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ALL IS WEARINESS. 
All is weariness below— 
Who is there that is not weary ? 
And the farther on we go 
In life's track of weal and woe, 
Daher grows the way, and dreary. 
Those-xvho toil, and those who play, 
Grow alike both taint and weary ; 
claiming rest from day to day, 
Until each has passed away 
To the cold grave, dark and dreary. 
They whose feet the lightest press 
Beauty's halls of mirth and pleasure, 
Heedless of the poor's distress, 
Feel at length 'tis weariness, 
E'en to trip the music's measure. 
Nothing's done by hand or mind, 
But at length will wear and weary ; 
Forward look, or look behind, 
Rest we've sought, and hope to find, 
Still the way is rough and dreary. 
All is care and labor here, 
But beyond is rest forever ; 
Time, in flying, brings us near 
To that bright, celestial sphere, 
Where who comes is weary never. 
The Advent, 
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The following singular and interesting letter 
is from a Popish priest to a friend. It was writ- 
ten in 1'786, and is headed, " Sur la proximite 
de la fin du monde." It has never appeared in 
an English translation before :— 
" Sir : When you informed me, in one of 
your preceding letters, of the wondrous effects 
of magnetism, of which you had been a wit-
ness, I had the honor to answer, that I suspect-
ed that there was in them more of imposture 
than reality, but that, if the effects were really 
such as you profess to have seen them, and even 
were they still more wonderful, I should not be 
surprised at anything, in these times in which 
we live, because I do not doubt, that we are 
verging on the end of the dispensations, an 
epoch at which impostors may be expected to 
come, who, according to the Gospel, shall work 
prodigies, calculated to lead astray, if it were 
possible, the elect themselves. Further I am 
thoroughly persuaded, that the last coming of 
the Son of Man will take place before the end, 
and, perhaps, even a little after the middle of 
the next century. 
" This conjecture of mine has surprised you, 
and you are almost scandalized by it. Hence, 
you inquire of me, if it be permitted us to fath- 
om a mystery, the knowledge of which God has 
reserved for himself alone, and you ask on what 
principle I rely as the foundation for believing, 
that the accomplishment of that mystery is so 
near at hand. To these two questions, I hope 
to reply by the following observations ; I beg 
you to read them with all the attention which 
a subject so serious demands. 
" As the day of the last coming of the Son of 
Man is a mystery of which God has reserved 
the knowledge to himself alone, you inquire if 
a man can be permitted to fathom its depths. 
" This question, to be properly cleared up, 
requires a distinction to be made, to which suf- 
ficient attention has not been paid ; and from 
whence an error arises into which very many 
have fallen, all the more dangerous, as it in- 
duces men to disregard the times in which we 
live, and exposes them to the sin of not recog-
nizing those signs which God has promised us. 
" It is undeniable, that God alone knows the 
day and the hour when the Son of Man will 
come. It is no less a person than Jesus Christ 
himself who informs us of this truth. Mark 
13:32 But of that day and that hour know- 
eth no man, no, not the angels which are in 
heaven, neither the Son, but the Father.' 
" But be on your guard, sir,—it is one thing 
to know the day of- the second coming of the 
• 
Son of Man, and another to know the ap-
proaches of so remarkable an event God is 
resolved that we shall not know the day, but 
he wishes, too, with the view that we may not 
be taken by surprise, that we should be aware 
of its approach. And it is even with the view 
that we may not deceive ourselves, that, not 
content with promising signs, by which we may 
recognize its approach, and for fear that we 
should not be able to distinguish these signs 
from many others very similar, which shall 
precede them, he has condescended to point out 
for us the times when these last signs shall be-
gin to show themselves. It is true, that these 
times are marked for us in an obscure way. But 
it is this very obscurity which should awaken 
our attention, and render us more careful to 
study them, that we may not be exposed to the 
reproach to which God's people formerly were 
exposed when he addressed them by the mouth 
of the prophet : The stork in the heavens 
knoweth her appointed times, and the turtle, 
and the crane, and the swallow observe the time 
of their coming, but my people know not the 
judgment of the Lord.'—Jer. 8:7. 
" It was because they had not known the 
time of the first coming of the Son of Man 
marked out in Scripture, that the Jews des-
pised his miracles, that they were unwilling to 
recognize him, and that they were surprised by 
the misfortunes which had been predicted against 
the nation, and it will be also because they have 
not recognized the time of his second coming, 
theet the majority of the, inhabitants of the earth 
will not be struck with the signs which shall 
precede it, and that the great day of the Lord 
will surprise them unprepared. 
" These will, indeed, be signs, but these last 
signs will then make no more impression on 
men than all those have made, which have ap-
peared in the natural world up to this moment. 
" Then, mankind, especially the unbelievers, 
will easily persuade themselves, that in all the 
great events which will succeed each other 
by intervals, there is nothing of which we have 
not in past times seen instances. Wars, pesti-
lence, famine, earthquakes, which will ravage 
the universe, will be inflictions previously 
known, and of which human nature has often 
had experience. The false prophets which will 
appear in the world, yea, the very persecution 
of Antichrist will not more astonish them, be-
cause at all times there will have been impos-
tors, and in all ages the Church will have been 
more or less the object of the persecutions of 
evil-minded men. It is true that signs will be 
seen in heaven, that the sun shall he darkened, 
that the moon shall not shed her light, and that 
the stars of the firmament shall fall. But in-
dependently of the fact, that these expressions 
may have been employed in a figurative sense, 
(as it seems we are to understand by the falling 
of the stars), let us suppose that the sun and 
moon will be under eclipse for a considerable 
time. I do not believe that such phenomena 
would then make more impression than they 
have made before, on each time of their ap-
pearance. But, be this as it may, whatever 
may be the signs which are determined to pre- 
cede the end of this dispensation, however ex-
traordinary they may be in their nature or their 
multitude, it is certain that the greatest part 
of the inhabitants of the earth will not look on 
them as the forerunners of the last coming of 
the Son of Man. 
" For it is a matter on which we can have no 
doubt after the assurance given us by Jesus 
Christ, that the Son of Man will come as a 
thief, when men little expect it, and that he 
will surprise them as a net.. . . 
[How few did the supernatural darkness of 
the sun at the time of the Lord's crucifixion af-
fect savingly !—Ta.] 
" The reason for this stupidity on the part of 
mankind, and of their insensibility at the sight 
of those signs of which they are witnesses, is, 
that they will be ignorant that such signs have 
been predicted, and that they will not be at the 
pains to recognize these last times, which are 
destined to precede the second coming of the 
Son of Man. 
" Such being the case, I leave you to conclude, 
if it be useful, if it be prudent, or rather, if it 
is not absolutely necessary, to study the times 
in which we live ; and how blind are those, who, 
under pretence that God has reserved to him-
sslf alone the knowledge of the day of retribu-
tion, will not give themselees the trouble to 
recognize its approach. 
" I trust that I have said enough to satisfy 
your first request ; let us now attend to the sec-
ond. To answer this, namely, on what princi-
ple I found my belief that the second coming of 
the Son of Man will take place before the end 
of the nineteenth century, it is necessary to lay 
down previously a point of tradition founded 
on Scripture ; which is, that a little before the 
second coming of the Son of Man, Antichrist 
and Elias will appear on the earth ; the latter 
to convert the Jews — the former to excite 
against the Church the most violent of all per-
secutions that have hitherto taken place. This 
tradition St. Augustine (20 lib. de Civit. Dei) 
declares he had received from his predecessors, 
and this all who succeed him have equally 
taught. Such being the case, I have no inten-
tion of discussing with you the certainty of a 
tradition that is so well established, and is rec-
ognized by all Catholics. But if I shall suc-
ceed in convincing you that the conversion of 
the Jews by Elias, and the persecution of Anti-
christ, must take place a litttle after the middle 
of the next century, you will have no difficulty 
in agreeing with me, that we are not very far off 
the end of the world, and that in all probability 
the nineteenth* century will not pass away 
without the mystery of the second coming of 
Christ being accomplished. To convince you, 
then, that the conversion of the Jews, and the 
persecution of Antichrist, will take place soon 
after the middle of the next century, it will be 
enough to remind you of what Scripture tells 
us touching the epoch of these two great events. 
I will commence with those that relate to Anti-
christ, as being that event which must precede 
the coming of Elias, if not in person, at least 
by divers false prophets, which are to prepare the 
way for him. 
" In Daniel we find almost all the history of 
what is destined to take place, not only under 
the particular reign of Antichrist, but even du-
ring the whole course of the Antichristian em-
pire, of which one day he will be the head ; and 
what is much more interesting for us is, that 
Daniel, while he shows us the commencement 
of this redoubtable empire, has further endea-
vored to acquaint us with its duration ; so that, 
to know the end, it only remains for us to search 
history for the veritable epoch at which it was 
destined to begin. . . . 
" Recall to your mind, then, in reference to 
this point, what it is that Daniel says of the 
succession of the grand empires. This prophet, 
after having announced to Nebuchadnezzar the 
fate of his empire, and having pointed out three 
other monarchies which were successively des-
tined to re-place his own, saw yet further, in a 
mysterious dream, these same empires under 
the figures of four mighty beasts : 1st, like a 
lion ; 2d, like a bear ; 3d, like a leopard ; 4th, 
entirely different from the others, or from the 
first that he had seen, was of extraordinary 
strength, and had teeth of iron.—Dan. 11 : 37 ; 
7: 2. 
" It is well known that the empire of the Ba-
bylonians, and particularly that of Nebuchad-
nezzar, is designated in Scripture by the sym-
bol of a lion.—Jer. 4:7. Further, that in point 
of fact, this empire, represented by a lion, was 
invaded by Medes, especially Persians, in the 
person of Cyrus, who, out of the Chaldeans, 
Medes, and Persians, formed a Dew empire, 
represented by the bear. We know, too, from 
history, that the Persians were, in their turn, 
invaded by the Greeks, in the person of Alex-
ander the Great, who founded the third, sym-
bolized by the leopard ; and that at last the 
* Mr. Fynes Clinton makes out, if I understand 
him aright from the Bible, that we are now in 1982, 
or rather, anno mundi 5982, within twenty years of 
that (crap(3wrvrpos) rest that remains for the people 
of God ; i. e., the beginning of the seventh thousand. 
empire of the Greeks bowed in its turn to the 
power of the Roman empire, represented by the 
fourth beast—a power which no people could 
resist, and such as became, by the force of its 
arms, the most extended empire that had been 
ever seen on the earth. 
" This fourth beast, adds Daniel, had ten 
horns (7:7), which, as the angel of the Lord ap-
prized him, represented ten kings, destined to 
reign on earth. From history we learn, that 
many provinces in the Romish empire were dis-
membered by the barbarians, and these new 
kingdoms were reduced to the number of ten, 
at the beginning of the seventh century; that 
of the Lombards in Italy, that of the Franks in 
Gaul, that of the Goths in Spain, the Heptar-
chy of the Saxons and Angles in Great Britain. 
Let us follow Daniel strictly, and see whither 
his prophecy will lead us. 
" From the midst of his ten horns, or from 
the ten kingdoms, there came forth a little horn, 
before which the three first were torn up. This 
horn had eyes as the eyes of a man, and a 
mouth that spake great things. The angel of 
the Lord informed Daniel that this little horn, 
which sprung from the midst of the ten other 
horns, represented a new kingdom, which was 
to raise itself after them, and which should be 
greater than those which had preceded it; that it 
should humble three kings, that it should trample 
under foot the saints orGod, and should set it-
self to change times and laws.—Dan. '7:24. 
[The worthy Canon sees the fulfilment of 
this prophecy of the little horn in the career 
and person of Mohammed : but as all students 
of prophecy are now agreed that this is not the 
case, I see no advantage in printing his observa-
tions.—Tal 
" It is after the fall of the last three kings, 
that the Antichristian empire, having arrived 
at the highest period of grandeur to which God 
desired to elevate it, will itself be subjugated by 
Antichrist, of whom Mohammed was the type. 
This Antichrist will speedily. be consumed by 
fire from heaven, and precipitated into the abyss 
with all the wicked. But how long, you will 
ask, is this Antichristian empire (over which 
the Antichrist appears to reign) destined to en-
dure, and at what epoch will it end ? 
" Pay attention to the angel ; for this is the 
very point of which he informs Daniel, when, 
after tracing the character of the kingdom rep-
resented by the little horn, he says that the 
saints shall be delivered into his hands till a 
time and times and a half. This phrase, time, 
times, and a half,' is generally employed to sig-
nify years. Thus Daniel (4:20, 23), when pre-
dicting to Nebuchadnezzar the duration of the 
chastisement to be inflicted on him, says, that 
he should live with savage beasts for seven 
times,—that is, seven years. Again, the same 
prophet, speaking in another place (12:7) of the 
grand persecution, says, that it will last a time 
and times and a half—that is, three and a half 
years. But this mysterious expression may al-
so have a more extended meaning; and we 
cannot doubt, that, as the subject in question 
here is the duration of an empire (that of Rome), 
which has already lasted so many centuries, 
that these 'time, times, and a half' must mean 
a period much longer than the letter of Scrip-
ture would seem to say. Taking the days, 
then, in the widest sense that we can give them, 
days of years, they will represent a duration- of 
1260 lunar years. This period must have com-
menced at the taking of Jerusalem by the Mo-
hammedans about the year 637 A. D., which is 
the veritable epoch when the saints were first 
delivered into the hands of the Antichristian 
empire, and is, therefore, destined to last till 
the year 1897. 
" From this, however, we must deduct thirty-
seven years for the deficit of the lunar years, 
which have ten and eleven days less than solar 
rears. Hence the duration of the 1260 years 
will end, at the latest, at about 1860. 
" It is, then, at this point of time, as it would 
appear that the complete overthrow of the An-
tichristian empire is to take place, as well as 
that of Antichrist, of which Mohammed was 
the predecessor and image. After which Dan- 
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which, to speak properly, is only the sequel of 
their ancient infidelity, will last till the consum-
mation of the last persecution of the church, 
pre-figured, according to the fathers, by the cap-
tivity of Babylon. 
" This being the case, we must find out in 
the 390 years, of which Ezekiel here speaks, a 
number which exceeds the duration of the infi-
delity of the Jews up to the present moment, 
and which corresponds to that to which it may 
still attain. At this number we arrive by taking 
the 390 years of Ezekiel for Sabbatic years 
(390X7=2730). To which, if you add ten 
Sabbatic years of the last persecution, you will 
really find for the Jews 2,800 years of infidelity. 
" Then by placing the commencement of this 
infidelity at its proper epoch (suppose the con-
firmed revolt of the ten tribes), it follows that 
this infidelity will last to somewhere about the 
year 1860 of the present era. 
" The same principle of calculation, which is 
simple, may be equally applied to the four hun-
hundred years of which God spake to Abraham 
in Gen. 15. The literal sense is verified by 
the bondage in Egypt, from which the Israelites 
were not delivered till four hundred years after. 
Take these four hundred years as Sabbatical 
years, you have the duration of the infidelity of 
the Jews represented by the bondage in Egypt, 
(400X7=2800,) which, commencing as before 
laid down, at 940 A. c., is to end in 1860. 
" To confirm the truth of this mysterious 
sense of Ezekiel and Genesis, it now remains 
to see if we can interpret similarly the forty 
years of the house of Judah, considered as rep-
resenting Christians, more especially the West-
ern Christians. The forty years of infidelity, 
similarly calculated, with ten Sabbatical years 
of punishment added, give an interval of sixty 
Sabbatical years=altogether 350 years. 
" Now the preceding proofs have placed the 
end of the punishment of the Jews at 1860. 
From thence, if we cannot count backward 350 
years, we are brought to 1510, the time when 
Lutheranism appeared, which is the principal 
epoch of the infidelity of the Christians in the 
West during these later centuries. To these 
confined proofs, taken from the prophets, which 
agree so well in placing the conversion of the 
Jews about 1860, I join one more, taken from 
the Gospel history. 
" You are aware, sir, no doubt, that besides 
the literal and spiritual sense contained in the 
miracles of the Son of God, the fathers of the 
church have detected further a mysterious and 
prophetic one. Whence it follows that they 
have recognized in many of the acts of healing 
a type and prophecy of that which is to be 
achieved at the end of the dispensation in favor 
of the Jews. Now if there is one passage of 
the Gospel where this healing is noted for us, it 
is assuredly in that of the paralytic at the pool 
of the sheep-market.—John 5. The Evangelist 
informs us that this man had been afflicted thir-
ty-eight years, when Jesus Christ healed him. 
It is not without reason, doubtless, that the Holy 
Spirit intended to acquaint us with the duration 
of the paralysis of this man—a paralysis which 
figures so well that which still afflicts the Jewish 
people. 
" If we take these years as Jubilee years, of 
fifty years each, we find them =to thirty-eight, 
nineteen whole centuries. And this would seem 
to announce to us, that the duration of this pa-
ralysis of the Jews will be 1900 years. To find 
the time of its expiry, we have only to decide 
when it begins. And this we find to be the 
commencement of the reign of Herod the Great, 
who was the first strange prince that ascended 
the throne of Judea ; an event which is the true 
epoch, when the paralysis of the nation of the 
Jews commenced. As this took place forty years 
before Jesus Christ, it follows that it will expire 
about the year 1860. 
" In the alphabet of the Jews, all the letters 
are numerals, and the Hebrews make common 
use of their value to mark the dates. In the 
celebrated prophecy of Hosea (3: 4), " They
sit many days," it occurred to Mons. Ron-
det that God here intended to mark distinctly 
the reprobation of the Jews . . . and that through 
the numerical value of the letters, after the cus-
tom of the Jews :— 
iel informs us, when winding up his prophecy, 
that the last judgment [query, judgment of the 
just ?—TR.] shall take place, and that kingdom 
shall commence; in which God is to dwell with 
his saints through eternity.-7:26, 27. The 
prophet Daniel is not the only one, who, while 
describing to us the character of the Antichris-
tian empire, explains to us also its duration. If 
we consult in later times the apostle John, we 
see that in the Apocalypse he entirely agrees 
with Daniel. Speaking of this empire under 
the symbol of the first beast, whom he saw 
coming up from the bottomless pit, he informs 
us, that it was like a leopard, that he had the 
feet of a bear, and the throat of a lion ; and 
that there was given him a mouth, which inso-
lently exalted himself and blasphemed; and 
that he received power to make war on the 
saints forty-two months.—Rev. 13. By the fea-
tures under which he elsewhere describes the 
Antichristian empire, we cannot hut be remind-
ed of what Daniel had before said of it. This 
monstrous beast inherited his empire from the 
leopard, the bear, and the lion, figured by the 
three monarchies which the Antichristian em-
pire was destined to humble, according to Dan-
iel, and of which it was to be chiefly composed. 
