anieurnom 
This term is applied to the government college 
recently established in Ireland, at the head of which 
is Sir Robert Kane, a liberal Catholic. The design 
of this college is to instruct Irish youth, irrespective 
of religious tenets. When the contemplated college 
was announced, the Romish clergly demanded that 
their doctrine should form the basis of the instruc-
tion to be imparted, and because that demand was not 
complied with, the college, and all connected with it, 
receive the unmitigated abuse of every bigoted 
Catholic, from the Pope down to the pettiest parish 
priest, who dread the influence of education unmixed 
with the leaven of the old harlot. Notwithstanding 
this denunciation, however, the college is prospering. 
—En. HER. 
SEEK the Lord and his face continually ; let 
this be the business of your life and strength ; 
and let all things be subservient and in order to 
this. You cannot find nor behold the face of 
God but in Christ ; therefore labor to know God 
in Christ—which the Scripture makes the sum 
of all, even life eternal. 
Cromwell. 
The moon is never in eclipse, but when the 
earth comes between God and his children, that 
hides the light of his countenance from their 
souls. 
" WE HAVE NOT FOLLOWED CUNNINGLY DEVISED FABLES, WHEN WE MADE KNOWN UNTO YOU THE POWER AND COMING OF OUR LORD JESUS CHRIST, BUT WERE EYE-WITNESSES OF HIS MAJESTY • • • • WHEN WE WERE WITH HIM IN THE HOLY MOUNT." 
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says that this poison of Protestantism will last that it will break out very suddenly. Spielbahn 
to the eleventh generation. Now the present says that men and women shall fight for their 
king is the eleventh from the apostate. — faith. The monk of Werl says that the leaders 
The monk once more, when he comes to this will fight for the rule of the world. 
king, says, that in him the house of Hohenzol- Concerning the particular signs which will 
lerr will die. No doubt this prophecy is honey immediately precede the war, Jaspers says, 
and sugar to the Prussian democrats. But Bro- speaking of the great railway from Cologne to 
ther Hermann ends with saying not very ob- Winden, which no one in his day dreamed of, 
scurely, that Prussia will return to the German that the great war will break out before the road 
empire and to the Church. • is quite finished. This road is not yet (1850) 
Two other prophecies, from different sources, completed : the second line of rails is now he-
also say that Frederic William IV. is the last ing laid. The peasants could not understand 
of his race. 
Jaspers when he talked about catriages running 
The other prophecies are numberless, but without animals. He adds, in that year, the 
probably the greater part of them come from spring will be so forward, that there will be fine 
three or four distinct sources. Dr. Gregory grass in April for the cows. This is verified. 
gives some of the most remarkable. One of He says that the wheat will be gathered in be-
them was printed in 1601, two hundred and fifty fore the war, but not the oats. He adds, that it 
years ago, at Cologne, author unknown. Ano- will he after soldiers go to war, and return 
ther was written in 1672, at Dusseldorf, by a decked with cherry blossoms. Oddly enough, 
Capuchin monk. Another was printed long ago the troops which marched under Von Gagern to 
by the monks of Werl. There are several oth- Baden in 1840, did return with these blossoms 
er old prophecies, and there are some made by in their caps. Spielbahn says that it will be af-
men not long dead. The youth of Eisen, Jas- ter a blight has fallen upon the fields. This, 
pers of Deininghausen, and Spielbahn of Seig- perhaps, means the potato rot. He adds, that it 
burg, are among the principal seers. All of will be after the German empire will elect a 
these vaticinations refer to Germany and Eu- peasant for its head, who will hold the reins for 
rope from 1800 to 1853. Concerning the man- a year and a day. Probably this refers to John, 
ners of the people, Jaspers says that a new re- the Regent of the Empire, who resigned his of-
ligion will arise in which wickedness will be re- five at the end of a year, and who not only mar-
garded as prudence and politeness, and that a ried a peasant girl, but adopted the dress and 
general faithlessness will prevail. Spielbahn habits of the Styrian peasants, a thing which 
says that men will no longer thank God for gave mortal offence at Vienna. The youth of 
their daily bread. Human intellect will do Elsen says that the time is near when soldiers, 
,,vonder3, and so men will mock at God, and armed with long poles ,which have little flags at 
think themselves omnipotent because of the the ends, shall occupy the convent of Abingdhof. 
carriages which will run everywhere without This convent was.taken in 1840 by the Prus-
being drawn by animals. This seer died in sian lancers, who hold it as a barrack. 
1783. He adds, that God will punish the world He continues. When you cart see houses on 
about this time for its wickedness. For men, the Rock, and a village between Paderborn and 
with their puny minds, will think to penetrate Eisen, the time is at hand. This rock is a hill, 
the councils of God. The Capuchin says that separate from Neuhaus by a wood. An inn was 
a great contest between the poor and the rich built upon it, and the wood has just been cut 
shall break out. Women will not know, from through, which secures the view spoken of. The 
vanity, what clothes to wear; sometimes short, little village, which is only a great farming es-
and sometimes long, sometimes narrow, some- tablishment, has been lately built in the place 
times wide. The men will then change their mentioned. He goes on. The time is near. 
dress, and wear the beards of Capuchins. The when you can see in the Roman field houses 
monk of Werl says that in these days the world with large windows. A broad road will be made 
will be godless. The people will strive to be in- through that field, but it will not be finished un-
dependent, subjects will be unfaithful to their til the good times. The road he speaks of is 
princes. Men will try to pervert the articles of the great Shuvingian railway, running through 
faith, and introduce new books (and papers ?)— the so-called Roman field. It was begun in 
The Catholic faith will be hard pressed ; men 1844, and it has been suspended on account of 
will try with cunning to abolish it. (By godless the wars of 1849. The houses mentioned are 
colleges ?)* 
These sayings describe our days the railway terminus, which has enormous win-
pretty accurately. 
dows. The time is at hand, adds the youth, 
Concerning the political state of Europe at the when barley shall be sown on the Rock. In 
breaking out of the war, Jaspers says that fact, the first attempt was made in 1848 to sow 
France will be internally divided into three barley in this, cold tract. The Capuchin says 
parts. (The Bourbon party, the Moderates, that first a dreadful war will break out in the 
and the Red Republicans.) He adds, that Prus- South. This is Hungary, perhaps. Rolink of 
sia will die. The nobility will be nearly pros- Steinen mentions three processions. The first 
trate. Spielbahn says that it will be hardly is a funeral procession in Kirch Hemmerde.—
possible to distinguish the peasant from the no- This happened in 1814, after a battle. The 
ble. The monk of Werl says that the general second will be in the same place from the old 
war, of which we are speaking, will be after the church to the new one. This took place, also, 
nations singly have warred with one another, when the Host was removed to the newly-built 
after kingdoms have been overthrown, and church. Then, says Rolink, two towers will be 
thrones have fallen. One seer seems to inti- built at Werl, and the war is at hand. These 
mate that the Papal claim will be vacant for a are a chimney and a tower for the works at 
short time. Another says that the Pope must Werl, which were lately built. Kappelman, in 
fly ; that he will at last go; with four cardinals, 1819, told the people to look out for war after a 
to Cologne. 
forward spring, when great wisps of straw stand 
So far as the cause of the war is concerned, on the bear's meadow. Just now a railway is 
all say that, 'it is because of the wrath of God. in progress to Cassel ; it runs through this field ; 
Jaspers says it will be between those who be- and these straw wisps are set up to mark the line. 
lieve in Christ, and those who do not. He adds, —(To be continued.) 
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We copy the following from the Boston Pilot, 
the Romish paper of this city. Of course we 
have not the slightest respect for the supersti-
tious medium through which the alleged prophe-
cies and their fulfilment are viewed, nor think 
they possess any claim for serious considera-
tion, beyond the coincidence that may be per-
ceived of the agreement of the events of the 
last few years with the predictions specified. 
Our readers would have no difficulty in making 
quite a different interpretation in regard to some 
of the personages and events spoken of, and, we 
think, with stronger claims to belief. Allow-
ance should also be made for the attempt to cast 
all the odium that may have grown out of the 
revolutionary movements in Europe, upon the 
people, and to extol those "holy Fathers," the 
Jesuits and Cardinals. We have no idea that 
those worthy individuals ever suffered much 
wrong from the people whom they have for cen-
turies outraged and deluded. 
After briefly referring to the revolutions, &c., 
of Europe in 1848-9, and uttering forebodings 
for the future, the article says :— 
In Italy several prophecies have been circu-
lating for many years among the people. Most 
of these refer to the political convulsions of this 
century, inasmuch as they affect the Church of 
God. Several point very distinctly to the pe-
riod stretching from 1840 to 1860, as a time of 
great trials and of greater triumphs. A few 
speak of a general persecution of the priests as 
a thing that will occur about thi4 time. In 1847, 
notwithstanding the apparently overwhelming 
popularity of the Pope, these prophecies were 
much spoken of. They had originated from ho-
ly men ; they had been current for many years; 
and now, they begin to make men afraid. We 
know some simple, good ecclesiastics, who would 
not go to see the procession of Corpus Domini for 
1847, the most brilliant one of the century, be- 
cause the37 had not made their wills. In the win-
ter of the same year, and in the spring of '48 a par- 
tial fulfilment came. The walls were chalked with 
these words : " Death to the Jesuits !" The fa-
thers were at last ejected from Italy. In many 
places they were mobbed : many were very 
The Year of Revolution — 
Tine Year of Re-action—the Year of Blood. 
"AM I MY BROTHER'S KEEPER!" 
BY REV. DR. RAFFLES. 
Must I my brother keep, 
And share his pain and toil ? 
And weep with those that weep, 
And smile with those that smile, 
And act to each a brother's part, 
And feel his sorrows in my heart ? 
Must I his burden bear, 
As though it were my own ; 
And do as I would care 
Should to myself be done ; 
And fiithful to his interests prove, 
And, as myself, ins, neighbor love? 
Must I reprove his sin ? 
Must I partake his grief, 
And kindly enter in, 
And minister relief,— 
The naked clothe, the hungry feed, 
And love him, not in word, but deed ? 
Then, Jesus, at tht feet 
A student let me be ; 
And learn, as it is meet, 
My duty, Lord, of thee ; 
For thou lidst come on mercy's plan, 
And all thy life was love to man 
Oh, make me as thou art, 
Thy Sairit, Lord, bestow— 
The kind and gentle heart 
That feels another's woe ; 
And thus I may be like my Head. 
And in my Saviour's footsteeps tread. 
roughly treated, a few were sacrificed at the al-
tar of the new god. The mysterious conspiracy 
of August, 1847, seemed to be mainly levelled 
at the Cardinals. Some of them were denounced 
by placard as men already doomed. Nearly all 
of them were imprisoned in their houses for two 
days. At last the Dominicans, and, in fact, all 
but the Capuchins, were threatened with vio-
lence. Somehow, the storm passed away for a 
time, but the conspirators could not help cursing 
the regular clergy when they appeared in the 
streets. Dogs that ye are !" said one of them 
to a Jesuit. " Ye are respited. But wait a lit-
tle, and see what ye will get !" 
In the fall of 1848, so far as the priests were 
concerned, there was a reign of terror. A few 
were murdered outright. The priests who were 
willing to sign the sacrilegious constitution of 
'49,—thank God ! they were not many,—pur-
chased a shameful peace. But no Jesuit, and 
few regulars of other orders, dared to show 
themselves, under peril of their lives. The mass 
of priests covered their tonsures, and dressed as 
laymen, to escape notice. Some of the most 
obnoxious, whom no disguise, not even beard 
and mustachios could enable them to pass unno-
ticed, and who were obliged to stay in Rome 
for the dispatch of ecclesiastical business, were 
forced to secrete themselves, until the French 
army entered the city. From a certain quarter 
there came a recommendation to the liberal 
priests to wear a dress of a peculiar cut. A few 
actually appeared in the new, and far from ec-
clesiastical costume. But a peremptory order 
of the Cardinal Vicar compelled them to go 
back to their old coats, breeches, and three-cor-
nered hats. It was given out that the new 
dress would serve to distinguish the liberal 
priests from the Popish ones, when the day of 
vengeance came. 
We have often heard Germans, and travel-
lers in Germany, speak of old prophecies which 
are far more significant and precise than the 
Italian predictions. 
The oldest of these prophecies was made in 
the thirteenth century, more than five hundred 
years ago, by Brother Hermann, the monk of 
Chorin. It is written in Leonine verse, and re-
lates chiefly to the fortunes of Prussia. An old 
manuscript copy was found and printed in 1723, 
one hundred and twenty-seven years ago. He 
describes the fall of the Askanier family in 
1320, the civil war that followed in Branden-
burg, the victories of Charles IV. in 1378, and 
finally the accession of the present house of Ho-
henzollerr in the person of the Burgrave of Nu- 
remburg. He tells about the character and 
death of Frederic William I. who was gathered 
to his fathers four hundred and fifty years after 
the prophecy was made, and seventeen years af- 
ter it was printed. He died in 1740. Then 
Brother Hermann describes the stormy reign of 
Frederic the Great. His war with Austria was 
indicated, and it was foretold that he would 
have to hide in a convent to save himself, which 
in fact happened. The monk correctly describes 
Frederic William II., and passes to the late 
king„ the third of the same name. The resto- 
ration of his fortunes atter the fall of Napoleon 
is foretold. Here there is a very remarkable 
line 
Et princeps nescit quod nova potentia crescit. 
And the king does not suspect that a new power 
is arising. This is the democracy, probably.—
He was as blind to it as his predecessor was. 
All the previous prophecies have been fulfilled, 
and only two predictions remain to be accom-
plished; one relates to the present king, Frede-
ric William IV., and the monk says that he will 
be the last of his line. He mentions it twice. 
Prussia was stolen by Albert, the first Duke of 
Prussia. He was canon of the Cologne chapter, 
and grand-master of the Teutonic Knights. He 
was bound to celibacy, of course.. For the sake of 
being made Duke, and to secij he dignity to 
his family, he broke his vows, became a Lu-
theran, and persuaded the greater part of the 
knights to follow his example. This was in 
1525. A few years later, Joachim of Branden-
burg apostatized, and shortly after, the duchy of 
Prussia was secured to his family. The monk 
Apocalyptic Sketches, 
OR, 
Lectures on the Seven Churches of Asia Minor. 
BY JOHN CUNNING, D.H. 
BY REV. B. F. TAYLOR. 
LECTURE IV.—THE SEVEN STARS AND SEVEN CAN-
DLESTICKS. 
" The mystery of the seven stars which thou saw-
est in my right hand, and the seven golden candle-
sticks. The seven stars are the angels of the seven 
churches; and the seven candlesticks which thou 
sawest are the seven churches."—REv. 1:20. 
(Continued.) 
This suggests a very useful advice—guard 
against what I have called wandering stars. 
Often the one that twinkles most brilliantly is 
not the one that you are to trust most implicitly ; 
a meteor has a momentary splendor equal to 
that of many stars. Trust God alone implicitly; 
pin not your faith to a lawn sleeve, nor to a silk 
sleeve, or you will speedily find your mistake ; 
bring all preaching to the Law and to the Testi- 
mony. " How readest thou ?" " Have ye not 
read ?" " Is it not written ?" "Thus saith the 
Lord." Many persons have made it a complaint 
against Christianity that there have been, what 
there are, bad ministers. I reply boldly to that 
objection, If there were no bad ministers Chris- 
tianity would be untrue. You say, how can that 
be ? Because it is expressly predicted that such 
ministers would be in the Church ; for what 
does the apostle say ? There shall come among 
you grievous wolves, false apostles, and shall 
deceive many; and some shall depart from the 
faith, giving heed to seducing spirits and doc- 
trines of devils, and teaching for doctrines the 
commandments of men. And the prophet tells 
us that the prophets shall prophesy falsely. 
And what shall the people do ? Instead of 
opening their Bibles, and testing the preacher's 
doctrine, they will " love to have it so." My 
dear friends, do not be misled. I believe this 
great truth ought to be taught at the present 
day, viz., that a truly Christian and converted 
people—and, alas ! all communicants are not 
so—do know what the Gospel is, and they ought 
not to listen to what is not in the Gospel ; no 
prestige of circumstance, no pretence of sect, 
no attachment to party, no admiration of talent 
should induce you to place yourself and your 
children under a minister who can neither teach 
them, nor instruct them, nor comfort them. Pre-
fer the vessel that is dear to you, but touch not 
the vessel that contains poison, instead of living 
water, which alone can refresh and comfort you. 
Let expediency kindle its light,—let policy light 
its taper,—let literature shine with its glow-
worm ray,—let science present its dusky light, 
—none of these must supersede the sun, or be 
received for one moment as substitutes for its 
glorious light. On the other hand, let ministers 
of the Gospel see that they radiate all the light; 
let them take care lest they become prisms and 
not stars ; for if the light be split into parts, we 
have not pure light; we have yellow, and, blue, 
and green, and it will only mislead and bewilder. 
Let every minister of the Gospel see then that 
he does not always dwell upon one truth—on 
election, for instance, which is one ray of light, 
and a very bright one, but only one. If you 
preach only election you are like the prism, 
giving only portions of the light, and not the 
whole light ; a part of the Gospel, not the whole 
Gospel: or if a minister overstate man's free 
will, that is unduly magnify man's responsibility, 
he is giving only another rainbow color, not the 
pure light,—a portion only of the true light. 
Let him present the sovereignty of God and the 
responsibility of man, Christ as our righteous-
ness, the law as our standard, justification by 
Christ alone, and sanctification by the Spirit 
alone ; God the Father electing Love, God the 
Son redeeming Love, God the Spirit sanctifying 
Love ; the Bible without a clasp,—the cross 
without a screen,—the way to heaven without 
an obstruction, and he will then be a true star, 
reflecting the pure light of that Sun which shall 
soon culminate on his glorious throne, and in 
whose clear light we shall all see clearly. 
This beautiful figure employed by the. Seer 
in the Apocalypse is in perfect harmony with 
similar figures used in his personal ministry by 
our blessed Lord. Thus he said to his disciples, 
" Ye are the lights of the world." Were I 
speaking to a sceptic, I would say, " Here you 
see an apparently poor, despised, homeless, 
houseless, penniless wanderer standing in Pales-
tine, with the shadow of that most glorious 
temple falling beside him, and the associations of 
a thousand years rushing rapidly past him ; on 
the one side, Greece, with all its philosophy, 
and its schools, and its magnificent literature, 
and its glorious statuary, and its matchless 
painting ; and on the other side, Rome, with its 
soldiers that knew not what fear was, and its 
orators, and its historians, and its poets ; and in 
the midst of all this, you hear one with no 
beauty that man could appreciate, telling a few 
fishermen of Galilee, Ye are the lights of the 
world.' Either he that said so must have been a 
maniac, or he must have been God. There could 
be no medium ; no man in the exercise of his 
sober judgment would have dared to give utter-
ance to such an expression but he who saw what 
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of abuses can save the most precious institutions 
that we have; and it is a friend, not a foe, that 
says so. I am no revolutionist: I have no sym- 
pathy with those who would destroy; but of 
this I am thoroughly convinced,—that we live 
in a new age, when new tests,and new analyses, 
and new ordeals are demanded. An educated 
people, a thinking people, a searching people 
are rising on every side; and they that possess 
power will have to wield it in love, and they 
that hug abuses that are dear to them, will find 
they sit upon a volcano which may explode at 
a moment's notice. 
I ought, however, to correct or explain what 
I have said. I do not mean that it is wrong for 
bishops or any other men to be wealthy; I think 
there is a great deal of unjust prejudice on this 
subject. Some people say ministers ought not 
to be rich ; perhaps it is best for them that they 
should not he so ; but it is quite plain that if 
wealth be sin in a minister, it cannot be less so 
in a layman. If a minister is likely to abuse 
his money, a lawyer, or physician, or merchant 
is not less likely to abuse his, and therefore the 
danger is quite as great in a layman having it 
as in a minister having it; and when it is urged 
that the first ministers of the Gospel had noth-
ing, I reply, The first Christians brought their 
all, and laid it at the ministers' feet ; so that 
when we speak of what is wrong in the one 
direction, we may also speak of what is wrong 
in the opposite. The pulpit, like Him who in-
spires it, must have no respect of persons. God 
grant that this may long be so !- 
The next symbol to which I refer in this pas-
sage is, " The seven golden candlesticks are 
seven Churches." " The seven stars," we have 
seen, " are the seven angels ;" " the seven golden 
candlesticks are the seven Churches." The 
Church is here represented by a candlestick. 
This is not a figure which I adopt, but a figure 
that is sanctioned and adopted by the Holy 
Spirit of God. Now, what is the great object 
of a candlestick? To hold a light. It matters 
not how exquisite the chasing of the silver may 
be, or how precious the gold of which it is made : 
you may prefer a candlestick of a particular 
material, or of a peculiar form; but it is plain 
that if you have received, on some dark winter 
evening, a letter from some dear, but distant 
relative, of whom you are anxious to hear all 
that is good and happy, you would prefer to a 
golden candlestick without a candle upon it, a 
wooden one, with a bright and clear light upon 
it. So it is with a church : some of you would 
prefer the Church of England, which I will call, 
if you please, the golden candlestick; but I am 
sure that you would prefer, if you are Christians 
indeed, the humblest Methodist meeting-house, 
with the light of Life perpetually shining in it, 
to the most magnificent cathedral, with an arch-
bishop in its pulpit, Who neither is, nor has 
light.—( To be continued.) 
The Resurrection: 
A Sermon preached in St. Luke's Church, Rossville, Staten Island, 
New York, March 31,1850. 
"He is risen."—ST. MARK 16:6. 
Who is risen ? Christ has risen from the 
dead. We have seen him in his fastings and 
temptations ; we have sympathised with him in 
his agony and bloody sweat; we have followed 
him to the scene of his crucifixion : we have 
aided him in carrying his heavy cross : with 
the holy women, we have with fear and trem-
bling stood gazing upon the awful transactions 
of Mount Calvary. We have been pained to 
see the chief priests and scribes mocking the 
patient sufferer; we saw the unfeeling wretch 
as he ran and filled a sponge full of vinegar, put 
it on a reed, and thrust it to his parched lips, as 
they quivered in the agonies of death : and as 
there was no compassion in the human breast 
for him—(the few who loved him being over-
come by fear, stood at a distance and mourned 
with broken hearts, the burial of all their hopes) 
—all nature seemed to mourn—to protest against 
the execution of the tremendous tragedy; the 
sun hid his bright eye by a frown which dark-
ened all the land. Yes, we watched him as he 
hung in agony ; we heard his unearthly cry,—
the cry which rent the veil of the temple in 
twain, and which roused to life the sleeping dust 
of the saints. We saw him bow his head, and 
give up the ghost. We saw the honorable coun-
sellor, Joseph of Arimathea, walk boldly ureo 
Pilate, and beg the body of Jesus. We saw 
Joseph as he purchased " the best of linen "—
take him down from the bloody cross—and 
reverently wrapping his blessed body in the fine 
linen—gently lay his lifeless and immaculate 
body in a new sepulchre. With Mary Magda-
lene and Mary the mother of James, we have 
marked the place of his entombment. Through-
out the Jewish sabbath—(the fast of Easter 
even)—we have wept because the grave held 
the remains of Jesus—meanwhile he had gone 
to Paradise, the place of departed spirits—which 
was all illumined by his glory—the glory of his 
lightning countenance--as like a drummond light, 
it flashed upon the myriads who there awaited 
his triumphant entry. Yes, while we were dis- 
light is, and was himself the Light, and made 
his apostles the stars and the radiators of that 
light, and saw from afar that day when it would 
envelope all creation. He said truly—and suc-
cessive generations rise from their tombs to 
attest it—' Ye are the lights of the world.'" 
You philosophers, you scientific men, you uni-
versities of Greece, you orators, you poets, you 
statesmen,—you are but the meteors, the ignes 
fatui of the world ; you fishermen of Galilee, 
because you are lightened with the true light, 
" you are the lights of the world." Kings do 
but darken, philosophers do but pervert, poets do 
but betray ; Christians, wherever they are, and 
they alone, radiate that light. Let us pray that 
we may simply radiate the light of Christ upon 
the world,—that, whether we preach, or whether 
we teach, or whether we live in the world, we 
may not let our prejudices or passions make the 
impression that shall live longest behind us. 
Let the light of Christ alone leave its impress 
upon the world through which we have passed. 
What is the great truth which that light 
reveals ? If there be one truth or aphorism that 
it reveals more vividly than another it is this, 
" Sinners ruined by nature, restored by grace." 
Let this light shine on every English mountain 
top,—let it sparkle upon every deck that sails 
or sleeps on the bosom of the deep,—let it shine 
with awful lustre on the Vatican,—let it be 
resplendent on the tomb of the false prophet. 
Wherever the crucifix or the crescent are, God 
grant that this light shining from a thousand 
stars may reveal this great truth, " We are 
ruined by nature,—we can be restored only by 
Christ." But these stars, the outline features of 
which I have endeavored to detail, are said to 
be placed in a distinct and peculiar position. 
We read, " the mystery of the seven stars which 
thou sawest in my right hand ;" and the apostle, 
in describing the appearance of our Lord, says, 
that he saw him having "seven stars in his 
right hand," i. e. in the form of a circlet, or 
coronet ; and this teaches us that the ministers 
of the Gospel are in Christ's right hand. This 
hieroglyph is eloquent with comfort, as well as 
with intimations of duty. The ministers of the 
Gospel are in Christ's right hand, and therefore 
they are safe. This is their protection in the 
world in the performance of the severest and 
most unpopular duty which they have to dis-
charge. Wherever their position sends them, 
their whole hope of protection is in this—they 
are in Christ's right hand. It is very easy for 
us, living in a land of civil and religious liberty, 
to say so ; but it needs indeed to be realized by 
those who have to " war with wild beasts," like 
the apostle, and to preach to the reluctant and 
rebellious heathen, or to the evasive and sophis-
tical Jew, the unsearchable riches of Christ. 
All ministers of the Gospel, down to the 
humblest city missionary, depend for safety 
solely on this fact,—that they are in the hands 
