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Stand for the Right. 
Be firm and faithful, 
Desert not the right ; 
The brave become bolder 
The darker the night ! 
Then up ! and be doing, 
Though cowards may fail, 
Thy duty pursuing, 
Dare all, and prevail ! 
If scorn be thy portion, 
If hatred and loss, 
If stripes, and if prison, 
Remember the cross ! 
God watches above thee, 
And lIe will requite ; 
Desert those that love thee, 
But never the right. 
The Unbelieving. 
EY REV. JOHN CUMMING, D. D. 
(Continued from our last.) 
THEnext evidence of this departure from 
God, will be difference of sentiment with God. 
We say, We agree with this and with that, 
and, Here are some things we cannot agree 
with. God says, " Seek ye first the kingdom 
of God and his righteousness, and all other 
things will hr ac1:1cd. ;int �
." 
Another symptom of departure from God is, 
not only difference of sentiment, but faltering 
in our walk with God. Perhaps we are out-
wardly walking with God, but we begin to fal-
ter. Some one whispers in our ear, " You are 
over-zealous, you preach too often, you speak 
too much ; you go to church too often ; you 
read the Bible too much : your health will suf-
fer—you cannot stand it—you must be mode-
rate." My dear friends, what is moderation ? 
Did you ever hear of moderation in honesty? 
If it were preached to you,•would you not un-
derstand it to mean, " Be a thief ?" And if 
you were told to be moderate in speaking the 
truth, would you not understand it as, " Tell 
lies ?" Well, then, if moderation be so intole-
rable in keeping the sixth or seventh, or any 
other of the commandments, how can it be tol-
erable in keeping the first commandment—
" Love God a little, but not too much !" Hear 
the law : " Thou shalt love the Lord thy God 
with all thy heart, with all thy soul, and with 
all thy strength, and thy neighbor as thyself." 
There is no fear of our being too enthusiastic, 
too zealous in religion. In fanaticism we may 
be so, in superstition we may be so ; but in 
real religion there is no risk of this, all the risk 
lies in the opposite way : there is not the slight-
est fear of expending all one's energies in the 
service of God. 
world—or, rather, so corrupted is it—that the 
 
same man who condemns want of enthusiasm 
in a physician in the cure of his patient—in 
the lawyer, in laboring for his client—in the 
member of Parliament, in pleading for free 
trade, or restriction, or some other earthly dog- 
ma—the man, in short, who condemns the 
want of enthusiasm in the things of Caesar, that 
very man comes forward and reprobates the 
possession of it where it ought to burn with 
the intensest light, and glow with the greatest 
splendor—in the service and in the sanctuary 
of God. Thus unbelief shows itself in falter-
ing in our walk with God, and hesitating to 
advance. 
It also shows itself in the suspension or di-
minution of our confidence in God. The Chris-
tian walks with God as a child walks with its 
father. It is rarely that a child suspects or 
fails to, confide in its father ; and as it grows 
up to years of thought, its confidence in its pa-
rent is gradually deepened and strengthened. 
Now, take the confidence of the child in its fa-
ther, and multiply it by the immense—the infi-
nite ; and, removing the alloy and imperfection 
attaching to creatures of the earth, then you 
will have some slight idea of the extent of 
what should be the true Christian's confidence 
in his heavenly Parent. When the Christian 
looks upon God in this light, he walks with all 
the child-like confidence of a son with his fa-
ther; but when he loses this confidence, he 
walks like a slave after his master, crouching 
and trembling behind him : he looks to God in 
the sanctuary, but is frightened if God should 
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companied with them a while, you go with 
" sinners :" that is, the openly wicked : and 
when you have gone with them a while, you 
reach the company of the " scornful ;" those 
who scoff at all sacred things. First of all, 
you "walk in the counsel of the ungodly ;" 
that is, you take the advice of the ungodly. By 
and by you "stand in the way of sinners ;" you 
think you can stand and look on without getting 
any harm by it. And by and by you "sit down 
in the seat of the scornful." Such is the de-
clension or departure of a man from God. You 
have too much conscience at once to retreat 
wholly, and too little faith to advance. You 
dare not give yourself wholly to the world, and 
will not give yourself wholly to God. You 
dread your scepticism, lest it should fail you ; 
You dread your religion, 'lest it disquiet you. 
You have neither the peace of the world, that 
is but for a season, nor the peace of God, which 
passeth all understanding, and is the blessed 
possession of the true believer ; and, therefore, 
you are the most miserable of men. You oc- 
cupy an incessantly disputed ground. In the 
history of this country, we read of the men 
who walked, lived, feasted, and slept in their 
armor, with sword in hand, and all accoutred 
and prepared for battle. These were the bor-
derers of Teviotdale, and Nithsdale, and Esk-
dale. Their lives were the most harassed and 
disquieted, because they were always exposed, 
on both sides, to the incursions of the foe. So 
in spiritual things : the man who has got reli-
gion enough to drag him to the sanctuary on 
the Sabbath, but love of sin enough to take him 
to the play-house next day—the man who dare 
not keep away from public worship, but cannot 
keep away from all the sinful follies of a sinful 
world—that man is the most wretched and 
miserable of all. The thorough reprobate has 
his heart hardened, and enjoys a degree of 
peace ; the thorough Christian has perfect 
peace; but intermediate persons, who are now 
nibbling at heaven, and now revelling in the 
earth, and taste each by turns, the cup of the 
Lord, and the cup of the world, are men in a 
ceaseless fever, who know neither the world's 
peace, which is the devil's, nor the Christian's 
peace, which is God's. 
I care not so very much to what denomina-
tion of Christians a man belongs—that is cir- 
Another evidence of departure from God, or 
unbelief, is, not making progress. If there be 
no increase, the presumption is, that there is de-
crease ; if there be no progression, the presump-
tion is, that there is retrogression. I cannot 
find in the Bible the least evidence that I may 
stand still. But, of course, there are two or 
three ways of growing: you may grow down-
wards in humility, as well as upwards in holi-
ness and conformity to God ; and it is quite 
possible that we may be growing downwards 
in humility simultaneously with our growing 
upwards in holiness and likeness to God. If 
we are growing in our acquaintance with our 
own weakness, our own sinfulness, our own 
untrustworthiness in ourselves and of our-
selves, we are growing in the right direction ; 
or if we are growing in greater victory over 
sin, greater conformity to the image of Christ, 
greater superiority to the attractions and allure-
ments of the world, having our hearts more in 
heaven, then we are growing in another and no 
less heavenly direction. �
But the Christian 
must either grow and approach to, or retrograde 
and depart from, the living God ; he is never 
stationary.—( To be continued.) 
Mind and Matter. 
BY ROBERT MORRIsON, BATHGATE, ENG. 
In trying to come to know something about ' 
that fearfully and wonderfully made being—
man, we must. first come to know bow ignorant 
we are, and then to inquire what is knowable 
about him. But in order to know how ignorant 
him first, all the information you really need 
you will have time to gather, and the wealth 
you can truly want will be bestowed on you, 
and all the happiness that is good for you will 
be superadded to you. Make the experiment. 
It is not for persons to say, " This will not do :" 
make the experiment : take God at cis word : 
try it, and you will see it will stand true, for 
the God of truth has pronounced it. This 
alone is the secret of all wavering, halting, 
hesitating—the not putting confidence in his 
truth, as God's own truth, a 'constant feeling 
that it is only man's word : you want that clear, 
distinct, unhesitating conviction that God has 
spoken, and that the Bible is his autograph ; 
the very echo of the voice which resounded 
through the trees of the garden of Eden. 
" In the house of God, and on the Sunday, it 
is right to seek God first ; but surely the pas-
sage does not mean more than this." And you 
will, perhaps, say, " Are we required to seek 
God's honor and glory, first, in the warehouse, 
the shop, the bank, the mart, the House of 
Commons, the House of Peers, the palace, on 
the seas, in the field of battle ? are we to seek 
God's glory first there, as well as in the sanc-
tuary, and every week-day, as well as on the 
Sabbath ? ThiS will never do : it may be very 
philosophical, very beautiful, but we could not 
get on in this way, nor live by it; it will not 
serve our turn—it must be a mistaken view of 
"Christianity, or an obs fete prescription, or a 
Jewish one." Then again, we read, " Those 
who honor me, I will honor,"—that if we seek 
to obey 'his will first, God will do everything 
for us. You say, " That may have been all 
very well for the apostolic age, but it is altoge-
ther unsuited for the nineteenth century, when 
competition is so keen, and competitors so ma-
ny. if we shut up our shops on Sunday, we 
shall go to ruin : if we do not read the newspa-
pers on Sunday, we shall lose the last news 
from the continent; if we do not go to the 
news-room on Sunday, we shall fall behind 
our neighbors in political information. " Chris-
tianity must be adapted to the nineteenth cen-
tury," you say, " and not the nineteenth centu-
ry to Christianity." My dear friends, the reli-
gion of God is unchangeable, like God himself: 
it is meant for all ages, and all countries ; and 
you will find it true, belive me, in all centuries, 
that if you seek God first, and honor and serve look at him in his place of business, at his 
hearth, or his place of amusement. He begins 
to walk, not as a son with his father, but as a 
maniac with his keeper—in dread, slavery, and 
dismay. And whenever this feeling takes the 
place of confidence, there is a departure from 
God, and an evidence of an evil heart of un-
belief in thus suspecting God. This is the se-
cret of much of the prevailing feeling respect-
ing the communion-table. Much of it has pre-
vailed long in the Scotch churches, and more 
or less in all other Christian communities. Men 
have had a constant conviction that the Lord's 
table is a sort of snare, or trap—a sort of op-
portunity which God takes for pouncing upon 
the unwary, the unwatchful, and infirm, to des-
troy them. It is not so : this is all a delusion. 
A communion-table is spread for the humble, 
hoar-i4, trusting, believing Christian : it is 
meant for those who desire to be Christians, if 
they cannot say they are more. It is spread on 
Calvary, not on Mount Sinai. Anti yet, com-
munion Sabbath after communion Sabbath, on-
ly four or five hundred persons come to the 
Lord's table. Why do you not all come ? It 
is nothing on God's part that prevents you, but 
something in yourselves : in short, an evil heart 
of unbelief leads you to depart from God ; you 
have lost the impression that God is your Fa-
thr, and gathered the conviction that he is only 
your keeper and master, and you are, there-
fore, afraid to meet him. You grow into a 
state of dissatisfaction with God altogether.—
Strange, that the eye should be dissatisfied with 
thy purest light, the ear with the noblest har-
mony, and the heart with the holiest worship ! 
But so it is ; and simply because the heart is 
seared in unbelief. 
And, lastly, you stand still. You faltered in 
your walk with God, you suspended your con-
fidence in him, you became altogether dissatis-
fied with God, and now you stand still. This 
is the progression described in the first Psalm: 
Blessed is the man that walketh not in the 
counsel of the ungodly, nor standeth in the 
way of sinners, nor sitteth in the seat of the 
scornful." First, you go amongst the " un- 
cumstantial ; but it is of most vital importance 
whether he receives God's truths as the Bible 
reveals them, or the lies which obscure and 
hide them. For instance, it is not of eternal 
moment whether you be a Churchman or a 
Dissenter ; but it is so whether you be a Soci-
nian or a Christian. It is not, I say, of eternal 
moment whether you be of the Church of Eng-
land, or the Church of Scotland ; but it is of 
eternal moment whether you are a Roman 
Catholic, or a Protestant, or evangelical Chris-
tian ; because the differences between the seve-
ral denominations of the Christian Church are 
not so great as they think them who constantly 
apply the microscope to these differences, and 
try to magnify and make them as great as pos-
sible. And, depend upon it, those men who 
do so are conscious of something wrong: in 
short, that there is no real difference, and, there-
fore, the little that there is they must try to 
make as great and momentous as they can. I 
believe that Episcopalians, Presbyterians, Inde-
pendents, Baptists, and Wesleyans, agree in 
essential, vital, lasting truths. Look at the 
points upon which they differ from each other, 
and make your election ; but remember, it is 
an election in circumstantials, not in vital and 
essential truths. Indifference to vital truth or 
to deadly error is a very different thing. The 
world may call this liberality and enlighten-
ment but Christ will look upon it as latitudi-
is essential to salvation ; circurrTstantiailrutii, 
to completeness or comfort. We may err in 
the latter, and yet be saved ; if we err in the 
former, we cannot be saved. Socinians and 
Roman Catholics, as suck, cannot be saved.—
I do not say of those who are Socinians and 
Roman Catholics, that they cannot, and never 
will be saved ; but this I do say of each, that 
it must be, if there be truth in the Bible, in 
spite of their creed, and not in consequence of 
it; and salvation will be more or less probable 
to them, just in the same ratio in which they 
abjure their peculiarities of doctrine, and learn 
that the arm of salvation is not an arm of flesh, 
but the arm of God manifest in the flesh. 
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THE ADVENT HERALD. 
we are of man, and especially of the soul of 
man, we must first turn back arid know our 
ignorance generally of that familiar thing called 
matter. Men are so familiar with material 
objects from their youth up, and are so perpetu-
ally employed about them, in the form of iron, 
and stone, and Wood, and water, and wool, and 
flax, and a multitude of other things and of 
articles manufactured from them, that they 
suppose they know matter perfectly well, and 
they would be like to laugh one to scorn, if he 
were to tell them that they did not know what 
matter is. 
They would affirm that they know 
quite well what matter is, but as for what you 
call mind or soul, it was all a mystery to them, 
and that they know nothing, or next to nothing, 
about it. All this is a mere deception, brought 
on by the fervid enterprises of men carried for-
ward under the impulses of a depraved nature; 
and the plain fact is, that the man imposes upon 
himself, and really knows as little what matter 
is, as what rtaind or soul is. 0, fearfully and 
wonderfully made man ! you yet know but little 
of what that is that is around you, but little of 
what that is that is within you, and condescend 
to lend me your ear a little, while I call your 
attention to a few simple thoughts that may be 
fitted to lead you out of mistake and into the 
way of knowledge. 
1st. Then I have to say, that we have as 
clear and direct and certain knowledge of what 
mind is as what matter is. We know as ex-
actly and fully what the one is as what the 
other is. I do not mean by this that we discern 
them by the same organs of perception, or that 
we know exactly to, the same extent the circle 
of their properties and uses; but I mean, that 
of the two substantive things themselves, called 
matter and mind, we know as exactly and fully 
what the one is as what the other is. That 
just simply means, that we know nothing at all 
of either, and have no means of coming to 
know it. Nor, in making this assertion, am I 
speaking of the mere essence of matter or mind, 
for an essence is always something different 
from that of which it is the essence, but I am 
speaking of the specific constitution that super-
venes upon the essence, constituting the sub-
stance what it is. Take the substantive thing 
matter by itself, and take the substantive thing 
mind by itself, and we have just as exact and 
full knowledge of the one as we have of the 
other, because we have never in any way per-
ceived or gained a.letteWle.S17R,Ofteiit/Iltm any 
direct knowledge of them, and does not conduct 
to this, Here, then, is one part of our ignor-
ance, 
2d. We not only have as clear and direct 
and certain knowledge of mind as of matter, 
but this is got in the same, or similar way. It 
is not got by the same perceptive organs, but it 
is got in the same sort of way. Let us see 
how, and how far we can get a knowledge of 
either; and first, let us inquire how, or how 
far we really know the most familiar of them—
matter. By the external senses of sight, touch, 
hearing, tasting, and smelling, we gain clear 
and direct and certain knowledge of the proper-
ties of matter, such as its length, breadth, 
thickness, hardness, softness, roughness, smooth-
ness, color, figure, taste, scent, &c., &c. This 
much we can know, and do know about it. 
Besides this, by examining matter in all its 
known conditions,—solid, liquid, or gaseous—
philosophers have discovered, as they they tell 
us, that there are four essential properties of 
 
-matter which it has in every condition, viz., 
expansion, ponderosity, impenetrability, and 
inertia. The property of expansion means that 
it has some size, ponderosity means that it has 
some weight, impenetrability means that it re-
sists the interpenetration of any other portion 
of matter so as to occupy the same space that 
it occupies at one and the same time, and inertia 
means having no tendency or capacity to move 
or act, but having a tendency to remain inactive. 
Mark well, that while by the use of our exter-
nal senses. guided by judgment, we can dis-
cover all these properties of matter, and while 
the properties always inhere in the substance 
of the matter, we never discover what the mat-
ter itself is. The whole business of life and 
processes of the arts have to do only with the 
properties, and the whole commerce of science 
is with the properties alone. Chemistry is a 
science for discovering the properties of matter, 
and mechanics and engineering and pharmacy, 
and many others, are sciences for carrying them 
into use. Mark well also, that all these pro- 
perties mentioned belong to a certain ultimate 
something, or, in other words, they all inhere 
in a certain substratal substance, which we call 
matter, but what that ultimate something, or 
that substratal substance is, we cannot tell ; 
science has never discovered, and we nevouan 
know. Though the matter itself can never be 
discovered, yet wherever the properties that 
inhere in it exist, it must itself be there, and it 
very properly gets the name matter, not to ex, 
 
plain what it is, but merely to indicate that the 
unknown something is not spirit, but what it is 
in its own intrinsic nature we cannot tell, and 
have no means of discovering. It comes to 
this, then, that in all material substances, we 
can have clear and direct and certain knowledge 
of their properties or attributes, but we can 
come to the knowledge of these alone, for the 
matter itself, or the substrata] substance to 
which the properties or attributes belong, is a 
thing we have never detected, and never can 
detect, but merely infer its existence. But as 
all properties must have a subject in which they 
inhere, we infer its existence with the greatest 
certainty. How great is our ignorance in 
reference to mere matter ! How little do we 
know the meaning of a word that is so often in 
every mouth!! How indirect and circuitous is 
the train by which we come to know 9f its 
existence ! And in all the activities of life, 
how wonderfully is God leading the blind by 
ways that they know not ! We know much of 
the properties or attributes of matter, but we 
know nothing of the matter ithelf! This sim-
ple and certain view of the subject leads to 
some very important conclusions. Since matter 
in all its conditions has the four essential proper-
ties of expansion, ponderosity, impenetrability, 
and inertia, all causation must be in mind; and 
all motion and activities throughout the uni-
verse must be produced by mind, either supreme 
or subordinate. It leads directly to the conclu-
sion, that since all the parts of a human body, 
bone and tendon, blood and tissue, nerve and 
brain, are just masses of matter, having each 
expansion, ponderosity, impenetrability, and 
inertia, they cannot be the cause of any of the 
motions or activities, mental or corporeal, which 
are put forth by mankind. Nothing could 
be a fairer conclusion than this. But, 
3d. Besides the powers of external perception 
(the five senses) which take cognisance of the 
properties of matter without, we have the 
power of internal consciousness which is fitted 
to take cognizance and give us notice of things 
within. This is a known fact, explain it how 
we may. It is a fact that this gives us notice 
of such operations going on within us, as think- 
is true we are not conscious of the thing called 
a mind or a soul existing within us in a qui-
escent state, we have not the consciousness of 
the substantive thing itself ; it is also true that 
we have not an immediate consciousness of the 
things called faculties that belong to the mind 
or soul, but we are directly conscious of a mul-
titude of varied and refined operations and 
activities going on within us, and we infer in-
stinctively and infallibly that there must be 
faculties within us fit for producing these, and 
that these faculties must be the faculties of 
something fit to be the subject of them, and to 
sustain their operations and activities. There 
can be no mistake here. That something again, 
though we have never got sight of it, or even 
a notion of it, though we have never detected it-
self, we call mind or soul, and by the name we 
principally mean the piece of negative informa-
tion that it is not matter, but something superior 
to and more refined than matter, and for dis-
tinction's sake (not as an -explanation) we give 
it the name,—spirit. 
