* By heaven, we understand the inheritance 
of the saints, wherever it may be ; but we look for it 
in the renewed earth. �
ED. 
t It is a pity our songs were not more scriptu-
ral : the Bible says "under the whole heaven." 
En. 
Illustrative Anecdote. 
When I was in England fifteen years since, I 
called upon. the RO. Mr. Brooks, Rector of St. 
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My God, I now from sleep awake, 
The sole possession of me take ; 
From midnight terrors me secure, 
And guard my, heart from thoughtslimpure. 
Blessed angels ! while we silent lie, 
You hallelujahs sing on high ; 
You joyful hymn tile Ever-blessed, 
Before the throne; and never rest. 
I with your choir celestial join 
In offering up a hymn divine ; 
With you in heaven * 1 hope to dwell, 
And bid the night artd world farewell. 
My soul, when I shRice off this dust, 
Lord, in Thine arms I will entrust ; 
O make me Thy peculiar care, 
Some mansion fur my soul prepare ! 
Give me a place at Thy saint's feet, 
Or some fallen angel's vacant seat ; 
strive to sing as loud as they. 
Who sit above in brighter day. 
O.may I always ready stand, 
With my lamp horning in my hand ; 
May I in sight of heaven rejoice, 
Whene'er I hear the Bridegroom's voice. 
All praise to Thee in light arrayed, 
Who light Thy dwelling-place hest made : 
A boundless dcean of bright beams 
From Thy all-glorious Godhead streams. 
The sun in its meridian height 
Is very darkness in Thy sight. 
My soul, 0 lighten and inflame 
With thought and love of Thy great name. 
Blessed Jesus ! Thou on heaven intent, 
Whole nights host in devotion spent : 
But I, frail creature, soon am tired, 
And all my zeal is soon expired. 
My soul, how canst thou weary grow 
Ot antedating bliss below 
In sacred hymns and heavenly love, 
Which will eternal be above. f 
ghine on me, Lord, new life impart, 
Fresh ardors kindle in my heart ; 
One ray of Thine all-quickening light 
Dispels the sloth and clouds of night. 
Lord, lest the tempter me surprise, 
Watch over Thine own sacrifice ; 
All loose, all idle thoughts cast out, 
And make my very dreams devout. 
THE ADVENT HERALD 
A MIDNIGHT HYMN. 
BY BISHOP KEN. MDCC. 
Mary's, Nottingham, with whom I had a most 
agreeable interview on the faith of the Lord's 
speedy coming and kingdom. He told me how 
he was led to see that the earth renewed will be 
the abode of the redeemed. He said he was de- 
for they shall inherit the earth ;" which he ex-
plained as meaning that the meek do now inherit 
it by having as much of it as is good for them,, 
when his mind became impressed with the idea 
that he was not given the true meaning of the 
passage,---that the blessing is in the future. The 
impression had such an effect on him at the time 
that his hearers noticed it, and at the close of 
the service hastened to ask him if he was not 
unwell while in his sermon. He then began to 
examine the subject, and was conducted to the 
conclusion that the earth restored will be the 
possession of the meek, and that this blessedness 
will be introduced at the coming of Christ and 
the resurrection of the just. He further said that 
soon afterwards he was in company with the late 
Rev. E. Bickersteth, Rector of Watton, on a 
missionary occasion, who, in conversation, was 
dwelling on the future triumphs of the Church 
of Christ. Mr. Brooks gave it at his conviction 
that this could only take place at the Second 
Advent. Mr. Bickersteth with his characteris-
tic warmth, exclaimed, "And is Brooks among 
the prophets !" The conversation which followed, 
however, led Mr. Bickersteth to examine the 
question ; and he embraced the faith of the Pre-
millennial Advent, and wrote and preached much 
on the subject. �
H. 
Millennial News. 
An incident occurred recently, at the Eastern 
district police station, of a very affecting and in-
teresting character. About three o'clock in the 
afternoon Mr. John W. Frank was passing along 
Gough, near Bethel street, when a boy about 
ten years of age met him and asked him for a 
penny. Mr. Frank handed the boy ten cents, 
but as he did so, thought he recognized the child, 
and asked hi& name, when he replied that it was 
Dehring. After some further conversation Mr. 
Frank became convinced that the boy was no 
other than the lost son of a widowed friend of 
his ; and with this impression he took him by 
the hand and conducted him to the Eastern po-
lice station, when he informed the officers in 
charge of his suspicion. An officer was despatch-
ed for Mrs Dehring, who hastened to the station. 
On entering and observing the child, she uttered 
a shriek, sprang towards him and clasped him 
in her arms, kissing him passionately, while the 
tears gushed from her eyes. The boy stood 
amazed, not exhibiting the slightest recognition. 
The mother continued her caresses, at the same 
time asking him if he did not remember her, and 
referred to incidents to awaken a remembrance 
of his home. In a few minutes the boy's coun-
tenance changed, tears started from his eyes,and 
then throwing his arms around his mother's neck, 
he exclaimed, "You are my mother." On the 
recognition, Mrs Dehring appeared, to be wild 
with joy. She wept, laughed, clasped her boy to 
her breast, and then prayed. The scene was one 
which those who witnessed it will ever remem- 
A Lost Child recovered. 
ber,, and which awakened within a sympathy ! 
which found expression in tears. When about 
six years of age, the boy wandered from home, I 
and after diligent search the mother came to the 
conclusion that he was drowned, and for years 
mourned his death. The boy states that he has 
been living with many different families, who 
kept him to run errands and do light work, but 
lately he had no home, and was compelled to 
beg during the day, and the money he collected 
he gave to a German family, wbo gave him in 
return lodgings and food.—Baltimore Ezchange. 
The First Resurrection. 
A Sermon delivered May 5th, 1861, by the Rev. 
C. H. Spurgeon, at the Metropolitan Taber-
nacle, Newington, London. 
(Concluded.) 
II. I shall now turn to the second part of the 
discourse briefly. To the ungodly three things 
in simplicity. Sinner, you have heard us speak 
of the resurrection of the righteous. To you the 
word "resurrection" has no music. There is no 
flash of joy in your spirit when ,you hear that 
the dead shall rise again. But oh, I pray thee 
lend me thine ear while I assure thee in God's 
name that thou shalt rise. Not only shall your 
soul live—you have perhaps become so brutish 
that you forget you have a soul—but your body 
itself shall live. Those eyes that have been full 
of lust shall see sights of horror; those cars that 
have listened to the temptations of the evil one, 
shall hear the thunders of the day of judgment ; 
those very feet that bare you to the theater, 
shall attempt, but utterly fail to sustain you 
when Christ shall sit in judgment. Think not 
when your body is put into the soil that you have 
done with it. It has been partner with your soul 
in sin ; it shall be sharer with your soul in the 
punishment. He is able to cast both soul and 
body into hell. The heathens believed in the 
immortality of the soul. We need not therefore 
prove what a heathen could conceive. It is the 
doctrine of the resurrection of the body which 
is peculiar to christianity. You are not prepar-
ed to cast away the revelation of God I know. 
You receive that book as being God's book, and 
it tells me that all the dead, both small and great, 
shall rise. When the archangel's trump shall 
sound, the whole of the old inhabitants of the 
world before the flood shall rise out the ocean. 
The buried palaces, the sunken homes shall all 
give up the multitude who once married and 
were given in marriage, until Noah entered into 
the ark. Up shall rise from the great deek.s of 
the fathomless sea, thousands upon thousands of 
men who have slept now these three and four 
thousand years. Every churchyard too where 
men have been quietly buried with christian rites, 
but yet were unchristian still, shall yield up its 
dead. The battle-field shall yield a mighty har-
vest, a harvest which was sown in blood, and 
which shall he reaped in tempest. Every place 
where man has lived and man has died shall see 
the dying quickened once again, and flesh and 
blood once more instinct with life. But the main 
thing with you is that you will be there. Living 
and dying as you now are, ungodly and uncon-
verted, the most awful curse that could fall on 
you, with the exception of the damnation of your 
soul, is the sure and certain resurrection of your 
body. Go, now, and paint it if' yon will, and 
seek a beauty which the worm shall loathe. Go 
pamper your body ; drink the sweet, and eat the 
fat. Go and luxuriate and indulge in ease. Oh, 
sir, you may well pamper your body, for there 
is short enough time for your body to have mirth 
in ; and when that short time is over thou shalt 
drink another wine—the dregs of the cup of 
God's wrath, which the wicked shall drain to the 
last drop. Satisfy thine ears with music now ; 
thou shalt soon hear nothing but the howling of 
the damned ! Go thy way, eat, drink and be 
merry; but for all these the Lord shall bring 
thee unto judgment—seven-fold for all thy sin-
ful pleasures, yea, seventy times seven, for all 
thy joys of lust, and wickedness and crime, shall 
the Lord be avenged on thee, in the great and 
terrible day of his wrath. Sinner, think thou of 
this, and when thou sinnest think of the resur-
rection. 
But after the resurrection, according to the 
text, comes the judgment. You have cursed God. 
The oath died away. No, sir, it did not ; it im- 
printed itself upon the great book of God's re-
membrance. You have entered the chamber of 
wantonness, or the hall of infidelity ; you have 
walked through the stews of crime, and through 
the stench and filth of the brothel. You have 
wandered into sin and plunged into it, thinking 
it would all die with the day ; that as the night 
covers up the sights of the day, so the night of 
death should cover up the deeds of your day of 
life. Not so. The book shall be opened. I 
think I see you with your blanching cheeks, clos-
ing your eyes because you dare not look upon 
the Judge when he opens that page where stands 
your history. I hear yon sinner, boldest among 
you all. He is crying, "Yj rocks fall on me." 
There they stand, sublime and dread, those gran-
ite rocks ; he would rather be crushed than stand 
there before the avenging eye ; but the moun-
tains will not loosen, their flinty bowels feel no 
pangs of sympathy, they will not move. You 
stand while the fiery eye looks you through and 
through, and the dread voice reads on, and on, 
and on, your every act, and word, and thought. 
I see you as the shameful crime is read, and men 
and angels hear. I see your horror as a nameless 
deed is told,in terms explicit,which none can mis-
understand. I hear your thoughts brought out 
—that lust,that murder which was in the thought, 
but never grew into deed. And you are all this 
while astonished like Belshazzar, when he saw 
the writing on the wall, and his loins were loose, 
and he was terribly afraid. So shall it be with 
you ; and yet again, and again, and again, shall 
you send up that awful shriek, "Hide us'. hide 
us from the face of Him that sitteth upon the 
throne, and from the wrath of the Lamb !" 
But then cometh the end, the last of all. Af-
ter death the judgment; after judgment the dam-
nation. If it be a dreadful thing to live again, 
if it be a more dreadful thing still to spend 
the first day of that life in the grand assize of 
God, how much more awful shall it be when the 
sentence is pronounced, and the terror of punish-
ment shall begin ! We believe that the souls of the 
wicked are already tormented, but this judgment 
will cast both soul and body into the lake of fire. 
Men and women, ye who fear not God, and have 
no faith in Jesus, I cannot picture to you dam-
nation. Across it let me draw a curtain. But 
though we must not picture it, I pray you re- A 
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especially that which is most generally practised. 
Such as �
drunkenness ; buying or selling 
spirituous liquors, or drinking them, unless in 
cases of extreme necessity." After some discus-
sion the following answer, in substance, was giv-
en—The rule is doubtless to be literally inter-
preted, but should not be rigidly applied ! My 
informer was at this meeting but how he voted 
I am not prepared to say. In perfect keeping 
with this decision is the fact that in those days 
the bottle and wine glass were always ready for 
the minister when he officiated ; and I have no 
doubt with some of them Paul's advice to Tim-
othy was found very convenient—"Drink no 
longer water, but use a little wine for thy stom-
ach's sake and thine often infirmities." But the 
times have changed, and I believe the Methodist 
ministers generally are now as warm friends of 
the temperance cause as can be found in other 
religious bodies ; and to day five denominations 
are represented in the Business Committee by 
ten ministers, two of whom are Methodists. 
Wednesday, June 26th. Went to the month-
ly covenant meeting. Attendance and interest 
as usual. Felt like adopting the prayer of Sir 
Nicholas Breton : 
"Plante, Lorde, in me the tree of godly lyfe ; 
Hedge me about with the strong fence of faith ; 
If thee it please, use eke Thy pruning knife ; 
Lest that; Oh Lorde, as a good gardener saith, 
If suckers draw the sap from roots on hie, 
Perhaps in tyme the top of tree may die. 
Let, Lorde, this tree be set within Thy garden 
wall 
Of Paradise, where groweth no sprig at all." 
plunged into actual fighting than to be subjected 
to such omens preparations. 
The great empire of Austria is drifting upon 
dissolution, or upon the bloody assertion of its 
despotic claims. Of its thirty-five millions of 
subjects, sixteen millions refuse to accept the 
new constitution and to send members to the Im-
perial Council. Italy will wait no longer than 
spring for the release of Venetia, by sale or oth-
erwise, from the grasp of the Hapsburgs ; and if 
Hungary postpones open revolt to that period, it 
will only be from motives of policy. The estran-
gement seems to have gone beyond remedy, but 
the prospect of a combined attack on two sides 
of Austria is a great inducement to patience on 
the part of the Hungarian leaders. 
