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EARTH AND HEAVEN. 
giRTII is groaning, Earth is groaning, 
For her Lord and King is longing, longing, longing, longing, 
Earth is groaning ; Lord, deliverance bring, 
Remove the curse, in triumph reign. 
How long wilt thou remain away ? 
How long wilt thou remain away ? 
Why (loth thy ling'ring chariot stay ? 
How long wilt thou remain away ? 
Come ! come! 
To Israel bring the promis'd day ! 
JeSIIS is coming! Jesus is corning ! 
Igo ! the day-star bright is rising, rising, rising, rising 
Jesus is coming with the blazing crowns, 
For those who walk with him in white. 
0 ! there is glory, glory now, 
0! there is glory, glory now, 
For lo ! the heavens seem to bow ; 
0 ! there is glory, glory now. 
Lo! lo! 
The shaking heavens begin to bow ! 
0 the glory ! 0 the glory I 
Of the King of armies coming. coming, coming, coming 
0 the glory of the King of kings ! 
In triumph coaling down to reign. 
Seraphic legions marshalled now, 
Seraphic legions marshalled now ; 
Behold ! the shaking heavens bow; 
Seraphic legions marshalled now. 
Lo ! lo ! 
The brilliant glory of his train ! 
Hear the voices! hear the voices ! 
That proclaim the Saviour coming, coining, coming, coming ! 
Hear the voices !—sweet angelic strains ! 
In heaven th' echo loud resounds ; 
Angelic harpings now in heaven, 
Angelic harpings now it heaven, 
In sweeping melody are driven.— 
Angelic harpings now in heaven, 
Sound, sound, 
" Behold ! the King of glory comes !" 
Ileav'n rejoices ! heav'n rejoices! 
For the King of kings is coining, coming, coming, coining 
Ileavin rejoices! for the King of kings 
In radiant glory conies to reign. 
O Earth, he glad, rejoice and sing ! 
O Earth, be glad, rejoice and sing ! 
Ile conies to reign, thy rightful King ! 
O Earth, be glad, rip ice and sing ! 
Shout ! shout ! 
Glad tidings all the angels bring ! 
.111.11MIIMMIMB=1. 
Salvation. 
A Sermon, Preached in the Parish Church of 
Crathie, Balmoral, 
Before ller iliojesty the Queen, Sunday, Sept. 22, 1850. 
BY REY. JOHN CUMMING, D. D. 
'• Look unto me, and he ye saved, all the ends of the earth • for I am 
God, and there is none else."—IsmAit 45.72. 
(Concluded.) 
I now turn your attention to the process.—
" Look unto me, all the ends of the earth."—
Have you ever noticed that almost everything 
that man does is cumbrous; everything that 
God does is simple ? Only recently has science 
in its greatest achievement made an approxima-
tion to something of the simplicity of God.—
The wire that connects two countries together, 
and enables London to converse with Paris, and 
Paris to reply to London, is simple, exquisitely 
simple. It is therefore grand. This is man's 
nearest and closest pursuit of the footsteps of 
his Maker, in thus laying hold of the red light-
nings, and making them to do his errands ; it 
is the noblest feat that man has ever done ; and 
yet it is clot creation, but merely the combina-
tion of God's materials. Everything in God's 
world is simple ; out of a little sap, or water, 
and a few combining elements of oxygen and 
carbon, he forms all fruit, and flower, and leaf, 
and blossom ; by a single power called gravita-
tion he binds worlds together, and makes each 
march in its orbit as if it were evermore listen-
ing and evermore responding to the bidding of 
the great Controller of all. And so, when 
God calls on sinners to be saved, he does not 
bid them do some great thing, but this simple 
thing—" Look, and be saved." Is it not, my 
dear friends, strange, and yet you know it is 
true, that you can easy prevail on man to do 
some great thing in order to be saved, but very, 
very difficult—so difficult that it needs the Spirit 
of God to enable him—to prevail on him to do 
nothing at all. Bid a man do a painful and 
laborious penance, and he will do it. Bid man 
" look, and live," and he will say : " I thought, 
he will surely come out to me, and stand, and 
call on the name of the Lord his God, and strike 
his hand over the place, and recover the leper. 
Are not Abana and Pharpar, rivers of Damas-
cus, better than all the waters of Israel ?" 
But God cleaves to his prescription, which is 
—not do, not suffer—mark the words—but sim- 
ply, " Look, and be saved." Let us analyze 
this word " Look " for one moment. What a 
look is to the outward eye, faith is to the in-
ward man. Hence the Apostle, when he de-
fines faith, says, " Faith is the substance of 
things hoped for, the evidence of things not 
seen." Just as clearly as my outward eye sees 
things that are seen, so clearly my inner eye, 
that is, faith, sees things that are unseen.—
" Look, and he saved," is then just equivalent 
to " Believe, and be saved." " Whom having 
not seen," says the Apostle, that is, with the 
outward eye, "we love, and whom, though now 
we see him not," that is, with the outward eye, 
" yet believing, we rejoice with joy unspeakable 
and full of glory." This emblem, " looking," 
or seeing with the eye, is a most appropriate 
symbol of faith. When I look at the sun, the 
moon, the stars, the beautiful flowers, the green 
earth, the glorious panorama around this sanc-
tuary, or at the human countenance, with all 
its chromatic phases, aspects, and transitions, 
my eye is purely receptive : it does not add one 
atom of beauty to it, it merely receives what is 
presented ; my look adds nothing to the out-
ward object ; the eye is entirely passive, purely 
receptive—it merely takes in whatever is con-
tributed by that object. 
Is not this the true description of faith ?—
Faith is not a contribution to Christ ; it is no 
addition of our righteousness to his ; it is not an 
addition to his sacrifice of something of ours, 
to enable his expiation to be sufficient ; it is 
simply the reception of those bright beams that 
the Sun of Righteousness transmits to me—of 
that perfect righteousness he has brought in for 
me—of the virtue of that expiatory sacrifice he 
has made for me. Faith is no more merit in 
the sight of God than works—a remark that 
reminds me of the duty of explaining a very 
common error. It is frequently supposed that 
salvation by works is now exploded, and that in 
its place is put salvation by faith. My dear 
friends, faith is no more a savior than works. 
There is no more merit in faith than in works. 
Were it otherwise, while the old formula would 
be, " Rightness of life is salvation," the new 
formula would be, " Rightness or orthodoxy of 
creed, is salvation." But we need now for 
heaven a perfect righteousness, just as Adam in 
Eden. In this, however, lies the difference.—
He had to work it out, or retain it—we only to 
receive it. Faith therefore receives a righteous-
ness which was perfect, long before it accepted 
it—a Saviour who is and was complete, before 
it looked at him ; it merely looks, and is saved. 
The eye is a very appropriate symbol of faith, 
from the fact that it brings distant objects near. 
If I had no eye-sight, the only way in which I 
could ascertain the shape, size, and smoothness 
or roughness of an object, would be by touching 
it. Touch would necessarily take the place of 
sight. And I may remark in passing, how 
beautiful a proof it is of the goodness of God. 
that persons who lose their eye-sight generally 
attain an exquisite susceptibility of touch or 
hearing! If I had no eye-sight, my touch alone 
would enable me to ascertain many of the quali-
ties of an object ; but the eye-sight is more per-
fect still ; it enables me to see the roughness, 
smoothness, form, &c., when the object is a 
hundred yards from me, more accurately than 
I could ascertain these qualities by touch if the 
object were within a few inches of my position. 
Thus the eye brings distant things near—so 
does faith ; it brings God near, it brings Christ 
near, it brings his righteousness near ; to use 
the language of the old divines, it appropriates 
Christ and all his righteousness. By faith 
Abraham saw along the vista of a thousand 
years Christ's day, and rejoiced ; by the same 
faith we look along the vista of eighteen hun-
dred years, and are saved. Abraham had the 
same Saviour that we have. His was prospec- 
tive, or a looking forward; ours is retrospective, 
or a looking backward ; but his religion and 
ours were and are one. His and our Saviour 
is equally Christ. The sense of sight is the 
most assuring sense we have ; so much so, that 
the Apostle says, " That which we have seen, 
declare we unto you ;" and so faith, which is 
the inner or true sight, is " the substance of 
things hoped for, and the evidence of things not 
seen." 
True, there are degrees of faith ; but it 
is not true that the weak faith only receives a 
partial salvation, and that the strong faith re-
ceives a great salvation. In the case of the 
poor wounded Israelites in the wilderness look-
ing at the serpent, he whose eye was almost 
closed in death was healed entirely if one ray 
shot in that eye ; and to him who looked with 
his unimpaired sight, there was no greater sal-
vation. God sees weakness in the very strong-
est faith, and strength in the very weakest ; arid 
to the one or the other he is a complete Saviour, 
a perfect righteousness, and a glorious salvation. 
I notice next the catholicity of this invitation. 
" Look unto Christ, all the ends of the earth, 
and be ye saved." Blessed truth ! The gospel 
is not for Jerusalem only, but for every country 
in the four quarters of the globe. This Chris-
tianity is not the monoply of a sect, but the 
privilege and possession of all that believe.—
Whatever be the relative value of ecclesiastical 
differences, ours is not a gospel for the Church-
man, or a gospel for the Dissenter, hut it is for 
all that look ;" whether they look through 
the oriel windows of a cathedral, or the humble 
casement of a chapel, it is still "Look, and be 
ye saved." It is that blessed gospel that dis-
closes to every one a cross without a screen ; 
that gives a Bible without a clasp ; that offers 
salvation without price, and assigns the limits of 
the globe as the circumference of its free and its 
joyous action. That Saviour still speaks from 
the throne, and says : " Look unto me, all the 
ends of the earth—dwellers on the Missouri and 
the Mississippi, in the prairies and back-woods 
of America ; upon the Andes and in the isles 
of the Pacific ; from the mountains of Thibet, 
and the plains of China ; from every jungle in 
India, from every pagoda in Hindostan ; from 
the snows of Lapland ; Arab, in thy tent, and 
Cossack, on thy steppes ; ye ancient Druse from 
Mount Lebanon ; weary-footed wanderer of 
Salem, speaking all tongues, drinking of all 
streams—civilized and savage ;—all the ends of 
the earth, look unto me, and be saved." In all 
the phases of human sorrow and joy, toil and 
travail, " look." In the wildest beating of the 
despairing heart; in the hour of sorrow—that 
sorrow that is too great for tears ; in the tidal 
sweep of ages ; in the surges of a nation's suffer-
ing, and in the ripples of individual grief—to 
quote from a grand litany, "in all time of our 
tribulation, in all time of our wealth, in the hour 
of death, and in the day of judgment,"—" look 
unto me, and be ye saved." 
But let us not misapprehend. We are to 
look, not to a doctrine, but to a person. "Look 
unto me, and be ye saved." Here is the dis-
tinctive feature of Christianity; it is not the 
acceptance of a dogma, however precious, but 
it is the acceptance of a living Saviour ; and in 
this it is worth remarking, this Gospel is dis-
tinguished from everything else. To he a fol-
lower of Socrates was to accept his tenets; to 
be a follower of Plato was to accept his, if there 
was a difference ; to be a follower of Zeno was 
to accept his ; but to be a Christian, is not to 
believe justification by faith, most precious as 
that is, but to believe in the Lord Jesus.—
Therefore, my dear friends, you must look, not 
at the testimony, but at the Testifier ; you are 
to look, not at Christianity, but at Christ.—
" Look unto me, all the ends of the earth, and 
be saved." Look unto him in the manger, 
reading, as you look, " Though rich, for our 
sakes he became poor." Look unto him in 
Gethsemane, and read, as you look, " On Him 
were laid the iniquities of us all." Look unto 
him upon the Cross, and read, as you look, 
God hath made Him, who knew no sin, to be 
sin for me, that I might be made the righteous-
ness of God in him." Look unto Him laid in 
the grave, and read—nay, not read, but sing 
and shout, as you look—" Oh death ! where is 
thy sting ? Oh grave ! where is thy victory ? 
Thanks be to God, who gave us the victory 
through Jesus Christ our Lord." Look then, 
my dear friends, now ; there is lio moment too 
late, if it be now. Look unto Christ, and be 
saved. 
We learn in this provision of the mercy of 
God, the vast value of the soul. It was surely 
for the recovery of no ordinary thing, that the 
Son of God stooped so low and suffered so much. 
The soul is, in truth, the man, and only realizes 
its freedom when it emerges from the outer 
temple in which it has ministered on earth.—
From all considerations of its nature and its 
acts, we gather a conception of its greatness.—
Multiply ages into ages—carry century to cen-
tury, to their highest cube, and all is but an 
infinitesimal preface to its inexhaustible being. 
The Pyramids of Egypt, just opening their 
stony lips to speak for God's word; the thea-
tres of Ionia ; the colossal remains of Nineveh, 
experiencing a resurrection from the grave in 
which God buried-it ; the iron rail, that strings 
the bright villages like pearls on its black 
thread ; the paddle-wheel, that disturbs the still-
ness of the remotest seas ; the electric telegraph, 
that unites minds a thousand miles apart ; the 
tubular bridge, that spans broad firths and great 
chasms,—are all witnesses to the grandeur and 
powers of the soul of man. Its capacity of woe 
and joy is great as its endurance, or its ability 
to do. Its descent in ruin was so deep, and its 
strength to resist its own recovery so great, 
that it required nothing less than Omnipotence 
to interpose in order to recover it. Its price is 
the blood of the Incarnate One,—its value must 
be corresponding. 
Tell rne, lost spirit, writhing in thy bitter 
agony; tell me, glorified soul, ever happy—ever 
praising ; tell me, angels ; but tell me, thou 
who only art able,—thou bleeding Lamb, "What 
shall it profit a man if he gain the whole world, 
and lose his own soul ?" 
Calvary is the stand-point from which I see 
the value of the soul. It is by looking to Jesus 
that 1 learn its worth. 
What gratitude should we feel, who were as 
others, children of wrath, but are now the chil-
dren of God ! Why did Jesus pass by the an-
gels that fell, and suffer so for us ? Why do 
we hear these glad tidings, while other lands 
lie still in darkness and in the shadow of death ? 
There was no previous excellency, or beauty, 
or merit in us. It is not we that have made 
the gospel so precious ; it was the gospel that 
has made us and our land so great. From the 
very depths of our country's heart, from every 
section of the Church universal, nestling near 
that heart, should this song rise till it reach the 
high heaven : " Bless the Lord, 0 our soul, and 
all that is within us bless his holy name !"—
" Thanks be to God for his unspeakable gifts " 
An under-tone of praise should run through all 
our prayers. There is not a babe in its mother's 
bosom that is not better because Jesus died.—
There is not a home that is not happier, because 
a ray of his love lights on it. May we be 
thankful!! 
How responsible, how solemn is the office of 
a minister of the gospel. If he magnify him- 
self instead of Christ—if he preach a party, not 
the gospel—if he dwell on endless genealogies, 
instead of Christ and him crucified, he inflicts 
eternal evil, and incurs awful guilt. A bad 
sculptor merely spoils a block of marble, a blun-
dering physician only injures health, or destroys 
the life that now is; but an unfaithful preacher, 
who bids the hearer look to Man, or to the Priest, 
or to the Church, and not to Christ alone, des-
troys souls. 
If his gospel be precious to us, and in our ex-
perience, we are all of us under the strongest 
obligation to spread it. God has made us Chris- 
tians, that, as instruments in his hand, we may 
make others see and receive the truth-. We 
are made saints, in order to become servants.—
We have freely received, that we may freely 
give ; one is richer or greater than another, not 
that he may exact more, but do and give more. 
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THE ADVENT HERALD. 
manifest it in a way which it had not entered Then the recording angel openeth the book not have all these words uttered in prayer.— 
into the heart of the sorrowing sisters to con- of God's remembrance, and inquisition proceed- That would be a babbling, a mere empty effu-
ceive. If he had hastened back to Bethany, eth apace. Anon they move quicker than the sion, read out of the book or letter, like the ro-
and healed Lazarus, or if he had come only a movement of thought to the right and left, two sary of the common people, or the prayers of 
day after his death, and raised him, the unbe- most innumerous companies. From his awful priests and monks ; but 1 would have the heart 
believingJews might have plausibly maintained, seat, his countenance clothed with the smile hereby quickened and instructed, as to what 
that it was no miracle, but only a case of sus- which makes all heaven gay, the Judge pro- thoughts are comprehended in the Lord's prayer. 
pended animation ; and the faith of those whom nounceth blessing forever and ever upon the If I adhere as closely as I can to the very words, 
he loved, in his divine power and symyathies, heads of his disciples, and dispenseth to them a or sense, it will sometimes happen, that in a 
would not have been half so strong, had he kingdom prepared by God from the first of time. single clause or petition, I begin to expatiate 
merely come and healed the disease, as it was To their minds, seized with the tidings of unex- among such rich thoughts, that I leave the other 
when they saw him weeping at the grave, and pected deliverance, it seerneth as a dream, and six petitions entirely. And when such good 
beheld the astonishing miracle of the resurrec- they wonder with ecstasy at the unbounded love rich thoughts come in, we may let the other 
tion, so long after the interment. Some of the of their Redeemer. They wonder, and they prayers go, and give place to these, and listen 
Jews who were there, probably, " beheld, and speak their unworthiness, but they are reassured with stillness, offering no hinderance ; for then 
wondered, and perished ;" but Jesus " was by the voice of him that changeth not. Then the Holy Ghost himself is preaching. And one 
manifested to be the Son of God with power," joy seizeth their whole soul, and assurance of word of his preaching is far better than a thou- 
and " many believed on him." 
immortal bliss. Their trials are ended, their sand of our prayers. So that 1 have often 
Need I say that this narrative is full of in- course is finished, the prize is won, and the learned more in a prayer, than I could have at-
struction and encouragement. Disciples whom crown of eternal life is laid up for them in store ; tained by much reading and study." 
Jesus loves, are sometimes tempted to distrust and they hasten to inherit the fullness of joy The plague of wandering thoughts is repre- 
his promises and almost to murmur, because he and pleasures for evermore, which are at the sented in an amusing way : " What is it but 
does not at once answer their prayers and come right hand of God. Again, the Judge lifted up tempting God when the tongue babbles while 
to their relief. But what are his promises ?— his voice, his countenance clothed in that frown the heart is wandering elsewhere ? Like the 
When he says : " Ask and ye shall receive, seek which kindled hell, and he pronounced eternal priest who prayed in this wise ;—Deus in audi-
and ye shall find, knock and it shall be opened," perdition with the devil and his angels, upon toriummeumintende—' Boy, bast thou unyoked ?' 
does he leave himself no room for delay, if in the wretched people who despised and rejected Domine ad adjuvandum festina—' Lass, go milk 
his infinite wisdom and love he sees best ?— him on earth. They remonstrate, but remon- the cows.' Gloria Patri—‘ Run my lad,' &c. 
