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BOSTON, SATURDAY, FEBRUARY 25, 1860. 
VOLUME XXI. NO. 8. 
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WAITING FOR CHRIST. 
From the German of Hiller. 
We wait for Thee, all-glorious One ! 
We look for thine appearing ; 
We bear thy name, and on the throne 
We see thy presence cheering. 
Faith even now 
Uplifts its brow, 
And sees the Lord descending, 
And with him bliss unending. 
We wait for Thee, through days forlorn', 
In patient self-denial ; 
We know that thou our guilt hast borne 
Upon thy cross of trial. 
And well may we 
Submit with thee 
To hear the cross and love it, 
Until thy hand remove it. 
We wait for Thee ; already thou 
'last all our heart's submission ; 
And though the spirit sees thee now, 
We long for open vision ; 
When ours shall be 
Sweet rest with thee, 
And pure, unfading pleasure, 
And life in endless measure. 
We wait for Thee with certain hope,— 
The time will soon be over ; 
With childlike longing we look up • 
The glory to discover. 
0 bliss ! to share 
Thy triumph there, 
When home with joy and singing 
The Lord his saints is bringing ! 
From the American and Foreign Christian Union. 
The Beginning and End of the Pa- 
pacy. 
Here, however, we must advert to the pro-
phetic announcement, Dan. 7:12, the lives ' of 
the ten beasts were to be prolonged for a sea-
son and a time,' which opens the way for our in-
troduction to the notice of the reader. 
" First the 1290 days, Dan. 12:11, and from 
the time that the daily sacrifice shall be taken 
away, to set up the abomination that maketh 
desolate, there shall be a thousand two hundred 
and ninety days.' Here, it is to be recollected, 
that to both the little horns of Dan. 7 and 8 were 
assigned the work of taking away the daily sa-
crifice. Now the Scriptures recognize the church 
of God as one body, under two dispensations, 
Jewish and Christian. This is beautifully illus-
trated by St. Paul, through the medium of the 
allegorical olive-tree, with its natural and ingraft-
ed branches, Rom. 11. The worship of God in 
both constitutes the daily sacrificei which he re-
quires and accepts, if offered in faith and sincer-
ity, according to his appointment. And, as a 
punishment for their abuse, perversion, or neg. 
lect, or as a trial of their faith, this daily sacri-
fice' is either taken away or suspended. The 
former is applicable to the work of the' little 
horn' of Dan. 8, who, in the vision' revealing 
the origin, progress, and end of the Turkish do-
minion, as a whole, through the prolonged period' 
of 2300 years, is represented as inflicting his 
wrath upon the objects of it when their trans-
gression was come to the full,' i. e. in the latter 
part of their kingdom,' during the running course 
of the five months,' or 150 years of Rev. 9:5, 
10, and of the hour, the day, the month, and 
the year,' or 396 years of Rev.. 9:15. It conse-
quently took effect upon apostate Christendom, 
and upon the Jewish nation. On the other hand, 
as a trial of faith and constancy of Protestant 
Christians, the litte horn' of Dan. 7 commenc-
ed his work, which, beginning in A. D. 533, ter-
minated in the judgment' inflicted upon him, as 
above described, in A. D. 1793. But that judg-
ment did not utterly destroy him. His' domin-
ion,' politically, was lost to him. Still, his life 
was prolonged to him, first, for a season.' That 
season,' we shall now show, is coincident with 
the 30 years which, added to the 1260, make the 
1290 years under consideration. 
" By adding 30 years to 1793, we are brought 
down to A. D. 1823. Was there, then, at that 
era, any event demonstrative of the continued 
vitality of the little horn' during the above in-
terval ? We turn for an answer to the working 
of that system of the papacy, which, embracing 
a great auricular principle of secrecy, manages 
the whole springs and machinery of Romish 
priestly movements, until properly matured for 
public action. This, I submit, was developed by 
the procurement (through the agency of the 
Catholic Association, into whose hands Ireland 
has fallen) of the British act of Parliament in 
the removal of political disabilities, etc., in be-
half of the Catholics in Ireland, A. D. 1823 ; in 
reference to which Lord John Russell, prime-min-
ister of England, in a letter to the Right Rev. 
the Bishop of Durham, says : My dear Lord, I 
not only promoted to the utmost of my power 
the claims of the Roman Catholics to all civil 
rights, but I thought it right, and even desirable, 
that the ecclesiastical system of the Roman 
Catholics should be the means of giving instruc-
tion to the numerous Ipish emigrants in London 
and elsewhere, who, without such help, would 
have been left in heathen ignorance.' Since that 
time, other measures of favor, from the same 
source, have tended greatly to strengthen the 
hands of this revived power, and have been di-
rected with deadly, implacable and unerring aim, 
against the Protestant power of England, not 
only, but of every nation throughout Christen-
dom ! 
" That this is no empty chimera, especially in 
regard to England, we refer the reader to the 
Apostolic Letter of His Holiness, Pope Pius 
IX., establishing an Episcopal Hierarchy in Eng-
land ;' a full reprint of which may be found in 
Cumming's Lectures on Daniel,' Appendix, pp. 
445-450, Philadelphia edition, published by Lind-
say and Blakiston ; 1854. That letter shows 
that the present pontiff, as head of the apostacy 
predicted by St. Paul, 2 Thess. 2, has actually 
taken ecclesiastical possession of England—di-
vided it into dioceses among his bishops—and 
appointed Cardinal Wiseman as their head, and 
archbishop of Westminster. Hence the cardin-
al, on this occasion, in a letter to his clergy, se-
cular and regular, says • The great work is com-
plete ; what you have long prayed for is grant-
ed ; your beloved country has received a place 
among the fair churches which, normally consti-
tuted, form the splendid aggregate of Catholic 
communion ; Catholic England has been restor-
ed to its orbit in the ecclesiastical firmament, 
from which its light had long vanished, and be-
gins now anew its course of regularly adjusted 
action round the centre of unity, the source of 
jurisdiction, of light and of' vigor.' And Fath-
er Newman, one of the seceders from the Eng-
lish Protestant church, in a sermon delivered on 
the occasion of the enthronement of Dr. Ullathorn 
as Bishop of Birmingham, says : The mystery 
of God's province is now fulfilled, and though he 
did not recollect of' any people on earth but those 
of Great Britain, who, having once rejected the 
religion of God, were again restored to the bosom 
of' the church, God had done it for them. The 
Hierarchy had been restored. The grave was 
opened, and Christ was coming out.' 
" And be it observed, though the Bishop of 
London, Lord Eldon, and Lord John Russell, 
have all raised their voices against this illegal 
and traitorous act of encroachment on the eccles- 
iastical constitution of Protestant England, as 
• 
by law established ; yet nothing has been 
done to quell, or even to arrest or disturb, 
its progress ! And as it respects our own beloved 
country, who will deny that the Roman Catholics 
do not now hold the balance of power at the bal-
lot-box ? While, on the other hand, the system 
of proselytism ; their efforts to exclude the Bible 
from our common schools ; and their unprecedent-
ed increase in all parts of the land within the 
last twenty years, strongly indicate the revival 
and spread of this fearful power of the little 
horn,' under the outspread, blood-bought banner 
of our stars and stripes ! 
" Finally to the 1290 years is also added 45 
years, making a total of 1335 years. So Dan. 
12:12, 13, Blessed is he thal waitetla and com-
eth to the thousand three hundred and five and 
thirty days. But go thy way till the end be : 
for thou shalt rest, and stand in thy lot at the 
end of the days.' A second period, this, coinci-
dent with the time,' superadded to the season, 
mentioned in Dan. 7:12, of the revived life of the 
papal power. We cannot now enter more at 
length into a detailed exhibit of the events which 
have transpired since 1823, in connection with 
the zeal of the little Roman ecclesiastico-political 
horn, in the recovery of his original strength, and 
ofthe success which has crowned his efforts in both 
hemispheres. This success, especially in the mat-
ter of proselytism from the various ranks of nom-
inal Protestantism, together with his growing 
ascendency in the arena of political strife, as 
above briefly represente.
d, may well justify his 
vaunted confidence of once more securing a dom-
inancy throughout Christendom. Yielding this 
point, therefore,—for it is in perfect accordance 
with our own expectation and belief—yet that 
dominancy, in the light of that prophetic Word 
which has guided our pen thus far, we have the 
blessed assurance, will be short-lived. This is 
evident from the obvious import of the passage 
quoted from Dan. 12:12, 13, which, with but 
few exceptions, prophetical writers make to ter-
minate bofore the commencement of the era of 
Millennial blessedness." 
The Roman States. 
The division, probably permament, which has 
taken place in the States of the church in Italy, 
and the further troubles still apprehended, make 
it worth while to say a few words with reference 
to the territory involved. The modern designa-
tions of the Pontifical States are : First, the city 
of Rome and its district, called the Comarca; se-
cond, the legations, comprising six provinces ; and 
third, the delegations, consisting of thirteen pro-
vinces—the whole occupying 17,494 square 
miles, and containing about three millions of in-
habitants. Each province in the second class 
is, or was, governed by a cardinal ; in the third 
class by a prelate. 
By the old term Romagna, now generally used 
by the press, is meant four of this second class 
of provinces, or legations. They constitute the 
most northern part of the Roman States, bulging 
out in in a tan-shaped style, with a northern 
boundary of nearly one hundred miles in length, 
while its southern width is not more than twenty 
miles. This is the region which has revolted 
from the Papal authority, and which, in all pro-
bability, will stay revolted forever. It takes off 
about four thousand square miles of Territory, 
with a population somewhat exceeding one mil-
lion. The agricultural resources of the country 
are good, and the *Papal treasury will severely 
miss the revenues which used to accrue therefrom. 
The conduct of the rebels his been at once so dis-
creet and energetic as to inspire the strongest 
hopes that they will at all times play an honora-
ble part in securing the independence of Italy. 
As the greater part of their Territory lies like a 
wedge between Tuscany and Modena, it will na-
turally become a part of the Kingdom of Central 
Italy, whose prospects are steadily improving, in 
spite of some adverse signs. 
But the question is, whether the spirit of re-
volt in the Roman States will cease with the 
withdrawal of the Romagna. It is already re-
ported that revolutionary demonstrations have ta-
ken place in the Marches. This old term is used in 
designating some of the delegations on the east-
ern, or Adriatic slope of the Roman States, in 
the neighborhood of the city of Ancona. In truth, 
the Roman people on the east of the Appenines 
show a vigor and independence that seemed to 
have disappeared from the more enervated inhabi-
tants of the capital and its surrounding region. 
But the end is not yet, and it is useless to at-
tempt anticipating the course of events.—Boston 
Journal. 
Original. 
Reminiscences of a Month. 
Dear Bro. Bliss :—The first month of the 
present year is already numbered with the past, 
and how rapid has been its flight ! Searcely had 
we time to wish each other " a happy new year" 
before the month had bidden us adieu. Thus 
time rushes onward and eternity comes to meet 
it. Their meeting place will he the judgment 
seat of Christ, before which we must stand to 
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have our accounts investigated. Happy will it 
be for us then, if we are prepared to give account 
of our stewardship. As writing " to you, to me 
indeed is not grievous" and may suggest some 
truths which it will be " safe" for our brethren 
to receive, I send you another sketch of my 
public labors. 
Having spent Sunday, January 1st, in Shef-
ford, C. E. I came to Magog on the 3rd, where 
I remained till the 12th, and gave eight discour-
ses in the Ward school house. The audiences 
were unusually large for the place, and in answer 
to prayer the Spirit of God operated on many 
minds. How much permament good was accom-
plished time will disclose and eternity decide. 
Some will no doubt quench the Spirit, but we 
have reason to believe that saints were comforted 
and edified by the word, and held communion 
with God around the sacramental board ; back-
sliders were brought to see their folly ; sinners 
pricked in the heart, and thus our labor was not 
in vain in the Lord. 
In the evening of the 11th, I heard a Metho-
dist minister preach at the Outlet from Rev. I 
22:17. This text being the last invitation to men 
which the Bible contains, it laid a basis for some 
good remarks, and led him to present Christ as the I 
sufficient and only Savior, though I cannot con-
fess to much enlightenment under the discourse. 
At the close of the services, he reminded us that 
at the suggestion of a church in India, Christians 
throughout the land were invited to make special 
prayer to God from the 8th to the 15th of Jan. 
that there might be a general outpouring of the 
Spirit and " the conversion of the world :"—the 
first day specified, to be devoted to fasting, hu-
miliation and prayer, and the last to thanksgiv 
ing. I have no doubt but when Christians hum-
ble themselves under the mighty hand of God, 
the Spirit of truth will strive powerfully with the 
hearers of the word, and for this we can pray in 
faith,—but to expect the conversion of the world 
is to look for what God has not promised. I be-
lieve, as Matthew Henry says in his Commentary 
on Luke 18:8, that " the world will grow no bet-
ter, no, not when it is drawing towards its period. 
Bad it is, and bad it will be, and worst of all 
just before Christ's coming ; the last times will 
be the most perilous." Such obviously is the 
doctrine of Christ, Paul, James, Peter, Jude and 
John. See Matt. 13:24-30,36-43 ; 24:37-44 ; 
2 Thess. 2:1-8 ; 2 Tim. 3rd chap ; James 5:1-8 ; 
2 Pet. 3:3,4 ; John 2:18 ; Jude 1Y-19. 
The following old poem of Herrick giving di-
rections for keeping a true 11Pat, being based on 
Scripture and common sense is submitted to the 
consideration of those who fast, and pray for a 
revival of God's work ; and I am sure if profess-
ed Christians generally would thus fast, they 
might soon see better days and have occasion for 
thanksgiving, but can we expect they will do it ? 
" Is this a Fast,—to keep 
The larder leane, 
And clean, 
From fat of veales and sheep ? 
Is it to quit the dish 
Of flesh, yet still 
To fill 
The platter high with fish ? 
