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VOLUME IV.  NEW-YORK THURSDAY, JULY 6, 1843.  No. 19.  
Write the vision, and make it plain upon tables, that he may run that readeth it. For the vision is yet for an appointed time, but at ths end it shall speak, and not lie ; thoush it tarry, wait for it : because  
it will surely come, it will not tarry.  
JOSHUA V. H1MES, Publisher.  WEEKLY-NO. 9 SPRUCE-STREET,  Bf. SOUTHARD, Editor.  
THE MIDNIGHT CRY,  
PUBLISHED EVERY THURSDAY,  
BY J. V. IIIMRS,  
9 SPRUCE-ST., N E W-Y O R K.  
(Near. Nassau-street.)  
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THE MIDNIGHT CRY.  
LECTURES  
Will be continued, three times on the Sabbath, at the  
Apollo Hall, 410 Broadway,—and at  Columbia Hall,  
263 Grand street, on Monday, Tuesday, Wednesday  
and Friday evenings. Prayer meetings will be held  
on Thursday evening, at several private dwellings.  
WILLIAM MILLER AT HOME.  
The writer of the following, having formerly been a  
resident in Washington county, while there on a visit  
last week, took occasion to call on Bro. Miller.  
"I found him fast recovering. His health has im- 
proved mush inthree weeks. He is now able to walk  
about, his house. He thinks he will soon visit his 
friends. His mind does not seem to be at all affected 
by his sickness. His faith is strong. The time has  
not yet arrived, to which he has been looking, for the  
event which is to come in the dispensation of the ' full- 
ness of times,' though he thinks it can be but a few  
months distant. He expresses deep sympathy for his 
fellow laborers, knowing that they have to contend 
with the powers of darkness, and a worldly minded  
church.  
" His house is the Pilgrim's home. I had been there  
but a short time, when he manifested his hospitality by- 
inquiring if my horse had been taken care of. We  
freely exchanged views on the prophecies, and convers- 
ed on the coming of our Lord.  
" I said to him, that I had not seen that high wall  
around his farm that I had so often heard of. He 
said that  Mr. Tilden, who was present, would go  
with me to look for it. So we took a walk round  
the farm. There is some common stone wall, like  
that on all the farms in the vicinity. The land being  
stony and uneven, it is as cheap as any other  
fencing. Though his farm does not bear the marks  
of neglect, I saw no recent improvements, except one  
common gate. The buildings are in good condition,  
and every thing in order. It is worked by his sons— 
plain, industrious farmers—who support his family,  
and pay him a small sum yearly for his personal ex-
penses. His house, like a number of others in the 
neighborhood, is a good two-story house, with green  
blinds, the front and ends painted white. The furni- 
ture is plain, being all made for use, not for orna- 
ment. I saw nothing extravagant. In one room is  
a shoe-maker's bench, used by one of his sons, who  
is a cripple.  
" Brother Miller occupies one of the lower front  
rooms, where he has his bed, a few common chairs, 
his old book-case and clock. In the other room is a  
portrait, painted some twenty years ago ; a large dia- 

gram of the visions of Daniel and John, painted on  
canvass, some like the miniature one in the last part 
of his book. The most elegant article in the house 
was a Bible, presented by a friend in Boston. The 
farm with the improvements are the product of a  
great many years of hard labor and economy. Every 
thing connected with it seems to indicate that he be- 
lieves what he preaches. He worked on his farm, 
studied the Bible, became convinced ofthe truih, and 
then declared it, fearlessly, to his fellow-men, (travel- 
ing, in most cases, at his own expense) and they have,  
in return, said all manner of evil against him falsely.  
" I have written the above, not to sound a trumpet,  
nor because the truth is responsible for the reputation 
of any of its advocates, but that the readers of the  
Midnight Cry, and all who are willing to know the  
truth, may have the means of contradicting the fool-
ish falsehoods with which multitudes are willingly  
deceived. A. SPAULDING."  
CAMP MEETING AT PATCHOGUE.  
Brother Fitch was detained from visiting Rochester  
till he supposed the meeting there was nearly closed.  
He visited Patchogue, and lectured from Thursday till  
Sabbath evening, being listened to by large numbers of  
the common people, who " heard him gladly." The 
attendance at the commencement was large, and con- 
tinued to increase. We were on the ground the whole 
of Friday, and were pleased with the candor and ten-
derness of feeling exhibited. Brother Matthias, near 
whose residence the meeting is held, has shown his  
faith by his works, having resigned his place as pa3tor  
ofthe Congregational church, giving up a salary,— 
though he has a wife and nine children,—that he might  
be free to preach Christ's coming. He is happy in  
trusting the Lord, who has said that " No good thing  
will he withhold from them that walk uprightly." Be- 
ing a doer, as well as a hearer of the word, we believe  
that man will be blessed in his deed.  
Bro. Storrs went to the ground on Saturday.  
We go to press too early to give further particulars,  
or to speak of the meeting on the 4th, at Williams- 
burg- 
LECTURERS.  
Brother Caldwell hasjust returned from Cincinnati  
He says, Bro. Goodwin—the pastor of the Baptist  
Church which was founded by Dr. Brisbane—has 
come out decidedly, and preaches the doctrine of 
Christ's coming at the doors. Brother J. B. Cook  
and A. A. Stevens, are now lecturing in Cincinnati. 
Brother Litch is still in Philadelphia,  having been  
prevented by ill health from going west when he in-
tended. Brother Hervey is in Western New York.  
He had an appointment to attend a conference of  
Baptist ministers in North East Village, Pa., June  
30th. Brother Jacobs is spending a week with the  
people among whom he was formerly stationed at  
Cherry Valley.  
IER* Several important articles are deferred for  
want of room. We hope to be able  to prepare a  
valuable double number next week.  

" THE GLORIOUS HOPE."  
The New York Baptist Association held their fifty- 
third anniversary in the meeting house of the Berean  
Baptist Church, N. Y., on Tuesday and Wednesday, 
May 30 and 31, 1843. Their Circular Letter, written  
according to appointment by A. Wheelock, pastor of 
the church worshipping in Sixteenth-street, is speci- 
ally appropriate to the present time. It is truly re- 
freshing. We copy it entire.  
BELOVED BRETHREN :  
For mutual encouragement and comfort amidst  
the sorrows and afflictions of our pilgrimage, 
permit us to address you, in this annual epis- 
tle, on the subject of our Second Adoption.  
The sufferings o,f God's people led Paul, in  
the eighth chapter of Romans, to contrast the  
state of a Christian while a mortal subjected to 
the frailties and sufferings of this life and the  
cotruptions of the grave, and the same Chris- 
tian after he shall have become immortal, libe- 
rated from these evils, and resplendent with the 
glory of the Sons of God. ''For the earnest 
expectation of the creature waiteth for the  
manifestation of the Sons of God. We our- 
selves groan within ourselves, waiting for the  
adoption, to wit, the  redemption of our bodies."  
God, in the work of redemption, begins it up- 
on the soul and ends it upon the  body. He first  
changes our minds into the image of Him who 
created us. By this there is imparted to us a  
moral character like that of our Creator and Re- 
deemer. We love holiness and hate sin, loath  
the corruptions of our nature, and long after  
perfection in righteousness. It is in connec- 
tion with this we receive our first adoption ; but  
while we wonder at and admire the change  
wrought on the mind, we are left still to sigh  
about the flesh on account of its enervating and  
contaminating influences against the spirit. Its  
carnal desires, its evil working, and its frail and  
dying state remain, so that «• we groan within  
ourselves and wait for our adoption, to wit, the 
redemption of our bodies." This is the second  
adoption. When received, then shall we be  
like Christ, not only in spirit but in body.  
That God designs to confer upon believers  
this second adoption—in other words, that he  
designs to change greatly and wonderfully their  
bodies, is clearly a matter of divine revelation.  
" Behold," said the inspired apostle, "I show  
you a mystery: we shall not all sleep, but we 
shall all be changed in a moment, in the twink- 
ling of an eye, at the last trump: for the trum-
pet shall sound, and the dead shall be raised 
incorruptible, and we shall be changed. For  
this corruptible must put on*incorruption,  and  
this mortal must put on immortality. We look 
for the Saviour, the Lord Jesus Christ, who  
shall change our vile body, that it may be fash- 
ioned like unto his glorious body." Then, as  
;t we have borne the image of the earthy, we  
shall also bear the image of the heavenly." 
It was this which, by the vision ofthe Almigh- 
ty, animated Job when he said, "  I know that  
my Redeemer liveth, and that I shall stand in  
the latter day upon the earth, and though after  
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my skin worms devour this body, yet in my 
flesh shall I see God, whom I shall see for my- 
self, and mine eyes shall behold and not ano- 
ther. though my reins be consumed within me."  
From these and many other like passages, we 
have presented to the eye of faith a vision of  
the work of grace completed, of redemption 
perfected. Jt is a vision truly glorious, though  
we see it yet but in part: for in its fulness it is  
so incomprehensible that " it doth not. yet ap- 
pear what we shall be." The vision we con- 
ceive of its glory is like a bright moon-light  
view the traveller catches of a splendid man- 
sion, through the thick foliage of the trees that  
surround it. Now his eye lights upon a pillar, a  
cornice, a window, a corner; and from these, 
his imagination endeavors to give form and  
beauty to the entire structure, So it is with 
that glorious body after which the saints are  
longing, and an indefinite view of which is pre-
sented in such passages as we have quoted.  
But it is not by the paintings, of the imagina- 
tion merely that God has left us to ascertain  
what wili be the appearance of our glorious  
bodies. He has given us a pattern in the glo- 
rious body of our Lord Jesus Christ. This  
was submitted to the inspection of eye-wit- 
nesses on the holy mount of transfiguration.—  
The Scriptures teach us that that wonderful  
scene \vas designed as a kind of miniature re- 
presentation of the second advent of our blessed  
Saviour. Certain of the apostles were pro- 
mised by our Lord that before they died they  
should see this representation. " For the Son  
of Man shall come in the glory of his Father,  
with his angels, and then he shall reward every  
man according to his works. Verily 1 say un- 
to you, there be some standing here who shall  
not taste of death till they see the Son of Man  
coming in his kingdom." All those disciples 
are long sinc.e dead, and there has not been yet.  
any coming of Christ with his angels, when he  
rewarded every man according to his works.  
Jesus presented this promise to those disci- 
ples in a metaphor. Metaphors are often em- 
ployed thus by the sacred writers. Take the  
following as specimens : " The three branches  
are three days," i. e. tepresent three days.—  
" The seven empty ears, blasted by the east  
wind, shall be seven years of famine." Ephraim 
is a cake unturned. All flesh is grass—surely  
the people are grass. Take, eat. this is my  
body—this cup is my blood. 1 am the vine,  
and my Father is the husbandman. The tongue  
is a fire, a world of iniquity. Whoso hateih  
his brother is a murderer. The seven stars are  
the seven angels of the seven churches: and  
the seven candlesticks which thou savvest are  
the seven churches. So the text,  " Verily 1  
say unto you, there be some standing here who  
shall not taste of death till they see (a repre- 
sentation of)  the Son of Man coming in his  
kingdom." After six days, that representation  
was given them in the transfiguration of their  
Lord.  
Peter was one of the favored three who was  
permitted to be an eye-witness of his majesty 
on that memorable occasion, and he has taught 
us, in his second epistle, that it was a repre- 
sentation of that glorious advent of Christ which  
is joyfully anticipated by all truly evangelical  
Christians. He assured his brethren that the  
account, which it appears he had often given  
them, of the splendid and awful exhibition of  
Christ's transfiguration, was entirely unlike the 
incredible, fabulous stories the heathen had in- 
vented and published concerning their gods—  
stories, the accuracy of which no one could 
avouch—but, said he, we were eye-witnesses.  
" We have not followed cunningly devised fa-
bles when we made known unto you the power  
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and coming of our Lord Jesus Christ, but were  
eye-witnesses of his majesty. For he received  
from God the Father glory and honor, when  
there came such a voice to him from the excel- 
lent glory, This is uiy beloved Son, in whom I  
am well pleased. And this voice, which came 
from heaven, we heard when we were with  
him in the holy mount." Peter is particular in  
defining the time and the place of this marvellous  
exhibition ; and applies to it the same meta-
phorical name that, was given it by the Savi.o,u,r, 
" the coming of,oyr Lord :" that is, a representa- 
lion of his coming. By the transfiguration,  
then, Jesus meant to 3hPvv Vs the splendor of  
the retinue that will accompany him when he 
comes to judge the world, the glory of the  
Shechinah whieh will envelope them, and the  
glorious body in which he will appear in that 
dreadful day. Moses and Elijah, one on his 
right hand and the other on his left, represent- 
ed the escort of angels that will ajttend him  
down the skies—the bright cloud that over- 
shadowed them, the awfully terrific Shechinah,  
which will tfyen look lj|ie "flaming fire," and his  
transfigured body, his glorious body, in which  
he will then appear when every eye shall see  
him, and they also that pierced him. The ap- 
pearance of his body is that with which we are  
chiefly concerned, in the subject upon which we  
now address you.  
As to the glorious body he exhibited to Peter,  
James, and John, on the holy mount, the Evan-
gelists say, "The fashion of his countenance  
was altered, his face did shine as the sun, and  
his raiment became shining, exceeding white  
as snow, so as no fuller on earth can white  
them : his raiment was white and glistering,  
white as the light." John was one who saw  
the transfiguration, and speaks of it in his gos- 
pel. "And we beheld his glory, (said he,) the 
glory as of the only begotten of the Father."—  
In the book of Revelations, an account is given  
of Christ again appearing in his glorious body  
to this beloved disciple on the island of Patmos, 
and he has described him as looking very much 
as he did in the transfiguration. "He was 
clothed with a garment down to his feet, and 
girt about the paps with a golden girdle. His  
head and his hair was like wool as white as  
snow, and his eyes were as a flame of fire, and  
his countenance was as the sun shineth in his 
strength." What, surpassing glory ! When the  
sun shineth in his strength, no man can look 
upon it for a moment. And his raiment was  
white as the light ? From the crown of his head  
to the soles of his feet, nought appears but the  
most effulgent glory. The liveliest imagination  
fails in attempting to delineate this splendor.—  
The brightest objects in nature are employed  
to paint its glory ; but even these are regarded  
by an eye-witness as altogether inadequate.—  
Soaring above the sun, he says, the glory of  
Christ, when he saw it, was " as the glory of  
the only begotten of the Faiher ;" and in ano-
ther passage he says, when Christ appears,  
" we shall be like him ;" but notwithstanding  
he had been exhibited as clothed with the sun,  
and glistering in white, still he declares, " It 
doth not yet appear what we shall be," so far 
are these illustrations from exhibiting the splen- 
dor of his future glory.  
And yet, amazing thought! Beloved, this is  
the glory with which our bodies will be invested  
when the work of our redemption shall be con- 
summated in the day of our next adoption !  
" For when he who is our life shall appear,  
then shall we appear with him in glory- We 
know that when he shall appear, we shall be 
like him. He shall change our vile body, and  
fashion it like unto his glorious body. And as 
we have borne the image ofthe earthy, we shall  

