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THE RESURRECTION. 
BY D. T. TAYLOR, JR. 
Lo! a pale and countless throng, 
O'er whom ages sweep along, 
Silent lies in death's embrace, 
Pillseless heart, and meekened 'face ; 
Blent with dust of rolling years, 
Know they neither holies nor fears, 
Thunder's growl, or ocean's roar, 
Ne'er disturbs their slumbers more. 
One by one earth's myriads glide 
On to wither by their sale, 
'Till man's feet where'et they tread 
Press the dust of loved one's dead ; 
On them mailed warriors tramp, 
'Round them earthquakes rock and stamp, 
Sleeping in their damp beds still, 
Heed they not time's good or 
But a voice shall soon be heard, 
Death's dark ?otter's fields he stirred, 
And a golden trump shall ring, 
Cower and tremble, " terror's king !" 
Light and life shall flash and leap 
Into all thy caverns deep ; 
Then thy pointless darts shall fail, 
'Then the sullen tomb shall quail. 
Christ shall come in car of state, 
Cherub legions 'round Him wait, 
Flaming thunders 'round Him roll, 
Earth shall quake from pole to pole; 
Trampling death beneath His feet, 
Calling loud in accents sweet, 
Wake, ye dead ! arise ! come home ! 
Hark ! they cry, we come! we come! 
Then from grass-grown graveyards old, 
Coral caves, and mountains bold, 
Desert sands, and flowery plain, 
Dust shall leap and live again ; 
Then from earth, and sea, and air, 
Forms shall spring resplendent fair; 
Then from flame, and stone, and sod, 
Saints shall rise to meet their God. 
Far beyond death's vale shall stand 
All that risen, ransomed band, 
Martyr, Christian, priest and seer, 
All who loved Messiah here 
Gathered home every clime, 
Every age throughout all tone, 
Meet on Eden's blissful shore, 
Meet in glory evermore. 
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ON THE 
Conning of Christ, and the Signs that shall 
precede the Last Day. 
BY MARTIN LIMIER. 
This excellent Second Advent Sermon, of 
this devoted Reformer, is taken from a volume 
printed in London in 1826, entitled " Select 
Works of Martin Luther, art Offering to the 
Church of God in the t Last Days,' (2 Tim. 3:1,) 
translated from the Works of Luther, by the 
Rev. Henry Cole, of Clare Hall, Cambridge." 
" And there shall be signs in the sun, and in the moon, 
and in the stars ; and upon the earth distress of nations 
through perplexity," &c.—Luke 21. 
In the gospel for to-day, Christ our Lord gives 
as a particular declaration of the state of things 
that there shall he in the world, when the end 
thereof shall be at hand. Whence we may be 
instructed as to the time when that great and 
terrible day shall be near, when our Lord Jesus 
Christ shall openly come himself unto judg-
ment ; so that we may not be compelled to re-
main in doubt, nor to fluctuate through any 
uncertain opinions. Nay, he plainly tells us 
the particular signs which shall be in that latter 
time, and which shall usher in that great day. 
And indeed, it is not likely that so great an 
event as the signal and ultimate change of all 
things, should not be marked with many great 
signs when the much less important changes 
in countries and kingdoms take place according 
to predicted signs. 
But, as this Gospel has been copiously set 
forth before, so that it is well understood by all, 
and many are fully acquainted with it, I shall 
not here speak of the doctrine which it contains, 
but shall treat of it in another way, to the glory 
of God and our consolation. For it is to that 
end published abroad by preaching, and com-
mitted to writing, that may serve and be cor a 
consolation to the faith and hope of us who 
preach Christ, and of us who believe in him.—
And although it is calculated to alarm that 
scum of the rest of mankind whom the signs 
are intended to awake, yet, such is its nature, 
that they are not moved by those signs, but 
look upon them with an unconcernd security of 
mind. Wherefore, we shall pay no regard to 
them, but leave them to our God and their 
judge who is to come, and who will render unto 
them their reward ; so that they shall feel in 
in their own personal experience, what it is that 
they would not regard or believe. We, how-
ever, ourselves, will make this Gospel adminis-
ter to our profit, by so treating of it, as that it 
may be to us a sweet and gladdening sermon, 
and may not be recorded in vain, nor lose its 
power and virtue. 
And of this consolation we have abundant 
need ; because it is evident that the signs them-
selves are sufficiently terrible, and exhibit an 
alarming sight ; and, moreover, real Christians 
are of themselves extremely fearful, and of little 
courage ; whom, when even beholding any ex-
amples of the indignation of God, the sound 
of a leaf may strike almost dead with fear.—
Whereas, the ungodly are by these things ren-
dered the more secure, and the more hardened ; 
being such whom no signs, however great and 
alarming, can move. And this is indeed a 
lamentable revision of things. For those to 
whom these signs ought especially to be a source 
of gladness, are filled with fear because of 
them ; whereas, those whom God threatens by 
these signs, have feelings of horn and hearts of 
stone. Whence it comes to pass, that they 
cause no concern, and appear to be of no concern 
to them, to whom all things that speak of and 
threaten the future wrath and impending in-
dignation of God belong; while, on the other 
hand, those who ought not to be alarmed at these 
signs, but should rather rejoice on account of 
them, as being messengers not of wrath, but of 
grace only and consolation, are wrongly filled 
with fear by them, and are with difficulty 
brought to raise their hearts to the conception 
of those joyful and consolatory thoughts which 
they ought to entertain. 
There are in this Gospel TWO THINGS to be 
observed by us. First : that Christ enumerates 
in order those signs that shall precede the last 
day, and by which it may be known that it is 
even at the doors. Secondly : that he predicts 
those signs for the consolation of his Chris-
tians, to the intent that they may expect his 
coming with a gladly waiting and happy mind. 
PART FIRST. 
