THE DAWN DESCRIED. 
Tli MRS. A. S. MENTEATH. 
Now unto the hill-tops get thee, 
Whence the sunrise we descry,— 
Nightly on thy watchtower set thee, 
For His coming draweth nigh t 
'Tell the nations of the glory 
Through the blackness we discern— 
Sound a trumpet with the story 
Of the King who shall return ! 
Call to Judah in her blindness— 
Bid benighted Israel hear— 
Drop the word of truth and kindness, 
On the heathen's palsied ear ! 
Trim thy lamp—the night-boors cheering— 
Wash thy robes from every stain— 
Watch to hail the glad appearing 
Of the Bridegroom and his train ! 
Cardinal Wiseman: 
A Lecture Delivered at the Hanover Square 
Room, London, Nov. 7th. 
BY REV. J. CUMMING, D. D. 
(Concluded ) 
I have noticed that in Ireland criminals who 
have suffered the penalty of death for murders 
perpetrated by them in their country, have in 
their last moments stoutly denied their guilt. 
This is very frequent. Recollect to place this 
fact in juxtaposition with the authorized teaching 
of Cardinal Wiseman. A woman guilty of 
adultery is asked whether she is guilty, and if 
the sin sacramentally was taken away, she 
can answer : " No, I am innocent of this crime," 
because it was taken away by confession.—Ibid. 
323. 
I have heard that in the west end of London, 
as I suppose in the west end of other towns, 
certain masters who do not wish to receive cer-
tain visitors, instruct their servants to say, 
" Not at home." Let me just say, that such 
is one of the domestic pioneers of Cardinal 
Wiseman. It is early initiation in Popish hab-
its. If you teach Popery to your domestics, do 
not be surprised that Cardinal Wiseman comes 
to teach it to your parishioners in Westminster. 
" It is asked, 5,—Whether a servant, by the 
order of his master, can deny that he [the mas-
ter] is at home. Card. diss. 19. n. 75. admits 
that he can feign his master's foot on the step, 
and answer, He is not here, because it is not 
mental restriction ; but to this I do not assent, 
if the other can by no means understand that. 
Rather I would concede that he can say, He is 
not here, that is to say, not in this door or win-
dow, or, (as Tourn. Mor. tom. 1. pag. 689.) He 
is not here so as that he may be seen. Also Car-
den says that he can answer that he has de-
parted from the house, by understanding a de-
parture which took place ill some time past, for 
we are not bound, he says, with Lessius, as above, 
to answer to the mind of him that interrogates, 
if there is a just cause."—Iibid. 525. 
Let me now allude to the subject of oaths, 
which are the vincula of our social system; 
which may be reformed, which may, as some say 
(although I doubt it), be done away with, but 
which, if perverted, contaminated, and vitiated, 
must lead to interminable and incalculable mis-
chief. 
" It is certain that if you transgress only some 
small part of what you have sworn, it is not a 
a grievous sin : for example, if you have sworn 
that you would not drink wine, you did not sin 
mortally in drinking a very little. Sanch. t. 1. 
lib. 4. c. 32. n. 21. because then the smallness 
of the matter excuses ; and thus they are ex-
cused who swear to observe the statutes of some 
chapter, college, university, &c., if afterwards 
hey violate the statutes in some small way. And 
" WE HAVE NOT FOLLOWED CUNNINGLY DEVISED FABLES, VHEN WE MADE KNOWN UNTO YOU THE POWER AND COMING OF OUR LORD JESUS CHRIST, BUT WERE EYE-WITNESSES OF HIS MAJESTY .. • . WHEN WE WERE WITH HIM IN THE HOLY MOUNT." 
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we say the same concerning sworn public regis-
trars and other ministers of justice ; as also con-
cerning him who, from the sum which he swore 
that he would give to another, should subtract 
only a little.—Navar. Suar. Sanch. Vide Laym. 
Bon. p. 13. 
"Probably you are obliged, by a promissory 
oath, although it may be extorted from you by 
injury and fear, as if, forgetting to use equivo-
cation, you promised to robbers to give booty, or 
usury to usurers." 
"Nevertheless, make an exception if you 
have sworn to Titias to marry her; for in that 
case you can forsake her, and enter a religious 
order: because the oath regards the nature of 
the act to which it pertains; but in the promise 
of matrimony there is this tacit condition, unless 
I enter a religious order."—See Laym. c. 6. 
Bon. d. 4. q. 1. p. 3.—Ibid. p. 33'7. 
So that any gentleman who has made a vow 
to marry a lady, has only to turn monk to es-
cape all the responsibility of that vow. If he 
goes into a convent, he has a " dispensation," 
according to theology of Alphonsus Liguori, 
for his dishonesty and lying. Speaking of 
oaths, it is again said :— 
" Such oaths truly do not need relaxation, 
since they are of themselves null and void, in 
accordance with what is said in n. 177. v. Aliter. 
However, let them be ever so valid, they can 
be relaxed by the Church. Saltn. ibid. n. 6. 
cum Sanch. Pal. et Guitier. But in the name 
of the Church are included not only the Pope, 
but also bishops, chapters, the episcopal seat 
being vacant, and others having episcopal juris-
diction, as Salm. n. 7. and 8., and also confes-
sors." 
" The Pontifex can render null and void all 
oaths respecting benefices and ecclesiastical 
offices." 
In reference the fourth Commandment, Li-
guori states, or rather Cardinal Wiseman by 
his mouth :— 
"But a great objection stands in the way, 
viz., the command of the Sabbath was certainly 
natural and moral, for on that account it was 
numbered amongst the precepts of the Deca-
logue ; therefore the Lord's day, which was sub-
stituted for the Sabbath, is also either of natural 
or divine right. It is answered, that although 
it be of divine and natural right, some determi-
nate,time should be allotted for the worship of 
God; however, the determination of that wor-
ship, and of the days in which it was to be of-
fered up, have been left to the arrangement of 
the Church, so that the Pope can decree that 
the observance of the Lord's day should con-
tinue only for a few hours, and that certain ser-
vile works would be lawful, as Saltn. diet. n.38." 
He says, again : 
Hence, if a son thinks that he is called to 
a religious or clerical state, and supposes that 
his parents would unjustly impede him, he con-
ducts the business more advisedly, by concealing 
it from them, and by following the divine will." 
" From all these authorities we conclude that 
not only do children not sin, who enter a reli-
gious state without consulting their parents; 
hut, generally speaking, they err very much, on 
account of the danger to which they expose 
themselves of being averted from it, if they con-
sult with them concerning
° 
 their own call. And 
this, verily, is confirmed by the example of so 
many saints, whose departure, the parents be-
ing unconscious or unwilling, God approved and 
blessed even by miracles ; and the learned P. 
Elbel, de Prmcept, n. 538, thinks the same 
thing, saying : If a son thinks that he is called 
to the religious state, and considers that the 
parents would bear it grievously, and that they 
would be opposed to it from a carnal affection 
and groundless motives, he is not bound to con-
sult them, because he conducts the matter more 
advisedly in concealing it from them." 
Then, on the subject of theft, the following 
sentiments are taught :— 
" If any one on an occasion should steal only 
a moderate sum either from one or more, not 
intending to acquire any notable sum, neither 
to injure his neighbor to a great extent, by sev-
eral thefts, he does not sin grievously, nor do 
these, taken together, constitute a mortal sin ; 
however, after it may have amounted to a nota-
ble sum by detaining it, he can commit mortal 
sin, but even this mortal sin may be avoided, if 
either then he be unable to restore, or have the 
intention of making restitution immediately of 
those things which he then received." 
" Query II. " If small thefts which together 
amount to a large sum, be made from various 
known masters, whether a thief be bound under 
great blame to make restitution to them, or whe-
ther he may satisfy by distributing them to 
paupers ? On the one hand it appears that a 
restitution should be made to the original pos-
sessors, unless the danger of losing fame, or 
very grievous loss, or inconvenience excuse." 
" Whence it appears that a thief may have 
rendered sufficient satisfaction to his own 
weighty obligation from the presumed consent 
of the republic, if he make restitution to pau-
pers, or pious places which are the more needy 
parts of the republic." 
Speakitg of the examination of parties sus-
pected or accused of crimes (I am now showing 
what would be the courts of justice which our new 
Pontifical governor will set up in Westminster), 
he says :— 
"Finally, if the accused confess his crime, 
the sentence is to be given : if not, he is to be 
led to conviction or to the torture." 
" Because torture is a help to proof, when ar-
guments and signs are very efficacious, that 
thus a full proof may be elicited. 
" But all are bound to denounce for the same 
reason as above, because heresy is so noxious a 
pest that it may require a severe remedy, and 
very easily it may tend to the common loss." 
These are but meagre extracts from a work, 
which contains instructions in one volume so 
revolting, that their infamy is their only protec-
tion. 
Are not these doctrines which I have quoted 
subversive of all social confidence—of all do-
mestic happiness—of all national peace ? Yet 
these are the elements of the teaching of Ligu7 
ors, and by fair construction of Cardinal Wise-
man. 
I will now give yeiu some specimens of the 
worship taught by this saint, and recommended 
by Cardinal Wiseman. You have had the 
moral doctrines that are to regulate our social in-
tercourse ; here is the sort of worship Cardinal 
Wiseman intends, I presume, to set up in the 
new Cathedral of Westminster; it is taken 
from a document approved by four Pontiffs, 
applauded by Cardinal Wiseman, circulated 
among Roman Catholics, and well known to 
every member of that Church,—" the Glories 
of Mary," by the same St. Liguori, from which 
I will give you the following extracts :— 
" From the moment that Mary consented 
to become the Mother of God,' says Saint Ben-
nardine of Sienna, why should not the Mother 
enjoy conjointly with the Son the honors of 
royalty ?' Mary is then Queen of the Universe, 
since Jesus is its King ; thus, as Saint Bernar-
dine again observes, As many creatures as 
obey God, so many obey the glorious Virgin, 
everything in heaven and on earth which is 
subject to God is also under the empire of his 
most holy Mother.' 
"'Reign, 0, Mary,' says the Abbot of Gueric, 
dispose at pleasure of the goods of your Son, 
power and dominion belong to the Mother and 
spouse of the King of kings.' 
" She is queen of mercy alone ; she is a 
sovereign, not to punish sinners, but to pardon 
and forgive them. Writing on those words of 
the Psalmist, have learned two.things, power 
belongs to God, and mercy to the Lord,' Gerson 
observes, that as the kingdom of God consists 
in mercy and justice, the Lord has, as it were, 
divided it, reserving to himself the dominion of 
justice, and yielding to his Mother that of 
mercy. 
" Saint Bernard, asking the question, why 
the church calls Mary Queen
. of Mercy ? an- 
swers it himself by saying, it is because she 
opens at pleasure the abyss of the divine mercy, 
so that no sinner, however enormous his crimes 
may be, can perish if he is protected by Mary. 
" Let us go then, Christians, let us go to this 
most gracious Queen, and crowd around her 
throne, without being deterred by our crimes 
and abominations. Let us be convinced that if 
Mary has been crowned Queen of mercy, it is 
in order that the greatest sinners may be saved 
by her intercession, and form her crown in 
heaven. 
"If to evince the love of God the Father for 
men, it is said, that he delivered up his own 
Son for them, may we not use the same terms 
to express the love of Mary ? I Yes,' says St.' 
Bonaventure, ' Mary has so loved us, that she 
has given us her only Son :" she gave him to 
us,' says F. Nieremberg, when, in virtue of 
her jurisdiction over him as mother, she per- 
mitted him to deliver himself up to the Jews; 
she gave him for us when she silently listened 
to his accusers without saying a word in his 
defence, though there was every reason to be- 
lieve that the advocacy of a mother so wise and 
prudent would have made a strong impression, 
at least on Pilate, who was already conscious 
of the innocence of Jesus ; in fine, she has given 
us this well-beloved Son a thousand times dur- 
ing the three hours she spent at the foot of the 
cross. S. S. Anselm and Antoninus even as-
sert, that to accomplish the will of the eternal 
Father, she would, despite of natural tender-
ness, have immolated him with her own hands. 
For if Abraham was so obedient, how much 
more so was Mary ? 
" St. Bernardine of Sienna asserts, that if 
God has riot destroyed man after his sin, it was 
in consideration of the blessed Virgin, and out 
of the singular love he bore her; he even doubts 
not, that all the mercies granted to sinners in 
the old law have been given in consideration of 
Mary. 
" The glorious St. Bonaventure, to animate 
our confidence in Mary, represents to us a rag- 
ing sea, in which sinners already fallen from 
the vessel of divine grace, are tossed about by 
the billows of temptation, torn by the gnawings 
of remorse, and horrified by the terrors of divine 
justice, without light or guide, are ready to be 
swallowed up in the gulf of despair ; but just 
then, the Lord shows them Mary, the star of 
the sea, and seem to say to them, Sinners! un-
fortunate sinners ! despair not, fix your eyes on 
this brilliant luminary, its lustre will save you 
from the tempest, and conduct you to the port 
of salvation. 
" Mary presents herself between God and his 
offending creatures : and no person is so fit,' 
says Bonaventure, to avert the sword of divine 
wrath and indignation.' Richard, of St. Law-
rence, also observes on this subject, that in the 
old law, God often complained that there was 
none to interpose between him and sinners, but 
since Mary, the mediatrix of peace has appeared 
on earth, she restrains his arm, and averts his 
wrath." 
Then I find the following prayer addressed 
to the Virgin Mary : 
" 0 purest of Virgins ! I venerate your most 
holy heart, which is the delight of the Lord, 
the sanctuary of purity and humility, the abode 
of divine love. My heart, which I present to 
you, is of clay ; sin has therein made most 
dreadful wounds : Mother of mercy, cure it, 
sanctify it, refuse not your pity to him for whom 
Jesus has not refused his blood." 
" 0 Mary, our faithful mediatrix ! Virgin 
full of grace ! Ladder of Jacob ! Gate of heaven ! 
Treasury of divine grace! May all Christians 
honor you with all their hearts; to use the 
beautiful expression of St. Bernard, and cling 
to you with the utmost fidelity. Let us implore 
grace, but let us do so through you ; in fine, 
let us present to God through your sacred hands, 
all the prayers and good works in our power, if 
we desire that this, our incense, may be accepta-
ble to the Lord." 
" Happy are they who know you, 0 mother 
of God," says Bonaventure, "for to know you 
is the way to eternal life, and to celebrate your 
praise, is the high road to heaven." 
Liguori says : 
" cVe read in the Chronicles of St. Francis, 
that brother Leo once saw in a vision, two lad- 
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ders ; one red, at the summit of which was 
Jesus Christ ; and the other, white ; at the top 
of which presided his blessed mother. He ob-
served, that many who endeavored to ascend 
the first ladder, after mounting a few steps, fell 
down ; and on trying again, were equally un-
successful, so that they never attained the sum-
mit; but a voice having told them to make trial 
of the white ladder, they soon gained the top : 
the blessed Virgin having held forth her hands 
to help them." 
" Wherefore all you who will have life eter-
nal, serve and honor Mary ; for she is, as it 
were, the bridge of salvation, whkh God has 
prepared for us, in order to pass securely over 
the troubled waters of this life." 
I ask you, if such sentiments, authorized by 
Cardinal Wiseman, do not substantially teach 
that it is easier to R•at to heaven by the Virgin 
Mary, than by the Lord Jesus Christ. I do not 
say that he, in his theory, supersedes Christ, 
but I do hold, that practically in the worship he 
authorizes he does so. We Protestants need 
not the Virgin, or any of the saints of heaven 
to assist us ; if they were to proffer their ser-
vices, we could answer, and answer emphati-
cally, that we can well do without them. 
it is recorded of Alexander the Great, the 
Macedonian conqueror, that he one day visited 
Diogenes, the Cynic philosopher, who was bask-
ing in his tub in the sunshine. It is stated 
that Alexander was so impressed with the 
moderation and simplicity of the Cynic, that he 
said to him, " Tell me what I can give to you. 
Anything you want to the third of my kingdom, 
shall be at your service." What was the an-
swer of the philosopher ? " Please your maj-
esty, stand aside from between me and the sun-
beams. That is the only favor 1 have to ask." 
So I would say, if the Virgin Mary, or the most 
illustrious saint in glory, were to come down in 
all the splendor of the beatific vision, and ask, 
" What is the greatest favor I can do for you ?" 
my answer would be, " Stand aside, that I may 
bask in the beams of that Sun of righteousness, 
who has risen with healing under his wings, 
and who alone can save those who come to him." 
There are frequently quoted in the writings 
of Liguori, arid in the opening part of his life 
recommended by Cardinal Wiseman, the sayings 
of St. Bonaventure, a saint, a cardinal, and 
doctor. I have by me, what I purchased about 
ten years ago, the Psalter of Bonaventure, a 
very scarce one, written in the black letter. It 
is extremely valuable, and supposed to be some 
three hundred years old. In this document, of 
which Cardinal Wiseman approves, Bonaven-
ture has expunged from every psalm the name 
Lord, God, and substituted for it the name of 
Mary, or Virgin Mary, or Lady. Thus we 
have, " Come unto Mary, all ye that are heavy 
laden and she will give you rest." In the 95th 
Psalm, which is used in the English Liturgy 
every morning, it is written, " 0 come, let us 
sing unto our Lady, let us heartily rejoice in 
the Virgin, who brings us salvation. Let us 
come before her presence with thanksgiving, 
and let us be glad in her with Psalms." In 
another Psalm we have, " Let Mary arise, and 
let her enemies be scattered." Again this 
Bonaventure, for whom there is a collect in 
Cardinal Wiseman's Missal, and whose writings 
the Cardinal recommends to us, has taken the 
magnificent Te Deum,—which is not the mono-
poly of the Church of England, for it was com-
posed before that Church was established, but 
the privilege and the possession of all, for it is 
more ancient than us all,—he has taken that 
beautiful anthem, and has thus translated it : 
" We praise thee, 0 Mary ! we acknowledge 
thee to be the Virgin. All the earth doth wor-
ship, thee, spouse of the Eternal. To thee an-
gels and archangels cry, Holy, Holy, Holy, art 
thou, Mary, mother of God," and so on to the 
end. Remember Cardinal Wiseman says this 
is a teacher whose lessons you ought to study. 
And as if this were not enough, Saint Bonaven-
ture has taken the Litany and altered it in the 
following manner, Be merciful to as, spare us, 
good Lady, from the wrath of God." " In all 
time of our tribulation ; in all time of our 
wealth ; in the hour of death, and in the day 
of judgment, and from the torments of the 
damned, Deliver us, good Mary." Such is the 
Psalter of Saint Bonaventure. And to show 
that this Psalter is not an ancient and obsolete 
document, I quote not only Cardinal Wiseman's 
approval of its author, not only St. Alphonsus 
Liguori's frequent extracts from it, as from an 
authority, but I have myself ten editions of the 
Psalms of Bonaventure, of which I have given 
a specimenextracted from it ; the first published 
in. 1834 under the sanction of Gregory XVI., 
and the• last published in 1844, only a short 
time before Gregory XVI. was taken to his ac-
count. In this Psalter,. published in the Italian 
language, very' cheap and plainly for popular 
use, the P-Saltrigare as ',have read them. 
I have stated, at the commencement of my 
remarks, that my object was not to attempt to 
give you sunshine, but to: submit to you facts. 
I have now, told, you. what Cardinal Wiseman 
holds, what he is- bound to teach,and what he 
is not ashamed to avow in his writings. It is 
not merely because his tenets are all false that 
I expose them, but because they are fraught 
with great social mischief. I trust that this 
will lead you not to detest the man, but to 
shrink with horror from the principles he 
teaches. My strong conviction however is, that 
the Pope has made a grievous blunder, infalli-
ble as he is, by his recent appointment, a blun-
der nevertheless he cannot repair. It must 
cleave to him and he to it inseparably. Pope 
Pius IX. felt the pulse of the Protestantism of 
England, and because it was calm he thought 
it was weak, because it was quiet he thought 
it was indifferent; he imagined or was informed 
it was so cold that Old England would bear a 
Cardinal. He will find in six weeks that Eng-
land will not bear a monk ; and if I may judge 
from the manly spirit exhibited in the Prime 
Minister's letter, and from the mettle of the 
people, she will not long hear even a Puseyite. 
I solemnly believe that this appearance of a 
cardinal in our capital has been like the appear-
ance of the French flotilla off Boulogne in 
former days—the one aroused, it could not in-
crease, the loyalty of England, the other has 
stirred its latent Protestantism to its very 
depths. It is plain enough that another result 
of the Cardinal's presence will be the utter rout 
of Puseyism and Puseyites in all their shades. 
We have now the real thing in the midst of 
us, and the sham thing will not be able to hold 
up its head beside it. If the comparative merits 
of the two Churches are to be tested by splen-
dor of ritual, by gorgeousness of robes, by sen-
suous grandeur of service, the Church of Rome, 
which has only an exterior and material glory, 
will beat us. Saint Barnabas in the West will 
grow pale and be utterly swallowed up amid 
the splendors of Saint George's Cathedral in 
the Borough. It is well. The comedy of Ox-
ford is passing into the tragedy of Westminster. 
