WHOLE NO. 1106. 
BOSTON, SATURDAY, AUGUST 2, 1862. 
VOLUME XXIII. NO. 31. 
TIIE ADVENT HERALD len to their great extent. An imperial decree has 
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REVOLUTIONARY INCENDIARISM. 
Our foreign 
files bring us startling news from Russia—in-
cluding further accounts of the revolutionary 
schemes in that great empire, and ,of incendiary 
attempts to destroy the capital by fire. St. Pe-
tersburg is not a city which would easily burn 
up. To pass along its wide avenues and look 
upon its universal stone and stucco palaces, it 
would appear almost impregnable to the flames. 
It has ample facilities fbr quenching fire in sum-
mer, for it is cut up with large canals, and the 
Neva, a wide and inexhaustible river, runs al-
most through the middle of the city. Yet we 
learn that notwithstanding all this, some thirty 
fires had taken place in the city during the two 
weeks preceding the departure of the last Euro-
pean steamer. The city has been placed under 
martial law, trade and commerce is at a stand-
still, and even goods ordered from England to 
St. Petersburg have been countermanded. The 
committee of the bank has passed a resolution 
for the unlimited prolongation of the credits 
hitherto opened to large commercial firms, whose 
establishments were burnt in the late conflagra-
tion. A Syndicate has likewise been appointed 
fbr the purpose of opening credits to smaller 
shopkeepers. 
These fires have a political significance, and 
therefore create a sensation disproportionate ev- 
"What shall I give thee ?" the prophet said, 
As before him she bowed her stately head, 
And the golden light of noontide sun 
Encircled them both with its shining zone. 
"Riches of wealth for thy household band ? 
Honors or gifts at the king's right hand ? 
Tell me, I pray thee, if aught there be 
That my grateful heart can obtain for thee ?" 
Softly she spoke, yet her sweet voice low 
Had a tone of freedom from pain and woe ; 
It thrilled the heart of the prophet lone : 
"Nothing I crave — I dwell with mine own." 
"I dwell with mine own !" What visions come 
Of kindred beloved, of a happy home, 
Of meetings in peace 'neath the household vine, 
Of partings and prayers at the sun's decline ! 
0 ! blessed of heaven, to us may be 
Granted the boon that so hallowed thee, 
That when sunshine lights us, or tempests moan, 
We may smile or suffer "among our own." 
" I DWELL AMONG MINE OWN." 
Great Fire in St. Petersburg. 
J. PEARSON., jr. Committee 
J. V. HrmEs, on 
LEMUEL OSLER, Publication. 
Yet the loss is roughly estimated at from two-
and a half to five millions dollars of money..None 
of the great palaces or public places near the Ne-
va have been destroyed. 
Yet this fire has consumed one of the most re-
markable and characteristic features of St. Pe-
tersburg--the celebrated Apraxin Dvor, or, as 
it is called by the English residents, the Louse 
Market. This was a large space, some fifteen 
acres in area, surrounded by uniform rows of 
stores, and situated near the Gostinnoi Dvor, in 
the heart of the city, and but a few minutes walk 
from the Gevsky Prospekt, the Broadway of 
St. Petersburg. This Louse Market is the fa-
vorite resort of the poorer classes. It is enter-
ed by wide gates between the cordon of build-
ings whi.ch enclosed it, and which, quite respec-
table in appearance, would lead one to expect a 
regular and even elegant series of stores. But 
once inside, all this changes. The entire area is 
covered by a most intricate labyrinth of streets 
or paths wide enough only for pedestrians, and 
flanked by little wooden houses, never more than 
two stories high and generally but one. Occa-
sionally the paths expand into little open spaces 
filled with pedlers instead of houses. Every con-
ceivable thing, and a great many that are not 
conceivable, could be bought here--from a ton 
of lead to an old pamphlet worth two copeks, 
from a feather bed to a needle, from a pianoforte 
to a broken candlestick. 
The old bazar was destroyed, together with 
rows and rows of stores in the adjoining streets. 
The great government building, occupied by the 
Minister of the Interior, was in flames, while the 
soldiers and police were dashing around to res-
cue human beings from the flames, for it was 
useless to try to save property. The fire en-
gines from Moscow, five hundred miles distant, 
were sent for, but only staid one day, being 
needed in their own city, where four fires had 
broken out. 
Toward evening the priests came out in their 
rich robes, flashing With gold and purple, and 
with banners and Greek crosses marched through 
the streets, the choristers chanting the magnifi-
cent chorals of the Greek church. At night the 
church porticoes and the halls of the palaces 
were crowded with homeless people, who would 
have starved but for government aid. During 
the night the Emperor came down from his coun-
try palace at Tsarkoe Selo and visited the fright-
ened, weeping crowds, personally assuring them 
of his care and protection. For three days the 
conflagration continued, and at latest dates was 
not entirely subdued. The pretaerty destroyed 
in the stores and dwellings (apart from the edi-
fices themselves) is estimated in St. Petersburg 
at 15,000,000 of rubles. 
In some quarters this fearful fire is attributed 
to Polish incendiarism, and there are fears that 
it is not the last the city will suffer. The Gos-
tinnoi Dvor,comprising the most important stores 
in the city, representing the local wealth of St. 
Petersburg, is closed day and night, and extra accounts all speak of his continence. Julian 
watchers are placed in all the public buildings. alone insinuates the contrary. It was only as 
All St. Petersburg is in an excitement such as despotic power and Eastern manners made in-
it has not known for many, many years. N. Y roads into the original self-control of his charac- 
Post. 
ter that he was betrayed into that disregard of 
human life in his nearest and dearest relation- 
The Emperor Constantine. ships, which, from the same causes, darkened 
the declining years- of the Grecian Alexander 
Stanley's History of the Eastern church gives and the English Henry. 
the following sketch of the Emperor Constan- 
tine, who first legalized Christianity as the relig- The Bible in Persecution. 
ion of the empire. 
Handsome, tall, stout, broad-shouldered, he The following touching incident was related 
was a high specimen of one of the coarse milita- by Chancellor Wrangel, the Swedish Lutheran' 
ry chiefs of the declining empire. When Euse- minister, at a Synod of Lutheran clergymen,held 
in 1760, at Wicaco. Wicaco Was then several 
bius first saw him, as a young man on a journey 
through Palestine before his accession, all were miles from the good city of Philadelphia, now it 
struck by the sturdy health and vigor of his is in the city. A little over one hundred years 
frame ; and Eusebius perpetually recurs to it, ago some Bibles were sent to the Bohemian 
and maintains that it lasted till the end of his brethren. A certain pious family of persecuted 
P 
life. In his latter days his red complexion and Protestants received one of them ; and in order 
 
somewhat bloated appearance gave countenance to keep it from the wicked priests, they hid it 
to the belief that he had been affected with lep- in the cellar. The pious old grandfather of the 
rosy. His eye was remarkable for a bright- family sometimes invited his children, grandchil-
ness, almost a glare, which reminded his courti- dren, and other pious friends to his house, as if 
ers of that of a lion. He had a contemptuous there was to be a great feast. They generally 
habit of throwing back his head,which, by bring. sat up to a late hour at night, and to keep up 
ing out the full proportions of his thick neck, the appearance of a feast, pipes, tobacco, beer 
procured for him the nickname of Trachala. His and other liquors were provided in abundance, 
voice was remarkable for its gentleness and soft- but these were scarcely touched. At midnight, 
ness. In dress and outward demeanor the mill- when all was quiet and the wicked persecutors 
tary commander was almost lost in the vanity were out of the way,the venerable old man went 
and affectation of Oriental splendor. The spear into the cellar and brought this most precious 
of the soldier was almost always in his hand,and treasure from its hiding-place. The whole coco-
on his head he always wore a small helmet. But pant' sat in silence around the table,waiting with 
the helmet was studded with jewels, and it was great anxiety and deep emotion for this most 
bound round with the Oriental diadem, which precious gift of God. The venerable patriarch 
he, first of the Emperors, made a practice of took his accustomed seat, took the precious book 
wearing on all occasions. His robe was remark- from his bosom, kissed it with deep emotion and 
ed for its unusual magnificence. It was always pressed it to his heart, shedding tears of joy and 
and was made gratitude. The whole party were deeply affect-
of the imperial purple or scarlet, 
of silk, richly embroidered with pearls and flow- ed. Next the precious treasure was handed 
ers worked in gold. He was especially devoted round, beginning with the oldest, and each one 
to the care of his hair, ultimately adopting the in turn kissed it and pressed it to his heart. One 
wigs of false hair of various colors, and in such that could read selected a portion of Scripture 
profusion as to make a marked feature on his and read it over three or four times, untill all 
coins. First of the Emperors since Hadrian he had it by heart, so that all could drink of the 
wore a short beard. 
bread and water of life. After this the sacred 
He was not a great man, but he was by no volume was again deposited in its hiding-place, 
means an ordinary man. Calculating and shrewd and there remained until another feast came 
as he was, yet his worldly views were penetrat. round. These pious Christians showed in their 
ed by a vein of religious sentiment, almost of walk and conduct the power of a living faith.---
Oriental superstitution. He had a wide view Lutheran Observer. 
of his difficult position as the ruler of a divided 
From the Millennial News. 
empire and divided church. He had a short, 
Behold. 
dry humor, which stamps his sayings with an un- 
mistakable authenticity, and gives us an insight I recently listened to a Wesleyan Methodist 
into the cynical contempt of' mankind, which he is minister preach from the passage, "Behold, I 
said to have combined, by a curious yet not un- stand at the door and knock ; if any man hear 
common union, with an inordinate love of praise. my voice, and open the door, I will come in to 
He had a presence of mind which was never him, and will sup with him, and he with me." 
thrown off its guard. He had the capacity of He remarked that when the word "Behold" is 
throwing himself, with almost fanatical energy, used in this way,we may be sure that something 
into whatever came before him for the moment, of peculiar importance and demanding special at-
One instance, at least, he showed, of consum- tention, is about to follow. 
mate foresight and genius. 
It at once occurred to my mind that if the 
We have seen from his dress, and we see also principle thus laid down was allowed to have its 
from his language, that he was not without the perfect work, there would be no danger of the 
wretched affectation which disfigured the demean- doctrines of the Second Advent and the Restitu-
or of the la ter Emperors. Against one great tion being cast into the shade or lost sight of ; 
old Roman vice, that of voracious gluttony, he for in the Apocalypse, from which the text was 
struggled, but struggled in vain. The Christian taken, the following passages are found : "Be- 
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THE ADVENT HERALD. 
hold, he cometh with clouds ; and every eye in our own life and conversation. On the con-
shall see him, and they also which pierced him : trary, they will too naturally form false esti-
and all kindred of the earth shall wail because mates of our religion if they observe no such 
of him. Even so,Amen." "Behold,' come quick- results. In the latter case, the injury done to a 
ly ; hold that fast which thou Nast, that no man family, in their immortal interests, cannot be ad- 
take thy crown." "Behold, I come as a thief. conceived till the day of universal judg- 
equately 
ment.— 
acquainted with the Friends or Quakers of the re-
gion. Mrs. Richardson was the daughter of Mr. 
and Mrs. Lombard, Friends. I have visited the 
region since and have been hospitably entertain. 
ed among the Friends and others ,who universal. 
ly came out to hear us concerning the Kingdom 
of God. 
I might allude to many instances of peculiar 
interest occurring in my travels, showing the 
spread of the truth and the effect of it upon the 
hearts of many, had I time and space ; but I 
must forbear. This State which in former years 
was visited with such wild fanaticism as to ruin 
for a season our cause,and we thought had clear-
ed the door effectually against its further procla-
mation, is now open in all parts for the preach-
ing of the gospel of the kingdom. Yea, the 
people everywhere seem anxious to hear con-
cerning our hope and reasons of it. I regret 
having to leave the coming year the mission field 
of Maine, but my companion in life is feeble in 
health, and duty to her requires my presence 
more at home, and also it seems in the provi-
dence of God to be required of me to again take 
the pastoral charge of the Hudson street church, 
Boston, or aid them in the support of the truth 
in that city, and labor for the conversion of men 
and women to God. I know not what shall be. 
fall me there,save that I am willing to make sac-
rifice and suffer anywhere, I trust, for the Lord 
Jesus, if need be. I hope my coming to Boston 
will be for the glory of God and the upholding 
of his blessed cause and the salvation of lost 
men. I commence my labors in the city the first 
Sabbath in Sept. next. May the Lord raise up 
some faithful and zealous and pious laborer to 
take the field in this vineyard I am called to 
leave. There are several faithful brethren in 
the ministry here, but they are so situated as 
not to be able to become the State Missionary. 