The first sign, then, which' he saith shall ap-
pear, shall be from heaven in the moon and 
stars; that is, as he himself explains it, (Matt. 
24 :) " The sun shall be darkened, and the moon 
shall not give her light, and the stars shall fall 
from heaven." And then there shall be " in 
the earth distress of nations." With such per-
plexity ...shall men be filled, that they shall not 
know which way to turn themselves, or where 
to remain, but shall melt away with fear. And 
moreover there shall be signs beheld in the sea 
and in the waters. So that all the creatures 
arid the powers of heaven shall be shaken and 
the earth shall quake ; as an old building, 
threatening to fall, afterwards utterly gives way 
and drags its ruins along with it. So that, a 
something strikingly awful
b shall forewarn, that 
the world will soon come to an end, and that 
the last day is even at the door. 
Again, before the last. day of judgment, there 
will be many men whom the devil will drive 
and torture by an evil conscience and by dire 
temptations, and will press them into such 
strains, that they shall riot know which way to 
turn or where to abide. But let the devil thus 
vex and terrify, yet shall he not hurt those, 
who are such as God never intended to alarm 
or condemn like the wicked and ungodly, but 
who are of a fearful and tender mind, and would 
willingly receive consolation and be converted, 
and who can find no comfort or counsel, but as 
God himself delivers them out of their afflictions 
of conscience, and comforts them by his word. 
But do thou fear and take heed to thyself, who, 
with such security and delight, despiseth all 
those things by which God threatens thee ! 
Unto this sign pertains that which Christ 
saith also—that men's hearts shall fail them for 
fear, and for looking after those things which 
are coming on the earth ; that is, many shall 
be troubled in heart, and shall go abroad as 
though death-struck with alarm, and having a 
foretaste of the evils to come, under the fear of 
which their hearts shall fail them, and they 
shall melt away with the greatness of the trouble 
and sorrow; even as great distress is wont to 
destroy the natural body, and as a hidden con-
sumption drinks up the marrow out of the 
bones ; as the wise man saith in the Proverbs. 
And such signs as these are to be deeply felt, 
not on account of what they are in themselves, 
but much more especially on account of what 
they are unto thee. For if thou despise them, 
thou shalt feel them much more awfully here-
after : not however, the signs themselves, hut 
those things which are pre-signified by them : 
that is, everlasting terror, trembling, pain, and 
hell fire. For if these signs are to be borne by 
the righteous upon earth, and to be felt exter-
nally, and temporally, what shall we say will 
be borne by those on whose account the signs 
are given, and whom God especially warns by 
them ? By which, however, they are not in 
the least moved, but only become worse, and 
will do so until they experience what is meant 
by them ; for they only rejoice while the just 
are grieved and in sorrow. 
It is, indeed a most trying thing to behold 
such awful and terrible signs, which fill the 
minds even as many ungodly men with great 
fear, (as Christ here saith,) at the sight of which 
thy are seized with trouble ; and indeed it is 
by no means a consoling sight, But, if thou 
be a Christian, look neither at the external ap-
pearance of these signs, nor at that which thou 
thyself feelest, but look at the necessity of thy-
self and of the whole world For as to myself, 
unless that day should at last come, I should 
wish I had never been born. And, if thou for 
awhile; lay aside every other care, and consider 
in thy mind what is the present face of things, 
thou wilt see how it fares with us and with the 
Gospel in the world which so cruelly persecutes 
us while driven about by the devil, and so il-
liberally despises 'and scorns us ; which rises 
up against us with such curses, reproaches, 
criminAtions, and insults, and mocks us with 
such bitter taunts and jeers ; which so ungrate-
fully returns our kindnesses, and rages against 
us with such hostile, virulent, and bitter hatred. 
Thou wilt see, moreover, with what a number of 
ungodly, deceitful, and lying men we are sur-
rounded from without and within ; from whom 
we have to suffer daily violence, injury, rapine, 
and theft; and so much so, that no trace of 
discipline, of reverence, of fear, of punishment, 
or of good morals, is to be seen ; and the more 
men know of the doctrtne of the Word of God, 
the worse they dare to become, and will suffer 
no check or reproof in even a humanly becom-
ing manner, but spurn it with indignation.—
Therefore, we receive no other reward for 
preaching the Gospel than derision, mockery, 
and diabolical hatred ; which is to Christians 
bitter indeed, and cuts them sharper than a 
sword. 
Ought we not then to pray and stand on our 
watch-tower night and day, and call upon Christ 
our Lord that he would at length exercise his 
severity, and send all these things to destruc-
tion, so that these detestable iniquities may 
have an end, and that all such offences may be 
taken out of the world ? For if we be not in 
the end saved from these things, we shall be by 
far the most wretched of all mortals that ever 
were born. We are riot only to look at the 
loss and destruction of a wicked world, and how 
it is to fare with them, but what grief it brought 
upon us Christians, and upon God himself, -be-
cause his Word is so despised, treated with 
ignominy, and blasphemed, and his preachers 
loaded with every insult in deed and in word, 
and with every kind of injury; for all preach-
ing to, entreating, rebuking, and admonishing 
and threatening the world, are useless and in 
vain. Therefore, the sight of these signs ought 
to be unto us a source of pleasure ; seeing that 
God, by them, makes his designs known unto 
us, and consoles us by these premonitions, that 
he will shortly enter into the fight of judgment 
with the world, and will deliver us from all 
evils and afflictions. Wherefore, this day of 
salvation is to be looked for by us not only with 
a gladdening expectation, but to be desired and 
prayed for, with sighs and groans unto Christ 
our Lord, and by our saying unto him, " Thou 
halt promised unto us this day, wherein thou 
wilt redeem us ;" grant, therefore, if consistent 
with thy will, that it may come in this hour, 
and that it may put an end to all the sorrows 
of this life. 
