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fore most easily detected shape—viz., in posi- plc, that by the volition of the will he can 
tive rejection of Christianity ; this is vulgar in- move his arm up or down, right or left, just as 
fidelity, according to which the Bible is a fable, he pleases. Can you, for instance, explain this 
and Christ crucified folly. It gazes on the wonderful. mystery—that Thought—a thing 
Christian firmament, and sees no sun or stars ; which cannot be detected, which the chemist 
or on the earth, the ocean, and the forest, and cannot analyze, which the anatomist cannot 
the landscape, and sees in none of these the hold on his scalpel, which you cannot touch, 
footprints of Deity as upon the sands of time : .iveigh, or measure—that this imponderable, and 
or 'in its more recent, and perhaps perilous intangible, and mysterious thing, Thought, ca" 
formula, American and German Pantheism, it make all the nerves and muscles of the hand 
rushes to the opposite pole, and sees everything cross and intertwine, without delay, in any di-
so overflowing with Deity that it calls the proof rection it may prescribe ; or how it can move 
of God's existence God, and everything part all the fingers of the hand upon the keys of a 
and parcel of God. It is thus that the Panthe- piano-forte, or on the strings of a violin, with 
ist, in his blasphemy, undesignedly praises such amazing precision, that it is the nearest 
God, by acknowledging everything a vessel possible approach to a miracle ! Can you corn-
full of Divinity. But in all its shapes, extrava- prehend this mystery ? And will you tell me 
gances, and pretensions, its air is that of the you cannot receive the truths of the Bible be-
dungeon—its dogmas, icicles—its element, the cause you cannot comprehend them, while you 
night—and its doom, dissolution before that receive many equally as incomprehensible 
warm tide of light and life which shall overflow things in every-day life ? It will be quite time 
the earth. �
enough to reject God's word, or its doctrines, 
This unbelief developes itself also in .practi- because they are incomprehensible, when you 
cal unbelief, combined with theoretical accept- have rejected everything in creation, and every 
ance of every truth. Such persons profess to day's experience, because it is no less so. 
believe every truth of Christianity ; they assail �
Another form of this unbelief is—the dis- 
nothing, they dispute nothing; they are mar- like of a simplet spiritual worship. I do not 
ried, and their children are baptized according wonder that so many people become Roman 
to the rites of Christianity ; they enter the 
sanctuary full of apathy, and they retire,Catholics, nor is it any matter of surprise to 
hay- -me that s6 many clergymen have become 
ing lost none of it. These are the most un- priests. My only surprise is, that every unre-
manageable of all persons ; they are not to be generate and unconverted man does not become 
laid �
of—there is no handle about them ; a Roman Catholic ; and I declare, if I were 
they present perfectly smooth surfaces, and all not a Christian, I would become a Catholic my-
water-fowl.
appeals glide off, like water off the wing of a , 
One longs to hear them contra- side of the street, and procure absolution on 
form ,of religion. You can sin on tine 
self. It is an externally beautiful and conve-
nient
diet, or dispute, or deny, but they are incapable 
of this; and yet if you say they are unbeliev- the other; its ritual services are fascinating to 
ens, they will repeat the Apostle's Creed, and 
the Ten Commandments, without a single the senses, its incense fragrant to the smell, its 
omission. But the Gospel has no hold of their music attractive to the ear, its architecture 
most gorgeous,. its ceremonial grand, its robes 
hearts, no control over their affections—no echo splendid, If you are poor, your poverty will 
in their conscience—its great voice has no mu- 
sic f ir their ear, and its sublime hones no get you to heaven ; if you are rich, your riches 
will help you to heaven ; if you are fond of 
attraction ; they remain just what they would solitude, you may meritoriously retire to the 
be if Christianity never had been proclaimed in cell or the convent; if you prefer splendid so-
eietv, you can mingle with cardinals, popes, 
so-
the world. On them it has left no evidence of its 
presence. Disguise it as they like, they are prelates, and other high occupants of power. I 
unbelievers. �
confess, I wonder that every unconverted man 
There is another class, who like much in the is not allured and charmed into becoming a 
Bible, and are mightily pleased with a great Catholic. But it is impossible that any man 
deal of its theology, and so far think it in- who knows what spiritual Christianity is—in 
spired. But there are certain parts they do whose heart there are throbs of the new life—
not like—great exceptions, they think ; and should ever become a Roman Catholic. He 
they insist on it, that their acceptance of the knows in his heart, not by information, but by 
Gospel of St. John does not imply their belief in-wrought and sensible experience, that " God 
in the Pentateuch, or their reception of the is a Spirit, and that they who worship him 
Apocalypse. They want, as they say, to weed must worship him in spirit and in truth." It 
the Bible ; that is, really and truly, to make is their merely outside Christianity that ex-
their taste, or 'convenience. or conscience, the plains the fact, that many of our people, our 
Procrustes bed to which the Bible is to be fit- Scottish people, when they come to London, 
ted. These seem to forget, that if this be ad- are the first to follow the attractions of a more 
mined, every transgressor will fit the Bible to ritual worship; and not unfrequently, they 
his case ; and when each has cut off from the who have been the most staunch supporters of 
Bible what he dislikes, or what rebukes his a severe but Scriptural form. have subsequently 
sin, there will be found a very small residue of become the most outre Tractarians. So it will 
influential or useful matter. This cannot be. be: the most unsanctified must have elaborate 
We must receive the whole Bible, or none of gratification of the senses. But the spiritual 
it. �
It is God's truth, or Satan's lie—it is noth- heart, while it is delighted with the best music, 
ing between. It all rests on one basis ; it as- the best architecture, and the best formS, pro-
smiles for all the same original ; it is the high- vided there is no interruption to that true spi. 
est truth, or the greatest blasphemy ; it must ritual worship which seems to me to be the 
remain unit-imitated and unaltered. Our life grandest worship, feels that God himself, arid 
must be brought up to its pitch—in short, we God's word, and God's worship, need but to be 
must be evangelical Christians, or cold sceptics. seen just as they are, to be presented in their 
They, too, evince this spirit of unbelief, who ereatest beauty. Such is another instance, 
reject particular truths of Christianity, because then, of this unbelief. It also robes itself in 
they cannot comprehend them. Some reject pride and presumption, rushing irreverently 
the Atonement and Incarnation, because they where angels veil their faces ; or if not, it falls 
cannot comprehend them; forgetting that they into despair. The eye of pride scarcely sees 
receive as facts and truths a thousand things God at all; the eye of presumption looks at 
in this world which they cannot comprehend. his mercy alone ; the eye of despair, at his 
Every man acts, for instance, upon the princi- justice alone. 
I must now notice unbelief in its special at-
titude of departing from the living God. God 
was, and is now, the great Centre of the uni-
verse; and before sin was introduced into this 
universe, everything—every living and ir:an-
mate thing (if I may use the expression) had 
tile Deity for its centre of attraction. Every-
thing came from God ; everything moved on-
ward to God, and found in Him its repose, its 
happiness, its peace. Sin entered the world, 
and smote all the springs of things; and every-
thing has since this intrusion received a centrifu-
gal tendency. At first all things were centripe-
tal, that is, seeking the centre; now all are 
centrifugal, that is, flying from the centre ; and 
every object, therefore, which once carried roan 
to God, now, through sin in it and in man, car-
ries him from God ; or he rests in the object, 
instead of upon God, or he has gone with the 
object to a distance from God. If man had 
never fallen, the rich man would have been led 
by his wealth up to Him who is enthroned on 
the riches of the universe; and the man of 
great intellect would have been led by that in-
tellect to seek more and more for light to ena-
ble him to decipher the inscriptions upon all 
things written by God's finger, and thus to be 
brought nearer and nearer to God ; and the 
man of great rank would have felt his station 
but the reflection of the dignity of God, and 
have Seen God in it, and by it ;—now all these 
things, through man's sin, carry him away 
from God, or become to him substitutes for 
God. The wealthy worship their wealth ; the 
intellectual worship intellect; the great worship 
greatness ; and all things, smitten by sin, have 
lost their original centripetal tendency, and by 
their acquired centrifugal force carry all they 
are and have away from God, or plunge man 
into departure from the living and true God. 
Now the great tendency of the Gospel is Piet 
the reverse of all this : it brings man back 
again to God. All religion lies in this : " near-
ness to God." All irreligion, whatever be its 
shape, name, or form, lies in this : " departure 
from God." 
To be with, or to approach to God, is real re-
ligion ; to be with God, is happiness ; and to 
be in God, is safety. To depart from God, this 
is sin ; to be without God, this is irreligion and 
misery. We approach God on the wings of 
faith and love : we depart from God by the 
leaden weights of unbelief, sensuality, and sin. 
And strange it. is that man, though he thus de-
parts from the living and true God, yet ceases 
not to have a god. There is no such thing as 
atheism in the world : there may be atheism, 
certainly, in the sense of being without the 
true and living God ; but there is no such thing 
as atheism in the sense of being without a 
god. As soon as a man has lost the living 
God, that moment he begins to set up a dead 
god. And is not this attested by the history of 
the whole world ? Athens, though without the 
true God, was yet not without a god; for she 
had her Minerva. Rome, too, could not do 
without a god, and therefore she had her Mars. 
The Romanist, having lost the. true God by the 
intervention of priestly darkness and corrup-
tions, cannot do without his god, and therefore 
he adores the saints, his guardian angel, the 
host, &c. 
The rich irreligious man, too, has Ms god. 
True, he may not bow his body before it 
—that is a mere form ; he may not speak 
the very words, " 0, save me, my wealth !" 
that is mere lip ; but his heart bows, his heart 
speaks : it is the heart that worships ; and the 
heart of that wealthy man really says to his 
gold, " Gold, thou art my god !—I worship and 
adore thee !" That which a man draws his 
main happiness from, is his god ; and whenever 
he loses the living God, he must have another 
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The Gospel Echo. 
True faith, producing love to God in man, 
Say, echo, is not this the Gospel plan ? 
Echo—The Gospel plan ! 
Must I my faith in Jesus constant show, 
By doing good to all, both friend and foe? 
Echo—Both friend and foe. 
When men conspire to hate and treat me ill, 
Must I return them good, and love them still ? 
Echo—And love them still ! 
If they my fillings causeless l9 reveal, 
Must I their faults as carefully conceal ? 
Echo—As carefully conceal ! 
But if my name and character they tear, 
And cruel malice, too, too plain appear ; 
And when I sorrow, and affliction know, 
They smile, and add unto my cup of woe, 
Say, echo, say, in such peculiar case, 
Must 1 continue still to love and bless ? 
Edho—Still to love and bless ! 
Why, echo, how is that? thnu'rt sure a dove ; 
Thy voice will leave me nothing else but love ! 
Echo—Nothing else but love! 
Amen, with all my heart, then be it so! 
And now to practice I'll directly go. 
Echo—Directly go! 
The path be mine, and let who will reject. 
My gracious God me surely will protect ! 
Echo—Surely will protect! 
Henceforth on Him I'll cast my every care, 
And friends and foes embrace ahem all in prayer. 
Echo—Embrace them all in prayer. 
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It shows itself in the least subtle, and there- 
The Unbelieving, 
EY REY. JOHN CUMMINO, D. D. 
it Rut the fearful, and unbelieving, and the abominable, and mur-
derers, and whoremongers, and sorcerers, and idolaters, and all li-
ars, shall have their part in the lake which burneth with fire and 
brimstone : which is the second death."—Ray. 21:8. 
I SELECT unbelief as the root and fountain to 
which all other sins are traced in Scripture.—
Unbelief prevented the entrance of the Israel-
ites into Canaan. Paul, as one who was taught 
its heinousness by the Holy Spirit of God, ad-
dresses his Hebrew converts thus,—" Take 
heed, lest there be in any of you an evil heart 
of unbelief in departing from the living God." 
It is a heart disease. Disease in the finger, 
the eve, the ear, is not fatal ; but disease at the 
heart is not only fatal itself, but morally it is 
the prolific parent of the dark progeny enume-
rated in this verse. 
It has been made matter of complaint by per-
sons of a sceptical mind, that heaven and hell 
should be made contingent on belief or unbe-
lief; as if mere belief were the highest virtue, 
and want of it the greatest sin. Faith in Scrip-
ture, however, is not mere intellectual credence, 
it is, properly, confidence in God, or accepting 
His truth and promises, and all He is, as real, 
and placing implicit and unwavering con-
fidence in His word, more than in the works of 
men. Is it no injury to human institutions to 
be denuded of all confidence ? What becomes 
of a bank, or insurance office, if confidence in 
their stability and substance be removed ?— 
Ruin lights on all. �
Destroy confidence be- 
tween husband and wife, patient and physician, 
client and lawyer, and you paralyze every pos-
sibility of good. Exhaust from our social and 
commercial world all confidence, and you will 
soon find the whole sysk m a rope of sand, des-
titute of cohesive power, and ready t.) fall to 
pieces. 
This unbelief, or, as I have called it, want of 
confidence, while it is so mischievous, is at the 
same time the most subtle, evasive, and secret. 
It lurks under the affections like a caterpillar 
amid leaves, or a worm in a rosebud, and 
gnaws and wastes them. Other sins are ea-
sily seen—i.: is not so ; but its existence can 
be detected by its effects—it always developes 
itself—the sins, in fact, in this very verse, ex-
le from it, and appear upon the surface. 
astonishment at the prevalency of prayer, the 
power of faith, the virtue of Jesus' name, and 
the greatness of God's love. Yes, say they, 
" He who so loved us as to give his Son for us, 
has given us again. our Dorcas, and now we 
who sowed in tears reap in joy." The wondrous 
tidings were circulated through the city, and 
many believed in the Lord." 
The life of Dorcas was beneficial, but her 
death and resuscitation were much more Sc).
. 
If we strive to honor God in lowly paths, we 
know not what dignity he may conifer upon us : 
but if we refuse to labor for him, unless we can 
do something which appears great in the eyes 
of men, we despise him, and shall be lightly 
esteemed. 
Peter is gone, we have no workers of mira-
cles among us to bring back our loved ones 
from the arms of death ; but Jesus lives, he 
lives to quicken and comfort our souls, and he 
is able even by our instrumentality to raise up 
many from the death of sin, and render them, 
like Dorcas, ornaments to the Chusch, and 
benefactresses to the world. Who would riot 
labor for such a friend ! 
The Three Gardens. 
Sweet associations are connected with a gar-
den, although it be but the little plot in front of 
some humble, rural dwelling. It was remarked 
by one not unskilled in reading character, that 
there must be some goodness in the nature of 
him who would turn aside to delight in a flower; 
and there is certainly something akin to holi-
ness in the pure pleasure which the contempla-
tion of a blossoming garden brings to man, 
When the earth puts on her mantle of' green, 
and crowns herself with clustering roses, the 
mind naturally reverts to Him who formed the 
tender petals, painted them with delicately-
shaded hues, and breathed into the rose's heart 
its mysterious fragrance. We feel that God 
was good in not only providing the herb bear-
ing seed, and the tree yieldiug fruit, but in 
beautifying man's dwelling-place with the 
bloom and loveliness of flowers. When God 
had created man, with everything that was 
necessary for his sustenance and enjoyment, 
Scripture tells us that " He planted a garden 
eastward in Eden, and there put the man whom 
He had formed." 
-We are further told, that 
" Out of the ground the Lord made to grow 
every tree that is pleasant to the sight, and 
good for food ; and that a river went out of 
Eden to water the garden." Throughout the 
Old Testament, whenever the inspired writers 
would convey an idea of the beauty or desira-
bleness of a locality, they speak of it as a 
" watered garden," or " a garden by the rivers 
of water." So that God undoubtedly surrounded 
our first parents with .all those beauties of 
natural scenery, which give pleasure to the eye, 
and regale the senses. The birds of the air, 
and the beasts of the field, offered their tribute 
of willing obedience ; and no sound of discord 
rose upon the balmy air. In Eden's beautiful 
garden, so lavishly furnished with all that could 
contribute to the pure happiness of man, God 
placed the two beings he had formed, with but 
one restriction upon their unbounded liberty, 
and that,not militating in the least degree against 
their welfare or enjoyment. The fatal con-
sequences of infringing this restriction were 
set before them ; but in defiance of God's 
threats and prohibitions, they rebelled against 
His authority, and trampled upon His corn-
mands. The trusting confidence of love gave 
way in their hearts to the guilty fear of retribu-
tion ; and from that moment a cloud of moral 
darkness settled upon the world. The scene of 
their transgression—the garden—was also the 
scene of their solemn trial and condemnation. 
There, amid the cool walks arid pleasant shade, 
with a carpet of yerdue beneath their feet, and 
the pure blue sky above them,—with everything 
around to remind them of the bountiful good-
ness of Him who created them, and with every-
thing within to fill them with apprehension and 
dismay, they heard the voice of the Lord God 
calling unto Adam, " Where art thou ?" Then 
followed the judicial trial, with " the everlasting 
hills " as witnessses. Then were uttered the 
evasive attempts at extenuation on the part of 
man ; and then were thundered forth the crush-
ing, overwhelming denunciations of wrath on 
the part of God. But in the midst of His wrath 
He remembered mercy; and while yet the 
words of doom fell with horror upon their souls, 
one ray of hope glanced through the darkness, 
and a promise dimly shadowed forth, caused 
them to pierce into futurity, and to feel that the 
bitterest part of the threatened penalty had 
been averted,—there was still hope left for the 
soul of man. And Adam and Eve went weeping 
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god in his stead, because man's soul was made 
to be a shrine and temple of the Deity. You 
may as well try to produce a vacuum that %YIN 
be pnananently so in •the midst of our atmos-
phere, as to produce a moral vacuum in a man's 
mind, that is to expel all religion. He must 
have a god within : some other god he must 
have, if he depart from the living God : he de-
serts a great, glorious, eternal, omniscient, and 
omnipotent God, but he is not therefore with-
out a god, he admits another—an idol. 
