ffitlertiono. 
THE CITY. 
Thou art no child of the city! 
Hadst thou known it as I have done, 
Thou wouldst not have smiled with pity. 
As if joy were with thee alone- 
With thee, the unfettered ranger 
01 the forest and moorland free; 
As if gloom, and toil, and danger 
Ceuld alone in a city be. 
The smoke, the din, and the ,sue 
Of the city, I know thell: veil; 
An 
I know the gent! t: -astle 
Of the leaves in _oar breezy dell. 
Day's hurry 
.. evening's riot, 
In the 
,, I know them all; 
. OB., the loving quiet 
your glen at the day's sweet falL 
Know, too, ea .•11 grim old alley, 
With the blanched ray, flickering through; 
I know each sweep of your valley, 
Where the rosy light; dies iu dew. 
J. know, too, the stilling sadness 
Of the sualtner noon's sultry street; 
I've breathed the air of your gladness, 
Where the streams and the breezes meet. 
I know the dun haunts of fever, 
Where the blossoms of youth decay; 
I know where your free broad river 
Sweeps disease on its breast away. 
Yet despite your earnest pity, 
And despite its own smoke and din, 
cling to you crowded city, 
Though 1 shrink from its woe and sin. 
ifor I know its boundless measure 
Of the true, and the good, and fair, 
its vast and tar-gathered treasure, 
All the wealth of soul that is there,. 
You may smile, r sneer, or pity, 
You may fancy it weak and strange: 
My eye to yon smoky city 
still returns from its widest range. 
My heart, in its inmost beatings, 
Ever lingers around its homes; 
My soul wakes up in its greetings 
To the gleam of i:8 spires and domes. 
You call it life's weary common, 
At the best but an idle fair, 
The market of luau and woman; 
But the choice of the race are there. 
The wonders of life any gladness, 
AU the wonders of hope and fear, 
The wonders of death and sadness, 
All the wonders of time, are there. 
In your lone lake's still face yonder, 
" By your rivulet's bursting glee, 
Deep truth I may read and ponder 
Of the earth and its mystery. 
There seems in you city's motion 
Yet a mightier truth for me; 
"ris the eouuu of life's great ocean, 
'Tis the tides of the human sea. 
O'er the fields of earth lie scattered 
Noble fruitage and blossoms rare; 
You city the store has gathered, 
Aud the garner of hearts is there. 
You may prize the lonely lustre 
Of your pearl or emerald green; 
What is that to the gorgeous cluster 
On the brow of the crowned que.-n? 
And the home to which I'm hasting 
Is not in some silent glen; 
The place where my hopes are resting 
Is a city of living men. 
The crowds are there, but the sadness 
Is lied, with the toil and pain; 
Nought is heard but the song of gladness; 
'Tis the city of holy men. 
And wilt thou my sad fate pity, 
Wilt thou grieve o'er my heavy doom, 
When within that resplendent city 
I shall fiud my glorious home? 
—From " Hymns of Faith and Hope," by Horatius 
Bettor, D. D. 
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THINGS TO BE SOTTGHT-NO. 8. 
ETERNAL LIFE. 
This God will "render to every man " 
of our race " who by patient continu-
ance in well doing seeks for glory and 
honor and incorruption and peace." Rom, 
2 : 7. Men may obtain wealth, honor, 
fame, and glory here, but ah ! how soon 
does death; man's relentless foe, deprive 
them of all earthly enjoyment ! Death 
brings the grandee of earth .sown to a 
level with the beggar. In the grave 
they -moulder side by side. They can 
carry nothing with them when called to 
leave the world. " Be not thou 'afraid 
when one is made rich, when the glory 
of his house is increased :: for when he 
diet!" he shall carry nothing away ; his 
glory shall not descend after him." Psa.. 
49: 16, 
-17. 
Hence whatever we' may 
have in this world, we can enjoy it only 
for a brief season, Death, with uplifted 
axe, is upon our :track, ready at any mo-
ment to cut .its down. We can hold 
nothing he 
Wealth, honor and friends 
leave us, err we soon leave them. But it 
is not to be thus in the new and beautie, 
ful werld- to come, where the saints will 
be an home. We shall not only obtain 
"glory, honor,-incorruption, and peace," 
but we shall have '" eternal life," so that 
We may enjoy the proinised. good for-. 
ever.- There will be no dying there, for 
the " gift of God is eternal life through 
Jesus Christ our Lord." They cannot 
die in that immortal and incorruptible 
state. - " Neither can they die any more ;. 
for they are equal Unto the angels ; and -
are the children of God, being the chil-
dren of the resurrection." Our friend's 
will not be laid upon a sick-bed to waste 
away with a painful disease, until we are 
called to their conch to say farewell, 
amid tears, as they-leave us for the cham-
bers of the dead. We shall never 'See a 
funeral procession, graveyard, or ..tomb-
stone amid those'Eden bowers to be 'in-
herited by the saints of God in the neiV 
and -glorified earth hereafter to 'be re-
vealed,- to remind-11a of loved' ones laid. 
away. Circles there will inever be bro-
ken, nor hearts filled_ with sadness. Here 
the husband is bereft of a devoted wife, 
or wife of the 'husband. The parents 
weep for their children "because they 
are not," or the dear "little ones " are 
left to domed the bitter tears of orphan-
age in a friendless world. But there we 
shall be changed, sweetly and gloriously 
changed ! And the felicity to be en--
joyed forever ! Will any of the read-
ers of this fail of .entering that blessed 
world ? How sad to know 'that so many 
are likely to lose these endless blessings 
and enjoyments- 
Now all this good is embraced in the 
word Zoec, here translated life. " Glo-
ry, honor, incorruption, and peace," are 
all included in the word Zoee. 
As 'the 
Holy Spirit uses the word„ it trot only 
means life, but life in the pregnant Sense 
of the term. It refers not sinitily to the 
mere fact of being, but to a .conditioh, 
of being, as of holiness and hap.piness. 
The word life, in its lowest 'sense, never 
means simply existence. A book, chair, 
stone, &c,„ may exist, b.utstill they nev-
er had., nor will have, life. A tree may 
exist, though destitute of life. But is 
'Rot life opposite to death? Certainly. 
Still death is not non-existence, as seen 
in the case of the tree just cited, which 
may exist, and exist as a tree, though 
dead. So wee and thanatos express op, 
 
polite conditions of being; but never ex= 
istence and non-existence simply. Thus, 
to be "carnally minded is death;" While 
to be "spiritually minded is life anA 
peace." Here the words - are employed 
to express opposite conditions of being, 
and not existence and non-existence sim-
ply. The same is true whether the terms 
are used literally or figuratively. Oppo-
site conditions of being are invariably 
referred to, and while one condition ob-
tains there must be of necessity the- ab-
sence of the other. Hence a person can-
not be both dead and alive in the same, 
sense, at the same time ; but he may be 
dead in one sense, and alive in another 
at the same time, as seen ,in the above 
quotation from Romans. 
The condition of .Dives had so greatly-
changed by his entrance into Hades, that 
Abraham reminded him that he had 
passed . his zoee-time. 
Son,- remember 
that thou in thy life-time receivedst.thy 
good things, and likewise Lazarus evil 
things but now he is comforted, and 
thou art tormented," Dives and .Lazas 
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• 
ing of Christ before the Millennium be 
true ; if this advent is (as we believe 
the Scriptures declare) to be preceded 
I by, attended with, and followed by most 
stupendous events ; if the Son of man is 
I to come It4, raise' from their graves the 
bodies of his saints, constituting " the 
first, resurre‘ction," " the resurrection of 
I the just ; 
and if living believers, who 
shall be wttiting for his coming, at the 
time, are. to be caught. 
to meet 111111 
in the aicz....LUe is :subsequently 
pear in glt)ry " with all his saints," visi-
ble to eveery• eye, to take vengeance on 
his enernists, and to renovate this earth, 
purifying it by lire, and making it the 
fit abiding-place of his ransomed ones ; 
if be will thus, at his coming, establish 
his -.kingdom in righteousness, and here 
personally with his risen saints judge or 
rule during the millennial period ; and 
if we are to " watch " for this advent as 
for that which may occur at any time ; 
then, surely, all will admit that the 
doctrine should have a direct salutary 
moral influence upon our lives and our. 
feelings. It should operate most decid-
edly to make us more holy in conversa-
tion and more heavenly-minded. It 
should stimulate to the cultivation of 
every. Christian grace. If with any 
who profess to embrace the doctrine, it 
does not bring forth these fruits of god-
liness, the reason must be looked for in 
other causes than the tendency of the 
belief. It is the testimony of those who 
fully, -without wavering or doubt, receive 
this as the revelation of our Lord, that 
in their own experience there are realized 
poWerful incentives to holy living—that 
they may be ready, with lamps trimmed 
and burning, and with oil in their ves-
sels, to enter into the marriage-feast, 
when the Bridegroom, for whose coming 
they are looking and praying, shall 
make his appearance. "For myself," 
remarks Ryle, " I can only give my own 
individual testimony ; but the little I 
know, experimentally, of the doctrine of 
Christ's second coming, makes me regard 
it as most practical and precious, and 
makes me long to see it; more generally 
received_ 
it a powerful spring 
and stimulus to holy living ; a motive 
for patience, for moderation, for spirit-
ual-mindedness ; a test for the improve-
ment of time, and a gauge for all 'my 
actions." 
This result is just what the whole 
tenor of the word of truth would lead 
us to expect. If attention has not been 
particularly drawn to the subject, it 
will, perhaps, be a matter of surprise to 
find that the prominent, we had almost 
said the exclusive motive to repentance, 
and to Christian diligence, and heavenly-
mindedness and holiness of life, as urged 
in the Scriptures, is this very fact, the 
coming of the Lord Jesus Christ. If 
other considerations are presented, this 
stands pre-eminent as the one incentive 
and stimulus to duty. 
DEATH is that to 
which' attention, in our day, is mainly. 
directed as a motive to prepare for 
future retribution. It is, certainly, well 
calculated to arouse the attention of 
those who have but a brief probation 
here to spend. Death is the sealing of 
the destiny of the soul, as there is no 
further opportunity for repentance ; and 
yet it is a fact well deserving serious re-
flection, that very seldom is any allusion 
made to death by the Saviour, in his dis-
courses, or by the Apostles in their 
letters. We cannot recall a solitary in-
stance -where the sinner is exhorted to 
repentance, or the believer to diligence 
and holiness, in view of this event, so 
certain to all, so uncertain as to the time 
of its occurrence, and so momentous in 
its immediate and in its ever-continuing 
consequences. It is not the motive 
urged home upon the conscience as a 
stimulus to effort. We • do not mean to 
say that this may not be presented as a 
consideration well calculated of itself to 
make a deep impression. What we de-
sire, particularly, to enforce, is, that it is 
not the scriptural motive—that which 
the Holy Spirit has presented as pre-
eminently the most effective. In every 
epistle, except the brief ones, the Second 
and Third of John, and that to Phile-
mon, there are allusions—and in several, 
very many allusions—to the second 
coming of Christ, as a motive to a holy 
life ; whereas not one solitary reference, 
it is believed, is to be found to death as an 
incentive to the impenitent, or a stimulus 
to the believer. And, furthermore, it is 
worthy of note that the uniform testi-
mony of the ministers of Christ is 
there is scarcely a subject, if there be 
one, which is urged upon the attention 
of their hearers with so little permanent 
benefit as death. For upwards of thirty 
years has the writer preached the Gospel, 
and has sought for motives to urge the 
sinner to forsake his sins, and the Chris-
tian to increased devotedness ; and many 
have been his appeals, at funerals and. 
upon other occasions, based on the cer-
tainty of death, its solemnity and re- 
sion, awakens serious thought, and some 
31.) Among these " signs" immediately 
to precede this glorious event—the com-
ing of our Loril—and by which we are to, 
: judge of its proximate nearness are : 
The Gospel is to be preached to all. 
I natio'ts of the earth " FOR A WITNESS." 
""Tis Gospel of -the Kingdom shall be 
preached in all the world.for a witness 
unto all nations ; and then shall the end 
come." (Matt. 24 : 14 ; Acts 1 : 8.) 
A general apostasy from, the faith 
in nominal Christendom. "Nevertheless 
when the Son of nian 366rneth shall he 
find faith on the earth ?" (Luke 18 : 8 ; 
2 Thess. 2: 3; 2 Tim. 3: 1-5, 1: :3-4,&c.) 
A great prevalence of iniquity in 
the world. " As the days of Noah were, 
so shall also the coming of the Sen of 
man be." (Matt. 24 : 37 ; 2 Thess. 2 : 11 ; 
2 Tim. 3: 1-5, 4: 3-4, &c.) 
National and political revolutions 
and great disturbances. "There shall be 
upon the earth distress of nations, with 
perplexity ; the sea and waves thereof 
roaring ; men's hearts failing them for 
fear, and for looking after those things 
which are coming on the earth ; for the 
powers of heaven shall be shaken. And 
then shall they see the Son of man coin: 
ing in a .loud, with power and great glo-
ry. " ( Luke 21 25-27 ; Heb. 12 : .27 ; 
Rev. 8 : 1-13 ; Is. '2 : 10-22, &c.) 
Numerous unusual physical phe-
nomena, and portentous forebodings of 
nature. " Great earthquakes shall be in 
divers places, and famines and pesti-
lences ; and fearful sights and great signs 
shall there be from heaven. And there 
shall be signs in the sun, and in the 
• 
moon, and in the stars ; and upon earth 
distress of nations. And then shall they 
see the Son of Man coming in a cloud." 
(Luke 21 : 11, 25, 27 ; Acts 2 : 19, 20 ; 
Micah 7 : 15, 16.) 
An 'unusual awakening of interest 
and inquiry among the true followers of 
Christ respecting his second coming. 
" At midnight there was a cry made, 
Behold the Bridegroom cometh ; go ye 
out to meet him." (Matt. '25 : 6 ; Hab. 
2 : 1-3 ; Dan. 12 : 4, 9.) 
Unprecedented 'manifestations of 
the power and, malice of the devil in the 
church and in the world. "The devil is 
come down unto you, having great wrath, 
because he knoweth that he bath but a 
short time." (Rev. 12 : 12 ; Matt. 24 : 
24 ; 2 Thess.- 2 : 8, 12 ; 1 Tim. 4 : 1, 3, 
&c.) 
These and other signs are clearly indi-
cated, and if we fail to look out for 
them, and to be influenced by them in 
our conclusions as to the approaching 
nearness of the grand event which they 
are designed immediately to anticipate, 
may we not meet with the displeasure of 
our Lord, and render ourselves obnoxious 
to the rebuke he administered to some 
of old ; " Ye hypocrites, ye can discern 
the face of the sky ; but can ye not dis-
cern the signs of the times ?" (Matt. 
16 : 3.) 
But this opinion of the rapidly ap-
proaching period is not founded solely 
on " the sighs " predicted ; which leads 
us briefly to consider, . 
II. THE SPECIFIC (CHRONOLOGICAL) 
TIME OF THE SECOND ADVENT. 
There are certain chronological predic-
tions which have direct reference to this 
event ; and which have not, surely, been 
given in order merely to awaken a curi-
osity never to be gratified, and to lead to 
vain and profitless speculation. If in 
ages past no satisfactory solution of 
these predicted times has been reached, 
it is but the fulfillment of prophecy. 
A 
celestial messenger said to Daniel (10 : 
14), " I am come to make thee under-
stand what shall befall thy people in the 
latter days." In the twelfth chapter we 
read, " 0 Daniel, shut up the words and 
seal the book even to the time of the 
end." And again : "Then said I ; 0 
my Lord ! what shall be the end of these 
things ? And he said, Go thy way, Dan-
iel, for the words are closed up and seal- 
ed till the time of the end 
And none 
of the wicked shall understand, but the 
wise shall understand." 