In Italy, Cialdini is crushing out brigandage 
and reactionary demonstrations with a vigor 
which the friends of the Union in this country 
may well emulate. The Pope's troubles contin-
ue, and may be immensely aggravated some 
morning by the withdrawal of that staff of the 
French military support, on which he has hither-
to leaned for his existence as a sovereign. In 
the north of Europe, the Russian difficulties with 
Poland threaten momentarily to break out into 
conflict, and the commotions excited by the Em-
peror's emancipation scheme are unabated. The 
Holstein quarrel is so far from being composed, 
that it was noticeable that the last public declar-
ation of the King of Denmark was the first im-
plication of expected war that has passed his 
lips. In the eastern part of the continent, Omar 
Pasha is carrying on a vigorous warfare against 
the insurgents of Montenegro. 
And so it is the world over—a world, if not 
"lying in wickedness," yet surely not exempt 
anywhere from troubles and all the dangers of 
blood-shed. Even the "gorgeous East" is pass-
ing through the ordeal of terrible revolution. 
Japan is the theatre of the conflict between the 
powers of darkness and seclusion and the powers 
of light and friendly intercourse. China is pro-
lific in mysterious disturbances, and our last ad-
vices tells us of a new insurrection near Pekin, 
and of the breaking up of commerce beneath the 
fitful blows of imperial and rebel successes. 
While, then, we behold the nations of the earth 
subject to the extremes of afflicting plagues—to 
the fire running along the ground or the dark-
ness that may be felt—why should we wonder 
that our long unexampled prosperity has at last 
been interrupted for a season ?—Boston Journal. 
Tuesday, June 25th. Attended the Stanstead 
County Temperance Convention at Ayer's Flat. 
The day was pleasant, and the attendance esti-
mated between 2500 and 3000. The meeting 
was held in a grove. The Hon. Neal Dow, well 
known as the originator of the Maine liquor law, 
and C. Stackpole, Esq. were chief speakers. Mr. 
Dow seems to be an earnest, matter-of-fact man, 
and quite at home on the temperance question. 
I heard him in Boston six years ago, but he ap-
peared to better advantage now than he did 
then. 
As an evidence of the increased interest in 
Canada on the subject of temperance, I might 
mention the following incident related to me not 
long since by an esteemed brother in the minis-
try :—About 23 years ago the basement of the 
Methodist chapel in the city of Montreal was 
rented as a liquor vault, and at the temperance 
question began at that time to be agitated, one 
day these lines were found written on the door 
of the church— 
"There is a spirit above, and a spirit below—
A spirit of love and a spirit of woe : 
The spirit above is the spirit Divine— 
The spirit below is the spirit of wine !" 
The words were, of course, too truthful to be 
suffered long to remain ; but the friends of tem-
perance were not easily daunted, and at the Dis- 
Thursday, June 27th. Preached at 5 P. M. 
in the school house to a large audience on Chris- 
tian baptism, after which we repaired to the 
water where I baptized four on their profession 
of faith. The season was delightful, and while 
many felt solemn, some were reminded of vows 
thus long since made and broken, or at least very 
imperfectly kept ; while others deeply felt the 
importance of thus confessing Christ before the 
world. One of the candidates has been for sev-
eral years a member of a Congregationalist 
church ; but it seems he never felt satisfied with 
sprinkling as answering the requirement of Jesus, 
and he voluntarily requested to be baptized with 
the others. I did not for a moment hesitate to 
baptise him. 
We often find persons who have been sprink-
led questioning whether they have been baptized, 
but I never met with any one who had been im-
mersed that doubted it. It is not surprising that 
those who have only been sprinkled should doubt 
it when they become aware of the fact that as 
we have in English three different words, sprin-
kle, pour, dip or immerse, signifying, as every-
body knows, three different acts, so in Greek—
the original of the New Testament—there are 
three different words for these acts ; and while 
christian baptism with water is mentioned by 
Christ and his apostle 30 times, they invariably 
use the word (baptizo) which primarily signifies 
"to dip, immerse or plunge"—never the words 
which signify sprinkle, or pour. In the Septua- 
gint, or Greek translation of the old Testament 
made about 250 years B. C., we have in Levit. 
4: 6, 7 an illustration of this remark : "And the 
priest shall dip (bapsei) his finger in the blood, 
and sprinkle (prosranei) of the blood seven times 
before the Lord, before the vail of the sanctuary 
..... and shall pour (enkeei). all the blood of 
the bullock at the bottom of the altar of the 
burnt-offering." Now as there are words in the 
Greek which signify sprinkle, and pour, how is 
it if sprinkling or pouring will answer our Sav-
iour's command that He and his apostles have 
never used either of these words ? If they had 
sometimes used rantizo, to sprinkle, sometimes 
enkeo, to pour, and at other times baptizo, to 
immerse, of course we might have a choice in 
the mode of administration ; but as they have 
used a word whieh occurs in its various forms,as 
applied to different things, 123 times in the New 
Testament,and which is in no text rendered sprin-
trict meeting of the Society, the question was kle, or pour, it gives us strong reason to conclude 
asked, "Is Mr. 'Wesley's rule relative to intoxi-
cating liquors to be literally interpreted ?" The 
rule refered to is this : "It is expected of all who 
continue" in our Society "that they should con-
tinue to evidence their desire of salvation, . . . 
by doing no harm, by avoiding evil in every kind : 
that immersion alone is the proper mode to ad-
minister this sacrament. 
It is, however, a solemn truth that a person 
may be baptized in the proper way, and by a 
godly administrator and yet perish. As Cyril, 
who was made bishop of Jerusalem in A. D. 
alize it. When Martin has painted some of his 
sublime pictures, he has generally heightened the 
effect by masses of darkness. Surely, this is the 
way in which God has painted hell, rather by 
masses of darkness than by definiteness of light. 
This much we know, that hell is a place of ab-
sence from G od—a place for the development of 
sin, where every passion is unbridled, every lust 
unrestrained—a place where God punishes day 
and night those who sin night and day—a place 
where there is never sleep, nor rest, nor hope—
a place where a drop of water is denied, though 
thirst burn the tongue—a place where pleasure 
never breathed, where light never dawned, where 
anything like consolation was never heard of—a 
place where the gospel is denied, where mercy 
droops her wings and dies—a place where ven-
geance reigns, and shakes his chains, and brand-
ishes his sword—a place of fury and of burning 
—a place, the like of which imagination hath 
not pictured. May God grant it may be a place 
which. you shall never see, and whose dread you 
shall never feel. Sinner, instead of preaching it 
to thee, let me bid thee fly from it. Die, sinner, 
and flight from hell becomes impossible ; thou 
art lost, then, eternally. Oh, while yet thou art 
on praying ground, I pray thee, think on the end. 
"Because she remembered not her latter end, she 
came down wonderfully." Let it not be said thus 
of you. Think ! think ! this warning may be the 
last you shall ever hear. You may never be 
spared to come to a place of worship again. Per-
haps while you sit here, the last sands are drop-
ping from the hour glass ; and then, no more 
warning can be given, because redemption and 
escape shall be impossible to you. 
Soul, I lift up before thee now, Christ the 
crucified one—"Whosoever believeth on him shall 
never perish, but bath eternal life." As Moses 
lifted up the serpent in the wilderness, so this 
morning the Son of man is lifted up. Sinner, 
see his wounds. Look to his thorn-crowned head. 
See the nails of his hands and of his feet. Do 
you perceive him ? Hark ! while he cries, "Why 
bast thou forsaken me ?" Listen again, while he 
says, "It is finished ! it is finished !" Salvation 
finished ! And now, salvation is freely preached 
to thee. Believe on Christ and thon shalt be 
saved. Trust him and all the horrors of the fu-
ture shall have no power over you ; but the splen-
dors of this prophecy shall be fulfilled, be they 
what they may. Oh that this morning some of 
you may trust my Master for the first time in 
your lives ; and this done, you need not curious-
ly inquire what the future shall be, but you may 
sit down calmly and say, "Come when it will, my 
soul is on the rock of ages ; it fears no ill ; it 
fears no tempest ; it defies all pain. Come quick-
ly ! come quickly ! even so, come quickly, Lord 
Jesus." 
Troubles Abroad. 
It is no relief from our own national troubles 
to turn to those of other countries, but it gives 
us juster views and a more patient spirit to re-
flect that ours is no exceptional case, but that 
apprehension and disturbance constitute the rule 
among the nations of the earth rather than secu-
rity and tranquillity. 
To the South of us, Mexico lies in her chronic 
condition of internal warfare. Her capital, late- 
ly invaded, has been freed from the immediate 
danger of attack by hard fighting on all sides ; 
but success in the field seems only to lead to 
feuds among the victors, so that security is nev-
er to be reckoned among the fruits of triumph. 
Farther on, New Granada has just gone through 
with a revolution, somewhat bloody but probably 
bootless. Among the States of South America 
there is hardly one but has its internal troubles, 
although they are of so little concern to the rest 
of the world as in general, to pass unnoticed. 
Looking upon Europe we behold the two great 
governments of England and France in a state 
of apparent peace and professed security—and 
yet the former is bristling with riflemen and steel-
plated frigates, and the latter bears the tramp of 
more soldiers and armed horses than this coun-
try does at this moment, having added within 
twelve months six millions of dollars to her war-
like expenditures. Some nations had rather be 
350, remarks—"Simon,the Magian,once came to 
the bath. He was immersed, but he was not 
enlightened ; and the body indeed he dipped in 
water, but the heart he did not enlighten by 
the Spirit. And the body went down in-
deed, and came up ; but the soul was not buried 
with Christ, nor was raised with him ;" hence 
Philip said, "I perceive that thou art in the gall 
of bitterness, and in the bond of iniquity," But 
while a person may be baptized with water and 
not with the Spirit ; partake of the Lord's sup-
per, and not be permitted to eat bread in the 
kingdom of God, have his name in a church book, 
but not in the Lamb's book of life ; pray to God, 
and yet not receive because he asked amiss ; 
read the Scripture and yet not come to a know!. 
edge of the truth ; like Herod do "many things" 
which God's ministers require, and yet cling to 
Herodias or some darling sine—that is no good 
reason why we should not have the proper "form 
of godliness" as well as the power thereof. "For 
see," said Jehovah to Moses, "that thou make 
all things according to the pattern chewed thee 
in the mount :" and surely God is as particular 
now as he was then. 
Sunday, June 30th. Preached thrice in West 
Derby, Vt. 
Wednesday, July 3rd. Attended prayer meet- 
ing, and in the evening was able to answer in 
the affirmative the question of the poet, 
"Nast thou not seen the comet's flaming light ? 
The illustrious stranger passing, terror sheds 
On gazing nations from his fiery train 
Of length enormous ; take his ‘napie round 
Through depths of ether ; coasts unnumber'd 
worlds 
Of more than solar glory ; doubles wide 
Heaven's mighty cape ; and then revisits earth, 
From the long travel of a thousand years ?" 
When Donati's comet appeared in 1858, and 
was a theme for the home circle, the pulpit and 
the press, it came not unheralded ; but what sa-
vant had announced the approach of this one ? I 
look at it and think that many eyes are turned 
toward it at this hour. It has been to me a pleas-
ing thought as I have walked out in a moonlight 
evening, that my eyes rested on the same plan-
ets on which my Saviour and his apostles gazed ; 
and though I may never in this age see the land 
of Palestine with its numerous spots rendered 
sacred by Messiah's feet having trodden them, 
and his eyes having looked upon them ; yet, I 
know that the same moon that I behold shed its 
pale light over the tents of Abraham, Sarah and 
others in the patriarchal age, and over Jesus as 
he went to the garden of Gethsemane. Millions 
in the many centuries of the past have looked 
on the same stars that I see ; but who among 
them gazed on this mysterious stranger that 
comes as a swift messenger of Him who "stretch- 
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For the Herald. 
The Pennsylvania Meetings. 
Dear Bro. Bliss :—It may be a matter of in-
terest to some of your readers to learn that our 
camp and grove meetings in Pa. were seasons of 
refreshing. The first camp meeting was held at 
Pine St., Cameron Co., commencing Aug. 15th, 
and continued till the next Tuesday evening. 
The attendance and spirit of the meeting were 
excellent,—considering the war excitement,—
and resulted in the conversion of some 10 or 12 
souls ; and greatly strengthened and encouraged 
believers in their patient waiting for Christ. The 
truth is taking root and spreading all through the 
county. The labors of our ministers there are 
highly appreciated ; and Brethren Kellen, El. 
well and Stamp have eaoh of them great encour-
agement to toil on in the good work. 
Our second meeting was held in Clearfield 
Co., near Kylertown, and was a grove meeting. 
The Lord was also with us there, and the Spirit 
accompanied the word to many hearts, leading 
them to ask, What must I do to be saved ? The 
meeting commenced on the 23d of August and 
continued over two Sabbaths ; Bro. M. B. Lan- 
ing remaining to carry on the meeting after the 
other preachers left for Centre Co. Campmeet- 
ing. The number converted was, I think, more 
than a dozen. This, as well as the Marsh Creek 
Camp meeting, was within the bounds of Bro. 
