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VOL. XXV. NO. 51. 
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hand. And again they will say, Alleluia. 
And her smoke will rise up forever and ever. 
Brethren, the end of all things is at hand ; 
be ye therefore sober, and watch unto prayer. 
Let your moderation, be known unto all men. 
The Lord is at hand. Be ye also patient : 
stablish your heart, for the corning of the 
Lord draweth nigh. Thus said' the Lord, 
Behold, I come quickly. Hold that fast 
which thou hast, that no man take thy crown. 
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John is carried into the wilderness. The 
harlot ins her turn is in trouble. She is be-
wildered. John beholds a woman ins lewd 
attire, with the superscription of her abomi-
nable character upon her forehead : indicat-
ing, that she, as the worst of criminals, is 
presented for speedy execution. Bishop 
Pearson and Doctor Lardner, upon the su-
perscriptions over the head of our Saviour, 
have shown that it was a custom among the 
ancient Romans, to place on, or over, the 
foreheads of the worst criminals, the super-
scription of their guilt, at the time of their 
execution. The superscription upon the 
cross of our Saviour was upon the same 
principle. The great harlot is presented 
with this, her superscription upon her fore-
head, inscribed in° capitals : "MYSTERY, 
BABYLON THE GREAT, THE MOTH-
ER OF HARLOTS, AND ABOMINA-
TIONS OF THE EARTH." And she has 
also upon her the symbols of her past mag-
nificence, and of her allurements and crimes, 
in order to show her to be the Papal hierar-
chy. She is mounted on a beast, that may 
be said to be bearing her to her• judgment, 
or execution. (This is not a woman direct-
ing and governing an empire, but just the 
reverse.) 
This beast is of a scarlet color, to denote 
his cruel and bloody character. He is full 
of the names of blasphemy to denote his 
infidelity and wickedness. And he has sevens 
heads as well as term horns, to identify ins Mtn 
the old heathen Roman empire, now revived. 
The angel, ins explaining the mystery of 
the beast, informs, that he was, and is not ; 
and shall ascend out of the bottomless pit, 
and go into perdition ; and they, who dwell 
on time earth, shall wonder (whose names 
were not written in the book of life from the 
foundation of the world,) when they behold 
the beast, that was, and is not, and yet is. 
The sevens heads, the angel informs, (ins ad-
dition to their being seven moutains, on 
which the woman sitteth, or on which Rome 
was built ;) are seven kings or fbrms of gov-
ernment, ins the different periods of the Ro-
man empire. Five are fallen ; those of 
Kings, Consuls, Tribunes, Decemvirs and 
Dictators were past, when John had his vis-
ion. One is, the then present form was Im-
perial, and was the sixths head, or form of 
government. And the other is not yet come ; 
and when he cometh, he must continue a 
short space. Concerning this seventh head 
or form of government, their future, which, 
when it should come, should continue a short 
space, expositors have been divided and per-
plexed. Every scheme which they have 
adopted. appears attended with unanswerable 
objections. The reason, I think, is obvious. 
Nothing had taken place, to which the de-
scriptions was applicable ; or the event was 
still future. The sixth head continued in 
the days of Constantine. Then it received 
its wound, and died. 
There was now no beast, till the Papal 
hierarchy arose. But this was not the revi-
val of the Roman beast, as has beers shown. 
Whenever the Roman beast revives in his 
eseventh head, which continues a short space, 
it must be ins the heathen or infidel nature, of 
avowed, as well as real oppositions to the 
cause of Christ. Otherwise, he is not the 
real Roman beast. For whatever wicked-
ness, cruelty or real idolatry was attached to 
the Papal imposture, that was only the im-
age of the Roman beast, but not the beast 
himself. [Instead of saying "that was only 
the image of the Roman beast, but riot the 
beast himself," would it not be more correct 
and truthful, to say, that it was only the 
wounded head partly healed, and not the 
Roman beast wholly restored to life ?] 
Whenever this beast himself shall revive, it 
must be with the characteristic of direct op-
position to time cause of Christ. And that 
he was thus to revive, as distinct from Po-
pery, is evident from the passages relative to 
the Roman beast, which have been noted ; 
.(See Dan. 7 : 11, and Rev. 13: 3, and on-
ward,) and from what we shall find in this 
chapter. Also that his revival was to b8 
but a short space before the battle of the 
great day, is clearly ascertained, as will ap-
pear. This revival of the Roman beast, in 
his sevenths head, [Republicans and Imperial 
France, from 1793 to 1815,] has, I believe, 
never takers place, till of late. And, if I an 
not deceived, this head has recently appeared 
under an Atheistco-republican [and Imperi-
al] form of government ; reducisig the prin-
cipal nations of the old Western Roman em-
pire under its power ; and continuing the 
short space of several years ; which was 
longer than some of the former heads of this 
beast continued. 
Time seventh head then gave way to the 
eighth, [That is, the French government 
gave way to the alliance of 1815-the sym-
bol here used, the beast of Rev. 17, symbo-
lizing both the 7th and 8th heads, which are 
bunt one head, and that the 7th of the Roman 
beast,] which is symbolized in this chapter 
by a new beast, ascending out of the bottom-
less pit; great and terrible. Verse 11. "And 
the beast that was, and is not, even he is the 
eighth, and is of the seven, and goeth into 
perdition." Here we find that the beast in 
this chapter, who is bearing the Papal harlot 
to her execution, is the eighth head of the 
Roman beast. This last head of tine old 
beast is symbolized by a new beast of pecu- 
the signs of the coming of' the Son of man 
stand revealed in their order thus: "a 
star," "a sceptre." "There shall come a star 
out of Jacob." This sign has appeared in 
heaven, and at the first advent. "And a 
sceptre shall rise out of Israel." Numb. 24: 
17. This sign, emblem of the Kingdom of 
Him whose "Kingdom shall be exalted," and 
who "shall be higher than the kings of the 
earth,"-and "higher than Agag," has not 
been seen as yet in heaven. It will be, and 
constitutes "the sign of the Son of mans" 
to be revealed at his second coming, and 
preceeding it , • then "all the tribes of the 
earth shall mourn." As the intelligence 
that "His star" had appeared, spread conster-
nations among the unprepared inhabitants of 
Jerusalem, so will the appearance of "the 
signs of the Son of mans ins heavens cause 
trouble to a guilty world" and lukewarm 
church. But then shall the saints and all 
who love His apearing in all lands lift up 
their heads and rejoice "with exceeding 
great joy," and mysterious voices shall every 
where proclaim aloud "the Kingdoms'of this 
world are become the Kingdoms of our Lord, 
and of His Christ; and He shall reign forever 
and ever." 
The true church and bride of Christ-the 
"wise virgins"-the waiting ones, will then 
with calm hope await their deliverance. 
"Hear the word of the Lord, ye that trem-
ble at His word ; your brethren that hated 
you, that cast you out for my name's sake, 
said, let the Lord be glorified ; but He shall 
appear to your joy, rnd they shall be 
ashamed." Isa. 65: 5. 
To which class of persons do we belong ? 
Let us apply the Scriptural test for the last 
times :- 
"Unto them that look for Him shall He 
appear the second time without sin unto 
salvation." Heb. 9: 28. "A crown of right-
eousness unto them that love His appearing." 
2 Tim. 4 : 8. 
"Even so, come, Lord Jesus.", Rev. 22 : 20, 
"Love or dread for Christ's appearing is a 
sure indication of a true or false Christian." 
-( Wesley.) �0. R. FASBETT. 
smoke mingled with fire and vapor, leading 
the long train, told us that the task had com-
menced. On the very side of the mountain 
we saw a train ahead, moving up. Nature 
seemed to rise and say you shall not, but Art 
answered /will, and here was the struggle. 
Upward we toil around the mountain side. 
As we rise the vales sink from sight amid 
the dusk of twilight. Deep ravines and ab-
rupt mountains all around us feast our eyes 
till we feel that "we are as nothing in his 
sight." At the top is a dangerous tunnel 
three quarters of a mile long. We pass it 
safely and are startled with a fire in the 
mountains. We have now entered the coal 
region ; and the burning ovens of coal and 
iron meet us on every side, but impressive 
was the sight of an Iron Works on the side 
of a dark mountains, employing 1,700 hands, 
seen in the evening. A burning city could 
not have presented a more sublime spectacle. 
It was enough for one day, and we retired 
to rest feeling that the delay was overruled, 
to impress the splendor of time scene. 
Pittsburg is a city of smoke-but a city 
of health. No asthma can live there. The 
ladies and gents, 40 in number, take turns 
at the Soldiers Home, giving one day each 
week in turn for the entertainment of the 
passing soldiers. We received their hospi-
tality with gratitude. 
From Crestline to Columbus we paid our 
fare. It is the only road thus far that will 
not pass the Delegates of the Christian Com-
mission free of charge. 
Friday, the 9th. We are now enjoying 
the hospitalities of the Burnett House in 
Cincinatti. We have called on Dr. War-
dle, and finding hint enjoying the Blessed 
Hope. We learn that Judge Story of this 
city is a decided Adventist in views. He is 
an active mans in the Christian Commission. 
We start to day for Louisville, Ky. We are 
in excellent health and high spirits, all ready 
to commence our work among the sick, the 
wounded, and dying soldiers. To some of 
the friends it may seem strange that we 
are in this department of labor. The reasons 
are two-fold. 
First, wo get to the Freed 
men free of cost, and second, we shall gain 
much by experienc of this work. After six 
weeks we shall be at liberty to attend to 
our special mission. �
GE O. H. CHILD. 
LIGHT AND TRUTH SOLICITED CON-
CERNING ANTICHRIST. 
the saints shall be given into the hand of an-
tichrist for u time, times and the dividing 
of a time, that is, for the period of 1260 
prophetical days or years so frequently al-
luded to in Scripture, and then it immediate-
ly adds, "But the judgment shall sit, and 
they shall take away his dominion to con-
sume and destroy it unto the end." v. 26. 
Whether this means the final judgment or 
some special judgment upon Popery, where-
by its strength shall be wasted away, and as 
it appears to me, the latter is not improba-
ble, it is evident that Alsen that period ter-
minates, the -Advent of the Son of God is 
not far off. It is again referred to in Daniel 
12 : 7, as being the termination of the won-
der that the prophet beheld, thus plainly 
showing us that its conclusion is destined to 
inaugurate a most important period of the 
world's history. 
But before we can ascertain the termina-
tion of this period, we require to know its 
commencement. When does it begin? Not 
in the time of Daniel himself, for he lived 
in the time of the first beast, and centuries 
had yet to run their course. Not in the 
time of Paul, for he lived in the time of the 
fourth beast, then in the. zenith cf its power, 
and the ten kingdoms with the little horn 
power itself was as yet non-existent. It be-
gan at the time when "the saints were given 
into its Band." And when was that ? 
When the Thessalonians were filled with 
the idea that the day of Christ was at hand, 
Paul wrote them saying, "Let no mans de-
ceive you by any means ; for that day shall 
not come, except there come a falling away 
first, and that man of sin be revealed." And 
Ile goes on to say, "For the mystery of ini-
quity cloth already work," from which we see 
that even then, it was in embryo, and only 
wanted development. But a hindrance stood 
in - the way, and Paul refers to it, for he 
says "Tile mystery of iniquity doth already 
work, only he who now letteth, i. e., hindereth, 
will hinder until he be taken out of the wity, 
and then shall that wicked be revealed, whom 
the Lord shall consume with the spirit of his 
mouth, and shall destroy with the brightness 
of his coming." 2 Thess. 2 : 7, 8. Now 
what was this hindrance which prevented the 
development of the Man of Sin, the Son of 
perdition, who was yet to exalt himself above 
all that is called God or that is worshipped ? 
It was the fourth beast, "dreadful, terrible 
and strong exceedingly," which "devoured, 
brake in pieces, and stamped the residue with 
its feet." It was the Roman empire far too 
powerful to be contended againSt, which 
brake in pieces all who opposed it. Until 
that is "taken out of the way," "that wicked" 
cannot be "revealed." �
Antichrist cannot 
raise his his head among the nations, and 
commence his destined work of making war 
upon, overcoming and wearing out the saints 
of the Most High, fbr until then they shall 
not "be given into his hand." 
But as time rolled on, the mystery of ini-
quity which was at work in the days of 
Paul, gradually arose in power, and while 
the Roman empire waxed weaker and •weak-
er, the Roman antichrist waxed stronger 
and stronger, until at last it became a mat-
ter of consequence to the former to receive 
the support of the latter. Then came the 
triumph of antichrist. In the year 533 the 
Roman Emperor, Justinian recognized the 
Bishop of Rome as the Universal Bishop of 
the Church. In the year 538 his great 
General Belisarius re-conquered the West-
ern empire, and thus restored it to its mas-
ter, so that the grant became valid as Justin-
ian was then the Lndoubted master of the 
Roman -world, and .so from that date the 
1260 years began to run their course. Then 
began that dreadful series of persecutions 
which gradually increasing in intensity as 
the darkness thickened, filled the world like 
the flying roll of Ezekiel with mourning, 
lamentation, and • woe, and made the scarlet 
women drunk with the blood of the martyrs 
of Jesus. 
Twelve hundred and sixty years added to 
538, brings us up to 1798, about which 
time beyond all question, the temporal power 
of the Papacy' began to decline in conse-
quence of the great movements inaugurated 
by the French Revolution. Since that time 
Giant Pope, although still regarded by mil-
lions as the Vicar of Christ, has been as pow-
erless for purposes of persecution as Giant 
Agar. No doubt he is still "that wicked," 
and will continue to be so until destroyed by 
the brightness of the Lord's coming, but he 
can no longer make war upon the saints, 
with the certainty of overcoming them as of 
old time, for the period when they were to 
be delivered into his hand is ended. And 
being ended, we are living in "the time of 
the end," and the time is not far distant when 
the angel shall come down from heaven hav-
ing great power, and lightening the earth 
with glory. And he shall cry mightily with a 
strong voice, saying, Babylon, the great, is 
fallen, is fallen, and is become the habitation 
of devils, and the hold of every foul spirit, 
and a cage of every unclean and hateful 
bird. And after these things, then will be 
heard a great voice of much people, saying, 
Alleluia. Salvation and glory, and honor and 
power be unto the Lord, our God ; for true 
and righteous are his judgments, for Le hails 
judged the great whore which did corrupt 
the earth with her fbrnication, and ,bath 
avenged the blood of his servants at her 
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Ancient of days, and there was given him 
glory and dominion, and a kingdom that shall 
not pass away, and his dominion that which 
shall not be destroyed. Dan. 7: r_15. 