If we are to have Popery at all, let us have Ital-
ian Popery under the Italian flag, not Italian 
Popery under the flag of Old England. This 
importation, I solemnly believe, will do much 
to unite us all. We needed it. I can speak 
for my own beloved Church—the Church of 
Scotland. She has moved in sympathy with 
that Church, Admiral Harcourt, of one of whose 
noblest prelates you are a son. I tell the 
Churchmen in this room, they cannot afford to 
dolwithout the sound evangelical Dissenters in 
England, and I tell the Dissenters in this room 
(and I rejoice that Mr. Binny has told them 
thoroughly so), that they cannot afford to do 
without the sound and evangelical section of 
the Church. You may depend upon it, that a 
crisis is coming that will demand the combined 
faithfulness and efforts of all. Cardinal Wise-
man claims Dissenters and Churchmen both as 
his " subjects." It is time for both to look about 
them. 
I may just add, as I pass along, the very re-
markable fact, that the Pope has parcelled out 
England, but strange to say, he has not yet 
meddled with Scotland. Whether it was that 
the Pope thought that it was too hot for the 
Cardinal I do not know. I suspect, John Knox 
did more good there than you give him credit 
for ; and the time may colle when a John Knox 
will be wanted in England, to lift up his voice 
like a trumpet, not against beautiful churches, 
which he never assailed, but against Popish in-
terference and superstition, which he warred 
with to the death. God gives martyrs just 
when martyrs are requited. I expect every 
day, however, to hear of an irruption of Rome 
into Scotland also. 
I believe that all sections of the Protestant 
Church differ only in ceremonial details, and 
agree in all that is vital, permanent, and pre-
cious. All our churches are but trees, the 
planting of the Lord. Each grows best in its 
own native soil ; but their branches wave in 
the same unsectarian air, their fruit ripens in 
the same catholic sun, and their roots blend 
with each other in the soil beneath, invisible 
but not unknown to us, and all cohere with the 
roots of the tree of life, which is in the midst of 
the paradise of God. Let us, then, be brethren 
in arms, rivals only in renown ; forget not that 
part of the Bishop of London's letter to the 
Westminster clergy, where the Bishop states 
with great force and great truth, that the Pope 
is not the centre of unity, but the Lord Jesus 
Christ. I accept the Bishop's definition of uni- 
ty. In the Church of Rome they will forgive 
you all differences, if you will cleave to the 
chair of St. Peter, and look to the Pope. In 
the Protestant Church we must learn to forgive 
all minor differences, on condition that all be-
hold " the Lamb of God that taketh away the 
sins of the world." 
You may depend upon it, and I speak to all 
parties, uniformity is not God's will, but unity 
truly and eternally is. Uniformity a tailor 
can produce by cutting all our coats alike, but 
unity the living God alone can produce, by 
changing all our hearts alike. So it is in na-
ture. If I were to take Cardinal Wiseman's 
plan of making Westminster at one with Rome, 
I would go out some fine autumn to a forest, 
and take an axe with which I would chop every 
tree into the form of a beautiful cone. Then I 
would invite, like the Cardinal, all heretics to 
come and see what a splendid specimen of sylvan 
uniformity I had created in this disorderly for-
est. After 1 had done so, and retired for some 
six months, I would go back,, the season of 
" leafy June," taking my friends with me to 
show them the perpetuity of my splendid speci-
men of sylvan uniformity ; but to my horror 
and to their surprise, every tree has shot forth 
its branches at its own " sweet will," and bursts 
into all sorts of shapes, in all directions. The 
only trees that are as I left them are the dead 
ones. Wherever there is life there will be 
unity, but no uniformity; wherever there is 
death, there will be perfect uniformity, but no 
unity. Let us then melt our common quarrels 
and disputes in the coming crisis; let us, pre-
ferring each our own ecclesiastical communion, 
all co-operate heartily in protesting against the 
daring intrusion of Rome, and in holding fast 
Protestantism and vital Christianity. I believe 
this invasion will do much good in furthering 
this ; it will coerce into one those that would 
scarcely be conciliated ; it will reveal points of 
unsuspected contact—and render audible too 
long latent harmonies. I protest as a loyal sub-
ject against the presence of this chartered rep-
resentative of the Pope,—a foreign ruler, nei-
ther our monarch, nor the Queen's subject,—
against this apportionment of England as of a 
colony of the Pope of Rome,—against this as-
sumption of prerogatives that belong to our 
Queen ; against this resumption of a jurisdic-' 
tion long ago forfeited by the crimes of the 
Papacy, and repudiated by the constitution of 
our country ; and I say it becomes every Pro-
testant in England to feel and shout, " Down 
with the tiara, and up with the crown, and if 
possible, higher still." 
I deprecate, as the Prime Minister has said, 
the sentiments and example of those gentlemen 
who, like Mr. Denison, whose letter has ap-
peared in the " Times," entertain a far intenser 
horror of what is so healthy in these days, state 
control, but feel so indifferent to the presence 
of a Cardinal who carries in his bosom the prin-
ciples of Liguori or Bonaventure, and in his 
pocket, perhaps, other ammunition of a still 
more combustible kind. If it is to be the mere 
interpretation of a document (I do not speak of 
defining doctrine), I would prefer the Privy 
Council to any General Council that has sat 
for the last thousand years ; and if we are to 
be under, as we must be, a governor, let us 
have, in preference to the impudent intruder 
Pius IX., or any of the infant Holinesses he is 
training in England, the sway of our most 
gracious, our most Protestant Queen. 
I protest, too, let me say,—and it comes with 
more propriety from me,—against the atrocious 
assumption of the Pope in ignoring the Church 
of England. He assumes that England is a 
heathen country, that we have had no religion 
for the last three hundred years; and so doc-
trined are his subjects, that " The Catholic 
Standard," a Romish weekly newspaper in 
London, speaks of the "Protestant Bishop of 
London, and the Protestant clergy," and of "his 
grace the Archbishop and the clergy of West-
minster ;" contrasting most favorably in an ano-
ther article, " the Heresiarcli of Canterbury," 
with his "Eminence the Cardinal Archbishop 
of Westminster." I say all this is ignoring the 
Church of England. But if there be a Church 
under heaven—and I say it, having nothing to 
fear and nothing to expect from it—if there be 
Church under heaven signalized by the posses-
sion of splendid Protestant scholarship, and 
from whose mines we must all dig and draw up 
enriching ore, it is the Protestant Church of this 
country. It has, I believe, more faithful min-
isters, if unfortunately many unfaithful, by its 
altars in 1850, than I believe it had in any pre-
vious period. The ignoring such a Church is 
the ignoring of the first Church in Christendom, 
and so the ignoring of us all ; and the indigna-
tion we feel, as the Prime Minister has said, 
should exceed far any alarm that we have upon 
the subject. 
But my weightiest protest is not that the 
Pope has ignored the Church of England, but 
that Rome ignores the Church of Christ. My 
most solemn reason of protest is not that he has 
insulted by his usurpation our most gracious 
Queen, but that the Church of which the Pope 
is head, has dishonored the Lord Jesus Christ. 
My main charge against him and his cardinals 
and priests, while 1 do not forget his usurpation 
of English rights, is that they inculcate doc-
trines which must defile the purity of our fire-
sides, disturb the whole texture of social life, 
and shed a tarnish on the glory of Him whose 
glory it is our first duty to seek, and ought to 
be our last effort to defend. I hope this daring, 
this insulting attempt, will create, kindle, and 
deepen still more throughout England, a flame 
of sacred and enthusiastic antipathy to the prin-
ciples of Rome. I say enthusiasm,—I don't 
mean fanaticism. Fanaticism is error inspired 
by hate, enthusiasm is truth inspired by love ; 
fanaticism would build an inquisition, enthu-
siasm built, under God, the Church of the Apos-
tles ; fanaticism is like the rocket, which de- 
scended yesterday, and died leaving the dark-
ness denser, enthusiasm is like those subterra-
nean fires in southern lands, to be detected, not 
lby their volcanic explosions, but by the fertile 
soil and the golden harvests that appear above 
them. Let us have such enthusiasm. By 
God's grace we Will fan and feed it. Depend 
upon it, Admiral Harcourt, the time is come 
when every man must take his place—every 
one is now coming under his true polarity.—
All society is splitting in two great sections : 
those that are with Christ, and those that are 
with Antichrist. By and by there will be but 
two churches, the one the Apostacy—the other 
Christ's. You must learn, as I have told you, 
to forget the minor things in which we differ, 
and to recollect the mightier things in which 
we aggrce ; we must recollect our differences 
are small even when magnified, and that our 
points of coincidence are many and precious.—
Liberality, not latitudinarianism, becomes us 
all, and is the demand of the day; and if the 
worst come to the worst, let there be reproach 
to our name, confiscation to our goods, martyr,-
dom to our ministers, but let there be loyalty 
to our Queen, and faithfulness to our God. 
The Love of the First Christians. 
On no part of the Christian character does 
the New Testament so frequently and strenu-
ously insist as on love—on none does it pass 
so many and deserved encomiums. Whatever 
else a man might have, if deficient in love he 
was regarded as defective in the primary and 
essential element of, evangelical godliness.—
They understand that " love is the fulfilling of 
the law." 
The early Christians had great love to the 
Saviour. They remembered the thrice-repeated 
and searching interrogation, proposed under the 
most impressive circumstances, on the shore of 
Tiberias, " Simon, son of Jonas, lovest thou me ?" 
It burned deep in their souls the conviction that 
love to him must be the fundamental element 
of their character, the mainspring of all their 
actions. Hence we find them uniformly and 
studiously cultivating this affection, that so they 
may never be lacking in the impulsive power 
appropriate to their calling—that so they may 
ever with sincerity appeal to the Searcher of 
hearts, " Lord, thou knowest all things, thou 
knowest that I love thee." 
When Dr. Doddridge entered the dungeon 
of a prisoner, with a reprieve which he had ob-
tained for him, the poor man fell down at his 
feet and exclaimed—" I will be yours ! Wher-
ever you go, I am yours ! Sir, every drop of 
my blood thanks you, for you have had mercy 
upon every drop of it !" Similar were the feel-
ings of the first Christians towards their re-
deeming Lord. Similar their protestations of 
gratitude, and allegiance. " My beloved is 
mine, and I am his." The love of Christ—both 
his love to them, and their love to him—the lat-
ter being only a reduplication of the former—
constrained them to live not unto themselves, 
but unto Him who died for them and rose again. 
To please him was their primary object. To 
please him they cultivated personal holiness. 
To please him they labored for the conversion 
of souls. To please him they urged their mis-
sionary inroads into remote regions, encountered 
the most appalling dangers, endured the sever-
est hardships, and faced death in its fiercest 
forms. 
They had great love for one another. Broth-
erly love is seldom seen in our day just as it 
existed among the early Christians. With them 
it was a test of discipleship, an elementary prin-
ciple, devoid of which, a man could not obtain 
even the name of Christian. Without this, 
they did not pretend to consider themselves as 
the children of God. " We know," said they, 
" that we have passed from death unto life, be-
cause we love the brethren." The absence of 
brotherly love was one of the criteria by which 
Antichrist was to be known. Its presence was 
to furnish indisputable proof of the Divine mis-
sion of their Master, and of their attachment to 
his cause. Jesus prayed that his disciples 
might all be one, to the end that the world 
might believe that the Father had sent him.—
And to them he declared, " By this shall all 
men know that ye are my disciples, if ye love 
one another." And the world, as they beheld 
the chain of fraternal affection running through 
all their hearts, uniting them firmly to each 
other, and connecting the whole inseparably 
with the throne of love, felt and confessed the 
force of the demonstration. Their brotherly 
love—which was really a divine instinct, an es-
sential property of their new nature, and there-
fore spontaneous and unmodified by external 
circumstances— stood forth in strong contrast 
with the selfishness of the world around them, 
like the verdure of paradise set in the desert, 
and draw forth from their bitterest enemies in-
voluntary expressions of wonder. An unbeliev-
ing historian, attempting to account for their 
astonishing success in propagating their religion, 
alleges as one of the most powerful causes, their 
affectionate union. Then there was but one 
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431 
denomination of Christians. " One Lord, one 
faith, one baptism." Consequently, there was 
no clashing creeds, no sectarian bickerings, no 
rival interests, no party plottings and counter-
plottings, no wasteful expenditure of time, and 
feeling, and moral energy, in attempts to main- 
tain and fortify party positions. " By one 
Spirit " they were " all baptized into one body," 
and they regarded thetnselves, and were re-
garded by all around them, as members of one 
harmonious and devoted brotherhood. Christ 
was the centre of attraction, around which they 
rallied and united, and, like the radii of a circle, 
the nearer they drew to the centre, the nearer 
they were to each other. Assimilated by the 
grace of God, and fused and welded by the fires 
of persecution, their affinity and cohesion ren-
dered them the admiration of the world that 
hated them, and gave them a moral power 
which the modern Church does not possess, and 
never will possess, until brotherly love shall 
resume its ancient influence, and become, as it 
then was, a " bond of perfectness "—until " the 
multitude of them that believe " shall be " of 
one heart and one way," keeping " the unity of 
the Spirit in the bond of peace." 0 when will 
" the whole family '' of Christ become one, and 
with " hearts knit together in love," discontinue 
their petty controversies among themselves, and 
following their one Leader, converge and direct 
their whole energies towards the one point—
the salvation of the human soul ? 
We may speculate as we please about the in-
cidental advantages of our division into sects 
or denominations, comparing them poetically 
to the prismatic hues of the rainbow, and from 
the pulpit and the platform shouting in ecstacy, 
E Pluribus Unum !" 
But the practical man 
will tell us that if we would dissolve the in-
tractable substances of earth, we must have the 
colorless ray of virgin light. Baron Stow. 
On Proving God. 
Prof. Mitchell then proceeded to show from 
various astronomical calculations, that no rec-
ords of events carry us back beyond the flood ; 
that in all cases when we have reached about 
5000 years back from our day, we come to a 
limit, and can proceed no farther. We cannot 
penetrate into what was anterior to the flood, 
except by the light of Revelation : nothing can 
be known of real fact before that era, except by 
the Bible. All the great dates ascertained by 
astronomy in the history of the early world, 
with a most striking coincidence, carry us about 
to that period, arid there leave us. There is no 
evidence or probability that man has dwelt upon 
this earth more tnan 6000 years, for when we 
trace periods back, we cannot get more .than 
6000 or 7000 years back from 1850. We must, 
therefore, conclude that it was by the one family 
which survived the flood, that which is known 
of the antediluvian history of our race and world 
was handed down and perpetuated. 
Congregational Journal. 
integrity Among Christians. 
The religion of Christ is utterly opposed to 
all those deceitful arts and manoeuvres by which 
so many seek to make their way in the world. 
It exhorts, " that no man go beyond or defraud 
his brother in any matter." It inculcates the 
most elevated standard of morals in relation to 
this whole subject. And whenever true Chris-
tian principle prevails, there will be seen a stand-
ard of action in this respecet, far higher than that 
which it obtains in the world at large. In the 
business relations of life, the professed followers 
of Christ come directly in contact with the men 
of the world, and reveal most clearly the princi-
ples by which they are guided. If they are 
known, in this practical way, as hard, artful, 
overbearing men —if they must be watched 
against, just as one guards himself against a 
professional horse-jockey, they may rest assured 
that their Christian influence in the community 
where they dwell goes for very little. Men at 
large will not and ought not to recognize any 
great worth or virtue in a religion which mani, 
Pests itself in this way. Many professing Chris-
tians seem to suppose that they exhibit a real 
integrity, so long as they keep strictly within 
the bounds of a legal morality. But it is not 
so. The laws of the land are necessarily im-
perfect. They cannot be adapted to all the 
cases of right and wrong which may arise in 
the intercourse of men. They cannot mete out 
true moral justice between man and man, in 
reference to a thousand little interests. It is 
no uncommon circumstance, that gross injustice 
is perpetrated in the name of law, simply be-
cause of the limitations and deficiencies of law. 
And the professing Christian, who is on the 
lookout for such opportunities—who goes for-
ward in the way of wrong, simply because he has 
the law on his side, thereby forfeits the respect 
of men, and sorely impairs his influence. The 
gospel of Christ goes deeper than these human 
laws. It gives laws to the conscience and the 
heart, which every true follower of Christ will 
observe, though human laws do not require him 
to do so. 
These truths have a practical application.—
There will often be found in the Church, men 
who seem to pride themselves upon being shrewd 
and sharp in a bargain—upon being equal to 
the world in all the cunning and overreaching 
of trade, and the Church has to bear the dis-
grace of such a spirit. For the enemies of re-
ligion take a great delight in marking the con-
duct of such men, and holding up to reproach 
the Church of which they are members. A 
Church member, who has not had one jot of his 
worldly spirit abated by his connection with 
Christ, who is just as eager and just as unscru-
pulous in his grasp after this world's goods as 
before, is certainly a very singular person.—
His offence may not take such a shape as to be 
exactly disciplinable, and yet it may he doing 
far more injury to the Church, than many of-
fences which are made the subject of discipline. 
Congregationalist. 
Proportions of Noah's Ark. 
But are we in a situation in which we may 
be called upon to prove Him ? When Israel 
were called to this duty, they were under very 
embarrassing circumstances; and the reason 
was, they disobeyed God, and the curse came 
upon them. Now, when called to bring in their 
tithes, they felt that they had nothing to give, 
without distressing their families. Under these 
circumstances, they were called upon to prove 
God—to bring in all their tithes. 
But many now are embarrassed—" hard get-
ting along "—and when the call for help comes 
up from our Theological Schools, Home and 
Foreign Missions, we have not the means of 
doing what we desire. But help must come, 
or the most melancholy disasters will follow. 
Missionaries must be called home ; the press 
mast cease issuing the word of life ; meeting-
houses must not be built, and ministers must 
be dismissed, or go without pay, till the times 
are more favorable, or till our wealth increases. 
It will not answer to neglect the body if any-
thing is laid aside, or dispensed with, it must 
be the cause of Christ—the soul. 
From the very nature of our position, then, 
we are called upon to prove God. But how shall 
we prove him ? We must bring in all the tithes. 
Israel were to bring in the tenth of all, the first 
of all, and the best of all. We may prove him 
by believing him, taking him at his word, trust-
ing in him. The great difficulty with us, after 
all, is want of faith, or unbelief. Jesus says, 
" Seek ye first the kingdom of God and his 
righteousness, and all these things shall be ad-
ded." Do you believe this ? He says, " Cast 
thy bread upon the waters, for thou shalt find it 
after many days." Do you say, practically, that 
you believe this ? He says that we may with-
hold more than is meet, but if we do, it will 
tend to poverty, make us poor, embarrass us. 
This was one thing that brought Israel into the 
straits. Do you believe this ? Do not fears 
often arise in your minds as to the result, if you 
attend first to Zion—to the interests of his king-
dom ? Do you not fear that the " all things " 
will not be added ? Do you not fear to cast your 
bread upon the waters ? Are you willing to 
lay yourself out for usefulness, and trust God 
as to the result? You can buy farms and trier-
chandize, build houses and barns, buy horses 
and cattle. Can you not venture as much for 
God as for yourself ? But just stop a moment, 
friend ; youseem to be much engaged ; are 
you not afraid of distressing your family ? " 0 
no, I hope not ; I guess I shall get along, if I 
have my health !" But pray, my brother, who 
gives you health ? Are you less willing to do 
for God, who gives you health and all things, 
than for yoarself ? Can you neglect him, neg-
lect his commands, his cause, and yet hope for 
continual favors from him ? Do you not per-
ceive now that you are unwilling to trust him ? 
But if you would prove him, you must take 
him at his word. This was what Israel must 
do before they could be freed from their embar-
rassment. It is what you must do. 
Would you prove God ? Then do his will. 
" But you would not have us bring a state of 