M. L.Jackson's field of labour. 
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continued till the evening of Sept. 4th, and was 
also characterized by the out pouring of the Ho-
ly Spirit, and the conversion of a goodly number 
of souls to Christ. It was thought by many that 
we have never had a better camp meeting in the 
country. Our ministerial labourers at these 
meetings, were brethren Hollen, Elwell, Stamp, 
Litch, Jackson and Heagy. 
On Thursday, Sept. 5th, we commenced a se-
ries of meetings at Washington Furnace Clinton 
Co., Pa. where, under the labours of Bro. Jack-
son, last winter, an interesting church has been 
raised. Our meetings, which were held mostly 
in a beautiful grove, were very interesting and 
we trust profitable. And no doubt, from the 
state of feeling manifested at the clo e of our 
meetings, could the effort have been protracted, 
we should have witnessed a glorious revival. 
But the seed is sown : may the fruit be found 
after many days, 
Philadelphia Sept .12th, 1861. 
Death for Forgery. 
There are on record many very striking cases 
of forgery—cases exhibiting ingenuity, skill,and 
perseverance, on the part of their performers, 
which would, if properly directed, have placed 
them in a position of credit and respectability. 
Common forgers, in the days when death by the 
law was more common than it is now, and when, 
indeed, it was the only remedy on which the 
State seemed to place any reliance for the cure 
of moral evil—common forgers were hanged by 
scores ; fellows who scarcely knew their right 
hand from their left, were hanged for passing 
forged notes—but great rogues created a great 
sensation, and a banker, or a doctor of divinity, 
undergoing the extreme penalty of the law, was 
what made society stand aghast ; it was legisla- 
tive wisdom, even-handed justice, singing in 
dread cadence the song of Macheath : 
"Since laws were made for every degree, 
As well for the rich as for me, 
I am sure I shall have good company 
On Tyburn tree." 
When Dr. Dodd committed forgery, there 
was a great outcry as to the scandal of hanging 
a Church dignitary. Petitions were sent to the 
king from all parts of the country ; the doctor was 
regarded as a martyr,more than as a criminal ; he 
held levees in the prison ; he thanked his friends 
through the public press, for their kind sympa-
thy ; the lord mayor and court of' aldermen be-
sought royal clemency for the reverend offender 
—but the king was true to the letter and spirit 
of the law. He saw no difference between the 
clergyman's gown and the common felon's cor-
duroy, except that the educated man, the public 
teacher, the minister of God, ought to have 
Known better and acted better than the untaught 
boor ; and so the doctor was hanged, and the 
public was extremely sorry, and wondered what 
next. 
Similar excitement to that which was caused 
by Dr. Dodd was occasioned, about a half-a-cen-
tury later, by the hanging of a wealthy city man 
—a banker, moving in the best society, and al-
together superior to the class of offenders who 
sustained the leading roles in the Newgate tra-
gedy, played every morning, to an admiring 
crowd, in the Old Bailey. 
Sixty years ago, there was a steady, hard-
working, intelligent clerk, named Fontleroy, who 
ultimately became a partner in the firm of Marsh 
Stracey and Co. Into this business his son was 
subsequently introduced, and exhibited so much 
tact, energy, and diligence, that he gradually 
rose to be the principal man in the house—the 
whole of the management of the affairs of an ex-
tensive banking establishment being entrusted to 
him at the early age of twenty-two. 
The business of the house was extensive, but 
heavy losses had been encountered, and Fontle-
roy found himself beset with difficulties. He 
was a shrewd thinker and a hard worker, and he 
set himself to the task of clearing the house of 
its liabilities, and building up its credit on a 
sure foundation. Alone, night after night, he 
remained in his private room at the bank, assid-
uously examining into the affairs of the establish-
ment. Gradually he might, probably, have ov- 
J. Liven. 
order. He now seriously began to speculate on 
what was to be done ; he was himself involved 
in trouble, for, although no gambler in the ordi- 
nary sense of the term, he had dabbled in stocks 
and lost a large amount of capital. One of two 
courses he must take--either the house must stop 
payment, or money must be raised at any cost. 
At any cost ! Imagine Fontleroy, the educat-
ed gentleman, the man of fashion and refinement, 
the wealthy banker, sitting alone in his private 
room, the long-wicked candles flaring on the ta-
lble, and casting a fantastic shadow of the bank-
er's figure on the wall ; how absorbed he is in 
thought, how dejected his expression as he glan-
ces round the elegantly-fitted room and murmurs 
to himself—"at any cost !" Brown and Jones 
have gone home, perhaps thinking to themselves', 
in their family circles, how fortunate a thing it 
would be if they could change places with the 
banker—if, instead of being the poor drudges of 
desk and counter, their homes were like his 
home—and they, as well as he, were borne to 
those homes in dashing equipages of their own. 
The porter down below looks round on the wa-
ter-buckets and muskets of the bank, to keep its 
golden stores from fire and thieves, and wonders 
how a gentleman like Mr. Fontleroy can spend 
so much of his time over the dreary ledgers ; and 
Fontleroy, sitting in his room, is saying to him-
self, "It must be done, at any cost !" 
All is perfectly right at the bank ; no breath 
of suspicion has tarnished its brilliancy as yet, 
but, by some means or other, that most touchy 
and fidgety old lady of Threadneedle-street grows 
nervous of Fontleroy paper, and obstinately re-
fuses to discount the bills of the house. Well 
never mind ; the sex and the age of the individ-
ual must be taken into account ; Fontleroy will 
not break his bank or heart on that account. The 
Bank must honor certain powers of attorney ; 
they bear correct signatures—they are safe—
safe as the Bank ; certainly, they are presented 
with extraordinary frequency, but what of that? 
Fontleroy sits one morning in his private 
room at the bank. He is busy with his morning 
correspondence ; has certain cheques to sign, 
made ready for his signature. The business of 
the house is just beginning. Here are Brown 
and Jones fresh from the suburbs and domestic 
,comfort, wishing still, perhaps, that they were 
in as good a position as the gentleman banker 
who employs them. Ah me ! how unequally 
Fortune scatters her favors ! Brown is not a ban-
ker and Fontleroy is—ay, and a wealthy one : 
why should Fortune favor Fontleroy, and set 
poor Brown no better work to do than shovel up 
guineas for other people ? 
Two gentlemen come in—let us say gentlemen 
for the sake of convenience—and they want to 
see the banker. The clerk whom they address 
distinctly mentions that it cannot be done, ex-
cept the business be peculiarly urgent. Fontle-
roy will see them, certainly ; they have follow-
ed quickly in the clerk's footsteps,and are in the 
room as soon as he. The banker looks up and 
motions him to retire ; what then ? One of them 
lays his hand on the banker— 
"Mr. Fontleroy, I am a Bow-street officer,and 
arrest you on a charge of forgery." 
"But can't this business be settled ?" 
"Pray make no disturbance ; please to finish 
what you are engaged upon, and we will step out 
with you and talk over the matter." 
Fontleroy's face is deadly white, and he seems 
to have grown ten years older in a second. Me-
chanically he takes the pen and signs the neces-
sary cheques ; then he leans towards the man 
who had first spoken, and whispers, "Ten thou-
sand pounds are yours if you can assist me." 
"Pray be calm ; step out with us and talk 
over the matter." 
And so the banker passes through the bank 
with his strange visitors, and the clerks wonder 
amongst themselves what can have happened; 
they have marked his haggard expression and 
unsteady step, and are of opinion that bad news 
has arrived, and perhaps a death—bad news and 
death to follow. 
Fontleroy is taken to the house of a friend, 
Mr. Conant, but for no friendly purpose. Mr. 
"Settled by Gentlemen." 
ercome the difficulties in which he found him- Conant is a magistrate, greatly shocked to hear 
self, but the sudden demand made on the house the charge, and quite unwilling to believe it ; 
for £170,000 threw all his calculations into dis- but the case is very clear. It would be out of 
question to talk of bail. The private room at 
the bank has been searched, and a little book 
discovered, containing a list,in Fontleroy's hand-
writing, of forgeries to the amount of £112,000. 
Beneath these entries is the inscription :—"In 
order to keep up the credit of our house, I have 
forged powers of attorney, and have thereupon 
sold out all these sums without the knowledge 
of my partners. I have given credit for the in-
terest when it became due.—H. F. The Bank 
first began to refuse our acceptances. The Bank 
shall smart for it." 
The town was soon ablaze with the news. Fon-
tleroy, the gentleman forger, the criminal bank-
er, was the topic of conversation. His portrait, 
his history, his sayings and doings, his style of 
behavior,the condition of his appetite, everything 
about him was invested with interest ; but the 
most interesting question of all was, would he be 
hanged ? Of that he felt no doubt himself when 
he heard that his little book had been discover- 
ed. �
"I am a dead man," he said ; and he was 
unquestionably a dying man from that moment. 
A good many people regarded the unhappy gen-
tleman with commiseration, not because they 
thought it wrong to hang a forger, but because 
he was so exceedingly well bred ! But if for-
gery ever deserved death, that penalty was faith-
fully awarded in the case of Fontleroy. Little 
rogues had been hanged by scores for doing less 
than he had done, so the banker was justly hang-
ed after the common fashion ; and certain crimi-
nal celebrities of our own day, who have rivalled 
Fontleroy, have reason to be grateful that a 
more humane legislation has saved them from 
his fate. 
The Providence Journal gives some import-
ant historical facts, which damage the claim of 
Southern planters to an inherent superiority 
over their Northern brethren by virtue of gen-
tle blood and noble ancestry. It says : 
The slave owners of South Carolina and Vir-
ginia claim a superiority over the North, be-
cause their colonial ancestors were "gentlemen," 
while the settlers of New England and the North 
were common sort of folks. Mr. Russell has 
fallen into the same vein, in his letters ; at least, 
he gives a prominence to his view, with which 
the Southern people are fond of flattering them-
selves. We propose to examine in the light of 
history, this pretension of superiority. We be-
lieve in blood ; we believe that good and bad 
qualities are transmitted from one generation to 
another, and that in the characters of the people 
who inhabit the North and the South are ob-
served much of the distinctive qualities which 
mark the original settlement of the colonies. 
In Sir Josiah Child's "Discourse Concerning 
Plantations," pnblished in 1692, a paper well 
known to historical students, and of high au-
thenticity, the following passage occurs. The 
distinguished author---a great banker, whose 
house still survives---is defending colonization, 
and showing that the parent country has not be-
come improvished or depopulated by the emigra-
tion of the two very different sorts of people 
who have settled the Northern and the South-
ern colonies of Great Britian in America : 
"To resolve this Question we must consider 
what kind of people they were, and are, that 
have and do transport themselves to our Foreign 
Plantations. 
"New England (as every one knows) as origi-
nally inhabited, and hath since successfully been 
repleuish'd by a sort of people called Puritans, 
which could not conform to the Ecclesiastical 
Laws of England ; but being wearied with 
Church Censure and Persecutions, were forc'd 
to quit their Father's Land, to find out new hab-
itations, as many of them did in Germany and 
Holland, as well as New England ; and had 
there not been a New England found for some 
of them, Germany and Holland probably had 
receiv'd the rest ; But old England to be sure 
had lost them all. 
"Virginia and Barbadoes were first peopled 
by a Sort of loose vagrant Peopel, vicious and 
destitute of Means to live at Home (being unfit 
for Labour, or as such as could find none to em-
ploy themselves about, or had so rnisbehav'es 
themselves by Thieving or other Debauchery,that 
none would set them on work) which Merchants 
and Masters of Ships by their Agents (or Spir-
its as they are call'd) gathered up about the 
Streets of London and other places, cloth'd and 
transported to be einploy'd upon Plantations ; 
and these, I say, were such as, had there been 
no English Foreign Plantation in the World, 
could probably never have liv'd at Home to do 
Service for their Countrey, but must have come 
to be hang'd or stared, or died untimely of some 
of those miserable Diseases that proceed from 
Want and Vice ; or else have sold themselves 
for Soldiers,to be knocked on the head, or starv-
ed, in the Quarrels of our Neighbors, as many 
Thousands of brave Englishmen were in the low 
Countries, as also in the Wars of Germany, 
France and Sweden, &sc., or else if they could by 
begging, or otherwise, arrive to the Stock of half 
a Crown to waft them over to Holland, become 
Servants to the Dutch, who refuse none." 
These are the "gentlemen," the men of blood, 
of family, who settled eastern Virginia, and 
whose descendants cannot, without degradation, 
associate with those of the Winthrops, the Han-
cocks, the Broadstreets, the Lincolns, the Stan-
dishes, the Prescotts, the Wantons, the Hutch-
insons, of New England. These were the fa-
thers of the whiskey-drinking, tobacco-chewing 
aristocracy, whose great desire, Mr. Russell in-
forms us, and no doubt truly, is to have "one of 
the royal race of England to rule over them." 
But these were by no means the worst of the 
immigrants to Virginia. These only ran away; 
others were sent away. The following is from 
Hildreth's History of the United States : 
"During the year that Sandys held office, he 
sent to Virginia twelve hundred emigrants—
twice as many as there were inhabitants in the 
colony when he became treasurer. Among them 
were ninety young women, 'pure and uncorrupt,' 
who were disposed of for the cost of their pas-
sage, as wives to the planters. The price of a 
wife was a hundred pounds of tobacco, worth 
then about seventy-five dollars. But half as 
much more was obtained for those of a second 
cargo, sent out a year or two after. 
