who pro-
fess to fear Gud and to keep his commandments. 
Truly wickedness in every form abounds, and men 
seem to forget that a just God reigns. If Thomas 
Jefferson trembled when he thought of the sin of 
slavery and remembered that God is just, as he said 
he did, who should not tremble when he thinks not 
only of slavery, but of all the sins which abound in 
our land? In view of these will God ever give our 
country peace? He may give us a;short respite ; but 
He may continue this horried civil war until it cul-
minates in the coming of Him who shall bring war 
to an everlasting end, and who will erelong reign 
the Prince of peace, from the river unto the ends of 
the earth. May that coming be hastened. 
A Chinese Tradition of the Coming of the 
Messiah. 
The Jesuitical. missionaries who went to China 
several centuries since,reported that "Confucius,the 
chief of the Chinese philosophers, acually predicted 
the coming of the Messiah by the table of the Yking, 
one of the five sacred books of Kings, which are re-
ceived by them as supreme." Tit. Un. His„ p. 348. 
With this doctrine instilled in the mind of the 
Chinese, after following the teaching of their great 
chief, Confucius, it is not strange that one should 
almost revolutionize the nation by claiming to be 
the Son of God. When the American Japanese ex-
pedition was at Shanghai, Corn. Perry gives this 
account of a religious imposter. After giving vari-
ous explanatory notes, he says : "This man denoun-
ces the prevailing religion, and has caused to be des-
troyed numerous Buddhist temples. He professes a 
faith somewhat similar to the Mormons of America, 
and claims to have constant communion with God, 
and to be acknowledged as his Son. His ignorant 
and lawless followers profess to believe in his pre-
tended revelations, and with them he has acquired 
great power by his religious devices. He fraternizes 
with all Christians, and argues that they should all 
assist in putting a true sun of heaven upon the 
throne." Jap. Exp. vol. 1, p. 148. 
Buddhism, which is the most widely diffused re-
ligious error in the world, embodying three hundred 
and twenty millions of votaries, or fifty millions 
more than Mohammedanism, is received by the Sin-
too wurshspers of Japan. Through all this erroneous 
system the idea of the incarnation is distinctly be-
held. Beside this, there was a sect that taught dis-
tinctly the incarnation of the Messiah. Mylon, the 
Dutch official at Dezima,speaks of a fourth religion, 
which was coexistent with these other sects prior to 
Christianity. His story is that about A.D.50 a Brah-
minical sect was introduced into Japan,which taught 
as doctrine the redemption of the world by the son 
of a virgin, who died to expiate human sin ; thus in-
suring to man a joyful resurrection. It taught a 
trinity of persons, constituting one eternal, omni-
present God, the maker of all things." Jap. Exp., 
vol. 1, p. 22. 
A Good Old Age. 
"Bro. Artemas Newton, of Warden, Shefford Co 
C. E. desires you to stop his paper when the time 
expires. He is in the 78th year of his age, and 
sight so poor that he finds himself unable to read it. 
Ile has taken the Herald almost from its commence-
ment—and is still deeply interested in the import-
ant truths it promulgates. Thougli he may cease 
to take the paper—yet he intends to assist the office 
while he Jives, and has means to do so." 
J. M. 0. 
Bro Newton has paid up just to the present num-
ber whieh, according to the above, terminates the 
period of his subscription. We are sorry to lose 
any of our readers ; and where age prevents reading, 
we have often thought it would be better to hear the 
paper read, than to have it discontinued. We need 
all our subscribers and hope that some friend or 
neighbor of Bro. N. will feel like reading to him, 
rather than he and the Herald should part compa-
ny. 
Seventy eight is a good old age. Our own father 
lived six years beyond that period, and his mother 
eight,--being entirely blind for twenty years, but 
taking great pleasure in hearing books :and papers 
read. Our mother's mother saw also her 87th 
year. "Barzilla was a very aged man, even four-
score years old." He said to king David, "I am 
this day fourscore years old, and can I discern be-
tween good and evil ? can thy servant taste what I 
eat or drink ?" Can I hear any more the voice 
of singing men and singing womon ?" 2 
Sam. 19 : 32, 35. "The days of our 
years are three score years and ten ; and if by 
reason of strength they be four score years, yet is 
their strength labor and sorrow ; for it is soon cut 
off, and we fly away," Psa. 90 : 10. As we write 
this, it occurs to us that on reading one day in our 
mother's maiden journal, written more than half a 
century since, we found recorded that her great 
grandfather quoted this text to her and added, "I 
am this day ten years past four score." Jacob said 
unto Pharaoh, "The days of the years of my pil-
grimage are an hundred and thirty years : few and 
evil have the days of the years of my life been, and 
have not attained unto the days of the years of the 
life of my fathers in the days of their pilgrimage," 
Gen. 47 : 9. 
A peaceful old age, the evening of a godly life, 
must afford peculiar opportunity for the enjoyment 
of happy memories and glorious anticipations. For 
there is a land where the inhabitant will not say 
I am sick, nor will he there grow old. We do not 
anticipate that all will be youths there ; for youth 
is not our idea of the perfection of manhood. We 
expect the venerable forms of our fathers will lose 
none of their venerableness ; nor would we see 
them other than with their hoary heads of age ; for 
"the beauty of old men is the grey head." Prov. 
20 : 29. But we do know that, like Moses when 
"one hundred and twenty years old," there the eye 
of none will be dim, nor will there be any loss of bo-
dily vigor. 
The Meeting at Waterbury Vt. 
We would call the attention of our readers to the 
notice on our last page of the twenty second annual 
meeting, Oct. 10th,at Waterbury, Vt., of those who 
believe in the near return and everlasting reign of 
the King of kings on the renewed earth. It is desi-
rable to have a full attendance, not merely for the 
spiritual and social enjoyment of those attending, 
but for the influence which such a gathering may 
be expected to exert on the community, and on spec-
tators who may be present. It was the general tes-
timony that our last annual meeting at Springfield 
Vt. was one of our best. It was harmonious and 
spiritual, without the presence of any opposing ele-
ment. There is leis reason why the coming meeting 
should not be even more profitable than the last. 
Our friends in Waterbury will desire to see a large 
number present, and will take pleasure in providing 
ample accommodations. Let there be a full atten-
dance, and let all go there actuated by a desire to 
see God glorified.and His truth advanced, in all that 
may be said or done. The greater portion of the 
time, it isexpected, will be occupied by lectures and 
addresses, and not by the adoption of fruitless reso-
lutions, or unprofitable discussion. 
Truth Alone Desirable. 
A correspondent,in forwarding an article, writes : 
"If you think the argument wrong, or that it 
contains error, do not hesitate to point it out : 
Truth is the great thing we are all in search of,—or 
should be." 
From all candid minds, searching for truth as 
for hid treasure, we always expect a desire fur er-
ror to be exposed and truth vindicated. How cheer-
ing it is to encounter such a spirit among those with 
whom we differ ! And why should not this always 
be? Why should not all ardently desire that those 
competent should point out all mistakes we are in 
danger of imitating, or repeating, and enable us to 
correct whatever may be shown to be actually erro-
neous ? It would seem indeed, that such must be 
the feeling of all sincerely searching for truth. 
Those who, in the days of Isaiah "said to the seers, 
See not ; and to the prophets, Prophesy not unto us 
right things, speak unto us smooth things, prophesy 
deceits," [Ise. 30 : 10) were not desirous to see and 
know the actual truth. But all desirous of truth, 
instead of feeling aggrieved at the xeposure of any 
fallacy in argument, sophistry in reasoning, or er-
ror in statements of fact, will feel thankful for 
rteedful and timely correction. Sympathy for errors 
of any kind, and an unwillingness for their rectifi-
cation, should always be seduously guarded againt. 
For the indulgeance of such sympathy cannot but 
result deleteriously on the temper and rpirit of those 
thus actuated. 