This beast had a mouth, too, full of insolence 
and blasphemy. We have already remarked in 
reference to the great things, that the little 
horn, spoken of by Daniel, was to do ; how full 
of pride was the language of Mohammed ; how 
increasing have been the blasphemies which his 
empire has poured forth ever since its establish-
ment against the only Son of God. Power was 
given to this 'beast to make war on the saints 
forty-two months ; — expressions very remarka-
ble, and which perfectly correspond to those 
which are employed in the seventh chapter of 
Daniel, where it is said, that the saints shall be 
delivered over to a kingdom; represented by the 
little horn, during a time, and times, and half. 
" For observe, sir, that as the three times and 
half of Daniel, taking the days for years, give 
us a period of 1260 years, so here—taking the 
forty-two months of St. John for the period of 
thirty years (agreeably to the Mohammedan 
method of counting time)—forty-two periods of 
thirty years represent a duration of 1260 years. 
" These commencing as the three years and a 
half of the seventh of Daniel, at the taking of 
Jerusalem by the Mohammedans, somewhere 
about 637, (A. a.,) will also end about 1860. 
" You see, sir, after these first observations 
concerning the length of the Antichristian em- 
pire, that my conjectures, as to the nearness of 
the end of the world, are not altogether without 
foundation. My conjectures will, however, ap- 
pear more probable, now that I have led you to 
see from Daniel and St. John, that Antichrist 
is likely to appear about 1860 [or perhaps be- 
fore ?—TR.], if I shall further show you by 
proofs, taken from the Old and New Testaments, 
that it is precisely about the same time and 
about the same epoch, that the conversion of the 
Jews is to take place. You are, no doubt, as 
well aware as I am, that the infidelity, into 
which at different times the Jews fell, in regard 
to the Almighty, was a figure of that in which 
they have persisted so long a time. On the 
same principle, in the duration of their first in-
fidelity, one may recognize a type of their last. 
Let us consult the Scriptures afresh to discover 
the mysterious sense, which is concealed under 
these figures. If there is one part of Scripture 
where the duration of the ancient infidelity of 
the Jews is marked for us in a precise way 
more than another, it is undoubtedly found in 
the prophecies of the fourth chapter of Ezekiel, 
where God, reproaching the Jewish people with 
their wickedness, announces at the same time 
the limit of their punishment.—Ezek. 4:1-3. 
" This sign, which the Lord wished to give 
to the house of Israel, is not very difficult to 
comprehend ; and we there recognize the pre-
diction of the last siege, which Nebuchadnez- 
zar laid to Jerusalem about 589 years before 
Christ: a siege which was accompanied with 
the most frightful calamities, and at last fol- 
lowed by the storming of the town, the fall of 
the temple, and the transportation of the Jews 
to Babylon, where they remained captive sev-
enty years, as it had been been predicted to 
them by Jeremiah.-25:11, 12 ; 39:10. Let us 
proceed with the prophecy of Ezekiel, and give 
its renewed application in 4:4-6, 8, 9. The 
prophet was to lie on his side for 390 days—
composed of two periods of 350 and 40 ; during 
the former he was to lie on his left side, and du- 
ring the latter on his right. Again ; the 350 
days, during which the .prophet was to remain 
lying, had a double sense. In the first sense, 
they signified the days that the siege of Jerusa-
lem was to last ; and in the second, the years of 
infidelity of the two houses of Israel and Ju-
dah—i. e., the 350 on the part of the house of 
Israel, forty on the part of the house of Judah, 
representing a total infidelity of 390 years.—
" A day for a year I have given you." 
" Without entering here into chronological 
difficulties, which the holy writings present on 
the literal accomplishment of the 390 years of 
infidelity, I cannot doubt that, in a second 
sense, the duration of their present infidelity, 
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1790 
According to the val-
ue of these letters, the 
nation of the Jews is 
to be scattered without 
king or prince 1790 
years. Now, at what 
period must we fix the 
commencement of this 
epoch ? All historians 
inform us that this must 
be at the last destruc-
tion of Jerusalem by the 
Romans, which hap-
pened seventy years 
after Christ. Adding 
then 1790 to the sev-
enty, we arrive at the 
same period, 1860, An-
no Domini. 
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" The above conjectures and remarkable coin-
cidences will no doubt incline you, as they have 
inclined me, to believe that the second coming 
of the Son of Man (of which, indeed, we can-
not know the day) is not far removed. 
" I have, I hope, proved the obligation under 
which we lie, and the immense interest which 
we have in studying the times in which we live. 
. . . From the prophecies of Daniel and Apoca-
lypse, it appears that the reign of Antichrist, 
who is to precede a little beforehand the end of 
the world, will probably end about the year 1860. 
" I have shown you from Ezekiel, from Gene-
sis, and by the Evangelists, and by the prophet 
Hosea, that the ancient infidelity of the Jews, 
their paralysis, and in a word their rewobation, 
will, it would appear, end about the same year 
of 1860. Whence it follows that being so near 
the end of the dispensation, there is no event so 
extraordinary or disastrous that should surprise 
us. Already our age is remarkable for plagues 
of every kind with which humanity has been af-
flicted. [This was in 1786. What would the 
Canon of Marseilles say now ?] Already, since 
the middle of this century, our public papers are 
filled with nothing but convulsions in nature, 
with disastrous calamities and misfortunes, and 
what is more astounding, unbelief rampant 
through every state, marching with lofty head, 
and seeming almost to have arrived at that 
point when, according to our Saviour's words, 
he will scarcely find any faith on earth.' Add 
to all this the sensible diminution of Gospel 
missionaries, to which we may pay but little re-
gard in the present, but of which we shall one 
day feel the privation. 
" But however great the trials may be which 
we endure now, we have only a few drops of the 
fatal vial, which God is preparing himself to 
pour on the earth to punish the sons of man. 
These are the beginnings of sorrows. Happy 
they who recognize in the signs of the last 
times all that God has promised. . . Happy still 
more are all they who hold themselves in readi-
ness at all times, and who are not suprised by 
the arrival of the Son of Man. . . . 
" I have the honor to be, &c. 
"Marseilles (France), Jan. 25th, 1786." 
BY CHARLES K. IMBRIE 
Pastor of the First Presbyterian Church in Rahway, N. J., preached 
before the Synod of New Jersey. 
Speaking of objections to the study of pro-
phecy, Mr. IMBRIE notices first the claim that it 
is " unimportant." He says :— 
We aim to be " scribes well instructed unto 
the kingdom of heaven." Now the church sit-
teth in her chariot, and we run to her and hear 
her reading the prophet Zechariah. We ask, 
Understandest thou what thou readest ? and 
she replies — How can I, except some one 
should guide me ? The place of the Scripture 
which she reads is this : " Behold the man 
whose name is the Branch, and he shall build 
the temple of the Lord, even he shall build the 
temple of the Lord, and he shall bear the glory, 
and shall sit and rule upon his throne, and' he 
shall be a priest upon his throne, and the coun-
sel of peace shall be between them both." 
Zech. 6:12, 13. And the church answers, and 
says, " I pray you, of whom speaketh the pro-
phet this, of himself or of some other man ? " 
Brethren ! is it unimportant to know whether 
and how " I shall begin at the same Scripture 
and preach unto her Jesus," as King as well as 
Priest upon His throne ? 
If these things are unimportant, what, I be-
seech you, is important ? 
2. Shall we relieve our consciences by the 
reply that the subject is too dark ? 
Grant it dark ; but remember the promise ; 
— at the time of the end, " many shall seek 
and shall find knowledge." Grant it dark; yet 
even respecting dark prophecies, can we blot 
out that declaration of God, " Blessed is he that 
readeth and they that hear this prophecy, for 
the time is at hand ? " Rev. 1:3. 
The prophecy of Israel's return from Baby-
lon was a dark prophecy. But as the time 
drew near, Daniel turned to the Scriptures, and 
" understood by books the number of the years 
whereof the word of the Lord came to Jeremiah 
the prophet concerning the desolations of Jeru-
salem."—Dan. 9:2. The prophecy respecting 
the first coming of Christ was a dark prophecy. 
But that did not hinder many from " running 
to and fro." " Knowledge had increased,"—
and they " stood waiting for the consolatiOn of 
Israel." Oh, brethren ! is it only concerning 
His glorious coming " the second time without 
sin unto salvation," that all is so dark, that we 
hardly know whether we are to be " patiently 
waiting," under the assurance that " yet a little 
while, and he that shall come will come, and 
will not tarry ? "—Heb. 10:37. 
No,brethren ! For what are we placed here, 
but to assure the church in an unbelieving age 
that " we have not followed cunningly devised 
fables when we made known unto her the 
power and coming of our Lord Jesus Christ ? " 
— what but to remind her that one who did 
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not " taste of death until he saw the kingdom 
of God come with power," testifies that he was 
an " eye-witness of his majesty, when he was 
with him in the holy mount ? "— and to assure 
her that we have also a more sure word of pro- 
phecy, to the same end, unto which she will do 
WELL to take heed, as unto a LIGHT that shineth 
in a dark place, until the daw dawn, and the 
day-star arise in our hearts ? "-2 Pet. 1:16-19. 
Shall we reply with many that these views 
are not practical, or that they are even injuri-
ous? 
Not practical ! Why, then, is so large a por-
tion of God's word occupied with the direct dis- 
cussion of them ? Not practical ! when every 
prayer for the kingdom has a different aspect, 
as you view the subject in one way or the 
other ! 
These views injurious ! Come forward, then, 
thou man of God, and tell us why thou didst so 
solemnly warn the church that the " day of the 
Lord would come as a thief in the night," and 
then add, " seeing that all these things shall be 
dissolved, what manner of persons ought ye to 
be in all holy conversation and godliness ? " 
Tell us—why didst thou with piercing eye 
stand looking longingly for " the new heaven 
and new earth, wherein dwelleth righteous-
ness ?" and then when the holy vision was 
clear to faith, why didst thou cry, " Wherefore, 
beloved, seeing ye look for such things, be dili-
gent, " that ye may be found of Him in peace, 
without spot and blameless ? "-2 Pet. 3:10-14. 
Ah ! brethren, surely the apostles felt, that 
if the members of a church would " come be-
hind in no gift," they must stand " waiting for • 
the coining of our Lord Jesus Christ, who will 
also confirm them unto the end, that they may 
be blameless in the day of our Lord Jesus 
Christ.-1 Cor. 1:7, 8. 
Shall we defend our neglect with the re-
ply, that the proposed views have been so often 
coupled with fanatical extravagance ? Shall we 
be frightened by the stigmatizing epithets of 
Chiliasts, and Fifth Monarchy Men, and Mil-
lerites ? 
But what important doctrine of God's word 
has not Satan caused to be caricatured, — and 
that, too, by a very slight addition ? A little 
leaven was put in. It leavened the whole lump, 
and made many reject the mass with loathing. 
Has He not tried this successfully with the doc-
trines of justification by faith, of baptism, of re-
pentance towards God ? Every important doc-
trine of Scripture is a complete arch, and upon 
this arch the church is called to build her hopes. 
Now do we not know that when the light of 
Scripture is so clear and strong, that the adver-
sary cannot sweep away the whole structure at 
a blow, his next step is to tempt the rash hand 
of some fanatic to wrest away a single stone, 
and the whole mass falls into confusion and 
ridicule ? I pray you, let us not be scared away 
from investigation by this ancient wile of the 
devil. 
There is one lesson, which, it is thought, the 
experience of the church might have taught us. 
It is this : Truth is vindicated from her discol-
oring and distortions, not by concealing her im-
age, but by faithfully portraying her at full 
length. We discredit the caricature, only by 
producing the true likeness from the gallary of 
Scripture. Instead, then, of being alarmed 
into concealment, let the attempts of errorists 
rather urge us to preach the second coming of 
our Lord in its fullness, and our " tongues be-
come as the pen of a ready writer, when we 
speak of the things which have been made 
touching the King." 
Let us turn now to another view of the sub-
ject. Who are the men that urge these ques-
tions upon us ? 
Fathers and brethren ! stiffer me to appeal to 
you ; I speak freely because I speak to you. 
Let me express my growing conviction that the 
church of Christ, in her missionary work, feels 
a pressing need of inquiring at this time and 
upon this subject. We are brought to a crisis. 
We must go forward or retreat. Every man 
who Will take the pains to examine, feels the 
immense pressure of this difficulty, and this 
pressure is avoided only by inactivity. Against 
the generally adopted theory on the one side, 
there is setting in a strong tide of influence 
upon the other. 
Look at the state of the case. Our sister 
church of Scotland has taken decided ground 
on one at least of these points. She has done 
more. Her general,assembly has " blessed God 
that His church in at its various branches has 
had her attention turned more earnestly to the 
predicted events of the latter times, and the cir-
cumstances connected with " that second com-
ing of their great head and Lord," which, what-
ever obscurity may hang over its details, " should 
ever have beta, and now more and more must 
ever be," in its grand outlines, THE POLE-STAR OF 
HER HOPE." 
Further : — some 'of her best and most spir-
itual ministers are zealous propagators of them 
all. The most evangelical of the English min-
istry are leavened with the same doctrine. To 
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summoned from all past time, I see in these 
ranks, in our own day, such men as Duff, and 
McCheyne, and the Bonars, and Brooks, and 
Bickersteth, and Candlish, with many others —
and last, though not least, the great and good 
Chalmers. In his last days, and in his secret 
retirement, he suddenly catches the glorious 
dawn at least of the same truth, and his eye 
brightens with unwonted lustre, just before he 
sinks to rest. Take one passage among many : 
" This seeing eye to eye makes for the per-
sonal reign of Him whose feet shall stand 
on the Mount of Olives. God's restoration of 
the Jews will be an event to arouse the wonder 
of the whole earth ; and it will be a leisurely, 
well-concerted movement under the guidance of 
One far more illustrious than the Ezras, or the 
Nehemiahs, or the Zerubbabels of the Old Tes-
tament — One, at whose appearance all the 
kings of the world will fall prostrate, and at 
length acknowledge his rightful title as King 
of Kings and Lord of Lords.' " (Daily Scrip-
tural Readings " — on Isaiah 52:7,) 
These then are the men who demand our at-
tention. Now these men come to me with the 
Bible in their hands. They invite investigation. 
They appeal continually to the word of God. 
Their arguments are remarkably calm, cau-
tious, modest — in a word, just such as become 
a lover of the truth. They seem, at least, to 
kindle a light upon almost every page of the 
Scriptures, to illustrate and enforce their views. 
Under their potent touch, sentences once un-
meaning become resplendent with joy and com-
fort. Scripture expressions that have lain in 
the mind in an almost deathlike inanity, sud-
denly start up into life, and beauty, and cheer-
fulness. What was once a garden indeed, but 
a garden where the living trees were compara-
tively few and scattered, while all the rest was 
one chiselled landscape of joyless stone,— smiles 
into the well-watered garden of the Lord ; every 
leaf waving in the breath of the Spirit, and 
every flower exhaling the goodly smell of Leb-
anon. Nor must I forbear to add, that, smile 
as we may at their conclusions, — once grapple 
with their arguments, and unless we are pre-
pared with some strong rod wherewith to break 
the chain of their reasonings, it is not easy " to 
resist the spirit and wisdom with which they 
speak." 
Fathers and brethren ! I ask you now can-
didly what shall I reply to these men ? 
Will it do to answer them by a sneer ? Stop 
a moment. Let us hear the words of God !—
." And in this mountain shall the Lord of hosts 
meke unto all people a feast of fat things, a 
feast of wines on the lees ; of fat things full of 
marrow, of wines on the lees well refined. And 
he will destroy in this mountain the face of the 
covering cast over all people, and the veil that 
is spread over all nations. " He will swallow 
up death in victory ;" and the Lord God will 
wipe away tears from off all faces and the 
rebuke of his people shall be taken away from 
off all the earth : for the Lord hath spoken it. 
And it shall be said in that day, Lo, this is our 
God ; we have waited for Him, we will be glad 
and rejoice in his salvation," Is. 25:6-9. 
Now here, what is by all admitted to be a 
description of the coming kingdom, are associ-
ated — the' restoration of the Jews, and their 
land made a blessing to all nations — their re-
joicings in the Messiah after long and "patient 
waiting "— and complete deliverance to all 
from every sorrow. 
Let us now summon from the tomb an in-
spired witness to fix the point of time for this 
kingdom. 
Paul ! tell us ; when shall these things, be ? 
You may hear his voice coming up from the 
depths of a martyred grave. " So when this 
corruptible shall have put on incorruption, and 
this mortal shall have put on immortality, THEN 
shall be brought to pass the saying thatis writ-
ten, "DEATH IS SWALLOWED UP IN VICTORY ! 
1 Cor. 15:54. 
THOU FAITHFUL SERVANT OF GOD ! Let "thy 
flesh then rest," as did thy Lord's, " in hope," 
— for as thou hast " known the fellowship of 
His sufferings," so shalt thou know " the power 
of His resurrection," and " attain unto the re-
surrection of the dead." " Blessed and holy is 
He that hath part in the first resurrection ! " 
Thou hast no crown of glory now— but " there 
is laid up for thee a crown of glory which the 
Lord, the righteous Judge, shall give thee in 
that day : and not to thee only, but also to all 
them that love His appearing." Return then 
unto thy sleep in Jesus !— and " when the 
chief Shepherd shall appear, thou shalt receive 
that crown of glory which fadeth not away " — 
for thou hast suffered, and thou shalt also 
reign with Him" --- and as " thou hast nobly 
overcome, thou shalt sit down with thy Lord 
upon His throne, even as He also overcame 
and is now seated with His Father upon His 
throne." 