Such was the dream. And Daniel was 
astonished, and desired much to know the in-
terpretation, and this was the interpretation. 
These four beasts were four kings that should 
arise, and the ten horns of the fourth beast 
were ten kingdoms into which the kingdom 
of the fourth beast was to be divided. The 
little horn was an anti-christian power that 
should arise after them and inflict much evil 
on the people of God, who should be deliv-
ered into his hand for a certain specified pe-
riod, "but the judgment shall sit and they 
shall take away his dominion to consume and 
destroy it unto the end. And the kingdom, 
and dominion, and the greatness of the king-
dom under the whole heaven shall be given 
to the people of the saints of the Most High, 
whose kingdom is an everlasting kingdom, 
and all dominions shall serve and obey him." 
Dan. 7 : 15-27. 
Such was the interpretation. Now it will 
be at once seen, that between the dream of 
the king and the dream of the prophet, there 
are certain general points of resemblance. 
The four metals in the kings image represent 
four consecutive kingdoms, so do the four 
beasts of the prophet. The ten toes of the 
image are ten kingdoms into which the 
fourth universal empire was to be divided, 
so are time ten horns of the fourth beast. The • 
kingdoms of the ten toes are to be succeeded 
by a kingdom that shall never be destroyed, 
but shall stand forever. The kingdoms of 
the ten horns and of the little horn are to be 
followed by the kingdom of the saints of the 
Most High, whose kingdom is an everlasting 
kingdom, and all dominions shall serve and 
obey him. The two dreams, therefore, are 
one, each relating to the same great events. 
Like the two dreams of Pharoah of seven 
good and seven bad kine, and seven good 
and seven bad ears of corn, they are one. 
But there is one feature in the dream of 
the prophet which has no counterpart in the 
dream of the king, and that is the little 1101.11. 
There is little difficulty in identifying this 
power. The description given of it in the 
prophet's vision taken in connection with the 
history of the church in past ages, enables 
us to fix it with a feeling of infallible cer-
tainty upon the Papal antichrist. Mark 
what is said of the little -horn. It is de-
scribed as having eyes, and a mouth that 
spake very great things, and a look more 
stout than his fellows. v. 20. How graphic.. 
What "very great things," what lofty speeches 
have been uttered • by time Papal antichrist ! 
Whether the description has reference to au-
dacity or effrontery, how true it is that its 
"look has been more stout than his fellows." 
Nothing could exceed the audacity of Rome 
except her impudence. No exposure can 
make her blush. Like the whore's forehead, 
she refuses to be ashamed. 
I beheld, and the same horn made war 
with the saints and overcame them. v. 21. 
Alas, how true ! How often has antichrist 
made cruel war against the church of God ! 
How often has it overcome them. 
"And he shall sneak great words against 
the Most High, and shall Wear out the saints 
of the Most High, and think to change Limes 
and laws." v. 25. Again how graphic. 0 
the abominable blasphemies of Popery. 0 
her bloody and unrelenting persecution of 
the Church of God ! 0 her daring and most 
insolent enforcement of her own wicked de-
crees in violation alike of reason and of 
Scripture. If the little horn be not the Pa-
pal antichrist, it seems to me that those who 
maintain that, it is useless to study prophecy 
have the best of the argument. 
And what is that evil power described by 
the Apostle Paul in his second epistle to the 
Thessalonians, as the man of sin and the son 
of perdition who opposeth and exalteth him-
self above all that is called God, or that is 
worshipped so that he as God setteth in the 
temple of God, showing himself that he is 
God. 2 Thess. 2 : 3, 4. Want of space 
will not permit me to argue the point, but 
fortunately argument does not seem to be re-
quired. It is evident that this also is time 
Papal antichrist. 
Thus we see that the rise of Popery has 
been made the subject of prophecy. It is 
evident too, from the vision of the prophet 
and declaration of the Apostle that the ad-
vent of Christ and the final destruction of 
antichrist are coeval. "I beheld," says the 
prophet, "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." Dan. 7: 21-22. "For," says the 
Apostle, "the mystery of iniquity doth already 
work, only he who now letteth, i.e., hindereth, 
will let or hinder until he be taken out of' the 
way, and then shall that wicked be revealed, 
whom the Lord shall consume with the spirit 
of his month, and shall destroy with the 
brightness of his coming." 2 Thess. 2 : 7, 8. 
Now then, is there anything in Scripture 
from which we can discover the probable du-
ration of antichrist ? If so, iso% important ! 
For then we may be able to arrive at an ap-
proximal idea of the time of Christ's com-
ing. 
The vision of the prophet furnishes us 
with the needful clue. It informs us that 
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Gout municationo. 
SOMETHING FOR THEE. 
Something, my God, for thee, 
Something for thee : 
That each day's setting sun may bring 
Some penitential offering ; 
In thy dear name some kindness done ;* 
To thy dear love some wanderer won ; 
Some trial meekly borne for thee, 
Dear Lord, for thee. 
Something, my God, for thee, 
Something for thee : 
That to thy gracious throne may rise 
Sweet incense from some sacrifice-
Uplifted eyes undimmed by tears, 
Uplifted faith unstained by fears, 
Bailing each joy as light from thee, 
Dear Lord, from thee. 
Something, my God, for thee, 
Something for thee : 
For the great love that thou hast given, 
For the great hope of thee and Heaven, 
My soul her first allegiance brings, 
And upward plumes her heavenward Rings, 
',fearer, my God, to thee, 
Nearer to thee. 
[Original 
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THE TIME OF THE ADVENT. 
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THE FIRST AND SECOND ADVENT OF 
THE MESSIAH 
ANALOGOUS IN THEIR EFFECT UPON THE CHURCH AND 
WORLD. 
Mr. Smith, ins the latter part of this sixth'. 
section, considers the sevenths head of the 
Roman beast to be the French republican 
government, which arose from 1789 to 1793, 
and continued until the reign of Napoleon I. 
And his reign to 1815 he considers the 
eighth head. We wish to correct what we 
consider an error in this part of the section, 
which it was impossible fbr Mr. Smith to 
see at his time, it then being in the future. 
But now, it is, in part, fulfilled. To do this,-
we take the responsibility to enclose a few 
notes in brackets, hoping the reader, by these 
hints, will be enabled to come to right con-
clusions, if he does not agree with us exactly 
ins our views. We think that it may be 
seen by what Mr. Smith says himself, and 
the amw notes of ours, that Imperial France 
is not the eighth head, but that the French 
government from 1789 or '93, to 1815 is the 
sevenths head, and the Holy Alliance, so 
called, from 1815 to the end of time is the 
eighth head. The eighth head is of the sev-
enth, and they together constitute that one 
head, and that is the last one, and goes into 
perdition. But if Napoleon I. was the eighths 
anal last head, surely he did not continue in 
power to the end, nor go into perdition. 
Neither did he have tens horns, or ten kings, 
or kingdoms under his control, which did 
continue to time end, and make war with the 
Lamb, &e. But the Alliance has ten, or 
about ten kingdoms under their control, or 
combined in their confederacy. And _ they 
seem to be the only powers or kingdoms that 
can fulfill this prophecy. 
Does it not appear reasonable that these 
two heads, the seventh and eighths, and the 
eighth being of the seventh, should be the 
antichrist of the last time ? These are the 
powers that have led Popery into captivity, 
and that now hold her there. And the Alli-
ance, if' it did not lead the French Power 
into captivity, it most effectually checked it, 
and apparently stopped it from conquering 
all Europe and the world. And afterwards 
it embraced her (France) ins its great Con-
federacy. 
Ins this way they became one and the 
same seventh head as written, (Rev. 17 : 11) 
"even he is the eighth and is of the seven, 
and goeth into perdition." Let the reader 
bear in mind, that Mr. Smith published his 
work in 1811, tour years before the Alliance 
was formed : and also, that he and others be-
lieved that there were to arise ins the future 
from their time, ten kingdoms, or powers 
represented by the number ten, that should 
make war with the Lamb, and also hate the 
whore, and make her desolate and naked, 
and eat ker flesh and burn her with tire. 
A part of this work these powers have al-
ready done, and are fast preparing to try to 
their uttermost to do the rest, in which effort 
they will meet their awful doom and go into 
perdition, as says the sure Word. 
CHAPTER 1ST., SECTION VI. 
(CONTINUED.) 
One of the angels, who ins the 16th chap-
ter had poured out the vials of the wrath of 
God, proposes to show to the evangelist the 
judgment, or destructions of the Papal harlot. 
BY A PEDESTRIAN MISSIONARY. 
King Nebuchadnezzar dreamed a dream, 
and this was the manner of his dream. The 
king saw and behold a great image whose 
brightness was excellent, and the form there-
of was terrible. Its head was of gold, its 
breast and arms of silver, its belly and thighs 
of brass, its Ngs of iron, its feet part of iron 
and part of clay. He saw till that a stone 
was-cut out without hands which smote the 
image upon its feet and brake them to pieces. 
Then was the iron, the clay, the brass, the 
silver and the gold broken to pieces together, 
and became like the chaff of the summer 
threshing-floors ; and the wind carried them 
away, that no place was found for them ; 
and the stone that smote the image became 
a great mountain and filled the whole earth. 
Dan. 2 : 31-35. 
Such was the dream, and this was the in-
terpretation. It was an epitome of the 
world's history given in advance. By means 
of' it God showed unto his servant things 
that were shortly to come to pass. The dif-
ferent metals represented different empires 
yet to arise, the gold being the Babylonian 
empire, the silver the Medo-Persian, the 
brass the Grecian, and the iron the Roman, 
while the iron and clay represented the king-
doms into which the Roman empire was to 
be divided. All have passed away except 
the last. We are down to the toes of 
the image. After they too are gone, 
no part of it remains. What becomes of 
them.? In the dream they are smitten by 
the stone, broken to pieces and the whole im-
age disappears. This is the interpretation. 
"In the days of these kings shall the God of 
heaven set up a kingdom which shall never 
be destroyed, and the kingdom shall not be 
left to other people, but it shall break in 
pieces and consume all these kingdoms, and 
it shall stand forever." Dan, 2 : 44. These 
words are applicable only to one kingdom. 
Of no kingdom but that of Christ, can it be 
said that it will never be destroyed and it 
shall stand forever. His, there, is the next 
kingdom to be set up on earth. Could we 
only tell how long the existing kingdom 
would last, we could know when Christ will 
come, but to that, this marvellous epitome of 
the world's history affords no clue. But 
this much at least we draw from it, and the 
information is of incalculable importance ; 
that we are living towards the close of time. 
Does not this fact lend tremendous signifi-
cance to the predicted signs which are mul-
tiplying around us ? 
The Prophet Daniel dreamed a dream, 
and this was the manner of the dream. He 
beheld and lo the four winds of heaven 
strove upon the great sea, and four great 
beasts arose out of the sea, diverse one from 
the other, and the fourth beast, which was 
dreadful, and terrible and strong exceeding-
ly, had ten horns, and among them came up 
another little horn, having eyes like the eyes 
of a man, and mouth that spake great things. 
And Daniel beheld till the thrones were cast 
down, and the Ancient of days did sit, and 
the judgment was set and the books were 
opened. And one like the Son of man came 
in the clouds of heaven, and came to the 
The intelligence that the King of the 
Jews was born, and the evidence given by 
tine appearance of His sign ("His star,") had 
a very different effect upon another class, 
though comparatively small ins number, both 
in Jerusalem and ins Gentile lands, than that 
upon Herod and the most of the inhabitants 
of that.city. The "wise men in the East," 
when they first saw "His star," were exced-
ingly anxious to find the new born King and 
do him honor. They proceeded at once to 
Jerusalem, laded with rich and costly gifts ; 
evens treasures of gold and sweet spices and 
costly incense. Matt. 2nd. chap. 
These "wise men" were, as... one author 
tells us, "obviously Gentile philosophers, who, 
in addition to their learning, enjoyed special 
Divine influences. They were from Persia 
and Arabia. Early antiquity informs us 
that messages or letters were afterwards sent 
to Jesus from Abgarus, king of Edessa in 
Arabia, containing expressions of the highest 
respect for His character and mission." 
Abraham had "sons of other wives than 
Sarah, to whom he gave gifts" during his 
life time, -and "sent them eastward, into 
the East country." Gen. 25 : 6. These are 
called in the Scriptures "the children of the 
East." Judges 6: 3. That they were "wise 
men," is evident from this language : "Solo-
mon's wisdom exceeds the wisdom of all the 
children of the East country." 1 Kings, 4: 
30. 
Besides these there were no doubt the 
aged Simeons and Annas who saw the begin-
ing of them were still living and looking for 
the ford ins their day, with a multitude of 
others who are waiting for time consolation 
and hope of Israel, the resurection of time 
dead, and the change of the living saints. 
The rest of the world, have their hearts fail-
ing them for fear for looking a ?ter those 
things coming. on the earth, but are as yet 
unsatisfied that the Lord's corning is at hand. 
"The sign of the son of man," will settle the 
matter beyond further controversy ; and 
with its appearance time character and desti-
nies of men are fixed irrevocably. The 
door is shut ! 
The signs of the two advents are re-
vealed to the Gentile world, through a Gen-
tile prophet, fbr the benefit of the Gentiles ; 
and are both seen in Gentile lands. As the 
prophecies of the two comings of the Messiah 
invariably connected and interlinked togeth-
er, in all the Old Testament prophecies, from 
the original one in Gen. 3d chap. to the last 
prophet Malachi,-so are the two signs thus 
connected in the same prophecy. The orig-
nial prophecy thus stands: "It shall bruise 
thy head, and thou shalt bruise His heel." 