No man can safely go abroad that does not love 
to stay at home ; no man can safely speak that does 
not willingly hold his tongue ; no man can safely gov-
ern that would not cheerfully become a subject ; no 
man can safely command, that has not truly learned 
to obey ; and no man can safely rejoice but he that 
has the testimony of a good conscience.—Thomas 
A. Kempis. 
Corals, agates and crystals are found on many a 
stormy shore; thus the souls finds God's most preci-
ous gifts in the rugged path' of sorrow. 
BELGIAN POPERY.—The grave state of King Leop-
old's health is watched by the Jesuit party in Bel-
gium with keen inquiry. It seems to be expected 
by them that with this wise sovereign the constitu 
tional system is doomed to disappear. The Monde, 
an organ of the party says: "By a strange inadver-
tence, and also to obey a fatality of the revolution 
Leopald threw himself into the arms of Liberalism. 
He yielded up himself and his throne to the hands 
of men who professedly detest king and monarchica 
institutioni. He rejected, through illegitimate 
means, the Catholic party, who alone bore affection 
to the new royalty, and was able to secure to it a 
prosperous future . All will soon be once more call 
ed in question." To be warned is to be foreatned. 
This language is clear enough as to the expectations 
which are entertained by the clerical foes of consti_ 
utional government. 
Foreign Intelligence. 
St. John, N. F. Sept. 12. The steamship Edin-
burg, from Liverpool 3d and Queenstown 4th, for 
New York, arrived off Cape Race at 8 o'clock this 
evening. 
The Confederate steamer 290 is reported to have 
received from the steamer Bahama, off the Western 
Isles, iron plates, munitions of war, &c., to enable 
her to intercept Northern vessels as they approach 
the coast, and in the absence of any ports, to take 
and destroy ships and cargoes. She is commanded 
by Capt. Semmes, late of the Sumter. She is now 
called the Alabama. 
The Liverpool Telegraph, on the authority of a 
pilot, gives a substantial account of a desparate na-
val engagement on the night of the 20th ult. between 
two vessels, supposed to be Federal and Confederate, 
250 miles south of Holyhead. The Liverpool Mer-
cury asserts thas it is destitute of truth,.and found-
ed probably on the gun practice between two British 
ships of war. 
A report prevailed that ThurlowlWeed is charged 
with an important mission to the British Govern-
ment. 
The Londoh journals generally take a very gloomy 
view of American affairs so far as the Federal gov-
ernment is concerned. 
The Post says the North must either do as Eng-
land did in 1783 or imitate Russia in her govern-
ment of Poland. 
The Daily News argues that the South should be 
compelled to acknowledge the superiority of the 
North and submit to the terms that the North may 
dictate. 
The Times and the Daily News both criticise 
President Lincoln's address to the negroes relative to 
emancipation, and his views are pronounced imprac-
ticabale. 
Mr. Pearson Hall, a ship owner, who has been 
active in running the blockade, has suspended pay-
ment owing to difficulties in realizing returns. 
Queen Victory has gone to Germany. 
The French Government has ordered that no oper-
ation shall be undertaken in the interior of Mexico 
until the middle of October. 
The Paris Bourse advanced considerably under 
the news of the capture of Garibaldi, but has par-
tially relapsed since : rentes 69f 5c. 
Memento of a Battle Field. 
Rev. A. H. Quint of Jamaica Plain,West Roxbu-
ry Mass. Chaplain of the 2nd. Mass. Regiment, in a 
description of the field after the battle of Cedar 
Mounlain says : 
"As soldier hands were laying our brave men in 
their graves, and we were covering there first with 
green leaves, my eye was attracted by a leaf which 
with others,had evidently been in the hands of some 
man. And my glance fell first on these words : 
'Seeing then that all these things shall be dissolv-
ed, what manner of persons ought ye to be in all ho-
ly conversation and godliness. 
'Looking for and halting unto the coming of the 
day of God, wherein the heavens being on fire shall 
be dissolved, and the elements shall melt with fer-
vent heat. 
'Nevertheless we, according to his promise, look 
for new heavens and a new earth, wherein dwelleth 
righteousness.' 
'We left our dead. But the leaf I reverently fold-
ed and carefully keep." 
A COMPREHENSIVE PRAYER.—On the fly leaf of 
Rev. Dr. Bethune's Bible, was found written the 
following : 
Lord pardon what I have been ; 
Sanctify what I am ; 
Order what I shall be ; 
That thine may be the glory, 
And mine the eternal salvation. 
.For Christ's sake. 
If the way to heaven is narrow, it is not long ; 
and if the gate be straight, it opens into endless life. 
—Bishop Beveridge. 
THE NUMBER OF KILLED AND WOUNDED IN THE 
LATE BATTLDS. Dr. Coolidge, having concluded his 
arduous labors on the bloody fleid of Manassas,states 
it as his opinion that the entire number of killed on 
on the Union side 4s about seventeen hundred. In 
the series of battles the the entire number wounded 
he estimates at about six thousand. At the battle of 
Groveton alone he thinks there were four thousand. 
He states that the wounded paroled prisoners amount 
to two thousand, aside from which there were about 
one hundred and twenty-eight civilians, nurses and 
attendants taken and afterward paroled. Dr. Cool-
idge says that the field of his operations extended 
over a space of thirteen miles, and the consequent 
tax upon the energies of the surgeons and attend-
ants was exhausting in the extreme. He thinks that 
the suffering of the wounded men from hunger was 
not as great as supposed, and within forty eight 
hours of the battle, food was carried to the field in 
quanties sufficient to supply all. The great extent • 
of ground over which the wounded were scattered 
rendered it impossible to supply the sufferers as fast 
as could be desired. 
The Norwich Bulletin professes to have informa-
tion that as soon as the levy for 600,000 men is fill-
ed up,it is the intention of the government to call out 
an addittional force, stated at 400.000. This force 
is to be drilled, 'and held in the State as a reserve. 
CHURCH AND STATE. 
Another European nation has dissolved the ties 
between Church and State, so far at least as control 
by the latter over the former is asserted.—The Chris-
tian Intelligencer says :— 
"In Holland, the union of Church and State, so 
far at least as temporal control over the Church is 
concerned, is dissolved. After July 1st, 1862, the 
ministers of Protestant and Catholic worship were to 
be suppressed. There will be grants to a certain 
number of pastorates of each denomination, but the 
State will no longer take cognizance of their inter-
nal condition. This will secure to all the churches 
entire religious liberty, and do honor to the country 
of William of Orange." 
THE SCULPTURE OF HABIT.—Did you ever watch 
a sculptor slowly fashioning a human countenance? 
It is not molded at once. It is not struck out at a 
signal heat. It is painfully and laborously wrought. 
A thousand blows roughcast it. Ten thousand chisel 
points polish and perfect it—put in the fine touches, 
and bring out the features and expression. It is a 
work of time ; but at last the full likeness comes out 
and stands fixed forever and unchanging in the solid 
marble. Well, so does a man under the healing of 
the Spirit, or teachings of Satan, carve out his own 
moral likeness. Every day he adds something to the 
work. A thousand acts of thought, and will, and 
deed, shape the features and expression of the soul—
habits of love, and purity, and truth—habits of 
falsehood, malice, and uncleanliness, mold and fash-
ion it, till at length its wears the likeness of God, or 
the image and superscription of the Evil One. 
THINGS WORTH KNOWING. 
I know—that my Redeemer liveth. Job. 19: 25. 
I know—in whom I have believed, and am per-
suaded that he is able to keep that which 1 have 
committed unto him against that day. 2 Tim. 1:12. 
Ye know—that he was manifested to take away 
our sins. 1 John 3: 5. 
We know that all things work together for good, 
to them that love God. Rom. 8: 28. 
We know that if our earthly house of this tab-
ernacle were dissolved, we have a building of God,a 
house not made With hand, eternal in the heavens. 
2 Con. 5: 1. 
We know—that when he shall appear we shall be 
like him ; for we shall see him as he is. 1 John 3: 
2 ; 5: 18, 19, 20.—American Meseenger. 
