WE HAVE NOT FOLLOWED 
CUNNINGLY 
DEVISED 
FABLES. 
WHOLE NO. 708. 
BOSTON, SATURDAY, DECEMBER 9, 1854. 
VOLUME X1Y. NO. 23 
J. V. HIMES, Proprietor. 
OFFICE, No. 46 1-2 Knepland-strcet 
On Mesmerism, 
(Continued from our last. 
As regards the will, its extinction is what God 
Himself does not require,-.-will not have from 
us, even towards Himself. 
He has created us 
with a moral will otherwise we were not responsi-
ble beings. 
He requires, indeed, that that will 
be subjected to His will; but it is by an act of 
our will into agreement with His: and He will 
not have our will annihilated or suspended, 
so that we should be mere machines even for 
Him to work by. 
The command is a reasonable 
one, and obedience to it is the reasonable act, 
by the will, of our moral and responsible being. 
The free grace of the gospel operates in accord-
ance with no nature in this respect, and does not 
overthrow it. 
This is the difference between possession by an 
evil spirit, and the gift and indwelling of the 
Holy Ghost. 
An evil spirit domineers over the 
man, regardless ofhis conscience and will. 
The 
Holy Ghost pleases to use and to be used, in the 
intelligent exercise of the conscience, reason 
and will. 
If it is the mark of evil in spiritual 
power and possession, that the man is domineered 
over, irrespective of his will, then indisputably 
Mesmerism is evil, and of the evil one, for it 
bears that mark. 
Every act Of ours, even in 
doing the will of God, and yielding to spiritual 
fuuctions and operations, must be a willing act, 
—a personal bringing of our will to fulfill what 
He wills ; and we are responsible to Him, that 
we do so and the essence of sin consists in our will-
ingly doing any thing contrary to our Father's 
will. 
Therefore he has given us that 
will 
free, and we must not allow our nature so to be 
brought under bondage to any other person, that 
we are deprived of the power to use our will, and 
by it all our other active faculties of bod} and 
mind, but must ever keep our will responsible to 
Him, in order that He by it may receive the ser 
vice of the whole man. 
[The reader will understand, that I am not at 
all here entering upon the philosophical ques-
tion of fate 
and free will, or as to what Paul 
complains of in Romans 7 ; which are quite other 
matters, and have nothing to do with the subject 
treated of. I am considering the case practically 
upon the principles with which every sound 
minded inquirer must agree.] 
God commands us to obey them that have 
the rule over us, and to bring our wills into 
subjection to them, in church, state, and fam 
ily; but yet He enjoines possession of our wills 
so that our act may be intelligent and responsi 
ble, and so that we may be free to do contrary 
to what is required, when plainly at variance 
with the will of God;—as was exemplified in 
the case of Shadrach, Meshach, and Abednego 
( Dan. 8:16-18), and in that ot Peter and John 
(Acts. 4:19, 20). 
Here lies the great error of 
all religious persecution. 
It is a forcing of the 
will of man. 
Here is one of the chief evils of 
the popish system. 
It sets aside the reason 
and the will of its subjects. 
One of the Fathers 
Lactantius, teaches better than this. 
He says 
—uReligio 
cogi non potest; verbis non verberi-
Uis res agenda est,—ut sit voluntas." 
"Men 
cannot be forced into religion; they must be 
dealt with by the persuasion of words, and not by 
compulsion of blows, so that their free will 
be in their act. " 
But what is the sin of popery or persecution 
in this respect, in comparison with that of Mes 
merism? 
In those, indeed, the will is abne 
gated or forced; but in Mesmerism it is for the 
time annihilated altogether. 
Another man may 
make me do what he will,—the most benevolent 
actions, or the most cruel, fierce, angry, and 
murderous,—the most prostrate acts of rever 
ence and worship, or those of the utmost scorn 
and contempt, and intolerable vanity,—the most 
righteous deeds, or the most open and unscru 
pulous thefts and uncleanness. 
Yes, a man may 
do all this with either man or wo^an, if he or 
she will only subject himself or herself to their 
mesmeric power. 
Besides, as beforesaid, there 
remains the permanent spiritual influence, after 
the mesmeric trance is over. 
And it is in vain to qualify such representations 
of the operation of this power, by alleging, as I 
have heard it. alleged,—"Oh,but a respectable 
physician will never use the power for an im-
proper purpose." 
That is not the question. 
Besides, how do I know what it may please, or 
the devil may tempt a man to do ? 
I know that it may be said, as an objection 
to what I have urged,—"But if you assert, 
that the mere act of throwing into a trance, and 
then making a man see, hear, speak, and act at 
the will of another, is essentially evil, how will 
this censure stand with the fact, that, as recorded 
frequently in Scripture, God himself caused this 
to take place, when men, in spiritual vision and 
ecstasy, and in the spirit of prophecy, saw. heard, 
spoke,&c.?" 
But it does not follow, that whatever God, for 
His own purposes, may righteously do in regard 
to His creatures, may, for his purposes, lawfully 
and without sin also do. God, who is our Creator, 
may in order to show his power, and that it is 
He who is working, and for important ends con-
nected with our final destiny, and with our re-
lation to a higher state of existence, suspend or 
dispense with any part of the faculties of the 
creature He has made, and yet use the rest. 
We cannot conceive of a manifested and person-
al acting on God's part towards or by means of 
us, without some such inovation by him for the 
time on our natural condition; and of the degree 
and manner of this, He alone, is the judge. 
And He is to be trusted implicitly by the crea-
ture. 
For God cannot do wrong; which you 
cannot say of any creature. 
Moreover, where you find in Scripture, that 
God gave to men, while in a spiritual trance, 
to see, hear, converse and act, it was towards 
Himself or angels,—spiritual beings ;—and it 
was never towards their fellow men, without the 
use of the will, and of the faculties of the body 
and mind. For instance, in speaking in a tongue, 
which Scripture declares to be an act towards 
God, and not towards men, the spirit of a man 
is used without the understanding ; but in prophe-
cy, which is towards men, the understanding 
is used, as well as the spirit ( ICor. 14th). 
And 
farther, you will find no instance in Scripture, 
of .the will of the prophets, while in the spirit, 
being suspended or annihilated; but on the con-
trary, the integrity of the inner man was pre-
served inviolate, and' they could reason and do 
as they willed. 
Thus, John was going to write, 
and was forbid (Rev. 10th). 
And a strong in-
stance is that of Solomon, who though in 
dream, could choose what to ask of God, and 
was rewarded for being willing to choose that 
which was pleasing to him. 
Let me remark in passing, what such cases 
suggest, that no one doubts, when a man is rep 
resented in Scripture, as seeing, hearing, speak-
ing, or acting, while in a trance, that is super-
natural. 
The fact of liis so doing in such cir-
cumstances, is held to be proof that it is super-
natural. 
On what ground, then, when a man 
does so in a mesmeric trance, can you doubt 
that this is supernatural also ? 
If the evidence 
is good in the one case, it is the same in the 
other. 
But it it is supernatural in the latter 
case, there can be but one opinion as to its 
source,—that it is not of God. 
If a man, in 
prophetic vision or trance, speaks, you acknowl 
edge at once that h% is in the spirit. 
In like 
manner, if in a mesmeric trance, he sees, speakst 
kc,. he must be.in the spirit too;—but wha 
spirit ? 
Manifestly not that of God. 
One of the difficulties in seeing the truth as 
to this matter, arises from the fact, that un-
doubtedly many cases of healing take place 
under mesmeric power, and that many good 
men,—physicians, clergymen and others,—use 
it for that end, and succeed. 
But this is a difficulty only to those, who 
do not consider the extent of Satan's devices. 
May he not by this means exercise his power 
over the invisible elements, in such a way, 
though we cannot understand it, as to remove 
diseases ? 
Is there HO such thing as healing by 
magic,—by charms? 
As Satan is the author 
and inflictor of disease, derangement and death, 
—(Heb.2:14 Luke 10:19,13:16,1 Cor.5:5, Jo > 
2:7)—may he not, when it suits his purpose, 
withdraw the infliction ? 
Will he notwithdraw 
it, if he can gain a greater object by so doing? 
Satan has many devices to catch men: 
fie 
knows how to meet the disposition of each, 
and to lay a net for each. 
And now that the 
last days are upon us, we must expect that he 
will be more subtle than ever. 
The time is fast 
advancing, when, the controversy between good 
and evil,—between the power of God in His 
church, and the power of Satan to resist it,— 
must manifest itself in a more open way than 
has hitherto been seen on the earth, in order to 
bring out the final apostacy and condemnation 
of the ungodly, and the perfecting and saving 
of those, who receive and obey the truth. 
(To be continued.) 
The War-' 
THE letters of the camp correspondents of th§ 
English papers furnish copious details of the pro-
gress of the seige, but not to a very late date. 
We make some extracts. 
The following is from 
a letter dated Oct. 18, giving an account of the 
opening of the bombardment on the morning ot 
the 17 th: 
" A thick sluggish morning dew which lay in 
the valley, and the smoke which rested heavily 
over several of the forts, prevented my seeing 
what the enemy were doing; but a mere glance 
at our works showed that the long wished-for 
day had at last arrived, and we were about to 
open fire. All the men were at their guns, and 
the apertures of the embrasures, which had been 
previously masked in order to protect the work-
ing parties, were now cleared and the guns run 
out. 
The fog only permitted the Russians to 
see this in one or two places, but where they did 
they were firing, though with no effect, as the 
morning was too thick. 
Towards six o'clock 
the mist began to disperse, and the rich, clear 
October sun was every instant making objects 
more and more visible. Soon the Russian works, 
crowded with gray figures, could be distinctly 
seen, with the large handsome white houses and 
dockyards of Sebastopol 
itself. 
The 
enemy 
could plainly see that we were prepared for action 
and opened a smart cannonade. 
But not a Bhot 
from our batteries answered, for the French on 
our left occupy low ground, and the fog was still 
thick between them and their opponents. 
" Slowly, like drawing back a huge curtain, the 
mist moved off to sea, a cool morning breeze 
sprang up, and the atmosphere cleared each 
moment. 
The lines of the besiegers could be 
seen from every point; the mounds and earth-
works, bastions and towers of the besieged, were 
full in view; the forms of the line of battle ships 
looking grim and deadly ; and encircling all in 
the distance, like a dark belt, was the fleet of 
the allies. It has half past six. The enemy had 
been quiet for the last few minutes ; both sides 
seemed preparing for an effort, when suddenly 
volumes of smoke and flashes of fire broke out 
simultaneously from every part of our lines— 
the shot and shell screamed hoarsely through 
the air, and, with a reverberation which seemed 
to shake both heaven and earth, our attack on 
Sebastopol commenced. 
Apparently neither 
surprised nor daunted, the enemy returned the 
discharge with double vigor, and then both 
English, 
and French, 
Turks, and 
Russians 
fell to work at the guns in right earnest. 
The 
first volleys showed what no soul in either army 
had hitherto been certain about, viz., the precise 
nature both of our works and the enemy's, 
and, I am sorry to say, it also showed us that, 
even in earthwork batteries thrown up since we 
came here, the Russians immensly out-number 
ed the allies lines. 
Not only were there exten 
sive entrenchments, mounting twenty-five and 
thirty heavy cannon, but on every height and 
ridge guns of heavy calibre were placed in bat-
tery. 
I have been informed that the extensive 
nature of their works compleily astonished our 
generals, and we are by no means sure that we 
have seen them all yet, for during yesterday 
fresh ones were frequently unmasked in places 
totally unexpected." 
The writer, after giving a description of the 
works of the enemy, says: 
Of course it is needless to inform them that 
ten minutes after the firing commenced both our 
line and the enemy's were shrouded in thick 
smoke ; yet before that took place each of the 
batteries had singled out its antagonist. 
The 
Lancaster gun fell to work upon the Round 
Tower, while the six and two gun batteries, with 
one side of the Crown Battery, attacked its earth-
works. The Lancaster gun in our centre opened 
on the Twelve Apostles, in company with the sec-
ond face of the Crown Battery, while the rem-
aining face, with the two faces of the Green 
Mount battery, commenced on the redoubt and 
redan wall. 
The French directed a continuous 
shower of ball on such of the Russians vessels 
as they could see, while at the same time their 
other works bravely replied to the overpowering 
volley of their lofty assailants, the Flag-staff 
Batteries. 
Before the smoke intervened, each 
side had got an accurate range, and from half-
past six until near eight, shot and shell roared 
through the air incessantly, and the earth liter-
ally shook under the tremendous concussion of 
the guns. Each minute fresh guns came into play 
and each minute added to the fury of the uproar. 
Conspicuous among the din could be plainly 
heard the Lancaster gnns. 
Their sharp crack, 
different from the other heavy guns, was like 
that of rifle among muskets. 
But the most sin-
gular effect was produced by its ball, which 
rushed through the air with a noise and regular 
beat precisely like the passage of a rapid ex-
train at a few yards' distance. 
The 
p^ess 
peculiarity excited shouts of laughter among 
our men, who instantly nicknamed it the express 
train ; and only by that name is the gun known. 
The effect of the shot seemed most terrible. 
From its deafening noise the ball could be 
distinctly traced by the ear to the spot where it 
struck, when stone or earth alike went down be-
fore it. 
A battery of 20 or 30 such guns would 
destroy Sebastopol in a week. 
Unfortunately, 
from a short supply of ammunition, we can only 
afford to mount two, and even those are only 
fired once in eight minutes." 
The writer goes on to give a detailed account 
of the effects of the firing on both sides. Early in 
the afternoon one of the French magazines blew 
up and silenced one of their batteries. 
The 
most execution seems to have been effected by 
the Lancester gun mentioned above, which was 
out of the range of the enemy's batteries. 
The 
fire of the French .soon slackened. 
They suffered 
so heavily while working their guns, that it be-
came folly to perservere, and at length, by order 
of their eommander, the men were withdrawn, 
and the fire of the French ceased. 
As it did so, 
that of the fleet commenced. 
The writer says: 
" Through the smoke over the harbor we 
could plainly perceive the masts and funnel of a 
large screw line-of-battle ship, which, without 
firing a shot, stood in until her broadside was 
within 200 yards of one of the principal fortresses 
at the north of the harbor. 
Then her guns 
began to roar loud above the hellish din which 
seemed to rend the very sky. 
The vessel which 
performed this gallant exploit was French, and, 
I believe, the Montebello, 120. the crew of which 
suffered so dreadfully trom cholera while at 
Varna. 
From the moment she arrived alongside 
the fort, her sides seemed literally on fire ; so 
rapid, so incessant were her tiers of guns dis-
charged. 
At the same moment all our batteries, 
to effect a division in her favor, redoubled their 
fire; while the Russian Flag-staff Battery be-
gan again upon the abandoned 
French lines. 
This time, unfortunately, the enemy assailed the 
latter with dreadful effect. 
One Russin shell, 
by ill-luck, dropped and exploded full upon the 
reserve magazine of the principal French battery. 