And you will find, that just in proportion as 
a man departs from the true God, in the same 
ratio does the g.d he makes become monstrous 
and. degrading : there is a progressive descent. 
Take, for instance, the first departure from the 
living God—the poor, superstitious member of 
the Church of Rome. The moment he has 
lost the true God, our Father, that moment he 
begins to project from himself a god, or to form 
a god out of his own dark, superstitious mind; 
and that god a very terrible and vindictive one. 
He lacerates his flesh, mutilates his body, pines 
in poverty, lives in solitude, wretchedness, 
cold, and hunger; wears a painful dress; and 
all this he does in order to propitiate a god that 
he has made for himself. Just as if you go, 
while the bright sun shines high in the firma-
ment, into those deep dens and caverns of the 
earth into which its rays never penetrate, you 
there find all sorts of poisonous and sickly 
weeds growing rankly up ; so, just in the same 
proportion as you depart from the sense and 
presence of the true God, do the poisonous 
weeds and offshoots of fanaticism and supersti-
tion grow and luxuriate in the heart of man. 
Let me explain what are the symptoms of this 
departure from God, this unbelief, this mother-
sin, and endeavor to speak what may be practi-
cal and profitable to you. And first there is 
the suspicion, whether God has actually spoken 
what the preacher proves unequivocally to be 
the word of God. Do you recollect the earliest 
commencement of Eve's departure from God ? 
this will afford you an illustration of what I 
mean. When Satan came to Eve, he did not 
dare to say, " God never said so, or pronounced 
this ;" but he put it in the shape of an interro- 
gation : " Hath God said so �
Are you quite 
sure that these were God's words ? May you 
not have mistaken his meaning ? May it not 
be a misapprehension of yours ?" And then 
again, he taught her to look at it in the light of 
expediency, as if he said. " Is it likely that 
God, who made so beautiful a being, Eve, as 
you are, would visit you with death merely !for 
touching a tree—that beautiful tree, the rich 
fruit of which diffuses so grateful a perfume 
through Eden, and the taste of which is you 
know not how sweet ? Is it possible ? do you 
not mistake ? have you no doubt ?" And she, 
thus tempted, looked upon the fruit, and saw it 
was fair to the eye, and pleasant to the senses ; 
and regarding its fruit as a fruit that would 
make her wise, (there was yielding to expedi-
ency !) plucked an apple, broke the command-
ment of God, and so brought death upon her-
self and all her posterity. 
Whenever a suspicion of the truth of God's 
declarations is injected into your minds, remem-
ber it is your only safety to resist, repel, and 
protest against it. Open the Bible : what you 
find plainly written there ; what you do not 
find there, reject as unessential.—( To be con-
tinued.) 
Dorcas, 
PATTERN FOR CHRISTIAN WOMEN. 
BY REV. JOHN COX, WOOLWICH, 
"Now there was at Joppa a certain disciple 
named Tabitha, which by interpretation is called 
Dorcas ; this woman was full of good works 
and alms deeds which she did. And it came 
to pass in those days, that she was sick, and 
died : whom when they had washed, they Lid 
her in an upper chamber. And forasmuch as 
Lydda was nigh to Joppa, and the disciples had 
heard that Peter was there, they sent unto him 
two men, desiring him that he would not delay 
to come to them. Then Peter arose and.went 
with them. When he was come, they brought 
him into an upper chamber : and all the widows 
stood by him weeping, and showing the coats 
and garments which Dorcas made, while she 
was with them. But Peter put them all forth, 
and kneeled down, and prayed : and turning 
him to the body said, Tabitha, arise. And she 
opened her eyes; and when she saw Peter, she 
sat up. And he gave her his hand, and lifted 
her up, and when he had called the saints and 
widows, he presented her alive. And it was 
known throughout all Joppa; and many believed 
ea the Lord."—Acts 9:36-42. 
It is very pleasing to read scripture biography, 
and it is very profitable to study prayerfully the 
characters therein portrayed. We may form a 
tolerably correct judgment as to what was the 
general habit and character by so doing, and 
thus learn what we should avoid, and what we 
should imitate. Thus, when we read of Mary 
" that she sat at Jesus' feet, and heard his 
words," we can but view her as a devout and 
contemplative believer. Martha, of whom it 
is said that she was " cumbered with much 
serving," we regard as very hospitable, though 
over anxious, and easily moved by trifles. Of 
Priscilla it is said, that she was able to instruct 
zealous Apollos " in the way of God more per-
fectly ;" and we feel sure that she was a woman 
deeply taught of God, and ready of speech, 
(not full of talk) but of that speech which is 
seasoned with salt." After reading the di-
vine testimony respecting Dorcas, we conceive 
of her as a quiet, unobtrusive, sympathetic, 
and laborious Christian ; one who wept over 
human misery, and labored to alleviate it. If 
Christian females have not all the gifts of Pris-
cilla, let them try and imitate Dorcas. It is a 
disgrace to be idle, or to spend precious time in 
trifling, while there is so much to do for God, 
while every spirit of evil is so industriously 
employed; and while souls are perishing on 
every side. Dr. Watts has a very cutting sar-
casm on such lovers of ease, which they would 
do well seriously to ponder. 
" There are a number of us creep 
Into this world to eat and sleep ; 
And know no reason why they're born, 
But merely to consume the corn, 
Devour the cattle, fowl, and fish, 
And leave behind an empty dish, 
Then if their tomb-stones when they die, 
Ben't taught to flatter and to lie ; 
There's nothing better will be said, 
Than that they've eat up all their bread, 
Drank up their drink and gone. to bed." 
Still let such remember, "that for all these 
things God will bring them into judgment." 
Dorcas was not such a trifler. She lived to 
some purpose, she was one of the redeemed 
and peculiar people who was zealous of good 
works. She had found salvation in Christ, 
and she felt a burning zeal for Christ. It may 
be profitable to meditate a short time upon her 
useful life—her lamented death—and her 
miraculous resurrection. 
Respecting her usefulness in life; we have 
it recorded by a pen which never flatters, " that 
she was full of good works and alms-deeds 
which she did." She not merely purposed and 
promised, but she did. 
She not only exhorted 
others, but she set them an example. Her good 
works arose out of Christian principle, she 
was a " disciple," that is a learner from, a be-
liever in, an imitator of that great Redeemer 
who gave himself for sinners. The love of 
Christ constrained her. She abode in him, 
and endeavored to walk as he walked. Her 
works were not occasional, performed just to 
satisfy conscience, or to escape the censure of 
others, to do good was her habit and delight. 
She was full of good works, she felt that to do 
good to others was the business of her life ; 
that she was new-born for this express purpose. 
Her head was full of plans ; her heart full of 
feeling; and her hands full of labor. �
She 
was often, no doubt, asking, " what can be 
done ?" " what can I do ?" " how may I induce 
others to assist me ?" 
But in the midst of her usefulness, death 
the stern messenger appears, and beckons her 
away. Would that he found all as well pre-
pared, and as well employed as was Dorcas. 
For her to live was Christ; to know him, love 
him, imitate him, and to die will be gain. She 
has nothing to fear, death cannot hurt her, for 
she is passed front death to life. All is peace 
within, for the blood of Christ is there. All is 
bright above, for the forerunner is waiting to 
receive her. All is glorious beyond the grave, 
for death shall soon be swallowed up in vic-
tory. 
But what an afflictive event is this for others ! 
While the sickness lasts, alternate hopes and 
fears fill the bosoms of those around her bed, 
but their worst fears are soon realized, she 
utters her last farewell—gives a parting exhor-
tation to be " always abounding in the work of 
the Lord," and then sweetly sleeps in Jesus. 
The standers by weep and wonder at the mys-
terious providence, and perhaps some who had 
been relieved by her bounty and industry said, 
" why are we left in our poverty, sickness, and 
helplessness, burdens to ourselves and others, 
and this useful woman taken away in the 
midst of her labors ?" Peace, peace ! troubled 
mourners, God is wise, and cannot do wrong; 
God is good, and will not act unkindly; God 
is a sovereign, and must not be dictated to. 
Conclude not hastily, speak not rashly, all will 
be made plain hereafter. Wait on the Lord ! 
May we not learn from the unexpected death 
of Dorcas, not to presume upon the certainity 
of life, whatever be our condition, relationship, 
or usefulness. Were God only to take those 
whom we think could be spared, others in the 
prime of life, and in the field .of usefulness, 
would think themselves secure, and would want 
the incentive to watchfulness and labor which 
they now possess. " I die daily," was the lan-
guage‘ of one whom the world or the church 
could ill spare. �
Oh, to have the lamp always 
trimmed, and the Lord's glory ever in view, 
that whether he come in the clouds of glory, 
or send death as his messenger, we may be 
found in him, near to his cross, and active in 
his work. 
After the honored dust of Dorcas was pre-
pared for the silent tomb, and while the mourners 
were sitting round, recalling her character and 
example to mind, a strange thought thrills 
through one or more of the company. It soon 
was uttered and attracted attention, "The name 
of Jesus is stronger than the arm of death ; 
that name has often robbed death of its prey ; 
one who wields its glorious energies is near at 
hand; who can tell but the Lord will be gracious 
unto us !" Hope was soon excited—earnest 
prayer was offered—messengers were des-
patched with all haste, and soon Peter stands 
among the group of mourners. What a scene 
met his eye ! There lay the beloved Dorcas, 
clasped in the embrace of death, round her 
silent clay stood those whose widowhood knew 
the solace of her sympathy; while down those 
furrows which grief and bereavement had 
ploughed on their countenances, the tears swiftly 
chased each other. They hold in tileir hands 
the garments which Dorcas had made for them, 
gifts now doubly dear, these are shown to 
Peter, and the imploring look says, " can we 
spare such an one ? 0, intreat God to give us 
back our benefactress, our friend, our pattern." 
This touching scene shows how much she was 
loved, it proves that the poor have gratitude, 
and that there is no monument like the testi-
mony, " I was naked and ye clothed me." 
Doubtless Peter was deeply affected by the 
scene, but he kindly and solemnly dismisses 
the weeping company. The tumultuous wail-
ing of grief is succeeded by an awful silence. 
Peter is left in company with the dead saint 
and the living God. There is something very 
solemn in the spectacle of a dead body. As 
we look at the prostrate form once animated by 
the immortal spirit ; we almost instinctively ask, 
what end has been answered by your existence 
in this world ; how have those hands, now so 
powerless, been employed ; where did those 
now motionless feet love to tread ; what theme 
employed that tongue now so silent ; and where 
is the soul that once inhabited this crumbling 
tenement ? How unsatisfactory the answer—
how distressing the conclusion in numbers of 
instances. How many through life, " yield 
their members as instruments of unrighteous-
ness unto sin." They live without holiness, 
and die without hope. How many pass through 
this world as if it were indeed " a world with-
out souls." If Dorcas had spent her whole 
life in embroidery work, and had left behind 
her specimens of skill and industry for suc-
ceeding generations to admire—if she had, as 
some do, devoted most of her thoughts, and 
nearly every moment's leisure, to the cultivation 
of her garden—if she had employed herself 
day after day in reading boo.ks of fiction and 
works of taste, which merely excite useless 
sensibilities, unfit for every day life, and produce 
a distaste for holy truth—if she had been one 
of " the tender and delicate women who would 
not adventure to set the sole of her foot upon 
the ground for delicateness and tenderness," 
(Deut. 28:56.)—If she had been a slave to the 
foolish fashions of the world, ever delighting 
in putting on fine and costly apparel; we should 
never have found her name in the sacred page, 
or heard of widows weeping over her. 
But behold, Peter bows himself before the 
throne of God, his spirit wrestles mightily. He 
has ascertained the divine will, he rises, assured 
that with God, nothing shall be impossible. 
Strong in the might of him who is the resur-
rection and the life, he approaches the sleeping 
saint, he calls her by name and bids her " arise !" 
His voice penetrates the regions of death, 
brings back the absent spirit, and unites again 
for a short time the severed links of humanity. 
Dorcas opens her eyes, gazes on the counte-
nance of the Lord's apostle, and rises again 
from the bed of death. 
Who can paint the joy of those who again 
behold the benevolent and animated countenance 
of their restored friend? They are lost in 
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59 
out of the Garden of Eden, driven thence by 
the hand of their angry God ; to find in the 
altered features of creation, and in the still 
more altered lineaments of their own nature, 
that a curse had been brought upon the world, 
as illimitable in its extension, as it was fearful 
in its consequences. 
Let us turn to another garden. In a valley 
at the foot of the Mount of Olives, near unto a 
place called Gethsemane, was a garden. It 
was not destined to be the scene of happiness 
and enjoyment. No ! It was the scene of a 
humiliation deep and terrible. In a garden 
man had presumptuously sinned, and in a gar-
den did our blessed Lord in man's nature 
commence the expiation of that sin. Where 
the curse was first pronounced, there the foun-
dation for obtaining the blessing was to be laid. 
In a garden sin first entered into the world, 
and there also was it first to be expiated. It 
was not probably a matter of chance, our Sa-
viour's selecting this spot for the scene of the 
internal sufferings He was to pass through. 
To the garden in this lowly valley He had 
hitherto frequently resorted, when lie would 
pour out his soul in prayer to His Father; and 
it is not improbable that He had long before in-
tended that the preparation for the last and 
bitter struggle of His spirit on behalf of man, 
should be accomplished here. He was to pre-
pare for the pangs of an excruciating death, 
and to suffer in the nature which had sinned. 
under the frown of an incensed God,who had laid 
upon Him the iniquity of us all. His soul ex-
perienced all the horrors of accumulated agony. 
Falling on His face to the ground, He impor-
tuned with " strong crying and tears," that the 
hour might pass from Him—that the flood of 
God's wrath might cease to flow in upon His 
soul—and that the continuance of His spiritual 
anguish might be shortened, or its intensity 
abated. Nevertheless, He deprecated the 
thought of abridging one jot or one tittle of the 
sacrifice He came into the world to make; and 
added, with ail the devotedness of a perfect 
resignation, " Not my will, 0, Father, but thine 
be done." Where were the trellised bowers 
and flower-enamelled haunts that decorated 
Eden ? Not here. Where the pervading at-
mosphere of purity and innocence that ren-
dered Paradise a sanctuary ? Alas ! not here. 
The very ground was cursed for man's sake. 
Got in human form was suffering in that lonely 
garden ; and as thought reverted to the Eden 
He had created for man, how could He but feel 
that He " had been wounded in the house of 
His friends ?" Yet in love He suffered—in 
love He offered His life a ransom for humanity 
—in love He tasted death for every man. As 
our first parents went weeping out of Paradise, 
so our blessed Saviour went weeping in spirit 
out of the garden of Gethsemane, to feel in all 
its bitterness the curse of God's wrath, and to' 
bEeir in His own person the accumulated guilt 
of the wretched world. 
Let us turn to yet one more. " In the place 
where Jesus was crucified, there was a garden ; 
and in the garden a new sepulchre,wherein was 
never man laid. There laid they Jesus, for the 
sepulchre was nigh at hand." �
Night had 
thrown her dusky veil over the world ; and the 
throbbing earth yet heaved with the tumultuous 
throes which announced the completion of the 
tremendous sacrifice which had just been con-
summated upon Calvary. Slowly and sadly 
was borne along the bruised body of Him who 
had drunk to the dregs the cup of trembling. 
Through the lonely walks of this garden of 
burial, the sorrowing friends proceeded until 
they reached an open sepulchre, hewn out of 
snliJ rock. Here they reverently deposited the 
mangled, but precious remains ; and, rolling a 
huge stone to the mouth of the sepulchre, they 
departed, leaving Jesus to the loneliness and 
quiet of the grave. Legions of angels per-
chance guarded the inanimate form in which 
Deity had for a season veiled itself. Bright 
spirits may have chanted an unearthly requiem 
over the clay which could no longer know the 
boedige of the tomb. The heavenly Dove, 
which had in life visibly hovered over the well-
beloved Son, m4y have kept a tender vigil with 
the dead remains. A few dark hours—and the 
soul of Jesus re-entered its earthly tabernacle, 
and came forth from, the dim recesses of the 
sepulchre in all the sublimity of Divine power 
and energy. Angels gazed with awe upon the 
spot where He had lain ! Angels announced 
to man His glorious resurrection ! Angels bore 
the joyful tidings up to Heaven ! 0, grave ! 
by the remembrance of those hours when thou 
didst hold captive the Lord of glory—by the 
remembrance of that power which rent asunder 
thy cerements, never before unloosened—by the 
retnernbiance of the risen Saviour who shed .a 
dazzling light into thy gloomiest depths—man 
need no longer dread thy dark and dismal 
domain. The bodies of those who have be-
lieved in Jesus, shall only rest within thy cold 
bosom until He shall come again to claim them 
as His own, and to clothe them in the garments 
of immortality. Then shall be brought to pass 
the saying that is written--" 0, death, I will 
be thy plagues; 0, grave, I will be thy destruc-
tion !" 
During this holy Lenten season, let us often 
retire in spirit to the garden of Gethsemane, 
there to ponder over the sins that called for so 
terrible an expiation. We shall find it good to 
be there. The Church invites us to partake of 
her solemn services—her peculiar privileges. 
In public, as well as in private prayer, let a 
stream of incense arise to the Throne of the 
King eternal, immortal, and invisible, from 
hearts burthened with a sense of guilt, and 
yearning for pardon and acceptance with Him. 
Let us stand, but not " afar off," to contemplate 
the progressive steps of our blessed Saviour's 
humiliation and suffering. Let us be with Him 
in His fastings and temptations—in His watch-
ings and prayers—in His agonies of the garden 
and the Cross—and we shall find that He will 
be favorable unto His people, and send a choice 
blessing upon his heritage.—Prot. Churchman. 