Thus are we in- 
formed that a time would come when, 
however obscure and unintelligible to 
the wicked these predictions should be, 
" the wise should understand them ; " 
for " at the time of the end" are these 
seals to be broken and the words under- 
stood. And we ask, who will say that 
the " time of the end " may not now 
have come ? Within these thirty or for- 
ty years much attention has been given 
to the investigation of these " signs " of 
the times, and to the study of the chro- 
nological prophecies ; and these investi-
gations have been conducted by some of 
the most sober-minded, the most learned, 
and the most godly of the church ; and 
it is a very noteworthy fact that, with 
scarcely a single exception, the conclu- 
sion is reached, that within a few years, 
three, or five, or ten, these predicted 
events will transpire, or begin to be ver-
ified. All the lines of prophetic inter-
pretation, the result of independent and 
of varied methods of investigation, seem 
times 
resol utions of amendment. 
[most remarkably to converge to these 
i.very years now just at, hand. 
It is 
-tho ught, and with many. it is a , nvic- 
tion, -that within the,period specified, the 
long-anticipated second corning of the 
Son of Man in the clouds of heaven, to 
glorify .the saints, and to be glorified of 
them.; to execute judgments upon his 
enemies ; to establish his kingdom, anti 
thus to inaugurate the millennium, will 
occur; or, at jeast, that "the beginning 
of -the end" will be most xna.nifest. 
In 
reference to any specific, definite time 
when these .events will transpire we wish 
to speak with- caution. ..We have no 
opinion to express as the result of inde-
pendent examination of the chronologi-
cal prophecies, We refer to the conclu-
sions which . others have reached. A 
short time will test the correctness of 
these conclusions. 'They may prove fal-
lacious. But those who entertain them 
think they have, after patient study, all-
sufficient reasons for their belief. We 
do not give here the data, on which their 
conclusions are founded, nor the varied 
investigations leading to them, but the 
simple result to which they have come ; 
and this assuredly demands most serious 
consideration. For if it be legitimately 
reached, we are indeed standing on the 
very verge of .that tremendous crisis, in 
which all the prophecies centre in regard 
to the interests and the destinies both of 
the church of God and the nations of 
the earth, at the time of the great " har-
vest," at the end of the world, or the 
" times of the Gentiles." * * * 
Is 'there, we ask, anything in the word 
of God to forbid our hope and expecta-
tion that the Lord will, if he have not 
already done it, imbue some diligent stu-
dents with " wisdom," so that at this 
" time of the end" they may " under-
stand " the import of these predictions ? 
Nor may we be at a loss to discover 
why it was that the definite time was not 
made known to the immediate disciples 
of Christ, and why it was withheld from 
many subsequent generations. The wis-
dom and the goodness of God are mani-
fest in this divine arrangement. "I find 
in this concealment," remarks Dr. 6eiss,* 
" the great unsearchable wisdom of the 
Author of salvation, .in so arranging 
what he has said about the time as `to se-
cure the same practical effects for every 
age, without confining the promise to 
any." And Bickerstetht remarks, in an-
swer to the question, " Why did he with-
hold the time ?" "Look back. You 
stand on the eminence of eighteen cen-
turies. See what these centuries have 
been. Generation after generation, apos-
tles, martyrs, fathers, confessors, and re-
formers, have lived and died. Mark all 
the conflicts through which the early 
Christians attained their triumphs, their 
labors, sufferings, persecutions, ,and mar-
tyrdoms. Go on to the rise. of Popery 
and Mohammedanism ; see the dark 
ages ; mark the struggles of infant 
ProteStantism, and its subsequent decay. 
Look at the present spread of infidelity 
among professedly Christian nations. 
Had the Apostles been told all this must 
previously take place—all this corruption 
must spread over the world—what need-
less despondency and heart-sinkings 
must have overwhelmed them ! Eigh-
teen hundred years of deferred expecta-
tion !—eighteen hundred years of Isra-
el's dispersion and desolation !—eighteen 
hundred years yet to remain of the 
Gentile monarchies—and eighteen hun-
dred years of the treading under foot of 
Jerusalem ! With that wisdom and 
love which marks all the Lord's provi-
dence to his Church, this dark scene 
was kept back." Thus we see the wis-
dom and the goodness of the Saviour's 
answer to the questioning disciples ; "It 
is not for you to know the times or the 
seasons which the Father bath put in 
his own power." . He would have his 
people, in every age, reap the spiritual 
benefit of a cherished expection of his 
coming. The animating, purifying, and 
heavenly hope of that event he would 
have them ever enjoy. Hence they were 
to watch for it ; to anticipate it ; to re-
joice in it. There. was to be a season of 
waiting. A knowledge of how long it 
was to be protracted he kindly withheld 
from them ; that thus they might feel 
the power and influence of his oft-re-
peated injunction, " Watch ; for ye know 
not when the Son of man cometh." 
But it still may be asked, as it often 
has been ; "Wherefore dwell on these 
unfulfilled predictions ? What profit 
are we to derive from the study of 
them ?" Much every way, is the unhes- 
itating reply of those who wait for and 
love Christ's appearing, as did the apostle 
Paul when he anticipated the crown of 
righteousness, which he was to receive 
at the coming of his Lord. 
-we may now consider briefly— 
III. THE PRACTICAL MORAL BEARING 
AND INFLUENCE OF THE DOCTRINE OF 
CHRIST'S SECOND COMING. 
If this doctrine of the personal 'coin- 
stood forth, 'to their Contemplation, as 
the point of culminating-interest in their 
own . and the world's history, ; threw 
into comparative insignificance the pres-
ent time, death, all intermediate events, 
and made them feel that the manifesta- 
tion of Christ with its consequenees of 
indescribable moment to all true believ- 
ers, was the grand object which they 
were to keep in view, as the end of their 
toils, the commencement and perfection 
of their glorious immortality. In such 
a state of intimate sympathy with an 
event, so familiar to their thoughts, they 
derived, and must have derived, their 
chief incentives to action from the pros.- 
pect of that future glory. As we should 
expect, they hold- it up to the people of 
God to encourage them in affliction, to 
awaken them to fidelity, zeal, and perse- 
verance ; and on the other hand, appeal 
to it to warn the wicked and impress 
upon them the necessity of preparation 
for the revelation of that day." "If 
modern Christians," he continues to say, 
" sympathized more fully with the sacred 
writers on this subject, it would bring 
both their conduct and their style of re- 
ligions instruction into nearer corres-
pondence with the lives and teaching of 
the primitive examples of our faith." 
This emphatic statement is fully con-
firmed by a reference to the Scriptures 
themselves. A few passages in illustra-
tion may be presented. 
As an appeal to ministerial fidelity 
and diligence, hear St. Paul to Timothy •; 
". I charge thee, therefore, before God 
and the Lord Jesus Christ, who shall 
judge the quick and the dead, at his ap- 
pearing and his Kingdom, preach the 
Word ; be instant in season, out of 
season ; reprove, rebuke, exhort with all 
long-suffering and doctrine." 
(2 Tim. 
5 : 1, '2.) 
So St. Peter : " The elders 
which are among you I exhort, . . . 
feed the flock of God, . . . . and when 
the Chief Shepherd shall appear, ye shall 
receive a crown of glory that fadeth not 
away." (1 Pet. 5 : 2, 4.) 
11. 
.Are careless sinners to be aroused? 
" What is a man profited is he shall gain 
the whole world and lose his own soul ? 
or what shall a man give in exchange 
for his soul ? For the Son of man shall 
come in the glory of his Father with his 
angels ; and then he shall reward-e-Very 
man according to his works." (Matt. 
16 : 26, 27.) " Whosoever shall be 
ashamed of me and of my words, of him 
shall the Son of man be ashamed when 
he shall come in his glory." (Luke 9 : 
26.) 
• 
Are men called to repentance P "Re-
pent ye, therefore, and he converted, 
that your sins may be blotted out, when 
the times of refreshing shall come from 
the presence of the Lord, and he shall 
send Jesus Christ. . . • whom the heav-
ens must receive until the times of resti- 
urges 
But where are to be fonnd the.parnactn-eat, 
good results ? They are confessedly but 
few. Do not men ,,coolly diseuss their 
plans of business acid of pleat 
even 
as. they .follow the corpse. to th,e4cnub 
yea, often indulge in levity of feeling, 
and in the most trifling -conversation ? 
Why is it that •these.solenin admonitions, 
on the doings of death and in the very 
presence of the, destroyer, so very gen-
erally fail to seeure any abiding impres7 
sions for good ? 
-Why are our exhorta-
tions, and our warnings, in view of - the 
opend grave, so barren of results ? Can 
we find an all-sufficient, satisfactory 
answer in the thought, that the frequency 
of the occurrence so familiarizes the 
mind to the scene that susceptibility to-
salutary impressions is entirely or almost 
wholly, lost ? We. think not. This may 
have, and undoubtedly has, its effect ; 
but a solution of the question we must 
find in the fact that, agreeably to the 
Divine arrangement,- as made known in 
the Scriptures, death is not the subject 
of appeal. EVerywhere it is the second 
coming of our Lord. 
But it may be inquired, as it has often 
been, Is not death, to him who experi-
ences it, to all intents and purposes, the 
same as the advent of Christ ? And 
may we not understand by the expres-
sion, " The coming of the Son of man," 
where it is presented as a motive for 
watchfulness, this very providence ? To 
both inquiries we are constrained to give 
an emphatic negative. • Death and the 
coming of Christ are, in the Scriptures:, 
widely contrasted. Death is the coming 
of the " king of terrors." . It is in part 
the penalty of sin, a positive evil in 
itself, the result of Adam's apostasy. 
True, to the believer, it is, by the mercy 
ofi God, shorn of its terrors, and made a 
" gain ; " only so, however, because of 
what sin bath brought upon our blighted 
earth. A ." gain " only because we live 
in a world laboring under the curse ; 
where life is a probation, a discipline ; 
and where no direct communion with 
Him who is the believer's hope and joy, 
and blessedness, is had except by faith, 
It is "gain " to depart - and. be " with. 
Christ." Death is, of itself, ft positive 
evil, whereas the coming of the Son of 
manis represented as a glorious event. 
Nowhere is death represented as the 
object of watchfulness, :and by no legit-
imate reasoning can we substitute the 
" coining of the Son of man "for it. At 
death, moreover, Christ does not come 
to the believer, but the believer goes -to 
him. • He " departs" that he may be 
with. Christ. At death " the dust [the 
body] shall return to the earth as it 
was ; and the spirit shall return unto 
God who gave it. (Eccles. 12 : 7.) 
Death is a present visitation, settling, it 
is true, the question of the soul's futu-
rity. The advent of Christ- is a pre-
dicted event; when the believer, as to 
his body, shall be raised from the grave, 
and a consummation of glory, not re-
alized at :death, will be his blessed ex-
perience ; and when the sinner, knowing 
no joyous resurrection, will wait in. 
"hades," or the intermediate state, with 
harrowing anticipations of the full in-
fliction of his dread penalty 'at the clos-
ing act of the Judgment. (Rev. 20 : 
12.) The exhortation to " watch for 
the coming of the Son of man," em-
braces much more than to watch for the 
approach of death. The mind is to be 
fixed on the stupendous, startling scenes 
which are connected with the second 
advent ; and which are so intimately re-
lated, not only to the interests of indi-
viduals, but to those of the whole 
Church, and to the destinies of all na-
tions. Read the comforting assurance 
of the Saviour to his sorrowing disci-
ples. " In my Father's house are many 
Mansions ; if it were not so I would 
have told you. I go to prepare a place 
for you. And if I go and prepare a 
place for you "—what then? Is it, " I 
will come to you at death that you may 
enjoy it? " Ah, no.; I will come again 
and receive you unto myself, that where 
I am there ye may be also ; " referring 
them to his predicted second advent, as 
the time when this blessedness would be 
fully realiZed. 
Nothing is more obvious' than the 
marked prominence given in the 'New 
Testament to the practical moral bearing 
of the doctrine of the second advent. 
Professor Hackett, of the Newton 
Theological Seminary, (who is not a mil-
lemiarian,) a candid and distinguished 
commentator on the Acts of the Apos-
tles, bears this testimony : "The final 
Coming of Christ was the great consum-
mation on which the•StrOngest desires of 
the first believers were - fixed, and to 
two solitary cases, and these kioubtful ' reference to this event. They labored 1 this doctrine is presented. It stands 
ones, has he had evidence of any lasting Ito be ,prepared for it. They were con- forth in the Word of God, unequalled 
benefit as the result of these appeals. stantly, in the expressive language of I in its power to arouse the careless, to 
Nov why is it so ? Death, wherever. it Peter, looking for and (in their imps - comfort the mourner, to incite to boll-
occurs, makes an'"Present, seternn irnpres- tience, as it were) hastening the arrival ness of life, and to exalt the Saviour and 
of the day of God 
 The Apostles, his cross, 
to 
as well as the first Christians in general, 
comprehended the grandeur- of that oc-
casion It filled their circle of view , 
(Acts 3 19, 20.) 
to holiness of life 
mind ? " When 
tution of all things." 
Are saints exhorted 
and spirituality of 
But the question as to the TIME OF THE 
sEcond ADVENT admits of, and seems to 
demand, a more definite answer ; and we 
may consider, 
I, 
THE RELATIVE PERIOD. 
II. 
THE SPECIFIC OR CHRONOLOGICAL 
TIME. 
Whatever may be thought and said by 
some, of the presumption of those who 
venture to specify a particular "hour or 
day," or even year, wherein the Lord 
shall appear, we are, assuredly, warrant- 
ed, yea, it is our enjoined duty so to con-
sider the "signs" of his coming as at 
least to judge of our proximate nearness 
to the event ; else the injunction is with-
out meaning, " When these things [these 
signs just enumerated by the Saviour] be-
gin to come to pass, then look up and lift 
up your heads, for you 
redemption 
draweth nigh." (Luke 21 : 28.) 
Various " signs " are specified, by 
which we are to judge of the near ap-
proach of the predicted period. And, if 
careful observers arid attentive students 
are not greatly at fault in their calcula-
tions, based on these " signs", the time is 
near at hand, when a heedless world and 
a slumbering Church will be startled from 
their apathy by the cry ; Behold ! the 
Bridegroom cometh ! Go ye out to meet 
him." We are taught that these " signs" 
will be so clear a demonstration of the 
immediate coming and Kingdom of 
Christ, that we can know his coming is at 
hand, just as we know that summer is 
nigh when the trees begin to put forth 
leaves. (Luke. 21 : 30 ; Matt. 24 : 33.) 
We are not only taught to believe that 
we can know it, but we are as positively 
commanded to know it as we are to be-
lieve that JeSus is the Son of God. (Matt. 
14 : 33 ; Mark. 13 : 29 ; Luke. 24 : 28, 
Christ, who is our life, shall appear, then 
shall ye also appear with him in glory. 
Mortify, therefore, your members which 
are upon the earth." (Col. 3: 4, 5..) 
" Denying ungodliness and worldly lusts, 
we should live soberly, righteously and 
Godly in this present world ; looking for 
that blessed hope, and the glorious ap-
pearing of the great God and our Saviour 
Jesus Christ." (Tit. 2 : 12, 13.) " And 
now, little children, abide in him, that, 
when he shall appear, we may have con-
fidence, and not be ashamed before him 
at his coming." (1 John 2 : 28.) 
Are patience, forbearance. and lorep, 
 
suffering under persecutioms and -trials 
enjoined ? 
"Seeing it is a righteous 
thing with God to recompense tribula-
lation to them that trouble you:; and to 
you who are troubled, rest, with us ; 
when the Lord Jesus Christ shall be re-
vealed from heaven with his mighty 
angels, in. flaming fire, taking vengeance 
on.them that know not God, . . . when 
he shall come to be glorified in his 
saints." (2 Thess. 1 : 6-10.) "Be pa-
tient, therefore, unto the coming of the 
Lord. . . . Be ye also patient, stablish 
your hearts, for the corning of the Lord 
draweth nigh." 
(James 5 : 7, 8.) 
