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Prayer. 
There is an eye that never sleeps, 
Beneath the wing of night, 
There is an ear that never shuts, 
When sink the beams of light. 
There is an arm that never tires, 
%Then human strength gives way ; 
There is a love that never fails, 
When earthly love decays. 
That eye is fixed on seraph throngs ; 
That ear is filled with angel's songs ; 
That arm upholds the world on high ; 
That love is thrown beyond the sky. 
But there's a power which man can wield, 
When mortal aid is vain ;— 
That eye, that arm, that love to reach, 
That listening ear to gain. 
That power is prayer, which soars on high, 
And feeds on bliss beyond the sky. 
Gems of English Poetry. 
The Last Days of Rome. 
BY A. HALE. 
FOURTH SKETCII. • 
THE union of France and Italy under Na-
poleon was begun while he was First Consul, 
by the creation of the " Italian Republic," of 
which Napoleon was made President in Februa-
ry, 1802. Although the treaty of Amiens 
was ratified the month following, (in March, 
1802) this combination of France and Italy was 
alleged as one of the reasons, on the part of 
England, for omitting to carry into effect the 
provisions of that treaty ; and the desolating 
wars which followed were the result. This 
" Italian Republic" should not be confounded 
with the " Cisalpine Republic," formed, with 
several others, by the French Republic some 
years before. Its design was, the accomplish-
ment of " Italian regeneration," " by constitut-
ing the Cisalpine into an independent Repub. 
lic."— Thiers. 
This Italian Republic consisted 
of " the whole of Lombardy as far as the Ad-
ige, together with the Legations and the Duchy 
of Modena; and contained nearly five millions 
of people." It was afterwards much enlarged. 
A delegation of the most distinguished person. 
ages of Italy met with the First Consul in 
Paris, where they consulted upon the organi-
zation best adapted for the new Republic; and 
these together " digested a constitution, re-
sembling both the French, and ancient Italian 
constitutions." The grand and imposing act 
of inauguration took place at Lyons, a city of 
eastern France. The Italians in a vast body 
assembled, so that the roads of the Milanese, of 
Switzerland, and of the Jura, were completely 
obstructed by travellers. The enthusiasm in-
creased every day, and it was at the height of 
this general excitement, whilst the French and 
Italians were in intimate communication with 
each other, that the idea was suggested of 
nominating the First Consul President. It 
was received with delight ; and the Consultum 
proclaimed NAPOLEON BONAPARTE President of 
the Italian Republic.—Thiers. " Every wish 
was realized. The Italian Republic, consti- 
tuted with eclat, found itself bound to the poli-
cy of France without losing its own integrity." 
'This combination of the two nations under 
Napoleon, thus begun, was matured three years 
after, when he held in his hands the crowns, 
and tilled the thrones, of the two nations, un-
der the title of " Napoleon, Emperor of France, 
and King of Italy !" 
If this combination is to be considered the 
body symbolized by the two-horned beast, its 
history must correspond with the prophecy in 
all its particulars. Before we enter on the de-
tails, let us look at the part of the prophecy 
which describes this two-horned beast :— 
" And I beheld another beast coming up out 
of the earth, and he had two horns like a lamb, 
and he spake as a dragon. And he exerciseth 
all the power of the first beast before him, and 
causeth the earth and them which dwell therein 
to worship the first beast, whose deadly wound 
was healed. And he doeth great wonders, so 
that he maketh fire come down from heaven on 
the earth in the sight of men, and deceiveth 
them that dwell on the earth by the means of 
those miracles which he had power to do in the 
sight of the beast; saying to them that dell
on the earth, that they should make an image 
to the beast, which had the wound by a sword, 
and did live. And he had power to give life 
unto the image of the beast, that the image of 
the beast should both speak, and cause that as 
many as would not worship the image of the 
beast should be killed. And he causeth all, 
both small and great, free and bond, to receive 
a mark in their right hand, or in their fore-
heads ; and that no man might buy or sell, 
save he that had the mark, or the name of the 
beast, or the number of his name."—Rev. 13 : 
11-17. 
Other references to the bodies here symbol-
ize, will be considered in their place. 
a. This Franco-Italian empire agrees with the 
general portion before us, in the first essential 
point : it is the successor of the old European 
system—the beast—which had sustained the 
Papacy for nearly thirteen hundred years; at 
least, so far as to contest and divide its su-
premacy. And this is all the prophecy will 
admit : for both must exert their influence, af-
ter the second is on the stage, to the end. The 
second essential point is equally clear : this 
successor of " the first beast " comes up at the 
end of his period of triumphant war with the 
saints ; and after the infliction of his deadly 
wound. It remains to inquire whether this 
Franco-ItItliari power bears the particular marks 
ascribed to it in the prophecy. 
V. 11.—It is seen " coming up out of the 
earth;" Ter yes'—tees gees—the earth, as dis-
tinguished from "every nation, kindred, tongue, 
and people."—Ch. 14:6.—It is almost invaria-
bly understood to denote the Roman world. 
And this determines the location of the power 
here brought to view. France and Italy are 
the most distinguished portions of the ancient 
empire, and of its more modern divisions.—
" And he had two horns like a lamb ; and he 
spoke as a dragon." There does not appear to 
be anything farther indicated by its likeness to 
a lamb than simply the number of its horns. 
" And he spoke as a dragon." As we have no 
recorded words of the dragon, this clause 
doubtless refers rather to the general deport-
ment than to any particular form of speech ; to 
the blasphemous arrogance manifested towards 
God, and the utter contempt in which were 
held the common rights and interests of men. 
—It has been so general a feature of all the 
old governments of the world, and also of the 
more modern, that particular illustrations need 
not be cited. It is, however, a well-known 
fact, that Napoleon affected the style- and man-
ners of the Caesars, whose political plans he 
also emulated. 
V. 12:—" And he exerciseth all the power 
of the first beast before him." The first beast 
is the old political combination of Europe.—
From the peace of Amiens, when the first 
" reparative " acts were performed, by which 
that combination was restored, in part, from its 
deadly wound, the power of which Napoleon 
was the head, swayed triumphantly over Eu-
rope till his fall. • " From March, 1802, the di-
plomacy of Napoleon governed Europe thir-
teen years."—Ene. Ant. 
A part, or all, of the 
armies of every nation on the continent of Eu-
rope, sustained his plans ; and at one time the 
" French army numbered five kings, four 
princes, twenty-one dukes," &c. — Croly.—
Wherever these triumphant armies moved, 
new forms and principles of legislation Fol-
lowed. The wonderful conqueror became a 
more wonderful legislator. " And causeth the 
earth and them teat dwell therein to worship 
the first beast." To worship is to honor, or 
pay hdmage. The only public, active repre-
sentation of the old system, that maintained 
her position to the last, was England. But for 
her, to all human appearance, the wound would 
have been fatal. In proof of this change in 
the regard of the new master of Europe for 
the old system, we first quote from Croly :— 
" The change from the Republican habits of 
France was total. He proclaimed an amnesty 
to the emigrants. He patronized literature and 
its institutions in a high degree. Ostentatious 
magnificence was the character of the Imperial 
establishments. His court was the most splen-
did in Europe. He brought back the old no-
bility, he created new. He reinstated the na-
tional religion. His first public act, after his 
coronation by the Pope, was to write a letter to 
the king of England, disclaiming the Repub-
lican doctrine of war against all monarchies, 
and professing himself ready to enter into a 
universal pacification. The Sans-culotte Re-
public ' was no more. France was, in the 
phrase of the day, re-united to the great Eu-
ropean family.'" 
In no part of Napoleon's charmed life does 
he 4 )w himself a greater wonder-worker than 
in mastering the difficulties he had to meet 
with in bringing the multitudes who had placed 
him at their head, to honor the old establish-
ments, or to approve the introduction of the 
new titles of nobility, with the civil and eccle-
siastical dignities and privileges, into the new 
state. The solemnization of the " Concordat" 
overcame the last difficulties. It is thus spo-
ken of by Thiers :— 
" Whilst this publication was taking place in 
the streets of the capital, the First Consul, who 
wished to solemnize on the same day every-
thing that was for the good of France, was ex-
changing the ratifications of the peace of 
Arniens. This important formality having 
been accomplished, he set out for Notre Dame, 
followed by the chief bodies of the state, and 
by a great number of functionaries of every 
class, by a brilliant staff, and by a crowd of la-
dies of the highest rank, who accompanied 
Madame Bonaparte. A long suit of carriages 
composed this magnificent cortege. 'The troops 
of the first military division, assembled at Paris, 
formed a line from the Tuilleries to the cathe-
dral. The Archbishop of Paris advanced in 
procession to receive the First Consul at the 
porch of the church, and to present the holy 
water to him. The new head of the state was 
conducted under the canopy to the place re-
served for hint. 'The Senate, the Legislative 
Body, the Tribunate, were ranged on each side 
of the altar. Behind the First Consul were 
found standing the generals in full uniform, ra-
ther obedient than converted, some affecting a 
demeanor by no means becoming. As to him-
self, habited in the red dress of the consuls, 
motionless, with a stern countenance, he dis-
played neither the distraction of some nor the 
devoutness of others. He was calm, grave, in 
the attitude of a chief of empire, who is per-
forming a grand act of will, and who commands 
by his look submission from all the world. 
e The ceremony was long and dignified, in 
spite of the bad disposition of most of those 
whom it had been necessary to bring thither. 
For the rest, the effect of it was destined to be 
decisive, for, the example once given by the 
most imposing of men, all the ancient religious 
habits were about to revive, and all resistance 
to subside."—Consulate and Empire, vol. 1, pp. 
385-6. 
This homage to the old system is thus spo-
ken of by Rotteck :— 
" It was pretended that all this was imposed 
upon the Italian countries as the price of libe• 
ration ; and the French had to see the titles of 
princes and dukes introduced and multiplied 
from day to day, as a bitter derision of the 
principles of the revolution ; and• to these 
were soon added (in virtue of a senatus-con-
suit of the 14th of August, 1806, and of two 
imperial decrees of the 1st of March, 1808,) 
other dignities of nobility, such as those of 
counts, barons, and knights, which were now 
again hereditary with rights of primogeniture, 
and radicated upon French estates."—Hist. of 
the World, vol. 4, p. 164. 
Much more might be cited to show the hom-
age of the new state to the old system. This 
must suffice. For further particulars the read-
er can refer to Arnault, Thiers, and others. 
Vs. 13, 14.—" He doeth great wonders, so 
that he maketh fire come down from heaven on 
the earth in the sight of men, and deceiveth 
them that dwell on the earth by those miracles 
which he had power to do in the sight of the 
beast." The nature, design, and results of 
these wonders, or miracles, demand a passing 
consideration. They are intended to deceive 
the world, that the world may be made subser-
vient to the plans of the deceiver. And lie is 
successful. He " deceiveth them." Are they, 
then, real miracles, artful tricks, or deeds so 
out of the usual order of things that they pro-
duce the effect of real miracles? Such a mi-
racle as the dividing of the sea, giving sight 
to the blind, or feeding the multitudes, is an 
act performed by the direct agency of super-
natural power. We have no reason to sup-
pose that these wonders are of this character. 
They may be artful tricks; or deeds performed 
by natural means, yet so out of the usual course 
that they fill all with as great astonishment as 
if they were real miracles. The fire from heav-
en is a specimen of the whole. 
Did this Franco-Italian powef do such won-
ders ? One thing is certain. The words in the 
prophecy—" wonders, miracles "—and their 
equivalents are the most common words erd-
ployed by historians generally in recording the 
military, civil, scientific, financial, educational, 
and industrial operations of Napoleon and his 
coadjutors.—Magical, unparalleled, astonish-
ing achievements ; prodigies, miracles, won-
ders. These are the common terins.. And 
these were real deeds, though not real Tirades. 
Whether we are to suppose tlig fie to be 
literal fire, or some one of the things of which 
file is the symbol, is a question of some im- 
portance. e have no evidence that fire has 
ever been made to come down from heaven, 
but in one of these forms. 1. Lightning. 
2. The fire that descended on the ancient sac-
rifices, or on remarkable occasions, as a token 
of Divine favor. 3. The fire of wrath.—Lev. 
10:2 ; Num. 16:35 ; 2 Kings 1:10-12. 4. By 
concentrating the sun's rays with, a lens, or 
burning-glass. 5. By electric apparatus, as 
the kite of Franklin. And, 6, by deducing 
the electric spark from the rays of the sun, as 
is said to have been done recently by a Ger-
man professor. The " Greek fire," which was 
not discovered till the seventh century, (see 
Enc. Am.,) at least so far as the Turks made 
use of it, came from the other direction, and 
not from heaven.—Rev. 9:11. However, as it 
is certain that the fire spoken of is not a token 
of Divine favor, it is also certain 1.4t this two-
horned beast is not an Elijah, to canmand the 
fire of Divine wrath down upon his enemies. 
And if " the natives " have sometimes been 
alarmed by squibs and sky-rockets, it remhins 
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considers them all as delivered up to Bonaparte, 
trembling before him, and ready humbly to 
execute all his commmands. 
" M. de Calonne asserts, that in England the 
enthusiasm for Bonaparte is not only general, 
but carried to an excess, of which it is difficult 
to form an idea. The court and the city, the 
capital and the country, all classes of the citi• 
zens, from the minister to the artizan, are ea-
ger to proclaim his praises, and vie with each 
other in chanting his victories and the splendor 
of his power. Besides, this enthusiasm is not 
peculiar to England ; all Europe is, as it were, 
infected with it. From all parts people are 
hastening to Paris to see the great man at least 
once in their lives ; and the police has been 
obliged to threaten to apprehend some Danes, 
who had publicly bent the knee before him 
whenever they saw him. 
" This is one of the principal causes of his 
strength and of his immense power. How 
could the French dare to oppose him, so long 
as they see the European powers prostrate at 
his feet ?"—Consulate and Empire, p. 350. 
Equally insidious, therefore, my brethren, 
and mischievous, is the way, too prevalent in 
these times, of invented substitutions, or learn-
ed adulterations, in place of " the truth as it is 
in Jesus." We believe that the world is to be 
reclaimed. The man of no faith, or of a di-
luted and worldly-wise scholasticism, compas-
sionates our credulity, plumes himself on his 
noble philosophy, and inquires, Why do you 
believe it? Like children and heirs of the 
kingdom, we reply ; Our God has revealed it, 
because he has determined it ; and he will do 
it, for both these reasons. We believe what he 
says, and this is our wisdom. If you call it 
folly, we pity you, and appeal to the day of 
judgment. " Because the foolishness of God 
is wiser than men, and the weakness of God 
is stronger than men. God is not a man, that 
he should lie; neither the son of man, that he 
should repent; bath he said, and shall he not 
do it ? or bath he spoken, and shall he not 
make it good ? It is impossible for God to lie." 
[Note 2.] 
Is faith inimical to reason, or only superior 
and tutelary ? Faith, says a good writer, is 
only reason leaning on the bosom of God.—
Faith is the friend, and the best friend of rea-
son ; expands, sublimes, and enriches it, with 
the treesares of God. We may well he indig-
nant at the folly and the falsehood that would 
at all set reason and faith at variance. It is a 
deceitful compound of ignorance, indolence, 
pride, avarice, and crude impiety, that would 
ever prompt us to it. 
to be proved that the old beast has ever been 
captivated by such articles. Lightning, in its 
natural form, and the burning-glass, are also 
out of the question. If, then, the fire is to be 
understood literally, it must be found in the 
wonders of electricity. And if this is the 
specimen, a broad field of analogous wonders 
is opened at once before us. Now, we know 
that Franklin was almost deified in France on 
account of his discoveries and experiments.—
He was referred to in their governmental 
chambers, before the revolution, as " the man 
who bids defiance alike to thunderbolts and ty-
rants." And if we may credit the following 
statement, taken from a late English paper, it 
seems the supposed invention of Professor 
Morse was known and " practised " at the time 
of the great revolution of the last century :— 
" Mr. Weld, the secretary of the Royal So-
ciety, shows, by an extract from the travels of 
Mr. Arthur Young, published in 1792, that the 
present system of telegraphing by electricity 
was practised by a Mr. Lomond in those days." 
Still further. It is a well-attested fact, that 
when Napoleon was in Egypt he claimed the 
power to command fire from heaven, for the 
express purpose of inspiring the superstitious 
Mohammedans with reverence and fear. If 
literal fire is spoken of, whether it be electric, 
or any other fire used in war, it is found in 
abundance; and if it is a symbol of the severe 
and sudden punishment of offenders against 
the powers that be; or of civil and social dis-
cord—there is enough of this. 
The facts and testimony which go to illus-
trate the matchless genius of Napoleon and 
his agents, and the effect of this on all classes 
of all nations, is so abundant, we hardly know 
where to begin the selection. 
The language of Napoleon himself, in refer-
ence to his plans, though spoken when a pris-
oner at St. Helena, was scarcely hyperbolical : 
" Archimedes promised to move the world, if 
they would only furish him a fulcrum for his 
lever ; I would have made a fulcrum for my-
self, wherever I could have placed my energy, 
my perseverance, and my budgets." This is 
followed by a comparison of his plans with 
those of the former kings of France, by which, 
he says, " Paris would have been made a won-
der worthy of fabulous times." And the cata-
logue of national works already accomplished 
or in progress, shows that this language was 
by no means extravagant. They were " great 
wonders." To a greater extent than they have 
done, they would have " changed the face of 
France and of Europe."—See Count Month°. 
ion, pp. 180-1. 
To prove that " he deceived those " who wit-
nessed these wonders, no other evidence is 
needed than to state the result of the great na-
tional vote by which Napoleon was elected em-
peror. Although this was opposed to the whole 
spirit of the revolution, of about three millions 
five hundred thousand votes cast, less than three 
thousand were in the opposition. At the birth 
of his son, by which the new dynasty was to 
be perpetuated, it was previously arranged that 
twenty-one guns from the palace should be the 
signal if the offspring were a daughter, one 
hundred guns if a son. When the first signal 
gun was heard, all Paris listened, numbering 
the guns, to learn the result. Twenty-one 
were counted ; and there was a short pause. 
When the firing proceeded, all Paris rose to 
their feet in exultation. 
A similar sentiment opened the arms of oth-
er nations, just before the most strenuous sup-
porters of the old system, to receive Napoleon 
as their deliverer and benefactor; while their 
rulers were filled with the greatest fear. Croly 
speaks as follows :— 
" Napoleon was, in a stronger sense than 
can be affirmed of any other sovereign or chief-
tain, the soul of his empire and his army. To 
the continent his name was a terror ; the battle 
fought against him was pronounced beforehand 
a battle lost; the kingdom invaded by him, 
was looked upon as already overwhelmed.—
The presence of no man within human record 
conveyed such impressions of certain defeat to 
all opposing power."—Apoc., p. 99. 
Thiers gives the following, as to England in 
particular, and Europe generally.—It is the re-
ported statement of" M. de Calonne," a French-
man, devoted to the Bourbons, on his return to 
France :— 
" He repeats what we have long known, that 
the men who govern in Europe are men with-
out means and without character, who are un-
acquainte with the time in which they live, 
who canVither judge of the present nor fore-
see the future, and who are alike destitute of 
the courage which incites to undertake, and of 
the•firinnesss which enables to persevere. He 
Our faith in Daniel as the prophet of God, 
has been shaken in previous ages, only to be 
ever since the more confirmed and invulnerable. 
The audacious onset and flourishing malignity 
of Porphyry, toward the end of the third cen-
tury, seemed for a time greatly to intimidate 
the church of God. Some think that Chris-
tians, in those persecuting times, were more 
scared by the audacity of the infidel, than they 
were in the following century, by the heathen 
zeal and the retrograde madness and the brutal 
hatred of the apostate emperor, Julian. 
The great position of Porphyry was, that the 
predictions of Daniel were demonstrably writ-
ten after the events to which they refer, and 
are therefore only imposture. This he assert-
ed, not proved. And to say nothing of the 
noble way in which contemporary and subse-
quent ministers of Christ, and especially Je-
rome, met and refuted his fallacies, we cannot 
forget the evidence since accumulated, by 
which the providence of God, confirming the 
faith of his people, has overwhelmed the pride 
and folly of their adversaries. More than fif-
teen centuries have passed since Porphyry 
went to his account, at " the judgment-seat of 
Christ." Whatever else is true of him, he is 
infidel no more ; since " the devils also believe 
and tremble." And what is now the demon-
stration of the matter ? Twice as much, in 
time, has been accomplished since the death of 
Porphyry, as had been previously from the 
days of Daniel. Our retrospect of history, as 
we- have seen, reaches now over a tract of 
twenty-four, rather twenty-six centuries in all. 
And what is the character of Daniel the proph-
et, as read in this comparison ; what of his 
prophecy in the seventh chapter ? I answer, it 
is all alive and brilliant, as well as lucid, homo-
geneous, consecutive, though not yet complete ; 
in demonstration that it was given by inspira-
tion of God. It is all harmonious and propor-
tionate ; a tissue of related symmetries, like 
the concentric stones of a circular arch, each 
part is strengthened by every other part, and is 
itself a key-stone resisting the common press-
ure and communicating strength to the whole. 
It is all one series and a unit, extending con-
sistently through so many ages, from the reign 
of the Babylonians to the consummation of all 
things. And it is truly, in the words of Mede, 
(Works, iii., 654,) [Note 3] the sacred calendar 
and great almanac of prophecy, a prophetical 
chronology of time, measured by the succes-
sion of tour principal kingdoms, from the be-
ginning of the captivity of Israel until the 
mystery of God is finished. Let us, then, at 
our present elevated and commanding stand-
point, look back through all these centuries, 
since that glorious seer in the courts imperial, 
from Nebuchadnezzar to Cyrus, wrote by an-
ticipation their history ; and-then say, is it not 
symmetrical as a gorgeous whole ? Was one-
third of it all imposture till the times of Por-
phyry ? and the subsequent two-thirds all his-
tory and inspiration ; where now the three-
thirds all combined, in one astounding retro-
spective sequence, show homogeneous and 
unique, a magnificent arcade or corridor of re-
lated glories, all in keeping, plainly the archi-
tecture of God, which neither men nor angels 
could have planned, or predicted, or fulfilled, 
or sustained, or accomplished, as we see it at' 
this day, and as posterity shall see it still more 
glorious, till the temporal expands for corona-
tion in eternity. [Note 4.] 
All history is tributary to prophecy. Infidels 
have written the facts that accomplished what 
their pride and madness disdained to acknow-
ledge as the inspiration that foretold them.—
Porphyry, Gibbon, Hume, Voltaire, where are 
your arguments ? where your hell-inspired 
prophecies ? where your souls ? 
And what, my brethren, is our faith ? Shall 
we believe only that part of the prophetic scroll 
which the history of the past authenticates ? 
Shall we be voluntarily blind or darkling as to 
the glorious future ? God has put his own 
telescope into our hands ; the light of heaven 
illumes it; things to come are the disclosed 
objects. Shall we not look at them, with steady 
and sober observation, with calm and confiding 
inference, with holy and gratified persuasion ? 
What ! in the same series of authentic prophe-
cies, which our Lord Jesus Christ expressly 
quotes and sanctions, shall we believe all the 
beasts and none of the angels ? all the misery, 
the mischief, the bloodshed, the heathen hor-
ror, the predominating sin, of the long-afflicted 
scene ; the incessant storming of the sea of 
empire, with its waves of blood and fire forever 
roaring, and dashing, and destructive ? Shall 
we believe all the preparatory, and none of the 
compensating stages ; rejecting only the bright-
est, and the best, and the last, and the most 
Note 1.—This is rather more complimentary 
than scriptural. The view the Doctor takes of 
this does more credit to his gallantry than to his 
understanding of the import of this prophecy. 
Note 2.—Because it is impossible for GOD 
to lie, we believe that he will reclaim this earth 
in the way he has specified, i. e., by its regene-
