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VOLUME XIT. NO. 25 
(For the Herald.) 
Extracts from Various Writers. 
BT A. MERRILL, MUNTGOMERY, VT. 
I. 
OF PRIMITIVE TIMES. 
TESTIMONY 
OF MOSHEIM!—Speaking 
of 
the 
third century, 
he says:—"Long before that 
period, an opinion had prevailed that Christ was 
to come and reign a thousand years among men, 
before the entire and final dissolution of this 
world. 
This opinion, which had hitherto met, 
with no opposition, was differently interpreted 
by different persons; nor did all promise therm 
selves the same kind of enjoyments."—Ecc 
Hist., cent. 3, part 2, ch. 3, sec. 12. 
GRABE.—" He carefully examined and col-
lated the fathers generally :" and says : " All 
primitive 
orthodox Christians expected, accord-
ing to the words of the apostles, and the prom-
ises of the prophets, a new heaven and a new 
earth, at the second coming of the Messiah to res-
tore the happiness which flourished before the 
fall of Adam,"' &c.—Grabe's Spicilegium 
Pa-
trum, lib. ii. p. 230. 
Quoted in Da field on the 
Proph. p. 264. 
GIBBON.—"The ancient Christians were ani-
mated by a contempt for their presentexistence, 
and by a just confidence of immortality, of which 
the doubtful but imperfect faith of modern ages 
cannot give us any adequate notion. ... 
It 
was uuiversally believed, that the end of the 
world and the kingdom of heaven, was at hand 
The near approach of the wonderful event had 
been predicted' by the apostles; the tradition of 
it was preserved by their'earliest disciples," &c. 
The revolution of seventeen centuries has in-
structed us not to press too closely the mysteri-
ous language of prophecy and revelation; but 
as long as, for wise purposes, this error Was per 
mitted to subsist in the church, it was produc 
tive of the most salutary effects of the faith and 
practice of Christians, who lived in the awtul 
expectation of that moment when the globe itsplf, 
and all the various races of mankind fehcfhld 
tremble at the appearance of their Divine Judge, 
"The ancient and popular doctrine of the 
millennium was intimately connected with the 
second coming of Christ. . . . The assurance of 
such a millennium, was carefully inculcated 
by a succession of fathers, from Jultin Martyr 
and Ireneus.'who conversed with the immediate 
disciples of the apostles, clown to Lactantius, 
who was preceptor to the son of Constantine. 
Though it might not be universally received, it 
appears to have been the reigning sentiment of 
the orthodox believers; and it seems so well 
adapted to the desires and apprehensions of man-
kind, that it must have contributed in a very con-
siderable decree to the progress of the Christian 
faith," &e.—Gibbon's Hist., chapter 15. 
THE COUNCIL OF NICE—Held A.D. 825.—318 
Bishops present.—"We expect a new heavens 
and a now earth, according to the Holy Scrip-
tures, at the appearing of the great God and our 
Saviour Jesus Christ. 
And as Daniel says: 
' The saints of the Most High shall tak6 the 
kingdom.' 
And there shall be a pure and holy 
land, the living and not of the dead1;. .• . . the 
land of the meek and humble. 
' Blessed,' saith 
Christ, ' are the meek, for they shall inherit the 
earth ."'—Quoted 
byDuffield. 
p. 233: 
XI. 
DURING THE DARK1 AGES. ' 
" It is to be wondered at, that an opinion 
once so generally received-in the chur.eh should 
ever have been cried down and burled. 
But 
those times which extinguished this, brought: 
other alterations into the church besides this; et 
quidem sic fieri 
opertuit."—Mcdes 
Works— 
Letters—No. 
20. 
" The Council ofRomeunder Pope Damasus, 
A.D. 373, prepared the way for the'general re-
jection of millenarian doctrine."—Duffield. 
" Wherever the influence and authority of the 
church of Rome has extended, she hath en-
deavored by all means to discredit this doctrine ; 
and indeed not without sufficient reason—the 
kingdom of Christ being'founded on the ruins of 
Antichrist. 
No wonder therefore, that this doc-
trine lay depressed for many agai; but it sprung 
up again at the Reformation, and will flourish 
together with the study of the Revelation."— 
Bishop Newton, Diss, on the Proph. p. 592. 
III. 
AT AND AFTER THE REFORMATION. 
1. IN THE 16TH 
CENTURY. 
LUTHER.—" 
Our 
Lord Jesus Christ yet liveth and reigneth; who, 
I firmly trust, will shortly come, and slay with 
the spirit of his mouth, and destroy with the 
brightness of his coming, that man of sin "—the 
pope.—Quoted by Elliot. 
" I am persuaded that verily the day of judg-
ment is not far off; yea will not be absent full 
300 years longer ."—Table Talk, ch. 1. (lb.) 
CALVIN.—" There is no reason why any per-
son should expect the conversion of the world; 
for at length (when it will be too late and will 
yield them no advantage) they shall look on 
him whom they have pierced." — On 
Matt. 
24:20. 
MELANCTHON.—"This aged world is not far 
from its end."—Quoted by Mr. Elliott, 
Horce 
Apocalypticoe.—The 
Reformer. 
BISHOP LATIMER.—" St. Paul saith, The Lord 
will not come till the swerving from the faith 
cometh, which thing is already done and past. 
Antichrist is already the world. 
Wherefore the 
day is not far off. Let us beware for it will 
one day fall on our heads." 
" Peradventure, it may come in my days, old 
as I am, or in my children's days."—His 3d 
sermon on the Lord's Prayer, and sermon for 
the 2d Sunday in Advent. 
Quoted by Duffield. 
A CATECHISM.—"In the Catechism'published 
in the reign of King Edward VI,, which, Bur-
net says, Archbishop Cranmer owned to be from 
his pen, and which was sanctioned by certain 
high ecclesiastics of that day, we have the fol-
lowing on the subject of Christ's; kingdom : 
1 We ask that this kingdom may come, because, 
as yet, we see not yet how the stone is cut out 
of the mountain, without human help, which 
breaks in pieces and reduces to nothing the image 
described by Daniel; or how the only rock, 
which is Christ, doth possess and obt'afn the em-
pire of the whole world, given him of the Father. 
As yet Antichrist is not slairi; -whence it is that 
we desire and pray, that, at length, it may 
come to pass, and be fulfilled; and that Christ 
alone may reign with. his saints, according to 
the divine promises; and that He may live and 
have dominion in the world according to the 
lecrees of the Holy Gospel, and not according 
to the traditions and laws of men and the will 
jj'f tyrants of the world. 
God grant that his 
kingdom may come speedily*.'"—Duffield on the 
Proph. p. 252. 
2. IN THE 17TH 
CENTURY. 
THE 
WESTMINSTER 
ASSEMBLY.—This 
was -an 
assembly convened by act of Parliament in 
1643, and consisted of "121 divines of eminent 
learning and godliness, ministerial abilities and 
fidelity." 
It was in session 5 years 6 months 
and 22 days. 
, 
. 
, 
" The most of the chief divines," says Princi-
pal Bailie, speaking of the assembly, 
not only 
independents, but others, such as Tuisse, Mar-
shall, Palmer, and many more, are express Chili-
asts," i. e., Mille'nariahs.—Duffield, p. 255. 
THE BAPTISTS' CONFESSION OF Firm, presented 
to Charles II. in 1660, signed by 41 names and 
" approved by more than 20,000." „. 
" ' And when Christ who is our life shall ap-
pear, we also shall appear with' him in glory.'.. 
For then shall he be ' King of kings, and Lord 
of lords.' 
' For tta kingdom is His, and he is 
the govorner amongr the nation's,'(Ps^. 22:28,) 
and 'King over all the earth,'(Zech-. 14:9.) 
• and we shall , reign with hrirn on the earth,' 
(Rev. 5:10). 
'For unto the saints shall be 
given the kingdoms and the greatness pf the 
kingdom, under the whole heaven.—Dan. 7:27, 
Though (alas) now many men be scarce content 
that the saints shall have so'much as a being 
^imong them; but when Christ shall appear, then 
shall be their day, then shall £>e given unto them 
power over the nations. 
(Rev. 2:26, 27.)"—See 
Crosby's Hist, of the Baptists', vol.1, 
Appendix, 
p. 85. 
Quoted in Advent Herald. 
. . 
JOSEPH MEDE.—" When, at first I perceived 
that millenniuta to be a state of the church con-
sequent to the times of the beast, I was averse 
from the proper acceptation of the resurrection, 
taking it for a rising of the church from a dead 
estate; yet afterward, more seriously consider-
ing and weighing all things, I found no ground 
or footing for any sense but the literal." 
" To make Jerusalem descending out of heaven 
to signify ascending up thither, is more absurd 
than that of the canonist, who expounded con-
stuimus (we constitute) by abrogamus (we abro-
gate)."—See Medes Works. 
Letter number 20, 
and 
Biography. 
MILTON.—"Christ's kingdom of glory will 
not commence till his second advent. 
Dan. 
7:13, 14—' Eehold one like the Son of Man 
came with the clouds of heaven . . . and there 
was given him dominion, and glory, and a king-
dom.' 
... That the reign will be oniearth is 
evident from many passages."—See Treatise on 
Christian doctrine, chap. 33. 
Iu a passage near the end of his treatise on 
the Reformation in England, he says : 
"Thou, the eternal and shortly expected 
King, shalt open the clouds to judge the several 
kingdoms of the world, and distributing national 
honors and rewards to religious and just com-
monwealths, shalt put an end to all earthly tyr-
annies, proclaiming thy universal and mild mon-
archy through heaven and earth; where they, 
undoubtedly; that by their labors, counsels, and 
prayers, have been earnest for the common good 
of religion and their country, shall receive above 
the inferior orders of the blessed; the regal ad-
dition of principalities, legions, and thronfes, 
into their glorious titles, and in super-eminence 
of bcatific vision, progressing the dateless and 
irrevoluble circle of eternity, shall clasp insep-
erable hands with joy and bliss, in over measure 
forever." 
—r-i—" for than the earth 
. Shall all be paradise,—far happier place 
Than this of Eden, and far happier days." 
—Paradise Lost, lii. 4G1. 
(To be continued ) 
Tho Character of Paul. 
PAUL, in his natural character before his con-
version, resembles Bonapart more than any other 
man—I mean both in his intellectual develop-
ments and energy of will. 
He had the same 
inflexibility of purpose, the same utter indiffer-
ence, when he had once determined on his course; 
the same tireless, unconquering resolution—the 
same fearlessness both of man's power and opin-
ion, and that calm self-reliance and mysterious 
control over others. 
But the' point of greatest 
resemblance is the union of strong, and correct 
judgment, with rapidity of thought and sudden 
implilse. 
They thought quicker, yet better than 
other men. 
The power, too, which both pos-
sessed, was all practical'power. 
There are many 
men of strong minds, whose forces nevertheless, 
are in reflection, or in theories to act upon 
Thought may work out into language, but not 
into action. 
They will plan better than they 
can perform. 
But these men not only thought 
better, but they could work better than all other 
men. 
The same self-control and perfect subjection 
of his emotions—even terror itself—to the man-
dates of his will, are exhibited in his conduct 
when smitten to the earth, and blinded by the 
light 'and voice from heaven. 
Johti, when ar-
rested by the same voice on the Isle of Patmos, 
fell on his face as a dead man, and dared not 
speak or fctir, till encouraged by the language 
—"Fear not." But Paul(or Saul,) although a 
persecuter and a violent man, showed no symp-
toms of alarm or terror. 
The voice, the blow, 
the'light, the glory, the darkness that followed, 
were sufficient to.upset the strongest mind; but 
master of himself and his emotions, instead of 
giving way j;o exclamations of terror he simply 
said—"Lord, what' wilt thou have me do?" 
With his reason and judgment as steady and 
strong as ever, he knew at once that something 
was wanted of him, and ever ready to act, he 
asked what it was. 
From this time his track can be distinguished 
by the commotions about it, and the light above 
it. 
Straight back to Jerusalem, from whence 
he had so recently come with letters to legalize 
his persecutions, he went to cast his lot with 
those he had followed with violence and slaught-
er. 
His strong heart never beat one quicker 
pulsation through fear, as the lofty turrets of the 
proud city flashed upon his vision. 
Neither 
did he steal away to the dark allies and streets, 
where the disciples were concealed, and tell 
them secretly his faith in the Son of God. 
He 
strode into the synagogues, and before the aston-
ished priests, preached Christ and him crucified. 
He thundered at the door of the Sanhedrim it-
self, and shaking Jerusalem like an earthquake 
awoke a tempest of rage and fury on himself. 
With assassins dogging his footsteps he at length 
left the city. 
But, instead of going to places 
where he was unknown, and where his feelings 
would be less tried, he started for his native 
city, his father's house, the home of his boy-
hood, for his kindred friends. 
To entreaties, 
tears, scorn, and violence, he was alike imper-
vious. 
To Antioch and Cyprus, along the coasts 
of Syria and Rome, over the known world he 
went like a blazing comet, waking up the na-
tions of the earth. 
From the top of Mar's Hill, 
with the gorgeous city at his feet, and the 
Acropolis and Partheon behind him, on the 
deck of his shattered vessel, in the interval of 
the crash of billows, in the gloomy walls of a 
prison, on the borders of the eternal kingdom, 
he speaks in the same calm and determined 
tone. 
Deterred by no danger, awed by no pres-
ence, and shrinking from no responsibility, he 
moves before �'3 like some grand embodiment of 
power. 
The nations heave around him, and 
kings turn pale in his presence, 
Bands of con-
spirators swear never to drink till they have 
slain hirh, and people stone him ; yet over the 
din of the conflict and the storm of violence, 
his voice of eloquence rises as clear and distinct 
as a trumpet call, as he still predched Christ 
and him crucified. 
The whip is laid on his back 
till blood starts with every blow, and then his 
mangled body is thrown into a dungeon ; but at 
midnight'you hear that same calm, strong Voice 
which has shaken the world, poured forth in a 
hymn of praise to God, and lo! an earthquake 
shakes the prison to its foundations, the man 
acles fall fron? the hands of the captives, the 
Volts withdraw themselves, and the massive dcors 
swing back on their hinges. 
- One cannot point a single spot in his career 
where he faltered a moment, or gave way to dis-
couragement or fear. 
Through all his perilous 
life, he exhibited the same intrepidity of charac-
ter and lofty spirit. 
With 'his eye fixed on 
regions beyond the ken of ordinary mortals, and 
kindling on glories it was not permitted to re-
veal, he pressed forward to an incorruptible 
c-rown, a fadeless kingdom. 
And then his death, 
how indescribably .sublime! 
Napoleon dying in 
the midnight storm, with the last words that fell 
from his' lips a battle cry, and his passing spirit 
waching in its delirum the torn heads " of his 
mighty co'umns, as they disappeared in the smoke 
of the conflict, is a sight that awes and startles 
us; 
But behold Paul, also a war worn veteran, 
battered with many a scar, though in a spiritual 
warfare, looking back, not with alarm, but with 
transport, gazing not on earth but in heaven. 
Hear his calm, serene voice ringing oyer +he 
storms and commotions of life:.—"1 am now 
ready to be offered, and the time of my departure 
is at hand. 
1 have fought the good fight, I have 
finished my course—there is laid up for me'a 
crown of righteousness." 
No shouts of foemen, 
or smoke of carnage of battle surrounded his 
spirit struggling to be free; but troops of shin-
ing angels, the smileof God and the songs of the 
redeemed—these guarded and welcomed him 
home. 
J.T, Headky. 
The Wonder of Wonders. 
THE redemption of sinners by Jesus Christ is 
the greatest wonder known to angels or men. Not 
that there is any lack of m arvels in the natural or 
spiritural world. 
For it is strange that in a 
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402 
THE ADVENT 
HERALD. 
world like ours, where there are so few good 
people, there should yet be so many who desire 
to be reputed so. 
It is amazing that many now 
glory in what they will eternally weep over. 
It 
is a wonder that he, who is so holy that the 
heavens are not clean in his sight, and so just 
that he would destroy a universe rather than do 
an act which expressed approval of sin, should 
yet show such patience, and such long-suffering 
towards sinners. 
