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[Fox Terms, &c., see Fourth Page.] This paper is specially devoted to the advocacy of the speedy, personal pre-milleanial advent of Christ, the glorification of the church at that epoch, the dissolution of the heavens and earth by fire, their renewal as the everlasting inherit- ance of the redeemed, and the establishment of the kingdom of God and while rejecting—as it has from the commencement of its existence—the doctrine of tbe unconscious state of the dead and extinction of the being of the wicked, it will aim to present the truth pertaining to the cross and crown of Ohrist in such a way as to make one of tbe b*st family papers. s The American Millennial Association* Organized in Boston, M'xss., Nov., 105S, has for •ITS OBJECT Hie' publication of a I'ra-isiillennmi periodical 'monthly or ofteacr), the K'uo ot Books and Tracts JWtfculatett tofhsfrnet on the-subject o"f Prophecy, «nd pf » practical cb;tr«v>lfr, and the support of ministers or Corftoneura in destitute fields 01 labor. 1 "BEHOLD- A KING 1 RIGHTEOUSNESS." 1 1 lilBS - ^^^Mk, SHALL REIGN IN i.'Z^iifclillSiliilifi) mmmm \ \ i .j^lllillillllfiw *rSPlll 11' Ill BOABb OF OFFICERS FOB 1876-7. President: KKV. JOHN PKAB*«N, Newbuiyport, Mass ••• Vice Presidents: JOSIAH LITCH, I. B. GAT«8, E. W. MAROKN, A. W. BKOWN, W. MAKES, A PLUOR. R. 11. SUU'MAX. Recording See retail! : H- CANFUSL®, Nortfc Attleboro', M^s Corresponding Secretary: C. Ct7NNi»a«AM, 09 East lirookiine St., Boston, Mass. Treasurer: It. K KHOWLKS, Providenoe, K. JL Auditor: P. I*. HoriUNH, Providence, H. I. Directors: D. Bosworth, u Osier, J. L. Litch, W. J. Hard, J. M. Orroek, Wesley Burnliam, R. Foster, H. P. Cutter, Anthony Peaxoe, EL Bandy, Thos, H. Prior, S. F. Grady. WHOLE NO. 1490. BOSTON, WEDNESDAY, FEBKUARY 14, 1877. VOL. XXXVIII.—NO. 7. 'Sftlt CtxOM. THI2 OITV or OOD. FROM THE PRIZE POEM ON HOME MISSIONS BT REV A. 8. GARDINER, A, M. " I John saw the holy city, new Jerusalem, coming down from^tod out of heaven, prepared as a bride adorned for her husband." —Rev. 21: 2. Help me, O IVIuse, to clitnb those higher spheres, Where billows never roll nor storm appears I Bach realms there are, though human eye may fail, And human thought the amazing heights to scale. Such scenes demaad a 'dialect not our own— Symbols and slgus must speak, and they alone. Ambrosial fragrance floats through It the air; And light, but not of sun or.'moon, is there— A river pure as crystal pours its flood Of living water from the throne of God. Along its banks the trees of life display Their various fruits 'mid leaves which life con- vey— The ample streets o'er which the ransomed pass Are purest gold, as 'twere transparent glass. A jasper wall encloses every side, Lofty its summit, its dimensions wide— Twelve gates of pearl stand in the wall around, One solid pearl eitch mastive gate is found. At portal wide an augel watchman waits, And names of Israel's tribes are on the gates- Twelve strong foundations the huge wall sustain, Garnished with precious stones of finest grain. The first discloses jasper's mingled hue, Sapphire the second with iis crystals blue— The third, chalcedony its stripes displays, Emerald the green, sardonyx, orange rays ; Sardius the sixth, a rich eornelian shade, Seventh stone the golden, eighth of beryl made- The topaz forms the ninth, pellucid gem, In Aaron's breast-plate neen ; in Tyre's diadem. The tenth foundation crysoprasus shows Hard as the flint yet beauteous as the rose ; The jacinth next displays its purple d»e, And amethyst completes the structure high. Twelve bases thus appear, each bears a name, And all, the twelve apostles of the Lamb. But pen apocalyptic fails to show What words cannot express nor mortal know. Eye hath not teen, ear heard, nor mind conceived The things prepared by God, by faith believed— Yet to these realms all they who will i;ay come. And find in them »n everlasting home. No cursa is there ; no fear, no blight, no pain ; Tears shed below shall ne'er be shed again. No wailing rends the clear and fragrant air Because, like Egypt's homes, the dead are there ; No bell is tolled ; no funeral train is seen. No grave appears amid the hillocks green. Jacob no more shall mourn his Joseph slain, Nor Joseph close the patriarch's eyes again. Paul aud Ephesian elders shall no more Weep broken farewells on Miletus' shore. " Via Dolorosa " name no heavenly road, No Calvary stand among the hills of God, The hands and feet nailed to' the cross whioh bore The dying Christ, shall feel the nails no more— No crown of thorns again shall pierce his brow, Nor down the envenomed spear his heart's blood flow. Five scars alone, signs of the cross remain, To mark the atoning Lamb that once was slain. Sin reigns no more : as night retires at day. So former things are there all passed away. Jehovah's throne now opens on the view, His ransomed see it, see the Monarch too. God and the Lamb reveal their face divine, The hosts redeemed in rapturous chorus join— With harps, and vials full of odors sweet, Elders and living creatures throng his feet— The angels join them and the numbers grow Till myriads fill the ample plain below. From every lip ascends the matchless song, " Worthy the Lamb once slain t To Him belong Blessing, and glory, wisdom, riches, power. Which have been, are, and shall be evermore !" Xjouder than ocean's roar comes the refrain, From earth and heaven, " Worthy the Lamb once slain I" And the four living creatuies say, " Amen !" These scenes celestial, traced with skill divine, Beveal the hand of God in every line, Hither the gospel would all nations bring, The gates stand open wide, and Christ is King. IS rnoTBSTAnrTXRu UX£ ? A rAIL- BT REV. JOUK OUMMINO, D. D., LONDON, KMQLAND. (Continued.) But these are not all its results. Its greatest influence is on Romanism itself. This is remarkable. When Romanism was alone, it was an insupportable ty- rant ; it shed around it a despotism in- tolerable to mankind. It made an em- peror stand three days and three nights in the snow doing penance, before the apostate priest in Rome would receive him to kiss his foot. It has thrown England, before now, under an inter- dict ; it has dictated to kings, cabinets, and parliaments, what the/ shall do, and threatened them with auathema or excommunication if they refused to be the mere tools of the superstitious des- pot that reigns at Rome. But since Protestantism so widely prevailed, Romanism has been immense- ly, if not diluted in its wickedness, at least repressed in the development of that wickedness. The Pope's power to interfere with cabinets, kings, parlia merits, and nations is almost gone. The talons of the " wild beast" exiet, but his strength to strike, and the opportu- nity of striking; are vastly modified or gone for ever. Even the profligacy of tbe Romish priesthood is less conspicu- ous than it was in mediseval times, when priestly profligacy was connived at as part and parcel of the sacerdotal func- tions. This dilution of its virus, this repression and curbing of its power, this restriction within bounds, to an extent unknown for fifte»n centuries, is no slight, though indirect, contribution on the part of Protestantism to the well- | being of mankind, to liberty of con- , science, and liberty of speech. The i mind of man having been emancipated, ' the Pope has no power now to de- 1 termine what you shall print and what J you shall not print. He claims the power, and he tries to execute it. He still retains his Index Expurgatorius, and an Index Prohibitorius, and fre- quently he puts certain books he dis- likes in that Index. Merle d'Aubigne's History of the Reformat on, a very beautiful and instructive book, has been placed in the Index, so that nobody must read it, save at the peril of his soul's salvation. But what is the re- sult? If the Pope puts a book in the Index the booksellers will give the au- thor more, because the Pope has given it an admirable advertisement ; it ex- tends the knowledge of the book, it adds to the celebrity of it ; and wh it the nations of old feared as an awful judgpaent, Paternoster Row will hail as one of the finest advertising media in the world. The printing press exists in spite of the Pope ; there is not one printer the less in consequence of his antipathy to it. There is also liberty of conscience, of preaching, and of speak- ing everywhere, except in a little cor- rupt and ill-kept village in Italy, which was once Rome, restricted within very narrow limits, and containing a very small population, chiefly nuns, monks, priests, bishops, cardinals, and an old man called the Pope. But out of that little narrow spot people may print, and preach, and proclaim the inmost con- victions of their souls. They may en- counter refutation and opposition, but no Pope, prelate, or priest can put them down, or repress the utterance of what they believe to be the truth of God. Now this is a very great blessing. But it was not always so. It only three hundred years since the founders of the English Church were burnt with green fagots in Smithfield market. It is only three hundred years ago since in Scot- land the murders, and burnings, and proscriptions of the Church ol Rome made its name infamous wherever there was a sense of justice, of humanity, or truth. All over the Continent, before Martiu Luther rose, and the priests were detected imposters, where they had been accepted as gods, no one dared to murmur a word against the Pope. When the Pope fulminated his Bull against Martin Luther, he was the first man that dared to do a deed which has spread its echoes and reverberations over the length and breadth of the whole world. He deliberately lighted a bonfire opposite the western gate of Wittenberg cathedral, asked the people to meet round him, and hear his testi- mony against the Pope's Bull, and to see how he would treat it ; and then and there he cast the parchment into the bonfire, and stood looking till it was burnt to ashes. The shock to Rome communicated from that monk's act en- dures. In Germany you can preach the truth without interference ; in France also the restrictions are few ; in Bel- gium they have a free constitution po- litically, though the priests have still great power, and wherever they can, they interfere with preaching the Gos- pel, and try to do mischief. I saw the people in the ancient city of Bruges plainly worshipping and kneeling before a statue of the Virgin Mary,- there the object—I u*e the word deliberately—of adoration. I said to the landlord of the hotel where I was staying, " I speak very bad French, but I think I could tell the people the way to heaven in French. Would they allow me to go and stand in the Marche"—the market-place, where the people chiefly congregate— "and tell them of Jesus Christ, the Way, the Truth, aud the Life?" The landlord said, " Certainly not, sir ; your life would not be safe. If you will preach the Virgin Mary, they will come round you in crowds, and be greatly pleased ; but if you venture to preach Christ, or say anything about hira, they will attack you." Such is tbe bondage that exists in a country which has all the advantages of a free constitution. This has been put an end to in other nations. In Belgium, however, the power of the priests is still considerable. I was walking along the road to Brussels one day ; I heard the tinkling ®f a bell in the distance, and as the sound drew nearer, I saw an acolyth approaching and ringing the bell, and another priest carrying the Host,—that is what the Ritualists and the Roman Catholics believe to be the body and blood, soul and divinity of the Son of God,—in a little box called a pix or a monstrant. As the priests came along the road, the people fell down upon their knees. I saw the maid servant stop sweeping, and fall down upon her knees ; 1 saw the men in the street—drivers of vehicles, soldiers, people of all sorts— fall upon their knees on either side of the road. I determined that, as a Prot- estant, I never would go down on my knees or seem to worship a wafer, as if it were the Son of God. But I would not, on the other hand, insult the super- stitions of the people if I could avoid it. So I walked as quickly as I could across the street, and took shelter behind the linden trees for a short time till the pro- cession had passed by. A gentleman who saw me said, " You have had a nar- row escape ; for if the priests had seen you they would have been sure to set the mob upon you." Thus sacerdotal proscription still exists, even in the nine- ternth century. Protestantism has put an end to this persecution and intoler- ance over nearly all tne nations of the earth ; and only here and there, as in some nooks of Belgium, and no doubt in Spain, we rind this persecuting spirit, just as after a dreary winter we find patches of snow in sheltered places, which the sunbeams have not reached and dissolved. Trade, commerce, and industry, pros- per in Protestant countries. This is matter of historical fact. See the indo- lence of the Spaniard ; the Italian satis- fied with olives, and maccaroni, and sun- shine, and church ceremonies, and work- ing scarcely more than a West Indian slave. Only in a portion of Belgium, namely, Liege, the people are industri- ous, and seem to work with heart and energy ; but that is where the remains of the Protestantism of Holland, to which Belgium was once attached, still linger and exert their influence. It is not certainly in Roman Catholic, but in Protestant countries, that we find the greatest triumph of commerce, trade, agriculture, and industry at large. Mendicancy in a Protestant country is not a virtue ; laziness is not regarded as" piety, and beggars are not respected and reverenced as if they were saints. Where do you find millions of cease- lessly revolving spindles ? Where do you hear the incessant clank of productive machinery? Where do locomotives, the electric telegraph, the steam engine, put forth their greatest and most productive powers ? Whose, 1 ask, are those fleets of merchantmen that whiten every sea, and spread their sails in every wind, ex- changing the products of every country, and bringing home to us the riches of the East and the Wes% and carrying our manufactures to all lands? Where are these things found? In England, in Scotland, in Protestant Germany, in America. That is pre-eminently where Protestantism has created a free, a God- fearing, an independent people. There science finds its patronage ; there indus- try its encouragements ; there trade rises to the highest and noblest develop- ment. These are not mere guesses, they are facts that can be ascertained by the simplest and most superficial inquiry. Where is the Word of God most cir- culated ? You have no idea how much of all we enjoy has come out of that teeming and inexhaustible spring, the Word of the living God. Shut the Bible, and your liberties will soon die. Let a Ritualist or a Romish priest put a clasp upon your Bible, and a restraint upon your conscience, and you will soon find a despot putting his foot upon your neck, and depriving you of all your civil, after you have been denuded of all your spiritual liberty. What country least fears an open Bible-!