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may well believe that tears in abundance were molate his son. Isaac was grown to manhood, 
shed, as the patriarch bade farewell to Hagar, 
and strained his son for the last time to his bo-
som, in agonized embrace. The heart of Sarah 
must have melted at the sight of his grief, and 
her anger have given way to willingness for 
reconciliation. She could not see the suffering 
of hint she loved ; she could not see the hand-
maid who had served her so long, the boy who 
had grown from infancy by her side, go forth 
from her door, driven thence by her severity, 
to wander through the world, without a revul-
sion of feeling. But a higher purpose than 
her's was to be accomplished ; and the words 
she had uttered in anger were exponents of the 
decree fulfilled in after ages. Abraham 
obeyed, not the imperious demand of his wife, 
but the Divine direction; and the consciousness 
of this, and that he was committing Ishmael, 
not to the uncertainties of a dreary future, but 
to the care of One who had promised to pro-
tect him, took away from the bitterness of 
parting. The fervent prayer with which he 
commended the boy to the keeping of his heav-
enly Father, ascended upward from his pious 
heart, on the wings of faith, and was heard. 
Then the Egyptian and her son went forth from 
the patriarch's dwelling. 
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" Lovest Thou Me?'' 
" Lovest thou me?" the Man of Sorrows snake, 
And turned to one who, for his Master's sake, 
Had cast all ties of home and kindred by, 
In hope with Him to live—with Him to die,— 
" Lovest thou me ?" 
Then feed my lambs—my tender flock ! 0, bear 
The helpless in thine arms with kindly care ; 
Succor the tempted, lest they widely stray,-
0 ! guide them safely in the narrow way. 
"Lovest thou me ?" 
Then feed my faithful—feed my chosen sheep, 
In pastures fresh and green my love.) ones keep ; 
Guide them where Inge and living waters flow, 
And comfort on each falling heart bestow. 
" Lovest thou me ?" 
" Lovest thou me ?" As thus again he snake, 
The sad disciple's heart seemed like to break 
With sorrow, that his Master and his Lord 
Again should urge the oft-repeated word— 
" Lovest thou me ?" 
Ah ! feeble Christian ! 4s there now no hour 
When, shaken by the tempter's mighty power, 
Thy heart grows weary, and thy failing eye 
No longer seeks deliv'rance from on high ; 
When e'en devotion seems a joyless task, 
ls there no hour when Jesus well might ask, 
" Lovest thou me ?" 
Christian Intelligencer. 
The Family of Abraham. 
BY MRS. E. F. ELLET. 
(C �
I tided.) 
THE pastoral simplicity of the world's in-
fancy comes before us, as we contemplate the 
picture presented in the eighteenth chapter of 
Genesis—of the aged patriarch sitting in his 
tent-door in the heat of the day, the approach 
of the three strangers, and the reception of 
them with oriental hospitality. We are not 
told if Abraham perceived at first sight the 
real character of the mysterious visitors, or if 
the truth was revealed to hint by any after in-
timation ; but it is probable that his lowly obei-
sance, when he ran to meet them from the 
tent-door, and invited them to rest under the 
tree and refresh themselves, was an act of res-
pect rather than of worship. The quick pre- 
mentioned, that the patriarch was naturally 
disposed to exercise his own judgment in shap-
ing his course ; his disingenuous equivocation 
concerning his relations to Sarah, in Egypt and 
in Gerar, strongly evinces this tendency ; but 
under the appointed discipline, these corrupt 
inclinations were gradually overcome. The 
last severe ordeal through which he was called 
to pass—in the sacrifice required of his only 
son—was met in a manner that showed him 
then advanced in the life of faith beyond the 
weakness which had marked its early growth ; 
and thenceforward wo hear of no more doubts 
or shortcomings. 
The expression of Sarah in the eighteenth 
chapter, calling Abraham " my lord," seems to 
be referred to by St. Peter, in his commenda-
tion of her obedience to him. The life of this 
couple—growing old in faithful affection, and 
in expectation of the blessing mysteriously 
promised—is simply and beautifully delineated. 
Sarah was subject to Abraham as her head, 
superior, and guide : Abraham, " the friend of 
God," leaned on the Divine counsel and sup-
port. The son born to them—the child of 
promise—the heir of unknown blessing—the 
channel of mercy foreordained for the whole 
race of mankind, was a gift received from the 
hand of the Creator, and unspeakably precious. 
The circle of the family was thus complete. 
The bondwoman and her son had no proper 
part therein—and they were to be removed 
from the association. The custom of men. in 
that primitive age, allowing a plurality of 
wives, was not expressly censured ; but that 
the practice was a violation of the principle on 
which the marriage relation was founded, and 
tended to the subversion of domestic comfort 
and peace, is plain from the examples in the 
case of the patriarchs. Abraham was doomed 
to suffer the consequences of his own fault, by 
the necessity of parting with the son borne to 
him by Hagar. The haughty spirit of Sarah 
could ill brook the boyish insolence of Ish-
mael ; and remembering Abraham's former 
yielding to her complaints, she demanded pe-
remptorily the expulsion of the boy and his 
from him the child he had first loved, and in 
whose opening faculties, wild as his nature 
was, he felt a parent's pride. 
" The thing was very grievous in his sight ;" 
and in his anguish he doubtless sought the di-
rection of that great Being by whom hitherto 
his steps had been guided. The answer, couched 
in gracious and comforting terms, commands 
him to comply with the apparently unreasona-
ble demand ; and to yield to his wife the un-
limited control over her servant assigned her 
by the usage of pastoral tribes. An intimation 
is added of blessirr, destined Ishmael for Abra-
ham's sake ; and Abraham, obedient to the Di-
vine vision, rose up early to make preparations 
for the departure of the two. There is some-
thing unspeakably touching in the very sim-
plicity of the account, which leaves room for 
imagination to dwell upon the melancholy 
scene. The aged and affectionate father, plac-
ing in Hagar's hands the provisions which 
.could sustain them only a brief way on their 
journey, and sorrowing that he should see the 
face of his child no more—the Egyptian mo-
ther, bowed down in humiliation for this abrupt 
dismission from the home that had been her's 
so long ; perhaps reproaching herself for the 
unseemly pride and arrogance which had so 
provoked her mistress—and the spirited lad, 
who would naturally feel the separation less 
keenly, in his youthful love of adventure, to 
be indulged without restraint in the wild and 
uninhabited districts where they were to seek 
their fortune. What a scene, with its deep 
pathos, for the embellishment of poetry ! We 
The wandering of the outcast Hagar and 
Ishmael in the wilderness—their sufferings 
from the failure of the supply of water, and 
the anguish of the mother, who lays down her 
child to die, and retires to weep, that she may 
not behold his last agonies—are recounted in a 
description which has never been surpassed in 
simple pathos. Here again is a scene for the 
artist, whose fancy could add no coloring more 
striking than is presented. The familiar story, 
with its typical meaning, need not be dwelt 
upon here, as the Egyptian and her son were 
no longer a portion of the family of Abraham. 
When the command came to offer up Isaac 
in sacrifice—the keenest trial to the parental 
feeling, as well as to the faith of Abraham—
we read of no struggle nor hesitation, as in the 
case of Ishmael. He utters no murmur, though 
bidden to cut short, with his own hand, the life 
on which his expectation depended for a nume-
rous posterity, and the blessing which, through 
him, was to pervade the whole earth. As be-
fore, after the vision, he " rose up early in the 
morning," and prepared for his journey, having 
prepared wood for the burnt-offering. Those 
who were with him knew not of his intention ; 
and it is not likely that he confided the matter 
to Sarah, whose feebler faith and maternal 
anxiety might have interposed obstacles. — 
Through the journey—which did not terminate 
with their arrival at Mount Moriali till the third 
day—there appears no objection or want of 
alacrity on his part to put the fearful command 
in execution. This is explained by the apos-
tle, who says, Abraham believed God could 
raise his son from the dead ; and that he ex-
pected this, is evident from the expression to 
the young men, that he and Isaac would return 
to them after their worship. He did not doubt 
the ultimate fulfilment of tile promises ; and 
the miraculous restoration of his son seemed a 
matter of course, since He who could not lie 
had said—" In Isaac shall thy seed be called." 
When it became necessary to communicate to 
Isaac his fatal purpose, no resistance was of-
fered by the destined victim ; no shudderings 
of nature prompted to avert the blow. How 
strikingly does this circumstance show the 
strict religious training of the child of promise 
by Abraham ! The youth might have remon-
strated against his father's incurring the guilt 
of murder ; he might have urged the illegality 
of human sacrifice ; or even questioned the 
master and mistress are active as well as their 
servants, and the particulars related, strongly 
mark the simple and generous character of that 
ancient hospitality. The meal was partaken 
of under the spreading tree which shaded the 
tent; and then the chief of the three strangers 
renewed the promise of a son before given, 
and fixed the time of his birth. The laughter 
of Sarah, who heard this promise in the tent-
door behind, indicated the unbelief of her heart, 
and was reproved, though mildly, by the Al-
mighty visitant. 
It is remarkable, that by a few words in the 
verses succeeding, light is thrown upon the 
character of both Abraham and Sarah, in their 
domestic relations. The patriarch's habitual 
exercise of due authority over his household, 
and pious zeal in instructing them, is attested 
by the Lord, in the disclosure of his gracious 
purpose towards him. r" I know him, that he 
will command his children and his household 
after him," is not said as a reason for the bes-
towal of tile blessing at first promised—for the 
very fitness to receive it was a gift from above 
—but it was part of the plan of benevolence. 
The father of the faithful had once listened to 
the persuasions of his wife, and obeyed them 
in espousing Hagar ; instances of misconduct 
and criminal distrust of God's protection through 
scenes of peril, are also recorded of him ; but 
his heart, by the Divine aid, was set to do that 
which was right, and the same grace would be 
granted to keep him faithful to the end, and to 
cause his descendants to " keep the way of the 
Lord." It appears from several particulars 
parations for their entertainment, in which thg mother. It was hard for the father to send 
and would probably have surpassed his aged 
father in strength, had he chosen to escape or 
defend his life. But he had been educated in 
the principles of obedience and absolute sub-
mission to heavenly ordinances. The instruc-
tions received from his father's lips had fitted 
him to understand the obligations of the com-
mand ; and it is reasonable to suppose that 
Abraham communicated to him his own hopes 
of his restoration. He yielded himself, volun-
tarily, to be bound and laid on the altar, as did 
the " Lamb of God," whom, by the act, be 
typified. 
Not only was Abraham thus worthy in his 
family relations of being the great example of 
faith and obedience to his posterity and the 
world, but he appears equally exemplary in 
other situations. What can be more sublime 
than his expostulation with the Deity to avert 
the impending fate of the cities of the plain ! 
And how exalted is the idea of the justice and 
mercy of the Infinite conveyed by the scene ! 
His position among the princes of adjoining 
territories was a highly honorable one : lie was 
a mighty prince among them, and their esteem 
was often testified by gifts. Abimelech, the 
king of Gerar, sought to form with him a 
treaty of amity, to continue inviolable to his 
descendants ; for he says—" God is with thee 
in all that thou doest." He had not forgotten, 
in his abounding prosperity, to ascribe all to 
the favor of Him from whom corneal every 
good thing; and it is not unlikely that from 
him md'ny of the neighboring chiefs learned 
the worship of the true God. 
The expression so often used in Scripture, 
" gathered to his fathers," appears to have a 
meaning which throws light upon the customs 
of primitive ages. We learn that each tribe or 
family had its own place of burial—sometimes 
a spacious sepulchre, hewn from the rock, and 
divided into several chambers, where the dust 
of many branches of the clan might be depos-
ited. The chief had here his appointed place, 
and round him were assembled the children 
who came one by one to moulder at his side. 
Thus the family union was preserved, even in 
the grave. No stranger dust was permitted to 
mingle with the kindred remains ; and from 
generation to generation the descendants of the 
same progenitor occupied their last resting-
place together. Thus Abraham, when Sarah 
died, applied to the chiefs of the clan of Heth 
to purchase a cemetery ; for as yet he had been 
a stranger and a sojourner, and in his wander-
ing life had possessed no place to bury his 
dead. His home was fixed now in the land of 
Canaan and there was to be the sacred de-
posit, which he would guard with jealous care 
from foreign intrusion. He declines the com-
plimentary offer of the chiefs, of permission to 
bury his dead in the choicest of their own na-
tional sepulchres ; he refuses to accept as a gift 
from Ephron the cave and field be had selected 
as suitable for the purpose, though it was prof-
fered publicly, as a mark of high respect. He 
will have this sacred possession isolated from 
all others, and takes it only on condition of be-
ing permitted to pay the price to its owner.—
The bargain is ratified, and the field secured to 
him, with its rock and the trees that were to 
shade the graves of his household. 
In widowed estate lived the patriarch after 
the death of his wife, occupied with the care 
and education of his son. When the time 
came that a wife should be provided for Isaac, 
the same determination to keep his stock sepa-
rate from the surrounding tribes, by avoiding 
their alliance, is manifested. In the ancient 
Mesopotamian settlement, the children of his 
right of the prophet-patriarch—on the authority brother Nahor yet live, and among his kindred 
of a vision seen by none but himself—to im- there the patriarch determines to choose a wife 
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for his son. His eldest and chief servant—
supposed to be Eliezer of Damascus, the next 
hi rank in the tribe, who was once his heir pre-
sumptive—is directed to depart on the mission, 
and is required to pledge a solemn oath that in 
no case shall the wife be chosen from the 
daughters of the Canaanites. Almost equally 
strong is his repeated command, that Isaac 
shall not be conducted back to the land of his 
own birth, even though the kinswoman selected 
should refuse to come and meet him in Ca-
naan. In obedience to the heavenly mandate, 
he had quitted the country of his nativity and 
his father's house : Palestine, by Divine grant, 
was the patrimony of his descendants ; and 
the merging of his family with those of his 
kindred, which would be the consequence of 
return to Mesopotamia, was not less to be 
dreaded than a heathen alliance. In this anx-
iety for the seclusion and isolation of his own 
stock, it is not possible to say how much of the 
pride of an independent chieftain mingled with 
Abraham's regard to the commandment en-
trusted to him. A desire to maintain his own 
dignity as the parent of a nation may have had 
some influence ; but his chief motive was the 
conviction of his duty to preserve integrity of 
descent in a line from which was to spring the 
mysterious Seed promised to the first mother. 
That this was so is evident from the confidence 
he expresses in the success of the mission.— 
" The Lord God of heaven—He shall send His 
angel before thee." 
The departure of the servant, his arrival at 
the city of Nahor, and meeting with the lovely 
daughter of Bethuel—that beautiful history so 
rich in romantic interest and instructive lessen-
ing—belongs not strictly to this chapter. The 
bride in her modest beauty was received into 
Abraham's family, and on her first arrival at 
the encampment, conducted to the tent of Sa-
rah, the place assigned to the chief female in 
the tribe. 
The line of the Messiah being thus cared 
for, and Isaac constituted the sole heir to all 
the wealth of Abraham, the patriarch married 
again. But his other children, having received 
gifts from him, were sent away into the east 
country ; nor were their descendants, though 
noticed in the Hebrew annals, considered as 
belonging to the same stock with the Jews. 
Ishmael, indeed, joined with Isaac in the last 
duties to their father,, interring his remains in 
the cave of Machpelah, where the dust of Sa-
rah reposed. 
In all the relations of Abraham, his sincerity 
and fidelity appear prominent. He is thus as 
a husband, a parent, and as the head of a tribe ; 
but most of all, his fealty to God is inviolate. 
This is the foundation of his exemplary cha-
acter in respect of inferior claims. His build-
ing and sustaining of a family, and his provis-
ion for its continuance, have reference to the 
fulfilment of the great purpose revealed to him, 
dimly and darkly it may be, but with light 
enough to guide his own course. He " re-
joiced to see the day " of the promised Re-
deemer, though its full splendor did not burst 
on his sight, but was veiled in symbols and in-
timations. He "trusted in God, and it was 
counted to him for righteousness." In his tent 
and circle the family life assumes a high and 
holy character—a significance beyond the ties 
of earth. May it not also in the life of his 
spiritual posterity ? May not each, in the 
maintenance of relations established by Divine 
authority, preserve a trust Divinely committed 
—to he transferred with care to the children 
whose remote destiny it must influence ?—/-a-
dependent. 
the annihilation of the nations of Canaan.--land Jerusalem is once more to rise from the 
These events brought about the deliverance of 
the Church from the land of bondage, and 
planted the Israelites in their promised land ; 
and they closed the patriarchal dispensation, 
and introduced the Mosaic. They form the 
430 years prophecied up to Abraham. 
3. The destruction of the kingdom of Israel, 
and Judah, which was effected by the Assyri-
ans in the ninth year of king Hosea, and by 
the Babylonians in the days of Jeremiah, and 
the Romans by Titus, in the respective sieges 
of Samaria and Jerusalem. These events oc-
casioned the long captivity of the ten tribes, the 
Babylonish captivity of seventy years, and the 
entire dispersion of the Jews into all nations, 
and put an end to the Levitical or Jewish dis-
pensation, and introduced the Gospel dipensa-
tion. 
But it was prophesied, also, that the sceptre 
should not depart from Judah, nor a lawgiver 
from between his feet, until Shiloh come, and 
to him shall the gathering of the nations be. 
To show the fulfilment of the prophecy of 
Jacob, (Gen. 49 : 10,) we will follow on in the 
brief outlines of the principal stages through 
which the Jewish nation passed, until this 
prophecy was realized. 