It is a wonder that after God 
has given us his holy word to show that under 
all dispensations he has required a pure, simple, 
spiritual service and worship, there yet should 
be found so many who think that he will be 
pleased with names and forms, amd words, and 
pomps. 
It is very strange that he who has 
tasted that the Lord is gracious, should again 
even for a day seek his happiness in things that 
perish. 
It is a wonder that they who forget 
God when they are young and prosperous, should 
not be afraid that God will forget them when 
they shall be bowed down with age and adver-
sity. 
And sinners who shall perish under the 
sound of the gospel, shall forever wonder how 
they could resist such love and mercy, such 
wisdom and faithfulness as are there displayed, 
and such calls of united authority and tenderness 
as sound forth from Zion. 
But great as these 
wonders are, it is far more wonderful still that 
God so loved the world that he gave his only be-
gotten Son, that whosoever believeth on him 
might not perish, but have everlasting life ; and 
gave him not only to be incarnate, but to die upon 
the cross. 
A celebrated Unitarian, speaking of 
the orthodox view of the scenes of Gethsemane and 
Calvary, speak of the cross asthecentral gallows 
of the universe. 
Call it what you may, heap od-
ious epithets upon it till the vocabulary of abuse 
shall be exhausted, the crossis still the point where 
the attributes of Jehovah meet and harmonize, 
and issue in thesinner'3 salvation ; so that Paul 
was but one of countless millions who have lived 
and died in the belief, not merely that the doc-
trine and example of Christ were good, but that 
the cross was the crowning glory of the gospel. 
Our Saviour is truly the matchless One. 
Him-
self was the wonderful. 
His humiliation was 
wonderful. 
Lord of all, he had not where to 
lay his head. 
King of kings, he paid tribute 
to Caesar. 
With twelve legions of angels at his 
command, he meekly permitted the nails to be 
driven into his hands and feet. 
He did not hide 
his face from spitting, yet the sun refused to be-
hold his sorrow. 
To be a Christian is to be in Christ, walk in 
him, to abide in him, to look to him, and to 
glory in him. 
And eminence in Christian life 
consists not in much talking, much show, much 
boasting, much dejection and despondency, or 
the contary. 
It consists very much in clinging 
to the doctrine of Christ crucified, in having 
Christ's word dwelling in us richly in all wis-
dom and spiritual understanding, in setting the 
Lord Jesus Christ always before us, in closely 
following Christ's example, in doing and suffer-
ing Christ's will, in earnestly and habitually 
seeking Christ's glory, in joyfully denying our-
selves for Christ's sake, in promptly putting 
Christ's claims above all others, in seeking to be 
ever found in Christ, in having his righteous-
ness, not our own, in being filled with his Spirit, 
in earnest longings for his appearance and glory, 
and in being closely conformed ' to his image. 
If as our religious feelings rise we lose sight of 
Christ, his grace and his cross, we may rest as-
sured there is something wrong. 
Exultation is 
lawful only when he thatglorieth, glories in the 
Lord. 
Jesus Christ is all in all God's plan. 
To make him less in our own mind is to incur 
God's most terrible wrath. 
Any eminence, at-
tained without Christ will but make one's over-
throw the more fearful. And now, dear deader, 
the God of peace that brought again from the 
dead our Lord Jesus, that great Shepherd of the 
sheep, through the blood of the everlasting coven-
ant, make you perfect in every good work, to 
do his will, working in you that which is well 
pleasing in his sight, through Jesus Christ; to 
whom be glory for ever and ever. 
Amen. 
N. Y. Observer. 
The Teaching of the Holy Spirit 
Limited to Revealed things. 
THERE are many great things we must feel a 
deep interest in knowing, which God has not 
been pleased to make known. 
God has revealed 
in the Bible every thing to sanctify the soul, but 
nothing to gratify a morbid curiosity. 
We may 
not therefore, expect that the Holy Spirit will 
teach us to answer many curious questions that 
men have asked, and will ask; but that he will 
teach us savingly and profitably those precious 
truths which God has revealed. 
For instance, 
it has been asked, " How long did Adam stand 
in Paradise before he fell ?" 
This is not re-
vealed ; there is no reason to hope that the Spirit 
will teach it. 
It has been asked, "If Eve only 
had sinned, and Adam had remained innocent, 
would humanity have fallen? That question 
may be asked; there is no answer in the Bible; 
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And all God's children here below, 
I will be in this band, Hallelujah! 
Hallelujah! &c. 
3 King David on a throne of state, 
I will be in this band, Hallelujah! 
And Lazarus at the rich man's gate, 
Were numbered in this band, Hallelujah I 
Hallelujah! &e. 
4 And Jew and Gentile, free and bond, 
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I will be in this band, Hallelujah! 
And rich and poor the world around 
May belong to this band, Hallelujah! 
Hallelujah! &c. 
we have no warrent to pray that the Holy Spirit 
would teach it. 
It has been asked, "How long 
will the day of judgment last?" 
This is not re-
vealed; but I think there is enough revealed to 
show that it will not occupy twenty-four hours 
only, but a long time, in contrast to the day of 
grace that now is. 
The Bible, however, is silent. 
We must therefore limit the teaching of the 
Holy Spirit to the things that are revealed in the 
Bible. 
Cumming. 
German Emigration to Palestine-
THE official Gazette in Wurtemburg recently 
published some account of the plans now rife in 
that country for emigration to Palestine. 
A 
" Society for bringing together of God's people 
in Jerusalem " has constituted itself, and among 
other proceedings prepared a petition to the 
Bund at Frankfort, the report of which is as 
follows : That the Assembly of the German Con-
federation will be pleased, through the agency 
of the two great powers of Germany, to induce 
the Sultan to permit the " Society for the bring-
ing together of God's people in Jerusalem " to 
found committees in the Holy Land, under the 
following conditions : 1. Self-Government in 
all civil and religious matters, that they may be 
able to be arranged entirely according to God's 
word. 
2. Security for person, and 
property 
against the arbitraments of Turkish officials, and 
against uncontrolled and oppressive taxes. 
3. 
Exemption from all Turkish military service. 
4. G-uarrantee of the same rights to every one 
who shall subsequently become a member of 
this society, whether he may have been previous-
ly a Christian, Jew, or Mahomedan, Turk or 
foreigner. 
5. The assignment of the Holy 
Land to these communities, in order that they 
may settle there conformably to the object and 
purpose which they have stated above. 
The paper from which we gather the forego-
ing facts suggests the possibilty, that this whole 
movement may be a grand emigration swindle; 
but adds the following as indicative that some 
pious persons are connected with it: 
" During the sittings of the Evangelical Kir-
chentag, the seventh of which was held in Frank-
fort towards the close of September, a number 
of its members endeavored to procure the adop-
tion of a motion, that Kirchentag should in its 
totality apply to the Bund to take steps to pro-
cure the Holy City of Jerusalem to be declared 
a free town, and under the protectorate of the 
Great Powers of Europe. 
Some of the leading 
members of the meeting, possessed of a little more 
worldly wisdom than these enthusiasts, advised 
them first to apply to the Sovereigns of Austria 
and Prussia, and endeavor to induce them to 
favor their views when engaged in settling the 
terms of peace and in arranging the affairs of the 
East in general." 
The Jewish Chronicle, referring to this extra-
ordinary movement, says: 
" The origin of this idea of the great exodus 
is the peculiar view of the present social rela-
tions generally, and of religious life especially. 
Both are considered to have fallen into decay to 
that extent that it is the duty and requirement 
of every one, to whom the will of God and her 
own true salvation are yet dear, to disengage 
himself betimes from this degenerated position. 
This the masses can accomplish only by turning 
their back to the Babel, and gathering together 
in the Holy Land; there, unafiected by corrupt 
influences, to form a state in which the will of 
God, as the highest law, shall be recognized in 
its full power, and arrive at the desired consum-
mation. 
As far as we can learn, the petition 
to be laid before the Diet has already received 
the signature of 300 families. This intelligence 
is the more remarkable, since the families thus 
resolved to leave their fatherland for Palestine 
are not of the lewishbut of the Christian faith." 
Sabbath Recorder. 
LEARN 
OP ME.—How good it is for us we 
have such a pattern, and are permitted to fol-
low in His blessed steps! We might despair un-
der the best directions of reaching heaven, if 
we had no one to lead the way. 
But in follow-
ing Jesus, we cannot err. 
He will direct us in 
the path we should go, and guide us with his 
eye. 
Blessed Saviour, let me look continually 
unto thee. 
Let me never withdraw from thy 
company or seek another leader. 
Keep me, 
Oh, keep me under the shadow of thy wing, and 
receive mo finally into thine everlasting king-
dom. 
THE reader will perceive that the following 
poem is built on the text prefixed, and that the 
first line of each stanza is borrowed from it. 
Behold alas! our days we spend .' 
How vain they be, how soon they end. 
BEHOLD, 
How short a span 
Was long enough of old 
To measure out the life of man ; 
In those well temper'd days, his time was then 
Surveyed, cast up, and found but threescore 
years and ten. 
ALAS ! 
And what is that ? 
They come, and slide and pass 
Before my pen can tell thee what; 
The posts of time are swift, which having run, 
Their seven short stages o'er, their short lived 
task is done. 
OUR 
DAYS 
Begun, we lend 
To sleep, to antic playes 
And toys until the first stage ends, 
Twelve waning moons twice five times told we 
give 
To unrecovered loss; we rather breathe than 
live. 
WE 
SPEND 
A ten years' breath 
Before we apprehend 
What 'tis to live, or fear a death, 
For childish dreams are filled with painted joys 
Which please our sense awhile, and waking 
prove but toys: 
HOW 
VAIN 
How wretched is 
Poor man that doth remain 
A slave to such a state as this; 
His days are short at longest; few at most; 
They are but hard at best; yet lavished out or 
lost. 
THEY BE 
The secret springs 
That make out minutes flee 
On wheels more swift than eagle's wings! 
Our life's a clock; and every grasp of breath 
Breathes torth a warning grief, till time shall 
strike a death. 
HOW 
SOON 
Our new born light 
Attains to full aged moon ? 
And this how soon to gray haired night? 
We spring, we bud, we blossom, and we blast, 
Ere we can count our days, our days they flee 
so fast. 
THEY END 
When scarce begun; 
And ere we apprehend 
That we begin to live, our life is done. 
Man count thy days ; and if they fly too fast 
For thy dull thoughts to count, count every 
day the last. 
An Indigestible Meal. 
AN*immcnce anaconda recently arrived in 
this city from the neigborhood of the Congo river 
in Africa. 
It is said that his length is between 
twenty and twenty-five feet, with a girth of thirty 
inches in the largest part of the body. 
There 
are a few curious circumstances connected with 
this great reptile stranger, since his arrival, 
which are worth chronicling. 
Just before 
leaving his native land he took a hearty meal of 
a dog, and no other food was eaten by him for 
seven months after. 
About the first of October, 
this king of snakes arrived in Boston, and was 
lodged in a large case with very stVong glass 
walls, and a double English milled blanket, 
folded into four thicknesses, furnished for his bed. 
On the 20th of November, Mr. Sears, the pro-
prietor, thought it was full time to tempt his 
appetite, and therefore introduced a rabbit into 
his den just at evening. 
On viewing the interi-
or the following morning the blanket was missing, 
but the rabbit was alive ! 
On Wednesday, seven 
days after, the blanket was discharged, whole 
and unimpaired, 
after a circuitous journey 
(through an intestinal tube nearly one hundred and 
fifty feet. 
It may now be seen in the apartment 
—being six feet wide by seven in length.— 
Since that period, he has exhibited excellent 
health, and has devoured a fowl. 
Every few 
days he drinks about three quarts of water— 
sucking it all up at once. 
When an animal is 
given for food to one of this family of serpents, 
it is eyed intently for an instant, and then the 
poor trembling creature is suddenly crushed in 
the huge folds of the terrible monster—the crack-
ing of the bonea being distinctly heard at quite 
a distance. 
Thus prepared for swallowing, the 
body is still held in a coil, which is equivalent 
to a hand, and kept steady, while it is gradually 
sucked down the throat of the animal, into the 
stomach, where it is slowly digested. 
It is the 
opinion of Mr. Sears, that when the anaconda 
sprang at the rabbit, mentioned above, by some 
mistake in calculation the latter escaped, and 
the edge of the blanket was seized by the teeth. 
When these are once engaged, being for holders 
and not for mastication, it is quite impossible 
to disengage them ; and hence whatever is one e 
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403 
drawn into the mouth, must necessarily go 
down the throat. Even the muscles of deglutition 
seem to act independently of volition, and urge 
the morsel along by strong, convulsive, peristaltic 
contractions-l^oTi Surgicd &ud Medicai Jour-
nal. 
The Governorship of Utah. 
WE have referred to this matter several times 
of late because it seems to us that the question 
is pregnant with the most.serious difficulties 
and danger to the peace of the country, 
If 
Brio-ham Young, with his forty wives, is re-
appointed Governor of Utah, it will be little 
else than a direct recognition and sanction of 
Mormon polygamy. 
If he is not thus re-ap-
pointed, the wishes of the sovereign people in 
Utah will be openly disregarded, for almost to 
a man probably they would vote for Brigham 
were they allowed "so to do. 
The President, 
however, is at liberty to nominate whoever he 
will to the Senate, for the Governorship of a 
Territory; and he will be under the necessity 
now that Congress has assembled, of nominating 
some one as Governor of Utah, for Brigham 
Young's commission expired in September- 
He 
holds office until a successor is appointed and ac-
cording to his proclamation in March last, no 
one has a right to appoint a successor but the 
Ruler of the Universe. 
Thus Brigham addressed 
the Mormons of Utah on this subject: 
" I am and will be the Governor of this Ter-
ritory, and no power can hinder it, until the 
Lord Almighty says, ' Brigham, you need not 
be Governor any longer,' and then I am willing 
to yield to another." 
* 
* 
* 
"Everyman 
that comes to impose upon this people, no mat-
ter by whom he is sent, or who they are that 
are sent, they lay the axe at the root of the tree 
to kill themselves;—they had better be careful 
how they come here lest I should bend my little 
finger." 
With ten thousand fighting men to back a 
leader who takes such ground, and is able to 
make all his followers believe that it is true 
ground—that he is God's Vicegerent, authorized 
and commissioned from above, to govern them 
—under such circumstances, it is obvious that 
an attempt to force another Governor upon the 
deluded souls, would be an ugly, and probably 
bloody business, which might lead to a long, 
vexatious and destructive war. 
What, then, 
shall the General Government do? 
They are 
in " a fix," undoubtedly; but we trust they may 
be able to solve the difficult question without 
sanctioning the abominations of Mormonism, or 
fastening upon the country a civil war. 
Foreign News-
NEW YORK, Dec. 13.—The Collins Steamship 
Pacific, Captain Nye, from Liverpool 29th ult.', 
arrived this morning at 11 o'clock. 
There is nothing decisive from the seat of war. 
Since the terrible battle of lnkermann on the 
5th of November, when the allies lost 4000 men 
and the Russians 10,000, neithervparty had been 
in a condition to resume hostilities; consequently 
there is no news. 
The reported battle on the 13th is false. 
The utmost alacrity is manifested in France 
and England in sending reinforcements, as the 
existence of the allied armies depend upon them. 
Several thousands of troops had already arrived. 
It is reported that the Russians have captured 
two English cruisers in the Baltic. 
CONSTANTINOPLE, Nov. 20.—Thirty-two Eng-
lish transports were lost in the Black Sea on the 
14th inst. 
The Prince and the Sea Nymph 
foundered with all on board. 
Three mail steam-
ers have been stranded. 
The Sanspariel was 
driven ashore and set on fire. The 
Britannia 
had five feet of water -in her hold. 
The Aga-
memnon was stranded, but got afloat again. 
The Samson's machinery is damaged. 
The Ret-
ribution was saved by throwing her guns over-
board. 
Tne Terrible escaped injury. 
The 
Henri IV. Baito are lost. 
THE NEGOTIATIONS.—It has been stated that 
the Emperor of Russia has expressed his willing-
ness to negotiate on the basis of certain points 
which are in reality concessions to the allies, 
and that the English and French ministers had 
notified Count -Buol that with England and 
France the four points no longer existed as a 
basis of negotiation, but they will dictate their 
terms after they have taken possession of the 
Crimea. 