ration by fire, by the banishment of the wicked, 
and by the resurrection and glorification of the 
redeemed. 
Note 3.—Why quote the words of a believer 
in the pre-millennial Advent? On p. 11 they 
are all judged as " lame, weak, doting, vul-
nerable, wrong." We fear that the Doctor 
judges of the Pre-millennialists as EUSEBIUS 
did of PAPIAS.—In connection with his belief in 
the personal reign of CHRIST, EUSEBIUS speaks 
of PAPIAS as a man of " small comprehension ;" 
but when he refers to him for other objects, he 
admits him to have " enjoyed great favor and 
celebrity," and to have been " a man most elo-
quent in all things, and skilful in the Scrip-
tures."—Hist. of Euseb., iii., 32. There is too 
much of this kind of judgment. 
Note 4.—Whew ! Has the dictionary broke 
loose ? We doubt whether a sentence like that 
was ever written by a pre-millennialist. 
Note 5.—Truly, if we believe the past, why 
not believe what GOD has spoken of the future ? 
If the past has all been fulfilled to the letter, 
why doubt that the future will be ? Why dis-
believe what GOD has spoken of the eternity 
and universality of his kingdom ? It is to be 
an everlasting kingdom, under the whole heav-
en !—not to continue only for a thousand years. 
Floating Lights. 
I. JUDGMENT AND THE RESURRECTION. " That 
every one may receive the things done in his, 
body."-2 Cor. 5:10. There can be no trial of 
man without a resurrection. A judgment to 
come involves a resurrection. Man is not a 
spirit, but an embodied spirit—a soul in a liv-
ing body. He sins both in body and soul when 
he sins, and the same man that sinned must 
appear before the judgment-seat of Christ, to 
receive the " things done in the body." " Done 
Dr. Cox's Discourse. 
(Continued from our last.) 
In congratulating you all, as my beloved, 
honored, and devoted brethren, I can ask no 
pardon for expressly saying, that I include, 
among our worthiest auxiliaries here, the holy 
sisterhood of the churches ! We are glad to 
greet these elect ladies at this grand national 
anniversary of the missionary cause. Their in-
fluence is precious, and essential, and approved 
of heaven, not in prayers alone. Would God 
that I could address all their millions in our 
country at once ! It does them good to attend 
here and their faithful influence blesses us for 
it all the year. It is much their cause and :he 
honors of the sex, that we promote. The scroll 
of the angel of missions, unfurled in his glory 
flight through the midst of heaven, is the 
MAGNA CHARTA also of the dignities and the 
destinies of woman, and thus becomes the 
standard of society, the elevation of the spe-
cies, and the blessedness of all nations. [Note 
1.] Hence we rejoice to welcome their inspir- 
ing and assisting presence here. Our glory and 
theirs it is to follow Christ. Again, I say, dear 
brethren, I congratulate you all in this wisdom 
of missions—believing that there is no other ! 
and " remembering without ceasing," in this 
heavenly relation, " your work of faith, and la-
bor of love, and patience of hope, in our Lord 
Jesus Christ, in the sight of God, even our Fa-
ther." The spirit of faith is the spirit of mis-
sions. I shall long remember, what I think 
was the last sermon preached in my pulpit by 
our lamented Armstrong, on this great theme 
of missions. His text was, " we," that is, the 
ministers of God, " We, having the same spi-
rit of faith, according as it is written, I be-
lieved, and therefore have I spoken; we also 
believe, and therefore speak." In that faithful 
sermon, he showed the true source of missiona-
ry zeal and missionary achievement, in a way, 
solemn, luminous, earnest, and true. Faith in 
God, he said, was its inspiration, its vindica-
tion, its source, and its power. 
blessed, of the inspired declarations? Do we 
believe them ? Hark ! It is the voice of God 
proclaims it. Yes, indeed—" the kingdom 
and dominion, and the greatness of the king-
dom under the whole heaven, shall be given to 
the people of the saints of the Most High, 
whose kingdom is an everlasting kingdom, and 
all dominions shall serve and obey him."—
[Note 5.] 
How wonderful are the relations of history, 
how firm and immutable; what tablets of unal-
terable registration ! and yet in their relations 
how variable, how cumulative, how changeful 
—as the scenery of the kaleidoscope. The 
present is continually becoming the past; the 
future, the present. Each of us knows in this 
relation more than Milton or Calvin, or either 
Scaliger, knew. They are among our ancients. 
We look at them in aspects and in contrasts, 
which in their times had no existence. Nine 
of them knew the last two centuries in history, 
of England, of Europe, or of the world. None 
of them ever heard of Napoleon, or Welling-
ton, or Washington. America was in their 
day almost a terra incognita, comparatively 
nothing; its greatness a trivial possibility of 
the future. What wonders have since suc-
ceeded wonders, till wonders, monsters, earth-
quakes, are becoming the ordinary course of 
events ; the expected demonstrations of God in 
providence, God in history, God in prophecy, 
God in all ; illustrating, confirming, accom-
plishing his own eternal purposes, " working 
salvation in the midst of the earth." Let us 
not forget, that spectators as we now are of the 
scene, so privileged, and with the vast, the re-
cent, and the ancient, constituting, at once, to 
our large vision, the picturesque of marvels 
that feeds and entertains it, we are soon to be-
come ourselves spectacles to the gaze and the 
censure of others—the unborn spectators, an 
ampitheatre of countless millions of the future, 
to whom the first half of the nineteenth centu-
ry, when nearly sixteen added months have fin-
ished it, shall be distinctly objective ; and the 
fitting counterpart of other prodigies, not by us 
anticipated, which are to make the brighter, 
perhaps the bloodier, history of the half.—(To 
be continued.) 
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THE ADVENT HERALD. 
155 
in the body "—" done by the soul while living 
in the body." Now the same man that sinned 
cannot appear at the bar unless the body in 
which he sinned he raised and re-united to the 
soul. Man's spirit is not the man that sinned. 
Man's body must therefore be raised, in order 
that the very same being who broke the law, 
may be tried for his breaking the law. In hu-
man courts of law, it must be the very man 
who committed the crime, the same in name 
and person, or the indictment will not lie. It 
is no less so in His Supreme Court of Justice, 
who is " a spirit of judgment to them that sit 
in judgment." 
H. THE SON OF MAN THE JUDGE. " And 
hath given him power to execute judgment 
also, because he is the Son of man."—John 5:27. 
It is written of Christ, (lsa. 53:8; Acts 8:32,) 
that " in his humiliation his judgment was 
taken from him."—Septuagint version. In the 
time when he humbled himself unto death, 
even the death of the cross, his judgment was 
taken from him ; he had not a fair trial. It is 
against every principle of justice to make an 
accused man condemn himself. In our own 
favored land the suspected man is cautioned 
not to say anything which may criminate him-
self. The Saviour was made his own accuser 
and witness. " I adjure thee by the living 
God," said the High Priest," that thou tell me 
whether thou art the Christ, the Son of God." 
When that Saviour comes to be the Judge, no 
one will have to complain of not having a fair 
trial. " God the Father bath given him power 
(or authority) to execute judgment, hecause he 
is the Son of man." As man, the Lord Jesus 
" knows what is in man," understands every 
circumstance of temptation, knows what the 
peculiarities of each man's mind and bodily 
constitution are ; what the idiosyncrasies of 
every one are ; knows how much this man has 
had to contend 'with a rugged temper, or an 
irritable temperament ; how that one has had 
to make his slow way against a tide of opposi-
tion, and a mill-stream of resistance ; and will 
then be able, by his very sympathies with our 
nature as a man, and from the perfect know-
ledge he has, through these very sympathies, 
of our real position, to be the unerring and im-
partial Judge. 
III. THE DAY OF DISCOVERY. " We must 
all appear before the judgment-seat of Christ." 
—2 Cor. 5 : 10. We must not simply " make 
our appearance," as we say, and answer to our 
name, and stand before the bar, but appear as 
we are (original)—be made manifest. We live 
in a world of deceit, a world of appearances, 
" a vain show ;" few seem what they really 
are, and are what they seem. There is little 
transparency of character. Men's motives, 
objects, and principles, will not bear holding 
up to the sun—the sun of truth. There, be-
fore that bar, all will be " made manifest,"—
held up to the light ; " for that which maketh 
manifest is light." There God's " secret ones " 
will be no longer secret. The seven thousand 
that have not bowed to Baal will come forth. 
It will be a day of manifestation, a day of 
strange discoveries — marvellous revelations. 
Actions that have looked bright enough with 
their tinsel in the sickly light of the theatre. 
will fade into their real worthlessness in the 
intense glory of that Eternal day. The Com-
mentary of motives will be opened; and many 
deeds that were highly esteemed among men, 
will be shown up as they always were, as " an 
abomination in the sight of God." Does the 
saint of God tremble at this thought? Does 
he dread the spreading out of all the past, of 
his sins of unconversion, and his failings since 
conversion, before that solemn tribunal, and 
that augpst assembly ? Let him rest in this. 
If it will bring glory to my Saviour, that my 
sins shall all he known ; if it shall enhance 
the greatness of his love ; if the depth of that 
pit of corruption, out of which he has drawn 
me, be fully shown ; if the number and aggra-
vating circumstances of my transgressions will 
serve to exhibit the wonders of his mercy, the 
prevalency of his intercession, the efficacy of 
his atonement, the immensity of his long-suf-
fering, the riches of his grace, in his " exceed-
ing kindness " towards such a sinner ; then I 
know, that whatever I feel NOW, I shall THEN 
desire that he may be glorified, by the exhibi-
tion of my sins, which will display the power 
by which he forgave and subdued them, and 
made one who was once earthly, sensual, devil 
ish, to become heavenly, spiritual, and Christ- 
1 ike.—Protestant Churchman. 
-- ---
Bluntness. 
Gentleness is opposed to bluntness and ab-
ruptness of manner. Harshness is not named, 
because it is too obvious to need a formal state- 
ment, that violent and rough address or rebuke 
are in the strongest contrast to gentleness. No 
one can be harsh without somewhat of anger, 
or rough without disregard of another's sensi-
bilities. Severity, except in some rare in-
stances, and then when we act in God's name, 
is reserved with vengeance in Jehovah's hands ; 
and he mingles mercy with judgment. Violent 
and vituperative epithets are strange sounds 
from the lips of one that professes to follow 
Him, " who, when reviled, reviled not again." 
All who have the same spirit with the apos-
tles, " persuade men, by the same terrors of 
the Lord." Prophecy said of our Saviour, 
He shall not strive nor cry, neither shall any 
man hear his voice in the streets. The bruised 
reed shall he not break, and smoking flax shall 
he not quench." Even in condemning the 
hypocritical scribes, whose secret wickedness 
he saw, his language is rather in sorrow than 
in anger, for the word our Bibles have ren-
dered " Wo !" might in equal truth have been 
translated, " Alas for you !" What right, then, 
has a sinful follower of his to be harsh with a 
fellow-sinner? 
There are those, however, who have too 
much good feeling to be intentionally harsh; 
who yet allow themselves a bluntness and ab-
ruptness of speech, which differs often only in 
intention from positive severity. These never 
seem to reflect that they require a courteous 
and modest address from others to themselves ; 
but think because they are honest and well-
meaning, they may say what they please in 
what manner they please. The slightest know-
ledge of human nature, the most superficial ob-
servation of God's language to men, should 
convince us, that if we would win men and 
turn them to the truth, we must approach them 
not only with kindness, but due respect.—
" Honor all men," says the apostle, and we 
have a beautiful exemplification of this princi-
ple in the manner of his address to Agrippa. 
and Festus. " A zealous man bath not done 
his duty," says Jeremy Taylor, " when the 
calls his brother a drunkard and a beast, but 
when he is, though severe against vice, charita-
ble to the man, and careful of his reputation, 
and sorry for his dishonor, and observant of his 
circumstances, and watchful to surprise his af-
fections and resolutions then when they are 
most tender and tenable : for men will not be 
in love with virtue, whither they are forced 
with rudeness and civility ; but they love to 
dwell where they are invited friendly, and are 
treated civilly." It is a poor excuse that our 
natural manner is blunt and abrupt, and, there-
fore, men should take no oflence at it. We 
show but little benevolence, when, to do men 
good, we are not willing to mend our manners, 
but, for want of a little care, disgust and turn 
them away from our good counsel. The rough-
est wood-cutter sharpens his axe, that he may 
cut rather than bruise, and the most ignorant 
artizan will oil his machineiy, lest it should 
turn with difficulty and noisy creaking. Should 
not the Christian avoid blunt words, and give 
gentleness to his manner? Besides, it is not 
so certain, that because a man is blunt and 
rude in speech, he is sincere. There is more 
sign of sincerity in the man, who shows that 
he takes pains to be kind. Even if the world 
give him credit for honesty, it is for honesty in 
its lovely form ; and truth is most attractive 
when most meek and gentle. But the world 
will not always give him such credit, for one 
of the best judges of the human heart holds 
this strong language :— 
" This is some fellow, 
Who, having been praised for bluntness, cloth affect 
A saucy roughness, and constrains the garb 
Quite from his nature. He can't flatter, he : 
An honest mind and plain, he must speak truth; 
And they will take it, so ; if not, he's plain. 
These kind of knaves I know, which in this plainness 
Harbor more craft, and far corrupter ends, 
Than twenty silky ducking observants 
That stretch their duties nicely." 
Gentleness is, in fine, that kind, pleasant, 
considerate, and persuasive spirit, which evinces 
itself in a kind, pleasant, considerate, persua-
sive manner, finds its pattern in the character 
of Jesus Christ, and has its warrant in the 
command and mercifulness of God. Such a 
spirit the Holy Ghost works in the soul of eve-
ry sanctified believer.—Dr. Bethune. 
The Letter and the Spirit, 
BY PROFESSOR BUSH. 
(Continued from our last.) 
The question whether the oracles of the 
prophets announce the literal return of the 
Jews to Palestine, and their re-establishment 
in that land, under a covenant of peculiarity, 
as a people distinguished above all others by 
the nearnes of their relation to God, has been 
long debated in the Christian. Church, and may 
there still be said to be sub judice. From the 
confident tone, however, of Mr. Lord in the 
affirmative, one who had paid but little atten-
tion to the subject would be led to conclude 
that it was a self-evident proposition, and that 
there must be an unwonted stretch of presump-
tion in cherishing a contrary opinion even for 
a moment. That this has been the case to a 
wide extent in Christendom he could only ac-
count for from the fact, that the true laws and 
canons of interpretation as laid down by Mr. 
L. have been but recently promulgated to the 
world, and he would therefore find excuse for 
their temerity in the plea of ignorance. But 
what apology can be offered for the audacity of 
the Newchurchman who flatly denies both the 
soundness of the premises and the truth of the 
conclusion, is not so obvious. Meantime, while 
sentence is suspended, he hopes he may be 
favored with a hearing in the attempt to de-
velop the grounds of his dissent from the dog-
ma so categorically propounded. In so doing 
he will no doubt seem to lay a ruthless hand 
upon much of the romance of the theme, and 
to make havoc of the devout expectancies of 
many minds which have nourished so kindly 
an interest in the descendants of Abraham, 
those "tribes of the wandering foot and weary 
breast," as the poetry of pietism has been fain 
to denominate them, notwithstanding the stern 
testimony of truth would operate as a powerful 
styptic to the effusion of a very tender sympa-
thy in their behalf. The course of our discus-
sion will lead us, moreover, directly athwart 
the track of the most majestic march of Mr. 
L.'s rhetorical, logical, and hermeneutical 
forces, and in the very outset a collision is in-
evitable with the vanguard of his line of argu-
ment in the principles laid down in the follow-
ing paragraphs. 
" Another error into which those who have 
treated of these predictions have fallen, is the 
assumption that besides the natural meaning 
with which they are fraught, as interpreted by 
the proper laws of the language in which they 
are expressed, they have also another and 
higher signification, which is denominated their 
spiritual import. This view is held, indeed, by 
the Christian world generally, and has been for 
a series of ages. It was the theory of Origen, 
Theodoret, Jerome, and of other early writers, 
and of Cocecius and Vitringa, especially, 
among the moderns, and is the basis of a large 
share of the current interpretations of the an-
cient prophets. . . . No theory, however, could 
be more groundless, or lead to a worse perver-
sion of the prophecies. Language neither has, 
nor can have, any meaning except that which 
is either literal or figurative. The power or 
use of certain words, literally to express certain 
thoughts, is not inherent in them, or founded 
on their nature, but is the result of arbitrary 
convention. It is because men, for reasons of 
convenience, have chosen to appropriate them 
to their several offices, and use them as they 
do, that they are indebted for their import; not 
to any intrinsic adaptation more than any other 
accents of the voice, to represent such mean-
ings. No word, therefore, can possibly have a 
literal signification, except as it acquires it by 
convention and usage. But besides their lite-
ral meanings, words have no import except that 
which is figurative, nor is there any principle 
except that on which they are figuratively used 
by which they can attain another meaning. If 
a word is employed without a figure to denote 
two things that differ from one another, then it 
has two literal meanings. If it has two mean-
ings, only one of which is literal, or is em-
ployed to signify two things, only one of which 
it denotes literally, then by the definition it is 
appropriated to a use that differs from its lite-
ral signification ; and this is the precise pecu-
liarity of the use of a word by a figure. It is 
accordingly by a metaphor that all the terms 
employed in the Scriptures that have obtained 
what may be called a spiritual meaning in ad-
dition to their literal import, have acquired their 
new signification. Thus, the words, redeem, 
ransom, regenerate, create, renew, and other 
kindred terms that are employed to denote the 
work of Christ, the agency of the Spirit, and 
the effects of his influences, have obtained their 
spiritual meaning by a metaphorical use. Not 
an instance can be found in the Old or New 
Testament of the use of a word in both a lite-
ral and spiritual sense, in which the spiritual 
does not lie in the mere metaphorical use of 
the literal. It may, indeed, be said with truth, 
not only that it is not possible, but that it is not 
conceivable, that a signification should be giv-
en to a word that is not either literal or figura-
tive. If it is not figurative, then its meaning 
must be assigned to it arbitrarily, not because 
of any relation which that which it denotes 
sustains to something else. If it is not used 
arbitrarily, but hecause of some relation which 
that which it is employed to signify sustains to 
something else, as, for example, that which it 
literally denotes. then it is used figuratively, as 
that is the precise peculiarity of the tropical 
use of a word. The theory. of a spiritual 
sense of words, therefore, in contradistinction 
from both a literal and a figurative sense, is de-
monstrably false. 
" This consideration proves the utter impos-
sibility, also, that, in any instance, all the terms 
of a prophecy.should have even a figurative 
sense ; inasmuch as we have already shown, it 
is an invariable and necessary law of figures, 
that the names of the subjects to which they 
are applied, should be used literally. The fig-
ure lies wholly in that which is affirmed, or 
declared, not in that of which the affirmation 
is made. On the supposition, therefore, that 
all the prophecies of the Old Testament, res-
pecting the Israelites, have a spiritual mean-
ing, Israelites themselves, and not any other peo-
ple, must still be the subjects of that which the 
spiritual meaning denotes, as certainly and ab-
solutely as though the prediction was literal. 
There is no possible or conceivable process by 
which the names, Israel, House of Jacob, Judah, 
or Jews, when they are the subject of the af-
firmation, can mean anything else than what 
they literally denote,—the descendants of Ja-
cob, the Jewish people. These writers are ac-
cordingly wholly mistaken in the supposition, 
that the spiritual meaning, which they ascribe 
to the ancient prophecies, is a meaning of their 
words; or is indicated by their language, in dis-
tinction from the agents, objects, acts, and events, 
of which that language treats. Their theo-
ry really implies, that those agents, objects, and 
acts, are representative of other agents, objects, 
and events, of an analogous species ; and that 
they fill the office, therefore, of prophetic sym-
bols, and are to be interpreted on the same prin-
2ci6p-12es8.."— Theol. and Lit. Jour., No. V., pp. 
It is evidently the policy of our author to 
draw a circle round his opponents, as the Ro-
man Popilius dealt with Antiochus of old, and 
to demand submission to terms before their 
stepping over it. He would hem us in within 
the magic ring of his symbols and figures, and 
extort a concession that no word can have a 
signification that is not either literal or figura-
tive. The thing, he affirms, is not only not 
possible, but not conceivable. To this peremp-
tory requisition we demur till we are informed 
as to the extent of meaning which he would 
give to the term figurative, and the legitimate 
authority of the laws by which its application 
is to be determined. His object evidently is 
to exclude a truly spiritual, or internal sense, 
from the province both of the literal and of 
what he denominates the figurative use of lan-
guage, and yet with a very anomalous kind of 
consistency he admits that such words as re-
deem, ransom, regenerate, create, 4-c., have a 
spiritual import, but holds that this is wholly 
due to their metaphorical use. This, however, 
leaves his real drift somewhat dubious. Is the 
spiritual sense a metaphorical sense, and noth-
ing else ? If it be, it is undoubtedly a figura-
tive sense, for a metaphor is a figure. if the 
spiritual be something distinct from a meta-
phorical sense, though arising from it, in what 
does the distinction consist ? But we need not 
multiply interrogations. The reference is plain 
enough, on the whole, that his theory sinks the 
spiritual entirely in the figurative. " Not an 
instance," he says, " can be found in the Old 
or New Testament of the use of a word in 
both a literal and spiritual sense, in which the 
spiritual does not lie in the mere metaphorical 
use of the literal." If this does not imply 
that what he would denominate the spiritual is 
identical with the metaphorical, we could have 
wished the author had been somewhat more 
luminous in his phraseology. We assume, 
then, that according to Mr. L. the literal and 
the figurative comprehend all the actual and 
possible senses of language, and as his defini-
tion of figurative senses utterly excludes what 
Origen, Cocecius, Vitringa, and still more Swe-
denborg, have termed a spiritual sense, there-
fore the assertion of such a sense is according 
to him altogether groundless and idle. [Note.] 
—(To be continued.) 
Note.—We agree with Mr. LORD in this ; 
but deny that the return of the carnal Jew can 
be proved by a Scriptural use of language. 
THE HEAVENLY REST.—Rest how sweet 
the sound ! It is melody to my ears ! It lies 
1)c 
156 
THE ADVENT HERALD. 
the air."-1 Thess. 4:17. They are caught up to 
where the reaper sits. 
This gathering of the righteous seems to be pre-
paratory to the infliction of the last seven plagues on 
the wicked. The wicked are also gathered by the 
instrumentality of angels : said the SAVIOUR, " As 
therefore the tares are gathered and burned in the 
fire ; so shall it be in the end of this world. The 
SON of man shall send forth his angels, and they 
shall gather out of his kingdom all things that offend, 
and them which do iniquity ; and shall cast them into 
a furnace of fire : there shall be wailing and gnash-
ing of teeth."—Matt. 13 : 40-42. In the parable of 
the tares, the SAVIOUR said," Let both grow together 
until the harvest : and in the time of harvest I will 
say to the reapers, alter ye together first the tares, 
and bind them in bundles to burn them : but gather 
the wheat into my barn."—v. 30. Thus the tares 
were to be gathered first—not before the righteous 
arc gathered, but before the wheat is placed in the 
garner : the new earth being the garner where the 
e' ee-e 
righteous are finally to be gathered, they cannot be 
: ,/ , 
.-- placed there till the wicked have been gathered out, 
and " then shall the righteous shine forth as the sun 
in the kingdom of their FATHER. 
Who hath ears 
to hear, let him hear."—v. 43. 
The disposition of the vine, its being trodden down, 
and the great presence of blood flowing, symbolize 
the awful judgments to overtake the wicked, after the 
escape of the righteous, when they are gathered into 
bundles and burned. 
“BEHOLD! THE BRIDEGROOM COMETH!!" 
In the destruction of the old world by the flood, 
BOSTON, SATURDAY, DECEMBER 15, 1849. NOAH is first secure in the ark. In the overthrow of 
 Sodom, righteous LOT is rescued, and in a place of 
The Harvest of the Earth. safety. So before the infliction of the last plagues, 
INTERPRETATION OF SYMBOLS, FIGURES, &c. 
the righteous are caught up to meet the LORD in the 
" And I looked, and behold, a white cloud, and one air. "Fret not thyself because of evil doers, neither 
 
