WHOLE NO. 1073. BOSTON, SATURDAY, DECEMBER 14,1861. VOLUME XXII. NO. 50. THE ADVENT HERALD �hearts of his believing people, and they are all have a complete fulfillment, "This same Jesus Is published every Saturday, at 46 1-2 Kneeland st. (up his faithful subjects. He has a controlling power stairs), Boston, Mass., by � which was taken up from you into heaven, shall over the world without controversy. He is King 4, The American Millennial Association." � so come in like manner as ye have seen him go of kings and Lord of lords. "By him all things into heaven." As his going away was a real SYLVESTER BLISS, Business Agent, �consist," and nothing can happen without his To whom remittances for the Association, and communi- cations for the Herald should be directed. �permission. But his real, literal, visible, complete literal return. 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This is the actual � Then he intends to make a restitution of the $1, for three weeks ; $3, for three months ; $5 fur six condition of Christendom as well as heathen face of creation. Acts iii. 21. It shall be the months ; or $9 per year. � countries. After 1800 years of Bibles and Gos- world's jubilee day. Our earth shall at last bring pel preaching,there is not a nation, or a country, forth her increase. The King shall at length MAIZE AND TOBACCO. or a parish, or a long-established congregation, have his own again At last the ninety-seventh The Indian Corn looked over the fence, � where the devil has not more subjects than Christ. Psalm shall be fulfilled, and men shall say, "The And what do you think he spied ? �So fearfully true is it that the world is not yet Lord reigneth : let the earth rejoice !" A field of tobacco, just ready to bloom, � the kingdom of Christ. � Then he intends to fulfill the prophecies of And stretching in lordly pride. The Lord Jesus during the present dispensa- Enoch, John the Baptist,and St. Paul ; "to exe- To the broad-leaved neighbor at once he called, tion is like David between the time of his anoint. cute judgment upon on all the ungodly" inhabi- In accents loud and clear, "I thQught you belonged to a summer clime ; ing and Saul's death. He has the promise of the tants of Christendom—"to burn up the chaff Pray, what are you doing here ? �kingdom, but he has not yet received the crown with unquenchable fire" and "in flaming fire to So then, with a haughty air, replied �and throne. (1 Samuel xxii. 1, 2. � take vengeance on them that know not God and That plant of power and pelf, � He is followed by a few,and those often neith- obey not the Gospel." (Jude 15 ; Matt. iii. 12 ; "You are pleased to ask of my business, Sir— What do you do, yourself?" � er great nor wise, but they are a faithful people. 2 Thess. i. 8.) "I feed the muscles, and blood, and bone, � Be is persecuted by his enemies, and oftentime � Then he intends to raise his saints and gather That make our farmers strong, �driven into the wilderness, and yet his party is his living ones, to gather together the scattered And furnish bread for the little ones never quite destroyed. But he has none of the tribes of Israel � to set up an empire on earth That round their table throng." "I move in a somewhat loftier sphere," � visible signs of the kingdom at present, no earth- in which every knee shall bow to him, and every The foreign guests rejoined, � ly glory, majesty, greatness, obedience. The vast tongue confess that Christ is Lord. "As the chosen friend and companion dear � majority of' mankind see no beauty in him. They � When, how, where, in what manner, all these Of men of wealth and mind. will not have this man reign over them. His things shall be, we cannot say particularly. "I'm the chief delight of the gay young spark ; people are not honored for their Master's sake. Enough for us to know, that they shall be. The O'er the wise my sway I hold ; I lurk in the book-worm student's cell— � They walk the earth like princes in -disguise. Lord Jesus has undertaken to do them, and they In the dowager's box of gold. � His kingdom is not yet come. His will is not yet shall be performed. The Lord Jesus waits for "Thousands of hands at my bidding work ; � done on earth, excepting by a little flock. It is the time appointed by the Father, and then they Millions of corn I raise"— He ceased to speak, and in angry mood � not the day of "his power." The Lord Jesus is shall all come to pass. As surely as he was born Responded the tasseled Maize : � biding his time. � of a pure virgin, and lived on earth thirty-three "You're in secret league with dyspeptic ills— � Reader, I entreat you to grasp firmly this years as a servant, so surely he shall come with A merciless traitor band ; � truth, for truth I believe it to be. Great delu- clouds in glory,and reign on the earth as a king. With clouds of smoke you pollute the air, sions abound on the subject of Christ' With floods of slime the land. � s kingdom. � Reader,I charge you to establish in your mind "You tax the needy laborer sore : �Take heed lest any man deceive you by purely among the great varieties of your religion, that You quicken the drunkard's thirst ; � traditional teachings about prophetical truth. Christ is one day to have a complete kingdom You exhaust the soil—and I wish you'd go � Hymns are composed and sung which darken in this world,—that his kingdom is not yet set To the place whence you came at first." God's counsel on this subject by words without up,—but that it will be set up in the day of his •••0•11111••••MD � knowledge. Texts are wrested from their true return. Know clearly whose kingdom it is now : "Occupy till I Coma" �meaning,and accommodated to the present order not Christ's,but the usurper Satan's. Knew .clear- BY REV. J. C. RYLE. � of things, which are not justly applicable to any ly whose kingdom it is to be one day : not Sa- Rector of Christ's church, Oxford, Eng. � but the period of the second advent. Beware of tan the usurper's but Jesus Christ's. Know clear- Continued from our last. � the mischievous infection of this habit of text- ly when the kingdom is to change hands,and the II. The second question I wish to consider is wresting. Beware of the sapping effect of beau. usurper to be cast out : when the Lord Jesus re- this, what is the present position of our Lord tiful poetry in which unfulfilled promises of glo- turns in person, and not before. Know clearly Jesus Christ ? � ry are twisted and adapted to the present dispen- what the Lord Jesus is doing now : he is sitting The parable appears to me to answer that sation. Settle it down in your mind that Christ's at the right hand of the Father,—interceding as question distinctly in the twelfth verse : "A cer- kingdom is yet to come. His arrows are not yet a highpriest in the holy of holies for his people, tain nobleman went into a far country to receive sharp in the hearts of his enemies. The day of —adding to their number such as shall be saved for himself a kingdom, and to return." This no- his power has not yet begun. He is gathering by the preaching of the Gospel,—and waiting bleman represents the Lord Jesus Christ, and out a people to carry the cross and walk in his till the appointed "day of his power," when he that in two respects. � steps. But the time of his coronation has not shall come forth to bless his people, and sit as a Like the nobleman,the Lord Jesus is gone in- yet arrived. � priest upon his throne. Know these things clear- to a far country to receive for Himself a king- � But just as the Lord Jesus,like the nobleman, ly, and you will do well. dom. He has not received it yet in possession, "went to receive a kingdom," so, like the noble- � Know these things clearly, and then you will though he has it in promise. He has a spiritual man,the Lord Jesus intends one day "to return." not cherish extravagant expectations from any kingdom, unquestionably. He is king over the � The words of the Angels (Acts i. 11) shall church, minister, or religious machinery in this present dispensation. You will not marvel to see ministers and missionaries not converting all to whom they preach. You will not wonder to find that while some believe the Gospel,many believe not. You will not be depressed and cast down when you see the children of the world in every place many, and the children of God few. You will remember that "the days are evil," and that the time of general conversion is not yet arrived. You will thank God that any are converted at all, and that while the Gospel is hid to the wise and prudent, it is yet revealed to babes. Alas for the man who expects a millennium before the Lord Jesus returns ! How can this possibly be if the world in the day of his coming is to be found as it was in the days of Noah and Lot ? (Luke xviii. 26-30.) Know these things clearly, and then you will not be confounded and surprised by the continu- ance of immense evils in the world. Wars and tumults, and oppression, and dishonesty,and self- ishness,and covetousness,and superstition,and bad government, and abounding heresies, will not ap- pear to you unaccountable. You will not sink down into a morbid, misanthropic condition of mind, when you see laws, and reforms, and edu- cation, not making mankind perfect. You will not relapse into a state of apathy and disgust when you see churches full of imperfections, and theologians making mistakes. You will say to yourself, "The time of Christ's power has not ar- rived,—the devil is still working among his chil- dren, and sowing darkness and division broad- cast among the saints,—tbe true King is yet to come." Know the,e things clearly, and then you will see why God delays the final glory, and allows things to go on as they do in this world. It is not that he is not able to prevent evil,—it is not that he is slack in the fulfillment of his promises, —but the Lord is taking out for himself a peo- ple by the preaching of the Gospel. (Acts xvi. 14 ; 2 Peter iii. 8.) He is long suffering to un- converted Christians. The Lord is not willing that any should perish, but that all should come to repentance. Once let the number of the elect be gathered out of the world, once let the last elect sinner be brought to repentance, and then the kingdom of Christ shall be set up, and the throne of grace exchanged for the throne of glo- ry. Know these things clearly, and then you will work diligently to do good to souls. The time is short. "The night is far spent. The day is at hand." The signs of the times call loudly for watchfulness, and speak with no uncertain voice. The Turkish empire is drying up. The Jews are cared for as they never have been for eighteen hundred years. The Gospel is being preached as a witness in almost every corner of the world. Surely if we would pluck a few more brands from the burning before it is too late, we must work hard and lose no time. We must preach—we must warn,—we must exhort,—we must give money to religious societies,—we must spend and be spent far more than we have ever done yet. Know these things clearly, and then you will be often looking for the coming of the day of God. You will regard the second advent as a glorious and comfortable truth, around which your best hopes will all be clustered. You will not merely think of Christ crucified, but you will 111111111=1111111.11.1=1111111116, � � 411E1M10•1111111111111111.11 THE ADVENT HERALD. think also of Christ coming again. You will long for the day of refreshing and the manifestation of the sons of God. (Acts iii. 19 ; Rom. viii 19.) You will find peace in looking back to the cross. and you will find joyful hope in looking forward to the kingdom. Once more,I repeat,how clearly Christ's pres- ent position. He is like one who is "gone into a far country to receive a kingdom, and then to re- turn." Extract from Mayer's Commentary on Dan. 7. (London, 1652.) Verse seventh. By this beast differing from all the rest the ancients generally understand the Roman Empire, which was so diversely ruled, sometimes by tribunes of the people, sometimes by consuls, by dictators, by the triumviri,and by emperors ; and therefore it was unlike any of the kingdoms before going and is set forth as much more terrible for the great teeth and horns,and the feet, stamping all under foot by subjecting them to tribute in all countries and nations. For which cause this monarchy could not by any beast be represented, but only described as a monster amongst the beasts. So that the Rabbins, hold it to have been a wild boar of which the Psalmist speaketh saying, "The wild boar out of the wood bath devoured it." But these that are for the monarchy of the Romans amongst the ancients meant by this beast, are all for the little horns setting forth antichrist,and that not already come but to come hereafter, towards the end of the world,when the Roman monarchy shall be in the hands of ten kings ; for then say they, shall one base man of obscure beginning arise as a little horn, but grow to that strength that three kings shall be soon overcome by him,the king of Egypt, of Lybia ani Ethiopia, which the other seven seeing, shall soon submit themselves unto him and he shall persecute unto death all such as re- fuse to obey him. Thus Jerom who is common- ly followed by others ; but he also saith that Prophyrus, a great enemy to the christian relig- ion, and to this book in particular, as hath been before said, holdeth that the Seleucidan kingdom is by this beast set forth, which in cruelty to the Jews exceeded all the kings before mentioned and that his ten horns were ten kings, reigning therein, and the little horn Antiochus Epiphanes, who raged most for a time, and times, and half a time,—i. e. three years and a half as after fol- loweth — but this opinion, besides the infamy of the author that broached it, is manifestly against all circumstances of the vision. Of the distinction made between this and the three form- er beasts,which, as all agree, set forth three mon- archies before spoken of, in setting forth the last of which four wings and four faces are spoken of to foreshow the division of that monarchy after Alexander's death into four, of which the Seleu- cidan kingdom was one, and therefore in reason cannot be represented again in this beast,—it being already done so much as the Lord was pleased to make known in this place. Therefore the kingdom represented here must be another arising up after the third. Again, the judgment next following after this, whereby the dominion of this horn is not only taken away, but also given to the saints forever, vs. 26, 27, sheweth that the kingdom here spok- en of being destroyed, the saints should reign in all parts under the whole heaven forever, which cannot be applied to the time of' Judas Machah, and the Jews who flourished indeed for a time, Put neither had dominion all over the world, but a little part of it when their dominion was great- est, neither was it so long lasting. And there- fore this must needs be understood of the domin- ion of' Christ, by his word and Spirit subduing all countries and nations in the time of' the Gospel, which was long after Antiochus Epiphanes, and by consequence this fourth kingdom must be the Roman, in the time whereof the Son of Man spo- ken of vs. 31, 14, cometh to his dominion, as be- ing represented by the stone cut out of the moun- tain without hands and becoming a kingdom fill- ing the whole earth, which also I have proved by the circumstance of time, 'In the days of these kings,' &c. that the fourth kingdom cannot be any