of the Lord Jesus Christ. Nothing is more 
easily destroyed than ministerial character. 
An inuendo detracts from a minister's influence; 
the idle calumny of idle busy-bodies may injure 
a minister's usefulness. Let him ever recollect, 
and those who would injure him also recollect, 
that this is his protection—he is " in Christ's 
right hand." But this is not only the protection 
of the ministers of the Gospel,—it.is also their 
strength and their sufficiency. "Who," says 
an apostle, " is sufficient for these things!" The 
answer is,—Our sufficiency is of God, and the 
spring and fountain of that sufficiency is the 
right hand of the Lord Jesus Christ. This 
teaches us, too, that the ministers of the Gospel 
are the instruments of Christ. It is the right 
hand that wields the sword and flings the dart; 
and the ministers of the Gospel are in his right 
hand in token that they are at his bidding, and 
that they are to be wielded by him. This great 
truth should settle many disputes. You may have 
the votes of the people, or the voice of the crown,—
you may be appointed by the patron, or elected 
by the worshipper ; consecrated by the bishop, 
or ordained by the presbytery; and yet lack the 
glory, and beauty, and perfection of a true 
minister. These are external things,—matters 
on which each may have his preference ; but 
here is the true place and the source of the ap-
pointment of the minister of the Gospel,—in 
the right hand of the Lord Jesus Christ. If he 
occupies this place, all the rest is circumstantial; 
this is essential and indispensable. 
And, lastly, these seven stars are said to be 
in Christ's right hand, to denote their perfect 
equality. You are aware that the discipline 
held by the Church of Scotland, as well as by 
'several bodies that have seceded from her is, 
that all ministers are perfectly equal—that the 
Church is governed by the presbytery, and that 
they are all presbyters. We are sometimes 
charged with having no bishops ; we have in 
the Church of Scotland some twelve or thirteen 
hundred bishops. The fact is, we are all bishops 
in Scotland, like those of Ephesus; but so much 
are we the creatures of circumstance, that we 
think there cannot be a bishop unlesss he has 
very many thousands a-year. I believe the 
time is coming when some bishops, at least, 
must do with less. I am certain that a time is 
near when nothing but a thorough reformation 
consolate, they were welcoming the Son of the 
Highest—they were waving their palms of vic-
tory, because the seed of the woman had bruised I 
the head of the serpent ; he stood before them 
as a mighty conqueror, fresh from the battle-field, 
and the patriarchs and prophets were rejoicing, 
because they now beheld him whom they had 
longed to see, but died without the sight. 
And now the Sabbath is over, and we have 
joined with Mary Magdalene, and Mary the 
mother of James, and Salome, in buying sweet 
spices and ointments, that we may anoint his 
blessed body. The night has passed away, and 
the first day of the week dawns upon us, and 
even while it was yet dark, we have hasted 
unto the sepulchre, anxious as to who should 
roll us way the stone from the door of the 
sepulchre. But to the utter astonishment of the 
timid disciples and the weeping Mary, the 
sepulchre was open : it had given up its almighty 
tenant. Jesus, escorted by legions of angels, 
had returned from Paradise, and again clothed 
himself in humanity. A mighty angel had 
descended from heaven, and rolled back the 
stone from the door, and sat upon it. His coun- 
tenance was like lightning, and his raiment 
white as snow. Poor mortality could not endure 
even the sight of one whose wings had been 
dipped " in the river of God "—of one who, 
glorious as he was, was only a shadow of " the 
high and lofty One who inhabiteth eternity." 
The keepers trembled with fear, and then fell 
to the earth as dead men. But the angel an-
swered and said to the women, Fear not ; for I 
know that ye seek Jesus which was crucified. 
He is not here : no power—not even the com-
bined powers of men and devils, could keep him 
here. Did you expect to find the hope of the 
world yet lying a prey to death and the grave 
on the third day ? Did you think that the glori-
ous orb of day would light up the eastern sky 
before the Sun of Righteousness had risen upon 
a sinful world ? Have the terrific scenes of 
Calvary destroyed the remembrance of all his 
former communings with you ? Do you not 
remember his burning conversation with you 
while he was yet in Galilee ? Did he not tell 
you that he must be delivered into the hands of 
sinful men, and be crucified, and the third day 
rise again ? Then why seek ye the living 
among the dead ? He is not here ; " he is risen." 
Come near and see for yourselves, Let Peter 
come in and examine the vacant sepulchre. 
Here lie the linen clothes, Here, too, is the 
napkin that was about his head, wrapped together 
in a place by itself ; but " he is risen." He is 
not here. Come, see the place where the Lord 
lay. Come, Mary, weeping Mary, stoop down 
and look into the sepulchre ; he is riot within. 
0 ! if you could only see as angels see, you 
might behold your risen Lord just behind you, 
appearing to mortal eyes like an humble gar-
dener. There lie stands, disconsolate mourner. 
He is risen. Go quickly and tell his disciples. 
Go hasten to Galilee, for thither has he gone—
there you will see him. 
My brethren, the resurrection of Jesus Christ 
is the corner-stone of the Christian faith. All 
his miracles are but weak evidences of his 
Messiahship, compared with his resurrection. 
The apostle Paul felt it to be the all in all of 
Christianity. " If Christ be not risen," he says, 
" then is our preaching vain, and your faith is 
also vain." He felt that his preaching in such 
a case would be preaching a dead, a perished 
Redeemer. " If Christ be not raised," he says 
again, " ye are yet in your sins. Then they 
also which are fallen asleep in Christ are per-
ished." And Jesus himself declared that his 
triumph over the grave, was the sign which 
should be given for the confirmation of his holy 
religion. " Destroy this temple," said he to the 
unbelieving Jews, " and in three days I will 
raise it up." The angel who rolled back the 
stone from the mouth of the sepulchre, appeals 
to the fact of the resurrection as a proof of the 
Divine Mission of Christ. " I know that ye 
seek Jesus who is crucified ; he is not here, he 
is risen, as he said." 
The apostles constantly 
urge this argument upon the consciences of 
those whom they address. " Him," says St. 
Peter, " bath God raised up, having loosed the 
pains of death, because it was not possible that 
he should be holden of it." On viewing, there-
fore, the place where the Lord lay, we trium-
phantly assert that he is declared to be the Son 
of God with power, by his resurrection from the 
dead. This article of our Christian faith is 
clearly laid down in holy writ. It teaches us 
that Jesus of Nazareth, who died and was buried, 
returned to life, re-animated the same body which 
hung upon the cross, and showed himself alive 
after his passion, by many infallible signs. We 
contend, on the authority of the Scriptures, that 
there is a cloud of witnesses, and evidence the 
most unexceptionable of the fact, against which 
infidels are apt to cavil, although, on other 
points, they readily admit the greatest absurdi-
ties. 
Again, we contend that if Christ he not risen 
—we speak it with reverence—the Gospel may 
be rejected as a fraud, our faith is vain, and we 
are yet in our sins. Take away this precious 
fact of a risen Saviour, and you take down the 
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dissipate this intellectual and moral darkness, 
and to pour light upon so large a portion of the 
human family, cannot fail to secure the appro-
bation and support of every lover of the race. 
That the present work is calculated to aid in the 
accomplishment of so desirable an end, must be 
apparent to every one who will consider the 
statements respecting it already made. 
The faults of the work are to be attributed 
mainly to its conciseness. The author leaves 
out some things which we should be happy to 
find inserted. He however no where disputes, 
or treats with disrespect, any well attested his-
torical fact. 
For example, he makes no reference to the 
creation of the world, or to its subsequent his-
tory, till he alludes to " one of the immediate 
descendants of Noah, who settled in Egypt 
soon after the deluge." He omits to mention 
the judgments of God on the Egyptians, and 
the miraculous deliverance granted to his people 
at the same time. He states, that " Moses took 
a favorable time for crossing that part of the sea 
when the tide was out, but the tide returning, 
overwhelmed the Egyptian army." 
In giving an abstract of the ten command-
ments, the author simply says that " they re-
quire the people to worship Shin-teen, et cet.," 
without adding that they forbid the worship of 
any other god. 
In speaking of the resurrection of Christ, the 
writer omits many of the circumstances and 
proofs of that event. He simply says, that " the 
next clay after the burial, his body was missing ; 
after which his disciples frequently saw him." 
In regard to these and similar omissions, it is 
due to the author to state, that he does not pro-
fess to give a full account of the things with 
which they stand connected, nor does he make 
ally statement or remark against their correct-
ness, as they stand recorded in our histories. It 
is still farther due to him to state, that though 
these omissions do occur, he does, notwitstand-
ing, clearly and correctly, mention the miracu-
lous incarnation of Jesus, " his Father being 
called Heaven, and himself the only Son of 
high Heaven." He also mentions " his mira-
cles and blameless life, the deception and wick-
edness of his enemies in plotting and securing 
his death, his frequently appearing to his disci-
ples afterwards, their going forth to different 
kingdoms to publish his gospel, the martyrdom 
of Stephen, the conversion of Paul, the doc-
trines of Jesus the same as those of Moses, and 
that his people worship him as the Lord Jesus, 
the Saviour of the world." 
By omitting the geography and history of 
China, the author saves himself the unpleasant 
task of making any allusion to the causes which 
led to the late war with England, or to its con-
sequences. He therefore enters into no discus-
sion or defence of the religion or institutions of 
his own country. The consequence is, that the 
work contains a more correct and a more exten-
sive account of the history and institutions of 
Christian nations, than has ever yet been pub-
lished by any heathen writer in any age of the 
world. On this account, as well as for several 
other reasons, it is a very remarkable produc-
tion. To see the names of Noah, Abraham, 
Moses, Daniel, Paul, Luther, Washington and 
above all, that of the Lord Jesus Christ, as the 
Saviour of the world, thus introduced, with so 
much correctness and so much respect, into the 
language and to the notice of so many millions 
of bigoted heathen, is matter of astonishment, 
and cannot fail to call forth earnest prayer to 
God, from every Christian heart, that the foun-
tain thus opened may continue to pour forth its 
enlightening streams, till this whole nation shall 
be savingly benefited by its influence. 
Mr. Peet says the price (about seventy-five 
cents a copy) and Size of the work, will be like-
ly to retard its circulation among the Chinese. 
Application has been made to the author for per-
mission to publish an abridgment of the work 
for gratuitous circulation. This permission he 
declines to give, but " this will not prevent our 
publishing portions of it, without the author's 
name, should funds be furnished for the purpose. 
Portions have already been prepared in this 
way, and will soon be put in circulation." 
Missionary Herald. 
COMING TO CHRIST.—Once more, coming sin-
ner ! think of the Saviour who inviteth thee ; 
full of grace as well as of truth. He com-
plained] if thou come not; he is displeased if 
thou call not upon him; he can bear with thy 
weakness ; he can pity thy ignorance ; be .can 
be touched with the feeling of thy infirmities ; 
he can affectionately forgive thy transgressions ; 
he can heal thy backslidings and love thee freely. 
His compassions fail not ; he will not break the 
bruised reed, nor quench the smoking flax; he 
can pity where no eye pities, and be afflicted in 
all thy afflictions ; he will bow his ear to thy 
stammering prayer; he will accept the weakest 
offering if there be in it but thy heart ; he bath 
strewed all the way from the gate of hell where 
thou avast, to the gate of heaven whither thou 
art going, with promises. 
Behold, how the promises, invitations, calls, 
and encouragements are mixed with the names 
THE ADVENT HERALD. 
beacon-light which illumines the world. Prove 
that Jesus did not rise from the dead, and man 
would never smile again, Prove that my Saviour 
saw corruption, and you make the grave a hell 
indeed: the sight of my departed wife, husband, 
or child--the closing coffin, would deprive me 
of hope, and make me a raving maniac. But, 
blessed be God, the evidence of his resurrection 
—both the external and the internal evidence—
is as clear as a sunbeam, While I have the 
Roman soldiers, the stone, the sepulchre, and 
the seal to appeal to; while I have the evidence 
of angels, of pious women, of the apostle Paul ; 
and the testimony of the unbelieving Thomas; 
while I have Christ's ascension gift, " the Holy 
Spirit," working wonders of mercy in the hearts 
of men ; while I have the Church's creed, which 
is the creed of the apostles, and which has stood 
as a sacred anvil unhurt by the hammer of 
heresy and schism,—I will, with the Hero of 
the Gospel, cling to the doctrine of the resur-
rection of the body ; I cannot, I will not yield 
this key-stone of the arch of Christianity, nor 
sacrifice to the prejudices of proud infidelity or 
sophistry, the cherished hope of a blessed im-
mortality. 
What is the comfort, my brethren, which we 
derive from the fact that Christ is risen from 
the dead ? It is this. That as Jesus died and 
rose again, " even them also which sleep in 
Jesus will God bring with him." The same 
spirit which raised up Jesus from the dead, 
shall also quicken our mortal bodies. " This is 
the Father's will which bath sent me," says our 
Lord, " that of all that he hath given me, I 
should lose nothing, but should raise it up again 
at the last day." , Christ, says the apostle Paul, 
is the first fruits, and a pledge and promise of 
the whole harvest. Because I live, says Jesus, 
ye shall live also. He that believeth in me, 
though he were dead, yet shall he live. 0 what 
a solid basis is this for the hope of every child 
of God ! Is it not calculated to bring consola-
tion to dying saints and their sorrowing sur-
vivors? Listen to poor weeping Mary; hear 
the voice from the vacant sepulchre, declaring 
that your Lord has risen—has burst the bands 
of death, and become the first fruits of them 
that slept. Why is it, then, 0 mourning be-
liever, why is it that you sorrow as those without 
hope, and that you go so often to the sepulchre 
to weep there ? 
Have you not read that, " Blessed are they 
who die in the Lord ?" Be not disconsolate. 
Your beloved relatives and friends are not dead, 
but only asleep in Jesus. Their dust may be 
scattered to the four corners of the earth, still, 
he that cells the stars by their own names, can, 
in a moment, collect the kindred dust of his 
dead saints and give them the promised in-
heritance, an enduring kingdom. Think not 
of them as lying in the tomb, as snatched from 
an earthly inheritance, but as heirs of glory ; 
look not at them as they are in the night and 
shadow of death, but as they shall be, when 
this corruptible shall put on incorruption, and 
this mortal shall put on immortality. While 
you are clothed in sable mourning, they are 
clothed in white, even the white robes of Christ's 
righteousness; while you are bowed down in 
sorrow, they are rejoicing with joy unspeakable. 
Dry up your tears ; do not tarnish your scrip-
tural hope, with an unscriptural mourning. Let 
not the unbelievers, the Sadducees, the unthink-
ing multitude say that you live without faith ; 
but let your sorrow be moderated and subdued, 
in testimony of your confidence, that they sleep 
in Jesus. They are gone to their rest, and 
have ceased from their labors. I know, brethren, 
it is hard to give up those we love, to the cold 
grave, never again to see them on the shores of 
mortality—I know it is, indeed, a sad thing to 
be an orphan ; I know, too, the heart of an affec-
tionate husband or wife must, indeed, be desolate, 
when death snaps asunder that which God had 
joined together as one flesh. I cannot think, 
without weeping, upon the moving spectacle of 
a young and widowed mother, committing to 
the dust her only child ; and returning home to 
be constantly reminded by every little toy, or 
its laid aside garments of her departed treasure, 
—and worse still, to feel that which every 
parent who has a " heart of flesh " must have 
felt—that sepulchral' silence which takes the 
place of the joyous prattle of departed inno- 
cence. * 
The grave has had its triumph. Its victory 
has been nearly universal. With three excep-
tions, it holds the whole race of Adam ; and 
yawns for the race to come. It triumphs over 
the strength and the art of man—it mocks the 
devices of the physician--it levels the conditions 
of all men. Nohuman power can turn the 
tide which sets in towards that all-absorbing 
gulf. All is silent in the grave. All our cares 
are buried with us. The darkness of the tomb 
hides from us our lovers and friends. Yet, 
upon the brink of the all-devouring grave itself, 
may the Christian stand and shout, " 0 grave, 
where is thy victory ?" On the illustrious 
morning of this day, Jesus conquered the grave, 
and took the key into his own hand, and opened 
the kingdom of heaven to all believers. It 
holds the dust of his saints, but as a deposit. 
We shall rise, for " he is risen." 
Now, to God the Father, Son, and Holy 
Ghost, be glory and dominion, now and for 
ever. Amen. 
Pulpit Reporter. 
A New Chinese Geography. 
(Concluded.) 
ADMITTING AND CONFIRMING OUR CHRONOLOGY, 
&c. 
This work is interesting to foreigners, as in-
directly admitting and confirming the correct-
ness of our chronology, as well as the superiori-
ty of our histories over theirs. 
The concessions of the Governor General, in 
his introductory letter, recommending the work 
to his countrymen ; as well as those of the au-
thor, already noticed, show the truth of the 
above statement. His own account of Western 
countries, is calculated to lead the reader to see 
at once, that European nations far excel the 
Chinese, in almost every particular. This con-
viction must be farther strengthened by the fact, 
that the author not only points out errors in the 
histories of his own countrymen, but also cor-
rects them by the accounts of Western men. 
RECOGNITION OF SCRIPTURE HISTORY. 
The chronology adopted in this work is the 
commonly received chronology of European 
writers. The more prominent facts of sacred 
history, subsequent to the deluge, are likewise 
either alluded to, or are stated at length, much 
as they occur in the Scriptures. Abraham is 
represented as the founder of the Jewish na-
tion. The sojourn of his posterity in the land 
of Egypt, the oppression they endured, the di-
vine commission of Moses, his leading the Is-
raelites out of Egypt, crossing the Red Sea, the 
destruction of the Egyptian army in the same, 
the ten commandments divinely communicated 
to Moses at Mount Sinai, the settlement of the 
Israelites in the land of Canaan and their sub-
sequent history, are all briefly mentioned in this 
work. 
Speaking of Egypt, the author represents it 
as having been founded by one of the imme-
diate descendants of Noah, soon after the flood. 
He observes that " while all Europe was yet a 
wilderness, and at the commencement of the 
three ancient dynasties of the Chinese, Hea, 
Shang, and Chow; [a. c. 2142j Egypt was an 
organized state, having laws, literature, and 
arts." " The Persians," he says, " have main-
tainedan intercourse with China from the ear-
liest periods, even previous to the age of Confu-
cius." " Egypt," according to the same au-
thority, 1‘ was early invaded by the Persians, or 
by tribes from that quarter," The supposition, 
therefore, that the Chinese were originally a 
colony from Egypt through Persia, receives 
some confirmation from these facts. If this be 
true, the three dynasties above named belong, as 
has already been stated, to the uncertain and 
traditional history of China ; while its certain 
and authentic history commences with Confu-
cius's history of his own times, called Spring 
and Autumn, about eight centuries before the 
Christian era. There is nothing in this geog-
raphy which forbids such a view of the subject, 
but much which adds to its probability. 
PRESENTING TO THE CHINESE A MORE CORRECT 
VIEW OF DIFFERENT RELIGIONS. 
What follows, under this topic, will be read 
by many with special interest, from its bearing 
on the question which is now causing so much 
discussion, in connection with the translation of 
the Scriptures into Chinese; what is the proper 
term to be used for God ? 
This work is interesting to foreigners as ex-
hibiting a more definite and discriminating view 
of the different religions of the world than has 
yet appeared in the Chinese language. Not 
only has it been, as it still is, a most difficult 
and vexed subject for us to learn what is, es-
sentially, the religion of the Chinese ; but it 
has been perhaps equally trying and difficult for 
us to define in their language, and to describe 
to them, what is, essentially and exclusively, 
our religion. One of the most perplexing ques-
tions, at present, for missionaries to the Chinese 
to decide ; and one which meets us at the very 
threshold of our efforts to instruct them is, what 
is the proper generic term to be used for " God ?" 
As the writer of the present work had occasion 
to speak of the different religions of the earth, 
so the terms he uses to designate the different 
objects must throw light on this subject. 
Under the head of Persia, the writer says :— 
" According to the ancients, Persia and India 
all worshipped ho shin [the fire god, or god of 
fire,] but Judea and all the -Western nations 
worshipped teen Shin, [i. e., heaven's God, or 
the God of heaven]. The ho shin men worship 
the rising sun, and pay homage to fire which 
proceeds from the sun. 'Without fire people can-
not subsist, and without the sun, the universe 
would be in darkness. The two nations, there-
fore, [the Persians and Indians,] from high an-
tiquity had this custom, proceeding from a 
righteous principle, of venerating a protecting 
,power; which was not the worship of seay shin 
[false gods]. 
" The worship of teen Shin commenced with 
Moses in the Shang dynasty in the reign of 
Yuh-ting [whose reign closed B. c. 1681,] who 
truly Snys that teen Shin descended upon Mount 
Sinai, and gave the ten commandments to teach 
to mankind. The seventh day of rest and wor-
ship commenced at that time, which was pre-
vious to the birth of Ya-soo, one thousand and 
some hundreds of years. This is that from 
which teen choo kaou [Romanism] proceeded, 
but it is not teen choo kaou itself." 
The idea is, that Romanism is the religion of 
Jesus corrupted, as the writer elsewhere abun-
dantly shows. 
From this extract it will be seen that the au-
thor here makes use of Shin, as a common 
generic term for God, whether it be the god of 
heaven, the god of fire, or the false and inferior 
gods. He does the same throughout the whole 
work. 
In A. D. 1360, when China claimed possession 
of Batavia, the author says that " the Emperor 
Hung-woo appointed its king, and commanded 
that the shan chuen the shin [gods of the land 
and water, or empire] should be sacrificed to, 
the same as at Canton." 
Under the head of India, the writer speaks of 
a country once possessed by the Portuguese, 
whose " inhabitants receive a snake to be their 
shin, whose body has the coils of a serpent, and 
whose face is that of a man with nine heads." 
Speaking of certain tribes in the interior of 
Africa, he says that they " pae kiu show wei 
shin [worship birds and beasts, making them 
gods]." 
Some fears have been expressed that if we 
use Shin, to denote God, in the translation of 
the Scriptures into the Chinese language, the 
Chinese may take this to mean their ancestors, 
in certain cases. These fears must arise from 
the acknowledged fact, that Shin is the generic 
term for God among the Chinese ; and therefore, 
as they worship their ancestors, they might ap-
ply the term Shin to designate them. This con-
clusion, though natural, is not correct, The 
Chinese never use Shin, alone, to mean ances-
tors, or parents. Thus the writer of the present 
work, when he speaks of the worship of ances-
tors, uses the common names for ancestors, and 
never Shin. Speaking of the disciples of Je-
sus, he says, they " pull sze pee shin, pub kung 
tso seen," do not offer sacrifice to other gods, 
nor do they worship their ancestors. 
The specific terms applied to the God of the 
Bible, in this work, are the following, viz., teen 
Shin, heaven's God ; Shin teen, God of heav-
en ; teen Choo, heaven's Lord ; Shang-te, su-
preme Emperor; Teen, Heaven; and Ya-soo, 
Jesus. 
The term used to denote religion in general 
is kaou. Thus ho shin kaou is the fire-god re-
ligion; teen kaou is the religion taught by Mo-
ses ; fuh kaou is Buddhism ; hwuy hwuy kaou 
is Mohammedanism ; teen choo kaou is Roman-
ism, because the Roman Catholics make use of 
teen Choo exclusively to denote the true God ; 
and Ya-soo kaou is Protestantism, because those 
who adopt this religion profess to receive sim-
ply the doctrines of Jesus, in opposition to the 
corruptions of the teen choo kaou. This term 
is also applied to the religion of a country, or 
of an individual. To adopt a religion, is called 
" lung kaou," and to promulgate a religion, is 
called " cuen kaou." 
The author gives a very full and accurate ac-
count of the origin and history of the hwuy 
hwuy kaou, and also of the rise and progress of 
the teen choo kaou, mentioning the countries 
where it has prevailed, or still prevails, except-
ing China. He does the same in respect to the 
Ya-soo kaou. Speaking of the different coun-
tries of India under European sway, where fuh 
kaou and Ya-soo kaou exist together, he ob-
serves that " the latter is gradually overcoming 
the former, whose light is becoming more and 
more dim." This is a remarkable concession, 
when we consider that the individual who makes 
it is probably a Buddhist, and represents the re-
ligion of China to be Buddhism. 
In his concluding remarks on India, after al-
luding to the extensive use and evils of opium, 
the author exclaims, " How strange that so great 
an evil should proceed from the original seat of 
Buddhism !" 
IV. SERVING TO SPREAD RELIGIOUS LIGHT IN CHINA. 
This work is interesting to foreigners as fur-
nishing a medinm, in the providence of God, 
through which the light and blessings of Chris-
tianity may find access to the millions of be-
nighted China. 
The exclusive and restricted policy of the 
Chinese government in respect to foreign inter-
course, has kept the nation in the most profound 
ignorance, even of the figure' and size of the 
earth, as well as of the number, character, and 
institutions of the nations which dwell on its 
surface. The little knowledge they have on 
these subjects has come to them through so un-
certain a medium, that it is not to be wondered 
at that they should generally entertain very er-
roneous and extravagant views respecting the 
nations of the Western world 
Any production, therefore, that promises to 
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of mercy, goodness, love, pity, and pardon ! In owes much of its fruitfulness to the vicissitudes of 
his book they are fairly written, that thou through the seasons. 
patience and comfort of the scriptures might As there is no even continuance of constant good, 
have hope. Coming sinner, blessed art thou, so there is no equal pressure of unbroken evil. As 
for " flesh and blood have not revealed this unto the season of calm is brief, so is the burst of the 
thee, but thy Father who is in heaven." Bunyan. storm. The days of darkness are many—more in 
number than the days of light, yet they do not last 
always. " Many are the afflictions of the righteous," 
yet there are breaks in the line of evil, for it is 
added, " the LORD delivereth him out of them all." 
Our GOD has so fashioned us, and so regulated our 
circumstances, that each grief has its crisis, its 
spring-tide, after which it seems, as if by law, to 
recede. Not only can the soul not bear beyond a 
fixed amount of pain or pressure without giving way, 
but it cannot be kept too long upon the stretch. If 
the tension is protracted, the " spirit fails," the mind 
"BEHOLD! THE BRIDEGROOM COMETH!" breaks down. Or if this is not the case, callousness 
 