When we beseech him to come and " make no strance is vain. It is finished with hope, it is Of which sort of prayers I have heard many in 
tarrying," is his seeming to linger, as it were finished with grace, it is finished with mercy; my popish days, for almost all of their prayers 
two days, or longer, any more proof that he is justice bath begun her terrible reign, to endure are of this kind. Just as a good skilful barber 
"slack concerning his promises," than his delay forever. Then arise from myriads of myriads must fix his eyes on the razor and the beard, 
in the remarkable case before us was, that he the groans and shrieks and throes of despair ; and mind what he clips and trims ; for if he 
did not love his friends at Bethany, and sympa- they invoke every mother element of nature to prates too much, or stares about, he may shear 
thize with them in their afflictions ? Did he consume their being hack to her dark womb ; off mouth or nose, or even cut the throat. So 
not once speak a parable to this intent, " that they call upon the rocks to crush them, and the whatever is well done must command the whole 
men ought always to pray and not to faint," hills to cover them from the terrible presence of man, with all his thoughts and intentions, as 
and give the strongest possible illustration of the the Lord and from his consuming wrath. Such the saying is, Pluribus intentus, minor est ad 
efficacy of persevering prayer, in the case of the episodes of melting tenderness there will be at singula sensus ; he who. thinks of too much, 
unjust judge, as recorded in the 18th of Luke ? this final parting of men ! such eternal fare- thinks of nothing, and does nothing well ; still 
He is not only able "to do exceeding abundant- wells! but, ah ! the word farewell bath forgot- more must prayer have a united, whole, and 
ly " above all that his disciples can ask or think, ten its meaning, and wishes of welfare now are single heart, or be no prayer at all." 
but he often much more than answers their in vain. A new order of things bath com- " This is briefly what I have to say of the 
petitions, in ways which they had not thought menced ; the age of necessity bath begun his Lord's prayer, and thus I are wont to pray my- 
of, and after their faith had been severely tried. reign ; all change is forever sealed. 
self. For to this very day, I suck at the Pater 
Who that can look back upon many years of This mighty crisis in the history of the hu- noster like a babe, and eat and drink of it, like 
discipleship, cannot recollect instances, in their man race, this catastrophe of evil and consum- an old man, and am never sated, thinking it 
own experience, in which it has seemed as if mation of good, fortunately it is not our province even above the psalter, (which I yet dearly 
their prayers were not heard, and when their to clothe with living imagery, else our faculties love ;) the best of all prayers. Of a truth, the 
faith was wavering, the answer has come, not would misgive and fail. 
right Master has set it and taught it, and it is 
perhaps in the precise thing prayed for, but in 
sorrow upon sorrow; that such a prayer of such 
something better. 
New York Evangelist. 
First Lessons in Prayer. a Master should thus be babbled and gabbled 
over (zuplappert zuklappert) in all the woi ld.— 
BY MARTIN LUTHER. 
There are many who pray, it may be, a thou- 
Scenes of the Last Judgment. There is a freshness in Martin Luther which sand pater nosters in a year, and yet if they 
BY REV. EDWARD IRVING. 
does not grow old with the lapse of years.— were to pray these a thousand years, they would 
We have now before us a subject which, for Some of his lesser tracts and manuscripts might not have tasted of it one lot or tittle. In fine, 
the magnificence of the scene, the magnitude be re-published now with advantage. One of the pater noster (like the name and Word of 
of the transaction, and the durable effects which his little publications is entitled, How TO PRAY. God) is the greatest martyr on earth ; for every 
it draweth on, stands unrivaled in the annals of It is rough and unvarnished, but full of marrow. man vexes and abuses it." 
human knowledge;—and with which the powers It was addressed to Master Peter Barbierer. Next he goes over the creed and decalogue, 
of conception cannot be brought to contend.— " First of all," says he, " when I feel that bee showing by example how they may be made to 
Imagination cowers her wing, unable to fetch reason of foreign work or thought, I am become suggest the matter of our prayers, " But, as I 
the compass of the ideal scene. The great cold and listless about prayer, I take my little have said, binding no man to these words or 
white throne descending out of heaven, guarded Psalter, and run to my chamber, or, if the time thoughts of mine, but giving a specimen, which 
and begirt with the principalities and powers suits, into the Church, and begin to say over the whoso will may follow, or improve, if he can ; 
thereof—the awful presence at whose sight the ten commandments, the creed, and if I have taking all the commandments at once, or as 
heavens arid the earth flee away, and no place time, some sayings of Christ, or Paul, or of the many as he lists. For the soul, when it is bent 
for them is found—the shaking of the mother Psalms; just as the children do. It is a good on anything, and in right earnest, can think 
elements of nature, and the commotion of the thing to make prayer the first thing in the more thoughts in a moment, than the tongue 
hoary deep, to render up their long dissolved morning, and the last in the evening, and to could utter in ten hours, or the pen write in ten 
dead—the rushing together of quickened men beware of that false, treacherous notion—' Wait days.. So active, subtle, and mighty a thing is 
upon all the winds of heaven down to the center, a little ; I will pray after an hour.' 
the soul or mind! Here, then, thou hast much 
where the Judge sitteth on his blazing throne " When the heart has been warmed by such to meditate about, of all that the Holy Spirit 
—to give form and figure and utterance to the use of the lips, and is come to itself, kneel daily makes use of in the Church. Think, there-
mere circumstantial pomp of such a sconce, no down, or stand with folded hands, and eyes up- fore, how thou art admitted and called into this 
imagination availeth. Nor doth the under- lifted to heaven, and say, or think thus, as very Church. Confess and bewail thy unbelief 
standing labor less. The archangel, with the briefly as thou canst 0 Heavenly Father ! and unthankfulness, that thou bast so little re- 
trump of God, riding sublime in the midst of Blessed God ! I am a poor, unworthy sinner, garded all this, and pray for a true and stead-
heaven, and sending through the wildest do- unworthy to raise my hands and eyes to thee fast faith, to struggle and persevere, till thou 
minion of death and the grave that sharp sum- in prayer. But since thou hast commanded us corniest where all shall be eternally steadfast, to 
mons which divideth the solid earth, and rings all to pray, and hast promised to hear, and hast wit, after the resurrection of the dead, in eter- 
through the caverns of the hollow deep, piercing taught us both words and manner by thy dear nal life. Amen." 
Presbyterian. 
the dull cold ear of death and the grave with the Son our Lord Jesus Christ. I here come in obe-
knell of their departed reign ; the death of dience to thy command, and cast myself upon 
death, the sprouting of the grave with vitality, thy gracious promises, and in the name of my 
the reign of life, the second birth of living things, Lord Jesus Christ, I join all thy holy Christians BY PROF. o. M. MITCHELL, OF CINCINNATI. 
the re-union of the body and soul—the one from on earth, as he hath taught—' Our Father which The following is the substance of a lecture 
unconscious sleep, the other from apprehensive art in heaven,' &c., (saying this word for word)." on Astronomy, delivered in New York a week 
and unquiet abode—the congregation of all gen- He next advises to go over the several peti- 
erations over whom the stream of time bath tions, enlarging upon them ; of which he gives or two since. 
swept—this outstretches my understanding no striking and edifying examples, which it is not 
less than the material imagery confuses my necessary to repeat. But it ought to be ob-
imagination. Arid when I bring the picture to served, that the people for whom Luther wrote, 
my heart, its feelings are overwhelmed; when being newly come out of Popery, were accus-
I fancy this quick and conscious frame one in- tomed to the bare repetition of these forms ; 
stant re-awakened, the next re-invested, the which was his reason for beginning with these 
next summoned before the face of the Almighty as familiar and comprehensive. What he says 
Judge—now re-begotten, now sifted through concerning the word Amen is worthy of note. 
every secret corner—my poor soul, possessed " Finally, mark, that thou must by all means 
with the memory of its misdeeds, submitted to make the Amen' strong, not doubting that. 
the scorching eye of my Maker—my fate de- God hears thee, assuredly, and with all grace. 
pending upon his lips, my everlasting, changeless And say yea' to thy prayer, and think truly 
fate—I shriek and shiver with mortal apprehen- that not thou alone kneelest or standest in 
sion. And when I fancy the myriads of men prayer, but all Christendom, or all true Chris-
all standing thus explored and known, I seem tians, with thee ; thou art in the midst of them, 
to hear their shiverings like the aspen leaves in in simple, united prayer, which God cannot 
the still evening of autumn. Pale fear possess- despise. And go not from praying, till thou 
eth every countenance, and blank conviction hast said or thought thus : Well, this prayer is 
every quaking heart. They stand like men heard of God ; that I know full surely ; in 
upon the perilous edge of battle, withholden other words, AMEN." 
from speech and pinched for breath through ex- How little he was disposed to bind the wor- 
cess of struggling emotions—shame, remorse, shipper to forms, is evident from what follows : 
mortal apprehension, and trembling hope. " Thou shouldst likewise know, that I would 
The Missionary Societies of our country are 
notits least illustrious ornaments. 
Many, too, and ever multiplying, are our en-
couragements. The gospel grows in influence 
every day. Nothing successfully arrests it.—
Mankind approach Christianity—they do not 
recede from it. The last days of Christianity 
are proving its brighest. Genius has made so 
many, and so great discoveries, that the earth 
has been converted into a higher orb. But 
much as men have improved themselves and 
their world, they have not gone above or beyond 
the gospel. Far as we have travelled, we are 
not yet far from the cradle of Bethlehem, and 
the cross of Calvary. We have distanced Jeru-
salem—not Jesus. We approach him as to a 
distant star, that grows more beautiful and 
lustrous as we near it. Ethiopia, America, and 
England, the choicest intellects, the greatest 
scholars, the noblest hearts, still stretch out 
their hands to the Son of Man ; more and more 
clearly the wisest see how perishable is all that 
man thinks great—how lasting is the least that 
God pronounces true. 
Death and Resurrection of Lazarus. 
BY REV. DR. HUMPHREY. 
Who has not wept with Jesus at the grave 
of Lazarus ? Lazarus, and his sisters Martha 
and Mary—what an affectionate and blessed 
family ? But no human dwelling is secure from 
the inroads of sickness and death. The bro-
ther is taken dangerously ill. The sisters, 
greatly distressed and alarmed, dispatch a mes-
senger with all possible haste to inform Jesus, 
who had just gone away " beyond Jordan," of 
the critical condition of his friend. How touch-
ingly confiding and simple the message, " Lord, 
behold he whom thou lovest is sick !" They 
do not ask him to hasten to their brother's re-
lief. They take it for granted that he will 
come, as soon and fast as he can. And why 
should they not ?—for " Jesus loved Martha, 
and her sister, and Lazarus." But what does 
he do ? " When he had heard, therefore, that 
he was sick, he abode two days still in the same 
place where he was." What a delay—what 
an afflictive disappointment ! How contrary to 
the whole life of the Great Physician ! 
Who ever, till now, heard of his failing im-
mediately to heal any who applied to him, even 
though he might he a stranger ? But here is 
one of the dearest friends he has in the world, 
at the point of death ; and instead of hastening 
to his bedside, he " remains two days in the 
same place where he was," and so far as appears 
without returning any answer by the messen-
ger who brought him the tidings. He might 
have set out for Bethany that very hour, if he 
pleased ; or he could have healed his friend in 
a moment, without visiting him at all, as he did 
the son of the nobleman at Capernaum ; but he 
waits till Lazarus is dead and buried. He 
knows perfectly well how inconsolable is the 
grief of the bereaved sisters, and how sorely 
their confidence in his love for them and their 
brother must be tried, by this seeming disregard 
of their message. 
It was not till two whole days had elapsed, 
that he gave any intimation to his disciples of 
his purpose to return into Judea ; and when he 
did, they remonstrated, knowing that the Jews 
sought his life. Having answered them briefly 
on that head, he tells them what is the occa-
sion of his immediate return. " Our friend 
Lazarus sleepeth, and I go that I may awake 
him." As they did not understand his mean- 
ing, he told them plainly, " Lazarus is dead, 
an I am glad for your sakes I was not there, 
to the intent ye may believe ; nevertheless, let 
us go to him." " What use in going now ?" 
they might have answered, " if he is dead—it 
is too late." 
As they travelled on foot, the journey neces-
sarily took up some considerable time, so that 
when Jesus arrived at Bethany, he found that 
Lazarus had ben buried " four days." Hearing 
that he was coming, Martha, in all the fresh-
ness of her grief, hastened out to meet him.—
" Lord, if thou hadst been here, my brother had 
not died." As much as to say, Lord, why didst 
thou not come at once when we sent for thee, 
and save him ? His condescending answer re-
assured her, and almost persuaded her that even 
now her brother might be restored to them. So 
inconsolable was Mary, when she met him, 
with the same tender expostulation, " Lord, if 
thou hadst been here, my brother had not died," 
and when he saw the Jews weeping with her, 
that " he groaned in spirit and was troubled," 
insomuch, that when he came and stood by the 
tomb, he wept himself. " Behold," said they, 
" how he loved him." But they had no idea 
of what was to follow. And how were they 
amazed when, at his bidding, Lazarus " came 
forth in his grave-clothes," and as soon as " he 
was loosed," stood among them a living man, 
after he had lain there four days ! 
Now we see clearly, why it was that Jesus 
did not come at once and heal his friend, when 
he-was so hastily arid urgently sent for. It was 
from no want of love and sympathy, but to 
He held in his hand a book, the most won-
derful ever produced in this world—a book of 
the greatest pretensions and the most extraordi-
nary character. This book, itself, teaches us 
that the God who built the universe and figured 
the Earth was its author ; that He dictated it 
to his servants and that by many hands, during 
a period of a thousand of years, his thoughts 
and communications were written. This book 
professes to give an account of the origin of our 
Earth and the order of its creation, and though 
the imparting information on the subject of nat-
ural science is not its main object, it is an inci-
dental one. The writers who penned this vol-
ume, wrote three thousand years ago, before 
the light of science had dawned upon the 
world. They did not refuse to draw their il-
lustrations from objects about them, with which 
they and their first readers were familiar.—
Have they refrained from giving their own no-
tions instead of the revelations of the Divine 
mind ? Let us, said the speaker, approach the 
subject with all due reverence. There is one 
Science and Revelation. 
THE ADVENT HERALD. 
chapter, said he, which is filled with the most 
astonishing inquiries put by the Lord himself 
from the whirlwind to Job, to show his inability 
to comprehend the Divine power and wisdom. 
The Professor then read the thirty-eighth chap-
ter of Job, and remarked that it was important 
to bear in mind in considering it that it was 
written three thousand years ago, when the mind 
of man was dark on ad the subjects which sci-
ence, then unborn, has since enlightened. It 
was also important to remember, that it was an 
extremely difficult matter to ask abstruse ques-
tions upon any subject with which the questioner 
himself was unacquainted ; if any one, ignorant 
of mathematics, mechanics, or astronomy, should 
attempt to ask a difficult question of an expert 
in either of those sciences, he would be quite 
as likely to put a perfectly simple or easy in-
quiry, all questions being alike difficult to him. 
Now if these interrogatories are found to be of 
the most profound nature, those which the mind 
of man has never been able to reply to, and all 
of them grouped together, the fact is a most ex-
traordinary fact, and one which would indicate 
an intelligence in the author far above that of 
any human being. The first inquiry respects 
the construction of the earth. " Where was 
thou when I laid the foundation of the earth ? 
declare if thou halt understanding. Who bath 
laid the measures thereof, if thou knowest ? or 
who hath stretched the line upon it ? Where-
upon are the foundations thereof fastened? or 
who laid the corner stone thereof?" Has any 
man been able to answer these queries ? What 
retains the earth in her position ? The limit 
to which we have arrived toward the explana-
tion is the discovery of a certain law called 
gravitation. And what is gravitation ? We 
can only define it as the continued and uniform 
exercise of the Divine will. The second inter-
rogatory is respecting the limits of the sea and 
the operations of the clouds. The power of the 
sea has been witnessed by those who have rode 
its waves in storms, or seen the lashings of 
tempests upon the rocky coasts. We see it 
heaved to and fro in tides, but feel secure that 
its operations are confined within certain limits. 
What is it that holds it there ? Were its spe-
cific gravity changed it might sweep over the 
highest mountain tops. If the Atlantic could 
be transferred to Saturn, it would not occupy 
the same relation to that planet it does to ours ; 
its comparative weight would be changed, and 
its operation of a totally different character.—
What is the nature of this fundamental princi-
ple which thus keeps the sea within its bounds ? 
" Hast thou. commanded the morning since thy 
days, and caused the day-spring to know his 
place ?" In this third question, the Almighty 
asks Job to explain the reason of the earth's 
stable, uniform, and most unaccountable rotation. 
This for two thousand years has not varied the 
one-hundredth part of a second, as is proved by 
the revolutions of the moon, which are measured 
by the earth's rotation as a unit. The Lecturer 
here briefly alluded to the results which would 
follow from any disturbance of this uniform mo-
tion. But this stability is promised to be per-
petual, and is the stated recurrence of day and 
night, is even made the symbol of stability.—
The passage, " It is turned as clay to the seal ; 
and they stand as a garment," Professor M. ex-
plained as referring to the atmosphere, which 
by absorbing and refracting the light, produced 
the twilight. " Where is the way where the 
light dwelleth ? and as for the darkness, where 
is the place thereof that thou shouldst take it 
to the bound thereof, and that thou shouldst 
know the paths to the house thereof? Knowest 
thou it because thou was there born ? or because 
the number of thy days is great?" The nature 
or the source of Light is as inexplicable now as 
at the period of these interrogatories. If we 
adopt the naturalist theory, we are at once sur-
rounded by difficulties. 'What is the material 
which in such infinite profusion, and with such 
almost infinite speed, is darted through space ? 