This would seem to put an end, for a 
time at least, to negotiations in that quarter. 
But -negotiations are actively continued be-
tween the German powers. 
It is stated that the 
Prussian government has made a draft of a mo-
tion, which it is willing to make in the Germanic 
Diet, if it be approved by Austria. 
The essen-
tial points are: 
1. The German Bund, in accord with Aus-
tria and Prussia, recognizes the four points as 
the basis of the future treaty of peace. 
2. The Germanic Confederation approves the 
occupation of the Danubiaii Principalities by the 
Austrian troops. 
8. After the four conditions have been ac-
cepted by Russia, Austria will make no other 
demands on that power. 
4. Austria will pledge herself not to take any 
further steps in the Eastern question, without 
having previously come to an agreement on the 
subject with Prussia and the Federation. 
5. Austria, Prussia and the Confederation 
shall address a collective summons to Russia on 
the subject of the four conditions. 
6. Should Russia not reply favorably to this 
summons, the military committee of the Bund 
will immediately take all necessary measures to 
put the contingents of the Federal States on a 
war footing. 
7. All future resolutions respecting the East-
ern question shall be taken by the Bund. 
8. Prussia and the Bund declare that they 
will give Austria their full support in her own 
territories and in the Principalities, if she should 
be exposed to an attack from Russia. 
To this the Austrian government is understood 
to have replied, that she freely accepted the 
Prussian proposition respecting the four condi-
tions, but, as to paragraphs 4, 7 and 8, Austria 
would not bind herself to remain wholly on the 
defensive, nor abandon her right to form her 
own resolutions. 
The Austrian Cabinet would, 
however, explain its views further^ in the form 
of a note on the treaty of April. 
The two following statements—opposite as 
are the inferences drawn—constitute the latest 
to hand on this subject: 
The Vienna Oest Correspondenz of the 26th 
states that on that day, Count Buol and Count 
Arnim, by order of their respective courts, Aus-
tria and Prussia, signed an additional article to 
the treaty of April 20. 
As a consequence of the complete understand-
ing (says the Correspondenz) thus established 
between the two great German powers, it is cer-
tain that the motion about to be made in the 
Diet will be carried by a majority almost 
amounting to unanimity. 
Thus the influence of 
the whole of Germany will be secured on the 
great question now pending. 
A Vienna despatch of the 25th to the London 
Times states that the Austrian government has 
accepted without modification the proposition 
contained in the Prussian note of the 15th. 
If 
this refers to the motion to be made in the Ger-
man Diet, Austria, and Prussia are less likely 
than ever to side with the allies. 
THE SIEGE OF SEBASTOPOL.—We have by this 
arrival the official despatches relating to the 
bloody battle on the 5th, known as the battle of 
the lnkermann, the previous reports of which 
were unofficial. 
The London Spectator thus 
digests these despatches: 
" So simple in its main thread is the story of 
the battle of lnkermann, that the official des-
patches and fuller correspondence which reach 
us this week scarcely modify the tale; but 
rather, as usual, enable us to realize the magni-
tude of the contest, its desperate obstinacy, its ap 
palling amount of bloodshed, the imminent peril 
of our (allied) soldiers, and the heroism which 
enabled them to endure, to resist and to triumph 
over, fearful odds. 
"For a day or two previously to the 5th of 
November, the Russians, who already possessed 
a large force within the prolonged fortifications, 
and a large force towards the rear in the neigh-
borhood of Balaclava, had been observed to re 
ceive reinforcements, estimated at 35,000 or 
40,000, which, added to Liprandi's corps on the 
Russian left, 35,000 or more, and the garrison 
would probably justify Gen. Canrobert's estimate 
of 100,000 in one way and another, arrayed 
against the allies on the memorable 5th of 
November. 
"To augment the weight of the force brought 
down to crush the besiegers, the now useless 
army of the Danube had been withdrawn from 
Moldavia, leaving Bessarabia still defended by 
its special army, but not, it is supposed, entirely 
exhausting the reinforcements brought from the 
interior. 
"The effort of Menschikoff to throw hi, 
strength into a succession of powerful and if pos-
sible, decisive blows, is shown by the advance of 
Dannenburg's army in the very lightest order, 
augmenting the numbers about Sebastopol, with-
out much regard either to their equipment or 
provision. 
" The aim was to bear down by accumulated 
pressure—and it was with such a view that the 
batteries resumed the bombardment of the allies 
in tv 3ir besieged camp ; a strong force from the 
garrison moved out to act with Dannenburg's 
army, and Liprandi made a feint that might 
have been had it succeeded, a penetrating attack 
towards the rear; and, as it was, it did engage 
the attention of a portion of the British and 
French forces. 
"Thus the allies were to be occupied all 
round, while the weak unintrenched, and unfor 
tilled point in their position towards the valley 
of the lnkermann, was to be penetrated by a 
force of great weight and momentum. 
" It was with the earliest dawn, enveloped in 
mist and rain, that the allies hearing without 
seeing, the movements of the enemy, roused 
themselves to a comprehension of that which 
they were to expect, 
They were attacked in 
position, by troops converging into a narrow and 
broken ravine, or meeting of several ravines; 
and here, notwithstanding fill the solidity as-
cribed to them in the despatch of the French 
commander, the English soldiers were repeatedly 
driven back. 
At one time the battle consisted in the play 
of artillery upon the soldiers of either side ; at 
another, in sharp conflicts of small arms ; but 
for the most part of the time in direct personal 
encounters, where each side tried against the 
other its weight, muscular strength, nerve and 
resolve. 
The 8000 English who were repeatedly 
brought forward to meet the attack were the 
same men, unrelieved, throughout the day. 
The narrowness of the channel through which 
the battle raged prevented the Russians from 
using their numbers at once, but those numbers 
gave a command of fresh forces in successive re-
lays. 
So the conflict continued throughout the 
day, till afternoon ; the contending bodies sway-
ed backwards and forwards as reinforcements 
or new resolution lent the greater inpetus to 
either side. 
" The arrival of the French first restored some-
thing like aggressive equality to' the side of the 
allies; and at last, English ' solidity' and 
French gallantry proved greater than Russian 
ferocity and numbers. 
The Russians gave way 
and retired, their immediate object unaccom-
plished, and their path strewed with dead, prin-
cipally of their own. 
" In this day's battle the ascertained loss of the 
English was 2,612 ; that of the French 1,700 ; 
and the Russian loss is guessed at 15,000; ( 5, 
000 is nearer the mark.) 
The proportionate 
loss of officers of the allies is excessive. 
Sup-
posing the Russian loss not to be over-estimated 
it would about equal that of the allies in pro 
portion to the gross numbers at the command of 
Prince Menschikoff. 
The despatch of Gen. Canrobert, the French 
commander, after giving an account of the at-
tack on the English position in the valley of the 
lnkermann, and of the agency of his own troops 
in repelling the assault, substantially as above 
narrated, says: 
While these events were taking place on the 
right, about 5,000 men of the garrison made a 
sortie on the left of our attack siege line, under 
cover of a thick fog, and along the ravines that 
facilitate their approach. 
The troops on duty 
in the trenches, und^r the orders of General de 
la Motterogue, marched against the enemy, who 
had already invaded two of our batteries, and 
repulsed him, killing more than 200 men on 
the site of those batteries. 
"Lieutenant 
General Forey, commanding 
the siege corps, arrived by rapid and skilful 
evolutions with the troops of the fourth division 
to the support of the guards in the trenches, and 
himself marched at the head of the fifth battalion 
of Foot Chasseurs. 
The Russians, repulsed 
along the whole line, retired precipitately on 
the fortification, with considerable loss, when 
General Lourmel, seeing them fly before him, 
and carried away by a chivalrous courage 
flung himself headlong in their rear with his 
brigade, and fell wounded under the very walls 
of the fortification. 
'' General Forey had much difficulty 
extricating him from the advanced position to 
which, yielding to the impulse ofsuperabundant 
courage, he had led his brigade. Aurell's brigade 
which had occupied an excellent position on the 
left, covered his retreat, which was effected not 
without a certain loss under the fire of the for-
tification. 
Colonel Niol, of the 26th Regiment 
of the line, who lost his two chefs de battalion 
had taken command of the brigade, the energetic 
conduct of which was beyond all praiBe. 
The 
enemy in this sortie lost a thousand men killed 
wounded, or made prisoners, and in addition to 
this, received a very considerable moral and 
physical check." 
From the same despatch we take the following 
estimate of the Russian forces in the Crimea 
which exceeds in amount any previous estimate 
" The action, summarily expressed by the des-
patch given above, was one of the hottest and 
mostly violently contested. 
From the very first 
musket shots that were fired, the deserters that 
came over to us revealed the truestate of the Rus> 
sian army with respect to its effective strength 
and we were enabled to calculate the reinforce 
ments it has successively received since the battle 
of the Alma. These are—1st, some contingents 
from the Asiatic coast, from Hertch and Kaffa 
2dly, six battalions and some detachments of 
marines from Nicolaieff; 3dly, four battalions 
of the Cossacks of the Black Sea; 4thly, a.great 
part of the army of the Danube; the 10th, 11th 
and 12th divisions were transported by post 
carriages, with their Artillery, from Odessa to 
Simpheropol in a few days. 
Finally arrived the 
Grand Dukes Michael and Nicholas, whose pres 
forms, with the garrison of Sebastopol, a total 
of at least 100,000, men." 
The despatch of Prince Menschikoff, the Rus-
sian commander, giving an account of this bat-
tle, has been published. 
It is very meagre in 
its details. 
The following is an extract: 
' The command of the troops was confided to 
General Dannenberg, the commander-in-chief of 
the 4th infantry corps. 
Our first attack on the 
heights was very fortunate ; the English fortifi-
cations were carried, and eleven of their guns 
spiked. 
Unfortunately, in this first movement, 
the commanders of the troops, who were attack-
ing the intrenchments and redoubts, were wound-
ed. 
While these events were passing, the 
French forces arrived in aid of the English. 
The siege artillery of these last was placed in 
position on the field of battle, and it was no longer 
possible for our field-pieces to contend with it to 
advantage, 
'' The numerical superiority of the enemy's 
infantry, firmed with rifles, occasioned great 
losses in horses, artillerymen and officers. This 
circumstance made it impossible for us to com-
plete, except by a great sacrifice of troops, the 
redoubts, which, during the fighting, we had 
an to throw up on points which the enemy's 
position commanded, even as far as the town of 
Sebastopol itself. 
The retreat was effected in 
good order on Sebastopol and over the bridge of 
nkermann, 
and the dismounted guns, were 
carried off the field of battle back into the place. 
" The Grand Dukes Nicholas Nicholavitch 
and Michael Nicholavitch were in the midst of 
this terrible fire, setting an example of calm 
courage in the fight. Simultaneously with this 
sortie the infantry regiment of Minsk, with a 
light battery of artillery, under the command of 
the major-general of artillery, Timofeieff, exe-
cuted another sortie against the French batteries, 
and spiked 15 of their guns. 
Our loss in dead 
is-not yet exactly known, but the number of the 
wounded amounts to 3,500 men and 109 offi-
cers," 
With the following extract from the camp cor-
respondence of the London Times, we conclude 
our summery of this bloody battle; 
" And now commenced the bloodiest struggle 
ever witnessed since War cursed the earth. 
It 
has been doubted by military historians if any 
enemy could stand our charge with the bayonet; 
but here the bayonet was often the only weapon 
employed in conflicts of the most obstinate and 
deadly character. 
We have been prone to be-
lieve that no foe could ever 
withstand the 
British soldier wielding his favorite weapon, 
and at Maida alone did the enemy ever cross 
bayonets with him; but, at the battle of lnker-
mann, not only did we charge in vain-—not-only 
were desperate encounters between masses ol 
men maintained with the bayonet alone-—but we 
were obliged to resist bayonet to bayonet, the 
Russian infantry again and again as they charged 
us with incredible fury and determination. 
" The battle of lnkermann admits of no de-
scription. 
It was a series of dreadful deeds of 
daring, of sanguinary hand to hand fights, of 
desperate assaults—in glens and valleys, in 
brushwood glades and remote dells, hidden from 
human eyes, and from which the conquerors, 
Russians or British, issue only to engage fresh 
foes, till our old supremacy, so rudely assailed, 
was triumphantly asserted, and the battalions of 
the Czar gave way before our steady courage, 
and the chivalrous fire of France. 
No one, how-
ever placed, could have witnessed even a small 
portion of the doings of this eventful day ; for 
the vapors, fog and drizzling mist, obscured the 
ground where the struggle took place to such 
an extent as to render it impossible to see what 
was going on at the distance of a few yards. 
Besides this, the irregular nature of the 
ground, the rapid fall of the hill towards lnker-
mann, where the deadliest fight took place, 
would have prevented one under the most favor-
able circumstances seeing more than a very insig-
nificant and detailed piece of the terrible work 
below." 
The following important article appeared in 
the London Times of the 29th. 
It will be seen 
that this journal which is supposed to be inti-
mately informed of the views and movements of 
the government confesses that the siege of Sebas-
topol is a failure: 
" Twenty days have elapsed since we last re-
ceived authentic accounts from our army in the 
Crimea. 
Our latest news are derived from 
Russian sources, and we are carrying on war 
against an enemy who has ten days the start of 
us in intelligence. 
There does not appear, so 
far as we can see, any hopes of bringing the 
struggle in the Crimea to an immediate termina-
tion. 
"Before our army can be sufficiently rein-
forced to attempt anything effective in the field, 
the season will have arrived when the rage of 
man must have been suspended in deference 
to the severity of the elements, and the business 
of mutual destruction must wait for its recom-
mencement for the first opening ot spring. 
Our 
main care must be now to preserve our army 
ence could not fail to excite this army, which | in health and spirits till the opening of another 
404 
THE ADVENT HERALD. \ 
campaign, when the victory will be to those who 
have best availed themselves of the winter for 
the purposes of reinforcment. 
" We believe that if it shall turn out as we 
apprehend it will, that we are compelled to de-
sist from the active operations of the siege, we 
shall at any rate be able to renew the campaign 
next year with a decided superiority of force, 
which will allow us thoroughly to invest the 
place, and thus to push on the siege with a cer-
tainty of success. 
Experience has shone that 
we need not be very nice in reckoning the num-
bers with which we give battle to the Russians, 
and we do not doubt that we shall be able to 
confront them with a force which, however nu-
merically inferior, will be utterly invincible by 
anything they can bring against it. 
" It is certainly not without a sigh that 'we 
feel ourselves compelled to relinquish those 
bright, and, as we thought them, reasonable hopes, 
of completing in few weeks the conquest of the 
Russian stronghold. 
Yet even this disappoint-
ment is not without its consolation. 
We have 
failed in our immediate enterprise, but without 
the slightest loss—nay, with a considerable gain 
—for character and honor. 
If our army has 
been too weak to encounter the difficulties op-
posed to it, it has only been because those dif-
ficulties was such as transcended human power 
and human endurance." 
®I)C Ihmwt 
fjcralb. 
BOSTON, 
D
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23, 
1854. 
THE readers of the Herald are most earnestly besought to give il 
room in their prayers ; that by means of it God may be honored and 
his truth advanced ; also, that it may be conducted in faith and 
love, with sobriety of judgment and discernment of the truth, in 
nothing carried away into error, or hasty speech, or sharp, unbroth-
erly disputation. 
THE PROPHECY OF 
ISAIAH. 
CHAPTER LIV. 
For this as the waters of Noah unto me: 
For as I have sworn that the waters of Noah should no more go over 
the earth; 
So have I sworn that T would not be wroth with thee, nor rebuke 
thee.—v. 9. 
" This," refers to Jehovah's promise recorded 
in the previous verses. 
Though not accompanied 
with the formality of an oath, it was to be equally 
immutable, which is illustrated by a simile in its 
comparison to 
the waters of Noah." 
After the 
flood, the Lord swore that such an event should 
never again be repeated ; and, with the same cer-
tainty that the earth would no more be deluged 
with water, he promised that at this epoch he will 
no more be wroth with or afflict his people. 
This 
promise, says William Lowth, cannot " be made 
good so long as the present state of the world con-
tinues. Tr 
— 
For the mountains shall depart, and the hills be removed ; 
But my kindness shall not depart from thee, 
Neither shall the covenant of my peace be removed, 
Saith the Lord that haih mercy on thee.—v. 10. 