other but the Roman. Yet both Junius btat � ,M.IM:1=1011=1.1101, (To be continued.) . and Polanus and some others of ours follow Por- �London Preachers. �race. If, as was generally admitted, the north- phyrus herein. � DR. CUMMING. � ern people owed the whiteness of their skin to I yet for my part shall take leave to prefer Whether the celebrated author of the "Great the bleaching effect of a colder clime, it would Jerome before Porphyrus, holding that not the Tribulation" would feel it a compliment to be appear that the Hindoo or light copper-colored Seleucidan, but the Roman monarchy is by this classed among the sensation preachers of London tribes were tinged to about the original hue ; fouth beast prefigured. For so likewise both Rev. � � and as Adam and Eve lived in such an oriental is very doubtful. In an admirable sermon 13, and chap. 17 it is showed as a beast having � clime they must have been of a much darker preached two Sundays since, in relation to the � , ten horns, and here, verse 24, so there the horns � � hue than the present white man. The speaker duties and trials of clergymen, he expressed his are said to be kings, for their great strength to disapprobation of sensation preaching—of puns, wondered how the Christian clergymen of the gore and to bear down others,and as here, verse or oddities, or eccentricities in the pulpit. Yet southern states could hold the doctrine of the 25, his is said to be a time and times and half a � � natural inferiority (as a species) of the black to it is nevertheless quite certain that he is one of time, so there, or 42 months or 1260 days, the pulpit sensations of London, where a strang- the white man, and maintain that the former was which are all one, and here a little horn spring- er's routine for Sunday is, in the morning to a brute rather than a 'human being. He had eth up after the tenth, so there, after the beast Spurgeon, afternoon to Westminster church, and been recently conversing with a most eminent with horns another beast comes up, Rev. 13 : 11. evening to Cummings. The chapel of the latter physiologist, who assured him that between the But although I herein agree with antiquity,both is located in a narrow street near Drury Lane lowest type of the African and the highest known that the Roman Empire is set forth by this and Covent Garden theatres, and is a building type of the ape there existed—apart from the beast with ten horns of which I have also said of more taste and elegance than either Spurgeon's possession of a soul and the gift of speech in the enough upon Rev. 17, showing what ten kings Tabernacle or Surrey Chapel. Parallelograma- former—an impassable gulf--an ineradical dif- these horns were and that the little horn was tic in shape, the pulpit is between the windows ference, physiologically speaking. antichrist who was to arise during the time of � � While he (Dr. Cumming) hoped and believed on one side, and a wide gallery runs around the this Empire. Yet whereas they say that anti- two ends and the side opposite the pulpit. Ser- that the American war would result in the anni- hilation of southern slavery, he did not think christ is yet to come towards the end of the vice in the evening begins at half-past six o'clock world, and that he shall when he cometh reign (the customary hour for the London Churches), that it could be an instantaneous work. Those but three years and an half ; in this I cannot Americans are now without reason, he added, and long before the time the doors are besieged subscribe,but contrarwise hold, that antichrist is � who assert that it is neither prudent and right, with strangers, who are admitted after the pew- come and is not one man, but a succession of holders have entered by a private door. The even were it possible, to proclaim immediate em- men in the Roman State, ruling not by force at chapel, holding between two and three thousand, ancipation ; but the sin of the American people the first, but by flattery and false persuasion for is always filled. It is lighted by three huge was in not educat ng their slaves for freedom. If the young children were now told they were which it is said that he had eyes like the eyes stars of gas-jets in the ceiling, which is of oak : soon to be free, and the old slaves taught that in of a man, and a mouth speaking great things. � the light is peculiar, and not agreeable to those Verse 8. For he seeth according to the car- unaccustomed to it, � a few years all would be free, the dangers of a sudden change would be avoided and the bonds- nal reasoning of a man whereby he conceiveth � Dr. Cumming has no assistant, and conducts himself (because he is Saint Peter's successor, the service himself. A hymn, then reading of man prepared for his liberation : who had the government of Christ's Church coin- the Scriptures, an anthem by the choir and pray- "While it may be," added the speaker, "that witted unto him) to be a high priest and Lord er precede the sermon. The singers are seated by this fearful and unhappy conflict God means to bring about the purification of the American over all churches and churchmen, speaking to in a little orchestra directly in front of the pul- people from the sin of slavery, I am not one of this purpose most magnificently of' himself as pit, and sing without the assistance of an organ ; those who dare to view the war as a judgment Christ's vicar before all other powers, not only the leading soprano has a voice of unusual power for that sin. We have no right to put such a spiritual, but temporal, it being in him to dis- and sweetness, and the musk is performed in a construction on facts. We are told that the ten pose of the kingdoms of the world as he pleaseth, really artistic manner, without degenerating in- men killed by the fall of the tower of Siloam putting down one and setting up another. And to mere vocal display. The Te Deum is often therefore this little horn must be the Poe of � were not more wicked than those who escaped. P sung—particularly to the music set to it in F. Rome, to whom these things do most aptly agree. � Yet it is nevertheless true that national sins are by Jackson, and familiar to American choirs. � Y by national calamities—and that by na- Whereof to speak more at large here, I for- � Dr. Cumming wears a gown while preaching, bear, because I have proved this already uon � tional calamities are meant usually pestilence, p and his personal appearance presents nothing pe- famineor the sword. It is any way the duty of Rev. 13 : 17, and verse 25,here following makes culiar. He has a habit of leaning on his arms Americans as a nation to cry out in prayer : it yet plainer saying, "He shall change times and over his desk, which is not graceful ; and as his 'Lord, search our hearts and try our thoughts ; laws, and they shall be given into his hand for a voice is not strong or sonorous, he does not cre- time, and times and half a time,"—because he ate a very favorable impression at first. Besides and see if there be any wicked way in us, and turn us to the way everlasting.' " bath changed time by setting up days of cessation this, he is not an 'elocutionist—and the hymns he Dr. Cumming preached this summer a sermon from work to the honor of his imagined saints, reads very tamely---probably the same hymns entitled "The Last Fire," (suggested by the and dispenseth with Cirled's laws, and makes de- which,when read by a Spurgeon,a Hall, a Beech- death of Mr. Braidwaod in the great fire in cretals as laws, and he is said to wear out the er, and above all, a Chapin, would thrill the soul June,) which has attracted much attention. It saints, for so the Pope hath done by persecu- like a strain of glorious music. His prayers are was in some respects a dissertation on fire and its tions stirred up against those who oppose his peculiar ; while he does not follow exactly those existence in unlimited quantities in the bowels proceedings, and by corrupting the world with of the Episcopal liturgy, he yet incorporates of the earth. Dr. Cumming believes that this false doctrines, so that the church every where whole sentences from them, and sometimes re- earth will be consumed at the judgment day by under him, are worn out from being a commu- peats entire "collects." For this liturgy he has the fire which is now confined beneath its crust ; nion of saints, to become conventicles of blind the greatest admiration, as his frequent use of and argues that, as the flood is conceded to have superstitious persons. � at least fragments of the liturgical prayers proves. been an actual deluge by water, and not a typi- Lately he is said to be diverse from the ten In reading the Bible, he, like Spurgeon, makes a cal myth, so the "fire of the last day" is to be kings mentioned before,therefore no secular king, running comment on the text---only, he never in- literally flame. I hope you will find space to but another kind of man ; as the Pope is yet of dulges in flat platitudes and trite moral observa- print this extract, as showing how oddly this eel- no less greater dominion, and he subdueth three tions—nor does he try to improve the Psalms of ebrated preacher mixes up science with revela- kings, verse 24, which I know not better to un- David with modern interpolations. � tion, and as giving at the close a fresh specimen derstand than of three put down at several times � On Sunday, the 6th instant, Dr. Cumming of his glowing eloquence : by the Popes, viz: Chilperic, the French king took occasion to give to his congregation some and Pepin and his son Charles set up. Frederic � "Fire destroys nothing; it makes matter enter of his opinions in regard to the American war, the emperor, his son Rodolphus being set up,andby reading and commenting upon the 34th chap- into new combinations. It was found in that king John of England, whom of a free king heter of Jeremiah, to which I hope the reader of great conflagration which seemed to be permit- maketh him a tributary. For his speaking ofthis letter will refer. The preacher showed how fed just to teach us what a precarious tenure af- "great words against the Most Hi g h," the � ter all is our wealth, our greatness, our proper- there was a law existing by which once every me- speeches of the Pope before commemorated were ty, that the fire took the iron, the stone, the seven years the Jewisla slaves were to be freed--- such intitling himself Vice Deus, and doing,. as � tai, the silver, everything that was there, and and spoke of the punishment attending their � anni- if dis- he had said, "by me kings reign ;" for this is � threw them into new combinations, but it regard of that law. It appears that on one oc- against the Most High as being derogatory tocasion the Jewish people thought that compli hilated nothing. So I believe the last baptis- - God's sole supremacy over all. And for threeance with this law was too great a sacrifice of mal fire that shall wrap the earth in its flame kingdoms coming under him, it may be consid- � shroud, will destroy nothing but sin, imperfec- their material interests,and decided to keep their tion, decay, and that everything that God has erect, whether they be not three of the mightiest slaves, regardless of the command ; says Jere- in Europe—Spain, Germany, and France,—or rniah : "Thus saith the Lord, Ye have not hark- made, everything that Christ has redeemed,shall whether this prefigured not his triple crown, � ened unto me in proclaiming liberty, every one emerge from that baptism more beautiful, more For the time and times and half a time, that to his brothd �to his neihbor : glorious, more radiant than before. The last er an every man �g is as Jerome resolveth it a year, two years and behold, I proclaim a liberty for you, saith the fire will not destroy the earth. I don't believe a half a year •; for the second word is a dual Lord, to the sword, to the pestilence, to the ram- that this earth is to be annihilated. The words so-'we look fora new heaven number, in days 1260, which counting a day for ine." On this suggestive chapter of prophecy here don't say and a new earth'—it doesn't say we look for a year, as bath been done upon Rev., make so the preacher proceeded to argue the wickedness another heaven and another earth. We don't many years. This showeth that it cannot be un- of slavery, and to show that the Jewish slaves derstood of any one but a succession of men, as were better off than the American, as they were want another, we only want the old house put in order. 'The heavens shall pass away with a was before stated. � set free at least once in seven years. great noise.' You can conceive what that � Dr. Cumming then declared, that in all hu � . norse will be from the specimens which occasion- Religion is the best armonr that a man can man probability our first parents, Adam and ally burst forth in earthquakes and the eruption have, but the worst cloak. � Eve, resembled the black rather than the white THE ADVENT HERALD. 387 of volcanoes. A geologist describing one of which I heard was as it were of a trumpet talk- his teacher, or a soldier in his captain, but we ism, we have an interesting application of the these scenes, says :—'The lava rolled on some- ing with me; which said, come up hither, and I say Christians are in Christ, and imply thereby passage in that way. He says he was giving times sluggishly, sometimes violently. It swept will shew thee things which must be hereafter." a real, vital union with him. Noah and his fam- some of' his lectures in Poplar, Eng. and at the away forests, undermined vast masses of rock, Of these divisions the third is the longest and ily in the ark were safe; the man who accidental- close of the second meeting a lady whom he had finally it plunged into the sea with the loudest most difficult to comprehend, being highly sym- ly slew his neighbor and fled to the city of re- observed taking notes handed him a slip of paper and most terrific detonations.' You can conceive bolic ; but scattered among its symbols are plain fuge was in it secure from the avenger. of blood, containing a request to have an interview with therefore, when he speaks of the heavens passing and simple passages which all may understand, but if one had attempted to follow the ark he him ; they met and, among other things, she away with a great noise, how true it is. Then so that what has been said of the entire Bible is would have been drowned ; and the man-slayer said : "1 have been a devoted member of the Ro- again, he says, 'the elements,' the iron, the stone, peculiarly applicable to the Apocalypse---"There who tarried just outside the gates of the appoint- man Catholic chapel in Poplar ; the priest is my 'shall melt with fervent heat.' Now if the Apos- are shallows in it where lambs may wade, and ed city would have been slain : so a man may be intimate friend, and the god-father of my boy ; tle had used the expression shall be burned up, depths in it where elephants may swim." � near Christ and perish,—"not far from the king- I was to play the new organ when it was put up ; the scientific man would have said, Peter can't � Our text lies embosomed in a symbolic proph- dom of God" and yet excluded,—enjoy many I have gone regularly to mass and to confession, be inspired, because he used language incompat- ecy, and, being a message for the living respect- privileges and be associated in various ways and have been regarded as one of the elite of ible with science. What is oxydization ? On- ing the dead, is appropriate to the occasion. Let with religious ordinances, and yet not saved. the communion ;—but after considering careful- ly another term for burning a metal. The gran- us consider � Nothing short of being "in the Lord" gives secu- ly and prayerfully what I have heard in your ite has been burned long ago, the rust of the � I. The Origin of the message. � rity. � lectures, I dare no longer remain a Roman Cath- iron is the iron being burned, 'the elements � 1 It came from heaven. If we were assem- � Christ himself illustrates this union by the olic." The doctor continues—"I asked her shall melt with fervent heat.' Out of all is to bled today in the open air, on some mountain, figure of the vine and its branches. See John what points struck her most forcibly in my state- emerge a new heaven and new earth. 