"THIS SAME JESUS w:no IS TAKEN UP FROM YOU I~TO HEAVEN, SHALL SO COME IN LIKE MANNER AS YE RAVE SEEN RIM GO INTO HEAVEN." 
BOSTON AND NEW YORK, MARCH 3, 1847. _ 
THE ADVENT 
sent time, the writer agreed with the rna-ble satanic agency by·which it was pro-ing Gospel shall be preached in ,all na-
ls rvBLisHED EvEnv wEDNEsDAY 
jority of commentators in supposing that duced and supported; identifying the tions, then will have come the sea on for 
A"r 110. 9 MILK-S'l'REE T, BoSTON, 
the term" year," as used in this passage, I whole by meaus of Daniel's symbols of :mch fall of Babylon and for such judg-
BY J. V.' HUIES. 
signifies the s'ame as "time" in other! the ten-horned beast, with the Roman ment. 
From Rev. 17tli we learn .that 
r1a••-•l per votum~t flf 26 Numbers. es ror Six places-1,hat is, :l60 days-and that the Empire both in its undivided and divided Babylon signifies Papal Rome, the wine 
copilf~· · tu for Tllirteen copies. 
whole chronological term hence signified' state. 
_ 
of whose fornication all nations have 
All eommnnir.ations, ·orders, or remittances, for this 
olllce, •hould be directe<l tn "J V. £-JlMES, Boston, 
MMU." (pcllit pai1l). 
Snb~crihers' namt:s, with their 
Post·otftce !tdLlrt:ss, should be di•tinctly given when 
Meney ~ furwanJed. 
Words of Peace. 
Thy chariot whef'ls, 0 God of Ion! 
Are linl('riug yet in heRveo above; 
WMry RIUJ sari, thy r.h1ldren WRit 
Tillaugel hauds uufuJLI the gate. 
391 years. 
The event having-proved 
It c.ommences ith the persecutions of drunk, and therefore it is the season of her 
that this is a wrong supposition, the wri-the Church under the heathen emperors judgment that is come! 
ter now concludes with Faber, Elliott, and -the ultimate and complete triumph of 
lt is pos ible that in the short interval 
some others, that it ought to be consid-Christianity over Paganism-and the of her remaining existence, like a wild 
ered a Julian year, or 365 1-4, makihg subsequent barbarian invasions. 
After beast struggling for lifP., Popery may once 
the whole perlod 396 1-4 year::;. This this, it proceeds to give ( 1) a full des-more be permilted to bite and devour, and 
reckoned as formerly, from the 29th of cription and character of the ten Papal thus manifest her real chnractea: before 
May, 1453, the day when Mahomet II. kingdoms into which the Western Em-those who are 
~o unwilling to be con-
took Constantinople, and overthrew the pire was divided; and (2) of the Papacy vinced. 
Most a suredly there is yet dan· 
Eastern Empire, will bring its termina-itself; identifying.in the closest manner ger from her. 
Tbis appears hy the aw-
Tnose cllttriot wlieel~ will grind to dust 
· 
f 
How IIHUl)' a ~h"pe uf eartllly tru~t! 
tion to the· autumn of 1849. Although 'the exi. tence and doings of the one'with ful and impressive warning o the third 
Tney will nor crusilthe t•earlthatlie• 
it is not wished to lay undue stress on this those of the other; and giving to the and next angel, against joining in her 
D~eJ• bid iu faitillt!l soul-aud wi-e. 
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d 
We~ry and ud thy cllildren8tand, 
cone uston, yet it commends itself to the former the same dnration as had been wors ip, or eing in any \lay connecte 
Their murmur sp .. eau~ frnmlnnd to tand. 
writer's own deliberate judgment. 
previously given to the latter, viz. forty with her. 
Whether tins danger will be 
"How lelnJ:-IItou God of love, how lOIIJl-
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s:a"u hat11 aud ,c.m1 011 eartll be atroui ?" 
.-not er 1rect notice or s a -an 
wo mon s, or 
rea years. 
con ne 
o er presen mos 
1 y an s -
Tile enviou~ h:ue, tllat will nnt ~ee 
ow ~f the evening, here occurring to give 
At the termination of this predicte.d ducti ve .ro~rse, such as 
i~ exhibited. in 
Thy truth, is truth, if crowueu it IJe; 
notice of our Lord's coming, and of the period of their mutually relative· exist-Tractarmmsm and the Maynoot~ quest1~n, 
Tit"" :&""-lilt scorn, th11tlilr uloof 
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th 
d f th 
Breathes cluo:n ou any • Ubri•tl"-n roor. 
ay of vengeance, r.onsists in those par· ~nee, (and notwithstanding all human or w e 
e~, as 
~ wo~ so 
IS warmng 
Kiiuue, o God, tlly ar11 within, 
ticul r~ which are connected with the speculations apd schemes to the contrary, seem to. Imply, 1t 
~tl_l extend to severe · 
To br!ind our ownlllnst r.rwishl'!d •in, 
slaying of the two witnesses: and here nei er t .. Papacy nor the Papal nations persecutiOn, time wdl soon unfold.-
ln homll·IJIUII 'IVt"edsallhu' it hide, 
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Or (tmdly rai111eut, purple-dyed. 
t ere ale certain interna mar s whic 
will last one hour longer than is here de-
ang~r, JOWever, an 
I a o. no comm.on 
Tile sin tllrlt kee111 thine 0,,.11 apart, 
show that the events of the French Revo-creed) the rescued ahd translated Church, magmtude, assured!~ th~re IS, otherwt~e 
Plnr.k tlluu ttull evil fru111 our. heart, 
lution are again si0
.~ified. In the first now so despised by the powers that be, is there.would be no pomt m such emphatiC 
WJ1ile yet we hearken tor rhe cr.v 
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f 
At ilead of ui~ltt-" 1 he Lord isniill." 
place, they were to happen when the represented as rejoicing in the presence of w~r?mgs. 
ence 
e rue o owers o 
Did•t tbou not say that love snontd wane, 
1260 years' duration of Popery should God in heaven. 
It i3 described under Chnst .are called upon to cntrenr~ th~m-
E'er tbou fmu• braveu wuuhlst come a'"inl 
be about to terminate. 
Seconrlly, when the symbol of 144,000, the same as in selves m the strong-holds of theu faJ.th, 
0 Lord of trnth, it filileth IIO\V1 
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N1"' let the hravcu11 h~ne~tth thee bow. 
there wouJd be a great earthquake, in Rev. 7, whereby we are to understand an yrepare t emse ves or 
~ c9n IC , 
Now brin)t thy glorious l.ingtlom neRr, 
Tby chttrint wbeeld, we luug to henr; 
For Nt'YI'red hean• will join ns nne 
To lluill.ttee, God'-li:Lerual Su11! 
Ths Shadowa of the Evening : 
OR THE 
Signs or the Lortl's Speedy Return. 
which one of the ten kingdoms would that the general course of eyents had let 1t a.ssume '~hatever form.Jt may.-
fall, and in which all titles of honor and reached the point of time which that "Here ts the patience of the samts ;· here 
distinction would be abolished. 
And, chapter treats of, and of which the events are they that kee~ the comma~dmentR of 
thirdly, when a: successful attack would of the sixth seal were the wide-spread God, and the fa1th of J sus. . Let t~e 
be made on the reliO'ion of Jesus Christ siO'ns. 
Church remember for her gUJdance m 
in '~the s~reet of th~ great city," the cen~ 
~:>Here we have another proof that the these perilous times, that the command-
tral kingdom of the empire, and be there immediate event connected with the close ments of Popery are not the comman.d-
succesEful for three years and a half, after of the 1260 Popish years, will be the m~nts of God here spoken of; nor Us 
which it would resume its former stand-coming of the Lord and the translation faith of Jesus. 
ay MA.1''l'HE\V HA.BRRSIIOlf. 
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of his sttints, fulfilling the prophecy of 
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_ave now co~e to 1 e 
(Coutinned rrum onr l&~~t.) 
These things all happened when "the Paul who speakinu of "that wicked " last and most definite of the evenmg shad-
XX.-The next prophecv is that of the signs appeared in the sun, in the moon, says,' " wh,orn the Lord shall consu~e ows-not, indeed, altogether fresh one~, 
"seven trump ts." The ~pochs of his-and in the stars; when the sea and waves with the spirit of his mouth, and destroy ~ut those that have g:one before, arranged 
t?ry to which these belong, do not refer, roaredJ and men's hearts failed them for with the brightness of his coming; " m regular con~eruttve or~er, expressed 
like .the seven seals, to acts of legitimate fear of those things that were coming on which coming is afterwards described in as the symboltcal outpourmgs of seven 
empne, but to the most fearful wars and the earth,'' spoken of by our Lord as be-the same chapter as that of the Son of vials; or the seven last PLAGUES! 
inYa ions. 
Those of this character which ing preparatory to His coming; all of Man coming in the clouds of heaven, and 
These possess one great advant~ge over 
stand pre-eminent in historv, as havinO' which, we have seen, refer to the above reaping the harvest of the earth. 
the preceding, in the almost unanimous 
tarried in their train the gre~test and mo~ great catastrophe-the French Revolu-
The intermediate verses contain new consent of eminent commentators to the 
~rmanent min an1 misery to tlte visible tion-and were then fulfilled. 
Nothing, and appropriate signs, or evening shad-fir!!t five of tltm signifyin~ the five dis-
cborch and to the empire, have been the therefore, now remains but that "blessed ows. 
· tinct act!', or phases, through whir.h thf! 
Wars of-lst. The Goths under Alaric. hope," the glorious appearing of the great 
The first-and which is confessedly French Revolution passPd from 1789 to 
~~. Tilt-Huns under Attila. 3d. The God and our Savior Jesus Christ. when the most prominent feature in what is 1815; since whatever difference of opin-
Yandal under Genseric. 4th. The Heruli "a great voice" will summon his church, called the religious world, while it distin-ion there may be among the mof!t en•i· 
lh the overthrow of the Western Empire and they will "ascend to heaven in a guishes it from every former age-is the nent modf:'rn interpreters as to the import 
&"der Odoacer. 5th. The Sarar.ens i and, cloud." 
preaching of the Gospel throughout the of other parts of the .4pocalypse, they 
7 ~·The Turk~. The S?und!ng of the 
"The end of the second woe," which whole world. Although, generally, those here all agree. This is a circumstance 
t is fulure, because "the kmgdom of is "the time of the enrl," both the one engaged in the work of MLsionary and which give the highest sanction to apply-
r Lord and of His Christ," which the and the other being described as the end Bible Societies persist that this is for the ing that expression "the king," in Dan. 
prophecy dedares it shall be when the of the Turkish or Mahometan power, conven:ion of the world, yet its object is 11 : 36, 39, to Napoleon,-to the inter-
Vet	h trumpet shall sound. 
. 
will the.n have arrived, and the third ana here declared to be that it may" proclaim pretation which thE> writer of this has 
Previous, however, to the commence-last woe will come "quickly!" 
with a loud voice, the hour of his judg-given to the" signs" of our Lord's prophE'-
ment or this great" Sabbath of mankind," 
XXII:-The general and concluding mentis come." This, therefore, must be cy and the sixth seal; as also, to applying 
!t!,e a~e direct as well as collateral no-apocalyptic prophecy commences at the the right meaning of it! 
the slaying of the two witnesses to the 
gtven a, sio s d 3 warnings of its twelfth chapter, and gives the combined 
The second announcement is, that same great event. 
!Pin'o8Ch. 
The first is chronological. effects of all the former epochs, both of ~'Babylon is fallen,"-not that we are 
It is further remarkable, as a roncur-
deseribing the ol"erthrow Q( the East-the Seals and Trumpets, as they have thereby to understand that the fall has ac-ring fact, that just this prophetic divif'ioa 
Empire by the Turks, it is declared borne towards and settled down upon the tually taken place, any more than in the of the distinct scenes in' the French ReY-
~ ey were" prepared for an ho1tr, a interests of the Church of Christ, ex-preceding Terse that the precise hour of olution is markt'd out by historians ··~o 
'tltonth, and a year." Dow'n to little plaining particularly the Papal rule, both his judgment is arrived. The informa-make no reference to prophecy; an •n-
an a twelvemonth from the pre· secular and ecdesiastic'al, and the invisi-tion conveyed is, that when the everlas(-stance of which has been given at large 
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THE ADVENT HERALD. 
in ·our." Exposition," from the great work dered an appeal to the sword apparent!} Therefore, the people watch their minis-the tempest !" Even so, Lord ~esus! 
of Alison. 
A similar one occurs in inevitable. 
Like birds of prey hovering ter, and the minifiter is afraid of his peo-Come quickly! 
AMEN.· 
Koch's History of Europe, lately pub-over a carcase, tbey each contend for pie. 
For if he studies independently, if 
lished in English from the German.-sway in the East, hoping to bear away he goes outside of the bool<, if he slips 
This writer cc;>mmences by observing, rich portions of its spoils, yet each fearful the handcuff, the people tremble-it will 
The Sacred m:ountains. 
that" The French Revolution forms one to ~trike the blow; while in the mean time not please-the opposition will seize it-
n 
J. T. HsAni.Ev. 
of them 
extraordinary events recorded the Turkish government is so prostrated, we shall be unpopular-we shall not sue-
MouNT s1 N A I. 
in the annals of Europe-hat it does not that it is ruled at the caprice of England, ceed! 
Standing in the midst of son.e Qf the 
comprelrend more than twenty-five years, France, or ussia, as the case may be, 
Oh, woful day! Oh, nnhappj church most de~olate scenery in the world, Mount 
but that in the course of that time the and often knows not which to obey.-( To of Christ! 
Fast rushing round and Sinai lifts its huge form into the heavens, 
condition of Europe was entirely changed. be continued.) 
round the fatal cirde of absorbing ruin ! like some monster slumbering in con-
The politi<:al system which it had cost 
Thou sayest, I am rich, and increased in scious strength. Its bald and naked sum-
the combined labors of 300 years to rear, 
The Bible a Sufficient Creed. 
goods, and have need of nothing; and mit-its barren and rocky sides, and all 
'~as overturned from its basis, burying 
knowest not that thou art poor, and mise-its sombre featu~es, correspon~ perfectly 
kmgdoms and whole nations in its ruins." nv cuo~.aLu nEcun, oF THE P.JIEsnYTP:RI.ul cHuacH. rable, and blind, and naked ! 
to the surroundmg scene. 
It is a wild 
He thus proceeds, "The twenty-five 
2 Tim. 3:16, 17-" All Sr.ripture is given by 
Thus are the ministry of th~ Evangeli-and desolate spot, and were there eYen1lo 
years of which we are now to give a inspiration of God, and is profitahle for doctrine, cal, Protestant denominations, not onl v associations connectrd with. it, the loneli-
brief outline, are so crowded with events, for reproof, for correction, for in!truction in right-formed all the way up, under a tremen-ness and gloom that surround it woul~ 
that for the sake of ~erspicuity, it will be eousness: that the man of God may be perfect, dous pressure of merely human fear, but arrest the traveller, and cause him to 
"thoroughly furnished unto all go~>d works." 
· 
necessary to divide t em into separate pe-
(Concluded.) 
they live, and move, and breathe, in a shudder as he pitched his tent under its 
riods. 
In the history of France the na· 
Accept the Bible and the book, and state of things radically corrupt, anJ 1\P· shadow. 
But Mount Sinai has associa-
tural divisions are the following, viz.:-you may 1put your own private construe-pealing every hour to every baser ele-Lions that render it chief among the Sa-
" 1st. From the op<'ning of the States-tion on both, as every one does. 
Accept ment of their nan~re, to hush up the cred Mountains. 
The moral, the divine 
General, May 15, 1789, till the abolition the Bible, and put your own private con-truth, and bow the kn,ec to the power of instructions given to man from its sum.: 
of the Monarchy and the Constitutional struction on that-tlle great paw of the apostacy. 
mit, are of course the things of chief im-
~overnment, August 10, 1792. 
Beast is on you. 
This is what 1 call 
Dimly does every one now and then portance, but as these are always wholly 
"2nd. The Reign of Terror, from taking'the Bible out 0( the hands of the see that things are going wrong. 
With dwelt upon, I speak only of the outward 
August 10, 1792, till October'26, 1795, ministry. 
sighs does every true heart confe!Ss that scenes amid which they were imparted. 
when the Convention ceased to govern 
Will it b~ said that these fears are im-rottenness is somewhere, but ah, it is Nor is this without its use; for we, half 
France. 
aginary? Imaginary? 
Did not the Rev. hopeless of reform. 
We all pass on, and the time, lose the freshness, I might. ~ay 
"3rd. The Republican Government, John M. Duncan, of Baltimore, in the the tide rolls down to Night. 
the naturalness of much that is said in the 
from Oct. 26, 1795, till May 18, 1804, year 1825-6, or thereabouts, sincerely 
The time has come when men, having Bible, by involving it in a sort of super· 
when Bonaparte was declared Emperor. believe the Bible? Did he not even be-itching ears, and forms of godliness with-natural indefiniteness. \Ve remoce the 
"4th. The Reign of Napoleon Bona-lieve substantially the confession of faith 1 out the power. are heaping to themselves persons and the objects, and in doing it 
·parte, from May 18, 1804, till March 30, And was he not, for daring to say what teachers, when they will not endure lose the power which familim· scenes al-
1814, when the Allies entered Paris. 
the Westminster Assembly said, that to sound doctrine, but are turned asida unto ways have over the mind. 
There can be 
H 5th. The Restoration of the Bourbon require the reception of that Creed as a fables. 
And the whole has come about a no more striking illustration of this 
Dynasty, after an exile of more than test of ministerial qualification, as an un-stealthily, nobody knows how, among truth than in the different effects produced 
twenty years." 
warrantable imposition, brought to trial, good men, out of good motives! 
on a congregation by. the diffe!ent man-
The only point, and it is' but a slight condemned, excommunicated, and the 
Was not this the way things went with ner in whieh some descriptive scene in 
one, wherein this division varies :&om pulpit declared vacant? 
Rome 1 Are we not Jiving her life over the Bible is rear]. 
One will read in a 
prophecy, is, that the 4th ought to be 
There is nothing imaginary in the again 1 And what do we see just ahead? strained, monotonous voice, as if natural-
limited to the prosperity of Napoleon's statement that the Creed-Power is now Another General Council! 