 
 COMES on ; we grow stupid and insensible. Mine- 
BOSTON, SATURDAY, JULY 27, 18.50. tion loses its power by being too heavy or too long. 
The highest mountain has its summit ; the deepest 
THE EARNESTS OF THE MORNING. mine-shaft has its lowest level. Nor, in general, are 
The true morning is not yet broken; hardly does these long in being reached. So even when there is 
it give forth any sign of breaking, save the deeper sorrow upon sorrow, there is respite between, or 
darkness that is the sure foreteller of the dawn. gladness at the close of the dark series. The outer 
It is still night upon the earth ; and " the children and the inner world have, to some extent, the same 
of the night " are going to and fro in the world's laws of alternation and relief. Tides and variations 
streets, 'doing " the unfruitful works of darkness ;" seem needful in both. Thus it was in the life of 
DAVID. At one time he stood with gladness in the 
" walking in lasciviousness, lusts, excess of wine, 
f, 
revellings, banquetings, and abominable idolatries ;" courts of his GOD ; at another he bemoaned himsel 
yielding to the flattering lips " of the seducer, that saying, " When shall I come and appear before GOD?" 
A 
" Beth in wait at every corner," in "the black and At one time he went with the multitude ; at another 
 
dark night " (Prov. 7:9-21) ; making provision he wandered in solitude and exile. At one time he 
for the flesh," by " living in rioting and drunkenness, kept holy day with the thousands of Israel, joining 
in chambering and wantonness, in strife and envying" in the voice of joy and praise ; at another his tears 
(Rom. 13:13) ; compassing themselves about with were his meat day and night. At one time his soul 
sparks of their own kindling, which only sadden the was cast down and disquieted within him ; at another 
gloom and make us feel more truly that it is NIGHT. he praised JEnovAH as the health of his countenance. 
It is still night to the church; a night of danger, At one time he could look with open eye upon the 
a night of weariness, a night of weeping. Her glory of JEHOVAH in his house ; at another he could 
firmament is dark and troubled. The promise of only remember him from the land of Jordan and of 
morning is sure, and she is looking out for it with the Hermonites from the hill Mizar. At one time 
 
fixed and pleading eye, sore tried with the long gloom. deep called unto deep, all GOD'S waves went over 
 
Yet it has not arisen. It is still deferred—deferred him ; at another the LORD commanded his loving-
in
kindness and opened his mouth in song. Such were 
mercy to an unready world, to whom the ending 
the tides of DAVID'S history—the vicissitudes of day 
of this night shall be the closing of hope, and the 
sealing of ruin, and the settling down of the infinite and night in his varying course. True type of every 
 
darkness. For "the LORD is not slack concerning saint's history, not only in the old age of shadows, 
b 
his promise, as some men count slackness, but is but in our own ! True example of the changes and 
 
long-suffering to us-ward, not willing that any should tossings marked out for the church in her course on 
 
perish, but that all should come to repentance." earth from shame to glory ! What else are we to 
 
But though it is night, there are times, both in the look for till the LORD come? In the first age of the 
 
saint's own history and the church's annals, which church, in the time of righteous ABEL, it was so. 
 
" The evening and the morning were the first day." 
may be spoken of as mornings even now. Such was 
the "morning " to ADAM when SETH was born to In the last age of the church, just ere the second 
AnArn is brought in, it shall be no less so. " The 
him after ABEL'S death.—Gen. 4:25. Such was the 
" morning " to NOAH when the flood dried up, and evening and the morning were the sixth day." Then 
the face of the earth was renewed. Such was the comes the world's seventh and brightest day—a day 
of cloudless splendor, unbroken and unending. 
" morning " to JACOB when the tidings came to him 
that JOSEPH was yet alive. Such was the " morn- 
How wise, how gracious that it should be so? 
ing to NAOMI when RUTH and BOAZ wiped off the One firmament of gloom, spanning our whole life- 
time, would be intolerable. One long heavy chain 
tears of widowhood, and when in her old age she 
" saw her seed," and " took the child and laid it in of grief, with which we could never get familiar, 
 
her bosom."—Ruth 4:16. Such was HANNAH'S and on which we could never learn to look calmly; 
" morning " when, after long years of bitterness, or one linked succession of griefs, ever tearing open 
"the LORD granted her petition," and "she went old wounds and adding new ones, would wither up 
existence and blight life before its prime. Man's 
her way and was. no more sad."-1 Sam. 1:18. nature could not bear it ; man's heart would sink 
Such was the " morning " that dawned on JOB when under it, unless' made totally callous by some un- 
the LORD accepted him, and turned his captivity, natural process, or sustained by daily miracle ; in 
giving him twice as much as he had before, "bless- 
Which case grief would cease to be grief, and there 
ing his latter end more than his beginning." Such could be no such thing as trial or chastisement at 
was Israel's " morning" when the Lone turned 
back the captivity of Zion, " making them like men all.Hence, He who " knoweth our frame and remem-
that dream," filling " their mouth with laughter and bereth that we are dust," not only " stayeth his 
their tongue with singing," in the day of their rough wind in the day of his east wind ;" but often, 
deliverance from exile. 
for a season, bids both be still, and breathes on us 
Thus there are " mornings " ever and anon burst- only with the freshness of the mild south. For thus 
ing on us now. They are indeed little more than has he spoken, " I will not contend for ever, neither 
brief brightenings of the darkness—lulls in the long will I always be wroth ; for the spirit should fail 
tempest that is to rage unspent till the LORD come. before me, and the souls which I have made."—Isa. 
Still we may call them " mornings," just as we give 57:16. Such then is GOD'S purpose concerning us, 
the name of mid-day to the dim kindlings of the sky and such his reasons for it. The purpose is a gracious 
at daily noon, in the six months' arctic night, when and a tender one ; no less so are the reasons for it. 
the sun keeps below the hbrizon. Or, better and He tells us, that though he does, at seasons, contend 
truer, we may call the earnests of the morning—that with us, yet he will not prolong the contest beyond 
morning which is to outshine all mornings, and to a certain time or limit ; for in such a strife, who 
swallow up alike the darkness and the light of a could stand before the Mighty One ? " In measure 
present evil world. Dim and transient as are these when it shooteth forth thou wilt debate with it" 
earnests, they are unutterably gladdening. They (Isa. 27:8) ; that is, he will set bounds to the sorrow 
cheer the heavy darkness and are pledges of sun- and the smiting which cannot be over-passed; he 
rise. 
will say to them, even in their fiercest course, " Thus 
Our life on earth, " the life that we now live in f 
the flesh," is thus made up of many nights and many far shalt thou go, and no farther." For were he to 
 
mornings. It is not all one night, nor is it all one allow that tide to roll on unhindered, who, even of 
 his own chosen and beloved ones, could withstand its 
day. Everything pertaining to it seems to revolve 
or alternate. It is a life of sinking and rising, of rush, or sustain themselves amid its deepening 
 
going and returning, of ebbing and flowing, of shade waters? 
and brightness. The health of the soul seems in Yet let us not forget what the sorrow has done for us 
some measure to need such changes, just as the soil while it lasted ; and what the night has been, though 
 
