BOSTON, SATURDAY, AUGUST 9, 1862. 
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VOLUME XXIII. NO. 32. 
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FLY-LEAF SCRIBBLINGS. 
In a Bible of the Genevan version, ful. 1576, in a 
a very old hand 
"If preaching fayle as yt doth begin 
the people must quayle & dy in their sin 
& if yt decrease gods curse is at hand 
to destoy us our peace or conies & or land 
therefor lets he mending gods pleaguc to prevent 
for after our ending tis to late to repent 
tak heed then to preaching gods word to imbrace 
learne to take warning, lest god yu deface." 
The Professor whose Pipe was 
Stronger than God ? 
OR, TOBACCO HINDERS SANCTIFICATION. 
that ever told me what it is. It is my pipe. 
When I have been praying in my closet for the 
blessing, something has raised me suddenly from 
my knees, and I have run to the reantle-piece 
for my pipe ! My pipe has been stronger than 
God ! And when reading the Bible, in my fami-
ly devotions, I have often cut short the exercise, 
and before I was aware, have run for my pipe. 
My pipe has been stronger than God !" he said 
again ; then,straightening up,with the dignity of a 
man, wiped the tears from his eyes, raising his 
hand, and looking upwards, with eloquence he 
exclaimed : 
"The dearest idol I have known, 
Whate'er that idol be, 
Help me to tear it from thy throne, 
And worship only thee." 
action to the word, he drew his 
meerschaum from his pocket, dashed it down in-
dingnantly upon the steps of the church,and,like 
the baptized eunuch, went on his way rejoicing. 
We hope this dear man obtained the blessing 
to which he aspired ; but we parted there,and as 
Bunyan said of a pilgrim, "we saw him no more." 
—Anti-Tobacco Journal. 
The Dying Soldier. 
A pious soldier, mortally wounded in one of 
the great battles of the Peninsular war, was car-
ried by two or three attached comrades to the 
rear of the scene of action. They laid him down 
under a tree, and unwilling to leave him in such 
a condition of agony and of peril, lingered be-
side him to see if there was no other act of kind-
ness which they could do. His speech seemed 
affected; so that he was unable to answer intel-
ligibly to their inquiries, but he made them un-
derstand by signs that he would not wish them 
to remain with him to the neglect of their post 
of duty in the battle. Reluctantly they left him 
and returned. A little while after, an officer, 
who had been hastily summoned from a distance 
to join the action, rode past. He pulled up on 
seeing a fellow-countryman alone and bleeding 
to death,and asked if there was nothing he could 
do for him. The soldier murmured something 
in the negative, and motioned to him also to go 
forward. "My poor fellow," said the officer, kind-
ly, "it you are so far gone as to be beyond the 
reach of help yourself, perhaps I could do some-
thing for your friends at home ; is there any 
message I could carry for you to your wife and 
children ?" 
At the mention of his family, a flash of con-
sciousness seemed to return to the dying man. 
He said distinctly : "Yes; knapsack—book." 
The officer dismounted, and opened the knap-
sack beside him. He search for a book in it, 
and soon drew out a Bible. The soldier continu-
ed : "Read John xiv. 27." 
The hand which held it was little accustomed 
to turn over the sacred pages, and slowly, and 
not without difficulty, the verse was found and 
read. A radiant and heavenly smile lighted up 
the poor man's features as he listened. "There ! 
There !" he exclaimed, in thrilling and triumph. 
ant tones, "is all I want. I have peace. I am 
going home ; my Saviour is waiting to receive 
me." 
The officer gazed on him a moment in speech-
less astonishment, and then remembering that he 
From the True Presbyterian. 
Jehovah Shalom. 
)uring the period of the Judges, Gideon was 
cued of God to deliver Israel from the Midian-
iteervitude. And when the Lord first appear-
edo.him, to bestow upon him his commission, 
Goon was filled with fear, just as Zacharias 
v.e troubled when the angel Gabriel appeared 
toim, in the temple. But the Lord said unto 
his "Peace be unto thee ; fear not : thou shalt 
nolie." "And Gideon built an altar there, and 
cad it Jehovah Shalom." The word Shalom, 
or ialem, or Salem,as it is variously written in 
thdnglish version, signifies peace, and was in 
verancient times given as a name to the town 
will afterwards became the capitol of' the He-
br(nation. Salem is first mentioned in the 
Se tures as the city of which Melchizedek was 
kisand priest. Subsequently, the word Jeru 
wmrefixed to it. Jeru mews foundation, and 
thihole word Jerusalem, "foundation of peace." 
Wt better name could weary, tempest-tossed, 
so wing man suggest for the city of our God ? 
:ace is a great blessing. Unless the members 
of family maintain peace with one another 
th can be no domestic happiness. Peace is a 
gr blessing in a church or community. "Be-
hohow good and how pleasant it is for breth-
reo dwell together in unity." So peace among 
nais is a great blessing to the world. And we 
bathe cheering promise that the time is corn-
imhen the nations shall learn war no more, 
bu'they shall beat their swords into plough-
sine and their spears into pruning hooks." 
Aihose who walked up and down this wicked 
wo labouring to promote peace, unity and 
loge not only great benefactors to the human 
raout they enjoy the special favor of God : 
"Bed are the peace-makers ; for they shall be 
cal the children of God." 
of all the different kinds of peace, inter-
nahce of conscience and peace with God are 
thost important. For without these no man 
car happy. Man is the child of sorrow. And 
hich will be at "the Restitution."—ED. 
demns him,and lays upon his heart a heavy bur-
den of sadness and remorse. God also condemns 
the sinner, and appoints him to be punished,both 
in this world and that which is to come. 2. Sin 
feet and morally unclean, and thus completely 
disables him for good, and renders him unfit for 
the society of heaven. Now, in order to obtain 
perfect peace of mind, we must have some way 
of getting rid of the condemnation of sin, and of 
the defilement of *sin. Not only do we need for-
giveness, but sanctification is just as essential. 
Hence it is a cause of great rejoicing to an anx-
ious soul when it obtains a sense of pardoned 
sin ; but it fills that soul with fulness of joy when 
it secures the earnest and the assurance of that 
satisfaction which fits it for glory. But how 
shall we obtain these ? No doubt, Christian, you 
have often rejoiced over the blessings of salva-
tion of which you have had experience. But 
your peace does not flow on continuously as the 
waters in the channel of a deep and quiet river. 
You are troubled with multiplied breakers of 
doubt. Perhaps you are under the impression 
that constant peace is not designed to be the por-
tion of God's children on earth ; or that it is re-
served entirely for those who are far advanced 
in the divine life. But hear the language of 
God's word : "Thou wilt keep him in perfect 
peace, whose mind is stayed on thee ; because he 
trusteth in thee." Here is a promise of perfect 
peace, and on the one simple condition of trust. 
The promise is not to the aged child of God ; it 
is to all who will trust. 
A large proportion of' Christians seem to labor 
under a great error, and one which is easily 
pointed out ; but it is one which multitudes do 
not fully discover until they reach the last stages 
of their earthly pilgrimage. As I have already 
stated, we all need two things, forgiveness and 
sanctfication. Now, God in providing salvation 
for us, has provided full salvation, and he bestows 
it all as a gift. lie pardons gratuitously, and 
he sanctifies by his own power. And we can do 
nothing to merit either. When a man is brought 
by the Gospel and spirit of God into that anx-
ious state of mind which generally precedes con- 
version, his principal trouble perhaps is the law 
of God. He dreads its curse, which he feels 
that he deserves. And his first work is to try 
to do something to merit the removal of' the sen-
tence. But we assure him,on the faith of God's 
word, that Christ has met all the demands of the 
law ; that he as a sinner is perfectly helpless ; 
and that now he must just cast himself into the 
arms of' the Saviour both for pardon and a new 
heart, Christ has done all, and is willing to for-
give all, if he will simply trust. At last the 
sinner gives up all earthly hope, and casts him 
self on the mercy of God through Christ, and he 
obtains a sense of pardoned sin, and experiences 
a change of heart. His first impulses are those 
of gratitude and joy for the free and full pardon 
of all his sins. Sometimes the joy is unbounded. 
But this lasts only a short time. The young 
Christian,who thought he never would sin again, 
soon finds that his heart is still very imperfect. 
Just returned from addressing an audience of 
Methodist friends here in Jamestown. The sub-
ject was consecration to God, unreserved and 
complete, touching the whole man. We urged 
sanctification as heartily as the great Wesley 
ever did. We told them that habitual wrong-
doing of any kind was in direct conflict with all 
acceptable prayer for this spiritual attainment. 
"Brethren," we inquired, "how are you daily em-
ployed ? Are you manufacturing,selling, or using 
tbacco ? Are you patronizing deadly druLs and 
drinks, and swelling the curse of intemperance ? 
If so, we beg you to change your course. You 
live in known sin,and your prayers for 'the high-
er life' are worse than vain, for they are an 
abomination at God's throne. Renounce every 
wrong practice, and even suspicious ones ; and 
then you may pray for santification consistently 
and with a better grace." We had unusal free-
dom among these dear brethren, and it was an 
hour of marked solemnity and tenderness—a feast 
of Christian love. 
As I withdrew to the vestibule, a well-looking 
brother approached me, under very strong ex-
citement of mind. 'You have struck the nail on 
the head once," he said,in trembling,tearful tones. 
"You have struck the nail on the head," he said 
again,in a louder voice,and sobbed like a broken. 
hearted child. "Tell us,brother," we said, "what 
you mean ?" After a while he replied : "I have 
been praying for sanctification five or six years. 
There has alway been an Achan in my soul—al-
ways something in my way ; and you are the first 
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ield of battle. He, too, was mortally wounded, 
ind had not spoken until they approached the 
ree where the lifeless remains of the soldier were 
row stretched on the ground. The spot too viv-
dly recalled the circumstances which had taken 
>lace there so short a time before. Passing his 
land over his forehead, he was heard to say, in 
toes of heartfelt anguish : "I have no Bible, I 
bye no peace, there is no Saviour waiting to no-
me me." 
3oth these men were exposed to the power of 
thssword ; both, as to their mortal life, fell vie-
tin to it ; yet the heir of the promise, in his 
lonly death, experienced the "I will" of deliver-
anc—his soul was redeemed from the power of 
tlemord.—The Sayings of the King. 
;vas carried by his men,on a rude litter,out of the defiles the heart. It makes man morally itnper- 
thee cause of all our woe is sin. And sin does The old motion of sin still works in his members. 
twengs for man : 1. It brings him into con. He cannot keep himself in a spiritual frame of 
denion. The sinner's own conscience con- mind. Old temptations return, and perhaps be 
yields to some of them. Doubts conic, and much 
anxiety. Then peace goes out of his heart. He 
250 
THE ADVENT HERALD. 
From the Millennial News. 
Where are We 1 
Thou. my servant, needst not languish,— 
Thou art not the cause. 
1, thy God, will still sustain thee ; 
All thy sorrows now dismiss; 
Shortly I will send and take thee 
To the world of bliss. 
Bow no more in pensive sadness, 
Soon my glory thou shalt see ; 
Tarry here beside the river 
Till I call for thee. 
"Gabriel, an errand earthward.; 
Harness up the golden team ; 
Go, and you will find Elijah 
Waiting by the stream. 
He has been my faithful prophet, 
Often struggled all alone, 
And has won himself a station 
Very near the throne. 
To the verdant banks of Jordan 
Hasten down without delay, 
For I know he is expecting 
To come home to-day. 
Bear him upward very gently, 
Sing of Canaan on the road, 
Tell him he will find a welcome 
In the bright abode. 
"Angels, in your robes of beauty, 
Gather round the golden gate, 
And with softest, sweetest music, 
For Elijah wait. 
I have sent the fiery chariot 
To convey my servant here ; 
Hail him with a joyous welcome 
When he shall appear. 
Take this glittering crown of glory, 
Place it on his worthy brow. 
Hark ! the chariot wheels are rumbling ; 
See! he's coming now." 
Welcome ! welcome!! faithful prophet, 
To our sweetest pleasures come ; 
See this dazzling, beauteous city ! 
'Tis thy final home. 
has obtained one want, pardon, and lie got it 
simply by trusting in Jesus. He tried to get it 
by law works. He tried to make himself bet- 
ter that he might merit forgivene, But he had 
to take it at last on trust as a gift. He is now 
in the kingdom ; but he is still a poor sinner. He 
finds another great want; his heart is defiled 
with sin, And what shall he do ? Undoubtedly 
there has been a great change. Once he loved 
sin ; now he hates it, and would give worlds to 
be free from it. But what shall he do ? When 
he was an anxious sinner seeking pardon, he first 
worked for it. He is still an anxious sinner, but 
now he is seeking sanctification ; and he does 
just as he did at first, he works for it. He fasts 
and prays, and reads the Bible, and multiplies 
resolutions, and frequents the sanctuary, and 
floods all his unsucessful exertions with tears of 
the deepest sadness. He does all this to make 
himself better. But he does not grow better, 
and never will under such a process. Having 
been once made free by Christ,he has gone back 
and made himself a bond-slave to the law of 
works. He toils, and fails, and weeps over it ; 
and then doubts whether he was ever converted. 
And in this way he drags out his weary years 
until he comes to die,and there with earth reced-
ing, and eternity approaching, and every other 
hope gone, he just trusts Christ to fit him for 
heaven, as at first he trusted him for pardon. As 
soon as he does this, his doubts are all gone, he 
has perfect peace, and his soul is rejoicing in the 
full hope of glory. But he might just as well 
have done all this at first. The grand secret of 
the Christian life is to open the heart and take in 
Jehovah Shalom in all his offices. Too many 
learn only half this secret when they first em-
brace the cross. Think for a moment, doubt-
ing child of God. Can you, by any of your 
works, make your heart better? Would you, if 
you could ? Do you not want the best heart that 
can be made ? a heart pure, holy, and attuned 
to all heaven's services ? And if you put your 
hand to the work, will you not spoil it ? Open 
your heart; take in Christ ; let him do the work 
in his own time, and in his own way. Do not 
fret yourself because he chooes not to make you 
perfectly holy at once. Christian, tarry for a 
little while to-day in your closet. Give all your 
efforts to make yourself better. Make a new 
consecration to Christ. Let faith and love im- 
pel you to do all that your Master requires for 
his pleasure, that you may not grieve nor 
hinder the Spirit in his work of sanctification. 