The effect was instantaneous and awful. 
About 
20 tons of powder, with shell and rockets in 
proportion, instantly ignited, and the earth 
seemed to heave as the greater part of the battery, 
386 
THE ADVENT HERALD. \ 
with sixteen guns and nearly all the men, were 
hurled high into the air, 
" Hardly had the stunning report which the 
last catastrophe produced ceased to vibrate Upon 
the ear, when, following the Montebello, four 
more French screw ijne^s, each having another 
in tow, dashed up to the forts. As each French 
liner came in, she added her incessant broad-
sides to the continuous roar of cannon which 
prevailed on all sides. 
The scene was perfectly 
hellish. 
The atmosphere was only a thick lurid, 
smoke, which seemed to suffocate, and through its 
heavy folds the scream of shot and shell was-
enough to make .one's hair stand on end. 
No 
words of mine could do justice to such a pan-
demonium. 
Let your readers imagine at least 
4000 pieces of the heaviest ordnance in the 
world firing shell and rockets without a second's 
intermission. 
The air seemed one perpetual 
explosion; but in the midst of which, singularly 
enough, the peculiar jerking scream of thejian-
caster shell *could be plainly heard. 
Our bat-
teries were in full play, and appeared to en-
gage more then a due amount of the enemy's at-
tention;. for the Twelve Apostles, which was 
completely sheltered by the land from the attack 
of the French ships, and quite as completely 
sheltered from everything but one of the Lan-
caster guns, began to drop red hot hollow shot 
into the Crown battery. 
" The effect of this was soon apparent. Before 
a dozen had been fired, one of them bounded 
and struck a spare ammunition waggon full of 
powder, which it instantly exploded. 
The shock 
was not so severe as it might have beerf, for the 
powder was comparatively unconfined. 
It of 
course killed a few of our men, but the works of 
the battery were uninjured. 
The Russians set 
up tremendous cheers when they saw the explo-
sion, as they did when the batteries of our allies 
blew up> imagining they had done us the same 
mischief. Their mirth, however, was but short 
lived. 
Whilst in the act of cheering, a shell 
from the Lancaster lodged (I presume so) in the 
magazine of the redoubt in front of the redan 
wall. The explosion which followed was ap-
palling. 
It made the stoutest man's blood run 
cold. At first it seemed as if the whole of Sebas-
topol was enveloped in the ruin. 
It was some 
minutes before they fired a single gun. 
When 
they did, they concentrated their whole fire upon 
the battery where the fatal Lancaster gun was 
placed: but in vain, it was quite out of range, 
and their shots stopped rolling nearly 200 yards 
in advance of the battery. 
Seeing this the Rus-
sians wisely gave up the attempt to reach it, 
and turned their attention to the French fleet, 
which indeed required it. 
"During all this time their fire, instead of slack-
ening, h»d rather increased, and it was evident, 
from the perpetual thunders they sent forth, 
that one or the other party must soon give in, 
for it would be impossible for both to go on at 
that rate- any longer. 
Which was actually the 
victor we could guess, though we could not see, 
for the smoke was now more dense then ever, 
It was near four o'clock ; the fleet was still vol-
leying forth their thunders: but the fire of the 
Russians had slackened considerably. 
Just at 
this moment the smoke cleared away, and both 
fort3, and fl'eets could distinctly see each other. 
The French vessels lay off the forts to the south 
of the harbor. 
Another detachment of linc-of 
battleships were attacking those to the north. 
The smoke, was still to thick to allow us to make 
out the flag of these latter, but we had no doubt 
they were English- The batteries at the mouth 
ofthe harbour mount three tiers of guns, the 
uppermost one on the roof being open like or-
dinary batteries;. the two lower tiers are case-
mated, one being almost levelwith the water's 
edge. 
The enemy had completely abandoned the 
guns on the roof, many of which were dismount-
ed, and the-works much cut up ; but the case' 
mated guns seemed little injured, and as the 
smoke cleared away they attacked the fleets 
with redoubled vigor. 
We could also see that 
some earthworks had' been thrown up to flank 
the forts, which were pouring a destructive fire 
upon the fleet.—The smoke soon hid all again, 
and the battle raged with as much fury as before 
until dusk. 
The cannonade then seemed to 
slacken, and'before night, had almost entirely 
ceased. The English entrenchments never ceased 
their fire, though, as a matter of course, it 
slackened much as the darkness increased.."' 
3C 
Atonement, 
ADVENT 
HARP. 
31 
iii^gEigf 
1. Hail! sov'reign love, that 
2. 
A - gainst the God who 
first 
rules 
En - wrap'd in dark 
E 
But 
lo I the gracious 
be - gun The 
the sky, I 
gyp-tian night, And 
coun - sel ran, Al -
5. 
E 
ter - nal 
stood in 
view, To 
-ifcz-js-: 
— 
0-0-
V 
-m.t-1 
ter - nal grace, That gave my soul a hid 
of 
his grace, Too proud to seek a hid 
ing place, 
ing place. 
id: 
sin 
of 
JtzH* 
- ful race, Secure without a 
dis -tress, And found I had no 
place, 
place, j 
itzigr 
=t 
d: E3::: 
frown - ing face, This mountain is no 
ing place. 
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0—0-
t m 
scheme to rescue fallen 
men; 
fought with hands uplifted high; 
tt=sp 
Hail! matchless,free,e 
Despised the 
offer 
fond of darkness more than light, 
mighty love arrest the 
man!" 
. lv 
I ran the 
felt the 
arrows 
v=r 
Sinai's fiery mount I 
0-
flew; 
Bat jus - tice cried with 
an: 
But lo! a heavenly voice I heard, 
And Mercy for my soul appearing 
She led me on with smiling face, 
'This mountain is no hiding place.' 
Should storms of sevenfold thunder roll, 
And shake the globe from pole to pole, 
No thunder-bolt shall daunt my face, 
For Jesus is my hiding place. 
i(i 
A few more rolling suns at most, 
Will land me safe on Canaan's coast; 
Where I shall sing the song of grace, 
Safe in my glorious hiding place. 
The Beseigers Beseiged-
SCOFFS, calumnies, and jests, are frequently 
the causes of melancholy. 
It is- sard that " a 
blow with a word, strikes deeper than a blow 
with a sword; and certainly there are many men 
whose feelings are more galled by a calumny, a 
little jest, a libel, a pasquil, a squib, a satire, or 
an epigram, than by any misfortune whatsoever. 
Burton -
I HAD rather never receive a kindness, than 
never bestow one : not to return a benefit is the 
greater sin, but not to confer it is the earlier.. 
Seneca. 
THE extraordinary character of the difficulties 
attending our present operations before Sebasto-
pol is not likely to be fully appreciated without 
some insight into the nature of siege undertakings 
in general. 
In the present age it is received as a 
maxim by military engineers that the means of 
attack are superior to the means of defence,or, in 
other words, that if any fortified place, however 
strong, is attacked according to rule, by a proper 
force of men and guns, it must inevitably fall 
within a certain time, unless preserved by some 
rare and singular advantage. 
Now, as the allied 
armies were disembarked on the shore of the 
Crimea, in strength sufficient to conquorthe ene-
my in a pitch battle, and as they have now for 
some weeks been besieging Sebastopol with a most 
powerful force of artillery, directed by someof the 
best engineers in the world, it may be asked what 
circumstances have retarded their success, or why 
the place was not sooner taken ? To this inquiry 
we subjoin an explanatory reply. 
When a siege is undertaken, the first operation 
is what is called the " investment" of the town— 
that is say, the town is surrounded on all sides 
by posts of the besieging army, so that no ingress 
or egress is any longer practicable. 
This is not 
only the first step, but' it is that on which all suc-
ceeding steps more or less depend: for the supe-
riority of the attack to the defence arises from the 
fact that whereas the means are unlimited in the 
former case, they are limited in the latter. When 
a town has been invested, and thus cut off from 
all communication with the adjacent country, its 
resources in men, munitions and provisions be-
come at once confined to the stocks then actually 
within its walls,[while the besiegers, on the other 
hand, being presumptive masters of the country 
can make exactly such dispositions as they may 
think proper. 
If they cease to be masters of the 
country—that is to say, if a superior force of 
the enemy approaches from without, the siege 
must, in ordinary cases, be raised, and the town 
is relieved accordingly. Supposing, however, the 
necessary superiority to reside, at all events for 
the time, with the besiegers, they then select 
that point in the defence of the place which ap-
pears most favorable for their operations, and 
here the advantage over the defence becomes in-
stantly apparent. 
Whatever may be the strength of the place in 
respect of artillery, it is obvious that only a cer-
tain number of guns can be brought to the de-
fence of a certain portion of the ramparts, whereas 
the attacking force can concentrate upon this 
one point all the guns at their disposal. 
The 
defence of a town may mount 500 guns; but, if 
any particular*front mount only 50, andUie be-
siegers can attack this front with twice the num-
ber, they have the superiority of fire at the only 
point where such superiority is required. 
It is 
on this condition of operations, joined to the 
limitation of resources in a place entirely exclud-
ed from all external communications, that the 
ascendancy of the besiegers depends. 
• Availing themselves of the protection deriva-
ble from trenches and covered ways, they gradu-
ally push their batteries so close to the place, 
that a breach is made in its walls ;• and, as they 
are always presumed to exceed the garrison 
greatly in numerical strength, they rush in and 
carry the town by storm, as soon as its defences 
have been beaten down. 
It is considered that j and has made at least one attempt on our position, 
a town containing a garrison of 15,000 men re- Fortunately, although we want many of the ad-
quires an army of 75,000 men to besiege it; j vantages of besiegers, we are not without some 
and when, therefore, the smaller force has lost j of the advantages of the opposite kind, for such 
the artificial protection of its ramparts, the con- j is the strength of our position in this angle of 
test seldom remains doubtful. 
the Russian territory that we are enabled to re-
If these observations are applied to the case 1 P.ulse the attfk of f enemy numerically supe 
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of Sebastopol, it will at once appear that none 
of the assumed advantages of a besieging force 
are there to be found. Sebastopol is not invested. 
The peculiar position of the town, combined 
rior to- ourselves. 
So far, therefore, although 
the actual siege of Sebastopol may have advanced 
but slowly, the events of the campaign are fa-
vorable to us. 
As besiegers we have been 
with the limited strength of the allied armies, j re
I,ta[ded in 0UJ ProSress bJ the non-investment 
rendered it imposible to surround the place so as ! of the town, by the entrenchments thrown up 
to cut off its communications with the interior, 
and the north side is left conpletely open. 
The 
consequence is that there has been no limitation 
before its walls, by the constant reinforcements 
received by the garrison, and by the presence of 
a strong relieving army in the field. But we 
of resources on the part of the besieged ; on the I hav? maintained our footing on Russian ground, 
contrary, it is-rather the besieging army which ' we have beaten thft Rnss,ana 
thnrn,,trhlv when" 
has stood in this predicament, for, whereas the 
allied forces have been gradually diminished by 
we have beaten the Russians thoroughly when-
ever they have attacked us, we have already half 
ruined the fleet and arsenals which give Sebas-
the casualties incidental to their operations, the 1 Jopolits importance, and we have fairly estab-
garrison has received repeated accessions of, h®hed °ur superiority in all respect,.except that 
strength from without. 
Provisions, too, and 
ot ambers. 
What remains 
therefore, but to 
munitions of war may have been imported with approximate aS> we can do, to an equa ity with 
equal facitity, though so extraordinary, in this our antagonist in this respect a so, and to des-
respect, were the resources of Sebastopol itself, P^ch those reinforcements which our victorious, 
that few additions could have been required. 
! thouSh overtasked army, requires ? This done, 
It is next to be remarked that the Russians 
at Sebastopol are by no means in the position of 
a garrison inferior in numbers to the attacking 
force but relying upon the protection of artificial j 
defences, against which the besiegers advance. 
They are encamped to the south of the town in 
very strong intrenchmenfs, which are armed, as 
Lord Raglan's dispatch observes, "with an ap-
parently unlimited number of heavy guns, amply 
provided with gunners and ammunition." 
They 
have raised batteries against our batteries, and 
earth works against our earth works; they re-
turn shot for shot, and so far were we from es-
tablishing an advantage in thia respect, that on 
the second day of the cannonade their fire was 
superior to our own. 
Their front of defence, in-
stead of representing a confined space, exposed 
to all the concentrated fire of the attack, is actu-
ally, as Lord Raglan describes it, " more exten-
ded " than our own, and tSey, the besiged force, 
are thus in the possession of the advantages or-
dinarily enjoyed by the besiegers. 
In point of fact, there would really be little 
the advantages as well as the honors of the cam-
paign will belong, we may confidently hope, to 
the allied Powers. 
From the London Times, Nov. 17. 
Genuine Law Distinguished from 
Counterfeits. 
" All laws derive their force from the law of 
nature ; and those which do not, are accounted 
as no laws."—Fortescue. 
" The reasonableness of law is the soul of 
law."—Noyes. 
" The right of the case is the law of the case." 
—Several jurists. 
" An act of Parliament may be void from its 
first creation, as an act against natural equity ; 
for the laws of nature are immutable ; they are 
the law of laws."—Hobart. 
t" It is generally laid down that acts of Par-
liament contrary to reason arc void."—Lyttle-
ton. 
" Statutes against fundamental morality are 
exaggeration in saying that one of the armies in 
Void." 
Jud^e McLean. 
the Crimea is as effectually " besieged " as the 
if it be& found that a former decision is 
other. 
Both have their communications open.! manifestly absurd, and unjust, it is declared not 
that such sentence was bad law, but that it was 
not law." 
Where the foundation is weak, the struc-
The Russian by land, and the Allies by sea; 
both have their strong positions, the Russians 
before Sebestopol, the Allies on the heights of 
Balaklava; and as far as operations have hith- ture fans. What is invalid from the beginning 
cannot be made valid from the length of time." 
—Noyes. 
> 
In judging of customs, strength df reason 
is to be considered, and not length of time."— 
Lyttleton. 
, 
" Those who made unjustifiable, pernicious 
enactments, counteracted their own promises and 
erto succeeded, it would be-hard to say which 
party seemed to be the assailants and which the 
defenders. 
We are battering the works of the 
Russians, but they are also battering ours, and, 
where we have not yet regularly assulted their 
lines, they have attacked ours in such force as to 
occasion most sanguinary conflicts. The enter-
prise, in short, is not a siege but a campaign, professions, and established anything rather than 
We have effected a lodgment on Russian terri- 
property so-called; since it is evident that 
tory, and we are encountering the armies which 
the very signification of the word law compre-
the Russians bring successively against us. 
One hends the energy and essence of justice and 
army, representing the garrison of Sebastopol, is equity." 
Cicero. 
encamped under its walls behind earthworks like j 
Tested by these rules, it is evident that there 
our own, and is stronger than we are in artil- j8 no validity in what are called the laws of 
lery. 
Another is posted on our flank or rear, 
g]avery. 
