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BOSTON SATURDAY, FEBRUARY 1,1862. 
VOLUME XXIII. NO. 5. 
 
 
 
 
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MY SAVIOUR. 
In 1859 while having charge of a weekly Scripture 
reading meeting it was part of our work to consider 
the names of the Supreme Being contained in the 
Bible. Some of His titles beginning with the letter 
G as embodied in the following stanzas, written in 
the autumn of that year,may be interesting to some : 
me to 
My Guide thou bast been for some years that are 
And such I expect thou wilt be to the last : 
past, 
If thou art beside me 
No harm can betide me 
Though rough be the way, and the sky be o'ercast.e 
Then, Father of mercies, to Thee I will raise, 
Fur love so amazing, a Carol of praise : 
The "unspeakable Gift"— 
And none other—could lift 
A beggar like me on thy glory to gazef 
a Rom. 9 : 5. 
1) Psa. 144 : 2. c Matt. 2 : 6. 
d Psa,. 3 : 3. e Psa,. 48 : 14. 
f 2 Con 9 : 15. 
J. M. O. 
For the Herald. 
Divine Aid Necessary. 
A sketch of remarks made before the A. E. A. 
Conference in N. Springfield, Vt. Oct. 12th, 
1861, by J. M. Orrock. 
In the apostolic benediction—"the grace of 
our Lord Jesus Christ, and the love of God,and 
the communion of the Holy Ghost, be with you 
all"—we have, at least, two of the cardinal doc-
trines of orthodox Christianity recognized, 
namely, the tri-unity of the God-head, and the 
absolute necessity of onr dependence for success 
here and salvation hereafter upon the grace,love 
My God, in whose presence the:cherubim now, 
Though holy and happy, do reverently bow, 
Thy name I adore, 
Thy grace I implore : 
For "God over all,'' ever blessed art Thou.a 
My Goodness thou art—for all sinful was I 
By nature and practice deserving to die 
Till thou didst forgive 
And say to me, Live ; 
And bade me by faith on thy promise rely.b 
My Governor then Thou becainest to me, 
And strong are the bands which now bind 
Thee ; 
Thy law on my mind 
Now written I find, 
And hope a true loyalist ever to be.c 
My Glory thou art, and of Thee I will sing 
Fur all my true comfort in Thee has its spring ; 
With heart and with voice 
In thee I rejoice, 
And cherish the hope I will yet be a king !d 
and fellowship of the Father, Son and Holy 
Ghost. 
The work in which Christians are engaged,. 
and for which success is desired, is an elective 
one : God has visited the Gentiles "to take out 
of them a. people for his name ;" and the glori-
ous result of this merciivl visitation, as foreseen 
and stated by the seer of Patmos, is this—"I 
beheld, and lo, a great multitude which no man 
could number, of all nations, and kindred and 
people and tongues,stood before the Lamb,cloth-
ed with white robes and palms in their hands ; 
and cried with a loud voice, saying, Salvation to 
our God who sitteth upon the throne, and unto 
the Lamb." God requires that every individu-
al who has been brought "from darkness to light 
and from the power of Satan unto God" should 
use his influence to bring others to a knowledge 
of the truth. He has given "to every man his 
work ;" and the command stands unrepealed, 
"Go ye into all the world and preach the gospel 
to every creature." Whether, therefore, we oc-
cupy the pulpit or the pew, we are without ex-
cuse : there is work to be done, and a responsi-
bility rests upon us as professed christians which 
we cannot escape. 
In this work of saving souls,however, we have 
to contend with the world, the flesh and the de-
vil—a trinity of evil ; and therefore need the 
assistance of the trinity of the God-head. This 
the Scriptures positively teach. 
We need the help of God the Father. 
Though Paul was "in nothing behind the very 
ehiefest apostles," and "labored more abundant-
ly than they all," yet no one felt the force of this 
truth more than he ; hence when he alludes to 
his labors in Corinth and to those of Apollos, 
"an eloquent man and mighty in the Scriptures," 
he says—"I have planted, Apollos watered, but 
God gave the increase : so then, neither is he 
that planteth anything, neither he that watereth, 
but God that giveth the increase." The illus-
tration used is very striking : he might plant a 
vine and prune it, Apollos might water it regu-
larly and care for it, but they could not make 
the sap ascend the stem, the branches blossom, 
nor the fruit ripen. There was something they 
were called to do, and could do, but beyond a 
certain limit they were unable to do. They 
might preach the word, and brethren might pray 
for them—but the success must come from above. 
The aid of God the Son is requisite. This 
Jesus taught when he said,---"The harvest truly 
is plenteous, but the laborers are few : pray ye, 
therefore, the Lord 9f the harvest, that he will 
send forth laborers into his harvest." And again, 
"Abide in me, and I in you : as the branch can-
not bear fruit of itself except it abide in the 
vine ; no more can ye, except ye abide in me ; I 
am the vine, ye are the branches : he that abid-
eth in me and I in him, the same bringeth forth 
much fruit : for without me ye can do nothing." 
The farmer may break up the fallow ground,sow 
his seed and harrow it in, but he has to wait for 
God's sunshine and rain, the gentle breez4 and 
falling dew, before there will appear "first the 
blade then the ear, and afterwards the full corn 
in the ear." So a minister may be brought up 
at the feet of another Gamaliel, be "learned in 
all the wisdom of the Egyptians," and have the 
eloquence of an angel, but his efforts to regener-
ate the hearts of men will prove abortive with- 
out the Redeemer's blessing. This, however, it 
is the privilege of every minister of the gospel 
to have, and then the statement---" can do all 
things through Christ who strengtheneth me"---
is far from being vain boasting. 
The assistance of God the Spirit is needed. 
I speak of the personality of the Holy Ghost as 
I would of that of the Father, for I have never 
supposed when baptizing "in the name of the 
Father, and of the Son and of the Holy Ghost," 
that by the latter a mere influence was intended: 
neither have I had such an idea when pronounc-
ing the apostolic benediction. We live in what 
is emphatically, a dispensation of the Spirit,and 
nominations—is not one recently discovered,but 
one, the importance of which, I fear is not suffi-
ciently felt by any of us. The psalmist has well 
said, "Except the Lord build the house, they la-
bor in vain that build it ; except the Lord keep 
the city, the watchman waketh but in vain." 
Jehovah will not give his honor to another. Min-
isters should study and preach, and the member-
ship labor, but God must be honored by all look-
ing to him for a blessing. Systematic sermons 
and elaborate productions are needed, and have 
been rendered useful, but generally God works 
by very simple means. The falling of a leaf, 
a few words of a child, a single argument or sen- 
this truth should never be forgotton, nor practi- i tence of Scripture have been instrumental in 
cally ignored. No one can read carefully the New 
Testament without perceiving it. The apostles, 
though commissioned of Christ to preach, were 
not to enter upon their work till endued with 
power from on high : which endowment took 
place on the day of Pentecost. After this we 
find them frequently receiving directions from 
the Spirit respecting their labors :---"as they 
ministered to the Lord, and fasted, the Holy 
Ghost said, Separate me Barnabas and Saul for 
the work whereunto I have called them, and 
when they had fasted and prayed, and laid their 
hands on them, they sent them away : so they 
being sent forth by the Holy Ghost,departed un-
to Seleucia."---Acts 13:2-4. "Now when they 
had gone throughout Phrygia anil the region of 
Galatia,and were forbidden of the Holy Ghost to 
preach the word in Asia,after they were come to 
Mysia, they assayed to go into Bithynia: but the 
Spirit suffered them not, and they passing by 
Mysia came down to Troas." Here Paul had a 
vision from which he gathered that they were 
called into Macedonia to labor, and the sequel 
proved that in this he was not mistaken. See 
Acts 16th chapter. Being thus guided, we need 
not wonder the work of God prospered wherever 
they went, and that many became obedient to the 
faith. 
As it is the Spirit's work to convince of sin, of 
righteousness, and of judgment ; to assist in pray-
er, comfort in trials, lead into truth, produce 
works of holiness, bear witness of our sonship, 
and, in a word, fit us for glory---the importance 
of being "led by the Spirit" cannot be over-esti-
mated. A person unacquainted with the art of 
blasting rocks might look upon the work as be-
ing mere child' play. He sees after great la-
bor the holes drilled, and powder, like black dust 
put in ; the fuse inserted and the packing done, 
but as no change is thus far perceptible,he smiles 
at the idea of anything great being effected. But 
the match is applied, the men retire, a stillness 
reigns, a few moments pass, and then the terrific 
explosion announces that the rock is broken to 
pieces. So christians in their efforts to do good 
may have a learned ministry, and everything to 
bring about desirable results, but as the powder 
was powerless without the fire---so human instru-
mentalities will not be effective without a bap-
tism of fire---the influence of the Holy Ghost : 
for it is "not by might, nor by power, but by my 
Spirit, saith the Lord of hosts," that the work is 
accomplished. As the wind blowing over the 
rocks leaves them as hard as they were before : 
so man may speak to the ear, but God must 
speak to the heart. 
This truth---admitted by all evangelical de- 
saving souls. The treasure of the knowledge of 
Christ is given in earthen vessels, that the ex-
cellency of the power may be of God and not of 
man. Scme may want flowery speeches and 
rhetorical flourishes in sermons, which, like pop-
piesin a fie'd of wheat,may please the eye though 
they never feed the hungry,—but those who 
have learned that "man shall not live by bread 
alone, but by every word that proceedeth out of 
the mouth of God" feel that they are the 
most able ministers of the new testament who, 
like the priests of old, read the word of the Lord 
distinctly, give the sense, and cause the people 
to understand the reading, Nehem. 8:7, 8. Tex- 
tual preaching, or the frequent quotations of 
Scripture, though not pleasing to the natural 
heart,and not at all likely to draw the applause of 
the multitude, will be pleasing to God, as it 
makes the Holy Ghost the speaker and opens the 
way for God to honor his own word. 
The importance of this subject will be felt if 
we duly consider the specific work to which we 
as a people are committed,---that of proclaiming 
the speedy personal, pre-millennial advent of 
the King of kings. Ours is a dispensational 
truth which the devil hates, a godless world de-
spises, and a lukewarm church rejects ; but 
"Truth crushed to earth will rise again, 
The eternal years of God are hers, 
While Error, writhing with her pains, 
Dies amid her worshippers." 
We are assured that whosoever will be 
ashamed of Christ and of his words before this 
adulterous and sinful generation, of him will the 
Son of man be ashamed when lie comes in the 
triple glory of heaven, Luke 9:26. Yet, many 
who boast of their freedom, hesitate to connect 
themselves with an unpopular truth, and go else-
where to escape reproach. Now I believe it has 
been well said 
"He is a slave who fears to be 
In the right with two or three." 
When we wish to arrive at a knowledge of the 
truth, we should never stop to count heads, but 
texts. Whatever doctrine has God on its side, 
has a majority, and this will be fully manifested 
in the day of judgment. 
The enemies of the cause of the Coming One 
are numerous and powerful, but we should not be 
discouraged. There is much work that needs to 
be done, and the lingering, golden moments call 
for earnest, united, continuous, systematic action. 
"Will ye play, then ; will ye dally, 
With your music and your wine ? 
lip ! it is Jehovah's rally ! 
God's own arm bath need of thine. 
Hark, the onset ! will ye fold your 
Faith-clad arms in lazy lack ? 
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they are at variance with Zech. 14. 2. It is also
of the design of the World's Fair at London, 
substances. "In this sense,we protest against any 
said in the context, I will do in thee that which relation to any persons who profess such a faith which made it an exhibition of the industry, not 
Worlds are charging, heaven beholding, I have not done, and where unto I will not do ---or more properly want of faith : and our chris- merely of Great Britain, but of all nations. He 
Thou hast but an hour to fight ; any more. Ezek. 5. 7. This is also sustained by tian brethren do well that they do not under any was a scientific agriculturist, and took great 
Now the blazoned cross unfolding, the facts of history ;—there never was a siege circumstances allow themselves to be recognized pride in raising cattle poultry, and general farm 
On, right onward for the right ! 
like it in all its details of horror, nor so total a by this term. When a professedly christian teach- stock, and in carrying off prizes at agricultural 
On ! let all the soul within you 
For the truth's sake go abroad ! destruction as that by Titus.* Jerusalem was er says, "all the Holy Ghost there is he can put fairs. He was an elegant and courtly chairman 
Strike ! let every nerve and sinew literally "heaps"---and the last act of the Romans in his pocket," (as was said by one whose name of public meetings, and his absence from the an- 
Tell on ages, tell for God !" 
fulfilled auother prophecy. "Jerusalem shall be is familiar to us, but which we do not care here nual sessions of the Scientific Congress will be a 
Now to the end that we may be successful in ploughed as a field." Micah. 3 12. It is also un- to mention,) and, attempting to suit the action loss to that body not easily repaired. He leaves 
"making ready a people prepared for the Lord," like the Roman siege in several other points. In to the word, thrust his Bible in his pocket, we a memory unstained.—Exchange. 
may "the grace of' our Lord Jesus Christ, the Zech. 14. 2. "All nations were gathered togeth- do not hesitate to say we cannot with our pres-
love of God, and the communion of the Holy er to battle." This was not the case in the Ro- ent convictions acknowledge any fellowship with 
Ghost, be with you all. Amen." 
man siege. "And then shall the Lord go forth, such a man; neither can we fellowship that kind 
and fight against those nations." Zech. 14. 3. of doctrine that has materialism for its legitimate 
which he did not at that siege ; but fought against end. Because a substance is impalpable,:it does 
the Jews. So evident was this that Titus himself not follow that it does not and cannot exist. 
ON THE 14TH CHAP. OF ZECH. IN THE ADVENT HER- ascribed his victory to the interposition of super- Such is the fact with the reriform fluids; and we 
ALD DEC. 28, 1861, 
natural power. Ezekiel's account of their after might with as much propriety deny the existence 
history is another point of identity with the Ro- of the Arctic pole, as to deny theirs. Many of 
It is to the following passages in these remarks, man siege. 'I will make thee a waste and re- them, like the Arctic pole, we never saw, and 
that we propose to direct our attention, "We proach among the nations—in the sight of all." in the nature of things never can see either. 
interpret the fourteenth of Zechariah literally. So it shall be a reproach and a taunt,an instruc- The expression, "immaterial substance," is parent delay in the execution, of the vast pro- 
Verses 1 and 2 of this chapter, we apply to tion and astonishment. Ezek. 5. 14, 15. We said to be a contradiction of terms, and hence gramme, he says, 
the siege of Jerusalem by the Romans." We therefore conclude that as the points of identity we must believe in materialism or nothing. But "The outbreak that has so long been contem- 
aoree with the author of the above commentary, between Ezekiel's prophecy and the Roman siege this is more plausible than weighty. To affirm plated is of so enormous a magnitude, both in 
in the literal interpretation of the 14th chap. of are sustained by history, and are at variance there is no such thing as immaterial existence, violence and in extent,that,as the time approach-
Zeohariah ; but differ with him in its application. with that of Zech. 14. 2, and these two proph- or substance, is simply t4 be "wise above what ed, the very conspirators themselves stood aghast 
The 1 and 2 verses cannot apply to the siege ecies are totally dissimilar in their incidents and is written." Tne expression in such an instance at their own work." Hence, as he says, 'more 
of Jerusalem by the Romans, for two reasons,— events,—that the position takenin the paragraph would be but a fit synonym of the word nothing ; preparation was the word. All must be made 
first,—because it is not in harmony with the sense at the head of this article is not the proper solu- it would express nothing, and could mean noth- sure—nothing left to chance---the plan fully di-
of the cantext : secondly,because it is at variance tion of Zech. 14. 2. We might multiply eviden- ing. In short, it would properly have no fit gested—every agent in his place---every imple-
with historical facts in reference to that siege. ces from other prophecies,and historical incidents place in language. But to the contrary of this, meat of' war wrought to perfection—the subtle 
We regard the 1 and 2 verses of the 14 of Zech. to prove our view, but our limited space will it is always used, when intelligently employed,. inventions of' the most destructive brain carried 
as a continuation of the 12th and 13th chapters. not admit. 
A. P. J. to signify something, the existence of which is out into form, before the great conspiracy un- 
Let any one read those three chapters,as if there 
(To be continued.) 
beyond being demonstrated by our physical sens- folds. After forty years of peace---after a deluge 
were no divisions of chapter, or verse, as it was 
 