Brethren ! you see whither we are brought, 
— not by the " words which man's wisdom 
teacheth, but which the Holy Ghost teacheth —
comparing things uttered by the Spirit with 
things uttered by the Spirit." What can a 
sneer effect. in such a case as this ? 
Signs of the Advent Nigh. 
( Testimony from various authors.) 
" The Lord cometh !" is the first. The heart 
of many an one thrills at this call. He thinks 
of the approaching and complete establishment 
of the Lord's kingdom upon earth ; and he 
sighs, " Ah, didst thou but come ! " Yes, our 
heart also joins in this longing of eighteen hun-
dred years; for even so long has it been in the 
Church, not like a flood-water, which iscradu-
ally lost in the sand beneath, but like a stream 
which, the nearer it draws to its destination 
rolls onward with greater power. How many 
a prophetic omen has there been, that the grand 
moment of jubilee is not far distant. We al-
ready perceive signs of the publication of the 
Gospel " in all the world," that of the shaken 
foundations of Mohammedanism ; that of the 
re-emergement of the beast from the abyss ; that 
of the decline from Christ and his Word ex-
tending through the world ; and that of the 
" powerful errors " of an anti-Christian spirit ac-
quiring domination over the cultivation of ge-
nius ; of the idolization of men, and of many 
more similar signs. 
" Never did the Church witness such a con-
stellation of signs of the near coming of Christ, 
as now. " The branches of the fig-tree are full 
of sap ; and the summer is at hand." Assur-
edly, I am not ignorant that a portion of the 
Church has become gradually weary of the 
long-tarrying, and has fallen into doubt. You 
also shake your head, and are of opinion, that 
we have long talked of " the last time." Well, 
use this language and increase the number of 
the existing signs by the addition of this new 
one. Add that of the foolish virgins, who 
shortly before the midnight hour maintained 
" the Lord would not come for a long time." 
They ate, they drank, they wooed and were 
wooed, and inscribed over the festivity-decorated 
gate of their dwelling, " Peace ! peace ! There 
is no danger ! " But then, however, the depths 
suddenly burst open, and the floods rushed forth 
at the command of the eternal wrath, Only 
Noah and those with him watched, and were 
preserved; upon every one else destruction came 
with the swiftness of a whirlwind. " The Lord 
cometh ! " 0, were he already here ! How 
do we long for his revelation in these darlth 
times ! "— Krummacher. 
NEARNESS OF THE ADVENT. 
" We are nearer the troublous times of the 
end of the world, and there are signs and tokens 
of a shaking and convulsion, which, I trust, I 
do not err when I compare and even identify 
with the predicted indication of the second and 
glorious coming of the Son of Man in his king-
dom." — Dr. Candlish. 
THE WORLD'S HOPE, 
" Be not you (friends) disturaged, when you 
see great changes and overturnings in the world ; 
for, thereby, the Lord intends not to bring all 
things to mine and destruction : to leave the 
world without knowledge : himselfe without a 
worship : and men without a government : but, 
hereby, he will exalt the lowly : bring in a true 
light of understanding : be worshipped in Truth, 
and not in empty Formes ; and make way*for 
the, great King (for whom the world was cre-
ated,) to Rule the Nations with righteous Judg-
ment."— The Historie of Divine Verities. By 
John Bischensa. 1655. 
Epistle to Reader. 
THE REDEEMED EARTH. 
" The Apostle Paul represents the time of 
Christ's second coming as the time of the res-
titution of all things,' that is, when everything 
should be restored to its pristine condition. . . . 
It is precisely on the same object, a redeemed 
and glorified earth, that the Apostle Paul, in 
the eighth of the Romans, fixes the mind of be-
lievers as the terminating point of their hopes 
of glory. An incomparable glory is to be re-
vealed in them, and in connexion with that, the 
deliverance of a suffering creation from the 
bondage of corruption into the glorious liberty 
of the sons of God." — Fairbairn's Typology. 
BAXTER'S MODESTY. 
" Though I have not skill enough in the ex-
position of hard prophecies, to make a particular 
determination about the thousand years' reign 
of Christ on earth before the final judgment, 
yet, I may say, that I cannot confute what such 
learned men as Mr. Mede, Dr. Twisse, and 
others (after the old fathers) have hereof assert-
ed. . . But I believe there will be a new heaven 
and earth, in which will dwell righteousness." 
THE GROANS OF CREATION. 
" Holy Scripture throughout conceives na-
ture, in its relation to the world of spirits, like 
the human body in its relation to the soul and 
spirit, as filled and borne by their living breath. 
As, therefore, in the individual, the spiritUal 
life operates either with a distracting or glorify-
ing effect upon the bodily substance, so does the 
life of the regenerate, considered as a whole, 
upon the totality of the creation. The con-
scious life in man is but the bloom of the life 
that sways in the sum of the creation. If we 
observe, then, the unconscious creation more 
narrowly, we must acknoweledge that an im-
pulse of glorification, a yearning for perfection 
appears in it also. The whole bent of the plant 
urges it to bring all its powers to perfection in 
the blossom and the fruit, and if checked by cir-
cumstances in its development — for instance, 
by want of light — an effort of all its powers 
may be perceived to surpass the hinderances 
and outset the default ; so that a plant often 
presses through narrow clefts to get at the ele-
ment of life, and produce its bloom. The same 
impulse for glorification shows itself also in the 
animal. In this impulse of life that creates life 
again, the life inclosed in the animal would 
press as if beyond itself, but naturally can pro-
duce nothing better than what itself contains. 
Inasmuch, however, as the animal sensibly suf-
fers from the sin of men, the yearning and wait-
ing for redemption is expressed far more dis-
tinctly and perceptibly in it ; the eye of a suf-
fering or dying animal speaks a language to 
which every feeling mind is sensible ; it sighs 
and yearns for redemption, or rather, the gen-
eral life in it yearns to get free from its confine-
ment. The waiting and yearning of the crea-
ture, therefore, cannot possibly be admitted to 
be mere allegory, neither is there any obvious 
reason, after what.haS been said, to think it ap-
plicable only to men living out of the Christian 
principle." Olshauson on the Romans. 
WORLD NOT TO BE CONVERTED BEFORE THE AD- 
VENT. 
" There is no reason why any person should 
expect the conversion of the world ; for at length 
(when it will be too late and will yield them no 
advantage,) they shall look on him whom they 
have pierced." — Calvin on Matt. 24:30. 
WATCHFULNESS FOR THE LORD'S COMING. 
" We have now ascertained the design of 
Christ, which was to inform believers, that, in 
order to prevent themselves from being sud-
denly overtaken, they ought always to keep 
watch, because the day of the last judgment 
will come when it is not expected." — Ibid. 
THE DAY IS AT HAND. 
" Hitherto we have pursued these two heads 
or characters, concerning those peaceable times, 
and the Divine Shechinah, which should return 
to the Israelites ; and we have given some to-
kens whereby the time of that peace and glory 
may be defined, but there yet remain some 
which are brighter. " For we are taking our 
journey towards the rising sun, and the farther 
we go, the shadows will grow lesser, and the 
light appear stronger." —A Treatise of the Fu-
ture Restoration of the Jews. By Thomas Bur-
net, D.1),,, late Master of the Charter-House. 
London : 1733. 
The Apostolicity of Chiliasni. 
Ere the Lord left the earth he, once and 
again, spoke to his disciples of his second com-
ing, and commanded them to watch for it. His 
words are such as these, " Watch therefore : for 
ye know not what hour your Lord doth come." 
(Matt. 24:42.) " Watch therefore, for ye know 
neither the day nor the hour wherein the Son 
of man cometh." (Matt. 25:13.) 
These exhortations were well understood and 
acted on by the early Church. They WATCHED. 
One of the special characteristics of the early 
Church was its watchfulness. They not only 
loved the appearing of the Lord ; they not only 
looked for it; they not only waited for it ; but 
they watched for it. They knew that loving, 
looking, waiting, were not all that their Lord 
expected, or their circumstances demanded. 
These were to be done, but the watching was 
not to be left undone. To remember the others, 
and overlook this last, was not only to forget 
the meaning of the word in which the command 
was given, — watch, (ypreropg,TE,)— but also to 
lose sight of the reason fOr the watching which 
had been repeated so often, as if to prevent the 
possibility of either forgetfulness or mistake, —
" Ye know not what hour your Lord doth 
come." 
Their uncertainty as to the time was to be 
the ground of their watching. In regard to the 
time, they were to know nothing, — nothing, at 
least, which could throw them off their guard, 
— nothing which would interpose an interval 
between them and the Master's coming, — noth-
ing which would diminish the uncertainty of 
the time when He should come. Subsequent 
events were to prove that there was an interval, 
but that interval was to open out of itself, upon 
the view of the Church. Its length was hidden, 
so that neither the early Church, nor the Church 
in any age, could say, " there is some time to 
elapse ere the Lord come." Never was the 
Church in circumstances to say, " the Lord can-
not come for a thousand years yet." Never 
did she in her early days even attempt to place 
herself in that position. Had . she done so, 
watching would have been impossible. She 
might still have loved and looked and waited, 
but she could not have watched, for watching 
in its very nature implies that there is no ne-
cessary, no known interval between us and the 
object watched for. A necessary or known in-
terval must destroy watchfulness. 
It has been argued recently, that the early 
Church could not have watched in this sense, 
— that the events predicted by our Lord and his 
apostles were of such a nature as necessarily to 
lead the Church to 1§..ee that there was a long 
interval to elapse before his corning. After 
pointing out various events which were to take 
place, Mr. Brown puts such questions as these, 
— " Could any intelligent Christian in apostolic 
times," — " Could any sensible Christian in 
apostolic times," &c., believe that such events 
would not require a long interval ? Now we 
are not at present concerned with what the 
primitive Christians could do, but with what 
they did. In doing what we are prepared to 
show they actually did, they may not have 
been intelligent, they may not have been sensi-
ble, &c.; that is not a question which we re-
quire to raise. It is with historical facts that 
we have to do. And though we may be told 
that such and such things are " incredible," yet, 
finding them in authentic history, we are dis-
posed to think them not only credible but true. 
No amount of reasoning, as to the incredibility 
or unlikelihood of the thing, can alter history. 
Reasoning in the above way, a post-millennialist 
might undertake to prove that the Christians of 
the first three centuries were not Chiliasts at all. 
He might say, " Could any intelligent Christian 
of primitive times " believe such a doctrine ? 
" Could any sensible Christian of primitive 
times " adopt a system so unscriptural, so absurd, 
so carnal ? And thus he might come to the 
easy conclusion that the thing was incredible, 
and therefore that no amount of historical evi-
dence could establish it as a fact. Viewing 
events from his own position in the nineteenth 
century as they have opened out age after age, 
he thinks it incredible that any sensible or in-
telligent Christian of the first century could 
have seen them differently. Retrospectively 
looking at them, we may wonder how we could 
ever have thought of a less interval than eigh-
teen centuries for their development; but had 
we looked prospectively along the line of brief 
prediction, should we have conceived this ? 
It is, then, with the historical fact that we 
have to do. What the evidence for it is, we 
shall see. We did not expect to be called on 
to produce evidence of this ; for, up till the pre-
sent time, we had never heard of its being 
questioned. The obstacle which it casts in the 
way of post-millennialism has at length been 
discovered, and it has stirred up the defender of 
that system to deny it — with what success, we 
shall see. 
Gieseler thus writes, — " This millenarianism 
became the general belief of the time, and met 
with no other opposition than that given by the 
Gnostics, and subsequently by the antagonists 
of the Montanists ; the thousand years' reign 
was represented as the great Sabbath, which 
should begin very soon." 
Hagenbach thus writes, — " The disciples of 
Christ having received from their Master the 
promise of his second coming, the primitive 
Church looked upon this event as one which 
would shortly come to pass." 
Dr. Kaye (Bishop of Lincoln) thus writes, —
" In the early ages of the Church a notion was 
very generally prevalent among it members, that 
the end of the world was at hand." 
Semisch thus writes, — " The' present state 
was one of tribulation and suffering ; the hearts 
of believers naturally indulged without reserve 
in the hopes of a better future ; the speedy re-
turn of Jesus from heaven was expected, and 
their thoughts were fixed with delight on the 
happiness which was supposed to be connected 
with that event." 
Dr. Russel thus writes, — " It will appear 
from the quotations which I am about to make, 
that the Christians who lived in the first, sec-
ond, and third centuries, really believed that the 
sixth millennium was far advanced, and, conse-
quently, that the great change which was to 
usher in the new heaven and the new earth 
might very soon be expected." 
Mr. Trench thus writes, —" The love, the 
earnest longing of these first Christians, made 
them to assume that Coming to be close at 
hand ; in the strength and glory of this faith 
they lived and suffered. 
These six authorities might have been mul-
tiplied to sixty-six, had space allowed, or were 
it needful. But the thing is so absolutely set-
tled and agreed upon as a matter of historical 
verity, that every one who alludes to the subject 
assumes it as a fact, — a certainty, —a thing 
past contradiction, — a thing which nobody ever 
thought of disputing. To ask, then, is it credi-
ble ? is not to the point ; for the thing is quite 
ascertained. To ask, could any intelligent Chris-
tian believe it in primitive times, is a question put 
too late ; for all ecclesiastical historians are 
agreed in telling us that they did believe it. The 
authors quoted are not pre-millennialists. Some 
of them are keen opponents, — some of them 
scoffers at the name. On this account their 
testimony is indisputable. Journal of Prophecy. 
LOVE FOR THE BIBLE. — We learn from Chrys-
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children had frequently the Gospels, or parts of 
the New Testament, hung round their neck, 
and carried them constantly about with them. 
The rich had splendid copies of the sacred writ-
ings on vellum, in their libraries and book-
cases, but as the art of printing was not known 
till many ages after, complete copies of the 
Scriptures were, of course, exceedingly scarce. 
Children were particularly encouraged in the 
efforts which they made to commit to memory 
the invaluable truths of the Divine Volume. 
Though in those times the Bible was to be mul-
tiplied by no other means than the pen, and 
every letter was to be traced out with the finger, 
so repeatedly were the Scriptures copied that 
many of the early Christians had them in their 
possession ; and they were so copied into their 
writings that a celebrated scholar engaged, that 
if the New Testament, by any accidental cir-
cumstance, should be lost, he would undertake 
to restore it, with the exception of a few verses 
of one of the Epistles ; and he pledged himself 
to find these in a short time. 
truth is of value and what is not, but in regulating its 
degree of value, so as to give to each portion or frag-
ment the right place, the true level, the proper space, 
the due order, and to assign the exact amount of 
thought and study which it demands or will repay. 
"All truth is precious,itho' not all Divine," 
said COWPER ; but to this we must add, that though 
all truth is precious, yet all truth is not equally pre-
cious, nor equally worthy of our care ; nay, and we 
must also add, that though all truth is precious, yet 
much of it must be left unstudied totally ; our life is 
brief, and we have no time for all ; we must select—
for we are hurrying onwards ; — the KING will soon 
he here, and it concerns us to dwell most on those 
things which will help to fit us for his presence and 
kingdom. 
There is the atom of dust under our feet — there, 
is that flower-bud rising above it — there is yon forest 
stretching miles around— there is yon vast mountain-
range that walls in the plain —there is the blue arch 
above us, with its clouds and rainbows — there is day 
with its sun and splendor — there is night with its 
stars and stillness. All these things exist. Their 
simple being is a truth; and with that being there 
are connected ten thousand truths. Yet there is not 
the same kind of truth, nor the same amount of truth, 
belonging to each, for each is the centre of a circle, 
wider or narrower, less or more important, according 
to its nature. Yet what there is of truth in each is 
equally real, and therefore not to be slighted. To 
say that the facts in each of these are equally precious 
because equally true, or to say that the same amount 
of study should be allotted to each, would be foolish-
ness. To say that the same amount of time may be 
expended upon each is gross miscalculation, indicat-
ing a false estimate of the different parts of truth, as 
well as of the true value of time. The truth which 
affects the future, specially the eternally future, must 
he more momentous than that which influences the 
present only. The truth which relates to the inner 
man must be more important than that which relates 
to the outer man. The truth that goes to make up 
the link between us and the GOD that made us, must 
be unspeakably more precious than that which forms 
the tie between us arid earth, or even between us and 
each other. The truth which bears upon earthly 
citizenship and its rights, must be far inferior to that 
which bears upon heavenly citizenship and its more 
glorious privileges. These distinctions the age does 
not consider. Progress in one direction, or at least 
in one or two directions, it is apt to regard as pro-
gress in all directions. Blinded by the magnitude of 
its discoveries, and by their present bearitrg upon so-1 
ciety, it overlooks counteractions— it forgets how 
sadly it is losing ground in many things—it veils 
the evil, and exaggerates the good ; and then reports 
progress, where real progress there is none. 
To confound or misregulate the degrees of value in 
truth is at once an error and a mischief. It deranges 
everything. It is in itself an error, and it leads on to 
innumerable errors, It is in itself a mischief, and it 
is the root of endless mischiefs. It is not merely 
equivalent to the non-discovery of truth ; it not merely 
neutralises the truth discovered, but it draws out of 
it all the evil of positive untruth, thus making truth 
the producer of error, good the fountain of evil, light 
the cause of darkness. So that there may be many 
steps of advancement, which by the evil use made of 
them or the false level assigned to them, become in 
the end so many steps of retrogression. Has this 
been duly weighed by those who boast of progress ? 
Have they calculated the loss as well as the gain, the 
minus as well as the plus, and is it on the ascertained 
difference that they rest their congratulations ? If so, 
let them boast. It is well. If not, then their esti-
mate is so wholly one-sided, that no credit can be 
given to it even by themselves. 
It is a literary age — it is an age of science — it is 
an age of far-ranging inquiry — it is an age of dis-
covery — it is an age of action — many run to and 
fro, and knowledge is increased. But still it may 
not be an age of progress. Theamount of knowledge 
gained may be nothing to the amount lost; or that 
which is gained may be so perverted or ill-regulated 
as to injure instead of profiting. 