Thus stands connected the two advents, 
though needing to be interpreted much as 
did Jacob's prophecy, crossing his hands on 
the heads of the children of Joseph. But 
Westboro', Dec.1st. Sad were the feelings 
of the dear friends as Thursday evening we 
gathered to spend an hour in social prayer. 
Benedictions and sweet parting words were 
exchanged. A gathering never to be for-
gotten. God bless the little church. If we 
mingle no more on earth may we meet again 
where parting will be unknown. 
Boston, Friday, 2d. The hour for our de-
parture came. Loved ones pressed around 
to part-no tear was shed. The glorious 
work outshone all sorrow. At 5. P. M. we 
started for New York via Norwich. Prayer 
had arrisen that "He who never slumbereth 
nor sleepeth" would watch every wheel and 
guard every rail. I was reminded of this 
on the way, by seeing a man with a hammer, 
strike every wheel to see if it was sound. 
Ten at night, we enter the city of Boston-
not the city left behind, but a floating city. 
A state room furnished a place of prayer 
and rest. Anew we consecrate to God and 
find sweet peace. How sweet, that He can 
see upon the water as upon the land. 
The boat trembles like a palsied old man, 
though new, costing $200,000, and could 
not be duplicated for twice that sum. Engine 
2,000 horse power. 
We have 60 Prisoners on board, 3 es-
caped, though manacled. Several persons 
on board had ears to hear "time word of sal-
vation." The night was dark and rainy. 
As we neared "Hurl Gate," the fog was to 
thick to advance ; "we laid to," and drifted. 
It wag a serious �
rr.,,Lb....e.3 of' 
every discription appear and disappear. 
The fog bell, the warning whistle, the sound-
ing lead, the careful watch, all lead our 
minds toward "Him who numbereth the 
hairs of our head." Time morning breaks, all 
are anxious to start. Every eye is upon 
the Captain, who stands watching for our 
good. Impatient expressions escape the lips 
of some. He stands unmoved. Why ? be-
cause be knows best. So Jesus, our Captain, 
decides for us irrespective of our impetuous 
desires. The light increases. Slowly and 
carefully we feel our way: From every 
point we hear whistles and bells notifying of 
ferrys crossing our track. Suddenly a 
boat emerges from the fog, all expect a bunt, 
and crash, but the speed is cheecked and time 
passengerS cheer at deliverance. 
Saturday, 11 A. M., finds us in Jersey 
City. We feel the Jersey blues, they afflict 
us all through the state. Here we begin to 
see the canals and donkeys ; a great institu-
tion this way. In the peach season 20,000 
three-peck baskets of that delicious fruit 
pass daily into New York. From this to 
Trenton the earth is a brick color, and in 
some places looks very singular. 
4 P. M. We are in the city of brotherly 
love and white window shutters, giving the 
first impressions of a city of store houses. The 
side walks are washed twice a week. All 
projecting signs are ordered down. The 
children, rich and poor, are furnished with 
school books. The city is splendid for its 
straight streets, and has 20,000 more houses 
than New York, though it has 150,000 less 
inhabitants. Father Lye, in his erratic style, 
said to us "you are welcome," and his family, 
made us feel at home. The church here is 
suffering for want of members and singing, 
but they made our hearts glad by their 
abundant sympathy. 
Monday, the 5th. Started up the Dele-
ware to Beverly in search of the grave of 
one of the fallen braves. Sad was the sight 
as I found the spot with the head board 
marked with the familiar name of my dear 
relative. On the boat my heart was drawn 
out to converse with several persons. One 
Mass. boy promised to go to Sunday school. 
I asked a coloured minister whether the 
"Freed Men" loved the near coming of Jesus. 
He answered that no people would receive 
us as quick as they, that "the doctrine was 
much preached among them a few years 
since, but Jesus not coming, time virgins are 
slumbering." He preaches the doctrine. 
Monday night at a quarter past ten o'clock, 
we started for Pittsburg. 
Tuesday, 71- A. M. Stopped on the road. 
A smash up ahead. Two freight trains 
meet. One engine thrown into the Junietta-
five cars burnt up. "Truly our lives are ins 
His hands." We spend the day in the cars 
writing amid conversing. We find many op-
portunities to do good. 
3l2.- I'. M. We start. The delay was favorable 
for our crossing the Alleganies. At 42 we ap-
proached, after a refreshing supper at Altoo-
A, and sat to enjoy the long anticipated 
sight of crossing those everlasting hills. No 
tongue can tell the sublimity of that grand 
ascent. The mountains rose to heaven be-
fore us, the valley was far -below us as we 
rounded the "Horse Shoe." Two smoking 
engines rolling out dense masses of black 
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THE AP VENT 
Barthe unrolled his manuscript and said: 
"Let me read you, friend Dorat, my new 
comedy in verse ; it is entitled 'The Egotist, 
or the Selfish Fellow.' I am persuaded that 
you will be pleased with it." The invalid 
moaned from his bed: "But, my dear friend, 
dont't you see I am dying? For Heaven's 
sake, have compassion on me !" The other 
man replied, "Get out! you are not half 
dead! Besides, my comedy is not burg; in 
three hours I'll run through the whole of it." 
Ile smoothed his manuscript, and without 
pity read till he reached the end. After he 
had cethed to read, he waited, full sure that 
his work wohld be successful, for the invalid's 
compliments. 
-Dorat said to him. with his 
dying vole: "Add, I pray you, a scene to 
yourEgotist; depict him coining to read a 
Comedy to his dying friend, and going away 
after having drunk the last glass of the dy-
ing man's infusion." So saying, he turned 
his face to the wall, and gave up his petty 
frivolous soul, and his worthless mind. "0 
the egotist, and envious wretch ?" exclaimed 
, Barthe, as h-e quitted the dark chamber 'and 
went to carry his comedy to the play actors. 
Here WaS death as the immediate penalty 
of a mis-spent life, and a mocking fiend, in the 
shape of a selfish and cruel wretch, who had 
been a boon companion in the days of rio-
ting and sinful madness, to harass and tor-
ment the last hours Of existence.' And ohm, 
into what blindness of darkness must sthe un-
happy soul have passed, as it descended into 
-
the valley of the shadow of death. The poe-
try and wit, which had made him the centre 
of a circle of admirers, while health arid for-
tune smiled upon him, had no consolations 
, for him, in the awful hour when heart and 
! flesh failed-; and there was no resource left, 
no friend at hand, no sympathizing, precious 
Saviour, et° cheering promise, no peaceful 
trust, no deathless hope to dispel the gloom 
of the death hour. Even the death of the 
infidel Mira,beau, was better than such an 
, awful exit, though the moment .after death 
was doubtless alike to both. "Crown me 
with flowers, fill the air with music, that I 
may taste earth's pleasures to the end, for 
death is an eternal sleep," was tine brilliant 
I Frehehman's dying command, and thus he 
ehtered the eternal world. But here were 
only the withered emblems of a swandered 
life, and the heartle s words of a false friend, 
to make the misery of poverty and pain more 
poignant. Could there be two scenes more 
suggestive of the difference between the life 
and faith of the Christian, and the life and. 
unbelief of the infidel ? One life was for the 
glory of' God and the good of man, and death 
was a portal to glory ; the other was in de-
nial and defiance of God, and death was the 
final plunge into the depth ctf doom. 
Faith gave a serenity which filled life's 
closing moments with "happy thoughts," to 
one ; unbelief had encouraged mad and de-
stroying sin, which made the last hour a cup 
SPIRITUAL INDIGESTION. 
shall make war with the Lamb." The first 
event is given. "And the Lamb shall over-
come them." • The unanimity of these horns, 
and the judgment of God in it for judgment, 
are strongly expressed. "These have One 
mind, and shall give their power and strength 
unto the beast. For God bath put in their 
hearts to fulfil his will, and to agree and give 
their kingdom unto' the beast, [The kings of 
the Alliance did agree, and give their king-
doms for the purpose of holding the balance 
of power in Europe, or to prevent any one 
power from overcoming all other powerg.or 
earthly governments] until the words of God 
shall be fulfilled ;" as in the forecited pas-
sage, Dan. Ii : 36 ; :"and shall prosper till 
the indignation be accomplished; for that 
which is determined, shall be done." And 
the final destruction of the Romish hierarchy, 
by these horns, is predicted. "These 'shall 
hate the whore, and shall make her desolate 
and naked, and shall eat her flesh, and burn 
her with fire." And thus the Papal power 
which has led into captivity, now goes into 
captivity. He, that has killed with the 
sword, is now killed with the sword. Here 
is time, patience and faith of the saints ; either 
that righteous vindication, for which the 
martyrs have been represented as patiently 
waiting and expecting,. or new trials to the 
saints under antichristian tyranny. 
The Papal harlot appears in the beginning 
of the chapter, dressed out and presented for 
execution. "I will show unto thee the judg-
ment of the whore." And now the. event 
takes place, under the agency of the ten 
horns of. the beast, as her executioners. 
Whether this execution of the Papal harlot 
will be finished in the mutinies, and bloody 
havoc, which are to take place among. the 
combined powers, under the antichristian 
beast, or in some preceding events, time will 
determine. To me, the former appears prob-
able. For the false prophet is represented 
as present, in union with the antichristian 
beast, and going into perdition with him, at 
the battle of that great day. (See Rev. 19: 
20.) By the false prophet here, must be 
understood Popery, after it ceases to be a 
beast; its throne being subverted, and- its 
kingdom being filled with darkness, upon the 
rise of the antiehristian beast. 
This is evidenced from Dan. 7 : 11, where 
it is the Papal horn, that is in company with 
the Roman beast, at the time of his destruc-
tion "I beheld then because of the voice of 
the great words which the horn spike; I be-
held, even till the beast was slain, and his 
body destroyed, and given to the burning 
flame." Here are the two noted powers, 
which unitedly go into perdition ;• the anti-
christian beast and the Papal horn. And in 
the Revelation these two powers are repeat-
edly spoken of in this connection, the beast 
and the false prophet. 
The false prophet must mean the same 
with the horn in Dan. 7: 11, or Popery. 
This scheme we might naturally . expect 
would, after it ceased to be. the beast; be 
denominated the false prophet. It is a 
scheme of false religion; in the most noted 
and mischievous connection with the anti-
christian beast, when they shall be destroyed. 
No other power or scheme has -beep known 
by this appellation. It must mean either 
Popery or Mohammedism. And the noted 
connection of the former with the beast be-
ing his nominal form of godliness, in my 
opinion, decides, that Popery, after it ceased, 
upon the rise of antichrist, to be a beast, re-
ceives the appellation of the false prophet. 
And the destruction Of the vast confederacy, 
at the battle of the great day, is represented 
as being partly, if not chiefly affected by the 
swords of each other. 
The great city,. probably meaning the em-
pire of the antichristian beast, is then said 
to be divided into three parts. (Rev. 16: 
19.) The Papal part of the coalition, or 
the false prophet, may be one of these three 
parts, rising in mutiny against the beast, 
their master; and falling first by the .;words 
of his vassal kings. And thus the execution 
of the mother of harlots be completely ful-
filled. An incipient fulfillment it may prob-
ably receive in events, whieh were to precede 
the battle of that great day, as 'may appear 
in the next section. . . . 
One who loves and seeks for truth and light, that galvanizing a man, though it may make 
 
him open his eyes for a moment, and even 
laugh, does not give him life. They want 
the power to digest all the good preaching 
which they have had. 
Will the good people of Oldenville take it 
kindly, if 1 give them a few hints how they 
may get out of this state ; for, unless they do 
get out, they will be as weak; to say the 
least, a quarter of a century hence, as thsy 
are now. If 1 tell them some hard truths, 
I will try to telirthem in a soft way. 
a. Get you aspastor as soon as may be, 
but not in such a hurry that you take a man 
whom you have heard only once. The rela-
tion between pastor and people, like that 
between husband and wife, should be found-
ed on acquaintance, esteem, respect and 
love. Don't depend on hiring a preacher by 
the month, or by the year. Depend ifpon it, 
such a man, be he ever so .good, will leave 
you at the first good call, or at the first cold 
wind that blows over and among you. He 
cannot have the power of a pastor, cannot 
feel like one, pray like one, be like one. No 
man but a pastor, can pray with. a pastor's 
heart.. If you have ever known a church 
and society grow, under this systen of hiring 
different men, and for short periods, Your 
experience has been different from mine. 
.b. I would recommend you to get a young 
man for your next pastor. To be sure he 
will be a young man, and very likely he will 
make mistakes, and very likely you willhniss 
that maturity of thought and teaching which 
you have had so lopg, and whieh. seems to 
have done you so little good. But he will 
have zeal, and he will not he trammelled by 
experience, and he will move onward. But 
there is a thought of more worth that) all 
this, and that is a young man can get at and 
influence the young as no other mind can. 
The youth loves to read Henry Kirk White 
because White was a youth, thought • as a 
youth, and wrote as a youth. In many 
cases, I should advise a church to seek a full-
grown, mature mind in their pastor. But 
you need a young man. And when you get 
him you must bear with him, make allow- 
g. Have faith in the Gospel, in the mis-
sion of the church, in the power of your 
church—to reach snd save men. You are 
the light of the world, rekindle that light, by 
renewing the oil. To work, then, and begin 
at the bottom. And then "they that shall be cm? bitterness, and a foretaste of misery, to 
other. 
of thee shall. build the old waste places; the o �
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thou shalt raige tip flu, foundations of many �
There is reason to fear that few earthly 
princes will W ttr the lieuveltly crOwix, for 
generations and thou shalt be called the Re- 
We .sometimes meet with one who has a 
fair appetite, no sallowness in the . face, no 
alarming cough, no hectic flush on the cheek, 
and yet he gradually grows Weak, and seems 
to waste- away, we hardly know how. It is 
plain that he does not digest his food, and 
assimilate it with the system. One-half of 
what he eats, could it be made into flesh 
and bone, would make him a strong -man. 
The physician, perhaps, prescribes stimu-
lants, and they give a momentary renewal of 
strength, but it does not abide. The man 
wastes•thster than he renews. 
It seems to be so with some churches. 