also bear the image ofthe heavenly." O won-
drous prospect! Matchless grace! Blessed 
hope ! Yes, we are "looking for that blessed  
hope, the glorious appearing of the great God,  
even our Saviour Jesus Christ ! when he shall  
come to be glorified in his saints, and to be  
admired in all them that believe, in that day.  
We groan within ourselves, waiting lor tbe  
adoption, to wit, the redemption of our body."  
The apostles in their oral, as well as in their  
written communications, often referred to this  
edifying subject, for the support and comfort of 
their brethren. Peter says, " I will not be  
negligent to put you always in remembrance of  
these things, though ye know them ; Yea, I  
thinjk it meet as long as I am in this tabernacle 
to stir ycu up by piffling you in remembrance."  
Said Paul, "remember ye not that when I was  
with you, I told you these things ?" The apos- 
tles had both seen our Lord in his glory, and as  
they had learned by revelations that he purpos-
ed to invest the bodies of all his faithfnl disci- 
ples, with the same glory, how could they re-
frain from speaking of it to their afflicted breth- 
ren, to cheer and support them amidst their  
cruel persecutions. By it, they themselves  
were greatly animated, and they often spake of  
it to support and animate their suffering breth- 
ren. Whenever they refer to " this blessed 
hope," with what expressions of delight and  
rapture do they speak of it. Paul compares it 
to sowing seed, and says, " Thou sowest not 
that body that shall be"—its future verdure, and  
blossoms, and fragrance, is not yet seen, but  
"as we have borne the ima^e of the earthy,  
we shall also bear the image ofthe heavenly."  
When Daniel in vision saw the redeemed ar- 
rayed in their glory, heexclaimed, " They shall 
shine as the stars, forever and ever." The Sa- 
viour's description ofit, was still more clear  
and splendid. "Then,'' said he, "shall the 
righteous shine foith as the sun, in the king- 
dom of their Father." John, the beloved dis.  
ciple, despairs of giving a full and adequate idea  
ofthe glory in which the saints wiil be at last 
invested, and breaks forth in the following ex- 
clamation ; " Beloved, it doth not yet appear  
what we shall be, but we know that when he  
shall appear, we shall be like him." The  
Psalmist exulted when he saw it afar off, and  
said, " I shall be satisfied when I awake in thy  
likeness." The apostles were so overcome 
when they saw Christ's glorious body on the  
holy mount, that they Tell on their faces ! O,  
what a scene will be presented to our astonish- 
ed vision, when we shall not only see Him as  
he is, but see all the blood-washed throng ar- 
rayed in the same glory !  
" Arrayed in glorious grace  
Shall these vile bodies shine  
And every shape, and every face,  
Look heavenly and divine."  
Cleansed from all sin, their souls adorned  
with grace, and their bodies bearing the image  
of the heavenly, they are all lovliness and holi- 
ness within, all beauteous and comely, and glo- 
rious without ! If at the Saviour's first advent,  
when he changed his glory for ignominy, the  
angels shouted glory to God in the highest,  
what will they say when they escort him down  
the skies in his second advent., " to be glorified 
in his saints ;"—to receive the bride, the Lamb's  
wife ? If there was joy among the angels in  
heaven, over one sinner that repented, how will  
they feel when they see the whole company  
ofthe redeemed, cleansed from sin, clothed in  
white, and dazzling in glory like their Lord !  
What a coronation day will that be, when the  
Captain of their salvation shall walk with them  
in white through the streets ofthe New Jerusa- 
lem, paved with gold, transparent as glass !


What music will be made when the General  
Assembly, and Church of the First Born shall  
be arranged on the sea of glass, having the  
harps of God, harping with their harps, and  
singing as it were, a new song before the  
Throne! while they outshine the angels in the  
kingdom of their Father.  
And beloved, if we be Christ's, such are our  
prospects, such the blessedness of our hopes 1  
" There we shall see his face,  
'And never, never sin ;  
There from the rivers of his grace,  
Drink endless pleasures in,  
" Yes, and before we rise  
To that immortal  state.  
The thoughts of such amazing  bliss,  
Should constant joys create."  
In view of such a prospect, how the disciple,  
wasting away with disease, and sinking into  
the grave ; or the poor saint pining in want, and  
clothed in rags, or groaning under persecution,  
should exult with joyful triumph !  What conso- 
lation should the bereaved derive from this sub- 
ject, when they resign to dust the remains of  
beloved friends ! What solemn admonition  
does it give the unconverted, whose bodies in  
that dread day, will " come forth with shame  
and everlasting contempt," when they will see  
the righteous shining forth as the sun in the  
kingdom of their Father!  
SPECIAL REVELATIONS.  
While some may look upon the head of this article  
with terror, because they dread a newspaper discus-
sion on the subject,, others will fear lest we may oppose  
their views. We confess that we have a strong desire  
to avoid a newspaper discussion on a point where sin- 
cere believers in the coming of Christ at hand are di-
vided. Instead of presenting an array of arguments*  
and quoting scriptures which all do not understand  
alike, we shall comply with the request of a brother, in  
publishing two striking facts.  
A REMARKABLE DREAM.  
Bro. Southard,—The Apostle Peter (Acts 2 :)  
defends the operations of the Holy Spirit as  
witnessed on the day of Pentecost against  
those that mocked, by showing that such ope- 
rations were the exact fulfilment of prophecy. 
" And it shall come to pass in the last days,  
saith God, I will pour out  my Spirit upon all  
flesh : and your sons and daughteis shall pro- 
phesy, and your young men shall see visions, 
and your old men shall dream dreams." There  
seems to me to be no reason why we should  
confine this to the apostolic age, unless it can  
be shown that that age embraces all that is 
meant by last days. Yet if any prophet have a  
dream, let him tell it as a dream.  
While I was lecturing at Pondville, (so called)  
in the southern part of Newfane, Vt., I was in-
troduced to Deacon Fisher, a godly old man,  
upwards of threescore years and ten. He is, 1  
believe, a licensed Baptist preacher, and meets  
his little congregation in a school house in his  
own neighborhood every-Sabbath. I found him  
in the belief of Christ's immediate coming; and  
he said that he had long believed in the per- 
sonal appearing and reign of Christ on earth,  
and that he should live to see him come in the 
clouds of heaven, for more than thirty years.  
His attention was called up to investigate this  
subject by a dream and vision of the night.— 
This he gave me, and it would be very gratify- 
ing to him, and the friends of the cause in that 
place, if you think proper to insert it in the 
Cry. I give it to you as he handed it to me,  
written in his own style.  
" On Friday night, the ninth of February,  
1812, I thought the people were envious one at  