In these different parts of the world's progress, Gon 
is not recognized, or only by a few ; or only recog-
nized out of compliment or custom, and in such a way 
as to place him at an immeasurable distance from the 
works of his hands. What is there that is good, or 
true, or beautiful, of which GOD is not the centre? 
And is not the age in its progress fast severing GOD 
from his works, making man, or chance, or abstract 
laws, the centre of creation, instead of the living, 
personal JEHOVAH, — thus shifting the axis of the uni- 
verse in order to be saved the irksomeness of coming 
into contact with Him in whom we live, arid move, 
and have our being ? What, then, becomes of the 
advancement and the enlightenment of the age? Can 
we look upon them in their present stage without 
suspicion, or can we contemplate their issues without 
terror? For all science is a lie, — or at least lodges 
a lie in its very. core, — if apart from GoD and his 
CHRIST. All wisdom is foolishness, if independent 
of him " in whom are hid all the treasures of wisdom 
and knowledge." All inquiry must become a mere 
maze of scepticism, if separated from him who has 
said, " Learn of me." All truth and goodness are 
but empty abstractions, if away from him who is the 
true and good. All beauty is but a torn blossom or 
a broken gem, if sought for out of him who is its 
birth-place. All enlightenment is but a dream, if 
not received from him who is the light of the world, 
the light of life. All liberty is but a well-disguised 
bondage, if not found' in the service of him whose 
love bath made us free. All rule and law are but 
the exhibitions of man's selfishness and ambition and 
pride, if dissociated from him who is the Prince of 
the kings of the earth. Nay, and all religion is but 
hollowness and unreality, if severed from the fellow-
ship of JEHOVAH and his Incarnate Son. 
We hear much of the knowledge of the age. 
Well : but has not one of its own poets said, " Know-
ledge comes, but wisdom lingers?" Yes, knowledge 
comes, but wisdom lingers ! Knowledge comes, but 
goodness lingers. Knowledge comes, but the world 
is as far as ever from peace and righteousness. Its 
wounds are not healed ; it tears do not cease to flow. 
Its crimes are not fewer : its morals are not purer ; 
its diseases are as many and as fatal. Its nations are 
not more prosperous ; its kingdoms are not more sta-
ble ; its rulers are not more magnanimous ; its homes 
are not happier ; its ties of kindred or affection are 
not more blessed or lasting. The thorn still springs, 
and the brier spreads ; famine scorches its plains, and 
the pestilence envenoms the air ; the curse still blights 
creation, and the wilderness has not yet rejoiced or 
blossomed. Yet man is doing his utmost to set right 
the world, and GOD is allowing him to put forth all 
his efforts, more vigorously and more simultaneously 
than ever, in these last days. Nor can any Christian 
mind fail to look with intensest though most painful 
interest upon these vain endeavors. We know that 
they must fail. Man cannot deliver himself, nor re-
generate his world. Reforms, republics, constitu-
tions, congresses, change of dynasties, will not ac-
complish it. Art in every form, science of every 
name, are bringing into play unheard-of energies for 
the improvement of this globe, and for giving man 
the complete empire of earth and air and sea. But 
the task is superhuman, and each new forth-putting of 
human strength or 'intellect is only proving this the 
more. And hence it is with such interest, as well as 
with such pity, that we look upon the generation 
around us with its overwrought muscles, its over-
tasked energies,—toiling unrestingly, and yet failing 
in its mighty aim,—the regeneration of a world. 
There is a secret consciousness of the evil of the 
times, even among those who have not the fear of 
GoD before their eyes. They see but the surface, in-
deed, and yet that surface is not quite so calm and 
bright as they could desire ; nor are the effects of the 
supposed progress quite so satisfactory as they ex-
pected it would be. They have their misgivings, 
though they cheer themselves with the thought that 
the mind of man will ere long be able to master all 
difficulties, and rectify all the still remaining disor-
de* of the world. Accordingly they set themselves 
in their own way to help forward the regeneration of 
the world, and the correction of the evils of the age. 
Among these there are various classes, or subdi-
visions. There is, for example, the educational class. 
It labors hard to raise the level of society by the 
mere impartation of intellectual knowledge ;—" use-
ful knowledge," "scientific knowledge," " enter-
taining knowledge," " political knowledge ; " in 
short, knowledge of any kind, save that of the Bi-
ble, and of the GOD of the Bible. There is the 
novelistic class, — a very large one, and possessed of 
far greater influence over the community than is 
generally credited. It has set itself to elevate the 
race by exciting what they conceive to be the purer 
feelings of our nature. Of one school the standard 
of perfection is romantic tenderness ; of another, 
worldly honor ; of another, bare rectitude of cha- 
racter, without reference to such a being as GOD, or 
such a thing as his law ; of another, it is good-na- 
ture and Christmas festivity ; while others seem to 
have no real centre of elevation in view, only they 
hope, by stimulating some of our finer feelings into 
growth, to choke or weaken our grosser and more 
hateful. There is the poetical class. They think, 
by the inculcation of high thoughts and noble im-
ages, to lift up the world to its proper level. With 
one school it is the worship of nature ; with another 
it is the love of the beautiful ; with another it is 
chivalry ; with another it is the re-enthronement of 
" the gods of Greece," with another sentimental mu- 
sings. These, and such as these, are the devices by 
which they hope to put evil to flight, and bring back 
the age of gold ! There is the satirical class. Their 
plan for meliorating the world is ridicule. Folly, 
vice, misrule, are to be caricatured in order to be 
eradicated ! Ply men with enough of ridicule ; just 
show them how ridiculous they are or can be made ; 
raise the laugh or the sneer against them ; exhibit 
them in all the exaggerated attitudes that the genius 
of grimace can invent, and all will be well ! There 
is the philosophic class,—large and powerful, com-
posed of men who are no triflers certainly, but who 
are sadly without aim or anchorage. Give them but 
" earnestness," and on that fulcrum they will heave 
up a fallen world into its true height of excellence. 
Give them but earnestness, and then extravagance, 
mysticism, mythism, pantheism, so far from con-
demned as ruinous, are welcomed as so many forces 
operating at different points for the anticipated eleva-
tion. Give them earnestness, and they will do with-
out revelation ; or give them " universal intuition," 
and they, setting it up as the judge of inspiration, 
will make man his own regenerator by making him 
the fountain-head of truth. There is the political 
class. They have their many cures for the evils of 
society, and are quite sure that by better government, 
a wider franchise, freer trade, the abolition of ranks, 
the division of property, the extinction of laws of 
primogeniture, they will bring all into order and 
peace ; as if these could touch the seat of the dis-
ease, or minister to the real wants of a helpless and 
heart-broken world. 
To see the vanity of all these efforts of man to 
better himself, apart from Goo, one needs only to 
look into the extent of the evil to be remedied. It is 
vast, it is incalculable. We see but its outer circle, 
—its innumerable inner circles of vileness and misery 
we see not, we cannot see. It is an evil so broad, so 
deep, so manifold, so malignant, that to attempt to 
cure it by such appliances seems like silencing the 
thunder by the tones of the harp, or arresting the 
havoc of pestilence by scattering roses on the breeze. 
Whoever would have some idea of the hideous mass 
of evil under which the earth is groaning, and with 
which the atmosphere of the age is filled, let him 
read the third chapter of second TIMOTHY, or the 
twenty-fourth of IsAimi, or the descriptions of Is- 
rael's state and sin, drawn by JEREMIAH and EZE- 
KIEL. Let him compare these inspired descriptions 
of Israel's condition with what he sees in the world 
around him, and he will, we doubt not, go forth to 
the world a wiser, more thoughtful, more solemn 
man ; not disposed to hate, or to scorn, or to satir-
ize, but to pity, and to mourn, and to pray. 
Along with its boast of progress, the age boasts of 
its liberality. Let us look at this, and see how far it 
can make its boasting good. True liberality is a 
blessed thing ; for it is but another name for the love 
that " beareth all things," that " thinketh no evil," 
that " rejoiceth not in iniquity, but rejoiceth in the 
truth." With this, however, the liberality of the 
age has nothing in common: Its essence is, indiffer- 
ence to sin and error. Its object is, to smooth down 
the distinctions between good and evil ; between ho-
liness and sin ; between the church and the world ; 
between Protestantism and Popery ; between the be- 
lief of GOD'S Word, and Infidelity, or Atheism. All 
its sayings and doings in government, in the Legis- 
lature, in society, in corporations or private inter- 
course, are based upon the axiom that there is no real 
difference between these things, or, at least, that if 
there be, it is not discoverable by man ; so that man 
is not only not responsible for acting upon it, but it 
would be intolerance and presumption in him to do 
so. Kings are, therefore, to rule as if there were 
no such distinction, forgetting by whoni they reign. 
Judges are to know no such distinctions, forgetting 
that they are to judge " in the fear of the LORD." 
Society is to be constructed without reference to any 
such distinction, as if the Bible were not the basis 
of all society. But is not this calling good evil, 
and evil good,—putting darkness for light, and light 
for darkness,—putting bitter for sweet, and sweet for 
bitter ? 
We see this liberality in the kind things spoken of 
Infidelity ; in the praises of Popery ; in the sneers 
against Protestantism, as being by its very name a 
system of illiberality. Education from which GOD 
is shut out, and in which the Bible has no place, is 
contended for, even by men who call themselves re- 
ligious ; and this is named liberality. To attend 
mass in a Popish cathedral ; to listen to the blasphe- 
mies of Socinianism for the sake of the eloquence of 
the preacher ; to hold fellowship with the avowed In-
fidel for the sake of science ; to sit at the table of the 
licentious, on the score of his artistic fame,—these 
are common things amongst us, and all are honored 
by the name of liberality ! Because our fathers con-
demned these things ; because " they abhorred that 
which was evil, and cleaved to that which was good," 
they are branded as intolerant and narrow-minded ; 
and because our own age has thus filled up the gulf 
between the good and the evil, it is honored with the 
name of enlightened. 
Thus to blot out the difference between truth and 
error has been the feat of the age. For this it praises 
itself, pitying the littleness and contractedness of oth- 
er days and other minds. In so doing, it forgets that 
no man is narrow-minded who expands to the full 
circle of truth, and that the first step beyond that is 
contractedness of spirit. Latitudinarianism is not 
true liberality ; indifference to error is not true libe-
rality, unless it can be shown that the Bible, the 
Book of Truth, is equally Latitudinarian, and equal- 
CrMe lluelt#fraa. 
"BEHOLD! THE BRIDEGROOM COMETH!" 
BOSTON, SATURDAY, MARCH 16, 1850. 
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The Age. 
FROM THE "JOURNAL OF PROPHECY." 
The special boast of the age is its progress. Upon 
this its self-gratulations are numerous and fervent, as 
if it not only loved to advance, but to let the world 
know, as decidedly as possible, how much it thinks 
itself advancing. 
Are these gratulations well founded I is this pro-
gress a reality? Is there not exaggeration in the 
boasting ? Are there not many compensating and 
neutralizing considerations which go far to raise the 
question whether, upon the whole, having respect to 
minus as well as the plus of the items, and looking 
well at the opposite sides of the great balance-sheet, 
there has been solid and thorough progress — pro-
gress which will abide — progress which has placed 
the nation or the race upon a higher level — spiritu-
ally, morally, intellectually, physically. 
Let it be allowed that, in many things, the age is 
one of advancement. Thus much is notable and be-
yond question. It would be unjust and unthankful, 
as well as untrue, not to allow this. We admit it 
ungrudgingly, not reluctantly or through constraint. 
Into much that is true the age has found its way, and 
in several provinces of knowledge, unreached by its 
predecessors, it has made good its footing. Circle 
after circle has widened round it, and its discoveries 
are certainly neither shadows nor tinsel — they are 
real and solid. No Christian need fear to make this 
admission, nor think that by so doing he lowers the 
credit of the Scriptures as the true fountain-head of 
God-given truth, or casts dishonor upon Him, " in 
whom are hid all the treasures of wisdom and know-
ledge." 
The mental philosophy of the age is, in some re-
spects, of a truer kind than heretofore, though still 
cloudy and unsatisfying — nay, often stumbling into 
Scepticism, Pantheism, Atheism. The science of the 
age is prodigiously in advance of former ages. The 
age's literature is wider in its range, and higher in its 
aim. Its arts are on a higher and more perfect scale. 
Its astronomy has searched the heavens far more ex-
tensively and profoundly. Its geology has pierced 
the earth more deeply and successfully. It — the 
age, we mean — has brought to light law after law 
in the system of the universe. It speeds over earth 
with a rapidity once unknown. It transmits intelli-
gence not only more swiftly than sound, but more 
swiftly than the light. It is restoring fertility to the 
soil. It can shut out pain from the body, in circum-
stances which, but a few years ago, would have 
racked or torn every nerve. These things, and such 
as these, the age has discovered and done ; and be-
cause of these things we may admit most freely that 
there has been, in some things, wondrous progress —
progress which might be turned to the best account 
— progress for which praise is due to God. 
All that is true, in any region of GOD'S world, 
must, in its measure, be valuable. What is true is 
of GoD, and therefore not to be cast aside, because 
discovered by an unsanctified understanding, seeing 
Gon has often used his worst enemies as his servants, 
making them his hewers of wood and drawers of wa- 
ter. The value of a truth is not to be judged of by 
the character of the discoverer ; for why may not 
GOD use the finger of a BALAAM to point to the Star 
of JACOB ? The difficulty lies not in discerning what 
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ly indifferent to error. It is an appalling fact, that 
men, with the Bible in their hands, should deny the 
distinction between truth and error, and then, as if 
ashamed of what they had done, call it by the vene-
rated name of liberality. But it is a more appalling 
fact, that men should give, as the reason for this in-
difference, that truth is not discoverable, thereby 
throwing the blame upon God for having given a Bi-
ble so vague, so ambiguous, so unmeaning, that no 
one reading it can certainly gather what is truth or 
what is error. 
This liberality, however, turns out to be a one-
sided principle. Its toleration of error is unqualified 
arid unconditional, almost as if the fact of its being 
error entitled it to toleration, and even encourage-
ment. Its toleration of truth is grudging, meagre, 
restricted. Nay, it only consents to tolerate truth on 
condition that its supporters will not contend for it 
too decidedly, but will bring it considerably down to 
the level of error. Thus, though assuming a Pro-
testant name, its deference to Popery is unlimited ; 
while its hatred of all that is decided and essential in 
Protestantism is deep and unconcealed. It finds ma-
ny excuses for the Popish claim of infallibility, but 
none for the Protestant assertion of the full and tho-
rough inspiration of the "Word of GOD. It palliates 
the Popish system of monastic vows, but detests and 
denounces the Scriptural doctrine of separation from 
the world. It praises and associates with a Papist 
that believes in the lying legends of saints, and in 
the virtues of dead men's bones, or in the immacula-
cy of the Virgin MARY ; but it rejects, as silly and 
insipid, the acquaintanceship of the man who reads 
his Bible, and loves his SAVIOUR, and walks humbly 
with his Goo. Its sympathies are all practically on 
the side of those very errors it professes to reject, 
and its hostilities are directed against those very 
truths which in words it owns. 
The age also boasts of its religion as part of its 
progress. With many, religion is mere philosophic 
speculation upon truth connected with man's soul. 
With others, it is the seemly discharge of all relative 
duties. With others, itconsists in admiration for the 
Bible, as a book of literary excellencies. With oth-
ers, it is the adoption of a creed or connexion with a 
church. With others, it consists in bustle and out-
ward zeal. In all, it lacks LIFE,—that deep, intense, 
glowing life, which so marked it in earlier times. Its 
root is not in the conscience, but in some outer region 
of the soul, which does not bring us into close and 
living contact with JEHOVAH himself: It is a thing 
of fhe imagination, or of the intellect, or even of the 
affections, but not of the conscience. There can be 
no religion which has not its seat there. The bin-
derancc to living religion is the want of a " purged 
conscience," and till the conscience has been purged 
from dead works, there can be no real religion, no 
true service of GOD. How little is there of conscience 
in the religion of the day ! Hence that lack of sim-
plicity, of freshness, of serenity, which we should 
expect. Hence its hollowness and shallowness. 
The religion of the day is an easy-minded religion ; 
a religion without conflict and wrestling, without 
self-denial and sacrifice ; a religion which knows no-
thing of the pangs of the new birth as its commence-
ment, arid nothing of the desperate struggle with the 
devil, day by day, making us long for resurrection-
deliverance, for the binding of the adversary, and for 
the LORD'S arrival. It is a second-rate religion,—a 
religion in which there is no largeness, no grandeur, 
no potency, no noble-mindedness, no elevation, no 
self-devotedness, no all-constraining love. It is a 
hollow religion, with a fair exterior, but an aching 
heart,—a heart unsatisfied, a soul not at rest, a con-
science not at peace with GOD ; a religion marked, it 
may be, by activity and excitement, but betraying all 
the while the consciousness of a wound hidden and 
unhealed within, and hence unable to animate to 
lofty doings, or supply the strength needed for such 
doings. It is a feeble religion, lacking the sinews 
and bones of hardier times,—very different from the 
indomitable, much-enduring, storm-braving religion, 
not merely of apostolic days, but even of the Reforma-
tion. It is an uncertain religion, that is to say, it is 
not rooted in certainty; it is not the outflowing of a 
soul assured of pardon, and rejoicing in the filial re-
lationship between itself and GOD. Hence, there is 
no liberty of service, for the question of personal ac-
ceptance is still an unsettled thing : there is a work-
ing for pardon, but not from pardon. Hence all is 
bondage, heaviness, irksomeness. There is a speak-
ing for GOD, but it is with a faltering tongue ; there 
is a laboring for GOD, but it is with fettered hands ; 
there is a moving in the way of his commandments, 
but it is with a heavy drag upon our limbs. Hence 
the inefficient, uninfluential character of our religion. 
It does not tell on others, for it has not yet fully told 
upon ourselves. It falls short of its mark, for the 
arm that drew the bow is paralyzed. 
These are some of the features of the age. Such 
is its PROGRESS. Such are its prospects of self-re-
generation, or world-regeneration. Alas! how little 
in all this do we see of GOD ! How little can we 
detect, in these movements, of the Spirit of Got)! 