And what is the power by which it is propelled 
with such enormous rapidity through vast dis-
tances, without inflicting pain upon the eye by 
its contact ? If we adopt the undulatory theory, 
the subject is equally incomprehensible. What 
is the fluid which must pervade all space, and 
in what manner are its undulations transmitted 
almost instantaneously and in right lines? Why 
does not this fluid obstruct the motions of the 
heavenly bodies? But if the nature of Light 
is undetermined, its sources are no less so.—
Let us take one of the rays which strike our 
eye softly and faintly as we gaze upon the 
milky way, and trace it to its home. We pass 
the limits of the earth's orbit, we go on among 
and beyond our own solar system, till it is lost in 
the distance behind us, and at the end of ten 
years' travel we stop and look around us. We 
have passed through space at the rate of 12,000,-
000 of miles a minute, the speed of light itself. 
Have we arrived at our destination ? We have 
not reached even those stars which seemed 
largest to us from the earth. The Pleiades and 
Orion are still beyond us, retarding their origi-
nal forms, and the little ray we are tracing is 
no brighter than at our start. Again we go on, 
and in ten thousand years we stand upon the 
The Old Earth. 
"The earth gives signs of age, disease, and 
fickleness. It yields its increase grudgingly, 
and demands an exhorbitant fee beforehand, in 
toil and sweat from the husbandman. It has 
ill turns, or paroxysms, when it rouses the ocean 
into a tempest, and makes sport of navies, strew-
ing the shore with the wrecks and carcasses of 
men. It rocks a continent, or sinks an island ; 
shaking massive cities into countless fragments, 
and burying its wretched inhabitants in indis-
criminate ruin ; anon it writhes and groans in 
mortal agony, arid finds relief only by disgorg-
ing its fiery bowels, burying cities and villages 
in burning graves. The earth is old and feeble, 
and must needs groan on, until it renews its 
prime."—llliseries and Liabilities of the Present 
Life. 
Old Mother EARTH is wan and pale, 
Her face is wrinkled sore ; 
Her locks are blanched, her heart is cold, 
Her garments stiff with gore ; 
With furrowed brow and dim sad eyes, 
With trembling steps and slow, 
She marks the coerse that first she trod, 
Six thousand years ago ! 
The Earth is old, the Earth is cold, 
She shivers and complains ; 
How many Winters fierce and chill, 
Have racked her limbs with pains ! 
Drear tempests, lightning, flood, and flame 
Have scarred her visage so, 
That scarce we deem she shone so fair, 
Six thousand years ago ! 
Yet comely was the youthful Earth, 
And lightly tripped along 
To music from a starry choir, 
Whose sweet celestial song 
Through Nature's temple echoed wild, 
And soft as streamlets flow, 
While sister spheres replied with her, 
Six thousand years ago ! 
And many happy children there 
Upon her breast reclined, 
The young Earth smiled with aspect fair, 
The heavens were bright and kind ; 
The azure cope above her head 
In love seemed bending low ; 
0 happy was the youthful Earth, 
Six thousand years ago ! 
Alas! those children of the earth 
With hate began to burn, 
And Murder stained her beauteous robe, 
And bade the young Earth mourn. 
And ages, heavy ages, still 
Have bowed with gathering wo 
The form of her whose life was joy, 
Six thousand years ago ! 
Old Earth ! drear Earth! thy tender heart 
Bewails thy chosen ones ; 
Thou look'st upon the myriad graves 
That hide their gathered bones ; 
For them, by day and night, thy tears 
Unceasingly must flow ; 
Death chilled the fountain-head of life 
Six thousand years ago ! 
Old Earth ! old Earth ! above thy head, 
The heavens are dark and chill, 
The sun looks coldly on thee now, 
The stars shine pale and still ; 
No more the heavenly symphonies 
Through listening ether flow, 
Which swelled upon creation's ear, 
Six thousand years ago ! 
Weep not in bitter grief, 0 Earth ! 
Weep not in hopelessness ! 
From out the heavens " a still small voice " 
Whispers returning peace. 
Thy tears are precious in the sight 
Of ONE who marks their flow, 
Who purposes of mercy formed, 
Six thousand years ago ! 
Thy days of grief are numbered all, 
Their sum will soon be told : 
The joy of youth, the smile of God, 
Shall bless thee as of old ; 
Shall shed a purer, holier light 
Upon thy peaceful brow, 
Than beamed upon thy morning hour 
Six thousand years ago ! 
Thy chosen ones shall live again, 
A countless, tearless throng, 
To wake creation's voice anew, 
And swell the choral song. 
Go, Earth ! go wipe thy falling tears, 
Forget thy heavy wo ; 
Hope died not with thy first-born sons, 
Six thousand years ago ! 
Knickerbocker. 
How to Prepare Sermons. 
Dr. Griffin was once at the house of a friend, 
and spent the Sabbath. On Sabbath morning 
he went into the study, and began to read over 
his sermon ; he called for ink and sand. He 
began to strike out and pour on the sand. The 
manuscript was already black with erasures and 
insertions, but the work went on, the paper 
growing darker every moment. One of the lit-
tle children, coming up and looking on the blot-
ted and blurred manuscript, corrected and re-
corrected, said, " How can you read your ser-
mon ? It is all scratched out." He was peculiar 
in covering with ink every word erased, so that 
it could not be read. 
The remark of the child led him to speak of 
his custom, and, said he, "This I regard as one 
chief excellence of my preaching, if I have any." 
He continued, " I have a plain figure which I 
use in the study ; it will not do for the public 
ear; it serves to illustrate my point. If you 
put swingling tow upon a hatchel, you can ride 
to Boston on it ; but if you pull out the tow," 
holding up his fingers to represent the process, 
" and let the points stick up, they will prick." 
" So," said he, " you may cover up the truth 
with ornaments and words, till the conscience 
cannot be reached., You must pull out the tow 
—the points are the truth—pull out the tow, 
and let the points stick up." A better illustra-
tion was never given. If our sermons had less 
" tow," and more naked " points," they would 
do more execution. 
Rev. Dr. Stanford, in one of his lectures ad-
dressed to his students, on the composition of 
sermons, says : I cannot deny myself the plea-
sure of stating, that many years ago I met a 
plain, yet good old minister, who, in conversa-
tion with me on the subject of the composition 
of a sermon, very pleasantly said : I know of 
no better rule than the proportions observable 
in the human body. Let your introduction be 
short, like the head of a man, round, and full of 
expression. Make up the body of your sermon 
of the solids of divine truth ; but be sure that 
Christ be the heart, and the Spirit of God, like 
the lungs, to produce respiration ; the legs to 
run after every class of your hearers ; and a 
pair of arms tenderly to embrace them.' This 
may appear to you a little fanciful, but I must 
confess, however singular the description, yet 
to my mind it seemed worthy of being remem-
bered." 
The Death Scene of a Miser. 
The Cincinnati papers give us some singular 
facts connected with an old beggar woman, 
whose death lately occurred in that city. She 
died in the night, and in the evening, a lighted 
candle was placed upon a stand beside the bed, 
her idiot daughter, a frightful looking hunch-
back, being the only attendant—though for a 
part of the time, the physician was present.—
The old woman opened her eyes, and perceiv-
ing the burning candle, ordered it to be blown 
out, saying that she could not afford to pay for 
it. When first taken sick she ordered the chest, 
which was, after her death, found to contain 
nearly four thousand dollars in gold, to be 
placed beside her bed, and she kept it within 
her reach during the whole of her sickness ;—
and when the death struggle came on, and she 
was told she must die, she flung herself upon 
the chest, and clawed at it in her wild avaricious 
frenzy until she tore the very nails from her 
fingers, and thus embracing the ill-gotten trea-
sure, her spirit took its flight. 
An old stove in the room was found to con-
tain, after her death, a considerable amount of 
silver and copper coin, carefully stowed away. 
The money and effects have been placed in the 
hands of an executor, appointed by the court. In 
1840, when small change was scarce, this wo-
man made a handsome speculation by selling 
five hundred dollars' worth at one time to a 
single individual. The money was accumu-
lated by begging, by herself and idiot daughter 
The latter was generally flogged upon her re-
turn home at night, when she did not make a 
good day's work of it, and was always whipped 
before she was sent out in the morning. The 
cries of the poor creature, while under the lash 
of her avaricious mother, having frequently ex-
cited the indignation of the neighborhood. The 
very confines of the system of stars of which power. There was no reason in attempting to 
our Sun forms one. All the stars, still we see acconnt for such an occurrence by any known 
this light beyond us. If we still pass on twenty laws; if it took place, and that it did we have 
thousand miles twice told, its home is still so the evidence of this Book, it was the work of 
far beyond us that we know nothing of its char- the Almighty, done expressly to display a mira-
acter. Even imagination refuses to assist our cle of power to the hosts of the Israelites and 
investigations. Millions of years would not their enemies, and not incidentally to he noticed 
suffice to reach the limits of telescopic observa- or overlooked, as the attention of man might 
tion. " Can'st thou bind the sweet influences happen to he directed at the time. 
of Pleiades, or loose the bonds of Orion ? Can'st We understood the position of Prof. M. to 
thou bring forth Mazzaroth in his season ? or be, distinctly, that he regarded this phenomenon 
canst thou guide Arcturus with his sins ?"— as a real miracle, a positive suspension of the 
" The sweet influences of Pleiades " were ex- ordinary laws of matter by the special interposi-
plained by a reference to the ancient practice of tion of God. He did not speak doubtfully 
marking the coming of the seasons by the me- on the subject, nor did he press his convictions 
liacal rising of particular stars just in advance upon his hearers as infallible. He had been 
of the Sun. Thus in Egypt, Sirius was the asked to speak upon that particular point, and 
precursor of the overflowing of the Nile. The he gave such views as had been settled in his 
Pleiades marked the vernal equinox, and this mind as the only solution of the question to 
fact also serves to fix the date of these writings. which he had come. The conclusions were 
By calculating the advance of the Equinox, we entirely his own, and to him entirely satisfac-
find that these questions were propounded at tory. He closed his lecture by a single allusion 
least three thousand years since. Orion was a to the going back of the shadow in the dial of 
winter constellation which preceded the Sun Ahaz, which he also regarded as a special work 
while the earth was bound with frost. Mazza- of the Almighty, one not to be accounted for 
roth means Zodiac with all its signs. Arcturus, by the arguments of any amount of speculative 
the speaker supposed to refer to the polar star, science. 
N. Y. Tribune. 
and this verse he considered as applying to the 
third or azial motion of the earth, which pro-
duced the precision of the equinoxes. 
The lecturer read from Jeremiah, in which 
reference is made to the " host of heaven which 
cannot be numbered," and said that the stars 
visible to the naked eye had been numbered—
then, that a few nights sufficed to count them 
all, for no eye could see more than four thou- 
sand. But the milky way gives indications 
that there are more there too small to be dis- 
tinctly visible, and the telescope brings to view 
immense numbers. The speaker had attempted 
to count them through the telescope in a space 
not larger than a thousandth part of the Moon's 
size, and gave it up in despair. There were 
millions in that limit. There was one other 
passage read, in which it is distinctly stated 
that the earth is in empty space—" He hangeth 
the earth upon nothing." This was a contra- 
diction of the received opinions of the day, but 
modern science has demonstrated it. Whence 
did the writers who put on paper such evidence 
of intelligence, far beyond that known upon the 
earth in their time, derive their knowledge, but 
from Divine inspiration ? The Lecturer then 
referred to some of the astronomical miracles of 
the Old Testament, a subject which has stag-
gered many. He was perfectly satisfied in his 
own mind, but might fail to satisfy others. He 
saw everywhere evidence of the grand design 
to teach the human mind the attributes of God, 
and raise him to a height of infinte knowledge. 
A far more simple system might have been made, 
but it would have been so easy to comprehend 
as to require almost no effort at all. Suppose 
God had made the planets to revolve in perfectly 
circular orbits; any one could have computed 
their periods with the utmost ease. Go further; 
let the planets attract their satellites, but not 
each other, and the whole motion of systems 
could be comprehended at a glance. But there 
is not a planet which does not move under the 
disturbing influence of some other; nay, every 
particle of matter attracts every other particle. 
In resolving this field, the human mind has 
won its mightiest triumphs. Had the foregoing 
simple plan been taken, no triumph of mind 
would have been possible. But again : Sup-
pose there were no laws, no uniformity ; God 
could sustain a universe without them — but 
where there were no laws to depend upon, there 
would be no means of certainty in investigation, 
no method of stimulating the mind to noble ef-
fort. If God, then, has made this Universe so 
as to educate the mind, we see that this result 
is the grand object of these laws. Have these 
laws ever been broken up ? It is recorded that 
Joshua commanded the Sun and the Moon to 
stand still, and they did so. To accomplish 
this, the earth must have been stopped in its 
axis, and the moon in her orbit. These lumina-
ries were the gods of the people opposed to the 
Israelites, and I see no reason why they might 
not have been stopped in their motions by the 
Almighty with as much ease as he originated 
and set them in motion. Prof. M. illustrated 
this by the power of the maker of a clock to 
keep it moving, or to suspend its action. The 
question is, was there more to be accomplished 
by this miracle than there could have been 
without it? He was fully ready to believe in 
the probability, and he cared not how it was 
done; whether by the sudden presence of an 
attracting body, or only apparently by refrac-
tion of light ; or by actual arrest of the earth in 
its rotation upon its axis ; but either case re-
quires the direct interposition of some power 
above all natural laws. Prof. M. said that the 
motion of the earth on its axis could never have 
been arrested, and the stability of the Universe 
sustained, without a direct interposition of the 
power of the Creator in the suspension of the 
laws of gravitation and attraction. Now, in 
theory, this was simple enough ; he (the lec-
turer) could do the same thing—but in order 
to do it, he must be possessed of Almighty 
THE ADVENT HERALD. 
poor idiot herself was afterwards under an at-
tack of the cholera, and is probably numbered 
with the dead. 
ird)c '.went 
"BEHOLD! THE BRIDEGROOM COMETH!" 
BOSTON, SATURDAY, DECEMBER 14, 1820. 
THE GOSPEL. 
"Fear not : for behold, I bring von good tidings of great joy, 
which shall be to all people-Luke 2:10. 
(Concluded.) 
In the 14th century, MOSHEIM says there remained 
" scarcely any European prince unconverted to Chris-
tianity, if we except JAGELLON, Puke of Lithuania, 
who continued in the darkness of paganism, and wor-
shipped the gods of his idolatrous ancestors, until 
1386, when he embraced the Christian faith." At 
the same time, " in those parts of Asia, which are 
inhabited by the Chinese, Tartars, Moguls, and other 
nations still less known, the Christian religion not 
only lost ground, but seemed tube totally extirpated." 
Vol. 1, pp. 382, 383. It had thus extended over those 
countries. In the sixth century it was taught in 
Bornean and some other of the islands of the Indian 
Archipelago. There is no evidence that it had 
reached New Holland, or the American Continent, 
or had penetrated Africa south of the great deserts, 
except in the neighborhood of the Nile. It had as-
cended the tributaries of that river, and was estab-
lished in Nubia and Abyssinia, the ancient Ethiopia, 
where remains of many ancient churches still exist. 
In the town of Gondar more than forty stone churches 
remain. All along the north of the desert, in Africa, 
he Christian religion prevailed, as well as in Europe. 
Thus extensively had the Gentiles come to the 
Light of Zion, and kings to the brightness of its ris-
ing. Thus was the abundance of the sea,—of the 
countries bordering on the Mediterranean—turned 
towards Christianity, and the forces of the Gentiles 
brought to it. Although corrupt and imperfect, as 
the views of many were ; yet they were about as cor- 
rect as were the views of many of the Jews in pre-
vious ages. So that what had before been confined 
to the limits of a single race, was now so far dif- 
fused abroad, that even Ethiopia had stretched out 
her hands and received the word of Life. 
With the loss of power by the papacy in Europe, 
in the 15th century, the Catholics turned their atten-
tion to foreign missions. Says MOSHEIM : 
" The Spaniards and Portuguese, if we may give 
credit to their historians, exerted themselves, with 
the greatest vigor and success, in the propagation of 
the gospel among the darkened nations; and it must, 
indeed, be allowed, that they communicated some 
notions, such as they were, of the Christian religion 
to the inhabitants of America, to those parts of Africa 
where they carried their arms, arid to the islands arid 
maritime provinces of Asia, which they reduced un-
der their dominion. It is also true, that considerable 
numbers of these savage people who had hitherto 
lived, either under the bondage of the most extrava-
gant superstitions, or in a total ignorance of any ob-
ject of religious worship, embraced, at least in out-
ward appearance, the doctrines of the Gospel. * * 
" When the pontiffs saw their ambition checked 
by tile progress of tile Reformation, which deprived 
them of a great part of their spiritual dominion in 
Europe, they turned their lordly views toward the 
other parts of the globe, and became more solicitous 
than ever about the propagation of the Gospel among 
the nations that were yet involved in the darkness of 
paganism. * * * 
"The many histories and relations which mention 
the labors, perils, arid exploits of that prodigious mul-
titude of Jesuits, who were employed in the conversion 
of the African, American, and Indian infidels, abun-
dantly show, with what fidelity and zeal the members 
of this society executed the orders of the successive 
pontiffs. And their labors would have undoubtedly 
crowned them with immortal glory, had it not ap-
peared evident, from the most authentic records, that 
the greatest part of these new apostles had more in 
view the promotion of the ambitions views of Rome, 
and the advancement of the interests of their own so-
ciety, than the propagation of the Christian religion, 
or the honor of its divine author. * * * 
" Of all the Jesuits who distinguished themselves 
by their zealous and laborious attempts to extend the 
limits of the Church, none acquired a more shining 
reputation than Francis 'Xavier, who is commonly 
called the Apostle of the Indies. * * * In 1522, 
he set sail for the Portuguese settlements in India, 
and, in a short time, spread the knowledge of the 
Christian religion, or, to speak more properly, of the 
Romish system, over a great part of the continent, 
and in several of the islands of that remote region.—
Thence, in 1529, he passed into Japan, and laid 
there, with amazing rapidity, the foundations of the 
famous Church, which flourished during so many 
years in that vast empire. His indefatigable zeal 
prompted him to attempt the conversion of the 
Chinese ; and with this view he embarked for that 
extensive and powerful kingdom, in sight of which 
he ended his days, ill 1552. After his death, other 
members of his insinuating order penetrated into 
China. Of these missionaries the chief was Matthew 
Ricci, an Italian, who, by his skill in the mathe-
matics, became so acceptable to the Chinese nobility, 
and even to their emperor, that he obtained, both for 
himself and his associates, the liberty of explaining 
to the people the doctrines of the Gospel. He may, 
therefore, be considered as the parent and founder of 
the Christian churches, which, though often dis-
persed, and tossed to and fro by the storms of perse-
cution, still subsist in China."—Vol. 2., pp. 45, 46, 
The dawn of the Reformation caused to shine a 
purer Gospel than had extensively prevailed in the 
last few centuries. All the countries in the north 
west and central parts of Europe felt the influence of 
the reformed views ; but a later period was requisite 
to promulgate them extensively in lands which had 
not before been converted to nominal Christianity. 