another, killing and destroying one another,—  
cattle and property ;—law suits commencing,  
costs arising, and I thought it was about even- 
ing time, and I- thought I arose from the dead  
although I did not remember  dying, but I saw  
the graves full of filth and corruption, and I  
looked at other graves to see the dead rise, but  
did not see them rise. I went into a house, and 
I thought it was the resurrection, though I had 
been in the grave but a few minutes. 1 thought 
somebody came to the door and wanted to come 
in, for they were burning, and a certain person  
opened the door, and I saw him stand at the 
door as though he could not come in, and had 
like to fall backward. At last, he came in, and 
I saw the air red like fire. Then I spoke and 
said, The time is come when the elements shall  
melt with fervent heat, and the world and all  
that is therein shall be burnt up. Then I went 
out and walked toward the south, and I saw  
the heavens covered all over with clouds, very 
black and tempestuous. Thunders were rolling,  
and the clouds descending lower and lower.—  
Such a tempest I never saw before, and I was  
looking every minute when Christ would make 
his appearance. All at once there appeared a  
bright light in the cloud, and I spoke and said,  
" There is the bright and morning star," and I 
cried, Glory to God and the Lambr Glory Alle- 
luia : Glory Alleluia, Glory Alleluia, and con- 
tinued crying, Glory Alleluia, through the whole  
scene, while the clouds descended lower and 
lower until they came to the earth, and bright  
forked lightning streaming in every direction,  
and thunders rolling, and all at once the angels 
stood on earth and sung glory to God with me, 
and I thought the inhabitants were almost all  
destroyed, and but a few left, and I thought the 
earth was cleansed from all sin and filth, and all  
was holiness to the Lord.  
NEHEMIAH FISHEii,"  
REVELATION TO A DEAF AND DUMB WOMAN,  
Permit me to notice another remarkable in- 
stance ofthe power of God, and the operations 
of his Spirit in communicating truth to a deaf 
and dumb woman in the same place. This  
woman, who is more than sixty years old, from  
her birth has been deaf and dumb, and never 
having enjoyed the advantages of an asylum, 
she has never learned to read and converse, with  
the alphabet. Consequently her friends could 
make her understand but little that was passing 
in this world around her, and comparatively 
nothing in regard to the existence of a God, a  
Saviour and Redeemer of mankind, a future 
state of happiness or misery, or any of the doc- 
trines and duties of religion. But the Lord has  
been pleased to show her mercy, and commu- 
nicate that instruction which all need, and  
which it was not in the power of her friends to  
give. About forty years ago, while upon her  
bed at night, and in her sleep, two shining  
ones, as she described them by signs, stood  
before her. One held a trumpet, and the other  
a book, like the Bible, in his hand. They told  
her about God, and how she must love him.—  
She saw Jesus Christ, and it was explained to  
her how he  had suffered, and was the Saviour  
of the world. It was told her that she was a  
sinner, and that she must repent and give her  
heart to Christ, and be baptized. She had a  
view of the city of the New Jerusalem, and of  
the devil and the pit of hell ; and while sbe  
stook looking at the devil, and those in torment,  
others were brought to be cast into the pit.  
Some of the persons she knew. She was in- 
structed that  all wicked persons that die in their  
sins go to this place, and all those that repent-
ed and loved God, went into the beautiful city.  
The minister that was to baptize her was point- 
ed out to her—his dress and manner. It was  

told her that he would lay his hand upon her  
head, at the water, and pray.  
This is a sketch of what was communicated  
by her, not at.once, but at three or four different  
times, as related to me by her own sister, with  
whom she lives. She could make her sister,  
and those acquainted with her, understand that  
she had had a vision, and what she saw ; but 
not understanding her gestures, I could talk  
with her but. little.  
She told her sister, at one time, the shining  
ones were coming again, and her sister re.  
quested that she would ask permission that she  
might see them. She did ; but they replied, her  
sister had a book that told her all about these 
things, and that she could read it; but that they  
were sent to her, because she was deaf and  
dumb. This was the first time that she knew  
the Bible to be different from any other book 
that she saw in the house. A number of min- 
isters who lived in the vicinity called to see  
her, but neither of these seemed to be the one  
described to baptize her. At last one came,—  
a Baptist minister, I believe,—a Stranger in the 
place. As soon as she saw him, she appeared  
greatly elated with joy, and expressed, in her  
way, "that's the man " Her experience was  
told to the minister, and preparations were made 
the next Sabbath for her baptism. They had  
been careful to keep from the minister that it  
was told her he would lay his hand on her head  
when he prayed at the water. But when the  
time came, and the blessing of God was to be  
invoked, so  it was ; he turned and said to the  
audience, that he should lay his hand on the 
head ofthe candidate, that she might know nc  
was praying for her.  
She understands what it means when Chris- 
tians meet lo worship God, and expresses great  
satisfaction in meeting with them, though she  
cannot hear what they say. When I commenced  
lecturing there, she did not understand what it  
meant. She saw the chart, and knew there was  
something new in the preaching. Her friends 
could inform her but  little except the burning  
ofthe world and the wicked. This was entire- 
ly new to her, and at first she seemed to reject  
it, and expressed decided unbelief, but after- 
ward she was more calm, and manifested an in- 
terest to know about it. Soon, in a dream and  
vision, this subject was presented to her. She  
was made to beheve that what I was preaching  
was true. The whole scene of the judgment,  
the burning ©*f" the world, the destruction ofthe  
wicked, and the resurrection of the saints to  
meet the Lord in the air, passed before her. In  
the morning she was very happy, and acquaint, 
ed her friends with what she had seen, to the  
joy of many, and astonishment of  others.  
I have thought proper to notice these instan- 
ces. not because I think the word of God is not  
sufficient, and profitable, to direct, in all ordi.  
nary cases, but to show the power and goodness 
of God in such instances where the circum- 
stances seem to require it.. Our God is a won-
der-working God. And we ought to watch His  
operations that we may understand them, and  
give Him the glory. And the more, " lest that 
come upon us which is spoken of by the pro- 
phets," of which the apostle told the Jews,  
"Behold, ye despisers, and wonder and perish ;  
for I work a work in your days, a work which  
you shall in no wise believe, though a man de-
clare it unto you."  
S. C, CHANDLER.  
REMARKS.—To those who have the Bible, this last  
case affords a solemn warning. Let such take heed 
to the word, knowing that they will be called to ac-? 
count for the manner in which they treat this precious  
gift. We believe the Scriptures are a complete reve- 
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lation to the world, and their only rule of faith and  
practice. Special revelations cannot be of general au-
thority. They cannot carry a divine sanction to those  
who are obliged to take them second-hand. This deaf  
and dumb woman had it revealed to her that a certain  
man would baptize her. That man baptized by immer- 
sion only. Therefore, if this revelation is binding on  
others, it would seem to show that immersion is the  
only right mode of baptism, and is the duty of all.  

was supposed several thousand  persons assembled to hear  
the word. Multitudes came in from the surrounding 
country who could not find the place of meeting, and re  
turned disappointed. The attention of the audience was  
most profound, which evinced a very deep interest in  
what was presented. The time occupied in the three 
lectures was probably not much short of eight hours ; and  
the people were not tired of hearing, though nearly all had  
to stand up.  
THE MIDNIGHT CRY.  
THURSDAY,  JULY 6, 1843.  
TENT MEETING AT ROCHESTER.  
The Lord's hand has been signally manifest in rela- 
tion to this meeting. Arrangements were made for  
Bro. Fitch to be present, but ill health detained him at 
Newark. If he had gone, he would have found the tent  
in ruins. On Saturday forenoon, a sudden and very se- 
vere storm of wind and rain dashed upon the tent, and  
some of the fastenings gave way, so that it fell upon the  
heads  of about 500 persons who were listening to Bro.  
Barry. Not an individual was seriously injured. A let- 
ter, dated Monday, June 28, shows how strikingly this  
was overruled for good :  
" We had about abandoned the idea of rearing it again  
but the citizens (a large and respectable number of them)  
became deeply interested, and many who had felt no in- 
terest or sympathy with us—but much to the contrary—  
seemed resolved to have the tent repaired and reared 
again. A meeting of citizens was called, measures ta- 
ken to raise $100—and to rear the tent in the heart  
of the city, and they are now at the work strong handed  
and will have all ready in two or three days. All has  
turned out signally to the furtherance of the good cause.  
The interest in this community is intense."  
The Glad Tidings of June 29,.has also come to hand,  
containing the following appropriate article.  
THE TRIUMPHING OF THE WICKED IS SHORT.  Job.  
'' Rejoice not against me, O mine enemv ; when ! fall I shall vise "  
—ilicha.  " All things work together for good to them that lave God."— Paul.  
The apparent calamity that befel our Tent at the  
commencement of our meeting, caused many of our op- 
ponents to rejoice. It seemed to be matter of no little  
diversion to them, and some of the daily papers made 
themselves quite merry i-n the matter, and ventured to  
anticipate our calculations, and to notify.the public that  
the tent would not be raised in this city again ; in ad- 
dition to which, they tendered us some gratuitous advice,  
which we assure them we duly appreciate.  
In the providence of our Heavenly Father, the very  
events over which our enemies crullcd, and for a short  
time " triumphed," are turning out signally, for the  
furtherance of the cause we advocate—which we firmly  
believe to be the cause of truth. It is true, the pros- 
pects for rearing our tent the second time, were some-
what forbidding, as we had already incurred a heavy 
expense, and hardly felt able to bear the additional ex-
pense of repairing and raising it again. But in that  
critical juncture, the good citizens came up to the res- 
cue, and proposed to be at all the expense of repairing  
and re-erecting our Tabernacle themselves.  
A meeting was accordingly called ofthe citizens in- 
terested, on Monday morning, when a large number  
convened, organized and made arrangements for prose- 
cuting the work, the result of which is before the people.  
The Tent has  been repaired, and erected again on tbe  
same spot where it stood first.  
Hence, it is evident, that what seemed to be our calam- 
ity. has turned out for good. Those citizens who have  
taken so deep an interest in rearing the Tent again, and  
preserving the best of order, as they mean to do during  
the meetings, will not be indifferent to the claims of so  
intensely interesting a subject as that of Christ's Second  
Coming. That people so much interested will give a  
hearing, we cannot doubt; and all who candidly listen,  
we feel assured will be profitably affected.  
May that God who holds the winds in his power, and  
does all things according to His will, continue to direct, 
and great good be upon this people as the result of our 
humble efforts, for which let the devout pray.  
THE MARKET PLACE.  
On Sunday last, the tent being down, Bro. Himes ad- 
dressed the people three times in the market, where it  
148  

