� / p CV-% � 1 � ,,'I' 5, 11M, . Ilitr I1,-----' -?_!--,••-------.s---- --,- ....,-. 1 g —_.=.c... "----7,-W------=,'".: 11:1$:RI\ • \ 'VIII, P A irsi � ....._ (•-,--- -3-'---.-VO0 'C' / / ,, 1,- ----WV" cr.arranItr 70,2 " • ` 15,2.M.11E., - ".,,,,,,,,,,111g1=111111111111111111, � WHOLE NO. 1072. BOSTON, SATURDAY, DECEMBER 7,1861. VOLUME XXII. NO. 49. to transpire. And so it is now. The civilized world is fairly oppressed with the conviction that we are upon the threshold of some grand crisis ; some great turning point in the history of our world. If we are not living in the time indicat- ed by the Saviour, it is possible we will fail to know it when it comes. 6. � But again, the advent of our Lord will be immediately preceded by two or three facts in connection with the Roman Catholic church,which are worthy of notice. The man of sin is to be revealed, fully developed in all his predicted features, just be- fore the day of the Lord comes, see 2 Thess. 2. 1-3, "that day shall not come, except there come the apostacy first, and that man of sin be reveal- ed." It is taught by implication here, that when that man of sin is revealed, then the day of the Lord will come. The history and present state of the Roman Church will certainly prove a pretty full development of the man of sin, and in proportion as they do so, so do they constitute a sign of the nearness of the advent. Just before the destruction of' that Ro- man apostacy, and consequently just before the coming of Christ, a call was made upon the peo- ple of God in that church to "come out of her, that they be not partakers of her sins, .and that they receive not of her plagues," see Rev. 28. 4. This call is now being made. Dr. Cumming in- forms us that within the last ten years, forty thousand persons have been converted from Cath- olic to Protestant Christianity in Ireland alone. Everywhere throughout Christendom,unusual ef- forts are being made with a view to the conver- sion of Roman Catholics. The final destruction of that man of sin at the coming of Christ, will be preceded by a consuming of his power by the.Spirit of Christ's mouth,2 Thess. 2. 8: "Whom the Lord shall con- sume with the Spirit of his mouth, and shall de- stroy by the brightness of his coming." This consuming may be the effect of the call noticed above, or it may be the effect of all the wasting influences combined which have been brought to bear upon that system of iniquity since the time of the French Revolution. One thing is oer- tain, whatever may be in the future, that system has lost much of its pomp and power since the time specified. This is just what we are war- ranted to expect from the passage referred to above. These facts, though seemingly of small importance taken singly, yet viewed together, they certainly greatly confirm the truth of our position. They prove the nearness of the ad- vent. 7. Finally, the last days, and therefore the days immediately preceding the advent will be noted for great laxity of morals in the Church of God. See 2 Tim. 3. 1-5 : "This know, also, that in the last days perilous times shall come : For men shall be lovers of their ownselves, cove- tous, boasters, proud, blasphemers, disobedient to parents, unthankful, unholy. Having a form of godliness, but denying the power thereof." This is a sad picture, yet since the apostle tells us that the persons spoken of have a form of god- liness, we must look for its original in the Church of God ; nor need we look long to find it in our own day. Is it not very largely true, that there of the first advent. Men, as it were, held their is now scarcely any such thing as discipline known breath,sure that something remarkable was about in the Church ? What enormity can the imag- ination paint which some one or more of the churches does not tenderly cover over with the mantle of religion ? Even the slaveholder, who seems the embodiment of all that is wicked,— whose crime is "the sum of all villanies," finds a safe lodging-place in many of the churches. Be- side , it is an age distinguished for selfishness, pride, insubordination, and formality. No part of the church can plead not guilty,to these charg- es. � Is it harsh, then, is it uncharitable, to say that the apostle describes in the above language, the Church of our own times, and that conse- quently we are living in the time closely trench- ing upon the coming of Jesus Christ ? Such are some of the signs of our times,— signs which all point with unerring certainty, to one grand coming event—an event so glorious, that its prospect should fill every Christian heart with an ecstacy of joy. From the foregoing, we may notice the follow- ing practical deductions. We should study this subject. "Blessed is he that readeth, and they that hear the words of this prophecy." "We have, also, a more sure word of prophecy, whereunto ye do well that ye take heed, as unto a light that shineth in a dark place, until the day dawn." The mariner exam- ines his charts, and takes his observations. He is not satisfied unless he knows his latitude and his compass points. So the Christian should know his position upon the great stream of time. He, too, should take his daily observations. Prophecy is his only chart. Without its light, he can know nothing of the future ; all would be impenetrable darkness. Without this light to guide and cheer us amidst the darkness and the storm, we are like the sea-tossed mariner, who, without compass or helm, abandons himself to the winds, and drifts—he knows not whither. We may know everything that is to be known : but diligent, prayerful study, here, as in every other department of Bible literature, will be am- ply compensated. We should watch for the coming of' Christ. It is not enough that we have the oil of grace in our lamps—that we are children of God by re- generation ; we have a duty beyond this : we must watch ; for we know not at what hour the Son of man cometh. Nor is this a watching for the event of death simply. Death is no pleas- ant prospect. It is nut desirable for its own sake,—not, says the apt.stle, that we would be unclothed. Ile did nor diesire it for its own sake. But the coming of ChriSt is to be looked for with very different feelings., It is to be regarded as a joyful prospect. "Looking for," says the apos- tle, "and hasting unto the coming day of God." We are even taught to pray for i t i "Even so, come, Lord Jesus." Preparation and watch- fulness for death are not what our Lord enjoins in connection with His glorious advent. But how, says an objecter, can I watch intently, in any true sense, for an event which I believe,and Christians generally believe, to be over a thou- sand years distant ? We answer, you cannot. But should you believe as you do ? Are you not occupying the position of the evil servant who said, "My Lord delayeth his coming ?" Do not the Scriptures teach us to watch for it as an event which may transpire at any day ? Let us watch, then, lest the day of the Lord should overtake us as a thief. London Preachers. We are indebted to Bro. D. T. Taylor for the following letter from a correspondent of the N. York Evening Post of Nov. 6, 1861 on "sensa- tion preachers"—Spurgeon, Hall, and Dr. Cum- ming. The writer evidently is not in sympathy with the plain Bible treatment of sin and sinners ; which needs to be kept in mind in our estimate of his criticisms. LONDON, OCTOBER 18, 1861. . A visitor to the British metropolis is so sure to ask the way to Spurgeon's Tabernacle that all the policemen have a regular formula of reply ready, and the omnibus drivers on the Blackfri- ar's Bridge route are sure to cry out, "This bus for Spurgeon," to any passer-by who may look at all inquisitive or puzzled. The immense build- ing in which the sensation preacher of the day holds forth bears no resemblance to any other ec- clesiastical edifice in the city. The columned porch suggests a theatre, and the interior with its triple galleries and its utter absence of church decorations, forms au admirable concert room— . more like the old Tripler Hall than any building ever seen in New York. At the end of the au- ditorium,opposite the main entrance, is the plat- form for the preacher—simply a semi-circular projection of the lower gallery, protected by a low railing. Long before the church doors are open the porch is crammed, and the regular seat- holders are admitted by ticket at a side door.-- so that when the place is opened to the public THE ADVENT HERALD Is published every Saturday, at 46 1-2 Kneeland st. (up stairs), Boston, Mass., by "The American Millennial Association.” SYLVESTER BLISS, Business Agent, To whom remittances for the Association, and communi- cations for the Herald should be directed. Letters, on business, simply, marked on envelope ("For Office"), will receive prompt attention. J. PEARSON, jr. J. V. HIMES, LEMUEL OSLER, • Committee on Publication. TERMS. $1, in advance, for six months, or $2 per year. $5, �will pay for six copies, sent to one ad- dress, for six months. $10, " � " � " thirteen " � " Those who receive of agents, free of postage, will pay $2.50 per year. Canada subscribers will pre-pay, in addition to the above, 26 cts. per year for the international postage ; and Eng- lish subscribers $1,--amounting to 12s. sterling per year, to our agent, Richard Robertson, Esq., 89 Grange Road, Bermondsey, London, England. RITES OF ADVERTISING.-50 cts. per square per week; $1, for three weeks ; $3, for three months ; $5 for six months ; or $9 per year. The substance of a sermon preached on the Signs of the Times, at the opening of the U. P. Synod of Illinois, Aug. 28, 1861, by the retir- ing Moderator. "Can ye not discern the Signs of the Times ?" —Matt. 16. 3. (Concluded.) 5. The period immediately preceding the ad- vent will be distinguished as a time of great trouble, anxiety and consternation among all classes of society, see Luke 21. 25, 26—"And upon the earth, distress of nations, with perplex- ity, the sea and the waves roaring, men's hearts failing them ior fear, and for looking after those things which are coming on the earth." The Saviour speaks of these as immediate precursors of his second coming. They certainly refer to a time which is to be remarkable for the things named. But are we not now beginning to real- ize something of this distress of nations—much, very much of this perplexity, and fear, and evil foreboding ? Nations like individuals sometimes have presentiments. This was true at the time Solemnly, sadly, sullen, and 'strange, Rustles the graveyard grass ; Something of sorrow and something of charge, I heard it when I passed ; And the ivy taps on the mouldering stone, And the wind in the trees gives a dismal moan, Like monks in a chapel at mass, And all things seem to sigh, "Alas !" How sound each sleeps in his daises bed ! How little that's thought, or felt or said, Do they think, or feel or know ; So tenderly tread o'er the dead For, a few years fled, and a few eyes red, With tear forgotten as soon as shed, And all must soon lie low ! 'Tie the way that the best must go— It has been ever, and must be so. It will, and must, but not for long ; For faith is sure and hope is strong, And man and his Maker have suffered wrong, And Death will have had his day ; And the world will undergo repair, And all be made pure, and all made fair, And sin and sorrow shall have no share, Rut in things that are passed away— Hasten the time, dear Lord, we pray ! [llogg's Instructor. CHURCHYARD MUSINGS. Signs of the Times. If the foregoing reasoning be correct, then we cannot have the millennium before the advent. If the advent is near, as indicated by the signs, there is no room for the millennium this side of it. � The signs cannot occur, and all pass away a thousand years in advance of the thing signifi- ed. � Then they would be no signs. They can- not occur during the millennium—these, or any like them. It would suppose a state of things wholly unlike the millennium. They cannot transpire at the close of the millennium ; for be- tween that and the final judgment, there is but a "little season," and that little season is so com- pletely taken up with events peculiarly its own, that there is no time nor place for these signs. Yet if we put the advent at the close of the mil- lennium, we must put the signs there too. And what a strange confounding and misplacing of events that would be ! The kingdom does not come in its power before the King ; the millen- nium does not come before the advent. But, finally, if the advent is near, then what new zeal and life should be infused into all who hear this good news. Now is the time when the servants are to make their last and best ef- forts to gather guests. The days of red tape should be ignored ; as in the State, so in the Church. We must go out into the highways and hedges, and gather up the lame, the halt, and the blind, and compel them to come in,that the wed- ding may be furnished with guests. The door of our New Testament ark is not yet closed. Let us tell the prisoner to hasten and escape to Christ, the only ark of safety. Tell him that the time is short ; that now is the accepted time,and - now is the day of salvation. Tell him that the Master cometh. And let our prayer be, "Even so, come, Lord Jesus, come quickly." Amen. THE ADVENT HERALD. he felt it his duty to remind his hearers of their the immense hall is already three-fourths full. The remaining seats are always quickly occupied inevitable fate if they rejected the opportunities by strangers, and thus every Sunday, after some afforded them. He treated of his subject under three heads— the certainty, the nature and the five thousand people find places, hundreds go away unable to get in, � � durability of-future punishment---and brought forward the various texts of Scripture which are The service is opened with' a hymn, led by a usually adduced as arguments in favor of the precentor' and sung by the entire congregation. There is no organ, and the effect of the uprising doctrine. Yet not once did he descend to vulgar denunciation and rant. There were none of those of so many human voices is like the rushing of fierce hurlings of fiery wrath which were former- many waters. The singing is too slow and drawl- ing to suit any musical ear, but this is necessary ly so much in vogue in the pulpit. Spurgeon to accommodate the vast number who participate argued his points well, yet, although he devoted in this part of the service. Prayer and reading a portion of his sermon to the nature of the pun- of the Scriptures follow, Mr. Spurgeon invaria- ishment, gave no new views on a subject in re- bly making a running commentary on what he gard to which no man can dare to make definite reads,but with variable success. Not unfrequent- assertions. He, however, deprecated the vulgar idea of a hell of material fire---a pit of burning ly he brings out an obscure passage into light by brimstone---but maintained that the body itself some happy comparison or explanation, but too often weakens the force of the text by woeful would suffer for its sins. platitudes and the tritest of moral observations. � As a piece of eloquence or originality this ser- His attempts at adding codicils and addenda to mon was by no means equal to many I have the verses of the Psalms are utterly inexcusable: heard from this preacher. There was, however, o Spurgeon, eloquent and gifted as he is, should one uunsual simile. Speaking of a growing sin, never dare to bring his paraphrases to bear up- he compared it to the "cloud no larger than a on the inspired songs of the sweet singer of Isra- man's hand, which would yet