—nay, not fears it, but welcomes it, spreads it, expends its wealth in printing it in every lan- guage, and circulating it in every land ? Certainly not Italy, even under Victor Emmanuel ; not France, not Belgium not Spain. The Pope has spoken in his last Encyclical, with infallible authority, from the chair of St. Peter, and has re- corded his deliberate decision that all Bible societies are " pests " — that is the phrase he uses—and to be put down as interfering with the orthodoxy of tbe Holy Catholic Church. In London the Bible Society is printing millions of Bibles in every language spoken among mankind, and selling them at the cheap- est price. In the days of Wycliffe, be- fore the invention of printing, it has been calculated that the price of a Bible, a whole Bible, would have built one of the arches of old London Bridge. Such was the value of the Bible then. I can now get a Bible for fivepence ; a very beautiful one for tenpence ; and a few pence more will buy a Bible as clear in paper and type as you can possibly de- sire. With all our faults, I believe there are few homes in our country in which there is not a Bible. George the Third said—" God grant that the day may come, and that 1 may live to see it, when every English home shall have a copy of God's Holy Word." I believe that wish is nearly realized, for there are not many homes in which we. may not now find a Bible. In what land do we find Sunday Schools, and Ragged Schools, and Day Schools, and Refuges ? There is no such thing in Italy, unless it be since the pries'vs got notice'^o "quit. There are ! infinite scarcely such things in France, except where the Protestant pasteurs of the old Huguenot Church sustain them. Car- dinal Wiseman asserted that when we destroyed the monasteries under Henry the Eighth, we destroyed the schools that instructed the people. But what was the nature of a school attached to a monastery ? It was of the most wretch- ed type : all that the poor scholars learnt in it was how to go through church ceremonies, and to chant certain portions of th'- mass ; beyond that, they were left in the intensest ignorance. Lord Shaftesbury, a Protestant noble- man, has done more to elevate the masses, to educate the people, to lighten the pressure of labor, to purify the springs of knowledge, and to rescue the down-trodden from destruction, than all the Popes that have reigned in Rome for a thousand years. I make no exag- geration, it is sober truth. Where is the glorious Gospel most purely preached ? Before the Reforma- tion preaching was almost unknown ; the priests were not ordained to preach. The ordination of a priest, as shewn in the Pontificate Jiomanum is not that of a Christian minister. The1*«r is put into his hand by the bishop a paten that holds the consecrated wafer, and the cup that contains what he believes to be the very blood of Christ, and he is told,— "Take thou authority to offer up the Sacrifice of the Mass for the sins of the living and the dead." Now this is not a commission to preach the Gospel at all. Hence, before the Reformation, preach- ing was excessively disliked. Truly shocked was the cultivated Leo the Tenth—who preferred Virgil any day to St. Paul, and the Odes of Horace to the Psalms of David, while he lamented that the Evangelists wrote Greek not so pure as that of Plato—when he heard that Luther had ventured to preach the Gospel, and that if he (the Pope) did not interfere, and put him down, all Germany would be detached from the Roman Catholic Church. The Pope said—" Oh, let him alone, it is some mad monk who has begun to preach, and if you will only let him alone, it will die out." Luther continued to preach, though his first pulpit was a plank of wood across two supports, in the market place of Wittenberg ; and on that plank of wood he preached ser- mons such as have not been preached in mediseval pulpits of carved stone, for the last three hundred years. But when he went on preaching, and the power of his preaching was more and more felt, the Pope said—"This will not do; I will give this monk a little smell of fire, and see if that will bring him to his senses." He tried the experiment, but he found he had to do with a man who did not fear flames of fire or Pope's curses, engaged as he was in God's work. When Luther was going to the city of Worms, a friend said to hira, "Pray do not venture to travel from Wittenberg to Worms ; if you do so you will be killed." Luther said—"If there were as many devils in Worms as there are tiles upon its houses I would go there and preach the Gospel." And when they put him in prison, he set to work and translated the Bible into the mangificent German tongue, and that German Bible was—next to his own preaching—the motive force that up- rooted the Papacy throughout Germany. The preaching of the Gospel was really unknown before the Reformation. Up to the fourth century it existed. Chry- sostom, and Augustine, and the Fathers, preached eloquently. But from the fifth century onward to the fourteenth, any- thing like preaching was the rarest pos- sible exhibition in the Church of Rome. Saying mass was regarded as the great duty of the priest, not preaching the Gospel. Now Protestantism revived the preaching of the Gospel as the wis- dom of God, and the power of God unto salvation to every one that believeth. And of all things I believe the greatest privilege is to hear that Gospel preached, not dictated to you from a pretended inf llible tribunal, but reas- oned out of the Bible, appealing to the Bible, asking you as reasonable men— 4 Judge ye what we say." So preached, and so listened to, the Gospel is still a power, and will be so until the king- doms of this world become the king- doms of our God and of his Christ. (To be continued.) tuned to her future with incredulous ear, listening rather to the finite melody of man's insight into God's ways than to the grand harmony of the Messiah's | Wiowtedge o?"t?ie intents and i purposes of Jehovah. The reason for' this apparent discrepancy lies in the I very prophecies themselves. Imagine' yourself in the pla"se of his hearers, standing before that magnificent temple at Jerusalem, emblazoned with gold and supported by massive pillars. You hear a single, calm voice rising above the stir of the people : " There shall not be left here one stone upon another that shall not be cast down." What a com- plete destruction ! Christ's prophecies are all intense or figuratively extreme. You feel a stro..g reluctance to accept this declaration of the divine Teacher. You reason: " Though the temple should be destroyed, yet these vast walls would defy both flame and missile. Surely the rag6 of fire nor conqueror would at- tempt to cast down their strong founda- tions." You may scorn to listen to the Prophet, or even dare to deny his words. Yet the prophecy of Christ is not of man, but of God. It is infinite in its truth, grand in its reality. Again imagine yourself in Jerusa- lem. The conqueroia have entered the city, and are sending the sword and brand of destruction abroad in its streets. The temple is in flames, its splendid height burning with such in- tensity as to make even the noonday sun senn dim. You recall the words of the Prophet, though still saying in your heart, " Flame cannot destroy these walls : they will stand against its fury, though seven times heated." . The great structure is flaring away its glory into the dust and ashes of destruction,—the richest funeral pyre ever dedicated to holier fire. It may be that you escape the death-dealing sword, and find some safe retreat until the rage of the sol- diery shall be spent. The temple burns and falls into ruin, though its blackened walls are not cast down, and the Prophet, for a time, seems to have added exag- geration to truth when he said, " There shall not be left here one stone upon an- other." But gradually the thick masonry cools, and the soldiers throng in the ru- ins, to seek for whatever spoil may have escaped plunder and flame. One of their number approaches the blackened wall, and idly scrapes the soot from its face. Suddenly he catches the glitter of the precious metal, for lo ! the inter- stices of the stones are full of melted and rehardened gold, where the liquid streams ran to hide themselves from the fierce heat ! The inlaid splendor of the porch, the golden glory of the entrance- way are fitted in ragged richness to the rough edges of the masonry. Immeas- urable wealth lies concealed in the smouldering ruins of the temple. The soldiery, in their eagerness for the spoil, leave not one stone upon another, but utterly cast to the ground the massive walls. Surely there is a Prophet in Is- rael ! " TTWTIL HI1 COMB." DXSBTB.TTOTXOXV OF TBE TEMPLE. " There shall not be left here one "tone upon an- other that shall not be thrown down "—Matt.24:2. How wonderful was tbe prophesy- ing power of the Incarnate Christ ! Yet Israel heard the divine voice at- great noise, and the elements shall melt with fervent heat, the earth also, and the works tbat are therein shall be burned up." We are living in troub- lous times. " My object is rising," said the General, " was to solicit your prayers for our country. It is only those who are in the inner circle that know the perils with which we are threatened." There is no doubt that we are living in the Saturday evening of time. Je- sus himself gave us the signs by which we might know when the time was near. The war cloud in the East and the troubles in our own beloved coun- try are leading many to cry out, " How long ! Oh, Lord, how long I " Every- thing appears to indicate that the time of trouble spoken of by Daniel, may not be far off.—Dr. Palmer, in Guide to Holiness, for February. (Stomrouwatiw. Articles not dissented from will not be under- stood as necessarily endorsed by the editor. We solicit communicat ions on prophetic subjects irre- spective of any views which we cherish,—corre- spondents being responsible for the sentiments they advance. SNOW AS AST EMBLEM OF PURITY. For many weeks the earth has been deeply covered with a perfectly white mantle of snow. Often has my mind reverted to the cheering words of God by Isaiah : " Come now, and let us rea- son together, saith the Lord : though your sins be as scarlet, they shall be as white as snow ; though they be red like crimson, they shall be as wool" (chap. 1 : 18). How wonderfully striking the imag- ery ! Snow is congealed water from the clouds. That water ascended from the earth at some time by evaporation. The snow which we see may be corn- posed of water from the briny ocean, from lakes and rivers, or from putrid streams, stagnant swamps, and cess- pools. Some of that water may have been offensive to taste, sight and smell. Some of it may have been dyed with human blood ; and yet after passing through God's air-filter and refrigerator, it returns to us the bright aud sparkling snow—the standard of whiteness and purity ! How sweet to look out upon the snow and contemplate the time when " the meek shall inherit the earth ; " and the moral purity of all who dwell on the earth will be like that of snow ! The snow a striking emblem is Of hearts made pure by God ; O how it cheers my sinful heart To find it in his Word ! My sins indeed like scarlet are, And crimson is their dye ; Like [!QOV, and wool, they will ba made, If Christ his blood apply. O! wash me, Saviour ; make me pure ; Such whiteness give to me,— Thine holy image on me stamp, And help to follow thee. H. BUCKLEY. Tonwnville, Pa., Jan. 27, 1877. INVfi&TBD EVOLUTION. " Till He come!"