greater embarrassment upon ourselves ?" By 
" The Voyage and Shipwreck of St. Paul," 
by James Smith, Esq., recently published in 
England, contains, besides a superior treatment 
of its regular subjects, an accumulation of ma-
terials of unprecedented copiousness and interest, 
as regards the construction and management of 
ancient ships. His work is made the basis of 
a dissertation valuable to the classical scholar. 
We transfer a passage in regard to the struc-
ture of Noah's Ark. 
The history of navigation commenced with 
the launching of the ark on the waters of the 
Deluge ; and it is not a little singular that the 
artistical merits of this extraordinary structure 
should have been unrecognized for four thou-
sand years or more. To be sure, now and then 
a mathematician who revered the Bible, had 
said a patronizing word or two about the ark, 
as a thing that might possibly float without 
capsizing ; and Bishop Wilkins, no mean au- 
no means; I am trying to help you free your-
selves from your embarrassment. Said a dea-
con in an Eastern church, "The last fifty dol-
lars I gave to H—, for theological education, 
I said, There, if you cannot get along now, that 
is the last I will give ; and," said he, " I have 
been running behind in property ever since ;—
every move I make is a had one." Reader, 
obey God, and bring in your part into the store-
house. " But you would not have us sacrifice 
our property, distress our families, or wrong our 
creditors ?" No, sir, it is not for the writer to 
say.what you must do; only, don't rob God, as 
Israel did, lest he curse you. as he did them. 
But consider whose you are, who can give 
and withhold, who can bless and curse all you 
have. Is it faith when you can see the object? 
Is it trust when you rejoice in a full house, and 
barn, and in a full purse ? I am afraid there 
has been but little proving God among us.—
Who can say, from au honest heart, they have 
proved him ? Reader, do you want a blessing ? 
Does your church want a meeting-house ?—a 
minister ? Do you want the various causes of 
benevolence to prosper ? Do you want a revi-
val ? Do you want the blessing of God upon 
the labor of your hands ? Do you want peace 
on a dying bed ? Then bring in all your tithes, 
and see if God will not open to you the win-
dows of heaven, and pour you out a blessing that 
there shall not be room enough to contain it. 
Michigan Christian Herald. 
Science and Revelation. 
It has been attempted at various times to ar-
ray Science against Revelation, and thus over-
throw it. Much was anticipated from the dis-
coveries of Geology in this direction, till at last 
it was thought every shovel full of earth would 
be a confutation of the Bible. It has.resulted, 
that the deeper Geology has sunk its shafts, 
and the clearer the light its lamp has shed upon 
the dark recesses of the earth, the more indubi-
table has been the entire harmony between the 
science and Divine Revelation. Geology, like 
the dumb pyramids and ruins of Egypt, has at 
length spoken, and as the mysterious characters 
graven upon the gigantic pillars are found to 
be a witness for the Bible, so the same attesta-
tion is now seen to be written on every succes- 
sive formation of the globe. Infidelity has 
ceased to call Geology into court ;—it fears its 
testimony. 
Astronomy has been appealed to for the same 
object; and thus it was hoped heaven and earth 
would alike cry out against the Bible. The an-
cient Astronomy was called into requisition, 
which carried the history of the world back in-
numerable ages, and made the Mosaic account 
of the Creation a pitiable fiction and falsehood ; 
the result, however, is the same as in Geology ; 
as in the latter a testimony for Revelation is in-
scribed on every stratum in the dungeons of the 
earth, so in the former it is written in burning 
characters upon the sky. The telescope, as it 
becomes more perfect and powerful, every time 
it is pointed to the skies, brings back the mes-
sage that the Bible is true. So will it be with 
the Sciences, however far they may be pushed. 
Nothing is to be feared from the most adventur-
ous inquiries, or the most astounding disclo-
sures. The word and the works of God will 
be found in perfect harmony, throwing their 
light upon each other, and sustaining each 
other. 
These remarks are suggested by a recent lec-
ture of Prof. Mitchell, of Cincinnati, being one 
of a series delivered in the city of New York. 
In the extent and accuracy of his knowledge in 
this department, he stands in the front rank of 
modern astronomers, in the new world and the 
old; and his opinions, therefore, are entitled to 
the highest respect. 
The Hindoos tell us that three ages of the 
earth have already passed away, each of which 
was of the comfortable period of one million 
seven hundred and twenty thousand years ! We 
have now entered upon the fourth age of the 
world. The Babylonians and Egyptians claim 
a period of 30,000 years of antiquity for their 
early history. The question is, whether this is 
truth or fable, fact or imagination. There was 
a great diversity among the ancients in regard 
to the year. The Hindoos have a year like our 
own, and also a year of a month, a year of a 
day, and even a year of half a day. It was 
thus with other nations of antiquity, and it is 
only lately that astronomers have discovered 
this fact. Prof. Mitchell presumes the years of 
the Babylonians and Egyptians were merely 
lunar, and this calculation would give 2;245 
years to 30,000, and carry their history back 
only to the flood. The Hindoo period of 
1,720,000 years was probably the year of half 
a day, and this calculation would reduce the 
long period to only 2,365 years. The learned 
Professor had studied the Hindoo astronomy 
with great attention ; but he could not travel 
back beyond 3,101 years before Christ. As to 
the eclipses said to have occurred previous to 
this period, it is found that no such events could 
have happened as asserted. So much for Hin-
doo astronomy and chronology. 
thority, has giving his opinion, that it could 
not have been built more appropriately for its 
purpose. But it was reserved for Peter Janson, 
a Dutch merchant, of the seventeenth century, 
to adopt it for a model ; nor can Noah have en-
countered severer missiles from the ridicule of 
antediluvian wags, than annoyed honest Peter 
while his ship was in building. But he had 
faith enough in the Hebrew record to build an 
ark in the precise proportions of that which had 
saved the patriarch's family ; and it was found 
on trial most admirably adapted for bulky car-
goes, as it had 30 or 40 per cent. more available 
tonage than ships of the usual model, requiring 
the same number of mariners. 
" The chief objections to its use were, that it 
had not, like its prototype, the monopoly of the 
sea, and that on ocean paths infested by huca-
neers it could not he manoeuvred rapidly or 
adroitly enough to evade pursuit. But it is 
believed that Janson's experiment led to the 
general adoption for carriage of bulky freight, of 
what is commonly called the Dutch build,' of 
which our ships designed for the cotton trade, 
and often exceeding by twenty per cent. their 
ratable tonage, are fair specimens." 
It is a striking fact, that the largest ocean 
steamships now plying on the Atlantic, bear 
precisely the same proportion in length and 
depth, as is recorded to have existed in Noah's 
Ark. The dimensions of the Atlantic steamers 
are—length, three hundred and twenty-two feet, 
breadth of beam, fifty feet, depth, thirty-one and 
a-half feet. The dimensions of the Ark were, 
length, three hundred cubits, breadth, fifty cu-
bits, depth, thirty cubits. It will be seen, there-
fore, that the ark was nearly twice the size in 
depth, length, and breadth of these vessels, the 
cubit being twenty-two inches. Both had up-
per, lower, and middle stories. 
After all the experiments of forty-two centu-
ries which has elapsed since the Deluge, the 
ship builders have to return to the model of 
forded by Noah's Ark. " As for God his work 
is perfect." 
Cist's Advertiser. 
The Course of Comets. 
The wonderful characteristics which mark 
the flight of comets through space, the sudden-
ness with which they blaze forth, their exceed-
ing velocity, and their terrific appearance, their 
eccentric motions, sweeping towards the sun, 
from all regions and in all directions, have ren-
dered these bodies objects of terror in all ages 
of the world. While the planets pursue an un-
deviating course round the sun, in orbits nearly 
circular, and almost coincident with the plane 
of the earth's orbit, all revolving harmoniously 
in the same direction, the comets perform their 
revolutions with every possible eccentricity, 
confined to no particular plane, and moving in-
differently, in accordance with, or opposed to, 
the general motion of the planets. They come 
up from below the plane of the ecliptic, or plunge 
downward towards the sun from above, sweep 
swiftly round this their great centre, and with 
incredible velocity wing their flight far into the 
fathomless regions of space, in some cases never 
again to re-appear to human vision. 
In the early ages of the world, superstition 
regarded these wandering fiery worlds with 
awe, and looked upon them as omens of pesti-
lence and war; and indeed, even in modern 
times, no eye can look upon the fiery train 
spread out for millions of miles athwart the sky, 
and watch the eccentric motions of these anoma-
lous objects without a feeling of dread. The 
movements of the planets inspire confidence.—
They are ever visible, and true to their ap-
pointed times, while the comet, erratic in its 
course, bursts suddenly and unannounced upon 
the sight, and no science can predict in the out-
set its certain track—whether it will plunge 
into the sun, or dash against one of the plane-
tary systems, or even come in collision with our 
own earth, is equally uncertain, until after a 
sufficient number of observations shall have 
been made to render the computation of the 
elements of its orbit possible. 
Previous to the discovery of the law of uni-
versal gravitation, comets were looked upon as 
anomalous bodies, of whose motions it was 
quite impossible to take any account. By some 
philosophers they were regarded as meteors 
kindled into a blaze in the earth's atmosphere, 
and when once extinguished they were lost for-
ever. Others looked upon them as permanent 
bodies, revolving in orbits far above the moon, 
and re-appearing at the end of long but certain 
intervals. When, however, it was discovered 
that under the influence of gravitation, any re-
volving worlds might describe either of the four 
curves, the circle, ellipse, parabola, or hyperbola, 
it at once became manifest that the eccentric 
movements of the comets might be perfectly 
represented by giving them orbits of the parabolic 
or hyperbolic form, the sun being located in the 
focus of the curve. According to this theory, 
the cornet would become visible in its approach 
to its perihelion, or nearest distance from the 
sun—would here blaze with uncommon splen-
dor, and in its recess to the remote parts of the 
orbit, would gradually fade from the sight, re-
laxing its speed, and performing a vast portion 
of its vast curve far beyond the reach of human 
vision. 
Prof. Mitchell. 
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7.Auent 
"BEHOLD! THE BRIDEGROOM COMETH!" 
BOSTON. SATURDAY, FEBRUARY 8, 1851. 
THE FUTURE CONDITION OF MAN. 
the risen saints that are to be aXXcocetEcOat, changed 
—so that their ri9 01,I)TOP,mortal-sses-cso-Ossi cacti/a-
s/las, shall put on immortality, or deathlessness. They 
are still, however, to continue in the natural, in con-
tradistinction from the spiritual body, as is apparent 
from the description given of their life. It is said of 
those who go victorious out of the great tribulation 
at Christ's coming, and enter into his kingdom, they 
shall hunger no more, neither thirst any more ; nei-
ther shall the sun light on them, nor any heat.; for 
the Lamb shall feed them, and shall lead them unto 
living fountains of waters, and God shall wipe away 
all tears from their eyes ;' which indicates that they 
are still to be in the natural body, as otherwise the 
promise would be inappropriate. It would be inapt 
and mislead, to foreshow that beings would not suf-
fer certain forms of evil, of which they had by a 
change of nature become wholly unsusceptible ; and 
would, on the other hand, be distinguished by certain 
enjoyments of which they had become by that change 
wholly incapable. The same delineation is given of 
their life after the descent of the New Jerusalem.—
' And God shall wipe away all tears front their eyes; 
and there shall be no more death, neither sorrow, nor 
crying ; neither shall there be any more pain ; for 
the former things are passed away.' They are to be 
of ityOpte7ro;, men, with whom God is thus to dwell, 
and or. Xsso‘, people, and therefore mankind in the 
natural, not in the spiritual body ; and the peculiarity 
of their life is to be, that they are not to die, nor 
weep, nor grieve, nor suffer corporeal pain of any 
kind ; or any of the evils that are elements of the 
curse of transgression, such as desertion by God ; 
but God is to dwell with them, and be their God, 
arid enrich them with the safety and bliss of his ac-
cepted and assured children. Exempted from the 
penalty of sin in every form, and made immortal, 
their condition and life will undoubtedly he essen-
tially the same as Adam's, Eve's, and their off-
spring's would have been, had they not transgressed. 
" Others, however, and probably the great body of 
the race, especially at the beginning of the thousand 
years, are to be mortal, as is indicated by the an-
nouncement that the leaves of the tree of life in the 
New Jerusaletn, are for the healing of the nations, 
which implies that they are to be susceptible of dis-
ease and death ; and by the fact, that after the na-
tions in the remote parts of the earth have revolted 
under the renewed influence of Satan, they are in 
vast numbers to be destroyed."—pp. 466-7. 
From the above we conclude that he makes three 
classes to inhabit the earth. 1st, the risen saints ; 2d, 
the changed living ; and 3d, the unchanged living.—
We know of but one class—the living saints under-
going a change equivalent to that of the resurrection. 
If the living saints only experience a change inferior 
to that, then it is a misfortune to be alive at CHRIST'S 
coming ! Better, far better, to die, and then be 
raised. The apostle, in the 15th of Corinthians, 
does not intimate that there will be any difference in 
their future condition. If there is, then ENOCH and 
ELIJAH were not highly favored above MOSES and 
PAUL. Ascribing a natural body to the changed 
saints is evidently in direct contradiction to the teach-
ings of the apostle. He makes but two bodies, 
the " natural," and the " spiritual." The one is 
"earthy," the other is " heavenly." The one he 
designates by the term " flesh and blood ;" and this 
he expressly declares " cannot inherit the kingdom of 
God." The kingdom of Gon is that which is es-
tablished at the appearing of CHRIST, " who will 
judge the quick and the dead at his appearing and 
kingdom." When therefore PAUL asserts that flesh 
and blood cannot inherit the kingdom of GOD, what 
is that but asserting that the " natural body " can-
not thus inherit ?—that it cannot have a portion in 
the joys and employments of the redeemed subsequent 
to the resurrection ! It is because flesh and blood 
cannot enter the kingdom of Goo, that PAUL shows 
us the mystery of the great change which will then 
take place. " We shall not all sleep," he says ; "but 
we shall all be changed." 
Some would sleep and 
some would not ; but in the change which should ren-
der these vile bodies fit for an inheritance in the king-
dom of GOD all were to participate. if the living are 
changed to a less perfect condition titan the raised 
saints, why is it not so stated? Why is there no in-
timation given that the two classes are affected dif-
ferently by the change? This change is to be at the 
last trump, at the very time of the commencement of 
the kingdom, when the change is needed that fits its 
subjects for it. " The dead shall be raised incor-
ruptible, and we shall be changed "—i. e. to incor-
ruptible. Thus both are alike made incorruptible ; 
for the apostle proceeds to give the reason of the 
change that those who'sleep not will receive : it is 
because " this corruptible must put on incorruption, 
and this mortal must put on immortality." Both 
classes alike put on the same ; how then can one 
have still retained the natural body — the body on 
which this change was needed to fit it for the king-
dom, which otherwise it could not inherit. It is 
when this change is effected that it will be true, that 
" death is swallowed "upin victory "—and that is to 
be when GOD shall destroy " the face of the covering 
cast over all people, and the wail that is spread over 
all nations;" when he " will wipe away tears from 
off all faces, and the rebuke of his people shall he 
take away from off all the earth."—Isa. 25:7, S. 
In his first epistle to the Thessalonians, PAUL 
teaches nothing contradictory. His object there, is 
to show that the dead lose nothing by falling asleep, 
and that the living have no advantage over them in 
" The Peculiarity of Christ's Reign and Man's Condition duriAg 
the Millennium, and the Ages that are to follow." An article in 
the Jan, number of the " Literary & Theological Journal." By 
DAVID N. LORD. 
(Concluded.) 
As a variety of age and condition in the same 
family circle, adds to the interest of the several 
members in each other, it may be that a similar 
variety of age is essential to the happiness of the fu-
ture state. We know not hut this very condition 
has been secured for the future, by the visitation of 
death here to persons of all ages. We see one cut 
down with the bloom of youth fresh upon his cheeks. 
Another falls before the great destroyer far advanced 
in life,—like a shock of corn fully ripe. One gives 
a single look at the things of life, and sinks into its 
tiny grave. Another in the full strength of manhood 
bows to the summons. As the multitude of the dead 
is composed of every age, who can deny that in the 
resurrection each of the redeemed will come forth 
apparently in age as he died ? Will not a part of 
the joy of the reunion consist in the fact, that the 
mother will again clasp to her heart the beloved child 
that she laid away to rest ? Will not the child gladly 
recognize the tender parent whose eyes he closed in 
death? Will not ABRAHAM come up, as our venera-
ble father ABRAHAM ?—not decrepid and bowed down 
with infirmities, but in renewed vigor, yet none the 
less venerable. Will there not be a vast difference 
between him, and the resurrection body of the infant 
of a span long ? Then may we not conclude that 
this diversity of condition has been secured for the 
future ; and therefore that it will not require the con-
tinued multiplication of the race to effect it. 
It is no more unreasonable that the race,—after 
having fulfilled the end for which a previous multi-
plication of man was necessary —should cease to 
possess that function, than it is that individuals here 
should. Beyond a certain age it ceases here. After 
that, affectionate hearts are none the less endeared 
than before. Let the race he perfected in like man-
ner, with all its relations fixed and unchangeable, 
and there will be no want of objects of affection.—
And though in one sense they will be a countless 
throng of celibates, yet they will not be solitaries.—
Unitedly will they ascribe " Salvation and glory, 
and honor, and power unto the LORD our GOD." 
Not " useless and joyless " will be their existence. 
Higher duties will they be called to perform, than 
the mere leaving others behind to be called after their 
names. Here, that is but an incidental duty. There, 
the number of God's elect will have been consum-
mated. 
Mr. LORD next touches on the difference in the 
condition of the race after the millennium, from its 
condition during that period. He says:— 
" The great peculiarity that is to distinguish the 
condition of the race, after the close of the thousand 
yeats, is, we suppose, an entire exemption from the 
curse of mortality, sorrow, suffering, and the loss of 
spiritual blessings that were consequent on the fall, 
and restoration to a state essentially like that in 
which the posterity of Adam and Eve would have 
come into existence, had they persevered in allegiance, 
and secured the everlasting virtue and bliss of their 
offspring. That such a redemption is to he accom-
plished we have ample assurance. At the resurrec-
tion and judgment of the dead at the termination of 
the thousand years, death is to be abolished, and the 
curse in all its forms discontinued. Men then are 
not only not to suffer and die, they are not to be 
liable to suffering and death. The sentence to mor-
tality is to be repealed, and its cause removed, and 
succeeded by a sentence to life, and its natural causes. 
And that is not universally to be their lot till after 
the millennium.—p. 466: 
We subscribe to the above, with the exception of 
the last sentence. We believe the exemption from 
the curse, and the restoration is at the beginning of 
the millennium. That from thenceforth all forms of 
the curse will be unknown and men will not be liable 
to die during the one thousand years. Mr. LORD 
supposes that " the race in the natural body " are to 
consist of two classes, which he thus describes :— 
" The saints who are to be changed from mortal 
to immortal, and fully released from the curse of sin. 
That is the gift which they who are living at Christ's 
coming are to receive. They are not, as is generally 
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any respect—do not anticipate them that are asleep. 
He places both on a level ; for " the dead in CHRIST 
shall rise first "—not before the living are changed ; 
for in (1 Cor. 15) PAUL taught that " we shall all be 
changed in a moment, in the twinkling of an eye "—
but before the living are caught tip to meet the LORD 
in the air, the dead in CHRIST Must first rise. " Then 
we which are alive and remain, shall be caught up 
together with them in the clouds, to meet the LORD 
in the air ; and so shall we be ever with the LORD " 
—no distinction being intimated respecting the two 
classes ; but both alike are represented as subjects of 
the change, as having put on incorruption, as receiv-
ing the spiritual body. 
The argument respecting the promise that they 