"There were other emigrants of a sort less de-
sirable. By the king's special order, an hun-
dred dissolute vagabonds, the sweepings of the 
prisons, familiarly known among the colonists as 
"jail-birds," were sent to Virginia to be sold as 
servants—a practice long condemned as a regu-
lar item of British criminal jurisprudence, in 
spite of the repeated complaints of the colonists, 
and their efforts to prevent it." 
What sort of young women would be likely to 
go out to Virginia and sell themselves for a hun-
dred pounds of tobacco apiece to men that they 
had never seen, and whose general character is 
described in the extract from Sir Josiah's tract, 
can readily be imagined. They may have been 
"pure and uncorrupt," but even for this we have 
only the shippers' warranty, and admitting its 
authenticity and force, one would think that ev-
en Virginia vanity and exaggeration could hard-
ly make this the ground for aristocratic preten-
sions. 
Of course, among so many immigrants there 
were some men of good families ; these are de-
scribed by Hildreth as "vagabond gentlemen, 
unaccustomed to labour, and disdainful of it, 
with three or four bankrupt London jewelers, 
goldsmiths and refiners, sent out to seek for 
mines." And, again he speaks of another acces-
sion to the colony, as "poor gentlemen, indolent, 
dissolute and insubordinate, or else broken-down 
tradesman, fitter to breed a riot than to found 
a colony.' " 
South Carolina was peopled to a considerable 
extent in the same way with the dregs of vari-
ous nationalities, Dutch, Scotch, Irish, and very 
low English. They are styled in the chronicles 
of the time, "low bred people"—and their early 
legislation and practices were what might be ex-
pected from such an immigration; piracyBourish-
ed upon the water and repudiation uponthe "sa-
cred soil" of the State which boastssits descent 
from such ancestors. 
In some of the publications relating to the col. 
15. From A. D. 437, to 1697. 
REV. THOMAS BEVERLY, author of "The Propheti-
cal History of the Reformation, to he performed in 
the year 1697,"—London 1689, thus reckoned this 
period. 
16. From A. D. 450 to 1710. 
REV. PETER JURIEU,author of Pastoral Letters," 
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BOSTON, SEPTEMBER 28, 1861. 
SYLVESTER BLISS, EDITOR. 
The readers of the Herald are most earnestly besought to 
give it room in their prayers; that by means of it God may 
be honored and his truth advanced ; also, that it may be 
conducted in faith and love, with sobriety of judgment and 
discernment of the truth, in nothing carried away into 
error, or hasty speech, or sharp, unbrotherly disputation. 
THE TERMS OF THE HERALD. The terms of the 
Herald are two dollars year, in advance ;—with 
as large an addition, as the generosity of donors 
shall open their hearts to give, towards making the 
A. M. Association an efficient instrumentality for 
good. 
Correspondents, on matters pertaining solely to 
the office, should write " Office," on the envelope, 
to have their letters promptly attended to, if the 
editor be temporarily absent. 
To Correspondents. 
Short and appropriate articles, of one column or less, 
are solicited from those who have well digested thoughts 
to communicate. Any writer whose article or enquiry is 
not promptly noticed, will please to call the editor's atten-
tion to the omission. 
C. P. Dow. The appointment referred to was 
given in the first paper published after it was re-
ceived. Our latest insertion of each week is Tues-
day morning. 
INFORMATION WANTED in respect to a letter re-
ceived from North Abington. 
We received a letter Sept. 23d post marked "No. 
Abington," written with a pencil, and enclosing one 
dollar. The handwriting of the letter is such that 
we are unable to read it, and we find no name signed 
to it, so that we do not know what disposition to 
make of it. Will the writer, or some one in North 
Abington inform us what disposition we are to make 
of it ? 
Exposition of Daniels Prophecy. 
CHAPTER VII. 
THE EPOCH OF THE PAPAL SUPREMACY. 
13, From A. D. 426, to 1686. 
REV. WM. ALLEINE D D. author of "The Myste-
ry of the Temple and City," London, 1577, accord-
ing to Tyso, adopted this date. 
REV. J. L. TOWERS, of Eng.—author of "Illus-
trations of Prophecy" in two volumes which were 
first published anonymously in London in 1799 and 
suppressed by the government of Mr. Pitt, but re-
published in 1828—says : 
"With respect to the time when the 1260 years 
commenced, and consequently when they shall ter-
minate, I venture to advance nothing of my own, 
nor place my confidence in the calculations of oth-
ers. But as some of my readers will be likely to 
enquire, whether no dates, apparently in unison 
with fact and probability, have been assigned for 
1687, a French Protestant minister of emi-
nence, was born in 1637, and died in 1713. He 
wrote a Commentary on the Apocalypse, and ac-
cording to Mr. Elliot, "expected the ruin of the 
Papacy in 1710-15." Mr. Tyso gives to him the 
above dates. In his commentary on the Apocalypse 
Jurieu says : "Many things, without reckoning the 
modern 'prophecies, made me hope that we were 
near the end of that period of 1260 years, at the 
close whereof Babylon must fall. It is much near-
er than is commonly thought. In a few years you 
will see the light of that fire which is shut up 'with-
out being extinguished. We are now in the last 
days when Christ should come and not find true 
piety or true faith on the earth." Jurzeu Apoc. 
From A. D. 455, to 1697. 
REV. JOHN MITCHEL, author of "A New Transla-
tion and Exposition of the Revelation," 1800, ac-
cording to Tyso, takes the above dates. Ile redu-
ces the period 18 years, by reckoning 1260 lunar 
years as equal to 1242 Julian years ; which is an' 
error ; for the intercallary days always added, make 
the year thus complete equal to the solar year. 
From A. D. 476 to 1736. 
REV. CHARLES DAUBUZ,—a French writer on the 
prophecies, and author of an' able commentary on 
the Apocalypse, which he published in 1720, adopt-
ed, according to Mr. Tyso, these dates. In his year 
day argument he says : 
"It would be monstrous and indecorous to de-
scribe a beast raging during the space of 1260 years; 
or a witness, which is a man, prophesying so long ; 
or a woman dwelling in the wilderness so 
many years. Therefore, that the duration of 
the events may he represented in terms suitable to 
the symbols of the visions, it is reasonable to expect 
that the symbols of duration be also drawn in mini-
ature, or in a proportionable arithmetic to the 
symbols of the events ; which are also drawn in min-
iature," Com. p. 56. 
REV. 1V M. WHISTON, the successor of Sir Isaac 
Newton in the mathematical Professorship at Cam-
bridge, Eng., also according to Mr. Tyso, thus 
reckoned, which is from the final subversion of im-
perial Rome, and the date of the rise of the last one 
of its first ten divisions. But Mr. Elliott, quotes 
him as reckoning in an essay published in 1706,from 
the decree of Phocas in A.D. 606. 
the coinmencernent and for the conclusion of the 
1260 years ; and as I am unwilling altogether to dis- 
appoint them, and to leave those who have 
not before made any enquiries on the subject totally 
uninformed, I shall state the two eras, which have 
been specified by Mr. Bicheno ; the writer of a sen-
sible pamphlet. . . . 
"Mr. Bicheno supposes that the conchision 
of the 1260 years and the symbolic earthquake in 
the tenth part of the city (Rev. 11:13) are contem-
poraneous ; and consequently since the symbolic 
earthquake, or French revolution, predicted by St. 
John in chap. 11. did actually take place in 1789, 
that the. 1260 days terminated at that memorable 
epoch . . . The reader with a glance of his eye will 
perceive there elapsed from the year 529 to 1789, 
exactly 1260 years. In the year 529, the 
Justinian code was first published, by which those 
powers, privileges, and immunities were secured to 
the clergy; that unison perfected between things 
civil and ecclesiastical, and those laws imposed on 
the, church, which havp proved so injurious to Chris-
tianity, and so calamitous to mankind" lllust. of 
Proph. Lon. 1828, vol. 1 ; pp. 349-351- 
"But probably there may be some persons, who 
may think that the commencement of the 1260 
days had better be dated from the year 
547, than from the year 529 ; partly be-
cause Justinian's tyrannic proceedings in his 
management of councils, in his persecution of here-
tics, and in his endeavors to bring about a uniforni-
ty of faith throughout the Roman empire, cannot 
be supposed to have been earned nearly to their full 
extent earlier than that year ; and partly because 
they may be of opinion with Dr. Cressner and other 
writers, that in this calculation eighteen years are 
to be deducted from the 1260, since 1260 apocalyp-
tic years, each consisting of 360 daysamount to no 
more than 1242 solar or Julian years," lb. p. 353, 
4. 
The length of the Apocalyptic year is immaterial 
in this connection, so long as each one of its days is 
representative of a solar revolution of the earth—a 
fact which those who talk of lunar years seem strange-
ly to have overlooked. 
Mr. Bichino "supposes that the 1290 years will 
end in 1819, and the 1335 in 1864. . . Persuaded 
that the fixing of future dates is a business of infi-
nite delicacy, I should certainly myself have been 
very unwilling to have spoken in so peremptory a 
manner ... It ought however, to be observed that 
he speaks in a far less confident tone than that which 
many preceding calculators have employed." 
II-
lust of Proph. pp. 364, 5. 
JOHN BAYFORD ESQU. F. S. A. author of "Mes-
siah's Kingdom," one vol. of 350 pp. London,1820, 
says: 
"By reference to history, it is found that under 
the edict of Justinian in the year 529, the civil law 
was digested and reduced into a code,which has ev-
er since remained as the acknowledged law of the 
empire, and by that code the Bishop of Rome was 
established, (or rather recognized as being) in plen-
itude of power, supreme over the Christian Church 
in all matters of ecclesiastical authority, with 
full power to destroy and exterminate at pleasure, 
all whom he might consider heretics. From that 
time to the year 1789, the date of the French Revo-
lution, making a period of 1260 years, that persecu-
ting power has never ceased to make war with the 
saints, and has continually prevailed 'against them, 
wearying out and destroying their bodies with tor-
tures, by sword, by fire,and by divers kinds of death. 
But from that period, 1789, its power has been 
crippled, and its strength has been so much impair-
ed, through the convulsions and struggles of Eu-
rope, that persecution, (though not the will to per-
secute,) bas ceased, and now for the space of about 
30 years, the saints have had rest from Autos-de-le ; 
and such other public acts of judicial slaughter. 
Not that midnight persecution, perhaps even un-
to death, may not possibly he traced ; but the au-
thorized massacre, and delivering up the saints to 
deathanade by the public authority of the state,upon 
the pretence of their being heretics, has not been 
found to prevail, if indeed it has ever existed since 
the year 1789, within the limits of the ten original 
kingdoms, or horns of the beast." 
Encouraging. 
Dear Bro. Bliss :— 
We have not forgotten Bro. Pearson's stirring 
and appropriate suggestions presented at the confer-
ence, nor become insensible to the wants of the As-
sociation. I hope in a few days to send some to-
ken of our interest in the perpetuity of the Herald. 
We have organized an "Aid Society'' in this place, 
and expect to organize another in Shiremanstown to-
morrow night. I think we can raise at least thirty 
or thirty-five dollars in the two Societies during the 
year. 
Our Brn. desire to know whether we cannot se-
cure a life membership in the A. M. A. for this So- 
onies is a list of convicts sent over among the 
founders of Virginia. We have not the time to 
look it up ; but some of our readers may have 
the curiosity to find it, and see how many names 
that have lately been distinguished for crimes 
against the government, had their origin among 
the unwilling fathers of the State. Few of them 
will probably be found connected with so respec-
table an offence as treason, for in the colonial 
days a convicted traitor was punished more se-
verely even than by transportation to Virginia ; 
but we doubt not that many a proud son of the 
chivalry who has made himself conspicuous in 
stealing guns, obstructing railroads, burning 
bridges, and similar acts of Southern patriotism, 
can trace back to some pickpocket, or some emi-
nent London thief, the lineage : 
"Whose ancient but ignoble blood 
Has flowed through scoundrels ever since the 
flood." 
ciety, or the church, or any individual upon whom 
they choose to confer it, through the means appro-
priated by each society ? Please answer. 
Yours respectfully, 
!WM. H. SwARTZ. 
New Kingstown, Cumb. Co., Pa. �
• 
You can make life members of individuals in the 
manner proposed. �
' ED. 
14. From A. D. 427, to 1687. 
REV. JOSEPH flussur,author of "Glories of Christ 
Unveiled," 1706, thus dates,according to Tyso. Rev. 
John Cox, Baptist minister at Woolwich, says of 
him—in his "Millenarian's answer of the Hope 
that is in him," (f.,on. 1832) : "The celebrated Jo-
seph Hussey is the most staunch millenarian I ev-
er saw." 
19. From A. D. 529 to 1789. 
JAMES BICHENO, A. M.—author of "The signs of 
the Times, or the overthrow of the Papal Tyranny 
in France, the prelude to the destruction of Popery 
and despotism," London 1792-4,—writes thus : 
"Daniel's time,times,and half a time (1260 years) 
begin and end with the five numbers in the Apoca-
lypse, and as they are 1260 years, and supposed to 
end at the French revolution, they must begin A. 