was seated on the cloud like a son of man, having on he thou envious against the workers of iniquity. For 
his head a golden crown, and in his hand a sharp they shall soon be cut down like the grass, and wither 
sickle. And another angel came out of the temple, as the green herb. Trust in the LORD, and do good ; 
crying with a loud voice to him seated on the cloud, so shalt thou dwell in the land, and verily thou shalt 
Thrust forth thy sickle, arid reap : for the hour is 
come for thee to reap; for the harvest of the earth be fed. • . . For evil doers shall be cut off: but those 
is ripe. And he, who sat on the cloud, cast his sickle that wait upon the LORD, they shall inherit the earth. 
on the earth ; and the earth was reaped. Arid ano- For yet a little while, and the wicked shall not be : 
ther angel came out of the temple in heaven, he also yea, thou shalt diligently consider his place, and it 
having a sharp sickle. And another angel came out 
from the altar, who had power over the fire, and shall not be. But the meek shall inherit the earth, 
called with a loud shout to him, who had the shatp and shall delight themselves in the abundance of 
sickle, saying, Thrust in thy sharp sickle, and cut off peace. . . . Wait on the LORD, and keep his way, 
the clusters of the vine of the earth ; for its grapes and he shall exalt the to inherit the land : when the 
are ripe. And the angel cast in his sickle into the 
earth, and cut off the vine of the earth, and cast it wicked are cut off, thou shalt see it."—Ps. 
into the great wine-press of the wrath of God. And 9-11, 34. " Thou shalt not be afraid for the terror 
the wine-press was trodden without the city, and by night ; nor for the arrow that flieth by day ; nor 
blood came out of the wine-press, even to the bridles 
of the horses, for the distance of one thousand six for the pestilence that walketh in darkness ; nor for 
hundred furlongs."—Rev. 14:14-20. 
the destruction that wasteth at noon-day. A thou- 
As in the preceding portions of the chapter, so sand shall fall at thy side, and ten thousand at thy 
here the angels symbolize the instrumentalities which right hand ; but it shall not come nigh thee. Only 
will effect the results they are symbolized to perform. with thine eyes shalt thou behold and see the reward 
There is a difficulty in limiting this symbol to desig- of the wicked. Because thou bast made the LORD 
nate bodies of men, in the fact that events are some- which is my refuge, even the Mose' HIGH, thy habita-
times symbolized as performed by it, which are ac- tion ; there shall no evil befall thee, neither shall any 
complished by other than human beings. 
plague come nigh thy dwelling. For he shall give 
A reaping process is here described. The reaping his angels charge over thee, to keep thee in all thy 
is represented as of two kinds, and at two periods. ways. They shall bear thee up in their hands, lest 
The first reaping is of the harvest of the earth ; and thou dash thy foot against a stone."—Ps. 91:5-12. 
the second of the vine, which is cast into the wine- THE VICTORS ON THE SEA OF GLASS. 
press of GOD'S wrath. 
" And I saw another sign in heaven, great and won- 
The " harvest" is spoken of in distinction from the derful, seven angels having the seven last plagues ; 
vine, and in contrast with it. 
for by these, the wrath of God is completed. And I 
We harvest what we saw as it were a transparent sea mingled with fire ; 
prize. The farmer harvests his grain : he does not and those, who had obtained the victory over the wild 
harvest briers and thorns. He reaps, or cuts, both ; beast, and over his image, and over the number of 
but the one is gathered into his garner, while the his name, standing on the transparent sea, having 
 harps of God. And they sing the song of Moses 
other is given to the consuming fire. The act of the servant of God, and the song of the Lamb, say- 
reaping is not expressive of the destiny of that which ing, Great and wonderful are thy works, 0 Lord God 
is reaped. This is indicated by the disposition made Almighty : just and true are thy ways, King of na-
of, and the terms applied respectively to it. The first tions! Who should not fear thee, 0 Lord, and glo- 
rify thy name? for thou only art holy : for all nations 
gathering here symbolized, is evidently that of the will come and worship before thee ; for thy jude, 
living righteous, and the succeeding one, that of the ments are manifested."—Rev. 15:1-4. 
wicked. This order in the gathering of the two Those on the sea of glass, are those who have 
classes corresponds with a like order in predictions gotten the victory. Victory is not won until the corn-
of the event elsewhere in the Scriptures. The in- bat is ended. Our warfare only ceases with the pres-
strumentality by which they are to be gathered is ent state. Uniting in the song of MOSES and of the 
the angels : " And he shall send his angels with a LAMB, they must be situated in respect to their ene- 
great sound of a trumpet, and they shall gather to- mies, as the Israelites were to theirs after the over 
gether his elect from the four winds, from one end of throw of the Egyptians in the Red Sea. When the 
heaven to the other."—Matt. 24:31. Or as MARK re- Israelites were safely over, and their pursuers were 
cords it, " from the uttermost parts of earth to the covered by the waters, " then sang MOSES and the 
uttermost part of heaven."—Mark 13:27. The time children of Israel this song unto the Loire, and spake, 
of this is when " the SON of man shall come in the saying :— 
glory of his FATHER, with his angels; and then," we " I will sing unto the Lord, for lie hath triumphed 
read, " he shall reward every man according to his gloriously : 
works."—Matt. 16:27. The one sitting on a cloud The horse and his rider bath he thrown into the sea. 
like to the SON of man, is evidently the SAVIOUR, The Lord is my strength and song,
And he is become my salvation : 
who has said, "I will come again and receive you lie is my God, and I will prepare him an habitation : 
unto myself."--John 14:5. The place to which they My fa.ber's God, and I will exalt him. 
are gathered is described by the apostle : " Then we The Lord is a mart of war 
The Lord is his name. 
which are alive and remain shall be caught tip to- Pharaoh's chariots and his host hath he cast into the 
gether with them in the clouds, to meet the LORD in sea : 
His chosen captains also are drowned in the Red sea. tongues through pain, and reviled the God of heaven, 
The depths have covered them : 
They sank into the bottom as a stone. 
because of their pains and their ulcers, and repented 
not of their deeds. And the sixth poured out his 
Thy right hand, 0 Lord, is become glorious in power : bowl on the great river, the Euphrates ; and its wa-
Thy right hand, 0 Lord, hath dashed in pieces the ter was dried up, that the way of the kings from the 
enemy. 
rising of the sun might be prepared. And I saw three 
And in the greatness of thine excellency unclean spirits like frogs come out of the mouth of 
Thou }last overthrown them that rose up against thee: the dragon, and out of the mouth of the wild beast, 
Thou sendest forth thy wrath, 
and out of the mouth of the false prophet. For they 
Which consutned them as stubble. 
are spirits of demons, performing signs, that go forth 
And with the blast of thy nostrils 
to the kings of the whole world, to gather them to 
The waters were gathered together, 
the battle of that great day of God Almighty. (Be- 
The floods stood upright as an heap, 
hold, I come like a thief. Happy is he, who watch- 
And the depths were congealed in the heart of the eth, and keepeth his garments, lest lie walk naked, 
sea. 
and they see his shame.) And they gathered them 
The enemy said, I will pursue, 1 will overtake, into a place called in Hebrew Armageddon. And 
I will divide the spoil ; 
the seventh poured out his bowl on the air ; and there 
My lust shall be satisfied upon them ; 
came a loud voice from the temple [of heaven,] from 
I will draw my sword, 
the throne, saying, It is done ! And there were light- 
My hand shall destroy them. 
nings, arid voices, and thunders ; and there was a 
Thou didst blow with thy wind, 
great earthquake, such as was not since men were 
The sea covered them : 
on the earth, so mighty and so great an earthquake. 
They sank as lead in the mighty waters. 
And the great city became three parts, and the cities 
Who is like unto thee, 0 Lord, among the gods? of the nations fell : and great Babylon was rernetn- 
Who is like thee, glorious in holiness, 
bered before God, to give to her the cup of the wine 
Fearful in praise, doing wonders? 
of his furious wrath. And every island fled, and the 
Thou stretchedst out thy right hand, 
mountains were no more. And vast hail, weighing 
The earth swallowed them. 
a talent, fell from heaven on men ; and men reviled • 
Thou in thy mercy hast led forth the people God because of the plague of the hail ; for the plague 
Which thou hast redeemed : 
thereof was exceedingly great."—Rev. 15:5-8; 16: 
Thou hast guided them in thy strength 
1-21. 
Unto thy holy habitation. 
There are difficulties in the application of these 
The people shall hear, and be afraid : 
symbols, which we profess no ability to remove.— 
Sorrow shall take hold on the inhabitants of Palestina. 
Then the dukes of Edom shall be amazed ; There are difficulties in locating them after the ad- 
The mighty men of Moab, trembling shall take hold vent ; but insuperable ones in locating them before. 
upon them ; 
The whole order of Gon's providence has been, first 
All the inhabitants of Canaan shall melt away. 
Fear and dread shall fall upon them ; 
to make the righteous safe, and then to overwhelm 
By the greatness of thine arm they shall be as still the wicked. So here we find the righteous on the 
as a stone ; • 
sea of glass, before the angels have poured out their 
Till thy people pass over, 0 Lord, 
vials. They are the last plagues : and therefore 
Till the people pass over, which thou hest purchased. cover no great extent of time. If they extended over 
Thou shalt bring them in, 
 