* Note.---"In executing the command of Titus, es. To say there is nothing the existence of of cant---the whole extent of christendom is con-
in the original, and we think this conclusion will relative to the demolition of Jerusalem, the Ro- which cannot be thus demonstrated equivalent verted into'a theatre of war. One half of man-
be unavoidable. In the 12th chap. we find the man soldiers not only threw down the buildings, to denying the existence of God. It therefore kind preparing to defend---the other to destroy. 
Lord personally present, as well as in the 14th. but even dug up their foundations, and so com- follows that it is in this sense the word is used 
pletely levelled the whole circuit of the city,that 
One half' preparing to defend the venerable hyp- 
It is said "they shall look upon me whom they 
when applied to spiritual existance which is de- 
a stranger would scarcely have known that it had 
ocrisies and villa nies of the past, the other half 
pierced ; and they shall mourn, as one who ever been inhabited by human beings."—The nied, and is meant to be denied,by the teachings to set up the blooming hypocrisies and villanies 
mourneth for his only son." And the land shall Destructiou of Jerusalem. 
of materialism. In no other sense can we under- of the present. . . On both sides, preparations 
mourn—every family &c. Zech. 12.10-14. At 
NOTE BY THE EDITOR. The writer of the above, stand the term Spirit as commonly used in the for war that are absolutely without a parallel. 
this time the Jews were delivered and made a evidently, has not read our exposition of Zech- Scriptures. But more anon.—m. 
The ancient armies of Rome or Macedon were 
"burdenstone" to all the nations that come against 
• 
ariah, published in the Herald about three years 
Crisis. like 'two little flocks of kids,' compared with the 
 
them." The Savior was not personally present 
— 
 
since, and to which our editorial note, reviewed 
armies of that Christendom which takes its name 
at the siege of Jerusalem by the Romans ; neith- 
Albert, 
Prince 
in the above, makes reference. A perusal of our
from the Prince of Peace. The whole ingenuity 
er was there any such deliverance, as the whole exposition will show that we did consider Zech. 
of Christian nations is exhausted upon imple- 
of the 12th chap. of Zech. portrays. True it is 
The prince was born in the Austrian castle of 
14 : 1, 2 as the continuation and proper end of 
ments, not of us?. but of destruction---in devising, 
said in Zech. 14.2. that only half of the city
August 
Rosenau, 26, 1819, in the same year 
the two previous chapters ; and there will be
not how to save, but how to kill . . .Such is 
were preserved ;—but this we anticipate at the 
with the Qneen, being three months her junior. 
found in full the evidence and arguments we pre- 
the state of things. A calm before a storm---and 
coming of the Lord ;for of course we expect the rented for their fulfillment in the p 
 and, afterwards entered Bonn Universit
ast He received his early education from private 
, and in 
the longer the calm,the more dreadful the storm. 
sinners of Jerusalem to be cut off—we have no 
tutors,
y 
support of a view adverse to that taken in the
The winds are gathering up their sullen strength, 
reason whatever to conclude that all will be in 
for the study of jurisprudence. He was not a 
above. Will Bro. Litch show our correspondent 
and folding their dark wings,until the appointed 
a state to receive deliverance. But the prophe-
brilliant but laborious student,winning a reputa- 
those articles? 
ED. 
hour shall come; and then they will cover the 
tic scriptures, in reference to the Roman siege 
tion for methodical habits by keeping diligently whole heavens with one ihstantaneous gloom. 
do not predict any deliverance at all for any of 
to his books ten hours a day. A small house, 
 