'The earth and should see an angel flying through the midst 15th chapter. Paul does it by the connection of ments, and alienated her affections from the Ro- abideth forever,' The earth which he bath es- of heaven, and he should pause in his flight and the head with the body, Colos. 1:18. There is man Catholic church. She said, it was not so tablished forever.' And would it not---I appeal utter in our hearing a few words which we could not one kind of sap in the vine stock and anoth- much the arguments I brought forward as the to the deepest sensibilities of every Christian understand, doubtless we would make a vigor- er in the branches : the same sap extends to the texts I quoted—a very striking and precious tes- heart---be a tremendous chasm in the orbs of the ous effort to remember them for our own benefit remotest living twig and tendril ;—there is not timony. One of these texts she said, fell upon universe if this earth, on which a Saviour walk- and that we might repeat them to others. Such one kind of blood in the head and another in the her like a sunbeam from heaven, and unveiled ed, whose air he breathed and consecrated be- a privilege as this is not allotted us, but as the body : the same vital fluid pervades every part to her hopes and prospects to which she was an cause he breathed it,from whose streams he drank, apostle expressly affirms that he "heard a voice of the system: so the very same spirit that dwells utter strangerbefore ;---and that text was,' Bless- whose ocean became to his sacred feet a beauti- from heaven" pronouncing a benediction on the in Christ is found in Christians ; for "if any man ed are the dead that die in the Lord from hence- ful promenade—if this earth, that has such glori- righteous dead, we should accept his testimony have not the spirit of Christ, he is none of his." forth : yea, saith the Spirit, that they may'---not ous historic spots as Calvary, Gethsemane, the as true, and be as much interested in the mes- Let no one be deceived on this point. If weare suffer in purgatory, but—'rest from their labors.' Mount of Olives, Tabor, Sion—would it not be a sage as if spoken primarily to us. All ought to "in the Lord"—justified by grace through faith, She told me that she felt this most acutely, be- discord in the great harmony, a blank in the be interested in it. In England and other pla- and sanctified by the Spirit,---we have met with cause she had been formerly laid upon a sick- grand restoration, if an orb so rich in all that is ces in Europe, the dead are sometimes put into a real change and will shew it by our practice ; bed, and her medical attendant bad given up all brilliant, historic, glorious, should be annihilat- vaults, or places built for the pnrpose under- "therefore, if any man be in Christ, he is a new hope, and told her there was no chance of her ed and expunged from the universe ? No, no ! ground,and when people go into these it becomes creature; old things are passed away ; behold recovery ; she sent for an aged priest from a it cannot be ! It is redeemed just as much as necessary to their comfort and safety to carry all things are become new." 2 Cor. 5: 17. Such neighboring place, to administer the sacrament the dust we committed to the silent grave, yes- with them a light : so we have all to enter the dead may be cursed men, but they are blessed of of Extreme Unction. On receiving it she asked terday, is redeemed, and it shall be restored to chambers of death as mourners or otherwise and God. � him, 'Am I now safe ?' to which, according to more than its primitive glory and magnificence, need to carry with us the torch of truth lighted � 2. The nature of this blessedness,--"they rest her testimony, he replied, 'J can pledge my own and a world that began with a Paradise that per- at the altar of heaven. Dark in the extreme from their labors." The Christian in this life is safety that you are.' But,' added she, 'have I ished in an hour, shall end with a Paradise that would the grave be without the light of revela- never represented by the Holy Ghost as a gen- not to pass through purgatory.?' 'Unquestiona- shall bloom in amaranthine beauty for ever and tion ; but with the word of God as a lamp to our tleman at ease, or an idler. He is called to "en- bly,' said the priest. 'Then tell me as a dying ever." � feet and a light to our path, we may say with dure hardness as a good soldier of Jesus Christ;" woman, what is the nature of the purgatory I Before closing this letter---in which 1 have at- the royal psalmist, "Yea, though I walk through to "run with patience the race that is set before" have to experience ?' The priest, with great so- tempted to give such views of the three greatest the valley of the shadow of death"---or, great him; to "abstain from fleshly lusts ;" and to labor lemnity, and, if his creed be right, with great preachers of London as may present themselves and severe affliction where death itself is threat- in the vineyard of the Lord. The world to come truth replied, 'Purgatory, my dear child, is a to any stranger visiting the place-- let me remind ened,—"I will fear no evil : for thou art with is his final resting place ; for "they shall come place where you will have to suffer the torments those who are disposed to sneer at sensation me ; thy rod and thy staff they comfort me." � from the east, and from the west, and from the of the damned, only of shorter duration.' She preachers that the popularity of Spurgeon, Hall � 2. The message was confirmed by the spirit. north, and from the south, and shall sit down in said every nerve tingled with agony at the an- and Cumming has done more than anything else When Jesus was about to leave the world and go the kingdom of God." Luke 13:29. "They shall nouncement. But when the text I illustrated to contribute to eliciting the recent proofs of re- to the Father, he said to his disciples, "I have sit down"---these are sweet words of comfort to came upon her ear, and reached her heart, de- ligious vitality in the Established Church here, yet many things to say to you, bat ye cannot bear weary ones who have toiled in the cause of the Glaring that the dead in Christ 'rest from their The vast multitudes which poured to hear these them now ; howbeit when He, the spirit of truth Coming One ; to the lonely watchers, on Zion's labors,' and again, 'to be absent from the body men set the English ecclesiastics to work think- is come, He will guide you into all truth,"—that walls ; and to the suffering saints to whom wear- is to be present with the Lord,' she felt that ing why the chapel was crowded and the cathe is, all "the truth" which it was essential for them isorne days and nights had been appointed. They either the priest must be wrong and the Bible dral deserted ; and thus the English church has to know, and which they could not bear to be tell of rest, yes of unbroken rest in their long true, or the Bible must be false if purgatory be been waked from sleep indirectly by Dissenters. made acquainted with then :---"for He shall not sought home: for "there remaineth a rest"--or, the true." Westminster and St. Paul's are thrown open for speak of himself, but whatsoever He shall hear, keeping of a sabbath—"to the people of' God." � Other expositors connect the words, " from popular evening services---the Bishop of London that shall He speak : and he will shew you things Their service in this life alone has weariness : in henceforth," with the verses that follow the text holds open air meetings---the great reform which to come." John 16:12, 13. In accordance with the world to come they will not be idle, but they and describe the great harvest. Now as "the will make the English c'ergy read and not d1awl this arrangement we find the apostles, on and will not be weary : "for the former things are harvest is at the end of the world" at which and massacre the almost inspired majesty of the after the day of Pentecost, enlightened and quid- passed away." � epoch, "the righteous shine forth as the sun in the English liturgical service, has been started by ed by the Spirit ; and frequently in the Apoca-"Their works do follow them." Not their kingdom of their Father" it is true that those who the Bishop of Rochester—and the Established lypse is He introduced as the speaker and dis- property--that may be left for relations to guar- die in the Lord will then enter on their perfect church experiences a resurrection from its sep- penser of knowledge. Seven times, in two short rel about,---not their desires, nor their profes- rest and blessedness, for, as the apostle affirms, ulchre of lethargy, to a great extent in conse- chapters,we meet with the words---"He that bath sion, but their works do follow them. Mark, "It is a righteous thing with God to recompense . quence (this is not merely my opinion) of the ef- an ear, let him hear what the Spirit saith unto Christ is "our forerunner ;" the saints follow to you who are troubled,rest with uswhen the Lord forts and success of such earnest, truthful, inde- the churches ;" and no sooner has the heavenly the Lamb whithersoever he goeth," and their Jesus shall be revealed from heaven with his migh- pendent Christian preachers as Spurgeon, Hall voice declared the pious dead happy than the works do follow them : Christ is first, the believ- ty angels." "For the Lord himself shall descend and Cumming. � W. F. W. � Hely Ghost confirms it---"yea, saith the Spirit." er next, his works last. If they preceded the from heaven with a shout, with the voice of the It is his work to take heavenly truth and apply saint we might be tempted to think they merited archangel, and with the trump of God : and the A Message from Heaven• � it to the conscience. � something, but they follow as witnesses to his dead in Christ shall rise first : then we who are 3. The message was written. Thus it became a union with Jesus while in this life. This alive and remain shall be caught up together [A sketch of the funeral sermon of E. J. A. part of the sacred scriptures. It contained a is fully illustrated in our Lord's sublime descrip- with them in the clouds, to meet the Lord in the Adams preached in West Derby, Vt. Sunday 20 Oct. 1861, by J. M. Orroek.] � truth too precious to be left to tradition. Had tion of the judgment in Matt. 25:31-40, which air : and so shall we ever be with the Lord. it been been thus left it would, doubtless, have may be profitably read in this connection. You Wherefore comfort one another with these words." "And I heard a voice from heaven saying un- to me, Write, Blessed arc the dead which die in been corrupted or lost : therefore memory was may as well try to separate heat from fire, or 2 Thess. 1:6, 7 ; 1 Thess. 4:16-18. the Lord from henceforth ; yea, saith the Spirit, not to be entrusted with it, and the seer receives light from the rising sun as to separate good � Thus it is the coming of our Lord that brings that they may rest from their labors ; and their a special command to record it. The voice said works from living faith in our divine Redeem- the perfection of bliss : then will the church be works do follow them." Rev. 14:13. �to him, "Write." But we pass to examine � er. � glorified. "Before that," as Bonar remarks, The book of Revelation is divided by its di- � II. The Message Itself. � 3. The time when the benediction is realized. "there is distance and imperfection. I know that vine Author into three parts, expressed in the � The message originating in heaven, attested The expression—"from henceforth"—has occa- in the disembodied state there will be greater words, "Write the things which thou bast seen, by the Spirit, written by the beloved disciples, sioned much perplexity among critics, Some nearness and fuller enjoyment than now, and and the things which are, and the things which confided to the safe keeping of the faithful of connect it with the verses preceding our text this the apostle longed for when he had the 'de- shall be hereafter." Chap. 1:19. "The things succeeding generations, and which is worthy of which contain the enunciation of the third angel sire to depart and be with Christ, which is far which thou Nast seen," or the vision of Messiah being written in letters of gold is this : "Blessed respecting the power symbolized by the beast ; better.' Even before the resurrection' there is a in the midst of the golden candlesticks,is record- are the dead who die in the Lord from hence- and regard it as teaching that during the domin- 'being with Christ' more satisfying than we en- ed in the first chapter ;---"the things which are," forth . . that they may rest from their labors ; ation of this persecuting hierarchy those who die joy here ; a 'being with Christ' which is truly or the condition of the sev en Asiatic churches, and their works do follow them." Consider.