overspread the el. whole heavens ;" and then described this cloud as "the dark black egg about to hatch the scream- Spurgeon's preaching has been so often de- scribed in your columns,as well as in other Amer- ing eagle of the storm !" jean newspapers, that I shall not now attempt an � Mr. Spurgeon makes most effective and touch- elaborate analysis of it. The preacher has out- ing prayers, remembering,at least once on a Sun- lived the petty spite which magnified his faults day, the United States. "Grant, oh ! God," he said recently, "that the right may conquer, and of elocution and would have made the public be- that if the fearful canker of slavery must be cut lieve he was an ignorant ranter. The hold he retains over his immense congregation proves by the sword, it be wholly eradicated from the b him to be the possessor of extraordinary ability ; body politic of which it is the curse." He is,sel- dom, however, as pointed as this : and, like the for without this no man could attract, Sunday af- ter � clergymen of England, simply prays for t.». Sunday, and even at the week-day services in which he is announced to loarticipate, the im- the return of peace. Indeed, it must be acknowl- mense audiences which are always waiting to edged that if the English press and government catch the words that drop from his lips, as if have done what they could to continue this war, like those of the little girl in the fairy story,they the dissenting clergy of' England have nobly were diamonds and pearls. Spurgeon maintains shown their good will and hearty sympathy with without apparent diminution, his influence and the Americans, and their sincere desire for the settlement of our difficulties. "If praying would popularity as a preacher. Perhaps his style is do you Americans any good," said an irreverent slightly toned down—his mannerisms less ob- acquaintance last Sunday, "you will be gratified trusive—his egotism less obvious ; but notwith- standing all this, he still retains his individuali- to learn that a force of a thousand clergyman- p ty ; he is Spurgeon still. You can never hear a power is constantly at work for you over here." sermon from him without finding in it something � REV. NEWMAN HALL. original, and very often something really elo- On the Surrey side of London, not very far quent. from Spurgeon's Tabernacle, and quite near the Black-friars Bridge, stands an odd, ugly edifice I speak of' his egotism ; but perhaps this is not the proper term to use. The feeling to which of smoke-black brick. It is known as the Sur- rey Chapel, and had for its pastor the celebrated I apply this word, and which was formerly more preceptible in his sermons than at present, is an Rowland Hill ; for its second a Mr. Sherman ; inevitable consequence of the strict tenets to and for its third the present incumbent, Rev. Newman Hall. The chapel was built, a century which he holds. Viewing mankind as hopelessly titled lady, and though lost and damned without the active intervention or more ago, by a rich God not in the House. of Divine Grace, and without the absolute con- occupied by a dissenting congregation the service version and new birth of the sinner, and viewing of the Church of England is performed before t himself (as he sincerely does) as one of the brands the sermon. If this were omitted the endow- farmer. m plucked from the burning—as one of the elect, meat by which the congregation get the chapel and as one who has been successfully converted rent free would revert to the heirs of the lady ---he cannot help addressing his "impenitent hear- who built the edifice. ers" in the words of personal exhortation. He � The word chapel will probably suggest some- tells them of the happiness he feels, and of the thing neat, small and excessively Gothic. Noth- joy they would feel if they too would experience ing of the kind here. Surrey Chapel looks out- conversion. He implores them to join him and side like a big circus tent painted black, and in- enlist under the banner of the cross, and speaks side like a tub turned upside down. The old of the future punishment of the impenitent as Tabernacle in Brcadway will give New Yorkers some idea of its interior arrangements. The au- one would speak who had sympathy for those doomed to eternal fire, but who had no dread of ditorium is octagonal irsithape, furnished with a a like fate for himself. Now, to very many bear- gallery ; the organ andletoir are behind the pul- ers this unconscious assumption of self-security pit. The seats are shabby and cushionless, the w on the part of the speaker, and of the fearful walls cobwebby and sadly in need of paint, and the whole affair seedy in the extreme. .Yet here anger on the part of the hearer---this system of exhortation by which the exhorter appears to be every \Sunday meets the largest congregation in standing on a firm rock, while the exhorted are London, excepting Spurgeon's. I should think buffeting the waves beneath---is singularly repug that the place would hold some four thotsand people,and at every side it is crowded to excess, nant. The clergyman is too apt to be called eg- otistical when he merely speaks from the fullness while very many are unable to get in at all. of his heart and the intensity of his personal feel- The evening service there last Sunday com- menced with a long voluntary on the organ fol- ings. Spurgeon is not alone in being open to lowed by an abridged form of the liturgy of the this charge ; any preacher of ability and earn estness holding similar views will be exposed to Church of England. It was somewhat altered. the same accusation, which I have heard made For instance, in the prayer for the "Absolution and Remission of Sins" the phraseology was mod- against Dr. Tyng and several other celebrated American preachers. ified so as to claim no such power for the priests ; and in the creed the words "He descended into � "I could not go without Spurgeon recently preached upon the punish- hell" were omitted. The service was read most he meat would of t he prefer dam ntoedd.werill eonbethgeanmberyciset satoinfgsatlhvaat. I tion rather than the terror of the law, but that 1emphatic manner should find imitators in the � Capt. Richardson, of the Salior's admirably by an assistant clergyman,whose clear recently speaking of a pious sailor, established Church, and the responses were led by a most remarkable clerk,who began each verse good to his brother seamen in their boarding. as if he were bursting out with a loud expression houses and other places. One morning he notic- of pain and grief ; and when the verse comment- ed him coming out of his room, and going forth ed with the ejaculation "Oh!" or the word "Lord" into the streets. Shortly after he returned to his this amazing clerk actually howled as if in acute chamber ; and after remaining there some time, agony. � he again came down to go out. Capt. Richard- The music by a volunteer choir of twenty, ac- son having observed something peculiar in his man- cons panied by a splendid organ (which was for- nor, inquired atter the reason of' his movements. merly in St. Paul's Cathedral), was very good He replied, "After I got out I found Jesus was indeed, and in this church at least the problem of not with me ; I could not go without Jesus ; so I congregational chanting is most happily solved went back to my closet to find Him. Now He is —the vast concourse joining in the familiar chants with me and I can go." How simple and beau. of Mornington, Tallis and Boyce, with as much tiful the lesson ! How important the truth con- spirit and ease as in the metrical tunes. This is tained in the Christian philosophy of this hum- the first time in which I have heard congregation- ble sailor ! al chanting---a consummation so many Episcopal � Christian preacher ! Do you feel that Jesus clergymen of New York have so long hoped for, is with you when you issue from your study to and a consummation which is, after all, quite at- enter the pulpit, or to visit your parishioners at tainable, � their homes ? If not, do you feel that you cannot The service also partook of the cathedral char- go without Him ? acter, the "amens" after the prayers being sung � "Without Me ye can do nothing." "If Thy by the choir and congregation. � presence go not with me, carry us not up hence." After this service, Mr. Hall, wearing the usu- � Sabbath school teacher ! How is it with you al black silk robe, ascended the pulpit and deliv- when you go to meet your class ? Is it ever said ered a brief extemporaneous prayer. His ser- after such meetings with them,or with each other, mon was a careful argument,followed by a most "Did not our hearts burn within us while he impressive exhortation, at the close of which his talked with us by the way, and while he opened eloquence equalled anything I have ever heard to us the Scriptures ?" in the pulpit. Mr. Hall is a tall, rather slender � 0 for more of this childlike faith in Jesus ! man, with an intellectual looking head and face. The church may yet again learn much from pious His voice is one of the most beautiful that can sailors,as from the fishermen of Galilee of old.— be imagined ; and though without the power and N. Y. Observer. sonorousness of Spurgeon's, it is music itself ; his sermons are more polished, yet equally earn- �"Occupy till I Come." est productions, and his vast popularity is de- servedly increasing. Mr. Hall has written a great number of tracts, and a little volume of sacred lyrics, and is prominent in the various philanthropical movements of the day. But a visit to his church derives its chief interest from the fact that nowhere else in London is the adap- tability of a liturgical service to popular use more satisfactorily proved. If the few feeble responses which arise from even large congrega- tions in the Episcopal churches in New York were compared with the mighty flow of voices heard in the alternate verses of the Psalter or in the Creed and Confession, at Surrey Chapel, the former would seem to be a mere shameful silence. The splendour of the church service is probably heard to the best effect in the cathedrals of Eng- land ; but nowhere is it performed with greater earnestness than when the responses are spoken, and the chants and hymns sung by the vast con- gregation of Surrey Chapel. (To be continued.) A Scottish laborer went to work for a wealthy It was regarded as something of a favor to be employed by him, as he was a prompt and liberal paymaster, and had every thing about his 'farm in order. The Scotsman remained with him only a few days. "You have left Mr. Run- yan," said a neighbor. "Yes," was the reply. "Was the work too hard ?" "No." "Wages too low ?" "No." "Why did you leave then ?" "God was not in the house," and he went on his way leaving his questioner to ponder on the strange answer. Family worship was not known under Mr. Runyan's roof ; nor was there a single praying member in his family. The laborer did not like to live under such a roof'. He did not like to be, even for a season, a member of such a family. Of how many houses in our happy land can it be said in truth, God is not in the house. The house may be spacious, elegant, furnished with every comfort and convenience, but God is not in it. There are none in that house to thank him for the blessings bestowed upon them. There are none there to serve and honor Him. boarders, who spends much time in BY REV. J. C. RYLE. Rector of Christ's church, Oxford, Eng. Continued from our last. Reader, I earne„tly invite your special atten- tion to the point on which I am now dwelling. I know not what your opinions may be about the fulfillment of' the prophetical parts of Scrip- ture. I approach the subject with fear and tremb- ling, lest I should hurt the feelings of any dear brother in the Lord. But I ask you in all af- fection to examine your own views about proph- ecy. I entreat you to consider calmly whether your opinions about Christ's second advent and kingdom are as sound and Scriptural as those of his first disciples. I entreat you to take heed, lest insensibly you commit as great errors about Christ's second coming and glory, as they did about Christ's first coming and cross. I beseech you not to dismiss the subject which I no w press upon your attention, as a matter of curious speculation, and one of no practical im- portance. Believe me, it affects the whole ques- tion between yourself and the unconverted Jew. I warn you, that unless you interpret the proph- etical portion of the Old Testament in the sim- ple literal meaning of its words,you will find it no easy matter to carry on an argument with an un- converted Jew. You would probably tell the Jew that Jesus of Nazareth was the Messiah promised in the Old Testament Scriptures. To those Scriptures you would refer him for proof. You would show him Psalm xxii., Isaiah liii., Daniel ix. 26, Micah v. 2, Zechariah ix. 9, and xi. 13. You would tell him that in Jesus of Nazareth those Scriptures were literally fulfilled. You would urge upon him that he ought to believe these Scriptures, and receive Christ as the Messiah. All this is very good. So far you would do well. But suppose the Jew asks you if you take all the prophecies of the Old Testament in their simple literal meaning. Suppose he asks you if you believe in a literal personal advent of Mes- siah to reign over the earth in glory,—a literal restoration of Judah and Israel to Palestine,— a literal re-building and restoration of Zion and Jerusalem. Suppose the unconverted Jew puts these questions to you : what answer are you prepared to make ? Will you dare to tell him that Old Testament prophecies of this kind are not to be taken in their plain literal sense ? Will you dare to tell him that the words Zion, Jerusalem, Jacob, Ju- dah, Ephraim, Israel, do not mean what they Jesus." � seem to mean, but mean the Church of Christ ? Will you dare to tell him that the gloriods king- Home, was dom and future blessedness of' Zion, so often one of their dwelt upon in prophecy,mean nothing more than trying to do the gradual Christianizing of the world by mis * Or, as we should say, the ressurrection of Israel, and the giving of the world to the pious of all ages and climes, � ED. Among the selections for the Herald of Nov. 6th, we have the following, which I had in sub- stance met with elsewhere,—"Our lady readers THE ADVENT HERALD. 379 rionaries and Gospel preaching ? Will you dare � It is high time to cease from explaining Old to tell him that you think it "carnal" to take such Testament prophecies in the way not warranted Scriptures literally,—"carnal" to expect a literal by the New Testament. What right have we coming of Messiah to reign,—"carnal" to look for a. literal gathering and restoration of Israel ? Oh ! reader, if you are a man of this mind, take care what you are doing. I say again take care. Do you not see that you are putting a weapon in the hard of the unconverted Jew, which he will,probably use with irresistible power? Do you not see that you are cutting the ground from under your own feet, and supplying the Jew with a strong argument for not believing your own interpretation of Scripture? Do you not see that the Jew will reply,that it is "carnal" to tell him that Messiah has come literally to suf- fer, if you tell him that it is "carnal" to expect Messiah to come literally to reign ? Do you not see that the Jew will tell you, that it is far more "carnal" in you to believe that Messiah could come into the world as a despised, crucified man of sorrows, than it is in him to believe that he will come into the world as a glorious King ? Beyond doubt he will do so, and you will find no answer to give. Reader, I commend these things to your se- rious attention. I entreat you to throw aside all .1 when I speak of literal interpretation, I require prejudice, and view the subject I am dwelling no man to deny the use of figurative language. upon with calm and dispassionate thought, I be- I I fully admit that emblems, figures, and symbols are used in foretelling Messiah's glory,as well as in foretelling Messiah's sufferings. I do not be- lieve that Jesus was a literal "root out of dry the Gentiles, the preaching of the Gospel as a witness to the world,and the gathering out of the election of grace. Bind up with the second ad- vent the restoration of the Jews, the pouring out of judgments on unbelieving Christians, the con- version of the world, and the establishment of Christ's kingdom upon earth.