For the Herald. 
Yet all these things are in the hand of God. 
the inhabitants that were to be found in that city The Reign of the Saints• simple in aspect, hidden by trees, and standing One man seems to hold all the cords that move 
at that time. Neither do they indicate that there 
in the shadow of the cathedral of Bonn, is still the world ; but that man himself is held by the 
should be a city or a part of one left,—but Zech. Dear Bro. Bliss : --In reading the 20th chap- pointed out as the Prince's modest residence hand of God . . . For this extraordinary crisis 
14. 2. says, half of the city shall go forth into
during his university career. 
ter of Rev. I lately noticed a fact which strongly 
the Devil is now preparing with proportionate 
captivity, and the residue shall not be cut off
A few months before reaching his nineteenth 
corroborates the pre-millennial view. This chap- 
activity. He has long ago undermined the 
from the city." How different the prophecies ter clearly presents the judgment and the final year,he made a visit to England in the company foundations of Divine truth by the introduction 
concerning the siege and destruction of Jerusa- destiny of the wicked,which is punishment in the of the King of Belgium, and, before returning, of "Spiritualizing Interpretation." The nominal 
lem by the Romans. Of this it is said "a third lake of fire---the second death. How is it possi- plighted troth with the young Queen. The alli- church, glories in spiritualizing interpretation. • 
part of them shall die with the pestilence, and ble that all notice of the reward,---the future des- ance, which was publicly celebrated with many . - From whence but the father of lies has it 
with famine—and a third part shall fall by the tiny of the righteous is omitted, in this most full festivities, in 1840,proved to be not only a mar- come that the kingdom of heaven, which means 
sword—and I will scatter a third part into all the description of the judgment ? But nothing is said riage of state, but, so far as the world knows, a the reign of' Christ over the earth, is now under- 
winds." Ezek 5. 12. Here they are all disposed of them,but that they,live and reign with Christ, marriage of love, 
stood to mean nothing more than the rude, im- 
of—with no mention of' half Qf them remaining by the first resurrection. This resurrection and The Prince's first popularity in England arose perfect, feeble christianity,which we find scatter- 
in the City as in Zech. 14. 2. This evidently commencement of the reign synchronize with from the announcement that he was a stanch ed here and there over the world ! . . . By the 
refers to the siege by the Romans, as the facts the beginning of the millennium, and as the fu- Protestant—a character which he stanchly held practice of "spiritualizing," the edge of the 
of history prove, and it is unlike any other siege ture reward of the saints is indicated the millen- all his life long. His high-toned personal char- sword has been thoroughly blunted, so that it is 
of Jerusalem, while no historical record, that we nium cannot occur in the present life. acter was worthy of his station,or of any station. now no longer capable of dealing with extraordi- 
have any knowledge of, gives any account of the Again the second death denotes the future and He was a man of refined taste, with a German nary antagonists, or with any but the ordinary 
deliverance of half the City at that time. "The final punishment of the wicked ; therefore the genius for music, considerable skill in drawing, difficulties of human life. . . . He has blunted 
city and temple were taken by Titus and totally first resurrection denotes the future and final re- and wrote English verses which he was wise the spirit by means of "Spiritualism." lie has 
destroyed. A. D. 70." This is in substance the ward of the righteous; for the two are placed enough not to expose in print. As Consort to employed the false metal to shatter the edge of 
language of five books of reference, that we have antithetically to each other ; thus, "Blessed and the Queen, he had in himself no reigning rights, the true metal. Be assured of this—that when 
before us,—and if there is any history that gives holy is he that hath part in the first resurrec- and being thus prohibited from mingling in poli- the hour of' peril comes, the ministers of the gos- 
any other account of this siege ; or that mentions tion : on such the second death hath no power." tics,
. he devoted himself zealously to the educa- pel will be found bewildered and unarmed . . . 
even a partial delirerence, we have not seen or v. 6. And further, "But" instead of, in contrast tion of his children ; to which end, his family The mischief is now irreparable, and the penalty 
heard of' it. True the christians were warned with the second death---"they shall reign with fortunately grew large enough to give him suffi- 
out of the City, and departed before the siege Him 1000 years." Ib 
ciently wide range of' employments. No wealthy of "spiritualizing" must be paid. . . . 
As the enemy has invented "spiritualizing," so 
commenced, but this has no connection with the 
ARTEISAS BROWN, Englishman did more than he to foster the growth he has also invented spiritualism, another pre- 
siege of Zech. 14. 2, for after half were cut off Jeffersontown, K. 
of science and art in Great Britain. He was, paration for the approaching future. . . . The 
—the residue of the people remained in the 
 ---____. 
moreover, in the habit of' giving not only his world has rejected altogether the supernatural- 
city. Compare this with Ezek. 5. 12. where all 
money but his personal interest and laborious ism of the Devil . . . The devil, has, therefore, 
perish,or went into captivity,and it will be seen, 
Materialism. industry to the furtherance of many salutary two distinct agencies by which he is preparing 
that they cannot both refer to the same siege.Webster in defining it says,among other things, schemes of practical philanthropy ; often making the world for his immediate and, perhaps, visible 
Beside the facts of history identify Ezekiel's it is "the doctrine of materialists"; a materialist personal journeys to distant parts of the king- presence,—"spiritualizing" and "Spiritualism." 
prophecy with the destruction by Titus, while" 
dom on such errands. To him belongs that part By "spiritualizing" he has destroyed the power 
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being one who denies the existence of spiritual 
Up, 0 up, thou drowsy soldier ! 
Worlds are charging to the shock. 
For the Herald. 
Review of Editorial Remarks, 
The above is the heading of an interesting 
English work, from an able writer, in which he 
takes the position that the end of this dispensa-
tion is at band,and that Napoleon III. is to per-
form an important part in the closing scenes. He 
denominates the present state of Europe as "The 
calm before the storm " When referring to the 
movements of the year now closed, and the ap- 
"Preparation." 
been made the very gate of heaven ? Be assur-
ed you will yet come to acknowledge infinite 
mercy in this very discipline. In preparing to 
transplant his own tree to paradise---instead of 
cutting you down, or wrenching you up by the 
roots—hurrying you away without a note of 
warning into an unprovided for eternity—he is 
pruning branch by branch, that you may fall 
gently. He is "pruning you, that you may bring 
forth more fruit"—John 15 : 2. Seek to exhibit 
the grace of patience under your trial. This is 
one of the few Christian virtues which can only 
be manifested on earth. In heaven there is no 
suffering to call forth its exercise. "Let patience" 
now, therefore, "have its perfect work." Seek to 
feel that the end your God has in these light af-
flictions is to work out for you a "far more ex-
ceeding and eternal weight of glory."-2 Cor. 4: 
17. Tossed on this troubled sea,let the eye and 
the longings of faith frequently rest on the quiet 
haven. "0, the blessed tranquillity of that re-
gion," says Richard Baxter---himself no stran-
ger to a couch of prolonged distress..." where there 
is nothing but sweet continued peace ! 0, health-
ful place, where none are sick ! 0, happy land, 
where all are kings ! 0, holy assembly, where 
all are priests ! How free a state where none 
are servants but to their supreme Monarch ! . . 
. . 0, my soul, bear with the infirmities of thine 
earthly tabernacle ! It will be thus but a little 
while. The sound of' my Redeemer's feet is even 
at the door." Grapes of Eschol. 
To this, there ought to be added the words of 
our Lord, "Blessed are the meek, for they shall 
inherit the earth," also those of the apostle : 
" We according to his promise, look for new 
heavens and a new earth wherein dwelleth right-
eousness." 
WOMPRIVIMISISSMISI. 
Luther and the Runaway Nuns. 
,Ifitaita22ZZI 
THE ADVENT HERALD. 
35 
and beauty of scripture as far as they can be in that sorrowless heaven lead you to forget your 
destroyed." 
present long experience of prostration and suffer- 
Aa can see that the foregoing is a graphic ing ! It will appear in the retrospect only as 
picture of christendom and the world at the pres- the shadow of a passing cloud—a dream of the 
ent time. It is cheering to learn that the Lord night which the morning cloud dispelled ;—voi-
has some men on both sides of the ocean who see ces on all sides sounding in your ear, "There 
the signs of the times and dare tell what they shall be no more curse."—Rev. 22: 3. 
see. May the Lord multiply the number of such Meanwhile, as you lie tossing on your sick 
men to sound the alarm to a sleeping world and bed, seek to ask not, "Am I getting the better 
church. G.—Crisis. 
of my pain ?" but, "Am I made the better for 
through the rent of your shattered earthly tab-
ernacle he may give you glimpses of coming 
glory. When your tongue is "a failing you for 
thirst," he brings grapes plucked by his own 
the pump to slake their thirst. There they were hand from Canaan. Your soul, like that of aged 
joined by the owner of the place, an old gentle- Jacob, revives ! 
man who had seen more than the "three score How often has the couch of' suffering thus 
years and ten" allotted to man, and who had 
witnessed the muster of the "Minute Men" on 
Concord green on the memorable 17th of April. 
The sight of the troops seemed to stir his inmost 
soul, and he rubbed his hands in glee, congratu-
lating the troops meanwhile upon their soldierly 
appearance, and relating incidents of the times 
which "tried men's souls." One of the young 
men presently drew from his pocket a flask, and 
aihr taking a draught presented it to the old 
m.,n,with an invitation to imbibe. He respectful-
ly bit firmly declined. 
"0, take some ; it will do you good," said the 
young man. 
"No, I guess not," responded the old man. 
"It is now twenty years since I have tasted a 
drop of intoxicating liquor, and I guess I won't 
begin again." 
"If you havn't taken any for so long, it's time 
you took a little. It will warm your blood," urg-
ed the young man. 
"No, I guess not," responded the old man, in 
a voice which plainly showed that he was half 
inclined to drink. 
After a little urging he took the flask, and 
raising it to his lips was about to swallow the 
poison, when a daughter,who had been a witness 
of the scene from the door of the house,and heard 
the conversation uttered the single word "Fath-
er," in a voice which thrilled every hearer, and 
caused every limb in the old man to tremble. 
The flask dropped, and in its contact with the 
ground was broken, and the liquid it contained 
was drunk by the thirsty earth. 
"Thank God, I am saved," exclaimed the old 
man. 
The tears which started to the eyes of those 
who witnessed the incident testified to the im-
pression which it made upon their hearts, and 
which will probable never be effaced. 
it ? Is it executing the great mission for which 
"Lead us not into Temptation." 
it has been sent of God ? Is it sanctifying me, 
purging away the dross,and fitting me for glory ?" 
He has some wise end in view in laying you on 
the bed of languishing. Sickness is one of his 
own chosen messengers—one of the arrows of his 
quiver. As the mother lavishes her tenderest 
affection on the invalid child,so may it be truth-
Concord, a year or two since, after a long and fully said regarding the believer, "Lord,he whom 
tedious march, the troops were halted for rest, a thou lovest is sick."—John 11 : 4. He takes 
portion of them being in front of an ancient butlyou apart—secludes you from the world, that 
comfortable looking mansion, everything about 
which bespoke thrift and happiness. In front of 
the house was a pump and the old fashioned wa-
ter trough. Several of the soldiers stepped to 
On the evening of Good Friday,April 4, 1523 
nearly three and a half centuries ago, a stranger 
"The inhabitants shall no more say,I am sick." I reached the nunnery of Nemptoch, not far from 
Happy, happy prospect. Ye who are now laid Leipsic, in the territory of George,Duke of Sax-
on beds of languishing and pain, listen to this. ony,a zealous Roman Catholic. This was Koppe, 
Now, as the shadows of each returning evening a distinguished citizen and counselor. Three 
begin to fall, you may have nothing but gloomy years before the light of the blessed Reforina-
anticipations. The morrow's light, which brings tion visited this region,and cast some of its cheer-
health and joy to a busy world, may bring noth- ing rays among the sisters of this monastic in-
ing to you but fresh prostration and anguish. stitution. Without delay they corresponded with 
Sabbath comes round, but its once joyous bells Luther, who had written a treatise against mo-
ring only in your ears the memory of forfeited nastic vows, and upon whose sympathies and as-
joys ;—the lonely bird, still pining in its earthly sistance they calculated. Their first step, how-
cage, wailing in muffled notes, "0, that I could ever, was a request to their parents, praying to 
flee away from this weary prison-house of' sorrow be released from the cloister prison, as continu- 
and pain, and be at rest." 
ing there would endanger their soul's salvation. 
Yes ! but that rest is at hand. Soon will you Their faith in the truth of the Roman Catholic 
mount the eagle's wings to these golden gates. religion was shaken, and they had joyfully em-
Pilgrims, now oft pacing a long, wilderness path braced the principles of the great Reformer. In-
with bleeding feet and fevered brow, the thorny fluenced and entangled by superstitious ideas of 
path will soon be over. No more pain to harass the great sanctity of the conventual life,and with 
you. No more "archers" to wound you. No the inviolability of its vows, their parents re-
more languor to depress you. "The former things fused absolutely to grant what they so sincerely 
shall have passed away." How will one moment and ardently desired. 
19r1.912A1[2. 
To the Editor of the Boston Journal : 
The following incident, which is related by 
one who was a witness of it, is worthy of preser-
vation : 
During one of the days of the muster held at 
Yet a Little While. 
Still this positive parental refusal did not dis-
courage them, and they naturally turned with 
confidence to the man whose doctrines had im-
pelled them to the resolution of' forsaking the 
cloister. Koppe, resolute, bold, was willing to 
encounter all hazards, and, assisted by his broth-
er's son and another faithful ally, he proceeded 
to carry out his cherished purposes. To pre-
vent suspicion and conceal his proteges, he em-
ployed a covered wagon to carry off the nuns,as 
as if his load were only empty herring barrels. 
Some say that he actually put them into the 
empty barrels, each nun having one to herself,in 
which she conveniently could sit. The nuns 
most desirous to regain their proper liberty were 
nine in number, and among their names we find 
Magdalene, Elizabeth, Eva, Margaret, Laneta, 
and Katharine von Bora, who afterward became 
Luther's wife. Koppe and his party arrived at 
the nunnery of Nemptoch on Good Friday even-
ing. The nuns descended from the window of 
Katherine von Bora's apartment into the court, 
where she herself in a hurry left one of her slip-
pers. They were lifted over the walls and plac-
ed into the herring barrels in the wagon. The 
plan succeeded perfectly, and they were beyond 
all danger before it was discovered that anything 
unusual had been going on in the nunnery. One 
author states that Koppe, being asked on the 
road what he had there,replied, "Barrels of her-
ring." He conveyed them first to Tongan, and 
then to the Augustine monastery at Wittenberg, 
in which Luther himself presided, and where 
they arrived on the 17th of April. While they 
stood before its gate they were deeply affected 
by their deliverance from the walls of their pris-
on-house. "Would to God," exclaimed Luther 
as he received them, "that I could rescue all cap-
tive consciences and empty all the cloisters !" 
The nuns now at liberty, the next important 
question was, how were they to be provided for. 
Luther again afforded most valuable assistance, 
introducing them into the family of a most hon-
orable citizen, where they were received with 
the utmost kindness. At the time, writing to 
the preacher of the Electoral Court, (George 
Spalatan,) he says : "I greatly commiserate 
these poor girls, and still more those others who 
everywhere are perishing in so large numbers . 
. . . yea, that sex in itself so very weak, and 
united to ours by nature, yea, by God himself, 
perishes by this cruel seclusion from ours. 0 
tyrannical, 0 cruel parents and relations in Ger-
many ! who can sufficiently execrate you ? The 
pope and the bishops ! who can enough abomin-
ate your blindness and folly in teaching and pro-
moting conventualism ? You will ask me what 
I am going to do with these girls. In the first 
place, I will write to their parents and request 
them to take home their daughters. If they will 
not do so, then I will take care that they be 
otherwise comfortably maintained. I have al-
ready received promises in respect to some of 
them, and the rest I will get married if I can . 
 " The manner of their escape was perfect- 
ly astonishing. 
Koppe's bold and chivalrous adventure creat-
ed extraordinary irritation and alarm among the 
Romanists. What increased the wrath and ter-
ror of the priests was the symptoms of a rising 
spirit of discontent in other convents, which, be-
coming infectious, might lead to the destruction 
of these ecclesiastical establishments. Luther 
was doubtless at the bottom of the mischief, and 
as he had assailed monastic celibacy, was most 
furiously denounced. He replied with his char-
acteristic iron-hearted spirit and great effect, ex-
hibiting the darker and more repulsive features 
of conventual life. The Papists even demanded 
the execution of Koppe ; but the great Reformer 
wrote a letter to him, exhorting him not to heed 
the enraged superstition of the multitude and 
the priests, nor to be intimidated. "You have 
done a good work," says he, "and would to God 
we could release in the same way the many 
thousand other souls whom the Pope stills holds 
captive. . . . The word of God,however,thanks 
be to his name ! is now come forth into the world 
and not imprisoned in convents." 
Some of the nuns, instead of returning to their 
parents, remained in Wittenburg, where they 
found homes in friendly families ; others,through 
Luther's influence, were happily married. But 
Katherine von Bora's history would fill an inter-
esting chapter. This is not now our purpose, 
however. It was not Luther's intention when 
the nuns escaped to marry her or any other wo-
man. "Should this monk marry," said a learn-
ed doctor, (Jerome Schuff,) "the whole world, 
and even the devil, will burst into shouts of 
laughter, and he himself will destroy what he 
has been building up." But this sneer did not 
frighten the bold Reformer ; and finally, believ-
ing that this marriage would alarm and astonish 
the devil and the Papists, and would advance 
in reform by encouraging others to break the 
trammels of priestly celibacy, to the astonish-
ment of both friends and foes, he took the bold 
step. On Tuesday, the 13th of June, 1525,tak-
ing with him his three friends, Dr. Bergenhagen 
the town preacher of Wittenberg, A pell, the 
lawyer, and the painter Lucas Cranach, in their 
presence, and without previous courtship, he 
sought her band. A blush tinged her cheek, 
thinking that he was in jest ; but soon discover-
ing her mistake, with maiden modesty she gave 
her consent, and on the same day the nuptial 
knot was tied, and the benediction pronounced 
by the doctor present. Katherine was in her 
twentieth year, and Luther forty-two years old. 
What a strange history ! 
41.1••••1•11•0..1 
The Battle in Kentucky. 
LOUISVILLE, Jan. 22. 
To Major General McClellan, Commanding 
U. S. Army : 
The following has just been received from Gen. 
Thomas : 
 
"The rout of the enemy was complete. After 
succeeding in getting two pieces of artillery 
across the river and upward of fifty wagons,they 
were abandoned with all the ammunition in the 
depot at Millspring. They then threw away 
their arms and dispersed through the mountain 
by-ways in the direction of Monticello, so com-
pletely demoralized that I don't believe they will 
make a stand short of Tennessee. 
The property captured on this side of the riv-
er is of great value, amounting to eight 6-pound-
ers and two Parrott guns,with caissons filled with 
ammunition, about 100 four-horse wagons, up-
ward of 1200 horses and mules, several boxes of 
arms which had never been opened, and from 
500 to 1000 muskets, mostly with flint locks but 
in good order, sustenance stores enough to serve 
the entire command for three days, also a large 
amount of hospital stores. 
As soon as I receive the reports of the brig-
ade commanders, I will furnish a detailed report 
of the battle. Our loss was 39 killed and 127 
wounded. Among the wounded were Col. 
McCook of the 9th Ohio,commanding a brigade, 
and his aid, Lieut. Burt, of the United States 
infantry. The loss of the rebels was Zollicoffer 
and 114 others killed and buried, 116 wounded, 
and 45 prisoners not wounded, five of whom are 
surgeons, and Lieut. Col. Carter, of the 17th 
Tennessee regiment. 
. (Signed) GENERAL THOMAS. 
DETAILS OF THE BATTLE. 
The entire Federal loss at Mill Spring, was 
39 killed and 150 wounded Gen. Thomas 
took 14 cannon and 1400 mules and horses. 
The prisoners say that George B. Crittenden 
was the first in command, and Gen. Zollicoffer 
second. Gen. Crittenden fled to the woods but 
took the wrong road, and it is supposed' he will 
be captured. The Federal forces actively en-
gaged, were the 16th Indiana, 48th Kentucky 
2d Minnesota and 9th Ohio Regiments, which 
suffered respectively as named. 
They were reinforced after the first and sever-
est engagement by the 10th and 12th Kentucky, 
1st and 2d Tennessee, 14th, 31st, 35 and 36 
Ohio Regiments, and Standatt's, Whitmore's 
Kenney's batteries. 
The rebel forces were estimated at 10,000. 
Green C. Clay of Bourbon county, son of Brutus 
Clay, Aide to Gen. Schoepff, but with Gen. 
Thomas in the engagement, has just arrived, 
bringing an elegant silk rebel flag, on which is 
inscribed, "Presented to the Mountain Rangers, 
Cap. F. A. Ashford, by Mrs. W. D. Charde-
royne." 
Col. S. S. Fry of the 4th Kentucky regiment, 
 