387 THE ADVENT 
HERALD. 
\ 
END 
OF LAW—LEGAL 
SCIENCE. 
44 The primary and principal objects of the 
law, are BIGHTS and WRONGS."—Blackstone. 
" Jurisprudence [or the science of law,] is 
the science of what is JUST and UNJUST."—Jus-
tinian. 
" There is no employment so essentially royal 
as the exposition of equity, which comprises the 
true meaning of all laws."—Cicero. 
44 To secure to the citizens the benefits of an 
honest and happy life, is the grand object of all 
political associations."—Cicero. 
" Justice is the very foundation of lawful 
government, in political constitutions."—lb. 
44 Justice is the basis of society."—Vattel. 
" To establish justice must forever be one of 
tho greatest ends of every wise government. 
In 
a free government, it lies at the very basis of 
all its institutions."—Story. 
44 Laws were originally made for the security 
of the people."—Cicero. 
" Justice is the end of civil society."—Fed-
eralist. 
44 To establish justice " is one of the declared 
objects of the federal constitution. 
"The primary aim of society (government) 
is to protect individuals in the enjoyment of 
those absolute rights which are invested in them 
by the immutable laws of nature. 
Hence it fol-
lows that the first and primary end of human 
laws is to maintain those absolute rights of in-
dividuals.' '—Blackstone. 
It is evident that slavery counteracts all the 
ends and objects of law, and consequently can-
not, itself, be legal. 
DIGNITY 
OF 
LAW. 
" Of law, no less can be acknowledged than 
that her seat is the bosom of God, her voice the 
harmony of the world. 
All things in heaven 
and earth do her homage ; the least as feeling 
her care, and the greatest as not exempted 
from her power."—Hooker. 
Reverse this description and you have an hon-
est and truthful picture of the slave codes of the 
slave States. 
Before American slavery can be proved to be 
'legal, it will be necessary to manufacture some 
new description of law, to establish, on high 
authorities, some new definitions of law, some 
new rules for discriminating between valid and 
invalid laws, to find some new account of the 
ends of law, and the objects of legal science, to 
gain some new and widely different conceptions 
of the moral dignity of law. 
The Cry of the Children-
Do you hear the children weeping, 0 my broth-
ers. 
Ere the sorrow comes with years ? 
They are leaning their young heads against their 
mothers-; 
And that cannot stop their tears. 
The young lambs are bleating in the meadows ; 
The young birds are chirping in their nests; 
The young fawns are playing with the shadows; 
The young flowers are blowing toward the 
west— 
But the young, young children, 0 my brothers, 
They are weeping bitterly. 
They are weeping in the playtime of the others, 
In the country of the free. 
Do you question the young children in the sor-
row, 
Why their tears are falling so ? 
The old man may weep for his to-morrow, 
Which is lost in Long Ago— 
The old tree is leafless in the forest— 
The old year is ending in the frost— 
The old wound, if stricken, is the sorest— 
The old hope is hardest to be lost; 
But the young, young children, 0 my brothers, 
Do you ask them why they stand 
Weeping sore before the bosoms of their mothers, 
In our happy Fatherland ? 
They look up with their pale and sunken faces, 
And their looks are sad to see, 
For the man's grief abhorrent, draws and presses 
Down the cheeks ot infancy. 
" Your old earth," they say, " is very dreary: 
Our young feet," they say, " are very weak : 
Few paces have we taken, yet are weary— « 
Our grave-rest is very far to seek: 
Ask the old why they weep, and not the chil-
dren, 
For the outside earth is cold— 
And we young ones stand without, in our be-
wildering, 
And the graves are for the old: 
" True," say the young children, " it may hap-
pen 
That we die before our time: 
Little Alice died last year—the grave is shapen 
Like a snowball, in the rime. 
We looked into the pit prepared to take her— 
Was no room for any work in the close clay : 
From the sleep wherein she lieth none will wake 
her, 
Crying, " Get up, little Alice ! it is day." 
If you listen by that grave, in sun and shower, 
With your ear down, little Alice never cries! 
Could we see her face, be sure we should not 
know her, 
For the'smile has time for growing in her 
eyes,— 
And merry go her moments, lulled and stilled in 
The shroud, by the kirk-chime! 
It is good when it happens," say the children, 
" That we die before our time!" 
Alas, alas, the children! they are seeking 
Death in life, as best to have! 
They are binding up their hearts away from 
breaking, 
' 
With a cerement from the grave. 
Go out, children, from the mine and from the 
city-
Sing out, children, as the little thrushes do-
Pluck y<3ur handfuls of the meadow-cowslips 
pretty— 
Laugh aloud, to feel your fingers let them 
through! 
But they answer, " Are your cowslips of the 
meadows 
Like our weeds anear the mine ? 
Leave us quiet in the dark of the coal-shadows, 
From your pleasures fair and fine ! 
" For oh," say the children, " we are weary, 
And we cannot run or leap— 
If we cared for any meadows, it were merely 
To drop down in them and sleep. 
Our knees tremble sorely in the stooping— 
We fall upon our faces trying to go; 
And, underneath our heavy eyelids drooping, 
The reddest flower would look as pale as snow. 
For, all day, we drag our burden tiring, 
Through the coal-dark underground—' 
Or, all day, we drive the wheels of iron 
In the factories, round and round. 
For, all day, the wheels are droning, turning,— 
Their wind comes in our faces,— 
Till our hearts turn,— our heads, with pulses 
burning, 
And the walls turn in their places— 
Turns the sky in the high window blank and 
reeling— 
Turns the long light that droppeth down the 
wall— 
Turn the black flies that crawl along the ceil-
ing-
All are turning, all the day, and we with all! 
And all day the iron wheels are droning; 
And sometimes we could pr^y, 
' 0 ye wheels,' (breaking out in a mad moan-
ing.)— 
4 Stop! be silent for to-day !' " 
Ay! be silent! 
Let them hear each other 
breathing 
For a moment, mouth to mouth— 
Let them touch each others' hands, in a fresh 
wreathing 
Gf their tender human youth ! 
Let them feel that this cold metallic motion 
Is not all the life God fashions or reveals— 
Let them prove their inward souls against the 
notion 
That they live in you, or under you, 
0 
wheels : 
Still, all day, the iron wheels go onward, 
Grinding life down from its mark ; 
And the children's souls, which God is calling 
sunward, 
Spin on blindly in the dark. 
Now tell the poor yonng children, 0 my broth-
ers, 
To look up to Him and pray— 
To the blessed One, who blesseth all the others. 
. Will bless them another day. 
They answer, " Who is God that he should hear 
us, 
While the rushing of the iron wheels is 
stirred ? 
When we sob aloud, the human creatures near 
us 
Pass by, hearing not, or answer not a word! 
And we hear not (for the wheels in their re-
sounding) 
Strangers speaking at the door: 
Is it likely God, with angels singing round Him, 
Hears our weeping any more ? 
Two words, indeed, of praying we remember, 
And at midnight's hour of harm,— 
' Oar Father,' looking upward in the chamber, 
We say Softly for a charm. 
We know no other words except' Our Father,' 
And we think that, in some pause of angels' 
song, 
God may pluck them with the silence sweet to 
gather, 
And hold both within His right hand, which 
is strong. 
'Our Father!' 
If He heard us, He would 
surely 
(For they call Hfin good and mild) 
Answer, smiling down tlje steep world very 
purely, 
' Come and rest with me, my child.' 
" But no!" say the children, weeping faster, 
" He is speechless as a stone; 
And they tell us, of His image is the master 
Who commands us to work on." 
" Go to ! " say the children.—" Up in Heaven, 
Dark, wheel-like, turning clouds are all we 
find: 
Do not mock us, grief has made us unbelieving, 
We look up for God, but tears have made 
us blind." 
Do you hear the children weeping and disprov-
ing ; 
0 my brothers, what ye preach ? 
For God's possible is taught by His world's 
loving— 
And the children doubt of each. 
And well may the children weep before you ; 
They are weary as they run ; 
They have never seen the sunshine, nor the glory 
Which is brighter than the sun : 
They know the grief of man, but not the wisdom ; 
They sink in man's despair, without its calm— 
Are slaves, without the liberty in Christdom,— 
Are martyrs by the pang without the palm,— 
Are worn as if with age, yet unretrievingly 
No dear rememberance keep,— 
Are orphans of the earthly love and heavenly : 
Let them weep ! let them weep ! 
They look up, with their pale and sunken faces, 
. And their look is dread to see, 
For they mind you of their angels in their places. 
With eyes meant for Diety; 
"How long," they say, ''how long, 0 cruel 
nation, 
Will you stand, to move the world, on a child's 
heart,— 
Stifle down with a mailed heel its palpitation. 
And tread onward to your throne amid the 
mart ? 
Our blood splashes upward 0 our tyrants, 
And your purple shows your path; 
But the child's sob curseth deeper in the silence 
Than the strong men in his wrath ! " 
Circumstantial Evidence. 
THERE was a trial and execution in Dublin, 
more than a century since, which excited great 
interest. 
It was that ot a surgeon, well known 
in society, and esteemed for his amiable charac-
ter, and remarkable for his humanity to the 
poor ; he lived in a retired street. 
It happened 
one evening that the milkwoman found the street 
door ajar,—and not being answered when she 
knocked at it, she made her way to the kitchen. 
She had no sooner entered it, then uttering a 
loud shriek, she called loudly for help. 
The 
passers-by and persons from the neighboring 
houses were soon on the spot, and the kitchen 
was crowded in a short time. -A sad spectacle 
presented itself. 
The young woman, who was 
servant to the surgeon, was found dead on the 
flags., while her dress was'stained with the blood 
which had issued from a wound in the side. 
In 
looking about the floor, a surgical instrument 
was found, which also was stained with blood. 
A medical man, who was present, ascertained 
that it was the instrument which had inflicted 
the death-wound. 
On a further search, a shirt, 
saturated with blood, was found huddled up in 
the coal-hole ; it was marked with the initials 
of the surgeon's name. 
He was immediately 
seized, and, though protesting his inno ence, he 
was evidently under 
considerable 
agitation. 
The silent witnesses which were brought against 
him were thought sufficient to prove his guilt, 
and all attempts to account for their having 
been found near the unfortunate girl, were 
scouted in the 
cross-examination. 
A living 
witness was also produced in court, an old lady, 
why deposed that she lived in the house directly 
facing that where the surgeon resided; thather 
drawing-room window commanded a view of his 
premises, and that it was customary with her to 
watch his movements; she deposed that she had 
not taken her eyes off his house all that day on 
which the murder was perpetrated; that no one 
had left or entered his house that day, but him-
self ; that he went home about four o'clock, hi* 
usual hour of returning ; and that on knocking 
at the door it was opened by the servant, who, to 
the best of her belief, shut it fast when her mas-
ter went in ; that she saw him three or four times 
pass the windows of his sitting-room ; that the 
last time she saw him was about an hour and a 
half before the murder; that she observed him 
look down both sides of the street, and then 
shut the window; he held something in his hand, 
which she thinks may have been a surgical in-
strument ; but this she would notpositi^ely swear. 
In summing up the evidence, the horror which 
the prisoner had betrayed when looking on the 
body of his murdered servant, was eloquently 
dwelt on as a crowning proof of guilt. 
The de-
fense was weak and meagre,—a bare denial of 
the crime being its chief substance. 
A thrill of 
horror pervaded the court. 
The jury retired 
—a brief spaee sufficed for deliberation—they 
returned with a verdict of guilty. 
The judge 
having donned 
his black cap, exhorted the 
prisoner on the heinousness of his crime, and 
pronounced the fatal sentence. 
It is said that 
the condemned showed much fortitude through-
out, and persisted to the last in asserting his inno-
cence. 
He was brought to the place of his exe» 
cution amidst a 
vast concourse and the exe-
crations of the people. 
We were told by an old 
gentleman that his father remembered having 
been held up in his nurse's arms to see the pro-
cession to the place of execution. 
He was often 
spoken of in the social circle as one wh« had 
been held in much estimation. 
His untimely 
end was lamented, but there were few who be-
lieved it undeserved. 
It was after the lq^pne of some years that one 
who had emigrated to America returned-; he 
was ill and troubled in mind; something lay 
heavy on his heart and disturbed his conscience ; 
he made his confession to his priest; he had 
been "the sweetheart," as he told him, of the 
murdered girl; she had let him in by the back 
way, early in the evening, to take tea with her. 
As they sat side by side, he asked her for a kiss, 
which he would have snatched, when she denied 
him; she took up her master's surgical instru-
ment, which.she had to clean, and which lay on 
the table beside her, and she pointed it' towards 
him jestingly ; in a struggle, she fell on it, and 
it pierced her side; he snatched tliji shirt which 
she had in her lap to mend, and staunched the 
blood which was flowing with it; but life soon 
ebbed away, and he saw the girl that he loved, 
who had been laughing and talking with hint 
but a few minutes before, lying dead beside 
him ; his agony only gave way to the instinct of 
selfpreservation, when he though the heard the-
soundof the approaching footsteps; he thrust the 
blood-stained shirt into the coal-hole, and set-
ting the hall-door ajar, he concealed himself be-
hind it, and when the crowd had collected on 
hearing the alarm, he mingled with it, and then 
passed into the street, and on to the quay, and 
getting on board an American ship, he sailed in 
a few hours. 
When he learned that the sur-
geon's lite had been forfeited, he was over-
whelmed with anguish. 
The only reparation in 
his power was to clear his character from the 
dreadful imputation; but though he felt a re-
lief in this act of justice, yet he could not undo 
the injury inflicted. 
In hearing of such a trage-
dy, the question is naturally suggested, may not 
such have often occurred, and may it not again, 
—and is there no remedy ? 
« 
• 
Five Consciences. 
THERE are five kinds of consciences on foot in 
the world— 
First, an ignorant conscience, which neither 
sees nor says anything, neither beholds the sins 
in the, soul, nor reproves them. 
Secondly, the flattering conscience, whose 
speech is worse than silence itself, which though 
seeing sin, soothes men in the committing thereof. 
Thirdly, the seared conscience, which has nei-
ther sight, speech, nor sense, 4' that are past 
feeling." 
t 
Fourthly} the wounded conscience, frightened 
with sin. 
The fifth is a quiet and clear conscience, pu-
rified in Christ Jesus. 
- A wounded conscience is rather painful than 
sinful—an affliction, no offence, and is the ready 
way, at the next remove, to be turned into a 
quiet conscience. 
Jewish Parable. 
THE Jews sometimes display a lofty principle, 
which shows that the divine light exists among 
them, although frequently concealed by the old 
incrustations of Rabbinical institutions. 
In my 
own family, an interesting and characteristic 
incident occurred. 
My worthy grandfather was 
a man of great sensibility, and of a warm heart, 
but easily excited to wrath. 
He had a brother 
whom he dearly loved. 
One day they fell 
into a dispute, and each returned to his house 
in anger. 
This happened on Friday. 