A ·world's ness betokened too great'familiarity with 
reign, "The scorching of the sun," which beginning to prohihit the Bible, as really Convention! Evangelical Alliance! and sacred thing~. and is astonished that men 
ended about the middle of 1812; mak-as Rome did, th~ugh in ~a subtl~r way. Universal Creed! 
care so little for the rending of the Scrip-
ing the 5th to refer to his defeats, mis-During the whole course of seven years' 
And what then is to be done? I know tures. 
Another, n if he himself were 
fortunes, and dethronement-when that study, the Protestant candidate for the not what others may say, vut if ever I narrating the facts for the first time, and 
sun became shrouded in darkness. 
ministry sees before him an authorized shrink from declaring that the B1ble, the every e":7e and ear i fixerl. 
If th rrnci· 
XXIV.-The above are shadows of statement, spiked down and stereotyped, whole Bible, and nothing but the Bible, is fixion could be made definite as .a common 
the evening which have passed-those of what he MUST find in the Bible, or be the perfect and thorough furniture of the murder scene, and the agony in the gar· 
of the present time are contained in the martyred. 
And does any one, acquainted Christian minister, and the Christian den as familiar a the throes and torture 
next, or Sixth Vial, which affords a test with human nature, need be told that he church, then may my right hand forget of a friend in the extremest agony of 
-still in active operation, pressing on the studies under a tremendous pressure of her cunning, and my tongue cJeave unto human nature, they would not, they could 
attention of all, and giving the clearest motive 1 Is that freedom of opinion?-the roof of my mouth. 
not, be r~ad with s'o little feeling as they 
additional signs, for anticipating that the "the liberty wherewith Christ maketh 
Brethren, you set' the' standard, that are.. 
~a1d a lawyer to me once, "Yo~ 
nHt great political epoch which shall ar-free?" 
Rome would have given that. has been unfurled this day. 
What will Clmstmns }o e half tbe _benuty of the BI-
rive, will be in irnmediate ~:onnexion with Every one of her clergy might have stu-you do 1 It is the standard of the Cross .. ble ?Y puttmg you~ mmds mto such a 
our Lord's second coming. 
. 
died the Bible to find there the Pontifical it is the banner of the Spirit of the Lord! stramed, solemn attitude the moment you 
The space of time which, this Sixth creed on pain of.death. 
"\Vas that lib-Rally around it. 
Away with your fears open it. I take it up as I would a. law 
Vial occupies, is that during which the erty? 
of other denominations! Away with book, an~ ~ew truths, new beauty, an:, 
four angels are represented in chap. 7th 
Hence, I say, that liberty of opinion. in false policy! 
Rally around this central new subhmHy aprea: on every pa.ge. 
as holdin!! the winds of heaven, which our Theoloaical Seminaries, is a mere principle look to the Lord and you are Our senses are the mlets to our mmds. 
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was immediately to follow the entire ces-form. 
To say nothing of the thumb-
1mpregnable. 
The waves of the comincr 
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eit~ acts on t IS prmmp e "" _en 
sation of the French Revolution in 1815. screw of criticism, by which ev-ery origi-conflict which is to convulse Christendo~ ac.compames all developments of himself 
It describes that during this period, thirty nal mind is tortured into negative proprie-to her centre, are beginning to be felt. wllh such remarkable outward arpea:-
years of which have pas ed, (1) The Ot· ty, the whole boasted liberty of the student The deep heavings. begin to swell beneath anc_es. 
Even· the Son of God must die 
toman Empire shall waste away to its consists in a choice of chains-a choice of us. 
"All the old !::i17ns rai'l , 
" God amid the throbs of an earl hqt•ake, the 
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extinction; and (2) That the three Spirits handcuffi--whether he will wear the Pres· answers no more by U rim and Thurn-ren mg o graves an t e ottrng ou 
of Despotism, Infidelity, and Popery, de-byterian handcuff, or the Methodi t, Rap· mim, nor by dream, nor by' prophet." the sun. 
T~e giving of the Jaw,_ to;d 
nominated "the Spirits of Demons," tist, Episcopal, or other EvanD"elical hand-Men's hearts are failin17 them for fear was done am1d scenes that were des1gn 
h.ould be in a remarkable degree ram-ruff. 
Hence, it has secretl/come to pass and for lool<inD" after tho;e thin17s that ar~ never to be forgotten, 
pant in society, for the pur ose of gather-that the ministry themselves dare not corAing upon t'he earth. 
Thu~ders mut-
Beh~ld th.;.) white tents of Israel ~eat­
ing all" kings together t he greatest of study their Bibles. Large portions there· ter in the distance. 
Winds moan across tered like snow flake at the base of th~tt· 
aU battles. 
of are seldom touched. It lies useless the surging bosol')l of the deep. 
All 
tree~ess, barren mountain. 
The hum of 
The first of these striking political lumber; or if they do study and search, things betide ,the rising of that final a m1ghty population is there, and tho .e 
features of the present moment, viz., the they dare not show their people what storm of divine indignation which shl'lll flow!ng te~t on which th~ parting sun 15 
gradual weakening and dismemherment they find there. 
There is something cri-!::Weep away the vain refuges of lies. lcaYmg h1s farewell glone!i are the onl_y 
of the Mahometan powers, has since, and minal in saying anything new. 
It is When " the Lord shall rause~his glorious pleasing objer.ts that meet the· eye i? thiS 
within the above period, stood forward shocking to utter words that have not the voice to be heard, and shall show the dreary region. A solemn hush I 
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mo t promin~mt1y to public recognition. mould of age upon them. 
lighting down his arm, with the indirrna-everyth.ing as the moon sail up the hen· 
Up to the period of the peace of 1815, 
For through the ministry the same spi-tion ot'his anrrer, and with the flam: of vens, flooding with her gentle light the 
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apparent power and almo t unbroken ter-rit ha~ been conducted to the people.-a devourinrr fire; with scatlerinrrs, and tented h~t. Moses has declare t a. 0 
ritory rem~ined to the Ottoman govern-The same penalties han()" over them. tempest, a~d hail-stones;". in tl1~t day, the thi_rd morning the e~ernal God 15 !~ 
ment. 
It Is now so utterly destitute of The denomillfttions are ~o nearly bal-what shall save us? For JUdQ"ment will place his feet on that distant mountni 
ali that con titutes the stability of an anced, the strife for power is so keen be-begin at the house of God. 
What shall top-in presence of all the people. 
AwE:b 
empire, so entirely do its vital parts seem tween them, that every fancied departure be our defence? Put your trust in Him strack and expectant, the sons of Jaco 
as It .were paralrzed and struck with dis-from that creed, is seized to make politi-whose eyes are as a flame of fire, 0~ go from tent to tent to speak of this strang: 
~olutwn, ~n~ With so much certainty i~ cal capital, as really as in any political whose head are rpany. crowns, who is event, ~n~ then. cqfO.e out and ~ook .0~ thtO 
Jts fall anticipated, tha the great powers caJilpaign. Houses must be built; snla-clothed with a vesture dipped in blood. myste:wus mountai? on 
":hie~ 1t ISs· 
of Euope have constant rivalries and rie!'l must be raised. 
This requires:: whose name is 1called THE WoRD OF transp1re. 
U nconscwus of. Its ht~h de 
diplomatic ollisions, heart~bti nihgs and wealth. 
Wealth requires numbers and GoD! .For, "behold! a king shall reign tiny1 the distant summ~t leans agamst the 
jealoaaies, in every movement that is patronage. This creates a servile dread in righteousness, and princes rule in judg-solemn .sky, and nothmg there betokens 
made respet · 
it-a state of things of novelty, fur every thing that another ment, and A MAN shall be as a hiding-preparatiOn for the stupendous scene. 
which has on more than one occasion ren-party can get hold of, strikes at the gold. place from the wind, and a covelt fr9m 
But at length the morning comes, and 
I 
,. 
'EHE ADVENT HERALD. 
that vast encampment is fillecl with the in the mean dme had passed over its dark voice IiUe a trumpet call t~rough the host, 
murmur of the movir1g multitude, all form. 'A serene anu pure radiarJ~e began cried out, " Whoever is on the Lord's 
uuned anxiously to 'distant 'Sinai. 
And to pl11y around it, quivering like a bright side, Jet him come to me!" The son of 
)Dr a solitary cloud comes drifting along light with its own intensity. 
Brighte~ Levi separated themselves from the crowd 
the morning sky and catches against the and brighter It grew till the 
ey~ turned and flocked about him. 
"Seize now, 
top of the mountain. 
So have I seen a away dazzled by the sight. 
Brighter (said he to these,) every man his sword, 
cloud ca1.1:;,ht by an Alpine summit and still it gleamed till it seemed a glowing and go in and out from gate to gate 
held firmly there. 
But the most vivid furnace, shooting forth living fire on eve-throughout the camp, ~od slay every man 
impression I ever got of this scene was ry side. 
Its wrathful streaks streamed his brother, and every man his compan-
from Mount Vesuvius. 
The mysterious down the mountain, filling the cavities ion, and every man his brother." 
Amid 
cloud it wraps around its own head, con-with deeper gloom, touching every rock the silence that followed were heard sobs 
cealing the brightness and terror within, and crag with flame, and bathing the and cries of despair; and lo ! that terri-
always reminded me of the cloud on Si-white tents in a lurid light. 
And when ble band, with drawn swords press into 
nai. 
And then· the tenacity with which the night came on, and darkness wrapped the throng. 
There is no shout of battle, 
it woultl cling there. 
\Vhim the mid-the world, that mountain was one blaze no cry of anger, though the sword drinks 
night heavens were black with tempests, of glory, shedding a strange lustre on the blood at every step. 
The moan of des-
and the sea was one wild waste of waves, barren scene, and revealing every face pair and the sudden death-shriek alone 
and ·the douds were dashing like mad-and form of that immense host, as if thev tell where those stern warriors pass.-
dened spirits over the s~cy before the stood beneath a Burning palace,-paint-And now, enveloped in the dense mass, 
blast-with every· flash of lightning that ing with terrible distinctness, and in line the eye can tell where they move only 
illumined the gloom, I have caught the of fire, the surrounding landscape. 
The by the flash of dripping swords, as they 
distant top of Vesuvius with th.at cloud stars went out before its brilliancy, and sweep in angry circles above their heads. 
around its head, moveless as a rock amid the moon looked dark ~n its splendor. Though their hearts bleed at every stroke, 
the furious blast, while thunder and flame For six days. and nights did the glory and a deeper paleness is on their brow as 
and motion were within. 
So did th~ flame on, shedding such a baptism on they sheathe their weapons in theil breth-
eloud rest on Sinai as the people looked, the wondering camp as was never before rens' bosoms, and the lip quivers bsfore 
and suddenly the thtuider began to speak witnessed by mortal eye, for "the sight the beseec.hing look of a once beloved 
from its depths, and the fierce lightning of the glory of the Lord was like a de-friend, their steadfast hearts must feel no 
traversed its bosom, gleaming and fliish-vouring fire on the top o( the mount in the relenting. 
The dead lie in swaths where 
ing through every part of it. 
That cloud eyes of the childre of Israel." Little they go, and their weary arms droop be-
was God's pavilion; the-thunder was its sleep was in the tents of Jayob then, for neath the protracted slaughter, yet on, on 
sentinels, and the lightning the lances' each one held his breath in awe, wonder-they press, till three thousand corpses 
points as they moved round the sacred iog what next woulp happen in this sue-Gumber the field. 
Terrible scene-~e:ri­
trust. 
The commotion which from the cession of stranO'e scenes. 
At lenCYth ble vengeance-but the sword of D1vme 
first arrested every eye and chained every that voice, before 
0 which nature her;elf Justice is ever awful. 
tongne, grew wilder every moment, till s'eemed to change, again issued from the 
Why speak of the after repentance and 
ihe surce:; ive claps of thunder were like cloud, callinQ' Moses to a second interview. consecration-of the second ascent into 
the explosion of ten thousand cannon T kinO' Joshua with him, he again as-Sinai-of the passing of Jehovah before 
shaking the earth. 
Amid this incessant cended the hill, and was wrapped from Moses-of the still radiance that beamed 
firing of heaven's artillery, suddenly from sio·ht "forty days and forty nights." 
from his face as he came once more unto 
out the bosom of that cloud came a single 
0
But as week after week passed by; and t~e people, until they tu:ned dazzled from 
trumpet blast. 
Not like the thrilling mu-there were no farther exhibitionS, a{ld h1s presence. 
The mtghty pageant at 
ie of a thousand trumpets that herald Moses did not return, the people passed length closed-the cloud-column ~ose 
the shock of cavalry; but one solitary from idleness into pleasure, anJ from from before the tabernacle and moved mto 
clarion note, with no ~inking cadence and pleasure into infidelity, and at length em-the desert; the tents were stru~k; a~d 
rising swell, but an infinite sound rising boldened by their own numbers assem-the host, headed by that mystenons ptl-
in its ascension power, till the universe s~mbled tumultuously together' and de-lar, i? one long column disappeared ~n 
was filled with ti\e strain. 
The inces-manded another God, saying," As for this the wJlderness, _and that fear~ul mountam 
sant thunders that rock the h~?iO'hts can-man Moses, who has brought us here, we was left once more alone armd the }>leak 
not drown it, for clearer, fuller, louder, it do not know what has become of him." anci barren scenery. 
peals on over the astonished spectators, The golden calf was made, and the in-
Turn:d h)to sapphire by Jeh.ova~'s feet, 
till their hearts sink aWfl:Y in fear, and toxicated throng danced around it. 
What consecrated by h1s touch, and baptize~ b~ 
nature herself stands awe-struck and a scene was there! . Right at the foot of ~he cloud of fue and of glory, Mo.unt Smat 
trembling before it. 
And lo ! columns of Sinai, where a month before they had stood the thud Sacred Mountazn on the 
smoke begin to rise fast and furious, from heard the thunders, and trumpet, and earth. • . 
that mysterious doud, as if a volcano had voice, and seen the lightnings and the glo-
~~~~~~~ 
opened in its bosom, and the p<?nt-up ele-ry; danc~d, and shouted, and sung,in bac-
Future ·Probation.-Ely, 
ments wet·e rlischarging themselves in chanalian frenzy the naked multitude-
the upper air; and the steady mountain hailing in boisterous shouts a golden calf 
racks to antl fro on its base, as if in the as their god! 
What a contr11st to the 
grill p of an earthqnake. 
"And the scene p<}!'lsing on the top of the mountain 
8moke thereof ascended as the smoke of between Jehovah and Moses! l · 
great furnace, and the whol 
mount 
In the midst of this wild and blasphe-
,uaked greatly." 
mous revel, Moses was seen descending, 
mid thi rapid roll of thunder, and with thoughtful step, the distant slope, 
fa~hing of lightning, and fiercely a cend-bearing in his arms the tables of the law. 
ing 
olumes of smoke, ahd convulsive At length, as he and Joshua, in serious 
robs of Sinai, and while that trumpet converse, passed along, they came within 
o.in still " waxed louder and louder," hearing of the tumult below. 
Suddenly 
Moses led the trembling Israelites forth stopping, they turned their anxious eyes 
to th~ foot of the mountain. 
Suddenly to the white tents, far, far down in the 
lite U!lruar ceased, and the thunders valley, and Joshua said," 'I'here is fight-
a ~eli their voice, and the last echo of ing in the camp: I hear the sound of 
Uae tr11mpet died away, and all was still. battle." 
But the practised ear of Moses 
nd from that silent cloud came a voi e knew too well the meaning of that con-
more fearf11l than they all-the voice of fused murmur. 
"No," said he, "that i 
lehovab calling Moses up into the mnunt. not the shout of victors in the pursuit, nor 
f:he great lawgiver of Israel parted from the shriek of the v.anquished flying in 
~ peaple, and with solemn ste.p was fear, 1 but the noise of them that sing dQ 
•:n scaling the rocks and climbing! the I hear.'" As he drew near and saw the 
he1ghts, 'till at last the cloud received him shameless revel and blasphetnous wor· 
ia its bosom. 
ship, he cast the tables at his feet, and 
The moral law was ()'iven, and also rushed into the camp. 
The naked throng 
\he civil code, which men have so learn-paled beforP. him as if he had been ames-
_.ly traced to the social compact. 
The senger of death ; the dancing ceased, and 
ir.t act in the miahty drama was ended, the sonCT and deafening shouts were sud-
lnd Moses was ordered to bring up Aaron denly h~shed: Turning neither to the 
.t. d Nadab and Abihn, and seventy of right hand nor the left, he passed, with a 
~~elders, to worship in the mountain; brow dark as wrath, to the golden idol, 
nd God showed himself in his glory to and hurling it into the fire trampled it un-
,rn. 
der foot. 
Then turning to Aaron, he 
hen this strange worship WJlS endedJ asked an explanauon of this strange scene. 
• "YOice of Jehovah was agai~ heard is-
As soon as it was given, he hasteued to 
from the cloud; but what a change the gate of the camp, and sending his 
Dear Bro. Himes :-The letter you 
sent tne last week from ELY, I have mis-
laid, and cannot find it. 
I was engaged 
at the time it came to hand, just glanced 
at its contents, and laid i~ bv for a leisure 
hour,• to read carefully a"nd reply to it. 
But as it is, I cannot do so. 
The impre -
sion I received from my hasty glance, 
was, that he was perplexed with some 
ideas respecting probation after the advent 
of Christ. 
On that subject I v. ill make 
orne remarks, and if thry shpu]d meet 
the questions of Ely, so much will be 
g-ained, if not, if he will favor me with 
further information, I will endeavor lo 
give h.im all the light J have on the sub-
ject. 
. 
I cannot believe there wiH be a period 
of probation after the Second Advent:-
I st. Bec.ause Christ will leave the Ho-
ly of holies, in heaven, at his second ad-
vent, having completed the atonement. I 
gather this from Lev. 16, where all who 
were to be benefitted by the atonement 
were required to afflict their souls, i. e., 
repent, while the sacrifice was being of-
fered, or be cut off from among the peo-
ple. 
But our high priest has "entered 
the holy place once for all." Heb. 9:24 
-26; 10:10-18. If, therefore, we do 
not obtain pardon while our High Priest 
is in the holy place, before he comes 
forth to pronounce an eternal absolution 
on all his people, and say " their sins and 
iniquities will I remember no more( -;ve 
nre beyond hope. 