By antithesis, the comparative mutability of 
the earth, apparently so unchangeable, and the 
immutability of God's promise, are contrasted. 
At the epoch here referred to, tha mountains will 
literally depart; for, Pet. 3:5-7, 13, 14.—"By 
the word of the Lord the heavens were of ofd, and 
standing out of the water, and in the water 
whereby the world that then was, being overflowed 
with water perished: but the heavens and the 
earth, which are now, by the same word are kept 
in store, reserved unto fire against the day of judg-
ment and perdition of ungodly men.. . Neverthe-
less we, according to his promise, look for new 
heavens and a new earth, wherein dwelleth right-
eousness. 
Wherefore, beloved, seeing that ye look 
for such things, be dilligent that ye may be found 
of him in peace, without spot and blameless," 
There are metaphors in the use of the words 
"depart," and 
"removed," to illustrate that 
God's kindness, and their blessedness would be 
eternal. 
O thou afflicted, tossed with tempest, and not comforted : 
Behold, I will lay thy stones with fair colors, 
And lay thy foundations with sapphires. 
And I will make thy windows of agate, and thy gates of carbuncle?, 
And all thy borders of pleasant stones.—vs. 11,12. 
These declarations are put by substitution for 
the unspeakable glory and blessedness which await 
the righteous in that day, and correspond to the 
new Jerusalem state which John describes, (Rev, 
21:11,18, 19-, 23-27,) as " having the glory of 
God': and the light was like unto stone most pre-
cious, even like a jasper stone, clear as crystal. . . 
and the city was pure gold, like unto clear glass. 
And the foundations Of the wall of the city were 
garnished with all manner of precious stones. . . . 
And the twelve gates were twelve pearls; every 
several gate was of one pearl. . . And the city had 
no need of the sun, neither of the moon, to shine 
in it: for the glory of God did lighten it, and the 
Lamb is the light thereof. 
And the nations of 
them which are' saved shall walk in the light of it: 
and the kings of the earth do bring their gloty and 
honor into it. 
And the gates of it shall not be 
shut at all by day: for there shall be no night 
there. 
And they shall bring the glory and honor 
of the nations into it. 
And there shall in no wise 
enter into it anything that defileth, neither what-
soever worketh abomination, or maketh a lie ; but 
they which are written in the Lamb's book of 
life." 
We read also in Tobit, 13:16-18, that " Je-
rusalem shall be built up with sapphires, and eme-
ralds, and precious stone : thy walls and towers, 
and battlements, with pure gold. 
And the streets 
of Jerusalem shall be paved with beryl, and car-
buncle, and stones of Ophir. 
And all her streets 
shall say Alleluia; and they shall praise him, 
saying, Blessed be God, which 1 ath extolled it for 
ev.r." 
And all thy children shall be taught of the Lord ; 
And great shall be the peace of thy children. 
In righteousness shalt thou be established : 
Thou shalt be far from oppression ; for thou shalt not fear : 
And from terror; for it shall not come nearthee.— us. 13,14. 
All the children of the redeemed Israel in the 
new Jerusalem shall be taught of the Lord. 
Said 
Jeremiah, (31:34,) " They shall teach no more 
every man his brother, saying, know the Lord : 
for they shall all know me, from the least of them 
unto tl.e greatest of them, saith the Lord." 
Isa. 
.11:9, " The earth shall be full of the knowledge of 
the Lord, as the waters cover the sea." 
Jesus 
said, (John 6:45,) " It is written in the prophets, 
And they shall be all taught of God. 
Every man 
therefore that hath heard, and hath learned of the 
Father, cometh unto me." 
There is a metaphor in the use of the word 
" great " to illustrate the perfection and the per-
petuity of the " peace " of the regenerated state. 
60:18—" Violence shall no more be heard in thy 
land, wasting nor destruction within thy borders." 
In v. 34, oppression and terror are put by me 
tonymy for their cause. 
The oppressors will not 
come near to terrify them. 
Behold, they shall surely gather together, hut not by me: 
Whosoever shall gather together against thee shall fall for thy sake. 
—v. lb. 
This seems to point to a gathering of the ene-
mies of Zion, which is to be subsequent to the res-
titution before described, and must therefore svn-
chronize with that at the end of the millennium. 
Read Rev. 20:7-10. 
Those then to be marshalled 
under Satan's banner, as shown by the connection, 
are " the rest of the dead " who live " not again 
until the thousand years" are fulfilled. 
Satan 
aims to lead them against the camp of the saints 
and the beloved city; but there is no battle : fire 
from heaven frustrates their purpose. 
In former 
instances of invasion by enemies, God had used 
them as an agent by which to chastise hie peo-
ple for their sins; but at this epoch they are 
not thus gathered by God, but by Satan, who with 
his deceived ones is discomfited for the sake of the 
redeemed. 
Behold, I have created the smith that bloweth the coals in the fire. 
And that bringeth forth an instrument for his work j 
And I have created the waster to destroy. 
No weapon that is formed against thee shall prosper ; 
And every tongue that shall rise against thee in judgment thou shalt 
condemn. 
This is the heritage of the servants of the Lord, 
And their righteousness is of me, saith the Lord.—vs. 16,17 
As God is the Creator of those who make offen-
sive weapons, and of those who use them, they are 
under his control and cannot harm those whom he 
protects; and therefore nothing designed to mo-
lest them will succeed against them when their 
peace shall have been made as a river. 
" Weapon," by a metonymy, is put for those 
who use them ; " tongue " is put by a synecdoche 
for those who spake against Zion; and " shall 
rise " is put by substitution for the utterance of 
words against the 
righteous. 
John says of this 
epoch, (Rev. 12:10,) " And I heard a loud voice 
saying in heaven, Now is come salvation, and 
Btrength, and the kingdom of our God, and the 
power of his Christ: for the accuser of our breth-
ren is cast down which accused them before our 
God day and night." 
Those blessings and privileges before described, 
and this protection which is to continue for ever, 
is ihe inheritance to which Peter refers, (1 Pet. 
1:4,) " an inheritance incorruptible, and undefiled, 
and that fadeth not away, reserved in heaven for 
you." 
By a metonymy, " righteousness," is put for 
tho effect or result of righteousness—the salvation 
which the Lord rfnd ho only, extends to all his 
children, and to which be invites in the opening 
of the subsequent chapter. 
THE ABRAHAMIC INHERITANCE, 
(Continued 
from our 
fasti) 
Continuing down in the line of the natural seed 
of Abraham, we come to the institution of the 
Moasic law, where, as Mr. Williamson remarks, 
about twenty specifications are enacted, a violation 
of which would cut off any of the nation from 
among God's people.- This is not exactly relevant 
to Mr. Williamson's argument,—a cutting off by 
death not proving that those sinning and yet not 
thus cut off, forfeit their inheritance ; but it is rel-
evant to our argument, that the land promised is 
to be given to the pious of Abraham's posterity. 
Those who are thus cut off by death cannot of course 
come up in the resurrection of the just; and there-
fore only a part of Abraham's seed are heirs. 
Mr. Lord says, " How the infliction of death on 
those individuals proves that none of the present 
descendants of Jacob are heirs of tho covenant, 
Mr. W. does not show, nor is it easy to see." 
True, but we do not conceive that to be the ar-
gument, which ia: as not all are heirs, it may be 
that these are not. 
Mr. Williamson farther argues : 
" After the days of Solomon, the nation of Israel 
divided into two kingdoms or parties: ten tribes 
followed Jeroboam, the son of Nebat, while the 
tribe of Judah, and the few that remained of Ben-
jamin, followed Rehoboam, the eon of Solomon, 
the rightful heir of David and of the kingdom. 
War ensued, and the division became permanent, 
the one party following the descendants of David 
their king, and the other Jeroboam and his suc-
cessors, till the opposers of the sons of David, who, 
as a nation, had by their idolatry in setting up the 
golden calves, and refusing to go up to Jerusalem 
to keep the Passover, and by many other sins in-
curred the penalty of exscision from the people of 
God, were carried away captive by the Assyrians 
and mingled-amor.g the Gentiles till they were lost, 
and as a nation disowmed of the Lord, and have 
not since been found.—See 1 Kings 12, to 2 Kirgs, 
17th chapter, especially the first and last chapters 
mentioned. So they are not yet all Israel which are 
of Israel. 
" This total casting off of the ten tribes of Israel, 
about 350 years after Saul was made king, was 
threatened or foretold, 1 Kings, 14:15, and seems 
to have been the legitimate penalty of the laws 
which they had violated as a nation by setting up 
idols and departing from the true God, and marks 
a new era in the history of Israel. 
The ten tribes, 
however, claimed the name of Israel, the name of 
all before. 
"This is not mere conjecture. 
They had vio-
lated the law, the penalty of which was exscision, 
and when the Lord took the execution of it in his 
own hands, we are told, 2 Kings, 17:15-21— 
'They rejected his statutes and his covenrnt, 
which he made with their fathers, and his testimo-
nies which he testified against them ; and they left 
tne commandments of the Lord their God, and 
made them molten images, even two calves, and 
made a grove, and worshipped all the host of 
heaven ;' 
and v. 18— 1 Therefore the Lord was 
very angry with Isael, and removed them out of 
his sight. 
There was none left but the tribe of 
Judah only.' 
" This seems plain. 
All were cast out of the 
sight of the Lord but the tribe of Judah only. 
By 
which name the heirs of promise seem after this to 
have been generally known, though the name was 
now conventional from the name of that 
tribe, 
while the exscinded tribes claimed the old mame, 
and to be the true heirs. 
This act of exscision 
was not executed until there had been abundant 
time for all, who did not in heart fall in with idol-
atry of the nation of Israel, to come out from 
among them and to join themselves Vwith the tribe 
of Judah. 
This many of them did as soon as 
Jeroboam set up his calves.—See 2 Chron. 11:13, 
16. 
' And the priests and the Levites that were 
in all Israel resorted to him (Rehoboam) outofall 
their coasts, and after them out of all the tribes of 
Israal, such as set their hearts to seek the Lord 
God of Israel, came to Jerusalem to sacrifico unto 
the Lord God of their fathers. 
So they strength-
ened the kingdom of Judah.' 
So that all the tribes 
of Israel were now represented and included in 
the tribe of Judah, Benjamin having before been 
with them. After this falling off of a part of all the 
tribes to Judah, we find that during the good reigns 
of Asa and Hezekiah, many others of the ten tribes 
fell to Judah, which seems to justify the frequent 
allusion of the Prophets to Israel and Judah and 
all the tribes after this date, and after the nation 
of Israel—the ten tribes—were no longer counted 
as the convenant people of God. 
But in general, 
the heirs of Abraham, and of all the rich legacies 
bequeathed through him, were now called Jews— 
a mere conventional name—and not Israel. 
" This view seems confirmed by the fact, that it 
is now more than 2,500 years since their cutting 
off, and so effectual has been that casting off of 
them out of his sight, that they have never since 
been found though great efforts have been made in 
searching the whole earth to see if possible where 
they were settled. 
But they have not been found* 
and no wonder, for, if they are cast out of the sight 
of the Lord so as to be no longer his covenant people, 
they will not be seen by the eyes of men. 
The 
heirs, then, are now to be found only among those 
who are amalgamated with the tribe of Judah, and 
are generally called Jews. 
But frequently the 
Prophets still speak of the whole house of Israel 
and Judah ; and James addresses his epistle in 
the New Testament to the twelve tribes of Israel; 
thus, we think, showing that all Israel and Judah 
that would ever be found, was now among 
the 
Jews and that henceforth we are to look to the 
Jews alone, in distinction from Israel, for the law-
ful heirs of Abraham and David." 
We take no exception to the foregoing argument, 
only as we understand that if any of those who 
then fell away, or their descendants, did, or shall 
return unto the Lord, such become again one with 
the promised seed. 
Mr. Lord however takes excep-
tion to it as follows : 
" The supposition is indeed a solecism. 
The 
covenant embraced the whole of the offspring of 
Jacob's twelve sons. 
At Sinai all wyere treated as 
its heirs, because of their descent from 
him. 
Every male of the nation was simply as an Isarel-
ite, an inheritor of the promise of Canaan : and at 
its distribution accordingly to the several tribes, 
on their entering the land, every family received a 
share of it as a possession. 
As then it was simply 
as Israelites that they were heirs of the land, to 
suppose that on their apostasy and exile they were 
exscinded from the chosen people and divested of 
their heirship, is in effect to suppose that they were 
exscinded from Jacob's lineage, or ceased to be 
Israelites. 
But that was impossible. 
How could 
they ceased to be Israelites ? How could they be 
made of a different lineage f 
As then they con-
tinued to be Israelites, they still belonged to the 
people to whom the land was promised and given, 
as much as they did before their revolt and captiv-
ity. 
All, moreover, who continued subject to the 
law imposed on the nation at Sinai, undoubtedly 
continued to be Israelites and heirs of the land. 
Does Mr. Williamson imagine that the ten tribes', 
by their apostasy and removal into Assyria, be-
came exempt from the jurisdiction of that law? 
Did they lose their relation to it, and become free 
from its obligation, like the Is'nmaelites or Gen-
tiles ? Did the Most Iligh lose his peculiar rights 
over them that had sprung from 
bis adopting 
them as his people, and lavishing on them the 
numerous blessings with which they were distin-
guished ? 
Was not their continued idolatry after 
their exile as much a violation of his law as it was 
before] 
Did it not continue to render them ob-
noxious to the penalty ? 
And finally, when they 
repented and again sought his favor, did he not 
treat them as still his chosen people, and heirs of 
the land he had given them? 
If so—and surely 
Mr. W. will not venture to deny it—then tlrey were 
as much the chosen people of God and heirs of the 
covenant during their captivity as they were be-
fore." 
We object to Mr. Lord's argument, 1st, that it 
was not " simply as Israelites that they were heirs 
of the land." 
In addition to their being of Israel-
itish descent, they were also to be " of the faith of 
Abraham." 
If not 80, why did all that generation 
which came out of Egypt, save two, perish in the 
wilderness ? 
If lsraelitish descent was the only 
condition to the claim of heirship, then surely 
those who perished in the wilderness were equally 
entitled to the inheritance with Caleb and Joshua, 
being of the same descent. 
To suppose that being 
of Jacob's lineage is a full guarantee to the inher-
itance, is to suppose that those of that lineage who 
were deprived of it were wrongfully defrauded of 
their just rights, which would be a reflection on the 
justice of God. 
It would question the rectitude of 
his administration. For it is undeniable that many 
of Jacob's posterity have been deprived of all 
claim to the inheritance. 
Thus, to suppose, also, 
would be to suppose that all the conditions of 
obedience which God appended to the Sinaic prom-
ises, were meaningless ; which ftould be to accuse 
God of trifling with his creatures. 
2. We except to Mr. Lord's objections in the 
second place, that the argument is not whether by 
being removed from the land, they " became ex-
empt from the jurisdiction of that law," nor 
whether God lost any of his rights over them. 
It 
is whether or not, they forfeited, by disobedience, 
all claim to promises, which could be secured only 
by a compliance with specified conditions. 
We do not argue with Mr. Williamson that their 
being removed from the land, is evidence of disin-
heritance ; for subsequent repentance migjjt follow 
such removal. 
But we contend that dying in their 
sins, whether in the land or out of it, would result 
in their disinheritance. 
It should be kept in mind that the inheritance 
is eternal to each one of the promised seed. 
And 
therefore it can be fulfilled to no one of its subjects 
by a temporal residence there, any more than it 
was to Abraham by his residence there. 
Conse-
quently no one loses his inheritance by not resid-
ing there during this life. 
But when God says of 
the ten tribes, that He " was very angry with 
Israel, and removed them out of his sight: there 
was none left but the tribe of Judah only," 
(2 
Kings 17:18,) are we prohibited from supposing 
that God may have exercised his election respect)* 
ing them ?—leaving only the two tribes to sustain 
to him the relation which the twelve before sus-
tained, as he exercised it in the case of the children 
of Abraham andlsaao? To argue, because they are 
of the natural seed of Abraham, that they are of 
the promised seed, is to contradict Paul, by mak-
ing " all Israel who are of Israel."—Rom. 9:6. 