And plant them in the mountain of thine inheritance, the gospel dispensation like the trumpets, they would 
In the place, 0 Lord, which thou hast made for thee not all be the last vials : the last one would be alone 
to dwell in, 
the last, like the last trumpet ; but it requires them 
In thteabsiaisnhcetdu.ary, 0 Lord, which thy hands have es all to finish the wrath of GoD. 
We are therethre in- 
.The Lord shall reign for ever and ever ! 
clined to the view, that the fearful plagues to fall on 
" For the horse of Pharaoh went in with his chariots the wicked, after the departure of the righteous, are 
and with his horsemen into the sea, and the LORD here symbolized. They are not all simultaneous, 
brought again the waters of the sea upon them ; but but successive, within a comparatively short period. 
the children of Israel went on dry land in the midst The departure of the saints, seems to leave all the 
of the sea. And MIRIAM the prophetess, the sister Perverted agencies of the world not much disturbed 
of AARON, took a timbre' in her hand ; and all the by their absence. They bring infidel principles to 
women went out after her with timbrels and with explain every event which may have transpired so as 
dances. And MIRIAM answered them, 
to he but little moved by them. As the judgments 
" Sing ye to the Lord, for he hath triumphed 
 ; 
gio_ are inflicted there is no repentance of their deeds—an- 
riously
evidence that no mercy is in store for them. The phrase 
The horse and his rider bath he thrown into the sea.'' 
—Ex. 15: 1-21. 
—" Behold, I come like a thief. Happy is he, who 
watcheth, and keepeth his garments, lest he walk na- 
Similarly situated are the righteous over their ene- ked, and they see his shame "—is a parenthetical re-
mies ; and well may they add to the song of MOSES, mark—not indicating that CHRIST then comes; but 
the servant of GOD, the song of the LAMB, saying :— 
" Great and marvellous are thy works, Lord God Al- of the plagues on the wicked, to influence men while 
mighty ! 
is thus thrown in, in connection with the description 
there is mercy, to prepare for his coming, and so not 
Just and true are thy ways, thou King of saints ! 
be liable to the infliction of these last vials of GoD's 
Who shall not fear thee, 0 Lord, and glorify thy 
name ? 
wrath. 
For thou only art Holy : 
For all nations shall come and worship before thee ; The Resurrection, the Christian's Hoped 
For thy judgments are made manifest." 
as a reviving cordial at my heart, and from 
thence sends forth lively spirits, which beat 
through all the pulses of my soul ! Rest—not 
as the stone that rests on the earth, nor as this 
flesh may rest in the grave, nor such a rest as 
the carnal world desires. 0, blessed rest, when 
we rest not day and night, saying, " Holy, ho-
ly, holy, Lord God Almighty !" When we 
shall rest front sin, but not from worship ; from 
suffering and sorrow, but not from joy ! 0 
blessed day ! When I shall rest with God ! 
When I shall rest in the bosom of my Lord ! 
When I shall rest in knowing, loving, rejoic-
ing, and praising! When my perfect soul and 
body shall together perfectly enjoy the most 
perfect God ! When God, who is love itself, 
shall perfectly love me, and rest in his love to 
me, as I shall rest in my love to- him ; and re-
joice over me with joy, and joy over me with 
singing, as I shall rejoice in him. 
Those on the sea of glass evidently symbolize the 
redeemed, caught up to meet the LORD in the air,—
safely removed from the wrath of Goo contained in 
the seven last plagues which are then to fall on the 
wicked. 
THE SEVEN VIALS. 
" And after this, I looked, and the temple of the 
tabernacle of the testimony in heaven was opened ; 
and the seven angels came out of the temple, having 
the seven plagues, clothed in pure white linen, and 
girded around the breasts with golden girdles. And 
one of the four living beings gave to the seven an-
gels seven golden bowls filled with the wrath of God, 
who liveth forever and ever. And the temple was 
filled with smoke from the glory of God, and from 
his power; and no one was able to enter the temple, 
till the seven plagues of the seven angels were com-
pleted. And I heard a bound voice out of the temple 
saying to the seven angels, Depart, and pour out the 
bowls of the wrath of God on the earth. And the 
first went away, and poured out his howl on the 
earth ; and there came an evil and sore ulcer on the 
men, who had the mark of the beast, and on those 
worshipping his image. And the second angel 
poured out his bowl on the sea; and it became like 
the blood of a dead person ; and every living crea-
ture in the sea died. And the third poured out his 
bowl on the rivers and on the fountains of waters : 
and they became blood. And I heard the angel of 
the waters say, Thou art righteous, 0 Thou, who 
art, and wast holy, because thou hast inflicted these 
judgments; for they have poured out the blood of 
saints and prophets, and thou hast given them blood 
to drink ; they are worthy ! And I heard one from 
the altar, saying, Even so, Lord God Almighty, true 
and righteous are thy judgments! And the fourth 
angel poured out his howl on the sun ; and it was 
given to him to burn men with fire. And men were 
burned with great heat, and reviled the name of God, 
who had power over these plagues ; and they repent-
ed not to give him glory. And the fifth angel poured 
out his bowl on the throne of the wild beast ; and his 
kingdom was darkened ; and they gnawed their 
Dr. CLARKE, in his remarks on the 15th chapter of 
1 Corinthians, says :— 
" The doctrine of the resurrection appears to have 
been thought of much more consequence among the 
primitive Christians than it is now ! How is this ? 
The apostles were continually insisting on it, and 
exciting the followers of God to diligence, obedience, 
and cheerfulness through it. And their successors 
in the present day seldom mention it ! So apostles 
preached, and so primitive Christians believed ; so 
we preach, and so our hearers believe. There is 
not a doctrine in the Gospel on which more stress is 
laid ; and there is not a doctrine in the present sys-
tem of preaching which is treated with more neg-
lect !" 
Why should there be this departure from the primi-
tive mode of preaching, if the faith of those who 
preach continues the same? Those who' believe in 
the resurrection of the body, and still make death the 
event which glorifies the events, say but little of the 
resurrection, because they give this other event an 
importance which the Bible and early Christians did 
not attribute to it. An event of, to them, such im-
portance, intervening, they look with less interest to 
the greater event, and quietly acquiesce in the idea of 
its remoteness. If instead of at death, their hopes 
clustered about the resurrection from the dead, their 
preaching would necessarily better compare with the 
apostolic mode of preaching, described by Dr. 
CLARKE. In the fulfilment of their mission, the apos-
tles ever preached, " The coming of the LORD draw-
eth nigh." Were the hearts of the disciples made 
sad by the departure of their Master when he 
ascended from Mount Olivet ?—They were imme- 
diately comforted by the angelic declaration, " This 
same JESUS which is taken up from you into heaven, 
shall so come in like manner as ye have seen him go 
into heaven." Would the apostle exhort to repent-
ance ?—The motive presented was, " that your sins 
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him ; for we shall see him as he is." And he closes 
up the volume of inspiration with the importunate 
prayer, " Even so, come, Lord Jesus." 
The teachings of the Old Testament are equally 
pointed in referring to the same event. The most of 
the glorious promises are often quoted in reference to 
a day of gospel triumph in the unregenerated earth. 
We, find a connection between them and the resurrec- 
tion state. Does the son of Beor foresee the goodly 
tents of Jacob, and the tabernacles of Israel, spread 
forth as the valleys, and as gardens by the river's 
side ?—It is in connection with the destruction of him 
that rernaineth of the city ; and he is constrained to 
take up his parable and exclaim, " Alas, who shall live 
when God doeth this !" Does the man of Uz look 
forward to the latter day, when the Redeemer shall 
stand upon the earth I—It is when he himself shall 
see the majesty of Jehovah with his own eyes in the 
flesh, although his body shall have been once des-
troyed by the worms. Does the sweet singer of Is- 
rael tune his harp to sing of the time when the hea- 
then shall be given for an inheritance, and the utter-
most parts of the earth for a possession1—It is when 
they are to be broken with a rod of iron, and dashed 
in pieces like a vessel of the potter. Does he fore-
see the meek, and those that wait on the Lord, in- 
heriting the earth I—It is an inheritance that shall 
continue forever, and which shall be given when the 
wicked shall he mown down as grass, and perish as 
the green herb, when their swords shall enter into 
their own hearts, and their bows be broken. Does 
the sublime prophet, whose lips were touched with 
the coal from off the altar of the Lord, predict the 
restoration of the judges of Israel, and her counsel-
lors, as they were at the beginning?—It is to be 
when all their dross and tin are to be purely purged 
away, and the city shall be a city of righteousness, 
a faithful city ;—it is to be when Zion shall be re-
deemed with judgment, and her converts with right-
eousness, when the destruction of the sinners and 
transgressors shall be together, and they that for-
sake the Lord shall be consumed. Does he declare 
the establishment of the mountain of the Lord's 
house upon the top of the mountains, when the na-
tions shall go up to the mountain of die Lord, to be 
taught of his ways, and to walk in his paths?—It is 
to he when the Lord shall judge among the nations, 
and rebuke many people ; when the lofty looks of 
man shall be humbled, and the haughtiness of men 
shall be bowed down, and the Lord shall alone be 
exalted ; when the idols shall he utterly abolished, 
and cast to the moles and the bats, for fear of the 
Lord, and for the glory of his majesty, when he ari-
seth to shake terribly the earth. Dues he look for-
ward to the glorious period when the wolf shall dwell 
with the lamb, and the leopard shall lie down with 
the kid, the calf and the young lion and the fatling 
together, led by a little child,—when the cow and the 
bear shall feed, and their young lie down together,—
when the whole earth shall he full of the knowledge 
of the Lord as the waters cover the sea, and in all 
the holy mountain of the Lord they shall not hurt 
nor destroy 1—He sees also the Lord reproving with 
equity for the meek, smiting the earth with the rod 
of his mouth, and with the breath of his lips slaying 
the wicked. Does he see the moon confounded, and 
the sun ashamed, and the Lord of hosts reigning in 
Mount Zion, and in Jerusalem, and before his an-
cients gloriously 1—It is when the earth shall have 
been utterly broken down, shall have been clean dis-
solved, and moved exceedingly : when it shall have 
reeled to and fro like a drunkard, and been removed 
like a cottage, because the transgressions thereof 
were heavy upon it ;—it is in the day when the Lord 
shall punish the host of the high ones that are on 
high, and the kings of the earth upon the earth, and 
they shall be gathered together as prisoners are ga-
thered in the pit, and shall be shut up in the 
prison. Does he behold in prophetic vision a 
feast, of fat things full of marrow, of wines on 
the lees well refined, made unto all people, in the 
mountain of the Lord of hosts?—It is when the 
Lord will destroy the face of the covering cast over 
all people, and the veil that is spread over all na-
tions ; it is when he will swallow up death in vic-
tory, and the Lord God will wipe away tears from 
off all faces, and the rebuke of his people shall be 
taken away from off all the earth ; it shall be said 
in that day, Lo, this is our God, we have waited for 
him, he will save us, and we will be glad and rejoice 
in his salvation ; it is when the Lord cometh out of 
his place to punish the inhabitants of the earth for 
their iniquity, when the earth shall disclose her blood, 
and no more cover her slain : for the dead men of 
ing." " Behold, now are we the sons of God ; and Zion shall then live, together with the dead body of 
it doth not yet appear what we shall he ; but we the prophet shall they arise : they that dwell in the 
know that when he shall appear, we shall be like dust will awake and sing ; for the dew of Zion will 
may be blotted out, when the times of refreshing 
shall come from the presence of the LORD ; and he 
shall send JESUS CHRIST, which before was preached 
unto you whom the heavens must receive until the 
times of restitution of all things, which GOD bath 
spoken by the mouth of all the holy prophets since 
the world began." 
Would the apostle to the Gentiles exhort to an 
increase of knowledge in sacred things?—It was " so 
that ye come behind in no gift ; waiting for the coin- 
ing of our Lord JESUS CHRIST : who shall also con-
firm you unto the end, that ye may be blameless in 
the day of our Lord JESUS CHRIST." 
Would he 
exhort the brethren to press forward toward the 
mark for the prize of the high calling of GOD in 
CHRIST JESIISI—It was because " our conversation 
is in heaven, from whence also we look for the SA-
VIOUR, the Lord JESUS CHRIST ; 1.);ho shall change 
our vile body, that it may he fashioned like unto his 
glorious body." Would he present a motive to seek 
those things which are above? — It was because 
" when CHRIST, who is our life, shall appear, then 
shall ye also appear with him in glory." Would he 
encourage the hearts of the waiting Christians to 
greater patience?—The consolation was, "To you 
who are troubled, rest with us when the Lord JESUS 
shall he revealed from heaven with his mighty an-
gels." Ile admonished them that they had " turned 
to GOD from idols, to serve the living and true 
GoD, and to wait for his Son from heaven ;" and 
he prayed, " The LORD direct your hearts into the 
love of Gon, and into the patient waiting for CHRIST." 
Would he administer to their " hope, or joy, or 
crown of rejoicing?"—It was by reminding them that 
they were to be " in the presence of our Lord JESUS 
CHRIST at his coming." Would he increase their 
" love one toward another, and toward all men?"—
It was " to the end he may stablish your hearts on-
blamable in holipess before God, even our Father, at 
the coming of our Lord Jesus Christ with all his 
saints." Would he present them with words of en-
couragement with which they might comfort one ano-
ther?—He reminds them that " the Lord himself 
shall descend from heaven," " the dead in Christ 
rise first," and " then we which are alive and re-
main shall be caught up together with them in the 
clouds, to meet the Lord in the air ;" and unto that 
coming, he prayed God their " whole spirit, soul, 
acrd body," might " be preserved blameless." Would 
he charge a fellow-disciple to faithfulness in his min-
istry?—He commands him to " keep this command-
ment without spot, unrehukable, until the appearing 
of our Lord Jesus Christ ;" again, he says, "I 
charge thee, therefore, before God and the Lord Je-
sus Christ, who shall judge the quick and the dead 
at his appearing and his kingdom ;" and, " hence-
forth there is laid up for me a crown of righteous-
ness, which the Lord, the righteous Judge, shall 
give me at that day ; and not to me only, but unto 
them also that love his appearing." Another fel-
low-laborer he exhorts to speak " the things which 
become sound doctrine "—" looking for that blessed 
hope, and the glorious appearing of the great God 
and our Saviour, Jesus Christ." 
The apostle James is no less inspired with the 
contemplation of the same sublime theme. The com-
ing of the Lord is his great incentive to patience in 
the Divine life " Be patient, therefore, brethren," 
says he, '6 unto the coming of the Lord. Behold, 
the husbandman waiteth for the precious fruits of the 
earth, and hash long patience for it, until he receive 
the early and the latter rain : be ye also patient; 
establish your hearts, for the coining of the Lord 
draweth nigh." 
Peter has his eye continually fixed on the same 
event. He bade the brethren rejoice in tribulation, 
" that the trial of your faith being much more pre-
cious than of gold that perisheth, though it be tried 
with fire, might be found unto praise, and honor, and 
glory, at the appearing of Jesus Christ." " Where-
fare, gird up the loins of your minds, be sober, and 
hope to the end for the grace that is to be brought 
unto you at the revelation of Jesus Christ." " And 
when the Chief Shepherd shall appear, ye shall re-
ceive a crown of glory that fadeth not away." " For 
we have not followed cunningly devised fables, when 
we made known to you the power and coming of our 
Lord Jesus Christ." 
The beloved disciple is also animated with the 
thoughts of the coming of him on whose breast he 
leaned at the last supper. It is the motive he pre-
sents in all his exhortations for abiding in Christ, 
"That, when he shall appear, we may have confi-
dence, and not be ashamed before him at his corn- 
he as the dew of herbs, and the earth shall cast out 
her dead. Does he see the dawning of that day 
when the Lord of hosts shall be fin a crown of glory, 
and for a diadem of beauty unto the residue of his 
people ?—It is to be when judgment will be laid to 
the line, and righteousness to the plummet, and the 
hail shall sweep away the refuge of lies, and the 
waters shall overflow the hiding places ; it is when 
the covenant which sinners have with death shall he 
disannulled, and the agreement they have made with 
hell shall not stand ; it is when the scourge shall 
pass through, and they shall be trodden down by it, 
when the Lord shall rise lip as in Mount Perazim, 
arid shall he wroth as in the valley of Gibeon, that 
he may do his work, his strange work, and bring to 
pass his act, his strange act, and accomplish the con-
sumption which is determined upon the whole earth. 
Is he commissioned to comfort the people of Israel, 
to speak comfortably to Jerusalem, and cry unto her 
that her warfare is accomplished, and her iniquity 
pardoned I—It is to be when the glory of the Lord 
shall be revealed, and all flesh shall see it together : 
the commission is :— 
"o Zion, that hringest good tidings, 
Get thee up into the high mountain ; 
0 Jerusalem, that bringest good tidings, 
Lift up thy voice will, strength; 
lift it up, he not afraid ; 
Say unto the cities of Judah,. Behold your God !" 
Does he look forward to the time when the stones 
of Zion shall be laid with fair colors, and her foun-
dations with sapphires; when her windows are to 
be made of agates, her gates of carbuncles, and all 
her borders of pleasaet stones ; when all her chil-
dren shall be taught of the Lord, shall enjoy great 
peace, and he established in righteousness?—He also 
sees it an eternal state, a covenant of peace, that 
shall not be removed. Does he see the mountains 
and the hills breaking forth into singing, and all the 
trees of the field clapping their hands in unison with 
the glad concert; the firtree coming up instead of 
the thorn ; and instead of the brier the myrtle tree? 
—it is to be an everlasting sign—one that shall not 
he cut off. Does he see Zion adorned with all the 
glory of Lebanon,—the fir-tree, the pine, and the 
box together, beautifying the place of the Lord's 
sanctuary, and making the place of his feet glorious? 
—lt is to be when it shall become an eternal excel-
lency', a joy of many generations, when violence 
shall be no more heard in the land, nor wasting and 
destruction within her borders; when the walls of 
Zion shall he called Salvation, and her gates Praise ; 
then the sun shall be no more her light by day, nor 
for brightness shall the moon give light unto her ; 
but the Lord shall be unto his people an everlasting 
light, and their God their glory ; their sun will then 
no more go down, neither shall their moon withdraw 
itself; they shall then be all righteous, the days of 
their mourning shall be ended, and they shall inherit 
the land forever. Does he see Jerusalem created a 
rejoicing, and her people a joy I—He foresees it will 
he when God shall create new heavens and a new 
earth, and they ate to be glad and rejoice forever in 
that which God shall create. So might we proceed 
through all the discursive prophecies ; and wherever 
we shall find the promises of the latter day glory of 
the church foreshadowed, there shall we also find 
the most conclusive evidences, that the glory brought 
to view is not a glory which is to be witnessed in 
this fallen state, or at death, but is to be subsequent 
to the resurrection, the regeneration of the earth, and 
the restoration of man to his Eden state, where an 
eternity will alone unfold the joys reserved for those 
who love the Lord. 
A CARNAL NOTION.—Because " flesh and blood 
cannot inherit the kingdom of GOD ;" and " the 
Spirit that raised up CHRIST from the dead shall 
so quicken our mortal body," &c., therefore some 
have conceived and preached the notion that the 
Spirit of GOD is then to circulate through our veins 
and arteries, as the blood now does ! We have 
never knowingly permitted the Herald to countenance 
such a notion. Our bodies will be quickened and 
revivified by the Spirit's gracious influences,—not 
by its venous and arterial circulation. Why does 
blood circulate? It is to supply the waste of the 
system. The food we eat is changed to chyle and 
chyme, and supplies the blood with the requisite nu-
triment which is needed to replace in the system the 
deposite which has been removed by the waste con-
stantly going on. The circulation of the purple fluid 
is for the purpose of carrying to the proper place of 
deposite the needed particles of supply. Will a like 
supply be needed to supply a constant waste in our 
resurrection bodies I If it is, it must be by a fluid 
replenished by the food eaten, analogous to our blood 
If not, then no circulation of any kind is needed. In 
either case, to suppose the Holy Spirit is a material 
substance, thus to circulate, is not only irreverent and 
FUTURE PUNISHMENT.—In the confession of MAN-
NING of the murder of O'CoNNott, committed by him-
self and wife, he states that he asked her before-the 
act, " What would become of her if she committed 
the crime of murder?" to which she replied :— 
" We have no souls; after we are dead we are 
like lumps of clay, and there is no more thought of 
us, and I shall never have to suffer hereafter for mur-
dering that man."—London Tablet, Nov. 17th, p. 
733. 
It seems that a disbelief in the doctrine Of future 
rewards and punishments, as taught in the Scrip-
tures, was one great cause of this unhappy woman's 
committing the crime of murder. The Scriptures 
wisely appeal to our fears, as well as to our hopes, to 
keep us in the path of rectitude. 
A TRIP EAST.—Such is the state of our health, 
that we shall not be able to make a long, or laborious 
tour. Having promised to visit the brethren at Sheep-
scott Bridge, we will be with them Friday, Saturday, 
and Sunday, Dec. 21st, 22d, and 23d. Let all the 
friends in the vicinity attend. 
On our way down, we will preach in Portsmouth 
Tuesday evening, Dec. 18th, as Bro. CROWELL shall 
appoint. In Portland Wednesday evening, the 19th. 
We hope to meet all the brethren in whatever place 
Bro. JOHNSON and others shall appoint. 
On our return, we shall call on Bro. Yonx at N. 
Yarmouth, Monday evening, 24th, and preach as he 
shall appoint. 
Bro. HARLEY may meet me Thursday evening, 
Dec. 20th, at Wiscassett. 
J. V. H. 
APPOINTMENTS.—We received several notices on 
Wednesday, (the day our paper goes to press,) too 
late for the last Herald. We must receive such no-
tices by Tuesday, at the latest. When they do not 
appear the same week they are sent, brethren will 
hereafter understand, that it is because they came too 
late. We would also enjoin upon all to write legi-
bly ; else mistakes will be unavoidable. 
As fire will not warm us unless we tarry at it, and 
as a bee cannot suck the honey from a flower unless 
she abide upon it, no more can any child of Goo re-
ceive support and consolation from the promises, un-
less he seriously and solemnly ponder and meditate 
on the m 
Calamy. 
ERRATA.—In Bro. A. D. Gove's letter of last 
week, before " In that place and vicinity," read, " I 
visited the brethren in Stanstead, C. E. ; tarried with 
them two weeks. There are a goodly number of 
brethren and sisters." As it was in our last, it makes 
Bro. G. say of Sugar Hill what he said of Stanstead. 
disrespectful, but gross and carnal. The fact is, that 
when it says that flesh and blood cannot inherit the i 
kingdom of Goo, it no more asserts that blood can-
not, than it does that flesh cannot. The idea is, sim-
ply, that our bodies as now constituted cannot inherit 
there. They will be changed, transformed, and still 
the same. Our flesh will bear no more relation to 
our present flesh, than our blood will to the present 
blorel. The whole system will undergo a change 
more great than that which the charcoal undergoes 
when it is transformed into a diamond. We khow 
not now just what we shall be ; but we know this, 
that when JESUS shall appear, we shall be like him ; 
for we shall see him as he is. Anything more than 
this is mere speculation, and is within the hallowed 
courts where we dare not tread,—among the secret 
things which belong unto GOD, and not among those 
he has revealed unto us and our children. When we 
have heard this sentiment given utterance to, we have 
felt an indescribable sense of its belittling the office 
of the Spirit, which for worlds we would not have 
an abiding (me with us. 
LEIGH RICIIMOND.—" In his preaching he was plain 
arid familiar, so as to be understood by the most un-
learned in his congregation : nor was he satisfied till 
he explained his idea in every possible variety and 
point of view. On this account he sometimes seemed, 
to persons unacquainted with his design, to employ a 
needless number of words. It was once pleasantly 
said by one who heard him, An excellent sermon, 
but with too many various readings.' He used to 
refer his friends, who conversed with him on the sub-
ject of preaching, to the advice of his college tutor, 
Don't use terms of science. The people have no 
abstract ideas ; they cannot understand comparisons 
and allusions remote from all their habits. Take 
words of Saxon derivation, and not such as are de-
rived from Latin and Greek. Talk of riches, not 
affluence ; of trust, not confidence. Present the same 
idea in a varied form, and take care that you under-
stand the subject well yourself. If you be intelligent 
you will be intelligible.' " 
158 
THE ADVENT HERALD. 
Correspondence, 
THE TWO ADAMS. 
It is given in Gen. 2:15-17. The whole was simply resurrection : on such the second death bath no 
"The first man is of the earth, earthy : the second to abstain from plucking and eating of one tree of power."-Rev. 20 : 6. Hence Christ is especially 
man is the Lord from heaven."-1 Co. 15 : 47. 
the garden. He could freely eat of all others, and the Saviour of the believer, ransoming them from the 
" ANNA " AND "AN ADVENTIST." 
 