THE SANDWICH ISLANDS,—The population of the 
Sandwich Islands has dwindled to 67,090, from 
150,000 in 1823. Disease, and other accompani-
ments of Christian civilization, are rapidly sweep-
ing off the native inhabitants. 
CORRECTION. 
We are reminded by Bro. Orrock 
that Dr. R. Hutchinson's address is "Devon St." 
not "Devonshire St." as we have had it, and as we 
have been sending previous Nos. of the Herald. We 
.mistook the word. 
GREAT AND SMALL RICHES.—Riches though well 
got, are like the ancient manna ; those that gather-
ed less had no want, and those that gathered more 
were not profited thereby. 
I will answer for it, the longer you read the Bi-
ble, the more you will like it ; it will grow sweeter 
and sweeter : and the more you get into the spirit of 
it, the more you get into the spirit of Christ—Ro-
maine. 
DegglatiMUNISAimissaillWiialietial
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THE ADVENT HERALD. 
ately I had nt4 time to call on friends here. We ter enjoyment of peace when it comes, and a longing 
CORRESPONDENCE. 
In this department, articles are solicited, on the general 
subject of the Advent, from friends of the Herald, over 
their own signatures, irrespective of the particular views 
which it defends. Views of correspondents not dissented 
from, are not necessarily to be considered as editorially 
endorsed. Correspondents are expected to avoid all per-
sonalities, and to study Christian courtesy in all references 
to views and persons. Any departure from this should ba 
regarded as disentitling the writer to any reply. Christian 
and gentlemanly discussion will be in order ; but not 
needless, unkind, or uncourteous controversy. 
MY JOURNAL. 
BOSTON—THE CAUSE HERE. 
Monday Aug. 12, 1862. Rose early, refreshed, 
and happy in God. Took amorning walk with 
Brother Brownell, and talked of the coming 
kingdom, and our duties connected with 
it. After which we took a plain wholesome break- 
fast, which we ate to the glory of God, when we 
had a song ; " Forever with the Lord," and a chap-
ter of the holy word, with prayer and thanksgiving, 
when the stage being ready, we were obliged to part 
and go our ways perhaps not to meet, till we shall 
" See the king in his beauty." 
I have much enjoyed my my visit with Bro. B. 
and family, and Sister Howe, and with all the dear 
friends. It has been a mutual blessing. It is more 
blessed to visit the neglected ones, who live out of 
the way and seldom see an advent preacher, than 
those who enjoy constant privileges of this kind. 
They appreciate it so much, and enjoy it as others 
do, and cannot. It does us good to see others enjoy 
good things ; and when we can be the means of their 
enjoyment it is thrice blessed to us. 
The Lord bless the dear and failhful ones in Espe-
rence, and give them the kingdom at last. They 
will receive my thanks for " helping me on my way 
after a Godly sent." 
1 came by stage to Schenectady and then took the 
car to Sandy Hill, via Saratoga Springs. Stopping 
an hour, I went to one of the Springs,and quaffed 
some of the living, mineral waters. This was the 
strongest drink, I had taken for two years. But 
rich as it is, and celebrated as it is, for its medical 
properties, I much prefer the pure soft water that 
flows out of the rock on the " Hill side," at Dans-
ville, N. Y. with which " Our House," is supplied, 
for health agencies. There is nothing so conducive 
to health as pure soft water. And if it cannot be 
got from the springs of the earth where we reside, 
we had better spend our money for a good cistern, 
and filterer, and use the water and snow that comes 
down from heaven, and have health, than to pay 
doctors' bills,and suffer with pains and various com 
plaints that come from impure or hard water. 
But think of it. Here are thousands of persons 
crowding to these springs in pursuit of health,spend-
ing their time and money without stint, who might 
be well at home, if they would live right. Here too, 
they have to, or do, live at the Hotels, where their 
food is conducive to anything but the restoration of 
health. The diet at these watering places, is better 
calculated to make us sick, than to give health, 
If such persons would spend the same money and 
time at " Our Home," in Dansville N. Y. they 
might not only be restored, but learn how to keep 
their health after they had got it. When will men 
be wise? 
At 8 P. M. I left the merry throng in Saratoga, 
for Sandy Hill and at 9 o'clock, I was pleasantly 
associated with Bro. Mathewson and family in their 
happy home in Sandy Hill. I am to speak hervend 
will in my next say a word about things here. 
Sandy Hill, N. Y. 
Tuesday, Aug. 12. Visited, with Eld. Mathew-
seri and Fanchen, a number of families, only a few 
of which I had known in my visits and labors here 
from 1842 to 1847 ; most of the early Adventists 
having died or moved away to other parts. But a 
new and interesting church has been raised up un- 
der the labors of Bro. Mathewson. Th have 
built a fine spacious chapel, and regular worship is 
well sustained. The church is one of the living 
ones, and increasing in both numbers and graces. 
And the cause is much stronger than in 1843. 
"What bath God wrought?" 
In the evening, I spoke to a very good audience, 
and enjoyed liberty in speaking on the blessedness of 
full ,communion with Christ, which was well re-
ceived. 
While out in my walks to-day, I visited the "Un-
ion Cemetery," and stood for a time by the grave 
of Eld. John Howell, who by his special request 
was buried here. I recalled the time and circuree 
 
stances when Bro. II., in his extreme youth, was in- 
troduced to me in Portland, Me., by our esteemed 
father, Dea. John Pearson ; when I took him into 
my tent's company, to help me in the proclamation 
of the Gospel of the Kingdom. it was a matter of 
of joy to me to contemplate his successful labors in 
the cause of Christ while he lived, and that he fin- 
ished his course with honored joy. He died in the 
faith, and will come forth in the resurrection of the 
ust. Here, tco, was the new-made grave of Sir 
Austin, a bride of a year, and the daughter of Eld. 
Parry, and the consort of Bro. Justin Austin. She 
was beloved by all who knew her, and ready for the 
kingdom. In her late visit to Boston, she became 
much endeared to the Advent people in Hudson 
street. Bow little we thought, that a few short 
weeks would elapse before that healthful and] beau-
tiful form would lie mouldering in the dust ! Yet 
it is so. May we imitate her godlike example, and 
be prepared with her to enjoy the "power of an 
endless life" at the coming of Christ. 
Wednesday, August 13. By special request I 
tarried over another day, and visited, and preached 
again in the evening on the time of the Advent. I 
had liberty, and found no opposition to the full and 
free utterance of all l had to say on the evidence of 
the Lord's coming in 1868. 
While here, the Rev. M. B. Czechowski (pro-
nounced Trha-hof-ske), called on Bro. M. He is 
the author of the "Thrilling and Instructive Devel- 
opments ; an experience of fifteen years as Roman 
Catholic clergyman and Priest." He is a Pole 
by birth and education. He appears to be a well- 
educated man and a Christian gentleman. I was 
much edified by his discourse, though in broken 
English. He has become interested in the personal 
coming of Christ, and is now travelling, and dispot. 
ing of his book as a means of support. I regard 
his book in a favorable light. It will be read with 
interest and profit by all candid persons. 
My visit with Bro. and Sister Mathewson has 
been a very pleasant and agreeable one. Bro. M. 
has been a subscriber to the "Herald," almost from 
the beginning, and continues to be, although he has 
always held other views on the state of the dead. 
and is specially associated with the Adventists on 
that side of the question. But for consistency, piety 
and devotion to the great Advent Cause both he and 
Sister M. are worthy examples, and would be an 
honor to any denomination. 