Mr. Lordsays: "The covenant embraced the 
whole of the offspring of Jacob's twelve sons. 
At 
Sinai all were treated as heirs, because of their 
descent from him." 
If the covenant which secures a title to the prom-
ise made to Abraham, embracing the whole o 
Jacob's offspring, then the Jews, Avho said to Jesus, 
THE ADVENT 
HERALD 
405 
"we be Abraham's seed," (John 8:33,) gave a 
full and sufficient reason for not desiring to be 
made free ; and the Saviour's reply, "If ye were 
Abraham's children, ye would do the works of 
Abraham:" "ye are of your father the devil," 
was not such a reply as a Millenarian would have 
given. 
It is true that the arrangement at Sinai did in-
clude all of Jacob's offspring ; but it was a condi-
tional and temporal arrangement: 
It had respect 
to their residing as a nation in the flesh, in the 
land, which, purified by the final conflagration, is 
promised as the eternal inheritance of Abraham's 
seed. 
If that arrangement was not conditional, there 
could have been no subsequent removal of them 
from that land ; and if it was not to be of tempor 
ary continuance, the inspired commentator had a 
very imperfect appreciation of it, when he denies 
that the inheritance is of the law. 
Paul's reason-
ing is very pointed and conclusive: " Now to 
Abraham and his seed were the promises made. 
He saith not, And to seeds, as of many ; but as of 
one, And to thy seed which is Christ. 
And this I 
say, That the covenant that was confirmed before 
of God in Christ, the law, which was four hundred 
and thirty years after, cannot disannul, that it 
should make the promise of none effect. 
For if the 
inheritance be of the law, it is no more of promise : 
but God gave it to Abraham by promise. 
Where-
fore then serveth the law ? It was added because of 
transgressions, till the seed should come to whom 
the promise was made; and it was ordained by 
angels in the hand of a mediator."—Gal. 3:16-19. 
Thus the apostle affirms that the law was an ad-
dition to the original promise, that it was to serve 
a specific purpose, and that it had been fully an-
swered. *It is true, they entered the promised land; 
but they entered there as probationers. 
They did 
not then receive the rest promised : " for if Joshua 
had given them rest, then would he not afterward 
have spoken of another day. 
There remaineth 
therefore a rest to the people of God."—Heb. 
4:8, 8. 
(To be continued.; 
NEW 
WORKS. 
" MESSIAH'S 
THRONE AND MILLENNIAL 
GLORY.— 
By Josian Litch. 
Boston : Published by Joshua 
V. Himes, 46 1-2 Kneeland St. 1854." 
Price, 
$1,00. Postage 12 cents. 
We referred to this work in our last, but have 
since read it through, with much pleasure. • It 
is not to be expected that the views of any one in-
dividual would coincide with those of any other 
in all particulars. 
And therefore it will not be un-
dertood that we endorse or adopt all that we find 
in it. 
Among the things that we dissent from, we 
notice on p. 43 an estimate that the period in 
which the plagues were being inflicted on Egypt, 
was " about ten years,"—which we know not how 
to reconcile with the fact that Moses was eighty 
years old when he returned to Egypt from the 
land of Midian, and but one hundred and twenty 
when he died, which was at the end of Israel's 
forty years sojourn in the wilderness—there be-
ing no room for ten years, or even one year, to in-
tervene between his return from Midian, and the 
commencement of the 40 years in the wilderness. 
Some other things, like the theory that the sea 
was enclosed in the interior of the earth until the 
flood ; or that Isa. 2:2, teaches a physical eleva-
tion of Mt Moriah—the literal rendering denoting 
merely prominance in point of 
interest as the 
world's metropolis—we of course dissent from. 
We might mentiort other things, and some appli-
cations of Scripture, but we did not take our pen 
to speak of them, but to express the great pleas-
ure we found in reading it,—particularly in the 
treatment of the Jew question. 
Bro. Litch takes a view of the restoration of the 
Jews similar to that advocated in the articles 
on the Exposition of the chapters in Isaiah. 
We 
have long been satisfied that the scriptures will 
not sustain the application of the promises of ter-
ritorial possession made to Israel, to Christians in-
discriminately. 
They will be fulfilled to the lit-
eral Israel—the pious descendents of Abraham, 
comprising those who have lived in all ages of th« 
world since his day, who will be raised from the 
dead and inherit with him the land of promise, 
in an eternal and immortal state. 
While the 
pious who are saved from other nations, will peri-
odically assemble at Jerusalem, they will have as-
signed to them for their location on the new earth 
territory corresponding to the land of their birth 
in the present dispensation. 
Thus the Lord has 
said, Psa. 87:4,6,—" I will make mention of Ra-
hab and Babylon to them that know me: behold 
Philistia, and Tyre, and Ethiopia ; this man was 
horn there. 
And of Zion it shall be said, This 
and that man was boyn in her : and the Highest 
himself shall establish her. 
The Lord shall count, 
when he writetb up the people, that this man was 
born there. 
Selah." 
Bro. Litch has taken up all the scriptures that 
speak of Israel's restoration, giving a harmony of 
interpretation respecting them, that is worth twice 
the cost of the book. 
It entirely disarms spirituali-
zers, who apply to the church the promises made 
to Israel; and it affords an unanswerable argue-
ment to mixed Millennarians, who apply the same 
promises to Israel in the 
flesh. 
Flesh and blood 
cannot inhirit the kingdom of God, and any appli-
cation of the promises to Israel, which connects 
them with mortality and corruptability, are mani-
festly unscriptural. 
Bro. Litch says in the " Introduction " to his 
book: 
"The times in which we live are characterized 
by a more deep and extended interest in the study 
of prophecy, than any former period in the world's 
history, and, as'a matter of course, a variety of 
views are extant on the subject. 
The two leading 
systems of biblical interpretation, the mystical, 
or as it is more commonly called, Spiritual, and 
the Literal, lead to two directly opposite results : 
the first, to the doctrine of a conversion of the world 
to Christ, and the universal spiritual reign of 
Christ in the hearts of men during the Millenium * 
and the latter, to the doctrine of his second person-
al advent, and literal reign with his resurrected 
saints, on the restored earth. 
But one of these 
views can be correct. 
The object of the present 
volume is, to present the Scriptural evidence in 
favour of the literal view, and meet the objections 
urged against it, and the arguments by which the 
spiritual system is usually sustained. 
It is the 
conviction of the writer that the spiritual principle 
of interpreting prophecy tends to skepticism, by re-
jecting, one after the other, the most important 
doctrines of the Bible, and finally, to a rejection of 
the Bible itself, as an inspired book. 
Hence, his 
effort to establish the literal principle by explain-
ing the Scriptures upon it. 
It is as plainly taught 
that Christ will come in the clouds of heaven the 
second time, as that he should be born in Beth-
lehem. 
Any principle which will spiritualize the 
second advent, must, to be consistant with itself, 
spiritualize the first advent. 
A principle which 
will spiritualize his glorious reign, will, if consist-
ent with itself, do the same with his sufferings. 
" Some of the points discussed may be novel, 
some of them strange, to many readers. 
Among 
them are, 
1. The principle that the literal seed of Jacob 
will to all eternity be a; distinct nation in the land 
of promise, divided into twelve tribes, in an im-
mortal state; Christ their king, and the twelve 
apostles their judges. 
" 2. That the nationality of all peonle, will be 
continued to everlasting ages, so that the nations 
of them that are saved shall walk in the light of 
the city, and the kings of the earth bring their glory 
and honor into it. 
" 3. That Christ came at first in good faith to 
restore the kingdom to the Jews, and only failed 
because they rejected him. 
" 4. The identity of Gog and Magog of Ezekiel 
38, 39, with Revelation 20th. 
""The immortal character of the kingdom of 
God, and the reign of the saints on earth are fully 
discussed; and the scriptures relating to the re-
turn of Isreal to the land of promise have been 
subjects of attention; and it has been the en-
deavor of the writer to unravel the intricacies of 
that subject. 
Other points of interest have also 
engaged his attention. 
" Being fully persuaded that the signs indicate 
the day of Christ to be near, it has been his en-
deavor to induce men to prepare to meet their 
Judge in peace, and inherit his everlasting king-
dom." 
The following is the Table of Contents: 
" CHAPTER 1.—The First and Second Adam—the 
relation each sustain to this Globe, p. 12. Man de-
signed to continue Eternally on Earth, 13. 
God 
has given the Earth to Christ to Redeem and Re-
store, 18. 
Christ's Right of Inheritance—he is 
Son of God, Son of Man, and our Kinsman, 19. 
The New Birth, 22. 
The Original Kingdom, 25. 
The New Earth the Home of the Saints, 26. 
CHAPTER II.—The Jews and Jewish Economy, 
p. 30. 
God's proposed Covenant with Israel, 31. 
Ratification of the Covenant, 33. 
Types and Shad-
ows of the Law, 35. 
"CHAPTER III.—The Jewish 
Relation to the 
Land of Promise s> Conditional Relation, p. 37. 
Origin of the term Israel, ib. 
The whole Israel of 
God, Gal. 4:16, p 39. 
The Promises to Abraham 
at first Conditional, 40. 
Multitudinous Seed, 41. 
Title to the Land Conditional, 45. 
Christ the 
Rightful Owner of the Land of Promise, 48. 
Di-
alogue—Paul and a Jew, 50. 
Writ of Ejectment, 
54. 
Time of Israel's Visitation, ib. 
The Land 
never yet Inherited, 55. 
The Jews to be Restored 
to the Land, 57. 
Conditions on which Restored, 
58. 
Vision of Dry Bones, 60. 
Gentile Believers 
not Israel. 62. 
Abraham's Seed in Christ, 63. 
" CHAPTER IV.—Relation of the Jewish Nation 
to the Kingdom of David Conditional, p. 66. 
Two 
Covenants in One, 67. 
Practical Workings of 
Conditions, 69. 
Christ's Reign Conditional, 71. 
" CHAPTER V.—The Sense in which the Jews were 
Oast away, p. 73. 
The Divorcement of the House 
of Israel, 76. 
Promise of Shiloh, 77. 
The divorce 
of Judah, 80. 
Sense in which Israel has not been 
Cast Away, 82. 
The 11th Chapter of Romans, 83. 
National Election and Election of Grace, 84. 
Jews 
Broken Off, 85. 
Why Broken Off, ib. 
Benefit of 
Israel's Fall, 86. 
Israel's Blindness, 90. 
" CHAPTER VI.—Messiah, Christ, Anointed, Sy-
nonymous—Holy Oil—its Composition—its Use, 
p. 93. 
Consecration to Prophetic Office, 95. 
The 
Royal, the Chief Character of Messiah, 96. Anoint-
ing of Christ—Proofs of Messiahship, 99. 
Mes-
siah, 
Destination 
after his Resurrection, 104 
Not Always to remain in Heaven, 105. 
Is Jesus 
of Nazareth the 
Messiah? 
106. 
Question of 
Christ's Parentage, 109. 
Review of Argument 
119. 
" CHAPTER VII.-Messiah the True Literal King of 
the Jews, p. 124. 
Came as a King Persona1 ly-was 
Rejected, 126. 
The Proclamation of his Kingdom 
at Jerusalem, 128. 
His Official Rejection, 130 
The Nation Judged, Condemned, Sentenced, 131. 
Christ's Offer Sincere—his Lament, 133. 
Parable 
of the Householder, 134. 
Answer of the Rulers 
—Application of Answer—the Charge on which 
Christ was crucified, 135r 
Objections Considered. 
136. 
Had Christ been Received, how could Proph-
cey have been. Fulfilled 1 138. 
How could the 
Atonement have been Accomplished ? ib. 
The 
Crucifixion of Christ not in itself absolutely nec-
•y to the Atonement, 142. 
Christ did Lay 
Down his own Life, 144. 
What would have been 
the Nature of Christ's Kingdom during the Present 
Dispensation, had the Jews Received Him as their 
King ? 145. 
The Kingdom Conditional, ib. 
Prom-
ised Temple of the Branch, Zech. 6, 147. 
Ezek-
iel's Temple Conditional, ib. 
Judges and Coun-
sellors 
Restored to 
Jerusalem, 
149. 
Christ's 
Reign Postponed to the Day of Judgment, 150. 
Marriage of the King,s Son, 151. 
Recapitulation 
of Chapter, 153. 
" CHAPTER VIII.—Restoration of the Jews con-
sidered, p. 154. 
Eleventh Chapter of Isa., 155. 
h, 14th Chapter, Considered, 157. 
Isaiah, 
49th Chapter, Considered, 15y. 
The 3d Chapter 
of Jeremiah, 163. 
Jeremiah, 16th Chapter, 164. 
The Righteous Branch of Jeremiah, 33d Chapter, 
165. 
The two Baskets of Figs, 167. 
Promise of 
Return from Babylon, 29th Chapter of Jeremiah, 
168. 
The Lord their God and David their King, 
169. 
Samaria's Vines and Mt. Ephraim's Watch-
man, 171, 
Israel's New Heart and New Spirit, 
173. 
The Wicked as well as the Pious Jews to 
be Emancipated, 175. 
Israel's Unfaithful Shep-
herds, 176. 
Israel sprinkled with Clean water, 
178. 
Heathen Round About—Resurrection of Is-
rael—Standing up of Michael, 180. 
Israel Re-
ceived again to Mercy, 183. Israel Without Prince, 
King, Image, Ephod, Saorifice or Teraphim, 185. 
The four Views of Israel's Restoration, 187. 
" CHAPTER IX.—The Resurrection of the Dead, 
189. 
Spiritual View of the Resurrection, ib. 
Objections to Resurrection of the Body, 190. Doc-
trine distinctly Taught, 195. 
Christ's Resurrec-
tion Predicted, 196. 
Resurrection of Christ the 
Basis of Christianity, 199. 
Isaiah, 
Jeremiah, 
Ezekiel, Daniel and Hosea, all Witnesses, 202— 
204. 
New Testament Teachings on Resurrection, 
205. 
Saints who Rose after Christ's Resurrection, 
206. Their Destiny, 207. The Mortal Body Quick-
ened, 209. 
" CHAPTER X.—The Kingdom of God—Diversity 
of Definitions—Cause of Diversity, 211. 
Two 
Principles of Biblical Interpretation—Literal and 
Mystical, 212. 
Analysis of 
Nebuchadnezzar's 
Dream, Dan. 2., 214. 
The Constituents of a 
Kingdom, 21.7. 
New Testament on the Kingdom 
of God, 218. 
The Kingdom of God at Hand, 219. 
The Three Witnesses of the Kingdom Manifested, 
220. 
The Kingdom within You, 222. 
Like a 
Grain of Mustard Seed, 223. 
The Leaven in Three 
Measures of Meal, 224. 
Tfie Kingdom of Heaven 
Suffereth Violence, 225. 
CHAPTER XI.—The Millenial Reign, p. 228. 
Is 
the World to be Converted? 229. 
The Nations 
shall Learn War no more, 231. 
Docility of the 
Brute Creation, 233. 
The New Testament Teach-
ings—the Wheat and Tares, 235. 
Perilous Times 
in the Last Days—the Two Resurrections, 237. 
The Order of Judgment, 244. 
Millenial Probation 
Considered, 248. 
The New Testament a Key to 
the Old Testament, 261. 
All Israel Saved, 254. 
The Old Testament on Millenial Probation, 256. 
Zion's Glory, Isa. 60, 257. 
New Heavens and 
New Earth, 251. 
All Nations and Tongues gath-
ered to see God's Glory, 263. 
The Eternal Periodi-
cal Gatherings of the Saints, 266. 
The New 
Covenant, 267. 
Present Relation to the New 
Covenant, 269. 
The Nation of Israel, the Royalty 
of David, and Priesthood of Levi, to be Continued 
Eternally, 271. 
The Promised Reign of' the Saints 
does not require either Mortality or Probation, 
272. 
Gog and Magog of Ezekiel and John Identi-
cal, 273. 
The Feast of Tabernacles of Zechariah 
14, 276v Beauty and Bands, 277. 
The Tents of 
Judah Saved First, 279. 
The 14th Chapter of 
Zechariah, 283. 
Will the Restitution Precede or 
Follow the Millenium ? 285. 