—oh, let the words Linger on the trembling chords; Let the little while between, In their golden light be seen; Let us think bow heaven and home, Lie beyond that 1 Till he come.'" Paul encouraged the early Christians to look forward with joy for that " blessed hope and the appearing of the great God and our Saviour Jesus Christ." Jesus himself saitli, " And they shall see the Son of man coming in the clouds of heaven with power and great glory. And he shall send his angels, with a great sound of a trumpet, and they shall gather together his elect from the four winds, from one end of heaven to the other." But, he adds, "of that day and hour knoweth no man, no, not the angels of heaven, but my Father only." The apostle informs us that before that notable day of the Lord shall come, there shall be a falling away, and that Man of Sin be revealed, the son of perdition, who opposeth and exalteth himself above all that is called God, or that is worshipped, BO that he as God, sitteth in the temple of God, showing himself that he is God. It is generally conceded that Daniel's time of trouble, such as never was since there was a na- tion, is immediately to precede the com- ing of our Lord. At a recent meeting held weekly on the subject of holiness, one of our eldest and most honored Generals of the United States Army, said, "That the passage of Scripture that had deeply impressed him for some days past was, 'What manner of persons ought yo to be in all holy conversation and godli- ness ?'" "The day of the Lord will come as a thief in the night ; in which the heavens shall pass away with a Taking up a religious periodical not long since, I read this terse, compact and truthful passage: "In the history of the kings of Israel we have an instance of inverted evolution. Whatever Mr. Darvin may teach as to the upward ten- dency of things—4 the law of natural se- lection,' and ' survival of the fittest'— one thing is clear from history ; and that is, that man, when he turns away from the true God, instead of rising, sinks ever to a lower depth of shame and. infamy. The tendency is just that which is indicated in the image which old king Nebuchadnezzar saw in his dream, with head of gold and toes of iron and clay—from gold to mud. This is the order of human development. 'Evil men and seducers wax worse and worse,' and once on the downward x'oad, nothing but a miracle of grace can save the raoe, or iny member of it from utter destruction." The word evolution is a compound of the latin e and volvo, and signifies to roll out of, or unfold, and is the correlative of involution, composed of in and volvo, meaning to roll in, or inwrap. Nothing can be evolved — rolled out, or de- veloped, unless it is first involved— rolled in, or enveloped. Evolution logi- cally follows involution. Seeds evolve, or unfold themselves in their growth and fruitage, by first being cast into the earth with the germ of life within them. The evolution of life presupposes its in- volution ; hence God breathed into man the breath of life, and man became a living, active, intelligent, useful, devel- oped being. Teachers develop in their instruction that, and only that, which is first taken into the mind. Christians work out their salvation and develop a growth in grace and truth, for it is God that works in them and plants the pre- cious seeds of his word according to his good pleasure. No person can bring forth the fruits of righteousness unless God doe3 this for him. The philosophy of Romish schools and Pharisaical legal- ism is, that man must work and thus be- come righteous ; but the philosophy of the grace of God teaches that man must first become righteous and then work. Christianity is not the mere " outgrowth and upgrowth of naturalism ;n but a divine creation. It works in the human heart and is developed in the life by a supenatual force—by the Holy Spirit. Service to God is the result of a dispo- sition planted within to honor Him. This was mau's original, normal, condi- tion before the fall. But alas! sin en- tered the human soul. Its involution made way for its evolution, and this law of development become inverted. Evil displaced the good, and man's develop- ment and prayers became abnormal, per- verted, and tended earthward rather than heavenward. Each successive gen- eration outrivaled the preceding in wickedness until some sore local or uni- versal judgments were inflicted, as upon the Sodomites and Antediluvians, the Tyrians and Egyptians. Dr. Gardner says: "It is undeniable that the religious tendencies of all peoples, without direct revelation from God, have been not upward but down- ward. In all the ethnic religions the earlier faith is the purer ; the stream becomes contaminated as it flows farther and farther from the fountain. Primi- tive Brahmanism (of the Hindoos) as taught in the Rig Veda is as far re- moved from the Brahmanism of to-day, as the pure faith and simple forms of the Apostolic church are removed from the superstitions and showy rituals of the Papacy." This process he denomin- ates " an evolutio desce^xlens, a develop- ment downward." This is quite clearly seen in the history of Israel's kings. The character of Jeroboam was posi- tively bad; that of Omri one of his successors, was comparatively worse; while that of Ahab the next ruler was superlatively the worst. The worship of calves ac Dan and Bethel, bad as it was, was an innocent act compared with the cruel, shameful and licentious idol- worship of Baal, whioh was doubtless greatly incited by reason of Ahab's un- holy marriage with Jezebel, an alien from Israel and a daughter of the idola- trous king of the Sidonians. Its history " deepens into the dark night of spirit- ual declension and apoatacy from God." So is the evolution of sin clearly set forth in the history of the kings of Ju- dah, which reached its climacteric round of evil in the crucifixion of our Saviour ; and so it is in the history of the world in its sinful unfoiding, and will be until the last murder has been committed, the last theft has been perpetrated, the last oath has been uttered, the last drunkard has been found in the ditch, the last Sabbath has been broken, the last false- hood has been told, the last juvenile dishonor of parents has been witnessed, the last fraud has been oommitted, the last deception has been practiced, the last scoff at sacred things has been heard, and the last precious golden mo- ments have been Wasted, and time shall be no more. There is no prophecy of a permanent, universal, happy reversal of the world until its restitution at the appearing of its rightful Lord. Then will come the great change. Then will eome the great evolution of light and glory, life and immortality. As the cereal life- germ is developed from the death of the kernel, so will the life within us be su- premely unfolded in the great resurrec- tion from the dead, and the word of promise for our earth crystallize, l»y reason of the fiery death-throes of this mundane sphere, in the sublime evolu- tion of a new heavens and a new earth, peopled with the righteous and bap- tized with the divine glory. " So burned the earth upon that dreadful day Yet not to full annihilation burued ; The essential parJcles of dnst remained, Purged by the final sanctifying fires From all corruption ; from all: tain of sin Done there by man or devil, purified. The essential particles remained of ichick God built the world again, renewed, improved." This will be an evolution neither in- vented by sin nor perverted and prosti- tuted to the wild vagaries of Darwinism trying to develop man from the ape, or any like theory, but one worthy of the great work of God for humanity. J. P. FARKAB. Ludlow, Vt. •WEfST INTEQESTED XXV OOSKXXTO. OHBIST'I It is often asked why we have so much to say about Christ's coming—why we make it our constant theme. To such I would say : Supposing you have a friend in a distant land and you have received written communications from him often. You are poor and he is rich, and he informs 26 THE HERALD, FEBRUARY 14. 1877. make his home with you ; that then you | Wonderful ! No sooner had " the will have all thai is desirable to make you j heavens received him out of their sight," comfortable- and happy, and then all that is annoying will be removed from around y I glanced at Dr. Warren, the thought flashed through my mind, Why .does he partake of this memorial sup- per? Says Paul, "As often as ye eat this bread, and drink this cup, ye do show the Lord's death till he corned As the Lord has come," literally, bodily,v why longer observe this rite? Notwithstanding these queries prior * -to the administration, they obtruded not on the very interesting introductory ex- ercises, and it was a precious privilege to partake in faith of the future com- •»• ing of Him who instituted this memo- ; rial type—in memoriam of that night J ^hen he was betrayed, and typical of that marriage feast when it shall be fulfilled in the kingdom of God. " No more will I drink of the fruit of the vine, until I drink it new in the kingdom of God." Not at Jerusalem's destruc- tion, neither in connection, was this " fulfilled." Since the Conference I have borrowed K>1 later oopies of the Mirror than those referred to in my review, and in one I find the Editor has taken up-on this very point, and how he re- plies I will tell you. He says :— " We base the obligation to observe the supper of the Lord upon his own ex- press command (Matt. 26 : 26; Mark 14 : 22; Luke 22: 19) which is given without condition or limitation. The word ' un- til ' in phrases like this by no means im- plies tfiat'the event or act spoken of is not to be continued after the period re- ferred to. Take an almost exactly par al lei instance : Christ said to Peter, 'If I will that he tarry till I come what is that to thee?' This certainly does not mean that John was to live two thousand .years ; nor that he was to die at the destruction of Jerusalem, for we know according to all primitive testi- mony that he lived more than thirty years after that event. * Until the law •in was in the world,' Rom. 5: 13. Does it imply that when the law was given sin ceased ? Alford says expressly, the phrase ' Ye do show,' &c., is ad- dressed directly to the Corinthians, not to them and all succeeding Christians, the apostle regarding the coming of the Lord as near at hand, even in his own tigie.' * . . " It is evident that such an admoni- tion addressed to the Corinthian church in the condition in which they then were, in no way modifies the original iutent of the ordinance, or limits its du- ration, as appointed without qualifica tion or limitation by our Lord himself. The coming of the Lord in his parousia, according to his promise ' in that gen ©ration,' by no word of his renders it obsolete, nor in the nature of things makes it less needful than before. To our senses he is still absent, and the faith by which we walk is and ever will be helped by an outward rite which is done in 'remembrance' of him." So there our readers have the learned editor's special pleading, and can judge for themselves respecting its soundness It is a little wonderful how in every reply to his objectors and reviewers, he invariably falls back on "this genera tion it is his strong tower of refuge, and not one of his opponents have at lacked him there. Not one has at- tempted to drive him out; must he not then deem this impregnable ? I am tempted with " sling and stone " to try my skill. He would probably decline on the grOurid that too much had been written already. Perhaps we ought to dismiss the Doc- tor without further notice, but there are a few more statements I wish to bring before you—statements drawn out in reply to Dr. Fish. " We have not said that the parousia of Christ was 'deferred' till the de- struction of Jerusalem; on the contrary, we expressly said that it strictly began at his ascension." than he "strictly began" to return ! The words of the angels were immedi- ately verified 1 Dr. Warren . (as I. have cited in a former article) positively asserts the parousia to be in person—a literal bodily presence, so, according to the above statement, the " same Jesus " the disciples saw go into heaven, came again in like manner as he was taken up, on the very occasion of his ascension ! Was that why they returned to Jerusa- lem with great joy ? How, if so, could Peter say afterward, " Whom the heav- ens must receive till the times of resti- tution ?" How could Stephen, when the heavens were opened behold Jesus standing at the right hand of God ? How could Paul speak of him to the Hebre ws as the great High Priest who had passed into the heavens ? How could the Father say to the Son, " Sit at my right hand till I make thine enemies thy footstool?" "This man after he had offered one sacrifice for sins forever, sat down on the right hand of God from henceforth expecting till his ene- mies be made his footstool."—Heb. 10 12, 13. See also Eph. 1 : 20 ; CoL 3 "Seek those things which are abdve, where Christ sitteth at the right hand of God." We are expressly told that from thence he shall come to judge the quick and the dead. How can these texts be true, if Christ in his glorified body, "strictly began ".his return when he ascended ? Any careful reader can readily see a conflict between this statement and the many treating His parousia at the de- struction of Jerusalem. I might quote more of like import, but forbear. I am glad the editor has freed his mind on this question, for it has led to the publication of more Bible on the advent of Christ than ever before was given probably in the Mirror—his reviewers coming out well fortified to meet him. M. D. W. Yarmouth, Me., Feb. Continued. 