-- in the Lord will be more blessed than those who 'far better' . . . . Still this is not to be compared we have in the second and third chapters ;---and � 1. The subjects of the benediction : "the dead live, for they will rest from their extreme with the resurrection-nearness and resurrection- "the things which shall he hereafter," obviously who die in the Lord." The expression, "in toil, weariness and exhaustion. They look up- fellowship, when, in a way up till that time un- commence with the fourth chapter, where the Christ," or "in the Lord" is a singular one though on the text as implying that all beyond death is known,we shall be introduced into the very pres- prophet says, "After this I looked, and behold a of frequent occurrence in the new testament. We a state of rest and comfort to the saints. �ence of the king, all distance annihilated, all fel- door was opened in heaven : and the first voice never say a servant is in his master, a pupil in � In one of Dr. Cumming's Lectures on Roman- lowship completed, all joy consummated,all cold- 388 � THE ADVENT HERALD, ness done away, all shadows dissipated, and 'so we shall ever be with the Lord.' " This then is the rest after which our hearts yearn. The message from heaven should bring conso- lation to the bereaved. Have we not reason to believe the deceased has fallen asleep in Jesus ? and, if so, her labors are over, trials and suffer- ings past, and the blessing in all its fullness will soon follow. To all it affords a word of instruction. We are on the battle-field of life. We are at work. Should death overtake us speedily what testimony to our character would our work give ? Our text does not read, "Blessed are the dead"—without limita- tion or qualification. Jesus said to the Jews, "If ye believe not that I am He"—the promised Messiah—"ye shall die in your sins," and "whith- er I go ye cannot come." John 8 : '21-24. To "die in the Lord" is one thing, and to "die in your sins" is another, and vastly different thing. To secure the heavenly benediction, therefore, we must obtain through faith in Christ the pardon of sin and union with Jesus ; and when this is done we may rest assured that "He will not reign in glory and leave us behind." The long night of time must be near its ter- mination. Morning will soon break upon the mountains, and the day of reunion come. Then circles formed in immortality will be forever un- broken. The Lord hasten it in his time, and then give us an inheritance with "the children of the resurrection" in the land promised to our fathers, for Christ's sake. are incontrovertible. The application of the Bear, Crescent, Cock, Bull to Russia, Turkey, France and England are heraldic terms known to desig- nate those powers. Another important point arising from this is the future of the Mohammedan religion and pow- er. According to this writer, "in twice ten years dating from the treaty of Paris, (that settled Turkish affairs after the war,) not only Turkey, but Mohammedanism, as a power antagonistic to the Cross, is to fall—"The Cross shall stand, the Crescent wane,dissolve, and disappear." The accuracy of this author,is verified by past events, in reference to Turkey and her allies, makes it highly probable that he will be equally borne out by the events of the next fifteen years. We live in eventful times. Who can tell what fifteen years may bring forth ? The probabilities in fa- vor of the exact accomplishment of the last verse are far more striking than the first could have been. If the Turkish or Crimean war had no intimate connection with Scripture prophecy,how can these things be accounted for ? Again we ask, Is this a prophecy, or the ex- planation of' one? (Will any other journal please copy or notice this ?) SAMUEL SPARKES. Binyluznzton, July 29, 1861. forward the name of an additional one. And we al- so wish to see a full column of Donations,each week, till it shall amount to $400 ; which will be needed by January first to pay fur a bill of paper then due. Brethren and Sisters,shall this expectation be rea- lized ? The Voice of the Church on the Restitution. JOHN CALVIN, born in Picady, France, in 1509, deceased 1664, author of Commentary on Isaiah, Geneva, 1551 ; Institutes, Commentary on Romans, &c. writes : "1 expect with Paul a reparation of all the evils caused by sin, for which he represents the creatures as groaning and travailing" Institutes, Book 3, Ch. 25. In commenting on this expectation of Paul, he says : " 'Becaus 3 the creation itself also'—He shows how the creature is subject to vanity, in hope, Be- cause the time will indeed arrive when it shall be freed from it, as Isaiah testifies, and Peter also con- firms with greater clearness. We may hence infer how horrible a curse we have merited,since all crea- tures from earth to heaven are punished in conse- quence of our vices ; and our offence is the cause of their labouring under corruption ; and the condem- nation of the human race is thus impressed upon heaven, earth, and all other creatures. Again, it hence appears to how great an excellence of glory the sons of God are to be advanced, when all crea- tures will bs called upon to magnify and illustrate its splendour. Moreover, Paul does not understand that the creatures will be partakers of the same glo- ry with the sons of God, but will participate in their own manner,in a bAter state,because the Creator of all will restore the present fallen world to a perfect and entire condition at the same time with the hu- man race." Comment on Rom. 8:18-23. that, at the time appointed of the Father, he shall come again in power and great glory ; and that at, or after his coming the second time, he will not on- ly raise the dead, and judge and restore the world, but will also take to himself his kingdom, and will, according to the Scriptures, reign on the throne of his Father David, on Mount Zion, in Jerusalem, forever." Crosby's Hist. Bap. From John Bunyan, born 1828, deceased 1668. In addition to the Pilgrim's Progress, Holy War, &c. which made his name immortal, he was author of "Holy City, or New Jerusalem," London, 1669. "God's blessing the Sabbath day, and resting from all his works, was a type of that glorious rest that the saints shall have when the six days of this world are fully ended . . . . None ever saw this world as it was in its first creation but Adam and his wife, neither will any see it until the mani- festation of the children of God ; i. e. until the re- demption or resurrection of the saints," Works vol. 6. pp. 301-329. From Thomas Watson, who d. 1673. " 'He that sat upon the throne said, Behold I make all things new.' How impressive and sub- lime is the scene thus presented ! Under the throne of him who is arrayed in the glory of the Father, lie heaven and earth, the present seat of death, sor- row and pain. He speaks, and they 'vanish, and 'the former things are passed away.' He speaks again, and a new heaven and earth spring into be- ing ; The tabernacle of God is with men ; and he that sitteth upon the throne said, 'Behold 1 make all things new.' What a dream will then our earth- ly sufferings and labors, our joys and our sorrows, appear ! They have passed away, and a new world opens to our view, to abide forever." ADVENT HERALD. To Correspondents. Short and appropriate articles, of one column or less, are solicited from those who have well digested thoughts to communicate. Any writer whose article or enquiry is not promptly noticed, will please to call the editor's atten- tion to the omission. A. Pearce. Will commence next week ; but it is too long for one paper. BOSTON, DECEMBER 14, 1861. SYLVESTER BLISS, EDITOR. The readers of the Herald are most earnestly besought to give it room in their prayers; that by means of it God may be honored and his truth advanced ; also, that it may be conducted in faith and love, with sobriety of judgment and discernment of the truth, in nothing carried away into error, or hasty speech, or sharp, unbrotherly disputation. THE TERMS OF THE HERALD. The terms of the Herald are two dollars a year, in advance ;—with as large an addition, as the generosity of donors shall open their hearts to give, towards making the A. M. AssoCiation an efficient instrumentality for good. Correspondents, on matters pertaining solely to the office, should write " Office," on the envelope, to have their letters promptly attended to, if the editor be temporarily absent. To the Patrons of the Herald. For the successful prosecution of the work, for which the American Millennial Association was formed, funds are needed ; and for the lack of these, the Association has not been able to do what it would have otherwise accomplished. The regular weekly issue of the Herald, also, is dependent on the gener- osity of friends for a few hundred dollars, annually, over and above the amount received from subscribers. The whole receipts during the year now closing, have not paid expenses ; which will be embarrassing to the office, unless its friends supply the deficiency with their accustomed liberality. The promptness with which response was made two years since, to remove the debt from the Association, encouraged the hope that future aid would be supplied with equal generosity. It is not pleasant to be obliged to re- mind friends of these necessities ; hut it is still more unpleasant to lack the adequate means for the Her- ald's publication. This is the season of the year, when, better perhaps than any other, it is easier to obtain new subscribers, and to remit donations. Our treasury needs aid in both these directions ; and will not the friends see to it that it is supplied ? They would not wish us to abandon the Herald ; but its weekly issue costs money, and it is not the policy of the Association to run into debt. We have kept out thus far,but without more abundant week- ly remittances, this cannot continue. What is now wished for, is that every subscriber will endeavor t The Cross and the Crescent. Some twenty-five or thirty years ago I recol- lect reading the following strange piece of poe- try ; and such was the impression it made on my mind that I never forgot the sentiment, thought the language has long since escaped me. I fear, too, I have forgotten the author's name, country, etc., and should feel thankful if any person would throw light on this curious subject. The words are, "In twice two hundred years The Bear the Crescent will assail ; But if the Cock and Bull unite The bear will not prevail. "In twice ten years again Let Islam know and fear ; The Cross shall stand, the Crescent wane, Dissolve, and disappear." When I wrote my "Historical Commentary on the Eleventh Chapter of Daniel," in which the matter of this poetry is the principal topic, I had not access to this important piece, and of course could make no use of it. It is a curious question how this author centuries ago should so accurate- ly describe those Powers that took cart in the Crimean War, and the part each should take in it ; and that long before these Powers---Russia, Turkey, France, and Britain, or the Bear, the Crescent, the Cock, and Bull---were known by these appellations, and before some of them had an actual existance. Yet the date of the year is pointed out when Russia,the Bear,then unknown, should "assail" the Crescent, Turkey, equally unknown ; also the union of the Cock and Bull, France and England, in defense of Turkey--- events, from their nature, beyond human saga- city or power to divine. And this is not all. He asserted this union would defeat Russia—"the Bear shall not prevail"—which we know to have been the case. How this author reached these conclusions we know not. Whether he was guided by the light that taught the ancient Christians the meaning of prophecy, especially the application of the two last verses of the 11th chapter of Daniel to the fall of the Turkish Empire by that of Russia, or was really inspired by God to foretell this, is to us a mystery. IN e have only the facts, and facts they are ! The ancients and some of the moderns could see in the words of the prophet Daniel the existence and fortune of Turkey and Russia ; but how about France and England ? How could he describe not only the nations, but the parts those nations should take in the war ? The Bear should assail the Crescent, England and France should come to the rescue, "and the Bear should not prevail." This is truly as wonderful as the facts From John Knox, the founder of the Presbyte- rian church in Scotland, b. in 1505, deceased in 1572. He said of our ascended Lord : "We know that he shall return, and that with expedition. What were this else but to reform the face of the whole earth ; which never was, nor yet shall be, till that righteous King and Judge appear for the restoration of all things," Treatise on Fast- ing. From Rev. Joseph Mede, D. D. born in 1586,and deceased in 1638, author of Clavis Apocalyptic, Cambridge Eng. 1827. Of Rev. 20th he said "Thus much, I conceive the text seems, to imply, that these saints of the first resurrection should reign here on earth in the new Jerusalem, in a state of beatitude and glory,partak- ing of the divine presence and vision of Christ their King ; as it were in an heaven upon earth ; or in a new Paradise, immutable, unchangeable," &c Works, Book 4, p. 770. From Wm. Twisse D. D. the Moderator of the Westminster Assembly, which met July 1, 1643. In writing to Mr. Mede, his instructor in theology, he said : "0 Mr. Mede, I would willingly spend all my days in hanging on your lips . . . to hear your dis- course upon the glorious kingdom of Christ here on earth,to begin with the ruin of Antichrist," Mede's Works, p. 845. From Rev. Thomas Goodwin D.D. b. A. D. 1600, d. 1679,author of The Exposition of the Apocalypse, London 1630. "This kingdom of Christ on earth to come is a far more glorious condition for the saints than what their souls have now in heaven ; for these here over- look that condition which they were to run through ; and their thoughts fly to this fur comfort," Corn. on Rev 5:10. From NATHANIEL HOLMES, D. D. a contemporary of Mede, author of "Resurrection revealed," Lon- don 1641. "In that new creation, Christ restores all things to their perfection, and every believer to his ; to the end that all believers may jointly and co-ordi- nately rule over the whole world, and all nations therein, next under Christ their Head. I say all, and not a part only, as some unwarily publish. And I say jointly, and not one part of saints to usurp authority over the rest, as many dream. And co-ordinately, all upon equal terms, not some saints to rule by deputies, as men,seem to interpret." Res- urrection. &c. p. 269. From The confession of faith of the Baptist church- es of Great Britain, signed by forty one elders, dea- cons and brethren, and presented to Charles II in 1660, "Concerning the kingdom and reign of our Lord Jesus Christ, as we do believe that he is now in heaven at His Father's right hand, so do we believe From Stephen Charnock D. D. born in London in 1628, died 1680—a dissenting theologian of much eminence ; author of "Treatise on the Attributes of God," and volumes of Sermons. "As the world, for the sin of man lost its first dignity,and was cursed after the fall, and the beau- ty bestowed on it by creation defaced, so shall it recover that ancient glory, when he shall be fully restored, by the resurrection, to that dignity he lost by his first sin. As man shall be freed from his corruptibility to receive that glory which is prepared for him, so shall the creatures be freed from that imperfection or corruptibility,those stains and spots upon the face of them, to receive a new glory suited to their nature, and answerable to the design of God, when the 'glorious liberty' of the saints shall be accomplished." Attributes, &c. From Rev. Drue Cressener,D. D. author of "Pro- testant Applications of the Apocalypse,London 1689 "For what else is his coming in glory for, but to take possession of the whole world, and to reign with the Father and His saints to all eternity." Proph. Ap. p. 75. From REV. RICHARD BAXTER, b. 1615, d. 1691, author of "Saint's Rest," and other works—one of which was, "The Glorious Kingdom of Christ De- scribed and clearly Vindicated," London, 1691. "I believe there will be a new heaven and earth, in which will dwell righteousness," Works v. 2. p. 513. From REV. INCREASE MATHER, born 1639,d. 1723, Pres. of Harvard University. 'When they that corrupt the earth are destroyed, anew earth will succeed, in which shall dwell righ- teousness. Then will the kingdoms of this world become the kingdoms of Christ, and he shall reign for ever and ever," Discourse on Faith, 1710. From Rev. COTTON MATHER D. D. of Boston Mass. son of Increase b. 1728,author of "Magnalia Christi Americana, with 381 other published works—many of them of a small size. " Though some Nero should command me to be burned in the flames, 1 will not cease to preach and foretell with an earnest voice, the dissolution, re- newal and purification of the world by fire." "The new heavens, in conjunction with the new earth, is that heavenly country which the patri- archs looked for. When the great God promised them that he would be their God and bless them, they understood it of his bringing them into this. deathless and sinless world," Life p. 143. Bible Questions and Answers. 