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This paper is specially devoted to the advocacy 
of the speedy, personal,: pre-millennial advent of 
Christ, the glorification of the church at that epoch, 
the dissolution of 'the heavens and earth by' fire, 
their renewal as. the everlasting inheritance of the 
redeented, and the establishment of the kingdom 
of God ; and while rejeoth.g—as it has from the 
commencement of its existence—the. doctrine of the 
unconscious state of the dead and extinction of the 
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Another bridge of life 
Has now been crossed: few more 
Remain for us; another ridge of time 
We've reached, from it to explore 
The far-outspreading green of the not distant shore. 
Another pillar fr,llen ' 
In Time's old temple! See 
How fragment upon fragment darkly lies; 
And hear how heavily 
The echoes wind along by the slow-swelling sea! 
Another song has closed,' 
A true brit varied strain, 
And the deep-tarret chime I hear afar 
Has eplaeed out Anion, . 
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Swelling the long-drawn fall of the well-known 
refrain. 
Oh, well for us to watch! 
Our night will soon be o'er; 
The day of mortal doom approaches fast, 
The Judge is at the door; 
Awake! arise, my soul, and sleep thy sleep no 
snore! 
—7Toratitts Boner, D. D. 
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THE OLD .AND THE NEW YEAR. 
In the German town of Coblenz, op-
posite the frowning bastions of Ehren-
breitstein, and just where the waters of 
the Moselle fall into the Rhine, there 
stands a monumental fountain. Archi-
tecturally • it is in no way remarkable. 
But its inscription, and the history which
that recalls, make it one of the most 
singular monuments ingexistence. The 
inscription is in. the - French language, 
and consists of stake parts. The first 
bears that the fountain was erected by 
the French -prefeei of the department to 
commemorate the emperor Napoleon's; 
invasion of Russia in the year 1812. 
The second part' is also in French, and 
reads as a continuation of • the first ; but 
it is•to the following effect :—Seen and 
approved by its, the] RUSSIAN governOr 
of the town of Cbblenz, on the 1st- day 
of 'January,- 1814. And 'thus the - ins 
tended memorial of Napoleonic empire 
over Europe is converted into a speaking 
memorial of ambition frustrated and of 
usurpation driVien 'back. 
Our wish fdr 'every one of our readers 
is that on the first day-of January, 1874, 
their Sends may present a similar inscrip-
titian, engraved not by :the hand of man, 
but by the living Spirit of Him who 
maketh all things neIss. '"God be thank-
ed," says that Divine Spirit to the 
Christians of Rome, l‘that ye were the
servants of sin; :but ye have obeyed 
from the heart that form of doctrine 
which was delivered unto you,"—that 
doctrine into whose mould ye have been 
cast. " Such," says. the same Spirit to 
the Christians of Corinth, after a fear-
fully descriptive catalogue of sinners who 
shall not inherit the kingdom of God, 
"such where some of you ; but ye are 
washed, but ye are sanctified, but ye are 
justified in the name of the Lord Jesus, 
and by the Spirit of our God." "I," says 
the Apostle Paul, writing by the same 
Spirit, " I was a blasphemer, and a per-
secutor, and injurious ; but I obtained 
mercy." " Thanks be unto God," he says 
again, " who always triumpheth over us 
in Christ[i.e. leads us 
 about in triumph, 
displaying us as vanquished foes; as ene-
mies turned by His grace into friends, and 
now willing to spend and be spent in his 
service], and maketh manifest the sas 
vor of his knowledge by us in every 
place." 
Has. the reader up to this day borne, 
in the godlessness and sinfulness of his 
heart and life, the hand-writing of Satan, 
certifying that he is his? Never through 
eternity can that shameful fact be oblit-
erated from the memory of things that 
have been. Yet the record may, " in the 
name of the Lord Jesus and by the Spirit, 
of our God," be turned_ into the record 
of one of the faetp: that.ouly ,were, but 
are not ; it may, on this new day of the 
New Year, receive-an-addition, in charac-
ters legible to all men, testifying that -a 
stronger One has conquered Satan, and 
condemned sin to final expulsion. Then 
the very magnitude of the-past guilt will 
serve to illustrate the efficacy of that 
blood of Christ that has procured its for- 
A WORD OF CAUTION. 
"In all thy ways acknowledge him, 
and he shall direct thy paths.' —Prov. 
3: 6. 
Many professed disciples of Jesus 
Christ acknowledge him in a general 
way ;—looking to him for help and guid-
ance; and striving to live a Christian life 
in an observance of his requirements,—
but they do not come up to the standard 
of the text above quoted. They do,atot 
there are some of their ava --some 
" in all their ways acknoWledo him" ; 
IS:ss 
thoughts, some words, some actions, 
which they shrink from mentioning be-
fore their Saviour when they seek him 
" by prayer and supplication with thanks-
giving." (Phil. 4 : 6). 
Now this is a snare of Satan of which 
we should beware. If he can tempt us 
to hide, as it were, anything from our 
Heavenly Father, he has a hold on us 
which retards our progress towards the 
"highway of holiness," (Isa. 35 : 8). It 
is true, as we all know, that we cannot 
really hide anything from God ; but he 
would have us come to him with hum-
ble, trustful, childlike hearts, telling him 
everything, as if he did not know all. 
Thus we manifest our entire confidence 
in him, and may be sure that if we thus 
do he will " instruct us and teach us in 
the.way that we should go," (Psalm 32 : 
8). There may be, and often is, some-
thing in our ways, or in our hearts, which 
we feel is not just right ; some compara-
tively little thing—known only to our- 
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calculated to instruct on the subject of Prophecy 
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BOSTON, WEDNESDAY, DECEMBER 31, 1873. 
God—their true Messiah. But they 
knew they were doing something that 
was wicked and wrong, for they manu-
factured lies in order to have Christ de-
livered into their hands ; and I have no 
doubt but they greatly trembled when 
_heavens, the 
quaking earth, the rending rocks, the 
shaking temple, the parting veil, the 
heaving tombs, and consternation upon 
all faces : for one of their number was 
forced to cry out, "The world is coming 
to an end, or the God of nature suffers." 
But for that prayer of Christ God's 
righteous anger might have been dis-
played, and Christ's murderers then and 
there at once destroyed. 
How awful the words which the Jews 
Uttered upon this occasion—"His blood 
be on us, and on Our children" ! Matt. 
27 : 25. Infatuated people ! Less than 
forty years witness God's just judgment 
upon that guilty and Christ-forsaken na-
tion ! 
Such an act as the condemning and 
putting to death of the Son of God was 
never transacted upon this earth before, 
and never will be witnessed again. The 
work was bad enough, taking the infidel, 
or materialistic view of the subject, that 
merely an _innocent man was thus suffer-
ing and dying ; but awfully solemn is 
the thought when we' take the Bible 
view of it. He was not barely a man. 
Christ speaks of himself as lying back 
and far beyond all that his enemies could 
do : "Destroy this temple, and in three 
days _T will raise it up;" and the evange-
list adda, "He spake of the temple of 
his body." John 2 : 19-21. If Christ 
did not lie back of the death of his body, 
in conscious existence, in Divine power, 
where is the truth of his assertions ? 
How beautiful the words of the poet 
when, referring to Christ, he says : 
"Here's love and grief beyond degree, 
The Lord of glory dies for men; 
But lo! what sudden joys we see, 
Jesus, the dead, revives again! 
The rising Lord forsakes the tomb,) 
,sic;;
Cherubic legions guardlhim home, 
And shout him:welcome to the skies." 
And now, just as sure as this described 
scene was ever acted upon the earth, so 
sure there will be another of a widely 
different character ;—Christ will come to 
earth once more,, but in a different form 
and character altogether ; not as the 
"Babe 'of Bethlehem," or Man of Sor-
rows, to be mocked, spit upon, and slain, 
but as " the mighty God," clothed in the 
habiliments of light and glory, and at-
tended by the heavenly host. He comes ! 
He comes to execute judgment, and to 
reign. 
In Christ's first advent the veil of hu-
manity so covered the Divinity, that but 
little of , the divinity was seen, and that 
little only by a few ; but now, in his 
second advent, the Divinity pours forth, 
arid but few, comparatively, will see the 
humanity, or behold in their Judge the 
face of their Redeemer and Friend. 
-Iow precious will Christ be in that dread 
and terrible day to the redeemed soul—
the purchase of his most precious blood ! 
-Who can describe Pilate at the bar of 
Christ ? How will he appear, and all of 
that ungodly crew who are stained with 
the blood of the Son of God ? Pilate 
must be there ; and those men that drove 
the nails into his hands and feet, and the 
Soldier that pierced that innocent side 
will be there ; but how shall they ap-
pear ! 
0 sinner ! " Prepare to meet thy God." 
D. HOTCHKISS. 
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' her mortal remains, from the children of 
Heth. He bought for this purpose the 
I cave of Machpelah, for which he Raid 
" four hundred shekels' of silver,' current 
money with the merchant." The same 
cave was also Abraham's last 
place, where he "waits the ado 
wit, t ie redemption of the body." 
resting- 
THE YEAR'S LAST MOMENT. 
The crowd sweeps onward still: 
And we with it move on 
Part of the ever-rushing multitude; 
Till the great goal be seen, 
And for the last time sinks the ever-setanz-eeo, 
 
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come with boldness to the throne ; then I trust in him " ; he is a sire friend. (Ps., er the " dying" anguish of this present 
there is no throne of grace to come to. 30.) In him are safety and protection • life, the more perfect the quickly-wrought-
Now it is, "Seek, and ye shall find;" then, from the sad effects of sin in this world,jout life also in this," mortal flesh." 
" Ye shall seek me, but not find me." I and its dreadful consequences in hell- " Weeping may endure for a night, but 
Now it is, " God never said to the seed I hereafter. 
of Jacob, Seek my face in vain ;" then, I 
 
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smseasloss---the last afflictiorrsi " 
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the d.yg of the Lord Jesus, that the 
that, will be sanctified to the people of 
God will have been dealt out, no more to life also of Jesus might be made manifest 
in our body. For we which live are al- 
be repeated. We thank God often for ways delivered unto death for Jesus' sake, 
his blessings ; how rarely do we thank that the life also of Jesus might be made 
him for the afflictions that he sends us, manifest in our mortal flesh." 
which are his richest blessings in dis- God never tries his people but he bless- 
guise,I., „The baptism of sorrow often es them afterward with a double richness 
prepares,the heart as the dew does the of benediction. After the death-principle 
soil, for the: baptism of the Holy- Ghost. comes the radiant life-inspiration of the 
God knocks now at the door of every celestial breezes of Paradise. After the 
heart by affliction, by trial ; but then he weary drought, comes the divine awak7 
will knock At hearts no more. A day ening of the north wind blowing upon 
will some, when the afflictions of the his garden, and causing the spices thereof 
people of God shall-cease as chastise- to blow out. It is a fact—stranger than 
ments, for they have no need of them ; any fiction—this fact that Christians are 
and when the afflictions of those that are so slow to believe in the life-principle. 
not the people of. God shall cease as ad- We grant readily enough that we are to 
monitions, for their lot is fixed for ever. "suffer with Christ ; " but we forget that 
Realize that day ; conceive it is come ; " those who suffer with him shall also 
joy cometh in the morning ;" and when 
it so cometh, whether the weeping and 
the joy be s iritual or temporal, in either 
is eun o o , w o givet 
us the victory, through our Lord Jesus 
Christ. "—Baptist Union. 
giveness ; and the very straitness of the 
 