Is it to faste an houre, 
Or rag'd to go, 
Or show 
A downcast look and soure ? 
No ; 'tis a Fast, to dole 
Thy sheaf of wheat, 
And meat, 
Unto the hungry soule. 
It is a Fast, from strife, 
From old debate, 
And hate, 
To circumcise thy life ; 
To show a heart grief-rent ; 
To starve thy sin, 
Not bin ; 
And that's to keep thy Lent." 
January 12th. Went to Derby Line, Vt.,—
attended to duties about home and next day re-
turned to Magog. On Saturday the 14th I went 
to Shefford where I remained over two Sabbaths, 
preached eleven times, attended two stated prayer 
meetings of the church, and visited over a score 
of families. I was glad to find Bro. Hutchin-
son at home again and to have with him a social 
interview. He has been to me a " true yoke-fel- 
low" and constant friend. He was present at 
most of the above mentioned meetings, and as-
sisted in the administration of the Lord's supper 
on Sunday the 22nd, but is too feeble for much 
public labor. If it were the will of the Chief 
Shepherd to restore him to health again, so that 
he could labor as in former years, I would rejoice, 
for his help appears to us to be needed. But the 
cause with which we are identified is, like Saul 
among the people, head and shoulders above 
every other,—it is the cause of Christ, and he 
has more interest in it than we have. The pro-
clamation of the kingdom of God at hand will 
be made, and if some are laid aside other instru-
mentalities will be employed. 
While in Waterloo, I had the pleasure of hear-
ing the Rev. W. Jones, Episcopal clergyman of 
Granby, C. E., preach a funeral sermon. His 
text was 1 Corinth. 15:49,53, " and as we have 
borne the image of the earthy, we shall also 
bear the image of the heavenly. . • for this cor-
ruptible must put on incorruption, and this mor-
tal must put on immortality." After an exordi-
um in which he chewed that if there is no future 
state our motto might well be, " Let us eat and 
drink, for to-morrow we die ;" but if there is, we 
should say, Let us deny ourselves and live to God, 
—he proceeded to prove that the Scriptures teach 
a literal resurrection of the dead, and that while 
the risen body may differ in many respects from 
the one we now have, yet it will retain its iden-
tity, and even its form and lineaments may be so 
far retained as to produce recognition in the 
heavenly state, as may be inferred from the words, 
" ye shall see Abraham, Isaac and Jacob in the 
kingdom of God." The characteristics of the 
future body which he mentioned were (1) Incor-
ruptibility :—" for this corruptible must put on 
incorruption." The present body being of the 
earth, earthy, its natural tendency is to corrup-
tion, but when raised from the dead it will have 
no such tendency. (2) Immortality :—" for this 
mortal must put on immortality." (3) Glory :—
for " it is sown in dishonor, it is raised in glory." 
When our Savior was transfigured on the mount 
" his face did shine as the sun and his raiment 
was white as the light," and this the apostle 
Peter, when referring to it, calls " the excellent 
glory ;" and as our vile body will be " fashioned 
like unto his glorious body," this serves as an il-
lustration of how we will then appear. (4) 
strength :-!for " it is sown in weakness, it is 
raised in power." We will be made " equal un-
to the angels" in strength, and thus enabled to 
bear the " eternal weight of glory." (5) It will 
be a spiritual body : " it is sown a natural body, 
it is raised a spiritual body." And (6) It will 
be like Christ's :—" Beloved, now are we the 
sons of God, and it doth not yet appear what we 
shall be, but we know that when he shall appear, 
we shall be like him ; for we shall see him as he 
is." The doctrine of the resurrection was shown 
to have been the hope and comfort of the people 
of God in past ages, by reference to the words 
of Job (chap. 19:25,26) and David (Psalm 17: 
15) which were paraphrased. 
Though this was in some respects the best ser-
mon I have heard for a long time, yet it lacked 
one important feature,--the speaker failed to 
show that the blessedness of this resurrection be-
longed exclusively to Paul and his brethren—
the church of the living God—and that if we are not 
Christ's we must come forth in " the resurrection 
of damnation" to " shame and everlasting con-
tempt." There was not that faithful, urgent ap-
peal to the unconverted which the occasion re-
quired. This I regretted, as there was ample 
time and the opportunity was a good one. 0 
how often do ministers come short of their duty 
in this particular ! I have frequently thought 
there was much force and propriety in the re-
mark it is said a farmer who was well acquainted 
with spiritual husbandry, once made. When 
asked what he thought of a) certain minister who 
was more than suspected of preaching smooth 
things, he replied, " He seems to be a good man, 
but he will rake with the teeth up." Yes, when 
a preacher shrinks from denouncing intemperance 
as a sin, because some of his members think they 
can " drink the cup of the Lord and the cup of 
demons,"—or promiscuous dancing, because some 
of his hearers are " lovers of pleasures more than 
lovers of God," and therefore indulge in " revel- 
lings,"—or vice in any form, because some of the 
wealthy and worldly-wise in his congregation are 
among the guilty, I am sure he must be more 
afraid of his head than John the Baptist was ; 
and if he rakes at all, it is with the teeth. up. 
January 23rd. Came to Magog, expecting to 
return to Stanstead immediately,. but, at the sol-
icitation of friends, consented to remain a few 
days and hold meetings. 
Tuesday, 31st. I closed my labors in this 
section this evening, having preached twice at 
the Outlet; once at the Page school house (the 
funeral sermon of Bro. L. Spinney's youngest 
child) ; and six times in the Ward school house. 
In the latter place the most interest was manifest-
ed : several backsliders confessed their wander-
ings and intention to return to Him who has said, 
" I will heal their backsliding, I will love them 
freely ;" while others publicly expressed a deter-
mination to flee from the wrath to come, who 
had not before " confessed with the mouth the 
Lord Jesus." Though all was not accomplished 
that we desired and hoped to see, yet good was 
done, and we will ascribe the glory to Him in 
whose name we " set up our banners." 
Here let me raise my " Ebenezer, saying, 
Hitherto hath the Lord helped us ;" but while I 
do so and rejoice that I have been enabled during 
the month to travel 175 miles, and preach on an 
average of once a day, beside attending to other 
duties connected with the cause of the Coming 
One, I would not be forgetful of God's dear saints 
who are confined to beds of languishing, weari-
some days and nights being appointed to them, 
and who as much do the will of God by patient 
suffering as others do by public service. Should 
these remarks be read by any such, I would say 
to them, 
" With patient mind thy course of duty run; 
God nothing does nor suffers to be done, 
But thou wouldst do thyself, couldst thou but see 
The end of all events as well as He." 
Rely then upon his promises ; trust to his wis-
dom ; confide in his love, and " commit the keep-
ing of thy soul to him in well doing as unto a 
faithful Creator." Remember, " they also serve 
who wait," and whether we are called to do, or 
suffer, may we be accounted worthy at last to 
meet in the heavenly Jerusalem, where " His 
servants shail serve him" without weariness and 
woe, and dwell in his presence forever. 
J. M. ORROCK. 
Magog, C. E. 
Early New England Adventism ; 
Or the views of the early American Christians 
respecting the Doctrines of the Return of the 
Jews, Conversion of the World, Kingdom of 
God, New Earth,'Millennium, Prophecy, Fall 
of Antichrist, Time of the End, Second Ad-
vent of Christ, cy-c. By DANIEL T. TAYLOR. 
Entered according to Act of Congress, in the year 1858, by 
Dani. T. Taylor, in the Clerk's Office of the District Court 
for the District of Massachusetts. 
NO, XXI.—THOMAS WALLEY AND SAMUEL WHIT- 
ING. 
Thomas Walley was born in England and by 
the unrighteous act concerning non-conformists, 
driven to the wilderness of N. E. 1663 to find 
religious freedom, and became the first minister 
to the infant church at Barnstable, Mass. �
All 
his biographers, C. ,Mather, Allen, and Sprague, 
highly applaud his goodness, piety and learning. 
He was the author of " Balm in Gilead to heal 
Zion's wounds," &c., 1669, an election sermon, 
but in it says nothing on prophecy or the advent. 
Indeed I find in none of his printed writings any 
allusion to the millenarian views which he is said 
to have cherished, and doubt if he wrote anything 
of that character, which is now preserved. But 
he evidently adopted the views of the early church, 
Mede and the Mathers, as is proved by the follow-
ing 
In the Preface to Increase Mather's " Dis-
course concerning Faith and fervency in Prayer," 
&c., Boston, 1710, on page 17, among other 
names of " the ancient pastors of N. E.," who 
held the pre-millennial personal advent and reign 
occurs that of " Mr. Walley." Only this fact is 
stated and nothing further. Dr. Mather was his 
personal friend, and would undoubtedly have 
known his faith. Again, in another work print- 
ed, I think, the following year, 1711, Presi-
dent Mather brings forward Walley as one of this 
class of witnesses,but the work is so scarce I have 
not been able as yet to lay my hand upon it.—
But Cotton Mather, in his valuable " Magnalia," 
has given the substance of his father's testimony. 
In the edition of 1820, Vol. I. pp. 547-8, he 
thus writes : 
" I will now so far discover myself, as to ap-
plaud this worthy man for two things which, it 
may be, many good men will count worthy rath- 
er of reproach than applause. �
One is this : in 
my father's preface to his discourses on the New 
Jerusalem, I meet with this passage : Though 
it hath been generally thought that the First Res-
urrection spoken of in the Apocalypse, is to be 
understood only in a mystical sense, yet some of 
the first and eminent teachers in these churches 
believed the First Resurrection to be corporeal. 
So did Mr. Davenport, Mr. Hook, and of later 
years that man of an excellent spirit, Mr. Thom-
as Walley, pastor of the church in Barnstable.' 
Thus,—continues Cotton, did our pious chiliast 
Walley, it seems, come to his thoughts, as Joseph 
Mede before him did, and as in times of more il-
lumination learned men must and will." 
This evidence is clear and unimpeachable, to 
show that Walley held to a literal first resurrec-
tion and personal reign. It is ardently to be 
hoped that as " the times of more illumination" 
are come, the " learned men" of this century will 
many more of them, like Mede and Walley, 
" come to their thought" on this all important 
question. Walley departed this life in 1678-9, 
aged about 61 years. 
Samuel Whiting, A. M., had his birth in Bos-
ton, Eng. 1597, came to America because of his 
non-conformity in 1636, " the ecclesiastical 
sharks," observes C. Mather, " driving him over 
the Atlantic Sea unto the American strand."—
He became the first minister at Lynn, Mass., and 
his accomplishments, deep religious tone, classi-
cal erudition and peaceable temper endeared him 
to all men. Mather quaintly observes of him 
that " he would have thought himself afish out of 
his element if he had ever been at any time any-
where but in the Pacific Sea." �
He lived to the 
age of 82, dying in 1679. He wrote four works. 
One was on the judgment day, and I copy its 
title from "A. Lewis' History of Lynn. Boston 
1829," thus :— 
" A Discourse on the Last Judgment, or short 
notes upon Matt. 25, from verse 31 to the end 
of the chapter, concerning the judgment to come 
and our preparation to stand before the great 
Judge of quick and dead ; which are of sweetest 
comforts to the elect sheep, and a most dreadful 
amazement and terror to reprobate goats. 160 pp. 
12mo. Cambridge (Mass.?) 1664." 
This work I have sought New England over, 
(but in vain) to find, and conclude it must be ex-
ceedingly rare. Cotton Mather gives the follow-
ing account of it, with which my readers must 
for the present be content. Writing of another 
work of Whiting's, he says :— 
" But 'that which encouraged him unto this 
publication was the acceptance which it had be-
fore this been found by another Treatise of his 
upon the day of judgment itself. In the eighth 
chapter of Isaiah, the Lord promises a time of 
wondrous light, and joy unto his restored people, 
and the consolations' of a lasting Sabbatism ; 
things to be accomplished at the second coming 
of our Lord. Now to prepare for that blessed-
ness, those very things are required which our 
Lord Jesus Christ afterwards mentioned in the 
25th chapter of Matthew, as the qualifications of 
those whom he will admit into his blessed king 
dom. There seems at least a little reason for it 
that at the second coming of our Lord, one of 
the first things will be a glorious translation 
wherein the members of Christian churches will 
he called before him and be examined, in order 
to the determination of their state under the New 
Jerusalem that is to follow: either to take their part 
in the glories of that city and kingdom, for the 
thousand years to come, and by consequence what 
ensues thereupon, or to be exiled into the confu-
sions of them that are to be without. Now though 
'tis possible, that whole discourse of our Lord 
may refer to no mbre than this transaction, yet, 
1 inasmuch as the generality of interpreters have 
THE ADVENT HERALD. �
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• 
but 
When man sinned,hissin,like a disruptive earth-
quake, rent this place we call the earth from that 
grand continent which we call home and heaven. 
In that tremendous chasm which disruptive sin 
dug between happy heaven and our poor, lost, 
stray, sinful earth, a broad, deep, moaning sea 
rises and beats against each strand continually. 
How can that chasm be crossed ? Ask the infi-
del, and he will tell you you must take a leap in 
the dark ; if you miss the opposite shore, you 
perish. Ask the Romanist ; he will tell you the 
church is the bridge that will carry you across. 
Ask the New Testament, ask the Son of God ; 
and in his own majestic and emphatic accents, he 
replies " I am the way; no man cometh to the Fa-
ther, but by me." As God, he touches the shores 
of the great continent of heaven ; as man, he 
touches the opposite shore of the disrupted island of 
time ; as God-man, he unites the twain into one ; 
reaching the very heights of God's throne ; so 
that the most depressed, the most forsaken, and 
most guilty sinner, has but to enter upon that 
better than Jacob's ladder, which will carry him 
from the lowest depths to which sin has sunk him 
to the greatest heights to which God's love can 
possibly raise him.---lb. 