45. What saith the Lord to Israel, when he en- quires, "What mean ye that ye beat my people to pieces, and grind the faces of the poor ? " Ans. He saith, "0 my people they which lead thee cause thee to err, and destroy the way of thy friths. The Lord standeth up to plead,and standeth to judge the people. The Lord will enter into judgment with THE ADVEN r HERALD. � 389 fire against the day of judgment and perdition of un- godly men. That the day of the Lord will come as a thief in the night, in the which the heavens shall pass away with a great noise, and the elements shall melt with fervent heat ; the earth also, and the works that are therein, shall be burned up.-That the Lord will create new heavens and a new earth,where- in righteousness-that is, the righteous-will for- ever dwell. And that the kingdom and the domin- ion under the whole heaven shall be given to the people of the saints of the Most High, whose king- dom is an everlasting kiugdoin, and all dominions shall serve and obey him. the ancients of his people,and with the princes there- of : for ye have eaten up the vineyard ; the spoil of the poor is in your houses," Isa 3 : 12-15. God enquires of such, "Tu what purpose is the multitude of your sacrifices unto me . . . When ye come to appear befute me, who hath required this at your hands ?" Ans. God replies, "I am full of the burnt of- ferings of rams and the fat of fed beasts; and I de- liget not in the blood of bullocks, or of lambs, or of he goats. . . Bring no more vain oblations ; incense is an abomination unto me ; the new moons and cab- baths,the calling of assemblies, I cannot away with ; it is iniquity, even the solemn meeting. Your new moons and your appointed feasts my soul hateth they are a trouble unto me ; I am weary to bear them. And when ye spread forth your hands, I will hide mine eyes from you : yea when ye make many prayers, I will not hear : your hands are full of blood," Isa. 1: 11-15. "Wherefore have we fasted,say they and thou seest not? Wherefore have we afflicted our soul,and thou takest no knowledge ?" Ans. "Behold, in the day of your fast ye find pleasure, and exact all your labors. Behold, ye fast for strife and debate, and to smite with the fist of wickedness : ye shall not fast as ye do this day, to make your voice to be heard on high," Isa. 58 : 3, 4. one else, would be appropriately denominated "the queen." And as only seven years intervened, be- tween the death of Nebuchadnezzar and the accession of Nabonadius,she may have had personal knowledge of the events of the latter portion of the former reign, and been familiar with the name of Daniel, and his prophetic endowments. It apppears from Dan. 8 : 27, that in the third year of Belshazzar Daniel was employed in "the king's business ;" which seems at first view inex- plicable with Belshazzar's apparent forgetfulness of him. It may be, however, that Daniel stood in some relation to Nabonadius, differing from any that he maintained with Belshazzar. The younger associate in the government, during his father's absence, may have had his own advisers and ministers ; and Dan- iel, at this time may have held only a subordinate position. It is said that when a Persian king dies, his physicians are all banished from court for not having prevented his death ; and the astrologers, for not having predicted it. This custom of removing of- ficial advisers may, or may not, have prevailed in Babylon ; and however any change of rule may have been effected, the new ruler would be likely to have his own chosen advisers. Be this as it may, the "queen" is apparently much more familiar with Daniel, and his prophetic gitts,than was Belshazzar; to whom it cannot be supposed he was entirely un- known ; which makes it evident that she was the queen mother. SIR R. MURCHISON AND DR. GUMMING.-The for- mer writes to the Manchester Examiner in reference to the lectures of the latter : "Dr. Cumming having said that he consulted me, I must state what occurred between us at merry morning dejeuner at Tunbridge Wells, where I met the reverend and eloquent gentleman at the house of a mutual friend. He asked me if I believed in an internal fiery state of the globe, and I replied that, in common with the majority of geologists, I infeir- ed from the evidence of increase of temperature in deep shafts, and also from former and present out- bursts of igrieous matter, that the existence of a central heat could not, in my opinion, be denied. The words 'burning cauldron,' as used by the doc- tor, are of course not mine. If not misreported,Dr. Cumming has, in the same lecture, completely mis- understood what I had said to him on the subject of gold. I directed his attention to two verses in the Book of Job which indicated that the patriarch was an observant mining geologist. The words (chap. xxviii. 1) are-'Surely there is a vein for the silver ;' and in the 6th verse-At (the earth) bath dust of gold.' Now, although gold as well as silver was originally found in veinstones or disseminated in sol- id rocks, yet the more precious metal in usually found in superficial debris of pebbles, sand,etc., (the 'dust' of Job,) whilst silver is almost exclusively obtained from veinstones in mines of argentiferous galena. So far, therefore, Dr. Cumming is right in announcing that I did say 'Job was a good geologist.' But if he added (as one report of his lecture has it) that I was led to anticipate the discovery of gold in Australia by the words of Job, he is entirely in er- ror." Crisis in Russia. Russia appears to be drawing toward a great cri- sis. A letter from St. Petersburg, Oct. 31, says : "Absent from St. Petersburg for the last two months, I have traveled through a great part of Rus- sia, and I can assure you, de visu et de audiun,that this conntry is progressing toward a revolution such as that of 1793 will give you but a very faint idea. At no previous period has popular agitation reach- ed such a bight, nor never was it so universal, as I can vouch, as it is at present. The peasants are exasperated against their ex-owners, whom they ac- cuse of not having fulfilled the wishes of the Czar: who commanded them, according to the peasants' statement, to cede the entire of their lands to their ancient serfs. The landed proprietors, on their part, are furious with the Emperor and his counsellors for having stripped them, arbitrarily of a fortune of which the annual income is estimated at five milliards of francs. The manufacturers and merchants are the more indisposed against the gov- ernment as its ill-calculated measures have ruined both manufacturer's industry and trade to such a degree that nobody can foresee that period at which commercial transactions will recover their former elasticity. Ina word, I have everywhere found discontent, violent irritation and implacable hatred among all classes of the population, one against the other, and all classes against the government." From the latest returns it appears that the king- dom of Poland contains 5,850,000 inhabitants. Of that number 600,000 are Jews. Warsaw has 165, 000 inhabitants, 45,000 of whom are Jews. At the census of 1846,Poland contained only 213,000 Jews. THE CANADIAN DEFENSE. The Toronto Leader, which has pursued a very unfriendly course toward the United States since the rebellion broke out, thus construes the meaning of the recent military move- ment in Canada : "These proceedings, under the eye of the Com- mander-in-Chief, are not designed fur pastime. They indicate more plainly than words the light in which Lord Palmerston and his colleagues view the relations of England toward the Northern States. They prove that the menace of Secretary Seward is interpreted aright on the other side of the sea. They show that, in the calm judgment of the rulers of England, the danger of collision has passed from a possibility to a probability ; and that for the worst emergency England is resolved to prepare. Canada ought not to hesitate in its response. The crisis calls fur more than an uncertain sound." Friends at Work. � 4 Our friends are beginning to heed our call, and we are not without hope that New Years will bring us the four hundred dollars then needed. One Bro. says : "Bro. Bliss talks so loud that I heard him long after going to bed last night, and I have been hearing him all day to-day." We thank that bro- ther for his generous aid, and wish his purse was as large as his heart. Bro. A. Pearce also writes en- couragingly from Providence as follows : "Dear Brother Bliss :-I was thinking you would like to know what we are doing here in Providence fcr the American Millennial Association in this time of your need. I would observe that we have cap- pointed a committee to obtain names and receive subscriptions. The pledges now amount to some $25 or $30 ; and when the times improve we have no doubt we can raise $50, at least, per annum. 1 herewith enclose $10.30 the amount of collection to the present time. Yours truly, ANTHONY PEARCE. Dec. 6th, 1861. The above is a good beginning, we hope others will do likewise. A New Tract. "ME RESTITUTION : or This Earth, recovered from all the disabilities of the fall, to be the In- heritance of the Meek-"the Purchased Poss- ession" promised to "the Children of the Resur- rection." Price 4 cents single, 3 cents by the dozen, or $2,50 per 100, by mail pre-paid. If sent by express at the expense of the purchaser, it will be but $2 per 100. For sale at this office. I ought to say that I regard this tract as a valua- ble one and as a fine thing for general circulation. DANL. T. TAYLOR. Rouses Point, N. Y., Dec. 3, 1861. We have perused the Restitution with much inte- rest. � 0. W. ALLEN. Johnson; Vt. Will you send me one dozen copies of that excel- lent little tract, The Restitution, and oblige H. CANFIELD. St. Johnsbury, Vt. Prospectus of The Advent Herald For 1862. The Advent Herald, published by the "American Millennial Association," 46 1-2 Kneeland st. Boston Mass. begins its 23d volume with the first week of January next.-Terms, are $2 per year in advance. As the oldest periodical in either continent, devo- ted to the study of prophecy, and as one that has never departed from the cardinal doctrines generally denominated "evangelical," it is believed this sheet is worthy of the support of all students of prophecy. And it needs for its support a wider circulation than it now receives. While it is firm and decided in its opinions, it is designed to hold these in all candor, and to present them with all courtesy towards those differing ; and it is not closed against a free and christian inter- change of sentiments, whenever opposing views are candidly and clearly presented. Discussion is not disputation, and argument is not controversy ; and while the former of these is admitted, the latter is not solicited. With the first number of the next volume, it is proposed to commence an Exposition of the 8th chapter of Daniel's Prophecy,-the previ- ous chapters having already passed under review in these columns. It is believed the remaining chapters of Daniel will equal in interest those which have preceded. The following are the more important truths for the support of which this paper is issued. Will not the friends interested in the defense of these sen- timents,call the attention of their'friends and neigh- bors to them, and send us each, one or more new readers ? IMPORTANT TRUTHS. let. That the heavens and earth which are now, by the word of God, are kept in store, reserved unto 2d. That there are but two advents or appearings of the Saviour to this earth. That both are per- sonal and visible. That the first took place in the days of Herod, when He was conceived of the Holy Ghost, born of the Virgin Mary, went about do- ing good, suffered on the cross, the just for the un- just, died, was buried, arose again the third day, the first fruits of them that slept, and ascend- ed into heaven, which must receive him until the times of the restitution of all things, spoken of by the mouth of all the holy prophets. That the se- cond coming or appearing will take place when he shall descend from heaven,at the sounding of the last trump, to give his people rest, being revealed from heaven in flaming fire,taking vengeance on them that know not God, and obey not the gospel. � And that he will judge the quick and the dead at his ap- pearing and kingdom. 3d. That the second coming or appearing is indi- cated to be now emphatically nigh, even at the doors, by the chronology of the prophetic periods, the fulfillment of prophecy, and the signs of the times. And that this truth should be preached both to saints and sinners, that the first may rejoice, knowing their redemption draweth nigh, and the last be warned to flee from the wrath to come, before the Master of he house shall rise up and shut to the door. 4th. That the conetAtion of salvation is repentance towards God, and faith in our Lord Jesus Christ. And that those who have repentance and faith will live soberly, and righteously,and godly, in this pres- ent world, looking for that blessed hope, and the glorious appearing of the great God and our Saviour Jesus Christ. 5th. That there will be a resurrection of the bodies of all the dead, both of the just and the unjust. � That those who are Christ's will be raised at his coming. That the rest of the dead will not live again until after a thousand years. - And that the saints shall not all sleep, but shall be changed in the twinkling of an eye at the last trump. 6th. That the only millennium taught in the Word of God is the thousand years which are to in- tervene between the 'first resurrection and that of the rest of the dead, as inculcated in the 20th of Revelation. And that the various portions of Scripture which refer to the millennial state are to have their fulfillment after the resurrection of all the saints who sleep in Jesus. 7th. That the promise, that Abraham should be the heir of the world, was not to him,or to his seed, through the law, but through the righteousness of faith. That they are not all Israel which are of Israel. That there is no difference, under the Gospel dispensation, between Jew and Gentile. - That the middle wall of partition that was between them is broken down, no more to be rebuilt. - That God will render to every man according to his deeds. � That if we are Christ's then are we Abra- ham's seed, and heirs according to the promise. - And that the only restoration of Israel, yet future, is in the restoration of the saints to the earth,created anew, when God shall open the graves of those des- cendants of Abraham who died in faith, without re- ceiving the promise, with the believing Gentiles who have been grafted in with them into the same olive tree ; and shall cause them to come up out of their graves, and bring them with the living, who are changed, into the land of Israel. 8th. That there is no promise of this world's con- version. That the Horn of Papacy will war with the saints, and prevail against them, until the Ancient of Days shall come, and judgment be given to the saints of the Most High, and the time come that the saints possess the kingdom. � That the children of the kingdom, and the children of the wicked one, will continue together until the end of the world, when all things that offend shall be gath- ered out of the kingdom, and the righteous shall shine forth as the sun in the kingdom of their Fath- er. � That the Man of Sin will only be destroyed by the brightness of Christ's coming. � And that the nations of those which are saved and redeemed to God by the blood of Christ, out of every kindred, and tongue, and people, and nation, will be made kings'and priests unto God, to reign forever on the earth. 