Second Coming of Christ. 
NO. V. 
It is gratifying, that the series of articles of 
which this is one, are not entirely unappre-
ciated, but that there is here and there one who 
feels a sufficient interest in the subject—not only 
to read and examine the evidence set forth in 
favor of the pre-millennial coming of the Lord 
to reign personally upon earth for a thousand 
years, but that there is a disposition to receive 
as truth all that is manifestly sustained by the 
best of evidence, viz. : " the Word of God." 
Such expressions we have had from several 
quarters, and it encourages us to persevere, 
praying that a like spirit may influence others. 
This is all we seek after in inditing these 
numbers. It is to set forth what the Scriptures 
really do teach upon so momentous a subject. 
We are aware that the position we occupy up-
on this topic, is not the generally-received view 
of the Christian Church, and that if it is the 
true one, much that has been written by able 
and distinguished theologians are grounded up-
°ilia misconceived view of the prophetic Scrip-
tures. This we readily admit, and therefore, 
while we feel compelled to differ with what is 
called standard theology, we do it with a spirit 
of deference, and regret that any doctrine of so 
important a character should have been so mis-
construed, and so universally produced a sys-
tem of interpretation that will not, we humbly 
conceive, stand the test of Scripture investiga-
tion. 
It is almost constantly said, when this topic 
is introduced, that it is not essential to salva-
tion, and therefore why agitate it ? We might 
with equal propriety answer, by asking, Why 
read the Bible at all ? because the most igno-
rant Christian that can be found, understands 
the simple and essential doctrine of justification 
by faith. To intelligent Christians such an ar-
gument would appear preposterous. God has 
given us a revelation of his will concerning 
us, and commanded us to search the Scriptures, 
that the man of God may be thoroughly fur-
nished, &c. In thus obeying him, if we adopt 
what is called a spiritual view of them, it leads 
to one conclusion. If, on the other hand, we 
adopt the literal, it leads to an entirely opposite 
one ; hence if we follow a false interpretation, 
the entire chain of Scripture prophecy is mis-
applied, and gross error is the inevitable result. 
We will now continue the evidence of the 
nature of the kingdom which our Lord Jesus 
Christ has promised to set up on the earth, and 
we humbly ask the reader to read ; as the tes-
timony of inspiration in its own simple lan-
guage. 
Our first appeal will be to Job. 19:25, 26: 
" For i know that my Redeemer liveth, and 
that he shall stand at the latter day upon the 
earth. And though after my skin worms des-
troy my body, yet in my flesh shall I see God," 
&c. �
In Psa. 22:27: " All the ends of the 
earth shall remember and turn unto the Lord ; 
and all the kindreds of the nations shall worship 
before thee." Psa. 102:13: " Thou shalt arise 
and have mercy upon Zion ; for the time 
to favor her, yea, the set time is come." By 
the term Zion the general construction is, the 
Church. We ask any candid reader to exam-
ine the connection, and see if it is not a wrong 
one. 
Vs. 15, 16, 21 : " So the heathen shall fear the 
name of the Lord, and all the kings of the earth 
thy glory. When the Lord shall build up Zion, 
he shall appear in his glory. . . To declare the 
name of the Lord in Zion, and his praise in 
Jerusalem." Psa. 72: 11 : " Yea, all kings 
shall fall down before him ; all nations shall 
serve him." 
Now read the glowing account of the king-
dom of Christ to be established upon the earth, 
in Isa. 2:2, 3, &c. " And it shall conic to pass 
in the last days, that the mountain of the Lord's 
house shall be established in the top of the 
mountains, and shall be exalted above the hills; 
all nations shall flow unto it. And many peo-
ple shall go and say, Come ye, and let us go 
up to the mountain of the Lord, to the house of 
the God of Jacob; and he will teach us of his 
ways, and we will walk in his paths ; for out 
of Zion shall go forth the law and the word 
of the Lord from Jerusalem." 
The same prophet, in the 24th chapter, 23d 
verse, says, " Then the moon shall be con-
founded and the sun ashamed, when. the Lord 
of hosts shall reign in Mount Zion, and in Jeru-
salem, and before his ancients gloriously," &c. 
Let me enjoin upon the reader to examine the 
25th chapter, also the 65th, of the same book. 
In Jer. 3:17 is the following: " At that time 
they shall call Jerusalem the throne of the Lord, 
and all nations shall be gathered unto it, to the 
name of the Lord to Jerusalem." 
V. 18: " In those days the house of Judah 
shall walk with the house of Israel, and they 
shall come together out of the land of the north, 
to the land that I gave for an inheritance unto 
your fathers." 
The prophet Ezekiel is still more explicit. 
In the 43d chapter, 2d verse : " And behold, 
the glory of the God of Israel came from the 
way of the east; and his voice was like the 
voice of many waters ; and the earth shined 
with his glory." 
V. 4 : " And the glory of the Lord came into 
the house by the way of the gate, whose pros-
pect is towards the east." 
Vs. 5-7 : " So the Spirit took me up, and 
brought me into the inner court; and behold, 
the glory of the Lord filled the house. And I 
heard him speaking unto me out of the house; 
and the man stood by me. And he said unto 
me, Son of man, the place of my throne, and 
the place of the soles of my feet, where I will 
dwell in the midst of the children of Israel for-
ever." 
Dan. 7:13, 14, 18: " I saw in the night vis-
ions, and behold, one like the Son of Man 
came with the clouds of heaven, and came to 
the Ancient of days, and they brought him 
near before him. And there was given him do-
minion, and glory, and a kingdom, that all peo-
ple, nations, and languages should serve him ; 
his dominion is an everlasting dominion, which 
shall not pass away, and his kingdom that 
which shall not be destroyed. . . . The saints 
of the Most High shall take the kingdom, and 
possess it forever, even forever and ever." 
These quotations we deem amply sufficient 
to show the nature of Christ's kingdom to be 
set up on the earth ; but as men are slow to be-
lieve all the prophets have written concerning 
the glorious coming and kingdom of our Lord 
Jesus Christ, we intend to confine another 
number mainly to this subject, and no one, we 
are sure, will complain at our mode of proof, 
for the Bible is so full of internal evidence of 
it, and the world so full of the external, that 
he who reads the one, and observes the other, 
it appears to us, must be convinced of its truth. 
In conclusion, we would remark, that we no-
tice that the editor of the " Advent Herald," 
published at Boston, is reviewing our articles, 
and in a spirit, too, deserving of all commenda-
tion. At the first opportunity we can find to 
do them justice, we shall notice them, so far as 
to show what we deem both the writer's mis-
conception of our views, and the discrepancies 
in his, and especially that which refers to God's 
ancient heritage, Israel. Controversy conduct-
ed in a Christian spirit, and a desire to elicit 
truth, cannot do harm, but may do much good. 
—Chris. Repos. 
[The foregoing texts give abundant evidence, 
that the period referred to, when the Loan shall 
appear in glory to build up Zion, is the com-
mencement of an eternat state; for it is to con-
tinue "forever and ever." Consequently, it 
cannot be a preparatory state, introductory to 
a subsequent one.—ED.] 
Last Appeal ; 
A HOME FOR THE PERSECUTED PORTUGUESE. 
It will be gratifying to the friends of the Por-
tuguese to learn, that arrangements have been 
entered into, and are in process of completion, 
by which a home is secured for these exiles up-
on our soil. The place selected is in the State 
of Illinois, at a point about equi-distant be-
tween Springfield and Jacksonville, on the 
Meredosia and Springfield railioad. By these 
arrangements, the American Hemp Company, 
which is composed of gentlemen at the West 
and in this city, is to give both the Portuguese, 
who are here, and also those who are in Trini-
dad, immediate employment and good wages 
on their arrival there. They are also to fur-
nish them with houses and everything necessa-
ry for their comfort, for one year without 
charge. Besides this, the company have en-
gaged to give every family of the colony, in 
all one hundred and thirty-one families, ten 
acres of land in fee and unincunibered, on 
which a house can be built where they can 
have a permanent home. These ten acre lots are 
to be on the same tract of land, contiguous to 
each other, and by the terms of the arrange-
ment, to be located. by a committee consisting 
of the Hon. Augustus C. French, Go'Vernor of 
Illinois, Rev. J. M. Sturtevant, President of Il-
linois College, at Jacksonville, and Rev. Al-
bert Hale, of Springfield. 
Great care has also been taken that these ad-
vantages, so secured to this interesting people, 
should be rendered available to themselves and 
their families. 
The writings have been drawn, sealed, and 
delivered, in which the parties are under bonds 
of ten thousand dollars each, to fulfil their en-
gagement. 
It is now incumbent on the American Pro-
testant Society to supply the expenses necessa-
ry for the transportation, not only of the Por-
tuguese who are here, but also of these who 
are on the Island of Trinidad. The benevo-
lent community will see that the expense of 
the transportation of six hundred persons must 
be great. Had many of these exiles the prop-
erty which they rightfully claim in their own 
country, they could very easily meet this ex-
pense. There are individuals among them 
who could in that case defray the expenses of 
all to their new home. But they are stripped 
of all their earthly possessions. 
The Society have not the means, but trust-
ing in God for them, and relying upon the 
known benevolence of our countrymen, they 
have embarked fearlessly into these preliminary 
arrangements. The cordial and prompt res• 
ponse of the community, a few months since, 
to the appeal for clothing for the destitute Por-
tuguese, has encouraged this renewed reliance 
on the same community in the great effort now 
to be made. We do not expect to be disap-
pointed. The pulse of freedom and benevo-
lence in this country beats so quick and strong, 
that we do not anticipate a disappointment.—
Yet we must receive much more liberal dona-
tions than we have received, or these exiles 
cannot reach their home. Is not the object 
worthy of greater donations ? 'What are six 
hundred beings worth ? How much ought we 
to expend to give so many wandering exiles a 
borne and shelter from persecution ? Suppose 
we call for ten thousand dollars, and it should 
all be expended in providing for the wants of 
these suffering people, their children, and their 
posterity. Would this be extravagant? Who 
will believe it in that great day of account, 
when money and souls will be weighed in the 
balance of righteousness ? 
We make our appeal to the friends of the per-
secuted, the friends of freedom in our land. here 
is a home provided for six hundred persons, who 
are driven from their own country by the ruth-
less hand of persecution. But they have not 
the means of reaching it. Suppose your family 
were starving to death, and you should hear of 
a beautiful country, and abundance of food, on 
the other side of the Atlantic, but you could 
not go there. Would the knowledge of it re-
lieve the pains of hunger? Suppose there 
were those who had an abundance, and could 
easily put you in possession of that land.—
What think you ought they to do? 
There is no time for delay. The Society 
desire to send the Portuguese who are here 
immediately to the West, where employment 
and a comfortable home is prepared, and they 
are very anxious to go. Then we wish to send, 
as soon as possible, for those in Trinidad. To 
them, every hour's delay is an hour of suffer-
ing. The inhabitants of the island, having 
heard there was a prospect of the Portuguese 
coming to the United States, have recently 
turned many of them out of employment, and 
thus increased their distress. 
We make our appeal with the deepest solici-
tude, (involving as it does the happiness for 
life of so many families,) to all, to send your 
contributions without delay. Let the rich give 
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that the Christian is liable to he misunderstood, and 
his motives maligned. The guilty parties, as a matter 
of course, would regard reproof as unpalatable, and 
would wish to be fraternized with in all their sin. 
Silence in such cases would be contriving at and 
countenancing their misdemeanors ; but reprobating 
them would be merely taking the side of the LORD 
against his adversaries. 
In all ages the people of GOD have been called to 
disconnect themselves from such entanglements. 
When Moses tarried in the mount, and the people 
persuaded AARON tp make a golden calf for them to 
worship, the offending multitude would doubtless 
have been pleased to have been countenanced in their 
idolatry by those who continued " on the LORD's 
side." But so heinous a transgression required that 
the sons of LEVI " should " put every man his 
sword by his side, and go in and out from gate to 
gate throughout the camp, and slay every man Iris 
brother, and every man his companion, and every 
man his neighbor."—Ex. 32:27. After so terrible a 
crime, the people could not be recognized by Gon, 
until all who had sinned were blotted out of hie 
book. 
When KORAN, with certain of the children of 
Israel, rose up before Moses, and " gathered them-
selves together against him and AARON, and said unto 
them, Ye take too much upon you, seeing all the 
congregation are holy, every one of them," and ac-
cused him, saying, " Is it a small thing that thou hast 
brought us up out of a land that floweth with milk 
and honey to kill us in the wilderness, except thou 
make thyself altogether a prince over us?" (Num. 
16:2-13) ; they doubtless thought they were doing 
GoD service. And they did not in the least hesitate 
to take every man his censer, and put fire in them, 
and lay incense thereon, and stand in the door of the 
tabernacle of the congregation, with MOSES and 
AARON, for the LORD to make manifest who were his, 
and whom he had chosen to come near unto him. 
And the LORD held not only KORAN and his company 
as guilty, but also the whole body of Israel, had they 
not separated themselves from them ; for, excepting 
MOSES and AARON, the LORD would have consumed 
the entire congregation in a moment, had they not 
fallen " upon their faces, and said, 0 Gon, the Goo 
of the spirits of all flesh, shall one man sin, and wilt 
Religious Controversy. �
thou be wroth with all the congregation?" To 
escape being punished with them, they had to depart 
If it be. possible, as =chits lieth in you, live peaceably walk all 
men."—Ron. �
from the tents of those " wicked men," those 
The duty of all Christians is to " follow after the "sinners against their own souls," under whom " the 
things which make for peace, and things whereby one ground clave asunder;" ar.d " the earth opened her 
may edify another."—Rom. 14i19. But it is a mis- mouth and swallowed them up, and their houses, and 
taken idea, that peace can always be easily enjoyed. all the men that appertained unto KORAH, and all 
If all men were perfect, as the angels are perfect, their their goods. They, and all that appertained to them, 
peace would flow like a river, and extend like an went down alive into the pit, and the earth closed 
overflowing stream. But, alas ! the race has as yet upon them ; and they perished from among the con-
shown no manifestations of approaching perfection; gregation." 
and the Christian, like Lo'r of old, still finds his �
On the morrow, when the children of Israel mur- 
righteous soul vexed from day to day with the filthy mused against MOSE's and against AARON, saying, 
conversation of the wicked. �
Ye have killed the people of the LORD ; the plague 
The apostle saw full well, that to live in peace would have consumed their entire body had not 
with all men would be an impossibility. Therefore Moses run into the midst of the congregation, and 
he enjoined that we should thus live as far as it lieth stood between the dead and the living till the plague 
in us. We are to do the things which make for was stayed, though not till after more than fourteen 
peace, and not those which mar it. And having thousand had been smitten by it. They had doubtless 
dune all that one can do, if peace does not follow, supposed they were justifiable in heaping such cen-
the blame will not rest on thsse who " make for it." sure on MOSES; but the wrath of the LORD fell more 
There are those " who bite with their teeth," and or less heavy on them for their presumption. And 
at the same time cry " Peace."—Mic. 3:5.. With even Moses, the meekest of men, was " very wroth " 
such we cannot hope for peace ; but even then, the against them. 
flame of war should not be needlessly fanned. With �
When ACHAN " committed a trespass in the ac- 
true-hearted, whole-souled brethren, there will never cursed thing," by taking " a goodly Babylornsh gar-
The symbolical acts of the prophet, are too appa- be much opportunity for contention and strife. They ment, and two hundred shekels of silver, and a 
rent, to need being individually specified. �
will as naturally flow together as the drops of falling wedge of gold of fifty shekels weight " from among 
After this we find allegories, metaphors, &c. ; butwater mingle into one. When there is not this har- the spoils of Jericho, the curse fell on all Israel ; 
no more symbols till we come to the 37th chapter of many of feeling„ if they desire peace, they will and all the tribes were as guilty concerning it, 'until 
this prophecy. In this chapter, the prophet says : separate, like LOT and ABRAHAM, when their herd- they disconnected themselves from all countenance of 
" The hand of the LORD was upon me, and carried men strove together, the one going to the right hand, his sin, by stunning him, and all that pertained to him, 
me out in the Spirit of the LORD, and set me down and the other to the left.—Gen. 13:7. Very seldom with stones in the valley of Achor.—Josh. 7.26. 
in the midst of the valley which was full of bones, will there be any contention among brethren. There �
In no age has there been any work, however good, 
and caused me to pass by them round about : and be- may be exceptions to this rule ; for sometimes it will that the servants of the LORD were permitted to per-
hold, there were very many in the open valley; and be necessary for a faithful PAUL to withstand an form in peace. 
NEHEMIAH even could not thus obey 
lo, they were very dry. And he. said unto me, Son erring PETER to his face, who is to be blamed, (Gal. the command of the Loan to rebuild Jerusalem : 
of man, can these bones live? and I answered, 0 2:11) ; and the contention may be so sharp that, like " When SANBALLAT the Horonite, and Tostso the 
LORD GoD, thou knowest. �
PAUL arid BARNABAS, they may " depart asunder servant, the Ammonite, heard of it, it grieved them 
" Again he said unto me, Prophecy upon these one from the other," (Acts 15:39) ; but rebuke a exceedingly that there was come a man to seek the 
bones, and say unto them, 0 ye dry bones, hear the wise man and he will love thee, so that no permanent welfare of the children of Israel."—Neh. 2:10. 
word of the LORD. Thus saith the LORD Gon unto estrangement will result from such faithfulness. Nor Tbey, with GESHEM the Arabian, even laughed hint 
these bones ; Behold, I will cause breath to enter into is it necessary often for prolonged contention with to scorn, and accused him of rebellion against the 
you, and ye shall live: and I will lay sinews upon avowed opponents: when such are once understood king, by whose command he had gone up. Sarssae- 
with skin, and put breath in you, and ye shall live ; �
LAT was wroth, took great indignation, and mocked 
you, and will bring up flesh upon you, and cover you by the cotnmunity, they can safely be let alone. 