" CHAPTER XII.— The Times of the Gentiles, 289. 
The Divine Charter of Gentile Empires, ib. 
A 
Chain of Empires Chartered, 291. 
The Five Em-
pires, ib. 
The Sanctuary, Jerusalem Justified, 
294. 
The Fifth Empire God's own Kingdom, ib. 
" 
CHAPTER XIII.—The Gospel of the Kingdom, 
298. 
The Progress of the Gospel of the Kingdom, 
300. 
" CHAPTER XIV.—Eastern Wars and 
Revolu-
tions, p. 303. 
Thae-ping-wang, Chinese Revolu-
tionary Emperor, ib. 
The Great Issue between 
Christ and Satan, 307. 
" CHAPTER XV.—Signs of the Times, 308. 
The 
Historical Prophecies, ib. The Six Thousand Years, 
309. 
Moral Signs, 310. Spiritual Manifestations, 
or Teachings of Demons, ib. ' Society for the Diffu-
sion of Spiritual Knowledge,' 311. 
Progress of 
the Cause, ib. 
Evidence of Demoniacal Character, 
312. 
Demonical Possessions, 314. 
Coming Per-
ils, 316." 
" POEMS : By Helen M. Johnson of Magog, C. 
E." 
This work contains a number of important and 
interesting articles. The authoress is about twenty 
years of age, and her juvenile productions give 
evidence of a cultivated and gifted mind. 
There is 
a vein of piety running through the work, with 
which the pious portion of the public will doubt-
less be pleased. 
The leading article, which is 
divided into fifteen chapters, is entitled, " The 
Promises," and is an attempt to show that the 
promise made to the woman in Eden that her seed 
should bruise the serpent's head, and which was 
renewed to prophets and apostles in after age,— 
will have its accomplishment when Immanuel shall 
be enthroned on !he new earth, and all enemies 
put under his feet. Here we have a view of Messiah 
at one time as the Man of sorrows, and at another 
as tto King in his beauty. 
" The Surrender of 
Quebec," is a prize essay and contains some excel-
lent thoughts. 
For this article the writer received 
a medal from a society in Quebcc, C. E. 
" Earth 
not the Christian's Rest," will be read with inter-
est and profit. 
"The Messenger Bird;" 
"The 
Exile," and other pieces, some of which have been 
heretofore published in religious and 
political 
palmers, are of a character to interest and please. 
While this work may not equal that of a Milton 
or a Young, yet we can recommend to our readers 
as the production of a youthful mind, and one 
which will be likely to do them good. 
Let it speak, 
and may multitudes be induced to listen to its 
voice, and embrace by faith the promises to which 
it refers, that they may share in the glory about 
to be revealed. 
* 
" THE ARMY OF THE GREAT KING ; Short Sermons 
on Short Texts ; Miscellaneous Pieces, and Poetic 
Musings. 
By J. M. Orrock." 
The.character of this work is so fully delineated 
in the title, that but little need be said in relation 
to it. 
It is divided as will readily be perceived, 
into four parts. 
" The Army of the Great King," 
in three chapters, is an allegory illustrating the 
condition of the Church and of the world, before, 
at, and after the second coming of our Lord. 
The 
1 Miscellaneous Pieces," which are about twenty, 
are mainly of a practicle nature. 
The 
"Poetic 
Musings," are a collection from the authors poeti-
cal writings, some articlesof which have appeared 
at different times in the Herald, and other papers, 
but are now given to the public in a more perma-
nent form. 
The articles comprised in this volume 
(as we learn from the preface) were written at dif-
ferent times during the last ten years, and are now 
sent forth with the hope that they will subserve 
the interests of the cause of truth, and be the 
means of cheering the hearts of weary pilgrims in 
their way to the Promised land. 
ELDER H. BUCKLEY.—We have received a letter 
from brother B. announcing his safe arrival with 
his family at Little Rock, III., which will be his 
P. O. address for the present. 
He intends to visit 
the brethren in Ogle, DeKalb, and Hancock coun-
ties, as soon as convenient. 
May the Lord restore 
his voice, that he may be able to labor in the des-
titute west. 
Our brethren will receive brother 
Buckley with all confidence. 
He will promote 
their peace, and welfare. 
406 
THE ADVENT HERALD. \ 
CORRESPONDENCE. 
CORRESPONDENTS are alone responsible for the correctness of the 
views they present. 
Therefore articles not dissented from, will not 
necessarily be understood as endorsed by the publisher. In this de-
partment, articles are solicited on the general subject of the Advent, 
without regard to the particular view we takeofany scripture, from 
he friends of the 
Herald. 
LETTER FROM S. CHAPMAN. 
BRO. HIMES :—Soon after the date of my last, 
(Hancock county, Sept. 1st,) I took packet on the 
Mississippi for Rock Island county. 
On the 12th 
,of Sept. commenced a series of meetings in the 
Protestant church in Hampton, near brother Lu-
ther Edwards', where I preached to respectable 
congregations nine times. 
Brother E. and a few 
others of kindred spirit feasted on the word. 
Quite a number who had heretofore manifested 
some interest in the doctrines we teach, now be-
came confirmed in the faith and confessed it openly. 
Others gave a candid hearing, and were deeply 
convicted of the truthfulness of the doctrine, and 
the necessity of a preparation of heart to meet the 
event. 
Of this class there was a minister by the 
name of D 
, an intimate friend of brother E's., 
•who had heretofore been so exceedingly prejudiced 
that he would not hear on the subject, but by the 
earnest entreaty of brother E. consented to attend 
our first meeting, after which, he and his family 
voluntarily listened to every discourse. 
He soon 
became interested and treated us and the doctrine 
we hold in a brotherly manner. 
Witnessing the 
favorable change so suddenly effected in that com-
munity, brother E. could not refrain from tears of 
joy. 
On the Sabbath we were favored with the 
presence and services of brother W. G. Ruggles, 
and others from Moline, which added much to the 
interest of our meetings. 
At their request I vis-
ited Moline, Sept. 19th, where I preached to good 
and attentive congregations every evening, and on 
the Sabbath for one week. 
The brethren were 
manifestly comforted, and some accessions were 
made to their number. 
The night before I left, I 
lodged with an intelligent man who for several 
yon*s 
heon a confirmed infidol. 
IIo projected 
the plan, am! sought this method of access to me. 
Soon after we retired, he said, " I have heard 
much preaching, and held many arguments with 
professed ministers of the gospel. 
1 do not how-
ever propose to enter into any argument with you, 
but having listened attentively to your course of 
lectures, I wish to make several friendly inqui-
ries." 
Being requested to proceed, he entered 
readily upon his work. 
Perceiving that he was 
a candid inquirer after truth, I spent the whole 
night in answering his questions, and urging upon 
him the necessity of exercising faith in Christ as 
the only medium through which sinful man could 
be saved, and also to show him by the Scripture 
history, such as we could readily call to mind in 
the dark, that Christ was soon to appear the sec-
ond time, and " unto them that look for him, he 
will appear without a sin-offering unto salvation." 
—Heb. 9:28. 
As the day was about to break on 
us, he requested me to give him the title of.books, 
such as in my judgment would be most suitable for 
him to read, assuring me that they should be pro 
cured, regardless of the expense. 
It afforded me 
pleasure to give counsel to a fellow-mortal on a 
subject of such importance. 
In the morning, as 
we were about to separate, he said to me, " Mr. 
0., I believe your doctrine, and thank you kindly 
for the instruction you have imparted to me, and 
hope you will pray for me," &c. 
I cannot but 
hope to meet that dear friend in the kingdom of 
God. 
While our meetings were in progress in Hamp-
ton, several brethren were present from Green 
Creek, Henry county, who became so deeply in-
terested, they urged me to visit their place when 
I had completed my work in Moline. 
Accordingly 
we crossed the Rock River and entered upon our 
work there, Sept. 21Jth. 
The free house was said 
to be at our service during my stay there. 
We 
occupied it from Thursday till Saturday evening. 
By this time quite an interest was awakened. 
At 
the close^of that meeting 1 repeated my appoint-
ment for eleven Sunday morning, when a promi-
nent man in the M\ E. connection rose and re-
marked, " We have an appointment here at that 
hour." 
I replied, then I will preach at 2 p. M., 
if there is no objection, to which he replied, " Sir, 
we have an appointment at that hour also." I then 
inquired if they had other appointments for that 
day ? 
" Yes," said he, " we have an appointment 
at 9 A.M. and at candle lighting this evening." 
Perceiving the design in all this, I remarked that 
I was then prepared to say, the Lord permitting, 
I will preach at 11 o'clock in the morning within 
a few rods of this house. 
If no other place is open 
to us it will be in the grove. 
Brother G., the near-
est neighbor, being present, said, " Brother C. ap-
point your meeting at my house." 
Accordingly, 
we met there. 
The house was large and commo-
dious, and thank God, we had the people, although 
we were denied the house, and extra attention was 
paid to the word through the day and evening. 
A Mr. P., quite a prominent man, one ofthe trus-
tees of the house, and yet an Infidel in sentiment, 
was present, who after listening to an exposition 
of Matt. 24th, said, (apparently with a broken 
heart,) " There, if that book be the word of God, 
then Christ must soon appear, and it is high time 
we prepare to meet such an important event. 
Mrs, 
P. was a pious woman, and had already become 
deeply interested, and manifested great anxiety for 
her husband to hear on the subject. 
By their re-
quest I was to have called on them the next day, 
and also visit other anxious friends ; but brother 
Cumminjs being on his way from Moline to this 
place, called on me early in the morning, and 
pressed me to return with him, assuring us that 
the brethren here would be greatly disappointed 
if he should return without me. 
Being then on 
my way thither, (a distance of one hundred miles,) 
I consented to go with him ; but seldom have I 
left a field of labor so reluctantly. 
The Lord bless 
and save those dear friends in the day of his com-
ing, is my earnest prayer. 
Brother Adams, of Richford, and brother Gillet, 
of Cordova, were with brother Cummings and ac-
companied us to C. that day, (a distance of twenty 
miles,) where we spent the night. 
The villagers, 
and others came together in the evening for wor-
ship. 
Brother C. having left an appointment for 
that evening on his way down, the house was full. 
It fell on me to address the people. 
I used one of 
my favorite texts, viz., " Tell us, when shall these 
things be 1"—Matt. 24:3. 
Having a free time in 
speaking, I occupied full two hours, and the best 
attention was given to the word. 
Perceiving that 
a good impression had been produced, brother G. 
insisted on my remaining there a week, or more, 
promising then to convey me to 0. county, which 
I greatly desired to do, but brother C. being un-
willing to leave me, I went with him : but before 
we left, brother C. having occasion to go down 
town, he met with Mr. R. the tavern keeper, (an 
irreligious man,) who inquired of him, " Where 
is that man that preached the gospel to us last 
night?" and added, " tell him not to leave till I 
see him." 
As we were preparing to start, Mr. R. 
came in to brother G's., and without waiting for 
an introduction, gave me his hand, saying, " You 
are the man that preached the gospel to us last 
night?" 
I tried to, I replied. 
" You did," said 
he, "and 
I felt it forcibly, and feel it still." 
(Then weeping freely,) he gave me a dollar bill, 
saying, " There, take that, and as you go, keep 
preaching the gospel." 
I thanked him, and ex-
horted him to make speedy preparation for the 
judgment, for the coming of the Lord was even at 
the door. 
" Yes," said he, " you showed us that 
last night," and added, as he left the room, " ] 
can't say any more." 
This circumstance reminded 
me ofthe Saviour's words, addressed to " the chief 
priests and elders of the people," viz.: "Publi-
cans and harlots go into the kingdom before you." 
—Matt. 21:31. 
0 what a host of such "priests 
and elders," or rulers " of the people " there are 
in the professed churchof God at the present time. 
On Tuesday, Oct. 3d, drove to Genesee Grove, 
(forty miles,) and spent the night in tho family of 
of our beloved brother and sister G. W. Mitchell. 
Preached there that evening from Heb. 9:28, to a 
late hour. 
The house was crowded. 
After which 
my own heart was much comforted in hearing 
from brethren and sisters there, whose faces 1 had 
never before seen. 
They urged us to remain with 
them several days, but as we could not, I promised 
to return and visit them'again. 
Came to this place the next day, (forty miles,) 
where I met a hearty welcome in the family of 
brother J. King, and spent the night. 
The next 
day visited the brethren (my children in the gos-
pel,) in several neighborhoods, which afforded us 
mutual joy. 
During the day I fell in company 
with a Mr. M., an intelligent young man, (though 
very sceptical) late from Minesota, with whom I 
conversed very freely for one hour ; he became so 
deeply interested in the conversation, that when I 
left the house,accompanied me on my way to J. 
Grove, nearly a mile. 
When we separated his 
feelings were very tender. 
On Friday morning, 
Oct. 6th, met the brethren and friends at brother 
Robinson's in Watertown, (had been absent one 
year.) 
House crowded. 
Spoke two and a half 
hours on the signs of the times ; the brethren fol-
lowed me, so that the meeting was protracted till 
midnight. 
Our Minesota friend waa present, and 
with several others remained here all night. Find-
ing him in a deeply anxious state, we conversed 
together till 3 o'clock in the morning, when it waa 
proposed to hate a season of prayer, in which 
every brother and sister took a part; when the 
last prayer was being offered, Mr. M. wept freely, 
and trembled so as to shake the 
floor. 
At the 
close of the last prayer, he exclaimed, " Oh God, 
I thank thee that thou hast heard and answered 
prayer." 
He then made a most hearty confession 
of his sin to God, and rose from his knees com-
pletely relieved of his burden. 
Since which he 
has accompanied me into several neighborhoods, 
testifyisg both in private and in public what great 
things the Lord had done for him. 
He and ano-
ther young man. have just received baptism at my 
hands. 
Have now visited, and preached to large 
and attentive congregations in every neighborhood 
where I had formerly labored, both in this, and 
in Winnebago county, which has effected a salutary 
influence. 
When you and I left this section one year since, 
you remember that the churches were in perfect 
peace, looking for the same " blesesed hope," and 
their theme of exhortation and conversation was, 
the Lord is soon coming ; let us therefore be ready, 
and do what we can to persuade others to be ready 
to meet that solemn and important event; since 
that time, however, certain " teachers have come 
in," teaching for doctrine, and striguously infus-
ing, by books and otherwise, the unconsciousness 
ofthe dead, final destruction ofthe wicked, " Age 
to come," (i.e.) probation for sinners after the sec-
ond advent of Christ, and other questions which 
we have not found time, nor had a disposition to 
agitate. 
In speaking of modern " teachers," and 
" teachings," I allude particularly, to brother 
Shelden, Bywater, and Chown. 
By that means 
the churches here are confsued, and somewhat dis-
tracted, and I am sorry to add, " they have turned 
away the ears of some from the truth." 
So that 
instead of being comforted with such words as we 
once used to animate and cheer their hearts, a few 
of them devote most of their leisure time in read-
ing and conversing on those distracting questions, 
by means of which it is easy to discover that they 
have declined in their religious enjoyment. 
Have 
lost that ardent love for the appearing of the Lord, 
ulao that warm and tender affection they once 
manifested toward him who in the hands of God, 
was made instrumental of their conversion to 
Christianity, and to the blessed hope ; neither do 
they love and delight to mingle with their breth-
ren generally, as they once did. 
By this manifest 
change in some, I am reminded of the Athenians, 
(Acts 17:21,) and yet I feel delicate in speaking 
it of those whom I so dearly love, and for whom I 
shall continue to pray. 
Oh that such teachers 
would consent to enter new fields of labor, or con-
fine themselves to places where they are generally 
wanted, (if they can find such,) rather than dis-
tract and divide churches which others have la-
bored and toiled hard to establish. 
It would seem 
that to enforce Other views, and secure the sale of 
books, they preached and professed firmly to be-
lieve the Lord would come in " '54." 
But had 
they been settled and grounded in-the faith, they 
would, like brother Burnham, and others, have 
confined themselves to 
that important subject, 
rather than dwell so much on doctrines and theo-
ries which in themselves are of little or no im-
portance to the real saints of God, since it is 
agreed that they are not rewarded or " recom-
pensed till the resurrection of the just."—Luke 
14:14. 