9th. That it is the duty of the ministers of the Word to continue in the work of preaching the Gos pct to every creature, even unto the end, calling upon them to repent, in view of the fact that the kingdom of heaven is at hand ; that their sins may be blotted out when the times of refreshing shall come from the presence of the Lord. And lit. That the departed saints do not enter their inheritance, or receive their crowns, at death That they without us cannot be made perfect. - That their inheritance, uncorruptible and un- defiled, and that fadeth not away, is reserved in heaven, ready to be retealed in the last time. - That the re are laid up for them and us crowns of righteousness, which the Lord, the righteous Judge, shall give at the day of Christ to all that love his ap- pearing. That they will only besatisfiedwhen they awake in Christ's likeness. � And that. when the Son of Man shall come in his glory, and all the ho- ly angels with him, the King will say to those on his right hand, 'Come, ye blessed of my Father, inherit the kingdom prepared for you from the foundation of the world.' Then they will he equal to the angels, being the children of God and of the resur- rection. God asks, "Is it such a fast that I have chos- en ? a day fur a man to afflict his soul ? is it to bow down the head as a bulrush,and to spread sack- cloth and ashes under him ? wilt thou call this a fast, and an acceptable day to the Lord ?" Ans. "Is not this the fast that I have chosen ?- to loose the bands of wickedness, to undo the heavy burdens, and to let the oppressed go free, and that ye break every yoke ? Is it not to deal thy bread to the hungry, and that thou bring the poor that are cast out to thy house ? when thou seest the naked, that thou cover him ; and that thou hide not thyself from thine own flesh ?" Isa. 58 : 5-7. "Who gave Jacob for a spoil, and Israel to the robbers ?" Ans. "Did not the Lord, Ile against whom we have sinned ? for they would not walk in his ways, neither were they obedient unto his law. Therefore He hath poured upon him the fury of his anger, and the strength of battle," Isa. 42 : 24, 5. Why did God inquire of Israel," Why should ye be stricken any more?" Ans. He said to them, "Ye will revolt more and more : the whole head is sick, and the whole heart faint. From the sole of the foot even unto the head, there is no soundness in it ; but wounds and bruises, and putrifying sores : they have not been closed, neither bound up, neither mollified with ointment," Isa. 1 : 5, 6. And Jeremiah answers, "Thou hast stricken them, but they have not grieved ; thou hast consumed them, but they have refused to receive correction ; they have made their faces harder than a rock ; they have refused to return," Jer. 5 : 3. Isaiah the prophet tells us that he "heard the Voice of the Lord, saying, Whom shall I send, and who will go for us ?" Ans. And he answered, " Here am I ; send me," Isa. 6 : 8. When told that Israel was to be given over to moral blindness, what was the answer to Isaiah's inquiry, "Lord, how long ?" Avis. The Lord "answered, Until the cities be wasted without inhabitant, and the houses without man, and the land be utterly desolate, and the Lord have removed men far away, and there be a great forsaking in the midst of the land," Isa. 6 : 11, 12. The Queen Mother of Belshazzar. The discovery by Rawlinson, that Belshazzar was the son and associate of Nabonadius in the kingdom --the father being then absent from Babylon--throws some light on the identity of the "queen" who en- tered the banqueting house when Belshazzar was over- whelmed with terror at the sight of the words writ- ten by specter fingers-See Dan. 5: 10. The queen who thus counselled, can hardly be supposed to be the wife of the king ; for his wives Were already present, participating in the defilement of the vessels taken from the Lord's temple, and she did not enter that place of impious revelry till after the failure of the wise men to read the writing. Her previous absence would indicate an age more ad- vanced than that of those present, so as not to en- joy the drinking, dancing, and other sports of the feast ; and her greater familiarity with the events of the time of Nebuchadnezzar,would imply that she bad been cognizant of them. From these considerations it has been generally inferred that she was the queen mother. But additional probability is given to this supposition when it is discovered that Belshazzar is an associate king-of his father, who is still living, though absent from Babylon. As the wife of the actual king, and mother of him who sat as associate monarch on his father's throne, she, more than any 390 THE ADVENT T HERALD. In thisdepartment,articlesare solicited, on thegeneral subject of the Advent, from friends of the Herald, over their own signatures, irrespective of the particular views which it defends. Views of correspondents not dissented from, are not necessarily to be considered as editorially endorsed. Correspondents are expected to avoid all per- sonalities, and to study Christian courtesy in all references to views and persons. Any departure from thisshould be regarded as eisentitling the writer toany reply. Christian and gentlemanly discussion will be in order ; but not needless, unkind, or uncourteouscontroversy. CORRESPONDENCE. ED. i. e. of the sublunary world, and wicked spirits' in heavenly places, namely, in the lowest, or sublunary heavens, Eph. 6:12 ; and whether St. Paul, Gal. 4: 8, 9, and Col 2:8, &c. includes not some of those under his 01.00,1VIG 'rev 1610-itkOV, I cannot affirm.— Let the learned further consider it, where, namely, he speaks to and of gentiles, and nut Jews. " Having hitherto prepared the way, let us now come closer home to St. Peter, whose words evident- ly import that some of these heavens or all of them shall suffer a conflagration at the day of Christ — Not all of them ; for who ever put the empyreal heaven in that reckoning ? And for the ethereal heaven, he that considereth both the supereminent nature and immensity thereof, and of those innum- erable bodies therein, in regard of which the whole sublunary world is but a point of centre ; and that it can in no way be proved that ever those bodies received any curse for man's sin, or contagion by the world's deluge, or that any enemies of God dwell in them to pollute them ; he that considereth this will not easily be induced to believe that the fire of the day of judgment should burn them. It remaineth, therefore, that the sublunary heavens only, with their hosts, are to be the subjects of this conflagra- tion."—" Mede's Paraphrase and Exposition of the Prophecy of St. Peter,concerning the day of Christ's second coming, described in the third chapter of his second epistle." � E.H.B. OBITUARY. From Bro. E. H. B. Dear Bro. Bliss :—So long as the Herald is con- ducted with that courtesy and Christian spirit which at present characterize it, I shall feel it a pleasure to contribute all I can to its "support." I perfectly agree with you that all who love our Lord Jesus Christ in sincerity, may, and should love each other as brethren, even though there be not "a precise and strict conformity of opinion in respect to all doctrines and teachings of inspiration." I do not know whether I have advanced any new idea in regard to the new heavens and earth. I am familiar with the views of some of those English millenarians that you speak qfpin a late number of the Herald in answer to if correspondent, and I heartily agree with some of them ; but so far as I have read, there is no intimation in their writings, that some portions of our earth are to be made des- olate and lie waste forever, as being under the curse of God. Will you please inform your readers if any writers on prophecy have advocated this view?* I have written in haste and amid many cares and duties, having sickness at present in our little fami- ly circle ; but I hope our esteemed editor will ex- cuse and correct all mistakes, wherever they may appear. " I wish him to understand me, that when I do write an article for publication," I have no ambition to have " it put in your paper just as I write it verbatim." (Herald, June 29.) On the contrary, I shall feel very much obliged if you will correct all faulty orthography, bad grammar, and careless punctuation which your practised eye may detect. I acknowledge and feel my own ignorance, but at the same time I feel it a duty to try to do something to honor and glorify my " Father which is in heav- en," and if' I may be made an humble instrument in his hands of directing the attention of some of my dear brethren and sisters to some parts of the word of God, that have been and are too much neg- lected and passed over, it will be as much as I hope to accomplish. May we all obey the injunction of our Lord and " search the scriptures," comparing scripture with scripture. I for one cannot receive as truth any theory that arrays prophet against prophet, " for all scripture" was " given by inspir- ation of God," and we know that God is true ; he cannot deny himself. I am sorry that my article is so long again ; but perhaps after it has undergone the pruning process this objection may be removed. Very respectfully, � E.H.B. Trenton, Nov. 8, 1861. * We are not familiar with any writers who take this view—though there are those who defer the restitution to the end of the millennium. The New Heavens and Earth. " And I saw a new heaven and a new earth ; for the first heaven and the first earth were passed away, and there was no more sea." Rev. 21:1. " Nevertheless we, according to his promise, look for new heavens and a new earth, wherein dwelleth righteousness." 2 Pet• 3:13. � • For some time it has been a question in my mind whether the " promise" referred to by Peter em- braced the whole habitable earth. But now after a diligent study of God's Word on this point, and carefully comparing scripture with scripture, I strongly incline to the opinion that this promise is not applicable to the entire globe on which we live, but that it is rather spoken of a particular locality, where the glory of Christ and the sons of God will be manifested in a special manner. Now let us go " to the law and to the testimony " and see if we cannot find there plain and decisive evidence favor- ing this view. We find this promisa recorded in Is. 65:17, " For behold I create new heavens and a new earth : and the former shall not he remembered nor come into mind. But be ye glad and rejoice forever in that which 1 create : for behold I create Jerusa- lem a rejoicing and her people a joy. And I will rejoice in Jerusalem, and joy in my people : and the voice of weeping shall be no more heard in her nor the voice of crying." In Psa. 87:3 we have these It is a point of true wisdom to discover the name of God in the voice of God, and to learn what he is from what he says. Funeral Address, Delivered in the North Baptist church, Hartford, Conn., at the funeral of sister MARY. ANN WIL- LIAMS. BY ELDER JOSHUA V. MMES. My Christian Brethren and Sisters :—We are called together to-day to weep over eur dead, and pay a tribute to departed worth. It is a great sat- isfaction to us to see so many of other communions present, and to know that they sympathize with us in this hour of trial. Of late years, God has been pleased to visit fre- quently the Advent church in this city with his chastening rod. Like the messengers of Job, they have trod almost upon the heels of each 'other, in bringing the sad tidings of death. Our beloved brethren Sage, Kelsey, Peirson, and Clapp, among the more prominent, have passed away, with many others of our little church, who have been called to sleep in Jesus. We are now called together again, by the death of another loved and useful member of the body. The turf hardly becomes green over the bodies of the departed ones, ere it is broken for an- other. But we will not complain, nor murmur.— " It is the Lord : let him do what seemeth him good." In these sad bereayements, we may " sorrow," but not without hope. This is the vale of tears — the land of the shadow of death—the place of sick- ness, of pain, of trial, and of separation—death. But this is not the end. We look for that bless- ed hope, in the consummation of which, we shall meet our friends again—and meet them, too, in a land where " the inhabitant shall not say, I am sick," but the former things shall have passed away., and all things shall be made new. It is this that cheers us in the hour of separation—we shall meet again. This doctrine is plainly taught by the great apos- tle to the gentiles, who said to the Thessalonian church : " I would not have you ignorant, breth- ren, concerning them which are asleep, that ye sor- row not, even as others which have no hope. For if we believe that Jesus died and rose again, even so them also which sleep in Jesus will God bring with him. Fur this we say unto you by the word of the Lord, that we which are alive and remain unto the coming of the Lord, shall not prevent them which are asleep. For the Lord himself shall de- scend from heaven with a shout, with the voice of the Archangel and the trump of God : and; the dead in Christ shall rise first : then we which are alive and remain, shall be caught up together in the clouds, to meet the Lord in the air : and so, shall we ever be with the Lord. Wherefore comfort one another with these words." 1 Thess. 4:13-18. There is a present sorrow in parting with our friends and loved ones ; but our prospects are most joyful. Nothing can exceed the prospective bless- edness of the people of God. This mortal is to put on immortality ; this corruptible, incorruption ; — and then shall be brought to pass the saying that is written, Death is swallowed up in victory. The triumphant saints will be able to say, " 0 grave, where is thy victory ? 