The settlement of America by the English extended 
Christianity westward, to compensate for the eclipse 
which intercepted its rays in the East, where, like 
the light of the natural sun, it had first dawned. 
In the seventeenth century the Catholic "mission-
aries diffused the fame of the Christian religion 
through a great part of Asia."—Mosheim, Vol. 2., p. 
156. 
" The knowledge of Christianity was first conveyed 
to the kingdoms of Siam, Tongking, or Tonquin, and 
Cochin-China, by a mission of Jesuits, under the di-
rection of Alexander of Rhodes, a native of Avignon, 
whose instructions were received with uncommon do-
cility by a prodigious number of the inhabitants of 
those countries."—R, vol. 2, p. 157. 
In the eighteenth century, says MOSHEIM, 
" The doctrines of Christianity have been propa-
gated in Asia, Africa, and America, with equal zeal, 
both by the Protestant and Popish missionaries. But 
we cannot say the same thing of the true spirit of the 
Gospel, or of the religious discipline and institutions 
which it recommends to the observance of Christians; 
for it is an undeniable fact, that many of those whom 
the Romish missionaries have persuaded to renounce 
their false gods, are Christians only as far as an ex-
ternal profession and certain religious ceremonies go ; 
and that, instead of departing from the superstitions 
of their ancestors, they observe them still, though 
under a different form. * * * 
" The attempts made since the commencement of 
the present century, by the English and Dutch, and 
inure especially by the former, to diffuse the light of 
Christianity through the benighted regions of Asia 
and America, have been carried on with more as-
siduity and zeal than in the preceding age."—lb. p. 
303, 304. 
In the present century a new impetus has been 
given to the cause of missions. Various islands in 
the Pacific, which for ages had been shut out from 
the light of the Gospel, have been shone upon, and a 
wonderful change wrought in the character of the in-
habitants. In the Sandwich Islands, as great a por-
tion of the inhabitants as in New England, are pro-
fessedly Christian. In the Society Islands and New 
Zealand, important progress has been made. Mission 
stations have been planted in Turkey, Persia, India, 
China, at various points in Africa, and among the 
American Indians. When they have gone to the 
East, where the Gospel has once shone in its purity, 
only small results have followed the labors of mission-
aries ; but when they have gone West, as in Green-
land, the Sandwich Islands, and other places which 
were not evangelized in the earlier ages of Christian-
ity, almost miraculous results have f011owed. This 
confirms the view that GOD did not design to evan-
gelize a second time any portion of the earth which 
had once been refreshed with the full blaze of gospel 
light, and had apostatized from its privileges. Tors 
was it to be preached in all nations, and when all should 
have listened to this " witness " from heaven, and 
enjoyed an opportunity to embrace or reject, then 
should the end be—he that believeth being saved, and 
he that believeth not being damned. And when GOD 
shall recognize the extensiveness and thoroughness of 
the presentation of the Gospel, when be shall have 
accomplished the number of his elect, then will he 
bring the net to the shore, place the good in vessels, 
and cast the bad away. 
As an indication of the approach of the end, there 
was however to be seen "another angel flying through 
the midst of heaven, having the everlasting gospel to 
preach unto them that dwell on the earth and to every 
nation, and kindred, and tongue, and people."—Rev. 
14:6. The burden of this angel was to be the same 
gospel, which had before been proclaimed; but con-
nected with it was the additional motive of the prox-
imity of the kingdom—" saying with a loud voice, 
Fear Goo, and give glory to him ; for the hour of 
his judgment is come ; and worship him that made 
heaven and earth, and the sea, and the fountains of 
waters."—v. 7. No mere preaching of the Gospel, 
without announcing its proximity, could fulfil this 
message. Since the dawn of the Reformation this 
nearness of the kingdom has been extensively pre-
sented. 
LUHTER himself affirmed that he thought it could 
not be more than three hundred years removed from 
his day ; and on one occasion he feared that the LORD 
would come before he should have accomplished his 
translation of the Sacred Oracles. Others, from that 
day to this, have been engaged in calling the atten-
tion of " those who dwell on the earth " to the pro- 
phetic announcement, and entreating them to fear 
GOD and give glory to him in view of it: 
MENNO SIMON, in 1523, preached the coming and 
kingdom in Friesland, and JOHN PISCATOR, a Gere 
man divine, who lived near the close of the sixteenth 
century. JOHN HENRY AtSTEAD, Professor in the 
University of Herbonne, and a divine of great erudi-
tion, has recorded that a majority of divines in his 
day, 1627, held that " the last judgment was even at 
the doors." His work was translated into English 
in 1643. The learned JOSEPH MEDE, in 1638, died 
looking for the kingdom. WM. 'Cwisse, D:1),, the 
Moderator of the Westminster Assembly, was one of 
his pupils in the interpretation of prophecy. Thom 
AS GOODWIN, D. D., STEPHEN MARSHALL, JEREMIAH 
BURROUGHS, HERBERT PALMER, JOSEPH CARYILL, 
and PETER STERRY, were all chief divines of the 
Westminster Assembly, and, with many more, were 
express Millenarians. Dr. HomEs was of the same 
faith, and published his Resurrection Revealed in 
1654. TILLINGHAST at the same time taught that 
the " second coming of CHRIST was but a little way 
from the door." JOHN BUNYAN, who died in 1688, 
was one who subscribed the confession of which the 
following is an article, and presented to CHARLES II., 
and which was subscribed by forty-one elders, dea-
cons, and brethren, met in London, in behalf of them-
selves and others, to the amount, it is said, of more 
than twenty thousand : 
" Art. 22.—We believe that the same Lord Jesus 
who showed himself alive after his passion, by many 
infallible proofs, (Acts 1:3,) which was taken up into 
heaven, (Luke 24:51,) shall so come in like manner 
as he was seen to go into heaven, (Acts 1:9-11) :—
And when Christ who is our life shall appear, we 
also shall appear with him in glory.'—Col. 3:4.—
For the kingdom is his, and he is the governor 
among the nations,' (Psa. 22:28,) and ' king over all 
the earth,' (Zech. 14:9,) and we shall reign with 
him on the earth.'—Rev. 5:10. The kingdoms of 
this world (which men so mightly strive after here to 
enjoy) shall become the kingdoms of our Lord and 
his Christ.—Rev. 11:15. For all is yours,' (ye 
that overcome this world,) for ye are Christ's, and 
Christ is God's.-1 Cor. 3:22, 23. " For unto the 
saints shall be given the kingdom, and the greatness 
of the kingdom, under (mark that !) the whole heav-
en.'—Dan. 7:27. Though, alas ! now many men be 
scarce content that the saints should have so much as 
a being among them, but when Christ shall appear, 
then shall be their day, then shall be given unto 
them power over the nations, to rule them with a 
rod of iron.—Rev. 2:26, 27. Then shall they re-
ceive a crown of life, which no man shall take from 
them, nor they by any means turned or overturned 
from ; fiir the oppressor shall be broken in pieces, 
(Psa. 72:4,) and their vain rejoicings be turned into 
mourning and lamentations, as it is written.—Job 20: 
5-7." 
Dr. CRESSENER advocated the same views in 1690. 
THOMAS BURNET, D. D., in 1697, taught that the 
morning would soon dawn. He also showed that 
the last sign which would be seen before the advent 
of the LORD would be all manner of falling stars ; 
even as a fig-tree casts its untimely fruit. Sir ISAAC 
NEWTON, " the greatest of philosophers," who died 
in 1726, was Millenarian in his views. JOHN GILL, 
D. D., one of the chief lights in the Baptist Church, 
was decidedly Millenarian in his views, and died in 
1771. CHARLES DAUiIL'Z, a Frenchman, and scholar 
of the first rank, contended strenuously for the literal 
interpretation of the first resurrection. His com-
mentary was published in 1720. THOMAS NEWTON, 
Bishop of Bristol, also contended for a literal first 
resurrection. JOHN W. FLETCHER and JOHN WES-
LEY were both looking for the advent at about this 
time, as was the learned and pious JAMES ALBERT 
BENGAL. Said Tinos. GOODWIN, in 1673 :— 
" We are to consider that we live now in the ex-
tremity of times, when motions and alterations being 
so near the centre, become quickest and speediest ; 
and we are at the verge, and, as it were, within the 
whirl of that great mystery of Christ's kingdom, 
which will, as a gulf, swallow up all time ; and so, 
the nearer we are unto it, the greater and more sud-
den changes will Christ make, now basting to make 
a full end of all." 
'I' ill within the last fifty years the proclamation to 
fear Goo had been mostly confined to the more en-
lightened nations. During this period an extended 
effort has been made to proclaim the gospel to those 
beyond the limits of civilization—to every nation, and 
kindred, and tongue, and 'people. With them the 
controversy has not been, as with the Papacy, res-
pecting decretals and creeds ; but respecting graven 
images and molten images—such as are fashioned 
with the tongs in the fire, or are hewn from the ce-
dar, the cypress, and the oak—objects of worship, 
which are prayed unto and trusted in, made of that 
of which its worshippers kindle a fire, bake their 
bread, and warm themselves with—stupidity ! To 
how low a condition will human reason fall, when 
suffered to walk in the light of sparks of its own kind-
ling. 
The proclamation to the heathen has thus far most-
ly been, to fear GOD and give glory to him—to turn 
from their dumb idols to the service of the living 
GOD—without connecting with it the hour of his 
judgment come—the waiting for his Son from heav-
en—as the motive to repentance. Such a proclama-
tion does not fulfil the condititions of the symbol.— 
The hour of his judgment must accompany the proc-
lamation. 
Mr. BROOKS, in his Elements of Prophetic Inter-
pretation, says : " It cannot he denied, even by these 
unfriendly to the doctrine, that the attention of Chris-
tians has been greatly exerted of late towards the 
advent of the Lord JESUS CHRIST." 
Among those who have arisen within the last 
twenty years, we may mention W1,4 . CUNINGHAME, 
Esq., an eminent prophetical writer ; LEWIS WAY, 
a minister of the Church of England ; JOHR BAY-
FORD, Esq., F. A. S. ; JOHN FRY, Rector of Deford ; 
EDWARD IRVING, one of the most powerful preachers 
of his time ; the Hon G, T. NOEL, A. M. ; EDWARD 
T. VAUGHAN, A• M. ; HUGH M'NEILE, A. M. ; with 
numerous other powerful writers. These individuals 
have called the attention of the great mass of the 
English people to this subject. 
His Serene Highness CHARLES, Landgrave of 
Hesse ; JAMES A. BEGG, of Glasgow, Scotland ; F. 
S. HUTCHINSON, an Irish gentleman ; PIERRE MEJA-
NEL, a Frenchman ; and others, in other parts of Eu-
rope, have advocated the doctrine of the speedy com-
ing of CHRIST; while the learned JOSEPH WOLFF 
has promulgated the same doctrine in Asia. 
At no period since the Reformation has the atten-
tion of the Church been so generally directed to this 
subject as at the present time, or with so much effect 
as it is now being promulgated. The nature and 
purport of this seems indisputable. How far arid 
long its proclamation must be continued time probably 
will only determine. Of this each must form his 
own conclusions. 
THE ELECT ANGELS. 
Angels, from angelos, which signifies a mes-
senger, are " all ministering spirits sent forth to 
minister for them who shall be heirs of salva-
tion."—Heb. 1:14. And thus we read : " Bless 
the LORD, ye his angels, that excel in strength, 
that do his commandments, hearkening unto the voice 
of his word. Bless ye the LORD, all ye his hosts ; 
ye ministers of his, that do him pleasure."—Psa. 
103:20, 21. 
When " the angels which kept not their first 
estate, but left their own habitation " (Jude 6), were 
" reserved in everlasting chains under darkness unto 
the judgment of the great day," these maintained 
their integrity and their habitation M " the holy 
mountain of GOD."—Ezek. 28:14. When " LUCI-
FER, son of the morning," thought to exalt his 
" throne above the stars of GOD," arid to " sit also 
upon the mount of the congregation in the sides of 
the north," " to ascend above the heights of the 
clouds and to be like the Most High " (Isa. 14:12-14) 
these joined not in his ambitious purposes, and main-
tained their place in the presence of their Creator, 
and are the willing ministers of His pleasure. 
The angels, as well as in strength, are mighty in 
numbers. " The chariots of Gun are twenty-thousand, 
even thousands of angels : the LORD is among them 
as in Sinai in the holy place."—Psa. 68:17. 
When " the LORD came from Sinai, and rose up 
from Seir unto them, he shined from Mount Paran, 
and he came with ten thousand of his saints."—Deut. 
33:2. When the servant of the man of Gou saw 
the city of Dothan encompassed with a great host of 
the Syrians, he little realized- that they who were for 
them were more than all the enemy, until " ELISHA 
prayed • . and the LORD opened the eyes of the 
young man ; and he saw : and behold the mountain 
was full of horses and chariots of fire round about 
ELISHA."—Kings 6:17. It is thus that " the angel 
of the Loan encampeth round about them that fear 
him, and delivereth them."—Psa. 34:7. In Heb 
12:22, they are referred to as to an innumerable 
company of angels. The SAVIOUR said to PETER, 
" Thinkest thou that 1 cannot now pray to my Father, 
and ire shall presently give me more than twelve legions 
of angels?"--Matt. 26:53. And DANIEL, when he 
beheld the thrones placed, and the session of the An-
cient of days, also beheld, and " thousands of thou-
sands ministered unto him."—Dan. 7:10. 
When he laid the foundations of the earth, " the 
morning stars sang together, and all the sons of GOD 
shouted for joy."—Job 38:7. But a joy none the 
less extatic is kindled in angelic breasts when " these 
is joy in the presence of the angels of God, over one 
sinner that repenteth."—Luke 15:10. 
Angelic agency is frequently referred to in the 
Scriptures. They are not only " sent forth to min 
ister to them who shall be heirs of salvation ; but 
they also inflict judgments on the rebellious. Two 
angels were sent to Sodom to destroy it, and also to 
rescue LOT from its impending destruction.—Gen. 
19:1-58. The pestilence sent upon Jerusalem in 
punishment of DAVID'S sin in numbering Israel, 
when there died of the people 70,000, was the work 
of an angel. " And when the angel stretched out 
his hand upon Jerusalem to destroy it, the LORD 
repented him of the evil, and said to the angel that 
destroyed the people, It is enough : stay now thine 
hand."-2 Sam. 24:16. " And the LORD sent an 
THE ADVENT T HERALD. 
" the angel of the LORD went out, and smote in the 
camp of the Assyrians an hundred fourscore and 
five thousand : and when they arose early in the 
morning, behold, they were all dead corpses."-2 
King 19:35. When the LORD had opened the eyes 
of BALAAM, " he saw the angel of the LORD standing 
in the way, and in his hand a drawn sword."—Num. 
22:31. Angels closed the lions' mouth sthat they 
should not harm DANIEL.-5:22. GOD said to Moses, 
" And I will send an angel before thee ; and I will 
drive out the Canaanite, the Amorite, and the Hittite, 
and the Perizzite, the Hivite, and the Jebusite."— 
Ex. 33:2. " And an angel of the LORD came up 
from Gilgal to Bochim, and said, I made you to go 
up out of Egypt, and have brought you unto the land 
which I sware unto your fathers ; and I said, 1 will 
never break my covenant with you. And ye shall 
make no league with the inhabitants of this land ; 
ye shall throw down their altars : but ye have not 
obeyed my voice : why have ye done this? Where-
fore I also said, I will not drive them out from before 
you ; but they shall be as thorns in your sides, and 
their gods shall be a snare unto you."—Judges 2:1-3. 
" And there came an angel of the LORD, and sat under 
an oak which was in Ophrah, that pertained unto 
JOASH the Abi-ezrite : and his son GIDEON threshed 
wheat by the wine-press, to hide it from the Midian-
ites. And the angel of the LORD appeared unto him, 
and said unto him, The LORD is with thee, thou 
mighty man of valor. . . . And when GIDEON per-
ceived that he was an angel of the LORD, GIDEON 
said, Alas, 0 LORD GOD ! for because I have seen an 
aEgel of the LORD face to face."-6:11, 12, 22. An 
angel was to announce the birth of CHRIST.—Luke 
1:26. And, as shepherds w ere watching their flocks 
by night, " Lo the angel of the LORD came upon 
them, and the glory of the LORD shone round about 
them ; and they were sore afraid. And the angel 
said unto them, Fear not : for behold, I bring you 
good tidings of great joy, which shall be to all peo-
ple. For unto you is born this day, in the city of 
David, a SAVIOUR, which is CHRIST the LORD. And 
this shall be a sign unto you ; Ye shall find the babe 
wrapped in swaddling-clothes, lying in a manger. 
And suddenly there was with the angel a multitude 
of the heavenly host praising GoD and saying, Glory 
to GOD in the highest, and on earth peace, good will 
toward men."—Luke 2:9-14. An angel also an-
nounced his resurrection : " And behold, there was 
a great earthquake: for the angel of the LORD de-
scended from heaven, and came and rolled back the 
stone from the door, and sat upon it. His counte-
nance was like lightning, and his raiment white as 
snow, And Mr fear of him the keepers did shake, 
and became as dead men. And the angel answered 
and said unto the women, Fear not ye : for I know 
that ye seek JESUS, which was crucified. He is not 
here : for he is risen, as he said. Come, see the 
place where the LORD lay. And go quickly, and tell 
his disciples, that he is risen from the dead, and be-
hold, lie goeth before you into Galilee ; there shall 
ye see him : lo, I have told you."—Matt. 28:2-7. 
After the ascension of the SAVIOUR, it was the " two 
men," who stood by the disciples, " in white apparel, 
which also said, Ye men of Galilee, why stand ye 
gazing up into heaven 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."—
Acts 1:11. 
The first intimation of the agency of angels, we 
have, is when Goo " placed at the east of the garden 
of Eden, cherubim, and a flaming sword which 
turned every way, to keep the way of the tree of 
life.''—Gen. 3:24. 