For where retrusston 
of these is, there is no more offering for 
27 
sin. 
This single view is enough \O s~ttlf:' 
the· question. 
But I pass to o her argu-
ments. I cannot believe it-
, 
2d. Because the positive tea~hings of 
the New Testament are, that at the Se~-. 
ond Advent, Christ will separate the 
righteous and the wicked of all nations, 
and pronounce the final doom of the two 
classes. Matt. 25:31-" 'Vhen the Son of 
Man shall come in his glory, then shl\!l 
he sit on the throne of his gloliy, an~ ba· 
fore him shall be gathered f\LL NA-
TIONS, and he shall separate them one 
from the other," &.c. 
What natibn is herf! 
excepted? 
Nb-one. 
But that this is at 
the coming of Christ in his glorx._ is e~­
pressly declared. 
The plea, t~at this 1s 
not till the close of the Millennium, js of 
no force, because it is contradicted by the 
plain letter of the text, which affirms, 
" WHEN the Son of Man shall come in 
h1s glory.". 
Is it argued, that "all" is frequentll 
used in a li~ited and qualified sense ? 
The reply is, it does not appear in eHher 
the text or context ; nor yet in parallel 
texts of the New Testament. lf 'it i~ so,. 
it is most singular that the. Savior or some 
of his apostles did not,thus explain a que -
tion which by some moderns is considerea 
so important. 
But what said the Savior 
eoncerning the field or world (.kosmos) 1 
That both should grow togetHer till1the 
end of the age, or dispensation, and then 
the tares or wicked be gathered and bound 
in bundles to burn. (Matt. 13.) 
Again, 
is it urged, that the JewS' will he an ex-
ception to the genetal rule; and that 
when Christ comes, and they see him 
and repent, that then he will have mercy 
on and save them. 
Cljrist an wers th t 
very people by saying, "When once the , 
master of the house is risen up, and hath 
shut to the door, ye shall begin to stand 
without and to knock at the door, saying, 
Lord, Lord, open unto us; and he shaH 
answe 
and say unto you, I 'know you 
not, whence ye are," &c. 
Luke 13 : 26. 
11 Many will seek to enter in, and t~hall 
not be able." 
The decision, in ,eference 
to the Jews, therefore, is clear.· 
But, say some, the heathen who n~ver 
had the gospel, will have a future proba-
tion. 
I reply, not if Paul understood the gos-
pel. 
Rom. 2:11-16-" For there is no 
respect of persons with God. 
For as 
many as have sinned without law, shall 
also perish without law: and as many as 
have sinned in the law, shall be judged 
by the law. 
(For not the hearers of the 
law are just before God, but the doers of 
the la shall be justified. 
For when the 
Gentiles, which ha
e not the law, do by 
nature the things contained in the law, 
these having not the law, are a law unt~ 
themselves. 
Which she}V the w.ork ot 
the law written in their hearts, their con-
science also bearing witness, and tpeir 
thoughts the mean while .accu!iing, or else 
excusing one another;) m the day when 
God shall judge the secrets of men by 
Jesus Christ, according to my gospel." 
Every soul of man, Jew and Gentile, is 
included in this sweeping judgmeut.-
Those who have sinned without law, and 
those who have sinned under the law. 
Such are some of the plain teachings of 
the New Testament on these points. 
There is nothing on the other side of the 
question at aU. 
And the only two texts 
that can present even the show of an ar· 
gumeot in favor of probation after the ad-
vent, are Rom. 11:35, " And so all Israel 
shall be saved," &c. 
And this any one 
will see, by comparing it with Isaiah 
69:19, 20, is only a dec,laration of the 
eternal salvation of all who have tumt>d 
from transgression irt Ja<'ob, when the 
Redeemer comes to Zion ;-and Acts 1&. 
16, 17-" After this I will return, anti 
will build again the tabernecle of David 
which is fallen down ; and I 
ill build 
again the ruins thereof, and I ill set it 
I 
THE ADVENT HERALD. 
up: that the residue of men might seek (ollnwing paragraph, in which Josephusalludetl to 
after the Lord, and all the Gentiles, upon Plato:-
whom my name i's called, sailh the Lord·, 
"This is the discourse concerning Hades, 
who doeth all these things." 
wherein the souls of all men nre confined until a 
'rh 
proper season which God hath determined, when 
e tabernacle of David is reared up, he will make a resurrection of nil men from the 
by the re urrection of Christ, as heir to dead; not p ocuring u trans-migration of souf,. 
Davi~'a throne, and his exaltation to be a from one hody to another, but rilising again th~se 
Prince and a Savior. 
This text, accord-very bndie~, which you Greeks, seeing to be d111-
. 
t 
· 
f J 
d 
solved, do not helieve [their re~urrer.tion ]. But 
mg to t te VIeW o 
ames, was fu.lfille by learn nut to disbelieve: for while you believe that 
the taking-out from the Gentiles a people the soul i11 created, and yet is made immortal by 
prepared for his name. 
(!od, accordiug to the d,qctrine of Plato
1 and thi;; 
-
THE OLD TESTAMENT TEACHINGS. 
in time, be
1not incredulous, but believe that God 
is a hie, when he hath rHised to life that body which 
I think there are no texts in the Old was made ns a compound of the ~ame elements, 
Te~tament that will not receive a perfect to make it immortal ; for it must ne,·er be sHid of 
solution by admitting the principle, that God, that he is able to do some things and unable 
h 
to do others." 
t e \period after Christ's ad vent, say the 
h 
10 0 
Bro. J. B. Cook, seeing this, comes out in Bro. 
w o e 
0 years, if you please, is a pe-
. d f · d 
· 
d 
Crary's " Advocate " of Feb. 20, with a flaming 
rao o Jll gment, tnstea 
of me ry and 
· 
b · 
article headed, 
-pro auon. 
Admit what is claimed, that 
· 
h 
"JOSEPHUS RATHER THAN JESUS-
certain texts teac 
t}lat the wicked will AND PLATO PREFERRED TO PAUL.'; 
not all of them be destroyed immediately, 
are even in the great hattle. 
Admit that 
God will send those not thus killed, (lsa. 
66:19,) to the nations who have not heard 
his name ami seen his glory; and that 
they shlill declare his glory among the 
· heathen ! Does not every reader know 
that glory, and mercy, and grace are dis-
tinct things; and that being over awed by 
the de~laratipn of God's glory, and victory 
over hts foe~, and .conversion, are two very 
different things 1 
It is sa'id, however, that they shall take 
and bring all the Jews for an offering to 
the Lord. This is a mistak~. I sa. 66:20. 
'-"And they shall' bring all your b~eth­
ren for an offeriog unto the Lord, out of 
all nations, upon horses, and in chariots, 
and_ in litters, and upon mules, and upon 
swift be.asts1 to my poly mountain Jerusa-
lem, saith the Lord, a~ the children of 
Israel bring an offering in a clean vessel 
into the houst=t of the Lord." 
The promise is, that from, or out of all 
[~lations the people who declare and those 
who hear of the fame and glory of ·God 
will bring off'erings for all your.brethren, 
1o offer to the Lord, and the Lord will 
take of your brethren for priests and Le-
vites to offer them. 
Leave out "for," 
and it is plain that the offerings are brought 
for the brethren i. e., the saints, and not 
the Jews for, or as, offerinrrs. 
That all the wicked will be comp~lled 
to worship God and serve him, or be ter-
ribly ~courged, appears from various texts, 
hut that one soul will be converted to 
Christ after his appearing does not fi d 
support from God's word. Kings, queens, 
pl'inces, and people, will bring their offer-
ings and service to the Holy City, and 
render obedience and homage, until" eve-
ry knee shall bow, and every tongue shall 
confess to God.'7 I do not know as I 
have met the inquiries of "Ely" at all, if 
not, he must write again. 
The present dispensation is all any sin-
ner can hope for, in which to obtain fa-
vor with God. 
Now is the accepted time 
and day of salvation. What we do for a 
Binful world must be done now. 
The 
He then speaks of the heathen view of the 
soul, affirming 'that it was received by Jews 
aud Chri11tians from the heathen,-not knowing 
that the hentheu • view w~s n. corruption of the 
Yiew"' held by, and received from the Jews, as 
rnnny of their notions of the future were. He 
then exclaims :-
"Now tell it not in Gath, it is copied into the 
'Herald' to shed its radiance on 1118piration. "' 
What is copied into the "Herald?" Bro. 
Cook gives us to understand that the Hews of 
Plato are copied into the "He~ld "-'/ with evi-
dent gratification." Did we quo!e. Josephus to 
oppose Christ or 'Paul? Bro. Cool< when he thus 
represents u~, knows, or ought to know, that we 
did not, and is, therefore, the, more inexcusable. 
He lcnotvs, or ought to know, that we referred to 
J01;ephus to prove that the word H1Ldes, as used in 
the time of the Savior, denoted an intermediate 
s ate of conscious existence between death, and 
before the resurfectioo. He knows, or ought to 
know, that we referred to Josephus, the tmme as 
he, and all Baptists refer to the heatltM Greek 
classias to prove the meaning of baptizo. 
When 
they have established the meaning of the word, 
then they know what the Savior meant when he 
commanded h1s disciples to go arid baptize. He 
knows,J>r ought to know; that if it can be shown 
that the word Hades, denoted among the Jew~ 
and G~eeks a conscious intermediate state, 
that it mnst follow, that when the Savior made 
use of1the sanul word to denote the place of the 
departed, and spoke of them as cons ious there, 
that all his efforts to pervert the language of the 
Savior, will be ineffectual. The Savior says, that 
in Hades the rich man lifted up his eyes being in 
torment. We have been shocked to read in a 
contempor.11ry from two writers, "there is no such 
place as Hades,!' when the Savior has expressly 
affirmed that there is. 
Bro. Cook knows, or ought 
to know' that we did not endorse a single opinion 
that we quoted by request, and that to establish 
the usage of the word, was the .sole ohjed of its 
qut.tatioo, How then,. his conscience would per-
mit him to come out with an article thus headed, 
in reference' to it, is more than we can divine;-
unless it was that he knew of no other way to 
stultify the·force of the argun1ent. 
But this i11 not all. Bro. Cook srrys that he 
will aid us "by a comparison iRa few points," 
which he thus illustrates :-
There is more o( the same import, but the 
above mast suffice. 
Now let us analyze it-
Would not the render Sllppd'se that all or the 
above was quoted by Joiephus om Plato, copied 
by us in the article we quoted from Jo3ephu11, and 
endorsed by Josephus nod us? 
We can conceive 
of no other idea thai could he derived frarn it. 
Now the facts 'are1 1st, That none of the ubove 
sentiments ascribed h1 Plato1 are in the article we 
copied from Josephus, excepting the first section. 
2d, That the first section i~ r,oj a quotation from 
Plato, butooly a re(ereoce "to the doctrine of Pla-
to." 
3d1 That we have expressly taught that im-
mortality i~ only attainable at, and by those who 
have part i.n the first resurrection ; al)d 4th, That 
Josephus, in referring to the doctrine of Pluto, 
gives no as>~urance that his views !)n that point, 
are in accordance with those of Plata: on the 
contrary, he ex pres ly dissents from many of Pla-
to's notions. 
In 1)ppositioo to the viewtof Pluto, 
he expresiily saysr as Bro. Cook knew, or ought to 
know, that ,we quoted :-
"Minos and Rhadamanthuil are not the judges, 
as you Greeks do suppose, but he whom God aud 
the Father hath glorified, concerning whonb we 
lwve elsewhere given a morf. particula1· account, 
for the sake of those who seek after truth. This 
person, exercising the righteous judgment of the 
father towards all men, hath prepared a just sen-
tence for every one, accordrng to his works ; at 
whose jndgmeut-seat, when all men, and angelt~, 
and demons shall stand, they will send (orth one 
voice, and say 'Just is thy judgment;' the re-
joinder to whieh will bring u just sentence upon 
hoth parties, by giviug justly to those who have 
done well, an everlasting fruition ; hut allotting to 
the lover of wicked wor.ks eternal punishment." 
And in the same article, Josephus also denied 
that souls transn1igrate. from one body to anotAer, 
as the heathen taught. 
We will now inquire, for what purpose Jose-
phus made tbe reference that' be did to Plato? 
By referring to our first qnotation, the reader will 
see, that Josephus is addressing the Platonians, 
endeavoring to convince them of their ERRORs, 
and of the resurrection which Plato denied. ln 
doing this, he reminded them that they believed 
Plato's doctrine respecting the immortality of the 
soul, and, without endorsing it, he says, "while 
you believe that," "be not inc.redulous, but be-
lieve that God is ablt, when he hath raised to 
ife that bod:y which was made as a corn pound of 
the same element!f to make it i·mr.o1 tal.'' Thus 
will every iotellig~nt reader see, that the reference 
of Josephus to Plato, was for' the purpose of 
showing that the doctrine of the resw-rection. 
which Plato denied, was no more incredible. than 
other thingil which_ the Platonians did believe : 
the !lame as Paul laid hold of the altar with the 
io;~cription "to the unlmown God," to unfold to 
the ~efin11d Athenians, the true God. 
While Jo-
sephus makes the above allusion to Plato, the 
other quotations from Plato, are in no way alluded 
to in the article we copied, and we know not that 
they are in any of Josephus' writings. 
Lord help us to improve the time. 
J. LITCH. 
Now-because we quoted Josephus, to show 
the usage of the word Hades, without endorsing 
hi~ opinions, and because Josephus made allusitJn 
to, without endor!ling the doctrine of PlatO-how 
Bro. Cook could go on and make such quotations 
from Plato, which he knew, or ought to know, Jo-
sephus would not sanction, and place them in con-
nection with the Advent Herald, under the head of 
"Plato, who is quoted 
"Paul. 
"Plato preferred to Paul," we leave him to ettle 
by Josephus. 
1. Christ h.11h brought 
~~c 2uent fljcralb. 
"BBROLD! TilE BRIDEGROOM C~METH!
!" 
1. While you believe life nnd immortality to with hi:i God. 
Because we quote an article which 
that the soul is made im-
light by the gospel. 
makes a si11gli! allusion to Plato, are we to be 
mortal hy God, accord-
made respousible for all Plato's ab1.1urd notions? 
ing to the doctrine of 
"Tell it not in Gath.'' If it were an a•;oweu 
Plato, &c. 
2. " Every demon is 
2. "There is one enemy that had done this, we could afford to have 
a middle person be-
God, nnd nne Mediiltqr been silent. We are ashamed that we should 
tween God and man. 
between God and mao, thu!J have to expose a professed Adventist. But 
All the commerce and the man Christ Jesus. 
intercourse 
between 
1 '1 irn, 2:5 
Seducing here is another thrust, 
He says :-
An h 
God and men is per-
11piritl! and iloctri11es of 
4. '!Heathenism defied [we suppose he meant 
ot er Attack on the "Herald. H 
formed by demons.'' demons or de .... ils. 
1 deified] its great men. Catholicism canoniz;-d itt! 
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b th 
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So speaks Plato. 
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devotees and each Protestunt sect follows rn the 
y, e reques o a ro er, m No. 20, voi.I2, 
"Plato :lnys, in con-
~.',/The. e Hll, pa-wake. 'lhe leadPrs [the italic is ours] of the Ad-
we quoted an article from Josephus, as illustra-firrnlltr·on ofwhat Herod 
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vent 'sect' not excepted. 
('J he laet are a little 
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d 
trwrc s, prop ets, .xc., 
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tlve u 
e wor "Hades." We do not know said 
before him*-
died in fi.ith not hllving the most modest, that's ali-t e J'OUL 
eathen 
whether the brother who requested us to copy it, • When good men die,. 
recei\u00b7~ the promi~;es--
THtNG [the capituls are his] is ~here nouri .hed 
··• or• 
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b 1· 
· tit 
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f they attain to great hon-
not ncce,,t.rng deliver--in dt>fiance of God's truth, wh1ch now ahme 
, 
•o , a e Jever m 
e unoonllCJOusness 0 
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, r· 
or and diguity, and be-
ance that th1·y rnight oh-dut 011 thrs sultject. ") 
t~ departed. 
We have, and do suppose he fa-come d.ernons.' "t 
tHin n bt:tter resurrec-
The thrust in that carries its antidote with it, 
;vora tha& view of the que.Jtion; and we copied the 
tioo." He b. 11 :13-35. 80 tl:at we need not remarl( ou it. We will, how-
article with that IIOppo ition and, as evidence of ------------------1 ever, s•·rte, th,·rt ·,twas Hrrayed in a seml·-column 
* We know not \Yhllt r.au he III~.U<t l>y tlus. For Pia-
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meaJnng attached to the word Hadea in the 10 dit"d A.t Athena, B. C. ll<lB-300 yt'ar• oofore tbt: time 
day• or the first Advent. In that article ia the of Herod.-Eo. 
"'liSt', ••I• the word IUI&el: it iOI in 8 goocl Men•e bere.-
t The word DEM0!{1 i• u1ed in both a &oc.d and bad 
ED11'0ft. 
under the head of " Plato quoted by Jm!eplrf1s1H 
-when there rs DO allasion in it to Plato or J&se .. 
phus,-ns opposed to the Scriplnres: in 1 Cor, 
15:17. 18-" If <:;hrist be-not raised\ yonr faith 
is vai11, ye are in your sins. Then they also, 
which are fJllen asleep in Chrrst are peri~hed," 
[Ir they are perished if Christ is uot raised, doea 
it (O'llow that lfrey are perished when hP.' is?] 
1 Thess. 4-" The dead in Cluist shall rise fir~t· 
then we who are alive, shall he caught up togethe; 
with th nr; to meet the Lord in the air, anu so 
shall we ever be wilfr ti1e Lord:" After the 
above paralleli,;m he exclaims:-
•• Who is on the Lord's side? Who!! let 
each one be dedded. • He that is not with me, 
is against me,' saith our corning King. We can-
not believe both· Platu and Paul, The Yery at-
tempt indi1~ates a vao1t udvance in apostacy .. Lt ia 
1li'1 impossible to blend the abominations of earth 
with the purity of heaven. Let those who will 
go to Pluto, go; but let _those wh~ will follow 
Paul as he followed Chrrst, be decrded for truth 
and heaven.'' 