In all my preaching since I entered the mis-
sionary field in '42 I have confined myself to the 
great work of proclaiming the good news of the 
kingdom at hand, and persuading sinners to re-
pent without delay, in order to escape the wrath 
of God, and have witnessed his power and bless-
ing, attending the word in every place. 
Have 
seen thousands converted to Christianity, many of 
whom from the Infidel and sceptic's rank, and 
many thousands from the various religious sects 
to the Advent faith ; and since my ordination in 
'47, have baptized several hundreds of precious 
souls. 
Have also in the various States constituted 
about one hundred churches, and in almost every 
place where 1 have not been followed by those who 
preach another gospel, or make hobbies of these 
distracting questions, they remain steadfast in the 
faith, " Looking for and loving the appearing of 
the Lord." 
When arranging my plans to leave Hancock 
county, a few months since, and come to the North, 
expecting to see the faces of those dear friends no 
more in time, I earnestly entreated them to avoid 
everything that might come among them calcu-
lated to gender divisions and strife. 
To aid, and 
keep them steadfast in the faith in my absence, I 
sent and procured a lot of brother E. R. Pinney's 
pamphlet, containing an exposition of Matt. 24th, 
agreeing almost entirely with my own views on 
that subject, and without examining the book at 
all, I made liberal distribution of them, after 
which 1 discovered that the last two leaves of the 
pamphlet treated on subjects diverse from the one 
I wished them to read and meditate upon. 
The 
latter being the very subject which had already 
caused divisions among them and was doing much 
harm. 
But having distributed them I could only 
say, Do give particular attention to the subject 
matter of the work, as understood by the title of 
the book. 
Wishing to circulate the book in all 
my other fields of labor, and deprecating the idea 
of introducing 
confusion and strife among the 
brethren, I sat down and carefully cut from every 
book the last leaf, since which 1 have taken much 
pleasure in recommending and distributing it in 
every place, and am confident the tendency will be 
to keep the brethren steadfast in the faith. 
I love 
brother Pinney as I do my own soul, and confi-
dently believe that he and I could labor together 
as yoke-fellows in the same field for years, should 
time continue, and his health admit of it, without 
the least jar or dissension, the same as we formerly 
have done; and yet I am-sorry that his pamphlet 
which I so much admire should contain anything 
that would have a tendency to divert the attention 
of the reader from the all-important subject of the 
immediate coming of the Lord. 
Having advanced thus far in this epistle, brother 
S. called on me, and remarked, that " he had just 
fallen in with the Expositor 
and Advocate, 
pub-
lished in Rochester, N. Y., of the 4th inst., in 
which there is a letter from J. C. Bywater, in 
Hancock county, one of your important fields of 
labor, and it may be of some importance that you 
see it." 
We sent a mile and procured the paper, 
and having perused the letter, I take the liberty 
to give a brief extract from it, for the perusal of 
those who are familiar with my entire course, and 
appreciate my labors, trials and privations, and 
yet do not read the E. 
nd A. (formerly, Harbin-
ger and Advocate.) 
Yiz. : " Came to Basco, Han-
cock county, where I found some choice spirits 
thirsting for life and immortality 
through Jesus 
Christ. 
This glorious and all-important truth, 
had been kept out by eastern policy from the peo-
i. 
I saw however, that it was just what was 
needed there to revive the weak and languishing; 
and this was the burden of our preaching there, 
and the result was glorious. 
Elder 
Chapman 
clipped the corners of truth there, yet more than 
that: for, after finding that on the last page of 
brother Pinney's pamphlet on Matt. 24th, the sub-
ject of Life and Death, and Immortality, was spok-
en of, together with the destruction of the wicked, 
with Scripture references for the same, what does 
he do, but cut out the entire leaf, and paste 
down the next; thus giving demonstration of the 
contracted sectarian principles upon which he la-
bors. 
No wonder the cause is dying under such 
labor. 
But the brethren in that region have got 
their eyes open, and the truth must, and will pre-
vail." Now this, on fields where I have toiled hard 
both night and day, and witnessed the conversion 
of many precious souls, (among whom was P. Fry, 
our " Rifle convert,'') established three 
flourishing 
churches, numbering more than eighty members, 
i;o say the least, is very trying. 
But if this is the 
way " to revive the weak and languishing church-
es " here in the Far West, it may be well for us 
to send to New York and secure the services of oth-
ers, who have drove their hobbies till their influ-
ence as ministers of the gospel, (where they are 
best kuown) is entirely spent; since which, have 
engaged in mercantile business, failed for large 
amounts, defrauded their creditors, imprisoned for 
the same, then made their escape to avoid the pen-
alty which the laws of their land might inflict, 
&e., &c. 
This might " revive churches " (if in a 
backslidden state,) to adopt certain peace and 
safety dogmas, which would tend to distract the 
mind, and terminate in their utter ruin. 
The Lord 
save the churches in the West from such influ-
ences, is my most humble prayer. 
Brethren of 
the " household," remember us in your prayers. 
Brother H., excuse the length of this epistle, and 
believe me, as ever, 
SAMUEL CHAPMAN. 
PS. Am now on my way to the Eastern States. 
Fxpect to make rather slow progres. 
Shall be in 
DeKalb county Nov. 1st, where they will accept 
my services two or three weeks. 
Have a pressing 
call to visit Indiana, but this is uncertain. 
Will 
say to brother Snider, of Mansfield, 0., it is doubt-
ful whether I can visit your place. 
And to brother 
Roger Lee, and others, in Pa., I intend to meet 
your requests, but be patient. 
s. c. 
Pain's Point, 111., Nov. 15th, 1854. 
407 THE ADVENT 
HERALD. 
\ 
THE WORDS OF CHRIST. 
THERE is much to admire in the words spoken 
by our blessed Saviour while upon earth ; they 
are full of wisdom and truth, and abound in love, 
meekness, ahd instruction. 
Many words have 
been spoken by the great and learnod, both before 
and after those uttered by Christ, but none will 
bear comparison with his. 
We may admire the 
wisdom of the philosopher, the eloquence of the 
orator, or the harmonious Btrains of the poet; but 
they are all eclipsed by Him who " spake as never 
man spake." 
We can dwell upon His sayings 
with ever increasing delight—the more they are 
thought upon, the more precious do they become ; 
the more do we find to excite our wonder and ad-
miration. 
He who makes them his daily study 
and meditation, will find them to grow more and 
more interesting and instructive. 
They are full 
of simplicity, yet so wisely uttered that even the 
most learned among the Scribes and Pharisees, 
were put to Bilence by them; spoken with meek-
ness, yet with that boldness and confidence, be-
coming one who could not err—with firmness and 
decision, yet without anger. 
He rebuked 
with 
calmness—reproved with kindness. 
In short, in 
all his words was mingle <fthe wisdom of the ser-
pent, with the harmlessneis of the dove. 
How instructive are his precepts—how gracious 
his invitations—how encouraging his promises. 
His words are adapted to those in every age, cir-
cumstance and condition in life. 
The believer finds them indeed to be his life— 
his spiritual food; from them he daily derives 
nourishment and support; he in the fullest sense 
realizes their value, and comprehends their mean-
ing ; his soul feasts itself on their excellency, un-
til they become to him more than his necessary 
food. 
With tenderness and love they are ad 
dressed to the unbeliever ; in entreaties and warn-
ings they are pressed upon him, and hard indeed 
must be that heart, that can turn a deaf ear to 
them all. 
How sweet are they to the weary and 
heavy laden; 
44 Come unto me," he says, " and I 
will give you rest." 
Come with all your burdens 
and cares, and find in me that rest which is no 
where else to be found. 
Let the mourner come and find in the words of 
Jesus that sympathy and consolation, which he 
seeks in vain from the cold and cheerless world. 
Let the young, the middle aged and the old, come 
and select from the Saviour's words what is ap-
plicable to their varied conditions. 
And let all 
come—there is something suited to the case of 
every one. 
But it is a lamentable fact that so 
many turn away from the words of Christ; they 
will not hear them that they may have life, and 
thus they live seeking comfort and peace any 
where but from the right source. 
And is it not 
to be feared that too many professing Christians 
pay little attention to the words of their divine 
Master ? 
0 let us be careful to keep all his say 
ings, that at his coming, we may be found blame' 
less, and be accepted of him. 
S. A. 
GORTEN. 
Manchester, Mass., 
Dec. 1854. 
THE SABBATH. 
"THERE remaineth therefore a rest" [or as it 
reads in the margin, the " keeping of a sabbath 
to the people of God."—Heb. 4:9. 
There are very many precious promises in the 
Bible, but to me there is something strikingly 
beautiful in the text before us. 
Rest is oertainly 
sweet to every one. 
Look at the humble Christian 
laborer as he leaves his home on Monday and goes 
forth to labor for the sustainance of himself and 
family, and as day after day passes, does he not 
long for Saturday night to come, when he can re 
turn to those whom he loves ? 
And when the Sab 
bath dawns he feels that he can rest at home, or 
go with them to the house of prayer, and there 
hold sweet communion with his God. 
Ask him if 
rest is not sweet. 
But what is rest here when 
compared to that which remaineth for the people 
of God ? 
We may enjoy the Sabbath and love it 
but then it is only a type of the great Sabbath that 
will soon dawn. 
It is evident that the rest spoken of in the text 
is in the future. 
It is the keeping of a holy 
blessed rest in the kingdom of God. 
This is a rest 
worth living for, yea, it is worth striving for. 
We 
read in the 11th verse of the chapter, " Let us 
labor therefore to enter into that rest, lest any man 
fall after the same example of unbelief." 
Unbe-
lief is the only damning sin. 
It was through it 
the Jews lost the kingdom, and it will be through 
it that many who are living at the present time 
will come short of entering into this heavenly, 
glorious rest. 
Listen to the first and second verses 
of the same chapter : " Let us therefore fear, lest, 
a promise being left us of entering into his rest, 
any of you should seem to come short of it; 
for 
unto us was the gospel preached, as well as unto 
them : but the word preached did not profit them, 
not being mixed with faith in them that heard it." 
Oh for an overcoming faith ! 
Let us pray for an 
active, persevering faith and then we shall obtain 
the promised blessing. 
And now, seeing there is such a rest before us, 
and many through unbelief have lost it, ought we 
not to be dilligent, lest we through disobedience 
and unbelief lose it also? 
In 2 Peter 1:10,11, we 
read, " Wherefore the rather, brethren, give dilli-
gence to make your calling and election sure : for 
if ye do these things ye shall never fall: for so an 
entrance shall be ministered unto you abundantly 
into the everlasting kingdom of our Lord and 
Saviour Jesus Christ." 
If we are faithful to the 
grace of God a little longer, we shall not scarcely 
enter into the kingdom, but shall have an abundant 
entrance into it; and shall sit down with Abra-
ham, Isaac, and Jacob, and all the prophets ; and 
—what is better far—with Christ at home. 
We 
believe that all who sleep in Jesus do rest from 
their labors, yet they have not entered upon that 
perfect rest which is here promised them, nor will 
they till the Son of Man is 6een coming in the 
clouds of heaven with power and great glory. 
We 
read in Heb. 11:40 , 44 God having provided some 
better thing for us, that they without us should 
not be made perfect." 
When Paul receives his 
crown, the whole Israel of God will obtain theirs, 
and that will be at the appearing of Christ. 
In conclusion let me use the words of Paul to 
the Ephesians : 44 Therefore take unto you the 
whole armor of God, that ye may be able to stand 
in the evil day, and having done all to stand." 
We 
see by the light of prophecy that the day of God 
is near. 
We are living in perilous times, and need 
to have on the whole armor, that when the storm 
that is now gathering shall burst over the earth, 
we can feel that we are safe. 
But in the day of 
God's vengeance, where, oh where, will the sinner 
and the ungodly appear! 
They have turned a 
deaf ear to the warnings and threatenings of God, 
till it is too late, and now they have to take up 
the doleful lamentation,44 The harvest is past, the 
summer is ended and we are not saved!" 
Oh that 
men would be wise, and seek the Lord whilent is 
an accepted time and a day of salvation. 
JOSEPHINE. 
POETRY. 
To the flowing stream of Jordan, 
Lo ! the King of Zion came ; 
Then the ancient Baptist waited, 
To immerse the spotless Lamb; 
They descended, 
To the Saviour's watery grave. 
Come, then, ye who love the Saviour, 
Fear ye not to own your Lord ; 
Heedless if the world should scorn you, 
Follow Christ, obey his word ; 
He'll defend you, 
Fear ye not to follow him 
Hear the Saviour saying to you, 
From the glorious throne above, 
44 Ye who trust in me for pardon, 
By obedience show your love ;" 
Follow Jesus, 
Whose example points the way. 
Lord, our hearts incline to follow, 
In the way which thou didst tread, 
We will turn from every other, 
While thy sacred word we read ; 
0 Redeemer, 
We rejoice to follow thee. 
The Habit of Prayer. 
THE believer's character, 441 give myself unto 
prayer," shows that he is continually in tbe spirit 
of prayer. 
The lifting up of holy desires unto 
God, will only quicken us, and animate us in the 
performance of the daily labors of our life. 
Such 
an habitually devout disposition of mind, the ex-
pression of which is sometimes called ejaculatory 
prayer, will make every action of life holy. 
We 
shall learn to do nothing without connecting it by 
prayer with the presence and glory ot God. 
We 
shall see nothing, and hear nothing, without its 
raising our hearts unto him. 
What a spiritual 
life may the Christian, improving everything by 
prayer, lead! 
This will consecrate every 
field, 
and every word, and every dwelling-place, and 
turn an ordinary walk into a morning or evening 
sacrifice. 
Bickersteth. ' 
A 
FACT FOR THE POOR.—A correspondent of the 
New Haven Journal says that a large newspaper 
spread over the body 44 serves to confine the heat 
from the body quite as well as blankets, or quilts, 
and by enclosing it between two sheets, or a sheet 
and blanket, it may be preserved without injury 
for some time." 
We can corroborate the opinion 
of the writer. 
New Haven Palladium-
©bituemj. 
I am the resurrection and the life: he that believeth in me 
though he were dead, yet shall he live: and whosoeverliveth,and 
believethinme.shallnever die.''—JOHN 11:25.26. 
MY Father, CYRUS SMITH died the 20th of last May. 
He died a firm believer in the speedy coming of 
our Lord. 
He always liked your paper, as we all 
do. 
FLORA SMITH. 
Dresden, N. Y., Nov. 28th, 1854. 
LINES: 
ON the death of Mrs. Maria Foster, who fell 
asleep in Jesus, March 3d, 1854. 
44 Maria's gone !" I heard fond parents say, 
While in the silent grave their daughter lay ; 
They thought of former days, now long since past, 
When mother in her arms the infant clasped. 
They thought of childhood's joys,—of woman's 
care. 
And of the troubles that they saw her bear, 
And recollections of those byegone years, 
Made Sad their hearts and filled their eyes with 
tears. 
0 parents! sorrow not as if no hope 
Could cheer thy soul or buoy thy courage up, 
You are in Christ and she in Jesus sleeps, 
And God himself her dust in safety keeps. 
Remember that the glorious day draws nigh, 
When down the pathway of the parted sky 
The Lord, with angel hosts, shall quickly come 
To take his saints to their eternal home ; 
Then you, if faithful, shall your daughter meet, 
And on the heavenly shore, each other greet. 
A dear companion's gone ! a husband's heart 
Is thereby made to bleed with inward smart; 
He knew her worth, and he alone can know 
The depth of pain occasioned by the blow ; 
And oft in lonely hours will memory dwell 
On words and acts of one he loved so well. 
0 husband ! listen to the voice of God, 
And see ! 'tis Father's hand that holds the rod : 
He doeth all things well, and he knows best, 
What is required to fit us for our 44 rest." 
To saints, we know, death is amazing gain, 
When they are taken, why should we complain? 
She is not lost, but only gone before, 
Her race is run, her conflict now is o'er ; 
And does not God design to thereby wean 
Thy heart from earth, to dwell on things unseen ? 
A new attraction to thy soul is given, 
To make thee seek thy dwelling-place in heaven. 
Though sad thy feelings now, and none can tell 
How deep those sorrows which thy bosom swell, 
But there is One above who knows them all, 
He dounts the stars, and marks the sparrow's fall; 
0 trust in him, his promises can cheer 
Thy drooping heart and drive away thy fear, 
And thus sustained by grace, expect ere long 
To sing with her the new, redemption song. 