* Do this, and you will see a meaning and fulness in prophecy which perhaps you never yet discovered. I am quite aware that many good men do not see the prophetical subject as I do. I am painful- ly sensible that I seem presumptuous in differing from them. But I dare not refuse anything which appears to me plainly written in Scripture. I consider that the best men are not infallible. I think we should dread Protestant traditions not according td the Bible, as much as the tradi- tions of the Church of Rome. I believe that it is high time for the Church of Christ to awake out of its sleep about the Old Testament prophecy. From the time of the old Father, Jerome, down to the present day, men have gone on in a pernicious habit of "spiritual- zing" the words of the Prophets, until their true meaning has been well-nigh buried. It is high time to lay aside traditional methods of in- terpretation, and to give up our blind obedience to the opinions of such writers as Poole, Henry, Scott, and Clarke, upon unfulfilled prophecy. It is high time to fall back on the good principle that Scripture generally means what it seems to mean, and to beware of that semi-sceptical argu- ment, "such and such an interpretation cannot be correct, because it seems to us 'carnal " It is high time for Christians to interpret un- fulfilled prophecy by the light of prophecies al- ready fulfilled. The curses on the Jews were brought to pass literally ;—so also will the bless- ings. The scattering was literal ;—so also will be the gathering. The pulling down of Zion was literal ;—so also will be the building up. The rejection of Israel was literal ;—so also will be the restoration. It is high time to interpret the events that shall accompany Christ's second advent by the light of those accompanying His first advent. That was literal,visible,personal ;—so also will be his second. His first advent was with a literal body ;---so also will be his second. At his first advent the least predictions were fulfilled to the very letter ;—so also will they be at his second. The shame was literal and visible ;—so also will be the glory. seech you to take up anew the prophetical Scrip- tures, and pray that you may not err in inter- preting their meaning. Read them in the light of those two great pole-stars,the first and second ground," or a literal "lamb." (Isa. liii.) All I advents of Jesus Christ. Bind up with the first i maintain is, that prophecies about Christ's corn- advent the rejection of' the Jews, the calling of ing and kingdom,do foretell literal facts as truly as the prophecy about Christ being numbered with the taansgressors. All I say is,. that proph- eoies about the Jews being gathered, will be as really and literally made good as those about the Jews being scattered.* It is no argument to tell us that the principle of literal interpretation deprives the church of the use and benefit of many parts of the Old Testament. I deny the justice of the charge al- together. I consider that all things written in the Prophets concerning the salvation of individ- ual souls, may be used by Gentiles as freely as by Jews. The hearts of Jews and Gentiles are naturally just the same. The way to heaven is but one. Both Jews and Gentiles need justifica- tion, regeneration, sanctification. Whatever is written concerning such subjects, is just as much the property of the Gentile at the Jew. More- over, I hold Israel to be a people specially typical of the whole body of believers in Christ. (Hosea xii. 10.) I consider that believers now, may take the comfort,of every promise of pardon, comfort, and grace which is addressed to Israel. Such words I regard as the common portions of all believers. All I maintain is, that whenever God says he shall do or give certain things to Is- rael and Jerusalem in this world, we ought en- tirely to believe that to literal Israel and JeruSa- lem those things will be given and done. It is no valid argument, that many who think as I do about prophecy, have said and written very foolish things, and have often contradicted one another. All this may be very true, and yet the principles for which we contend may be scrip- tural, sound, and correct. The infidel does not overturn the truth of Christianity,when he points to the existence of Antinomians, Jumpers, and Shakers. The worldly man does not overturn the truth of real evangelical religion, when be sneers at the differences of Calvinists and Armin- ians. Just in the same way one writer on proph- ecy may interpret Revelation or Daniel in one way, and another in another. One man may take on him to fix dates, and prove at last to be quite wrong. Another may apply prophecies to living individuals, and prove utterly mistaken. But all these things do not affect the main question. They do not in the least prove that the advent of Christ before the millennium, is not a Scrip- tural truth, and that the principle. of interpreting Old Testament prophecy literally is not a sound principle. Reader, I say once more, we ought to regard the mistakes of our Lord's disciples with great * But,to be literally fulfilled,their graves must be opened and the pious dead resurrected, See Ezek. 37th. � ED. to say that Judah, Zion, Israel, and Jerusalem, ever mean any thing but literal Judah, literal Zion, literal Israel,and literal Jerusalem ? What precedent shall we find in the New Testament ? Hardly any, if indeed any at all. Well says an admirable writer on this subject :—"There are really two or three places in the whole New Tes- tament—Gospels, Epistles, and Revelation— where such names are used decidedly in what may be called a spiritual or figurative state." The word "Jerusalem" occurs eighty times, and all of them unquestionably literal, save when the op- posite is expressly pointed out by the epithets "heavenly," or "new," or "holy." "Jew" occurs an hundred times, and only four are even ambig- uous, as Romans ii. 28. "Israel" and "Israelite" occur forty times, and all literal. "Judah" and "Judea" above twenty times, and all literal.— Bonar's Prophetical Landmarks, p. 300 It is no answer to all this to tell us, that it is impossible to carry out the principle of a literal interpretation, and that Christ was not a literal "door," nor a literal "branch," nor the bread in the sacrament his literal "body." I reply, that t mderness and consideration. We christians are the last who ought to condemn them strongly. Great as their mistakes were, our own have been almost as bad. We have been very quick in dis- covering the beam in our Jewish brother's eyes, and have forgotten a large mote in our own. We have been long putting a great stumbling-block in his way, by our arbitrary and inconsistent ex- planations of Old Testament prophecy. Reader, let us do our part to remove that great stumbling-block. If we would help to remove the veil which prevents the Jews seeing the cross, let us also strip off the veil from our own eyes and look steadily and unflinchingly at the second advent and the crown. (To be continued.) Correspondence of the N. � Observer. Father Passaglia's Pamphlet. Montauban, (Tarn and Garonne,) Oct 4, 1861. The cause of Italian independence and unity has just gained a new defender,which will doubt- less render it great service. He is not a dema- gogue, nor a free-thinker, nor a liberal layman, but a priest, monk, a Jesuit, yes a Jesuit !— Father Passaglia. lie has just published at Flor- ence a pamphlet, in the Latin language, entitled, Procausa Italica, ad Episcopos Catholicos, (ap- peal to Catholic bishops in behalf of the Italian cause,) etc. Before remarking upon this pamphlet, I must say a few words respecting its author. Father Passaglia is one of the most learned and distin- guished members of the clergy in Italy. Far from being suspected of holding heretical or de- mocratic opinions, he has gained great favor with Pius IX. and the cardinals on account of his zeal and devotion in their cause. lie it was who, in 1854, powerfully contributed, by three large volumes, to determine the Pope to proclaim the Immaculate Conception of the Virgin as an ar- ticle of faith. This was not a very meritorious work ; but I state the fact only to show how great his influence was in ecclesiastical questions. This writer knew better than any of his colleag- ues, the doctrines of the Fathers of the Church, the Roman traditions,the canons of the councils, &c. After the campaign of Napoleon III., in the Peninsula, Father Passaglia began to reflect se- riously upon the situation of popery. He saw, as the celebrated canon Doellinger in Germany, that the temporal power of the Roman pontiff could no longer be maintained, or that it must at least undergo great modifications. He then sought the means to arrange this matter. The European journals announced, in the be- ginning of this year, that Father Passaglia had gone to Turin, and that he had several inter- views with the Count de Cavour. Some even said that he had a secret mission from Pius IX. This conjecture was without foundation ; the il- lustrious Jesuit received no mandate from the Roman See ; but he thought he could open the way to a friendly arrangement. He was disap- pointed. The Count de Cavour manifested the greatest readiness to give the greatest security of independence to spiritual popery ; but Pius IX., through the advice of the cardinals and his own bigoted scruples, remained inflexible. Father Passaglia then proposed to establish a Supreme Council, or Senate, at Rome, in which the high dignitaries of the church and State might sit. Thus, cardinal Antonelli would sit beside Baron Ricasoli. This proposition was perhaps chimerical and impracticable ; it showed, how- ever, the good intentions of the negotiator. The Court of Rome opposed all Father Pas- saglia's propositions with the same invariable re- : "Non possumus : it is impossible ; we will yield nothing, nothing, nothing !" From this moment the learned Josuit knew that the temporal authority of popery was des- tined to inevitable destruction ; and under this conviction, he wrote the pamphlet for the Italian cause, which is now creating so much sensation in the Vatican and among the Italian clergy. The author plainly declares himself in favor of substituting Victor Emanuel for Pius IX. in the government of the Romnn States. "If, in past times," says he, "the condition of society made it advisable to confer upon the supreme pontiff a temporal and civil authority, the condition of things at the present day is so changed that the Pontiff himself ought to wish to have the ecclesi- astical tiara separated from the royal sceptre." Father Passaglia cries out in alarm that if Pius IX. does not yield, a schism, or a complete religious separation will take place in Italy. "What man is so blind," says he, "as not to see that the Italians are reduced, in spiritual mat- ters, to the most deplorable condition, and that there is imminent and serious danger that the majority of the nation will openly separate from the communion of the church (Roman), and that this, our mother,will find herself deprived of the greater part of her children. . . . See in fact the majority of the clergy setting themselves in opposition to the majority of the laity ; see the bishops separating from their flocks, and the soy ereign pastor himself, the successor of St. Peter, hurling censure and excommunication against the Italian people. "The priests are engaged con- stantly in condemning and abusing what every- body, old and young, ardently desires in Italy. What must the result be, but a rupture, a fatal schism ?" The whole pamphlet is written in the same moderate, serious, and mournful tone. Father Passaglia is anxious, troubled, and,like a watch- ful sentinel, he descries the rocks upon which popery is threatened to be shipwrecked. He uses no denunciation, and his manner is the more im pressive from its being so quiet. "This monk is at present in Florence (I copy from a private letter) ; he lives in retirement. His convictions are slowly and surely matured. I have heard him myself. He seems to me a kind of apostle coming to aid the declining popery � Father Passaglia argues successively the three objects which the court of Rome opposes to an arrangement with Italy. 1st. Pius IX. has refused, as yet, in the most solemn manner, and by repeated declarations, to listen to the wishes of the Italians. Can he com- mit moral suicide by consenting to do what he has so often refused ? The necessity of the church is the supreme law, replies Father Passaglia. The revolution of Italy is not unjust in an un- limited sense, so that, in the doctrinal point of view, the Pope and bishops can give it their sympathy. 