And here, at this stage of your spiritual pilgrim- 
age, erect a new altar unto God, and dedicate it 
with the name of Jehovah Shalom. A. P. F. 
For the Herald. 
Review of Editorial Remarks on 
Dr. Seiss's " Ten Virgins," 
IN HERALD OF JUNE 21, 1862. 
"Dr Seiss is an able writer, and has here pre-
sented arguments worthy of consideration on 
many parts of this parable. We cannot,however, 
but feel that he is in error in his position that 
the foolish virgins have a period of grace extend-
ed to them after the coming of the Lord. The 
Advent, as we read the Scriptures, closes proba-
tion, and seals forever the destiny of each son 
and daughter of Adam."—Advent Herald. 
We cannot receive the Editor's position, that 
the Advent closes probation, and seals forever 
the destiny of every son and daughter of Adam," 
unless he could prove it to be tenable upon scrip-
tural grounds. To the contrary, we think that 
Mr. Seiss has, by a masterly chain of arguments, 
throughout the whole volume of his "Ten Vir-
gins," established his view, that the unwise vir-
gins have a period of grace extended to them af-
ter the coming of the Lord,and that "themselves 
will be saved so as by fire, with the suffering of 
loss." 1st Cor. 3, 15. This fire we conceive to be 
the great tribulation through which they will 
pass, after the wise virgins are translated, and 
that the unwise virgins will be in the second 
translation, being purged, and prepared by the 
fiery tribulation through which they will pass, as 
a chastisement upon their sloth, and cause great 
unreadiness for the marriage. "For that servant 
which knew his Lord's will, and prepared not 
himself, neither did according to his will, shall 
be beaten with many stripes." This is the award 
of the slothful servant after he comes, and there 
is no mention of death in it. He first bestows a 
blessing upon the waiting, dilligent servant, and 
then adjudges the chastisement of stripes to the 
unprofitable. (Luke 12: 40-47.) It is true it is 
said in the preceding verse that they will have a 
"portion with unbelievers," that is a portion of 
their temporal judgments ; but this is not the fi-
nal adjudication of their case. We can find in 
no Scripture, concerning this class of servants, 
any intimation of their final condemnation. To 
the contrary,they are every where judged in the 
first judgment of the servants, and this is con-
cluded before that of the world commences. 
In the first place our Lord calls them "his 
servants." There are but two masters; "the prince 
of this world" and " Him who for the suffering 
* Not his "final home ;" for when the Lord 
shall come He will bring all his servants with 
him.—ED. 
four universal empires has stood in its various 
predicted forms nearly two thousand years, and 
must soon give place to the kingdom of the 
saints : for "the saints of the most High shall 
take the kingdom, and possess the kingdom for 
ever, even for ever and forever." We believe 
with the Rev. John King Lord, late pastor of' 
the First Orthodox Congregational Church in 
Cincinnati, Ohio, that 
"We stand on the threshold of the millenni- 
um. Through what scenes the predicted day of 
a thousand years will be ushured in we know 
not. But they are rapidly rising upon our fie d 
of vision. W e tremblingly expect the develop. 
ment of prophecy and the actual explication of 
those symbols, to present which 'heaven, earti, 
and hell were exhausted of their imagery. 
Re-
lieved against the back-ground of history stara-
eth the great image of gold, and silver, aril 
brass, and iron, looming up like a mighty pills 
between us and the sky from which the sun ha 
just descended. Right opposite, with beams d' 
the morning reddening its summit, rises in m;-
jestic grandeur the mountain of the house of Go,. 
Invisible hands are heaving from its side a lie 
ing stone. It trembles on its poise, and in the 
pathway along which it must speedily rush, the 
monument of the empires is reared. Who cai 
conceive or describe the terrors of the collision 
The solid earth will shake. The sea will depar 
from its place and unwrap itself from its dead 
The heavens shall be rolled together as a scroll 
and the stars shall be thrust into the bottomle; 
pit, and the angel shall lock them in. Ad 
Christ shall come. Already he makes ready Is 
coming. The chariots of salvation are gathe-
ing for the triumphant career. The attendat 
hosts are waiting for the signal. Christ is ca-
ing." . . . . "In due time the world shall )e 
purged by fire—swept by the besom of Dive 
vengeance, and no ark can ride on that morn 
sea, no power can stay that terrible overthrs. 
The supremacy of Jehovah shall be maintainc, 
his glory shall be assured. He will be glorifii 
in his enemies ; glorified in the old heavens al 
earth, that shall pass away before the lightnin1 
of his wrath, and glorified in the new heave; 
and earth, in which the lost harmony of the et. 
ation shall be restored : and Christ shall dwt 
with his ransomed church." Sermons, pp. 182, 
335. 
Yes, we are on the verge of a crisis in t 
earth's history. A storm more universal di 
that in which the cities of the plain were ov-
thrown is about to burst upon us. The chuff 
of the living God will be safe, but the imp-
tent will have no way to flee ; for it is "the 
of judgment and perdition of ungodly me' 
0 sinner ! in the light of God's word see the -
ing storm, and "flee for refuge to lay hold hi 
upon the hope set before" thee in the gosl. 
Prepare to meet thy God by an affectiont, 
practical confidence in the testimony which 
has given of his Si,
d Jesus Christ. Do it ra 
or thy feet will soon stumble on the dark moo 
tains, and thou wilt fall into the abyss which 
never spanned by the bow of hope, nor gladd, 
ed by the offers of salvation. Flee, lingerer, fl 
while the gates of the celestial city are open 
receive thee. 
0. 
From Zion's Herald. 
Elijah's Translation. 
Father, I am sad and lonely, 
Bowed and pensive here I roam ; 
0 accept my heart's petition, 
Send and take me home. 
I have been a faithful prophet, 
Or at least have tried to be ; 
Wept and prayed,and sighed and strugg 
To keep Israel free. 
But thine altars lie in ruins, 
None thee as their Master own, 
All thy people bow to Baal, 
I am left alone. 
View me in my sad condition, 
Father, bid me cease to roam ; 
0 accept my heart's petition, 
Send and take me home. 
"Wherefore art thou grieved, Elijah ? 
Why doth sorrow fill thy mind ? 
I am just as near as ever, 
Just as good and kind. 
Though mine altars lie in ruins, 
And my people spurn my laws, 
of death is to be crowned with glory in the 
world to come, whereof we speak." Let us ex-
amine the scriptural character of the servants of 
the Prince of this world," and see how it accords 
with those of our Lord. "Ye are of your father, 
the devil,and the lusts of' your father ye will do : 
he was a murderer from the beginning,and abode 
not in the truth ; because there is no truth in 
him." (John 8: 44.) What accordance has the 
character of these with those whom our Lord 
calls "His servants?" Would he have delivered 
his goods to men who ,were doing the work of 
him who was a murderer from the beginning,and 
never had any truth in him ? But the unprofita-
ble servant was was one of those to whom "he 
delivered his goods." (Matt. 25: 14.) "And after 
awhile the Lord of those servants cometh and 
reckoneth with them." (Matt. 25: 19.) Here, in 
the very last act, the reckoning which decides 
their fate, they are still recognized as servants. 
We read that "judgment shall begin at the house 
of God." (1 Pet. 4: 17.) Here, in the very pro-
cess of judgment, they are called "the house of 
God ;" for they are in the first judgment, which 
was concluded before that of the gathering of the 
nations before him. (Matt. 25 : 19-22). The na-
ture of his sentence does not indicate a doom 
with the wicked. "Cast ye the unprofitable ser-
vant into outer darkness : there shall be weeping 
and gnashing of teeth." Notice the difference in 
the sentence of the wicked--"But those mine 
enemies, which would not that I should reign 
over them, bring hither and slay them before me." 
" These shall go into everlasting punishment." 
"Depart from me ye cursed into everlasting fire." 
(Luke 19 : 27. Matt. 25 : 41, 46). We look in 
vain for any such sentence upon the unprofitable 
servant. Whatever that "outward darkness,and 
weeping" and chattering of teeth may mean,there 
is no sentence of death or eternal fire in it. It 
may mean, "the gross darkness," which shall 
cover the earth during the period of the tribula-
tion, when the church, which is the light of the 
world," as long as they are in it, shall flee to the 
wilderness, and spiritual darkness tshill prevail. 
And the weeping and trembling may be from 
the trepidation' and suffering of their, persecu-
tion, flight, and sojourn in the wilderness. The 
unprofitable servant of Matt. 25 : 24-30, — the 
servant whose work did not stand the test of fire, 
of 1 Cor. 3 : 13-15, — the delaying, Inprepared, 
do-little servant of Luke 12 : .44-47,--and the 
"unready virgins" of Matt.25.:= 8---10,tte'the same 
class of characters, identified by anany points of, 
similarity. And it is positively said of ptke.,ser vant 
whose work was burned, "he.Shall 'stiffer loss,eut 
himself' shall be saved yet so •as by fire," And 
rule was the loss he suffered. For while rule 
over five or ten cities was alloted to„thes,e who had 
improved their talents in proportion'to their gifts, 
there is no mention of any such thing in- connec-
tion with the unprofitable servant. Those whose 
work was of gold,silver,&c.and consequently stood 
the trial of fire, were to have a reward; and here 
we see the nature of the reward. It was yule co-
extensive with the improvement of their talents,' 
Whilst to the other class it is said, "take from 
him the pound, and give it teritint thatehath ten 
pounds." (Luke 12: 24.) Weoyoulfi like to see 
this subject thoroughly discusaectlay.the Editor, 
or some of the brethren ; for if there isSeriptural 
proof of the closing of our probatioustt the Ad- 
vent we have failed to find it. A.P. J. 
REMARKS. "In the end of the world, the Son 
of man shall send forth his angels,and they shall 
gather out of his kingdom all 'things that offend, 
and them which do iniquity, and shall-cast them 
into a furnace of fire." Matt. 13: 40 42. 
"To you who are troubled, rest with us when 
the Lord Lord Jesus shall be revealed from heav- 
en with his mighty angels, fire, taking 
vengeance on them that know riot 'God and obey 
not the gospel of our Lord-Jesus wrist," 1. 
Thess. 2: 7, 8. 
If the above texts are not specific, if they do 
not teach that all things offensive are to be gath-
ered out of the kingdom at Christ's coming, and 
vengeance will be taken on all who obey not the 
gospel, we know not how language can be so 
framed or moulded as to be unequivocal. 
The scriptures do not read, as quoted, that 
the unfaithful servant will have a portion with 
As we gaze on an aged man who tremblingly 
leans on his staff for stipport,—whose white locks 
wave in the breeze, while deep furrows wrinkle 
his brow,we know:not how soon his earthly career 
will terminate, but feel sure that according to 
the common course of nature there can be but a 
step between him and death : so while we look 
on our world that stood in its pristine beauty 
nearly 6000 years ago, and mark the traces of 
sorrow and judgment which rest upon it now, we 
see so many predictions of the Bible respecting 
it fulfilled, that though we know not the precise 
time of its end, yet are we fully satisfied that 
soon the last pages of its history will be written 
in the fires of the judgment day. 
The passing of 1836 without bringing "the 
imprisonment of Satan,"which Wesley expected ; 
or of 1843, or some other year, without the Ad-
vent of the King of kings taking place, does not 
affect great historical events. That the chain 
of worldly kingdoms given in Daniel 2nd chap-
ter, extending from the days of Nebuchadnezzar 
to the establishment of the everlasting kingdom 
of God, requires no additional link to consum-
mate it, is a truth unmoved by the passing of a 
given date. That to-day we are not connected 
with Babylon, "the beauty of the Chaldees' ex-
cellency ;" nor controlled by "the laws of the 
Medes and Persians, which alter not ;" nor by 
Grecia, with Alexander the Great at its head ; 
nor by Rome's iron sceptre of imperial great-
ness, is an indubitable truth. The last of the 
 
 
 
 
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the unbelievers ; but the Lord "will cut trim in ops of the Roman communion—but bishops, 
sunder,and will appoint him his portion with the i nevertheless, from all countries and dominions, 
unbelievers," Luke 12: 46;or as Matthews reads, from the Old World and the New, French and 
"shall cut him asunder, and appoint him his pot.. German,Italian and Spaniard, Greek and Amer-
tion with the hypocrites: there shall be wailing ican, and English — "Mitred Abbots, Patriarchs, 
and gnashing of teeth." Matt. 24: 51. We do i Archbishops,Bishops," and Cardinals: a "sight," 
not see how the principles of exegesis that can says the graphic description of the eye-witness 
apply such language to mere temporal judgments, who writes to the Times, "which the world has 
would not equally promise salvation to all men. 
ED. 
The event itself, the presence for such a pur-
pose of an assembly thus constituted, and thus 
numerous, must to all statesmen, and still more 
to all Christians, whether within or without the 
communion of Rome, be one of interest and sig-
nificance. The sence within the famous Temple 
of St. Peter, so vivdly portrayed by the same 
pen already referred to, deeply touching as no 
doubt it was to the votaries and devotees of the 
Roman Catholic worship, can hardly fail,also,ev-
en in description, to impress itself in its deep 
solemnity and grandeur on all who "profess or 
call themselves Christians." Yet, interesting as 
may be the mere event of such a celebration and 
such an assemblage—impressive and striking as 
may be the ceremonies with which it was attend-
ed ; more interesting, more striking still, as it 
seems to us, than either the cermonial or the 
assemblage, are the words cited at the head of 
this article—the words in which these 400 Bish-
ops, of all climes and countries, speak of the 
great question of the day, so far as regards Ro-
man, or perhaps all Western Christendom—the 
question of the temporal power of the Papacy. 
We may freely and at once admit that their 
ideal is an imposing one. How beautiful is the 
theory—that there should be a "sacred spot, 
placed between the three continents of the Old 
World," where under the reign of a "'noble, 
peaceful, and gentle liberty," conspicuous amid 
the surrounding " conflict of affairs, of opinions, of 
human institutions," there should reside a su-
preme Protector and Defender of Christendom, 
calmly " powerful," yet calmly " free," "impar-
tial and without preference," " neither silinced 
by terror, nor circumvented by artifice ! " The 
picture is almost Lucretian. 