 dark and sad. 
ever. Often, during its gloom, we called it " wean.- LETTER FROM THE ADVENT CHURCH IN 
some," and said, " When shall I arise and the night. 
NEW YORK. 
The Second Advent Church worshipping on Tester-st. 
be gone ?"—Job 7:4. Yet how much was there to New York, to the Brethren abroad : 
reconcile us to it ; nay, to fill us with praise because DEAR BRETHREN :—We feel a duty, however pain- 
of it ! It was then that the LORD drew near, and ful its discharge, to address you upon the subject that 
the world was displaced, and self was smitten, and has recently, and even 'yet produces, distraction and 
our will conquered, and faith grew apace, and hope divisions among the members of our much loved Zion. 
became brighter and more eager, and the things that Our acquaintance with, and deep interest in, the per-
are unseen were felt to be the real and the true : sons involved in this matter, render it more deeply 
Jerusalem that is above was seen by us as our proper interesting, and yet more painful to us than, perhaps, 
home. 
It was then that we had " songs in the night."— 
it can be to ally other body of the Church of CHRIST. 
Psa. 
But we cannot, we dare' not, allow ourselves to be 
42:8. Our " reins instructed us in the night guided by the impulse of feeling : we must stand 
seasons."—Psa. 16:7. It was " in the night that we " for the right," for justice, however painful to our 
remembered the name " of our GoD, (Psa 119:55,) hearts the issue may be. It is with the deepest pain 
and " desired him with our souls " (Isa. 26:9) ; that we have watched every movement from the first 
" meditating on him in the night-watches."—Psa: 
63:6. It was " in the night " 
that " he led us with development, and have waited with trembling anxiety 
a light of fire."—Psa. 78:14. It was in the night 
the appearance of some indication of adjustment. 
But we have waited, we have watched in vain. We 
that " the dew lay upon our branch," (Job 29:19,) 
and with the dew there came down the manna; for have, as far as possible, suspended decision and action ; 
the manna and the dew fell together, (Num. 11:9,) but the time has now come when we feel called upon 
to speak, and speak to the point. We know what 
so that out of the bosom of the darkness there came developments were made during the Conference in 
at once nourishment and freshness. It was then that 
we were taught sympathy with a groaning creation, this city ; and by our delegates to both sessions of the 
taking part in its " earnest expectation," and waiting Conference at Boston, who discharged thei4thity 
faithfully there, we learn what there transpired ; and 
for resurrection even as it is looking out for restitu- 
tion ; it was then that we were taught to know our believe ourselves possessed of the facts in the case, 
high office, as those who have the first-fruits of the necessary for a correct decision. Therefore we speak, 
and speak advisedly, aware that we are responsible 
Spirit, " to lead (as one has written) the choir of at the judgment for the influence we cast in this 
all-complaining nature ;" for it was then that the matter. 
Spirit's power came forth upon us to tune the chords So close are our hearts bound to persons involved 
of our manifold being, that they might give forth the in this difficulty, that it is like severing the vital 
true note of mingled hope and sadness, peculiar to chords while we speak ; but justice and the judgment 
creation in its present low estate ; and when we were are before us, we cannot refrain. To the one party 
fretting under the touch, arid perhaps, with senti- most of us are indebted, direct or indirect, for most 
mental weakness, talking of broken strings and a of the light we have received upon the prophecies, 
blighted life, the hand of the great Master-tuner was relative to the coming and kingdom of our blessed 
upon use giving to each rebellious chord its proper SAVIOUR. To the other, some of us are indebted for 
tension, that from the re-tuned instrument there might the first impressions that led us to embrace the SA-
come forth that special harmony which he desires to VIOUR. Under these circumstances, it is with crushed 
drat from it in this present age—that special har- and bleeding hearts that we contemplate this matter 
mony by which he is to be glorified on earth, until involving the dearest objects and interests of our 
Eden comes again and the wilderness blossoms as the hearts. We are aware of the efforts that have been, 
rose.* 
and are now being made to palliate, to mislead, to 
It was then that we could make the utterance of blind ; but, in our estimation, that will never make 
JACOB'S patient faith our own, " I have waited thy restitution for the past. But even now, could we 
salvation, 0 LORD ;" subscribing ourselves to our see an open, frank, candid, manly confession of the 
fellow saints as " your companion in tribulation and wrong, our hearts and arms would be the first extend-
in the kingdom and patience of CHRIST," (that is, ed to receive the erring. Have they been misled, 
in patient waiting for his kingdom). It was then over persuaded, or done it ignorantly? We are at least 
that these words of blessed cheer fell so sweetly on entitled to know it. We know what the acts have 
our ears, " He who testifieth these thitigs saith, been, and from them, and the subsequent cutirse judge 
Surely I come quickly," drawing forth from our lips of the motives ; arid until something is done that 
the glad response, " Even so, come Lord JESUS." places the matter upon a different basis, please accept 
And it was then that, while learning thus to plead the following as our sentiments in this case. 
" make haste," we also learned to say with the Bride, The thought of receiving and circulating reports 
" A bundle of myrrh is my well-beloved unto me, to the injury of any person is so repugnant to all the 
he shall lie all night in my bosom."—Sol. Song 1:13. feelings of humanity, that we cannot find language 
Blessed and profitable, however, as we have found expressive of our utter abhorrence of such a course, 
the night with its still seclusion and solemn teachings, and our surprise that any persons could be found 
it is not the morning nor the day. And its very among uscapableof performing so menial a task for the 
darkness makes us long the more for the anticipated enemy of all righteousness. 
sue-rise—for " the flight of shadow's and the eternal MOSES commanded : " Thou shalt not raise (mar- 
day-break." 
gin, ' receive') a false report : put not thy hand with 
Nor are we hindered from desiring the day. Im- the wicked to he an unrighteous witness. Thou 
patience is forbidden, but not desire. Let us possess shalt not follow the multitude to do evil : neither 
our souls in patience, for he is neither the brave nor speak in a cause to decline after many to wrest judg-
the believing man who says, " Let me die, for the ment."—Ex. 23:1, 2. 
cup is bitterer than I can drink ;" but he who under When JEREMIAH saw the wickedness of Israel, he 
the sorest grief can say, " Let me live on and be said : " For I heard the defaming of many, fear on 
useful, whatever may be the bitterness of the cup." every side. Report, say they, and we will report it. 
But still we may long for the ending of the night. All my familiars watched for my halting, saying, 
As in sickness we may long for health, and put forth Peradventure he will be enticed, and we shall prevail 
all fit means for its attainment ; so in darkness we against him, and we shall take our revenge on him." 
may cry earnestly for the dawning, especially because —Jer. 20:10. 
we know that GOD has a day in store for us after the SOLOMON says : " He that uttereth a slander, is a 
night is done—a day which is to be far more than a fool."—Prov. 10:18. 
compensation for all previous sorrow. For every DAVID says, " Whoso privily slandereth his neigh- 
night Goo has provided a morning, so that as we bor, him will I cut off."—Psa. 101:5. 
have many nights, we have also many mornings even PAUL says : " Now the end of the commandment 
here. They are not indeed " mornings without is charity, out of a pure heart, and of a good con-
clouds," but still they are mornings whose cheering science, and of faith unfeigned ; from which some 
light lifts up the heavy spirit and brightens the faded having swerved, have turned aside unto vain jan- 
eye. 
gling," &c. 
But for the world, the children of the night, the JAMES says : " Speak not evil one of another, 
heedless, pleasure-loving world, what morning is brethren. He that speaketh evil of his brother, 
there, or what earnests of the morning ? None. Or speaketh evil of the law, and judgeth the law : but 
at least it deserves not the name of morning. Their 
" sorrows are multiplied," because they have hastened if thou judge the law, thou art not a doer of the law, 
after other gods. Their joy is but a moment. Their but a judge."—James 4:11. 
consolation is no better than a dream. They serve a So utterly at variance is slander with all the prin- 
god that cannot save, and that cannot comfort. Their ciples of the Gospel, that we are much surprised that 
portion here at the best is emptiness ; and the end is 
the eternal blackness and the infinite despair. The any one professing to be governed by its dictates, 
tidings of GoD's free love they heed not : but the could condescend to the practice of so unkind, un- 
tidings of his wrath they shall ere long he made to christian, unholy a course. 
heed ; if now they turn not to him who is enit. ia
rteoartirn.g 
of them this one favor, that they would bring their And what surprises us still more is, that such a 
sins to him for pardon, and let him bear all their course should be taken toward one that had so long 
i 
griefs and carry all their sorrows. Rev. passed the most firey ordeal in the trial of his integrity ; 
Thus even the philosophic German could express the apostolic and against whom the eagle-eyes of his bitterest 
 