 Our text leads us to contemplate the character and there was placed in the garden every tree that was power of the first, and delivering them from the 
beautiful to the sight and good for food. But as tri- second death. Here is also where infant salvation 
destiny of the two Adams ; and we design in this fling as the requirement was, he did not endure. The is obtained. The child of two years and under does 
discourse to show the analogy and compalison be-
How, then, comes it to die? 
woman, when she "saw that the tree was good for not die for its own sins. 
tween them. The subject involves the whole scheme food 
 , 
, and pleasant to the eyes, and a tree to be desired "In Adam all die," young and old. All that thus 
of redemption, and in considering it in full, we should 
to make one wise, took of the fruit thereof and did die, are to be raised by the second Adam ; and as the 
have to contemplate the original state of man, his eat, and gave also unto her husband, and he did eat ; child has not sown to the flesh, it will not be under 
subsequent fall, with all the sad and dire results 
which followed, and the means and character of a and the eyes of the both were opened."-Gen. 3:6,7. the sentence of the second death. Rev. 21:8. 
 
The requirement of the second Adam. It was to V. The seed of both bear the image and sem- 
restoration through Christ the second Adam. But 
we design only to refer to the prominent points of do the whole will of God. " Lo, 1 come to do thy blance of their federal Head. 
 
will, 0 God." Read Heb. 10 : 1-10. / To fulfil the " As is the earthy, such are they also that are 
analogy, in the hope that some, at least, may be in- law and the prophets. To magnify and make the earthy : and as is the heavenly, such are they also 
doted to give the subject that critical examination it law of God, broken by man, honorable. Hence he that are heavenly. And as we have borne the image 
 
L. H. S. deserves, and obtain that knowledge which seems in 
 under the law. After it was given on Sinai, of the earthy, we shall also bear the image of the 
dispensable to our final salvation. 
TO AN ADVENTIST. 
and-from the beginning fulfilled its demand perfectly. heavenly."-1 Cor. 15:48, 49. 
Adam, according to Joseph 
is a name derived 
 
1 Pet. 2:22-24. But mark the severity of the trial. 1. The first Adam is earthy, i. e., frail, decaying, 
from a word signifying " red earth," supposing that He endured while surrounded with infirmities, sub- dying, tending to dust-" dust thou art, and unto 
he was 
Jones contends] 
it i 
that 
formes 
 derived froB
d from it. mut
Adi 
 
Sir 
 m, which 
William • ject to like passions as we, and endured the fearful dust shalt thou return." " All flesh is as grass, and 
in the Sanscri 
 
 
buffetings and temptations of Satan. But nothing all the glory of man is as the flower of grass : the 
pt s ig nifies "the first ;" and this would 
deterred him from his course. Neither wealth nor grass vt ithereth, and the flower thereof fadeth away." 
appear the more reasonable, inasmuch as it most pro- honor flattery nor applause, contempt nor scorn, nor 1 Pet. 1:24. 
It is appointed unto all to die,* 
bably designated the father, progenitor, or head, of death itself. " He endured the cross, despised the 2. The second Adam is heavenly. 
And after death the judgment ! 
a race. The first Adam is the head of the present shame," and was faithful to the end. 
(1.) Immortal. " Knowing that Christ being 
Yet some believe this mortal frame on high, race now inhabiting our globe,-the second Adam, 
raised from the dead, dieth no more ; death bath no 
To meet the Saviour will be strangely sent ! of a future race inhabiting the world to come. III. Sin comes by one-righteousness by the other. more dominion over him."-Rom. 6:9. " I am he 
And while their bodies how them day by day I. Their conformation. 
1. Sin by the first Adam. " By one man sin en- 
and was d ead ; and behold, I am ave 
Unto the grave, still think to soar away ! 
1. Reference is made to this point of comparison tered into the world."-Rom. 5:12. All must admit that liveth, ."- 
forevermoreRev. 1 : 18. So are his seed to
li 
 
be. 
in the text:- 
that our nations are deeply corrupted, and that all " They w hich shall be accounted worthy to obtain 
Though flesh inherits not eternal life,t 
mankind are depraved and fallen. How came this? 
Conformation of the first Adam. He is " of the 
that world and the resurrection from the dead, nei- 
Still to the fleshly tenement they cling- 
The Scriptures afford us the only satisfactory an- 
earth, earthy." God makes of the earth, dust, a 
,, titer marry, nor are given in marriage, neither can 
Rememb'ring not, a corn of wheat must diet 
swer. " By one man sin entered into the world. 
being composed of bones, muscles, nerves, blood- 
they die any more ; for they are equal unto the an- 
Ere to bring forth much fruit it upward spring. 
Every day's experience demonstrates this. From 
vessels, and all the various tissues and organisms 
gels, and are the children of the resurrection."-Lu. 
Death takes the body, him they call men's foe ! 
the child of a few days existence, to the old man that 
which make up our frame, and he endows it with 
20:34-36. " Behold, I show you a mystery ; ... we 
E'en though the soul through him is made to grow. 
is just ready to close his eyes on the scenes of the 
the faculties of thought, perception, judgment, &c. 
 
 
shall all be changed.... This mortal shall put on 
world, none are exempt from this depravity, which is 
While of the hour Christ cometh, it is said, How incomprehensible is this! How unnatural fur 
immortality," &c.-1 Con 15.50-57. 
inherited ftorn Adam. But 
Nor men, nor angels, nor e'en Christ shall earth to act, move, or think, at will ! For the inani- 
(2.) He exists by the Spirit. " Being put to 
2. Righteousness comes by the other. " There- 
know-§ 
mate substance to become at once an animate and 
death in the flesh, but quickened by the Spirit."-1 
fore as by the offence of one judgment came upon all 
Yet zealous men the time exact haves 
 pread ; sentient being ! And yet this is the origin of our 
Pet. 3:18. Hence is a quickening spirit also. He 
They proved it to a unit long ago. 
race. Hence the propriety of that sentence on mans 
exists 
to condemnation ; even so by the righteousness 
's
exists not 
of one the free gift came upon all men unto justifica- 
by blood, which is the life in this mortal 
And though their calculations came out wrong, sinning, " Dust thou art, and unto dust shalt thou 
state, but by the Sp 
, p 
 
tion of life. For as by one man's disobedience many 
irit. " If, therefore the Sirit 
Their faith for sixty-six is just as strong. 
 
 return." 
of him that raised up Jesus from the dead dwell in 
f 
were made sinners, so by the obedience of one shall 
 
Con ormation of the second Adam, as alluded to 
he that raised up Christ from the dead shall also 
many be made righteous."-Rom. 5 : 18, 19. Al- -Y"' 
in the text. He is " the Lord from heaven." Ex-
quicken your mortal bodies by the Spirit that dwell-
not
though through the second Adam there is this great 
plained John 1:1-14.-" The Word became flesh," 
eth in you. Rom. 8.11. 
with and ample provision for the first Adam's race, yet the 
earth, dust, but that Word which "was 
 Scriptures 
 
r (3.) His body is perfect and glorified. " The God 
at the same time assure us that it is prof- 
and " was God," which ' created all things,"
of Abraham, and of Isaac, and of Jacob, the God of 
fered upon conditions to all who have arrived at an 
which " made the world, but the world knew him 
our fathers, bath glorified his Son Jesus," &c. And 
would b 
evil 
and 
 
age to distinguish good 
; and it 
e 
not," this " was made flesh." How mysterious and
" our conversation is in heaven, from whence we 
God 
 
strange indeed, if in our deeply depraved state Go 
incomprehensible is this! 
 