4* g &MI not want" BOSTON, WEDNESDAY, FEB. 14, 1877. J. M. ORROCK, EDITOR. J. PKARSON, JR., H. CANFIELD, C. CUNNINGHAM J Committee * of Publication. PLEASE TAKE NOTICE. "Will each subscriber be kind enough to look lit the date opposite his name on the paper or wrap- per ? and if not paid to Jan 1, 1877, be will confer a favor by forwarding the subscription immedi- ately. Address all business letters, and make postal money orders payable, to JOHN M. OBROCK, 46 Kneeland St., Boston, Mass. As these letters will be opened and attend- ed to by the Bumness Afreet, those containing arti- cles for publication, or designed only for the Edi- tor, shonld have manuscript or personal written on the face of the envelope. For terms see last page. THE TABERNAOLE SERVICES. How A MINISTER »OR TWENTY POUNDS:— Mr. Gadsby, a minister residing near Manchester, some years years ago was greatly in want of twenty pounds, which he had to pay on Monday morning. When he began to prepare for the Sunday work, no other text could he think of but, "Lord, help me." His ac count of what followed is in the subjoined words : — " While preaching on the Sunday morning I had so many thoughts and illus- trations arising out of the subject, that I felt great liberty in preaching. One of ray illustrations, was about a man I had known, who, was a deacon of a church, and had been an executor for two orphan children; He was tempted tf make use of the money, and ipuch of it was lost. This sp preyed upon his mind that he began to drink. He lost his character, lost his peace of mind, and died with the reputation of a rogue. ' Now,' I said, 'had tfcis man, the executor, when he first thought of taking the children's money, resisted the temptation by calling on God to help him—help him to be honest, help him to do nothing but what a professing Christian ought to do,— instead of losing the money, his good-name, his peace of mind and perhaps his life, God Vould have heard his prayer, and saved him.' "Noon came, but my sermon was not half done. I preached from it again in the afternoon, and again in the evening ; and I felt that 1 could have preached from it a week. After finishing the night's service, wheii I got to the bottom of the pulpit stairs a young man stood there with his hat in his hand, wishing to see me in private. I took him into the vestry and requested his errand, expeet iug it would be something about his soul. For several minutes we were both si- ent, but at length he said : ' You knew my mother, Mr. Gadsby ? Well, when nhe died she left some money—in fact, all she had, except two small sums she wished me to give : one sum of five pounds to a poor old woman of her acquaintance, and, speak- ing of you, she said, ' our minister needs help, and I wish you to give him twen ty pounds.' I paid the five pounds to the old woman, but, thinking no one knew, I resolved never to give you the twenty. But while you were talking about the roguish executor this morning, I felt, thunderstruck, and I have now brought you the twenty pounds. Here it is, do take it, and forgive me.* It was now my turn to be thunderstruck. I was amazed ; and while the young man was putting the twenty sovereigns into my hand I trembled all over. God had heard my prayer. He had helped me through the Sundav and sent me the twenty pounds for the Monday. It was mine, and I took it. " I shook the young man by the hand, and, without putting the money into my pocket, I went quickly home and spread it out on the table before my wife, saying, 'Here it is, here it is. I now see how it was that I could not borrow the money. God knew where it was, and He has sent me the twenty pounds and delivered me Out of my trouble. He has heard my prayer and helped me, and I will trust Him and praise him as long as I live.' "—English Paper. WHAT HAPPENED IN A SNOW-STORM^ / Nearly a century ago there lived a pious Lutheran,.Christian Zirekel, a mile north-east of Fredeiick, in Maryland. By his industry, Zirekel haCf supported his family in what was then regarded as a moderate competence. He had his patch of cleared ground, and a plain, rude bouse. In the spring of the yejji he was taken seriously ill, and after a few weeks of suffering, died, leaving a wife, and four children under twelve years of age. Th« poor widow with her oiphan children, managed by thrift and economy to procure the needed com forts of life during the summer, autumn, and earlier part of the winter, ^he country was sparsely settled. Her nearest neighbor lived a mile away. Fuel was easily procured, for heavy forests were all around and timber Vai' of little value. . ( ; ' *- '• - As the winter gradually wore on, her stock of provisious grew less and less, filling her mind with much anxiety. In the month -of March, when her food was about exhausted, there came a heavy fall of snow, drifting over and hiding the few roads in the neighborhood. The snow also drifted heavily against her ifes tation of divine goodness to them, and his wife exclaimed : " Oh, dear hus- band, how sweet it is to live by faith and trust G*>.d's faithful word! Let us rely upon Iilnv. while wa live and trust Him in all straits."—Rev. A. C. Thomp- son, DI>. t -..„;.•,;.:.. In-Greek '^tsro or more negatives strengthen the negation," and it is re- markable that the promise which gave encouragement in this hour of trial has five in it. Wesley thus brings out three of them : " No, I will not leave thee; verily I will not forsake thee." Wilson's Emphatic Diaglott expresses them all : " No, I will not leave thee : no, no, I will not forsake.thee j" and so does Kirkham in his well-known hvmn : ..„ • • , » -"OK/ "That soul that on Jesus hath leaned for repose, • • j . .. I will not, 1 will not desert to his foes; That soul, though all hell should endeavor to shake, - ' Jl'il never, no, never, no, never forsake'-. Is not such a promise as this from the lips of One who cannot lie, well calcu- lated to give "strong consolation"? (Heb. 6: 18). One negative ought to be enough, yet how condescending and kind on the part of the Good Shepherd to put in five! (7b be continued ) -i • if what ALFOKD " says expressly " is to be taken as authority in the ease, why does not Dr. Warren quota the sentence immediately following the one he has cited?—" After ' he coming, ihere wiil be no longer any need of the symbols of Hi* body, since th« body itself will be with as; there-1 (ore the apostle says, ' Till he oomo.'"—Kxx. of The second week of the revival serv- ices closed last Friday night : for it will be understood that the evangelists —Moody and Sankey—make it a rule to attend no meetings on Saturday, bui _ . take that day for rest and preparation I cabin door» 8ettling so eompactly to the depth of five feet that the family were for the Lord's day. The weather since u"able to ma*e their way out. They were prisoners ! The widow began to re the commencement of the meetings has allze their "tuation : without provisions for more than one day, no earthly prob- been unusually fine, and the gatherings ability that any traveler would come into such an out-of-the-way place through to most of the services much larger 8Uctl 8now,» which, from its depth and compactness might lie for several weeks, —thus shut in from all human help—what would become of them ? The pious woman turned her thoughts to God. She called on the oldest child, nearly twelve years old, to repeat the explanation of the first article of the creed in Luther's catechism, " I believe that God hath created me and still preserves to me my body and «oal ; that He daily provides me with all the necessaries of life, guards me from danger and preserves me from evil—wholly induced by divine, paternal love and merCy." The mother then took her German hymn book and sang Gerhardt's hymn '** Befiehl du deine Wege " Commit thou all thy griefs and ways into His hands. She th en took her Bible and read from the 37th Psalm : " Trust in the Lord and do good ; so shalt thou dwell in the land and verily thou shalt be fed. Com mit thy way unto the Lord. Trust iu Him and He shall bring it to pass." She then offered a fervent prayer that her Heavenly Father would, according to His promise, protect and feed her helpless household. The day passed, but no signs of help. The second day the prayers of the good woman became more urgent. A mere morsel had been left for a scanty breakfast, and now the children were crying for dinner. The prayers of the mother were earnest, and uttered aloud : that her Father in heaven would send some messenger with food to satisfy the hunger of her children. These pravers at iength were interrupted by a pounding on the top of the door. In response to her inquiry the voice said, " Open the dcor." This was done with difficulty. But, partially succeeding, she saw a man standing on the drift, holding in his hand the bridle-rein of his horse. She said : " You are a stranger, but you are a messenger from God to preserve these children from starvation. The man said't " I paused before knocking at .yy.ur door—I overheard parts than could be accommodated. Three services a day have been held most of the time in the Tabernacle : from 12 to 1, at 3 P. M., and at 7.30. On Sunday a 9 o'clock meeting has taken the place of the noon meeting. The noon meeting every Friday is to be a relig- ious temperance meeting. Last week Mr. Moody gave four discourses at the 3 o'clock meetings on the personality and work of the Holy Spirit. After the evening sermon three meetings are held : a prayer meeting in the Taberna- cle, an inquiry meeting in Clarendon street Baptist church, and a j'oung men's meeting in Berkeiy street church. The good that is actually being accom- plished we do not know, but we learn that those having most to do with the services are much encouraged. Last Sunday Mr. Moody preached to women in the afternoon, and to men in the evening—the same sermon in substance. Text, " Except a man be born again he cannot see the kingdom of God." About 14,000 people heard him, and as "faith cometh through hearing, and hearing by the word of God," we may reasonably hope that some souls were gathered in grace to Shiloh who will be gathered to him in glory when he conies again. rausio. Our readers will remember that in the Herald of August 11th, 1875, we pub- lished a piece of music called " Rest," by Amanda Bailey. The following is the hymn to which the music is set : Watchman, are you growing weary, Watching night and watching day ? Do the hours seem long and dreary,. Till the shadows clear away ? Grasp the standard, hold it firmer. Meet the foe midst shot and shell, Heavenly rest will be the lighter, If you do your duty well. Christiari, are thy crosses growing Heavier, and the journey long ? Art thou saddened by the knowing Right is conquered by the wrong ? Strive a little longer, bearing All, 'though drooping spirits mourn, Crowns will be more worth the wearing If the cross is nobly borne. Brothers, sisters, toiling, praying. Seeking for the higher rest I Oh, the joy of weary lying Ever on the Saviour's breast, Where the parted friends are meeting, Nevermore to parted be, Where the angels shout their greeting All across the jasper sea, Here is bat the time of testing, Time of battle, tears and pain ; There the joy of sweetly resting, Never more to sin again. Let us, then, bear all the sorrow God shall deem it wise and best; Soon will dawn the glorious morrow, With its sweet, eternal rest. We have it now for sale in sheets at 3 cents a single copy, or 12 copies for 25 cents, post-paid. The music is very sweet, and was sung with beautiful ef- fect at our Camp-meeting at Hebron last summer. It is to be sung by a quartette at a Sunday School concert in this city soon. MOODY ON THE LOAD'S COMING. TBS WOMAN'S MISSIONARY AID SOCIETY. Please say what the object of the Woman's Missionary Aid Society is, if it will not be too much trouble, and oblige M. B. L. The Society bearing ihis name was organized at the campmeeting in Hebron in Aug. 1875, for the purpose of helping in the home missionary field "such as devote their lives to preaching the gos- pel—especially the coming and kingdom of our Lord Jesus Christ." It is an auxiliary to the American Millennial Association in this department of its work. .Some of the sisters seeing the need of financial help, and thinking they could assist—as indeed they can, and have—volunteered their services in an organized capacity. The payment of two cents a week, or twenty-Jive cents per quarter will constitute one a member of t ne Society, though a larger sum will be gratefully accepted. MRS. M. S. BROWN, Conduit street, Providence, R. I. is Treasurer, and to her all monies should be sent by those belonging to this So- ciety or wanting to aid it. To those wishing for further information she will be glad to give it. of your prayer." I have learned its general import.. " 4. The Saviour's repeated comrnand to' watch, for his coming,' because ' we knovy not the hour,' is inconsistent with a millennium intervening. "5. The New Testament teaches re- peatedly and unequivooally that the ad- ROBERT A. T. G. CECIL, the present Marquis of Salisbury, who has been England's plenipotentiary at the Euro- pean Conference at Constantinople, is about forty-seven years old ; and ap- pears to be a firm believer in the truth of the Bible and of Christianity. When chairman of the Christian Evidence So- ciety, at its annual meeting in Lon Ion, in 1872, he bore this testimony to ex- isting danger and the source of safety : "We are standing ift one of the most awful crises through which the intellect of Christendom has ever passed. We can point to many distinguished intel- lects, from which all that Christian be- lief has gone in which till lately the highest minds coincided. But great scientific discoveries always dazzled the intellect of man, making him think for a time he had destroyed ignorance, and leading him to try and explain every- thing. Our forefathers thought the Creation of the world was not effected by any chain of causation, but was the direct, immediate, and, 60 to speak, the dramatic effect of the Almighty fiat ; they rightly thought that the providen- tial government of the world was not effected by any inferior, secondary agen- cies, but directly and immediately by the exercise of the Divine will. Then came scientific discoveries, disclosing a ,vast mass of secondary machinery to our view, enough to fill the human mind with awe, and to try the highest,power® of the human intellect. Thus there arose a sort of optical delusion, arid it was fancied that God's hand directing this machinery was .further removed than it was before. People now see the secondary causes, and the power of the great first cause is dimmed in their eyes. The remedy for this disbelief is not denunciation nor theological acrimony, but calm discussion, familiarizing the mass of mankind with the discoveries made, but teaching- them that the first cause is not further removed because secondary causes are made much more palpable than before. People should know whither they are drifting when they accept the current sceptical theo- ries. If they allow their minds to be entangled with these sophistries, they will renounce the fundamental truths for which all human hearts thirst. As Christians and honest men, we must feel that it is time these questions were thoroughly discussed. It is no season for half-hearted action or concealment. Those who are for Christ and those who are against him should state distinctly in which camp they stand." dtmwyvn&cviict. "Then they that feared the Lord spake-often one to another ; and the Lord hearkened and heard It, and a book of remembranoe was written before Him for them that feared the Lord, and that thought upon his name." EXTRACTS FROM LETTERS, Bro. S N. Powley, writes:— of Oxillia, P.O., Canada, " I am trying to do. what I can for the Master in these hard times. We have no Advent preacher but the Herald, and we prize it very highly and lend it to all who will read it. I have paid for three papers for gratuitous distribution —giving one to a Baptist minister, and another to a Primitive Methodist preacher. The former says he does not like it, but the latter does. I SHOULD LIKE TO SEE THE PAPER SELF-8IT8TAININO. I sometimes wish I could speak to all onr dear friends and urge them^to do all in their power to make it to. It grieves me to have it necessary for the publish- ers to so frequently ask for their honest dues. But as I cannot compose any- thing fit for printing I must be content to labor on and pray more for myself and others, and remain, Yours waiting for the Master." [We appreciate the kindness and good wishes of our brother.. His love to the cause is manifest, not in words only butcalao in deeds.