WHOLE NO. 1074. 
BOSTON, SATURDAY, DECEMBER 21, 1861. 
VOLUME XXII. NO. 51. 
THE ADVENT HERALD �the Lord from henceforth : Yea, saith the Spirit, servants : "He delivered them ten pounds, and 
Is published every Saturday, at 46 1-2 Kneeland st. (up that they may rest from their labors ; and their said unto them, Occupy till I come." 
stairs), Boston, Mass., by �
works do follow them." Rev. 14 : 13. �
Reader,I know few words more searching and 
"The American Millennial Association." �
In one of Dr. Cumming's Lectures on Roman- impressive than these four, "Occupy till I come." 
SYLVESTER BLISS, Business Agent, �ism, we have an interesting application of the They are spoken to all who profess and call them- 
To whom remittances for the Association, and communi- 
cations for the Herald should be directed. �
says he wasgiving selves Christians. They address the conscience 
Letters, on business, simply, marked on envelope ("For some of his lectures in Poplar, Eng. and at the of every one who has not renounced his baptism, 
Office"), will receive prompt attention. 
close of the second meeting a lady whom he had and formally turned his back on Christianity. 
J. PEARSON, jr. �
Committee �
observed taking notes handed him a slip of paper 
J. V. IltmEs, �on �
They ought to stir up all hearers of the Gospel 
LEMUEL OSLER, �
Publication. �
containing a request to have an interview with to examine themselves whether they are in the 
him ;they met and, among other things, she 
TERMS.
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" �intimate friend, and the god-father of my boy ; words were written : "Occupy till I come." 
Those who receive of agents, free of postage, will pay I was to play the new organ when it was put up ; 
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The Lord Jesus bids you "occupy." By that 
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Christianity, and not merely a hearer and pro- 
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ly and prayerfully what I have heard in your 
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olic." The doctor continues—"I asked her to do his work. You are to "let your light so 
what points struck her most forcibly in my state- shine before men that they may see your good 
Bro. Bliss :—Perhaps the following Poem of Miss 
H. M. Johnson may not he devoid of interest in ments, and alienated her affections from the Ro- works." (Matt. v. 16.) Have you faith? It 
these war times, though it has reference to the bat- man Catholic church. She said, it was not so must not be a dead faith : it must "work by love." 
tie plains of Europe, war being much the same eve- much the arguments I brought forward as the 
rywhere and at best a fearful scourge. It is copied �
(Gal. v. 6.) Are you elect ? ;You are elect un- 
from the Sherbrooke, C. E. Gazette. 
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texts I quoted—a very striking and precious tes- to "obedience." (1 Peter i. 2.) Are you redeem- 
THE DEAD ON THE BATTLE FIELD. 
timony. One of these texts she said, fell upon ed? You are redeemed that you may be "a pe-
her like a sunbeam from heaven, and unveiled culiar people, zealous of good works." (Titus ii. 
Strewn o'er the battle plain, �
to her hopes and prospects to which she was an 14.) Do you love Christ? Prove the reality of 
After the fight was done, �
utter stranger before ;---and that text was,' Bless- 
And the bloody victory won, �
your love by keeping Christ's commandments. 
Were a thousand heaps of slain �ed are the dead that die in the Lord from hence- (John xiv. 15.) Oh ! reader, do not forget this 
Rider and horse there lay, �
forth : yea, saith the Spirit, that they may'---not charge to "occupy." Beware of an idle,talking, 
But the war-steed neighed no more, 
And the gallant form he bore, �
suffer in purgatory, but—'rest from their labors.' gossiping, sentimental,do-nothing religion. Think 
Upon that eventful day— �
She told me that she felt this most acutely, be- not because your doings cannot justify you, or 
Shattered, and marred, and ghastly pale, �
cause she had been formerly laid upon a sick- 
Had fallen beneath the deadly hail! 
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put away one single sin that therefore it matters 
bed, and her medical attendant had given up all not whether you do any thing at all. Away with 
Prince and peasant were there ! 
Rich and poor, master and slave, �
hope, and told her there was no chance of her such a delusion ! Cast it behind you as an inven- 
Wise and simple, timid and brave, �
recovery ; she sent for an aged priest from a tion of the devil. Think of the house built upon 
Old men with snow white hair,— 
neighboring place, to administer the sacrament the sand, and its miserable end. (Matt. vii. 24 
Young men of noble birth, 
Boys just from there native shore, �
of Extreme Unction. On receiving it she asked _27.) As ever you would "make your calling 
And the homes they shall see no more, �him, 'Am I now safe ?' to which, according to and election sure," be a doing Christian. 
Stretched on the cold damp earth ! 
her testimony, he replied, 'I can pledge my own 
And mother and sister may watch in vain, �
But the Lord Jesus also bids you "occupy 
They never shall press those lips again ! �safety that you are.' But,' added she, 'have I your pound." By this he means that he has giv- 
Clasped in a fond embrace �
not to pass through purgatory ?' 'Unquestiona- en each one of his people some opportunity of 
Was a young and gentle pair, �
bly,' said the priest. 'Then tell me as a dying glorifying him. He would have you understand 
And the love that was pictured there 
Made holy that dreadful place. �
woman, what is the nature of the purgatory I that 'every one has got his own sphere,—the 
Near by a chieftain bled.— �
have to experience ?' The priest, with great so- poorest as well as the richest ;—that every one 
While his faithful dog still kept �
lemnity, and, if his creed be right, with great 
A mournful watch where he slept, �
has an open door before him,and may, if he will, 
And moaned above the dead ! �
truth replied, 'Purgatory, my dear child, is a show forth his Master's praise. Your bodily 
Then gazed on the pallid lips and brow, �place where you will have to suffer the torments 
It is death—does be comprehend it now? �
health and strength, �
mental gifts and ea 
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the damned, only of shorter duration.' She cities,—your money and your earthly posses- 
Just as they fell they lay, 
said every nerve tingled with agony at the an- 
Struck down in the deadly strife; �
sions,—your rank and position in life,—your ex- 
And the latest look they wore in life, �nouncement. But when the text I illustrated ample and influence with others,—your liberty 
Death had not taken away. �
came upon her ear, and reached her heart, de- 
Some with a pleasant smile,— �
to read the Bible and hear the Gospel,—your 
Foeman with foeman at peace,— �
claring that the dead in Christ 'rest from their plentiful supply of means of grace,—all these 
Croat, and Frank, and Tyrolese, �
labors,' and again, 'to be absent from the body are your "pounds." All these are to be used and 
is to be present with the Lord,' she felt that 
From the Seine, the Po, and the land of song, �
employed with a continual reference to the glory 
0, where were the souls of that countless throng? either the priest must be wrong and the Bible of Christ. All these are his gifts. "Of him come 
Gone to the bar of God ! �
true, or the Bible must be false if purgatory be riches and honor." (1 Chroii. xxix. 12.) "His 
Gone from the battle's din, �
true." �
is the silver,and his is the gold." (Haggai ii. 8.) 
Gone with their weight of sin, 
To the solemn bar of God' �
"His is your body, and his is your spirit." (1 
Woe to ambition and pride ! �
"Occupy till I Come." �
Cor. vi. 20.) He appoints your habitation. He 
Woe to the tyrant king 
Who dares from his subject wring �
BY REV. J. C. RILE. �
gives you life and breath. (Acts xvii. 25, 26.) 
The rights God never denied,— �
Rector of Christ's church, Oxford, Eng. �
You are not your own. You are bought with a 
Aye, woe to him for the record stands, 
And the blood of the slain is on his hands. 
Continued from our last. �
price. (1. Cor. vi. 20.) Surely it is no great mat- 
IL M. J. �
III. The third and last question I wish to con- ter if he bid you honor him and serve him with 
Magog, Aug. 9, 1859. �
sider, is this : What is the present duty of all all that you have. Breathes there a man or wo- 
S cripture Illustration. 
Christ's professing disciples ? �
man among the readers of this tract, that has re- 
When I speak of present duty,I mean of course ceived nothing at the Lord's hand ? Not one, I 
their duty botween the period of Christ's first am sure. Oh ! see to it, that you lay out your 
"And I heard a voice from heaven saying un- and second advent. And I find an answer in the Lord's money well and honestly ! Take heed 
to me, Write, Blessed are the dead which die in words of the nobleman, in the parable, to his that you do not bury your pound! 
But the Lord Jesus bids you also to "occupy 
till he comes." By that he means that you are 
to do his work on earth, like one who continual- 
ly looks for his return. You are to be like the 
faithful servant, who knew not what hour his 
master may come home, but keeps all things in 
readiness, and is always prepared. You are to 
be like one who knows that Christ's coming is 
the great reckoning day, and to be ready to ren- 
der up your account at any moment. You are 
not to suppose that you have any freehold in this 
world, nor even a lease. The greatest and the 
richest of mankind is only God's tenant-at-will. 
You are not to neglect any social duty or rela- 
tion of life, because of the uncertainty of the 
Lord's return. You are to fill the station to which 
God has called you in a godly and Christian 
way ; and you are to be ready to go from the 
place of business to meet Christ in the air, if 
the Lord shall think fit. You are to be like a 
man who never knows what a day may bring 
forth,and,therefore, to put off nothing till a "con- 
venient season." You are to rise and go forth in 
the morning, ready if need be, to meet Christ at 
noon. You are to lie down in bed at night,ready, 
if need be, to be awakened by the midnight cry, 
"Behold, the Bridegroom cometh." You are to 
keep your spiritual accounts in a state of con-
stant preparation, like one who never knows how 
soon they may be called for. You are to mea-
sure all your ways by the measure of Christ's 
appearing, and to do nothing in which you would 
not like Jesus to find you engaged. This is to 
"occupy" till Jesus comes. 
Think, reader,how condemning are these words 
to thousands of professing Christians ! What do 
utter absence of preparation appears in their 
daily walk and conversation ! How thoroughly 
unfit they are to meet Christ ! They know noth-
ing of occupying the gifts of God as loans for 
which they must give account. They show not 
the slightest desire to glorify him with "body and 
spirit which are his." They give no signs of 
readiness for the second advent. Well says old 
Gurnall, "It may be written on the grave of 
every unconverted man, Here lies one who never 
did for God an hour's work." Who can wonder 
in a world like this, if a minister often cries to 
his congregation, "Ye must be born again :" 
"Except ye be converted. and become as little 
children, ye shall not enter into the kingdom of 
heaven." John iii. 7 ; Matt. xviii. 3. 
Think, again, how arousing these words ought 
to be to all who are rich in this world, but do 
not know how to spend their money rightly. 
Alas ! there are many who live on as if Christ 
had never said any thing about the difficulty of 
rich men being saved. They are rich towards 
their own pleasures, or their own tastes, or their 
own families, but not rich towards God ! They 
live as if they would not have to give an account 
of their use of money. They live as if there was 
no reckoning-day before the bar of Christ. They 
live as if Christ had never said, "It is more bless-
ed to give than to receive." Acts xx. 35. "Sell 
that ye have, and give alms. Provide yourselves 
bags which wax not old, a treasure in heaven 
that faileth not." Luke xii. 33. Oh ! if this tract 
should by chance fall into the hands of such an 
one, I do beseech you, consider your ways and 
be wise. Cease to be content with giving God's 
cause a few shillings, or an occasional guinea . 
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Spiritualism in China. 
dren of this world marry, and are given in mar-
riage : but they which shall be accounted worthy 
to obtain that world, and the resurrection from 
the dead,neither marry nor are give in marriage." 
A Reader. 
It seems to us clear that our Lord designed 
to set forth the spirituality and the felicity of the 
future life by divesting it at once of dependence 
upon earthly sources and modes of happiness,and 
of all contingency of earthly sorrow. So exalted 
and so blessed will be that future life, that mar-
riage—the highest and holiest joy of earth—will 
no more be desired ; so vital and permanent will 
that existence be ; that no shadow of death will 
ever fall upon it : "They neither marry, neither 
can they die,for they are equal unto the angels ; 
and are the children of' God, being the children 
of the resurrection." The two negative conditions 
give us the highest positive conception of being 
—a state not of succession and renewal, but of 
unchanging, ever-enduring blessedness. 
But while our Lord teaches that the peculiar 
forms and modes of earthly existence in respect 
both of joy and sorrow will there be unknown,he 
does not teach that all memories and associations 
of earth and time will have ceased. His langu-
age implies the opposite of this. There will be 
"a world"—an organized state of society; there 
will be a resurrection, an individual corporeity 
therefore which,however spiritualized,will be the 
basis of recognition and the medium of friendly 
intercourse. He does not meet the puzzle of the 
Sadducees touching the woman seven tinies wed-
ded by denying the possibility of recognition, ac-
quaintance, memory, in the future state, but by 
assuming these, and surmounting the embarrass-
ment which that case was meant to produce, by 
showing that all earthly loves and unions will 
there be absorbed in the high and sacred circle 
of spiritual and eternal love. 
The dying message of Jonathan Edwards to 
the saint who for thirty years had blessed his 
home, gives the key to this transformation,'"Give 
my kindest love to my dear wife, and tell her 
that the uncommon union which has so long sub-
sisted between us, has been of such a nature as, 
I trust is spiritual, and therefore will continue 
for ever." 
"And so, before the judgment-seat, 
Though changed and glorified each face, 
Not unremembered we may meet, 
For endless ages to embrace." 
We cannot now fathom this high and blessed 
mystery. Enough that we shall be equal to the 
angels, shall be the children of God. Be it ours 
so to live in Christ in this present time, that we 
shall rise in him to that supernal and unending 
glory.—N. Y. Ind. 
The Overland China Mail of June contains an 
account of spirit-manifestations in China, by Dr. 
MacGowan, of Ningoo. 
He says they have had the table-tippings, or 
rather whirlings, and spirit-writings there for a 
long time. Writing is performed with a pencil 
or a chopstick, on a table which has been cover-
ed over thinly with bran,flour, dust, or any pow-
der to receive the communication. 
In a great number of cases the characters thus 
traced will be found in perfect accordance with 
the best style of composition accurately commu-
nicating things altogether unknown to the opera-
tors. 
There is probably not a native living—Pagan 
or Christian, Jew or Mahomedan, or anything, 
else, who does not religiously believe it to 1w. ow-
ing to supernatural agency ; and in support of 
that belief, almost any of them will give narra-
tives which, to say the least, must be admitted 
to be extremely curious ; for, say they,if you in-
voke the presence of a ghost by suitable religious 
ceremonies, you will almost invariably have char-
acters traced on the table by a spirit, which gen-
erally revealed something occult and mysterious. 