Angels are superior to men in power and knowl-
edge. Thus GABRIEL was sent to DANIEL, who in-
formed him, and talked with him, and said, " 0 
DANIEL, I am now come forth to give thee skill and 
understanding."—Dan. 9:22. It was an angel of 
the Loan that " went forth, and smote in the camp 
of the Assyrians a hundred and fourscore and five 
thousand : and when they arose early in the morning, 
behold, they were all dead corpses.—lsa. 37:36. 
" In the end of this world, the Son of man shall 
send forth his angels, arid they shall gather out of 
his kingdom all things that offend, and them which 
do iniquity."—Matt. 13:41. " And then shall ap-
pear the sign of the Son of man in heaven : and then 
shall all the tribes of the earth mourn, and they shall 
see the Son of man coming in the clouds of heaven 
with power and great glory. And he shall send his 
angels with a great sound of a trumpet, and they 
shall gather together his elect from the four winds, 
from one end of heaven to the other."-24:30, 31. 
" And I saw another angel ascending from the east, 
having the seal of the living GOD: and he cried with 
a loud voice to the four angels, to whom it was given 
to hurt the earth and the sea, saying, Hurt not the 
earth, neither the sea, nor the trees, till we have 
sealed the servants of our GOD in their forehead."— 
THE GRACE. 
BY REV. H. BORIS. 
Our fountain-head of blessing here is GRACE. It 
was to this grace or free love of GOD that we came 
when first the consciousness of want and sin awoke 
within us. This grace of Goo we found to be large 
enough for us, and altogether suitable ; so that while 
we felt ourselves unfit objects for any thing else, we 
were just the more, on that account, fit objects for 
grace. Either for wrath or for grace we were fit, 
but for nothing else—for nothing between. We 
shrank from the wrath, and we took refuge in the 
grace. Between the one and the other, the blood of 
the accepted sacrifice had made a way, " a way of 
holiness ;" we saw that way, we saw it to be free 
and unchallenged, we fled along that way, and soon 
found ourselves beyond the reach of wrath, under the 
broad covering of grace, nay, under the very wing 
of the gracious One, of him who is " full of grace 
and truth." 
It was the knowledge of this grace that rooted up 
our doubts, that quieted our fears, and made us blush 
for our unbelief and suspicious mistrust. It is the 
knowledge of this grace that still keeps our souls in 
peace, in spite of weakness, and sin, and conflict.—
Being permitted to draw upon it without limit arid 
without restriction, we feel that no circumstances 
can arise, in which we shall not be at liberty to use 
it, nay, in which it is not our chief sin to stand aloof 
from it, as if it had become less wide and free.—
With all this large place at our disposal, to draw 
upon continually, what folly to he afraid of enemies, 
and evils, and days of trouble ! For thus saith the 
prophet, " Blessed is the man that trusteth in the 
LORD, and whose hope the LORD is. For he shall 
be as a tree planted by the waters, and that spreadeth 
out her roots by the river, and shall not see when 
heat cometh, but her leaf shall be green ; and shall 
not be careful in the year of drought, neither shall 
cease from yielding fruit."—Jer. 17:7, 8. 
It is in this grace that we " continue."— Acts. 
13:43. It is in this grace that we " stand."—Rom. 
5:2. It is in this grace that we are to " be strong." 
—2 Tim. 2:1. It is this grace that we are to " hold 
fast."—Heb. 12:28, margin. It is this grace that is 
" sufficient for us."-2 Cor, 12:9. It is this grace 
that we desire for others, saying, " The grace of 
our LORD JESUS CHRIST be with you."—Eph. 6:24. 
All is grace, from the beginning to the end, unmin-
gled grace, in which no respect is had to aught of 
good done, felt, thought, spoken by us. So that the 
history of our life is wrapt up in these blessed words, 
" Where sin abounded, grace did much more abound." 
—Rom. 5:20. We have found that the new sins of 
each hour, so far from closing the fountain of grace 
against us, opened new springs of grace for us—
springs of grace which we should never otherwise 
have known, or thought it possible to exist. Not as 
if sin were less vile on this account. David's horrid 
sins were the occasions of opening up new depths of 
grace unimagined before ; yet his iniquity lost none 
of its hatefulness thereby. So grace is ever gushing 
forth upon us to sweep away each new sin, yet in 
doing so it makes the sin thus swept away to appear 
more hideous and inexcusable. The brighter the 
sun, the darker and sharper the shadows; so the 
fuller the grace, the viler the sin appears. 
And as our personal history, as saved men, is the 
history of abounding sin met by more abounding 
grace, so is the history at large of all things in this 
fallen world. What is all Israel's history, every 
step of it, but the history of man's boundless sin 
drawing out the more boundless grace of Gon ? 
What is the Church's history but the same, so that 
each of the chosen and called ones who make up its 
mighty multitude, can say with him of old, whose 
name was chief of sinners," The grace of our Loan 
was EXCEEDING ABUNDANT with faith and love which 
is in CHRIST JESUS."-1 Tim. 1:14. And what is 
even the history of this material creation, on which 
the curse has pressed so long and heavily, but the 
history of grace abounding over sin and rescuing 
from the devouring fire this polluted soil ? 
All has been of grace hitherto. And all shall be 
of grace hereafter. In this respect there shall be no 
change. 
Yet this is not the whole truth. For the brightest 
disclosures are yet to come. The first coming of the 
LORD opened up to us the heights and depths of most 
wondrous grace; but his second coming is to bring 
with it discoveries of grace as marvellous, and as yet 
unrevealed. That promise, " the LORD will give 
GRACE and glory, Psa. 84:11, seems specially to refer 
to the time, when, after days of sad longing, (v. 2,) 
and weary journeying through the valley of Baca, 
(verse 6,) we appear in Zion before GoD, and stand-
ing with the New Jerusalem we sing the song of 
blessed contrast, " A day in thy courts is better 
than a thousand," as if this new outburst of grace, 
which meets us as we enter the gates of pearl, over-
passed all that we had tasted before. The apostle 
PETER also points forward to the same period for the 
full display of grace, when he speaks of " the GRACE 
that is to be brought unto us at the revelation of JE-
SUS CHRIST" (1 Peter 1:13) ; indicating this to us, 
that in that day, new and larger circles of grace shall 
open out, just as the horizon widens when the sun 
ascends. To this same day the prophet Zechariah 
points when he says, "He shall bring forth the head-
stone with shoutings, crying, GRACE, GRACE unto it." 
—Zech. 1:7. But especially is this truth taught us 
by the apostle PAUL when he tells us, that Goo's ob-
ject in quickening us together with CHRIST, in raising 
us up together and making us sit together in heav-
enly places, is, that he might show the EXCEEDING 
RICHES OF HIS GRACE in his kindness towards us 
through CHRIST JESUS." Here lie heaps word upon 
word, as if he could find none strong enough for his 
purpose ; it is not merely grace, but it is riches of 
grace; nay, it is not this only, it is exceeding riches 
of brace; riches of grace not only excelling all other 
riches, but excelling all those riches of grace that 
have hitherto been known, as if past grace were to 
be forgotten in the plenteousness of that which is to 
come. 
How often in the Church's past history has grace 
been magnified ! Each age has brought out to view 
new wonders of grace, because of which she has 
praised the GOD of all grace. But the abundance of 
the past is not all that is in store for her. Her re-
turning LORD shall bring with him all the " exceed-
ing riches of his grace," and upon her shall those 
riches be expended. When caught up into the clouds 
to meet her LORD in the air and to be for ever with 
him, she shall be led into the treasure-house of grace 
and get a glimpse of its vastness. Each step in her 
past course has drawn forth a fresh out-flow of 
abounding grace. Grace found her in the desert 
land and in the waste howling wilderness. Grace 
drew her out of the horrible pit and out of the miry 
clay. Grace washed her, and " clothed " her, and 
shed " her, and " girded " her, and " decked her 
with ornaments," Ezek. 16:9-11, giving her beauty 
for ashes, the oil of joy for mourning, the garments 
of praise for the spirit of heaviness. Grace strength-
ened her for warfare, and hardship, and labor, mak-
ing her more than conqueror through him that loved 
her. Grace comforted her in the evil day, wiped 
away tears, poured in fresh joys, and threw round 
her the everlasting arms. Grace taught her to pray, 
and praise, and love, and trust, arid serve, in spite of 
the ever-revolting heart within. Grace kept her as a 
stranger and a pilgrim here, without a resting-place 
on earth, looking for the city of foundations, watch-
ing for her LORD'S appearing, amid all the heart-
sickenings of hope deferred, and wearying for the 
Bridegroom's embrace, undazzled and undistracted 
by the false splendor of a present evil world. But 
the grace that has brought her thus far is not ex-
hausted. For it is absolutely boundless, like the 
heart of Him out of whom it comes; and as it raises 
the Church from one level to another, its own circle 
is ever enlarging. (To be continued) 
ENGLAND.—The " No Popery " cry has lost little 
of its intensity, hut the objects have become more 
distinctly defined. A great anti-Popery meeting 
was held at York, on the 22d. Earl FITZWILLIAM, 
moved an address to the Queen, praying that her 
Majesty would maintain and preserve inviolate her 
supreme authority as by law established. The mo-
tion was carried by an immense majority. 
Cardinal WISEMAN has issued a manifesto in de-
fence of the steps recently taken by Pio NoNo, in 
which he states that so long since as 1837, the Eng-
lish Catholics solicited the Holy See to grant them 
the ecclesiastical advantages of a Hierarchy. The 
power of granting this boon appertains to the Pope 
alone. 
A London paper of Nov. 19 says :—" The ad-
vices from Berlin, Vienna, and Frankfort to-day are 
extremely satisfactory, and favorable to the mainte-
nance of peace." 
Maltese brig Lady Flora, from Portsmouth for 
Leghorn, was foundered by a waterspout, and nine 
persons perished, including the owner of the vessel. 
French ship of the line Valmy put into Brest, 
having been damaged by an explosion of gunpowder. 
Twenty seamen lost their lives. 
At the usual meeting of the Repeal Association, 
on Monday, Mr. JOHN O'CONNELL attacked Lord J. 
RUSSELL'S recent letter on the policy of Pius lX., and 
proposed that the name of the Association should be 
changed to that of " Catholic Association." 
Private accounts state tha,, the true cause of the 
increase in the French army is to be found in the 
revolutionary disposition of a part of Switzerland, 
and the fear lest the withdrawal of Prussian troops 
from the Grand Duchy of Baden should tempt an-
other insurrectionary movement in that quarter. 
On the 18th, the responsible editor of the Presse 
was tried for publishing the fictitious President's 
message, and sentenced to one year's imprisonment, 
and fined 2000 francs. 
All the radical candidates have been chosen in 
Geneva as deputies to the Council of the canton. 
AUSTRIA.—Austria proposes to delay the measures 
against Holstein and Hesse, until the extension shall 
have been settled by the free conferences. She also 
offers to dissolve the Diet and consent to a league of 
German states. 
GERMANY.—The news from Germany continues 
favorable. A truce of eight days has been agreed 
upon between General GROCBEN and the Prince 
THURN and TAXIS, and a line drawn, beyond which 
neither the Prussian or the federal army is allowed 
to overstep. 
The king of Prussia's speech has caused the great-
est excitement. It is thought to be favorable to the 
war party. Prussia has promised to support the 
Brunswick protest against the the passage of the fed-
eral troops. The ministerial journal appeals to the 
Parliament, entreating them not to prejudge the 
policy of the Cabinet ; nevertheless, the overthrow 
of the Mastenfli Cabinet is considered as certain. 
The Hanoverian Cabinet has declared its assent to 
the passage of a federal army through Hanover to 
Holstein, 
Advices from Berlin of Nov. 16, state that the 
last Austrian note was accompanied by a private 
communication to Baron PROKESCH, the Emperor's 
Ambassador at Berlin. The purport of this commu-
nication is to express the pacific intentions and hopes 
of the Vienna Cabinet. Austria offers to discontinue 
her armaments if Prussia will do the same. The 
opening of the Parliament is expected with considera-
ble interest. 
Frankfort letters of the 16th ult. confirm the pre-
vious statements of the \Vurtemburg Ambassador 
having demanded the intervention of Austrian troops. 
No movements have taken place amongst the Federal 
Austrian troops in Hesse. The Prussians were in 
full retreat from Baden. The general opinion at 
Frankfurt was that peace would not be disturbed. 
The government of the Duchies were firm in their 
=determination to oppose any intervention of the Bond, 
and not a single Prussian had left the Holstein army. 
General WILLISSEN had made another movement 
of his outposts, which ended only in a skirmish, in 
which a few were killed and wounded on both sides. 
The Danes are fortifying their position at Ban. 
Their forces are concentrated upon Sanderburg. 
The Holsteiners advanced on the 14th inst. upon 
Selkholm Ockenber. They took four prisoners, and 
had several men wounded and two men killed. Af-
ter this the Holsteiners retreated. 
At Monasta a fanatical dervish, who professed to 
be inspired, killed a Christian boy of 14 years of age 
in the open street. 
angel, which cut off all the mighty men of valor,1 Rev. 7:2, 3. " And I looked, and behold, a white 
arid the leaders and captains in the camp of the kingIcloud, and upon the cloud one sat like unto the Son 
of Assyria."-2 Chron. 32:21. In a single niglit;1 of man, having on his head a golden crown, arid in 
his hand a sharp sickle. And another angel came 
out of the temple, crying with a loud voice to him 
that sat on the cloud, Thrust in thy sickle, and reap: 
for the time is come for thee to reap ; for the harvest 
of the earth is ripe. And he that sat on the cloud 
thrust in his sickle on the earth ; and the earth was 
reaped. And another angel came out of the temple 
which is in heaven, he also having a sharp sickle. 
And another angel came out from the altar, which 
had power over fire : and cried with a loud cry to 
him that had the sharp sickle, saying, Thrust in thy 
sharp sickle, and gather the clusters of the vine of 
the earth ; for her grapes are fully ripe. And the 
angel thrust in his sickle into the earth, and gathered 
the vine of the earth, and cast it into the great wine-
press of the wrath of GOD."-14:14-19. 
" And to you who are troubled, rest with us, when 
the LORD JESUS shall be revealed from heaven with 
his mighty angels, in flaming fire taking vengeance 
on them that know not Goo, and obey not the gospel 
Of OUT LORD JESUS CHRIST."-2 Thess. 1:7, 8. 
Finally, the redeemed are to be equal to the angels : 
" They which shall be accounted worthy to obtain 
that world, and the resurrection from the dead, 
neither marry, nor are given in marriage : neither 
can they die any more : for they are equal unto the 
angels ; and are the children of GOD, being the chil-
dren of the resurrection."--Luke 20:35, 36. They 
shall unite in the song, " We give thee thanks, 0 
LORD GOD ALMIGHTY, which art, and wast, and art 
to come ; because thou hast taken to thee thy great 
power, and hast reigned."—Rev- 11:17 And when 
there shall come a voice " out of the throne, saying, 
Praise our GoD, all ye his servants, and ye that fear 
him, both small and great " (Rev. 19:5) ; men and 
angels will be heard, " as it were the voice of a great 
multitude, and as the voice of many waters, and as 
the voice of mighty thunderings, saying, Alleluia : 
for the LORD GoD omnipotent reignetb. Let us be 
glad and rejoice, and give honor to him : for the mar-
riage of the Lamb is come, and his wife hath made 
herself ready."—vs. 5, 6. 
Foreign News. 
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366 
THE ADVENT HERALD. 
as the offering of sacrifices, &c., will be renewed in 
the age to come.* 
With all these various doctrines, Adventists are at 
issue ; they regard them as figments of the temporal 
millennium theory. Indeed, this theory should be 
called " the temporal tnillennium theory," for it is 
essentially a millennium in " time," (temporal is 
from " TEMPORIS "—relating to time), probationary 
time being continued through that period. It will 
be seen that the above views correspond very well 
with the generally adopted Millennial theory of the 
various Churches, and that Adventists have fought 
some hard battles in establishing the scriptural doc-
trine of the Advent millennium, in opposition to 
several of these positions. Possibly all Millenarians 
do not adopt all the notions above named ; but the 
doctrine has assumed this type in the recent discus-
sions between American Adventists and those who 
have embraced those views, and it will be found to be 
very much of the same type in England. 
The practical effect of these views, it is believed, 
will he but little, if any better, than that of the theory 
of Whitby ; for though it represents the corning of 
Christ to he personal, and the resurrection to be 
literal and real, yet the chief objects of Christ's 
coming are the same in both cases,—viz., to convert 
the heathen and restore the Jews to " their land ;" 
and the position of the Church will be very similar,—
viz., that of ruling over the heathen, and declaring 
God's glory to them. 
It is true, Christ will be personally present, and the 
saints will be immortal, according to this theory ; but 
what of that? The practical effect of these facts 
will be nullified by their incongruous association 
with a probationary period, and the mass of the peo- 
ple will be likely to repudiate the only redeeming 
features of this theory, and hold fast those parts of 
it which correspond to the popular views of the mil-
lennial age. They will regard it as a period of pro-
bation, and will hope, in the absence of the Devil and 
Antichrist, to be converted to God ; especially as 
Christ's glory (manifested in Palestine when Jerusa-
lem will be rebuilt) is to be proclaimed to the nations, 
as the instrumentality of their conversion. If it be 
said, that those " who obey not the gospel " will be 
destroyed at the Advent ; the sinner will nevertheless 
conclude, that it is as reasonable to suppose that he 
will escape this destruction though he do not " obey 
the gospel ;" as that the heathen will, " who know 
not God," whose destruction is affirmed in the same 
text (2 Thess. 1:8, 9), but who are nevertheless ex-
empted according to this theory. If Christ does not 
" punish with everlasting destruction those who 
know not God," why should he thus punish those 
" who obey not the gospel," especially as the latter 
would be as likely to be converted by his glory and 
majesty as the former ? 
The practical effect of the plain Advent doctrine 
has been most salutary and powerful. The practical 
influence of the Millenarian theory has never been 
as effective, and never attended by such powerful 
manifestations of the Divine blessing—nor have such 
numbers been awakened by it, as by the Advent 
theory. Loaded down with Judaism, and its kindred 
absurdities, the Advent doctrine, as held by Millena-
rians, has been but little felt as a motive, in con-
sequence of its being in the midst of such associa-
tions. 
Besides, the intrinsic absurdity of the theory of a 
mixed state of mortals and immortals after the Ad-
vent, has been so palpable, as to drive many persons 
from believing in the personal Advent, who, if they 
could have heard the plain doctrine taught by Mr. 