The Reign of Peace, 
Perhaps you will cry, " Why does my friend 
not look at the other side of the medal—tell of 
Revivals and the coming of the Kingdom ?"— 
(which has come.) �
I have read and thought 
much, and would fain hope and believe all things 
good, But I saw very closely the rise of Irvin-
gism. I knew how much of holy desire and ex-
pectation was connected with that development. 
That gives me pause. Then I firmly and rever-
ently hold to this :—that the truth of God con-
cerning his Son is the (sole) instrument for the 
renovation of the world. �
I have been unable 
to satisfy myself that these movements have been 
preceded or accompanied by the faithful preach-
ing of " Jesus and the resurrection." Indeed it 
s a curious fact, that I have, in all, seen but two 
Burning of Richmond Theatre. 
As the public mind is now deeply interested in 
the shocking calamity which �
just occurred at 
Lawrence, it may be well to bring to the notice 
of this generation a like catastrophe which befel 
the people of RichMond, Va., on the evening of 
Dec. 20th, 1811. It is somewhat different in its 
nature and extent from that of the Pemberton 
Mills, and yet in many respects not less horrible. 
In the burning of the Theatre about seventy per-
sons lost their lives, and among these were Geo. 
W. Smith, Governor of the State, and Abram 
B. Venable, President of the Richmond Bank. 
Those who perished were generally from the first 
families, and comprised the youth, the beauty and 
the fashion of the city. 
The winter opened with an uncommon rage for 
amusements of all kinds, and on this fated even-
ing there was to be a new play for the benefit of 
Mr Placide. Crowds swarmed tolthe theatre—
it was the largest house of the season, and not 
less than 600 were present. The play went off 
---the pantomime began---the first act was over, 
and all around was mirth and vanity. At this 
moment the scenery caught fire, and in a few mo-
ments the whole building was wrapt in flames ! 
The cry of fire ! fire! passed with electric veloci-
ty throughout the whole house, and the scene 
which followed was horrible beyond description. 
There was but one door for the greatest part of 
the audience to pass. Men, women and children 
were pressing upon each other, while the flames 
were seizing upon those behind. Most if not all 
of those who were in the pit escaped, while those 
in the boxes were unable to get down the stairs 
before the flames overtook' them. Those behind, 
urged by the pressing flame, pushed those out 
who were nearest the windows, and people of ev- 
ery description began to fall one upon another---
some with their clothes on fire, and some half 
roasted ! The most heart-rending cries pervaded 
the house. Wives asking for their husbands---
females and children shrieking, while the gather-
ing element came rolling on its curling flames and 
columns of smoke---threatening to devour every 
human being in the building. 
Many were trodden under foot. �
The stair- 
ways were blocked up, and the throng was so 
great that many were raised several feet over the 
heads of the rest. Within ten minutes after the 
fire caught the whole house was wrapped in flames 
and the scene which ensued it is impossible to 
paint. �
Women with dishevelled hair, fathers 
and mothers shrieking out for their children--
husbands for their wives, brothers for their sis-
ters, filled the whole area outside of the building. 
Some who had escaped plunged again into the 
flames to save some dear object of their regard, 
and they perished. Others were alike frantic, 
and would have rushed to destruction but for the 
band of a friend to keep them back. The bells 
tolled, and almost the whole town rushed to the 
fatal spot. 
This certainly was a sad day, and an awful re-
buke to the pleasure-loving people of Rich-
mond. 
We find in the Richmond Enquirer of Dec. 
28th, 1811, the following notice : " At a meeting 
of the Government of Richmond, Dec. 27th, a 
committee was appointed to cause to be collected 
the remains of persons who perished at the Thea-
tre, and to place in urns or coffins such as could 
not be recognized by relatives or friends. �
The 
suspension of all business for 48 hours was direc-
ted, and that no public shows or dances should be 
allowed for four months." 
At a meeting also of the citizens on the same 
day---" A committee was appointed for Richmond 
and a committee for Manchester---it was recom-
mended that Wednesday, the first of January, 
1812, should be observed as a day of Fasting and 
Prayer; and that on that day the Rev. Messrs. 
Buchanan and Blair be requested to deliver fun-
eral discourses, and that .the citizens will wear 
crape for one month." 
For the remainder of the winter the hitherto 
neglected churches were filled with solemn and 
attentive worshippers.—Portland Advertiser. 
The Pope and Napoleon. 
THE POPE'S ALLOCUTION. 
The following is the allocution delivered on 
New Year's Day by the Holy Father, in reply to 
the congratulations offered to him by General 
Count de Goyon, at the head of the officers of his 
division. The allocution would not perhaps have 
been delivered if his holiness had before received 
the letter which the Emperor addressed to him on 
the 31st of December, and which will be found 
below : 
" Gentlemen : 
" If we have every year received with pleas-
ure the wishes which you have expressed to us 
in the name of the brave officers and the army 
you so worthily command, those wishes are doub-
ly dear to us to-day, in consequence of the ex-
ceptional events which have succeeded each other 
and because you assure us that the French divis-
ion in the Pontifical States is placed there for 
the defence of the rights of Catholi3ism. May 
God, therefore, bless you and the whole French 
army. May He also bless all classes of that gen-
erous nation. 
" In prostrating ourselves at the feet of that 
Providence who was, is, and will be to all eter-
nity, we beseech Him in the humility of our 
heart to abundantly shower down his grace and 
his wisdom on the august chief of that army and 
of that nation, in order that, being enlightened 
by that wisdom, he may walk safely in his diffi-
cult road, and still admit the falseness of certain 
principles which have lately appeared in a pam-
phlet which may be called a striking monument 
of hypocrisy and an ignoble tissue of contradic-
tions. We hope—we will go further, and say 
that we are convinced—that he will, by the aid 
of that wisdom, condemn the principles contain-
ed in that publication, and we are more convinced 
of this that we possess documents which his Maj- 
esty some time since had the kindness to send us 
and which are a complete condemnation of those 
principles. �
It is with that conviction that we 
pray God to shower down his blessings on the 
Emperor, on his august consort, on the Prince 
Imperial and on the whole of France." 
NAPOLEON'S LETTER. 
The following is the letter of the Emperor. It 
is calm, dignifide, and determined in its spirit. 
It contains no deceptive compliments but tells 
the Pope some plain things in plain words. 
MOST HOLY FATHER :—The letter which your 
Holiness wrote to me on the 2d December has 
deeply moved me, and I will reply with an entire 
frankness to your appeal to my good faith. 
One of the most serious preoccupations during 
the war, as well as after it, was the situation of 
the States of the Church, and certainly among the 
most powerful reasons which induced me to make 
peace so promptly must be reckoned the fear of 
seeing revolution every day acquire greater pro-
portions. Facts are stubborn things, and in spite 
of my devotedness to the Holy See, and not with-
standing the presence of my troops at Rome, I 
could not escape from a certain solidarity with 
the effects of the national movement produced in 
Italy by the contest against Austria. 
Peace being concluded, I hastened to write to 
your Holiness, to submit to you the ideas which 
in my opinion were best calculated to lead to the 
pacification of the Romagna ; and I still think 
that if at that period your Holiness had consent-
ed to an administrative separation of those prov-
inces and to the nomination of a lay governor, 
they would have returned under your authority. 
Unfortunately, that did not take place, and I 
found myself powerless to prevent the establish- 
ment of a new regime. �
My efforts have only 
had the effect of preventing the revolution from 
extending, and the resignation of Garibaldi has 
preserved the Marches of Ancona from certain 
invasion. 
At present the Congress is about to meet.—
The Powers cannot set at naught the incontesta-
ble rights of the Holy See over the Legations ; 
nevertheless, the probability is they will be of 
opinion not to have recourse to violence to make 
them submit, for if that submission were to be 
obtained by aid of foreign force it would be nec-
essary to occupy the Legations militarily during 
a long period. �
That occupation would nourish 
the hatred and rancor of a great portion of the 
Italian people, as well as the jealousy of the great 
Powers—it would therefore be the cause of per-
petuating a state of irritation, uneasiness and 
alarm. 
What, therefore, remains to be done, for this 
state of uncertainty cannot endure for ever ? Af-
ter a serious examination of the difficulties and 
of the dangers contained in the different combina-
tions, I say, with sincere regret, and however 
painful the solution may be, that what appears to 
me to be the most conformable to the true inter-
ests of the Holy See would be to make the sacri-
fice of the revolted provinces. If your Holiness 
for the repose of Europe, would renounce those 
provinces, which for fifty years have been a source 
of embarrassment to your government, and were 
in exchange to demand from the Powers to guar-
antee to you the possession of the remainder, I 
have no doubt that order would be immediately 
restored. �
Then your Holiness would secure a 
grateful Italy long years of peace, and to the Ho-
ly See the tranquil possession of the Church. 
Your Holiness, I am willing to believe, will 
not misunderstand the feelings by which I am 
animated; you will comprehend the difficulty of 
my situation—will interpret with kindness the 
candor of my language, while calling to mind all 
that I have done for the Catholic religion and for 
its august head. 
I have expressed without reserve all my ideas 
and I have considered it indispensable to do so 
before the meeting of the Congress, but I beg 
your Holiness, whatever may be your decision, 
to feel assured that it will make no change in the 
line of conduct which I. have always adopted 
towards you. 
In thanking your Holiness for the Apostolical 
benediction which you send to the Empress, the 
Prince Imperial and to myself, I renew the as- 
heads 
ed for his weekly exercises ; nevertheless bT r. 
Wilson and Mr. Mitchel observe in their Preface 
thereunto, that the reader by having much in a 
little room is the better furnished with variety of 
matter worthy of meditation, for want of which 
many a man digests little of what he reads.'" 
See Magnalia, Vol. I. p. 458-9. 
The adventual character of Whiting's rare vol-
ume is here made apparent, and from the tenor 
of the Doctor's language I am of opinion it dis-
cusses the nature and grandeur of a future mil-
lennial period of judgment, such as was held by the 
Jews and by Joseph Mede. It is significant that 
he made it to the righteous a day of " sweetest 
comforts,"--" Day long wished for by the good," 
saith the sainted 
The Good News. 
Wherever God's heat is felt his love shall 
glow ; wherever the winds of heaven whisper, 
there God's spirit shall breathe ; wherever there 
are sinners wandering through the world, there 
shall be white-robed saints finding an everlasting 
home; and whenever death has carried off his 
victim, there the angel of the resurrection shall 
sit waiting for the rosy dawn of Approaching day, 
and giving testimony prophetic of its approach, 
when the trumpet shall sound, and the dead shall 
be raised, and the living shall be changed ; and 
the green vales of earth shall be covered with 
imperishable verdure, and the mountain peaks 
shall burn with rosy sunbeams that never fade ; 
and the islands of the earth shall blossom like 
Eden, and the continents of the world like heav-
en ; and all height, and depth, and space, and 
time, shall bless God and be blessed in him.—
Such are the good news. 
From the Great Tribulation, by Dr. Cumming. 
The Bridged Chasm. 
carried it unto the more general and ultimate 
proceedints of the last judgment, our Whiting 
did so too, and he has given us forty-two doc-
trines thereupon, so handled as to suit the edifi-
cation of all readers. The notes are short, and some good stout " prejudices" in regard to Pres- 
the concise �
of what the author prepar- byterianism, theoretical and practical. Clerical 
corporations, of any name, come of evil, are evil, 
lead to evil. That is a summary of ecclesiastical 
and other history ! �
Irish Presbyterianism has 
been a little—Irish ; turbulent, " Orange," and 
of this world ; and eke, pitchy—with itching 
palms. It " sucks the breasts" of the tax-gather- 
er. �
It cooks strange statistics for the Treasury, 
and manufactures or adulterates minimum sub-
scription-lists, after the manner of Wall-street, 
and would put me out of the synagogue, if I were 
in it, for merely hinting at these unpleasant facts. 
Therefore, and wherefore, I cannot yet view in 
the revivals a door of hope through which one 
may emerge from a dark and polluted Achor.—
This is one view, or half-view, of Revivals, and 
Pollok. �
the Reign of Peace to be inaugurated. 
Revivals and Reign of Peace ! Yes, while I 
am writing I hear sounds of another revival, of 
the character of which there is no mistake. The 
sounds are the crack of rifles, the revival that of 
the military spirit in England. "England is not 
a military nation." Certainly not, Herr Tens-
chen ! Assuredly not, Monsieur Crapeau ! Eng-
land is only a kennel of undisciplined and most 
unscientific bull-dogs ; dogs of the doggedest.—
Whistle, shout, clap your hands, show an object 
for the teeth, and into it they go, and in it they 
stay, though it be brass itself. �
It is affecting 
and impressive that the state of the popular mind 
or what we call " mind," should be such that there 
could be little surprise were a state of war with 
France to be made to-morrow. 
* * * * Twelve years since, I stood with 
Joseph Sturge and Elihu Burrit at the railway 
station at Brussels. �
There we met, in Peace 
Congress, and I believe the blessings of the peo-
ple were upon us. " They were glad to see us in 
their streets." " Where is the bressedness?"—
Where the Progress ? Where restraints on am-
bitious and bloody men ? Where the restraints 
upon malicious and regal idiots, as of Naples? 
Can we even now make of a Congress anything 
more than a conspiracy of butchers and burglars, 
" owners" of human cattle, squabbling, cheating 
and intriguing over their herds ?—Correspond-
ent of the N. Y. independent. 
recognitions of these fundamental principles, in 
all the accounts which I have read. This occa-
sions some reserve in my estimate. 
Then, in respect to Ireland particularly, I have 
THE ADVENT HERALD, 
away to the shadowy horizon. To realize the Old 
Testament, Layard should be read. That ancient 
portion of the Bible ceases to be the dim, far-off re-
cord it has heretofore appeared ; light gleams all 
along its pages ; its actors live and move before us ; 
we become ourselves sharers in the story ; and the 
past, for the moment, is vivified into the present. 