And here, take if thou wilt for an example 
the Papists our enemies. How do they rejoice, 
glory, and exalt themselves, as every time when 
there is even the least hope held out to them 
of destroying us and the Gospel together ?—
With what shouting, with what expectations, 
did they wait for the arrival of the Emperor in 
Germany to annihilate the Lutherans, and to 
establish again their own power and tyranny ! 
With what rejoicings and triumphs did they 
not prepare to adorn his victory when he was 
on the point of coming ! Here were heard the 
unbounded glorying, exultations, derisions, songs, 
jubilees, and dancing, of those who were hoping 
to bathe themselves in our blood ! And so ex-
cessive were their exultations, that they knew 
not how to prepare themselves adequately for 
such a triumph and festivity. Some kept the 
matter a secret to themselves, and only measured 
out the joy in their own thoughts, and did not 
communicate to others the secret expectations 
of their minds, excepting to some of their most 
intimate friends, whom they made acquainted 
with their feelings by an epistolary correspond-
ence. Others, however, with open voices cried 
out and shouted, " A Saviour is come ! A 
Saviour is corned" And there were no bounds 
to their rejoicings. 
Behold ! to such a pitch of exultation could 
those robbers and murderers rise, from their con-
fidence in one false Saviour ! who nevertheless, 
could have brough them no help, even if he had 
joined the whole of his forces to theirs. Thus 
did they with all the sanguineness of hope, ex-
pect that they should be again exalted, and to 
a much more lofty and magnificent height. than 
ever they had been before when they wallowed 
unmolested in all their abominable malice and 
impenitent life. And so confluent and insolent 
were they, that, from my pendent solicitude of 
mind, I had well nigh been driven to doubt 
that the Lord would fulfil what he had engaged 
to do, and to fear that he would be false to his 
promise, where he has said " that he will be 
our salvation," when he admonishes us so ex• 
,pressly in the 140th Psalm, where he says," that 
we are not to put our trust in princes, for there 
is no help in them," when they join their heads 
together in secret conference, and take counsel 
together, and form their plans, — with what 
force, with what preparations, with what arms 
they shall attack us, as though they had us al-
ready to a certainty in their own hands. And 
thus did these atrociously threaten and rage ; 
just as though they designed to tear away from 
God that glory of his—frustrating the counsels 
of princes ! God, however, suffered not his glory 
to be thus torn from him, but as being true, 
stood faithful to his promises ; so that they 
were compelled to leave this Scripture still un-
touched, and we have lived to see them frus-
trated, by the instrumentality of their very Sa-
viour. For they were frustrated with a witness, 
nor did they find our King to be such an one 
as they would willingly have found him to be. 
Therefore, in the face of all their rage, glory be 
to God ! we have remained safe unto this day, 
and 1 believe shall continue so for some time to 
come, whether they will or no. 
I thus put you in remembrance of these things 
by way of example, because they had so much 
confidence and glorying in one man, from whom 
they had no promise, nor was it in his power to 
perform his promise even if he had made it.—
Why should not we then have a much greater 
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confidence and glorying through our hope in 
the true Saviour, who has not only sacredly 
engaged to come and save us in a time, but is 
able also to do the same and will not deceive 
as being one that never was found to be false ? 
and especially since we wait for him with a 
good conscience, as defending good and invinci-
ble cause, for the sake of which we willingly 
suffer all things, seeing that it is God's cause 
and not ours ? And therefore we are not like 
those, who, putting all their confidence in their 
Emperor, only designed to conform themselves 
in their nefarious crimes and enormities ! 
Moreover, it much more becomes us to glory 
and say, How blessed will those more than 
golden times be, when our true Saviour shall 
come, who will at once do away with all those 
iniquities and enormities, and all those injuries 
which we must bear for the present, and will at 
one stroke put an end to every evil ! Then 
shall the Gospel and its most holy name no 
longer be so basely spit upon and blasphemed ! 
Then shall the preachers, who now suffer the 
extreme of necessity, endure persecution no 
longer, nor be any more indignantly trampled 
under foot, Then shall there be no more mu-
tual robberies, thefts, rapines, plunders, injuries, 
lies, impostures, informations, accusations,treach-
eries, adulteries, debaucheries, murders, which 
every one now commits with impunity ? Then 
shall we be delivered from every evil, and have 
to fear neither sin, nor death, nor the devil, nor 
the world any more ; but shall reign in eternal 
salvation, peace, and tranquillity, and joy ! 
And are not these things to be breathed after 
by us with the most ardent longing ? If we 
were but permitted to see clearly with what an 
infinite number of devils we are surrounded, 
who are laying wait for us and aiming at us 
every moment some evil and envenomed dart 
or another, and tempting us with every allure-
ment and inducement to sin, we should then, 
with bended knees pray and intreat for that day, 
that should put an end to this miserablelife. 
—(To be continued.) 
" By the same name you excommunicated 
Leopold, Duke of Austria." 
" By the same name you excommunicated 
Alphonso X., King of Galicia and Leon. 
" By the name of Innocent III., you deprived 
Philip Augustus, King of France, 
" In the year 1245, by the names of Gregory 
Xl., and Innocent IV., you deposed Frederic II., 
Emperor, 
" In the year 1303, by the name of Boniface 
VIII., you deprived Philip the Fair, King of 
France. 
" In the year 1512, by the name of Julius IL, 
you deprived Lewis XII., King of France. 
In the year 1538, by the name of Paul III., 
you deprived Henry VIII., King of England. 
" In the year 1570, by the name of Pius V., 
you deprived Elizabeth, Queen of England. 
" By the name of Paul IV., you issued out 
your edict in the year 1563, to order Joan, 
Queen of Navarre, to appear before your tribunal 
at Rome, to answer for the crime of rejecting. 
your authority. 