There are, however, times when silence would be a the Jews, and being conspired with TOBIAH, and 
and ye shall know that I am the LORD. �
sin—times when error and iniquity are to he rebuked the Arabians, and the Ammonites, and the Ashdod- 
" So I prophesied as I was commanded : and as I with stern and decided reproof—when offending par- ites, to fight against Jerusalem, and hinder the 
prophesied, there was a noise, and behold a shaking, ties are to be discountenanced with all the unbending building of the wall ; so that they which builded 
of their abundance, and the poor of their pov-
erty. Let all send their largest donations, and 
rejoice that they can .have one such privilege 
of aiding in the relief of so many ; for God 
loveth the cheerful giver. 
Donations for the Portuguese should be sent 
to the American Protestant Society, 150 Nas- 
sau-street, N. Y. �
HERMAN NORTON, 
March, 1849. �
Corresponding Secretary. 
before the house. And he said unto them, Defile the 
house, and fill the courts with the slain : go ye forth. 
And they went forth, and slew in the city."—Ezek. 
9:4-7. 
As the sprinkling of the blood of the Paschal 
lamb on the lintels and door-posts of the Israelites 
was a notice to the destroying angel that their houses 
were to be spared ; so here a mark was to be placed 
, 
, �
on the children of GOD, that they might be spared in 
`BEHOLD; THE BRIDEGROOM COMETH!!" 
— �
— 
 the coming destruction. We learn that GOD makes 
B �
1V, SATURDAY, NikRCH 24, 1849. �a distinction between the innocent and the guilty.— 
�
 This vision symbolized the distinction GOD would 
Interpretation of Symbols, Figures, Ste. 
make between the righteous and the wicked in the 
coming judgment on Jerusalem. 
In the 10th chapter he describes a repetition of the 
vision that lie describes in the first ; and in the elev-
enth he is taken to the Temple, where he prophesies 
against Jerusalem; after which he is taken back in 
vision into Chaldea, to them of the captivity. 
In the 12th chapter he says : " The word of the 
Loan came unto me, saying : Son of man, thou 
dwellest in the midst of a rebellious house, which 
have eyes to see, and see not ; they have ears to hear, 
aad hear not: for they are a rebellious house. There-
fore, thou son of man, prepare thee stuff for remov-
ing, and remove by day in their sight ; and thou shalt 
remove from thy place to another place in their sight, 
it may be they will consider, though they he a rebel-
lious house. Then shalt thou bring forth thy stuff by 
day in their sight, as stuff for removing : and thou 
shalt go forth at even in their sight, as they that go 
—V. 5. �
forth into captivity. Dig thou through the wall in 
The individual hairs, consequently, symbolized in- their sight, and carry out thereby. In their sight 
dividual persons. �
shalt thou hear it upon thy shoulders, and carry it 
His weighing and dividing the hair—of the assort- forth in the twilight : thou shalt cover thy face, that 
ing and dividing Israel into the parts that were to be thou see not the ground : for I have set thee for a 
separately punished. �
sign unto the house of Israel. Arid I did so as I was 
The third part that he burnt in the fire, in the midst commanded : I brought forth my stuff by day, as 
of the city—of a third part of the inhabitants, who stuff for captivity, arid in the even I digged through 
should perish in the city : " A third part of thee shall the wall with mine hand ; I brought it forth in the 
die with the pestilence, and with famine shall they twilight, and I bare it upon my shoulder in their 
be consumed in the midst of thee."—V. 12. �sight."—Ezek. 12:1-7. 
The third part that he smote with a knife—of a �
These symbolical acts are thus interpreted : — 
third part slain with the sword : " and a third part " Thus saith the LORD GoD; This burden concerneth 
shall fall by the sword round about thee."—V. 12. �
the prince in Jerusalem, and all the house of Israel 
The third part scattered to the wind—of the third that are among them. Say, I am your sign : like as 
part who should go into captivity : " and I will scat- I have done, so shall it be done unto them : they shall 
ter a third part into all the winds [or directions], and I remove and go into captivity. And the prince that is 
will draw out a sword after them."—V. 12. �among them shall bear upon his shoulder in the twi- 
lit the 6th and 7th chapters there are no symbols, light, and shall go forth : they shall dig through the 
but figures of another order. In the 8th chapter he wall to carry out thereby : he shall cover his face, 
beholds the same likeness as the appearance of fire, that he see riot the ground with his eyes. My net 
(v. 2,) which in the first chapter is explained to he also will I spread upon him, and he shall be taken in 
" the likeness of the glory of the LORD." This like- my snare: and I will bring him to Babylon, to the 
ness puts forth the form of a hand to a lock of his land of the Chaldeans, yet shall he not see it, though 
hair, and the Spirit lifts him up and bears him in the he shall die there. And I will scatter toward every 
visions of GoD to Jerusalem, to the door of the inner wind all that are about him to help him, and all his 
northern gate, where was the seat of the image of hands; and I will draw out the sword after them.—
jealousy. And there he saw the glory of the Goo And they shall know that I am the LORD, when I 
of Israel according to the vision he had seen in the. shall scatter them among the nations, and disperse 
plain, as described iii the 1st chapter. And there he them in the countries."—Vs. 10-15. 
also saw the abominations of Jerusalem—the men, 
even the ancients of the house of Israel, offering in-
cense in secret to idols, creeping things, and abomi-
nable beasts; worshipping the sun, &c. ; and `• the 
women weeping for Tsmseez." These abomina-
tions being shown, GOD gives them, as a reason why 
he should not spare the city, and says : " Therefcre 
will I also deal in fury : mine eye shall not spare, 
neither will I have pity ; and though they cry in my 
ears with a loud voice, yet will I not hear them."—
V. 18. 
The symbols there may be in that chapter are all 
symbols of themselves. 
In the 9th chapter he beholds six men, each with a 
slaughter weapon in his hand ; and one among them 
was clothed in linen, with a writer's ink-horn by his 
side ; and they stood beside the brazen altar. And 
(Continued from our last.) 
In Ezek. 5:1-4 we read : " Arid thou, son of man, 
take thee a sharp knife, take thee a barber's razor, 
arid cause it to pass upon thy head and upon thy 
beard : then take thee balances to weigh, and divide 
tire hair. Thou shalt burn with fire a third part in 
the midst of the city, when the days of the siege are 
fulfilled : and thou shalt take a third part, and smite 
about it with a knife : and a third part thou shalt 
scatter in' the wind ; and I will draw out a sword af-
ter them. Thou shalt also take thereof a few in 
number, and bind them in thy skirts. Then take of 
them again, and cast them into the midst of the fire, 
and burn them in the fire : for thereof shall a fire 
come forth into all the house of Israel." 
These symbols are thus explained :— 
His hair and beard—were symbolical of Jerusa-
lem ; for, " thus saith the LORD, This is Jerusalem." 
Tammuz is the same as Adonis, celebrated in heathen mytholo-
gy as a martyr to the jealousy of Mars. He is called, also, 
-dead," arid was worshipped by the worsen of Phenicia, Assyria, and 
Judea. His image was "the image of jealousy," to which they 
sung obscene somas, and amorous ditties. Milton, in his " Paradise 
Lost," (b. 1. 4460 speaking of the daughters or Ziou uniting in this 
lamentation for Tammuz, says — 
Whose wanton passions in the sacred porch 
Ezekiel surveyed
en by the vision led, 
His eve �
the dark idolatries 
01 alienated Judah." 
-C)C lbucut (*alb. 
•• �and begin at my sanctuary. 
" Then they began at the ancient men which were 
the glory of the GoD of Israel said to the one clothed 
in linen : " Go through the midst of the city, through 
the midst of Jerusalem, and set a mark upon the 
foreheads of the men that sigh and that cry for all 
the abominations which be done in the midst thereof. 
" And to the others he said in mine hearing, Go ye 
after him through the city, and smite : let not your 
eye spare, neither have ye pity : slay utterly old and 
young, both maids, and little children, and women ; 
but come not near any man upon whom is the mark ; 
and the bones came together, bone to his bone. And decision of virtuous indignation. It is at such times 
when I beheld, lo, the sinews and the flesh came up 
upon them, and the skin covered them above : but 
there was no breath in them. Then said lie unto me, 
Prophesy unto the wind ; prophesy, and say to the 
wind, Thus saith the LORD Gon; Come from the 
four winds, 0 breath, and breathe upon these slain, 
that they may live. So I prophesied as he command-
ed me, and the breath came into them, and they lived, 
and stood up upon their feet, an exceeding great ar-
my."—Vs. 1-10. 
This vision is thus interpreted : "Then he said 
unto me, Son of man, these bones are the whole 
house of Israel : behold, they say, Our bones are 
dried, and our hope is lost : we are cut off for our 
parts. Therefore prophesy and say unto them, Tires 
saith the LORD GOD ; Behold, 0 my people, I will 
open your graves, and cause you to come up out of 
your graves, arid bring you into the land of Israel. 
And ye shall know that I am the LORD, when I have 
opened your graves, 0 my people, and brought you 
up out of your graves, and shall put my Spirit in 
you, and ye shall live, and I shall place you in your 
own land : then shall ye know that I the LORD have 
spoken it, and performed it, saith the LORD."—Vs. 
11-14. 
By this explanation we learn, that the dry bones 
—symbolized the whole house of Israel. A part of 
the house of Israel were dead, and a part living. As 
the wickedJews are denied any inheritance in the 
house of JACOB, it follows that the whole house of 
Israel includes all the pious of that nation, whether 
deceased or living, and those only. Consequently, 
the open valley symbolized the world—the habitable 
globe. 
The dryness of the bones was symbolical of the 
deadness of Israel. 
The revivication of the bones—of the resurrection 
of Israel : of the opening of their graves and the 
bringing of them up out of their graves, and their 
restoration to their own land. 
In this vision, symbols of an order are taken to rep-
resent agents of their own order. Those who explain 
this vision as only predicting the restoration of the 
unregenerated Jews, it appears to us, lose sight of 
the Divine interpretation which GOD has given of it. 
—(To be continued.) 
THE ADVEN T HERALD. �
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every one with one of his hands wrought in the 
work, and with the other hand held a weapon ; and 
every one had his sword girded by his side, and so 
huilded." Seeing the Jews thus on the defensive 
during; their work, the next device of " SANBALLAT, 
and TomAH, and GESHEM the Arabian, and the test of 
their enemies," was to assume a very good spirit, and 
pretend they wished for a reconciliation. So they sent 
unto NEHEMIAH, " saying, Come, let us meet to-
gether in some of the villages of Ono." But NEHE-
MIAH was what some would call a hard judging man ; 
for he says, " They thought to do me mischief." 
And he " sent messengers unto them, saying, I am 
doing a great work, so that I cannot come down ; 
why should the work cease, whilst I leave it and 
come down to you l" Yet they sent to him " four 
times after this sort," and he " answered them after 
the same man ler." Being thus foiled, " SANBALLAT 
sent his servant " the " fifth time with an open letter 
in his hand," affirming it was reported that NEHEMIAH 
had an intention to rebel," &c. ; and closing with, 
"Come now therefore, and let us take counsel to-
gether." NEHEMIAH, now indignant at his hypocrisy, 
sent hack to him, " saying, There are no such things 
done as thou sayest, but thou feig,nest them out of 
thine own heart." Their next plan was to hire 
SHEMAIAH to suggest to NEHEMIAH that his life was 
in danger in the night, make him afraid, and urge 
him to shut himself within the temple,—hoping to 
have matter for an evil report, that they might re-
proach him. But said NEHEMIAH, " Shall such a 
man as I flee 1 and who is there, that, being as I am, 
would go into the temple to save his life? I will not 
go in." The next move was to write letters back 
and forth, between TOBIAH and many in Judah who 
were in league with him, to put NEHEMIAH in fear, 
and they uttered TOBIAH'S good deeds before NEHE-
UTAH, and told his words to TOBIAH ; but none of 
their devices availed them anything against those 
who " sought the welfare of the children of Israel.' 
When ANANIAS, with SAPPHIRA his wife, kept 
back part of the price for which they had sold their 
possession, pretending that they had laid their all at 
the apostles' feet, the transaction was of such a nature 
as to require the most severe reprimand from PETER. 
" Why bath Satan filled thine heart to lie to the 
Holy Ghost ?" " why hast thou conceived this thing in 
thine heart1 thou hest not lied unto men, but unto 
GAD," was the searching enquiry and reprodf. 
When SIMON,— who before time had " used sor-
cery and bewitched the people of Samaria, giving out 
that himself was some great one "—having believed 
and received baptism—" wondered, beholding the 
miracles and signs which were done," and offered 
the apostles money, " saying, Give me also this 
power, that on whomsoever I lay hands, he may 
receive the Holy Ghost ;" it was becoming in PETER 
to reply, "Thy money perish with thee, because thou 
Nast thought that the gift of Goo may be purchased 
with money. Thou hast neither pai nor lot in this 
matter; for thy heart is not right in the sight of Gen. 
Repent therefore of this thy wickedness, and pray 
Goo, if perhaps the thought of thine heart may be 
forgiven thee ; for I perceive that thou art in the gall 
of bitterness, and in the bond of iniquity."---Acts 
8:9-23. 
The rebuke of PAUL to " EtermAs the sorcerer,"—
who sought to turn away the deputy of Cyprus. 
SERGIUS PAueus, from the faith--e-was none the less 
in keeping with his station : " 0 full of all subtlety, 
and all mischief, thou child of the devil, thou enemy 
of all righteousness, wilt thou -not cease to pervert 
the right ways of the LORD ?"—Aets 13:10. 
heresies among you, that they which are approved �
He makes particular mention of " DIOTREPIIES. that a spirit bath not flesh, &c. We shall have 
may be made manifest among you." PAUL was very who loveth to have the pre-eminence among them." something more to say of this in our article on sym-
jealous of such ; for he again writes :—(2 Cor. 11:3,) —3 John vs. 9, 10. He saith of him that he " re- bola, &c., at the proper time. Your question, how 
"I fear, lest by any means, as the serpent beguiled ceiveth us not. Wherefore, if I come, I will te- the Rich Man knew of his five brethren on earth, is 
EVE through his subtlety, so your minds should he member his deeds which he doeth, prating against us simple : he kn-w how wicked they were when he 
corrupted from the simplicity that is in Cneisee" with malicious words : and not content therewith, was on the earth, knew they had not arrived at that 
There were those who came preaching another 3 Esus neither cloth he himself receive the brethren, and for- place of torment, and did not see them afar off, &c. 
than Him whom PAUL preached,—communicating biddeth them that would, and casteth them out of the Hence the conclusion was unavoidable. What you 
another spirit, and another gospel. Such he declares church."—V. 10. �
say of the Jews using language, and putting a wrong 
"are false apostles, deceitful workers, transforming �
And JUDE writes (v. 4), that there had " certain construction on texts, is also answered' in the distinc- 
themselves into the apostles of CHeisT."—V. 13. men crept in unawares, who were before of old or- tion we before made. You are mistaken as to that 
And no marvel," says PAUL ; for Satan himself is dained to this condemnation, ungodly men, turning word being nothing more than " cut off." No man who 
transformed into an angel of light. Therefore it is the grace of our GOD into lasciviousness, and denying knows whereof he affirms, will venture such an asser- 
no great thing if his ministers also be transformed the only LORD GOD and oar Logo JESUS CHRIST." �
tion. The assertion, that the smoke of their torment 
as the ministers of righteousness.—Vs. 14:15. �By these records of the apostles we learn what ascending up forever and ever has nothing to do with 
To the Galatians PAUL was compelled by their things happened to them aforetime ; and we are not their final punishment, is not conclusive Of that : we 
waywardness to write, (Gal. 1:6-9,) : " I marvel to suppose that in these days we can claim exemp- happen to differ widely respecting it. Where the wick-
that ye are so soon removed from him that called you tion from similar trials, or think it strange when like ed will be, &c., we answer," in the lake that'burneth 
into the grace of CHRIST, unto another gospel : which things happen as a trial to our faith. Christians, with fire and brimstone. 
it Ott another; but there he some that trouble you, probably, have to encounter no trials, but their paral- �
We do not see as you touch any points that have 
and would pervert the gospel of CHRIST. But though lel can be found in former days ; and in the instances not been repeatedly discussed in the Herald; and 
we, or an angel from heaven, preach any other gospel above enumerated, we find every variety, and every your article would want some fixing up to read prop- 
unto you than that which we have preached unto you, shade of character. �
erly, which we have not time to do. This was why 
let him be accursed. As we said before, so say I �
It is thought by some that the existence of such we supposed the other was not for publication.— 
now again, If any man preach any other gospel unto are incompatible with a body of true Christians, and While we are writing our articles on the symbols, we 
you than that ye have received, let him be accursed." that to notice such evils is stepping aside from the ap- cannot go off to foreign questions. Besides, there 
Some of the converted Jews dissembled, and re- propriate sphere of those who seek the peace of Zi• are several papers devoted to that subject, and kin- 
fused to eat with the-Gentiles, for fear of some of the on. The evils are not to be excused, for, though of- Bred ones. Without first agreeing respecting the 
circumcision, "insomuch that BARNABAS was carried fences must needs come, woe unto him by whom the use of language, no progress can be made in a dis-
away with their dissimulation."—Gal. 2:13. This offence cometh. Yet we have seen that with the ele- cussion. 
stirred the spirit of PAUL to exclaim, " 0 foolish vated standard of apostolical piety, and their whole- �
L. CASE—Your view is based entirely on supposi- 
Galatians, who hath bewitched you, that ye should souled devotion to the cause of CHRIST, they were tion. There is no evidence, even, that the seven 
not obey the truth ?" �
not exempt from such trials, and did not hesitate to days were after the expiration of the hundred and 
False teachers he bids the Philippians to shun. take a firm, decided, straightforward position respect- twenty years. 