0 death, where is thy sting? And sing, " Thanks be unto God who giveth us the victory through our Lord Jesus Christ." words, " Glorious things are spoken of thee, 0 city of God." We may know something of these glor- ious things by reading the 60th chapter of Isaiah. Of " the city of the great King" it is there writ- ten, " The sun shall be no more thy light by day, neither for brightness shall the moon give light unto thee." And John says, " The city had no need of the sun, neither of the moon to shine in it." Rev. 21:23. And again the inhabitants of that city need no candle, neither light of the sun ; for the Lord God giveth them light. Then the moon shall be confounded and the sun ashamed, when the Lord of hosts shall reign in mount Zion, and in Jerusalem, and before his ancients gloriously." Isa. 24:23. It seems to me that this confusion of our silver moon and this shame of the powerful king of day, will be on account of " the glory that excelleth" which is yet to be revealed. It will be admitted by all that the language in the first part of this verse is highly figurative, for we have no reason to suppose that these two great luminaries will ever be blotted out, nor will I believe they are ever even to be changed, unless there shall be found some scripture evidence of the fact which I may have overlooked Not long since I heard a good Methodist brother preach a sermon from the closing verses of Matt.19, and he remarked on thq words, " in the regenera- tion," that " not only is the earth to be regenera- ted, but the sun, the moon and the stars are also all to be renewed." Now with all due deference to this good brother's opinion, this seems to me like being wise above what is written; for we are informed by God himself that these " ordinances" are to endure forever. " And God made, two great lights. He made the stars also, to rule over the day and over the night, and to divide the light from the dark- ness : and God saw that it was good." Gen. ch. 1. Now let us search the Scriptures again for more light. In Psalm 72:17 it is said of Christ, "His name shall endure forever : his name shall be con- tinued as long as the sun," and in Ptalm 89:36,37, " His seed shall endure forever and his throne as the sun before me. It shall be established forever as the moon." Again, Jer. 31:35, " Thus saith the Lord which giveth the sun for a light by day, and the or- dinances of the mo n and of the stars for a light by night, if those ordinances depart from before me, saith the Lord, then the seed of Israel also shall cease from being a nation before me forever." Isa- iah says of the city, " Thy sun shall no more go down, neither shall thy moon withdraw itself ; fur the Lord shall be thine everlasting light. And John says, " The gates of it shall not be shut at all by day ; for there shall be no night there." Yet in Jer. 33:20 we read, " Thus saith the Lord, If ye can break my covenant of the night, and that there should not be day and night in their season, then may also my covenant be broken with David my servant, that he should not have a son to reign upon his throne. Thus saith the Lord, If my covenant be not with day and night, then will I cast away the seed of Jacob, and David my servant." Now shall we say that these plain dnd positive declarations of Scripture are contradictory and can- not all be true? " God forbid : yea let God be true but every man a liar ; as it is written, That thou mightest be justified in thy sayings." Rom. 3:3.— " All the words of my mouth are in righteousness ; there is nothing froward or perverse in them. They are all plain to him that understandeth, and right to them that find knowledge." Prov. chap. 8. Yes, every one of these seemingly conflicting statements can be true and are true. May the Lord enlighten our dark minds more and more, and help us by his grace to believe the whole of his word, that he find no occasion to say to us, " 0 fools and slow of heart to believe all that the prophets have spoken," and let us remember, too, that he said, — " Think not that I am come to destroy the law or the prophets. I am not come to destroy, but to fulfil." The wri- ter of this has very peculiar reasons for loving God's word, and now it is my chief delight to meditate therein and to study it to the best of the ability God has given me. By permission of the Editor of Herald I would like, some time in the future, to add a little more on this subject, but will close at pres- ent with a very interesting extract from the writ- ings of the celebrated and learned Mr. Mede, con- cerning the heavens which are to pass away : " We know that the Scriptures make three heav- ens : 1, the air, or sublunary heaven ; 2, the ether- eal or starry heaven ; 3, the heaven of glory, or em- pyreal heaven. Each of these heavens have their host or army. The host of the heaven of glory, or the third heaven, are the angels and blessed spirits; the host of the ethereal heaven, are the stars and Planets ; the host of the aerial, or sublunary heav- en, are either visible, as the clouds of heaven, and other meteors, as also the rest of the creatures man- sioning therein, as the fowls of heaven ; or invisi- ble, namely, the wicked spirits and devils, whose prince, Satan, is called the prince of the power of the air, Eph. 2:2, and his host, rulers of the world, This glorious day is soon to dawn ; and as Advent believers, we are filled with joy unspeakable and full of glory. Soon, very soon, we shall be where " Sickness and sorrow, pain and death, Are felt and feared no more." And the Christian can, in his aspirations, exclaim : " 0 glorious hour ! 0 blest abode ! I shall be near and like my God, And flesh and sin no more control The sacred pleasures of the soul." We now lift up our heads, while we see the things of prophecy translated into history, and rejoice in near redemption. 0 this is a most cheering and heart-ravishing thought ! The empire of sin and death is soon to be overthrown by the Seed of the woman, and the church of all ages be gathered from land and ocean, and succeed to the immortal and eternal empire of the second Adam. The earth shall be filled with his glory, and. � "friends will meet again Who have loved." This, in brief, is the blessed hope of the people of God. With these thoughts on the future of the saints, let me call your attention to some facts and circum- stances in the history of our departed sister. Sister Williams was of a serious turn of mind from her youth, and at about 17 years of age she was converted, and baptized by Eld. Bangs, uniting with the North Baptist church. She was for many years an exemplary and esteemed member, and set an example worthy of the imitation of her young associates in the church and society. She was united in marriage with Edward Wil- liams in 1844, and of her six children, she has left four to the care of her bereaved and affectionate partner. Sister Williams was one of the amiable and meek ones in the church and social circle. As a wife, she was affectionate, and faithful in all things. She sought to make her husband happy, as also her en- tire household. As a mother, she was affectionate and faithful, and trained up her children in the fear of God. Her house was one of neatness and order, and was a hospitable home for all who came under her roof. She continued an acceptable member of the Bap- tist church till 1850, when she became interested in the doctrine of Christ's personal coming and reign on the earth, as an event nigh at hand, and the establishment of the kingdom of God under these heavens, to be composed of the resurrected saints of all ages, and as a consequence became more interested in the resurrection than -ever before, as, with this view, the saints were then to recaive their reward, in accordance with scripture : " When Christ who is our life shall appear, then shall ye also appear with him in glory." Col. 3:4. The few last years of her life she suffered with dyspepsia, and with it (as usual with this disease) clouds obscured her otherwise bright vision, Still she was patient and hopeful. She had all that a kind husband could provide to make her happy in this life. Yet the cloud of sadness would at times steal over her countenance, tinder the influence of disease. The few last months of her life her disease in- creased, and finally has carried her among the dead, —all remedies failing to give relief. In her last conversations with her husband, she told him to tell her friends not to take her for an example, but Christ, and to follow him, and above all things to be sure to meet her in the kingdom. A few days before her death she called her family about her and took an affecting and affectionate leave of them, giving them words of counsel and good cheer, and bidding them a last farewell. After this she lived several days a great sufferer, but a patient one, until exhausted nature yielded, and she died Nov. 14, aged 37 years. The funeral services were attended in the North Baptist church, in the presence of a large audience, Saturday, Nov. 16, 1861. Dr. Turnbull, her for- mer pastor, being present, read the Scriptures and offered prayer. The North Baptist church, with their kind pas- tor, have the thanks and gratitude of Bro. Williams and his friends fur their kindness in this time of their affliction and sorrow. � J. V. HIVES. Hartford, Nov. 16, 1861. DIED, of typhoid fever, in Hull, C.E., September 29th, 1861, ELIZABETH J. A. ADAMS, in the 36th y. of her age. The deceased was born in Sorelle, C. E., and while residing in Boston, Mass., became interested in religion under the labors of Eld. 0. R. Fassett. Having given satisfactory evidence that she was " born again . . . by the word of God, which liv- eth and abideth forever," she was baptized by Eld. limes in 1858, and, in connection with her hus- band, united with the church of Adventists in that city. For the last year and a half her home was in T .W. LEONARD, manufac- turer of Portable Flouring and Grist Mills adapted to Grinding all kinds of Grain, Cement, Plaster, Salt, Spices, Also the best quality of THE ADVEN 'F HERALD � 391 West Derby, Vt. Iler health had been poor for nearly fifteen years, and about five weeks before her decease she went with her husband on a visit to her mother in Hull. Her health seemed to be somewhat improved by the journey, and Bro. Adams returned without her. Soon, however, he was summoned to her bed-side, but the day previous to his arrival,her spirit had returned to God who gave it. Her end was peaceful. Though at times delirious, she would occasionally break out in singing " Happy day, happy day, When Jesus washed my sins away." and- " We're going home to die no more." The Presbyterian minister of the place officiated at her funeral. She leaves four children. By her husband's request I endeavored to improve her "de- parture" by a discourse to her friends and neigh- bors, and furnish an outline of it, with a few addi- tional remarks, for publication. It has been truthfully said that " bereavement is the bitterest of all earthlyisorrows. It is the sharp- est arrow in the quiver of God. To love tenderly and deeply, and then to part ; to meet for the last time on earth ; to bid farewell to fortune; to have all past remembrances of home and kindred broken up ; this is the reality of sorrow. To look on that face that shall smile on us no more ; to close those eyes that shall see us *no more ; to press those lips that shall speak to us no more ; to carry to the tomb the beloved of our hearts, and to return to a desolate home, with a blank in one region of our souls which shall never again be filled till Jesus come with all his saints ; this is the bitterness of grief ; this is the wormwood and the gall." Such trouble as this 'one can fully realize till they pass through it, and then it is that they need " the comfort of the Holy Ghost" by an application of the propaises of God. May God grant such comfort to the bereaved of this household. � J.M.O. ADVERTISEMENTS. Memoirs of William Miller. By the author of the Time of the End-excepting the first three chapters, which were by the pen of another. pp. 426. Price, post paid, 75 cts. Few men have been more diversely regarded than William Miller. While those who Wnew him, es- teemed him as a man of more than ordinary mental power, as a cool, sagacious and honest reasoner, an humble and devoted Christian, a kind and affection- ate friend, and a man of great moral and social worth ; thousands, who knew him not, formed opin- ions of him anything but complimentary to his in- telligence and sanity. It was therefore the design of this volume to show him to the world as he was -to present him as he appeared in his daily walk and conversation, to trace the manner in which he arrived at his conclusions, to follow him into his closet and places of retirement, -to unfold the work- ings of his mind through a long series .of years, and scan closely his motives. These things are shown of him by large extracts from his unstudied private correspondence, by his published writings, by nar- rations of interviews with him, accounts of his pub- lic labors in the various places he visited, a full presentation of his views, with the manner of their conception, and various reminiscences of interest in connection with his life. The revivals of religion which attended his labors, are here testified to by those who participated in them ; and hundreds of souls, it is believed,will ever regard him as a means, under God, of their conver- sion. The attention given to his arguments caused many minds, in all denominations, to change their views of the millennial state ; and as the christian public learn to discriminate between the actual po- sition of Mr. Miller, and that which prejudice has conceived that he occupied, his memory will be much more justly estimated. -The following notice of this volume is from the "Theological and Liter- ary Journal." This volume is worthy of a perusal by all who take an interest in the great purposes God has re- vealed respecting the future government of the world. If the first chapters descend to a detail of incidents that are of little moment, and betray a disposition to exaggerate and over-paint, the main portion of the memoir, which is occupied with the history of his religious life, is not chargeable with that fault, and presents an interesting account of his studies, his opinions, his lectures, his disap- pointments, and his death, and frees him from many of the injurious imputations with which he was as- sailed during his last years. He was a man of vig- orous sense, ardent, resolute, and upright ; he had the fullest faith in the Scriptures as the word of God, and gave the most decided evidence that he understood and felt the power of their great truths. Instead of the ambitiousness of a religions dema- gogue, he was disinterested ; his great aim in his advent � His de- meanor, on the confutation of his calculations re- specting the advent, was such as might he expected from an upright man. Instead of resorting to sub- terfuges to disguise his defeat, he frankly confessed his error, and while he lost faith in himself, retain- ed his trust undiminished in God, and endeavored to guard hie followers from the dangers to which they were exposed, of relapsing into unbelief, or losing their interest in the great doctrine of Christ's premillennial coming. A Volume for the Times. "THE TIME OF THE END." This volume of over 400 pages, compiled by the present editor of the Advent Herald and published in 1856,treats "the time of the end," (Dan. 12: 9,) as a prophetic period preceding the end ; during which there was predicted to be a wonderful in- crease of knowledge respecting the prophecies and periods that fill up the future of this world's dura- tion, to the final consummation. It presents various computations of the times of Daniel and John ; copies Rev E. B. Elliott's view of "our present position in the prophetic calen- dar," with several lectures by Dr. Cumming, and gives three dissertations.on the new heavens and the new earth, ny Drs. Chalmers, 1Iitchcock, and Wes- ley. 