-—ED.] Bro. A. Ruiter writes from West-Potten, P Q.. Canada, Jan 28th: "I send the Herald broadcast over the town, and many of the Lord's poor read it with gladness' of heart. Some who call themselves Adventists decline taking the paper, making poverty their excuse; but I think what they need is more of the grace of God in the heart, as do also many of those who are sub- scribers but a year or more in ai rears. . . I want to tell you how I left off using tobacco. I used it twenty-eight years, when one Sabbath day—^having smoked more than usual—I felt a shock go through my system like .electricity. I at once took my pipe, laid it on the stove, and broke it to pieces with the heel of my boot. That was six years ago, and ended my use,, of the [filthy- weed. I wish all my brethren who use tobacco wonld act in a similar way. . . _ Elder B. S. Reynolds has been holding a series of meetings here, and many -have been quickeifld to duty, wanderer* THE HERALD-FEBRUARY 14. 1877. have returned to Father's house, and some have been converted. My prayer is, that God wi}l continue to revive his work till m^ny more shall be brought from nature's darkness into His marvel lous light." Bro. Wm. Z. Manning; writes from Brown's Corners, ludliui. Jaa. 5th "I have taken the Herald since 1843, and the Advent doctrine has lost none of it* interest to me. The paper comes weekly, richly laden with gospel truth. Some of tl»ed. May the work spread ! The Herald is just as good as ever, and I trust will do much good. Eternity alone will disclose the amount. God bless you, and give you strength equal to your day, and keep you until He comes. Yours, in Christian bonds, • : • M. C. BRADBURY. Boston, Mass., Feb. 1th. [The following is the Poem referred to. It will do nicely to read in connec- tion with Mr. Moody's Sermon on our last page this week.-—ED.] THE MAN OF MACEDONIA. " UY THK AUTHOR OF " THE OLD, OLD STORY.' Acta 16 :6-10. •Oh for a vision, and a voice to lead me, • To show me plainly where my work should lie 1 Look where I may, fresh hindrances impale me ; Vain and unanswered seems my earnest, cry." Hush, unbelieving one ! But,for thy blindness. Bat for thine own impatience and self-will. Thou wouldest see thy Master's loving-kifldness. Who by those " hindrauces" is leading still. Me who of old through Phrygia and Galatia Led the Apostie Paul, and blesued him there, If heiforbid to " preach the word in Asia," Must have prepared for thee a work elsewhere. Conrage and patience ! Is the Master sleeping ? H«ts he no plan, no purposes of love ? What though awhile his coqnsel he is keeping ? It is maturing in the world above. |j Waiton the Lord ! In his right hand be hidden, And go not forth in haste to strive alone: Shun — like a sin 1— the tempting work " for- bidden :" God's love for souls, be sure, exceeds thine own. The Master cares 1 Why feel, or Ifeem, so lonely ? Nothing can interrupt real work; for God : Work may be changed ; it cannot cease, if only We are resolved to cleave unto the Lord. Noue are good works,, for thee, but works ap- pointed ; « . Ask to be filled with knowledge of his will. Cost what it may f Why live a life disjointed ? One work throughout! God's pleasure to fulfill 1 But if indeed some special work awaits thee ; Canst thou afford this waftlng-tfmo^o loao 3* By each successive task, God educates thee What if the iron be too blunt to use ? Can walls be builded with untempered mortar ? Or fish be canght in the unmended snare ? Must not the ruetal pass through fire and water, If for the battle-field it would prepare ? O thou unpolished shaft 1 Why leave the quiver ? O thou blunt axe ! What forest canst thou hew ? tTnsharpened sword ! Canst thou the oppressed deliver ? Go back to thine own Maker's forge anew ! Submit thyself to-Ged for preparation ; Seek not to teach thy Master and thy Lord ! Call it not " zeal." It is a base temptation. Satan i* pleased when man dictates to God. Down with thy pride ! With holy vengeance trample On each self-flattering fancy that appears I Did not the Lord himself, for onr example. Lie hid in Nazareth for thirty years ? Wait the appointed time for work appointed, Lest by the Tempter's wiles thou be ensnared Jfresta be the oil wherewith thou art anointed ! Let God. prepare thee for the work prepared ! S.1Q-S ' London alone publishes six. Spiritual- ist journals ; France, Spain and Ger- many prjnt several ; and Australia prints one. '' -w:- • , There* iS a Bible in the library of the University ot Goettingen written on two thousand four hundred and seventy- six palm leaves. Cardinal Antonelli has incurred the hot displeasure of His Holiness, the Pope, by leaving all his property to his relatives and failing to remember the church. This course of action is some- what singular, for did he believe the ar- ticles of his faith he must have known that this would cost him an age or two of purgatory. The London Christian Standard of Jan. 25th says: "The present winter has been as yet one of the most rainy on record. The season has been most tem- pestuous aud wet, rot only in England but in many other parts of the world. The storms on the coast have done .£30,- 000 [$1,500,000] damage in Dover alone. As a sample of the destruction done by the floods, the injury done to carpets at Lewisham is reckoned at £1,000 [$5,000]. The Record remarks : ' In is scarcely possible to resist the parallel between the present gloomy condition of the weather, and the increasing blackness of the gathering clouds in the political atmosphere. The suggested parallel immediately brings to our recollection the warning words of our blessed Lord. A'And there shall be signs in the sun, afid in the moon, and in the stars ; and upon the earth distress of nations, with perplexity, the sea and the waves roar- ing." The state .of the weather leads us to anticipate an unpropitious harvest ; it has certainly occasioned much loss of property, and it will cause much sick- ness.' " There are 1,062 Jesuits in the United States and Canada. Besides the Uni- versity of St. Louie, which is in their hande, they have seventeen establish- ments for education, mostly for superior instruction. , Mexico is in a constant state of fer- mentation. One rebellion is no sooner ended than another is commenced. Diaz,, who appeared a few weeks,ago to have Completely routed -his enemies, is now threatened. Business is in a very bid condition, and usurers, who make money out of a war, are endeavoring to stir tip another rebellion. The church party was victorious in the recent elec- tion, and Protestants are already feeling the iron heel of oppression. The Herald and Presbyter, of Cincin- nati, thinkg that Mr. Moody's. Taberna cle in Chicago may well serve as an ''object lesson" to church architects and building committees. The fact that " a cheerful, commodious building, acoustically perfect, perfectly lighted and ventilated, seating 8,000 persons, and with standing room for 2,000 more, emptying itself at the rate of a thou- sand a minute," and not beyond the reach of an ordinary voice, could be put up for $20,000 is "something to make a note of." The Herald thinks that the description of this Tabernacle " ought to be posted on the front doors of some metropolitan churches, and pasted in the hats of certain building committees, wbeire the 4 debtors' prisons * they have built cost all the way from $100,000 to $1,000,000." More than half the pastors in Dakota Presbytery are native Sioux. There are nine churches belonging to the body, six of whom have native Indian pastors. These churches embrace ^57 members, and their gifts for various ob- jects amounted laBt year to $992. The Rev. Dr. Stuart Robinson, after obtaining a judgment of $30,000 from the propritors of the Globe Dimocrat, in St. Louis, for libel, generously remitted the entire sum, with the exception of the costs of the suit. Dr. Robinson's only purpose in the suit was the vindi- cation of his own character. The whole number of clergymen in the Protestant Episcopal church is 3,251. During the year just past 146 new names were added to the list. j country, and the tender solicitude of _____ j loving ones whose eyes are open to the error of others. For instance, last Fri- day, ' a grandson in California under the j demon of intemperance,' ' a man in Tif- ' tin, Ohio, addicted to drink, 'one of j Boston's most gifted sons,' whose en- I emy is intemperance,' 'a drunken father i in Canada,' ' a drunkard in Pennsylva- nia,' and thirty-three others were by let- ter made the subject of prayer. All but one were drunkards." ~—;— — r IClder J. G, Loritner, formely of Derby Centre, Vt., now pastor of a Baptist church at Georgia Plain, Vt., writes- " Of course by my taking the Herald year after year you will see that I highly esteem it. I find in it many per- tinent illustrations, which 1 can use in discourses with good effect. I fully be- lieve in the second, appearing of our. Lord: and Saviour Jesus Christ,, and long for the time to come when He shall ap- pear, and this sin-stricken world be re- newed : for there shall be new heavens And a new earth,, wherein dwelleth righteousness.'" An intimate friend of Mr. Moody ad- vised him to rub up his grammar a little. Can't do it," said Moody. " If I see a man drowning, shall I stop and pull out my grammar and tell him 4 to drown' is a verb, and 4 I' a personal pronoun, and ' will save ' implies half a dozen other things ; or shall I go to work and tell the man what to do at once, ungrammatically perhaps, but so that hip life is saved?" A CHILD'S EXCUSE FOE STEALING.—A child was arrested a short time ago, in this city, for stealing money. The ex- cuse she gave for the admitted theft was, that she went to a Sunday school in a church, and the beautiful dresses and golden chains made her envious and painfully conscious of her own shabbi- iress of attire. In order to remove this feeling she took the money and bought a hati a ring, a ehain and some other trinkets. The child who seemed con- siderably affected, was committed to answer. Of course it was a very fool- ish excuse, but it may suggest a hint to those who go among the poor with the hope of doing them good.— JVetv York Observer. Mr. Moody's success in reforming des- perate cases, has elicited since he came to Boston requests for prAyer that show, as the Courant says, " in a striking way the distress that prevails all over the ISTEW8 IfEKB. Greece has notified the Powers that since the fruitless conclusion of the Con- stantinople Conference she cannot un- dertake to restrain the Greek population in Turkey from seeking to obtain what they deem their rights. Another ele- ment, therefore, now enters into the Eastern problem: An increase to Tur- key's home difficulties from a hitherto quiet quarter. Queen Victoria, the Empress of Rus- sia, and the Empress of Austria, have been in correspondence, and using their best endeavors to prevent war. Queen Victoria gave away 812 gifts, valued at $15,000, to the poor of Wind- sor on New Year's day. The cold in Russia has been more se- vere this winter than for 155 years. In St. Petersburg on December 30 the ther- mometer fell to 32° (Reaumur) below zero. Several cabmen were frozen to death on their seats, and cats, pigeons and sparrows, were found dead in the street. Large fires were kept burning at night by the police for the benefit of the public. In Moscow the Grand Theatre was closed for want of audiences, the people being afraid to venture out in the cold. Ten men were killed by a colliery ex- plosion in England last Wednesday. The British steamer Ethel, from Bil boa to Wales, was wrecked Feb. 6th and nineteen lives lost. Many of the provinces of Spain are suffering severely from the effects of floods, hurricanes and forest fires. The rains have been almost unprecedented. Railways have been flooded and travel suspended, and towns inundated. At Madrid the mortality has increased 10 per cent, on account of the continuous rains. A fire on the mountains of Guipuzcoa extended for miles, destroy- ing hundreds of cattle. A letter from Santender, Jan. 4, reports a fearful hur- ricane, lasting three days. Houses trembled as in au earthquake, and hun- dreds fled from them; the roofs of twenty or thirty houses were lifted off en masse ; the tramway omnibuses Were blown over : the church, 'school and the greater part of the village of Viana (one hundred and twenty houses) were turrit to the ground, and the wood and waste lands were burning with the force of an American prairie fire. This hur- ricane seems to have been whelly unac- companied by rain. OUR VICES.