shall hunger no more, &c., is less forcible to our 
mind, than it appears to be to Mr. L. Those referred 
to in this connection are " a great multitude, which 
no man could number, of all nations, and kindred, 
and people, and tongues," seen by JOHN in vision, 
standing " before the throne arid before the Lamb, 
clothed in white robes, and palms in their hands."—
Rev. 7:9. This vast multitude cannot be limited to 
the changed living at the advent, but must include 
all the redeemed. It is of this countless multitude 
that one of the elders asked, saying: " What are 
these which are arrayed in white robes? and whence 
comethey?"—v. 13. And the reply is, " These are 
they which come out of great tribulation, and have 
washed their robes and made them white in the blood 
of the Lamb."—v. 14. It is not said that they come 
out of any particular tribulation, in distinction from 
any other one. Tribulation has been the portion of 
all the saints, in all ages ; and we read that " we 
must through tribulation enter into the kingdom of 
GOD."—Acts 14:22. And the SAVIOUR said : " In 
the world ye shall have tribulation."—.John 16:33. 
Such tribulation was the portion of those who " had 
trial of cruel mockings and scourgings, yea, moreover 
of bonds and imprisonment :" who " were stoned," 
" were sawn asunder, were tempted, were slain with 
the sword :" who " wandered about in sheep-skins,. 
and goat-skins; being destitute, afflicted, tormented ;" 
who " wandered in deserts, and in mountains, and in 
dens and caves of the earth." The souls under the 
altar of them who were slain for the word of GOD, 
and for the testimony which they held," (Rev. 6:9,) 
and they " that were beheaded for the witness of JE-
SUS and for the word ofGon " (20:4,) also came out 
of great tribulation, and these were arrayed in like 
manner with the others; for when we read " that 
they should rest a little season, until their fellow ser-
vants also and their brethren, that should be killed 
as they were, should be fulfilled " (6:11) we also 
read, " And white robes were. given unto every one 
of them." Those therefore, " which came out of 
great tribulation," " which are arrayed in white 
robes," which " have washed their robes and made 
them white in the blood of the Lamb," must include 
the risen saints as well as the changed living. It 
must include all those who " serve him day and 
night in his temple," whom he that sitteth on his 
throne shall dwell among ; and the apostle assures 
us that all who are caught up together to meet the 
LORD in. the air will be forever with the LORD. Con-
sequently if the language implies that their natures 
are still susceptible to heat, hunger, &c., it will be 
as true of the risen saints as of the changed living; 
and therefore does not indicate a nature 'different in 
the two classes. 
On the other hand we do not conceive that we may 
infer that any will possess natures susceptible to such 
influences. Here we suffer heat and cold, hunger 
and thirst. There we shall be relieved from those 
evils. We suffer them here because our natures are 
susceptible to them, and because those causes exist. 
As we are to be shielded from them then, we may 
as well argue that it is because our natures are 
changed, as because the cause has ceased. And we 
see not that it would more mislead to say we shall 
thirst no more, when our natures have ceased to be 
susceptible to thirst, than it does to say that " on 
such the second death hath no power," when by 
becoming subjects of the first resurrection they are not 
" susceptible to suffering and death." In Rev. 21:4 
the reason given why there is no more death, sorrow, 
or crying, is : " FOR the former things are passed 
away. And he that sat upon the throne said, Behold, 
I make all things new." Is not this alleging the 
change in their nature, as the reason why they shall 
" hunger no more, neither thirst any more " &c. ? 
We do not, however, contend that the changed 
natures—the spiritual bodies of the saints,—will be 
incapable of the enjoyment of the blessings promised. 
Man did eat angels' food. The angels who com-
muned with ABRAHAM, when he killed a kid and set 
before them, partook of his hospitalities ; and we 
are to be equal to the angels. An evidence that the 
SAVIOUR was actually risen from the dead was found 
in his being seen by the disciples to eat of broiled 
fish and an honey-comb : and our vile bodies shall be 
changed into the likeness of the SAVIOUR'S glorified 
body. Because therefore the Lamb " shall feed them, 
and shall lead them unto living fountains of waters," 
we ate not necessarily to conclude that those who 
partake of those enjoyments ate possessed of natures 
different from those of the risen saints. 
The argument, that the great body of the race, 
especially at the beginning of the thousand years, 
are to be mortal, is to us equally inconclusive. The 
tree of life in the New Jerusalem must be the same, 
at least in kind, with that in Eden.—Gen. 3:24. Its 
presence is an evidence of the restitution. Being 
the same in kind, its leaves must serve an office simi-
lar to that designed for those of the former. As 
man was not suscepitble to disease and death, till 
sill entered the world, those evils are not necessarily 
present in the New Jerusalem. We understand that 
symbol to teach that GoD has healed the nations—
not that they are in process of being healed. And 
this conclusion we are forced to from other considera-
tions. 
This is in the renewed earth : the first heavens 
and first earth have entirely disappeared, arid all 
things have been made new. May we suppose that 
GoD will perform that work in so imperfect a manner, 
unless we have something more than inference to 
establish it The passing away of the former 
things is given as a reason why " there shall be so 
more death, neither sorrow nor crying." How then 
can they exist contrary to that express declaration'"? 
That text is parallel with Isaiah 25:8 : " He will 
swallow up death in victory, and the LORD GOD will 
wipe away tears from off all faces ; and the rebuke 
of his people shall be taken away from off all the 
earth." It is then no partial renovation. 
The new earth in which the tree of life is re-
produced, must be that which PETER brings to view 
after the heavens shall have passed away with a great 
noise, and the elements shall melt with fervent heat, 
when all these things shall hate been dissolved, and 
we are to look, according to the promise, for a new 
heavens and a new earth ; and one peculiarity of 
that is, that therein dwelleth righteous persons.-2 
Pet. 3:10-13. How can men in this natural body 
pass that conflagration unconsumed ? They must do 
so to be found in the new earth ! ! 
The Bible teaches the destruction of all the 
wicked at, or in near connection with the advent : 
" And to you, who are troubled, rest with us, when 
the Lord JESUS shall be revealed from heaven with 
his mighty angels, in flaming fire taking vengeance 
on them that know not GOD, and that obey not the 
gospel of our Lord JESUS CHRIST : who shall be 
punished with everlasting destruction from the pres-
ence of the LORD, and from the glory of his power; 
when he shall come to be glorified in his saints, and 
to be admired in all them that believe (because our 
testimony among you was believed) in that day."-2 
Titers. 1:7-10. If vengeance in flaming fire is to be 
taken on all who know not GOD, and obey not the 
gospel, there can be none left but the righteous ; and 
these are all changed at the resurrection of the 
dead, and caught up with them to the SAVIOUR'S 
presence. When the saints are summoned to the 
marriage supper of the Lamb, " the remnant were 
slain with the sword of him that sat upon the horse—
not spared, but slain.—Rev. 19th. The parables of 
the SAVIOUR teach the same thing : " As therefore 
the tares are gathered and burned in the fire ; so 
shall it be in the end of this world. The Son of 
man shall send forth his angels, and they shall gather 
out of his kingdom all things that offend, and them 
which do iniquity ; arid shall cast them into a furnace 
of fire: there shall be wailing and gnashing of teeth. 
Then shall the righteous shine forth as the sun in 
the kingdom of their Father. Who bath ears to 
hear, let him hear."—Matt. 13:40-43 " So shall it 
be at the end of the world : the angels shall come 
forth, and sever the wicked from among the just, and 
shall cast them into the furnace of fire : there shall 
be wailing and gnashing of teeth."—vs 49, 50. 
How can these be reconciled with the continuance of 
probation after the advent ? 
The nations referred to are so clearly the raised 
nations of the wicked dead, that we shall occupy no 
space here in proving it. The dogs, sorcerers, &c., 
who are without, we consider it equally evident, are 
the finally impenitent—not on the earth, but in their 
appointed place ; for probation is shown to have 
been ended by the declaration, " He that is unjust, 
let him be unjust still : and he which is filthy, let 
him be filthy still : arid he that is righteous, let him 
be righteous still : and he that is holy, let him be 
holy still."—Rev. 22:11. 
Having noticed the principal arguments advanced 
by Mr. Lotto, with our reasons for dissenting from 
them, we shall be happy to he shown wherein our 
reasoning is inconsistent. Truth alone is our object ; 
and that view of the future which shall be most in 
harmony with the whole of Scripture we wish to see, 
embrace, and advocate. 
0. A. BROWNSON ON THE c. HIGHER 
LAW.” 
Protestants have contended that the adherents of 
the Papacy are subjects of a foreign power, and that 
their subjection to it interferes with their obligati° n 
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have stoutly denied, asserting that only in spiritual 
matters do they owe allegiance to Rome. 0. A. 
BnowNsoer, however, in a late number of his Journal, 
in an article on the " higher law," boldly claims 
that the Papal Church has power to decide whether 
any given law shall be obeyed by her subjects. He 
sets.out with this truth : "That there is a higher 
law than the Constitution. The law of Gon is su-
preme, and overrides all human enactments, and 
every human enactment incompatible with it is null 
and void from the 'beginning, and cannot be obeyed 
with a good conscience, for we must obey GOD 
rather than men.' " And he admits that " This is the 
grand principle held by the old martyrs, and there-
fore they chose martyrdom rather than obedience to 
the State, commanding them to act contrary to Di-
vine law. But," he asks, " who is to decide whe-
ther a special civil enactment be or be not repugnant 
to the law of GOD ?" He says : 
" But who is to decide whether a special civil en-
actment be or be not repugnant to the law of God ? 
Here is a grave and perplexing question for those 
who have no Divinely authorised interpreter of the 
Divine law. The Abolitionists and Free Soilers, 
adopting the Protestant principle of private judgment, 
claim the right to decide each for himself. But this 
places the individuals above the State, private judg-
ment above the law, and is wholly incompatible with 
the simplest conception of civil government. No 
civil government can exist, none is conceivable even, 
where every individual is free to disobey its orders 
whenever they do not happen to square with his pri-
vate convictions of what is the law of God. 
The principle of private judgment, adopted by Pro-
testants in religious matters, it is well known, has 
destroyed for them the Church as an authoritative 
body, and put an end to everything like ecclesiasti-
cal authority ; transferred to civil matters, it would 
equally put an end to the State, and abolish all civil 
authority, and establish the reign of anarchy of li-
cense." 
Who then shall decide when the law shall be 
obeyed ? Shall the State ? This cannot be ; for 
that would place the State above the higher law.—
And then, as Mr. BROWNSON rightly argues, are 
you bound to absolute obedience to any and every 
law the State may enact ; you make the State su-
preme, absolute, and deny your own principle of a 
higher law than civil law. You have then no ap-
peal from the State, and no relief for conscience, 
which is absolute civil despotism." 
This he considers places his " uncatholic country-
men " in a " sad dilemma." But how does he ex-
tricate his " Catholic " countrymen ? Why he says : 
" We have an infallible Church to tell us when 
there is a conflict between the human law and the 
Divine, to save us from the necessity, in order to 
get rid of individualism, of asserting despotism, that 
is, the supremacy of the State, the grave of all free-
dom. We are never to appeal to the principle of des-
potism nor to the principle of anarchy. We have 
always a public authority, which, as it is errable, 
can never be oppressive, to guide and direct us, and 
if we resist the civil law, it is only in obedience to 
a higher law, clearly and distinctly declared by a 
public authority higher than the individual, and 
higher than the State." 
According to BROWNSON, then, " the church " is 
to decide whether the laws of the JJnited States are 
to be obeyed ; but who is the mouth-piece of the 
Church? No one but the Pope. The Pope then, 
a foreign potentate, is to say to citizens of the United 
States when they must, and when they must not 
obey the laws of the United States! And the Pope 
they must obey on pain of eternal damnation ! It 
follows that they do admit an allegiance to a foreign 
Prince, at variance with their obligations as good 
citizens of the government of the United States, as 
Protestant have always claimed. 
But suppose the Pope contravenes the law of GoD? 
who is then to decide respecting our obligation to the 
higher law? By denying the right of individual 
judgment Mr. BROWNSON only shifts the right of de-
cision from our own State, to the head of a foreign 
State—to a man so infallible, that one day he flees 
front his own subjects, and then gets foreign bayonets 
to replace him. Romanists are therefore in a worse 
dilemma than Mr. BROWNSON would place Protes-
tants. We are, however, placed in no such dilemma ; 
Goy has given us the higher law written in the 
Scriptures of truth. He has made us individually 
responsible for our obedience to him. Ignorant 
clowns may need some priest to teach them what the 
love of GOD is. Intelligent Americans are capable 
of reading for themselves what Gon has decreed res-
pecting their duty, whatever wicked rulers or fallible 
Popes may decree to the contrary. 
Visit to Homer. 
We commenced our meeting Jan. 22, and closed 
the 28th, and gave twelve discourses to full and in-
teresting audiences. This meeting, on the whole, 
was one of the most interesting we ever attended, in 
this, or indeed any other place. It would fill several 
sheets to give a just account of the mercy of Gon to 
his people on this occasion. We can only give a 
brief sketch,—our readers may hear from others. 
Since our last visit to this beloved flock, they have 
erected a very neat and commodious chapel. The 
location is central, and is very favorable for quietness, 
and the prosperity of the society. I was happy to 
learn also that the chapel was nearly paid for. 
The Church are happily united with their pastor, 
(Elder L. E. BATES,) and with each other. We 
found them in a good state, ready to co-operate in the 
objects of the meeting. This made it not only pleas-
ant for us, but for all, and gave success to the public 
ministrations. We gave them a clear and full view 
of the doctrine and spirit of the Advent mission ; 
and never did we see its blessed effects more fully 
manifest. The faithful were filled with joy and 
gladness, backsliders were waked up to duty and 
confession, many returned to their " first love," and 
the impenitent were awakened to seek the Lord.—
Many were fully reclaimed, and praised God aloud ; 
and we left a large number of penitent sinners under 
deep conviction, who, by the faithful labors of Bro. 
BATES, we. shall expect to hear have been brought 
into liberty. These are the fruits of the Advent 
doctrine, and have been from the beginning. now 
great the contrast with notions which gender strife, 
and produce coldness and death ! 
The Church in Homer is one of the strongest and 
best of the Advent Churches in Western New York. 
Its influence is not confined to Homer ; but from 
it " the work of Gon has sounded out " in all the 
region. Many little companies are being gathered 
as the results of the labors of Brn. BATES, CHAPMAN, 
KEELER, and others who have visited the destitute 
neighborhoods, and preached to them the gospel of 
the kingdom. 
We cannot express our gratitude to the beloved 
brethren and friends in Homer for the kind manner 
in which they received its, and for their liberality in 
this time of our embarrassment. Any one who 
denies himself of home and all its joys, and subjects 
himself to the scorn and contumely of a proud and 
unbelieving world, for the good of Zion, and the 
glory of CHRIST, can appreciate the blessings of real 
Christian friendship. Such friendship, in the time 
of trial, when dark clouds gather about him, and his 
enemies seek to devour him, is above all price. Such 
has been the friendship we have found among the 
Adventists at Auburn and Homer, and which we 
still expect to enjoy as we proceed on our tour 
West. 
We shall not easily forget the kindness of Brn. 
WOOD and B. D. GRISWOLD, who wellcomed us to 
their hospitalities. May heaven reward them. 
Having bid adieu to the brethren, we took stage 
for Syracuse on the 29th, in order to meet the cars 
for Geneva that evening, where we had an appointment. 
But after riding in an open, cold vehicle thirty miles, 
without blankets or buffaloes, we arrived just one 
minute too late for the cars ! Well, we made the 
best of it, by calling upon the brethren, to see how 
they were getting along. We found them in good 
spirits, and about to take a new place of worship, 
under circumstances of encouragement. We took 
the evening train for Auburn to spend the night. 
Here we found that Bro. TURNER had left for Geneva 
to meet us there, on his way home. So he filled (as 
we suppose) our appointment at G. We were 
happy to find things in Auburn so happy and pros-
perous. Eight had been converted since the Confer-
ence, and the Church had had a melting, blessed 
season. Bro. T.'s labors were much appreciated, 
and they were loth to part with him. Bro. MANS-
FIELD and the Church have much to encourage them. 
On the 30th came to Seneca Falls. Bro. G. W. 
BURNHAM resides here, arid labors with the Church 
a portion of the time. He is now absent on a tour. 
We were cordially received by the brethren, and 
welcomed to our old home, at Bro. D. B. Lull's. 
We gave two lectures in their usual place of wor-
ship, as they were not able to obtain a larger place. 
The attendance was good, under the circumstances, 
and we trust good was done. 
J. V. H. 
Seneca Falls, Jan. 31, 1851. 
Inquiries. 
Can there be a literal reign of the saints with-
out subjects to reign over? 
What extraordinary need is there for binding 
Satan if there is no nations left for him to deceive 
during the thousand years ? 
Does not the language used in verse 3rd, (that 
he shall deceive the nations no more till the thousand 
years should be fulfilled) imply, that if Satan was not 
bound during this period, lie could continue on deceiv-
ing during the thousand years? 
Where is there any authority to be found for 
using the term nations to personify the wicked dead ? 
Your brother searching for truth, 
JAMES CULROSS. 
Rochester, Jan. 23rd, 1851. 
Answer to 1st question.—How could ADAM have 
had dominion without subjects ? GoD said to him, 
" Be fruitful, and multiply, and replenish the earth, 
and subdue it : and have dominion over the fish of 
the sea, and over the fowl of the air, and over every 
living thing that moveth upon the earth."—Gen. 1: 
28. Satan tempted man and usurped the dominion ; 
but DANIEL says (7:18), "the saints of the Most High 
shall take the kingdom and possess the kingdom for-
ever, even for ever and ever." But this kingdom of 
the saints we know will he the dominion given to 
ADAM ; for we read in Micah. 4:8, " And thou, 0 
tower of the flock, the stronghold of the daughter of 
Zion, unto thee shall it come, even the ratisT domin-
ion; the kingdom shall come to the daughter of Jeru-
salem." And this accords with what the SAVIOUR 
will say to those on his right hand : " Come, ye 
blessed of my Father, inherit the kingdom prepared 
for you from the foundation of the world."—Matt. 25: 
34. 
Ans. to 2d question.—There are nations left—the 
nations of the redeemed. 
Ans. to 3d question.—We are not informed that he 
could not deceive the nations if he was not bound.—
As he deceived ADAM, he might deceive some of 
those who will be restored to the condition from 
which ADAM fell. But being hound, he will not de-
ceive them. 
Ans. to 4th question.—We don't know that the 
wicked dead are called nations. But the wicked 
raised from the dead are thus called in Rev. 20:8. 
Romanism ever the Same. 
Some Romans have contended that if Rome had 
now the power, Protestants need never again have 
any fears of the rack, the stake, the dungeon, or the 
gibbet. The following extract from the Pittsburgh 
Catholic exhibits the same intolerant spirit that 
marked the palmiest days of the Papacy : 
" For our own part, we never alluded, in any way, 
to the opening of the Protestant Chapel [in Rome] ; 
but we take this opportunity of expressing our hearty 
delight at its suppression. This may he thought in-
tolerant, but when, we would ask, did we ever pro-
fess to be tolerant of error, or to advocate the doctrine 
that error ought to be tolerated. On the contrary, 
we hate error, we detest it with our whole heart and 
soul, and we pray that our aversion to it may ever in-
crease. We hold it meet that, within the walls of 
the Eternal City, no worship abominable to God 
should be publicly conducted ; and we are sincerely 
glad that the enemies of Truth are no longer allowed 
to meet together, openly as such, in the capital of 
the Christian World." 
Littell's Living Age.—This valuable periodical 
makes its appearance weekly with commendable 
punctuality, and gives the best articles from the 
English periodicals in all their freshness. Among 
the articles in the last No. are " BARON STEIN," and 
the continuation of " My Novel ; or, Varieties in 
English Life." 
Several appointments reached us too late for inser-
tion this week. 
Foreign News. 
The British steamship Canada arrived at this port 
on Wednesday last. She brings no tidings of the 
Atlantic. 
The English general news is of trifling interest, 