He says, (3:2,) : " Beware of dogs, beware of evil ing them ; and well is it for the cause of Christianity, �
J. SPEAR.—The word rendered soul, in Matt. 10: 
doers, beware of the concision." And he adds, (vs that they did so. Were the opposers of Christianity 28, is eleene. That usually rendered spirit is ervEefere. 
18, 19,) ; " For many walk, of whom I have told able to prove the existence of such evils in the apps- We shall be able to make no use of your MS. It 
you often, and now tell you even weeping, that they toile age, and find no notice of condemnation by the lacks many essentials to fit it for the press. 
are the enemies of the cross of CHRIST: whose end apostles, they might exclaim, See, here is your �
C.—On " Time."— It lacks point and poetic al 
is destruction, whose GOD is their belly, and whose Christianity ! and point to such examples as a sample interest. 
glory is in their shame, who mind earthly things." �
of what it then was. No doubt the opposers of the �
H. P. SIRES—The same idea in plain prose would 
He gives TIMOTHY particular caution not to have cross of CHRIST,—the bigoted Jew, the refined Greek, be much better. 
fellowship with new fangled teachers ; and those who and the unlearned barbarian ,—opposed the preaching 
taeght other than the doctrines he presented, he pro- of the apostles by reference to the conduct of some 
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PROF. WHITING'S TRANSLATION OF THE NEW TES- 
TAIM7NT.—W e gave last week three specimen pages 
nounced to be " proud, knowing nothing, but doting of the professed believers. They could point to the 
about questions and strifes of words, whereof cornett' hypocrisy and falsehood of ANANIAS and SAPPIIIRA, of the forthcoming translation—showing the size of 
the page, the type, the nature of the references, and 
envy, strife, railings, evil surniisings, perverse dis- the covetousness of DEMAS, the attempt of SIMON to the style of translation. We are in hopes to get the 
outings of men of corrupt minds, and destittite'of the buy the Holy Ghost with money, the heresy of HY- hook oat in season for distribution at the M iy meet-
truth, supposing that gain is godliness: from such," MENEUS and PHYLETUS, the backsliding of PHYGEL- tugs in Boston. The work will be a very expensive 
he says, " withdraw thyself."—Tim. 6:4, 5. And LUS and HERMOGENES, the evil of ALEXANDER the , one to us—the cost of the stereotype .plates alone 
he adds : " But shun profane and vain babblings ; for coppersmith, &c. But the fact that the apostles and 
they will increase unto more ungodliness. And their early Christians took a faithful stand against all such being near $ 600. It will be only by 
a large sale 
that we can hope to be remunerated for it. We have 
word will eat as cloth a canker; of whom is HYME- iniquity—showing that they chose rat her to stand alone not yet learned at what price we can afford the book ; 
N EUS and PH ILETUS ; who concerning the truth have in the right, than to go with the multitude in the wrong it will be in the neighborhood of fifty or sixty-two 
erred, saying that the resurrection is past already. —has forever put to silence all who would adduce and a half cents—shall put it as low as we can. 
But foolish and unlearned questions avoid, knowing those examples as evidence against them. The same 
We hope brethren will now send in their orders, 
that they do gender strifes."-2 Tim. 2:16-18, 23. �
bold, decided stand which LUTHER took against the that we may know how large an edition to publish, 
The labors of the apostles were thus frequently fanatics of his day, has been the only shield for his and receive the means from its sale to liquidate the 
neutralized : as he writes to TIMOTHY, "thou knowest, memory against identification with the mad-caps that debte we shall be obliged to incur in its publication. 
that all they which are in Asia be turned away from came near disgracing the whole Reformation. And 
me ; of whom are PHYoneus and HERMOGENES."— without the faithful testimony which is found in our 
NOTICE Will all those who have notified us of 
2 Tim. 1:15. " ALEXANDER the coppersmith," he columns against excesses and errors which some the miscarriage of money within the last two years, 
also says, " did me much evil; fox he bath greatly would identify with the doctrine of the Advent, the and previous to January last, please to write us 
withstood our words ;"so that " at my first answer, labors of Mr. MILLER, and our own, could not. be dis- again, and give us all the particulars—the sums sent, 
no man stood with me, but all men finsook me."-4: connected from them. But having contended ear- the time when sent, and the Post-office mailed at ? 
14-16. Even " DEMAS," he writes, " hath forsaken nestly for the faith once delivered to the saints, and 
We have noticed that the money lost has all min- 
ute, having loved this present world."—v. 10. �
given no countenance to fanatical excesses, and erru carried on a few mail lines ; and we want to compare 
To TITUS he writes, that " there are many unruly neous opinions, we feel the satisfaction, that we have the routes on whieh 'losses 'have been made, and en- 
and vain talkers and deceivers, especially they of the performed our duty, and that while we have endured (leaver to trace them. 
circumcision : whose mouths must be stopped, who the same trials the apostles had to encounter, that we 
subvert whole houses, teaching things which they have met them with the same weapons that, they used 
We are sorry to have to remind those in arrears, 
ought not, for filthy lucre's sake. . . They profess to encounter theirs. �
their withholding 'their indebtedness from us, obliges 
that they know Goo ; but in works they deny hint, �
us to he dishonest to our creditors. Last week, when 
To Correspondents. �our printer sent in his bill, we had to send -it link. 
being abominable, and disobedient, and unto every �
, 
When "certain men came down from Judea" to good work reprobate."—Chap. 1:10, 11, 16. And �
H. J. S.-1f we failed to make ourself understood unpaid; and we do not now see that we shallbe able 
Antioch, and taught that " except ye be circumcised he commands him to " avoid foolish questions, and before, we question whether we can now. SoLoMoN to meet it this week. With whom lies the blame? 
after the Manner of MosEs, ye cannot be saved," genealogies, and contentions, and strivings about the says nothing about late resurrection, and to apply the 
(15:1) no mantle of Christian charity was large law; for they are unprofitable and vain. A man that principle to his writings which is applied to those �
We: acknowledge the receipt of a copy of Trindi- 
enough to enable the apostles to live in peace with is an heretic, after the first and second admonition, scriptures which are quoted for the cessation of con- cue Hararie, from the -author, the Rev. E. B. ELLI-
them. Even " PAUL and BARNABAS had no small reject; knowing that he that is such is subverted, and sciousness, would be to make him deny any resurrec- OTT, of England. Also a copy for Bro. BONHAM. It 
dissension and disputation with them." �
sinneth, being condemned of himself."--Chap. 3:9 tion. Therefore, when he says that " they no more is his reply, in twelve letters, to the Rev. Dr. KEITH, 
PAUL had no smooth speeches for those who sought —11. �
have a reward," that phrase roust be modified by the in reply to his strictures of the Bare Apocalypticce. 
to destroy the fruits of the labors of CHRIST'S min- �
The beloved disciple writes of some who, he says, plain declarations of the reward respecting the right- We would like to see a reply to the strictures of De- 
islets. Said he, -(Rom. 16:17,18) " Now I beseech " went out from us, but they were not of us; fur if eous in the resurrection. Therefore it cannot have VID LORD, published some months sine, on the same 
you, brethren, mark them which cause divisions and they had been of us, they would no doubt have con- its absolute sense, 'end must mean, that they no more work. We forwarded a copy to Mr. ELLIOTT, but 
offences, contrary to the doctrine which ye have 'Mired with us; but they went out, that they might have a reward in this life. If the spirit at death be- have not learned of its reception. 
learned ; and avoid them ; for they are such as serve be made manifest that they were not all of us."-1 comes a part of Deity, then the hope of the heathen �
We also acknowledge the receipt of a book and 
nut our Lotto JESUS CHRIST, butt their own belly : John 2:19. �
is true, who regard such an absorption of being as paper from S. CARMONT, Liverpool, Eng. Would 
and by good words and fair speeches deceive 'the hearts �
He warned the early Christians particularly against the highest good they can experience. We have lung thank him for the work he speaks of,—also for the 
of the simple." He was well aware that such char- deceivers : he says : " For many deceivers are en- feared that tendency. We do not make the Rich continuation of the articles in the paper sent. 
acters would creep in'; for he saith to the brethren at tered into the world, who confess not that JESUS Man and ABRAHAM to converse together after death, �
We are also indebted to Rev. JOHN Cox, of Wool- 
Ephesus, (Acts 20:29, 30,) "I know this, that after ClietsT is come in the flesh. This es a deceiver, and —it is the Lord JESUS CHRIST who does. If their wich, Eng., for favors by the last steamer. 
my departing shall grievous wolves enter in among an antichrist. . . If there come any unto you, and seeing and conversing proves them to have cerres- 
you, not sparing the flock. Also of your own selves bring not this doctrine, receive him not into your ponding organs, it is CHRIST, and not we, who neces- �
Bro. D. I. ROBINSON is now in Providence, R. I., 
shall men arise, speaking perverse things, to draw house, neither hid him GOD speed : effete that biddeth sitates that conclusion. That they must also have where he will labor two or three weeks. Bro. P. 
away disciples after them." And to the Corinthians him GOD speed, is partaker of his evil deeds.''-2 flesh, is your conclusion, and not ours; so that we HAWKES will supply his place in New York during 
he writes, (1 Cor. 11:19,) " For there must be John vs. 7, 10, 11. �
make no contradiction of the SAVIOUR'S declaration, his absence. 
Hallelujah through heaven will ring, salvation the 
theme, 
Glory, honor, and praise we'll sing to God and the 
Lamb; 
Crowns of glory wear, palms of victory we shall 
bear, 
Shouts of triumph there never shall end. 
T. 0. SMITH. 
THE DAY OF THE LORD. 
(Written fur the "Advent Herald" by J. Litchi 
(Concluded fromour last.) 
H. THE NEAR APPROACH OF THAT DAY — How 
KNOWN. 
" But ye, brethren, are not in darkness, that that 
day should overtake you as a thief." Thus wrote 
the apostle Paul to the church. But at the same 
time, he wrote of some on whom it would come as a 
thief. Th reason of the darkness of one class, and 
the light of the other, is found in themselves. The 
one, as well as the other, have the word'of God 
within their reach ; but the word dues not profit sin-
ners, not being mixed with faith in them that hear. 
The same instruction produces entirely different re-
sults on different classes of men. God has variously 
revealed the period for the coming of that day. 
By historical prophecy. He has dune this in a 
manner so unambiguous, that one must be wilfully 
blinded not to understand, when once his attention is 
called to it. 
He would teach us that he will set up a kingdom 
on earth ; and he does it by making known to the 
greatest Gentile monarch who ever lived certain 
events ; and then declaring to him by the mouth of 
his holy prophet, that it is a revelation of "what 
shall come to pass in the latter days."—Dan. 2d chap. 
The medium of communication with the king was by 
a symbolical vision, divinely interpreted. The sym-
bol was an image bearing the human form ; " its 
head of gold, breast and arms of silver, belly and 
thighs of brass, legs of iron, feet part of clay and 
part of iron. These were broken by a stone cut out 
without hands, which smote, broke in pieces, and 
destroyed the image. The stone then became a great 
mountain and filled the whole earth." The God of 
heaven had given to Nebuchadnezzar a kingdom, ex-
tending wherever the children of men dwell, the 
beasts of the field, or the fowls of heaven ; that is, 
over the entire globe. " Thou," said the prophet, 
" art this head of gold " How can this symbol be 
mistaken ? No language could be more explicit. 
The next portion, the silver, is thus defined. " Af-
ter thee shall arise another kingdom inferior to thee. 
And another third kingdom of brass, which shall 
bear rule over all the earth. And the fourth king-
dom shall be strong as iron." And thus the chain 
of empires has tun.-1. Chaldea. 2. Medo-Persia. 
Grecia. 4. Rome. This is all history, and who-
ever will may read it. Then follows the mixture of 
iron and clay, the the symbol of strength and weak-
ness, division and unity. This, too, is now matter of 
fact, and is in the past. The other symbols being 
exhausted, the stone, the symbol of the kingdom of 
God, is next in order, and the great day of the Lord 
will introduce it. That kingdom must be near, even 
at the door. 
A combination of prophetic time and historical 
prophecy, is another mode of revelation of the period 
for the introduction cf that day. 
An instance of its use is found in Dan. 8th chap. 
The symbols—a ram and a goat, with their various 
horns—were thus presented. The ram with two 
horns—the kings of Media and Persia. The goat—
the king of Grecia. The great horn—the first king. 
The four horns—four kings out of that kingdom.--
The little horn—a king of fierce countenance, who 
should destroy the mighty and the holy people, but 
who should be broken without hand. The Romans 
did destroy the Jewish nation, and the Roman gov-
ernment is now abolished and done away without 
hand, simply by the flight of the Pope. The time 
THE ADVENT HERALD. 
Correspondence, 
THE CONTRAST. 
I have sought round the verdant earth for unfading 
joy, 
I have tried every source of mirth, but all, all will cloy : 
Lord, bestow on me grace to set the Spirit free; 
Thine the praise shall be; mine, mine the joy. 
I have wandered in mazes dark, of doubt and distress, 
I have not had a kindling spark my spirit to bless; 
Cheerless unbelief filled my laboring soul with grief: 
What shall give relief? what shall give peace? 
I then turned to thy gospel, Lord, from folly away, 
I then trusted thy Holy Word, that taught me to 
pray ; 
Here I found release, weary spirit here found rest—
Hope of endless bliss, eternal day. 
I'm a pilgrim and stranger here, in this world of 
woe, 
But my Saviour is always near as onward I �
; 
Jesus is my friend, he'll be with me to the end, 
And from foes defend ; my spirit cheer. 
I have heard my Redeemer say, his promise is sure, 
He has hid me to watch and pray, all hardness en-
dure; 
Jesus, be my guide, in thy promise I'll confide, 
Keep me near thy side, my Life, my Way. 
I will praise now my heavenly King, I'll praise and 
adore, 
The heart's richest tribute bring to thee, God of 
power ; 
And in heaven above, saved by thy redeeming love, 
Loud the strains shall move, for evermore. 
was fixed in v. 14-2300 days. Beginning them 
with the commandment to restore and build Jerusa-
lem, as directed (Dan. 9 : 25), and adopting Usher's 
chronology for the date, B. c. 453, then 1847 years 
more fill the'period, and the year 1848 has witnessed 
the Roman revolution. We have thus another evi-
dence of the nearness of the day of the Lord. I 
will refer to one more evidence of its nearness. 
3. The gospel of the kingdom was to be preached 
in all the world for a witness to all nations; " then 
shall the end come." 
The gospel of the kingdom, as preached by John 
the Baptist (Matt. 3:1), by Christ (Mark 1:15), by 
the twelve apostles (Matt. 10th chap.), and by the 
seventy (Luke 10th chap.), was, " The kingdom of 
heaven is at hand." It was restricted entirely to the 
Jews.—" Go nut into the way of the Gentiles, and 
into any city of the Samaritans cutter ye not."—Matt. 
10:5. When this was done, Jesus came into Jerusa-
lem as King, to fulfil Zech. 9: 9, but was rejected, 
and he took the kingdom of God from the Jews.—
Matt. 21st. He then gave as a sign of his second 
coming, that this gospel of the kingdom shall be 
preached in all the world fur a witness to all nations. 
Then it was only preached to the Jews, because he 
was only sent to them at that time. But he is now 
corning for the benefit of all his people, and to exe-
cute judgment on all the ungodly. 
We live to witness the spread of the glad tidings 
of the kingdom in all nations ; a movement unknown 
in the history of the church, for extent of informa-
tion and distinctness of views on the subject of the 
kingdom of God on earth. Universal expectation is 
rife in reference to the events of futurity. We are, 
therefore, fully authorized, 
III, To SOUND THE ALARM, THAT ALL THE INHAB-
ITANTS OF THE LAND MAY TREMBLE. 
An alarm is notice of danger, for the purpose of 
arousing those to whom it is made, either to prevent 
or escape from the impending evil. A house is on 
fire ; we sound an alarm, that its inmates may either 
save the house, or escape the flames. But how should 
this alarm be made? 
By an appeal to the prophetic Scriptures, as to 
the events before us, and the signs which shall usher 
them in, and reference to the past and present state 
of the world in proof of its nearness. 
By showing both saint and sinner the impend-
ing danger, and by the most earnest and solemn ap-
peals to call on them to escape. 
Christians should lie awakened to watchfulness 
and prayer,—t holiness of heart and life, even that 
perfect love which casteth out fear which hath tor-
ment. 
Backsliders should be alarnted, lest that day should 
overtake them, aed find them fallen from their first 
love, and their candlestick be removed out of its 
place. How solemn the warning of Christ to such. 
Let them beware. Ministers should be alarmed in 
view of their solemn responsibilities, and the account 
they must give to God of their stewardship. " So 
thou, 0 son of man, I have set thee a watchman unto 
the house of Israel ; therefore thou shalt hear the 
word at my mouth, and wain them from me. When 
I say unto the wicked, 0 wicked man, thou shalt 
surely die ; if thou dust not speak to warn the wicked 
from his way, that wicked man shall die in his lei 
quity ; but his blood will 1 requite at thine hand. 
Nevertheless, if thou warn the wicked of his way to 
turn from it; if he do not turn from his way, he 
shall die in his iniquity ; but thou bast delivered thy 
soul."—Ezek. 33 : 7-9. They are either a savor of 
life unto life, or of death unto death. " And who is 
sufficient for these things?" 
Sinners should be alarmed by being warned of 
coming wrath. �
Coming, did I say ? It already 
abirleth on them, and will, with indignation, be ren-
dered to them in that great day of wrath. Their se-
cret sins will then find them )rut ; and all their disre-
gard for God arid their souls' salvation will stare 
them in the face. " This," saith the Lord to them, 
" shall ye have at my hand, to lie down in sorrow." 