wi. 
SYLVESTER BLISS, EDITOR. 
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THE ADVENT HERALD, 
This settlement of power was not effected till 
nineteen years after Alexander's death, and dates, 
usually;from B. C. 305. These kings were Greeks, 
but not of Alexander's family. They stood up out 
of his nation, and possessed his empire ; but stood 
not in his power-a divided and antagonistic rule 
being weaker than the same powers united. 
Bible Questions and Answers. 
"I say then, Hath God cast away his peo-
ple ?"-that is, the Jews. 
Ans. "God forbid . . . God hath not cast away 
his people whom he foreknew. Wot ye not what 
the scripture said of Elias? how he maketh interces-
sion to God against Israel, saying, Lord, they have 
killed thy prophets, and digged down thine altars ; 
and I am left alone, and they seek my life," Rom. 
11 : 1-3. 
"But what saith the answer of God unto 
him ?" 
Ans. "I have reserved to myself seven thousand 
men who have not bowed the knee to the image of 
Baal. Even so then at this present time also there 
is a remnant according to the election of grace. And 
if by grace, then it is no more of works : otherwise 
grace is no more grace," Rom. 11 : 4-6. 
"What then?" 
Ans. "Israel bath not obtained that which he 
seeketh for ; but the election hath obtained it, and 
the rest were blinded," Rum. 11: 7. 
"I say then, have they stumbled that they 
should fall ?" 
Ans. "God forbid : but rather through their fall 
salvation is come to the Gentiles, for to provoke 
them to jealousy," Rom. 11: 11. 
"Now if the fall of them be the riches of the 
world, and the diminishing of them the riches of the 
Gentiles; how much more their fulness? . . . If 
the casting away of them he the reconciling of the 
world, what shall the receiving of them be but life 
from the dead?" 
Ans. "I would not, brethren, that ye should be 
ignorant of this mystery, lest ye should be wise in 
your own conceits ; that blindness in part is happen-
ed to Israel,until the fullness of the Gentiles be come 
In. And so all Israel shall be saved : as it is writ- 
ten, There shall come out of Zion the Deliverer,and 
shall turn away ungodliness from Jacob : for this 
is my covenant with them, when I shall take away 
their sins," Rom. 11 : 12, 15, 25-27. 
"Who shall separate us from the love of 
Christ ? shall tribulation, or distress,or persecution, 
or famine, or nakedness, or peril, or sword?" 
Ans. "Nay in all these things we are more than 
conquerors through Him that loved us. For I am 
persuaded, that neither death, nor life, nor angels, 
nor principalities, nor powers, nor things present, 
nor things to come, nor height, nor depth, nor any 
other creature, shall be able to separate us from the 
love of Gud, which is in Christ Jesus our Lord," 
Rom. 8 : 35, 37-39. 
"What shall I render unto the Lord for all 
his benefits towards me ?" 
Ans. "I will take the cup of salvation, and call 
upon the name of the Lord. I will pay my vows un-
to the Lord now in the presence of all his people." 
Psa. 116 : 12-14. 
 