thought respecting creation, and give utterance to his sympathies: enemies could bring no reproach. But our surprise 
" When I stand all alone at bight in open nature, I feel as though it 
were a spirit and begged redemption of me. Often have I had the heightens, that those reports should have been received 
sensation as if nature, in wailing sadness, entreated something et 
me, so that,"- 
 not to understand what she longed for, cut through my for a moment, based only upon " common fame " and 
very heart.GonTils, quoted by glshausen on the Romans. Anil 
another has thus written "Even in the things of the world around.4 rumor.,7 More still are we astonished, that they 
its there is an element of life, a yearning of what is hound, which, 
like that Memnon statue, unconsciously makes symphony when the should have been fostered, colored, and circulated 
ray touches it from above."-SCHUBERT, cited by the same. 
Job 42:5-1.2. Yet even here there seems an allusion to the true 
morning yet to come, and an intimation that all this restored fulness It has been a night of grief, yet a night of bless- 
w shut an " earliest." Fen, as has been remarked, while Joh h. ing •; a night iir which there ma y 
y 
have been man 
all his sheep, oxen, &c., exactly doubled to him, his children are not 
doubled. He had lost seven, and he gets back hut seven; for he 
must look to the resurrection-morning for the restoration of his things which we could wish forgotten, yet many 
seven lost ones, and not till then is its to get the double. more which we should wish to be remembered for 
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upon such a basis. But 0! to what a heighth does 
our astonishment rise, that those persons most indus-
triously circulating those reports not only cautiously 
avoided any opportunity for them to come to the ears 
of him whom they were involving in ruin, but 
neglected the first precept of the Gospel in such 
cases : to inform him of his fault, or give the oppor-
tunity to show his innocence. It was not lawful even 
in Pagan Rome to deliver any man to death until he 
was brought face to face with his accusers, and had 
permission to speak for himself. But here the man 
is wounded by a concealed hand, in the house of his 
friends. They have not sufficient confidence in the 
justice of their cause to come forward like men in 
open day, but chose the cloak of secresy, lest their 
plans be thwarted. 
" Wonder, 0 heavens ! and be astonished, 0 earth !" 
An Elder, against whom GOD has commanded that 
an accusation shall not be received except before two 
or three witnesses, (1 Tim. 5:19,) is thus accused, 
and that, too, by those who ought to be examples to 
the flock ;—from those whose position gives, or should 
give them, an influence mighty for weal or for wo. 
How could they in the face of the judgment, and a 
scoffing world, thus violate the principles of the Gos-
pel they teach ? Had they never perused the musings 
of the Scottish Poet, where he says : 
"Rumor was the messenger 
Of defamation, and so swift that none 
Coal.' be the first to tell an evil tale ; 
And was withal so infamous for lies, 
That he who of her sayings, on his creed 
The fewest entered, was deemed wisest !natl. 
The fool, and many who had credit, too, 
For wisdom, grossly swallowed all she said, 
Unsified ; and although, at every word, 
They heard her contradict herself, and saw 
Hourly that they were imposed upon and mocked, 
Yet they ran to hear her speak, and stared, 
And wondered much, and stood aghast, and said 
It could not be ; and while they blushed for shame 
At their own fitith, and seemed to doubt, believed, 
And whom they net, with many sanctions, told. 
So did experience fail to teach ; so hard 
It was to learn this simple truth,-confirmed 
At every corner by a thousand proofs,- 
That enamor' fame most impudently lied." 
We enter our most strong and solemn protest against 
the principle of sending a recognized preacher of the 
Gospel down to be tried by the private members of a 
single body of the Church. And especially do we 
object, when the persons that must there try the case, 
are the very accusers, and that, too, upon the princi-
ple that we have so strongly deprecated. Bro. 
HIMES' labors are as extensive as the principles of 
our common faith have been extended. We have an 
equal and mutual interest in him with the Chardon-st. 
Church ; and were we to admit the principle, that he 
were to he tried upon charges, based only upon 
" common fame," by lay members in any manner, 
we should yet object to its being done by that Church 
alone. We, and all the Churches in the land, have 
an equal interest in the matter, and claim an equal 
right to sit on such a trial, arid feel ourselves capable 
of acting with as little prejudice. But we object to 
the principle in full, and hold to the principle of the 
English Magna Charta : that every person shall be 
tried by his peers, (equals). 
Our delegates witnessed the investigations of the 
Conference and Council ; and we have also seen the 
report of those investigations, and heartily subscribe 
to their decision. With Bro. HIMES and his labors 
we have enjoyed a most extensive acquaintance ; and 
we believe that, under GOD, the Advent interest is 
more indebted to him than to any other man, except 
our lamented Bro. MILLER. So far as human agency 
is concerned, he has acted to the cause almost as the 
heart does to t!ee animal economy—inspiring life and 
energy through all its limbs, muscles, and nerves. 
When our beloved Father MILLER was toiling and 
almost fainting in the cause, with the weight of a 
world, as it were, about to be summoned in judgment, 
resting upon him, and none to stay up his hands, Bro. 
IlimEs met him, learned his situation, and threw his 
whole energies, soul and body, into the work, for the 
good of the great cause. That cause, by the grace 
of God, he has most nobly and triumphantly sus-
tained. 
From his association with the cause, the Advent 
Herald, (then Signs of the Times,) was published, 
not by the inducement, (as is falsely reported here,) 
of $1000 paid him by Father MILLER for that pur-
pose, bat from his love of the cause. 
When he has incurred responsibility for the Her-
ald, no member of the Advent body ever thought 
himself responsible for its payment, nor yet that the 
body was responsible. Nor did any creditor ever 
suppose that they were giving credit to any person 
but Bro. HrmEs. 
We have never yet had, nor have we now, persons 
among us that we would be willing to see substituted 
in his place. And we look upon the Herald, and its 
appendages, as being as strictly the property of Bro. 
HIMES, as in any case the product is the property of 
the producer. Therefore we look upina any attempt 
to remove it from his hands, to make it the property 
of the Conference, as equally unjust as to take the 
private property of any other brother and devote it to 
that cause. 
And we look upon the past and present position of 
the herald, as a better guarantee of its future useful-
ness, than would be the Conference, or a Conference 
Co mmittee. 
"'Tis strange, 'tis passing strange," that a brother 
should he accused " of treating a former brother as 
though he were still one!" This charge has not 
been sustained ; but if it were, iii what feature of it 
consists the crime ? Did not CHRIST and GOD treat 
him in the same manner ? Does not GOD " send his 
rain on the just and on the unjust ?" and are we not 
required to be alike " perfect ?" " If ye salute your 
brethren only, what do ye more than others'?" " If 
ye love them which love you, what reward have ye? 
do not even the publicans the same ?" Who, not 
blinded by the god of this world, or from some other 
cause, could for a moment censure a brother for treat-
ing the erring with love, kindness, and affection ? 
Dear Brother :—In these extremities, while our 
frail bark yet ploughs the dark, heaving billows; 
while the gloom of night yet mantles the earth ; let 
us hold firm to that strong arm which alone is able to 
guide us safe into the port of peace. And while we 
wait the day dawn, let us look well to our chart and 
compass, and every set beacon, lest we make ship-
wreck even in sight of port. Be humble ; be much 
in prayer ; seek to know and do the will of him that 
hath called us. 
Voted unanimously, that this address be adopted 
by the church, and sent to Boston and published in 
the Herald. 
CHAS. MERCHANT, A. K. WARNER, 
C. B. TURNER, 
Committee. 
CHAS. MERCHANT, Chairman of COM. 
Passed July 21st, 1850, in full church. 
WILLARD IDE, for Secretary. 
Foreign News. 
Since our last, three steamers have arrived from 
England, the America, the Atlantic, and the Asia. 
The first sailed from Liverpool on the 6th, the second 
on the 10th, and the last on the 13th. 
The most interesting item of intelligence is the 
death of Sir ROBERT PEEL. He was thrown from 
his horse on the 29th tilt, which fractured his collar 
bone, and broke one of his ribs. He lingered until 
the 2d inst., when he died, in the 63d year of his age. 
Much feeling was manifested throughout England. 
The Duke of Cambridge, uncle to the Queen is 
dead. 
Lours PItILIPPE is said to be dying of cancer in 
the stomach. 
French affairs appear to be progressing in the usual 
way. The Government does not appear to have 
learnt wisdom from the events of the last fifty or 
sixty years ; but it still pursues its usual high-handed 
and tyrannical course towards the press. 
The Spanish Government is about building two 
war steamers, and eight more vessels, in view of the 
danger to which Cuba is exposed from pirates from 
this country. 
Apprehensions exist, that before this time, the 
American minister at Portugal has left, in conse-
quence of the failure of that Government to satisfy 
the claims of the United States. 
" Now FOR A BUSIER LIFE !"—Having SO disposed 
of the late unpleasant difficulties, as to vindicate ourself in 
the estimation of our brethren, we feel prepared to resume 
our " specific work," with livelier anticipations than we have 
indulged in for a long while. In addition to this, our health 
is somewhat improved, and, with prudence and moderation, 
we think we may yet do some service in the missionary field. 
We invite our old friends and fellow-laborers to take hold 
with us anew in the good work. 
Bro. A. MERRILL informs us that he thinks of soon re-
turning to the West. He intends residing near Fort Wayne, 
Ind. We shall be happy to hear from him, and will send 
the Herald with pleasure. Our intercourse with Bro. M. has 
been pleasant, and we hope that he may be sustained and 
blessed in his labors. 
THIS VOLUME for six months, closes with this 
number. But we shall continue it through the year, 
and give the index at the end of the year. 
"for the Committee." 
To this we replied as follows : — 
" Boston, July 18th, 1850. 
" Bao. WooD :—Being obliged to leave town last 
evening, I could not give you an answer till this 
morning. In reply to your note, containing a pe-
remptory demand for a certain document placed in my 
hands, for publication in the Advent Herald, by per-
sons authorized by the writer of it to do so, I would 
say : I have already signified my willingness to pub-
lish it. It is, therefore, my property ;—the writer 
of it having no other claim on it than that it shall be 
printed according to the copy, which will he done.—
But, to show my sincere desire to act fairly and just-
ly, I again repeat the proposition I have before made, 
to refer the whole affair to an impartial council, who 
shall hear the facts and testimony on both sides : to 
abide by their decision ; to publish their report in an 
extra Herald, or otherwise ; and to bear half the ex-
pense. 
" I think all must see that a partizan contention, in 
which the statements made can never be regarded as 
worthy of confidence by impartial minds, would be 
at least a useless waste of time, labor, and money. 
This I have endeavored to avoid. Those who prefer 
such contentions, will soon be understood. If they 
speak tie truth, we shall be satisfied ; if not, the 
means of ex-posing them are abundant. 
" If you wish to suppress the document from hav-
ing become satisfied of the inaccuracy of the state-
ments therein, and will give a certificate to that effect, 
I will suppress it accordingly. But if the reason you 
give; that you wish it published sooner than in our 
next paper, is the true reason, I will then give you a 
copy of it for that purpose this afternoon. 
" Yours, 
J. Y. HIMES." 
No copy was sent for, but on Saturday, the 20th 
inst., it appeared in the evening edition of the Mail. 
They therefore had a copy, and did not need one for 
its earlier appearance elsewhere. Why, then, did 
they threaten useand put us on our "peril," if we 
published or copied it? A man is in no peril for 
publishing what he finds in another paper. Did they 
at that time wish to alter it, and did not wish us to 
have the means to compare it with the original ? and 
finding that we had the means, did they then conclude 
to let it appear as written ?—if not, why such anxiety 
to get the docement from our possession ? 
As to the notes appended, they knew before offer-
ing it, that we always append notes to Whatever we 
publish that we think needs them ; and they did not 
then ask us to publish it without. Why, then, did 
they bring it here? We suspect that the true reason 
was, that they did not imagine we should dare to 
publish so fgrmidable a document, as in their estima-
tion it appeared to be. And supposing that we would 
not, they could have boasted that we had refused 
them, and thus have had us at a disadvantage. But 
men are generally taken in the snares they lay for 
others ; and so these brethren seem to be in all their 
movements for our destruction. 
gar The reader will be particular to consult each 
Noie " in connection with its reference. 
To the Readers of the Advent Herald : 
DEAR BRETHREN :—YOUT attention has doubtless, 
been called to the perusal of an Article, in the " Ad- 
vent Herald," of July 13th entitled, " A VOICE FROM 
CHARDON-ST. SOCIETY AND CHURCH.' That incor-
rect impressions may not be left on your minds, as to 
the position of the Chardon Church and Society, it 
will be expected that something be heard from the 
Pastor of said Church and society, as to the course 
which he has taken together with a majority of said 
Church and Society who have acted with him and still 
continue in the same course. [See Note 1.] From my 
Lectures, bearing the title, " Chardon Street Lec-
tures," it is known abroad that that has been fora time, 
at least, my place of preaching. A sketch of mat-
ters connected with that Society from my arrival in 
Boston to the present time, will put the affair in its 
proper light. I came to Boston, by the earnest soli-
citation of Chardon street Society, and also by the 
frequent and urgent entreaty of Eld. Himes ; he 
stating that my coming was its " only salvation."—
When I arrived in Boston, May 29th 1849, I found 
the Society in a state bordering on despthr, they not 
having received any encouragement from me that I 
would remain with them. [Note 2.] I was beset by 
nearly the whole Conference, (then in session), to take 
charge as Pastor, of the Chardon street Society. At 
length I consented to comply with those requests.—
Soon after my arrival I was chosen Pastor of the so-
ciety, (there being at that. time no organized church,) 
at the same time Elder Himes resigning his charge 
as Pastor ; (a notice of which will be found in the 
Herald of the 23rd). In June 1849, by my request 
and direction, a church was formed, adopting, the 
Scriptures as its rule of faith and practice. The re-
cord of that meeting as taken from the Clerk's book 
is as follows : " At a meeting of the believers in the 
near Advent of Christ, appointed for the purpose of 
organizing a CHURCH for the better observance of the 
ordinances of the Christian Religion, and the mutual 
advancement of each other in the faith of the Gos-
pel, Br. Weethee (Pastor of the Society) presented 
the following as an expression of our mutual Faith 
and object of our association ": " We the under-
signed, believers in the near Advent of our Saviour, 
have recorded our names in this book, (the Bible) 
thereby assenting to its doctrine and precepts, as con-
taining a system of truths, perfect in its nature, and 
all-sufficient as a rule of faith and practice ; and we 
do agree to use all lawful diligence to sustain the 
system afore said ; arid especially to carry out the 
primary design of our association —the diffusion of 
knowledge on the Second Personal Coming of 
Christ." 
" Voted to accept the foregoing, and the clerk be 
instructed to record the same in the Bible together 
with our names." 
" Voted to recognise as Elders and Deacons those 
who have usually served us in that capacity. W. L. 
Hopkinson was appointed Clerk of the meeting." 
J. P. WEETHEE—Pastor. 
WILLIAM L. HOPICINSON, Clerk." [Note 3.] 
This is the original organization of Chardon street 
church under the Pastoral charge of Elder J. P. 
Weethee, at which time and place twenty two names 
were given and recorded. [Note 4.] During the re-
maining part of Summer, and fore part of the fall, 
being often absent, at protracted meetings, and it be-
ing a difficult season to accomplish any special work, 
we had no other church meeting until November 27th 
1849. The record of that meeting is as follows : " At 
a meeting of the ADVENT CHURCH held in Chardon 
street vestry, Nov. 27th, 1849, . . the following 
persons were propounded for membership, viz. Elder 
Joshua V. Himes." Then follow eighteen names 
proposed for membership. From this time our stated 
church meetings, were on Tuesday evening of each 
week. On Tuesday evening Dee. 4th those nineteen 
persons were received into full fellowship. [Note 5.] 
I now write with the church record before me, and 
shall give the principal facts there in recorded. At 
the same meeting Micajah Wood, was received to 
membership on the recommendation and urgent re-
quest of J. V. Himes, they having been associated 
in church relationship for nearly twenty five years, 
with a short inter-ruption. [Note 6.] 
On Tuesday evening Dec. 11th eight persons were 
received into full membership. At this meeting 
" Bro. M. Wood was chosen Deacon in the place of 
Bro. Kelsey now absent (In California,) and Bro. 
Saml. Mills in the place of Bro. Josselyn, who de-
clined acceptance. Bro. M. Wood was chosen Clerk 
in place of Bro. W. L. Hopkinson resigned." It 
may be proper here to state, that from the organiza-
tion of the church, I as the Pastor of the church and 
the head of the officiary, acted as chairman of all our 
church meetings. The reader will here remark that 
Bro. Kelsey, ceased to be a Deacon of this church 
from the above date, Bro. Wood being elected in his 
place. I state this because his name appears in the 
„ Herald " of July 13th, as a Deacon of said church. 
[Note 7.] It will be seen also, that J. V. Himes was 
but a private member in the Chardon st. church or-
ganized and continuing under the pastoral charge of 
J. P. Weethee. On the 11th of December, we num-
bered fifty two members. Up to the present time, no 
Tuesday evening has been passed by without our 
stated church meeting excett Tuesday evening June 
25th 1850. I called the church together on Monday 
evening by due notice that it might not interfere with 
the called Conference commencing in the same house 
June 25th. 
On Tuesday evening Jan. 7th two were received 
into full membership—whole number of members, 54 
Jan. 14th Two were added. - 
2 
" 29th One was added. - - 
1 
Feb. 19th One member was received 
1 
" 26th '' " " '' 
1 
One other - - - - - - 1 
April 2nd One member received - - 1 
" 23rd Received four persons 
4 
May 7th Received two members - 
2 
May 14th " one " 
1 
-- 
68 
Total number in the church up to the above date six-
ty eight. The reader will compare this with the 
declaration
- 
 in the Herald of July 13th (See note on 
pa. 11.) [See Note. 23.] It must be stated, that the 
regular business of each church meeting, and the first 
to be attended to, was, the receiving of members.—
A number of the oldest and firmest Advent believers, 
had not come into Church organization, and many 
have not to this time and in consequence of this, we 
lost the votes of some of our best believers. [Note 8.] 
On the above date commenced the difficulty in the 
church in my absence at Philadelphia. Before en-
tering upon a notice of the difficulties themselves I 
will follow our church meetings to June 20th on 
which evening Elder Himes with ten others, very 
abruptly and imprudently left the church meeting in 
the middle of its session and, without any authority 
withdrew his ease to another tribunal of his own 
choice. [Note 9.] 
May 28th. " Received John W. Young, by a 
STATEMENT OF J. P. WEETHEE AND 
OTHERS. 
The following from Eld. WEETHEE and his friends, 
is in part their version of some matters, a more full 
account of which they promise in the future. 
Our friends will, however, see that it throws no 
light on charges brought by Eld. NEEDHAM, and that 
it is a studied effort to divert attention from them and 
the authors and circulators of those slanderous re-
ports, by a long essay respecting matters which have 
no bearing on the case. We have acceded to their 
request to publish ; and we append such notes as the 
officers of the Chardon-st. Church and Society deem 
important to a correct understanding of this attack on 
their publication. 
The following document was brought to us in the 
afternoon of Monday, the 15th inst. We were asked 
to publish it in the next Herald. We informed M. 
WOOD, that it was too late for that number; and that 
after reading it, we could inform him on the follow-
ing morning-, whether we would publish it the week 
following—i.e., in the present number. On Tuesday 
morning a messenger came to the office, and was in-
formed that the article would be inserted in this num- 
ber of the paper. He returned, and afterwards ano-
thersenger came back after the MS. Thinking 
that 
ie 
r suspicious, we concluded to retain and 
publilt, and gave a written answer to that effect. 
The following was received in reply :— 
" Boston, July 17th, 1850. 
" BRO. HIMES :—Your note in reference to the ar-
ticle handed you by our committee on Monday, you 
was asked to publish it in this week's " Herald ;" if 
not, we chose to have it published in some paper this 
week : and as you are not willing to publish it this 
week, and next week, not without you can append 
your notes, I am requested to have the article pub-
lished at once in some other paper. Therefore please 
send the manustript by the bearer, _Bro. Seavey, one 
of the committee. Yours, MICAJAH WOOD. 
As M. WooD told us, when be left the MS., that 
lie had a copy, we knew that if he wished to publish 
it elsewhere, he had a copy for that purpose, and 
therefore did not need ours; and that if he published 
it elsewhere, as we could copy from that, it would 
not prevent its being published with notes. We could 
not, therefore, regard those as the true reasons. Con- 
sequently we again declined. We then received the 
following :— 
" Boston, July 17th, 1850. 
" BRO. HimEs :—Your note is received concerning 
the article for publication, and I, as foreman of the 
committee, left it in your hands for an answer whether 
you would or not insert it in the " Herald " this 
week ; if not, I would give an answer if we wished 
it published next week by you. I have sent twice 
for the manuscript, and you were told that we did 
not wish you to publish it—and you refused to give 
it up. I now demand the manuscript, and forbid your 
printing or publishing it in any way on your peril. 
Send me, by Bro. Seavey, the bearer of this note, 
the manuscript, without fail. And I also forbid your 
copying it. Yours, NlICAJAII WOOD, 
206 
THE ADVENT HERALD. 
Reply, 1, The Church record shows sixty eight 
names. [Note 23.] 
FOUR have been received, instead of " eight or 
ten," and one never attended a meeting of the Church, 
and the other three had made up their minds to join 
before the difficulties commenced. [Note 24.] 
Of the sixty eight members, according to the 
Church records I make it thus : those who are alive 
and are decided, stand in proportion of 30 for the 
Pastor to 21 for Elder limes. [Note 25.] 
From examination of the old Chardon st. rec-
ord of 400 members, over which Elder J. V. limes 
was Pastor we find that nine persons are still with 
him, and fifteen with us. [Note 26.] 
Micajah Wood Sarah Tout 
Levi J. Seavy Elizabeth Hamblen 
Thomas Allecott * Harriet Clement 
Jefferson N. Berry U. V. Sinnix 
Thomas Marshall M. Sunderland* 
Thomas Tout * F. Allecott 
Hannah Page t C. E. Bass * 
Adelaide A. Pagell Lucy Rodgers I 
Samuel A. Porter * Sophronia Porter T. 
John W. Young * Sarah Jefferson 
A. C. Young * Sarah Blanchard t 
J. G. Hamblin 
Ball 1-l* 
S. J. Hamblin 
Rodgers t * 
Samuel Mills 
Loring t* 
Thomas Allecott jr Phippen t 
Inis 
Frencht 
M. H. Seavy Susan Govet 
Hannah F. Wood -I. Harriet Hamblin I* 
Caroline Sweat Abigail White I* 
Elizabeth Morris Matilda Burnham t * 
Mary E. Studley Lidia Newcom 
Himes was never more highly esteemed than at that 
time, by all. 
Note 6.-More is said of this case than facts will 
justify. " Micajah Wood "had been strongly disaffect-
ed with Bro. }limes, and the great body of Adventists 
in the city, who would not go with him for a creed, and 
high church measures. He left us and attended the 
Congregational and other churches for a year and 
more, and in every way worked against us in our fee-
bleness and trials. 
When he manifested the least disposition to return, 
having a desire to benefit him and his family, Bro. 
Himes treated him kindly, and commended him to 
the church, forgetting the past in hope that his future 
course would be more wise and discreet. Why was 
it necessary that an " urgent request " should be 
made for his admission ? His being an old " friend " 
would not require it. In requesting his admission, 
Eld. limes showed that he harbored no resentment i. 
for the course pursued by him during the previous 
year. 
• 
Since the charges were preferred by Eld. N., no 
man has been more solicitous than he, to keep con-
cealed the name of the man who poisoned the mind of 
the one who personated " common fame " in going 
to Eld. N. ; or has been more anxious to cover up 
the name of the one who turned the mind of Eld. N . 
We hope that in their proposed pamphlet both of 
these names may be revealed-i.e., the real ones. 
Note 7.-Bro. Kelsey is not " now absent in Cali-
fornia." He did not resign his office of deacon when 
he left, was absent but a few months, has returned 
again to this city, and still retains the office. He is 
one of the old friends of the cause, and one of our 
most worthy brethren. 
Note 8.-It is true that " a number of the oldest " 
and firmest friends of the cause, like .Brn. Billings, 
Hale, Niles, Cushman, and others, with their homi-
lies, did not join this association, neither have they 
gone with Elder W. since. His supporters are prin-
cipally among those who joined alter the first forty-
one united. And it was found very convenient not to 
solicit " a number of the oldest and firmest Advent 
believers," when others were hurried into the church 
in order to get their " votes "-being admitted within 
five minutes from the time they were " propounded." 
Note 9.-If the discovery by a brother of the cir-
culation of slanderous reports to his injury, in cornice-
tion with the declaration that they come from the 
church of which he is a member ; and his request for, 
and the appointment of a committee, to receive and 
report to the church the nature and origin of such 
calumnies, is the commencement of the difficuliy, 
then it did commence in his absence. If its com-
mencement was in the first efforts to poison the minds 
of brethren, then it had an earlier date. When con-
versation was had, at different times, with Brn. Plum-
mer, Hawkes, E. and W. Burnham, Cummings, and 
others, and correspondence with divers brethren, it was 
before the referred to date. 
Note 10.-This is news to the " friends " of Elder 
Himes. He may have been in the city occasionally 
since then, but did not remove from Scituate till long 
since that time, and is not recognized as a constant 
attendant at the meetings till within two years.-
As for his regard for Elder limes, he stated at the 
last meeting of that party in the chapel, that he had 
had his present opinion of him since 1841. Nor have 
the other two names mentioned been regarded as in any 
way peculiar in their friendship or prominent in their 
acts,-more than any other humble-minded, honest-in-
tentioned brethren, as they were supposed to be.-
When refused the privilege of protesting against the 
church's delay to take action on a matter which had 
been before them a month, and Elder W. refused to 
put a motion to that effect, ruling it out of order, Bro. 
Himes left. It was then 10 o'clock in the evening. 
Why should he have remained longer 
.Note 11. - The statement in the " Herald " was, 
that " some eight or ten have been hurried into the 
church since [the commencement of recent difficulties] 
by those who were interested in securing their aid." 
He did not say, " added in this space of peculiar tri-
al." W e are grieved, for the sake of the party resort-
ing to it, that an attempt should be made to invali-
date that statement by a resort to such a quibble. But 
the space of trial has riot ended. Not having the 
Clerks records a precise statement was not attempted 
to be made, and therefore it was said, " eight or ten." 
But we have the Bible before us, which contains the 
sixty-nine names entered before the commencement of 
this matter. There are appended to the article of 
Eld. W. the names of sixteen persons not on the 
original Church records. (See the signatures.)-See 
Note 21. 
Note 12.-All of those but three, may have been 
friends to Elder limes, although their friendship 
never in " particular " attracted the notice of his 
" friends." Yet they may have been friends ; for 
they never had cause to be otherwise, and would now, 
in all human probability, be equally friendly, had not 
their minds been perverted by the authors of the se-
cret workings. The reference to Elder limes' hunt-
ing up two friends is of a piece with the other state-
ments in this communication, the writers of which 
would not have made such a reference, had they been 
able to account for their presence on any other prin-
ciple than by the use of means similar to those re-
sorted to by themselves. Elder Himes does not need, 
and does not wish for friends who need to be thus 
1AuTontteed1311.1)-:11' ere is. an error in the record, the vote 
being that they were to " receive charges against the 
moral character of J. V. Himes, and report them to 
the church, for their examination and adjustment." 
Their duty to report is omitted in the record. This 
omission was pointed out to M. Wood, the clerk, by 
Elder limes, in the presence of Elder W. and 
the officers of the church, and others, at the " Her-
ald" office, on the evening of June 3d. The clerk 
admitted the error, plead that it was unintentional, 
and promised to correct it. Although no one, but 
him and his pastor, was more instrumental in pre-
venting a report, or interested in its not being made, 
yet his plea was received. It is, however, now with-
out excuse that it is not made, or that Elder W. and 
himself, both " knowing the facts in the case, "'have put 
their signatures to a document containing the origi-
nal entry uncorrected. The action of the church was 
ings, are not stated, but special, and must be by a call 
from the President. We have not adopted any rules, 
fixing the manner in which notice shall be given, or 
how long previous to the meeting. The Society 
meeting of June 30th was regularly called, had its 
regular officers to preside over and conduct the busi-
ness, and the business was conducted in the usual 
manner, by motions and Resolutions. 1 have been 
particular, that all may see, that by a regular vote at a 
regular meeting, where all might have been present 
if they chose, CHARDON STREET SOCIETY DID DE-
CIDE TO LEAVE CHARDON STREET CHAPEL. Now 
let US see how " CHARDON STREET CHURCH " de-
cided the same motion. Their decision I take from 
the Clerk's book, and the record of the whole matter 
is in these words : 
" Church meeting, July 2d, 1850. 
Met on the SIDE WALK in front of the Chapel, the 
house not being opened. The CHURCH anxiously 
waited to know why it was not opened as usual ; and 
was at length unexpectedly informed that the pro-
prietor Eld. J. V. Himes had stated that there would 
be no meeting there that evening and the members 
need not go. The church not knowing any good 
reason why they should be locked out of the Chapel, 
concluded that this course was taken by Elder J. V. 
Himes to prevent them from bolding their church 
meeting as usual, as he had misrepresented the church, 
and they were about to take action on an article pub-
lished by him called an " Appeal to the church," in 
which he says " the Brethren have refused me a hear-
ing of my case on its own merits-and I will seek 
justice elsewhere." After receiving the above informa-
tion the Brethren 33 in number, (besides other Brn. 
and sisters not members but sympathizing with us 
numbering in all 40) convened at sister Ball's private 
dwelling, (which is near the Chapel) by direction of 
the chairman." [Note 18.] After passing some Reso-
lutions continuing the preliminary steps of the trial 
against J. V. limes, commenced June 20th. The 
following was passed by a unanimous vote, " Where-
as matters have arisen in the Chardon st. Church 
which render it unadvisable to continue longer to wor-
ship as a church in Chardon-st. Chapel ; therefore 
Resolved that this church now decide to leave said 
Chapel, and that they do appoint a Committee to look 
out a suitable location for meeting of said church on 
sabbath next and onward, and give notice of the 
same." On the sabbath July 7th, our Society and 
church assembled at Washington Hall and had their 
regular services, the Hall containing our usual No. of 
hearers. On Tuesday evening July 9th we held our 
regular and stated Church meeting and resolved to 
continue the trial of J. V. limes and appointed a 
Committee to search out the offenses and to report to 
the church for their final action. [Note 19.] In con-
clusion I would ask whether the body of Advent be-
lievers, heretofore known as the " CHARDON ST. SO- 
CIETY AND CHURCH
' 
 " and which have been under the 
Pastoral Charge of J. P. Weethee " still worship as 
usual at Chardon st. Chapel "1 Have they not each 
left that Chapel, by regular votes at regular or stated 
meetings? But it is asked, who decided to leave? 
I answer, at the meetings both of the Society and 
Church, the
re was present at least a QUORUM, and of 
that quorum, in the Society 22 decided to leave to 3 
against it, and of the church quorum 33 voted to leave 
Lang and Emerson were both there in the firi.enoon, 
when I gave the notice of the meeting. Why were 
they absent? If many were absent it was their own 
choice. As to the Church meeting of July 2d, it was 
full, and there was the largest vote given that we have 
had since the commencement of our difficulties. It 
is asked, had you a majority of the Church who voted? 
I reply we had the unanimous vote of all the Church 
members who chose to be present, at our regular stated 
* Sixteen names not on the Church record in the Bible prior to 
May 14th. 
t Members of the orizinal Chardon-street Church. 
4.4- In the hand-writing of one person. 
11 Three minors, 2 males, I feinale. 
§ Entered without her I. nowledge-she not having gone with them, 
aid being indignant at such a use of her name. 
Note 1.-It is not very difficult to settle things in 
almost any way, if a " majority of those who act 
with" a man may decide them. What course did 
the minority of those " who acted with him " take 
Elder Weethee has never had a " majority " in the 
church or society acting with him intelligently in his 
late " course," as will hereafter be seen ; as very 
few of those " who acted with him," were permit-
ted to understand the true merits of the case before 
them. It was the policy of those in Chardon-
street Church who had endorsed and circulated 
the slanders against Eld. limes, to keep all the 
honest hearted ones they could in ignorance of 
the primary wrong, by turning their attention to 
something else. The person has never yet appeared 
in any of our church meetings to say that he, or she, 
believed these slanders : and the three or four who 
had secretly circulated them, denied that they had 
done so, pleading persecution whenever their course 
was complained of; and foreclosed all fair and proper 
action, which would have allowed the proof to be 
brought forward to settle the question. [See Note 21.] 
Are the names appended to this article " the majority 
of those who acted with Trim?" 42 is a large ma-
jority of 33.-See Note 21. 
Note 2.-As Bro. Himes could not remain with 
us, and as Eld. Weethee had waited several months 
without communicating an answer to our request, the 
society was much perplexed at the prospect for a 
pastor-it was only in view of that, that our despair 
consisted. In financial ability, real strength, and 
numbers, we were stronger then than at any time 
since the end of the first four months of his labors. 
Having fixed our minds on having Eld. W. for our 
pastor, and waited for him so long, it would have 
been difficult for us to unite on any other. In that 
light only was the " salvation of the society " de-
pendent on his acceptance. Our great confidence in 
him, before his removal East, makes his present posi-
tion so much the more a subject of grief to our hearts. 
Note 3.-ln this place in the MS. there was writ-
ten, and then erased, the names of the following as 
elders and deacons :-John Lang, John Emerson, El-
ders. Warren West, James Kelsey, J. H. Josselyn, 
P. Hobart, Deacons. Not one of these names are in 
the list appended to Eld. W.'s article. 
Note 4.-The following twenty-two names were 
first entered on blank leaves in the church Bible, 
(now before us,) in accordance with this vote. The 
five names with a star (*),-Eld. W., two men, and 
their wives,-are all of this number who sympathize 
with his late course. 
J. P. Weethee,* Pastor, 
John Lang, Elder, 
Warren West, Deacon, 
Wrn.L.Hopkinson,Crk. 
J. G. Hamblin,* 
E. Hamblin,* 
D. W. Jackson,. 
James Kelsey, Deacon, 
M. R. Gray, 
Charles C. Gage, 
Lucy Rogers, 
John H. Josselyn, Dea., 
Mary Carter, 
John Emerson, Elder, 
C. Nourse, 
J. P. Ames, 
Mary M. Spear, 
P. Hobart, Deacon, 
Orpha Shipman, 
J. Seavey,* 
Sarah Hayden. 
H. Seavey,* 
unanimous vote into full fellowship." This brother 
has been with the Advent people in Boston since 
1840, and has always been regarded by Elder limes 
as a particular friend of his. [Note 10.] 
" June 11th. S. Hamblin, S. A. Porter and Sist. 
Ann C. Young," (wife of the brother above named,) 
" were received into full fellowship." Sister Young 
never met with us in any of our church meetings. 
Bro. Porter has been with the Advent people for 
eight years, and has been a firm supporter of the 
cause, and always regarded as a particular friend of 
Bro. limes. Bro. S. Hamblin has been acquainted 
with him ten years and was a member of his church 
in the Christian connection a friend to Elder Himes. 
These are the only persons added in this space of 
peculiar trial. FOUR IN ALL, and three only who 
took a part, instead of " EIGHT or TEN," as he 
states in the Herald of July 13th, and those re-
ceived at our regular business meetings, all of them 
had, for some time, their minds made up to join. 
[See Note 11.] The whole number of members on 
the list up to June 20th when Elder Himes ceased to 
look to the Church to " elVE HIM JUSTICE," was 
seventy two. Of that number two are dead, leaving 
seventy names, all of whom except three have known 
and have stood as friends to Elder Himes from two 
to twenty four years. To balance these three, two 
members were hunted up by the Elder or his friends, 
and brought in and voted who had not been in the 
chapel for 6 months, and who were supposed to have 
left us entirely, one of them being so situated as to 
enable her to attend if she chose, every week. [Note 
12.] Thus stood matters in regard to numbers on 
Thursday evening June 20th. Leaving this point at 
the date above given we go back to May 14th and 
trace the course of Elder Himes, to the present date, 
(July 12th). , From the church record of May 14th, 
we take the following, " The following letter was 
presented by Elder J. V. Himes arid action was taken 
in nominating and choosing Bro. John Emerson and 
Bro. Joseph G. Hamblin, a committee to hear state-
ments and charges against the moral character of 
Eld. Himes. [Note 13.] We leave the church 
action which took place previous to June 20th to be 
given in our future history of the whole matter, soon 
to be published. On the evening of June 20th he 
eloped from the church meeting as above stated ; and 
contemning the authority of the church to which he 
had first appealed, when he declared his life was in 
their hands, and appointed a council of nine special 
friends, " to DO HIM JUSTICE," and from the testi-
mony on ONE SIDE ONLY brought in a verdict " NOT 
GUILTY ;" as published in the Herald of July 6th. 
[Note 14.] On the 20th of June the church passed 
a resolution holding J. V. Himes responsible for 
charges which he had made against their Pastor, J. 
P. Weethee, and other matters have been since 
added, and he is now on trial in the church. [Note 
15.] 
On Sabbath June 30th by order from W. West 
the chairman of Chardon st. Society, who was re- 
quested by the standing business Committee of the 
Society, I gave notice from the desk, at the close of 
my forenoon's discourse, that the Society was desired 
to tarry after, the Lecture in the afternoon to attend 
to some matters connected with the interests of the 
society. Such is the course the society has frequent-
ly taken, when they desire a full attendance, and a land no one against it. But it is said the members of 
similar course was taken by the friends of Elder the society were not all present : and why not? Brn. 
Humes on Sunday, July 7th (see Herald of the 13th 
July). At that hour our congregation is nearly dou-
ble the size, which we gather at any other hour, owing 
to the peculiar locations of our members. This course 
was taken in April when it was to be decided whether 
the Society would release me from my pastoral charge, 
to go to Hester st. Church, New York. On this 
afternoon the weather was fine and we had our usual 
congregation, both of friends and opposers, Bro. West 
came, forward and opened the meeting. Some one ques-1 church meeting. I will say further that the day had 
tioning the formality of the meeting, Bro. Hopkinson 
stated " that that meeting was as formal as we usually 
have." As our Church (Society) had not decided on any 
form for its business meeting it had a right to take 
its own way. The meeting however WAS REGULAR 
AND FORMAL. As the quarter's rent was then due or 
nearly so for they do not own the house, but rent it 
by the quarter of its owner, J. V. limes, The 
question came up, Shall we as a Society rent this 
Chapel another quarter ; or shall we rent a place 
which may better suit our present circumstances. 
Some very severe language was used by the chairman 
against their pastor, so much so that a Methodist bro-
ther declared that he had never heard more insulting 
epithets. He accused me of wanting to divide that 
" PEACEFUL " church. [Note 16.] My circum-
stances in that Chapel were trying. The process of 
starving me out had already commenced. Some of 
those, if not the majority who took sides with Elder 
limes, had withdrawn their support from me ; and 
such were the insults I had, for a month received from, 
members of the Society, that my friends (some at 
least) had resolved to leave the house. Under such 
circumstances my course was clear, to leave the city 
'or to leave that Chapel. [Note 17.] I said, with 
my hand directed towards the desk, " I EXPECT that 
I have preached my last sermon in that pulpit." I 
said I asked no person to follow me ; that in saying 
what I did, I did not resign as pastor of Chardon st. 
Society and Church ; that when they did not wish 
my services any longer they should let me know ; that 
I did not say that I would not preach there again, but 
I EXPECTED that it was my last sermon; after pro-
tracted remarks, many of those who were for leaving 
th6 Chapel, having left ; more as near as I could 
judge than of the opposite, a motion was made 
and finally put by the chair, that Chardon st. Society 
give up the house at the close, of the quarter. The 
motion was carried, by a vote of twenty two to three 
against it. It was then mentioned that they wished 
to have a vote of the Church on the same point, and 
that that would be taken on Tuesday evening July 
2nd, at our stated Church meeting. The sexton then 
asked me whether it would be in the vestry, or to 
that amount. I answered in the affirmative, and I also 
stated publicly, that the Church meeting would be in 
the vestry on Tuesday evening and that the special 
business of that electing would be to decide as a 
Church, on the propriety of leaving the Chapel. 
Let it be understood that our Church meetings are 
STATED, every Tuesday evening. Our Society meet- 
been very rainy, and the evening was unpleasant, and 
yet from the Clerk's book, it will be seen that there 
were present 33 church members. But what propor- 
tion of the whole church was that number? From 
the list of church members now before me, I find 75 
names. [Note 20.] Of this number, 2 are dead ; 1 
has been absent from our meetings 7 months, and con-
siders the apostles no more inspired than other men ; 
3 from their age and distance do not attend our church 
meetings one unable to attend from sickness ; 4 re-
moved from the city, three of whom are with us ; and 
two of our particular friends, detained-making in all 
13 which deducted from 75 would would leave 62 
persons. And of this number we can safely reckon 4 
neutral, which would leave us a decided majority of 
the whole church, (say 49 to 30.) [Note 21.] Who 
are they who voted to leave the chapel ? With the 
exception of three, I believe, all are old friends of 
Elder Himes. Of the Society, they include the busi-
ness committee and the Treasurer, and of the officers 
of the church, the Pastor, clerk, and two Deacons. 
That J. V. limes, a private member of the church of 
which 1 am pastor, did in my absence sow the seeds 
of disunion and strife among the officers. and private 
members of my church ; and has finally drawn off a 
company from their Pastor (being seditious) and has 
set himself up as their Teacher and Pastor, I do not 
pretend to deny ; but that he has carried the church 
or a majority with him I do deny. We as a church, 
hold him and all the members drawn off and deceived by 
him as responsible for their conduct to the church of 
which I am pastor, and to be dealt with as the church 
may deem Scriptural. [Note 22.] As to the articles 
which, for some weeks, have been coming out in the 
columns of the " Advent Herald," our brethren will 
please exercise patience. They shall be attended 
to as soon as circumstances will allow. 
J. P. WEETHEE, Pastor C. S. C. 
Note. The reader is directed to compare the note 
of Elder limes, in the " Herald " of July 13th, 
with facts collected from two church books. Note 
of Elder limes. " The names on the church records, 
previous to the recent difficulties, were about sixty 
five. Some eight or ten have been hurried into the 
Church since by those who were interested in secur-
ing their aid. A majority of those first named, all 
the officers (except two-who were elected to office 
in December last), with ' their pastor,' and all but 
three members of the old Chardon st. Church, re-
main." 
Note 5.-The next nineteen names entered, are 
the following-the eight sisters with a star (*) being 
Eld. W.'s friends-making thirteen (two men besides 
Eld. W., and ten sisters) out of the original forty-
one-less than one third. This indicates how the 
old friends of the cause regard matters. 
J. V. limes, Sarah Lang, 
J. G. L. limes, Hannah Wood,* 
C. Watkins, 
Charity Burgin, 
Sarah Blanchard,* E. Snow, 
T. Himes, Z. Wilson, 
V. Sinex,* S. Van Kleek, 
E. Merriam, 
Lucy Wilde, 
Frances Allicot,* Hannah Page,* 
Harriet Clement,* S. Jefferson.* 
Ann C. Weethee,*-wife of J. P. W. 
Elder H. propounded himself, with his family 
and others. He found that nothing had been done 
except to record the twenty-two names. All lay 
dead from June till November. He stirred them up, 
and from this meeting things took a new start. Eld. 
Himes, with the other eighteen that came in at the 
time, were all in the most perfect fellowship. Eld. 
 