When the nation of the Jews, the twelve 
tribes, were organized under Moses, after his 
death, Joshua became the leader, and after 
Joshua, the Elders that outlived Joshua gov-
erned the people. When the Elders were all 
removed by death, the people were under the 
jurisdiction of the Judges for the space of 450 
years. Samuel the Prophet succeeded them ; 
Saul in the days of Samuel ; and after Saul, 
David and Solomon ; until the ninth year of 
King Hosea, when the ten tribes were carried 
away captive by Shalmanazar, king of Assyria, 
when God put Israel out of sight. 2 Kings 17. 
But God continued his royal power with 
Judah; and although, after the captivity of 
Babylon, Judah remained tributary to the Per-
sians and Syrians, until the time of the Mac-
cabeans, Judah was still governed by their 
laws and Jewish rulers. 
Again, although the throne of Judah was 
filled with an Idumean, (namely, John Hycur-
nus,) and Judea was now lower than it was be-
fore, still the Jews were governed by their own 
laws, and retained within themselves, as we 
find it in the case of the condemnation of Jesus 
Christ, in the days of Pontius Pilate ; the law-
giver was still in Judah, and Judah was still a 
tribeship. 
And now, however, it was finally about to 
depart, and the moment Judah was almost on 
the eve to be dispersed, and the lawgiver in the 
act of surrendering it, in the reign of Archelaus 
the son of Herod, Roman governors and Ro-
man laws ruled Judea; but by this time the 
true Shiloh had come. Thus far was the 
prophecy of Jacob realized, and it was designed 
that a new era should be commenced in puttng 
an end to the Mosaic dispensation. 
A prophecy delivered by Jesus Christ before 
his crucifixion, in all its various points, as re-
corded in the Gospel of Luke, with reference 
to the siege of Jerusalem, the great slaughter 
and captivity of the Jews, and the duration of 
the desolation of Jerusalem. We need not en-
ter into particulars of the circumstances of the 
siege of Titus, nor the history of the 1,100,000 
Jews slain in the siege, and the surviving car-
ried captive : but we will especially refer to the 
minute fulfilment of the desolation of Jerusa-
lem, even to the present day. 
The words of our Saviour are these : " And 
they shall fall by the edge of the sword, and 
shall be led away captive into all nations, and 
Prophecy to the Christian �
Jerusalem shah be trodden down of the Gen- 
IS A LIGHT SHINING OUT OF DARKNESS. �
tiles, until the times of the Gentiles be fill- 
BY REV. 6. BONIIOMME. �
filled." 
Prophecies on all occasions refer to the most �
1. The Romans had the land of the Jews 
 
deeply important eras in history. �
and the city of Jerusalem in subjection for a 
Prohecies have always a special respect to considerable length of time, and after their de- 
the affairs of the Church, and of the history of dining power. 
 
Redemption. �
2. It became the prey of the furious Arabs 
Prophecies have a reference to the events under Mohammed. 
 
which have produced permanent and striking �
3.The Mohrnamedans were succeeded by 
 the Fatamite monarchs of Egypt. 
changes in the world. 
Prophecies refer to the most severe judg-
ments which the world has ever experienced. 
In proof of these observations, I would in-
stance some of the events that have been the 
subject of the most remarkable prophecies : 
1. The Deluge, a judgment which destroyed 
every human being except Noah and his fami-
ly. Its effect on the Church was that it closed 
the Antediluvian dispensation, and introduced 
the patriarchal. This was the subject of Noah's 
prohecy. 
2. The plagues of Egypt, the total destruc-
tion of Pharaoh's army in the Red Sea, and 
From whose power it was afterward fore, was minded to strike the last blow against 
wrested by their own rebellious governors. �
Christianity, so as to give a lie to Jesus and 
Next came the infidel Saracens, and so- Daniel, 9th chapter, 26th and 27th ver., Luke 
called Christian crusaders, in the middle ages. 21 : 24, Matthew 24: 2, by re-building the the 
luke horsemen of Egypt. 
They were followed by the cruel Mame- tveimeepsl.e, and to allow the Jews to return to re-
establish their ancient temple worship and ser- 
Subsequently it was ravaged by tha sav- 
age Tamarline and his hordes from the interior �
The Jews, who had experienced for near 250 
of Asia. �
years this prophecy of Christ and Daniel, ac- 
And last of all, it has fallen into the hands cepted the offer of the Emperor with out-stretch-
of the Ottoman Turks, whose government has ed arms, and determined to return the same 
ever been one of the most rapacious and tyran- treatment to the Romans as they formerly mea-
nical upon earth, whose time is nigh to an end, sured out to the Jews. 
The Jews began now to assemble and to 
dust, and the glory of the Lord is to arise over bring together all that was necessary for the 
her, when the prophecy of Jesus is fully re- re-building of the edifice ; their wives sold also 
alized. �
their jewelry and dresses for the hopeful fur- 
It was also predicted by our blessed Saviour, therance of this joyful project ; and that which 
that one stone should not be left upon another may be wanting yet was by order of the apos-
of the Temple of Solomon, which should not tate Emperor decreed to be supplied from his 
be thrown down. �
own treasury ; and Alypius, formerly governor 
Titus, who was ignorant of this important of Britannia, was appointed overseer over the 
prophecy of Jesus, was extremely anxious to whole work. 
preserve as an ornament to the Roman empire, �
All was ready now, and the work was to be 
 
this beautiful temple of Solomon ; but a higher commenced with great activity. 
power had decreed and prophesied otherwise, �
Bishop Cyrillus prophesied to them, beside 
 
the prediction of Jesus, that the time had come 
and his word could not pass away. 
A Roman soldier, having cast a fire-band that not one stone upon another is to be left, 
through a golden window, the sacred edifice but it is to be thrown down. 
was in a few moments enveloped in flames; �
The words were confirmed, 
and the gorgeous temple, with its roofs of ce- 
Having dug the foundation, a sudden thun- 
dar, and glittering pinnacles, its courts, its holy der shower appeared and swept away all the 
places, its refulgent gates of gold, its marble ground that was carried together from the 
pillars, its porticos and massy foundations, was neighboring plain ; besides many thousands of 
soon levelled with the dust, till literally, in the sacks of lime, and all the sand that was brought 
language of our Lord, one stone was not left for the construction of the walls ; an earthquake 
upon another. �
succeeded the thunder shower, and it threw up 
The city was totally overthrown, according the very stones which were left from the fount- 
to the statement of Maimonides, a Jew; Teren- dation of the old temple, and when many lives 
tius Rufus, a Roman soldier, ploughed up the were destroyed and many houses thrown down. 
foundation of the temple, and fulfilled also the �
The Jews, however, notwithstanding these 
 
prediction of Micah the prophet, 3d chapter, fearful judgments, still determined in the con-
12th, verse : " Zion shall be ploughed as a struction of the edifice ; a fire then broke out 
field." �
from beneath the ground, which consumed the 
In addition to the eventful day spoken of workmen and the very tools. 
here, the prophecy of Jesus with reference to �
By this the Jews were so terrified, that they 
 
the complete ruin of the temple of Solomon, al- fled to the nearest church, so as to escape heav-
ready accomplished to the letter, to give it still en's judgments ; the church doors being, how-
an additional testimony for coming ages, in the ever, closed, and while in the attempt to break 
reign of Julian the apostate, between the third the doors open in order to find a refuge, a fire 
and fourth centuries, the Emperor, willing to fell suddenly from heaven upon them and burn-
do the Jews a favor, sought their friendship by ed them up. 
recalling them, and giving to them every en- 
The work was then abandoned, and the 
couragement to the rebuilding of this once no- words of Daniel and of Jesus Christ are still 
ble edifice, and thus to give a lie to the God- fulfilling to the present hour, and it is only to 
man. It is a history, however, which only strengthen the words of prophecy and establish 
corroborates the strength of that prediction by the truths of Christianity forever. Some of 
whose foreknowledge it was delivered for its the Jews, however, were induced at that event 
realization at the appointed time, and forever to embrace Christianity. 
establish his authority, in addition to all his �
This history is confirmed by the following 
 
works of miracles on earth, of the divinity and ecclesiastical writie.s : Ruffini, Hist. Ecc. lib. I. 
eternity of this personage, whose language on chapters 37-39 ; Socrates, Hist. Ecc. 3, chap. 
17 ; Sozomeni, Hist. Ecc. lib. 5, chap. 21 ; 
earth was as never man spake before. 
We cite, therefore, the interesting history of Ammianus Marcellinus, lib. 23, Gregorius Nan-
the re-building of the temple, 363 A. D., by the zianzenas Orat. 2. 
apostate Julian, and its fatal consequences of 
divine retribution of this impious attempt. 
Jnlian the Apostate, son of Constantine the 
Great, being a soldier of the Roman army, was 
elevated to the rank of a Roman Emperor, A. 
D. 361, and lost his life while engaged in a 
Ivor with the Persians, in the year of our Lord 
363. Julian was a man of a well informed 
mind in the philosophy of Greece, and was at 
least equally famous with any of the philoso-
phers of heathen science. He was also well 
instructed in the Christian religion by the Bish-
op of Nicodemia. He evinced, however more 
love for heathenism, and was finally blinded 
by the heathen philosophers, so that he exchang-
ed the Christian religion for the philosophy of 
Greece. 
His past experience had taught him that the 
persecutions raised against the Christian reli-
gion since its propagation, served only the better 
to establish its heavenly origin, authority, and 
truth, rather than to root it up. 
He resolved, therefore, craftily to attain a 
better end in order to subvert it. His policy 
was, by extending to the Jews protection ; he 
restored to them their rights, civil and ecclesi-
astical ; and thus the Jews at once, in Judea 
and Syria, declared themselves masters over 
the Christians, and went so far as to break 
down the Christian churches ; and as the 
Egyptian Jews saw that it pleased the apostate 
Emperor, they followed the example of their 
Jewish brethren. 
Julian was well acquainted with the predic-
tion of Christ with reference to the destruction 
of the temple of Jerusalem, that one stone 
should not be left upon another that was not 
thrown down, and that Jerusalem was destined 
to be trodden down of the Gentiles until the 
times of the Gentiles are fulfilled. Julian, there- 
Voltaire's Plan to Rebuild the Temple.—
D'Alambert, the friend of Voltaire, was not ig- 
norant of this act of Divine vengeance, having 
been certified by a multitude of eye-witnesses. 
He had undoubtedly seen it recorded in Am-
mianus Marcellinus, an author of unquestion-
able authority, for he was the friend of Julian 
the apostate, of the third century, and, like 
him, a pagan. 
But this did not hinder D'Alambert from 
writing to Voltaire : " You probably know that 
at this present time there is a Jew in Berlin, 
who, expecting Mohammed's paradise, is in the 
meantime gone to wait on your former disciple, 
in the name of the Sultan Mustapha : writing 
to that country the other day [i.e. the East] I 
mentioned that if the king of Prussia, Fred-
erick, would say but a word, it would be 
a fine opportunity to have the temple rebuilt." 
D'Alambert had then a disciple, who would 
undoubtedly have made the effort, but D'Alam-
bert gives the following reasons why he has 
not done it. 
D'Alambert writes to Voltaire in the follow-
ing language : "I have no doubt but that we 
should have succeeded in our negotiations for 
the rebuilding of the temple of the Jews, if your 
former disciple had not been afraid of losing 
some of the Jewish worthies,- who would have 
carried away thirty or forty millions of money 
with them." 
Thus, in spite of all inclinations to give the 
lie to the God of the Christians, even the sor-
did interest of the conspirator was to add a 
new truth to his doctrines. 
Voltaire had not eighteen years afterwards 
given up the plan, nor lost all hopes of accom-
plishing his impious design. 
Seeing that D'Alambert had not succeeded 
with Frederick, he endeavored to prevail with 
the Empress of Russia. He writes to her : If 
your Majesty is in regular correspondence with 
Ali Bey, I implore your protection with him. 
I have a little favor to ask of him," says the 
infidel ; " it is to rebuild the Temple of Jeru-
salem, and to recal the Jews, who will pay him 
a large tribute, and thereby make a mighty 
lord of him." 
Voltaire, who was nearly eighty years old, 
which was in the year 1773, still persisted in 
this plan, Dy which he was to prove to the peo-
ple that Christ and his prophets and apostles 
were impostors. 
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115 
cases was, as at the first-named period, as 1 to 
1.7 (or 58.8 per cent.) and at the second nam-
ed period, as 1 to 1.8 or (55 1-2 per cent.) 
which is a very slight improvemert. 
The disease is, in fact, the same—untamed, 
unaltered—as ruthless, as inscrutable, as diffi- 
cult to be managed as ever. And yet science 
has learned how, to a certain extent, to put a 
curb of prevention upon it—to rear a barrier of 
safety, behind which, where individual pru-
dence and medical skill concur, thousands of 
endangered persons may be protected from its 
lethal shaft. " Experience," says the " Medi-
cal Gazette," " has added one fact of import-
ance in a prophylactic view, to our knowledge of 
this terrible pestilence "—which is, that the 
sudden attack of cholera, the obvious disease, 
the disease which is so violent and fatal—is, 
in reality, the second stage of it, when it is al-
most beyond the reach of remedies ; the first 
stage, when it is a perfectly mild and curable 
malady, being already formed when those slight 
bowel aflections prevail, known as cholerine, 
which are looked upon as merely the precur-
sors or premonitories. This first stage may, 
say the authorities, last " only a few hours," 
though ordinarily, it lasts for some days. If it 
be properly treated, the second stage—the dread 
cholera proper—may be entirely averted.—
Every person, therefore, ought to arm, or be 
armed, against cholerine. Its slightest appear-
ance ought to be the occasion of an appeal to 
the family physician ; and, in fact, the most 
prudent people will not wait, in cholera times, 
for premonitories, before putting themselves 
and their families nnder the protection of care-
ful medical supervision. 
We do not write on this subject for the pur-
pose of creating alarm ; our object is to remove 
it. �
With all the general resemblances between 
the cholera of ' 48 and that of '32, the present 
one exhibits some strange anomalies, from 
which Philadelphia, and other northern cities, 
may derive advantage. In 1830-1, the western 
provinces of Russia were severely scourged;—
on the present occasion, they have escaped en-
tirely. The singular behavior of the disease 
at the Nees York quarantine, where it lingered 
for a month, at last to expire, without spread-
ing to the neighboring city, would seem to in-
dicate the entire absence of that constitutional 
peculiarity of the air, in whatever it may con-
sist, necessary to the generalization of disease 
and the existence of an epidemic. The mor-
bific atmospheric wave may, in reality, have 
rolled over our heads at a period before the ar-
rival of the " New York," when there were no 
direct and immediate causes in existence to 
originate the pestilence ; and it may possibly 
never return, sparing the Middle, Northern, 
and Eastern States, as it spared the Russian 
provinces of the west in 1831. But while it 
may re-visit us—and it is a thing of mystery, 
that travels where it listeth, like the wind—and 
while there is, and must be, anxiety on the sub-
ject, it is right that every one should be made 
to know the important facts which the highest 
medical authorities teach ; viz., first, that chol-
erine is the first stage of the cholera; and sec-
ondly, that, in the first-stage, cholera is a very 
mild and (manageable in the hands of physi-
Hans, for we would be sorry to recommend per-
sons to be their own doctors,) not at all to be 
regarded as a dangerous or terrible malady.—
The peril arises from the insidiousness of the 
first stage. The cases are, for the most part, 
so extremely slight, as not to cause alarm or 
excite attention—although alarm and attention 
would be here advantageous. The more of 
these we bestow upon cholerine, the less rea-
son we shall have to be apprehensive of chol-
era.—American Journal of Medical Sciences. 
I believe, then, my dear friends, in the short-
ness of the time that remains ; and I believe it 
to be very short : but we are not of those who 
will therefore show themselves slack in the use 
of means. If I were told, as by a voice from 
heaven, that in three years Christ would come, 
that would not make me relax one solitary du- 
ty. �
I would take leases, if I felt that it was 
my duty to do so; I would enter upon engage-
ments ; I would go on precisely as I am going 
on now, fearing God and loving my fellow-
men. All that we do is not to come out of the 
world mechanically, but to be severed from the 
world spiritually ; not to desert our place like 
cowards that run from the field, but to stand at 
our posts, where our great Captain has placed 
us, to fight the good fight of faith, and to antici-
pate his return right speedily, and be support-
ed and cheered by the anticipation of the glori- 
The Church During the Vials. 
The truths of the circumstances attending 
Julian's attempts, cannot be called in question ; 
the first being confirmed by Arnmianus Mar-
cellinus, and by Bishop Warburton. 
Voltaire's plan seems to have been half in jest; 
though had the project been favorably received, 
it can scarcely be doubted but that he would 
have pressed it in earnest. 
So much for the intention both of the ancient 
and modern Julian. As for the project itself, 
it would have proved nothing but the impiety 
of the devisers, had it been put in execution ; 
for as the able Gregoire, in speaking on this 
very subject, justly remarks, " The prophecies 
foretold that there should not be left one stone 
upon another, which has been strikingly fulfill-
ed, but nowhere relates that the edifice should 
never be rebuilt." 
Thus Julian, in the short reign of two years, 
fell in a Persian battle, and Voltaire died in 
deep despair and deepest agony of soul in the 
85th year of his age, May 30th, 1778.—Pitts. 
Christian Advocate 
Nan Nay Know the Truth. 
From the days of the apostles to the present, 
the preachers of " another gospel " have never 
been wanting, nor have men ceased to bow at 
the shrine of error and fatal delusion. The 
character and success of false teachers are 
foretold in Scripture with fearful distinctness, 
of whose wiles we are admonished to beware. 