As the 
evening drew near, my good grandmother, who 
who was another Martha, full of activity, be-
gan to make preparation for the Sabbath day. 
"Come dear Joseph," she exclaimed, "the night 
is approaching; 
come and light the Sabbath 
lamp!" 
But he, full of sadness and anguish, 
continued walking up and down the room. 
His 
good wife spoke again in anxiety: "See, the 
stars are already shining in the firmament of 
the Lord, and our Sabbath lamp is not yet 
lighted." Then my grandfather took his hat and 
cane, and evidently much troubled, hastened out 
of the house. 
But in a few moments hereturned, 
with tears of joy in his eyes. 
"Now, dear 
Bebecca," he exclaimed, "now I am ready." 
He repeated the prayer, and with gladness lighted 
the Sabbath lamp. 
Then he related the dispute 
which had occurred in the morning, adding:4'I 
could not pray and light my lamp before be 
THE ADVENT 
HERALD 
coming reconciled with my brother Isaae.'* 
"But how did you manage to do it so soon ?" 
" 0," he replied, " Isaac had been as much 
troubled as I was; he could not begin the Sab* 
bath either, without becoming reconciled with 
me, 
So we met in the street \ he was coming to 
me , and 1 was going to him, and we ran into 
each other's arms and Wept.'' Might not we end 
this anecdote with those simple words of Jesus, 
" Go and do thou likewise," 
®l)c Kbmxt £)ercilb. 
BOSTON, DECEMBER 9, 1854. 
THB readers of the Herald are most earnestly besought to give it 
oom in their prayers; that by means of it God may be honored and 
lis truth advanced j also, that it may be conducted in faith and 
ove, with sobriety of judgment and discernment of the troth, in 
lothing carried away into errof, or hasty speech, or sharp, unbroth-
jrly disputation. 
DEDICATION OF TIIE NEW CHAPEL. 
[THE New Chapel, Corner of Hudson and Knee-
land Streets, having been completed for the use of 
the Advent church lately worspipping in Chardon 
street, was dedicated to God's service, on Wednes-
day the 6th inst. 
For full particulars we must 
refer our readers to our next issue; but we are 
enabled to publish the following discourse which 
was preached on the occasion, by Elder Joshua 
Vaughan Himes, the pastor of the church.] 
" But will God in very deed dwell with men on 
the earth ? Behold, heaven and the heaven of 
heavens cannot contain thee ; how much less this 
house which I have built!"—2 Chron. 6:18. 
These words are a part of the prayer of Solomon, 
at the dedication of the temple,—the first house 
reared upon this earth for the worship of its Maker. 
There'had been, previous to Solomon's day, 
many manifestations of the presence of Jehovah. 
Adam heard " the Voice of the Lord God walking 
in the garden." 
" The Word of the Lord came 
unto Abraham in a vision," and covenanted with 
him ; and at various times the Lord appeared unto 
him, and conversed with him. 
He appeared unto 
the patriarch Isaac also, and unto Jacob, who saw 
" God face to face." When Moses dwelt in Midi-
an, " the angel of the Lord appeared unto him in 
a flame of fire in a bush," and " Moses hid his face; 
for he was afraid to look upon God." In Israel's 
journey through the wilderness, " The Lord went 
before them by day in a pillar of cloud, to lead 
them, and by night in a pillar of fire to give them 
light." 
The Lord descended upon Mount Sinai 
and called Moses up to the top of the Mount 
" Then went up Moses and Aaron, and Nadab and 
Abihu, and seventy of the elders of Israel." When 
Moses pitched the tabernacle without the camp 
" the cloudy pillar descended and stood at the door 
of the tabernacle. 
And the Lord spake unto 
Moses face to face, as a man speaketh unto his 
friend." 
Thus, and at sundry times, did Jehovah mani 
fest himself to his people ; but there had never 
been any house erected where his presence would 
abide continually, until the erection of the Jewish 
temple. 
When King David's heart was moved to 
build it, the Word of the Lord said to the prophet 
Nathan, " Go and tell David my servant, Thus 
saith the Lord, Thou shalt not build me an house 
to dwell in ; for I have not dwelt in an house since 
the time that 1 brought up the children of Israel 
unto this day ; but have gone from tent to tent 
and from one tabernacle to another. But it shall 
come to pass when thy days be expired, that I will 
raise up thy seed after thee, which shall be of thy 
sons, and I will establish his kingdom. He shall 
build me an house and I will establish his throne 
forever." 
With this prohibition and promise, David de-
ferred the erection of the temple, but made all 
possible provision for its construction. And he 
" gave to his son the pattern of the porch, and of 
the houses thereof, . . . and of the mercy-seat, and 
thj pattern of all that he had by the Spirit." 
All 
this, said David, " the Lord made me understand 
in writing by his hand upon me, even all the 
works of this pattern." 
Therefore, when Solomon sat upon the throne of 
the Lord as King, instead " of David his father," 
he began in his fourth year to build the house of 
the Lord at Jerusalem, in Mount Moriah, where 
the Lord appeared unto David. At the end of 
seven years them agnificent structure, designed and 
fashioned by the inspired Architect, was com-
pleted ; and then'' the house was filled with a cloud, 
even the house of the Lord, so that the priests 
could not stand to minister by reason of the'cloud ; 
for the glory of the Lord had filled the house of 
God," 
" Then saJd Solomon, The Lord hath said 
that he would dwell in the thick darkness. 
But 
I haVe built an house of habitation for thee, and 
a place for thy dwelling forever." He then pro-
ceeded to dedicate the house that he had built; 
and in his dedicatory prayer, we find the words 
of our text: which are peculiarly applicable for 
an occasion like the present. 
We are now assembled to congratulate ourselves 
on the completion of our new, beautiful, and con-
venient house, and to dedicate it to the worship of 
the same God whom Solomon addressed, and who 
responded, " when Solomon had made an end of 
praying," by "fire from heaven," which, " con-
sumed the burnt-offering and the sacrifices." 
This pleasant chapel is not erected under such 
auspices, nor will it witness such results ; yet in 
recounting the obstacles and hinderances we have 
met with in thb erection of a building, and 
which have been overcome, we can see how the 
Lord has prospered us, and led us all our way; 
and we now cheerfully ,and heartily, consecrate it to 
His service, trusting to his promise : " Where two 
or three are gathered together in my name, there 
am I in the midst of them." 
While, therefore, 
there is no visible manifestation of the divine pres-
ence as there was when the Holy Shekinah abode 
above the mercy-seat and communed from between 
the cherubims, yet we expect that these walls will 
be hallowed by the presence of the Holy Spirit, 
that here may go up supinations to the God of Is-
rael, and that responses will here be made in the 
conviction and conversion of sinners. And thus 
in some humble manner, may we hope that its 
erection will subserve the cause of God on earth, 
by encouraging the hearts of his saints, and gath-
ering converts into the fold of Christ, in anticipa-
tion of his return, when he shall visibly manifest 
himself in his kingdom. 
It would naturally be expected that I should, 
on an occasion like the present, give prominence 
to the cardinal features which distinguish us as a 
people from others of Christian name; and it is my 
intention at this time to present our true position, 
with the evidence on which it is based. Your at-
tention is therefore more especially invited to the 
interrogation in our text: 
" Will God in very deed dwell with men on the 
earth ?" 
That he will, in a more marked and distinguished 
manner than that witnessed between the cherubim, 
is the testimony of inspiration; and that is the 
great cardinal truth which underlays all our faith, 
and all our hope. 
It was David's greater son, Immanuel, that was 
the subject of the promise, when God said of Da-
vid : " His seed also will I make to endure forever, 
and his throne as the days of heaven ;" for it 
is written of Jesus, " He shall be called the Son 
of the Highest, and the Lord God shall give unto 
him the throne of his Father l)s>vid : and he shall 
reign over the house of Jacob forever ; and of his 
kingdom there shall be no end." Yes, " the tab-
ernacle of God," shall yet " bo with men, and he 
will dwell with them, and they shall be his peo-
pie, and God himself shall be with them and be 
their God." 
The doctrine of the coming and reign of God on 
earth, is necessarily connected with : 
I. The restitution, or regeneration of the earth, as 
the locality of the kingdom. 
II. The Personal coming and reign of Christ on 
the renewed earth, as King. 
III. The resurrection of the dead saints, and change 
of the living at his coming, as the subjects of the king-
dom. 
IV. The continuance of the present divine economy, 
without any great change in society like that of the 
world's conversion, until the advent of Christ. And : 
V. The proximity of the consummation. 
On none of these questions do we profess to en-
tertain views that are novel; but we claim that 
they are clearly substantiated by the Living Ora-
cles, and have been believed in all ages of the 
Church. 
• 
I. THE RESTITUTION OR REGENERATION OF THIS EARTH, 
AS THE LOCALITY OF THE KINGDOM. 
This proposition is taught, and sustained by 
Scriptural language, the most unequivocal. 
Peter 
informs us explicitly, (2 Pet. 3:7-15,) " that the 
heavens and the earth which are now, by the same 
word, (by that which caused the antideluvian 
world to be overflowed with water,) are reserved 
unto fire against the day of judgment and perdi 
tion of ungodly men ;" when, " the heavens ^hall 
pass away with a great noise, and the elements 
shall melt with fervent heat; the earth also, and 
the works that are therein shall be burned up." 
But this dissolving and melting of the elements 
Will not be theif annihilation ; for the apostle im-
mediately adds : " Nevertheless we, according to 
his promise, look for new heavens and a new earth, 
Wherein dwelleth righteousness." 
The original Greek work, rendered new in this 
connection, says Dr. Edward Robinson, late Pro-
fessor in the Andover Theological Seminary, in 
his Greek and English Lexicon, " also signifies, re-
newed, made new, and therefore superior and splen-
did ;" and he gives this text as an instance of 
such use. The same word is used for the " new 
heart" and " new creation," where a renewed 
heart is intended. 
President Edward Hitchcock, D.D., LL.D., late 
of Amherst College, says : 
" The natural and most obvious meaning of this 
passage surely is, that the future residence of the 
righteous will be this present terraqueous globe, 
after its entire organized and combustible matter 
shall have been destroyed, and its whole mass re-
duced by heat to a liquid state, and then a new 
economy reared up on its surface, not adapted to 
sinful, but to sinless beings : and therefore quite 
different from its present condition — probably 
more perfect, but still the same earth and sur-
rounding heavens."—Religion and Geology. 
Dr. Hitchcock adds: 
" The common opinion is, that entire combustion 
actually destroys, or annihilates matter, because 
it is thereby dissipated. 
But the chemist knows 
that not one particle of matter has ever been thus 
deprived of existance—that fire only changes the 
form of matter, but never annihilates it."—lb. 
In accordance with this change and renovation 
of the earth, as predicted by the apostle, are the 
words of the Psalmist, (102:26,) " They shall per 
ish, but thou shalt endure : yea, all of them shall 
wax old like a garment; as a vesture shalt thou 
change them, and they shall be changed." 
The 
beloved John, beheld in vision, a fullfilment of this 
promise: (Rev. 21:1.) And " saw a new heaven and 
a new earth : for the first heaven and the first earth 
were passed away." 
And yet in respect to the 
material of which it will be constituted, it will be 
in all essential particulars, the same earth which 
we now inhabit; but renewed and made a fit dwell-
ing place tor its resurrected inhabitants. 
This 
renovation of the earth is denominated by our Di-
vine Saviour, the " times of refreshing," and the 
" restitution." 
It was in view of this physical 
change at the second appearing of Christ, that the 
apostle said to the unbelieving Jews, (Acts 3:19-
21.) " Repent ye therefore, and be converted, that 
your sins may be 'blotted out, when the times of 
refreshing shall come from the presence of the 
Lord; and he shall send Jesus Christ, which be-
fore was preached unto you: whom the heavens 
must receive, until the times of restitution of all 
things, which God hath spoken by the mouth of 
all his holy prophets, since the world began." 
In 
Rom. 8:22, 23,—" The whole creation," itisjsaid, 
" groaneth and travaileth in pain together, until 
now . . . waiting," says the apostle, " for the 
adoption, to wit, the redemption of our body," 
which other scriptures show us will be raised 
from the dead at that epoch. If these scriptures 
are insufficient for the demonstration of this propo-
sition, we have the Lord speaking by Isaiah, (65: 
17.) " Behold I create new heavens and a new 
earth; and the former shall not be remembered, 
nor come into mind." 
And this " new heavens 
and new earth which I shall make, shall remain 
before me saith the Lord."—Isa. 66:22. 
The interpretation here given of these passages, 
is sustained by Theologians the most distinguished 
for their talents and research. Tholuck, the dis-
tinguished German divine, says: 
" The glorification of the visible creation is more 
definately declared in Rev. 21:1, although it must 
be borne in mind that a prophetic vision is there 
described. Still more definitely do we find the be-
lief of a transformation of the material world de-
clared in 2 Peter 3:7-12. The idea that the per-
fected kingdom of Christ is to be transferred to 
heaven vis properly a modern notion. 
According 
to Pau'l and the Revelation of John, the kingdom 
of God is placed upon earth, in so far as the earth 
has part in the universal transformation. 
This 
exposition has been adopted and defended by most 
of the oldest commentators:—e. g. Chrysostom, 
Theodoret, Augustine, Luther, Knapp and others. 
Luther says in a lively way : ' God will make, not 
the earth only, but the heavens also much more 
beautiful than they are at present. 
At present we 
see the world in its working clothes ; but hereafter 
it will be arrayed in its Easter and Whitsuntide 
robes.' " 
Said Dr. Griffen, one of the most able of our 
late American divines: 
" It is scarcely credible that God should annihi-
late any of his work, much less so many and so 
glorious works. 
It ought not to be believed 
without the most decisive proof. 
On the other 
hand, it is a most animated thought that this visi-
ble creation, which BIG has marred—which the pol-
luted breath of men and devils has defiled,—and 
which by sin will be reduced to utter ruin,—will be 
restored by our Jesus,—will arise from its ryins in 
tenfold splendor, and shine with more illustrious 
glory than before it was defaced by sin.< 
" After a laborious and anxious search for light 
on this interesting subject, I must pronounce the 
latter to be my decided opinion. 
And the same, 
I find, has been the more common opinion of the 
Christian fathers, of the divines of the Reformation, 
and of the critics and annotators who have since 
flourished. I could produce on this side a catalogue 
of names which would convince you that this has 
certainly been the common opinion of the Christian 
church in every age, as it was also of the Jewish." 
—Sermons, vol. 2. p. 450. 
The Rev. Dr. John Pye Smith, of London, says : 
"If it be the purpose of God that the earth 
shall be subjected to a total conflagration, we per-
fectly well know that the instruments of such an 
event lie close at hand, and wait only the Divine 
volition to burst out in a moment. 
But that 
would not be a destruction ; it would be a mere 
change of form, and, no doubt, would be subser-
vient to the most glorious results. 
' We accord-
ing to promise, look for a new heavens, and a new 
earth ; wherein dwelleth righteousness.' " (See on 
Geology and Revelation, p. 151. 