2d. Ought the oath taken by Pius the IX., on ascending the pontifical throne, to preserve entire the domains of the church, to prevent him from making a treaty with the king of Italy ? No, says the author of the pamphlet ; for this oath was established in the sixteenth century, in order to remove from the Popes the possibility of giving a part of the pontifical territory to their nephews or illegitimate children. The state of things is entirely changed in our age. 3d. Will the Pope preserve his spiritual liber- ty if he has no longer the temporal soveraignty, and Rome is the capital of Italy ? Yes, says Father Passaglia. Sufficient pledges of liberty will be given to the ROman See by the Catholic powers of Europe. Not only will Pius IX., be as free as he was before in the exercise of his re- ligious duties ; he will even be more. This pamphlet is designed, not to influence the passions of the people (for it is composed in Latin, as I have already stated), but to cause sober reflection among the sincere men of the clergy. Copies have been sent to all the bishops of Italy, France and Germany. Time will show whether these reverend gentlemen have any- thing worthy to oppose to this eminent Jesuit. Before closing my letter, I learn that Father Passaglia has just published at Florence a second pamphlet, in the Italian language, entitled "Duty of the Sovereign Pontiff to.reside in Rome, after this city is the capital of the kingdom of Italy." It is another theological treatise, in the form of scholastic theses. These are serious signs. If' popery does not yield, she will lose her best followers. I am, &c., � G. DE F. For the Herald. A Hebrew Lady's Wardrobe. � AMICIMISIMMINIr � 380 � THE ADVENT HERALD, disc ; thus agreeing with Paul, that the whole crew-lHe teacheth my hands to war, so that a bow of steel tureship has been made subject to vanity, and that! is broken by mine arms." Psa. 18 : 31-34. it is to be hoped that not man only, but the earth � 38. "Who raised up the righteous man from the will find by turning to the third chapter of the book of Isaiah, and reading the 18th verse, that not only were hoops worn in those days by the daughters of Zion,but they were also an abomin- ation in the sight of the Lord. To save them the trouble, however, of hunting it up, here is the verse � that day the Lord will take away the bravery of their tinkling ornaments about their feet, and their cauls, and their round tires like the moon.' " Now we might with equal propriety say- Our lady readers will find, by turning to Isaiah 3: 16-24,that not only were "bonnets," "hoods" and "vails" worn but they were also an abomin- ation to the Lord, for they are expressly men- tioned in the inventory of the wardrobe of the Hebrew ladies there given ! In a sermon preached by Bp. Latimer in 1552, I find such plain remarks made against wearing "vardingals," or hoop skirts, that to even quote them might give offence to some of "our lady readers ;" but it seems that the good bishop nev- er thought that Isa. 3 : 18 was positive proof of the impropriety and sinfulness of wearing these "round-abouts"--as he called them--else doubt. less he would have cited it. Perhaps he conclud- ed, as the best critics do, that the "round tires like the moon" were ornaments common from he earliest time,and still used in the East, cres- cent shaped like the new moon, and worn on the neck. In the chapter referred to there is a prediction of' the overthrow and desolation of Jerusalem in which the daughters of Zion would suffer severely because of their pride and extravajance in the Clings mentioned, but it does not therefore fol- low that all the articles of apparel named are in themselves sinful. Some one has said, "There may be as much pride beneath a beggar's wallet as under a prince's cloak," and-"I partly believe it." � J. N. 0. AD VENT HERALD. BOSTON, DECEMBER 7, 1861. SYLVESTER BLISS, EDITOR. The readers of the Herald are most earnestly besought to give it room in their prayers; that by means of it God may be honored and his truth advanced ; also, that it may be conducted in faith and love, with sobriety of judgment and discernment of the truth, in nothing carried away into error, or hasty speech, or sharp, unbrotherly disputation. THE TERMS OF THE HERALD. 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We commence the column this week with a remittance from Pa., and a friend in Maine. • The Voice of the Church on the Restitution. THE NICENE Couxcia, about A. D. 325,thus speak in the chapter about the providence of God, and about the world, in the "Ecclesiastical Forms or Constitutions :" "The world was made meaner or less perfect,prov- identially ; for God fbresaw that man would sin : wherefore we expect new heavens and a new earth, according to the holy scriptures, at the appearance and kingdom of the great God and our Saviour Je- sus Christ. And then, as Daniel says (ch. 7:18) the saints of the Most High shall take the kingdom, and the earth shall be pure, holy, the land of the living, not of the dead ; which David foreseeing by the eye of faith, cries out (Psalm 27. 13) � believe to see the good things of the Lord in the land of the living,' and as our Saviour says, 'Happy are the meek, for they shall inherit the earth,' (Matt. 5: 5). And as the prophet Isaiah says (26:6), 'The feet of the meek and lowly shall tread upon it.' " At the same council was composed the Nicene creed, the latter clause of which is : "I believe in the life of the world to come." Thus for the first 300 years of our Christian era, the doctrine of the renewal of the earth was hardly disputed ; and Bishop Russell, a decided anti-mil- lenarian says "of the appearance of the Messiah, and the establishment of his kingdom upon earth :" "The hope of such a consummation was not su- perceded by His residence orsearth. The first Chris- tians, on the contrary, looked with a most earnest desire for the new heavens and new earth promised to their fathers, and connected their expectations, too, with the ancient opinion that this globe was to undergo a material change at the end of 6000 years, throwing off all imperfections which had arisen from the guilt of its inhabitants, and being fitted for the habitation of justice, beneficence, benevolence, and purity, during a blessed Millennium,-the sab- bath of this terrestrial globe," Discourse on the Mil- lennium p. 84. Though the Bishop denominates this doctrine a "Rabinnical fable, which Itas no connection with the gospel," (p. 236) he admits : "There is good ground for the assertion of Mede, Dodwell, Burnet bud other writers on the same side,that down to the beginning of the fourth century, the belief was uni- versal, and undisputed." lb. p. 89. Leaving the apostolic age, and coming down past the epoch of Constantine, we lose sight for a time of this clearly revealed truth, which so cheered the hearts of the early Christians. Dazzled by the out- ward splendor which the church had attained by its connection with the state, when recognized as the religion of imperial Rome, the notion became prev- alent that the everlasting kingdom had been set up, and that in the prosperity of the church militant was fulfilled the promise to the meek of the eq.rth's inheritance. That "Little Horn," which spake great words against the Most High and warred against the saints, had come into power, claiming to be Christ's Vicar, declaring that the reign of the saints had begun ; and, banishing from the church the meek and humble ones who still looked for Christ's coming and reign, this apostate Usurper c iused the doctrine of the Restitution to be no long- er recognized as the faith of the church,-except as it may have been still held by the church in the wilderness ; which,for long ages, was almost lost to the view of the world. As, however, she came up out of the wilderness, leaning upon the dm of the Beloved, she brought this doctrine up with her ; and the promise to the meek,to he fulfilled to the church triumphant in the regeneration,again found a place in the creeds of Christendom. And, from that day to this, there have not been wanting living witness- es, testifying their faith in the promised inheritance in the world to come. From Martin Luther, the illustrious German Re- former, b. 1483, d 1546. "It is important for us to recur to Adam's origi- nal condition, as we expect all things to be brought hack again to that . . . All things are now disorder- ed and decayed ; whence Peter says that the heav- ens must receive Christ until the time when all things shall be restored again to what they were in Para- and heaven, shall again be brought back to their Edenic state," Quoted by J. A. Seiss in his Last Times, p. 80. Conversing one beantiful spring morning in 1541 with Justus Jonas, Luther said : "If only sin and death were absent, we would he satisfied with such a paradise. But it will be much more beautiful when the old world and the old state of things will be entirely renovated, and an eternal spring begin, which will be and continue forever." Meurer's Life of Luther p. 573. From Bishop Hugh Latimer, b. A. D. 1470, burned at the stake A. D. 1555. "There will be great alterations at that day . . . There will be hurly-burly, like as ye see when a man dieth. There will be such alterations of the earth, and the elements, they will lose their former nature and be endewed with another nature. And then shall they see the Son of man come in a cloud with power and great glory." "I pray God that we may be of the number of those who shall hear this joyful and most comfortable voice of Christ our Saviour, when He will say, 'Come ye blessed 'of my Father, possess the kingdom which is prepared for you be- fore the foundation of the world was laid.' " "That man, or that woman that saith these words, 'Thy kingdom come,' with a faithtul heart, no doubt de- sireth in very deed that God will come to judgment, and amend all things in this world,to pull down Sa- tan, that old serpent, under our feet," Investigator vol. 1. p. 171. From John Bradford, burned at the stake A. D. 1555. "I take the,apostle to mean by 'every creature,' simply even the whole shape and creatures in the whole world." "As everything and all things were made for roan, so by the man Christ, all and every- thing, both earthly and heavenly shall be restored." "This renovation of all thingi the prophets seem to promise, when they promise new heavens and a new earth. . . . Therefore, methinks it is the duty of a godly mind to acknowledge and thereof to glory in the Lord, that, in our resurrection, all things shall be repaired for eternity, as, from our sin, they were made subject to corruption." Bradford's Letters, (83). See Mill. Ans. p. 44 in Lit. v. 2. From Archbishop Thomas Cranmer, b. A. D. 1489, and burned at the stake in 1556. In the Cate- chism drawn up by the English Prelates in the time of' Edward VI. authorized by that king May 20, 1553, and acknowledged by Cranmer to be written by himself, he says : "The sacred scripture calls the end of the world the consummation and perfection of the mystery of Christ, and the renovation of all things ; for thus the apostle Peter speaks in his second Epistle, chap. 3 : 'We expect new heavens and a new earth, ac- cording to God's promise, wherein dwelleth right- eousness.' And it seems agreeable to reason, that the corruption, mutability, and sin, to which the whole world is subject, should at last cease." "For man's sake, for whose use the great world was created or made new, it shall put on a face that shall be far more pleasant and beautiful," Brooks Essays p. 13.' east, called him to his foot, gave the nations before him, and made him rule over kings ?" Ans. "He gave them as the dust to his sword, and as driven stubble to his how. He pursued them, and passed safely ; even by the way that he had not gone by his feet.'' Isa. 41 : 2, 3. "Who bath wrought and done it, calling the generations from the beginning ?" Ans. "The Lord, the first and the Last ;" who saith "I am Ile. The isles saw it and feared ; the ends of the earth were afraid, drew nigh and came." Isa. 41 : 4, 5. "Who bath measured the waters in the hol- of his hand, and meted out heaven with the span, and comprehended the dust of the earths in a meas- sure and weighed the mountains in scales, and the hills in a balance ? Who bath directed the Spirit of the Lord,or being his counsellor bath taught him? With whom took he counsel, and who instructed him. and taught him in the path of judgment, and taught him knowledge, and showed to him the way of understanding ?" Isa. 40 : 12-14. Ans. "Behold ,the nations are as a drop of a bucket, and are counted as the small dust of the balance : behold, he taketh up the isles as a very little thing. And Lebanon is not sufficient to burn, nor the beasts thereof sufficient for a burnt offering. All nations before him are as nothing ; and they are counted to him as less than nothing, and vanity" Isa. 40 : 12- 17. " To whom then will ye liken God ? or what likeness will ye compare unto hies?" Ans. " Have ye not known ? have ye not heard? hath it not been told you from the beginning ? have ye not undersstood from the foundations of the earth ? It is He that sitteth upon the circle of the earth, and the inhabitants thereof are as grasshoppers ; that stretcheth out the heavens as a curtain, and spreadeth them out as a tent to dwell in : that bring- eth the princes to nothing ; lie maketh the judges of the earth as vanity." Isa. 40 : 21-23. "To whom then will ye liken me, or shall I be equal ? saith the Holy One." Ans. "Lift up your eyes on high, and behold who bath created these things, that bringeth out their host by number : he calleth them all by names, by the greatness of his might, for that he is strong in power ; not one faileth." Isa. 40 : 25, 6. "Hest thou not known ? bast thou not heard that the everlasting God, the Lord, the Creator of the ends of the earth Sainteth not,neither is weary?"- Ans. "There is no searching of his understand- ing. He giveth power to the faint ; and to them that have no might he increaseth strength. Even the youths shall faint and be weary, and the young men shall utterly fall : But they that wait upon the Lord shall renew their strength ; and they shall mount up with wings as eagles ; they shall run,and not be weary ; and they shall walk, and not faint." Isa. 40: 28-31. "What house will ye build me? saith the Lard : or what is the place of my rest ? Hath not my hand made all these things ?" Ans. "The Most High dwelleth not in temples made with hands ; as saith the prophet, Heaven is my throne, and earth is my footstool," Acts 7 : 48 -50. Armageddon. What is this word in English? who are gathered, and who gathers there ? Is Rev. 20:4th a repeti- tion or parallel with Rev. 6:9 to 11 ? IF not, please give the reason, if you think it worth while ? J. B. HU'S& We understand Armageddon to be the name of the valley, or plain, at the foot of Mount Megiddo, famous for its bloody slaughters. As used in Rev. 16:16, we understand it to be a symbol of the final gathering of the nations-not of any specific locality, but of every place where the destruction of the wick- ed will fall upon any of them. � • We do not understand Rev. 6:9-11 to be par- alel with Rev. 20:4. The former passage, is under the fifth seal, and the last we sup- pose to be under the seventh. In the former they are told to rest yet for a short time, till others are martyred as they were ; but in the latter scripture, that waiting time is ended, and all the martyred ones come up together, in the first resurrection. 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 fur 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 fur 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 Association,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 ; hut 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 ? Bible Questions and Answers. "Who ip the heaven can be compared unto the Lord'?? who among the sons of, the mighty can be likened unto the Lord ?" Ans. "God is greatly to be feared in the assembly of the saints, and to he had in reverence of all them that are about him." Psa. 89 : 6, 7. "The Lord of hosts bath purposed, and who shall disannul it ? and his hand is stretched out,and who shall turn it back ?" Isa,. 14 : 27. Ans. His "kingdom is an everlasting dominion, and his kingdom is from generation to generation : and all the inhabitants of the earth are reputed as nothing : and he doth according to his will in the army of heaven, and among the inhabitants of the earth : and none can stay his hand, or say to him, W hat doest thou ?" Dan. 4 : 34, 5. "Is there a God beside Me?" saith the Lord. Arts. "Yea, I know not any," "Thus saith the Lord, the King of Israel and his Redeemer the Lord of hosts ; I am the first and I am the last ; and be- side me there is no God," Isa. 44: 8, 6. "Who bath declared this from the ancient time? who bath told it from that time ?" Ans. God answers, "Have not I the Lord ? and there is no God else beside me-a just God and a Savior," Isa. 45: 21. 37 "Who is God save the Lord ? or who is a rock save our Lord ?" A Plan. How shall we get the matter for a series of good tracts ? Let a number of churches contribute to a fund and offer a premium for the best, 2d best and 3d best arrangement of matter to be published in a series of tracts, say five or six four-page tracts, ar- ranged to circulate separately or together-each church publishing their own place of meeting &c., Ans. "ft is God that girdeth me with strength, the number of tracts they require. Improve this and maketh my way perfect. He maketh my feet plan, and let us work while it is day.. like hinds' feet,and setteth me upon my high places. � J. B. HUSE. FORT PICKENS. By intelligence received from Southern sources, there appears to have beena bom- bardment at Fort Pickens—commencing Nov. 21st and continuing till the 24th, when Col. Brown ceased firing. The rebels admit 16 killed and Maft911.40%1981F.111111MMINI THE ADVEN F HERALD. 