Soon after our arrival in Ningpoo, in 1843, 
such a wonderful impulse was suddenly given 
to the custom, that it could only be compared to 
the prevalence of an epidemic. There was scarce-
ly a house in which it was not practiced, for a 
season, almost daily. The cause of this remark-
able revival of an old custom could not be ascer-
tained ; but its subsidence, after a short period, 
Give far more liberally than you have done yet. 
Give hundreds where you now give tens. Give 
thousands where you now give hundreds.—
Then, and not till then, I shall believe you are 
"occupying" as one who looks for Christ's return. 
Alas for the covetousness and narrow-minded-
ness of the Church of these days ! May the Lord 
open the eyes of rich Christians! 
Think, again, how instructive are these words 
to all who are troubled by doubts about mingling 
with the world,and taking part in its vain amuse-
ments. It is useless to tell us that races, and 
balls, and theatres, and operas, and cards,are not 
forbidden by name in Scripture. The question 
we should ask ourselves is simply this,—"Am I 
occupying, as one who looks for Christ's return, 
when I take part in these things ? Should I like 
Jesus to return suddenly and find me on the 
race-course, or in the ball-room,or at the theatre, 
or at the card-table ? Should I think I was in 
my right place, and where my Lord would have 
me to be?" Oh, my dear reader, this is the true 
test by which to try all our daily occupations 
and employment of time. That thing which we 
would not do if we thought Jesus was coming 
to-night, that thing we ought not to do at all. 
That place to which we would not go if we thought 
Jesus was coming this day, that place we ought 
to avoid. That company in which we would not 
like Jesus to find us, in that company we ought 
never sit down. Oh ! that men would live as in 
the sight of Christ,—not as in the sight of man, 
or of the church, or of ministers,—but as in the 
sight of Christ ! This would be "occupying till 
he comes." 
But think how encouraging are these words to 
all who seek first the kingdom of God, and love 
the Lord Christ in sincerity. What, though the 
children of the world regard them as "righteous 
overmuch !" What, though mistaken friends and 
relations tell them they pay too much attention 
to religion, and go too far ! Those words, "Oc- 
cupy till I come," are words which justify their 
conduct. They may well reply to their persecu- 
tors, "I am doing a great work, and I cannot 
come down ; I am striving to live so as to be 
ready when the Lord comes ; �
must be about 
my Father's business.'" 
A Question Answered. 
from nation to nation,"—where men are "run-
ning to and fro" on "chariots of lightning,"—
when the mighty men are waked up, and "the 
valiant men are in scarlet,"—is now upon us, we 
cannot for a moment doubt. Were this at any 
other time or seen only in a very limited extent, 
it might be otherwise ; but occurring at this point, 
where we run out all lines of prophecy, and be-
ing so universally true, we find no room or heart 
to disbelieve what is so clearly indicated by the 
present signs of the times. Said a recent "Bos-
ton Journal," "The nations of the world are in 
a state of fearful commotion. The manufacture 
of rifled cannon, Minnie rifles, and death-dealing 
missiles of all sorts, was never so active in the 
world's history, and there are no signs 9f cessa-
tion. War, and not peace, seems to be the pre-
dominant idea. The world is one vast camp, and 
the military power everywhere predominates." 
Said the N. Y. Independent of a more recent 
date :—"We are at the point where prophecy 
converges more swiftly toward its accomplish-
ment, and when all trumpets foreshown in the 
Apocalypse seem to be sounding at once on the 
air, all vials to be poured out together on the 
lands." And again ;—"There is every indica-
tion that this will be a year of commotions in the 
earth, and distress of nations, almost without 
parallel since the beginning of the Christian era." 
2nd. Yet, with all this, it is probable that it 
will be said and perhaps generally felt that there 
is no occasion for alarm, until, as a snare, the 
event suddenly astonishes and overwhelms the 
world. "For as a snare shall it come on them 
that dwell on the face of the whole earth." Luke 
21 : 35. "For as in the days that were before 
the flood, they were eating and drinking . . . . 
and they knew not until the flood came and took 
them all away, so shall also the coming of the 
Son of man be." Matt. 24: 38, 39. "When they 
shall say, Peace and safety,then sudden destruc-
tion cometh upon them." "But ye, brethren,are 
not in darkness that that day should overtake 
you as a thief. Ye are the children of light, and 
the children of the day." 1 Thess. 5 : 3, 4. 
The query may arise, how nations can be ex-
pected to fight after so awful an event as the 
coming of the Lord, and the resurrection and 
translation of the righteous. But we are to bear 
in mind that such is the divinely appointed judg-
ment that is to fall upon the anti-christian, or 
Christ-rejecting nations,and when once God shall 
remove the moral restraints now existing, it will 
be an easy matter for every man's hand to be 
against his brother. To the foregoing scripture 
we might add Rev. 7 : 3, Ps. 91: 5-8 : com-
pare J er. 25 : 32, and Dan. 12 : 1,—but our 
space forbids. May God pit his seal upon us, 
and deliver us from that time.—m 
Crisis. 
Our Glorified Existence. 
The heavenly state is described to us in the 
Bible mainly by negations. As language is based 
ultimately upon sensible objects and phenomena, 
it were as impossible to convey to our minds de-
finite conceptions of the spiritual and gloiified 
existence of the redeemed in heaven, as to give 
a savage any idea of the magnetic telegraph by 
grafting upon his speech the scientific terms of 
civilized man. Having never seen a galvanic 
battery or any of the phenomena of magnetism, 
he has no basis for an idea of the telegraph and 
its workings. Hence the Bible, instead of at-
tempting a philosophical statement of the ele-
ments and the mode of the future spiritual life, 
describes it pictorially, by symbols of joy and 
beauty taken from earthly scenes, or by the 
strong negation of whatever is evil and painful 
here. There is no htinger nor thirst, no pain nor 
weariness, no night, no crying, no death. From 
..uch declarations we form by contrast some idea 
of the serenity and the blessedness of heaven. 
But there is one of these negations which is 
peculiar in that it denies to the future life that 
which is the highest condition of felicity in the 
present. A correspondent invites attention to it 
as follows : 
To the Editors of the Independent : 
Will you or any of the contributors to your ex-
cellent paper give to me the interpretation of those 
verses in Luke xx. 34, 35, which reads thus : 
"And Jesus answering said unto them, The chil- 
was explained by the amount of mischief occa-
sioned by those who followed on confident in the 
communications from Hades,and by the complaint 
that little real advantage ever accrued from this 
form of divination. 
A club of literary graduates were in the habit 
of assembling in a Tanist temple, for practicing 
the Ki, as the ceremony is called ; and many 
and marvellous are the revelations told of the 
"spiritual manifestations" which they elicited. 
It was continued for a long time, until the arri-
val of an intendant who disapproved of the de-
rnonality ; he addressed the party as a friendly 
adviser, urging the discontinuance of such prac-
tices, on the ground that he had never known 
any good, but considerable evil, to result from 
them. His council was followed ; and since that 
time this sort of divination has been tried only 
occasionally, and by individuals. 
A poor graduate, after worshipping and em-
ploying incantations, invoked the presence and 
instructions of his deceased grandfather : where-
upon the pencil traced, in a legible hand, some 
suggestions, which were complied with, which 
proved disastrous to the scholar. 
The Battle of Pensacola. 
New York, Dec. 12. A letter from Key 'West 
of the 5th inst. states that their Pensacola dates 
are to the 26th ult. It appears that rebel steam- 
ers have been plying between the Navy Yard 
and town constantly, carrying guns, munitions, 
&c. �
Col. Brown notified Bragg that he should 
fire on them, to which Bragg replied, "Fire 
away." On the morning of the 22d two steam-
ers again appeared. Col. Brown disabled one ; 
the other escaped. 
A general cannonading then took place between 
Fort Pickens and Fort Barrancas ; the Niagara 
and Richmond opening on Fort McRea and sev-
eral water batteries in reach of the Richmond's 
guns. No person was injured aboard the Nia-
gara. James Cook was the person killed on the 
Richmond. Both vessels were slightly damaged 
in the upper works. Fort Pickens had not even 
a sand bag displaced by the Fort Barrancas fire. 
On the 24th, while removing a fuse from a shell 
it exploded, killing five men and wounding many 
others. Col. Brown says he has Fort Barrancas 
completely at his mercy, and is awaiting rein-
forcements to hold the Forts when he shall take 
them. 
Another letter states that one of 'Wilson's 
Zouaves was killed and another wounded on the 
22d. About 2500 guns were fired in the two 
days. At 3 o'clock on the afternoon of the 23d, 
Warrington was set on fire by our guns,and that 
place and nearly all of the Navy Yard destroyed. 
The steamer Times was disabled at the first 
shot. The rebel fire slackened on the second day. 
Two companies of Wilson's Zouaves have charge 
of the batteries near the Fort, and two compan-
ies in the Fort, and the remainder of the regi-
ment are in trenches to repel a midnight attack. 
The heaviest rebel guns are near the lighthouse, 
and their heaviest mortars on both sides of the 
hospitals. The water battery below fort McRea 
is a bad customer. The ranges of our artillery 
are splendid. 
A note dated 24th ult. states that Col. Brown 
prohibited firing unless the rebels first opened, it 
being the Sabbath. One of our guns burst yes-
terday. The rebels have evidently suffered much. 
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Latest Intelligence ty Telegraph 
from Liverpool k7th, Evening. 
The most intense excitement exists here to-day 
under the intelligence of the action of the Feder-
al steamer San Jacinto in taking the Southern 
Commissioners, Messrs. Mason and Slidell, from 
the British mail steamer Trent. 
An indignation meeting was promptly held, 
and resolutions were carried by acclamation de-
nouncing the insult and calling on the British Gov-
ernment to maintain the dignity of the flag. Some 
prominent merchants spoke against precipitate 
action, and said the matter had better be !eft 
with the Government. 
The feeling of indignation, however, was very 
general. Consols declined in London 1-2 per 
cent, and Illinois Central shares 2 per cent. 
The ship Hellen arrived here to-day from 
A correspondent asks, "Do you look for the 
Savior in the time of troubles and commotions,or 
in the time of peace ?" 
We reply, we do not perceive from reading 
the prophecies that the time immediately preced-
ing the Lord's second advent is to be particular-
ly marked by either universal peace or universal 
commctions. But to this we may add, 
1st. When the Lord makes his second advent 
to earth, there is to immediately follow "a time 
of trouble, such as never was since there was a 
nation." Dan. 12 : 1. "For by fire, and by his 
sword, will the Lord plead with all flesh : and 
the slain of' the Lord shall be many." Isa. 66 : 
16. �
"Bdaold evil shall go forth from nation to 
nation, and a great whirlwind shall be raised up 
from the coasts of the earth ; and the slain of 
the Lord shall be at that day, from one end of 
the earth even unto the other end of the earth." 
Jer. 25 : 22, 23. Bat should such, and many 
like passages of the Old Testament be called in 
question, as applying to this subject, we remark 
the New Testament is equally explicit. We there 
read of the drying up of the (symbolic) river 
Euphrates, preparatory to "The battle of the 
great day of God Almighty." Rev. 16. Again, 
it is recorded of the redeemed that they shall 
then say,—"The nations were angry, and Thy 
wrath is come,and the time of the dead that they 
should be judged." Rev. 11 : 18. 
Evidently this is indicative of universal na-
tional trouble. Preparatory to this there must 
be much running to and fro, (See Dan. 12 : 4, 
and Nahum 2 : 3, 4,) and, as we may suppose, 
much perplexity. Indeed this is the very ex-
pression used by our Lord in his prophetic de-
lineation of this point. "And there shall be signs 
in the sun, and in the moon, and in the stars ; 
and upon the earth distress of nations, with per- 
1 �
plexity." Luke 21 : 25. That this time of 
sad "perplexity"—of "evil"—(or rebellion and 
l% �
insurrection against lawful means,) going "forth 
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could afford to offer for their allegiance. 
To restore to them, in their present tem- 
per, all the prerogatives and powers which they 
formerly possessed, would be to establish an in-
dependent state in the heart of his dominions,and 
to sign the death warrant of his empire. Noth-
ing less, however, than the restoration of all 
their ancient laws and liberties, can reconcile 
the countrymen of Kossuth to the sway of Aus-
tria. The concessions which have been made to 
them have been received as an insult, and have 
excited a more dangerous spirit than ever. If 
the Emperor is to preserve his sovereignty at all, 
it must be done by sheer brute force. The in 
troduction of such a regime makes a new revo-
lution simply a question of time. The first op-
portunity will be seized, and that opportunity 
will come just so soon as the Italian kingdom is 
in a position to strike for the rescue of Venetia. 
It is known that Victor Emanuel is eager for 
the hour when he may march his armies over 
the Mincio, and his subjects are chafing for the 
movement which alone can give Italy its normal 
unity. The detention comes from the opposition 
of the French Emperor to any such advance at 
present, and also from certain internal embarrass-
ments in the administration of the new kingdom. 
The finances are somewhat embarrassed, social 
disorders prevail in the southern provinces, and 
the military conscription, as now regulated, oc-
casions wide dissatisfaction. The abolition of 
the temporal sovereignty of the Pope, and the 
establishment of Rome as the capital of united 
Italy, are objects which, in some measure, divert 
the attention. Nevertheless these difficulties 
are all liable to be swept out of the way at any 
time, giving free range to a combined attack of 
both Italy and Hungary upon the Austrian rule. 
When that attack is once made, it, in all likeli-
hood,can have but one issue. The empire of the 
Hapsburgs must be dismembered. Francis Jos-
eph finds it impossible to raise even the small-
est loan in any capital of Europe, and is reduc-
ed to the same financial extremity that our own 
Jeff. Davis is struggling under—the emission of 
inconvertible paper to an indefinite extent. No 
power in this age can for any time maintain war 
with such material. The sinews of war are of 
gold, and no amount of stubborn determination 
can avail without it. Never was a nation in a 
worse condition to undertake a great struggle 
than the Austria of to-day. 
The constant liability to a revival of war in 
Europe, affords our own country an additional 
guarantee of European non-intervention in our 
own civil difficulties. Should that war once be-
gin, no one can tell what may be its scope and 
direction before it shall end. We know that 
the revolutionary elements of the continent are 
one, and a single spark may kindle the whole in 
one common blaze. 
Watchman. and Reflector. 
Charleston with a cargo of rosin and turpentine. 
The Hansa brings the London Times of the 
28th, which contains an account of the meeting 
in Liverpool. The following placard was post-
ed on 'Change : 
"Outrage on the British Flag ! Southern Com-
missioners Forcibly Removed from a British 
Mail Steamer ! A public meeting will be held in 
the cotton sales room at 3 o'clock." 