Brethren pray the Lord of heaven to send you 
one. 
0. R. FASSETT. 
Blessed is he that watcheth,and keepeth his gar-
ments, lest he walked naked, and they see his 
shame." "Behold, I come quickly : blessed is he 
that keepeth the sayings of the prophecy of this 
book." "Behold, I come quickly ; and my re-
ward is with me, to give every man according as 
his work shall be." "And I saw a new heaven 
and a new earth . . . and I heard a great voice 
from heaven saying, Behold, the tabernacle of 
God is with men, and he shall dwell with them, 
and they shall be his people, and God himself 
shall be with them, and be their God. And he 
shall wipe away all tears from their eyes : and 
there shall be no more death, neither sorrow, nor 
crying, neither shall there be any more pain : for 
the former things are passed away. And he that 
sat upon the throne said, "Behold, I make all 
things new." 
If the minister was correct in the rule of ex-
egesis which he announced, then the coming 
again of Christ and the new creation are "of pe-
culiar importance, and demanding special atten-
tion ;" and it isnot surprising that John Wesley 
seould publish a sermon on the words, "Behold, 
I make all things new." 
H. 
For the Herald. 
What am I in my own Family I 
The important though simple question "What' 
 
am I in my own family ?" has so frequently 
forced itself upon my mind, in moments of seri-
ous reflection, that I am induced to lay before 
your readers my thoughts upon it. When vis-
iting Christian friends, on certain joyful anniver-
saries, and communing with them on the " Bless-
ed Hope," it has occured to me that they are 
disposed to form too high an estimate of my re-
ligious character. Admitting my sincerity in 
the sight of an all-seeing God, still I could not 
but painfully feel that these dear brethren now 
see me to a good advantage, and at a distance 
from the cares and trials inseparable from the 
domestic state ; and consequently find me more 
calm, more cheerful and prosperous, more spileit-
ual than I really am under other and ordinary 
circumstances. When thus mingling with the 
excellent of the earth I had, moreover, a charac-
ter to maintain as a professed christian, and on 
that account, also, I might be led to walk more 
circumspectly. Not that the eye of the holiest 
of men ought to influence a believer in compari-
son with the eye of God, yet so deep is the cor-
ruption of the human heart, and so subtle the 
devices of the adversary, that not a few of those 
who love our Lord Jesus Christ in sincerity 
will confess that the arrival of some eminent 
Christian at their home has supplied that 
stimulus to spirituality which ought to have 
been furnished by the consideration " Thou 
God seest me." When therefore these Chris-
tian brethren at whose houses we occasionally 
reside not only admit our sincerity, but even 
admire our piety, and speak of it in terms of 
somewhat high commendation, is it not needful 
to inquire seriously and at a throne of grace 
"What am I in my family ?" For every one 
must admit the difference between manifesting a 
religious character in the social circle and sus-
taining it in the domestic. In the former, ev-
ery thing may occur to promote our temporal 
comfort and excite our Christian cheerfulness. 
Our will, perhaps, is not opposed ; our inclina-
tions are not thwarted ; our temper is not tried. 
In the latter our children and domestics may do 
something that is contrary to our will, thwart our 
inclinations, and seriously try our tempers. How 
indispensable, then, is the inquiry "Am I that 
real saint at home that I am supposed to be 
abroad ?" How vast is our obligation to walk in 
the presence of our household consistently with 
our serious profession, and how beneficial are the 
effects of our consistency on their minds and 
manners, are points too clear to demand any 
proof. Our children and domestics will at least 
form a higher estimate of the value of vital Chris-
tianity when they can daily trace its ascendency 
0. 
Pardon. 
For the Herald. 
To Arms. 
g, Fight the good fight of faith." 
Up Christian soldier—to your arms ! 
God's Sentinel the host alarms, 
Up ! Gird you with your armor bright ; 
If you'd conquer you must fight. 
Set hope, your helmet, on your brow ; 
Let faith, your shield, be with you now ; 
Let righteousness your breastplate prove ; 
And truth your girdle, knit with love. 
And let your feet with peace be shod, 
Your two-edged sword, the word of God ; 
Thus armed, obey your Captain's call, 
And by his grace you'll conquer all. 
Legions of foes around you press, 
In subtle forms and specious dress ; 
Satan, who knows his time is short, 
Both lure with wiles of every sort. 
His reign is short, his wrath is hot, 
And from the earth the truth he'd blot, 
And ruin every precious soul 
Who pants for life's immortal goal. 
The worst of foes you'll find within, 
The foes of lust, and inbred sin ; 
But inward foes your Captain sees, 
And grace he'll give to conquer these. 
If outward foes do you assail, 
His proffered grace can never fail ; 
And as the conflict grows severe, 
Your Lord to succor will appear. 
Your Captain's skill you need not doubt, 
For all the hosts of hell he'll rout ; 
When single handed and alone, 
The foe by him was overthrown. 
Then courage, soldier ! to the fight ! 
A crown you'll win, of glory bright; 
Up, then ! and gird your armor on, 
And fight--for thus the crown is won. 
H. BUCKLEY. 
For the Herald. 
From Bro. 0. R. Fassett. 
Augusta, Me., July 21st, 1862. 
Bro. Bliss :—Since I wrote concerning my 
mission in the Herald,' have visited and preach-
ed "the gospel of the kingdom" and of "the grace 
of*God" in the following cities and towns in this 
state. Augusta, Portland, Bangor, Biddeford, 
Kenebunk, Lyman, Hollis, Cape Elizabeth,Cum-
herland, Yarmouth, Raymond, Casco, Poland, 
Wayne, Livemore, Rome, Starks, Belgrade, Sid-
ney, Gardiner, Richmond, Litchfield, Bristol, 
Hope, Lincolnville, Rockport, Searsport, Hol-
den, &c., &c. By looking upon the map you 
can see how much territory I must have traveled 
over, and how many towns passed through, and 
how many people came in contact with in the six 
months past. Some of the above places I have 
visited twice or more within this period. I have 
had health and strength given me to travel in all 
kinds of weather, fair and foul, and to fill all my 
appointments,' think, without exception. The 
heat of the season wears upon me more than the 
winter's cold, as my labors are so constant and 
unremitting :---consisting of riding, preaching, 
talking, praying, singing, distributing tracts,dur-
ing the entire week. Early in the spring and 
while the Regiments were encamped in the cap-
itol of our state, before leaving for the' south, I 
had the privilege, in the providence of God, of 
preaching,Augusta, in the Baptist church,where 
assembled several officers and many of the sol-
diers and men of our state, among whom was 
the Pastor of the church, dressed in uniform, as 
the 2d Lieutenant of one of the batteries. There 
was good attention paid to the preaching of the 
word during the day ; but the Pastor was evi-
dently much stirred by the discourses. He re-
marked to me at the close of the services :"you 
have given it to us to-day, hot and heavy" I re-
plied, "We are living in serious times." He an-
swered, "I know it, and I do not find fault with 
the expression of your views ; I like to see a man 
openly and frankly avow his faith." Looking 
at him, arrayed and clad in his military dress, I 
remarked to him, "Sir, you will soon loose all 
confidence in human governments." He replied 
"I have already." Then said I, "What is your 
hope?" He answered, "My hope is that this gov-
ernment will soon right itself and be reconstruct-
ed upon a new constitution and basis,and that in 
the providence of God it will be the instrument of 
the evangelizing of the world." I replied, "Your 
hope is vain." My heart was sad that day to 
see and think of the condition of the Christian 
church and her ministry, and our beloved land, 
all on the vortex of ruin together. Yet I could 
rejoice also,in the trial, that the Kingdom of God 
was near. 0 may it soon come. My last com-
munication to the Herald was forwarded to sis-
ter Richardson of Lawrence, who was at the 
time in Belgrade, in this State, attending upon a 
sick sister-in-law, then nigh unto death. That 
letter was read to the dying woman, and she made 
request if I was near and could be obtained that 
I should preach her funeral sermon. As provi-
dence ordered, I was in Augusta on the sabbath 
before her burial, and the day of her death,and 
the friends came for me to attend and officiate 
at her funeral. Her burial was to have ocenr-
ed on Wednesdoty, but owing to a severe snow-
storm blockading the woods, and the absence of 
her surviving husband, who was unable to reach 
Belgrade from New York, it was postponed until 
Thursday ; and then Mr. Richardson did not ar-
rive until after his companion was laid in the 
grave. This circumstance gave me an opportu-
nity of preaching the gospel hope to a large au-
dience, made up of all classes, and of becoming 
In the garrison town of Woolwich, a few years 
ago, a soldier was about to be brought before 
the commanding officer of the regiment for some 
misdemeanor. The officer entering the soldier's 
name said, "Here is again. What can we 
do with him ? He has gone through almost ev-
ery ordeal." The Sergeant-Major, M. B., apol-
ogized for intruding, and said, 
"There is one thing which has never been done 
with him yet, sir." 
"What is that, Sergeant-Major ?" 
"Well, sir, he has never yet been forgiven." 
"Forgiven !" said the Colonel. "Here is his 
case entered." 
"Yes, but the man is not yet before you, and 
you can cancel it." 
After the Colonel had reflected for a few mo-
ments he ordered the man to be brought in,when 
he was asked what he had to say relative to the 
charges brought against him. 
"Nothing, sir," was the reply, "only that I 
am sorry for what I have done." 
After making some suitable remarks, the Col-
onel said, "Well we have resolved to forgive 
you." 
The soldier was struck with astonishment ; 
the tears started from his eyes ; he wept. The 
Colonel, with the Adjutant, and the others pres- 
ent, felt deeply when they saw the man so hum-
bled. The soldier thanked the Colonel for his 
kindness, and retired. The narrator had the 
soldier under his notice fen two years and a half 
after this, and never during that time was there 
a charge brought against him,or fault found with 
him. Mercy triumphed ! Kindness conquered ! 
The man was won ! 
This is just the method God adopts with us 
in the everlasting Gospel. We are guilty. The 
charges are brought against us. The case is en- 
tered. But the Lord delighteth in mercy. He 
seeks to melt us by His love. He is ready to 
forgive. He sends to us, saying,"Only acknowl- 
edge thine iniquities ;" and then offers us a par-
don—a pardon which cost him the life of his on- 
ly begotten Son. A pardon, not of one sin, but of 
all our sins ; a pardon that will bring peace to 
the conscience on earth, and entitle us to eter- 
nal rest. The soldier, in the case before us, 
gladly accepted the pardon, was melted down 
by the kindness of his Colonel, and wept as a 
child would weep. But sinners too often hear 
of God's forgiving love without emotion, and in-
stead of humbly confessing their sins, and gladly 
embracing the pardon offered, they treat it with 
neglect of contempt. 
How shall we Escape ? 
The world, the wide world, is apostate. On 
this broad fact, wide as the world, and prolong. 
ed as its history, the Christian way of salvation 
is based. Here is an apostate province of God's 
empire. Rebellion has come upon the earth. 
You must not embarrass yourselves by inquiring 
how this came upon us, or why this is so. It is 
the fact with which we are concerned, not the 
mode. The grand question is not why this is so, 
or why this was permitted, or how we can re-
concile it with the goodness of God, but how 
shall we escape ? When a man is struggling in 
a current of mighty waters, it does nothing to 
faciltate his escape to be able to determine how 
he came there ; nor would it help him if he could 
satisfy his own mind on the question why God 
ever made streams so that men could fall into 
them, and did not make every bank of granite or 
iron so that it would not give way. 
The grand question is, how shall we escape ? 
You will not escape if you remain in your pres-
ent condition. Indifference is not safety, and 
unconcern is not salvation. It is not the way to 
be saved to give one's self no concern about it, 
or to suffer things to pass on as they are. If 
you I emain as you are, with a sinful and deprav-
ed heart—with no love to God—what can befall 
you but ruin ? 
It will not save you to murmur and complain 
at your lot, or to find fault with the divine ar-
rangements, or even reverently and devoutly to 
call these things mysterious. Skepticism saves 
no one from danger ; murmuring saves no one ; 
a sneer saves no one ; contempt saves no one ; 
nor does it save any one to call truth a mystery. 
None of these things make you a better man. 