Their responsibility is a fearful one, but the 
hearers of " another gospel " are to be judged 
also. God has made it possible—aye, has made 
it easy—to know what the true Gospel is. It 
were an imputation on his character, as a just 
and merciful Being, to deny this. We are 
aware that nothing is more common than for 
men to profess a difficulty about arriving at the 
truth ; who excuse their indifference to reli-
gion, on the ground that amidst a perpetual 
jargon and conflict of systems, they can find 
no well-settled foundation. The Saviour 
taught us, that fundamental errors, even with 
-the unlearned, were inexcusable, when he said 
that any man who cherishes a disposition to 
do the will of God, " shall know of the doc-
trine." An entire willingness to obey God is 
an evidence which may lead to certainty, as 
relates to a knowledge of his revealed will. 
Obedience in the simple duties of prayer, of 
reading and hearing the word, would leave no 
man in doubt as to the character of any sys-
tem of faith submitted to his examination. We 
have written this for the sake of introducing 
an extract from a discourse by Dr. Williams, 
in which this doctrine is forcibly presented :— 
" Now, is it not most irrational,—we appeal, 
my fellow-mortals to your own consciences,—
is it not irrational to stun and weary your ears 
with the din of human controversies, while 
you make no appeal to the original authorities ? 
Are you sincerely in quest of truth ? Had 
ycu been told of an estate bequeathed you by 
some distant friend, and one informant spoke of 
it as small in amount, and another described it 
as being of great value, and you found your-
self involved in a whirlwind of contradictory 
statements, would you compare and collate the 
rumors on every side, and form your opin,ions 
from them, or appeal at once to the written 
will and the surrogate ? If you were told that 
your borne was in flames, would you go around 
questioning those who had left the scene as to 
its origin, extent, and ravages: or would you 
not rather cast aside all other engagements, 
and rush to the rescue of your property and 
family, to see with your own eyes, and toil 
with your own hands ? And are salvation, and 
the soul, and heaven worth so little that they 
do not require the like personal investigation, 
the like decisive appeal to the ultimate authori-
ties ? 
" Prophets and apostles, and the Lord of 
apostles, and the Master of prophets, hold, in 
this case, but one language. They refer you 
to the record. �
To the law and to the testi- 
mony,' cried the prophets; if your teachings, 
if your teachers speak not according to these, 
it is because there is no truth in them.'—
Search the Scriptures,' is the command of 
Christ; which are able to make you wise unto 
sal vation,'.respond the glorious company of the 
apostles. Do you complain of dullness and 
weakness of mind ?—they reply, If any man 
lack wisdom, let him ask of God, who giveth 
liberally, and who upbraideth not:" and a loud-
er and sweeter voice than their's is heard, con-
tinuing the strain—' The Spirit shall lead unto 
all truth ;' while the prophets, catching and re-
echoing the invitation thus addressed to weak 
and erring man, exclaim, "Ile wayfaring man, 
though a fool, shall not err therein.' 
" Until the Scriptures, therefore, are abro-
gated, and until the Spirit of God has abdicated 
his office as Teacher of the church, you cannot 
be at a loss, if disposed, in a calm and docile 
spirit, to learn what are the real doctrines of 
the Gospel. If a man will not ask that Spirit, 
—indeed, lie may have the ablest of human 
teachings, and bring to the book an intellect of 
angelic power, and yet the result be but error 
and darkness. But if he will come in the 
name of Jesus, imploring the Spirit, idiocy it-
self shall not prevent his learning the way of 
salvation. If he refuses thus to come, and will 
not study the Book of God, in God's own ap-
pointed way, he is not entitled to complain of 
uncertainty as to his religious opinions, much 
less to dogmatize in his scepticism. Let us, 
then, in this matter, be honest to our own souls, 
for death is on his way : a Judge is now even 
at the door, who will not stop to answer our 
callings; and wretched then will be the fate of 
that man, who, with the open Bible before him, 
and the hovering dove of the Spirit above him, 
has neglected the one, and repelled the other. 
Make but the experiment in the temper of a 
little child, and a certainty, sure and unshaken 
as the everlasting hills, shall possess your souls, 
while truth darts in upon the darkened mind, 
and in the light of God you see light—the un-
created, undeclining glory of God, in the face 
of his Son."—Michigan Christian Herald. 
The Cholera of 1831 and 1848. 
We have remarked the striking resemblance 
between the progress of the cholera in Europe, 
during its late visitation, as compared with its 
former advent in 1830-1. The following ta-
ble of the dates of its appearance, on the two 
occasions, in particular cities, will show the 
general correspondence, taking Tiflis, the capi-
tal of Georgia, as the starting point, and noting 
its entrance into Russia by the two different 
paths of the Volga and Dnieper rivers, follow-
ing on the one to Kasan, and on the other to 
Kiev :— 
It first appeared, �1830 
At Tiflis, �
. �. May 5 
Astrachan; �
. �June 21 
Kasan, �
. �
. �
Sept. 17 
Route of the Dnieper :— 
Stavropol, �
. �
. �
Sept. 6 
Novo Tscherkosh, �
Sept. 10 
Taganrog, �
. �
. �
Oct. 8 
Kiev, . �
. �
. 1831, Jan. 8 
The correspondence was greater on the first 
than on the second named route; the differ-
ence of dates, in the one case, being only from 
about a fortnight to five weeks, while, in the 
other, it rises to from six weeks to three months. 
The following are the dates of its appear-
ance in the capitals of Russia and Prussia :— 
1831. �
1848 
 
St. Petersburgh, �June 25 June 16 
Berlin, . �
Aug. 31 Aug. 15 
The cholera, at its first visit to England, 
burst out at Sunderland towards the close of 
October (the 26th or 28th), 1832 ; and, on the 
second visit, it appeared in Hull, in the same 
month of last year. The London " Medical 
Gazette " tells us, the first cases were noted in 
London, in 1832, on the 13th of February.—
They were reported, this time, some three 
months earlier. 
The first visit of the cholera to North Ame-
rica was at Quebec, June 8th, 1832. It was 
brought to our shores again in the ship New 
York," Dec. 3d, 1848;b which was a gain of 
six months earlier than its former appearance ; 
on which occasion it broke out at New York 
on the 27th of June; at Philadelphia on the 
16th of July ; and at Boston on the 15th of 
August. It also made its appearance at De-
troit and Pittsburgh in the month of July ; and 
in the months of October and November it was 
sweeping down the valleys of the Ohio and 
Mississippi, to burst out anew, with fresh ve-
hemence, in the following spring. The pro-
gress of this disease was then, as now, far 
more rapid and irregular than it has ever been 
in Europe. �
According to Dr. Lasegne, of 
Paris, cholera never exceeds a rate of from 
250 to 300 miles a month in the old world : in 
the Mississippi Valley, it courses with steam-
boat speed. 
There,is a very general, but it would seem, 
an erroneous idea, that the epidemic has prov-
ed milder, as well as less prevalent, than on 
the former occasion. �
From the authorities 
quoted in the American Journal of the Medi-
cal Sciences, it seems that in Russia, the pro-
portion of cases to population in 1830-1, was 
as 1 to 19.6, and in 1847, as 1 to 19.7, or near-
ly identical ; while the proportion of deaths to 
will give us at that day. And because the 
time seems to be short—because the hour of 
judgment looms and darkens like a terrific cloud 
upon the distant horizon, I feel only more com-
pelled to contribute more largely —to preach 
more heartily—to pray more fervently for a 
blessing upon all our great missionary institti-
tions. I cannot rest when I see British litera-
ture studied on the banks of the Ganges, and 
read on those of the Mississippi and the Mis-
souri—when I hear of British travellers pene-
trating all rivers, and extending their influence 
and transactions to all coasts and tribes—when 
I see our sails whiten every shore, and our 
ships ride upon their shadows in every harbor, 
without making commensurate efforts to save 
and bless; it only makes me feel the more the 
duty of praying and of toiling, that wherever 
our conquering standard has been unfurled, or 
our victorious drum heard, it may be a prelude 
to the everlasting jubilee, and that the armies 
of England, wherever they may march, may 
be but the van of the army of Christ, which 
shall follow after, to nobler and more lasting 
Victories, until it come to pass that wheresoever 
Old England's power is felt, men may feel and 
taste her mercies too. 
My dear friends, the only balm for the world, 
whether at home or abroad, is the Gospel of 
the Lord Jesus Christ. Were that Gospel 
universally felt, and its principles universally 
practiced, there would be few wrongs to be re-
dressed, because there would be none inflicted ; 
our prisons might be turned into churches, our 
policemen into beadles; the whole land would 
be transformed, men would live happy, and 
would go down to the grave as the pearl diver 
of Ceylon goes down into the ocean, only to 
come up laden with prescious treasures, to 
breathe the air, and bask in the glorious sun-
shine of immortality. 
1848. 
June 1 
July. 31 
Oct. 4 
July 16 
July 30 
Aug. 18 
Oct. 5 
In concluding this retrospect, let me ask you, 
not are you curiously inquiring into chronolo-
gy, but seriously and prayerfully looking into 
your own hearts ? If the Lord be at hand—if, 
as I believe, without saying you are not Chris-
tians if you do not concur with me—if, as I 
believe, and shall show this evening, Christ's 
advent is to be, not post-millennial, but pre-mil-
lennial,—if we are on the very verge, a few 
years only intervening, of the first resurrection 
from the dead—if all things are rushing to that 
dread and awful crisis—and does it not seem, 
if you look abroad and examine what is around 
you, as if every man felt the day is short, and 
that we shall scarce have time left to finish 
what we have to do, and as if all men were 
hastening with expreess speed to that consum-
mation that is immediately at hand. If this be 
so, are you prepared for it ? Has the Gospel 
madeyou look in faith and confidence to Christ? 
Has the Gospel touched your souls and trans-
formed them by that touch. None but living 
men will survive that crisis—none but living 
men can then lift up their heads, because their 
" redemption draweth nigh." And I believe, 
my dear friends, while I shrink from the vaga-
ries into which that noble-hearted, but misguid-
ed man, Edward Irving, fell—while I can have 
no sympathy with his wild and extravagant 
description§, desiring to be silent where God's 
word is silent ; yet, my dear friends, 1 believe 
that the voice which has been lifted up by many 
faithful men within the last few years, is God's 
own voice, speaking solemnly in tones of mer-
cy and warning, to an indifferent and careless 
world : " Prepare to meet your God !" Let 
me ask you, then, are you prepared ? Is your 
foot upon the Rock of ages ? Is your robe wash-
ed in the precious blood of Jesus ? Are you 
God-baptized, not merely man-baptized ? What 
is Christianity to you ? Is it a mere collection 
of fables for schoolmen to fight about, or is it 
life and power to the soul ? Has the Gospel 
made you, my dear friends, what it ought to 
have made you, conscientious in business, tem-
perate in pleasure, humble in prosperity, pa-
tient in suffering, religious in all things ? Do 
you feel duty to be sacred, though all men 
should scoff at it? Do you deem it imperative, 
though nobody should accompany you in the 
discharge of it ? In other words, can you stand 
alone if conscious God is not far off? You 
*must die alone—you must be judged alone—
you must bear the sentence alone. Can you 
stand in this world, without leaning upon l'a-
thers, or Bishops, or Councils, or traditions, 
with nothing beneath your feet but the Rock 
of everlasting ages, and nothing in the horizon 
before you, but " a crown of glory that fadeth 
not away ?" If so, how blessed are you : you 
may lift up your heads, for the lightning that 
rends the sky, and startles with its fires the 
unbelieving millions, shall only be the chariot 
ous crown, which the Lord, the righteous judge, that shall waft you to your home, and the judg- 
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ments that overwhelm the world shall only be 
the signal �
that bids you �
let loose �
and make 
for a haven of everlasting and glorious peace. 
—Dr. Cumming. 
The four beasts are properly four living creatures 
—beast being an uncouth and improper rendering. 
These living �
creatures are similar to those seen by 
EzEirrEt, in chapters �
1st and �
10th, and which are 
there defined to be cherubim. �
The office of eheru- 
bim we there found to be attendant on the glory of 
the LORD, the accompanying retinue of His glorious 
 glorious 
Majesty. �
By their uniting with the four and twenty 
elders, in ascribing their redemption to CHRIST, it will 
be seen they are representatives of the redeemed of 
our race; but as Mr. LORD suggests, their name is 
a name of office, and not of nature; and as we read 
that those who attain unto the resurrection from the 
dead shall be equal to the angels (Luke 20:30), it is 
not unreasonable to suppose �
that some of our race 
will be elevated to that exalted office, and are, there- 
fore, thus appropriately symbolized. �
Their continual 
employment is, to worship the LORD ; for they rest 
not day and night, [a Hebraism for continually,] say- 
ing, " Holy, holy, holy, LORD GOD Almighty, which 
was, and is, and is to be." �
In chap. 1:4 burr gives 
the testimony of JESUS CHRIST, as of Him who was, 
and �
is, �
and �
is to �
be ; and in the 8th verse of the 
same �
chapter, that faithful and �
true �
witness �
an- 
himself the one " which is, and which was, 
and which is to be, the Armoury." �
Consequently, 
He is the One whom the living creatures here wor- 
ship' �
to whom they " give glory, and �
honor, and 
thanks," " who liveth forever and ever," whom they 
fall down before and worship, casting their crowns 
before his throne, and saying, " Thou art worthy, 0 
LORD, to receive �
glory, and honor, and power : for 
thou hast created all things, and for thy pleasure they 
are and were created." 
In �
the fifth chapter of the Apocalypse we read : 
" And I saw in the right hand of him seated on the 
throne a book written within and on the back side, 
sealed with seven seals. �
And I saw a mighty angel 
proclaiming with a loud voice, Who is worthy to open 
the �
hook, �
and �
to �
loose �
its seals? �
And no one in 
heaven, or on the earth, or under the earth, was able 
to open the �
hook, �
neither �
to look therein. �
And �
I 
was weeping much, because no one was found wor_ 
thy to open the book, or to look therein. �
And one 
of the elders saith �
to me, Weep not : behold, the 
Lion of the tribe of Judah, the Root of DAVID, bath 
prevailed to open the book, and �
to �
loose its seven 
seals. �
And I beheld, �
and lo, �
in �
the midst of the 
throne, and of the four �
living �
beings, �
and in �
the 
midst of the elders, stood �
a �
LAMB as having been 
slain, having seven horns, and seven eyes, which are 
the seven Spirits of GOD sent forth into all the earth. 
And he came and took the book from the right hand 
of him seated on the throne. �
And when he had ta- 
ken the book, the �
four living beings, and four and 
twenty elders fell down before the LAMB, having each 
one harps, and golden bowls full of incense, which 
are the prayers of the saints. �
And they sing a new 
song, saying, Worthy art thou to take the book, and 
to open itsseals : thou avast slain, and hast redeemed 
us to Gon by thy blood from every tribe, and tongue, 
and people, and nation ; and hast made us �
and 
kingsThis 
priests to our GOD: and we shall reign on the earth ' 
 • 
And I beheld, and I heard the voice of many messen- 
gers around the throne, �
and �
the �
living beings, and 
theelders : and the numberof them was ten thou- 
sand �
times. �
ten
aloud
thousand, andthousands of thou- 
sands;sasylinign with
.
voice,Worthy is the LAMB 
toireceivehpower, and riches, and wis- 
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that was strength, 
out, and
Andtrengt 1, andonorh,. and sglory, and bless- 
jug. �
every creature �
• �
h �
. �
in �
heaven, and 
on the earth, anti under the earth, and such as are in 
the sea, �
even all �
that are in them, heard I saving, 
Blessing, and �
honor, and glory, and power, to him 
I, t; 
at sitteth on the throne, and to the LAMB, forever 
and ever. 
 t �
And the four living beings said, So be it ' 
And the elders fell down and worshiped."—Vs. 1-14. 
The " little book " has been a great puzzle to corn- 
mentators. �
It is a symbol, and we feel no hesitation' 
 
in adopting Mr. LORD'S view, that it symbolizes .the 
purposes of GOD. �
It would then follow, that . its be- 
ing written within and without indicated the fullness 
of its contents. �
Its �
being sealed with seven seals, 
the impossibility of its being opened, and its contents 
made known, except by one who should have power 
to loose the seals. 
The word man (0yrrEts-') �
is,- literally, person, �
or 
being. �
There was no being in heaven among the 
angels, no human being on the earth, and no disem- 
�
bodied spirit, �
or demon, under the earth; who was 
�
able to unfold the fame. �
The tears of the revelator 
are, however, dried, and his drooping spirits cheered, 
by the announcement of one of the elders, that " the 
LION of the tribe of Judah, the RooT of DAVID, bath 
prevailed to open the book," and to unfold its myste- 
ries. �
immediately on this announcement lie 
 
beholds 
in the midst of the throne " a LAMB as it had been 
slain, �
having �
seven �
horns, and seven eyes." �
Mr. 
LORD rejects the idea that he saw a Lamb as the 
symbol of the Crucified, �
and supposes that by the 
Lamb here is to.be understood one of the proper 
names by which CHRIST is known. We cannot agree 
with this opinion ; for if CHRIST was designed to he 
here referred to merely by one of his proper names, 
 
here 
 
the revelator would not �
have spoken of seeing " a 
LAMB, as it had been slain :" he would have said, I 
saw the LAMB who was slain. �
CHRIST is not re- 
ferred to as a Lion of the tribe of Judah, as a Root 
of DAVID; but when he is designated by his proper 
names, he is called, ,, the LION," " the RooT," &c. 