When I first visited Sand) Hill, with Father 
Miller, in 1842. we held a meeting in the Presbyte-
rian churhh, of which the Rev. M. Parry, was then 
pastor. He it seems become interested at the time, 
and give up the temporal millennium. Afterwards 
in the examination of the state of the dead, he was 
shaken in the view he had held, and expressed it to 
his associates. After resigning his pastoral charge, 
being in affluent circumstances, he took a more bold 
and open stand, on the subject, and finally was tried 
by the Presbytery for herecy. Ile defended hint elf 
and endeavored to sustain his position. But he was 
not met with the candor or fairness, or with scrip-
tural arguments to convince him, or his friends of 
their error and so he was cut off from the body. He 
is a pious and devoted, man, and often preaches the 
Gospel, as he has calls, though he has no pastoral 
charge. He and his entire family have been bap-
tized and united with the Advent church in Sanday 
Hill I had a pleasant interview with them. Our visit 
with Father Miller, and the occupency of his pulpit 
twenty years ago was pleasantly referred to, but 
none of us then thought of the changes that have 
transpired, or of seeing a beautiful ohapel, and hap-
py church in Sandy Hill in 1862, looking for the 
kingdom. 
Bro. Ira Fauchen, still lives and is true to his 
faith and hope. He was brought out at the time of 
Father Miller's visit. He had been a Quaker",but on 
hearing the literal interpretation of the word of God, 
he was eonvinced of its truth and embraced it with 
his whole soul. And he went farther than his teach-
er, and applied the threatenings of the word of God 
against the wicked literally, to destroy them root 
and branch. He has ever been a strong destruction-
1st. But he gave me the most valuable and liberal 
aid in spreading the gospel of the kingdom in the 
early period of my work, of any one. And for many 
years he contintued to help in the cause, though he 
did not see with us in all things. At a later period 
he was so much impressed with the (to him) terri-
ble idea of eternal torment of the wicked, that he 
with held his support from all who taugh that doc-
trine. And he still adheres conscientiously to this 
view, and acts accordingly. Let any man be fully 
persuaded in his own mind, and act .as he will be 
willing to be judged in the "last day." 
Thursday, August,24. Bro. N.W. Wait,formerly 
of the Christian connexion ,now of the Advent church 
in Sandy Hill, and one of the chief supporters ; 
took me to Fort Edward, where I took leave of him 
and others, and took the cars for White Hall and 
arrived at noon. As the boat was to leave immedi 
had a pleasant sail up the Lake for about 3 hours 
when a heavy rain storm came up ; but we arrived 
at Rouse's Point at 9 o'clock in the evening. I put 
up with Bro. Wesley Weeks, and only on the 15th, 
I came to Perry's Mills, and prepared for our camp-
meeting, which was to begin this P. M. 
Some of the Links in the Chain of Truth. 
No. 7. 
BY TIMOTHY WHEELER. 
Character does not pertain to instinctive acts 
whether of body or mind. 
All instinctive physical acts are not double, so that 
the body is not always a slave to the mental sys-
tem, for these acts have no mentality cymected with 
them. 
Over these acts, man never has, neither can he 
ever have any control. Their teaching then is the 
teaching of God, and is in harmony with the Bible. 
There may be conflict without the existence of 
evil. 
The introduction of evil was not necessary in or-
der that man might have a just conception of what 
evil was. 
Evil is not a being, a creature,it has no substance 
or entity, it has no nature of its own. 
Evil was needless, and is temporary, man being 
its author. 
There was a liability to evil, but there was no ne-
cessity for it. 
, It was necessary that Adam and Eve should have 
had a sense of good and evil. 
Good and evil relate more to the condition or ex-
istence than to existence itself. 
Evil did not originate at once, by a miracle, but 
was of long and gradual develo'pmeat, (still increas-
ing) and God's original plan for its extermination 
was in the same way, by a gradual decrease but 
Christ being rejected and exiled, we shall have the 
New creation, and not the Restitution, hence the 
eradication of evil will be by a miracle. 
There is such a thing as restoring a machine,pro-
viding it is done in season, otherwise, it must be 
new-created. 
A miracle was usually wrought against an evil. 
Man's consciousness of natural evil is greater than 
his consciousness of good. 
It was necessary that Adam should become ac-
quainted with the distinctions of right and wrong, 
but this he could as well without guilt as with, so, 
the introduction of sin and evil was unnecessary. 
The first sin and the first moral evil were the 
same. 
The origin of sin or moral evil was an antecedent 
to the origin of natural evil. 
Natural evil is the effect of sin or moral evil—the 
natural result. 
Evil is both moral and natural. 
Evil is more plentiful than good. 
Good and evil have no positive existence, they'are 
simply the qualities of what exists, having relation 
to case, state, or condition of existence. 
Good and evil are the opposite conditions of the 
same thing. 
Evil is not the object of contrivance. 
Satan was the occasion of sin and evil but not the 
cause of it. 
Satan had no power to fill our world with woe. 
Sin had its origin in Eve's highest or moral na-
ture in the mental act of decision or choice, thus de-
ranging her moral nature, and by virtue of its con-
nection with her physical nature, her whole com-
pound or dual nature was deranged and out of har-
mony with itself, and the entire universe. 
Man, in his guilt and fallen state has a sense of 
virtue unpossessed, so, man, in his innocence or un-
fallen state, could have had a sense of sin and evil 
unpossessed, and so have dispensed with its intro-
duction, and at the same time the end would have 
been attained that has been attained by its introduc- 
tion. • 
If evil is never to have an end, then God must be 
its author, or Satan has gained a partial victory,and 
Christ's work of separation is limited, and "all 
things" are not made "new." 
As in the natural world, death is the absence of 
life, darkness the absence of Tighe, and cold the ab-
sence of heat ; so, in the moral world, sin is the ab-
sence of holiness, and evil is the absence of good. 
NOTE. Vhe victor is none the less a victor be-
cause he permits; the defeated, conquered and im-
prisoned author of evil to exist in the prison house 
to which he is consigned. 
ED. 
From Bro. •Robbins Miller. 
Bro. Bliss :—The friends are all well in this sec-
tion. We are truly living in "grand and awful 
times." What will be the end of these things? Will 
it not be, the establishing of that peace that will be 
from sea to sea, and from the rivers to the end of 
the earth? These times wiil fit the mind for a bet- 
R. MILLER. 
The greater the present trials, the greater will be 
the enjoyment of exemption from them, for those 
permitted to dwell under the rule of our coming 
King. 
ED. 
From Bro. D. T. Taylor. 
BRO. BLISS. I mail you with this a Northamp-
ton paper containing a notice of the camp meeting 
at W. It is the view of an outsider—a Baptist re. 
porter took of our sayings and doiugs. He is in-
correct in saying that Storrs, &c., hold to the "non-
resurrection of the dead,"—also in giving 9 period-
icals to .the publication society. He himself cor-
rected the first with pencil before sending me the 
paper. I am yours hastily, 
D. T. TAYLOR. 
Castleton, ,W. Sep. 8, 1862. 
FROM THE NORTHAMPTON FREE PRESS. 
Wilbraham, Aug. 31, 1862. 
The second Advent camp meeting opened here 
last Monday in their old camp ground in a beauti-
ful grove near the depot. There is a larger number 
in attendance this year than ever before. Nearly 
eighty tents have been pitched, many of them large 
family and neighborhood tents, and seventy-three 
preachers are present representing all the northern 
States and the Canadas. There seems to be a deep 
ligious feeling among the peopl a . Forty came 
forward fur prayers last evening, and thirty-two 
have been immersed in the Chicopee river during the 
meeting, ' 
The general order of conducting a Second Advent 
campmeeting is much like that of a Methodist camp 
meeting, and yet the Adventists are strictly Bap-
tists as regards baptism, and most of them believe 
in the final annihilation of the wicked. There is a 
small party on the ground, headed by Storrs of 
New York, Ladd and Curry of Springfield arid Wen-
dell of Salem, who believe in the non-resurrection 
of the dead [wicked] butjthe great mass of the Adven-
tists discard this latter doctrine. With regard to ous 
national troubles they generally regard them as 
among the lost signs of the early coming of Christ. 
Among the speakers of the week, was Mr. Baxter, 
a barrister from England, who said that the people 
of England were in sympathy with the North in 
this rebellion, the London Times to the contrary 
notwithstanding. His remarks found an echo from 
the audience. 