and the papers are chiefly filled with speculations re-
lative to the exciting topics likely to engage the 
early attention of Parliament. It is confidently as-
serted that the Chancellor will have a surplus of no 
less than £4,000,000 for the year. Public expecta-
tion is strongly in favor of a large reduction in taxa-
tion, and amongst the most prominent articles named 
for as reduction of taxes, are the window and paper 
duties. 
A slight sensation has been created by the recent 
appointment, without any previous notice, of a new 
Catholic Bishop for Ireland. It is said that the Pope 
has signified his intention to sanction the Queen's 
Colleges, and that his concession upon this point will 
he made the basis of a satisfactory arrangement be-
tween the Roman and English Governments. The 
London Standard states with great confidence that 
Lord JOHN RUSSELL firmly adheres to the principles 
laid down in his letter to the Bishop of Durham.—
The same authority also states that the Queen's 
speech will contain a strong expression against the 
late proceedings of the Pope, and that the speech 
will be followed by stringent legislative measures. 
The Baltimore ship Franconia was wrecked off 
Holyhead on the, 11th ult. Her cargo of tobacco, 
the captain, chief mate, and 11 hands were lost. 
The screw steamer Nautilus, between Cork and 
London, was lost on Wednesday night, in a severe 
gale. Nine lives were lost. 
Accounts from Rome and the Papal states repre-
sent a growing apprehension and uneasiness among 
all classes. 
FRANCE.—LOUIS NAPOLEON appears to have gained 
for the time a complete mastery over Gen. CHANGAR-
NIER and the National Assembly. The Committee 
of Public Safety have reported the following resolu-
tion in regard to the late measures of the Govern-
ment, and an exciting debate relative thereto was 
going on in the Assembly at the latest date :—" The 
National Assembly, acknowledging the right of the 
executive power to dispose of military commands, 
blames the use it made of that right, and declares 
that the General in chief of the army of Paris shall 
preserve the title to the confidants which the Nation- 
al Assembly testified to him in the sitting of the 
third instant." 
An unquiet feeling pervaded all classes in Paris 
on Thursday, and the Assembly was crowded to ex-
cess. An amendment had been proposed and would 
probably pass, stating that the Assembly had no con-
fidence in the Ministry. At the conclusion of the 
latest telegraph despatch LAMARTINE was making an 
able address in defence of the President. 
The peremptory dismissal of Gen CHANGARNIER 
by the President, has caused great dissatisfaction 
among the leaders of the party of order, who profess 
to see in that act the foreshadowing of Louis NAPO-
LEON'S desire to obtain absolute power. The Govern-
ment is charged with interposing no barriers to the 
violent abuse through the journals of the General and 
his friends, and it is also charged that the revolu- 
tionary cries of the army are allowed to pass without 
reprimand. 
The report of the Committee of Public Safety is 
particularly noticeable for the manner in which the 
President is separated front the Ministers. He is 
allowed to pass unscathed, because, as is alleged, he 
cannot be proceeded against without producing a com-
motion which might eventually end in a revolution. 
The Cabinet, therefore, is the chief point of attack, 
and little doubt was entertained at Paris but that the 
Ministry would be compelled to resign. 
The French coast has been visited with a fearful 
gale ; sixty merchant vessels put into the port of 
Cheesbrough for safety. 
DENMARK AND THE DUCHIES.—The news from the 
Duchies is that the Holsteiners have made an uncon-
ditional surrender to the King of Denmark, through 
the instrumentality of the Austrian and Prussian 
commissioners. The army has been disbanded, 
and the chief members of the Stadtholderate have 
retired to Hamburg. 
Although nothing definite is yet known of the 
proceedings of the Dresden conference, yet little 
doubt appears to be entertained but that the result will 
be a reconciliation of the old Diet in Germany. It is 
confidently affirmed that a central power, with a large 
army at its command, has been resolved upon. The 
report of an early congress at Dresden has been 
officially contradicted at Berlin, but without putting 
an end to renewed reports. 
GERMANY.—The Austrian project of a Zolvrein 
union was the chief subject of discussion at last date. 
It meets with no favor from the Government of Prussia, 
but the Saxon and Bavarian Governments are paid to 
favor the proposition. The Prussian Government 
have resolved upon the imposition of a heavy income 
tax, to yield two millions dollars, and to be applied 
to the payment of the interest of the public debt con-
tracted since 1848. 
M. MANTEUFFEL has announced it as the intention 
of the Government to abolish the monopoly which a 
few families have enjoyed, of filling all minor offices 
of state, and that merit and administrative capacity 
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THE ADVENT HERALD. 
EXPOSITION OF REV. 20th. 
BY 0. R. FASSETT. 
(Concluded from our lust.) 
"THE BELOVED CITY." 
1. This is not a Church polity, as many conceive; 
for the Church and city are spoken of as separate 
and distinct from each other. " The city " is " the 
camp of the saints," not the saints. The saints are 
in the beloved city, of course not within themselves ! 
2. It is not the city described in Ezekiel ; for that 
can never be built under the New Covenant. Its 
rites, ceremonies, arid sacrifices, if instituted, would 
do away with the virtue of Christ's atonement. Be-
sides, that city was promised on conditions which 
the Jews disregarded. Of course it will never be 
granted them. 
3. It is the New Jerusalem. 
Because this is the city belonging to the New 
Covenant.-Read Gal. 4:22-31 ; Rev. 21:23. 
The same company is at last gathered around 
the city, New Jerusalem, as described to be around 
this. " Blessed are they that do his commandments, 
that they may have right to the tree of life, and may 
enter in through the gates into the city; for without 
are dogs, and sorcerers," &c.-Rev. 22:14, 15. 
All admit that the city here referred to, is the New 
and heavenly Jerusalem. But how came the wicked 
around and without this city, after the following an-
nouncement 1-" And fire came down from God out 
of heaven, and devoured them."-Rev. 20:9. Do 
the wicked have a resurrection from this lake of fire, 
and appear around the New Jerusalem, as they did 
around the city here described? You must either 
consider the city mentioned in this 20th chapter of 
Revelation the New Jerusalem, or prove that the 
wicked have a second resurrection after the second 
death, and are found again without the city in which 
the tree of life is planted. Which horn of this di-
lemma will you choose? Will you be honest here? 
I press a decision ! 
4. Where is the city dining the thousand years? 
Ans. 1. On the earth ; for the wicked come up on 
the breadth of the earth and compass it about. 
(2.) It is on the new earth. 
PROOF.-This city is 'nowhere found on the old 
earth. " For behold, I create new heavens and a 
new earth ; and the former shall not be remembered, 
nor come into mind. But be ye glad and rejoice 
forever in that which I create : for behold, I create 
Jerusalem a rejoicing, and her people a joy. And I 
will rejoice in Jerusalem, and joy in my people : and 
the voice of weeping shall be no more heard in her, 
nor the voice of crying," &c.-Isa. 65:17-19. " And 
I saw a new heaven and a new earth : for the first 
heaven and the first earth were passed away," &c. 
" And I John saw the holy city, New Jerusalem, 
coming down from God out of heaven," &c.-Rev. 
21:1-4. 
" But the heavens and the earth, which are now, 
by the same word are kept in store, reserved unto 
fire against the day of judgment. . . . But the day of 
the Lord will come as a thief in the night ; in the 
which the heavens shall pass away with a great 
noise, and the elements shall melt with fervent heat, 
the earth also and the works that are therein shall be 
burned up. . . . All these things shall he dissolved. 
Nevertheless we, according to his promise, look for 
new heavens and a new earth."-2. Pet. 3d ch. 
From these passages you learn the fact, that the 
city is not on the old earth. Were it there, what 
would become of it during the entire dissolution of 
heaven and earth ? The new earth first appears,-
then the new city comes down upon it. Here is the 
incontrovertible proof of the restitution at the com-
mencement of the Millennium. 
Besides, the saints do not reign on the sea of glass 
in the city above, as supposed by some. 
They sing when there, " We shall reign on the 
earth."-Rev. 5:9, 10. 
Again : this reign, when begun in the Millennium, 
is eternal. It is not broken up when the thousand 
years end ; nor transferred, and the " saints take 
their flight above, and never set foot on the earth 
again," as Pres. Edwards says. Nor when above, 
transferred below at the termination of the thousand 
years. This is all imagination ! 
The reign of the saints is begun on the renewed 
earth with its city at the beginning of the Millennium, 
and never terminates! Where is the intimation, the 
first intimation, that it does? 
COMMIPONDMOM. 
OBJECTIONS AND ANSWERS. 
Obj. 1. How can the earth be pure and the wicked 
be in it during the thousand years? 
Ans. There is no impurity in the ashes or dust of 
the wicked. 
Obj. 2. How can the wicked be raised out of the 
new earth ? 
Ans. All things are possible with God. We 
might as well inquire how are the dead raised at all ? 
or how are the antediluvians ever to be raised out of 
" the world that then was ?" The new earth, is the 
present one renewed ; and God in its restitution at 
the commencement of the thousand years, when all 
things are shaken and the dust of the righteous and 
wicked are separated, so disposes of the ashes of the 
wicked as riot in the least to mar or injure the new 
earth. " But unto you that fear my name, shall the 
Sun of righteousness arise with healing in hisevings; 
and ye shall go forth, and grow up as calves of the 
stall. And ye shall tread down the wicked ; for they 
shall be ashes under the soles of your feet IN THE 
DAY that I shall do this, saith the Lord of hosts." 
-Mal. 4:1-3. 
Obj. 3. If Satan and the hosts of the wicked are 
to come on the new earth, they will pollute it. 
Ans. Satan was in the Eden world, " walked up 
and down in the midst of the stones of fire : every 
precious stone was his covering."-Ezek. 28:13, 14. 
And yet he did not pollute it. He never could have 
harmed the new earth in the beginning had Adam 
retained his integrity and not have sinned. God 
cursed the earth for man's disobedience. The devil 
never could have done it ! And as the second Adam 
will not sin, we need not fear as to the new earth. 
All these and similar objections are weak and puerile, 
and cannot affect one who believes the simple state-
ment of " Scripture and the power of God." 
The following passages will support the above 
view. " Behold, the righteous shall be recompensed 
in the earth : much more the wicked and the sinner. 
-Prov. 11:31. Both are recompensed in one and 
the same earth, we can understand therefore why 
" fire came down from God out of heaven and de-
voured them."-Rev. 20:9. " And whosoever speak-
eth a word against the Son of man, it shall be for-
given him ; but whosoever speaketh against the 
Holy Ghost, it shall riot he forgiven him, neither in 
this world, neither in the world to come."-Matt. 
12:32. " There shall be weeping and gnashing of 
teeth, when ye shall see Abraham, and Isaac, and 
Jacob, and all the prophets, in the kingdom of God, 
and you yourselves thrust out."-Luke 13:28.-
" Consume them in wrath, consume them, that they 
may not be : and let them know that God ruleth in 
Jacob unto the ends of the earth. And at evening let 
them return ; and let them make a noise like a dog, 
and go round about the city. . . But I will sing aloud 
of thy mercy in the morning."-Psa. 59:13-16. 
"Like sheep they [the wicked] are laid in the grave; 
death shall feed on them ; and the upright shall have 
dominion over them in the .morning."-Psa. 49: 
12-15. 
Compare with the following : " Blessed and holy 
is lie that bath part in the first resurrection." " But 
the rest of the dead lived not again until the thousand 
years were finished." " They went up on the 
breadth of the earth, and compassed the camp of the 
saints about, and the beloved city." " For without 
are dogs and sorcerers," &c.-Rev. 20th and 22d 
chapters. 
Such is the harmony and testimony of the Scrip-
tures on this matter. Why not abide by their simple 
and harmonious testimony? 
VISION OF THE JUDGMENT. 
" And I saw a great white throne, and him that 
sat on it, from whose face the earth and the heaven 
fled away ; and there was found no place for them. 
And I saw the dead, small and great, stand before 
God ; and the books were opened : and another book 
was opened, which is the book of life : and the dead 
were judged out of those things which were written 
in the books, according to their works."-vs. 11,12. 
The manner of the close of this chapter has per-
plexed many minds. Many have supposed that be-
cause the scene of judgment is here introduced at the 
close of the Millennium, it must necessarily follow 
it; but we can at once see the impropriety of this, 
by referring to verses 9, 10, 14, 15. Is there to be 
a judgment after " fire conies down from heaven and 
devours " the wicked, which event takes place after 
they have been raised from the dead? This must be 
the second death, as described in verses 14, 15, or 
else that mentioned in these verses is wrongly named, 
it should he the third death. 
One thing should be observed,-viz., that the 
prophet presents one thing at a time, and he here 
gives a description of the judgment which he had 
not before noticed. Every vision, or new view of 
the same vision, may be recognized by the expression, 
" I saw." 
Hence notice verses 1, 4, 11, chap. 21:1. 
In the verses above quoted (vs. 11, 12) we have 
presented us the beginning of the judgment at the 
commencement of the thousand years, consequent on 
the resurrection of the just or righteous. The book 
of life is here opened, in it are written the names of 
the children of God of all ages. " Blessed and holy 
is he that bath part in the first resurrection." These 
are then here mentioned, " the dead, small and 
great." 
On the appearance of the great white throne, the 
righteous are separated from the wicked, living and 
dead, and caught up and judged. " The Lord shall 
judge his people."-Heb. 10:30. " The Lord him-
self shall descend from heaven with a shout .. . and 
the dead in Christ shall rise first : then we which 
are alive and remain shall be caught up together with 
them in the clouds, to meet the Lord in the air."-1 
Thess. 4:16-18. " Our God shall come, and shall 
not keep silence : a fire shall devour before him, and 
it shall be very tempestuous round about him. He 
shall call to the heavens from above, and to the earth, 
that he may judge his people."-Psa. 50:3-6. 
" But the end of all things is at hand : be ye 
therefore sober, and watch unto prayer." " For the 
time is come that judgment must begin at the house of 
God: and if it first begin at us, what shall the end 
he of them that obey not the gospel of God ?"-1 
Pet. 4:17, 18. 
As further proof we quote the following : " Do 
ye not know that the saints shall judge the world? 
and if the world shall be judged by you," &c. 
Know ye not that we shall judge angels ?"-1 Cor. 
6:2,3. How can this ever be if the judgment of all 
be simultaneous? Please answer ! 
" And the sea gave up the dead which were in 
it."-v. 13. 
This we understand to be a simple announcement, 
showing that all will ultimately he raised, whether 
in sea or land." 
" And death and hell delivered up the dead which 
were in them : and they were judged every man ac-
cording to their works."-v. 13. 
No book of life is here seen ; for the wicked have 
not their names therein recorded, they are judged 
according to their works ! This delivering up of 
the (lead by " death and hell," is the second resur-
rection ; for they that have part in the second resurrec-
tion, the " second death " bath power over. Hence, 
with death and hell they are cast into " the lake of 
fire."-v. 14, 15. The judgment of those consigned 
to the lake of fire is consequent on their resurrec-
tion at the close of the thousand years. 
Obj. You make two days of judgment. Ans. 1 
do not, only one day. That day is not a day of 
twenty-four hours in length, but is " the great and 
notable day of the Lord." Peter. referring to the 
day of judgment, in which we have the perdition of 
ungodly men, says, " Beloved, be not ignorant of 
this one thing, that one day is with the Lord as a 
thousand years, and a thousand years as one day."-
2 Pet. 3:8. Many have overlooked this fact. 
IMPROVEMENT. 
1. We learn what a blessed privilege it will be to 
have part in " the first resurrection." Such shall be 
gathered and raised from among the wicked dead, 
shall reign with Christ in the millennium, be pro-
tected from the rage and fury of the hosts of the 
wicked at its end, and then reign on in undisturbed 
bliss forever. " On such the second death hath no 
power." They will have life everlasting. 
2. We learn how sad will be the fate of the sin-
ner. (1.) They are to be destroyed at the coming 
of Christ,-are to have no part in the millennial 
reign, but are to remain in the embrace of death and 
the grave, and their ashes under the feet of the saints, 
during the thousand years. (2.) Then, they are to 
be awakened to judgment, behold the beauties of the 
world promised them in their life-time, if they re-
pented,-see the beloved city,-the society of the 
redeemed, and then be consigned to the second death. 
(3.) -What must be the feelings of such in that day, 
when they begin to realize the certainty and fearful-
ness of their fate? 0, what oaths and curses, what 
howlings and lamentations, what madness and des-
peration shall seize them ! They will then surround 
that city, and endeavor to wrest it from its rightful 
possessors, and take the kingdom. It will be a final 
and desperate struggle on the part of Satan and his 
hosts. But Jehovah's arm restrains them, and his 
judgments overtake and destroy them forever. " Ga-
ther not my soul with sinners, nor my life with 
bloody men."-Psa. 26:9. 
3. We learn how sad a thing is sin. Some have 
thought it a mere trifle. But, sinner, it cost the 
blood of the Son of God to atone for it. It has 
caused all the sorrows of the present world, and will 
of the world to come. If you persist in your pres-
ent cpurse, you will one day experience that " sorer 
punishment," which awaits the finally impenitent. 
" Choose, then, this day, whom ye will serve," and 
escape the fearful retribution of the wicked. 
AUBURN CONFERENCE. 
(Continued from our lust.) 
The following correspondence was submitted to 
the Conference, to show the design of the " call" : 
Rochester, Dec. 18th, 1850. 
DEAR BRETHREN :-There appears in the last 
" Advent Herald " a call issued by you, for a Con-
ference to be held at Auburn, commencing Jan. 15th, 
1851. The hearts of the brethren here were made 
to rejoice at the thought of again meeting in confer-
ence with those who cherish the hope of soon " see-
ing the King in his beauty,"-but that joy was some-
what marred when they noticed certain expressions 
of a peculiar practical character, contained in the 
call, apparently designed to limit the invitation to a 
certain class of believers in the speedy personal ad-
vent of our Saviour. Some feeling desirous to attend 
the Conference, and yet having doubts as to the real 
design and meaning of the terms used in the invita-
tion, not wishing on the one hand to appear as in-
truders, nor on the other, to stay away when they 
would be cordially welcomed, desire, with Christian 
frankness, to ask whether the invitation was designed 
to he limited to those who, to the belief of the person-
al and pre-millennial Advent of Christ " at the door" 
-the resurrection of the righteous dead-the chang-
ing of the righteous living-the establishment of 
God's everlasting Kingdom on the earth, " at his 
coming "-add the peculiarities of Bro. Miller's faith 
at the terrene conflagration, at the commencement of 
the thousand years, the simultaneous destruction of 
all mortal men ? &c. 
An early, frank, and explicit answer to the fore-
going will much oblige the writer and numerous 
brethren here, in behalf of whom I write, relieve 
them from doubt, and make the path of duty plain. 
Truly your waiting brother,EO. A. AVERY. 
To Brn. H. L. Smith, L. D. Mansfield, D. L. 
Stanford, R. Curtiss, T. G. Bryce, L. E. Bates, J. 
L. Clapp, Jno. Smith. 
Dear Bro. Mansfield, I have written the above note 
of inquiry in accordance with the wishes of brethren 
Carpenter, McMillen, and others, and on behalf of 
our Church generally, and trust you will appreciate 
and gratify the desire of brethren. With Christian 
regard I remain your brother, still looking for the re- 
turn of the Nobleman. 
G. A. A. 
Auburn, Dec. 10th, 1850. 
DEAR BRO. AVERY :-Yours of yesterday came to 
hand this evening, and as it will not be practicable 
for me to lay your letter before the brethren to whom 
it is addressed, I therefore proceed to make such re-
ply to your letter as my understanding of the matter 
enables me to do. 
I do it the more cheerfully as the request emanates 
from brethren for whom I have for years entertained 
the most unfeigned Christian regard ; which, permit 
me to say, I still cherish. 
We supposed the character and design of our pro-
posed Conference would sufficiently appear from our 
" call," but it seems to be somewhat doubtful to your-
self and Brn. Carpenter and McMillen, as well as to 
others, I would therefore briefly answer your in-
quiries. We felt the importance of pursuing the 
work which we began years ago, and of not being 
diverted from it by the new questions which have 
occupied the attention of some of our brethren of late ; 
and while we have no disposition to abridge the lib-
erty of our brethren who have been thus occupied, 
we desire to maintain and proclaim abroad the origi-
nal views which we taught, and not turn aside to ad-
vocate that which subverts those views. 
Those brethren who can co-operate with us in 
such labors as we have been wont to perform, and in the 
defence and furtherance of the truth, on the great 
Advent question, as its features have been developed 
during the Advent movement, are of course cordially 