It will not save you to cultivate the graces of 
manner, or the accomplishments of life ; to be-
come more learned in the sciences, and a better 
critic of the productions of art ; to make your-
serf more moral before men ; to break off your 
external sins, or to put on the "form of godliness 
without its power." You may cultivate a bram- 
ble, but it will not be a rose ; a rose, but it will 
not be a bird of paradise ; a bird of paradise, 
but it will not be a gazelle ; a gazelle, but it 
will not be a beautiful woman. You may polish 
brass, but it is not gold ; and may set in gold a 
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just as certain is it that none of the graces of na- period called an evening and morning, and which 
tive character which you can cultivate will ever must either refer to the whole course of the vi- 
piece of quartz, but it is not a diamond ;—and are not plural, but singular, or denote some one 
become true religion. The evil lies deeper thanision or to the time of its close. This last view of 
this, and must be healed in another way. It isiits meaning is confirmed by the words of the 
not by works of righteousness which you have done prophet Zecheriah, where the cleansing of the 
can be saved. "The Son of man is sanctuary is described (Zech. 14: 6, 7) : 'It shall 
save that which was lost."—Rev. A. be one day, which shall be known unto the Lord, 
I not day nor night ; but it shall come to pass that 
at the evening time it shall be light.' 
Birks on the 2300 Days. Hence we may infer, with high probability, 
that the evening-morning, like the coming of 
Messiah the Prince (Dan. 9: 25), describes the 
limit or closing term of the vision, when the 
sanctuary shall be cleansed. The numeral 2 300 
will therefore stand alone,and requires a word of 
time to be supplied. And in this case the law 
of common usage forbid us to supply the word 
days with so high a number, and requires us to 
interpret the unit as a year,and the whole period 
as 2300 years. 
But there are other reasons quite indepen-
ent of this version, and which would retain their 
whole force if it could be pgved erroneous. And, 
first, the included events prove the wider range 
ber, and supplies fresh evidence for the protract- of the prophecy. These consist of two parts—
the restored daily sacrifice and a second deso-
lation, inclu ling several centuries ; and hence the 
whole period must be a term, not of days, but of 
years. 
The probable reply to this argument would be, 
that the whole interval refers to the time of de-
solation only. But this is a departure from the 
direct and natural force of the expression. For, 
in the words of the celestial speaker, two dis-
tinct subjects are inquired into---the daily sacri-
fice and the .transgression of desolation which 
treads down the sanctuary. 
The connection with the seventy weeks 
leads-to the same conclusion. There is plainly a 
close correspondence between the two visions. 
The seventy weeks are said to be cut off for cer-
tain distinct objects ; and this implies a longer 
period from which they are seperated, either the 
course of time in general,or some period distinct-
ly revealed. Now the previous date includes 
two events the restoration of the sacrifice, and 
the desolation. The first of these is identical in 
charater with the seventy weeks, which are a 
period of the restored polity of Jerusalem ; and 
hence the most natural [view] of the cutting off 
is that which refers it to the whole period of the 
former vision. The seventy weeks are thus sep-
arated from the whole interval for the duration 
of the restored polity until the coming of Mes-
siah, upon whose rejection the predicted desola-
tion, the second part of the main period, begins 
to be fulfilled. And since the seventy weeks are 
thus only a part of the numeral period 2300, 
the unit of time in the latter must be a natural 
year. 
It may be observed, in passing, as a presump-
tive confirmation of this view, that the excess of 
1810 years (the difference of these periods),reck-
oned from the usual date of the Passion, or the 
fall of Jerusalem, brings us to the time 1843-
1880 ; and thus corresponds with those many 
signs which now intimate to the church the ap-
proaching restoration of Israel. 
The words of the angel, near the close of 
the chapter, lead to the same inference : 'Shut 
thou up the vision,for it shall be for many days.' 
These strictly answer to the former inquiry and 
its answer—'How long shall be the vision ? Un-
to two thousand three hundred days.' The vision 
inquired into begins with the numeral period ; 
and the same vision is not after but for or unto 
many days. Hence the many days are not be-
fore but after the commencement of the numeral 
period. This cannot be, if the number denotes 
less than seven years, but is exactly fulfied, if 
the space designed by it is twenty-three centuri-
es."—Elements pp. 365-360. 
In the 6th, 7th and 8th sections which follows 
the above, Mr. Birks meets some objections 
which Mr. Maitland and others have urged 
against this longer reckoning, and adds,—"On 
the whole, even if we retain the usual version, 
there is a concurrence of strong reasons which 
fix the meaning of the true period, to be not six 
years but twenty-three centuries ; while if the 
proposed translation be just and sound, as rest- 
old Abraham the father of the faithful.' If the 
spirit of him that raised up Jesus from the dead 
dwell in you, he that raised up Christ from the 
dead, shall also quicken your mortal bodies, by 
his spirit that dwelleth in you. Rom. 8: 10. His 
spirit,if we possess it,is what will give us boldness 
in the day of judgment, and enable us to say, 
Lo, this is our God ; we have waited for him,we 
will be glad and rejoice in his salvation. Jesus 
will find a waiting people then, when he comes, 
wil he not ? Is. 24: 9. Dear brethren and sis- 
ters, let us have the lawful seal on our heart. 
See to it that we make nothing a test but the 
one which Jesus and his apostles made,' which 
is love. This is the fulfilling of the Law. Rom. 
13. 10. By love serve one another. For all 
the law is fulfilled in one word, even in this, 
Thou shalt love thy neighbor as thyself. But if 
ye bite and devour one another, take heed that 
ye be not consumed one of another. This I say 
then, walk in the Spirit, and ye shall not fulfill 
Grieve not the Holy Spirit of God, whereby the lusts of the flesh. Gal. 5: 15, 16. 0, 
ye are sealed unto the day of redemption. Ephe- may none of us be found among those who smite 
sians 10 : 30. 
their fellow servants. Who are fellow servants 
What is the meaning of the word sealed ? with us ? Christians. What is meant by smiting ? 
Make fast, confirmed, or ratified. Made good, Afflicting,&c. (see Webster). The judgment day 
firm, according to law. When an individual will reveal those who have been smiting each 
leaves a will, running to certain persons after his other, and who have been afflicted and devoured 
death, it is necessary that it should be sealed by and consumed by unkind words and unchristian 
his own hand, in order to make it good and law- acts. Divisions, and subdivisions, testing and 
ful. Now as the Sinatic covenant, (testament judging, has prevailed. 0 ! how many souls 
or will*) had its seal, the new covenant has its have stumbled at these things,and turned infidel, 
seal also. The seal of the old covenant was an the Lord only knows. May the Lord help all 
eternal one, an outward visible ordinance. (This who have erred in these things heartily to re 
was the sabbath. Ex. 31). The seal of the new pent, and seek with all haste to get the Seal of 
covenant is an eternal one stamped on the heart the Spirit and keep it ; for if any man have not 
(or mind), the blood seal of love ; by the Holy the Spirit of Christ he is none of his. If we are 
Spirit, the sealer, leaving his image, which is found with bitter envyings and strife in our 
love,upon the heart. This is the inward anoint. hearts when Christ comes we shall be left to 
ing,of which the Apostle John speaks in his first share the portion of hypocrites and unbelievers. 
epistle 2d chap. v 27. This anointing he says May the Lord forbid, is the earnest prayer of 
teaches you all things, and is truth, and is no my heart. 
lie Glor be to God for the truth of his word 
Z. BROWN. 
Christ said to his disciples, The Comforter,which 
is the Holy Spirit, whom the Father will send in 
From the Millennial News. 
my name, shall teach you all things, and bring The Millennial Sabbath. 
all things to your remembrance, whatsoever I 
have said unto you. When do we receive the 
seal of the Spirit ? Paul says to his Ephesian 
brethren, In whom also, (meaning Christ,) after 
that ye believed, ye were sealed with that Holy 
Spirit of promise,which is the earnest of the in-
heritance : (how long) until the redemption of the 
purchased possession,unto the praise of his glory. 
What does he mean by the earnest of our inheri-
tance? "Earnest" according to Webster, is mon-
ey paid in advance, or a pledge. If an individu-
al purchases a piece of property,and pays a part 
of the money down, to bind the bargin, and does 
not take that piece of property into his possession 
at the time,this may be called apledge. So Christ 
pays us a portion of the spirit of the kingdom in I nothing of the Jewish church—certainly entitles 
it to respect. It has been already shown that 
this was one reason why the early Christians ex-
pected the second advent would take place in the 
sixth century, their arguments being based on 
Septuagint chronolology, which makes the first 
coming of Christ occur about 5466 years from 
creation, and consequently,the world 6000 years 
old about A. D. 534. The Septuagint version is 
a translation of the Hebrew Scriptures into 
Greek, made in Egypt about D. c. 280, and was 
in common use among the Jews in the days of 
our Saviour, and for many centuries afterwards. 
Though there is in the main a wonderful agree-
ment bween it and the Hebrew text, its chron. 
ology gives, from creation to the birth of Abra-
ham, 1306 years more than the Hebrew ; and 
has been manifestly corrupted. See the Hebrew 
text vindicated in Bliss' Sacred Chronology, pp, 
183-226. 
Believing, therefore, with Dr. Scott, that "the 
original Hebrew is best entited to our confidence," 
the question of the present age of the world, ac-
cording to this text, becomes one of interest. 
Many relying on Archbishop Usher's chronologi-
cal calculations, found in our marginal reference 
Bibles, hold that it lacks 135 years of being 6000 
years old. 
Now, without affirming that Usher 
overlooked any of the elements esential to the 
calculation, it might be proper to remark that 
he rejected some which others have since adopt- 
* Covenant is a better word, we think.—En. ed as decidedly preferable ; and that he gives 
that you 
come to 
Barnes. 
Bro. Bliss :—I have examined, by your re-
quest, the Rev. T. R, Birks' First Elements of 
Sacred Prophecy,—a work which I read with 
much interest several years ago, and which in 
my judgment is a most triumphant defense of 
the year-day system of prophetic interpretation. 
If the extract I give is longer than is really nec-
essary to shew that his views are on the proph-
etic period under consideration,I am sure it will 
be found of sufficient merit to repay an attentive 
perusal. I quote from the London ed. of 1843. 
The vision of the evening and the morning is 
the next passage which contains a prophetic num- 
ed reckoning. 
The text, according to the usual construc-
tion of the words, will be translated as follows : 
'How long shall be the vision of the daily sac-
rifice and of the transgression of desolation, to 
give both the sanctuary and the host to be trod-
den under foot? Aud he answered, and said,Un-
to evenings and mornings two thousand three 
hundred ; and the sanctuary shall be cleansed.' 
'And the vision of the evening and morning 
which was told thee is true ; wherefore shut up 
the vision ; for it will be for many days.'---Dan. 
8: 13, 14, 26. 
It is plain at once that this is not the usual 
and literal expression for a space between six 
and seven years. There are only thee instances 
in all Scripture history where a period of above 
forty days is expressed in days only (Gen. 7: 3; 
Neh. 6: 15; Est. 1: 4). And it is without any 
precedent in scripture, or in common usage, that 
periods of more than one year should be thus de-
scribed. When we add to this the peculiar 
phrase, evening-morning, or evenings and morn-
ings, the strange form in which the message is 
couched becomes still more apparent. The first 
idea which it would suggest to any thoughtful 
reader would be an inquiry into the reason of so 
unusual and singular a phraseology. 
Now the test of the two systems has already 
been shown to consist in this very point. If short 
literal periods were designed no reason can be 
given why they should not be expressed in the 
most simple, usual and literal form. We might 
then expect to have found them three years and 
six months, [Dan. 7: 25 ; 12: 7] ; three years 
and seven months [Dan. 12: 11] ; three years 
eight months and a half, [Dan. 12: 12] ; six 
years, three months and twenty days. ] Dan. 8: 
14]. But if terms, which suggest at first sight 
shorter periods, were used as mental emblems of 
longer intervals, we might expect that the form 
of the statement would he peculiar and bear in-
dications on its surface of a secret meaning—in-
dications not so strong a4 to compel an immedi-
ate discovery, but convincing and powerful when 
the lapse of ages had opened the way for a juster 
view of the divine counsels. The words of the 
present text are just of this kind ; inexplicable 
on the literal theory,but deeply expressive when 
the explanation of the year-day is received. 
A close observation of the passage appears 
to supply a still more direct proof. The words 
evening and morning are in the singular number, 
and precede the numerals. Now in the Hebrew 
idiom, when the noun follows mixed numerals, it 
may be in the singular,but when it precede them 
it is alway in the plural number. By mixed nu-
merals are meant those of unlike diminsions—
where tens are joined with units, or thousands 
with hundreds. To this rule, I believe, not an 
exception occurs in the Hebrew Scriptures. The 
words occur again near the close of the chapter. 