" What shall it profit a man if he gain the whole 
world, and lose himself, or be cast away ?" 
The duty of all who have any faith in the nearness 
of that day, is an exceedingly plain one: earnestly, 
prayerfully, and affectionately to sound this great 
alarm. it is God's command that the sound should 
go forth, and who can object to its accomplishment? 
Who shall forbid, and say, Not so, Lord ; do nut 
disturb the quiet of sinners on the verge of ruin? 
THE PRESENT DISPENSATION. 
To the Editor of the " Advent Herald :" 
DEAR SIR :—In my last letter,* 1 showed that the 
question, whether. the world could be converted be-
fore the second advent of the Son of God, had been 
settled by our Lord himself', more than eighteen hun-
dred years ago, in the negative. Our Lord nut only 
shows, that when he shall come the second time, the 
earth shall be as corrupt as it was in the days of 
Noah and Lot; but he also shows that partial and 
growing corruption will characterize its state, vvith-
out a moment's intermission, horn the commencement 
of his public ministry, down to the very day on 
which " he shall be revealed in flaming fire, taking 
vengeance on them that know not God, and that obey 
not the gospel of our Load Jesus Christ." This 
truth is considered new and heterodox, and as such 
is rejected by the generality of professing Christians, 
as the " Christian Observatory " and the "Family 
Visitor " unequivocally testify. Well, my dear Sir, 
but it is the heterodoxy, nut of man, not of angels, 
no; it is the heterodoxy of the Lord Jesus Christ,—
of Him who speaketh the words of God, —of Him 
concerning whom God says, " This is my beloved 
Son, in whom I am well pleased ; hear Hint ;" and 
'The last but one, in the " Herald " of March 3(1. 
The note in connection with the last will explain.—ED. 
whose words shall judge us in the last day. And 
who are those who, on this subject, reject his sayings, 
and make him a false teacher? Who are they?—
They are not infidels; they are not profligates; they 
are not scoffers ; no ; they are followers of the dy-
ing Saviour ; they are, I believe, subjects of his 
mercy and his grace,—the purchase of his blood, 
and sharers of the grace of the Holy Spirit. And 
not only so, but they are teachers of others in the 
things of God. From the pulpit, and through the 
press, they communicate lessons of instruction to 
their fellow men, intended to promote their eternal 
welfare. Yet. these men publish statements which 
positively contravene the sayings of their Lord and 
Saviour, statements which, in their tendency, con-
vict the Son of God, the inspired apostles, and the 
best writers of the primitive church for three hun-
dred years after Christ, with error and falsehood. By 
this means they give proof, decided proof, of only 
partial illumination. The ardent disciple, Peter, 
confessed his faith in Christ as the Son of the living 
God ; but at the same tunic, would not hear of his 
sacrificial death. (Matt. 16:13-17, 22, 23.) In like 
manner, these Christian brethren believe in Jesus as 
the Son of God, and as the dying Redeemer of Mat-
kind ; but they are just as much misled upon the 
doctrine of our Lord's second advent, as Peter was 
respecting his Lord's atoning death. 'They should 
have tarried at Jerusalem a little hunger. 
I should lie happy in assisting my Christian breth-
ren in the attainment of more accurate views on this 
important subject; and to do this, if you approve of 
the project, will endeavor to ascertain the nature of 
the present dispensation ; the work of the Church 
during this present dispensation ; and the Scriptural 
extent and boundary of the success of that work. 
I. The nature of the present dispensation cannot 
be better defined nor stated, than in the words of 
Holy Writ. We shall turn to 
Acts 15. 13-17—" Amid after they had held their 
peace, James answered, saying, Men and brethren, 
hearken unto rne: Simeon * has declared how Gud 
at the first did visit the Gentiles, to take out of them 
a people for his name. Arid to this agree the words 
of the prophets; as it is written, After this I will 
return, and build again the tabernacle of David, 
which is fallen down ; and I will build again the 
ruins thereof, and set it up: that the residue of men 
might seek after the LOrd, and all the Gentiles, upon 
whom niy name is called, (or, who are called by my 
name,) saith the Lord, who doeth these things." f 
Rom. 11 : 17-27--" And if sortie of the branches 
be broken off, and thou, being a wild olive tree, wert 
graffed in among them, and with them partakest of 
the root and fatness of the olive-tree ; toast not 
against the branches �
But if thou boast. thou bear- 
est not the root, but the root thee. Thou wilt say 
then, The branches were broken off, that I might be 
graffed in. Well ; because of unbelief they were 
broken off, and thou standest by faith. Be not high-
minded, but fear : for if God spared not the natural 
branches, take heed lest he also spare not thee. Be-
hold therefOre the goodness and severity of God : on 
them which fell, severity ; but toward thee, goodness, 
if thou continue in his goodness: otherwise thou also 
shalt be cut off. And they also, if they abide not still 
in unbelief, shall he graffed in : for God is able to 
graft them in again. For if thou wert cut out of the 
olive-tree which is wild by nature, and wert graffed 
contrary to nature into a good olive-tree; how much 
more shall these, which be the natural branches, be 
grafFed into their owl I olive-tree? For I would not, 
* I lie adult! as Simon—meaning Simon Peter.—
ED. 
t Simeon, or Simon Peter, had just related to the 
conference assembled at Jerusalete, how the Holy 
Ghost had been given to Gentile converts, as well as 
to Jewish, and had put no difference between them, 
showing that the one should be saved even as the 
other. Then, after Paul and Barnabas had declared 
what miracles God had wrought among the Gentiles, 
James answered, arid repeats what Simeon, or Si-
mon Peter, had said, " how God at the first did visit 
the Gentiles, to take out of them a people for his 
name ," and he adds, " To this agree time words of 
the prophets." To what do the words of the prophet 
agree? To what Peter had just stated respecting 
the Gentiles hearing the word of the gospel and be-
lieving. What words of the prophets agree with 
that �
That which is written in Amos. By turning 
to 9:10, it will he seen that "all the sinners of my 
people shall die with the sword." This brings us to 
the consummation, when the Lord will be revealed, 
taking vengeance on them that know not God and 
obey riot the gospel. " In that day," the prophet 
says, " will I raise up the tabernacle of David that is 
fillen," &c. Then will the heir to David's throne 
receive the kingdom. When James says, " that the 
residue of men might seek after the Lord, and all the 
Gentiles upon whom my name is called," Amos has 
it, " that they may possess the remnant of Edorn, and 
of all the heathen which are called by my name, 
saith the Lord." The residue of men there embrace 
those from the Gentile nations, on whom the name of 
God has been called previous to the restoration of the 
kingdom. They are those, according to Amos, on 
whom the name of the Lord is called, whom be styles 
the remnant, because they are the ones who are left 
when " all the sinners " are destroyed—there being 
none left but the righteous, and who Paul says will 
be changed and glorified with the resurrected right-
eous at Christ's coming. It is then as Amos shows, 
that Israel is to be restored, to be planted in their 
own land, and to be no more pulled up out of it.—
The inhabitants of earth will then be a nation of 
priests, an holy nation, free from sin, sorrow, and 
corruption. God will have accomplished the number 
of his elect, and they will reign with him forever and 
ever.—ED. 
t That is, if they continue not in unbelief—not oth-
erwise —ED. 
brethren, that ye should be ignorant of this mystery, 
(lest ye should be wise in your own conceits,) that 
blindness in part is happened to Israel, until the ful-
ness of the Gentiles be come in.* And so all Israel 
shall be saved : as it is written, There shall come 
out of Sion [to Zion] the Deliverer, and shall turn 
away ungodliness from Jacob : for this is my cove-
nant unto them, when I shall take away their sins." f 
Matt, 21 : 42-44—" Jesus saith unto them, Did ye 
never read in t:te Scriptures, The stone which the 
builders rejected, the same is become the head of the 
corner : this is the Lord's doing, and it is marvellous 
in our eyes? Therefore say 1 unto you, The king-
dom of God shall be taken from you, arid given to a 
nation bringing forth the fruits thereof. And who-
soever shall fall on this stone shall be broken : but 
on whomsoever it shall fall, it will grind him to pow-
der." 
These passages teach its the nature and genius of 
the present dispensation ; and also w hat shall take 
place at the close of its course. We have in them 
the following paiticulars : 
1. The natural branches broken off, in consequence 
of unbelief. The gospel of the kingdom was first 
preached to the Jews by John the Baptist, by our 
Lord Jesus Christ, and by the apostles. (Matt. 3: 
2 ; 5 : 17 ; 10:7.) But they did not believe that Je-
sus was the Son of God ; they rejected him, and the 
gospel which he preached. The consequence was, 
the offer of the kingdom was withdrawn from them, 
and made to the Gentiles. These are now visited in 
mercy ; and out from among them God is taking a 
people for his name. The people thus taken out 
from among the Gentiles, are intended to be a kind 
of first fruits of his creatures. They are required to 
be witnesses for Christ during his absence horn the 
earth ; to share His reproach, while He is rejected 
and despised by men ; to suffer with Him and fur 
his sake, while they live ; and to secure the high 
dignity of being not subjects merely, but kings and 
priests in his glorious kingdom : a dignity to which 
none were called before the birth of Jesus Christ, 
and to which none will be, called after his second 
coming, of all the Jews and Gentile nations, which 
will then be gathered unto him. t They are ap-
pointed to a trying and severe probation ; but they 
are appointed also to a distinguished and high rewaid 
—the reward of being joint heirs with Jesus Christ: 
if we suffer with him, we shall also reign with him. 
This glory was offered first to the Jew's; but they 
lost it by rejecting the gospel of the kingdom, as 
preached by Jesus Christ and his apostles, and they 
have lost it forever. " Blindness hi part hall' hap-
pened to Israel until the fulness of the Gentiles be 
come in." " The kingdom of God is taken from 
them." It is true that they will be brought in after 
the Lord's coming, and after the first resurrection, 
with the nations that are saved; § and who, without 
being citizens of the heavenly Jerusalem, will walk 
in the light of the city. They will then enjoy a fe-
licity that eye hath nut seen, neither !math ear heard; 
but to the honor of reigning with Christ in his king-
dom—of sitting with him in his throne ; of eating 
and drinking at his table, and of bearing his mes-
sages of love, and light, and truth to every part of 
his doniinion, they will never be exalted. They will 
never rise to a higher character than that of subjects 
* The fulness of the Gentiles is literally, " the full 
number of the Gentiles." When their full number 
has been completed, not another Gentile can be ad-
ded ; and till that time, blindness has happened to 
Israel.—ED. 
t. By turning to Isa. 59 : 20, 21, where this is 
written, we get a more perfect understanding of it. 
We there reads that " The Redeemer shall come to 
Zion, and unto them that turn from transgression in 
Jacob." He comes not to those w ho do not turn 
away from their sins. Then God adds: " This is 
my covenant v)itli them, [with those who have turned 
from their sins,] my Spirit that is upon thee, and my 
words which 1 have put in thy mouth shall not de-
part out of thy mouth, nor out of the mouth of thy 
seed, nor out of the mouth of thy seed's seed, saith 
the Lord, from hencefoith and forever." It is thus 
that all Israel are to be saved : the pious of that na-
tion are ushered into an eternal and immortal inherit-
ance, when God destroys all the sinners from among 
them ; or as Isaiah has it, " when the Lord will re-
pay fury to his adversaries." " When the enemy 
conies in like a flood, the Spirit of the Lord shall lift 
up a standard against them ;" and after that, all %%Ito 
remain " shall fear the name of the Lord from the 
west, and his glory from the rising of the sun."—ED. 
t In taking the offer from the Jews, we do not 
understand that they were precluded from any of the 
blessings conferred on the Gentiles. According to 
Peter, at the conference of the apostles at Jerusalem, 
the Holy Ghost was conferred alike on both each 
was to be saved like the other. They did not fall 
below the level of other nations, but to a level with 
them : thenceforth the offers of mercy were alike to 
all. Before the birth of Christ, the people taken out 
for his name had been principally from among the 
Jews. Now, a people was to be taken from other 
nations; all of whom—those before as well as those 
after Christ—are to be exalted to the same dignity in 
his kingdom,—excepting, as one star may differ from 
another star in glory. And after the advent, as all 
the sinners are then to be destroyed, arid all the right-
eous to be glorified, none can be added, so that all 
the saved will then.receive their eternal reward.—ED. 
§ We get no evidence that the nations who are 
saved, embrace any other than those who before the 
advent have complied with the conditions of salva-
tion. All others, Jew and Gentile, will alike per-
ish before the face of an angry God : their ashes 
shall be trampled under the feet of the saints. Con-
sequently, we dissent from the inferences which are 
made respecting the condition and office of such as 
shall be subsequently added.—ED. 
THE ADVENT HERALD. �
63 
whenever requested, the Baptist church was opened 
for Advent preaching. 
Between two amid three years since, in a conversa-
tion with the writer on the subject of his age and 
hed.ly weakness, he expressed a conviction that he 
should not live long, and wished me, at his death, to 
come up and preach his funeral sermon from Phil. 3: 
20, 21,—" For our conversation is in heaven ; from 
whence also we look for the Saviour, the Lord Jesus 
Christ : who shall change our vile body, that it may 
be fashioned like unto his glorious body, according to 
the working whereby be is able even to subdue all 
things unto himself,''—which request was complied 
with on Saturday last (Feb. 24111). " Let me die the 
death of the righteous, and let my last end be like 
Ills." �
J. L. 
of his kingdom, for he is to reign over the house of 
Jacob for ever. The glory which they, by rejecting 
Christ, have forfeited, is reserved for those whom 
God is now taking from among the Gentiles, and 
who shall prove so wise as to secure a part in the first 
resurrection. And when these people are taken out, 
who are called by God to his kingdom and glory, the 
present dispensation ends. 
At the end of this dispensation the Lord will re-
turn ; yes, the Scriptures teach that he will return to 
a place where he has been before : " His feet shall 
stand in that day upon the Mount of Olives, which is 
before Jerusalem on the east." Then " He will 
build again the tabernacle of David, which is fallen 
down; and he will set it up." And then will he ful-
filled, in literal truth, the Divine prediction, " 'When 
the Lord shall build up Zion, he shall appear in his 
glory." Israel will then look upon him whom they 
have pierced, and mourn. As a nation, they will 
then be converted to God ; and Jerusalem, so long a 
scene of de.olation, shall be re-builded, and become 
a praise in the earth.* 
When these things have taken place, and the mer-
ciful purposes of God shall have been fulfilled in re-
lation to Israel, then the residue of men, and all the 
Gentiles, shall seek after the Lord. 
Then the king-
dom of God will be established in the earth, and the 
knowledge of the Lord shall cover the earth, as the 
waters cover the sea. Such is the order of the dis-
pensations of Divine Wisdom, in relation to our fallen 
world. [First : Israel being laid aside through unbe-
lief, God, by the preaching of the gospel, takes out 
train the Gentiles a people for himself, who are in-
tended to reign as kings and priests in the heavenly 
kingdom. When this is done, Christ returns to raise 
and reward his waiting people. Secondly : The 
Lind manifests himself to Israel, delivers them out 
of their last state of suffering, and restores them to 
the Divine favor. Thirdly : The remaining Gentiles 
are brought to the knowledge of the truth ; the 
Spirit is poured out upon all flesh ; and the kingdom 
of God is established among men.t —( To be' con- 
tinued.) �
OMICRON. 
• 
LETTER FROM H. BURSELL. 
and not immortal ; and even amongst the post-mil-
lennialists themselves there are essential differences : 
some of them believe that the world will all become 
righteous, while others believe that there will still be 
a mixture,—the wheat and tares will still grow to-
gether, which will make out in all a very imperfect 
millennium ; while others are looking for the personal 
advent of the blessed Saviour, to set up his everlasting 
kingdom. Truly, such essential difference of opinion 
proves that the world is full of darkness ; were it out 
so, there would be hannotty on those points which 
are so essential to onr future state and condition. 
Truly, darkness has covered the earth, and gross 
darkness the minds of the people ; yet we hear from 
some teachers of the day, tidings of light spreading 
throughout the world, who also can boast of the dif-
fusion of the word of God throughout the world ; and 
by missionary operations, such expect soon to convert 
the world. If these would but read the periodicals of 
the day, and let the truth impress their minds with 
regard to the real state and condition of the world, 
I verily think they would tremble while attempting 
to cover up the corruptions of the world in the mantle 
of light. 
Dear brother, it is a dark time, is it not night ? 
truly the works of darkness are manifest all around 
us, even in this land of Bibles, where thousands of 
teachers, or expositors, are employed in the work of 
reforming mankind from their corruptions. As the 
Jewish dispensation closed up in midnight gloom, so 
in like manner will the gospel dispensation close. 
According to Bible statements, John was sent as the 
forerunner of Christ, to prepare his way, to testify 
of hint, and so leave the people without excuse ; for 
John was that Elias which was to come and testify 
that it was he; and so in like manner was evidence 
to be given of the Saviour's second advent into the 
world. The first harbinger was a prophet, even 
Elias, but the second is that of an " angel flying in 
the midst of heaven, having the everlasting gospel to 
preach unto them that dwell on the earth, and to 
every nation, and kindred, and tongue, and people, 
saying with a loud voice, Fear God, and give glory 
to him ; for the hour of his judgment is come."—Rev. 
14:6, 7. Mark, this harbinger is not a prophet, but 
an angel, showing us that the subject which he was 
proclaiming was yin prophecy ; for the very hour of 
his judgment was come. Has this proclamation been 
given, or has it not? This is a question which we 
ought to determine : if this angel has not yet sounded, 
we may be sure the present dispensation cannot pass 
until he does ; but if he has, and is still sounding 
through the nations of the earth, where do we stand? 