Is the advanced pilgrim to be cheered 
with the prospect before hires? "I am 
now ready to be offered, and the time of 
my departure is at hand. I have fought 
a good fight, I have finished my course, 
I have kept the faith : Henceforth there 
is laid up for me a crown of righteousness, 
which the Lord, the righteous Judge, 
shall give me at that day ; and not to me 
only, but unto all them also that love his 
appearing." (2 Tim. 4 : 6, 8.) 
we're 
Such are specimens of the many in- 
with stances where the practical efficiency of 
hopes 
lived 
sults, and he is constrained to 'declare which their thoughts and 
that, so far as memory serves him, in but ) habitually turned, They 
'The Ten Virgins," p. 30. f "Time to Favor 
172 
THE ADVENT 'HERALD, NOVEMBER 5, 1873 
"crown of righteousness" which shall 
be given them " at that day," remem-
ber the direction given them by their 
Lord and Saviour before his departure : 
"When these things begin to come to pass, 
then look up, and lift up your heads, for 
your redemption draweth nigh." (Luke 
21 : 28.) 
" Surely 1 come quickly : Even so, cane 
Lord Jesus. Amen." More than eigh-
teen hundred years have elapsed since 
thou didst give this precious promise to 
thy beloved servant, and some of thy 
waiting ones are growing weary at thy 
long delay, as it seems to them. " Make 
haste my beloved, and be thou like a roe 
or a young hart upon the mountains 
of spices." (Cant. 8 : 14.) 
4drent 
BOSTON, WEDNESDAY, Nov. 5, 1873. 
ROME—PAGAN AND PAPAL. 
have conducted the opera—high pay for 
good music, with plenty of variety. As 
he has just "burst up" in the panic, the 
church will now probably praise God 
more economically. We are sorry to 
see no papers on this theme in the pro-
gramme of the Alliance.—Nation. 
RELIGION DEFINED.—A new definition 
of " religion " is given by the Rev. J. W. 
Chadwick in the "Free Religion" Con-
vention last week ; lie said that the best 
definition of religion was " man's sense 
of his relations to the power behind phe-
nomena." 
Its simplicity, completeness and beauty, 
must strike the average mind, especially of 
little children, as something remarkable ! 
If the Conventitin has done nothing 
more than -to elaborate this definition 
from the depths of its inner consciousness 
and give it to the world, it will feel itself 
abundantly repaid for the suffering it en-
dured under the cold neglect of the pub-
lic. Hereafter, if you desire to know 
whether or not your neighbor has relig-
ion, if it is any of your business to know, 
just ask him if he has "a sense of his re-
lations to the power behind phenomena." 
It will touch his conscience, rouse his in-
tellect, warm his heart, and he will tell 
you at once whether or not that sense is 
his. But more likely he will think you 
have no sense at all 
Lord against the mighty," and give ut-
terance to the Spirit of truth- in all its 
teachings. How important that we "wait 
-on God," through all the avenues of his 
providence and grace, and like Gideon's 
little army, " stand in our places round 
about," doing the Lord's bidding, how-
ever simple it may seem to the worldly-
wise. There is a blessing in it ; and to 
be raised up in Christ Jesus, and made 
to sit together in heavenly places, is 
more refreshing to the child of God than 
all worldly influences combined. He 
will accept nothing as a substitute ; Je-
sus is all-sufficient. 
" Worldly honors, hopes, and gains, 
All I resign; 
Welcome sorrow, grief and pain, 
If ,heaven be mine." 
We know the path of life is a nar-
row one," and the " little flock " are few 
compared with the many who throng the 
broad way ; yet God's house will be 
filled, every mansion occupied, and I 
trust, by his grace, when he makes all 
things new, we shall meet with that holy 
throng, whose robes have been washed 
and made white in the blood of the 
Lamb, to go no more out forever. 
Waiting in expectation, your sister, 
JULIA H. HARLEY. 
Sheepscott Bridge, Me., Oct 22, 1873. 
+NM • MP-- • 
FROM SISTER L. E. FREEMAN. 
A foreigner, looking at the progress of 
affairs, has given it as his opinion, that 
the " Broad Church " is now broad 
enough to take in everything and every-
body but a Christian ! 
Not every man would be willing to sit 
in judgment on his Creator. But Mr. 
John Weiss is. And this is his reverent 
opinion : " In man the supreme hand fal-
ters, and he becomes a bungler." 
The Chinese avoid the perplexities and 
labors incident to a church fair when 
they need money to aid their religious en-
terprises. A certain temple needed re-
building, and funds were lacking. A 
priest of the needy sect devised a plan to 
procure it. He caused it to be proclaim-
ed that he would stand for seven days 
and seven nights in a nail-cage, set in the 
temple grounds, abstaining entirely from 
food and drink ; or, that he would stand 
there till all the locks on his cage were 
bought off. This cage is a sort of nar-
row wooden box, studded thickly on the 
inside with nails, so that whichever way 
the person shut in may turn, he conies in 
contact with them. The sides of this 
box were closed with a great number of 
small padlocks ; one of gold, two of sil-
ver, and the rest of brass. The priest 
was shut in. His fellow-priests caused a 
great beating of drums and ringing of 
bells to call together the people, and pro- 
claim to them that the purchase of the 
locks would secure the release of the 
priest from his (apparent) torture. 
Crowds came. Locks were sold rapidly, 
the brass locks bringing from five to twen-
ty dollars each, the silver, five hundred, 
and the gold, at last, on the fifth day, 
one thousand dollars. The proceeds of 
the trick were about *5,000. 
Ruskin has said a good say. It is this : 
" That of all fatuities, the basest is the 
being lured into the Romanist Church by 
the glitter of it, like larks into a trap by 
broken glass, to be blown into a change 
of religion by the whine of an organ 
pipe ; stitched into a new creed by gold 
threads on priests' petticoats ; jangled in-
to a change of conscience by the chimes 
of a belfry. I know nothing in the form 
of error so dark as this, no imbecility so 
absolute, no treachery so contemptible. " 
He says that the longer he lives the less 
he trusts "-the sentiments excited by 
painted glass and colored tiles. " 
A. Roman Catholic priest in Rome pub-
licly abandoned Romanism for the ten-
ets of the Baptist denomination lately. 
The facts are given in a despatch to. a 
London paper : "To-day a most inter-
esting ceremony was performed, the usu-
al character of which, as may well be 
imagined, attracts universal attention. 
Rev. Father Paolo Grassi, the incum-
bent of the Basilica Santa Marie Mag-
giore, made a public recantation of his 
former faith. He was then baptized by 
Rev. J. Wall, Baptist minister. Extraor-
dinary excitement prevails in ,clerical cir-
cles and the large audience which wit-
nessed the proceedings was deeply im-
pressed by the earnestness displayed by 
all concerned, as well as by the simplicity 
of the religious forms observed." 
THE RELIGIOUS CENSUS OF INDIA. The 
provinces under the Lieutenant Goverh-
or of Bengal contain 21,000,000 Mo-
hammedans, which is more than any oth-
er country in the world. 
In the Northwest Provinces the de-
scendants of the Arab, Mogul, and Pa-
than conquerors are still found holding 
the faith of their fathers ; there are there 
four millions of Mohammedans to twens 
ty-five millions of Hindoos. In the Pun-
jab the former greatly preponderate, and 
are to the latter as nine to six. There 
are also 1,000,000 Sikhs. In Oudh there 
are but a million of the disciples of Ma-
hornet to ten millions of Hindoos. 
Dr. Wiseman, a Wesleyan clergyman, 
lately stated -the numerical position of 
the various prominent religious bodies in 
English speaking communities, thus : 
Congregationalists 
. 7,000,000 
Roman Catholics 
10.000,000 
Baptists 
10,500,000 
Presbyterians 
11,500,000 
Px otestant Episcopalians 12,500,000 
Methodists 
15,000,000 
The pastor of a Baptist Church in 
Berkshire, Mass., noticing a large num-
ber of sleepers in his congregation; stop-
ped midway in his sermon, gave a brief 
reproof for their drowsiness, and omit-
ting the benediction and the communion 
that were to follow, closed his Bible, 
took his hat, and walked out of the 
church, leaving his hearers in their pews. 
"A young graduate of the theological 
school," says the Independent, "began one 
of his first sermons by saying : I accept 
the universe, but reject the idea of a 
personal God and Noah's flood.' How 
thankful we ought to be that the young 
man did not reject the universe also !" 
A writer in the (Episcopal) Church 
Journal of New York says : 
"I desire to -call to your notice the 
fact that we have within the pale of our 
Church some Roman Catholics in dis-
guise! Last Sunday morning (Sept. 21st) 
I attended the seven o'clock communion 
at the Trinity chapel, and noticed the 
following singular performances : When 
the Creed was said the congregation 
bowed the head revently (as was their 
duty) at the name of Jesus, but what 
was my surprise to see several worship-
pers kneel at the sentence, born of the 
Virgin Mtry,' and at its conclusion rise 
again, and others bowed more devoutly 
at the Virgin's name than at the name 
of their Saviour ! When the communion' 
had been received, and we were leaving 
the chancel rail, I noticed one man in 
particular leave the chancel rail, step 
back a few paces, and kneel with clasped 
hands gazing at something on the ceil-
ing of the chancel." 
ACCIDENTS ON 
ON ENGLISH AND AMERICAN 
RAILROADS.—The total number of pas-
sengers, servants of companies, or of con-
tractors and others killed by railway ac-
cidents in 1872 was 930 in England and 
Wales, 168 in -Scotland, and 47 in Ire-
land; while the number injured was, in 
England and Wales, 2,617, in Scotland, 
383, and in Ireland, 38. Total killed, 
1,145; injured, 3,038. In the year end-
ing July 1st, 1873, the casualties on 
American railroads were, accidents, 1,163, 
persons killed, 310, and injured, 1,290. 
orators, and after confessing the almost 
total extinction, at the time then being, 
of faith and piety in it, thus proceeds 
to express himself : 'Is this Jerusalem, 
that city of perfect beauty, the daughter 
of Zion, the spouse of Christ ? But 
weep not, daughter of Zion, for God 
bath raised up a Saviour for thee. 
The 
Lion of the tribe of Judah, the root of 
David, hath come, and shall save thee 
from all thine enemies. On thee, Oh 
most blessed Leo, (lion), we have fixed 
our hopes as the promised Saviour.' 
Some ambassadors from Sicily prostrated 
themselves before the pope and ad-
dressed him in the very words that the 
evangelist John applied to Christ, 
' Lamb of God ! that takest away the 
sins of the world ! ' 
More than all this, 
the pope has not only claimed to be 
Christ on earth, but GOD !" 
Pope Innocent III. uttered " words 
against the Most High " when he de-
clared that " he held the place of God 
on earth." On the occasion of the cor-
nation of Henry VI., the Pope was noted 
as " our Lord." The Jesuits gave Pope 
Paul V. the title of Vice-God :—" Paulo 
V. Vice-Deo " ; instead of God, or in 
the language of the Apostle Paul " as 
God." Gregory the Second said, " all 
the kings of the West reverence the Pope 
as a God on earth." 
Daubuz quotes the 
famous declaration of Gerson : " The 
people think of the Pope as the ONE 
GOD that has power over all things in 
earth and heaven." Another asserted, 
as late as A. D. 1600 that " God was the 
Pope, and the Pope God. 
Huss charged 
the priests with preaching that " the 
Pope is the God of the earth . . . . that 
he is the well-spring from which flows 
all virtue and goodness." 
The Pope places himself ABOVE SCRIP-
TURE, and claims that he is the 
depository, source and expounder of 
truth : that the Scriptures derive their 
authority from him. Blasphemously 
the Pope has decreed that his epistles 
are equal to the Scriptures. Pope 
Stephen said that " since the holy Roman 
church, over which Christ has willed that 
we preside, is set for a mirror or example 
whatever it has decreed, whatever it now 
ordains, must be perpetually and irrefrag-
ably observed by all men." 
THE HOLY 
ROMAN CHURCH," it is affirmed, " IMPARTS 
AUTHORITY TO THE SACRED CANONS, BUT 
IS NOT BOUND BY THEM." Boniface VIII. 
said, " WE DECLARE, ASSERT, DEFINE, 
AND PRONOUNCE THAT TO BE SUBJECT TO 
THE ROMAN PONTIFF IS TO EVERY HUMAN 
CREATURE ALTOGETHER NECESSARY FOR 
SALVATION." Gregory II. said " Our 
holy and inspired fathers and teachers, 
and the six councils in Christ, these are 
our Scriptures, and our light and salva-
tion. 
(To be continued.) 
(5orropontente. 
"Then they that feared the Lord spake often one 
to another ; and the Lord hearkened and heard it, 
and a book of remembrance was written before him 
for them that feared the Lord, and that thought 
upon his name." 
FROM BRO. L. 0. WALB.ER. 
OF MANKIND ON THE 
Lombards, I, Peter, the Apostle of God, of Leo, " the bishop of Modrusiurn, fig-
adjure you my beloved and adopted sons. I uring the holy Roman church as the 
I adjure you by the grace of the Holy f heavenly Jerusalem, and the bride of 
Spirit, and exhort and admonish you with I Christ, each a favorite emblem with the 
threats before the terrible God, the Cre-
ator of all things ; and with me also, the 
holy Catholic and Apostolic church ; do 
not suffer this Roman state to perish, in 
which the Lord has placed my body, which 
he has commended to me, and made the 
foundation of faith. 
Be not separated 
from my people, the people of Rome ; 
SO SHALL YE NOT BE CAST OUT AND SEP-
ARATED FROM THE KINGDOM OF GOD, LIFE 
ETERNAL." 
It would seem that such language as 
found in this letter was sufficient to meet 
the prophecy of a "mouth speaking great 
things." But these "words" are modest 
" words " in comparison with what the 
Popes of Rome have used in asserting 
their own infallibility as heads of the 
church and of supremacy among the civil 
governments. In this letter, the Pope 
is put instead of the Apostle Peter ; but 
they have expressly substituted them-
selves for Christ ; they have made their 
decretals of equal authority with the 
Scriptures, and claimed that God's re-
vealed word is of no force or value only 
as sanctioned by the Pope, so elevating 
himself above Christ, for he, when upoil 
earth, laid claim to no such supreme 
judgment. The Pope claims to be vicar 
of Jesus Christ on earth ;—not.a vic-
ar, but the one only appointed vicar of the 
church, or in the Apostle John's prophet-
ic appellation, the ANTICHRIST. In the 
,ceremonial of the election of Pope Leo X., 
as graphically described by Elliot, we 
have a very impressive illustration of the 
Pope assuming the place of Christ. 
" The announcement was made at the 
time fr An the window of the conclave 
of Cardinals : I tell you tidings of great 
joy a new Pope is elected, Leo the X : ' 
and the festivities began, on his corona-
tion at St. Peter's immediately after. 
But the grander ceremonial of his going 
to take possession of the church of 
his bishopric, St. John Lateran,—that 
church by the bishopric of which as the 
mother and mistress of all churches, he 
is to be constituted not only bishop of 
Rome, but, by consequence, the church 
universal,—was delayed for a month, to 
allow of the proper pomp attending it. 
And now the day is come for its celebra-
tion. The city is thronged with visitors 
on the occasion. . . . The concourse 
from early morn has been to the great 
square before St. Peter's. There the 
procession forms on horse-back. . . . 
First in order is a. troop of cavalry : 
then a long line of the gentry and nobil-
ity ; then successively the senators of 
Rome, and . . . . the Pope's body-guard ; 
then the convoys for Germany, Spain, 
Portugal, and other parts of Christen-
dom ; then abbots, bishops, archbishops, 
and patriarchs, above 250 ; then the 
cardinals :—the ecclesiastical dignitaries 
wearing their jewelled mitres and their 
capes ; the rest dressed in richest cos-
tumes, and with banners streaming, as 
on a day of jubilee :—then, at length, 
thus preceded, and duly followed and 
closed in by a troop of military, .Himself 
the Hero of the day, himself the Pope! 
The horses of the bishops and cardinals 
preceding him are covered from head to 
foot with white trappings." [Being 
dressed in white was the special order 
for this occasion,—the usual color for 
the horse-trappings of the cardinals be-
ing at this time scarlet.] 
" He comes 
forth himself too on a white horse : a 
cape of richest broidery mantling him : 
the ring of espousal with the universal 
church (his bride) , glittering on his 
right hand ring-finger ; on his head the 
regno, or imperial tiara of three crowns. 