Let ns enquire of Bro. C., who, he would inr-
sinuate, has made that "vast advance in uposta-
cy" as to go to Plato?, He knows, or ought to 
know, that it would be a falsehood to insinuate 
that the " leaders " he refers to, of the A1h·ent 
ser.t have done it. 
We will, therefore, charitably 
suppose that he intended the aboYe shonta pass 
as a meaningless rhapsody. He well knows, or 
ourht to know' that we Jay close hold of the lan-
guage of Christ and Paul to prove our position,, 
that with their declarations we entrench ourselves, 
Let no ma!l talk of llppealing from Paul to Plato, 
without first giving at least, sume plausible an-
swer to the unanswerable arguments which have 
been adduced from the words of the Savior and 
Paul. 
. Bro. C. then gives another tabulated arrange-
ment, in which he plact
 Josephus in opposit~n tl) 
Jesus. We will give an illustration. 
" Josephus says "-
" Jesus says-" Fear 
''The wicked 
!hall Him who is able to deS-
have 
eternal punish-
troy both soul and body 
meot-to these helong in hell.'' Matt. 10:28. 
the unquenchable fire, He will burn op the 
and that without end ; chaff with onquencha-
and 
a certain 
fiery 
ble fire. 
Mutt, 3:12-
worm never dying, and • .. Fire came tlown from 
no~de!<troying the body, God out of heaven, and 
but continuing it>~ erup-
devoured them "-ut-· 
tions out of the body terly consumed them .. 
with 
ne•;er 
ceasing 
[Bro. Cook's adllitiotl 
grief. 
to God's w~rd.] "The 
' 
Lord Gvd shall wipe 
away tea.rs from off all 
faces " -
•• a IJ 
tear~ 
from their eyes, and 
there shall lie 110 more 
death, 
NOR 
ANY 
MORE PAtN."-Rev. 
20:10 ; 21:4 ; lsa. 25. 
The abo'f,e is quoted to !!how that we preferred 
"Josephus rather than Je»ult,'' 
This langua~e 
uf Josephu~ will doubtlets oppose Bro. Cook's 
understanding of the words of Christ, and may 
be incorrect in !!Ollie pnrticulars. B•t we mar-
vel greatly that Bro. C. brings such 1angu;~ge as 
oppos-ing the declarationi of the Savior, when tbe 
Savior ha8 expre&Sly declared in almo t 1be very 
language of Jo!ltlphus, that the widu~d "shall go· 
away into everlasting punishment "-the Tery 
word that is rendered eternal in the same text. 
M .. tt. 25:46-" Depart from me ye cursed, into 
e..-erlastiog fire, prepared for the the devil and his 
angels." 
V. 41-.. And if thy hand offend thee, 
cut it off: it is better for thee to enter into life 
maimed·, than having two hands, to gu intJ bell, 
into the fire that never shall be quenched: where 
their worm dieth not, and tl.efire is not quenched.", 
Mark 9:43, 44-and 1'epealed twice in the 88ffl6 
chapt.er. 
Why did not Bro. C. quote the above 
a!J tl1e words of Christ which the language of Jo· 
sephus oppdtoed? 
Ah ! why did he not? 
'I~e 
reasou is obvious. 
Had he quoted thut, the dif-
ference between his own language, and the words 
of Christ, would have beeu ten times greater, 
than that between Jesus and Josephus. 
Now1Ve 
leave it to any man of competent judgment, pos-
sessed of a sound head, and an honest benrt, 
whether,-when the belief of the Jews wu• what 
Bro. C. has shown it to be by his quotation frorn 
Josephus,-the S vior would have used the ..,.~ry 
lancruaue, that the Jews used to expre11s1heir oprn-
" " 
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ion, when Kpeakmg .of the pumKhment 0 . k-
wicked if he had desraned to teach that the wrc 
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eJ would not go away into everlasting punll! • 
meat. ft would be doing violence to all rulell of 
Jao~11age thns to 80fl.pose. 
Bro. C. refers to Rev. 21 :4-'' And God 'Shall 
wipe away all tears from their eyes; and there 
ahall be no more death, neither sorrow 1 not cry-
ing, neither shall there be any more pain," &c., 
11 evidence that the last extract 'from Jo:~ephus of 
the" everla:~ting puni:~hment '' of the wicked is 
opposed to Scripture. We would enquire by what 
warrant a Scripture, which is given entirely to 
tbe righteonil, is applied to· the wicked? It is 
with the righteons that there are to be no tears or 
death. 
That death will then be still on· the 
wicked is proved by Rev. 22 : 15. For at the 
yery time-when there is no
1'more pain, tears, 
or death, and the righteous have right to the tree 
of life, and may enter in through the gates into 
tbe city,-we find that "without are dogs, and 
sorcerers, and whoremongers, and murderers, and 
idolaters, and whosoever lovetlt and maketh a 
lie." If death is a cessation of being, as Bro. 
C. claims, and there is no more death on the 
wicked, then it will fuiJow acc.ording to his own 
reaso~ing, that there will he, on the part of the 
wicked, no more a ces!!ation or being. Is he 
preplfed for this Conclusion? 
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There are some other things in the a~'icle, 
which, perhaps, we ought to notice, but we must 
bo content with the following. 
Bro. C. says:-
THE ADVENT H.ERALD. 
29 
he saya," Jetus wu a teacher of mtn who received the immediately appear. He said, tltetefor(j, a 
Titus 2: 13-" Looking for that blessed 
truth with 111"asurP.'' 
certain nobleman went into a far count,ry to hope, and the glorioul!! apvearing of the great 
We hope our friends will be cautious a boutte-receive fur himsEfl( a kingdom, and to retl,ll'n." Go .I and our Savior Jesus Christ." , 
~ei'ing Bro. Cl)ok's misapprehensions of those This nobleman must be tlte Lord Jesus Christ; 
Heb. 9:28-" So Christ was once offered to 
who differ from him. 
and this parable ii evideutly spoken to c~rrect hear the sins of many; and unto them that 
It will be with more than "unfeigned grief," the impression that his coming was to be an lonk for him shall he appear the second time, · 
thnt he will h~ve, that he ever made this wanton, event of that Uay. 
wthout sin unto salvation.'' 
Mark 13:34-" For the Son of Man is as a 
James 5:7, 8-" Be patient therefore. breth-
wicked 11ttack, if he ,hull e•;er realize how false man taking a far journey, who left his.lJouse ren, unto t.he coming • of the Lord. Behold, 
the position is in which he has attempted to place and gave aU1hurity to his servants and to every the husbandman waiteth fur the precious fruit 
us. 
We, however, feel truly grateful to an iVer-mau his work: and commanded the porter tu of the earth, and hath long patience for it, un-
ruling Pro\u00b7idence, that we have been enabled 80 watch." 
1 til he receive the earlv ·and the latter rain. 
Matt. 25:31, 34-" When the Son of Man Be ye al&u patient; stabiish your hearts, for 
~1oon, and so effectually • to turn thP. tables on the shall come in his glory, and all the holy angels the coming* of the Lord dtaweth nigh.'' 
one who sought to entrap us, and waited for our with him, then shall he sit upon the throne of 
l Pet. l: 7, 13-'' Tlfat the trial of your 
halting. When those who seek to stab our very his glory." "Then shall the King say unto faith, being much more precious than of gold 
vitals, have thrust at us, God has thus far, ever them on the right hand, come ye blessed of that perisheth, though it be tried with tire, 
ordered it, 80 that the arm which has sought our my Father, iuherit the kingdom prepared might be found untQ praise,· and honor, and 
ruiu, has been made impote~t of,evil. 
'l'ho~e for vou from the foundation of the world." 
glory, at, the appearing of Jesus Christ.'' 
Jc1hn 14:3-" And if I go and prepare a " Wherefore gird np the loins of your minds, 
who continue faithful in the service of God, he place for you, I will come again, and receive be soher, and hope to the end for the grace 
will watch over. He will never leave or forsake you unto myself; that where I am, ye may that is to be brought unto you at the revelation 
those who put their trut1t in him. 'We will, there-be also." 
of Jesus Christ.'' 
fore, not distrust his promises, but ~ill feel that 
Acts 1: 11-'• Which al~o said, ye men of 
1 ·Pet. 5:4-" And when the Chief Shep-
he will protect us from roea without, and fl'orn Galilee, why stand ye gazing up into heaven 1 herd shall appear, ye shall receive a crown of 
This same Jesus.which is taken up from you glory that fadeth not. away." 
foes within, while He hail any labor for us to into heaven, shall~:~o come in like manner, as 
2 Pet. 1.16-" For we have not followed 
perform in his vineyard. 
ye have seen hiiJ! go into heaven." 
cunningly deviserl fables, when we made 
It is with grief unfeigned that we have been 
Acts 3:20, 21-" And he shal~ send Jesus known unto you the power and roming • of 
compelled to write with the severity we have in Christ, which hefure was preached unto yHu; our Lord Jesus Christ." 
this ; bot we felt that God would be angry with whom .the heavens must receive, until the 
2 Pet. 3.3, 4, 12-" Knowing this first, 
h 
times of restitution of all things, whi'ch Gc1d that there shall come in the last·davs scoffers, 
us, if we shrunk from thus exposing t is attack. 
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hath spoken by the mouth of all his holy walking after their own lusts, and saying, 
We cannot, however • give up a lingering hope, prophets, since the world began." 
• 
Where is tl1e promise of his coming J · •-
that Bro. C. thought he was doing God's service, 
1 Cor. 1:7, 8-" So that ye come behind in "Looking for, and hasting unto the roming • 
"The quetttion may then be asked again, and that he did not desi"n to represent us as he no gt'rt 
wat'tt' g ror the com'ng of o 
Lord of th d y f G d., 
•WHo is ontht.Lord's side-wHo?' • Nomau 
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he has done. Should such p. rove to be the fact, Jesus Christ." 
1 John 2.28-" That. when he shall appear, 
can s~rve ~wo mailters.' Jo1ephus lived in that 
be 
d 
generation which crucified Jesos. If he did not it will be with the greatest pleasure, that, we 
1 Cor. 15:20, 23-" But now is Christ risen we may have confidence, and not 
ashame 
do it, he had plea11ure in therr•.that dt'd. 
Jo~e-
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from the dead, and become the first fruits of before him at his coming.'' • 
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phu" was one of those who could not • escape the 
t tern tuat sept. 
1' nut every man m 
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1 o n . 
" 
euo , now are wet 1e sons 
damnation of hell.' It is as certain as • Holy tion was not to make tne article speak as it does. own order; Christ the first fruits; afterwards of God; and it doth not yet appear what we 
84-ripture' can make it that the generation then 
It would be onr greatest grief to cherish the be-they that are Christ's at his coming.'' • 
shall be; bnt we know that Y<hen he &hall ap-
living drew down on 'them Divine ' wrath to the lief that the authors of these attacks must also 
Phil. 3:20-" For our conversation is in pear, we shall be like him ; for we shall see 
attermost.' 
"perish in the gainsaying of Kore." 
Where heaven; from whence also, we look· for the him as he is.'' 
"How, then, dare any Adventi:;t appeal to Jo-
Savior, the Lord Jesus Christ.'' 
Jude 14, 15-" Enoch, also, the seventh 
eephus to illustrate, or explain away Jesus-take s•tch things are intentional they demand thorough 
Col. 3:4-'' When Christ who is our' life from Adam, prophesied of these, Eaying, Be-
a smo!<y la1r.p to illuminate the sun! 
If our repentance. 
shall appear, then shall ye also appear with hold, the Lord cometh with ten lhousan'd of 
brethren did this ignorantly, they should repent, 
him in· glory.'' · 
his saints! to execute judgment upon all." 
and not repeat the in~olt to the Sun of righteolls-
The Personal Advent. 
1 Thess. 1:9, 10-", Ye turned to God from . Rev. 1:7-" Behold, he cometh with clouds, 
ness-if they did it under~tandingly • it mu:>(be 
The followi~g are 11-n array of Scriptures, idols, to serve the living God and to wait fur and every eye shall see him ; and they also 
becau11e they 'love darkne~s rather thau light'-
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are more in symp•tthy with Josephus' quotin"' wh1ch mu..,t be met, to refute th1s doctnne, 
Js .._,on rom eaven, w 1om 
e raise 
rom w tc • pterce 
11m; an ·a 
m re s o t e 
Pl~tto [which he dit.l not do] in th,tt • sinful 
~:ind I which we referred to in our last, for the con-the dead, even Jesus, which delivered us from earth shall mourn because of him.'' 
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the wrath to come.'' 
Rev. 11:15, 18-" And the seventh angel 
• u teroo~ generat!on, ~ than ~ith Jes?s whom sideration of the New York " Evangelist:"-
1 Thess. 2: 19-" For what is our hope, or sounded ; and there were great voices in hea-
they cructfie~. 
It 18 Wtth un~etgned gnef that [ 
M~tt 24·3 27 29 30-': What shall be J'oy, or crown of reioicing1 
Are not even ye ven, saying, The kin
0D'doms of this world are 
note these thtngs.l?] 
Once tt would have ex-
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r~ited surprise; Ltut now it would be surpri ·it•g if t~e s1gn of thy co~mg. 
For a~ the hght-in the presence of our Lord Jesus Christ at his become the kingdoms of our Lord, and of his 
thQge who$e light leads them to Josephus rather mng cometh out of the east and shme_th even coming." • 
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Christ; and he shall reign for ever and ever.'' 
tb:m to Jesus-to Plato prior to Paul, should be unto the we t, so shall also the ~ommg • of · 1 Thess. 3:13-" To the end that he may "And the nations were angry, and thy•wralh 
able to reflect the li,ht of truth · if the liaht that the Son of Man be.'' "Immedtately after establi::.h your hearts unblamable in holiness is come, and the time of the dead that tl1ey 
is in thee be darlm~l!s, how gr~at is tha't dark-the tribu,lation of those days, shall the sun be before God, even our Father, at the coming• should be judged, aud that thou shouldest give 
ness!" 
darkened, and the moon not give her light, of our Lord Jesus Christ with all his saints.'' reward unto thy servants the prophetR, anti to 
If, becau~e Josephus lived in 
~hat generation, and the stars shall fall from heav~n, and the 
1 Thess. 4: 14-17-" For if we believe the saints, and to them that fear thy name, 
1nd for no other reason, he must peri~h, then Paul, powers of the heavens shall be shaken: and that Jesus died and rose again, even so them small and great; and shouldest destroy them 
n 
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then shall appear the sign of the Son of Man also which sleep in Jesus, will God bring with that destroy the earth." 
ceter, and a host of worthies must perish fi,r the in heaven: and then shall all the tribes of the him. 
For this we say by the word of t.he 
Rev.· 21:3-" And I heard a voice from 
same reason. That Josephus delighted in those earth mourn. 
And they shall see the Son of Lord, that we which are alive and remain un-beaven, saying, Be-hold, the tabernacle of God 
who crucified the Savior, is, as far as we can see, Man coming in the clouds of heaven, with to the coming* of the Lord shall not prevent is with men, and he will dwell with them, and 
a gross misnpprehension, and does great injustiee power and great glory." 
· 
them which are asleep. For the Lord himself they shall be his people, and God himself shaH 
tO Josephus, whom we sho•11u be very cautious of 
Matt. 24: 37-39-" But as the days of shall descend from heaven with a shout, with be with them, and he l.heir God .. , 
• 
consigning to perdition with the readiness Bw. c. Noah were, so shall also the roming ~ of the the voice of the archangel, and with the trump 
Rev. 22 20-" He which testifieth these 
d 
Sor: of Man be. 
For as in the days that were of God : and the dead in Christ shall rise things, saith, S.urely I come quickly; Amen. 
oes. Remember that "Wit)} what measure ye before the flood, they were eating and drink-first;. then we which are alive and remain shall Even so, come, Lord Jesus.'' 
· 
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mete," &c. 
Now Josephus, instead of rejoicing ing, ml).rrying and giving i~ marriage, until be caught up toge.ther wit.h t?em in tlte clouds, 
If the" Evangelist'' believes " the Lor({ 
in' the crucifixion, t1scribes to that wickedness the the day that Noah entered mto the ark, and to meet the Lord m the an.' 
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an exposition 
miseries that came on the Jews. He says:-
!mew not until the flood came, and took them 
1 Thess. 5:23-" I pray God your whole Wl not come, we w?u 
1 {e 
. 
all away ; so shall also the coming • of the spirit and soul, and body be preserved blame-of all those texts, Scnpture by ScrJ~ture. If 
"These miseries befel the Jews, by way of re-Son of Man he.'' 
Jess unto the coming • of the Lord:' 
,· 
we are in error •. are we not worth be mg. saved 
Ye~J~e fer James thtl just, who was the brother of 
L k 
Je~us ~hat wascalledChrist, becausetheyhild 
· u.e 17:26-30-"Likewise ~lso, as it 
2Thess.1:7,~"And to you who are fromit! We are open to conviction; and 
1lau~ Ham who was a most Rigbteu s Person."-
w~s m the days. of Loti they did eat, they troubled, rest with us when tl~e Lord Jesus whv will not some one show us the truth on 
Quoted by Origen-See Com. 011 .Matt., ]J. 234. drank, ~hey bought, they sold, they planted, shall be revealed from heaven with his mighty 
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Josephus al~ affirms that "Herod lvst his ar-they bu~ded i ~~t th~ same day that L.ot went an~els, in. flaming fire, taking vengeance 011 thts momentous questl?n ;, 
out of Sodnm, 1t ramed fire al!d lmmstone them that know not God, and that obey not 
When the" Evangehst quoted Matt. 24:23, 
my, nut by deceit of meu, but by the anger of from heave~, and. destroyed t.hem all~ even the gospel of our Lord Jesus Christ." 
21, why did it not also quote verses 29-33, 
Ged, and that J·ustly-. as an effect of reven_.,.e for thus shall 1t be 1n the da 
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an lR reve~ e . 
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h;ul said t~ him, it is HQt lawful for thee to have 
Luke 19: 11• 12-" And as they heard these Christ and by our g~thering together unto 
A. BRITE, Esq., P. M. of Mount Pleat>ant, 
thy brother's w.ife."-See .limbrose, de Ex, cid. things, he ad~ed and spake _a parable: be-him."' 