Now this is the sum of all we know of mind. 
We know nothing at all of itself or its interior 
constitution, and nothing of its faculties even 
as quiescent inherents in it, and we have no 
power of coming to know these ; but we do 
know its wonderful operations and activities, so 
entirely different from all that science and the 
arts of life have discovered as the properties of 
matter. It is, therefore, indisputable that our 
internal consciousness detects the properties or 
attributes of mind as clearly and directly and 
certainly as our external senses detect the 
properties or attributes of matter. It follows, 
that as the properties or attributes of the one 
unknown substance are so essentially different 
from those of the other unknown substance, 
so we must either gratuitously ascribe incom-
patible capabilities to a thing we knout nothing 
of at all, or we will be forced to conclude that 
these dissimilar and opposite qualities inhere in 
different subjects and dissimilar substances. 
There is nothing that sound science will allow 
us to do in the.case, but infer that the, latent 
something whose essential properties are expan-
sion, ponderosity, impenetrability, and inertia, 
is essentially different from the latent something 
whose properties are thinking, recollecting, 
loving, willing, and the like. Science has as 
little made known to us what matter is as what 
mind is ; and to allege that matter may be the 
agent that thinks and recollects and loves and 
wills, were to forget that we are wholly ignorant 
of what matter is, and therefore unable to pro-
nounce what it may or can do, except by the 
rule of what it has done. It has put forth the 
properties of length, breadth, -and thickness, 
and the like ; but that any mass of expanded 
and ponderant and impenetrable and inert matter 
conceived the " Paradise Lost," or the " Prin-
cipia " of Newton, is every whit as unlikely a 
thing as that there are parliamentary debates 
going on in the lid of my inkstand, or concerts 
of music being performed ih the shank of my 
pen. It were small philosophy to object that 
these things are mere unorganized matter, but 
the human brain organized matter. That is no 
doubt true, and very valuable when the brain 
is considered as an instrument, and not as an 
agent, for its fine delicate organism fits it ad-
mirably for being used by the indwelling spirit 
in its embodied state ; but to allege that it has 
become the thinking and willing agent is to 
beg the conclusion that ought to be proved. 
The man who begs this conclusion ought to 
remember that what is now the substance of 
his brain was, not long ago, the substance of 
corn, and cattle, and cabbage, and potatoes, and 
such like things, till it passed through the 
alembic of his stomach and lacteals and blood-
vessels, and came at last to be deposited within 
his cranium. It was so, and all its predecessors 
in the same honored position were so. He 
would, therefore, need to be able to explain at 
what stage of the process, and by what means 
it gathered up the mentalised faculties of knowl-
edge and conscience and will, &c. When and 
how did this expanded and ponderant and im-
penetrable and inert substance, coming from 
ears of corn, and flanks of bullocks, and stocks 
of cabbage, and roots of potatoes, become im-
pregnated with a spiritual constitution, fitting 
it to give forth from itself the lofty conceptions 
of poetry, the profound researches of science, 
and the thrilling accents of eloquence, in virtue 
of its location in the inside of the skull ? These 
questions must be satisfactorily answered before 
a man can rationally assert that the soul is just 
a name for the results of the organism of the 
brain. But on the other side, in holding to the 
distinct existence and spirituality and innate 
activity of the mind or soul, we only make the 
41.4 every eneet was. 
have an adequate cause, and we are perfectly 
able to say that the substance which, in all its 
forms, has expansion and ponderosity and 
impenetrability and inertia, cannot be the agent 
 
that gives forth thought, and recollection, and 
love, and volition. These may be given forth 
through it, but not by it. The mind or soul of 
man, therefore, is a spiritual substance, wholly 
different from the matter of the body.—Chris. 
News, Glasgow. 
Second Coming of Christ. 
NO. VI. 
 
The second coming of Christ is an absorbing 
subject, to all such as look for it. The prophet 
Zechariah seemed especially to have a clear 
view, and great expectations of that day, when 
he wrote as follows :— 
" Behold, the day of the Lord cometh. . . . 
And his feet shall stand in that day upon the 
Mount of Olives, which is before Jerusalem 
on the east, and the Mount of Olives shall 
cleave in the midst thereof towards the east and 
towards the west, and there shall be a very 
great valley; and half of the mountain shall 
remove towards the north, and half of it to-
wards the south. And ye shall flee to the val-
ley of the mountain ; for the valley of the 
mountains shall reach unto Azel. Yea, ye 
shall flee, like as ye fled from before the earth-
quake; and the Lord my God shall come, and 
all the saints with thee. And the Lord shall 
be King over all the earth ; in that day shall 
there be one Lord, and his name one."—Zech. 
14:1, 4-6. 
Nothing surely can be more plain than the 
account here given of the coining of the Son 
of Man. If the Christian will take the simple 
reading as he finds it, he will see a beauty and 
a harmony in it that cannot fail to elicit his ad-
miration. 
In Matt. 24, commencing with the 3d verse, 
may be found that remarkable prophecy of our 
Lord, which was spoken in answer to three 
distinct questions of the disciples, viz. : " Tell 
us, when shall these things be ?" referring to 
his remarks respecting the destruction of the 
Temple. " And what shall be the sign of thy 
coming? and of the end of the world ?" 
The enquirer after truth is invited to read 
this entire chapter carefully, bearing in mind 
that the Saviour, in his answer, compriAs all 
three of the questions propounded. In v. 14 
he says : " And this gospel of the kingdom 
shall be preached in all the world for a wittess 
unto all nations; and then shall the end come." 
He does not say that the influence of the gos-
pel shall spread until all men are subjected to 
it, thus producing a millennium. He only says 
that it shall be preached for a witness, and that 
those who receive it shall be saved—and that 
those who reject it, shall be damned. 'Ibis is 
uniformly the language of Scripture, and those 
wh teach any other doctrine, are evidently not 
influenced by the mind of the Spirit. 
But he says in vs. 38 and 39 of the same 
chapter : " For as the days that were before the 
flood, they were eating, and drinking, marry-
ing, and giving in marriage, until the day that 
Noe entered into the ark ; and knew not till 
the flood carne, and took them all away; so 
shall also the coming of the Son of Man be." 
In the second of Peter, 3d chap., 10th and 
13th verses, we find the following: " But the 
day of the Lord will come as a thief in the 
night ; in the which the heavens shall pass 
away with a great noise, and the elements shall 
melt with fervent heat, and the earth also, and 
the works that are therein, shall be burned up. 
. . Nevertheless we, according to his promise, 
look for new heavens and a new earth, wherein 
dwelleth righteousness." 
In connection with this, let the reader turn 
to the 20th chapter of Revelation, and exam-
ine the description of Christ's reign upon the 
earth for a thousand years. 
This book, and this chapter, many who pro-
fess to be teachers of prophecy, but without 
understanding it, because they cannot make 
their own teachings- harmonize with it, will tell 
you that it is a sealed book, &c. &c., and there-
fore it cannot be rightly understood. Such 
teachers do not learn this doctrine from the 
Bible, for its instructions are different. 
The Bible says, and this very book, which 
they say is a sealed book, teaches, in chapter 
1st, 3d verse—" Blessed is he that readeth, and 
they that hear the words of this prophecy, and 
keep those things which are written therein ; 
for the time is at hand." 
In the last chapter, and 10th verse, we read 
as follows : " And he saith unto me, Seal not 
the sayings of the prophecy of this book ; for 
the time is at hand." 
This question disposed of by the very best 
of evidence, we will make a few comments up-
on the passage in the 20th chapter, and arsswer 
some objections. 
The plain teaching of the chapter is, that at 
or near the coming of Christ, Satan shall be 
bound for a thousand years. That the dead in 
Christ, including all the various classes of 
Christians, with the changed living, shall live 
and reign with Christ a thousand years ; that 
then the promise made to the disciples, that 
they should sit Upon twelve thrones, judging 
the twelve tribes of Israel, shall be fulfilled. 
This is the first resurrection. 
Now, the spiritualist says, to get over whet 
is to him an almost insurmountable difficulty, 
that it is only the martyrs that shall be raised 
and have this honor. If this were true, then 
it would make three resurrections yet necessa-
ry, and would, in our view, nullify the argu-
ment of the apostle, who says, that Christ, the 
first fruits, and afterwards they that are Christ's, 
at his coming. 
At the close of the thousand years, Satan 
shall be loosed out of his prison. What for ? 
The Bible says, " Shall go out to deceive the 
nations."* Now, if the spiritual views were 
true, there would be no nations to deceive.—
But, says the objector, this is highly figurative 
language. We agree that it would be a highly 
figurative construction, but not a warrantable 
one. 
It would be something like the theology of a 
celebrated D. D. in this city, who, on one occa-
sion, preached a sermon, and in the most em-
phatic manner taught the people that the day 
of Christ's second coming was near at hand, 
and properly and solemnly warned them to be 
ready for such an event. But on the next Sab-
bath, the same divine gave a disquisition on 
the spread of the Gospel, in which he showed 
that the spread of the Gospel was destined to 
prevail, until universal righteousness would 
cover the earth, thus making it impossible for 
* The nations referred to, which Satan will go out 
to deceive, we understand to be the nations of the 
wicked, who are raised from the dead, at the end of 
the thousand years; for they were not to live again 
till the thousand years were fulfilled—the very time 
when Satan is loosed to go out to deceive them, pre-
vious to their being cast alive into a lake of fire, 
burning with brimstone.—En. 
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Christ to come, according to his teaching, for at 
least a thousand years. 
Now, this minister occupies one of the first 
places in the connection in this city, and is ca-
pable, had he a settled theology, of imparting 
much useful instruction, and does on many 
points; but when he utters such absurdities as 
this, no thinking Christian can tell where to 
find him, or the tendency of his instructions ; 
and they should be received with much caution. 
It may be that some may think us severe in 
our strictures, when individuals are thus re- 
ferred to. �
IF we are, it is upon their doctrine, 
which affects the public mind; and the moment 
it is uttered from the pulpit it becomes public 
property, and invites investigation. 
No Scrip-
ture is of private interpretation ; that is, if we 
understand it, not merely to be interpreted by 
Pope, or council, or priest, or minister, and such 
interpretation to be received as infallible ; but 
the Bible is the property of all, a rich boon left 
for the people to read and understand, with 
prayer and thanksgiving. 
In our next, we shall take up other points of 
this interesting doctrine.—Chris. Repos. 
The Pope, 
HIS TEMPORAL AND SPIRITUAL POWER BROKEN. 
There seems scarcely room for doubt or hope 
respecting the peaceful and permanent restora-
tion of Pope Pius IX. to the temporal sovereignty 
of his dominion. His deposition seems to be a 
"fixed fact "—a thing accomplished beyond 
revocation, so far as the voluntary consent of 
his people is concerned ; or even their toleration 
of his rule, except under compulsion by the 
military power of 'the Catholic nations. The 
only point about which intelligent observers of 
the " signs of the times," entertain any diversity 
of opinion is, whether the supremacy of his 
spiritual dominion remains intact; or whether, 
admitting it to be at present in abeyance, it will 
be restored to him, when the political comrno-
tions of the country have subsided. Vie incline 
to the opinion that the Pope's power and au-
thority, as the supreme and absolute head and 
ruler of the Roman Catholic Church, ceased to 
be a fact from the moment when he fled from 
his people, and abandoned the temporal sove-
reignty; or in other words, that the possession 
of temporal power was necessary, and must 
ever be necessary, to the efficiency of the 
spiritual and ecclesiastical rule. Others, how-
ever, think differently, and great pains arra taken 
to induce in the public mind the belief that the 
head of the Papacy is still vital and efficient. 
We will briefly give the reasons which have 
led us to the conclusion we have reached—that 
the late Pope of Rome has lost, and can never 
recover, his absolute spiritual dominion over the 
Roman Catholic Church. 
It might be alleged with some show of rea-
son that the circumstances of his flight indicated 
conscious weakness in this very particular, and 
it must be admitted that they were not cal-
culated to increase or resuscitate veneration 
and respect for the person and office of the 
fugitive. The popular mind readily seizes upon 
any action of those holding elevated rank which 
is in itself ludicrous and inconsistent with the 
supposed virtue, true nobility, and dignified 
bearing appropriate to high station and power. 
Examples in this country show how readily., 
the people seize upon even an incidental ex-
pression, on the part of those entrusted with 
high commissions, incongruous to the matter 
under discussion ; and how effectually such a 
momentary lapse of dignity may be employed 
in times of political excitement or partizan 
warfare. Any lack of physical or moral courage 
oil the part of those in whom they have been 
taught to confide produces a still stronger and 
far more permanent impression upon the minds 
of the populace. Errors of judgment an intel-
ligent and generous people will soon forget or 
entirely overlook, but evidence of cowardice in 
a sovereign ruler, never. A Pope, a King, or 
a President, is jealously watched in the day of 
trial—then is the time for proving himself 
worthy of the confidence of his subjects, or of 
his fellow-citizens—and the mass of the people, 
though they might be at fault in judging of his 
diplomacy, with equal quickness and accuracy 
take the guage of, his manhood and capacity. 
In the time and manner of his flight, there 
Was nothing to redeem Pope Pius IX. from 
general contempt. He showed himself, beyond 
all redemption, ucequal to his position. He 
confessed, by the unequivocal language of his 
actions, that he was not the man for the times ; 
a confession made all the more forcible and de-
rogatory by the contrast with former manifesta-
tions and pretensions ; for it is beyond question 
that at one tin-me he seemed, in intelligent liber- 
ality and reformatory resolution, in advance of 
his contemporaries. So striking was the con-
trast of his flight and its attendant cicumstances 
with the indications given in the earlier part of 
his reign, that we hold it to be impossible that 
even the most devout of his subjects and ad-
herents could look upon those events without 
contempt ;—and where contempt is once engen-
dered, authority is at an end, unless backed and 
enforced by the strong arm of secular power. 
To quail and flee, and seek a hiding place at 
the first howling of fhe storm, would make a 
pilot the scoff and jest of the ship's crew ; but 
if, in the diguise of the cabin boy, or the cook, 
he contrived to escape in a life-boat, and left the 
ship and her crew to contend against the storm, 
with a lee-shore, and upon a strange coast, 
what unmeasured maledictions and scorn would 
greet him if he returned with fair weather, 
and sought again to take command of the 
vessel ? 
A moral effect very similar must have been 
wrought by the flight of the Pope in the dis-
guise of a liveried lacquey, for whatever neces-
sity for the step might be apparent to him or 
his advisers, the mode of escape was not the 
less unfortunate in its appearance and its influ-
ence upon the masses of the people, whose 
ridicule it could scarcely fail to excite, even 
though prudence or habits of reverence re-
strained itt expression. Personal respect for 
Pius IX. must have declined ; and when 
absence from his realm was prolonged, while 
in reality there seemed little or no necessity for 
it, the habit of submission and reverence be-
came weakened, and men learned to think and 
speak and act on their own responsibility ; and 
every day, as they increased in firm resolve to 
act for themselves, they wondered more and 
more at the pusillanimity of their temporal 
ruler and spiritual guide, and in the same pro-
portion the fugitive Pope lost his influence over 
their hearts and affections—that influence which 
is at the very foundation of spiritual supremacy 
and authority when it has to be exerted irre-
spective of the temporal power. Assuming 
then that the temporal sovereignty of the Pope 
is at an end, one would infer that his flight, 
under such circumstances as distinguished it. 
struck a deadly blow at his spiritual authority 
and power. 
Indeed, it seems to us that the Pope's flight 
was a virtual admission that his spiritual au-
thority was altogether subordinate to, and de-
pendant upon, his temporal power ; and that 
the ecclesiastico-authority was shorn of the 
glory that once attached to it. Had it not been 
so, he would surely have remained among his 
people, on the strength of his spiritual influ-
ence as an efficient aid in ultimately recovering 
their allegiance and affection. If we are right 
in this conjecture, the mighty power of the Pa-
pacy has terminated by, as the lawyers say, ef-
flux of time. The vitality of Papal supremacy 
has died out. Had Pius IX. felt assured that 
by his own subjects—the very elect of the Ro-
man Catholic Church—he was regarded as 
God's vicegerent on earth, the successor to the 
reputed power, as well as to the alleged office 
of the apostle Peter, having the power to bind 
and to loose, &c., as taught and blindly believed 
in the palmy days of Popery, it seems incredi-
ble that on so slight a cause he should fly from 
them, nor have courage to accept their invita-
tion to return. And the force of this view of 
the matter is in no way weakened, but rather 
strengthened, by the fact that the invitation to 
return was conditional that he should hereafter 
exercise only his spiritual functions. Because, 
first, his relation to the Church should make its 
interests and welfare his highest, chiefest con-
sideration, and should absorb, or overrule, eve-
ry other; and, secondly, if his spiritual power 
is as absolute as formerly, or as that of some 
of his immediate predecessors, the temporal 
power could have been regained almost by his 
simple fiat as absolute spiritual head of the 
Church. And this leads us to speak of what 
we conceive to be positive evidence that the au-
thority of Pius IX. is at an end. 