The room was crowded to excess. The chair 
was occupied by James Spence, who read the 
following resolution : 
Resolved, That this meeting,having heard with 
indignation that an American Federal ship of 
war has forcibly taken from a British mail steam-
er certain passengers,who were proceeding peace-
ably, under the shelter of our flag, from one neu-
tral port to another, do earnestly call upon the 
government to assert the dignity of the British 
flag, by requiring prompt reparation for this out-
rage. 
This resolution was received with great en-
thusiasm. The resolution was advocated by the 
Chairman, who considered that he was express-
ing the feelings of the people when he said that 
it was the duty of the people to press on the 
government the imperative necessity of vindica-
ting the honor and dignity of the British name 
and flag. 
Mr. John Cambell considered there was reason 
to doubt whether the facts related and acted up-
on by this meeting were in reality a breach of 
international law, and referred to the opinions of 
the law officers of the Crown as being in some 
measure inclined to show that such a step as was 
taken in respect to the Southern Commissioners 
was justifiable under the existing state of the in-
ternational law, and urged the propriety of post-
poning the consideration of the subject until to-
morrow. 
Mr. Torr sustained Mr. Cambell's views. 
The chairman suggested that to meet the ob-
jection of Mr. eambell he would strike out the 
the words "by requiring prompt reparation for 
this outrage," and thus amended the resolution 
passed unanimously. 
Several merchants expressed their views after 
the adjournment, that the meeting and action 
were premature. 
The London Times is more moderate in its 
comments on Mason and Slidell's capture than 
the News. While denying that the Federal Gov-
ernment, on its own position that the existing 
war is a niere rebellion, have a right to overhaul 
neutral ships, it nevertheless admits that Eng-
land herself has established precedents, which may 
tell against her in this matter of the Trent, but 
these precedents were made under circumstances 
very different, it asserts, from those which now 
occur. England was then fighting for existence, 
and did in those days what she would not now do 
or allow others to do. In discussing the question 
whether Mason and Slidell were liable to cap-
ture as belligerents or contrabands on board the 
Trent, the Times states that it is the opinion of 
very eminent jurists that this was not the ques-
tion to be adjudicated by the boat's crew. The 
legal bourse would have been to take the ship it-
self into port for adjudication. It concludes 
with the expression that Englishmen will discuss 
the question with calmness, and appeals to the 
Federal States not to provoke war by such acts. 
Austria in Extremity. 
Francis Joseph of Austria,remarks the World, 
is in a desperate strait. Ricasoli, the prime 
minister of Italy, announces that the Venetian 
question can have no other solution than the 
sword, while Hungary has rejected finally and 
forever the unsatisfactory constitution offered 
her, and has made it almost impossible for the 
imperial goveroment to maintain any adminis-
tration over her on account of the refusal of all 
the county and city municipalities to co-operate, 
and the equally persistent refusal of every re-
spectable Hungarian to take an imperial office 
of any character whatever. Hungary through-
out is heaving with suppressed fury, which may 
any day break into a terrific insurrection. The 
difficulty is how to appease her. The concession 
of the modified constitution to the Hungarians 
was in fa ct the highest price that the Emperor 
Sabbath School Exercise, 
Brother Bliss :—On Sabbath before last our 
Sabbath School gave their quarterly exercise, 
with very good satisfaction to a large audience. 
Our meeting house was literally jammed, and 
multitudes went away not being able to gain ad-
mittance. Mr. Joseph S. Tillinghast, the friend 
of Sabbath Schools, was with us, on that day. 
He addressed the school in the morning, the pa-
rents in the afternoon, and the congregation in 
the evening,at the close of the exercise. He al-
so addressed the school at Dr. Hall's Church in 
the morning at 9 o'clock, and at noon he visited 
the Orphan Asylum and a colored Sunday 
School. 
As this exercise was well received, and as we 
are often applied to for exercises for Sunday 
School concerts, I forward a part of this for pub-
lication for the use of other schools. The Tab-
ernacle and its furniture that will be described 
was drawn and painted for the occasion, by mem-
bers of the school, as well as the foundations of 
the new Jerusalem. 
Dec. 5, 1861. 
EXERCISE, PART. 1. 
1. The history of the Jewish church forms so 
large a part of the Sacred writings, that a know-
ledge of that history is necessary to a proper ac-
quaintance with the word of God. Not only in 
the Old Testament do we have an account of 
the Jewish church and its religious services, but 
numerous allusions are made to these in the 
New. Hence the importance of storing the mind 
with these Bible facts, in order to a proper un-
derstanding of the divine purpose in the case. 
One of the most important parts of Jewish wor-
ship was the Tabernacle service, a description of 
which will now be given you, aided by a picto-
rial representation. 
2. Mention is made in the Old Testament of 
three different tabernacles, previously to the 
erection of Solomon's temple. The first, which 
Moses erected, is called the "Tabernacle of the 
Congregation." The second tabernacle Moses 
erected was by the express command of God, 
designed as a palace for his presence as the king 
of Israel ; and a place where his people could 
publicly engage in solemn worship to him. The 
third public tabernacle was erected by David in 
his own city, for the reception of the ark, when 
he received it from the house of Obed-Edom. 
3. The second tabernacle was erected on the 
first day of the first month in the second year 
after the departure of the Israelites from Egypt. 
4. The command to erect such a Tabernacle, 
was given to Moses when on the Mount ; after 
which Jehovah said to him : "See that thou 
make all things according to the pattern shewed 
to thee in the Mount." 
5. �
Moses was directed to call upon the peo- 
ple for contributions for its erection, and their 
prompt and liberal response is thus recorded : 
'And all the congregation of the children of Is-
rael departed from the presence of Moses : And 
they came, every one whose heart stirred him up, 
and every one whom his spirit made willing, and 
they brought the Lord's offering to the work of 
the tabernacle of the congregation, and for all 
his service, and for the holy garments. And 
they came, both men and women, as many as 
were willing hearted, and brought bracelets, and 
earrings, and rings,and tablets,all jewels of gold : 
and every one that offered offered an offering of 
gold unto the Lord. And every man, with 
whom was found blue, and purple, and scarlet, 
and fine linen, and goats' hair, and red skins of 
rams, and badgers' skins, brought them. Every 
one that did offer an ofbring of silver and brass 
brought the Lord's offering : and every rnan,with 
whom was found shittim wood for any work of 
the service, brought it. And all the women that 
were wise hearted did spin with their hands, and 
brought that which they had spun, both of blue, 
and purple, and of scarlet, and of fine linen. And 
all the women whose hearts stirred them up in 
wisdom spun goats' hair. And the rulers brought 
onyx stones, and stones to be set, for the ephod, 
and for the breastplate ; And spice, and oil for 
the light, and for the anointing oil, and for the' 
sweet incense. The children of Israel brought 
a willing offering unto the Lord, every man and 
woman, whose heart made them willing to bring 
for all manner of work, which the Lord had 
commanded to be made by the hand of Moses. 
And they spake unto Moses, saying, The people 
bring much more than enough for the service of 
the work, which the Lord commanded to make. 
And Moses gave commandment, and they caused 
it to be proclaimed throughout the camp, saying, 
Let neither man or woman make any more 
work for the offering of the sanctuary. So the 
people were restrained from bringing. For the 
stuff they had was sufficient for all the work to 
make it, and too much." 
6. The materials being furnished by the peo-
ple, every one brought his oblation according to 
his ability. Those who could afford it brought 
gold : others brought silver, brass, and shittim 
wood : and some presented yarn, fine linen,goats 
hair and skins ; while the women brought in 
their bracelets, ear-rings, and other ornaments ; 
and such as were skilful in spinning made yarn 
and thread. 
7. The form of the Tabernacle was an oblong 
tent. It was 30 cubits in length, and 10 in 
height and breadth. 
8. The two sides and western end of this Tab-
ernacle were formed of boards of shittim wood, 
overlaid with thin plates of gold, and fixed in 
sockets of silver. Above, they were secured by 
bars of the same wood, overlaid with gold pass-
ing through rings of gold, which were fixed to 
or. 
This Tabernacle, the external appearance 
of which has been given you, was divided into. 
two apartments, by means of four pillars of shit- 
tim-wood overlaid with gold, two and a half cu-
bits from each other, placed in sockets of silver. 
On these pillars was hung a vail, or richly em- 
broidered linen curtain. The first space as you 
entered the tabernacle was called the holy place. 
The second, or beyond the vail, the most holy 
place. Paul speaks of the first space as the 
"Tabernacle ;" the second as "the holiest of all." 
The value of the gold and silver used for 
this work,amounted to more than $810,600. And 
if to this we add the vast quantity of brass, cop-
per, wood, and embroidery, the sum would swell 
to more than a million dollars—all the volunta-
ry contribution of Israel in the wilderness. 
The tabernacle was so constructed that it 
could be taken to pieces and put together again 
as occasion required. This was necessary, as it 
was designed to accompany Israel in all their 
journeys through the wilderness. Their jour-
neys and encampments were determined by the 
cloud, which rested upon or was taken up from 
the tabernacle. 
The Tabernacle was surrounded by a large 
oblong court, 100 cubits long, and 50 broad,al-
ways placed due east and west, and surrounded 
by pillars of brass, filleted with silver, and situ-
ated 5 cubits from each other. Nearly in the 
centre of this court stood a vessel, called the 
Brazen Laver, in which the priests washed their 
hands and feet, whenever they were to offer sac-
rifices, or go into the tabernacle. Directly op-
posite to the entrance of the tabernacle stood the 
Brazen Altar of burnt offerings, in the open air, 
in order that the interior might not be spoiled by 
the fire, which was at first miraculously kind-
led,and kept perpetually upon it. 
The furniture, or interior arrangements of 
this tabernacle, constitute the most important 
and interesting parts of it. There were three in. 
each apartment. In the holy place, there was 
the altar of incense,the table for the show-bread, 
and the candlesticks for the lights. In the most 
holy place there was the ark of the covenant, 
the mercy seat, covering the ark,and the cheru-
bim. 
The altar of incense was made of shittim 
wood, completely covered with gold. It was one 
cubit square, and two cubits in height. The 
horns on its corners, were of the same materi-
als. The ornamental cornice was gold ; and un-
der it were four rings of gold for the staves made 
of shittim wood, by which it was to be carried 
from place to place. This altar was in the mid-
dle of the sanctuary, before the vail, and on it 
the incense was burned morning and evening. 
On the north side of the altar, which was 
on the right hand of the priest as he entered, 
stood the table for the show bread. 
This was made of the same materials as the 
altar, and was two cubits long, 1 in breadth,and 
1-2 in height,having an ornamental cornice round 
about, and a border, and a second crown above 
this. 
The staves and rings belonging to it were of 
the same description as those belonging to the 
altar ; and its dishes, spoons, covers, and bowls, 
were all of pure gold. 
The golden candlestick stood on the south 
side of the holy place, and was of beaten gold, 
consisting of seven branches for lights. These, 
with their snuffers and dishes, were made of a 
talent of pure gold ; worth about 6000 pounds 
sterling. The lamps were kept burning with 
pure beaten olive-oil, morning and evening, 
The ark of the covenant, was a chest of 
shittim wood, overlaid within and without with 
the boards. On the east end, which was the en-
trance, there were no boards, but only five pil-
lars of shittim wood, standing on 5 sockets of 
brass. 
9. The Tabernacle, thus erected, was erected 
with 4 different kinds of curtains. The 1st. and 
inner curtain was composed of fine linen, magni-
ficently embroidered with figures of cherubim, in 
shades of blue, purple and scarlet. This formed 
the beautiful ceiling. The next covering was 
made of goats hair. The 3d. of rams skins dyed 
red. And the fourth and outward covering was 
made of badgers skins dyed of a particular col- 
 
 
 
 
THE ADVENT HERALD, 
so wish to see a full column of Donations.each week, 
till it shall amount to $400 ; which will be needed 
by January first to pay for a bill of paper then due. 
Brethren and Sisters,shall this expectation be rea-
lized ? 
times and changes.in this world, and likewise in 
the world to come : it shall be glorious upon earth 
during the millennium, and shall be more glorious 
still in the new earth after the millennium to all 
eternity. Earth shall then become as heaven, or 
rather it shall be a heaven upon earth, and there 
shall be no more death," Coin. on Rev. 21:1-3. 
pure gold. It was 2 1-2 cubits long, 1-2 broad abide in thy tabernacle ? who shall dwell in thy' 
 
and high, having an ornamental crown of gold holy hill ?" 
nand the top, and 4 rings for staves to carry it. �
"But Christ being come an high priest of good 
These remained stationary. Into the ark were things to come, by a greater and more perfect 
put, by divine appointment, the tables of the tabernacle, not made with hands, that is to say, 
covenant ; the golden pot, containing an omer of not of this building ; neither by the blood of 
manna, with which the Israelites were fed in goats and calves, but by his own blood, he enter- 
the wilderness, and Aaron's rod that budded. �
ed in once into the holy place, having obtained 
An entire copy of the Mosaic law was kept eternal redemption for us." 
inside the ark. �
33. The house, or kingdom of David, is spok- 
The mercy seat was a covering to the en of as the tabernacle. "In that day will I raise 
ark, made of pure gold. Over this the glory of up the tabernacle of David that is fallen, and 
God appeared, and Jehovah made his people sen- close up the breaches thereof ; and I will raise 
Bible of his presence. �
up his ruins, and I will build it as in the days of 
The cherubim, were 2 figures placed at old." 
each end of the mercy seat, standing in a stoop- �
34. The new Jerusalem is represented by the 
ing attitude, as if looking towards it, while they Tabernacle. "Moreover I will make a covenant 
overshadowed it, with their expanded wings, of peace with them ; it shall be an everlasting 
which extended the entire width of the most he- covenant with them : and I will place them, and 
ly place. They were of pure beaten gold, and it multiply them, and will set my sanctuary in the 
was from between their wings Jehovah promis- midst of them forevermore. My tabernacle al-
ed to meet the Israelites as their Lawgiver and so will be with them: yea,I will be their God,and 
covenant keeping God. �
they shall be my people." "And I heard a great 
This remarkable and costly structure was voice out of heaven, saying, Behold the taberna-
erectcd in the wilderness of Sinai, on the 1st cle of God is with men, and he will dwell with 
month of the 2d year after the Israelites left them, and they shall be his people, and God him-
Egypt. When completed, it was anointed, to- self shall be with them, and be their Gsd." 
gether with its furniture, with holy oil, and sane- �
(To be continued.) 
tified by blood. The altar of burnt-offering, es-
pecially, was sanctified by sacrifices during sev-
en days. 
The location of the Tabernacle was in the 
centre of the tents of Israel, all of which were a 
distance of 2000 cubits from it, while Moses and 
Aaron, with the priests and Levites, occupied a 
place between them. 