There is the church in OldenVille, which I 
have known far more than a quarter of a 
century. They have had six pastors in a 
little more than twenty years, and are now 
without a pastor. .These.six amen have car-
ried and spread over them a great variety 
and a great amount of mind. Some of them 
have been very eminent men—and none infe-
rior. They have had the slow, phlegmatic, 
and the quick, murcuriaj, the heavy column-
biad and the light artillery. Sometimes 
they have taken stimulants, in the shape of 
revivalists and extraordinary measures—had 
spiritual spasms.. But still the church and 
congregation don't grow strong. There are 
good' men among them—very good—but 
they as a body, are apparently weaker ftom 
year to year. They have had first rate 
preaching as a general thing, but -from some 
cause or other, their spiritual digesticn is 
not good. They don't grow strong, don't feel 
strong. A spiritual lassitude rests upon 
them. They' have, I fear, depended upon 
stimulants too much. They seem to have 
forgotten that stimulants are for men "ready 
to perish," and tonics are not really food; 
of 
not many wise, nor mighty, nor noble, are 
pair-em-of the breach, the Restorer of paths to 
dwell in."— Congregationalist. �
n 
called of God. But in the day when earthly 
honors are forgotten, when the titles of this 
world are gone, when file poetry of earth 
gives place to the song of the redeemed, then 
will the power of that faith, which cheered 
the royal death-bed, be seen in its. eternally 
beneficent effects; and the horrors of thh 
unbelieving poet's will appear only as an 
awful prelude to an everlasting night of hor-
rors. Who would not rather be an inheriter 
with those who through faith and patience 
obtain the promises, rather than of the num-
ber of those who despise, and wonder, and 
perish? 
PRINCE AND POET. 
No phrase of Scripture is more perversely 
explained than the one at the head of this 
article. From pulpit and press we hear it 
said, "This phrase has various signiffcations." 
1.. It is said it signifies the grace of God in 
the heart of Christians. . Luke 17: 21. 
"Behold the kingdom of God is within you." 
It signifies the•Christian Church. Matt 
13: 33. "The kingdom of heaven is like 
leaven which a woman took and hid in three 
measures of meal, until all was leavened." 
It signifies the Gospel dispensation. 
"Among- them that are born of women, 
there hath not arisemi. a greater than John 
the Baptist. Notwithstanding be that is 
least in the kingdom of God is greater than 
he." Matt. 11 : 11. 4. It is said it is the 
kingdom of glory in heaveo.. "Blessed are 
the poor in Spirit for theirs is the kingdom 
of heaven." Matt. 5 : 3. On these texts 
.of Scripture all these views are predicated, 
But we will inquire what is the origin of 
the phrase ; for uraluestionably it has a Di-
vine and Scriptural origin. This is manifest 
from the manner in which John the Baptist 
and Christ make use of it. *They both speak 
of it as something, promised and expected. 
"The kingdom of God," and "kingdom of 
heaven" are used in the Gospel as synony-
mous phrases. What Matthew calls "the 
kingdom of Heaven," Mark, Luke and John 
call "the kingdom of God." "The kingdom 
of Heaven is at hand," said the Baptist. 
Why speak of it thus fiuniliarly if it was not 
expected by the people? 
And who can fail to recognize the promise 
of God made to the fathers. When the 
Psalmist celebrated the Messiah, in the 45th 
Psalm, lie said, "I speak of the things I have 
made touching the king." He added, as 
Paul says, an address to the Son of God: 
"Thy throne, 0 God, is forever. and ever; 
a sceptre of righteousness is the sceptre of 
thy kingdom." And to this end is that won-
derful prediction concerning the Messiah's 
reign, in Isa. 9 : 6, 7. °His name shall be 
called Wonderful, Counsellor, the Mighty 
God, the Everlasting Father and the Prince 
of Peace. Of the. increase of his govern-
ment and peace there shall be no end, on the 
throne of David and his kingdom," &c. Be-
side these, the prophet Jeremiah 'spoke of a 
righteous branch to be raised to David, who 
shall reign arid prosper. "This is the name 
whereby he shall be called: The Lord, our 
Righteousness." Jer. 33 : 6. 
But we will listen to Daniel. . "In the 
days of these kings the God of heaven shall 
set up a kingdom which shall never be de-
stroyed." If "the God of heaven" is to set 
up this kingdom, it is appropriately called 
"the kingdom of God" or "kingdom 
heaven." All ,the passages above quoted 
place the Messiah on the throne as the ex-
alted and glorious king. No pious and Bi-
ble-loving Jew ever had a doubt but what 
the Messiah, when Ire should come, would 
be a visible amid personal king. If he be-
lieved at all the word of God concerning the 
Messiah, lie must look for such a king. 
And looking for him, his ideas must take 
their form from the language used to foretell 
his coming and reign. How could a Jewish 
reader come to any other conclusion than 
that expressed by the Pharisees, "Ilh is the 
son of David." The predictions are such as 
' these : "Of the fruit of thy body will I set 
On 
 
NEW POEM. ZETHAR. 
upon thy throne." Ps. 110: 11 "Upon the 
throne of David and his kingdom, to order 
it and establish it," &c. Isa. 9 : 7. "I will 
raise unto David a righteous tranch ; and a 
king shall reign arid prosper." Jer. 33: 6. 
These are a few of the many passages from 
the prophets which make him a king of Da-
vid's royal line. The reasoning of that peo-
ple was thus: "Hath not the Scripture said 
that Christ cometh of the seed of David, and 
out of the town of Bethlehem, where David 
was ?" John 7: 42. The Scribes and Eld-
ers of the people, when called together by 
Herod, amid he demanded of them where 
Christ should be born, all answered, "In 
Bethlehem, of Judea." And thus it came 
to pass. "Now when Jesus was horn in 
Bethlehem of' Judea." Ho' literal, how 
exact. And then it is evident that the evan-
gelists believed in the literality of the pre-
dictions, for Matthew commences his Gospel 
narrative by saying, "The book of the gen-
eration of Jesus Christ, the son of David, 
the son of Abraham." Luke recorded Peter 
as teaching the same thing. "Being a proph-
et and knowing that God had sworn with an 
oath to him, (David,) that of the fruit of 
his loins according to the flesh, lie would 
raise up Christ to sit on his throne," &c. 
And Paul, Rom. 1: 3, wrote the same senti-
ment : "Who was made of the seed of David_ 
according to the flesh." 
But a possession of David's throne by the 
Messiah, is as clearly expressed in the word 
of prophecy as his royal descent. "The 
Lord God shall give unto him the throne of 
his father David, and he shall reign over the 
house of Jacob forever," said Gabriel to the 
Virgin Mary. No one doubts that his name 
was called Jesus, as predicted or directed. 
Why not the other part of the text be as 
literal ? It must be. 
NEW PRESS. 
We have purchased a printing press for 
printing tracts. Who will furnish us the 
three hundred dollars to pay for it and the 
type for seting up tracts. 
"THE BLOOD 
BLOOD OF JESUS," is the title of 
an excellent work written by Rev. Mr. 
Reed, of' Edinburg ; it has had an almost 
.unparalleled success; 500,000 copies having 
already been circulated inn America; and 
*immense quantities in England. It has been 
translated into Italian, French and Arabic. 
"0 POSTEHITY, POSTERITY, BEWARE 
OF YEAR 18661" 
"THIS IS PROPHETICAL'" 
Bro. Litch:—The following is copied into 
the Montreal Evening Telegraph, from the 
Hartford (Ct.) Times. It is no fable. I 
have seen the box, .and read the prophetical 
writing. The writer signs his name Hezeki-
ah Wyllys. He was of one of the old Con-
netticut families who owned the "Charter 
Oak." I gave a full account of' it in the 
first volume of the "Voice of the .Prophets." 
What does it mean ? Is this one of the 
straws showing which way the wind. blew 
100 years ago ? 'And what about 1866-68? 
Is HE corn ing ? �
D. T. T. 
A REMARKABLE PROPHECY. 
"Some years since a discovery was made 
in this city which, though at the time regard-
ed as only curious, seems now in the light 
of the present to be remarkable. A few 
days ago, an aged lady, a representative of 
a family of great repute in our colonial days 
and in the early history of our state, died in 
thiseity. Among the estate which descended 
to her next of kin was an old mansion sit-
uated on Main street. Tier heir, who is a 
gentleman now residing here, in looking over 
the various things which had been accumu-
lating for more than a century and stored 
away in the garret, found beneath a pile of 
rubbish a curiously carved, inlaid old box. 
The box is in itserf a great curiosity ; the 
carving upon it is very beautiful, and the 
whole finish of it is exquisite. The box was 
a good deal out of repair, and in looking it 
over to see what was necessary to be done 
to renovate it, upon one of the interior divi-
sions of the box were found written on wood 
these inscriptions of a prophecy.. The first 
iuscrption is this rude ryme : 
"On July 14th, 1866, 
America's fate is fixed." 
Beneath it, in Latin, these words : 
"0 posteri. posteri, ca,vete vos 
In anno 1866"— 
And signed 
‘Tropheticus es" 
Preceding these inscriptions is the date 
July 14, 1766, and signed by the name of a 
gentleman who at that time was a distin-
guished inhabitant of Harford. 
It will be observed that the date of this 
prophecy is ten years before the Declaration 
of Independence, and at a time when the 
attachment of the colonies to Great Britain 
was at its height. That these inscriptions 
were made at that time they bear date there 
can be no doubt, for the signature above re- 
One of the members of the royal house-
hold has written a letter respecting the sick- 
ness and death of Prince Albert, and its 
effect upon the Queen. The closing hours 
of his life were eminently peaceful, and his 
mourning household had that sweet consola 
tion, which is aningled with the chastening 
sorrow when a good man dies. _The writer 
says :— 
The last Sunday he passed -on earth was 
a very blessed one for the Princess Alice to 
look back upon. He was very ill and very 
weak, and she spent the afternoon alone with 
him, whilst the others were in church. He 
begged to have his sofa drawn to the 
window, that he might see the sky and the 
clouds sailing past. He then asked her to 
play to him, and she went through several 
of his favorite hymns and chorals. After 
she had played some time, she looked round 
and saw him lying back, his hands folded as 
if in prayer, and his eyes shut. He lay so 
long without moving that she thought he 
had fallen asleep. Presently he looked up 
and smiled. She said, "Were you asleep, 
dear papa ?" "Oh, no," he answered; "only 
I have such sweet thoughts." During his 
illness his hands were often folded in prayer; 
and, when he did not speak, his serene face 
showed that the "happy thoughts" were with 
him to the end. 
He had. beer.a Prince beloved by Imisl 
family and his people, and he fell asleep on
l 
earth to awake, a:Icing and a priest unto God 
in heaven. Everything connected with his 
death was beautiful and peaceful. This 
daughter soothed his last hours, and spared 
him the sight of her sorrow ; his queen bore 
her grhat trial with Christian fortitude ; time 
prayers of a nation rose up on his behalf, 
and were answered in God's wisdom, accord- 
ing to His own holy will, in a removal to 
glory above, of one who had gained the 
heights of earthly honer ; and a well-spent 
life closed at the portals of a happy eternity. 
Let me remove this picture and show an-
other which presents a fearful contrast, the 
sad fruit of infidelity and vice. It is drawn 
by Jules Jauin with terrible vividness and 
painful. minuteness. 
There was in the last scentury a poet 
named Barthe. They still play one of his 
comedies: "Les Fausses Confidences." He 
was a friend of the poet Don-at. The latter, 
while yet young, died exhausted by every 
passion Of debauchery and wit. There was 
nothing around his death-bed but faded roses, 
old billet-doux, echoless elegies, misery, de-
sertion, destitution. A decayed•actress kept 
watch by his pillow, stuffed with thorns ; 
even the fire scarce flickered On the hearth. 
0 misery and desolation ! How true is . the 
word of the Psalmist: "Woe unto them that 
laugh I" Nevertheless a man—it was Bathe 
—made his appearance in this solitude and 
silence: he had a huge roll of paper under 
his arm. The dying man said: "Ah, it is 
you ! Welcome! You of all the friends 1 
had, are the only one who has come to bid 
me farewell—and yet my chamber is not 
far from Cafe Procope !" 
I know yoh would not.) It is a work 
that would do no discredit to any living 
poet, and I would like much to see it in 
print." 
Rev. D. I. Robinson says, after reading 
the MSS of First Book: "I wish to express 
my pleasure, profit, and surprise, in going 
through it. I think there is good matter that 
should come out, and the alcyone and moun-
tain observatory visits are grand and very 
interesting. 
Rev. P. Hawkes of Providence writes: 
"After a car eful •reading of the work I am 
constrained to say that I have been agree-
ably disappointed. As a work of genius, in 
the plan of the Poem it would do credit to 
the great ;masters of poetry ; while the sen-
tirhent is admirable for its strict adherence 
to Scriptural teachings, his personages are 
well chosen and are made to fulfill their 
mission - most perfectly; the poetry or rythm 
is -peculiar, but yet of smooth and attractive 
measure, &c &c. 
Rev. R. Hutchinson, Waterloo, C. E., in 
a note, Sep. 1864, says: "I can now say that I 
have read Zethar and can say I have read 
it with peculiar delight, . . . it is well cal-
c'ulated to interest, enlighten, and purify. 
Perhaps the second part is not equal to the 
first, yet the entire Poem is good. rn my 
humble opinion it deserves an extensive cir-
culation. Some literary friends who have 
read it join with me in the above expression. 
Boston Recorder, 1859 : "Zethar. This little 
book has been some time on our table, and 
we have had it in our mind to call attention 
to it. The spirit of the work is deeply 
religious ; in its execution the author gives 
evidence of native poetical talent, and as a 
first attempt of one shhose life has not been 
spent 'amid academic shades' it is a very 
creditable production." 
Haverhill Gazette, 1864: "This work will 
be found interesting to all lovers of good 
poetry, we look upon it with none the less 
favor because of its home origin. The banks 
of the Merrimac have given birth to authors 
well known both in this and other countries. 
We hope it will meet with ready sale." 
Tel-Weekly Publisher: "The plot is an 
original one and well conceived and the 
reader, after commencing, can hardly fail to 
be interested in the plot and trace it to the 
end." 