invited to attend and take part with us. But we do 
not desire our meeting to be distracted by discordant 
doctrines in respect to the millennium, &c., and 
think it far better to have no meeting than to have 
one devoted to disputations among ourselves on some 
of the most vital parts of the theory of the Advent. 
Those who regard the Advent doctrine as it has 
been generally taught, as expressed by the Albany 
and Rochester Conferences, as being so wide of the 
truth that they cannot co-operate harmoniously with 
those who proclaim it, will not of course be expected 
to unite with us in our meeting. 
We do not propose to enter upon any new work, 
but to continue the work already begun, and can only 
say that those who have a new work to perform, and 
essentially different doctrines to proclaim, must cer-
tainly have the liberty to do their work, and diffuse 
their doctrines ; and we do riot intend by this " call " 
to interfere with their rights of conscience, nor divert 
them from labors more conformable to their sense of 
duty, than those which occupy us. 
We did not invite to our Conference all classes of 
professed Christians, because we supposed they nei-
ther sympathized with us, nor our doctrines ; and for 
the same reason we did not invite to take part in our 
meeting, those who cannot conscientiously aid in 
spreading the " peculiarities of Bro. Miler's faith," 
which you mention, and this, not because we wish to 
proscribe or abridge their liberty, for we wish them 
to enjoy the largest. Christian liberty-and to grant us 
the same, which we must still employ in proclaiming 
the above faith. 
But we most cordially welcome to our meeting 
yourself and the brethren named, as also all others 
who can conscientiously unite with us, after our ob-
jects and views are thus stated. However I must say, 
that as dear to me as are the brethren with whom I 
have formerly been associated, and as much as I de-
sire their continued sympathy and co-operation-I 
cannot change my views and course of action when-
ever they do, and if they cannot continue their co-ope-
ration with me in our accustomed work and labor of 
love, there is no other way than to allow each to 
pursue such course as conscience dictates, without re-
gard to concert of action. This I speak for myself, 
and I presume this expression accords with the senti-
ments of the other brethren whose names are attached 
to the call. 
With kind remembrance to brethren Carpenter, 
McMillen, and others interested, I am your brother 
in Christ, 
L. D. MANSFIELD. 
Bro. G. A. AVERY, Rochester. 
P. S. I will lay your letter before the brethren 
when I have opportunity, and if they have any thing 
further to say, you may hear from us again. 
L. D. MANSFIELD. 
The second Resolution was adopted without dis-
sent. 
Conference then adjourned, to meet after the dis-
course in the afternoon, to hear the report of the 
business committee. 
Preaching in the afternoon, at 2 o'clock, by G. W. 
BURNHAM. At the close of the sermon, the business 
committee presented an address, which was read and 
accepted, and Conference adjourned, to meet at 9 
o'clock next morning. 
Preaching in the evening by C. B. TURNER. 
The Conference again convened at 9 o'clock Satur-
day morning. 
A motion to adopt the address being submitted to 
the meeting, a debate ensued, occupying the most of 
the session. The rules were suspended for the in-
troduction of the following Resolution, which was 
carried : 
Resolved, That no member of the Conference shall 
speak over ten minutes in this debate, nor speak more 
than once till all have spoken who wish to. 
The discussion of the address was then continued 
by a number of brethren, and finally submitted to 
the vote of the Conference, when it was adopted by 
a vote of 26 to 25. 
The following resolution was then passed, after 
various suggestions and amendments: 
Whereas, The address was adopted by a vote of 
26 to 25, therefore, 
Resolved, That those who may choose, be permitted 
to publish this address, stating the yeas and nays. 
The Conference then adjourned without day. G. 
W. BURNHAM preached in the afternoon at 2 o'clock, 
after which a meeting of those favorable to the pub-
lication of the address was called. C. B. TURNER 
took the chair, arid L. D. MANSFIELD acted as Secre-
tary. The following brethren were selected as a 
committee of publication, and to receive contribu-
tions : J. V. HIMES, L. D. MANSFIELD, J. L. CLAPP, 
L. E. BATES, and D. KEELER. 
J. V. HIMES and L. D. MANSFIELD were appointed 
to attend to the publication of the address. L. D. 
MANSFIELD was chosen treasurer of the publication 
fund. 
Preaching in the evening by C. B. TURNER. 
After the close of the services, E. R. PINNEY 
made some interesting remarks on the subject of the 
publication of the ADDRESS, and scattering it abroad. 
The appeal reached the hearts of many, and a good 
number of names were given' as subscribers to the 
fund for publication. 
The meetings on Sunday were held in the Court 
House. The audiences were large and attentive ; a 
deep and solemn impression seemed to be made on 
many minds. J. V. HIMES and C. B. TURNER 
preached during the day. 
C. B. TURNER, Chairman. 
J. L. CLAPS', 
L. D. MANSFIELD, 
P. S.-The following protest was presented, to be 
recorded on the minutes : 
" I protest against some of the sentiments and 
publication of this address. S. MARSH." 
Sec'ys. 
THE ADVENT HERALD. 
ADDRESS OF ADVENTISTS, 
Assembled in Conference at Auburn, N. Y., January 15th, 1S51. ; 
being an exposition of their views on 
THE SECOND ADVENT—THE MILLENNIUM—THE NEW HEAVENS AND 
EARTH, &C. 
PREFACE.—The apostle Paul exhorted Timothy 
to "preach the word," and the exhortation was not 
more appropriate then than now, and it is our design 
in this address to obey this injunction, particularly 
in reference to the subjects named in the title page,—
viz., the Advent of Christ, the Millennium, and the 
New Creation. We do not claim to invest our 
views, which we thus publicly express, with any ad-
ditional authority, in consequence of our associated 
utterance of them; but wish it distinctly understood, 
that we consider our views authoritative only as they 
are scriptural. We however claim the privilege of 
stating in our associated capacity, as in our individual 
capacity, what we understand the word of God to 
teach on the great themes above mentioned. Let no 
person charge us with any attempt to invade the 
rights of others who do not think with us, as though 
we wished to make an "iron bedstead," or authorita-
tive creed by which to try them, for we have no pur-
pose to do anything of the kind. So far as we shall 
utter Scripture truth, so far we shall speak authorita-
tively ; not however because we speak as a Confer-
ence, but because we " speak as the oracles of God." 
We feel that in God's providence, we have been 
made the depositories of important truths ; and while 
we distinctly and unreservedly recognize the "right 
of private judgment " as an inalienable right, to be 
enjoyed by all men, in all time ; we also claim the 
right to give utterance to the truths which God has 
unfolded to us, in the exercise of our own God-given 
rights. It is in the exercise of this right of indi-
vidual judgment, that we have satisfied ourselves that 
God's word teaches the views which we herein ex-
press, and who shall condemn us for expressing 
them? 
Who•can doubt the propriety of telling the world 
and the Church that we look for the Lord Jesus ; and 
of giving them the reasons for thus looking? 
As the friends of Jesus and his truth, we are bound 
to speak what we believe. " We believe, therefore 
speak " forth our expectations of Christ's speedy re-
turn to reign during the Millennium, on the new 
earth, with his saints, and finally to reign forever and 
ever. The fact that some do not thus believe, is no 
reason why we should hold our peace, who do thus 
believe. Burdened with a sense of our responsibility 
to God, we must speak forth the truth as we under-
stand it, whether men will hear or forbear ; and we 
earnestly solicit your prayerful attention to the sub-
ject herein presented, requesting only the reception 
of what you find to be scriptural. We shall utter 
nothing but what we regard as such, but we may in 
some cases err, of this our readers must judge for 
themselves, responsible only to God for the soundness 
of their conclusions. 
We " call no man master on the earth, we have 
one master, even Christ ;" no man's interpretations, 
therefore, have any authority with us, any farther 
than they appear to us scriptural. We do not even 
adopt all that our lamented Bro. Miller believed ; but 
his general views on the questions embraced in this 
address we do adopt; not however because he regarded 
them as truth, but because they seem to us to be 
truth. We have always felt at liberty to reject views 
which seemed to us unscriptural, though they came 
from William Miller, but his general interpretations 
we regard as sound, and cannot therefore forsake 
them, even if others do. Whether they, or we are 
right, time will show,—we wait for the issue. We 
cannot repudiate the truth taught by Bro. Miller, in 
order to show our disregard of human authority. It 
is enough for us to allege our utter repugnance to 
the Papal notion of authoritative interpretation, 
while we acknowledge that Mr. Miller's general in-
terpretations seem to us as true, and therefore invested 
with a higher authority than he could give. Those 
who represent us as holding Bro. Miller's views, be-
cause they were his, either knowingly or unwittingly 
" misrepresent" us; we repeat again, we hold them 
only so far as they accord with God's word, as we 
understand it. 
We love the name and memory of that good man. 
We love the doctrines which he unfolded to us from 
the holy oracles, and we cannot but lament that others 
do not love them too. The old veteran of the cross, 
worn with the hard-fought battles in which he was 
engaged for years, has lain his weary head in sweet 
repose upon his earthly pillow, to " rest for a little 
season ;" but we who are his " sons in the gospel," 
who have still the glow of youth, or the vigor of 
manhood, must gird our armor on, press to the moral 
battle-field, and maintain the truth of God, in the 
defence of which he faced a scorning Church, and a 
deriding world. Some of us were privileged to see 
and hear from the old man before he fell asleep, and 
received his dying charge to defend the TRUTH ; and 
though we be derided for promising to do so, even 
by those from whom we might expect better things, 
still we purpose to redeem our promise, as Timothy 
doubtless obeyed the charge of the apostle Paul, 
which we announced at the opening of our preface,—
viz., " PREACH THE WORD !" 
Address. 
That we are living in a momentous period of the 
world's history is generally conceded by the most 
reflecting and sound-minded men of our age ; but all 
are not agreed in respect to the nature of the impend-
ing crisis. 
Few, comparatively, accord with our views of the 
character of coming events ; yet there is an ominous 
foreshadowing of swiftly approaching changes in 
the political, social, and moral condition of our race, 
which shall cast into the shade, the revolutions of 
any former period. 
This idea is wrought into the sermons of the 
clergy of all schools ; is embodied in the speeches 
of our senators at home, and of statesmen abroad ; 
is the theme of social and political reformers ; and 
gives inspiration to the fancy of the poet. 
" There's a better time a coming," is the language 
of all these classes, though there is but little una-
nimity in respect to the manner in which the " better 
time " is to be brought about. 
All are expecting important changes in the frame- 
work of society, which shall result in the bringing 
in of the " millennial " era, corresponding in its 
character to the particular department of reform 
which engages the attention of each. 
The politician and statesman, expect a political 
millennium. The Christian and philanthropist, a 
moral and religious millennium. The Socialist, a 
millennium of social reforms, and so on to the end of 
the chapter. Now we regard these facts as indicat-
ing a crisis of some kind, and though all these are 
mistaken as to the manner of the occurrence, yet the 
crisis itself will come, and that speedily. A change 
must and will transpire very soon, which shall demon-
strate that "coming events have cast their shadows 
before." 
Illustrative of this general expectation, we quote 
the following lines from an article entitled, " CHRIS-
TIAN Socisiasm," not because we adopt the senti-
ments expressed, but because they illustrate the 
positions specified : 
" THE DAY OF THE LORD." 
" The day of the Lord is at hand, at hand ; 
its storms roll over the sky, 
A nation sleeps starving on heaps of gold—
All dreamers toss and sigh. 
When pain is sweet, the child is born, 
And the night is darkest before the dawn 
Of the day of the Lord at hand. 
" Gather you, gather you, angels of God—
Chivalry, Justice, and Truth— 
Come, for the earth has grown coward and old, 
Come down and receive us, her youth. 
Freedom, Self-sacrifice, Mercy, and Love, 
Haste to the battle-field—stoop from above 
To the day of the Lord at hand. 
Gather you, gather you, hounds of hell ; 
Famine, and Plague, and War, 
Idleness, Bigotry, Cant, and Misrule— 
Gather arid fall in the snare ; 
Hirelings and Mammonites, Pedants and Knaves, 
Crawl to the battle-field, sneak to your graves, 
In the day of the Lord at hand !" 
Thus our poets sing of the " Day of the Lord," 
but we apprehend their conceptions will be found to 
fall very far short of the reality ; for the Lord's day 
will not. come without the Lord himself, and no con-
ceptions of that day, which overlook the fact of the 
Lord's presence, can approach the sublimity and 
grandeur of that momentous period. Another writer 
gives utterance to a more truthful and equally graphic 
and poetical expression of cherished hopes about to 
be realized, accompanied by appropriate admonition : 
" Now, now, portentous omens thick'ning 
Proclaim the long expected morn, 
When Gabriel's trump the sleepers quick'ning, 
Nations shall in a day be born. 
And will you worship earthly treasure, 
While thrones and kingdoms melt away, 
And princes flee in dread dismay ? 
Will you be slaves to sinful pleasure? 
Arouse ! arouse ! ye saints, 
Your arms and hearts prepare ! 
Press on ! press on ! all hearts resolved 
A Conqueror's crown to share." 
This is the language of such as look for the Lord 
Jesus Christ to come in person ; and we ask, Is it 
strange that the disciples of Christ, who have ob-
served the course of human progress, and have seen 
the utter futility of all man's efforts to perfect human-
ity, either in its political, social, or religious aspects, 
should turn away from the fine spun theories of such 
as expect to do God's work themselves, and look for 
the return of their Lord to bring about that which 
He has promised to do himself, and not what He has 
promised his Church shall do ? Not to intimate that 
earth's present inhabitants shall be thus perfected, 
but there will be a state of perfection for " those 
who shall he accounted worthy to attain that age and 
the resurrection from the dead," so that the earth 
will present a scene of glory and delight surpassing 
the fondest expectations of politicians, poets, or re-
formers. 
Do they talk and sing of a righteous government? 
" A king shall reign in righteousness." " The Lord 
will raise unto David a righteous branch." 
Is their theme the moral perfection of society ? 
" Thy people shall be all righteous." " The saints 
of the Most High shall take the kingdom." 
Do they anticipate such scientific improvements as 
shall make the sterile parts of the earth fruitful 1 
God says : " The wilderness shall be like Eden, 
and the desert like the garden of the Lord." All 
human conception of the final and glorious destiny of 
the earth, are like the shadows which precede an ap-
proaching object ; but totally inadequate to possess 
the mind with the character of the object itself. 
However, God in his mercy has unfolded, by the 
spirit of prophecy, his glorious purpose, by which 
we approximate nearer to the reality as it shall soon 
be developed. 
The grand idea of the age, is the perfection of 
terrestrial things. All the moral, political, social, 
scientific, and religious movements of the times are 
directed to that end ; but reasoning from analogy, 
there is no prospect of accomplishing the end by 
human agencies. 
All, ALL are inadequate to so 
momentous a transformation as is anticipated, if we 
are to judge from the past and present, the tendency 
of things being still downward. 
There are various and novel inventions in science, 
and abundant and ingenious devices for effecting re-
forms, yet the agents engaged in the work are not 
new, men, only men, are employed, and to these God 
has never promised either general or universal 
success in reforming mankind, and perfecting society. 
And it is passing strange that a Church which the 
inspired Paul predicts will " have a form of godli-
ness, but deny its power" (2 Tim. 3:5), should be 
expected to accomplish, " in the last days," more 
than was accomplished by the apostles of Christ, 
with all their miracles and moral power. 
A distinguished divine has recently delivered a 
discourse in London, for the purpose of showing why 
that great metropolis has not been converted to God. 
What reasons he assigned we do not know, but it 
would be equally appropriate to show why Jerusalem, 
Rome, Ephesus, Corinth, and Athens were not con- 
verted. The opinion, that if the Church did her 
duty in this age of the world, all would be converted, 
is altogether unfounded in Scripture, as no greater 
success is pledged to those living in the Nat days, 
than was attained in the apostolic days ; and it is 
little less than an impeachment of the faithfulness of 
Christ and his apostles, who never succeeded in con 
verting the mass of the people in any of their various 
fields of labor. 
It is doubtless true, that were the Church of " the 
last days " more devoted, more would be done ; but 
God has foretold the degeneracy of the Church, and 
declared that they would " have a form of godliness, 
but deny the power," and that they would " not 
endure sound doctrine ;" which should lead us to ex-
pect less from its labors, than from the labors of the 
apostolic Church. 
The language of Christ on this very point is suffi-
cient to show that the success of Christ's servants 
should not be greater than that which attended his 
own labors.—" Remember the word that 1 said unto 
you, The servant is not greater than his Lord. If 
they have persecuted me, they will also persecute 
you : if they have kept my saying, they will keep 
yours also."—John 15:20. As therefore, Christ 
never converted the entire people where he labored, 
no disciple of his may ever expect to so far excel his 
Master as to convert all. 
There is much of human pride in the expectations 
of the Church, which, in the language of a distin-
guished divine, claims " to hold of God, the right to 
win the world."—See Dr. Cox's Sermon before the 
A. B. C. F. M. 
We are well aware that our views of the future 
are very unpopular, and that the bare mention of the 
Advent of Christ as a probable event in this age of 
the world, calls forth very little but odium, even 
from multitudes of our professed brethren in Christ. 
But we have learned that majorities are not always 
right ; yea, more, that they are seldom right ! 
We should never think of submitting to vote the 
question of the nature of the great impending crisis, 
unless we adopted the opinion of a distinguished re-
former, that " God constituted a majority," no matter 
who may be on the opposite side. With this under-
standing of the matter, we should not hesitate, for 
we believe the word of God shows conclusively that 
the great event to be expected in this age, is the 
coming of the Lord. But there are many who do 
not recognize God as casting his ballot on this mo-
mentous subject, but leaving Him out of view, settle 
the truth of this question by determining whether it 
is generally believed. Having found it to be gen-
erally rejected, they make no scruples in rejecting it 
also. 
Such persons are guilty of great folly, for they 
naturally shut out God from the privilege of being 
heard. 
If majorities are to decide whether Christ is com-
ing personally in this generation, and God is to be 
left out, then instead of consulting the oracles of 
God, we should take a census, and find out what be-
lief predominates among the masses, arid the ques-
tion would be settled. 
Absurd and ridiculous as such a position seems 
when looked at, yet there are multitudes who settle 
the great question respecting the coming of Christ 
by just such a process. What is the general opinion? 
is the question proposed—and once answered, the 
minds of multitudes rest quietly, well satisfied that 
it is even so. How long will men neglect to inves-
tigate for themselves, and trust to this absurd and 
anti-Christian mode of settling what is truth on so 
momentous a question as that of the coming of Christ, 
and its associated events?—(To be continued.) 
To the Advent Ministers and Churches. 
DEAR BRETHREN :—At a meeting of the Essex Confer-
ence, Nov. 14th, the following resolutions were passed : 
Whereas in the opinion of this Conference the present 
condition of the Advent cause demands the union and co-
operation of all true and faithful Advent ministers and 
Churches in New England, who are united in the principles 
of the original Advent Faith, as stated by the Albany Con-
ference in 1845, and re-affirmed by the Boston Conference in 
1850 ; therefore 
Resolved, 1. That we will take immediate measures for the 
general union and co-operation of Adventists throughout the 
country. 
Resolved, 2. That a committee of five be chosen to corres-
pond with brethren in all parts of the country on the subject, 
and to call a meeting for the Adventists of New England, and 
report their proceedings to the Conference. 
The committee will be happy to have the views of breth-
ren on this subject. Letters may be addressed to J. V. 
HimEs, Boston, Mass. 
JOSHUA V. RIMES, 
LEMUEL OSLER, 
BUTLER MORLEY, 
Committee. 
0. R. FASSETT, 
EZRA CROWELL, 
Boston, Nov. 15, 1850 
A NEW ENGLAND CONFERENCE has been requested by 
the following brethren. It is hoped that elders, or unor-
dained preachers, evangelists, officers of Churches, or active 
lay brethren, in the New England States, who approve of 
this object, will send in their names, to be appended to this 
call. 
T. M. Preble, 
Wyman, I. Adrian, 
 