DISTRESS OF NATIONS WITH PERPLEXITY.  
The great Western arrived in New York last  
Saturday morning, bringing news thirteen days later 
from Europe. We give but a few specimens, glean-
ed from the  Extra True Sun :  
" Ireland still continues to form the absorbing topic  
of British politics. The movements of O'Connell 
embarrass and ' PERPLEX' the Government."  
The British Cabinet ministers held a meeting on  
tbe Sabbath, May 10. This "most unusual" pro- 
cedure was probably caused by Irish affairs.  
The weather has been unusually wet and cold all  
over England, Scotland, and Ireland.  
The European Times speaks of the condition and  
prospects of Government thus :  
" The session which is drawing to a close, has  
been signally deficient in practical legislation. With  
the exception of she Factories' Bill, which has raised  
such a storm of opposition, no comprehensive mea-
sure has been introduced worthy ofthe name.  
"A falling revenue, a declining trade, mutiny  
amongst his supporters; a powerful free-trade oppo- 
sition, every day increasing in numbers and import- 
ance ; Scotland torn to pieces by religious dissen-
sions, which it attributes to the government; Ireland,  
on the verge of insurrection, convulsed from one ex-
tremity to the other—these are the accumulated diffi- 
culties Which beset the minister at the close of his  
second parliamentary'session."  
Could a picture of " distress*1"' and " perplexity"  
be more graphic 1 Thus the Lord is calling us to  
look at the fulfilment of prophecy in the greatest  
government of the \Vorld, one which takes the lead  
among the so-called civilized and Christian nations.  
The state of other nations is a sort of miniature pic- 
ture of its distress and perplexity.  
" IRELAND.—The agitation for the repeal of the  
Union continues with unabated violence. At the 
Dublin Corn-Exchange on the 5th, the repeal rent 
amounted to £904, the largest yet received, except 
that of the previous week, which included some ex-
traordinary returns made at Mr. COonnell's great  
meeting in Tipperary. Troops have been poured 
into the country in great numbers. At the close of  
last week the force in Ireland amounted to six divis-
ions of artillery, six regiments and a squadron of  
cavalry, twelve battalions, and twenty-two depots of 
infantry."  
Ships of war with artillery, and large quantities of  
ammunition, have arrived at different ports, spreading  
terror, and exasperating the minds of the people, al- 
ready lashed to a fearful state of agitation.  
The people show their excitement by assembling  
in masses, estimated from 170,000 to 500.000.  
Two facts will show the state of feeling :—In a  
quarrel, near Dungannon, a band of Orange men were  
driven towards their place of rendezvous, by some  
workmen with whom they had a dispute. This oc-
curred between one and two o'clock in the day. At  
four o'clock, when the Orangemen had been collected  
to the amount of upwards of 4,000, they marched out  
to the village of Carland, and broke the houses and  
furniture of all the Roman  Catholics who resided  
there.—There was an affray between the police and  
peasantry at Carrickmaoross, on the 4th. A Mr.  
Wilcox and a Mr. Barry, accompanied by twenty-
eight policemen, attempted to post ejectment notices  
at the chapels of Maheracloone and Corduff against  
tenants of Mr. Shirley ; the people obstructed them ;  
Mr. Wilcox read the Riot Act; the people did not  
disperse at once ; he gave orders to fire ; several per- 

sons were wounded, and one man was killed on the  
spot.  
" The Repeal demonstration at Kilkenny, on the  
8th ult., is described as having been great. There  
were, it is said, upwards of 300,000 people present,  
including 11,000 to 12,000 horsemen.  
" SPAIN.—Spain continues to be in a very unsettled  
condition. It is said that refugees of all opinions in  
France are flocking to'the towns near the frontier."  
INDIA.—Another battle has taken place, in which  
6,000 British troops, under Sir Charle's Napier, de- 
feated a Scindian army of 25,000 with great slaugh- 
ter.  
" TURKEY AND EGYPT.—Letters from Alexandria  
speak of fresh disorders in Syria, arising from the ex-
cesses of the Albanian and Turkish troops. The  
Albanian troops are stated to have been driven out  
from Tripoli by the inhabitants, ancl sto have retired to  
Beyrout, where they renewed excesses of theft, viola- 
tion, and massacre."  
THE BIBLE  READER,  NO. 1.—This little tract has  
been eagerly sought for and highly prized. Those who  
love to study the Bible will find it very useful. It is 
understood, of course, that we do not agree with Bro.  
Jones in his belief, that definite time is used to repre- 
sent indefinite. The author is alone responsible.  
" MODERN PHENOMENA OF THE HEAVENS."—This  
book Bro. Jones has published, and it is forsale at this  
office, price 12 1-2 cents.  
It contains a mass of interesting evidence, that, as  
far as the signs in the heavens are concerned, " all  
these things" have come to pass.  
We are sorry to learn from the physician that Bro.  
Henry Jones is now so ill, that there is very little hope 
of his recovery.  
LETTERS.  
GEO. STORKS.—In a  private letter received last week,  
he says:  
" I am looking hourly for our coming Savior ; and, my  
faith is growing daily stronger in his soon appearing.  
I was never more entirely free from doubts on tbe sub- 
ject. Yes, Christ will soon, very soon appear to gather  
bis saints from the four winds of heaven. Let us be 
strong, for he is faithful who has promised ; and yet a  
very 'little while, be that shall come will come, and will 
not tarry.' Now the just shall live by his faith, but if any 
man draw buck my soul shall have no pleasure in him.  
But we are not of them that draw back unto perdition,  
but of them that, believe to the saving ofthe soul."  
PLEASING TESTIMONY.—A writer in Illinois says : 
" I have long been convinced that the first resurrection  
mentioned in the 20th chapier o! Revelations me ans the 
resurrection of all the saints, and no others. We think 
more of the Midnight Cry than any other paper, it 
seems to show a harmony of the holy Scriptures which is  
not seen in the admired modern expositions of ttie Bi- 
ble."  
A postjnaster in Illinois writes :  
"FREEMANTON, June IFI, 1843.  
" Bro. Himes,—I feel grateful for the Midnight Cry,  
a few of which I have received gratis, before which, on  
account of the various lies published in newspapers, I  
had considered Mr. Miller and Joe Smith alike impos- 
tors; tut on examination for myself, my prejudice gave  
way, and although I am not thoroughly convinced that  
the state of probation will end this yeir, 1 have no ob- 
jections to offer, as they are all answered, and I have  
received much  good instruction from the perusal of your  
publication ; and although the proofs are strong, my 
faith is so weak that I have often wished I could be-
lieve, knowing that it could do no harm, as I feel my  
affections greatly weaned from this world and the 
things thereof, which, from the time 1 professed the re-
ligion of Christ, was my besetting sin."  
The postmaster at Harrison Valley, Pa., writes : 
" I received one of your papers, and we have read it  
till it is worn out, so that it cannot be read any more.  
We have no money that we can spare. If you have  
any more papers of that kind, we would be very thank- 
ful to receive them, and will faithfully read and circu- 
late them."


TI1E LABORS OP OLIVE MARIA RICE.  
We have several times heard of a sister, in central  
New York, whose labors were highly blessed. The  
following letter in the Signs of the Times, contains her  
own narrative.  
Bro. Himes,—It is nearly six years since I first  
made an entire dedication of all to God, and found the 
blood of Christ efficacious to cleanse the heart, and be- 
gan to reckon myself dead unto sin and alive unto God,  
through Jesus Christ. Most of the time since, I have  
enjoyed the blessed witness of entire acceptance with  
God, and have felt to say, The will ofthe Lord be done,  
and a constant desire to glorify God in body and spirit,  
which are his. Oh, the delightful, heavenly, blissful  
communion and fellowship with God my soul has en- 
joyed, eternity alone can tell. Many a silent grove and  
closet where Providence has placed me, could they 
speak, would tell the strong crying and tears poured  
forth to God, that he would glorify himself in making  
me as useful as possible in this world. Since Christ  
said, " Herein is my Father glorified, that ye bear  
much fruit," I have felt encouraged to plead, like  
Bramwell, that I might be delivered from the bitterest  
of all cups, a useless life. From a child I have deeply  
felt that God had a great work for me to do, and conse- 
crated myself to the missionary cause. A little less 
than three years since, I joined the Methodist Mission-
ary Board, to go when or where Providence should di-
rect, and am under great obligations to the Wesleyan  
Education Society, which, under God, has been instru- 
mental in preparing me for usefulness. I am still wil- 
ling and desirous to be a missionary wherever in the  
wide world God shall direct. But I feel assured, from  
the power of God's everlasting truth set home to my  
heart by his spirit, that all the missionary work I do  
must be done quickly. And probably God has made  
me the humble instrument of saving more souls, within  
a few weeks past, by sounding the midnight cry, than  
mokt missionaries in the east, at least, have had as the  
fruits of their labors in many years." It is a little more  
than a year since mv blind eyes were opened to see 
that the Bible forbid the idea of the world's conversion  
and a temporal millennium before Christ's coming, that 
popery must prevail till his coming, and the wheat and 
tares must grow together till the harvest at the end of  
the world. I then began to inquire, Is the time of  
Christ's second coming revealed ? I found the time  
plainly given in the 8th and 12th chapters of Daniel,  
which brings us to the last end of indignation, and to  
the resurrection.  
After prayerful examination, I believed that these  
definite numbers were given to reveal future events, for  
the special benefit of those wdio should live at the time  
when the midnight cry, " Behold, the bridegroom  
cometh," should be sounded, and when, according t,o  
Daniel, " the wise shall understand." I had the pri-
vilege of hearing Bro. Miller deliver a course of lec-
tures in Palmer, Mass., last June* and blessed be God,  
my prejudices were done away. What was once dark  
and sealed from my understanding, by God's blessing  
on the word became delightfully plain. Since about  
that time, I have firmly believed and fearlessly pro- 
claimed that this blessed year 1843 is the one the Bible  
designates for the closing up of this world's history,  
and the deliverance of captive Zion. The Bible looks 
like a new book. I can praise the Lord with all my  
heart that I ever heard the midnight cry, and fully be- 
lieve it will be the means of my obtaining a brighter  
crown and a richer treasure in glory, and a more abun- 
dant entrance into the everlasting kingdom of the great 
God and our Saviour Jesus Christ.  
When I closed the school I was teaching at the time  
I believed this blessed doctrine, I could not conscien- 
tiously return to my studies in North Wilbraham, Ms.,  
to prepare for future usefulness, when a few months at  
the longest must close not only my labors in this world,  
but those of all mankind. I was compelled by a solemn  
sense of duty, by the-influences of the Spirit, and the  
power of truth, to go and warn my fellow men, to the  
extent of my ability, to prepare for Christ's second  
coming, and the solemn scenes of judgment. I labored, 
I trust not in vain, to awake the people of my native 
place, Wilmington, Vt., in reference to this subject.—  
In the towns of Bethany and Prospect, Conn., the Lord  
more abundantly blessed me in reading from the Bible  
and the works of others on this subject, and in urging  
the importance of a speedy preparation to meet Christ  
at his coming. Souls were converted and sanctified.  
By the merciful providence of God, I was next di- 
rected to this state  with a second advent company,  
where I have found such a field of labor, and my labors 