The Advent Christian Association held their an-
nual meeting on the camp gronnd the first of the 
week. Miles Grant was re-elected edi-
tor of the " World's Crisis," and D. T. Taylor of 
Castleton, Vt., was chosen president of the associa-
tion for the ensuing year. The publication society 
have issued 60,000 tracts during the year. They 
have eight publications, weekly, monthly and quar-
terly. 
The Adventists estimate their members at 700 
ministers and 60,000 communicants in the United 
States and Canadas, but 1 suppose these numbers 
inclUde the Campbellites and some other doubtful 
sects. 
Good order has prevailed throughout the meet-
ings. There were not less than 5000 people on the 
ground to-day. To-morrow the tents will he struck 
and the Adventists will return to their homes re-
freshed and confirmed in their faith. 
The quiet of camp life has been disturbed by only 
two accidents. On Wednesday night, after all had 
retired to their tents, the branch of a tree nearly as 
large as a man's body, fell with a crash, striking 
across a tent and leveling it instantly to the ground. 
Luckily but few were in the tent at the time, and 
all escaped uninjured but one man who received 
some slight bruises. The other accident was that of 
the running of a horse with a buggy, two-thirds of 
the way around the camp-ground amidst an audi-
ence of from 2000 to 3000. The only damage done 
was the breaking of the buggy. 
The Methodist camp-meeting will open to morrow 
about half a mile from the Advent camp ground, 
and continue till next Saturday. 
QUADRAT. 
From Bro. J. Reynolds. 
The word, eternal, or immortal, is never joined 
with life and never can be and make sense, when man 
is spoken of, because it always means his natural 
life. The word which is always joined with eternal 
and everlasting, is life, and from its use in the Bible 
appears to mean,life absolute, as independent of cir-
cumstances, as being the very principle of existence, 
and opposed to natural life, which is dependent on 
natural elements for its being. Thus when man is 
spoken of in his resurrection and immortal state his 
for that rest that remains for the people of Gud. 
While the world looks for peace through the in-
strumentality of mortal man,we look for it through 
the proclamation of the King of kings. 
Truly yours 
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303 
life is always life e`ernal, because he has the princi-
ple of life in him, and his natural life is changed. 
He is no longer dependent on natural elements for 
life, but his has the principle of life within himself. 
And thus the life is no mark, as it was natural, or 
animal life. It therefore appears that the salvation 
of the soul, is the salvation of the person called man, 
the life beirg changed from mortal, and natural to 
eternal, and immortal. We thus hear our Lord say, 
'Take no thought for your life what you shall eat, 
or what ye shall drink.' Matt. 6: 25. And narrow 
is the way which leadeth unto life and few there be 
that find it. 7: 15. He that findeth his life shall lose 
it, and he that loseth his life for my sake shall find 
it. 10: 39 and 16, 25, 26. It is better for thee to 
enter into life halt, rather than have two hands or 
two feet to be cast into hell fire. 18: 8, 9. 
The son of man came to give his life a ransom for 
many. 20: 28. My life is exceeding sorrowful even 
unto death. 26: 38. The good shepherd giveth his 
life for the sheep. Therefore doth my Father love 
me because I lay down my life, that I might take it 
again. John 10: 11, 17. 
These are a few of many texts which all teach the 
same truth, that the soul is not the inner man, but 
that the spirit as we learn from other scripture. 
Our Lord while on the cross said, 'Father into 
thy hands I commend my spirit.' Luke 23: 46. Step-
hen also said the same. Acts 7: 59. Jesus also said 
a spirit hath not flesh and bones. Luke 24: 39. 
Before Christ there were persons who were famil 
iar with spirits, and by the power which Satan than 
hadahe spirits of the dead were conversed with,as the 
Lad forbid his people to enquire of such persons. 
But in this age we cannot learn that any spirits ap-
pear to man any more than angels, as we are now 
living in another age of the world, while our great 
high priest has gone into heaven' there is a change 
in this world, and Satan's power in heaven is gone. 
It is therefore no evidence that there are no spirits 
because they do not now appear to. 
 us, ,any more 
than it is proof that there are no angels because 
they do not. 
That all Christians have a life in them which is 
not inherent, we are assured by the words of Christ, 
in John, 6: 47 to 63. This is the life which is re-
ceived by faith in Christ. Except ye eat the flesh of 
the Son of man, and drink his blood ye have no life 
in you. 
The inner man then is not the soul, but the spit-
it. and as the Christian has the sprit by Christ in 
him, or the life which is received of faith, it is but 
re isonable to believe that when the earthly taber-
nacle is dissolved, the spirit being free will unite 
with its proper element,and so remain until its more 
p.afect state, when its immortal tabernacle shall be 
its abode. And having a body like unto Christ's 
glorious body shall rejoice in a full salvation, of bo-
dy, soul, and spirit to be an active being on God's 
new earth and a partaker of all the glories of God's 
etamal kingdom. Then shall the meek inherit the 
earth as joint heirs with Christ. 
J. REYNOLDS. 
OBITUARY. 
Died in Bolton, C. E. Aug. 24. .1862. Sister 
ROSEPHA A. DREW, wife of George R. Drew and 
daughter of Bro. Abram and Sister Maria Gould, 
aged twentythree years. Sister R. experienced re-
ligion a few years past, under the proclamation of 
the truth of the soon ocining of our Lord and Mas 
ter ; in which she lived a faithful follower of Christ 
until her death, which terminated after an illness of 
about twelve days of billious and typhoid fever. 
Truly death has chosen a shining mark ; for Rose-
pha was a lovely companion, and highly esteemed 
by all who made her acouaintance. Like a flower 
she bloomed but to fade away ; an untimely blast 
passed over her, and she is gone. Sad hearts and 
streaming tears gave proof that all keenly felt the 
loss of companion, child, sister, friend and neighbor. 
Only a few week before her death, cheerful and joy-
ous, the rose of health bloomed upon her cheek ; but 
oh how uncertain is mortal life. Thus passed away 
another soul to sleep in Jesus. I had the opportu-
nity of conversing with her in her sickness, and our 
hearts were made glad in finding her in such a hope-
ful state of mind, conscious of her approaching dan-
ger she seemed calm and resigned to .the will of her 
Maker. She expressed a desire to recover, if it was 
the will of God, that she might live to Christ only. 
An hour is soon coining when we shall greet her 
again on the heavenly shore. She leaves a kind 
companion and one child seven months old, a father 
mother, three sisters, four brothers, and a large cir-
cle of other relatives and friends to mourn her loss; 
and truly, it is a loss. 
A discourse was delivered by the writer from Acts 
26: 8. " W by should it be thought a thing incred-
iblewith you that God should raise the dead?" 
But death, and he who bath its power, 
Shall be at last destroyed ; 
And saints no more, 0 joyful hour, 
Will be by them annoyed. 
JOHN CHAPMAN. 
Crisis please copy. 
AD VERTISEMENTS. 
Memoirs of William Miller. 
By the author of the Time of the End-excepting 
the first three chapters, which were by the pen of 
another. pp. 426. Price, post paid, -75 cts. 
Few men have been more diversely regarded than 
William Miller. While those who knew him, es-
teemed him as a man of more than ordinary mental 
power, as a cool, sagacious and honest reasoner, an 
humble and devoted Christian, a kind and affection-
ate friend, and a man of great moral and social 
worth ; thousands, who knew him not, formed opin-
ions of him anything but complimentary to his in-
telligence and sanity. It was therefore the design 
of this volume to show him to the world as he was 
-to present hint as he appeared in his daily walk 
and conversation, to trace the manner in which he 
arrived at his conclusions, to follow him into his 
closet and places of retirement, to unfold the work-
ings of his mind through a long series of years, and 
scan closely his motives. These things are shown of 
him by large extracts from his unstudied private 
correspondence, by his published writings, by nar-
rations of interviews with him, accounts of his pub-
lic labors in the various places he visited, a full 
presentation of his views, with the manner of their 
conception, and various reminiscences of interest in 
connection with his life. 