Anti-Christ. 
If any are in doubt that the Papal apostacy is the 
"anti-Christ," of the Scriptures,they may be aided, 
in reaching a correct conclusion on the subject, by 
an extract, copied by Bro. Wellcome, from "Cate-
chisme de Perseverance" (vol. 4. pp. 310-312)-a 
work of eight volumes by M. Gaume ; which was 
approved by Pope Gregory XVI.with the counsel of 
nine bishops. Bro. W . justly remarks : "if this is 
not 'above God,' sitting in the place of God,' and 
denying the claims and prerogatives 'of the Father 
and the Son,' I am not yet informed what would 
be." The following is the extract referred to : 
"What human tongue can describe the dignity of 
the priesthood and the greatness of the priest. The 
first man was great, who, established as the king of 
the universe, commanded all the inhabitants of his 
vast dominion who obeyed him with docility. Moses 
was great, who by a word divided the waters of the 
sea, and caused an entire people to pass dry shod 
between its suspended masses. Joshua was great,who 
said to the sun, 'Stand still,' and the sun obeying, 
stood still at the voice of a mortal. The kings of the 
earth are mighty, who command armies and shake 
the world by the sound of their name. But behold ! 
there is a man still greater ; there is a man who dai-
ly when it pleases him opens the gates of heaven, 
and addresses himself to the Son of the Eternal, to 
the Monarch of worlds, and says, 'Come down from 
your throne, come.' Obedient to the voice of this 
man, the Word of God, by whom all things were 
created, leaves instantly the abode of glory, incar-
nates himself in the hands of this man,more mighty 
than kings, than angels, than the august Mary ; 
coming up in the place of the first horn, towards and this man says to him, 'you are my Son ; this 
the four winds of heaven, 
day I have begotten you ; you are my victim,' and 
had his horse shot under him by one of Zollicof-
fees Aids, when he turned and shot Gen. Zolli-
coffer through the left breast. 
The first breaking of the rebel ranks was ef-
fected by Col. R. S. McCook of the 9th Ohio re-
giment, acting Brigadier, ordering his regiment 
to charge bayonet, which put the rebels to im-
mediate flight. 
The last order issued, which was found in the 
rebel encampment, was signed by Col. Cummins, 
senior in command, directing the rebels to dis-
perse and save themselves the best way they 
could. 
The Journal says that Gen. Thomas, with a 
large force, has crossed the Cumberland and is 
hunting the flying rebels through Wayne coun-
ty. 
ADVENT HERALD. 
BOSTON, FEBRUARY 1, 1862. 
Exposition of Daniels Prophecy. 
CHAPTER VIII. 
"Therefore the he goat waxed very great : and 
when he was strong the great horn was broken." 
v. 8. 
The conquest of Persia having removed serious ob-
stacles to the greatness of the Grecian empire, Alex 
ander extended his conquests according to his pleas-
ure, "inasmuch," as the writer of the Book of Mac-
cabees observes, (1:3) "that the earth was quiet be-
fore him." Having completed his conquests, so 
great had become the dominion of Alexander, that 
the world bowed in submission to his power. On 
his journey to Babylon, the embassies which met 
him are thus described by Diodorus : 
"At this time came ambassadors from almost the 
whole world, some to rejoice in his successes, some 
to oiler him votive crowns, others to procure friend-
ship and alliance, and many to bring magnificent 
presents, and some to excuse themselves for alleged 
offences. Besides those from the tribes and cities of 
Asia and their governors, many also met him from 
Lybia and Europe ; from Libya, the Carthaginians 
and Liby-Phenicians, and all who inhabit the sea 
coast as far as the pillars of Hercules ; and from 
Europe, the cities of the Greeks sent to him, and 
the Illyrians, most of those who dwell by the Adri-
atic, the Thracian tribes,and the neighboring Gauls, 
whose race then for the first time became known to 
the Greeks." 
It was when the he goat was thus strong, that its 
great horn was broken. Alexander,in the very height 
of the Grecian power, died suddenly in Babylon in 
B. C. 324. He was succeeded in the throne by his 
natural brother Philip Aridams, and by his two 
sons Alexander aEgus, and Hercules ; but in the 
short space of fifteen years they were all murdered, 
and none survived of the royal family : the first horn 
was completely broken. 
THE FOUR HORNS OF THE GOAT. 
"And for it came up four notable ones, towards 
the four winds of heaven," v. 8. 
The angel, when interpreting this, makes refer-
ence to the first horn and says : "Now that being 
broken, whereas four stood up for it, four kingdoms 
shall stand up out of the nation,but not in his pow-
er," v. 22. 
The authority of the immediate successors of Al-
exander was little more than nominal ; the several 
departments of the empire were assigned to the 
chief commanders of the army, who contented them-
selves for a time with the title of governors ; they 
were, however, not long settled, in their respective 
provinces,before they began to conspire against each 
other, and to usurp the functions of independent 
governments ; and, when the royal family became 
extinct, they assumed the kingly title. After a few 
years of contest with each other, the defeat and 
death of Antigonus, at the battle of Issus B. C. 
305, reduced the aspirants to four ; among whom 
the empire of Alexander was thus divided :- 
Cassander held Macedon and Greece in the west ; 
Lysimachus had Thrace, and those parts of Asia 
upon the Hellespont and Bosphorus, including Bith-
ynia and the other northern regions : Ptolemy poss-
essed Egypt, Lybia, Arabia, Palestine &c. in the 
south ; and Seleucus obtained Syria, Babylonia, 
Media and other eastern countries, extending from 
the Hellespont to the Indies. And thus was fulfill-
ed the symbol of four notable, or conspicuons horns, 
he allows this man to immolate him, to place him 
wherever he wishes, and give him whatsoever he 
chooses. This man is the priest ! ! !" 
"The priest is not only almighty in heaven and 
over the body of the god-man,lie is also almighty up-
on earth and over the mystical body of Jesus Christ. 
Behold, a man has fallen into the hand of the devil ; 
What power will be able to deliver him Call to 
the assistance of this unhappy man the angels and 
archangels, holy Michael himself, chief of the heiv-
enly host, conqueror of Satan and his revolted le-
gions,never will he be able to sever the chains of the 
sinner who has placed his confidence in the wicked 
one ; . . . the priest can do it." 
"Much more, Suppose that the Redeemer visibly 
descends in person to his church, and stations him-
self in the confessional to administer the sacrament 
of penance, while a priest occupies another. The 
Son of God says, I absolve you, and the priest says 
also, I absolve you, and the penitent finds himself 
absolved just as much by the one as by the other. 
Thus the priest, mighty like God, can instantly 
snatch the sinner from hell, render him worthy of 
Paradise, and a slave of the devil made a son of Ab-
raham, and God himself is obliged to submit to the 
judgment of the priest, to refuse or grant his par-
don according as the priest may grant or refuse ab-
solution- The sentence of the priest precedes, God 
submits to it. Can any one conceive of a greater 
power?" 
The above cannot fall far short of the perfection 
of anti-christian arrogance and usurpation. 
Questions Answered. 
I believe it is generally considered by our com-
mentators that we are living under the pouring out 
of sixth vial of the book of Revelation, but have 
never been satisfied by any expositions that I 
have seen of the beginning of the pouring out of 
the first vial. Therefore I ask the following ques-
tions, viz., 
Does not the declaration of Independence deny 
the sovereign rights of God in civil government ? 
Does not the constitution of the United States 
deny that civil government had anything to do with 
morality and religion, but only for dollars and cents ? 
Did not the two lay the foundation fur the 
French revolution ? 
Is not Democracy the potter's clay in Nebu-
chadnezzar's image ? Daniel 2:42. 
Is it not also the evil that shall go forth from 
nation to nation, and the great whirlwind that shall 
be raised up from the coast of the earth? Jere. 25: 
32. 
Is it not the saying of the heathen, in Psalms 
2:1. 
If my application of prophecy to our govern-
ment is correct is not this government the man of 
sin, the son of perdition ? 2 Thess. 2:2. 
Did not the French revolution take away both 
the.civil and the ecclesiastical power of the Roman 
Empire, that letteth the same ? 
Does not our government stand in the same re-
lation to Europe, as Nebuchadnezzar's did to the 
house of David ? 
For myself, I fix out the pouring of the vi-
als in the following order : 
The declaration of Independence, 1776. 
The organizing of the Government under the 
Constitution '89-13 
The collisions against France, 1802-13. 
The 100 days' Revolution, or the battle of 
Waterloo, 1815-13 
The Revolution in France, of.1830-15 
The Election of a democratic King. 
The Revolution of '48-18. 
Sir-Use your own decision about answering these 
questions. With due respect, I am yours, &c., 
WM. M. 
ANs. 1. To show this, it would be necessary to 
point out some clause affirming it. As no such 
clause presents itself to our mind, we are not able to 
answer this in the affirmative. To declare ourselves 
independent of Great Britain, was not necessarily 
declaring our independence of Cod ; whilst the ap-
peal in it to the Sovereign of the universe, we have 
always regarded as a recognition of his sovereignty. 
We are not aware of any such denial in it. 
On the contrary the protection it extends to all, in 
their worship of God according to each one's individ-
ual conscience, we have regarded as virtually plac-
ing government in its appropriate relation to relig-
ion. 
The French revolution was a sequence, but not 
necessarily a consequence of the establishment of 
liberty in America. 
We think the clay, in the feet of Nebuchad-
nezzar's image, a symbol of the barbarians of the 
north of Europe, coming and mingling with the pre-
vious inhabitants of Rome, and thus causing the de-
cem-regal division of that empire. As we thus look • 
on its fulfillment, we can find no application of it, 
such as you name. 
We do not see it in that light. 
To the Patrons of the Herald. 
For the successful prosecution of the work, for 
which the American Millennial Association was 
formed, funds are needed; and for the lack of these, 
the Association has not been able to do what it would 
have otherwise accomplished. The regular weekly 
issue of the Herald, also, is dependent on the gener-
osity of friends for a few hundred dollars, annually, 
over and above the amount received from subscribers. 
The whole receipts during the year now closing, 
have not paid expenses ; which will be embarrassing 
to the office, unless its friends supply the deficiency 
with their accustomed liberality. The promptness 
with which response was made two years since, to 
remove the debt from the Aseociation,encouraged the 
hope that future aid would be supplied with equal 
generosity. It is not pleasant to be obliged to re-
mind friends of these necessities ; but it is still more 
unpleasant to lack the adequate means for the Her-
ald's publication. This is the season of the year, 
when, better perhaps than any other, it is easier to 
obtain new subscribers, and to remit donations. 
Our treasury needs aid in both these directions; and 
will not the friends see to it that it is supplied ? 
They would not wish us to abandon the Herald ; 
but its weekly issue costs money, and it is not the 
policy of the Association to run into debt. We have 
kept out thus far,but without more abundant week-
ly remittances, this cannot continue. What is now 
wished for, is that every subscriber will endeavor to 
forward'the name of an additional one. And we al-
so wish to see a full column of Donations.each week, 
till it shall amount to $400 ; which was needed 
by Jauuary first. 
Brethren and Sisters,shall this expectation be rea-
lized ? 
"And I saw him come close unto the ram, and he 
was moved with choler against him, and smote the 
rain, and broke his two horns : and there was no 
power in the ram to stand before him, but he cast 
trim down, and stamped upon him : and there was 
none that could deliver the ram out of his hands," 
v. 7. 
The Grecians entered the Persian dominions and 
had with them several engagements, or set battles, 
first, at Granicus ; second, at Issus ; and third, at 
Arbela which decided the contest. 
Alexander and his army were exceedingly incens-
ed against the Persians, because of their former at- 
tempts to invade and conquer Greece, and because 
of the cruelties they exercised towards them. Dari-
us, also, was accused of having attempted to cor-
rupt the friends and soldiers of Alexander to betray 
or to destroy him. Alexander, therefore, would lis-
ten to no terms of peace, however ,advantageous the 
offer ; and he treated Darius, not as a generous en-
emy would have done, but with the resolve to crush 
him and seize his dominions. 
Thus determined, Alexander overran the Persian 
empire, routed all the forces sent against him, and 
took possession of its cities and castles. The im-
mense Persian armies availed nothing against the 
comparatively small number of Alexander ; who, 
with less than fifty thousand men in either engage. 
ment, overcame an army of half a million at Issue, 
and of more than a million at Arbela. "There is 
no king saved by the multitude of an host," (Pea. 
33:16,) whenever God shall have said of him, "there 
shall be none to deliver." 
Medo-Persia having been brought fully under the 
power of Alexander, with all its provinces, and its 
king being slain,the ram was overthrown,his horns 
broken, and he trampled under the foot of Grecia. 
And this breaking of the ram's horns when thus 
trampled under foot,-they having been also poss-
essed by the ram at the commencement of its push-
ing-conclusively demonstrates that they symbolized 
no individual rulers, but represented the combined 
dynasties of Media and Persia, as united in an em-
pire that continued from the conquest of Babylon in 
B. C. 536, during a period of more than two centu-
ries, till the battle of Arbela,-B. C. 331. 
THE ADVEN HERALD. 
C 0 LBY'S 
PATENT. 
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We think, Peter in Acts 4: 25-28 applied 
that raging of the heathen to the crucifixion of 
Christ. 
We think the Man of Sin, referred to, fulfilled 
in the Papal Hierarchy. 
It did so, for a time, in one of the ten divi-
sions of that empire ; but not so in the other nine. 
Tu find any such relation, we should need to 
see our government subjecting all Europe, as the 
king of Babylon subjected the kingdom of David ; 
but without this, we should fail to find such resem-
blance. • 
Our views of the vials will be found in full in our 
treatise on Revelation. 
A. D. 607, the year when Phocas conferred on 
Boniface III. the title of 
"Universal Bishop." 
Bro. Bliss :—I have supposed till lately, that it 
was in the year 606 that Phocas conferred on Boni-
face III. the title of Universal Bishop. 
But according to Bower's History of the Popes, 
vol. 1 p. 423,Bonifitce III. was not ordained till Feb. 
13, 607 ; and in this same year he received from 
Phocas the title of Universal Bishop. 
Can you give us any light on this point, and tell 
us why this difference ? or why authors so generally 
fix on 606 for that event ? T. M. PREBLE. 
Concord, N. 11. Jan. 10, 1862. 
We can only surmise an answer ; which being our 
supposition is entitled to no weight. It may be 
that Bowers was in error to the extent of one year. 
Or, it may be that other authors reckoned that year 
according to the Old Style ; according to which A. 
D. 606 would not terminate till March 1st, in the 
year in which A. D. 607, New Style, begins with 
January 1st. 
The Yearly Reading of the Scriptures. 
It is customary with many persons to read the 
Bible through once each year,—beginning with the 
first chapter of Genesis on the first day of the year 
and reading three chapters each week day and five 
on the Sabbath, which will complote the volume 
within the time named. On opening a Ms. journal 
of my mother, beginning Jan. 1, 1803, we hand 
one of the entries of that day recording the com-
mencement of the reading of the Bible. It is pleas-
ant to those who thus read,to think that large num-
bers of individuals may not only be reading the 
Scriptures, but may be then reading the identical 
chapters they are perusing. It would be pleasant 
for an entire church, Sabbath School, or for all the 
subscribers to a paper, to be simultaneously read-
ing the same portions of God's word, and making 
like progress, day by day, in its study. A knowl-
edge of such a fact would naturally lead to conver-
sation respecting the portions read, when such read-
ers casually or socially meet ; and many thoughts 
and suggestions might be elicited from one and 
another, profitable for meditation or discussion. 
As it is not unlikely that many of our readers are 
tus perusing the Scriptures, in addition to the 
reding of other portions of the word, it may be a 
mater of convenience fur the Herald to contain a 
prosamme of the chapters which,with such an ar 
rangsient, would be the portion of each respective 
day. Commencing, therefore, with the first of Jan. 
of thiksear, the reading of the Scriptures would be 
as follcis : 
From Wt, Jan. 1 to Sat. Jan. 4, inclusive read fr.Gen 1-12 
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A C,d Leather Preservative. 
Three parts common lard,and one part of melt-
ed resin, by wait, make a very superior article for 
making leather pervious to water—the leather re-
maining soft amliable. This was a discovery of 
the late Prof. 01 Itead of Yale college, made while 
experimenting on .they valves for air pumps The 
above formula wasven in the "Scientific Ameri- 
can" some time sin The preparation is now ex-
tensively . sold in ‘3 vicinity at an exorbitant 
price, under the namf "India-rubber leather pre-
servative," "Gutta bha leather preservative," 
&c. ; which names are imposition,though the ar-
ticle is most excellent,,, any one will ascertain 
who will mix the above° ingredients in the pro-
i portions named. And Nu once melted and mix-
xl, the compound can benlied with a brush in a 
Id state—the mixture bt, softer than the lard 
'nixed. It will be easy any one to try,—satu-
rr.,. ' • the entire foot of thtot, 
p- 
both sole and u 
Pe. 1`1-ter. 
muda Royal Gazette of Jany. 14, which gives the 
following in relation to the movements of Messrs. 
Mason and Slidell, beginning with their departure 
from Furt Warren : 
"The cbmmissioners were brought down in a mis-
erable tug-steamer,guarded by a tip-staff and a par-
ty of soldiers. They had but an hour's notice of 
their intended removal, and no time to make any 
personal arrangements. It is said that had the bois-
terous weather, which soon afterwards prevailed, 
commenced before the crazy tug reached the ship, 
the chances were that all would have been drowned. 
The person in charge of the tug, on coming along-
side the Rinaldo, addressed Captain Hewett in the 
following truly down-east slang style : 'I say,man, 
are you the skipper of this ere craft ?' The whole 
manner in placing the commissioners under the pro-
tection of the British flag,we are assured, was quite 
in keeping with the tenor of the Seward manifesto. 
"The:Rinaldo was to have taken the commissioners 
to Halifax, to enable them to take passage in the 
Cunard steamer which left that port for England on 
Friday last. She, however, having met with such 
exceedingly bitter weather, ice having formed in 
masses around her hull, on her deck and some dis-
tance up her rigging, and having had several of her 
crew frostbitten ,the captain though at one time with-
in fifty miles of Halifax, was reluctantly compelled to 
bear up for Bermuda. 
"On their arrival at Camber, and before leaving 
Bermuda, Mason is described as looking depressed, 
careworn and dejected—no doubt arising from the 
fact that he was now a world wide wanderer, after 
proving a rebel to his country and a traitor to its 
constitution. Slidell wore the appearance of a man 
posseseing a stern, froward and uncontrollable tem-
per, which nothing can daunt or subdue. They left 
Bermuda as they came—without a solitary cheer 
from the crowd or the slightest mark of public en-
thusiasm being tendered them. 
"The Rinaldo left again on Friday,hoping to reach 
St. Thomas in time to place the Commissioners on 
board the Royal West India mail steamer, which 
was to leave that island for England to-day." 
Commodore Hollins. 
A correspondent of the St. Louis Republican,who 
saw the above named individual, some time since,in 
one of the southern cities, thus describes him : 
"Commodore Hollins, who was present, and who 
is notable as a man who sunk, through a newspaper 
bulletin, a whole Federal fleet at New Orleans, is 
about five feet six in bight, with a face bearing the 
stamp of determination and daring. The gray, wi-
ry beard standing out straight and in bushy thick-
ness, gives the countenance a sunken expression it 
would not otherwise have. The mouth would strike 
a stranger as being slightly cold or cruel in expres-
sion, yet the Commodore was pleasant in conversa-
tion, with a dry sailor-like humor, telling very im-
probable stories with a very straight face. His 
countenance is one of that non-betrayal kind that a 
lifetime acquaintance would never yield the key to. 
In reply to some questions asked he gave such an-
swers I was saved the trouble of attempting to be-
lieve them. He wished to be remembered to Com-
modore Foote, and made the original remark that in 
him we had 'got the right man in the right place,' 
said his battering ram was at Columbus, which I 
knew not to be so, and disappeared in the crowd, 
leaving the impression that the famous Manassas 
and its master are capable of a good deal of mischief 
whether they ever do it or not." 
On our way home from Philadelphia last June,on 
resuming the cars, after stopping at Hartford, we 
found for our seat mate a young girl of about twelve 
summers—her mother and an older sister being in 
the next seat back. On conversing with the girl, 
we found she was from the South and going to Bos-
ton. The mother had many enquiries to make re-
specting localities, the distance to Boston, time of 
arrival, &c., and she seemed very solicitous in re-
spect to the condition of things here at the north. 
At length she stated that she was the wife of com-
modore Hollins, who had just arrived at Boston from 
a distant voyage and had telegraphed her and the 
children to meet him there. We hada very full and 
free conversation respecting the state of things,both 
north and South ; and she remarked that it would be 
very hard to compel her husband to fight against 
his southern countrymen. On reaching Boston the 
commodore was in waiting at the depot, and she in-
troduced us ; and we think the above description of 
him quite life like. The next morning announced 
his resignation, with that of other Southern officers 
who had arrived in the same frigate. He made his 
way down towards Dixie's land, and the next we 
heard of him he, with others who had gone as pas-
sengers, seized the steamer they were in and made 
for the dominions of Jeff Davis. And since then 
have followed his redoubtable exploits, of which he 
has boasted, and which have been chronicled in the 
southern papers. 
In, these days of inventions, we know of nothing 
that would be of greater service to wives, mothers, 
and sisters, than some contrivance to save the week-
ly labor of washing. 
We have nothing to say now of washing machines, 
but would say a word of wringers. There are sev-
eral patented articles thus denominated, designed to 
dispense with no small part of the labor in washing, 
but we believe there,has been no invention of the 
kind so serviceable, or cheap, as that patented by 
Howden, Colby & Co. of Waterbury Vt. 
This wringer consists of two India rubber rollers 
attached to a galvanized iron jointed frame which 
may be set onto any tub or removed without labor—
it being self holding and self adjusting. It is then 
only necessary to put the edge of any garment to 
the rollers, which are turned by a crank,and the ar-
ticle is drawn through, divested of its moisture by 
the pressure much drier than it is possible to wring 
it by hand. With the aid of this,the labor of wring-
ing a large washing is comparatively nothing, there 
is no expendtiure of strength, and no laming of the 
wrist; and not only is the work done much better, 
but it is in a very much shorter space of time. The 
article is so simply constructed as to be durable, and 
the elasticity of the rubber adapts itself to the thick-
ness or inequalities of whatever passes between the 
rollers. Another important consideration in its use 
is the saving of the strain which common wringing 
gives to the garments wrung ; so that the wringer is 
an economical arrangement if only the durability of 
clothing is considered. 
Severe Floods in California. 
San Francisco, Jan. 17. During the past fifty 
hours it has rained here almost incessantly ; the 
storm still continues. Yesterday noon the water at 
Sacramento commenced rising again. The third 
complete inundation of that city is unavoidable. The 
area of land now overflowed in the State is 20 miles 
broad and 250 long,taking upward of three millions 
of acres mostly arable, a considerable portion being 
mostly fenced and tilled. It is estimated that up-
ward of 4500 head of cattle and sheep have been 
drowned since the winter commenced. The unpre-
cedented succession of tremendous storms have wash-
ed the mining regions where the ground was previ-
ously dug over, producing great changes, and ren-
dering probable a large increase in the gold product 
from the Placer diggings for the ensuing year. 
Chicago, Jan. 24. A special dispatch to the 
Journal from Cairo, to-day says : "The river at 
this point has risen 25 feet, and is still rising. Elev-
en of the boats forming the pontoon bridge at Pa-
ducah were stopped here last night. It was not 
known how many passed down stream. Orders were 
received last night to put the mortar boats immedi-
ately into condition for service. 
Captain Constable,commander of the mortar boat 
fleet, went to Pittsburg this morning to superintend 
the shipment of the mortar equipment and ammuni-
tion. General Smith is expected to arrive at Padu-
cah from his expedition to-day or to-morrow." 
The flooded state of the Mississippi and its tribu-
taries has caused apprehensions that the fortifica-
tions and encampment at Cairo will be inundated 
and our troops compelled to abandon it for some 
time, on account of its unhealthiness. The Cincin-
nati Times says : 
"The flood may force an advance on Columbus to 
give our troops high and healthy locations. The pow-
erful current will rob the rebels of the protection of 
submarine batteries and such like. Again, if the 
flood endangers Cario, it will do immense damage on 
the lower Mississippi. In times of peace and pros-
perity the Father of Waters is with difficulty kept 
within his banks during a flood like the present one. 
Now, while the plantations along the river are un-
protected, the inroads of the waters will cerfainly 
become fearful. The devastation of the freshet will 
be added to the afflictions of the deceived and suffer-
ing people of the Mississippi State." 
The News from England. 
We now have intelligence of the receipt in full 
in England of the correspondence with our govern-
ment and its action in the release of Slidell and Ma-
son. The result appears to be entirely satisfactory to 
the British government ; so that the war cloud in 
that direction appears to have blown over for the 
present. The London Press express themselves much 
gratified with the result. 
It is reported that Russia has sent an embarrass. 
ing ultimatum to Rome, to the effect that if the 
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Pope does not condemn the conduct of the Polish 
clergy, Russia will recognize the Kingdom of Italy. 
A RETURNED VOLUNTEER,—one who enlisted for 
three years in the First Mass. Regiment, who was 
in the battle of Bull-run, was wounded in the arm 
by a bayonet thrust after he had surrendered in that 
action, was taken prisoner, and was detained till a 
few weeks since in Richmond, Virginia, but is now 
home in Boston on a furlough—took tea with us on 
the 24th Ult. He is of the opinion that the Con-
federates are beginning heartily to wish themselves 
out of this contest. Their troops are described as 
ragged, half-starved, and greatly demoralized and 
disheartened. 
No authentic intelligence has been received from 
the Burnside expedition, which left Fortress Mon-
roe some ten days since, up to Monday the 27, the 
time of present writing. If nothing is added to this, 
it will be the 'same when we go to press. The Sec-
retary of War thinks this silence favorable ; for had 
it met with any reverse,the Confederates would have 
communicated it. 