We refer to the bull of excommunication, ful-
minated against his own people, from his re-
tirement at Gaeta. The political power of such 
manifestoes has long been a nullity. But who 
could have anticipated, five years ago, such a 
reception for a bull of excommunication, as that 
by Pope Pius IX. has met with, from clergy 
and laity, in the very citadel of Papal power ? 
Things are, indeed, come to an extremity." 
Had Protestants foretold such treatment of a 
Papal bull, by every condition of people in 
Rome, the adherents of Popery would have 
laughed them to scorn, with even more bitter 
derision than greeted the manifesto of his Ho-
liness, when placarded on the walls, and read 
in the streets of the imperial city. Scoffed at, 
despised, publicly burned in the streets, that 
last foolish effort to re-assert dominion over the 
minds andi consciences of men, that vengeance-
breathing missive, severed the last thread of 
habitual bondage, and blind submission to the 
Pontifical will. The measure was hazardous, 
as the Pope must have known, but it was a 
last resort ; the stake was immenst , and the 
knowledge of his weakness could scarcely he 
less painful than uncertainty. He raised the 
thunderbolt, poised it for a moment, and hurled 
it. The laugh of derision from his unharmed 
people, told him that he was shorn of his 
strength to hurt, or even to intimidate. 
The press, so long supervised and restrained, 
and priest and layman—all seemed to breathe 
the same spirit of defiant freedom. Its author, 
it was openly declared, was dragged to " a 
wretched issue," which provoked only " anger 
and grief." Another journal said that it would 
give " a terrible check to religious faith, and 
break anew the concord that was rising up be-
tween Catholicism and liberty ;" that " to em-
ploy the anathemas of the Church for the de-
fence of a kingdom was to return to acts that 
have in history a sad renown." These and oth-
er sentiments were freely uttered by the Ro-
man Catholic press—a press which, consenta-
neously with indignant remonstrance against 
this harsh Pontifical mandate, endorsed and de-
fended the doctrines of Christianity, and of the 
Roman Catholic faith, thus showing that it was 
the personal assumption of supreme spiritual 
authority, which moved them to remonstrate, 
and hot disaffection to the Church of which 
they were a part. The Government, also, in 
its decree for perpetuating the constituent As-
sembly, speaks of the Pope as an " individual " 
amenable to the laws, and to prosecution, for 
offences against them or the Government; while 
portions of the populace paraded the streets, ex-
claiming, " Long life to the excommunicated." 
To an impartial, disinterested observer, these 
are tangible evidences that the Pope is no long-
er regarded, even by his own people, as " vice • 
God upon the earth." If his once-dreaded ana-
themas are powerless, and are met with defi-
anc'e and contempt, what shall become of his 
other decrees ? Without temporal power, how 
shall he enforce his mandates ? Is he head of 
a Church, without the means of governing it ? 
Can he long retain a merely nominal office ? 
Should he by the aid of any European power 
recover his temporal sway, can he, in the face 
of the past, especially now that the people have 
learned how harmless is a Papal bull of ex-
communication, regain his spiritual suprema-
cy ? These and other questions, of equal in-
terest to Protestants and Roman Catholics, 
must be solved ,hereafter.—N. Y. Spectator. 
The True Idea of a Religious Life. 
The Rev. Mr. Carter, one of the most learned 
and pious minister of a former age, on calling 
to see a religious acquaintance, learned that he 
was at work in his shop. Not wishing to in-
terrupt his industry, he repaired thither. The 
man was busily employed on some part of the 
process of tanning a hide. Mr. Carter came 
up softly behind him, and gave him a pleasant 
tap on the shoulder. The man turned suddenly, 
and seeing who it was, blushed deeply, and 
said, " Sir, I am ashamed that you should find 
me thus." 
" Let Christ, when he corneal, find me so do-
ing," said Mr. Carter. 
" What do you mean, sir ; do you wish to be 
found in this employment ?" 
" Yes, I wish to be found faithfully perform-
ing the duties of my calling." 
The remark of Mr. Carter suggests the true 
idea of a religious life. There are those who 
seem to think that a religious life consists 
mainly, if not entirely, in acts of devotion, of 
self-denial, and of specific efforts for the salva-
tion of souls. They do not seem to be aware 
of the truth, that they can serve God in their 
daily employments as truly as in the sanctuary. 
They come far short of apprehending the idea 
contained in the injunction of the apostle : —
„ Whether, therefore, ye eat, or drink, or what-
soever ye do, do all to the glory of God." 
The consequence is, the lack of a steady and 
symmetrical growth in Christian character.—
Their path is not " as the -shining light, which 
shineth more and more unto the perfect day." 
The true idea of a religious life, embraces all 
the actions of our lives. It requires us to em-
ploy every moment of our time in a manner ac-
ceptable to God. It teaches us that we have 
but one thing to do, viz., THE WILL OF GOD. It 
assures us, that when, at a proper season, we 
are as really doing his will, as when we are 
listening to his truth in the sanctuary, or pray-
ing in our closet.—N. Y. Observer. 
The Interesting 'V ariety of the Bible. 
When the great Samuel Johnson was asked 
why so many literary men were infidels, his 
reply was—" Because they are ignorant. of the 
Bible." If the question was asked why the 
lovers of general reading so often fail to acquaint 
themselves with the sacred volume, one reason 
that may be assigned doubtless is, that they are 
not aware of its interesting variety. This fea-
ture of the Bible is well illustrated by Mrs. 
Ellis, in the following elegant extract from her 
recent work, entitled the " Poetry of Life :" 
" Mrith established ideas of beauty, grace, 
pathos, sublimity, either concentrated in the 
minutest point, or extended to the wildest range, 
we can derive from the Scriptures a fund of 
gratification not to be found in any other 
memorial of the past or present time. From 
the worm that grovels in the dust beneath our 
feet, to the track of the leviathan in time foam-
ing deep—from the moth that corrupts the 
secret treasure, to the eagle that soars above his 
eyrie in the clouds—from the wild ass in the 
desert, to the lamb within the shepherd's fold—
from the consuming locust, to the cattle of a 
thousand hills—from the rose of Sharon, to time 
cedar of Lebanon—from the clear crystal stream, 
gushing forth out of the flinty rock, to the wide 
waters of the deluge—from the barren waste 
to the fruitful vineyard and the land flowing 
with milk and honey—from the lonely path of . 
the wanderer, to the gatherer of a mighty mul-
titude—from the tear that falls in secret, to the 
din of ,battle and the shout of a triumphant 
host—from the solitary in the wilderness, to 
the satrap on the throne—from time mourner 
clad in his sackcloth, to the prince in his purple 
robes—from the gnawing of the worm that 
dieth not, to time seraphic vision of the blessed 
—from the still, small voice, to the thunders of 
Omnipotence—from the depths of hell, to the 
regions of eternal glory—there is no degree of 
beauty or deformity, no tendency to good or 
evil, no shades of darkness or gleams of light, 
which does not come within time cognizance of 
the Holy Scriptures ; and therefore there is no 
expression or conception of the mind that here 
may not find a corresponding picture ; no thirst 
for excellence that may not meet with its full 
supply ; and no condition of humanity excluded 
from the unlimited scope of adaptation and 
sympathy comprehended in the language and 
spirit of the Bible." 
Extraordinary Phenomenon. 
We have received a circumstantial descrip-
tion of an extraordinary appearance in time hea-
vens, which was recently witnessed by two 
men, who were out in a fishing-boat, off Quig-
ley's Point, in Lough Foyle. At a former pe-
riod, this strange phenomenon, for which the 
known laws of optics account only imperfectly, 
would have been regarded as prophetic of ra-
tional destinies ; but the Fata Morgaria of It-
aly, and the singular appearances frequently 
witnessed in the high arctic latitudes, as well 
as around some parts of the Antrim coast, de-
monstrate the essential reference of all these 
optical wonders to some natural law, which sci-
ence has yet thoroughly to investigate. From 
the character of the men to whom, in time pres-
ent case, we allude, not the slightest doubt can 
be entertained in regard to the fidelity of their 
statement, which is in substance, the following, 
namely :—That while recently, at about two 
o'clock A. iv., out in a boat fishing, off Quig-
ley's Point, they observed a phenomenon of a 
very strange description. At the hour we have 
mentioned, the sky was more than of an ordi-
nary dark and lurid aspect, so much so that 
the men were apprehensive that there would 
be a heavy fall of rain, when almost instanta-
neauslY, the clouds to the westward parted, and 
an opening, as it were, of a reddish hue, be-
came visible, to which their attention was di-
rected. Then there appeared in the heavens a 
regiment of men in uniform ; and so minute 
was the representation, that the dresses of the 
officers could easily be distinguished from those 
of the men. This passed away in a panoramic 
manner, and was quickly succeeded by the 
view of two large three-masted vessels of war 
under full sail, which traversed the same space 
as their predecessoss on the scene, and at 
length they faded from the sight. The myste-
rious vision was not, however, yet completed ; 
for their wandering eyes now beheld the ap-
pearance of two human forms, male and' fe-
male, standing with their faces towards each 
other, as if engaged in conversation ; and so 
vivid was the outline of these figures, that they 
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to be vacant until the coining of Him whose right it 
is to reign.—See Ezek. 21:25-27. 
To cheer the drooping spirits of the captives, they 
are told of a restoration to their own land. This pre-
diction, be it remembered, was made about fifty years 
before the restoration from the Babylonish captivity, 
On the division of the kingdom of Soeomosr, after 
his death, the tribes of Judah and Benjamin, with the 
Levites, united, and constituted the kingdom of Ju-
dah.. All the rest went off with JEROBOAM, and 
formed the kingdom of Israel. Individuals from those 
tribes might have united with Judah, but no whole 
tribe returned to that kingdom previous to the date of 
this prophecy. It was predicted of Ephraim on its 
dispersion, that it should no more be a people; yet 
TAYLOR, RENNELL, and CALMET, distinguished anti-
quarians, are of opinion, that before the seventy 
years' captivity the main body of the Jews were never 
deported from their own country ; they that were 
carried away being only a small portion of them ; and 
that when the Jews returned from Babylon, after the 
fall of the Chaldean, or Assyrian empire, those of 
the tentribes, who were pleased to, returned with the 
tribes of Judah and Benjamin ; so that the ten tribes 
as a distinct people, did not afterwards exist. 
Among the reasons offered for this opinion, is the 
fact, that nearly a hundred years after the captivity of 
the ten tribes by SHALMANESER, JOSIAH, king of Ju-
dah, not only purged Judah and Jerusalem from 
idolatry, but went in person to the cities of Manas-
seh, west of Jordan, Ephraim, Simeon, and even to 
Naphtali, " throughout all Israel," and did the same 
great work ; which he could not have done tied not 
these tribes, or at least a part of them, been there. 
And it may be seen, also, that when ZERUBBABEL re-
turned, there are mentioned as going with him other 
tribes than those of Benjamin and Judah. Also, 
under the Maccabees, and in the time of our SA-
VIOUR, Palestine was peopled by the Israelites of all 
the tribes indifferently. When CYRUS issued his de-
cree for their return, his kingdom was large, and em-
braced Assyria. He testifies that Goo had given 
him all the kingdoms of the earth. The dominions 
of ARTAXERXES LONGIMANUS were not less than his. 
They gave liberty for all within their dominions to re-
turn. Thus the Jews universally had liberty to re-
turn to Jerusalem from wherever they may have 
been scattered. And they did actually return, vast 
numbers of them, at least, to the land of Israel,—be-
ing my more two nations, but one nation on the moun-
tains of Israel,—being united as predicted in this 
prophecy. 
They were not, however, obedient to the Loan in 
all things, so that DAVID, their prince, was not raised 
up to be king over them ; as he is to be forever 
when the final ingathering takes place. Then will 
the remainder of this prophecy be fulfilled,—their 
graves will be opened, and they will come up out of 
their graves ; they, and their children, and their chil-
dren's children, those of all generations who have 
been obedient to the words of the LORD, and will 
dwell in the land forever. And when the sanctuary 
of the LORD is placed among them, the wicked will 
also know it. 
We find no more symbols in EZEKIEL till we come 
to the 40th chapter, which presents a vision given 
about thirty-five years before the end of the Baby-
lonish captivity, when the Jews should be permitted 
to go up to their own land., . The symbols of this and 
the following chapters of EZEKIEL, appear to he of 
the same kind and dimensions of the things symbol-
ized. 
EZEKIEL is taken, " in the visions of GOD," 
"into the land of Israel, and set upon a very high 
mountain, by which was as the frame of a city on the 
south."—V. 2. This mountain may have been 
Mount Moriah, on which the Temple of SOLOMON 
had stood, and on which the Templed ZERUBBABEL 
was afterwards built. There he saw " a man whose 
appearance was like the appearance of brass, with a 
line of flax in his hand, and a measuring reed."—
This man said to him, " Son of man, behold with 
thine eyes, and hear with thine ears, and set thine 
heart upon all that I shall show thee ; for to the in-
tent that I might show them unto thee art thou 
brought hither; declare all that thou seest to the 
house of Israel." 
This address of the angel ,shows the purpose of 
this vision—that it was to make known to the Jews 
then in captivity, something which had a particular 
reference to them. The man then proceeds to meas-
ure with the reed in his hand the various parts of the 
building, seen in the vision. �
He measures the 
breadth of the building, and its height, goes up the 
stairs of the eastern gate, measures the threshold of 
the gate, and the other thresholds, every little cham- 
distinguished the male from the female, the 
former being apparently clothed in a frock coat. 
This aerial personation of humanity, occupied 
about the same space of time as the two first 
mentioned. This most bewildering scene closed 
by the forms of a swan and a peahen moving 
across, and disappearing; after which the sky 
assumed the sombre hue which it wore pre-
vious to this strange illusion. Our informants 
stated that one of the men who witnessed this 
scene was filled with the greatest terror during 
its continuance.—Derry Sentinel. 
Z1)C 2hent 
"BEHOLD! THE BRIDEGROOM COMETH!!" 
InSTJN, SATURDAY, MARCH 31, 1849. 
Interpretation of Symbols, Figures, Ste, 
(Continued from our last.) 
Again, we read that the word of the LORD came 
upon EZEKIEL, saying, " Son of man, take thee one 
stick, and write upon it, For JUDAH, and for the chil-
dren of. Israel his companions : then take another 
stick, and write upon it, For JosEpn, the stick of 
EPHRAIM, and for all the house of Israel his compan-
ions : and join them one to another into one stick ; 
and they shall become one in thine hand."—Ezek. 
37:16, 17. 
The symbolical act is thus explained : " And when 
the children of thy people shall speak unto thee, say- 
ing, Wilt thou not show us what thou meanest by 
these? say unto them, Thus saith the LORD Gon ; 
Behold, I will take the stick of JOSEPH, which is in 
the hand of EPHRAIM, and the tribes of Israel his 
fellows, and will put them with him, even with the 
stick of JUDAH, and make them one stick, and they 
shall be one in mine hand. 
" And the sticks whereon thou writest shall be in 
thine hand before their eyes. And say unto them, 
Thus saith the LORD Gon ; Behold, I will take the 
children of Israel from among the heathen, whither 
they be gone, and will gather them on every side, 
and bring them into their own land : and I will make 
them one nation in the land upon the mountains of 
Israel ; and one king shall be king to them all : and 
they shall be no more two nations, neither shall they 
be divided into two kingdoms any more at all : nei-
ther shall they defile themselves any more with idols, 
nor with their detestable thinks, nor with any of their 
transgressions : but I will save them out of all their 
dwelling-places, wherein they have sinned, and will 
cleanse them : so shall they be my people, and I will 
be their GoD. 
And DAVID my servant shall be king 
over them; and they all shall have one shepherd : 
they shall also walk in my judgments, and observe 
my statutes, and do them. And they shall dwell in 
the land that I have given unto JACOB my servant, 
wherein your fathers have dwelt, and they shall dwell 
therein, even they, and their children, and their chil-
dren's children forever : and my servant DAVID shall 
be their • prince forever. Moreover, I will make a 
covenant of peace with them ; it shall be an everlast-
ing covenant with them : and I will place them, and 
multiply them, and will set my sanctuary in the midst 
of them for evermore. My tabernacle also shall he 
with them ; yea, I will he their GOD, and they shall 
be my people. And the heathen shall know that I 
the LORD do sanctify Israel, when my sanctuary shall 
be in the midst of them for evermore."—Vs. 18-28. 
From the above it follows, that the stick for JUDAH 
and his companions—symbolized the kingdom of Ju-
dah. 
The stick for JOSEPH and his companions,EPHRAIM 
and all the house of Israel—the ten tribes which 
revolted, and chose JEROBOAM, an Ephraimite, fur 
their king. 
The union of the two sticks—the union of the 
two divisions of the descendants of JACOB, thus sym-
bolized, so that they should be no more two nations, 
but one nation, on the mountains of Israel, in their 
own land. 
This prophecy was uttered in the twelfth year of 
king JEHOIACHIN'S captivity—one year after the ter-
mination of the siege of Jerusalem, in which the city 
was taken, and ZEDEKIAH, the " profane and wicked 
prince, the last descendant of DAVID who occupied his 
throne, was abased, and whose throne was declared 
porch and the posts thereof, the size of the gate ; 
gives the number of chambers, the size of the win-
dows, and of the court and pavement, the arches, &c. 