Yet, alas ! how little, how very little is the 
fact in accordance with the theory ; and if this 
be so,why is this difference? We English church-
men, for our part, can derive neither pleasure 
nor support from the self-degradation, the folly, 
the ambition,or the crime, which unhappily have 
been so often „associated with and still but too 
often accompany the temporal wealth, gran-
deur, and power of Roman Catholic Christen-
dom. Why, indeed, in the nature of things,tern-
poral power, temporal grandeur, or temporal 
wealth, are or should be, as we are now inform-
ed, necessary conditions, in the theory at least, 
of spiritual excellence, spiritual influence, and 
spiritual authority, we must humbly profess our 
total inability to discern. We could well wish, 
indeed, without any fear of injury to our posi-
tion as members of an independent Church,that so 
far as the Chair of S. Peter, whether the tempo-
ral power and grandeur were there or not, at all 
events that calm and lofty spiritual temper and 
dignity, which these Bishops know so well how 
to describe, were sometimes to be seen and felt 
by the World without. Talk, indeed, we may, 
"It is necessary that the Roman Pontiff,Chief as who may not, of "a voice of power and liber- 
of all the Church, should be neither the subject ty," "a voice great and powerful," "a voice which 
nor even the guest of any Prince; but that seated can neither be silenced by terror nor circum- 
upon a throne, and a master in his own domain, vented by artifice." Yet who that looks back 
and in his own kingdom, he should recognize no on either the last dozen years or so, or on the 
law but his own, and in a noble, peaceful, and entire course, of the history of the Papacy, can 
gentle liberty should protect the Catholic faith, fail to ask himself, not where are the facts to 
defend it, and rule and govern the whole Chris- support,—but whether the facts do not most pos- 
tian republic. Who can deny that in the con- itively and particularly contradict and reverse, 
filet of affairs, of opinions, of human institutions, the dream of these excellent prelates ? Where 
there should be in the centre of Europe a sacred is the power, we may well ask—and where is 
spot placed between the three continents of .the the liberty, or still more, where is the impar- 
Old World—an august see, whence should arise tiality, which signalizes now, or has ever signa- 
from time to time, for peoples and princes, a lized, the government of that territory which has 
great and powerful voice, a voice of power and had the misfortune to be ruled by Popes and 
liberty, impartial and without preference, which Cardinals ? Time was, indeed, when the spirit- 
can neither be silenced by terror nor circumvent- ual power and might of the Papacy drew with it 
ed by artifice ?" So spake the near four hun- also a temporal power of tremendous import ; a 
dred Bishops recently assembled at Rome, os- power, the very existence of which was an abuse, 
tensibly to assist at the canonization of the "Jap. and the exercise of which was a despotism. But 
Lanese martyrs" of 1597—all, of course, Bish- powerful as as a temporal government, in the 
s 
For the herald. 
From Sister Martha Salt. 
It is evident, by the signs of the times, that 
we are close upon the day of wrath. Of war I 
need not speak. Of its present fearful aspects 
and consequences,who can think without a shud-
der ? The indignation of the Lord is upon all 
nations, and his fury upon all their armies ; for, 
"Behold the Lord cometh out of his place, to 
punish the inhabitants of the earth for their ini-
quity." All society is trembling to think what 
may be the end of these disasters and comrno-
tions ; some terrified at the approaching judgment 
which seems to be coming upon the earth. We 
have judgments of different character, national 
convulsions, and political overturnings such as 
the world never witnessed. Christianity, in-
stead of converting the world, as is the boast of 
our day, has itself been corrupted, and is the 
means in this corrupted state of plunging men in-
to deeper moral debasement than that in which 
it found them. Would that, even now, men 
might be warned and led to consider these sol-
emn and impending visitations of God's wrath. 
We are passing into a crisis long expected; and 
God is doing strange work in the earth. The 
order and mode in which he will operate will 
be altogether his own, and will doubtless baffle 
and put to shame all the wit and sagacity of 
man. But the end, we know, will be the exhi-
bition of God's glory in the punishment of the 
wicked, the termination of Satan's kingdom, and 
the establishment of the throne of the Son of 
David. But will the usurper give up the pos-
session quietly ? Will he not, as a bad tenant, 
when rejected and forced to quit,do all the dam-
age lie can to the premises before he goes ? 
Mark 11: 17, 29. But, amid all the uproar 
and confusion of the earth, God's time-piece 
may be heard chiming the morning watch of 
a new day ; and streams of light are now seen 
to streak the darkness of the sky. Happy are 
the men who are awake to watch the awful 
and sublime phenomenon, and expect to be pre-
pared for it. No man can tell how soon the day 
or hour may come when the Lord shall descend ; 
but this is plainly declared, that that day shall 
come as a thief, suddenly and unlooked for ; and 
everything seems to prove the time to be at the 
doors. Grant, 0 Lord, that we who are look-
ing may be prepared for it, and be among that 
happy number who shall be caught up in our re-
deemed bodies to meet the Lord in the air, and 
so be ever with the Lord. 
Yours, in the blessed hope. 
MARTHA SALT. 
East Liverpool, Ohio, fitly 28th, 1862. 
The Papacy in 1862. 
not seen for centuries," "and perhaps will never 
see again." 
proper sense of the words, powerful in its own 
dominions to keep order and check abuse, or 
powerful abroad in respect of its material power 
at home, this it may safely be pronounced the 
Papacy has never been ; and to apply to this 
temporal government the further qualifications 
of freedom and impartiality is simply an auda-
cious fiction. Our complaint against the assum-
ed temporal authority of the Popes, and the rea-
son indeed why in England we cannot but wish 
(and do wish) for its merger in that of the great 
Italian Kingdom is, that that temporal authori-
ty is not powerful, not free, not impartial. If it 
were so, there might be some reason for wishing 
its continuance. But the reason why (indepent-
ly of theological antagonism, which of course ex-
ists) public sympathy in this country is so en-
tirely with the Sardinians and againt the Pope,is 
that the Papal authority is not powerful but 
weak, not free but tyrannical, not impartial but 
arbitrary. 
These canonizations at Rome, we may well 
conclude, were all along designed to be not only 
a religious demonstration, but also a political 
one, a demonstration in defence, if defence be 
still possible, of the temporal power of the Pa-
pacy. The demonstration has no doubt been a 
great one, the celebration has been grand and 
imposing, and the voice of all Roman Catholic 
Christendom has been, we may well suppose, 
united or almost united, by this movement, in 
defence of the old worldly position and magnifi-
cence of the Patriarch of Rome. Yet can the 
movement after all be expected to be, or ought 
it to be wished to be, in this political sense, in 
any degree successful ? No one, we suppose, not 
actually blinded by the infatuation of Ultramon-
tanism, can fail to see not only that there is no 
necessary connection between worldly grandeur 
and spiritual excellence, but that the two are 
(if anything) incompatible rather than other-
wise ; and if so, any movement which proceeds 
on the assumption that this connection is to be 
regarded as a vital article of religion must ne-
cessarily be a mistaken one. The Popes may or 
may not be destined to be presently stript of 
their temporal dominions, but whether they are 
or not, the elevation of their temporal sovereign-
ty into a tenet of religious belief, which seems 
to be the object and design of this assemblage 
of clergy at Rome, does appear to be not simply 
unwarrantable and wrong, but, even from a Ro-
man point of view, a real and dangerous mis-
take.— Guardian. 
[We have received a single copy of the "Wes-
tern Recorder," published at Louisville, Ky., and 
containing the following article, which appears to 
be the closing one of a series. As it is all we 
have of the series, we give it as it is. — ED.] 
Christ Jesus, the Lord of life and of glory, 
having by omnipotent poweriind authority over-
thrown Satan,and sin in all its length and byeadth 
and depth, and heighth, will destroy death and 
him that hath the power of death, that is, the 
devil, the old serpent, the dragon, and will ban-
ish him and his to the bottomless pit, to endure 
eternal punishment as their just portion. "O,what 
eternal horrors hang around the second death." 
The last battle having been fought, a trium-
phant and complete victory won, then Christ will 
be revealed from heaven, will raise the dead 
saints, translate the living saints, all of whom 
will meet the Lord in the air and ever be with 
him, will raise the wicked dead and judge the 
world in righteousness ; the righteous will go in-
to life eternal, the wicked into everlasting pun-
ishment. Some important passages of Scripture 
will be quoted to set this matter in a clear light, 
only a sufficiency for the purpose. Acts i, 2: 
"Which also said" [i. e. the angels], " Ye men of 
Galilee, why stand ye gazing up into heaven ? 
This same Jesus which is taken up from you in-
to heaven, shall so come in like manner as ye 
have seen him go into heaven." 1st Thes. 4:16, 
17 : "For the Lord himself shall descend from 
heaven with a shout, with the voice of the arch-
angel, and with the trump of God, and the dead 
in Christ shall rise first. 
Then we which are alive and remain, shall be 
The Second Coming of Christ Sifted. 
SECOND SERIES, CONCLUDED. 
caught up together with them in the clouds, to 
meet the Lord in the air : and so shall we ever be 
with the Lord." 
2d Thes. 1 : 7, 10 : "And to you who are 
troubled, rest with us, when the Lord Jesus shall 
be revealed from heaven with his mighty an-
gels. 
In flaming fire taking vengeance on them that 
know not God, and that obey not the gospel of 
our Lord Jesus Christ : 
Who shall be punished with everlasting de-
struction from the presence of the Lord,and from 
the glory of his power ; When he shall come to 
be glorified in his saints, and to be admired in 
all them that believe * * * in that day." 2d 
Pet. 3: 10, 13 : " But the day of the Lord will 
come as a thief in the night ; in the which the 
heavens shall pass away with a great noise, and 
the elements shall melt with fervent heat, the 
earth also and the works that are therein shall 
be burned up. 
Seeing then that all these things shall be dis-
solved,what manner of persons ought yet to be in 
all holy conversation and godliness. 
Looking for and basting unto the coming of 
the day of God, wherein the heavens being on fire 
shall be dissolved, and the elements shall melt 
with fervent heat. 
Nevertheless we, according to his promise,look 
for new heavens and a new earth, wherein dwel-
leth righteousness." 
Rev. 20: 11-15 : "And I saw a great white 
throne, and him that sat on it, from whose face 
the earth and the heaven fled away ; and there 
was found no place for them. 
And I saw the dead, small and great, stand 
before God ; and the books were opened ; and 
another book was opened, which is the Book of 
Life : and the dead were judged out of those 
things which were written in the books, accord-
ing to their works. And the sea gave up the 
dead which were in it ; and death and hell de-
livered up the dead which were in them : and 
they were judged every man according to his 
works. And death and hell were cast into the 
lake of fire. This is the second death. 
And whosoever was not found written in the 
book of life was cast into the lake of fire." 
Matt. 25 : 31-34 and 41: " When the Son of 
man shall come in his glory, and all the holy an-
gels with him, then shall he sit upon the throne 
of his glory. 
And before him shall be gathered all nations : 
and he shall separate them one from another, as 
a shepherd divideth his sheep from the goats : 
And he shall set the sheep on his right hand,but 
the goats on the left. 
Then shall the King say unto them on his 
right hand, Come, ye blessed of my father, in-
herit the kingdom prepared for you from the 
foundation of the world. 
Then shall he say also unto them on the left 
hand, Depart from me, ye cursed, into everlast-
ing fire,prepared for the devil and his angels." 
Here ends the scenes of earth's enactments in 
the great drama of life. Death and hell, and 
him that hath the power of death, being destroy-
ed, the kingdom will be delivered up to God the 
Father,and he that had all things put under him, 
Jesus Christ,will be subject unto him the Fath-
er, that put all things under him, that God may 
be all and in all. 
1 Cor. 15 : 24-28 : "Then cometh the end, 
when he shall have delivered up the kingdom to 
God, even the Father ; when he shall have put 
down all rule, and all authority and power. 
For he must reign till he hath put all enemies 
under his feet. The last enemy that shall be 
destroyed is death. 
For he hath put all things under his feet. But 
when he saith all things are put under him, it is 
manifest that he is excepted which did put all 
things under him. 
And when all things shall be subdued unto him, 
then shall the Son also himself be subject unto 
him that put all things under him, that God may 
be all in all." 
Now, it may be said, time shall be no longer. 
The end of all things has come. Eternity, in all 
its majesty, is unfolded. We enter upon its glo-
ries and its bliss. Its sun, which will never go 
down, is shining in all its effulgence. Eternal 
glory, eternal bliss, eternal joy, eternal rest : what 
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THE ADVENT HERALD. 
tion and exasperation on both sides is admitted, and 
is that the moment at which it can be thought that a 
successful offer of mediation is likely to be made ! My 
honorable friend says he does not care for that ; we 
had better offer our mediation, even though it be re-
fused. I wish to guard myself against anything in 
regard to the future. The events of the war have 
been so contrary to all anticipations, from time to 
time,that he would be a bold man who would proph-
ecy from month to month what character this war 
may assume." 
Every indication is that all the foreign powers 
are waiting for is an opportunity for interference 
with American affairs. 
ideas ! What finite mind can comprehend them? 
God and the new Jerusalem, with men on a new 
earth. 
Rev. 21, 1.6 ; "And I saw a new heaven and 
a new earth : for the first heaven and the first 
earth were passed away, and there was no more 
sea. 
And I John saw the holy city, New Jerusa-
lem, coming down from God out of heaven, pre-
pared as a bride adorned for her husband, 
And I heard a great voice out of heaven say-
ing, Behold the tabernacle of God is with men, 
and he will dwell with them, and they shall be 
with them and be their God. 
And God shall wipe away all tears from their 
eyes ; and there shall be no more death, neither 
sorrow, nor crying, neither shall there be any 
more pain ; for the former things are passed 
away. And he that sat upon the throne said, 
Behold, 1 make all things new. And he said 
unto me, It is done. I am Alpha and Omega, 
the beginning and the end." 
And the heavenly state is entered and heaven 
itself. Heavenly peace, and joy, and rest, infi-
nite pleasure, infinite happiness, in the infinite 
presence of the infinite God ! "Thou shalt show 
me the path of life ; in thy presence is fulness of 
joy : at thy right hand there are pleasures for-
evermore." 
Having written briefly, and concluded my ar-. 
guments upon this subject, the essay is commit-
ted to the impartial reader, and especially to the 
student of the Bible. The truth is revealed up-
on this subject, and ought to be generally under-
stood. No one who has sufficient opportunity 
,for studying in the Word of God ought desire to 
be excused from comprehending it ; indeed, nor 
ought to be satisfied until he understands, or at 
least thinks he does, the whole subject. All I 
have of Bro. Waller's productions, I wrote of 
what he said or wrote, not of himself. I would 
not engage in discussing him nor any other man, 
but simply truth and principle. Yes,truth,prin-
ciple, things, not men, ought to be discussed. 