The revivals of religion which attended his labors, 
are here testified to by those who participated in 
them ; and hundreds of souls, it is believed,will ever 
regard him as a means, under God, of their conver-
sion. The attention given to his arguments caused 
many minds, in all denominations, to change their 
views of the millennial state ; and as the christian 
public learn to discriminate between the actual po-
sition of Mr. Miller, and that which prejudice has 
conceived that he occupied, his memory will be 
much more justly estimated. The following notice 
of this volume is from the "Theological and Liter 
ary Journal." 
This volume is worthy of a perusal by all who 
ake an interest in the great purposes God has re-
vealed respecting the future government of the 
world. If the first chapters descend to a detail of 
incidents that are of little moment, and betray a 
disposition to exaggerate and over-paint, the main 
portion of the memoir, which is occupied with the 
history of his religious life, is not chargeable with 
that fault, and presents an interesting account of 
his studies, his opinions, his lectures, his disap 
pointments, and his death, and frees him from many 
of the injurious imputations with which he was as-
sailed during his last years. He was a man of vig-
orous sense, ardent, resolute, and upright ; he had 
the fullest faith in the Scriptures as the word of 
God, and gave the most decided evidence that he 
understood and felt the power of their great truths. 
Instead of the ambitiousness of a religions dema-
gogue, he was disinterested ; his great aim in his 
advent 
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His de- 
meanor, on the confutation of his calculations re-
specting the advent, was such as might be expected 
from an upright man. Instead of resorting to sub-
terfuges to disguise his defeat, he frankly confessed 
his error, and while he lost faith in hirallf, retain-
ed his trust undiminished in God, and endeavored 
to guard his followers front the dangers to which 
they were exposed, of relapsing into unbelief, or 
losing their interest in the great doctrine of Christ's 
premillennial corning. 
A Volume for the Times. 
"THE TIME OF THE END." 
This volume of over 400 pages, compiled by the 
DIED. In Waitsfield Vt. June 30th 1862 Sister 
ORINDA 141 LEARNED, aged 58. 
The subject of the above notice was an affection-
ate wife, a tender parent, a devoted Christian. At 
an early age she became a subject of saving grace 
and united with the Baptist church. From the be-
ginning of her Christian course she made it her bu-
siness to walk with God. So that when the news 
of our Lord's return reached her ears she received it 
with gladness. She was not moved about by every 
"wind of doctrine" that has afflicted us as a people, 
but continued steadfast in 'the faith once delivered to 
the saints' as she heard it from Father Miller and 
his fellow laborers in the gospel. For several of the 
last years of her life she was a great sufferer (from 
asthma and other diseases) but was scarce ever 
known to complain. With assailing countenance, 
even in the hour of pain, she would say: - 
"I'll suffer on . • • 
Till my deliverer comes 
And wipes away his servants' tears 
And takes his exiles home." 
For one or two of the last years of her life, when 
I met her she would sometimes say : "I don't know 
what I have to live for, only to see my son a Chris-
tian. " The rest of the family professed Christ. 
During the last winter I held a series of meetings 
near her residence, and that son of many prayers. 
Was hopefully epnverted. Afterwards when meet-
n° her she said, "I have nothing to live for now, I 
am ready to depart." As she lived for Christ, so 
she died in him. Of her it may be added with truth: 
"Blessed are the dead that die in the Lord," as she 
Was one who could say, "I have fought a good 
fight.', We took it for a text on the occasion of her 
funeral, and we can but hope that God blessed the 
truth to some that heard. D. Bosworra. 
come with teams will be provided for, but will have 
to provide mostly for their own horses. The Port-
land brethren will do all they can to entertain the 
friends who come. Call on Bro. J. S. Brooks, 8 
Summer street ; Bro. Peter Johnson ; Bro. Elden, 
16 Tyng street ; Elder B. Emery, Congress street ; 
Bro. Charles H. Wyman, 12 Salem street, — who 
will aid you in finding suitable places to stop. 
0. R. FASSETT, Pres't. 
I. C. WELCOME, Sec. 
Yarmouth, Me. Aug. 23, 1862. 
NOTICE. 
The Anniversary of the American Millennial Asso-
ciation will be holden in concert with the A. E. 
Advent Conference at Waterbury, Vt., on Wednes-
day, Oct. 10th, at 7 P. M.; at which time the an-
nual election of officers will take place for the ensu- 
ing year. 
JosIAH LITCII, Pres't. 
F. GUNNER, Rec. Sec. 
EVANGELICAL ADVENT CONFERENCE. 
THE EVANGLICAL ADVENT CONFERENCE will hold its 
22d Annual Session in Waterbury, Vt., commencing Tues-
day, Oct. 7th, andossolisaa tree days, or longer if the Con-
ference deem it expedient. 
The opening services will be on Tuesday, at 2 o'clock P. 
M., after which the unfinished business will be attended to. 
In the evening the Annual Sermon, by Elder D. Bos-
worth. 
Wednesday, A. M. A session of the American Millen-
nial Association. 
Wednesday, P. M. A session of the Evangelical Ad-
vent. Conference. Business and Essays. 
Evening. Anniversary of A. M. Association. Opening 
Address by Elder J. Pearson, to be followed by other 
brethren, on the Importance of Publications as a means of 
spreading the light. 
Thursday. Sessions of Conference. Business and Es-
says. 
In the evening, — the Anniversary of our Missionary 
work, — an Opening Address by Elder C. Cunningham, on 
the Christian Ministry, and the Gospel Method of its In-
crease and Support ; to be followed by addresses from 
other brethren. 
The fullowing are some of the subjects that will be dis-
cussed at the Conference, the opening addresses or essays 
to be given by those whose names are attached to the sub-
jects, after which others will follow in addresses. 
Prayer, its essential qualities. H. Canfield. 
Active Christianity, what is it, and its results, pres-
ent and future. I. IL Shipman. 
Social meetings, the duty and benefits of maintain-
ing them. D. I. Robinson. 
The Sabbath. H. A. Eastman. 
The prophetic Periods, how they should be inter-
preted, what ones fulfilled, those yet to be fulfilled. J. 
Litch. 
Either The Coming One or the Resurrection. S. 
Bliss. 
Christian fellowship, its importance, the scripture 
basis of it. 0. R. Fassett. 
Ministerial success, in what it consists, its secret. 
J. M. Orrock. 
Our mission, what it is, and how it should bo prose-
cuted. L. Osier. 
JOHN PEARSON, jr., 
LEMUEL OSLER, 
ANTHONY PEARCE, 
Committee. 
I have made arrangements with the Vt. Central 
and Rutland and Burlington R. R. to pass the friends 
over this road, to and from our Conference, for fare 
one way. So that friends coming from the S- or E., 
will buy their tickets only to Bellows Falls or White 
River Junction ; then pay for local ticket to Water-
bury, and when they give it up, ask for cheek back. 
Those from the West will do the sdme from any sta-
tion on the Rutland and Burlington Rail Road. 
Those from the North, via Rouse's Point, the same. 
As we expect a number of our friends from Canada, 
perhaps Bro. Orrock can get the road from Water-
loo to Rouse's Point to do the same. 
D. BoswoRTII. 
Waterbury, August 26, 1862. 
[Will Bro. Orrock look at the above.—En.] 
ANNUAL DONATIONS. 
It is desirable that there be raised by donation five or 
six hundred dollars each year, by annual subscriptions ; 
and the following may be a suitable form of pledge for 
that purpose. 
15 e agree to pay annually in furtherance of the objects 
of the American Millennial Association, the sums set 
against our respective names. 