D. 529 and end in 1789. Daniel's. 2300 years begin 
481 years before Christ, [with Xerxes' invasion of 
Greece] and end in 1819, when some other great 
event, or events will take place. The beast and the 
false prophet (Rev, 19 : 20) i. e. the papacy and the 
French tyranny, having previously been brought to 
an end, then, perhaps the dragon, civil despotism, 
will be bound (Rev. 20:2) and the Jews, the dry 
bones in the valley of vision (Ezek 37) be raised to 
a political life, and restored to their own land. 
Daniel's 1290 ye irs begin with his time, times, and 
and a half, and with the former five numbers of 
John in the Apocalypse,i.e. at thecommencement of 
the reign of the beast, A. D. 529, and end with the 
former number (2300) in 1819. . . . The next forty 
five years, to 1864, to which time Daniel's 1335 
years extend, may be spent in gathering the Jews." 
"But perhaps it may be asked, what arguments 
are there which favor the conjecture of the 529th 
year of Christ being that from which the power of 
the beast ,is to be' dated ? I know I have put this 
down by accident, as the measurement back from 
1789. . .. But though no man, from •the history of 
past times,can determine the exact year from which 
God dates the kingdom of antichrist, yet there are 
good reasons from which a probable conjecture may 
be formed,that it was as early as the sixth century.'' 
. . . We may add also, that Justinian if not in 529, 
yet as early as 534, declared the Pope the head of 
all churches," "Signs" &c. pp. 71-74. 
7.30 A. M. and at 11 A.M. 
The Route from Boston, is as follows : 
The cars leave Boston over the Fitchburg road, at 
Our Annual Conference. 
Instead of occupying the time of the next Confer-
ence with the framing and passing of vain resolu-
tions, and the transaction of mere business affairs, 
the following subjects will be presented and discus-
sed in their order. 
It will be noticed that they comprise the great 
cardinal questions which make us a distinctive peo-
ple, with doctrines eminently and strictly practical. 
They will not only call out the liveliest interest 
among ourselves, but demand the attention of others 
who will, undoubtedly,attend the session. We shall 
too, by this method, secure as good as twenty ser-
mons, per day, instead of one or two as formerly, 
and in a way that shall bring out the many and va-
rious gifts of our preachers, and must elicit the 
warmest expressions of faith, experience and exhor-
tation from the-lay brethren. 
In order to obtain promptness and give energy to 
the questions, and to insure an unflagging interest 
from the opening of the Conference, to its close, 
speakers will be appointed to open each subject, i. 
e. make an address, or preach a short sermon of 
about 30 minutes, to be followed by remarks from 
any who may choose to speak. 
Subjects for Discussion at the next General 
Conference. 
1. Revivals :—Their essential qualities ; Their 
Importance ; the best means to promote them. D. 
I. Robinson. 
2. Aspect of the Times :—Political, moral and 
religious ; Practical application as taught in Scrip:. 
ture. 
3. Importance of Union :—In Faith ; in Labor ; 
in Sympathy. 0. R. Fassett. 
4. Fundamental Doctrines :—What ones vital to 
salvation ; essential to understand, to believe an4 
propagate. R. Hutchinson. 
5. Sabbath Schools :—Importance ; management ; 
Instances of interest ; the best method of promoting 
them. I. H. Shipman. 
6. Christ's. Second Advent :—Personal and Visi- 
ble; Pre-millennial. D. Bosworth. 
7. Resurrection :—Literal ; of all the dead ; their 
order as to character and time. G. W. Burnham. 
8. The Restitution : of man, morally and physic-
ally; of the earth; of the atmosphere, &c. S. Bliss. 
9. Kingdom of Christ :—Its essential parts ; the 
Time of its Establishment ; the place of its Manifes-
tation. L. Osier. 
10. Adventists and other Millenarians :—Their 
Differences and agreements ; co-operation desirable. 
J. Litch. 
11. Practical Value of our Faith :—To individ- 
ual Christians ; to the Church ; to the World. F. 
Gunner. 
12. Our absolute Dependence for success in the 
prosecution of our mission, on the Father, the Son, 
and the Holy Ghost. J. M. Orrock. 
We anticipate that in accordance with the above 
arrangement, which is by Eld. J. Pearson, Jr., the 
President of the Conference, there will be essays 
prepared on each of the above subjects, of such a 
length and nature as to adapt them to be issued to- 
gether, in an extra No. of the Herald. �
ED. 
The Route to North Springfield Vt. 
Our friends coming to the Conference from Maine, 
Massachusetts, and the southern part of N. H., 
New York City, and Philadelphia, by way of Bel-
lows Falls, will take the Rutland and Burliugtdn 
R. R. at •Bellem Falls and come to Gassett's Sta-
tion. 
Those coming from the west side of the Green 
Mountains, Canada &c., and coming byway of Rut: 
land, will also leave the cars at Gassett's Station ; 
which is 4 1-2 miles from this place. 
The brethren here will convey our friends from 
Gassett's to our place. Those coming from the 
northern part of N. II. and Canada East, who 
come by the way of Windsor, Vermont, will 
leave -the cars at Charlestown, N. H., which is 
9 miles from this place. A Stage runs from Charles-
town, N. II., after the arrival of the cars, through 
this place, to. Woodstock, each way every day. 
SYLVESTER BURKE. 
C. A. LOCKWOOD. 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
TitE ADVEN f HERALD. 
 
111.....W.VICUPPA46, 
the Cheshire R. R., and reach Bellows Falls, a dis- I the flesh, will greatly cheer us in the work of still 
tanee of 64 m. at 12.45, and at 4.40. Fare $2.10. j proclaiming the glad news of a speedy redemption. 
J. P. JR.. 
The Converted Actress. 
The "Sunday School Journal" gives the following 
incident in connection with a hymn from the pen of 
Charles Wesley. 
An actress in one of the English country theatres 
was passing a poor cottage, when her attention was 
attracted by the Sound of voices within. Prompted 
by curiosity she looked in at the door, and saw al 
say that the quarrel is not the growth of aiday, nor 
the momentary outburst of two hasty tempers. Well 
concealed from all but the parties themselves and 
their most intimate friends, it has been increasing 
in intensity from day to day and week to week, and 
has meanwhile defied all efforts of diplomacy to 
bring it to a satisfactory conclusion. The visit of Mrs 
Fremont to Washington had reference to it, 
few people, one of whom was giving out the hymns, ',and Montgomery Blair's return visit to St. Louis 
was made specially with a view of an honorable ad-
justment. But neither the wit of woman nor the 
common sense of the man had the hoped-for effect ; 
and yesterday the disagreement culminated in an 
arrest. We express no opinion of the merits of the 
case, nor do we venture to predict how it will ter- 
minate. It is sufficient to say that among the Union 
men of St. Louis there is a general disposition to 
sustain Fremont and censure Blair. This is partic- 
ularly marked among the Germans, who seem, says 
a gentleman who came up on last evening's train, 
to blame the Colonel for all the misfortunes which 
our cause in Missouri has endured, and to be glad 
that his power for mischief is now at an end." 
This feud is in every way to be regretted, and 
may assume a disproportionate magnitude in conse-
quence of the influence of the Washington Blairs in 
the administration. From all we can learn with re-
gard to the quarrel we are inclined to think that 
Gen. Fremont was fully justified in the course be 
has been compelled to take. Before his appointment 
to the Department of the West he was in high favor 
with the Blair family, who endorsed him to the Ad-
ministration as competent even for the command in 
chief of the army. But Gen. Fremont soon found 
that he must either become a tool of the Blairs, 
making their interests paramount to that of the 
country, or cut loose from them altogether. lie has 
chosen the latter course, and the country will sustain 
him.—Boston Journal. 
This misunderstanding between the Blairs and 
Fremont, is very unfortunate ; but when the latter 
is called to choose between his country, and subser-
viency to individuals he ought not to be long in de-
termining what is duty. The cause and not individ-
ual interests, should ever be paramount. 
The cars leave Bellows Falls at 12.15 and at 5.30, 
over the Rutland and Burlington Road, to Gassett's 
Station, 18 miles, which is reached at 1.30 and 6. 
30. �
Fare 60 ets. �
• �
bane 
The through fare from Boston to Gaasett's Sta-
tion, for a ticket purchased in Boston, is $4.05. 
Friends from Providence, can leave there at 7.10 
and reach Boston at 9 A.M. in season for the 11 A. 
train-44 miles and fare $1.35. 
Or, they can leave at 7.20 for Worcester, reach 
there at 0.35 (44 miles and fare $1.40) ; leave W. 
at 11.15, and reach Fitchburg (26 miles, and fare 
85 eta.) at 12.25, in season for the Boston 11 A.M. 
train, which there intersects. 
Friends from New York and south, will be likely 
to go via New Haven, Ct. and Springfield, Mass. 
The New Haven cars reach Springfield at 1 P.M. 
Cars will leave Springfield, Mass., at 7.45 and 
1.30, over the Connecticut River road, and reach S. 
Vernon, on the state line, a distance of 50 miles, at 
10.05 A.M. and 3.45 P.M. Fare $1.75. 
The Vermont Valley road leaves South Vernon at 
9.35 A.I. and 4.05 P.M. and reaches Bellows Falls 
distance of 24 miles and fare 80 ets.—at 11.15 
A.M. and 5.38 P.M. ; which last seems too late to 
connect ; but there may be some error of figures. 
If too late to connect with the Burlington road, 
for Gassett's Station, it is not too late for the Sulli-
van Road, the cars of which leave Bellows Falls at 
5.40, for Charlestown-8 miles, fare 35 cents—
from whence there is a stage to S. 
At South Vernon, also, there is a road to Keene, 
H.—the " Ashuelot"—the cars of which leave 
at 10.10 and 4.25 and reaoh Keene-23 miles, fare 
65 cents—at 11.25 and 6.05—the first of which is 
in season for the morning cars from Boston, which 
reach Keene at 11.30 A.M. The later train from 
Boston reaches there at 3.40 P. M. 
We are not able to announce any reduction of 
fare on the line of the road as we hoped. It would 
doubtless be for the interest of the Rutland and 
Burlington road to empower some one at Gassett's 
Station, or North Springfield, to give return tickets 
to those such as come over the road either way sole- 
ly to attend the meeting ; and this might be arrang-
ed without any particular trouble to the company, 
as there are trusty men enough, who could be relied 
on to guard the R. R. Company against imposition, 
who would gratuitously perform such service. We 
cannot affirm any probability of an arrangement of 
this kind this season ; bnt it will be well, hereafter, 
in designating the 'lace of meeting, first to see what 
R. It. accommodations will be extended to us. 
Providence brethren will see by the rates of fare, 
that it will be for their interest to go by the way of 
Worcester. 
To our Lay Brethren. 
Our General Annual Conference will convene in 
a few weeks, and the responsibility rests very much 
with you to say, whether this shall be one of no or-
dinary interest, or otherwise. 
Owing to the present financial disarrangement 
caused by the war, most of the religious Conventions 
of this year, have been quite thinly attended, and 
consequently of comparatively little interest. But 
your faith looking as it does fur the soon advent of 
the Redeemer,w ill not permit business and mere mon-
ey prospects,to have that grasp upon your affections, 
that they do upon those hwo are expecting many 
years yet to come in this state of things, and are 
deeply absorbed in the accumulation of prbperty for 
themselves and their children. Hence, while they 
might feel too poor to turn aside, for a few days, to 
attend meetings important to the prosperity of re-
ligion, you will feel able, with much less of this 
world's goods, to gather with those of like precious 
faith, and by your presence,exhortations and advice 
add vastly tothe interest of the Convention, and so 
promote the welfare of the cause which has so deep 
a place in your affections. Take this into consider-
'Ilion. Do not let trifles keep !on many: ' Deny 
yourselves, if need bei of some luxury—nay, if de-
manded, of some convenience to be there—a sacri-
fice, for the truth's sake. 
Our brethren, at Springfield, will provide most 
cheerfully for you. Their houses and ,their hearts 
will be open to give you a cordial welcome. Come, 
then, dear brethren, to this feast, as you will be am 
ply paid for any act of self-denial you may make—
you will find your faith strengthened, your hope 
brightened, and your hearts comforted and encour-
aged. 
We want our brethren who have, tor many years, 
been looking for deliverance—who have so long lov- 
ed these glorious truths, and have by counsel and 
means sustained this cause not only in its time of 
prosperity, but when in trial and adversity, to be 
there for consultation. We need your maturejudg-
merit, and to behold the faces of such, Once more in 
The Coming -Conference. 
To render this annual meeting one of more than 
common pleasure and profit, it has been thought 
best to break over the rule of a three days' confer-
ence, and extend it through the week and over the 
Sabbath. We desire to be benefited ourselves, to 
advance the interests of the cause, and leave the 
church at Springfield strengthened and encouraged. 
Work sufficient has been provided to occupy the at-
tention of the Conference for that length of time. 
Hence let our ministers and laymen make the neces-
sary provision to stay till the close of the meeting. 
We desire this to be the best conference we have ever 
enjoyed, and it may be if we all go with praying 
hearts, looking to Jesus for his presence and aid, 
and with the resolve to do what we can, individual-
ly, to promote its spirituality. 