 bondage and the depth of the degradation 
under it will serve as the dark background 
to render more wonderful the beauty of 
the sun-lighted lancape into which the 
soul shall be ietrodaced ; it 7-:11 ePrve as 
Idle foil to the inscription in letters of 
pure gohl on 
the Lord." 
For our a !ready Christian reader, 
what shall our wish be but that as they 
have been subdued and consecrated to the 
Lord, so in His Jove, in His holy work, 
and in His -consolations, they may this 
day makes a great advance, and may, in 
their whole life abound more and more ? 
—British ItAssenger. 
I --OW 0000.--as 
Another hour has struck, 
With solemn note, and slow; 
Another fragment of time's cliff has rushed 
Into the vale below; 
Another of earth's streams this moment ceased to 
flow. 
"AS IT WAS IN THE DAYS OF NOAH." 
• 
Tommunicationo.• 
Articles not dissented from will not be under-
stood as necessarily endorsed by the editor. We 
solicit communications on prophetic subjects irre-
spective of any views which we cherish,—corres-
pondents being responsible for the sentiments they 
advance. 
DIVINE AN 
HUMAN LOVE. 
Another lamp of time 
Has flickered into gloom, 
And left us lonelier in our lonely watch, 
Waiting the light to come; 
Not into, but beyond, the life-devouring tomb. 
Another of time's stars 
Has vanished from the eye; 
Ah! now the light of the immortal dawn 
Is coming up the sky, 
And quenching, one by one, these midnight gems 
on high. 
Another headland turned, 
While bends the quivering mast; 
Another beacon of the lone, lone sea 
Our vessel has shut past. 
The shore, the shore is near! Is that the haven at 
last? 
AT THE LAST. 
The word of God through his servant 
Noah had been rejected. He told of 
judgment ; but they did not believe. 
He spoke of sin and ruin ; but they 
were not convinced. He spoke of reme-
dy ; but they would not give heed. 
They went on with their own plans and 
speculations, and had no room for God. 
They acted as if the earth belonged to 
them by a lease for ever. They forgot 
that there was a clause of surrender. 
They thought not of the solemn "until." 
God was shut out. They thought, spake, 
and acted for themselves. They did 
their own pleasure, and forgot God. 
reign with him." "All things are yours ; " 
My reader, remember the words of 
not " shall be," but "are." Our Father the Lord Jesus Christ, how he said, "As 
means us to be happy, bids us rejoice, it was in the days of Noah, so shall it be 
and ask your own selves in the sight of 
God, What is my trust and hope against 
that day ?--,Tohn Cumming, D. D. 
A WORD NEVER BROKEN. 
" Having loved his-own which were in the 
world, be loved them. to the end."—John 13 : 1. 
The longer the acquaintance of Chris-
tians with the Saviour, the more they 
feel assured of his abiding tenderness 
and loving care. Every soul has a niche 
in the temple of .his affections,. which 
none other can fill than the one for whom 
it is prepared. The nearer, higher, and 
more honored niches are awarded to 
those who prove their love and fidelity 
by labor and suffering. The ray of 
light that pierces my eye is not that 
which reaches the eye of another ; the 
vibration of sound 'that causes music to 
my ear. is not the one - that comes to 
another ear, though coming from the 
same source ; so every one born of the 
Spirit has his own peculiar realization of 
love Divine. All receive this portion of 
favor, and thus are a benefit to each oth-
er, and a source of satisfaction to their 
Redeemer, who is a fountain of unsealed 
love. 
How different from this divine love is 
much of earth-born friendship ! how 
often have we felt that "here is no rest," 
—that there is nothing earthly in which 
we can repose full confidence ! It has 
become the pastime—nay, even the life-
work of many, to form new acquaint-
anceship, and, like the coquette, as soon 
Building a bridge across the Niagara 
river below the Falls was once thought 
to be impossible. The banks of the river, 
as we all know, are very high and steep, 
the distance across nearly an eighth of a 
mile ; and the river here boils and foams 
so that no boat can stand the fury of the 
torrent a moment. Sinking piles and 
building arches was quite out of the ques-
tion. Yet a bridge was built—a wire sus-
pension bridge, so called because it had to 
be hung or suspended by cables driven 
into huge blocks of granite on each bank. 
The cables were made of twisted wire. 
The bridge looked like a spider's thread. 
But would the cables hold ? That had 
to be tried. How frightened the specta-
tors were when the engineer drove the 
first carriage over The bridge quivered 
to the horses tread. When he reached 
the middle might not the weight snap it 
in two ? Might not the horses grow res-
tive, frightened? A terrible leap would 
that be into the raging water two hull_ 
dred and fifty feet underneath ! But he 
crossed in safety. The bridge stood the 
trial. Then it had to be tried by storms. 
Might not a heavy gale wrench the cables 
from their fasteings ? Gales and storms 
beat against it and it stood. Might not 
rust eat off the wires ? Time would tell ; 
and time proved that the bridge could be 
relied on. " I am afraid to trust it, it looks 
so slender," said one of our party, shrink-
ing back, when we visited the Falls a 
year afterward. "It has been tried," 
said the guide ; " there is no danger ; " 
and we crossed in safety. 
A new steamboat has to be tried before 
passengers and freight can be trusted on 
board. A new railroad has its trial trips 
before it is thrown open to the public. 
A few years ago, at the opening of a rail-
road in IVIissouri, a train of cars filled with 
people, many of them gentlemen invited 
by the directors, set out from St. Louis 
on a trial trip. On swept the train. The 
party were in high spirits, when in an 
instant—crash, crash ! Timbers split, 
joists snapped, one terrible plunge, and 
down went the cars through a breaking 
bridge into the river below, a heap of 
ruins. That bridge had been trusted be-
fore it had been tried. 
We usually do not trust anything un-
til it is tried. Boys dare not skate across 
a river until they have tried the new ice. 
The swing just put up or. the tree is not 
deemed safe for the children until the 
rope is tried. A tried friend is a friend 
worth having. 
The Bible tells us of something that is 
tried., "The word of the Lord is tried." 
Its declarations are tried. It declares 
that " God so loved the world that he 
gave his only begotten Son that whoso-
ever believeth in him should not perish, 
but have everlasting life." Its promises 
are tried. "Him that cometh unto me I 
will in no wise cast out." John Bunyan, 
the wild tinker boy, went and found it 
so ; John Newton, the swearing slave 
captain, went and found it so. And how 
niany all over the world are ready to 
witness, this day, that they went to the 
Son of God, and found him a very pre-
cious Saviour from their sins. 
"The word' of the Lord is tried." But 
are its threatenings to be relied on ; 
Yes ; when it says, "Be not deceived ? 
neither thieves, nor covetous, noralrunk-
ards, shall inherit the kingdom of God." 
Judas found it so, when it says, "The 
wrath of God cornetts- on the disobedi-
ent." Poor king Saul found it sb, when 
it says, "Except a man be born again, he 
cannot see the kingdom of God." You 
must 'experience the hamppy change be-
fore you can enjoy the blessings of the 
kingdom. 
"The word of God is tried." And 
then what ? " He is' a buckler to all who ' 
"0 love of God! how strong and tills, 
Eternal and yet ever new; 
trncomprehended and unbought, 
Beyond all knowledge and all thought.. 
0 love of God! how deep and great: 
Far deeper than man's deepest hate; 
Self-fed, self-kindled, like the light, 
Changeless, eternal, infinite." 
When the last day of this dispensa-
tion shall arrive, much that is now avail7 
able .for our salvation will be gone for 
ever. Wheri'the last dity,lvat cir: a year, 
but of an age, shall ediiie1,tHery oppor-
tunity of seeking grace wilt lista, gone for 
ever. It will be the day of teatin
ichar- 
acter that is, not of creating a 'diihAkter 
that is not ;—the-day of reaping, either 
in tares for there, or: 
 in wheat for 
eternal garners, the -Seeds that we have 
sown in the present world. Suppose this 
day were the last of the age, and the 
great white throne and the dread Judge 
were there, and the books were opened ; 
have you to seek what you would then 
give infinite worlds if you had—a God, 
a Saviour, pardOn` of sin,'adoption into 
the family of God, fitness for the king- 
dom ' of heaven ?' Were -0)41 'day' -your 
last on earth, or were this day earth's 
own last day as it now is, are you ripe 
for gathering, are you prepared to meet 
your God ? You must feel this momen- 
tous thought in that day ; anticipate the 
experience of it, lest that experience may 
be agony at last. Then the Sun of grace 
will, have set behind the hills of the west, 
only to rise as the Sun of glory in the 
eternal east upon them that fear Him. 
The throne of grace will have been 
merged into the throne of judgment ; 
and the gates that shut out all that de-
file, and shut in all that is holy, will be 
sealed as they will be shut for ever. Up-
on that last day, you will have heard 
your last sermon upon earth. A sermon 
is the least valued often of all things 
that are spoken and printed now ; but it 
is a very solemn thing to hear ; it is a 
cry precious thing, however feeble if 
faithful, to be privileged to listen to. For 
what are sermons ? Voices crying in the 
desert, "Prepare ye to meet your God." 
Their excellence is their earnestness, 
their simplicity, their faithfulness. Now, 
they may be vehicles of light, and life, 
and everlasting peace. Their echoes will 
rise and reverberate at the judgment 
throne ; but not as summonses to believe, 
but as witnesses either thA you have 
profited by them, or that the,y have hard-
ened you in your transgression. Sup-
pose, then, that no more appeals were to 
be addressed to you ;, suppose that, the• 
flay were come when it shall be no more 
"Ho, every one that thirsteth, come 
ye to the waters ;" when no kind voice 
Will say, "Behold the Lamb of God ;" 
when no earnest accent will reverberate 
is yetis 'learns*, "Believe in the Lord Je-
ns Christ, an thou shalt be saved." Are 
iron now in theststate in which such invi-
tations will be unnecessary ? Are you 
ROW *bat you would wish to be then, 
iviien *hat-you are will endure for ever, 
tufa transition from darkness unto 
ligliltVoi frail] sin to hOliness, can take 
place any more ?' How dreadful if in 
that last .day.. of the-- last dispensation—
the one that now is=these words should 
be addressed to you, when you cry, "Open, 
Open, Lord ;,", "I-have called, and ye re-
fused. Because I have reached out my 
hand, and no man regarded ; but ye 
have set at nought ,all my counsel, and 
would none of my reproof ; I also will 
laugh at your calamity ; I will mock 
when your fear cometh ; when youriem-
cometh as desolation, and your destruc-
tion cometh as a whirlwind ; when dis-
tress and anguish cometh upon you ; 
then shall they call upon me, but I will 
hot answer ; they shall seek me early, 
but they shall not find me." A day 
comes when that text shall be actual : 
is-not true nowait is not fulfilled yet. 
Have you sought God, and found him ? 
-lave you called and been answered ? Is 
Christianity a name, tv profession, a de-
cent robeasornia it - an inner experience, 
a life, a powensin the sight of God and 
before all mankind ? 
In that last day,: the last prayer that 
will be heard on earth will beoffered un-
to Gad, and no answer in mercy and in 
love. can:be given. Now, however; the 
suppressed moan of the lowly, humble 
and believing heart, cleaves the air fast-
er than an angel„!ss pinion, auft ittbsard by 
God upon His throne amid the voices 
and songs of the seraphim. BLit at that 
day the londeat cry of the strongest spir-
it in its agony will provoke an echo, but 
it will obtain no answer. Now we may 
PILATE AND 
CHRIST. 
JESUS 
gives us a word of comfort for every sor-
row, and yet we weep, moan, wrap our 
souls up in sorrow, and refuse to look at 
the comfort ; as if we could serve God 
any better for being miserable ; as if we 
could glorify hint more by being always 
" disolved in tears." We are as if some 
sick child should, with the most lugubri- 
ous of countenances, accept the bitter 
draught of healing, saying in a voice Of 
meek martyrdom, " Thank you, father ; I 
know it is for my good ; but, oh ! it is 
bitter ; " and so go on moaning in a sort 
of ostentatious submissiveness, regard-
less of the sweet morsel which the parent 
holds out to take away the bitter taste. 
What we want is, not long metaphys-
ical disquisitions on the philosophy of livi-
ng and dying, but just a coming down 
nto our heasts44-ailapie4 her utifel 
just as GOT fitiVeyrit 4tiii.-.48t* - 
Jesus is borne by us in order that the life 
may be made manifest. If we cherish 
the death principle, we, if we may use 
such an expression, as it were, frustrate 
God's purpose. The dying is to come, 
and pass, to make way for the glorious 
life ; not the future spiritual life in an-
other state, but the daily, strengthening 
life which we all need. In one of Mrs. 
Whitney's beautiful stories, she gives us 
an exquisite little sermon bearing on this 
point, when she tells us of the poor child 
who saved half her apple for a poor wo-
man who was an inhabitant of a chari-
table institution. The dear old saint, on 
receiving the little offering, exclaimed 
with delight that she could just see how 
Providence had been getting her ready 
for it. The room was hot, she was very 
thirsty, no water within reach, but now 
she cries, 
"I see it was just Providence a mak-
in' up my mouth for just this peice of 
apple ! " 
She carried her gratitude farther than 
merely thanking God for relief to her 
suffering ; she went on to adore him for 
the very trial which prepared her so to 
enjoy the relief. How much happier 
should we be if we had old Martha's 
faith, and even in the midst of trial 
could trust our Father, that he would 
not only help us out of trouble, but 
that by this precise form of affliction, he 
is only " making up our mouth for the 
apple ! " 
The sorrow, whether great or small, is 
just the shadow of the Father's hand, 
and when the shadow passes, the hand 
itself will reach us ; and that hand is 
never-empty, nor is it filled with hard 
things. The shadow frights us. The 
brighter the sun the deeper the shadows, 
and often, the fuller our Father's hand is 
of blessings, the deeper the shadows be-
fore those blessings reach us ; once ours, 
how rich they are ! "That thou givest 
them, they gather ; thou openest thine 
hand, they are filled with good. " " Thou 
openest thine hand, and satisfieth the de-
sire of every living thing." 
Christian's way to the Celestial City 
was over the Slough of Despond. He 
missed the stepping-stones, and went in 
instead of over ; yet the Lord brought 
him safely through, and in after days he 
could sing many a song of deliverance 
from "the horrible pit and the miry clay." 
Yes, the " dying " is but temporary ; 
it is the " life " which is permanent. 
The " dying" is but the passage to the 
" life " room, warmed and gladdened by 
the presence of the Life-giver. "Dying" 
is lsut the means to the grand object "life," 
a present life in Jesus. And don't we 
need it ? Are there not many of those 
who can say, " We which live are deliv-
ered unto death ?" And do not such 
need an instant help ? The wailing cry 
goes up, "Save now, I beseech thee, 0 
Lord : 0 Lord, I beseech thee, send now 
prosperity." And not in vain peals forth 
that petition out of the depths ; the 
Lord waiteth to be gracious. The great- 
all 
The evangelists have 
sus at Pilate's judgment 
late told Jesus that he had power to cru-
cify him or to release him, Jesus replied : 
"Thou couldst have no power at all 
against me, except it were given thee 
from above." John 19 : 11. Some sup- 
pose Christ here referred to the Roman 
" power," others to the Divine power, or 
power of God. No doubt the remark 
was true in both cases. But Pilate acted 
his part in delivering to be crucified one 
that he knew. was a just and righteous 
person—one in whom he could find no 
bar. 
Se-
Pi- 
en 
Wh 
described 
in the days of the Son of Man." And 
albeit the-voice of the scoffer may be 
heard, saying, " Where is the promise of 
His coming ? " the moment is rapidly 
hastening on when the scoffers will get 
their answer. " 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." (2 Pet. 3 : 4-10.) This is 
the answer to the intellectual Scoffers of 
the children of this world. 
Now in whatever way we look at the 
future, from whatever point of view we 
contemplate it, whether the object which 
presents itself to the soul's vision be the 
Church in glory or the world in flames, 
must feel the unspeakable importance as the excitement and novelty are passed, 
af attending to God's present testimony to discard these associates for some oth-
in grace to lost sinners. "aVote is the ers. These are the sort who seek to find 
accepted time ; behold, now is the day of out all your failings and few of your 
salvation " (2 Cor. 6 : 2). " God was in virtues. Who would not wish to keep 
Christ, reconciling the world unto him- their heart-strings from their cruel and 
self, not imputing their trespasses unto unfriendly touch ! It is the same spirit, 
them" (2 Cor. 5 : 19). He is reconciling that causes so little attachment between 
now, He will be judging by-and-by. It , pastor and people that he soon finds their 
is all grace now ; it will be all wrath faces turned away from him; and that 
then. He ia-paialoning: sin now; through :they are atudyieg for another sensation. 
the Cross ; He will 'Amish it then in hell The same spirit enters into all the rela-
for ever. He is 'sending out a message tions of life and society, making men 
of purest, richest, freest grace. He is and women unstable in all their ways, 
telling sinners of an accomplished re- grasping after some supposed but unsub-
demption through the precious sacrifice i stantial good, and seek to quench a mor-
of Christ. He is• declaring that all is bid appetite with the unholy wine of ex-
done. He' is waiting to be gracious. • citement. It is .a sign of the last days, 
" The long-suffering of our Lord is sal- '2 Timothy, third chapter. They are 
vation." " The Lord is not slack con- ," without natural affection," but full of 
cerning His promise, as some men count unnatural- ones. With them the last new 
slackness, but is hang-suffering to usward, thing is the rage till it has lost- its taste 
not willing. that any should perish, but —then they are ready for whatever is 
that all should come to ' repentance " 2 prese,nted. Like the autumn leaves chas- 
Pet. 3 : 9). 
ing each other in _merry rounds, bright 
All this makes the present moment with a soon-fading beauty, they make a 
one of peculiar solemnity. TJnmingled gleeful dance around every stable thing 
grace declared ! Unmingled wrath irn- in their way ;—blown by the winds, 
pending ! How solemn ! How deeply without any life-seeds to germinate and 
solemn ! Men dream of a • golden age ; spring up to good fruits, they have their 
they feed upon the thought that " to- 'good time till adversity comes and piles 
morrow shall be as this day, and much them in a heap ! 
more abundant." Bet, oh ! utterly vain But there is One who abideth ever, 
are these thoughts and dreams. Faith whose foundations are of old, whose joys 
can see the clouds gathering in the dis- are ever new, who loveth to the end ; 
tance thickly around the world's horizon. and with Bonar we may exclaim :— 
Judgment is coming; the day of wrath 
is at hand. The door will soon be shut. 
How needful, then; is it to raise a 
Warning voice—to seek by faithful tes-
timony to counteract man's pitable self-
coniplacency. True, in doing so, we 
may be exposed to the charge which 
Ahab brought against Micaiah, of al- 
P. A. B 
ways prophesying evil ; but no matter 
for that. Let us prophesy what the 
Word of God prophesies, and let us do 
this simply with the purpose of persuad-
ing men. The Word of God only re-
moves from beneath our feet a hollow 
foundation, for the purpose of placing 
instead thereof a foundation which can 
never be removed. It takes away " a 
broken reed " to give us the "Rock 'of 
Ages." He sets aside " a broken cistern 
which can hold no water " to set in its 
place "the fountain of living waters." 
This is truest love. It is God's love. 
He will not cry "Peace, peace, when 
there is no 'peace," nor " daub with un-
tempered mortar." He would have the 
sinner's heart resting sweetly in His own fault at all. (Luke 23 : 22). How could 
.he do it? Poor, timid, time-serving_ 
eternal Ark of safety, enjoying present man ! utterly unworthy of such a place 
at such on hour as this. It will require 
more water than Pilate ever had in his 
basin. to wash the stain of blood-guilti-
ness from his hands and sin-polluted 
soul. 
Pilate little knew or realized what he 
was doing, and no doubt he waa, includ- 
The funeral of Sarah, Abraham's wife, ed with the rest of Christ's murderers in 
is the first on the record of the world's his last prayer : " Father, forgive them, 
history ; and the first pecuniary tra,nsac- for they know not what they do," (Luke 
tion of which we have any account .is 23 : 34)—that is, they do not realize that 
the purchase by him of a sepulchre for they are putting to death the 'Son of 
communion with Himself, and fondly 
cherishing the hope that, when all the 
ruin, all the desolation,-and all the judg-
ments have passed away, it Shall rest 
with Him in a restored creation. 
THE FIRST RECORDED FUNERAL. 
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ad a new ruler comes to the throne of 
Time we will listen to the poet's song :— 
"The crown is changed ta-day ; 
The old year and the new 
Pass onward, and their varying way 
With golden counsels strew. 
Time flying cries, 'Repent!' 
Time coining cries, To-day!' 
Soul, heed the warningikat is sent4 
And what thou owe* pay. 
See thine eternal state, - 
Poised on a point of time ; 
If heaven be lost, the loss how great 
14.440,41ect,„ wIlat gain sunlit:Lin I 
Waste not time's golden seeds 
Work while the light is given ; 
Change all thy gold to golden deeds, 
And lay them up in heaven. 
Give thy whole heart to God; 
His offered grace receive 
Accept the trial, kiss the rod,' 
Love, wonder, and believe. 
So shall this New Year's day 
- 
With birthday glories shine ; 
So shall,th.e-Q1d Year's dying ray 
Crown tfle# with life divine." 
Pass on, ye Years of probation, crown-
ed with the "goodness" of God. Pre-
cious though you are to us, your dynasty 
cannot continue for ever. Soon "the 
Year of the redeemed" will come, and 
with it the glorification of ,the Church, 
the bringing back from the curse of 
man's lost inheritance, and the establish-
f our mmanuel. 
 • ...•-••••••••- 
TYIE INDEX. 
About a month ago a brother in Mich- 
igan wrote us: 
" I think the Herald worthy of preser-
vation, as it contains many pieces that 
can be re-read with interest and benefit 
slicse being eotidees hut choice selec-
tions. l.niit.a valuable source or Il- 
lustrations' 
 which I can often use to ad-
vantage. Last year we had no index, 
and fearing it might be so this year I 
write requesting that, if not too much 
trouble, you furnish us with one. Per-
haps others like myself would be very 
crateful for it. 
It will be seen that we comply with 
this request. Those whss de not care for 
an index will, find enossgh on the other 
three pages to interest .them. for one 
week. A mere glance at the table of 
contents will however show such that a 
bountiful and varied repast has beeis 
spread before them from week to week 
during the year ; and those who,.Jike 
ourself, preserve the ,papers will find-it 
at times a great convenience to have it. 
eGorropontlentr. 
LETTER FROM ELDER JACKSON. 
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THE ADVENT HERALD, DECEMBER 31 1873. 
wherever God may open the way. With 
this information I subscribe myself your 
brother in the Gospel, 
T. II. SKETCHLEY. 
.Dec. 15, 1873. 
EXTRACTS FROM Ll.a.".u.r.:RS. 
something of fresher interest crowds it 
out,. And it is easily forgotten. Few per- 
sons; however, have any idea of the 
actual number of disasters at sea, and 
the steady succession of losses, of proper- 
ty and life, which drain the strength and 
imperil the stability of marine servioe. 
The list of maritime disasters reported, 
on during the single month of October last, 
7 ; includes one hundred and sixty-seven 
sailing vessels and twenty-one steamers 
totally lost. This statement does not in-
clude the large number of minor casual-
ties and partial losses, nor does it give us 
any hint, farther than such as we may 
infer, as to the aggregate loss of human 
life. The figures, so far as they go,' 
we give without comment; only adding 
the suggestion that it is a strange cir-
cumstance that, in this age of invention 
and mechanical contrivance, one of the 
greatest of human interests should con-
tinue exposed to such perils, and sub-
ject to such fearful losses. —Boston Jour-
nal. 
this matter any longe. The Master is 
comipgaand may find ye have not done 
what we might have done. Time is 
passing, souls are persbing for lack of 
the bread of life, saiits are slumbering, 
the worldling is workng, and you, breth-
ren, are burdened wth a weight of re-
sponsibility that othsrs ought to share. 
Some would gladly cb so if the opportu-
nity was given. Tie "cup of water" 
given in the name of a disciple shall not 
lose its reward, any more than the wid-
ow's mites escaped the notice of our 