" The confirmation of the truth of the Scripture 
derived from the sculptures of Nineveh, is not less 
remarkable. The bas-reliefs on the walls of the pala-
ces, now just restored to light, after being entombed 
for nearly two thousand years, verify perpetually 
the Hebrew Bible. There is still to be seen the wild 
bull in the net mentioned in Isaiah : the Babylonian 
princes in vermillion, with dyed attire on their heads, 
described by Ezekiel ; and warriors bringing the 
heads of their enemies in caskets, to cast them down 
at the palace gates, as was done with the heads of the 
seventy sans of Ahab. There too, are painted shields 
hung on the walls of besieged towns, as we are told by 
the Jewish prophet he beheld at Tyre. There are the 
forts built over against the beleaguered city ; the 
king placing his foot on the necks of the captive 
princes ; and the idols of the conquered carried away 
by victors, precisely as described by Hosea and other 
sacred authors. There are also the Assyrian gods, 
still the same as when their portrait was drawn five 
and twenty centuries ago—cut from•the trees of the 
forest, decked with silver and gold, fastened with 
nails, and clothed with purple and blue. The very 
star to which Amos alludes is yet on those palace 
walls, above the horned cap of the idol, though the 
worshippers have been dead for thousands of years, 
and though the wild beasts, as predicted, have long 
made their lairs there. 
" Even the enormous circumference which Jonah 
gives to the walls of Nineveh is fully corroborated. 
—The three days' journey of the prophet is still re-
quired to make the circuit of the great ruins on the 
east hank of the Tigris—for the people of Mesopota-
mia built their cities as the Hindoos still construct 
theirs.—First one king erected a palace, around 
which grew up a town ; then a new monarch built 
one,for fresh air on the verge of the open country, 
whither soon followed another town ; and this pro-
cess was repeated till several contiguous cities were 
decaying and being erected, all passing, however, 
under the general name, and covering together an 
extent of ground which would otherwise be incredi-
ble. The light thrown on Scripture, the confirma-
tion afforded to the Bible by these recent discoveries 
at Nineveh, is so remarkable that it almost seems as 
if that ancient city, atter being buried, had been al-
lowed to be disinterred solely to confound the folly 
of modern skepticism."—Boston Investigator. 
To Correspondents. 
Short and appropriate articles, of one column or less, 
are solicited from those who have well digested thoughts 
to communicate. Any writer whose article or enquiry is 
not promptly noticed, will please to call the editor's atten-
tion to the omission. 
pen. 
That Note. 
We are sorry to announce so small a show of re-
ceipts this week towards the cancelling of the small 
balance now due on the remaining Note. We great-
ly desire to indorse the third hundred dollars on it 
by the first of March, and to have it. entirely paid 
before the next Quarterly meeting of the Standing 
Committee, in April. Will not those who are think-
ing to send in one, two, three, five, ten, fifteen, or 
twenty-five dollars, each fur that purpose, do at 
once as the princes and people of the, ancient Israel 
did ?—who " rejoiced, and brought in, and cast into 
the chest, until they had made an end," 2 Ch. 24: 
10. In the days of Hezekiah, when the tithes and 
offerings to the Lord greatly accumulated the testi-
mony among Israel was : " Since the people began 
to bring the offerings into the house of the Lord, we 
have had enough to eat, and have left plenty ; for 
the Lord bath blessed his people !" It is not al-
ways considered that giving generously may impov-
erish much less than withholding. For as the Lord 
loveth the cheerful giver, he may bless in proportion 
as he loveth. 
S. Chapman. Yours in our next. 
H. Buckley. Accepted,—please continue your 
OUR EXPOSITION OF DANIEL'S PROPHECY. We are 
interrupted a little in the prosecution of this, but 
are preparing to resume it immediately after the 
completion of our articles on the Lord's prayer. 
In the meantime, if any one wishes to see the il-
lustration of the image which we described in our 
last No., sufficiently to send a $10 bill to pay for its 
engraving, he can be accommodated ; but if no one 
shall thus respond, we shall take it for granted that 
it is not called for. 
OFFICE HOURS. 
For the purpose of having oppor-
tunity to write editorials without interruption, we 
are obliged to divide the day into two parts. In the 
forenoon, we may be found at the office, to attend 
surance of my profound veneration of your Ho- 
liness. �
Your devout son, 
NAPOLEON. 
Palace of the Tuileries, Dec. 31st, 1859. 
ADVENT HERALD. 
BOSTON, FEBRUARY 25, 1860. 
SYLVESTER BLISS, EDITOR. 
The readers of the Herald are most earnestly besought to 
give it room in their prayers; that by means of it God may 
be honored and his truth advanced ; also, that it may be 
conducted in faith and love, with sobriety of judgment and 
discernment of the truth, in nothing carried away into 
error, or hasty speech, or sharp, unbrotherly disputation. 
THE TERMS OF THE IIERALD. The terms of the 
Herald are two dollars a year, in advance ;—with 
as large an addition, as the generosity of donors 
shall open their hearts to give, towards the comple-
tion of the payment of the purchase of the office 
by the A.M.A. ; and to make the Association an 
efficient instrumentality for good. 
OUR LORD'S PRAYER. 
To do this will, the apostle commands that ye" be 
not conformed to this world : but be transformed by 
the renewing of your mind, that ye may prove what 
is that good, and acceptable, and perfect will of God," 
Rom. 12:2. " Now the God of peace that brought 
again from the dead our Lord Jesus, that great Shep- 
herd of the sheep, through the blood of the ever-
lasting covenant, 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," IIeh. 13:20,1. 
For us to be able to say," I delight to do thy will 
0 my God : yea thy law is within my heart" (Psa. 
40:8), we need devoutly to pray, " Teach me to do 
thy will ; for thou art my God," (Psa. 143:10 ; 
" Show me thy ways, 0 Lord ; teach me thy paths ; 
lead, me in the way of thy truth, and teach me," 
Psa. 25:4,5. By so doing, all may be " filled with 
the knowledge of his will in all wisdom and spiritual 
understanding," Col. 1:9. And " blessed are they 
that do his commandments, that they may have 
right to the tree of life, and may eater in through 
the gates into the city," Rev. 22:14. For " whoso-
ever shall do and teach them, shall be called great 
in the kingdom of heaven," Matt. 5:19. 
The will of God however, will not be done perfect-
ly on this earth, so long as sin defiles it, or a sinner 
remains in it. And therefore, to usher in that time, 
" the nation and kingdom that will not serve" the 
Lord " shall perish, yea those nations shall be utter-
ly wasted," Isaiah 60:12. " The Son of man shall 
send forth his angels, and they shall gather out of 
his kingdom all things that offend, and them which 
do iniquity," Matt. 13:41. " The Lord Jesus shall 
be revealed from heaven with his mighty angels, in 
flaming fire, taking vengeance on them that know 
not God, and that obey not the gospel of our Lord 
Jesus Christ." 2 Th. 1:7,8. And this destruction 
of the wicked on the earth was symbolized to John, 
when " the remnant were slain with the sword of 
him that sat upon the horse, which sword proceeded 
out of his mouth, and all the fowls were filled with 
their flesh," Rev. 19:21. Christ will "smite the na-
tions" that refuse to do God's will ; " and he shall 
rule them with a rod of iron : and he treadeth the 
wine press of the fierceness and wrath of Almighty 
God," v. 17. "The destruction of the transgressors 
and of the sinners shall be together, and they that 
forsake the Lord shall be consumed," Isa. 1:28. 
When our Saviour shall thus " thoroughly purge 
his floor, and gather the wheat into his garner," 
(Matt. 3:12.), " It shall come to pass that every 
one that is left of all the nations which came against 
Jerusalem shall even go up from year to year to 
worship the King, the Lord of hosts, and to keep the 
feast of tabernacles," Zech. 14:16. "So shall 
they fear the name of the Lord from the west, and 
his glory from the rising of the sun," Isa. 59:19. 
" From the rising of the sun even unto the going 
down of the same my name," saith Jehovah, "shall 
be great among the Gentiles ; and in every place in-
cense shall be offered unto my name, and a pure of-
fering," Mal. 1:11. And " all the earth shall be 
filled with the glory of the Lord," Num. 14:21. 
" For the earth shall be filled with the know-
ledge of the glory of the Lord as the waters 
cover the sea," Hab. 2:14. Then " they shall 
teach no more every man his neighbor, and 
every man his brother, saying, know the Lord : 
for they shall all know me, from the least of them 
unto the greatest of them, saith the Lord ; for I will 
forgive their iniquity, and I will remember their sin 
no more," Jer. 31:34. Then " the inhabitant shall 
not say I am sick : the people that dwell therein 
shall be forgiven their iniquity," Isaiah 33:24. The 
" people shall be all righteous ; they shall inherit 
the land for ever," Ib. 60:21. And thus, the earth 
restored to its Divine allegiance, the will of God 
will be thenceforth done on the earth as it is now 
done in the heavens. 
to any business in connection therewith. But in the 
P. M. we attend to our editoriai duties aiahome.—
Those wishing to see the editor personally, will 
therefore please to call at the office in the forenoon. 
Elder Burnham is still continuing' his labors at 
the Chapel, and the interest in them continues. He 
is in a very good condition of mind, and will be 
likely to carry the Lord's blessing with him wherev-
er he may labor. We learn that he has been invit-
ed to North Attleboro' to labor for a season, when 
other engagements shall enable his compliance with 
the request. 
To R. Robertson, Esq., our English Agent. Will 
you be kind enough to send us a copy of the two 
volumes of Birks' Visions of Daniel, and charge in 
your account with the A.M.A.—informing us of 
their price and cost of transportation. 
THE PENNSYLVANIA OIL FEVER. The natural oil 
discovered in Pennsylvania, of which frequent men-
tion has been made, is found in a district lying in 
Venango, Warren and Crawford counties, about 20 
by 30 miles in extent. It lies about 20 m. north of 
the great bituminuous coal field, of which Pittsburg 
is the centre. There seems to be no doubt, says the 
Philadelphia Bulletin, that this natural production 
is coal oil. It has been known to exist there for 
half a century, having been found floating upon the 
waters of " Oil Creek" and other streams in the 
northwestern part of the State, but it is only lately 
that it has been ascertained to exist in vast quanti-
ties, capable of being made a source of great profit. 
The oil is obtained in a very simple manner, being 
pumped up just as water would be, barrelled, and 
for some purposes, refined. There are springs or 
mines which yield as largely as fourteen or sixteen 
hundred gallons per day. The oil is worth fifty or 
sixty cents per gallon. It is said to be superior to 
kerosene, for burning, and is suitable for lubricating 
purposes. It is of course impossible to determine 
how large this deposit of coal oil is, but the parties 
engaged in securing it db not as yet find any reason 
to doubt that it is very extensive. The Bulletin calls 
attention to the following singular fact in connection 
with this discovery. 
" It is known that at Fredonia, in New York, 
there is a natural gas which is used for lighting the 
town. But Fredonia lies some thirty or forty miles 
immediately north of the point where this natural 
oil is found. There is an almost certain connection 
between these two products. We find first the vast 
bituminous coal region, perhaps a hundred and fifty 
miles long by fifty or more broad. Twenty miles 
beyond its termination the coal is found in the shape 
of oil. Some thirty or forty miles further north, 
and in the same line, it is found in the shape of gas. 
This is surely very remarkable, and we wonder that 
it has not excited the attention of scientific men, so 
that we might have some reliable rationale of the 
subject." 
JOHN ROGERS AND HIS CHILDREN.—The following 
extract is copied from a work published in London, 
in the year 1630,entitled, " Annals of England, con-
taining the reigns of Henry VIII., Edward VI and 
Queen Mary. Written in Latin by the Right Hon. 
and Right Rev. Father in God, Francis, Lord Bishop 
of Hereford. Thus Englished, corrected and enlarg-
ed with the author's consent, by Morgan Godwyn." 
It corroborates the conclusion that John Rogers had 
ten children, according to the New England Primer : 
" On the 4th of February, John Rogers, the Pro-
tomartyr of those times, was burned at London. He 
was Tindall's companion, after whose death, fearing 
persecution, he would not return into his own coun-
try, but went with his wife to Wirtenberg, where, 
having attained to,the German tongue, hee under-
took the care of a certain church there, which bee 
faithfully discharged, until, under King Edward, he 
was recalled from exile by Ridley, Bishop of London, 
made a Prebend of Pauls, and Lecturer there. Queen 
Mary having attained to the Crown, the Papists en-
deavored to affright him ; and so to have once more 
forced him to a voluntary exile, commanding him 
not so much as to peeps into the streets; and in this 
manner lived he a years, until at last, refusing to 
fly, he was imprisoned and condemned to fire, which 
cruel death (notwithstanding that he was to leave a 
wife and ten children) he did most constantly under-
go." 
Foreign News. 
The Paris correspondent of the London Morning 
Herald says : " There is strong reason to believe that 
a marked rapproachement has taken place, or is 
about to take place, between the Courts of Vienna 
and St. Petersburg. Dispatches have been received 
here stating that the Czar views with regret the rev-
olutionary tendencies of the policy which the Em- 
peror of the French seems likely to adopt. �
This is 
the pretext. The real cause, I am informed on good 
authority, is that the Russian government views with 
HI. PETITION. 
2. God's Will, the Universal Law. 
" Thy will be done in earth, as it is in heaven," 
Matt. 6:10. 
The will of God is a perfect law, to which all holy 
intelligences render cheerful obedience." Bless the 
Lord, ye his angels, that excel in strength, that do 
his commandments, hearkening unto the voice of his 
word. Bless the Lord, all ye his hosts, ye ministers 
of his, that do his pleasure," Psa. 103:20,1. 