Miller, would have embraced the pre-millennial advent 
theory and rejoiced in it. It is because the practical 
effect of Adventism is better than that of Millenarian-
ism, that we cling to it, as well as because it seems 
to us truth. 
Some persons seem to consider it a virtue to change 
their religious faith once in a few weeks, and possi-
bly oftener ; hot there is no virtue nor propriety in 
changing truth for error. If we are going to affect 
the chameleon, then may we change as often as pos-
sible ; but that animal is a very imperfect representa-
tive of an enlightened Christian. 
Those who retain the original " Advent Faith," 
are regarded by such as " sectarian," and are told 
that they are just like those professed Christians who 
have rejected the Advent doctrine. This is rather 
strange ! Those who hold fast, are like those that 
reject a truth ! ! This is not very good common sense. 
Many persons are frightened or menaced into the re-
ception of certain dogmas, not daring to "hold fast 
the form of sound words," lest they be reproached 
as " sectarians." And there are some localities, 
where to mention the name of '' Father " Miller 
with affection, and to express our purpose to continue 
to advocate the great cardinal doctrines of prophecy 
which he taught, will secure to us abundant reproaches 
for " sectarianism," &e. &c. Now there are some 
Adventists who will not be thus menaced into apos-
tacy from the Advent doctrine, lest they be pro-
nounced " sectarian ;" and who have sufficient good 
sense to know that they are no more '6 sectarians " 
for maintaining Mr. Miller's views of prophecy now, 
than in 1840 and onward ; and that we are no more 
" sectarian " in " looking for a new heaven and 
earth " at the coming of Christ, because the epithet 
is applied to us by professed Adventists, than if 
it were applied to us by others, for the same cause. 
As at the Reformation, the devil being foiled in 
his attempts to "-crush the sacred truth." by Papal 
vengeance ; attacked it by pretence of more perfect 
developments of truth ;. so now, we having success-
fully maintained the Advent faith against the attacks 
of Spiritualism from open foes, are called upon to 
submit to the more liberal literalism of professed 
friends. 
Progress being the grand feature of this age, some 
persons-are determined) to maintain the spirit of the 
times, by going ahead, even if they go the wrong 
way ; but it is much better to stand still awhile and 
inquire patiently the way, than to rush forward in an 
untried path, with such impetuosity as to endanger 
our lives. But there is but little need of stopping 
LECTURES ON THE 24th OF MATTHEW. 
BY J. LITCII.—LECTURE Vt. 
The reason assigned for the directed flight,—great 
tribulation. 
(Continued from our last.) 
" For then shall be great tribulation, such as was 
not since the beginning of the world to this time, no, 
nor ever shall be." 
There are several theories as to this predicted 
tribulation. 
1. That it was the tribulation of the Jews at the 
destruction of Jerusalem. 
The great difficulties in the way of this theory are, 
It cannot be harmonized with verses 29-31. 
" Immediately after the tribulation of those days, 
the sun shall be darkened," &c. This immediate 
connection of the great tribulation with the darken-
ing of the heavenly luminaries, the coming of the 
Son of man in the clouds of heaven, and the gather-
ing together of his elect, are utterly irreconcilable 
with the idea of its being the great tribulation at the 
destruction of Jerusalem. 
Daniel predicts the same time of trouble (12:1) ; 
says of it, that it shall be" such as never was since there 
was a nation to that same time." The period desig-
nated by him, is the period of Michael's assumption 
of royal power, the resurrection and eternal glorifi-
tion of the saints. If there never has been such a 
time of trouble, since there was a nation to that time ; 
it can only be harmonized with the remarks of 
Christ by applying them to one and the same time. 
II. The second theory is, that it is the tribulation 
of the Church under her long night of Papal dark-
ness and persecution, when more than 50,000,000 of 
martyrs suffered death, beside all the other and atten-
dant suffering connected with those dreadful scenes. 
This theory assumes that " the abomination of 
desolation " was the Roman army which destroyed 
Jerusalem. That the flight from Judea to the moun-
tains, was the flight of the Christians from Judea to 
the mountains on that occasion. 
Let us now inquire, Why were they to flee? What 
reason did Christ assign for the flight I Was it not 
because " then shall be great tribulation ?" 
We will now connect the two ideas—they stand 
thus—and present Christ as saying : 
" Some five or six hundred years hence, under 
Papal rule, there will be 1260 years of persecution 
of the saints." 
Therefore, when you see the Roman army, 
foretold by Daniel the prophet, invade Judea to de-
stroy Jerusalem, let them which be in Judea flee to 
the mountains." 
As incongruous as this view appears, it is correctly 
stated. But there are some who embrace the entire 
persecution of the saints, from the destruction of 
Jerusalem to the end of Papal persecution in 1798. 
They are entitled to the full benefit of their theory ; 
and it must be confessed it has a more rational ap-
pearance than the other, but it is full of incongrui-
ties. It will represent Christ as thus instructing his 
disciples : 
" There will be, commencing with the destruc-
tion of Jerusalem, a long period of 1700 years of 
bitter persecution of Christians, during which all 
that diabolical ingenuity can invent will be devised 
to torture and put to death my followers. It will 
constitute such tribulation as never was before, and 
never shall be again ; and except those days should 
be shortened, no flesh should be saved." 
" Therefore, when you see the Roman armies 
enter Judea, to begin the siege and destruction of 
Jerusalem, let those that be in Judea flee to the moun-
tains, that they may not be destroyed in that siege, 
but survive it, and go through with the great tribula-
tion before the Church." 
It will be seen by this view of the subject, that 
it would have been highly absurd to direct the disci-
ples to flee from Judea at the destruction of Jeru-
salem, because that long period of persecution was 
coming. The absurdity of the view, is its own refu-
tation. 
III. The third theory is, that it is the tribulation 
of the great crisis, the conflict between the powers 
of light and darkness, for the dominion of the 
world. 
This is the theory to which I now adhere. 
It presents a harmony between Daniel 12:1 and 
Matthew 24:21, the time of trouble foretold by Daniel, 
and the great tribulation spoken of by Christ, both 
pointing to one period. 
It avoids the incongruity of supposing Christ 
Weary pilgrim, why this sadness, 
And this gloom upon thy brow ? 
Gone from thee is joy and gladness ; 
Is there nought to cheer thee now ? 
Lift to heaven thy longing eye, 
Gaze upon thy treasure there ; 
All is thine,—by Christ 'tis given, 
Priceless all its glories are. 
Bright the hope now set before thee, 
Like an anchor, strong and sure ; 
Hold it fast,—ne'er cast it from thee, 
Firm unto the end endure. 
Look not on the things around thee, 
For they soon will pass away ; 
Falter not, though Satan tempt thee, 
Speed thee on, make no delay. 
Thy toilsome journey soon will end, 
And thy weary conflicts cease, 
Bright angels will thy steps attend, 
And guide the to thee port of peace. 
M. D. WELLCOME. 
TO A CHRISTIAN PILGRIM. 
to direct his people to flee from Jerusalem and Judea, 
at that city's destruction, because his Church would 
afterwards suffer several hundred years persecution. 
3. Et is in perfect harmony with the closing scenes 
described in verses 29-31 : " Immediately after the 
tribulation of those days, the sun shall be dark-
ened," &c. 
That there is to be a time of tribulation at the 
close of the present dispensation, is taught in many 
passages of Scriptures. 
The 30th chapter of Jeremiah contains a predic-
tion of events which are to transpire in the latter 
days : these events are the restoration of Israel and 
Judah, as taught Ezek. 37th chapter, which must be 
by the resurrection. 
But in connection with that final gathering of 
Israel, there is foretold a scene of trouble, expressed 
by the strongest and most forcible figures which hu-
man language can furnish : " For thus saith the 
Lord ; We have heard a voice of trembling, of fear, 
and not of peace. Ask ye now, and see whether a 
man doth travail with child ? wherefore do 1 see 
every man with his hands on his loins, as a woman 
in travail, and all faces are turned into paleness? 
Alas ! for that day is great, so that none is like it : 
it is even the time of Jacob's trouble, but he shall be 
saved out of it. For it shall come to pass in that 
day, saith the Lord of hosts, that I will break his 
yoke from off thy neck, and will burst thy bonds, 
and strangers shall no more serve themselves of him: 
but they shall serve the Lord their God, and David 
their king, whom I will raise up unto them."—Jer. 
30:5-9. 
A. passage so forcible and so solomnly put forth as 
the foregoing, is not unmeaning ; all will be realized 
which is expressed on its face. In this text it is 
said, " it is even the time of Jacob's trouble." This 
is a declaration that it is the trouble to come on 
God's people who are to be delivered ; and is a suffi-
cient answer to those who take the ground that tribu-
lation is spoken of as cooling on the people of God, 
and " trouble " on the wicked. And hence, that the 
tribulation spoken of (Matt. 24), was to be the lot of 
the saints, and is past, while the trouble predicted by 
Daniel, is to be experienced by the wicked in the 
future. But here it is said to be " Jacob's trouble," 
out of which he is to be delivered. 
Daniel comes next in order, and proclaims, 
And at that time shall Michael stand up, the great 
Prince which standeth for the children of thy people ; 
and there shall be a time of trouble such as never 
was since there was a nation to that time ; and at 
that time thy people shall be delivered, every one 
found written in the book. And many of them that 
sleep in the dust of the earth shall awake," thus 
clearly connecting it with the corning of Christ and 
the resurrection. 
Passing the testimony of the minor prophets, 
we come to the testimony of our Saviour : " For 
then shall be great tribulation, such as was riot since 
the beginning of the world to this time, no, nor ever 
shall be." " And immediately after the tribulation 
of those days, the sun shall be darkened, and the 
moon shall not give her light, the stars shall fall from 
heaven, and the powers of the heavens shall be 
shaken. And then shall appear the sign of the Son 
of man in heaven ; and all the tribes of the earth 
shall mourn, and they shall see the Son of man com-
ing in the clouds of heaven with power and great 
glory." 
Christ, in his epistle to the Church in Phila-
delphia (Rev. 3:10), promises, " Because thou hast 
kept the word of my patience, I also will keep thee 
from the hour of temptation, which shall come upon 
all the world, to try them that dwell upon the earth." 
From this we learn that there is to be an hour of 
temptation to come on all that dwell on the face of 
the earth, from which those are to be specially pre-
served who keep the word of Christ's patience. 
Revelation, 13th chapter, we are taught that " the 
beast, and his accomplice, the two-horned beast, will 
make demands on all men, free and bond, small and 
great, rich and poor, to worship the beast and his 
image, to receive his mark and the number of his 
name. And that whosoever will not do it shall be 
killed ; and shall neither buy nor sell." 
The 14th chapter presents us the counterpart; a 
messenger of the Almighty proclaiming to all the 
world the fearful doom of all who dare to comply 
with the impious demands of the beast. That this 
is in futurity is evident from the fact that it is after 
the fall of Babylon the great, which has not yet taken 
place. 
It is under this impressive cry, just before the 
harvest of the earth, that those are declared blessed 
who die in the Lord from that time. It was also in 
view of the same thing, " on earth distress of na-
tions with perplexity, men's hearts failing them for 
fear, and for looking after those things that are com- 
ing on the earth," that our Lord exhorted his disci-
ples to watch and pray always, that they might " be 
accounted worthy to escape all those things which 
are coming on the earth, and to stand before the Son 
of man." 
The following is Mr. Miller's view of the time of 
trouble, spoken of in Dan. 12:1 : 
" And there shall be a time of trouble, such as 
there never was since there was a nation, even to 
that same time.' This time of trouble is yet in futu- 
rity ; but is hanging, as it were, over our heads, 
ready to break upon us in tenfold vengeance, when 
the angel of the gospel, who is now flying through 
the midst of heaven, shall seal the last child of God 
in their foreheads. And when the four angels, who 
are now holding the four winds, that it blow not on 
the sea, nor on the land, shall cease their holding; 
when the angel, standing on the sea and land, shall 
lift his hand to heaven and swear by him that lived' 
forever and ever, that time shall be no longer, or, as 
it might, and, perhaps, ought to have been translated, 
that there should he no longer delay ;' that is, God 
would wait no longer for repentance, no longer to be 
gracious ; but his Spirit would take its flight from 
the world, and the grace of God would cease to re-
strain men. He that is filthy will be filthy still.—
Mankind will, for a short season, give loose to all 
the corrupt passions of the human heart. No laws-, 
human. or divine, will be regarded ; all authority 
will be trampled under foot ; anarchy will be the 
order of governments, and confusion fill the world 
with horror and despair. Murder, treason, and crime, 
will be common law, and division and disunion the 
only bond of fellowship. Christians will be perse-
cuted unto death, and dens and caves of the earth 
will he their retreat. All things which are not eter-
nal will be shaken to pieces, that that which cannot 
be shaken may remain."—Miller's Lectures, p. 109, 
That we are approaching a crisis, it is useless to 
attempt to deny or conceal. The gigantic strides of 
the Papacy astound the world. The daring proposi- 
tions put forth by his Holiness in his quarrels with 
Sardinia ; his claims in and concessions by Austria ; 
the late bull appointing the British hierarchy, con- 
stituting the new Cardinal, Wiseman, Archbishop 
of Westminster, with other movements of a similar 
character, constitute " signs there's no mistaking," 
that we shall be brought to a point, and the question 
of the supremacy of the Pope, or the reign of Jesus 
Christ, will be brought home to the door of every 
Protestant. Let the Protestant Americans read and 
ponder well Archbishop Hughe's sermon of Nov. 
10111, and then reflectingly ask, Does it not look like 
a design to prove to Protestants the power of Roman-
ism to suppress heresy. 
Again, let us but compare the state of society with 
the foregoing dark picture drawn by Mr. Miller in 
1836. At that time it was thought to be only the 
fruit of an excited imagination ; now it is, to a great 
extent, a stern, living, every-day reality ; and each 
day is adding color to the picture. 
According to both Jer. 30, and Dan. 12, the trou-
ble conies before the deliverance of the people of 
God. " At that time shall Michael stand up, the 
great prince which standeth for the children of thy 
people."—Dan. 12:1. The phrase " stand up," is 
used in the book of Daniel in the sense of assump-
tion of royal power. Dan. 8:22 : " Four kingdoms 
shall stand up out of the nation." Dan. 8:23 : " A 
king of fierce countenance," &c., " shall stand up." 
Dan. 11:2, 3, 4, 20, 21. These seven instances of 
its use, all signifying the same thing, " the assump-
tion of royal power," are sufficient to settle its mean-
ing in the eighth instance. But it was not until the 
high priest had completed his work of atonement 
that he put on his robes of royalty. So Christ, 
when he leaves the most holy place, will assume his 
royal character and begin the work of judgment and 
establishment of his dominion. And as soon as he 
leaves the most holy place, the probation of the 
world is at an end, for there remained] no more 
sacrifice for sin. The commission of the ministers 
of the gospel will then expire—the end of the age 
come 
" Except those days should be shortened, there 
should be no flesh saved." Campbell renders it 
" short," instead of " shortened." " Except those 
days should be short," such will be the fury of Satan 
and his accomplices that " no flesh should survive ;" 
"hut for the sake of the elect, those days shall be 
short." As soon as the hour of trial is passed, and 
each individual has chosen his side, either by receiv-
ing the mark of the beast, or the seal of the living 
God in his forehead, God will interpose to deliver 
his people from the power of their enemies. Then, 
as it is written in the 91st Psalm (vs. 7-11), " A 
thousand shall fall at thy side, and ten thousand at 
thy right hand ; but it shall not come nigh thee.—
Only with thine eyes shalt thou behold and see the 
reward of the wicked. Because thou hast made the 
Lord,which is my refuge, even the Most High, thy 
habitation ; there shall no evil befall thee, neither 
shall any plague come nigh thy dwelling. For he shall 
give his angels charge over thee, to keep thee in all 
thy ways." Following this tribulation and trial of 
the saints, will be the period for pouring out, in rapid 
succession, the seven last plagues, which shall only 
fall on the wicked. No plague shall come nigh the 
dwelling of the saints. May we be found in this 
company in the day of wrath. 
END OF LECTURE VI. 
There has been very little diversity of opinion 
among American Adventists relative to the general 
features of " the world to come," or " future age," 
until recently ; but during the last few months some 
of those interpretations of Scripture which are preva-
lent on the other side of the Atlantic, have been 
extensively taught among us, and have been received 
by some, and have perplexed and unsettled many. 
MILLENARIANISM is a doctrine which associates 
with itself many valuable expositions of prophecy, 
and to many of the associates of that system, we are 
indebted for valuable works on the prophecies ; but 
we cannot believe the system sound, when taken as a 
whole, and regard its general influence as far less 
efficient for good, than the doctrine which was taught 
by William Miller, and has been embraced and de-
fended by scores of able and sound-minded men, both 
in the United States and in England. By Millena-
rianism, 1 mean the doctrine of the personal reign of 
Christ on earth 1000 years before the renewing of 
the earth ; and I shall take the liberty of calling the 
doctrine of Mr. Miller arid his co-laborers—" Ad-
ventism," not as a sectarian epithet, but as a conve-
nient term to denote that theory which maintains the 
reign of Christ in person on the renewed earth, one 
thousand years before the second resurrection of the 
wicked. 
The difference between the two theories is not 
fully stated, however, when this one point of differ-
ence is stated. There are some other points of dis-
agreement—as, for instance, Millenarianism affirms, 
1st, that the Jews will have special regard bestowed 
upon them, as a nation, during the thousand years. 
2. That the thousand years is a probationary period, 
and the heathen will be converted. 3. That Christ's 
reign as the Son of David will only last during the 
millennium. 4. That the everlasting and universal 
kingdom of God is not set up until the end of the 
thousand years. 5. That the promise to Abraham 
and his seed respecting "the land," relates only to 
Canaan, to which territory it is limited s and to the 
thousand years, to, which period it is alone appropris 
* And you might add a 7th„ as held by some of 
the English,. that at the end of the thousand years, 
the earth is-to be- annihilated', and the righteous re-
ate. 6. That the observances of the typical service, I moved to some other sphere.—Eo. 
THE FUTURE AGE. 
Inquiries Respecting its Character. 
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THE ADVENT HERALD. 
ings ;" but having our conversation holy, that we 
may minister grace thereby unto others. 
Watch over 
our actions, that they be " pure in the sight of all 
men,"—having all our works wrought in God, 
whether we eat, or drink, or whatsoever we do, doing 
it all to his glory. 