The tabernacle was under the charge of 
the Gershonites, Kohathites, and Merarites, sons 
of Levi, who after the priests had taken it down, 
carried it throughout the journeyings of the Is-
raelites. Each of these sons of Levi were re-
quired to be 30 years old before entering upon 
their duties. 
During the marches of the Israelites, the 
ark of the tabernacle was covered with a purple 
pall, and borne by the priests with great rever-
ence and care, in advance of the host. 
It was before the ark, thus in advance, 
that the waters of the Jordan separated ; and it 
remained in the bed of the river, with the atten-
dant priests, until the whole host had passed ov-
er ; and no sooner was it brought up, than the 
waters resumed their course. 
The ark was also very conspicuous in the 
grand procession round Jericho. " And Joshua 
the son of Nun called the priests, and said unto 
them, Take up the ark of the covenant, and let 
seven priests bear seven trumpets of rams' horns 
before the ark of the Lord." 
The tabernacle was first set up in Canaan 
at Gligal, being the first encampment of the Is-
raelites in Canaan. Here it continued for about 
seven years, during which Joshua was occupied 
in the conquest of that country. 
Afterwards it was pitched in Shiloh, be-
ing nearly in the centre of the country then sub- 
dued. Here the ark remained in the tabernacle 
until the time of Eli, it was carried along with 
the army under the superstitious notion that it 
would secure victory to the Hebrews. They 
were not only defeated, but the ark itself was 
taken by the Philistines, in whose hands it re-
mained for seven months. 
The Philistines being punished for put-
ting the ark in the temple of one of their gods, 
gladly sent it away, when it was taken to the 
house of Abinadab, in Kirjath-jearim, where it 
remained apart from the tabernacle 20 years,un-
til the time of David. 
David in attempting to remove the ark 
from Kirjath-jearim, allowed men not appointed 
to that work to handle it, which resulted in the 
death of Uzzah, in consequence of which it was 
left in the house of Obededom. "And the Lord 
blessed Obed-edom, and all his house." 
The Ark, having remained in the house 
of Obededom three months, David following the 
divine direction, removed it in grand procession 
to Mount Zion. Here it remained until the com-
pletion of Solomon's Temple, when it was depos-
ited in the Sanctuary. 
The tabernacle was used by figure of 
speech to represent heaven. "Lord, who shall 
ADVENT HERALD. 
BOSTON, DECEMBER 21, 1861. 
SYLVESTER BLISS, EDITOR. 
The readers of the Herald are most earnestly besought to 
give it room in their prayers; that by means of it God may 
be honored and his truth advanced ; also, that it may be 
oonducted in faith and love, with sobriety of judgment and 
discernment of the truth, in nothing carried away into 
error, or hasty speech, or sharp, unbrotherly disputation. 
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II. Bundy. See next Herald. 
The Voice of the Church on the Restitution. 
From THOMAS BURNET, born about 1635, and de-
ceased in 1715, a "clerk of the closet" to king 'Wil-
liam, and author of "The sacred Theory of the 
Earth," Glasgow, Sect. 1753 ; says : 
"The renovation of the world is a doctrine gener-
ally received, both by ancient and modern authors, 
as we shall have occasion to show," Theory and v. 
2. p. 144. 
In speaking of the priests and kings, mentioned 
in Rev. 5:10, and who sing, "We shall reign on the 
earth ;" and of Rev. 20:4, he remarks : 
"It remains only to determine what earth this is ,in 
which the sons of the first resurrection will live and 
reign. It cannot be the present earth, in the same 
state and under the same circumstances it is now ; 
for what happiness or privilege would that be, to 
be called back into a mortal life, under the necessi-
ties and inconveniences of sickly bodies, and an in-
commodious world ; such as the present state of mor-
tality is, and must continue to be, till some change 
be made in nature. We may be sure, therefore, 
that a change will be made in nature, befure that 
time, and that the state they are raised into, and 
the earth they are to inhabit, will be at least para-
disaical ; and consequently can be no other than the 
new heavens and new earth, which we are to expect 
after the conflagration," Ib p. 156. 
"The renovation of the world, which we are now 
speaking of, is an ancient doctrine, both among the 
Greeks and eastern philosophers ; but they show us 
no method how the world may be renewed, nor 
make any proof of its future renovation ; fur it was 
not a discovery which they first made, but received 
it with an implicit faith,from their masters and an- 
cestors : and these traditionary doctrines were all 
forerunners of that light which was to shine more 
clearly at the opening of the Christian dispensa-
tion ; to give a more full account of the fate and 
revolutions of the natural world, as well as of the 
moral. The Jews, it is well known, held the reno-
vation of the world," Ib. p. 157. 
From MATTHEW HENRY, the Commentator born 
A. D. 1662, d. 1714 
"By the creature here we understand �
 the 
whole frame work of nature, especially that of this 
lower world ; the whole creation, the compages of 
inanimate and sensible creatures ; which, because of 
their harmony and mutual dependence, and because 
they all constitute and make up one world, are spo-
ken of in the singular number as the creature. The 
creature that is now thus burdened shall,at the time 
of the restitution of all things,be delivered from this 
bondage of corruption into the glorious liberty of 
the children of God ; that is, they shall no more be 
subject to vanity and corruption,and the other fruits 
of the curse ; when there will be new heavens, there 
will be a new earth," Corn. on Rom. 8:9-23. 
From SAYER RUDD, author of "Essays towards a 
new Explication of the Doctrines of the Resurrection 
and Millennium" 1734. 
"As to the seat of this kingdom, it is to be the 
future new heavens and new earth, in the literal 
sense of those words (Rev. 21:1) which are to arise 
from those now about us,after their being purged by 
the general conflagration." 
From Rev. JOHN Gin D.D. the Baptist Commen-
tator, b. 1697,d. 1771, author of Prophecies of the 
Old Testament, London, 1728. 
"The new heavens must be interpreted of the airy 
heavens, and of a new air in them, purged, purifi-
ed, and refined by fire ; no stcalms of hail, no stores 
of snow, no blustering storms and tempests, no cor-
uscations and flashes of lightning, nor peals of thun-
der ; but a pure, serene,and tranquil air, quite suit-
ed to the bodies of raised saints ; the air will now be 
cleared of devils, the whole body of them v/i11 he 
cast into the abyss. The new earth will be an earth 
refined and renewed, and restored to its paradisiacal 
estate, as it was before the fall. It shall no more 
bring forth thorns and thistles, nor require labor 
and pains to cultivate it. It must be but reasona-
ble, that since Christ bath redeemed his people from 
the curse of the law, being made a curse for them, 
that every part of that curse should be removed ; 
which, as yet, is not from the earth particularly : 
when the second Adam, and his seed, come to enjoy 
the earth alone, accordingly, there will be no more 
curse," Body of Divinity, p. 428. 
From Rev. THOMAS NEWTON, D. D. Bishop of 
Bristol Eng. b. A. D, 1703, d. 1784, author of 
"Dissertations on the Prophecies," London 1764. 
"The church of Christ shall endure through all 
From Rev. AUGUSTUS MONTAGUE TOPLADY, born 
1740 ; d. 1778. 
"It is enough for us to know that a day will 
dawn when a period shall be put to every disorder 
under which nature at present labors, and the earth 
will become just what it was, perhaps considerably 
better than it was, ere sin destroyed the harmony 
and broke the balance of the well according sys-
tem . . . Prior to the commencement of the millen-
nium, a new heaven, that is, a new body of sur-
rounding air, and a new earth, shall be prepared for 
the residence of Christ and his elect : 'I saw a new 
heavens and a new earth ; for the first heavens and 
the first earth were passed away' ; intimating that 
this terraqueous globe and its circumambient at-
mosphere will be so purified by the preceding gen-
eral conflagration, as to be totally changed in their 
qualities, and divested of everything noxious, or 
that can cause disgust and pain," Sermons Lib. i. 
i. i. p. 470. 
From W.PERRY, author of "The Glory of Christ's 
Visible Kingdom in this World," 1791. 
"This restitution of all things takes in the resti-
tution of the creation to its paradisiacal state," 
Glory p. 224. 
From Rev. JOSHUA SPAULDING, author of "Senti-
ments concerning the Coming and Kingdom of 
Christ," first published in 1796, in Salem, where he 
was minister of the Tabernacle church : 
"Eye bath not seen, nor ear heard, nor hath en-
tered into the heart of man,the glory of this king 
dom : before it,the fashion of the natural world,the 
heaven and the earth, will be wonderfully changed, 
gloriously renovated," Sentiments &c. p. 124. 
From Rev. WM. TIIORP, a dissenting minister, 
Author of "The Destinies of the British Empire,and 
the Duties of British Christians at .the present Cri-
sis," London, 1831. 
"All the prophets of the Old Testament, and the 
prophet of the Apocalypse, close their commissions, 
and take leave of the church of God, amidst the 
glories of the Millennium : and amidst these glories 
I would close . . • �
This is the restitution of all 
things which all the prophets have spoken since the 
world began, and of which, transported in the vis-
ions of the Alniighty through revolving ages to this 
blessed consummation, and seeing the accomplish-
ment of their own predictions," they "sung in strains 
of heavenly harmony ; to which the rise and fall, the 
convulsions and revolutions, of kingdoms and em-
pires, are all subordinate, and in which they all ter-
minate. . . . Then the Lord of hosts shall reign 
upon mount Zion, and in Jerusalem, before his an-
cients gloriously" Destinies p. 108, Lit. v. 3. 
"Paradise shall be restored, and coextensive with 
the limits of the globe," Ib. p. 20. 
From Rev. C. D. MAITLAND, author of "Sermons 
on the Parable of the Virgins," London, 1831. 
"His throne shall be established in righteousness, 
and His people shall dwell in peace-man shall be 
restored to his right position in the world,the world 
to its right position in the universe, and the illimi-
table universe shall break forth into joy and praise 
over a world that was lost, but is found," Sermon 
at Eng. _Invest. v. 1. p, 212. 
From Rev. JOSEPH D'ARCY SIRR, Rector of Kil-
coleman, Ireland, author of "The First Resurrection 
Considered in a Series of Letters"-a Reply to a 
Treatise of the late II. Gipps, Dublin 1833. 
"If we look back to Rom. 8:15-21, we shall find 
it said, concerning the children of God, who are 
'joint heirs with Christ,' that their present suffer-
ings can be nothing, when compared with the glory 
to be revealed in them, because the whole burdened 
creation, with outstretched neck, awaiteth the man-
ifestation of the Sons of God, as the epoch when de-
liverance, not destruction, observe, awaiteth it. If 
the mere manifestation of the Sons of God to the 
creation, shall bring down such a blessing upon cre-
ation, what blessedness, what glory, what recom-
pense for suffering must he in reserve for the cor-
porate heirship," First Resurrection &c. Lit. v. 5. 
p. 93. 
From Rev. Wu. ANDERSON, minister of the Re-
lief church, John Street, Glasgow, Scotland, author 
of"An Apology for Millennial Doctrine in the form 
in which it was entertained by the Primitive church 
Glasgow," 1834. 
"Then shall come the second resurrection and 
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fire against the day of judgment and peraition of un-
godly men. That the day of the Lord will come as 
a thief in the night, in the which the heavens shall 
pass away with a great noise, and the elements shall 
melt with fervent heat ; the earth also, and the works 
that are therein, shall be burned up.-That the 
Lord will create new heavens and a new earth,where-
in righteousness-that is, the righteous-will for-
ever dwell. And that the kingdom and the domin-
ion under the whole heaven shall be given to the 
people of the saints of the Most High, whose king-
dom is an everlasting kiugdom, and all dominions 
shall serve and obey him. 
final judgment ; and what thereafter ? Not the an-
nihilation of this earth, I am persuaded. It may 
be changed and renovated, but it will not be utter-
ly destroyed. Were the Prince of hell so far to suc-
ceed as to make necessary the obliteration from ex-
istence of this great work of God, which in divine 
complacency lie originally pronounced 'good' ; and 
were the Saints to be removed to a different coun-
try, to mingle indiscriminately with angels and oth-
er intelligent beings-the kingdom of the cliurch, as 
the successor of the four Monarchies, would not be 
everlasting, in the absolute sense of the term ; and 
we must be shown from the Scriptures the necessity 
of adopting a restricted sense,before we depart from 
the primary meaning of the language of inspiration," 
Apology &c. Lit. v. 2. p. 50. 
every beast of the forest is mine, and the cattle upon 
a thousand hills. I know all the fowls of the moun-
tains ; and the wild beasts of the field are mine. If 
I were hungry, I would not tell thee ; for the world 
is mine and the fulness thereof," vs. 9-12. 
61. How did the rich man,whose ground brought 
forth plentifully,decide the question, "What shall I 
do, because I have no room where to bestow my 
fruit?" 
Ans. "He said, "This will I do : I will pull down 
my barns, and build greater ; and there will I be-
stow all my fruits and my goods. And I will say 
to my soul, Soul thou bast much goods laid up for 
many years; take thine ease, eat, drink, and be 
merry. But the Lord said unto him, Thou fool, this 
night thy soul shall be required of thee : then whose 
shall those things be, which thou hast provided ?" 
Luke, 12: 16-20. 
The Mason and Slidell Case. 
We give in another column the reception in Eng-
land of the news of the arrest of Mason and Slidell. 
The Boston Journal very judiciously remarks re-
specting it : 
"It is about as we anticipated,and develops noth-
ing new or alarming. On the contrary, there are 
some features which wear a more favorable aspect 
than many among us had been led to expect. The 
indignation meeting in Liverpool was a natural re-
sponse from that headquarters of English sympa-
thizers with secession. The trade of that city has 
been more affected by our national crisis than that 
of any other English city, and it is the emporium of 
the cotton business and the centre of cotton influ-
ences abroad. But even the participants in the meet-
ing seem to have discovered that they had run be-
fore they were sent for. They had to modify their 
high-strung resolutions, by canceling its demand 
upon the Government for 'prompt reparation of this 
outrage,' and contenting themselves with an expres-
sion in favor of asserting 'the dignity of the British 
flag.' No one can object to that position." 