It is not certain that this earth is the only world, 
the inhabitants of which have swerved from their 
Divine allegiance. We read of " the angels which 
kept not their first estate, but left their own habita 
tion," who are " reserved in everlasting chains un-
der darkness unto the judgment of the great day," 
Jude 6. ; and that " God spared not the angels that 
sinned, but cast them down to Tartarus, and deliv-
ered them into chains of darkness, to be reserved 
unto judgment," 2 Pet. 2:4. And it was one of 
these fallen spirits, who " abode not in the truth," 
John 8:44,—" the dragon, that old serpent, which is 
the Devil, and Satan," (Rev. 20:1 ; that " beguil-
ed Eve through his subtility," 2 Cor. 11:3, and 
thus introduced sin and death into this earth. But 
they were cast down from the heights they occupied; 
so that by wherever they may have sinned, heaven is 
not defiled with their presence, nor outraged with 
their disobedience. 
All the service of heaven is with an eye single to 
God's glory. The holy intelligences who there in- 
habit, delight to conform to God's requirements : 
" They rest not day and night, saying, Holy, holy, 
holy, Lord God Almighty, which was, and is, and 
is to come," Rev. 4:8. When such a service as 
that shall be rendered by every inhabitant of earth, 
and not till then, will God's will be done on earth as 
it is now done in the heavens. And when it is so 
done, there can be no sin here ; and there can be no 
death, which is the consequence of sin. This peti-
tion, therefore, illustrates the nature of the king-
dom, the corning of which is petitioned for ; and it 
shows that our Lord, in this petition, has taught us 
to pray for the recovery of this apostate world to its 
Divine allegiance. 
To accomplish this, Christ " suffered for us, leav-
ing us an example, that ye should follow his steps, 
who did no sin, neither was guile found in his 
mouth," 1 Pet. 2:21,2. He voluntarily gave his 
life for the life of the world. When that great sa-
crifice was needed, he promptly announced himself 
ready for the offering : " Then said he, Lo, I come 
to do thy will, 0 God," Heb. 10:9. And he has said 
that"whosoever shall do the will of my Father which 
is in heaven, the same is my brother, and sister and 
mother," Matt. 12:50. 
God's will is to be done cheerfully and heartily : 
—" Not with eye service, as men pleasers ; but as 
servants of Christ, doing the will of God from the 
heart ; with good will doing service, as to the Lord, 
and not to men :" Eph. 6:6,7. For Christ has said, 
" Not every one that saith unto me, Lord, Lord, 
shall enter into the kingdom of heaven ; but he that 
doeth the will of my Father which is in heaven," 
Matt. 7:21. " The world passeth away, and the 
Ancient Assyria and the Bible. 
We can hardly believe our eyes, hut find the follow-
ing in the Hartford Courant,--one of the ablest and 
best conducted papers in New England—credited to 
the Boston Investigator—formerly, if not now, an 
infidel paper in this city. if the article is properly 
credited, which we fear is not, it shows a hopeful 
change in our once, if not now, disbelieving neigh-
bors. 
" The discoveries of Layard at Nineveh, though 
curious and instructive in all respects, are most im-
portant from the light they throw on Scripture. In 
reading the narrative of the bold explorer, we seem 
to be transported back to the days of the Hebrew 
prophet, for substantially the same manners and 
customs prevail in Mesopatamia now as did three thou -
sand years ago. There are still the lodges in the cu-
cumber gardens which Isaiah describes : the oxen still 
rtead out the corn; the vessels of bulrushes may still be 
seen ; and the wild asses of the desert, so poetically 
lust thereof : but he,that doeth the will of God abid- alluded to in Job, still watch the traveler from a dis- 
eth for ever," 1 John 2:17. 
tance, pause for him to draw near, and then gallop 
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THE ADVENT HERALD. 
The Post adds that the stubbornness of the Pope 
bids fair to deprive him of the whole of his tempo- 
ralities. Naples groans under a heavier tyranny 
than ever, and the cries of Venice are loud enough 
to strike our ears, however we may shut them. 
The Italian question, then, being likely to take 
still larger proportions, our best, safest and most 
beneficent policy is that line of strict duty by which 
this time last year, we might have prevented war, 
and by which we may now guaranty the peace of 
Europe. That line is, No foreign intervention, but 
Italy for the Italians ! 
The Paris correspondent of the Nord states that 
" identic notes" have been dispatched from the cabi-
nets of Paris and London to Turin, intimating that 
the annexation of Central Italy to Piedmont seems 
the only solution of the Italian question, and that 
therefore the two powers see no objection to the ac-
tual accomplishment of that annexation. While 
agreed as to this result, France and England differ as 
to the means : France suggests universal suffrage, 
England suggests new elections on the present electo-
ral law. 
The Patrie of the 2d publishes an article stating 
that the Sardinian authorities are everywhere en-
couraging the movement against the separation of 
Savoy, by putting down the almost unanimous wish 
of the inhabitants, who are asking for annexation 
to France. The author of the article expresses his 
hope that orders will be issued from Turin which 
may remove these impediments, and says that the 
people of Savoy have the same right as the people 
of Italy to declare their opinions in perfect security 
and complete independence. 
AUSTRIA.—The news from Trient and Roveredo, 
in the southern Tyrol, is bad. Victor Emmanuel is 
publicly spoken of as " the King," and revolutionary 
placards are posted regularly every night. 
The Hungarian deputation having been refused an 
audience of the Emperor Joseph or his ministers, 
have published a memorandum explaining the object 
of their mission. It is drawn up in a menacing tone, 
and gives expression to the most sombre predictions. 
ITALY.—The Gazette di Milan announces that 
Austrian troops are constantly arriving at Trieste on 
their way to Venice. The Lloyd steamers and mer-
chant vessels have been put at the disposal of the 
Government for the transport of the troops. Count 
Cavour is making preparations, both naval and mili-
tary, to meet the alleged coalition between Austria, 
Naples and Rome. 
The Vienna correspondent of the Times says : 
"The French army in Lombardy, which now con-
sists of 60,000 men will soon receive a reinforcement 
of 40,000 men. It is known here that French troops 
and artillery have recently been disembarked at Ge-
noa. The French government has begun to purchase 
horses in Germany, and several lots have been sent 
from Mecklenburg." 
An affray occurred at Ancona, between the Papal 
Chasseurs and Artillery men on one side, and the 
Bens d'armes on the other. Three hundred of the 
former were said to be under arrest, of whom about 
forty were wounded. 
Kossuth had suddenly disappeared from London, 
and it was thought had gone to Ilungary. 
An address of the Hungarian Protestant Associa-
tion says the national movement will resemble an 
avalanche. Hungary will detach herself from Aus-
tria at the first opportunity. 
Austria is said to be directing more troops towards 
the Tyrol, Venice and Hungary. 
The Globe's Paris correspondent says it was gen-
erally understood that France and England were 
about to make a joint summons to Austria to desist 
from sending troops into the marshes of Ancona, and 
to evacuate Venetia at the earliest period, and ac-
cept such indemnity as Italy is now ready to offer. 
SPAIN. Reliable accounts say that the Moorish 
regular army had not yet been brought out. The 
division is said to number over 60,000 disciplined 
troops, waiting for a great battle. The object of 
the Moors was to draw the Spaniards into the inte-
rior. 
RUSSIA. Letters from St. Petersburg, of Jan. 22, 
state that the severity of the weather was becoming 
terrible. At Moscow the thermometer had been 44 
degrees below the freezing point. The writer des-
cribes the financial condition of Russia as deplora-
ble. 
ITEMS AND NEWS. 
A Frenchman has invented what is called a baro-
trope, a sort of human locomotive, by which a man 
sits on wheels and walks himself along five miles in 
thirty-five minutes on the Boulevard Bazaar of Paris, 
at noon, when the street was most crowded. 
A fashionable young lady, a few days since, went 
into a store in Norfolk, Va., and after a thorough 
examination of its contents, bought a dime's worth 
of thread, which she ordered to be sent to her resi-
dence, over a mile distant. The proprietor procur- 
alarm the growing influence of the French Emperor 
and has moreover obtained proofs that the insurrec-
tion now brooding in Huugary is secretly favored by 
France. Whatever the causes may be, you may rely 
upon the fact that a marked change has taken place 
towards Austria, at St. Petersburg, and that for the 
future the two governments are likely to pull well 
together." 
The Cologne Gazette contains the following : 
" The attitude of Prussia and Russia merits ex-
amination. It is said they were both drawing tow- 
ards Austria, and that those powers would unite in 
opposing French tendencies in Italy. Austria de-
sires the restoration of the Dukes and the restitution 
of the Romagna to the Pope, whilst Prussia and Rus-
sia do not think that the restoration is possible." 
It is stated that 30,000 French troops are to be 
sent to Leghorn. The Mediterranean Railway Com-
pany has received orders to hold themselves in readi-
ness to convey that number. 
The London Herald's Paris correspondent confirms 
in every point, his statement respecting a portion of 
the French Imperial Guard having received its camp-
ing equipage. The regiments quartered at Versail-
les are in perfect readiness to march at a moment's 
notice—the officers believe for Italy. 
The following will probably be the list of the new 
Sardinian Ministry : Foreign Affairs, Count de Ca- 
your ; War, General Fanti ; Public Instruction, 
Signor Magnani ; Finance, Signor Jacini ; Justice, 
Signor Cassini ; Public Works, Signor Elen. For 
the Ministry of the Interior, M. Dessambrois, Sig-
nor Farini and Signor Caselli are spoken of, but noth-
ing has yet been decided. 
The resignation of the Ratazzi Cabinet is said to 
have resulted from the retirement of Count Walew-
ski. 
The London Times has eulogistic articles on Gari-
baldi and Cavour. The return of the latter to power 
it considers as a proof that an Italian policy will now 
be permitted, and protected from Paris. Venice, we 
may hope, will become again Italian by purchase ; 
but how will Naples? �
The King is active, like 
those who build little white villas half way up Ve-
suvius. The article concludes by exclaiming, "How 
dry must be the elements of combustion laid upon 
such a kingdom, and how readily may they 
catch fire when Cavour will bring his kinglike influ-
ence close up to the frontier !" 
The Anti-Protestant Demonstration in Tuscany. 
The Florence correspondent of the Providence Jour-
nal, in eulogizing the administrative qualities of Ri-
casoli, the Tuscan Minister of State, thus refers to 
a matter which seems to have been misapprehended 
in this country : 
" On occasions like that presented by the recent 
case of childish anger and alarm of the Archbishop 
of Florence, he (Ricasoli) has displayed extreme clev-
erness of address. The Archbishop—who is not so 
old as to have acquired that degree of cunning or re-
serve which experience in such offices sometimes gives 
—seeing that half the population of Florence was 
running to hear the preaching at the Protestant 
meeting, became excited with mingled fear and indig-
nation, and wrote to the minister, saying that a check 
must be put upon such license, or he should raise an 
excitement which might give serious embarrassment 
to the government. Before he would bear the re-
sponsibility of such heretical conduct among the 
people of his flock, he would even resign his office ; 
and added, that he was willing to become a martyr 
—that is, shed his blood—fur the cause of the 
Church. 
The Minister replied that for the sake of calming 
the fears of the clerical party and preserving the 
peace, he should order the place of public gathering 
of the new society to be closed, but that no law should 
be applied to prevent people of any faith meeting in 
private houses for the purpose of worshipping God 
after any form they chose. As to the Bishop's readi-
ness to become a martyr, the offer was wholly gratu-
itous, as there was no one who wished to draw a sin-
gle drop of archiepiscopal blood. The Bishop was 
quite at leisure to calm his agitation and abate his 
unnecessary solicitudes, as the cause of genuine 
Christianity in Italy was in little danger of suffering 
violence at the people's hands. �
The matter has 
caused a good deal of conversation among the pop-
ulation, ending with a good natured laugh at the 
expense of the Bishop, with a feeling of satisfaction 
at the manifest superiority which the Minister has 
shown." 
RoME. A letter from Rome, in the Journal des 
Debate, says that at Rome the Pope has only some 
dragoons and the Palatine Guard of a few hundred 
men. The German recruits only amount to 4000, 
and they are at Macerata. �
The Pope has, all to- 
gether, about 8000 troops, of whom 2000 are rifle-
men and carbineers. Of the 8000, 4000 are Swiss, 
and are at Perugia, and of the remaining 4000, 2000 
are at Ancona, 1000 at Urboin, and 1000 at Pesa- 
ro. 
Another letter from Rome states that the Pope, 
contrary to the opinion of his most violent advisers, 
has renounced the idea of publishing his reply to 
the letter from the Emperor of the French, and has 
stated that, in spite of the temporary dissent exist-
ing between himself and the Emperor, he cannot for-
get previous eminent services. 
London, Feb. 2—Evening. Le Nord says that on 
Monday couriers left London and Paris with identi- 
cal instructions to the representatives of the two 
powers at Turin, directing them to make known to 
the Sardinian Cabinet, that the governments of 
France and England see no objection to the annexa-
tion of Central Italy becoming a fait accompli. 
Lord John Russell announced in Parliament that 
the government could not produce the correspondence 
relative to the rumored annexation of Savoy to 
France, but said that Count Walewski had given as-
surances to Lord Cowley that the Emperor had no 
intention of proposing such annexation. The Brit-
ish government had sent a dispatch to the Emperor 
expressing its satisfaction at this assurance. 
The London Post prominently announces that the 
governments of Engldnd and France have formed an 
alliance on the Italian question, and are firmly de- 
termined that no intervention shall be committed.—
It is rumored that the two governments have determ- 
ined to recognize the annexation of the Italian States 
to Sardinia as the only true solution of the ques-
tion. 
There is increasing evidence of discontent in Hun-
gary, and affairs are daily assuming a more serious 
aspect. 
An engagement had taken place between the 
Moors and the right wing of the Spanish army, re- 
sulting in the loss of their position to the Moors, 
and 2000 killed. The Spanish loss amounted to 
200. 
The Post says that the treaties of Villafranca and 
Zurich are virtually annulled, and the Western Pow-
ers have formally commanded that no armed inter-
vention shall take place in Italy, unlass it is previous-
ly sanctioned by the unanimous approval of all the 
great European Powers. Practically, such a condi-
tion is tantamount to absolute non-intervention. 