 " Without controversy,
look for the. Saviour, who shall change our vile bod- 
should propose saving us independent of any condi-
great is the mystery of godliness, God manifest in
ies, arid fashion them like unto his glorious body, by 
lions! These conditions are faith in this righteous- 
the flesh, justified in the spirit, seen of angels,
the working whereby he is able to subdue all timings 
ness. " The righteousness of God is revealed from 
preached unto the Gentiles, believed on in the world, 
 
 
to himself."-Phil. 3 :20, 21. See 1 John 3 : 1, 2 ; 
faith to faith."-" Justified by faith."-" By grace 
and received up into glory."-1 Tim. 3 : 16. He is 
 
 
Ps. 19:15 ; Dan. 12 : 1-9. There will be no imper- 
are we saved through faith." " As Moses lifted up 
emphatically the Lord from heaven. He says, " I 
fection in the glorified state. 
the serpent in the wilderness, even so must the Son 
came down from heaven not to do mine own will, but 
VI. The curse has been entailed upon the earth 
of man be lifted up : that whosoever beevet 
 him 
the will of him that sent me." " What and if 
 
 
li h in
ye
by the disobedience of the one, but is to be removed 
should not perish, but have eternal life. For God so 
shall see the Son of man ascend up where he was 
by the obedience of the other. 
before."-John 6 : 38, 62. 
loved the world, that he gave his only begotten Son, 
1. The first Adam forfeited his inheritance, as well 
that whosoever believeth in him should perish, but 
 
2. This conformation as regards vital power is al- 
as his life. Gen. 3 :17, 18-" Cursed is the ground 
have everlasting life. He that believed) in him is 
luded to in a verse in the context : " And so it is 
for thy sake," &c. 
not condemned : but he that believeth not is con- 
written, the first man Adam was made a living soul, 
believedthe2. The second Adam, by obedience unto death, 
demned already, because he hath not 
 in 
the last Adam a quickening spirit."-v. 45.has ransomed it. Eighteen hundred years ago he 
name of the only begotten Son of God." "He that 
Conformation of the first Adam, according to this
laid dowu the ransome price, and when the lease of 
believeth on the Son bath everlasting life : and he 
passage : " A living soul." What is understood
Gentile rule runs out, he will take possession. Gen. 
that believeth not the Son shall not see life ; but the 
and implied by this ? We will turn to where it is 
3 : 15 ; Acts 3 : 20, 21. The inheritance to which 
wrath of God abideth on him." " Go ye therefore 
written " the first man Adam was made a living 
Christ and his people are heirs, is a redeemed inherit- 
soul :"--Gen. 2:7. In this passage there are three into all the world, and preach the gospel to every ante. " Ye were sealed with that holy spirit of 
creature. He that believeth and is baptized shall be 
points of consideration. 1. " And the Lord God 
 
 
mise, which is the earnest of our inheritance, un- 
saved ; but he that believeth riot shall be damned." 
formed man of the dust of the ground." 2. " And
tilthe redemption of the purchased possession."-
breathed into his nostrils the breath of life." 3.- The Scriptures abound with such language ; and if Epli. 1:13, 14. What other world has been forfeited 
we wish to be participators of this righteousness and 
"And man became a living soul," i. e., an existent 
than our own? We know of none. The Scriptures 
 
grace, 
have appearedto allmen, we must corn-
living being, endowed with the principle of life, not,, that
teach us of none. It does teach us, that this has 
ply with the conditions. See also 2 Cor. 5:9, 
as some assert, with an " immortal soul." The 
term living soul does not imply immortality, if it IV. Death came by one-life by the other. been forfeited by the first Adam, and is to be subse- 
quentl 
does, then it follows that beasts, fowls, &c., are en- 
 
 1. Death by the first Adam. " By one man sin of th y redeemed by the second ; so that " instead 
e brier shall come up the fir tree, and instead of 
dowed with the same, for it is said, Gen. 1:30," And entered into the world, and death by sin." --Rom. the thorn the myrtle tree ;" so "that the wilderness 
to every beast of the earth, and to every fowl of the 5:12. Why does death exist in our world'? The shall rejoice and blossom as the rose ;" so that it 
air, . .. wherein there is a living soul," &c. Here, Scriptures, as in the above case, afford us the only will be "anew earth, wherein dwelled' righteous-
what-is ascribed to one, is to the other. Again, if satisfactory answer. Adam violated the law of God, ness ;" so that "there will be no more curse, for the 
living soul " implies " immortal soul," why is it the penalty of Which was death. We cannot con throne of God and the Lamb shall be in it." 
capable of dying? and yet it is said, " The soul that ceive of the present state of suffering, sorrow, and 
Yes, the second Adam, the Lord from heaven, is 
sinneth, it shall die."-" In the day thou eatest death, existing in our world, and permitted by the to restore paradise to earth, turn away the flaming 
thereof thou shalt surely die." Also, the term " im- Supreme Being, unless it be that man has violated sword from the tree of life, and admit the righteous 
Lost, with the cold grave's victory. HI 
mortal soul " is not used once in Scripture, though his law, and he sees fit to denonstrate his abhorrence of into the walks and bowers of the immortal and in- 
And though men scoff, and jeering say, so frequently mused in religious conversations, and it. And we can see in the punishment of sin in this corruptible Eden of God. " He that bath an ear, 
" Where is the promise of that day, 
front the sacred desk. If you ask me to define the world how hateful it is in his sight. Oh, the sot.- let him hear what the Spirit saith unto time churches; 
That Christ will come to earth again, 
principle of life, I cannot ; it is incomprehensible in rows, the pain, the groans, of our race, in the past To him that o ercometh will I give to eat of the tree 
When all things here the same remain, both the vegetable and animal creation. When it is and present, for the violation of his law. Death, w'e of life which is in the midst of the paradise of God." 
As ere the flood our planet swept, 
taken away from the substance or object endowed learn, is the penalty of sin. 
Rev. 2:7 ; 22:14. Oh, what a happy world will this 
Or ere our fathers lived, or slept?" ¶¶ with it, the object immediately withers, fades, and 2. Life, or a resurrection to life, comes by the 
We mind them not, nor heed their strife, dies : so with the vegetable, so with the animal. I other. " For since by man canoe death, by man be, when thus redeemed and made new, and the 
righteous made to inherit it with the second Adam 
We're seeking for eternal life. 
do not here speak of those faculties and mental de- came. also the resurrection of the dead Fot as in at their head, all in immortal vigor and beauty !- 
We know the word of God is pure- 
velopments with which man is endowed, and which Adam all die, even so in Christ shall all be made When its animal tribes shall again lie down and feed 
We know its promises are sure : 
render him far superior to other animate existences alive."--1 Cor. 21 : 22. All die in Adam. Young peaceably together, its reptiles be devoid of all yen- 
To us these promises are gems, 
 
 
and old, righteous and wicked. All must be made 
attached to our world. It is not my province to 
More richly prized than diadems. 
speak of this, but simply to call your attention tothe alive again-be raised from the dead-by the power om, and the fowls of the air, and the fish of the sea, 
Those promises by prophets spoken, 
signification of the term here the subject of remark. of the second Adam. In this respect Christ is the obey the voice of the second Adam, as once in Eden 
 
, , 
Not yet fulfilled, will ne'er be broken ; 
Conformation and power of the second Adam.- Saviour of all men. He redeems all from the power the did that of the first. Ps. 8th Heb. 2d Isa. 
Not one will fail, though the array 
" A quickening spirit." Explained in John 5:21.- of the first death ultimately. But though all are 11th, and 65th. 
 
Of heaven and earth shall pass away. (1) " As the Father raiseth the dead and quickeneth thus raised again to life, it does not follow that all Remark.-In conclusion let me ask, Are you the 
children of the second Adam ? children by faith in 
And there are ardent ones that long 
them ; even so the Son quickeneth whom he will." will live forever, and be clothed upon with immor- hino 
"For as many as are led by the Spirit of God, 
To meet their King with love so strong, Let me here observe, there is power in all animate tality ; for the Scriptures reveal a second death.- they' are time sons of God ;and if children, then heirs: 
They daily watch the tokens given, (2) subjects and substances to generate and produce their The " lake of fire " is the " second death." All heirs of God, and joint-heirs with Christ; it' so be 
To know when he shall come from heaven, 
And now rejoice, and look on high, 
own species, but there is no power to resuscitate and unbelievers must experience two deaths ; the first 
bring back to life when once life has become totally from Adam's sin, the second as a reward of their fled together."-Rum. 8:14-23. 
that we suffer with him, that we may be also glori- 
Because redemption draweth nigh. 
extinct. With this power is the second Adam en- own. " Be not deceived •; God is not mocked : for 
We are very near that most glorious era for the 
0! Anna, 'tis a glorious theme, 
dowed. " He raiseth the dead and quickeneth them." whatsoever a man soweth, that shall he also reap.- beginning of the second Adam's reign, when he will 
You deem so much an airy dream, 
He does not produce his species by the ordinary way For he that soweth to his flesh shall of the flesh reap take the dominion, and with his saints possess the 
That Christ will come again to earth, 
of generation, but by raising to life that which is corruption ; but he that sowed' to the spirit shall of kingdom forever. 0 let us so live, that we may in- 
Prepared as at its pristine birth, 
dead-by quickening again to life the first Adam's the spirit reap life everlasting."-Gal. 15:7,8. "'The 
With millions of our ransom'd race, (3) posterity. He exhibited this power while on earth wages of sin is death : but the gift of God is eternal deed be participators in the glory that is so soon to 
 follow. 
the widow's son, and he declares of himself, " I am 
0. R. FASSETT. 
To greet him in that glorious place. 
 
 
life through Jesus Christ our Lord."-Rom. 6 : 23. 
in several instances, as in the case of Lazarus and 
God grant that there our songs may rise, 
The wicked are raised from the dead, judged, and 
 
In that restored Paradise. AN ADVENTIST.
M WM. WATKINS. 
the resurrection and the life." " Marvel not at this, condemned, and die the second death, for their own, LETTER FRO 
 
* Dan. 7:14. f Matt. 6:10. I Matt. 5:28. § Rum. the hour is coming in the which all that are in their and not Adam's sin. Eternal life and immortality is DEAR BRO. HimEs :.This being Thanksgiving 
8:22. II Rev. 21:4. ¶ Luke 24:39 ** 1 Cor. 15 : graves shall hear the voice of the Son of God and the reward only of the righteous. " They which re- day in Maryland, I avail myself of the leisure it 
50. jel- 2 Pet. 3: 13. It 1 Cor. 15 : 44. §§ John come forth."-John 5:20-29. 
ceive abundance of grace, and of the gift of right- brines to drop you a few lines. 
17:2. IN 1 Co. 15:55. ¶¶ 2 Pet. 3:34. (1) Matt. II. Both were placed on trial. 
eousness, shall reign in life by, Jesus Christ."- The little church in Baltimore, though down for 
5:18. (2) Luke 21:25-29. (3) Rev. 21:24. The requirement of Jehovah of the first Adam.- "Blessed and holy is he that hath part in the first some time to the minimum standard, is still strong in 
BRO. HiSIES :-I find in the Salem " Gazette," of 
the 27th ult., another communication from " Anna," 
addressed " To an Adventist." I would ask you to 
give it a place, with my answer, in your columns. I 
also would ask the favor of a correction in rvie an-
swer to " Anna," in the " Herald " of Dec. 1st. 
In the fourth line from the last, I find printed,-
" 'T would be of those, Anna," &c. It should be, 
" I would he of those, Anna," &c. 
With respect, I am yours, sir, 
" And he said to his disciples, the days will come, 
when ye shall desire to see one of the days of the 
Son of man, and ye shall not see it. And they shall 
say to you, See here! or, See there ! go not after 
them, nor follow them."-Luke 17:22, 23. 
For except the print of the nails they see, II 
And thrust their hands within his wounded side, 
(The sad, sad tokens of the cruel tree,) 
They will not own their Christ in him who died! 
Blessed are they who have his word received-
Who waited nut those tokens, but believed ! 
ANNA. 
Heb. 9 : 27. 1 Cor. 15 : 50. John 12 : 24. 
 