-—From whisky, tobacco and beer the United States government has collected a revenue of one hundred million dollars, which seems to indicate that the people have not stinted them- selves as to their "pleasant vices" on account of hard times or because of anxiety over the difficult constitutional problems. The sixty two million five hundred thousand gallons of spirits dis- tilled from grain and molasses, and the million barrels of beer on which th^ greater part of this tax was collected is a very extensive tipple even for forty millions of people. This little Niagara of exhilarating fluids would supply about eight gallons for each voter. As a people we have smoked, chewed and snuffed thirty-nine million dollars into the national treasury. Nearly 2,000 people are fed daily at the Washington and Fulton Market soup house in New York. The debt of New York City was in- creased last year more than three million dollars, says the Tribune. The total debt of that city, after deducting the sinking funds, is $119,811,310.39. A German cremation society, num- bering 450 members, exists in New York. Its design is to build a hall with iron walls 60x44 feet. In the center will be an altar, and in front of it, upon a large plate, the iron coffin will be placed. After the burial services have been performed the car containing the body will be moved under the furnace and subjected to the action of the air at a temperature of 1,000 degrees Farenheit. The ashes in the coffin will then be returned and collected. An hour and a half is the time required, from 250, to -450 pounds of coal oil is used as fuel, and $8.00 is the price. gui lied linguists as Rev. Dr. Hare, Bishop Schereschewsky, Prof. Chase, Prof. Jackson, Rev. DrT Mann, and Rabbi Polano. The twenty-third Psalm Was read in Hebrew and Sanskrit; the Ten Com- mandments in Chaldaic, and then seven verses of the Beatitudes (Matt. 5:3-9) were read in the following languages.: English, Arabic, Greek, Latin, Italian, French, Spanish, Portuguese, German, Dutch, Swedish, Danish, Chinese, Welsh, Gaelic, Russian, Polish, Bengali, Mongolian, Armenian, Old Scotch, Hun- garian, Turkish, and Karen. After this two pupils from the Deaf and Dumb Institution came forward and read, one by signs and the other by ar- ticulation, the latter exhibiting the won- derful advance made in the education of deaf mutes. Then followed two pupils of the Blind Institution, one of whom was a native of China. The other was a voung girl with a clear sweet, Voice,- that could he heard over the large hall. After she had read a few verses by passing her fingers gently over the raised letters, Dr. Chapin threw a linen handkerchief over the page. She faltered a moment, amidst the deep sympathetic silence of the audience, and then, pressing more earnestly the sacred page, continued to read almost as readily as before.—Bible Society Record. FAHHXTE IN I2TBXA. A FBNTEOOSTAL SCENE. In connection with the recent anni- versary of the Philadelphia Bible Society a new exercise was introduced, very ap- propriate to such an occasion, and at the same time very interesting. A practi- cal illustration of the work of the Bible Society in circulating the Scriptures in the different languages of the world wae given by having a portion of the Bible read in twenty-seven languages, and also by deaf mutes and blind persons. The announcement of this unique plan drew an audience that crowded the Academy of Music, the largest halL in the city. On a platform erected in front of the stage were the gentlemen who were to take part in the reading. Most of them belonged to the nation- ality whose languages they were to read, and among them were such distiu- " As soon as you begin to work, you have to work more. was asked to go and teach in the Sunday-school ; then I had to address the children. They then arranged that I should constantly address them, every Sunday. By-and-by the adults came in, and I had more people to hear me in the afternoon than the minister had in the morning. "So it kept on growing, and on, and on, and on from one thing to another. There are some of our young fellows who want to put their legs on the top of the ladder at once. But, believe me step by step is the only way to climb." The students of the history of Elijah have not to £0 back in history, for a tragical illustration of the effects of drought in the East. The whole of Western and Southern India is now suf- fering from one, and large portions of the country are already brought to the verge of starvation by the famine. The population embraced in the famine dis- tricts is estimated at thirty millions. In large districts of the Bombay Presi- dency the people are literally starving. Cattle are sold for six and eight cents apiece, and great numbers of cattle are simply left by their owners to die from want of food. More than half a million sterling has been already expended there on relief work, and this is merely the commencement of what must be done. Whole villages are forsaken by the in- habitants, who take their few household utensils on their heads ayd wander here and there in hopes to find labor and food. The stories of individual suffer- ing are too harrowing to be reported. It is but just to add that the govern- ment is do.ng all in its power to dimin- ish the distress. - In the Madras Presi- dency relief works- have been com- menced^ and others planned and ready f*o be commenced as soon as relief has become absolutely necessary. With the exception of one or fvv o districts the suffering is not so gretft in this Presi- dency as in Bombay, but scarcity pre- vails -everywhere, prices of food have doubled" already, and the prospect for the future is very dark indeed. As the Christian pfeople rk>e mostly very poo^ they are among the first to suffer. When the pressure becomes!- a little harder^ they will starve or emigrate to some place where they can find labor and food. What do we know in the United States of "hard tinies ? "—Christian Union. THE WAR XIV THE EAST. Now Russia is going to war, and now she is not ; and then again she is ; and all manner of reasons for her conduct and speculations concerning the result appear upon each varying phase of the news. If she goes to war it will be as an aggressor ; and that for an idea. France did the same when she knocked over the Austrian and Papal power in Italy at Magenta and Solferino, but no- body could ever find out what her idea was. Certainly there was an idea in the Divine mind whatever there might be in Louis Napoleon's, and that idea was worked out. Russia's idea is that she is impelled by considerations of justice and humanity to conquer the Turks. Most wars are undertaken for just such considerations. None that we ever heard of, for ambi- tion or aggrandizement, but the results are generally mubhS.he same as if the latter were the avowed objects. The idea in the Divine mind is, however, doubtless very di^mct concerning the present complications in Eastern Europe, and the world will see how it is worked out. If there isa war, it will likely be great one, but no" calculation can be made as to its extent, duration or results It may be the final conflict between Gog and Magog, predicted in the Apoca- lypse, or it may notl Prophecy will ex- plain itself when it is accomplished Meanwhile let us possess our souls in patience.—N. Y. Witness of Feb. 3rd. HOW SPTTRGEON BECAME PEEAOHEH. In the course of some remarks, the Rev. Charles Spurgeon, the great Eng lish preacher, said : " I was about sixteen years old when I was baptized, and the very night was converted I prayed at the prayer meeting. „ " It was the first time I opened my mouth in any way for Christ. * " Then I sought out a district where could go and distribute tracts, and very soon I got a very nice diocese. There W^s nobody looked after it except me and I was. about sixteen years old. " They used to tell me all their troubles and I very 80911 found my hands full!, had to do all sorts of things. TOWER OF BABEL< city of his temple and goddess Ishtah. pal the Dr. Newman, who has recently re- turned from his Oriental tour, had a fire-burnt brick a foot* squafe and three inches thick, which he found amid the uins of the Tower of Babel, and car- ied a thousand miles on horseback. This memorial bears a cuneiform inscrip- tion, translated for bim on the , spot, by the grreat Assyrian scholar, Geo. Smith..; " Nebuchadnezzah, Son of Neboplas- ser,' king of BabyMn." " Recent explorations Settle that the ruins of the Tower of Babel are the present Birs-Nimroud. This pyramidal mound rises sttddehly from the vast plain of Shinar, 235 feet, surrounded by tower,. It is an immense ruinous heap, strewn with fragments of pottery and bricks, fused and vitrified by some in- tense heat. Nimrod, " the mighty hunter before the Lord," began this tower. He also founded the kingdom Of Shinar or Babylonia, twenty-two centuries before Christ ; Which then contained the cities Babel, Ereck; Acead and Calneh. From this land he went into the land of Assyria and founded Nineveh, and oth- er cities surrounding it. This Tower was built during his reign, three stages :'the first, 2282 feet in circumference; the secdnd, 690 feet; and the third, 564 feet—each 26 feet in height. When the work had progressed thus far, the " confusion-of tongues " ensued, and it stood incomplete for cen- turies—a monument of man's presump- tion and God's first wrath. "And they had bricks for stones, and slime [bitumen] had they for mortar." And the bricks—"thoroughly burnt*' as they Said, have lasted 2200 years; and so adhesive is the mortar that the bricks can hardly be separated without break- ing them. ' Nimrod, after death, was deified. A tablet has recently been exhumed at Nineveh inscribed with a prayer ad- dressed to him. Erick was the princi- kingdom. Here were famous image ,.,of the It flourished several hundred years, and was conquered by one of the kings of Elam, and the beau- tiful image of Ishtah carried away. Er- ick remained loyal in the revolt of the brother of Assarbatvipalj and when Su- siana was conquered by Assurbanipal, he found there this image, and restored it to Erick as a reward for its loyality, after an absence of. 1635 years. The Tower of Babel remained incom- plete after the " cojctfu^on of tongues," till Nebuchadnezzar, 600 B. C., arose in his power and splendor. He built the city of Babylon around this famous pile. He was directed (?) by the god Belus the tutelar divinity of Babylonia, to con- tinue the building of this tower, orna- menting the bricks with the lapis lazuli, and place thereon a golden image of Be- lus. Upon the tower, with its three stages as a platform, he erected the magnificent temple, with its sanctum and observatory containing seven sta- ges or towers, each one less in size, with the observatory for astronomical calcu- lations upon the tops, while, crowning all, was the golden image of the god Belus, 40 feet in height. This temple, ornamented within by statues of massivs gold—was dedicated to his worship, and contained immense treasures. Rooms wei-e assigned to the priests, altars for sacrifice—one for ma- ture and another for immature animals, and many golden vessels. From cylinders found recently in one of the receptacles of these stages in- scribed with, the cuneiform letters, it is ascertained that this tower, founded by Nimrod and completed by Nebuchad- nezzar, was called the Temple of the Seven Planets, and each story was dedi cated to a different planet, aud stained with the color appropriated to that plan et in their astrological system. The low est, in honor of Saturn, was black ; that in honor of Jupiter, orange ; Mars, red ; the Sun, yellow ; Venus, green ; and Mercury, blue. The ascents was made by a. winding stairway upon the outside. Here were deposited the golden ves- sels taken captive by Nebuchadnezzar from the temple at Jerusalem, mentipned in 2 Chron. 36 : t. The immense, brazen gates are said to have been cast from the brazen altars and vessels, also brought from Jerusalem. The observatory, up- on such a height, greatly stimulated the study of the stars, to which that people were particularly devoted. Prideaux says that when Alexander the Great, be- came master of Babylon, Calesthonas, the philosopher who accompanied him, found astronomioal calculations extend- ing overnineteen hundred years. All the bricks used by .Nebuchadnez- zar, like the one mentioned, bear the im- press of his name, the inscription being placed downward. This temple now towered in the midst of that magnifi- cent city, the. pride and boast of its proud monarch. But when Xerxes sub- | pulled down the golden image of Belus ! and despoiled the temple of its immense treasures, and mutilated its walls. When the city was again subdued by Alexander the . Great, he undertook to restore the temple, and set-ten thou*1 and men to clearing the . rubbish from its walk. But two months put an end to his life, and the work ceased. TtaftOp is rent asunder, bearing the appearance of having been scathed by fire from above—probably the effect of lightning.It is an ancient tradition that God's wrath descended in fire from heaven and destroyed the temple. The iruins, as they now stand, exhibit only the thpe stages built by Nimrod. A few years will probably witness the uncov- ering of these walls, and we shall see the work of the men who first lived after the flood.—MKS.E.A. WISWALL in the Watchman. INCREASED CIBCULATION. We are anxious to increase the circu- lation of the Herald 5000 suBscRiBEjas.