A canopy is borne over him by the chief 
Roman authorities. The streets are 
strewed with tapestry and flowers for 
him to pass over. The welkin rings 
with acclamations of welcome. The 
multitudes fall on their knees, as he ap- 
proaches to receive his benediction. It 
seemed to me,' says the narrator of the 
pageant, THAT IT WAS THE REDEEMER 
PALM SUNDAY GO- 
rus were in opposite conditions of being 
when on earth, and also when in Hades, 
for then one was " comforted," and the 
other " tormented." And so will it . be 
eternally. The righteous and wicked 
will never be in the same condition. As 
we learn in Rom. 2 : 6-11, one class will 
enjoy "glory and honor and incorrup-
tion and peace." This will be their zoee, 
and it will be eternal, thank God ! But 
the condition of the opposite class will 
he " indignation and wrath, tribulation 
and anguish." The duration of the two 
classes is the same, but the condition 
vastly different. The condition of the 
two is widely separate even now. When 
man sinned he " lost the life (zoee) of 
God." Joy and peace were then stran-
gers to him. His condition by nature is 
fully illustrated in Luke 15th chapter, 
under the similitudes of the " lost sheep," 
" lost coin," and " lost son." But when 
we believe in the Lord Jesus Christ, we 
pass froM death," this separation from 
the "life of. God,"—" unto life," zoee. 
Hence, he that " bath the Son of God 
hath life, (zoee ;) and he that hath not 
the Son of God bath not life," (zoee). 
Now, this life, or condition of being, lost 
in the fall, is only regained through 
Christ.._ And to represent this life, the 
.Holy Spirit always uses the word .ibee, 
and never the other Greek words trans-
lated life. 
Though the word zoee is used respect-
ing natural or animal life, still it is true, 
as Prof. Hudson admits, that words not 
unfrequently " break beyond the limits 
of the letter." And he also says that, 
" When this lively sense becomes the or-
dinary sense, that is only a new literal or 
proper sense." 
This being admitted, 
then, we affirm, that as the Holy Ghost 
never employs the word zoee only in cases 
where enjoyment, or felicity is included, 
the word always means more than sim-
ply animated existence. All the good 
received by faith in Christ, both here 
and hereafter, is represented by this 
pregnant term. The, contrast between 
the zoee of the wicked and that of the 
righteous is beyond expression. One is 
transient, the other eternal. " For what 
is your life [zoee]? 
It is even as vapor, 
that appeareth for a little time, and then 
vanisheth away." All the enjoyment 
the impenitent will ever have, they will 
have in this world, as seen in the case of 
Dives, and taught throughout the Scrip-
tures. This is their zoee-times But the 
righteous, like Lazarus, have all the 
" evil things" they will ever have in this 
life. But in spite of the " evil things " 
they have, they also have much of good, 
for their " eternal life " (zoee), begins 
now : " Verily, verily. I say unto you, he 
that heareth my word, and believeth on 
Him that sent me, hath everlasting life, 
(zoee), and shall not come into condem-
nation [judgment], but is passed from 
death unto life " (zoee). 
And so " God-
Jiness is profitable unto all things, hav-
ing promise of the life (zoee) that now 
is, and of that which is to come." And 
our life, zoee, is in safe keeping, and so 
is sure to us, for it is " hid with Christ 
in God." Hence, when Christ who is 
" our life " (zoee) shall appear," or be 
manifested; then shall we " also appear," 
or be manifested, " with him in glory." 
Now as life, in its lowest sense, aignifies 
something more than mere existence, it 
must in its highest sense, the sense be-
longing to zoee, include all the Lg_QaCl.- we 
can possibly: degle. -The " fullness of 
God's presence, and the "pleas- 
ures forevermore " at his right hand, are 
all included in this term life. We have 
the rivulet, the stream here, but the vast 
ocean of it is to be enjoyed hereafter. 
Now we are the " sons of God," but it 
" sloth not yet appear what we shall bst ; 
but we know that when he shall appear, 
we shall be like him ; for we shall see 
him as he is." As Moses saw this by 
faith, we do not wonder that he "chose 
rather to •suffer affliction with the people 
of God, than to enjoy the pleasures of 
sin foi- it season," for he " had respect 
unto the recompense of reward." He 
could well forego the honors and wealth 
of Egypt's throne in order to share the 
throne with Jehovah Jesus in the world 
to come. Rev. 3: 21. God grant that 
each reader may be among the " seeking" 
ones mentioned in Rom. 2 : 7, so as to 
come at length into the full possession 
of the " eternal life " promised to all 
such. 
C. CUNNINGHAM. 
Dear Bro. Orrocki—The herald is 
the only Advent preacher we have now. 
We get considerable meat in due season, 
which gives us strength to hold on to the 
promises. Pray for us, that we may be 
among the gathered ones when Jesus 
comes. I would like to write more for 
the Herald if I we, able, for it cheers 
my poor lonely heart to hear from the 
dear brethren and sisters scattered abroad. 
I often long for the gathering time ; but 
when I look around and see my children 
and neighbors unconverted, I cannot 
bear the thought of seeing them lost for 
ever. I know that Jesus said, " Fear 
not, little flock ; for it is your Father's 
good pleasure to give you the Kingdom." 
So I remain yours, looking for Jesus, 
MRS. L. E. FREEMAN. 
RELIGIOUS SUMMARY. 
end gutelligenrc 
THE EVANGELICAL ALLIANCE. 
BY J. BUFFUNI. 
I like your publication very much, al-
though it has been my privilege to read 
it but a short time. 
There is great ignorance and apathy 
in the great body of the church, in re-
gard to the coming of Christ, a doctrine, 
which it seems to me, the Scriptures 
render as important to be preached, as 
the atonement or resurrection. 
A short time ago the pastor of the 
church with which I am connected, 
preached a sermon* from the text, 
" Watch." He made some very good 
points in his sermon, without, however, 
definitely referring to watching for the 
coming of Jesus. On the way home 
from church, a teacher of an adult class 
in our Sunday school was led to converse 
with me on the way in which truth was 
presented, and while he commended what 
our pastor had said, he thought that he 
left out the most important thing and 
that was watching for the Holy Spirit. 
I then quoted the passage " Watch, there-
fore ; for you know not what hour your 
Lord doth come." He replied, " That's 
the same thing as watching for the Holy 
Spirit." I was astonished that a person 
so well versed in the Scriptures could 
talk in that way, and replied to him, with 
some warmth, that that was a perversion 
of God's word. 
This is about the way, however, which 
most believers in Jesus treat the doc-
trine of his "personal pre-millennial com-
ing." May God remove the scales of 
ignorance from their eyes. 
LOUIS 0. WALKER. 
East Providence, R. I. 
FROM SISTER HARLEY. 
age, now already visible." These are 
but specimens of the utterances with 
which these narratives were filled." 
Those persons who have been " looking 
for the glorious appearing of our great 
God and Saviour Jesus Christ," and con-
sequently watching " the signs of the 
times," are well assured that this ¶s the 
condition of Christendom at the present 
time, and they have seen it for a long 
time, and therefore are not at all sur-
prised at this representation given by 
the European members of the Alliance ; 
neither is the condition of matters any 
better in America ; skepticism in all its 
forms, and superstition ills°, are gaining 
ground rapidly here as well-as in Europe ; 
and never were the opposers of the Mes-
siah and his truth, so bold, so confident, 
so in earnest by speech and press, in 
spreading their deadly errors throughout 
the land as now. The hope expressed by 
the Dean of Canterbury is a vain hope ; 
America is in as bad a condition as the 
rest of Christendom. . According to our 
Lord's prediction (Matt. 24 : 12), when 
speaking of his return to earth, " iniqui-
ty abounds and the love of many waxes 
cold." What is the use of shutting our 
eyes to these facts as so many persist in 
doing, while even in our own land, " truth 
is fallen in the streets and equity cannot 
enter ?" " In transgressing and lying 
against the Lord, and departing away 
from our God, speaking oppression and 
revolt, conceiving and uttering from the 
heart the • words of falsehood," "judg-
ment is turned away backward, and jus-
tice standeth afar. off," (Isa. 59 : 13-14). 
On last Lord's day (Oct. 19th) at 
Park Street church, Rev. Mr. Murray in 
presenting the claims • of the American 
Home Missionary Society, gave an ac-
count of the condition of things in these 
United States, entirely in accordance with 
the facts stated by the delegates from 
EurOpe ; and declared that we, the Chris-
tians of America, must be a much more 
devoted people, and give more largely of 
our substance to spread the gospel, or 
this land will soon become a heathen 
land ; and he significantly asked " how 
long will it take the Christians of ,Boston, 
at the rate we are going on, to . convert 
or evangelize Boston ?" One of his hear-
ers at least was surprised to hear him 
talk as he did ; and could not but rejoice 
that in addition to his recent discovery 
that lying is a " national vice," he seems 
also to begin to see something of the 
true condition of the nation in its down-
ward course in morals and religion. 
The fact is that the true and only hope 
of " Evangelical Christianity " is that all 
Christians should learn more fully the 
great truth given us by the Apostle Paul 
in the epistle to Titus (2 : 11-13) and 
act upon it daily, viz :—" The grace of 
God that bringeth salvation bath ap-
peared to all men, teaching us, that de-
nying ungodliness, and wordly lusts, we 
should live soberly, righteously, and god-
ly in this present world ; looking for 
that blessed hope, the glorious appearing 
of the great God and our Saviour Jesus 
Christ,"—and it is sad to think and see 
that in so great a gathering from all 
parts of the world of so many clergy-
men and others, professedly servants of 
Jesus Christ, that not one word so far as I 
have been able to discover, fell from any 
of their lips concerning the " coming 
again in like manner as he went away " 
of ,--Sthis same Jesus ;" which coming 
again ought according to Scripture to be 
" the blessed hope " and earnest desire of 
every Christian in all lands. For it can-
not be denied that. while noble efforts, 
attended with a good measure of success, 
have been put forth during this 19th cen-
tury, according to the symbolic predic-
tion, (Rev. 14 : 6) more than ever before 
since the reformation, to " preach the 
everlasting gospel to every nation, and 
kindred, and tongue, and people ;" still 
the servants of Satan in every land, out-
vie in earnestness, and out-number the ser-
vants of God, and seem to be more hearti-
ly engaged against the truth than we do 
for it. This is not the " croaking," as 
some call it, of foolish Adventists ; but 
the deliberate testimony of Christian 
men from the principal Protestant Na-
tions of the world, at this great gather-
ing of the Evangelical Alliance. 
If all this evidence before us, from all 
quarters, is not enough to show clergy 
and people the true condition of our 
globe, it would seem that they would not 
be persuaded if one rose from the dead. 
The fallacy of the "world's conversion "—
overlooking the fact, that the object of 
God in sending the gospel to the Gentile 
nations is not the " conversion of the 
world," but to take out of them a people 
for his name " (Acts 15 : 14)—turns away 
the mind of most from the true state of 
things, and leads to a virtual putting far 
away the return of our blessed Lord to 
earth ; thus lukewarmness, and conform- 
ity to the world, and "the deceitfulness 
of riches," have crept into the churches ; 
and the enemies of the truth seem to 
carry all before them, and wax more and 
more confident. It may be doubted even, 
if this great meeting of the "Alliance," 
—pleasant as it was, as a manifestion of 
Christian love between the followers of 
Christ of all nations and names—will re- 
sult in any practical benefit to the church 
at large. Will there be any less con- 
formity to the world ? Any less display 
of magnificence in citurches,' or palaces, 
or temples devoted to mammon ? Any 
less devotion to fashion in dress, equipage 
and style of living, among the professed 
disciples of Jesus in this highly-favored 
nation ? It is to be feared that all will 
go on as usual ; and.that we must still 
agree with the European delegates to the 
Alliance in their " sad confession, that 
evangelical Christianity is in great peril 
at the present time." 
Well, what then ? Why, let all who 
"love his appearing" and who look and 
wait as does Paul the Apostle, fpr their 
The correspondent of one of our re-
ligious papers in Boston, in giving an 
account of the proceedings of the Evan-
gelical Alliance during its late convoca-
tion, says :—" On Friday the sessions of 
the conference were taken up with the 
reading of papers on the state of relig-
ion in the different countries of Christen-
dom. These papers had been carefully 
prepared ; were all able and interesting, 
and so, worthy the careful attention of 
all Christians. 
One noticeable charac-
teristic distinguished every paper; one 
burden pervaded every word. It was the 
sad confession that evangelical Christi-
anity is in great peril at the present time. 
In England, and France, and Germany, 
and the Scandinavian countries, it was as-
serted that the two enemies of the church, 
skepticism and superstition, seemed to be 
gaining ground. "The hope of evan-
gelical Christianity in. Europe," said the 
Dean of Canterbury, "is in America." 
In the letter which he sent to the Confer-
ence, the venerable Tholuck said that, 
"the new epoch which has been inaugu-
rated (in Germany,) as far as human eyes 
can see, proves itself to he an ever-pro-
ceeding dissolution of positive faith and 
Christian. interest :" and Rev. M. Cohen 
Stuart testified concerning Holland, that, 
"it cannot alas ! he denied ; bitter are 
the fruits of the 
-reigtiiug7 spirit of the 
The character of the power symbolized 
by the peculiarities of the little horn, as 
having " eyes like the eyes of a man "—
"a mouth that spake very great things," 
" and shall wear out the saints of the 
Most High," finds an unmistakable 
counterpart in the self-exalting, blasphe-
mous pretensions and persecutions of 
the Roman papacy. " Eyes " denote 
intelligence, sagacity—oversight. It is 
not, however, inferable from this, that 
the other rulers had not these essential 
qualifications for the administration of 
government ; but that this one would 
possess them in a peculiar and pre-emi-
nent sense, as certainly may be seen in 
the history of the papal hierarchy. 
The prophecy instructs us, that this 
power would combine both temporal and 
spiritual prerogatives, and that by the 
exercise of the latter, it would gain its 
ascendency over the others. As a tempo-
ral government it would he " little," 
among the kingdoms symbolized, but in 
its spiritual claims mightier than them 
all : it would utter " very great things," 
and its " look " would be " more stout 
than his fellows." In proof of this, 
notice the rise of this ecclesiastico-politi-
cal power to supreme dominion, and how 
haughtily it asserted its impious claims 
to the abject submission of all civil au-
thority, and even the consciences of 
men. 
To secure the temporal sovereignty, 
the Pope did not hesitate to put forth 
the most impious and arrogant' preten-
sions ever conceived by the human mind, 
or heard by human ears ;—we have no 
hesitancy in affirming that the devil 
himself could not invent anything more 
insolent or blasphemous; —in truth the 
human heart could not have originated 
such daring impiety, and the Apostle 
Paul has revealed the source of this 
abominable system of falsehood where 
he says to the Thessalonian church, 
speaking of the " man of sin," that it is 
" after the workings of Satan." 
To effect the uprooting of the three 
horns the popes set up the most extrava-
gant and daring pretensions of spiritual 
dictation. To engage Pepin in a war 
against the Lombards, Stephen wrote a 
most artful letter to him in the name of 
St. Peter, in which, Millot says, " he 
confounds all ideas, the sacred with the 
profane, the wealth with the essence of 
the church, the interest of souls with the 
prosperity of the pastors ; and where, 
in recompense for carrying on a political 
war, he promises happiness in this world 
and the next, not without threats of 
damnation bi case succors were denied. 
Awful language, which became but 
too common. To give to the church was 
giving to God, or to St. Peter : to, dis-
pute anything with the church, was 
attacking God, attacking St. Peter. 
Credulity and superstitions lent such 
strength to sophisms of this kind, that 
they destroyed the natural order of so-
ciety." 
A few brief extracts from this fa-
mous letter may not be out of place, 
in illustration of the defiant, boasting, 
impious papal " mouth." The aid of 
Pepin is invoked by the bold claim of 
Stephen the Pope, representing in person, 
St. Peter the Apostle. 
Wherefore I Peter the Apostle, called 
by Christ, the living God, am ordained 
by his power the illumination of the 
whole world, the Lord our God confirm- 
ing it, saying, Go teach all nations 
and commending his sheep severally to 
me, his humble servant and called Apos-
tle, he says, Feed my sheep, feed my 
lambs Wherefore, let all who 
have heard and obeyed my preaching 
believe that their sins are removed in 
this world by the command of God, and 
that without spot they will go forward 
unto that life (eternal), and since the 
light of the Holy Ghost has shone in 
your very resplendent heart , assuredly 
your hope of future reward is held by be-
ing firmly united to this Apostolic Ro-
man Church committed unto us. 