'The vision of the evening and the morning 
(not the evenings and mornings) which was told 
thee is true.' 
The words in question, it would thus appear, 
,tsit 
 
ing on a constant law of Hebrew idiom, then the 
question would be decided at once, and the time 
cannot be days, but must be years only."---/b. p. 
363. 
What he says on the other periods in Daniel 
must be deferred till another time. I remain,as 
ever, interested to know the import of the words 
of the "Wonderful Numberer," 
J. M. ORROCK. 
Waterloo, C. E. July 16th, 1862. 
NOTE. We are much obliged to Bro. Orrock 
for the above extracts ; and we will thank him 
for a transcript of Birk's opinion of the several 
shorter periods, their cow inencement, termina-
tion, &c. We shall also esteem it a favor from 
any correspondent, for the view of any writer on 
the prophetic periods. 
En. 
For the Herald. 
The Seal of the Spirit. 
There is probably no opinion—with an express 
declaration of Scripture to warrant it—so an-
cient and universal in the Christian church, as 
that when our world has stood 6000 years from 
creation, a mighty change will be effected in it 
under the government of the Messiah :—in other 
words, that its long week of toil and care under 
the curse will terminate in the sabbatismos, or 
sabbath rest which remains for the people of God. 
Heb. iv. 9. 
There are passages from which this view may 
be fairly inferred, and the fact that it has been 
held from the apostolic age till now, by many of 
the most learned and pious Christians—to say 
advance, a pledge of his love, which makes us 
groan, earnestly desiring to be clothed upon 
with our house which is from heaven : If so be 
that being clothed we shall not be found naked. 
For we that are in this tabernacle do groan,being 
burdened, not for that we would be unclothed, 
but clothed upon, that mortality might be swal-
lowed up of life. Now, he that wrought us for 
the self same thing is God, who also hath given 
unto us the earnest or pledge of the Spirit: 2 
Cor. 5: 2, 5. What reason did God give for the 
first seal? "That ye may know that I am the 
Lord, which sanctifieth you." And on condition 
that the Israelites, kept the first Covenant,which 
was perpetual, they were to be inheritors of lit-
eral Palestine. Now, on the condition that we 
kept the new covenant seal on our hearts, we are 
to inherit the New Earth, the purchased posses-
sion. This seal is to be perpetual until the re-
demption of that possession. The redemption 
price is paid ; but the time has not come for us 
to receive it. We must wait till the resurrec-
tion morn,when the promise is, "I have ransomed 
them from the power of the grave ; I will redeem 
them from death : 0 death,I will be thy plagues, 
0 grave,' will be thy destruction." Hosea. 13: 
14. The seal of the spirit on our hearts, if 
found there when Jesus comes,will render us law-
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The Boston Journal notices the ordination, by the 
Right Rev. Bishop Eastburn, on Friday, July 18th, 
1862, at St. John's church in East Boston, of "Mr. 
P. B. Morgan, who has officiated for two years past 
in Chapman Hall, as a Deacon in the Episcopal 
Church." His name is still in the Crisis as asso-
ciate Editor," but we notice nothing from his pen 
in its columns. 
but 256 years, after the death of Joshua and the 
time of anarchy, as the period of the servitudes 
and judges of Israel,whereas Bp. Bowen,Browne, 
Bliss, Cliton, Cunninghame, Dr. Hales, Shimeall, 
and others who have given their attention to the 
study of chronology, give 390. He was obvious-
ly governed in his decision by the period given 
in 1 Kings, vi. 1,-the present reading of which 
text the Rev. E. B. Elliott and others consider 
doubtful-instead of by the details of the periods 
of Judges and the statement of Paul in Acts 
xiii. 19-21, and consequently was obliged to 
reckon some of the periods in the Judges as syn-
chronous instead of successive, as there represent 
ed. If, therefore, as we have good reason to be 
lieve, he has fallen into an error of more t'han 
one hundred years in the time of the Judges 
alone, it will be seen that the world is much old-
er than his calculation makes it; and while none 
may be able to make out its exact age, yet as 
some of the best modern chronologers gather 
from the Hebrew text that it will be 6000 years 
old in the present century ; and as the chronolo-
gy of the original Hebrew is more reliable than 
that of the Septuagint,-we have better reason 
on this ground alone to expect the coming of 
Christ in the nineteenth century that the early 
Christians had in the sixth ; and with Cowper 
we may say : 
"The time of rest, the promised Sabbath, comes : 
Six thousand years of sorrow have well nigh 
Fulfilled their tardy and disastrous course 
Over a sinful world; and what remains, 
Of this tempestuous state of human things, 
Is merely as the working of a sea 
Before a calm, that rocks itself to rest ; 
For He, whose car the winds are, and the clouds 
The dust that wait upon his sultry march, 
When sin hath moved him, and his wrath is hot, 
Shall visit earth in mercy ; shall descend, 
Propitious, in his chariot paved with love ; 
And what his storms have blasted and defaced 
For man's revolt shall with a smile repair." 
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Indianapolis, Ind. John C. McKinney 1, 
Johnson Vt. Miss 0. W. Allen 2, 
Kensington N. II. Edmund Rowell 1, 
Kersey Pa. M. B. Lanning 
1, 
Kilmarnock Scot. Miss Jean Templeton, 2,00 
Kincardine, C. W. Joseph Barker 5,50 
Lawrence Mass. Laura Kimball 2, 
Lincoln Vt. Mrs. Was. Cowles 
1, 
Lockport N. Y. Mrs. Adaline Reed 2, 
" Mrs. J. W. Reed 2, 
London, Eng. Richard Robertson,Esq. 4, 
Lowell Mass Mary Nason 
3, 
Lowell Mass. Miss D. Maynard 2, 
Low Hampton N. Y. Mrs. R. A. Phelps 1, 
" " Myra Bosworth 1, 
" " " R. B. Phelps 1, 
" " " Norman Peck 1, 
Lowville C. W. Issac C. Burkholder 3,28 
Lynn Mass Micajah C. Butman 1, 
McDonough N. Y. P. A. Beckwith 1, 
" " " Jabez N. Breed 1, 
Marquette, Wis. Mrs. D. S. Green 1, 
Mechanicsville Pa. Mrs. B. Eberly 1,50 
" Levi Beck 
.50 
Mendon Vt. Tasker Williams 
50 
Middlebury 0. Mrs. F. Beckwith 
.' " Edward Matthews 
" " Wm. Emmett 
Milesbury Pa. Martin L. Jackson 
Milford, N. Y. Peter Burns 
Millville 0, Henry S. Ross 
Montgomery Vt. Lemuel Robbins 
" " Columbus Green 2, 
Mount Holly Vt. Church in 
4,10 
Newburyport Mass. Church in 8, 
" Henry Lunt Jr. 
2, 
" Philip H. Lunt 
" " John Pearson, Sen. 
" " M. F. Whittier 
1, 
New Haven Vt. Osmond Dowd, 5, 
" " Mrs. Mary Ann Dowd 5, 
New Kingston Pa. Mill. Aid Society 4,50 
Newton Mass. John Hunt 
,50 
New York City, "R. D. W." 10, 
" " Annonymous 
10, 
" " Bro. Goodchild 
50 
North Abington Mass. A Friend 
Norwalk 0. Edmund W. Mead 
Nunda, N. Y. Arba Town 
Orleans Mass. Mrs. H. Walker 
Orrington Maine, James Brooks 
Pawtucket R. I. Mrs. Mary Everett 
Paysippi Wis. Jacob Cady 
Philadelphia, C. Burnham 
2, 
" Herman Yost 
1, 
" Frederick Mear 
1, 
" Dr. Wm. Stiles 5, 
" A Friend, by J. Litch 10, 
The coming One has been absent from his 
church over eighteed hundred years,-a longer 
period than the world ever was before without a 
visible manifestation of Deity,-but He will 
soon come to give his people rest, and that rest 
will be glorious. If ordinary rest is welcome to 
weary ones, and that of the Sabbath is more ac-
ceptable still, how desirable must the millennial 
Sabbath be, whose rest will be uninterrupted by 
the burial of the dead,and the conflict of nations; 
its stillness unbroken by the sounds of suffering 
humanity and the din of business; and its sky 
cloudless-no smoke from the manufactory, or 
from the iron-horse rushing to its destination 
arising to bedim it,-but the pure and perfect 
worship from redeemed ones going up for ever ! 
The rest of grace (Matt. xi. 28-30) is pleasant, 
but the rest of glory (Isa. xi. 10) will be much 
more so. "Let us, therefore, labor to enter into 
that rest." 
0. 
COBBETT.---This extraordinary man, alluding 
to the number of his "works," observed : If any 
young man wish to know the grand secret rela-
tive to the performance of such wondrous labor, 
it is told him in a few words : Be abstinent---be 
sober---go to bed at eight o'clock and get up at 
four---the last two being of still more importance 
than the two former. A full half of all that I 
have ever written has been written before ten 
o'clock in the day ; so that I have haddis much 
leisure as any man that I ever knew anything of. 
If young men will but set about the thing in 
earnest, let them not fear of success ; they will 
soon find that it is disagreeable to sit up or to 
rise late. Literary coxcombs talk of "consuming 
the midnight oil." No oil, and a very small poi-• 
tion of candles, have I ever consumed, and I am 
convinced that no writing is so good as that 
which comes from under the light of the sun. 
Particular Notice. 
Our readers have perceived that their papers now 
come to them by a printed, instead of a written di-
rection as before. It is not improbable that many 
names have been misspelled, in being transferred to 
blocks, or something omitted. We will therefore be 
obliged to any,who notice any inaccuracy,for prompt 
information that we may oorrect the same. We 
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$ 614,93. 
In addition to the above, one share of stock in 
the chapel, of the par value of $50, has been con-
tributed during the year, by Bro. Amass Coburn,of 
Haverhill, Mass. 
The necessities of this Association have been great-
er during the past than in preceding years ; and the 
patrons of the Herald have more generously re-
sponded than in the preceding year. Those whose 
names are above recorded have been the life of the 
A.M. A. ; they are the noble and generous friends 
of this instrumentality, and we trust they maybe all 
abundantly rewarded by him who gives both the 
willing mind and the ability to contribute. And 
God does thus bless ; for the brother who has con-
tributed more than other one during the year writes: 
"I love the Advent cause. The Lord has not 
 
2, cursed me in it, bat blessed me ; and the more I do 
fur Him., the more he does for me,-both temporal- 
 
1, ly and spiritually. The cause lies near my heart, 
and the more any neglect and forsake it, the more 
I feel it drawn into my soul." 
May such be the reward of all who have cordially 
and cheerfully contributed of their means, as the 
Lord has prospered them, to this instrumentality. 
May they each and all find themselves rewarded a 
hundred fold in this life, and in the world to come 
have riches everlasting. 
We shall need an equal amount the coming year, 
and we hope to see the names of all the above pat-
rons in the next annual list, with other names that 
we do not find there. It is by economy in the ex-
penditure, by duly accrediting all receipts, and by a 
statement of all expenses, that we trust the A. M. 
 
1, A. will continue to merit and receive the confidence 
and countenance of the friends of the cause. 
SYLVESTER BLISS, Treasurer. 
ExPosition of Daniels Prophecy. 
CHAPTER VIII. 
THE 2300 DAYS. 
Continued from our last. 
[Not having the first vol. of Mr. Birks' writings, 
we were unable to give his view of this period in its 
place • but by the aid of Bro. Orrock we now pre-
sent it.] 
REV. T. R. Bnuss,—author of "First Elements of 
Sacred prophecy,"London,1843; "The Four Proph-
tic Empires, and the Kingdom of the Messiah," &c , 
London, 1843, also finds a connection between the 
seventy weeks ofthe 9th chap. and the longer period 
of the 8th ; and he terminates the 2300 days either 
in 1843 or 1880, according as the 1810 years of 
excess over the seventy weeks is reckoned from A. 
D. 33 or from the fall of Jerusalem in A. D. 70. 
He says : 
"There is plainly a close correspondence between 
the two visions. The seventy weeks are said to be 
cut off for certain distinct objects ; and this implies 
a longer period from which they are separated,eith-
er the course of time in general, or some period dis-
tinctly revealed. Now the previous dates includes 
two events, the restoration of the sacrifice and the 
desolation. The first of these is identical in char-
acter with the seventy weeks, which are a periodof 
the restored polity of Jerusalem ; and thence the 
most natural view of the cutting off is that which 
refers it to the whole period of the former vision. 