" In the year 1589, by the name of Sixtus 
V., you delivered a famous (or rather infamous) 
oration, applauding the murder of Henry III., 
King of France, by a Leah-lie Friar, as both 
admirable and meritorious. 
" By the name of Urban II., you prohibited 
Bishops and Priests from promising allegiance 
to Kings and Princes. • 
" By the name of Martin V., you forced the 
Emperor Sigismund to violate his covenant and 
promise, and made that diabolical decree, that 
Faith must not be kept with Heretics. 
" By the name of Clement IX., you presumed 
to deprive James L, King of England, of his 
right to the crown, even before he ascended the 
throne, and afterwards attempted to destroy 
both him and his parliament by gunpowder. 
" By the name of Clement X1., you declared 
the treaty of Charles VI., Emperor, to be null 
and void (so far as it did not appear to the in-
terest of your government), although repeatedly 
confirmed by oath. 
" By the name of Gregory VII., you not only 
dethroned Basiliuss King of Poland, but you 
did by an express and imperious edict prohibit 
the nobles of Poland from electing a new King 
without your consent, contrary to every divine 
law of our Sovereign Lord the King. 
" And in furtherance of your most evil and 
traitorous designs, You, the said Antichrist, 
did, for the purpose of promoting rebellion and 
insurrection, wilfully and knowingly adhere to, 
and confederate with some of the most notori-
ous and violent enemies of our Sovereign Lord 
the King. And as such false traitor, did felonis 
ously hold such communication with the afore- 
said rebels, with intent to alter and overthrow 
the constitution of the kingdom of our Lord.—
And our Sovereign Lord the King from his 
royal state, titles, and power, to depose and de-
prive, and our Sovereign Lord the King to 
death put. You, the said Antichrist, with 
other false traitors, did in several countries erect 
and establish most awful, dreadful, and diaboli, 
 
cal courts for the trial and punishment of all 
those who refused to own your unlawful au-
thority. To these courts or tribunals you gave 
the name of Holy Office of Inquisitions, where 
every cruelty that devils could invent was em-
ployed by your commission You also appointed 
to superintend these works and mansions of 
darkness, such false traitors as were zealously 
attached to your treasonable designs, and did 
confer on them the title of Holy Fathers of In-
quisition, Holy Inquisitors, &c.—(To be con-
tinued.), 
to time, change your title ; commanding your-
self to be called by various names, insomuch 
that from the day you first usurped that of Uni- 
versal Bishop, by the name of Boniface III., to 
that on which you arrived at the highest pitch 
of Papal grandeur, under that of Gregory VII., 
you assumed no less than one hundred and 
fourteen appellations. And from that date to 
the present, you have continued to change your 
name, for the vile purpose of luring others into 
your awful rebellion against the King of kings 
and Lord of lords, and his Imperial Crown and 
Dignity. 
" And in further pursuance of said treason 
and rebellion, You, the said Antichrist, did open-
ly and publicly in the year of our Lord 751, 
presume to depose Kings, and establish yourself 
as a temporal Prince. You therefore did by 
the name of Pope Zachary I. dethrone Childeric 
III. King of France, and invest with royalty 
the usurper Pepin in his place. From this 
period you carried two swords, to signify both 
your temporal and spiritual power, and assumed 
more authority ; you as Christ's Vicegerent 
claimed the same power, as would , belong to 
Christ alone had he been personally on earth, 
reigning on his throne. You even used to be 
called God on earth, and most of the Princes of 
Europe submitted to your rebellious arms and 
usurped supremacy. You also brought Empe-
rors and Kings to kiss your feet, to receive their 
crowns from your hands, and Princes dreaded 
your displeasure more than they would a thun-
derbolt from heaven. If you were pleased to 
excommunicate a king, all his subjects were by 
you declared to be free from their allegiance, 
and obliged to renounce it on pain of your dis-
pleasure ; and not only so, but any man might 
kill him. Further, you arrogated the power of 
damning the souls of men, and persuaded the 
people (whom you had deluded in your rebel-
lion,) to believe, that you possessed that ability, 
so that whoever died under your excommunica-
tion was considered by them as eternally lost. 
"And in furtherance of your most wicked 
and traitorous designs, You, the said Antichrist, 
not having the fear of God before your eyes, 
but being moved and seduced by the instigation 
of the great promoter, and your co-operator in 
rebellion, the Devil, did with force of arms, by 
craft, subtlety and superstition, falsely, wicked-
ly, and traitorously, compass, imagine and in-
tend our said Lord the King, then and there 
your supreme, true and lawful Lord, of and 
from the royal state, crown, title, power and 
government of his Imperial Realm, to depose 
and wholly deprive, and to death and destruc-
tion bring. Did levy and make war for several 
centuries to support your usurped authority, 
and to overthrow and destroy the government 
and constitution of the kingdom of our Lord, to 
establish your tyrannical and despotic decrees, 
laws, and canons, to the certain destruction of 
all who are drawn by you into your treasons 
and die in a state of rebellion against our Sove-
reign Lord the King. 
" Arid in further prosecution of said wicked 
designs as aforesaid, You, the said Antichrist, 
did (after you dethroned Childeric, King of 
France) depose, and deprive, and excommuni-
cate a number of Princes, contrary to every law 
and statute of our Sovereign Lord the King, 
made in that case and provided. During the 
time you went by the name of Pope Innocent III. 
at the commencement of the thirteenth century, 
when the Empire of Germany was disputed be-
tween Philip Duke of Saubia, and Otho IV., 
you first espoused the cause of Other, and thun-
dered out your excommunications against Philip, 
and upon the death of the latter, in the year 
1209, you placed the Imperial Diadem upon the 
head of his adversary, who not being disposed 
to bow sufficiently to your ambitious desire, in 
his turn felt your malice and resentment. You 
therefore declared him unworthy of the Empire, 
and anathematized and deposed him in the year 
1212, and raised his pupil Frederick II. to the 
throne and dignity in his place. 