And thus he gives the dimensions and description of 
all the parts and appendages of the Temple; which, 
on comparing with the books of the Kings and 
Chronicles, it will be seen is the same in all respects 
with the description of the Temple built by SOLOMON, 
It will, therefore, seem to have been the design of 
GoD in this minute measurement to recall to the 
mind of the Jews the exact dimensions of all the 
parts of their beautiful house, which had been burned 
with fire, and which they were to re-build on their 
restoration from the bondage they were then enduring. 
This view is confirmed by what follows : the 
prophet beheld until " the glory of the Gun of Israel 
came from the way of the east : and his voice was 
like a noise of many waters ; and the earth shined 
with his glory. And," he adds, " it was according 
to the appearance of the vision which I saw, even 
according to the vision that I saw when I came to 
destroy the city : and the visions were like the vision 
that I saw by the river Chebar ; and I fell on my 
face."—Chap. 43: 2, 3. 
Thus the vision for the restoration of the city was 
a repetition of the same vision he had when the same 
city was to be destroyed. The glory of the LORD 
came from the way of the east. The Divine glory 
follows the course of the natural light of day, which 
first appears in the east. Christianity, in its progress 
over the earth, has followed the order of nature : be-
ginning in the east, it has steadily progressed west-
ward, till its setting beams now illume the islands of 
the Pacific. But this is not a fulfilment of the coin-
ing of the glory of the LORD.—( To be continued.) 
Benevolent Enterprises, 
The Christian Observatory, in remarking on the 
views being published by Mr. LORD, in the Theologi-
cal and Literary Journal, says : 
" The theory of Millennariasm has never as yet 
originated and sustained a rational system of benevo-
lent enterprise. It has, on the other hand, been held 
in connection with great extravagances, and the 
minds of sonic of its advocates have been unbalanced, 
if not quite deranged, by its influences. Moreover, 
there is no evidence that a system of benevolent 
enterprise, like the present, could be sustained if it 
were to become prevalent, and there is reason to 
believe that it could not. 
" On the other hand, the common view tends to 
stimulate and sustain Christian enterprise, by time 
high motive of an assumed hope of success. It does 
not turn away the mind from a study of the law of 
social progress, and from the use of wisely adapted 
means, to anticipations of a supernatural revelation of 
Christ, and an entire change of dispensation. It 
does not unsettle the mind, and tend to extravagances. 
But, under its influence, primitive energy, liberality, 
and self-denial, have been manifested in the efihrts 
for the conversion of the world. All efforts, then, 
to revolutionize the public mind on this subject, deserve 
a careful scrutiny." 
were willing to assist in this department. Here is a 
system of benevolent enterprise originated and 
sustained by those looking for the near coming of 
CHRIST. The papers from which we quote may not 
call it a " rational " one ; but that is a matter of 
opinion ; we think it is—a much more rational one 
than to attempt the conversion of the world against 
the plain declarations of scripture. While that is an 
irrational project, it is not irrational to send mission-
aries to the heathen. In this work we hope none 
will slacken their efforts ; for heathen souls are as 
precious as ours, and their salvation will elicit as 
great an expression of joy in heaven, as the conver-
sion of sinners in our own country. We therefore 
say, send out your missionaries, and if they do not 
go freighted with all the truth we believe, send 
them ; for it is better that a part of the gospel should 
be proclaimed to poor perishing heathen, than that 
their ears should never listen to the glad tidings of 
the gospel. Far be it from our wish to weaken the 
hands of any who are engaged in this noble enterprise. 
Yet in view of the fact that this enterprise is sustained 
by so many, and the department before referred to is 
sustained by so few, we are obliged to turn our 
own charities principally in this last direction ; for if 
this is sustained at all, it must be sustained by the 
few. We are, however, fully persuaded that if the 
Church had right views respecting the destiny of 
man on earth, its benevolence would be put forth in 
less stinted measure. The cry has been that those 
looking for the LORD were too prodigal in their 
liberality—that they wasted their property. If they 
have wasted it at all, it has been in the overflow of 
their benevolence, called forth by the very truths 
which are, in the above quotations, referred to as 
having a tendency to seal up time promptings of the 
heart. If similar views were possessed by the entire 
Church, there would be a consecration of property 
exhibited on a large scale, which when presented on 
a small one, has been misapprehended, and called 
forth unbecoming sneers. There would be exhibited 
not only a consecration of property, but of time and 
talent to the service of the LORD, There would be 
then no want of money or of men to send the 
gospel to the heathen. No sooner should the cry be 
made : " Who will go for us?" but the response would 
come up from many a hearth-stone : " Here are we, 
send us." These men would go forth, not to make a 
mere beginning for others to finish, nor to lay a 
foundation for others to build upon. They would go 
feeling to work while the day lasted, knowing that 
the night is fast hastening in which no man can work. 
They would feel, in view of the shortness of time, 
that it became them to be up and doing, to do whatso- 
ever their hands found to do with all their might. 
They would also have an argument which presented 
to the heathen, and carried home to their hearts by 
the gracious influences of the Holy Spirit, could not 
fail to produce an awaking among them, such as has 
not been witnessed since that Pentecostal season 
when, under the preaching of PETER, such multitudes 
cried out, " Men and brethren, what shall we do?" 
We have sometimes indulged the hope, in view of 
the surprising fact that within a few years Goa has 
permitted the translation of the Holy Scriptures into 
so many heathen tongues, that the Church would be 
impressed with this truth, and rush through the 
nations with one united, earnest, and solemn appeal ; 
but we dare not hope. Nevertheless, at my coining 
shall I find faith on the earth? is the unencouraging 
interrogatory of the SAVIOUR. 
We are, however, not to look at consequences : 
" thou shalt speak my words unto them, whether 
they will hear or whether they will forbear," is the 
command given by JEHOVAH ; and till the world shall 
end, the SAVIOUR has promised to be with his 
ministers in going into all the world and preaching 
the gospel to every creature. The command, " Go 
teach all nations," will not be rescinded, till the 
trump of the archangel shall sound. The duty of 
man is to go and preach ; he will receive his reward 
when " they that be wise shall shine as the brightness 
of the firmament, and they that turn many to 
righteousness, as time stars forever and ever." fie is 
not to be actuated in time performance of duty, by the 
amount of success which may, or may not, attend his 
labors ; for obedience in preaching the gospel to 
every creature, is as much required when it is preached 
to those who believe not, to whom it will be a savor 
of death, as it is to those who shall believe it and be 
saved. 
Time Secretary alluded to some Adventists who 
believe in the annihilation of the wicked. He is 
aware that Mr. MILLER, and the majority of the 
leading Advent ministers who hold with him, have 
neither received, nor teach that doctrine. We know 
of some Baptists who thus believe. Does the 
We are at a loss to know what the editor of the 
Observatory means by originating and sustaining a 
rational system of benevolent enterprise. If he 
meal's that believing in the near coming of CHRIST 
has made men penurious and selfish, he is very much 
mistaken ; for it will be difficult to find any body of 
Christians 
proportion to their means, to circulate religious truth, 
than those thus unjustly condemned. We have had 
some opportunity to acquaint ourselves with the state 
of things in this particular, and we know that in 
England none are more actively benevolent, or more 
continually interested in sustaining the various 
religious enterprises of the day, than Messrs. 
BICKERSTETH, BIRKS, BROOKS, HABERSHON, NEILE, 
NOEL, and other prominent Millennarians of that 
country. 
The editor of time Christian Secretary, in copying 
the above extract from the Observatory, adds : 
" The remark we think is a just one. The 
believers in the speedy coming and personal reign of 
Christ, are not distinguished for any efforts to propa-
gate the gospel in foreign lands. The reason 
generally assigned by them for their neglect of this 
great duty is, that the time is too short to accomplish 
anything. The believers in Miller's 1843 delusion, 
are many of them, Millenarians now, looking for 
the speedy coming of the Son of Man ; to which 
they have added the abominable doctrine of the 
annihilation of the wicked, as a part of their creed." 
To this we would reply that the Adventists in this 
country have devoted their charities more particularly 
to those departments of benevolence which were not 
cared for by the great mass of the Church. They 
have felt no lack of interest in the conversion of 
souls among the heathen ; but they have felt, while 
the great amount of the charities of the Church were 
devoted to that object, that time spread of knowledge 
on the subject of the Advent had a more imperative 
who have contributed more largely, in 
ber, and the distance between the chambers, the demand on their liberality, from the fact that so few 
THE ADVENT HERALD. �
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. BEAR BRO.. �
is affirmed, that the word rendered "cast down," 
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that is 'r:
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" plciced" in either of those instances ? 
Yours resnectfully, �
0. B. TURNER. 
ANSWER.—It is not necessary that the " same 
word " should always have the same rendering in 
different connections. The context will frequently 
vary the use and meaning of a word. But as facts 
are not very accommodating to those who would 
make out a case, it so happens, unfortunately for your 
informer, that it is a different word that is thus ren-
dered in those texts. The word rendered " cast 
down," in Dan. 7:9—" I beheld till the thrones were 
cast down "—is iii; while that rendered "taken 
away," and " take off," in Dan. 8 : 11—" the daily 
sacrifice shall he taken away," and Ezek. 21 : 26—
" Remove the diadem, take off the crown "—is on. 
The former is never used to denote being removed 
from a place, destroyed, or razed ; but is used to de-
note being cast into, or placed in a place. Thus the 
same word occurs in Dan. 3:21,—the three worthies 
" were cast," or placed in the fiery furnace , and again 
in Dan. 6:16—" They brought DANIEL and cast hilt," 
or placed him, " in the lions' den." Thus, we say 
a man is cast, or placed in the stocks. The same idea 
is contained in our English translation : the thrones, 
or seats of judgment, are cast down, or placed, as 
we would cast down, or place a cushion for a friend 
to sit on, if we wished him to be seated after the 
manner of an oriental judge. 
The word which occurs in Dan. 8 : 11, and Ezek. 
21 : 26, is never used to denote demolition, and is, 
therefore, a poor reference for your affirmer, even if 
it was the same word used in the other passage. It 
occurs about one hundred and ninety times in the Old 
Testament, and in every place, with some five or six 
exceptions, it is rendered, giving, lifting up, offer up, 
high, exaltation, &c., as in the following texts :— 
I Sam. 2.1—" Mine horn is exalted in the LORD." 
Job. 22:12—" The stars, how high they are." 
Psa. 46:10—" I will be exalted among the heathen." 
Isa. 1:2—" I have nourished and brought up chil- 
dren." 
Ezek. 17:22—" The highest branch of the high 
cedars," &c. &c. 
Those examples will give the general meaning of 
the word ; it is used in connection with the idea of 
lifting, or elevating. Thus, in the texts referred to, 
" Take off the the crown," and take away the sacri-
fice : to uncrown a man, it must be lifted from his 
head before it can he removed ; to remove the daily, 
it is taken up and carried away. Without the idea 
of lifting, in connection with removing, it would not 
be properly used. The word rendered " remove"—
" Remove the diadem "—is 14D, which denotes what 
your affirmer supposed the word last considered did. 
It occurs in 
Isa. 5:5—" I will take away the hedge thereof." 
Jer. 5:10—" Take away her battlements," &c. 
If it was designed to indicate the overthrow of gov-
ernment, it would have been very natural to have used 
the word trty', which is elsewhere used in DANIEL'S 
prophecy to express this, as in 
Dan. 4:31—" The kingdom is departed from thee." 
5:20—" And they took his glory from him." 
7:12—" They had their dominion taken away." 
7:14—" The dominion which shall not pass 
away." 
7.26—" And they shall take away his domin-
ion," &c. 
Whoever your affirmer may be, if honest, he will 
promptly correct his mistake, as all honest men inva-
riably do. There are those who cannot see, who are 
troubled with defective memories, whose organs of 
comparison are so small as to unfit them for seeing the 
resemblances and differences in the arrangement of 
ideas. Such persons are not so much to be blamed for 
inability ; but when the blind lead the blind, they do not 
often arrive at just conclusions. We do not consider 
that anything is often gained by correcting their mis-
takes. 
Secretary reject any truth because some who holfit 
entertain some erroneous sentiments? �
]foes the 
Secretary fellowship all the opinions and acts of the 
Anabaptists of Germany, in the time of LUTHER? 
We only wish to be judged by the rule which our 
judges are willing to abide by. 
Editorial Correspondence. 
Bao. Bless :—I have just arrived here from Caze-
novia, and as I cannot leave for the West till 2 P. M. 
I shall improve the time to keep you advised of our 
progress and success. Bro. NEEDHAM and myself left 
Bro. HIMES at Peterboro' last Friday, and came to 
Cazenovia, to which place Bro. HIMES came on Satur-
day, when Bro. NEEDHAM went on to spend Sunday 
at Homer, Bro. HIMES following him on Monday, 
while I take this route and meet them at Auburn, 
where our conference begins the day after to-morrow. 
,We have each of us had a turn on the sick list, but 
are now quite hearty again. It seems almost im-
possible that we could have stood it so well as we 
have. 
Our conference at Peterboro' was of a very inter-
esting and promising character, and if we could have 
had a part of the time we spent with apparently so 
little result at Cooperstown, it might have been well 
occupied at Peterboro'. Bro. HIMES preached in the 
Baptist church on Friday and evening to very atten-
tive congregations. He also had conversations with 
the Baptist and Presbyterian pastors, who were sup-
plied with our publications. The Presbyterian pastor 
is Mr. RAND, formerly connected with the Boston 
Recorder, the first religious paper ever published in 
Boston—the second in the country. I was not aware 
of the fact of his connection with that paper while I 
was in Peterboro', or I certainly should have made 
a visit. That paper, probably while he was its editor, 
was the instrumentality employed by a merciful GOD 
to show me my lost condition as a rebel against him. 
After about two weeks of trouble and sorrow, I found 
peace in believing, and since that time, having ob-
tained help of Gun, I have endeavored to serve him. 
We very much regretted that our appointments would 
not admit either of us to spend the Lord's-day at 
Peterboro'. 
Our meetings at Cazenovia were held in the " Free 
church," the pulpit of which is occupied by Mr. 
JOHNSON. There were no professed Advent believers 
known to us in the place, but we met a very friendly 
reception. This is the place of Bro. NEEDHAM'S la- 
bors, in the sphere of his former action. A few 
months after the organization of the church of CHRIST 
in Cazenovia, about fifteen years ago, Bro. N. was 
chosen one of the deacons, in which capacity lie la- 
bored with that church, under different pastors, until 
the spring of '39, when, being fully convinced GOD 
had called him to a sphere of still greater activity in 
the cause of CHRIST, he laid before the church his 
convictions and desires on the subject, and was by the 
unanimous vote of the church set apart for the work 
of the Gospel ministry—Brn. SILAs HAWLEY (then 
pastor of the church), LUTHER MYRICK, and J. M. 
PARKER, conducting the exercises. The former is 
known as the author of the Tabernacle Sermon, enti-
tled, The Second Advent Doctrine Vindicated—the 
two latter sleep in JEsus. 
This church has from the beginning been first in 
every good work. They early and nobly stood out 
On the broad platform of our common Christianity—
of universal benevolence. In them every unpopular 
question of reform has found fast, unwavering friends. 
For their liberality, they have been stigmatized as 
" heretics," and heterodox in sentiment, and for their 
zeal in the cause of God, as " new lights," etc.—
But by a consistent course, they have (if they have 
not won the hearts of community) silenced the cavils 
of gainsayers. We have strong hopes, that, as a 
body, they will see the glorious truth of the LORD'S 
second and near coming, and embrace it with all their 
hearts. 
How many, whose hearts have been stirred up 
against sin, and their sympathies drawn out in favor 
of bleeding and down-trodden humanity, are hoping 
for, and desiring the same glorious results, so far as 
moral evil is concerned, that we do, yet are destined 
to continual disappointment, because they expect to 
accomplish them by the blessing of Goo, and in a 
way and by agencies He has not marked out ; and 
by the blessing he has not promised ! We pray GOD 
those dear brethren may see it. 
The congregations were large, and deeply atten-
tive, and we trust it will be seen that the seed has 
fallen in good ground. Quite a number expressed a 
high degree of satisfaction with the truth presented. 
The Oneida Conference (Methodist) Seminary is lo-
cated here, many of the students of which were in to 
Our meetings have been deeply interesting. There 
has been one continual revival fin a year past. There 
have been a few Advent believers for several years 
in and around Homer, but no united aggressive 
movement was made by them till about one year and 
a half ago. About that time, several brethren in-
vited Bro. CIIAPMAN to come to a neighborhood about 
two miles out of the village. He complied with 
their request, and by the blessing of GOD on his la-
bors, a church of fifteen souls was gathered, who 
covenanted together to maintain the worship of GOD. 
They separated themselves from their former associa-
tions, and unitedly held up the light wItich GOD had 
given them. His blessing accompanied. About a 
year ago, brethren BY WATER and PINNEY commenced 
a conference, the results of which eternity alone can 
tell. The providence of GOD had prepared the way, 
by several incidents connected with other churches, 
not necessary now to mention. They improved the 
opportunity, and GOD blessed it to the salvation of 
many. Conversions are occurring constantly under 
the faithful labors of Bro. BATES. Bro. CHAPMAN 
has also been laboring in the vicinity to great accept-
ance ; and, what is better, GOD is with him, and 
souls are brought to CHRIST through his labors. 
But while we witness these glorious results, we 
have also another fact,—the work has not gone for-
ward without opposition. Every means has been 
resorted to, both honorable and dishonorable, to 
prejudice the community against the truth, and to 
deter them from hearing it. This they have been 
obliged to wade through, and by Divine grace they 
have done it. As a specimen, when this meeting 
was appointed, an application was made to a promi-
nent member of one of the churches for the use of 
their house for our meeting, by one of our brethren, 
who had been on the most intimate and friendly terms 
with him, but it was refused, and with the refusal a 
hope was expressed, that " your wise men from the 
East would preach that JEsus CHRIST was coming, 
riding on a white horse," etc. Another : three indi-
viduals, one or more members of churches in this vil-
lage, attempted to bribe a man by the offer of five dol-
lars, and a supper at a public house, to go in arid dis-
turb our meeting on the LoaD's-day ; but the man, 
having too much respect for himself, could not stoop 
to do their dirty work. They, or some one else, (it 
is believed in Homer that these same individuals,) 
did succeed in getting somebody to throw a stone 
through one of the windows of the house, during 
the evening's discourse. It is believed, too, that the 
same individuals were in the house at the time, to en-
joy the sport. It is true, the stone did no injury to 
any person in the house : but no thanks to the fiend 
who threw it, or those who prompted him to do it 
It was a most diabolical assault. The stone was a 
piece of flint, weighing at least a pound and a half, 
and thrown with such force as to break through the 
" How do you reconcile Acts 9:7 with Acts 22:9? 