The seventy weeks are thus separated from the whole 
interval for the duration of the restored polity until 
the coming of Messiah, upon whose rejection the 
predicted desolation, the second part of the main pe-
riod, begins to be fulfilled. And since the sventy 
wanks are thus only a part of the numeral period 
2300, the unit of time in the latter must be a nat-
ural year. 
"It may be observed, in passing,as a presumptive 
confirmation of this view, that the excess of 1810 
years (the difference of these .periods), reckoned 
from the usual date of the Passion, or the fall of 
Jerusalem, brings us to the time 1843-1880 ; and 
thus corresponds with those many signs which now 
intimate to the church the approaching restoration 
of Israel." 
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1 
HENRY DRUMMOND ESQ,—author of "A Defense 
of the Students of Prophecy," in answer to the at-
tacks of the Rev. Dr. Hamilton, London, 1829, is 
the reputed author of "Dialogues on Prophecy," an 
annonymous work in 3 vols. London, 1827-9, in 
which this view is advocated. 
In the characters introduced in those Dialogues, 
Mr. Drummond is supposed to answer to "..9,nasta-
sius ;" Viscount George Mandeville, a Peer of Eng-
land, and author of "Hints upon Prophecy," to 
"Philalethes ;" Wm. Cunninghame Esq. to "So-
phron ;" Rev. C. S. Hawtrey, author of "The Na-
ture of the First Resurrection," to Philemon ; John 
Bayford Esq. author of "Messiah's Kingdom:" Lon-
don, 1820,to "Evander ;" James Hatley Frere,Esq., 
author of "Combined 'Views," London 1815, to 
"Crito ;" Rev. II. Simonds to "Tholes ;" Rev. James 
Haldane Stewart, author of "A Practical View of 
the Redeemer's Advent," London, 1828, to "The-
opilus ;" Rev. W. Irving to "Aristo ;" Rev. Wil-
liam Marsh, author of "Plain thoughts on Prophe-
cy, Colchester, Eng. 1830, to "Theodosius ;" Rev. 
Hugh Mc. Neile, author of "The Times of the Gen-
tiles," to "Isocrates ;" and Rev. Joseph Wolf, D.D., 
to "Josephus." Under these and other names are 
presented, in a conversational form, the sentiments 
of those eminent writers on prophecy, as delivered 
in private discussions or in their published works—
though it is only just to them to admit that some of 
them have claimed that their views :are not always 
there correctly represented. See "Dictionary of 
Writers on Prophecy,"London, 1835, p. 71. in v. 
5, of "Investigator." 
In the course of the Dialogue Mr. Drummond, 
.("Anastasius,") in reply to the enquiry of Lord 
Mandeville, ("Philalethes,") thus gives his opinion 
of the commencement of the 2300 days : 
"Philalethes. What then is the period from 
whence you would date the 2300 days ? 
"Anastasius.—A decree went forth to restore and 
build Jerusalem, by Cyrus to Ezra,536 years B. C., 
the execution of which occupied a considerable num-
ber of years ; or rather it is more correct to say, 
four commandments went forth in favor of the Jews 
from three several kings of Persia ; 1st, from Cyrus ; 
2d, from Darius Hystaspes ; 3d and 4th, from Ar-
taxerxes Longimanus : we shall find, hereafter, that 
many other periods terminate in theyear A. D. 1847 ; 
and if this period end in the same, its commenc-
ment must be 453, or 73 [83?] years after the origi-
nal decree ; (provided always that our chronology is 
sufficiently correct.) Thus the time of the typical 
or partial cleansing of the sanctuary will be the 
point from which to commence, and the time of the 
anti-typial, er true cleansing, will be the termination 
of that period expressed by 2300. Mr. Mason reck-
ons from the year 457; but it is obvious, that unless 
the date of the decree itself be taken, any one sub-
sequent year, during the time that the cleansing 
was in progress, is as probable as another. Al-
though this is the best interpretation which has 
hitherto been given of this number, I confess it is to 
me far from satisfactory." Dialogues vol. 1, p. 
329. 
REV. JOSEPH WOLFF, D. D., the distinguished 
Jewish Missionary,gives in his Journal a letter, dat-
ed in 1833, from a Mussulman of distinction, who 
says : 
"I have received your second epistle and perused 
its contents. You say that it is mentioned in the 
8th chapter of Daniel that Christ would descend up-
on earth after two thousand three hundred yrs. from 
the time of Daniel, which was 453 years before 
Christ ; that, having deduced 433 from 2300, there 
remained 1847 ; and the present year is 1833, from 
which the latter sum having been deducted, there 
remained 14 years, which is the period of Christ's 
coming." Missionary Labors, pp. 258-9. 
In a letter dated April 20, 1829, Mr. Wolff 
wrote : 
"I proclaimed for two months to the Jews the 
great truth, first, that Jesus of Nazareth came the 
first time on earth, despised and rejected of men, to 
die for poor sinners ; and secondly, that he will 
come again with glory and majesty ; and, glorious 
in his apparel, and traveling in the greatness of 
his strength. He will come the Son of Man, in the 
year 1847, in the clouds of heaven, and gather all 
the tribes of Israel, and govern in person as man 
and God in the literal city of Jerusalem, with his 
saints, and be adored in the temple, which will be 
rebuilt, and thus he shall govern a thousand years ; 
and I, Joseph Wollf, shall see with my own eyes 
Abraham, Isaac, and Jacob, in their bodies, in their 
glorified bodies ; and I shall see thee, Elijah, and 
thee, Isaiah, and thee, Jeremiah, and thee, David, 
whose songs have guided me to Jesus of Nazareth. 
I shall see you all here at Jerusalem, where I am 
writing these lines," Jones on the Apoc. p. 487. 
After the passing of this date, Dr. Wolff aban-
doned the "year-day" and adopted what Rev. E. B. 
Elliott denominates the "day-day" theory—but still 
adhering to the reading of "2400." 
From Bro. I. G. Sterling. 
BRO. BLISS. Will yon give through the Herald 
an exposition of Ezekiel 39: 9? Do you consider it 
past or future? 
Is the rendering of Zech. 14: 16-19 accurate ? 
What "land" is refered to in the 18th verse, 
and what "army" in the 20th, of the 2d chapter of 
Joel ? and please to explain verse 2 to 11 and 18 to 
20? 
We desire light,especially on the points refered to, 
but would be thankful for any suggestion or expla-
nation on other passages connected therewith. 
I. G. STERLING. 
It would give us pleasure to be able to give an 
exposition of Ezek. 39: 9,that would be satisfactory 
to our own judgment.; but being unable to explain 
it satisfactory to ourself, we cannot, of course, be 
justified in presenting any view as its meaning. 
We know of no reason to question the rendering 
of Zech. 14: 16-19. We think that verses 12-15 
are designed to give a more full explanation of the 
manner in which the Lord will go forth and fight 
against the nations, as described in the 3d verse : 
which will be at the second advent : and does not 
follow, but precedes the condition of all things des-
cribed in verses 6, 11. Those who are left of the na-
tions, in v. 16, we understand to be the children of 
the kingdom, when all that offend and them which 
do iniquity shall have been gathered out, as in Matt. 
13: 41. When these last are cast into a fur-
nace of fire, "then shall the righteous"—every one 
that is left of all nations, "shine forth as the sun in 
the kingdom of their Father," Matt. 23: 43. Those 
described in vs. 17-19, as they partake of the pun-
ishment and plague, are destroyed in it, and there-
fore are not ansong the left of the nations. 
The "land" refered to in Joel. 2: 18 we regard 
as the land of Judea ; and the '-army," in v. 20, is 
the army orBabylon. "Out of the north an evil 
shall break forth upon all the inhabitants of the 
land," Jer. 1: 14. "I will bring destruction from 
the north," 6: 1. We suppose the prophecy of Joel 
was uttered previous to B.C. 800,or more than 200 
years prior to Babylonian captivity ; that it was a 
warning to the Jews for their sins, and a predic-
tion of evil that would befall them if they repented 
not. We are unable to give the precise interpreta-
tion of the texts refered to ; but that what precedes 
v. 28 has respect to the Jews, and speaks of threat-
enings and promises to them, is clear from what fol-
lows in v. 28, which Peter applies to the day of 
Pentecost, or to subsequent time. 
Death of Ex-president Van Buren. 
The venerable ex-president Martin Van Buren, in 
his 80th year,died at his residence at Kinderhook,N. 
Y., on the 23th of July, 1862,—leaving of the sur-
viving ex-presidents only Messrs. Fillmore, Pearce, 
and Buchanan. 
Powder Mill Explosion, 
On Wednesday the 23d ult. at about 3 o'clock P. 
M. five of the wheel mills of the Hazzard Powder 
Co., at Ilazzardville, in Enfield, Ct., blew up with a 
tremendous explosion, killing nine men and one wo-
men. Says the Hartford Courant : 
The five mills were several hundred feet apart,and 
were substantial buildings, some twenty by thirty 
feet in size. In the first mill that exploded there 
were six men at work, and they with the building, 
were blown to atoms. One human foot which was 
found a quarter of a mile distant, was all that could 
be found of the six men. One man was crossing a 
bridge with a mule and cart near the mill. Not a 
vastige of the man could be found ; the mule was 
torn into two parts,one half being thrown across the 
stream, and the other thrown over the trees into a 
field several hundred feet distant, while the cart 
was demolished. Another man was bathing in the 
stream ; he was found lying in the water, dead,with 
a large stone on his bead. A large elm tree,several 
feet through, was broken off,and the limbs scattered 
in all directions. Other trees were stripped of their 
limbs; fences were destroyed, and acres of grass 
looked as if heavy rollers had passed over it. Most 
of the principal mills and buildings had their roofs 
crushed in, windows destroyed, and were otherwise 
damaged. In one building was a large quantity of 
coarse, unground powder; this building was much 
damaged, but fortunately the powder did not ex-
plode. In one of the buildings which escaped there 
was powder enough stored to have destroyed the 
whole village. How the accident occurred will 
never be known. The first explosion took place in 
the press mill, the others were in the cracker and 
corning mills. They took place so near together as 
to sound like one explosion. The noise of the ex-
plosion was heard in this city,and in Springfield the 
shock was distinctly felt. Some forty tons of pow-
der were stored in the buildings at the time, which 
would be worth some $12,000. The mills and build-
ings were worth about $3000. The building in 
which the first explosion took place was old,but had 
stood unharmed through all the explosions which 
have occurred during the past twenty years. The 
loss will not interfere with the operations of the com-
pany, as there are some seventy-five mills left. 
"Nearer my God to TheeY 
It is related by one of the chaplains in the army, 
of a little drummer boy in an Illinois regiment who 
was shot in the battle of Pittsburg Landing on the 
Tennessee river, that on being carried from the field 
he was heard to murmur something, and on putting 
the ear close to his mouth the words he was uttur-
ing were those of the lines which commence that 
beautiful hymn 
"Nearer, my God to thee, 
Nearer to thee !" 
Tearless Eyes. 
"God shall wipe all tears from their eyes." The 
expression is one of exquisite tenderness and beauty. 
The poet Burns said he could never read this with-
out being affected to weeping. Of all the negative 
descriptions of the "world to come," there is no one 
perhaps that would be better adapted to produce 
consolation than this. Who is there of the human 
family that has not shed a tear ? And what aehange 
it would make in our world, if it could be said that 
henceforward not another tear would be shed, not a 
head would ever be bowed again in grief! Yet this 
is to be the condition of the "world to come." In 
that world there is to be no pain,no disappointment, 
no bereavment. No friend is to lie on a sick bed—
no grave is to be opened to receive a parent, a wife, 
a child. Amidst the trials of the present life, when 
friends leave us, when sickness comes, When stand-
ing on the verge of the grave and looking down into 
the cold tomb, it is a blessed privilege to be permit-
ted to look forward to that brighter scene in the 
"purchased possession," where not a pang shall ever 
be felt, and not a tear shall ever be shed. 
LAST WORDS OF EDWARDS. 
When Mr. Edwards was dying, having taken 
leave of his family, he looked about and said, "Now 
where is Jesus of Nazareth, my true and never fail-
ing friend?" and so he fall asleep, and went to the 
Lord he loved. How unfailing is the instinct which 
leads the pious heart to cry out for Jesus in the last 
hour ! The grand intellect of Edwards, after all its 
acquisitions during a life of usefulness, must then 
lean upon the.Saviour's arm, with the same helpless 
dependence as a young child jkst able to syllable 
that precious name. 