The Trial of Antichrist. 
The Proceedings at a Special Commission, held 
at the Sessions House of Truth ; in order to 
the Trial of Antichrist, for High Treason 
against His Most Sacred Majesty, King of 
Heaven and Earth. 
The Court being set, the Commission of Oyer 
and Terminer, under the great Seal of Heaven 
was read, when a Bill being found by the Grand 
Jury, the Prisoner, after manifesting considera-
ble reluctance, was brought to the Bar. 
CLERK OF THE CROWN. 
" ANTICHRIST, alias MAN OF SIN, alias ROMAN 
PONTIFF, hold up your right hand. You stand 
indicted, for that you, not having the fear of 
God before your eyes, but being moved and 
seduced by the devil, did assliciate with other 
false traitors against our Sovereign Lord, the 
present and everlasting King, your supreme and 
undoubted Lord, not considering the duty of 
your allegiance, but wholly withdrawing, the 
peace and common tranquillity of his kingdom 
to disturb; and our Sovereign Lord the King 
from his royal state, title, power, to depose and 
deprive ; and our Sovereign Lord the King to 
death put. 
" You, the said Antichrist, and so forth, with 
other false traitors, did usurp authority contrary 
to every act and statute of our Sovereign Lord 
the King. And, in the year of our Sovereign 
Lord six hundred and six, in the city of Rome 
in Italy, did erect your throne in opposition to 
the Throne in Heaven.. And in furtherance of 
your most evil intentions, and treasonable 
imaginations, as such false traitor, feloniously 
and maliciously did conspire, and combine to-
gether with other false traitors, particularly 
with the monster of wickedness, Phocus, who 
murdered his master the Emperor Mauritius 
and his family, consisting of six sons and two 
daughters: In return for the favor and counte-
nance he received from you, he conferred upon 
you the title of UNIVERSAL BISHOP, and you 
were then known• by the name of POPE BONI- 
FACE III. 
" And afterwards at the said City of Rome, 
in further pursuance of said Treason and Re-
bellion, You the said Antichrist being lifted up 
with pride by the Prince of Darkness, did, in 
order to gratify your ambition and promote re-
bellion, add various other high and dignified 
titles, in open defiance of the Crown, Dignity, 
and Honor of our Sovereign Lord the King: 
such as Christ's Vicegerent, His Holiness, 
Prince over all Nations and Kingdoms, King of 
Kings, and Lord of Lords, The Lord God the 
Pope, and so forth, so that sitting in the Tem-
ple of God, you did proclaim to the world, that 
you held your throne on earth, not simply as a 
man, but as true God ! 
" And in furtherance of your most treasona-
ble and rebellious designs, You, the said Anti-
christ, did, from time to time, wickedly, falsely, 
and maliciously associate with other false 
traitors, with force of arms, make and levy war, 
with intent our Sovereign Lord the King, of 
and from his royal state to depose, and deprive, 
and to kill, and put to death ; and as such false 
traitor feloniously and maliciously did conspire 
and combine with other false traitors to raise 
and levy cruel insurrections, rebellions, and 
wars within his kingdom ; did collect together 
arms, ammunition, gunpowder, and shot for the 
purposes of said rebellions, and to levy war 
within his kingdom. And for many years, in 
many countries, in many nations, with force 
and arms, falsely and traitorously did use, and 
procure to be used, many hundred thousand 
pikes, and sundry other arms, and did procure 
an immense quantity of gunpowder, with racks, 
gibbets, fire, sword, red-hot pincers, thumb-
screws, whips, cords, and various other instru- 
ments of torture (which for cruelty and diaboli- 
cal ingenuity could scarcely be equalled in all 
the dark regions of infernal spirits) for the pur- 
pose of carrying on said insurrections and rebel-
lions within his kingdom, and therewith cruel 
slaughters made among the faithful subjects of 
our Lord the King within his kingdom. 
" And in furtherance of said treasonable de-
signs, You, the said Antichrist, did associate 
with, and cause yourself to be proclaimed the 
head, and did become the ringleader of a certain 
society, called the Roman Catholic and Apostolic 
Church; .and for the purpose of supporting your 
tyrannical and usurped authority in direct op-
position to every divine law of our Sovereign 
Lord the King, you did confer on other false 
traitors, in said society divers and numerous 
honors and titles, such as Cardinals, Pope's 
Nuncios, Apostolic Vicars, Pope's Legates, 
Archbishops, Holy Fathers of Inquisitions, In-
quisitor Generals, Prelates, Monks, Hermits, 
Augustine Monks, Benedictine Monks, Domini-
can Friars, Franciscan Friars, Mendicant Friars, 
Jansenists, Molinists,.Abbots, Abbesses, Priests, 
Canons, Carmelites, Nuns-, &c., &c. All of 
those said traitors have been engaged, and most 
of them deeply: concerned in the many treasons, 
rebellions, and murders committed by you at 
various times. 
" And in further pursuance of said treasona-
ble designs, You, the said Antichrist, in order 
to draw others into rebellion and treason, 
did forge and counterfeit, and did cause to be 
forged and counterfeited, the name, hand-writ-
ing, and seal of our Sovereign Lord the King, 
with intent wickedly, feloniously, and malicious-
ly to deceive the world, and force-obedience to 
yourself. For which purpose you caused to 
be proclaimed that you were appointed by di-
vine authority to be the Head of the Church 
and Christ's Vicar on earth, and that by the 
positive Mandate, and Decree of our Sovereign 
Lord the King, under his hand and seal, at 
Jerusalem in Judea, in Asia. 