HARLOW.
B. 
Dr. CLARKE thus comments on thetwo texts:—
" 
 
 Stood speechless, hearing a voice, butt seeing no 
man.' The men were 550101, stupified, hearing Tee 
(pauses-, the voice, or thunder, but not distinguishing 
the words, which were addressed to SAUL alone ; and 
which were spoken out of the thunder, or in a small, 
still voice, after the peal had ceased. The remarka-
ble case, 1 Kings 19 : 11-13, may serve to illustrate 
that before us.—' And he said, Go forth, and stand 
upon the mount before the LORD ; and the LORD 
passed by, and a great and strong wind rent the moun-
tains, and brake in pieces the rocks before the LORD ; 
and after the wind an earthquake ; and after the earth-
quake a fire ; and after the fire a still small voice ; arid 
when ELIJAH heard it, he wrapped his face in his 
mantle, and went out, and stood in the entering in of 
the cave, and behold, there came a voice unto hint, 
and said, What dust thou here, ELIJAH !' The thun- 
der must have been heard by all ; the small, still voice 
by SAUL alone. This consideration amply reconciles 
the passage in the text with that in chap. 22:9, where 
PAUL says, "Fhey that were with me saw the light, 
and were afraid ; but they heard not the voice of him 
that spake with me.' They had heard the thunder 
which followed the escape of the lightning, but they 
heard not the voice of him that spake to SAUL ; they 
did not hear the words, I am JESUS V, boat thou per- 
secutest,' &c. ; but they saw and heard enough to 
convince them that the whole was supernatural ; for 
they were all struck down to the earth with the splen-
dor of the light, and the sound of the thunder, which 
I suppose took place on this occasion." 
M. E. MURFEE—Our views have not undergone 
any change with regard to the fulfilment of the pro-
phecies, excepting as continued research has unfolded 
additional evidence, and made the subject more clear. 
We cannot now recall any important point which we 
view in a light materially different from our former 
canclusions. 
P.—The verb "to prune" denotes to lessen, or 
restrict. To prune a tree, is to curtail it of its super-
fluous limbs. It does not annihilate the tree. A man 
is " pruned, restricted, or restrained," when he is 
confined, shut up, or deprived of liberty, enjoyments, 
or blessings, or when he experiences punishment. 
RALPH WILLIAMS—Would it not be better for the 
church to take action on the case? For an individual 
to warn the public against another, is to open the door 
for irregular procedures. 
E. LADD—The balance due is $ 40 28. As 
the statement is from only one side, we have laid it 
aside till Boo. 11. returns. It should come from both 
sides, or be the result of the labors of a council. 
BROOES—We cannot recall to mind the article 
to which you refer. 
To DELINQUENTS.—We dislike much to have to 
make these repeated calls for money. But it is abso-
lutely necessary for the continuation of the Herald. 
Our paper makers, printers, compositors, &c., are 
bringing in their bills, and calling for money. Shall 
we be compelled to dishonor their claims ? It is for 
those who are indebted to us to say. Above three 
hundred and eighty to whom we sent bills in Decem-
ber last, have made no kind of response. Besides 
these, a large number are in arrears for the last vol. 
There is enough due, if our readers will only pay 
promptly, to keep us out of all embarrassment. Breth-
ren, is it no satisfaction to feel that you are reading 
your own paper? 
We can make a better paper, when 
we are not perplexed with money matters. When 
St. PAUL said, " Owe no man anything," we have 
no idea that he meant to except subscribers to news-
papers. Those who do not respond to our repeated 
calls, will convince us that we are much mistaken in 
their character... 
PROF. WHITING'S TRANSLATION OF THE NEW TES-
TAMENT.—We gave week before last three specimen 
pages of the forthcoming translation—showing the size 
of the page, the type, the nature of the references, and 
the style of translation. We are in hopes to get the 
hook out in season for distribution at the May meet-
ings in Boston. The work will be a very expensive 
one to us—the cost of the stereotype plates alone 
being near $ 600. It will be only by a large sale 
that we can hope to be remunerated for it. We have 
not yet learned at what price we can afford the book ; 
it will be in the neighborhood of fifty or sixty-two 
and a half cents—shall put it as low as we can. 
We hope brethren will now send in their orders, 
that we may know how large an edition to publish, 
and receive the means from its sale to liquidate the 
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ter this number, they will understand it is because 
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shutter on the outside, shivering the glass, and then 
lodging on the stool. All that hindered it from stri-
king a lady on the head, was the fact that it struck a 
little too low. What moist be the standard of piety 
in a church, or community, that will tolerate such 
diabolical attacks on the person or property of their 
neighbors ? We doubt not, most of the people of 
Homer would discountenance such things. Yet such 
men ate in their midst, and in their churches. It 
they think they will put down Adventism by such 
means, they will learn that they have reckoned with-
out their host. Truth cannot now be put down by 
such means. 
It may be interesting to our friends to know, that 
Homer is the field of Bro. N. N. WHITING'S former 
labors. �
A. H—E. 
To Correspondents. 
hear, and to them and others we made a pretty free 
distribution of our books. We had the satisfaction 
to meet a considerable number of Advent friends from 
the adjoining towns. There had been but little preach-
ing on the prophecies and second advent in the place, 
so that the public had formed their opinion of us and 
our position from the silly and slanderous reports so 
industriously circulated concerning us. We hope 
they will be the more profited by the truth, as they 
evidently appeared to he somewhat amazed that they 
had been so much mistaken in reference to our posi-
tion. Nearly everywhere we have to meet with these 
three hindrances.-1. The general indifference of the 
world. 2. The strong prejudice created by bigotry 
and " learned ignorance." And, 3, the misappre-
hension, by the more candid and inquiring, of the 
position of the Adventists as a body on some disputed 
questions. 
Bro. NEEDHAM left Cazenovia Saturday morning, 
for Homer, in a conveyance kindly sent by the dear 
brethren there, where he arrived, after a nine hours' 
ride, part of the time in a snow storm, through mud 
and over snow drifts, to our great annoyance and dis-
comfort, but by the good providence of GOD in perfect 
safety. 
The conference commenced in Homer on LORD'S-
day, 18th. The church here have secured the pos-
session of the Universalist meeting-house for their 
constant use, which is a very convenient place of 
worship, though much of the time too strait for 
them. Here we began our meetings, and although 
the roads were very bad, the house was crowded to 
its utmost capacity by deeply interested audiences, 
who listened to three discourses from Bro. NEEDHAM, 
Bro. BATES, the pastor, and Bro. CHAPMAN, a true 
yoke-fellow, being present, and participating in the 
exercises. On Monday, Bro. NEEDHAM preached in 
the afternoon, and Bro. HIMES, having arrived, 
preached in the evening. 
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THE A1TVEN T HERALD. 
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There is a land of heavenly rest, 
Where each itihabitant is blest : 
They see the King in beauty there, 
And his unfading image bear ; 
No sin, nor sorrow, they shall know, 
For death is slain, and every foe. 
Their language and their thoughts are one— 
Conflicting views no more are known, 
But while the days of heaven endure, 
Their peace and happiness are sure. 
All, all whose sins are pardon'd, stand 
Heirs of that fair and better land. 
But how shall they this bliss obtain, 
Who now in death's cold arms remain? 
Shall they be raised to enter there 
With living saints, the joy to share? 
Yes, they shall rise, like Christ their King, 
The victory over death to sing. 
The sacred Scriptures bring to view 
A " better resurrection " too. 
Come, then, who will, and trust in God—
In Jesus' righteousness and blood ; 
Come, now, the " better cov'nant " join, 
And " better promises" are thine ; 
Not, " Do and live,'' the gospel cries, 
Bet, " Live through Jesus' sacrifice ;" 
He gives the power to do his will, 
And thus his holy word fulfil : 
No good thing will he e'er deny 
To those who on " the blood " rely. 
Trust in his free and boundless grace, 
And in his kingdom have a place. 
THE LONG SUFFERING OF GOD. 
A sermon, by .1. W. Bonham. 
Correspondence. 
BETTER THINGS. 
" The Lord is not slack concerning his promises, 
as some men count slackness; hut is long suffering 
to us-ward, not willing that any should perish, but 
that all should come to repentance."-2 Pet. 3:9. 
The first chapter of this epistle has been consid-
ered doctrinal, the second, historical, and the third, 
prophetical, and called by sonic the prophecy of Pe-
ter. The text has reference to the coming of the 
Saviour,—the introduction of the day of the Lord, 
and contains an allusion to an apparent delay in the 
fulfilment of his promise. That it refers to the cool-
ing of the Lord, may be seen by reading vs. 7, 10, 
and 12. The same day is brought to view by Paul : 
" He hath appointed a day, in the which he will 
judge the world in righteousness, by that man whom 
he hath ordained ; whereof he bath given assurance 
unto all men, in that he bath raised him from the 
dead." " And bath made of one blood all nations 
of men for to dwell on all the face of the earth, and 
bath determined the time before appointed, and the 
hounds of their habitation."—Acts 17 : 26-31. The 
time appointed for the judgment was revealed to the 
prophet Daniel by the angel Gabriel :—" And he said 
unto me, Unto two thousand and three hundred days, 
then shall the sanctuary be cleansed."—" And he 
said, Behold, I will make thee know what shall be 
in the last end of the indignation : for at the tittle ap-
pointed [2300 days] the end shall be."—Dan. 8: 
14-19. 
A few years since, many held the view that the 
2300 days were symbolical of 2300 yeare, and that 
they would terminate within the circle of the Jewish 
year 1843. Respecting the termination of this pe-
riod, time has proved that we were mistaken ; since 
which various conflicting opinions have been dissemi-
nated respecting the delay of our Saviour. Some 
have supposed that we were wrong on neatly every 
point, that we have made shipwreck of our faith, re-
linquished our hope, and no longer look for the return 
of the Saviour. Others held on to the period brought 
to view in Daniel, and looked for its termination in 
the future ; while others asserted that it had termi-
nated, but that they had been mistaken in reference 
to the nature of the event. As a general thing, the 
disappointment was severely felt, and the confidence 
and faith of many became somewhat shaken in con-
sequence. 
Front an intimation in the words of our text, it 
appears that some would suppose, on account of an 
apparent delay, that the Lord was slack concerning 
his promise. To such the text is strikingly applica-
ble—" The Lord is not slack [or remiss] concerning, 
his promise," &c. It is a fact, that within the past 
five years a great change has come over the minds 
and consciences of men, the cause of which we will 
not now stop to determine. Scoffers have waxed 
more bold, and enquire with daring effrontery,—
" Where is the promise of hiseoming?" Previously, 
the unconverted were afraid that it might prove true 
that the Lord was near, and admitted that the evi-
dences in its favor were not far front being conclusive. 
The hearts of some so failed them, that a storm of 
rain, a strong wind, a flash of lightning, or a peal of 
thunder, caused them to tremble and quake with fear. 
The sinners in Zion were afraid, and fearfulness sur-
prised the hypocrites; they trembled in view of the 
near approach of the " great day ;" but they have 
now become at ease in Zion, and have put the evil 
day afar off. The stupifying cry, "The days are 
prolonged, and every vision faileth," has been heard, 
while the Bible declares that " the great day of the 
Lord is near," that " the days are at hand, and the 
effect of every vision." 
Many now suppose that the Lord is slack concern-
ing his promise, and hence appear to think that they 
are justified in crying peace and safety, and declar-
ing the evil day to be far off. Evil men and seducers 
wax worse and worse, and will continue to do so 
until Christ shall say to the reapers, " Thrust in thy 
sickle and reap, for the time has come for thee to. 
reap." " Gather out of my kingdom all things that 
offend, and them which do iniquity, and cast them 
into a furnace of fire ; there shall he ,weeping and 
gnashing of teeth." Although there has been a de-
lay, the Lord will surely come :—" The day of the 
Lord, will come as a thief in the night, in the which 
the heavens shall pass away with a great noise," &c. 
2 Pet. 3: 10. Notwithstanding the change which 
has come over the minds of the characters before re-
ferred to, our duty is the same—the purposes of the 
Lord change not. The text implies, that if the day 
of the Lord has been deferred, and man's probation 
continued, it is that he might have every opportunity 
of forsaking his sins, and coining to a knowledge of 
the truth.—" The Lord God is merciful and gracious, 
long-suffering, and abundant in goodness and truth." 
If the apparent delay is owing to the long-sufler-
ing of God ; if his long-suffering is salvation, and he 
is so merciful that lie " is riot willing that any should 
perish, but that all should come to repentance," it is 
our duty to use the appointed means, and to labor 
with renewed and more vigorous energy to bring sin-
tiers to Christ. If it be asked, Is it the duty of Chris-
tians to labor for the salvation of rebellious sinners? 
I answer, It is ; and it is a ditty of great importance, 
to e !rich so much responsibility is attached, that if 
neglected, their blood will be required at the hands 
of those who have been negligent in this particular, 
and in the day of final reckoning, they will hear the 
dread command, " Cast ye the unprofitable servant 
into outer darkness." Some neglect to do this, and 
excuse themselves by asserting that it is their exclu-
sive duty to " exhort each other." It is admitted 
that it is our duty to exhort each other, and so much 
the more as we see the day approaching. This has 
been the duty of Christians in all ages. It is also 
our duty to preach the gospel to every creature, and, 
to beseech sinners, in Christ's stead, to be reconciled 
to God. If we perform one important duty which is 
agreeable to our feelings, and neglect another of equal 
importance because it is not so agreeable, our conduct 
would resemble that of those scribes and Pharisees to 
whom our Saviour said, " Woe unto you scribes and 
Pharisees, hypocrites ! for ye pay tithe of mint, and 
anise, and cummin, and have omitted the weightier 
matters of the law, judgment, mercy, and faith : 
these ought ye to have done, and not to leave the other 
undone."—Matt. 23 : .23. The Scriptures plainly 
teach, that it is an imperative Christian duty to seek 
the good of others; hence, if we are selfish, and 
only seek our own good, we commit sin. From these 
considerations may be argued the importance of mani-
festing a spirit of solicitude for the salvation of oth-
ers, not forgetting Him " e ler bore our sins in his 
cet u body on the tree,'' and e ho came " to seek and 
to save that which was lust." " God is love ; and 
he that dwelleth in love dwelleth in God, and God 
in him." 
Suppose we notice the Saviour's view of a selfish, 
selferighteous spirit.—" And it came to pass, as Je- 
sus sat at meat in the house-, behold many publicans 
and sinners came and sat down with him and his dis-
ciples. And when the Pharisees saw it, they said 
unto his disciples, Why eateth your Master with pub- 
licans and sinners? But when Jesus heard that, he 
said unto them, They that be whole need nut a phy- 
sician, but they that are sick. But go ye and learn 
what this meaneth, I will have mercy, and not sacri-
fice : fOr I ant not come to call the righteous, but sin- 
ners to repentance."—Mate 10 : 10-13. 0, what a 
merciful God we have, who has provided a Saviour 
so well suited to our wants! Hew sharply did the 
Lord rebuke those self-righteous Pharisees, who had 
such lofty ideas of their own excellence, that they 
supposed, if Christ were the true Messiah, lie had 
degraded himself in an uncormnon degree by eating 
with publicans and sinners. His rebuke doubtless cut 
them to the heart. For a further elucidation of this 
point, read the account of the Pharisee and publican, 
as brought to view in Luke 18:10—( To be continued.) 
7HE PRESENT DISPENSATION. 
come to repentance." " Who will have all men to 
be saved, and to come unto the knowledge of the 
truth." Heb. 2: 9; 1 John 2: 2; 2 Pet. 3: 9; 1 
Tim. 2 : 4. 
By these passages we are taught, that the tender 
mercies of the Lord are over all his works; and chat 
his pleasure is, that his creatures should he happy, 
arid not miserable. And when we add to these gra-
cious declarations others which place the Holy Spirit, 
in all His grace, at the call of the praying penitent, 
and which assures us, that if we " seek, we shall 
find," and that " whosoever shall call upon the name 
of the Lord, shall be saved," we see that mercy and 
grace are free for all ; that mercy and grace are 
placed within the reach of all, and that it is the fault 
of men if they are nut saved. We also see the rea-
sons of the duty of the church to preach the gospel 
to all mete to pray for all men, and to seek the wel-
fare of all men. From these facts it is easy to infer, 
that the provisions of Divine mercy will be accepted 
by all, and that a converted world will be the conse-
quence. That this inference is not warranted by the 
Scriptures will appear, if we appeal to a few pas-
sages, which show the extent and limits of the sue-
sess for which we are taught to hope. The wicked-
ness of men has caused them, under former dispen-
sations, to reject the counsel of God against them-
selves, and to render unavailing the means which 
Infinite mercy provided fur their welfare ; and that 
the same cause will produce the sante effects under 
the present dispensation, the following passages abun-
dantly testify. 
III. Matt. 13:3-8, 18-23—" Behold, a sower went 
forth to sow ; and when he sowed, some fell by the 
way-side, and the fowls came and devoured them up : 
and sonic fell upon study places, where they had not 
much earth : and forthwith they sprung up, because 
they had ncr deepness of earth : and when the sun 
was up, they were scorched ; and because they had 
no root, they withered away. And some fell among 
thorns; and the thorns sprang up and choked them. 