Wherefore I Peter, the apostle of God, 
who have you for my adopted sons, ex- 
hort you to defend from the hands of its 
enemies this Roman state, and the peo-
ple committed to me of God, and the 
house also where I repose according to 
the Ash ; I admonish you earnestly to free 
the Church of God, committed to me by 
the Divine power, since they suffer the 
greatest afflictions and oppressions from 
the most wicked race of the Lombards. 
Render help then with all your power 
to the Roman people, that I the Apostle 
Peter may repay you with alternate pat- 
ronage in the day of future account, may 
prepare for you most resplendent and 
glorious tabernacle& in the Kingdom of 
God, and render you in time the reward 
of an eternal retribution, and the infinite 
joys of paradise ; if only you defend 
with all speed my peculiar people, and my 
city of Rome, and your brethren the 
Wornans„ from the ,and. of the impious 
STATISTICS OF PAPER MANUFACTURE. 
Abinus Rudel, a recent Austrian in-
vestigator, estimates the yearly prOduc-
tion of paper in all parts of the civilized 
world at 1,800,000,000 pounds.- This 
quantity is manufactured in 3960 factories 
Which employ 90,000 male and 180,000 
female hands, besides 100,000 workmen 
engaged in collecting and assorting rags. 
The factories when in full working order 
represent a money value of not less than 
$280,000,000 in gold, and the value of the 
annual paper production is estimated at 
$195,000,000 in gold. The production of 
the United States reaches 374,000,000 
pounds, which is supplied by importation. 
Every American is credited with the con-
sumption of 10+ pounds of paper, while 
Mexico with Central America consumes 
only two pounds, and British America 
five and one-half pounds per head. The 
consumption in European countries is, 11+ 
pounds per head in Great Britain, 8 in 
Germany, 7' in France, 34- in Austria, 
the same in Italy-, 1+ in Spain and only 1 
in.Russia. These figures by no means 
justify us in drawing any rigid conclu-
sions as to the literary occupations or men-
tal acquirements of the respective coun-
tries, thotigh they may give us a general 
idea thereof. One-third of the whole 
supply consists of paper hangings; paste-
boards, shavings and paper. One-half 
of .all the production is printing paper, 
and the remaining sixth writing paper. 
The consumption in civilized countries 
averages per bead 5 pOunds of paper, 5 
newspaper copies and 10 letters ; fifty 
years ago, 2+ pounds were supposed to be 
the average, in *roun4 mITIlbors, Dr? 
INC+ TO JERUSALEM : THERE BEING SUB-
STITUTED ONLY FOR HOSANNA TO THE 
SON or DAVID, the acclamation, Viva 
Papa Leone ! Life to the Pope, the 
Lion ! '" 
Strange similitude : although that in-
deed which his very guise, and pomp, 
and popular reception, might have well 
suggested !—But is it really the case, 
that the people regard him as filling the 
place of Christ to them ; and to be look-
ed to as their Redeemer and Saviour ? 
The answer is ready in every mouth : 
" There is not an act in the life of 
Christ ; not a title of his ; not an office 
which he fills, but is assumed, in some 
way, by the head of the Roman church." 
Among the devices and paintings on 
the occasion described above which will 
place Antichrist in his real light—in 
his monstrous self-deification as Christ 
—was " first that painting in the Gen. 
oese arc between the castle of St-
Angelo and the Vatican. Here be-
hold the azure heaven represented. 
On its verge, refulgent with glory 
like as of the new-risen sun, stands por-
trayed the Pope : a rainbow in the air 
reflects its cheering radiance on a land-
scape of land and water, men and 
women, just emerged apparently out of 
night and tempest, below : and the sen-
tence appears written underneath ; " THE 
WORLD BATH BEEN UNVEILED TO LIGHT ; 
THE KING OF GLORY HAS COME FORTH ! " 
—Next comes the painting in the arc of 
the Florentines. The Pope is here repre-
sented with one foot on the land, the 
other on the sea ; having a key moreover 
in his right hand with which he opens 
heaven, and in the other another key ; 
(the key of hell) and beneath the legend, 
"IN THY HAND I BEHOLD THE EMPIRE OF 
EARTH, AND SEA, AND HEAVEN." 
In 4 F°BerfLT 0P1-9011 collvenecl br order 
RUNNING A CHOIR.—A leading church 
in New York has had, until this summer, 
its choir " run " at enormous expense by 
an enterprising stock-broker, on precise-
ir the same principle on which Ile would 
Dear Bro. Orrock :—The time has 
come round when to write a few lines to 
you, seems like doing service to the cause 
I love. You are serving the cause of 
the coming King, and how honorable the 
call, to be called of God, and put in 
trust with the gospel of the coming king-
dom ; there is something soul-lifting in 
the. thought, and I have no doubt but 
you purpose in your heart to be loyal to 
the trust. May God bless you in your 
work, and make his word to burn with-
in, so that a fire shall be quickened which 
shall spread far and near, inciting many 
to the earnest inquiry, " Lord, what wilt 
thou have me to do ?" I have a desire 
to honor God in my humble calling, and 
to show forth "the praises of Him who 
hath called" me from darkness to light. 
I long to see tokens of increased watch-
fulness among the dear saints of God, 
when it shall be the manifest joy of their 
ile4rts to cc come up to the belp of the 
- 
udel distributes the annual paper "crop' 
to the following departments : Govern-
ment offices, 200,000,000 pounds ; schools, 
#80,000,000 pounds ; commerce, 240,000,-
000 pounds ; industrial manufactures, 
'180,000,000 pounds ; private correspond-
mice, 100,000,000 pounds ; printing, 900,-
400,000 
pounds total, 
1,800,000,000 
;rounds. 
piortliantouo. 
"IT IS FIN1SHED."—John 19: 30. 
Nothink to pay 7—no, not a whit ; 
iothing to do 7—no, not a bit : 
41 that was needed to do or to pay, 
Jesus has done in his own blessed way. 
lathing to do!—no, not a stroke ; 
lone is the captor, gone is the yoke : 
:Jesus at Calvary severed the chain, 
.had none can imprison his freeman again. 
!
Nothing to fear ?—no, not a jot ; 
Nothing unclean--no, not a spot : 
PHA is my peace, and I've nothing at stake, 
fliatan can neither harass nor shake. 
I
,, 
 Nothing to settle ?—all has been paid ; 
Nothing of anger 7—peace has been made : 
ltsus alone is the sinner's r, source, 
!Mace he has made by the blood of his cross. 
'#What about judgment ?— I'm thankful to say, 
,Jesus has met it and borne it away : 
'Drunk it all up, when he hung on the tree, 
..i.I.AaNia% a cup full of blessing for me. 
What about terror ?—it hasn't a place 
In a heart that is filled with a sense of his grace : 
111y peace is divine, and it never can cloy, 
And that makes my heart overbubble with joy. 
Nothing of guilt 7—no, not a stain, 
How could the blood let any remain ? 
Iilv conscience is purged, and my spirit is free— 
' Precious that blood is to God and to me ! 
What of the law ?—ah. there I rejoice, 
Christ answered its claims and silenced its voice : 
The law was fulfilled when the work was all done, 
And it never can speak to a justified one. 
What about deaih 7—it hasn't a sting ; 
, The grave to a Christian no terror can bring, 
For death has been conquered, the grave has 
been spoiled, 
And every foeman and enemy foiled. 
.• What about feelings 7—ah ! trust not to them ; 
What of my standing—``Who shall condemn ?" 
, 
Since God is for me, there is nothing so clear, 
From Satan and man I have nothing to fear. 
What of my body 7—ah, that I may bring, 
To God as a holy, acceptable thing, 
,i For that is the temple where Jesus abides, 
The temple where God by his Spirit resides. 
Nothing to pay ?—no, thanks be to God, 
The matter is settled, the price was the blood, 
The blood of the Victim, a ransom divine— 
f Believe it, poor sinner, and peace shall be thine. 
ll What am I waiting for 7—Jesus, my Lord. 
To take down the tent, and roll up the cord— 
To be with himself in the mansions above, 
Enjoying for ever his infinite love. 
...The Testimony. 
- 
••I• • mi. 
THE ICE KING COMING. 
BY HENRY WARD BEECHICR. 
The Missal and the Prayer-Book—The 
Sacrifice of the Mass—Its, ceremoni-
als—The Holy Communion and the 
Rules Regulating the Disposition of 
the Elements. 
It has been said by Cicero that " man-
kind have run through every species of 
superstitious madness, except that per-
taining to the deity they worshipped. " 
But the Romish Church have not only 
accomplished this madness—they have al-
so burned and put to death those whose 
religiousness and intelligence refused such 
an impiety. 
It is well known that the Sacrifice of 
the Mass is the leading mystery of the 
Romish Church ; and we propose to ,ex-
amine it in some of its parts, using only 
their own missal to judge them by. Let 
us notice first the General Confession at-
tached to the common service of the 
Mass, arid place beside it the " General 
Confession " as used by the Protestant 
Church before their service of the Holy 
Communion. And as all Catholics de-
light in passionately asserting that the 
Protestant Prayer Book is a free trans-
lation of the Romish Missal, it will also 
enable every one to judge for themselves 
of the amount of truth in this assertion : 
consecration of the wafer. This he is 
to take between the thumb and forefin- 
ger of the right hand, " gaze on it in-
tently, devouly, fixedly," utter the secret 
words, which the Romish Church avers 
changes it into the very body and blood 
of Christ, and then with his other fingers 
stretched out and close together, he 
must kneel and adore it. Then raising 
himself as much as he conviently can, 
he elevates the Host for the worship of 
the people; but he must keep his fingers 
in the position ,described, til he washes 
them after communion. 
The omissions and mistakes in a cere! 
mony, so crowded with details, must be 
many, and how important they are may 
be learned from that part of the Rubric 
treating of the defects in celebrating 
the Mass. They are far beyond the 
length of any newspaper article, but I 
will give a few specimens of them. 
If the bread is not pure wheat, the 
sacrament is invalid, if the water is min- 
gled with perfumed water, it is doubtful, 
if the bread be putrescent or not un-
leavened the sacrament is valid, but the 
priest incurs a girevous sin. If a conse- 
crated wafer be lost, or blown away by 
the wind, or carried off by a mouse, then 
another is to be consecrated, the mouse, 
if possible, burned to ashes, and the ash-
es cast beneath the altar. The Church 
has overlooked no possible contingency. 
There are instructions which refer to 
change of words intentional and unin- 
t@ntional, to the intention of the priest— 
the state of his mind, the state of his 
body, the state of his vestments; in all 
of which defects may occur, rendering 
the Mass invalid. Furthermore, this 
sacrifice of Christ can be made of none 
effect if the cup is not of gold, silver or 
tin (for brass, glass and paten are Mad-
missable), if a fly or a spider fall into 
the chalice, if there are not wax candles, 
or if it be offered up in uncanonical 
honors. 
If a drop of Christ's blood (1 use the 
words of the Rubric) be spilled, it is to 
be licked up with the tongue (the member 
St. James thought the most uncontroll-
able in the whole body), if it fell on 
wood, the wood must be planed ; if on 
stone, the stone must be washed and the 
water cast into the sacristy; if on the 
altar linen, the piece is to be cut out and 
burned. 
If a fly or spider fall into consecrated 
wine, the priest may take it out, wash it 
with wine, and when Mass is over burn 
it and cast the wine into the sacristy. 
Or, if he feel no nausea, "let him swal-
low the blood, fly and all." But if he 
does, and then vomits the Eucharist, and 
the elements appear, they are to " be 
agaiu reverently taken ; " if the elements 
do not appear, the contents of the stom-
ach are to be burned, and the ashes cast 
into the sacristy. 
These are but samples of a liturgy so 
barbarous, so impious, so childish, that it 
is difficult to conceive what kind of 
hearts and brains invented it. I have 
not space to draw the inferences and 
morals which are so evident, but the 
Romish Rubric will afford material for 
even greater wonder and indignation 
than this.— Christian at Work. 
CHRIST, THE SURETY OF HIS PEOPLE. 
The riches of divine grace as manifest-
ed in the love of God to his people, can-
not fail to call forth the wonder and the 
praise of every disciple. It is the im-
mensity of these riches, which so much 
excites unbelief in the world and too of-
ten among the people of God. But cer-
tain it is that no mind merely human, 
could possibly have devised or imagined 
the scheme of redemption as set forth in 
the gospel. 
Pis the physical world we perceive the ef-
fects of immutable law ; in the operations 
of nature we see that all its beneficent proc-
esses are the fruit of this law, and in the 
violent convulsions of the earth, the tem-
pest, lightning, and earthquake, the same 
principle is at work, unperceived it may 
be, save by its effects, yet everywhere 
asserting its supremacy and demanding 
obedience. 
So in the moral world ; God has estab-
lished a law which if not perfectly obey-
ed by every subject' of his kingdom, 
comes to the offender with a penalty 
which cannot be shunned or in any way 
set aside. The first moment of trans-
gression is the commencement of this 
penalty. It was thus with Adam ; 
shame and misery were the immediate 
effect of his sin : his mind and affec-
tions, which were in perfect harmony 
with every attribute of God, were now 
alienated and polluted ; darkness came 
over his soul, and God, who before was 
the supreme object of delight, was now 
contemplated with aversion and dread. 
And it is thus with all the children of 
Adam. The sad inheritance of sin and 
woe has descended to every individual 
of his fallen race. If God had forgiven 
Adam without any regard to his violated 
law, it would have broken the harmony 
of the universe ; the great pillars of his 
moral government would have fallen, and 
all security for righteousness and holines 
would have disappeared from the empire 
of Jehovah. 
The debt to divine justice, which man 
had incurred, he could never pay ; from 
the moment of transgression, he and his 
race became utterly insolvent ; he was 
under the sentence of a law which was 
holy, just, and good. It could not relax 
its prisoner. 
These truths are obvious to every re-
flecting mind ; every man is conscious 
that he has lost the image of his Maker. 
He would fain hide himself from the 
piercing glances of the divine holiness, 
as did Adam among the trees of the 
garden. This state of mind is a matter 
of experience with all and cannot be con-
tradicted. 
And now we may contemplate the rays. 
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173 
And God is constantly putting new songs 
into the mouths of his faithful children 
here in this world of probation and of 
conflict. 
I sat with a company of disciples late-
ly, at the sacramental feast, where Christ 
hung over us the banner of his love. I 
saw more than one there who a twelve-
month since had been in the bonds of 
iniquity. To them Jesus had come by 
his awakening and arousing spirit. They 
had been conviced of sin and converted 
by an Almighty power. Their feet had 
been lifted out of the miry clay and set 
upon a rock, and a new song had been 
put into their mouths—even praise to 
the precious Jesus who had delivered 
them. They were yet in the ardor of 
their first love. May it never cool. They 
were yet in the sweet novelty of a new 
song of thanksgiving. May it never 
grow old. 
There were some, too, in that compa-
ny, who had lately tasted the very bit-
terness of death. Some of them had, 
for the first time in their lives, been 
forced to take beloved children out of 
their own bosoms, and to lay them in 
the cold bosom of mother earth. One 
had closed the eyes of the best of hus-
bands. Two others had seen the lips of 
devoted wives grow white and motion-
less. Another had kissed a. dear old 
mother his last good-night. Yet not one 
of them so disgraced their Christian 
faith or so dishonored the memory of 
those gone home to glory as to drone out 
a doleful dirge of woe. God had given 
each of them a new song ! The light 
of mine eyes is gone from me. My hus-
band, my wife, my child is under the 
silent turf to-day. But, thanks be to 
him who gave me the victory ; and to 
them a glorious victory in the last hour ! 
I do not believe that the angels hear 
sweeter melodies on earth, or those 
more akin to their own, than the songs 
of devout submission which ;break forth 
from the trembling lips of a Christian 
who has conquered the grave. One of 
the mightiest men of the New England 
pulpit says that, after he had such a 
wonderful inlet of the divine love into 
his soul he spent a day of the most 
celestial joy lie ever experienced ! He 
had to endure the new agony of trial 
before he could learn the new song of 
triumphant submission to the will of 
GOd. 