§ Mark 13 :32. II John 20:25. 
TO ANNA. 
" Beloved, I show you a mystery ; we shall not 
all sleep, but we shall all be changed, in a moment, 
in the twinkling of an eye, at the last trump : for the 
trumpet shall sound, and the dead shall be raised in-
corruptible, and we shall be changed."-1 Cor. 15 : 
51,52, 
Who are those, Anna, who will say, 
That mortal flames will wend their way 
Through the etherial vaulted sky, 
To meet the Saviour there on high? 
Not those who seek their coming King 
Froth God his regal power to bring : 
Not those who play, " Thy kingdom come ; 
On earth, 0 Lord, thy will be done!" f 
Not those, who as they day by day, 
Lay loved ones in the grave away, 
Rejoice, that time that morn will bring, 
When the long hoped Messiah. King 
Shall call the immortal bodies forth t 
From the green graves of groaning earth,§ 
With flesh that never more can die, II 
Like his who now exists on high, ¶ 
Bloodless and pure in its new birth," 
Fitted for the restored earth ; if 
Fitted God's kingdom to inherit, 
Not nature's frame, but of the Spirit. tt 
Such are the hopes we fondly cherish, 
Such are the hopes that cannot perish,-
Hopes with the glorious splendor rife, 
Of Christ's own gift, eternal life : §§ 
Hopes, that right soon death's sting will be 
THE ADVENT HERALD. 
159 
LETTER FROM S. CHAPMAN. 
LETTER FRCM L. DUDLEY. 
faith, buoyant with hope, giving glory to God. The 
paucity of our number would be depressing were it 
not for the sterling character of the materials. The 
Advent cause in Baltimore will not die, I think, while 
the present members of the church live ; for if we 
should not be able to sustain ourselves in the large 
and beautiful hall which we now occupy, (concern-
ing which I have no fears,) we would still feel it our 
duty not to forsake the assembling of ourselves to- 
gether, as the manner of sonic is, but to meet toge-
ther frequently, for the purpose of exhorting one 
another, and so much the more as we see the day 
approaching. This is clearly our duty under the 
most discouraging circumstances, and we feel truly 
thankful that the little Advent remnant in Baltimore 
know, from heart-felt experience, that to do so is a 
precious and invaluable privilege. Indeed, it is the 
life-giving energy received at our hortatory, prayer, 
and experience meetings, that enables us, to a con-
siderable extent, to present to the world and to our 
enemies an undivided front, a solid, invincible pha-
lanx, battling for the truth, contending for the faith 
once delivered to the saints. To these meetings we 
are greatly indebted for the unwonted tenacity of life 
which we have exhibited as a body, maugre all the 
predictions of our enemies concerning our speedy dis-
solution, and the strenuous efforts they have made to 
effectuate that result. As we walk by faith, and not 
by sight. we are greatly encouraged to perseverance 
in the use of the means of grace indicated by the in-
spired word : " Then they that feared the Lord spake 
often one to another : and the Lord hearkened, and 
heard it : and a book of remembrance was written 
before him for them that feared the Lord, and that 
thought on his name. And they shall be mine, saith 
the Lord of hosts, in that day when I make up my 
jewels ; and I will spare them, as a man spareth his 
own son that serveth him." 
Since Bro. Brewer's departure for the North, we 
have been without a stationed ministry. In a place 
like Baltimore, we could wish it were otherwise ; but 
as our pecuniary resources are not large, we have to 
take a lesson from Paul, and learn that " in whatso-
ever state we are, therewith to be content . . . to be 
careful for nothing ; but in everything by prayer and 
supplication, with thanksgiving, let our requests be 
made known unto God." Thus doing our duty, and 
leaving the event with the Great Head of the church, 
we shall realize, as we have hitherto done, that " all 
things work together for good to them that love 
God ;" that " the Lord God is a sun and shield : the 
Lord will give grace and glory ; no good thing will 
he withhold from them that walk uprightly." 
I see and feel more than ever how important it is 
to the cause of God and to individual usefulness, that 
we should generally merge minor differences of opin-
ion—not involving a dereliction of duty—and be-
come indissolubly united in the great work to which 
they have been eminently called, and to which all 
others are, for the most part, decidedly hostile. This 
union is the more necessary, inasmuch as " the har-
vest truly is great, but the laborers are few." And 
it is well for us, in view of the scarcity of laborers, 
that we are so strongly fortified with the truth. It 
is a consciousness of this fact that emboldens every 
Advent minister, who has studied his Bible, and the 
events of the age, to look up and lift up his head. 
and in the face of the scoffing infidelity and false 
philosophy of the times, to exclaim with the Psalm-
ist, " Though a host should encamp against me, my 
heart shall not fear." Nay, it is a cause of heart-
felt gratitude to God, and a source of unfailing hap-
piness, that we not only have the truth, but that the 
truth has made us free; free to do the will of God 
in accordance with our honest convictions of duty as 
enjoined by our Lord himself. The precious truth 
we have embraced has given us gospel liberty—not 
liberty from gospel order, from a salutary gospel dis-
cipline—but liberty from the galling traces of secta-
rian bigotry, which denies us the privilege, under 
pains and penalties, of rejoicing in and proclaiming, 
to all the unmistakable precursors of the approach-
ing advent of him who is to us the chief among ten 
thousands, and altogether lovely. We not only have 
the truth in theory, which, abstractly considered, 
would avail us nothing, but, as a people, we know 
something of its sanctifying influence upon our hearts 
and lives. Under the legitimate influence of the 
truth alluded, to we must be undefiled and separate 
from sinners; we can hold no fellowship with the 
unfruitful works of darkness, but rather must reprove 
them; we "love not the world, neither the things 
that are in the world," but we live as " strangers 
and pilgrims on the earth, choosing rather to suffer 
affliction with the people of God, than to enjoy the 
pleasures of sin for a season ; esteeming the re-
proach of Christ greater riches than " the approving 
smiles of those who love not his appearing. Can 
an evil tree produce such fruit? Let the scorners of 
our faith and hope answer the question. 
Baltimore (Md.), Nov. 29th, 1849. 
DEAR BRO. HIMES :—Once more I sit down to 
write, and date at home. Soon after the date of my 
last, (Norwich, Oct. 15,) Bro. Keeler and myself 
commenced holding a series of meetings in Holmes-
ville, on the Wadilla river. As the people were 
generally ready to hear, and many of them seemed 
inclined to receive the word, we continued our 
meetings every evening and on the Sabbath, without 
interruption, for nearly two weeks, during which the 
saints were revived, several backsliders reclaimed, 
and five precious souls were converted to God. All 
of the latter, and most of the others, received the 
doctrine of the Lord's speedy corning in the love of 
it. The converts are all heads of families, and of 
respectable standing in society. At this time, when 
the work was going on gloriously, sinners trembling 
in view of the judgment, and the whole community 
G. still declined taking a part. As we rose from our 
knees, and I had taken my hat to leave, he said, 
" Mr. C., I hope you will pray for me." " No," 
said I, " never shall I attempt to pray for you again, 
till I can be assured that you will pray for yourself." 
As an apology for my course, I barely repeated the 
billowing Scriptures, viz., " Without faith it is im-
possible to please God." " Whatsoever is not of 
faith is sin," &c.—Heb. 11 : 6, and Rom. 14 : 23.—
Mr. G. then leaned upon his bureau, his counte-
nance fell, and he seemed almost in despair. At this 
time lie placed his hand on a small Testament before 
him ; as he opened it, his eye lit upon John 9 : 35 ; 
he read to the 38th verse, when his countenance be-
home lighted up, and he handed the book to me, with 
his finger on the words, and said, " Don't this beat 
all!" and added, " Surely I feel much better than I 
did." As we separated he said, " Mr. C., I will 
now promise you that I will pray to God this day." 
I replied, " Very well, Bro. G., and I will now 
promise to pray for you, because I can do it in faith." 
I called on this friend last Tuesday, as I was about 
to leave the place. He said, (and his countenance 
bore testimony to the fact,) " Mr. Chapman, I feel 
very peaceful." He then took me by the hand, and 
said, " I will strive to meet you in the kingdom of 
God, of which you have so often spoken." I hope, 
and indeed expect, to meet him there very soon. 
I left Bro. Keeler to feed the flock there and in 
Hopeville till I return, then we purpose to meet a 
pressing call from Guilford, where the glad tidings of 
the kingdom at hand has never been proclaimed.—
Pray for us, brethren, and also that the word we 
preach may be blessed of God to the saving of some 
souls. Mrs. Chapman's health is considerably im-
proved ; so that she thinks of entering the field with 
me again before brig. Am glad to forward the 
names of new subscribers for the " Herald," as 
usual. Yours, my dear brother, in the blessed hope. 
Pitcher Springs (N. Y.), Dec. 1st, 1849. 
DEAR BRO. HIMES :—Probably you would be glad 
to know the result of the camp-meeting you held in 
Champlain last June. For your encouragement and 
comfort I would say, that I believe there was never 
anything in this section that had so good an effect on 
the minds of the community as that meeting. The 
mouth of the gainsayers were stopped for a while, 
and our strongest opposers became convinced that we 
were on the right side of the question ; some went 
so far as to say to the Adventists that they were 
right, and would do well to hold on to their belief.—
It seemed for a little while, that the glorious truths 
of the everlasting glad tidings of the kingdom of 
God were destined to triumph in the vicinity of that 
meeting, at least. There were a number of back-
sliders reclaimed, and some professors became fully 
established in the doctrine of the kingdom of God at 
hand, who will probably never be moved from the 
hope of the gospel, and who will eventually share in 
the inheritance of the saints. Four have recently 
followed the Lord in the ordinance of baptism in 
Odeltown. 
After all, the glorious cause has its enemies, and 
its advocates and supporters have got to suffer re-
proach, and have their name cast out as evil, until 
the Ancient of days comes, when the saints will have 
dominion. The devil did not know how to upset the 
work of God, and destroy the good seed sown in the 
hearts of the people, and the good influence they 
were under, otherwise than by prompting some of 
our opponents in Champlain to employ Mr. C—, 
of Boston, to make an effort to accomplish that end. 
Mr. C. preached about the " world burners," and 
made light of our glorious hope. He called a pri-
vate meeting of the members, at which he reflected 
on your personal character. He said that he was 
personally acquainted with a family in Boston that 
once were in affluent circumstances, having property, 
and money to let, so that they lived on the interest of 
their money ; but Himes got at them, and never left 
them until he left them in the poor-house ! This we 
thought was rather too much to bear. We thought, 
that if Bro. Himes was such a man in Boston, he 
was quite different from what he is when he comes 
out here, for we have always considered him one of 
the benevolent sort, who considered it full as blessed 
to give as to receive. We should be glad if you 
could come to Champlain and vindicate God's cause, 
and your own character, not by assailing sonic one 
else's personal character, as our opponents do, but 
by giving to each a portion of meat in due season. 
My soul was comforted and greatly encouraged at 
that meeting. I am still striving to enter into that 
rest that remains for the people of God. 
Yours in the blessed hope. 
Perry's Mills (N. Y.), Oct. 22d, 1849. 
We also have received from another brother an ac-
count of the slanderous statements of Mr. C. They 
will accept our thanks for their communications.—
We might ask the individual alluded to, and all oth-
ers who pursue a similar un-Christianlike course, if 
it is likely that the Advent cuuse will he destroyed by 
such unjustifiable attempts to blacken the characters 
of some of its prominent advocates? We think not. 
If the cause has the misfortune to number among its 
professed advocates any whose characters are ques-
tionable, let them be exposed and set aside. As for 
ourself, we are ready to meet all who bring a " railing 
accusation " against us, " in the gate." We have 
run the gauntlet of such wicked aspersions for the 
last ten years, and have met the hottest fires of the 
enemy in every form, and from all classes, without 
harm. We are, by the grace of GOD, yet alive, and 
about our work. Omit enemies have failed to prove 
convicted of the truth of the doctrine, that the com-
ing of the Lord was even at the doors, an individual, 
professing to be a minister of Christ, manifested great 
hostility to the work, seeming unreconciled to the 
idea of sinners being converted on his circuit without 
his consent, or, at any rate, under the influence of 
" Millerism," as lie was pleased to call it. After 
laboring nearly two hours that evening to show the 
people, that " if a man die, he will live again," (dur- 
ing which nothing was said having a tendency to 
offend any but the scoffers of the last days, or the 
evil servant described by our Lord in Matt. 24th,) he 
arose, considerably excited, and proposed to ask seve-
ral questions ; but it being manifest to all that his 
object was not to obtain information, I declined an-
swering a single question, informing the congrega-
tion that I knew the man, and understood his object, 
having witnessed similar abuse from him on a former 
occasion. Immediately after the benediction was pro-
nounced, he gut up on one of the school Ix nches, and 
said, " It is now my turn to speak ;" but the people 
discovering the spirit he manifested, refused to hear 
him, choosing rather to improve the time in conver-
sation with each other. So he stepped down, and 
said to sonic Methodist friends present, " Keep away 
from these men, withdraw your influence from them, 
or you will get bit," &c. After this unreasonable 
and unprovoked disturbance, we continued our meet-
ings there several evenings, greatly to the edification 
and comfort of those who had embraced the blessed 
hope, but the anxiety of the poor sinner was abated, 
and he ceased to inquire (as he had done), " What 
must 1 do to he saved?" We rejoice, however, to 
know that all the converts, and quite a number of 
the revived saints there, remain steadfast in the faith, 
abounding in the work of the Lord, notwithstanding 
some of them, on that account, are sorely tried and 
persecuted ; but the Lord will, I trust, preserve 
them blameless unto the day of his coming. 
While at Hopeville, we received an invitation to 
visit a Bro. Peabody in Wadilla (Otsego co.), where 
we spent several days, laboring to good advantage. 
Some of the most intelligent individuals in that com-
munity having lost all their prejudice against the 
doctrine we advocate, insisted on our returning as 
soon as possible, and performing more labor in that 
section. 
When we returned to meet our appointment at 
Hopeville, an invitation was presented fig us, with-
out delay, to hold a series of meetings in the Baptist 
society at South New Berlin, a few miles north.—
After a respite of a few days, (spent with dear 
friends in Norwich,) we responded to the call. It 
being exceedingly muddy at the time, it was consid- 
ered advisable by all that we should commence our 
work at the village school-house, a few rods from 
the church. The house was soon filled, and a can- 
did hearing given to the word. On the Sabbath, the 
church was opened to us (a very neat and commo- 
dious house), and nearly every slip filled with atten- 
tive listeners to the truth. The first Sabbath, Elder 
Chamberlin (the minister of the church,) sat in the 
desk with us, and kindly took a part in the services. 
The second Sabbath he preached in the morning, and 
we improved the afternoon and evening. His sermon 
was very appropriate, and to us heart-cheering. His 
entire course from the commencement has been kind 
and brotherly, which seemed greatly to give effi-
ciency to the word. The Lord bless the dear bro-
ther, and make him a blessing to his people, is our 
sincere prayer. As the fruits of this effort, quite a 
number of the members of the church were revived, 
backsliders were reclaimed, and several sinners con-
verted to God. And to speak safely, more than a 
score of intelligent persons have heartily embraced 
the Advent faith, and are happy in the prospect of 
speedy redemption. 
Among the converts was a Mr. G—, a con-
firmed Universalist, who had past the meridian of 
life. At the close of our meeting on Friday even-
ing of last week, he came to us and said, " I wish 
one of you would go home with me and spend the 
night." While 1 was consulting Bro. K. on the 
subject, he remarked, " I know that I am a poor 
sinner, and not worthy that you should go with me." 
I immediately replied, " Bro. G., I am now prepared 
to say I will go with you, though it may be said of 
me as of a better personage on a former occasion, 
he is gone to be guest with a man that is a sinner.'" 
" Don't call me brother," said he. After we arrived at 
his house, he occupied nearly an hour in relating to us 
what had been his peace and safety views, and then 
added, " But you have entirely spoiled my hope." 
It being then about 11 o'clock, it was proposed that 
we all kneel before God in prayer, and then retire to 
bed. All with one accord consented to kneel, and 
several spoke in prayer, among whom was Mrs. G. 
(with a broken heart). Mr. G. was urged to pray, 
but he declined, saying, " I have been so great a sin-
ner, I dare not pray to that holy God." For his en-
couragement, I repeated in his hearing several pas-
sages of Scripture, such as Matt. 9 : 13, Isa. 1 : 18, 
Rom. 10 : 13, &c., but could not prevail on him to 
speak in prayer. He had a restless night ; and al-
though I lodged in a room quite remote from his bed, 
yet I often heard him, in conversation with his wife, 
speak of particular sins of which he was guilty, and 
say, " The Lord cannot forgive me." A little before 
break of day, he said to Mrs. G., " Now, I have 
spoken against these men,—these godly men,—and 
the Lord will never forgive me." He then said, 
" Mr. C., are you asleep ?" and ascertaining that I 
was not, he said, " I confess to you, that I have 
said many things against you and Mr. K., for which 
I am very sorry, and I want you to forgive me." I 
told him that I did with all my heart, and added, 
" Now, Bro. G., confess your many sins to God in 
as few words, with the same penitent heart, and be 
assured he will as readily forgive you all." But the 
night passed away, and he found no relief. In the 
morning we had another season of prayer, but Mr. 
their charges against us when called on so to do ; 
simple justice, we think, would lead right-minded 
men to cease their attacks, if they were not entirely 
convinced of our honesty. If Mr. NATHANIEL 
COLVER, (the individual alluded to in the foregoing 
letter,) who is a Baptist minister in this city, believes 
what he is reported to have said in Champlain, in a 
private church meeting, why does he not expose us 
here? Why does he not take measures to place us 
where such as he represents us should be placed 1—
Our columns are open to him to make the fullest ex-
posure ; if he knows of any of our evil deeds, those 
who are not a little interested in the matter, will then 
be convinced of them, and will promptly act in the 
premises. 
Extracts from Letters. 
From Eildington (Me.), Not. 29th, 1549. 
DEAR BRO.:—Your navigation among the heads 
and horns of Revelation, I do not clearly understand. 
I therefore ask, If the leopard-beast of Rev. 13th he 
a symbol of the Papacy, which corresponds with the 
little horn of Dan. 7th,—which I think is clear,—
and this was created, as all your writings show, by 
the decree of Justinian of Constantinople, how can 
the same Justinian be one of the horns of the lamb-
beast with two horns, to create the image to the beast 
brought to view in the latter part of Rev. 13th? I 
like your expositions generally well, but here is a 
difficulty. Please solve this difficulty, and oblige 
yours, 
T. SMITH. 
REMARKS.—There would be the difficulty you sug-
gest, if we applied the symbols as you specify. We 
made the leopard-beast, not a symbol of the Papacy, 
—a beast being never a symbol of an ecclesiastical 
establishment,—but of the fourth or Roman empire, 
existing under its various forms of civil power. Nor 
did we consider JUSTINIAN as a horn of the beast 
with two horns like a Iamb, but as the head of the 
Eastern empire, which empire we supposed was 
symbolized by this last beast. JUSTINIAN being the 
head of the government at this time, his acts were 
the acts of the beast, not of one of its horns. And 
thus in making the Bishop of Rome Universal Bishop, 
the beast, through him, laid the commencement of 
the image to the first beast.—En. 
Obituary, 
DIED, at New Durham Ridge, Nov. 28th. NANCY 
H. JONES, wife of John L. Jones, aged 29 years nine 
months and sixteen days, of scrofula consumption. 
She was the daughter of John and Abigail Chamber-
lin. Sister J. experienced religion under the labors 
of Elder I. E. Jones, about fourteen years ago, and 
was baptized by him about eleven years since. She 
maintained constantly, from the day of her espousal 
to Christ, an even and devoted life of piety until the 
day of her death. She was a great sufferer for the 
last seven years, but more especially the last four, 
when the disease assumed a more stubborn form. I 
visited and prayed with her a number of times during 
my several visits to the place, and I always found it 
profitable not only to her, but also to myself. She 
was always ready to talk about the sweets of reli-
gion, although it was with the greatest difficulty that 
she could utter an audible word. Whenever the 
" Herald " came, she would inquire if Bro. Jones 
had a letter in it. She often said, that if she could 
only see and converse with him, it would give her 
great satisfaction and comfort. But her work on 
earth is done, and her sufferings are over. Alas ! 
" an enemy hath done this ;" but it is a conquered 
foe : therefore her flesh shall rest in hope. 
" Then sweet be thy rest till he bid thee arise, 
To gaze on thy Saviour descending the skies." 
Sbe has left behind, to mourn her exit, an affection-
ate husband and two little boys. May the grace of 
God be with and sustain them in this deep affliction, 
and prepare them to meet her. I. R. GATES. 
DIED, in North Springfield, Vt., Nov. 29th, JAS. 
B. MILLER, aged 52 years. Also in Cavendish, Vt., 
Nov. 23d, DOLLY V. MILLER, wife of J. B. Miller, 
aged 56 years. Both were residents of Cavendish, 
Vt. Bro. Miller and wife embraced the Advent 
faith in 1842, and have ever since lived in the enjoy-
ment of the blessed hope of speedy redemption, ex-
hibiting the excellency of the Christian character.—
The hope of the gospel was indeed an anchor to 
their souls in the hour of death. I had not the privi-
lege of witnessing Sister Miller's triumphant death, 
but learn by friends that she Is as joyful in hope, 
longed to go, and sweetly fell asleep in Jesus. Bro. 
Miller (who had had two shocks of the numb palsy 
within about a year,) came to this place on Tuesday 
last for medical aid, but medicine could not reach his 
case. When he learned that he must die, that there 
was no help for him, he expressed joy that he had 
got almost through., and shouted, "Glory to God !" 
He breathed his last on Thursday at 8 o'clock P. M., 
without a struggle or a groan, with full confidence of 
soon having a part in the first resurrection. The 
funeral was attended in the Baptist meeting-house on 
Sunday, Dec. 2d, w hen the writer of this delivered 
a discourse founded on Rev. 22:3—" And there shall 
be no more curse." 
L. KIMBALL. 
Goo in his providence has called me to mourn the 
loss of another of my dear children. My daughter 
HARRIET is now no more—she sleeps in Jesus. She 
died in Pittsfield, Washtinaw county, Mich., Oct. 22, 
aged 13 years. Her disease was the dropsy. She 
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suffered very much for three weeks before her death, 
but she manifested patience. In all her sufferings 
she often said, that she was afraid she should com-
plain too much. " But," said she, " I don't mean to 
complain, fur I shall not suffer anything in comparison 
to what my Jesus suffered for me." She believed 
that Christ would soon come, and bring all his saints 
with him. 
HOR AC E W ELLOGG. 
Foreign News. 
The " Liverpool Times," speaking of Canada, re 
marks, that " the growing feeling in this country is, 
that we ought to give the colonists in every part of 
the world free institutions ; to let them have complete 
control over their own expenditure ; the power of ap-
pointing their own governors and magistrates ; and 
make them, in every sense of the word, independent 
and self-supporting states." 
The hanging of the Mannings had caused a strong 
demonstration in London against capital punishment. 
Dickens has written another letter advising private 
executions, with great solemnities, the suspension of 
business, tolling of bells, &c. 
Cliefden-house, near Maidenhead, one of the seats 
of the Duke of Sutherland, a magnificent mansion, 
has been ruined by fire. 
Five persons were killed at Louth by the explosion 
of a new railway signal. 
M. Pauwels, the machine maker, of Brussels, has 
just sent from Antwerp to San Francisco, in Califor-
nia, a complete hotel, consisting of forty rooms, with 
beds, chairs, tables, &c., all in cast iron. 
On Nov. 1st, there were seven hundred and fifty 
persons in the gaols of Ireland, committed as dan-
gerous lunatics. 
The " Newry Telegraph " has an account of the 
eviction of fifteen families in Milltown, in the vicinity 
of Lough Neagh. 
The Limerick " Examiner " says that there is in 
the workhouse there a lady, whose husband was the 
high sheriff of that county but a few years back. 
France.—Paris is tranquil, and improving in pros-
pects ; M. Guizot is to be seen walking on the boule-
vards des Italiens as unmolested as in the days of the 
monarchy. 
M. Pierre Bonaparte, who struck a deputy in the 
Chamber some months ago, and who formerly shot 
an officer who arrested him in the Papal states, has 
been dismissed from his military rank in Algeria, for 
having returned to Paris without leave of his superior 
-commander. He has written a long letter to the 
journals, stating that he had a right to leave his post 
if he chose, that the decrees of the President have 
no force in law, arid that he considers his dismissal 
null and void. 
The " 'remps" journal has been siezed for an 
article on the late trials at Versailles. 
The " Constitutionnel," so long the organ of the 
Thiers party, has deserted it for that of the Elysee, 
and will now devote itself to defending the personal 
policy of Louis Napoledn. 
In consequence of the conviction before the high 
court of Versailles, twenty seats in the legislative 
assembly have become vacant. On the 15th, the 
high court of Versailles pronounced sentence, par 
contumace, of transportation for life on MM. Ledru 
Rollin and the thirty-three other persons implicated 
in the June insurrection. 
A tremendous fall of rain took place in the Mon-
tague Noire, not far from the Cannes. The fields 
and gardens were inundated, and vast damage was 
done. Horses, &c., were carried away in the flood. 
GOOD RESOLUTIONS.—Among the minutes of the 
Illinois Annual Conference, as published in the Reli- 
gious Telescope, we find the following :— 
Resolved, That the nauseous weed tobacco, or the 
use of it, be dispensed with during conference hours 
in the Conference room. 
Also in the minutes of the Muskingum Annual 
Conference the following :— 
Resolved, That the members of this Conference 
use no tobacco in the Conference room. 
These members were of course ministers. It is 
sickening to think that ministers should allow in 
themselves, singly, a habit so disgusting as to be in-
supportable when assembled collectively. They 
should resolve to leave the nasty looking, tasting, and 
smelling weed, to the tobacco-worm. It is said that 
gentlemen never use it. Christians, then, certainly 
should not. A tobacco-smoking or chewing Chris-
tian ! ! What a connection of words ! Our ex-
changes speak of a dog that has been taught to 
chew ; but it must have been a very dirty dog, with 
a very perverted taste. We are glad for the credit 
of the race that only one dog has been found degene-
rate enough to do it. We wish we could say as 
much of men. 
MISSION FUND.—We thank our friends for their 
contributions to this fund. It has been of great ser-
vice to the cause. We have been able to help many 
that we could not otherwise have aided. We have 
new calls every day for assistance, which we either 
have to neglect, or help them from the office, which 
we have done already beyond our real ability. We 
have calls for more than $100 at this moment.—
We now give the receipts and expenditures of this 
Fund :— 
Paid out, $ 561 22 ; received, $ 384 19 ; balance 
due this office, 177 03 :and we have calls for help 
every day. 
TO CORRESPONDENTS.—E. MUGFoRD—The Herald 
being an ADVENT Herald, we cahoot at present de-
vote any room to defend the custom of Christians 
since the resurrection of CHRIST, of assembling on 
the first day of the week in commemoration of that 
event. 
S. D.—The sentiment of your poetry is better 
than its dress, which is faulty in several respects. 
I. H. SHIPMAN—By a mistake of ours Bro. GOVE 
was made to say of Sugar Hill what he did not say 
of it ; but said of another place. The corrrection of 
his letter on p. 157 of, the present Herald, makes all 
right. 
TO THOSE INTERESTED IN THE ADVENT OF CHRIST. 
—Applications have been made by some ministers, 
proclaiming the Advent of our SAVIOUR, to the un-
dersigned, to give them instruction on those branches 
of knowledge connected with their work as useful 
missionaries of the cross and crown. To those per-
sons, and to others interested, we reply, It has ever 
been our desire to be useful, as far as our abilities I 
will allow. During our stay in New England, if we 
can impart any instruction to our brethren in the min-
istry, we are willing to make the effort. All who 
can make arrangements will please meet us at Char-
don-street Chapel Dec. 18th, when all necessary ar-
rangements can be made as to study and frequency of 
maeting,. 
J. P. WEETHEE. 
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SUMMARY. 
At Derby, Ct., the wife of Roswell Bradley was filling a lighted 
lamp with burning fluid, when the fluid ignited, and producing an 
explosion, the fluid was thrown over Mrs. B., her two daughters, 
and an Irish girl, enveloping all in flames. The girl and one of the 
daughters died from the effects of their burns, and the other daugh-
ter is not expected to live. Mrs. B. was severely burned, and so 
was her husband in his efforts to quench the flames upon the 
others. 
An attempt was made on Wednesday evening to throw a train of 
the Fitchburg railroad off the track, by putting a lot of rubbish on 
the rails near the brickyard in Somerville, where the late accident 
occurred, by which four Irishmen were killed. The obstruction 
was seen in season to prevent running upon it.. 
On Monday week, three boys of Mr. Alden French, of Quincy, 
were injured by the accidental discharge of a pound of powder with 
which they were playing. Two of them are in a critical c edition. 
The body of the German pedler, Adler, murdered in Northville, 
N. Y., on the 6th ult., has been found, and two sons of a lamer 
named Bain have been arrested as the murderers. 
John Connelly, an Irishman, died in the watch-house at South 
Boston on Wednesday night. Coroner Andrews held an inquest, 
and the jury returned a verdict, that he came to his death in a fit 
caused by extreme intoxication. 
A lawyer in Marshall, Mich., has been indicted for altering a jus 
ace's docket, for perjury, amid for arson. 
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APPOINTMENTS. 
Bro. E. Crowell will preach at Kenebeckport Wednesday even-
hit, 19th, as Bro. Mitchell inay appoint ; North Yarmouth, Suedity, 
24th, and continue there a week or more, as circumstances may 
seem to require. Bro. York will make such arangements so he 
 