" And in furtherance of said treason and re-
bellion, You, the said Antichrist, wilfully, 
wickedly, and maliciously, did forge and coun-
terfeit, and cause to be forged and counterfeited, 
the hand-writing of one of his Most Sacred 
Majesty's loyal and confidential servants, namely 
the Apostle Peter, from whom you have pre-
sumed to declare, you received your authority 
to commit treason, rebellion, and murder, with 
every other crime, in the name of the holy and 
righteous God of Heaven and Earth, our sove-
reign Lord and King ; and your Supreme and 
undoubted Lord. And you propagated and 
caused to be propagated, designedly, malicious-
ly, and falsely, that in order to delegate you 
with princely power, and unheard of tyranny, 
the said Apostle Peter came to the City of 
Rome, as Prince of the Apostles, and invested 
you with all your titles and power to govern 
the Church of Christ in the Universal World. 
" And afterwards at sundry times, and at the 
said City of Rome, in further pursuance of said 
treason and rebellion, You, the said Antichrist, 
did feloniously write, and cause to be written 
several rebellious manifestos or proclamations, 
termed Pope's Bulls; to support your unlawful 
supremacy, to give indulgences to sin, and com-
mission to violate every law of God, to pardon 
treason, to give liberty to souls in misery, giv-
ing encouragement to subjects to rebel against 
their lawful Sovereign, to hurl kings and princes 
from their thrones, and to encourage murder, 
treason, rebellion, rapine and blood, with every 
detestable crime that can be named by human 
tongue. And for this purpose, did make open 
publication of the same as being the Manifestos 
or Proclamations, termed Bulls of His Holiness 
the Pope of Rome, Vicar of Christ ; Prince over 
all nations and kingdoms, &c., &c. And did 
circulate the same among different nations and 
people, for the purpose of inciting and encour-
aging them to enter into rebellion against our 
Sovereign Lord the King, within his kingdom. 
" And in furtherance of your most evil inten-
tions, and treasonable imaginations, as such 
false traitor, You, the said Antichrist, felonious-
ly and maliciously did conspire and combine, 
together with other false traitors, to excite all 
the nations on earth to repair to your pretended 
consecrated standard, in open rebellion against 
our Sovereign Lord the King. 
And for the purpose of further promoting 
your treason and rebellion, You did, from time 
The Silence of the Christian Under 
the Hand of God. 
" I was dumb with, silence, and opened not my 
mouth ; because thou didst it," 
It is supposed, in this silence, that the man 
who displays it traces his afflictions directly to 
the hand of God. " I 
was dumb with silence, 
because thou didst it." His affliction does not 
spring out of the ground, nor does it come by 
chance. It depends on no second causes, but is 
the appointment of a Father and a Friend ; for 
every believer, like the father of the faithful, is 
raised to be the friend of God. As we ascribe 
the writing to the writer, and not to the pen, 
and as the motion of a watch depends on the 
artist, and not upon the wheels, so the varied 
dispensations and times that pass over the be-
liever depends on God alone. It is he that 
rules in the kingdom of men, that works his 
own purposes, and will do all his pleasure.—
Hence it is that Job never murmurs against the 
winds, nor reproaches the Chaldeans, but silent-
ly observes the hand of God : " The Lord gave, 
and the Lord bath taken away ; blessed be the 
name of the Lord." Joseph saw the hand of 
God, in the case of his being sold away into 
Egypt; and it is recorded, when his sons were 
slain, that Aaron held his peace. Is there evil 
in the city, and the Lord bath not done it ?—
And shall we repine and murmur when the 
Lord is at work, dealing with us as with sons ? 
Rather let us " kiss the Son, lest we perish 
from the way, when his wrath is kindled but a 
" You also excommunicated and deposed John 
King of England, and absolved all his subjects 
from their oaths of allegiance, when you pro-
claimed the kingdom under an interdict, shut 
up all the places of public worship for three 
years, declared the throne of England vacant, 
and requested the King of France to execute 
your sentence, and undertake the conquest of 
Britain ; till John was compelled to pay large 
sums of money for both England and Ireland, 
to do homage before your legate at Dover, and 
receive his crown from his hands, as a special 
favor from you, (as his Holiness the Pope and 
Prince of the apostles) after it was detained five 
days. 
" When you were called by the name of 
Pope Constantine, in the year 712, you also 
deprived Phillipicus Bardanes, Emperor of the 
Greeks. 
" By the name of Gregory I. and II., you 
excommunicated Leo, the Isaurian Emperor. 
"In the year 1076, by the name of Gregory 
VII., you deposed Henry IV., Emperor. 
" By the name of Celestine III., you excom-
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little." Let us turn to him that smiteth us, 
with weeping:and supplication, and with all our 
heart. "He path smitten, and will heal us ; 
he bath torn, and will bind us up." 
It is supposed, in the man thus silent, that 
he has some holy and gracious apprehensions 
of the majesty of the Most High, and that he 
feels his authority, his sovereignty, and his pres-
ence. His presence is what hushes the soul 
into a state of profound reverence. Angels veil 
their faces in his sight ; Cherubim are crying 
constantly, Holy—Holy—Holy ! Lay thine 
hand upon thy mouth, Christian, and both in 
the dust! Say, Behold, Lord, I am vile !—
Say unto him, " I have heard of thee by the 
hearing of the ear, but now mine eye seeth 
thee ; wherefore I abhor myself, and repent in 
dust and in ashes. Till a man sees the majesty 
of God, and learns humbly to approach him on 
his throne of grace, he cannot submit to be 
silent ; he rather says, " Thou hast chastised 
me, and I was chastised as a bullock unaccus-
tomed to the yoke." So the Thracians, when 
the lightnings flashed around them, and the 
thunders rolled along, shaking the firmament 
as they passed through it, shot their feeble ar-
rows against heaven. But as Elijah wrapped 
his face in his mantle, when God spoke to him 
in the still small voice, so a holy apprehension 
of the majesty of God is what humbles the soul 
of every believer, arid makes it silent and sub-
missive. 