Mo.-In ant~wer to your enquiry, we send you 
U,.b. Hiersolym lib. ii. cap. 12. 
cause he was mgh to J~rusalem, and because 
2 Thess. 3:5-" And the Lord direct your 
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here has furnished us, and which if you llligr and 
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tient waiting for Christ." 
• · ·llO, the Scholar of Chrysostom, lib. iv. 
" In this, and in all the subsequent passages quoted in 
2 Thess. 5:8-" And then shall that Wick-send us, and also notify the P.M. here that,you 
'fist. 225 :-
this conueerion, th(l word com,,G, when II is indicated ed be '"evealed, whom the Lo,.~d shall consume IJave received the given sum for, and request him 
hy an aeterisk ('") i~ from the Greek work PAIIOUISH, •le-
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"There w~B one JoMIJIIITs, a Jew, of the greatf,'st r~-notinl! hiaacmai t;PIPHANY 111HI PEasoNu REVELATION. with the Spirit of his mouth, and shall detr to pay to us, will sec·ure our receipt of it, viz. : 
111~1hlllon, and one th!lt \Y~ts zetllon~ of the law; oneaho 
1l.IJRt w•••·d i~ nscd but twenty-four times in the. New 
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t te ng tness 0 
llS commg. 
MT. PLEASANT (lo.), Jan. 30th, 1847. 
&t!lecJ valiantly for the .Jf\ws, and had showed th3t their !'nee to Oltri•t'scoMJNG. In rhe rem~tininjiSPYen r•laces 
1 Tim. 6:14, 15-" That thou keep t.hi.s 
Received of G. B. Sooter, three dollHrs, for 
llf!ltlen••mt wasnohler 1han can he de~wb~d bv words. where 1he ~'trill\ word or.c:urs, no one will d!'ny that it commandment without spot unrebukable, UJ~Ill his sub;~cription to thP. "Adven~ Herald," to be 
,a;w, ince he 1111tde their interest givP ltlaCfl iu lt'lllh, 
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paid to J. V. Himes, publisher. 
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It nece8sary ro stjt down his words. Whttt then 
iust>~ncPs of it11 use will show. 
I Cor. 16: 17-" I nm in his times he shall show, who is the blessed 
$:l 00. 
('fo be signed hy you.) 
,•lea he ~ay ~ "Now there w:'l::! llbt>uttllnt lime out> .le-!(hul of the c•mtNo nf ::1tephanus 11nd Fortuna Ius ~tnd and only Potentate, the King of kings, and 
Tbe above can then be firanked by you, and 
118• a Wtte man, if it ll11 tl\wful to call him R mRn, fur he Achnicus." 2 Cor. 7:6, 7-" God cornfortl'd na by the 
"'"' ·~r of wonderful works, 11 te11r.he~ of such rneu 
COMl"G of Titull; anrl1 nm hy hi!! COM INn only." 2 Cur. Lord of lords." 
,;."b"'l'e lhe truth with pl"asnre. He drew uTPr 1t1 
10: 10-" But hid bodily PR&.~ENC8 is weKk." Phil. 1:26 
2 Tim. 4:1 8-" I charge thee, therefore, 
orb lllttny of the Jews, RIHI many of the Gentiles -" fhat yo1lr rejoicing rn11y be mnre 11bundunt in Jesu~ before God and the Lord Jesus Christ, who 
It ~• the Chrhst. Ami when l'lll	tl, Rl the l!ll~~e~tinu 
Chri~t for me, hy my cn~IING to yon again." Phil 2:12 
h' 
1 
1 8 Pri••llill"l rnPu tunong ns, hlld condemned him to -··Wherefor .. , my helovr.tl, M ye have alwaya1lheyed, shall judge the quick and tbe dead, at 18 ap-
ltt 
cr!_~l!, thnse thar luved him at first ui~ not fllr8akt< nntn11 in my PRE. &NCE only, bilL nuw much nwreitlmy pearing and his kingdom." "Hen.ceforth there 
:n, mr he >little m:d to them the third day nlive 8,\!JJin, 
ah~!'nr.e" Phil. 5:9-" Even him wiJOl!e COM 
INn is af 
f 
h 
tl~or1ne llrOIIIJet• hllll ilaltl theae and 1\ 'f!ISIIIItlJlber ter lbe workinjt of &tl "-See .. J.ilerlllilt," Vol 3, p. is laid up for me a crown 0 rJg teousness, 
n "'~nllderful thin!{~ concnnln& him: aml the tribe 
1~9. ·This ruut~t tMtablish the uRus r.OQURNDt of the which the Lord, the righteous Judge, shall 
li•t~aaa 
11o 111\lllell fwm bi;n, Krt' nnt extinr.t at word; 11n•l if it denoted the Jtersoual vre.ence In everv give me at that day 'i and not w me only,' but 
lasn' I , 
Now I tlllftiiOI hut \YOIJuer ![reRtiv at thi~ other lnstttnee .. r ilS UBe In thtl Nt'w Teslllllll'nt, It must 
h' 
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" 
1 OYe or ll'uth in many tetpects, but c.lued.y wbere 
~hen used iu ref.,rence to tbe Sa.Yior'a cowin1• 
unto all them also that love 18 appeanng. 
come to us free of postage. 
!r::Y' We designed in this No. to have pro~ 
eeeded with the propber.ies <•f Daniel, and tfl ken 
op the third universal empire; .but ~e have b~en 
compelled to reply to attacks m tb1s No., whtch 
have prevented us from devoting time and sp~ce 
to thoae more prnfituble and ugreeabl8 1tudJes, 
wbM:b muet be deferred to our oext. 
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Correspondence. 
Letter from Bro. T. J. Harris. 
1842, and intend to coutinue to support it u rifled. The Greek wonls here are not in tl1e 
long as it contends for the truth. The breth-past tense, as in the English, b~l in the aorilfl, 
ren h'ere send their love to you all, and to all or iT~tdefinite tenae. 
Le Clerc 1tran»lates h, 
them that are in Christ Jei'us. [Note 19.) 
· h 
(Continued from our laet.) 
T. J. HARRIS. 
"them he also glorifie•." 
McKrug t ~Y• 
John had a sight of paradise, Rev. 21st and 
· 
that that translation is not impioper; yet he 
d 
h d P 1 h 
h 
h 
·Note 10.-The evidence on this point was 
22 , and so a 
au w en e was caug t up 
says~" Nevertheles!j, the commvn traJlslation 
to the third he~vens, into paradise. 2 Cor. 12: fully presented in No. 25 of Vol. 12 of the may be retained, becauBe, though some of the 
1-4. [Not~ 10.] Peter tells us that the hea-"Herald." 
vens of ola., and the earth, being overflowed 
things mentioned are future, 1hey may, ac-
Note 11.-Peter tells us that the things in 
wit.h water, perished. Thi3 was the first hea-
cording to the usage "f Scriphne, be repre-
A d h h 
d h 
h h. h Paul wh1'ch are " hard to be understood," are 
vcns. 
n t e eaven.s an t e eart w JC 
semed as past, to &hew the certainty of their 
are now, are reserved unto fire. 
This is the in danger of being "wrested," by those who happeniog. Thus, before his death, Cbrist 
second heavens. 
And he also looked for a are " unlearned and unstable." It therefore 
new h.ea~ens and \. ne~ .ea~th, which are to becomes us to learn the import of the langua~e &pake of his body as already given, Luke 22: 
be the thud heavens. 'I his IS what Paul and 
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19; and broken, 1 Cor. 11 : 24." 
John had a sight of. 
Has Paul gone to hea-Paul used, at the time he used Jt .. If we use . Note 19.-'fhe following is the action of the 
ven, or did he expect to go before the coming. it in any different sense, we wrest It. 
Albany Conference on this question. It takes 
of the Lord! Peter tells us, 2 Pet. 3:15, 16, 
Note 12.-Brother, study well Paul's lan-
th 
h. 
· p l' 
· t1 
h d 
a position respecting the state of the dead, to 
ere are some t mgs m 
au s epis es ar 
guage: that he expected to be present with 
to be understood. 
We must therefore take 
which we can all subscribe. 
care that we do not wrest them to our own the Lord when abs~nt from the body' cannpt 
"And lOth. That the departed saints do 
destruction. [Note 11.] 
be denied, without doing violence to his words. not enter their inheritance, or receive their 
Paul does not tell us be expected any re-
Note 13.-Something more than that, ac-crowns at death. Dan. 12:13; Rev. 6:9-11 ; 
ward before the coming of the Lord Jesua~.-
p 
1 Rom. 8:22, 23. That they without us cannot 
He t.ells us, 1 The88. 4:13-18, we shall be cording to his own showing: 
au) express Y be made perfect. Heb. 11:40. 
That their in-
with the Lord when he descends from heaven affirms that he has "a desire to depart, and to heritance, incorruptible and undefiled, and that 
. with a shout, an':l that we shall be in his pres-be with Christ, which is fat: better.'' Better fadeth not away is reserv~d in heaven, ready 
ence, at his coming. 1 Thess. 2:19. And also than what 1 Than to ;emain here in the flesh. to be revealed w the last lime. 1 Pet. 1: 4, 5. 
that·we shall be saved when Christ appears 
That there are laid up for them and us cro.wns 
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tell 
It could be no gain to Christ for Paul to die : 
the secon tune. 
e . 9: 
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eter 
s us, 
of righteousness, whlch the Lord the righteous 
1 Pet. 1:3-9, we shall receive the salvation of th~. ~a~n would .b~ Paul's.. MACKNIGHT, in Judge shall give at. the day, of Christ, to all 
our souls at the appearing of Jesus Christ.-crHJcJsmg the orrgznal of this, says, that Paul that love his appeanng. 2 Tim. r! : 8. 
That 
But some say t~at Paul tells us he expected could have had no expectation of a "state of they will only be satisfied when tlwy awake 
to be present With the Lord when absent from . . 
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ec 
in Christ's likeness 
Pt~. 17 : I~. And that 
the hody, and befnre the resurrection. 
Paul J~senSJ 1 It~ e ween eat 1 an . e resurr -when the Son of m~n shall come in his glory, 
does not ~a~ so. 
He says, 2 Cor. 5:8-10, that' twn. For 1f he had kno':n of any sue~ state, ·and all the holy angels with him, the King 
he was w1lhng t~ be absent from the body, and he would have thought Jt better to hve and will say to those on his right hand, Come ye 
to be pres~nt with the Lord, ~hen he stoed promote the cause of .Christ and of religion, blessed of my Father, inherit the kingdom 
before the Judgment seat of Chnst. [Note 12.] h 'b d . 
f: ll . t 
t 
f b 1 t 
prepared for you f~:om the foundation of the 
Yet again we are told that Paul says, Phil. 1: ~ an ! .. ywg to .a m 0 a sta e 0 a sou e world. Matt. 25:34. 
Then thev will be equal 
21, fur. h~m to die is gain to ~imself.. But 1 msensJbJhty .. Besides,.how co.uld he sa! that to the angels, being the children of God and 
am satisfied Paul means for h1m to rhe would he had a desire to be with Chnst," [whwh he of the resurrection. Luke 20:26."' 
be gain to Christ (see v. 20); for he was de-gave as the reason for wishinll' to depart] "if 
termined Christ should be magnified in his 
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body, whether it should be by his life, or by he knew he was not to be with hlm till after 
Letter from a Brother to bis Minister. 
his death. 
All the advantage it would be to the resurrection 1" 
Now, brother, we must 
MJt.rch 25th, 1846. 
Paulls, that all his sufferings and trjals would not give a meaning to the English, hich con-
. Rev. E. 1!.-Deqr Sir :-For the perusa.l 
be ended. [Note 1~.] 
~aul tells u.s, 1 Cor. tradicts the import of the original. 
of your" Inqniry Respecting the Future His-
15:12, 14-18, that 1f Clmst had not rtsen from 
tory of the World," and the kind letter ac-
the rlead, his preaching was vain, and our hope · Note 14.-0f course they could not i for companying it, you have my sincere thanks. 
was also vain; and that the dead in Christ if Christ was not risen from the dead, he was 
As there is a possibility that we may yet 
have perished. 
And of course they would an impostor making all faith ·in him vain and understand, the Scriptures nearer alike than 
never rise and have any reward. [Note 14.]-
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we have done on this subject, I will venture 
ln the 32d v. he asks, "What advantageth it le~vJ.ng th.ose. who ha:e a en as eep 1~ Jm to reply to some of your remarks, and en-
me, if the dead rise not 1" He tells us, Phil. still m then Sins; and If so, they had penshed deavor to explain some of the "reasons of the 
3:11, that he strives to attain to the resurrec-like other wicked-in the same sense that all hope" of the Adventist, trusting that it may 
tion of the dead. 
And in Heb. 11: 32-35 he the wicked perish-in the senile that the earth help on this interesting" Inquiry." 
tells us, that all the ancient patriarchs suffered 
lf I have understood you in our conversa7 
which was.before the flood, being overflowed 
· hAd 
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afflictions that they might obtain a better res-
tion heretofore, you agree Wlt 
venhsts wlt 
urrection. It is evident they did not expect with water, perished. 
regard to the chronology of the prophecies.-
any reward before the resurrection. Job ( 14: 
Note 15.~ There is no dispute on this point: You believe that the prophetic periods werr> 
10-15) says, "So man lieth down and riaeth our bodies are consigned to the grave, and we given to be understood by those immediately 
not till the heaver;s be no more." Chap. 17: have not our reward till the resunection. 
interested in understanding them, and that the 
13-" If I wait, the grave is mine house."-
2300 years of Daniel are about ending, anri at 
Chap. 3:11-19-" .. Then had 1 been at rest 
Note 16.-TheHebrew word which rlenotes the encl of this period you look for the des-
with kings and counsellors of the earth, .. or the plat'e where the body is deposi~ed in the truc~ion of the Papal Antichrist, and the 
with princes that had gold ...• There the ~rround is Keber, which signifies "the recep-conversion of the rest of the world. If this 
wicked cease from troubling; and there the 
i.s the event next and immediately to be looked 
weary be at rest. There the prisoners rest tacle of the dead body." The Hebrew word for, I think that I can sar from my heart, 
together; they hear not the voice of the op-which is here translated gra·ve, is Sheol which Amen to it. But if the hope and belief of 
pressor. The small and great are there."-signifies the eame as the Greek Hade&, "the the Adventist is true, I feel, as 1 have often 
Chap. 31 : 23-33-" The clods of the valley place of departed spirits. ' 
As Jacob sup-expressed to you, that it is very important that 
shall be sweet unto him, and every man shall 
all Christians, and especially ministers of the 
Posed his son was devoured by wild beasts, he 
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Gospel, understand, an 
act accorrling y, on 
fore him." [Note 15.] Gen. 37:35-" I will could not have expected to have gone to l.is this subject. 
I believe there is an addi1ional 
go down into the grave unto my son mourn-son by going to Keber; for he thought Joseph Scriptural motive to be given, why men should 
ing." [Note 16.] Ps. 89:48--" What man is had no grave. He therefore expected to go immediately repent. Rev. 1'4:7. 
•he that liveth and shall not see death 1 Shall to him only by going to Slieol, the place of 
F!om. what you s~y on the judgment of 
he deliver his soul from the grave." Acts 2: the departed spirit. 
If he had meant the A~uchTJSt as for~ told w Dan. 7 : 26, I. would 
29, 34-" David is dead and buried .... Da-
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· thmk that you d1d not understand the v1ews of 
vid is not ascended iuto the heavens." But placewhere h1s body was to have been la1d, Adventists on this subject. They also believe 
he said him8elf, Ps. 17:15, "I shall be satis-he would have used the Hebrew word Keber, that the judgment here spoken of is previous 
ned, when 1 awake, with Thy likeness.':-
as it is in Gen. 34:~0-" And Jacob set a pi!-
~0 the co~ing of Christ, and ~hat the sam,e 
Our Savior said, John 3: 13, "No man hath 1 
R h 1, 
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H 
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JUdgment IS spoken of by John m Rev.17:W. 
ascended up to heaven, but he that came down ar upon 
ac ae s grave. 
ere It 1~ not u And the ten horns which thou sawest tipon 
from heaven." 
(Enoch and Elijah must of Sheol, but Keber. 
We read of the ancients the beast, these shall hate the whore, and shall 
course be excepted, as the Scriptures tell us being gathered to their fathers, even when the make her det~olate and naked, and shall eat 
they have gone.) [Notel7.] Howthencan ashel!oftheirfathershadbeenscattered'tot'he her :flesh, and burn her with fire.'' 
The 
we expect to go to heaven at death 1 "hen four winds. ln such case their bodies could "burning her with fire" yet remains to be 
David, and Hezekiah, and Samuel, and Paul, 
done. 
and John, have not gone yet, and will not un-not be thus gathered. When Jacob died, we 
It is believed that the 1260 years' reign of 
til the resurrection, unless they were of the read that " he gathered up his feet into the Antichrist ended with the subverting of his 
number of those that came out of their graves, bed, and yielded up the ghost, [his spirit,] and power by Bonaparte, an~ that L~e so ca~led 
Matt. 27: 52, 53, and ascended with· him on 
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Holy Alliance or council of natiOns, winch 
high, Eph. 4:8, and were glorified. Rom. 8: was gat ere unto 
IS people." 
And yet his was called wh~n Bonaparte had "come to hi& 
28-30. [Note 18.] 
body did not leave Egypt for the land of Ca-end," for the purpose of regula~ing the politi-
We had hoped that these doctrines had been naan till after forty days of mourning. 
cal concerns of these naLions, wh1ch Bonaparte 
embraced and decided upon by the Albany 
Note 17.-" They must be excepted;" for had so greatly disarranged, and the.subseque~t 
Conference, but we were disappointed when 
treatment which the Pope has received, and 1s 
Mr. Miller declared at the BO&ton Conference the Savior asserts that no man hth ascended still receiving from the nati~ns, is what Daniel 
they had not so decided, aod. that they had no there. 
and John foretold in the Scnptures refened to. 
fellowship for these views. 