thinks best. Cannot 'tiro. 
Hicks, and others from West Fat- 
ut from
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others
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Bro. L. D. Thompson will preach at Walden, Vt., four corners, 
the first Sabbath in January, and at Piermont, N. 11., the second. 
Bro. Hale may be expected to preach in Clintonville Sunday, the 
mutt ; Ltmenburg, Sunday, 23d ; Fitchburg, Tuesday evening, 2501 ; 
Ashburnham, Friday evening, 28th. 
Bro. F. H. Be-rick will preach in Richmond, Me., Dec. 16th ; Hal-
lowell, 23d. 
Bro. S. W. Bishop will preach at Athol, Mass , Dec. 1.7111 ; New 
Salem, 201h, and stay over Sunday ; Conway, 25th (at the, house of 
Bro. Rice) ; Ashfleld, Pith ; Plainfield, 29th, and remain over Sun-
day ; SaVoy (where B. aleekins may appoint), Jan. 1st ; Cheshire, 
5th, and continue over Sunday. The evening meetings at 6 P M. 
Bro. J. Cummings will preach at Troy, Vi„ Dec. 24th ; Johnson, 
25th ; Morristown, 26th ; Waterbury, 27th ; East Bethel, 213th, each 
is the evening, ; Woodstock, evening of 2901, and Sumba ; Clare-
mont, N. H., January 1st, 2d, and 3d ; North Springfield, Vt., even-
ing of 5th, and Sunday. 
Bro. Jonathan Wilson will preach at North Scituate the third Seib-
bath in December ; Providence the fourth ; Russell Baptist meeting 
house the fifth Hartford, Ct., the first in Jan. Ile will labor in the 
week time as God may direct. 
Bro. N. Billings will preach at Salisbury, Sabbath, Dec. 16th. 
Bro. J. W. Britton will preach in Three Rivers the fourth Sunday 
in Dec. 
MEETINGS. 
-Providence permitting, there will be a conference in Derby Line, 
beginning on Wednesday evening, second week in January, and con-
tinue each day over the Sabbath. 
in January, and coidinue over the Sabbath. Brethren in 0% aterloo 
will do all they can to accommodate friends front a distance, except-
ing the keeping of horses, though this may Inc had at the hotel on 
reasonable teems. The reniainiug meetings of the 'Mission will tee 
announced hereafter. 1 he sustaining of these Illuee.IiilliguSTScvdililifzui.re 
the co-operation of all interested in them. 
Sabbath. 
will have a supply of Harps, Ac. 
 
Centre, Vt., commencing Thursday evening, Jan. 3d, and continue I 
over time Sabbath. rethren anti fi lends are cordially invited Let 
 
us rally to the aid of the cause. liro. D. '1'. Taylor, jr., is expected • 
to attend. 
in the south-west part of ashington, N. coittnn.eLeiocici.n:,FridaY 
evening, Dec. 21st, ion] continue over the Sabbath, iFor the breth- • 
rem.) 
M, to continue over Sunday. 
he brethren may arratigeliccordinglY. 
Brn. IL Plummer and 1. R. Gates will hold conferences a, follows : 
Mission or BRN. E . B u nsnuilit:
Aivareitys.intnuna. I. SHIPMAN TO CANADA. 
Also ime Waterloo, begInnieg on Wednesday evening, third week 
A conference will be held in Bolton, Canada East, December 20, - 
liolderuess, from the WI to the 30th. 
Davis Island, 'rhurselay ening, Dec. 2eth, and continue over the 
Meredith Neck, from the 25th to the 27th. 
Tuttoeborough, Jan. 3d, and contiuue over the Sabbath. 
Providence permitting, a conference win be held in Cambridge 
W ill the brethren, please make arraegemeuts Bro. Plummer 
There will be a series of meetings at the Christian meeting-house 
1 will attend a coidereece in Sutton, N. 11., January 10th, at 10 A 
P M , to continue over 
T. M. TREBLE. 
Bro. Sherwin is expected acne East in February next. 
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There were two duels fought on Thursday, the 
22d ult., growing out of a scene in the French As-
sembly the day previous. 
Switzerland.—The majority of the Radicals over 
the Conservatives at the late Geneva election was 
800. The Catholic party gave its support to the 
Radicals. The entire number of votes given was 
10,500. The President of the Conservative Com-
mittee was only saved from being thrown into the 
Rhine by some gensdarmes. The elections of Fede-
ral Jurats, in the Canton of Lucerne, have termi-
nated in the success of the Radical party. At Ro-
tertburgh the Conservatives were successful. 
Letters from Berne state that a bond, executed and 
signed by Louis XIV., for 180,812 Swiss livres—
cash lent to the French king by the Canton of Fri-
burg—has been lately discovered, and that it is the 
determination of the Swiss confederation to apply for 
the amount to the French government. 
Italy.—Letters from Rome of the 14th November 
state that it was generally believed that Pius IX. 
would make Iris grand triumphal entry into the 
" Eternal City " on the 26th or 28th of the month. 
The general impression in Rome was, that the Pope 
had resolved to return to his capital on the under-
standing that France was to abandon the police and 
the military command of the national troops, and to 
abstain from offering any further check to his sove-
reign authority. Nothing definite was known res-
pecting the ministerial question. Choice of Pius IX. 
was said to be wavering between cardinals Lambrus-
. chini and Della Genga, in the event of M. Antonel-
li's retirement. 
The Spanish troops were being concentrated at 
Porto d'Auzio, twenty'-five miles from Rome, for the 
purpose of being re-embarked for their own country. 
The Chamber of Deputies at Turin has been pro-
rogued; in consequence of ministers being, defeated, 
after a debate of four days, on the question of the 
treaty of peace concluded with Austria. It was 
anticipated that the prorogation was only the prelude 
to an immediate dissolution. 
doing so. Besides the present levy of 15,000 men, 
there will he another of 7000 in the beginning of 
January. On the line of the Tessin frontier numer-
ous troops are posted, whom the Austrian officers 
say are destined for the invasion of Piedmont ; but it 
is more probable they are to be employed to intercept 
the flight of the conscripts. 
By a proclamation of the 13th, the inhabitants of 
Venice are once more warned to give up all their 
arms within forty-eight hours, after which period no 
more clemency will be shown to delinquents. 
Germany.—The Diet of Saxe Meiningen have 
approved of the adhesion, without reserve, of the 
duchy to the alliance of the three kings. 
Turkey and Russia.—The rumors of war between 
Turkey and Russia were fast dying away at Con-
stantinople. The English ships of war were anchored 
within the Dardanelles, and the French fleet was 
near Smyrna. 
THE ADVENT HERALD. 
BOSTON, DECEMBER 15, 1849. 
The large levy of troops going on in Lombardy is 
\ causing great discontent. All who are able to fly are no doubt, be done. Try ! 
WE had an excellent meeting in Abington, Ct., 
last week. Bro. HUNTINGTON is much beloved, and 
is doing well for the cause. Bro. NEEDHAM was with 
us two days, and gave some excellent sermons. 
Next Sunday (to-morrow) we shall preach in 
Newburyport, Mass. 
We shall hold a conference in the meeting-house in 
East Deering, N. H., to commence Jan. 12th, at 10 
o'clock, A. M., and continte over the Sabbath. Brn. 
PREBLE and LOCKE will assist us. 
I will meet the friends in Ware Village, as Bro. 
PREBLE requests, on Friday evening, the 11th. 
J. V. H. 
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Bro. SoUTHARD thus speaks of tine above : " Please 
send another dozen of the Berean's Assistant, part I. 
I have not seen it noticed in the Herald. We are 
much pleased with it here ;—one of our teachers, 
who has scholars eight or nine years old, tried it, and 
said he liked it much. This morning, he says, the 
more he looks at it, the better he likes it." 
LOST TIME. 
I threw a bauble to the sea, 
A billow caught it hastily ; 
Another billow quickly came 
Successfully the prize to claim ; 
From wave to wave, unchecked it passed, 
'fill tossed upon the strand at last, 
Thus glide unto the unknown shore 
Those golden moments we deplore,- 
Those moments which not thrown away, 
Might win for us eternal day. 
" Wealth," said Martin Luther, " is the smallest gift of God.-
What is it to be compared with his word, or corporeal gifts, such as 
beauty, health, and activity ? What is it to the gills of the mind, 
such as intellect, science, and taste 1" 
In Iowa, near Keosauqua, Mr. Swires shot and killed his son, 
whom he mistook ill the woods fora deer. 
It is reported that a cabman belonging to Charlestown found a 
coat in Charles river, near the Cambridge bridge, on Friday after-
noon, very bloody on the inside. A hat was also found floating in 
the same river on Wednesday last. 
W. J. Duval, for many years a lawyer at Fort Smith, was killed 
by a fall from his horse, soon after starting to return to Florida. 
Lieut. Montgomery P. Harrison, grandson of the late President of 
that name, was killed by Indians near the Colorado river, in Texas, 
on the 7th of Oct. last. 
Ii Bloeemville, N. Y., Daniel Frazier, 3.i years old, billed Ills hi-
ther, a respectable citizen, aged 70 years. The trouble was about 
the feeding of a cow. 
Rev. Elisha White was killed by falling front his horse at Charles. 
town, N. Y. 
AUTUMN. 
Autumn leaves are around us lying, 
'Autumn winds are around us sighing-
The dirge of summer mournfully wailing, 
Through woods and fields is fitfully sailing. 
You who rejoice in life's glorious Spring, 
Remember, youth is a precious thing—
Do quickly whatever thou doest here ; 
Summer soon cometh, then Autumn is near. 
You whose life's summer is already bright, 
Whenever thou doeat do with thy might-
Thy dine is short of probation here 
Summer soon passeth, thy Autumn is near. 
Mr. Wm. Clark, of Malone, N. Y., was killed by being thrown 
from a wagon laden with gravestones, which fell upon him and 
crushed him. 
In Chillicothe, 0., Mr. Burbridge, while pursuing a rat in his 
warehouse on Friday evening, fell through a scuttle door, and in- 
jured himself so that he lived but twenty-four hours. 
A cotton factory is being erected at New Orleans by a company 
with a capital of $200,000. 
In Hickman, Ky., C. F. Hanna and nine aids fancily and negroes, 
died within it few days of the milk sickness. 
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