May God bless what has been written to the 
good of all. 
"Great Jehovah, we adore thee, 
God the Father, God the Son, 
God the Spirit, joined in glory 
On the same eternal throne : 
Endless praises 
To Jehovah, three in one." 
To God be all the glory ! 
D. N. PORTER. 
Eminence, Ky., July 14, 1862. 
NOTE. It will be seen that the division into 
paragraphs of the above is quite defective ; but 
. it being a printed article, and the defect not be-
noticed till it was in type, it has been thought 
best to let it stand as in the copy. En. 
address to which their paper is directed, sometimes 
put us to a great inconvenience,and a search of 
hours to find the name. 
ADVENT HERALD. 
BOSTON, AUGUST 9, 1862. 
SYLVESTER BLISS, EDITOR. 
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give it room in their prayers; that by means of it God may 
be honored and his truth advanced ; also, that it may be 
conducted in faith and love, with sobriety of judgment and 
discernment of the truth, in nothing carried away into 
error, or hasty speech, or sharp, unbrotherly disputation. 
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editor be temporarily absent. 
We learn from Bro. F. GUNNER, who passed 
through this city on Monday, on his way to Bridge-
borough, N. J., that the Lowell church has ex-
tended to him a unanimous call. 
The church in Boston has also extended a call to 
Bro. FASSETT, who takes charge in September. 
CORRECTION.—By an error of the types the notice 
for our annual meeting, at Waterbury, Vt., has 
been made to say the " 9th of Oct.," whereas it 
should have read, as now corrected, the 7th. 
A THOUGHT WORTH TREASUING. 
In an article in another column, copied from the 
Western Recorder, and appearing to be a review of 
the arguments of another, the writer says : 
"I would not engage in discusing him, nor any 
other man, but simply truth and principle. Yes, 
truth, principle, things, not men, ought to be dis-
cussed." 
When the sabbath should cease to be national,and 
become universal, the reason for its observance on 
the weekly anniversary of the deliverance from Egypt 
would no longer have binding force ; and its observ-
ance as commemorative of the creation, and as typi-
cal of the resistitution, could be as appropriate on 
any day which God should designate, as on the day 
that was also commemorative of deliverance from 
Egypt. And God could designate a day by his 
providence as emphatically as by his word. 
The Psalmist gives prophetic intimation that the 
future sabbath should be identified by our Lord's 
resurrection, when he said : "The stone which 
the builders rejected is become- the head stone of the 
corner. This is the Lord's doing ; it is marvelous 
in our eyes. This is the day which the Lord bath 
made we will rejoice and be gald in it " Psa. 118 : 
22-24. Christ was made the head of the corner 
by his resurrection ; which, next to the creation,was 
the greatest event ever connected with this globe ; 
and it should be with that universally commemora-
ted. That this day was observed by the apostles and 
early church is beyond successful contradiction ; and 
that proves its providential institution. On the day 
of His resurrection our Lord met with the eleven, 
Luke 24: 33, and 20: 18. One week from that time 
He again stood in their midst. John 20 : 26. On the 
Lord's day, also, the Comforter was sent. Acts 2: 1. 
We know that on the "first day of the week" the 
disciples habitually assembled "to break bread," 
and it was on one of those assemblages that Paul 
preached to the brethren in Troas.Acts 20: 6. "And 
apostolic practice is as significant as apostolic pre-
cept. "Upon the first day of the week" the early 
Christians laid aside of their earnings during the 
week on which they then rested for their future 
contributions. 1 Cole 16: 2. It was on the "Lord's 
day" that John was in the spirit, and had visions of 
the church's future. Rev. 1: 10. And when the 
apostle admonishes the Christians to let no man 
judge or condemn them "in meat or in drink, or in 
respect of an holy day, or of the new moon, or the 
sabbaths," Col. 2: 16, it was because the Jew-
ish observances had been taken away by being 
nailed to the cross. lb. v. 14. The idea of which is 
that they were not to recognize any censure as de-
served for their non-observance of the Jewish seventh 
day or other Jewish festival. And yet as the sab-
bath was made for man, as necessary to his spiritu-
al wants,the command to rest each seventh day after 
six of labor is as binding .now as ever—only that 
our Saviour,by his resurrection and by apostolic ob-
servance,has indicated the day which he would have 
thus observed. And the unanimity with which 
Christendom 'has acquisced in its observance can be 
recognized only as a providential arrangement—in 
view of the fact that God has owned as his children 
and blessed the observers of the Saviour's resurrec-
iton. 
The Coning One. 
High above all sits the King who wore the crown 
of thorns. Let us tremble at the vision of him with 
which the Apocalpyse opens : "And I saw heaven 
opened,and behold a white horse; and he that sat upon 
him was called Faithful and True,and in righteousness 
he doth judge and make war,. His eyes were as a 
flame of fire, and on his heads were many crowns ; 
and he had a name written that no man knew but 
himself. And he was clothed with a vesture dipped 
in blood : and his name is called the Word of God. 
And the armies which were in heaven followed him 
upon white horses, clothed in fine linen, white and 
clean. Arid out of his mouth goeth a sharp sword, 
that with it he should smite the nations : and lie 
shall rule them with a rod of iron : and he treadeth 
the wine-press of the fierceness and wrath of Al-
mighty God. And he hath on his vesture and on 
his thigh a name written, King of kings, and Lord 
of lords." 
That awful wine-press of the wrath of Almighty 
God : what is it? who can measure it ?—/V. Y. in-
dependent. 
Looking After Those Things which are coming 
on the Earth." Luke 21 : 26. 
Lord Palmerston, In a speech made in the house 
of Commons, on Mediation with America, in June 
last,remarked as follows respecting the magnitude of 
our present war : 
"There is no instance in the history of the world,I 
think, of a contest such as that which is now going 
on in ARerica—a contest of such magnitude be-
tween different sections of the same people. The 
thirty years' war in Germany was a joke to it in 
point of magnitude. It was only the other day I 
received a map drawn by the Quartermaster Gener-
al of the Federal army, in which the position of 
720,000 Federal troops was marked, and now we 
learn that 300,000 more are to be called into the 
field. Here there are 1,000,000 of men engaged in 
active hostilities on the one side, and perhaps there 
are not very much less on the other side. The irrita- 
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The Sabbath. 
To Bro. S• Norcross. The keeping of one-seventh 
part of time as holy, we regard as a divine com-
mandment for perpetual observance, during all the 
periods of human probation. 
The resting of God from all his labor, after the 
six days of the creation-week, is sufficiently signifi-
cant of our obligation to rest in like manner after 
every six days of necessary labor, in commemoration 
of the creation. And this institution of the week, 
was therefore, not for any mere national observance, 
bnt was for all nations and ages. 
The Sabbatic institution was not only commemo-
rative of the creationiput it was typical of the rest 
that remaineth for the people of God ; and there-
fore the-keeping of it had a two-fold significance, al-
so, for all nations and all times. 
In the establishment of the weekly cycle there 
was no intimation that the day designated was the 
actual weekly anniversary of the day of creation ; 
which day would be equally commemorated, and 
the rest typified, by the observance of a day of rest 
after six of labor, from whatever point the weekly 
succession might begin to be reckoned. The Jewish 
seventh day was commemorative not only of the 
creation but of their national deliverance from 
Egypt. God said to Israel, "Remember that thou 
wast a servant in the land of Egypt, and that the 
Lord thy God brought thee out thence through a 
mighty hand and by an outstretched arm : therefore 
the Lord thy God commanded thee to keep the Sab-
bath day." Deut. 5: 15. To commemorate this na-
tional deliverance by the sabbatic observance it was 
necessary that it should be on its weekly anniversa-
ry ; and learned men have computed "that the 
Jewish sabbath was on the same day of the week on 
which they left Egypt ; or rather, on which their 
deliverance was completed by the overthrow of Pha-
roah in the Red Sea." Jenning's Antiquities. The 
day thus to be observed was divinely designated by 
the witholding of manna ; whereas the long jogirney 
of the Israelites, by God's command, on the preceed-
ing seventh day, indicates that that week day had 
Correspondents who give only their town and not not previously, but some other one, been enjoined 
their State, or who fail to put on the actual P. 0. on them as the one for weekly observance. 
Exposition of Daniel's Prophecy. 
CHAPTER VIII. 
REV. R. C. SIIIMEALL, author Of "The Age of the 
World," New York, 1842, held a view at the date 
of that volume as follows ; which S'abandoned in 
his later volume,where A. D. 1820 is substituted. He 
says : 
"We are furnished with internal evidence t hat 
the 2300 days of Chap. 8: 14 and tirt470 weeks of 
Chap. 9: 24 have a common commencement, as 
that the days and weeks mean days. and weeks of 
years." Age, p. 233. 
7'The 70 weeks or 490 years of Daniel, ending at 
the conversion of Cornelius,A. D. 31, together with 
the 2300 years, are to be dated from the command 
to restore and build Jerusalem, as give'n to Ezra in 
the 7th year of Artaxerxes Longiruanas." Ih p, 
239. 
"Carry back the 70 weeks, or 490 years, from A. 
D. 37 to the era B. C. and you have the date of 
'the command to restore and to build Jerusalem,' 
B C. 453, or A. M. 3679. Then-..tha 2300 years 
beginning at the same time, we ascertain their ter-
mination merely by deducting tMI6ait's before the 
incarnation, which brings us down to A. D. 1847. 
But by what event is the close of 2300 years to he 
signalized ? Answer : The cleansing of the sanctu-
ary, the accomplishment of the vision—the last end 
of the indignation. In other words, that in A. D. 
1847 the Lord Jehovah will appear for the restora-
tion and re-establishment in Palestine of the seed of 
Abraham which he sware unto their fathers." lb. 
p. 241. 
"I ask but a single admission in order to demon-
strate that, independent of immutable accuracy in 
giving the length of each link in the first half of our 
golden chain ; the crisis, in A. D. 1847, and the 
finishing of the mystery of God' in A. D. 1868, is 
established upon grounds of equal certainty. Proph-
ecy points out to us the things that shall be here-
after, even to the last act of the Almighty's govern-
ment and providence over the world. The admis-
sion that I ask is, that the present is the year of our 
Lord 1842 from the Nativity." Ib. 223. 
"The year of our Lord 1847 is the period when 
the sanctuary shall be cleansed, and Daniel's vision 
of Jewish desolation be accomplished in 'the last er d 
THE 2300 DAYS. 
Continued from our last. 
REV. War. PYM, Vicar of Hurt's, Eng., author of 
"Words of Warning," London, 1836,thus wrote:— 
"To enable Daniel to understand the vision, he is 
told to separate seventy weeks, or 490 days, as a 
portion of the 2300 days of the preceding chap-
ter." 
"In the prophecy a fixed point is given, which is 
the cutting off of Messiah in the midst of the last 
week ; and during this last week He, Messiah, con-
firms the covenant . . . The covenant, therefore, is 
the gospel covenant, and the last week of the seven-
ty are those seven years which began when Christ 
was thirty years old, and finished A. D. 86, at the 
conversion of Cornelius. Sixty nine weeks, or 483 
years, have therefore to be reckoned back from the 
30th year of Christ for the commencement of the 
seventy weeks, which,deducting 30 from 483, makes 
before Christ 453 ; or, which is the same thing, 
490 years, i. e. 70 weeks from A. D. 37. But if 
the seventy weeks begin 453 years before the incar-
nation of Christ, the 2300 beginning at the same 
time, we ascertain their termination merely by de-
ducting the years before the incarnation : which 
leaves A. D. 1847 as the time when the sanctuary 
shall be cleansed and the vision be accomplished : 
the last end of the indignation. And this last end 
shall be the consequence of the second comi❑g of 
Christ, as we have already seen ; therefore, before 
the end, I. e. A. D. 1847, Christ shall have come." 
Words of Warning, pp. 62-67. 
In the above calculation Mr. Pym makes one im-
portant omission : he fails to consider that our A. 
D. being confessedly four years later than the true 
date of our Lord's incarnation, he was thirty years 
of age as early as A. D. 26 ; which would terminate 
this reckoning in A. D. 1843-4, instead of A. D. 
1847. 
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illi-ranalnernOssamonsaanattavaa 
THE ADVEN r HERALD 
of the indignation.' This, however, can only be 
affected, first,by the ingathoring of the Jews to their 
own land ; and second, by the destruction of their 
great desolator, the last antichrist, who, with his 
Armageddon army, upon their restoration, will 
once more go up against Jerusalem to battle" Ib. p. 
354. 
"The foundation of the error, which serves the 
second advent from the preceeding,and which places 
it beyond 1847, is predicated of the assumption that 
the whole Jewish nation is to be restored to their 
own land prior thereto : and this, in order to avoid 
a truth most plainly taught in all the prophets,viz. 
the existence, during the period of millennial bless-
ednegs,of the saved nations in the flesh. Ib. p. 357. 
Reckoning A. D. 1842 as that number of years 
from the "nativity," makes an error of about four 
years, according to the general admission. The 
Italics,in these extracts, are as given by the author. 
REV. JOIN HOOPER, author of "Apocalyptic," 
London, 1846, remarks on this period :— 
"One of the most important of these numbers is 
the two thousand three hundred years mentioned in 
the eighth chapter of the book of Daniel. It is now 
clearly understood that the angel in the 9th chapter 
comes to interpret 'the vision' of the eighth,and that 
the 'seventy weeks' of the ninth chapter have the 
same commencement as the two thousand three hun-
dred years of the eighth, and that both begin, 
according to the chronology commonly received, 
four hundred and fifty-three years before Christ ; 
and, consequently, the two thousand three hundred 
years terminate A. D. 1848. This we consider 
clearly demonstrated." Apoc. P. 24. 
"Did we know of a certainty that the present year 
in which we are now living is the year A. D. 1846, 
no shadow of doubt could remain that within 
twelve months from this time 'the sanctuary shall 
be cleansed.' But, with the cleansing of the Chris-
tian Church, we are led to connect •the appearing of 
the Lord,' and the resurrection and translation of 
the saints." Ib. p. 31. 
The chronology referred to in the above is that 
of Usher, who fell into the error of giving to 
Xerxes but 12 instead of 21 years, and to Artaxer-
xes 50 instead of 41,the actual length of their reigns, 
according to Ptolemy's Canon. He then reckoned 
the 70 weeks from the 20th year of Artaxerxes ; 
from which, giving him 50 years, would synchro-
nize with B. C. 453, and extend the 490 years to A. 