Can be had .at this office. 
minces for his inexperien (hand feel sure that 
the wear and tear of 1if4ll make him con- 
servative enough ereloi �
Remember that 
the three great laws of I. hilth are, plain diet, 
regular exercise, and the open air. There-
fore don't put your minister up to make' 
great mental strains, and to give ycru great 
"intellectual treats." If he gives you plain 
instruction, and not too much at once, it is 
all you require. 
Encourage your minister—when you 
have one —to give you expository preaching 
one-half of every Sabbath. It will seem 
dull at first, but in a short time you will rel-
ish it—the sincere milk of the word. Don't 
wait for the milk to be made into butter and 
eese. Take it as milk. You can digest 
this. You have had too much labored, 
anvil-wrought preaching. The stomach is 
in an abnormal state. Expository preaching 
will bring it back to a healthy condition. 
This is "the plain food," which it seems to 
me you require. 
Encourage and aid your minister to 
devote much of his thought to the young, 
the children and youth. Excuse me if I 
hint that he can make' of these something 
which he cannot make out of you—some-
thing unlike you, if possible. Help him to 
gather them into the Sabbath school, and 
into the Bible class. Let hirn lay the found-
ation of what will, in fifteen or twenty years, 
become a strong and vigorous church. His 
very youth will be an immense advantage to 
him here. It is his hope. 
Then for "exercise" and "open air," the 
means are at hand. Come out more will-
ingly, promptly, regularly and cheerfully, to 
your weekly prayer-meeting. Go to work 
in the Sabbath school— help your minister 
to establish and sustain "mission Sunday 
schools" in different parts of your town. 
Keep your library full of books, let the chil. 
dren through the town see that you are 
taking them up in your arms and blessing 
them. Take air and exercise regularly in 
the devotions and activities of the church-
You are rusting, you are perishing for the 
want of air and exercise. How few of you 
go to the prayer-meeting! and how few to 
the monthly concert! Up, brethren, take 
air and exercise! 
Give more liberally. It is a beautiful 
way of taking the air. You breathe more 
freely after every such exercise of 
Don't do it by spasms, but as a regular thing. 
Your prayers am e better. You can't send 
an arrow that-will pierce the skies if your 
right hand is employed in grasping your 
purse. "Give without grudging." 
Alas! 
how little of such giving is there in the 
world ! 
te'rrd to is one which once seen cannot be 
mistaken, and occurs on many public docu-
ments in our archives." 
'Zitt �
dent Nitrald. 
TUESDAY, DECEMBER 20, 1864, 
JOSIAH LITCH. EDITOR. 
THE KINGDOM OF HEAVEN. 
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must be awakenad and converted or soon 
perish. Christ has thrown the responsibility 
of using means on his people and lininisters. 
And if the alarm is not given in fa;thfulness, 
that responsibility will follow us to the judg-
ment. United, earnest, importunate prayer 
should be made by the church day and night 
for the awakening spirit to do his office on 
the hearts of sinners. 
Because the church needs such results 
to bring her up to her holy standard, and to 
fill het depleted ranks. A church without 
revivals must expire sooner or later. 
God is glorified by them amid his 
name is honored inn the world by such a 
work. He is honored by time praise be re-
ceives froin converts and their friends. 
"Whoso offereth praise glorifieth me," be 
says. "Herein is my Father glorified that 
ye bear much fruit." 
It will be the means of etereal happi-
ness to the saved. Let ins all be at it, then, 
and always at it. Don't let this. winter pass 
without seeing souls saved. Many if. not 
converted this whiter will never be convert-
ed. Before a more convenient seasen they 
will be gone. 
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THE NEW VOLUME. 
With one more number the Advent 
Herald will have completed its 25th volume, 
and have -been issued 1230 times. Its course 
has been steady and its testimony true to the 
great subject for the advocacy of which it 
was commenced. Its tone has ever been 
sound arid evangelical on all the great flinda-
mentals of Christianity, turning aside after 
no side issues. January 1865 will introduce 
a new 'volume, which we trust will be in-
ferior to none which has preceded it, in the 
richness and importance of its teachings. 
So far as the Standing Committee and edi-
tor are concerned they are determined that 
nothing shall be wanting- to make it one of 
tire best religious and family papers of the 
age. And judging from present appearances, 
the same det•ermination exists on the part of 
the friends of the -paper at large, by their 
ready response to our call for both materia 
and intellectual contributions. 
But there is yet another thing wanting,. 
and that is a large increase of subscribers. 
The amount of good we can accomplish by 
the raper will very much depend on the 
number of readers we can reach. Shall it 
not be swelled a thousand the next three 
months? Who will engage inn the work at 
once? Now is the time to do it, so as to be-
gin with the new year. Will not all our 
preachers who are interested in its success, 
take hold of it immediately ? 
The character of the papei. will remain the 
same as in times past, thorough evangelical. 
The doctrine of the personal advent and 
reign of Christ on earth will be a leading 
doctrinal feature. 
The developement of prophetic events and 
signs of tine times will be carfeully noted. 
And new light which may arise on the 
prophetic periods will be given, and what 
we may regard as erroneous, if likely to lead 
astray, we shall point out. 
The oolnms will be open for a free inter-
change of views on questions relating to the 
conning kingdom, when conducted in the 
spirit of brotherly kindness. 
Expositions and illustrations of obscure 
texts will be given from thne to time, with 
carefully selected matter from cotemporaries, 
and general literature, which we intend shall 
be the choicest to be found. 
The record of current events will be 
briefly noted so as to keep our readers posted 
in whatever concerns the times in which we 
live. These, with the rich experiences of 
our correspondents and others, will amply 
repay the two dollars we ask for the paper. 
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THE VISITOR. 
Don't forget time _Youth's Visitor. We 
have now closed the volume for 1864, and 
are waiting to bear from our friends how 
many they want for next year. It is highly 
important that this sliculd be done at once 
so that we may know how many to print, or 
at least form an estimate approaching cor-
rectness. And also that we may have the 
first number out before New Year. 
The friends of the paper should also re-
member that we need their pen and scissors 
to provide material for its columns. Articles 
should be short and pithy for so small a pa-
per and for the minds of the little ones. The 
Editor, Elder J. M. On-rock, will do all he 
can, but at his distance from the office, Wa-
terloo, C. E., it will necessarily require the 
assistance of others to keep up the interest. 
Let us have our pigeon-holes always full 
from which to select. 
MISSION SCHOOLS IN NEW YORK 
CITY. 
Sister A. E. Smith is laboring as a mis-
sionary in the city of New York, among the 
colored population. She has two or three 
schools under her care. She wants books 
for them to read. If any of our friends have 
books they do not use, and will send them to 
Mrs. A. E. Smith, 128, Twenty-seventh 
Street, New York, they will no doubt do 
good. 
This work has pot yet had a sufficient 
circulation to warrant an opinion as to the 
public judgment of its merits. It has not 
yet been read _enough to be appreciated. 
This may be iihpart because it is a Poem, 
and a long, as well as a moral Poem, and 
then, it is in a new measure of blank verse, 
never before attempted. This last however 
should- (and will yet) be deemed one of its 
chief merits, when the superiority of this 
measure over the old Iambic measure comes 
to be comprehended. It is not always that 
a great work is ithmediately appreciated, the 
very finest paintings extant, strike even a 
critical beholder, at first sight as tame. and 
lifeless. There is a reason for this; ordinary 
minds must first take up the details, and only 
after becoming familiar with these, is the 
effort made to group, and grasp, the idea of 
the whole. How far these remarks apply to 
the work in question, its readers can judge; 
but it ma s be well to hear what those have 
said who have read and appreciated the 
Poem. We are now copying from notes, 
letters, and papers, some of these 
TESTIMONIES. 
Our lamented Bro. Bliss, who read and 
revised the MSS, and more than any other 
one comprehended the scope of the work, 
said of the First Book, in a note to the Poet, 
"I have read your MSS amid am much more 
pleased with it than I expected. �
rytion 
becomes pleasing to the ear, and you have 
managed the subject in this opening Book 
in a manner that does'. you real credit, &c." 
After reading the whole work through he 
wrote, Aug. 12, 1862: "I have read and cor-
rected, as I wrote you a week since. And 
now as to my opinion of the . work, I am 
greatly pleased with it; in conception and ex-
ecution it is a very meritorious labor. I 
should hardly dare write you my pleasure 
on its perusal lest, you should deem my words 
the result of friendship or flattery (though 
We propose to review this entire subject 
of the kingdom of God in its various aspects 
THE SPIRIT OF REVIVALS. 
That the leisure of winter hours as well 
as the bracing and energising air of winter 
is favorable to religious interests cannot be 
doubted by those who have turned their 
thoughts in this direction. Now then is the 
time for each church to turn attention to this 
matter, and while the season is passing, lay 
hold on God, amid cultivate the spirit of re-
vivals. 
1. �
Because sinners are perishing and hast- 
ing to the judgment in their sins. They 
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liar and terrible features. And yet there is 
a uniting of this symbol with that of the old 
Rontan empire to evince that it is systemati-
cally the same power. 
The beast which was. He wat.in his an-
cient heathen form; and is not. He was 
slain. His eighth head was wounded to 
death in the revolution under the reign of 
Constantine, and has ever since lain dead, 
only as he has existed in the Romish hierar-
chy, till he began to recover his life in his 
seventh head; [French republican and Im-
perial government to 1815.] which was to 
continine a short space ; and has his deadly 
wennd completely healed in the eighth. 
[The Alliance of 1815.] 
Now he recovers his own nature, inde-
pendently of an officious ecclesiastical hier- 
arch. And this new power [The French 
power and the Alliance, or* 7th and 8th 
heads which are one,] in his turn, takes the 
Papal hierarchy into his .grasp, and makes it 
a mere tool of his own ambitious policy; 
and he is, in the cause of Divine Providence, 
bearing the mother of harlots to her execu-
tion. 
We find that the accounts given of the 
healed bead of the Roman beast, and those 
,given of the beast from the bottomless pit, 
which is also the eighth head and the seven, 
are essentially the same. . . 
In chapter 17, this head [Keep in mind 
that the seventh and eighth heads are but 
one and the same head, and they together 
are symbolized by this beast of the 17th 
chapter ..of Rev.] is symbolized by a new 
beast ; which yet, to shew that it is but the 
healed head of the old Roman beast in chap-
ter 13, is described wil,h seven -heads, as 
well as ten horns. It is called both the 
beast and the head of the beast It is a new 
beast ; and at the same time it is a head of 
the old Roman beast. It is remarkable that 
the Imperial head of the Roman beast, that 
under- which the greatest mischief has been 
done to the Church of Christ, is thus repre- 
sented as twice existing; and its two reigns, 
which mystically constitute but one, are rep- 
resented as existing at distant periods. Un- 
der the first reign of this head, and before it 
received its deadly wounds, Jesus Christ was 
crucified. Under the second reign of the 
same head, Christ will terribly destroy this 
beast. In the first reign, the head persecuted 
the primitive Christians in ten successive 
bloody persecutions. 
The great object of the beast, in the sec-
ond reign, is war against the same cause. 
These shall make war with the Lamb. And 
the same head, [or heads seventh and eighth, 
but yet, both being one, the seventh head 
and this head being antichrist,1 at the close 
of his last reign will sink into perdition, un-
der that awful appearing of the day of the 
Lord, to which that former event may be 
viewed but as a prelude. 
These reigns of the sixth bead of the 119-
nian beast are numerically two. In this 
sense, the last is the eighth head. But they 
are specifically one; and mystically repre-
sented as one. In this sense, the last head 
is of the seven; being the sixth, healed of 
its deadly wound. The old Roman beast 
had ten horns. And this revived new head 
of the same -beast has ten horns. 
The angel informs, verse 12, "And the ten 
horns which thou sawest are ten kings, 
which have received no kingdom as yet; but 
receive power as kings one hour with the. 
beast. These have one mind, and shall give 
their power and strength unto the beast. 
These shall make war with the Lamb, and 
the Lamb shall overcome them; for he is 
Lord of lords, and King of kings ; and they 
that are with him are called, and chosen, and 
faithful. And the ten horns which thou 
sawest upon the .beast, these shall hate the 
whore, and shall make her • desolate and 
naked, and shall eat her flesh, and burn her 
with fires For God bath put in their hearts 
to fulfil his will, and to agree, and give their 
kingdom unto the beast, until the words of 
God shall be fulfilled." 
These ten horns have been supposed to lit 
the same with the ten horns of the ancient 
Roman beast. But this must be a mistake. 
Expositors have met with insuperable dif-
ficulties in their attempts to find, in the an- 
cient horns of the Roman beast, the things 
here ascribed to the horns of the antichris-
tian beast. Insomuch, thiit in Pools Anno- 
tations upon the passage, we read, hBut who 
these ten monarchs be, or what these ten 
kingdoms are, I must confess n'myself at a loss 
to determine. I am much inclined to think 
the prophecy to concern some kings nearer 
the end .of antichrist's reign." [Are not 
those the kingdoms of the Alliance?] Even 
this acknowledgment was made, while under 
the mistake of supposing the beast that wore 
these 'horns to be the Papal hierarchy; a 
sentiment attended with inexplicable difficul-
ties ! Had the pious expositor viewed the 
beast wearing these horns in the character 
sr in whieh he has just been exhibited, I trust 
he would have been- still more inclined to 
view the prophecy a4 respecting evsnts still 
future when his annotations were written. 
These ten horns are kingdoms under the 
antiehristian empire. We find the great 
Power noted in Dan. 11 : 86. and onward, 
subduing neighboring nations, and distribut-
ing their principalities to his favorites. He 
is thus firming to himself horns. We find 
in various passages relating to this terrific 
beast of the last days, that he has a group 
of kings at command. Here then are the 
horns of the antichristian beast. "And I 
saw the beast, and the kings of the earth and 
their'armies gathered together to make war 
against him that sat on the horse, and against 
his army " Whether the number of these 
horns will be precisely ten; or whether - a 
certain number is put for an- uncertain, time 
will decide. [Where can there be any king-
doms found in our day, but those that com-
pose the Alliance of 1815, that will fulfil 
this prophecy?] But as the number of the 
seven heads is definite, I apprehend thenum-
ber of the ten horns is likewise definite; 
that ten will be the precise number of the 
Vassal kingdoms of the antichristian empire. 