Those titles are �
not analogous to this. �
Mr. LORD 
again objects, that " it is inconsistent with his deity 
and office as ruler of the universe that he should be 
symbolized by a mere creature, and a lamb." �
But it 
is not necessary that he should here �
be considered 
symbolized in those offices. �
In his human and mor- 
tal nature and death, he was typified by the sacrifice 
of a lamb. �
Why may he not as properly, in the ex- 
ercise of his office, whereby he brought life and im- 
mortality to light through the gospel, be symbolized 
by a lamb, as to be typified by the death of that ani- 
map, in �
the same office? �
We are inclined to regard 
it as a symbol of his sacrificial �
office, �
the victorious 
result of which constituted him the LION of the tribe 
of Judah. �
In �
the �
13th �
verse he �
is �
called, " the 
LAMB," not as a symbol, but as one of his proper 
names. 
The seven horns, and seven eyes, are defined to be 
the seven Spirits of GOD sent forth into all the earth. 
The golden vials, �
full �
of odors, �
symbolized �
the 
prayers of saints. �
Under the �
Mosaic dispensation 
the frankincense and odors offered at the tabernacle 
were emblems of the �
prayers and �
praises of the 
LORD. �
'Thus the Psalmist says, " Let my prayer be 
set forth before thee as incense."—Psa. 151:2. 
The taking the book to loosen the seals is the sig,, 
nal for commencing the song �
of redemption. �
It 
seems that with the living creatures and elders, even 
the angels tuned their harps, and united in the song ; 
and �
there �
were " ten thousand times ten thousand, 
and thousands of thousands." �
And every being in 
heaven, on the earth, under the earth, or in the sea, 
ascribed �
equal �
praises, and honor, and glory to the 
LAMB, as to Him that sat upon the throne, which to 
a creature would be unpardonable idolatry.—( To be 
continued.) 
boys! �
We were gratified to mark the patience an, 
good feeling shown by �
the sailors under their ad. 
culties: for we have seen and heard a good deal o 
temper, fighting, and swearing in our Atlantic ports 
where the difficulties were �
far less. �
We witnesses 
nothing of the kind here, though we had quite a bottle 
ration in getting out. 
We can hardly refrain �
from speaking of one o. 
those awfully painful accidents which are of so Ire. 
quent occurrence, (and yet it is a wonder they an 
not more frequent,) that took place on our way Iron 
Lockport to Buffalo. �
The railroad on a part of thi: 
line is in so poor a state, that the cars seldom go a 
a greater speed �
than �
ten miles an �
hour, generall, 
much less, so that it is very common for passenger; 
to get on or off while the train is in motion. �
As w, 
were near the wire bridge, approaching the Falls o 
Niagara, a young man attempted to get on the train 
and fell under a freight car at the end of the train.--
We felt the obstruction, and on turning round, sae 
this car rise from the rail as it passed over him, thougl 
we did not then know what it was. �
But presently 
when we looked beyond that car, we saw the pop 
fellow stretched �
upon �
the track. �
Before the trail 
could be backed, some men who saw him took hi tt 
to a log cabin near by, lay him on a bed, and sent fo 
medical aid. �
When we entered the close cabin, th 
blood was trickling down* over his face : he was strug 
filing for breath, and the �
piercing, anxious, yet in 
telligent glance of his eye, expressed more forcibl 
than words could express, the deep agony within.-
We would gladly have rendered any aid in our power 
but all were requested to leave the cabin, as he wa 
so pressed for breath. �
So we took our seats in th 
car, and started along. �
We were told that the phy 
sician thought it nearly impossible for him to live.-
The bones of the hip were crushed into the abdoni 
nal cavity, and he was otherwise badly injured. Wha 
made it more painful was this.—The young man him 
self was on his way for a physician to come to hi 
dying uncle. �
Dying, under any circumstances, is 
serious business ; but to be thus struck �
down, in th 
vigor of health, to have all the relations and ties w 
hold to life thus sundered, and all its plans and hope 
blighted in an instant, �
to have life so " soon cut oil 
and we fly away," who can think of it and not sliud 
der? �
Who would �
not secure an �
assurance of itt 
mortal life, �
and �
of an �
inheritance that �
fadeth �
no 
away? 
J«ntestawn (N.Y.), April 2615 • 
On our arrrival at Dunkirk, (about 3 r. M. yestet 
day,) we found Bro. SHERMAN waiting with a carriag 
to take us to this place, some twenty-six miles. �
W 
made a short stop at Laoni, and took a lunch at Brc 
CRAWFORD'S, where we were earnestly �
invited t 
preach ; but other engagements, �
and an exhauste 
state, would not admit of it. 
On our way, we passed the residence of our age 
Bro. WILSON. �
It was our intention to call on bin 
but it was �
now �
very late, and so we passed on I 
Jamestown without stopping. 
We learn by a note from Bro. PINNEY, that ot 
reference to certain men, in connection �
with �
the a( 
count of our visit �
to �
Seneca Falls, was �
not uncle! 
stood. �
In speaking of the partizan apirit, a little i 
which we hail to meet there, it was not designed t 
intimate �
that �
this �
was �
manifested in our meeting 
there, or by the brethren �
and �
sisters generally, fo 
we had a very pleasant meeting with then, as w 
stated. �
What we said of the little we met, referre 
to its expression �
in private conversation. �
BesidE 
that, we took occasion to rebuke those mischief-mal 
ing men by whom the most honest and sincere hav 
been deceived. �
And besides, we stated our generi 
course. �
We mean to speak plainly, and in a goo 
spirit. �
If not, we ask to be forgiven. 
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"BEHOLD! THE BRIDEGROOM COMETH!!" 
BOSTON, SATURDAY, MAY 12, 1849. 
. 
Interpretation of Symbols, Figures, Etc, 
(Continued from our Inst.) 
In the fourth chapter we read : " After these things 
I looked, anti behold a door �
opened in heaven ; and 
the first voice which I heard, was like a trumpet talk-nounces 
ing with me ; saying, Ascend hither, and I Will show 
thee things which must be hereafter. �
And immedi- 
ately I was in the Spirit : and behold, a throne was 
set in heaven, and one sat on the throne. �
And he 
that sat was in appearance like a jasper and a carne 
Tian stone : and �
there �
was a rainbow �
around �
the 
throne in appearance like an emerald. �
And around 
the throne were four and twenty thrones ; and on the 
thrones �
four �
and �
twenty elders sitting, clothed in 
white garments; and on their heads crowns of gold 
And from the throne came lightnings, and roarings, 
and thunders. �
And there were seven lamps of fire 
burning before the throne, which are the seven Spi- 
tits of God. �
And �
before the throne there was a 
transparent sea like crystal : and in the midst of the 
throne and around the throne, were living beings full 
of eyes before and behind. �
And the first living being 
was like a lion, �
and the �
second living being like a 
calf, and the third living being had a face like a man, 
and the fourth living being was like a flying eagle, 
And �
the �
four living beings had each of them six 
wings, around and within they are full of eyes : and 
they rest not day and night, saying, Holy, holy, holy, 
LORD GOD Almighty, who was, and is, and is to be ! 
And when the living beings give glory, and honor, 
and thanks to him seated on the throne, who liveth 
forever and ever, the four and twenty elders fall down 
before him seated on the throne, �
and worship him 
who liveth �
forever and ever, and cast their crowns 
before the throne, saying, Worthy art thou, 0 LORD, 
to receive glory, and honor, and power :for thou hast 
created all things, and through thy will they existed 
and were created."—Vs. 1-11. 
The opening of a door in heaven appears to be no 
part of the " things which must be �
hereafter," and 
is, therefore, no symbol. It was doubtless an appear- 
ante of an aperture in the sky above, through which 
the revelator saw the vision. �
The One on the throne 
is not described, but the attending glory shows that 
GoD was its occupant. �
The rainbow round about 
the throne like an emerald indicates the same Being 
seen in vision by EZEKIEL (1:28), round about whom 
was " as the appearance of the bow in the day of 
rain ;" and who was explained to be " the appearance 
of the �
likeness of the glory of the LORD." �
The 
whole chapter is mostly descriptive of the attending 
glory of JEHOVAH, and preparatory to the subsequent 
revelations. 
The four and twenty elders sitting on seats round 
about the throne of the ALMIGHTY, subsequently 
unite in the new song (5:0), in which they ascribe to 
the LAMB slain their redemption to Gon out of every 
kindred, and �
tongue, people, and nation. �
Corse- 
quently, they are representatives of our race. �
Their 
white raiment is emblematic �
of their �
priestly, �
anti 
their golden crowns of their kingly, office. �
'These 
offices �
are thus alluded to in the new song (5:10) : 
" And hast made us unto our GOD kings and priests, 
and we shall reign on the earth." �
They were re- 
deemed, but not admitted to the renewed earth. 
The seven lamps of fire are explained to be the 
seven Spirits of Gon. �
In chap. 5:6 they are said to 
be" sent forth into all the earth,,, and are there sym_ 
bolized by " seven horns and seven eyes." GoD often 
employs the ministry of angels in the accomplishment 
of his providential designs. �
It is more natural that 
they �
should �
indicate angelic messengers, than the 
Holy Spirit, as Mr. LORD. supposes. �
As these spi- 
Tits arc symbolized by seven eyes, and seven lamps, 
or lights, there is no impropriety in their being sym- 
bolized by the seven stars—stars are analogous to 
lights. 
Editorial Correspondence, 
Steamer Fashion, Lake Erie, April 25th, 1849, 
BRo. Moss :—We are an hour or two out from 
Buffalo. �
The day is very fine, the sky clear, the sun 
warm, with a cool, fresh breeze from the west.— 
Steamers, brigs, schooners, and sloops, are in sight 
around us. �
The green surface of the lake stretches 
away interminably to the eye before us ; the city of 
Buffalo fills up the foreground of the view, beyond 
the intervening lake, �
behind ; the Canada shore is 
some two miles distant on the right, the New York 
shore about the same distance on the left. 
inland �
navigation, with such �
vast �
bodies of 
a �
a �
all 
ices,. water, �
the paraphernalia of sea-faring life— 
excepting a few things in the rig and fitting up, that 
an old salt would hardly consider " ship-shape "—is 
one of the hard things to make real in Western life• 
A �
sea �
port �
in 'fresh �
water ! shipping out �
in the 
woods! fitting out for a voyage here in the country ! 
It is all so odd, one can hardly think of it without a 
feeling of mirth. �
But here we are sailing out into 
this Mediterranean sea, with all the realities of ocean 
life around us ; and to show that the little things, as 
well as the great, are here, the white, black-winged, 
and �
regull (are they "sea gulls?") are poising 
in theg airy gfar above us, or sweeping along under the 
stern of the boat, as their keen eyes behold some 
floating eatable, in the securing of which they mani- 
feat about the �
same �
sagacity �
and tact that human 
.1 �
I �
r �
: 
gulls eo : �
.it, is not uncommon to �
hear from those 
well qualified �
to jndge, .that �
the navigation of the 
lakes in bad weather is quite as perilous as that of the 
Atlantic. �
And yet we �
have been so much in the 
habit of associating the sublime and the terrible ex- 
elusively with the ocean, that it seems almost im os- 
sihle that it can be so. �
We are accustomed to thPink, 
until experience corrects �
the error, that the fresh- 
water sailor can step ashore anywhere in the woods, 
and wait till the storm is over. �
The great difficulty 
in the case, �
however, is, that the' shore is altogether 
too handy, and quite as dangerous to approach as the 
worst portions
' �
of the Atlantic coast —the precipitous 
rocks frequently rising nearly a hundred feetp �
p ril 
dieularly �
out �
of the �
lake. �
A man �
only Ueeer,seoto 
make a short voyage 
 on the lakes to justify the in- 
terthatbeenmanifested
beautiful
. 
serest �
has 
�
for the improvement 
of the lake �
harbors. �
If Buffalo �
and �
Dunkirk are 
specimens, they have nothing that can be called liar- 
" Another Gospel." 
It is a peculiarity of CHRIST'S teaching, �
that �
tl 
truth he taught is �
inseparably �
connected with }pin 
self. �
In �
this he differs �
from all �
other �
teachers.- 
MOSES, ISAIAH, PAUL, were teachers. �
But the true 
they taught would be worth just as much if the 
names were forgotten. �
Not so with the teachings 
CHRIST. �
He is himself the centre, the subject, at 
the substance of the truth he taught. �
Like the a 
cient architect, who wrought his name in the temp 
which he built, �
so that it �
could �
not �
be �
struck 0 
without �
leveling the �
building �
to �
the �
ground, �
th 
name of CHRIST is incorporated into the whole fabr 
of Christianity, �
and �
cannot �
be struck �
out witho 
tearing down the �
entire structure. �
Separated fro 
him, his precepts �
would �
indeed remain the �
mc 
and complete system of morality ;his do 
tines even then would �
glow with the luminous w 
dom of heaven ; but their power would be annihilate 
and half their beauty gone. �
It would be no long 
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THE ADVENT HERALD. �
117 
the Sun of Righteousness with healing in his beams, 
but a cold and powerless moon. 
There is a similar peculiarity in the motives by 
which the Gospel urges to a religious life. Desire 
to do good, the sense of duty, the advantages of 
piety, the beauty of virtue, pity 'for suffering man, 
these are all important motives. But not, one of 
them is the peculiar motive by which Christianity 
urges to a life of virtue. The Gospel sets forth 
CHRIST redeeming us by his own blood, as an ever-
present and sympathizing friend, saying in every 
difficulty, " I will not leave you comfortless ; abide 
in me." It sets him forth attractive in perfect loveli-
ness. And love to him, affectionate trust in him as 
a present and personal friend, becomes the motive of 
the Christian's life. Thus, by a peculiarity nowhere 
else realized, it combines, in the motive of the Chris-
tian, the grandeur of loftiest pirnciple and the energy 
of impassioned love. 
There is "another Gospel " which has much to 
say of CHRIST as our teacher and exemplar—dwells 
with fervid eloquence on the beauty of his precepts, 
and the wisdom of his doctrines—insists continually 
- on charity and benevolence, on the beauty and the 
benefits of doing right; and yet fails to set forth 
CHRIST crucified as the object of love, the motive of 
effort, and the ever present support of piety. The 
systems may seem alike to the careless observer, yet 
it is only in the outward form. From within the 
latter, has been torn the throbing heart of life. 
From these two systems result two sorts of reli- 
gion. �
The former spiritual, prayerful ; weeping 
often at the cross in view of sin, conscious of inward 
conflict, sensible of entire dependence on GoD, and 
of the weakness of man, sometimes rejoicing with 
joy unspeakable, ready for self-denial, toiling patient-
ly, successfully to do good. The latter moral, but 
emotionless ; counting deep emotion fanatical ; not 
without prayer, yet delighting more in innocent 
amusements (so called), talking much of the dignity 
of man, and leaning confidently on the godlike pow-
ers of the soul. The former nourished the piety of 
apostles, arid established Christianity throughout the 
world ; it called into being armies of martyrs ; it 
originated reformations that have changed the face of 
the world ; it has developed itself in revivals, has 
laid the foundations of free governments, given birth 
to common schools, and started the human mind on 
its present career of free inquiry and rapid progress. 
The latter has talked and written eloquently, and 
given birth to transcendentalism. 
Thus, is this peculiarity of the Gospel, the pecul-
iarity that gives it power. It is a question to be 
pondered, whether amid the multiplicity of influences 
now exciting the mind, this simple yet life-giving 
motive of the Gospel retains in the hearts of GOD'S 
children its proper central place. Can Christians 
and ministers say, as PAUL did, " The love Of CHRIST 
constraineth me ; fur me to live is CHRIST ; the life 
that I now live in the flesh, I live by faith in the SON 
of GOD?" In the public and printed appeals in be-
half of benevolent causes, is this apppeal to CHRIST 
as " the chiefest among ten thousand," the appeal 
that is oftenest made, or that thrills with most power 
on the souls of Christians? It is deligthful to notice 
the simplicity and ardor of love, with which on every 
occasion the apostles spoke of the present CHRIST.—
Would the church and the ministry to-day, naturally 
describe their conduct with a similar simplicity and 
ardor and frequency of their references to the,present 
CHRIST? In proportion as. philosophical or rationalis-
tic motives take the place of this primitive and pre-
eminent motive of the Gospel, in the same propor-
tion will the church and the ministry be shorn of 
their power.—New England Puritan. 
Is it " a Mistake ?" 
A MisTAKE.—Speaking of the church in Rochester, the " Her-
ald" fur April 21st terms it, " the church recently organized there." 
A church, or congregation, was gathered by Bro. Himes and oth-
ers, we think, in '43—since which, the Word has been preached, the 
ordinances administered, and deacons, at different times, have 
been appointed. Some were appointed "recently,"—bun no organi-
zation, according to its common understanding, has ever taken 
place among us. Please correct the mistake.—Bar. ¢ Adv. 
It was our intention to have nothing further to say 
to the Harbinger, in the form of controversy ; but 
we are called to account for " a mistake " by that 
paper ; and so we suppose we must " correct," or al-
low the matter to remain, to be harped on, as usual, 
" over, over, over, and over, again, again, again, and 
again," to use that paper's style of expression. 
What we said " in the Herald for April 21st," had 
no reference to the gathering of " a church," or any-
thing else that was done " in '43 ;" but as we spoke 
of the fact that " Bro. MARSH " acted apparently as 
the organ of the church in what we stated, we spoke 
of him as one of the deacons of the church recently 
organized in Rochester. 
We never confounded together the work of faith 
and of grace, by which alone men are added to the 
LORD, the work of gathering a church, the setting 
in order the things of a church, as one and the same 
thing : which the Harbinger has so often done, ap-
parently for no other purpose-but to find fault with 
brethren for " adding men to the LORD " by their 
own act, when they never thought of such a thing. 