Watch for the inward revelations 
of the Spirit of God to our understanding, and His 
daily providences ; for by these teachers we may 
learn much respecting our duty. But in order to 
understand the instructions which they impart, we 
must possess a child-like spirit, and inward recollec-
tion. 
Watch the signs of the times, and mark their 
fulfilment of prophecy, for they are our way-marks, 
pointing to the " better country." 
Watch for the 
coming of the Lord, and let nothing divert our atten-
tion from this great centre point of attraction. 
" Pray always ;" maintain the spirit of communion 
with God constantly, never permitting our minds to 
he occupied with any matter that would hinder the 
prayer of the heart. Let us take heed to this injunc-
tion of the Saviour, and walk very softly before the 
Lord, for the judgment is at hand. We need much 
of the Holy Spirit, to help us live right, and our 
Heavenly Father has promised to give abundantly to 
those who ask. That we may live in the Spirit, walk 
in the Spirit, be sanctified through it, and led by it 
continually, is the payer of 
Your sister in Christ. 
Hallowell, Nov. 18, 1850. 
Bro. I. C. WEncomE writes from Hallowell I in one short year, two of our number have been taken 
long to ponder our course at the guide boards erected 
by the wayside. " The path of the just, which 
grows brighter and brighter unto the perfect day," 
has many by-paths branching off, which profess to be 
" the way to the celestial city," but they lead us into 
fog and darkness ; at least, this is the testimony of 
those who tried them when on the temporal millen-
nium tack. 
As the pilgrim gazes upon the glories of " the 
perfect day," which appear a little in the distance, 
he is solicited to turn aside and enter a variety 
of paths which strike out from the direct way, and 
he is in danger of being diverted, unless he look at 
the guide-boards, upon which he will find many old, 
familiar names, and he will then be prevented from 
being misled. He will see inscribed on them—
" PROBATION TO 'THE HEATHEN ;" — " THE JEWS 
RETURN ;" " OFFERINGS AND SACRIFICES ;" " SPE-
CIAL PRIVILEGES TO ABRAHAM'S NATURAL SEED ;" 
" CHRIST'S SPECIAL REIGN OVER THE HOTTENTOTS 
AND ETHIOPIANS," &C. &C. " A CITY WHOSE 
FOUNDER AND BUILDER IS (not God, but) MAN." Let 
the Christian pilgrim remember that he has tried all 
these ways before, and found them bewildering and 
dark ; and then turn with redoubled eagerness toward 
" the perfect day," to which " the path of the just " 
leads. 
No matter if he find an old comrade who attempts 
to beguile him into the opinion that these are the 
most direct roads to the " Celestial City," and that 
he will offend God by not pursuing one of them (or 
all of them, for they all run together eventually) ; 
let him not be diverted from the straight, illuminated, 
and glorious path, which is just opening into " the 
perfect day !" 
Let him remember too, that to wander for a thou-
sand years among the superceded rights of the typi-
cal service, witnessing the offering of bloody victims 
on the altar ; is like wandering among the dead, and 
epending his time in grave-yards ; for their observ-
ances are forever superceded by Christ's one offering, 
and are as really dead as are the bodies which repose 
in the tombs. 
Be not intimidated or diverted—God is with us, 
and his approval has been manifested thus far in our 
journey. The lofty battlements of the Holy Jerusa-
lem are heaving into view, and the melody of its 
music vibrates gently upon the ear, and wakes our 
souls to song, in anticipation of its enchanting full-
ness, which will soon come pealing upon our ravished 
ears. We already, by faith, see the green fields of 
Paradise a little before us, and can almost press its 
uncursed ground, and inhale its delightful odors wafted 
on the heavenly breezes. 
Alas ! shall we turn our eye of faith aside to a 
state of comparative cheerfulness, to gaze upon the 
Jews and their vassals rebuilding Jerusalem? Shall 
we be told that our place of reward is on the old 
earth under the curse ? That we must reside among 
the Hottentots and cannibals of the South seas? That 
we must look for imperfection in Christ's kingdom"! 
God forbid ! !—(To be continued ) 
LETTER FROM M. D. WELLCOME. 
DEAR BRETHREN AND SISTERS, toiling on in the 
narrow way, journeying to Mount Zion, suffering 
tribulation, " think it not strange concerning the fiery 
trials," which you are permitted to endure, for by 
these our Heavenly Father designs to test the faith 
of the heirs of glory, and strengthen their patience. 
With these also he purges the dross from the gold. 
Gold, you know, in order to be purified, has to be 
put into the crucible, and not until it reflects the 
image of the refiner, is it wholly cleansed from dross. 
Well, I expect that we shall need the furnace so long 
as we remain here : yea, until we awake with the 
likeness of our blessed Jesus, and that will not be 
until he comes. Not until our bodies are fashioned 
like unto his glorious body, shall we be a pure reflec-
tion of his image. But, notwithstanding, let us he 
just as much like him as it is possible fiir us to he 
while in this earthly tabernacle. We may possess 
the same mind that was in him, and walk even as he 
walked, and this we shall do if we abide fully in 
him. He is oar example, and lie was sinless, and 
guile was not found in his mouth. We must also be 
blameless and harmless, the children of God without 
rebuke, in the midst of a crooked and perverse 
generation, among whom we are required to shine as 
lights in the world. 
'fhe pathway of life is not strewn with flowers, 
unmixed with thorns ; nevertheless it is a blessed, 
happy way. Here we have the imprint of our 
Saviour's feet in which to tread, His smiles to cheer 
us on, His arm upon which we may lean for support, 
the influence of the Spirit to comfort, the Word to 
illumine our path, and the angel of the covenant to 
go before us. The precious promises inspire us with 
faith—and hope is an anchor to the soul. Before us 
lies a glorious inheritance, such as it bath not eAaered 
into the natural heart to comprehend, but of which 
we are oftimes permitted to have a rich foretaste, that 
we may be inspired with fresh ardor, and renewed 
courage, to run with patience the race. 
0 let us journey on in this " narrow way," though 
here the cross of self-denial has daily to be borne, 
rather than go with the multitude in that broader path 
which leadeth to destruction. 
We have fallen upon " perilous times," and many 
are the temptations which beset us on every hand. 
The position we occupy may well be represented by 
Bunyan's enchanted ground, both by its perilous dan-
gers, and proximity to the land of Beulah. 
If we turn aside into any of the inviting arbors 
which abound on either side of the way, we shall 
lose ourselves in slumber, and so the day of the Lord 
will overtake us unawares. Especially now do we 
need the exhortation : " Watch and pray always, 
that ye may be counted worthy to escape all those things 
which are coming upon the earth, and be prepared to 
stand before the Son of man." Watch over our 
hearts, and keep them with " all diligence " in the 
love of God and patient waiting for Christ. Watch 
over our words, and have them seasoned with grace. 
Not "striving aboutlwords to no profit, but to the 
subverting of the hearer ;" not " doting about ques 
tions and strifes of words, whereof cometh envy, 
strife, railings, evil surmisings, and perverse disput- 
LETTER FROM T. SMITH. 
BRO. RIMES :—About a year since Bro. I. R. Gates 
came to this place, and labored ,efficiently, to the 
benefit of some, and the edification of others. Dur-
ing his labors at that time, he came in contact with a 
Universalist preacher, when something was said about 
having a discussion between them on certain points 
of doctrine ; but Bro. Gates, being under the neces-
sity of returning to his family at that time, it was 
deferred to a future time. After Bro. G. left the 
place, it was said that his reason for leaving was, that 
he was afraid to meet the preacher alluded to, and it 
was asserted that he would not venture to make his 
appearance in this place again. 
During the last month Bro. Gates again came here, 
and signified his willingness and desire to meet the 
Universalist preacher, and publicly discuss the points 
of difference between them. Mr. Rand (the name of 
the gentleman), having notice of Bro. Gates's pres-
ence and wish to meet him, called on him and assured 
him, that such were his engagements in business 
matters, that he could not comply with Bro. G.'s 
wish at present., and he refused to name any future 
time when he would meet him. Thus the subject is 
for the present dismissed. We hope and expect it 
will not any more he said, that Bro. Gates declines 
to discuss the subjects alluded to for fear of being 
defeated, as he has now manifested his perfect readi-
ness and desire to expose and refute the errors held 
by Universalists. These people have treated us 
courteously, in allowing us the use of their meeting-
house at several different times, and for which they 
have our thanks. They have shown themselves more 
neighborly than our Methodist friends, notwithstand-
ing some of our brethren own pews in the Methodist 
house. But the day is at hand which will decide 
who has loved his neighbor, and who has not. 
Bro. Gates has spent a few days in this town, and 
is now in Orrington, laboring zealously and lovingly 
to enjoin the commandments, and to set the Church 
in gospel order, as this important work has never yet 
been done. The prospect now seems to be good 
that some judicious and orderly course may be pur-
sued, by which to save the cause in Orrington.—
There are some who are anxious that gospel order 
should be observed, while others seem to think that 
every kind of organization partakes of the nature of 
Babylon. I very deeply regret that some of our 
preaching brethren, as well as members, manifest op- 
position to such a course, which, it appears to me, is 
so plainly taught in the word of the Lord, by which 
they profess to be governed. That we may have 
respect to all God's commandments, so that we may 
not be ashamed at Jesus' coming, is the prayer, day 
and night, of your brother in hope. 
We are hoping and expecting to visit Cape Cod, 
in some of its towns, about the month of February, 
where some of the seed of the kingdom has been 
sown, and where, we trust, good may yet be done in 
the name of the Lord Jesus. 
Eddington (Me.), Dec. 1850. 
Extracts from Letters. 
Sister E. L. BATES writes from Blandford (Ms.), 
Dec. 2d, 1850 : 
DEAR BRO. RIMES :—I have had a great desire to 
write a few lines for the " Herald " of truth, for the 
encouragement of the flock of Israel, as the blessed 
Bible declares, "as cold water to a thirsty soul, so is 
good news from a far country ;" and how much more 
the glad tidings of salvation by Jesus Christ, who 
has promised that no good thing will he withhold 
from them that walk uprightly ; for his commands 
are yea and amen to every one that believeth. And 
who would not love and obey that blessed Jesus, who 
hath once suffered for sins, the just and the unjust, 
that he might bring us to God, being put to death in 
the flesh, but quickened by the Spirit, and has gone 
up on high, and is to visit this world again, without 
sin unto salvation. '0 glorious thought, of soon see-
ing our dear Redeemer, and of reigning with him 
forever ! Yes, glory to God is the sentiment of my 
heart while writing these few lines. Yes, praise 
the Lord for the glorious promise of his soon coming 
kingdom ! Brethren and sisters, look up and rejoice, 
for our redemption draweth nigh. Soon, if faithful, 
we shall receive a crown of glory that fadeth not 
away. 0 how I long for the day when sickness, 
sorrow, pain, and death are felt and feared no more ; 
where all tears will be wiped from all faces by Jesus' 
own soft hand. Then there will be rest to all the 
weary saints. But after all, we have need of patience, 
that the trial of our faith, being much more precious 
than of 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. 
(Me.), Dec. 3d, 1850: 
DEAR BRETHREN IN THE LORD :—I am thankful 
that I am now able to say, that by industry, attended 
with the blessing of God, I am freed from my former 
heavy embarassment, which has, so long kept me 
from the field, and nearly ruined my health by extra 
exertion. And my health is so much improved, that I 
have determined to enter the vineyard of the Lord, to 
do such work as he may enable me to do. And in doing 
so, I think I shall be free from such incumbrances as 
some have ; for I have no home, no earthly posses-
sions whatever, my team excepted, to attract my 
affections, or require my care. My all is in the 
kingdom to come, and I can trust my Lord for the 
" hundred-fold in this life, with persecutions," while 
I am in his service. We have no time to waste, the 
Lord is at hand, and those who " see the day ap-
proaching," should be active. The light of the glory 
of God will soon burst upon us with all its charming 
realities, to the children of light. While the dark 
curtains of everlasting night will be drawn around 
the wicked, who will then be chased out of the 
world. It is their day now, and " the long-suffering 
of God is for their salvation." Let us then work 
while the day lasts, for the " night will come wherein 
no man can work." If we would have it said to us, 
" Well done, good and fatiliful servants," we must 
be faithful. 
Yours in hope of soon " seeing the King in his 
beauty." 
Sister LAURA F. MARSHALL writes from Northum-
berland (N. H.), Nov. 28th, 1850: 
DEAR BRO. RIMES :—Though living where we 
seldom see an Advent preacher, or hear a lecture on 
the subject of our " blessed hope," we feel a deep 
interest in the spread of the truths which are nearest 
to our hearts, and our sympathies are with those who 
are looking for, and loving the appearing of our 
coming Lord. Sweet is the consolation which the 
Advent faith and hope afford us in the trials and 
afflictions through which we are called to pass in 
these perilous times, and when we look abroad and 
see the earth a charnel-house—full of sin, and its 
direful effects,—we do rejoice that " the time of the 
restitution of all things " is at hand, when the children 
of God will not be scattered abroad, exposed to the 
buffetings of the adversary, and the scorn of the 
world. We, who are now deprived of the privilege 
of meeting with those of " like precious faith," shall 
not always be separated from our brethren ; for we 
trust soon to be gathered into the garner, where 
there shall be one fold and one Shepherd—where we 
 
shall again meet the loved ones who have been torn 
from us by death. 
Fire highly prize the " Herald," its weekly visit 
are truly refreshing—like cold water to a thirsty soul 
 
—and we trust you will be sustained as long as th 
people of God need the assistance of each in thei 
earthly pilgrimage. 
e 
r 
Bro. H. K. BOrER writes from Caledonia, El 
county (Pa.), Nov. 25th, 1850: 
DEAR BRO. RIMES:—The " Herald" still make 
its timely visits, laden with rich consolation. M 
soul has been cheered and edified more by the " Her-
ald " than by everything else written, the Bible onl 
excepted. I consider that more light has been throw 
upon the blessed Bible by and through its instrumen 
tality than by everything else I have read. I believ 
the Advent cause is God's work, and that he wil 
carry it forward. Though all the world be agains 
you, yet the promises of God are such that 1 bid yo 
God speed. We have the truth held forth to us b 
Bro. J. D. Boyer, who visits us monthly. There are 
I believe, some tokens of good amongst us. Bro 
Boyer's labors are still blest to the conversion o 
many precious souls. He has had to wade through 
 
some severe trials of late, but the Lord has deliverer 
him out of them all. His field of labor is too largo 
at present, and we can in truth exclaim, " The liar 
vest is plenteous, but the laborers are few." Pra' 
ye, therefore, that the Lord of the harvest woul 
send more laborers into his vineyard. 
Bro. I. H. SHIPMAN writes from Worcester (Mass.) 
Dec. 3d, 1850 : 
DEAR BRO. RIMES :—Permit me to say throug 
the " Herald," that our brethren here prove them 
selves every way worthy of the stand they have to 
ken, and the blessing of God is upon us. Last Sab 
bath we had our first communion, and a most pre 
cious season it was. To sit down with nearly fift 
brethren and sisters, who are in the most perfect bar 
mony, is truly refreshing. Our number is increasing 
and we are becoming favorably known to many goo 
Christians in other denominations, who are not afrai 
to come in and worship with us. I do not know o 
a better organized body among us than our little floc 
at Worcester. We have a very good choir of sing 
ers, and the right men to fill all the necessary office 
in the Church ; they are in their places, and promp 
in the discharge of their duties. Indeed, we are 
happy company, and are seeking to know the truth 
and live in love and union. Our brethren are no 
forgetful of the poor sinner, and we hope to see th 
salvation of God in the conversion of souls. W 
commenced our Sabbath School and Bible Class las 
Sabbath, and invite all who feel it a privilege to hay 
their children under faithful religious instruction i 
an Advent meeting, to send them to Brinley Hall 
our place of worship, on the Sabbath. We ask th 
prayers of our brethren abroad, that we may b 
humble, spiritual, and devoted to the great work o 
salvation through Jesus Christ our Lord. Yours i 
love and hope. 
DIED, at North Scituate, R. I., Oct. 16th, Bro 
STEPHEN DAVIS, in the 51st year of his age. Hi 
disease was consumption. Bro. Davis had been 
very worthy member of the Christian Baptist Church 
for sixteen years. In the autumn of 1844 he heartil 
embraced the Advent faith, and remained a firm ant 
consistent believer until his death. He died stron 
in the faith of a speedy resurrection to eternal life 
He has left a wife and six children to mourn the los 
of a kind husband and an affectionate father, though 
they mourn not as others who have no hope. Thus 
 
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S. N. GEARS. 
GENERAL DEPOSITORY 
OF AMERICAN AND ENGLISH WORKS ON THE PROPHECIES RELATING 
TO THE SECOND ADVENT OF CHRIST AND THE MILLENNIUM. 
W
E have made arrangements with a house in London, to far-
nish us with all important English works on the Advent, and 
wlli engage to supply those desiring works of the above character at 
the earliest possible moment. Address, .1. V. }LIMES, Office of the 
" Advent Herald," No. 8 Chardon-street, Boston. 
AGENTS FOR THE 
Albany, N. Y.—F. Cladding. 
Auburn., N. 17.-11. L. Smith. 
Buffato,
" W. M. Palmer. 
Brattleboro',Vt.—B. Perham. 
Cincinnati, O.—Joseph Wilson. 
Derby Line, Vt.—S. Foster, jr. 
Detroit, Mich.—L. Armstrong,. 
Eddington, Me.—Thos. Smith. 
Glanville Annap., N. S.—Elias 
Woodworth. 
Hallowell, Me.—I. C. Wellcome. 
Hartford, Ct.—Aaron Clapp. 
Heuvelton,N.Y.—W . D. Ghoslin 
Homer, N. Y.—J. L. Clapp. 
Lockport, N. Y.—H. Robbins. 
Lowell, Mass.—E. II. Adams. 
L. Hampton, N.Y .— I). Bosworth 
Massena, N. Y.—J. Danforth. 
FOR GREAT BRITAIN AND IRELAND.—R. 
Berwick Place, Grange Road, 
HERALD. 
Milwaukee, Wis.—Sand. Brown. 
N ew Bedford, Mass.—II.V. Davis. 
Newburyporl, " Dea. J. Pear- 
son, Sr., Water-street. 
New York City.—W 111. Tracy, 75 
Delancey-street. 
Philadelphia, Pa. — J. Litch, 7C4 
North lath street. 
Portland, Me.—PeterJohnson, 37 
Summer-street. 