Samuel Prior, Yardleyville, Pa 
5 00 
Stephen Sherwin, Grafton, 
. 1.00 
Martin L. Jackson, Milesburg, Pa . . . 2 00 
Mill. Aid Society in Providence, 
..............16.30 
Millennial Aid Society in Shiremanstown, Pa ..9.00 
" " " New Kingstown, Pa —4.50 
S. Blanchard, Barre, Vt. 
 .1.00 
Lloyd N. Watkins, Toronto, C. W 
 1.00 
Church in Newburyport 
.9.00 
Pardon Ryon, Smith's Landing N. J. .... ........ .2.00 
Josiah Vose, Westford, Mass. (" or more") .... 2 00 
Henry Lunt, Jr., Newburyport, Mass.... .... .. 2.00 
Church in Stanstead. C. E ............ .... 4.00 
Joel Cowee, Gardner, Masi............
.1.00 
Joseph Barker, Kincardine, C.W 
 . 5 00 
II. B. Eaton, M.D , Rockport, Me 
 5.00 
Edward Matthews, Middlebury, 0 
 ..1 00 
Mrs. F. Beckwith, " 
Mrs. Mary Jane Yoder, Harrisburg, Pa .... 5.00 
Miss 0. W. Allen, Johnson, Vt. 
.1.25 
Mrs. Mary Ann Dowd, New Haven, Vt ........ 5.00 
Alexander Wattles, Troy, Mich., . 
.1.00 
James Penniman, Milford, Mass., ........ .$1.00 
We leave a blank space here, which it is desirable to see 
filled with names and amounts, of pledges of annual pay-
ments. 
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BUSINESS DEPARTMENT. 
BUSIN.Ess .NOTES. 
Eld. J. M. Orrock. As you say of Mrs. S. Keazer
' 
V. 'Truell's," we have changed it from Bro. llurd's to that 
bundle. 
A.111. ASSOCIATION. 
The "American Millennial Associatiun,"located in Bos-
ton, Mass., was legally organized Nov. 12th, 1858, under 
the provisions of the 56th Chapter of the Acts of the Le-
gislature of Massachusetts of A. D. 1857, for charitable 
and religious purposes. The whole amount obtained by 
donations, subscriptions, or sales of publications, is to be 
expended in the publication of Periodicals, Books, and 
Tracts, and for the support of ministers of the Gospel. 
All contributions to our treasury, will be duly acknow-
ledged, and, at the end of the year, will be embodied ie a 
report. When there is any omission of the proper credit, 
due notice should be at once given to 
SYLVESTER BLISS, Treasurer, 
ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS TO TUESDAY, SEPTEMBER 16, 1862.1 
IL B. Eaton, M. D., Rockport, Me ........$1.09 
Agents of the Advent Herald. 
Albany, N. Y Win. Nichols , 85 Lydius-street 
Burlington, Iowa ..... .... .... _James S. Brandeburg 
Chazy, Clinton Co., N. Y 
C P. Dow 
Cabot, (Lower Branch),) Vt. Dr. M. P. Wallace 
Cincinnati, 0 
,, Joseph Wilson 
Do Kalb Centre, Ill.. .... .... .... .... R. Sturvesant 
Dunham, C. E 
D. W. Sornberger 
Derby Line, Vt. 
S Foster 
 
Eddington, Me 
 Thomas Smith 
Fairhaven, Vt 
 Robbins Miller 
Freeland, De Kalb Co., Ill Wells A. Fay 
Homer, N. Y 
.J. L. Clapp 
Haverhill, Mass ..... .... .... .... ..... Lendal Brown 
Lockport, N. Y 
R. W. Beck 
Johnson's Creek, N Y..... .... .... ...Hiram Russell 
Kincardine, O. W .... .... .... .... .... Joseph Barker 
Loudon Mills, N. II. ........ .... .... ..George Locke 
Morrisville, Pa 
. Wm. Kitson 
Newburyport, Mass 
 . John L. Pearson 
New -York City J B. Huse, No. 6 Horatio st 
Philadelphia, Pa J Litch, No. 27 North 11th st 
Portland, Me .... .... .... .... .... Alexander Edmund 
Providence, R. I 
Anthony Pearce 
Princess Anne, Aid 
.John V. Pinto 
Rochester, N. Y 
D. Boody 
Salem, Mass
. Chas. II. Berry 
Springwater, N. Y. ..... .... .... ... S. H. Withington 
Shabbonas Grove, De Kalb county, Ill...N. W. Spencer 
Stanbridge, C. B 
 John Gilbreth 
Sheboygan Falls, Wis . William Trowbridge 
Toronto, C. W 
Daniel Campbell 
Waterloo, Shefford, C. E. ..... .... R. Hutchinson, M .D 
,, ,, ,, " .... .... .... .... J. M. Orrock 
Waterbury, Vt.. ..... .... .... .... .... .. D. Bosworth 
Worcester, Mass.... .... .... .... „Benjamin Emerson 
Yarmouth, Me 
. I. C. Wellcome 
FORM OF A BEQUEST.—"I bequeath to my executor (or 
executors) the sum of — dollars in trust, to pay the 
same in sixty days after my decease to the person who, 
when the same is payable, shall act as Treasurer of the 
American Millennial Association, Boston, Mass., to be ap-
plied under the direction of the Standing Committee of 
that Association, to its charitable uses and purposes.' 
POSTAGE.—The postage on the Herald, if pre-paid quar-
terly or yearly, at the office where it is received, will be 13 
Cents a-year to any part of Massachusetts, and 26 cents to 
any other part of the United States. If not pre-paid, it 
will be half a cent a number in the State, and one cent out 
of it. 
RECEIPTS. 
UP TO TUESDAY, SEPTEMBER 16. 
The No. appended to each name is that of the HERALD 0 
which the money credited pays. No: 1075 was the closing 
number of 1861 ; No. 1101 is the Middle of the present 
volume, extending to July 1, 1862; and No 1127 is to the 
close of 1862. Notice of any failure to give due credit 
should be at once communicated to the Business Agent. 
Those sending money should remember that we have 
many subscribers of similar names, that there are towns of 
the same name in different States, and in seine States there 
is more than one town of the same name. Therefore it is 
necessary to give his own name in full, and his Post-office 
address — the name of the town and state, and if out of 
New England, the county to which his paper is directed. 
An omission of some of these often, yes daily, gives us 
much perplexity. Some forget to give their State, and if 
out of New England their County, while some fail to give 
even their town. Sometimes they live in one town and 
date their letter in that, when their paper goes to another 
town; and sometimes the name of their town and office are 
different. Some, in writing, give only their initials, when 
there may be others at the same post-office, with the same 
initials. Sometimes, when the paper goes to a given ad-
dress, another person of the same family will write res-
pecting it,without stating that fact, and we cannot find the 
name. And sometimes those who write, forget even to sign 
their names ! Let all such remember that what we want, is 
the full name and post-office address of the one to whom the 
paper is sent. 
Those mailing, or sending money to the office by other 
persons, unless they have a receipt forwarded to them, are 
requested to see that they are properly credited below. And 
if they are not, within a reasonable time, to notify the office 
immediately. 
As a general thing, it is better for each person to write 
respecting, and to send money himself, for his own paper 
than to send by an agent, or any third person, unless such 
one is more likely to get his own name and post-offi right, 
than another person would be ; that money sent in small 
sums, is less likely to be lost than when sent in larger ones, 
and that a third person is often subjected to postage, merely 
to accommodate the one who sends. 
Eld. J. Chapman 1075; Eld. I. Blnke 1101; Mrs. S. 
Keazer 1130, each $1. 
Miss Jeannette Gibbs 1153; H. B. Eaton, M. D., 1184; 
Mrs. D. D. Allen 1147 ; Miss A. Blake 1143; J. Bailey 
1153, eaoli $2. 
G. L. Stanwood 1127, $3, 
Henry Rupp 1241—if all designed for the Herald ac-
count; Orange Bartlett 1147, each $5. 
Dr. R. Parmelee 1164, $2.25; Dr. G. 0. Somers 1095, 
75 cts .; Rev. S. IV. Thurber 1081, 24 cts. 
There are human tempers, bland, glowing, and 
genial,within whose influence it is good for the poor 
in spirit to live, as it is for the feeble in frame to 
bask in the glow of the noon 
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THE ADVEN T HERALD. 