But others fell upon good ground, and brought fbrth 
fruit, some an hundredfold, some sixty-fold, some 
thirty-fold. . . Hear ye, therefore, the parable of 
the sower. When any one heareth the word of the 
kingdom, and understandeth it not, then cometh the 
wicked one, and catcheth away that which was sown 
in his heart. This is he which receiveth seed by the 
way-side. But he that received the seed into stony 
places, the same is he that heareth the word, end anon 
with joy received' it; yet bath he net root in him-
self, but endureth but for a while; for when tribula-
tion or persecution ariseth because of the word, by 
and by he is offended. He that received seed among 
the thorns, is he that heareth the word ; and the 
cares of this world, and the deceitfulness of riches, 
choke the word, and he becorneth unfruitful. But he 
that received seed into the good ground, is he that 
heareth the word and understandeth it ; which also 
heareth fruit, and bringeth forth, some an hundred-
fold, some sixty, some thirty." 
and wonders ; insomuch that, if it were possible, 
they shall deceive the very elect." 
1 Tim. 4 : 1-3—" Now the Spirit speaketh ex-
pressly, that in the latter times some shall depart 
from the faith, giving heed to seducing spirits, and 
doctrines of devils : speaking lies in hypocrisy ; hav-
ing their conscience seared with a hot iron ; forbid-
ding to marry, and commanding to abstain from 
meats, which God bath created to be received %%jilt 
thanksgiving of them which believe and know the 
truth." 
2 Tim. 3:1-7—" This know also, that in the last 
days perilous times shall come. For nice shall be 
lovers of their own selves, covetous, boasters, proud, 
blasphemers, disobedient to parents, unthankful, un-
holy, without natural affection, truce breakers, false 
teachers, false accusers, incontinent, fierce, despisers 
of them that are good, traitors, heady, high-minded, 
lovers of pleasure more than lovers of God ; having 
a form of godliness, but denying the power thereof ; 
from such turn away. Fur of this sort are they 
which creep into houses, and lead away silly women 
laden with sins, led away with divers lusts, ever 
learning, and never able to come to the knowledge of 
the dud]." V. 13—" But evil men and seducers 
shall wax worse and worse, deceiving and being 
deceived." 
2 Pet. 2 : 1-3—" But there were false prophets also 
among the people, even as there shall be false teach-
ers among you, who privily shall bring in damnable 
heresies, even denying the Lord that bought them, 
and bring upon themselves swift destruction. And 
many shall follow their pernicious ways; by reason 
of whom the way of truth shall be evil spoken of.—
And through covetousnesse shall they with feigned 
words make merchandize of you : whose judgment 
now of a lung time lingereth not, and their damna-
tion slumbereth not." 
Chap. 3 : 3, 4—" I(nowing this first, that there 
shall come in the last days scoffers, walking after 
their own lusts, and saying, Where is the prtaniee of 
his coming ? for since the fathers fell asleep, all 
things continue as they were from the begineing of 
the creation." 
Here we have the character of the teachers of the 
last days; and can we expect a converted world by 
the teaching of such men? Yet these teachers will 
be found in the world, deceiving their fellow crea-
tures, and saying, " Peace and safety," when sud-
den destruction corned). 
The state of the godly, front the first preaching of 
the gospel down to the Lord's coming, sets aside the 
hope of a converted world during the present dispen-
sation. It is a state of suffering. 
Matt. 10:22—" And ye shall be hated of all men 
for my name's sake. See the whole chapter, and 
John 15: 18-27, and 16 : 1-4. 
2 Tim. 3:12—" Yea, and all that will live godly 
in Christ Jesus shall suffer persecution." 
In the Acts of the Apostles, we read of the per-
secutions of the first Christians; Fox's Martyrology 
shows usehe condition of true Christians since then, 
and prophecy teaches us thus : " 1 beheld, and the 
same horn made war with the saints, arid prevailed 
against them until the Ancient of days came, and 
judgment was given to the saints of the Most High : 
and the time came that the saints possessed the king-
dom."—Dan. 7:21, 22. From the beginning of the 
Christian church down to the time of its merging 
into the promised kingdom, its history is one of blood, 
sorrow, and persecution. This could not be the case 
in a converted world. 
The state of the Jews, and certain Gentiles, at the 
Lord's coining, shows the reverse of a converted 
world. Isa. 66 : 1-6, and Zech. 14 : 1-5, show the 
character and condition of the Jews at that awful 
period; and the remnant of the confederated nations 
against Jerusalem being sent to declare the Lord's 
glory to the "isles that have not heard my fame, nor 
seen my glory,'' shows that portions of the Gentile 
world will then be in ignorance and darkness.* A 
converted world is out of the question, Jews and 
Gentiles being found in an unconverted state. 
Such are the views which the. Scriptures give us 
of the present dispensation. Partial success, only, 
in our eflerts to do good, and save the souls of men ; 
abounding error and iniquity, through the teaching 
of false teachers and false apostles; tears, sorrows, 
and persecutions for all that, will live godly in Christ 
Jesus; and manifestation of iniquity, in the full, at 
the very time of the second advent. But though an 
appeal to the Holy Scriptures annihilates the pleas-
ing, but delusive dream, of a converted world before 
our Lord's return, let not the faithful Christian be dis-
mayed. He may be called to suffer, but the trial of 
his faith will be found to praise and honor at the ap- 
pearing of his Lord �
Let not the faithful minister 
of the sanctuary despond, because he cannot see a 
* In Isaiah 59, to which reference is here made, 
there is no evidence that the gospel is to be preached 
to the unconverted. The glory of the Lord is to be 
proclaimed among the Gentiles ; but it does not fol-
low that it is to their sanctification. In vs. 15-17, we 
find that the Lord will conic with fire amid with his 
chariots like a whirlwind, to render his anger with 
fury, and his rebuke with flames of fire ; for by fire 
and sword will the Lord plead with all flesh ; and the 
slain of the Lord shall be many. 'Phis must he the 
time of the conflagration spoken of by Peter, after 
which is to be the new earth, wherein dwelled) right-
eousness, or righteous persons : none besides such. 
Verse 22 shows that this is in the " new earth," 
which " shall remain " before the Lord, or forever 
exist. And instead of converting those who have 
transgressed, we need only quote Isa. 66.24—" And 
they shall go forth and look upon the carcasses of the 
men that have transgressed against me : for their 
worm shall not die, neither shall their fire be 
quenched ; and they shall be an abhorring unto all 
flesh." 
(concluded frost our lust.) 
To the Editor of the " Advent Herald:" 
11. THE WORK OF THE CHURCH DURING THE PRES-
ENT DISPENSATION. 
That the followers of Christ are required to be 
diligent during the absence of their Lord from the 
earth, is proved by the parables of the pounds and 
the talents. (Luke 19:11-27; Matt. 25: 14-30.)—
The nature of the endowment here represented is 
defined, Rom. 12 : 3-8 ; 1 Cor. 12 : 4-10 ; Eph. 4 : 
7:12. The sphere of action marked out for the ser-
vants of the Lord Jesus Christ, is as wide as the 
world. This will appear if we turn to the follow-
ing passages; 
Matt. 24:14—" And this gospel of the kingdom 
shall be preached in all the world as a witness unto 
all nations; and then shall the end come." 
Mark 16:15, 16—" And he said unto them, Go ye 
into all the world, and preach the gospel to every 
creature. He that believed) and is baptized, shall 
be saved ; but he that believeth nut, shall he damned." 
Acts 1:7, 8—" And he said unto them, It is not 
for you to know the times or the seasons, which the 
Father bath put in his own power. But ye shall re-
ceive power after that the Holy Ghost is come upon 
you : and ye shall be witnesses unto me both in Je-
rusalem, and in all Judea, and in Samaria, and unto 
the uttermost part of the earth." 
These passages show that the gospel of the king-
dom was sent to all mankind; and in other passages 
we read, that " Christ, by the grace of God, tasted 
death for every man ;" that he is the propitiation for 
our silts ; and not for ours only, but also for the sins 
of the whole world." And again we read : " The 
Lord is not slack concerning his promises, as some 
men count slackness ; but is long sufferine to us-ward, 
 
not willing that any should perish, but that all should and false prophets, and they shall show great signs 
Here we have represented four classes of of hear-
ers of the gospel ; and only one class brings forth 
fruit to perfection. This representatibn is not limited 
to the life and ministry of our Lord. It seems, like 
the parable of the tares, to stretch through the whole 
of the dispensation �
Neither did the success of our 
Lord, nor that of the apostles, nor that of any class 
of faithful ministers since their days, exceed the 
amount represented in this parable. This is not the 
worst of it. The success of the gospel has not only 
been partial, but transient ; so much so, that there is 
not a spot upon the face of the earth, where the gos-
pel was preached in the days of the apostles, but on 
which its influence has died away, or has been cor-
rupted. Where are the once flourishing churches in 
Jerusalem, and Judea, and Samaria? Where are 
the churches of Corinth, Ephesus, Philippi, Colosse, 
and 'Phessalonica? Alas ! alas ! where are they, and 
what is their state? Where are the churches which 
spotted the face of the whole earth, at the time when 
Paul declared that the gospel was preached to every 
creature under heaven, and was bringing- forth fruit 
in all the world ? Alas ! they are gone ; and the 
places in which they stood have been, for centuries, 
covered with delusion and idolatry. To come to later 
times, we may ask, What are the fruits of the Refor-
mation in France, Germany, and Scotland, brought 
about by the preachining of Calvin, Ludier, and 
Knox? What are the fruits of preaching in our own 
day? of all our labors to multiply missions; to circu-
late the Holy Scriptures, and to increase the means 
of religious instruction? In no case has the good 
proved universal, or permanent. That some good 
has been done, we rejoice to acknowledge. God has 
been all along taking out from among the Gentiles a 
people for his name. This is all that we can say, 
and it is all that the Scriptures teach us to expect. 
The revealed purpose of God extends just so far, and 
no farther. This purpose we shall, if faithful to 
God, be the instruments of accomplishing ; but be-
yond it we cannot go, whatever men, unacquainted 
with the Scriptures, may say to the contrary. 
Uni-
versal effort, and but partial success, are the criteria 
of the present dispensation. We must, if obedient 
to Christ, preach the gospel to every creature. But 
while one part of the good seed falls upon good 
ground, other parts of it will fall by the way-side, 
upon stony ground, and among thorns, down to the 
end of the age. And even where it does take root, 
and the wheat grows up, tares will be found spring-
ing up also, and growing among the wheat down to 
the very harvest. 
The teaching of the latter days, which prophecy 
foretells, sets aside all hope of a converted world 
during the present dispensation. We are not taught 
to look for a faithful ministry universally, nor gene-
rally. Let us listen for a moment to that Divine ora-
cle, which never deceives those who hear it. 
Matt. 24:24—" For there shall arise false Christs 
THE ADVENT HERALD. �
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converted world, while his Lord is on his journey 
into the far country, to receive for himself a kingdom, 
and then to return ; for, at the time of that happy 
event he shall see a multitude, which no man can 
number, gathered, by the preaching of the gospel, 
out of every nation, and kindred, and people, and 
tongue, before the throne, in robes of spotless white ; 
he shall see in that enraptured company the souls 
over whom he watched, fur whom he prayed and 
wept, and 1hr whose welfare he toiled, and spent his 
life. His happy flock will then recognize their pas-
tor, and under God will attribute their salvation to 
his instrumentality. But this will be the least of his 
joy. His Lord and Master will approve, and smile, 
and say,' Well done," and give him a crown of life. 
Then, numbered with the wise, he shall shine as the 
brightness of the firmament, and found with those 
who have turned many to righteousness, he shall ap 
pear in the effulgence of the _stars forever. Exalted 
to this glory, he will enjoy the dignities of the heav-
enly kingdom ; and in the establishment of the king-
dom he shall see, what he so much now desires to see, 
A CONVERTED WORLD.* 
In conclusion, I wish explicitly to state, that while 
I see much reason to regret the position which the 
conductors of the " Christian Observatory " and the 
"Family Visitor" take on this subject, yet I must 
declare my affectionate regard for them as Christian 
brethren. A zeal for God they have, though that 
zeal is not according to knowledge. Acting upon 
the discovery made by Dr. Whitby, one hundred and 
forty-five years ago, that the words of God are not to 
be taken in their proper meaning, they contend for the 
"common view," which is the fruit of that dis-
covery. The consequence is, the scriptural doctrine 
of the coming and kingdom of the Lord and Saviour 
is rejected by them ; and the sublimated notion of a 
spiritual kingdom, unknown in the church of God 
until fabricated by Whitby, is substituted and taught 
in its stead. Most anxiously do I wish that my 
brethren in Christ may be led to review the ground 
which they have taken, and to test the Whitby 
"common view " by the word of God. 
And earnestly praying, that the Holy Spirit may 
guide us into all the truth, into the love of God, and 
into a patient waiting for Christ, 
I remain, my dear Sir, your affectionate brother, 
and fellow-laborer unto the kingdom of God, 
OMICRON. 
P.S. It occurred to me at one time, to sketch a 
connected view of the subjects connected with the 
Lord's coming ; but perhaps I have already taxed 
the patience of your numerous readers to the full. 
And, therefore, with the best wishes for the welfare 
of every one of them, and fur their growth in grace, 
1 bid them farewell. 
LETTER FROM I. C. WELLCOME. 
DEAR 13RO. HIMES :-As I love to learn the state 
of the blessed cause of Christ, I also love to commu-
nicate to others, believing that they also rejoice in all 
good. 
I came to Cape Cod in company with my wife Feb. 
21, scarcely knowing where we should stop, or whose 
hands we should fall into, being entire strangers. But 
as we had the names of sonic two or three persons, 
We sought out a Bro. Mayo, at South Truro, by 
whose family we were cordially received. I soon went 
to the north, where Bro. T. Smith has been laboring 
for some months, and found him full of faith, and 
much of the spirit of labor. And I am rejoiced to 
see that there are good evidences that God has blessed 
this brother's efforts to the good of some souls in 
North Truro, although there is a general state of 
slumber on the great truth of the Advent nigh. Yet 
some have had their minds awakened to it, and are 
studying the word to see if these things are so, and 
indeed, few, if any, of thoSe who are religious, seem 
to oppose it. And we now hear them talk of being 
prepared fur the Lord's coming, instead of preparing 
for death. 
I attended some interesting meetings with the dear 
people at East Harbor. May the Lord awaken them 
still more to see the great truths of the Gospel, and 
thereby sanctify and' fit them for the Kingdom. Bro. 
Smith accompanied me on the following week to 
South Truro, where he had an appointment. Our 
meeting commenced on Tuesday evening, in a school-
house, which was small and inconvenient. But the 
Lord had no house of worship there-it was the best 
we could do. The people are mostly Methodists, 
and they have a meeting-house, which they would 
have Madly opened for the meeting. But the pulpit 
belongs to the conference, and therefore they dare 
not. Yet they came out to hear, and listened with 
much interest, and many with great satisfaction, to 
the main points of the gospel of the Kingdom. It 
was refreshing to us to hear some of them praise 
(30d for sending his servants to feed them with this 
glorious truth ; for they had been starving for want 
of it. God has some faithful children there, and they 
Were much blessed ; others were quickened to duty, 
and made to feel the need of a preparation to meet 
the Lord. I think if their minister had taken hold of 
the work with us, there would have been much more 
good done. He professes to believe our doctrines, 
but dare not preach them. He was evidently afraid 
°I us. May the Lord have mercy on him for his evil 
surmisings, and teach him not to hold the truth in 
unrighteousness. We held eleven meetings in the 
place; three of them at the house of two sick sisters, 
much to their comfort. They are widows, and so 
much out of health as to be unable to go out to meet-
ing; but they are strong in faith, and they are fully 
persuaded that Jesus is soon to come, and will change 
their vile bodies to immortality, and give them their 
`es' 
in the Kingdom. We were heartily welcomed 
many of the brethren and sisters. Sunday, March 
.1111, some friends provided a large and convenient 
a Or rather, a renewed and glorified world.-ED. 
hall, in which assembled a large congregation, from 
the two churches, and of the common people, to lis-
ten to the word front Dan. 2, 7, and 8, and Rev. 13, 
presented by Bro. Smith. God gave us a free time, 
and aided his servant to set forth the visions of Dan-
iel in a clear light, and to show the people that the 
time has come to look for, and expect, the coming 
kingdom of our Lord. The people gave the best 
attention, and ninny countenances seemed to say, It 
must he so. 
On Tuesday, March 6th, we came here, at a place 
called the Island, where Bro. S. preached two even-
ings to a Methodist people, who had been warned 
by their leader, or preacher, to be careful, &c. They 
came, and with much fear. But as there were some 
that loved the Lord, and others who knew what 
Christianity was, their fears soon gave way. For 
God so filled us with his Spirit, and armed us with 
the power of his truth, that the faithful were much 
blessed, and the cold-hearted began to wake up, and 
return to God. Bru. S. left, and we continued, and 
attended three more meetings, with much profit.-
Many cold hearts have been blessed and strength-
ened. But it is manifest in every place, that the peo-
ple have little or no regard for the most important 
truths of the Bible. They seem to think, if they 
only have the Spirit, and die right, it is the coming 
of the Lord. They suppose they go and enter upon 
all the joys of a kingdom above. This belief stands 
in the way of their looking at the evidence of Christ's 
coming. 0, that men would learn to reverence God's 
Word, as well as his Spirit. 
Since I started out in the field to labor, my soul 
has been much blessed on the work. Yours, looking 
for Jesus. 
LETTER FROM H. P. SIRES. 
" In due season ye shall reap if ye faint not.-
Gal. 6:9. 
Christian pilgrim, go with me to yonder quarry. 
See how the stones are taken from thence rough, 
and uushapen ; but when by the tool of the work-
man they are hewn, then see them transformed to be-
come the pillars in some magnificent palace. 
So it is with the Christian. He is being hewn, and 
shapen, by the afflictions, temptations, and trials, 
with which Christ, the great master builder, finds it 
necessary to chasten him ; and thus being prepared 
for that " building of God, a house not made with 
hands, eternal in the heavens."-2 Cor. 5:1. Praised 
be God ! Yes, let us praise him for our afflictions. 
Let us'' count it all joy when we fall into divers 
temptations "-James 1 : 2. But perhaps, dear 
brother, or sister, that notwithstanding all, you are 
almost inclined to faint, at times, under your burden 
of trials. Perhaps your eelations-father, mother, 
brothers, sisters, and a wide circle of relations besides, 
all oppose you, for your adherence to the truth. 