^: It should be done, it CAN be done,-and if our friends will give us their^ hearty co-operation (for which we offer them .a fair cash equivalent,) it WILL be done. Any person procuring THREB NEW subscribers at $2V25wthe regular sub-. Bcription rate—will be allowed a Commission of 50 Cents for each NEW subscriber. ( , JH. GOOD SUGGESTION. IxwxwM gtpartuwttt. JOSEPH E. BALLOU, BusrNBss AGENT, BACK NUMBEHS. We have been overhauling the bask numbers of the Herald on our shelves, aind find-t^iat we have thousands of copies which are lying idle when they ought to be fulfilling their mission in spreading the knowledge of the truth. We have done them up in packages of about a hundred papers, and will send one or more ^packages FREE to any of our friends who will agree to pay the express charges for the same. If any desire a less number we can send about fifty copies by tnail, costing 32 cents, which should be sent to us with the or- der, as we have to prepay postage. We have also thousands of copies of the Youth'a Visitor^ which are done up in packages of about 150 papers, which will be sent for 50 eents a package. These are as good as new, and we hope will be sent for immediately. We have •several complete files of the Visitor for L858, ready for binding, Which we will send, postpaid, for 50 cents each. Now is the time to distribute religious lite fa tu re of the most practical and im- portant kind, and which can be obtained at a trifling expense. A brother suggests that it would be an excellent plan for some one or more to donate a few dollars for the purpose of purchasing several thousand of our «Invitation Series " of tracts for distri- bution at the Tabernacle in this city, at the Moody and Sankey meetings. We would not detract from the donations for the job press and other objects, but endorse the idea as eminently practica- ble and likely, if carried out, to result in great amount of good in pointing sin- ners to the Lamb of God. Let us hear what you think of it. ISA7 OF TUBKET GREECE. A3TD We are receiving numerous orders for this new map. The size is 19 by 24 inches. It is carefully lithographed and colored, and has special maps of the Black Sea, Constantinople, and the Bos: phorus. The distances are geographi- cally correct, and the railroad lines are distinctly indicated. The indications by the dispatches from the East are that Turkey is soon to become the scene of the most sanguinary and desperate war that ever was waged on earth. This map gives a reliable view of the seat of war and will be found a valuable aid in tracing the course of events in that quarter. In answer to inquiries we would say that Herzegovina is a tract of country in Yfie south-western part of Bosnia among the mountains. Mostar is an important Herzegovinian town. Rou- mania comprises the provinces of Wala- chia and Moldavia. In the Herald of Noy. 1st, 1876, will be found an account of the strange con- glomeration of races in the different provinces of European Turkey. This article will be read with renewed inter- est With one of the maps for its illustra- tion. Price of map, postpaid, 30.cts. JOB DEPARTMENT. When we have the nominal sum of three hundred dollars pledged or paid, we snail call in what we can of the pledges, and purchase the press on part payment, relying on the continued lib* erality of the friends of the enterprise to make up the balance as soon as may be. It will be remembered that we asked for five hundred dollars. We have received pledges and cash remit- tances up to the present time, as fol- lows : paid D. ann P. Hotchkisa A Friend Mrs. E. Turner " \ Friend " \V. II. L. : F. Livingston - " Charlotte R. Shipman u A. Friend " M. B. Libbey " W. H. L. pledged Bro. and Sister Hotchkiss " Edgar Gillette " Henry K. Boyer " Rev. A. M. Osgood " A. A. F. Thos. N. Keyes " W. Still W. H. L. cash J. Pearce " A Friend 44 Janet B: Cutler " j J E.Matthews 4V ! . C. Merriman 44 M. M. Christie 44 Geo. Brigham 44 J. Kiley An aged Sister 44 Mrs. S. A. Hitchcock " J.W. " C; and M. D. Cunningham " S- P. Powley Mrs. Wm. Taylor No name " 20,00 2.50 5.00 5.00 5.00 7.25 $5.00 5.00 5.00 10.00 30.00 5.00 10.00 5.00 5.00 5,00 10.00 10.00 5.00 5.00 5.00 10.00 2.75 5.00 1-00 20.00 10.00 2.00 10.00 5.00 5;00 50.00 6.00 3XIS8Z027ABT STOTXOE. The Board of the A. M. Association have two missionaries in the field and need means for their support. The committee on missions think best to ap point the third Sunday in February as a suitable time to take subscriptions and collections in all our congregations for that object ; and request the pastors to do their utmost to have this plan car ried out ,; and also request the brethren where, no pastor is present, to do the same,. Likewise let isolated brethren and sjsters_make up a donation- at- the same time and send as soon as possible to the treasurer, R. R. Knowles, 108 Public street, Providence, R. I. The XTEW AND PRACTICABLE PROPOSITIONS. I2T AID OF -THE* %A, M. A*SOCIATIOK, The readers of the Herald have DO* ticed the various suggestions which .have been madjBj from time to time for the purpose of meeting the current defi- ciency of its cash subscription list. Some of them have brought a temporary relief of the treasury of the A. M, ASSOCIA- rroN ; but so long as the paper remains not self-supporting this want must be met by the generous donations of its friends, or by some project other than the legitimate business income, of our periodical. . •. A number of propositions are now UWder consideration. One of theto, which is feasible, would be put into imme- diateuse were it not for the want of needed capital—it is this: ' Our office is located in a part, pf the city where there are no job-printing establishments. And, consequently; al- niost every day applications are made for work of this kind. This custom, we could secure. Besides, by an advertise- ment in the Herald, many jobs could be called in from our brethren and Othfers. We have excellent .'nc nirnodationSj as to room and light for stich a purpose, and our printers are not only competent to execute satisfactory work, but know- ing the profitableness of it, and feeling a personal interest in the prosperity of -our cause, are willing to labor over hours for a while in order to give the enterprise an easy ccmmen^mefit. Now dear readers and patrons, here is a practicable, profitable proposition, and What can be done to make it operative? It takes every dollar the Board cau com- mand to meet the pressing pecuniary necessities of the Publication Depart- ment. We have thought of soliciting donations to this end, but all the ordi- nary donations are needed for immedi- ate use. How shall'the amount required be obtained ? Who can and- will re- spond ? Is there one, who will, out of pure love to the truths advocated by the Association, make the Association the m«nifieent present of a PRESS, TYPE, AND FUK2TITUK» sufficient to constitute a suitable job- printing establishment? It should be remembered that such a bestowment could not be regarded at Simply the cost of the material, tmt as providing permanent auxiliary—an agent of con- tinued income to the Association. The sum reqnired is uot large,—to enable us to op -n a job-printing depart- ment of capacity sufficient to exjecut© a fair profitable business and d# good work, we should ne«d from $400 t* $500. 1 We shall look with no small degree of solicitude for a speedy and favorable response to * meet the demand of this feasible project, either in the form of gift or as a loan t,o the Association for t his purpose, without interest, to be r# funded as earned by this department of labor. J- PEAMON, JB. DONATIONS. A Friend Mrs. C. A. Russell Mrs. S. S. Howe A Friend 1.00 .75 .50 NOTES TO COKBESPONDEKTB. M. B. LIBRY.—St. Armand Camp- ground is not re ally on any lfne of rail- road, and cannot be ealily reached by public conveyance from Beebe Plain. Elder Sam'l 'Ebersole lives in Cornell- ville^ Province of Ontario, Canada— which is his address. LETTERS RECEIVER, During the week ending February 10. need is urgent. Let all be prompt and dued Babylon he demanded heavy tirib- LIBERAL. J. LITCH. > Gommitee tkte, and finding it difficult to collect, he j L. OSLEK. ) on Missions. Mrs. I.N. Roseman.5.00; Dr. T. War- die 4.50; O. Rockwell 1.00; J. E. Downs 4.50; Wm. Sully 1.00; D. Hotchkisa 24 50; Levi Hooper 7.00; M. B. Pierce I.00; T. S. Rubey .35;.H. A. Dolloff 3.25; H. M. Haves—corrected; M. Na- sori; W. G. Bush .60; Thos. Messenger 4.50; M. Branch; A. C. Gt&r 1.00; Geo. Martin 1.66';' 15- F. Rogers .30; S. F. Grady 12.33; E. P. Marvin; Rev. T. H. Sketchley; Edward Burgess 6.75; L. D. Mansfield 2.25; Adam Dickson 2.00; F. Lombard .50; Mrs. C. W. Allen 1.00; Geo. W. Brooks 5.02; James Lang; Mrs. L. M. Burnham 2125; Wto. Still 2.25; Henry Lunt 12.00; Charlotte R. Ship- rhatv 6,12;' L C. Wellcome; Simeon Palmer 1.00; W. R. Parker 7.50; Wm. Schoolcraft; F. Gunner 2.00; Wm. Itn- pev; M.A. Bradford; Henry Newberry 2.10; W. H. L. 15.00; J. N. Foster .66; Rev. Geo. P. Osmond; H. P. Cutter 6.00; 1. L. Craven 3.00; Rev. J. G. Lorimer 2.25; Mrs, C. A. Russell 3.00; A. W. Brown 2.25; Lemon Robbing 5.00; Joseph Wheelock ,1.13; Rev. TV. II. Eastman 5.00; Wm. Campbell 5.0» ; Sarab B. Little 2.25 ; H, Buckle?. __ 28 THE H EBALD, FEBRUARY 14, 1877. Sltt Jstttilg fliixtk. CALL TO THS W A R . The camp is astir, for the foe is in view, And the bugles are sounding the war. The watchman of Zion repeat the loud call, And the hills re-echo from afar : " Come ye up to the help of the L*>rd ! to the help of the Lord against the mighty ! " The legions of sin darken mountain and plain, And their banners float proud on the gale ; They bring with them darkness, and terror, and death But In Christ our courage ne'er shall fail ! 14 Come ye up to the help of the Lord ! to the help •f the Lord against the mighty ! " The host9 of the foe pre;s us hard, front and flank ; We must stand like the rock to the sea ! Our King, in his glory is leading us on ; Aud with him we'll shout the victory ! •* Come ye up to the help of the Lord ! to the help of the Lord against the mightv !" —Church Advocate. HVBHV CHRISTIAN HAS GIFT. HIS A SERMON PREACHED BY MR. MOODY, IN THE TABERNACLE, IN BOSTON, ON MONDAY EVENING, JAN. 29, 1877. TEXT. " To every man his work."—Mark 13:34. It does not say to every man some work, or to every man a work, but to every man his work. It reads "as if every man and woman in this world has a mission—as if every one of lis has something to do. Some one has said that every man's life is a plan of the Almighty who far back in the secret counsels of eternitj laid down a work for each one of us to do, and if we do not do this work it will be left undone. This idea that some one else will do your work is all wrong. The man does not live who can do the work which God gave to you. To every man and woman is given his or her work, and God is going by and by to demand an account of our stewardship, and 1 do not believe that any man or woman in the church or out of it is happy unless he or she has found out what his or her mission in this world is and what God has got for them to do. .And whenever a man has found out what his work is, and has gone about it, then ho has peace and joy. This idea that has got into the Che church that one man must do all t'.e work because he has got talents is nil wroag. Because Dr. Webb, or Dr. Gordon, or any of these brethren has srofc many talents and I have but one, is PO reason why I should put my talent into a napkin and bury it out of sight. I have not to account for their talents, but only for the talent that God gave me. The man who made good use of two talents as he who had five shall hear the welcome of the Master, " Well done, good and faithful servant : enter thou into the joy of thy Lord." If the man who had but one talent has made as good use of it as those who had five of theirs, he would have heard the welcome, " Well done, good and faithful servant, enter thou into the joy of thy Lord.", But he was like a great many men now, who because they have not got as many talents as some of those around them, go and cover up whit they have got. If we want more talents it is not the way to cover up what we have, but to make good use of them, and the Lord will keep increasing them. I have yet to find the man who makes good use of his talents, to whom God does not give more. If a man has five talents and makes good use of them, see how soon God will give him ten. But if he takes and buries the talents that God gave him, he will soon lose all that he has, for God will take away that which he has, and give it to some one who will _ make good use of it. We have a great many men in the church who have an idea that the minister, and perhaps now arid then a deacon should do all the praying and all the visiting of the sick, and do all the work ; but I am one of those that believe that this lost world never will bo reached till this idea is given up. In England they have what is called sleeping partners, corresponding with what we call silent partners. Well we have a good many of them in the church, a good many of these sleeping partners. You may go into business with a man and be a silent partner, but y«u cannot go into business with God on those terms. He does not want such partners. If you are baging your hope of heaven on that you will be disap- pointed, saily disappointed, by-and-by. When men think that it is hard to work for God, it is a sign that they have not been completely converted. Do not go on with that terrible delusion that you are hastening on to heaven if you do not work. THE FIRST IMPULSE OF THE YOUNG CON- i* to work. The first words that fell frem the lips of the Master were, " Wist ye not that I must be about my Fath er's business?" If we are truly con- verted we vVill have a desire to improve those talents that God has given us. We u*ed to have