The Progress of the War. 
New York, July 25. The World publishes a dis-
patch from Washington which says, "I learn from 
pretty accurate private sources that Ewell's, Hill's, 
Longstreet's, and Jackson's division of the rebel 
army have left Richmond gradually during the past 
fortnight, most of them going over the Virginia 
Central Railroad, and they are now concentrating 
near Gordonsville, constituting an army 60,000 
strong. Undoubtedly an attempt is to be made on 
Maryland or Washington. Oor people are still un-
certain whether it will be made up the Valley or 
this way. Counter raids and attacks are to be in-
stituted by us.. A force may push for Richmond 
from Fredericksburg, with the purpose either of 
fighting them back or of gaining more than they 
can." 
Special dispatches from Washington say that Sen-
ator Jim Lane has been commissioned by the Gov-
ernment to raise and organize an army in the De-
partment of Kansas, in his own way and upon his 
own principles. 
Gen. Halleck and staff, with Generals Burnside 
and Meigs, went to the Peninsula yesterday after-
noon. 
The Post Office Department will continue after 
the first of August to issue stamps for currency. 
Those intended for this purpose will be without glu-
ten, and will be redeemed at the United States 
Treasuries, or exchanged at the post office for post-
age. 
Col. Norton, the accuser of Gen. Mitchell, has 
been ordered to be arrested. He has not yet been 
found. 
Foreign News. 
DIE PAPE AND HIS TEMPORAL POWER.—The Paris 
Opinione Nationale learns that the Bishops in Rome 
are making great efforts to induce the Pope to pro-
nounce the major excommunication against Victor 
Emanuel and his adherents, and to relieve his sub-
jects from their oath of allegiance. The Bishops, in 
their address to the Pope, deplore the oppression of 
the Church ,and declare the temporal power is neces-
sary for the independence of the Pope. They approve 
all that the Pope has done in defense of the rights 
of the Holy See, and exhort His Holiness to continue 
firm in his resistance. The address is signed by 21 
Cardinals and 244 Bishops. 
The Pope at a consistory held the 9th ult. pro-
nounced an allocution, in which he deplored the er-
rors spread by the revolutionary spirit against the 
authority of the Catholic Church, as well as against 
divine and human laws. His Holiness futher regret-
ed the oppression exercised against the Church in 
Italy, and the war declared against his temporal 
power. He urged the Bishops to redouble their zeal 
in combatting and arresting the diffusion of these er 
rocs. 
Galignani's Messenger of Paris,of the 5th of July, 
says : "A letter from Jersusalem states that a young 
American gentleman named Carter, a divinity stu-
dent, was lately drowned in the Jordan. A friend 
who had accompanied him from the United States 
was a witness of the disaster, but could not afford 
him any assistance. The young man, when bathing, 
was carried away by the rapid current, and after 
sinking two or three times disappeared. 
The Austrian Government has published a decree 
nulifying a previous regulation which prohibited 
the distribution of foreign Bibles in the province of 
the empire. The present decree permits free circu-
lation to foreign Bibles, subject to the ordinary reg-
ulations and formalities prescribed by the law of the 
book-selling trade. 
TRUSTING IN GOD. 
"Trust in the Lord," and none trust; "wait pa-
tiently for him," and all are impatient. I was walk-
ing along the street and I saw a child who had slip-
ped away from its nurse's side, and was crying out 
in a whining impatient voice, "Will no one take 
hold of my hand?" My steps Were arrested ; thus 
were my very thoughts repeated for me. I too was 
a wanderer, I too had slipped wilfully away from 
my Guardian, and was crying out, "Will no one 
take hold of' my hand ?" Wonderful words ! thus to 
find my thoughts bodied forth by this unconscious 
child.—Rev. Horace Field, London. 
A QUIET REBUKE. The St. Paul (Minn.) Press 
says that "on Sunday morning last two gentlemen 
of Chicago called at the residence of Edward Stint-
son, Esq., and sent their names up to the Hon. Ed-
ward Everett, wishing to pay their respects. The 
honorable gentleman returned an answer that he 
could not see them, as he was preparing to attend 
divine worship. What gives the rebuke a point, is 
the fact that the two gentlemen who called are prom-
inent members-of the church themselves. 
 
 
 
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CORRESPONDENCE. 
In this department, articles are solicited, on the general 
subject of the Advent, from friends of the Herald, over 
their own signatures, irrespective of the particular views 
which it defends. Views of correspondents not dissented 
from, are noI necessarily to be considered as editorially 
endorsed. Correspondents are expected to avoid all per-
sonalities, and to study Christian courtesy in all references 
to views and persons. Any departure from this should be 
regarded as disentitling the writer to any reply. Christian 
and gentlemanly discussion will be in order ; but not 
needless, unkind, or uncourteous controversy. 
their habits of living, so as to eat and drink more 
to the glory of God. 
Tuesday, June 17. I took leave of Dr. Hutchin-
son and the friends in Waterloo, and Bro. Orrock 
took me to the Outlet, twenty miles, in a scorching 
sun, and much of the way through the smoke and 
flame of the woods. The whole country is suffering 
with a drought, and fires are spreading and raging 
in all the region. Unless there is rain soon there 
will be no food for man or beast. We arrived at 
the Outlet at 3 P. M., and were welcomed by Bro. 
Johnson and Dr. Somers. Here I found a sick 
house, a hospital. Sister Somers is still confined to 
her bed, where she has lain many years, patient and 
heroic in the endurance of suffering, in the hope of 
deliverance when Jesus comes. Here, too, I found 
our much loved sister Helen M. Johnson, the poet-
ess, sister of Mrs. Somers, still confined to her 
couch : suffering much of the time with severe pains. 
She, too, has been confined to her bed for many 
years. But -OA blessed hope is the stay and comfort 
of the soul. Her hope is in the Lord, and with the 
blessed ones where the inhabitants shall not say they 
are sick. And yet another sick room opened to me. 
And here was the mother of sisters Somers and 
Johnson, whose unfailing health for long years had 
enabled her to watch over her sick ones, and wait 
on them day and night. By a severe fall she is dis-
abled fur some time to come. But in all this it was 
good to see the power of Christian faith and hope. 
Our dear Bro. Johnson and his son-in-law, Dr. 
Somers, have much care and sorrow in the continued 
sickness of their families. But they are patient and 
submissive to these dark dispensations, and cherish 
the blessed hope of soon seeing the land where health 
and immortality will be the portion of God's people. 
I trust these afflicted friends will have the prayers 
of the faithful waiting ones. We are one family. 
Let us love and pray for each other. 
I preached in the evening to a very good audience, 
on Rev. 16 : 15. Our cause here is low, but the 
faithful few are living for the kingdom. 
Wednesday, June 18. Rose at 4 A. M. and took 
leave of Bro. and sister Orrock. and Johnson, and 
rode seventeen miles (by stage) to Sherbrooke, where 
I took breakfast with Elder Buckingham, formerly 
of Burlington, Vt. Bro. and sister B. received me 
very joyfully, and ministered to my wants. He 
stands almost alone here as to his faith and hope. 
Yet he is much respected as a Christian man. He 
feels the need of sympathy. May the Lord open his 
way, and give him success in his work. After a 
visit about the town for a couple of hours I took the 
cars for Melbourne. Eld. B. kindly accompanied 
me to the depot, where we parted at 10 A. M. At 
noon I was in Richmond, where Bro. Gilman met me, 
and took me to his house and home for the rest of 
the week. Here I am to give a course of lectures, 
afternoon and evening, and over the Sabbath. 
While at the Conference in Waterloo Bro. A. 
Newton, one of the oldest and most valuable of the 
early friends and believers in the Advent faith, 
taught by Father Miller, and a subscriber to the 
Herald for many years, called my attention to an 
article from the " Christian Witness," copied into 
the Herald of June 7th, page 178, signed " II," on 
the "Coming Kingdom," referring to the time. He 
says : " We may not be able to set the precise time. 
It may be unwise to name the year. For mistakes 
are possible, and when they occur they increase the 
infidels and scoffers. A vast Mount of injury was 
done by Mr. Miller in this respect. Yet because he 
was mistaken, and the excitement by his views have 
repelled many from the subject, let us not blind our 
eyes to the truth." Bro. Newton wished me to say 
that he thought it was quite bad enough for our 
enemies to publish such things, with a view to bring 
the time of our Saviour's coming into disrepute, 
without its being given in the Advent Herald with-
out note or comment. I told him I was of the same 
opinion ; but, the article being copied from another 
paper, perhaps the item was overlooked. I have no 
sympathy with the cry about the terrible evils con-
sequent on the publication of the specific time. But 
for the publication of the time both the church and 
the world would be in darkness as to the nearness 
of the event ; and more, the doctrines connected 
with it, such as the personal reign, the first resur-
rection, the restitution of all things, would have 
been ignored, and both the church and the world 
would have been slumbering, even now, on the thresh-
hold of the judgment. Even the writer " H," who 
repudiates the preaching of the time by Mr. Miller, 
would probably never have been awakened to see 
the subject as he now sees it but for Mr. Miller and 
Dr. Tyng, (to whom he refers, with others) pro-
claiming the time. It is not the failure of time, of 
man's calculation, that makes scoffers. It is quite 
a different thing. It is the fact that divine revelation 
teaches the coming of Christ, and the consummation 
of the earth by fire, and the introduction of new 
heavens and a newlikarth, that the scoffers scoff at. 
2 Pet. iii. 2-4. And the proclamation of its imi- 
nence stirs them up to scoff at what God has re-
vealed. 
JOSHUA V. HIAIES. 
Melbourne, C. E. June 18, 1862. 
[NOTE. — The article to which allusion is made 
was copied from the " World's Crisis," where we 
found it ; and for its appearance there we do not 
learn that any censure has beeri 'incurred. The ar-
ticle as a whole was too valuable to be rejected be-
cause of a few words in it that were not palatable. 
And when it is considered that Mr. Miller was fully 
sustained by the Herald, and by its present editor ; 
and that any censure of him is equally a censure of 
us who sustained him, it will be seen that no one 
had more cause to take exception to the objectional 
sentence than ourself. We did not, however, feel 
that it was always necessary to notice every fling to 
which we or our friends may be subjected. When 
our Lord was reviled he reviled not again ; and any 
comments that could be made on it would not have 
altered the matter. We rejoice for the good there 
was in that article, and are grateful when the Lord 
measurably opens the eyes of any one, even though 
they do not see in all things as we do. To God be 
all the glory.—En.] 
w 
From Bro. J. Reynolds. 
The Ten Horns in Rev. chap. 17 not the 
same as the Ten Horns in chap. 13. 
Concluded. 
But a still stronger proof is found in the unreason-
ableness of this beast representing a portion of Dan-
iel's beast, if there is no meaning in its being com-
posed of a part of each. And it is certain that the 
ten horns of Daniel 7 never did, for any length of 
time, include in their dominion any part of the first 
three of Daniel's beasts ; and if it does not repre-
sent a portion of the first three of Daniel's beasts 
there is no meaning in its component parts, and its 
mixed power is a meaningless representation. 
There is also still further proof that this beast is 
a compound of the four beasts of Daniel : for the 
dragon gave it its power, and seat, and great author-
ity. Chap. 13 : 2. 
12. The first beast, which was wounded, was the 
blasphemous, and this two-horned beast is a deceiv- 
ing power. v. 14. " And deceiveth them that 
dwell on the earth by the means of those miracles 
which he had power to do in the sight of the beast ; 
saying to them that dwell on the earth, that they 
should make nimage to the beast, which had the 
wound by the sword and did live." And also v. 15, 
"And he had power to give life unto the image of 
the beast, that the image of the beast should both 
speak and that as many as would not worship the 
image of the beast should be killed." 
This beast, then, must be a dominant power ; 
and, as he caused the inhabitants of the earth to 
make an image of the first blasphemous beast (which 
was a beast supporting an apostate or adulterous 
church), this beast must have dominion over other 
kings, as it must take a kingly power to make an 
image of that which was wounded. Thus it is cer-
tain that it was a dominant kingdom over other 
kings, or it could not make them subject to it. 
What power in the line of prophecy, we ask, 
could this be? 
It was a deceitful power, as it was professedly 
lamblike, but its acts were Satanlike. It also had 
power to give life to the image of the first blas-
phemous beast, and cause it to speak. That is, he 
caused the kings to act according to his will, and 
they who did not should be killed, and also any sub-
ject of these kingdoms were to be killed if they did 
not worship that form of power, or support it, and 
so acknowledge it. And all must openly acknowl-
edge this power, or support it, as the mark must 
signify in the forehead and hand. It is certain also, 
as a matter of course, that no contracts could be 
lawfully made in these kingdoms but according to 
their laws, as is mentioned in v. 17. 