have met with such glorious results, that I have not 
doubted, and cannot doubt for a moment that I am in 
the path of duty. Soon after arriving in Oxford, I was  
solicited to tell about Christ's coming, in a school house 
twro miles from the village. I explained the chart, and  
spoke nine or ten times in the form of lectures, for the  
first time in my life. God attended the word, and  
during the week I spent in the place, about thirty were 
hopefully converted.  
I was then convinced that the Lord had something  
more for me to (lo than to assist in prayer meetings.—  
Since that time, there are constantly four or five places 
calling for my labors at the same time. I have now la-
bored in this way about nine weeks, in seven different 
places. The number of conversions have averaged  
about thirty-five in a place while I was with them, and  
in no place much, if any, less than twenty, and the re- 
vivals are still inpprogress. In the town of McDon-
ough, where I found them asleep in religion as well as  
about the Lord's coming, in two places, the village and 
a settlement five miles from it, powerful revivals com- 
menced. Ninety or one hundred have been converted.  
The listening audiences consisted of from 1000 to 1400 
people. In the town of Smithville, the people have  
been awakened to seek a preparation to meet the Lord. 
In the east part more than fifty were converted while I  
labored with them. Several expect to see Christ come  
in the clouds with power and great glory this year. In  
this town, including  a revival in one neighborhood be- 
fore I came here, more than one hundred have been  
converted.  
I have labored in two villages in the town of Greene.  
About forty were converted while I was there. Seven- 
ty or eighty had been converted before under the labors  
of Bro. Collins, and in the other meetings. The Lord 
is doing great things in this region, and preparing the 
people for his coming. 1 have lectured in meeting 
houses in every place except the first. They have been  
filled often to overflowing, and people have left for want  
of room. I have been compelled to go into the desk in  
order to be heard in the galleries and back parts ofthe 
house; and when there God has spoken through me  
by his spirit in a wonderful manner. I never had such  
liberty, energy, and power of the Spirit before ; and 
more attention, solemnity, and weeping in congregations  
I never saw. We have usually only to clear the seats,  
and they rush forward for prayers as though in haste to 
get there before they were filled. One hundred and 
fifty presented themselves for prayers in McDonough  
village. In two other places the body slips have been 
filled with mourning souls. Universalists, infidels, and  
in some places some of the most influential persons,  
have been among the fruits of this work.  
While God works in such power, and converts so  
many souls where I labor, I cannot—dare not stop for  
the only reason that I am a sister. And though men 
may censure and condemn, I feel justified before God, 
and expect with joy to rendermy account for thus warn- 
ing my fellow beings. I am confident it is the Lord 
that is doing these marvellous things, and he shall have  
all the glory in tine and eternity. Surely God chooseth  
the weak things of this world to confound the mighty,  
and I have often felt those  words applied, " It is not you  
that speaketh, but the spirit of your Father which  
speaketh in you." The will of the Lord be done.  
Yours in the blessed hope of being changed in a mo- 
ment—in the twinkling of an eye, and seeing Jesus as 
he is in 1843.  
OLIVE MARIA RICE.  
Smithville, March 18, 1843.  
We have received a letter, June 16th, in which she  
says : " Since I sent that communication, I have labor- 
ed with some success in the towns of Plymouth, Otse- 
lick, and others in the same county. I have nowr come  
into Cortland county, and there are towns all around me,  
where they have had no lectures about Chrht's coming. 
In this town, (Willet,) there have not only been no ad- 
vent lectures, but no revival, amidst all the interest of  
the last few months. I have begun in the Baptist  
meeting house to explain from the Bible, illustrated by  
the chart, the fulfilment of the prophecy, and the evi- 
dence that this year takes hold of eternity. The peo- 
ple hear with interest. * * * I am very strong in the 
faith, that this is the last year of time. I was pleased  
with Bro. Miller, on the types, &c. I wish 1 could  
say to every believer, ' Remember Lot's wife,' and  
when we have so near escaped this sin-ruined world,  
do not let us look back, and set our affections on this  

Sodom, and think it so delightful, it cannot be destroy" 
ed so soon, when its doom is pronounced, and God is 
calling upon us to escape, for those who turn back now 
must meet a worse doom than to become a pillar of salt.  
Yours in hope of a blissful immortality this year,  
OLIVE MARIA RICE."  
The writer of the following, resides in one of the  
slave states. Wre trust her appeal will be received  
as from an affectionate sister, who, though unknown, 
wishes to Lean instrument of good.  
HINTS TO MINISTERS.  
Dear Christian Brethren,— Ministers of the  
religion of Jesus, you who desire to turn many  
to righteousness, and thus to shine as the stars  
in the kingdom of the Saviour ; you preach a  
part of the truth, the precious, solemn and con- 
soling truth of the gospel, but why will you  
not preach the whole truth. How will you  
justify yourselves in the day of judgment, for  
not searching your whole Bible, every nook  
and corner of it, that you may be able to bring  
forth things new and old, and to give to all 
their meat in due season; and where should  
you expect to find the new, but in the deep 
rich mines of prophecy where God has stowed  
them. It is true that the prophecies in which  
the time of the second coming of the Saviour  
is most particularly described, are declared to 
be sealed until the time ofthe end, but it is also 
declared that the wise shall understand. But  
how are you to know when they are unsealed,  
unless you attend to the injunction of St. Peter, 
to study the sure word of prophecy ? And the  
other prophetic books which are not sealed, 
particularly the Apocalypse, (Revelation.) the  
readers of which are pronounced blessed, 1st  
chapter, 3d verse. Do you read these, and dili-
gently compare them with history ? You say 
this book is so dark and mysterious, that it is 
unprofitable for you to read it, and you consider  
it enthusiasm, and presumption in any one to  
think to understand it.  
[A Methodist minister not far from New York, in a  
sermon some months ago, told his people, " The books  
of Daniel and the Revelation, are dark and mysterious 
books, and the less you have to do with them the better."  
Another may, with equal authority, caution them  
against Isaiah, and the books of Moses, and another  
could reject the minor prophets and Paul's epistles.  
Thus Protestant preachers become ministers of deism,  
for how much less than deism is the rejection of God's  
word 1 Those who love the Bible, will tremble and  
pause,—and turn away from the first downward step  
towards this result.—ED. CRY.]  
Surely you must be mistaken, or else the  
great and omniscient Being has failed in his 
purpose, for he says (Rev. 1 : 1,) he has given  
it to show his servants things which must shortly 
come to pass. No, dear reader, the purpose of  
God cannot fail ; the oarkness and mysticism  
exist chiefly in your own minds, and have been 
caused by your own want of diligence, in 
searching and comparing scripture with scrip-
ture, prophecy with prophecy, instead of com- 
mentator with commentator, and your fond ad- 
herence to man-made opinions, such as the re- 
turn of the Jews, the temporal millennium, and  
the great stress laid upon the expression, "Of  
that day and that hour," &c. ( Mark, 13 : 32,) 
as though our Saviour had said ; " All that is  
necessary for my followers in every age of the  
church to know on this momentous subject, I 
sum up in this one verse." While on the con-
trary, he referred to Daniel, and said, "Let him  
that readeth understand," and the same night  
in which he was betrayed, he told his disciples,  
" I have many things to say to you, but ye oan- 
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not bear them now. Howbeit when he, the  
Spirit of truth is come, he will guide you into  
all truth ; for he will not speak of himself, but  
whatsoever he shall hear, that shall he speak;  
and he will show you things to come  " [Sohn 16:  
12—15.) Dear brethren, make a  full surrender  
of every worldly interest, be willing to suffer  
poverty and persecution for your Master's sake, 
if his glory can be promoted thereby. Seek  
the entire sanctification of your souls, and the  
witness of it, i. e. the baptism of the Spirit, and  
then you can claim the promise that the Spirit  
shall take of the things of God, (that is his  
word) and show them to you, if you fervently  
ask it, meekly desiring to see the truth, even if 
it should stand opposed to your earliest and  
most fondly cherished prejudices. And then  
you will be prepared to understand the holy  
prophecies, and to see that his second coming  
is nigh, even at the door. " If therefore thou 
shalt not watch, I will come on thee as a thief,  
and thou shalt not know what hour I will come,"  
(Rev. 3 : 3 )  
HINTS TO ALL.  
Dear readers, of every denomination of Chris- 
tians, the aged, the miodle-aged, and the young, 
be persuaded to love the coming of the Saviour. 
Were you told that your best earthly friend, or  
even an acquaintance for whom you entertain  
more than ordinary attachment, who had been  
long absent, was about to visit you, would you  
not immediately set about making preparation  
to receive him ! You would not wish your house 
to be found with the carpets off the floors, dusty  
chairs, tables, &c., scattered about in confusion,  
and the white-washers or paper-hangers work- 
ing at the walls of your parlors and chambers ;  
and, above all, y«u would not. like to be found  
without a supply of choice provision for his en- 
tertainment. Now, your best friend in the uni- 
verse informs you by his word, the fulfilment 
and unsealing of the prophecies, that he is just  
coming to visit you, and to deliver you from all  
the sorrows, pains, and afflictions of this world,  
and reinstate you in more than paradisaical  
happiness, put you in possession of an everlast- 
ing inheritance of riches and delight, which no  
language can describe ; and can you hesitate  
to set about adjusting the house or temple of  
your heart? Some part of it may be soiled by 
the love ofthe world Some of its furniture,  
the graces of the Spirit, may have been dis- 
placed, by the cares and anxieties of business,  
or domestic difficulties, or the siren voice of  
worldly pleasure. See that these are swept  
and brushed by repentance, prayer, and faith, 
and furnished and adorned with all the orna- 
ments of the Spirit, (Galations 5 : 23—25.) If  
you loved his appearing, you would be continu- 
ally watching unto prayer, and looking for and 
hastening unto his coming. God the righteous  
Judge will give a crown of rejoicing to all who  
love his appearing, (2 Tim. 4 : 8.) And unto  
them that look, for him shall he appear the  
second time without sin unto salvation. The  
promise is only to them who look for him; think  
of this, and beware lest you share the fate of 
those who say, " my Lord delays his corning,"  
and be left behind with his emmies.  
CHRISTIANITY.—"Pure Christianity never was nor  
never can be, the national religion of any country on  
earth. It is a gold too refined to be  worked up with  
any human institution,  without a large portion of alloy:  
for no sooner is this small grain of mustard seed  
watered with the fertile showers of civil emoluments,  
than it grows up a large and spreading tree, under the  
shelter of whose branches and leaves, the birds of prey  
and plunder will not fail to make themselves comforta- 
ble habitations, and thereby deface its beauty and spoil  
its fruits."  
How then can we have a millennium?  
ISO  