The silence which a Christian feels, supposes 
a calm within the breast. All murmurings are 
shut out, and a holy quietness takes possession 
of the soul. So our inimitable Pattern, that 
most beautiful of all examples : " The cup which 
my Father bath given me," said he, "shall 1 
not drink it ?" He prayed it might pass away; 
yea, thrice he prayed, saying the same words, 
and then submitted, with all the grace and 
meekness that appears in the conclusion,.of his 
prayer, " Not my will, but thine be done !"—
Blessed Saviour ! Oh that we had more of 
thy spirit. He believed it was a Father that 
put that cup into his hand—love that laid those 
crosses on his shoulder. And when he this 
puts up the prayer of submission, attended with 
"not my will, but thy will," he gently calls 
upon his followers to do the same. When God 
cuts off the prospects of worldly men, it is like 
taking off a limb; it inflames them with mad-
ness, and excites a feverish temper of the mind. 
A Christian in patience possesses his soul, and 
to possess his own soul, in the hour of affliction, 
and to possess it in patience, is the most delight-
ful possession in the world. As David by his 
harp allayed the rising madness of his soul and 
made him well for the time, so the gentle in-
fluence of real, heartfelt religion, allays the tu-
mult of the Christian's agitated feelings and re-
duces him to silence. 
A Christian's silence under the hand of God 
supposes that. he sits down quite satisfied with 
the Divine justice, and clears God of all blame 
or rigor in any of his proceedings. "I opened 
not my mouth, because it was thy doing."—
Thou didst it, and therefore it is right. V Oh, 
what a fine feeling ! Delightful frame of the 
spirit ! How beautiful the case of a soul look-
ing upward to God, and in the midst of his sor-
rows, telling him he does right! How divinely 
plaintive those words of the man after God's 
own heart, "That thou mightest be justified 
when thou speakest, and_ -be clear when thou 
judgest," or as better read, " when thou correct-
est." So in the Corinthians, " When we are 
corrected, (judged,) we are chastened of the 
Lord." " The Lord is my rock," said the 
Psalmist, " and there is no unrighteousness in 
him." And still the saint, as in formes days, 
sings of mercy and of judgment, and these two 
opposite melodies- poured into the same song, 
different from all human music, raise and im-
prove the harmony to the highest dgree. God's 
judgment must of necessity be just, for of jus-
tice he is the measure and the rule. " I know, 
0 Lord, that thy judgments are right, and that 
thou in faithfulness hast afflicted me." Clouds 
and darkness may be round about him, but 
" judgment and truth are the habitation of his 
throne." And this sense of the Divine recti-
tude, leads the Christian to be silent. The 
Turks, when beaten, are obliged to kiss the 
hand of the officer that commanded it ; and so 
to submit and kiss the hand of God in the dark 
hour of calamity, is that in which a Christian's 
silence is pre-eminently displayed. 
The silent believer under the hand of God is 
influenced by faith in a better state of things, 
where no afflictions shall disturb him any more. 
They are riot indeed joyous, but grievous to him 
now, yet they are intended to prepare him for 
that happy state ; they are marks of his son-
ship to the Creator, for " like as a father pitieth 
his children, so the Lord pitieth them that fear 
him." And " if ye be without chastisement 
whereof all are partakers, then are ye bastards 
and not sons ; for what son is he whom the fa-
ther chasteneth not ?" Does riot the Saviour 
say, " As many as I love I rebuke and chasten ?" 
Pause a little, 0 believer! Think, pilgrim, 
think ! Oh, what a light this consideration 
throws on those great New Testament, words : 
Our light affliction, which is but for a moment, 
worketh for us a far more exceeding and eternal 
weight of glory !" A Christian disciplined 
under the hand of God silently concludes, This 
affliction shall turn out for my good—I shall 
come out of this furnace glistening like pure 
gold—by this stroke, sorrowful at present, 
shall learn more of myself and of God—I shall 
leave this bed of sickness quite prepared to live 
anew—this lesson will wean me from the world 
—I shall soon feel that " he giveth grace unto 
the humble "—this timely pruning will clean 
me of my sins, will bleed away my greatness, 
lower my natural consequence, and thanks be 
to God, make me meek and lowly in heart—
make me that I shall neither be barren nor 
unfruitful in the knowledge of our Lord Jesus 
Christ—this timely bereavement will make 
me turn from idols, to serve the living God. 
And, as the Greeks, when sick, used to send 
for their gods ; and as the mariners, in the 
storm, called singly on the deities they had 
been worshipping before, so is it with the 
Christian. " In their affliction, they will seek 
me early." Afflictions are useful to humble us. 
" He putteth his mouth in the dust, if so there 
may be hope." The mountains and the plains 
are often parched and sterile; but in the val-
ley of humiliation all is fresh and green, 
moistened with a dew that cometh down 
from God ; there are the rich pastures, there 
are the still waters, and shady, sweet retreats, 
where the flock of, Christ have been taught to 
bend their footsteps and the weary have been 
accustomed to lie down. One thing we must 
remember, that when afflictions are not sancti-
fied they have an opposite influence—and when 
they fail to humble us, they only make us more 
troublesome and proud. 
And what though afflictions are painful, the 
Christian has his respites and breathing-times. 
The intermingling of sufferings and mercies is 
the great peculiarity of the Christian life. His 
life is made up of interchanges, of sickness and 
health—of weakness and strength—of mirth 
and mourning—of crosses and comforts; and 
shall he not bear the cross ? These interchanges 
are best fitted to promote a healthy state of soul. 