Near the judgment. Truly, a voice answering to 
this angers proclamation has been, and yet is heard, 
throughout the earth, which I verily believe will 
never cease, till he come whose right it is to reign. 
I feel truly thankful that notwithstanding the dense 
gloom of the night, that there are a few watchmen 
on the walls who are not slumbering as do others ; 
though these are but few in number, yet their voice 
is loud and clear, so that when the traveller inquires, 
Watchman, what of the night? a clear voice responds, 
The night is far spent, the day is at hand. Watchman, 
what of the night? The morning cornett' ; for lo ! we 
see the rays of the day star appear. I perceive that 
there never was a time when so much responsibility 
rested on the watchmen as at the present time. May 
God keep us faithful to our duty, until the time come 
when we shall see eye to eye in that glorious, immor-
tal, and everlasting kingdom, of the blessed Son of 
God. I am yours in the blessed hope of the coining 
kingdom. 
Georgeville (C. E.), March 9, 1849. 
FEMALE PRAYER MEETINGS. 
Obituary. 
DIED, of pulmonary consumption, in Trenton, N. 
J., Felt. 18, 1849, Sister LAMANTHA E. WISE, wife 
of Bro. James Wise, aged 38 years, leaving a bus-
baud and seven children behind to mourn her depart-
ure, but not to sorrow as those who have no hope. 
For many years Sister W. was a member of the M. 
E. Church, beloved by all who had the pleasure of 
her acquaintance. In 1843, when she heard the glad 
tidings of the Kingdom, she embraced with her whole 
heart the comforting, hope, and has ever held fast the 
profession of her faith without wavering, although 
she was called to drink deeply of the cup of sorrow 
and trial, on account of her faith in the speedy com-
ing of the Saviour, yet no persuasion, enticement, nor 
frown could move her. She has, during the last year, 
had many importunate and earnest solicitations to re-
turn to the bosom of the church. But she felt a deep 
conviction of duty, binding her to her despised faith, 
which it would be treason to abandon in the midst of 
such opposition as it endured in Trenton. In one of 
my last communications with her, she spoke particu-
larly on this subject ; related the inducements which 
had been set before her, but said she could not think 
it would be right,- while the doctrine was so much op-
posed, to even seem to abandon it. It was her dying 
request, that the writer should preach her funeral ser-
mon from 1 Thess. 4:13, 14. The second Baptist 
church was kindly proffered for the occasion, and the 
funeral services were held there. 
As the hour of tier departure drew near, and she 
felt that she must soon close her eyes in death, she 
earnestly desired a clear and triumphant assurance of 
her interest in the Saviour, and title to the inherit-
ance. She said she had no fear of death, or wish 
that it should he otherwise than it was; that for her 
to depart and lie with Christ would be far better, and 
was her choice. " The adversary," she said, " tried 
to destroy her confidence, by telling her that the Lord 
would leave her at the close. But she could not be-
lieve that after the Lord had converted her from sin, 
borne with her short-comings, and so often healed her 
hackslidings, that he would leave her in the end. On 
Friday morning, the 16th ult., her mind was full of 
comfort and peace, so that she exclaimed, " Sorrow 
may endure fur a night, but joy cometh in the 
morning ;" and thus continued to the end. Sabbath 
afternoon, about an hour before her death, her hus-
band took hold of her hands, and finding them cold, 
he pressed her fingers, and asked if she felt it? She 
replied, " Yes." She said, " Do you think I shall 
go to-day?" He answered, " Yes, I think you will." 
"0, praise the Lord!" was her joyful reply. Then 
hearing a noise which she regarded as an omen of 
her speedy departure; she again exclaimed, " 0, joy-
ful sound !" and soon after fell asleep in Jesus, to 
come with her descending Lord. What has the world 
to boast like this? �
JOSIAH ',ITCH. 
P. S. Sister W. was a native of La Cole, C. E., 
where her brothers now reside, by the name of Will-
son. Papers in that vicinity will confer a favor by 
publishing this notice. �
J. L. 
DIED, in Upper Marion township, near Morris-
town, Pa., Bro. PHINEAS PHILIPS, aged about 73 
years. " Mark the perfect man, and behold the up-
right, for the end of that man is peace." For nearly 
half a century our departed brother has been a disci-
ple of the Saviour, and member of the Baptist 
church in Morristown. There are few men whose 
lives have so fully exemplified the Christian charac-
ter fig the same length of time. His religion was of 
that pure and undefiled character spoken of by St. 
James, which visits the fatherless and widowed in 
their affliction, and keeps its possessor unspotted 
from the world. Such has been his character through 
life. Having no family of his own, the poor and 
needy have been the objects of his careful solicitude ; 
and ths continued to the last to be his aim. In the 
disposition of his property, poor neighbors were re-
membered, rather than rich relatives. But although 
his life has been spent in good works, he had no con-
fidence in them as a ground of justification before 
God. Christ and his righteousness were his only 
plea, and only hope. In full confidence of a glorious 
resurrection, he sweetly and peacefully fell asleep on 
Thursday, 'Feb. 22d, 1849. 
Although Bro. P. was a most firm adherent to the 
Advent faith, and had preaching in his house and 
neighborhood on every occasion when convenient, he 
never felt himself called to leave the church of which 
he was a member, because he was always allowed the 
full and free exercise of his own conscience. And 
DIED, in Sanbornton, N. H., Jan. 2d, 1849, sister 
ABIGAIL B. FORD, daughter of Wm. B. Ford, in the 
31st year of her age. Sister Ford experienced a 
change of heart about nine years ago, under the la-
bors of Rev. Sylvester P. Williams, and joined the 
M. E. church in Concord. Soon after her conversion, 
there was an Advent tent meeting in the place, (held, 
I believe, by Bro. 1. E Jones,) and that she might 
be able to judge for herself with regard to the doc-
trines and usages of Adventists, she attended ; and 
the result was, so far as I have been able to learn, 
she became a thorough and consistent believer in the 
immediate appearing of the Son of Man from heaven. 
In the truth of this doctrine, she remained firm unto 
the last, saying, that though her body should be laid 
in the grave, her sleep there would be short. And 
DEAR BRO. HIMES :—Through the medium of the 
Advent Herald, I have become somewhat familiar 
with your inflexible adherence to the truth, which I 
hope you will still maintain with the same fortitude 
as you have done to the present. I feel induced to 
drop a line to you, because I feel a measure of that 
freedom which centres in the truth, and ye shall 
know the truth, and the truth shall make you free. 
Dear brother, my object is not to dictate, but 
rather to encourage you, in the great and glorious 
work which you are engaged in, and in viewing the 
aspect of the times I see a need of brother strength-
mug the hand of his brother, while upholding the 
troth before a wicked and a gainsaying generation. 
(11.3 pros mt aepect bespeak we are in a dark 
age of the world, though this view on the subject 
no doubt will he threatened with general contempt. 
I heard a minister, a few days ago, state to the con-
gregation, that the world never stood so high in point 
of Christianity as at present ; he furthermore stated, 
that Coristianity stood ten-fold better now than it did 
twenty years ago. I was astonishsd to hear such a 
statement from a learned minister, and more so when 
such evident proofs are made manifest that the woilts 
of darkness are prevailing. While he wan making 
this statement. the saying of the prophet rushed into 
my mind, " Woe unto them that call evil good, and 
glued evil, that put darkness for light, and light for 
darkness."—Isa. 5:20. Again, " Behold, darkness 
shall cover the earth, and gross darkness the minds 
of the people." It was a time of gross darkness 
when the Saviour made his first advent into the 
world. Though he was the light of the world, yet 
the world was in such darkness that they comprehend-
ed it nut; and through this blindness of heart, they 
rejected the Saviour ; notwithstanding John was sent 
before him to prepare his way, as a witness of his 
light, yet the minds of the people were so darkened 
by their carnal superstition, that they were quite 
unprepared for his reception. But leaving his first, 
we will turn our attention to his second advent. With 
regard to the time, with a few exceptions, there is no 
essential difference ; nearly all Bible students are 
agreed that we are near this event, yet the great es-
sential difference is in the event itself: the great 
majority believe in the post-millennium, and, there-
fore, are looking for the Saviour's advent in the 
spirit only ; and that his kingdom will be spiritual, 
* The prediction of their looking on him whom 
they have pierced, is found in Zech. 12:10; but in-
stead of its being fulfilled at the second advent, the 
evangelist expressly applies it to the time of the cru-
cifixion. For when he was pierced, and his limbs 
n t broken, John records that, " These things were 
done that the scripture should be fulfilled, A bone of 
him shall not he broken. And again another scrip-
titre saith, They shall look on hint whom they 
pierced." 
At that time the new Jerusalem will take the place 
of the old ; but there is no intimation that any mercy 
will then be extended to the unconverted of that na-
tion, more than of other nations: all the wicked will 
God destroy The pious only have anything to hope 
for in the coming and kingdom of our Lord Jesus 
Christ."—ED. 
t This view makes a mingling of saints and sinners 
in the kingdom of God. Our view restores man back 
to the condition he was in before the fall. The first 
has deterred many in this country from turning their 
attention to the subject of the Advent. A distin-
guished clergyman said to us a short time since, when 
informed that our view did not embrace the restore-
!toe of the unconverted, or of man in a mortal state, 
your view takes from the question of the personal 
reign of Christ a vast incumbrance."—ED. 
DEAR BRO. HIMES :—I have felt a little disposed 
several times to write a few lines in favor of female 
prayer meetings, since I noticed the request of a sis-
ter through the " Herald." 
Since the first year of our labor in the Advent 
cause, we have endeavored to sustain a female prayer 
meeting. On our return front the Albany Conference 
in 1845, we boarded with a widow sister, who kindly 
gave us the privilege of appointing a meeting at her 
house. After a few meetings, it was deemed advisa-
ble to meet in a more central place. These meetings 
were continued with much profit for some time. 
During the summer of 1846 we labored in Port-
land: Here, also, we gave notice of a female prayer 
meeting, and, although our numbers never exceeded 
five, we found the Lord always blessed us in meet-
ing. Those who did meet, were enabled to love with 
a pure heart more fervently. I often think of Sister 
Edmunds, at whose house we held our meetings (but 
who is now sleeping in Jesus). She always ex-
pressed herself with gratitude in reference to the 
meetings. 
On our return to Providence in the fall, the prayer 
meeting was re-established, and continued until our 
removal to a distant part of the city rendered it in- 
convenient for the sisters to meet; but on removing 
to the house we now occupy, we have a meeting 
where from five to eleven sisters meet once a week. 
As to the general good resulting from these meetings, 
we have it for the future to develope. As to the par- 
ticular good, we feel ourselves greatly blessed, our 
hearts more closely united. It increases our spirit of 
watchfulness. Among those who generally meet are 
several who seldom, if ever, gain strength sufficient 
to confess their taith in a more public meeting of 
brethren and sisters. Here they feel free to speak, 
free to pray. Seldom a meeting passes without much 
manifestation of broken hearts, and contrite spirits. 
For my part, I would rather part with many tempo-
ral blessings, than with this great source of spiritual 
good. Some argue that it is an excuse or cloak for 
the backward ones, in making a more public confes- 
sion. I think not—at least, it is not among us. Our 
meetings have quite a different result. It has enabled 
some to gather strength to commit themselves more 
publicly. Front the spirit generally manifested, much 
good must result from these meetings. A season of 
prayer (wherein all take part) is generally followed 
by several exhortations—then close with singing. 
There never was a time when the children of God 
needed to watch and pray more constantly and fer-
vently than now. And every means of strength and 
growth in grace is highly to be prized, especially 
those means by which we are enabled to strengthen 
the feeble, and confirm the weak. �
Your sister �
in 
Christ �
L. E. FASSETT. 
Pro S. t. RONEY writes from Enfield (Ct.), underdate of March 
tith, 1849. 
DEAR BRO. HIMES :—We all need to exercise pa-
tience while passing through various trials, perils, 
&c., waiting for our blessed reward. 0 that patience 
may have its perfect work. There seems to be an 
interest awakening in this vicinity upon the subject 
that " is everywhere spoken against," viz., " The 
Lord is at hand." Many are inquiring, " Are these 
things so?" May the Lord help them to arrive at 
the right conclusion—that the kingdom of God is 
nigh at hand—and be prepared accordingly. 
Yours in hope. 
DIED, in Fallsington, Buck's Co., Pa., of con-
sumption, Sister MARY ANN HERRON, wife of Bro. 
Geo. Herron, in the 22d year of her age. For the 
last year Sister H. has been a devoted disciple of 
Christ, steadfastly looking for that blessed hope, the 
glorious appearing of the great God and our Saviour 
Jesus Christ ; and in that faith and hope she departed 
this life on the 29th of January, 1849, thus early es-
caping the sorrows of this life, and rests from all her 
labors, and her works follow her. I saw her about 
four days before her death, and found her calm and 
tranquil in prospect of her dissolution, with no doubt 
of her interest in Christ. She has lett a husband 
and a child to feel her loss. The Lord sustain them. 
J. L. 
DIED, in Stanstead, C.W., March 1st, of consump-
tion, CORRILLA FOSTER, daughter of Bro. Willard 
and Sister Abigail Woon, nearly 15 years of age. 
She found her Saviour some weeks before her death. 
She was an only daughter, and every way worthy of 
the ardent love of her parents, as well as of all who 
knew her. None could visit her in her last sickness, 
without feeling that her Saviour was with her, to sus- 
tain her in a most glorious manner. Not a cloud in- 
terposed to damp her joy. Her mind was carried 
above the fear of death, or the frown of the grave. 
Her theme was Christ, and the joys of heaven. Her 
parents partook of the same blessing, and when they 
came to the long-dre ided hour of separation, it was 
rendered the most glorious of all, by the abundant 
presence and grace of God. Such an house or mourn-
ing I have not witnessed in all my pilgrimage; and 
I can say, if I must die before the coming of the 
Lord, let me die the death of the righteous. 
The funeral was attended at Derby Line, at St. 
John's church, which was filled with attentive hear- 
ers, who sensibly felt that a lovely flower had faded in 
their midst. 1 hope this affliction will be sanctified 
to the good of many. Several youth and children 
came forward for prayers on Monday evening follow-
ing, and two or three professed to find peace. " Af-
flictions, though they seem severe, in mercy oft are 
sent." May God sustain the parents, and prepare 
them, with the only remaining child, to nieet their 
loved one in the first resurrection. �I. H. S. 
And is our dear Connie. gone, 
Awhile to slumber in the tomb— 
Until our blessed Lord return, 
To raise her in immortal bloom? 
And shall we now our loss deplore? 
No : hope forbids us to complain ; 
Corrilla 's gone awhile before— 
But yet we hope to meet again. 
Corrilla sleeps in calm repose, 
No sigh can heave her peaceful breast; 
A stranger now to human woes, 
She waits to share the promised rest, 
Ah ! what a consolation this, 
To think upon that happy day, 
When God, for Christ's sake, gave her peace, 
And took her gloomy fears away. 
In sweet reflection yet we view, 
The happiness she then possessed, 
Until she bade this world adieu, 
And fell asleep on Jesus' breast. 
And has Corrilla left us here? 
And will she not return again? 
Yes, sure when Christ our Lord appear, 
We'll see her with that glorious train. 
Then let us dry our mournful tears, 
And hasten to that blissful day, 
When Christ, with all his saints, appears, 
And things of time are past away. 
Then let us hail that happy day, 
When friends in Jesus sweetly -meet ; 
When former things are past away, 
Then we shall fair Corrilla greet. 
That happy day begins to dawn, 
Yes, signs declare it very near ; 
Then let us hail that happy morn, 
And patient wait till Christ appear. 
H. BURSELL. 
64 �
THE ADVENT HERALD. 
as the lamp of life grew dim, and the pulse beat low, 
she drew her dear father, mother, brothers, and sis-
ters to her, embraced and kissed them, exhorted them 
to faithfulness, and bade them an affecionate farewell. 
May the Lord prepare her mourning friends to see 
her, with all the saints, in the kingdom of God. 
0. G. SMITH. 
DIED, at my residence, Milford, Mass., the 23d of 
February, Vie. WILSON, a native of Glasgow, Scot- 
land, aged 34 years. �
R. N1CKLE. 
Editorial Correspondence. 
BRO. BLISS :—We arrived here from Cooperstown, 
by the way of Utica, travelling about eighty-five 
miles. The journey was more pleasant, having bet-
ter " stages," although the roads were bad, than 
from Albany to Cooperstown. Our conference at C., 
like some others we have attended, resembled the ses-
sions of our national Congress, at least, in one par-
ticular—most of the business was done near the close 
of the.session. We are happy to say, however, that 
there was no want of a disposition to work on the 
part of members, until that time; nor was there at 
any time any want of " order." We occupied the 
Baptist church from Wednesday till Sunday evening, 
though but few were present except Adventists, who 
resided in and near the village, till Friday and Satur-
day evenings and on Sunday. The circumstances 
were more adverse than ordinary. Besides the strong 
popular prejudice, which feeds on every invented or 
real fault of professed Adventists, which always 
proves itself right by proving that somebody else is 
wrong, and which in this place seems to have taken 
a stronger type than usual, there had been a most 
outrageous incendiary fire in the village a few days 
before our meeting, which was of absorbing public 
interest; and as it broke up the business of Bro. 
McEwEN, the particular notice of the meeting he in-
tended to have given was omitted. The travelling 
also was extremely bad. The meeting was very 
gratifying to the brethren and friends who did attend, 
and we hope that some good results will be realized. 
Bro. HIMES visited Hardwick, one of the villages 
in the neighborhood, where an academy is located, on 
Friday evening, and preached to a numerous and 
deeply attentive congregation. 