From the Second Advent.  
TO THE DOUBTING.  
" IT WILL NOT TARRY." HAB. 2 : 3.  
To those who have expected the end before this, and to  
those who have not been looking for it at all.  
It is certainly taught in Matt. 24: 29 — 33;  
Mark 13 ; 24—29 ; and Luke 21 : 25—31, that  
just before the second coming of Christ, his  
followers might and should ' know' it to be ' near, 
even at the door;' What they should know it 
by was certain s'igrfs which are described the  
most fully by Luke, iiaihe;Jy, 'signs in thfe Sun,  
and in the moon, and in the starit, sirtd upon the 
earth distress of nations, with perplexity ; the 
sea and the waves roaring ; men's hearts failing 
them for fear, and for looking after those things  
which are coming on the earth.' Now we  
should not allow our expectations to look for a 
fulfilment of these, in a manner so very glaring 
as to compel wicked, careless, and spiritually  
superficial men to receive them as signs, for it 
is expressly taught, or fully implied in Matt.  
24 : 37—39, 48—51, and Luke 17 : 26—30, and  
1 Thess. 5 : 2—4, that until the very time that  
Christ is revealed, they will be as were the  
unholy, in the days of Noah and Lot, undisturb- 
ed in their common worldly course—their  
minds taken up with 'eating, drinking, marry- 
ing, giving in marriage, buying, selling, plant- 
ing and building'—and, that an ' evil servant'  
will have no signs but what he rejects, so as to  
even ' say in his heart, my Lord delayeth his 
coming'—and that the wicked will be in the 
very act of saying'peace and safety,' 'when'  
that is, at the very moment, " the Lord himself 
shall descend from heaven with a shout,' and  
their ' sudden destruction come upon them.'  
Such the Bible declares will be the  state ofthe  
wicked, when Christ comes the second time.  
The signs then we cannot expect to be fulfilled  
in that overwhelming manner some people ex- 
pect, for if they were, the minds of the wicked  
would be forcibly prevented from indulging in  
their usual worldly course, and forgetfulness of  
God. They would be irresistibly overcome  
with fear and horror and not be able to go on  
as usual, diverted by the business and joys of 
this WOrld. In this state of probation people  
must be tried, and if they are tried, they must  
be left free to choose, and if they are left free  
to choose, they will not be compelled, and there- 
fore, as fn the time of the Saviour's first coming,  
there will be such signs as people can choose or  
refuse to ' discern,' so that even the great and  
popular majority, while not possessed of a dis-
position to receive truth as a little child, may  
now, after every sign has been given, as that  
looked-up-to class did then, desire a greater  
sign. See Matt. 16: 1—3. Considering these 
things, let me solemnly ask you, as in the pre- 
sence of God, if we have not bad as great signs  
as we have any right to expect. ' Signs in the 
sun, and in the moon, and in the stars, and upon  
the earth, distress of nations, with perplexity ;  
the sea and the waves roaring, men's hearts  
failing them for fear, and for looking after those  
things which are coming on the earth? They  
have all been given so that the last one is now  
upon us. It is God's truth, and your con- 
science tells you so. What must we conclude  
then ? We must see that as we were directed  
by the Saviour in the passages in the first sen- 
tence of this article, we should now 'KNOW'  
that his coming and the end of the world is now  
' near—EVEN at the door ;' and anything so near  
as that, it is wrong for us to picture from us by 
any distance of time. Who then will say it  
should not be expected this year, yea, this very  
day for aught we know. Saying nothing just 
yet about prophetic numbers, should we not ex- 

pect the end at least some time in the present  
year? Have we any right to put it off longer,  
when the time has arrived, at which Christ  
taught us we should know it to be near, EVEN at 
the door ? If the signs have been given, by  
which the Bible teaches us we should KNOW the  
end is just upon us, does not the Bible teach  
the end is just upon us ? What is it then to  
imagine it is not, but unbelief in God's word ?  
Is a soul safe while indulging such an unbelief?  
But in addition to the signs referred to, the  
Scriptures give several marks of the very last  
time, afid if those  marks now exist, the Scrip- 
tures of course farther teach that we are just at 
the end of the  human drama. 1. The gospel  
was to be preached as a witness to all nations. 
Matt. 24 : 14. This, no one acquainted with  
the history of missions, will deny is fulfilled.  
' Then,'' said the Saviour, 'shall the end come.'  
How near are we then to it? 2. Knowledge  
was to be increased, Dan. 12: 4. This is ac>  
complished. 3. Riches to be heaped up. Jas- 
5 : 1—3- They are. 4. The time was to come  
when men would not endure sound doctrine.  
2 Tim. 4 : 1—4. That time has arrived. 5.  
In the last days there should be scoffers. '2 
Pet. 3 : 1—4. They have come. 6. In the last  
days there should also be  perilous times. 2  
Tim. 3: 1—7. We live in just such times as 
these art; described to be. 7< The church at  
the time of Christ's second appearance, was to  
be comparable to ten virgins—half wise and  
half foolish. Matt. 25 : i—13. That is its 
present state. 8. Evil servants were evident- 
ly to be saying, my Lord delayeth his coming.  
Matt 24: 48—50. This they are now saying.  
9. The wicked were to be saying peace and  
safety. 1 Thess. 5 : 3. They are doing so 
now. All the other marks laid down in the Bi- 
ble, any careful observer will acknowledge are  
also clearly fulfilled.—Some may say these  
things have existed before. No doubt some of 
them have existed at different times, but never  
have they been all united together—all existing  
at one time, as at the present. And if the marks  
and state of things which the Bible teaches us  
will exist just at the end of the world, are all  
now in existence around us, does not the Bible  
teach us that we are living just at the end of  
the world ? Must not then he give way to un- 
belief in God's word, who entertains the idea 
that the world is not just at an end ?  
Evidence upon evidence is also found  
bearing upon the same point in the prophetical  
parts of the Bible, as in the 2d chap, of Daniel,  
where the human drama is measured by a  
great image, representing earthly kingdoms,  
which great image, as far as we can see, is com- 
pleted in historical facts. And in the 7th chap, 
ter of Daniel, the same drama is shadowed forth  
by four beasts, the explanations of which, in  
the rise, career, and fall of kingdoms, have 
been clearly fulfilled, so  that, as in the 2d chap- 
ter, in reference to the image, everything is just  
ready for  the violent subversion of earthly  
governments and the commencement of eternity,  
in which the only kingdom will be ' God's ever-
lasting kingdom.' Again, the history of earth-
ly governments are glanced at in the 8th chap-
ter of Daniel, and the last—a notable anti- 
christ ian power—has been exactly fulfilled in  
Rome pagan and papal, if not in Rome papal  
only, so that nothing now remains but its being  
broken without hand, at the coming of Christ.  
5 Thess. 2 : 8. Once more ti e career of earth-
ly potentates and affairs are described in the  
11th chapter of Daniel, and the last notable  
personage (clearly Buonaparte) has come to his  
end and none helped him, so that everything is  
just ready for the standing up or reigning of  
i Michael, when they who sleep in the dust


will awake. Michael of course is Christ, for  
he is the one to have a kingdom, when the dead 
are raised. «The Lord Jesus Christ who shall  
judge the quick and the dead at his appearing  
and his kingdom.' 2 Tim. 4 : 1. And in the 
book of Revelation, to begin with the seven 
churches, which certainly seem to point out dif- 
ferent stages of the church, to the end of the  
world, the end is seen to be clearly just upon  
us, for we live in the precise stage which is  
clearly pictured out by the Laodicean. There  
has been before the present state of the church  
just sx successive states, answering to the de- 
scriptions of the first six churches. So here it  
is evident that the waves of eternity are wash- 
ing away the sands from beneath our feet.—  
Historical events in reference to the world and 
church have also succeeded one another, an-
swering to all the figures in the opening of six  
of the seven seals, as described in the book of  
Revelation—so that the seventh and last seal is  
ready to fly open any moment, and usher us into  
eternity. And it is very plain that the sixth 
angel has done sounding, and the seventh  
angel is just ready to sound, when ' time shall 
be°no longer'—4 the dead be raised incorrupti-
ble'—' the kingdoms become our Lord's and  
his Christ's'—and the wicked be ' destroyed out  
ofthe earth.' No one can deny this, who will  
examine the 9th and 11th chapters of Revela- 
tion, with careful reference to historical facts 
in the career of the Mahometans, as described  
in the 9th, and the history of the two witnesses 
— the old and new testaments—in the 11th. In  
each of these chapters is a clear stream ol pro-
phecy, running through the sounding of the 6th  
angel, each of which have been exactly fulfilled,  
so that it is doubly plain that the seventh angel 
is just ready to sound/  
The seven churches, seven seals, and seven  
trumpets, are the main prophetical streams of  
the book of Revelation, and are each of them  
ready to empty into the ocean of eternity. The  
other parts of the book do not clash with these,  
but harmonize, so that the whole book unites  
with the whole of the prophetic part of Daniel,  
to open our eyes that we may see where we are.  
There is not room here to give full proofs on 
each of the points referred to, viz: the signs,  
last state of things, and prophetic streams, but  
if any one questions any of the points, if he will  
take pains to consult some Second Advent edi- 
tor or lecturer, he can be directed to publica- 
tions which will give ample proof.  
And now, dear reader, let me solemnly ask  
you before God, can you flatter yourself it is  
safe to imagine the end is not just upon us,  
when the Bible teaches that it is, by these 
signs, by this last state of things, and by the 
seven strearr s of prophecies in Daniel and  
Revelation—in all, nine different ways ? They  
certainly mean something. And surely if there  
was ever to be a time when the prophetic num- 
bers would be understood as pointing out some  
particular year, it must seem that that time has  
arrived. And any one who will read the 12th  
chapter of Daniel, must see it there distinctly  
taught in reference to prophetic numbers, that  
a period must be when they will be understood.  
This time is there called ' the time of the end.'  
The numbers given in the 12th chapter, as well  
as the one in the 8th chapter of Daniel, where a  
vision is also given for the same ' time of the  
end,' are called days, which of course being  
prophetic, stand for years. Any one who has  
examined these numbers •prayerfully and impar- 
tially has seen that they can be made to harmon-
ize in no year as clearly as in 1343. And as  
this is the very year in which we are living,  
and see all the parts of prophecy which bear 
on the subject, concurring together to point out  