381 Stoves. It being the season of the year when some breth- ren may be feeling the need of a new stove, it gives us pleasure to say that a year's trial in our family of Pearson's Improved Ventilating Cooking Stove, Manufactured by James Wolstenholme, Providence, R. I., has.given us perfect satisfaction. With the first stove of the kind, two yrs.since, we were much pleased,but found some difficulty in clean- ing out the ashes from under the oven. A year since the maker of it wished us to exchange it for an "Im- proved" one in which that was remedied. We did so, and found the fault entirely removed. "The best baker I ever knew," is the testimony that each bak- ing day brings vuluntaril/ respecting it. It is also economical in the consumption of fuel, as two years use of it gives evidence. Its ventilating arrangement gives a peculiar excellence to the cooking done in it —meats coming out roasted, and not smothered in a close box. And by registers, it is made a cool stove in summer, and a great warmer in winter—surpas- sing anything within our experience. A gentleman from Providence, in our office a few days since, remarked that he had used it two years, and spoke of it in eulogistic terms. He also remark-. ed respecting A NEW PARLOR STOVE— an invention of Bro. Pearson,and also manufactured by Mr. Wolstenholnie, that he "puts in about 10 pounds of coal in the morning,and about 4 at night; when it keeps till morning, and warms two parlors, and the hall,upstairs and down,as well as a furnace." We have never seen one of these Parlor Stoves, and the statement struck us as marvellous ; but from our experience of the excellence of the Cooking Stove, we are prepared for any degree of success in that direction. We will add that this notice is not solicited, and the manufacturer has no suspicion of our intention to write it. We are moved to do so from a sense of justice to a stove we have thoroughly tested. The following was crowded out last week :— Important Arrest. Issuing no Herald last week, our readers will be- fore this have heard of the arrest of late U. S. Sena- tors Mason of Virginia, and Slidell of Louisiana ; who were on their way as ministers plenipotentiary from the Southern Confeder icy to England and France. The U. S. frigate San Jacinto, under command of Commodore Wilkes, being on its way home from the coast of Africa, stopped at Centifuegos, and there learned of the escape of Mason and Slidell through our blockade of the southern ports. Proceeding thence to Havana, it was understood that they had taken passage on the ith inst. on board the British mail steamship Trent,plying between Vera Cruz (by the way of Havana and St Thomas),and Southamp- ton. While the San Jacinto was in the narrowest part of the Bahama channel, about twenty-four miles to the westward, she met the packet, and, as usual in such cases,fired a short across her bows and brought her to. The boats were sent to her, under the com- mand of Lieut. Fairfax, who boarded her and ar- rested Mason and Slidell,who were personally known to him. They at first objected to be removed with- out the employment of force for that purpose. How- ever, they were soon after removed without further trouble, and .conveyed to the San Jacinto. Their respective Secretaries, Eustis and McFarland, were also brought on board, and are now on their way to New York. The packet had no other flag save her own. The remainder of the passengers, includ- ing ladies connected with the Slidell and Mason party were not molested, and were therefore left free to pursue their journey. This seizure is undoubtedly in accordance with the law of nations, and may have an important bearing on this contest. Since the above was written, these "ministers" have been "settled" at Fort Warren in Boston Har- bor. A PRECEDENT. Should England protest against the overhauling of the steamer Trent, having on board the rebel plenipotentiaries, it may be perti- nent to remind her of some quite recent precedents in her own history. Here is one : When Thomas Francis Meagher escaped from a British penal colo- ny, he sought refhge, if our memory serves us, on board an American vessel. The vessel was boarded by English officers, and thoroughly searched, but fortunately the search was unsuccessful. Our gov- ernment did not consider its flag insulted, and de- manded no redress for the "insult."—Albany Jour- nal. wounded, with considerable damage to their forts and the Navy Yard. Fort Pickens was not, proba- bly, much damaged. PROBABLE FAMINE IN IRELAND. The news from Ire- land in relation to the destruction of the potato crop, by rot, continues to be of a very gloomy character, and the most serious apprehensions seem to be enter- tained that the want and distress which marked the period of the famine of 1847 will again ensue. The English and Irish press devote considerable space to the subject, and manifest much alarm. TO 0,1'113141 EATERS, ARSENIC TAKERS, &C.— These unhappy sufferers are informed that such habits are "brokers up" with comparative ease, under the vitalizing, health-sustaining effects of Mortorpathy, mountain air and hot and cold baths. The low-spirited, dyspeptic,nervous and organically weak also find in this treatment the invigoration so much needed. In the cure of sleeplessness, debilitating dreams, loss of mem- ory, and oppression of the head, its success is unparallelled. A circular, sent free on applica- tion, giving information of this system, and of the Oriental Turkish and Russian Baths, in use at the Round Hill Water Cure in Northampton, Mass., is particularly commended to the notice of the profession. Those acquainted with this practice recommended it to persons beyond the reach of home prescription. Terms reduced to $7 and $10 per week. A New Tract. "THE RESTITUTION : or This Earth, recovered from all the disabilities of the fall, to be the In- heritance of the Meek—"the Purchased Poss- ession" promised to "the Children of the Resur- rection." Price 4 cents single, 3 cents by the dozen, or $2,50 per 100, by mail pre-paid. If sent by express at the expense of the purchaser, it will be but $2 per 100. For sale at this office. Circulate the Paper. A clergyman, an entire stranger, more than 1,000 miles distant, has just sent us the following note : "Editor of the Herald—Dear Sir : I have just read a very flattering notice of your Journal, and avail myself of this means to request a sample copy. I have for some time wished for the reading of a Publica- tion of its character ; but did not know where to find the best and ablest." We do not know what "notice" is referred to in the above ; but would all the friends make an effort to make the character of the Herald known, there are, we doubt nut, hundreds who are wishing for the perusal of just such a journal. We should be pleased to see the notice referred to. As an encouragement to increased effort for the circulation of the Herald, we append the following note from G. R. Garvin, of Millville, who has only lately become acquainted with the Herald. He writes as follows : "I have now taken your excellent paper nearly six months, and have been greatly cheered by its weekly visits. Tonight I notice that my subscription is out. Enclosed you will find one dollar to pay for the 'Herald' six months more, and so I mean to do, as lung as the paper is published, and my prayer is that it may be sustained until lie comes to reign whose right it is." We would say to Bro. T. that we have credited the "widow indeed," to whom he refers, to January 1, 1863, on the remittance of "R. D. W." in Her- ald of Sept. 21st. The Granary. A Tale which every Person will Read. BY REV. A. C. THOMAS. "Whoso readeth, let him understand." "Jonathan Homespun, having purchased an ex- tensive farm, and provided himself with everything requisite for prosperous husbandry, proposes to fur- nish subscribers with one quart of wheat weekly, at the low price of two dollars in advance, or at two dollars and fifty cents if paid after six weeks. "The facilities afforded by the Government for the transportation of wheat to every section of the country and adjacent provinces, are such as prove satisfactory to every subscriber ; and the proprietor of the Granary assures all who may patronize him, that he will exert himself to supply an article of the first quality. N. B.—Agents will be allowed a gen- erous percentage. Address, post-paid, Proprietor of the Granary, Hopewell." Such was the prospectus issued by my friend, Mr. Homespun. Feeling a lively interest in his welfare, I visited his farm, although it was a long journey from my home, and was pleased to find everything in nice order. He informed me that he had contrac- ted a large debt in the purchash of the premises, stock and implements of husbandry, but he had no doubt of his ability to discharge every obligation in a few years. lie also stated that he had already re- ceived many hundred subscribers, and that in four or five weeks he would commence the delivery of the wheat according to proposal. � • The scheme appeared plausible ; and my friend was so confident of success,that I had not the slight- est doubt of his prosperity. I entered my name as a subscriber, and when I left him he was preparing many thousand quart sacks. Every week, for the space of two years, I received my quart of wheat, and concluded, from its excel- lent quality, and prompt delivery, that everything was prosperous with Jonathan Homespun and his farm. So I gave myself no concern about my indeb- tedness to him ; "for," said I, "to a farmer so ex- tensively patronized as he is, the small pittance of two years' arrearage would be but a drop in the bucket. It is true, there was occasionally printed on the sack a general notice to delinquents ; but I never suspected that this was intended for his friends. The notice, however, became more frequent ; and having leisure, I concluded I would visit my friend, the proprietor of the Granary. He greeted me cor- dially, but I saw that there had been trouble. He was evidently worn with toil and anxiety, and in the conversation of the evening, he entered into par- ticulars. "Here.have I been laboring,day and almost night, for two years ; and I am more in debt now than when I began. My creditors are now pressing for payment ; I am conscious of inability to meet their demands, and can perceive no result but bankruptcy and ruin." "But have you not a large list of subscribers ?" said 1. "Yes a very large list," was the reply ; "but too many of them are like you." "Me !" I quickly rejoined, in amazement ; "too many like me !" "Pardon me," said my friend in a melancholy tone ; "pardon me, for oppression will.make even a wise man mad. You have had a quart of wheat weekly for two years, and I have not a cent of pay- ment. I have a large list of the same kind of pat- rons, scattered here and there over thousands of miles. If they would pay me the trifles they sever- ally owe, I should he directly freed from embarrass- ment, and go on my way rejoicing. But they rea- son as you reason ; and, among you I am brought to the door of poverty and ruin." I felt the full force of the rebuke, and promptly paid arrearages at the increased prices named in the prospectus, and also a year in advance. I bid adieu to the worthy and wronged farmer, resolving to do everything in my power to repair the injury which had accrued from my delinquency. 0 ye patrons of Jonathan Homespun ! wherever ye are, ye have received and eaten the wheat from his Granary, without making payment. Ye are guilty of a grievous sin of omission. Therefore, re- pent. Pay the farmer what you owe him. Uncle Sam's teamsters bring you sacks of grain every week, and Uncle Sam's teamsters will carry the money safely to Jonathan Homespun.—New Bedford Mer- cury. Prospectus of The Advent Herald For 1862. The Advent Herald, published by the "American Millennial Association," 46 1-2 Kneeland st. Boston Mass. begins its 23d volume with the first week of January next.—Terms, are $2 per year in advance. As the oldest periodical in either continent, devo- ted to the study of prophecy, and as one that has never departed from the cardinal doctrines generally denominated "evangelical," it is believed this sheet is worthy of the support of all students of prophecy. And it needs for its support a wider circulation than it now receives. While it is firm and decided in its opinions, it is designed to hold these in all candor, and to present them with all courtesy towards those differing; and it is not closed against a free and christian inter- change of sentiments, whenever opposing views are candidly and clearly presented. Discussion is not disputation, and argument is not controversy; and while the former of these is admitted, the latter is not solicited. With the first number of the next volume, it is proposed to commence an Exposition of the 8th chapter of Daniel's Prophecy,—the previ- ous chapters having already passed under review in these columns. It is believed the remaining chapters of Daniel will equal in interest those which have preceded. The following are the more important truths for the support of which this paper is issued. Will not the friends interested in the defense of these sen- timents,call the attention of their friends and neigh- bors to them, and send us each, one or more new readers ? IMPORTANT TRUTHS. 1st. That the heavens and earth which are now, by the word of God, are kept in store, reserved unto fire against the day of judgment and perdition of un- godly men. That the day of the Lord will come as a thief in the night, in the which the heavens shall pass away with a great noise, and the elements shall melt with fervent heat ; the earth also, and the works that are therein, shall be burned up.—That the Lord will create new heavens and a new earth,where- in righteousness—that is, the righteous—will for- ever dwell. And that the kingdom and the domin- ion under the whole heaven shall be given to the people of the saints of the Most High, whose king- dom is an everlasting kiugdoin, and all dominions shall serve and obey him. 2d. That there are but two advents or appearings of the Saviour to this earth. That both are per- sonal and visible. That the first took place in the daysnf Herod, when lie was conceived of the Holy Ghost, born of the Virgin Mary, went about do- ing good, suffered on the cross, the just for the un- just, died, was buried, arose again the third day, the first fruits of them that slept, and ascend- ed into heaven, which must receive him until the times of the restitution of all things, spoken of by the mouth of all the holy prophets. That the se- cond coming or appearing will take place when he shall descend from heaven,at the sounding of the last trump, to give his people rest, being revealed from heaven in flaming fire,taking vengeance on them that know not God, and obey not the gospel. � And that he will judge the quick and the dead at his ap- pearing and kingdom. 