There is still another type of experi-
ence which many a follower of Jesus 
has had. It is one that thousands in our 
churches may have, and ought to have 
without delay. It is something like 
this. The man had been living a poor, 
feeble, dwarfish life. He was out of 
the sepulchre .; and yet he had always 
sat at the grave's mouth in a " dead-and-
alive " condition, with no ring in his de-
votions and no power in, his prayers. 
His pulse was low. His doubts hung 
like heavy, spongy clouds, close down to 
the horizon. Seldom had he known one 
streak of clear blue sky.. He barely 
hoped that he was a child of God ; the 
the assurance of acceptance he knew no 
more about than he knew about Sanscrit 
or Arabic. 
But the best of blessings has come to 
that man's soul, the blesitig of a new 
baptism. New light has broken upon 
him—the open vision of Christ Jesus as 
a complete and victorious Saviour. He 
has repented of long disgraceful doubts 
and deadness. He has begun to believe. 
He has begun to read God's word with 
new eyes. He has begun to pray the 
prayer of faith and to live the higher life 
of self-consecration. He has tested Christ. 
He has begun to work for Christ. He 
has sought the " power from on high." 
And a new song is in his mouth. He 
cannot keep it back. It breaks out. " I 
know whom I have believed. The law 
of the spirit of life in Christ Jesus has 
made me free from the law of sin and 
death. For me to live is Christ." This 
is his new song. There is not a richer 
one in Paradise. He sings it at the 
prayer-meeting. He sings it as the mu-
sic to which he keeps step in a stronger, 
purer, sweeter, holier, and more useful 
life. When a whole church begins to 
know such an experience it is in a true, 
heaven-born revival. 
Friend ! Have you learned this new 
song yet ? You had better begin to 
learn it on your knees before the cross of 
Christ. You will need to know it before 
you can join in the sublime chorus before 
the throne of the'Redeerner in glory.—
Theo. L. Cagier. 
THE CAPTAIN AND THE JEW. 
that fear him.' I was then a Jew, so the 
text was not unknown to me: but I could 
not call God my father. Yet the sailor 
was, I plainly felt, quiet and happy as a 
child on his father's knee. First I won-
dered what could give a man such confi-
dence; then I prayed and sought for it, 
and am now a Christian and a missiona-
ry to my own people. Let me give you 
my card." 
"How long is it since you were-on the 
high seas ?" 
" Seventeen years." 
"Would you know the sailor if you 
saw him ?" 
" 0 certainly : I have thought of him 
so often." 
"He stands before you now." 
" Impossible, captain. He was a com-
mon sailor." 
" Is not yours a more remarkable 
change ?" You were a Jew, and are 
now a Christian and a missionary. 
Why, then, in seventeen years' time, 
should not a sailor become a captain ?" 
THE FULLNESS. 
Cannot a man possessing this fullness so 
live that his communion with God will 
be uninterrupted ? You will not, even ill 
this life, find yourself in that condition 
in which you will not encounter difficul-
ties, temptations and trials ; but the 
man that lives up to his privileges will 
be saved all the time ; and saved in all 
the possibilities of his nature ; so long 
as you abide in Christ, you have a refuge 
that never can be stormed. The sancti-
fied man holds that position, not once 
for all, but moment by moment, moment 
by moment, in the exercise of faith in 
the strength and impregnability of his 
refuge. Oh ! there is more power in the 
believer, galvanized into the fullness of 
God by the love of Christ, than there is 
in any thing else in the universe. And 
who will not have it ? Now there is 
room, always room. If you' want to be 
filled with light and purity, come to this 
feast. If you want to be filled with the 
fullness of God, go down, down, until 
you know the love of Christ, "that ye 
may be filled with the fullness of God." 
Many mistake by seeking to go up to 
find the fullness of God." It is not, up, 
but down. The soul that seeks exalta-
tion by going up, will sink to the lowest 
place.—Banner of Holiness. 
MONEY. 
Men work for it, beg for it, steal for 
it, starve 'for it ; and all the while from 
the cradle to the grave stature and God 
are thundering in our ears the solemn 
question, " What shall it profit a man 
if he gain the whole world and lose his 
own soul ?" The madness for money 
is the strongest and lowest of the pas-
sions ; it is the insatiate Moloch of the 
human heart, before whose remorse-
less altar all the finer attributes of hu-
manity are sacrificed. It makes mer-
chandise of all that is sacred in the hu-
man affections, and even traffics in the 
awful solemnities of the eternal. 
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A wealthy widow lady of Richmond, 
Va., member cf a Protestant family, 
has entered a Catholic convent in South 
Carolina and taken the black veil. She 
is yet young, quite handsome, seemingly 
happy in her domestic relations, and 
well endowed with this world's goods.—
The Pilot. 
Young, handsome, rich :—with such 
accompaniments with what alacrity were 
the doors of the the convent flung open 
to receive and welcome this beautiful 
sacrifice. 
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APPOINTMENTS. 
Lord will I will preach in Kingston, 
N. H., next Sunday (Nov. 9th), in the 
chapel near Dea. Gale's. 
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:f0111-1ING TO PAY, TO DO, OR TO FEAR. 
over to the spoiler ! Let the ice king 
lock up every fair and beautiful thing, 
and winds sing requiems, and Death 
triumph ! 
The all-delivering sun shall come back 
again, and nothing can resist it. It will 
search silently for its fair children and 
find them. They are not dead, but only 
asleep. At the touch of Spring they 
shall arise, reclothed, and rejoicing. 
Shall God, who cares for the flowers 
to give them resurrection, forget his own 
children, and give them none ?—New 
York Ledger. 
benumbed. He had heard the shrieks of 
the perishing. 
" Wrecked forever ? " said he slowly, 
.4 4 that's a long time, boy." 
" Yes sir," said Jem, " so it is." 
"And is there no help for it ? " he 
asked. 
" Oh yes," answered the boy. " Our 
chaplain used to say that the Admiralty 
of Heaven had got out a life-boat for 
poor lost souls. That life-boat is Jesus 
Christ. It was launched at Calvary, and 
has been round picking up the lost in the 
stormy waters of sin ever since. He 
used to tell us to stretch out our arms to 
get in, and to cry, Lord, save, or I per-
ish ! ' " 
" And does he ? " asked the old man. 
" I only know about myself," said the 
boy humbly. "I was going down and 
cried unto the Lord, and he had mercy 
on me, and took me in, and I've sailed 
with him ever since. He's a good Cap-
tain, the Captain of our Salvation." 
Does not the sermon in this picture 
meet the case of some of our readers ?—
Sailor's Magazine. 
A MARINE PICTURE. 
it is a stern and rock-bound coast we 
look upon. There are dark cliffs which 
rise precipitous from the water's edge. 
There are still more dangerous ledges, 
washed by the ebbing and flowing tide, 
some of which are seen only at low 
water, and others never seen, all crouch-
ing low to do what murderous work 
they can. You may well call this a 
perilous coast. The careful mariner 
avoids it. One more venturesome than 
another will now and then run close in, 
rprofiting by long experience to thread 
his torturous way along these half 
sunken and treacherous foes, but the 
prudent foresees the danger of too close 
proximity, and hides himself in the 
safety of the deep arid open sea. 
There is a light-house yonder upon the 
headlands. With its dull gray stones it 
stands a pillar of cloud by day, and with 
its blazing lantern a pillar of fire by 
night, a beacon to every wanderer 
through this wilderness of waters. The 
waves beat against its base, but move it 
not ; they dash up towards its crystal 
cap, but never reach it. Winds do not 
make its light flicker, nor can the driving 
mist wholly obscure it. Summer and 
winter, in storm and sunshine, by day 
and night, the keeper tends it. The oil 
must never run low, nor the wick give 
out. Far out at sea the coming sailor 
sweeps the horizon for this friendly 
light, and guided by it may at last reach 
his desired haven. 
Yet notwithstanding the light-house, 
there is a wreck lying close at hand. A 
vessel, endeavoring to make the harbor 
beyond, ran heedlessly too near the 
shore, and before she knew it was among 
the breakers. With a tremendous 
shock she stranded upon a jagged rock, 
around which the waters raged. " The 
fore part stuck fast and remained im- 
movable, but the hinder part was broken 
with the violence of the waves." How 
the dark cliffs of that coast loomed up 
before her horror-stricken passengers 
and crew, in the gloom of that terrible 
night ! As the dread news, "A ship 
ashore," spread from point to point upon 
the land, men hurried to the scene, and 
for a time stood dismayed like their fel-
low-beings in peril. The waves pounded 
the sides of the ill-fated vessel, and swept 
her decks ; in one short hour her 
strength and majesty departed, and she 
was left a dismantled and desolated 
hulk. 
There is one link, however, which 
connects the wreck with the shore. It 
is the life-boat, fitted with its hooks and 
buoys, and ropes, and life preservers. 
Quick hands ran it to the water's edge. 
A dozen stalwart men leaped upon its 
thwarts and pushed out through the 
surf. Battling with the elements they 
slowly neared the wreck, mounting 
lightly over each crested swell that 
would have engulfed them. Not one of 
those brave hearts knew fear. They go 
to save the lost. Here and there they 
pick up a survivor, struggling 'with the 
waves. Soon they get a line to the 
wreck, and then the numbers clinging to 
the rigging are brought in safety to the 
shore. The light-house, rooted to its 
rocky base could only warn ; the life-
boat must effect a rescue. 
So much for a picture which has vivid 
outlines, when viewed in the light of 
such disasters as have Lately entered into 
history ; a picture which embodies deep 
spiritual meaning. 
Sunken rocks ? Life is full of them. 
Beware of them, you who are sailing 
over this great and wide sea. The 
waters are placid, but destruction lurks 
in many a spot beneath. 
The Light-house ? Remember the 
words of th4 Lord Jesus, how he said : 
" I am the light of the world ; " Ye are 
the light of the world ; and of Paul, 
also : " Among whom ye shine as lights 
in the world." The Christian has a light 
to keep, which nothing should be al-
lowed to extinguish and dim ; which 
should beam more brightly in hours of 
unusual gloom, and be watched more 
assiduously when souls are in uncommon 
peril. 
As for wrecks, do they not lie all 
around us ? Sadder than any ship-wreck 
is the ruin of an immortal soul freighted 
with treasure, destined for a heavenly 
port, but overwhelmed in a storm. 
And then the Life-boat ! There is 
one who has come to seek and to save 
the lost ; who is able to save to the ut-
termost ; who will save all who come 
unto God by him. When there was no 
eye to pity, and no arm to save, His eye 
pitied, and His arm brought salvation. 
I have seen a. harrow-form flock of 
ducks flying high, heading southward. 
The summer is over in the far north. 
The open water is disappearing under 
them' of ice. The breeding nests are 
papty and forsaken. The young fowl 
Oave thriven—such •ttrk foxes, and weasels, 
dad owls, and hawks have spared—and 
now, with their tougher-winged parents, 
they are on the way to their winterless 
outh. Who that ever read Bryant will 
see a stream of ducks in the air without 
s recalling his exquisite lines ? This is 
one of the functions of a poet. To him 
is given a sensibility not only to the 
physical aspects of nature, but to their 
emblematic and moral functions which 
nature performs. In verse he interprets 
-1! to others that which is revealed to him. 
No one can estimate how much of the 
pleasure derived from birds, flowers, 
forests, clouds, the sea, and all the great 
and constant phenomena of r ature, we 
owe to the influence of poetry. 
The world would seem cold, its light 
grow dim, if we could discharge from 
.nature all that poetry has put upon it. 
Now, it glows with imputed sensibility, 
it throbs with afflictions, it sympathizes 
with all human affections, and is sorrow-
ful or joyous, is stern or soothing, is 
-angry or loving, and all from that which 
the imagination brings to it. The whole 
world is richer for every poet that lives 
in it. Chaucer, Shakespeare, Milton, 
Wordsworth, Keats, have clothed the 
world with meanings and charming asso-
ciations which endlessly enrich the eye, 
the ear, the imagination and the heart. 
All this from seeing a flock of ducks ? 
Even so. As their forms grew fainter 
on the evening sky, the whole northern 
summer opened to my mind, and before 
me. lay islands, sheltered bays, crags 
and rocks stuffed with sea-fowl, a vast 
and commonwealth, busy chiefly 
in p‘ ling next year's anny of water-
fowl. We thought, too, of their 'coming 
away. They are retreating from the ad-
vancing winter. 
Already the dark days are coming 
around the Arctic zone—storms are 
pouring down snows, and the seas are 
dashing ice mountains upon each other 
in wild horror. Step by step. the cold 
line will descend. As yet, our trees are 
in full leaf, the grass thrives, asters are 
scattered in profusion along the roads 
and hillsides, birds are fattening on the 
ripening seeds and the abundant fruits 
that nature provides for the small tribes, 
but which men neglect. 
But, the shadow is cast forward ! 
Tht_ 'airds from the north flying silently 
above us tell the tale. Winter is not far 
behind them ! Its sharp sickle is in its 
hand ; it- will speedily reap field, or-
chard and garden. The locusts are silent. 
The mournful cricket already is growing 
tired of its evening song. From this 
time forth, nature will hasten its house-
keeping. Mid-October ! What mild 
light ; how deep the blue ; how balmy 
the air ; how radiant field and forest ; 
how fragrant is that mingled odor which 
comes from soil, from leaves, from flow-
ers, from the all-receiving bosom of the 
earth, into which has been poured the 
incense of the summer ! Yet this glory 
is day by day changing. Let it Rass ! 
set winter come, and the world be given 
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A pious sailor went as one of the crew 
of a passenger steamer down the river to 
the sea. Over the ocean hung a heavy, 
threatening fog. They went forward in-
to it. Near the chimney a youth was 
shivering, evidently in great anxiety. 
After a while he asked a sailor : 
" Shall we have a storm ?" 
" Do not allow yourself to be anxious, 
since the Lord knows in what condition 
we are, and like as a father pitieth his 
children, so the Lord pitieth them that 
fear him.'" 
With these words he turned away to 
work. Years passed, and the sailor bad 
become a captain. On one of his voy-
ages a well-dressed gentleman drew near 
him with the question: 
" Shall we have a good voyage, cap-
tain ?" 
" That no captain can tell but He who 
holds the water in the hollow of His 
hand, and measures the heaven with a 
span." 
" Thanks, captain; it delights me to 
hear you come quickly to the main point. 
You remind me of a sailor who spoke en-
couragingly to me on my first voyage." 
"What did he say ?" 
" I was terrified at the rough waves, 
and he told me, Like as a father pitieth 
his children, so the Lord pitieth them 
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the holy Apostles Peter us, have mercy upon us, 
and Paul, all saints, and most merciful Father; 
 
you, brethren, to pray far fsours tNntSsotfis, osauLelzf:rudrgJivee- 
me to the Lord our God." all that is past, and grant 
that we may evermore 
serve and please thee in 
newness of life, to the 
honor and glory of thy 
holy name'. Amen. 
As mere literary composition, the con-
trast is striking enough, but what is to be 
particularly noted is the utter absence in 
the Romish confession of any recognition 
of Christ, the exaltation of the Virgin 
and the saints into intercessors, and the 
theatrical prettiness of striking the breast, 
etc. On the contrary, in the Protestant 
confession, Christ is the first and the last, 
and pardon is looked for only for his sake. 
The whole service and ceremony of the 
Romish Mass strikes us with wonder at 
the extraordinary care taken to exclude 
all exercise of the reason, and bury the 
mind under a load of minute and trivial 
ceremonies, to which an almost awful im-
portance is attached. To omit the strik-
ing of the breast, the bending of the 
knee, to hold the forefinger and thumb 
in a wrong position, to spill one drop of 
consecrated wine, or break off one crumb 
of the holy bread, to officiate with a full 
instead of an empty stomach, are enor-
mities only to be atoned for by the 
church's heaviest penalties. 
Let us suppose the Romish priest has 
put on the particular colored garment 
suitable for the day in the sacristy ; he 
must then proceed to the altar " with 
downcast eyes, a grave step, and erect 
carriage ;" if he pass the high altar, he 
must bow to it with his head covered, but 
if he pass the place where the sacrament 
is contained, he must bend the knee, and 
if he pass the altar where the Host is ele-
vated, he must not only bend the knee, 
but adore it uncovered. 