the end as just upon us, is it prudent, or can it 
be pleasing in the sight of God, for us to be  
thinking that most likely the year will run out  
without bringing the end 1 But,  
HAVE NOT THE NUMBERS ALREADY RUN OUT ?  
Some have looked for the end before this,  
because one of the several prophetic numbers  
was apparently running out upon them. And  
individuals may be led by this to ask if the 
numbers have not already run out 1 I answer, 
if one has expired, it does not follow that the  
others have, nor does it follow that that one was  
not intended to point out thi3 as the year in  
which the end would come. Other numbers in  
the Bi'dle appear to terminate exactly at the end  
as well as this one, and without doubt expire in 
other parts of the year. Of course Christ could 
not descend just at  the end of each of them, if  
he did, it would make several comings. Some 
of them then must expire without bringing the  
end. But shall people therefore get discoura^  
ged, and let their hearts be diverted from look-
ing for the Saviour some time in this year  ?  
What if all the prophetic numbers had run out?  
We are living in the year in which they termi- 
nate,  and whatever  months or days we might  
have in this year, after the last had run out, be-
fore Christ should come, it would be no argu- 
ment against the year being pointed out, for the  
numbers arc whole, without fractions, as 2300,  
2520. the 7 times, 1335, &c., and as the Spirit  
would not add another figure standing'for a year, 
when only a part of a year was to remain after  
they expired, of course they stand as they are.  
' But what if it does not come in the year V I  
shall know the year part of my theory is a mis- 
take, but a mistake which seemed to me so ex- 
actly like truth, that God will be pleased, rather 
than displeased for my having honestly embrac- 
ed it. For what unavoidably seems to one as  
reality, as the expiration of these numbers in  
1843, cannot be slighted without violating the  
dictates of a good conscience. If it really seems  
to me that my neighbor's house is about taking  
fire, I shall sin it 1 neglect to warn him, if even  
it be afterward discovered that it was not in 
reality  the case. But this remark is not made  
because I expect the end will not come some  
time in the year. I firmly believe it will ; and 
therefore would affectionately and earnestly  
entreat all who read this, to live near the Savi- 
our, laboring with all possible zeal, constantly  
looking. I fully expect all those souls who re- 
lax and get lukewarm, or careless, because the  
end has not yet come, will soon and suddenly 
as the lightning's flash be trapped in their sins.  z. z. z,  
ADDRESS I  
To the Members of the First Methodist Protestant Church,  
in Attorney-Street, in the City of New- York.  
DEAR BRETHREN AND SISTERS  :  
After two years of arduous toil as the pastor of your  
Church, during the whole of which time I never wanted  
for your hearty co-operation; and I think I may safely  
say, that it has seldom fallen to the lot of a pastor to 
share more deeply in the sympathies, cordial support, and  
warm affections of his people. For these tokens of tender  
regard, unmerited as they have been on my part, I have 
ever felt a grateful heart; and these emotions are height-
ened every time I think ofthe great goodness of God to- 
wards us as a people, when we sustained the above-named  
relation.  
1 think I mav safely say, our mutual labors were crown- 
ed with God's choicest blessings ; particularly during the  
last  four months of my labors with you, in which time  
more than four hundred souls professed to find the pardon- 
ing mercy of God.  
This was the period in which the " midnight cry" was  
faithfully sounded in your chapel every sabbath, and al- 
most every evening during the whole of that period. I  
remember, with gratitude to God, the hearty and almost  

universal reception with which the joyful tidings of our  
" coming Lord" was met by your body. Oh, what holy  
emotions filled each heart! as we sung and prayed, and  
spoke of our anticipations of soon meeting Him who has  
said, " I will come again and receive you to myself, that  
where I am there ye may be also." But with what sor- 
row have I witnessed the great "falling away" from these  
joyous hopes ! I have felt for you, and  have ardently  
longed for an opportunity to warn you of your danger : 
at length, by the special providence of God, the present 
opportunity is afforded, but my space is  too narrow for  
my full soul. How many limes I have thought, Oh could  
I but once more stand before you, in the strength of that  
grace that has cleansed my soul from sin, I could make  
you feel that my blessed Lord will soon come; I could  
make you feel, as I used to do, that this poor heart is still  
deeply concerned for your  eternal welfare. God will  
bear me  witness, and so will your consciences, when I  
sav that as you have lost your lively faith in the Lord's  
"soon coming"—in the same proportion you have lost  
your enjoyment. Some of your nymber never embraced  
the great truth,—such, of course, will not feel themselves  
included in this remark. Some may say to me, those 
hopes were delusive, and the sooner we give them up the  
better for us. And why delusive I Has the scriptural  
argument that the Lord will come in 1843, lost any of its 
force 1  
Among all the catalogue of hard sayings that have  
been published, and spoken, have you seen one sin-
gle scriptural or even reasonable argument against the  
position 1 if so, produce it. But you said he would come  
the fore part of the year ; and the failure of this predic- 
tion has destroyed our confidence. You very well know  
that the main arguments were based upon the 7 times of  
Moses, the 2300 and 1335 days of Daniel, which termi-
nate this year, upon the same principle that the 70 weeks 
terminated at the crucifixion. True, we gave some rea- 
sons for supposing these periods would terminatein the 
early part ofthe year, but those reasons were supported  
by ^ different class of proofs : Therefore, look at the dan-
ger of abandoning the main points upon such grounds as 
these. To have the immediate, " personal," and "glori-
ous appearing" of our blessed Lord continually before the  
mind, is a saving truth. My dear brethren ! are you  
"ready"—"waiting"—"looking for" that glorious day ?  
Are your souls filled with the Holy Ghost 1 Has the 
world lost its char i s—its power to please 1 See to it.  
I charge you in the name of Him, before whom you and I  
must soon appear, SEE TO IT.  
Some of you may blame me for pursuing the course I  
did, in taking an unstationed relation to the Conference.  
But was this my fault 1 My work was clearly laid before  
me, in the Bible', and f would as readily have pursued it in  
the'itinerancy ofthe M. P. Church as elsewhere.  
The reasons for my course have passed before you —  
The Conference at its last session spent, almost two whole 
days in investigating my character upon a point of doc- 
trine, which no member of that body could lay his finger  
upon a clause of discipline, or a passage of scripture, to con- 
demn ; although repeatedly challenged to do so Look  
again to the following resolutions that were offered to the  
Conference: . . ,  
" Resolved, That we view with deep and unfeigned  
gratitude to the great Giver of all our mercies, the power-
ful and extensive work of grace that has been going for- 
ward on our district the past year, and which has result- 
ed in the addition of hundreds to our ranks." Also,  
"Resolved, That we are happy to acknowledge the  
preaching ofthe doctrine of our Lord's personal and glo-
rious appearing on the earth AT HAND, a powerful auxiliary  
in the advancement of this work of grace ; and that we 
recommend to each minister and preacher, to press this 
great scripture truth strongly upon the consideration of  
his hearers."  
These resolutions were offered with the general know- 
ladge before the Conference that more than two-thirds of  
the extensive revivals on the district during the past year  
had been under the direct influence of " second advent" 
preaching.  
The resolutions were discussed. The yeas and nays  
being called for, one after another, by resolution, were  
excused from voting, until it was discovered there was 
danger of their passing ; when a member of the Confer-
ence arose, and moved that the yeas and nays BE REFUSED.  
This motion PREVAILED. 1 then asked for a copy ofthe  
proceedings in this case, which was BY VOTE REFUSED *  
I immediately took to my only resort, which was to  
appeal the whole matter to the supreme court of heaven, to  
sit (as I believe the scripture calendar shows) in 1843,  
but there I shall meet it, let that court sit when it will.  
Can my brethren, with the word of God in their hands,  
an honest heart in their bosoms.'and these facts before 
them, blame me for having my confidence much impaired  
in our conference, as well as all other ecclesiastical bo- 
dies7 Still, I charge not these things upon you. Christ 
onc.e had and I believe he still has a "little flock" to which 
it is his "father's good pleasure to give the kingdom ;"  
* Mutual Rights.  151