in this country what were Called early candle-light meetings. I could not help thinking of them to- night when I saw these reporters. They did not have light enough, and so each of hem has a candle. Suppose it was the custom in Boston for each one to bring a candle. A candle in a great building like*tbis would not give much light, but supposing everyone came with a candle, there would be light enough. What we want is for each one who has a candle to to give what light he can. If we cannot all be light houses we can be tallow candles. A man said that he did not have as much influence *g a rush light, and the answer made to him was that that, was enough to set the city on fire. Do not think, because some one else has more talents than you, that you have no use for yours. We talk about the pillars of the church ; but we have many of them and not enough lights ; see, they keep away the light. What we want is men who will let the light of God shine out of them, and then, if they will but improve the tal- ents which God has given them, we shall see what a great and mighty work will be done. Think of the talents in this building to-night. Suppose we should agree right here and go out, say- ing that we will do all that we can to build up God's kingdom, and use all the talents that we have in the work, what a reformation there would be in Boston inside of twenty-four hours. That is the way to get these talents increased. WHY IS THB DEAD SEA DEAD ? Because it is always receiving and never giving out. So are the churches in New England dead, because they are always receiving and never giving out. What we want is to get and to give ; to keep the coin of heaven in circulation. Go and tell it out to some one, and then we shall be a blessing to all we come in contact with. There are those who say that that is a bad doctrine ; that men should be educated and trained to the work before they attempt it. But what would you say of a man who is always whetting his scythe, and never cutting ? There are a great many men in the church who are afraid to do anything, because they may make a mistake. But it is better to go ahead and make a few mistakes than to fcld our arms and go to sleep. It is better to launch right out and cast our nets than to remain on the shore idle. There is nothing like expe- rience, and if we are willing to do what we can it will not be long before you find that the man who was awkward when he began is a good workman. Some say that they cannot preach and that if they could they would work for the Lord. But we do not want all preachers. Some men can preach and some can teach ; some can circulate tracts, and some can go and collect a few children from the streets ; some can talk with people about Christ, and some can visit the hospitals and jails. Every one has a mission and a place, and if he only seeks to find that place it will not be long before he finds it, and when he does he can rejoice in the work of the Lord. When I was in England a few years ago I was invited to go down into the dog market in London one Sunday. The streets were crowded with men women and children. Nearly every one had something to sell ; some had fight- ing cocks, and were trying to get up a fight ; some had birds ; some had even snakes ; and nearly ^jver^- one Jj^d an animal of some- kind •/>. sell..1 We' got up and tried to preach to them, but they did not pay much attention to us We had not the talent to reach that crowd. But there was a man who had been converted but a few weeks before, and though I do not believe that he could read read or write, when he began to speak they attended to him when they would not have paid any heed to Spurgeon, or Punshon, or Gladstone, or even John Bright. But whori that man who had been converted among them told them in their own dialect what God had done for his soul, those men stopped their drinking and gathered around him, and with tears streaming from their eyes, many were brought to the conviction of sin. What we want is to have every mail reach his own cir- cle. So, when William Dorsett, the Yorkshire farmer, began to preach, thousands flocked to hear him, simply because it was a Yorkshire farmer who was to speak to them. And so if we can only get every man and woman working and using all the talents they have got, and working among their own circle in Boston, it will not be long before you will hear the voice of the new born soul ; it will not be long before you will hear the shout of joy going up to the throne of God; it will not be long before this build- ing will be trod by men and women whose feet have been taken out of the horrible path and pit and transplanted into the kingdom of life, with their feet triumphant and a new song in their month. Somebody came to me to-day and asked me to talk to a man ; I knew the man very well, and knew he could talk very well, as well as I could, and I said, "You go and do it yourself, we are not coming down here to let you remain idle and to do your work." You are greatly mistaken if you think we are to do the preaching and going to let you fold your arms. I would like to get ten men to work to-night and have them do my work, and if I could get ten men to do that I could go and do something else. It is not the minister who preaches the most and the best that accomplishes the most ; it is the man who gets others to work. What we want is to get others to work and improving their talents, and if we can only bring them to you we will see what we have prayed for, and what we have longed to see ; we will see the light of the Gospel spreading in each of these towns round Boston, and there will be waves of salvation coming out cf this city that shall sweep over New Eng- land, and a shout of praise going out from the towns and villages throughout the land. NOW THE QUESTION IS, ABB YOU READY TO BEGIN ? Never mind the mistakes. I have found since I have been out of Boston enough mistakes to keep me humble. I think if we didn't make mistakes we should be so full of egotism and self that we could not live. I believe the Lord makes us make mistakes just to keep us down, and if wa are ready to goto work and ready to make a few mistakes, it will not be long before you may become wise fishermen of men. A man that has a heart is what we want, a heart for the work. I heard a man in our Glas- gow meeting say that he heard a great many people crying out about their leanness ; he said, " I wish they wculd be honest enough to cry out their lazi- ness." I think there is a good deal in that. If a man has only the heart, God will send him wisdom and make him wise in winning souls, but if we have got so full of pride that we are afraid of making mistakes, and think some scoffing and jeering infidel will laugh at us, God cannot use us. The only way a man can work for God is by ex- perience. Some men in Boston have told us since we have come here, " Boston is all ready for you." That is what they say to us in nearly every city to which we go, and when we get down to work we find they are not ready. What do you mean by being ready ? " We are ready to come out and hear the preaching." You have done that for many years. We want doers of the word. There is a difference between hearers and doers of the word. Now we want to help you to become doers of the word. I will tell you what I mean by being doers of the word. Now supposing I should ask all Chris- tians here to rise, and there should be two-thirds rise and a third keep their seats, are you ready to go and sit down and talk with them ? How many will say, " Oh, Mr. Moody, I am not ready, send some one else to do that." Some of you have been in the church thirty and forty years, and yet you are not willing to talk with a man about his soul's peace! A man by your side will be weeping about his sins, and yet you will get up and walk out as soon as you can I The only way to do right is to bring your Bible and point out to them the way of life ; tell them how Christ left heaven and came down into the world to seek and save them ; tell them how he left that glory-land just to lift them up and redeem them to the cross of the Lord, which is the only way of life. Now the question is, are you ready ? I find there are a great many who are ready to do some great thing for the Lord, but it is the little, things, win- ning that one soul, praying with that one soul. They are not ready to do that. Now I don't believe we are ready for God's work until we are will- ing to do anything. Some one has said if God should send an angel down to this world TO RULE AN EMPIRE OR TO SWEEP SOME STREET, there would be no opposition to that ; the only thing is to do the will of God. Now if we are ready to do some great thing, we ought to be willing to do some little thing for the Lord. Go and speak to that man, go in the name of your Master and try and bring him to Christ; that man may be a Knox or a Wickliffe, a Bunyan or a Martin Luther, who shall reform some of the nations ; you cannot tell, the reformer may be sleeping in that man. It is no small thing to be ready to speak to a man and tell him of Christ. The Son of God went and sat down by the well of Samaria and preached to a poor Samaritau woman of the well of living water which springs up to ever- lasting life. He went forth and preached his sermon on regeneration to one man in Jerusalem, and if the Son of God stopped to speak to one man and to one soul, can we call that a little work ? Nay, my friends ; that is the work that must be done in Boston the next three months. We need not only so many inquiry meetings in this temple, but iu your homes ; we need them in your prayer-meetings, we need them in every house in Boston, and then every house will be a house of inquiry, and then it will be a beacon in their path to tell them the way to God. Let us be willing to do some little thing, and if you are all doing some little thing, don't you see that these thousand* will amount to one great thing ? And when ^ we are willing to do these little things to win hearts to Christ, theu he is ready and willing to use us. I remember reading of a man who was very ambitious to do some very great thing; he had never done any- thing for the Lord because he was not willing to do any little things ; he was going to be rich and then he could do some great thing. Very many meu have got au idea that they will endow a collage or build a church, and it will be heralded out through the press, and it will be trumpeted and blown about. "Look at this man, he gave $50,000 to Yale College, or Harvard College, or 8500,000 to build a church with ! " It sounds very large, but perhaps the man that has not $50,000 to give has gone and led some soul to Christ, and that man will go out and win hundreds, and that man has done more for the Lord than that man who has given $50,000. This man never had done anything for the Lord because he could not do any great thing, and one night he had a dream ; he dreamed that he died and was taken by the angels into a beauti- ful temple ; it was all of polished stone, and the whole of the temple was com- plete except one little stone which was left out, and he said to the angel who was showing him round, " How is this? How is it that this little stone was left out?" "Why," answered the angel, before; and a third said, "The chil- MULr.ER'S LTFE OF TRUST, with an in- fore fallen into poverty, he was return- j " the master builder inteuded that for dren that Jesus took in his arms aud ins* home on foot, weary and sad, to his Production by Dr. F Wayland. A new Edi- , , , , , , „ ' . „, J . . , , tlon* revised, enlarged and improved, with the you, but as you wanted to find some blessed when he was upon the earth." family. The letter containing the good L ^ - * ~ • • ~ • larger place, you are left out of the temple entirely." The man woke from his dream and from his sleep, and he history of the Bristol Orphan House continued Some children were told that persons news had already reached his house ^ ^ ^ ^ j An admiruWe work for that prevented quarrels were peace- when he returned home, makers. The next Sunday, on being the property TT J U J- i | strengthening faith in Jehovah as "the living Had he died,, God» Mr Mu„er 5s a decided pre-millen- would have gone else- i nialist, and his faith in the Lord's coming has says ever since he has been willing to : Mk|>d> Who are the pea;emakers ?» where, and his family would have been ; ^ ^ ^ ^ ^ ^ ^ ^ ^ ^ be anything, if he could only get into oue child> - a tjmid «Qur left in poverty, so he has reason to be! duding postage. LET US BE READY TO BE ANYTHING the temple, even a chink-stone, and the motpers » Lord has used him now. And so A child was questioned a* to what happened when our Saviour said to the or to do anything, and free from egO- j windg) „ B his heart softening at the men- waiting for Jesus." "Well, what do tion of a reward. He descended the you mean, my boy?" And he told his 8tairs> and> with the helP of the driver, sad story, and it touched the heart 0f ; bore the inanimate form of the stranger the man, and he said, " Well, my boy, into the house' Fresh wood was Piled Jesus has sent me to take care of you." on the 8t°ve-fi,e» the body was rubbed And he looked up through those tears i thoroughly all over at a distance, grad- and said, " Well, you have been a good ually drawing 5t nearer, and some hot grateful. j. Does not the above truth of which we can vouch for, illus- trate "the kindness and love of God our Saviour towards men"? In some I respects it is almost a double of the story of the wounded man found half dead on the road between Jerusalem and Jericho, by which our Lord taught us 'not only who is our neighbor, but also that deeper love than that of man to his fellow,—a love, indeed, which passeth knowledge. But the lesser helps us to understand the greater love. 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