F. 
James Brooks, Colger Snow, 
Guild,
Amos Kenney, 
 
Thomas Smith, L. Kimball, 
A. Merrill, J. Croffut, P. B. Morgan, 
J. S. Richards, J. Shaw, N. H. A. Hale, ey, 
Dr. N. Smith, N. Smith, 
T. 
Harley, 
I. Wright, S. Tibbitts, C. Green, 
John F. Millikin, D. Smith, 
E. 
Buckley,
L.Clarl, E. Parker. J. M. Daniels, 
C. Wellcome, Ezra Crowell, H. Stinson, 
N. Hervey, I. H. Shipman, D. I. Robinson, 
V. Himes, H. Plummer, J. Pearson, 
L. Osier, 0. R. Fassett, B. Morley, 
Dea. L. Jackson, Chase Taylor, Jonas Ball, 
G. W. Thomas, 0. D. Eastman, D. Bosworth, 
L. Bolles, 
P. Hawkes. 
George
'L. M. Bentley, 
Micaja Burman, 
John Locke, 
Benj. Ravel, 
Rco. blet.rtGMri(g)rgrsi,11, 
 Stone, A. Sherwin, 
B. S. Reynolds, E. Thompson, 
J. G. Smith, C. W. Perkins, W. Allen, 
W. H. Eastman, P. Powell, R. Harley, 
 
N. Billings, L. D. Thompson. 
The Conference will be held in Salem, Mass., commencing 
Feb. 26th. 
GENERAL DEPOSITORY 
OF AMERICAN AND ENGLISH WORKS ON THE PROPHECIES RELATING 
TO THE SECOND ADVENT OF CHRIST AND THE MILLENNIUM. 
WE have made arrangements with a house in London, to far 
nish us with all important English works on the Advent, and 
will engage to supply those desiring works of the above character at 
the earliest possible moment. Address, .1. V. RIMES, Office of the 
"Advent Herald," No. b Chardon-street. Boston. 
AGENTS FOR THE HERALD. 
Milwaukee, Wis.—Saml. Brown. 
New Bedford, Mass.—II.V. Davis 
Newburyport, Dea. J. Pear- 
son, sr., Water-street. 
New York City.—W in. Tracy, 75 
Delancey-street. 
Philadelphia, Pa. — J. Litch, 7e4 
North 11th street. 
Portland, Me.—Peter Johnson, 37 
Summer-street. 
Providence, R.I.-G. R. Cladding. 
Rochester, N.Y.—IN m. Busby. 
Salem, Mass.—L. Osier. 
Toronto, C. W.—I). Campbell. 
Wardsboro', Wyman. 
Waterloo, Shefforcl, C. E. — R. 
. 
Massena, N. Y.—J. Danforth. Worcester, Ms.-D. F.Wetherbee. 
FOR GREAT BRITAIN AND IRELAND.-11. Robertson, ESQ., NO. 1 
Berwick Place, Grange Road, Bermondsey, London. 
GREAT COUGH REMEDY 
Ayer's Cherry Pectoral, 
FOR THE CURE OF 
Hoarseness, Bronchitis, Whooping-Cough, Croup, 
Asthma, and Consumption. 
T
HE uniform success which has attended the use of this prep-
aration—its salutary effect—its power to relieve and mire affec-
tons of the Lungs, have gained for it a celebrity equalled by no 
other medicine. We offer it to the afflicted with entire confidence 
in its virtues, and the full belief that it will subdue and remove the 
severest attacks of disease upon the throat and lungs. These re-
sults, as they become publicly known, very naturally attract the 
attention of medical men and philanthropists everywhere. What 
is their opinion of the CHERRY PECTORAL, may be seen in the 
following : 
Valentine Mott. M. D., Prof. Surgery, Med. Col., N. Y. says : 
" It gives me pleasure to certify the value and efficacy of Ayer's 
Cherry Pectoral, which I consider peculiarly adapted to cure dis-
eases of the throat and lungs." 
The Right Rev. Lord Bishop Field 
writes in a letter to his friend, who was fast sinking under an affec-
tion of the lungs: "Try the Cherry Pectoral, and if any medicine 
can give you relief, with the blessing of God that will." 
CHIEF JUSTICE EUSTIS, 
of Louisiana, writes, " That a young daughter of his was cured of 
several severe attacks of Croup by the Cherry Pectoral." 
ASTHMA AND BRONCHITIS. 
The Canadian ".Journal of Medical Science" states, "That 
Asthma and Bronchitis, so prevalent in this inclement climate, has 
yielded with surprising rapidity to Ayer's Cherry Pectoral, and we 
cannot too strongly recommend this skilful preparation to the Pro-
fession, anti public generally." 
Let the relieved sufferer speak for himself : 
Hartford, Jan. 26, 1847. 
Dr. J. C. Ayer—Dear Sir :—Having been rescued from a painful 
and dangerous disease by your medicine, gratitude prompts MC 10 
send you this acknowledgment, not only in justice to you, but for 
the information of others in like affliction. 
A slight cold upon the lungs, neglected at first, became so severe, 
that spitting of blood, a violent cough, and profuse night sweats, 
followed and fastened upon me. I became emaciated, could not 
sleep, was distressed by my cough, and a pain through my chest, 
and, in short, had all the alarming symptoms of quick constimptiou. 
No medicine seemed at all to reach my casP, mull I providentially 
tried your Cherry Pectoral, which soon relieved and now has cured 
toe. 
Yours with respect, E. A. STEWART. 
Albany, N. Y., April 17, 1848. 
Dr. Ayer, Lowell—Dear Sir :—I have for years been afflicted with 
Asthma in the worst form ; so that I have been obliged to sleep in 
toy chair for a larger part of the time, being unable to breathe oil 
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INDEX. 
G 'W. Clement . 
126 Laura F. Marshall . . 367 Christian Consistency . 339 
L 
126 H. K. Boyer . . . 367 Credulity of Tourists . 348 
 
Literal Fulfilment of Proph. 
Reflections . . . 229 
C. Chisman 
. 
 
 C. H. Fuller . 
151 I. H. Shipman . . 367, 375 Commo 
76 Response to the Pamphlet 248 
 
tion with Christ . 355 Literary Criticisms . 
6 
229 
Rest of the Sabbath . . 
 
POETRY. J. G. Smith 
151 Ad. Church in L. Hampton 375 Christ's Love for Children 405 Lyrical Poetry of the Bible 147 Restoration of Pictures . 
301 
Amateur of the Ball -Room 31 J. Porter . 
159 F. Beckwith . . 375 Cardinal Wiseman 414, 422, 429 Love, a Test of Chen Char. 148 Remember the Poor . . 303 
 
. . 49 1. H. Shipman . . . 166 A. Brown . 
375 
D 
Longevity Extraordinary . 180 Romanism in Europe . 344 
 
All is weariness . 
S. Everett . . . 174 J. W. Bonham . 382 
 
Dreams, The Phenomena of 4 Longing for the Heay. City Religious Intelligence . 350 
 
Advent, The . . . 105 L. I). Mansfield 183, 190, 208 L. E. Bates . 
382 
 
Dangerous Seducer, The . Love of God . 
211 
Rev. 20:6. By O. R. Fassett 
 
Am I almost therel . . 289 
183, 198 M. D. Wellcome 
10 
211 
406, 426, 434 
 
A Heavenly City . . 315 R. Hutchinson 
382 
 
Discoveries in South Africa 83 LoGngoidng fo.r the .Prese.nee of. 
235 the Son of Man, The . 407 
B. Morley . . 190 N. Brown . 
382 
 
Darkness before the Dawn 84 
Anglo-German Sacred Poetry 342 A. Merrill . . 198 L. Dudley 
383 
Duty of Christians . . Literary Theft . . 237 
A. Apolonio
Development of Character . 168 
197 Lynn Tent Meeting . . 247 
S 
All thy Works Praise Thee 353 
198, 214 J. Croffut . 
391 
Ancient and Modern Rome . 413 E. Crowell . . 198 P. B. Morgan . 391 
Date of the Crucifixion 228, 236 Lead us not into Temptation 250 
Beware of Careless Words. 177 
274 Spirit of Christ . . 6 
Consolation . . . 9 J. Litch . . . . 198 J. W. Bonham 
398 
Divine Gov. of the World . 243 Last Days of Mr. Bickersteth 
Signs of the Advent Nigh 51 
Consolation for Believers . 57 Church in Philadelphia . 199 A. Wood . 
399 
Dying Words of Wilberforce 243 Lectures on Matt. 24th 245, 
Sacrifices . . . 107 
Church in New York . 204 J. Dickinson . 
399 
Domestic Duties . . 334 292, 300, 308, 316, 324, 
 
Confidence in God . . 161 
 
. 1,3 Church in Homer . . 214 J. W. Bonham . 406 
Signs of the Times . . 134 
. 211 Letter from Lockport . 215 M. Reynolds . 
407 Doctrine of our Fathers . 346 333, 341, 358, 366, 374, 
Crown of Thorns . 
 