3d. That the second coming or appearing is indi- cated to be now emphatically nigh, even at the doors, by the chronology of the prophetic periods, the fulfillment of prophecy, and the signs of the times. And that this truth should be preached both to saints and sinners, that the first may rejoice, knowing their redemption draweth nigh, and the last be warned to flee from the wrath to come, before the Master of the house shall rise up and shut to the door. 4th. That the condition of salvation is repentance towards God, and faith in our Lord Jesus Christ. And that those who have repentance and faith will live soberly, and righteously,and godly, in this pres- ent world, looking for that blessed hope, and the glorious appearing of the great God and our Saviour Jesus Christ. 5th. That there will be a resurrection of the bodies of all the dead, both of the just and the unjust. � That those who are Christ's will be raised at his coming. That the rest of the dead will not live again until after a thousand years. — And that the saints shall not all sleep, but shall be changed in the twinkling of an eye at the last trump. 6th. That the only millennium taught in the Word of God is the thousand years which are to in- tervene between the first resurrection and that of the rest of the dead, as inculcated in the 20th of Revelation. � And that the various portions of Scripture which refer to the millennial state are to have their fulfillmeat after the resurrection of all the saints who sleep, in Jesus. 7th. That the promise, that Abraham should be the heir of the world, was not to him,or to his seed, through the law, but through the righteousness of faith. That they are not all Israel which are of Israel. That there is no difference, under the Gospel dispensation, between Jew and Gentile. — That the middle wall of partition that was between them is broken down, no more to be rebuilt. — That God will render to every man according to his deeds. � That if we are Christ's then are we Abra- ham's seed, and heirs according to the promise. — And that the only restoration of Israel, yet future, is in the restoration of the saints to the earth,created anew, when God shall open the graves of those des- cendants of Abraham who died in faith, without re- ceiving the promise, with the believing Gentiles who have been grafted in with them into the same. olive tree ; and shall cause them to come up out of their graves, and bring them with the living, who are changed, into the land of Israel. 8th. That there is no promise of this world's con- version. That the Horn of Papacy will war with the saints, and prevail against them, until the Ancient of Days shall come, and judgment be given to the saints of the Most High, and the time come that the saints possess the kingdom. � That the children of the kingdom, and the children of the wicked one, will continue together until the end of the world, when all things that offend shall be gath- ered out of the kingdom, and the righteous shall shine forth as the sun in the kingdom of their Fath- er. � That the Man of Sin will only be destroyed by the brightness of Christ's coming. � And that the nations of those which are saved and redeemed to God by the blood of Christ, out of every kindred, and tongue, and people, and nation, will be made kings and priests unto God, to reign forever on the earth. 9th. That it is the duty of the ministers of the Word to continue in the work of preaching the Gos pet to every creature, even unto the end, calling upon them to repent, in view of the fact that the kingdom of heaven is at hand ; that their sins may be blotted out when the times of refreshing shall come from the presence of the Lord. And 10. That the departed saints do not enter their inheritance, or receive their crowns, at death That they without us cannot be made perfect. —'That their inheritance, uncorruptible and un- defiled, and that fadeth not away, is reserved in heaven, ready to be revealed in the last time. — That there are laid up for them and us crowns of righteousness, which the Lord, the righteous Judge, shall give at the day of Christ to all that love his peering. That they will only besatisfiedwhen they awake in Christ's likeness. � And that when the Son of Man shall come in his glory, and all the ho- ly angels with him, the King will say to those on his right hand, 'Come, ye blessed of my Father, inherit the kingdom prepared for you from the foundation of the world.' Then they will be equal to the angels, being the children of God and of the Tee ur- rection. THE ADVENT HERALD. ciple they are now. Jones, in his history of the church remarks, " No sooner do we see the teachers in the church invested with secular honors, and ele- vated to dignity, than the first object of their lives seems to have been to maintain their power and pre- eminence, and aspiring at dominion over the bodies and consciences of men. From the days of Con- stantine the corruption of the Christian profession proceeded with rapid progress." Again, he says, " The extraordinary occurrences of the life of Con- stantine produced an entire chaage in the whole of the Christian profession." From this time tens of thousands of misguided and apostate professors of the Christian religion flowed into � the Roman ar- my." And soon " the man of sin" obtained, and retained his strong hold by means of Christian (?) soldiers, until the days of Luther. Then the great reformers took the same ground of the apostolic church, excepting poor Zwingle. Luther says;— " Christians must combat, not with sword or argue- bus, but with suffering and the cross." D'Aubigne says, " Zwingle had girt himself with a weapon in- terdicted by God ; he had laid aside his divine fur a carnal vocation. . . The patri, t had misled the re- former. His most devoted friends, amazed, con- founded, exclaimed, ' We know not what to think. A bishop with carnal weapons." The other refor- mers only " fought the good fight of faith." Yet the war spirit soon took the place of Christ's Spir- it, and the Protestant church has, to an alarming extent, been engaged in war. But her best converts have always repudiated it. The idea that Chris- tians fight has retarded the progress of the gospel in India, China, Japan, and Africa more than all things else. Let Caesar take care of his own house- hold. Let Christians follow Christ, by the cross,to glory. 1 remember in 1843-4 a large list of civil officers obtained belief that the Judge was about to come, and resigned office all over the land.— They did not believe they were in a Christian's place. I expect to see it so again. I. C. WELLCOME. Richmond, Me., Nov. 2, 1861. Saturday, Oct. 19, 1861, about 9 o'clock P. M., I saw a streak of fire shoot from the sky, southwest from where I stood. It struck much swifter than a rocket. It was a red streak, and it burst into a DAVIS GUILD. Edwards, N. Y , Nov. 10, 1861. yellow blaze, similar to a rocket's bursting. colors were beautiful. It lasted about two seco It did not reach the earth. � W. PLIMLE Forester, Sanilac Co., Mich. Door Creek, Wis. The Ocean. A life upon thy bosom large, With your foaming crested waves, Where the furious breakers echo, Where the blue ethereal rage, There's the place for sailors valiant, There's the place for brave and hold, There our fathers—they were gallant When they left the older world. Down beneath your hungry bosom Ye have swallowed angrily Poor, unfortunate, unsulaced, Yet for them you do not sigh, Still, with all your fierceless vengeance Mortals to your arms and breast, They are grasped with forced reluctance To their last and solemn rest. Thy breath is either soft and gentle, Or 'tis breathing bitter freaks ; It tells the noble-hearted mariner Where the fiercest lightning streaks, Where the loudest thunder rolls, Where the clouds are torn apart, Where the hurricane cloth howl And the forked lightnings dart. OBITUARY. Ye are trackless in your movements, Save the gentle curling reef, Yet cloth answer to the fountains Rumbling 'neath your surging feet ; "Arise, ye gales!" and echo forth The truth as it shall be, When breezes blow, both north and south, Along the moonlit sea ; Give up those slumbering forms You hold within your breast; Unloose your fettered arms, And let the souls there rest. J. S. Buss. From Bro. S. C. Beckwith. Dear Bro. Bliss :—I am thankful to God I still have the privilege of reading the Herald. I consid- er it very instructive on prophecy, to which 1 wish to take heed as unto a light that shineth in a dark place. � S. C. BECKWITH. McDonough, N. Y. From Bro. John F. Knox. Bro. Bliss :—It is a little more than a year since I became a subscriber to the Herald, and it is still received with pleasure and read with profit. The sound it carries forth is echoed in such thunder tones from the Word of. God that as a soldier of the cross of Christ it should receive the countenance of every member of his army. I can but thank the Lord that I have been led to see the truth as it now seems to me in the true light. I hope that his Spirit may help me to discharge the responsibility which that knowledge throws upon me faithfully. Hoping that the blessing of God may rest upon the messenger of truth as it shall visit its new friend, and that you may have the earnest support of all the friends of the Herald, I remain as ever Yours truly, JOHN F. KNOX. Campbelltown, Nov. 5, 1861. The new friend referred to by our brother, is a new subscriber wlese name, and pay, he sends with the above. Such friends, both new and old, are ap- preciated at this time. � ED. From Bro. D. Guild. Bro. Bliss :—Placed as I am, in the providence of my heavenly Father, in a remote part of this State, and not enjoying the privilege of associating with those of like precious faith, I feel it a comforting consolation that I can, and do, from week to week, hear from some of the brethren of our faith, of the near coming One. I rejoice to learn, by the Herald, of the harmony and peace that prevailed in your as- sociated deliberations. Whatever commotions may disturb the nations and world, may we who believe in the fulfilment of God's word, not be disturbed, but look at these things, as events spoken of in Scripture, just prior to the coming of the Son of man and the redemption of his people. May we, by the grace of God, belong to those of the wise, who shall shine forth as the sun in the kingdom of our Father, at his coming and kingdom, is the pray- er of your unworthy brother, CORRESPONDENCE. In th isdepartment, articles are solicited ,on thegeneral 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 al ]references to views and persons. Any departure from thisshould be regarded as eisentitling the writer to any reply. Christian and gentlemanly discussion will be in order ; but not needless, unkind, or uneourteouscontroversy. Should Christians Fight ? (Concluded.) But it is denied by Br. M. that Christ commands us 46 not to fight," and he then asserts that Christ " forbids private revenge and retaliation." Let us look to this and see. In Matt. 5 we have a record of a wonderful sermon; which Christ preached.— But few are ready to take him to mean just what he says, and obey him. Some do, however. There we hear Jesus say, " Ye have heard that it bath been said, An eye fur an eye, and a tooth for a tooth.— But I say unto you, That ye resist not evil, but whosoever shall smite thee on thy right cheek, turn to him the other also. . Ye have heard that it hath been said, Thou shalt love thy neighbor, and hate thine enemy. But I say unto you, Love your ene- mies, bless them that curse you, do good to them that hate you, and pray for them that despitefully use you, and persecute you. . , And as ye would that men should do to you, do ye also to them like- wise." John, the forerunner of Christ, taught the soldiers to " do violence to no man." This was not said to Christians, but to men who were Roman sol- diers. Had they been changed really by the work of God's Spirit, as the disciples were after the day of Pentecost, they would not need instruction to put away these " carnal weapons." Converted sol- diers did this, and often did Christians die rather than fight. Let us look at Matt. 26:51, 52. Jesus is pursuing his lawful calling, and is beset by a law- less band of rebels, nearly as bad as Jeff. Davis and company. Was there ever a the for men to show their patriotism, their loyalty' fur their ruler, this was certainly the time. Jesus has previously so ar- ranged that they might display human patriotism. Peter raises his sword, smites the servant'of the high priest, cuts off his ear. " Then said Jesus unto him, Put up thy sword again into his place, for all they that take the sword shall perish with the sword." Here is a lesson which cannot well be twisted out of shape. This does not talk of pri- vate revenge, or retaliation." It is an everlasting rebuke administered by the great Head of the church to all his disciples for using the sword. He had the disciples look up two swords, and said they were enough, before they went to meet this mob. He in- tended a lasting lesson to all Christians of after gen- erations. Again. Jesus said, " My kingdom is not of this world, else my servants would fight, that I should not be delivered to the Jews." In Romans 12,Paul says, " Dearly beloved, avenge not yourselves, but rather give place unto wrath, for it is written, Ven- geance is mine ; I will repay, salth the Lord.— Therefore if thine enemy hunger, feed him; if he thirst, give him drink ; for in so doing thou shalt heap coals of fire on his head." This burns them out. But human governments cannot do this. No. They can only exist by the use of carnal weapons. But Christ says of his, "They are not of the world, even as I am not of the world." In 2 Cor. 10, we are told by Paul, " For the weapons of our warfare are not carnal, but mighty through God to the pull- ing down of strong holds." Some try to twist this out of its place ; but there it stands, and must speak for God's children. James tells us (chap. 4) the fountain of the trou- ble. " From whence come wars and fightings among you ? Come they not hence, even of your lusts that war in your members ?" But this is said to refer to contentions among Christians. Very well. Let it be so. The principle is the same. Well, Bro. M. says " that tens of thousands of the noblest of Christians were in the Roman armies, in the early ages." This assertion is greatly in need of proof. Until proved, we shall take the liberty to believe he is much mistaken. For we have much proof that the Christians in the early ages would not fight— eould not be hired, coaxed, nor driven to fight, and many of the most noble of them were shamefully put to death for refusing to fight. They said, "We are Christians, and cannot fight." But if Bro. M. alludes to the Roman army under Constantine,when the church had terribly apostatized, we admit that many were beguiled into the army on the same prin- nds. Its And by faith we can view thee in white robes drest, Rejoicing with ransomed ones there. Y. � But our home has since been so lonely and drear, Oh, why wilt thou tarry so long ? And thy presence which always seemed to us dear, We sigh for, we mourn for, we long. But in thy far away home, where'er it be, Thou art beck'ning us all to come. Ah yes ! when from this worid our spirits are free, We will join thee in thy blest home. But our Saviour is coming ere long to save, We hail with much joy that bright day ; Fur he will raise thy blest form from the cold grave, Then united with praise fur aye ; For we will walk in the path that thou hast taught us, Submissively bow to God's will ; Then being saved by his race, will have a place In the kingdom ever to dwell. � W. Newburyport, Mass., Nov. 25, 1861. DIED, in Stanstead, C. E., Oct. 2d, 1861, AGNES C. ‘F 00D, infant daughter of W. W. and Catharine Wood. Though your young branch is torn away, Like withered trunks ye stand, With fairer verdure ye may bloom Within the promised