Their servility, BA well as the shortness of 
their existence, is hinted. "Which have 
received no kingdom as yet; but have re-
ceived power as kings, one hour with the 
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and wounded one in the hospital ; wherever hates in his d id ire. His flesh consume 
this may find you, will you not prize the and burn with :c. Who will not turn from 
gift ? I am sure, whoever may be so fortu-
nate as to receive one of these precious rre-
mentoes will be comforted ; yea, they will 
be blest, 
Let it stimulate you to seek the religion 
she sought, and to that trust, as she trusted, 
in the same Redeemer; for the pardon of 
your wins. As you look upon the sacred 
offering so richly freighted with' her tears 
and prayers it will nerve you for the conflict, 
or it will comfort you when sickness and 
,suffering may be yours. 
Soldier, be of good cheer—thou art re-
membered, though far away from father, 
mother, brothers, sisters—thy bleeding coun-
try will engrave on her memory those who, 
under God, shall finally save her from the 
cruel hand of the traitor. Not one of her 
brave, loyal sons will be forgotten. Press 
on, then, tired and worn soldier, with re-
newed energy and courage, and may the 
blessing of God go with this little book, 
shield you in the hour of danger, and guide 
you even unto death. 
May I not hope to hear that some one has 
been conforted and encouraged to seek the 
consolations of religion through the reading 
of this letter and little book. 
To the pastor or superintendent, who en-
lists his people in this blessed work, and for-
wards their contribution, we will, if he re-
quests it, send a copy of the Revised New 
Testament. 
Contributions to aid in the work of distri-
bution should be sent immediately to W. H. 
WYCKOFF, Cor. Sec., of the American Bible 
Union, 350 Broome Street, New York. 
sins so base, L 11 punish with a dread dis-
grace. 
Belvidere, Dec., 5,.1864. 
SERGT. W. W. HEAGY. 
FROM M. D. WELLCOME' 
Died; Nov. 26th, of dysentery, at the 
Point of Rocks Hospital near City Point, 
Va., Sergt. IV. W. Heagy, of New Kingston, 
Pa., aged 21 years, 8 months and 1 day. 
O tyrant Death! hope's destroyer ! 
Thy shafts we cannot stay ; 
Thou tak'st the loved, the son, the brother. 
From hearts that loved, away.. 
Thou art victor, in this thy hour, 
Thou hold'st the loved to-day ; 
But there is One, whose mighty power 
Can raise the slumbering clay. 
He'll burst the bars, and ope the tomb,. 
His might and'petwer I know • 
He'll cast thee down to death and gloom, 
And everlasting woe. 
Thy victim now He'll bid arise, 
A brother dear to me, 
He'll quickly come, mid opening skies, 
- And ransom him from thee. 
Roll on, Old Time, fly quickly by, 
And haste the welcome hour, 
When loved shall meet, and death shall die, 
By Christ's almighty -power. 
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Sleep, brother, sleep, in thy low bed ; 
The trumpet soon shall sound; 
The living changed, 'twill wake the dead, 
Though sleeping under ground. 
Then, Willie dear, we'll meet again 
Where cannons cease to roar • 
Then friends shall meet and loved ones greet, 
And death shall hurt no more. 
Dear Brothe' Litch :—It is my painful 
duty to inform you of -the death of my dear 
brother William. Last August, he felt it his 
duty to respond, for the second itme, to his 
county's call for troops. He joined the 
200th Regiment, P. V.,, and was appointed 
Orderly Sergeant of CoMpany I. He was 
faithful in the discharge of his duties, loved 
by officers and men, and was about to. be 
promoted, when disease (dysentery) got hold 
ot him, and in twelve short days he was 
numbered with the dead. It was my privi-
lege to be with him during the last three 
days of his illness. I found him fully pre-
pared for the change- for which he longed. 
His sufferings were great, yet he bore 
them with Christian fortitude. He expressed 
a desire to see his friends, but was willing to 
wait the resurrection morn, if such:be God's 
will. On Thursday evening, the 24th inst., 
after changing tents and beds greatlyiirs his. 
comfort, we sang a'iiumbes of' hymns, made 
remarks and prayed, after. which he said, 
"Tis like heaven here," and "'Tis so good 
to be with those who are good." 
When asked if he had' any special message 
for his friends, he said, "Tell them all to be 
good and meet rite in heaven." 
Saturday night, at half-past ten, P. M., I 
found his end was near. He was restless 
and suffered intensely. I asked him if I 
should pray with him again. He requested 
me to do so brifly, as his pain was great. I 
preyed that God would give him grace for 
the present crisis ; that he would give him 
perfect peace e patience in suffering ; relief 
from bodily pain ; restoration to health in 
due time if' his will, if not, to receive --his 
spirit. I rose from prayer. He remained 
pekectly quiet. I then sang, "Alas, and did 
my Saviour bleed," and "Jesns refuge of my 
soul." After which I asked him if Jesus 
was still his refuge ? "0 yes," was his 
prompt reply and last words uttered. I then 
sang, 
- Dear Brethren And Sisters �
am striv- 
ing to gain that happy land, where, free from 
the cares, sorrows, pains and bereavements 
of this earthly state,- we shall enjoy each 
other's society forever. There is my glorious 
inheritance, my ever-enduring treasure 
The "ligh afflictions" I am called to en-
dure while on my journey thither, do but add 
to the "eternal weight of glory" there. How 
rich the portion of those toil-worn pilgrims, 
whose whole life has, been one of sorrow ! 
Yet how few place a sufficient estimate 
upon the glory, enabling them to "rejoice and 
be exceeding -glad," in all their tribulation, 
knowing every affliction ',adds to its weight. 
Perhaps it may be a lack of faith in the Di-
vine assurance, that leads so many to prefer 
exemption from sorrow. How few are will-
ing to accept the condition of' the great "re-
ward," by having all manner of evil spoken 
against them falsely, for the sake'of Jesus. 
We are all too loth to possess great glory, to 
lay up much treasure in heaven, on the 
terms of the Gospel. 
Many toil, and waste their strength and 
life, enduring great hardships and privations 
for uncertain wealth ; whereas, were the 
same energy, devotion and sacrifice. made 
fir the attainment of the true riches, great, 
and ever-enduring tseasure would be se-
cured. 
0, how little of earnestness and self-deni-
al in this direction ! How foolish is man 
A brief existence here; so brief it is com-
pared to the flower so quickly fading—to the 
vapor that appeareth for.a little time, and 
then vanisheth away, and the swift motion 
of the weaver's shuttle. Yet all of man's 
energies are enlisted to lay up treasure on 
earth ; to write their names in the sand. For 
the future existence, the unending age ; they 
give but a mere passing thought. The 
Psalmist in speaking of such, says ; "Their 
inward thought is, that their houses shall 
continue forever, and their dwelling-places 
to all generations ; they call their lands af-
ter their own names." If they may but. be 
clad with purple and fine linen, arid have the 
costly mansion in which to dwell, and the 
perishable gold laid up in store, they care 
nothing about the heavenly mansion, the city 
of gold with its resplendent jewels, the robe 
of righteousness, and those ornaments which 
in the sight of Uod, are of great price. 
Like sheep they are laid in'the graVe: their 
beauty consumes, their glory perishes, and 
their wealth can be of no farther service. 
Naked and poor, covered with shame, they 
must stand before the judgment seat of 
Christ. Far more to be preferred, the beg-
gar Lazarus, who, covered with sores, sits at 
the gate of Dives, and implores a crumb 
two of tilt *Wk. 
WAR NEWS. 
News from Sherman, states that he had 
captured Savnnah with 11,000 prisoners after 
eight hours lighting. It is also reported 
that our forces have captured Kinston, N. C., 
and are still moving on. 
surrender. �
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GREAT BRITAIN AND THE UNITED 
STATES. 
We have received from Mr Lindsley some 
specimen sheets of his new system of Pim- 
Hood has been defeated and driven back netic writing,' which -he claims to be a great 
from Nashville,, after two days dreadful advance in simplicity and ease . of acquire-
fighting with Gen. Thomas. It is also re- meet over Pitman's system, and so far as we 
ported, that his army was likely to be are able to judge, we are inclined to yield 
crushed, while he is trying to get oft �
his claim. But we will permit Mr. Lindsley 
The Canadian Court at Montreal, has dis- to tell his own story. 
eharged the St Albans raiders, and their A NEW SYSTEM OE PHONETIC SHORT-HAND 
stolen money has been given up to them. 
"Tie author of this system was a writer 
This has produced an intense excitement,. 
' 
and teacher of Mr. Pitmans Phonography 
both sides of' the line. Gen. Dix, command- for several%years. Learning from long expe-
ing the northern department, has issued an rience that it was impossible to give his 
order, instructing his men to shoot down all 
raiders from Canada on the spot, and if pupils any skill in that art without years of 
they flee to Canada to follow them, and ar- practice, he commenced about seven years 
ago to simplify it. Ile has succeeded be-
rest them there. What will be the result of 
such measures-is uncertain. It would take yond his most sanguine expectations. He
, 
a war with hog sueceeded in forming, a system Ott an en-
but little at this time to create 
tirely new basis, as much more scientific, 
England. 
simple and practicable, than Mr. Pitman's, as 
Later news says that Fort McAlister had his is more scientific, simple and practicable. 
been captured by Sherman, and Savannah 
was beseiged, and had
. �
been summoned to than. the arbitrary .stenographies of former 
ages. It differs, from Mr. Pitman's system 
in the following results : 
1 st. It is more easily read. Each sound 
is clearly and fairly written in the common 
style, without word-signs or contractions ; 
while the easy reporting style is equally 
definite and certain, containing no equivocal 
forms. 
2d. It is more rapidly written than his, 
The simplest style can be written nearly 
twice. as rapidly as Mr. Pitman's simplest 
style, and the reporting style 25 to 30 per 
cent, faster than his reporting style. 
3d. It is more easily reduced to practice. 
The simplest style can be mastered in a 
small fraction of the time required to master 
the corresponding style of the old Phonog-
raphy, while the labor of learning the-report-
ing style is reduced more than one-half, - 
There are other points of difference, al-
most equally important. 
Thus, American citizens, we are permit-
ted, through the good providence of God, to 
offer you a style of writing, by which in its 
simplest form you can save two-thirds of the 
time, and eight-ninths of the labor of writ-
ing ; a style perfectly legible, and as fully 
written as the common writing ; and above 
all, a style which yon will not attempt to 
learn in vain. 
The art of short-hand is now, for the first 
time in the history of the world, adapted to 
general use, and within the reach of all. 
Every child in the land can now readily 
master it. Its use need not be confined to 
reporters, nor yet to professional and liter-
ary men, but must become general.” 
Mr. Lindsley proposes to open a class of 
instruction at Eaton's Commercial College in 
this city commencing this evening at 7 
o'clock. 
Mums. Ten lesSons for $5,00. . 
The number given in making the acknowl 
edgment, is the whole number of the paper to 
which the money sent pays. The present 
, whole number of this paper is 1213. 
If the 
number to which payment is made is less than 
this, subtracting it from the whole number 
will give the number of papers for which the 
subscriber owes. If the number to which 
payment is made is greater than the whole 
number of the paper, then subtract the whole 
number from the number to which payment 
is made, and the remainder will give'the num-
ber of papers for which the subscriber has 
I overpaid. 
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ANOTHER LETTER TO THE SOLDIERS. 
NORTHAMPTON, MASS. 
My Dear Soldier Friend :—This precious 
little book comes to you from Mrs. Hannah 
Kellogg, ot North Hadley, Mass. A few 
days ago she was weeping and praying for 
the soldiers ; now she has passed to her 
home in heaven. She died at the advanced 
age of eighty-nine years and five months ! 
She was a model Christian character ; so 
patient in her sufferings, so disinterested in 
her benevolence, and so submissive to the 
dealings of God with her, that, to the friends 
who visited her, her room even seemed sa-
cred. That hallowed spot has witnessed her 
tears and wrestlings with her Saviour for 
you. She was a true patriot, and emphati-
cally the soldier's friend. 
When relatives were gathered at her 
residence on Thanksgiving Day, she wanted 
them practically to show their gratitude by 
contributing for the soldiers. The sum of 
one dollar and fifty cents was raised, which 
she sent to me a few days before she died. 
With it I have purchased thirty copies 
of the Soldier's Edition of the New Testa-
ment. It was her last bequest to you, wa-
tered with her tears and prayers. Take it, 
soldier on the battle-field, or, may be, sick 
Very much is said, in connection with our 
war debt, of the National debt of Great 
Britain, and fears are _felt if not expressed 
that a large national indebtedness here will 
operate as it has there. The millions of 
paupers that swarm in England. and the 
Increasing necessity for rapid emigration 
afford unpleasant comments on the great fact 
that a burden of debt lies upon British in-
dustry, the interest of which amounts, to 
four dollars per annum for every human be-
ing resident in the kingdom. But if we 
look for a moment at some of the differences 
of condition under which the two govern. 
ments exist, we shall find that in no one 
thing has Great Britain - the advantage of 
ours. She has to draw all the money for 
her expenses, and the interest of her debt 
from a direct tax on the property and busi-
ness of the country, so that nothing escapes 
taxation to the fullest extent, except real 
estate ; and her only relief lies in the exten-
sion of her manufacturing and commercial 
interests, in the last of which her India trade 
has served mainly to keep her head above 
water. Great Britain has grown rich in 
spite of her great national debt, and posseses 
ability, if the will were not wanting, to pay 
off the principle of her debt within the next 
fifty years.' By abolishing her sinecure 
offices, and pensions paid for no proper ser-
vice to the State ; and by extending the tax 
to real estate, which now furnishes only 
about one twenty-fifth of the national income, 
she could reduce her debt annually, and not 
oppress the people of the country. All this 
can be done by a kingdom whose whole erea 
equals only 118,000 square miles, population 
thirty millions, and whose coal and iron will 
be entirely exausted in about one thousand 
years. 