We ue however 
Note 18.-We cannot expect to go to h~a-A part at least, if not all of the "ten horns 
glad now that you have beeome more liberal, Ten before the reeurrection. Eph. 4: s, how-of the beast,'' were represented iD this Holy 
and have opened your columna to a 41iee¥esioo 
AUiance, which (a.s I understand it) con.fiJmed 
of these questions. Go on therefore. Hear eTer, only auerts that Christ aacended on high. rather than disannulled the acts of Bonaparte 
both sides, and the truth will come .ouL We Ancl' Rom. 8: 38-30 eanoot refer to any who in depriving the Pope of th~ greater part of 
have been subscribers for the ' Herald'' ~ 
are now glorified, lnlt that they are to be glo-his power. 
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In )lOUT '~Inquiry" yoo laboxr~ show llhat 
1he resurreetion of the rig:bteou&o and wicked 
will be at oue and the ::~ame time~ '!'he Ad-
ventist believes tha~ they will be a thou and 
years apa.rt, as ta11ght iu Rev. 20th. As I 
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unden;tand it, yom ~iew on this point must be 
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liUstaincd, nr yout whole· theory i'alls~ 
In your explanation of the-reswnectieA 
avoken of in Rev. 2Qth, )CDU'say, tha\only,a 
part of the righteous are Jailled, and that they 
aJe ·not raiiilecl bodi1y, but only their souls are 
raised, and that these souls do nut reign on 
the earth wi\h Christ 1 as taught in Re~-.. 5: lOr 
but over the earth, or in \he heavena witk 
C.brist .
. 
With regan! to a part ouly of the righteous 
being raised, I would say, tltat we are t\lld by 
those who ought to be judges, (and if I am 
not mit~taken you have admitted the same to 
me in our eonversation on this subject,) that 
the word "which," in Rev. 20 : 4,,lnigbt be 
rendered "whoever." If this word may be 
so rendered, the resurrection there spoken of 
is nol necessarily confined to a part of the 
righteous. 
As to the meaning of the word "soul," I 
am aware that it is understood in our day 
(generally, though not always) to mean the 
spirit of man. 
But you are also aware that 
in the Scriptures it is repeatedly used to de-
note the spirit and body of man united. 
See 
Gen. 2:7; Acts 2: 41; 7: 14; 27:37; Rom. 
13:1; 1 Cor. 15:45; 1 Pet. 3:20; Rev. 10:3. 
With a becoming seriousness and respect,! 
would j;ay that you must fetch more unques-
ionable proof than you have, or the Advent-
ist will still find his hope and belief stumgth-
ened by reading Rev. 20th. 
Before leaving this chapter, I want to refer 
to a part of •the 6th verse, which I do not 
recollect of your noticina-in your " l nquiry." 
"On such the second death hath no power." 
Is not the plain common sense inference to be 
'drawn from this e~pression, that on all s\!ch 
as have n t a part in this first resurrection, the 
second death hath power 1 If so, I consider 
your theory overthrown by this l!inglc ex-
pression. 
With regard to your rendering the expres-
sion (Rev. 5: 10) "and we .shall reign on ~he 
earth,'· to mean that the samts ~hould re1gn 
"over" the earth with Ch1ist in hea,·en, and 
also your " literal translation " of the last 
vetse in Daniel, I must say that 1 am surry to 
see it. • 
That our present translation of the 
Scriptures might be impro,·ed in many places, 
I have no doubt, from what commentat<Jrs~ and 
learned men in general, say on the suliject.-
Aud when I see a new rendering whi(:h does 
no violence, but th'rows light tlJlOn an obscure 
text, I am pleased with it. 
But to see an ap-
parently plain pa~sage Clf Scripture, and. une 
full' of interest, so traw<lated as to entirely 
subvert, or de:stroy its meaning, looks to me 
like serious busineFs, and ell(mld not be _a· 
tempted unless it !'o contrndicts the cunnc:xJOn 
in which it stands as to reuder it absolutely 
necessary. 
I want to consider the idea of tu:o resurrec-
tions still'fimher. Yon quote 2Tim.4:I,and 
similar passages, to prove that the righteous 
and the wicked will be raised at the !'arne 
time. 
I admit that we might infer t~1at there' 
would he but one general resurrectwn, from 
some of the passages which you quote, were 
there not other p:mmges more plain ~n tins 
point, which in my mjmJ cle•nly es1abhsh tbe 
other 'iew of the subject.· You say that tl~e 
expr~ssion, 1 Thess. 4:16, "And the tlead m 
Christ shall rise first," does not mean that 
they shall rise before the wicked, but tl111t they 
shall rise before t
e liYing are changed .. I 
find nothing said in this connexio~1 that Jm· 
plies that the wicked will cv~-r be ra1~ed, only 
that " the dead in Chri:st shall rise first.··~ 
The apostle was endeaYoring to comfort hl& 
brethren with the thOt;ght that at the com111g 
of Christ they would all be resurrected and 
changed. In 1 Cor. 15:4 there is are urrcc-
Lion poken of,-but who nre to be raised 1-
" They that are Christ's at his coming." And 
from the 35th v. to the end of the cl1apter the 
a}JO!>tle is evidently speaking of the same res-
uncction, in wt.ich the wicked have no part. 
In PhiL 3 : 11, Paul say~, u If by any means 
I might attain unto the resurrection of tlle 
dead." lf the· righteous and wid:ed are to be 
raised at the same time, did he not know that 
of course he should be raised with the "h?l: 
human family 1 The resurrection to v.luc 
he would "by any means attain," was~~~~­
donbtetlly tha\ which would be at t'be (:~.mi.~ 
of his Lord, in which he saw that the 'liCk 
• Rt.•. E. H., iu bi• "l11quiry," N)l, "To perc:.;; 
the bearlor of l>aa. 12:13 apou tbl• •ueati.oa, lt,IBIII 1, 
&f!CfiiiiUY to pnN'nl il J.t'I'&R&L traulauoa: a _.111 
tlly way TO the eDd, and tl10u 1llalt rNt, and tbo 
1tud TO ally Jot, TO alae ead of tllellla)•·'" 
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would have no part. In Jehn 6:39, 40, 44, 54, ter to them; for l have charity enough for 
our .Savior speaks four times of CP.rtairr per-them to believe that when they are convinced 
sous, who, from the manner of his expression, of being in error, they will retract and make 
we understand are to· be pec~liarly favored by suitable acknowledgment. 
Had they had an 
being" raised up at the last day." 
Now if oplJortunity, and neglected to have done this, 
at the time spoken of there is tu be a g.meral it might have been duty for you to have no-
resurrection of all the dead, why is it a pecu-ticed it in the way that yon have. 
Jiar favor to be raised at that time? Will not 
· With regard to the erroneous 'views of Ne-
the wicked share in that favor'! But if at the pos, which were so happily disposed of by the 
time spoken of the righteous only are rai~ed, Conference to which .you have alluded, l be-
we ttee the meaning and the preciousne:ss ol' lieve (if I understand aright) that all the er-
the promise. 
In Luke 14:14 our Savior s~ys, ror there combatted, which relates to the reign 
u For thou shalt be recompensed at the resur-
<>f Christ with his saints on the earth, was the 
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reetion of the just." Why ::re the words "of sensuality of that reign.• 
Now let u~ see 
the just" here added to the promise, if there where we stand on this subject. 
I believe 
is to be but one resurrection 1 In Luke 20:::15, that Christ is about to ascend the throne of 
36, we read, "But they which shall be ac-!tis "father David," on this ea,rth new cre-
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counted worthy to obtain that world, and the ated, and to reign for ever. 
That the first 
resurrection from the dead, neither marry uor thoosintl years are occupied in the general 
are given in marriage. 
Neither can they die judgment. That at tha end· of'this period the 
any more: for they are equal unto the angels: ~icked are raised and receive their doom.-
aod are the children of Goo, being the chil-That in this new t>arth the inhabitants " nei-
dren of the resurrection." Here again 1 ask, ther marry, nor are given in marriage; but 
Do the wicked 3harc in this resurrection?-are as the angels which are in heaven." Mark 
Can I be mistaken in understat,ding our Sa-
12:25. 
You believe, if I understand you 
vior as teaching,, in v. 36, above quoted, that aright, in a sensual spiritual reign~ for one 
all of tho~e who have a part in the resurrec-thousand years previous to the judgment. 
, 
lion spoken of, "are the children of God 1" 
•:Which of us is upholding error, is•yet, and 
The resurrection of the wicked I believe is I trust soon, to be decided. You seem to think 
always mentioned, where the order of time is that the Adventists lay great stress on the 
noticed, as being 3.fter that of the righteous. opinions of ancient Christians, in order to 
1 In lsa. 24:21, 22, a" I understand it, we have prove their doctrine . .But I think you mistake 
1 die destruction, th"' imprisonment, and the their motives in quoting as much as they do 
resurrection of the wicked foretold, and are the opinions of Christians on this suhject from 
given to understand that they will be shut up the time of the apostles down to the preseut. 
in prison for "many days," or a long time, Adventists have been charged by the religious 
before they are 'isited by Him who is to open press with it!lroducing a new ism into the 
tbeir prison, and call them forth to receive the churches. It is to repel this charge, which is 
jlldgmeni which has been written (Ps. 149:9) being so often repeated, that Adventists quote 
agilinst them during the interval between the as much as they do from the writings of Chris-
first and second resurrections. In the passing tians in different ages on this subject. 
By 
or executing of this judgment, all of t'he saints carefully looking·. over the writings of Advent-
iave Lue houor of coucurriug. Ps. 149:9; Dan. ists,it. seems that you would be convinced that 
7:22; 1 Cor. 6: 2, 3; Rev. 20:4. 
they do not look to the opinior1s of any man, 
I do not know what your views are regard-or set of men, for the "re:.sons of their 
ing the" New Jernsalem," spoken of in Gal. hope," but to the" firm ground of &ripture 
4: 2:>, 26; Heb. 11:10 ~ 12:22 ; 13:14; Rev. truth." 
'.Phey ate grat~::ful for' the light that 
3:t2; 20:9; and 31:2, 3, 10; also repeatedly historians and others have thrown on the ful-
alluded to in the Old Testament. 
For my filment of the prophecies, and are endeavorin~ 
part, I do not kriow how to understand it only to publish this light to the greatest extent of 
as it is represented. to be, a real cit!l in the their power. 
, 
~ea.veuly world, of which old Jerusalem was 
And now, in conclusion, I would say, that 
a type. If this -be the case, yon will find it wherein you see a want of Christian spirit in 
located on the earth at the resurrection of the what I have written, I trust you will forgive ; 
wicked, Rev. OO:Y, and consequently is against fur my conscience does not as yet accuse me 
y.our theo.ry. 
of writing from improper motives. 
An<! I 
In Rev. 2G:7-10, we have, as I understand would respectfully entreat you still to pursue 
it, an account of the resurrection of the wicked, your investigations of this subject, with an 
or the.loosing of Satan and tl1e prisoners from eye single to the glory of God. 
I have writ-
the plt, where they have been shut np for ten in haste. 
Truly yours, 
F. S. 
LETTER FRO I BRO. ALVAN. SEYMOUR. 
DEXTBR, JRn. 30th, 1847. 
meeting gome twelve or thirteen sinner!! and 
w3ndererz~ uro11e and 
cunfes~ed the Savior-a 
very 11uleru11 time. 
Anuth~r social meeting was 
11ppointtd at the comrnencemtnjr 
IL was rather 
dull, but we continued wre>~tling with God until 
u flood of glmy reiltt!d npon us. 0 the salvation 
that was exhibited. 
Angels can ouly tell the 
story. One professed ( hristian, that said we 
ought to be kicked out or the school-house IJefure 
our lectures cornmenced, came through euriosity 
to hear whnt we had to tray. 
Finding no f.·wlt, 
he continued coming, until the lu~t evening we 
staid in the place, when he arose in tear:~, una 
gave u~ a history or hi~ feelings for ll few days 
that h11d passed f and he dee ired God and us· to 
furgivll hi111 of what he hitd said 
It was hard 
parting with those dear brethren and ~iilters, who 
never knew anything ubout our hlessed ho11e only 
by wrry of ridicule, but !mowing we ~hould Poon 
meet ugain in the irunwrtal kingdom, we felt us 
though we c0uld endure the trial.· '!'hey wanted 
we should stay till the Savior cnme. 
It would 
have been gratifying to have complied; but no, the 
S(IUia of our fellow~ we love, therefore we will 
subruit to remain wandering like pilgrims and 
strangers over the earth, t~eeking a bride for 
Christ, until our change comes, and that will be 
soon. 
For I IJelieve that the 2300 years is the 
length of the vision, that the 70 weeks is the 
tirst part of it, that 69 weeks or the 70 termin-
ated with Chri:;~t's Jllanifestation as the Me~siah, 
consP.queutly A. D. 1847 the Savior must' 11ppear 
for the cleansing· of the sanctuary, and the resti-
tution of all things spoken of by the prophets. 
ALVA N. SEYMOUR. 
LETTER FROM BRO. C.\.RMI HOKOMB. 
lsL& LAMoTT (Vt.), Feb. 4, 1847. 
Dear Bro. Himes :-We have had very good 
2d. Have we any account of the moon'e b~­
ing darkened, at any time previous to 1780, m 
the manner it wns at that tiure? 3d. Huve we 
any ac<:ount that the stars, or meteors, ever fell 
in euch numbers, and in such a singular manner, 
ut nny pla~e, or at uny one time as they fell in 
1833, in thi~ country ? 
I am induced to propound the above qne1tion11 
from the consideration that, bechuse the asser-
tions of those who oppnse the doctrine of the im-
mediate 'coming of Christ, most men suppose the 
same phenomenon, whi ·h we consider tube the 
signs, of the immediate coming of Christ in the 
glory of hill Father, have often been witne8~ed 
previous to 1780, &c. To huve the truth in the 
cade concerning the above, ptesent~d in the Her-
ald again, if it has already been presented pre-
vinus to tbif!l, nmy be interesting to your ret1der1 
gentrally, and perhiiJill 11ttract the notice of some 
Jiasser-by, and induce them to seareh the ~crip­
turee concerning the highly important st~hject of 
the uon coming of the Kiug of Israel, to judge 
the quick and de:riJ. 
Your brother in tribulation. 
REMARX:s.-We have no recllllection of any 
hi.;torical facts that point to any prt:vious timts 
when the events referred to occurred in any man-
ner so stri~ing as to militate against the view w~ 
have adopted, that is, t~at they are the signs 
spoken of by the Savior, Matt. 24. If any as-
sert that like occurrences have tran~pired at pre-
vious time11, in a mnnner commensurate with the 
prediction,"" them re11ts the burden of proof. 
Let them therefore bring forth their evidence, 
by which they substantiate their opinions, or else 
forever hold their peace. 
meetings for about three months past 
1.llere 
Bro. E. L CLARK writes from Waillleltl, (Vt.), Feb. 
have been several conversions of late, and some 51h, 1847:-
backsliders have been 
reclain11~d. 
There are 
Dear .Br~. 1Himes :-I feel truly thankful to 
110me in the Methodi.-t church whn nre trying to God th11t' he1p s info your n.ind, and so orders 
live and look for the Savior; but there are 111any events, that you ~*s .permitted to visit W.aterbury 
who, to allnppearnnce, possess nothing but the in your recent tour m Vern1ont. 'Ihe 1deus so 
foru1 of godliness; and there are so rue who do prevalent in these lust d;lys, of the world's con-
not even posse!'s th;	. 
version and a spiritual willennium, whir.h are 
I think that those who are look in~ for the Sn-opP.rating like the powerful opiate, to stupify and 
vior, were never more strong in the fuith tlum benumb the Fensutions of the ProtestAnt church, 
they are now. 
Oh, how much we need the spi-
were irrefutably rrlet,and most condusively huwn 
rit of Jesu . All our wofession will nol profit us to exist witlrout Scripture authority. 
A brother 
nnything, unless we are w}'wt we profe,;,; to be. whCl was present nnd listened ~o your argu~rents, 
There nt:ovP.r was a time when we needed the has since remarked, "that 1t wus folly m the 
spirit of Christ more than we do to-day. Oh, church to hold on to the conversion of the world, 
my brethren, are we rflady fqr the scenes of the and that it must be given up." lam convinced 
judgment? Have we done all that we could fnr that there are n111ny yet in connection with, the 
the salvation of our friend~ and neighbors? and churches, wi1o, if they could have the subject 
are we trying to li'e every day ·prepared to rneP.t fairly set befpre them, would glad)y exchange 
God? We may be called upon tu give an ac-
the phAntom!l for the truths. I hope the :Advent 
count of our stewardship to-day, or to-morrow. brethren will take effectual measures to cvculate 
I trtn1ble in vitw of the day that is just before 
II'.! extensively ns possible the letter to Dr. Ruf-
us. 
It will be un awful day to those who are fles, which is well calculated to gi\u00b7e light upon 
unprepared; but 0 how glorious to those who rl)is t~ubjeet. 
&t aany rkzys," (Tsa. 24:22,) even a "thousand 
}1!41"s." Rev. 20:1-6. And when they" came 
u1 en the breadth of the (new] earth," Satan 
&g.lin deceives them; evidently with the idea 
of conquest~ for we fi11d them "compassing 
the camp of the saints about, and the beloved 
~tf." At this crisis is executed upon them 
the" judgment written," by fire coming down 
f111m Gocf out of heaven and devouring them. 
~ e:i.n see here no possible chance for putting 
II a day of judgment beteen the loosing of 
Satan, aad. the '' devotJ.ting-" of the· wicked-
! the casting of them, witb Satan, into the'' Jake 
of Lire a11d brimstone, there to be tormented 
clay aud night for ever and ever." 
Nor can I 
I 
see any more impropriety in applying the term 
"nations" (v. 8) to the wicked after the res-
urr~tiou, than in a.pplying the same tJ,'lnn to 
tlae ngateous in the heaveuly world. Rev. 21: 
24, i6 ; a.nd 22 : 2. 
\Vitll the Utb verse of this chapter (Re''· 
iOth) commences another distinet vision of the 
J¥dglllellt, which, when compared with what 
•1 the prophets l1a ve said on this point, will 
\e found, I uelieve, not to cia h with the ~iews 
above given. 
Ia. your seventh) objecti<m you say, that it 
requtres the misiuterptetation of Matt. 24 : 
1-U. Were tlte whole of this chapter so 
''an&/4ted as to make it mean. nothing at all, 
the Adventist need not give up his hope; for 
dlere ia yet " firm ground of Scripture truth" 
'On 1lrhiclt lte may stand. 