Lord. The poor went the Herald ; sin-
ners need the warring voice and tracts ; 
the missionary needs support, and you 
need to feel that there are hearts all 
over ,the land, that beat i harmony 
with yours for the salvatieiia of 
T. WARBLE, M. D. 
selves and, the All-seeing One—which 
defiles our conscience, grieves the Holy 
Spirit, and mars our peace; and against 
which we have often resolved, prayed, 
and struggled ; but have not overcome 
and cast out. ,We are tempted at times 
not to mention this to our Heavenly. 
Father; but this course, if persevered 
renders conscience less tender, and it 
may ,cease to reprove us; a condition we 
ougtt to dread, as we are thus in danger 
ofItling down in in. It seems to me 
that *e cannot be too watchful and care-
ful here. It is not by. flagrant sin, that 
Satan seeks to entrap us, if we are really 
children of God; he is perfectly aware 
thailiOf ttirraiire cause us Slu-mble ; 
but by these-sly, insidious at erics, in 
what seotts'tkbe so trifling aS hardly to 
be worth mentioning, he of often "gets 
the advantage of us." (2 Cor. 11). 
Sin is a virulent poison, probably more 
so than any of us are aware of. God 
only, can know its dreadful nature, and 
be has provided a way for us whereby 
we may be thoroughly purged from its 
defilement. How then must he be grieved 
when we are slow to avail ourselves of 
the remedy ! "He is faithful and just" 
"to cleanse us from all unrighteousness," 
if 7e are willing and in earnest. (1 John 
1 : i)ie If this po
i
son is lurking in us 
;la e, • s 
wg area; contaminated, and we must be 
parfectly honest and candid befoie our 
Goa, confessing everything with open 
harts, and crying earnestly as the Psalm-
ist'Wid, "search me, 0 God, and know 
thouglita4 and see if there be any 
wicledwax
" in me and lead me in the 
•• 
WiTufferiatillIg," (Psalm 139 : 23, 24). 
Thesilliills Sins (if any sin be little) are 
ofts 
Stan's stronghold ; and a fixed 
determination, a persevering faith, ear-
nest prayer, and often, "fasting," are 
nic”sftry, to overcome our powerful ad-
versary' and to cast him entirely out of 
RCA% 7y,,r 
thR oasiTel of our hearts, that the Holy 
Glifft may fill us wholly. (See Matt. 17 : 
21):. Let not then Satan any longer have 
t1ig1ii.41e obscure corner, but come hon-
eetflat.to the Saviour with fixed purpose, 
"F all your ways to acknowledge him," 
awflaxim shall find that "the blood of 
Jemri Christ cleanseth, ft-Rm all sin." 
7ohn : 7). If we really desire to 
bre that nearness to our Lord that we 
may ;—that sweet communion with him, 
that he is ready and willing to grant us • 
--Ithan'ifull assurance of faith, and hope, 
A4
ing
which is so desira- 
c1 tand • " 
ble,ove must heed his loving admonition, 
especially meant for those who live near-
est to him, viz., "Take us the foxes, the 
Mtle foxes, that spoil the vines ; for our 
vines have tender grapes," (Cant. 2 : 15). 
J. B FEU m. 
iortilantoo. 
iences, with much pains-taking to notify 
the citizens, was fully made to awaken 
interest and have a better hearing. I 
hope when the sower d and reapesrs-re-
joice together in the sweet heavenly 
home, which must -be very soon, it will 
be found that the seventeen discourses 
there given were at least fruitful in a 
small degree to the praise of God's 
glory. In regard to things that seem to 
be "against us " in these great cities, 
my suggestions might be mere profitless 
speculation. I will thenefore, at this 
time attempt but little, if anything of 
the kind. Truth compels me to say 
this however, that in making many vis-
its; or calls—in accomplishing which, be-
side the use of street cars, I walked 
mites almost every day, for weeks,—not 
a few persons visited failed to manifest 
those decided cheering proofs. of Chris-
tian affection which in the earnest lovers 
Of Jesus and. "his appearing" are easily 
" read and known" by all around them. 
I trust while making this statement, that 
the solemn fact that He who alone sur-
veys in righteousness all human actions, 
ness of all Christian believers ; hinder-
ances and motives to union; the bless-
ings to be hoped for from the union of 
believers in prayer. 
Monday, Jan. 5.—Confession; our 
common unworthiness and guilt; Thanks-
giving ; for national, domestic and per-
sonal mercies ; temporal and spiritual 
Supplication ; for special blessings 
the "Week of Prayer." Dan. 9 : 
Malachi 3 : 10. 
Tuesday, Jan. 6.—Prayer for the 
Christian church; for her increase in 
faith, holiness and love; for persecuted 
and suffering Christians ; for Christian 
liberty, and for the more abundant out-
pouringtof the Holy Spirit. Col.1 : 9-
11 ; Heb. 13 : 3 ; Hab. 3 : 3. 
Wednesday, Jan. 7.—Prayer for fami-
lies ; home and parental influence; sons 
and daughters ; the absent, the sick, the 
erring; inmates of prisons; all educa-
tional institutions. Psalms 115 : 12-14 : 
144 : 12. 
Thursday, Jan. 8.—Prayer for nations, 
for peace among men, for public virtue 
and righteousness, for the banishment of 
intemperance, dishonesty, infidelity and 
' fox the diffusion of. 
pure and Christian literature. Isaiah 
: 17, 18. 
Friday, Jan. 9.—fra,yer for the evan-
gelization of all nominally Christian 
countries ; for the conversion of Israel ; 
for seamen ; for missionaries ; -for the 
spread of the Gospel in Mohammedan 
and heathen countries ; for the conver-
sion of the world' to Christ. Psalms 
68 : 31 ; 122 : 6 13 : 3. 
Saturday, Jan.-10.—Pier for the 
Christian ministry; for Sunday Schools; 
for revivals. Matt. 9 : 38'; Dent. 4 : 9 ; 
Hab. 3 : 2. 
Sunday, Jan. 11.—Sermons: Christ's 
kingdom universal and everlasting, 
Psalms 97 : 1, 2—and the results of the 
sixth general conference of the Evangel-
ical Alliance. 
Bro. Henry. Asselstyno of Swanton, Vt., 
writes, Dec. 15th : 
"I am an old reader of the Herald; I 
commenced with the Morning Watch. 
My threescore years and ten' will run 
out next April. The Lord is doing great 
things for me. It seems to me that I 
am getting the best of the wine at the 
end of my pilgrimage. My prayer is, 
Lord, keep me, for I cannot keep myself. 
May I be more and more submissive un-
til my change comes." • 
Bro. Ezra Smith of Heuvelton, N. Y., Writes: 
"I often think how we lived forty 
years ago—how plainly attired God's 
children were, and how plain their places 
of worship were. 0 for the old-fash-
ioned school-house religion !—when the 
power of God was so gloriously mani-
fested that in almost every meeting some- 
'anti tire—sinner • 
afraid to meet a minister on the road lest 
he should enquire of him about the wel-
fare of the Soul. There is nothing like 
living near to God—walking close to Je-
sus, our Saviour. Let us pray daily, 
0 for a closer walk with God' ; read 
the Bible much ; make religion an every-
day work; and live constantly in readi-
neSs for the coming of the Lord. Breth-
ren, let us pray more for the ministers, 
and hold thin .4 in our prayers, that 
God through them may bless and save." 
Bro. John Pearce of Brantford. P. 0., Cana-
da, thus closes a business' letter -- 
" All is finished! do not doubt it; 
0 believe your dying Lord: 
Never reason more about it, 
Only take him at his word.' 
Yours, hoping to help sing the 
song of Rev. 5,: 9, 10." 
Bin. W. T. Moore writes from Kansas City, 
Mo., Dec. 14th :— 
"EVery.. day should strengthen our 
hope in the stpeedLappearing of Christ, 
for the iWt&e"67 Otbiw6i1d just' such 
as is depicted in prophecy as belonging 
to 'the last days.' Paul's perilous 
times' are upon us. Men of the world 
are uneasy and perplexed; looking, after 
the things that are coming on the .earth. 
They are in the -dark, but .we who have 
the sure word of prophecy' and take 
heed to it are not in darkness that that 
day should overtake us as a thief. Ou'r 
lamps should be brightly burning, and 
we like men waiting for their lord. The 
bright hope we cherish should. cause us 
to-be willing to make any sacrifice to ad-
vance the interests of our Redeemer. 
May the Holy Spirit imbue our hearts 
with love and holy zeal, that we may 
stand fast in the Lord." 
As every retiring Year but. lessens the 
number 'necessary io complete " the times 
of the Gentiles' and bring in the times 
of the Messiah, we need shed no tears 
over the- grave of the departing Year. 
Bidding an adieu to the old Year and a 
welcome to his successor, we will contin-
ue to look heavenward daily and to the 
Father pray, "THY KINGDOM COME." 
:11/1,El 
TB E ONE.LINL 
.t t I • - ""'"7"—r—^— 
A Baptist Minister insNova Scotia, in 
remitting his subscription to the Herald, 
(which he - praises and prizes) gives us 
thisdtein of advice: ‘‘_Do .not 'draw toe) 
much-by one. link." 
We take the 'coun-
sel kindly, though we cannot conceive 
what harm there 'would be in.ourdrawing 
constantly by one link so long as there 
is not the least. danger of that link 
breaking, ands it is very obvious that 
others who UST the chain of trutleeeldom 
ever think of drawing by the sartie link 
we do. 
Three things make it necessary for us 
to-give special prominence to the doc-
trine of the second earning of our Lord 
Jesus Christ, viz., the- prominence given 
to it in the scriptures of -the New Testa-
mentrs--the -almost total '.silence Of the 
ministry of our day on the subject,—and 
our manifest proximity to the great 
event. • 
If we dwelt on the second advent of 
-Christ to the exdusion of the first,—on 
-glorification without insisting on justifi-
cation and sanctification ,as a pre-requi-
site,—on the crown' without. the cross, 
Zion's- glory without Calvary's shadows 
—we should be doing wrong. Our ob-
ject is to exhibit the.whole lesson which 
"the grace of God" teaches (see`ATitus 
2 : 11-15) ; and to those41-45-elsew-here 
hear but little on the consummation of 
the Christian's hope at the Lord's appear-
ing it may sometimes seem as if we said 
too much on His coming again. This 
we endeavor to avoid.- The "present 
truth " embraces all past truth. The 
"one link" by .which we draw belongs 
to a.long chain. 
hearts, has a ruling power in my breast. 
I could not help thinking, with deep 
pain at times, as I pursued my wearisome 
scare is after., the,. Acattered tio.4 
the great city, that (unlike thePhitaafer 
phia of Rev. 3 : 7) here. are- far more 
occasions for reproof and exhortation 
than for commendation and comfort. 
Yet, it is devoutly loped that of multi-
tudes professing to love Christ in the 
modern city, some will, heed the warns 
ings and invitations of-the Holy Spirit, 
so that with the illustrious white-robed 
witnesses and victors saf- the ancient city, 
and of every- age and clime, they may 
'share the blissful undying realities of 
that heavenly Jerusalem they sought, 
and the unspeakable glory of that infi-
nite name that in the midst of scoffing 
tongues they are not ashamed to honor. 
Oh, that we all as confessors and adyent 
watchers, hearing Him. say, "Behold I 
come quickly," may not fail to "hold 
fastasthat which we have "—especially 
"pent truth,"—" that no man take our 
crown." 
I must not omit to acknowledge in be-
half of the A. M. Association, and as a 
pleasure to myself the kind, encouraging 
words and deeds (the financial -report 
will show the latter) from a tried few 
brethren, sisters and mothers of the 
dear Master in Philadelphia.'-: It is with 
deep gratitude that mention is made ,of 
such worthy and timely offerings. 
Names may not often appear in our 
records of loving deeds, but when He., 
Zion's King on his throne of glory, shall 
bless with "fullness of joy " the beloved 
servants who have ministered in his 
name to the least of their fellow-serv-
ants, they shall be recognized and eter-
naTrrhonorea rum. _ 
In Newhuryport I spoke once to an 
encouraging audience, on Sabbath Dec. 
7th, and the day's services was judged to 
be of decided profit spiritually, while 
the practical sympathy of the friends foi 
our mission was commendably liberal. 
God bless the helpers! 
G. W. BURNHAls.1. 
new 
CHRISTIAN HAND-SHAKING. 
Around the door of country meeting-
houses it has always been the custom for 
the people to gather before- church and 
after church for' socialintercourse and 
the shaking of hands. Perhaps, because 
we, ourselves, were born in the country 
and have never- got over it, the custom 
pleases us. In the cities, we arrive the 
last moment before service and go away 
the first moment after. - ,We act as though 
the church were a rail. car, into which we 
go when the time for starting Arrives, 
and- we get-out again as soon as the de-
pot of the Doxology is reached. We 
protest against this business-way of do-
ing things. Shake hands when the Ben-
ediction is pronounced with those who 
iat,before and those who sat behind you. 
.)leet the people in the aisle, and give 
4hem Christian salutation. Postpone-
Ment of the dining-hour for fifteen min-
' iites will neither damage you nor the din-
ner. .That is the moment to say a com-
forting word to the man or woman in 
trouble. The sermon was preached to 
the people in general, it is your place to 
apply it to the individual heart. 
The church-aisle may be the road to 
heaven. Many a man who was unaf-
fected by what the minister said, has 
been captured for God by the Christian 
weird of an unpretending layman, on the 
Way out. 
You may call it personal magnetism, 
or natural cordiality, but there are some 
Christians who have such an ardent way 
of shaking hands after meeting, that it 
amounts to a Benediction. Such greet-
ing is not made with the left hand. The 
left hand is good for a great many things, 
for instance, to hold a fork, or twist a 
curl, but it was never made to shake 
hands with, unless you have lost the use 
of the right. Nor is it done' by the tips 
of the fingers laid loosely in the palm. of 
another. Nor is it done -with a glove on. 
Gloves are good to keep out the cold and 
make one look well, but have them so 
they can easily be removed, as they should 
be, for they are n&-conductors of -Chris-
tian magnetism. Make bare the hand. 
Place it in the palm of your friend. 
Clench the fingers across the back part 
of the hand you grip. Then let all the 
animation of your heart riish to the 
shoulder, and from sthere to the elbow, 
tnd then through the fore-arm, and 
through the wrist, till your friend gets 
the whole charge of gospel electricity. 
In Paul's time he told the Christians 
to greet each other with a holy kiss: 
We are glad the custom has been dropped, 
for there are many good people who 
would not want to kiss us, as we would 
not. want to kiss them. Very attractive 
persons would find the supply greater 
than the demand. But let us have a.sub-
stitute suited- to our age and land. Let 
it be good, hearty, enthusiatic, Christian 
hand-shaking.—T. De Witt Talmage in, 
Chr. at Work. 
NEWS ITEMS. 
ITEMS. 
EU Admit 4eratd. 
BOSTON, WEDNESDAY, DEC. 81, 1873. 
LONDON-, Dec. 26. At 5 o'clock this 
morning the steamer Gipsey Queen struck 
the wreck of a sunken lighter in the riv-
er Tyne and sunk in five minutes. There 
were between fifty and sixty workmen 
on board. Twenty were rescued. The 
remaining thirty or forty men were 
drowned. 
A 600-ton vessel has got both anchors 
fouled in the telegraph cable in the 
Strait of Canso, and offers to cut his 
chains for $4000, or on condition of re-
ceiving new anchors and chains and $8t 
a day demurrage while waiting for them. 
As he would break the cable in hoisting 
his anchors the telegraphic company wil, 
probably give him anchors, chains and 
demurrage. 
The number of emigrants from for-
eign countries to this during the last 
fiscal yearsis 458,803, an increase ovei 
last year of 54,997. 
SALE OF A LARGE TRACT OF WESTER1\ 
LAND TO THE MEMNONITES.—The Direc-
tors of the Atchison, Topeka and Sant:, 
Fe railroad have recently concluded tin 
sale of a large tract of land on the line 
of their road to the Memnonites, win 
have already arrived in this country, fo: 
the purpose of forming a colony to be 
peopled by the large delegations of theii 
peculiar faith that are expected to ar-
rive in this country in the spring. The 
present purchase covers 19,000 acres, sit-
uated in the vicinity of the town oi 
Halsted, Kansas, which is located at th( 
point where the railroad crosses the Lit 
tie Arkansas river, and the intention oi 
the purchasers is to eventually secure the 
control of a tract six miles in widtl 
across the entire belt of forty mile; 
which is covered by the land grant 01 
the railroad, and thus bring the town ol 
Halsted under their control. The local-
ity is in the midst of a good farming 
country and a large flouring mill is soot 
to be erected at Halsted. The Memnon-
ites are an industrious, enterprising peo-
ple, possessed of ample means, and theit 
location on the line of this road will 
bring to it a large and constantly in-
creasing business.—Journal. 
It is not generally known that a postal 
card will go to any part of Canada and 
Newfoundland if .a one-cent stamp be 
affixed in addition-to the stamp printed 
or impressed upon the card. 
_Dear Bro.. Orrock :—We have been 
quietly and steadily at work among: the' 
three churches of- this charge -since our 
removal here in June last: and-we:lave 
not been left without ,e..viderrceS of God's 
favor towards us. :Alere 'Weeks since a 
young man at -Penn".Valley . professed 
cOnversion and is .giVinig evidence Of the 
reality of the. work. -A good season was 
enjoyed at his baptism (Dec. 7th). A 
few brethren there nobly stand up ifor 
Jesus, .earnestly doing their work, and 
the Lord is with them. In-this place the 
Interest has been slowly rising for somb 
time, and in our prayer meeting last -even-
ing was heard the cry of the, penitent 
and the confession of the wanierer from 
God. We are encouraged in our Work, 
and are looking for further manifesta-
tions of the saving grace of God in the 
quickening or, lieTievers; - bringing them 
up to a higher plane of -Christian life, 
and in the quickening of some who' are 
dead in trespasses and sins. 
We have been using the International 
Series of lessons in our Sabbath school 
and weekly Bible meeting, .as also mak- 
ing them the basis of discourse on Sab-
bath morning, with much -interest and 
profit. Never-before have we so closely 
traced the Saviour from his birth trough 
his life, sufferings and trials, his death 
and resurrection, and never have we seen 
him so inexpressibly lovely and worthy, 
or realized him more near, real and pre-
cious. I do not wonder God's people of 
the past have spoken of him as "The 
Chiefest among ten . thousand," the One 
who is "fairer than:Abe children of 
men," and "altogether lovele." . To 
study, cherish an4 honor him is the no- 
blest work in which we can be engaged. 
N-spay.„we see through qe.:glasa _darkly, 
but ere long we shall see...him- face to' 
face, and we shall be like him. And 
while others seem satisfied with the bless-
ings which be imparts in the present, 
and tell us they "see nothing in his per-
sonal presence specially comforting," 
deeply grateful for present. blessings, my 
sOulsrefeses to be satisfied until I awake 
with his likeness and see him in -kis 
beauty. 
him with rapture then I'll gaze, 
'Who bought, the sight for me, 
And shout and wonder at his grace,„ 
Through all eternity.' • 
Yours, "waiting for the adoption." 
L. JACKSON. 
Morrisville, Pa., Dec. 20, -1873. 
Goma flIttitig nut. 
RELIGIOUS SUMMARY. 
A PARTING WORD. 
With this issue we close the volume 
and part company with some of our 
subscribers whose subscription ends with 
the year. We are sorry to lose them, 
notwithstanding the ranks will be filled 
up and increased by others. We have 
endea.vored, according to the wisdom 
afiferg race given unto us, to be faithful 
in our selections and writing ; and if we 
have no More an opportunity to speak a 
Word, to diem on the cross and crown of 
Chi•is't they may at least be *assured of 
this, tIlioa;our desire is for their salvatieal 
in iihe idaY- of the Master's coming. 
NU,ef,w"ere the times more " perilous " 
T 
Malt now, and never was there greater 
nemia of all faithfully using every means 
vilin their reach to aid them in keeping 
tReif "garments unspotted from the 
w"ttrld ;" but if some decide not to let us 
vipiPthem weekly for time to come, we 
can only say in parting, If you are not 
a, riOttian "be not deceived—God is 
nOt mocked, for whatsoever a man sow-
ett,that shall he also reap : for be that 
sofretili ,to his flesh shall of the flesh 
reitpoMiption, but he that soweth to 
the 1spirit shall of the Spirit reap life 
ev'ec14ting" ((al. 6 : 7, 8). "If thou 
shNii 80fess with thy mouth the Lord 
Jakiii, And shalt believe in thine heart 
thGre3d bath raised him from the dead, 
thou shalt be saved," but not otherWisF 
(Rorii: 10 : 9, 10). If however you are 
profee&d`fedioWer of Jesus, remember 
his words T "Take' /fad' to yourselves, 
lest any triViffliiii-fiehVis fa6'b-Wrerharged 
-41 
"SYSTEMATIC BENEFICENCE." 
CALCUTTA, Dec. 20.—One-half of the 
supply of food in the province of Ben-
gal has been .exhausted, and it is now be-
lieved that a famine can not be averted. 
Thus far there has been no actual distress 
among the people. 
PRAYER FOR THE RELIEF 
FAMINE IN INDIA.—There is 
much intercession for India at the pres-
ent time, in the prospect of the famine 
which threatens Bengal. The lowest 
estimate of the number likely to be af-
fected is 24,000,000, and - the present 
crops are not likely tbyield six-sixteenths 
of a full crop. Partial alleviation is all 
that can be looked for, but let Christian 
love and effort do all it can at the pres-
ent juncture; let them pray 'for the 
rulers Of the country, that God willgive 
them wisdom and energy in meeting the 
calamity ; that a spirit of liberality may 
be poured out on the wealthier classes 
of the community; that it May please 
God to -send rain for the spring crops 
now in- the ground ; and, above all, that 
England may see, and turn from, and 
abhor the sin- lying at her door in con-
nection with the opium traffic.—The 
London Christian of Dec: lit/s. 
-of 
FINANCIAL MISSION REPORT. 
The following is the letter which was 
read at the Board meeting of the A. M. 
Association, Dec. 9th, as mentioned in 
the Secretary's minutes. The CARDS re-
ferred to have been prepared and we 
have begun to distribute them. 
REMEMBER ME. 
"How?-" Why • the dear 1,oi-d said 
when on earth, that in the staf of his 
coming again he would say to- some, 
"Come, ye blessed of my Father; inherit 
the kingdom prepared for you from the 
foundation of the world." "Inasmuch 
as ye have done it unto one of-the least 
of these my brethren, ye have done it 
unto me." 
"Well, what do you want to be re-
membered in ?—explain yourself," 
Why, did you not promise, when in 
Hebron, that you would send us cards, 
inviting the dear .friends of Jesus to 
write on them the amount .they could 
contribute to help the poor saints scat-
tered abroad to hear the good news of 
Jesus' soon coming, through the weekly 
visits of the Her- ald, which you send to 
them free, and which somebody -:mlast 
pay for; and for the support of the 
laboring missionary, who -goes as the 
apostles did, into the :highways and by-
ways„ko saint an sinner, saying to all, 
" Thes,Lord is consingwtrim your lamps, 
have on the wedding garment, that you 
may enter in to the marriage feast ; " 
and while feeding others with spiritual 
food, do not he and his family need 
temporal food and raiment? Then may 
we net have a share in the " well done " 
of _the missionary, work.; and the tracts 
also he scattered like the leaves of -au- 
tumn? These and other things were 
named to be„presented on the cards, 
that the Lord's people, who have a mind 
to work, might have the opportunity to 
do something. 
A quarter of a year has passed sinee 
the brethren thought best to do some-
thing in this way, and what has been 
done? It is the little grains of sand 
that bnild the shore, and little drops of 
water that fill the ocean. " The children 
of this world are wise in their genera-
tion," said Jesus, and they know what 
half per cent.- brings when counted by 
thousands; and has not Jesus thousands 
of waiting ones, who would be glad to 
help a little? Some cannot do much, 
butAm do a little, and kegt*sitoidg ; 
and when Jesus conies what a joy it will 
be to hear from his lips that they have 
done something to comfort the poor 
saints; orconvert a sinner from from the 
error of his ways, and _thus save a soul 
from death and hide a multitude of sins! 
sow, dear brethren, don't delay in 
OF THE 
need of 
In accordance with the request of the 
Board of the A. M. Association we 
make the following financial statement:— 
Whole amount due Elder G. W. Burn- 
ham to Dec. 9th 
$135.48 
Received at the office to meet the de- 
aciency, as reported last week $20.95 
Since Bec'd :—A mite .05 
Alice S. Olmstead 
2.00 
well give 
In this conneetion we may as 
our missionary's report of 
MISSION "WORK. 
Beloved Brethren :—In addition to 
some items from this 'department that 
-have appeared in the Herald since my 
first report of Oct. 7th, I would now re-
spectfully submit this very 'stimmary 
sketch of work to Dec. 9th, embracing 
nine weeks. 
I haste preached twenty-two discourses, 
all (excepting one) being on Sabbath. 
In •Cheliea, Mass., Sabbath Oct. 12th, 
spoke twice to good assemblies. In 
Now York city on the 19th, twice .in 
the open, air to considerable' numbers, 
some of whom it is presumable never 
enter its costly churches and are sup-
posed to be of a lower strata of its vast 
babel multitudes. As these famished 
" sinners :drew dear Tforsthe most part 
quietly, listening to the living oracles- in 
h manner worthy of imitation by many 
self-pleasing, pride-inflated, over-fed, 
truth-despimn,, arisfeie"ratioaT„ gorgeous, 
churchlYakOing 'crftVs,( et 
 