The Venetians are beginning to refuse to let lodg-
ings to Austrian officers. The proprietors of taverns 
and coffee houses also display extreme coldness to 
the Austrian troops, and one or two of them have re-
cently requested the officers not to frequent their es-
tablishments, " as they by their pri,esence drive away 
all other customers." 
New York, Feb. 18. Steamship Arabia, .from Liv-
erpool 4th inst. at 5 P.M., has arrived. 
GREAT BRITAIN.—In response to an inquiry, Lord 
John said the government had no reason to suppose 
that warlike preparations were going forward on an 
extraordinary scale in France. The government had 
earnestly endeavored to prevent a renewal of hostili-
ties, now that the Congress was likely to meet, and 
had received the most satisfactory assurances. 
FRANCE. Rumors were current that the Chalons 
camp would soon be re-established. 
The Patrie pronounces false the statement of an 
an approaching departure of the French troops from 
Rome. 
The same Journal says it appears certain that the 
question of annexation to Central Italy will be sub-
ordinate to the result of universal suffrage. All the 
powers are agreed to the propriety of that measure, 
the early application of which will positively make 
known the state of public opinion in Italy. 
The French army is to be considerably reduced, 
and the policy of the Emperor tends more than ever 
towards peace. 
The London Morning Post, which has the credit 
of being the organ of Lord Palmerston, has a con-
spicuous editorial upon the policy of England and 
France on the Italian question.. It says : " We an-
nounced at the beginning of the year, that a virtu-
al alliance had been effected between England and 
France for the settlement of Italian affairs. We ex-
pressly stated that the two governments bound them-
selves by no treaty, but that their agreement was the 
result of the force of circumstances and the dictation 
of public opinion. 
This alliance, every day drawn closer, already be-
gins to produce evident and tangible consequences. 
It now formally determined that no intervention 
shall take place in Italy, and that the people shall 
be left to their own devices. It is therefore agreed 
that the people of Central Italy shall dispose of them-
selves. Fresh elections are to be held, and the As-
semblies resulting from popular choice, are free to 
decree the annexation of their constituents to the Sar-
dinian kingdom. 
The French troops are to be withdrawn from 
Northern Italy and from Rome, at an early opportu-
nity. It is no secret that Austria, having regard to 
the Western allies and her own serious difficulties, 
has given up all hope of retrieving her position and 
influence in Italy, and not only sheathes her sword, 
but puts it aside. An attempt will be made to in-
duce her to grant reforms in Venetia, of which she is 
still left mistress." 
ed an express wagon, the driver of which took the 
package, backed up to the door, lowered the tail 
board, delivered the package, and collected fifteen 
cents, the usual charge. 
No less than 107 pamphlets have appeared in Paris 
on the Papal Question, and a new one appears every 
day at Dentu's the publisher of pamphlets. if Louis 
Napoleon does not speedily decide the question, the 
price of paper will quadruple in value except to 
trunkmakers and pastry cooks' who hail with de-
light the appearance of every pamphlet. 
As an illustration of the vicissitudes of fortune, 
it is stated that Leonard Wells, a few years ago one 
of the wealthiest citizens of Hudson, N. Y., is now 
gaining a scant livelihood by peddling candies in 
Albany. He had amassed a fortune of $70,000 in a 
few years, and lost it as suddenly by railway invest-
ments. 
A woman named Sarah Jackson has been arrested 
at Waukesha, Wisconsin, charged with burning the 
barn of Thompson Richmond of Lisbon, in which 
seven horses, eighteen cattle, forty sheep, eleven 
thousand bushels of wheat, one thousand bushels of 
oats, two carriages, hay and farming implements 
were destroyed. She confesses her guilt, and says 
she did it " through spite." 
A party of citizens of Saginaw, Mich., went out 
upon the ice in the bay to see the Indians fish, a few 
days since, and while thus engaged the ice separat-
ed from the shore and started down the bay, en route 
for Lake Huron. The weather was bitter cold, and 
the event caused great consternation not only to the 
party, but to the people on shore. After drifting 
fourteen miles the ice grounded on a point, and the 
frightened party scrambled ashore with their horses 
and sleighs, over broken cakes of floating ice. They 
hadanarrow escape from a disagreeable cruise in 
the lake. 
A marriage that was brought about in a very ro-
mantic manner was recently celebrated at Greenock, 
S.:otland. Mr. Thomas Pendred of Dublin, was 
on the steamer Persia, last summer, on a voyage from 
New York, when Miss Maria Kohli of Berne, Swit-
zerland, fell overboard. Mr. Pendred leapt after her 
and was the means of saving her life, and this gal-
lant action led to the event which has taken plac". 
A young man named William Barlow, attempted 
to commit suicide during public services in a church 
at Sumner, Ill., on the 5th inst., by cutting his 
throat with a pocket knife. As might be supposed 
this incident threw the congregation into confus-
ion, and the remainder of the morning service was 
omitted. 
Miss Elizabeth Thomas of Woodbridge, Conn., 
was thrown from a wagon Tuesday evening, causing 
her death in a few moments. She was 21 years of age. 
One of the Penobscot Indians recently appealed to 
the Maine Legislature to build his tribe a new school 
house, and thus figuratively described the old—
" The building has become bald with age, and weeps 
now, within and without, in every rain ; and is as 
ragged and tattered as a dead poplar in the woods." 
Incendiary fires and false alarms in New Bedford 
lead the people there to think that the " b'hoys" 
are anxious to see new steam fire engines tried. The 
Mayor has offered $100 reward for the conviction of 
an incendiary, and $50 for the detection of the or-
iginator of a false alarm of fire. 
In Houston, Texas, lately, a belligerent cow over-
turned a carriage, in which were several ladies, and 
then tossed two of them over her head, and attempt-
ed to trample upon the others. 
A South Carolina paper notices the death of a 
mule, whose age was known with certainty to be 
sixty-two years at the time of his death. 
William E. Borden of Sandwich, had twelve. 
sheep killed and wounded by two dogs, on Friday 
last. 
Two young men in Normandy died recently of in-
ternal ulcers, caused by tobacco smoking. 
A most revolting system for destroying deer has 
been adopted by Canadian hunters. They place 
traps where the animal resorts to browse, and• the in-
stant a deer springs a trap, a scythe blade attached 
thereto strikes the leg and either cuts it off or breaks 
it, and the poor animal is traced by means of the 
blood and the trap, which still adheres to the broken 
member. A meeting has been held at Kingston, to 
petition Parliament so to amend the game laws as to 
provide for punishing the acts specified above. 
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no er arre exc emen was crew a 
on the 25th inst., a barrel containing a dead human 
body having been discovered at the depot of the Gale-
na Railroad. The body was that of a young man 
named Dan Tracy, who had died in Algonquin with 
a disease of the hip joint, and had been stolen after 
interment by Dr. E. M. Winslow, and shipped for 
a medical institution at Ann Arbor, Michigan. The 
body was missed by the friends of the deceased, who 
telegraphed to Chicago and recovered it. 
A letter from Lake Superior, dated Jan. 8, reports 
the snow four feet deep in the mining districts. The 
health of the people is good, and business matters are 
reported to be doing well. 
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THE ADVEN T HERALD. 
CORRESPONDENCE. 
In this department, articles are solicited, on the general 
subject of the Advent, from friends of the Herald, over 
their own signatures, irrespective of the particular views 
which it defends. Views of correspondents not dissented 
from, are not necessarily to be considered as editorially 
endorsed. Correspondents are expected to avoid all per-
sonalities, and to study Christian courtesy in all references 
to views and persons. Any departure from this should be 
regarded as lisentitling the writer to any reply. Christian 
and gentlemanly discussion will be in order ; but not 
needless, unkind, or uncourteous controversy. 
Daniel Seventh—Modern. 
" These great beasts, which are four, are four 
kings which shall arise out of the earth." Dan. 7 : 
17. 
This language was uttered just before the dissolu-
tion of the Babylonian empire, and declares that all 
the four kings mentioned were future at that time 
—" four kings which shall arise." Language could 
not be more explicit, nor futurity more positively 
expressed. Babylon could not therefore be one of 
the four, and consequently neither Persia, Greece 
nor Rome. Some other series of four successive 
empires must be meant. 
Although the language of the text is positive,and 
no other part of the prophecy can falsify this, yet it 
will be objected that the fourth beast is the fourth 
kingdom upon the earth, v. 23. But I submit that 
this habitual mode of quoting that sentence, garbles 
and wrests it from its context and meaning, and 
makes the Divine interpreter say what is not true, 
That is, that the fourth beast represents Rome, and 
that Rome was the fourth kingdom which arose on 
the earth. 
It is probable that kingdoms existed during the 
sixteen antediluvian centuries, and certain that 
scores of them were cotemporary with Abraham 
and the other patriarchs. Egypt and Assyria and 
Syria were very ancient. Cotemporary with Baby-
lon were " a multitude of nations"—the kings of 
Jerusalem and Egypt, the Philistines, Edom and 
Moab, &c. Jer. 50 and 25. 
We should reflect seriously ere we array the 
Scriptures in opposition to all history, which in-
forms us that Alexander and Cmsar found not one 
kingdom each, as this theory teaches, but numerous 
nations to oppose their ambition and arms. 
But it will be answered, " The fourth universal 
kingdom is meant." Then the text as quoted re-
quires some qualification ; but it happens that uni-
versality is predicted only of the fourth beast, and 
consequently belongs not to the other three. 
Now this verse 23 was given in answer to definite 
inquiries of the prophet, T. 19, and of course is 
strictly confined to them ; but Daniel makes no in-
quiry in reference to the chronology of the beast; he 
already had learned that, v. 17, and mentions it as 
the fourth in his interrogation, but asks in reference 
to its character and nature, and is answered accord-
ingly that it was the fourth kingdom, and diverse 
from all others, and to become universal, &c. The 
expression 44 upon the earth" is identical in import 
with " out of the earth," v. 17, and simply inform-
ed him that although the beasts were in vision seen 
in the sea, their counterparts would appear upon 
the earth. The sum is, the fourth beast was the 
fourth of a series of kingdoms which should appear 
on earth. 
As these prophecies were designed to enlighten 
and not to puzzle, and as cotemporary kingdoms are 
always named, Babylon in ch. 2 and Medo-Persia 
and Greece in chs. 8 and 11, as soon as they became 
such, the beasts would have been named if they had 
been cotemporary with Daniel. Besides, as the first 
three are infallibly identified in ch. 2 and 8,another 
vision in reference to them would seem superfluous. 
It seems incongruous that a bear and a ram 
should represent one and the same kingdom, and a 
leopard and a goat another. 
It will be observed that kingdoms cotemporary 
with the prophet are always represented as such. 
" Thou art this head of gold ;" " there stood before 
the river a ram ;" but like St. John's symbol, 13, 
which was far in the future, these four beasts, the 
first as well as the last, were seen rising up out of 
the sea 
Babylon is elselvhere twice symbolized, by a 
tree, ch. 4, and by the image ; and Medo-Persia and 
Greece, twice in chapters 2 and 8. Did the prophetic 
vision serve well only in reference to proximate 
events, and fail in reference to those more distant ; 
and that, too, when the latter days were especially 
the subject of prophecy ? Is Alexander dignified by 
a triple symbolization, as the loins of a great image, 
a leopard with four wings and an unconquerable 
goat, and such characters as Charlemagne and Na- 
poleon crowded without the slightest notice into a 
toe of the image or horn of a beast? In what res-
pects was he superior to them ? Charlemagne orga-
nized all Europe out of a chaos of four centuries, 
and erected an empire which is perpetuated to this, 
one thousand years distant day, in the two ruling 
monarchies of continental Europe. But another 
shall speak of these. 
" The career of the Napoleon dynasty is without 
a parallel, either in ancient or modern history. The 
universal judgment of mankind has long since deci-
ded that its founder was in every respect as great a 
hero, if not a greater, than Alexander or Caesar or 
Charlemagne, the three most renowned representa-
tives of ambition and martial daring in the world's 
history. It has been conceded, that the variety and 
extent of Napoleon's abilities, both as a commander, 
a legislator and a ruler, place him above his rivals, 
and that the splendor of his victories, the extent of 
his conquests and the grandeur of his elevation, ex-
ceeds theirs in eminence and degree. None of them 
had a successor, equal in talents and in desperate 
and successful daring to Napoleon III. His career 
possesses an importance inferior only to the great 
head of the family himself. lied the Czar succeed-
ed in his stupendous schemes, his empire would 
have been more colossal than any other which ever 
existed ; than that of Alexander ; than that of 
Charlemagne ; than that even of Napoleon I."—
Smucker's Napoleon III. pp. 21-2, 189. 
Observe the continual and natural association of 
Charlemagne and Napoleon with the greatest mon-
arch of antiquity. Yet in my next and last I will 
show that though Charles V. possessed not all their 
brilliant and dashing qualities, but was ruminative 
and slow like a bear, still in many respects he was 
the equal of any of them. 
A. BROWN. 
Thoughts after Visiting the Sick. 
[The following is an extract from a letter address-
ed to a sick sister. As some things were personal, 
that could be personally communicated, we give only 
that which is of general interest.] 
I am led to look forward with joy to that day 
when the Son of God shall descend to earth, in like 
manner as he ascended to the Father. For when he 
comes, he will make his children perfect, both in 
health and happiness. Then will He remove from 
this earth the curse, caused by sin ; and cause it to 
bloom in its Eden beauty ; and give to his people the 
kingdom, that they may possess it forever, even for-
ever and ever. 
My heart says, 0 ! Lord speed on the joyful day, 
when thou shalt gather thy loved ones home ! For 
no pains, or groans, or dying strifes, will ever enter 
within the pearly gates of the New Jerusalem to af-
flict the saints of God. No ; bless the Lord, none 
there will ever say, " I am sick." Yet, here 
in this life, it is expedient that we should suffer,see-
ing that Christ has suffered before us. 