Perhaps friend after friend-those you loved almost 
as your own life-are snatched away, and confined in 
the cold prison of the tomb, and you are left to teel 
that life is nought but a dreary solitude. 
Perhaps you are a mother, and have a numerous 
fainily ; the overwhelming cares of which seem 
scarcely to leave time for studying the Bible, or even 
for secret communion with God. 
Perhaps your patience is continually tried to its ut-
tension ; or you are perpetually subject to the most 
cruel scoffing-the keenest reproaches-the most 
biting sarcasm ; or you may be weighed down with 
the conduct of those whom you had supposed to be 
brethren in the Lord. 
Perhaps all these things combined, and many more 
besides, press upon you together, and almost make 
you cry out with the patriarch, " All these things 
are against me." 
But stop, brother, you mistake if you think so. 
You forget that that Saviour whose love to you is 
stronger than death, is taking this severe method 
(because compassion to you would not permit him to 
take one less severe) in order to prepare you to re-
ceive an " eternal weight of glory,"-or crown far, 
very far. superior to that of the mightiest earthly 
monarch. Oh, when we shall have entered upon our 
eternal reward, and look hack upon the trials of time 
-which now seem so severe-how insignificant they 
will doubtless appear ! Yea more, how we shall 
then rejoice, and praise God that we have had them-
that he has bestowed them upon us! 
Then let us praise him for them now. Let us not 
be" weary " in all our tribulation, but let us " rejoice 
and be exceeding glad." The more severe our trials 
are, the greater will be our eternal reward. We 
should keep our mind stayed on the object of our 
trials, rather than on our trials themselves. When 
they are most severe, we should keep in mind that 
all things are working for our good. Yes they are ; 
fur God has said they are. They are preparing us 
to mingle in that innumerable throng who shall " have 
come up out of great tribulation, and have washed 
their robes, and made them white in the blood of the 
Larnb."-Rev. 7: 14. Your brother in the Lord. 
S. Wilbraham, Mass., March 7, 1849. 
Extracts from Letters, 
From Big Lick (Va.), Feb. 26th, 1849. 
DEAR Bao. HIMES : -Painful and anxious have 
been the brief hours that have elapsed since I wrote 
you from Baltimore. Amid the hay, wood, and stub-
ble, thank God he has some jewels, and a book of 
remembrance is kept of them who shall shortly shine 
resplendent in the beauties of the Saviour. Of this 
class, a large majority in this region, if I may be per-
mitted to judge, will be found among the colored peo-
ple. Said a haughty lawyer the other day, " If the 
doctrine of the restitution be true, and only the good 
are to remain on the earth, I want God to take me out 
of it as quick as possible, fur there will be only the 
poor and the niggers left." 
Yesterday many staid behind after the congregation 
were dismissed, arid it was most soul-cheering to hear 
their rejoicing, because their great Emancipator was 
so near. Said one, " My master says the heaven 
and earth must pass away. Yes, massa, the Lord 
says he gives his children a new heart. So he says-
he make a new heaven and a new earth. He only 
change the heart, so he only change the heaven and 
earth : same heart - only changed ; same earth-
only changed,-dat be all, massa." Said a wan, 
" Don't go to hear him, he is a false prophet-he 
tells lies-he said the Lord was coating in '43."-
" Yes, great mercy," replied the first, " for the devil 
had most all the people." Said another, " I am sorry 
you are going to leave, for the churching preachers 
have all been telling me one thing where the good 
people shall go, and I can't understand it yet." Said 
another, I am sorry to be left without you and missis 
till the Lord comes,-that's what I is sorry about." 
So you see who loves most to hear Advent preaching. 
The line of demarkation is quickly drawn between 
saint and sinner when the truths of the speedy advent 
are preached. 
11 time lasts, we shall return East in a few weeks. 
Yours in hope, �
S. S. BREWER. 
From Woodstock (Vt.), March Gth, 1849. 
DEAR BRO. HIM ES :-The cause in the places where 
I have been laboring for the last nine months, is on 
the advance. During that time, 1 have seen about 
fifty souls hopefully converted to the truth, that Jesus is 
soon to come in his glory, to bring about the promised 
restitution. 1 also have had the privilege of baptiz-
ing seventeen souls upon the professsion of their 
faith. 
Last July, in connection with Brn. Sherwin and 
Thompson, I held a camp-meeting in the town of 
Shrewsbury, Vt., winch was one of the hest meet-
ines of the kind that I ever attended. Prejudice was 
removed from the minds of many, and about twelve 
eame out for the truth. 
About the last of August, having procured a tent 
that would seat about one thousand persons, (at an 
expense of $ 160,) in connection with Brn. A. Sher-
win and C. D. Gibson, we held seven tent meetings, 
where Jesus was present by his Spirit. In some 
places, where the cause seemed to be sinking, time 
good Lord was pleased to bless the truth, in placing , 
it, upon an immoveable foundation. The judgment 
will tell of the good that was done at these meetings. 
During the month of December, I visited a certain 
town in Massachusetts, where I gave twenty-six ser-
mons. When I went there, there was only one de-
cided Adventist there; when I left, there were some 
fifteen. The sealing time is not yet over. The 
work of those peculiar messengers symbolized by the 
angel in Rev. 14:6, 7, which God purposed from eter-
nity to raise up in the last time, in order to give the 
world the solemn note of warning, " Fear God, arid 
give glory to him, for the hour of his judgment is 
come," is not accomplished. 0, the vast responsi-
bility that rests upon such. How solemn the account 
they will have to give, if they prove recreant to their 
trust ! How awful will be the doom of those who 
reject this warning ! In the name of the great Head 
of the Church, I call upon all who profess to be com-
missioned by him, to buckle on their armor anew, and 
go forth and prove themselves worthy of their high 
calling. Yours, in hope of immortality at the corn- 
ing of Christ, �p �R. V. LYON. 
From Gilmenton (N. H.), March 8th, 1849. 
DEAR BRO. HIMES :-Bro. Daniel Churchill and 
Bro. James Smith held a conference with us on Lou-
dot) Ridge March 2d, 3d, 4th, and 5th,, which was to 
the brethren assembled a heavenly sitting together in 
Christ Jesus. Living stones were gathered together 
from Pittsfield, Concord, Meredith, Gilmanton, and 
other towns, and they were truly built up a spiritual 
house, and did offer up spiritual sacrifice, holy and 
acceptable to the Lord. Bro. Churchill spoke twice 
to us during the two days be was with us in confer-
ences : first, of the Christian's hope, and where it 
would he fully realized ; and secondly, from 2 Pet. 
1:12, of the present truth, that particularly concerns 
this generation. Bro. James Smith spoke to us of 
the day of the Lord, as recorded in Amos 3 : 18-20, 
and showed us plainly from the Bible who the woe 
would come on, and to what class of people that day 
would be darkness, and not light. The discourses 
upon the above-mentioned portions of God's word 
were argumentative, forcible, clear, persuasive, and 
satisfactory to the congregation in general. We are 
satisfied that good has been done at this conference. 
The brethren have been comforted, and eternity will 
show the effects. There are yet hearing ears and un-
derstanding hearts that desire to hear the everlasting 
gospel, which is now being preached. Then be en-
couraged to continue to herald to the world the truth 
nntil the King comes. I, Yours in hope, 
S. S. SMITH. 
From Brookfield, Ct. 
DEAR BRO. HIMES :-The events of the last year 
confirm me in my opinion that we are at that point 
specified in Rev. 17 : 13, 14. From all I can learn, 
the European revolutions have been for the most part 
conducted by men who have no fear of God before 
their eyes; who are really Infidels. It may be 
politic in them at present to profess liberality towards 
Christians, but if ever they gain the ascendency 
their tone will probably very much resemble that of 
the actors in the old French Revolution. But if they 
do not attain power, which I think is the probable 
case, and if God is now opening a door which no 
man can shut, (Rev. 3 : 9,) in the event of the pro-
mulgation of the gospel throughout the world, ac-
cording to Rev. 14 : 6, 7, men of these Infidel princi-
pleb will join with Papists, and all false teachers, iu 
stirring up the ruling power to persecute real Chris-
tians throughout the world. 
Feeling that I need to he constantly reminded that 
the end of all things is at hand, and that we ought 
to be sober and watch unto prayer. I continue to 
snbscribe to your paper, though I difier front you in 
some of your views, particularly that the little horn 
of Dan. 8 is the same as the little horn of Dan. 7,-
and that all the prophecies preceding the second 
coming of our Lord are already fulfilled. I am yours 
with Christian affection. �
WILLIAM BILDLE. 
From Fiskville R. I.), March 5th, 1849. 
DEAR BRO. HIMES :-Truly, the Lord is good unto 
Israel. I have recently speut a few weeks in Lynn, 
Mass., (Dyehouseville,) much to my satisfaction.-
Within a few months past God has blessed the labors 
of his people iti that place to the conversion of seve-
ral souls, and the reclaiming of as many who had 
lost their first love. In rids is manifested God's love, 
willingness, and power to save all who will come to 
him through Jesus Christ our Lord, at this late peri-
od of time. 0, how soul-destroying is the idea that 
nothing more can be done Even the spirit of it cher-
ished, is deadly in its influence. May the Lord help 
his people to abide by the word which teaches us that 
we are either gathering with Christ, or scattering 
abroad ; remembering the promise, that if we turn 
many to righteousness, we shall shine as the stars 
forever and ever. The last two Sabbaths I have la-
bored with the church in Hopeville, and can report 
that the cause is doing well. Yesterday, which Was 
a good day to us, I was favored with the privilege of 
burying two in the liquid stream in baptism, who 
have of late commenced serving the Lord, and, we 
trust, are on the way to the celestial city rejoicing. 
We also had a communion season. In the evening a 
number arose for prayers. To God be all the praise. 
But the brethren in Hopeville are not without their 
trials. �
Perhaps recently they have experienced 
more severe ones than ever; but we have reason to 
believe that victory is turning on the side of truth and 
righteousness, and we thank God and take courage. 
I never was more established in the fundamental 
principles which we advocate. The path of the just 
shines brighter and brighter until the perfect day. I 
may say, truly the path has been brighter than ever 
the winter past, and hope so to live, unworthy as I 
am, that illy name may be written in the Lamb's 
book, and thus be among the jewels he is soon to 
make up. Yours, in hope of eternal life, 
J. P. FARRAR. 
Front Sugar Hill (N. II.), March 14th, 1849. 
BRO. HIMES :-1 see the public press is making 
much of the Dudley case; continuing to manifest 
their ignorance of the man, or a willingness to slan-
der a body of Christians who differ front them.-
According to his own acknowledgment, he has long 
since departed from tine faith, and should prove an 
admonition to all. It is a fearful step to depart from 
the great truths of God's Word, especially for the 
watchman.-Matt. 24:48-51 ; Hos. 9:12 ; 1 Chron. 
28:0. 
Why do they not present it as a fearful example 
and warning to others? Has blindness happened to 
them? 'Phis is not the first case that shows us the 
importance of the truth. The awful case in the State 
of Maine, a year since, which was set down to our 
account, proved to be the result of expecting to enter 
immediately upon the full reward at death, and not at 
the resurrection. Nothing can correct a man's de-
portment like a correct view of God's word, by a con-
scientious man. May the case of the unfertunate 
Mr. Dudley prove a beacon to all that believe, as well 
as to others. �
I. H. SHIPMAN. 
From Bethlehem (N. �
), March, 15th, 1549. 
BRO. HIMES :-I left Lowell, Mass., the fifth of 
Feb., for Canada, arrived in Carroll, N. H., the ninth, 
attended meeting and preached one evening , at 
Whitefield on the evening of the fifteenth ; at Beth-
lehem Hollow the Sabbath following. At this place 
there has been but little Advent preaching, but there 
are a tew that are contending for the faith once 
delivered to the saints. We had a solemn and inter-
esting season. I trust some good was done. A few 
confessed their backslidings, and expressed their 
determination to live the life of the righteous, and ex-
horted others to flee from the wrath to conic. From this 
place I went tim Danville, Monday the 19th, from 
there to Derby Line,Stanstead, Barnston, and Hanley ; 
all these places I found the cause in a prosperous 
state : some have recently embraced the truth who 
never before had made any profession. On my return 
I preached at North Danville on the Sabbath, March 
4th, from there to Cabot, preached twice, from there 
to Haverhill, N. H., preached on the eleventh ; in 
this place there has been but little preaching on the 
second advent, but there is an open door for good to 
be done if proper means are used, there is a call for 
faithful laborers in all this region of tountry. May 
the Lord send forth laborers into his harvest. Yours, 
in hope of eternal life, �L. D. THOMPSON. 
Obituary. 
DEPARTED this life, in Providence, R. I., March 
11th, 1849, Bro. WILLIAM W. RAY, aged 25 years. 
Bro. Ray indulged a hope of eternal life through the 
merits of tire Saviour, about seven years ago, united 
with the Free-Will Baptist Church in Waterford, and 
ever maintained a life consistent with his profession. 
About one year ago, or more, he became interested 
in the subject of the near approach of the Saviour, 
under the labors of Bro. I. R. Gates, embraced the 
same, and rejoiced in prospect of soon reigning with 
the Saviour upon the new earth, until his death. He 
delighted to advocate the truths of the Bible, which 
he held dear, although deferred by his protracted ill-
ness from doing all that he had a heart to do. He 
has left a companion and one child to mourn his ab-
sence. 
To his afflicted friends I would say, (if this meets 
the eye of any,) if we believe Jesus died. and rose 
again, even so them also which sleep in Jesus will 
72 �
THE ADVENT HERALD. 
God bring with him. " For the Lord himself shall de-
ssend from heaven with a shoot, with the voice of 
the archangel, and with the trump of God, and the 
dead in Christ shall rise first."-1 Thess. 4:14-16. 
Yes, his mortal remains, now slumbering, will soon, 
we trust, put on bright beauty—a body like Christ's 
glorious one will be given him. Confide in that Sa-
viour, whom he loved, and you in the morning of the 
resurrection may meet him, not to witness.his wast-
ing away by disease, and finally a parting scene, but 
to dwell forever where sickness, sorrow, pain, and 
death, shall be felt and feared no more. �
J. P. F. 
Foreign News. 
France.—The French government continues to 
gather strength, and there is evidently a growing 
disposition on the part of the nation to crush any 
attempt at public disorder. Upon the whole, the 
prospects of tranquillity are more-favorable than they 
have been during the past year. 
The probability of a collision between Russia and 
the civilized nations of Europe engrosses the greater 
portion of public attention at Paris. 
LOUIS NAPOLEON has been told by General CHAN-
GARNIER, that he must not ramble about Paris at night, 
or he will be assassinated. 
Count D'ALTost SHEE., arrested in Paris for being 
supposed to be a red republican, has been set at 
liberty. 
Baroccm, the orderly of the French President, 
has gOne to Vienna, by permission of Austria, to ob-
tain the ashes of the Duke of Reichstadt , the Emperor 
NAPOLEON'S and MARIA LOUISA'S son. 
Serious disorders broke out on the 19th and 20th 
at Lyons, in one of the principal squares near a 
statue of the Pueple Souverain, which it was reported 
the government was about to remove. One man 
was run through by a sabre, and died on the spot. 
It is supposed that these disorders are in conse-
quence of the presence of Marshal BUGEAUD at 
Lyons. 
Spain.—An expedition of 10,000 men has been fit- 
ted out by Spain for Civita Vecchia, to act in the 
Roman States for the restoration of the Pope. Let-
ters from Barcelona, of the 1st of March, state that 
the Carlist leader, MARSOL, has been beaten by the 
Queen's troops, near San Juan de las Abadesor. He 
had fifteen of his men killed, and thirty wounded, be-
sides having allowed a considerable number of men 
to be taken prisoners. Among the prisoners taken 
are the colonel of his staff, the CABECILLA GRACE, 
and a Frenchman, who was acting as aide-de-camp to 
the latter, and who calls himself the Count de CHA- 
BANNES. 
Italy.—The Austrians evacuated Ferrara on the 
20th ult., having had possession of the town only 
two days, the inhabitants having complied with all 
the terms demanded of them—paid $ 200,000, rein-
stated the Pontifical arms, and given hostages for a 
fulfilment of a convention, ratifying that of July last, 
relative to the Austrian garrison in the citadel. The 
Austrian troops retired beyond the Po, on the Aus-
trian side of the river. 
Advices from Rome of the 27th ultimo state, that 
the forced loan is so extremely unpopular, that it is 
likely to re-act upon the government greatly, in favor 
of the restoration of his Holiness the Pope. 
All the Austrian property in Rome has been confis-
cated, as a retaliation fur the exaction made at Fer-
rara. On the 21st ult. the Assembly decreed the 
confiscation of the entire property of the Church.—
The carnival has been observed with much merriment, 
but little splendor. 
Letters from Rome, by Vienna, announce, that 
Austria has offered the Pope aid, in men and money. 
The Alba, of Florence, of the 26th ult., says :—
" The English consul has sent an extraordinary cou-
rier to Admiral PARKER, to send a reinforcement to 
Civita Vecchia." 
The Emperor of Russia has written a letter to the 
Pope, expressing his attachment to his Holiness, and 
offering him assistance. The Pope, it is said, has 
borrowed six million scudi of the Czar. 
Intelligence reached Genoa on the 3d instant, that 
a conspiracy had been discovered amongst certain in-
dividuals of Palermo to deliver Sicily to the king of 
Naples. The traitors had been shot. 
The Grand Duke of Tuscany has arrived at Gaeta, 
on board the British steamer Bulldog. He addressed 
a letter to his principal Minister, after his flight to Si-
enna. In this he declares that he had no personal 
disinclination to the proposed Constituent Assembly 
of the Italian States, but that he had received a pri-
vate communication from the Pope, written at Gaeta, 
in which the Pontiff threatened to lay Tuscany under 
excommunication, if it gave in its adhesion to the 
popular movement. In the nineteenth century a 
Prince, hitherto considered among the most enlight- 
\ ened in Europe, in dread of such an empty threat as 
this flies ingloriously from his dominions, and justly 
subjects himself to deposition for abandonment of his 
duties and his rights. The following paragraph, in 
the semi-official Paris Pattie, is regarded as affording 
an indication, and created some sensation in that city. 