And with that flock, by the grace of God, I mean to be.  
I have many times oflate struggled in prayer to God for  
you in the dead hour of night, that you might all be ready  
for that "coming day"—neither my heart or affections are  
alienated from you. Again I say WATCH, for in such  
an hour as ye think not the Lord of that servant will come."  
E. JACOBS.  
THE POPE'S TEMPORAL POWER.  
Louisiana was settled by the French. It is there- 
fore interesting to noticp jjiat the Pope's civil power is  
not at all recognized in that state.  
IMPORTANT DECISION OF A CASE IN RELATION TO  
CHURCH PROPERTY.—Judge Martin, on Monday last,  
delivered the opinion of the Supreme Court of the  
State in the case of Martin vs. the Wrardens of the  
Church of St. Francis, in Pointe Coupee. The plaintiff  
was the curate ofthe parish, having been appointed by  
t he Bishop of the diocese. The wardens became dis- 
satisfied with the pastor, and gave him notice to quit,  
and that they would not pay him after a certain time.  
He refused to leave, and the Bishop declined with- 
drawing him, until his demands were paid.  
The Court decided that the wardens were, under the  
charter, the legal owners of the church property, and 
its temporal administrators, free from any control from 
the clergy ; that the wardens were responsible to the 
congregation only, and neither the Pope nor his Bish- 
ops have any legal authority in Louisiana, either to  
manage the property dedicated to ecclesiastical purposes  
or to impose priests upon congregations contrary to  
their consent. The power of the clergy is spiritual  
alone, and can only operate upon the moral sense and  
conscience ofthe people. The law considers them as  
citizens only, affording them its protection as such, and  
the canon law is not to be considered in the enforcement  
of contracts.—N. O. Bee, Feb. 25.  
SPREAD OK PAPACY.—The little horn is still prevailing  
with rapid strides We perceive by the May No. of the  
Miss. Herald, that from the latest reports from the Sand- 
wich islands, the Papists are succeeding with their usu.il  
arts and wiles in prevailing against the protestants ; and,  
if time were to continue, bil fair to obtain shortly the com- 
plete possession of that AivhTpelauo  
Mr. Grant aiso writes from Persia that a Roman bishop  
and priest have arrived among the Nestorians. He was  
not however favorably received.  
LETTER FROM ILLINOIS.  
"MENDON, Adams Co., 111., June 20, 18-13.  
" Dear Brother,—We have been very much disap- 
pointed in not receiving your valuable paper (the  
Midnight Cry) for several weeks past. Brother  
Chittenden arrived here on the 10th, and has been 
lecturing (during the past week) in this town. He is 
now in Quincy, our county seat. 1 trust the Lord 
will abundantly bless his work of faith and labor ot  
love; but we have many very hard cases in this  
part ofthe world. Prejudice in favor of preconceived  
notions runs verv high,which appears to be supported 
by the professed, watchmen on the walls of Zion, and  
the shepherds over the flock ; but whether the shep- 
herds are laboring for the good of the flock or the  
fleece, I wili leave that day prophesied of, Jeremiah  
25: 34, 38, to decide. I have been trying in my fee- 
ble way to give the alarm, and I have satisfactory 
evidence that my labor, feeble as it ha§ been, has not  
been in vain in the Lord. I intend still, while the  
Lord gives me breath, (although in opposition to our  
church generally) to sound, the day ofthe Lord is at  
hand, and hasteth greatly.  
Some of our professed teachers in the Congrega- 
tional church in these parts, inform us that this will 
not take place for about 360 or 365 thousand years to  
come ; therefore, what Peter  tells us, in Acts 2 : 16,  
17, (according to the view of our modern teachers,)  
must have been the first days instead of the last. But  
give me the fisherman yet in preference to all the  
peace-and-safety-crving D. D's., or those who preach  
the conversion ofthe world from Matt. 13 : 33, " The  
kingdom of heaven is like unto leaven, which a woman  
took and hid in three measures of meal, till the whole  
was leavened ;" arid thereby give all their aid to build  
up Universalism. But I must close, as my duty calls  
me still to be diligent in business, as well as fervent in  
spirit, serving the Lord.  
ROEERT M. LAMPARD.  

< Little Children) keep yourselves from Idols."  
There is nothing of so great importance to us as to  
be crucified to the world, and have our affections placed 
on things above. The earth with all its 6haims exerts a 
powerful and attractive influence on the human mind-
It would be endless to enumerate the objects on which  
men place their affections. A few of the most promi- 
nent are riches, houses, lands, furniture, dress, children,  
husbands, wives, the honor that cometh of men, plea-
sure, intellectual pursuits, &c. &c. These produce a 
powerful attraction, even to the children of God. The 
apostle sums all our enemies under three heads:—the  
world, the flesh and the devil ; it is necessary to have 
some more attractive influence to wean us from the 
world, and cause those things to sink into the shade. 
This influence is furnished in the iove of God to us, and 
the glory which shall be revealed, when the Son of 
Man shall come in the glory of his Father with his an- 
gels, and then shall he reward every man according to 
his works. At the coming of the Savior, it will be  
like the attractive magnet passing over a mass of clay  
and filings of steel. Where the affections are, there  
will our gathering be. Reader, do you love the world  
more than Christ 1 Remember Lot's wife I  
LETTERS RECEIVED DURING THE WEEK  
ENDING JULY 3d. •  
POSTMASTERS.—Hope Valley, Ct., 50 ; We. Charles- 
town, O. ; Kirtland. O. ; New York Mills, N. i: ; Wel- 
lington, Ct. ; Perry Mills, N. Y ; Scott, N. Y. ; Colum- 
bus, Miss. ; New Ipswich. N. H. ; Mendon, III., $1 each.  
Bristol, III. ; Richmond, Vt. ; Northfield, Vt. ; Hernan- 
do, Miss., each. Akron, 0., S3. Sandy Hill, N. Y.,  
U. Delavan, N. Y. ; W. Granville, N. Y. ; Hartford, 
Ct. ; Harrison Valley, Pa. ; Perryville, N. Y. ; E. Ham- 
ilton. N. Y.  
INDIVIDUALS —J. H. Kent Si ; Elizabeth S., of M'd.,  
$10; JohnFrancis, Mountville, Va., (received a letter  
dated April 20th, none since, the amount sent, pays to  
No. 13, Vol. 4.) ; C. S. Minor ; Josiah Litch ; J. Felton ;  
John Kilton ; Geo. Storrs ; John Walborr. ; J. V.  
Himes ; It. E. Ladd ; N. Southard ; C. Tilden ; S.  
Bliss ; L. B Coles ; Levi Stone.  
SECOND ADVENT GROVE MEETING.  
On the land of Pardon Ryon, at Smith's Landing, At- 
lantic County, N. J., to commence Thursday, Aug. 3,  
and to continue about one week.  
CAMP MEETING NEAR MIDDLETOWN, PA.  
In the haste of copying the letter respecting this  
camp meeting, a mistake was made in the dates. WTe  
now give the notice corrected.  
A camp meeting will commence, Providence per- 
mitting, Friday, July 28th, a mile and a half from Mid- 
dletown, the same distance from High Spire, eight  
miles from Harrisburg, half a mile from the rail-road,  
a quarter of a mile from the turnpike and the Pennsyl-
vania Canal. Passengers from Philadelphia arrive at 
the place by rail-road at 3 P. M. It can be easily  
reached from Lancaster, Little York, and Carlisle.— 
The meeting will probably continue ten days. Of the 
best speakers whom God has raised up in this cause, it  
is expected that three or four will be present, but  we  
cannot now announce their names. The owner of the  
ground gives the use of it, together with two large  
farm houses; and ample provision will be made for the  
accommodation and comfort of those who may attend.  
JOHN WALBORN.  
Middletown, June 23, 1843.  
It is sometimes a very trifle from whence great  
temptations proceed.—a Kempis.  
Id2  

From the Churchman.  
Watchwords- 
A HYMN  FOR MEN.  
We are living, we are dwelling  
In a grand and awful time ;  
In an age, on ages telling  
To be living—is sublime.  
Hark ! the  waking up of nations,  
Gog and Magog to the fray ;  
Hark ! what soundeth ! is creation  
Groaning for its latter day 1  
Will ye play, then! will ye dally,  
With your music, with your winel  
Up! it is Jehovah's rally,—  
God's own arm hath need of thine.  
Hark, the onset! will you  fold your  
Faith-clad arms in lazy lock 1  

Up, O up, thou drowsy soldier :  
Worlds are charging to the shock.  
World's are charging—Heaven beholding;  
Thou hast but an hour to fight;  
Now the blazoned cross unfolding,  
On—right onward, for the right.  
What ! still hug thy dreamy slumbers 1  
'Tis no time for idling play ;  
Wreaths, and dance, and poet-nmbers,  
Flout them, we must work to-day.  
Fear not ! spuru the worldling's laughter :]  
Thine ambit on—trample thou !  
Thou shalt find a long tiereatter,  
To be more than tempts thee now.  
Sealed to blush, to cower never ;  
Crossed, baptized, and horn again,  
Sworn to be Christ's soldier ever,  
Oh, for Christ, at least be men !  
A.C.C.  
The following lines were published in a secular paper  
in Northern Pennsylvania, in 1840. It is evident that  
the mind of the writer was at the time turned to the glo- 
rious  and absorbing subject of Christ's second coming.—  
The lapse of time has only rendered the piece increasing- 
ly appropriate, and we cheerfully give it a place in the  
Cry:  
THE FAR OFF LAND.  
BY MAKY  S. TAPPAN.  
" Thine eyes shall see the King in his beauty, they shall behold  
the land that is very far off. The  inhabitants shall noi say I am  
sick."  
Oil! bear me to that land afar,  
Where none shall ever say  
I'm sick ; where no malignant star,  
E'er shed its baleful ray.  
Sure, it were heaven enough to know  
Relief from constant pain ;  
To feel returning vigour glow  
In every healthful vein !  
And heaven, itself, would hapless be,  
If sickness could be there ;  
The suffering one would weep to see  
Pleasures, she could not share.  
The trembling feet could never stray  
Through those enchanting bowers:  
New pleasures, still, the livelong day,  
Would wing the happy hours.  
How could the languid eye behold  
Such bright and glowing skies]  
Prospects to mortals yet untold,  
Before the vision rise.  
The aching head would break to hear  
Those loud, and thrilling strains,  
That ever strike the ravished ear,  
O'er all the blissful plains.  
No :—sickness there can never dwell,  
Nor care, nor grief, nor woe :  
A clear unbroken voice must swell  
The hymns that seraphs know.  
There, the assembled throng shall meet,  
Of pure, congenial mind ;  
Nor ever tire with converse sweet,  
Exalted, and refined.  
Tender the intercourse they know ;  
No envious slanderer there.  
To deal the dark, and cruel blow  
To reputation fair.  
There the pale invalid shall seek  
For sympathy no more ;  
Nor turn away with tear-worn cheek,  
Unkindness to deplore.  
The King in beauty shall receive,  
With open arms his bride ;  
And bid her never more to grieve,  
But in his love confide.  
Himself shall guide her willing feet,  
Through every verdant grove,  
And forest shade, and valley sweet,  
And tell her all his love.  
Thou far off land ! would T could fly,  
And reach thy peaceful shore ;  
"Where none shall ever weep or sigh,  
With pain, or anguish more.  
Stroudsburg, Aug. 17, 1840.  
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