Then let us arm ourselves with the same mind 
that was in Christ, when he said ; " Father thy will 
be done ;" and let us be willing to suffer with our 
Master Jesus ; if we may but reign with him, when 
He shall come to be admired of all his saints—when 
he shall walk and talk with them on the purified 
earth. 
0 happy thought ! that we shall walk and talk 
with Jesus, the lovely Lamb of God—the One who 
so loved the world, that he gave his own life to re-
deem the world ; and bring all who believe on Him, 
through the words of the apostles, to enjoy eternal 
life in the everlasting kingdom of God. 
And now may the peace of God ever abide with 
you ; and may you ever feel to rejoice both hourly 
and daily, while meditating upon the joys that await 
the suffering saints of God, when time shall be no 
more, and when God's children shall come from eve-
ry tribe, kindred, and tongue, to enjoy their long- 
sought home ;—is the prayer of your unworthy sis-
ter, 
Who hopes to meet the saints of God, 
On that bright, happy morn ; 
When the dead shall rise and burst the clod, 
And sing the victor's song. 
NAOMI COLBURN. 
Magog, C. E. Jan. 21st, 1860. 
Watchman, what of the Night ? Isa. 21:11. 
Bro. Bliss :—After so long time, it seems that we 
have discovered where we are on the tract of proph-
ecy. Mr. R. C. Shimeall of New York has, I think, 
found out the true date of the commencement of the 
1260, 1290 and 1335 days of Dan. 7:35 and 12:7, 
11, 12. They commenced together, from the decree 
of Justinian, the Greek emperor, in the year 533 
constituting John 2nd the Bishop of Rome, head 
and centre of all the, apostolic churches both of the 
east and west, Dan. 12:11, 12, "And from the time 
that the daily sacrifice shall be taken away, and the 
abomination that maketh desolate set up, there shall 
be a thousand two hundred and ninety days. Bless- 
ed is he that waiteth, and cometh to the thousand, 
three huudred and five and thirty days. 13. But 
go thou thy way till the end be ; for thou shalt rest 
and stand in thy lot at the end of the days." 
The 1260 days commencing in 533 brings to the 
French revolution in 1793. Thus 533& 1260=1793 
The 1290 commencing in 533 brings us to the remo-
val of the political disabilities in behalf of the Cath-
olics in Ireland by the British act of Parliament in 
1823 thus 533 &1290=1823. The 1335, commenc-
ing in 533, brings us to the resurrection, when Dan-
iel will stand in his lot. Thus 533 & 1335 =1868. 
Mr. Miller commenced the dates of the 1290 and 
and 1335 in 508, at the time of removal of Pagan-
ism by the conversion of the ten kings, which 
brought us to 1843. Thus 1290 &508 = 1798, to 
the taking of the Pope captive and the changing of 
Rome into a Republic ; and the 1335 in 508, which 
brought us to 1843—thus, 1335 & 508=1843. But 
time has shown that these calculations were incor-
rect. As Daniel did not then stand in his lot, and 
as Daniel is to stand in his lot at the end of the 
days, it must be in future. The wise shall under-
stand. Mr. Shimeall makes the daily sacrifice to 
consist in the true worship of God, in the two dis-
pensations, Jewish and Christian, which was taken 
away or suspended by the act of Justinian, making 
the Bishop as a Caesar in the church, the centre of 
unity, the determiner of controversy. By this act 
the saints were given into his hands, Dan. 7:35.—
Then the privilege of worshipping God after the dic-
tates of their conscience was taken away, and the 
abomination of desolation set up. And he shall 
speak great words against the Most High, and shall 
wear out the saints of the Most High, and think to 
change times and laws ; and they shall be given into 
his hand until a time and times and the dividing of 
time. 26. But the judgment shall sit, and they 
shall take away his dominion to consume and to de-
stroy it unto the end. 
You will find Mr. Shimeall's calculations in the 
American and Foreign Christian Union for Februa-
ry, 1860, taken from his recent valuable work on 
Our Bible Chronology. As this is but an abridg-
ment of what Mr. Shimeall has written in chapter 
9th of his works, I would be glad, if you have his 
book containing this chapter, that you would pub-
lish it entire in the Herald, and oblige yours hoping 
to live and come to the end of the days, 
GEORGE PHELPS. 
New Haven, Ct., Feb. 7, 1860. 
NOTE. We have not Mr. Shimeall's work, but 
have already given in the Herald the very full syn-
opsis of his view, as published in the Christian Un- 
ion. �
ED. 
From sister Mary A. .Hardy. 
Dear brothers and sisters :—I still feel it a privi-
lege to be identified with a company of believers 
cherishing the blessed hope of the personal return 
of the heavenly Bridegroom. When I can avail 
myself of an opportunity of mixing with their re-
ligious circles, which is seldom, and listen to the 
word of life, my heart responds with gratitude, and 
my spirit rejoices to feel myself among my Father's 
family. I am called sectarian in my views ; but 
what can I do ? I ask. For a few years past I have 
occasionally attended other meetings, and labored, 
as it were, to enjoy their preaching and prayer 
meetings ; but I find little to relish. The solemn 
and impressive power that ought to attend the 
preaching of the gospel is not realized. I turn 
away disappointed, and ask my Lord, Is it because 
I am so stupid and barren in my soul that no chord 
can be touched ? But my experiences for many long 
years justify me in the conclusion, that those that 
God has called to embrace these truths cannot be 
fed and nourished aside from them. This being the 
case, dear friends, how grateful we should be to God 
that we were accounted worthy in His sight to con-
template and enjoy such a perfect and blessed system 
of truth,—making the Holy Scriptures beautifully 
harmonize from Genesis to Revelation. When I re-
flect upon the great original plan of salvation, 1 
cannot find words adequate to express my admira-
tion of the economy of God, in the redemption of 
everything he has promised. Of how little consid-
eration should our worldly affairs be worthy, when 
contrasted with the idea of a possibility of our being 
partakers of that glory that is to be revealed, and 
being associated with that company which shall be 
gathered out of every nation, tongue and people, 
having our robes washed and made white in the 
blood of the Lamb. I have often thought that those 
who meet from Sabbath to Sabbath seemed providen-
tially privileged beyond the isolated ones ; but our 
Father knows what is best for every one of us.—
Thanks be to his heavenly name, we can pray and 
enjoy his smiles in our closets, if we cannot in our 
families ; we can praise Him for enlightening our 
minds upon the great practical doctrines of the gos-
pel ; we can enjoy communications from those of 
kindred minds, through all our region of country, 
through the organ, that is so wonderfully sustained 
of late in heralding the advent of Him we love.—
May God grant its editor the spirit and power of his 
message. 
In common with you, and all the people of God, 
I have my trials, from which none are exempt.—
Through tribulation we enter the kingdom of God. 
The poet says : 
" The path of sorrow, and that path alone, 
Leads to that land where sorrow is unknown." 
And now, dear friends, should the editor think 
this little communication worthy a place in our pa-
per, may those of you with whom I have the pleas-
ure of an acquaintance, remember me at a throne of 
grace ; and be assured my warmest sympathies aro 
enlisted in the best of all causes (to me) the coming 
of the great Redeemer—the King of kings and Lord 
of lords, to set up his everlasting kingdom and to 
reign on mount Zion, and in Jerusalem and before 
his ancients gloriously. Yours in the hope of meet-
ing you all—for all will be there. 
Groveland, Mass., Jan. 23, 1860. 
From sister E. F. Gould. 
Dear Bro. Bliss :—It is with pleasure that I still 
continue to be cheered with the weekly visits of the 
Herald. I pray God to reward those dear sisters 
for their kindness, and may they ere long have an 
entrance abundantly administered unto them into 
the everlasting kingdom of our Lord and Saviour 
Jesus Christ. 
God bless you, my brother; for I think that it is 
through your influence that I still have the pleasure 
of reading the Herald. 
Since writing the above I have found by reading 
the Herald of the 21st of January that Bro. Chap-
man has sent some money to pay for the Herald for 
me. God bless Bro. Chapman, and may we soon 
meet him in our heavenly Father's kingdom. Bro. 
Chapman was mistaken in thinking that I had been 
a paying subscriber for the Herald for eighteen yrs., 
for it has been through the kindness of the editor of 
the Herald that I have had the privilege of reading 
it a part of the time since I have been a widow. 
Bro. Bliss : I wish you to make it known through 
the Herald that I appreciate the kindness of Bro.C. 
and those sisters, and you will confer a favor upon 
one who feels an increasing attachment for the Her-
ald and all that are connected with it. Yours look-
ing for rest when Jesus comes. 
Claremont, N. 11., Jan. 20, 1860. 
From " An Ayed Minister." 
S. Bliss—Dear brother : The two receipts for the 
Advent Herald have been received—the first paid by 
a sister in Newburyport ; the second by two sisters 
in Pennsylvania. 
Now, dear sisters, Samuel and Sarah, that love 
the cause of God and the Advent Herald and the 
appearing of our Saviour, do say with our whole 
heart to you as I did upon my knees in returning 
thanks to my heavenly Father for the rich gift,—
God bless you, and reward you an hundred-fold in 
this world, and in the world to come with life ever-
lasting. You, dear sisters, can never know fully the 
gratitude of our hearts until the morning that is 
about to dawn upon this dark, benighted and cheer-
less world, when our dear Redeemer will be seen 
coming in the clouds of heaven with power and 
great glory to reward every one as their works shall 
be, then I trust you will receive your full reward 
for your benevolence to us. God our heavenly Fa-
ther knows your names who have been so benevo-
lent to us as to send us the Herald for two years. 
We have a deep anxiety to know, likewise ; and 
will it be asking too much for you to write to the 
poor old broken down and infirm man, who is wait-
ing every day to leave for a better country, that is, 
an heavenly, that I may know you when we meet 
on the other side of Jordan, in the city that God 
hath prepared for them that love him ? And will 
brother Bliss receive our warm and hearty thanks 
for the interest he has manifested in our happiness 
in reading the best religious periodical that we ever 
have read—the Advent Herald? 
N.B! If our donors will please to write, direct to 
Franklin, N. H. 
Yours, in hope of soon seeing the King in his 
beauty, �
SAMUEL NUTT. 
Franklin, N. H., Feb. 13, 1860. 
From Bro. W. L. Lennert. 
Dear Bro. Bliss :-1 should be pleased to read 
something from your pen on the subject of the be-
liever's state of perfection in this life. Some there 
are, as you know, who hold to and preach up entire 
freedom from sin, or the perfection of the Christian, 
saying the converted man cannot sin, and hence is 
holy, and quote 1 John 3:9, 1 Pet. 1:15, 16, and 
Matt. 5:48. My opinion is, that the converted do 
not sin habitually, or live in the practice of known 
sin, but still may fall into sin, and even do very 
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wickedly, as did David and others. If not asking 
too much, will you not at your convenience give us 
your view in the Herald on 1 John 3:9, 1 Pet. 1:15 
and Matt. 5:48, or kindred passages ? 
Yours respectfully, 
W. L. LENNERT, 
Pastor of Moravian church. 
Nazareth, Pa. 
ANS. We believe that the Christian in the pres-
ent state will grow in grace, and will make great ad-
vancement in the Divine life ; but we find no prom-
ise of exemption from the assaults of Satan while 
in the mortal state. We believe that humility is 
always the accompaniment of piety ; and when 
any one begins to talk much of his own freedom 
from sin, we always regard him as knowing little of 
the plague of his own heart, or of the odiousness of 
sin. The view you present, is precisely our view. 
The Christian cannot willfully and knowingly sin ; 
for that shows him to be no Christian. But no real 
Christian will ever in this world get where be has 
no occasion to look to Christ constantly for pardon 
and forgiveness. �
ED. 
From Eld. S. A. Chaplin. 
Dear Bro. Bliss :-I hope you will make your 
expositions on the Book of Daniel full, especially 
on the 2d, 7th and following chapters. It seems 
that it will be duty for our ministers to present the 
great subject of prophecy, in its bearings upon hu-
man destiny, once more to the "kindreds and tongues 
and peoples," and they will want all the historical 
and chronological aid possible. Do not be afraid of 
diffusiveness on the consecutive prophecies of the 
" beloved Danie." I hope and pray that the Lord 
will aid you and all others concerned in the publi-
cation of the Herald, that it may he a bright reflec-
tor of Bible truth and prophetical light. I thought 
of writing a short piece for the Herald, but write 
in haste this time. May God bless you and bring 
us to his heavenly kingdom. In the gospel hope, 
yours respectfully, �
S. A. CHAPLIN. 
PS. My address is, Eld. S. A. Chaplin, Pierceton 
P. 0., Kosciusko co., Ind. �
S.A.C. 
Feb. 2, 1860. 
We hope you will give us the thoughts you had 
purposed to write for our columns. 
We hope to be somewhat full and minute in our 
articles on Daniel. But when any point is not suf-
ficiently covered, we trust our readers will be per-
fectly free in making any suggestions, or asking any 
questions pertinent to the subject. �ED. 
From sister R. Merriman. 
Bro. Bliss :-Forty-one years 1 have professed to 
be a follower of the Saviour. When I read Bro. 
Miller's first lectures on the coming of Christ, I was 
led to search the Scriptures to ste if these things 
were so. My heart was convinced-my Bible was 
a new book, full of interest, light and life. I think 
I embraced those interesting,sanctifying truths with 
my whole heart : and 0 how blessed have they been, 
when death has taken one after another from the 
family circle, till I am left almost alone-a pilgrim 
and stranger on the earth, still looking for and de-
siring that heavenly country. 
It would be gratifying to me could I pay some-
thing towards that note ; but I cannot. 
Barnston, C. E., Feb. 6, 1860. 
But what you have, sister, that you can give,-
the prayer of faith for the judiciousness and efficien- 
cy of this instrumentality. �
ED. 
Front George C. Arms. 
In forwarding aid to the A. M. A. from Bro. N. 