land. Transient and vain is every hope A rising race can give ; In endless honor and delight Our child again shall live. We welcome, Lord, those rising tears, Through which thy face we see, And bless those wounds which through our hearts Prepare a way to thee. �D W .S. DIED, in Stanstead, C. E., Oct. 24th, 1861, DA- VID WEBSTER, son of Wm. and Laura Webster aged 22 years, of lung complaint. David embraced the Saviour several years ago and lived in his favor for a while, but like too many others, by neglect of duty was led into sin and away from God, and though often convinced of his danger without Christ, still he lived without hope until the past summer, when he became interested fur his sal- vation and delighted himself in reading the Scrip- tures and praying, but did not obtain peace of mind till after his confinement upon his death-bed. Dur- ing his sickness, and while in deep agony of soul, anxious for his salvation, there were two men in the neighborhood holding meeting (this being Monday). Their names were George Oakes and Harla McLary, Oakes being the chief speaker. David feeling anx- ious to have some one to instruct him in the way, and to pray with him, sent for them to come and see him. They complied so far as going to the place, but to his surprise was told there was no hope in his case—there was no possibility of obtaining a preparation of heart to meet God on a death-bed ; that his case was a hopeless one. Oakes said they did not believe as he did and would not pray in the house. MeLary did pray. But there were Bro.D. Blake and others living in the vicinity, who were prepared to instruct him in the ways of the Lord more perfectly. He found peace, enjoyed it, exhort- ed and comforted his friends and neighbors, died in peace, and we attended his funeral. Tried to im- I prove the dispensation to God's glory. Bro. Blake assisted. The Lord sanctify it to the good of the friends. � D. W. SORNBERGER. DIED, in Philadelphia, Nov. 18th, 1861, JULIANA MOORE, widow of James S. Moore, in the 68th year of her age. " Precious in the sight of the Lord is the death of his saints." And precious in his sight must have been the death of the one whose departure is here recorded. Of all with whom it has been my lot to become acquainted, for deep, rich Christian experi- ence and constant communion with God, and a heart swallowed up in his cause and glory, I think she excelled. Herself and husband united with the first Baptist church in Philadelphia, in 1823, of which they continued members till 1843, when they embraced the faith of the soon coming of the Sav- iour, and identified themselves with that cause.— After her husband's death she went to Portsmouth, N. H., to reside with her son, Rev. II. D. Moore, then pastor of a Congregational church in that place, and took a letter to that church. On her re- turn to Philadelphia, being so situated as to be un- able to meet with us, she again united with the Baptist church from which she came out, and of which she continued an honored member till her death. But if she had her name recorded with the Baptist church, she was one of those who could and did say, " Whosoever shall do the will of my Fa- ther in heaven, the same is my brother and sister." The coming of Jesus was precious to her soul, and a hope of " part in the first resurrection" animated her heart and cheered her declining days. Some of the readers of the Herald will recollect a little inci- dent related some two years ago of her paralytic stroke and her unavailing efforts to read the Bible, when, after a feeling of deep distress at the thought that she should never read again, she took up the hook and tried once more ; and just read the single word TRUST. It was then as balm to her heart, DIED, in 'McDonough, N. Y., Oct. 8th, Mrs. MA- RY BECKWITH, wife of Mr. Washington Beckwith. After a few days of severe suffering from the pu- trid sore throat she was released from the toils and cares of earth. She had been greatly revived dur- ing the labors of Bro. Chapman in the vicinity last July—thus apparently ripened up for the harvest. Her husband, on whom devolves the sole care of three little ones, greatly mourns her loss, but rejoi- ces in the hope of a coming Savior. E. HOLROYD. Fell asleep in Jesus at Rouses Point, N. Y., Nov. 19th, 1861, ABIGAIL S. STRATTON, wife of Ezra Stratton, aged 82 years and two months. Our sister and mother, though inheriting a strong constitution from a family noted for its longevity, has endured since last April great suffering from a combination of erysipelas with dropsy, to the vio- lence of which her vital powers have at last yielded, and full of years we have carried her to her lowly grave to await the better resurrection. Of over thirty years' Christian experience, identified with the Adventists since 1845, she was sustained in her last illness by a Saviour's love, and died looking for her Lord. Her aged companion, now over four- score years, is comforted in his bereavement, and waits, though in loneliness, for the same blessed hope. Aged sisters, sons, daughters, grandchildren, and great grandchildren mourn her decease, but we trust soon to meet her in the morning of the re-liv- ing of the pious dead and clasp inseparable hands in an endless immortality. A discourse was preached by her nephew, the writer, at her funeral held in the Union House at Rouses Point, from John 11:35 and the connected subject of the raising of the saint- ed and beloved Lazarus. May we all be ready for our final summons and go in peace. Amen. DIED, at Newburyport, Mass., June 7th, 1861, Mrs. Lots WHITTIER, aged 61 years, 3 months, after an illness of one week, from lung fever. The funeral services were conducted by Eld. John Pearson, Jr., and the Methodist preacher, Elder Merrill. Our mother had for many years been a professor of religion and formerly belonged to a Methodist church. Her life for the most part was one of trial and affliction, but she was patient and submisSive to the will of God, and we can but be- lieve that she is numbered among the saved. We know thou art gone to the home of thy rest ; Then why should our souls be so sad ? We know thou bast gone where the weary are blest, And the mourner looks and is glad, Where love has put off in the land of its birth, The stain that it gathered in this, And hope, the sweet singer that gladdened the earth, Lies still on the bosom of bliss. We know thou hast gone where thy forehead is starred With beauty that dwelt in thy soul ; Where the light of happiness cannot be marred, Nor thy heart flung back from its goal. 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Price 6 cts. single copy, post paid ; 25 cop- ies for $1. or I00 copies for $3,50. .15 .08 .20 .19 .16 .16 .17 .28 .11 .12 .07 .07 .05 .12 .05 .03 .03 50 60 60 15 15 .33 1.00 .04 .16 .10 .09 .05 .07 .06 .18 50 25 25 .25 1.00 1.00 1.00 .24 .18 .16 .16 .15 .15 .15 � Ew.k4a 383 THE ADVENT HERALD and has been to her ever since a source of confidence and strength. She did recover so as to be able to read the Bible and visit the house of God. And 0, how greatly did she enjoy those precious privileges. Day and night her song has been of him whom her s)ul loved ; and she never wearied in speaking of his glorious grace. To all with whom she came in con- t Let she had some word to say of him who died to redeem her. And as the troubles of the world in- creased, they were to her " a pledge of endless good . . a sign of Jesus near." The last interview I had with her, she said, " Well, Bro. Litch, what do you think of these times ? I do not know after all, but I shall live till the Lord comes." And her counte- nance seemed to light up with glory at the thought. She stopped some time with a friend across the street from a Methodist Mission church, and was often helped in there to attend the services of a protract- ed meeting last winter. And earnestly did she labor for the salvation of others. Her last meeting was in that little church. On the Thursday evening be- fore her death, she gave her last public testimony for Jesus, and gave utterance to her full soul, of her desire for the salvation of sinners. Although suffering much from the effects of her paralytic stroke, she could get about house a little, and seemed to enjoy measurable health up to five minutes before her death. Through all that day she was exceeding joyful, and sang much the words, " I'm going home, to die no more." A little while before her departure, although to hu- man appearance she was as well as she had been for months, she said to a young lady, " I have my trunk already packed and strapped, and am waiting for the cars to come." Soon after, she was seized with violent pain in the breast, and in five minutes had ceased to breathe. Thus she " ceased at once to work and live." Her funeral service, at the house of her son, James S. Moore, was one of the most interesting I have ever attended. The assem- blage was large and from various denominations of Christians, who had known and loved her, and now came, not to mourn, but to testify their love. She slept so sweetly, and such a glory shone on her fair countenance, 'twould have been n sin to mourn.- The services opened by the singing of a most touch- ing funeral piece, by her four sons. The pastor of the church read the scriptures appropriate for the occasion ; the writer spoke on the occasion ; and was followed by the Methodist minister, with whom she held her last meetings, in some touching re- marks. The pastor then spoke, and Rev. Mr. Mc Kane closed by prayer. Thus she rests till the trump shall sound. � J. LITCU. ADVERTISEMENTS. Memoirs of William Miller. By the author of the Time of the End-excepting the first three chapters, which were by the pen of another. pp. 426. Price, post paid, 75 cts. Few men have been more diversely regarded than William Miller. While those who knew him, es- teemed him as a man of more than ordinary mental power, as a cool, sagacious and honest reasoner, an humble and devoted Christian, a kind and affection- ate friend, and a man of great moral and social worth ; thousands, who knew him not, formed opin- ions of him anything but complimentary to his in- telligence and sanity. It was therefore the design of this volume to show him to the world- as he was -to present him as he appeared in his daily walk and conversation, to trace the manner in which he arrived at his conclusions, to follow him into his closet and places of retirement, to unfold the work- ings of his mind through a long series of years, and scan closely his motives. These things are shown of him by large extracts from his unstudied private correspondence, by his published writings, by nar- rations of interviews with him, accounts of his pub- lic labors in the various places he visited, a full presentation of his views, with the manner of their conception, and various reminiscences of interest in connection with his life. The revivals of religion which attended his labors, are here testified to by those who participated in them ; and hundreds of souls, it is helieved,will ever regard him as a means, under God, of their conver- sion. The attention given to his arguments caused many minds, in all denominations, to change their views of the millennial state ; and as the christian public learn to discriminate between the actual po- sition of Mr. Miller, and that which prejudice has conceived that he occupied, his memory will be, much more justly estimated. The following notice of this volume is from the "Theological and Liter- ary Journal." This volume is worthy of a perusal by all who take an interest in the great purposes God has re- vealed respecting the future government of the world. If the first chapters descend to a detail of incidents that are of little moment, and betray a disposition to exaggerate and over-paint, the main portion of the memoir, which is occupied with the history of his religi,,us life, is not chdrgeable with that fault, and presents an interesting account of his studies, his opinions, his lectures, his disap- pointments, and his death, and frees him from many of the injurious imputations with which he was as- sailed during his last years. He was a man of vig- orous sense, ardent, resolute, and upright ; he had the fullest faith in the Scriptures as the word of God, and gave the most decided evidence that he understood and felt the power of their great truths. Instead of the ambitiousness of a religions dema- gogue, he was disinterested ; his great aim in his advent � His de- meanor, on the confutation of his calculations re- specting the advent, was such as might be expected from an upright man. Instead of resorting to sub- terfuges to disguise his defeat, he frankly confessed his error, and while he lost faith in himself, retain- ed his trust undiminished in God, and endeavored to guard hie 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. A Volume for the Times. "THE TIME Or TIIE END." This volume of over 400 pages, compiled by the present editor of the Advent Herald and published in 1856,treats "the time of the end," (Dan. 12: 9,) as a prophetic period preceding the end ; during which there was predicted to be a wonderful in- crease of knowledge respecting the prophecies and periods that fill up the future of this world's dura- tion, to the final consummation. It presents various computations of the times of Daniel and John ; copies Rev. E. B. Elliott's view of "our present position in the prophetic calen- dar," with several lectures by Dr. Cumming, and gives three dissertations on the new heavens and the new earth, by Drs. Chalmers, Hitchcock, and Wes- ley. To this is added "The Testimony of more than One Hundred Witnesses," of all ages of the church, and of all denominations of Christians,-expressing faith in the personal advent of Christ, his reign on the renewed earth, on the resurrection of the just, &c. � It is for sale at this office and will be sent by mail, post paid, for 75 cts.-to those who do not wish to give $1., its former retail price. Opinions of the press : "The book is valuable as containing a compendi- um of millenarian views, from the early ages to the present time ; and the author discovers great re- search and untiring labor."-Religious Intelligenccr. "The authors here enumerated are a pledge of ability in the treatment of subjects of so much in- terest to the church and world."-New York Chron- icle. "We like this work, and therefore commend it to our readers."-Niagara Democrat. "A condensed view is presented of the entire his- tory of prophetic interpretation, and of the compu- tations of the prophetic periods."-Missouri Repub- lican. "The enquiring Christian will find much to en- gage his attention."-Due West Telescope. "He quotes from most of the authors, who have written and fixed dates for the expected event, dur- ing the past two hundred years."-Christian Secre- tary. "We have been pleased with its spirit, interested in its statements, and have received valuable in- formation ; and we commend it to all who feel an interest in this subject."-Richmond Religious Her- ald. "It cannot but awaken in the church a new inter- est in the predictions relative to which she now dis- plays so great and alarming indifference."-Albany Spectator. "We can cheerfully recommend it to all who de- sire to know what has been said, and can be said on a subject which will never cease to possess inter- est, while the prophecies of Daniel and John shall be reverenced as Canons in the Christian Church." 7-Concord Democrat. "On so momentous a subject, and with an array of such distinguished writers, this work will com- mand attention."