A writer in the London News puts,the following 
significant inquiries : 
"First, I would ask, did the captain of the Trent 
know, or did he not know, who and what were the 
four passengers taken from his vessel before or at 
the time of receiving them on board at Havana? If 
he did receive them with full cognizance of whence 
they came and on what errand, I submit that his 
doing so was a clear and palpable violation of the 
neutrality enjoined by the Queen's proclamation ; 
inasmuch as, in becoming his passengers, they vir-
tually became entitled to the protection of the flag, 
and which protection he had no right to grant, see-
that it involved a violation of neutrality. Further, 
it would even have been the duty of a British man-
of-war, had she overhauled the Trent, and been 
aware ofthe presence on board of men attempting to 
violate a neutrality enjoined by the Queen's procla-
mation, to have warned the master of the Trent that 
in receiving the so-called 'commissioners' knowing 
who they were, or in harboring them, he really and 
directly placed himself outside the pale of the law ; 
for one of two things must be the case-either that 
all British subjects are bound by the aforesaid pro-
clamation, or else it is a mere sham, and never in-
tended to be binding. I can well understand that 
the boarding of a British merchant vessel is an act 
calculated to provoke bitter and merited indigna-
tion ; but I beg my countrymen to remember that 
we ourselves are not over-nice, at times, in such 
matters, and that it is our duty to make all due al-
lowance for the excitement of a civil war ; seeing al-
so, that we have allowed vessels laden with contra-
band goods in wholesale quantities to clear out of 
our ports for America, one of which-and actually 
under the British flag-has, we are told, just arriv-
ed back with a load of cotton-the Bermuda. There-
fore, it were well, before giving vent to unmerited 
opprobrium, and sowing the seeds of open hostili-
ties,for us to ask ourselves if we have not long since 
overstepped the bounds of strict neutrality, and giv-
en cause thereby for the very act we now so vehe-
mently inveigh against." 
LATER FROM ENGLAND. 
Since the above, the arrival of the Europa brings 
seven days later intelligence from England. The 
whole tone of the English press is very warlike, and 
it is altogether probable the British Government 
will demand an apology for the act of commander 
Wilkes, and the surrender of Mason and Slidell. 
Our government of course, will do nothing of the 
kind ; and then England will withdraw her minis-
ter, and blockade our ports-unless a calm and tem-
perate discussion of the question shall show her that 
the act is one which her own past doings ample jus-
tify. At the present moment, the condition of the 
two countries looks warlike ; and should there be 
war, it will be such a war as the world has never 
seen. It is, however, a question on which no one 
can pronounce judgment,without farther indications 
of the tone of the two parties. 
Foreign News. 
The Paris Patric declares that it is impossible for 
France to disarm when, in view of the questions 
which await a solution, Austria, Prussia, Russis, 
and England either cannot or will not resign. A 
disarmament effected by France alone would not 
consolidate the peace of Europe. On the contrary, 
it would everywhere awaken the hopes of the reac-
tionists, and would compromise the laborious work 
of the second Empire. France would thereby lose 
the benefits of our latest vict rics, and would, more-
over, desert the cause of justice and right in the 
Councils of the Powers, after having made it tri-
umph on the field of battle. In conclusion, the ar-
ticle says, the only thing that is possible is an in-
crease in the number of furloughs. 
The European Times says : 
"The internal condition of Russia is becoming an 
object of interest in Western Europe, and in connec-
tion with the state of affairs in Poland, foreshadows 
a speedy outbreak. A well known Government of-
ficial,who corresponds occasionally with a Manches-
ter journal, confirms this view in the following pas-
sage : "I have lately had an opportunity of convers-
ing with an intelligent English traveler, lately re-
turned from Russia,who has had opportunities of as-
certaining the state of opinion among the upper 
classes in St. Petersburg and Moscow-especially 
the former. He astonishes me by the assurance that 
the imperial measures of serf-emancipation have 
bred such a feeling of intense disaffection among the 
northern noblesse, as he believes endangers the per-
sonal safety of the Czar, and certainly threatens his 
tenure of power." 
CONFISCATION BILL-Mr. Bingham of Ohio, has 
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and abet armed rebellion against the United States. 
It provides, that every person who shall engage in, 
or aid or abet such rebellion as aforesaid, shall for-
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anything in the laws of the United States or any 
State to the contrary notwithstanding. 
Events seem to be fast reaching a point when such 
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people of the loyal States, including, as we have 
reason to believe,the loyal citizens of Kentucky and 
Maryland. 
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The Advent Herald, published by the "American 
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Mass. begins its 23d volume with the first week of 
January next.-Terms, are $2 per year in advance. 
As the oldest periodical in either continent, devo-
ted to the study of prophecy, and as one that has 
never departed from the cardinal doctrines generally 
denominated "evangelical," it is believed this sheet 
is worthy of the support of all students of prophecy. 
And it needs for its support a wider circulation than 
it now receives. 
While it is firm and decided in its opinions, it is 
designed to hold these in all candor, and to present 
them with all courtesy towards those differing ; and 
it is not closed against a free and christian inter-
change of sentiments, whenever opposing views are 
candidly and clearly presented. Discussion is not 
disputation, and argument is not controversy ; and 
while the former of these is admitted, the latter is 
not solicited. With the first number of the next 
volume, it is proposed to commence an Exposition 
of the 8th chapter of Daniel's Prophecy,-the previ-
ous chapters having already passed under review in 
these columns. It is believed the remaining chapters 
of Daniel will equal in interest those which have 
preceded. 
The following are the more important truths for 
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readers ? 
IMPORTANT TRUTHS. 
1st. That the heavens and earth which are now, 
by the word of God, are kept in store, reserved unto 
2d. That there are but two advents or appearings 
of the Saviour to this earth. That both are per-
sonal and visible. That the first took place in the 
days of Herod, when He was conceived of the Holy 
Ghost, born of the Virgin Mary, went about do-
ing good, suffered on the cross, the just for the un-
just, died, was buried, arose again the third 
day, the first fruits of them that slept, and ascend-
ed into heaven, which must receive him until the 
times of the restitution of all things, spoken of by 
the mouth of all the holy prophets. That the se-
cond coming or appearing will take place when he 
shall descend from heaven,at the sounding of the last 
trump, to give his people rest, being revealed from 
heaven in flaming fire,taking vengeance on them that 
know not God, and obey not the gospel. �
And 
that he will judge the quick and the dead at his ap-
pearing and kingdom. 
3d. That the second coming or appearing is indi-
cated to be now emphatically nigh, even at the 
doors, by the chronology of the prophetic periods, 
the fulfillment of prophecy, and the signs of the 
times. And that this truth should he preached 
both to saints and sinners, that the first may rejoice, 
knowing their redemption draweth nigh, and the 
last be warned to flee from the wrath to come, 
before the Master of the house shall rise up and shut 
to the door. 
4th. That the condition of salvation is repentance 
towards God, and faith in our Lord Jesus Christ. 
And that those who have repentance and faith will 
live soberly, and righteously,and godly, in this pres-
ent world, looking for that blessed hope, and the 
glorious appearing of the great God and our Saviour 
Jesus Christ. 
5th. That there will he a resurrection of the 
bodies of all the dead, both of the just and the 
unjust. �
That those who are Christ's will be 
raised at his coming. That the rest of the dead 
will not live again until alter a thousand years. -
And that the saints shall not all sleep, but shall be 
changed in the twinkling of an eye at the last trump. 
6th. That the only millennium taught in the 
Word of God is the thousand years which are to in-
tervene between the first resurrection and that of 
the rest of the dead, as inculcated in the 20th of 
Revelation. And that the various portions of 
Scripture which refer to the millennial state are to 
have their fulfillment after the resurrection of all 
the saints who sleep in Jesus. 
7th. That the promise, that Abraham should he 
the heir of the world, was not to him,or to his seed, 
through the law, but through the righteousness of 
faith. That they are not all Israel which are of 
Israel. That there is no difference, under the 
Gospel dispensation, between Jew and Gentile. -
That the middle wall of partition that was between 
them is broken down, no more to be rebuilt. -
That God will render to every man according to his 
deeds. �
That if we are Christ's then are we Abra- 
ham's seed, and heirs according to the promise. -
And that the only restoration of Israel, yet future, 
is in the restoration of the saints to the earth,created 
anew, when God shall open the graves of those des-
cendants of Abraham who died in faith, without re-
ceiving the promise, with the believing Gentiles who 
have been grafted in with them into the same olive 
tree ; and shall cause them to come up out of their 
graves, and bring them with the living, who are 
changed, into the land of Israel. 
8th. That there is no promise of this world's con-
version. That the Horn of Papacy will war 
with the saints, and prevail against them, until the 
Ancient of Days shall come, and judgment be given 
to the saints of the Most High, and the time come 
that the saints possess the kingdom. �
That the 
children of the kingdom, and the children of the 
wicked one, will continue together until the end of 
the world, when all things that offend shall be gath-
ered out of the kingdom, and the righteous shall 
shine forth as the sun in the kingdom of their Fath- 
er. �
That the Man of Sin will only be destroyed 
by the brightness of Christ's coming. �
And that 
the nations of those which are saved and redeemed 
to God by the blood of Christ, out of every kindred, 
and tongue, and people, and nation, will he made 
kings and priests unto God, to reign forever on the 
earth. 
9th. That it is the duty of the ministers of the 
Word to continue in the work of preaching the Gos 
pel to every creature, even unto the end, calling 
upon them to repent, in view of the fact that the 
kingdom of heaven is at hand ; that their sins 
may be blotted out when the times of refreshing shall 
come from the presence of the Lord. 
And 10. That the departed saints do not enter 
their inheritance, or receive their crowns, at death 
That they without us cannot be made perfect. 
- That their inheritance, uncorruptible and un-
defiled, and that fadeth not away, is reserved in 
heaven, ready to he revealed in the last time. -
That there are laid up for them and us crowns of 
righteousness, which the Lord, the righteous Judge, 
shall give at the day of Christ to all that love his ap-
pearing. That they will only be satisfied when they 
awake in Christ's likeness. �
And that. when the 
Son of Man shall come in his glory, and all the ho-
ly angels with him, the King will say to those on his 
right hand, 'Come, ye blessed of my Father, inherit 
the kingdom prepared for you from the foundation 
of the world.' Then they will be equal to the 
angels, being the children of God and of the resur-
rection. 
Bible Questions and Answers. 
What doth God promise Zion, when she saith, 
"Who bath begotten me these, seeing I have lost 
my children, and am desolate, a captive, and remov- 
ing to and fro ? and4who bath brought up these ? 
Behold I was left alone ; these, where had they 
been ?" 
Ans. "Thus saith the Lord God, Behold, I will 
lift up my hand to the Gentiles,and set up my stand- 
ard to the people : and they shall shall bring thy 
sons in thy arms, and thy daughters shall be carried 
upon their shoulders. And kings shall be thy nurs-
ing fathers, and their queens thy nursing mothers : 
they shall bow down to thee with their faces toward 
the earth,and lick up the dust of thy feet; and thou 
shalt Know that I am the Lord : for they shall not 
be ashamed that wait for me." Isa. 49 : 21-23. 
"Shall the prey be taken from the mighty,or 
the lawful captive be delivered?" 
Ans. "Thus saith the Lord, Even the captives of 
the mighty shall be taken away, and the prey of the 
terrible shall be delivered : for I will contend with 
him that contendeth with thee, and I will save thy 
children," Isa. 49: 24, 5. 
"Who are these that fly as a cloud, and as 
doves to their windows?" 
Ans. "Thy gates shall be open continually ; they 
shall not be shut day nor night ; that men may bring 
unto thee the forces of the Gentiles, and that their 
kings may be brought. For the nation and kingdom 
that will not serve thee shall perish ; yea,those nations 
shall be utterly wasted," Isa. 60 : 8, 11, 12. 
"Who hath heard such a thing ? who bath 
seen such things? Shall the earth he made to bring 
forth in one day ? or shall a nation be born at once ?" 
Ans. "As soon as Zion travailed, she brought 
forth her children . . . They shall bring all your 
brethren for an offering unto the Lord out of all 
nations upon horses, and in chariots, and in litters, 
and upon mules, and upon swift beasts, to my holy 
mountain Jerusalem,saith the Lord, as the children 
of Israel bring an offering in a clean vessel into the 
house of the Lord. And I will also take of them for 
priests and for Levites, saith the Lord. For as the 
new heavens and the new earth, which I will make, 
shall remain before me,saith the Lord, so shall your 
seed and your name remain. And it shall come to 
pass, that from one new moon to another, and from 
one sabbath to another, shall all flesh come to wor-
.ship before me saith the Lord," Isa. 66 : 8 20-23. 
"What is man, that Thou art mindful of 
him ? and the son of man, that thou visstest him?" 
Ans. "Thou hest made him a little lower than 
the angels, and hast crowned him with glory and 
honor. Thou madest him to have dominion over the 
works of thy hands; thou hest put all things under 
his feet : all sheep and oxen, yea, and the beasts of 
the field ; the fowl of the air, and the fish of the 
sea, and whatsoever passeth through the paths of 
the seas." Psa. 8 :4-8. 
"Wherewith shall I come before the Lord, 
and bow myself before the High God ? shall I come 
before him with burnt offerings, with calves of a 
year old ? Will the Lord be pleased with thou-
sands of rams, or with ten thousands of rivers of 
oil ? shall I give my firstborn for my transgression, 
the fruit of my body for the sin of my soul ?" 
Ans "He hath shown thee, 0 man what is good ; 
and what doth the Lord require of thee, but to do 
justly, and to love mercy, and to walk humbly with 
thy God?" Micah 6 : 6-8. 
"Bath the Lord as great delight In burnt of-
ferings and sacrifices, as in obeying the voice of the 
Lord ?" 
Ans. "Behold, to obey is better than sacrifice ; 
and to hearken, than the fat of rams. For rebellion 
is as the sin of witchcraft,and stubbornness is as ini-
quity and idolatry," 1. Sam. 15 : 22, 3. 
"Will I eat the flesh of hulls or drink the 
blood of goats ?" saith the Lord. 
Ans. The answer of the Lord is, "Offer unto God 
thanksgiving; and pay thy vows unto the Most High : 
and call upon Me in the day of trouble : I will de-
liver thee, and thou shalt glorify me," Psa. 50 : 13 
-15. God also says : "I will take no bullock out 
f thy house, nor he goat out of thy folds. For 
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their own signatures, irrespective of the particular views 
which it defends. Views of correspondents not dissented 
from, are not necessarily to be considered as editorially 
endorsed. Correspondents are expected to avoid all Per-
sonalities, and to study Christian courtesy in all references 
to views and persons. Any departure from thisshould be 
regarded as c' isentitling the writer to any reply. Christian 
and gentlemanly discussion will be in order ; but not 
needless, unkind, or uncourteouscontroversy. 
The New Heavens and Earth. 
" And I saw a new heaven and a new earth ; for 
the first heaven and the first earth were passed 
away, and there was no more sea." Rev. 21:1. 
" Nevertheless we, according to his promise, look 
for new heavens and a new earth, wherein dwelleth 
righteousness." 2 Pet. 3:13. 