Death Scene in Kentucky . 
Slander . . . 197 
. 313 J. Croffut . . 215, 302 M. M. Maxwell 
407 
352 381. 
' 
Statement of J. P. Weethee 
Consolation . . 
. 345 Church in Brooklyn . . 222 J. Seavey . 
407 
Death Scene of a Miser . 
Death and Res. of Lazarus 362 Literary Rank of the Koran 299 
363 Lax 'Fheolog,y . . 299 and others . . 205, 208 
Comfort under Affliction 
Christian Thought, A 
R. Harley . . . 222 L. Case . 
. 407 
Dancing Parties . . 
Starting Newspapers . 247 
Destiny of the Earth . 
. 415 Little Prayer-meetings . 323 
 
Lost Chapter of, Acts . 330 Scene in Hayti, A . . 251 
Dirge, A . • • • 17 W. Watkins . . . 222 J. Slater . 
407 
 
Day of the Lord, The . 155 J. Litch . 222, 287, 295 S. R. Dennett . 407 
Division of the World, &c. 418 Last Words of the Dying . 357 Sundry Amusements on the 
22 W. Trowbridge . . 223 J. F. Huber . 
407 
422 
 
Letter to a Teetotaller . 359 Last Day . . . 298 
 
Dawn Descried, The . . 429 
 
Earth was Beautiful . 
M. L. Bentley . 223 J. Pearson, jr. . 418 
E 
 
Luther and Loyola. . . Seeing Afar Off . . 326 
Eternity . . . . 137 J. Weston • . 223 J. Smith . 
419 Extracts from Mr. Imbrie's 
Spiritual 
Spiritual Dryness . . 326 
Encouragement to Believers 239 J. E. Hazen . . 223 E. Corey . 
419 Sermon . . . 50 
Spiritual Recognitions . 347 
 
Earth and Heaven 
A. Keyes . . . 223 I. Adrian . 
419 Enoch Walked with God 76 
M 
382 
Salvation, Sermon before the 
 
. . 361 
 
Endure to the End . . 
E. L. Chapman . 223 A. Vaughan . 419 Eternal Fire . . . 77 Miller's Dream • 2 Queen . . 347, 353, 361 
 
Earth and Heaven . . 423 
. 89 S. C. Collins . . 223 L. M. Richmond 419 Even now there are many Misquoted Texts . . Scene of the Last Judgment 362 
Fulness of Jesus, The 
D. Fogg . . 223 L. D. Mansfield ' 
426 Antichrists . . . 116 
10 
 
Matthew Henry's Covenant 11 Science and Revelation . 362 
 
Forever with the Lord . 153 
. 329 J. Bullock . . . 230 W. H. Fernald . 426 Everlasting Consolation . 146 Mr. Miller's Death, Notice of 22 Spiritual Reign of Christ 
Faith . . . 
Advent Church in Westboro' A. Sherwin . 426 Everlasting Gospel . . 148 
Fatal Delusion, The . 385 
 
and Northboro' . . 230 E. M. Triplett 
426 Erskine Miscellany, The . 156 Mothers. . . . 27 372, 380, 388, 396 
Good Tidings of Great Joy 401 
 
Ministry of Angels . . 59 Sermons of Rev. J. King 
 
D. 1. Robinson . . 230 W. S. Moore . 427 Effects of God's Word . 182 Millennium, The . . 73, 82 Lord . . . 400 
25 
 
Harvest, The . • Advent Church in Providence 230 
Edorn-Idumea 
188 Morley's (Bro.) Case . 77 Saints Unknown in this 
Home of the Blest, The . 65 
 
B. B. Brown . . . 231 MISCELLANEOUS, 
 
Earnest of the Morning . 204 More Secret Workings . 124 World . . . . 402 
Home Sickness, The . 277 R. King . . . . 231 
A 
Editorial Correspondence . 248 Mede, Joseph 139 146, 154 163 Sacred Echoes from the Mid- 
He does well who does his best 351 
 
W. H. Fernald . . 231 Another Gospel . . 12 Essex Co. Conference . 342 Movements, The Late 
Happy Clime, The . 393 
Moses on Mount Nebo 
• 181 dle Ages . . . 403 
185 Advent Church iti Milesburg Apocalypse, Lectures on the Effects of the Cath. Religion 359 
211 Supplement-No. 1 . . 257 
 
Inspiration of the Past 
No 2 • 409 
Extracts from Dr. Berg's Meditation . . • 230 
1 and Unionville . . 231 25, 33 41, 51, 65, 73, 81. 
Jesus Comes . • 
D. C. Turner . 
Madam Rumor 
. 231 Advent, The . . . 49 Reply to Bish. Hughes 370, 378 
Jubilee . • 
41 
Milton, John . 
237 
54 Yates Higgins • 231 Apostolicity of Chiliasin 51 Extinction of Races . . 427 
86 H. Harriman . • 
231 Age, The . . . 52 
F 
Messiah, The . 
• 238 
244 
T 
Jerusalem • 
 
Jesus my Home 
145 H. L. Hastings . . 231 Achilli (Dr.), Escape of . 67 
Floating Light 
Morning Star, The . . 252 Time, The Flight of . . 11 
Judge not . • • 
. 19 
175 W B. Schermerhorn . 231 Advent Cause in G. Britain 76 
11 
Lines to Belzoni's Mummy 
Future Abode of the Saints 38 Modern Reformers . . 323 Tears Wiped Away . 
249 J. W. Bonham . . 238 Am I a Christian . . 93 
Final Conflict . . 
 
Longing for Christ . • 
 
Advent Chnrches in Hallowell - --1 Apollos, Rev. Dr. . . 123 
qgQ Men Ought Always to Pray 323 Thoughts, &c., by N. Her- 
''' Mormonism . . . 372 vey . . . . 30 
Lines on the death of H. 
French Political Tactics . 85 
Monthly Concert . . 'Chat Hated Monster . 
 
Williams . • • 418 and Gardner . . 238 A Word of Exhortation . 180 
Fly Sheets, The . 93, 108 
402 
 
Millennial Kingdom of God 407 Tale for Everybody, A . 43 
31 
1 Advent Church in Cranston 239 American Antigua. Society 190 
Mr. Miller, On the Death of 
273 J. C. Bywater . . 239 Apocalyptic Sketches 145, Four Universal Kingdoms . 97 
The Tropics-Paradise 
 
My Home is in Heaven 
. 239 
Fountain Opened, The . 116 
76 
Trumpet, The Last . . 106 
129 P. Blood . 
153, 161, 169, 177, 185,
N 
 
Night and the Morning 
Fall of the Temple . . 179 
The Truth in a Nutshell 117 
335 J. G. White . . 239 193, 202, 210, 217, 225, 
369 B. Bancroft . . 239 233, 241, 249, 273, 281, Faith . . . . 243 New Heavens & New Earth 18 
No Tears in Heaven 
Trust in God . 174, 166 
 
Noah-His Trial of Faith 34 
 
Not Very Far . . 
Future Aim of Europe . 253 
The Pure in Heart shall see 
419 G. W. Burnham . . 239 289, 297, 305, 313, 321, 
1 
Feed my Sheep and Lambs 277 Notes on Scripture . . 90 
New Creation, The 
God . . . . 211 
 
J. W. S. Napier . 239 329, 337, 345. 
Nineveh and Nahum 130, 138 
 
Our Dependence • 
121 F. Grinner . . 247 A Just Man . . . 227 Family Worship . . 353 
To our Readers . . 213 
Night Watch, The 180, 189 
Oldest Christian Hymn 
363 F. McWiiliams . . . 247 Always Welcome . . 227 First Lessons in Prayer . 362 
Tent Meeting at Lynn . 213 
Nineveh . . . 196 
 
Old Earth, The . 
Future Age, The 366, 390, 398 
The First Step . . 213 
113 Advent Church in Stanstead 247 Apostolic Doctrine of the 
New Volume . . . 212 
Future Condition of Man 
Patience • • . 
The First Prayer . . 227 
187 L. C. Collins . 247 
234 
New Effort, The . . 224 
Philosopher's Scales, The 
199 B. Sweet . 
247 Ascent to the Ball of Si:
End of the World . . 
416, 424, 432. 
The Voice of Conscience 227 
Philosophy of Endurance 
225 I. E. Jones 
252 Peter's . • • • 243 
. 417 Novel Suspension Bridge . 243 'fribulation . . . 236 
Fugitive Slave Case . 
337 L. Osier . 
284 First Step to Heaven 426 Newspaper Press, The . 301 The Minor Prophets . . 237 
Pearl of Great Price, The 
Parting Words . • 
253 Agency vs. Ownership . 
Naaman the Leper . . 354 The Blessedness of Persecu- 
33, D. 1. Robinson . 253 A Natioe without God . 315 . G 
No Popery Cry in England 365 
Punishment of Pride, The 
 
Religious Pride . • 
253 All in all . . . 323 Gospel, The . • . 6, 9 Nature arid End of the Sa- 
Tribulation . 
243 
199 J. Hall . . . 
lion . . 
241 P. P. Learned • 
254 Advent Herald, The . . 325 Geography, Lecture on 113, creel Office . . • . 371 
244 
Rest of the Saints, The 
318 B. Abbott . . . 255 A Scene upon Mount Olivet 330 121, 129, 137. 
The Pamphlet 
Name of Jesus, The . . 373 
245 
 
Rooted in Christ . . 
350 I. C.. Wellcome . 277, 301 Adventism . . . 333 Gospel (The) the same in 
Trust in Providence . 251 
 
Restitution, The •
The Flight of Time 
74 The Church in West Troy 277 A Minister of the Gospel all ages . . . 132 
o 
251 
Sower to his Seed, The . 
To Correspondents . 
81 B.N.Child . . . 278 should set, &c. . . 343 Geology pointing to New 
252 
 
Second Advent, The . 
O.A. Brownson on the High- The Morning 
230 Another Voice from Wo'ster 278 Abomination of Desolation 356 Heavens and New Earth 142 
 
Still Hope for the Best . 
er Law . . . 432 The Crown . 
'276 
233 Advent Church in Auburn . 278 Advent, The . . . 390 Genuineness of the Script's 171 
Sun Dial and Flower, The 
Omnipotence of Grace . 93 The Sin Offering 
276 
247 From Brethren in England 279 American Bible Union 386, 394 God's Unspeakable Gift . 195 
277 
 
Sodom and Gomorrah . 
33 J. L. Clapp . • 
279 A Splendid Description . 403 
Oswego Con., Report of 135 The Fatal Secret . 
 
God is in the Pestilence . 211 
'283 
To-day and 'Co-morrow 
Our Personal Affairs . 140 Truth Tested by Time 
191 E. Burnham . 
279 Auburn Conference . 425, 534 
279 
 
Gill, John . . . 254 
 
To J. V. Himes 4'. • 166 P. B. Morgan 
God Known by his Judg- Our Anticipations 164 Theological and . Literary 283 
The Two Advents . 
366 J. C. Bywater 
279 
B 
merits 290, 298, 338, 346 Our Saviour . . • 229 Journal (Lord's) . . 284 
To a Christian Pilgrim 
377 J. Fairbanks . 286 Beauty of Forgiveness . 123 
Our Defence . . . 256 The Two Covenants 283, 291, 298 
Gathered to his People . 306 
 
The Dying Year . 
 
G. W. Clement 
286 Benevolenc.of the Law . 131 
Our High Priest . . 275 
421 
Geology aod the Bible . 322 
To Adventists . . 293 
Valley of Dry Bones, The 
 
S. N. Gears . 287 Butterflies . . . 136 
On Taking Heed in Hearing 418 The True Light . . 294 
126
Grace and Glory . . 326 
We would See Jesus 
358 S. Judson . 
287 Believers' Portion . . 169 Gospel, The . 348, 356, 364 
The Model Preacher . 299 
 
World to Come, The . 
35, G. W. Miller . 287 Brothterly Co-operation . 180 
Gibbon on the Millennium . 350 
P 
The Victory over Death . 300 
Watchword for the Times 
J. Nucake . 
287 Brief Exposition of 1 KingsGashmu Family, The 395 Perpetual Guide, The 7 The Blind Man of the Lon- 
 
. 
. 
CORRESPONDENCE. D. Campbell . 287 21:9, 10 . . . 193 
Gems from Rutherford . 402 Personal Advent of Christ 14 don P. 0. . . . 315 
 
LETTERS FROM 
E M. Robinson 
293 Bishop Heber . . . 198 
 
Gov. of Verbs in English 427 Personal Advent . 26, 34 The Reunion . ., . 316 
N. Brown 
. 295 Babylon . . , . 212 
Parable of the Sower . 42 The Presence of the Lord 332 
7, 14, 46 A. Brown 
295 Be Careful for Nothing . '214 
li 
Prophecy of M. M. Noah 43 The Dragon-That Old Ser- 
 
C.
M. H. Case • 7 R. Robertson 
 
T. S. Potter . . 
14 C. 
 
Dudley
Betios . . . 
295 Boiling Springs of Iceland 251 
295 Beloved, vet Sick . . 275 Harbinger, A kind word to 32 Peace of Heaven . . 76 pent . . . . 340 
Hutchinson, Richd., and the Prison Room Inscriptions 83 The Lord is Coming . . 342 
A. Thorp . 
 
D. T. Taylor . 14
295 Bliss?s Sacred Chronology 326 Wesleyan Miss. Corn. . 88 Pope in Rome, The . 125 The Peace which Christ 
 
C. Green . . • • 22 H. H. Gross . 
301 Breaking up the Slave Trade 355 Harmonies of Genesis and Pastors . . . . 126 gives . . . . 355 
 
S. Chapman . 22, 110, 174, 278 S. U. D. Cowles 
302 Blessed are they that mourn 370 
 
H. H. Hall 
22 H. Munger . 
302 Bear the Infirmities of the 
Revelation . 210, 218, 226 Press, The . . . 128 True Religion . . . 358 
 
23 J. P. Farrar 
302 Weak . . . 374 Holy Living . . . 229 Path of Life, The . . 139 The Elect Angels . . 364 
The Grace . • 380, 365 
30 J. E. Hazen . . 
 Hear the Word of the Lord 290 Prophecies of the Old and 
 
M. Tewkesbury . 
 
George Needham 
303 
C 
He is a Christian . . 307 New Testaments . 164 The Earth, its Curse, &c. 369 
 
P. Powell . 
31 Church in Odelltown . . 303 
 
J. 0. Orr . • 
31 Matthewson, Grant, and Pratt 303 Chardon-street Lectures . 1 Home of the Soul . . 307 Popery and Paganism . 171 377, 393, 401, 413, 421 
Chronology, Lecture,' on 5, History of Chiliasm . 306, 314 President, Death of' the . 197 The Wedding Garment . 379 
 
J. P. Weethee 
38 I. Adrian . . . 303 
Time-Haze, 'Ile . 394, 385 
38, 231 N. Brown . . • 303 13, 21, 29, 36. 
How some Reason . . 325 Psalm and Comment for the 
310 Conference in South China 47 How to Prepare Sermons . 373 Times . • . . 219 The Four Gospels . . 387 
J. M. Orrock . 
 
E. Walker . 
39 J. W. Bonham . . 
Church's Hope, the Joy of Hardening Process of Sin 378 Plymouth Brethren, The 219 The Moral Sublime- . 387 
 
Bertie's Mother . . 46 G. Needham and others . 310 
Angels . . • . 58 Half Century, The . . 415 Prayer Forbidden . . 219 Theo. and Lit. Journal . 388 
J. W. Bonham 47, 94, 110, T. L. Carlton 
311 
Prophet's Fall, The . 226 The Glory . . . 397, 404 
 
J. Porter . 
311 Church Saved by Hope 75, 
I 
 
133, 143. 
Perversion of the Scriptures 22.7 Trust God and do Right . 415 
 
W. H. Fernald . 
311 
Imbrie's (Mr.) Sermon 44, 60 Practical Rules and Caution The Lord's People . . 423 
. 54 R. Hutchinson 
81, 89. 
. 54 J. D. Wheeler 
311 Creation, The New . 82 Israel, The Hope of 107, 
 
J. L. Clapp . 
in the Study of Prophecy Tour West . . . 428 
311 Christian Race, The . . 94 115, 122, 129, 137. 
 
J. A. Chaplin . . . 54 L. Dudley . 
234, 244, 250, 274 
U 
M. Ingham 54, 143, 222 J. M. Orrock 
318 Contemplation . . 122 Immanuel's Righteousness 123 
B. Maynard . 54 W. Burnham 
318 Conference in New York 124, 132 Inquisition at Rome . . 163 Poetry of the Bible, The 243 
60 T. P. Hedrick . 318 Conference in Boston 140, Importance of Circulating Personal Matters Again . 308 
 
L. F. Billings . 
60 I. H. Shipman 
318 149, 157, 172, 181. 
the Scriptures . . 194 Plain Practical Questions . 315 
 
P. B. Morgan o• 
61 J. Croffut . 
318 Coming of the Lord Doctri- Is He a Christian . . 275 Power of the Cross . 338 
 
James Inglis . . 70 D. Bosworth . 
318 nally and Practically Con- It One Ruse from the Dead 282 Political Condition of the 
Jews . . . . 375 
V 
Hannah Smith 
 
Thomas Smith 71, 78 E. Crowell 
318 sidered 154, 162, 170, 178, Inquiries. . 317, 433 P 
Victory in Death . 
 
Eliza Parker . . 78 T. Smith . 
319 Common Faroe . . . 159 Isaiah's Vision of Christ's reparation to Stand before 
Voice from Worcester 
 
E. A. Maynard 
78 J. Cummings . 319 Christian Perfection . 166 Glory . . . 323 
R 
Venezuela . . 
 
I. E. Jones . . 86 N. Hervey . 
334 Chinese Geography 187,195, 203 Incomprehensibility of God 339 Rome, Last Days of . 2, 9, 17 Voice of God, The 
Isnrsaueeicteistes of 
Good
Sacroilehgvee T.ree 403 Reaction, The Year of . 
 
J. Lenfest . 
87 J. D. Boyer 
. 342 Chardon-street Church . 188
3 Visit to Homer . . 
 
J. B. Huse 
. 87 A. Abbott . 
342 Coming to Christ . . 203
Resurrection of the Body . 10 
. 342 Churches, Preachers, Smart 
Resurrection, The . . 22 
W 
 
H. Munger . 
87 P. B. Morgan 
404, 425. 
 
Mrs. C. Niles . 
94 J, W. Bonham 
350 Men . . . . 219 
J 
Riches & Poverty of Christ 28 Wesleyanism in Canada . 
 
Lydia Shears 
94 I. E. Jones .
. 
Resurrection, The . . 35 Worcester, Dr., on the Ad- 
. 350 Chronology of Artaxerxes 220 
 
M. Cheney • 
94 W. M. Ingham 
35, Consolations of the Right- John Bunyan . . . 25 Restitution, The . . 54 ventists . • 
Armstrong 
95 B. F. Reynolds . 350 eons . . . . 227 Jews, Restoration of the 59, 66 
 
78, 86, 89, 105, 113 
Walsh's (Dr.) Abjuration 
Resurrection, The 62, 70, 
 
H. J. Pierce . 
95 P. V. West . 
350 Clerical Backslider, The 238 Job, his Trial of Faith . 66 
Revelation, Date of the . 
68 Walking with God 
359 Christian's A nticpation, The 275 Jesus-Justice-Sinner . 299 
108 A. B. Brant . 
• 
35, Church of the Holy Sepul- Jesuitism in New York . 352 Resurrection of the Dead . 
74 Watchmen . . • 
 
Elder A. Abbott 105 L. Osier . . 
Chandler . 
118 M. D. Wellcome 367 chre, The . . . 282 
K 
Roman Empire, Area of 
109 Watchman, What of the 
0. R. Fassett . 
 
H. L. Hastings . 118 T. Smith . 
• 
367 Conspiracy . . . 291 King and his Beauty, The 22Reforms
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Reformers
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367 Climbeth up some other way 307 Kingdom of God, The 36, 
367 Christ the Light of the World 314 70, 196, 254, 286, 294. Re178, 186, 174 
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Why be Punctual . , 
Mrs. M. A. Ober 118 E. L. Bates . 
Christ's Second Coining 321, 330 Kingdom, The . . . 349 Resurrection, The 202, 214, 302 
Use of Present Trials . 156 
Uplifted Hands, The . 218 
Unity of the Human Family 290 
Unity of the Human Race 307,387 
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