There are different rules for 'officiating 
in the presence of different dignitaries (as 
if all men were not equal before God), 
a whole series of instructions regarding 
prostrations, bowing to the crcifix, kiss-
ing the altar, signing with the cross, in-
censing the altar, the crucifix, the sacred 
vestments and eleinents ; and at another 
stage of the proceedings the priest spreads 
his hands over the altar and kisses it in 
the middle. There are other parts of the 
office where he must hold his hands be- 
fore his breast with the palms toward each 
other, but he must not dare then to spread 
his fingers, nor suffer the tips to go be- 
yond or be higher than the shoulder. In 
this position there are also particular 
dippings and bowings at the names of 
the Virgin, the Saviour, and any saint 
whose day it happens to- be. Further 
on, after reading the Gospel, he raises 
the book and kisses it—unless in masses 
for the dead, when the kissing is omit-
ted—(why?) or in the presence of a bish-
op or cardinal, when the book is present-
ed for their more august kiss. 
To pass over a multitude of similar 
" tricks before high heaven," all equally 
041410, let us suppose him come to the 
Oh ! wonderful Redemption! 
God's remedy for sin. 
The door of Heaven open 
For you to enter in. 
" I'm afraid you've lost your reckon-
ing, sir," said Jem to the old profane 
sailor, " and that you are drifting on to 
the breakers." 
" What then ? " asked the old man. 
" You'll be wre eked," answered Jem, 
" wrecked forever." 
The old sailor had been wrecked. He 
knew what it was to be on a ship break-
ing up and going to pieces on a wintry 
coast. He knew what it was to he 
lashed to a spar, balf•nalsed, hungry, and 
"I confess to Almighty 
God, to the blessed Vir-
gin Mary, to the blessed 
Archangel Michael, to the 
blessed John the Baptist, 
to the holy Apostles Pe-
ter and Paul, to all saints, 
and to you, Father, that 
I have sinned too much 
in thought, word and 
deed; (he strikes his breast 
three times as he repeats) 
my fault, my fault, my 
great fault. Therefore, 1 
beseech the blessed Vir-
gin Mary, the blessed 
Archangel Michael, the 
blessed John the Baptist, 
GENERAL CONFESSION. 
ROMISH MISSAL. 
THE SACRIFICE OF THE MASS. 
" Almighty God, Fa-
ther of our Lord Jesus 
Christ, Maker of all 
things, Judge of all men; 
we acknowledge and be-
wail our manifold sins 
and wickedness, which 
we from time to time 
most grievously have 
committed, by thought, 
word and deed, against 
thy Divine Majesty, pro-
voking most justly t h y 
wrath a n d indignation 
against us. We do ear-
nestly repent, and a r e 
heartily sorry for these 
our misdoing's; the re-
membrance of them is 
grievous unto us; the bur-
den of them is intolera-
ble. Have mercy upon 
PROTESTANT 
PRAYER BOOK. 
GENERAL CONFESSION. 
tery of divine love. To answer the 
claims of the broken law, is the first ne- 
cessity for securing the honor of God ; 
to restore the divine image in the soul of 
man, is the past necessity for his own 
happiness. At this point God interposes ; 
his own beloved Son comes into the world 
to magnify the law and make it honorable. 
He does it in his perfectly holy life, 
by his unfailing obedience to its every 
precept. His divine nature, connected 
with his humanity, constitutes him a full 
and sufficient mediator between God and 
man. He bears the penalty due to sin, 
redeems his people from the curse of the 
law ; discharges the debt to divine justice 
and reconciles all who believe in him to a 
forgiving God. 
This display of infinite love, baffles 
all human conception. Angels look into 
this mystery, but they cannot compre-
hend it. We wonder not that the seraph-
ic Isaiah, who saw through the veil of 
prophecy, a faint vision of this redemp-
tive work, should celebrate its wonders in 
such language as only the Holy Ghost 
could suggest, and every true believer 
can see and feel, though alas, too faintly, 
in his sublime and soul-animating strains, 
the matchless glory of his theme. 
" Break forth into joy, sing together ye 
waste places of Jerusalem, for the Lord 
hath comforted his people, he hath re-
deemed Jerusalem. Arise, shine ! for thy 
light is come, and the glory of the Lord 
is risen upon thee. Sing, oh heavens ; and 
be joyful, oh earth ; and break forth 
into singing, oh mountains ! for the Lord 
hath comforted his people and will have 
mercy on his afflicted. The sun shall be 
no more thy light by day ; neither for 
brightness shall the moon give light un-
to thee ; but the Lord shall be unto thee 
an everlasting light, and thy God thy 
glory." 
" I have blotted out as a thick cloud 
thy transgressions and as a cloud thy sins, 
and the days of thy mourning shall be 
ended." 
Oh, Christian, is this your glorious in-
heritance ? What ceaseless gratitude and 
praise should you render to him, who un-
folds to your admiring eye this mystery 
of grace ? In the light of this divine 
love, how insignificant is the world and 
its glory ? Does not your spirit long foe 
nearer communion with him, whose love 
to you was the vital spring of every holy 
affection, of every sanctified desire. 
When you stand at the bar of Justice, 
clothed in his perfect righteousness, every 
demand of the law will be satisfied. 
Justice and mercy will meet together. 
Christ will appear as your Surety, and no 
power of earth or hell can remove you 
from his love. 
And shall not this glorious theme call 
forth in your life every endeavor to honor 
and glorify your Redeemer? Will you 
not serve him faithfully in a well-ordered 
life and holy conversation ? Under the 
pressure of these constraining motives, 
how can you do otherwise ? Ere long you 
will see him as he is and be satisfied when 
you awake in his likeness. Go forth then 
in the strength of your Redeemer, conse-
crate all your powers to him, and your 
present reward shall be life and peace, and 
in the world to come, glory everlasting. 
—Selected. 
 
NEW SONGS. 
" They sung a new song before the 
throne." This statement is given twice 
by the apostle who, from his exile at Pat-
mos, caught a glimpse of the heavenly 
world. Heaven had rung with other an-
thems of praise in the ages past. But 
this was a new song, both in its theme 
and in its occasion. We are not left in 
doubt as to its theme, for the very lan-
guage of the strain is given to us. It 
was the song of redemption ; it was in 
praise of the Redeemer ; it was sung 
only by the redeemed. No other one 
" could learn that song " except those 
who had been ransomed with the price 
of the Lamb's atoning death. Demons 
of the pit cannot sing that song. The 
scoffer and the sceptic cannot sing that 
song. No rejecter of the sin-atoning 
Saviour can sing it. But the saved ones, 
who have been plucked from the jaws of 
death and hell, rejoice to swell the thrill-
ing paean of praise " Thou are worthy, 
for thou wast slain and hast redeemed 
us by thy blood out of every kindred 
and tongue and people and nation !" 
Christ is the theme of this burst of mel-
ody. The angels strike in with the cho-
rus : "Worthy is the Lamb that was 
slain, to receive power and honor and glo-
ry !" But it does not end with the cho- 
rus. The new song " rises into a mag- 
nificent oratorio. All heaven shakes 
with it. Like the surf-thunder of " many 
waters " swells the mighty melody ; for 
the whole creation is vocal with burst-
ing praise. John tells us that " Every 
creature which is in heaven, and on the 
earth, and under the earth, and such as 
are in the sea, and all that are in them, 
heard I saying, Blessing, and honor, and 
glory, and power be unto Him that sit-
teth upon the throne, and unto the 
Lamb, for ever and ever.", Whatever 
may be said 'of the preaching or the 
praise of earthly churches, no man can 
dispute that the worship of heaven is 
thoroughly evangelical. Christ is the 
beginning, and the middle, and the end 
of its most ecstatic song. Heaven is 
bright with glory, but "the Lamb is the 
light thereof." Heaven is joyous with 
melody, but the crucified Lamb is the 
theme thereof. 
Let them sing up yonder in the realms 
of glory. We may hope to hear those 
hallelujah choruses by-and-by, when we 
get there. But we need not wait for 
the future state in order to be learning 
or to be singing the " new song." To a 
true Christian heaven begins in this 
world. Every victory he gains over 
temptation is a " palm branch." Every 
deed of beneficence is to him 6 " crown." 
172 "1 
 
Zke (tirelt. 
'fait 
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THE TWO .:CHURCH-BUILDERS. 
AN ITALIAN TALE. -BY JOHN a, SAX.R. 
A famous king would .build a church, 
A temple vast and grand : 
And, that the praise might he his own, 
He gave a strict ,command 
That none should,,,adcl:the smallest 
To aid the work he planned. 
And whemthe mighty dome was done, 
Within the noble; frame 
Upon a tablet, broad and fair, 
In letters all a-flame 
With burnished gold, the people read 
The royal, builder's name. 
Now when the kipg, elate with pride, 
That night had sought his bed, 
He dreamed he saw. angel come, 
(A halo round his head.) 
Erase the royal name, and write 
Another in its stead. 
What could it mean ? Three times that night 
That wondrous vision came ; 
Three times he saw that angel amid 
Erase the royal name, 
And write a woman's in its,stead, 
In letters all afTflame. 
Whose could it be.? He gave command 
To all about his throne. 
To seek the owner or the barns 
That on the tablet shone ; 
And so it was the courtiers found 
A widow poor' and lone. 
The king, enraged at what he heard, 
Cried, " Bring the culprit here !" 
And to the woman trembling sore, 
He said, " 'Tis very clear 
That you have broken my command : 
Now let the truth appear ±" 
" Your Majesty," the widow said. 
" I can't deny the truth ; 
I love the Lord----nay Lord and yours-- 
And so in simple sooth, 
I broke your majesty's command, 
(I crave your'royal ruth !) 
" And since I had no money, Sire, 
Why-I could only pray 
That God would bless yours Majesty ; 
And when along the way 
The horses drew the stones-I gave 
To one a wisp of hay !" 
" Ah ! now 1 see," the king exclaimed, 
" S if-glory was mine'aiui ; 
The woman gave fir love-of God, 
And not fir worldly fame ; • 
'Tis my command the tablet bear 
The pious widow's name !" 
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JOAN MATHURIN; 
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this 
Truly no use 
it." 
for anything beneficial 
him, in presence of the commissioners, as Church which had brought about 
terrible deed. It was late in the after- or- pleasant, but much use for the intim- 
gloomy through the mist that enshrouded 
them, and tended to fix more deeply on my 
mind the sad scene I had just witnessed. 
Wending my way homeward through 
Chancery Lane. the words of my unfor-
tunate client recurred to me. " Will my 
case be called on to-day ?" thought I : 
and is nothing left undone to insure me a 
favorable decree at the hands of that 
eternal Judge before whom I must stand 
sooner or later' ?" We have each a case 
If vital importance, in which judgment 
may be giveri any day, any hour-judg-
ment irrevocable, and which will consign 
our immortal souls to eternal -happiness or 
etern &damnation. Our hearts (like the 
opinion of counsel to my unhappy client) 
are too apt to lead us into a false sense 
of security, and day after day, month after 
month, year after year, is -allowed to pass 
away without our taking the necessary 
measures to ensure favorable judgment. 
Yet, thanks to-a merciful Redeemer, we 
are left in no uncertainty as to the means 
by which to attain that glorious verdict, and 
,f, unhappily, a decree is given against us, 
are ourselves are alone to blame.-Se-
lected. 
. , 
MORNING. 
them, and is again .and again repeated in 
the hearing of the nations. 
1. HonOred in its Relations. Things 
are sacred in association. The scenes of 
our childhood, our homes, and all we 
love, because of their association with 
many things, now forever passed away. 
the " old arm chair " in which our sainted 
mother sat, the family Bible, all these are 
doubly dear and sacred things. Now the 
Sabbath is thus hanored-creation, God. 
redemption, Heaven ; all these are asso-
ciated with th's sacred day. " No Sab-
bath, no Godr is not a dogmatic axiom, 
but a historical truth, and so God has 
wound the Sabbath law as the ivy clings 
to the oak, around the very pillars of 
the eternal throne, and we cannot rev-
erence God and violate his holy law of 
rest. Then it binds the blood-stained 
cross and like a garland of roses perfumes 
and adorns the tomb, whence iTeSus rose 
and ascended upon high. We cannot 
have these unless, 'also, we have God's 
holy law of rest. It is the one law. 
Which, like the glorious Shechinah, rest- 
on all things holy and divine. 
3d. It is an honored day. It is cii• 
vinely selected, and consecrated. It 
set apart." It is a- great boon. " See. 
for the Lord bath giVen you the Sabbath. 
We must prize the gift. We may sel: 
that which we buy with money. But w( 
cannot parti with this. We cannot sell it 
We may not surrender it. Who woulS 
sell the "jewels of his home!" Thou 
sands of the good arid great, in all ages. 
in all lands, have hallowed the day. W( 
can never for their sakes and ours sur-
render its blessings. 
But what is our duty ? It is sad a 
ask this question now. There is but on, 
alternative, it is God's law, and it. mime 
be obeyed. But our rulers ! Who are 
our rulers ? Here in this land of freedom 
we rule ourselves. There is no king not 
potentate whom we need fear ! We maki 
our own laws, and ours is the duty to se, 
that our servants obey them and enforce 
them. 
The Sabbath law is not in the categor.\ 
of those laws, to be:made odious by en 
forcement. -What Legislature dare re-
peal the. law of God ? As well tall 
about legislating God out of the univers( 
he has made.. 
Sabbath desecration is the prolific fount-
airs of moral degeneracy. More than ali 
other forms of trausgression, it under 
mines the foundation of moral govern 
went, and leaves city, State, and natiom 
a moral ruin. On this question of main-
tenance of the Sabbath we " can never 
surrender." H6wever often we fight ante 
fail, we must again join our forces an, 
renew the conflict. To fail here is to los, 
all-ehome, religion-all. Lsok at Sab-
bath-breaking Israel, " scattered ant 
peeled." Look at the'Sabbathless na-
tions of continental Europe, in the boot-
less throes of political revolutions. Ant 
so without .013R Sabbath, will our own na-
tion lose the prestige, the glory, the free-
dom we now enjoy. Let us keep th. 
-Sabbath, and thus inherit all those in 
numerable blessings which are promise, 
in the text, and which Cowpeiaparaehras 
es in his immortal song : 
" The fruitful field 
Laughs with abundance, and the land once lean 
Or fertile only in its own disgrace, 
Exults to see its thirsty curse repealed- 
The various seasons woven into one, 
And that one season an everlasting spring." 
-Newark Courier. 
SOFT ANSWERS. 
ing of discord and establishment of mal-
' ice. Especially in domestic life is the 
sharp answer one of Satan's choice en-
gines for the creation of all uncharitable-
, ness ; and these who can refrain from it 
lunder provocation have achieved a great 
victory over themselves. One of the 
most tried and most holy women that 
ever acted thus, is described by her cele-
brated.son, Augustine : "She had learn-
ed not to resist an angry husband, not in 
deed, only, but even in word. Only 
when he was smooth and tranquil she 
would give an account of actions, if haply 
he had taken offence. In a word, while 
many matrons, who had milder husbands 
would, in familiar talk, blame their hus-
bands' lives, she would blame those wives' 
tonghes. And they, knowing what a 
choleric husband she endured, marvelled 
that it could never be perceived that 
Patricus had beaten her, or there had 
been any domestic difference between 
them." And how closely the meek spirit 
is allied to that of the peace-maker in the 
next beatitude, we may gather from A u-
gustine's further words : " This great 
g,ft, also, thou bestowedst, Oh my God, 
on that good handmaid of thine, that, 
between any discordant parties, when 
hearing on both sides most bitter things, 
such as swelling and. undigested choler 
causes to break forth, she never would 
disclose anything but what would tend 
to their own reconcilement." Short-
lived would be the strifes of the world did 
everybody act like Monica. 
There are a few sweet, placid tempers 
to whom the " soft answer " comes com-
paratively easy ; but with most per ores, 
it must be the fruit of resolute self-con-
trol and self conquest of a habit of mind 
produced by watchfulness and prayer. 