Now when we turn our eyes to the United 
States, how different the aspect : We have a 
half continent of land yet to be settled, and 
mines of incalculable value yet to be opened ; 
we have the granary of the world in the 
heart of our conntry, with the second largest 
river of the world running through its centre ; 
oil regions of unsurpassed richness just com-
ing into notice, and cotton lands that no dis-
trict of the world fairly rivals,—all which 
give us a power over other lands that no 
country ever possessed. We need but a few 
acres of sugar and coffee lands to give us 
*the whole catalogue of advantages the world 
affords, and those the next generation of 
Yankee sovereigns will obtain by honest 
purchase, and with the consent of the people 
living then. We are, a growing people ; our 
mother land is a grown nation we are mov-
ing up the scale, she stands on the top round, 
and when she moves at all it must be down-
ward. 
We can 'not only live on-our own 
account, but, if necessity require, can support 
her too. In proof of this assertion, let us 
enumerate a few facts respecting America. 
Uur country is nearly as large as all Eu-
rope. It is sixty times that of England, 
"Come sing to me of heaven, 
When I am called to die, 
Sing songs of holy ecstacy, 
To waft my soul on high." 
and in less than half an hour, "he fell 
asleep." 
A Christian brother remarked, and I 
could not help feeling, that "Angels were 
hovering round." 
I placed his corpse in edeoderizing coffin 
and started for home via. Fortress Monroe, 
Baltimore and Harrisburg. On Wednesday 
the 30th, inst, his remains were taken into 
the Church lie loved when living, which was 
crowded to its utmost, when our dear Bro. 
Colder, of Harrisburg gave a most truthful 
and comfbrting discourse on the resurection. 
Text, John 11: 23: "Thy brother shall 
live again." 
We then laid him ill the cold and silent 
tomb, to wait the trumpet's sound, and res-
urection morn, when we know that our 
brother shall live again. 
Your brother in sorrow, J. A. Heagy. 
New Kingston, Pa., Dec. 2, 1864. 
SOMETHING INTERESTING! 
"The Progressive Age"—the smart little 
spiritual paper published at Kalamazoo, 
Michigan--contains the following, which we 
copy, in order to give it the benefit of our 
circulation, and also to append a few re-
marks suggested by the reading of the ar-
ticle :— 
WORLDS' CONVENTION—A CHALLENGE. 
Jesus said, "He that believeth on me, the 
works that I do shall he do also." From the 
time that Spiritualism begati to attract atten-
tion until the present, the clergy have busied 
themselves in crying "Infidelity" after those 
who dare say that they had evidence of the 
inter-communication of this and the angel 
world. Now we claim that Spirtualists are 
the true believers—that by the aid of spirit 
influence, we can accomplish what Jesus 
said should attend the true believer.. We 
also claim that the churches cannot produce 
one of the evidences that they are believers. 
This we know is a serious charge, but we are 
willing to test tl1e matter. God knows we 
do not wish to accuse our accusers—we 
would not misrepresent them cr state any-
thing which is not true ; we therefisre pro-
pose that a world's Convention" be called, in 
which all sects, as well as Spiritualists, shall 
be represented ; the rostrum shall be occu-
pied in turn by each one of the sects of 
Christendom, and if those sects or any one 
of them will do the work of a true believer 
according to the words of Jesus, above quot-
ed, we will acknowledge them to be believ-
ers ; but if they fail, they shall retire from 
the stand. Then we propose to appoint a 
committee of Spiritualists who shall occupy 
the rostrum, and if' they do not in one hour, 
speak in languages they never heard, heal 
the sick and the lame, if they do not restore 
sight to the blind, and hearing to the deaf, 
and give other evidences of being under the 
control of a power outside of themselves, we 
propose to acknowledge that Spiritualists 
proper ; twenty five times that of' England, 
Ireland and Scotland ; .eight times that of 
France ; fifteen times that of Prussia, and 
twenty times that of Germany. 
Should this country ever reach the dense-
population of England, the United States 
will have rivelve nundred millions of Ameri-
cans rimier its banner ; but should it only 
reach that of Massachusetts in 1860, it will 
have five hundred millions. 
 
We have now more miles of railroad, and 
more miles of telegraph than all the world 
besides. We have an inland navigation of-
122,000 miles. We have more timber and. 
a greater variety than all Europe ; more 
hydraulic power ; more raw material- for 
manufactures. 
One half of the gold and silver product of 
the world is taken from the mines of the 
United States. This has been the . case for 
the past fifteen years. The Secretary of the 
Interior estimates the future annual product 
of the mines at one hundred millions ; and 
when the Pacific Railroad is opened, the 
annual product will be five hundred and fifty 
millions. 
The whole world falls behind us in miner-
al deposits of iron, coal, copper. lead, quick-
silver, &c. The writers produce tables to 
show. that the wealth of the - nation doubles 
every twenty years. A general famine is' 
now impassible : for America, if necessary, 
can feed Europe .for centuries to come. 
In iron, coal, and copper, and- extent of 
gold fields and perhaps of silver, no land be-
gins to compete with ours. Missouri alone 
has iron enough to last the word thousands 
of years, and coal enough to smelt and work 
it. Ohio has iron enough to last the world, 
at its present rate of consumption 3,700 
years. The anthracite coal fields of Penn. 
would supply the whole world with fuel for 
ages, and the Illinois coal field covers 44,000 
square miles rich in bit umineus coal. Others 
are equally rich. 
The new developments of oil in various 
parts of the country, indicate that we shall 
have enough of the oleaginons product to 
light all creation and lubricate its machinery. 
LINDSLEY'S PHONETIC SHORT-HAND. 
Olorttopontitatt. 
FROM SISTER DESIRE STONE. 
Dear Bro, Litch �
still continue to be 
more and more interested. in the perusal of 
the Herald, and often wish God would ena-
ble -me to add something to the paper that 
would benefit others as theirs do me. I 
thought I would write a f.aw 'paragraphs ; 
perhaps my few Advent acquaintances may 
like to hear that I am as ever, still alive to 
the all important subject of the speedy com-
ing of' the blessed Lord and Saviour. Not 
only do I acknoledge his grace with grati-
tude for keepiregrtny heart firm in the belief 
that he is even at the door, but that he has 
so restored my health, that reading, talking. 
or thinking, tires me not. We find in Isaiah 
40 : 31, a promise to them who wait on the 
Lord, On my person it is in part fulfilled ; 
aid as it is our business and duty to ac-
knowledge the Lord in all his works and 
ways, I see not why I should not keep this 
command. Whereas during more than twen-
ty years, from less than forty years of age to 
past sixty, I could never walk a half mile 
without tiring my whole system exceedingly, 
and my head felt as though it needed to be 
held on to keep it from- �
off ; 110. 
nothing ever so sudden st �
iue. Had 
not God fixed my faithin hit �
tally his 
throne, I know not how I co �
avelived 
through so much mental suffe �
- well agl 
physical. I am now able to wa �
es with- 
out tiring, my strength constantly'ncreasing. 
I have, I believe, felt some as Aram did, 
who against hope believed in hope. I was 
too sickly to live, _only as I knew God 
would not suffer death to have dominion 
over me, that I should be restored to health, 
and see his face with joy ; and I have every 
reason to believe he will come before another 
year commences. We need great patience. 
"Hope deferred maketh the heart. sick.': 
Our prospect is so eventful and glorious, we 
can't get discouraged. I greatly rejoice to 
Darn that so many are strong and persever-
ing. When our Saviour comes, we shall for 
joy forget all our sorrows. 
I want to say to mothers, reflect upon the 
great responsibility that rests on you toward 
the objects of your kindest affections. I have 
greatly wondered at the indifference often 
manifest in training up these young and ten-
der minds for future usefulness. They seem 
very desirens to seA them first in society ; 
no pains is spared educating and clothing 
them according to taste, neglecting to teach 
them that life is the time to secure the great 
reward by obeying God's .commands, and 
that a long, long eternity is just ahead ; the 
present time, the present moment, is all they 
can depend upon for. preparation for eternal 
life, or eternal death. "Just as the twig is 
bent, the tree is inclined." Let the child be 
taught by precept and example, that their 
mother is more deeply interested in their 
future welfare than their present ; pray daily 
with them and for them ; read the Bible to 
them, explain jts simple meaning to their 
understanding, tell them for what reason God 
gave so lovely and so glorious a being as 
was his well-beloved Son to snffer so much, 
and why Jesus gave himself to die, and why 
he rose again, and what the effect of his 
death and resurrection will be upon their 
future, should they embrace him. Many 
very young, have been changed by such a 
kind of education. Let the mothers com-
mence this work perseveringly ; they will 
soon reap the fruit of their • labor : their 
house become a Bethel at the 4we of their 
morning and evening oblation. What we 
have learned • from experience, we under-
stand. The influence mothers exert over 
their young cnildren is unbounded. Hence 
the necessity of seeking wisdom from above 
to, direct aright. How grateful should those 
children be, that have been honored of God 
with a praying, devout mother. Should they 
be left orphans, the example and precepts 
are ever abiding. Such graces death cannot 
erase.. 
The' mind recalls the look, the prayer, 
The anxious tear fills from the face 
Of her whose bosom pregnant with hope and fear, 
Looks forward, back, far off, and near, 
Hope swelling love beating cause trickling tears. 
I would say a few ,words to children. God 
will honor the child that has shown due 
honor to his parents, in the new earth ; but 
dishonor and eternal disgrace must fall upon 
abusers of parents according to God's word. 
O that I could persuade them to revere 
their aged parents in.these days, as dear as 
those lived half a century ago, when parents 
needed not to children bow.. Such vice God 
from his taisicAor. 
I confess myself to be' ambitious. Noth-
ing less than a kingly seat, and royal crown 
of unfading glory, will satisfy my nature. I 
aspire even to•a joint heirship with the King 
of kings, to a universal dominion, and to be 
enthroned in• a city of gold, and pearls, and 
with all. manner of precious stones. I even 
aspire after the very image of God—to have 
a body made like that shown to John on the 
lone- isle of the Egean Sea. 
Stich are the high aspirations of my am-
bitious heart, and I hope through the power 
of Divine grace to realize them to the full-
st extent.
extent. Possessing the earnest daily in 
my heart, I anticipate with desire the day 
when Christ shall come to reward his saints- 
FROM ELDER C. CUNNINGHAM. 
We are hoping to see a glorious revival 
while Bro.'Burnhamii with us. Shall we 
not be remembered in your prayers to this 
end? 
It seems to me that the signs ofittas times 
are ominous hateed. The condition of the 
Papacy is to my mind startlingly significant. 
It is possible that the noted epoch for the in-
troduction of the millennium, 1866, may 
prove to be not far from correct. As the 
civil power ot the Poped, m is to exist till 
Christ comes, and its last extremity is now 
reached, we cannot be far remote from the 
Advent of our blessed Lord. To sleep now 
is dangerous beyond expression. Now is 
the time for earnest labor and enlarged lib-
erality. Woe to those who idle away their 
time, - or hoard up the Lord's money, for 
soon their account for bothwill have to be 
rendered. 
As the old year is ebbing away, and the 
new approaches, I feel like giving myself 
anew to the work of God. 
The Herald seems to increase in interest. 
I love it, its editor, and its enunciations. 
May God bless you, my dear brother. Amen, 
As ever, your affectionate brother in 
Christ. �
C. CUNNINGHAM. 
SISTER A. E. SMITH writes from New 
York city : "Dear Bro. Litch. Our little 
children have brought in their spending 
money, and we send it for the Visitor. Some 
of these little ones have neither father nor 
mother. But what pennies they have, comes 
to you for the Visitor We send you $2,50. 
Will you please send us as many as you rum 
for the money. As soon as we can, we will 
send for 'mire ; we ought to have 70 or 80 
copies ; but we must creep before we can run. 
We want them for a New Year's present. 
Our school is doing nicely. I have start-
ed two schools since I saw you at Providence, 
and expect to have another the first of Janua-
ry. I often wish I Could get hold of some Ad-
vent reading matter for my schools. I intend 
to start an independent Msssion House the 
first of the year, and want an Advent libra-
ry. Will those who have books laid aside, send 
them to me ? I could keep them circulat-
ing, and do these poor, hungry souls good ; 
while now the books are laying idle doing 
no one any good. Yours looking for Jesus." 
BOOK ADVERTISEMENT. 
We call attention to the Book Advertise-
ment of Gould and Lincoln, in another col-
umn. We will attend to any orders sent 
to us. 
are unbelievers. But if Spiritualists prove 
themselves to be the true believers by the 
inspired ?tile above quoted, we shall ask the 
churches and clergy to acknowledge it. or 
confess themselves Infidels. 
This is a fair offer, will the churches ac-
cept it ? If not, will they cease their cry of 
Infidelity until they give us evidence that 
God is anong them ? 
Religious journals everywhere please copy. 
The INVESTIGATOR is not• exactly a "re-
ligious journal," but -being interested in the 
above challenge, it publishes the same for 
the benefit of its readers' who, being inquir-
ing men and women, will be interested in 
seeing it, and learning its effects. The chal-
lenge, which seems to be all fair enough, is 
given for the purpose of' proving Spiritual-
ism by a Gospel test—or, in other words, 
of showing that the Spiritualists "can accom-
plish what Jesus said should attend the true 
believer." Now it so happens that just such 
a prposition as this we ourselves made to 
the Spiritualists some years ago. We were 
told that the mediums were able to perform 
the wonderful works attributed to Jesus, and 
as we doubted it, we respectfully desired the 
proof, which, we are sorry to say, we were 
not permitted to behold, for sonic reason or 
other. 
If we renienber rightly, Jesus said 
that the "true believer" could not only per-
form as great but even greater works than 
he (Jesus) did, and this we presume is what 
"The Progressive Age" means when it 
claims a siMilar power for Spiritualists. 