DR. CUMMING ON REPUBLICANISM. The London 
Correspondent of "The Methodist," writes that Dr. 
Cumming, on the death of Prince Albert, told his 
audience of lords, lordlings, and rich merchants, 
that 'as a father, the Prince Consort had reared his 
sons with wisdom, consideration, rare tact, and ex-
quisite common sense, and had set a precedent wor-
thy of imitation by the fathers of England. In 
proof of this the Rev. Doctor dwelt upon the studies 
of the Prince of Wales at Edinburgh, Oxford, and 
Cambridge ; upon his visit to Rome,and subsequent-
ly to America, where he had learned to appreciate 
more profoundly than ever that limited monarchy 
which was the glory of our nation. Depend upon 
it,the Prince of Wales would be no advocate of Re-
publicanism.' " 
An exposition of the finances of Austria has just 
been published, showing its finances to be in a most 
hopeless embarrassed and crippled condition—the 
deficit for the last and for the current year being es-
timated at about $30,000,000 each on a total in-
come of only about five times the amount. 
A New Subscriber writes : "I have lately fully 
embraced the Advent faith,"—which we understand 
to be regeneration of this earth, and the establish-
ment of Christ's kingdom under the whole heaven, 
at his coming and the resurrection of the just.—"and 
feel the necessity of a paper of the same views." 
May a sense of that necessity be extended. 
To Correspondents. 
Short and appropriate articles, of one column or less, 
are solicited from those who have well digested thoughts 
to communicate. Any writer whose article or enquiry is 
not promptly noticed, will please to call the editor's atten-
tion to the omission. 
"N. C." The Poem entitled "Time is Short," is 
excellent in sentiment ; and were it written in plain 
prose would print it. We think,however, it has that 
not sufficient poetic merit, to give it an insertion. 
"S. W." We do not recognize who these initials 
stand for ; as we often publish such lines for the 
gratification of the writers, and not always on our 
own judgment, we need to know who is the writer. 
We wish no one would use other than their own sig-
nature in our columns. Readers like to know who 
writes. 
The Result of Effort. 
Dear Bro. Bliss :—I have been trying to get sub-
scribers for the Herald. I have succeeded in obtain-
ing three new ones. Please find enclosed, &c. 
Yours as ever, looking for the blessed hope, 
CALVIN BECKWITH. 
McDonough, New York Jan. 13, 1862. 
The above tells its own story. The present condi-
tion of the world must beget a desire on the part of 
thoughtful, serious minded persons to read on the 
subject of prophecy ; and this fact being improved, 
effort alone is needed to greatly extend our circula-
tion. 
That Epitaph. 
Dear friend :—The truly Christian epitaph on 
four children which was received on the first page of 
the Herald this morning, was known in England in 
1839 as the translation of an Italian epitaph, and 
should not, therefore, be credited as it is. 
O.E. 
New York, Dec. 27, 1861. 
DEATH OF REV. DR. DWIGHT. Rev. H. G. 0. 
Dwight, D. D., a missionary of the American 
Board who returned from Constantinople, about two 
months since, was killed by the blowing of a car, 
in which he was a passenger, from the Troy and 
Rutland Railroad, down an embankment, during the 
severe gale on Saturday last. 
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It seems 
The British I men arrivecfely at Bermuda. 
tat Racer bria copy of the Ber- 
Clothes Wringers. 
THE ADVEN T HERALD. 
38 
GEO. WISE. 
Baltimore, Dec. 24, 1861. 
From Bro. I. Conover. 
Dear Bro. Blies :-My prayer is that the Herald 
may be continued to the end of Daniel's wonders-
which must now be emphatically nigh. It is the 
best paper in the land, for the times, and must be 
sustained. Your brother, looking for the blessed 
hope, 
ISRAEL CONOVER. 
Upper Pittsgrove, N. J., Dec. 28, 1861. 
From Bro. J. Spear. 
Bro. Bliss :-I am happy to comply with 
request, made last week, for each subscriber o the 
Herald to endeavor to forward an addition? one. 
Enclosed you find the name of a new subfriber, 
with six months' pay. And as this is a goo season 
of the year to get new subscribers---especial' among 
the farmers-I hope our brethren and siers will 
feel that they have a duty to do in thi4ireetion, 
and endeavor to extend the truth we ye to our 
neighbors. I think we, as soldiers the cross, 
should be active in the service of the teat Captain 
of our salvation, so that it may be aid of us,-. 
" 
t well done, good and faithful servIts, enter ye 
into the joys of your Lord." I plain yours in 
hope of immortality and eternal 1:, 
J. SPEAR. 
Beebe Plain, C. E., Dec. 16, 7:>1. 
The above is an effort and sugstion in the right 
direction. If each one will relye and do likewise, 
there need be nu lack of the noed means to work 
with. 
ED. 
taken up-as the debt must first be paid, it will 
probably be entirely cancelled. 
The past year has not been a prosperous one for 
this Association-the net earnings having been only 
about five per cent. 
In addition to the amounts of rent collected, the 
store in IIncison st. was occupied by G. W. Woods 
from April 1 to May 20th, when he sold out to Mr. 
Tuttle, owing for one and two-thirds months rent 
$20.87, which there is no probability of his ever 
paying. 
Also Mr. Tuttle occupied the same for the month 
of July, owing $12.50, which also may be consid-
ered as worthless. 
Mr. M. Steimle, the present occupant of store 
No. 52, owes on the rent of the past year $42, 
which ought to be regarded as good. 
There is also due from the present occupant of 
store No. 50, Mr. Henry Jones, on the rent of the 
past year, the sum of $76. Our past experience 
has shown that it is not safe to predicate much on 
the value of indebtedness to the building, any faster 
than it is paid. 
It is no more than just, to the owners of stock in 
the Chapel, to say that the demand by good tenants 
for the occupancy of the stores under the chapel, 
has not improved, as was anticipated, since the first 
year of the erection of the building. This has boen 
owing partially to the hard times caused by the cri-
sis of 1857 and the present national troubles ; and 
it is in part owing to a change that has been grad-
ually taking place in the character of the neighbor-
hood-there being now a much smaller proportion 
of the houses in this vicinity occupied by their own-
ers than there were seven years since-the filling up 
of a large extent of water, in the southern and 
western, parts of the city, and the opening of new 
streets there, have drawn off to those localities a 
large percentage of the more wealthy portion of Bos-
tonians, much to the detriment of other parts of the 
city : and this neighborhood has not been unaffect-
ed by that cause. There is still, however, a reason-
able hope that, with times of ordinary prosperity, 
and the debt cancelled, the building may be made to 
net its owners six per cent. ; and, had there been no 
interest to pay, it would have earned just that the 
past year, on the shares issued. 
All of which is respectfully submitted. 
SYLVESTER BLISS, Treasurer. 
Boston, Jan. 1, 1861. 
Voted, to reduce H. Jones' rent to $25 per mth. 
and to discount to him forty dollars on what is due 
for back rent, if he will square up the balance be-
fore the first of February ; but if otherwise, he is 
not to continue longer than he shall regularly pay 
seven 50-100 dollars per week, on each Monday 
morning. 
Voted, That the Treasurer be authorized to effect 
a loan of one thousand dollars, to use for the pay-
ment of money now due, and to be repaid by the 
income of the building, if he can do so on terms 
satisfactory to himself. 
Voted, to adjourn. 
Attest SYLVESTER BLISS, Secretary. 
CORRESPONDENCE. 
In this department, articles are solicited, on the general 
subject of the Advent, from friends of the Herald, over 
their own signatures, irrespective of the particular views 
which it defends. Views of correspondents not dissented 
from, are not necessarily to be considered as editorially 
endorsed. Correspondents are expected to avoid all per-
sonalities, and to study Christian courtesy in all references 
to views and persons. Any departure from this should be 
regarded as disentitling the writer to any reply. Christian 
and gentlemanly discussion will be in order ; but not 
needless, unkind, or uncourteous controversy. 
Trustee Meeting. 
Boston, Jan. 21, 1862. 
At a meeting of the Trustees of the Boston Ad-
vent Association, held at the Herald office this date 
-Messrs. Himes, Emerson, West, Hale and Bliss 
being present-the following report of the Treasurer 
was read and adopted, and ordered to be published: 
Seventh Annual Report 
OF THE TREASURER OF THE BOSTON ADVENT ASSOCIATION. 
To the Shareholders : 
I. The earnings of this Association for the year 
ending January 1, 1862, have been as follows : 
Received of the American Millennial Associa- 
tion; for rent of rooms and office, $150 00 
Received for rent of Chapel and Ves- 
try, paid by J. W. West, 6.00 
and charged to J. V. Rimes, per his 
order 
144.00 150.00 
Rec'd of Henry Jones for store No.48, 260.00 
" Miss N. M. Seward " " 50, 221.69 
" M. Steimle for store No. 52, 130.00 
" I.X. Bean " " 54, 252.00 
" Geo. W. Woods for store on 
Hudson st. from Jan. 1 to April 1 37.50 
Received of Mr. Tuttle for occupancy 
of the same from May 20th to July let 16.50 
Received of 0. Hodgkins for six days' 
occupancy of the same in December 3.00 
Received of Mr. George Tuttle for oc-
cupancy of the north cellar (including $12. 
50 charged J. W. West) 
28.75 
Received of A. M. Coles for corner 
cellar from Dec. 15th.to January 1 3.00 
Making a total of 
$1252.44 
II. The Expenses for the year 1861, have been, 
For interest on the debt of the Association, 
113.57 
For city tax for 1861, including $3 for 
tax on water closet 
136.50 
For repair of door in store No. 50 .25 
Paid bill of J. W. West, May 16th, 
for repairs on building 
5.79 
Loss by a ten dollar counterfeit bill, 
paid for rent-the payer of which cannot be 
designated 
10.00 
6. Loss by failure of G.W. Woods to pay 
citylwater tax on store in Hudson street 2.25 
For flagging stone, ordered by J.W.W. 
for sidewalk, of Baldwin & Emerson 1.90 
For bill of D. E. Lovering for repairs 
on the drainage in north cellar 
16.25 
Paid the Dorchester Mutual Fire Insu-
rance Co. sixty-two 50-100 dollars for policy 
on $2500 for five years from Dec. 5, 1861-
less eighteen 75-100 dollars return dividend 
on expired policy 
43.75 
For bill of J. W. West for a second 
coat of roofing of the Chapel Building 82 40 
Paid bill of C.C. Gage for setting glass 9.00 
Paid two bills of S. H. Loring for 
plumbing 
11 29 
Total of Expense 
$432.95 
Have reduced the indebtedness of the As- 
sociation the amount of 
819.49 
Which makes the outgoes equal the in- 
come of 
$1252.44 
The whole indebtedness of this Association on 
the first day of January, 1861, over and above any 
balance of cash in the hands of the Treasurer, as 
per last report, amounted to $2491.06 
Deduct the net earnings of the past yr 819.49 
And it leaves 
1671.57 
which is the amount of the present indebtedness, on 
closing the accounts for 1861. 
The building, then, stands thus : 
Whole cost above annual expenses $19,000 
There have been issued to owners 311 
shares of stock, at a par value of $50 each, 
amounting to 
15.550.00 
Amount of debt, 
1671.57 
Net earnings of the building, 
above all annual expenses and 
all dividends made, and which 
has been paid on the debt 1778.43=$19,000 
It will thus be seen that the debt has been reduc-
ed more than one-half since the dividends were with-
held ; and with two prosperous years more, during 
which it will not be practicable to make dividends 
-unless the balance of shares of stock should be 
All earthly rule will crumble soon, 
And sink in endless night ; 
But suffering saints will share the boon 
Of endless glory bright ! 
Advent Conference and Protracted Meeting, 
In Rich ford, Vt., commenced Jan. 1st, 1862. Bro. 
P. V. West was appointed chairman, and S. S.Gar-
yin secretary. Brn. S. Heath, R. Smith and P. 
Scott were chosen as a committee to report the in 
terests and business of the conference. 
The committee reported the last day, Jan. 15th, 
as follows : 
Brethren of the conference :-Your committee 
beg leave, in the conclusion of our meetings, to 
make the following report : 
Some of you are aware that the Adventists in this 
vicinity, having a desire to see the cause revived and 
souls gathered to Christ, consulted on the best 
means of promoting this object, which resulted in a 
unanimous invitation to Elder J. V. Himes to visit 
and labor with us for ten days or more, for the pro-
motion of the cause in this region. Bro. II. com-
menced his labors among us Jan. 1st, and continued 
each day for fifteen days. Three services were held 
each day, and Eld. H. gave lectures P.I11.and even-
ings. The word took effect, so that after the third 
day, the good work begun. Souls were moved and 
began to flock to the altar, both backsliders and the 
unconverted. The work has been deep and wide-
spread. A considerable number have been convert-
ed and reclaimed, who are now strong in faith giv-
ing glory to God. We have not seen so good and 
glorious a work in this region since 1843-4. Other 
denominations have participated in the work and 
have been blessed. 
The themes on which our brother has dwelt, were 
doctrinal, prophetical and practical ; on all of them 
he showed himself " a workman who needeth not to 
be ashamed." The fruit has been good. We have 
been built up, cheered, and encouraged as Advent-
ists. We have had meat in due season-some of the 
old corn of the land-a few grapes from the other 
shore-just what the Adventists need everywhere in 
this period of the world. Adventists should be 
awake to a sense of duty and the importance of the 
work in which they are engaged. 
As we are among the tried ones of 1843-4,we are 
witnesses that, as like produces like, so, when the , 
key-note of the gospel of the kingdom is touched,it 
vibrates through the hearts of those that are wait-
ing for the consolation of Israel. 
We feel to praise God for his mercy to our broth-
er, in raising him up from sickness, and giving him 
strength and health to enter the missionary field 
again. We never saw him in so good a state of 
mind, or heard him preach with such power. God 
is with him ; and we bid him God-speed in the good 
work ; and hope that he may have health and 
strength to finish the work that God has given him 
to do, both by the voice and pen. 
In conclusion, we offer the following preamble 
and resolutions : 
Whereas, we as Adventists believe we are living 
in the end of this dispensation, and the coming of 
the Lord draweth nigh, and whereas God is multi-
plying the signs and evidences of the speedy coming 
of his kingdom, therefore 
Resolved, That we as Adventists ought to come 
out and take a more bold and decided stand on the 
time of the Lord's coming. 
Resolved, That we are rejoiced to see men raised 
up in Europe and this country, who are giving the 
cry, Behold he cometh ; with the evidence of time 
when he will come ; and bid them God-speed in the 
work. 
Resolved, That the evidence given us by Eld.J.V. 
Himes during this conference, on the signs of 
Christ's coming, in connexion with the termination 
of the prophetic periods in 1868, are worthy of the 
candid consideration of the church and the world. 
Resolved, That the time has come for us to wake 
up and enter anew upon our work, to give the trump 
a certain sound, to warn the church and world to 
prepare for the judgment. 
The above was adopted and passed unanimously 
at the close of the P. M. service, Jan. 15. 
The closing service in the evening was one of 
marked interest. Although the outward circum-
stances seemed to be against us, yet we had a good 
gathering, an excellent discourse, and marked atten-
tion. At the close a number came forward for pray-
er and found peace in Christ. 
Thus our meetings closed with a triumphant vic-
tory over the powers of darkness. We hope the 
good work will still go on, until the stout-hearted 
sinner whose heart is not subject to the law of God, 
may be brought to humbly submit to the law of the 
spirit of life in Christ Jesus, and a people he raised 
up here, that shall stand boldly in the cause of truth 
and, after having suffered with Christ, be glorified 
together with him at his appearing. Brethren, 
pray for us, that the very God of peace may sancti- 
fy us wholly, and our whole spirit, and soul, and 
body, be preserved blameless unto the cowing of our 
Lord Jesus Christ. 
S. S. GARVIN, Secretary. 
Toronto, C.W. 
Eastport, 19 Dec. 1861. 
From sister Mary Everett. 
Dear Bro. Bliss :-Therding year admonishes 
me that time is fast fleetinfiway, whilst its flight 
is speaking in a voice not, be misunderstood, that 
the years must soon endild the day dawn which 
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The Christian-His Duty. 
BY H. BECKLEY. 
Should Christian say, I have rights, 
And for those rights will stand?? 
And, if oppressed, 1'11 surely fight 
To break the tyrant's band? 
Or, may he say, I will not wear 
A slave's most galling chain ? 
A feather's weight I will not bear, 
Nor yield the despot's claim ? 
Has he a right to risk his life, 
Or life of fellow man ? 
By joining in the bloody strife, 
In war to lead the van ? 
Does Christ, his pattern and his guide, 
Such an example give? 
Or, was he scourged and crucified, 
That enemies might live ? 
In all his teaching is there found 
One word to sanction strife ? 
Do not his gracious words abound 
Which teach to yield our life ? 
" Put up thy sword," was his command, 
When Peter fain would fight : 
Should we not yield to his demand, 
And trust a God of might ? 
If called by Christ a bondman be, 
If freed should count it gain ; 
But, if by law he's not made free, 
A slave should still remain. 
Submission to the ruling powers- 
However base that rule-
A trying lesson ; but 'tie ours, 
If taught in Jesus' school. 
A patient suffering of wrong- 
That crowning Christian grace- 
A glorious crown will bring ere long, 
Which faith may now. embrace. 
Ye saints in bonds and fetters strong, 
Oppressed by those in power, 
Your cruel bondage won't be long : 
Now is the judgment hour. 
From Bro. L. N. Watkins. 
Dear Bro. Bliss :-The time has come for us to 
pay for our paper, and we pay willingly. We love 
the Herald, and the doctrine it advocates. We hope 
it will not be suspended for want of support, when 
we are so near our eternal inheritance. 1 will take 
and pay for it while my Master gives me the means. 
Yours as ever in love, 
LLOYD N. WATKINS. 
From Bro. J. Brewster. 
Dear Brother : - My paper is al'. the Advent 
preaching we have here, The people think we need 
not look for that day hundreds of years yet, as there 
is a great work to be done before that day can come. 
We might expect this from the people of the world, 
who have their portion here, as the Psalmist says ; 
but we hoped for better things from those who pro-
fess to follow our Master. I am sorry to say it is a 
very offensive doctrine to many. Dear brother, you 
no doubt feel almost discouraged for want of funds ; 
but fear not ; your work is glorious ; it is honora-
ble, as the Psalmist says, and the Lord will provide; 
he will open the hearts of those he has blessed with 
means to supply what is needed to go on with your 
good work. My will is good ; but the Lord has not 
given me means, and it is almost impossible to get a 
dollar, times are so dull. My heart is with you, 
and all the dear brethren and sisters who love our 
Lord Jesus Christ and are waiting for redemption. 
JOHN BREWSTER. 
From Bro. Geo. Wise. 
Dear Bro. Bliss :-Enclosed you will find, &c.-
We must put our trust in the Lord. He knows the 
desire we feel for you in holding up the cause of his 
second coming. We have reason, my dear brother, 
to rejoice; for our redemption draweth nigh. May 
the Lord bless you and yours. We have no Advent 
preaching in Baltimore, but hold two prayer-meet-
ings each week, where a few of his followers, who 
have been long looking for his coming, meet togeth-
er. Yours in the blessed hope, 
the wicked cease from troubling, and the weary are 
at rest. Yours in the bonds of Christian union, 
MARY EVERETT. 
Pawtucket, Dec. 14, 1861. 
From Bro. Z. W. Cornfield. 
Dear Bro. Bliss :-In forwarding my remittance 
for the Herald, I have nothing special , to write res-
pecting the prosperity of our views. There are 
some here who seem to take an interest in the Her-
ald, but we have some strange things advanced. A 
minister preached last Sunday from 2 Tim. 4:8 and 
made the crown to be the crown of martyrdom, 
which the apostle received when he ceased from his 
labors; and though thousands had been crowned 
before, yet the apostle's crown was safe. Then he 
made " that day," the day of judgment, when all 
the saints would be crowned and rewarded. 
The Lord be pleased to guide you in your labors 
to the glory of his great name, is the prayer of 
yours truly, 
ZIBA WM. CAMFIELD. 
Kelvin., Brant Co. Dec. 14, '61. 
From Bro. W. P. Woodworth. 
Dear Bro. Bliss :-The time has arrived when I 
always like to renew my subscription to the Herald 
I feel it a privilege to be able to do so. The Herald 
is to us a friend-one with whom I have been on 
good terms since our first acquaintance in 1848 ; -
and I think I could not now safely dispense with 
the admonitions and scriptural expositions that are 
found in its columns. 
I remain very truly yours, in the bonds of Chris- 
tian affection, 
W. P. WOODWORTH. 
Boylans Grove, Iowa, Dec. 15, 1861. 
From Bro. J. Pearce. 
Dear Bro. Bliss :-Your post is not the most de-
sirable one in the world, but if the appointment be 
of God, then you are the right man in the right 
place ; so we think, many of us in Canada West. 
No doubt many things occur, from time to time, 
calculated to afflict and discourage you-looking at 
things from a human stand-point ; but God's tho'ts 
are not as our thoughts. If the great Head of the 
church has placed you where you are, he will sup-
port, strengthen, and give you wisdom, grace, and 
ability to fill the office he bath assigned you, with 
honor to his cause and glory to his name, in the pre-
sentation of those important truths, that God de-
signs this generation should have placed before them; 
that the sinner may be induced to repentance and 
reformation, to break away from sin, and live sober-
ly, righteously and godly in this present world, and 
be prepared to meet the Judge in peace. Let the 
disciples of Christ be encouraged by the thought 
that redemption draweth nigh ; and to us all let the 
admonition be, "Let your loins be girded about,and 
your lights burning,.. and ye yourselves like unto 
men that wait for their Lord, when he will return 
from the wedding, that when he cometh and knock-
eth they may open to him immediately. Blessed 
are those servanes whom the Lord, when he cometh, 
shall find watching And if he shall come in the 
second watch, or come in the third watch, and find 
them so, blessed are those servants ; and this know 
if the good man of the house had known what hour 
the thief would come, he would have watched, and 
not have suffered his house to be broken through. 
Be ye therefore ready also ; for the Son of man 
cometh at an hour when ye think not." Luke 12 : 
35-40. " And take heed to yourselves lest at any 
time your hearts be overcharged with surfeiting and 
drunkenness and cares of this life, and so that day 
come upon you unawares ; for as a snare shall it 
come on all them that dwell on the face of the whole 
earth. Watch ye therefore, and pray always, that 
ye may be accounted worthy to escape all these 
things that shall come to pass, and to stand before 
the Son of man," Luke 21:24-6. " If therefore 
thou shalt not watch, I will come en thee as a thief 
and thou shalt not know what hour I will come up-
on thee." Rev. 3:3. " Behold I come as a thief : 
blessed is he that watcheth, and keepeth his gar-
ments, lest he walk naked and they see his shame." 
Rev. 16:15. 
Brothers and sisters in Christ, let us heed those 
admonitions, coming as they do from such high au-
thority. What a fearful thought,-should any of 
us he without the wedding garment when the mar-
riage of the Lamb shall take place, and be with the 
foolish virgins in the 25th of Matthew saying unto 
the wise, " Give us of your oil, for our lamps are 
gone out." Let us pray God to search our hearts. 
They are deceitful-too much like a broken bow, 
starting aside. May we all pray to be kept in the 
love of God, looking for the mercy of our Lord Je-
sus Christ unto eternal life. 
Yours in hope, 
J. PEARCE. 
Pickering, C. W., Dec.14, 1861. 
Bro. B., we should be pleased if you would give 
your thoughts on the present aspect, orsigns of the 
times, with your thoughts, whether the Trarkening 
of the sun and moon in 1780 was a fulfilment of 
Matt. 24:29. 
We sympathize very much with your people.-
Civil war is a great affliction. May God help the 
right, and speedily bring this heavy calamity to a 
close. 
J.P. 
We think the signs of the times are ominous of 
the distress of nations which our Saviour spoke of 
as immediately to precede the end. We have not 
yet seen any interpretation of the sun's darkening 
that is more satisfactory than the one referred to-
though we suppose previous events of the same kind 
were a part of the same fulfilment. ED. 
God expects to find you somewhere alone every 
morning. 
ADVERTISEMENTS. 
Memoirs of William Miller. 
By the author of the Time of the End-excepting 
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This volume is worthy of a perval by all who 
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advent 
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terfuges to disguise his defeat, he frankly confessed 
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to guard his followers from the dangers to which 
they were exposed, of relapsing into unbelief, or 
losing their interest in the great doctrine of Christ's 
premillennial coming. 
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a hundred dollars a box for piles. 
Miss Harriet Morrill, of East Kingston, N. H., says : "I ' 
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last seven years I have been a great sufferer. And though 
1 never expect to be well, yet to be relieved as I am from 
day to day by the use of your Golden Salve, fills my heart 
with gratitude." 
From Mr. J. 0. Merriam, Tewksbury, Mass. : "I have 
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other kinds of salve. Yours is the best I ever saw. I 
have also used it for sprains and scratches on my horses. 
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keep cows or horses." 
From Dr. Geo. Pierce, Lowell : " Your Golden Salve is 
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From Dr. W. S. Campbell, New Britain, Conn. : " Yout 
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Dr. Bliss, of Brunswick, Me., says : " I have several 
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" I received a wound in my foot by a rusty nail ; by 
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and two and a half boxes of it wrought a perfect cure."-
Mrs. Lucinda A. Swain, Merideth Centre, N. H. 
Mr. H. L. W. Roberts, Editor of Marion Intelligenoer, 
Marion, Ill., says, "Every person that uses the Golden 
Salve testifies favorably." He has also published a list of 
names in his paper, of persons cured of wounds, sores, hu-
mors, rheumatism, Ste., and gives the public reference to 
them ; who, he says, are among the first citizens of the 
place. 
THE GOLDEN SALVE-A GREAT HEALING REMEDY.-It 
is with much pleasure we announce the Alvent of this new 
article in our city, which has met with Pitch signal success 
in Lowell, where it is made, that the papers have teemed 
with cases of truly marvelous cures. They chronicle one 
where the life of a lady was recently saved-a case of bro-
ken breast ; another where the life of a child was saved-
a case of chafing ; another of a lady whose face was much 
disfigured by scrofulous humor, which was brought to a 
healthy action in a few days ; also another of an old man, 
who had a sore on his foot for twenty years-cured in a 
few weeks. Our citizens will not be slow in getting at its 
merits, and will herald it over the land.-Boston Herald. 
Boston, July 12, 1859. Bro. Whitten : I have usedyour 
Golden Salvo in my family, and I am acquainted with a 
large number of families also who have used it ; and I 
have reason to believe that it is really what you recom- 
mend it to be. 
J. V. HIMES. 
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country stores. Price 25 cts. per box, or $2 per dozen. 
I want good, reliable, persevering agents to canvass, in 
all parts of the United States and Canada. A large dis- 
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CHILDREN'S DEPARTMENT 
" FEED MY LAMBS."--John 21:15. 
ic. When again the moon shone on the sent the account of his death to the old 
water, his native land was fading away in borne on Line.—Banner of the Covenant. 
the distance. 
Willie did not find a sailor's life so flee 
 