One can sympathize with the passionate 
school-boy, who pondering on this subject, 
asked another : " What soft thing is very 
hard ? " and explained his meaning thus : 
" If it is not a hard thing for a fellow to 
give a soft answer when be's right down 
vexed, then I don't know where you will 
find anything that's hard." 
But, it the School-hortearns the lesson. 
the man will have less difficulty in putting 
it into use. " The beginning of strife is 
as when one letteth out water," and the 
soft answer will always enable us to fulfill 
the following injunction : " Leave off con-
tention before it is meddled with." Yet 
how easily we justify ourselves in this 
wrong doing, prompted by the demen, 
Pride ! How quickly does the sharp re-
tort leap to the lips, how clever we deem 
ourselves when the thrust (probably as 
poisoned as we could make it) has been 
given ! We do not remember that this 
like other human temptations, was con-
quered by our Great Exemplar ; we do 
not " consider Him who endured such 
contradiction of sinners against himself; 
who, when he was reviled, reviled not 
again ; when he suffered, he threatened 
not," although the twelve legions of 
angels stood ready at his call. 
THE SUNDAY QUESTION. 
A PLEA FOR ITS PROPER OBSERVANCE.-SERMO N 
BY THE REV. DR. WILSON. 
The morning breaks from the east. The 
mists travel up hill above hill, mountain 
above mountain, until sky-lost. The for-
asti, are full of chirp, and buzz and song. 
Tree's leaf and bird's wing flutter with 
gladness. Honey-makers in time log, aid 
beak against the bark, and squirrels chat-
tering on the rail, and the call of the 
hawk out of a clear sky, make you feel 
.lad. The sun which kindles conflagra-
tions among all the castles of cloud; and 
sets minaret and dome aflame, stoops to 
eahmt the lily white, and the butter-cup 
yellow, and the forget-me-not blue. What 
san resist the sun ? Light for the voy-
ager over the deep ! Light for the shep-
herd guarding the flocks afield ! Light for 
lie poor who have no lamps to burn ! 
Light for the downcast and the lowly. 
Light for aching eyes and burning brain, 
tied wasted captive ! Light for the smooth 
ere w of childhood, and for the dim vision 
if the octogenarian. Light for queen's cor-
onet and for sewing-girl's needle. Let 
there be light ! Whose morning is this 
VIy merning. Your morning. Our Father 
save us the picture and hung it on the 
;ky in loops of fire. It is the heir-loom 
of our family 
noon when the deep tones of the Cathe- 
dral
. 
 bell announced th
e
- 
 of the 
condemned. A few minutes later a de-
tachment of men-at-arms entered the 
square, and halted at the , stake. Then 
came a band of monks chaunting the re-
quiem for the dead, and after them, hand 
in hand, erect, calm, . and even smiling, 
came Joan mathurin and her husband. 
A murmur of pity ran through the throng, 
hut was quickly suppressed as the priests 
turned abruptly to discover who had 
dared pity the victims of the ." Holy 
Church." The martyrs paid no heed to 
the chaunting or exhortations of the 
priests. They spoke to each other only 
to exhort to still greater firmness. and 
they did not quail when the executioner 
came to lead them to the stake. Hand 
in hand they mounted the pile, and sub-
mitted to be chained to the fatal post. 
The slanting rays of the declining sun 
lighted up the scene with a soft and sub-
dued radiance, encircling the heads of 
the innocent victims of cruelty and super-
stition with a halo of light. Then the 
executioner fired the pile. The flames 
fired up wildly, hiding the martyrs from 
view. Through the- mingled glare Of the 
flames and gloom of the smoke could he 
heard the calm, patient voice of Joan 
Mathurin bidding her husband be of good 
cheer, for the gates of heaven were open-
ing on her sight. Then there 'was silence, 
broken only by the roar of the flames. 
The sun went down and the soft twi-
light came stealing on. The crowd still 
hung silent and sad about the spot. The 
monks had ceased their 211iserere, and 
the peals of the great Cathedral bell had 
died. away. The flarns,s still hissed and 
leaped around the devoted pair. Not a 
cry nor a groan- of pain had escas ed 
them. Locked in each other's arms they 
had yielded to the devouring element. 
When the moon arose, only a heap of 
smouldering embers and a mass of black-
ening hones remained to show the spot 
from which the Vaudois wife and husband 
had passed has in hand into the Paradise 
of God.-Cross and Crown. 
earnestly as possible, steadfastly to perse-- , 
yore in his religion, without putting the 
death of the body, which is of brief du-
ration, in the balance , against the eternal 
salvation of his soul." 
The commissioners were furious when 
they heard her words, and bitterly re- 
proached her for having deceived them. 
She paid no heed to them, however, but 
holding her husband's hand in her own, 
she went on gently, but firmly: 
" Let not the assaults of the wicked 
one make you abandon the profession of 
your hope inJesus Christ." 
" Exhort him to obey us, or you shall 
both be hanged," cried the commissioners. 
Again unheeding them, she said to her 
husband.: 
" And let not -the love of this world's 
possessions , make you lose the inheritance 
of heaven." 
" Heretic," cried one of the magis-
trates, " if you do not change your tone, 
you shall be burned to-morrow." 
Turning full upon her persecutor, and 
looking him calmly in the face, the brave 
Christian woman asked him : 
- Would I have come to persuade him 
to die rather than to abjure, if I could 
myself seek to escape death by apos-
tasy ? 
" You should fear at any rate the tor-
ments of the pile," said the magistrate, 
abashed by her manner and words. 
" I fear Him who is able to cast both 
body and -soul into a more terrible fire 
than that of your billets." 
" Hell is for heretics," exclaimed one 
of the commissioners. " Save yourselves 
by renouncing your errors." 
Where can the truth be if not in the 
Word of God ? " she asked. 
This will be the destruction of you 
both," said one of the magistrates, yield-
ing to his admiration and pity. 
The face of the Vaudois wife lightened 
up with a sudden and overwhelming joy, 
and turning to her husband, who had not 
released her hand, but bad clung to her 
as if all his strength lay in her, she said 
to him tenderly : 
" Blessed be God, because having 
united us in life, He will not separate us 
in death." 
One of the commissioners, a cruel and 
fanatical man, here broke into a savage 
laugh, and exclaimed exultingly : 
Instead of one, we shall have two of 
them to burn." 
I will be thy champion to the end," 
said the heroic woman, quietly, speaking 
to her husband rather than to the com-
missioners. 
" Will you come to Mass and have 
your pardon ? " asked the magistrates 
once more. 
" I would rather go to the pile, and 
have eternal life," was her answer. 
" If you do not abjure," said one, 
sternly,, " Mathurin shall be burned to-
morrow, and you three days after." 
" We shall meet again in Heaven," 
she said, meekly. 
Think of the delay that is still grant-
ed you," said the magistrate .who had ap-
peared to pity her. 
The length of it is of no consequence, 
for my resolution is for life," she an-
swered. 
" Say, rather, it is for death," he said 
sadly. 
" The death of the body is but the life 
of the soul," was her response. 
One of the most violent of the magis-
trates, he who had exulted over the pros- 
pect .of burning two, instead of one, now 
exclaimed brutally : 
" Have you -nothing else to say to us, 
you obstinate wretch ? " 
" Nothing," the answered meekly ; 
" except that I beseech you not to put off 
my execution for three days, but to let me 
die with my husband." 
.The magistrates consulted together for 
a few moments, - and then one of them 
said -to her : 
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more than all the dead weight which 
could be placed upon it. What a tribute 
to the might of gentleness ? 
That school-child made .a good reply, 
Who said that meek people were those 
who " give soft answers to rough ques-
tions." But how far the world is from 
taking a scriptural standard concerning 
meekness-a valuable quality,-we may 
learn by a- common use of the word. 
Who would like to have said of him, as 
of Moses, that he was " very meek " ? 
Something mean-spirited would be the 
popular acceptation ; nobody would un-
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versation of to-day. And yet, how does 
the Giver of all blessings signalize the 
meek ? They are among his specially 
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A gentleman came to Sir Eardley.Wil-
mot in great wrath ate an injury he had 
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,nterview thinking no lohger of revenge. 
It is related of Anthony Blanc, one of 
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he acted with the tenderness of a woman 
..oward the invalid. 
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I was engaged in my study one morn-
ing, when a client of mine, a Mr. B.. 
was introduced ; he was in a state of 
great excitement, having heard that the 
Lord Chancsllor was to pronounce judg-
ment on his case that day.' :" Are you 
sure," he inquired of me, " nothing is 
le',t undone ? If judgment is giver, againsl 
me, I am a ruined man ; all my hopes are 
centered on its results ; -on the issue hang 
the prospects of my darling wife and child-
ren. Oh ! tell me can anything further 
be done to insure success ?" 
I endeavored to calm him by saying 
we were fully prepared, and that coun-
sels' opinion was in his favor. This as-
surance having appeased him a little, he 
left me, and we appointed to meet again 
in an hour at the court. 
The Chancellor had just taken his seat 
as I entered, and waseproceeding to give 
judgment in my client's case. Casting 
my eyes around I observed poor Mr. B. 
seated on a bench immediately- opposite 
his lordship ; he did not recognize me, foi- 
his entire attention was riveted on the 
oracle from whence was to proceed the 
eagerly wished for, yet dreaded decision. 
To look upon that man was paisiful, in-
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sional experience had familiarized me to 
such scenes, yet I could not behold him 
without emotion, and trembled to think 
the awful effect an adverse decision would 
have on a mind sensitive as his, and 
wrought to the highest degree of painful 
suspense. Unhappily my fears were soon 
realized. After an elaborate and careful-
ly considered review of the case, a final 
decree was awarded apesinst my client 
Never shall I forget the agony of despair 
depicted in his countenance at that mo 
inent, as, rushing from the court, lie hissed 
in my ear the fearful words, " Oh, I am 
undone ! " 
It was a damp November day on which! 
the circumstances above narrated occur-
red ; the gloomy pile of buildings which 
2m-rounded the court appeared doubly 
.You will both be burned 
at the same stake to-morrow." 
With this they departed. The heavy 
door of the dungeon clanged behind 
them, and the husband and wife were left 
alone-yet not alone, for God was with 
them to cheer and comfort them. Ma-
therin had from the first made up his 
mind to die rather than abjure, and the 
heroism of his noble wife confirmed him 
in this resolution. He did not oppose her 
determination to die with him. It was 
better to enter upon their rest together 
than for one to live on exposed to the 
bitter malice of a persecuting Church. 
And above all, it was very sweet to pass 
their last hours on earth together, and to 
be able to cheer and encourage each other 
as they should go down hand in, hand into 
the valley of the shadow of death. They 
spent. their last night in prayer, and in 
tender communion with each other. The 
brave wife had her reward on earth, for 
she saw her husband grow more strong 
and cheerful, and even to rejoice with 
her at the fate which was to unite them 
for all eternity. Her presence made the 
gloomy cell seem full of light to him, and 
her beloved face shone upon him through 
the darkness as the face of an angel. 
Never had either been so dear to the 
other ; never had their love been so full, 
so pure, so free from earthly taint as on 
this eve of martyrdom. 
The next day, being the 2d of March, 
1560, a stake was set up in the public 
square of Carignan, and around it was 
heaped a pile of fagots ready for lighting. 
A crowd of towns-people had gathered 
around the pile, and prominent among 
them were the priests and monks of the 
At the request of the Sunday Commit-
tee of One Hundred, the Rev. David 
Wilson, of the Methodist Protestant 
Church, preached at Association Hall 
yesterday afternoon upon the Sunday 
question. Though proper announcement 
of the discourse had not been made, a 
large congregation was prssent. A syn-
opsis of the Doctor's discourse is ap-
pended : 
The law of the Christian Sabbath is 
written on all the works of God. All 
bear the impress of Jehovah's hand, and 
on them all is traced these remarkable 
words, " And God rested the seventh day 
from all his works." Yes ! the tinkling 
stream, the rolling river, the placid lake, 
and the billowing sea, all mirror the im-
age of that eternal law of rest which 
God ordained in the very beginning of 
time. This law, in point of fact, ante-
dates all law, and stands, therefore, pre-
eminent in authority and obligation, above 
all the commandments of God. It is not 
fantasy then to imagine that all creation 
is in sympathy with the hallowed services 
of this holy day, for on this day, if on 
any, we may assume that there is a literal 
fulfillment of the Psalmist's joyous excla-
mation, all " the trees of the field shall 
clap their hands." And wherefore should 
this law be thus early promulgated ? 
Why announce -it at the first in associa-
tion with the grand work of creation ? 
For whatever view of this work we may 
accept, whether Geologic or Mosaic, we 
must first find the Sabbath law at the end. 
1st. 7he Sabbath law is frequ,ently 
re-affirmed. 
On Mount Sinai it was pro-
mulgated amid thunder, smoke and flames, 
and there it was promulgated as the 
single command, which had an anterior 
history : " Remember "-what ? Why 
the Sabbath law. What seer, prophet, 
priest, philosopher, ever drew nearer God 
than Moses did ? Whose face has since 
shone with such resplendent bean's of 
nearer fellowship and holy communion.? 
What one has since come from G id's 
presence with any " higher " law tl an 
this ? None, and none can, therefor 
give us clearer light. Now, this repet'-
tion proves the importance of the law 
Some commands were not continued. 
Ceremonial ordinances, typical observ- 
The town of CarignanTstands on the 
left bank of, the river Po, south of Turin, 
and beyond the actual)imits of the Vau-
dois Valleys.' Being near to them, how-
ever, it contained, during the sixteenth 
century. a number of Vaudois who had 
been-tempted by the prospect of profitable 
employment to settle in it in spite of the 
edict which confined them to their val-
leys. For some time- the Piedmontese 
authorities suffered these persons to re-
main unmolested ; but at length the 
Romish priests, finding that the Vaudois 
were assembling secretly for .prayer,. de-
termined to exterminate them. The per-
secution began in 1560. Without giving 
them any warning, the priests caused 
them to be seized and imprieoned as .Cons 
tumacious heretics. They were not al-
lowed any examination or opportunity of 
defending themselves. They were siezed 
on suspicion, condemned on suspicion, and 
were burned within three days after their 
arrest. They •Could save their lives by 
one means only-by abjuring their re- 
ligion and going to Mass. - 
The first person thus siezed in Carig-
nan was a French refugee. named,IVIathu-
rin. He had come from the Vaudois 
Valleys of France,..,.and had married a 
woman of the Vaudois Valleys of Pied-
mont. He was a plain and simple work-
ing man, who cared little for the great 
matters going on aroundlhim, and whose 
only desire was' to 
to earn a living for his 
family and to worship God in peace. He 
was detected in the -act of conducting 
family prayer in his- own house, and for 
this " terrible crime" was sentenced to be 
burned alive. The commissioners urged 
him to abjure his religion and save his 
life ; but he refused. 
" We give you three days to reflect," 
said they ; " but after that time you will 
he burned alive if you do not come to 
Mass." 
The family of Mathurin were plunged 
in great grief by his arrest and sentence. 
His wife, Joan Mathurin, went at once to 
the commissioners and asked to be allowed 
to see her husband. 
We will grant your request," they 
replied," provided that you do not harden 
him in his errors." 
" I promise," she replied, " that I will 
not speak to him except for his good." 
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The commissioners, interpreting this 
promise as an intimation that she meant 
to persuadeshim to recant, conducted the 
wife to the 'dungeon where her husband 
was -confined. Mathurin was overjoyed 
at seeing her again. The commissioners 
remained to witness the interview,. curious 
to see if a man could withstand the 
tender pleadings of a young and beauti-
ful wife to whom he was bound by the. 
deepest affection. But they had entirely 
misunderstood' the promise of the Vaudois 
wife. Sheedevotedly loved her. husband, 
and the prospect: of his death filled her 
heart with `Ingsuieh. She - was a worthy 
daughter of the martyrs, however, and 
her greatest fear shaale heen that' her hus-
band would, .prove weak in the hour of 
trial, that the thought of leaving her 
would tempt him to forsake the path of 
duty ; and she had come to urge him to 
he firm, to do his duty to God and his 
Church, and if necessary, to die_ with him. 
" Accordingly," says Gilles, by whom 
the martyrdom is related, " she exhorted 
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