We hope Goo will reward the noble liberality of 
our brethren with whom we met at Cooperstown. 
On arriving at Utica, we tried to find some of our 
brethren,. but the few who had not gone into some 
form of spiritualism, were out of town, so that we 
did not see any one of them. 
Mr. and Mrs. SMITH were absent when we arrived 
here, he being called to plead for the temperance 
cause before a committee of the Legislature at Al-
bany ; but we were expected, and every arrangement 
was made for our welcome, so that we soon felt our-
selves very much at home. They came home towards 
night. The meetings commenced here this afternoon 
with a good congregation, for the first meeting.—
There is but one family of professed Advent believ-
ers in this place, though there are quite a number 
who have taken a good,deal of interest in the subject, 
among whom are Mr. and Mrs. SMITH. They tell 
us that they consider a particular recognition of the 
great fact of the personal advent of our LORD as hav-
ing a most important bearing on Christian character ; 
that they have been surprised at the development of 
unbelief on this plain truth, which has been so gene-
rally made of late by professed Christians and minis-
ters; and that they think there are serious reasons 
for believing the coming of the LORD to be very 
near. 
Peterboro' (N. Y.), March 14th, 1849. 
P.S. 15th.—We have only time to say, before 
sending to the Post-office, that the congregation last 
evening, although the weather was very stormy, was 
large and deeply attentive. We hope for a good 
conference. 
DEAR BRO. HIMES — What think you of our 
translation of 2 Thess. 2 : 8, 9? Is not the impotioact 
of the 9th verse the same as that of the 8th? The 
translators, by supplying an imaginary ellipsis, (" even 
him,") make the relative pronoun on to refer to the 
lawless one. With your leave, I would propose ren-
dering the passage thus :—" And then shall be made 
manifest that lawless one, whom the Lord will con-
sume with the breath of his mouth, and destroy with 
the brightness of his coming ; whose coming is dur-
ing the active operation of Satan in all power, and 
signs, and lying wonders." It seems to me, that our 
translators must have been laboring under a. false idea 
concerning the state of the world at the second corn-
ing of our Lord, and therefore thought there was an 
absolute necessity for departing from the general rule 
respecting relative pronouns, as to their relation to 
the nearest antecedent. Now, it is very evident that 
the pronoun on refers to the Lord, as that is the near-
est antecedent ; and also, as the revelation, or disclo-
sure of that " Wicked," is not called a 7rapovatct. 
You will see that I substitute " during " for " after,'' 
because the preposition XCGTce corning before an accu-
sative, requireS to be rendered by a word thatconvoys 
the idea of opposition to, against, at the time, &c. I 
have rendered gwEryway "active operation," because 
" working" dues not convey the idea sufficiently 
strong. It implies an extraordinary effort, even su-
pernatural, as Eccles defines it; and we must sup-
pose that Satan will exert something like a super-
natural influence over the world, when he shall per-
suade the-beast and the kings of the earth to gather 
together, to make war against him that sits on the 
horse, and against his army. Rev. 19:19, and 17:14. 
I am yours, looking for his coining, 
W. HACKING. 
Sharon (C. W.), March 10th, 1847. 
REMARKS.—The word rendered " coming " is the 
same in both texts. Your criticism and rendering 
may be just. Still, if the 7th verse is exegetical of 
the 8th, the pronoun would nut necessarily refer to 
the LORD. That wicked one is to appear, and his 
appearing is after the working of Satan, &e. The 
words " even him," are superfluous in either case. 
As the present translation makes sense, it may be 
well enough to abide by it. Dr. WEBSTER and WES-
LEY retain it. We have not had time to consult any 
other. The word Iceava is nowhere rendered " dur-
ing" in the New Testament ; consequently, we 
should be afraid to take that liberty with it. Its gene-
ral meaning is " like," " according to," &e. It is 
sometimes rendered " against ;" and if it would bear 
this use in that connection, it would agree equally 
well with your view of the pronoun. We should, 
however, favor the present translation. The scope 
of vs. 9-11 seems to justify it.—ED. 
THE DAYS OF THE WEEK.—The reckoning of 
time seems to have travelled both eastward and west-
ward from the region of Palestine. A writer speak-
ing of Russian America, says : 
" The names of the days of their week have 
marched eastwardly around the world, and hence 
their Sunday is the Saturday of the Oregonians.—
The same day is called, and with propriety too, both 
Sunday and Saturday, from America westward of 
China.—Through THE CENTER of the Pacific, civili-
zation has traveled westward, and hence at the Sand-
wich Islands, the Ladrone Islands, and the Philippine 
Islands, the day is Saturday : while both through 
the Southern Pacific, from Society Islands to Aus-
tralia, and through the Northern Pacific from Russian 
America, through the Aleutian and Kuri!e Islands to 
China, civilization has traveled eastward, and the day 
is Sunday. These facts will stand as historical mon-
uments; they show that the eastern and western 
streams of civilization have overleaped each other 
more than 6,600 miles! Their explanation to coun-
tries yet unknown will make lucid the great point in 
past history, when Christianity first belted the 
globe." 
PRINCIPLE.—Never confide in the principle of a 
timid man. He who has no courage cannot be said 
to have principle ; he may be disposed to virtue, and 
may prefer good to evil, but he is the sport of chance, 
and the slave of circumstances. What avails the best 
inclinations, if resolution be wanting to put their in 
practice? A feeble and irresolute man, who means 
well, is more dangerous than an audacious and con-
firmed villain. You know the latter, arid are on your 
guard against him ; you rely upon the good intentions 
of the former, and discover too late, like tie son of 
Israel, that he is unstable as water, and shall not ex-
cel. A timid man can never become great ; if he 
possesses talent, he can never apply it ; lie is tram-
pled upon by the envious, and awed by the swagger-
ing; he is thrust from.the direct path which alone 
leads to honor and fame, by every aspirant who pos-
sesses more spirit than himself. 
OF the 860 to whom we sent bills in December, 395 
are still to he heard from. We know not what to 
think of these. If they are poor, it is an easy mat-
ter to say so, and have their indebtedness cancelled. 
If they are able to pay, is it honest to withhold it ? 
VVe hope nut to be obliged to send bills to any of 
them again. 
THE first translation of the Hebrew Bible into 
Greek, called the Septuagint, was made by order of 
PTOLEMY PHILADELPHUS, two hundred and seventy-
seven years' before CHRIST. Seventy-two interpret-
ers were engaged, and it was completed in seventy-
two days. 
The first concordance to the Bible was made under 
the direction of HUGO DE ST. CHARO, who employed 
five hundred monks upon it, in A. D. 1247. 
THE Newburyport Christian Herald promises to 
improve the next volume of that paper, by having less 
editorial, and a greater variety of original matter!! 
SUMMARY. 
" I ain an apostate angel, whom mercy never reached, and never 
can." "This was not done through fright, but for Want of more 
light." These were the inscriptions with which Mr. Titus Bishop 
decorated a board fir his barn, where he hung himself on the lith. 
He Was 70 years old, and an upright citizen, but despaired of the life 
hereafter. 
In Pawtucket, an only son named Knight was thrown by another 
lad named Ramsbottom, and killed by his head striking a stone.-
They were about 7 years old each. 
A mysterious mortal disease prevails in Sutton ; it is like spotted 
fever, and also like cholera. 
Martin K. Snell, Postmaster at Houston, Texas, was shot dead 
recently by his step-son, aged 15 years. The cause is reported to be 
dilliculty with his wile, the !collier of the lad. 
The perfect skeleton of an Indian woman has been found in a sand 
bank at Niagara Falls, which is supposed to have remained there 
20f) years. 
On Saturday Michael Turbin, employed in lowering goods into the 
hold of a bark at Rowe's wharf, was struck by the winch handle 
upon tine head. He was carried to his home, corner of Broad street 
and Cotton-place, where he died in about an hour and a half, his 
skull having been fractured. Be leaves a family. 
Michael Ferry was found dead on the East Boston fiats, in the ice, 
between IA ood Island and North Chelsea. He had been missing 
since Feb. 4th. He was au Irishman, 22 years of age, with no 
tastily. Verdict, accidental drowning. 
In Pittsburg, Mr. William B. Scarfe stuck a brass pin into his fin-
ger while (liming, was seized with excruciating pains, and was ex-
pected to die in consequence. 
Macksauba, chief of the Ottawa Indians, was frozen to death a 
short time since in Michigan. 
A man trained Philip Botterfeldt was found frozen to death near 
Hanover, Pa., oil the 1st fist. 
A brakeman on the Lowell Railroad was severelyinjured by strik-
ing his head against a bridge. Be was taken to the hospital, and is 
itow dole; well. On the same road, an Irishwoman was run over 
and killed. 
Vermont has just voted largely against licensing the sale olintoxi-
rating liquors. 
The Mayor of New York, in a special message to the Common 
Council, advises measures to stop the sale on Sunday in a considera-
ble degree, by restraining all but iiinholders. 
As winter yields unto the balmy spring, 
So shall die icy bows of death give way, 
Vvo lien Oil earth's slumbering myriads breaks 
The glory of the resurrection day ; 
And hearts that chill'd beneath affection's wing, 
Like tender Bowels in Small December's gloom, 
Shall drink the sunlight of a cloudless sky 
Beyolid the crumbling portals of the tomb. 
A young seats, estranger, who went to Washington to witness the 
inauguration, was found murdered on the tow-path of the canal, 
near the atmeduct leading to Alexandria, Va. His hat was manufac-
tured in Massachusetts. He was well dressed. 
The Connecticut Charter.-This venerable document has for a 
long time past been hanging in a Irame in, the Chamber of the Secre-
tary of State at Hartlbrd. It has recently been placed in a new arid 
elegant frame, made of the wood of the Charter Oak, in which it 
lay concealed, so that in a certain' sense the Charter has returned to 
its former guartilaishio. 
It was a golden query of Dr. Franklin, in answer to one of the im-
portunate letters of Torn Paine, that " if men were so wicked with 
religion, what would they be without it ?" 
The "Jewish Chroeicie" for March states that the American So-
ciety for meliorating the condition of tire .1Avs, are making arrange-
meets for supplying LlIallecil011, Uil1C11111alin and sOlilt other places, 
with inissioluoirs to the Jews. 
CM the 1st of December last, the Jews were released, by an order 
of the Pope, front all civil disabilities in the ROttiall Stales, espe-
cially the edict which compelled them to live only in Lk-narrow and 
dirty lanes khown as the Jews' quarter, to which their resioence 
has bee. cool-hied ever since the destruction of Jerusalem, A. D. 59. 
The University of Leipsic has been opened to the Jews, and no 
dilfcreace of religious belief is to be a disqualification lOr a pro-
Icatiorship. 
'fine only divisions of Germany in which the entire equalization of 
lire Jews lies mint beet carried, are Bade., w irteinberg, Bavaria, 
Saxony, Hanover, Mecklenburg, and the Saxon Duchies. 
The Jewish Disabilities Bill has again been introduced in the 
I I owe of I 'intunons by Lord John Russell. It is expected that tile 
Bill will now pass the House of Lords also. 
A correspondent of the " National liotelligencer" mentions the 
appearance of inaiuds of small worms on the surtace of the 8110W, 
Intl the �
of this Inman, near 1,In ashiegton city. They are tieseritled 
is about a quarter of an inch long, and precisely like those produced 
iii cheese. 
At Apalachicola (Fla.), during the third week of February, the 
cold was so intetise, as to destroy all the early garden vegetation, 
together w Itli ail Monense 111.11inlict ()Limit trees. Oro one Weidman) 
4,4s; orange trees were lulled. Such a season has not occurred be-
nne " witniu the memory,. &c. 
BUSINESS NOTES. 
E. W. Coffin-By your credit to No. 455, we think the money you 
have sent has always bees received. 
. Sterling- None received last summer. 
J. Vs . Bonham-The question was whether his name was Jonas 
or Chitties A lease Mama us. We seed you a work received 
for you trout Rev. L. B. Elliott, of England-his reply to hr. 
beim. 
D. T. Taylor, jr., 50 cts.-Sent tracts. 
W. Ilackiag -It was received, and acknowledgett in the Herald or 
Feb. 24th. 
L. Armstrong-Have sent you the Herald of Dec. 15, which give., 
what back papers He have, and prices. 
R. W. aliddough -51 was received from you Dec. 7th, and ac-
knowledged iu the Herald of lien lath, the first hatial R. being ac-
cidentally omitted. V, e have received nothing since then, before 
Bus, till the present for the pa„er. If you semi fur tracts, and re-
ceived them, the money was, of course, received. 
J. Taylor-The first is 25 cts.-have moue of the 3d. 
B. Perham-Seut. 
DELINQUENTS. 
If we have by mistake published any who may have paid, or who 
are poor, we shall be happy to correct the error, on being apprised 
ul the fact. 
The Postmaster of R ichford, Vt., writes that H. G. GOS-
EIN does not take his paper front the order. lie ewes for 
Iwo vols. �
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The Postmaster of Lansingburg, N. Y., writes tine same 
of A. C. VAN aesneira lie owes for three vols. - �
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Total delinquencies since Jan. 1st, 1849. �
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T. Smith. �
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APPOINTMENTS. 
Brn. Dinners', Hales', and Needham's appointments will take place 
in the following order-- 
SENECA FALLS-March 28th to April 1st. 
ROCHESTER-April 1st to the eth. 
BUFFALO-April l_th, 13th, 14th, and 15th. 
Locaeofer-April lath, 2eth, tst, mid 22d. 
JAMESTOWN-April 251.11, Zendln ',tall, and 29th. 
't'wo Sabbaths in Rochester. During the week, we will Preach at 
such hours ii) the day as the church may appoint. �
e can give two 
lectures each day. if desired. lit the other places, the hours of 
meeting each day will be at el A. m., z and 7 P. M., or as the breth-
ren may appoint. Some of our notices are given fur two places on 
the same day ; we shall arrange to attend 'tient all. 
Bro. H. II. Gross appoints to preach as follows: At Bridgeport, Ct., 
evenings of March zcid and 23t1 ; Bethel, Sunday, 25th ; New Milford, 
evenings of 26th and 25th ; Roxbury, satin to April 1st; Kent, Oren-
lute's of 2d and 3d ; Sharon, evenings of sib, 5th, and 5th. [As the 
above will be all that I can do for the cause personally in Houea-
tnuic valley, for the present, I hope that as full attendance as Possi-
ble will be secured.] Wait Troy, t day time.) ;Sunday, April 5th ; 
A Malty, eveniegs of nth and liith ; Lodi, 11th, do ; Cooperstown, lath 
to 15th ; Pitcher Springs, 17th to 22d-[trust Bro. Chemin will ar-
range for meetings both day and evening, and attend] ; Otselic 
Creek, 23d to 25th ; Cazenovia, evening of 26th New York city, 
Sunday, 29th. Letters will be inquired for at Albany, Cooperstown, 
and New York, as above. Hope to hold several protracted meetings 
in Saratoga Co. in May. �
H. H. G. 
If permitted, Bro. Edwin Burnham will preach as follows i-At 
Brimfield, Mass., Tuesday evening, March 27th; Tithe Riveni, 
evening of 2ath ; Chickopee. Falls, evening of 29th ; Caboiville, 
evening of 3Utli ; Springfield, Sabbath, April 1st ; Wsrehouse-Point, 
Ct., everoing, of 3,1 ; Hartford, Sabbath, April 8th. Dottier appoint-
ments are located in these places at the time of mine, the ri.;,4 
need give themselves no care in relation to these. �E. B. 
Bro. S. I. Roney will preach to Ha
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rtford, Ct., Thursday evenii.g, 
March 29th ; New Britain, evening of :Sett; Bristol, Ct., Sabbath, 
April lit; Plymouth, evening of zd ; Pleasant Valley, evening of ; 
Salisbury, Sabbath, belt ; Waterbury, Sabbath, 15th. The interven- 
ing time will be occupied as the brethren think best. �
a. m. R. 
Bro. C. R. Griggs will preach at Marlboro' the fourth Sabbath in 
this month. lie will also preach at Northboro' the first tu o s•ah. 
baths in each month ; when there are five Sabbaths in a month, he 
will supply the desk the third and litth. �
c. tt. G. 
Bro. N. Billings will preach in Ware, Sunday, March 25th; Ifni-
den, 27th ; Marlboro', Sunday, April 1st. 
Bro. Prosper Powell will preach in Grafton, Sunday, 25th ; vet--
111111,MB ; Northfield Farms, 27th ; each in the evening. 
Bro. I. R. Gates will preach at So
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uth Reading Sabbath, the 25th, 
and will be at Newton Upper Falls trout the evening of the Ciii to 
the 1st of April. 
Bro. L. D. Thompson will preach at Abington, Mass., the first 
Sabbath in April, and at New Durham Ridge, N. H. the second. 
MEETINGS. 
I will attend a meeting in Orrinaton, Me., the first Saturday and 
Sunday following, it beim; the 5th and 7th of April. Akio the second 
Saturday in April and Sunday following in Brewer, Me., in the school 
house pear B. 1. Clewley's. �
'1'. SMITH. 
A meeting will be held in South Tunbridge. Vt., to commence 
Thursday evelling, March 29th, and hold over the Sabbath. Bleat-
re., let there be a general rally. Bro. S. 88. 'Thurber is muesli:41 
to attend. �
R. V. LYON. 
We have a few copies of an interesting lecture Online "Kim ;A:, m 
of God," tdesiglied to show the differeet senses in m Web the phrase 
occurs in the sacred Scriptures,-, delivered and published in Lonoon 
by Bro. J. Vv . Bonham. Price, 121-2 cis. 
Also a few copies of the lectures on " The Eternal Punishaitnt of 
Ate Wicked not Annihilation." By the same. Eric, 15 cts. 
CHEAP SEATS.-We have still left about fifteen scats, which 
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