 
 
for it. R. Pearce also stopt his. We did not, but have 
now entered the name of Rev. John Alexander, and cr. 
him $2.26 to No. 1127. We also now cr. It. Davy $2.26 
to the same No. ; to which, also, your own Herald and 
that of M. Shawan is paid. And for the balame of 48 c. 
we send the books you order; which squares your account 
—paying as above the papers in advance. 
J. A. Heagy. Sent the 25th to Trenton, N. J. 
Samuel Smith. Your last cr. being in Jan. 1861, the 
letter sent 7th of January '62 must have miscarried. Will 
enquire as you request and reply in next paper. 
till twelve o'clock. He had fallen into a 
gentle sleep, saying he would be all right 
in the morning. Bidding two of the men 
to watch if he wanted anything, the kind 
mate, who had always been his friend,left 
of. 
Morning came. In its first gray light 
but his mother deemed it best for him, and watchers, overcome by weariness, had fal-
the arrangements had been completed to len asleep. " Willie, how do you feel '1" 
her own satisfaction and that of Mr. Ben- But Willie did not answer. 
son. Willie Nichols could find no fault "He must be asleep," said his friend, 
ial man, with a kind word for every one ; laid his hand on the boy's forehead. It 
with the farmer, who was a pleasant, gen- surprised that no reply was given. He 
but he longed to go to sea. The sea, with was cold as marble. He lifted the little 
its wild, blue waves, foam-crested, with its hand. It fell pulseless and cold from his 
wideness. and vastness, was the subject of grasp. Willie was dead. 
his thoughts day and night. " Oh ! how Alone, all alone, in the drear dead of 
free," thought Willie, " must a sailor's life night, without a mother's soft caress, or a 
be." 
sister's loving whisper, the little runaway 
ocean, ever since the letters came that tom swinging ship, on the wide, wide sea.— 
her of the wreck of the Flying Fish. Her And, next day, as the sailors stood around 
boys had often heard her remark that "no in a solemn, silent circle, they brought the 
sons of hers should be a sailor." Willie little white form on deck. It was sowed 
bad sometimes spoken of his wish; but up in the hammock, with only the face left 
his mother had said that if he loved her uncovered, that all might see, for the last 
he would not mention the sea in her hear- time, the beautiful features and the brown, 
ing. 
• wavy hair. The captain read the burial 
away. Down the stairs, through the little up, the weight put in at the feet, that it 
before him ! Cold, desolate, bitter world, and the body of Willie Nichols was let 
garden, out on the highway. The world might sink more quickly to its ocean grave, 
that has tempted and disappointed so ma- dawn into the waves. And, as the ship 
ny ! Home behind him, sweet home,with 
the little 
its hallowed memories ! Horne, with its sailor-boy's form sank deeper to the bottom 
morning and evening altar of prayer, its of the sea, there to rest until the resurrec- 
charmed circle of loving ones, its recollec- lion. 
l 
derer ! Ah ! my boy, pause before you, brown hair, were placed in Willie's Bible, 
deck of a ship bound for the South Pacif-
1 
lions of a mother's kiss. Poor little wan- The unfinished letter, and a curl of the 
like him, step out from the sweet refuge of and sent home to his mother. But she had 
your earthly home, into the storms and gone betore; and we can but hope that lit- 
tempests of life. 
the Willie had been led to repent and be- 
Before noon of the next day he was on the I heard the story of little Willie Nichols 
The little fellow had objected to this ; the mate returned to Willie's bed. The 
But his mother had a horror of th sister's 
boy had been called to die—alone in the 
And so it was that Willie became a run- service ; and then the canvas was sewed 
Willie's borne was near a seaport town. lieve in Jesus. 
him, that he might himself seek repose. 
went faster and faster on its way, 
from the gentleman who, years before,had 
ANNUAL DONATIONS. 
A. M. ASSOCIATION. 
ACKNOWLEDGMENTS TO TUESDAY, JAN. 28, 1862. 
DONATIONS RECEIVED SINCE Nov. 1ST — $400 N.: 5d .6ed5 
January 1. 
Amount of previous payments 
Win. Holman, Fort Ann, N.Y 
.1.00 
Rachel Crampton, Homer, N. Y.. ........ .......1.00 
A Friend, " " " • • • • . • • • • • .. .... .50 
S. E. Gibson, Shrewsbury, Vt ............ . .10 
James Wiseman, Trenton, N. J ............. .1.00 
B. D. Haskell and family, Haverhill, Mass 2 00 
Elizabeth Farnsworth, Groton,Mass. 
5 00 
Mrs. Adeline Reed, Lockport,. Y........ .... 2.00 
Florella Dolloff, Derby Line, Vt.... .... ...1.00 
Total received since Nov. 1 
 .$209.15 
Special Proposition. 
" A friend to the cause" proposes to give one hundred 
dollars towards the six hundred needed to publish the 
Herald weekly the coming year, provided the amount be 
made up by other contributors. This is not designed to 
interfere with the pledges of annual payment, below. 
Paid on the above, by 
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By the same, 2d payment 
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Agents of the Advent Herald. 
Albany, N. Y Wm. Nichols, 85 Lydius-street 
Burlington, Iowa ..... ........ —James S. Brandeburg 
Bascoe, Hancock County, Illinois ...Wm. S. Moore 
Chazy, Clinton Co., N. I- 
C P. Dow 
Cabot, (Lower Branch),) Vt. ..... Dr. M. P. Wallace 
Cordova, Rock Island Co., Ill.. ....O. N. Whitford 
Cincinnati, 0 
. Joseph Wilson 
De Kalb Centre, Ill Charles E. Needham 
, 
Dunham, C. E 
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J. M. Orrock 
Derby Line, Vt. 
Durham, C. E 
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Eddington, Me 
Thomas Smith 
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Johnson's Creek, N. y 
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Loudon Mills, N. H. .... ........ .... —George Locke 
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APPOINTMENTS. 
Morrisville, Pa .... 
Newburyport, Mass . John L. Pearson 
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New York City J B. Huse, No. 6 Horatio st 
Expect to preach at Bristol, N. H., if the Lord will, Philadelphia, Pa J. Liteh, No. 27 North th st 
the 2d Sabbath in February. T. M. PREBLE, Portland, Me .... .... .... .... .... Alexandpr Edmund 
Antany Pearce 
PprrionvciedsesnAc en, 
 