But when men assume the right to invent a meaning 
to words to suit their own fancy, it is singular indeed 
if they cannot make out a case to suit themselves. 
Ignorance or perversity may do this if it will—it is 
not for us to do it. 
We spoke of a fact which is as well known by 
brethren in Rochester as that Bro. MARSH resides 
there, and they did not see any " mistake" in what 
we said. A church has been organized there, " ac-
cording to the common understanding " of the word 
organization among us generally. And it has been 
done " recently," as the following document will 
show. We need only to say, that no such arrange-
ment, in the form of organization, as this document 
supposes and provides for, had ever been effected 
there before ; it is, to all intents and purposes, as 
much of an " organization " as we have ever heard 
of among Adventists; we have desired nothing ma-
terially different from this; and while Bro. MARSH'S 
name was the first one put down on this document, 
those whom he calls upon to correct the mistake (and 
about whom he and his partizans have made so many 
unworthy and slanderous insinuations, as if they 
were " imitating the sects," assuming to be " the 
creed power," &c. &e.) have no connection with any 
body associated by any document whatever. 
We give the document referred to, and leave it to 
our brethren at large to decide who are in the " mis-
take," those who speak of " the church recently or-
ganized," or the one who says that" no organization, 
according to its common understanding, has never ta-
ken place among us." 
The date and terms of the document will speak 
for themselves ; and Bro. MARSH admits that some 
of the deacons were appointed " recently." Will he 
perpetuate this strife about nothing, or will he cor-
rect the " mistake," and the wrong inflicted by it up-
on his brethren? If the latter, let him copy this cor-
rection into the Harbinger. 
" We, the subscribers, followers of the Lord Jesus 
Christ in Rochester, believing in his pre-millennnial 
advent arid personal reign ; having renounced all 
ecclesiastical judicatories, human creeds, and hierar-
chies; and believing the Scriptures of the Old and 
New Testaments to be a complete rule of faith and 
practice—able to make the man of of God perfect, 
thoroughly furnished unto every good work—being 
resolved, also, to be governed by that rule alone, and 
feeling that it is our duty and privilege not to forget 
the assembling of ourselves together, as the manner 
of some is; but to exhort one another daily, and so 
much the more as we see the day approaching ; 
aware, also, that we cannot enjoy these privileges, 
and the gifts of our ascended Lord—evangelists, 
pastors, teachers, &c., without pecuniary expense as 
a church ; and especially, as the Lord has ordained 
that they who preach the Gospel should live of the 
Gospel; and as it is essential that we have a com-
fortable place in which to meet, lighted and warmed 
in cold weather, we hereby agree to pay, weekly, the 
sums set opposite our names, to sustain the preaching 
of this Gospel of the kingdom in Rochester, subject 
to any changes that we may feel it our duty to make 
in the future, of which we agree to give due notice 
to the Treasurer of the church. Payment on this 
subscription to commence on the first Sabbath in 
December, 1848. �
(Signed) 
JOSEPH MARSH, 
GEO. A. AVERY, and others. 
WE have received a letter from Bro. WM. S. MIL-
LER, dated Low Hampton, April 29th, stating that 
Father MILLER is visibly declining, being now nearly 
confined to his room. The letter closes thus: " Fa-
ther says lie wants you to stand ready to come and 
preach his funeral sermon, according to agreement ; 
this is his last request to you while I am writing, and 
1 write accordingly. I think his sickness and weak-
ness now are greater than they have been for years." 
If we might choose the events which make up the 
aggregate of our life, we would fain be spared that 
painful one which we are led so soon to expect from 
our brother's letter. We would fain hope, that the 
cause of Con, which for so many years has found in 
Father MILLER an humble yet faithful defender, might 
not yet be deprived of his counsels and his support. But 
we may not complain. We need none tote]) us of the 
wishes of our venerable and beloved brother; for we 
know that he can say with the apostle, " For to me 
to live is CHRIST, and to die is gain." The doctrine 
of the resurrection, which he has done so much to 
restore to its proper prominence in these last days, 
cannot fail to cheer hint in his last struggle with the 
powers of darkness. The staff on which he has so 
long leant and- found comfort, can neither bend nor 
break. The same gushing fountain, at which he has 
so often slaked his thirst, will not fail him as he 
passes through the dark domain of the last enemy, 
because its pure and living streams flow forth from 
the throne of COD. " The eternal GOD " is his ref-
uge, and underneath him are the everlasting arms. 
TO CORRESPONDENTS.—O. A. RICHARDS—We do 
not know, that for the restoration of Eden it will be 
necessary for everything now on the earth to be res-
tored there. There were none of the wicked in the 
first Eden, and, consequently, will be none in its res-
toration. The passage in the Revelation that you 
refer to, you will see explained in its order in the in-
terpretation of symbols. 
WE believe that for an insertion of advertisement 
of hooks the required number of times within the 
last three years, we are entitled to the History of 
Denominations, and another work, from WINNE-
BRENNER & CO., Philadelphia. Will Bro. LITCH 
forward to us the above work, or works, if they think 
we are entitled to them? 
BRO. HIMES returned tt Boston on the 5th, and 
spent the Sabbath, leaving again the next day to at-
tend the New York Conference. He is in tolerable 
health, but much fatigued. 
Foreign News. 
The Steamship America, Capt. HARRISON, arrived 
at New York on Saturday last, with about a week's 
later news from all parts of Europe. 
It appears from accounts from Paris that the Gov-
ernment had determined to send an army of 14,000 
men to Rome to assist the Pope, General L'OUDINOT 
to command. 
The President of the Council says that care will 
be taken to secure a free and liberal government to 
the Roman people. 
Rumors were in circulation in Paris on the 18th 
inst. of the modification of the Ministry. General 
LAMORICIERE is spoken of for the Ministry of War, 
and General BEDEAU for that on Foreign Affairs. 
The cholera is largely on the increase in Paris, 
and many persons of opulence have become its vic-
tims. 13p to the 19th there had been 1762 cases, of 
which 1022 had proved fatal. 
Germany.—Germany is still in a state of great 
confusion. The Prussian Government is said to have 
obtained the assent of the few of the smaller States, 
such as Hesse Cassel, Brunswick, and Weimar, to 
the assumption of the Imperial dignity by the King. 
But these only form a small part of the States of 
Gemany. Austria is of course violently opposed to 
a plan which would transfer the Imperial dignity 
from the House of Hapsburg to that of Brandenburg 
and Bavaria. The third State in Germany for pop-
ulation and influence, is scarcely less so. Both 
France and Russia are strongly opposed to the 
change. 
All these difficulties might 'perhaps be got over if 
the smaller States of Germany were unanimous in 
favor of the union with Prussia, but this is not the 
fact. Hanover, whose assent is essential to the car-
rying out of the scheme, is not likely to give it, and 
Saxony is equally opposed to the arrangement.—
Even if these difficulties could be overcome, it is 
doubtful whether the old German Empire could be 
revived. 
The following significant paragraph appears in the 
2d edition of the Cologne Gazette, of the 18th : 
" A new Prussian note, bearing the date of April 
13th, and intended as an answer to the Austrian one 
of the 8th, has in the clearest and most unequivocal 
manner, declared to the Olmutz Cabinet, that the 
Prussian Government will not be deterred by the op-
position of the Austrian Ministry, from assisting with 
all its power in a speedy formation of a union of con-
federate States, and that it is firmly resolved to up-
hold and protect the work thus accomplished with 
the concordance of the German Princes." 
In a word, the relations of Anstria are assuming a 
more warlike appearance, and however desirous the 
German Court may be to keep on good terms with 
the Olmutz Cabinet, public opinion is too unanimous 
and strong in this case to allow of the popular de-
mands being disregarded. 
Austria and Hungary.—The Austrian Empire is 
in as great difficulty as ever, for it is clear, from the 
retreat of all the divisions of the Austrian army to-
words the Pesth, that they have been repulsed by the 
Hungarians. The great struggle now is for the 
possession of the Hungarian fortress of Colern, on 
the Danube, which the Austrians have besieged for 
several weeks, and which the Hungarians are en-
deavoring to relieve. If they should succeed, the 
cause of Austria w-ill be desperate in Hungary. 
CHARLES ALBERT and RADETSRY have inflicted a 
great injury on Austria, by compelling the Austrian 
Government to detach an army of 20,000 men 
from Cavatia to Italy, at the breaking out of the 
Sardinian war, This army is now hastening back 
to Hungary, and may perhaps arrive in time to check 
die Hungarians 
The Imperial army besieging Colern is now ex-
posed to a three-fold attack— from the north, the 
south, and from the garrison of the fortress itself.—
The country surrounding Colern is all but in the 
hands of the Magyars, and Colern is but 20 leagues 
distant from Vienna. �
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The Imperial party among the inhabitants of Pesth, 
are quitting the Hungarian capital, and flying to Grau, 
and then to Raab and Pasburg. 
Vienna papers of the 14th furnish positive infor-
mation of the capture of the important position of 
Waitzen by the Hungarians. The details of this 
action are given by the German papers, and are to 
the effect that WINDISCHGRATZ, at the head of his 
best regiment, opposed the progress of the Hungari-
ans in the direction of Colern. A fierce engage-
ment ensued, in which the superior tactics of the 
Magyars proved irresistible. 
Italy.—Italy is still in indescribable confusion. The 
Republicans have been put down in Genoa, after 
having had the command of that beautiful city for 
nine days. In Tuscany, there has been a general 
rising in favor of the Grand Duke, and the man who 
was recently Dictator is now prisoner. 
The landing of the French at Civita Vecchi, will 
doubtless put an end to the Roman Republic, and 
he followed by the restoration of the Pope. 
Venice is besieged by the Austrians, by sea and 
land, and must surrender. 
In Sicily, the struggle has commenced with dread-
ful ferocity, and a desperate battle took place on 
Good Friday, between the Neapolitan and Swiss 
troops, and the people of Catania, which continued 
all night, and ended in the defeat of the Catanians. 
A great number of them were killed, and the city 
was afterwards sacked and plundered. 
The terror caused by this defeat lias caused the 
city of Syracuse to surrender without resistance.— 
Palermo is now the only place of much strength in 
the hands of the Sicilians. A desperate resistance 
is expected there, but with very little chance of suc-
cess. 
Information has been received by the Oberom 
steamer, that on its leaving Catania on Saturday 
evening, the city was in flames in three places.—
The most beautiful edifices were a heap of ruins, and 
the renowned library and museum of natural history 
were entirely destroyed. 
The latest accounts from Florence leave no reason 
to doubt but that the Grand Duke of Tuscany has 
returned to his capital. It is reported that the revo-
lutionary Government at Leghorn has been over-
turned by the people themselves—as that of Florence 
has been before. 
Denmark and the DuChies.On the 8th the Danish 
Minister of War published the following erder,of 
the day : 
" Kings and sovereigns are sending daily troops into 
the Duchies, to second the efforts of the rebels against 
their legitimate sovereign. �
The combats which 
daily take place against superior forces, produce 
only an effusion of blood without decisive results.—
The army has in consequence received orders to quit 
the Sunderwitt, and return to the Island of Alsen, to 
wait there the moment when it will he possible to-at-
tack the enemy man to man." 
The Danish entrenchments near Dufel had been 
attaoked and carried by the Saxon and Bavarian 
troops. The loss "of the 'Germans in this affair is 
calculated at 150 to'200 men. 
Several additional captures have been made by the 
Danish vessels, and it is stated that German emigrant 
ships will not be exempted. 
It is stated that a commercial treaty is about to be 
formed between England and France, the leading 
features of which will be the free admission of bran- 
dy, wine, and fruit, from France, and coal, iron,.and 
twist from England. Whatever advantages may he 
conferred upon French vessels by the alteration of 
the Navigation Laws, are to be liberally reciprocated 
by the Government of the Republic. 
Ireland.—From Ireland we have the usual quanti-
ty of misery and crime, but there is nothing of spe-
cial importance. The Jury in the case of Mr. DUFFY, 
of the Nation, have disagreed, and he has been set at 
liberty on bail for his appearance at the next com-
mission. 
India.—The details of the battle of Goojarat con-, 
firm the report by the India Mail of the 17th March, 
of the victory gained by Lord Gough. 
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THE ADVENT HERALD. 
THE VOICE OF MY BELOVED. 
(Founded on Cant. 2:8-14, 16, 17.) 
Correspondence, 
BRO. H1MES :—I have read your paper with much 
interest for seven years. My faith in God's care over 
the remnant of Israel has been much enlarged while 
contemplating the rise and progress of the Advent 
faith. Previous to the unfolding of the near coming 
of Christ, I could see no one that I could feel un-
shaken evidence that they are making it the great 
concern of this life to seek first the kingdom of God 
and his righteousness. I sometimes thought I was 
alone, as did Elijah on one occasion. But 1 bless the 
Lord, the preaching of the near coming of Christ has 
awakened and brought into the open field, both in 
England and in America, those whose writings con-
vey good evidence they have learned of Christ, and 
are of the true Israel of God. 
The near coming of Christ has not been preached 
here, with the exception that Bro. Shipman preached 
here one Sabbath, three years since. Sonic have 
expressed a desire to hear him again. The world 
and its cares have superseded the religion of Jesus; 
A spiritual darkness prevails, and I look with much 
anxiety for the Lord to move upon the heart of some 
ministering servant to come to this place. Brethren, 
would you not do well to visit where the truth has 
had no advocate? There are yet those that will hear 
and understand. Will Bro. Shipman bear us in mind? 
We also wish to see Bra. Edwin Burnham and D. 
Churchill. We hope good might he done, and souls 
awakened to look for the coming of the Lord. 
North Groton (N. H.), May 2d, 1849. 
of the need of religion," and have lost that convic-
tion, on account of our faith, it must be their convic-
tion was not worth much, or else they were turned 
aside by the false reports of our enemies, or of our 
injudicious friends, who are uninformed in the mat-
ter. Prejudice is truly a nonconductor. But if we 
have the spirit of Christ, good will follow. Our 
works must manifest our faith—our future course is 
unknown to us; but we mean to enter the kingdom, 
and get as many others to enter as we can. 
Yours, in the blessed hope. 
Hallowell (Me.), May, 1849. 
loose from her feelings. God required her to rest 
alone on his simple promise, irrespective of feelings. 
Satan cries out, " Presumption ! wait for feeling first 
—time enough to believe alter you receive !" He 
reverses the promise, "Believe on the Lord Jesus 
Christ, and thou shalt be saved," and renders it thus, 
" Be saved, and then believe." Beware of the wily 
tempter. But many are saying, as did one to whom 
my attention was directed as soon as the above named 
individual was blest, " Anything but that, Lord !" 1 
urged the necessity of relinquishing the cherished 
idol, or she could not be blest. For some time she 
groaned in deep distress, repeating constantly, " Any-
thing but that, Lord !" Finally she cried out, " Any 
way, Lord, only bless!" and the mighty baptism of 
the Spirit came. She had chosen the way in which 
she desired to receive the blessing, and when shown 
that she must receive it in a different manlier front 
that desired by her, like Nainaan, she hesitated, and 
wished to bring God to her terms, but when she 
yielded her will, and said, " Any way, Lord, only 
bless," she was cleansed. 
The manner in which God shall work in us by his 
Spirit, must be left altogether with him. He knows 
far better than we what method will be the best 
adapted to crucify us to self. 
" Here I am, do with me as thou wilt," should be 
the language of our hearts, and God will then work 
in us effectually by his Spirit, and fully prepare us 
for whatever work he has for us to do. Our great 
aim and object should be, to do his will, seeking not 
for happy frames or feelings. This will he given as 
we need, if we are obedient. I have no sympathy 
with that spirit which is ever crying, "Give me joy, 
make me happy ;" but far more commendable is that 
state of mind which is willing to " know Christ, and 
the fellowship of his sufferings," and as cheerfully 
consents to follow him to Gethsemane and the cross, 
as to the mount of transfiguration. 
M. D. WELLCOME. 
LETTER FROM C. R. CLOUGHT. 
LETTER FROM A. CHASE. 
What sound is this salutes my ear, 
'Tis my Beloved's voice I hear ; 
He comes! to cheer my drooping soul, 
He comes! to make the wounded whole ; 
By faith now can hear him say, 
" Arise, my love, and come away ; 
For le, the wintry storms are past,— 
The rain of sin with chilling blast,— 
The curse no more on earth shall rest, 
But will like Paradise be drest,— 
The flowers appear to deck thy home,— 
The time for birds to sing is come,— 
The turtle's voice we now can hear, 
The verdant fig-trees do appear,— 
The vines and tender grapes in bloom, 
Diffuse around a sweet perfume. 
Arise, my fair one, come away, 
And hail with joy the glorious day." 
Then we, obedient to his will, 
The resurrection's power shall feel : 
For this I know, my Lord is mine, 
Joined as the branches of a vine; 
And where his saints, as lilies grow, 
This love and fellowship they know. 
Until that glorious morn shall dawn, 
'When every shadow is withdrawn, 
Be like the youthful hart or roe, 
On Bether's mount, where spices grow. 
So quickly come to our relief, 
Bounding o'er hills of sin and grief. 
J. M. 0 
SANCTIFICATION. NO. 2. 
ON MUSIC. 