J. P. JR. 
,6Jesus, 
 
The teacher of a Jewish infant school relates that 
when he first took charge of the school, he scarcely 
knew what to teach the little ones, when a favorite 
hymn occurred to his mind— 
"Seeing I am Jesus' Lamb." 
Most of the children had learned it in thirteen days. 
Two months passed without any particular occur-
rence. One day in the middle of July, one of the 
children informed me that a little Jewish boy, one 
of my school, had fallen into the water, and had 
been nearly drowned. A few days later the boy 
came to school again, and was very much cast down, 
and looking ill. 
1 asked him whether it was true that he was 
nearly drowned a few days ago. He said, "Yes," 
and he told me that he had advanced too far on a 
washing scaffolding, and so tumbled into the water. 
"Were not you very much frightened when you 
sank under the water?" I asked him. "No," said 
he. "But what were your thoughts when the water 
closed over your head ?" "Well," said the little Is-
raelite, with sparkling eyes, "I thought— 
"'Seeing I am Jesus' lamb, 
He I know, will lose me never ; 
When I stray he seeketh me ; 
Death is but new life forever. 
Father, to thy home on high, 
Take me, for Christ's lamb am I.' 
Juv. Instructor. 
Death is not life, though we may pass through it 
to reach the resurrection which is to life ; the child 
of which will inherit "the world to come." It is 
a pity our poetry was not always scriptural. 
The Memphis (Tenn.) Avalanche advocates giv-
ing no quarters to "the invaders," and says : "Is it 
a wonder that the Southern man should cry, as he 
dashes over the battle field, infuriated after his foe, 
'No quarter to the �
Yankees ; let it be a war of 
extermination ?' As God is our judge, we cannot 
see how any Southerner could spare Greely,or Love-
joy, or Hickman, or Grow, or Lyon, or Boernstein, 
if he should meet him in battle. We would cleave 
him down, even with his hands uplifted in prayer, 
and thank Heaven that our wife, or sister has one 
the less relentless, brutal foe. This feeling will grow 
upon our people as war goes on, and it will he con-
sidered a sacred duty to take no prisoners, and leave 
none to return with the story of their disaster." 
The Sinner Condemned and God Justified. 
Rev. J. Parker relates the following anecdote of 
a young man, who, with himself, was one of fif teen 
or twenty guests at a boarding house kept by a Mrs 
D. 
The late Rev. Dr. Perrine had preached, one Sun-
day morning, a peculiarly impressive sermon on the 
sad consequences of a life of sin. Sitting at the din-
ner table this young man declared against the dis-
course, saying, "Such preaching only hardens me 
and makes me worse." Mr. P. replied, "Is it pos-
sible you think it makes you worse, when it only 
makes you conscious of sin that was before slumber-
ing in your heart ?" "No," said he, "it hardens 
me. I am at this moment less susceptible to any 
thing like conviction, for hearing that discourse. I 
feel more inclined to resist everything like good im-
pressions than usual." Mr. P. suggested that "good 
impressions are those which are the best adapted to 
secure the desired end," and thought an increase of 
what he then felt might be greatly useful to him. 
"For instance," said he, "if you should now read 
Watts' version of the 51st Psalm, it would take a 
deep hold on your heart." 
"Not the least," said he : "I could read it with-
out moving a muscle. I wish I had the book : I 
would read it to you." 
The book was produced, and he began in a firm 
voice :— 
"Show pity, Lord ; 0 Lord, forgive ; 
Let a repenting sinner live : 
Are not thy mercies large and free ? 
May not a sinner trust in thee ?" 
A little tremulousness of voice was discernible to- 
wards the close of the stanza, but he rallied, and be-
gan more firmly the second verse :— 
"Oh, wash my soul from every sin, 
And make my guilty conscience clean : 
Here on my heart the burden lies, 
And past offences pain my eyes." 
Again his voice had begun to falter, but he com- 
menced the third stanza with great energy :— 
"My lips with shame my sins confess." 
As he read the second line,— 
"Against thy law, against thy grace." 
his lips quivered, and his utterance became difficult. 
Ile paused a little, and entered upon the third line 
with more apparent determination :— 
"Lord, should thy judgment grow severe." 
Before he closed this line his voice was almost 
choked ; and when he reached the fourth line,— 
"I am condemned, but thou art clear," 
he could only enunciate in broken sobs, "I am con-
demned,"—when his voice changed to a heart brok-
en cry of grief, he rushed out of the room a convic-
ted, and was soon a converted sinner. 
The moral Mr. P. draws from this, is that those 
who say, "Prophesy onto us smooth things," are 
"not always good judges in respect to what produces 
the best effect upon themselves." 
THE FEUD BETWEEN COL. FREMONT AND THE 
BLAIR FAMILY. The Chicago Tribune has the fol-
lowing with regard to the arrest of Bon. F. P. Blair 
and the feud between Gen. Fremont and the Blair 
family : 
"But we gratify our reader's curiosity enough to 
The report that Queen Victoria was about to cast 
herself into the bosom of the Roman Catholic 
Church, and the story of her mother's conversion to 
the same faith before her death, turn out to be a 
heartless hoax. 
So says the Boston Journal ; and we suspected as 
much when we met with the assertion. 
HORSE PANIC. Last Saturday morning at about 
three o'clock, a large number of government horses, 
something over three hundred, having been confined 
in crowded quarters in St. Louis, broke their fences 
and started at panic speed through the streets of 
the city, part in one direction and part in another. 
Such was the blind fury with which each division 
kept up the flight,that many were knocked down and 
trampled to death in the terrible stampede. Five 
large government wagons encountered one divisicn 
not fir from the spot where the stampede began. 
The wagons were at a short distance apart, and all 
the drivers Excepting the first escaped. The horses 
attached to the first wagon were knocked down and 
crushed to death. Two or three of those coming in 
sudden contact with the wagon were crushed and 
trampled to death by those behind them. Some 
springing with their whole weight upon the wagon 
brought it to the ground, crushing the driver in 
such a manner as to occasion his death a few hours 
afterward. The second wagon was likewise literally 
smashed to pieces, a dead horse being here found be-
side the wreck. Eight or ten horses were found dead 
at various short distances from the lumber yard 
where they started, and two inside the yard. The 
fact that the stampede was kept up for a great dis-
tance is proved by the fact of dead horses being pick-
ed up at distances of two, three and four miles from 
the yard. 
JEFFERSON CITY, MO., Sept. 18-11 P. M. Two 
couriers just arrived from Lexington give the fol-
lowing intelligence, which is believed by the com-
manding officer here to be reliable : 
General Price commenced an attack on the en-
trenchments at Lexington, commanded by Colonel 
Mulligan, on Monday. The fight was very severe 
all day. 
General Price assaulted the troops and was repuls-
ed with severe loss. The fight was renewed on Tues-
day morning, by Price, but feebly. 
When the couriers left Gen. Lane was at Johns-
town, Bates county, Monday morning, with from 
2000 to 3000 men marching to the relief of Lexing-
ton. 
The rebel loss on Monday is reported to be 4000 
and the Federal 800. It is probably exaggerated. 
Later intelligence has been received, that Colonel 
Mulligan and his whole command surrendered to 
Gen. Price on Friday morning at 5 o'clock. 
To the Brethren of the Ministry. 
Some months since it was suggested that I should, 
as Chairman of the Conference, prepare a series of 
subjects for discussion at the next general conven-
tion. This proposition meeting with the informal 
approval of the brethren at one of the board meet-
ings of the Association, I did therefore, yield to the 
request, and published in the Herald, such as pre-
sented themselves to my own mind, as most profita-
table to be entertained at the meeting and have also 
affixed the names of brethren who, I thought, would 
be willing to introduce them, so as to open the way 
for a general talk on each. 
I was inclined at the first, to ask, through the 
Herald, for our brethren of the ministry, who pro-
posed attending the conference, to notify me to that 
effect, in order 'to assign each a part in the subject 
to be discussed, for a specific part could have been 
given to every one, as the subjects are provided with 
divisions. BLit �
More' mature reflection made it 
evident, that the better way would be to appoint 
one to a question, and publish the questions so that 
all others could know in advance the subjects, and 
go prepared to speak on what they might please. 
It is to be hoped that these series of questions 
will be satisfactory to all our ministers, and also to 
our lay brethren. Will you whose names appear, 
please accept the task of opening the questions giv-
en you, and will all our preachers add their efforts 
to make this Conference one of the most interest-
ing and profitable we have ever enjoyed ? 
J. P. JR. 
which the others joined in singing :— 
"Depth of mercy ! can there be 
Mercy still reserved for me.'' 
The words riveted her attention, and as she stood 
motionless before the door the woman of the house 
invited her in. She remained during the meeting ; 
and, when she left, those words continued to ring in. 
her ears, untill she sought the mercy seat, where 
she soon found peace. She then resolved to quit the 
theatre, and so informed the manager. He attempt-
ed to dissuade her, but finally prevailed on her to 
appear one evening more, in a character she had 
frequently performed to general admiration. The 
first thing required of her on her entrance would be to 
sing a song. The curtain drew up,and the orchestra 
began the accompaniment ; but she seemed lost in 
thought. The music ceased, but she did not sing. 
Supposing her overcome with embarrassment, the 
band again performed their part, and paused for her 
to begin ; but still she was silent. A third time the 
air was played ; and then, with clasped hands and 
eyes suffused with tears, she sang—not the words of 
the song, but,— 
"Depth of mercy ! can there be 
Mercy still reserved for me ?" 
The theatrical performance was suddenly ended, 
some ridiculed, but some dated from that evening 
the turning of their feet into the narrow way ; and 
the actress herself, thenceforth lived a devoted 
Christian. 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
THE ADVENT HERALD. 
CORRESPONDENCE. 
From Bro. J. T. Curry. 
Bro. Bliss :—I suppose that your readers have 
come to the conclusion that the little dispute be 
tween Bro. Bosworth and myself is not much better 
than a war of words. I think so, myself, and will 
therefore conclude my remarks with the present 
communication. 
The question was and is, Can a person who disbe-
lieves the doctrine that man has an entity within 
him called the soul, use, with propriety, the expres-
sions " my soul," &c. ? To prove that they can, I 
quoted the remarks of Dr. Eadie, a believer in the 
soul entity, and its immortality. I did not intend 
to raise any other question, neither have I done so. 
Dr. Eadie, Gesenius, and Nordheimer all concur 
that the expressions are equivalent to personality. 
Here I rest. 
Bro. B. evidently believes that the soul is a dis-
tinct entity in man which exists when the man is 
dead. If I understand him, he proposes to harmo-
nize all the instances where the word "soul" occurs 
with his view. Speaking of the " souls in the ark," 
" the soul that sinneth," he says " the veriest tyro 
in learning knows they harmonize with the passages 
quoted above, by simply applying the synecdoche." 
I recommend the application of the synecdoche to 
the following Scriptural words and phrases, all ren-
dered from the Hebrew " nephesh." 
Any, fish, appetite, ghost, breast, greedy, body, 
bath life, breath, he, creature, heart, dead, hearty, 
deadly, her, desire, herself, discontented, himself, 
life in jeopardy, mind, mortality, jeopardy of life, 
life, myself, lust, one, man, own, me, yourselves, 
person, themselves, pleasure, self, tablet, they, thy-
self, thing, will, will she, would have it. 
In the words of another, " Can any man, not a 
bigot to a theory, believe that a word having more 
than forty English representatives, is the chosen 
term of the Holy Spirit to express the idea of a 'su-
peradded entity—called the soul—to the God-made 
man of dust?' " �
JOSEPH T. CURRY. 
Fly Mountain, N. Y., Sept. 13, 1861. 
From Bro. Artemas Brown. 
My dear Bliss :—As I have just read your last on 
the periods, I have concluded to make another effort 
while under its inspirings to redeem you from your 
error. 
As I had never seen anything from Stuart on the 
subject before, and as his objections are so nearly 
identical with some of mine, of course it affords an-
other illustration of the fact that " great men's 
minds," &c. &c. 
But, most seriously, I believe that all your labor 
in defense of the year-day theory is lost, and that 
five years will not elapse before you will see it. It 
is significant that you feel constrained to labor so 
hard now in its behalf. Three years ago, in giving 
an exposition of Daniel, you probably would not 
have thought it necessary to argue the question—as 
no one thought of disputing it. But now men be-
gin to conclude that an angel's solemn oath, Dan. 
12, is more trustworthy than the speculations of 
Mede & Co. The former swears that certain events 
shall transpire within 3 1-2 times or years ; Mede 
& Co. swear that these events shall cover 1260 times 
• 
or years. But all your arguments about times "in 
connection with prophetic symbol" is entirely in-
applicable to the periods of Dan. 12, because there 
is no particle of symbol in that last vision, and if 
symbolic description must be accompanied by sym-
bolic time, then literal description must be com-
pared by literal time, and such is the description in 
Dan. 11:12. Stuart is right in saying a period is 
not symbolic unless inspiration makes it so, as in 
Numbers and Ezekiel, and not even in connection 
with symbolic acts. In Isa. 20 the prophet is di-
rected to walk naked and barefoot three years as a 
sign of the captivity of the Egyptians and Ethio-
pians. Now if your argument be true " that the 
two instances of Numbers and Ezekiel are sufficient 
to establish a general principle," Assyria must have 
kept those people in captivity 1080 years, — which 
was not true. True you add, " in connection with 
symbolic agents when similarly disproportioned to 
the agents symbolized." But was not Isaiah as 
much a symbolic agent as Ezekiel and as the spies, 
and is there not as great a disproportion between 
Isaiah and the captivity of Egypt and Ethiopia as 
there is between the spies and Israel's wilderness so-
journ, or Ezekiel and the siege of Jerusalem ? But 
really neither the spies nor Ezekiel were symbolic 
agents, though the action of Ezekiel was symbolic ; 
but in this it is unlike the acts connected with the 
periods of Daniel. These were literal. Look at v. 