,Woodman, Bro. Arms writes : 
Dear Bro. Bliss :-Father Nathaniel Woodman 
says, " I could not do without the Herald. I like 
it better and better." He is aged and infirm ; not-
withstanding at our last covenant meeting he was 
in his place, and his testimony we shall not soon 
forget. He said, " Dear brethren, if I never meet 
you again on earth, you may be sure I have gone 
safe." My prayer is, that all who may read this 
may have the blessed assurance that they are going 
safe. I would say, the Herald has many other faith-
ful friends in Waterbury, who, I trust, would be 
willing to sacrifice some of the comforts of life, at 
least, rather than be deprived of its weekly visits. 
It will be remembered we have lately built a house 
for the Lord, which took to the extent of our 
means ; nevertheless, as the Lord prospers us we 
shall send in our mites. 
Yours in hope. 
Waterbury, Vt., Feb. 6, 1860. 
It is a great thing to go safe. There is no event 
that can transpire, for which a person should be so 
heartily congratulated, as that he has " gone safe." 
Blessed are the dead who die in the Lord from 
henceforth. Yea, saith the Spirit ; for they rest 
from their labors." �
ED. 
An unknown sister, in sending pay for the Herald 
to " an aged minister," contributed by herself and 
another sister, writes : 
" We have some whole-hearted Advent brethren 
and sisters in this region, to whose hearts the cause 
of our coming Saviour is very dear. I have been a 
reader of the Advent Herald for a number of years, 
and I hail its weekly visits with joy. I have no 
doubt but that it will be sustained until Jesus comes. 
My prayer is that you, dear brother, may be endow-
ed with wisdom from on high, that you may labor 
for the glory of God, that through the instrumen-
tality of the Herald the household may have "meat 
in due season," and that thousands who have read 
your excellent paper may be so happy as to meet 
you in the kingdom of God. This is the ardent de- 
sire of your unworthy sister, �
B. E. 
Mechanicsburg, Cumberland Co., Pa. 
Such prayers ascending from hundreds of hearts, 
are of more real value than mere gifts; but when 
accompanied with substantial aid, there is an assur-
ance of sincerity on the part of those who offer 
them, that makes them doubly acceptable. 
ED. 
From Bro. T. Dudley. 
Dear Bro.:-I prize the Herald too highly to have 
it stop, as it is about all the advent preaching I get. 
I hear a great deal of what is called good preaching, 
but it does not feed my longing soul,-my craving 
desire to know more of God's revelation to the hu-
man family. I call it very superficial preaching, to 
say the best about it. It does not go thep enough 
into that fountain of Eternal Truth to satisfy me. 
If I am wrong may God help me, for I cannot help 
it myself. 
From Bro. C. N. Ford, of N. H. 
Dear brother Bliss :-I am still, through the mer-
cy of my heavenly Father, a pilgrim here on earth, 
looking, I trust, for the city which hath founda-
tions. The Herald is a welcome visitor to me. I 
have taken it from the first, and I had rather forego 
many a comfort than be deprived of it. It comes 
freighted with epistles of brethren and sisters from 
abroad, which refreshes my poor heart greatly. My 
love goes out especially to them who are looking for 
the speedy coming of our Redeemer. I would say 
to all such, Let us live out this great and glorious 
truth, as well as speak it. How solemn is this great 
truth which has shined on us. 0 may we be faith-
ful. 
I rejoice to be able to send my mite to cancel the 
debt of the Herald. That the love of Christ, my 
brother, may dwell in you in all wisdom and spirit-
ual understanding, is the fervent prayer of your 
brother in the kingdom and patience of our Lord 
Jesus Christ. 
Boscawen, N. H. 
From S. H. Withington. 
Dear Bro. Blfss :-Bro. Chapman, in connection 
with Bro. Hyde, is laboring here with his usual suc-
cess. 'Sinners are being converted and backsliders 
reclaimed, under their judicious and faithful labors. 
I do praise the Lord that He has a few faithful 
watchmen, whom he has placed on the walls of Zion 
that will not hold their peace day nor night until 
Jerusalem shall be made a praise in the earth. 
My sincere prayer to the Lord is that he will put 
it into the hearts of his dear children to relieve the 
Herald office entirely. I do think it decidedly the 
best religious journal extant, and I trust that re-
maining note will be cancelled before it becomes due. 
I hope the stream which has of late been flowing 
into the treasury of the Lord will increase until the 
office is entirely free from debt. It will certainly 
be a good investment. May the Lord stir us all up 
to do our duty in this matter. Yours, in the blessed 
hope of soon being in the kingdom. 
Springwater, N. Y., Feb. 7, 1860. 
God attaches so much importance to salvation 
from sin, that in the present moral constitution of 
the world, every man is responsible to him for the 
spiritual welfare of his fellowmen. 
OBITUARY. 
DIED, in South Truro, Mass., Feb. 5, 1860, PAH-
LINA Rim, daughter of Henry and Sally Rich, aged 
28 years. 
For the lost two years her health has been fail-
ing ; but it was not supposed by her friends, until 
just before her decease, that death had marked her 
for a speedy prey ; yet in the midst of it all she was 
led to look for strength to Him who is the Resurrec-
tion and the Life, and so, resting upon the arm of 
Christ, she walked calmly down amid the shades of 
the dark valley, and feared no evil. We hope to 
meet her in the morning of the resurrection, when 
Jesus shall come to destroy the last enemy. 
EPII. Rica, JR. 
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" Alfred, my son, shall I come?" she 
asked. 
I cannot tell what influence, operating 
at that moment, made me speak adverse 
to my feelings. The gentle voice of my 
mother thrilled through me, melted the ice 
of my obdurate heart, and 1 longed to 
throw myself on her neck, but I did Lot. 
But the words gave the lie to my heart 
when 1 said I was not sorry. I heard her 
withdraw. I heard her groan. 1 longed 
to call her back, but 1 did not.' 
I was awakened from my uneasy slum-
ber, by hearing my name called loudly, 
and my sister stood at my bedside. 
" Get up, Alfred. Oh, don't wait a mi-
nute ! Get up and come with me. Moth-
er is dying." 
I thought I was yet dreaming, but I got 
up mechanically and followed my sister. 
On the bed, pale and cold as marble, lay 
my mother. She had not undressed. She 
had thrown herself on the bed to rest :—
arising to go again to me, she was seized 
with the palpitation of the heart, and 
borne senseless to her room. 
I cannot tell you with what agony I 
looked upon her : my remorse was tenfold 
more bitter from the thought that she 
would never know it. I believed myself 
to be her murderer. I fell on the bed be-
side her. I could not weep. My heart 
burned in my bosom; my brain was on 
fire. My sister threw her arms around 
me, and wept in silence. Suddenly we 
saw a slight motion of my mother's hand; 
her eyes unclosed. She had recovered 
consciousness, but not speech. She looked 
at me and moved her lips. I could not 
understand her words. " Mother, moth-
er !" I shrieked, " say only that you for-
give me." 
She could not say it with her lips, but 
her hand pressed mine. She smiled upon 
me, and lifting her thin, white hands, she 
clasped my own within them, and cast her 
eyes upward. She moved her lips in pray-
er, and thus she died. I remained still 
kneeling beside that dear form, till my gen-
tle sister removed me. The joy of youth 
had left forever. 
Boys who spurn a mother's control, who 
are ashamed to own that they are wrong, 
who think it manly to resist her authority, 
or yield to her influence, beware ! Lay 
not up for yourselves bitter memories for 
future years. 
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sicians of the various schools use it and also recommend it. 
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Mrs. Glover, East Merrimack street, Lowell, was cured 
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Mr. Farrington, a wealthy merchant and manufacturer 
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with gratitude." 
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place. 
THE GOLDEN SALVE—A GREAT HEALING REMERY.—It 
is with much pleasure we announce the advent of this new 
article in our city, which has met with such signal success 
in Lowell, where it is made, that the papers have teemed 
with cases of truly marvelous cures. They chronicle one 
where the life of a lady was recently saved—a case of bro-
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a case of chafing ; another of a lady whose face was much 
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healthy action in a few days ; also another of an old man, 
who had a sore on his foot for twenty years—cured in a 
few weeks. Our citizens will not be slow in getting at its 
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Boston, July 12, 1859. Bro. Whitten : I have used your 
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" FEED MY LAMBS."—John 21:15. 
BOSTON. FEBRUARY 25, 1860. 
A Story for Boys. 
The following affecting narrative pur-
ports to have been given by a father to his 
son, as a warning derived from his own 
bitter experience of the sin of grieving and 
resisting a mother's love and counsel. 
What agony .was visible on my mother's 
face, when she saw that all she said and 
suffered failed to move me ! She rose to 
go home, and I followed at a distance.—
She spoke no more to me until she reached 
her own door. 
" It's school time, now," said she. "Go, 
my son, and once more let me beseech you 
to think upon what I have said." 
" I shan't go to school," said I. 
She looked astonished at my boldness, 
but replied firmly, "Certainly you will go, 
Alfred ; I command you." 
" I will not !" I replied, in a tone of de-
fiance. 
"One of two things you must do, Al-
fred —either go to school this morning, or 
1 will lock you in your room, and keep, 
you there till you are ready to promise im-
plicit obedience to my wishes in future." 
" I dare you to do it," said I ; " you 
can't get me up stairs." 
" Alfred, choose now," said my mother, 
who laid her hand upon my arm. She 
tremblel violently, and was deadly pale. 
"If you touch me, I will kick you," said 
I, in a terrible rage. God knows I knew 
not what I said. �
' 
"Will you go, Alfred?" 
" No !" I replied, but quailed beneath 
her eye. 
" Then follow me," said she, as she 
grasped my arm firmly. I raised my foot 
—oh, my son, hear me !-1 raised my foot 
and kicked her—my sainted mother ! How 
my head reels, as the torrent of memory 
rushes over me ! I kicked my mother—a 
feeble woman—my mother ! She stagger- 
ed back a few steps, and leaned against 
the wall. She did not look at me. I saw 
her heart beat against her breast. 
" 0 heavenly 'Father !" said she, " for-
give him—he knows not what he oes !" 
The gardener just then passed the door, 
and seeing my mother pale and almost un-
able to support herself; he stopped. She 
beckoned him in. 
"Take this boy up stairs, and lock him 
in his room," said she, and turned from 
me. Looking hack, as she was entering 
her room, she gave me such a look of ago-
ny, mingled with the most intense love ! 
It was the last unutterable pang from a 
heart that was broken. 
In a moment I found myself a prisoner 
in my own room. I thought for a moment 
I would fling myself from the open win-
dow, and dash my brains out, but I felt 
afraid to do it. 1 was not penitent. At 
times, my heart was subdued ; but my 
stubborn pride rose in an instant, and bade 
me not yield. The pale face of my moth-
er haunted me. I flung myself on the bed 
and fell asleep. Just at twilight I heard a 
footstep approach the door. It was my 
sister. 
" What may I tell my mother from 
you ?" she asked. 
" Nothing," I replied. 
" Oh, Alfred, for my sake, for all our 
sakes, say that you are sorry. She longs 
to forgive you." 
I would not answer. 1 heard 11,9- foot-
steps slowly retreating, and again I threw 
myself on the bed, to pass a wretched and 
fearful night. 
Another footstep, slower and feebler 
than my sister's, disturbed me. A voice 
called me by name. It was my mother's. 
APPOINTMENTS. 
Rev. J. V. limes will preach in Westboro', Mass., Sun-
day, Feb. 26th, and Rev. D. T. Taylor Sunday, March 4. 
I will preach in Hartford, Ct., Sabbaths, Feb. 26th and 
March 4th; and in the interim during the week as often 
as the brethren desire. �
0. R. FASSETT. 
Elder Edwin Burnham will continue his labors in Boston 
every evening and over next Sabbath, in the Advent chapel 
on Hudson street. The manifestations of God's grace en- 
courage his people in this effort. �
J. V. H. 
The Lord willing, I shall comply with request of the 
brethren, to preach to them in South Waterford, and 
Stoneham, Me., Feb. 12th, 19th and 26th, as they may 
arrange. Severe sickness of my boy prevented my filling 
the appointment in Hartford, Me., last week. Will try to 
visit them in March. �
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D. I. ROBINSON, Pastor. 
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cates of cures effected by your G. G. Remedy, after trying 
almost every thing else without effect. Send along three 
or four dozens more of, each size. I can sell a large lot of 
it. 
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J. MORRILL dr, Co. 
Livermore, Me., Oct. 12, 1859. 
It is cheaper than any other. Prices, 4 oz. 25 cts.; 16 
oz. 75 cts. Agents wanted. Sells well. Terms liberal. 
Call for a circular. Sold in Boston by Dr. Dillingham, 
next door to Herald office. 
I. C. WELLCOME, Richmond, Me. 
(No. 969 tf.) �
pd to 971 
SOMETHING NEW AND VERY DESIRABLE !—
PEARSON'S PATENT-RESPIRATORY COOKING-STOVE.—The 
superiority of this over every other Cooking Stove consists 
in the means by which we accomplish that most desirable 
end in Stove Cooking, viz. : A combination of 
1st, Roasting meats in currents of heated fresh air, pro- 
ducing the same effects as roasting on a Spitjack, or in a 
tin kitchen before the open fire ; 
2d, The virtues of the Brick oven ; 
3d, The economy of the heat ; 
4th, An arrangement by which we heat the room in 
W inter, and dispense with heating it in Summer. 
'Convinced by the working of the Stoves in use, the Pa-
tentee and the subscriber offer their new stove to the Pub-
lic, with entire confidence that it will fill a vacuum in gen-
eral house-keeping. Without fear, we proclaim it : THIS 
IS THE ONLY 8TOVE WHICH COMBINES THE TRUE PHILOSOPHY 
OF COOKING. Patented Oct. 26, 1858. 
Books with diagrams describing the invention, and its 
merits over all other Stoves, sent, on application, to 
JAMES W OLSTENHOLME, 
General Agent and Manufacturer, 29 Dorrance street, 
(954, pd. to 990) �
Providence, R. I. 
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