When speaking of music, in the general sense of 
the term, we mean a combination of sounds so ar-
ranged as to produce harmoliy when sung, or per-
formed on musical instruments. But this is not the 
only meaning which the term will admit of. There is 
music in the responsive echo of soul to soul--in the 
sweet voice of friendship—there is music that charms 
the mind, that elevates the soul, that produces an 
equilibrium of feeling and mutual kindness, and serves 
to quell every discord and passionate excitement, so 
detrimental to our peace and happiness. To the 
lover of the beautiful in nature, the scene presented 
on a fine summer evening is full of music ; the little 
songsters, as they warble forth their notes of joy and 
happiness, give life and beauty to the scene. Again, 
there is music in the voice of prayer, as it ascends to 
God, the creator and giver of all blessings. What 
harmony exists in the prayer meeting, when the Spi-
rit of God presides in the midst, and when every 
heart is filled with that Spirit, and all are willing to 
bear the cross! It is there that music fills the soul, 
and inspires a heavenly zeal in the heart, and a long-
ing for heaven. And-when we realize that the Sa-
viour will soon come to reward the righteous and 
punish the wicked, and to immortalize these bodies 
of ours, and to renovate and restore the earth, there 
is joy that fills the heart which the world cannot give 
or take away. 0, what music in these words, " Be-
hold, I come quickly !" Come, then, 0 my soul, 
awake to duty, and gird on thy armor, for time will 
soon end. 
"'Tis almost done—'tis almost o'er, 
We soon shall reach that blissful shore." 
And while we shall mingle and commingle our voices 
together in praise, let us remember that soon, if faith-. 
ful, we shall join with angels and glorified spirits in 
singing the song of Moses and the Lamb, where sor-
row and trouble can never come, and where joys will 
be complete, and the mutations of time are unknown. 
" Ye objects of sense, and enjoyments of time, 
Which so oft have delighted my heart, 
I soon shall exchange you fur joys more sublime— 
Joys that will never depart." �S. N. T. 
Salem (Mass.), May 2d, 1849. 
DEAR BRO. HIMES :—I feel to sympathize with 
those that are laboring for the good of souls ; but 
take courage, dear brother, victory will turn on Zion's 
side. Lay not down your armor, nor slumber, lest 
on being called to battle you find yourself unpre-
pared. Be firm and established in the faith and love 
of God. Get the world beneath your feet, and live 
in continual readiness for the great and notable day 
of the Lord ; for we see, that because iniquity cloth 
abound, the love of many waxeth cold ; but he that 
shall endure unto the end, the same shall be saved." 
How blessed is this consoling promise made by our 
Saviour—" He that shall endure unto the end, the 
same shall be saved." But what is the fate of those 
that are made rulers over God's household, that cry 
continually, " My lord delayeth his coming," and be- 
gin to smite their fellow-servants, and to eat and 
drink with the drunken ? The lord of those wicked 
servants shall come in a day when they are not look- 
itig for him, and in an hour when they are not aware, 
and shall cut them asunder, and appoint them their 
portion with the hypocrites : there shall be weeping 
and gnashing of teeth. Let us be strong in the Lord, 
and pray continually for strength to enable us to re-
sist Satan, who is going about as a roaring lion, seek- 
ing whom he may devour.—" Wo to the inhabitants 
of the earth and of the sea, for the devil is come 
down unto you, having great wrath, because lie 
know eth he hath but a short time." 1 am aware that 
you have flesh and blood to contend with, but fear not 
the world, nor its daring threats, for God will help to 
conquer all these. Be ye therefore complete in him 
who is the head of all principalities and powers. 
According to the request of a friend, I send you 
some questions, which he wishes you to answer in 
the " Herald." �
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Text 1.—" Repent, for the kingdom of heaven is 
at hand." 1. How near at hand? 
Answer—It was proxirnating. 
2. What is signified by the phrase, " kingdom of 
heaven?" 
Answer—The kingdom which should be set up by 
the God of heaven. 
Text 2.—" Who bath warned you to flee from the 
wrath to come?" 1. To come when? 
Answer—At the end of the world. 
To fall upon whom? 
Answer—On the finally impenitent. 
In what would that wrath consist? 
Answer—Of " eternal punishment," " where the 
worm dieth not, and the fire is not quenched." 
Text 3.—" Now.the axe is laid unto the root of 
the trees ; every tree, therefore, which bringeth not 
forth good fruit is hewn down and cast into the fire." 
How soon would this prediction be fulfilled ? 
Answer—In its fulness at the end of the world. 
Text 4.—Luke 4 : 18. What was the acceptable 
year? or of what length of time? covering how many 
calendar years? 
Answer—During the whole gospel dispensation. 
Were not the coining of Christ, the end of the 
world, and the judgment of the great day, to be co-
temporary events, or newly so? 
Answer—Yes. 
At what time did Jesus declare his coming should 
be? Answer—At the end of the world. 
LETTER FROM G. W. CLEMENT. 
DEAR BRO. H1MES :—I have been reflecting upon 
the position of the Advent people, the doctrines they 
advocate, and their prospects; and can arrive at no 
other conclusion, but that in most respects they are 
on the right track—that the truths connected with 
their religious faith, if strictly adhered to, and not 
held in unrighteousness, will lead them into the king-
dom of God's dear Son. I am happy to believe that 
they occupy more scriptural and high ground, in 
some very important particulars, than their oppo-
nents : instance a belief in the great and soul-absorb-
ing subject of the Lord at hand—Jesus and his king-
dom at the doors—" the restitution of all things 
which God bath spoken by the mouth of all his holy 
prophets since the world began "—the " new earth," 
and " the holy city, the new Jerusalem coming down 
front God out of heaven, prepared as a bride adorned 
for her husband," to remain on the same " 117W 
earth " as its capital forever, and the glorious inher-
itance of all who " have a part in the first resurrec-
tion "—with others I need not stop to mention here. 
I have the satisfaction to know, also, that, besides the 
abundance of Scripture testimony that fully warrants 
the correctness of the doctrines we believe, we find, 
upon the page of history examples among the early, 
most learned, and deeply pious Protestants, in which 
we discover similar triodes of interpretation of the 
word of God, to that which is held by Adventists. 
And so far as they followed the plain and simple 
teachings of Christ and his apostles, it can be neither 
unchristian nor unsafe to adopt their examples. If 
we come down so late as Wesley, we may see an ex-
hibition of the same sentiments we hold, in his excel-
lent sermon on " The New Creation." Will not 
some of our Methodist brethren who are so violently 
opposed to our view of the inheritance of the saints 
in the new earth," take the trouble to read that ser-
mon ; and see if indeed the rankest of us may not 
claim affinity with their venerable founder, in em 
bracing many of the truths connected with our 
LETTER FROM S. N. GEARS. 
DEAR BRO. HIMES �
take this opportunity to say, 
that the " Herald " is highly esteemed by the friends 
of the cause all through this northern region where I 
have labored. It comes richly ladened with the good 
things of the kingdom, which afford comfort and con-
solation to many a lonely pilgrim, who hail its weekly 
arrival with joy, arid are touch edified with its rich 
contents. 1 thank God for this medium of commu-
nication in these last days of peril, when faithful la-
borers are few. 
The cause in the north part of this State and in 
Canada East for the last year, has been on the ad-
vance, and converts to the faith have been multiplied. 
The signs of the times are ominous. My faith never 
was stronger, nor my hope so blessed and glorious as 
at the present time. Praise God, we are on the right 
track. Redenkption is at the door. Soon will the 
everlasting doors be lifted up, and the King of glory 
come in. The nations are getting angry, and soon 
God's burning wrath will fall upon the heads of his 
enemies. Babylon will soon fall, and there will be a 
great voice of much people in heaven, saying, " Al-
leluia! Salvation, and glory, and honor, and power, 
unto the Lord our God : for true and righteous are 
his judgments: for he hath judged the great whore, 
which did corrupt the earth with her fornication, and 
hath avenged the blood of his servants at her hand. 
And again they said, Alleluia! And her smoke rose 
up forever and ever. Arid the four and twenty elders 
arid the four beasts fell down arid worshiped God that 
sat on the throne, saying, Amen ; Alleluia! And a 
voice came out of the throne, saying, Praise our God, 
all ye his servants, and ye that fear him, both small 
and great. And I 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, Al-
leluia! for the Lord God Omnipotent reigneth."—
Amen. Even so, come, Lord Jesus. 
Troy (Vt.), May 2d, 1849. 
LETTER FROM I. C. WELLCOME. 
DEAR BRO. HIMES :—After being absent for a few 
months, I am happy to find on my return that the Ad-
vent cause is, by the blessing of God, advancing in 
this place. A few of us toiled for some years under 
many apparently discouraging circumstances, there 
being at first only two that came out prominently, to 
be opposed by hundreds of our brethren, but soon af-
ter our company numbered from six to eight, who 
have stood since 1843, unmovei amid all the scorn 
arid reproach, without being able to sustain a public 
meeting, there being only one who had the will, or 
has the ability to pay much. But the Lord has gra-
ciously regarded us, and kept us from falling, and 
from turning aside to vain notions. Last summer an 
unusual interest manifested itself among us, which 
resulted in the conversion of some five or six of our 
friends who had not previously associated with us. 
Since then we have been able to sustain a public 
meeting, which has increased in interest and numbers 
until the present. A revival spirit has been con-
stantly kept up, and some new cases of conversion or 
conviction are constantly being manifested. May the 
Lord continue to increase it. We now number about 
thirty who profess to be identified as Adventists, yet 
we can reckon only those who live prepared for the 
kingdom, which can only be by faith, which appro-
priates the righteousness of Christ to us, as our only 
hope. We have about twenty of such, and we are 
united in Christ, and established in the faith. We 
are not professed " Himes men," nor any other man's 
" men," but the Lord's men, and we, as men, are 
brethren. And although we do not agree with you 
about. the present state of the dead, and the final dis-
position of the wicked, yet we should be very glad 
to have you come among us, and preach to us con-
stantly, could it be consistent. But as it is, we hope 
you will be able to hold a conference among us, at 
the central place, this season. The advent of our 
Lord, to set up his kingdom and restore the earth, 
and redeem his people, is the question among us. T. 
this we point all, as the only hope of the church. As 
to our " tests of salvation," we have only such as 
Christ has given,—" He that doeth the will of my 
Father, the same is my mother, my sister, and my 
brother." We believe that all who fear God and 
work righteousness are accepted of him. We ask 
no man to see and believe everything as we do, that 
he may be fellowshiped by us. We fully fellowship 
those who do not believe as we do on the above-men-
tioned doctrines, if they give evidence of piety. We 
have one aged sister among us who disagrees with 
us in the matter, but she is, and has been for thirty 
years, a devoted and faithful servant of Christ. She 
not being able to attend our meetings much, is riot 
aware of our state, and does not seem to know our 
faith on disputed points, for she classes it with that of 
Elias Smith, while it has no connection. This is the 
only case among us of any appearance of disfellow-
ship, and that not on our part. 
As to our faith in relation to the dead and wicked 
being " harped upon in the streets," as mentioned by 
our sister in the last " Herald," I do not doubt it, for 
it has disquieted many of the wicked among us, both 
in and out of the churches, and they have the harp- 
ing to do about us. They have heard but little said 
on the subject in our meetings, for it is not often men-
tioned ; butt many erroneous sentiments are reported 
as being our faith, which sometimes calls us out on 
the subject. They often meet us in the streets, and 
"ask us the reason of our faith," which we feel 
bound to give " with meekness and fear ;" arid those 
who judge by the evidences do not " harp," but those 
who judge by their feelings, or by their former opin- 
ions, are sometimes " grieved," as were the Jews, 
when the apostles " taught, through Jesus, the res-
urrection of the dead." We do not labor to make 
men embrace our views for that alone, but to lead 
them to God through Christ, and prepare them there-
by for the judgment. If any have been " convicted 
"Likewise reckon ye also yourselves to be dead 
indeed unto sin, but alive into God through Jesus 
Christ our Lord."—Rom. 6 : 11. 
As soon as the steps previously pointed out are 
taken, the above requisition must be complied with. 
And when all is indeed consecrated, it requires no 
mighty effort to believe that we are indeed dead unto 
sin, but alive unto God, by virtue of the altar upon 
which the sacrifice is presented. " But," says one, 
" if I only knew that I had indeed given up all, I 
would believe; but I fear that I may be deceived." 
By this suggestion, many have been prevented front 
laying hold by faith upon the blessing. But, my 
friend, have you riot consecrated all, as far as you 
have any knowledge? and have you not prayed God 
to show you if there he any reserve on your part ? 
If so, rest on the promise, " And if in anywise ye be 
otherwise minded, God shall reveal even this unto 
you." Consecrate all, known or unknown, and 
reckon yourself the Lord's. Leave yourself entirely 
at the mercy of God, it cannot fail toward you.—
Yield your redeemed powers to his service, remem-
bering that you are a " servant to whom you yield 
yourself to obey, whether of sin unto death, or of 
obedience unto righteousness." " But," says ano-
ther, " I do not feel any different now that I have 
consecrated all ; I want to feel that I am dead unto 
sin before I believe." Alt ! stop, my friend, your 
sacrifice needs to be tested a little. These must cer- 
tainly be yielded before you can be blest. Again : 
Are you aware that you are seeking for some other 
evidence than the word of God'? You would not de-
mand any other evidence than the simple testimony 
of an individual, whom you knew to be a person of 
unquestionable veracity ; how wicked, then, to ask 
for " signs and wonders " of Him who cannot lie. 
The Bible is the voice of God speaking to you just 
as certainly as though you heard it audibly, and will 
you not believe it? At one time I addressed myself 
to an individual that was seeking the Lord. I en-
quired if she was decided to be a Christian? She 
replied, " Yes." " Are you willing to forsake all 
for Christ?" " I am." " Are you conscious that 
you do now yield yourself unreservedly to him?"—
" I think I do." I then endeavored clearly to show 
from the Word, that if all was indeed yielded, it was 
now her duty to reckon herself the Lord's, and told 
her to do so. " Why," said she, " I want to feel 
that I am the Lord's." I then pointed out to her the 
importance of leaving her feelings entirely with the 
Lord, and to believe herself his, simply because lie 
had promised to receive her. I repeated the words, 
" I am thine, Lord," and she united with me a few 
times, and then she exclaimed, " 0, let me feel that 
I am thine !" " Do you wish to be the Lord's?" I 
asked. " Yes." " Do you believe it to be his will 
that you become his?" " I do." " Your wills are 
united, and you become his, do you not?" " Yes." 
" Believe it, then, and fearlessly say, ' I am thine, 
Lord.' " She began again to repeat the words after 
me, and soon I perceived that her faith was unwaver-
ing on this point, and I urged her to take another 
step. " Now, sister, praise the Lord that you are 
his." Here was another struggle with her feelings. 
It no doubt sbemed very inconsistent to her, to praise 
the Lord without any special spirit of praise, and she 
said, " I want to feel to praise him." " Do you be-
lieve that you are the Lord's?" 
" Yes." Ought 
you not, then, to praise him that you are his?"—
" Yes ; but I want to feel it in my heart." " Feel-
ing or no feeling," said I, " say, Praise the Lord.' " 
I repeated the words, and she followed me a few 
times, when she again cried out, " Lord, let me feel 
to praise thee !" " Feeling or no feeling, praise the 
Lord," said I. She repeated them after me, and 
continued to do so several times without any feeling, 
and then the Spirit was given. She arose higher and 
higher in her expressions, and very soon, with a 
heart overflowing with love and gratitude, she poured 
out her soul in praise to him who had so graciously 
pardoned. 
Now, with many, this may look very improper ; 
but no other course would have so cut this dear friend 
THE ADVENT HERALD. �
119 
Soft is the voice of golden lutes; 
Soft bloom heaven's fair ambrosial fruits; 
Bright beams the dazzling lustre shed 
From radiant gems in order spread, 
From golden streets, from enCrald floors, 
From crystal floods, and pearly doors, 
From rainbow tints, from angels' wings, 
And all unutter'd glorious things. 
Yet not that city's dazzling glow, 
Nor limpid waters' crystal flow, 
Nor dulcet harmony, that springs 
From golden lyres, nor angels' wings, 
Though glist'ning with intensest dyes, 
Reflected from immortal skies, 
Completes the palmy bliss of those 
On whom heaven's pearly portals close. 
No! 'tis with unfilm'd eyes, to see 
The once incarnate Deity, 
'Who still, in lamb-like meekness bears, 
Imprinted deep, those glorious scars 
Whence issued wide that crimson flow 
In which their robes were wash'd below, 
Which bought that crown whose splendor bright 
Now spheres them in a world of light ! 
No ! 'tis not all that heaven can show 
Of great or fair, unglimps'd below ; 
Nor converse deep with spirits high, 
Who saw those vollied lightnings fly 
Which scathed their bright compeers in bliss, 
And hurl'd them down to hell's abyss; 
Who mark'd creation rise sublime, 
And hymn'd the early birth of time : 
No! not with minds like these to blend, 
And feel each angel-form a friend ; 
But God, their fount, to know and see; 
From all-pervading Deity 
To catch the nearer burst of light ; 
To gain the beatific sight ; 
Entranced in glory's peerless blaze, 
Conform'd to Him, on Him to gaze. 
Mrs. Bulmer. 
" WALKING WORTHY OF GOD." 
Christians are exhorted " to walk worthy of God, 
who hath called them to his kingdom and glory." 
The worthiness here spoken of is not that of desert. 
They have forever forfeited all claim to the favor of 
God upon legal grounds; and it is not to be expected 
that their conduct, however exemplary, will merit 
the rewards of heaven. Christians, if faithful, may 
indeed look for the approbation of their heavenly Fa- 
ther, and " to those who by patient continuance in 
well doing seek for glory, and honor, and immortali-
ty," God will render " eternal life." 