as the fears 
could; be seen starting from some of 
these attentive eyes,. a few of us could 
thank "the God of all grace"
, 
 for the 
blessed fullness and adaptedness of the 
:great redemptive plan ito reach their 
depths of misery, and raise them, if 
they will be raised, to the true riches 
and glories of his presence in the sinless 
paradise. 
"Amazing grace, how sweet the sound 
That saved a wretch like me!" 
I thought, if we were continued in 
our toils here another warm season (and 
indeed felt. quite 'resolved in this thing) 
that I would stand up :for Jesus out-
doors, among the .careless, wild throngs, 
—Wile are not perhaps sinners-above all 
others. Our -dear brother Kalip, with 
other self-sacrificing Workers there, and 
I. R. Gates with his humble, faithful 
associate in Philadelphia, have a correct 
view of the precious mission of Christ, 
and in his worthy name have been doing 
a good' Work in this 'Way. Drunkards 
have been reformed, and the lost sinner 
saved through their ,faithfulness. All 
glory to our risen almighty' Saviour. 
In Philadelphia I spent six' Sabbaths, 
and spoke usually to small Congrega-
tions, although a sacrifice in time, and 
money, physical energies and couven- 
BOXES. 
A delegate at the recent National Y. 
M. C. A. Convention, made use of the 
following illustration :‘ "We are contin-
ually asking Jesus to come and abide 
with us ; we sing, 'Come, Holy Spirit, 
Heavenly Dove;' and yet, Jesus is not 
our continual guest ; the Holy Spirit 
does not take up his abode in us. What 
is the matter? It seems to me, this is 
the matter. It is as if a friend came to 
our door and began to knock; we say, 
Come in! but inside, piled up against the 
door are huge boxes and bales of goods; 
and from floor to ceiling, the house is 
filled. Our friend cannot come in; our 
welcome is a mockery. He never will 
come in, till we toss the bales and boxes 
out of the window, and unbar the door 
and open it wide. Even so there is One 
saying, Behold I stand at the door and 
knock.' Perhaps he has waited there a 
good while ; 'His locks 'seem to be wet 
with the dews of the night.' He wants 
to come in, but he will never break in 
the door. He cannot come in until the 
the lands and houses, and merchandise 
and oxen, that fill every room in our 
hearts,. are utterly cast out, and we open 
the door and say, King of Glory, come 
in !' . Then he will fulfill his promise, `If 
any man hear my voice, and open the 
door, 1 will come in to him, and I will 
sup with him, and he with me." 
--••••-•••-••••• . 
LETTER FROM REV. T. H. SKETCIILEY. 
with surfeiting, and drunkenness, and 
cares of this life, and so that day come 
upon you unawares : for as a snare shall 
it come on all them that dwell an the 
face of the whole earth ; watch ye, there-
fore, and pray always, that ye may be 
accounted worthy to escape all these 
things that shall come to pass, and to 
stand before the Son of man" (Luke 21 : 
34esa0)ef, sallT 
An amusing incident occurred on a 
recent Sunday afternoon, in the Univer-
sity Chapel, Glasgow. The sermon was 
pt-cached bY-Dr. CAIRD, before a large 
attendance of students and Of the gen-
eral public. Mr. DISRAELI was dressed 
in his Lord -Rector's costume, and the 
professors wore their robes of office. 
The preaCher had quoted the -dying 
words of GOETHE, ,"Light, more light," 
and in an eloquent apostrophe he was 
saying, " Give us 'light or we die."'. In 
the very middle of this sentence, the gas, 
which had been kept low, at the begin-
ning of the service, suddenly blazed 
forth in full splendor, the church officer 
having at once turned it on.. r CAIRD 
looked a little disconcerted, and the 
circumstance provoked a suppressed 
titter from his audience. 
:Financially the Evangelical Alliance 
was a great success. Its outlay was 
very large. . .The invited guests had 
their expenses paid, and the, matter of 
meals furnished at the Association ROOMS 
cost nearly $4,000. The contributions of 
the churches were very large. After all 
had been paid, and each delegate re- 
ceived $:25 and a free pass to Washington 
and back, the committee found them-
selves with a surplus on band. 
THE GREAT- FOG.—"Burleigh," 'writ-
ing to the Boston Journal from New 
York, Dec. 20th, says: -"Not since 181f; 
has there been such a fog as enveloped 
Brooklyn and New York the early part 
of this week. For thirty-six hours it 
hung over the cities, nearly suspending 
both travel and business. At eight 
o'clock in the morning an excited crowd, 
at least two thousand strong, stood out-
side the ferry house, clamoring for a 
passage to New York. Cashiers with 
safe-keys, porters holding the keys to 
warehouses and placed of business, sew-
ing girls, clerks, employes, mechanics 
and men representing all departments oi 
trade anxiously waited to be conveyed 
over the East river. Teams stretched 
along up the avenues for miles. Loco-
motion was an impossibility. Ferry-
boats' collided, and in one or two in-
stances the frightened passengers plunged 
through the windows into the water. 
The courts had to suspend business, for 
witnesses, attorneys and clients were ab-
sent. Lamps were lighted at noonday. 
Many predicted that the end of the 
world had come,- or that the Dark Day 
was to revisit the city." 
_Brother Orrock :—A half dozen of us 
have embraced the precious doctrine of 
the pre-millennial reign of Christ upon 
earth with his saints, and We hope to be 
instrumental in ',-the hands of God -in 
bringing many others into this precious 
faith. .3 wonder that the church has so 
far, lost. sight of a doctrine that is so es-
sential to the gospel. system. I acknowl-
edge that the Herald has been the Means 
of enlightening my mind on this. impor-
tant doctrine, and I shall by the help of 
God be faithful in preaching it to others. 
The scriptures are more precious to me 
than ever before, and so is the love of 
Jesus. May the good seed be sown 
throughout this entire country. 
We would be very glad if some broth-
er filled with the missionary spirit would 
visit us. I will not misrepresent, neith-
er do I wish to flatter, but according 
to my judgment, the Missouri slope is 
the best country for farming that 'I 
have. ever seen,—and it is a glorious mis-
sionary field! I do not reside in Coun- 
cil Bluffs, Iowa, but in Pottawattomie 
County, and receive my mail at the Bluffs. 
I have situated my family on a farm, and 
have two boys large enough to cultivate 
it without my continual* help. I have 
applied for a certificate of my standing 
in the Methodist church, that I may, 
- 
freed from ecclesiastical power, preach 
the pure gospel of Christ, when and 
THE WEEK OF PRAYER. 
 