Supposing, then, that this is its meaning, 
we would ask its Editor, the Rev. •Moges 
Hull, if he or any other medium out West 
can feed a multitude of five thousand (be-
sides women and children) on five small 
loaves and two fishes, and have twelve bas-
kets of fragments left ? Or, can he calm down 
a tempest by a word ; or walk on the water ; 
or raise the dead ; or die himself, come to 
life 'again, and Reseed in the air like a bal-
oon ? But if this is not what is meant, and 
the Editor intends simply to say that the 
Spiritualists can perform the works which 
Jesus said his disciples could when he sent 
them out to preach, then in that, case we ' 
would ask our Rev..friend it he or any other 
Spiritualist in his locality can "cast out 
devils, speak with new tongues, take up ser-
pents, and if they drink any deadly thing, it 
shall not hurt them ?" These wonders are 
,not performed in this region ; and if they 
are in Kalamazoo, "The Age" will please 
inform us, that we may witness them if ever 
we should visit that place. 
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1 00, 1.247 ; Robert Turner, 5 00, 1260; 
Thomas Harrop, 2 00, 1270 ; Geo. W. Shaf-
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Benjamin Lodor, 2 5(), 125-1 ; Mrs. Eliza-
beth Goll, 2 50, 1230 ; H. P. Buttrick, 1 00, 
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50, 1243 ; Rev. Mr. Fellows, 50, 1243 ; 
Rev. Mr Sterrett, 50, 1243 ; Mrs. H. Mar-
shall, 2 00, 1282 ; Mary Green, 3 00, 1282 ; 
James Alexander, 2 00, 1282; Nathan Frith, 
2 50, 1312 ; Eliza Hough, 3 50, 1282 ; S. D. 
Wheeler, 2 00, 1256 ; Mrs. Benj. Jackson, 
2 35; 1290 ; Mrs. A. L. Shireman, 2 00, 
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Eliza Wallace, 2 00, 1282 ; Mrs. Sarah W. 
Sage, 1 00, 1582 ; R. Blass, 2 00, 1282 ; 
James Gorman, 2 00, 1282 ; Laban Crandal, 
2 00, 1250 ; Mrs. Charlotte Hartman, 2 00, 
1282. 
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nearly all, and a quiet contentment and 
enjoyment of existence, most of all things 
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Let those families who neglect all such 
habits be observed, and they will almost 
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LORD PALMERSTON AND HIS IRISH 
TENANT. 
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all to send in their names to some one 
of the list, as we are anxious to see the 
entire lists filled up immediately. At the 
Conference there were some twenty-five 
names obtained for the twenty-five cent 
list, as you will see by the report when 
it is published. This work is the Lord's 
and he calls on us (by opening a large 
door of usefulness) to come up with our 
weekly offerings, and put shoulder to 
shoulder in the great and good work 
of making knavn the blessed doctrine 
of the soon coming kingdom of God. 
Come, brethren and sisters, to the good 
work—the Lord is coming—labor to not 
be found wanting when lie shall appear. 
R. R. KNOWLS. Treas. 
Zile amilg Cirrit. 
THE FAMILY ALTAR. 
"0 come, let us worship and bow down: let us kneel 
before our Maker." 
Come to the place of prayer; 
Parents and children, come and kneel before 
Your God, and with united hearts adore 
IIim whose alone your life and being are. 
Come to the place of prayer, 
Ye band of loving hearts; 0 come and raise, 
With one consent the song of grateful praise 
To Him who blessed you with a lot so fair. 
Come in the morning hour: 
Who, who has raised you from the dreams of night? 
Whose hand bath poured around the cheering 
light? 
Come and adore that heavenly power. 
Come at the close of day) 
Ere wearied nature sinks in gentle rest; 
Come and let all your sins be here confessed ; 
Come, and for his protecting mercy pray. 
Has sorrow's withering blight 
Your dearest hopes in desolation laid, 
And the once cheerful home in gloom arrayed? 
Yet pray, for He can turn the gloom to light. 
has sickness entered in 
Your peaceful mansions? then let prayer ascend 
On wings of faith, to that all-gracious Friend 
Who came to heal the bitter pains of sin. 
Come to the place of prayer; 
At morn, at night—in gladness or in grief—
Surround the throne of grace; there seek relief, 
Or pay your free and grateful homage there. 
So in the world above, 
Parents and children all may meet at last, 
When this your weary pilgrimage is past, 
To mingle there their joyful notes of love. 
+14-4,4•4.. 
NEATNESS IN DRESS. 
The London correspondent of the Ayr 
Observer gives the following anecdote 
of the veteran Premier: 
"To give every one his due Lord 
Palmerston is an excellent landlord. I 
have myself know many -liberal acts he 
has performed for his Irish tenantry in 
the neighborhood of Sligo. A few years 
ago he was shooting over this wild 
property, and after a long walk came to 
a dilapidated hut, in which the only in-
habitants were an old woman and her 
pig. His lordship was hungry, and 
asked if there was anything to be got to 
eat. 'God bless your honor,' said the 
old woman, `shure there are praties and 
egg, all at your service,' and she imme-
diately set to washing some of the for-
mer, and putting them in the pot with 
their jackets, and she Nought from a 
baslipt about half a dozen eggs, which 
in due time were cooked and served 
with the potatoes. Lord Palmerston 
appeared to enjoy his primitive meal. 
Every one gets good-tempered after din-
ner, be it ever so simple; so, for want 
of anIrthing else to do, his lordship 
thought he would chaff his hostess, and 
he asked who was her landlord. 'Oh, 
he's one of the biggest lords in the land, 
your honor it's himself that dines 
with the Quane, and tells her all that 
she ought to do; and shure she's the 
good lady that listens to him, and it's 
by these manes that the country's gov-
erned.' The noble Premier asked her 
about her rent and her circumstances, 
and was told that she had been a widow 
for twenty years, and supported herself 
by hard toil; that never during that 
period had she eaten fresh meat except 
when the pig was killed, and then the 
greater part of it was sold to pay the 
rent, which, 'honar be to God, she never 
was behind in;' she doubted, however, 
when her strength failed her, and she 
could not work as she then did, what 
would become of her; but added: 'If 
my husband had only left me money 
enough to buy a cow, and I had these 
three or four acres of ground that's 
running waste, I'd be as happy as the 
Quane of England.' �
Well,' said his 
lordship, 'suppose I was to speak to 
Lord Palmerston."Ah, faith, your 
honor, it's not the like of you that 'mid 
see Lord Palmerston.; did.nt I tell you 
he was the biggest man in the country; 
and shure it's not yourself that 'lid come 
within a mjle of him.' �
Well,' replied 
his lordship, �
try ; and I'm not going 
to pay you for what I have until I try 
the experiment.' Good luck to your 
honor, but there's no more chanee of 
that than of a poor creature like me to 
see him wid my own eyes.' His lord-
ship shook the old woman warmly by 
the hand and departed. In a few days 
afterwards a beautiful cow was sent to 
the old woman, with a grant of ten acres 
of land free as long as she lived. The 
poor creature was overjoyed, perhaps 
more at the honor of having shaken 
hands with Lord Palmerston than with 
what appeared to be her immense 
wealth—the possessidn of a cow and 
pasturage. Many similar acts has the 
noble Premier done in his long life-time, 
and the little favors have made him 
much beloved." 
THE FUTURE OF DULL Boys.—Parents 
should never despair because their chil-
dren give little promise of eminence in 
early life. Douglas Jerrold was con-
sidered a dull boy; at nine years old he 
could scarcely read. Goldsmith was a 
very unpromising boy. Dryden, Swift 
and Gibbon, i their earliest pieces, did 
not show any talent. The mother of 
Sheridan, herself a literary woman, 
pronounced him to be the dullest and 
most hopeless of her sons. The father 
of Barrow is said to have exclaimed: 
"If it please God to take away any of 
my children, I hope it will be Isaac." 
The injudicious parent regarded the lad 
as a miracle orstupidity, but he after-
ward proved the glory of the family. 
At one time, when Mr. Wesley was 
travelling in Ireland, his carriage be-
came fixed in the mire, and the harness 
broke. While he and his companion 
were laboring to extricate it, a poor man 
passed in great distress. Mr. Wesley 
called to him and inquired the cause of 
his distress. He said that he had been 
unable through misfortune, to pay his 
rent of twenty shillings, and his family 
were just being turned out of doors. "Is 
We are almost inclined to think that 
every person, and especially all young 
persons, should be encouraged and ex-
pected to dress themselves with some 
degree of fresh cute during the after 
part of each day. It may cost a little 
time, (it certainly should not be allowed 
to cost much,) but it will be apt to in-
crease a person's self-respect, and that 
comfortable feeling of being allied and 
equal to the better part of the social 
world, which is so desirable for al!, and 
especially for the young. Not long 
since, a lady, whose ideas were thought 
by many to be above her circumstances, 
would insist on all her children dressing 
for The afternoon, neatly though plainly, 
but never remaining in their morning 
attire. To wash, to arrange the hair, 
and to be always dressed in the after-
noon, not for company, but for home-
life, became a habit. of all the young 
people of that house from childhood, not 
without some remarks from less pains-
takimz neighbors. At last one of the 
children, a bright, but lather self-willed 
girl, remarked, "I think we all feel so 
much more inclined to be orderly and 
good when we are dressed for the after-
noon." This remark, made casually to 
the mother, was, she said, an abundant 
reward for all the extra trouble and care 
of the arrangement. 
It is not expensive, but rather econom-
ical than otherwise, to pay this sort of 
attention to dress. A little extra wash-
ing which it may cost is nothing to what 
is saved by the habitual carefulness not 
to soil one's clothes. The sloven is the 
most extravagant, generely speaking, of 
any one in dress. So also the time that 
it may take is nothing, compared to the 
habit of order, of system, and of having 
time for everything. It promotes self-
respect and pleasant social feelings. The 
man, woman, or child, who feels habit-
ually worse dressed than near neighbors, 
will be apt to shrink from society and 
behave awkwardly in it. This will make 
others shrink from them, and produce a 
sort of warfare and antagonism most 
undesirable, and sure to check the flow 
of those benevolent and social feelings 
which are the source of the purest and 
best earthly joys, and much ot all our 
usefulness. For all this a person must 
have no thought or care or pride of 
wherewithal they are clothed while in 
company. 
There are some would-be philosophers 
who cannot see the reason abless of all 
this. Let them watch the effect which 
the Sunday attire has; especially upon 
the working portion of society, when 
parents and children have time and 
dress for the Sabbath school, the church 
or the private walk, or the family 
freside. Does not all this produce 
greater mutual respect among the mem-
bers of the same family, among neigh-
bors and friends, greater self-respect in 
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MASON AND HAMLIN, 
BRADFORD, N. II., SEPT., 1860. 
DR. POLAND—In the fall of 1857 l• took a very 
violent cold, which brought on a very severe 
cough, pain in side and lungs, and raising blood. 
I was also-very badly afflicted with that trouble-
some disease—the Kidney Complaint. For the 
three years past I have been very much troubled 
with my throat and lungs, choking up and rais-
ing an immense sight, with a bad cough after 
raising blood ; I felt that my time here must be 
short unless I soon got relief. The last spring I 
was induced to try your White .Pine Compound, 
though my faith in it was small. But to my as-
tonishment, before I had taken two bottles, my 
cough was better, the kidney trouble also, and I 
could rest nights without choking up and raising 
so much. I have taken nearly three bottles, and 
am feeling like a well man. 
I would add that my father's family is inclined 
to consumption, my father, mother, and two sis-
ters having died of it. . 
[Many cases of DIABETES have been treated 
with the White Pine' Compound, and the result 
has shown it to be a wonderful remedy ih that 
so called incurable disease.] 
Here is a sample: 
MR. ASA GOODHUE, 
Of Bow, NIL, was so prostrated by Diabetes, in 
March, 1859, that neither himself nor any who 
saw him thought that he could possibly live 
through the month. As a last resort he thought 
he would try the TV/tile Pine Compound. They 
procured a. bottle for him, he began to take it, 
and, to the surprise of all, he immediately showed 
signs of amendment. Eleven months afterwards, 
(Feb. 23, 1860,) in a full statement of his case, 
he says: I believe Dr. Poland's White Pine Com-
pound, under God, has been the means of my re-
covery thus far. 
CABINET ORGANS. 
MASON & HAMLIN respectfully invite attention 
to the fact that their Cabinet Organs are, by the writ-
ten testimony of A MAJORITY OF THE MOST EMINENT 
ORGANISTS AND MUSICIANS IN AMERICA, as well as a 
number of distinguished artists of other countries, de-
clared to be unequalled by any similar instruments; 
"THE BEST OF THEIR CLASS:" also, that they have 
been invariably awarded the first premiums at the nu-
merous Industrial Fairs at which their instruments 
have been exhibited. They will be glad to send to 
any one desiring it an illustrated catalogue of styles 
and prices, with a large amount of is testimony. 
CAUTION TO PURCHASERS. 
The high reputat?on of our CABINET ORGANS has 
frequently induced dealers to represent that other in-
struments are the same thing; and there is no essen-
tial difference between the Cabinet Organs and Organs 
with various names made by other makeis. This is 
not true. The excellence of our Cabinet Organs which 
have given them their high reputation are the result 
not merely of the superiority of their workmanship, 
but also, in large measure, of essential differences of 
construction, which, being patented, cannot be em-
ployed by other makers. These are essential to their 
better quality and volume of tone and unrivalled 
capacity of expression. When a dealer represents 
another instrument as the same thing as the Cabinet 
Organ, it is usually an attempt to sell an inferior in-
strument on which he can make a large profit. 
WAREROOMS:-274 Washington Street, Boston, 
MASON & HAMLIN: 7 Mercer Street, New York, 
MASON BROTHERS. �
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THE WHITE PINE COMPOUND, 
GEO. W. SWEET, M. D., PROPRIETOR, 
Will be manufactured in future at the 
NEW ENGLAND BOTANIC DEPOT, 
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You will see by the above weekly 
subscriptions the plan suggested and 
adopted by our last Conference for meet-
ing the extra expenses in publishing the 
Herald and Visitor for the present year. 
The Conference believing the above 
course to be far more acceptable than to 
advance the price of subscription (as 
other religious papers have, to at least 
No. 106 Hanover Street, Boston. 
Under the supervision of 
REV. J. W. POLAND, M. D. 
DR. SWEET will attend to the business departmeut, to 
whom all orders should be addressed. 
Sold by wholesale and retail dealers in medicine 
everywhere. �
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