" The world, as used in the New Testament, 
sometimes means the whole inhabited world ; some-
times it includes only the Roman Empire ; and 
sometimes it is used in a far more limited sense."—
General View of Sacred Geography, by J. E. Wor-
cester. " The Greek word ys, earth, has the.fol-
lowing meanings : the land, the earth, the world, 
the inhabitants of the earth, a land, region, tract, 
country, territory, Canaan or Palestine, a city, the 
inhabitants of any region or country : land which 
may be tilled, soil, field, the fruit or produce of the 
earth ; the ground, i. e. to be inferior, imperfect, 
transient, perishable."* 
I believe that this word is, comparatively, but sel-
dom applied to the whole globe in the Scriptures. 
It is generally used in a limited sense, as the. context 
in any given case will abundantly show. 
" The word It.oertco5, world, signifies order, regu-
larity, regular disposition ; ornament, decoration, 
embellishment ; the world, universe, the earth, 
globe, a region, country, Palestine, the inhabitants 
of the earth, human race ; the many, multitude, 
public ; a multitude of things, vast collection or 
aggregate ; from the Hebrew the present world, or 
age, or period of the world, as marked by imperfec-
tion, wickedness and vice. The men of this world, 
as imperfect. ignorant and vicious ; the things of 
this age or world, as being frail, transient, &c. 
The terms " earth" and "world" are more fre-
quently than otherwise used in a limited sense.—
Examples of this may be found in the predictions 
concerning Babylon, Nineveh, Edom and Jerusalem. 
In the 24th chapter of Isaiah we find a prediction 
concerning the land of Israel : " Behold, the Lord 
maketh the earth empty, and maketh it waste, and 
turneth it upside down, and scattereth abroad its 
inhabitants." Again, " The land shall be utterly 
emptied, and utterly spoiled ; for the Lord bath 
spoken this word." 
What is termed " the earth" in the first verse, is 
in the third verse called the land. Read also verses 
4, 5. 
But it would be impossible at present to give all 
the instances of the use of this term in a limited 
sense, nor do I think it necessary ; as we all know 
that the earth, the whole land, the heavens and the 
earth, are repeatedly used in the Old Testament in 
reference to the Jewish heavens and earth only, and 
in this limited sense I understand Isa. 65:17 ; also 
2 Pet. 3:13 and Rev. 21:1. Now if any good bro-
ther or sister can show me that I misunderstand, I 
shall be perfectly willing to see it. I would have 
an humble, teachable spirit, and if I know my own 
heart I sincerely desire to know what is truth con-
cerning the kingdom of God. But it does seem to 
me that we have the plainest Scripture testimony 
against the idea that the whole of the present hab-
itable earth is to be renewed and beautified at the 
second coming of our Lord ; and I am compelled to 
believe, after searching the Scriptures, that some 
portions of it will be made a desolation and a curse 
and will remain so during the whole period of the 
millennium at least. Beyond that I do not try to 
look, because there is nothing revealed except the 
fact that " then" (when all things shall be subdued 
unto Christ,—when he shall have put all enemies 
under his feet, including " the last enemy," which 
is death) cometh the end, when he shall deliver up 
the kingdom to God, even the Father. Then shall 
the Son also himself be subject unto him that put 
all things under him, that God may be all in all. 
And now we will search the Scriptures for proof 
that the land of Israel, the whole extent of territo- 
ry given to Abraham, "the friend of God," is to be 
made, in a special manner, "the glory of all lands." 
Haggai 2:6 : " For thus saith the Lord of hosts ;— 
yet once, it is a little while, and I will shake the 
heavens, and the earth, and the sea, and the dry 
land." " The Lord also shall roar out of Zion and 
utter his voice from Jerusalem ; and the heavens 
and the earth shall shake." Joel 3:16. Heb. 12:26, 
But now he bath promised, saying, Yet once more 
I shake not the earth only, but also heaven." Isa. 
30:32, " And in battles of shaking will he fight with 
it." Ezekiel 38:19, to the end, " For in my jeal-
ousy and in the fire of my wrath have I spoken, 
Surely in that day there shall be a great shaking in 
the land of Israel. So that the fishes of the sea, 
and the fowls of the heaven, and the beasts of the 
field, and all creeping things that creep upon the 
earth, and all the men that are upon the face of the' 
 
earth, shall shake at my presence, and the moun-
tains shall be thrown,and the steep places shall fall, 
and every wall shall fall to the ground." 
Isaiah 64 " Oh that thou wouldest rend the 
heavens, that thou wouldest come down, that the 
mountains might flow down at thy presence, as when 
the melting fire burneth, the fire causeth the waters 
to boil, to make thy name known to thine adversa-
ries, that the nations may tremble at thy presence ! 
When thou didst terrible things which we looked 
not for, thou earnest down, the mountains flowed 
down at thy presence." See also Hab. 3d chap.— 
Peter said to the believing Jews " Seeing then that 
all these things shall be dissolved, what manner of 
persons ought ye to be in all holy conversation and 
godliness ; looking for and basting unto the day of 
God, wherein the heavens being on fire shall be dis- 
solved, and the elements shall melt with fervent 
heat." " And I will rain upon him, and upon his 
bands, and upon the many people that are with him 
an overflowing rain, and great hailstones, fire and 
brimstone." Ezek. 38:22. " And this shall be the 
plague wherewith the Lord will smite all the people 
that have fought against Jerusalem ; their flesh 
shall consume away while they stand upon their 
feet, and their eyes shall consume away in their holes 
and their tongue shall consume away in their 
mouth." Zech. 14:12. " But the heavens and the 
earth which are now, by the same word are kept in 
store, reserved unto fire against the day of judg-
ment and perdition of ungodly men. . . Neverthe-
less we, according to his promise, look for new hea-
vens and a new earth wherein dwelleth righteous-
ness." And this new earth is to be filled with the 
knowledge of the Lord as the waters cover the sea, 
so that the inhabitants thereof need not say every 
man to his neighbor and every man to his brother, 
Know ye the Lord ; for all shall know him from the 
least to the greatest. " Break forth into joy, sing 
together, ye waste places of Jerusalem : for the 
Lord hath comforted his people, he bath redeemed 
Jerusalem. Awake, awake, put on thy strength, 
0 Zion ; put on thy beautiful garments, 0 Jerusa-
lem the holy city ; for henceforth there shall no 
more come into thee the uncircumcised and the un-
clean. Then shall Jerusalem be holy, and there 
shall no strangers pass through her any more."—
" Blessed are they that do his commandments, that 
they may have right to the tree of life, and enter in 
through the gates into the city." " Our feet shall 
stand within thy gates, 0 Jerusalem." Psa. 122. 
It is said of the "highway" and the "way which 
shall be called the way of holiness . . No lion shall 
be there." But in other parts of the renewed earth 
the wolf shall dwell with the lamb, and the leopard 
shall lie down with the kid : and the calf and the 
young lion and the fatling together : and a little 
child shall lead them. And the cow and the bear 
shall feed ; their young ones shall lie down togeth-
er : and the lion shall eat straw like the ox." 
But we must turn from this bright and beautiful 
picture of the times of restitution of all things 
which God bath spoken by the mouth of all his holy 
prophets, to look for a moment upon another repre-
senting only scenes of utter desolation and ruin. 
Of the land of Idumea (inhabited by the people 
of God's curse) we read, " The cormorant and the 
bittern shall possess it ; the owl also and the raven 
shall dwell in it : and it shall be a habitation of 
dragons and a court for owls. The wild beasts of 
the desert shall also meet with the wild beasts of 
the island, and the satyr shall cry to his fellow : 
the screech owl also shall rest there, and find for 
herself a place of rest. There shall the great owl 
make her nest and lay and hatch and gather under 
her shadow ; there shall the vultures also be gath- 
ered, every one with her mate. They shall possess 
it forever, from generation to generation shall they 
dwell therein. " Babylon the great is fallen, and is 
become . . . . a cage of every unclean and hateful 
bird." " The Lord hath a sacrifice in Bozrah and 
a great slaughter in the land of Idumea ; and their 
land shall be soaked with blood, and their dust made 
fat with fatness. For it is the day of the Lord's 
vengeance and the year of recompences for the con- 
troversy of Zion. And the streams thereof shall be 
turned into pitch, and the dust thereof into brim-
stone, and the land thereof shall become burning 
pitch. It shall not be quenched night nor day ; the 
smoke thereof shall go up forever ; from generation 
to generation it shall lie waste ; none shall pass 
through it forever and ever." Isa. 34. 
" For I have sworn by myself, saith the Lord, 
that Bozrah shall become a desolation, a reproach, 
a waste, and a curse ; and all the cities thereof shall 
be perpetual wastes. Also Edom shall beta desola-
tion : every one that goeth by it shall be astonished, 
and shall hiss at all the plagues thereof." Jer. 49 : 
13-17. 
" And it shall come to pass, that from one new 
moon to another, and from one sabbath to another, 
shall all flesh come to worship before me, saith the 
Lord. And they shall go forth, and look upon the 
carcasses of the men that have transgressed against 
me : and they shall be an abhorring unto all flesh." 
Isa. 65:23, 24. 
" Both the ancient and modern Jews, and after 
them, various Christian expositors, interpret Idumea 
(or Edom) to be Rome. Mr. Scott considers it a 
mystical name for all the enemies of the church." 
We read in Psalm 137, " Remember, 0 Lord,the 
children of Edom in the day of Jerusalem ; who 
said, Raze it, raze it, even to the foundation thereof 
0 daughter of Babylon who art to be destroyed ; 
happy shall he be that taketh and dasheth thy little 
ones against the stones. Happy shall he be that re-
wardeth thee as thou hast served us." Compare 
this, and also the 50th and 51st chapters of Jeremi-
ah, with the 18th of Revelation, and I think we 
must be convinced that all these fearful prophecies 
are yet to have their perfect fulfilment in the over-
throw and utter destruction of the mystical Baby- 
lon. �
E.H.B. 
* The writer here quoted from errs in giving the 
uses, of ge,kosmos, &c., as their significance. They 
are sometimes used, by a metonymy, for the inhab-
itants of the earth, but never signify them,—the 
same as " vineyard," by the same figure, is used for 
its fruit, in the phrase they " have eaten up the 
vineyard," without ever signifying its fruit. The 
" earth" is also used by a synecdoche for a part of 
it. without ever signifying a part. It is always ru-
lable to use the word expressive of the whole for a 
part ; but it is never so, to claim that it is used for 
a part in any particular connection, unless it is re- 
quired by the context. �
ED. 
We believe that Peter's epistles were addressed 
"to them that have obtained like precious faith with 
us ;" which would include Gentiles as well as Jews. 
En. 
t We do not see how these predictions of desola-
tion against Idumea, Babylon, &c., which have been 
fulfilled now for more than two millenniums, can be 
adduced as evidence of only a partial restoration of 
this earth—on which Daniel says the fifth kingdom 
is to be " under the whole heaven." 
Our view is that the entire earth will be cleansed 
at the appearing of Jesus Christ. We offer no ar-
gument here, fbr the reason that those who wish, 
will find it in our tract on the "Restitution." 
ED. 
From Bro. D. Bosworth. 
Bro. Bliss :—You will recollect that Bro. Rey-, 
nolds and myself sung a few stanzas at the confer- 
ence at N. Springfield called "The Voyagers." Sev-
eral brethren requested me to write them for the 
Herald, and having a leisure moment to-day almost 
for the first time since that meeting, I sit down to 
gratify that request. I do not know the author— 
else I would give him credit. 
THE VOYAGERS. 
We are voyagers on the ocean, and our destiny we 
know, 
For our chart it has pointed out the way, 
And our Leader he is cheering us o'er the way we 
go, 
Saying Courage, sailors ! soon we'll gain the day. 
Then we'll watch and we'll pray, 
As our vessel bears away, 
And we'll never be disheartened any more ; 
For the port is getting nearer, and we hear the lead- 
er say, 
Soon we'll reach the harbor and the shove. 
Though hard the winds are blowing and high the 
waters roil, 
It will only make us sigh for land the more ; 
And our rest will be the sweeter when we reibeh the 
final goal, 
And shout our sufferings over on the shore. 
Then we'll watch, &c. 
We have passed the coasts of Babylon, the Medo-
Persian heights, 
We have left the realms of Grecia far behind, 
We've been sailing down the Roman shore these 
1800 years, 
And the chart declares the port we soon shall find. 
Then we'll watch, &c. 
D.B. 
From Bro, D. T. Taylor. 
Bro. Bliss :—I hope the paper will be sustained, 
and live through the present storm ; for we have 
none too many Premillennial journals in the country 
of the right sort. �
I am as ever yours, 
DANL. T. TAYLOR. 
Rouses Point, N. Y. 
A Kind Word. 
Kind words will never die. 
There is much comfort in encouraging testimonies 
like the following : 
" I am becoming more interested in the Herald of 
late. The last numbers are very instructive and 
comforting to the waiting pilgrims. 
" Yours in love, 
" E. SMITH. 
Wolcott, Ct., Nov. 26th, '61." 
PRAYER.—A correspondent of the "Watchman 
and Reflector" says : "I do not understand prayer 
to be an oration, an exhortation, or a complimenta-
tary address, in part to God and partly to the con-
gregation assembled. I do believe prayer to be a 
petition to God—a supplication—an entreaty—a re-
quest,which God is implored to grant. Telling God 
with flourishes, gestures, and while walking about 
in the pulpit, what He, in His infinite power, can 
do, has done, or may do, or biding Him, as if He 
were the servant, to do this, or grant that, cannot 
be prayer, as some seem to suppose." 
ISMAIL PAcnA,the well-known Hungarian General 
Kmety, is about to retire from the military service 
of Turkey, and to reside in London. 
OBITUARY. 
Rev. CHARLES N. LEWIS died at the residence of 
his father, in Claremont, N. H., on Monday, June 
3, at 11 1-2 P.M., aged 24 years. 
Bro. Lewis experienced religion when 16 years of 
age, under the ministry of Rev. Mr. Bentley, of the 
Second Advent denomination. He at once commen-
ced to occupy the talents entrusted to him, in the 
expectation of the speedy coming of his Lord. At 
the age of 19 years he commenced to preach, and 
fervently appealed to the unconverted to turn to 
God, for " the kingdom of heaven is at hand." 
In the spring of 1859 he joined the Methodist 
Episcopal church, and preached one year at Wal-
pole, N. H., under presiding elder Rev. Albert C. 
Manson. In April, 1860, he was "admitted on tri-
al" into the New Hampshire Conference of the M.E. 
Church, qd was stationed in Washington, N. H. 
During that year his labors were arduous, and his 
solicitude for the welfare of his charge was intense. 