nite.,IMd ........ .... ... John V. Pinto 
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Elder Benj. S. Reynolds, Providence permitting, will Rochester, N.Y. 
D. Bondy 
 
preach in Waterloo, C. E., Sunday, Feb 2d, at the usual Richmond, Me
. Chas. 
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hours. 
SSaplrei atr 
Salem, Mass 
N. Y. ..... .... .... .... S. IL Withington 
, Shabbonas Grove, Be Kalb county, Ill...N. W. Spencer 
CONFERENCE IN CANADA WEST. Bro. Bliss :—I wisa 
to call the attention of our brethren to the time of the Somonauk, De Kalb Co., Ill 
 Wells A. Fay 
 
convening of the/conference of Messiah's church of Cana- St. Albans, Hancock Co., Ill .Elder Larkin Scott 
. 
da West, which will take place upon the 12th of February Stanbridge, C. E 
John Gilbreth 
 
. 
next, which is the second Wednesday in said month. The Sheboygan Falls, Wis William Trowbridge 
 
place (as designated'in the Herald of April 6th vol. 22 
 Daniel Campbell 
No. 14) is Messiahs chapel, near Cainsville, in Br.Lamp- Toronto, C. W 
, , Waterloo, Shefford, C. E.. .... .... R. Hutchinson, M .D 
kin's neighborhood. It is desirable that our brethren stir Waterbury, Vt.. ..... .... .... ./.. .... — D. Bosworth 
 
themselves to attend this yearly gathering ; and as the Worcester, Mass .... .... .... ......Benjamin Emerson 
 
signs of the tines are very ominous, and as we need to 
cherish sentiments of forbearance as well as concentration 
of force, and need great grace from our heavenly Father, 
as well as counsel with and from our brethren, let us pray 
the Head of the church to give us the spirit of self-exam-
ination, that we come together for the mutual benefit of 
all, as well as individual blessing. 
The Missionary Board will please remember the desira-
bility of a full representation. 
D. W. FLANDERS, 
Secretary of Conference. 
TOUR TO CANADA WEST. I am arrangin!for a tour to 
C. W. and shall probably begin in London about the mid- 
dle of February. Full notice soon. J. V. HIMES. 
BUSINESS DEPARTMENT. 
, sip> 
Wallansull 
BOSTON. FEBRUARY 1. 1862. as he expected. There were hard words 
 
 and hard blows to bear. There was coars- 
Willie, the Runaway. 
One moonlight night, when all the house 
was still, Willie Nichols rose softly from 
his bed. He dressed himself quietly that 
he might not disturb his sister, or his little 
brother Bennie, who slept with him.--
Through the window of the attic room the 
moonbeams shone softly, and they threw 
their beautiful light on Fannie's pale face, 
and on Bennie's curling hair. They show-
ed Willie the seams and cracks in the old 
wall, the trunk which his father had car-
ried with him on his voyage years ago,and 
the little Bible on the stand. Precious lit- 
tle Bible ! His Sabbath-school teacher had 
given it to him as a token of love, long be- 
fore Willie had thought of ever being a 
runaway. Out of the window the same 
moonlight was falling softly on the old 
mulberry tree in the little garden, and ma-
king fantastic shadows of its leaves and 
branches upon the ground. It fell, too, 
upon the Squire's white house, standing 
so proudly among the old stately trees,and 
upon the long winding road that led to 
Farmer Benson's. 
Willie stood trembling and irresolute, as 
he gazed ugion the still world outside.—
For a room lit his good angel whispered, 
" Stay, Willie ! Do not leave your wid-
owed mother and her little ones, and your 
dear home." But a whisper on the other 
side was louder still ; and saying, " I can 
never go to Farmer Benson's," the boy 
dressed hhnself, tied up his few things,and 
his Bible among them. Then, with a last, 
fond look at brother and sister, he stole out 
of the room and down the stairs. At his 
mother's door he paused, and put his hand 
upon the latch, but he did not venture to 
go in. His mother might awake, and Wil-
lie did not dare to' meet her tender gaze, 
and ask a blessing upon his purpose. 
Willie's mother was poor. Her hus-
band's ship had been wrecked on a distant 
coast. And he had gone down with it. A 
hard struggle had Mrs. Nichols to procure 
food and fire for her little ones, though 
many of her neighbors were kind, and 
would have helped her if they could. But 
they were poor themselves and could give 
but kind wishes and a day's work, now 
and then, to the widow. Meanwhile, by 
various means, sewing, washing, nursing 
the sick, and, in fact, everything that a 
woman's needy hands could do—she had 
made both ends meet, until her three eldest 
children were old enough to help her.—
Robert and Hattie were learning trades, 
and Willie was to be bound out to a farm- 
It is desirable that there be raised by donation five or 
er fare than he had been used to. There six hundred dollars each year, by annual subscriptions ; 
was climbing up the rigging when the and the following may be a suitable form of pledge for 
waves were lashed by storms, and the ship that purpose. 
rolled at their will. Many an hour of pain of the American Millennial Association, the sums set 
We agree to pay annually in furtherance of the objects 
and home-sickness came to Willie, and against our respective names. 
sometimes his little hammock was wet with 
tears. Still, it was not so hard for many 
others. His prompt obedience and cheer-
ful industry, his fearlessness and agility, 
made him a favorite on board, and there 
was not a man on the vessel who would 
not have risked life and limb to save the 
little fellow had he been in danger. 
Eighteen months went by. They had 
touched here and there at different ports, 
and now and then they had spoken a ves-
sel bound homeward, or perhaps bound merits. 
still further away than they were them- 
selves. 
One day the second mate, who was 
standing on the deck, said suddenly'to the 
boy— 
" Willie, where did you come from T' 
" From Line, sir, near N—." 
" Did you run away ?" 
A tear gathered in Willie's eye, and his 
head dropped. No need of an answer. 
" Have you a father and a mother T' 
" A mother at home, but my father is 
dead." 
" Does your mother know where you 
are, my boy ?" 
" No," said Willie; "I wouldn't let her 
know for the world. It would break her 
heart." 
"Far worse to her to be in suspense.—
Twenty thousand miles from home, and 
your mother not know of it ! No, Will ! 
the first vessel we speak must carry a let-
ter to your mother. Remember, my 
boy !" 
Willie promised, and began, in his leis-
ure moments, a letter. 
A few days afterward they were chas-
ing a whale. This is very dangerous sport, 
for the huge creature, when wounded, 
strikes deadly blows with his tail, and of-
ten capsizes boats, or breaks them to piec-
es. The boat which held Willie and tour 
or five of the sailors had the bottom knock-
ed out of it by a blow of the monster's 
tail. Paie, and dreadfully bruised, the 
boy was lifted up the ship's side, and laid 
in his hammock. 
That night the mate watched by him 
Samuel Per, Yardleyville, 
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