D. 37. This error in the lengths of the reigns of 
Xerxes and Artaxerxes is recognized and corrected 
by all late writers of eminence. 
REV. JAMES SCOTT, author of "A Catechism upon 
the Prophetical System," Edinburgh, 1847, writes : 
"We are told in Dan. 8: 14 that in 2300 prophet-
ic days, or years, the sanctuary should be cleans-
ed ; and in Dan. 9: 23-27 we ascertain that 70 
weeks, or 490 of these years, expired in the 37th 
year of this present dispensation, three and a half 
years after the crucifixion of our Lord, to which, if 
we add the 1847, minus the 37, we arrive at 2300, 
at the end of which the sanctuary should be cleans-
ed. Cat. p. 76. 
WILLIAM Cunemeename,Esq.,author of "The Ful-
filling of the Times," London, 1847, also found a 
connection with this year. In this volume Mr. 
Cunninghame says : 
"The date of the 2300 years of Daniel has, in my 
"Disseration on the Seals," been laid down in the 
year B. C. 509, when the Persian Ram, seen by 
Daniel in his vision of the Ram and He goat,pushed 
south, by the expedition of Darius to India, which 
he added to his empire, whereby it was extended to 
its utmost limits. This year was, therefore, the 
acme of the Persian Empire. It was also the first 
of the Athenian Democracy after the expulsion of 
the Pisistratidm, which happened the year before. 
By a most remarkable coincidence, it was, moreov-
er, the Roman era of the expulsion of Tarquin the 
Proud, and of the Consuls. The 2300 years, reck-
oned from B. C. 509, terminate in the year 1792, 
mer date to the present year, 1847, is, also, a peri-
od of years marked by the characters of exact math-
ematical science, and establishing a direct chrono-
logical connection between the beginning of the 
2300 and this year—" The Fulfilling of the Times. 
London, 1847. 
taken from Ezra's decree) 467 years before Christ, it 
will bringus to 1843, the beginning of the cleansing 
of the sanctuary and the restoration of the Jews, and 
of the approach of the great tribulation. If taken 
from Nehemiah's completed cleansing in 433-4,it will 
bring us to 1867-8, the completed Jewish restora• 
ion." Guide, p. p. 222. 
Mr. Bickersteth is the only writer we have found 
who terminates the 2300 days) by any process, in 
A D. 1867,8. To do this he has to reckon, not 
from the decree given to Ezra, B. C. 457,8, nor 
from the letter given to Nehemiah thirteen years 
later, B. C. 446-7, in the 20th year of Artaxerxes, 
which would end the period in A. D. 1853-4 ; but 
he adopts the elate of B. C. 433, one year after 
Nehemiah's second return to Jerusalem, in the 32d 
year of Artaxerxes. 
(To be continued.) 
1 n terrogations. 
BRO. BLISS. Will you please to answer the fol-
lowing questions : 
Does the tribulation of Matt. 24: 29 and of 
Mark 13: 24 answer to or have any allusion to the 
1260 days of Rev. 11: 3 ; 12: 6 ; and Dan. 7: 25, 
where the "time, times, and dividing of time" is 
spoken of? 
Was the darkening of the sun spoken of in 
Matt. 24: 29 and Mark 13: 24 fulfilled in the dark-
ening of the sun and moon in 1780 ? 
If so, how can commence the 1260 years of 
tribulation at a later period than A. D. 519, to 
have the darkening of the sun and moon subsequent 
to the tribulation ? 
4 If you commence the 1260 years so late as A. 
D. 532, 533, or 538, how are you going to make the 
darkening of the sun, &c., in 1780,fulfill the predic-
tion which says : "Immediately after the tribulation 
of those days? Will you please to make these ques-
tions clear, and obige your brother, anxious fur the 
whole truth. Again, 
In commemorating the coming of the Lord by 
the Eucharistic feast, or Lord's supper, is not re-
membrance had of the ancient feast of the Passover? 
If so, how can the advocates of feet-washing 
appeal to John 13, in which is recorded the act of 
the Saviour's washing the disciples' feet, as evidence 
that feet-washing should be united with the Euchar-
istic feast ? For John says: "Now before the feast of 
the Passover ;" and in v. 20, some of the disciples 
thought that Jesus, in giving Judas the sop, meant 
that something should be brought fur the feast then 
approaching. 
Even it feet-washing was practiced by the Sa-
viour on that occasion, have we either precept or ex-
ample for it as an ordinance in the writings of the 
apostles. 
Assuring you that I still feel an interest in the 
Herald, and that I will do what I can to sustain it, 
I am fraternally yours,in hope of eternal life,through 
Christ the great Life Giver, 
THOMAS SMITH. 
Bangor, Me., July, 17, 1862. 
ANS. We do not suppose that the tribulation 
spoken of by our Saviour in the passages referred to 
has any specific reference to the 1260 days, although 
it includes the tribulation of that period. In other 
words, we suppose the tribulation predicted by our 
Saviour includes all the tribulation that was to fol- 
low the destruction of Jerusalern,whether under Pa-
gan, Papal,or Moharnmdan persecutions ; and there-
fore that it was much longer than 1260 years dura-
tion. 
We think the darkening of the sun, &c., in 
1780, was in fulfillment of our Saviour's prediction. 
We do not, however, think the predicted darkening 
was limited to that one event, but embraced in its 
fulfillment the other similar events that preceded 
and followed. 
As it was to be after the tribulation, and not 
after the end of the 1260 days, that the darkening 
was to transpire, we do not see how the time of that 
darkening can effect in any way the beginning or 
ending of the period in question. And this also an-
swers the 4th inquiry. Even if the 1260 were the 
days referred to, there would be no incongruity in 
supposing the tribulation that wasbe in those days, 
should terminate before the days were ended. And 
Mark shows expressly that the days do not end with 
the tribulation, nor till after the darkening of the 
sun ; for he says, "In those days, after that tribula-
tion, the sun shall be darkened," &c. 
5.. We think there is a remembrance, though in-
directly, of the ancient Passover in the observance of 
host to bring a towel and water and to wash the 
feet of his guests. In like manner now, on the ar-
rival of friends, there is first extended to them a 
room with water, bowls, &c., for the cleansing of 
their persons, after a dusty railroad or other jour-
ney. Feet-washing was never practiced by the early 
Christians as a sacred ordinance, 
The three Angels. 
Bao. BLISS :—As you have exhibited admirable 
patience in answering the questions of correspon-
dents, will you permit a sincere inquirer to propose 
a fiev which I would like to see answered in the 
Herald. 
1st. Is the advent movement commenced by Bro. 
Miller and others a fulfillment, or any part of the 
fulfillment, of Rev. 14: 6, 7 ? 
2nd. Is the coming out of the churches by the 
believers in the Advent doctrine any part of the 
fulfillment of verse 8th ? 
3rd If so, where is the fulfillment of verses 9, 10, 
&c., which are to follow ? 
4th. If you answer in the negative, will you in-
form us where and when these prophecies were ful- 
filled ? 
5th. If we have not yet had these three messages 
which are immediately to precede the coming of 
him that sitteth upon the cloud, how can we con-
sistently look for him daily ? 
LEMON. ROBBINS. 
Montgomery, Vt., July 18, 1862. 
Our view of the 14th chapter of Revelation is the 
same now as we gave in our Exposition of the Apoc-
alypse, published by Bro. Rimes in 1853. As we 
are unable to give an affirmative answer to the first 
two enquries, we will proceed to the 4th. 
The era symbolized by the flight of the first 
angel we understand to be that of the preaching of 
the gospel to the Gentiles. The angel symbolized a 
body of men conspicuous for their position, ener-
getic in their movements, extensive in their opera-
tions, and urgent in their proclamation—whose 
teachings correspond with the announcement of the 
angel. The message they proclaim is that of the ever-
lasting gospel—theglad tidings which brings "life 
and immortality to light," 2 Tim. I: 10 ; which 
foreshadows the resurrection and coming judgment 
at Christ's appearing ; and which therefore is called 
"the gospel of the kingdom." Matt. 4: 23. 
The preaching of the everlasting gospel, and not 
a new one, is that symbolized ; for "the Scripture 
foreseeing that God would justify the heathen through 
faith, preached before the gospel unto Abraham, 
saying, "In thee shall all nations be blessed." Gal. 
3: 8. And this gospel, which for long ages was 
limited mostly to the Jews, was by the apostles 
to be made known to all nations ; and they did thus 
preach it,—the resurrection and coming judgement 
being constantly held up, by them and their succes-
ors, as the great motive for repentance. 
The angel that followed, v. 8, like the former, 
must symbolize a body of religious teachers. The 
former resulted in the spread of Christianity, This 
annonunces the fall of a corrupt hierarchy. Baby-
lon being a symbol of the Roman church, her fall 
must be her loss of power as mistress of the kings of 
the earth, and synchronizes with her displacement 
from her position on the beast, as represented also 
in Rev. 17th. The epoch of her fall, and conse-
quently of the flight of this angel, we regard as 
that of the Reformation, when the corruptions of 
e Papal See were exposed, and it was denounced 
as the Apocalyptic harlot. 
The cry of ,the wrath-denouncing angel that fol-
lows, synchronizes with the "voice from heaven" 
in Rev. 18: 4, and clearly follows the discovery of 
the corruptions of Romanism. Seperation from the 
church of Rome was a prominent Protestant doc-
trine for long ages, and the direst judgements were 
threatened against all who submitted to her mum-
meries. 
These being, therefore, clearly in the past, and 
the harvest of the earths the next symbolized event, 
there is nothing to interfere with the coming of the 
San of man in the clouds of heaven. 
There is another view of these angels, held by 
Bro. Litch and others ; for which see , an article 
from Bro. Litch in another column of this paper. 
POSTAGE STAMP CURRENCY. The designs for the 
new postage currency have been examined and ap-
proved by the Commissioners of Internal Revenue, 
and will represent five, ten, twenty, twenty-five and 
fifty cents. The designs embrace the present five 
and ten cent postage stamps, tastefully arranged in 
such a waysthat tney cannot be separated and used 
for postage. They will bear on their face the follow-
ing inscription : 
"Postage stamps furnished by the Assisstant 
Treasurers and designated depositaries of the United 
States; receivable for postage stamps at any Post 
Office." 
Upon tire back will be a large figure denoting the 
denomination, with these words : 
"Exchangeable for United States notes by any 
Assistant Treasurer or designated United States de-
positary, in sums not less than five dollars; receiv- 
able in payment of all dues to the United States less 
than five dollars. Act approved July 17, 1862." 
They will be printed on bank note paper, of dif-
ferent sizes, averaging about one-fifth the size of 
United States notes, and be furnished in sheets dur-
ing the next two weeks. 
The Battle Song of Gustavus. 
"Eear not, 0 little flock, the foe 
Who madly seeks your overthrow." 
This was the battle song of Gustavus Adolphus, 
which was sung in his army on the eve of the great 
battles that he fought for the Protestant religion. 
"God doth sometimes on purpose show us the crea-
ture's emptiness, that we may go to his fullness. He 
makes us to see the creatures to be broken cisterns, 
that we may know him to be the fountain." 
The War. 
REBEL CONCENTRATION AT RICHMOND. The New 
York Express has information from Georgia to a late 
day, which shows that everybody available as a sol-
dier in the State is going to Virginia. The idea is 
that the Yankees cannot stand the Southern ports 
in August and September, and hence there is an ex-
traordinary concentration . of the rebel forces upon 
Richmond—to drive Gen. McClellan off from the 
Peninsula. 
The Fort Monroe correspondent of the Philadel-
phia Press reports, on the authority of a gentleman 
who left Richmond on the 23d, that well-drilled 
troops are constantly pouring into Richmond. It is 
estimated that there are two hundred and fifty thou-
sand men at that place, and that there are five hun-
dred thousand men in the whole rebel army. Gold, 
which was sold at $2.50 (Confederate money) on 
the dollar, has fallen, since the retreat of our army, 
to $1.50. 
An Augusta (Ga.) paper states positively that 
several prominent general officers were drunk during 
the late battles on the penisula,and that many of the 
men were sacrificed in consequence. 
The Richmond papers are of the opinion that for 
the next year Virginia will have to feed the rebel 
army. They say that the corn lands of North Car-
olina and the rice fields of South Carolina are in the 
bands of the Unoinists, and that, owing to continued 
drouths, the crops in the cotton States are absolute 
failures. 
A DRAFT IW GOVERNMENT. — In addition to the 
three hundred thousand volunteers called for by Gov-
ernment, a draft has just been ordered for three hun-
dred thousand more. This is preparing for war and 
waking up the mighty men in earnest, 
Washington, Aug. 4.—It has been believed here 
in souse quarters for several days that the enemy 
have been evacuating Richmond, there being a rea-
sonable suspicion that a pestilence has broken out 
in that city. 
We know not what value to attach to this rumor. 
Foreign Intelligence. 
FAILING CROPS IN EUROPE. The crop news from 
Europe is of uniform tenor. The cold, wet summer 
has retarded vegitatien to a very serious extent. In 
England there will be but half a grain crop ; in 
France the prospects are scarcely better, and private 
letters from Germany report that the incessant rains 
and the backwardness of the season have ruined the 
fruit and stunted the wheat. The Vienna correspon-
dent of the London Times furnishes the following ad-
ditional evidence of the general failure : 
"The price of grain is rising at all parts of the 
Austrian empire, as the weather is very unfavorable 
The corn is cut in all parts of the country, and eve-
ry second day there is a thunder storm, with long-
continued and heavy rain; in fact, this summer is 
one of the coldest and wettest that has ever been 
known in Austria." 
Poor harvests abroad will make our grain crops 
so much a necessity, that inference with our war 
will not be attempted, lest in so doing:there be the 
loss of corn, as well as of cotton. 
The Emperor of Austria is reported to have ad-
dressed an autograph letter to the Pope, in which 
his Majesty declares that he cannot offer his Holi-
ness an asylum at Vienna. His Majesty also frankly 
advises His Holiness not to leave Rome, whatever 
may happen. 
THE FINALE OF THE EASTERN QUESTION. By re-
cent advices from Constantinople it appears that the 
jealousies between the Latin and Greek churches, 
about repairing the Church of the Holy Sepulchre 
at Jerusalem, the pretext of the late Crimean war, 
have subsided. The Porte by right of jurisdiction, 
Russia as protector of the Greek church, and France 
of the Latin, have combined their patronage, and 
the works are now going forward under the super-
vision of an Armenian architect. 