As there is but one and only one power brought 
to light in God's word which has been dominant, or 
which was a blasphemous power, and a supporter of 
such power, but the Papal, we are not permitted by 
the word of the Lord to look for any other ; and, as 
we have its numerical characters given, by which to 
learn its name, we are forced to admit that no other 
power could be represented by the two-horned beast 
than the Papal Rome, then in its last dominant 
form.
It was the Roman beast which was slain by the 
sword in connection with the Jewish nation, and it 
was the revived Roman head which caused an image 
to be made to the first. The ancient Romans were 
Latins, as this was their tongue ; while they were 
called Romans after the name of their capital. The 
proper name of the kingdom would be the Latin 
kingdom. And this tongue has been and we believe 
still is used in the Latin church in all the kingdoms 
which have been subject to the Papal power. 
This beast, then, has three nana6s : Roman, Lat-
in, and Blasphemous. Thus we have the mark, and 
name, and the numerical name. 
J. REYNOLDS. 
Is the " Daily Sacrifice " of Daniel 12 : 11 
Paganism, or Pagan Worship ; and " the 
Abomination which maketh Desolate" Pop-
ery ? 
In my former article, I endeavored to show that 
the abomination of desolation in Daniel 9 : 27, 12: 
11, and Matt. 24: 15 were identical. If succes-
ful in that point, as I think I was, the question 
now under consideration is already settled. For it 
is not pretended that the abomination of desolation 
of Matt. 24: 15 is Popery. Neither is it maintained 
by any, that 1 am aware of, that the abomina-
tion of Dan. 9: 27 is Popery. Then if Dan. 12: 11, 
is identical with them it cannot be Popery. 
But is the abomination of desolation of Matt. 24: 
16 the Roman army, or the Roman ensigns ? It is 
generally interpreted as one or the other of these,—
but how unjustly we shall see. 
1. Dan. 9: 26, we read, "The people of the prince 
which shall come shall destroy the city and the sanc-
tuary." The Saviour, in predicting the destruction 
of that city and temple, was asked, " When shall these 
things be, and what sign will there be when these 
things shall come to pass." He answered : "When 
ye shall see Jerusalem compassed with armies, then 
know that the desolation thereof is nigh. Then let 
them which are in Judea flee to the mountains." In 
this text the Saviour evidently referred to Dan. 9: 
26. "The people of the prince," &e. 
Again, we are told, in Matthew 24, that he was 
asked, "When shall these things be? and what shall 
be the sign of thy coming, and of the end of the 
world ?" His answer was that certain things should 
take place, "but the end is not yet." Certain other 
things would transpire, and "these are the begin-
ning of sorrows "' This gospel of the kingdom shall 
be preached in all the world, for a witness to all na-
tions, then shall the end come." "When ye, there- 
fore, shall see the abomination of desolation, spoken 
of by Daniel the prophet, stand in the holy place, 
(whoso readeth let him understand,) then let them 
that are in Judea flee to the mountains : fur then 
• 
MY JOURNAL. 
TOUR IN CANADA EAST. 
Waterloo, June 12, 1862. Attended the Con-
ference of Adventists embracing Canada East and 
Northern Vermont. This body has come up in the 
last ten years, from a few individuals, among whom 
were Dr. R. Hutchinson, Elder J. M. Orrock, and 
Elder J. Portor, and now constitutes one of the 
largest and best of our conferences. I had not 
met with them for many years, and found a warm 
and kind reception as an old fellow-laborer in the 
Advent cause. The business was conducted with 
harmony and good feeling throughout. Differences 
of opinion on questions that agitate the great body 
of Advent believers exist here, but did not disturb 
the peace of the body. This is as it should be. The 
" watchmen may not expect to see eye to eye" till 
we rise to the perfect state in the kingdom, when 
all darkness and error will pass away, and we shall 
" see as we are seen and know as we are known." 
Till then we will have to bear with each other in 
our differences, our bond of union being the " love 
of Christ's appearing," connected with the proofs of 
sincerity which will be manifest in lives of upright 
and holy living before all men. Such will lead 
" quiet and peaceable lives, in all godliness and hon-
esty." 
The preaching was practical and edifying. Elder 
Bosworth gave one discourse from Joel 3 : 14. —
" Multitudes, multitudes in the valley of decision : 
for the day of the Lord is near in the valley of de-
cision." It was timely and stirring. It was in 
harmony with my most radical views on the ques-
tion of the near coming of the Lord. As I remained 
over the Sabbath, I gave in all nine lectures, practi-
cal and prophetical. I enjoyed the fullest freedom 
of utterance on the doctrine of entire consecration 
and the evidence of the speedy coming of Christ, 
and of what I meant by the phrase " speedy com-
ing," in the termination of the periods in 1867-8. 
While I was heard with candor, I do not suppose 
many were converted to either the doctrine of full 
and entire consecration and instant readiness for the 
coming of Christ or to the time of the advent. But 
I was assured, from many testimonies, that this la-
bor was not in vain in the Lord. Some are becom-
ing deeply interested in both the above views. And, 
if I am right, we may expect all the Lord's people 
to wake up and trim their lamps, and be ready and 
waiting for the Bridegroom. God's people will be 
ready when Christ comes, because they will know 
the time and prepare. 
Our Sabbath service, the last day of the Confer- 
ence, was a precious day to us all. It was the 
largest and best meeting we ever had in Waterloo. 
The chapel was crowded in every part, with aisles 
and pulpit. I gave three discourses. It was a day 
of good cheer to the church and society, who have 
so liberally poured out their substance to provide a 
place of worship and sustain a pastor. It must 
have been a day of joy to Elders Hutchinson and 
Orrock, and their fellow-laborers, to witness the 
success of their long toils for the cause here. Elder 
Orrock has taken the pastoral charge, with every 
prospect of good, in the thriving village of Waterloo. 
Dr. Hutchinson goes to England this.summer, to 
visit his relatives and to preach the gospel of the 
kingdom as the door may open. Blessings attend 
them all. 
Monday evening, June 16. I closed my labors in 
Waterloo, with a sermon on " How to Live," show-
ing that those who seek to attain to the " higher 
life " must pay some attention to the manner of 
their living ; that they must avoid all stimulating 
foods and drinks, as well as drugs and narcotics ; 
abstinence from all poisons and temperance in the 
good and wholesome things of God, given for the 
health and life of the body and the good cheer of the 
soul. There was some fluttering among those whose 
habits of eating and drinking were at variance with 
this standard of reform. But I had the conscience 
of those who complained on the side of reform, and 
so my work was done. The least I can hope is that 
Christians who heard rise will be awakened to look 
at this question, and, on examination, will modify 
But here we have another symbol, not before ex-
plained in God's word. But what power does the 
dragon represent ? The meaning given in chap. 12 : 
9 and 20 : 2 is that it is the old serpent, the Devil, 
and Satan. That is, that it represents the power of 
Satan for a given time, just the same as the ram and 
goat in Daniel represent the powers of Medo-Persia 
and Grecia for a given time only. The heads and 
horns, then, of the dragon represent so many periods 
and kinds of Satan's power or dominion ; for his 
power is superior to that of the beast in chap. 13, 
because he gave that beast his power, and seat, and 
authority. The beast in chap. 13 is all heathen, or 
blasphemous, and must be from Satan, as the direct 
author of all heathen and anti-Christian powers. 
In Daniel we are plainly told that the gentile 
nations did subdue the Lord's kingdom, and that 
these nations were represented by the lion, leopard, 
and bear, and another notable beast, a part of each 
being represented by the beast in Rev. chap. 13. 
We then say that the dragon represents Satan's 
power f, r a given time and over a limited portion of 
the world, and the territory and time is known by 
the exponent of his power represented by the beast 
in chap. 13. And as we have noticed that the line 
of prophecy is direct, — as there is no intimation in 
Daniel, or any other prophet, of a going aside to 
the origin of any heathen power in order to give us 
the different forms of any one of them, we are not at 
liberty to do so with the dragon ; but we are justi-
fied in following a direct line from the mouth of 
the lion, in chap. 13, as the beginning of the do-
minion of Satan's power over the Lord's kingdom. 
The dragon is not and cannot be a representative 
of pagan Rome, as not one passage of scripture can 
be found to sustain the view. But, on the contrary, 
in chap. 12, particularly, as well as in other places, 
we find much which is irreconcilable with this mere 
opinion without proof. The dragon, then, being a 
representative of Satan's power over the Lord's 
kingdom until Christ shall come to take the king-
dom under the whole heaven, we can see — by the 
agency with which he is at work —.what must be 
meant by his heads and horns. The heads and horns 
of the beast, in chap. 13, being successive, the heads 
and horns of the dragon must be also. The crowned 
horns of the beast are ten, and are so many succes- 
sive periods of Satan's power ; but as the heads only 
of the dragon are crowned, it shows us that he is 
truly king in those seven heads, and when the two-
horned beast spake as a dragon it was truly like Sa-
tan, while it was truly lamblike. 
The Two-horned Beast in Revelation chap. 13 : 11. 
This beast is a dominant power, for he causeth 
the earth and them that dwell therein to worship 
the first beast, whose deadly wound was healed. v. 
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shall be great tribulation." Is this abomination of 
desolation the same as "when ye see Jerusalem com-
passed with armies? " Clearly not ; for one was to 
stand in the holy place, the temple, as a sign or ad-
monition for flight ; and the other to compass the 
city. They cann, t, then, be identical. 
We are told that one was fulfilled to the letter 
when Vespasian invaded Judea to besiege and de-
stroy Jerusalem, and then retired with his army; 
that EVERY Christian in city and country took warn-
ing, and fled to Pella before that army returned. 
Then after a siege of months the city was taken and 
the Roman ensign was set up on the battlements of 
the temple, and constituted the abomination of deso-
lation at the sight of which the Christians were to 
flee! But if they all fled months before, on the in-
vasion and retirement of the army, it is difficult to 
see how they were to do it after the enemy was in 
the city and his ensign floated on the temple. This 
single incongruity stamps the assumption as an er-
ror. Again, this appearance of the abomination of 
desolation in the holy place was to be followed by 
great tribulation, such as was not from the begin-
ning of the world, no nor ever shall be. If this 
refered to the siege of Jerusalem by the Romans the 
greater part of the tribulation was over before or 
when they entered the city, and before their banner 
was set on the temple. 
But Christ places this scene in Judea in the ho-
ly place, just before his second advent. He says, 
"For the sake of the elect those days shall be short." 
Campbell's Trans. " And IMMEDIATELY after the 
tribulations of those days the sun shall be darken-
ed," he. "And they shall see the Son of man 
coming in the clouds of heaven, with power and 
great glory." This also accords with Dan. 12: 1-3. 
"Michael shall stand up ; " " there shall be a time 
of trouble ;" "thy people shall be delivered ;" 
"many of them that sleep in the dust of the ea?th 
shall awake." Then the conclusion is a plain one, 
that Luke 21 records Christ's answer as to when 
shall these things be, and his reference to the 9th 
of Dan. 26th verse. Matth. recorded his answer as 
to the sign of his coming and the end of the world, 
and refered to Dan. 9: 27. Luke did not record his 
answer as given by Matthew, nor Matthew the an-
swer as recorded by Luke. But together they have 
given his answer to all the questions. 
We are therefore to look, just before Christ's 
second Advent, for a gathering at Jerusalem, where 
a great desolating abomination will be set up, at the 
sight of which, and to escape his power, all who re-
gard Christ and his words are to flee from Judea, the 
same as the Christians fled from the same place 
when Jerusalem was compassed with armies in A. 
D. 70. That the great tribulation is to come I 
firmly believe ; and I should be a traitor to my trust 
not to give the warning when I see the sword com-
ing. I know that such an idea is very unwelcome 
to the church, and how few will accept it. But it 
is none the less important, on that account, that the 
warning should be given. In my next I shall point 
out for what I conceive it to be our duty to watch 
and prepare ; and the hope of escape. 
J. LITCII. 
OBITUARY. 
Died, in Canadice, Ontario county, N.Y., Wednes-
day, July 9, 2 o'clock A. M., at his own residence, 
Bro. ENDRUS TUCKER, in the 43d year of his age. 