There is a movement, doubtless, nay, not one move-
ment, but many. But how much of this is the work 
of the Holy Spirit, of Him who alone can reform an 
age or regenerate a world ? How much from above, 
and how much from beneath? How much onward 
and upward, and how much backward and downward ? 
Is not the age one which is especially grieving, nay, 
quenching the Spirit? And in many of these things 
which are counted progress, are we not grieving Him 
most signally and awfully Instead of setting our 
face steadfastly to go after CHRIST, are we not follow-
ing after Antichrist in his manifold delusions, in 
which by mixing up truth and falsehood, he is seek-
ing to deceive the very elect? Instead of putting 
ourselves under the teaching of the Spirit, are we not 
taking the false guidance of the evil one, now clothed 
in the fair disguise of radiant knowledge, and going 
before us as an angel of light to mislead and ruin ? 
Not as though some strange thing were happening 
to us. We look for no times of righteousness in 
these last days. We have been warned to expect 
evil and not good, — progressive evil, not progressive 
good,— until the LORD come. 
The age of progress is not the present ; it is the 
age to come. In the present there is the development 
of evil, — in the future, the development of good. 
Man is now putting forth his power to the utmost in 
efforts after progress. Poor progress at the best, yet 
much boasted of ! It is but man's progress.; it is but 
finite development. Man is now put to the proof. 
He is allowed to do his best, and he is given time to 
do it in. GOD will not hinder the attempt, nor hurry 
him in making it. Full time, ample scope, large 
opportunity will be granted. Man ruined a world ; 
it is to be proved whether he can rebuild it. He 
ruined it in a day ; he is given six thousand years to 
attempt its reconstruction. His downward progress 
was swift enough, it is to be tried whether his up-
ward progress will be as rapid, or whether there can 
be such a thing as upward progress at all when he is 
left alone. GOD has been putting him to the proof. 
He Says to him, " Try to govern the world ;" man 
tries it, but fails. He says to him, " Try to regen-
erate a world ;" he tries it, and fails. He says to 
him, " Fertilize the earth ;" he tries it, and fails. 
He says to him, " Try to advance, —make progress, 
— increase in knowledge ;" man tries it, and fails. 
It will not do. Man's day has been a long one ; but 
it has been a day during which in all possible circum-
stances and with all advantages, he has been proved 
helpless, ignorant, evil ; unfit to rule, and unfit to be 
left without a ruler ; unfit to teach, and unwilling to 
learn ; unfit to be intrusted with the care or manage-
ment of ought within the world's wide circle, —from 
the atom of crumbling dust beneath his feet up to his 
own imperishable soul. 
When God has made this proof to the universe of 
man's utter incapacity; when he has demonstrated 
man's unworthiness of trust and inability for any 
?I-ogress, save a downward one ; he sets him aside as 
" a despised and broken vessel," in order to bring in 
the " greater man,"—aye, the greater than man, even 
his own eternal Son. The great experiment of 6000 
years is now drawing to a close. The vast but awful 
demonstration is now nearly complete. The case is 
most manifestly going against man. King, prince, 
noble, peasant, beggar ; statesman, diplomatist, mas-
ter, parent, child, servant ; poet, philosopher, artist, 
mechanic,—all have had their long age of trial, and 
all have failed. The verdict will soon be given, and 
the sentence pronounced. 
At this crisis we now stand. At the close of a 
long series of experiments made to see, what man 
could do, we find the world as wicked and lawless 
(to say no more) as at the first. Peace has not spread 
her reign among the nations, nor misrule departed. 
Righteousness does not sit on the throne of the na-
tions, nor does holiness beautify the homes of the 
children of men. Man's merchandise is not conse-
crated to GOD, nor his wealth laid at the feet of JE-
SUS. The heart remains still deceitful above all 
things, and desperately wicked. Oppression, mur-
der, cruelty, selfishness, lust, sedition, strife, and 
hatred, are still uneradicated, unsubdued, unmiti-
gated. Man has found no cure for these maladies. 
They rage on, but he is powerless. The curse still 
pervades the earth and poisons the air. Man cannot 
disinfect it. The thorn and thistle still shoot up`their 
prickly memorials of the primal sin. Man cannot 
uproot them. Disease still haunts the body, and man 
says, " Depart," in vain. The " rooted sorrow " 
still keeps place in memory, scorching health's fresh-
ness, and tearing down life remorelessly,—man vain-
ly endeavoring to pluck it out. Death still smites 
down its daily myriads, and man tries in vain to bribe 
or disarm it. The grave still receives the loved, and 
preys upon the beautiful,—man pleading in vain that 
it should give back the joy of his heart and the de-
sire of his eyes ! 
Such are the fruits of the first ADAM'S doings, and 
such the powerlessness of his children to remove so 
much as one of the ten thousand evils. It has been 
proved that man can ruin, but not restore a world.—
His attempts at restoration have been sad and mis-
chievous failings. His attempts at PROGRESS have 
been abortive ; so that, progress in evil, progress in 
alienation from GOD, is the feature of greatest promi-
nence in his history. 
But this progress in evil has a limit. Go!. has set 
hounds to it which it cannot overpass. He will not 
allow this earth of his to be totally a hell. He will 
make the sin of man to praise him, and he will re-
strain the remainder thereof. A certain amount and 
a certain duration he will allow, but no more. Nei-
ther of these is indefinite ; and we seem to be nearing 
their boundary. 
It is well. For then shall the good displace the 
evil, and the blessing the curse. The second ADAM 
is at hand, and, with him, the kingdom and the glory. 
He brings the cure. He knits the broken world.—
He rebukes disease and sorrow. He binds death.—
He rifles the grave. He delivers creation. He sets 
up a righteous, peaceful throne. He draws aside the 
curtain that hid heaven from earth, making them as 
one,—the inner and the outer chamber of the one 
tabernacle of JEHOVAH,—and setting up the true JA-
COB'S ladder, on which the angels shall be seen as-
cending and descending, still ministering in holy ser-
vice to him and to his saints in the day of the king-
dom, as heretofore they have done in the day of tribu-
lation and shame. 
That is the age of PROGRESS ! What progress, 
when GOD shall set his hand to it ! In the light of 
that ever-widening knowledge, in the blaze of that 
ever-brightening glory, how poor, how vile, shall 
seem the progress of the dishonored past ! Not 
merely like age's recollection of childhood's triviali-
ties and wasted time, but like morning's remem-
brance to the drunkard of last night's revelry and 
lust ; like the king of Babylon's remembrance of his 
seven years' sojourn with the beasts of the field. 
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We also acknowledge the receipt of a new work 
from our kind friend Mr. HABERSHON, of London, 
entitled " A Glance at the events of 1848, Chiefly as 
they appear in the Light of the Prophecy of the 
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B. ELLIOTT'S Interpretation of this portion of the 
Apocalypse. By MATTHEW HABERSHON, author or 
Works on the Old Testament Prophecies, and the 
Apocalypse," for which he will receive our thanks. 
A MISTAKE.—A correspondent, endeavoring to lo-
cate the kingdoms symbolized by the toes of the im-
age, in the Italian4erritory, gives us, as ten independ-
ent states now existing in Italy, " Naples, Sicily, 
Tuscany, Sardinia, Lucca, Modena, Monaco, Lom-
bardy, Venice, and San Marino," and remarks that 
" Sicily, till the spring of '46, was a part of the king- 
dom of Naples, but is now an independent govern-
ment. Lombardy and Venice belonged to the Aus-
trian empire, but are now free states. Parma was 
an independent government, but has recently become 
united to Sardinia." 
The above was more true a year since than now. 
Austria has re-extended its dominion over Lombardy 
and Venice, Sicily is still a part of the kingdom of 
Naples, and Monaco is now dependent on Sardinia. 
Lucca is now annexed to the Grand Duchy of Tus-
cany. Besides those named, there are the Roman 
States, subject to the Pope ; but for the present un-
der the protection (1) of France. But counting it as 
independent, it would make but six independent gov-
ernments now in Italy—only one-half of those named 
as being independent. 
-We presume correspondents 
would prefer having such mistakes quietly pointed 
out or silently omitted, than to have publicity given 
them. We feel a little responsibility when geo-
graphical questions are mis-stated in our columns. 
WE hope our readers will not fail to read the arti-
cle entitled " The Age," under the editorial head. 
It is copied from the London Journal of Prophecy, a 
quarterly magazine devoted to the exposition of pro-
phecy. We know not when we have read an article 
that has given us more satisfaction. It pourtrays, with 
admirable vigor and fidelity, the deceptive appear- 
ances presented on the surface of society,
i 
 erroneously 
deemed as manifestations of progress. Our friends 
will do well by calling the attention of their friends 
to the article, and enjoining on all a careful and un-
biassed perusal. 
A large portion of our paper to-day is made up from 
this excellent magazine, from which we hope here-
after to make copious selections. 
Notices of Publications. 
" The Church in Earnest. By John Angell James, 
Author of the Church Member's Guide, etc. (Sixth 
thousand.) Boston : Gould, Kendall & Lincoln, 
59 Washington-st. 1850." 
To ensure success in the affairs of this life, ear-
nestness in the prosecution of any enterprise is indis-
pensable. Of how much more importance is it to 
secure an inheritance with the saints in light. The 
above work of Mr. JAMES illustrates in an interesting 
and instructive manner, the importance of earnestness 
in religious matters. From his conclusion, however, 
that the two last chapters of Revelation are descrip-
tive of the church under the present dispensation, we 
emphatically dissent. As a whole, however, the 
work may be read with much profit. 
" Latter Day Pamphlets, edited by Thomas Car-
lyle. No. 1. The Present Time. Boston : Phil-
lips, Sampson & Co., 110 Washington-st. 1850." 
From a cursory examination, we have not been 
particularly impressed with this pamphlet, nor able 
to become sufficiently interested in it to give it a 
thorough reading. Still, others might. Its style is 
a kind of a slap-dash, clap-trap, verbose, tautological, 
much-ado-about-nothing. It contains sixty pages, 
and is sold for five cents—dog cheap, but dear at 
that. 
" John Borland's Reply to a Brief-Statement of 
Facts,' by Dr. Hutchinson." 
We have received a copy of this pamphlet, and 
wish that it might have a genera] circulation through-
out the British provinces. It carries its own anti-
dote. How a man calling himself a Christian min-
ister can stoop to ridicule and sarcasm to meet the 
candid expose of Dr. HUTCHINSON, would be an 
enigma, did we not happen to know that he had no 
other weapon for self-defence. 
" A Lecture Introductory to the Course on Sur-
gery, delivered at the Mass. Med. College, in Bos-
ton. By Henry J. Bigelow, M. n., Prof. of Surgery 
in the Med. School of Harvard University. Boston : 
David Clapp, printer, 184 Washington-street." 
This is an interesting pamphlet, which we have 
read with pleasure. It contains many valuable sug-
gestions, and extends no mercy to quackery. From 
this introductory lecture we should judge the course 
would amply repay the attendance of those even who 
do not intend to make medicine their profession. 
THE Christian Parlor Magazine for March, (pub-
lished by GEO. PRATT, 116 Nassau-street, N. Y.), 
is received, and is, as usual, neatly printed, with its 
usual variety of chaste and appropriate articles. 
" The Index, for Boston' and vicinity, and Country 
Advertiser," is the title of a very handsomely printed 
and highly ornamented paper, distributed gratuitous-
ly, and published by GEORGE ADAMS, of this city. 
TO CORRESPONDENTS.—C. PATTERSON—The lines 
were received, but are not of sufficient merit for pub-
lication. 
B. PERHAM—The lines attached were destitute of 
poetical merit. 
L. KIMBALL—We have no additional light on the 
points referred to, and have had no reason to change 
our previously-expressed opinions. 
"THE ADVENT."—The article with this title ip 
another celume is interesting only from the fact that 
it was written so long since, and by a priest in the 
communion of Rome. The chronological conclusions 
arrived at are extremely fanciful, and are of no weight. 
Bro. Z. WHITNEY, of Bridgeport, wishes Bro. I. 
ADRIAN to write to him immediately, and inform him 
how early in April he will visit that place. 
 
 
 
 
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COMEMYCHDIENI 
JERUSALEM. 
Jerusalem, thou holy land, 
0, could I tread the sod, 
Where once in human aspect sotod 
The glorious Son of God. 
0, could I view thy crumbling walls, 
'thy ruined temple see ! 
My soul is filled with love divine, 
Jerusalem, for thee, 
Could I but climb thy rugged hills, 
And range thy valleys o'er, 
And breathe thy sweet, regaling air--
Thou land that I adore. 
Could I but weep where Jesus wept, 
How happy should I be : 
My tears of grief would freely flow, 
Jerusalem, o'er thee. 
Fain would I lay my youthful limbs 
Beneath thy fragrant sod ; 
There might my spirit wing its way 
To meet my Saviour God. M. w. 
THE RESTITUTION. 
BY M. D. WELLCOME, 
When God created the heavens and the earth, with 
all therein, he pronounced all " very good." There 
was no curse on the ground—no thorns and briers to 
check the growth of vegetation. Man did not have 
to toil, and obtain his bread by the sweat of his brow 
—his food was the fruit of the trees. No blight was 
there to mar the beauty of this fair creation. The 
flowers were unfading and ever blooming, and thed 
 
foliage always green, The birds sang among the 
branches without fear, and the beasts were harmless 
under the dominion of Adam, who was lord of the 
entire creation. No sin was there to destroy the hap-
piness of this goodly heritage. Man was pure and 
upright. The Lord God walked in the garden, and 
conversed familiarly with him. 
" All else was prone, irrational and mute, 
And unaccountable, by instinct led : 
But man He made of angel form erect, 
To hold communion with the heavens above, 
And on his soul impressed his image fair, 
His own similitude of holiness, 
Of virtue, truth, and love, with reason high 
To balance right and wrong, and conscience quick 
To choose, or to reject, with knowledge great, 
Prudence and wisdom, vigilance and strength, . 
To guard 'all force, or guile ; and last of all, 
The highest gift of God's abundant grace, 
With perfect, free, unbiassed wills" Pollok. 
Thus was man made, and crowned king over all 
the earth. 0 why did not this glorious state of things 
always continue ? Alas ! in an evil hour the tempter 
came, and man yielded to his flattering suggestion, 
broke his Maker's law, and fell. He falls from his 
high position, ceases to be lord of the creation,—his 
kingdom is taken by a usurper,—and is driven forth 
from the garden, to wander over the face of the earth. 
A flaming sword guards the way of the tree of life, 
lest he take thereof, eat, and live forever. The sen-
tence of death is upon him : " Dust thou art, and unto 
dust shalt thou return." 0 how great the change 
which so suddenly, in consequence of man's disobe-
dience, swept over the earth. " Cursed is the ground 
for thy sake,. was the mandate of heaven. Thorns 
and briers now spring up spontaneously. The flowers 
wither and die. The leaves become sere, and fall to 
the ground. The little birds are frightened at the 
approach of man. The beasts become fierce and un-
controllable, and, leaving the herb of the field, which 
God had appointed them for food, they begin to de-
vour one another. Communion with God is lost, for 
man, guilty and ashamed, flees from the face of his 
Maker. All is pain, wretchedness, and woe, where 
yesterday was peace, pleasure, and joy. 0 sin, what 
hast thou not done ! The whole creation groaneth ! 
The creature is made subject to vanity, though not 
willingly. It is subjected in hope. A brighter day 
will yet dawn. The curse shall be removed, and 
Eden bloom again. The creation will participate. in 
the glorious liberty of the sons of God, for he hath 
spoken the word, and it will he done. A gleam of 
light springs rip amid the darkness. A promise is 
given to man, upon which he may stay his soul, and 
hope now springs up in his heart. The promise 
speaks of One to come who will seek and save that 
which is lost. What the first Adam lost the second 
Adam will restore. Paradise lost will be regained. 
The tree of life, now excluded, will be restored. The 
universal kingdom, now taken away, will be again 
bestowed. The favor of God, now forfeited, will be 
again enjoyed. Man will receive the re-impressment 
of the Divine image ; yea, his entire being will be 
changed and assimilated to the nature of the second 
Adam, the Lord from heaven. But OD whom is such 
blessedness to be conferred I Upon those who are 
counted worthy to obtain that world, and the resur-
rection from the dead—those who have received the 
spirit of adoption, enabling them to cry, Abba, Fa-
the:. Such will be equal to the angels, and die no 
more. 
Notwithstanding the great mass believe that heaven 
will be some bright world " beyond the bounds of 
time and space," yet it is a fact that God has prom-
ised no other home for them than Eden restored. In 
11: 9 we have a description of the peaceful state 
of Christ's kingdom : and the whole " earth is full 
of the knowledge of the Lord, as the waters cover 
the sea." Before this the wicked are slain, (v. 4,) 
and in Isa. 65:17-25 we find it is to be after the crea-
tion of a new heavens and earth. Peter, after speak-
ing of the flooi which destroyed the old world, says, 
" But the heavens and the earth which are now, by 
the same word are kept in store, reserved unto fire 
against the day of judgment and perdition of ungodly 
men. But the day of the Lord will come as a thief 
in the night, in the which the heavens and the earth 
will pass away with a great noise, and the elements 
shall melt with fervent heat, the earth also ; and the 
works that are therein shall be burned up. Never-
theless mre, according to his promise, [that in the 65th 
of Isaiah,] look for a new heavens and a new earth, 
wherein dwelleth righteousness.". Peter expected 
the heavens and earth which succeeded the flood to 
be themselves succeeded by a new heavens and earth, 
after the present are destroyed by fire. Thus Isaiah 
prophesied of them, Peter looked for them, and John 
the Revelator saw them in vision (Rev. 22:3). The 
glorious state here represented in connection with 
this new creation, can only be fulfilled in the future 
age. The present heavens and earth are the same, 
only somewhat changed, as existed prior to the flood ; 
so we also believe that the new heavens and earth 
will be the same, only changed and renewed. In 
evidence of this, Paul in Hebrews says, " The hea-
vens and the earth like a vesture shall be folded up 
and changed." 
In Acts 3 : 21, we read that the hea-
vens must retain Jesus until the times of the restitu-
tion of all things which God had spoken by the mouth 
of all his holy prophets." They have spoken of the 
restitution of the earth, the kingdom, &c. In Isa. 