• • 
 
MEETING AFFIACTION. 
The only way to meet affliction is to 
pass through it solemnly, slowly, with 
humility and faith, as the Israelites pass-
ed through the sea. Then its very waves 
of misery will divide, and become to us 
a wall on the right side and on the left, 
until the gulf narrows before our eyes, 
and we land safe on the opposite shore. 
—M188 illuloch. 
The American Evangelical Alliance 
has prepared the following order of re-
ligious exercise% for the "Week of 
Prayer," and recommends its observance 
to the evangelical churches throughout 
the United States. • 
Sunday, Jan. 4.—Sermons: The unity 
of the Christian church; the real one- 
THE PERILS OF NAVIGATION. 
Every now and then the public atten-
tion is called to the perils which attend 
navigation by some fearful disaster, like 
the wreck of the Atlantic or the sinking 
of the Ville du Havre; and the matter 
becomes the subject of comment until 
II!' 
qtriFFE CROWN OF THE YEAR. 
irfirear'iS a monarch crowned by 
Jelitivah's hand. For twelve months he 
haill4idned supreme. The diadem en-
cireliiiViCis brow has not been radiant 
with judgments but with Mercy. It is 
true that under the administration of the 
regal Year 1873 there have been storms 
and earthquakes, sorrows and sufferings ; 
but in view of man's deserts as 'a sinner 
hol0 few have been the evils compared 
wall the good which have come directly 
from his.rule ! How many days of sun-
shine ise'have lad compared with those 
of-ritiktai.r. Look over the past, and re-
cant! Grad's mercies. Verily the words 
of.liebe PSalmist will be found true : 
" Thbit crownest the year with thy good-
ness" (Pa. 65 : 11). 
Few will see this paper before the 
Year under whose administration we 
write' these lines will have laid aside the 
croasiii and sceptre and joined the long 
procesSion of regal Years which have 
vanished. But as the old Year dies we 
will think ad speak kindly of him, and 
THE ADVENT HERALD, DECEMBER 31, 1873. 
103 
INDEX TO VCLUME Ir"TV 
ding to marry," A -contrast-Paul's ad- Se-a, Euphrates Valley railroad, A distin-
vice and the Pope's counsel, The trinity guished numismatist, Railway brakes, 
of grace, An editor in trouble 138. Almost buried alive 3. Religious review 
Offer to Materialists, An unused text- of- the year 7. Napoleon III. p. 11. 
the blood disliked, The world's triunity, Protestants in Rome, Is the end of the 
A good supplement, Book of the rock-s !wicked annihilation? Circumstantial ev-
not easily read 142. .Jehovah's address idenee, The Mohegan Indians 15. Death 
to Death, Does the parable teach it? of Rev. Baptist W. Noel,- The great 
Timings surer than death, The trinity of storm in Minnesota 19. The Queen of 
the godhead 146. Bills-bills, Our va- Sheba's palace, Funeral of Napoleon, A 
cation,. "I partly believe it," Ashamed of time for arbitration, The necrology of 
Christ's words, On the first staff, Evan-
gelical Alliance', American periodicals on 
exhibition, Blasphemers, -Power of the 
little horn 150. [Rome-pag,an and pa-
pal 154, 158, 162, 166, 170, 174. Unita-
rian, Evangelical Alliance 154. Caution, 
The old world 158. "The 'dead know 
not anything" 162. Aid for the mis-
sionary 'Work, Eastern question 166. 
Religious state of Christendom 174.-J. 
P.] Back again, United in 'Christ, 
Candlestick removed 178. Oriental rem-
iniscences 178, 182, 186. Wine of Scrip-
ture, Dr. 'Cumming on Pilgrimages 178. 
Thanksgiving, David's tunes, Day of 
the Lord (poetry), Earthly lords on our 
heavenly Lord's appearing, Joseph Wolff 
.1,82. Keep your-shield, Farewell words 
of a prophetic student, Short and sharp 
186. Heaps of teachers, Exhibition of 
Christ's coming and kingdom, Invalid's 
nosegay, Era of peace not yet, Our 
missionary 190.• Departure from the 
faith, Board meeting of the A. M. As-
sociation, Stop my papei- ! "Oh, mother 
dear, Jerusalem " (poetry) 194. Christ-
mas Primal promise, Faith and practice 
of tlie.eatly- Christians; A night-thought, 
Financial mission report 198. - A:parting 
word, The crown of the year, The one 
link, Financial mission report, "System-
atic beneficence," The Index 202. 
. OUR BOOK TABLE. 
Sunday ,half-hours with the great 
preachers 6. The Fruit Recorder 18. 
Beautiful Snow and other Poems 42. 
Congratulations and Counsels, Rose 
Thorp's Ambition 58. A -memorial- of. 
Alice arid Phsebe Cary, The millennial 
Church '62. The Interlinear Translation 
of the Sacred Seriptures 110, 178. Mul-
ler's Life of Trust 118. The Eclectic 
178. 
CORRESPONDENCE. 
s Now of the things which we have spoken 
this is the sum." 
s-r- • 
SELECTED ARTICLES. 
A new year's lesson, The fruitless fig-
tree, Christ's sudden coming, Mighty in 
the Lord, The Bible, What awaits YOU ? 
The deceitful heart, Remember Lot's 
wife, Our substitute, Christ our Prophet 
1. 
Strangership and pilgrimage, Are 
you for Christ ? Appropriating Christ, 
Lie on the promises, Bread for the hun-
gry 5. The millennial church will be 
the glorified church, Personal religion 
possessed 
.and professed, Onward 9. 
Pdk-millennialism opposed to the scrip-
tural attitude of the church, The blind 
eye opened, Redeeming the time, Psalms 
of David, Sap in the heart, Resurrection 
of the body, The gospel not gloomy 13. 
The church's widowhood, 17, '21. Fire-
proof, Only four universal kingdoms, 
Acknowledge thy Lord, The parting 
prayer 17. The nearing end-an argu-
ment to prove it, The resurrection, Our 
most holy faith, Illustration of Scrip-
ture 21. The morning star, Be thou per-
fect, They light in the helmet, Precious 
paragrdplysS Sin, Triumph "Is it firm ? 
25.: The grand climax, A: beautiful pic-
ture 29. A four-fold manifestation, Lin• 
changed through long absence, The white 
line, Any of you, Not night but a shad-
ow, Renovation of Faith 33. The risen 
Christ, Sounds of deliverance, How wt 
are saved, "He never shall hear the last 
of it" 37. Far off-near-at home, 
The justified watcher, Prophecy fulfilled 
in Christ, The cry of the church, Lost 
and saved 41. He will not tarry, Oxen 
or Iseyites-which ? _God and the un-
godly"d?iiift4; Adgether, The Kohinom 
re-cut 45. Winning christ, " At evening 
time light," The.sleivil.iu sla-yeplaces 49. 
The coming of `01-iristirAtjhna not fan 
ciful, Nearing stoirt,-" It is' Gotlithat just-
ifieth," Groh- in grace, The (Thiiitiak 
conflict 5a. .td,rth to be renewed-DPI 
conversion 45. The resurrection 46. True 
light, The present times foretold 49. 
Final gathering -of God's people 50. 
Man-his destiny, The Enchanted Ground, 
Israel's blindness 53; One idea, The 
great qttestion answered 57. Religious 
activity 58. -The divine warning against 
deception 61. " Watchman! what of 
the night? " The regeneration, "And to 
wait for his Son from heaven" 65. Doc-
trinal sermons, Bible history. upon coins 
69. The word of God being fulfilled, 
Jerusalem's 'overthrow 70. Then: 'and 
now,. lathe coming of Jesus near? 74. 
Tribulation and. comfort, Will Christ 
return to earth? 77. The loving Sufferer, 
Perpettially- downward course 78. Mill-
erite stare Si. Be manful-be strong 
82. An appeal to the lovers of Jesus 
and Of his Ciarning„The time of trouble 
85. ImpervairtYreeepts and a gracious 
promise 86. Divine presence promised 
89. Saints inheritence 93. Patronage 
not love, Christian grace 98. Baalbec 
and the Ceders 101, 105, 109, 113. Decay 
of Methodism 105. Faith-what it is 
and what it does, 106. Millennial views 
considered 109. Meekness, Perfection 
114. Destruction of Jerusalem, Church 
fairs ,117. Why is Jesus called the King 
of the Jews? 118. Abounding iniquity 
and the result 121. Is it practical? 122. 
Harmony of Daniel and the Apocalypse 
125i, Lines of prophecy, Inconsistencies 
126. The scarlet line, 129, 133. Hebron 
Camp in 1873-what I 'saw and heard 
133, 137, 141. The earth is the Lord's 
138. "In a dry and thirsty land" 141. 
Realistic interpretation 142.• Gems from 
various, sources,"I know you not" 145. 
CaMm Nraiting, Nature's travail and ex-
pectancy 146. The 'Millennial 'church 
149. The hope of Israel 153. Candor 
-an appeal 157, 162. , The :relation of 
the supernatnral. to the natural 157. 
National vice 158. Things to be sought 
161, 1,65, 169. Grace tritunphant 166. 
rime Eyaiagelieskl Alliance 1.70-. Come 
Mg and kingdom of Christ 173. Holy 
nlectrines greatly overlooked„or =Liaise-
del-stood f',74.'"." Alarming and: groWing 
I.ondency-'-of the age 177. A Were to 
professed Christians 181. Novels;'Why 
deep? "Preach the word-' 185. 
Uonversation of the saints 18.0. Com-
ing and kingdom of .c.hri,st 189. Will 
time earth regetserated be the home of the 
amts? 193, 'fgt. 1.)iviiie "and human 
love. Pilate and Jesus Christ,,A -word of 
Parrid. 
BROE-RASCOE. 
At Richford, Vt., Dec. 24, 1873, by 
Rev. S. F. Grady, Mr. Vetal Broe, to 
Miss Louisa Rascoe, both of Sutton, P. 
Q., Canada. 
guointoo ptpartment. 
APPOINTMENTS. 
I will preach (D. V.) in Lowell, Jan. 
11, 1874, and Eld. ..T. M. Orrock will 
preach in the Hudson Steet Chapel, 
Boston, at 3 P. NI. of the same day. 
C. CUNNINGHAM. 
, I wilt preach, the Lord willing, in New-
buryport, Mass., Sunday, Jan, 4th. 
J. M. ORROCK. 
-01•••• 
A quarterly Conference of Messiah's 
Church (Evangelical Adventists) will be 
held at Black Creek, P. 0., Canada, Sat-
urday and Sunday Jan. 3 and 4, 1874. 
All are cordially invited to attend. 
Z. W. CAMFIELD, Pres. 
EBERSOLE, Sec'y. 
1872, A whirlwind of fire in England, A 
Sabbath-day house, An ocean storm 23. 
The Queen at kirk 27. Statistics of the 
Jesuits, Outlook of the churches 31. The 
latest glimpse of the Curry movement 
35. "Spit out de prejudices," Air guns 
39. The Northwood murder, A parson 
at a ball, The outlook in the East, An- 
cient Assyrian inscriptions, Ord Rome 
uncovered 43. Catastrophe at Smyrna, 
Death of Rev. L. A. Grimes, What is 
and is not true of Japan, The coming 
conflict of Europe, Children's parties 47. 
The oldest church 50. Names omitted, 
A dismal record, The Bonaparte family 
51. The reign of blood, Honesty and 
honor wanted 55. Terrible ocean calam- 
ity 59. Attempted assassination of Fath- 
er Gavazzi 62. City of San Salvador de-
stroyed by an earthquake 63. The Mo- 
doc war 67, 75. Great snowstorm in 
Nebraska, Disaster on the Stonington 
railroad 67. Theatrical marriages, Sad 
accident at a baptism 75. Railways in 
Russia, Sensation of drowning, Atlantic 
bank defaulter, Systematic robbery in 
New York banks 78. A terrible evil 
any way, Mormonism, War of the monks 
79. Catholics in Manchester, Ingenuity 
worthy a better cause, A new idea in 
building, Hard money, India rubber, 
Captain Hall and the Polaris 86. Con- 
fession in the Church of England, Fash- 
ionable Christianity in London, Signs of 
the times, Resources of Japan 95. Sala- 
ry of Methodist bishops, The Yo-semite 
I/ alley, The men on the iceberg, A new 
witness to an old story, Prosperity and 
drunkenness 103. Persecution of Chris-
tians in Turi-ey, Catholics and the pub-
lic schools 110. A 'laborious pastorate, 
Largest waterfall 111. -Italian press 
and Popery, _Great deliverance 115. 
Earthquake at Verona and Venice, Meth-
odism in New York 118. Visit of the 
Shah, Two curious needles 119. Curious 
ceremony, Leprosy in the Sandwich Is-
lands, Persia, Congregationalists vs Ro-
man Catholics, Italian slavery in America, 
Tree known by its fruit, Are the times 
out of joint ,122. Unhappy France, "In 
prison for life," Story's statue of Jerusa-
lem 123. Spain, Railroad horror, Geo-
logical riddles, The Sultan and the Khe-
dive, Increase of suicide, Iefinence of mis-
-sionary homes 127. Death of Dr. Gar-
diner Spring, The Polaris and the Pole, 
Sad state of Hayti 131. Jewish cere-
mony of removing the shoe, Origin of 
the Modocs, Romish persecution 135. 
Hurricane along the Nova Scotia coast 
138. Pope on Protestantism in Rome, 
The shame of St. Louis, 139. A horri-
ble story, French pilgrimages, France 
free, Gifts to the Scotch churches 147. 
Terrific gale on the Black Sea, Modern 
pilgrimages, Jubilee singers, Rates of 
postage 151. A religious revolution 154. 
Liquor traffic in this country, Affecting 
scene in court, Mr. Spurgeon, Lotteries 
155. Mosaic manufactory 159. Religious 
freedom in Switzerland, 162. The liquor 
traffic, Vile reading 163. Religious sects 
in Russia, How Victor Emanuel looks 
166. Living in high altitudes, Financial 
uses of Sunday, A wonderful flower, 
Commercial morality 167. Religious cen-
sus of India, Religion defined, Accidents 
on English and American railroads, Sta-
tistics of paper manufacture 170. Late 
at church, Christianity on trial, An em-
peror on theology, The confessional in 
the Church of England, Mammon in the 
church 175. Conflict between Church 
and State in Germany 178. Witinout 
the Bible, One more way to raise money 
in the churches, A fine sermon smashed, 
Singular power, An -Indiana serolite, A 
prayer answered, The name "Protestant," 
Land of the Ashantee, The Pope and 
the Emperor 179. Work of the Bible 
Society, The blind, The Pope's blasphe-
mies, The Ashantees war, The Cuban 
massacres, Death of Abd-el-kadr, False 
Christs 183. Bishop Cummins of Ken-
tucky, Roman Catholicism 187, 191. Iron-
clad fleets of Europe, Our relations with 
Spain 187. Religious troubles in Mexi-
co, The Queen's communion, Awful dis-
aster, Through the mountain 191. Death 
of Sybil Jones, The Inquisition in Rome, 
Disraeli's prophecy, Extraordinary dark-
ness, Discovery of America-Columbus 
anticipated, Speak out, The Bible a uni-
versal book, The direction of providence 
19'5, Religious statistics of Australia 198. 
A millennial celebration, Ecclesiastical 
snobbery 199. Religious Summary, The 
week of prayer, News Items, The perils 
of navigation 202. 
LETTERS RECEIVED. 
to the Waldenses, Anecdotes of Carlyle He is faithful that promised 92. Anec- 102. Press on 105. God's beautiful 
71. The chorister to the minister, Chief dotes of ministers 92, 96 140. Prepara- city 1e3c3te. 
 
.d-
GlNadewtidyineagrs,s 
137. 
difficulty in SPain, Oriental discover- tion, Prayerless- day, Fountain and 
ge1 
n 
1. my 
 
ies 75. The pulpit and time 
a preacher, Dr. Anderson of Glasgow, Spring-showers, Which? 96. Just for 
he times, Letter the Cistern; - Footprints in the sand, stansils 4.
.gite 9Com 
. ,,eifIo
y,i Jesus 
Jesus 5, 
5
ee,ps Ale
mseeeoprn8: 
 
Six short hints, Lottery-luck, "Children the unjust-or how to be saved 100, 104. pany " 12. Be strong, Watch and work 
that will not lie," God made man, The Lesson a rose-tree taught, Prayer of anady 
 16. Above 
a 
pi-ay 
y A/h3.Thlel the 
 shie 
martyrsmf17th. e ur
Son- 
l- 
still small voice 79. Want of faith, The faith, What is believing? Tribulation w 
Copts, Pleasures which the Christian worketh patience, A touching Scene, A used spices • 20. February, Strong to 
must forego 83. George Muller and his fragment, "Thou art the man," 100. redeem 21. He came to seek and to 
work, Sunday-sickness, A Scripture coin- Furnace for gold, Ideas of God, Provi- mftytehteliewloasittii21g
4. ones 
se 2d5o.ublBee-stahra,pHpyymans 
inspired writers, Unnaturalnesain preach- by tobacco 
cidence, Solomon's temple, Style of the dence, "He's .been a soldier," Poisoned of the 
-can 28. Majesty divine 29. Rest 
ing, The true story of the first telegram, keeping, 
 
Lack of knowledge of house- 
Woman's dress, A boy's corn- 32. Built upon .A, rock '33: A church- 
Suicide as a duty, Interesting discoveries mentary 104. Hiding-places of God, The iitninesiparniitigs 
in Egypt, Egyptian light on Bible texts, How to read the Bible, The mother's 
3w6i.fe T40h,e cziancifiaxnidor. 1 
out 7'.' 
What I believe, Carping criticism, Glean- gm-eat mistake, Little things 'A 'lord in c 
time family 108. The unknown 
4
nown land, liL °
urch14115.. 
hcehurptie
cah41t 
 
ings 87. Testimony of the crying stones, 
7i. 
 