 
 
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It 
defeated by the omission of the committee to report. 
When a majority of the officers attempted to make 
one, Elder W. remarked, " As chairman of thecom-
mittee, I have not been called upon to make a report. 
I present none ; therefore there is no report." This 
defeated the object of the appointment of the com-
mittee. Every one knows that if Elder W. was the 
proper chairman of the committee, it was his duty to 
see that a report was made. 
In this place was written, and then erased, the 
words : " Then follows his request." That was as 
follows :— 
To the Advent Church, Chardon-street, Boston —
DEAR BRETHREN :—I am again deeply afflicted. Re-
ports seriously implicating my integrity in conduct-
ing business connected with the Advent cause, have 
been laid before me by Elder John Pearson, jr., of 
Newburypurt, Mass., and others. Afflicting as these 
reports are to me individually, I do not appear before 
you so much on that account, as on their disastrous 
bearing on the Advent cause. It is my earnest desire 
that you will take measures to search out the origin 
and nature of these reports, and see that justice is 
done me, so far as it may he in your power. Very 
truly yours in tribulation, J. V. RIMES. 
Boston, May 14th, 1850. 
For the subsequent action on this, see the " Ap-
peal " in the " Herald " of June 29th. 
Note 14.—Who should Mr. Himes appeal to, but 
to his " friends," when his enemies had done all they 
could to throw obstacles before him, and nothing 
more was to be hoped from tnem ? The examination 
was, however, fully public ; his enemies were not 
shut out, as his friends had been before. It was be-
fore the entire Conference, where his enemies could 
have presented any proof they might dare to bring, 
and where they shrunk from presenting anything. 
The Conference unanimously approved the report of 
the council, which not only exonerated Mr. Himes, 
but which censured the charges as false and malicious. 
This reflection on the council, is an imputation on 
the entire Conference which approved their decision. 
The brethren are requested to refer to the " Herald " 
of July 6th, and judge, if, the names of that council 
would be likely to let friendship for any man swerve 
them from the claims of justice ! What shall we think 
of the merits of a movement, which has to resort to 
such imputations? The words "not guilty," quoted 
by Eld. W., were not used by them in their verdict, 
nor thus published in the " Herald." When a notice 
of this meeting of the council was handed to Eld. W., 
in church meeting, requesting the presentation of 
any " testimony in support of charges against Bro. 
II., Eld. W. pronounced it an insult. The friends 
at the Conference also know that every proposition to 
bring the case before a mutual council, was rejected 
by Eld. W. and friends. 
Now mark the inconsistencies, contradictions, and 
absurdities into which a bad cause involves a man of 
" unblemished character." 
In the meeting of the officers of the church, 
Eld. W., as chairman, (i) put the motion, that these 
charges—the same, word for word, that were acted 
on by the council —were " unworthy of any further' 
 