Rro. Tucker was one of those who entered the 
vineyard of the Lord at the eleventh hour. He at-
tended a series of meetings held in this neighbovhood 
last winter, and listened with deep interest to the 
truths presented by Bro. Samuel Chapman, who la-
bored with us at that time. He became anxious 
for the salvation of his soul, and for a season we had 
strong hopes of his conversion. But our hopes seemed 
not destined to be realized. The fearfulness of back-
sliding seemed for a time to prevent him from taking 
a decided stand. He did not find the peace for which 
he sighed ; and finally his mind became perplexed 
about the " annihilation theory." His convictions 
Seemed to decline, and we feared that it was all day 
With him, so far as religion was concerned. But 
heaven still had mercy in store for him. He had 
for a long time been troubled with a bronchial diffi-
culty, which, with a cough that had troubled him 
of late, increased upon him. His physical strength 
began to decline ; and he felt himself sinking into 
consumption. But as his disease increased his anxi-
ety for his soul returned, and he earnestly sought 
and we trust found the " pearl of great price." 
Last Sabbath morning, in company with Bro. With-
Ington, I had the opportunity of conversing with 
bnn, and our souls were made to rejoice in finding 
him in such a hopeful state of mind.' Conscious of 
11.18 approaching dissolution, he seemed calm and re-
signed to the will of his Maker. Ile cherished a 
forgiving spirit toward all the world, frankly con- 
ed his sins, and sought for and hoped in redemp- 
tion only through Jesus Christ. He expressed a de-
sire to recover, if it was God's will, that he might 
live a Christian life and set a different example be-
fore the world, and establish a family altar in his 
house. He prayed earnestly for his family and 
friends, especially remembering his companion, his 
two eldest sons, and an only brother. May God 
answer his prayers in their behalf. He expressed 
his faith in the Advent doctrine, " for," said he, " I 
can't help it ; there's too much evidence." On the 
evening previous to his departure, two or three 
hours before he breathed his last, he said to me, " I 
am all ready to go." He retained, I think, his 
senses to the last. I expect to meet him in the 
kingdom. 
JAMES G. STERLING. 
Springwater, N. Y. July 12, 1862. 
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 believed,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 
ake 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 religious life, is not chargeable 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 OF THE END." 
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It presents various computations of the times of 
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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.. 
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One Hundred Witnesses," of all ages of the church 
and of all denominations of Christians,-expressing 
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the renewed earth, on the resurrection of the just, 
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CAMP MEETING. 
The members of Messiah's Church will hold a 
camp meetino.' 
 on the ground owned by Mrs. Stock-
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ville, Pa., to commence August 6th, and continue 
over the Sabbath. 
Dr. Litch of Philadelphia, Rev. L. Osler of Prov-
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the word. The community in general are invited to 
attend. 
J. D. BOYER, 
RALPH LEE, 
GEORGE WORTHINGTON, 
Committee. 
" If the Lord will," there will be a wood's meet-
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August 7th, holding over the Sabbath. 
An effort will be made to have accommodations 
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well. 
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leaving the cars at Lower Squamkum ; thence five 
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Friends of Jesus help on the work. 
Oceanport, N. J. July 19, 1862. 
Mr's. Mary Jane Yoder, Harrisburg, Pa 
Miss 0. W. Allen, Johnson, Vt.... 
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Alexander Wattles, Troy, Mich., . 
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BOSTON, AUGUST 2, 1862. 
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My Future Labors. 
I am now able to say to the brethren of the Ad-
vent faith everywhere that, by the blessing of God, I 
can hereafter devote my entire time to preaching and 
publishing the gospel of the kingdom. Bro. 0. R. 
Fassett is to take charge of the Advent church in 
Hudson street, Boston ; so that I shall be relieved 
from that care and responsibility. 
I enter on this glorious work anew in the strength 
of God and the unshaken confidence in Protestant 
principles of interpretation, — that the visions of 
Daniel reach to the everlasting kingdom, — that the 
book of Revelation gives a history of the true church, 
and also of the papal power, and carries us to the 
end of all things, — that a prophetic day denotes a 
natural year, and a prophetic time 360 natural 
years, — that the times and seasons were to be un-
derstood and proclaimed. The church were not to, 
be in darkness, that that day should overtake her as 
a thief. And believing (with the most distinguished, 
pious, and learned expositors of the word of God in 
this century) that the signs of this time and the ful-
fillment of the prophecies indicate the speedy termi-
nation of this dispensation, I give myself entirely 
to the work of proclaiming these things. As a 
" watchman on the walls of Zion" I can do no less, 
if I dm faithful to my proper work. 
I ask the sympathy, prayers, and co-operation of 
all who cherish this faith, and look for the speedy 
coming of the Lord in his kingdom, whether you 
look for the event soon, without definite time, or, 
with me, to the termination of the periods in 1867 
and 1868, 
I shall solicit new subscriptions for the Advent 
Herald, coilect old dues, and further the interests of 
the office. I intend to furnish an article every week 
for the paper, when in my power in connexion with 
other duties. 
Let all take hold anew in this work. It is no 
time to slumber, or fold our hands in sleep. Stand-
ing on the threshhold of eternity, as we confessedly 
do, we ought to preach, write, and give as never 
before. 
JOSHUA V. MIMES. 
Boston, Mass. July 27, 1862. 
New Hampshire Tent for the Wilbraham 
Camp Meeting. 
Brethren and sisters of New Hampshire — what 
say to getting a tent, and raising a company to go 
the Wilbraham camp meeting ; so as to furnish our 
own bedding, provisions, etc. ? This will make it 
much cheaper than to hire our board. Several have 
already spoken to me about this. 
If a suitable number can go, so as to make it an 
object, I think I can get the fare reduced to half 
price from this place (Concord), if I can only know 
it in season to make the arrangements. 
Do any of our brethren own a tent? or does any 
one know of a tent that can be hired for the occa-
sion ? 
All those who would like to go, as already pro-
posed, or know of a tent that can be hired, will 
please write to me immediately : so that we can 
have time to make proper arrangements. If any 
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nications, please don't forget to enclose a postage 
stamp. 
e must move lively, brethren, if we bring this 
matter to perfection ; as we have only about four 
weeks before the meeting commences. The devil, 
with all his family, are doing all they can to destroy NOTICES OF ELEDER J. V. MMES. 
men ; let us do what we can to save them. The 
Lord is near at hand. 
T. 11I• PREBLE. 
Concord, N. B. Jnly 24, 1862. 
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THE ADVENT HERALD. 
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brethren, Dr. E. M.Loomis, of Perry's Mills, N.Y., 
and Alvah Loomis,of Champlain, N. Y.,rnay by ad-
dressed by any who wish accommodation or any 
further information about the meeting. 
The meeting is located in a grove on the farm of 
Fry Clark, one-fourth of a mile from the depot, 
Perry's Mills. Water for man and beast, and lum-
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The meeting will commence on Friday, August 15, 
at 4 P. M., and be continued every day, over two 
sabbaths, to the 24th. 
Ministers of God, brethren, sisters, and friends, 
one and all, come up to the feast. There never 
was a time when the door was opened so wide 
and effectual as now for the Adventist to speak 
and work for God and a doomed world. Many, 
too, among us have left their first love, and have 
need of help. Many in our families are out of the 
Ark of safety,and shall we not do something to res-
cue them before the storm of vengeance falls ? Can we 
endure to see the destruction of our kindred ? The 
community, too, are looking to us for light on the 
coming kingdom. Shall we not give it ? Can we 
withhold and be innocent in the day of the Lord ? 
We have light on the time, and the signs of the 
Advent of the King of kings : shall we not give it ? 
W by hesitate to give the trump a certain sound ? 
Rome is falling. The false prophet is tottering, and 
Armageddon, with its strife and slaughter, is just 
upon us ! 
Come then, ye veterans of the Advent faith, come 
ye young with the old soldiers, let us shake off the 
the dust of sloth and indolence, and gird on the ar-
mor of God. Let us seek and possess full redemp-
tion, and do what we can to multiply the number 
who shall stand on Mount Zion in the day of the 
Lord. 
Boston, July 14, 1862. JOSHUA V. MIMES. 
ADVENT HERALD. 
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24th, in the Advent chapel. 
Fraternally, THOS. SMITH. 
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that all Advent ministers in the State who can work 
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heaven. The place of the Conference is not yet de-
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EVANGELICAL ADVENT CONFERENCE. 
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day, Oct. 9th, andcontinue three days, or longer if the Con-
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The opening services will be on Tuesday, at 2 o'clock P. 
M., after which the unfinished business will be attended to. 
In the evening the Annual Sermon, by Elder D. Bos-
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Wednesday, A. M. A session of the American Millen-
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Wednesday, P. M. A session of the Evangelical Ad-
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Evening. Anniversary of A. N. Association. Opening 
Address by- Elder J. Pearson, to be followed by other 
brethren, on the Importance of Publications as a means of 
spreading the light. 
Thursday. Sessions of Conference.' Business and Es-
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In the evening, — the Anniversary of our Missionary 
work, — an Opening Address by Elder C. Cunningham, on 
the Christian Ministry, and the Gospel Method of its In-
crease and Support ; to be followed by addresses from 
other brethren. 
JOHN PEARSON, jr., 
LEMUEL OSLER, 
ANTHONY PEARCE, 
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paper is sent. 
Those mailing, or sending money to the office by other 
persons, unless they have a receipt forwarded to them, are 
requested to see that they are properly credited below. And 
if they are not, within a reasonable time, to notify the off 
immediately. 
As a general thing, it is better for each person to write 
respecting, and to send money himself, for his own paper 
than to send by an agent, or any third person, unless such 
one is more likely to get his own name and post-office right, 
than another person would be ; that money sent in small 
sums, is less likely to be lost than when sent in larger ones, 
and that a third person is often subjected to postage, merely 
to accommodate the one who sends. 
R. T. Price, 1184; Alvah Tenney, 1114; Phebe Hoyt, 
1127; C Kinney, 1127; Phineas T. Davis, 1127; D. Bo-
worth 1140; D. Rankin, 1127; A. D. (sister Dunbar') 
Whittemore, 1127; Mrs. Diana Royce, 1127; T. Adam-
son, 1127—If sou direct to Boston it will reach him; Mrs. 
Lewis Baker, 1122; J. T. Richardson, 1101 ; H. Guild, 
1119; Mrs. Sarah W. Adams, 1127; J. W. Barber, 1127; 
M. Thayer, 1127; A. Haskell, 1127; Miss S. II. Knight, 
1127; H. G. Frees, 1127; Mrs. Naomi Colburn, 1101
each $1.00. 
Henry Hay v, 1144; II. M. Duffin, 1179; Mary A. Nor-
ris, 1122; R. V. (or B. 7) Jones, 1127; Caleb Hazen, 1121, 
Mrs. C. Starbes, 1127; Rev. C. C. Norton, 1153; W. ., 
Fay, 1127; C. Snow, 1158; E. M. Palmer, 1135; Mis 
Mary Seaman, 1153; S. Burke, 1153—each $2.00. 
Daniel New, 1136, $4.00. 
Dr. 0. E. Noble, 1166, $2.50; Mrs. Mary Royce, 1092, 
when it was stopped, 50 cts. 
 Thomas Smith 
 .Robbins Miller 
S Foster 
Monday, Aug. 4. Albany, N. Y., in the evening. 
Wednesday, Aug. 6. Commence a meeting in 
Esperence, N. Y., and continue over the Sabbath, 
as Bro. Brownell shall appoint, — perhaps in the 
grove. 
Tuesday, Aug. 12. Sandy Hill, N. Y., in the 
evening. thence to Perry's Mills, to prepare for 
camp-meeting. 
Friday,August 15. Commences a camp meeting in 
Perry's Mills, N. Y., to continue from the 15th to 
24 th , 
Tuesday, Aug. 26. Will be at the Wilbraham 
camp meeting, to continue through the week. 
Friends who wrote me from Conn. will please 
write me without delay as to their plans for my la-
bors after the camp meeting. 
ADVENT CAMP MEETING. 
'A general camp meeting for Northern N. Y., 'Ver-
mont, and Canada East, will be holden in Perry's 
Mills, N. Y., near the depot of the Ogdensburg Rail 
Road in that place, six miles from Rouse's Point, N. 
Y. The Adventists in the entire region, with all 
persuasions of Christians, are most cordially invited 
to attend,and take an earnest and active part in the 
objects of the meeting. 
All who have tents will bring them. And friends 
in the vicinity are invited to put up cheap lumber 
tents, or others, for themselves and strangers. Board 
and lodging will be provided on reasonable terms. 
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