35th we have a description of the blessedness of the 
new earth ; and in Isa. 51 : 3 we find a promise that 
the Lord will comfort Zion, that he will comfort all 
her waste places, and make her wilderness like Eden, 
and her desert like the garden of the Lord." In Isa. 
53 : 13 we find a promise that " instead of the thorn 
shall come up the fir-tree, and instead of the brier 
shall come up the myrtle-tree ; and it shall be to the 
Lord for a name, for an everlasting sign that shall 
not be cut off." 
LETTER FROM W. H. FERNALD. 
DEAR BRO. RIMES :-0 how precious are the truths 
of God's word at this time, to those who, as pilgrims 
and strangers here, are travelling to a land which is 
out of sight. How do such esteem those agencies 
now in use for a fuller and more general development 
of those great and sublime truths which for the last 
few years have been sounded in our ears. The " Her-
ald " comes to us laden with incontrovertible evi-
dences of our proximity to the kingdom of God.—
And Oh, as we near the haven of rest, how does it 
affect our hearts? Do we partake more largely of 
the sufferings of the Son of God — his sympathetic 
sufferings I Do we find ourselves agonizing with him 
in prayer for the salvation of our fellow men? Are 
we endeavoring to purify ourselves even as Christ is 
pure I Are we striving to conform more and more 
to the image of him who hath begotten us again unto 
a lively hope by the resurrection of Jesus Christ from 
the dead1 If so, we may hope to reign with him. 
0, how exalted, how glorious a privilege, to reign 
with Christ ! Do we appreciate the honor conferred 
on us I What ! shall we who caused him to bear the 
heavy timber up the rugged steep of Calvary, and 
there to stand and behold the cross erected on whiph 
himself was to be crucified,—we who caused him to 
be nailed to the cross,—have Such horror conferred on 
us? Shall we reign with him? Yes. Though we 
were ignorant of it, for our sakes he suffered, bled, 
and died. For us he said, " It is finished." For us 
he gave up the ghost. Had his blood not been shed, 
there had been no remission of sins. He suffered, 
bled, and died ; but arose again, and ascended up on 
high5where " he ever liveth to make intercessions 
for us." And we are assured, tkat " if we suffer, 
we shall also reign with him." For our encourage-
ment and comfort here in this land of our pilgrimage, 
John has given us a bright view of the saints' glo-
rious reign with Christ. Says he, " They who have 
a part in the first resurrection, shall be priests of God 
and of Christ, and shall reign with him a thousand 
years." Whilst he in vision saw the new heavens 
and the new earth, his attention was attracted by 
something away in the distance, which for brightness 
far out-shone the sun and the moon ; and as he stood 
gazing up into heaven, wondering what it could be 
that should so confound the sun and make the moon 
ashamed, the• angel, whose office it was to make 
known to him the things that were shortly to come to 
pass, made known to him what it was, which he thus 
records : " And I John saw the holy city, the hea-
venly Jerusalem, coming down from God out of hea-
ven. And I heard a great voice out of heaven, say-
ing, Behold, the tabernacle of God is with men, and 
he will dwell with them, and they shall be his peo-
ple, and God himself shall be with them, and be their 
God." It would appear from this, that the inhabit-
ants of that city would have no need of temples *lade 
with hands to worship God in. No, they do not.—
Says John, " I saw no temple therein, for the Lord 
God Almighty and the Lamb are the temple of it." 
So pure, so transcendently glorious was everything 
in the city, that they had no need of the sun, neither 
of the moon, to shine in it. And as " a city which 
is set on a hill cannot be hid," so do the nations of 
them that are saved walk in the light of it. 'How 
many of us, brethren, shall be numbered with those 
who walk in the light derived from God and the 
Lamb ? Remember it is for you and Ito settle this 
question for ourselves. The Rock through which 
we must pass, if we ever arrive to that blest region 
of light, has been cleft, the door has been opened, and 
the invitation is extended to all, Come and knock, 
with the assurance that it shall be opened. 0 let us 
continue to knock, and soon, right soon, shall an 
abundant entrance be administered to us into the 
everlasting kingdom of our Lord and Saviour Jesus 
Christ. Your brother in the hope of the gospel. 
Lewiston (Me.), Feb. 7th, 1850. 
P. S. I want to remark here, that I consider the 
first number of the present volume of the " Herald " 
worth the subscription price of the whole volume.-
0 that controversy on the intermediate state of the 
dead and destruction of the wicked might forever 
cease in the " Herald." 
W. H. F. 
LETTER FROM J. L. CLAPP. 
DEAR BRO. RIMES :—That the long-suffering of 
our Lord is salvation, we have had of late abundant 
evidence. And I doubt not that as long as probation 
is lengthened out to man, the sword of divine truth, 
when properly wielded, will produce results that will 
occasion the angels of heaven to rejoice, and individ-
uals to praise our adorable Redeemer to all eternity. 
There are many that we have seen recently rejoicing 
in hope of the glory of God, and loving the appear-
ing of the Blessed One, who but a few weeks ago 
were in the gall of bitterness and bonds of iniquity ; 
and I trust they will soon be numbered among those 
that have gained the victory over the beast, and over 
his image, and over his mark, and over the number 
of his name, and that stand on the sea of glass, hav-
ing the harps of God, and tuning their voices in sing-
ing the song of Moses and the Lamb. I allude to 
the town of Pompey, where God has of late made 
Iris word effectual to the salvation .of many. Last 
fall Bro. Bates was requested to visit that people, and 
explain to them the reasons of our hope, but was pre-
vented from complying with their wishes until about 
the last of December, when, according to previous 
arrangement, he went and commenced a meeting in 
the house belonging to the disciples. The word was 
preached, and soon the house was filled to overflow-
ing. Many of the people, being astonished at the doc-
trine, asked, " Is this Millerism ?" This meeting 
continued ten days, with an increase of interest dai-
ly, and at its close the preaching had become the uni-
versal topic of conversation among all classes of men, 
and the wonder among many was, why they had not 
seen these truths before. During this meeting many 
were pricked in their hearts, and made the inquiry, 
" What shall I do to be saved ?" while others re-
joiced in hope. Seven went forward in the ordinance 
of baptism. 
By the earnest request of many, Bro. Bates con-
sented to visit them again in about three weeks, at 
which time the meeting was resumed. During his 
absence many had found peace in believing, and on 
the first Sabbath after his return, twenty-three were 
ready to follow their Lord in the ordinance of bap-
tism. This meeting continued about two weeks, 
with a perceivable increase of interest day by day, 
so much so that the place of worship became too 
strait ; whereupon the Baptist house, which was 
much larger, was freely granted, and soon that was 
filled to overflowing : and such, was the power of 
truth, that hundreds were convicted, and constrained 
to acknowledge that the doctrine preached was the 
truth : and daily there were those that we trust gave 
up all for Christ's sake. There was scarce ,a house 
that was visited but that more or less of its inmates 
were affected, and ready to sit down and earnestly in-
quire with regard to the truths preached. It was 
truly pleasing and heart-cheering to see the interest 
manifested to know what God had revealed to us in 
his word. Here I wish to say, that during these 
meetings some of the brethren and sisters from this 
church have been constantly with Bro. Bates, and 
have visited from house to house day by day, and ac-
cording to their ability have explained the word of 
life ; and in so doing they feel thht they have been 
blessed indeed and in truth. Doubtless they have 
been instrumental of good in the hands of God.—
Such was the religious influence for miles around in 
every direction, that some of the aged inhabitants 
said they had never seen the like before. The con-
verts are from all classes, even from the gray heade,d 
to the youth. In all, seventy have been buried in the 
likeness of the Saviour's death, and we trust have 
been raised to newness of life. Others are still in-
quiring what they shall do to be saved. 
Notwithstanding the Presbyterian minister and one 
of his deacons said many things against Advent 
preachers, and the doctrine advocated, and used their 
influence to prevent persons attending our meeting*, 
the number increased up.to its close ; and we trust 
that many have so learned Christ that it will be with 
difficulty that they can be brought to bow to ecclesias-
tical dominion, and thus lose that freedom wherewith 
Christ bath made them free. Our prayer is, that 
God may preserve them blameless unto the ay of 
his appearing, which must be near, even at the door. 
And then to them who by patient continuance in well 
doing have sought for glory, honor, and immortality, 
will be given eternal life ; but unto them that are 
contentious, and do not obey the truth, but obey un-
righteousness, will be awarded indignation, wrath, 
tribulation, and anguish, which will conic upon every 
soul of man that doeth evil. Yours, &c. 
Homer (N.Y.), Feb. 18th, 1850. 
LETTER FROM S. A. CHAPLIN. 
DEAR BRO. RIMES :—As the prophetic delineations 
respecting the rise, domination, and overthrow, of the 
successive monarchies destined to precede the king-
dom of God have had a perfect fulfilment in history, 
excepting a few items connected with the closing 
scenes ; as the periods of duration assigned for the 
continuance of those governments are also demon-
strated to be completed to an inconsiderable fraction ; 
and as predicted signs, physical, political, and moral, 
are occurring in due order, arid in exact connection 
with the closing facts and terminating periods ; it be-
hoves us to seriously contemplate those events so 
soon to take place. 
Christ Jesus is to come ! Yes, the testimony of 
Scripture is too abundant to be quoted, that the Son 
of man, the Lord himself, the same Jesus, is so to 
come, in his own glory, and in his father's, and in 
that of the holy angels, as to demonstrate " the sure 
word of prophecy," in its literal acceptation, both to 
the spiritualizing mystic, and the scoffing blasphemer. 
The solemnities of the judgment are to be realized ! 
The crowning results of redemption's stupendous 
plan,—the salvation of the subjects of the kingdom 
of God, and the bestowing upon them of eternal life 
in the inheritance incorruptible, undefiled, and un-
fading, as well as the fearful and final perdition that 
awaits all the workers of iniquity, when punished 
with an everlasting destruction from the presence of 
the Lord, and from the glory of his power, are to he 
manifested to the unfallen intelligences of Jehovah's 
vast empire, in the grand dispensation of judgment, 
now about to open upon the world. 
Subsequent to this advent, and involved in this 
" judgment of the great day," the first resurrection 
will transpire, the saints will be gathered to meet 
their Lord, the wicked nations will be destroyed, the 
sanctuary—the land of promise—will be cleansed, 
the heavenly city will be located, " the Lord of hosts 
will reign in mount Zion, and in Jerusalem, and be-
fore his ancients gloriously," where, it appears, the 
great antitypical rest will be enjoyed : then the 
wicked dead, " Gog and Magog," will be raised, and 
surround the camp of the saints and the beloved city, 
and meet their final doom, having been reserved 
unto the day of judgment, to he punished " in the 
" devouring fire " unto which " the heavens and the 
earth which are now are kept in store," being " re-
served unto fire against the day of judgment and per-
dition of ungodly Men ;" where, amid melting ele-
m6nts and " a dissolving, burning earth," will be 
realized the " lake of fire," the terrible antitype of 
Gehenna " without the city :" then all things will be 
made new, and earth,—the home of the saints, the 
kingdom of Christ, and a lovely province of Jeho-
vah's stupendous monarchy,—will bloom in Eden 
beauty and loveliness forever. 
Dear brother, it is the lot of your humble corres-
pondent to differ with you, and others connected, with 
you, relative to some questions, but I love you in the 
Lord, and esteem you for your works' sake. I have 
received a great amount of instruction from the 
" Herald," and I would solicit my brethren who en-
tertain views similar to my own respecting the state 
of the dead and the end of the wicked, to be punctual 
in meeting their dues. It is the sure word of prophe-
cy that reflects light on every other question. I sym-
pathize with you in your bereavements and affliction, 
but commend you, and all the holy brethren, to the 
Lord. Amen. 
Summit (Ind.), Jan. 29th, 1850. 
LETTER FROM W. M. INGHAM. 
BRO. HIMES :—I wish to say to all the friends of 
the cause of our Lord Jesus Christ, that the Lord, in 
great mercy, has lately visited his people in the town 
of Clements, and poured out his Spirit among us. A 
number of precious souls have been called from dark-
ness to light, and from the power of Satan unto God, 
and are rejoicing in prospect of speedy redemption. 
I think ten have been converted among the Adventists 
of late, and as many backsliders reclaimed ; some of 
the latter were converted under the Advent doctrine a 
few years ago, and some that formerly belonged to 
the Baptist church. There is still some interest 
among the unconverted, and I hope that many who 
are now in the broad road to destruction may repent, 
and become the servants of God. Six males and five 
females, from fifteen. to twenty-six years of age, have 
been baptized in Clements. We met in conference 
the 5th of January, when these eleven united toge-
ther to sustain the worship of the Lord, and to com-
ply with the ordinances of the gospel. It is expected 
that a number of others will soon unite with the little 
church. 
The Lord has also visited Bear River, where a 
number have been converted. Lord's-day, Jan. 20th, 
I baptized seven. A number of others have been 
converted, and one of whom, a lad about fifteen years 
of age, would have been baptized at the same time, 
but fir the unwillingness of his parents, who are 
Methodiks. May the Lord help the parents to see 
to it that they do not keep their children from obey-
ing the Lord, and thus be the means of their children 
being left when Jesus comes. May the Lord help 
the parents and children to do the commandments, 
that they may have a right to the tree of life, and en-
ter through the gates into the city. The brethren 
and sisters at Bear River (sixteen in number) have 
united together to sustain public worship. The breth-
ren at Bear River and Clements have agreed to com-
ply with the following rule, viz. :—" We the under-
signed, believers in the speedy personal coming of 
our Lord Jesus Christ, agree to associate together to 
sustain the worship of the Lord, and to take the 
Holy Bible for out rule of faith and practice ; and 
by the grace of God to comply with its precepts and 
examples." 
Truly the Lord has been good unto us in Nova 
Scotia ; and amidst all the opposing influences (and 
they are not a few), the Lord has owned his truth, 
and a number have been brought to a saving know-
ledge of it, and are now looking for speedy redemp-
tion at the coming of the Lord Jesus Christ the sec-
ond time without sin unto salvation, to them that look 
tbr him. 
I wish to say to my brethren and sisters, that I am 
still a pilgrim and a stranger in a distant land, but 
am looking for the better country, expecting soon to 
meet all the family of my heavenly Father, at home 
in our own land, to part no more. Then shall we 
see that very same Jesus who died to redeem us, and 
be made like him, and sit down with Abraham, Isaac, 
and Jacob, and all that have washed their robes and 
made them white in the blood of Lamb. There we 
shall hunger no more, neither thirst any more, nei-
ther shall the sun light on us, nor any heat ; for the 
Lamb which is in the midst of the throne shall feed 
us, and lead us unto living waters, and wipe all tears 
from our eyes. This thought often cheers my heart 
amidst my trials and conflicts here ; and I rejoice to 
see the evidences that the Lord is soon to come in all 
his glory, to gather his ransomed ones home. This, 
dear brethren and sisters, should encourage us to con-
tinue in the faith of the gospel ; for we are made 
partakers of Christ if we hold fast the beginning of 
our confidence steadfast unto the end. Wherefore, 
beloved, seeing that ye look for such things, be dili-
gent, that ye may be found of him in peace, without 
spot and blameless. 
Lower Granville (N. S.), Feb. 7th, 1850. 
THERE IS REST. 
Truly the representations in God's word in regard 
to those who rest in Christ, are most pleasing. The 
beloved apostles thought it gain to depart and be with 
Christ,—to be absent from the body and present with 
the Lord, enjoying an intermediate blessedness, while 
their mouldering dust lies unconscious in the grave. 
It is pleasant for the weary pilgrim, as he journeys 
on through this vast wilderness to his Eden home, to 
think of those who have trod the rugged path before 
him, and entered upon their rest. 0 ! where are 
they who, formerly in deep poverty, loved the Sa- 
THE ADVENT HERALD, 
 
 
 t. 
viour ? who lingered in chambers of affliction, or 
wasted away on beds of suffering, unnoticed or des-
pised! Where are they? Where they are no lon-
ger poor or despised. They are asleep in Jesus.—
Blessed sleep, from which none ever wake to weep: 
They had their trials, but these are ended. They 
had their pains and tears, their days of languishing 
and hour of dying,—but all this is over. The for-
mer things are passed away. The cares and anxieties 
of the present life no more distress those happy con-
querors. God has wiped away every tear from their 
faces, and removed every sorrow. They have no 
toilsome days and wearisome nights. Their heads 
never ache, nor their hearts throb with anguish. Pain 
and sickness are alike unknown. The state of the 
blest is a state of perfect safety. This world is a 
scene of danger and of frequent conflict. Prosperity 
tempts the soul to love the world, adversity to mur-
mur at the dealings of God. Youth and age, pov-
erty and wealth, health and sickness, all have temp-
tations peculiar to themselves. But in the world to 
come, no inward corruption distresses the soul, no 
anger, shame, or envy will ever be felt. They will 
leave all these behind when they leave the precincts 
of mortality. 0! how cheering the thought, that this 
mortal will soon put on immortality, that this poor, 
despised, feeble body will soon be permitted to join 
the blood-washed throng in the world to come, where 
the wicked cease from troubling, and the weary are 
at rest. 0! ye blessed scenes of felicity and peace, 
shall ye be mine? and mine soon, and forever ? Thou 
happy heaven ! glorious abode ! where for me eter-
nal love has prepared a mansion of peace, and where 
for me elder brethren wait. Shall I soon see the 
walls of salvation; Ye happy angels, shall I, a 
poor traveller on earth, soon be equal with you? as 
blest, as rich, as safe as you Thou Lamb of God ! 
once slain for my transgressions, and now my life, 
shall I soon see thee as thou art, and wear thy lovely 
image? Shall I have done with toil and care, labors 
and earthly sorrow, and be at rest? Will all this be 
mine, when a few more suns have rolled their cares 
away ? Then why need 1 fear the trials of the wil-
derness? I will not ; but my cry shall ever be, Come, 
Lord Jesus, come quickly ! y Amen. 
W. B. MAYNARD. 
Extracts from Letters. 