notice ;" and he neither objected to the motion, nor 
voted against it. 
When the case came before the church, al-
though he nullified a proper report, Eld. W. pro-
nounced the case to be " dead;" and not the subject 
of farther action, " unless one of the committee who 
voted in the negative saw fit to call it up." And NI. 
Wood responded to this decision, by saying that " the 
case was as much dead as a man who was dead and 
buried ; and could no more be called up again than a 
dead man could be ale* to life." 
When notice was given to Eld. W., that the 
council was in session, and the case before them, he 
pronounced that notice, before the church, to be " an 
insult." 
But as soon as a council, called by Bro. Himes, 
take up the same "charges," and lronounced them 
to be " false and malicious ;"—nods Eld. W. says, 
" bring in a verdict, Not guilty ;"—then these same 
men who had pronounced the charges " dead," and 
the one who put the motion that they were unworthy 
of any farther notice, " contemn " and sneer at that 
council as "one sided;" and insult the whole Con-
ference, who witnessed their doings and approved 
them. 
One of two things in this case must be trite, and 
Eld. W. and his " friends " may adopt as true, which-
ever of them he pleases. Either " J. V. Himes " 
was "guilty" of the things charged against him ; 
and Eld. W. was willing to regard his guilt as " un-
worthy of notice," and to let all action on it die; or 
else he was " not guilty," and yet Eld. W. was wil-
ling to embarrass all proper and customary action 
which could make it appear ; and now rails at the 
" council " for doing what he as a " pastor " and 
man of "unblemished character " ought not to have 
left undone ! 
Note 15.—The charges here claimed to be made 
by Eld. limes against Eld. Weethee are claimed to 
be contained in his efforts to discover the authors of 
the slanders against himself. Those referred to in 
this resolution, which was passed after Bro. Himes 
and friends had retired—" eloped," as it is politely 
expressed in this document—refer to the article in the 
" Herald " of June 18th, entitled " Secret Work-
ings," which Eld. W. says implicates himself. Why 
should he feel implicated more than others? Bro. 
H., here, as repeatedly offered elsewhere, would be 
most happy to meet these brethren before any number 
of impartial Christians of any name, at any time and 
place where these matters may have a fair, full, and 
honorable examination, and exposure. While they de- 
cline so doing, on them rests the responsibility. We, 
of course, cannot regard the tribunal (?) having the 
matter in charge, as here announced, competent to 
give a disinterested result. 
The resolution,* which was written by Eld. Wee- 
* The following is the Preamble and Resolution 
referred to. It is the " character " of the one who 
wrote it that is said to be " unblemished." 
Whereas, It is the duty of every Church to defend 
the character of their pastor when assailed, that his 
instruction may be attended by the divine blessing 
and heard without unwonted prejudice ; and, whereas, 
thee himself, was presented by Bro. Young ; and 
this was " passed by the church " in favor of " their 
pastor." No doubt this was done by " the votes of 
some of our best believers ;" whether " hunted up 
and brought in " or not they know best. But it was 
like appealing to the church to maintain the decision 
of the chair, when nobody objected to its decision. 
" J. V. Himes " has never, to our knowledge, de-
clined to hold himself " responsible" for charges 
which he has made against any man, or is accused of 
making. His accusers are the ones who shrink from 
such responsibilities. 
Elder Weethee has repeatedly said, in our hearing, 
that he held himself charged by the article headed 
" More Secret Working," in the " Advent Herald ;" 
and Bro. Himes has also stated repeatedly, that if Eld. 
W.considered the acts in the article as belonging to him-
self, he was one who was meant. And in the meeting on 
the evening of June 20th, or the previous one, Bro. 
Himes remarked, that, as one of the general charges 
preferred against him by Elder W. was, " improper 
general treatment of Bro. Weethee," if he saw fit 
to bring forward that article on secret working, as an 
item under that charge, he would meet the statements 
of the article to Elder Weethee's satisfaction ; or he 
might make it the ground of a new charge, and he 
was already to meet that. But that whatever was 
done must be done in due form, and order ; and not 
mix up matters by insisting that one case should 
be tried while another was before the meeting.—
This display about " the church," its " authority," 
and the " seditious " contemning that authority by 
eloping, &c., is only an awkward but characteristic 
exhibition of the mortification that is felt under their 
disappointment. What an awful sin it must be to 
" elope " from such a " tribunal," after pleading in 
vain to be heard for a month ; and then to have a 
motion to take up the case ruled " out of order," and 
the privilege of entering a protest against that course 
denied ! 
Note 16.—These references to the President of the 
Society are an entire misrepresentation, as the fol-
lowing certificate from Bro. West will show : 
" It is not true that that meeting was called by my 
order. On the morning of that day, Brn. Wood and 
Hamblin came to me and requested me to call a meet-
ing at the time referred to. I asked the object of the 
meeting, but could not learn it ; and for that reason 
declined calling one. Before the close of the morn-
ing service, M. Wood came to me again, and asked if 
I was not going to call a meeting, I told him I was 
not ; and that if he wanted a meeting he could call it 
himself. Eld. W. then appointed the meeting with-
out any written or verbal call from me. If he sup-
posed I had given such an order, he was misinformed. 
I was unable to conceive the object of the meeting, 
until I noticed that the regular appointments for the 
ensuing week were omitted from the desk during the 
day. At the close of the afternoon service, as the 
meeting had been called without my order, I stepped 
forward and corrected the appointment as made from 
the desk, and informed them that it was not called by 
my order ; and asked for the object of the meting, 
of those who had called it. I am the more grieved 
that Eld. W. should now affirm that it was called by 
my order—he being informed at the meeting, that I 
did not call it. Had I riot thus corrected it, he would 
have had some excuse for thus affirming it,—now he 
has none. 
" When it came out in the meeting that an effort 
was to be made to draw off a party, I told Eld. W. 
that if he chose'to take a course to divide and draw 
off a portion from this once peaceful church and soci-
ety, he must take the responsibility, and referred to 
the fact in 2 Kings 3:25, 26, that the real mother did 
not wish the child divided. Some one replied that it 
was not a " peaceful " church. I replied that I said 
" once peaceful," and that it was so two months ago. 
As Eld. W. heard that correction, his use of a single 
disconnected word of my language is now the more 
surprising. In my remarks I endeavored to avoid all 
harsh language ; but as an officer in the church and 
society to admonish them faithfully. W. WEST." 
Nate 17.—If there was any design to starve him, 
is it likely that one of Bro. Himes' " particular 
friends," Bro. Lang, should have continued to board 
Eld. W. and wife till the present writing, at less than 
two-thirds the regular price for similar accommoda-
tions ? A few may have withdrawn their support, 
and a few only ; for the majority of Mr. Himes' 
friends, at his " urgent request," had continued to 
stand by as usual. 
insults are considered more or less grievous, ac-
cording to the sensitiveness of the persons who receive 
or fancy them. Many, in the presence of Eld. W., 
have expressed their strong abhorrence of the course 
of the secret workers, not knowing that he would 
feel implicated in the movement, and with no inten-
tion to injure his feelings. To discover the authors 
of this movement, a strong effort was found necessary. 
No one has a right to feel insulted, by such efforts, 
if they voluntarily place themselves in a position to 
encounter the reprobation of unchristian acts. We 
should be ashamed of any one who should taunt him 
for the sake of injuring his feelings. But we have a 
J. P. Weethee, who has been our Pastor for the last 
year came a stranger to labor with us, yet with a 
character unblemished; and, whereas, he is now suf-
fering, as he considers, under severe charges or 
accusations made against him by a member with us, 
and by the same privately and in a very public manner 
through the columns of the " Advent Herald," of 
May 18th, thereby inflicting on the same, in his esti-
mation, a very serious injury ; and, whereas, the 
aforesaid Pastor has made known the case to the 
Church, requesting them to act in this matter as the 
defendants of his character ; Therefore, 
Resolved, That in the opinion of this Church the 
article in the " Advent Herald " of May 18th, headed 
" More Secret Working," which appeared over the 
signature of J. V. Himes, does contain charges of a 
serious nature against some person or PERSONS, and 
that there is sufficient evidence that the author of 
said article did consider J. P. Weethee, the Pastor 
of this Church aforesaid, as one of the principal 
persons therein intended. — Witnesses, Hamblin, 
Wood and Mrs. Nourse. 
This is all the complaint they have preferred against 
him, to our knowledge. 
right to demand of him the names of those from 
twhhi c s:.; ,says he received his rumors. 
N —T clerk had it in his power to make 
ent he was pleased to. Its value will 
be te y the ()Bowing letter from the sexton, who 
is the ecretar of the Society : 
44 tempt has been made to fasten blame on 
Eld. ecause the chapel was not opened as usual 
on the ing of July 2d, it may be proper for me 
to state y it was not. On Sunday, June 30th, 
(which was the last day of the quarter,) the mem-
bers of the society were requested by the pastor to 
stop after service for the transaction of business,—he 
stating that it was by the request of the president of 
the society. This the president, at the opening of 
the meeting, positively denied. On this ground, I 
stated in some remarks subsequently made, that I con-
sidered the meeting informal; but added, that I did 
not know but it was about as formal as usual. I said 
this, because we had had business meetings before, 
appointed from the pulpit, without any knowledge on 
my part by whose authority they were appointed. If 
the declaration that I considered it informal, is not 
worth as much to them as the admission that I did not 
know but it was about as formal as usual, why, let 
them make the most of it. At this meeting, a motion 
was made arid carried by a large majority, (they say 
22 to 3, the body of the society that remain being 
absent,) that we leave this house this day, and this 
was accompanied by a wish that it might ever remain 
desolate—that the doors might never be opened again. 
It was on this account that I did not open the chapel 
for church meeting, July/2d, and not because Eld. H. 
ordered it, for I received no such order from him, or 
any one else. Although I pronounced the meeting 
informal, and so recorded it, the party complaining 
say it was regular and formal.' 
Why should they 
then complain ? In regard to the appointment of the 
church meeting, I would say, that I inquired of the 
pastor, on Sabbath evening, if there was to be a 
church meeting on Tuesday evening, and if it was to 
be in the vestry ? He replied, he supposed there 
would be,—that it was so understood. I suggested 
that I thought the vote in the afternoon closed the 
doors. He only replied, that he supposed it would 
be there. I will add but one word more, and that is, 
to say that I supposed the reason why they were so 
anxious to leave the house that day,' (June 30th,) 
was, that they might not be responsible for another 
quarter's rent, which commenced the next day.* 
" Wm. L. HOPKINSON, 
" Secretary and Sexton." 
At this meeting several members were taken into 
the church ! !! 
Who " stated " that Bro. Himes said there would 
be no meeting, &c. ? Was it " Rumor," " Common 
Fame," or an " informant?" An effort in this, as 
in other cases, has been made to get the author ; but 
only the usual answer is received : " I don't choose 
to tell." 
Note 19.—The " secret workings" are then, it 
seems, to be continued—no notice having been given 
to the culprit. Before whom is he now to be tried, 
" special friends "—who will hear evidence only on 
one side ? As Eld. W. has pronounced the charges 
of Elder Needham dead, and others of these breth-
ren all smoke, and past a resurrection, they will con-
fer a favor by reporting any new discoveries they make. 
This high court of inquiry was pronounced by one 
brother as the highest [ecclesiastical] tribunal on 
earth ! ! which was given as a reason for not appear-
ing before the council. Of what does it consist? It 
numbers Elder W., six men, two minors, a number of 
sisters, and new members added to aid in this move-
ment. 
Note 20.-1f there had been but four new acces-
sions, how came the number of sixty-eight, as stated 
to have been that on the book May 14th, to be swelled 
up to seventy-five ? Do 68+4=75 ? (!) 
Note 21.—What connection there is between the 
result, of " forty-nine to thirty," and the previous 
computation, we are. unable to perceive. if Elder 
W. means that forty-nine to thirty " are the whole 
church," as the connection implies, it makes seventy-
nine members at the time he wrote. As there were 
but sixty-eight names (sixty-five members, two being 
dead, and one gone to parts unknown), it would be 
an addition of fourteen since then. But as he says 
there are seventy-five names of which " two are dead 
and one absent," we think that cannot be the mean-
ing. With seventy-two living members at the pres-
ent time it makes an addition of seven—only one less 
than eight. But if for forty-nine he meant thirty-
nine, as it is printed in the Boston " Mail," and thus 
sixty-nine in the whole church ; then deduct the four 
he says have been since added, and it leaves just six-
ty-five as Bro. H. stated in his note, which Elder W. 
has attempted to make out a false number. 
In making a majority of the church, what right 
have we to exclude the aged, sick, absent, and neu-
tral? Age and sickness is a misfortune—not a fault. 
But excluding these, fifty-eight remain. Thirty 
would only be a majority of these ; and it would re 
quire thirty-three to make a majority of those who 
were members prior to May 14th. There are ap-
pended to the foregoing document only twenty-six 
names of those who were members prior to that date, 
of which nineteen only are in their own hand-wri-
ting, and alone are here entitled to be enumerated. 
But the twenty-six would be a majority of only fifty-
three persons—a minority of sixty-five ! 
There are in all appended to this, but forty-two 
names. Of these, fifteen were not on the records 
prior to May 14th, sixteen are in the hand-writing of 
M. Wood, six are appended without their given 
names,—showing not only that they were not pres-
ent to witness the affixing of their signatures, but also 
that all who could be thought of and reckoned on, 
were appended in their absence, one of which was 
contrary to the wishes of its owner.—Why were not 
the balance appended? 
And why so much effort to make it appear that 
those who are now with Elder W. have been " par-
ticular friends," " old friends," &c., of Eld. Himes, 
unless it is to give a more potent effect to the blow 
aimed at him? It is this that has given the whole ef-
fect to the slanders circulated against him. It should 
* No part of the rent for the last quarter has yet 
been paid by them.—En. 
be distinctly understood, however, that they Were not 
led to act with Elder W., " with the exception of 
three, we believe," because they had anything to do 
with circulating these slanders against Bro. Himes, 
or because they believed them, but because they were 
made to believe, quite a number of them at least, by 
private visits and special pleading for sympathy, on 
the part of " their pastor " and those involved with 
him, that he was innocent of having circulated these 
slanderous reports. They have said, that if they 
could he convinced that he has done this, they should 
leave him ; but still, they sustain him in evading such 
an investigation as would clear Elder Himes from 
the imputations on him by Eld. W., while he refuses 
to refer matters to any council for that purpose. 
It is very conclusive proof against Elder Himes, 
that those who now " act with Elder W." were once 
" particular friends " of the former. And it is equal-
ly against him, it seems, that a council of his " spe-
cial friends," and the whole Conference, should be in 
his favor and against the " course " of his slanderers. 
Note 22.—We know not what they may " deem " 
Scriptural : they seem, however, to have reversed 
the Scriptural rule, and tell the faults of these breth-
ren to the church before going to them privately.—
The pastor, six disaffected men, one of whom is in-
volved with the origin and circulation of late slan-
ders, two minors, several sisters in the church, and 
the new members added for that purpose, may be, in 
their opinion—not in ours—a very suitable tribunal, 
to set in judgment on their former pastor, with all their 
original elders and deacons, and the most stable, old-
est, and most reliable friends of the cause in this city ! 
The above names, who have gone off, number only 
one brother who has stood at all times by the cause 
in this city, since the erection of the tabernacle. 
That Eld. Hones did not " set himself up as a 
teacher," the following communication from the offi-
cers of the church, and his reply, will show. 
" Boston, July 1, 1850. 
" BRO. RIMES :—As our late pastor, with a part 
of our church and society, have abruptly left us ; 
without giving notice, till the hour they decided to 
leave ; we as the officers of the Chardon-st. church 
and society, being left destitute, request you to sup-
ply our pulpit next Sabbath, and after, as the church 
and society may desire. 
"JOHN LANG, JOHN EMERSON, Elders. 
" W. WEST, JAMES KELSEY, 
" P7TER HOBART, Deacons. 
"W 
W. WEST, Pres't Soc. 
" Wal. L. HOPKINSON, Sec'y." 
To this letter, Eld. Himes, though in feeble health, 
made the following reply:— 
Charlestown, July 1, 1850. 
" DEAR BRETHREN :—I deeply sympathize with 
you in your present trials ; and will serve you Sab-
bath next, if my health will permit. Y0 
,: I..v.1.1rS,
HImEs. 
" To JOHN LANG, and others, 
" Officers of Chardon-st. Ch. and Soc." 
In the sudden emergency, we had no one to look 
to so likely to aid and sustain us, as Eld. H., who 
had always stood by us in the time of trial. We 
have found him now, as always, a true friend to the 
cause ; never forsaking us in the time of calamity. 
And we cannot but express our gratitude for this last 
act of love in coming to our aid. 
Under these circumstances we are greatly surprized 
to find it charged by Eld. Weethee, that Eld. Himes 
had " sowed the seeds of disunion and strife among 
the officers and members of the church " ! ! We 
have the means of knowing that this, like other 
charges of recent date, is without foundation in truth. 
He might have exposed the " secret workings " ear-
lier, and thus have saved many of his friends who 
are now carried off by sympathy ; but he waited for 
their authors to make reparation, or to expose them-
selves ; so that many were turned away by the plea 
that Eld. H. was seeking to " crush him," when 
nothing was farther from him. He has sought a 
Christian adjustment of the matter with them which 
he has not been able to obtain, so that he has had to 
defend himself against the charges which were said 
to have come from Chardon-st. church ! 
Note 23.—Of these 68, Eld. W. acknowledges 
that two are dead. One other had borrowed small 
sums of money and has gone to parts unknown, leav-
ing just " 65," at that time !—A wonderful discrep-
ancy !! 
In the article in the "Mail," the note is printed 
with the words SIXTY-FIVE in small capitals; and the 
words " tyre about," are entirely omitted ! Why 
was this ? Could they make out a discrepancy in no 
other way ? Were those qualifying words omitted, 
before the 65, and then two dead folks and one run 
away counted to make 68 ; and then 65 given as Bro. 
H.'s statement, and 68 as the true statement, for the 
purpose of giving Bro. H. the lie? We hope not. 
Note 24.—See Note 21. 
Note 25.—If only 30 of the original 68 are for the 
" Pastor," and only 4 have been added, how came 
the foregoing 42 on the list? Deduct 30 from 42, 
and 12 remain ! If only 30 are for the " Pastor," 
he has a majority of only 60—not of 65. If so many 
are for the " Pastor," how happens it that only 19 of 
them have signed his statement with their own hand, 
and only 7 more could be thought of-3 without re-
calling their given names—making in all only 26 ? 
Note 26.—We have not access to the old Chardon-
st. church records, and therefore can only judge of 
the accuracy of this statement by that of others. Of 
the signatures appended to Eld. W.'s statement, we 
are able to find but 6 names that we can recall as 
members of that church, instead of 15. And of these 
only 3, as Bro. Himes stated, were members of Eld. 
W.'s church prior to May 14th. Of the 65 members 
prior to that date, we recognize 18 as belonging to 
Eld. Himes' old church, of which two of us were 
officers ; and 15 of these disapprove of Eld. W.'s 
course. An examination of those records might re-
veal more. 
It is no pleasure, but a subject of great pain, that 
we are compelled to append notes of this character. 
JOHN LANG, JOHN EMERSON, Elders. 
W. WEST, JAMES KELSEY, 
PETER HOBART, Deacons. 
Pres't Soc. 
WM. L. HOPKINSON, SeCN. WEST, 
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THE ADVENT HERALD. 
THE ADVENT HERALD. 
BOSTON, JULY 21, 1S50. 
 