His health began to fail about the time of our Leb-
anon Campmeeting ; he, nevertheless, returned from 
that " feast of tabernacles," and held a protracted 
meeting on his appointment, until, by repeated 
spitting of blood and bleeding of the lungs, he was 
compelled to succumb to that dreadful New England 
disease, the consumption. In hope of procuring 
help he visited Dr. Town, of Lebanon, N. H., who, 
to the grief of Bro. Lewis, at once forbid his preach-
ing. From that time every effort to rally was de-
feated, and in the early part of this spring he bade 
adieu to his flock, and was brought home—to die ! 
At this point he passed through a severe strug-
gle. He would have lived for usefulness. Grace, 
however, enabled him to say and to feel, " Not my 
will, but thine be done." His complete acquies-* 
cence in the will of God was attended and followed 
by a mysterious tranquillity and repose, like the 
bosom of the placid lake, which continued until his 
sun went down. 
Before going to Conference last April I called on 
him several times, and found this young and lovely 
servant of the Lord Jesus Christ in this enviable 
frame of mind. With remarkable composure he 
gave me charge of his Conference business, as one 
who had no care, or regret, or pain or disappoint-
ment. Glory be to God for salvation " by grace 
through faith." 
On my return to this station I noticed that he was 
very much reduced, but resigned and cheerful.—
When I told him that he had been appointed my 
colleague for the year ensuing, he smiled ; but when 
I laid before him the $13 sent to him by the Preach-
ers' Aid Society of our Conference, he wept with 
gratitude at this expression of kindness and esteem. 
At this time he sat up a little at distant intervals ; 
these periods were improved by him, as one who was 
not only conscious that the time of his departure 
was at hand, but who was also " ready to be offer-
ed ;" for 
"well he knew 'twas better to go up 
And be with Christ." 
On one occasion I found him propped up with pil-
lows, looking over his library and selecting appro-
priate gifts for his relatives and acquaintances, and 
offering fervent invocations to God to bless the recip-
ients. Nearly every volume before him belonged to 
that class which some stigmatize as works on "blood 
theology ;" and the halo that lit up the counten 
ance of the dying minister was not only a blessed 
comment on the " sacrificial theology," but an evi- 
THE ADVEN T HERALD �
399 
dente that even a good minister of Christ, like Dr. 
Gordon, on his dying bed, can " revel in the atone- 
ment." 
This was emphatically true of Bro. Lewis ; for 
although proverbially strict and exemplary in his 
ministerial deportment, upright in his intercourse 
in society, and useful as a laborer in the vineyard of 
the Lord, yet he never once alluded to these things; 
he gloried in nothing but " Christ and him crucifi-
ed." In his sickness and death he gave emphasis to 
those precious lines, 
" In my hand no price I bring, 
Simply to thy cross I cling ;" 
and thus afforded evidence to all who saw him dur-
ing his illness, that he then cherished the doctrine 
he preached when in health. In the language of 
Dryden, I may say of my esteemed and lamented 
colleague : 
" He bore his great commission in his look ; 
But sweetly tempered awe,and softened all he spoke; 
He preached the joys of heaven, and pains of hell, 
And warned the sinner with becoming zeal, 
But on eternal mercy loved to dwell." 
After his voice failed, in whispers he testified of the 
inward peace in believing which passeth knowledge; 
thus peacefully he terminated his earthly career amid 
the regrets of all who knew him, and passed "from 
the New Hampshire Conference to glory." May 
God bless the itinerant's widow, and sanctify this 
bereavement to us all. For Bro. Lewis the last of-
fices of Christian affection have been performed ; his 
mortal remains, interred in our beautiful cemetery, 
rest in hope of a glorious resurrection ; and as we 
yield to the claims of the living, which compel us to 
leave his grave, we hopefully say, " Good night," 
Lie still, dear brother, and 
Sleep sweetly till the morning 
When all the world shall wake. 
R. S. STUBBS. 
Claremont, N. H. 
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This volume is worthy of a perusal by all who 
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portion of the memoir, which is occupied with the 
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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-
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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. 
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AGENCIES THROUGHOUT THE WORLD. 
pd to Sept 18, 1860 
V(THITTEN'S GOLDEN SALVE is a step by way of 
11 T progress in the healing art. It is adapted to all the 
purposes of a family Salve. It effectually cures piles, 
wounds, bruises, sprains, cuts, chilblains, corns, burns, 
fever-sores, scrofulous humors, erysipelas, salt-rheum, 
king's evil, rheumatism, spinal difficulties, chafings in 
warm weather, Ac. Ac., and is believed by many experi-
enced and competent judges to be the best combination of 
medicinal ingredients for external inflammatory difficul-
ties that has ever been produced. Many of the best phy-
sicians of the various schools use it and also recommend it. 
Every farmer should have it for horses ; for the cure of 
scratches, sprains, chafings, Ac., and also for sore teats on 
cows. It cures felons. It cures warts. 
From Mr. Morris Fuller, of North Creek, N. Y. : "We 
find your Golden Salve to be good for everything that we 
have tried it for. Among other things for which we have 
used it, is a bad case of t scald head' of our little girl. 
Its effect in this case was also favorable." 
"We like your Golden Salve very much in this place. 
Among other things I knew a lady who was cured of a 
very bad case of sore eyes."-Walter S. Plummer, Lake 
Village, N. H. 
Mrs. Glover, East Merrimack street, Lowell, was cured 
of a bad case of piles by the use of one box of the Salve. 
Mr. Farrington, a wealthy merchant and manufacturer 
of Lowell, was relieved of piles which had afflicted him 
for many years, and remarked to a friend that it was worth 
a hundred dollars a box for piles. 
Miss Harriet Morrill, of East Kingston, N. H., says: "I 
have been afflicted with piles for over twenty years. The 
last seven years I have been a great sufferer. And though 
1 never expect to be well, yet to be relieved as I am from 
day to day by the use of your Golden Salve, fillsmy heart 
with gratitude." 
From Mr. .1. 0. Merriam, Tewksbury, Mass. : "I have 
a large milk farm. I have used a great deal of your Gol-
den Salve for sore teats on my cows. I have used many 
other kinds of salve. Yours is the best I ever saw. I 
have also used it for sprains and scratches on my horses. 
It cures them in a short time. I recommend it to all who 
keep cows or horses." 
From Dr. Geo. Pierce, Lowell : " Your Golden Salve is 
good. It will have a great sale." 
From Dr. W. S. Campbell, New Britain, Conn. : " Tom 
Golden Salve is a great thing for chilblains. I have also 
used it in afflicting cases of salt rheum, erysipelas, and 
sore nipples. Its effect was, a speedy and permanent cure." 
Dr. Bliss, of Brunswick, Me., says : " I have several 
friends who have been cured of scrofulous humors by the 
Golden Salve. You may ecommend it from me as a val-
uable Salve." 
" I received a wound in my foot by a rusty nail ; by 
reason of which I could not set my foot to the floor for 
two weeks. The pain was excruciating. When your Gol-
den Salve was applied, it relieved the pain in a short time, 
and two and a half boxes of it wrought a perfect cure."-
Mrs. Lucinda A. Swain, Merideth Centre, N. H. 
Mr. H. L. W. Roberts, Editor of Marion Intelligencer, 
Marion, Ill., says, " Every person that uses the Golden 
Salve testifies favorably." He has also published a list of 
names in his paper, of persons cured of wounds, sores, hu-
mors, rheumatism, Ac., and gives the public reference to 
them ; who, he says, are among the first citizens of the 
place. 
THE GOLDEN SALVE-A GREAT HEALING REMEDY.-It 
is with much pleasure we announce the advent of this new 
article in our city, which has met with such signal success 
in Lowell, where it is made, that the papers have teemed 
with cases of truly marvelous cures. They chronicle one 
where the life of a lady was recently saved-a case of bro- 
ken breast ; another where the life of a child was saved-
a case of chafing ; another of a lady whose face was much 
disfigured by scrofulous humor, which was brought to a 
healthy action in a few days ; also another of an old man, 
who had a sore on his foot for twenty years-cured in a 
few weeks. Our citizens will not be slow in getting at its 
merits, and will herald it over the land.-Boston Herald. 
Boston, July 12, 1859. Bro. Whitten : I have used Tour 
Golden Salve in my family, and I am acquainted with a 
large number of families also who have used it ; and I 
have reason to believe that it is really what you recom- 
mend it to be. �
J. V. RIMES. 
Made only by C. P. Whitten, No. 35 and 37 East Mer- 
DR. LITCH'S RESTORATIVE : a great cure for colds and 
coughs. This medicine is highly prized by all who use it, 
for the purposes named. Try it. Price, 37 1-2 cts. 
DR. LITCH'S ANTI-BILIOUS PHYSIC. As a gentle purga-
tive, a corrector of the stomach and liver, and cure for 
common Fever and Fever and .Ague, and all the every day 
ills of a family, this medicine is not surpassed. I confi-
dently recommend it to every family who prize a speedy 
relief from disease and suffering, as the best they can use. 
Price 37 1-2 cents. Sold by H. Jones, 48 Kneeland st., 
Boston, next door to the Herald office •, and by J. Litch 
127 N. th st., Philadelphia. �
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Morning Hours in Patmos, by Rev. A. C. 
Thompson, D.D. 
Bliss' Sacred Chronology 
The Time of the End 
Memoir of William Miller 
Hill's Saints' Inheritance 
Daniels on Spiritualism 
Kingdom not to be Destroyed (Oswald) 
Exposition of Zechariah 
Laws of Symbolization 
Litch's Messiah's Throne 
Orrock's Army of the Great King 
Preble's Two Hundred Stories 
Fassett's Discourses 
Scriptural Action of Baptism 
Memoir of Permelia A Carter 
Questions on Daniel 
Children's Question Book 
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Church before the Flood 
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Night, Daybreak and Clear Day �
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Sin our Enemy, (ice. �
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For sale at this office, The Discussion between Messrs. 
J. Litch and M. Grant, on Eternal Punishment. It will 
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" The Historical Prefig,urations of the kingdom of 
God : A Discourse delivered in the Evangelical Ad-
vent Church, Providence R. f. March 24, 1861. By 
Rev. L. Osler. Boston : Published by the 'Ameri-
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rimack street, Lowell, Mass. Sold by druggists, and at 
country stores. Price 25 cts. per box, or $2 per dozen. 
I want good, reliable, persevering agents to canvass, in 
all parts of the United States and Canada. A large dis- 
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For sale at this office. 
E7' Buy the Best, and Cheapest. .M 
Thousands testify that it is WELLCOME'S GREAT GERMAN 
REMEDY, for Coughs, Colds, Bronchitis, Phthisic, Inflam-
mation of throat and lungs, Ac. We have never known 
it to fail to cure Bronchitis. Hundreds of certificates can 
be shown. Circulars sent to all who wish them. 
From a Druggist. 
Mr. Wellcome-I can furnish you four first-rate certifi-
cates of cures effected by your G. G. Remedy, after trying 
almost every thing else without effect. Send along three 
or four dozens more of each size. I can sell a large lot of 
it. �
J. MORRILL .Sc CO. 
Livermore, Me., Oct. 12, 1859. 
From I. Wight, Augusta, Me. 
Mr. Wellcome :-Your G. G. Remedy is decidedly the 
best thing I ever saw for throat and lung diseases. 
Eld. S. K. Partridge, being cured with it, of a severe 
case of Bronchitis, says, " I believe it the best medicine 
in use for diseases of throat and lungs..." 
Eld. A. C. Hodgkins being cured with it, of a bad case 
of phthisic and cough, of 15 years' standing, speaks of it 
in the highest terms. 
WELLCOME'S LIVER REGULATOR 
is recommended above all other remedies for the Liver 
Complaint, and diseases arising therefrom. 
WELLCOME'S MAGIC PAIN-CURER 
is a specific for nearly all pains, internal and external. 
The above medicines are purely vegetable, are recom-
mended by the best physicians, and are being used with 
the greatest success. Only half the price of others of the 
same quantity. 
Sold in most parts of Maine. In Butternuts, N. Y. -
Ira Townsend. Hartford, Ohio - S. Borden. N. Barn-
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Babbitt. Hatley, C. E.-W. L. Rowell. Agents make 
good pay selling them. Others wanted in every State. 
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street, and by S. J. Noble, corner of Carver and Eliot sts. 
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CHILDREN'S DEPARTMENT going over the mountain to cut a little plot four books of Kings, and to make a list of 
of grass, when they saw the little thing all the passages you will find there,which, 
" FEED MY LAMBS. John 21:15. �trying to get away through the under- like the one you have just read, is as new 
brush. Her feet were bare, and her arms to you as if you had never heard nor read 
were all scratched and wounded by briars them." 
and brush, by which they had been torn 
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Upon offering her a piece of bread from �
A KISS BETTER THAN A BLOW. A visitor 
their dinner-pail, she snatched it and de- once went to a Sabbath school, where he 
I shall never forget my first lie, although vowed it almost ravenously. Her little saw a boy and girl on one seat who were 
it happened when I was a very little girl. hood she had kept upon her head,although brother and sister. In a moment of thought-
My younger sister had a farthing with it had been untied all the while ; it is sin- less passion the little boy struck his sister. 
which she wished to buy a fig ; and being gul, ar that during the days arid nights The little girl was provoked, and raised 
too ill to go down to the shop herself, she spent in the woods she had kept this little her hand to return the blow. Her face 
engaged me to go. Accordingly I went. 