A mother sleeps! one child alone is left, 
And he is now of mothers care bereft; 
He must alone through life his way pursue. 
No mother's voice shall tell him what to do ; 
No mother now exhorts that son to pray, 
No mother hears him read from day to day, 
No mother's hand can press his aching head, 
For she is numbered with the silent dead. 
0 son ! remember that thy mother prayed 
To heaven in thy behalf, and often laid, 
Her strong desires before the heavenly King, 
And will you not to Him a tribute bring ? 
Give him your heart, and washed in Jesus' blood, 
Show by your works that you are born of God ; 
Then you will find in him a living friend, 
One who will guide and keep you to the end. 
But if you will not yield td serve the Lord, 
Think of the threat'nings of his holy word,— 
Think of that day when he in clouds shall come, 
To save his own and fix the sinners doom ; 
And can you bear the piercing thought 
To have the judge exclaim,44 1 know you not?" 
Or see your mother safe at God's right hand, 
While with the lost, you are compelled to stand ? 
0 surely not, then yield, 0 yield to be 
Saved through the blood that flowed on Calvary ; 
Think of the Saviour's love, and mother's pn y ir, 
And hope with her eternal bliss to share. 
A Christian sleeps ! she now has gone to rest,— 
She sleeps in Jesus, comforted and blest. 
Angelic perfectness she did not claim, 
But felt her sinfulness, and through the name 
Of God's dear Son, she hoped to reach the place 
Of the redeemed, a sinner saved by grace. 
The church now mourn their loss, and deeply feel 
A wound inflicted that they cannot heal; 
And many a traveller who was wont to come 
And find her house indeed a pilgrim's home, 
Will miss her presence, but we do not mourn, 
As if forever she was from us borne. 
We trust our loss, to her is endless gain, 
Therefore in hope, we steadfastly remain : 
/ 
We look beyond this vale of sin and gloom, 
To that bright morning when our Lord shall come; 
For when he comes, the saints shall meet again, 
And on the earth renewed forever reign. 
J. M. 
ORROCK. 
RELIGIOUS READING, 
OF THE BEST 
DESCRIPTION. 
T
he various Books, written and published, by the truly eloquent 
and learned Scotch Divine, the present minister of Crown Court 
London, Rev. John Cumming, D. D., are attraoting wide-spread at-
tention, and are being perused by hundreds of thousands of admiring 
readers, on both sides of the Atlantic. 
For simplicity and elegancy 
of diction, and holy fervor, we doubt if they are excelled by any 
writer, living or dead 
Their influence, whenever and by whomso-
ever read, can be only good. 
No Christian's Library is complete, 
if destitute of these books. 
Their titles are as follows: 
Benedictions, or the Blessed Life. 
Voices of the Day. 
Voices of the Night 
Voices of the Dead. 
The Church Before the Flood. 
The Tent and the Altar. 
Scripture Readings on Genesis. 
Romanism and Tractareanism. 
To be followed by Readings on Exodus and Leviticus. 
And by 
the New Testament Readings at convenient intervals. 
The religious community, particularly the religious press, has 
spoken in high terms of commendation of these excellent works, as 
follows: 
Thousands will thank Jewett & Co. for putting this series of vol 
umes within their reach. 
Would that the whole community were 
reaping the benefit they are fitted to impart. 
Christian Mirror, Portland, Me. 
The choicest and richest illustrations of sacred truths are here 
found grouped together in the most interesting and attractive form. 
The Wesleyan, Syracuse, N. Y. 
It it difficult to say whether this and the author's other works 
are more distinguished for splendor of diction, elevation of thought, 
or depth of evangelical and devout feeling. 
They are adapted to be 
universally popular and useful. 
Albany Argus. 
Elevated in thought, attractive in style, and devotional in tone, 
these volumes must command attention, and will become favorites 
with the Christian reading community. 
The Presbyterian, Philadelphia. 
As a writer he is prolific, and his books have an immense sale. 
His style is clear and unaffected, and his pages breathe a spirit of 
warm evangelical piety. 
Vermont Chronicle. 
It will do the heart and head good to read Dr Cumming's writ 
in?s. 
They will have an extensive circulation, and cheer many a 
pilgrim on his way to heaven. 
Canada Christian Advocate. 
There is a freshness, and beautv, and spirituality about all Dr. 
Cumming's productions that we have met with, which cannot fail to 
give them favor with the man oftaste, as well as the true Christian. 
Puritan Recorder, Boston. 
Jewett & Co., publish nothing but works of the most admirable 
character. 
In these volumes, by the Rev. Dr. Cumming, they have 
supplied a want which the religious world has long felt. 
Schenectady Reporter. 
We know few books so enriched with thought and so pervaded 
with genial Christian feeling as those of Dr. Cumming. 
Lutheran Observer, Baltimore. 
In noticing the first volume of the series of which these beautiful 
volumes form a par , we have already expressed our very high esti-
mate of Dr. Cumming and of his works. 
Congregationalist, Boston. 
These volumes of the reprint of Dr. Cumming's works will be re-
ceived with great satisfaction by all who are familiar with his ripe 
genius and high Christian culture. 
Evening Traveller, Boston. 
All of Dr. Cumming's writings are eloquent, soul-stirring, stimu-
lating, pregnant with admirable suggestions, and filled with profita-
ble instruction. 
Zion's Herald, Boston. 
The works of Dr. Cumming breathe a most heavenly spirit. 
No 
one can read them without feeling himself elevated and incited to 
new duties and a higher state of'Christian feeling. 
Mass. Life Boat. 
If Dr. Cumming-can preach as he can write, there is no cause for 
wonder that he draws crowds of admiring hearers 
Salem Observer. 
Published by JOnN P. JEWETT & CO., Boston, JEWETT, 
PROCTOR & WORTHINGTON, 01-veland, Ohio. 
And for sale by all Booksellers. 
3m 
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Indeed, very few are the diseases it. 
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No person can feel well 
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the timely and judicious use of a good purgative. 
This is alike 
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THE ADVENT HERALD. \ 
Contents of this No. 
MISCELLANEOUS. 
Extracts from Various 
Writers 
The Wonder of Wonders 
The Teaching of the Holy 
Spirit Limited to Re-
vealed Things 
A Hymn 
German Emigration to Pales-
tine 
Poetry 
An Indigestible Meal 
The Governorship of Utah.. 
Foreign Nnws 
EDITORIAL. 
Prophecy of Isaiah 
401 
401 Abrahamic Inheritance .... 404 
401 New Works 
4U5 
CORRESPONDENCE. 
/Letter from S. Chapman.... 406 
402 The Words of Christ 
407 
The Sabbath 
407 
Poetrv 
407 
The liabit of Prayer 
407 
OBITUARY. 
C. Smith 
407 
Lines 
407 
ADVENT HERALD. 
BOSTON. DECEMBER 23, 1854. 
PROPOSITION OF ELDER J.COLE, R 
To be one of twenty to raise one thousand dollars to aid 
me in my missionary labors, and the Herald. 
Jonathan Cole 
$50. 
/ 
John Smith 
50. 
L. H. Smith 
50. 
S. Foster 
50. 
PROPOSITION OF INDIVIDUALS, 
To be one of two hundred to raise one thousand dollars 
for the Office. 
Mrs. S. Mann 
-$5,00 
Paid. 
E.Clark 
5,00 
" 
A Subscriber 
5,Off 
" 
* A Subscriber 
5,00 
" 
S. Foster 
5,00 
" 
L.Edwards 
5,00 
" 
Nancy Wood. 
5.00 
" 
S. 1). Silliman 
5,00 
" 
Hannah McDuffee 
5,00 
" 
Mary Stratton 
5,00 
" 
II. P. Schotts 
o,00 
» 
Proposition of a True Friend. 
BRO. DIMES :—I was very glad to read in the 
Herald, that some were stirred up to do something 
to help forward the cause of truth. 
Perhaps some 
who are not able to give five nor fifty may be able 
by a little sacrifice to give one dollar. 
Let us see 
how many will respond. 
A TRUE FRIEND. 
Enclosed, was one dollar. 
Agents. 
AN EFFORT TO INCREASE OUR SUBSCRIPTION LIST. 
SEVERAL names among our list of agents have 
been omitted of late; but it was not intended to 
leave them out permanently, the list being short-
ened merely to make room for other matter. 
We 
wish to add to the present one, and soon to publish 
a full list of agents, and would like to have every 
advent minister become actively and responsibly, 
one of these. 
We alto want an efficient agent in 
every town where it is possible 
We are not par-
ticular whether they are male or female. 
Those 
who volunteer and feel an interest in the cause, 
make the best agents. 
We shall be glad to hear 
from any who feel this interest, and will enter up-
on the work of doing their part in raising a thou-
sand new subscribers by the first of February, 
18^5. 
We wish to add yet another class of persons who 
can do much for us : we refer to our paying sub-
scribers. 
If each of these would make an effort to 
get one, and succeed, it would place us beyond want 
Who will go about this work ? Who will go about 
it now? Who will undertake it with a determina-
tion to succeed? 
Shall we'not hear soon? 
You 
may all speak at once, if you please, in this cas£, 
we will give due attention.* 
• 
Those who obtain the largest lists will be pro-
portionally remembered.. 
The following is our present list of agents which 
we wish to enlarge and perfect: 
ALBANY, N.Y 
YV.Nicholls,185Lydius-street. 
BASCOE, Hancock county, 111 
Wm. S. Moore. 
BUFFALO, N. V 
John Powell. 
CADOT, (Lower Branch,.) Yt 
1). M. P. Wallace. 
CINCINNATI, 0 
Joseph Wilson 
DANVILLE, U. E 
G. Bangs 
DUNHAM, C. E 
D. W. Sornberger 
DURHAM, C. E 
J. M. Orrock 
DERBY LINE, Vt 
S. Foster 
DETROIT, Mich 
1 
Luzerne Armstrong 
EDDISGTON, Me 
• 
Thomas Smith. 
HALLOWELL, Me 
I. C. 
Wellcome. 
HARTFORD, Ct 
Aaron Clapp. 
IIOMER, N. Y...: 
L. Clapp. 
LOCKPOKT, N. Y 
It; W. Beck. 
LOWELL, Mass 
J. C. Downing. 
Low HAMPTON, N. Y 
D.Bosworth. 
NEWBURYP0RT,Mass 
Dea. J. Pearson, sr., Water-street. 
NEW YORK CITY 
Wm. Tracy, 246 Broome-street. 
PHILADELPHIA, Pa. J. Litch, N.E.cor. of Cherry and 11th sweets. 
PORTLAND, Me 
Alex. Edmunds. 
PROVIDENCE, R. I 
A. Pierce. 
ROCHESTER, N. Y 
Wm. Busby, 215 Exchange-strife., 
SALEM, Mass 
Lemuel Osier 
SHABBON A GROVE, De lvalb county, 111.... Elder N. W. Spencer 
SOMONAUK, De Kalb county, IU 
Wells A. Fay. 
SHEBOYGAN FALLS, Wis 
William Trowbridge. 
TAYI.OR.-SVII.LE, Christian county, 111 
Thomas P. Chapman. 
TORONTO, C. W 
I). Campbell. 
WATERLOO, Shefford, C. E 
R. Hutchinson, M. D 
WHITE ROCK, Ogle county, 111 
Elder John Cummings, jr. 
WORCESTER,Mass 
i 
J. J. Bigelow. 
the Saviour, will be holden soon, in which a mu-
tual understanding will be sought, and a plan of 
co-operation arranged, for the peace and prosperi-
ty, and better success of the Advent ministry and 
churches. 
Time and place hereafter. 
In the meantime, 
we shall be glad to hear from all concerned upon 
the subject. 
Where shall it be held?* 
New Works. 
"FIRST REPORT OF THE MASSACHUSETTS CONFERENCE 
of Advent Churches, holden at Lawrence, August 
9th and 10th, 1853." 
We have just issued a second edition of this val-
uable report—$3. per 100. 
" THE CHRISTIAN SABBATH— The 
First 
Day 
of 
the 
Week." 
This is a small tract we have just published, 
showing the uniform custom of the Church in the 
apostolic age, respecting the observances of the 
Christian Sabbath. 
Price, $1. per 100. 
" COUNSELS TO YOUNG DISCIPLES." 
This is a little tract of eight pages, just pub-
lished at this office, at $1. per 100. 
" CHURCHES, CHURCH ORDER, CREEDS," &C„ 
The articles which were published some months 
since, under this head, in the Herald, we have now 
issued in pamphlet form—at this office. 
Price, 
$3, per hundred. 
DEDICATION SERMON.—We have a few copies of 
the Herald, containing this discourse, which we 
can mail, or send by express to any who may 
wish. 
$3. per 100. 
Conference Notice. 
THE semi-annual Conference of Adventists will 
hold its fourth Session, at Paynes Point, 
Ogle 
county, III. (Providence periniting), commencing 
on Friday, the 29th of Dec. next, and hold over 
the following Sabbath. 
It is expected that breth-
ren S. Chapman, J. Cummings, G. W. Mitchell, 
Henry Janes, and others, will be present to preach 
the word. 
We hope to see a full representation 
from Ogle, Winnebago, Stevenson and De. Kalb 
counties and also from other sections of the West. 
Lets us rally once more dear brethren and sisters, 
in this time of trial and darkness, in the name of 
our soon coming King, and come together for the 
worship of God ; praying that his blessing may 
rest upon us, and love and harmony and 
union 
prevail. 
Homes will be provided for all who come. 
In behalf of the^Board. 
N. W. Spencer. 
Secretary. 
Clinton, Nov. 24th, 1854. 
Letter front T. M. Preble. 
BRO. HIMES :—I learn from different sections of 
the country, that some of our time brethren, have 
had the impression that nothing worthy of consid-
eration, had been done to point out the error in 
the time theory ; and, in consequence, when their 
test point of time failed them, they were thrown 
into a state of great trial and perplexity. 
But 
when shown my " Review " of the time theory— 
and after reading it—they have had more confi-
dence in themselves, and in,the faith ofthe Lord's 
immediate coming, and are again taking the true 
gospel ground, to patiently wait our Lord's re-
turn, knowing he will come " quickly."' 
Some 
have said—" Why did you not show us this be-
fore ?" 
I give this notice that brethren may know that 
the Review can still be had of me at East Weare, 
N. II., or of yourself at Boston. 
It can be sent by mail to any part of the United 
States, for one cent, and the pamphlet will Cost 
but four cents single, or $2.50 per hundred. 
Or 
it is free to those who are unable to pay. 
Will our brethren try to circulate it. 
T. M. PREBLE. 
East Weare, N. //., Dec. 16th, 1854.' 
BRO. HIMES :—You made a mistake in my notice 
for 'Hill. 
You have the meeting on Friday even-
ing, to be at Lake Village—it 
should be Hill 
Vil-
lage. 
T. M. PREBLE. 
VERMONT STATE CONFERENCE OF ADVENTISTS.—For 
some time past there has been a desire on the part 
of many of the Adventists in Vermont, for the for-
mation of a State Conference. 
Hitherto the way 
has not been opened for the accomplishment of 
this desirable object. 
But the lovers of Bible or-
der, and church discipline, now feel that they can-
not live longer in their present state. 
A conference therefore, of the Elders and breth-
ren, who are looking for the speedy coming of 
DEDICATION, at Mt. Holly, took place on the 14th. 
Elders Shipman and Bosworth were with us.—It 
was a good time. 
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as brother Hurd may arrange ; Mt. Holly, 11th and 12th—will 
some brother be so kind as to call for me at the Mount Holly depot 
on the arrival of the first train from Middlebury, as above dated ? 
Week-day maetings at 7 o'clock, P.M., or as brethren in charge may 
think best. 
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in the evening; Lawrenceville, Jan. 1st; Melbourne, (in the 
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East Hatley, 13th and Sunday, 14th. 
Meetings each week day 
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THE Lord willing, I will preach in Waterbury, Vt.,4he first Sabbath 
in January. 
L. D. THOMPSON. 
Elder L. D. Thompson will preach at Sugar Hill, N. H., Dec. 17th, 
and 24th. 
I. H. SHIPMAN. 
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