Rev. Dr. John Cumming, of London, who is un-
doubtedly the most eloquent living pulpit orator, 
in commenting on the passage quoted from Peter 
says : 
" In.the very heart of of the chaos there begins a 
Genesis of order, beauty and peace. 
The old earth 
shall put off its ashen robes, and array itself in its 
bridal garments. 
The world, we are told, shall 
close as the world began—with Eden. 
An eastern 
morn of beauty shall dawn upon the earth. 
Na-
ture groans and travails in pain, waiting to be 
delivered. 
' Natura,' or nature, about to bring to 
the birth, shall bring forth a new world. This is 
the hope of each new year. 
This is the joyous an-
ticipation of the people of God. 
' We look for 
new heavens and a new earth wherein dwelleth 
righteousness.'" 
He adds: 
" I know that some have tried to establish the 
conclusion that the new heavens and new earth, is 
merely a descriptive metaphor of blessedness and 
joy which shall be realized by all the people of 
God. If there were Scriptural texts to prove that 
it really is thus to be construed, 1 should be the 
last to demur to such an interpretation. 
But 
when 1 Bee the language and the whole tenor of 
Scripture clearly and unequivocally indicating that 
the earth we now inhabit is to be restored, that 
the air we breathe is about to be regenerated, and 
that nothing is to be consumed in the last flame but 
that which the devil has introduced, and which man 
has accepted. 
In short, that this 'world, which 
GocT made and pronounced good and beautiful 
at its first creation, is to be re-made and re-consti-
tuted at least as good and beautiful again,—I 
must adhere to the literal interpretation now so 
generally adopted. It appears to me most natural, 
and most readily to present itself to an unpreju-
diced reader. The apostle Paul evidently antici-
pated such a creation as this when he said," For un-
to the angels hath he not put in subjection the world 
to come, of which we speak.' 
That expression 
' the world to come,' is literally the age, or dispen-
sation that is to come ; and be assured that, that 
dispensation which is to come is to be upon the 
earth we now inhabit and under the air which we 
now breathe."—Voices of the Day, pp. 85, 86. 
Th6 celebrated John Wesley remarks : 
" ThiB saith the Creator and Governor of the 
universe : ' Behold I make all things new !'—all 
which are included in that expression of the apos-
tle, ' A new heaven and a new earth.' 
This is the 
introduction to a far nobler state of things, such 
as it has iiot yet entered into the heart of man to 
conceive,—the universal restoration. 
For ' we 
look,' says the apostle, ' for new heavens and a 
new earth, wherein dwelleth righteousness.'" 
Reuel Keith, D.D., Professor in a Theological 
Seminary in Virginia, says : 
The Messiah, " finally, when the present course 
of the world shall have ended, will abolish even 
the outward consequences of the fall, the evil 
which sin has occasioned, and, after the utter ex-
tinction of the kingdom of darkness, glorify his 
kingdom on the renovated earth." 
The scientific and judicious Dr. Knapp, in com-
menting on the passage in Peter, says : 
" It cannot be thought that what is here said 
[in 2 Peter 3d chap.] respecting the burning of the 
world is to be understood figuratively, as Wettstein 
supposes ; because the fire is here too directly op-
posed to the literal water of the flood to be 
so understood. 
It is the object of Peter to refute 
the boast of scoffers, that all things had remained 
unchanged from the beginning, and that, therefore, 
no day of iudgment and no end of the world could 
be expected. And so he says that originally, at 
the time of the creation, the whole earth was cov-
ered and overflowed with water, (Gen, 1.) and 
that from hence the dry land appeared : and the 
same was true at the time of JNoah's flood. But 
there is yet to come a great fare revolution. 
The 
heavens and the earth (the earth with its atmos-
phere) are reserved, or kept in store, for the fire, 
until the day of judgment, (v. 10.) 
At that titoe 
the heavens will pass away with a great noise, and 
the elements will be dissolved by fervent heat, 
and everything upon the earth will be burnt up. 
The same thing is taught in verse 12. But in 
verse 13, Peter gives the design of this revolution. 
It will not be annihilation, but we expect a new 
heavens and a new earth, wherein dwelleth right-
eousness, i. e., an entirely new, altered, and beau-
tiful abode for man, to be built from the ruins of 
his former dwelling-place, as the future habitation 
of the pious, (Rev. 21:1). 
This will be very 
much in the same way as a more perfect and an 
immortal body will be reared from the body which 
we now possess." 
(Theological Works, v. 2, p 
649.) 
John Calvin says in his institutes : 
" I expect with Paul, a reparation of all the 
evils caused by sin, for which he represents the 
creation as groaning and travailing." 
THE ADVENT 
HERALD 
The world renowned John Knox gave utterance 
to the same expectation when he said the reforma-
tion of the earth, " never was, nor yet shall be, 
till the righteous King and Judge appear tor the 
restoration of all things." 
And John Bunyan has quaintly remarked: 
44 None ever saw this world as it was in its first 
creation but Adam and his wife ; neither will any 
see it until the manifestation of the children of 
God ; i. e. until the redemption, or resurrection of 
the saints." 
If we have need to add, to this array of human 
testimony, I would refer you to the late Dr. Chal-
mers, of Edinboro'. 
In beautiful and eloquent 
words, he says: 
Man, at the first, had for his place this world, 
and, at the same time, for his priviledge an un-
clouded fellowship with God, and for his prospect 
an immortality, whijh death was neither to inter-
cept nor put an end to. 
He was terrestrial in re-
spect to condition, and yet celestial, both in respect 
of character and enjoyments. 
" The common imagination that we have of para-
dise on the other side of death, is that of a lofty 
serial region, where the inmates float in ether, or 
are mysteriously suspended upon nothing ; where 
all the warm and sensible accompaniments, which 
give such an expression of strength, and life, and 
coloring to our present habitation, are attenuated 
into a sort of spiritual element, that is meagre and 
imperceptible, and utterly uninviting to the eye of 
mortals here below ; where every vestige of mate-
rialism is done away, and nothing left but certain 
unhealthy scenes, that have no power of allure-
ment, and certain unhealthy ecstasies with which 
it is felt impossible to sympathize. 
The holders 
of this imagination forget all the while that there 
is no necessary connection between materialism 
and sin ; that the world which we now inhabit 
had all the solidity and amplitude of its present 
materialism before sin entered into it: that God, 
so far on that account, from looking slightly up-
on it, after it had received the last touch of his 
creating hand, reviewed the earth, and the wa-
ters, and the firmament, and all the green herbage, 
with the living creatures, and the man whom he 
had raised in dominion over them, and he saw etiery 
thing that he had made, and behold, it was all very 
good. 
They forget that, on the birth of material-
ism, when it stood out in the freshness of those 
glories which the great Architect of nature had 
impressed upon it, that the morning stars sang to-
gether, and all the sons of God shouted for 
joy. 
They forget the appeals that are every where made 
in the Bible to his material workmanship, and how, 
from the face of these visible heavens, and the gar-
niture ot this earth which we tread upon, the 
greatness and goodness of God are reflected on the 
view of his worshippers. 
No, my brethren, the 
object of the administration we sit under is to extir-
pate sin, but it is not to sweep away materialism. 
By the convulsions of the last day it may be shaken 
and broken down from its present arrangement, 
and thrown into such fitful agitations as that the 
whole of its existing framework shall fall to 
pieces; and with a heat so fervent as to melt the 
most solid elements, may it be utterly dissolved. 
And thus may the earth again become without 
form and void, but without one particle of its sub-
stance going into annihilation. 
Out of the ruins 
of this sacred chaos may another heaven and an-
other earth be made to arise, and a new material-
ism, with other aspects of magnificence and beauty, 
emerge from the wreck of this mighty transforma-
tion, and the world be peopled, as before, with 
the varieties of material loveliness, and space be 
again lighted up into a firmament of material 
splendor." 
Such was the opinion of one of the ablest divines 
of whom Protestant Britian can boast; and when 
he, and others, like those whose opinions have now 
been presented, thus believe, we certainly cannot 
be convicted of novelty for entertaining the same 
faith. 
Indeed so long, and generally, has this 
opinion been held that an anonymous writer has 
poetically, said: 
44 Very serious and impressive is the fact, that 
this idea of a radical change in our planet is not 
only predicted in the Scriptures, but that the earth 
herself, in her primitive rocks and varied forma-
tions, on which is lithographed the histofy of suc-
cessive convulsions, darkly prophesied of others to 
come. 
The old poet prophets all the world over, 
have sung of a renovated world. 
A vision of it 
haunted the contemplations of Plato. 
It is seen 
in the half-inspired speculations of "the old Indian 
mystics. 
The Cumaean sibyl saw it in her trances. 
The apostles and martyrs of our faith looked for it 
anxiously and hopefully. 
Gray anchorites in the 
desert, worn pilgrims to the holy places of Jewish 
and Christian tradition, prayed for its coming. 
It inspired the gorgeous vision of Augustine's 
4 City oPGod.' 
In every age since the Christian 
era, from the caves, and forests, and secluded 
4 upper chambers' of the times of the first mission-
aries of the Cross,—from the Gothic temples of the 
Middle Ages,—from the bleak mountain gorges of 
the Alps when the hunted heretics put up their 
expostulations,' How long, 0 Lord, how long !'— 
down to the present time, has .been uttered the 
prophecy, and the prayer for its fulfilment." 
This brings us to another part of our subject, 
viz.: 
II. 
THE PERSONAL COMING AND REIGN OF CHRIST ON 
THE EARTH, AS KLNG. 
In intimate connection with the prophecies of 
the regeneration of the earth, are those of the per-
sonal coming of its King. 
The earliest promise 
given to fallen man, was, that " The seed of the 
woman should bruise the serpents head." 
All 
along through the periods of Jewish history the 
coming of the Messiah was anticipated and waited 
for; and when he came in his humiliation, the 
Jews rejected him, mainly, because in their eager 
looking for his glorious Majesty, they did not per-
ceive that he must first come to suffer and die for 
us. 
So blended were the predictions of his suffer-
ings and of his glory, that they overlooked the one 
in their anticipations of the other. 
Balaam said, (Num. 24:17,) " I shall see him 
but not now ; I shall behold him, but not nigh, 
there shall come a star out of Jacob, and a Sceptre 
shall rise out of Israel." 
It was the testimony of 
Job (19:25-27), "I know that my Redeemer 
liveth, and that he shall stand at the latter day 
upon the earth ; and though after my skin, worms 
destroy this body, yet in my flesh shall 1 see God, 
whom I shall see for my self and not another." 
Isaiah sung of that day when he said, (26:8, 9,) 
" He will swallow up death in victory ; and the 
Lord God will wipe away tears from off all faces, 
and the rebuke of his people shall he take away 
from off all the earth : for the Lord hath spoken 
it. 
And it shall be said in that day, Lo, this is 
our God; we have waited for him and he will save 
us ; this is the Lord, we have waited for him, we 
will be glad and rejoice in his salvation." 
Daniel 
(7:13,14) " saw in the night visions, and behold, 
one like the Son of man came with the clouds of 
heaven, and came to the Ancient of days, and they 
brought him near before him. 
And there was 
given him dominion, and glory, and a kingdom, 
that all people, nations, and languages, should 
serve him : his dominion, is an everlasting domin-
ion, which shall not pass away, and his kingdom, 
that which shall not be destroyed." 
Our Saviour when about to leave his disciples 
comforted them with the words (John 14:3) : 
1 will come again and receive you unto myself." 
And when he ascended on high, the two shining 
ones re-assured those who stood gazing into heaven, 
(Acts 1:11,) with the declaration, that'"This 
same Jesus which is taken up from you into 
heaven, shall so come in like manner, as ye have 
seen him go into heaven." 
Said John in Patmos 
(Rev. 1:7), " Behold, he cometh with clouds; and 
every eye shall see him, and they also which 
picrccd him : and all kindreds of the earth shall 
wail because of him." 
And said our Saviour, 
(Mark 13:26,) " Then shall they see the Son ot 
man coming in the clouds with great power and 
glory." 
Thus the visible coming of Christ is no chimera, 
but a promise which has animated the saints of 
all ages. 
And yet it is not merely his coming, but 
his coming as a KING, that will fulfill the expecta-
tions of his church ; for, " beheld, a King shall 
reign in righteousness, and princes shall rule in 
judgment." 
Thus saith the Lord, (Psalm 2:5-9.) 
" Yet have I set my King upon my holy hill of 
Zion. I will declare the decree: the Lord hath 
said unto me, Thou art my Son ; this day have I 
begotten thee. 
Ask of me, and I shall give thee 
the heathen for thine inheritance, and the utter-
most p^rts of the earth for thy possession. 
Thou 
shalt break them with a rod of iron ; thou shalt 
dash them in pieces like a potter's vessel." 
We 
read in Isaiah (9:6, 7)—" For unto us a child is 
born, unto us a son is given : and the government 
shall be upon his shoulder : and his name shall be 
called "Wonderful, Counsellor, The mighty God, 
The everlasting Father, The Prince of Peace. 
Of 
the increase of his government and peace there 
shall be no end, upon the throne of David, and 
upon his kingdom, to order it, and establish it 
with judgment and with justice from henceforth 
even forever. The zeal of the Lord will perform 
this." 
To the Son, Jehovah saith, (Heb. 1:8,) 
"Thy throne, 0 God, is forever and ever." 
At 
the sounding of the seventh trumpet it shall be an-
nounced that " The kingdoms of this world are 
become the kingdoms of our Lord, and of his 
Christ, and he shall reign forever and ever." 
And 
then shall be fulfilled, (Rev. 21:3,) " Behold, the 
tabernacle of God is with men, and he will dwell 
with them, and they shall be his people, and God 
himself shall be with them, and be their God." 
This brings us to a consideration of our next 
proposition-. 
III. 
THE RESURRECTION OF THE DEAD SAINTS, AND 
THE CHANGE OF THE LIVING, AT CHRIST'S COMING, AS 
THE SUBJECTS OF THE KINGDOM. 
This is evident from the intimate relation which 
is to exist between the subjects of the kingdom and 
their King, an£ which is incompatible with a 
state where sin and death may exist. 
At this 
epoch, (Rev. 21:4,) " God shall wipe away all 
tears from their eyes ; and there shall be no more 
death, neither sorrow, nor crying, neither shall 
there be any more pain : for the former things are 
passed away." 
When it shall be said to the Son, 
by the "four and twenty elders," (Rev. 11.17,) 
" We give thee thanks, 0 Lord God Almighty, 
which art, and wast, and att to come ; because 
thou hast taken to thee thy gi;eat power and hast 
reigned," we find in the same connection, (v. 18,) 
" And the nations were angry, and thy wrath is 
come, and the time of the dead, that they should 
be judged, and that thou shouldest give reward 
unto thy servants the prophets, and to the saints, 
and them that fear thy name, small and great, and 
shouldest destroy them that destroy the earth." 