Bro. L. P. JUDSON writes from Bristol (Ct.), 
March 1st, 1850 :— 
DEAR BRO. HIMES :—We commenced our meeting 
in this place on Tuesday of this week, but we have 
not as yet seen any very ostensible results. On the 
first evening a singing-school was held in a part of 
the building in which we held our meeting, and on 
Wednesday a court was held, so that we had to meet 
in a private house. Last evening another singing-
school was held over our heads, and there is an ap-
pointment out for a concert and experiments in ven-
triloquism for this evening. By this means we shall 
have only Saturday and Sabbath in which we can 
hope to have an access to the mass of the people.—
The Lord direct the result. 
Bro. Edwin Burnham is lecturing every evening 
this week in Providence. I hope the labors there 
may not be spent in vain. We commence there on 
Monday evening. 
In Salem we had a blessed meeting. Bro. Osier 
labors with all his might. The church there seems 
to be at peace among themselves, and united in the 
work of the Lord. There was considerable interest 
secured by the prayer meetings which were held the 
week previous to our commencing efforts, and it 
steadily increased during our stay there. A goodly 
number embraced Christ, and among them a young 
man that I hope will solemnly inquire of the Lord 
whether he has anything for him to do in the minis-
try. I do not pretend to state even the probable num-
ber of those hopefully converted. I have not formed 
an estimation in my own mind. We shall know on 
the day of the revelation of all things. The breth-
ren concluded to continue the meetings during the 
present week. The assistance of Brn. Daniels and 
Weethee were secured, from whom, as well as from 
Bro. Osier, you will undoubtedly hear something 
more concerning the work. Salem is an interesting 
field, and the truth has a strong hold of many minds. 
The Lord increase and continue the work until the 
day of his appearing. 
I have heard indirectly from Bro. Needham, that 
he is continuing his efforts in Worc9ster with success. 
So far as my observation has extended, there is a 
general gathering of strength among the brethren in 
this entire vicinity. • I mean an increase of faith for 
the conversion of men. In the days of our disap-
pointment and subsequent controversy, we lost sight, 
to a great extent, of a very important part of our 
work. We gave up much of our faith for the salva-
tion of those in the way of death. But few, if any, 
retain that power of faith we once had,—under which 
many were led to Christ. While we have believed 
the door of mercy was open, we did not believe that 
many could be persuaded to enter it. The Lord is 
now rebuking our unbelief. See the numerous works 
of grace in progress among those of like precious 
faith with us in different parts. I hope every brother 
will inquire how far he has indulged unbelief, and 
repent ; how far he has gone from the Lord, and re-
turn. Yours, in hope. 
Bro. W. PRATT writes from Hopeville (R. I.), 
February, 1850 :— 
BRo. HIMES : —The saints scattered abroad in the 
land may be cheered to learn, that the truth is taking 
effect in this place, and souls are becoming reconciled 
to God. 
Bro. A. S. Himes moved to this place in the spring 
of '49. No Advent meetings had been held here, 
and but one family (Bro. Richards') sympathized 
with the truth of a speedy coming Lord. They com-
menced holding prayer-meetings, and their neighbors 
came in to hear what those that belong to the " sect 
everywhere spoken against" {Acts 28:22) had to say. 
They really thought they brought certain strange 
things to their ears ; but being anxious to know what 
this new doctrine whereof they spoke was (Acts 1.7 : 
18, 20), they listened to the word from preachers and 
brethren, and concluded to prove the doctrine. Ac-
cordingly, they searched the Scriptures daily, to as-
certain whether these things were so.—Acts 17: 11. 
Some of them were persuaded of the truth, and em-
braced it, and readily confessed they were pilgrims 
and strangers on the earth. Heb. 11:13, 14. Bro. 
Champlin commenced a series of meetings, and held 
them for four weeks every evening. Bro. Fassett 
was there during one week, and gave them three or 
four soul-reviving discourses. The writer preached 
twelve times, to some little effect, I trust, by God's 
blessing. The congregations numbered from two to 
four hundred persons, who listened with candor. It 
was thought there were about thirty reclaimed and 
converted. Bro. C. baptized seven happy souls. I 
also administered this ordinance to one the following 
Lord's day. Bro. C. will lead more into an Ameri-
can Jordan next Sunday, if the Lord will. May the 
Lord give him a better time, if possible, than before. 
Many others in that community are persuaded of this 
truth. 0 that God would help those convicted souls 
to come out on the side of truth. " "Why halt ye be-
tween two opinions?" Amen. 
Bro. L. D. MANSFIELD writes from Syracuse (N. 
Y.), February, 1850:— 
DEAR BRO. HIMES :—Since the decease of our be-
loved Father Miller, and your new afflictions from 
that event and from ill health, I have been purposing 
to write you ; but have been hindered hitherto. I 
fully endorse your expression,—" Mr. Miller's labors 
and character have not been appreciated,"—and do 
not wonder that your heart has been weighed down 
with grief; who can well understand the worth of this 
champion of our cause, who has done so much in 
"contending for the faith once delivered to the saints." 
Your proposition to publish his entire works in num-
bers is an excellent one, and I hope you will have 
calls for a very large edition. This will enable you 
to put them at a price which will give them a wide 
circulation. Our brethren residing in cities and large 
towns should assume the responsibility of payment, 
and have them on sale at book stores and news rooms. 
I think I may safely say, that I can circulate by this 
means among our brethren in this region one hundred 
copies. 
The cause in this city is not as prosperous as could 
be desired ; but we have occasion to bless God that 
soiree persons of intelligence are getting their eyes 
opened more fully to the great truth of the speedy 
coming of Christ. Seine who were interested at the 
Tent-meeting are growing up into the truth. Meet-
ings have been held at Pompey Hill, at the Disciples' 
chapel, which have resulted gloriously. Many souls 
have been converted. Bro. Bates has done most of 
the preaching, and is now much worn down by labor. 
He has immersed seventy. I had an excellent meet-
ing at Tully, in the chapel of the Disciples, where 
Bro. Chase labors. I think good will result, and 
those beloved brethren will be brought to feel a 
deeper interest in the coming of Christ at hand. I 
have held several other meetings in different places, 
and have many calls for labors. 0 for strength to 
sound the alarm till Christ comes. 
Bro. D. BOSWORTH writes from Low Hampton 
(N. Y.), Feb. 19th, 1850 :— 
DEAR BRO. [TIMES :—I am sorry to learn that your 
health is such that you are not able to preach. Never 
were judicious and efficient laborers wanted more than 
now. When I look over the names of those who have 
stood in the forefront of the hottest battle, fighting in 
the cause of our corning King, against the combined 
assaults of earth and hell, and behold him who stood, 
like Saul among the children of Benjamin, a head 
taller than his brethren, laid low in the dust, and those 
who have stood by his side in the thickest of the fray, 
carried from the field wounded, bruised, and torn, un-
fit for active duty, and others presenting their backs 
to the enemy, and turning aside, one to his farm, 
another to his merchandise, and others to questions 
that gender strife, division, and every evil work, I 
can but exclaim, " Who is sufficient for these things?" 
I rejoice that the cause is the Lord's ; for although 
those whom God may have chosen as pioneers in pro-
claiming the gospel of the kingdom fail, or turn aside 
from the path of duty, yet " with stammering lips 
and another tongue," God is able to speak to his peo-
ple ; and although adverse winds may drive clouds of 
thick darkness across the pathway of the heavens, 
yet the angelic messenger must, and will, speed his 
flight to every nation, tongue, and tribe, announcing 
the hour of judgment come. It cheers my heart to 
see that this message is yet being blessed of God to 
the salvation of precious souls, as I did by Bro.Wee-
thee's communication from New York, Bro. Chap-
man's from Pennsylvania, and others', and as I have 
seen myself in Hebron and vicinity, where about one 
hundred have made a public profession of their faith, 
under the ministrations of Bro. Lyon and others, 
since September last. 
One word about that work on the kingdom.—Get 
it out as soon as possible. It is just what we want, 
and will doubtless meet with a rapid sale. 
We are arranging to get out the work as soon as 
possible.—En. 
Bro. L. D. Tllompsoar writes from Cabot (Vt.), 
Feb. 8th, 1850:— 
• 
BRO. HIMES : — I have within a few weeks past 
visited a number of places, where it seemed to be 
the will of the Lord I should. In Piermont, where 
I have labored occasionally for some months past, 
the Lord has been with us. The brethren and sisters 
have been encouraged to hope, and patiently wait for 
the kingdom of God to be established. I baptized 
three happy converts, not long since, at this place, 
and they are still hold
ing on their way. Jan. 16th 
I went from this place to Grafton, Vt. There are 
but few brethren in Grafton. We had a good congre-
gation and a good hearing. There is an open door 
for the truth to be presented in the love of it. Weak 
and unworthy as I am, the Lord blesses me in my 
endeavors to give the people meat in due season, and 
I feel constrained to go out and do what I can. It 
will be blessed to hear the joyful sound, Enter into 
rest, which will be the lot of those found faithful 
when the Master comes. Yours, striving to be one 
of the number. • 
Bro. H. L. SMITH writes from Auburn (N. Y.), 
Feb. 15th, 1850:— 
DEAR BRO. : —I am " according to the promise," 
still looking by faith for the new heavens and a new 
earth. 
I find that man's disobedience and sin were the 
procuring cause of the " curse." The items are 
given thus : — 
" Cursed be the ground 
for thy sake." " In sor- 
row shalt thou eat of it," 
&c. " Thorns and this-
tles shall it bring forth to 
thee." " In the sweat of This present evil 
thy face shalt thou eat world. 
bread, till thou return to 
the ground ; for out of it 
vast thou taken. For dust 
thou art, and unto dust 
shalt thou return." 
The deliverance—the 
inheritance : — " There 
shall be no more curse." 
" Neither sorrow "—in-
stead of thorns and this-
tles " the tree of life." 
" No more sweat of the 
face, but " the throne of 
God and the Lamb shall 
be in it ; and his servants 
shall serve him." " And 
there shall be no more 
death "—praise the Lord. 
" And they shall reign 
forever and ever." 
Yours, in hope. 
Bro. N. BROWN writes from Kingston (N. H.), 
Feb. 8th, 1850 : 
DEAR BRO. :—There is a very little flock in this 
region, who are anxiously looking for a new creation. 
The mass—the ungodly world — care for no such 
event. Many of the Israel, according to the flesh, 
are also very indifferent. " Now that which decayeth 
and waxeth old is ready to vanish away." Sin has 
so corrupted and debased the mind, that all those 
who have not been sprinkled with the blood of Jesus 
are amazingly afraid to have the heavens pass away 
with a great noise, and the elements melt with fer-
vent heat. 0, they cannot endure the thought to 
have the groaning creation relieved frorMthe bondage 
of corruption ! The " Golden Fleece " is their 
darling object. They believe in the fabled tree in 
the forest of Dodona—they will follow its deluding 
responses in the acquisition of pleasure, wealth, and 
fame. But, alas ! theirs is a corruptible crown!! A 
brighter prospect is before God's dear saints. He 
that sits upon the throng of God has said : " Behold, 
I make all things new." He will do it. He will 
soon speak—the work will be done. He will not 
stop the chariot wheels of his re-creative energy, nor 
fix the golden compass, until the present creation 
shall sink in the abyss of years, and the new creation 
arise in immortal beauty. 
Bro. L. S. LUDINOTON writes from Thorndike 
(Mass.), Feb. 11th, 1850 :— 
BRO. HIMES :—I take this opportunity to say, that 
the conference recently held at Jawbuck (Enfield), 
has resulted in good. Some fifteen or more young 
people have been, as is hoped and believed, converted 
to the truth, and are rejoicing in hope of being called 
to " inherit the kingdom prepared for the saints from 
the foundation of the world." There is a serious 
thoughtfulness manifested by others who are not yet 
decided. God speed the work. We were favored 
with the labors of Brn. H. Munger and H. L. Hast-
ing, which proved beneficial. Such tokens of God's 
power and willingness yet to save are truly encou-
raging to the servant of Christ, as he wends his way 
through the highways and hedges, " compelling them 
to come in." Yours, in hope. 
Bro. C. W. SPERRY writes from Panton (Vt.), 
Feb. 19th, 1850 :— 
BRO. 'TIMES :—It is acknowledged by all, that the 
times in which we live are ominous of some great 
event. Many are sounding their peace trumpets, 
darkening the mind, quelling the fears, drowning the 
thoughts, turning light into darkness, and the Bible 
into fables. But the Bible reader knows that the 
last trumpets to be sounded to this world, are We 
trumpets. And while they are thus crying peace, 
the child of God may expect sudden destruction. I 
believe the few of this place are desirous to know 
what is present truth. Some of us are convicted 
that 1817 full years from the crucifixion will end the 
2300 days, when the sanctuary will be cleansed, and 
the saints receive the end of their faith and the salva-
tion of their souls. I fear that our minds are not 
awake to the power and magnitude of the conse-
quences of that tremendous day. But blessed is that 
servant whom, when the Lord cometh, shall be found 
giving meat in due season. Yours, believing that 
" the vision will speak arid not lie." 
Obituary. 
.` I am the RESURRECTION and the LIFE he who believeth in ME, 
though he should die, yet he will LIVE and whoever liveth and be-
lieveth in me, will NEVER die."—John 11 25, 26. 
DIED, of consumption, in Hatley, C. E., Feb, 14, 
1850, Miss LAVINIA SAMPSON, daughter of Joseph 
and Rhoda Sampson, aged 21 years, after an illness 
of eleven months. Thus has death taken away ano-
ther of our number. She has left a large number of 
friends to mourn her loss, but they mourn not as 
those who have no hope. She died in fall faith that 
when our Lord shall appear, she should appear with 
him in glory. 
C. R. C. 
DIED, in Hinsdale, N. H., of quick consumption, 
Feb. 5th, Bro. JAMES MASTERS, 41 his 90th year. He 
was a warm-hearted friend of the Advent cause, and 
has been a consistent Christian for about fifty or sixty 
years. The language of Rev. 14 : 13 may be said of 
him with propriety : " Blessed are the dead who die 
in the Lord from henceforth : yea, saith the Spirit, 
that they may rest from their labors, and their works 
do follow them." 
B. P. 
DIED, at Rouses Point, Feb. 10th, HENRY ROM-
ESTER, aged three years and four months. Bro. and 
Sister Rochester are thus called to mourn, the king 
of terrors having entered their little faMily circle, and 
snatched from their embrace a beloved boy. The fu-
neral was attended by the brethren, appropriate re-
marks and prayers being made on the occasion. This 
bereavement is made more afflictive on account of the 
extreme illness of Bro. R., who was, and still is, la-
boring under a severe disease of the lungs, and con-
fined to his room. But they mourn in sweet hope of 
soon meeting their little lost one, and all the saints, 
in the land of life which is soon to come, and where 
death will never enter. 
D. T. T. JR. 
DIED, of consumption, in Barnston, C. E., Feb. 
18th, 1850, LYDIA HILL, wife of Hawley Hill, aged 
30 years and 12 days, after an illness of about thir-
teen months, during which time this beloved sister 
manifested a spirit of meekness and Christian pa-
tience. Though her sufferings were intense, yet she 
was never known to murmur. She appeared to be 
conscious that her sleep in the earth would be of 
short duration, for a long time before her death. She 
appeared to be entirely reconciled to the will of God. 
She often spoke of the goodness of God towards her 
in pardoning her sins, and warned the many friends 
who often surrounded her bed, to prepare to meet 
her, when summoned, before the bar of God. She 
died in full faith that she would soon come up in the 
resurrection, when she would be arrayed in a glori-
ous robe of righteousness. She has left an affection-
ate husband and four little children, and many friends, 
to mourn het- decease ; but they mourn not as those 
who have no hope. 
C. R. C. 
DIED, in Philadelphia, Feb. 19th, 1850, of liver 
complaint, Bro. SAMUEL DREW, aged 65 years. Bro. 
Drew was born in Plymouth, Mass. ; his early life 
was spent upon the seas. He embraced religion seve-
ral years ago, and has ever since been a devoted and 
exemplary follower of the Saviour. He was a most 
ardent believer in the doctrine of Christ's speedy 
coming, and longed for the day to arrive when mor-
tality would be swallowed up of life. For a few 
weeks before his death, he was deeply impressed that 
he should not remain here long, and in several social 
meetings he expressed himself to that effect. He 
would say, " I firmly believe the Lord will soon 
come, or l shall go to him ; for I feel in myself that 
I shall not be here long." Although he so firmly 
" looked for that blessed hope," yet he was also a 
strong believer in a conscious spiritual existence after 
death. This he entertained both from the Divine 
testimony and what he saw and heard with his own 
senses. The circumstance was a most remarkable 
one, and I may hereafter, in a work on that subject, 
give it in full. For many years our brother labored 
under the disease which terminated his life, and suf-
fered much from it. He was confined to his bed a 
little over a week, but exceedingly happy in the 
Lord, and longed to be gone. Bright visions of glory 
opened to the eye of his faith, and he " longed to be 
there." His last words were, when his wife, as she 
was about to leave the room to get some water to 
wet his mouth, said to him, " Well, father, you are 
almost through ;" he replied, " Yes, bless the Lord." 
Before she could return, his spirit had fled. " Blessed 
are the dead that die in the Lord, from this time, for 
they rest from their labors, and their works do follow 
them." 
J. LITCH. 
DIED, at Middletown, Ct., Feb. 19th, 1850, ISAAC 
AVERELL, aged 59 years. Bro. Averell made a pro-
fession of faith in Christ at the age of twenty-five, 
and connected himself with the Methodist church, 
and was soon made a class-leader. For a number of 
years he was somewhat distinguished for piety and 
zeal in the church with which he was connected.—
During the latter part of his connection with that 
body, he had become dissatisfied with the decline of 
godliness around him, and with the pride and fashion 
that had crept into the church, driving away its for-
mer humility and simplicity. It was while mourning 
over this state of things, that he heard Brn. Miller 
and Himes present the evidences of the speedy com-
ing of Christ, and was brought to embrace the doc-
trine of the Second Advent. This was in the begin-
ning of the year 1843, in New York, where he then 
lived. His house was ever a welcome home to all 
the faithful servants of Christ. The reception of the 
Advent doctrine greatly revived him; as he expressed 
it, it was just what he needed, and placed him upon 
his feet again. He embraced the truth in the love of 
it, and became a consistent believer, and a bright and 
shining light till his death. For the last two years, 
in consequence oh a disease of the optic nerves, he 
Was totally blind, which, added to the asthma with 
which he was troubled, rendered him an object of 
deep affliction. His last sickness was very distress-
ing, being congestion of the lungs and bleeding. But 
in all his affliction, he was never heard to murmur or 
complain—he was a perfect example of patience and 
resignation. It can be truly said of him, that in life 
he was cheerful and pleasant; as a neighbor; kind 
and obliging; as a Christian, zealous, humble, and 
devoted ; as a husband, tender and affectionate ; as a 
father, kind and indulgent ; and in death he was 
peaceful and happy. He leaves a kind and affection-
ate wife, and five obedient, loving children, who 
deeply mourn this affliction. Sister Averell desires 
the prayers of all God's waiting children, that this 
bereavement may be sanctified to her and heechil-
dren's spiritual and everlasting good 
" Christ hath redeemed 
us from the curse." 