But the meaning of this exhortation is better ex-
pressed by the word worthily; Christians are required 
to walk worthily of God, i. e., in a manner becoming 
the relation which they sustain to Him. They stand 
before the world as the representatives of certain 
principles—of the religion of Christ ; and not only 
so, but they are in some sense the representatives of 
God himself. They are witnesses for the truth of 
God ; they profess to imitate, and in some measure 
to reflect his character ; they are said to be under the 
guidance of his Spirit, and even to have that Spirit 
always within them. The world, therefore, judge of 
the Christian religion, and in part of its Author, also, 
by their conduct. They should walk worthily of 
God, as a child walks worthily of his father, when 
he lives in such a way as to reflect honor on that pa-
rent for the manner in which he has trained him, and 
gives no occasion to any to speak reproachfully of his 
father's character and discipline. The Christian 
should so live that his character may be taken as an 
illustration of what God would have his creatures 
be; yea, of what He himself is. To this end he 
must cherish the deepest reverence for truth, espe-
aially God's revealed truth. His regard for truth 
should be such that every one will know where to 
find him upon any question in which truth and duty 
are involved. Everywhere, at all times, he should 
desire to know simply what is truth, in the highest 
meaning of the word—what is the duty which truth 
now requires of him, and then he should act in ac-
cordance with truth and right. In so doing, he will 
act worthily of Him whose ways are " just and true." 
The Christian must cherish, also, an enlarged spi-
rit of charity, comprehensive benevolence, if he 
would be like his Father in heaven, and so walk 
worthily of God. And here he can be at no loss with 
respect to the manner in which he shall honor God ; 
for Christ has shown us just how God himself would 
act in the circumstances in which we are placed, and 
therefore how God would have us act. Christ " went 
about doing good ;" and that was the only true rep-
resentation of Divine character ever made by man. 
Every Christian should aspire to the same.—Inde-
pendent. 
THE FIGHT OF FAITH. 
The good fight of faith is a warfare maintained by 
the Christian spirit and principles, with the principles 
and spirit of the world. As the man of the world 
lives without any reference to heaven, without any 
relish for its joys, the Christian is hound to live in a 
manner worthy of so high and glorious an expecta-
tion, and to derive his satisfaction ftoin so blessed a 
hope. Whatever distinguishes the worldling, he 
should avoid, and should be, as far as possible, the 
reverse of it. Contentedly to associate with him, in 
his vain follies and amusements, is to betray our 
cause into his hands—to grant a victory to our ene-
my. 
The attempt to unite religion and the world is 
vain ; the expectation of happiness in such a cornet 
is likewise vain,—while misery must be at the end 
of it. 
It is always, says Mrs. Hannah More, an evil 
symptom, when professedly religious people are con- 
— - 
blessed hope ? I have not the means at hand to des-
cribe the exact number of the set mon, but can safely 
say from memory; that it is included between the 60th 
and the 65th sermons. If our opposing brethren will 
investigate our principles more, and misrepresent 
them and us less, it is not among the improbabilities 
that some of them may arrive at a similar conclusion 
with that of Dr. Durbin, and others. But it may be 
asked, if we occupy Scriptural ground, and have 
adopted sound and Scriptural principles, why is it 
that our numbers do not increase faster? Several 
reasons at once present themselves, One is, judging 
from the past, to go back even to the days of our Sa-
viour, the mass of community are not easily moved 
from pre-conceived opinions, as was the case under 
the preaching of Jesus of Nazareth ; for, though he 
spake as never man spake, still hut few believed on 
him. Again, the world is now divided into two great 
parties—professors and non-professors. The former 
have established themselves, and have become popu- 
lar, and, consequently, live not upon their own merit 
or character, but upon the merit and good character 
that the church has obtained to which they belong. 
Hence, they being at home and at peace there, while 
so many are crying, Peace, peace, they heed not the 
rumbling of the chariot wheels which betoken the 
near approach of Him whom, not having seen, they 
should love. The latter class—non-professors—have 
been for a long time, and are still, more or less, un- 
der the influence of professors, and therefore cannot 
at once be gained over to the truth. 0, the awful 
weight of responsibility that rests upon such Chris- 
tian churnhes, as are holding the great body of the 
unconverted under their influence, and are lulling 
them with the syren song, that the world is to be con- 
verted soon, when the Just Oee has plainly said, that 
"sodden destruction shall come upon such as cry 
peace and safety ;" and also, that " straight is the gate 
and narrow is the way that lesdeth unto life, and few 
there he that find it." 0, let all of us who love his 
appealing gird on the armor anew, and strive to win 
over as many as we can into the straight and narrow 
way—win them to love the doctrine of the coming of 
th, Lord. The apparent obsttuctions to our progress 
will in no wise excuse us from the labors devolving 
upon us to perform. Now is the time to try men's 
souls—to show true Christian courage—to prove 
who are soldiers indeed. Adventists must expect to 
row hard, till their warfare is ended ; nor should we 
wish for ease, until victory is swallowed up of life. 
Let our watchword be, Onward—our trust, in God. 
There is a mighty secret influence on the hearts of 
many, which, if the Lord should tarry a little while, 
will explode their prejudices, and bring them to the 
knowledge of the truth. Thanks be to God, some 
have already exploded—and we will labor on. Real, 
sober, thinking Christians must and will see that it is 
hard fighting against God in his purpose to give the 
world its last solemn warning of the judgment at 
bend—they will see it. and die in their spirituality, or 
embrace the truth and live. May they do the latter. 
And now, to my brethren and sisters of like pre-
cious faith I would say, we must stick to the pioneers 
in the cause—we must stay up their hands, and help 
them on their way. Say, my brethren, shall we 
withhold from these anxious and persevering cham- 
pions of God's truth the means to carry forward the 
work �
Methinks I hear your united response, "No, 
God forbid that we should thus do." Up, then, and 
let us furnish the necessary supplies fur their ardu- 
ous Operations. Let us, one and all, who possibly 
can, pay Bro. Rimes promptly for the " Herald," 
and obtain as many new subscribers for the same as 
will be persuaded to become such, and relieve him 
from the embarrassments under which he labors, oc- 
casioned by a want of promptness on the part of the 
readers of the " Herald " to meet their subscriptions. 
Are any of our dear brethren who have their abun- 
dance of this world's goods, excusing themselves by 
saying that we have large families, or are poor, and 
not able to give to the glorious Advent cause? If so, 
let us stop a moment, and ask, where is our faith ? 
Are we looking for, and trusting in the Lord ?—
Freely we have received, then freely let us give, ac-
cording as the Lord has prospered us; for He will re-
ward the faithful with peace here, and immortal glory in 
the world to come. May God show us all our duty, 
and give us willing hearts to do till he comes. 
Landaff (N. H.), April 28th, 1849. 
Miscellaneous, 
RELIGIOUS MAXIMS, 
Designed to aid Christians in " cleansing themselves 
from all filthiness of the flesh and spirit, perfecting 
holiness in the fear of God."-2 Cur. 7:1. 
This object is sanctioned by the prayers of inspired 
men."--1 Pet. 5:10 ; 1 Thess. 5:23. 
" We should not think lightly of the grace of 
God as manifested in that inferior form of religion 
which stops short of the more glorious and perfected 
form of pure love. We are to follow God's grace, 
and not to go before it. To the higher state of pure 
love we are to advance, step by step ; watching care-
fully God's inward and outward providence; and re-
ceiving increased grace by improving the grace we 
have," until we are made perfect in love. 
" Happy wilt thou be, if thou hast no thought 
bet to die to thyself. Thou wilt then become victo-
rious over thine evil nature." 
" And, to this end, be not afraid of those trials 
which God may bring upon thee. It is with the 
stormy winds of tribulation, that God separates the 
chaff from the wheat." And it is through the se-
verity of the " refiner's fire," that thou mayest reflect 
the divine image. " Always remember, therefore, 
that God comes to thee .in thy sorrows as really as 
in thy joys. Thou wilt find thyself far from perfec-
tion, if thou dost not find God in everything." 
Seek not consolation. but God. Desire of God 
only one thing, that thou mayest spend thy life for 
his sake, in true obedience and subjection." 
" Resign and deny thyself wholly ; for, though 
true self-denial is harsh at the beginning, it is easy 
in the middle, and becomes most sweet in the end." 
" It is impossible for a man to live a life of ho-
liness, if he does not first die to himself by a total 
denial of all wrong appetites and passions, and by 
the crucifixion of the pride of natural reason." 
"The soul which is thus purified, is always 
quiet and serene—always filled with holy reverence," 
loving God as truly for his rebukes as for his smiles. 
" It is in such purified and quiet souls, that the 
Holy Spirit loves to repose—and he will repose no-
where but where selfishness is banished, and quiet-
ness reigns." 
Be silent and believe. Hold thy peace, and let 
thyself be guided by the hand of God. Suffer in 
patience, and walk on in strong faith ; and though it 
seems to thee thou doest nothing, and art idle, being 
so dumb and resigned, yet it is of infinite fruit. The 
blinded beast that turns the wheel of the mill, though 
it seeth it not, neither knows what it does, yet it do-
eth a great work in grinding the corn. 
Be nothing in thyself, that thou mayest be 
strong in the Lord. When thou art nothing, thou 
canst experience no harm that will trouble thee. 
There are three kinds of silence. Silence 
from words is good, because inordinate speaking tends 
to evil. Silence or rest from desires or passions is 
still better, because it promotes quietness of spirit.—
But thebest of all is silence from unnecessary and 
wandering thoughts, because that is essential to in-
ternal recollection, and it lays a foundation for silence 
in other respects. 
He that bath God bath all things; but he that 
bath him not, bath nothing. 
No advance can be made towards perfection 
without faith, because faith is the only means we 
have of taking hold on Christ, without whom we can 
do nothing. 
A fixed, inflexible will is of great importance 
in a holy life. Satan will suggest a thousand reasons 
why we should yield a little to the temptations by 
which we are surrounded; but let us ever stand fast 
in our purpose. 
It is only imperfection that complains of what 
is imperfect. It would be well for those who aim at 
Christian perfection to remember this. Surrounded 
by those who constantly exhibit defects of character 
and conduct, if we yield to a complaining and impa-
tient spirit, we shall mar our own peace, without 
having the satisfaction of benefiting others. 
The practice of confession is not inconsistent 
with the state of pure love. The truly renovated soul 
can still say, Forgive us our trespasses. If it does 
not sin now, deliberately and knowingly, still its for-
mer state of sin can never be forgotten. In the high-
est state of Christian experience, it would not be 
proper for any one to assert, with absolute certainty, 
that he is free from all deviation from God whatever. 
Our limited and imperfect knowledge does not admit 
of this. 
To this state, whatever it be called, it is the duty 
of all Christians to make constant efforts to arrive. 
This is that blessed state which refers all to God, and 
leaves nothing to the creature. Strive after it ; but 
do not too readily or easily believe that you have at-
tained it. 
" Peace dwells with all who truth prefer, 
But seeks not them who seek not her." 
THE BEATIFIC VISION. 
" The nations of them that are saved shall walk in 
the light of it."—Rev. 21 :24. 
" Not the glitter and glory ; not the diamond and 
topaz; no, it is God : he is all and in all."—Richard 
Watson. 
" Walk in that light!"-0! who are they 
Whose feet shall tread that shining way? 
Whose sight; undazzled, shall behold 
That pavement of transparent gold? 
By angels welcom'd, who, 0! who 
Shall pass those pearly portals through, 
And brighten in the glorious blaze 
Of that gemm'd city's sparkling rays? 
There walk the saved ; but not in light 
Of suns in seven-fold lustre bright; 
Nor peerless moonbeams' silent sheen, 
Reposing, soft, on velvet green : 
No! nor where hallow'd radiance spreads, 
From golden lamps, o'er sainted heads, 
Within the temple ceaseless found, 
While walk the hours their silent round. 
There walk the saved : yes, they who bore, 
While traversing life's stormy shore, 
Through tears and blood, the hallow'd cross; 
Who, purged from earth's terrestrial dross, 
Received the Saviour's form impress'd, 
Whose signet, on each hallow'd breast 
Enstamp'd the mystic name, unknown 
To all but those around the throne : 
Who, calm 'midst earth's tumultuous strife, 
Drew from himself that inward life 
Which spirits breathe, from sense apart ; 
While, deep in each devoted heart, 
The formless glory dwelt serene, 
Of old in cherub splendor seen, 
Prelude of bliss reserved above, 
In perfect light, for perfect love. 
Now, all is heaven ! no temple there 
Unfolds its gates; no voice of prayer 
From that bright multitude ascends; 
But holy rapture, reverent, bends 
Before the niediatorial throne ; 
Before the Lamb! whose beams alone 
Irradiate that eternal sky ;— 
The bursting blaze of Deity ! 
tending for a little more of this amusement, and 
pleading for a little extension of that gratification, 
and fighting to hedge in a little more territory to their 
pleasure-ground. Little do they think that they are 
thus exhibiting a kind of wisdom against themselves, 
that they are not yet renewed in the spirit of their 
rninds.—Rev. John Styles. 
A PREMATURE MINISTRY. 
" Facts are ful of instruction on this subject. Not 
a few young men of bright promise, who might have 
become champions of the truth, have been so impa-
tient to hasten into the ministry, that they have fa-
tally blighted their own prospects ; and instead of at-
taining to distinguished success, have scarcely reach-
ed the point of mediocrity. The minister now, 
whose maxim is to expect little things, and attempt 
little things, mistakes the day in which he lives.—
What was knowledge in the thirteenth century, is 
ignorance now. 
What was energy then, is imbecili-
ty and stupidity now. As was said in another case, 
it becomes, then, our sacred profession, in this period 
of intellectual progress, to remain like the ship that 
is moored to its station, only to mark the rapidity of 
the current that is sweeping by. Let the intelligence 
of the age outstrip us and leave us behind, and re-
ligion would sink, with its teachers, into insignifi-
cance. Ignorance cannot wield this intelligence.—
Give to the church a feeble ministry; and the world 
breaks from your hold, your main spring of moral 
influence is gone." 
SCRIPTURE EXPLANATION. 
I never understood the full meaning of our Lord's 
words in John 13 : 10, until I beheld the better sort 
of East Indian natives return home after performing 
their customary ablutions. The passage reads thus : 
" He that is washed needed) not save to wash his 
feet, but is clean every whit." Thus, as they re-
turn to their habitations barefoot, they necessarily 
contract, in their progress, some portion of dirt on 
their feet ; and this is universally the case, however 
nigh their dwellings may he to the river side.—
When, therefore, they return, the first thing they 
do is to mount a low stool, and pour a small vessel 
of water over their feet, to cleanse them from the 
soil they may have contracted in their journey home-
wards ; if they are of the higher order of society, 
a servant performs it for them, and then they are 
"clean every whit." Does not this in a figure repre-
sent to us the defilement which a Christian contracts, 
although he may have been cleansed by faith in a 
crucified Saviour ; and the necessity of a continual 
application of the precious blood of atonement to the 
conscience, in order that the soul may be " clean 
every whit?"—Statham. 
MARVELLOUS COINCIDENCES. 
One of those remarkable cases of presentiment, or 
" second-sight," that have occurred at intervals to 
the confusion of all human speculation in every age 
of the world, has just been brought to our knowl-
edge in our city. The daughter of a highly respect-
able family, a child of twelve years, who has been 
ill of fever for some days, told her parents in a par-
oxysm of delirium on Monday evening, that her 
brother on board the packet ship Devonshire coming 
from London, was then within twenty miles of home, 
and had with him sundry presents for them, specify-
ing among other things, five hooks with red covers, 
gilt edges, &c. The vessel arrived the next (yester-
day) morning, and the return of the brother with the 
specified presents, verified the truth of her marvel-
lous impression. When the brother entered her 
chamber, she recognized him at once, and on the in-
stant interrogated him concerning the presents which 
she said she had dreamed of ; when he confirmed 
her prediction in every particular. She then imme-
diately relapsed into delirium.—.Newark Daily Ad-
vertiser. 
VIRTAUS ACTIONS THE BEST MONUMENT. 
A man's best monument is his virtuous actions.—
Foolish is the hope of immortality and future praise, 
by the cost of senseless stone—when the passenger 
shall only say, here lies a fair stone and a filthy car-
cass. That can only report thee rich ; but for other 
praises, thyself must build thy monument alive, and 
write thy own epitaph in honest and honorable ac-
tions ; which are so much more noble than the 
other, as living men are better than dead stones. 
Nay, I know riot if the other be not the way to work 
a perpetual succession of infamy, while the censori-
ous reader, upon occasion thereof, shall comment 
upon thy bad life : whereas in this, every roan's heart 
is a tomb, and every man's tongue writes an epitaph 
upon the well behaved. Either I will procure me 
such a monument to be remembered by, or else it is 
better to be inglorious than infamous.—Bishop Hall. 
DEW DROPS. 
He that riseth with the sun, shall be warmed by its 
beams. 
Truth is a highway, over which the righteous pass 
to the land of promise. 
He is well learned, who has learned to do good. 
Faith is the cable, and hope the sheet anchor, of 
the soul. 
LET those who are poor, and in distress, be encou-
raged to trust God for supplies in the way of duty. 
They may not expect miracles, but they may expect 
mercies, if they wait on God, and rely on his prom-
ises. Let widows particularly, and prophets' widows 
in a special manner, depend on him to preserve them 
and their fatherless children alive, for to them lie will 
be a husband and a father.—M. Henry. 
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THE ADVENT HERALD. 