This is predicted as an event that is to transpire 
at the sounding of the seventh trumpet; and this 
agrees with what Paul has said of the same event. 
In his first epistle to the Corinthians, he writes, 
(15:50-54,) " Now this I say, brethren, that flesh 
and blood cannot inherit the kingdom of God ; 
neither doth corruption inherit incorruption. 
Be-
hold, I show you a mjstery; We shall not all 
sleep, but we shall all be changed, in a moment, 
in the twinkling of an eye, at the last trump: for 
the trumpet shall sound, and the dead shall be 
raised incorruptible, and we shall be changed. 
For this corruptible must put on incorruption, 
and this mortal must put on immortality. 
So 
when this corruptible shall have put on incorrup-
tion, and this mortal shall have put on immortali-
ty, then shall be brought to pass the saying that 
is written, Death is swallowed up in victory." 
And to the Thessalonians he adds, (1 epistle4:14-
17,) " If we believe that Jesus died and rose again, 
even so them also which sleep in Jesus will God 
bring with him. 
For this we say unto you by the 
word of the Lord, that we which are alive and re-
main unto the coming of the Lord shall not pre-
vent them which'are asleep. 
For the Lord him-
self shall descend from heaven with a shout, with 
the voice of the archangel, and with the trump of 
God: and the dead in Christ shall rise first: then 
we which are alive and remain shall be caught up 
together with them in the clouds, to meet the Lord 
in the air : and so we shall be ever with the Lord." 
It is the doctrine of the resurrection that har-
monizes texts, like these: 
Dan. 7:18, 27—" But the saints of the Most 
High shall take the kingdom, and possess the king-
dom for ever, even for ever and ever. . . . And the 
kingdom and dominion, and the greatness of the 
kingdom under the whole heaven, shall be given 
to the people of the saints of the Most High, whose 
kingdom is an everlasting kingdom, and all do-
minions shall serve and obey him." 
Matt. 5:5—" Blessed are the meek: for they 
shall inherit the earth." 
Rev. 5:9, 10—" And they sung a new song, say-
ing, Thou art worthy to take the book, and to open 
the seals thereof: for thou wast slain, and hast 
redeemed us to God by thy blood out of every kin-
dred, and tongue, and people, and nation: and 
hast made us unto our God kings and priests : and 
we shall reign on the earth." 
Psa. 37:9, 11, 22—" For evil doers shall be cut 
off: but those that wait upon the Lord, they shall 
inherit the earth. . . . But the meek shall inherit 
the earth ; and shall delight themselves in the 
abundance of peace. . . . For such as be blessed of 
him shall inherit the earih; and they that be 
cursed of him shall be cut off." 
It is with such a view of the territory, subjects 
and King, that we are enabled to comprehend the 
nature of the kingdom brought to view in Matt. 
25:31-34—" When the Son of man shall come in 
his glory, and all the holy angels with him', then 
shall he sit upon the throne of his glory : and be-
fore him shall be gathered all nations: and he shall 
separate them one from another, as a shepherd di-
videth his sheep from the goats : and he shall set 
the sheep on his right hand, but the goats on his left 
Then shall the King say unto them on his right 
hand, Come, ye blessed of my Father, inherit the 
kingdom prepared for you from the foundation of 
the world." And Matt. 13:37-43—" He answered 
and said unto them, He that soweth the good seed 
is the Son of man ; the field is the world ; the good 
seed are the children of the kingdom ; but the tares 
are the children of the wicked one ; the enemy that 
sowed them is the devil; the harvest is the end of the 
world ; and the reapers are the angels. 
As there-
fore the tares are gathered and burned in the fire, 
so shall it be in the end of the world. 
The Son of 
man shall send forth his angels, and they shall 
gather out of his kingdom all things that offend, 
and them which do iniquity, and shall cast them 
into a furnace of fire: there shall be wailing and 
gnashing of teeth. 
Then shall the righteous shine 
forth as the sun in the kingdom of their Father." 
The resurrection of the body is so clearly a sub-
ject of prophecy, that those who doubt it—because 
they doubt God's power to effect it—have to admit 
that the letter of Scripture is against them. 
But, 
" why should it be thought a thinguncredible with 
you that God should raise the dead?" 
To those 
who deny it because they would disconnect the fu-
ture existence from all contact with matter, Dr 
Chalmers has eloquently replied: 
" It is, indeed, a homage to that materialism, 
which many are for expunging from the future 
state of the uniyerse altogether, that, ere the im-
material soul of man has reached the ultimate 
glory and blessedness designed for it, it must re-
turn and knock at the very grave where lie the 
mouldered remains of the body which it wore, and 
there inquisition must be made for the flesh, and 
the sinews, and the bones which the power of cor-
ruption has, perhaps centuries before, assimilated 
to the earth around them, and then the minute 
atoms must be re-assembled into a structure that 
bears upon it the form, and lineaments, and gen-
eral aspect of a man, and the soul passes into this 
material framework, which is hereafter to be its 
lodging-place forever; and that not as its prison, 
but as its pleasant and befitting habitation ; not 
to be trammelled, as some would have it, in a hold 
of materialism, but to be therein equipped for the 
services of eternity, to walk embodied among the 
bowers of our second paradise, to stand embodied 
in the presence of our God." 
The fact of the resurrection of the body is not, 
however, so generally questioned, as is the place 
of man's abode in his resurrection state. 
To sup-
pose some other place than this earth, as the in-
heritance of the saints, is not only at variance 
with the ancient faith of the Church, but it is in 
disregard of those inspired declarations whicha ffirm 
that " we shall reign on the earth." 
Such being 
the final result, the question arises whether that 
consummation is imminent or remote ; but before 
proceeding to that, we will notice, 
IV. 
THAT THE PRESENT DIVINE ECONOMY, WITHOUT 
ANY GREAT CHANGE IN SOCIETY SUCH AS WOULD BE PRO-
DUCED BY THE WORLD'S CONVERSION, WILL CONTINUE 
UNTIL CHRIST'S ADVENT. 
The distinguished English Geologist, Hugh Mil-
ler, says, in his " Foot-prints of the Creator :" 
" As for the dream that there is to be some ex-
traordinary elevation of the general platform of 
the race, achieved by means of education, it is 
simply the hallucination of the age,—the world's 
present alchemical expedient for converting far-
things into guineas, sheerly by dint of scouring. 
Not but that education is good : it exercises, and. 
in the ordinary mind, develops faculty. 
But it 
will not anticipate the terminal dynasty. 
Yet 
farther,— man's average capacity of happiness 
seems to be as limited and as incapable of increase 
as his average reach of intellect; it is a mediocre 
capacity at best; nor is it greater by a shade now, 
in these days of power looms and portable man-
ners, than in the times of the old patriarchs. 
So 
long too as the la#r of increase continues, man 
must be subject to the law of death, with its stern 
attendants, suffering and sorrow." 
Macaulay, late a member of the British Cabi-
net, and a cool, sagacious observer, in reference to 
the progress of the principles of the Reformation 
very properly remarks: 
" We often hear it said that the world is con-
stantly becoming more and more enlightened, and 
that this enlightening must be favorable to Prot-
estantism, and unfavorable to Catholicism. 
We 
wish we could think so. 
But we see great reason 
to doubt whether this be a well founded expecta-
tion. 
We see that, during the last two hundred 
and fifty years, the human mind has been to the 
highest degree active—that it has made great ad-
vances in every branch of natural philosophy— 
that it has produced innumerable inventions tend-
ing to promote the convenience of life—that med-
icine, surgery, chemistry, engineering, have been 
very greatly improved—that government, police, 
and law have been improved, though not quite to 
the same extent. 
Yet we see that, during these 
two hundred and fifty years, Protestantism has 
made no conquests worth speaking of. 
Nay, we 
believe that, as far as there has been a change, that 
change has been in favor of the Church of Rome. 
We cannot, therefore, feel confident that the pro-
gress of knowledge will necessarily be fatal to a 
system which has, to say the least, stood its ground 
in spite of the immense progress which knowledge 
has made since the^days of Queen Elizabeth." 
Tract No. 470, of the American Tract Society,— 
a premium tract on the " Training up children 
for the conversion of the world," does not present 
any evidence from the present signs of the times 
in support of the expectations of the world's evan-
gelization which |,re advocated in it. 
On the con-
trary, it say8: 
" As yet there is no evidence that these expecta-
tions are about to be realized. 
The present gen-
eration of Christians exhibit no evidence that they 
are about to rise to higher piety and to discharge 
their hitherto neglected duty to the. perishing 
world. We discover no such cheering indications 
in those who are coming upon the stage. 
The 
young are not converted. . . . And the young who 
do experience religion are not ris;ng to any higher 
piety or putting forth more strenuous efforts than 
their predecessors. What then," it asks, " is the 
ground to expect that the church will be better 
qualified to evangelize the world thirty years hence 
than at the present, or will do any more to ac-
complish it ? Facts, so far as the present condi-
tion of the young is concerned, compel the answer, 
none." 
The Rev. II. Bonar, in the London Quarterly 
Journal of Prophecy, has truthfully said : 
" We hear much of the knowledge of the age. 
Well: but has not one of its own poets said, 
4 Knowledge comes, but wisdom lingers"? 
Yes, 
knowledge comes, but wisdom lingers! Knowledge 
comes, but goodness lingers. 
Knowledge comes, 
but the world is as far as ever from peace and 
rigoteousness. 
Its wounds are not healed; its 
tears do not cease to flow. Its crimes are not 
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fewer ; its morals are not purer ; its diseases are 
as many and as fatal. 
Its nations are not more 
prosperous ; its kingdoms are not more stable; 
its rulers are not more magnanimous ; its homes 
are not happier ; its ties of kindred or affection 
are not more blessed or lasting. 
The thorn still 
springs, and the brier spreads : famine scorches 
its plains, and the pestilence envenoms the air; 
the curse still blights creation, and the wilderness 
has not yet rejoiced or blossomed. 
Vat man is do-
ing his utmost to set right the world, and God is 
allowing him to put forth all his efforts, more vig-
orously and more simultaneously than ever, in 
these last days. 
Nor can any Christian mind fail 
to look with intensest though most painful in-
terest upon these vain endeavors. 
We know that 
they must fail. Man cannot deliver himself, nor 
regenerate this world. 
Reforms, republics, con-
stitutions, congresses, change of dynasties, will 
not accomplish it. 
Art in every form, science ol 
every name, are bringing into play unheard-of 
energies for the improvment of this globe, and for 
giving man the complete empire of earth and air 
and sea. 
But the task is superhuman, and each 
new forth-putting of human strength or intellect 
is only proving this the more. 
And hence it is 
with such interest, as well as with such pity, that 
we look upon the generation around us, with its 
overwrought muscles, its over-tasked energies— 
toiling unresistingly, and yet failing in its mighty 
aim—the regeneration of a world." 
It is however to the Scriptures that we are to 
look for testimony respecting the future. 
On 
turning to the Sacred Word we find the declara-
tion of the Saviour, (Matt. 24:14,) that " this gos-
pel of the kingdom shall be preached in all the 
world, for a witness unto all nations, and then 
shall the end come." Not when all have embraced 
the gospel, but when it has been preached to all. 
The evangelizing of the world would put an end 
to the papal apostacy ; but Daniel, in vision (Dan. 
7:21, 22,) " beheld, and the same horn made war 
with the saints, and prevailed against them ; until 
the Ancient of days came, and judgment was given 
to the saints of the Most High : and the time came 
that the saints possessed the kingdom." 
And 
Paul predicts the end of that wicked one at Christ's 
personal advent—affirming (2 Thess. 2:8,) of the 
man of sin, that him, "the Lord shall consume with 
the spirit of his mouth, and shall destroy with the 
brightness of his coming." 
This is in harmony with the prophecy of Daniel 
in the chapter just quoted, (vs. 26, 27,) that " the 
judgment shsll sit, and they shall take away his 
dominion to consume and to destroy it unto %e 
the end." 
And this end, is the end of the proba-
tionary state ; for then, we read, " The kingdom 
and dominion and the greatness of the kingdom 
under the whole heaven, shall be given to the peo-
ple of the saints of the Most High, whose king-
dom is an everlasting kingdom, and all dominions 
shall serve and obey him." 
The dwelling together of the righteous and the 
wicked, in a mixed state of society, until the eud 
of the world, is also illustrated in the parables of 
the " tares of the field," and of the "net " and 
" fishes," in the thirteenth chapter of Matthew. 
In the former, the command is to " let both grow 
together till the harvest," which is explained to 
be " the end of the world "—when all things that 
offend are to be gathered out of the kingdom : 
and, " then shall the righteous shine forth as the 
sun in the kingdom of their Father." 
And in the 
latter, as, when the net, having gathered fishes of 
every kind " was full, they drew it to the shore, 
and sat down, and gathered the good into vessels, 
but cast the bad away ; so," it is added, " shall 
it be at the end of the world : the angels shall 
come forth, and sever the wicked from among the 
just, and shall cast them into tlie furnace of fire." 
Deceive ourselves as we may, the Saviour's 
declaration, ever has been true, and it will be so 
to the end, that many walk in the broad way that 
leadeth to destruction, while few, comparitively, 
find the narrow way of life. And any expectations 
counter to this, must result in disappointment. 
In the words of Hugh Miller, before quoted from : 
" Faith, undeceived by the mirage of the mid-
way desert, whatever form or name, political or 
religious the phantasmigoria may bear, must con-
tinue to look beyond its unsolid tremulous glitter 
—its bare rocks exaggerated into air-drawn cas-
tles, and its stunted bushes magnified into goodly 
trees—and fixing her gaze up in the re-creation yet 
future,—the terminal dynasty yet unbegun,—she 
must be content to enter upon her final rest—for 
she will not enter upon it earlier—at return 
" Of Him, the woman's Seed, 
Last in the clouds from heaven, to be revealed 
In the glory of the Father, to dissolve 
Satan with his perverted world, then raise 
From the conflagrant mass, purged and refined, 
New heavens, new earth, ages of endless date, 
Founded in righteousness and peace and love, 
To bring forth fruits,—joy and eternal bliss." ' 
The only remaining topic to which I will call 
your attention is 
V. 
TnE PROXIMITY OF THE EVENT. 
However much men may differ respecting the 
nature of the event, on the subject of time there is 
little if any difference ; for all agree that we ar« 
verging towards a crisis that shall radically change 
the whole frame work of society. 
Some look only 
for the approaching death of despotic governments ; 
others, for the general adoption of socialistic prin-
ciples ; and others, for an evangelizing of the na-
tions ; but all agree that, ot whatever nature the 
change may be, it will be preceeded by fearful 
commotions; and that these we are about to realize. 
The Hon. Rufus Choate, of this city, only gave ut-
terance to the general expectation, when he elo-
quently remarked in Faneuil Hall in 1851 
" It has seemed to me as if the prerogatives of 
crowns, and the rights of men, and the hoarded-up 
resentments and revenges of a thousand years, 
were about to unsheath the sword for a conflict, in 
which blood shall flow, as in the Apocalyptic 
vision, to the bridles of the horses, and in which a 
whole age of men shall pass away—in which the 
great bell of time shall sound out another hour— 
in which society itself shall be tried by fire and 
steel—whether it is of nature and of nature's God, 
or not." 