You will see of course, by what I have 
9rltte 1 tha.t I consider your eight objections 
to the pre-millenmal advent of Christ as 
ftOuqdless. 
• 
Your charge aaainst the editors of the 
;... Advent Herald,,';' for an erroneous quotation 
.__ m Eusebius,• I wish you had sent in a let-
• Willtbe 11erson who makes a11y ~urh r.harge, sho~ 
Wllereio wr. have misquot!'.d? We h11ve never se"" 
erk to wllich tbis letter i1 a replv •. \,friend writes, 
1hlc Lilia retereoc!' is to the Supplealent of the H!"rald, 
Dear Bro. Himes :-The 17th of June found 
us in the s·tate of Michigan. 
From that time to 
the pre~ent (with the exception of ahout nine 
weel<s of ill health, caused by the Western fe-
vers), we have tra >'elled some fpurteen huudred 
miles, and in the name of our ·~orning Redeemer f 
httve tried to proclaim the gospel of the king-
dum that 
ush~rs in the consummation of the 
Christian's hope to the joy and rejoicing, we 
trust, of some precious souls. In many places 
an intert:st has Leen crtated, we believe, that 
never will be extinguished. Sorne will persevere, 
and walk in the light until the Master 11ppears. 
Dead formality prevail~ throughout the State; 
but wherever we meet with the truly devoted 
saints, of all denomination!!, the 
me!'~11ge is re-
ceived joyfully. This i>~ touching a h~nder Fpot; 
but our observations will nol deceive us. 
The 
niore we travel, the more we are convinced that 
few Christians, in comparison to the multitude 
that profess, grace our earth. Our labors for a 
few weeks past have IJeen confintd to Plymouth, 
Northville, and I!Ome of the adjacent too,vns. Our 
last meeting was at Salem, where a healthy and 
happy interest was a~akencd by the truth. We 
oo_mmenced our meetmg Ul! usuHI, by presenting 
the successive chains of prophecy relative to the 
Advent question. 
We gave uine ler.tures. 
Du-
ring these lectures seven arose for prayers--as 
many more were willi~g to pray fur them. 
We 
lried, by the presentatiOn of truth, by exhorta-
tions, prayers, and tears, to awoke the slun,ber-
ing church; for they, like the 8cribe& and Phari-
sees, stood in the way of the salvation of souls; 
IJut did not suceed. Duty and tl1e word of God 
required us to withdraw ourselves from those 
that had the form of godliness, and we did so. 
A meeting was appointed for all that would la-
bor for the salvation of souls, and a request was 
made for all that wanted to seek the Savior, to 
come and engage with us. 
In obeying God, we 
received a blessing. The first evening prayer 
are prepared to meet Jesu!:4, nnd to reign with1 • Lust Lord's day I attended the Conference at 
him and all the saints ou the new e11rth. Nothing Essex. Owing to a severe snow storm on the 
hut a pure heart in the sight of God will prepare day previous, which rendered the roads almo~t 
11s for a plaee among the redeemed. 
Oh, brelh-
impn!lsable, the attendam~e Willi not as full os 1t 
ren, let us who profess to be loolting for the Son would otherwise have bren; but a goodly num-
of God from heaven, Ree that there is nt•thing her of the f;~ithful gut together and listened to the 
contrary to Jove in our heart&; for we nught to 
Go~ pel of the Kingdom, by Bro. G. W. Bu1 n-
love our enen.ies, ns well as one another with han1 nnd we felt that it had lost none of its pow-
pure heart~ fervently. 
er to' edify, ron,fort, and quicken the children of 
There are many thing!~ that we ought to guard God. 'I he brethren in Essex are still looking for 
against in these days. 
We should not have our the coming of that same Jesus, and in like man-
aftection~ placed too much upon things in the ner as he went away. 
world, and not enough •m things nbove. 1.'hert 
Yours in the blessed hope. 
arc too many who profess to believe that the 
judgment hi just before us, nnd ytt can buy Ill-
most onything beside Advent houkll nnJ papers; 
but we are glad they have any disposition to read. 
If we believe that Chri~t is coming RO Roon, let 
u~ ,how our faith by our worl,!l, nnd do our duty 
iu 8Upporting the "Herald " and "Voice of 
Troth," und in supporting God's mini8ters.-
There are some here whu read the "Herald " 
with glad hearts, and who we least expected six 
months ugo. 
Let us do our dnty, and we may 
be. the means of doing some good, by getting ?ur 
neuzhbors to read and converse about the commg 
of Christ. 
Let us do all we cnn to save our-
selves and other11, and be preparr:d every moment 
to see Jesu!l, and dwell with him for ever. 
Your brother in the Lord·, 
C. HoKOMB. 
LETTER FROM BRO. H. BARRINGER. 
Taov, (N.Y.), Feb. 11, 1847. 
Bro. Himes: -Whoo you have leisure time, 
will you an wer the following que tions? namely, 
1st. Does hiiltory furnish u:; with any evidence 
to show that the sun was darkened, at any time, 
since Christ was crucified, in the manner it was 
in 1780? I I< nnw there have been eclipses of the 
sun since Christ spake the words contained in 
1'lntt. 24, &e .. but I nm ignornnt of any evidence 
to show that the sun was ever darkened in ns 
unaccountable a manner as at 1780. 
We are 
often told hy men, that the sun has often "been 
darlwned '' previous to the h1st mentioned time, 
and therefore the darkening in 1780 does not 
1,1nswer to the sign given by our Lord, any !f!O~e 
than nt any other time. If the last assertion IS 
true, I cannot 11ee how we are to decide when we 
may expect the sun to be darkened for the last 
time pre•ious to Cbr" t'a coming. 
Flrn. E. C. WILLIAMS writes from Rochester (N.Y.), 
Fel:l. 8th, 1847 :-
There hna, much to my surprise, been consid-
erable opposiiion raistd on account of the 11t1rnd 
ynu have taken on the sleep o~ the dead, &•~. 
Although a believer in that doctrme myto:elf, I can 
with pleasure read any g~~d argume~ts on the 
l'iUilject. 
It was by exammmg both s1des that I 
became con incE>d of the tru1.h of the Advent 
doctrine. I want to be rightly nnd firmly grounded 
in all truth rflore particularly that immediately 
essential to 'our own nod others' solvation. 
[No candid consistent mnn will be offended be-
cau11e he is told the truth; or been use ntguments 
are advanced whit:h do not tally with hi~ precon-
ceived views. 
Especially he will not when both 
sides are fairly presented. It is only by looking 
nt both sides that we CRn know what is truth. 
"Deal meekly with lht' hopes that jltrirle 
The towf' t brothtr srrnyinl( frum thy hie ; 
If rij!ht, they \lid tbte 1ren1hle for thine own 1 
If wrong, the 'erdicl is to God Rlone!"-Chicago Dtm.') 
Bro. WJLLI .ur R. ScHERMBIIHOKN writes from Scbe-
nectRdy, (N.Y.), Feb. 11th, 1847:-
Bro. Himes:-The "·Herald" cheers and 
rejoi~es my henrt at its n!rival; may it be we! I 
sustamed while' we need rt. It apptars to me Jt 
cannot be '"ry long, till the King himself shall 
come to cheer ami raise I"Ur drooping !!pirits to 
despond no more. This is a time of real trial to 
those who are looking for the speedy cf\miftg of 
the avior. Outward signs have all gone by, the 
• 4111 1844, p. 30, where we ~1\Y, that "Eusebius re-
..'_bt DionylhJa, io atltqnpting to di prowe the rei~tu 
-lat OD earth, 'was led to question tile. canonic .. ! 
ty of the Apocalypee ;"' "whereas," aays our 
er &Ia "DioDyliWJ did not exprees a doubt of HIS 'belief 
e lDspiratiou of the book, but only that it was not 
wrirten by THE John to whicjl it was accredited." We 
have not Euseblns now before us, but on ol)":ning Brook"s 
"Elemeo1a ol ProphetlcRI Interpret tion," p. 43, we 
find tha\ he mkke!\ the sama quotRI�n from E ebln, 
from which we conclude we 
ere correct.-Eo. 
,. See Eueeblos' Eccl. Teat., Book 7, Chap. 24. 
hadows have all flown, and we are now called to 
stand by faith, and wait for the bleased 1aater 
himself, the commmmatioo of all our hopes. 
Y onn1 io the blessed hope. 
! 
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32 
THE ADVENT HERALD. 
\ 
Foreign News. 
the adruini4mtion of criminal justice, 11nd con-
--
tinues· to mauife"t the ttame liber,tl opinions ss on 
To add to the p;enerul di11trel!s 
rising from 
hio~ t>lection. The love of th~ people towards 
scarcity of food, u severe pre>~sure ~as weitrhed him appear:; to increase e''ery day. 
do the be11t T can. It will be nece!ltmry that 1 
should rest for a time after my return home, i( 
p~sible. 
NO'l!fe!;S. 
"AlU.I.Yi'!lS OF GEOORA.I'HY."-By 1&. llJ.Jss. Jlric•, 
62 1-2 ct:J., or $15 Jter do~. • 
'I'&STIMONI.\L, 
upon the money market. 
'J'he Bank of Fr~nce 
There have been some disturbances ocr.asioned 
it~elf has been so 
seriou;~ly embarraR,.ed for by the scarcity of corn, nnd the consequent Jear-
IIIOney, us to be ohliged to Lorrow 20,000,1100 f. ness of food. 
In Tu~cany and Naple~, tlte di.t-
from the Bank of England. 
It has al~o been content of the peopl~ is very great, and the GoY-
compelled to increase it:; rate of di3cuunt to 5 per ernrnents ar~ continually in dread of an outbreuk. 
cent., and to re~tri~:t iti! accomruodation-tHea-
Newt~ hnd been received t., the first of Decen1-
sure~:~ tlytt arc felt in all their rigor ~y the small lu .. r; when it wlt!l hoped the war in Kaffirland 
tratlesmen, who do the greatest part uf Parisian was near a clo!!e, nnd that the unnexatiun would 
business. Some 1!a11guine people hope that the be completed by running the boundary from tbe 
worst has passed, but the shrtlwdest l.lelieve.that !lource'l tn the mouth of the river Kl;lr. 
Rear-
it has yet to come. 
Admiral Cochran ha11 taken po>~session of the 
There haa never been such an interest here on 
the Advent que~tion since the time of the big 
Tent meeting. 
l 
tru~t tbe result will be bot~ 
Mn. S. lk1ss-Stn :-Aller a ha:JIY pent:t~~l or your 
"Allllly~is of G~:ogmphy ror tbe Ulll' of SclrouL!, Acad~. 
mir11, elc.," I ha.ve uu I-.e itttl~lll In ~II) ~11gr \lt.Ltl tlttlll 
il n work wdl tlr:tign~:u '" ttid nuy one W~>~llu1g lo ac. 
quireR prtiC.IiCR) liiiOI\WI~e or Geoj!mphy. 
Altogether, the present position of France i~ 
i~laod of Labuan, on the north-we,;t eoast of 
really alarming. 
lt11 relations wi1h all the great Borneo, ·iu the name of England, and that two 
powers are unfriendly, not to 11ay hostile; thou-ship" of"war, the Iris and Wolf, have nrrived at 
sands are lit!lrally 11tnrving; food innprer,ttdently the i11land. · We do not know the date of thitt in-
dear j and there is an extraordinary scarcity of telligem~e, but !!UfJpose it confirms the .!IUCCes'lfUI 
money. 
., 
annexation of that i~land to Great Britain ; some-
The misery in Flanders, and other parts of thing was heard of it a year or more ago. 
Bel~ium, i:~ dreadful-us had as it is in Ireland. 
The cholera ha!! disappeared in Persia, ex-
At Elherfeld, 438 heads of familiea, almost till cept at Ormiah, but fears • were entertained 
well off in the world, have <Jetermined to emi-that it would mal\e its appearance again in 
~rate to the United State3. 
Tl1e emigration from several places in the spring. It was reported 
different p.trts of Germany to thfl States, i11 ex-. that the plague had broken out on the frontiers 
p?.(:ted to be grea~er thi~ year than it hu ever of Persia, and great uneasiness was felt at 
been heretofore. 
In some plaCl'il entire villages Trebisond. 
.. 
,. ·::·: 
' 
are prep.uing to go; and' in others, penple are try-
• 
in~, by all mP-uns, to &ell their little prtlperties, 110 
Account<J from Constantinople, dated Jan. 
as to be enabled to try their fortune~ in the new 13th, announces that the Circassians have 
world. 
gained a brilliant victory over the Russians. 
All throughout Germany great distrestt exists. Dec. 19th they stormed Marquki, having com-
Corn and bread are very lle:.~r. The Govtlrnments pletely defeated the Russians, and killed great 
do all. they can, but they cannot pu:vent great lltllnuers of them. The loss of the Circas-
sutfermg. 
sians was 300 men. 
When the accounts left, 
'fhe official newspaper at· St. Petershurgh, of they were preparing to attack Abouhour. 
Jan. 15, gave an ar:cuunt of the repuLse nf the 
\Ve learn that some potatoes grown near 
mountaineer>~ in their att:u;k on a fort occupied Fort Philip, Australia, ha.ve been received by 
by 
Ru~sian troop3. 
'l'he rnountaineertt nmde a lady at Newin{,rton, which are the first, we 
proof, it appear", of thu most tlAtraordinary and believe, that have arrived in Scotland from 
daring bravery; but were finally unsucce~sful. 
that distant colony. As the di~ease so preva-
'fhe Russian Government is concentrating lent elsewhere among that useful root had not 
troops on the Polish frontier of Gallicia-fi,r. made its appearance in that country before the 
wh<tl purpose it is not stated; a11d it is whispered potatoea were shipped, we hope that they are 
that it i~ preparing for some gr'dnd coup in the in good condition, and fit for planting, and if 
provinces of the Danube. 
propagated they will succeed in introducing 
Swilzerland.-R.us~ia, AUiltria, and Pru11ia, here a new and uncontaminated seed, so that 
have addre~>~ed a note tu the Canton of Berne, on we may be indebted to New South Wales for 
it~ as~uming the post of Directing Canton of th" other imports than vool and tallow .-Edirt-
Confederatioo, in which they say that they will burg Adv~:rtiser. 
, 
maintain friendly relations with it us long us it 
shall rellpeet, in 811irit and letter, the pact of 1s15• 
A meeting composed of English and Irish 
'l'hii! i11 equivalent to saying that the: three pow-was held on the 13th u)t. at Rome, for form-
ers will not p•muit Switzerland (o make uny ing a committee for the relief of lreland.-
ch:tn!(e!l in th11 con11titution of the Cantor•s, if it The pope hail sent to the committee 1000 Ro-
ahould think oeees:o~ary: in other words, will not man crowns from his privy purse. 
allow it to l'.ontrol it11 own dmues1ic u1f.tirs. 
To 
The Lord Mayor of London is now distri-
tbi" insolt!nL and extraordinary comotunlcation, buting £500 to the poor of the metropolis, left 
the Executive of Berne replied, that the ques-in his hands by Ibrahim Pacha. 
twns ref~rred to, inrereo~tt!d Switzcrluud atune, 
th{tt they were only responsible to Switzerland 
Germany.-The Bavarian government, as 
fur their a1:.11t, aud that they were firmly 
det~:r-a special mark of favor, has allowed the edi-
mined to maint.1in the independence of their tors of certain Bavarian uewspapers to Tecejve 
country, and not ptmuit any fitreign intervehti<'n copies of the English, French, and German 
in their pruceediug~. This boiJ and energetic un-journals. that are forbidden entrance into the 
ewer ha~ afforded general satittfactiun throughout kingdom ; but it has enacted from them a sol-
the country. 
emn oath not to allow them to go out llf their 
On the 6th ult., the dio~Contented and factious, offices for a single moment, to be seen by any 
aidtld by the inh Lltitant"' t~f Morat-a di>~trict dis-other person than he who has need of them, 
tingui~htld for irs Pruttl!ltanti:~lu, but wl1ich, nev-in the preparation of articles for his own news-
ertnelellll, make;~ p 1rt of the Catholic Canton of paper, and nut to keep them fur more than 
Fribourg-took arnh! and marched against Fri-twelve hours at a time, but to give them up to 
bourg, with the intention of overthrowing the lo-the government censors. 
This act will give 
cal guvP.rruuent. The uuthnriries took measure>~ your readers au idea or the delightful liberty 
fur resistance, und were uided by forces sent ltly we enjoy in Gj!rmany. 
Berne, nuw the Vorort. They suun Co1111e to 
blow~ with the in~urgtluts, and, aftt:r a 11hort cnn-
It is believed I hat the three courts of Rus-
test, dtll~ated the1u. 
The victors then tuok pus-sia; Prussia, and Austria, h~ve replied in ex-
set~~ion of Morat. 
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actly the same tenus to the protests of Eng-
Hungary.-Ac.cording to an official report, land and France, against the suppression of 
11everul thou>~and persons are in dangt>r uf d) ing Cracow· 
from hunger before ne1t spring. A demand for 
The trial of the Poles, concerned in the 
60,0011 flurin!i was made tn the ari~ttocracy, hut events of Cracow, will shnrtly eommence, 
only 8,000 florins were accorJed , ,md yet thilt and, from the number of prisoncrs--auout250 
arir~tocracy takes all the wealth ,,f the country, -will, it is believed, occupy three ur four 
aDtJ keep11 the people in slavery und misery. 
months. 
Italy.-The celehr.tted Gonfalunieri i,. deaci ; 
and hi11.ioterment has taken place at Milan, with 
every deu.oustration of re~l'ect fro111 the l•opula-
tion. 
He was a martyr to Italian li!Jerty. 
On .N"'w Year's DHy, all the people in Rome 
wen: m grand proce11sion to puy their re~pects to 
the Pope. They were accompanied by tlag11 .(nd 
bands nf mollie, 11nd sung hprma in 
hit~ honor. 
TJ1e Pope "Ppt'ared em the balcony of hi~ palace, 
and Wolil receJvt!d with an iturnense shout of joy. 
'!'he val4~ multitude thl!n knelt, and the l-Joly Fa-
ther, w11h 1nuch olen,nity und emotion, ga e 
tbern hi~ bles>~ing, to whi..:h all the people l!rit!d, 
as with one voire, "AUieu !" On the J3th ult., 
hi11 holine"s prljached 11 ~t~rmou in the Church of 
&iut Andre della Valle. Hitt intention to do so, 
had been kRpt a profuund secret, so ttll to tJrevent 
the collet,tion nf an intmen"e crowd. 