It is the first hint of an intervention in favor of the 
Pope and the Grand Duke of Tuscany, by the mu-
tual consent of all the powers of Europe :— 
" A report has been current in some of the salons 
that the kings of Naples and Sardinia, with the con- 
currence of all the powers, will simultaneously inter-
vene on the Papal territories and Tuscany. It is said 
that, in the event of this intervention, the naval forces 
of England and France will take up a position at Ci-
vita Vecchia and Leghorn." 
The same journal makes the following remarks on 
the political consequences which may result from the 
Tuscan revolution :— 
" The flight of the Grand Duke of Tuscany may, 
if it he prolonged, and particularly if it leads to the 
dethronement of the Prince, occasion serious diplo-
matic complications. The Grand Duchy of Tuscany 
belonged Austria, to which it was conceded by the 
treaty of 1735. Erected into the kingdom of Etruria 
in 1801, afterwards united to France 1808, it returned 
in 1814 to the Arch Duke Ferdinand, with the clause 
of reversibility, which was orignally conceded for the 
benefit of the Austrian princes. It would appear from 
what is said, that the Emperor of Austria would 
claim his rights over the Grand Duchy, if the present 
Grand Duke should be deprived of his sovereignty." 
The Paris Constitutionnel expresses its conviction 
that there will be a rising in Lombardy, of which a 
commencement has already taken place in Brescia. 
Austria and Hungary.—At the battle of Deva, 
which took place on the 9th ult., the imperial troops 
were defeated by Gen. Britt. The fight was bloody 
in the extreme. It lasted from eight o'clock in the 
morning till six o'clock in the afternoon, and ended 
with the flight of the imperialists, one of whose regi-
ment of foot was almost literally cut to pieces. Ano-
ther battle was fought in the night of the 11th ult., 
with the right wing of the imperial ariny, which had, 
managed to keep its ground atter the battle of Deva, 
which was likewise driven hack and dispersed in this 
encounter. The fugitive imperial troops rallied on 
the 12th ult. at Hermanstadt, when the Russians pro-
tected them from further pursuit. 
According to the Magyar account, there are no 
more Russians to be seen in Siebenburghen, and in 
South Hungary, near Arad, the insurgents recently 
obtained an important victory, 300 of the Leiningen 
regiment passing over to their side. The Magyars, 
moreover, claim another victory, on the 26th ult., 
over W1NDISCRGRATZ, near Zibakhaza, and assert 
that 2000 Croatians have deserted from the imperial 
ranks. 
The last accounts from Hungary announce the 
march of the Magyars on Pesth, under Gen. DEM-
BINSKI, and were within four miles distant. All 
the disposable troops, numbering some 100,000 or 
more, had left Pesth. 
Prussia.—On the 26th ult. a courier of the Russian 
cabinet arrived with dispatches to the Russian ambas-
sador at Berlin, instructing hint not to attend the 
opening of the Prussian parliament. 
It appears that Russia Ivishes to find a pretext to 
carry war into Germany, and establish absolutism, 
in which she would no doubt find a ready ally in 
Austria. 
Prussia is preparing armaments on account of the 
hostile attitude assumed by Russia, for after having 
entered Transylvania with her Cossacks, Russia is 
now assembling troops on the frontier of Prussia. 
Prussia can readily bring 400,000 men into the field 
if necessary. 
Russia and Turkey.—Accounts from Constantino-
ple are of the most important character. A ge neral 
European war appears to be imminent. The Russian 
minister at Constantinople has officially demanded 
the passing into the Bosphorus, and out of the Dar-
danelles into the Mediterranean, of a Russian fleet. 
The demand having been refused, the Russian atnbas-
sador declared that Russia would take by force that 
passage which she was determined to have. For 
some time Russia has shown a disposition to treat 
Turkey as a conquered province, and to seize her 
tertitory in spite of the remonstrance of the European 
powers. 
A. letter front Constantinople says :—" The en-
trance of the Russians into Transylvania has pro-
duced a great sensation here, and added to the alarms 
of the Divan. The Porte every day sees more clearly 
into the intentions of Russia. It could not behold 
with indifference that powertgive, without any notice, 
10,000 muskets to the Servians, its subjects. The 
Russian army of occupation is provided with a full 
pontoon equipage, and it would be sufficient for it to 
excite some insurrectionary movement amongst the 
population of Bosnia and Bulgaria, in order to find a 
pretext to intervene and cross the Danube. 'What is 
positive is, that Turkey considers herself seriously 
menaced, and that she takes all possible measures of 
precaution to be able, if necessary, to repel an attack 
on the part of Russia. A great number of families 
have fled from Transylvania to Wallachia, to escape 
from the devastations of the Szeklers and all the hor-
rors of war to which Transylvania, so flourishing a 
country a year back, has been a prey for some 
months." 
Serious disturbances have taken place in Poland. 
A regiment of troops, entering Cracow, was received 
by the inhabitants with great indignity ; the troops 
returned the attack at the point of the bayonet. Large 
bodies of Russian troops are concentrating on the fron-
tiers of Gallicia and Poland. 
The war in the Punjaub costs the East India Com-
pany £5000 a day. 
Bro. R. V. Lyon will preach in the following places, at 7 P. M. (ex-
cepting those which are named.) North Spriegfield,Vt., April 5th ; 
Monet Belly, the 7th ; Wallingfbrd Bill, kin the Baptist ineethaa 
house,) the Sub, at le A. it., and in the evening at the North Villas. 
(hi the Baptist meeting-house) ; Cambridge, N. Y., the loth (where 
Bro. Graham shall appoint), and remit, over the Sabbath ; row_ 
pal, the 17th ; North Adams, Mass., lath and 19th ; South Adams, 
the 20th, and remain over the Sabbath ; Cheshire, the a3d and 2401 ; 
Hawley, the 25th, at 1 P. fa.; Plitinfield, the 2tith, and reinain over 
the Sabbath,. Ashfield, the 30th, at 1 r. �
; Granby, May tat, at 2 e. 
at. ; Three Rivers, the ail ; the Axe Factory kin Ashford, Ct.), the 
first Sabbath in Slav, and in Windham tat Bro. A. Robipson'sn, the 
seenicd:;2°"2d'ii, ,ma Bro. Adams and the church may appoint ; at 
Pa., 
*J. D. Boyer will preach at Shiremanstown, Pa. April 21st 
evenings of 24th and 25th, as Bro. W em. Boyer may appoint ; at 
Middletown, evening of the 26th, at sister Thompson's ; �
Bain- 
bridge the 17th, as Bro. Bearbrower may appoint ; at Springville the 
2.ath and ;0th, as tiro. Eshelman may appoint ; at Lancaster May lat 
and al. Brit. Geuther and Tucker will please secure a place. 
Bro. W. Burnham will preach in Rye, N.II., the third Sabbath in 
April ; in Nashua the fourth, and w Lawrence the first in May. 
Bro. J. Cummings will be at Fitchburg, Mass , Monday, April 21, 
and spend several data. Bro. Brick can arrange ns ix thinks Lest. 
Bro. N. Billings will preach at Abington, Mass., the second Sab-
bath in April ; at Westford the third, and at Salisbury Point the 4th. 
If permitted, Bro. Edwin Burnham will preach at Springfield, Sab-
bath, April lot ; Warehouse-Point, Ct., evening of Al ; Hartford, 
Sabbath, April bat. 
Bro. S. I. Roney will preach in Bristol, Ct., Sabbath, April 1st ; 
Plymouth, evening of sd ; Pleasant Valley, evening of 3d ; Salisbury, 
Sabbath, tith ; Waterbury, Sabbath, lath. The it, tervenisgstime will 
be occupied as the brethren tlitiL
k best. �
S. I. R. 
Bro. L. D. Thompson will preach at Abington, Mass., the first 
Sabbath in April, and at New Durham Ridge, N. H. the uncoil. 
MEETINGS. 
1 will attend a meeting in Orrington, Me., the first Saturday and 
StualaY following, it being the nth and 7th of April. Also the secotid 
Saturday in April and Sunday following in Brewer, Me., in the school 
house near B. I. Clewley's. �
T. SMITH. 
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SUMMARY. 
An Irish lad was instantly killed by being thrown from the back of 
a vicious horse, while riding through Second-street, South Boston. 
On Saturday evening, James Smith, 70 years of age, a boarder at 
Moses Rogers' house, No. 39 Ann-street, left the sitting room to go 
to bed, and just as he reached the bottom of the stairs fell dead. 
A man vented Jared Maxon, in a state of intoxication, fell into a 
kettle of boiling brine, in one of the ash manufactories in Liverpool, 
N. Y., on the night of the 21st inst., from the effects of which he 
died in a few days. 
A large wild hear was killed a few weeks since near Charleston, 
S. C. It was supposed that they had been exterminated in that 
region. 
A young lady, about '20 years of age, was killed on the 23d at the 
depot in Quincy. She was endeavoring to get upon the plattbrm at-
tached to a passenger car, when she tell, and was run over by the 
four o'clock passenger train. An unfinished letter was found in her 
hand, addressed to her farther and mother, and dated in Boston. 
A man undertook to cross the railroad track at Malden, just as the 
down Haverhill train encountered the UD Great Falls train, and was 
knocked down by the locomotive of the former, and seriously in-
jured. The conductcr of the until; had him taken to the hospital. 
A little boy, the son of John Fides, of Solon, Me., fell into a well 
twenty feet deep, head foremost, and remained in that position until 
his mother descended upon the stones and rescued him. 
We ought not, like the spider, to spin a flimsy web wholly from 
our own magazine, but, like the bee, visit every store, and cull the 
most useful and the best. 
He who argues a controverted question by asserting whatever he 
pleases, and attributing to his opponent such sentiments as shall to 
him be most convenient, must be a bungler indeed at logic if he Can-
not make out his case. 
Mr. Ezekiel Taylor died in Chelsea on Thursday evening, the 22d, 
in a 01,, while unloading a barrel of flour,-a son of Mr. Taylor, who 
died in Chelsea in the street last fall, while on a visit from the 
Eastward. �
• 
The notorious Jas. Webb, supposed to have been concerned in the 
robbery of the Government jewels, was arrested in New York on 
Monday. 
George Righter, son of a shipping-master in the United States 
navy, was stabbed and nearly killed by a gang of the ruffian boys 
that prowl about Philadelphia. 
Mr. Nathaniel J. Alley, for many years clerk in the Assessors' and 
Treasurer's office, died very suddenly on Wednesday evening, 21st, 
at the Hanover House, in a fit of insanity. 
A man of kindness to his beast is kind, 
But brutal actions show a brutal mind. 
itentember, lie who made thee made the brute ; 
If be gave thee speech mid reason, named him mute. 
lie can't complain ; but God's all-seeing eye 
Beholds thy cruelty-he hears his cry. 
He was designed thy servant, not thy drudge; 
And know—that has Creator 
Illy judge ! 
The body of alias Olive Morse, which was interred in Foxborough 
on the 7th inst., was stolen on the following night. 
In Concord, N. H., Henry Larkin was poisoned by tincture of aco-
nite, which he supposed to be brandy. It had just been brought into 
the house by his daughter, Mrs. Gerald. He died in a few minutes. 
Mr. John O'Connor, a passenger in the bark Roman from Savan-
nah to this port, hi a temporary lit of insanity, jumped overboard on 
the 11th, when off Cape Hatteras, and was drowned. 
Mr. Simon Shaffer, of New York city, was killed by the train 
while walking on the Railroad at Piermont. 
A stage coach ran off a precipice near Pittsburg, and George Pen-
ningtea was killed, and others injured. 
In Chelsea, on Tuesday, a daughter of Mr. Ellen!, 18 months old, 
was burnt to death by her clothes taking fire during the absence of 
thAe 
of New Bedford, was badly wounded at Harwich 
on Tuesday, by it person tirins a revolver at him, all the barrels of 
which they thought had just been fired. 
Died, at New haven, Ct., on the 17th, Mrs. Ann Gerry, 86 years. 
She was the widow of Elbridge Gerry, Vice tresidept of the United 
States during Madison's second term, beginning in 1613. 
The boilers of the batting tactory of Mr. Fife, in Allegheny city, 
Pittsburg, exploded on Monday, Causing a fiairlul load of Mk. Five 
bodies have been dug from the ruins, and several persons taken out 
badly injured. air. bile was among the killed. such was the force 
of the explosion, that five dwellings were destroyed. 
There are reports front Taos, that in passing through a mountain 
gorge, all of Col. Fremont's party starved and froze to death, except 
Maisel', and he was badly treat bitten. 
Steamers Dr. Franklin and Amarinth came in collision on the 
North Illinois, by which the latter was sunk. Loss, $am,u00-iesu- 
ranee trading. 
Strainer Alphonso Lamartine was destroyed by fire on Sunday, 
opposite Bath, 111. No hues lost. 
has ybeer, ent he eydi r 
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land c 
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assault Sati 
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hat- 
ters on his opponent. 
Constable Hicks, of New York, struck a milkman named Dooley 
with a ailing shot, and nearly killed him. He hail arrested one uf 
Dooley's amen, and imagined that a rescue was about to take place. 
There was a collision on Friday' afternoon, the .23.1, on the Fitch-
burg Railroad, at the crossing near the Sommerville station, by which 
two horses were killed, aim Sir. Giles considerably 'Mitred. 
BUSINESS NOTES. 
T. Huntington-The only thing we have of the kind is, "Ques-
tions nit Daniel," $1 ati per doz. 
A. Gray-lt was received, and paid to 409. You will )rave to write 
Bro. thaws at some other appointineut, air HIM to make arratigt. 
meats U. visit Lewiston. 
L. B. Payson-You will find the prices in the Herald. We should 
discount one quarter hour Moat prices where you buy to sell again. 
S. 1. Bogey, $r-Sent books. 
E. Crowell-Sent you all we had of what you ordered by mail, as 
cheaper than by express. The $1 you refer to was credited to 404. 
Mrs. A. Wie,tel-The paper is regularly sent. If the P. M. says it 
fs not published now, ask him how he knows it is not ? If he makes 
such an assertion, we should fear he took no pains to deliver it. It 
is sent in the same wrapper with Bro. Wilson's. It' Me cornea, 
yours does. Have sent the nunibers you specify. 
1. C. Wellcome-Sent by express. 
W. D. Glakslin-There would be as little risk in sending often, and 
in small sums. 
W. Cutler-The receipt of your money was acknowledged in the 
Herald of Jan. 27th, as paid to No. 443 ; but the printer gave your 
name as Cullen. 
E. �
Douglan, $1-We shall have to wait a short time before we 
can fill your order. 
J. Wilson, of Cincinnati, $2-1t pays all to No. 430. 
W. King-Thank you. 
R. Clough-- We have none now. 
J. D. Boyer-)lad none of the Kingdom, so sent four of the other. 
A. 'fucker-It was received, and paid to 430. 
APPOINTMENTS. 
Ilimea', Hales', and Needham's appointments will take place 
in the following order — 
ROCHESTER—April 1st to the 6th. 
BUFFALO—April lsth, 13tHi 14th, and 15th. 
JAMESTOWN
Loose() a �2010, 21st, moat 222 
2•Ith, 28th, and 29th. 
Two Sabbaths inRochester. During the week, we will preach at 
such hours in the day as the church may appoint. We can give two 
lectures each day, if desired. In the other places; the hours of 
meeting each day will be at to A. aes 2 and 7 e. m., or as the breth-
ren may appoint. Some of our nottces are given for two places On 
the same day ; we shall arrange to attend them all. 
Itro. H. It. Gross appoints to preach as follows: At Kent, evening's 
of April 2d and 3t1 ; Sharon, evenings of 4th, 5th, and Ith. [As the 
above will be all that 1 can do for the cause personally in Housa-
tonic valley, for the present, I hope that as full attendance as posai-
Me will be secured.] West Troy, (day time.) Sunday, April 8th ; 
Albany, evenings of 8th and 10th ; Lodi, 11th, do ; Cooperstown, 12th 
to t5th ; Pitcher Springs, 17th to 22d-[trust Bro. Chapman will ar-
range for meetings both day and evening, and attend] ; Chadic 
Creek, 232 to 25th ; Cazenovia, evening 01 26th ; New York city, 
Sunday, 25th. Letters will he inquired for at Albany, Cooperstown, 
and New York, as above. Hopeto hold several protracted meetings 
in Saratoga Co. in May. �
H. H. G. 
Bro. J. W. Bonham will preach in Lowell the second Sabbath in 
April. 
AGENTS FOR 
ALBANY, N. Y.-Geo, Needham, 
228 Lydiusastreet. 
BUFFALO, N. Y.-J. W. Clark. 
CINCINNATI, 0.—John KI1011. 
DERBY Liss, Vt.-S. Foster, jr. 
EDDINGTON, Me.-Thos. Smith. 
GRANVILLE ANNAPOLIS, N. S.- 
Elias Woodworth. 
HARTFORD, Ct.-Aaron Clapp. 
LowELL, Mass.-L. L. Knowles. 
Low HAMPTON, N.Y.-L. Kimball. 
MALONE, N. Y.-II. Buckley. 
MiLwAueeE,Wis-L. Armstrong. 
MORRISVILLE, Pa.-John F.Lan- 
'doz. 
Nsw BEDFORD, Ms.-II. V. Bevis. 
New YORK CITY.—N.111. Tracy, 
85 budlow-street. 
PALMER DEP., MS—L.H. Benson: 
PHti.AUELPHIA, PR.—J. latch, It 
Poit2T4LiAnisdra,-Nsttree.-01'eter sonnsott, 
PROVIDENCE, it. I.-G. R. 'dint 
ROCHESTER, N. Y.-J. Marsh. 
ToaoNTo, C. W..-WD.riChalliniple'll. 
WATERLOO, Shen ord, C. 
Hutchinson. 
VS o's•rsa, Ms.-D. F.Wetherbee.