Virgin Mary was born free from original sin. In a 
document dated Gaeta, Feb. 2, 1849, he asks the 
faithful all over the world to unite in prayers, or " to 
use a special office of the Conception of the Virgin," 
that he may render a right decree. To show the 
momentous importance of the question, he tells 
them : " We confide, above all, in this hope, the 
blessed Virgin, who has been raised, by the greatness 
of her merits, above all the choirs of angels to the 
throne of Gon ; who has bruised under the foot of 
her virtue the head of the ancient serpent; and who, 
placed between CHRIST and the Church, full of grace 
and mildness, has always snatched Christian people 
from the greatest calamities. For you know per-
fectly well, venerable brethren, that the foundation 
of our confidence is in the thrice holy Virgin, for it 
is in her that Gon has placed the fullness of all good ; 
so that if there is in us any hope, if there is any fa-
vor, if there is any salvation, we know that it is from 
her we receive it ; for such is the pleasure of Him 
who has willed that we should have all through 
MARY." 
Bro. I. R. Gates will preach at Dover, N. H., Sabbath, the 13th ; 
at Great Falls, 15th and Itith ; New Durham Ridge, lath to the 20th. 
Bro..I. Cummings will preach at Manchester, N. it., Tuesday, 
May 15th, at 7 P. M. ; at Sugar Hill, Thursday, at 5 P. M. ; at Bares-
ton, C. E., Lord's-day, the 20th. 
Bro. A. Sherwin will preach in Claremont. N: H., Sabbath, May 
20th, and at Springfield, Vt., Sabbath, the 27th. 
Bro. L. D. Mansfield will preach in New York city, or Albany, (R., 
may seem best,; Sabbath, May 13th ; Esperance, 16th and 17th ;Todd-
silly, near Cooperstown, Sabbath, 20th ; Norwich, 22d to 25th ; 
Pitcher Springs, 27th ; South Ouselie, 29th ; Homer, 31st. 
Bro. 1'. Haw kes will preach at North Scituate the second Sabbath 
in May ; at Lowell the third, and at Manchester the !burgs 
Bro. R. V. Lyon will preach Windham (at Bro. A. Robinson's), 
the second Sabbath in May. 
DIED, suddenly, in West Troy, N. Y., April 19th, 
1849, RUSSELL D. POTTER, aged 31 years. Bro. 
POTTER was formerly an efficient member of the 
Presbyterian church ; but when he saw the evidence 
of the speedy coming of CHRIST, he conferred not 
with flesh and blood, but publicly avowed his faith, 
and maintained it, in a judicious and faithful manner, 
till the day of his death. He was not only active in 
the cause, but liberal in his contributions fur its sup-
port. It was a matter of duty with him to support 
the Advent cause in its purity, having fur its object 
the preparation of men for the coining of CHRIST. 
He lived au example of piety ; and though lie hoped 
to see his SAVIOUR come in his glory, yet he died 
calmly, in the full faith of seeing him at the resur-
rection of the just. He has left a wife and three 
children to mourn his departure ; but their loss is his 
gain. The brethren in his vicinity have also lost 
a valuable help. May GOD raise up others to fill his 
place. His funeral service was attended in the Pres-
byterian chapel, which was attended by a large con-
course of people. Bro. M. BACHELDOR gave an ex-
cellent sermon on the occasion. 
TESTIMONY.-JOHN Q. ADAMS says : " I have of-
ten wished that every individual of the human race af-
flicted with this artificial passion, could prevail upon 
himself to try but for three months the experiment 
which I have-giving up smoking and chewing-I 
am sure it would turn every acre of tobacco land in-
to a wheat field, and add five years of longevity to 
the average of human life." 
Tobacco and Rum, are the annoyance of modesty 
-the spoiler of civility-the destroyer of reason-the 
brewer's agent-alewife's benefactor-the wife's sor-
row-the children's trouble-his neighbor's scoff-
a walking swill tub-a picture of a beast-a monster 
of a man. 
SMOKING AND SNUFFING.-A. French Legislator 
has proposed to the Assembly, to pass a law to tax 
smoking and snuffing ; the proposition being, that. ev-
ery person intending to smoke or snuff shall obtain 
a license to do so, the price of which is to be fixed at 
five francs-ninety-four cents. 
Too cheap, by far. 
LIBERAL OFFER.-Mr. GERRIT SMITH, of New 
York, has given notice that he has a large quantity 
of land in the State of New York, the debt on which 
will be paid within the corning year, which lie will 
give away. The persons to whom this land will be 
given must be white inhabitants of the State of New 
York ; must be between the ages of 21 and 60 ; must 
be virtuous, landless, and poor ; and must be entirely 
clear of the vice of drinking intoxicating liquors.-
Moreover, they must, in each county, be taken from 
the sexes in equal numbers. 
He estimates that there will be sufficient for one 
thousand persons. Three thousand colored persons 
have already received land from Mr. SMITH, entirely 
free of all charge, either for the land or for the per-
fected deeds thereof. 
THE Conference in Boston will commence on the 
29th inst. We trust there will be a general gather-
ing of all who love the doctrine of the Second Per-
sonal Coming of CHRIST. 
JOSEPH WARREN JENKINS, whose obituary was 
published in our last, was the son of JOHN and ELIZA-
BETH JENKINS, of Stoughton. 'Fhe sermon on the 
occasion of the funeral was delivered by Bio. I. R. 
GATES. 
IT would often be bad with us, if GOD did not take 
more care of us, both for soul and body, than we of 
ourselves. 
The Literalist. 
This is a series of five volumes, containing re-
printS from English writers on the prophecies, pub-
lished in Philadelphia some years since. It is now 
very difficult to find it. We have four sets, which 
we can furnish for $ 6 00 unbound, or $ 7 50 hound. 
The following are the contents of each volume :-
the events connected therewith. By the Rev. J. W. 
Vol. I.-Essays on the Kingdom of Christ, and 
Brooks-115 pages. 
1. Introduetion. 2. The Second Advent. 3. The 
Kingdom of Christ. 4. Ttie Place of Manifestation. 
5. The Participation of the Saints. 6. The First 
Resurrection. 7. The Judgment. 8. The State of 
Separate Spirits. 9. The Resurrection State. 10 
The Pre-millennial Advent, and New Dispensation. 
Essays on the Millennium. By the Rev. Henry 
Woodward, A. At., formerly of Christ's Church Col-
lege, Oxford-Rector Fethard, in the Diocese of 
Cashel-25 pages. 
Sermons on the Second Advent of the Lord Jesus 
Christ. By the Rev. Hugh M‘Neile, M. A., Minister 
of St. Jude's Church, Liverpool-122 pages. 
A Brief Enquiry into the Prospects of the Church 
of Christ, in connection with the Second Advent of 
our Lord Jesus Christ. By the Hon. Gerard T. 
Noel, A. M.-125 pages. 
Vol. II.-Prospects of the Jews ; or, a Series of 
Popular Lectures on the Prophecies Relative to the 
Jewish Nation. By the Rev. Hugh M`Neile, M. A. 
-135 pages. 
The Future Destiny of Israel. By a Clergyman 
of the Church of England-15 pages. 
The Time to Favor Zion ; or, an Appeal to the 
Gentile Churches in Behalf of the Jews. By the 
Rev. E. Bickersteth, Rector of Watton, Herts-47 
pages. 
An Apology for the Millennarian Doctrine; in the 
form in which it was entertained by the Primitive 
Church. By William Anderson, Minister of the 
John-street, Glasgow-52 pages. 
Relief Church, 
'['he Political Destiny of the Earth, as revealed in 
the Bible. By Wm. Cuninghame, of Lainshaw, in 
the County of Ayr-48 pages. 
The Pre-millennial Advent of the Messiah De-
monstrated from the Scriptures. By the same-44 
pages. 
Thoughts on the Scriptural Expectations of the 
Christian Church. By Basilicus-72 pages. 
A Millennarian's Answer of the Hope that is in 
Him ; or, a Brief Statement and !Defence of the 
Doctrine of Christ's Pre-millennial Advent and Per-
sonal Reign on Earth ; to which is added a Brief 
History of Millennarianism. By John Cox-48 pp. 
Vol. III.-Elements of Prophetical Interpretation. 
By the Rev. J. W. Brooks, Vicar of Ciareboro', Ret-
ford--348 pages. 
1. On the Use of Prophecy. 2. The Covenant 
of Promise. 3. The Voice of the Church. 4. On 
the Interpretation of Prophecy. 5. On the Second 
Advent of Christ. 6. The Kingdom of Christ. 7. 
The Judgment. 8. The Restoration of Israel, and 
the New Jerusalem Dispensation. 9. On Daniel and 
the Apocalypse. 
The Destinies of the British. Empire, and the Du-
ties of British Christians at the Present Crisis. By 
Wm. Thorp-109 pages. 
Vol. IV.-Essays on the Advent and Kingdom of 
Christ, and the events connected therewith. By the 
Rev. J. W. Brooks (part 2)-74 pages. 
1. Our Lord's Prophecy.-Matt. 24, 25-. 2. Para-
ble of the Ten Virgins. 3. Parable of the Talents. 
4. Parable of the Sheep and Goats. 
The Nature of the First Resurrection, and the 
Character and privileges of those that shall partake 
of it. With an Appendix containing Extracts from 
the works of Bishop Newton, Mr. Mede, and other 
writers. By a Spiritual Watchman-36 pages. 
A Practical Guide to the Prophecies, with refer-
ence to their Interpretation and Fulfilment ; and to 
Personal Edification. By the Rev. Edward.Bicker-
steth, Rector of Watton, Herts-312 pages. 
Vol. V.-A Guide to the Study of Chronological 
Prophecy, selected and abridged from a larger trea-
tise by the same author,. entitled, " A Dissertation 
on the
i Prophetic Scriptures," &c. &c. By M. Hab-
, ershon-54 pages. 
A Cry from the Desert, " Behold, the Bridegroom 
cometh." Anonymous-54 pages. 
Thoughts on the Coming and Kingdom of our 
Lord Jesus Christ. By John Cox, Minister of the 
Gospel, Woolwich-157. 
1. The Importance and General Scope of Prophe- 
cy. �
2. The Gospel Dispensation considered ; not 
final, but preparatory. 3. Events which must occur 
previous to the setting up of the Kingdom of Christ. 
4. The Second Coining of our Lord Jesus Christ. 5. 
The glorious Kingdom of our Lord Jesus Christ ; or, 
it the Millennium. 6 Objections against the Pre-mil-
lennial Coming of Christ, and his Reign on the Earth 
with his saints considered. 7. The Practical Tend-
ency of the Doctrine of the Coming and Kingdom of 
Christ. 
series of 
The First Resurrection considered in a 
Rev. H. 
Letters, Occasioned by a Treatise of the 
Gipps, L.L. D. By Joseph D'Arcy Sirr, A. H., M. R. 
1. A., Rector of Kitcoleman, Ireland-170 pages. 
Essays on the Corning of the Kingdom of God. 
By Philo Basilicus-62 pages. 
THE POPE IN A PUZZLE.-Pius IX., says the In-
dependent, has had a trouble befall him, in addition 
to his political calamities. He has been called upon 
to decide-indeed, he is apparently driven into a cor-
ner from which all preceding Popes have contrived 
to keep clear, and now he must decide the question 
so long controverted in former days-Whether the 
SUMMARY. 
J. P. Taylor, clerk to the Board of Commissioners, Kensington, 
committed suicide by shooting himself in Philadelphia on Friday. 
A letter from New Orleans, dated April 21, says there were IWO 
hundred and twenty-two funerals the day before, and that people 
were dying very fast of cholera. 
Wednesday, Dec. 6th, '48, was appointed fur a fast by the king of 
the Sandwich Islands, on account of sickness. Mortality was great 
in all the Islands. 
Earl W. Johnson's " carrying out boy " .was stopped in Sudbury 
street on Saturday by two young men, one of whom held hint, while 
the other took his bundle away, which contained a fancy fly front 
sack coat. 
A negro, or a white man with his face blacked, lett at the house 
of Thomas Warner, Esq., of New York, it City Ball Place, a box 
which contained a cannister filled with powder, slugs, and friction 
matches, so placed as to take fire on drawing out ambit. From the 
particular directions given by the person who left the box, during 
Mr. Warner's absence, Mr. W. was suspicious of its contents, and 
accordingly drew out the lid very slowly; and on perceiving the 
tlame, and smoke, and smell of the matches, he shouted to his wife 
and son, who were in the room, to run for their lives, and rushed 
out of the room. The explosion instantly followed, shattering the 
walls, the table on which the box stood, and setting fire to the 
house. The author of this diabolical attempt has not yet been dis- 
covered. �
A man of subtle reasoning asked 
Where was the internal evidence 
A peasant, if he knew 
That proved the Bible true? 
The terms of disputative art 
Had never reached his ear- 
He laid his hand upon his heart, 
And only answered -" HERE !" 
In 1.isle, N. Y., Mr. Houghtailing, being intoxicated, laid down in 
the furrow he was ploughing, and went to sleep. His son, only 
eight years, unharnessed the cattle, drove them to the barn, and re-
turned with a sharp axe, with which he chopped his father's head 
off! He owns the deed, and gives as a reason that his father whip-
ped him the day before while drunk. 
Mrs. Wood, wife of Stephen Wood, of Groton, was thrown out 
of the carriage in which she was returning from church on Sunday 
afternoon last, and killed instantly. She was 66 years of age. Her 
husband was at home sick. 
The Washington " Intelligencer" says that both Mrs. J. Q. Ad-
ams and Mrs. President Taylor are recovering their health. 
In Cincinnati, a young man named George died of chloroform ad-
ministered by a physician, to enable hint to undergo an operation. 
The mistakes of a layman are like the errors of a pocket watch, 
which affect only an individual ; but when a clergyman errs, it is 
like a town clock going wrong-a multitude is misled. 
A council of bishops of the Roman Catholic Church is to assem-
ble in Baltimore on Sunday. It is said they intend to recommend 
archbishoprics. 
Near the Worcester Railroad depot on the 2d iust., a man, who 
attempted to get upon a train in motion, was thrown down, and had 
Iris collar bone broken. 
Another Detected.-The Auburn Journal states that the Deputy 
Postmaster at VVeedsport , N. Y., has been detected in perpetrating 
a series of robberies upon the mail. Considerable sums of phoney 
have of late been missed from the mails which passed through the 
Weedsport Post-office. The delinquent Postmaster, whose mune 
is Bowker, had previously stood as high Mille community as aluiciat 
any man in the county. lie has been arrested, and committed to 
jail, in delault of $2001.1 bail. 
An " Indian doctor" named Cross has been arrested for man-
slaughter in Stroudsburg, Pa., by improper treatment of Daniel 
QUID. 
A man named Fay has been committed at Charleston for the mur-
der of his wife. 
Angus alcSween, a young man of good education and standing„ 
was shockingly stabbed at Wadesborc', N. C., by James Watson, 
who was suffered to escape by the bystanders. McSween is recov-
ering, though his wouuds were supposed to be mortal. 
A World on Fire.--Lieut. Maury, Superintendent of theNatiorial 
Observatory, VVashiligton. says in a late address :-" It may be that 
there is now at this very time, in the firmament above, a world on 
tire. Argus, a we-hi-known star in the southern hemisphere, has 
suddenly blazed forth, and from a star oldie second or third magni-
tude, how glares with the brilliancy of the first." 
Mrs. Howard, who killed the paramour of her husband a short 
time since in Gincitinati, has been tried and acquitted. 
Ezra S. Corning, of Chicopee Fells, has recovered $9,045from the 
Connecticut River Railroad tainipany, for damages sustained while 
riding in one of their cars. 
Jarvis C. Bastin has been arrested at Grayson, Va., charged with 
circulating abolition documents, a sermon preached in Philadelphia, 
mid the life of Frederick Douglas. 
Alexander Jones, convicted in New York of arson, has been sen-
tenced to be hanged on the same day with Wood, the murderer 01 
his wife. 
Charles A. Whittlessey, who went out as navigator of the pilot-
boat W. G. Backstair, from New York for California, was lost 
overboard when seven days out. 
Oa Tuesday evening, Robert Hall, of Cohasset, while attempting 
to jump upon the South Shore train on the Old Colony Railroad, 
fell upon the track, and had a leg and an arm broken He was con-
veyed to the hospital. 
Dr. J. Orton, of Forestville, N. Y., committed suicide by swal-
lowing three ounces of aquafortis. 
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John Pierce-la Oct. '48, you were credited $2 to No. 391, which 
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to that, we received $21080. 
B. Morley--The book you want, cannot be found in this city. 
DELINQUENTS. 
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APPOINTMENTS. 
Bro. H. H. Gross will preach at Middletown, Saratogo Co., N.Y., 
May 13th to 15th ; Jamesville, do., 16th to 20th ; Saratoga Springs, 
Z..fd to 27th ; attend Boston Coufdrence, 29th to 3Ist ; Blandlord, 
Mass., June 1st to 3d. Providence permitting, Bro. Vtm. Inginire 
will be with Bro. Gross at Middletown, Jarnesville, and Saratoga 
Springs. l'he conferences at the last two places will be held day 
and evening. Bro. Gross's Post-ottice address is uniformly New 
York city (residence No. 149 Attorney-street's but letters will be in-
quired for at places where he appoints, as above. 
Appointments altered.-Bro. N . Billings will preach at Lawrence, 
Wednesday evening, May lath • at South Berwick, Ate., the 17th ; 
will attend conference at New Durham Ridge, N. H., Friday, 18th ; 
at North Barustead, Sabbath, 27th ; and at Pittsfield the first Sab-
bath in June. 
Bro. I. H. Shipman Will preach at North Springfield, Vt., Sab-
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MEETINGS. 
By request of the brethren, I appoint a conference at North Dart-
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the Sabbath. All our friends in the vicinity are invited to attend. 
EDWIN BURNHAM. 
There will be an Advent Conference on New Durham Ridge, to 
commence May lath, and continue over the Sabbath. Brii. I. R. 
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