-Providence Daily Journal. "The index of authors referred to is large and shows that the writer has intended to give a thorough treatment of the subject."-Star of the West.. "A compendious collection of Second Advent es- says."-N. Y. Evangelist. "We commend it to those whose enquiries lie in this direction."-Haverhill Gazette. "This is a remarkable volume."-International Journal. "This is one of the most elaborate hooks ever is- sued on the subject of the Second Advent."-Bos- ton Daily Traveler. "It is a publication curious, interesting, and at- testing the indefatigable investigation and research- es of its compiler."-Boston Daily Atlas. "This book is of real value, as a history of opin- ions, as a chronological instructor, and as a compil- ation of able articles on prophecy."-Hartford Re- ligious Herald. "It contains a great number of opinions, by va- rious divines, bearing on the time of the end."- Chris. Intelligencer. "It teaches essentially the same important doc- trints so ably advocated in the Advent Herald."- American Baptist. "A great abundance of materials for the prosecu- tion of the study of prophecy."-Port. Chris. Mir- ror. "The writer shows that he has studied his sub- ject, and evinces much ability in the treatment of it."-Boston Evening Telegraph. "If one wishes to see the opinions of leaders on this subject somewhat concisely presented, we know of no single volume in which he will find it so well done, as in this."-Portland Transcript. "As a collection of authorities, it is a curious and interesting hook."-New Bedford Standard. AMINIMINEMNIMMINOW"Ill THE ADVENT HERALD. employment. He called at a respectable Sevey's Corner, Vienna, and continue over the following Lord's day. Come, brethren and sisters, to the work.— � Annie Cunningham took cold at a party � work.— farmer's house, and told his errand. °Cu. IttLtcomE, Clerk. � H. B..SEvEv, Recorder. � last winter, and a few weeks ago she was � "What is your name?" asked the man. I Call. BOSTON. DECEMBER 7. 1861. � preparation for death. She had left the � " Jonathan Gilman," was the reply. "Jonathan Gilman, the same that lived BUSINESS DEPARTMENT. buried. Her sickness found her without � MIIIMMIMMIN..• � near here when a boy'?" � Sabbath school, but her teacher still watch- ed for her soul, and, when she was on her<< The same, sir." BUSINESS NOTES. Willie's Prayer. � dying bed, renewed the efforts of former � " I will not employ von, then." Willie Wills, of Niles, 0., was a Sunday years for her salvation. Annie was thank- � Poor Jonathan, surprised at such a re- c. 0. Town. Your notice to preach in N. Springfield � school.scholar—a dear boy of twelve yrs., full for . � her visits and instruction. She ply, passed on to the next farmers ; but the Nov. 21 came too late to be serviceable. whose earliest lessons of love were given opened her eves to the .truth. Rather let same reply was given. He soon came in w. H. Eastman. We have made the addition to the di- whose his kind Christian mother, and enforced me say that the Lord opened her heart to sight of an old school house. � rection that you suggest. H. Bailey. Have sent again the last three Nos. � with the team of a praying Sunday school attend to the things that were spoken. A � " Ah !" said he, "I understand it now. Mrs. S. N. Nichols. There would be $1.50 due the 1st teacher. Willie had early learned to say, deep and distressing conviction of sinful- I was a school-boy there once, but what of July next, which we credited, to No. 1101, and put G6 Our Father which art in heaven," and ness fastened upon her. " I am all the kind of a school-boy 1 Lazy and disobe- baik LiaarsyyGouays.i. y• 16111 continue, if God gives the means for " Now I lay me. down to sleep." With time fretting about my sins," she said to dient. Although I am now in a measure earnestness and simplicity he uttered these me one day ; and on another occasion, reformed, they all think me the same kind T. Al ". Prqble,.$1. We will look to that, and if the so doirm fault is in the pasting it can be remedied. Have Cr. you worts of supplication, until he felt they " My heart is nigh to breaking for my sill- of a man as 1 was a boy. Oh ! that I had ought to be of some service in his plays, fulness." And well it might be. She had done my duty when at school—then again D. Elwell, of Shipper, $4. Have balanced the account and among his playmates. His teacher begun to krow its plague ; and as her could I dwell pleasantly in the land of my for tracts. Thank you. J. L. Pearson, Agent, $21. Have cr. you for the Ques- was one filled with the spirit of Jesus—a knowledge increased, she saw and felt that birth." � tion Books, and for Herald up to Jan. Fat, including Her- prayerful teacher, and faithful in applying nothing but the blood of the Son of God � School boys and school girls, please re- aid sent to P. II. L., which we will now send as one of ful class. Willie's kind teacher had talked her to send for the priest. And then all likely to look upon you in manhood or your Ls ui tbesi; to Jan. 1, 1863, sent tracts, and or. balance as you will the words of life to the minds of his youth- could cleanse and cure it. Some one told member that your school-mates will be �. Have cr. the brother referred to, for 2 cops. much to him in a simple, plain, practical the truths about sin aied salvation, that womanhood as they did in youth. Then, see. Sent bundle Dec. 2d. way, of the worth of prayer, its power, had been poured into her mind in the sab- in your schooldays, prepare for noble men and how boys so young might use it at all bath school, seemed to break their way and noble women.— The Gem. � A. M. ASSOCIATION. times to so much advantage in aiding them into her heart, to save her from the fatal to pass through the very -many trying suggestion that the priest could give her � A father came home from his business scenes of childhood. Willie was a practi- relief. She knew but one Priest, and said at early evening, and took his little girl cal boy, and gloried in testing the worth of she wanted no other. To Him she appli- upon his knee. After a few dove-like ca- everything;• he weighed every object on ed by faith, and in earnest, frequent pray- resses, she crept to his bosom and fell its own merits; if prayer was good for er. The evidence that she found and ern- asleep. He carried her himself to her men, it was good for him ; if it helped braced the Lord Jesus—the only Mediator chamber, and said, " Nellie would not like men in business, if it gained for others ev- between God and man—which appeared to go to bed and not say her prayers."— ery blessing, Willie felt it was as much his in her conversation, in her patience and Half opening her large blue eyes, she privilege to pray, and get what good there the sweetness of her temper, in her desire dreamily articulated, was in it, as men and women's. �and efforts for the salvation of others, in <' Now I lay me down to sleep ; So Willie one day went fishing with her abiding sense of sin, and her humble I pray the Lord"— Johnny Moore and Charley Jones, in the confidence that even sin and death could creek about half a mile distant from Wil- not harm her—was very cheering to those then adding, in a sweet murmur, � He " lie's house. Johnny and Charley were who loved her tenderly. We are constrain- knows the rest " she sank on lien pillow, , in his watchful care who " giveth kis be- successful in gathering quite a host of fine ed to believe that she was a trophy of that fish, but Willie, less expert in the art, matchless grace which reaches so many of loved sleep." caught but few. Willie, of course, felt God's elect through the instrumentality of that his want of success did not come from Sabbath school teachers. � He Makes his• Mother Sad. neglect, for he watched his line as close as . One day as her teacher was with her, � He makes his mother sad, any one could, and telt assured if he chang- and Annie was coughing painfully, she �The proud, unruly child, ed his location he might be able to go home was asked if her cough did riot distress � Who will not brook with the other boys, as well repaid for the. her greatly. She answered, that she did � Her warning look, Nor hear her counsels mild. day's labor, in quality if not in number. not mind it much unless it came when she He moved down the creek a few rods ; --was at prayer ; then it interrupted her � He makes his mother sad, full of hope he throws his line in, expect- thoughts and devotions very much. Her � Who, in his thoughtless mirth, Can e'er forget ing to draw up many a victim. In the act teacher replied, " Yes, Annie, but the Sa- His mighty debt of bringing up his line, the hook took hold viour knows your thoughts without your �To her who gave him birth. on something which kept it fast, his long- words. He can understand you just as � He makes his mother sad, continued efforts to release it were in vain. well when your desires are not expressed, �Who turns from wisdom's way ; He cried, he pulled, he jerked. The other as when they are; for He is always with � Whose stubborn will, boys came to his assistance, but their at- you, and He searches ale heart." � Rebelling still, tempts were, like his, utterly fruitless ;— � It was then that Annie, struck with the � Refuses to obey. He makes his mother sad, there the hook was doomed to remain. It power, and sensible of the sweetness of the was the only one he owned. Willie had a � � And sad his lot must prove : truth, said : " isn't it nice to have Jesus remedy. The lessons of the Sunday school � A mother's fears, were now to be tested ; he had often found � Let the reader observe the sentiment.— � A mother's tears, Are mark'd by God above. everywhere 7" his little prayers he had before offered.— � 0 !who so sad as he by experience that the Lord had answered "Isn't it nice to have Jesus everywhere?". The omnipresence of God is a truth of �Who, o'er a parent's grave, He calmly laid his rod on the bank. Said amazing interest ; but in order to hear and � Too late repents, he, � love it, we need the other truth,—that Je- � Too late laments, " Boys, I know if I ask God, he will � � The hitter pain he gave ? sus, the Godman, our blessed Saviour, is loosen my hook. I am going to pray. I everywhere. Dr. Alexander, in his Plain � May we ne'er know such grief, want you to kneel down with me right � � Nor cause one feeling sad : Words to a Young Communicant, has ex- here, and I will pray " � Let our delight So he did pray. It was. a solemn time —" The Lord Jesus is the most accessible � Be to requite And make our parents glad. pressed this truth in these significant terms to those three boys, for they belonged to being in the universe." In his bodily form, � the. same class in Sunday school. Willie his human nature, he is not here and eve- APPOINTMENTS. tremblingly, full of fear and hope, goes to rywhere. It is expedient for us to have -- his rod, and taking hold, raised it up, and that exclusively in glory, in the holiest of � REMOVAL. The Messiah's church in New York city true enough, his hook was released. His all, before the mercy seat, with the marks will hereafter worship in the meeting-house of the Seventh ul was too full ; no more fishing that � day Baptist church on 11th street, between 3d and 4th Soli! was � death, the proofs of atonement and ex- They all went home. Willie, with avenues. Preaching. three times each Sabbath, and week- day. piatioll upon it. But still it is true that ly lecture on Wednesday evening. The prayerful support his little soul full of gratitude, finds his the Son of man, our great Redeemer, who and co-operation of all Christians is solicited. mother, relates the simple story of his tri- was in heaven while he was on the earth, al, his anxiety, and his success. Says I design to be with friends at Truro on the two first � he, is on the earth while lie is in heaven.— " There, now, mother, see what God did � � sabbaths in December. Brethren wishing me to assi,t With a 1 his offices, all his powers•as the them in protracted meetings after about the middle of De- for rue. Don't you think he is good,when Son and Christ of the living God, our pro- maser, will address me as usual and soon BURNHA , WorcestMer. . W. � . he will do so much for a little boy like phet, priest, and king, He is everywhere. � s. me?" � � And, isn't it nice to have him everywhere? you think, my son, you o � t' Don't ought � Eld. Himes will preach on the evenings of Dec. 10th and Oh, suffering believer, expiring saint, troll- 11th, as Eld. White shall appoini, in East Kingston, NH. to be a good boy always, after that?" said bled sinner, do you catch the meaning of his mother. � these sweet words on the lips of this dying � Eld. J. V. limes will hold a series of meetings in the " Yes, mother, I know I will be; for 1 girl ? Then look unto Jesus, come to him, Advent chapel, Rutland, Vt., to commence Saturday, Dec. know so much more about God now, to 14, at 7 o'clock P. M. and continue each day till sabbath, what I did yesterday, and if I grow to be down in the 22d. The object of this series of meetings will be to speak to hiro, lean upon him, lie his bosom. Are � ou afraid'? He is the speak out on the signs 01 this time, and to show the full- � y a man, I am going to be a preacher, and � filment a prophecy and the evidences of the kingdom of tell everybody to pray when they get into � � God at hand. It is to be hoped that the saints will be Saviour of his people, the friend of sinners. such troubles as 1 had to-day." � cheered, and the lost will be saved. Does he seem to you far away 7 But he is near. Jesus is everywhere, and now Willie lives to-day, a glorious example accessible to you. May the God of our � Eld. Hines will commence a series of meetings (similar for every Christian to imitate. Carry your to the above) in Poultney, Vt., Dec 21, and continue Lord Jesus Christ, the Father of glory, religion ever in your heart ; having put on � over the sabbath, and longer, if thought best. give unto you the spirit of wisdom and Christ, let us have him in us, and when revelation in the knowledge of Him ; and � 1 have appointments to preach as follows : Bristol, Sun- adversity comes, call for immediate aid. then the virtue that fills Him, the grace day, Dec. 8th; Loudon Ridge, Sunday, Dec. 29thE. Let Jesus be our constant companion, our � � T. M. PRBLE. and truth of the living Jesus, shall be for confidential friend, into whose ear we pour your salvation and joy.—N Y. Obs. out our sotils, when the burden of sorrow � If God permit, I will preach in Westboro', Sabbath, Dec. 15; Lowell, 22d; Lawrence, 29th. G.W. BURNHAM. weighs us to the earth. Ble:sx1 thought � A Ruined Character. —he answer's the children's prayer. — � Not long since, in a certain neighbor- Christian Chronicle. � The next session of the Western Quarterly Conference hood, a man was wandering in search of will commence Thursday P. M. at 6 o'clock, Dec. 19, at CHILDREN'S DEPARTMENT " FEED MY niumns."—John 21:15. Jesus Everywhere. The "American Millennial Association," iodated in Bos- ton, Mass., was legally organized Nov. 12th, 188, under the provisions of the 56th Chapter of the Acts of the Le- gislature of Massachusetts of A. D. 1857, for charitable and religious purposes. The whole amount obtained by donations, subscriptions, or sales of publications, is to be expended in the publication of Periodicals, Books, and Tracts, and for the support of ministers of the Gospel. All contributions to our treasury, will be duly acknow- ledged, and, at the end of the year, will be embodied in a report. 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