The religious and political press express them-
selves alike respecting the future. 
One of the for-
mer, the Christian Luminary, admits that " im-
portant scenes are about to be opened to the view 
of an astonished world." 
And one of the secular press, the London Times, 
has said : 
" The foundations of the great political deep 
seem breaking up." 
And another, the New Orlerns Uelta, adds : 
" That the great fight will be fought, that the 
world-battle is as inevitable as to-morrow, is no 
dream of dispepsia or threat of a lunatic; it is 
evident to any one who will take the trouble to 
open his eyes and look around him." 
Distinguished divines of opposing creeds agree, 
in regarding the present time as the eve of great 
events; which they variously denominate, " the 
battle of armageddon," " earth's crisis," " the 
sounding of the seventh trumpet," " the ushering 
in of the millennium," " the coming of Christ," 
&c.—usually however intending to convey ideas 
differing from those conveyed by the literal inter-
pretation of the phrases, but all confirming the 
statement of Professor Bush, that, 
" If we take the ground of right reason, we must 
believe that the present age is one expressly fore-
told in prophecy, and that it is just opening upon 
the crowning consummation of all prophetic dec-
larations." 
And thus, in the expressive language of the Rev. 
A. C. Coxe, there is a general impression that 
" We are living, wo are dwelling, 
In a grand and awful time, 
In an age on ages telling: 
To be living is sublime. 
Hark! the waking up of nations, 
Gog and Magog to the fray ; 
Hark ! what soundeth ? 'Tis Creation's 
Groaning for its latter day." 
This city was honored the last year by a visit 
from the celebrated Dr. Duff, of Scotland, who has 
long resided in India at the head of the Scotch 
Mission establishment there. 
On his return from 
this country to Scotland, he gave an account of 
his visit here, and closed-his discourse with the 
following remarks—looking not however, as we do 
for a new creation, but for a corresponding spirit-
ual change. 
He said : 
" Surely the present crisis is constraining us to 
arise, and that with our whole heart. 
Surely it 
looks as if, in response to the sighing of the whole 
creation groaning in uneasiness and pain through 
long by gone ages, for the times of the restitution 
of all things—surely, in answer to the plaintive cry 
of the myriad martyrs from under the alter, who 
age after age have been uttering their longing cry, 
' How long, 0 Lord, how long ? ' 
He whols seated 
on the throne on high is now indicating by no or-
dinary signs that lie is to arise and assume His 
t
reat power, and to manifest Himself as really 
iing and Governor among the nations. 
Surely, in 
the language of one of old, the great Messiah 
is about to come forth from his royal chamber— 
about to put on the invisble robes of his imperial 
Majesty, and to take up the unlimited sceptre 
which his Father had bequeathed to Him. 
Even 
now, in the ear of faith, and almost in the ear of 
sense, we may hear the distant noise of the char-
iot wheels of the mighty Saviour King, coming 
forth conquering and to conquer, amid the shaking 
of the nations from pole to pole. 
Every nation has 
of late been upheaving from its ancient settled 
foundations ; and there will be mightier upheavings 
still, and that right speedily—all preparing the 
way for the new heaven and the new earth, in 
which righteousness will for ever dwell. 
And in 
the midst of these grand, glorious, and consum-
mating scenes, shall we fritter away our energies 
on endless, petty, paltrjr questions, not fit to be 
entertained hymen of sense even, not to speak 
of men of large Christian understandings and 
still larger Christian hearts? 
The time is com-
ing, and is at hand, when we shall look back and 
be ashamed at wasting so much precious time, 
•ound strength, sound thought, sound . feelings, 
sound energy, upon questions which, even if they 
were solved, would be but so many paltry little-
nesses in comparison with the mightier questions 
that bear directly on the establishment of the 
Saviour's kingiom over the subjugated nations 
questions, too, many of which God in his provi-
dence will soon solve and settle for us, if we only 
wait for it. 
Let us then arise, with one heart and 
one soul, and in union with the whole Christian 
men in America, in Canada, in England, in Geneva, 
and the Continent ; let us pray that we may be 
melted and fused into one living, burning, glow-
ing mass, and go forth as ' Jehovah's sacramental 
host,' carrying forward the standard of the Great 
Messiah from one battle-field to another, and un-
furling His glorious banner, in the assurance that 
the standard shall not be taken down again, nor 
the banner of victory furled, until it is found wav-
ing upon the citadel of the last of the rebel nations 
now prostrate at His feet. 
Ah, then, let us not 
only pray, but labor with intense, all-consuming 
devotedness for the speedy coming of the time 
when 
' One song employs all nations ; and all cry, 
Worthy the Lamb, for he was slain for us. 
The dwellers in the vales and on the rocks 
Shout to each other ; and the mountain tops, 
From different mountains, catch the flying joy; 
Till nation after nation taught the strain— 
Earth rolls the rapturous hosannah round.' " 
Neither time, nor the plan of the present dis-
course will permit me to go into detail in the pre-
sentation of the Scriptural evidences which mark 
the present as being near the close of this world's 
career. 
They are in short, the various historical 
prophecies, in which were foreshown the rise and 
fall of the successive empires which were to flour-
ish before the consummation, and which have ap-
parently been fulfilled in all their minute particu-
lars—the agreement of the present age with that 
foretold in prophecy as the precursor of the eter-
nal age—all the signs in the natural and moral 
world conforming to the predicted harbingers of 
the last times—the fulfilment of the several great 
prophetic periods, which no skill in chronological 
science can extend far into the future, and finally, 
the age of the earth, which the best chronologers 
compute to be now verging on its 6000th year. 
This last we regard more as inferential, than as 
positive evidence; but the long entertained and 
oft expressed opinion, by both Jew and Gentile, 
that this earth would reach its culminating point 
in its 6000th year, has given a prominence to it, 
that, however inferential it may be, the fact that 
we are undoubtedly near the close of the last cen-
tury of the sixth thousand years of time, may not 
be disregarded in the summing up of the evidences 
that these are the last days. 
Thomas Burnet says 
in his Theory of the Earth, 
" It was the received opinion of the primitive 
Church, from the days of the apostles to the Coun-
cil of Niee, that this earth would continue G00Q 
years, when the resurrection of the just, and con-
flagration of the earth, would usher in the millen-
nium, and reign of Christ on earth." 
The same belief has been re-affirmed by many 
who have lived since that day; and therefore the 
opinion is entitled to grave consideration. 
On the question of time in general, and in our 
interpretation ofthe prophetic periods, Prof. Bush, 
the most courteous ot our opponents, says to us • 
"You are sustained by the soundest exegesis, as 
well as fortified by the high names of Mede, Sir I. 
�ewton, Bishop Newton, Faber, Scott, Keith, and 
a host of others, who have long since come to sub-
stantially your conclusions on this head. 
They all 
agree that the leading periods mentioned by Dan-
iel and John do actually expire about this age of the 
world." 
And Dr. Cumming, of London, with a defite-
ness that Wt9 do not fully endorse, says : 
" The great epochs of Daniel, and the great eras 
of the apocalypse, as has been shown, all termi-
nate about the year 1864. 
Reader do not take up 
the idea that we assert that Christ comes in that 
year. 
All we allege is, that the great prophetic 
epochs converge just about that time, and accord-
ing to Clinton's chronology in Fasti Hellencia, the 
most able adjustment of the chronology of the 
world that has issued from the pen of any, he de-
monstrates not guesses that the six thousand years 
ofthe world terminate about 1863, and then that 
1864 or 65, begins the seventh millenary of the 
world." 
Without supposing that it is possible for any 
to demonstrate the precise year of the world in 
which we live, or to proclaim -confidently the one 
that shall terminate the present- state, yet we 
are warranted in constantly expecting the return 
of our King. 
This expectation has animated the 
Church in all ages ; and why should it not ani-
mate us?—living as we do at a time when we 
have everything to confirm our hope, that now it 
will be but a little while, when " God in very deed 
will dwell with men on the earth." 
We may not know precisely how neqr that event 
may be ; but we may say, in the words of Wil-
. liam Cunningham, Esq., of England : 
" All the events of our own times,—the growing 
disorganization of the body politic,—the fears and 
expectations of men,—the deep persuasion of an 
impending convulsion in-rooted in every thinking 
mind, similar to the instincts of animal nature be-
fore the approach of the earthquake,—the solemn 
and awakening declarations of Scripture,—the 
clear and unequivocal voice of Prophecy,—every 
sign, every promise, every testimony, unite in an-
nouncing his approach." —Fullness of Times, 
p. 166. 
Mr. Cunningham says in another place : 
"If we, who have watched every sign in the 
spiritual horizan for a long series of years, were 
now asked, ' Is any sign of His coming yet accom-
pliihed ? ' 
We should be constrained to answer, 
' To our view, not one sign remains unaccom-
plished.' 
If we were further asked, ' Shall He 
come this year ? ' 
Our answer would be, 
'We 
know not; but this much we know and believe, 
that He is at hand, even at the door.'"—Visions 
p. 100. 
It is difficult for the mind to conceive of an 
event of such magnitude as imminent; but this 
does not argue against its truthfulness. 
On this 
point the learned and Rev. E. B. Elliot, in his' 
volluminous work on the Apocalypse, remarks : 
" With regard to our present position, we have 
been led, as the result of our investigations, to fix 
it at but a short time from tho end of the now ex-
isting dispensation, and the expected second advent 
of Christ. 
This thought, when we seriously at-
tempt to realize it, must be felt to be a very start-
ling as well as a solemn one. 
And for my own 
part I confess to risings of doubt, and almost ot 
scepticism, as I do so. 
Can it be that we are 
come so near to the day of the Son of Man. that 
the generation now alive shall very possibly not 
have passed away before its fulfilment: yea, that 
even our own eyes may witness, without the inter-
vention of death, tfiat astonishing event ofthe con-
summation ? The idea falls on my mind as almost 
incredible. — The circumstance of anticipations 
having been so often formed quite erroneously 
heretofore of the proximity of the consummation, 
—for example, in the apostolic age, before the 
destruction of Jerusalem,—then during the perse-
cutions of Pagan Rome, then upon the breaking 
up of the old Roman Empire,—then at the close of 
the tenth century,—then at and after the Reforma-
tion,—and, still later, even by writers of our own 
day,—I say the circumstances of all these numer-
ous anticipations having been formed and zealous-
ly promulgated of the imminence of the second 
advent, which, notwithstanding, have by the event 
itself been shown to be unfounded, Btrongly tends 
to confirm us in our doubts and incredulity. 
Yet 
to rest in scepticism simply and* altogether upon 
such grounds would be evidently bad philosophy. 
For these are causes that would operate always : 
and that would make us be saying, up to the very 
eve and moment of the advent, ' Where is the prom-
ise of his coming?' 
Our true wisdom is to test 
each link of the chain of evidence, by which we 
have been led to our conclusion, and see whether 
it will bear the testing ;—to examine into the 
causes of previous demonstrated errors on the sub-
ject, and see whether we avoid them ;—finally to 
consider whether the signs of the times now pres-
ent be in all the sundry points that prophecy points 
out so peculiar, as to warrant a measure of confi-
dence iu our inference such as was never warranted 
before. And certainly, on doing this, it does seem 
to me that the grounds of our conclusion are sta-
ble."— Horce Apoc.,pp. 215, 216. 
While we would make known to our fellow men 
the whole counsel of God, nor fail to present 
every portion of the word in its season, it is for 
the purpose of more prominently presenting the 
great truths which we have glanced at this day, 
that this place of worship has been opened, and is 
now dedicated to the service of Jehovah. 
We 
make these truths prominent, not only for their 
relative importance at the present time, but be-
cause they are so often neglected elsewhere, 
^ind 
on the presentation of these, and of all truths 
within these walls, it is our prayer, that they may 
be presented in the simplicity of the gospel. 
May this be ever a house of prayer and a gate of 
heaven. 
Here may saints be comforted, and may 
sinners here be enabled to see the plague of their 
own hearts, and, turning to the service of the liv-
ing God, wait with us his son from heaven. 
THE SECOND ADVENT. 
1 Thess. 2:19, 20—" For what is our hope, or 
joy, or crown of rejoicing ? Are not even ye in the 
presence of our Lord Jesus Christ at his coming ? 
For ye are our glory and joy." 
—3:12,13—" And the Lord make you to in-
crease and abound in love one toward another, and 
toward all men, even as we do toward you ; to the 
end he may establish your hearts unblameable in 
holiness before.God, even our Father, at the com-
ing of our Lord Jesus Christ with all his saints!" 
2 Thess. 1:7—" And to you, who are troubled, 
rest with us, when the Lord Jesus shall be revealed 
from heaven with his mighty angels." 
—3:5—" And the Lord direct your hearts into 
the love of God, and into the patient waiting for 
Christ." 
Titus 2:12,13—" Teaching us, that denying un-
godliness, and worldly lusts, we should live sober-
ly, righteously, and godly, in this present world ; 
looking for that blessed hope, and the glorious ap-
pearing of the great God and our Saviour, Jesus 
Christ." 
1 Pet. 1:7, 13—" That the trial of your faith 
being much more precious than of gold that per-
isheth, though it be tried with fire, might he found 
unto praise, and honor, and glory, at the appear-
ing of Jesus Christ : 
Wherefore gird up 
the loins of your mind, be sober, and hope to the 
end for the grace that is to be brought unto you 
at the revelation of Jesus Christ." 
1 Cor. 1:7, 8—" So that ye come behind in no 
gift ; waiting for the coming of our Lord Jesus 
Christ: who shall also confirm you unto the end 
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that ye may be blameless in the day of our Lord 
Jesus Christ." 
% 
1 Thess. 3:13—" To the end he may establish 
your hearts unblamable in holiness before God. 
even our Father, at the coming of our Lord Jesus 
Christ with all his saints." 
2 Tim. 4:8—"Henceforth there is laid up for 
me a crown of righteousness, which the Lord, the 
righteous Judge, shall give me at that day : and 
not to me only, but unto all. them also that love 
his appearing." 
Phil. 3:20, 21—" For our conversation is in 
heaven ; from Whence also we look for the Saviour, 
the Lord Jesus Christ : who shall change our vile 
body, that it may be fashioned like unto his glori-
ous body, according to the working whereby he is 
able even to subdue all things unto himself." 
" The Church has waited long 
Her absent Lord to see ; 
And still in loneliness she waits, 
A friendless stranger she. 
Age after age has gone, 
Sun after sun has set, 
And still, in weeds of widowhood, 
She weeps, a mourner yet. 
" The whole creation groans, 
And waits to hear that voice 
That shall restore her comeliness, 
And make her wastes rejoice. 
' 
Come, Lord, and wipe away 
The curse, the sin, the stain, 
And make tbis blighted world of ours 
Thine own fair world again. 