Office Business. 
Those of our subscribers who owe for two or inure volumes 
of the Herald,—of whom there are a considerable number,—
would greatly oblige us by a speedy remittance. There are 
heavy bills outstanding against us, which we must shortly meet. 
If those of our patrons who are in arrears, would make a 
slight effort, they would greatly relieve us. 
By a glance at our receipts for some time past, our friends 
will see that they are very light—being wholly insufficient to 
meet our current and necessary expenses. The efforts of our 
enemies are increasing-in virulence, and seriously impede us. 
We hope our friends will respond immediately; we cannot go 
on unless they do so. 
STATEMENT OF ELDER J. P. WEETHEE, 
AND OTHERS. 
WE hope our readers will pardon us for occupying so large 
a space in this week's paper, with matters relating to our re-
cent difficulties. We thought it proper to admit the state-
ment of Elder WEETHEE in the columns of the Herald, 
so that we might not be charged with injustice ; and it was 
necessary that notes should be added, to correct the misrep-
resentations and errors contained in the statement. If we 
shall be compelled hereafter to resume this subject—and we 
suppose we shall be—we shall keep it out of the Herald, and 
issue an extra sheet, or pamphlet. We know our enemies, 
we are apprised of their movements, and we only wait for 
them to show themselves in the light, to place before our 
readers the proofs—irrefragable proofs—of the design to ruin 
us. As we intimated in our last, a pamphlet is about to be 
issued, containing the statement of those engaged in circu-
lating the late slanders against us. When this appears, we 
doubtless shall have to speak again, and this time it will be 
apparent of whom we speak. But we have hail our patience 
somewhat tried at the slow progress made in getting from un-
der " cover," and we may now have to say with JOB, " 0 
that mine adversary had written a book !" 
From the commencement of this difficulty, — or of our 
knowledge of it,—we determined to do noticing that was not 
uniformly regarded as orderly, unless compelled to depart 
from that course by those with whom we had to do in the 
case. When informed that they chose to " forestall " us 
in their intended action against us, to communicate their 
slanders under the injunction of secrecy, that they might 
complain of, and thus over-awe any one who acted the Iwo-
therly and manly part towards us, that they "violated confi-
dence," we had to put our friends on their guard, by calling 
their attention to the work of darkness, without specifying 
who the agents were ; but as soon as they came forth,—so 
that their complaint of wrong was lost in the self-convicting 
shame that covered them,—and we could demand a proper 
and scriptural course of action, we refused to acquiesce in any 
other action, though we were compelled to sufier it. When 
they had outraged all the forms and usages of impartial jus-
tice, in defeating all fair action in the church ; worn out and 
disgusted many of its most worthy members, by a month of 
usurpation, evasion, and private management, which gave 
them strength enough to dare to trample their " particular 
friend " in the dust, by ruling it " out of order " to hear him, 
and refusing him the right of a protest ; when they declined 
all the propositions that an honorable man could make or ask, 
—preferring to " cover up " the mischief,—then a council of 
men was called, who stand above all suspicion of partiality 
where they are known, to act on the case, and we have given 
their report to the world ; and when they saw fit to leave 
our usual place of worship in a disorderly manner, and an-
nounce a falsehood to the world concerning the act of removal, 
the Church and Society gave their report of the matter. 
Our adversaries have now given to the public their state-
ment (in part) of the matters involved ; and if they are de-
termined not to retrace their former dishonorable steps, we 
are glad of this statement. It is in harmony with all that 
has preceded it in their late history. A few items not men-
tioned in the notes on the document, signed by the officers of 
the Church and Society, should be given to our readers. 
The visit of M. WOOD, when he laid the document before 
us, had a significance. We were struck with the fact, that 
there was no sense of the wrong that had been done us by 
the cruel and cowardly attacks on our character, and the at-
tempt to destroy our influence among the brethren and the 
public. Nothing else appeared to be thought of but the 
chances of success. He actually exulted that the course we 
had taken in our defence, as he and his friends viewed it, 
would give them a better chance than ever. They had no 
doubt that " two-thirds " or more of the Adventists would 
by this means be brought to act with them in the crusade 
against the Herald. 
No other question seems to be thought of than these : 
How can we the most easily secure the brethren : How can 
we escape detection I How can we best succeed in our 
plans I 
A few remarkable facts which stand out on the face of the 
document should be made known. 1. There are forty-two 
names appended to it. But we doubt if a number of the per-
sons who own these names ever saw the document, or heard 
it read. There is no clause in it which signifies that they 
endorsed, approved, or even had any knowledge of the mat-
ters referred to, or of the statements of the article written by 
J. P. W. And how could they speak of things, when they 
were not. present when the things took place I It is there-
fore an imposition to bring these persons forward, as if they 
" acted with " the writer of the article, in the statements 
made, when there is nothing to show that they did so. 2. 
Some of the names were not signed by the persons them-
selves ; but were evidently written in their absence, as not 
even the initials of their given names are there to designate 
the persons intended. These names are in one hand-writing, 
and if they were put there without the authority of the per-
sons to whom they belong, the act is forgery. 3. Several of 
these persons, whose names must be intended, have dis-
claimed all knowledge that their names were there, and feel 
that they have been wronged in being associated thus with 
this crusade against us. 
And now we wish to ask those brethren and sisters, who 
have so often said that they did not believe the slandei4'cir-
culated against their " old friend," and which were redoced 
to the charges of Elder NEEDHAM, if they now join in these 
sneers against "the council" for their " verdict of not 
guilty " on these charges I You, brethren and sisters, have 
been led to suppose that you were defending the innocent, by 
the assertion so often made, that " no harm was intended 
against Bro. HIMES ;" that "not a word hatthien uttered, 
impeaching his integrity, until the late New York Confer- 
ence." But how is it that this is called one-sided testi- 
mony," which decides that he is " not guilty " of charges 
which these innocent men had spread all over the land, by 
word and epistle, weeks or months before the New York 
Conference I And is it better than "one-sided testimony" 
for a man to write a resolution certifying his own " unblem-
ished character I" Do you expect " the great body of the 
Adventists" to give their support to a movement that begins 
in falsehood and slander, and can be sustained only by a con-
tinuation in such a course I How much farther, ye honest-
hearted ones, who have had nothing to do in circulating these 
slanders, (though you have shielded from exposure those who 
have,) how much farther must you go, to see that you have 
been deceived and imposed upon'! But we are wandering, 
and must return. 
We proposed at the outset, have repeatedly proposed since, 
and still do so, that the whole matter shall be put into a courss 
of action for its disposal, that will give satisfaction to the Ad-
ventists at large. We have no wish for a partizan and use-
ess waste of time, labor, and money. Such work is neither 
our choice, nor our calling. Our chosen work demands all 
our energies. But if our adversaries take a course which 
makes it necessary for us to imitate the example of NEHE-
MIAH,—to carry the weapons of war in one hand, while we 
labor with the other,—so be it. 
If we might say a word to those who may be half inclined 
to enter the ranks and join the standard raised against us, we 
would remind them of a lesson, which the history of J. 
ST A RRAVEATHER, " the Prophet ELIJAH,"—as he styles 
himeT,—and others, have furnished us ; that the greatest in-
jury you can inflict on men who are out of the way, is to en-
courage them in their course, however sincere, determined, 
or successful they may be. Would it not be the dictate of 
sound wisdom to say to these men, something to this effect : 
" Brethren, you are right, or you are wrong, in what you 
have done. There are those who complain of it as a griev-
ous wrong. Now, why not submit this matter to some per-
sons in whom all the parties can agree, and in whose deci-
sion WI will have confidence I Let this ruinous strife end, 
and go about your work ; until you do this, you can expect 
no sympathy from us. If you refuse to take this course, you 
must go to destruction by yourselves !" 
Every true friend of the cause of GOD, or of either party, 
will urge that such a course be taken. This we desire ; but 
we are ready, by the grace of Goo, for anything else. 
However, we repeat, we shall not again fill the columns of 
the Herald with these unpleasant matters. To the " pam-
phlet " we shall give an answer in some other form. We 
would just say, that there can be no difficulty in foretelling 
what the " pamphlet " will be.—There will be anything but 
a frank and fair statement, and meeting of the real and pri-
mary question at issue,—the unmanly, unbrotherly, cowardly, 
and slanderous attempt to destroy a brother's reputation, 
while professing and acting to his face as if that brother was 
regarded with friendship and confidence. There will be a 
long story of personal history—" testimony on one side only " 
of previous " unblemished character :" as if that could nul-
lify existing facts ! There will be an aflecting exhibition of 
" a stranger's " loneliness and destitution : an ambassador of 
Him who had not where to lay his head, with half a dozen 
homes at his disposal, good enough for sinners, and any just 
amount of money at his command, by merely speaking ! There 
will be an affectation of great ignorance of things at " the 
East," and especially of the affairs of the Herald office : and 
all this may be true enough, though it can be no justification, 
any more than it was of the Jews in crucifying " the Lord 
of glory," that they " did not know him." There will be a 
pretence of great regard for the cause, with such profound 
plan—which also may be presented—for securing to the ser-
vice of the Advent body the Herald and its appendages : as 
if all this was not now truly and properly devoted to their 
service ! There will be strong protestations, that " no 
harm " was intended against " Elder HIMES," in what was 
said and written under suspicions of his integrity, that were 
"so afflicting" that he could not be made acquainted with 
them, till they were spread all over the land in their most 
deadly form, and then woven into the ground-work of a plot, 
which, if successful, would rob and ruin him, under the pre-
tence of great regard for the Advent cause ! There will be—
if it is not abandoned as bad policy—a malignant selection 
and arrangement of dark-colored " facts" (I) against Elder 
HIM ES, for which he is in no way responsible, a disguised 
endorsement of stale and oft-repeated slanders, which have 
"destroyed the confidence of his particular friends." There 
will be a sad story of labor unpaid, of neglect, of violated 
obligations, and finally, of persecuting attempts to " crush " 
the " unblemished " and " innocent," by " a private member 
of Chardon-street Church,"—all of which will be certified 
by the writer of the pamphlet, in the name, perhaps, of his 
" clerk," and the " officiary " of Chardon-street Church and 
Society, who " have removed from Chardon-street." And 
there will be a statement of the very clever things intended 
for J. V. RIMES, if he had not " eloped" before " the 
Church " got ready to be so clever ! 
But we must not supersede the pamphlet, by giving its con-
tents before it appears. When it comes, all will have a 
chance to read for themselves the original charges reported 
by " common fame " through madame " rumor,"—perhaps 
increased four-fold—twenty-eight, more or less. It is hardly 
to be expected that any other but this scandalous course will 
now be taken. Those who choose it, however, must be 
responsible for the consequences. 
We should state here., that one item in the arrangement for 
the assault on " J. V. RIMES " and his office was, that the 
agents of the plot agreed to " stand by " each other " when 
the storm arose." That is, these " innocent" men antici-
pated that their " friend" would not quietly fold his hands, 
and let his " brethren " finish him without an effort : no, 
they expected " a storm." Well, they have not been disap-
pointed. But it is their last hope to " stand by " each other, 
plead persecution, "cover up " everything, evade all fur and 
impartial investigation, hoping that the really innocent also 
will " stand by " them. 
Some of our brethren abroad, and all who were at the late 
Conference, know that we made propositions that must have 
been satisfactory to any reasonable man, and that we waited 
to the last moment for their acceptance. Add now, if we are 
compelled to follow the course others have chosen, in order 
to vindicate ourselves, we know that all our true friends, and 
the friends of truth and justice, will bear with us, and pray 
for us, in passing through this c minion affliction. 
BRO. H1MES' CASE. 
The recent movements in relation to Bro. RIMES' charac-
ter and acts, have occasioned the most unfeigned sorrow 
throughout the ranks of his friends, and the friends of the 
cause with which he has• been so long identified. But this 
sorrow has been turned into joy, by the evidence which Inks 
transpired of his innocence, and of the utter groundlessness 
of the charges preferred. The high authority front whence 
these accusations emanated,—viz., Chardon-street Church," 
and ministering brethren whose regard for Bro. RIMES per-
sonally, and whose interest in the cause of GOD, were con-
sidered to be altogether above doubt,—gave to them an im-
portance which former charges never possessed, which have 
generally come from those who were personal enemies and 
haters of our blessed hope. The fact that those brethren, 
who had interested themselves in these rumors, and had 
given the charges all the character they possessed, did not, 
when urgently called upon, present the evidence of their 
truth ; and the additional tact, that our brethren of the coun-
cil,—men of the highest integrity,—have not been able to 
sustain one of these charges, after as thorough an examina-
tion as practidable, aff'ords the most satisfactory evidence to 
the Advent friends and the world, that your character is un-
impeachable. There is no one of your old friends, to whom 
this fact is more a matter of rejoicing than to myself. I do 
rejoice that you have been able wholly to clear up to the 
minds of your friends, the fog and darkness in which, for a 
time, your matters appeared to be enveloped. 
I do hope that our brethren who have failed to sustain the 
rumors to which their names had given weight, will, without 
hesitation, acknowledge their wrong in having given so much 
confidence to these rumors, and so much character to them 
also. We must be as equitable as men of the world in their 
courts of justice, who will not condemn a man as guilty of a 
crime, until fairly proved so by disinterested witnesses, and 
convicted by a jury of his peers ; and I hold it as self-evi-
dent justice, that a man should not be convicted at the bar of 
private judgment even, without proof which would satisfy 
other disinterested and honest minds. "Rumors," "com-
mon fame," &c., are not sufficient evidence to convict of a 
crime in a court of justice. Shall the saints be less scrupu-
lous of sacrificing a brother's character 1 Goy forbid. 
Be assured of my heart-felt sympathy, and increased confi- 
dence in your integrity. 
L. D. MANSFIELD. 
July 16th, 1850. 
CHARDON-STREET CHURCH. — We have again been 
called to resume the relation of pastor to this deeply-tried, 
yet faithful and much beloved Church. The present aspect 
of affairs is truly encouraging, and we hope much for the fu-
ture. Our meetings have increased in interest for the two or 
three weeks past, and the number in attendance each Sab-
bath has been larger than at any time since last March. We 
trust that the LORD is about to smile on us after our late se-
vere trials, and cause this branch of his Zion to flourish, and 
bring forth abundantly. The brethren are united as one man, 
and are resolved to forget the things that are behind, and to 
labor together to build up the waste places. 
NEW WORK. 
THE " ANALYSIS OF SACRED CHRONOLOGY ; with the Ele its of 
chronology ; and the IN umbers of the hebrew Text Sin ted." 
This work is now ready fbr delivery, and we are ready to supply 
all orders. It is not composed of mere dry chronological details 
In the first place, it contains a reprint of the articles on t elements 
of chronology, which appeared in the Herald, and w will ena- 
ble the reader to harmonize different epochs, peri i i•c. This, 
however, is but a small part of the work—the remainder of which 
has not been before published in this arrangement. 
Then follows an Analysis of Sacred Chronology, in which is given 
all the language of the Scriptures, which give any clew to the periods 
in which different portions were written, and different events trans 
piled. It gives iu the words of inspiration, and in their chronologi-
cal order, accompanied with explanatory notes, all the texts which 
are ever referred to by chronologers, to establish disputed dates. It 
shows the times in which the several prophets wrote, and in many 
cases the very years in which given chapters of the prophecies were 
written, with the evidence which fixes them in the times assigned 
By it the reader will be enabled to learn how long before the restora-
tion from Babylon each of the prophets wrote who predicted the 
restoration of the Jews. It gives the several consecutive periods 
by which the age of the world is established ; and enables the reader 
to see what events were synchronous, and what Biblical characters 
were contemporary. It harmonizes conflicting texts, amid gives in 
Biblical language a history of the world. And finally, it closes with 
an argument defending the numbers of the Hebrew text, and show-
ing the unsoundness of the arguments which have been offered to 
their disparagement In short, it is a comprehensive commentary 
on the chronology of Inspiration. 
The work contains 232 pages, being larger than was antici-
pated ; and still the price will be less than we stated. Single copy 
37 cis. ; discount by the quantity. 
In these nines, when the Scriptures are being perverted, when 
prophecies are quoted pointing to the Jews' return, which have al-
eady been fulfilled in their past history, it is important that each 
Bible student be furnished with some help like the present. J. V. Si. 
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TENT MEETINGS, &c. 
The lord willing, there will be a tent meeting in Lynn, Mass., 
commencing Saturday, Aug. lOth, at 10 A M, and continue through 
the following week. The location is about an eighth of a mile from 
the West Lynn depot. Those coming in the care will stop there. 
The Large Tent will be erected on Friday, the 9th, and it is desired, 
that those coming with tents will have them put up the same clay, 
so that a good, uninterrupted commencement may be made on Sat-
urday morning. Arrangements have been made to furnish board on 
the ground on very reasonable terms. Friends that can will bring 
their tents; those that cannot, will be furnished with tent accom-
modations. We expect to be favored with the labors of Bro. Dimes, 
Hale, Plummer, E. and W. Burnham. We hope that there will be 
a general attendance from all the surrounding region. 
L. OSLER, J, DANIELS, B. P. RAVEL, J. PEARSON, JR., E. 
CROWELL, Comnzittee. 
A camp-meeting will be held at Wilbraham, to commence Mon-
day, Aug. 19th, and probably continue over the Sabbath. As this is 
designed as a central and general meeting, it is hoped that all that 
can will come with their tents, and labor for the salvation of others. 
There is a disposition in some to relax their efibrts to save souls. 
As faithful men, we most labor, or God will put those iu our places 
who will. Come, brethren, let us make a united effort and sacrifice 
to gain the blessing, and the return of God's free Spirit, as in former 
days, when all were willing to work together. This meeting is de-
signed to benefit those that feel the need of a deeper work of grace 
in themselves. We want exercise, that there may be a free circula-
tion of blood, which has become stagnant, through the body. You 
all know this, brethren. (.)on, then, to the meeting, which will be 
held on the old spot. Stop at the North Wilbraham depot. hoard 
amid all other necessary accommodations will be provided. 
The following brethren have been appointed to act as a commit-
tee:—Walter Pratt, D. E. Moulton, T. H. Cole. 
HIRAM MUNGER. 
There will be a camp-meeting on the land of Bro. Luther L. Tut-
tle, hi the town of Bristol, Ct., two miles north of Bristol depot, 
commencing Aug. 12th, and continue through the week. There will 
be a boarding tent on the ground, at which those who come from it 
distance can be boarded. It is hoped that those who come from 
churches iu the vicinity will bring tents with them. We hope, us 
this is to be a general meeting, the brethren in the adjoining towns 
will al! conic tip to this feast of tabernacles. Those who come with 
their own conveyances can have their horses kept on the ground. 
Ministering, brethren are invited to attend. HIRAM MLNGER, 
LUTHER L. TUTTLE. RALPH WILLIAMS, Committee. 
Bro. R. V. Lyon will hold a tent meeting in the village of North. 
Adams, Mass , commencing Aug. 14th, at 7 P it, and continue as 
long as shall be deemed duty. 
There will be a camp-meeting in Halley, C. E., commencing Sept. 
21st, and to continue nine days. Particulars hereafter. By request 
of committee. 
AMASA WADLEIGH. 
BUSINESS NOTES. 
John Clothey, of Marblehead, Mass., stopped his paper some time 
since. We are sorry he did not inform us of the facts in the case, as 
we should not then have put his name on the delinquent hat. e 
handed him no injustice. 
Whitney—Sent your bundle to Bellingham, July 20th. 
Smith—The moaey was received. You have paid, on " Her-
ald," to No. 508 ; " Children's Herald," to N o. 48. 
J. Evans—You did mit give the P. 0. address of the names you 
sent. 
H. Dennis—It paid to No. 508. 
W. H. Maull—A. Ball owes $1. 
I. E. Hazen—Sent your bundle July 23/1. 
R. V. Lyon—The $3 sent July 1st was received, and credited July 
5th. If there was lost, it must have been mailed at a differeut 
time. You were also credited $5 June 11th—waking io all $40, 
leaving only $7 now due. 
DELINgkUENTS. 
If we have by mistake published any who have paid, or who are 
poor, we shall be happy to correct the error, on being apprised of 
the tact. 
CHAS. R. MYRICK, of Kane, Ill., stops his paper per P. 
M., owing. • 
 4 00 
JAS. MARSH, of River Treat, C. W., stops his paper, 
owing 
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Total delhiquences sluice Jan. 1st, 1.‘-:".50 
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APPOINTMENTS, &c. 
As our paper is made ready for the
the press on Wednesday, appoint-
ments must lie received, at the latest, by Tuesday evening ; other-
wise, they cannot be inserted until the Billowing week. 
I expect to commence a conference with the friends in Dartmouth, 
Mass., Olt Friday, Aug. 2d, and continue over the Sabbath. 
EDWIN BURNHAM.. 
Bro. S. W. Bishop will preach in Vernon, Vt., Aug. Sth, at 5 P M 1 
Northfield Farins, 91 ' do ; Aslifield, Sunday, 11th ; W hately, 13th, 
5 r M;:llaydenville th, evening ; South Hawley, lath, 5 r M ; 
West Hawley, Sun lbth. 
Bro Edwin Burnham Will preach in the Chardon-street Chapel 
Sunday, July 2bth. 
Bro. Himes may be expected to preach in Newburyport Sunday, 
July 28th. 
N.
8th. 
Bro. 
 Billings will preach at Marlboro' the third Sabbath in Au- 
gust ; Lawrence, the fourth ; Abington, the first in Sept. 
Bro. R. V. Lyon will preach in Abington, Ct., the first Sabbath in 
August ; Cabot, Mass., the second. 
Bro. D. T. Taylor, jr., will preach in Champlain, N. Y., the first 
Sabbath in August. 
Bro. P. Ilawkes will preach in Fitchburg the first Sabbath in Aug. 
Bro. I. E. Jones will preach in Lowell, Sabbath, 28th ; Manche.. 
ter,.N. H., Tuesday evening, 30th ; Concord, evening of 31st ; Pitts-
field, Aug. 1st ; South Alton, or New Durham Ridge, (as the friends 
may appoint,) Sabbath, Aug. 4th • Haverhill, Mass., 6th ; Lawrence, 
7th ; Salem, bth ; Brooklyn, N. I'., Sabbath, Ilth. 
Bro. Wm. M. Ingham will preach at Randolph, Mass., Friday, 
Aug. 2d, at 5i. r rd, where the brethren may appoint ; North Abilig-
ton, Sunday, 4th. (would like to have the church meet for a church 
conference on the day previous, at 4 r al) ; Lowell, Tuesday even- 
inBg'ro".hF.. H. Berick will preach at Westford, Sabbath, 21st ; Lake 
nIciollllagd,e,tiSielasicbraathni. 
,1 28th ; Poland, Me., first Sabbath in August ; Rich- 
Bro. S. W. Bishop will preach in Pownal, Vt., July 25th, evening ; 
Union Village, N. I., 26t1c, do ; Hebron, Suutlay, zeal ; Witalltalli, 
Vt., Sunday, Aug. 4th. 
Bro. Morley nifty be expected to preach in Marlboro' (at the house 
of Bro. Goodnow) on Sunday, July 20111. 
Bro. J. Leafest will preach at Hope, R. I., the last Sunday in 
July. 
A. S. litmus. 
GENERAL DEPOSITORY 
OF AMERICAN AND ENGLISH WORKS ON THE PROPHECIES RELATING 
TO THE SECOND ADVENT OF CHRIST AND THE MILLENNIUM. 
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t' V nish us with all important English works on the Advent, and 
will engage to supply those desiring works of the above cluuncter at 
the earliest possible moment. Address, J. V. MIMES, Office of the 
,. Advent Herald," No. 8 Chardon-street, Boston. 
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III in a town near Boston, valued at $10,000. For further in- 
formation, inquire at this office. 
1 jY. 271 
Receipts for the Week ending July 24. 
The No. appended to each name below, is the No. of the Herald to 
which the money credited pays. By comparing it with the 
present No. of the Herald, the sender will see hour far he is in 
advance, or how far in arrears. 
Hook, 508; M. S. White, 508 ; H. E. Twing, 495 ; J. Doer, 482; 
E. Tompkins, 508 ; C. K. Farnsworth, 482 ; R. Jackson, 500 ; Mrs. 
E. Riley, 508 ; Mrs. A. Hood, 500; J. W. Graves, 508; S. P. Clark, 
508 ; Mrs. Wilcox, 534 ; M. Brigham, 492 ; J. H. Dodge, 5e8 ; D. 
Burris, 508 ; S. Snow, 508 ; L. Kimball ($2 on itcc't), 508 ; J. Hutch-
inson, 50,;•:, ; S. Stewart, 508 ; N. Richards, 482 ; L. Weld, 508 (it was 
P. Buck, sus; 2. Pierce, 508; W. Baker (with books and "C. 
C. Spitler (2 noes.), 
508 ; C. Bryant, 52
1 ; N. Brown, 508 ; P. Burns, jr., 524 ; A. P. 
H."), 514 ; F. Ake, 534 ; N. Davis (with book), 524 ; Rev. S. Hoyt, 
Lynde, 508 ; A. Keyes, a5 ; D. S. Niles, 5.0; J. Richardson, 508 ; 
516 ; H. Asselstyne, 521— each $2.-3. Ha-
zelton, 534 ; H. Caswell, 482—each $3.—R. Call, 493-50 ens.