24-5, ch. 7. Does not that power literally subdue 
three kings ? Are not the words which he speaks 
literal words ? &c. &c. Then there is no symbolic 
act here. Nay, more ; there is no symbolic agent 
either connected with the period. It is not predi- 
cated of the symbol horn, but of its explanation 
king that he shall reign 3 1-2 times. 
To assume that Papacy is that power, and argue 
the times symbolic therefrom, is begging the ques-
tion. For the main argument you generally offer 
for Papacy is, " The power was to continue 1260 
years, and Papacy has thus continued and is there-
fore the power." Now to prove the time symbolic, 
Papacy is the power predicted, and it has continued 
1260 years, the period must be 1260 years. 
But again of the argument on " proportions."—
Many beasts live over a century, and a nondescript 
might, and many kingdoms have not lasted a centu- 
ry. �
Babylon did not. Napoleon's did not. But 
in Dan. 4 a tree is the symbol, and there is a great-
er disproportion between it and a king than in the 
other case supposed. Yet the time is not symbolic. 
But it is impossible that in the inspired plan there 
should have been any account taken of the relative 
natural longevity of the symbolic agents and the 
agents symbolized. If so there would have been 
something by which that proportion could be seen ; 
but the fourth beast is purely ideal, without any du-
ration possibly attachable to it, and the special sym-
bol is a horn which has no life and might exist 5000 
years. But what destroys your whole argument is 
that there was no disproportion at all between the 
agents which you cite as a criterion for " similar 
instances of disproportioned" agents. The spies 
lived as long as did the people who sojourned in the 
wilderness—indeed were a part of them—and Eze-
kiel was of the same nature as the agents who were 
to accomplish the siege which he predicted. 
I would like to see your answer to these things, 
or rather see you give up human speculation and 
takes God's word as it reads. 
It is true that the vision was to be sealed till the 
time of the end, and true that the time of its fulfil-
ment would be a mystery till then ; but there is no 
intimation that the mystery relates to the character 
of the periods. Peter does not allude to Daniel 
more than to all the prophets, and what other pro-
phets ever inquired whether certain periods were lit-
eral or symbolic, and indeed when did Daniel do it? 
Besides Peter says the prophets had the object of 
inquiry revealed to them, and that it was the things 
that were then reported to them—the apostolic 
church. �
Yours as ever, 
A. BROWN. 
Jejfersontown, Ky., Sept. 3. 
A WORD TO THE ABOVE. To have read our last ar-
ticle on the periods,—which is not yet written,—
must have been on the principle by which the boy 
carried the fleeces of wool into the attic faster than 
his father sheared them—having carried up one lit-
tle sheep with the fleece on, and so completing his 
task before his father. 
We are not conscious of any expenditure of un-
common " labor" in defense of the year day theory, 
and we are only carrying out a programme of expo-
sition of Daniel which we planned more than twice 
" three years ago." 
The periods of the 12th of Daniel are not yet 
reached in our exposition. As we never cross a 
bridge till we come to it, the consideration of the 
principle of their measurement is still in the future; 
and we prefer taking the questions in their order, 
instead of anticipating before reaching them. 
In Isa. 20:3, the walking of the prophet uncloth-
ed and unshod was declared to be a sign upon Egypt 
and Ethiopia ; but Dr. Clarke supposes, as does 
Lowth before him, that the words " three days" 
have been lost from the close of v. 2, and that he 
thus walked only long enough to represent three 
years of such judgment on those nations. 
Our brother confounds dynasties, and personal 
reigns, with the duration of kingdoms. 
The other points, we believe, have all been pre- 
viously met. �
ED. 
From Bro. H. Yost. 
When the first men had eaten of that forbidden 
fruit and had polluted and poisoned their bodies, 
they could not any more bear the pure atmosphere 
and the precious and pure fruits of Eden ; tor the 
pure cannot bear the impure, and the godly cannot 
bear what is ungodly. It is contrary to each other, 
and one battles with the other. This we can learn 
from the whole human society. From beginning, 
since men have sinned, there was war between the 
nations, and quarrelling and feuds among the fami-
lies ; iniquity has proudly lifted up her head, and 
would oppress and destroy equity and justice.—
Again, on the men individually we can clearly ob-
serve it. The bad qualifications within him won't 
suffer the good ones : they war with each other,and 
the war ceases not until one has perfectly prevailed 
over the other. The perfect victory over evil is fol-
lowed by eternal peace, and the victory of evil over 
the good, by eternal torment. Accordingly, they 
that have fought a good fight against the evil, come 
forth from the fight as victors ; for he, who fights 
most earnestly, receives power to overcome, and has 
attained by this fight purification and sanctification. 
Such will be removed to pure and holy places, and 
inhale there the pure atmosphere of heaven, and be 
refreshed by pure and perfect fruits. Christ says, 
I will not drink henceforth of this fruit of the vine, 
until that day when I drink it new in my Father's 
kingdom. No one can acquire the crown of victo-
ry, except he strive lawfully ; whereas those which 
let prevail the wrong within them, will be cast into 
the dungeon of darkness, where they must inhale 
the poisonous atmosphere of hell, and there the 
groUnd does not bring forth anything but poisonous 
plants, odor, stench and all kinds of vermin. Ac-
cordingly, in this as well as in the other place, all 
things are harmonizing with each other ; all things 
have then arrived at their consummation and goal, 
both the evil and the good ; but be it mentioned 
here, that it is the Spirit of consummation, or ac-
complishment, who leads all things to perfection 
and accomplishment. The Spirit helpeth our infir-
mities, and we are replenished by his wonderful and 
glorious gifts. By his power, great things are ef-
fected. His power streams through the hearts that 
are open for it. Not so with those who close'their 
hearts for the Spirit's operation, and let not kindle 
the good spark within ; for in every man is some-
thing good. From such the spirit draws away all 
that is good and precious ; even the pound that they 
have received, will be taken away from them, and 
will be given to him, who has gained with it. Learn 
to understand that parable well. The servants of 
Satan will become disarmed and made bare ; their 
power decreases from day to day, and they cannot 
exert any more, what they before have exerted. It 
draws nigh to the end ; for the Spirit of accom-
plishment, the third and last witness, has come,and 
finishes both the good and the evil. 
Why are war and rumors of war ; the nations 
angry, and their hearts perplexed ? Because the 
Holy and Triune God has taken the peace from this 
earth by his last messenger, and has kindled a fire 
that shall consume them ; therefore He is called the 
spirit of burning in Isa. 4:4. 
All are enabled to gain the victory, who are spir-
itually minded, over what is carnal. They can van-
quish not only themselves, that is to say over the 
devilish dragon of serpent-like propensities, where-
with they have been defiled by those three demons, 
but over all that belongs to Satan. Henceforth the 
child of light can prevail over the child of darkness, 
the servant of God over the servant of Satan, and 
the people of justice over the people of injustice.—
All things will coact and coalize, to assist one ano-
ther—heaven and earth and the whole creation with 
its elements in a wonderful manner, and the Lord 
himself will stand up, as it is written, Say ye to the 
righteous that it shall be well with him : for they 
shall eat the fruit of their doings. Wo unto the 
wicked ! it shall be ill with him : for the reward of 
his hands shall be given him. As for my people, 
children are their oppressors, and women rule over 
them. 0 my people, they which lead thee cause 
thee to err and destroy the way of thy paths. The 
Lord standeth up to plead, and standeth to judge 
the people. The Lord will enter judgment with the 
ancients of his people, and the princes thereof : for 
ye have eaten up the vineyard ; the spoil of the poor 
is in your houses. What mean ye that ye beat my 
people to pieces and grind the faces of the poor? 
saith the Lord God of hosts. Isa. 3:11-16. 
Be glad,t hat ye have arrived at this most impor 
tant and wonderful time. Therefore arise, ye righ-
teous, which are intent to serve the Lord, and get 
prepared for his coming. 
I am, dear sir, yours in the bonds of true and 
brotherly love, �
HERMAN YOST. 
From Sr. H. P. Buttrick. 
Bro. Bliss :—As I am again writing to you I will 
give you some items of a campmeeting of the M.E. 
church, which I attended last week. There was 
some truth preached, and considerable error—among 
the latter, a time of great peace and prosperity to 
the church after the close of this war, etc. etc.—
overlooking the " worse and worse" in the word of 
God. There was one sermon preached from 2 The. 
1:7-10. The preacher commenced by telling his 
ministering brethren that since /slillerism had swept 
over the land, leaving its wrecks, they had been 
guilty in shunning to preach on the 2nd coming of 
Jesus. In making some remarks the evening pre-
vious, he had told the congregation that while some 
were looking for the near coming of Jesus, he and 
his brethren there were looking for the conversion 
of the world. And now what do you think he 
preached from this portion in These.? Well he went 
on and preached a real Millerite discourse ; and tho' 
in the commencement he had said we knew nothing 
of the time, he wound up by exhorting Christians 
and sinners, as the event was near and one for which 
they should be in constant readiness, and continual-
ly looking for it. I presume he did not know there 
were any advent believers on the ground ; but Satan 
knew it, and I found 7 before I left, and some en-
quirers. 
Yesterday, here in the city, I heard a sermon on 
the words, " Thy kingdom come ; thy will be done 
on earth as 'tie done in heaven." The kingdom was 
located partly in the hearts of the people, and part 
ly on the earth in its present state, and by a process 
which it would take, I should think, about 365,000 
years to establish. I believe everything connected 
with life in that kingdom was described, except the 
funerals. The speaker said we did not know whe-
ther the government then would be one great demo-
cracy, one great republic, or several kingdoms or 
forms of government ; and it was no matter : while 
in the next breath he applied to it the scripture, —
" Nation shall not lift up sword against nation," 
etc., and concluded by an exhortation to prepare our 
own hearts so as to bring about that kingdom. An-
other thing I heard much, in the prayers at the 
campmeeting, and often hear in others, namely,ask-
ing the Lord to 'send down' the Holy Spirit—not 
appearing to know that He is already in the world, 
having been sent down more than 1800 years ago. 
I am confident this is a sifting time, and from all 
quarters the lamentation arises of the increasing 
spiritual dearth, since the commencement of this 
war. And what else can we expect? I am forcibly 
reminded of the words of the poet : 
" Thy very bride her portion 
And calling bath forgot, 
And seeks for ease and glory 
Where thou, her Lord, art not." 
My prayer for believers, who are living in these 
last days, is after the pattern of Paul for his breth-
reuin Eph. 1:15 and onward. Many Philips are 
needed to ask, "Understandest thou what thou read-
est?" and many Aquilas and Priscillas to instruct 
more perfectly many who are accepted and popular 
teachers in the churches. 
Independent of my belief in the near coming of 
Jesus, I like the general character of the Advent 
Herald. May the Lord bless its editor with a clear 
head and sound heart, guiding him into all truth, 
and save him from the perils of these last days. 
Yours in Christian love, 
H. P. BUTTRICR. 
Brooklyn, Sept. 9, 1861. 
The Widow's Lament. 
Lorenzo, my own bosom friend, 
How can I part with thee ? 
Thy tones of treasured love, I hear 
For me, lonely me. 
I sit alone in sadness here, 
And often do I weep 
0 must it be, that one so dear 
Is sleeping his last sleep ? 
I pass around the silent house, 
Once by his presence glad, 
And see the clothes he used to wear, 
And 0, my heart, how sad. 
My friends look on, and pity me ; 
Sometimes they kindly say, 
In tones of real sympathy, 
Come visit me, some day. 
Alas ! they do not know the pang 
This tortured breast must feel, 
Nor yet how vain are earthly joys 
The broken heart to heal. 
My children see their mother's grief ; 
Their little bosoms heave ; 
And then they try to give relief, 
Forgetting they're bereaved. 
But there is One that knows my pain, 
That heals the broken heart ; 
He mine to save, nor came in vain, 
He felt death's cruel dart. 
My Saviour, in thee I believe ; 
Before thy feet I fall ; 
Thou wilt my burdened heart relieve, 
My God, my hope, my all. 
Northfield, Vt., July, 1861. 
You may not find any poetic merit in these lines ; 
but they are so expressive of the feelings of my 
lone, sad heart, I venture to send them for publica- 
tion. �
B.E.T. 
OBITUARY. 
DIED, in Brome, C. E., Sept. 9th, 1861, HORACE 
E., son of Bro. and Sr. Loren MARSH, of diptheria, 
after an illness of about three days, being about 13 
months of age. 