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hood. She was found in a direct line five showed that rage was working within,and 
The "American Millennial Association," located in Bos- 
As I was returning with the fig, nicely miles from home ; but how far she may her clenched fist was aimed at her broth- ton, Mass., was legally organized Nov. 12th, 1818, under 
done up in a piece of paper, suddenly the 
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eye.— the provisions of the 56th Chapter of the Acts of the Le- 
have traveled in her wanderings to get er, when her teacher caught her 
gislature of Massachusetts of A. D. 1857, for charitable 
thought occurred to me, that I should like that distance away cannot be told. She " Stop, my dear," said she, " you had and religious purposes. The whole amount obtained by 
to look at the fig. So I very carefully must have gone over rocky places where much better kiss your brother than to strike donations, subscriptions, or sales of publications, is to be 
expended in the publication of Periodicals, Books, and 
opened the paper, when the fig looked so she was in constant danger of tumbling him." The look and word reached her Tracts, and for the support of ministers of the Gospel. 
very tempting I thought I could not help over precipices, and where rattlesnakes are heart. Her hand dropped. She threw her All contributions to our treasury, will be duly acknow-
tasting it at one end. I had scarcely dis- so thick as to keep men and boys in fear arms round his neck and kissed him. The report. When there is any omission of the proper credit, 
lodged, and, at the end of the year, will be embodied in a 
patched that bit, before 1 wanted it all ; from their proximity. 'She had also forced boy was moved. He could have stood due notice should be at once given to • 
and without much more thought, I ate up her way through briars, over swamps, and against a blow, but he could not withstand �
SYLVESTER BLISS, Treasurer. 
the whole fig. Then, when the fig was through thick scrub districts, where only a sister's kiss. He compared the provoca • 
all gone, and I had nothing to do but to huntsmen penetrate ; for the country there- tion he had given her with the return she �
ACKNO WLEDGMENTS TO TUESDAY, DEC. 17, 1861. 
think, I began to feel very uncomfortable. about is the wildest and most impenetra- had made, and the tears rolled down his , 
...,ONATIONS RECEIVED SINCE Nov. 1sT—$400 Wanted by 
I stood disgraced before myself. I thought ble. She was so young as to be without cheeks. This affected the sister, and with 
of running off somewhere, I did not know fear, but must have suffered terribly from her little handkerchief she wiped away his Amount of1. 
of previous payments .... .... .... .... .. 56.05 
exactly where; but whence I should never hunger and from the pains of her lacerated tears. But the sight of her kindness only Mrs. Elizabeth Goll, Harlem, N. Y .... .... .... .... 3.00 
come back. It was long before I reached limbs. �
made him cry the faster. He was com- Mrs. Sarah Williams, Pittsfield, Mass........2.00 
Joshua V. Himes, Boston, Mass .... .... .... .... _10.00 
home. I then went as quickly as I could �
pletely subdued. Her teacher then told Mrs. Eliza Ide, Rahway, N. J .... .... .... .... .... 2.00 
and 'old toy sister that 1 had lost her far- �
Too Certain. �
the children always to return a kiss for a Willard Ide, �
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thing. I remember she cried sadly; but I 
" Father, I am tired of reading the Bi- blow, and they would never get any more 
Total received since Nov. 1 �
.75.05 
went directly out into the garden, and tried ble. I have read it so often that I know blows. 
We are some disappointed in the amount thus far receiv- 
to think of something else ; but in vain : everything in it." �
ed—hope for a better show next week. 
my own guilt stared me steadily in the 
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" Everything' my son ? Do you think �
The Strayed Lamb. 
face, and I was wretched. 
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you could not find one chapter that would �
A little lamb, one afternoon, 
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Although it wanted but a few minutes contain something you have never yet DO- �
Had from the fold departed; 
Special Proposition. 
to our dinner hour, yet it seemed very long �
The tender shepherd missed it soon, 
ticed ?" �
"A friend to the cause" proposes to give one hundred 
to me. I was anxious some event might 
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" Yes, father, I think so. I am sure I �
And sought it, broken hearted. 
dollars towards the six hundred needed to publish the 
intervene between me and the lie I filid know all that is in the historical parts of �
Not all the flock that shared his love �Herald weekly the coming year, provided the amount be 
told. I wandered about the garden with the Bible." �
Could from the search delay him, �made up by other contributors. This is not designed to 
interfere with the pledges of annual payment, below. 
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" Well, let me try you. When were a �
Nor clouds of midnight darkness move, 
Paid on the above, by 
a very heavy spirit; I thought I would 
give worlds if it had not happened. 
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large number of men fed with a few loaves �
Nor fear of suffering stay him. 
" A Friend of the cause ".... ... .. ....... ..$10.00 
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of bread, and a supply left when they had �
But night and day he went his way 
In sorrow till he found it, �
By the same, 2d payment. 
it it it 
3d 4, 
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10.00 
When the dinner hour came, I was seat-
ed at my father's side, when my sister done eating ?" �
And when he saw it fainting lay, �
May the Lord raise up for the A. M. A. many. ls°u.'ich° 
made her appearance, crying and looking 
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" Why, father, surely I remember �
He clasped his arms around it; 
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Christ's feeding several thousand persons, �
And closely sheltered in his breast, 
ately inquired what the matter was. Then �
'friends." 
very much grieved. My father immedi- 
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at two different times' with a few loaves �
From every ill to save it, 
my mother stated the story, the conclusion and fishes." �
He took it to his home of rest, 
of which was that 1 " had lost the fart]- �
<<Very well : those are two instances. �
And pitied and forgave it. 
ing." I can never forget the look 
 
of kind, Now tell me a third." �
And thus the Saviour will receive 
perfectly unsuspecting, confidence, with 
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 is no other in the Bible. �
The little ones who fear him; 
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which my father turned to me, and with 
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Their pains remove, their sins forgive, 
You are perfectly sure of that, are 
his large blue eyes full in my face, said— 
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And draw them gently near him. 
von ? Suppose you reflect a little before 
" Whereabouts did you lose the farthing ? 
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Blest while they live, and when they die, 
you answer again." 
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" Yes, father. I have thought, and I am �
Conduct them to his home on high, 
When soul and body sever, 
—perhaps we can find it again." Not for 
a single instant could I brave that tone and certain there is no other miracle of the kind �
To dwell with him for ever. 
look ; but bursting into tears, I screamed mentioned in the Bible." 
out.--" Oh ! I did riot lose the farthing ; I �
" Well, my son, open your Bible at the 
ate the fig !" A silence as of the grave fourth chapter of the fourth book of �
APPOINTMENTS. 
ensued. No one spoke. In an instant I Kings:, 
" The fourth book of Kings! Father, will hereafter worship in the meeting-house of the Seventh 
REMOVAL. The Messiah's church in New York city 
seemed to be separated at immense distance 
from the rest of the family. A great gulf �
day Baptist church on 11th street, between 3d and 4th 
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yawned between u �
there is no such book. 
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s ; a sense of loneliness �
" Hand me the Bible. What does this avenues. Preaching three times each Sabbath, and week- 
ly lecture on Wednesday evening. The prayerful support 
and desolation came over me—the irnpres- title say ?" �
and co-operation of all Christians is solicited. 
sion of which will go with me, I presume, �
" It is "Fhe Second Book of the Kings, 
forever. 1 left the table; and all the after' 
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Eld. Hines will commence a series of meetings in Poult- 
commonly called the Fourth Book of the 
Dings.' ,, �
ney, Vt., Dec 24, and continue over the sabbath, and 
noon, and the next day, and during the Kin 
longer, if thought best. 
week, my feelings were melancholy in the �
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extreme. But as tine wore away �
Well, there is one thing learned by the 
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, and my boy that knew the Bible so well. Now �
1 have appointments to preach as follows : Bristol, Sun- 
father and mother, and brothers and sisters turn to the fourth chapter, �
day, Dec. 8th; Loudon Ridge, Sunday, Dec. 29th. 
received me back to their love and favor 
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and read from 
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T. M. PREBLE. 
the fortysecond verse. ' 
my spirits recovered their wonted tone.— �
" Here it is, sir : 'And there came a man �
If God permit, I will preach in Westboro', Sabbath, 
The whole event left an indelible impress- from Baal-shalisha, and brought the man Dec. 15; Lowell, 22d; Lawrence, 29th. 
ion on my mind and heart ; it convinced of God—" �
G. W. BURNHAM. 
me that the " way of the transgressor is �
" Who was that man of God ?" �
The next session of the Western Quarterly Conference 
hard." 
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will commence Thursday P. M. at 6 o'clock, Dec. 19, at 
I must look. It was the prophet Eli- 
sh a.' �
Sevey's Corner, Vienna, and continue over the following 
A Lost Child Found. �
Lord's day. Come, brethren and sisters, to the work.— 
" Now proceed."
Call on �
H. B. SKYEY, Recorder. 
Many of our young readers will be lute- �
" ' And brought the man of God bread 
I. C. WELLCOME, Clerk. 
rested in the following account of a little of the first-fruits, twenty loaves of barley, 
A series of meetings will be held
girl in New Jersey, who wandered away and full ears of corn in the husk thereof. the Stone school house—about amile north of Beebe
,if the Lord will, in 
from home, and was lost for nearly f,ur And he said, Give unto the people, that Plain—commencing Wednesday, Dec. 25th, aad holding 
days, and was found at last by what peo- they may eat. And his servitor said,— over the Sabbath. The following will probably be the or-
ple generally call accident, but which it is What, should I set this before a hundred der of services : monthly covenant meeting on Christmas 
at 2 P. M. and preaching in the evening at 6 o'clock ;— 
easier to call a good providence. The ac- men ? �
He said again,_ Give the peo- prayer meeting in the forenoon and preaching in the PM. 
count is taken from the Patterson Guard- ple, that they may eat ; for thus saith the and evening of each day after that till Sunday. We hope 
for a good attendance and the Lord's blessing. 
Lord, They shall eat, and shall leave 
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I. H. SHIPMAN. 
ian : 
A little girl at �
est Milford was lost in �
J. M. ORROCK. 
thereof. So he set it before them, and they 
the woods from Monday until Thursday, did eat, and left thereof, according to the 
and when found five miles away, was in word of the Lord.' " �
A. M. ASSOCIATION. The standing committee of the 
a famished condition, and ravenously de- �
" That will do for this time, my son. I American Millennial Association will hold their regular 
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quarterly meeting on Tuesday, Jan. 14th, 1862, 10 A. M., 
voured some bread which her discoverers have never wished to make the readin of at 46 1-2 Kneeland street, Boston, Mass. 
happened to have in their possession. Bor- the Scriptures tedious by requiring you to �
J. Lircti, Pres't. 
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dering the house of her parents is a spring read them continually, without giving you �
F. GUNNER, Rec. Sec'y. 
or brook, where the family washing is us- other books to read. But I wanted to con- 
ually done. Whilst the mother was at the vince you how mistaken young people are 
BUSINESS DEPARTMENT. 
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brook, washing, the little one, aged about apt to be in their ideas of their own know 
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three and a half years, was playing about ledge. There are thousands of children 
the bushes with a child somewhat older.—yes. and of men and women, too—who �
BUSINESS NOTES. 
As the bushes are quite thick, and the would read with great interest many pas- 
country back mountainous and quite un- sages of the Bible, if they found them in �
H. B. Eaton, $1. Sent books the 11th. 
James S. Moore. Sent you, to care of David S. Brown 
inhabited, it proved impossible to find the a fresh and beautiful volume' 
 nothing but what is 
which they ,r6 Co. six cops., on the 12th inst. 
lost child, and she would, undoubtedly, believed to contain
John A. Heagy, $3 for the books sent the 6th. We re- 
have perished, but for her accidental dis- �
member distinctly, 
was yourself. Are hapyy to learn there are 
distinctly, but supposed from the initials that 
published for the first time. Remember your 
covert' by a farmer and his man,who were this, and let me advise you to read the two of you. We wish there were a thousand. Hope you 
will increase our list at Morrisville. 
BOSTON, DECEMBER 21, 1861. 
My First Lie. 
E. T. Welch. The address of Bro. Huse is No. 6 Hora-
tio street. We have not lately received any letter from 
Bro. Wolcott. We sent your books on the 14th inst. by 
Express, directed to E. T. Welch, care of J. B. Huse, No. 
6 Horatio st., New York city. 
C. M. Gould, M. D., $6. Have cr. you and Bro 0. to 
Jan. 1, 1863. Have also sent you, the 14th, Miller's Me-
moirs, and Review of Crosby ; but what you mean by 
" Church M.," we do not understand, and wait to hear. 
S. Marvin. Sent you, to St. Albans, Vt., 1 doz. Resti-
tution the 14th. 
J. G. Libby. There is 25 ets. 
W. Ide, $2. Sent books the 17th to 97 Wall street, by 
Express. ' 
A. M. ASSOCIATION. 
It is desirable that there be raised by donation five or 
six hundred dollars each year, by annual subscriptions ; 
and the following may be a suitable form of pledge for 
that purpose. 
We agree to pay annually in furtherance of the objects 
of the American Millennial Association, the sums set 
against our respective names. 
Samuel Prior, Yardleyville, Pa �
5 00 
Stephen Sherwin, Grafton, Vt �
........ .... 1.00 
Martin L. Jackson, Milesburg, Pa .... �. 2.00 
The No. appended to each name is that of the HERALD to 
which the money credited pays. No. 1023 was the closing 
number of 1860 ; No. 1049 is the Middle of the present 
volume, extending to July 1, 1861; and No 1075 is to the 
close of 1861. Notice of any failure to give due credit 
should be at once communicated to the Business Agent. 
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 office 
immediately. 
Those sending money should remember that we have 
many subscribers of similar names, that there are towns of 
the same name in different States, and in some States there 
is more than one town of the same name. Therefore it is 
necessary to give his own name in full, and his Post-office 
address — the name of the town and state, and if out of 
New England, the county to which his paper is (Erected. 
An omission of some of these often, yes daily, gives us 
much perplexity. Some forget to give their State, and if 
out of New England their County, while some fail to give 
even their town. Sometimes they live in one town and 
date their letter in that, when their paper goes to another 
town; and sometimes the name of their town and office are 
different. Some, in writing, give only their initials, when 
there may be others at the same post-office, with the same 
initials. Sometimes, when the paper goes to a given ad-
dress, another person of the same family will write res-
pecting it,without stating that fact, and we cannot find the 
name. And sometimes those who write, forget even to sign 
their names ! Let all such remember that what we want, is 
the full name and post-office address of the one to whom the 
paper is sent. 
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-ofli?e righ+, 
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. 
RECEIPTS, 
UP TO TUESDAY, DEC. 17. 
ANNUAL DONATIONS. 
Sarah S Pearce (being in doubt as to your intention, we 
credit it on Herald to) 1127, John Pickel 1069, P Bedell 
1072, P R Wadleigh 1101, Charles Burtenshaw 1101, A 
Willard 1075—it was stopped by your P. M. two weeks 
since—have re-sent; Geo Phillips 1075, (M M owes 50 c) 
A D Whittemore 1101, Wm Rich 1101, I F Harden 1085, 
D Richardson 1101, J Craig 1081, A Banning 1057, K 
Rowell 1085, and stamps for postage; H A Brockway 1101 
—the paper referred to was not a periodical, but a single 
sheet, of which we now have no copy—each $1. 
W A S Smyth 1127, sent Restitution the 11th, A C Wil-
ley 1075. Ir s Fisher 1075, II Jackman 1127, Mrs J J Goll 
1127, I D Boyer 1127, P Butler 1101, Uri Baker 1075, 
Joel Bali r 1023, S Palmer 1062, Wm Bradford 1075, Mrs 
Sarah Wiiiia.ms 1141, Mrs E T Woodman 1101—It has 
been sent each week; F Adams 1108, Willard Ide 1127—
which is also the No. to which the paper sent to Rahway 
is paid; A H Brown 1127—each $2. 
T B Carpenter 1049, $1 dm-33.