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CHILDREN'S DEPARTMENT ed They felt him trembling, and they " Dear child, this will be a lesson for you soothed his fears by assuring him that they forever; thank God that you did not kill were all as safe in the care of God when it your brother ; but take care that your sad stormed as when it was calm. " He will habit of quarreling does not lead you to not suffer any thing to hurt us, unless he something worse. I hope you will now sees that it is best, my dear; and ail we ask God to forgive you and to give you his need is to love and serve him, that we may Holy Spirit, to make you loving and kind." be prepared for whatever is his will. He � Susan took her mother's advice ; her "I'll trash him, as sure as I'm. born." loves us, and will take good care of us, brother got well ; and I am happy to say These were the loud, angry words that is- whether in life or death." � that from that time she never quarreled sued from the rosy lips of a very little boy. � As he listened to the low, soothing tones again. " Why, Horace, what can you mean by of his parents, Horace sank away to gen- speaking so'?" cried aunt Grace, who was tie slumber. When he awoke, the early � THE BIBLE IN A COAL MINE. In one of the front door. � look out and See how things appeared after side of his father, who was a pious man, " My whip ; I want my whip; where is the shower. " Oh, mamma," said the and governed and educated his family ac- it 7" demanded Horace, trying to dash past child, turning pale, " God made the light- cording to the Word of God. his aunt ; but she held him fast. "Let me ring strike Jim's martin-house. The barn � The father was in the habit of carrying go, 1 say," he growled, jerking himself is hurt, too." � with him a small pocket Bible, and the son, about in a very rough, naughty manner ; � It was as Horace had said. Flow near who had received one at the Sunday school, "confound you, let me go." � to all of thent had the bolt fallen. The imitated his father in this. Thus he al- These words were hardly out of the mother thanked God for the safety of them ways had the sacred volume with him,and boy's mouth before he found himself in his all. � whenever he enjoyed a season of rest from inother's hands, and the smart applications � " Dear mamma." said Horace, with labor, he read it from the light of his lamp. which she made to the little madcap's per- quivering lips, " I hope that 1 shall never � They worked together in a newly open- son soon calmed him down. � do any thing spiteful or cruel to anybody ed section of the mine, and the father had As soon as he gave over resisting, and in the world. God punishes what is wrong. just stepped aside to procure a tool, when began to sob and cling about his mother, He sees everything, don't he, mother'?"— the arch above them suddenly fell between she took him in her lap and began to talk Am. Mess. � them, so that the father supposed his child with him. � to be crushed. He ran towards the place, " Will Horace ever again in all his life � The Quarrelsome Children. �and called to his son, who at length res- . speak in that wicked manner to his dear � � Willie and Susan Morris lived in a little ponded from under a dense mass of earth cottage on the banks of a small river.— and coal. aunt that loves him so?" " No, mamma, never," sobbed the boy. They had several brothers and sisters; but � " My son,' cried the father, "are you " Now tell aunty how sorry and asham- � living'?" I shall not say much about them, as it is ed you are, and kiss her sweetly; so that of Willie and Susan that I have to speak. � " Yes, father, but my legs are under a she may forgive you, and love you once They both went to Sunday-chool, and rock." more." � � " Where is your lamp, my son?" were very good while there ; but 1 am sor- Utterly humbled, the child obeyed, and � "It is still burning, fattier." ry to say they were not so when they came then returned to his mother's lap, for he home. Willie's teacher (Mr. Owen) was � " What will you do, my dear son ?" was � not seven years old yet, and was very kind, and the boys all loved him very � " I am reading my Bible, father, and the The "American Millennial Association," located in B os- small of his age—" an infant still," as aunt much ; and perhaps Willie would have Lord strengthens me." � ton, Mass., was legally organized Nov. 12th, 185'8, under the provisions of the 56th Chapter of the Acts of the Le- � attended better to what he said, if it had � These were the last words of that youth; gislature of Massaahusetts of A. D. 1857, for charitable Grace often said. � , " Will Horace tell mamma what put not been for Susan, who, though a year he was soon suffocated. � and religious purposes. The whole amount obtained by donations, subscriptions, or sales of publications, is to be him in such a dreadful passion ?" aske older, instead of trying to lead him right, � expended in the publication of Periodicals, Books, and his mother. � � She was �A Day's Retyospection. � Tracts, and for the support of ministers of th Gospel . set him a very bad example. All contributions to our treasury, will be duly acknow- " Yes, mamma. Jim Bailey stole my very quarrelsome, and fond of having her � ledged, and, at the end of the year, will be embodied in a new martin-house. and has got it set up 011 own way. They would even quarrel about � Pray, mother, can you tell me why report. When there is any omission of the proper credit, � such a small thing as whether it was one � Is it because I've tried all day I've so much joy to-night ? due notice should be at once given to SYLVESTER BLISS, Treasurer. the corner of his barn. 1 did' riot know it till I heard little lsIattie saying she saw a mile or two to the nearest town, though � To do just what was right ? white dove going into the martin-house. I neither of them knew ; and if they had � You tell me I must always try � ACKNOWLEDGMENTS TO TUESDAY, DEC. 10, 1861. ran to the window where she stood, up in asked their father, he would have told them � To watch "the golden rule ;" a chair, and there was my pretty new at once, and so saved them from commit- � To do as I would be done by, � DONATIONS RECEIVED SINCE NOV. 1ST—$4t0 Wanted by of Jim's barn, and a white dove had just � All my readers must know how wrong � This morning it was pretty hard � Amjaonuunat'oYflp.revious payments .... ........ ...... 20.75 Alexander Edmond, Portland, Me.... ........ .... 2.00 martin-house stuck up on a pole at the end � At home, and at my school. ting the great sin of quarreling. lit on top of it. I ran out and found Jim, it is to quarrel,—especially for brothers and � To say a kindly word � Rev. James Colder, Harrisburg, Pa .... .... � ... 8.60 and told him to take down my martin- sisters ; for the Bible tells us to live toge- � To Fanny, who was cross to me, � From Philadelphia, by J. Litch............ � .. 14.00 house, but he only laughed at me, and said ther in love. One day, however, such a � And all my temper stirred. � From the Church Jona. A. Winchester, in r, ClaremoLt, N.Il � . LH Providence, R. I., by A.Fearce.10.30 he would not ; that he bought of Pa just terrible thing happened through this sad � But, just as I was going to say I do not love you now," � Total received since Nov. 1 � .56.05 , to plague me, for he loved to plague little sin, that 1 think it quite cured them. It � The angry feeling went away, " cry-babies. Pa did not know how 1 want- was in winter, and they had been to slide � I scarcely can tell how. ed that house, but Jim did, for he heard cm a pond near the river; on their way � I said no more; but soon, I think, me talk about it. Now ma, do you won- back ' Susan asked Willie whether the tree � Poor Fanny felt quite sad; der that I was mad ?" � And something whispered to my heart � on the other � was a beech or an ash. Mamma could not help smiling. "You � " An ash l what nonsense. Willie, do � hat I could make her glad. did have quite a trial, my son," she said ; you think I can't see 1 Of course it is a � And then I felt my love come back, " and hadyou borne it well, 1 should have � � And, looking in her eye, beech," said Susan. felt proud of my son. As it was, you add- � " What did you ask rne for, if you knew � I kissed away a rolling tear, ed to your trouble the sin of revenge, im- so well ?" said Willie, sharply. " I know � And happy then was I ! prudence to your good aunt, and the pain � � Now, mother dear, will doing right it is an as of a whipping. What a foolish boy you � h. � This kind of love increase? " � " You know nothing of the kind, Wil- � I know it gives my soul to-night was." � lie. Mother says you're so positive, and � A most delicious peace ! � ANNUAL DONATIONS. � "So I was," said Horace, penitently.— always say you know whoa you only � It is desirable that there be raised by donation five or I wish I had remembered my Sunday- think." � six hundred dollars each year, by annual subscriptions ; school lesson, ' Vengeance is mine, saith � " And mother says you're very wilful, � APPOINTMENTS. � and the following may be a suitable form of pledge for the Lord.' Somehow such good things al- Susan, and set us a very bad example; and � REMOVAL. The Messiah's church in New York city thlaVtePaugrpreoeset.o pay annually in furtherance of the objects ways go out of a fellow's mind when he � � will hereafter worship in the meeting-house of the Seventh of the American Millennial Association, the sums set that is worse." needs them. Did you know that, ma ?" � " I say it's not an ash," said Susan; and day Baptist church on 11th street, between 3d and 4th against our respective names. " I am afraid I do know it too well, my giving Willie a violent push, he fell down avenues. Preaching three times each Sabbath, and week- " lecture on Wednesday evening. The prayerful support Samuel Prior, Yardleyville, Pa � 5 00 Stephen Sherwin, Grafton, Vt .... ............ .... 1.00 dear child," was the reply •; and the mo- the steep hank into the river. � and co-operation � • of all Christians is solicited. � Martin L. Jackson, Milesburg, Pa.... ..... .. � . 2.00 ther and the aunt exchanged glances. � Susan screamed when she saw him dis- " Well, I do not mean to say another appear under the water ; and she began to � EM. T. V. limes will hold a series of meetings in the word to Jim abour the martin-house. Let � � Advent chapel, Rutland, Vt., to commence Saturday, Dec, think she should never see him again. Her 14, at 7 o'clock P. M. and continue each day till sabbath, him enjoy it, if he can. Pa will make me screams brought Mr. Owen,who was walk- the 22d. The object of this series of meetings will be to another, I guess; won't he, mamma'?" � ing that way ; and at that moment Willie speak out on the signs 01 this time, and to show the ful- " Certainly, he is doing so now. There � � fitment of prophecy and the evidences of the kingdom of appeared again above the water, at some God at hand. It is to 13e hoped that the saints will be was no need for you to feel so bad aboutdistance down the stream. Mr. Owen ran cheered, and the lost will be saved. losing the first one; it is not half so pretty towards him, managed to get him out, and nor so good as the second one will be. Pa � � Eld. limes will commence a series of meetings (similar carried him to the house, whilst Susan ran to the above) in Poultney, Vt., Dec 24, and continue has got his hand in now, he says." � behind, thinking she had killed him. � over the sabbath, and longer, if thought best. So Horace, after washing — his face, and When they got to the cottage, Willie was kissing his mother and his aunt Grace put to bed, and Susan was sent to take � 1 have appointments to preach as follows : Bristol, Sun- The No. appended to each name is that of the HERALD CO twice on each cheek, ran out to the barn care of the little children. The hour that day, Dec. 8th; Loudon Ridge, Sunday, Dec. 29th. �which the money credited pays. No. 1023 was the closzng T. M. PREBLE. � number of 1860; No. 1049 is the Middle of the present to watch the making of the new martin- passed before she saw her brother again � volume,extending to July 1, 1861; and No 1075 is to the seemed to her the longest she had ever � If God permit, I will preach in Westboro', Sabbath, � close of 1861. Notice of any failure to give due credit house. That night, as Horace lay in bed, there spent. She sat with the baby on her knee, Dec. 15; Lowell, 22d; Lawrence, 29th. � G. W. BURNHA3L � should be at once communicated to the Business Agent. arose a terrible thunder-storm. The little in too great an agony to think. boy was aroused by hearing his mother � "Oh ! if I have killed him, if I have � The next session of the WesternQuarterly Conference shutting all the windows. " Oh let me � will commence Thursday P. M. at 6 o'clock, Dec. 19, at killed him, what shall I do 7" thought she. come into your bed, mamma," he begged ; � � Sevey's Corner, Vienna, and continue over the following At last her mother came out, arid told Lord's day. Come, brethren and sisters, to the work.— " I am afraid I shall die." � H. B. SEVEY, Recorder. her that he was alive and sensible now.— Call on His father immediately lifted the boy in " But how did it happen, Susan T' said � L C. WELLCO3fE, Clerk. his strong arms and carried him across the ,he, room. � How glad was the little fellow to � "0 mother ! I did it," � A series of meetings will be held, if the Lord will, in said Susan. And the Stone school house—about a mile north of Beebe nestle close between his dear parents while she then told the whole story. � Plain—commencing Wednesday, Dec. 25th, aad holding the thunder rolled, and the lig � g h tnin flash- � over the Sabbath. The following will probably be the or- When she had finished, her mother said, der of services : monthly covenant meeting on Christmas BOSTON, DECEMBER 11, 1861. " FEED MY LAMBS."—John 21:15. Who shall Avenge? M AssocrArtoN. The standing committee of the American Millennial Association will hold their regular quarterly meeting on Tuesday, Jan. 14th, 1862, 10 A. M., at 46 1-2 Kneeland street, Boston, Mass. J. LITCH, Pres't. F. GUNNER, Rec. Sec'y. just corning from the parlor as her little sun was shining into the chamber win- the coal mines in England, a youth, about nephew, in a red-hot passion, sprang in at dows. He sprang from bed, and ran to fifteen years of age, was working by the BUSINESS DEPARTMENT. BUSINESS NOTES. H. Canfield. Sent Restitution Dec. 4th. E. 11. Brister. Have sent your paper to Philadelphia, in care of J. Litch. The "unpublished articles" referred only to those of the enquirer. Yours has now been reach- ed, and all referred to are on file. P.W. Biggins. Thank you for a subscriber, and for the promise of increased effort. D. T. Taylor. Sent tract the 5th. J. A. Heagy, of Morrisville. Have sent the books, on the 6th, by Adams Express, to Trenton City, N. J., but have heard nothing from the other letter. M'Cain, $1. Sent book the 7th. J. Litch. The Herald being already paid to the end of 1862, the whole has been credited as you will see. H. Odbert. We know of no establishment of that kind, but presume that it is irresponsible—we having heretofore investigated and found that several bogus concerns have attempted to impose on the public by pretending to be en- gaged in that business. A. Pearce. Would put them at 40 cts each. Joseph Kenney. Have mailed to you the 10th inst. v. 1 of Great Preparation, ordered in your letter of July 17. We could not get it in the city at the time. J. R. Fenton, $1. Sent you " Restitution" the 10th. H.W. Miller. Sent you vol. 1 of Great Tribulation the 10th inst. D. Elwell. 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RECEIPTS, UP TO TUESDAY, DEC. 10. C F Millett 1023-52 due Jan 1; Phillip Higgins 1101, H Guild 1067, J Woodward 1084, N Branch Jr 1101, S S Garvin 1095, G Davis 1049-51 due Jan. 1st ; II Odbert 1101, and $1 to Laura Darbee, as suggested in your letter, to No. 1153; 0 W Allen 1101. S Jackson 1101, R Turner 1088, Wesley Beebe 1101, A Blake 1091, J w Heath 1085 D Elwell 1101, George W Wilson 1101—each $1. J V Bower 1093, J G Talford 1101, Mrs E Peacock 1127 Rev J Colder 1127, Mrs E Wallace 1127—each $2. Ira Bradford 1127, J Lance 1049—$1 due—each $3. Edward Smith 1127, $2.50—It just paid to end of 1862, which we suppose was what you intended.