He was a bright and beautiful boy. He had won 
the affections of the parents so much that the sud-
den bereavement seemed almost too much to be 
borne; but they rely upon the promise, " Casting 
all your care upon him ; for he careth for you ;" 
and with the prospect of realizing the promise of 
God to Rachel, fulfilled in their case, they bow in 
submission and look for a re-union in the kingdom 
of God. A discourse was delivered by the writer 
from Jer. 31:15-17. 
He has gone, blessed babe, 
To his Saviour so dear, 
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In angelic whiteness 
Arrayed to appear. 
In anguish you mourn him, 
You miss his sweet kiss ; 
But Christ will prepare you 
To meet him in bliss. 
You then shall behold him 
In glory arrayed ; 
In beauty resplendent, 
Which never can fade. 
The music of earth 
Will charm him no more ; 
But Lis song will be sweeter 
Than ever before. 
A first bright jewel 
Is torn from your grasp ; 
With the chosen of God 
He will be gathered at last. 
Dear parents, don't grieve 
At the change he has made ; 
For God in his wisdom 
Has you amply repaid. 
The tie is thus stronger 
Which binds to the morn 
When the dead shall arise 
And all sorrow be gone. 
Your loved one shall come 
From the enemy's land, 
Redeemed by the Saviour's 
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As the time is not long 
When you will joyfully see 
Your dear little Horace 
Smiling sweetly on thee. 
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THE ADVENT HERALD. 
" Oh, mother !" the boy cried, returning, 
" a big bundle for us? What is it'? What 
can it be ?" 
" Work for me, perhaps," said the wid-
ow, untying the large package, when sud-
denly there came to light four suits of gray 
clothes, with four neat black shining caps, 
each set, exactly fitting to the head of her 
boys. Almost overcome with wonder, the 
widow fell on her knees, her eyes fixed on 
the words, "A present for the fatherless;'' 
while the boys, laying hold of their suits 
of clothes, danced about the floor shouting 
with glee. 
" What's in the pocket here? what's in 
the pocket ?" cried Jimmy, thrusting his 
hand into that place, when, lo ! out came 
the very purse of gold the widow had re-
turned that morning. 
A scene of joyous confusion followed, 
and the voice of prayer ascended from Sa-
rah Goodwin's full heart. Again and 
again she counted the glittering treasure, 
fifty dollars. It seemed an almost endless 
fortune. How her heart ran over with 
gratitude to God and the stranger ! 
She could not rest, till, throwing on her 
bonnet, with cheeks glowing now with 
hope and happiness, she ran back to the 
hotel to pour forth her thanks. 
A carriage stood at the door laden with 
trunks behind. The driver mounted the 
seat as she had reached the steps, and, 
turning her head, there .within sat the 
stranger. She had not time to speak; but 
he nodded his head, as lie saw her with 
clasped hands standing there, and a pray-
er on her lips. Sarah never saw the stran-
ger again. She took a little shop and stock-
ed it well, and put her boys to school. To-
day she is the owner of a respectable shop. 
Of her four boys, two are ministers, one is 
a doctor, and the other a thriving trades-
man. 
Nobody knows where the man with the 
flowing hair has gone ; but if he is living, 
and should ever hear of widow Goodwin, 
he will have the consolation of knowing 
the noble results of this generous deed to-
ward the worthy woman and her four boys. 
—Child's Companion. 
CHILDREN'S DEPARTMENT 
" FEED MY LAMBS."—John 21:15. 
BOSTON. SEPTEMBER 28, 1861. 
(Original.) 
A Sketch. 
It was a lovely day in June : the green 
earth seemed radiant with smiles, and flow-
ers and vocal with music ; the sun, brit 
liant in splendor, was beaming forth, and 
DO one would suppose he was shining on 
so sad a scene. But, in a small white cot-
tage by the wayside, was a family group 
of three children, two little boys, and a 
girl, whose respective ages were eleven, 8. 
and five, a grandmother, mother, and fa-
ther. He had been sick a long time; and 
had now given up hopes of recovery. His 
anxious, almost heart-broken wife, who 
had sat watching him day and night, as 
much as her strength would allow, was 
now at his side. The eldest, a son, as he 
passed the door, looked in with a timid in-
quiry, " How is father now 1" The sick 
father turned his loving, languid eyes to 
his first-born and said, " Come here, my 
son." The boy obeyed. " Henry," said 
he, in a feeble, dying accent, " I want you 
to be a good boy,—be a Christian, love the 
Saviour, and obey your mother. In a few 
days they sill carry your father to the 
graveyard ; but don't forget me." The 
next little son was called to receive the dy-
ing charge of the.loved husband and fath-
er, and in about the same affecting lan-
guage he spoke to him. The little form 
trembled and quivered with emotion too 
deep for utterance. His father seeing it, 
reached. his thin, pale hand, and, patting 
his cheek, said, " Mody, Mody (his pet 
name) don't cry." The little daughter, 
when called to receive the parting kiss and 
blessing, seeing the entire family in tears, 
burst into a loud cry. The father turned 
his dying, yet loving eyes, to the grief-
stricken mother, and whispered, " Tell her 
not to cry," As one particular friend was 
very kind and attentive to him during his 
sickness, he grasped his hand with earn-
estness, and exhorted him to seek the Lord 
and meet him in a better world. "0," 
said he, " what an interest I feel for him, 
and all others, out of Christ. I would task 
to them all if I had. strength." But his 
work is done, and his sufferings are over. 
Dear children, think of the deep grief of 
this family, and try to be very thankful to 
God, that you have a kind father and mo-
ther; and obey them in the Lord; for this 
is right, Eph. 6:1. You know not how 
long you may enjoy their kind care and 
love. Do not grieve them by your ingrat-
itude. Remember the proverb of the wis-
est of men : " A Wise son maketh a glad 
father; but a foolish or wicked son is the 
heaviness or sorrow of his mother." May 
the good Shepherd, that gave his life for 
the sheep and. lambs, gather you all safely 
into his fold, is the prayer of one that loves 
cktildren. 
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BESSIE. 
illness had made room for others as desti-
tute as herself, and they had not one stitch 
of work to give her. With a sinking 
heart, but praying, to keep her courage up, 
the poor woman toiled on from shop ta. 
shop, until it became late ; and, what with 
tears and the darkness, she could hardly 
see her way home. 
" If Mr. Hart had himself been there," 
she said to herself, bending to the strong 
wind, and drawing her scanty shawl clos-
er about her form, "I know he would have 
given me work." 
As she whispered thus through her chat-
tering teeth, a tall gentleman passed by her, 
and as he did so, something fell to the side-
walk and lay upon the crusted snows Sa-
rah paused ; she had heard the noise made 
by the little packet, and a strange impres-
sion led her to search for it. Oh, joy ! it 
was a purse, heavy and filled to the brim; 
yellow and shining lay the gold within, as 
she carried it towards a lighted window. 
"My poor boys, they shall want food 
no more," she cried ; " this is gold. I think 
that God must have put it in my way, for 
he saw I was in despair." 
Suddenly, like a flash of lightning, the 
thought occurred to Sarah, that not one 
cent of the treasure was honestly hers.—
But a moment she lingered, presing the 
money with her numbed fingers, the sor-
rowful tears chasing down her thin cheeks; 
then, starting forward to find the owner of 
the purse, she walked hurriedly up the 
street, fearful that the temptation, should 
she arrive at her poor room and see her 
hungry chiliren, might prove too strong 
for her honesty. 
Opposite the great hotel, as she stood 
thinking which way to take, she saw the 
stranger enter. She knew hint by the long 
hair which curled to his shoulders, and, 
timidly crossing the street, she made her 
way into the hall,. and there bewildered by 
the light, knew not what to say, till twice 
asked by a servant what she wanted Of 
course, she could do no more than describe 
the stranger by his tall stature and flow-
ing hair. But he had already gone out 
again ; she must call on the morrow, they 
said, and ask for Mr. Ashcraft. 
The next morning, having eaten nothing 
—for she could not touch a farthing of the 
gold—she was admitted into the room 
where sat the stranger. He arose as she 
entered, and gazed with a curious air till 
she presented the purse. Then he started 
with pleased surprise, laid down his paper, 
took the gold and carefully counted it over. 
" It is all safe," he said ; " you have not 
taken—" 
" Not one piece., sir," she cried eagerly, 
trembling as she ,spoke. 
" You seem poor," remarked the stran-
ger. 
" I am poor," she replied. 
"Got a family, I suppose ?" 
" Four little boys, sir ; 1 am a widow." 
" Humph ! so I suppose ; that's the old 
story.," 
" Ask Mr. Hart, the tailor," cried the 
widow, stepping forward a little; " he 
knows that though I ant poor I am hon-
est." 
A bright red spot burned on her cheeks 
as she spoke, and she forced back the tears. 
" Now confess," said the stranger, rising 
and walking to and fro before the fire,"tell 
me, did you not expect a large reward for 
this ?" 
" I did think, perhaps—" and she 
turned with quivering lips to the door. 
" Stop, stop !" cried the stranger; "you 
know you would never have returned the 
purse, had you not expected to be well paid 
for it." 
" Sir !" said the widow, her voice rising 
beyond its usual tone, and her thin form 
erect. 
The stranger paused, holding the purse 
in his hand ; then drawing forth a small 
coin, offered it to her. 
For a moment she drew back ; but then, 
remembering that her poor boys were hun-
gry at home, and in bed because there was 
no fire, she burst into tears as she took it, 
saying, " This will buy bread for my poor 
children," and hurrying away, she buried 
the bitterness of that morning in her own 
heart. 
It was four o'clock on the same day :—
Sarah Goodwin sat by a scanty fire, busy 
in sewing patches on the very poor clothes 
of her four boys 
" Run to the door, Jimmy," said she to 
the eldest, as a loud knock was heard. 
" COULD I KEEP THE GOOD NEWS T' A 
New Zealand girl was brought over to 
England to be educated. She became a 
true Christian. When she was about to 
return, some of her playmates endeavored 
to dissuade her. They said : " Why go 
back to New Zealand ? You are accus-
tomed to England now. You love its sha-
dy lanes and clover fields. It suits your 
health. Besides, you may be shipwreck-
ed on the ocean. You may be killed and 
eaten by your own people—everybody will 
have forgotten you." " What !" she said, 
"do you think that I could keep the 
Good News' to myself 7 Do you think 
that I could be content with having got 
pardon and peace and eternal life for my-
self, and not go and tell my dear father and 
mother how they may get it too ? I would 
go if I had to swim there ?" 
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worth of tracts and 15 cts postage; C W "Beckwith 1075, 
T E Putney 1088, W J Churchill 1060, L Oreutt, hare cr. 
up to 1061, the stamps sent are now of no value—they 
being of the old emission, the time fcr redemption of 
which has expired—each $2. 
Mrs S D Roberts 1075—$3. 
M Hazen 1059, $1.23; E Hyde 1061, 36 ors, J G Hyde 
1065, 64 cts. 
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Sarah Goodwin and her Boys. 
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A TRUE STORY. 
Sarah Goodwin was the name of a poor 
seamstress, residing in the city of New 
York. She was not wholly friendless; but 
those whom she knew, and who would 
have aided her in her struggles, were very 
poor, and could'not. SO she, a widow with 
four boys from the ages of four to nine 
years, struggled through winter's cold and 
summer's heat, providing her little family 
with bread; and that was all. Her boys 
were good children, always in their home 
after nightfall, and giving their mother ev-
ery cent (halfpenny) of their little earn-
ings, as often as they found work to do. 
At last the mother fell sick, and through a 
weary illness she had no other attendance 
save the occasional help of a neighbor and 
the constant aid of her poor little boys. It 
was touching to behold their kind ways 
and to hear their gentle words. Every 
body said that they would be blessed in 
coming years, for their thoughtful love to-
wards their mother. 
The Widow recovered : but it was now 
the middle of a bitter winter, and their lit-
tle stock of fuel was nearly gone. As soon 
as her strength permitted, she walked thro' 
the cold of a cheerless day to the shop of 
her employer, and told him her pitiful sto- 
ry. �
But he said it was hard times ; her 
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The next Western Quarterly Conference in the State of 
Maine will be held in Kennebunkport Oct. 10th, 1861. A 
good representation of the brethren within the bounds of 
this conference is desired. The ministering brethren es-
pecially will be present. Brethren and sisters, we need 
to be awake to the times in which we live, and the duties 
of these times. Therefore come up to this quarterly meet-
ing in the name and spirit of the Lord. 
By order of the Conference. 
0. R. FASSETT. 
The next session of the Western Central Quarterly Con° 
ference will be held in Wayne, Oct. 17th, Thursday P.M., 
at 2 o'clock, and continue over the following Sunday.—
The meeting will be held in a school house about one mile 
west of Wayne Village, near Bro. Cyrus Mullett's. Brn. 
will call on him for directions. 1Ve hcpe the Lord's labor- 
ers will be there. �
I. C. WELLCOME, See'y. 
The fourth and last quarterly meeting of the North 
Stanbridge church, for the year 1861, will be attended at 
Stanbridge Burrough, to commence on Saturday at 1 PM. 
and be continued over the Sabbath, Oct. 5th and 6th. Br. 
Wm. H. Swartz. Sent you five copies the 20th. 
J. B. Simpson, $5. Do not find your name on our list, 
and have entered it anew, at Belmont, cr. you to No 1113 
and sent six hymn books by express to London the 24th.