Come, then, Lord Jesus, come! " 
Rev. A. H. Bonar, (Eng.) 
CORRESPONDENCE. 
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Herald. 
LETTER FROM J. E. HURD. 
BRO. Huias :—I have been reading the Herald to 
day and reflecting on the distress that is in the 
world, both on the land and on the sea. 
And while 
the hearts of humanity are pained with the intelli-
gence of so much suffering, I thought it would 
gladden the friends of Zion to hear that God had 
revived his work again in Barnston, and vicinity 
About the middle of September, brother Thur-
ber commenced evening meetings with us, under 
very discouraging circumstances. 
They continued 
from Thursday evening until Sunday ; when the 
cloud broke, the powers of darkness gave way, 
backsliders confessed, and returned home, and sin-
ners crowded to the the altar for prayers. 
The 
work was deep and genuine ; the old and new 
saints have not ceased yet to praise God for his 
wonderful works to the children of men. 
The 
lever was not definite time, but Christ at the door 
—living at the tiAe called quickly—expecting 
every day might be the last. 
Here is where we 
stand, watching and praying, for we know not 
when the time is. 
(Mark 13:9.) 
The revival continued with meeting about two 
weeks ; twenty-four were baptized. 
Some young 
men and women were among the number. 
Brother Thurber went from here to East Hat-
ley, and stayed a short time ; the brethren were 
revived, and conviction rested on the minds of 
many. 
He then went to Brompton and baptized 
a number ; from there to Sbifton, Melbourne, and 
to brother Foster's Mills in Stanstead, where much 
good was done ; wanderers were reclaimed, a num-
ber were converted, four were baptized, and others 
I think will be soon. 
For the figw days past he has 
been laboring at West Hatley ; he baptized ten— 
has now gone to East Hatley, where the Lord has 
blessed in a wonderful manner, under tbe labors 
of brother Warren—the particulars of which I am 
not in possession of now. 
You will probably hear 
from them soon. Yours, expecting deliverance 
soon. 
J. E. HURD. 
Barnston, C. E., Nov. 10th, 1854. 
" BUT thou shalt remember that thou wast _ 
bond-man ia Egypt, and that tho Lord thy God re-
deemed thee thence."—Deut. 24:18. 
The deliverance of the children of Israel from 
Egyptian bondage, must interest the mind of every 
unprejudiced person, who reads it merely as an 
historical fact, calculated to display the immediate 
power of God. 
But the Christian, who reads the 
sacred story as a type and figure of his own 
bondage under the power and dominion of sin, and 
the great deliverance wrought out for him by his 
spiritual Joshua, Jesus Christ, peruses the sacred 
pages with new views, nobler curiosity, and higher 
aims. 
He there discovers the purity of God's law, 
the absolute and unconditional obedience pre-
scribed, the types and shadows, which, wrapt in 
allegory and metaphor, veil the gospel from the 
unbeliever, and publish it to the Christian. 
He 
there follows the children of Israel through their 
painful journeyings their often backslidings, their 
frequent fightings, and continued doubtings ; and 
traces his own experience as he iournies through 
a world, fitly compared to a wilderness, where 
without are fightings, and within are fears." 
Thus spiritualized, without injury to the literal 
meaning, the sacred story abounds with simili-
tudes suited to raise devout affections, to strength-
en faith, to animate hope, and to inspire devotion. 
Let the words of Moses be applied to practical ex-
perience, and the Christian will discern many mo-
tives to remember that he has been with the cho-
sen people of God, under Old Testament dispensa-
tion, a bond-man in Egypt. 
Where is the believer 
who has not felt himself worse than in Egyptian 
bondage to sin, the world, its opinions, pursuits, 
ei^snareraents, and delusions? Where is the Chris-
tian who has not endeavored to make bricks with-
out straw ? to merit heaven by works of right-
eousness ? And from all this, who hath redeemed 
ns ? When the devout soul re-views from what a 
State of darkness, error and delusion, the Spirit of 
God has awakened him, when he contemplates 
the natural enmity which reigns in every uncon-
verted heart against the pure and holy precepts, 
and the self-abasing doctrines of the gospel, he 
will surely confess that no power inferior to that 
of the Lord God, could have redeemed his mind 
from the bondage of evil, and brought it into 
subjection to the religion of Jesus. 
Gladly will 
such an one listen to the tender admonitions of the 
man of God, and be persuaded to remember, that 
when he was a bond-man in Egypt, dead to prayer, 
and a stranger to spiritual communion, " The 
Lord his God redeemed him thence." 
But, let us 
advert to caution which this remembrance im-
presses upon us in our social and relative capaci-
ties. 
The people of God are too apt to censure 
with severity all those who are still in " the gall 
of bitterness, and in the bonds of iniquity ;" and 
indeed those fellow-Christians who differ from 
them in the peculiar doctrines of evangelical truth. 
Surely, asperity of animadversion ill becomes those 
who profess to believe, and are exhorted to " re-
member they were once bond-men in Egypt, and 
the Lord God redeemed them thence." 
The more divine truth is unfolded to the under-
standing, and applied to the heart, the more it 
tends to humble the creature and exalt the Saviour. 
A spirit of reproach and disdain is incompatible 
with a conviction, that " unless we believe, we 
shall all likewise perish." 
Faith, we are assured 
is tbe gift of God. 
Who made us to differ? If 
we have received the grace of God, and awakened 
to pursue divine truth and to love holiness, never 
let us forget our original bondage to sin, repre-
sented in a figure by the captivity of Israel in 
Egypt. 
Moses preaches gospel truth in this sa-
cred caution: " The Lord thy God redeemed thee 
thence." 
Let us put on, therefore, humility and 
the ornament of a meek and quiet spirit: be not 
hasty to condemn others ; but remember, He who 
redeemed us is powerful, and able to redeem the 
chief of sinners. 
" Remember thou wast a bond-
man in Egypt, and the Lord thy God redeemed 
thee thence." 
M. GRAFTON. 
The Returning Wanderer. 
DEAR SIR :—I used to take the Advent Herald 
a few years ago. 
I began to lose my interest 
in the Advent doctrine and discontinued it. 
I 
have not heard for a long time whether that paper 
still exists or npt. 
It was the preaching of Father 
Miller fourteen years ago which converted my 
soul,; and when I lost my interest in the Advent 
doctrine, I began to get into a cold, backsliding 
state and have continued so ever since, until lately. 
I find it is only the doctrine of the resurrection, 
and the second coming of the King of Israel, that 
will bring me back to my Saviour's feet. I cannot 
hear it preached for no one preaches it here and 
my health will not permit me to walk as far as 
Boston to hear it, 
What I want to say to you is, 
that if you publish the Advent Herald now, or any 
Advent paper, please send it to my address. 
And my dear friend, will you not pray for me 
that I may be restored to the favor of that one 
who is soon to come to establish his kingdom; 
that I may be remembered and owned as one of his 
subjects, that I may enter into that city into which 
nothing shall enter which defileth or worketh 
abomination. 
I trust you will. 
And then when 
the " desire of all nations shall come," I shall sit 
down at the marriage supper of the Lamb with 
you and Father Miller and many others whom I 
could mention, though despised by the world, yet 
of whom the "world is not worthy," but highly 
esteemed by the coming Redeemer. 
We give the above for the encouragment of oth-
ers who have wandered. The song says to all such, 
"return unto me ye backsliding children, and I 
will receive you." 
All such have an interest in 
our prayers. 
An Inquiry. 
1. WIIAT was the Faith of the Primitive Church 
regarding the two natures of Christ ? 
2. When was the blessed doctrine of the two 
natures first disputed ? 
JonN SHAW. 
ANS. The early Church, held it as an indisputa-
ble article of their faith, that the Divine and hu-
man natures were united in Christ. 
It was not 
till the time of Arins, in the early part of the 
fourteenth century, that the divinity of Christ was 
callcd in question. 
This is a so well established 
historical fact, that no one conversant with church 
history will hesitate to acknowledge. 
A Question. 
IF the six days of Creation, (Gen. 1st chap..) 
means ages, as some tell us, each of which might 
have been five thousand years long; and as ^dam 
was created on the sixth day, consequently must 
have kept Sabbath with God for an age. 
II9W old 
must he have been when he died—will some of our 
geologists tell us ? 
J. L. CLAPP. 
Homer, Nov. 12th, 1854. 
PRIDE is as loud a beggar as want, and a great 
deal more saucy. 
When you have bought one 
fine thing, you must buy ten more, that your ap-
pearance may be all of a piece ; but it is easier to 
suppress tbe desire, than to satisfy all that follow 
it 
Franklin. 
©bituam 
' I am the resurrection and the life: he that believeth in me 
though he were dead, yet shall he live: and whosoeverliveth,and 
believethin me. shallnever die.''—JOHN 11: 25,26. 
DIED, of croup, at White Rock, Ogle county, 
111., Sept. 30th, 1854, SHURBURNE J., son of broth-
er Aaron and sister Jane Bell, aged four years, four 
months, and thirteen days. 
Shurburne was an in-
telligent, and very promising child. 
When broth-
er Himes was here one year since, he and I to-
gether visited brother Bell's family, and found 
them in deep affliction, resulting from a sweeping 
fire ; yet they were calm, trusting in God, consid-
ering their affliction. Brother II. gave them the 
Advent Herald to the close of the present volume. 
This has proved a source of much comfort to the 
entire family. 
As we were about to leave, brother 
H. gave Shurburne a small tract which he received 
very thankfully ; in the perusal of which he has 
often been heard to say, " What a good man 
brother Himes is ; I love him for giving me such a 
book," &c. When he was attacked with the dis-
ease that soon terminated his existence, he seemed 
much alarmed, and said, " Do father send Bill for 
the Doctor." 
Every pains was taken to preserve 
his life, but all in vain. 
A few minutes before he 
expired, the inquiry was made, " Shurburne, are 
you anxious to get well?" to which he replied, 
" Oh no, father," and immediately (as we trust,) 
fell asleep in Jesus. 
So the friends sorrow not as 
those do who have no hope. 
In the absence of 
brother Cummings, an appropriate discoures was 
delivered on the occasion, by Elder C. C. Clapp, 
(of the Baptist connection,) from Rev. 21:4—" For 
the former things are passed away." 
SAMUEL CHAPMAN. 
White Rock, 111., Nov. 17th, 1854. 
DIED, in Barnstead, N. II., Nov. 11th, 1854, 
REBECCA J. GRACE, daughter of brother Moses and 
sister Jane Grace, 15 years 9 months and 13 days. 
Sister Rebecca was attending school at Pittsfield, 
and five weeks before she was called home, her 
father went after her to take her home to spend 
the Sabbath. 
Just after they started for home, 
some part of the harness gave way letting the car-
raige on to the horse. 
The horse became unmana-
gable, Rebecca jumped from the carriage and re-
ceived some injury which brought on a quick con-
sumption which closed her life thus early. 
She 
died in the triumphs of faith, and now rests in 
Christ. 
Brother Grace received an injury from 
which he can never recover ; on the same day his 
daughter died, his right leg was taken off just 
below the knee. 
God has sorely afflicted this dear 
family. 
May His grace sustain them. 
J. 
HARVEY. 
London, Rev. John Cumming,'D. D., are attraoting wide-spread a 
tention, and are being perused by hundreds of thousands of admit-in1' 
readers, on both sides of the Atlantic. 
For simplicity and eleganc^ 
of diction, and holy fervor, we doubt if they are excelled by any 
writer, living or dead. 
Their influence, whenever and by whomso-
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No Christian's Library is complete, 
if destitute of these books. 
Their titles are as follows: 
Benedictions, or the Blessed Life. 
Voices of the Day. 
Voices of the Night 
Voices of the Dead. 
The Church Before the Flood. 
The Tent and the Altar. 
Scripture Readings on Genesis. 
Romanism and Tractareanism. 
To be followed by Readings on Exodus and Leviticus. 
And by 
the New Testament Readings at convenient intervals. 
The religious community, particularly the religious press, has 
spoken in high termt of commendation of these excellent works, as 
follows: 
Thousands will thank Jewett & Co. for putting this series of vol-
umes within their reach. 
Would that the whole community were 
reaping the benefit they are fitted to impart. 
Christian Mirror, Portland, Me. 
The choicest and richest illustrations of sacred truths are here 
found grouped together in the most interesting and attractive form. 
The Wesleyan, Syracuse, N. Y. 
It it difficult to say whether this and the author's other works 
are more distinguished for splendor of diction, elevation of thought, 
or depth of evangelical and devout feeling. 
They are adapted to be 
universally popular and useful. 
Albany Argus. 
Elevated in thought, attractive in style, and devotional in tone, 
these volumes must command attention, and will become favorites 
with the Christian reading community. 
The Presbyterian, Philadelphia. 
As a writer he is prolific, and his books have an immense sale. 
His style is clear and unaffected, and his pages breathe a spirit of 
warm evangelical piety. 
Vermont Chronicle. 
It will do the heart and head good to read Dr Cumming's writ 
ings. 
They will have an extensive circulation, and cheer many a 
pilgrim on his way to heaven. 
Canada Christian Advocate. 
There is a freshness, and beautv, and spirituality about all Dr. 
Cumming's productions that we have met with, which cannot fail to 
give them favor with the man oftaste, as well as the true Christian. 
Puritan Recorder, Boston. 
Jewett & Co., publish nothing but works of the most admirable 
character. 
In these volumes, by the Rev. Dr. Cumming, they have 
supplied a waht which the religious world has long felt. 
Schenectady Reporter. 
We know few books so enriched with thought and so pervaded 
with genial Christian feeling as those of Dr. Cumming. 
Lutheran Observer, Baltimore. 
In noticing the first volume of the series of which these beautiful 
volumes form a par:, we have already expressed our very high esti-
mate of Dr. Cumming and of his works. 
Congregationalist, Boston. 
These volumes of the reprint of Dr. Cumming's works will be re-
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genius and high Christian culture. 
Evening Traveller, Boston. 
All of Dr. Cumming's writings are eloquent, soul-stirring, stimu-
lating, pregnant with admirable suggestions, and filled with profita-
ble instruction. 
Zion's Herald, Boston. 
The works of Dr. Cumming breathe a most heavenly spirit. 
No 
one can read them witho.it feeling himself elevated and incited to 
new duties and a higher state of Christian feeling. 
Mass. Life Boat. 
If Dr. Cumming can preach as he can write, there is no cause for 
wonder that he draws crowds of admiring hearers. 
Salem Observer. 
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Contents of tbis No. 
MISCELLANEOUS. 
CORRESPONDENCE. 
On Mesmerism 
385|Letter from J. E. Hurd.... 391 
The War 
385 The Returning Wanderer .. 391 
A Hymn 
386. An Enquiry 
391 
EDITORIAL. 
Dedication of the new Chapel 388 
New Works 
392 
OBITUARY. 
S. J. Bell 
361 
R. J. Grace 
391 
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