When he 
appearlld in th~S pulpit, the II6DIIltion waa inteuM, 
and ahno.tt all the congre1ation wept for joy. It 
waa the fil'llt ti111e that a Pope had preached AUr 
three hundred ye11r11. 
Hi:~ holine!lll'il aermon ill 
uid to have been very eloquent and affeclin1. 
The Pope bas introduced important reform• in 
THE ADVENT HERALD. 
"THill LORD 18 A.T H.lKD !" 
BOSTON, MARCH 3, 1847. 
NOTE FROM BRO. HIMES. 
RocRJJSTEn, P'eb. 19, '47. 
Bro. B.-1 have now gut through with my la-
bors in this city. Such butt b11en the crowds tu 
heur, nnd the exciten.ent attendaul on rny con-
tinual eff.Jrts, that I am nlmost Mick. 
Indeed, I 
have been laid up ror IWO duyll past, 10 that Bro 
Pearson has supplied somts of rny apJIOintments 
in Attica and Bufiitlo. I am aomewhat better to-
day. 
I shall gu to Attica to-night, a11d to Buf-
falo to-morrow, in the hopeofbeing ahle to fulfil 
the re.t of my appoiotmeot~~o I am very fearful 
I ~thall not l.le able to finish thit tuur; but I shall 
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good and lasting. 
Yours truly, 
z. v. H. 
TO CORRESPONDENTS. 
L. L.-'rhe brother referred to does write. 
Wm. E. Hitchcock-In answer to your first 
inquiry, we think they can be no other than the 
Mme. 
A prefix of '' the '' before the latter, 
shows that it i3 one. before referred to. In answer 
to your second question, many different and con-
flicting opinions have been arrived at; bat we 
find nP more satisfactory one than that which lo-
cates it at the baptism, or, at f1.1rthest, forty days 
after. 
Bro. J. Weston-We have already quite a list 
of articles on file, whic:h would have lo take pre-
cedence of yours. We should have to app·end 
copious answers to your qu!lstiona, which would 
take much tirue and room. 
But if you ask those 
for information only, you will find some questions 
very simildr in the "Voice of Truth," of"Feb. 
24th, from a correspondent of Bro. lursh, which 
are answered in that paper very much as we 
shoulci answer your1. 
El'f'COURAGING.-Notwithitanding. the extra-
ordinary exertions )Vhi,:h are being made to des-
troy the circulation of the ".Herald," by some 
whom we had )ooked on as its friends, we are 
happy to inform lhose who' are interested in it3 
support, that our li~t is slowly, but steadily in-
cre~sing. W ~ received . ira one day last week 
sixteen new subscribers. 
We hope our friendll 
will see to it, thut the efforta of tha enemy are 
more than counterl:lalanced by their exertions. 
The larger our circulatiun-ia, the greater are our 
moons for doing good. 
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NoTICE.-The P.M. ~f DcleTun, N.Y., in-
forms ut~, that our p:tper sent to Seth L. Hollis-
ter, at thut place, is not taken out. 
As we do 
not send it, it mut~t be Pent ~y t~ome friend, who, 
seein& tbi!, will ac:t ;,ccordingly. 
BUSINESS :NOTES. 
P. Whitt:-You waa crrdiltd on book to end of" 12. 
J. B. Whi111~0 ct~. due. 
F', A. Rew-Very well-it will como. 
U. Thomp•on-AII right. 
H. Be) ell-We will et:ud as you wish. We have to 
pay one cent ou eltt'h p~tckrtl!e to Eugl11nd, which avt:-
rnJteARbout 2!'i ct>ntK a year on r.ach vttper, ai we set,d 
~tb11u1 two 111 11 lime. 
Wm. E. flitc.hcMk-We sent the J.ihr11ry as you or-
derr.,l, to Rrimfteld l'ost-otlice, by ttxpre~•. 
'1'. M l'rclle-Phm•e ~cud U» 50 covie~ mor" of your 
•' 200 Stories for L'hildreu." 
DELINQUENTS. 
[Under this bend '"e mtty do some injnstlce. We 
hope not to. If any noticed here b11ve paid, !lilt! through 
mistake ha,.e uot br.en credited, or are poor, we shall be 
1\!lppy Jo do them justice.] 
Previous tlrlinquenc;ies. 
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-$334 94 
1	. L. WILKI $ON, of G11tes, Monroe Co., 
N.Y., return~ he.r paper, owiug 
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The l'. M. nf New llttveu, Ct., inform~ Uti that 
the pntJer sent to GEORGE J3Et:KWITH, it1 
not taken from the ,,Jhc.e. He owu -
Total de1mquencies sinc.e Juue 1st, 18-16. 
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ENGLISH MISSION. 
1 56 
5 00 
341 50 
(Reetiptaror Engli~h Mlasion-Continned from our last.) 
Rec.elved 11ince our lut-A friend from 
CauadR Ert•l. • 
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Wm. l.uttu•r. -
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L. D. D .. -\lion 
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J. Kimble. 
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3 oo 
L. Colt.. 
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D. Burns. 
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L. &. E. Taylor. -
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Amount of expenditure~~ over receipt•, 
for wbich thi~ oiHce is re~ponsihlc 
AHOINTME~TS. 
264 57 
It m11y he expected, Provitlenr.e permitting, thllt Bro. 
HA.L11 will meet witb the brtthren at Wort:esrt'r the first 
Sttbhath in M~rch; nt Nt'luryport the llecnnu; Rt 
Port .. mnurll Tue~tlay Rnd Wt>dne t'IIY evenlnlfll ft~llow­
inJC; a1itlllt Portland the third aud Juunh Saltb~tthll in 
M~trch. 
lr 1litfer~ J'1·om t~ her itlmil11r wor~!t iu the arrlln:tmena 
of the topic~ 111 be ~tudietl. 
Ynur 111M ilicatio11 uf tbe 
Ri~ers, Chief Towns, l.;iliell, l'lc., i~ gnoll: eo iM lnur 
~rauge01e11t ol" "Del!c.riplive G.eo~rtt[Jhy." Tb" tHbular 
1
r~tngemellt i" Wt'il RJitllil>tl IO thi~ &nl,j,ect. For t.<RI"-
Jtle: you h~tve pre~nte(l 1111 Jlp. 36th ami :J7ta, iu lbe 
first 1
d k'ft llllllll cn}umn, n brief ttnd comprehenllive 
dtll!Criptfllll of the' five grantl 
tlivi~ious ol the glub~
; in 
the l!d column, their ctilllale; in the :l1l, suriSte; 4lh 
Koil; 5tll, pr01luction ; 61111 agriculture; 7th, IIIRillllilt~ 
turt>ll ; 8th, crtntrllerce; 9th, miul.'ra~ ; l!JI.b, guvern. 
nu:mt.; lith, rrligiou; 12th, cbarnc.tt.r uf thr iuhahiiHhtt; 
13th, employn>ent; Nld 14th, exports. All ttl' the ~o­
litictll di•i~ious of tbt 11,lolle are ue»eribed in a similar 
tntumer 
The tnlljltt ~rre colored. &nd pre~~ent lo the tye or tile 
learnet·, in juxiR·tJOililiOII, tb.e natural and plllilical divi .. 
io11s, emLbliu!! the sclwlar to vitlw tbe tanh 1116 it Will 
IJ ... fure the politieal lhyi~iOilll Wtre mRde. 
1 think, rwm a ha•tY exumina1io11 or your book, tllat 
1 he cltt~~itlc.ntion of tnpics ill I&UCh as will t'nnhiP l!le 
learnrr betler, with the ~tid of the "Syntbetic.11l Key," 
tn arrnnge and combine his ~eogr11phical k11owledge1 
thltn nny wmk of, the kiald wbtfh llu~ve aeen. 
Your~>, witll due re~pecL, 
LE,�Dim WETHJI:.l\&LL. 
Rocht!trer Culle.,iate JnUitute, F'eb-. lit, 1847. 
BOOKS FpR S.\LE.-The New Testament (pocket edi-
tiOII), the Gospels trausluted by CallliJbell, the l:pi~Liex 
lly Macknil!lll,with the A~ls nml RevelaLiOilli in th" com-
Ill Oil vention. This bouk :thuulu be i11 lhe luuub uftvery 
A1ivl'ntist. whn does 11111 nndersumci the original Greek. 
Price ;)7 l-2 cr.ntw retail, 33 1-3 wboles~le. 
CRUP&."l'S CO!IICORDAN~B.-We have Oil hand l ltat 
r.ditwu of tllis valuable wd!'k, bound iu ~beep, to corres-
poutl wit.h I he "fl ~trp,'' ami 1me ill boards; the H>ru1er 
at $1 50, nnd lhe }atter at $1 ~5. 
WHITEHiilA.l>'s l.IF& 0}" TllB Two WESLEYS.-Thil 
is a valuable work ior $1, and cannot fail to recommend 
itself to everv Cbristia11. 
Two HuNDI\ED SroniES FOR CHILDREN. Brler.tfd 
tly T. 1
. Preble . ..!.. This i~ 1\ Blllall b!•DILd volluue, con· 
tainillg profitable 1111d intitructive 
lorie~ for rhil~n·u, ol 
which we have ju~t receiv't:ll 50 co_11ies. For »ul~ at 
37 1-2 Cll. 
MBETJNQS IN BosTON at the "Central Suleflll,'' No. 
9 Milk-srreet, nearly Oftposite the luw~r em! of the Old 
South, three time• on Sunday, 1n1d 011 Tnr.!K.Iu.y and ••ri-
dny CJYenin~& ill the ve~~try. aboYe tlte Saloon. 
ME&TlNOS tN NEW YonK 11re held three Hmea 01 
Lort.ll$ dRy au Wrushiugton Ha)l, )42 IJt"i!ler-street, ont 
dnor from the Sowery.aud o~ Tuei4JI\y aud Fritlll)' evu-
in~• in the ve:>try uf the German lteformed eburch m 
for11yth-!1trr.e-t. 
Mectiugs are also 
eld re&ularly three ti.me$ every 
Sund!ly cnruer of Hud.~lllllllltl t:llri~topher-slrect». 
1\I&&TINGS Ui BROOKLYN, N.Y., are llehl ill \Vawhin1· 
1011 Jl all, curner of Adams aud 1'illcr) -sueet~, tllree 
limes every Stmda)', aull al1t0 on Monday aud Thurstlny 
tiVenlug. 
A. Si:Juday·ecbool w bi'W iu tha III!Dlt !Jlo.Ce 
ettch l.ord'~ tlay aften.llou. 
AGE TS 
Foa '' JJERA.LD" AKD SECOND ADVENT r\TBJ.ICATIO!IS. 
Albany, N. Y.-T. M. Preble.. Buffalo, N. Y.-J.J. 
Purtl"r. Ciuci1111ati, 0.-Jollll Killlh. 
IJI~avelnuti, 0.:-
0. 1. Hohiusnn. Derby J.iue, Vt.-Sttpbeu FfltHrr, Jr. 
~lllrtfilrtl, Conn.-Aarou Cbl'l'· Lowell, Mati!t.-M. M. 
Geo1ge. 
Low Hamplou, N. Y.-J,, Ki1nball. 
Nt~Y 
!Iedford, l\IIL•s-l!eury V. Duvilf. 
New York Cil)-
Wm. Tracy, 5'1 Fursytll-ltrt·t-t. Orringlou, ~1r -Thttt. 
Smilh. l'hilntltlphia, .l'o.-J. Litch,3 1-:l Suu.h-Sevrhlk 
"trcet. Portltuu.!, Me.--Pelet .lnhusun, 24Indi~·,trrcl. 
Provitlenct', Il. 1.-G!'Il. B. Cbihl 
Rot-"b~~tH, N.Y.-
J. 1\lar:ih, Talman lllork (tllirtl 111111') ), llutlltlt•·olrttl, 
ortPOMilt' the Arc.ue. 
Toroutfl, <.:. W .-llnniel l:HPlP· 
ltrll. 
Wuterl"n, C. E.-
R. Jlnt~hhllitttl. 
W~trcc!ler, 
Muss.-0. F. Wt:therbte. 
Reecipts for the Week ending Feb. ~6. 
a:::J We hnvr nnnexe.J-~ch acknowledgtnelll l~e 
nu1uber tu wbirh it jii\Y•· Where lht volu1r1~ vlilY • 
nwntiuuell, the wlwle Vl•luwe is p11id Jttr. 
If lillY old snbscrihers hrtve-tbe wcmls "if N. Sub'' 
rollnt'CII·Il wilb thPir uame iu the r.·tcipls l.irluw, \Ill 
lhey wriw u~, 1LUd give in thr.it nlltir~il~? 
.Fur if thtY 
nrt: uld :subticriht.rs, we IJHve 11111 crulirt:tllheru rJ:;lit,lll•d 
~t:utl lhcir pH per tu two placea. 
Mrs .lewr.B (if N Sub.), 313; M. W. Bpt>P trtr, 33
13; • 
0. R. L. t:n•sit'r, 313-~ach SU cls.-J. Orn:.C'~. 31 -
t•l! l-2 c.t~.-v. Bums, v 13--Sl 50.-
·T. ll, Luu~,' 
13-~1 25.-l:. Btury, 282; JOIII\lhrllt 8111ilh, Y 13; J, 
Clewley, v 13; A. Kt:lllty, v 13; .l.ll~ttrl~ij' v 13 i A:· 
Conant.,. I~; C. Juhm1011,,. 13; I. Kel111), v 13; M M. 
tfi>L.nnll, 255; A .. J\ vt·rv, 334; M. S. W1ld~, 3~~ i 
· 
Gt·e~u. v 13; A. L. Hun\u2022eil, v 13; <.:. (.;ul•lliol1 v 13 i M. 
M•Dutft't., 3:ll; D. HouJ', 330; II. H llliiHl, v 12; G . .1:.11•· 
WOI'Ih, 313; A. Fux, v "'13; R. P. Harrimuu, l 13 i J). 
Uu1ber; II. Vuleutiut', 256 (:jl, ti7 dut'); <.:.H. Jl".tr!· 
kiijs. 2£2; B. K~:ith," 13; I'll W. Hurliuj!llll•e, 'f 12, 
· 
F. l'cmoinu111, v 12; ll. B. liMB, 287; Mi~~ L. Jo.h,11wu, 
v 1:3; Wru. Lmher, v 13; L. D. Allen,,. 13; E. R 1 Hr~ ~ 
Y 13; J. Herry, ' 13; H. Tripp, 334; C. F. SlrVI.'III,' 1:: 
.1. Ctull!e, v 13; G. i!ntnllt'r, v 12; G. Jlwwt.st•ll, v 18: 
R. t:lamprt, 160 (is n gularly mRile1l); J. l
. ~nvt, 3
1
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J Umht<rhi~otl, 317; Wm. Sc11ra,' 11; A. ln•h, v 13: 
Providenre pt.rmilling, I will vi~it lht fri~nds Ill Ash-
hnrnhftffi on Lord':~ da), 1\Iart•.b 14; and Will llhttt h11hl 
mct.linl.ll in ttre samr. pl~tc.e (•n Mouday, Turada). Hlld 
Wedneadav 11venings. On Thursday llnd Fridtt)' even-
inf!s, 18th and 19th, will hold meetings at Wt'stmin-ter; 
11lso nn Lord'• dny, 2181, al thq •~me plar.e. Other 
meeting• 'II pro'fidenr.e may direct. 
N. BILLUiGa. 
R. Renfrew, v 13; Wm. llttiiJ!rttve (if N. Sub.),'" 
; 
(;l'ci. W1ttson, v 13; L. H. Doud, v 13; Wm. Hrro"''1.1• 
13; S. W. Roger» (if N. Suh.j, v 13; !\Irs. E. T. Wlntn ~· 
v 13; R. Pr~~cnn, v 13; L Wude, v J2; U.lh~tttell;-; 
388; Gen. Murphy, 3~2; <.:. Sttw)r.r, v JS; M: 
e!r~l.' Y 
13; D. l:rttne, v 13; R. L ijakt'r, ih7; <.:. lill~h~ 1'1 ~k 
12; S.l. Sprague. v J3; W. <.: IIHll. Y 12; .1.11111:~. J' 
v 13 i. E. Sudlh, v 12; L Smith, v 13; S. B1>ll. ;_ ~~-b 
S. Speight, v l3; L. Ta) lor, v 13; E. 'fa} lor, v 1
11 \ 
Y 
SI.-P. While, v 14; P. Davis, v 13; <.:. J3u or J4· 
14; Gen. Peulitld, v 12; S. CtTok, v 12; J. L~ or~.' v, c~: 
i
 1. llun illj.!er, !288; H. Cnswell, v 13; O. J, 1t hW"t· 
v 12; I. ~IHrriK," 11; J. Kimb11ll," 14; Mu-2: J w. 
jlin•, Y 13; M. C. Wedd, 339; G .<\. Avevl'r}. v 1 • · J 
'l>hilbrick, v 11 ; H. H. Grose, 283; ],, CultM, :7; p' 
Ucole, Y 13; J. Pallen, " 12; L. H. Gordllll; 
••il _: 
OONFERENOI:S. 
PrnYidenre rermlttinJ, a confert'nce wiJI be held at 
Vf'fj!ennell, Vt., to cummenr.e on Friday, Mar;:b 5th, 
t.11lf pllit 10 A. M., and close Sunday eveninr rollowina. 
Bro. Edwin Burnhllm is e11pected to llttend. Come up, 
my brethren, in tbe uame or the J.nrtl, and help na. 
· 
G.:o. W. BuRKHA.lll. 
SjtfRIUI', v 13; J. Y. HnU (with &.c)," ]3-ear: t2f2; 
A. P. ConYel'lf," 13; C. Dutton, Y 13; J 1'1 e, !3-
Geo. Gibbs, ll911; J. M'Ciure," 13; E. Spral!u$2 'ow•• 
e11ch 113.-J. Titus. pttid by L. Titu,, v 10 < An•old, 
tlutt)-t4-Wm. W. Pttllen, 347; Wm. E. 
1111ett 
85!1; .-\.Sherwin, on aecoun&1 and the amount of b•l 
aa directell-cacb $5.