A.D. 1867-8. 
REV, EDWARD BICKERSTETH, in his "Practical 
Guide to the Prophecies," whilst he made "a first 
commencement of the 2300 days with Ezra's decree, 
in B• C. 457, also said : 
"There is a second commencement of this period 
from Nehemiah's decree. This commission was in 
446 B. C. which effected a complete cleansing in 
423. This would bring us to 1867,8 for the com-
lete restoration of Israel. If this 2300 years be 
Lp. 
 
but it will be shown afterwards that from the for-,the Lord's supper, inasmuch as it is said, "Christ 
our passover is sacrified for us." 1 Cor. 5 : 7. The 
death of Christ, occuring at the same hour and on 
the day of the killing of the Paschal lamb, was typi-
fied by that observance; and his death is to all 
Christians what the slain lamb was to Israel in 
Egypt. 
Your conclusion, that the 13th of John. does 
not make feet-washing a Christian ordinance, is 
very just. And, 
We know of nothing in the writings of the 
apostles which enjoins it upon Christians as a sacred 
ordinance. It was not among the Jews a religious 
so much as it was a domestic and hospitable rite, 
still in use in the east, and there necessary from the 
manner in which Orientals clothe their feet. With 
the open sandal they wear the foot soon becomes 
dusty, and it is there an act of hospitality for the 
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THE ADVENT HERALD. 
But it is rather more probable that they will be per. 
mitted to escape as did Enoch, the seventh from 
Adam, who "walked with God, and was not, for 
God took him," before the time when the earth was 
filled with violence, and every thought and imagin- 
ation of man's heart was evil and that continually. 
And is it not possible that such an escape is shad-
dowed forth,Rev. 14: 1-5, in the 144,000 who stand 
on the Mount Zion with the Lamb, being redeemed 
from the earth and from among men, the first fruits 
unto God and the Lamb ? 
The 14th chapter of Rev. is devoted to a delinia-
tion of the harvest and vintage of the earth. It 
opens with an exhibition of the first fruits of the 
earth already with the Lamb on Mount Zion, of 
virgin purity. 
Then follows three events before the full harvest. 
1. An angel having an everlasting gospel to pro. 
claim to all earth's kindreds, announcing that the 
hour of God's judgment is come. 
Another angel crying, "Babylon the great is 
fallen, is fallen," etc. 
The third angel followed them,saying, "If any 
man worship the beast or his image, the same shall 
drink of the wine of the wrath of God," etc. 
Then comes a glorious being, on a white cloud, 
with a golden crown and sharp sickle, to reap the 
harvest of the earth. If this is the correct view, and 
I am strongly inclined to think it is, it presents a 
perfect harmony of that chapter, and gives us an ob-
ject of immediate hope, constant watchfulness, and 
fervent prayer. For if this is a correct view, that the 
first fruits, or the most holy portion of God's people 
shall have a free translation as first fruits, before the 
fall of Babylon, or the abomination of desolation is 
set up, it may come any day or night, and one be 
taken and another left. It presents a motive for 
watchfulness and prayer of the most intense charac-
ter. Is there to he a time of trouble, such as was 
not since there was a nation to that same time ?" 
Is there to be great tribulation, such as there never 
was from the beginning of the world to that same 
time ? And is it possible that I may be accounted 
worthy to escape it ? If so, 0 tell me how ? Jesus 
has condescended to answer you." 0 to what ar-
dent devotion should this stimulate us ! To what 
self-denial and fervent labor should we be animat-
ed in this holy work of seeking a meetness for a lot 
so desirable and glorious ! It is an object of hope 
which it can do us no harm to cherish, to live for,to 
pray for. If this view is true at all, no one can say 
how soon it will come. What, to be one moment 
a mortal sufferer, the next a glorified and an immor-
tal saint ? One moment surrounded with a sinful 
world despising me for the name of Christ which I 
bear ! the next moment a companion of angelic 
hosts counted worthy to stand before the Son of 
man in the marriage chamber, the New Jerusalem! 
No man can learn the song of the first fruits, but 
themselves. Peculiar honors and dignities are 
theirs,as the attendants of the Lamb on Mount Zion. 
Will they not constitute the bride of the Lamb, 
while others in the great harvest shall he the vir- 
gins her companions ? 
J. LITCH. 
audience on the Lord's day. I gave them sound 
and earnest practical lectures, in connection with 
prophetical expositions of Daniel and John, that 
had some significance. I had some evidence that 
nay labor was not in vain in the Lord. 
Elder P., as pastor, is much beloved, and serves 
them gratuitously. But he can hardly say, like 
Paul, " These hands have ministered to my necessi-
ties ; " for he lost one hand, entirely, about eleven 
years since, and has but three fingers left of the 
other. Yet, by his Scotch genius and great indus-
try, he makes a good living for himself and flay, 
and has something to help the cause, beside his care 
and labor for the church. Elder P. was one of the 
earliest of the Adventists in Canada East, and stood 
up nobly for the cause in its darkest times, in Shef-
ford and elsewhere. And he remains firm and true 
to the great Advent movement, and looks, with his 
flock, for the kingdom speedily to come. 
I missed some of the old and valued membei "who 
sleep in Jesus." Among them was our esteemed 
Bro. Daniels. But I found others, who have been 
called to fill their places. So that the church has 
been sustained and replenished. 
The visits of Bro. Grant to this church have been 
a blessing, and a goodly number has been added by 
his labors. 
Monday, June 30. Bros. Porter, Farrell, and 
others, accompanied me (with others from Mel-
bourne) to the depot, where we took final leave of 
each other, perhaps not to meet till the last trump 
shall sound. A sadness stole over us as we took the 
parting hand, though we all rejoiced in " that 
blessed hope" of soon seeing Jesus in the kingdom, 
and each other again, clothed with immortality. 0, 
glorious hope ! 
" Fly swifter round, ye wheels of time, 
And bring the welcome day." 
Twelve miles, by the express train, soon brought 
us to the Richmond depot, where Bro. Gilman had 
a carriage waiting to take us two miles, to Mel-
bourne, where we had a hearty welcome " home 
again." 
JOSHUA V. HIMES. 
From Bro. L. Cheney. 
Bao. BLISS : I have had it in contemplation 
for some time to communicate a few ideas to the 
Herald, which I have read weekly for several years, 
with much interest. I believe it approaches nearer 
the truth in doctrine than any other paper I am ac-
quainted with. Yet I cannot find evidence in the 
scriptures to sustain one point advocated by it. I 
have been fully established in faith for twenty years 
in regard to the future inheritance of the righteous 
on the new earth, in the restitution ; but I have 
been tossed about in opinion relative to the future 
of the wicked — having been, perhaps, more un-
settled by placing too much confidence in the views 
of the Herald. I have not, as yet, seen an expres-
sion of views from the pen of any brother through 
the Herald that is in harmony with my own at the 
present time. 
I believe there is evidence in the scriptures that 
the righteous and the wicked are alike conscious in 
the dark valley, the righteous having a rod and staff 
to comfort them until the first resurrection, which I 
understand will be a thousand years before that 
the wicked ; at which they will come forth doome 
to the second death, which I understand to be utter 
destruction (not being able, as yet, to find in the 
scriptures any description of any place of existence 
or any state of consciousness). 
I have been much afflicted most of the time for 
the last four years past ; having been laid up from 
labor by a severe accident for eight months, and now 
for the last nineteen months I have been unable to 
labor in consequence of ill health. I am encouraged 
to think my health is somewhat improving. Still I 
feel I am near my journey's end. 
I have made several unsuccessful efforts of late to 
obtain a subscriber to the Herald. I don't mean 
to entirely give up. 
Yours, looking for redemption, 
LUTHER CHENEY. 
Ipswich, Mass., July 14, 1862. 
[If, in the final disposition of the wicked, it shall 
be found to be God's great purpose to make an end 
of their being, all the saved will heartily acquiesce 
in it. And, on the other hand, should such be 
found not to be God's purpose, no obedient subject 
of Jehovah's government will feel the Mast inclina-
tion to question God's justice or wisdom in what-
ever may be his will in respect to them. We may 
not know where will be the final abode of the lost ; 
and yet our ignorance in that direction can be no 
limit to God's omnipotence. We feel to leave them 
entirely in God's hands, knowing that whatever he 
may do will be all just and right ; but, as we read 
the scriptures, their everlasting punishment seems 
clearly affirmed. And this being the case, it appears 
to us that to encourage any to hope it may be other-
wise, will remove from them one motive to repent- 
CORRESPONDENCE. 
In this department, articles are solicited, on the general 
subject of the Advent, from friends of the Herald, over 
their own signatures, irrespective of the particular views 
which it defends. Views of correspondents not dissented 
from, are not necessarily to be considered as editorially 
endorsed. Correspondents are expected to avoid all per-
sonalities, and to study Christian courtesy in all references 
to views and persons. Any departure from this should ba 
regarded as disentitling the writer to any reply. Christian 
and gentlemanly discussion will be in order ; but not 
needless, unkind, or uncourteous controversy. 
MY JOURNAL. 
MELBOITRNE AND DANVILLE, C. E. 
Wednesday, June 18. Commenced a course of 
lectures in Melbourne, and spoke twice a day during 
the week and three times on the Sabbath. The in-
terest increased every day throughout, ending in a 
general waking up. The Sabbath congregation was 
the largest they have ever had.in the chapel. 
The Advent doctrine was first preached here by 
our much loved Elder Columbus Greene, in 1842. 
His lectures were clear and convincing, and a large 
number were turned to the Lord and the faith of 
his second coming. They have since enjoyed, from 
time to time, the labors of the most able lecturers. 
They have built a convenient chapel : but of late 
years have had no regular preaching, although they 
keep up regular meetings, and maintain themselves 
by the gifts of the church. Some questions have 
risen among them calculated to divide and distract, 
but still they keep up their interest, and hope to 
keep their light burning till the Lord shall come. 
There are some excellent Christians among them, 
who will no doubt share in the coming glory. They 
have been greatly revived, and will now prosecute 
their work with more interest. Bros. Gilman, 
Chamberlain, Witherell, and others, have borne the 
burden and heat of the day ; and still, like Caleb of 
old, feel that they are able to go up and possess the 
good land the Lord our God has promised to his 
people. They rejoice in the evidence of near re-
demption, being out and out Adventists, looking 
with interest to 1868. 
Monday, June 23. Visited some, and preached 
in the evening, on the theme " How to live," and 
enjoy religion, life and health, in their highest forms 
of blessedness. There was good attention and a pa-
tient hearing, notwithstanding the evil habits of 
many were strongly attacked. It was shown that 
stimulants in food and drink, and narcotics and 
drug poisons were absolutely hurtful to the human 
system. And more, that they were injurious to the 
mind. No person could enjoy a high degree of 
religious blessedness while living under the habitual 
influence of these things. The people of God should 
abandon all these things, and live so as to be tem-
perate in all good things and totally abstain from all 
poisonous stimulants. But it is claimed that man 
needs and must have stimulants, in order to health. 
Well, God has provided them. The pure atmos-
phere of heaven is a powerful stimulant. Pure cold 
water is another. Good, plain wheat bread is an. 
other. The fruits and vegetables of the earth, also, 
are powerful and healthful stimulants. They give 
us, when taken pure and simple, more strength,—
better and more reliable health, — better, and more 
hopeful and cheerful temperaments, — make us more 
lively, effective, and reliable Christians, than do rich 
meats and gravies, with hot stimulants and drinks, 
that only destroy health and clog the mind. I do 
believe that Christians might, by giving some atten-
attention to this subject, see its importance, and 
be better able to live to the glory of God — so that 
whether they should " eat or drink," or whatsoever 
they should do, they would be able to " do all to the 
glory of God." As Adventists we certainly do not 
want to be found, like the antediluvians, " eating 
and drinking" to excess, and so be found unprepared 
for the day of the Lord. Let all awake to this sub-
ject. Live right. 
Wednesday, June 25. Took the cars at 5 A M. 
for Danville, twelve miles, and soon found myself in 
the hospitable and happy home of Elder John Per-. 
ter, pastor of the Second Advent church. After ten 
years absence, I found a warm welcome from him 
and his people. Many changes have taken place in 
the last decade. The town has largely increased. 
Three or four new chapels have been put up since I 
dedicated the Advent chapel here. The railroad has 
been built, and general improvements made in all 
departments of the town. 
I commenced the series of meetings at 4 P. M., 
and then arranged for two lectures a day for the 
week days and three on the Sabbath. We had good 
attendance through the week and an overflowing 
ance. We also are unable to avoid the conviction 
that suicide is resorted to usually for the purpose of 
escaping the misery of continued existence ; and that 
could men persuade themselves that death is uncon-
sciousness, and the lost will be forever insensible to 
misery, many a one in moments of trial and tempta-
tion would endeavor by self-destruction to plunge 
into unconsciousness. That question, however, we 
wish to leave entirely in God's hands. 
We thank you for your effort to extend the Her-
ald's circulation, and hope you may yet be success-
ful.—ED.] 
From Bro. J. Litch. 
For What should the Church now Watch ? 
The duty of watchfulness, in view of the Lord's 
coming, has always been incumbent on the church 
from the time of his ascension,but not always in the 
same sense. Intermediate events were to take place, 
and he could not return till they were all filled up. 
"When ye see these things come to pass, know that 
it is near." "That day shall not come except there 
come a falling away first." "Let no man deceive 
you by any means as that the day of the Lord is at 
hand." Yet the Lord has enjoined on all those dis-
ciples the duty of watching fur his coming. "What 
I say unto you, I say unto all, watch." Clearly, 
then, they were to watch the signs or historical 
events to intervene and precede his coming in person ; 
not to watch for the instantaneous appearing of the 
Saviour, regardless of those foretold events. Thus 
the apostle Peter, "We have also a more sure word 
of prophecy,whereunto ye do well that ye take heed, 
as to a light that shineth in a dark place, until the 
day dawn and the day-star arise." The "What, and 
the what manner of time," for the sufferings of 
Christ were foretold by the old prophets ; and both 
had to be fulfilled before those sufferings could take 
place ; so also it is and must be in regard to the 
"Glory which shall follow." This will hold true to 
the very end ; only the nearer we approach that end, 
the fewer the events which intervene and the more 
we shall be awakened to look for the great event 
speedily, till finally "When ye see all these things 
come to pass, known that it is near, even at the 
door." If all the foretold events have come to pass 
we are now to watch for the immediate revelation 
of the Saviour. If they have not all been fulfilled, 
we are to look and watch for those events as his pre-
cursors, as did Paul and the Thessalonians. 