Providence, R.i.-G. R. Cladding. 
Rochester, N. Y .—W m. Busby. 
Salem, Mass.—b. Osier. 
Toronto, C. W.—D. Campbell. 
Wardsboro', Ft.—Ira Wyman. 
Waterloo, Shefferd, C. E. — R. 
Hutchinson. 
Worcester, Ms.-D. F.Wetherhee. 
Robertson, ESQ., No. 1 
Bermondsey, London. 
THE AMERICAN VOCALIST. 
BY REV. D. H. MANSFIELD. 
T
HE popularity of this excellent Collection of Music is sufficiently 
attested by the fact, that although it has been published hut 
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demand than ever. 
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. thank him for the important service he has rendered the cause of 
Sacred Music. 
From Zion's Herald. 
It is one of the best combinations of old and new Music we have 
seen. Its great characteristic is, that while it is sufficiently scientific, 
[ it is full of the soul of popular music. 
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I 
GREAT COUGH REMEDY 
i 
Ayer's Cherry Pectoral, 
' 
FOR THE CURE OF 
, Hoarseness, Bronchitis, Whooping-Cough, Croup 
Asthma, and Consumption. 
r rHoHE annals of rie(ical science,
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, Dished no examples to compare with the salutary effects produce( 
1 by AYER'S CHERRY PECTORAL. 
The remarkable cures of diseases of the Lungs which have beet 
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j We present to the public unsolicited testimonials from some o 
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most learned and intelligent physicians in the country, considers i 
' a " composition of rare excellence for the cure of that formidabl 
disease, Consumption." 
Norwich, April 26, 1846. 
1 Dr. J. C. Ayer—Dear Sir:—Agreeable to the request of you 
agent, we will cheerfully state what we have known of the effect 
- of your Cherry Pectoral. and they have been astonishing indeed 
Mrs. Betsey Streeter had been afflicted with a severe and relentles 
_ 
cough, which reduced her very low ; so low that little hope coul. 
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- George Watkinson, Esq., had to our koowaedge been afflicted win 
i Asthma for eleven years, and grown yettely worse, until the Cheri- 
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i bottle of your Pectoral, which cured him at once, and he now oft 
i ciates as usual in his place. 
-1 
These are three of the cases in which we have known it susses: 
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facts ; and are, respected sir, your humble servants. 
Z 
REV. DAVID THORNING. 
HON. JOSEPH BATTLES. 
- Among the distinguished authorities who have given their name 
s to recommend the Cherry Pectoral as the best remeu(y that is know 
, for the Affections of the Lungs, are " The LondOn Lancet," " Ca 
t radian Journal of Medical Science," " Boston Medical and Surgict 
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edical 
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t 
Reporter;
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 Prof. (13Stir(tle)t tiV,ITedraienaslylity 
eine, President Perkins, Vermont Medical College, Dr. Valentin 
Mott, New York city, l'arker Cleaveland, Bowdon' College, Pro 
Butterfield, Willoughby Colleg,e, Ohio, Prof. Braithwaite, Leed 
3 (Eng.) Medical School, Sir Robert Kane, Queen's College, Irelant 
Prof: Rosenbaum, Leipsic. 
The public have but to know the virtue and astonishing mice& 
t of the Cherry Pectoral in curing diseases of the lungs, when the 
will feel secure from these dangers, whenever this remedy can It 
3 obtained. 
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Bro. M. GRANT writes from West Winsted (Ct.), the 3d 
instant :—" Tite Loll!) is still with us, and is reviving his 
work in several other places besides Newfield. The cause 
is onward in the latter place. 0, praise the LORD for our 
blessed hope. I am folly persuaded, that if the Advent 
preachers would labor more heartily for the revival of pure 
and undefiled religion, that they would see many converted to 
the truth. Our congregations arc large, and seem deeply in-
terested in the subject of the LORD'S speedy coming." 
Bro. Writ. SHELDEN writes from Chateauguay, N. Y., 
the 2d inst., that a new interest in the Advent has recently 
been awakened in that vicinity, under the labors successively 
of Brn. 0. D. GIBSON and WM. SUTHERLAND,—result- 
i ng in the conversion of a goodly number of backsliders and 
other sinners. He requests Bro. G. to visit them again ; 
and also that Bro. D. T. TYLER will fulfil his appointment. 
The Pathfinder Railway Guide for the New England 
States, for December, anti the Boston Monthly Express List 
and Forwarders' Guide, for the same month, have been re-
ceived. Both of these indispensable monthlies continue to 
be published on the first Monday of each month, by Snow & 
WILDER, at the "Pathfinder Railway Guide office," No. 5 
Washington-street. 
The Apocryphal New Testament. 
We have received a copy of the above by mail, 
from a brother, whose name we suppose is the one 
written over the title page. He will please to accept 
our thanks for the work. 
In looking over the first book of the " Infancy," 
we were struck with a chronological confirmation of 
the date of CHRIST'S birth. In the fourth verse of 
the first chapter it reads: " In the hundred and 
ninth year of the sera of ALEXANDER, AUGUSTUS 
published a decree, that all persons should go to be 
taxed in their own country." The " era of ALEX-
ANDER " iS the same as the " era of the Seleucidw." 
—See Sacred Chro., p. 155. This era dates from 
the accession of SELEncus, who was made king of 
Syria by PTOLEMY , when he came against DEM ETRIU S 
POLIORCETES. His kingdom is dated from Olym. 
117, y. 1, which year began at the new moon nearest 
the summer solstice, and J. P. 4402 B. C 312. The 
difference between the 1st year of this era and the 
309th, is 308 years, which deduct from B. C. 312 
brings us to B. c. 4, as the time of CHRIST'S birth. 
The " Infancy " was in existence among the Chris-
tians as early as the second century, before the Vul-
gar era was in use, and before there was any contro-
versy respecting the time of CHRIST'S birth ; it is art 
important confitmation of the modern conclusion that 
the Vulgar era is four years later than the actual 
epoch of CHRIST'S birth. 
Disunion at the South. 
The Legislatures of South Carolina and Mississippi 
are very bellicose in their disposition. The Gov-
ernors of those States take high ground in their mes-
sages, and openly advocate secession. In the South 
Carolina Legislature, on the 3d, Mr. MIDDLETON ad-
vocated the policy of refusing to elect a U. S. Sena-
tor in place of Mr. CALHOUN. Ile maintained that 
the State Legislature could, whenever they deemed 
it expedient, bring the general government to a stand, 
by refusing to constitute the sectional body, or de-
termining not to elect or appoint Presidential electors. 
Mr. KEITT addressed the House on the 3d, and 
concluded his remarks on the 4th. He advocated 
separate State action. What the South wanted is 
the formation of a Southern Confederacy. The only 
feasible means of effecting this is by a secession of 
the States individually. Should South Carolina se- 
cede, it would bring around her every true friend of 
the South. 
When he had concluded, a debate sprung up on 
the propriety of limiting the time for making speeches 
—pending which the whole subject was postponed to 
the next day. 
A bill was introduced, and received its first read-
ing, to increase the penalty for circulating papers 
calculated to disturb the peace and security of the 
State. It provides that persons guilty of the offence 
designated shall be deemed guilty of a high misde-
meanor, and receive thirty-nine lashes, pay a fine not 
exceeding $1000, and be imprisoned not exceeding 
five years. 
The persecution of the Christians in Asiatic Tur-
key is terrible. On the 18th of October, at Aleppo, 
a body of Turks and Arabs fell upon the Christians 
during the night, and a fearful massacre took place. 
Few escaped. The Greek bishop was among those 
murdered. The pacha locked himself up in the for-
tress, and the troops did not attempt to interfere. 
From China, Sept. 20, we learn that the insurrec-
tion in one of the provinces adjoining Canton has be-
come of some magnitude. A body of governMent 
troops have been defeated, and the rebels are already 
in the Canton province. The movement is said to 
be directed chiefly against the Tartar dynasty, but 
it is impossible to obtain correct information. It 
alarms the Chinese in Canton, and has an injurious 
effect on trade. 
The French vessel Albert, which sailed from Hong 
Kong with a cargo of silk, and with 180 Chinese 
laborers tbr Peru, just returned under charge of the 
second mate. The Chinese, soon after leaving Hong 
Kong, rose upon the captain and crew, killed the 
former, the supercargo, chief mate, and two others ; 
and after plundering the vessel, 140 landed with their 
booty in fishing boats. The remainder have been 
taken charge of by the police. 
Lithograph of George Thompson, M. P.—We have re-
ceived from the publishers, JOHN P. JEWETT & Co., a fine 
lithograph print of this distinguished Englishman, now in 
this country. It is not only well executed, but it is a correct 
likeness of Mr. THOMPSON. 
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ments must he received, at the latest, by Tuesday evening ; other-
wise, they ciinnot be inserted until the following week. 
Bro. J. Pearson, ir., will preach in Lake Village, N. H., Sabbath, 
Dee. 15th ; Meredith Centre (where Bro. C. Perkins may appoint.) 
Tuesday evelibig, the 17111 ; olderne.s, 
Shaw sleet 
him at the cars Sugar Hill, Sabbath, 22d. If these appointineets 
interfere with any arrangement already made at either et the above 
places, will some one nobly Bro. e. by letter, addressed to. Bro. 
John Shaw, Holderness, N. V. 
Bro. N. Billings will preach at Holden, Mass., Wednesday even-
ing', Dec. lath ; Springfield, 19th; Warehouse Point, Ct., Atli; 
appoint,) Jan. ; r4unuay, Jan. 5th„ as Bre. Matthewson may 
ryville, Sunday, 39th ; Pleasant Valley, (as fire. Win. Ripley may
Subday, ; Merlin:m.25M ;
'46th ; Ter- 
There will be a series of 'peelings M the Advent chapel, North 
Abington, Mass., to comineece evening of Jan. 15th, and continue 
over the Sabbath. We hope the Iriends in this viciiiitY will come 
up to the Mast. Brit Osler and Edwin Burnhanicsi,
c 
ASE 'TAYLOR. 
Bro, W. Burnham will he with the Iliends on New Darhum Ridge 
the last Sunday iu December, and the iirst iu January. 
Bro. Hirdes will attend the meeting at Clinton, Mass., Sueday, 
Dec. 15th, at the opening of the new hall. Bro. Edwin Buritteun is 
also requested to attend. He will attend meetings in Newcastle, 
Me. tie Bro. parley's eeighborhood,) limn Dec. 19th to the 22d. 
Bro. H. L. Hastings will preach at New Britain, Ct., Sunday, Dec. 
8th ; Middletown (upper Rinses), 9th ; Middletown, luth ; Prospect, 
11th ; W aterbury, 12th ; Roxbury, 13th ; Kent, 15th ; ; 
Salisbury, 18th fibightsville, Mass., 20th ; Sunday, 201, 
end Buckland ill the evening—the appointment for the preceding 
Sunday is recalled ; '43d, 2 P hi, and West Hawley in the 
evening ; Northfield Farina, 24111 ; Northfield Mountain, 25th ; 
Athol, 27th ; 'Templeton, 250; ; Hardwick, 30th ; Chicopee Fulls, 
31st, watch night. Those on week days in the evening. 
Bro. Ira Wyman will preach in Hebron, N. Y., Sunday, Dec. 15 ; 
Union Village, lath ; North Adams, Mass., ; South Adams, 18; 
Savoy, tpth ; Ilaydenville, Seth ; Westfield Farms, 241 ; Springfield 
26th, evening, ; Chicopee, 27th ; Cabotvilk, 2bth no; Granby, 
29th ; Northfield Farms 30th ; Erving, 31st ; Northfield Moutitain, 
Jan. 1st • Verbon, 3d ; 
Farms, 
 5th ; Houghtonville, 12th. All, ex- 
cept Sundays, at 6 ni the evening. 
Bro. L. D. Thompson will preach in North Abington Sunday, 
Dec. 15th; 
 Kingston, evening of 26th ; South Salem, N. li., Sunday, 
22(1 ; Rye, Sunday, 39th. Bro. Thompsou's address is Lowell, Ms. 
Bro. Prosper Powell will preach in Richford, Vt., Sunday, Dec. 8; 
Troy, 
 15th ; Derby Line, Sunday, kW. 
tiro, P. Hawked will preach in Lynn the second and third Sundays 
fit Dec. 
Bro. W.
1
Burnham will preach in Hopeville, It. I., the third and 
fmlio
rrill. N. Pease
Sulduls wi
inDll preach
ee. 
 in Wrentham, Mass., Sabbath, Dec. 1.5; 
Bellingham, 18th and 19th ; North Scituate, Sabbath, '42d. 
Bro. J. Cummings will preach in Claremont Sunday, Dec. 29th. 
Bro. N. Hervey will preach in Lynn the fourth Sunday in Dec. 
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The present condition or the moral and political world, 
admonishes us of the speedy consummmation of the great 
scheme of Gon, as revealed in prophecy ! The signs of the 
times portend the destruction of Antichrist and all the wicked, 
and the immediate establishment of GoD's universal and ev-
erlasting kingdom ! These facts call 'upon us to put forth vi-
gorous and untiring efforts for the conversion of souls to 
CHRIST, and the awakening of the professed Church of 
GOD, which still remains, to a great extent, in a state of 
lethargy in respect to the return of their LORD, and the mo-
mentous events connected with " that day." " The day of 
the Loan is near, it is near, and hasteth greatly ;" and 
scenes of awful sublimity arid glory will soon open upon an 
unthinking world and slumbering Church. What is the 
duty of those who " look for such things 1" We have done 
something ; much remains to be done, or few will be aroused 
and prepared for that day. 
The importance of this work, and the necessity of united, 
vigorous efforts, and particularly the wants of the cause in 
this region, induce us to invite our brethren "of like pre-
cious faith " to meet together for mutual encouragement, and 
the furtherance of truth on these great questions, in the city 
of Auburn, N. Y., on the 15th of January, 1851, to continue 
four days. We wish to adopt more efficient measures, as 
GOD shall give us wisdom, to carry forward our great and 
good work. 
We still regard the original doctrines of the Advent, as 
taught by our lamented Bro. MILLER, as sound and scrip-
tural. 
Clear, easy to be understood, and powerful in them-
selves, they have been " mighty to the pulling down of the 
strong holds " of error, in which the world and the Church 
were entrenched on the subject of the Millennium. We have 
reluctantly laid our pioneer in the grave ; but we shall not 
readily bury the precious truths which he was so successful 
in exhuming from their tomb, where they had reposed tar 
ages. We cannot but regaad the recent additions made by 
some to the ADVENT FAITH, as tending to encumber and 
embarrass its influence, and thus prevent its intrinsic har-
mony and beauty from being seen, and its power from being 
felt. We also regard the subtractions recently made from it, 
as the removing of so many pillars from the great superstruc-
ture of Prophetic Truth, thus destroying its proportions, and 
weakening its strength. Shall the Advent doctrine, in its 
plain, lucid, bold, and scriptural character, as originally 
preached; be abandoned I or shall it still be spread abroad 1 
Since the commencement of our work, nearly every pillar of 
our faith has been attacked, and its truth denied, not only by 
those without, but by those WITHIN our ranks; and we have 
been compelled to defend the truth from domestic as well as 
foreign assaults, else we had been wholly distracted, and the 
truth deplorably mutilated. We want this truth maintained, 
and desire to meet in mutual conference at Auburn the stead-
fast friends of "the faith once delivered to the saints," 
which the world derisively calls " Millerism," that we may 
unite together once more with strong hands and hearts, re-
solved to push the battle to the gate, and never surrender to 
the professed foes, or friends, of our cause, those truths fur 
which we "have counted all things loss." We invite our 
beloved Bro. Him ES to meet with us, and aidus in our meet-
ing. Having been a pioneer in the West, and having main-
tained the great Advent Doctrine at all times, we desire his 
aid and counsel at this Conference. All our ministering 
brethren, East and West, who sympathize with us, are in-
vited to come, as also all our beloved brethren and sisters 
throughout this region. Come with prayerful hearts and 
willing hands, to take hold of the work with renewed vigor. 
Our beloved Bro. PINNEY, though prevented by his afilic-
thin from public speaking, will not fail, we trust, to he pres-
ent, and aid us at least by his counsel. During the meeting, 
it is expected that a lucid exposition; of the ORIGINAL. AD- 
V ENT FAI rye will be given. Let those who love "the old 
corn of the land" conic up to the meeting ! 
To the Advent Ministers and Churches. 
DEAR BRETHREN :—At a meeting of the Essex Confer-
ence, Nov. 14th, the following resolutions were passed : 
Whereas in the opinion of this Conference the present 
condition of the Advent cause demands the union and co-
operation of all true and faithful Advent ministers and 
Churches in New England, who are united in the principles 
of the original Advent Faith, as stated by the Albany Con-
ference in 1845, and re-affirmed by the Boston Conference in 
1850 ; therefore
Re8olvd,1 
 
1. That we will take immediate measures for the 
general union and co-operation of Adventists throughout the 
country. 
Resolved, 2. That a committee of five be chosen to corres-
pond with brethren in all parts of the country on the subject, 
and to call a meeting for the Adventists of New England, and 
report their proceedings to the Conference. 
The committee will lie happy to have the views of breth-
ren on this subject. Letters may be addressed to J. V. 
HIMES, Boston, Mass. 
JOSHUA V. DIMES, 
LEMUEI. OSLER, 
BUTLER MORLEY, Committee. 
0. R. FASSETT, 
EZRA CROWELL, 
 
Boston, Nov. 15, 1850 
A NEW ENGLAND CONFERENCE has been requested by 
the following brethren. It is hoped that elders, or unor-
dained preachers, evangelists, officers of Churches, or active 
lay brethren, in the New England States, who approve of 
this object, will send in their names, to be appended to this 
call. 
Stinson, of Me. 
C. Wellcome, of Me. 
Hervey,
N. 
 
I.
D. 
 Robinson, of N. H. 
H. Plummer, of Mass. 
L. Osier, 
Ezra Crowell, of Mass. 
J. M. Daniels, " 
H. Shipman, 
V. Hinies, 
J. Pearson, 
0. R. Fassett, 
Chase Try for, 
Jonas Ball, 
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To Correspondents. 
J. PnrLinticx.—We think you are mistaken in 
supposing the Pope has more temporal power in Italy 
than he had before his flight. If anything, it is less. 
As your argument is based on that, with a faulty 
premise, the superstructure would be baseless. 
N. J. HOLMES.—He has united with them in the 
crusade.