Sabbaths 4s4o. Th 
South 
t 
The old sad story, Hearing by habit, Gate of' the temple 48. Lifting the soul 
A' lately discovered parable, Beyrout, 
Regeneration applied to baptism, Good- Redeem the time, A Sabbath school ser- to God 49. The Friend who waits 52. 
ness and a good example 91. The one mon, "Only in the Lord," Ten hard dol- Bought with a price 53. For Jesus' 
Bible, Celebrated English oaks 95. Giv- lars, Road across the waters, God cares sake 56., Sunday, Faith 57. Hope 60. 
ing, Joy in suffering, The Lord's found- for his own, "Did he get in?" Bishop "Thou settest me before Thy face for- 
hugs, Israelitish origin 98. Nitro-glyc- and the . inquirer 112. Proverbs of ever" 61.-Little Barbara's hymn 64. 
erine,SAratus, Pastoral visiting, Fullness friendship, How to read, First potato The. living God 65. A hymn "Be
8. • Res 
of Christ, Dr. Guthrie's early ministry, feast, A word to women, Precious Name, demption 69. ' Submission 72. ' still 
116. in God 73. Christ has risen 76. I press 
"Three days and three nights," The Infirmities, God's word for the sick 
He is corning, "I take the pardon," "All towards "the mark 77. Acquaint now 
happy man, God giveth the increase, 
"I was too confident," Suggestive para- these things are against me," Preachers thyself with Him 79. An invalid for 
graphs 99. Inspiration of Scripture, and cooks, Ardor of First love 120. life 80. Watching for the Master 81 
Minister's feast, On turning down . cor- Gates open 80. The Lord's day, The 
Learn resignation, Proper motives to 
duty 103. No Christian nation, The ners, Putting in the buds 124. Death- trustful heart,- Kingdom of heaven 
orient 107. Is it right to be rich? A bed of a monk, Motives of gratitude, 84. The Lord thinketh upon me 85. 
history stranger than fiction, Subjection; The sinking ship and the life-boat, Tale ' Anywhere 87. The refuge 88. Onward 
Harps on the willows, Hidden wisdom of from the' Gesta Romanorum, Assurance' 89. Up to the hills 91. ''School life 92. 
God 111. How the Popes are elected, of faith, A noble reply, Faith in God, "A little while" 93. Evening by even-
New York statistically considered, How Crab-tree Christians, Promised Strength, ing 96, 128. "As unknown and yet 
to be happy, Worship in the woods 115. Bless and curse not 128. The silent den- well known" 97. Litany to Jesus 98, 
The Ottoman Empire, Russian horses, con's opinion, My mother's fear, Suggest- Waiting 100. Rest 101. Mystery of 
Jesus hiding from his people, Faith of ive paragraphs, Little temptation, "As chastisement 103. Praise we our Eather 
the Pharisees and Sadducees, Hindoo little children," Letting go, "At the last 104. End of all things 105.. Joseph 
praise 119. The Holy Land of to-day, it biteth like a serpent"132. General and Benja
min 106. The faithful friend 
The want of our times, Science's debt to Orton's last days, The Howard trunk, 109. Submission 112. Psalm LXXXIV. 
missionaries, The converted-rabbi, Dane- The way to conquer, A . mechanic 136. 113. Truth -115. Righter of wrongs 
ing, A frank confession, "Cm-se ye Me- "It will do to light my pipe," "Thou 116. Peace • purchased by suffering 117. 
roz,-" Nabum's chariots Smooth words, God seest me," The filled gill-cup, G1O- Auction of a soul 120. Winter is past 
Casting all your care of him 123. The rying in the Lord, Geographical lesson : 121. The living fountain 123. The 
treasures of the heart, The choir of that in sires 140: Morning and midnight, cross, Good night 124. "I am the good 
beautiful world, Trouble 127, Dr- Duff. Tongues, Unconscious 'and forgotten Shepherd" 125. . Baptismal hymn 127. 
on the present crisit of the Christian missionaries, Happy is he 144. Wise Sometime 126, . Garments of praise 132. 
church 131, 135, 139, 143, 147,' 151, 155, Tim, Insincerity of speech, "Pll ride her Behold the Bridegroom cometh 133. 
159, 163. Worldly- amusements, Religion if . she .takes me to hell! In earnest, Al- Waiting for the King 135. God calling 
a life-work, Working, Not fed 135. . most, "Can you undo?" Eat and your . yet 136. Thou shalt know hereafter 
Fishers of men, Dr. Cumming on thea- soul shall live, Mark your poisons 148. 137.: ._ Four. 'prayers 140. 
ConVersion of a Unitarian, Remarkable 
Whither 141. 
tres 139. DiscOuragect ministers, Bitter 
The dawn of day 144. Thy kingdom 
remorse 147. Ancient Syrian. cities,- exaniples of Bible-reading; The preach- 'come 145. Be gentle with thy wife 148. 
Right way 1-51. Demonstration of the ,er's cigar, The . door unlocked,. Rope The harvest 149. "There's only One" 
Spirit, The annealing process, Eleventh, of faith, Neglected letter, Fear qui- 152. "..1 cannot sing." 153. The lapse 
hoar service, Star-depths 163. Prelimi- eted 1512; New songs 
, 156, 171. Visit of years 156. Who touched me? 157. 
nories, Hot And cold comfort, One of to a,gin palace, Another river, A Sceptic Life's sunny and shady side 160. Vision 
ans.wered, Power of example, ,Excite, 
161. Summer sweet, good 
the little foxes-kill him! Good deeds 
of Belshazzar 
and the Sabbath, Were wrongs righted, ment, "Mine own vineyard have I not by 164. A song of solace 165. With 
Scandal, Mystery of perfume, A case, kept," It is a solemn thing to live 156. Christ forever 157. The new preacher , 
The whole truth, Happy 'every day 167. A friend in•court; The Sabbath, Daugh- 168. The city 169. Nothing to pay, to 
The ice-king cometh, A marine picture, ters of Zion, Did God answer this vvid- do, or to fear 171. The two church 
Sacrifice of the Mass,-Christ the surety ow's prayer? Managing men, Only a builders 172.' Voice of the heart 173. 
of his people, The captain and the Jew, match 160. The traveler and the foun- Now is the time 175. Nearing the shore 
The fullness, Money 171. ' Do right tam, Hanging gardens of Babylon, Wo- 176. A German trust song 177.-Stew-
everywhere, The two revenges, Relapse man's temple, Story of a boatman, The ardship 179. Prayer 180. The prize 
of faith, Id&w
ords, Spark im from a Welsh dying child's request, Small worries, beyond-- 181. Harvest hymn 184. Coy-
anvil 175:- Twelve excellent rules, Min Love for love, An open secret, Recogni- enant;_love 185. . Rest in God, Who 
isterial qualifications 179. Suggestive tion in heaven 164. The wise fool, Call- went up into the temple to pray 188. 
sayings, Christian decision, Reasonable ing the ferryman, A touching incident, "lie must increase-I must decrease" 
prayer, The deacon and the devil,"Does Christ blessing us, A scene from life, 189. The Master sits by the treasury 
God answer prayer? Origin of manna Thoughts on dress 168. John Mathurin, 191. The prospect of glory 192. Wait-
183.. A memorable communion, The rich Soft answers, The Sunday question, Will ing 193. Not alone 196. The advent 
man and Lazarus, "Follow me," Don't my case be called to-day? Men out of 197. The three watchwords 199. "Un-
be too critical, A covenant, By his shad- their places, Morning 172. Gough's ad- to us a child is born," "Suffer little 
ow, Forgeries 187. Work of pen and dress to the working classes, All about children to come unto me" 200. The 
scissors, A Parsee graveyard, Giddy tobacco, Draw near with a true heart, year's last moment 201. Wasted time 
He leacleth me, Thirty seconds too late, 
choirs, Dead flies in the ointment 191. 
204. 
Regular eating, Two sides to a story 176. 
Bible in relation to worship, A Chris- 
tian prayer, Mammon, "Jesus ! Jesus !'" Contentment is gain, A swearer with 
Expectation in God Soul-saving Ex- God, A drunkard's dream, A Quaker's 
, , 
tracts from Alexander Campbell's writ- temperance lecture, Influence of inno-
ings, Brotherly love, A question for cence, The best service, The protecting 
grammarians, Alone with God, The cloud, Four receipts for securing sun-
Resurrection, A striking fact 199. • Chris- shine in the soul, Bring them to church, 
tian hand-shaking, Boxes, Meeting afilic- Dreaming and doing 180. Were you 
tion 202. 
rejected, _Blindness, Devotional, Almost 
 -.. 
up Silent influences,: God's presence, 
Thi
ngs you will not be sorry for at the 
day of judgment 184. Fervent and per-
severing prayer, Is wine a blessing? 
" What's the news?" Only ttust him 188. 
Who will show us any good? The an- L. Osier of Providence, R. I., will 
cient ring, Better whistle than whine, preach, the Lord will, in Franklin, Mass., 
Spiritual courage 192. Closet-work-the. Wednesday and Thursday evenings, 
work, Straight paths, Fruit in old age, January 7th and 8th. 
The Spirit's teaching, How to be able to 
do good, Presumption, A - touching inci-
dent 196. The nativity, The birth of 
Christ in heathen expectations, "Not by 
might nor by power," Preaching by the 
job, The London mud-raker, Step by 
step, A child's amen, How to get along 
200. "Whosoever shall call upon the 
name of the Lord shall be saved," The 
doctor's argunient, Ransomed prisoner, 
Old man of Dartmoor, "Tuck-away 
station," Blood of souls 204. 
QUARTERLY CONFERENCE. 
FARM, HOUSE AND GARDEN. 
Preserving eggs, Cold feet, Contagious 
diseases, Pitting in smallspox, Warm-
water for plants, Clergyman's sore throat 
4. Houseplantssin winter' 
 To purify a 
room, Cleaning marble, Remedy for 
chapped sands About food, Harmony 
at home 32. 
-Various items, Position of 
the head during sleep, Milk, tea and cof- 
DONATIONS. 
fee, Scrap books 40. Curing a runaway 
horse, Keep the pores open, Composition TO THE A. M. ASSOCIATION. 
of patent medicine, Respect due to Esther Reiss -- 
3.00 
wives 52. Novel treatment of dysisep- S. Woodcock 
1.00 
sia,, Keep your mouth shut 56. Hint to Thomas J. Bailey 
.50 
onion peelers, New discovery in 'hot-ti- David Evans 
1.00 
culture' 
 -Pulverized coal for unhealthy Julius T. 'Beitell 
6.00 
Plants, Useful information, Matrimonial Elijah Conover 
7.00 
incompatibility 60. Manure for pota-
toes To cleanse blankets, White dia-
mond cement, To keepllemons for lemon-
ade, How to be happy, Leaky tin pans, 
Ile thankful 80. Rules of living, Chil-
dren's 'colds, Lemon for a cough, A good 
ointment, Currant worm 88. Black-
berry, Blackberry cordial, Removing 
stains, How to use Paris green 120. 
Canned peas, Blackberry jam, Rhubarb 
pies, Salt for pear-trees, Keeping lard, 
.Wood cement, How to put in bolts, Re-
lieving choked cattle, Ingrowing toe-
nails 124. To preserve green corn, Syrup 
for consumption, To soften old putty, 
Warts and corns, Burns or scalds, Boils, 
Food medicine 132. How to water 
horses, To preserve flowers,To clean lamp-
chimneys,- Leaves for flavoring, Sick-
headache 136. Sixteen good habits 
Kill the weeds, Water for swine; Com-
plete exposure to sunlight, Remedy for 
poisoning by plants and insects, Effects 
of opium 148. Drying sweet corn, Pre-
serving grapes, Nose-bleed, Hop yeast, 
Cheap vinegar 156. Husk beds, How to 
swallow a pill, Paste that will keep a 
year, In a railroad crash, Cancer cure, 
Grapes as food 160. Plants as weather 
guides, Dropsy, Rapidity. of muscular 
contractions 168. Cure for felons, Sun-
shine in sleeping rooms, Chapped hands, 
Perpetual paste, To remove grease-spots, 
To destroy bugs, ants, sisc. White un-- 
derclothes Fretful babies 180. House-
cleaning, Worms in wells, Growing plants 
in sleeping rooms, Fruit-trees near line 
fences 184. How to lead a cow, Obsti-
nate screws Dumplings, Cleaning stoves, 
Color black, Killing rats in fields 188. 
POETRY. 
Mrs. Marcia Felt .(through P. M.) 
2.00 ; S. Ebersole 7.00; 0. E. Noble; 
Harvey Boardman 2.00; Laura Perkins 
3.00; Rev. E. P. Peirce ; H. Canfield 
2.00; Esther Ross 5.00; E. C. Drew 
2.50; James Morrill 1.00; N. H. Stevens 
4.00; Dr. Thomas Wardle 4.00; E. S. 
Howe 2.00 ; Harriet A. Moore 1.00 ; 
Mrs. E. M. Fletcher 2.00 ; Sanford Wood-
cock 3.00; C. P. Whitten 3.00; Hugh 
Baker; AL Skinner (thank you) ; 
Dan Boyce 4.00; Helen M. Howard 2.00; 
Mrs. John Yataw 1.00; H. D. Ward; I. 
R. Gates,; Mrs. J. Rosseter 2.00 ; Mrs. 
John Brown 2.83 ; Emily J. Saxe-re-
ceived, and will do the best we can with 
it; Martha Conkey 2.00; Geo. W. Whit-
ing 2.00 ; Aaron P. Lyncle 2.00; Died-
rick Grafing 7.50 ; T. E. A. Morrill 
1.00; P. A. Beckwith .50 ; Geo. Eyster ; 
Prudence Pierce 2.00; Thos. S. Parks 
1.00-don't know, the paper is mailed 
regularly Wednesday afternoon ; Clem-
ent Loveder 1.00 ; G. Pillsbury 2.00; 
Thomas J. Bailey 2.50.; Betsy Keith 
2.00; Mrs. A. F. Drake '2.00; S. F. 
Grady 1.00; Mrs. Jane M. Calhoun; 
Henry Tanner 2.00 ; Alice S. Qlmstead 
2.00 ; D. Champlin 2.00; Wm. McCul-
lough; Emma L. Swartz-have mailed 
it to him; Hiram Noyes 200; David 
Evans 3.00; Mrs. S. Blanchard 2.00; 
Coulbourn Long 2.00; A. F. Remington 
4.00; Julius T. Beitell 10.00; Dr. E. 
M Ripley ; John Farley 3.00; Lewis 
Howe 2.00 ; Geo. W. Moore 3.00; Geo. 
C. Baker 3.00; Sarah Bridge 2.00; Eli- 
jah nover 10.00 ; Charles Burnham 
2.00; Mrs. Angeline T. Walker 2.00; 
Mrs. NI. A. Ober 2.00; Elijah Sprague 
2.00; G. M. Pumeo 2.00; L. B. Engles-
by 10.00. 
A new year's. offering. to God, 2. The 
critic- criticised, Wanting to move' 3. 
The year past and present, Words of the 
aged, The kingdom within you, Forgive-
ness 6. Cothe to Jesus, A cause for re-
gret' '7. Note from Bro. Rupp, The 
passing .years, Curious calculation 10. 
The Harrisburg church 14. 'Services in 
the new church, What Christ can do, 
That sermon. of Wm. Miller 18. Mission 
and dedication at Harrisburg 22. On 
the line 23. Appeal to the ministry, 
Prayers and potatoes 26. The Hareiss 
burg' mission -.30, 50. Invitation and re: 
 
sponse 31. The Shepherd's voice, The 
kingdom to' be delivered up 34. Note 
from Bro. Marks, Messiah's conference 
at Harrisburg, Pray for him 38. Revival 
-dedication, "Behold the Bridegroom 
cometh" 42. • Secret societies, "Behold 
he cometh ? " 46. Christian earnestness, 
Come to Jesus 54. The firm bank 
(poetry) 66. Maryland correspondence 
66, 114, 126. • "Died suddenly" 66. 
"Mercy and Truth are met together" 70. 
Bible lesson 74. -Raising money for re-
ligious purPOses, Messiah s conference in 
Harrisburg 78. The Abrahamic cove-
nant 83. ,Words of comfort for afflicted 
Christians 86. Christian sympathy, Penn-
sylvania Conference of Messiah's church 
90. An outline and the outlook 94. -Re- 
port of the Messianian Missionary Soci-
ety of Penn. 102. A superficial view, 
Province of Quebec and Vt. conference 
106. An offer to materialists 110. A 
dream 114. Romanism in England 115. 
The gates ajar (poetry) 118. -Willing 
ignorance 122. American Evangelical 
Advent Conference 126. Social meet-
ings at Camp-Hebron 130. Centre 
county campmeeting, Ministers and fu-
nerals 134. The gracious invitation; A 
night-song (poetry) 138. An important 
question, Sterling Run Campmeeting 
142. Some changes I have seen, The 
meeting at St. Armands 146. The trans-
figuration 150. Quarterly Board meet 
ing at the A. M. Association, Home mis-
sion, Our missionary .158. Messiah's 
Evangelical Advent Conference at Kel-
vin 162. Note from the "Pedestrian 
missionary" 166. To the committee on 
missions 174. Mission work in Phila-
delphia 175. The Lord's work in 
Taunton 182. How readest thou? 
Keep a steady hand 190. Your labor is 
not in vain-in the Lord 194. Who will 
help-us? 198. 
Letters from Elder Bundy 10, J. Pearce 
10, 107, Mrs. Eliza Clark 18, 191. Man-
chester, Eng. 22. C. Cunningham 23, 
M. H. Case, M. Branch 26, England, I. 
H. Shipman, L. C. Robbins 30. Dr. 
Litch 31, 146,16q,.,190. W. S. Cutting 
34. California,•'Sarah Sweet 50. Julia 
H. Harley 54, 70, 98,,110,• 122, 138, 170, 
182. Hannah, Q. Harley 58.. W. P. 
Stiiatton Elder B. Cook 58. Elder 
Chase Taylor 62. Samuel Ebersole 6-2. 
H. Bundy 62. M. L. -Jackson--66, 98. 
D. Hotchkiss 66, 95. D. Bosworth 70, 
90. R. R. Schellhous 70. J. Zeigler 91. 
Moses Faller 95. A. B. Russell, Mary 
S. Wicker ..98. Henry Dana Ward 102. 
A. L. Brand 106, 159, 186. I. ,R. Gates 
110, 138, 146, 186. J. B. Knight 118. 
John Hidden 134. F. Gunner 142. A 
sister 146. W. H. Swartz 154. E. C. 
Higgins 162, 194. L. 0. Walker 170, 
182. L. E. Freeman 170. J. A. Aldred 
178, 190. G. W. Burnham 182. Law-
rence Miller 190. M. D. -Wellcome, E. 
A. McClean, N. Stokeley 198. Elder 
Jackson, Rev. T. H. Sketchley, Extracts 
from letters 202. 
OBITUARIES. 
Henry Howard, Royal Jackman 3. 
Abner V.sliendall, Jane Pervier 7. Mrs. 
S. Chaplin, Dr. Ezra S. Loomis 10. John 
Clark 11. Elwell A. B. Thurston,' Gus-
tus Geer 15. Mrs. Rolinda Castle 19. 
Reuben Scott 27. John Perry, Willie S. 
Brown, Mary A. Gale 31. Amy Kniffin, 
Jonathan J. Teetzel 35. Lucetta Hast-
ings, Roswell Curtis 39. Eliza Jackson, 
Oscar Elson, Catherine E. Smith 43. 
John Hiekox. Phebe A. Lowe 46. Jus-
tin B. Clapp 5.0. Mrs. Annie M. L. Bur-
nett, 55. John 0. Prescott, Seth Pope 
62. Rev. Charles Cambbell, Wm Roby 
70. Catherine E. Conklin, Willernine F. 
Sterns 71. Jason G. Blackinston, S. D. 
Wheeler 74. Annie M. Schelle.ny 75. 
Emma M. Kellar 78. , Eliza Clough 102. 
Mrs. Helen Dunbar, Jeremiah Litch, Mrs. 
Lydia Cochran i,107. Mary A. Becker, 
Ifattie M. and Adda Becker, Malinda 
Edy410. Flora Ann Jackson 118. 'Lu-
cinda Brown 122. Charles H. White 
131. Ellen Janes 131, 143. Chauncy 
Castle, Rosa N. Harvey 135. Tacy Alice 
Laning 143. Emma E. Carpenter 150. 
Mrs. Sarah Carter 154. Fra,nkie Miles 
162. Benjamin Scott 166. Dea.- Noble 
P. Fuller, Den. S. S. Guild 175. Lizzie L. 
Gregg 178. Charles Merchant, Paulina 
A. Battye, Nicholas Mandeville 186. 
Barbary Shaffer 191. Abigail Morrill 
195. Sophia M. Groat 198. 
annihilated, The '1.1Y-e fruitful Fs, Rest 
but not loiter', The Lord'ajewels,7JOnah'; 
prayer, 57. Rest in glory 58. The fu 
ture,Pre-oecupation of the heart, Atone-
ment.of -Christ, Recognitions, Prophetic 
promises: 61. Hidden mines, Elim after 
Marah A parable, The Coming One. 
"IRChrist" 65. The mortal and the im 
mortal, Who first saw Jesus risen P. 
ly living, Efficacy of Christ7s blood, Je-
sus only, Trtithfulness and confidence. 
Dr. Johnson on his death-bed, Sin prop 
agating itself 69. Christ and the new 
creation, The interior life Both needed. 
Grapes and giants 73. Messiah's deatl 
and resurrection, Heavenly prospects, 
The master-coin, With all my heart, Tin 
power of a great thought, Coming, Dig:: 
eipline of waiting, ,Neglecting salVatiokt 
77. Shut thy door 78. The word of 
prophecy, Earth renewed the saints' ire 
hentance, Paradise restored 81.. Long: 
ing for the land, Looking for that blesSed-
hope, Christ's advent pre-millennial 
Gathering around Christ' 85 Keepim 
the heart, The three steps to death, Re-
ligion a help in life, A privilege of tin 
sons of God, Preaching of John Knox. 
The burial of Jesus, Mount Tabor, Th( 
tree good-the fruit good, Resting ii 
God 89., The Church's hope 93, 97. 
The living stone and the great image 93. 
Occupy till I come, Think of them 
things 97. Misunderstood passages. 
Passive virtues, Come to Jesus now, 
The condition of peace, Strangers and 
pilgrims, The Friend tlias sticketh closer 
than a brother 101. Importance of tie 
study of prophecy, Surveying and eery-
ing, 'The Christian's prospects; Haste mm 
Clsrist's arms 105. The absent Noble 
man, The five kingdoms of Daniel, " Ii 
the days of these kings;" One 'true reli 
gion. Face the light 109. The sin against 
the Hel
y 
 Ghost, Worldliness, "Only be- 
lieve," Power of faith, Christ seen in tin 
prophecies 113. The blood-sprinkled 
lintel, Christian assurance, The beavenli 
counsel 117, Calvin's commentary OL 
2 Peter 3rd chapter 121, 125. Tempta 
tion, Be vigilant, Resurrection joy 121 
The great themesThe mind of the Spirit. 
The waters not- cut Off beforehand 125 
Assembling together, Mv Redeemer, 
thee do I trust,'Veterans rewarded. 
What does it mean? Gathered fragments. 
Aca-pss she Jordan-Moses) -.dead- 129. 
No double fulfillment Of - prOphecy, 
He isesq e," -.God twith us( 133. Messiah's 
work, Unconscious influence, Titles oi 
the Spirit_ of God; (Sur Lord's return, 
The manner in which Christ will come-
New in Christ Jesus Fight on 137. Tin 
scoffer's inquiry, 
Jesus, 
God 
great-man weak, "As becometb saints,' 
What is needed, The terror of the Lord 
141, -The Coming One ; Practical bear-
ing of grophecy, Not willingly, A sisL1 
of gleafungSs,SHave you the pilot? 145. 
Ch t;pee-m e Ey &di 
the day Of the: Lords:Infilessities, Jesus 
149, W. 9;1dpi-fill lovel prist , liveth, 
AlkS' Att. 
 
to Bethan,' 8 Oerates and 
Christ, "Be ye steadfast, unmovable" 
153. Hope of the Chnrch, Bible study. 
Be quiet 157. Refuge of lies, Faith and 
failure, Christ all in all, Immortalrty oi 
the soul, The veil removed 161. The 
second advent!---its.nature, time and prac-
tical bearing 1-65, 169. The shadow of' 
life, The poet- Cowper illustrated by the 
evangelist John 105. Sermons on the 
resurrection 173, 177, 181. Need of 
moral courage 173. Right kind of a 
church, The Christian hope 17.7. Christ 
the heaven of believers, Oursportrait 
181. 
From the heart, Love to the Lord 
Jesus, The call -accepted, Salvation by 
Christ, Prayer, Living springs 18,5. Ara-
bon, Godly sineerity, No rest: here; "Al 
midnight, The world's book, The Lord's 
supper .189. • The peace of God, The 
night and the day, Need we wonder.? 
The door of hem 4bralis,m7s. tempta-
tion 193. No rooin for 'him, The great 
event, Witness :6f -the-Spirit, The central 
truth, Scripture dliffienities cleared up, 
Touchiagillustration 197. The old and 
the new year, At the last, A word never 
broken, king and living, ," As it was in 
the days of Noah," The first recorded 
funeral 201. 
GENERAL INTELLIGENCE. 
BOOKS, TRACTS. 
TRACTS, &C., SENT 
During the week ending Wednesday, Dec, 31, 
COMMUNICATIONS. 
Selections from here and there 1. Om-
Saviour's prayers 1. : Tendency of the 
times 2. The morning cometh, Infant 
salvation -5. Pleasant hOtirs with authors 
6, 13, 29, 41, 54, 73, 97.- • The kingdom 
to be delivered up, The world's conversion 
9. Prophecy of the seventy weeks 10. 
"how long, 0 Lord, how long?" 13. 
Words of ctunfort 14. Leaven 17. Prom-
ises to Israel 18. An Adventist's apology 
21. Labor .and reward,. There is a spirit, 
in man 22. Resurreaion from the dead, 
The habitable earth to-come 25. "Speak 
not evil one of another" 26. Are you 
ready ? Resurrection of the body 29. 
The divine manifestion, The .seven thun-
ders 33. Loving hi St appearing, Row .of-
ten do you pray? 34. An er,alted view 
of the saint's inheritance, The five upi-
versa], kingdoms 37. The life. that now 
is 38. Selections from • a scrapzhook 38, 
41, 66, 74, 122. Word made 'flesh 41. 
Future of this world viewed from the 
divine standpoint,Tboughts on the World's 
eautibn 201. 
riv1r6i4kL. 
 