WHERE ARE WE IN PROPHETIC HISTORY ? 
Taking the image.Dan. 2d chap. as our guide, 
the head, Babylon,the breast and arms,Medo-Persia, 
the belly and thighs, Creels., the legs and feet,Rome 
Imperial and divided,have passed ; and now the Ro-
man subjects are mingled among the seed of men all 
over the earth, but are Romans still. Then we may 
soon look for the kingdom of God to smite and break 
in pieces all these kingdoms, fill the earth,an d stand 
forever. 
The events of prophetic history in Matt. 24, to 
verse 14, have been and are being now fulfilled ; for 
this gospel of the kingdom is being preached in all 
the world for a witness to all nations. Thus far all 
is plain. But in that train of events, the abomina-
tion of desolation, spoken of by Daniel the prophet, 
to be followed by great tribulation, is to intervene 
before all these things are fulfilled,and Christ comes. 
In the 21st of Luke Jesus said, "Jerusalem 
shall be trodden down of the gentiles until the times 
of the gentiles be fulfilled." The gentiles have trod-
den down the city for 1792 years, and Rome and 
Constantinople are evidently ready to fall, a signal 
of the ending of the gentile times. Then there shall 
be signs in the sun, in the moon and in the stars ; 
on earth distress of nations, with perplexity ; -the 
sea and the waves roaring," Sc. "And they shall 
see the son of man coming in a cloud, with power 
and great glory." We are evidently merging into 
these closing events. "When these things begin to 
come to pass, then look up, and lift up your heads, 
for your redemption draweth nigh." * * "Watch 
ye, therefore, and pray always that ye may be ac 
counted worthy to escape all these things that shall 
come to pass, and to stand before the Son of man." 
The idea conveyed in this last verse is, that these 
dreadful things which are to intervene between the 
close of the times ofthe Gentiles and the coming of 
the Son of man may possibly be escaped,—but that 
an ordinary degree of piety will not be sufficient to 
such an end. It will demand constant and earnest 
watchfulness and prayer to secure a worthiness to 
escape these evils. The events enumerated in verses 
25, 26 no doubt embrace the great tribulation of 
Matth. 24th chapter. It is to precede the coming 
of the Son of man ; so is this. Hence it is not the 
escape which all believers, living or dead, will find at 
his appearing ; but an escape of the trouble which 
shall precede his coming. But how can they escape 
who regard the instruction ? They may be taken 
away from the evil to come by death, as it is writ-
ten Isa. 57 : 1 ; and Rev. 14 : 13. "Blessed are 
the dead which die in the Lord from henceforth." 
From Bro. M. H. Moyer. 
BRO. BLISS : — I have been a subscriber to the 
Herald for about two years. I love the doctrine it 
advocates, and feel that I cannot be without it,:as 
long as the Lord blesses me with the means to pay 
for it. 
Praying that the Hefald may be sustained, and be 
the instrument in the hands of God of winning to 
the truth, I remain yours in the " blessed hope." 
MANVERS H. MOYER. 
Milesbury, Centre Co., Pa. July 23, 1862. 
From Sister Sarah H. Knight. 
BRO. Buss : — I still believe in the doctrines pre-
sented in the Herald. 0 pral for the thousands, as 
I believe, scattered throughout the world, who be-
lieve in the coming and kingdom of Christ — that 
we may be faithful to God and to those around us, 
and that it may have a sanctifying influence on our 
own heart and life. 
Yours, in hope of the gospel. 
SARAH H. KNIGHT. 
Harvard, Mass., July 25, 1862. 
From Bro. Thos. E. Putney. 
DEAR BRO. BLISS : — I still like the Herald, and 
shall continue to patronize it while it holds fast 
" the form of sound words," and manifests a right 
spirit to those who differ or oppose. 
Yours in hope, 
THOMAS E. PUTNEY. 
Woodstock, Vt., July 21, 1862. 
[Whenever any doctrine cannot be sustained by 
the words of inspiration it is evidence of its falsity; 
and when any one resorts to personalities, or shows 
I ill temper in conducting a discussion, it is very ap-
parent that truth is not his object, and that he feels 
the lack of sound argument with which to sustain 
his position.—ED.] 
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work."-Boston Chris. Witness and Advocate. 
"A striking work ; and we would recommend all 
Protestants to read it."-Phil. Daily News. 
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OBITUARY. 
Died, in Richford, Vt., May 15th, DANIEL LEE, 
youngest child of Daniel and Celinda A. Scott, aged 
2 years and 5 months. From the effect of measles, 
sores gathered in his head, breaking inwardly, caus-
ing his death. He was the joy and charm of the 
family circle, - a bright and lovely flower, just 
opening its beauty to the light. While in the morn 
of being the mortal foliage folds over the budding 
life, that will wake to renewed bloom in the sphere 
of immortality. 
" There seemed a sacred presence here, 
A gloom, as of approaching night ; 
For one whose smile to us was dear 
Here bowed to Death's relentless blight. 
'The youngest of our household band, 
Fair-browed, and gay, and sunny-eyed, 
Unclasped from ours his little hand, 
And in his childish beauty died." 
A discourse was delivered by the writer, for the con-
solation of the bereaved friends, from Luke 18 : 16. 
flow comforting to the mourner is the children's 
gospel, saved through the atoning sacrifice, - a 
jewel of the Saviour's purchase, - an inducement 
to the remaining ones to seek, through faith in 
Christ, a preparation for a reunion on the immortal 
shore. 
S. S. GARVIN„ 
Richford, Vt., July 25, 1862. 
Died, in Stanstead, C. E., July 21, sister ELIZA-
BETH P. GUSTIN, wife of John P. Gustin, and daugh-
ter of Bro. Simeon and sister Lutheria Gage, aged 
25 years. 
Sister Gustin gave her heart to God in early life. 
Being blessed with a reflecting mind, and listening 
to the soul-stirring truths connected with the com-
ing of the Lord, she embraced them with all her 
heart; and having loved them, she loved them to 
the end, and, as a natural result, loved him who 
shed his blood to purge her conscience from dead 
works - and led her, consequently, to serve the liv-
ing God, and thus giving her that moral qualifica-
tion for the kingdom called by the Revelator the 
white robe (Rev. 7 : 14), the fine linen, clean and 
white (Rev. 19 : 8), and who also met and conquered 
death and him that had the power of death (Heb. 2: 
14), who rose from the grave, and brought up life 
and immortality, and who thus laid the foundation 
for the hope of the resurrection of the body, fashion-
ing it like unto Christ's glorious body, at the ap-
pearing of the Lord Jesus Christ, for which she 
looked (Phil. 3 : 20, 21). Though in the slippery 
paths of youth, surrounded by the influences of this 
last age, and perhaps sometimes influenced to step 
out of the narrow path, yet - so far as we can judge 
by her course of life- her object was to walk in the 
narrow path, glorify God, and in all things to do 
her Father's will. She did not, like many, forsake 
the prayer circle for some other place of pleasure. 
When her health would admit she was generally 
there, to do her part in carrying forward the work 
of the Lord. But she has gone, not to her reward, 
but to the grave, her last resting place until the 
Lord appears, when the morning will dawn, and 
her body be fashioned like the body of her Lord. 
She was followed to the grave by her companion, 
her father, mother, brother, and sisters, and other 
mourners, and a large company of sympathizing 
friends. And although, no doubt, many followed for 
mere show, yet it could not remove a pang, nor heal 
the sorrow gushing from an almost bleeding heart. 
No; nothing but a re-union, a grasp of the same 
hand, a word from the same tongue, a look from 
the same eye, and where death has divided for friends 
to meet to part no more, can heal their broken 
hearts. But, thank God, some of them, we trust, 
have taken their stand upon their watch tower and 
are looking for the first streak of the approaching 
day, which will soon dawn, - when this world of 
death and tears will have passed away, and that 
sorrowless state be introduced. 0, may her lonely 
partner, and those of her kindced and friends who 
have not as yet secured the preparation of heart they 
net to prepare them, meet her where no farewell 
tears are shed. By her death a husband has lost a 
loved and sympathizing wife, parents and children 
an affectionate child and sister, and the church a 
worthy member. May the head of the church sanc-
tify it to all our good. 
We shall greet her at home, we shall greet her, 
Though now she is hid from our sight ; 
We think of the time we shall meet her, 
And it oft fills our heart with delight. 
We have laid her away in deep sadness, 
Yet not without hope in our breast : 
For again she will join us in gladness, 
And enter the heavenly rest. 
We shall greet her at home, we shall greet her 
Where nothing can ever divide ; 
Where sickness or death cannot harm her, 
Nor tear her again from our side. 
There we'll range beside life's cooling river, 
'Neath the shade of life's tree we shall roam : 
With the glory of God shining ever; 
We'll greet her, we'll greet her at home. 
D. W. S. 
Correction. 
BRO. BLISS : - There was a mistake in last week's 
Herald, in an obituary notice which was sent from 
Francestown, N. II. The mistake was in the name, 
which read " Gore," but should have read GOVE - 
OBADIAH P. GOVE. Will you please rectify the 
mistake. 
S. V. GOVE. 
Stoneham, Mass., July 27, 1862. 
ADVERTISEMENTS. 
Memoirs of William Miller. 
By the author of the Time of the End-excepting 
the first three chapters, which were by the pen of 
another. pp. 426. Price, post paid, 75 cts. 
Few men have been more diversely regarded than 
William Miller. While those who knew him, es-
teemed him as a man of more than ordinary mental 
power, as a cool, sagacious and honest reasoner, an 
humble and devoted Christian, a kind and affection-
ate friend, and a man of great moral and social 
worth ; thousands, who knew him not, formed opin-
ions of him anything but complimentary to his in-
telligence and sanity. It was therefore the design 
of this volume to show him to the world as he was 
-to present him as he appeared in his daily walk 
and conversation, to trace the manner in which he 
arrived at his conclusions, to follow him into his 
closet and plants of retirement, to unfold the work-
ings of his mind through a long series of years, and 
scan closely his motives. These things are shown of 
him by large extracts from his unstudied private 
correspondence, by his published writings, by nar-
rations of interviews with him, accounts of his pub-
lic labors in the various places he visited, a full 
presentation of his views, with the manner of their 
conception, and various reminiscences of interest in 
connection with his life. 
The revivals of religion which attended his labors, 
are here testified to by those who participated in 
them ; and hundreds of souls, it is believed,will ever 
regard him as a.means, under God,of their conver-
sion. The attention given to his arguments caused 
many minds, in all denominations, to change their 
views of the millennial state ; and as the christian 
public learn to discriminate between the actual po-
sition of Mr. Miller, and that which prejudice has 
conceived that he occupied, his memory will be 
much more justly estimated. The following notice 
of this volume is from the "Theological and Liter. 
ary Journal." 
This volume is worthy of a perusal by all who 
ake an interest in the great purposes God has re-
vealed respecting the future government of the 
world. If the first chapters descend to a detail of 
incidents that are of little moment, and betray a 
disposition to exaggerate and over-paint, the main 
portion of the memoir, which is occqpied with the 
history of his religious life, is not chargeable with 
that fault, and presents an interesting account of 
his studies, his opinions, his lectures, his disap 
pointments, and his death, and frees him from many 
of the injurious imputations with which he was as-
sailed during his last years. He was a man of vig-
orous sense, ardent, resolute, and upright ; he had 
the fullest faith in the Scriptures as the word of 
God, and gave the most decided evidence that he 
understood and felt the power of their great truths. 
Instead of the ambitiousness of a religions dema-
gogue, he was disinterested ; his great aim in his 
advent 
 His de- 
meanor, on the confutation of his calculations re-
specting the advent, was such as might be expected 
from an upright man. Instead of resorting to sub-
terfuges to disguise his defeat, he frankly confessed 
his error, and while he lost faith in himself, retain-
ed his trust undiminished in God, and endeavored 
to guard his followers from the dangers to which 
they were exposed, of relapsing into unbelief, or 
losing their interest in the great doctrine of Christ's 
premillennial coming. 
A Volume for the Times. 
"THE TIME OF THE END." 
This volume of over 400 pages, compiled by the 
present editor of the Advent Herald and published 
in 1856,treats "the time of the end," (Dan. 12: 9,) 
as a prophetic period preceding the end ; during 
which there was predicted to be a wonderful in-
crease of knowledge respecting the prophecies and 
periods that fill up the future of this world's dura-
tion, to the final consummation. 
It presents various computations of the times of 
Daniel and John ; copies Rev. E. B. Elliott's view 
of "our present position in the prophetic calen-
dar," with several lectures by Dr. Cumming, and 
gives three dissertations on the new heavens and the 
new earth, by Drs. Chalmers, Hitchcock, and Wess 
ley. To this is added "The Testimony of more than 
One Hundred Witnesses," of all ages of the church 
and of all denominations of Christians,-expressing 
faith in the personal advent of Christ, his reign on 
the renewed earth, on the resurrection of the just, 
&c. It is for sale at this office and will be sent by 
mail, post paid, for 75 cts.-to those who do not 
wish to give $1., its former retail price. 
Opinions of the press : 
"We commend it to those whose enquiries lie in 
this direction."-Haverhill Gazette. 
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" friends." 
At Loudon Bridge the first Sabbath in August ; 
and Clark's meeting house, Barnstead, the second 
Sabbath. 
T. M. PREBLE. 
In Stark, Me., second and third Sundays in Aug-
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In Truro, Mass., fourth .Sunday in August, the 
24th, in the Advent chapel. 
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NOTICES OF ELEDER J. V. HIMES. 
Tuesday, Aug. 12. Sandy Hill, N. Y., in the 
evening. Thence to Perry's Mills, to prepare for 
camp-meeting. 
Friday,August 15. Commences a camp meetir", in 
Perry's Mills, N. Y., to continue from the 15th to 
24th. 
Tuesday, Aug. 26. Will be at the Wilbraham 
camp meeting, to continue through the week. 
Friends who wrote me from Conn. will please 
write me without delay as to their plans for my la-
bors after the camp meeting. 
ADVENT CAMP MEETING. 