CHILDREN'S DEPA RTMENT 
" FEED MY LAMBS."—John 21:15. 
BOSTON, SEPTEMBER 20, 1862. 
A Scripture Riddle. 
God made Adam out of dust, 
He thought it best to make me first, 
I was made before the man, 
According to God's holy plan. 
My body he did form complete, 
But without legs, or arms, or feet; 
My ways and action did control, 
But yet was made without. a sonl ; 
A living creature I became, 
'T was Adam that gave me my name; 
Then from his presence 1 withdrew; 
No more f Adam ever knew, 
But did my Maker's laws obey; 
From them I never went astray ; 
Thousands of miles I went in fear, 
Though seldom on the earth appear. 
God for His end did something see, 
And planted a living soul in me; 
A punishment the Lord did claim, 
And took from me that soul again. 
And when from me that soul was fled, 
I was the same as when first made ; 
And without hands, or feet, or soul, 
I travel now from pole to pole. 
Afriean Cruelties. 
The children, when they read the follow-
ing, must appreciate the privileges social, 
civil, and religious, they enjoy in this land 
of Christian influence. And they should 
remember and pray for those who are in 
that far off heathen land. There are chil-
dren also in our own country, in the rebel-
lious States, who are suffering much under 
the cruel system of American slavery. Let 
us be thankful to God tliat we were not 
born in the dark habitations of cruelty. 
Mr. Hinderer is a missionary of the Eng-
lish Church Missionary Society in Western 
Africa. Some time since he went to the 
town of llesa, in the Yoruba country, and 
he gives a sad account of the cruelties of 
the kings and people there. The wall of 
the town, he says, is "at least fifteen feet 
high, and no less than six feet thick, and 
hundreds of human skulls are tempered 
into this wall' At the north gate 1 count-
ed upwards of a hundred, all those of war 
captives. It is awful to think that the 
walls were originally built with the sacri-
fice of two human beings, who were wall-
ed up alive. These were none other than 
the first-horn son and daughter of the then 
reigning king ! 
"The most dreadful thing is the whole-
sale slaughter of men, women and chil-
dren, on the occasion of the death of a 
king. My host, his first servant (or slave), 
with several of his household, will have to 
die with the present king, if they live till 
his death. I saw also twelve little boys 
with brass rings on their ankles, who, to-
gether with the same number of girls, will 
have to die with him too, and man, oth-
ers. If the girls come of age before the 
death of the king, they may he given in 
marriage ; and then twelve other little ones 
are chosen in their stead. These poor vic-
tims have to be buried with their king, in 
the same grave, some under, some at each 
side of him, and some at his head and feet. 
But by far the most dreadful fate is that of 
two individuals, who have to be buried 
alive with him, one sitting over his head, 
and the other at his feet, with burning 
lamps in their hands. And in order that 
the lampholders may not escape by a bar- 
gain with the undertaker, their legs are to 
be broken before they take their seat near 
the king's body. • This calamity may soon 
befall those poor people and children, for 
the king is by no means a young man. 
But if a missionary were there, he would 
no doubt prevail on the king to give up 
Such practices, provided the under chiefs 
would submit to it. 
Mr. Hinderer also says: "One of my 
constant visitors was the king's own son, 
a little boy of about four or five years old. 
On the first day of his visiting me, as he 
was sitting on the ground, looking intent-
ly on me and all I did, for hours, lie was 
called to his dinner, When he answered 
boldly, "I shall not come ; 1 don't want to 
eat ; here I shall sit and look at the white 
man till my eye is satigied." And on my 
leaving Ilesa, his grandmother had to tie 
him on her back, for he would try and run 
after me, saying he must go with me." 
APPOINTMENTS. 
NOTICES OF J. V. RIMES. 
I shall meet with the Maine State Conference, 
Portland, Sept. 17, and continue over the Sabbath, 
21st. 
On my way to Stanbridge, Canada East, from 
Portland, I will preach in Melbourne, C. E., Sept. 
23d, instead of the22 d, as noticed last week i and in 
Lawrenceville, Sept. 24, and shall be obliged to omit 
my appointment at Waterloo this time. 
Conference and lectures at Stanbridge, Stone Set-
tlement, Sept. 25 to 30. Let all come in the first of 
the meetings and continue through. 
Lectures on the Advent in Craftsbury, Vt., Oct. 2 
to 6th. This being a new field, it will be pleasant 
to have brethren come in and help. Call on Alfred 
Collins. 
Waterbury, Vt., to attend the Conference Oct. 
7th, &c. 
The friends in Pennsylvania, Iowa, and Wiscon-
sin will be patient. I cannot leave New England 
till the latter part of October. 1 shall then visit 
Philadelphia, Milesburg, and other places, and 
thence to Iowa. Shall be glad to hear from any 
who wish my labors, as I will call on any who wish 
(where ft may be practicable) on my route. 
I shall go by Chicago, Ill., and Davenport, Iowa, 
thence to Muscatine, Iowa, &c. Special notice here-
after. 
NEW HAMPSHIRE STATE CONFERENCE 
According to the following resolution. passed at 
the last session, it will be seen that the time for 
holding the next session is just at hand. 
"Resolved, That the time' of holding our State 
Conference be changed- from the third Thursday in 
June to Friday nearest the 20th of October, and 
commence at 10 o'clock, A. M." 
As Clerk of the Conference, it becomes my duty 
to give notice, that the next session of our State 
Conference will commence on Friday next, Oct. 17, 
at 10 o'clock, A. M., and continue over the Sab-
bath. 
It belongs to our brethren to say where it shall 
be. Those desiring it to be holden with them, will 
write me as soon as practicable, that I may have 
time to give reasonable notice of the place. 
T. M. PREBLE. 
Concord, Sept. 4, 1862. 
NOTICE. 
Rev. 0. R. Fassett has commenced his pastoral 
labors with the Hudson street church in this city, 
corner of Hudson and Kneeland streets. Brethren 
and sisters, and friends coming into the city are invi-
ted to attend service at the Chapel, and make them-
selves at home. His Post Office address for the pres-
entis care of S. Buss, 46 1-2 Kneeland street, Bus. 
ton Mass. 
My appointment at Loudon Rridge, on Sunday, 
the 28th of Sept., is withdrawn, as Eld. J. Harvey 
has an appointment there at that time. I expect to 
be at Warner on that day. T. M. PREBLE. 
The P. 0. Address of Eld. S, W. Thurber is 
Hatley, Canada East. 
The P. C. Address of Eld. Geo. W. Bnrnham is 
Newburyport, Mass. 
The Post Office address of " Rev. R. Hutchinson, 
M. D.," for the present will, be " Care of Mrs. M. 
Holme, 34 Devon street, Liverpool, England " 
raMESSIAH'S CHURCH in New York worship tempo 
o rily in Room No. 20 Cooper's Institute, entrance 
n Eighth St., between Third and Fourth Avenues. 
Preaching on the Sabbath, at 10 1-2 A. M. and 3 
P. M. The prayerful support and co-operation of 
all Christians is solicited. 
NOTICE FOR MAINE. 
The managers of the Correna Camp Meeting hav-
ing changed the time of their meeting, so that it 
comes on the time of the appointment for the State 
Conference, we change our time, that brethren may 
be able to attend both. 
THE MAINE ANNUAL AD-
VENT CONFERENCE will convene on Wednesday even-
ing, Sept. 17th, at 7 o'clock, in the Second Advent 
Hall, on Congress street, Portland, and continue 
over the following Sunday. We hope to see all the 
Advent ministers belonging in Maine who can work 
in union and harmony for theobjects of the confer-
ence, which are the spread of " this gospel of the 
kingdom," the unity and health of the body of 
Christ, and the salvation of sinners. Let as many 
other such brethren and sisters come as can, in the 
spirit of Christ, ready to work for the Lord, praying 
that God may make this conference a blessing to us 
all and an instrument of good to others. Brethren 
will come mostly by cars and boats. Those who 
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