The cross and throne eonifeCiled, A 
blacker - year, The Youth's Visitor, Christ-
mas thoughts, The final doom, Uniform 
-;unday school lessons, The week of prayer, 
, Notes and Gleanings 2; 42, 118. A 
hearty wish, Visit' to Providence, The 
hope- of Israel, Unwise Ephraim 6. Not, 
slothful in business, Death of Napoleon, 
Death and resurrection, The saints' bur-
den, Abraham's Oak 10. Daniel and Rev-
elation, Looking to Jesus, Waiting 14. 
-Than we know each other there ? Sym-
bolic cards, Royal thoughts for royal 
hearts, A song in the night, The heaven-
ly Master and his earthly Ministers, The 
Jordan 18. Encouraging reports, "A 
living -dog is better than a dead lion," 
rhe First-born of the dead, Christ the 
rirst-fruits, The Revelation of Jesus 
Christ 22. The legs of iron, Smith on 
the Apocalypse, An affirmative answer, 
Signs of summer, Prof: -Draper on the 
solar flames, Murder and mirth, A pardon 
concealed, Future punishment 26. John 
in Patmos, Dr. Cumming on prayer, Ed-
win Burnham in Boston, "Let's think it 
bver," Father Ilyacinthe and the Bible 
30, Testimony and teaching, That curi-
ous calculation, Singing in Nazareth, The 
era of blood, Punch and,judy in church, 
A Scotch millenarian 34. 
-Blasts from 
the trumpet of truth, What God does 
;with-- sin, Dedication of the Brookline 
town hall, Gleanings," Who knoweth the 
spirit of man that goeth upward?" The 
Lord is our Law-giver, Tidings' from Bi-
Ole Lands 38. Tendency to mystical in-
terpretation, "Then :I, shall know fully," 
Pool of Siloam We must work and 
witness 42. 
Siloam, 
candlestick, An- 
cient faith - concerning the kingdom. of 
God; The_ world in minature, Chrome. 
prereinins; The new question book, " He 
spake of trees" 46. The strong nega-
tion, Bishop Mc Illvaine a pre-millennial-
ist, " Asalippery ways in the darkness," 
A chip Werth picking up, Dr. Cumming 
the 'Evangelist -50. Brevities, How 
a donation was received, Be sober, Hast-
ing to be rich, Ilosten Advent Associa-
tion, A working church, Moravian and 
other missions 54. Apostles weeping, 
file 'voice of prophecy and the cry of 
peace, A fortysyeara' pastorate Word 
of God living and powerful, 
 
law of divorces. 
sugge7sfrOn 58. Eat3tett "'The ,Lord is 
risen indeed," Where grit' al$4aisits that 
have risen? What hinders P-One of the 
signals 62. Board inefetiiigiOoL the A. M. 
Association 62. End of the world, 
Worldliness in -thesrehurch, Intelligence 
from thcsEast, Lessons from, the honey-
comb 66. A word about the paper, What 
they say, What becomes of the proba-
tioners, A word-a, tract-a soul saved 
70. Christ's sovereign right asserted, 
A treasury box from the Holy Land, 
Prophetical Society, What does it mean? 
Independence day 74. An accident--
more delay, Duty and motive, Bazaar of 
the nations, A foolish bargain, The new 
postal law 78. Nearing the shore, Ad-
ventists 82. "It doth not yet appear" 
83. New earth, Goodly land, Ob-
scene literature, Another great fire in 
Boston 86.: Harrisburg and Trenton_, A 
good proposition, The two guests, Pro-
voking, Gleanings 90. :Meetings at He-
bron campground in July, United and 
persistive prayer, Earl of Shaftesbury 
on the second- advent, He calleth thee, 
Exonerative 94. How the. British Re-
formers looked and longed for the Lord 
94, 114. The Earl of Cavan on the Lord's 
coming, Prayer acrostic, What is said of 
our loss 98. Attention, brethren, Jour-
nal leaves of a, returned missionary, 
Conference in Richford, Captain Hall's 
burial, Wisdom and wickedness, Have 
you been with Christ to-day? The de-
bate 102. The two great signs, Goodly 
stones Of the temple, Earth and heaven, 
Glorious vision, Independence day dona-
tions- 106'. Outdoor preaching, Make 
yourselves fire-proof, Holy Land speci-
mens, Flowers and thieves, Extra num-
ber, Happy rdreamer 110. Our feast of 
-tabernacles, A call to prayer, Lord Bad-
stock on true waiting for the Lord's corn-
ing, Bank of the A. M. Association 114. 
What think ye-that He will not come 
to the feat?
' 
 A more biblical treatment 
of theme needed, Trodden down by the 
Gentiles, Strawberries and Religion 118.. 
Hebron Camp-meeting, Israel's blindness, 
What the Bible is, The .Advent _Herald 
122. Kneel and grow strong, Two sol-
emn farewells., A voice from over the sea, 
On the .border-land, A puzzled journal-
ist 126. Pecuniary profit of religious 
papers ' :Kingdom of God,. Annual meet- 
ing of the A. M. Association, Dr. Duff's 
address 130. The Lord's Supper at He-
bron Camp, Practical thoughts,Very sug-
gestive, Four watches 134. Our British 
subscribers, That deficiency, "Forbid- 
MISCELLANEOUS. 
Thoughts for pastors and people 3. 
On the Bridge of sighs, The little Italian 
street musician, Value of the idea of 
Divine personality, Illustrations 7. Flat 
perjury, Phases of crime, An oft-repeat-
ed question, Ebal and Gerizim, Colors of 
gems, Who will go? Anecdotes 11. 
Hops-revellings, Salvation by a living 
person, The Christian in the world 15. 
Swedenborgianism, Two or three, Death 
of the man who copied the Morman 
Bible, The lesson of the season 19. 
Three hundred years ago, Danger of 
half knowledge, The new drunkenness, 
Niagara Falls dry for a day, The diffu-
sion of light, Science and the Bible, Put 
through the catechism, The length 'of 
days 27. The Book of books 31. Spur-
geon at home, Unnaturalness in preach-
ing, Water and wine, Early progress of 
Christianity in the East, Ages of the 
ante-diluvians, " I'se put a pebble in dat 
bottle," Toward evening, Emphasis, 
Without me nothing, Biography of the 
Te Deum, Reminders of ,the patriarchs 
35. The church and the world, Praying 
Poll-a hint to professing Christians, 
The first ocean steamer, Mental vigor in 
old age, A well spent life 39. The duty 
of forgiveness, Beauty of Damascus 43. 
Religious reading, Facts concerning to-
bacco, The lover af money, The Ephe-
sian remains, -What buried Herculaneum? 
Electrical phenomenon, "A mighty Sav-
iour upholds me," The head, the heart, 
and the hand, A look 47. Revival of 
Romanism, Last words, Out of the back 
door, Hogarth's tail-piece, Valuation of 
the gospel, Infinite love, Contentedness, 
Doctrinal preaching 51. Taking the 
bull by the horns, -Wesley and his perse- 
. cutors, "I keep my body under," Dam- 
nation taken lovingly, A voice from the 
sea against sin, Spirit of adoption, A 
shorter prayer 55. Profanity among 
Christians, Easter, A winged burden, 
The two mites, Deception, Can you plod ? 
Do you know it? Can you find him? 
Serving two masters 59. Christianity 
versus Infidelity, Providence in a ser-
mon, "Save me-I perish," Prophetic 
profanity, Which way do you pull? 63. 
Luther on the Scriptures, A choked deist, 
What it is to forgive, Money, "One 
sweetly solemn thought" (poetry) 67. 
Corn as fuel, The tempest on the North Mount Sinai, Christianity in ruins, Visit 
THE FAMILY CIRCLE. 
An Iceland adventure, The angel of 
the Lord encampeth, Creeping up close 
to God, Family worship 4. Jessie,s long-
ing for the hills of Fife' 
 The evil con-
science healed, Brother Andel-son, Talk 
about home trials, The believer's peace 
8. A true story of Lucknow, Authen-
ticity of the Scriptures, In ;he Cata-
comb13, Indian anecdotes, Heart-purity, 
Crossing the river 12. The clergyman 
and his gardener, Recommend good 
books, The shipwrecked sailor, Oriental 
imagery, Perpetual presence of Christ, 
The wall of snow, Who is my neighbor ? 
What a trifle may hide 16. The lost 
purse, Tyre as it was and as it,is Day by 
day, Shadow of the rock, Shadows we 
cast, Service of patience, A book of 
three leaves 20. Story of the English 
Bible, A worthless freedom, Christianity 
and business, Cloud-shadows, "That's 
me," Fretting, Crooked sticks 24. Baal-
bee and its ruins, Exploration in Pales-
tine, Looking for Jesus, A Madagascar 
parable, An ancient farmer, The dreamer 
and the doer, Death's master, 28. The 
old sailor's story, Sparrows in Palestine, 
A happy illustration, "For Jesus' sake," 
Cat's cradle, Christiareasatience 32. The 
two 'graveyards, Behind the scenes, A 
meeting on the housetops 36. Help at 
the right 'time, Caravans in the desert,' 
A specimen of- childish faith, Chinese 
oddities, History of pride in three chap-
ters 40. Conversion of children, Com-
ing to Christ, A terrible reproof, Dangers 
to the eyed The appletree, A .sunbeam's 
lesson, The father's faces Influence of 
fault-finding 44.. The chained host, A 
letter to the little ones, The Christian 
wife, Voltaire dying, Mingling our right-
eousness with Christ's Four suggestions 
to those who read the Bible 48. The 
poor cripple, A gold ring and what came 
of it, Persevere, Danger of insensibility 
52. A strange supposition and a sad re-
ality, How do you use your Bible? Poor 
soldier of Flensburg, Strength of char-
acter, "He carries them up hill" 56. All 
for Christ, A telling argument, Bought 
with a price, "Once," Melted over 60. 
Bread cast upon the waters, "Do you 
know Jesus ?" Religion and the home-
life, How God provides for his children, 
China crucifix, Faith, Spanish artist 
and the Last Supper, Christian toilet 64. 
Left! A weed in the sermon, Infidel 
non-plussed, Success, "It is good to trust 
in the Lord," Meekness, Bible in the 
heart, Light in darkness 68. What hap-
pened to the carpenter, Power of the 
word of God, What is trouble? Man's 
views and God's truth, Letter to sister 
Harley, Self-denial, Dr. Guthrie and his 
Irish parishioner 72. "This will do for 
me," The dance Conformity to the world, 
Jamie-the sailo
r boy, Treasure in earth-
en vessels, Morning among the mits, 
"Booful " 76. Mrs. Palliser's dream, 
Died poor, Don't begin, Pen and the 
hand, Christ bath made us free, "0 Lou' 
some foundation, What do you know?" 
'The worst punishment 80. Jewish Rab-
bi-and hiascholar, Jesus precious, Geth-
semane Stand up for Jesus, Without the 
Bible, Hea
ven's sunlight on the Bible, 
Holy Scriptures, Providence, Hidden 
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THE ADVENT HERALD, DECEMBER 31, 1873. 
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crime. 
in the 
things 
of the 
argument was the most decisive. The not a man who was familiar with 
captain, as he walked away, appeared to He did not look like one who was 
congratulate himself upon the able man- habit of doing those very wicked 
people commit. 
One 
that some 
going to the dreary prison, would you not never know, until the hooks are opened, 
have said that he was mad? Well, dear how much was done in answer to the 
children, God himself declares that the prayers of those who were dropped at 
ransom is paid down, that all "is finish- i" Tuck-away Station." God is at that 
ed," and that " all that believe are justi- station, with the feeble one lying on a 
fled from all things." But he has also I sick-bed, who would be glad to give in 
declared that "he that believeth not is her testimony for God at a seaside con-
vention for the promotion of holiness, or 
at the great camp-meeting where the 
lovers of Jesus flock; and while the 
heart is there though the body can not be, 
the simple prayer of faith that God will 
give power to His witnesses for the truth 
is answered, and undoubtedly many a 
baptism of the Spirit descends in answer 
to the prayers of smile "tucked away" 
saint. Yes, we are God's witnesses, and 
testimonies are going up to the throne 
continually. Witnesses are on sick-beds, 
testifying to the truth, " Ye shall receive 
power after that the Holy Ghost is come 
upon you!" And power to suffer has 
been given, and we find them exceeding 
joyful in all their tribulations. 
Happy for those whe have learned this 
lesson, that to be sanctified to God is 
everything. It may not be the will of 
God we should have health, or social 
position, or the means to go here or 
there; but this is the will of God, even 
our sanctification. And if we are in 
this great army, this sacramental host of 
God's elect, whether we are on the train 
or dropped at "Tuck-away Station," 
whether at the front fighting the enemy, 
or laid aside in the hospital, the same 
banner floats above us, and the one cause 
is ours. 
" His saints in all this glorious war 
Shall conquer though they die. 
They see the triumph from afar, 
By faith they bring it nigh." 
-Times of Refreshing. 
condemned already." How solemn to 
be condemned, after all, for "making 
God a liar! " But I trust that not a few 
of those who read these pages have be-
lieved, and know that their ransom has 
been paid, because God says so. And 
oh, how thankful must they feel to Him 
who paid the ransom in His own blood! 
and how earnestly should they seek to 
" please Him in all things!" But if 
there is one little reader who has not yet 
believed, tray he or she have grace to do 
so now. " We are only a mile or two 
from Taunton," said the generous horse-
dealer; "if anything is to be done, IT 
MUST BE DONE AT ONCE." 
And you, how 
near may you be to the end of your life's 
journey! "If anything is to be done, it 
must be done at once."-British Evan-
gelist. 
THR OLD MAN OP DARTMOOR. 
pm ssengers, a horse-dealer, said to him, 
"Well, my good fellow, have you been 
kicking over the traces ? " by which the 
horse-dealer meant, "Have you been 
transgressing .the laws of the land ? " 
This question, followed by one or two 
more, brought out the following facts as 
to the prisoner: He was a laboring man, 
in the employ of a farmer in Somerset. 
On the previous night the farmer's men 
had had their harvest-supper ; after 
which they all drank as much cider as 
they liked. This poor man took too 
much, grew quarrelsome, " and," said he, 
"they tell me I struck somebody ; but I 
did not know it, for I m tat have been too 
drunk. I was had before the magistrate, 
fined 5s., and costs 288., making 38s. I 
was unable to pay it, and asked to be 
allowed to pay it by instalments ; -but 
they said that unless I could pay 25s. at 
once, and the rest in so many days, I 
must go to gaol for six weeks, and to 
Taunton gaol I alas new goi lg. I have 
left a wife and several children at home, 
and I suppose they must go to the work-
house." 
See, my dear children, the sorrow and 
misery which sin brings ever in its track. 
This poor foolish man drank to excess, 
and then, in his drunkenness, injured an-
other; thus getting himself into grievous 
trouble, and not only himself, but his 
poor helpless family. How shocking to 
the dear children, to see their father 
taken away to prison, while they were 
left with aching hearts, not only to mourn 
the distressing separation and their fath-
er's disgrace, but also to feel the want of 
all those things with which their father's 
labor supplied them. 
Every passenger in the carriage seem-
ed to feel for the poor man. They talked 
together about it, and at lest the kind-
hearted horse-dealer said, "We are only 
a mile or two from Taunton ; if anything 
is to he done, it must be done at once. 
Policeman, can you set this man at liber-
ty, if his fine and costs are paid? " 
"-Yes," said the policemen. 
"Well, then," continued the horse-
dealer, " here's a sovereign towards it, if 
will make up the 
-•••• 
There was an old man of Dartmoor, 
who for many years obtained his liveli-
hood by looking' after the cattle distributed 
over those wild moorland hills. At last, 
through infirmity arid old age, and the 
constant and continual exposure to all 
kinds of weather, his sight entirely failed 
him, so that he had to seek an asylum in 
one of our west of England infirmaries 
to end his brief remaining days. While 
there he was frequently visited by one of 
his grand-daughters, who would occasion-
ally read to him portions of the Word of 
God. 
One day while this little girl was read-
ing to him the first chapter of the first 
epistle of John, when she reached the 
7th verse, ".And the blood of Jesir• 
Christ his Son cleansed' us from all sin," 
the old man raised himself and stopped 
the little girl, saying with great earnest-
ness, " Is that there, my dear ? " 
" Yes, grandta." 
" Then read it to me again; I have 
never heard the like before." 
The little girl read again, "And the 
blood of Jesus Christ His Son cleanseth 
us from all sin." 
" You are quite sure that is there? " 
'" Yes, quite sure." 
"Then take my hand and lay my 
finger on the passage, for I should like to 
feel it." 
So she took the old blind man's hand 
and placed his bony finger on the 7tb 
verse, when he said, "Now read it to me 
again." 
The little girl read with her soft sweet 
gentle -voice, " And the blood of Jesus 
Christ His Son cleansed' us from all sin." 
" You are sure that is there ?" 
" Yes, quite sure." 
" Then if any one should ask how I 
died, tell them I died in the faith of these 
words, And the blood of Jesus Christ 
His Son cleanseth us from all sin.' " 
And with that the old man withdrew 
his hand, his head fell softly back upon 
the pillow, and he silently passed into the 
presence of Him whose blood cleansed) 
us from all sin. 
Now, dear reader, may I ask, If you 
were called to die, would your testimony 
be that of the old blind man of Dart-
moor ? Are you resting on the precious 
blood of Christ? Have you your sins 
forgiven ? It is blessed to know this at 
the last hour of man's dissolution, but 
more blessed to be living in the conscious 
enjoyment of sins forgiven through faiti 
in the atoning blood of Christ, so thas 
whether living or dying we are enabled 
to say to any one who may ask, I live as 
well as die in the faith of these words, 
"The blood of Jesus Christ His Son 
cleanseth us from all sin."-British 
Evangelist. 
THE BLOOD OF SOULS. 
which there could be no salvation for 
them, as. their plea for doubting; and 
say, " Oh, but I am a sinner! " Pray, 
how can Jesus be a Saviour to any but 
sinners? Could he save Adam as first 
put in the *garden of Eden? From what 
could he save him? He had every thing 
he wanted, and nothing which did not 
minister to his blesiing, until he became 
a sinner; and then be needed a Saviour. 
Think, now, as to your body; if you 
were ill, and at night were to send. off 
for a doctor, would you think of making 
your illness the reason why he should not 
come? Yea, would he not be angry, if 
he came and found that you were quite 
well, and had sent for him in vain? And 
would not the measure in which he (not 
you) thought you w ere in danger, be just 
the measure of his joy that he had come ? 
It is just so with Jesus, as the Physician 
of sculls. 
Some, .again, take the symptoms of 
sin and make them their plea for doubt-
ing. "Oh, but I do not feel my danger; 
I can not call aright, or as I ought; I 
feel I have no faith when I call, and no 
earnestness ! " These things may be all 
quite true, yet they are but symptoms of 
the delirious complaint which is upon 
you; and though they may frighten you, 
they will net induce God to be a liar, or 
discourage the good Physician whom you 
have called in; and observe, he only 
says, " Whosoever shall call upon the 
name of the Lord shall be saved ; " and 
says nothing about the symptoms you 
mention. For, as with the doctor I was 
speaking of, it is the disease, and the de-
sire to get himself a name as a curer of 
all sorts of diseases, which is God's mo-
tive of action, and not the greatness of 
your desires. " His name is Jesus, for 
he shall save from sin." Take the prom-
ise, which is his medicine, *and you will 
have doae all he looks for his patients to 
do ; and it will in due time remove the 
bad symptoms. 
Again, , senate say, " How can these 
things be ? " All I say is, " The doctor 
gives his medicine,. and they that take it 
are cured." Moses did not explain how 
looking at the brazen serpent (John 3) 
would' cure, neither do we read of his. 
lifting up people to see it; he lifted up 
the serpent, gave the promise, and God 
healed those that looked." 
There is many a man who would be 
ashamed to rob, or to give the lie to a 
fellow man, who yet is not afraid to rob 
God, nor to give the lie to his word. I 
refer now to those who say, " I believe ; 
but yet I can not say I shall be saved." 
This is terrible pride, and a delusion of 
the devil's ; very often, too, it is the re-
sult of love to the world being indulged, 
and always the proof of want of self-
judgment ; for it is giving more honor to 
our feelings than to God's word,. It is 
making God a liar; it is robbing the 
Lord Jesus of his honor as the Physician 
of souls that are lost; and it is a griev-
ing of the HolyeGhost, who has said con-
cerning Jesus, " He that heareth my 
word, and believeth on him that sent me 
bath everlasting life, and shall not come 
into condemnation, but is passed from 
death unto life.-English 2ract. 
mean by' variation, 
my fellow-passengers 
rest." 
Tne prisoner, 
chance of being 
One incident of my life has left as deep 
an impression as any that ever occurred 
to me. It was more than a year after I 
had made a profession of religion-which 
is just a quarter of a century ago. I had 
laid on me a burden for one soul. It 
was a young person over whom I had a 
great deal of influence, or supposed I had. 
I could go to others and speak to them 
of religion, and tell what a Savior I 
had found, but it was very difficult 
for me to approach this young person on 
the subject. Mend' after month rolled 
by, and I was still silent toward that soul. 
I had no testimony to utter for Christ. 
One night when I was dressing in my 
room, coming from my knees before God, 
and with a heart at last steeled to do the 
long-neglected duty, my mother, who was 
in an adjoining room, hnd who had been 
reading the evening paper, gave a shriek. 
I ran into the room, and she told me she 
had just noticed the death of my young 
friend ! I went to her home, and found, 
alas! too truly, that that widowed mother 
had lost her only child who had almost in 
a moment been snatched away from her. 
And what do you think her first words 
were to me ? 
"Do you think Mary died a Chris-
tian ?" 
"Madam," I replied, you ought to 
know better than I." 
"And you a Christian for more than a 
year, and don't know !" she said, with a 
look of rebuke that I shall never forget. 
I was a pall-bearer at that funeral. A 
little white marble stone, in one of the 
cemeteries of New York, stares me in the 
face to this day, and whenever I pass, it-
seems to say to me, " On whose skirts 
rests the blood of this soul ?" 
Would you be guiltless of the souls of 
your friends? Be earnest in prayer. - 
Ralph Wells. 
11. 
on seeing there was a 
set at liberty, appeared 
to melt; and over his browned cheeks 
the tears stole, one after another, while 
he tried to wipe them away with his 
chained hands. Each passenger contrib-
uted a part, and when all was put togeth-
er, it was found to be enough to meet 
the demands of the law upon the prisoner. 
His ransom was paid (.797.e,R ; the pace-
man took out his key, aid set him at 
liberty ; and the poor man, as the fetters 
fell from his hands, burst into tears and 
sobbed like a child. The manacles were 
but just removed when the train reached 
Taunton:-; but iostead of walking out a 
captive and a criminal, to suffer the pen-
alties of the law he had broken, he step-
ped on to the alatform a FREE MAN, and 
doubtless within a few hours returned 
hoMe to his gladdened and astonished 
wife and little ones. 
Was not this delightful ? Would you 
THE DOCTOR'S ARGUMENT. 
nor in winch he had overthrown the fool-
ish, unreasonable faith-as he regarded 
it-of his fellow-traveler. 
This lad, whom we called " Doctor," 
had been listening intently to the discus-
sion, trying to find some point that he 
could bring forward to convince the cap-
tain of the truth, but all to no purpose. 
He did not forget ,the conversation, how-
ever, but pondered over it in silence, and 
it was not long before his close watchful-
ness and ready application brought him 
an opportunity to attack the captain, and 
thus destroy the peace of mind in which 
he was indulging. 
As is frequently the case in tropical 
latitudes, the calm of the past week was 
followed by cloudy weather and a succes-
sion of storms, which made it impossible 
to take solar observations; and as a con-
sequence, the captain had to trust in a 
great measure to his compass: One day 
he found he had made a slight error in 
his calculations, and was wondering what 
it could be, when the thought suddenly 
occurred to him that he had forgotten to 
allow for variations. This term may 
need a slight explanation to those who 
are Lot nautical. When, it is impossible 
to take a solar observation, the position is 
found by dead reckoning, that is, taking 
the knots run per hour, the difference in 
time by the chronometer, and, allowing 
for the currents, navigators thus obtain a 
pretty close calculation of their position 
on the chart. 
Our young passenger watched the 
captain until he had finished his reckon-
ing, when he stepped up to him and said: 
" Captain, what did you say was the 
fault in your calculation to-day?" 
" Oh! nothing, Doctor, except that I 
had neglected to allow for the variation of 
my compass; the variation here is about 
half a point east." 
"What do you 
captain ? " 
" Why, at different times the compass 
fails to point due north, and we allow for 
the discrepancy." 
"But what makes it vary? " 
"Well, I can not tell you, but I know 
it does, and that is enough for me." 
" Oh ! you don't understand it then ? 
How long have you been captain of a 
ship ? " 
" About thirty years." 
" TI irty years ! Have you never stud-
ied this so-called variation to find out the 
why and wherefore ? " 
" Yes ; a great many times, but if 
scientific men can not make it out, I cer-
tainly can not; and therefore I just go it 
An idea at once flashed through the 
boy's mind, and he answered the captain 
in his own words : 
"What a fool you are, captain ! Any 
man is a fool who will believe what he 
can't understand." 
The captain began to see the drift of 
the boy's remarks, and lie tried his bestl 
to get free from his attack, but in vain.1 
Childlike, the boy continued his ques-
tions, thus driving deeper still the arrow 
he had shot. 
" Can you tell why the needle points 
north, captain ? " 
"Why, certainly, Doctor. There is 
an attraction at the north pole that at-
tracts the magnet that way." 
" Well, but that is very indefinite. 
What is that attraction? Do you under- 
.. 
stand it ? " 
"No, air, I don't Understand it, but I 
know it is so; if I did not know it, my 
ship would never reach port," said the 
captain, now thoroughly roused, as he 
felt conscious that his theory was better 
than his practice. 
The lad felt that he had said enough, 
and ended by saying: 
" Oh! captain, how much more faith 
you have in your compass than yen will 
admit; but even so, you have given me 
the same argument you used against Mr. 
Paul, about his religion. I am only a 
boy, but I wish you would take the ad-
vice that has been given me by those 
older and far wiser. Take your Bible 
and study it. I don't ask you to have 
any more faith in that than you have in 
this compass; but when you see some-
thing you can't understand, just accept 
it as God's own message to us, for men 
more learned than you have spent their 
lives in studying, and tell us it is God's 
true gospel, 'showing us the only way 
whereby we shall be saved. Don't try 
to pick out the knotty questions, but just 
open your Bible aLd read what Christ 
says to you; it can do you no harm, and 
it you will let it, Will do you much ferod-." 
The captain did, for he was tot:hapSi-
ble to think that even he could nob be you. 
taught by a child, and I have reason to 
believe he afterwards became an earnest 
follower of Christ.- Observer. 
not have liked to have been there, to see 
the poor prisoner set free, and afterwards 
to see his dear little children, as he 
walked into the house, gather round him 
in delighted surprise to welcome him home 
once more? 
But does not this little narrative teach 
us something? Does not the position 
this poor prisoiler was in, faintly resemble 
that of every sinner-of every son anti 
daughter of Adam? Are we not all by 
nature sinners, and therefore all our life-
time subject to bondage? 
Yes, dear children, all are by nature 
under condemnation; and Satan, like the 
policeman, has men in -his power,. while 
they, bound hand and foot, under the do-
minion of sin, have no strength to deliver 
themselves. Thne, like the railway train, 
is hurrying on with all. " It is appoint-
ed unto men once to die, and after this 
the judgment." Oh, 
-what a solemn 
thing to reach the end of this life's jour-
ney, only to be shut up for ever in that 
dreadful peison -where the rich man in the 
parable cried in vain for one drop of 
water to cool his tongue, tormented in 
the flame! Would you not pity any one 
in such a condition? Well, my dear 
child, young as you are, if you have not 
believed in the Lord Jesus Christ, YOU 
are in this very condition. Yes, young 
as you may be, the' Word of God declares 
you are a sinner. A sinner is under the 
dominion of sin, and in the power of 
Satan. But au ! there is deliverance for 
Yes, the ever-blessed Son of God, 
the Lord Jesus Christ, has PAID DOWN 
THE RANSOM IN IIIS OWN BLOOD. We 
are all transgressors-all under deserved 
sentence of condemnation ; all, but for 
him, must have come at last to be shut 
up under everlasting darkness. But" He 
bare our sins in His own body on the 
tree." " The blood of Jesus Christ, 
God's Son, cleanseth, us from all sin." 
God has said- so, and "he that believeth 
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tamitg Colt. 
WASTED TIME. 
Alone in the dark and silent night, 
With the heavy thought of a vanished year, 
When evil deeds come back to sight, 
And 'Christ for me' my heart doth cheer; 
Alone with the spectres of the past, 
That come with the old year's dying chime, 
There glooms one shadow dark and vast, 
The shadow of Wasted Time. 
The Chances of happineSs,cast away.„ 
The opportunities never sought, 
The good resolves that every day 
Have died in the impotence of thought; 
The slow advance and the backward step 
In the rugged .path we have striven to climb, 
How they furrow the brow and pale the lip, 
When we talk with Wasted Time. 
What are we now? what bad we been, 
Had we boarded the time as the miser's gold, 
Striving our righteous crown to win, 
Through the summer's heat and the winter's 
cold ; 
Shrinking frora nought that the world could do; 
Fearing n )ught but the touch of crime; 
Laboring, struggling, all seasons through, 
And knowing no Wasted Time? 
Who shall recall the vanished years? 
Who shall hold back this ebbing tide, 
That, leaves remorse, and shame, and tears, 
And washes away all things beside? 
Who shall-give us the strength e'en now, 
While we wait to hear the new year's chime, 
- To shake off this sloth from heart and brow, 
And battle with Wasted Time? 
The. yearsi that pass come not again, 
The Ithgs that die no life renew; 
But e'ea fipai the rust of his cankering chain 
A.golden truth is glimmering through; 
That to him who learns from errors past, 
And turns away with strength divine, 
And makes each year outdo the last, 
There is no 'Wasted Time. 
y • Op.- . 
 