The world to come, 
wherein the righteous 
shall dwell. If there is 
to be a millennium pre-
vious to this habitable 
world to come, it must be 
under the curse ; and if 
the objection that the 
saints cannot reign with 
Christ a thousand years 
unless there are mortal 
men to reign over, is 
good, then they cannot 
" reign forever and ever" 
without them, and we 
must have mortal men 
where " there shall be no 
more death " ! ! 
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Bro. Ira Wyman will preach at Chataugay, N. Y., March 16, and 
continue over the Sabbath ; Bangor, 18 ; Dickerson, 19 ; Brasar 
Falls, 20 ; Messina, 21 ; Messina, Sabbath, 24. 
Bro. R. V. Lyon will preach in Chicopee Falls, Mass., March 23, 
and remain over the Sabbath. 
Bro. N. Billings will preach in Marlboro' the first Sabbath in April, 
Essex, the second, and Rye Beach the third. 
Bro. S. Fletcher will preach in Abington (at Bro. Jackson's) Sab-
bath, 17th. 
Bro. H. H. Gross will preach in the Court House at Balston Spa, 
Sabbath, March 31st, at 10 A. Si., and I and 7 P. M. 
There will be a conference in the Tabernacle, North Scituate, R. 
I., Wednesday evening, March 20th, and continue over the Sabbath. 
Brn. J. Turner and W. Pratt are expected to be present.. The breth-
ren in the surrounding vicinity are earnestly invited to attend. (For 
the brethren.) 
H. W. PRAY. 
Bro. N. Hervey will preach at Newton Upper Falls third Sabbath 
in March. 
Bro. A. Brown will preach in Hawley Sunday, tarch 10th ; 
Cheshire, 11th ; South Adams, 12th •; North Adams, 13th ; Pownal, 
Vt., 14th ; Ciambridge, N. Y., 15th ; Hebron, Sunday, 17th-each at 
7P. m., except Sundays, when he will inquire for letters. 
Bro F. H. Berick will preach in Marlboro', Mass., the third Sunday 
in March. 
There will be a conference at Great Barrington, Mass. (on the 
Housatonic Railroad, about 20 miles south of Pittsfield,) Wednesday 
evening, March 27th, to continue over the Sabbath. K. S. HAsT-
Isis, H. L. HASTINGS. 
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BUSINESS CARDS. 
DELINQUENTS. 
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B. Golden, of Jeffersonville, Ind., owes ........ 5 50 
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Geo. Stearns stops his paper, owing 
.. 2 5(1 
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 1 20 
Total deliumiences since Jan. 1st, 1850 
 21 70 
Foreign News. 
THE British steamship Canada arrived at New York on Mondays 
last, bringing news from the Oki World two weeks later than tha 
contained in mit-issue of the 2d Inst. 
In England, nothing of special importance has occurred, although 
Government is steadily bringing forward measures of a liberal ten-
dency, which cannot fail to result in the good of the people. 
The accounts from Ireland are of a less sombre hue than usual. 
There is quite a perceptible revival of the spirit of industry and en-
terrprise among all classes of the people, who evince a disposition to 
shake off the apathy, which a long period of suffering had thrown 
over them, and to do something to extricate themselves. In evi: 
dence of this encouraging state of things, Lord John Russell stated 
in the House of Commons, that during the four months ending Jan. 
5th, 1850, there had been a decrease in the expenditure on Irish pau-
perism of £188,000 ; and that during the last year the number of pau-
pers receiving out-door relief diminished from 557,281 to 118,940. 
The French Government, it is said, contemplates dividing all 
France into four military divisions, each of which to be commanded 
by a General, who shall have power to declare a state of siege at any 
moment. This measure is evidently designed to put a speedy end to 
any revolutionary movement on the part of the people, if they should 
presumptuously suppose they have any social or political-rights. The 
report of this measure caused much excitement and conversation. 
A letter from Marseilles, of Feb. 7th, says that there Was great agi-
tation in that city, and throughout the whole department. The 
troops had received orders to be ready for action, in consequence of 
a report being circulated, that the Red Republicans had formed a 
plot to take the arsenal and the prefecture by surprise. But it was 
discovered in time for full precautions to be taken. 
In Paris, the Socialists are displaying the greatest activity, with a 
view to the approaching elections. 
The French Government proceeds steadily in its work of sup-
pressing the last vestige of the rights of the people. The press is 
fettered, and those who would avail themselves of its privileges, are 
fined and imprisoned. It would seem as if there were a fatality in 
every movement of the despots of Europe, who despise, apparently, 
the examples afforded them in the past. 
ITALY.-The Pope has not yet returned to Rome. though it was 
announced that he would set out for that place on the 13th ult. His 
loving subjects manifest but very little regret at his prolonged ab-
sence, though they probably would suffer less under his immediate 
eye, than they now do under the tyranny of the cardinals and priests. 
The carnival at Rome was a dull affair, the people having resolved 
to make it a mournful, instead of a gay ceremony. On the 9th ult., 
however, the Corso was suddenly invaded by a prticession of per-
sons, who shouted, " Vive la Republica !" (that day being the anni-
versary of the proclamation of the Roman Republic,) and before the 
police and military force could arrest them, they disappeared as sud-
denly as they had come. In the evening, the Como being still filled 
with citizens, soldiers, and sbirri, tri-colored Bengal fire was let off 
on all sides. The military wanted to stop the seditious fires, but the 
people prevented them. 
Prussia has made a formal demand on the Government of Switz-
erland for the expulsion of all foreign refugees from its territory. A 
compliance with the demand was promised, but some of the canton-
ments declare that no such tyrannical measure shall be carried out. 
All Germany resembles a camp. The National Assembly of Frank-
fort has decreed that the governments should carry the armed Ger-
manic force up to 900,000 men. The princes who had refused to 
obey the resolutions of the Assembly, had executed this with great 
zeal. The consequence is, that it is not Austria alone which has an 
imposing force under arms, but all other countries of Germany, es-
pecially Prussia and Bavaria. 
A decree has been published at Berlin, for the German Parliament 
to meet at Erfurt on the 20th of March. It is generally understood, 
that should Prussia attempt to enforce the decrees of the Parliament 
on any part of the States, they will be protected by Austria. Belief 
of this had gained strength from the fact, that Prussia had demanded 
an extraordinary credit of 1S,000,000 thalers, and that Austria was 
concentrating troops on the Bohemian frontier. 
Stephen GEORGEY, the brother of the traitor, ARTHUR GEORGEY, 
has been forced to enter the Austrian service as a private soldier. 
An Austrian fleet was preparing to set sail for Greece, to oppose, 
it is said, the English Admiral. The Austrian minister at Athens 
had orders to act in concert with the Russian charge. 
The people of Hungary are beginning to express their feelings of 
hatred towards their oppressors. 
Vs The sentence of death passed on twenty-three Hungarian officers 
on the 26th of January, has been commuted by Gen. AAYNAU to 
terms of imprisonment in irons, varying from fifteen to five years. 
A Cracow newspaper announces a dreadful conflagration at the 
salt mines in Bochnia, in Gallicia. Many lives had been lost, and all 
the shafts were hermetically closed, in order to extinguish the fire 
below. These mines are of great pecuniary importance to Austria. 
There has been a destructive inundation in Hungary. In Presburg 
the water attained a greater height than was ever known before ; 
the whole city and environs presented one vast sheet of water. The 
streets were traversed by boats. 
The Russian troops in the Danubian provinces, had received or-
ders from St. Petersburgh to retire from those principalities on the 
20th ult., with the exception of a garrison of 10,000 men, with thirty 
pieces of cannon. 
Russia and Austrfa have protested against the Constitution lately 
adopted by Prussia. But the latter is firm, and is warmly supported 
by all classes. 
Tht Hungarian refugees in Turkey have been sent into the Adriatic 
provinces. 
The recent attempt to assassinate KossuTH is being investigated 
by the Turkish government. 
Austria had not yet resumed diplomatic relations with the Porte. 
The last news from Constantinople reports, that apprehensions ex-
isted' there that the English demonstration against Greece would di-
vide the efforts of France and England in the Turco-Russian affair. 
GREECE.-The mediation of France in the difficulty between Eng-
land and Greece has been accepted by the former. But it is thought, 
that if England does not moderate her demands, reconciliation will 
be impossible, as the ministers of OTHO are unanimous in their sup-
port of him in refusing to comply with the demands made on him. 
In the meanwhile, Admiral PARKER continues his blockade along 
the whole coast with unabated vigor. Several Greek steamers and 
small vessels of war, together with a host of merchantmen, have 
been seized, and sent to Malta, Corfu, and other stations. Most peo-
ple in England look on this blockade as a demonstration against Rus-
sia, with a view of checking the Emperor's operations against Tur-
key. If so, it has been a failure. 
CHINA.-The Chinese were attempting, in violation of their treaty, 
to raise their duty on tea a half-penny per pound. This movement 
is resisted. The pirates have been effectually put down. 
The U. S. Marshal for the eastern district of Louisiana, has ad-
vertised to sell at public sale in New Orleans four hundred and 
ninety-three slaves, of both sexes and all ages. Among the number 
is one old man named " Sampson," aged 111 years. 
While a little daughter of Mr. A. Monet, of Cincinnati, was kneel-
ing down to pray, a large needle, with a thread attached, penetrated 
its entire length into her knee. 
E. C. Judson, alias Ned Buntline, sentenced to one year's imprison-
ment on Blackwell's Island, for being concerned in the Astor Place 
riot, has been pardoned by the Governor of New York. 
Mr. Lewis, whom we last week stated had been arrested in Graf-
ton, N. Y., on a charge of murder, at the moment he was to be or-
dained as a Baptist minister, has been discharged. The warrant for 
his arrest is said to have been obtained maliciously. 
In the House of Delegates of the Virginia Legislature, recently, 
$30,000 per annum for five years were appropriated, for the removal 
of free persons of color from the State. 
Dr. Hatch, of Montville, Me., has been committed to jail, charged 
with stealing the body of a lady who was buried on Saturday in that 
town. The body was found under a cooper's shop, shockingly man-
gled. He acknowledges the deed, and says his object was to obi air 
the body for surgical purposes. 
Col. May, who distinguished himself in the Mexican war, is not 
dead, as was reported. It was Capt. Thomas C. May, formerly of 
Pittsburgh. 
A telegraphic dispatch was received in this city on the 6th inst., 
from R. R. Custer, president of the Central Rail-road Banking Com-
pany, Savannah, Ga., dated the 4th inst., stating that $100,000 of the 
notes of that institution had been stolen. A reward of five thousand 
dollars is offered for the recovery of the money and the arrest of the 
thief. 
THE ADVENT HERALD. 
This paper having now been published since March, 1840, the ten 
years of its past existence are a sufficient guaranty of its ffiture 
course, while it may be needed as a chronicler of the signs of the 
times, and an exponent of prophecy 
The object of this periodical is to discuss the great question of the 
age in which we live-The near approach of the Fifth Universal 
Monarchy ; in which the kingdom under the whole heaven shall be 
given to the saints of the Most High, for an everlasting possession. 
Also to take note of such passing events as mark the present time ; 
and to hold up before all men a faithful and affectionate warning to 
flee from the wrath to come. 
The course we have marked out for the future, is to give in the 
columns of the Herald-1. The best thoughts from the pens oft origi- 
nal writers, illustrative of the prophecies. 2. Judicious selections 
from the best authors extant, of an instructive and practical nature. 
3. A well selected summary of foreign and domestic intelligence, 
and 4. A department for correspondents, where, from the familiar 
letters of those who have the good of the cause at hearts we may 
learn the state of its prosperity in different sections of the country. 
The principles prominently presented, will be those unanimously 
adopted by the " Mutual General Conference of Adventists," held at 
Albany, N. Y., April 29, 1845 ; and which are in brief- 
The Regeneration of this earth by Fire, and its Restoration to 
its Eden beauty. 
The Personal Advent of CHRIST at the commencement of the 
Millennium. 
His Judgment of the Quick, and Dead at his Appearing and 
Kingdom. 
IBS Reign on the Earth over the Nations of the Redeemed. 
The Resurrection of those who Sleep in Jesus, and the Change 
of the Living Saints, at the Advent. 
The Destruction of the Living Wicked from the Earth at that 
event, and their confinement under chains of darkness till the Sec-
ond Resurrection. 
Their Resurrection and Judgment, at the end of the Millen-
nium, and consignment to everlasting punishment. 
The bestowment of Immortality, (in the Scriptural, and not 
the secular use of this word,) through CHRIST, at the Resurrection. 
The New Earths the Eternal Residence of the Redeemed. 
We are living in the space of time between the sixth and sev 
enth trumpets, denominated by the angel " QUICKLY :" "The sec- 
ond woe is past ; and behold the third woe cometh quickly"-Rev. 
11:14-the time in which we may look for the crowning consumma-
tion of the prophetic declarations. 
These views we propose to sustain by the harmony and letter of 
the inspired Word, the faith of the primitive church, the fulfilment 
of prophecy in history, and the aspects of the future. We shall en-
deavor, by the Divine help, to present evidence, and answer objec-
tions, and meet the difficulties of candid inquiry, in a manner becom-
ing the questions we discuss ; and so as to approve ourselves to 
every man's conscience in the sight of Gan. 
These are great practical questions. If indeed the Kingdom of 
GOD IS at hand, it becometh all Christians to make efforts for re- 
newed exertions, during the little time allotted them for labor in the 
Master's service It becometh them also to examine the Scriptures 
of truth, to see if these things are so. What saith the Scriptures? 
Let them speak ; and let us reverently listen to their enunciations. 
LIFE AND WRITINGS OF WILLIAM MILLER. 
THE extraordinary interest which has been created on the subject 
of the Second Coming of CHRIST, by the preaching and writings of 
Mr. MILLER, demands that a more full and correct view of his char-
acter and labors should be given to the world. This we purpose to 
do by giving- 
An Account of his Life and Mission. 
His Lectures on the Prophecies relating to the Second Coming 
of CHRIST and the Millennium. 
His Addresses, Reviews, and select articles on various theo-
logical subjects. 
His Letters, Poetry, &c. 
Since his death, we have examined his unpublished papers, and 
find some valuable articles. These, with a large number of letters, 
reviews, and addresses, which have been published in the Advent 
Herald during the last ten years, cannot fail to interest his numerous 
friends and the public. We intend to make a collection of all that 
is valuable from the productions of his able pen. Such a work will 
be a treasure to Adventists, and a bulwark of defence to the cause. 
We shall proceed to make immediate arrangements for the publi-
cation of this work. It will require some little time to prepare the 
first part, containing his life. When this is done, it will be issued in 
numbers of fifty pages, or more, as often as we can get them out, 
say once or twice a month. The first number will contain a splen-
did mezzotinto likeness, by J. SARTAIN, of Philadelphia. These 
numbers can be sent by mail to any part of the country ; and when 
finished, can be bound in volumes. The number of pages each num-
ber will contain, and the price, we cannot now state. Perhaps the 
price will be 20 or 25 cts. each number. Due notice will be given. 
In regard to the specific time of the Advent, this work will not, of 
course, produce the same effect as thq produced by the previously 
published writings of Mr. MILLER. But we have before our eyes, in 
the church and world, the most stirring movements, which can be 
indicative of nothing but the speedy coming kingdom. The great 
crisis is evidently at hand, when all the glorious things for which we 
have been looking will be realized. 
We wish agents to obtain subscriptions for the work. They will 
lie allowed 25 per cent. discount. No money will be required to be 
Paid, to us or our agents, until the delivery of each No. We hope 
those who feel interested in this work, will inform us how many 
copies they will take, and they will be furnished accordingly. 
Nothing here need be said of the great importance of Mr. MIL-
LER'S writings to the Advent cause-all Adventists are well aware 
of it. What the friends have done in time past, we confidently hope 
will be now followed by similar effort. Let us all, therefore, unite 
in the re-publication and diffusion of the writings of one whom GOD 
was pleased to raise up to perform a most important work,-to 
sound the alarm, thatmen might be prepared for the coming Bride- 
groom. 
JOSHUA V. Hams. 
Boston, Jan. 1850. 
Path-finder and Railway Guide, and Snow's Boston Monthly 
Express List-two pocket monthlies from the Path-finder office-
are received for March, 1850. Each succeeding number is cor-
rected, and thus far has valuable additional information. 
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From the " London Lancet." 
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Indian Restorative Bitters, Nos. 1 and 2, and Spike-
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SUMMARY. 
Since our last, the steamers Empire City and Cherokee have ar-
rived at New York, from Chagres, bringing a number of passengers 
and a large amount of gold. The news from California is interesting. 
The papers contain a detailed account of the late inundation of Sa-
cramento city and vicinity. The damage done was immense. It 
was anticipated, however, that when the water should retire, gold 
would be found to have been laid open inthe channels formed by the 
mountain torrent ; indeed, much had already been found where bars 
had been formed by the streams. 
Several shocks of an earthquake were felt at San Francisco on the 
16th of January. 
Wm. H. Lambdin, master and owner of a schooner from Wil-
mington, Delaware, has been arrested at Norfolk for trying to sell 
three likely blacks, the crew of his vessel, with whom he sailed from 
Philadelphia Feb. 5th, on an alleged oyster excursion.