 
A general camp meeting for Northern N. Y., Ver-
mont, and Canada East, will be holden in Perry's 
Mills, N. V., near the depot of the Ogdeiaurg Rail 
Road in that place, six miles from Rousels/Point, N. 
Y. The Adventists in the entire regionivith all 
EVANGELICAL ADVENT CONFERENCE. 
THE EVANGLICAL ADVENT CONFERENCE will hold its 
22d Annual Session in Waterbury, Vt., commencing Tues-
day, Oct. 7th, andcontinuo three days, or longer if the Con-
ference deem it expedient. 
The opening services will be on Tuesday, at 2 o'clock P. 
M., after whieae unfinished business will be attended to. 
In the evenita 
 
g the Annual Sermon, by Elder 1). Bos-
worth. 
Wednesday, A. M. A session of the American Millen-
nial Association. 
Wednesday, P. M. A session of the Evangelical Ad-
vent Conference. Business and Essays. 
Evening. Anniversary of A. M. Association. Opening 
Address by Elder J. Pearson, to be followed by other 
brethren, on the Importance of Publications as a means of 
sPrending the light. 
Thursday. Sessions of Conference. Business and Es-
says. 
In the evening, — the Anniversary of our Missionary 
work, — an Opening Address by Elder C. Cunningham, on 
the Christian Ministry, and the Gospel Method of its In-
crease and Support ; to be followed ,by addresses from 
other brethren. 
IP JOHN PEARSON, jr., 
LEMUEL OSLER, • • 
ANTHONY PEARCE, 
Committee. 
BUSINESS DEPARTMENT. 
BUSINESS NOTES. 
J. Litch. Mrs. Gove does not get that "Eclectic Jour-
nal." • 
D. Reeler. We received $2.00 from you June 23d, 
which paid to the 1st of the present year, as per Herald of 
June 28, which we send. 
J. Foss. The $2.00 received June 30 paid to No. 1196 
—the 10 in the Herald being an error. You were credited 
$1.50 on the 9th of July, '61, to No. 1118. A few days 
later you was credited another dollar to No. 1144, for 
some cause, we do not know what ; and now $2.00, June 
30, pays to 1196, as our books have it. Thank you for 
your remembrance of A. M. A. 
J. S. Brandebury. Sent the book and Herald to Mr. 
W., tracts to Mrs. E., and the same to yourself — which I 
judged from your note that you wished. The tracts you 
referred to are now out of print, and have been this ten 
years. We have not Cruden now for sale, and so cannot 
give the precise price, but think the abridged edition is 
about $1.50, and the large one about $3.00. 
J. W. Lyon. Have sent No. 19. 
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THE ADVENT HERALD. 
Spare Moments. 
A lean, awkward boy came one morning 
to the door of a principal of a celebrated 
school and asked to see him. The servant 
eyed his mean clothes, and thinking he 
looked more like a beggar than anything 
else, told him to go around to the kitchen. 
The boy did as he was bidden, and soon 
appeared at the back door. 
. "You want a breakfast, more like," 
said the servant girl, " and I can give you 
that without troubling him.'' 
" Thank you," said the boy, " I should 
have no objection to a bit of bread; but I 
should dlike to see Mr. -, if he can 
see me." 
" Some old clothes, may be, you want," 
remarked the servant, again eyeing the 
boy's patched trousers. " I guess lie has 
none to spare; he gives away a sight," 
and without minding the boy's request, 
she went away about her work. 
"Can-1 see Mr. ?" again asked 
the boy, after finishing. his bread and but-
ter. 
" Well, he's in the library ; if he must 
be disturbed, he must; but he does like to 
be alone sometimes,'' said the girl, in a 
peevish tone. She seemed to think it very 
foolish to admit such an ill-looking fellow 
into her master's presence ; however, she 
wiped her hands and bade him follow. 
Opening the library door, she said : 
" Here's somebody, sir, who is dreadful 
anxious to see you, and so I let him in." 
1 don't know how the boy introduced 
himself, or how he opened business, but I 
know thut after talking awhile, the prin-
cipal put aside the volume he was study-
ing, and took up some Greek books, and 
began to examine the new corner. The 
examination lasted some time. Every 
question which the principal asked the boy 
answered as readily as could be. 
" Upon my word;" exclaimed the prin-
cipal, " you certainly do well," looking at 
the boy from head to foot, over his specta-
cles. " Why, my boy, where did you pick-
up so much ?" 
"In my spare moments," answered the boy. 
Here he was, poor, hard working, with but few 
opportunities for schooling, yet almost fitted for 
college, by simply improving his spare moments. 
Truly are spare moments the " gold dust of 
time !" How precious they should be. What 
an account can you show for them ? Look and 
see.' This boy can tell you how very much can 
be laid up by improving them ; and there are 
CHILDREN'S DEPARTMENT 
"FEED MY LAMBS."—John 21:15. 
BOSTON, AUGUST 9, 1862. 
Little Deeds. 
Not mighty deeds, make up the sum 
Of happiness below, 
But little acts of kindliness, 
Which any child may show. 
A merry sound to cheer the babe, 
And tell a friend is near ; 
A word of ready sympathy, 
To dry the childish tear ; 
A glass of water kindly brought; 
An offered easy-chair ; 
A turning of the window-blind, 
That all may feel the air; 
An early flower unasked, bestowed ; 
A light and cautious tread ; 
A voice to gentlest whisper hushed, 
To spare the aching head. 
0, deeds like these, though little things, 
Yet purest love disclose, 
As fragrant perfume on the air 
Reveals the hidden rose. 
Our Heavenly Father loves to see 
These precious fruits of love ; 
And if 
 only serve him here, 
We'll dwell with him above. 
many, many other boys, I am afraid, in jail, in 
the house of correction, in the forecastle of a 
whale ship, in the tippling shop, who, if you 
should ask them when they began their sinful 
courses, might answer : "In my spare moments." 
In my spare moments I grabbled for marbles. 
In my spare moments I began to smoke and 
drink. It was in my spare moments that I be-
gan to steal chesnuts from the old woman's stand. 
0, be careful how you spend your spare 
moments ! The tempter always hunts you out 
in small seasons like these, when you are not 
busy ; he gets into your hearts, if he possibly 
can, in just such gaps. There he hides himself, 
planning all sorts of mischief. Take care of 
your spare moments.—/l/rs. H. C. Knight. 
ANNUAL DONATIONS. 
six hundred dollars each year, by annual subscriptions ; 
It is,desirable,that there be raised by donation five or 
and the following may be a suitable form of pledge for 
taut purpose. 
'We agree to pay annually in furtherance of the objects 
of the American Millennial Association, the sums set 
against our respective names. 
Samuel Prior, Yardleyville, Pa ............ 
Stephen Sherwin, Grafton, 
Martin L. Jackson, Milesburg, Pa 
 
Mill. Aid Society in Providence, R.I.... ..... .....16.30 
..., —9.00 
Millennial Aid Society in Shiremanstown, Pa. 
• ..4.50 
" " " New Kingstown, Pa 
1.00 
S. Blanchard, Barre, Vt ........ 
▪ 1.00 
Lloyd N. Watkins, Toronto, C. W 
.9.00 
Church in Newburyport • 
2 00 
Pardon RyOn, Smith's Landina•
° 
 N. J. 
 2.00 
Josiah Vose, Westford, Mass.(" or more")... .. 2.00 
Henry Lunt, Jr., Newbaryport, Mass........ 
• 4.00 
Church in Stanstead, C. E . . . 
 .1.00 
Joel Cowee, Gardner, Mass 
• ....5 00 
Joseph Barker, Kincardine, C.W ....... ....5.00 
/I: B. Eaton, M.D., Rockport, Me .... 
..1 00 
Edward Matthews, Middlebury, 0 
......1.00 
Mrs. F. Beckwith, " ... 
. . 5 .00 
Mrs. Mary Jane Yoder, Harrisburg, Pa...... ....1.25 
Miss O. W. Allen, Johnson, Vt 
 
5.00 
Mrs. Mary Ann Dowd, New Haven, Vt . 
....1.00 
Alexander Wattles, Troy, Mich., .. 
persuasions of Christians, are most cordially invited 
to attend,and take an earnest and active part in the 
objects of the ineeting. 
All who have tents will bring them. And friends 
in the vicinity are invited to put up cheap lumber 
tents, or others, for themselves and strangers. Board 
and lodging will be provided on reasonable terms. 
Also pasture fur horses. And everything will be 
done by the brethren and friends in the vicinity to 
make the people comfortable ; and tried and faithful 
brethren, Dr. E. M.Loomis, of Perry's Mills, N.Y., 
and Alvah Loomis,of Champlain, N. Y.,may by ad-
dressed by any who wish accommodation or any 
further information about the meeting. 
The meeting is located in a grove on the farm of 
Fry Clark, one-fourth of a mile from the depot, 
Perry's Mills. Water for man and beast, and lum-
ber for tents, in close proximity. 
The meeting will commence on Friday, August 15, 
at 4 P. M., and be continued every day, over two 
sabbaths, to the 24th. 
Ministers of God, brethren, sisters, and friends, 
one and all, come up to the feast. There never 
was a time when the door was opened so wide 
and effectual as now for the Adventist to speak 
and work for God and a doomed world. Many, 
too, among us have left their first love, and have 
need of help. Many in our families are out of the 
Ark of safety,and shall we not do something to res-
cue them before the storm of vengeance hills FCan we 
endure to see the destruction of our kindred ? The 
community, too, are looking to us for light on the 
coining kingdom. Shall we not give it? Can we 
withhold and be innocent in the day of the Lord ? 
We have light on the time, and the signs of the 
Advent of the King of kings : shall we not give it 
W by hesitate to give the trump a certain sound ? 
Rome is falling. The false prophet is tottering, and 
Armageddon, with its strife and slaughter, is just 
upon us ! 
Come then, ye veterans of the Advent faith, come 
ye young with the old soldiers, let us shake off the 
the dust of sloth and indolence, and gird on the ar-
mor of God. Let us seek and possess full redemp-
tion, and do what we can to multiply the number 
who shall stand on Mount Zion in the day of the 
Lord. 
Boston, July 14, 1862. JOSHUA V. HIMES. 
MAINE CONFERENCE. 
THE MAINE ANNUAL CONFERENCE will convene 
Wednesday evening, Sept. 10th, at 7 o'clock, and 
continue over the following Sunday. It is hoped 
that all Advent ministers in the State who can work 
together in union and fellowship in the promotion 
of the objects of our conference will be present, and 
as many other brethren and sisters as conveniently 
can attend this yearly gathering ; to work together 
for the spread of this gospel of the kingdom of God, 
that sinners may be saved, and the church strength-
ened and fitted for the soon coming of the Lord from 
heaven. The place of the Conference is not yet de-
cided upon, but will be soon, and given. 
O. R. FASSETT, President, 
I. C. WELCOME, Scribe. 
Yarmouth, Me. July 11, 1862. 
Agents of the Advent Herald. 
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Burlington, Iowa James S. Brandebufa 
Chazy, Clinton Co., N. Y 
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Cincinnati, 0 . 
Joseph Wilson 
De Kalb Centre, Ill.. 
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B. W. Sornberger 
Dunham, C. E 
S Foster 
Derby Line, Vt 
 . . Thomas Smith 
Eddington, Me 
 Robbins Miller 
Fairhaven, Vt 
Freeland, De Kalb Co., Ill Wells A. lay 
Homer, N. Y 
. J. L. Clapp 
Haverhill, Mass 
 Lendal Brown 
Lockport, N. Y 
. R. W. Beck 
Johnson's Creek, N Y .114ram Russell 
Kincardine, C. W ........ ........ .... Joseph Barker 
Loudon Mills, N. H. ..... ..G eorge Locke 
Morrisville, Pa 
. Wm. Kitson 
Newburyport, Mass ... ....John L. Pearson 
New York City .... . J. B. Huse, No. 6 Horatio st 
Philadelphia, Pa 
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Portland, Me 
 Alexander Edmund 
Providence, R. I . 
Anthony Pearce 
Md 
 John V. Pinto 
Princess Anne, 
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Salem, Mass 
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Springwater, N. ...... .... S. H. Withington 
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Toronto, C. W 
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Waterloo, Shefford, C. E.. . R. Hutchinson, M .D 
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Waterbury, Vt... 
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Worcester, Mass . 
Benjamin Emerson 
Yarmouth, Me 
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UP TO TUESDAY, AUGUST 5. 
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the same name in different States, and in some States there 
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address — the name of the town and state, and if out of 
New England, the county to which his paper is directed. 
An omission of some of these often, yes daily, gives us 
much perplexity. Some forget to give their State, and if 
out of New England their County, while some fail to give 
even their town. Sometimes they live in one town and 
date their letter in that, when their paper goes to another 
town; and sometimes the name of their town and office are 
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there may be others at the same post-office, with the same 
initials. Sometimes, when the paper goes to a given ed• 
dress, another person of the same family will write res-
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name. And sometimes those who write, forget even to sign 
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than to send by an agent, or any third person, unless such 
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and that a third person is often subjected to postage, merely 
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Mrs. E. Robinson, 1127 ; Mrs. L. Ruggles, 1127 ; N. 
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Miss 0. C. Freeman, 1127 — the block will not contain 
the first name in full •, H. A. Brockway, 1131 ; Mrs. S 
Tobias, 1114'; J. S. Bliss, fur extra Iferalds ; :dirs. Fan-
ny Clark, 1153, by E. A. C. ; Lewis Ingalls, • 1127 ; 
H. Plummer, ,1127 ; D. Nichols, 1101 ; A. Emerson, 
1127 ; R. Bloss, 1r27- each $1.00. 
Miss L. E. Johnson, 1153 ; Wm. Yearsley, 1153 ; D' 
Winter, 1157 — each $2.00. 
Dr. Wm. Richardson, 1153, $2.50. 
5 00 
....1.00 
2 00 
We leave a blank space here, which it is desirable to see 
filled with names and amounts, of pledges of annual pay-
ments. 
• 
APPOINTMENTS. 
The "American Millennial Association "located in Bos-
ton, Mass., was legally organized Nov. 12th, 1858, under 
the provisions of the 56th Chapter of the Acts of the Le-
gislature of Massachusetts of A. D. 1857, for charitable 
and religious purposes. The whole amount obtained by 
donations, subscriptions, or sales of publications, is to be 
expended in the publication of Periodicals
' 
 Books, and 
Tracts, and for the support of ministers of the Gospel.