" WHOSOEVER SHALL CALL UPON THE 
NAME OF TEE LORD SEALL BE 
: SAVED." 
0FAITiF, I pray you, this little word. 
It is a very simple and a very little one ; 
and yet it is a very great word, for it is 
the answer of the living God to every 
poor sinner who says, "How can rbe 
saved ? " Do you say, ". Why, I am one 
that needs to be saved, and often have I 
asked that question "? Well, then, here is 
God's answer to you: 
"Whosoever shall call upon the name 
of the-Lord shall be saved.-Rom. 10: 
13- • 
New, I would say to those who have 
taken this little word, and have called 
upon Jesus to save them, it seems to me, 
that, as to one's self, there are only four 
questions to be considered as connected 
with this passage. 
First. has God said that any one that 
is not safe shall be saved, if he call upon 
Jesus? 
Second. Have I called? 
Third. Is God faithful to his promises ? 
Fourth. Shall I be saved? 
Now, these four queStions seem so to 
hang together, that the certainty of be-
ing saved is thus made a very simple 
thing; for, with this little verse before 
me, I say :- 
The first point is established, and can 
not be shaken. It is written, "Whoso-
ever shall call upon the name of the 
Lord shall be saved." This can not be 
changed. • 
The second point is also clear; for it 
is a fact that I have called upon the 
name of the Lord; arid I know it is a 
fact which can not be changed. 
The third point is certain also. God 
can not lie, and therefore- 
Fourthly, salvation is secured to me, 
and I shall be saved. 
And - I can not see how this fourth 
point can fail, unless one of the three 
others fail first ; unless the promise be 
blotted out of the Scripture; or God be 
not faithful to his promise ; or, the fact 
of my having called be amdone. 
Observe, it is not.prestitaptimus in me 
to say so; for I do not say, "1 am sure 
I shall be saved;" but only, "1 am 
sure Goa has said, Thou shalt be saved." 
And this makes all the difference. For 
God has a right to say what he 1:Ises ; 
and he can make good what he does say. 
Is it presumptuous ofaGtat to say, " Who-
soever shall elilviii;W* the name of the 
Lord shall be saved ? or, is it presurxrp-; 
tuous in me to use the promise for *the 
purpose God gave it, or when I know, as 
a fat, that I have called, to say, "Well, 
God is true, and so his word -will come to 
pass." 
And observe, this general way of put-
ting it is just what men do every day. It 
is just in this way rates and taxes are 
raised, and that you yourself, perhaps, 
are content to pay them. People pay 
rates arid taxes every day, because they 
are among the " whosoever " that live in 
this parish, or among the " whosoever" 
that keep such and such and such arti-
cles, and they never expect the Queen or 
the House of :Parliament to mention their 
names in particular. So again, if a man 
would get into the hospital, he has not to 
get an invitation from_ the hospital to 
himself first ; but, making his case 
known to some governor, to get an order ; 
unless, indeed, he can show a broken 
limb, or some very deadly and pressing 
accident, and then most hospitals take 
such cases in at once. Now, this is just 
the ground the sinner goes upon to God. 
" I am a sinner, and thou tellest me, as 
such, I am lost." " Lei d, save me !" 
and the promise is this, " Thou shalt be 
saved." 
It is strange (save that sin is madness) 
how people make excuses for doubting. 
Some take the fact of their being sinners, 
the very thing which is their greatest 
recommendation, yea, the thing without 
Ottv gook-Ativeo. 
Some' years since, while at sea .far 
down in the southern latitude, a circum-
stance occurred which may be of interest 
to some of your readers, and it may carry 
more weight with it when I add that it 
is to show how lintel' good may be done 
by a by if he will but speak a Word in 
season. 
For several days we had been lying 
almost stationary off the eartern coast of 
South America, and as in calm weather 
there is comparatively little to do on 
shipboard, the captain was enjoying him-
self in the society of his passengers, of 
which there were a dozen or more. One 
or these was a lad of about fifteen years, 
who had been brought up by Christian 
parents, and had been made to understand 
intelligently what true religion was; not 
alone by the teachings of those parents, 
but quite as much by their consistent ex-
'ample. lie was a youth of unusual ob-
servation, quick perception, and with a 
love- of knowing the reason why, he had 
early learned to look below the surface to 
know what 'the truth was. In his quiet 
way and pointed replies he had done some 
good to his companions. 
On the day in question, he was seated 
on the quarter-deck near the captain, who 
was stretched out under the awning, now 
and then glancing at some verse in the 
Bible, which he held in his hand. Sud-
denly taming to a friend sifting near, he 
said: 
" Mr. Paul, do you believe all that this 
book says ? Are you foolish enough to 
think that the one whom you call God 
cares enough about man to die for him ? " 
" Most assuredly I do, captain ; if I 
did not, lite would te of little value to 
me. Did-I not believe that by his blood 
we are cleansed from all sin-for we are 
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lonely-looking place. As her eye glanced 
at the name of the 'station, above the 
door, she read, "Tuck-away Station.' 
Not seeing any one, she thought she 
would look around, for she imagined she 
would have to wait some time for a train. 
And she found the place as singular as 
its name. There seemed to be a tremb-
ling sensation about the ground, as though 
it would give way beneath her feet; but 
on stooping down she found just beneath 
the earth's surface solid rock. While-
examining this curious place she awoke, 
and thought no more of her dream until 
she found all her plans frustrated, and 
instead of mingling with society as she 
had anticipated, she was shut in to take 
care of the sick. 
Again and again since we heard the 
dream have we thought of this " Tuck-
away Station." So many of God's dear 
saints are tucked away! Some on beds 
of sickness; some hedged in by circum-
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concerned, and yet the Father is with 
them; the train rushes on and they are 
left behind, forgotten, it may be, and yet 
at this God-appointed station how much 
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