The north wind of calamity, and the south wind 
of consolation, both blow on him, though from 
different points. One blows to nip his comforts, 
the other to ripen and improve them. So the 
believer exclaims : He shall change my solitary 
winter, and banish that fear that settles on my 
heart ; he shall turn my grief into joy, my 
mourning to music, my sighing to singing and 
praise; shall make my day go on to brighten, 
and my sun go down in smiles. Sorrows here ! 
cries the suffering believer ; what will these be 
in a very little time ? Oh what truth is folded 
up in those sweet poetic words : 
" Short are the pains that nature feels ; 
How light our sorrows are, 
When with eternal, future things, 
The present we compare !" 
Finally, this silence, under the hand of God, 
supposes a waiting frame of mind. " I waited 
patiently for the Lord, and he inclined unto me, 
and heard my cry !" " It is good that a man 
should both hope and quietly wait for the salva-
tion of the Lord !" The husbandman waits for 
the precious fruits of the earth ; the mariner 
waits for the wind and the tide ; the watchman 
waits for the first light of the morning; and 
thus the soul, in the sad night of calamity, waits 
and watches for the presence of its God. 
This is something like the silence of a Chris-
tian. Happy the man who possesses it in the 
humblest degree. Let us learn to cultivate this 
silent, submissive spirit. In the day of adver-
sity—in the hour of trial—in the period of pub-
lic calamity—in the article of death, let us look 
up with confidence and hope. God is not un-
mindful to forget us ; nor rigorous so as not to 
forgive us, in the person of his Son. He under-
stands all our misdoings, and yet he runs as 
formerly to meet his prodigal and helps him to 
get home. 
One thing more and we conclude. What si-
lence can be expected from an impenitent sin-
ner? How shall a man be silent with Divine 
wrath burning in his bosom, and sin, with all 
its deadly consequences, resting on his soul ?—
"The wicked are like the troubled sea, which 
cannot rest." 0 people not saved by the Lord ! 
Stupid, insensible mortal ! Insignificant vapor! 
What means this carelessness about the one 
thing needful? How often have you heard, 
and again we declare it, that the unrighteous 
shall not inherit the kingdom of God ? Be en-
treated to remember that unless you become 
deeply religious you cannot be saved. The 
day of opportunity will slide by; a considerable 
part of it is gone already. The period of pro-
bation is fast running to a close. Begin, then, 
the work of religion. Lift your watery eyes 
to heaven, in the spirit and exercise of prayer. 
Plead humbly and earnestly the sacrifice of 
Christ, as a reason why you hope to be for-
given ; and go on and pray till you succeed.—
Then shall you feel the spirit of submission, 
and he able to say, under the touches of the 
The Geologist Needs the Bible. 
We clip the following eloquent extract from 
the " Footprints " of Hugh Miller: 
" But let us quit this wonderful city of the 
dead, with all its reclining obelisks, and all its 
sculptured tumuli—the memorials of a race that 
exist only in their tombs. And yet, ere we go, 
it were well, perhaps, to indulge in some of 
those serious thoughts which we so naturally 
associate with the solitary burying-ground, and 
the mutilated remains of the departed. Let us 
once more look around us, and say whether, of 
all men, the geologist does not stand most in 
need of the Bible, however much he may con- 
temn it in the pride of speculation. We tread 
on the remains of organized and sentient crea-
tures, which, though more numerous at one 
period than the whole family of man, have long 
since ceased to exist : the individuals perish 
one after another—their remains served only to 
elevate the floor on which their descendants 
pursued the various instincts of their nature, 
and then sunk like the others, to form a still 
higher layer of soil ; and now that the whole 
race has passed from the earth, and we see the 
animals of a different tribe occupying their 
places, what survives of them but a mass of inert 
arid senseless matter, never again to be annoyed 
by the spirit of vitality—that spirit which, dissi- 
pated in the air, or diffused in the ocean, can, 
like the sweet sounds and pleasant odors of the 
past, be neither gathered up nor recalled! And 
0, how dark the analogy which would lead us 
to anticipate a similar fate for ourselves ! As 
individuals, we are but as yesterday; to-morrow 
we shall be laid in our graves, and the tread of 
the coming generation shall he over our heads. 
Nay, have we not seen a terrible disease sweep 
away, in a few years, more than eighty millions 
of the race to which we belong ? and can we 
think of this and say that a time may. not come 
when, like the fossils of these beds, our whole 
species may be mingled with the soil, and when, 
though the sun may look down in his strength 
on our pleasant dwellings, and our green fields, 
there shall be silence in all our borders, and 
desolation in all our gates, and we shall have 
no thought of that past which it is now our de- 
light to recall, and no portion in that future 
which it is now our very nature to anticipate. 
Surely it is well to believe that a widely differ-
ent destiny awaits it—that the God who en-
dowed us with those wonderful powers which 
enable us to live in every departed era, every 
corning period, has given us to possess these 
powers forever; that not only he numbers the 
hairs of our heads, but that they are extended 
to even our very remains ; that our very bones, 
instead of being left, like the exuvim around us, 
to form the rocks and clays of a future world, 
shall, like those in the valley of vision, be again 
clothed with muscle and sinew, and that our 
bodies, animated with the warmth and vigor of 
life, shall again connect our souls to the mat- 
ter existing around us, and be obedient to every 
impulse of the will. It is surely no time, when 
we walk amid the dark cemeteries of a departed 
world, and see the cold blank shadows of the 
tombs falling drearily athwart the way—it is 
surely no time to extinguish the light given us 
to shine so fully and so cheerfully on our own 
proper path, merely because its beams do not 
enlighten the recesses that yawn around us,_ 
And 0, what more unworthy of reasonable men 
than to reject so consoling a revelation, on no 
juster quarrel than when it unveils to us much 
of what could not otherwise be known, and 
without the knowledge of which we could not 
be other than unhappy, it leaves to the invigo-
rating exercises of our own powers whatever, in 
the wide circle of creation, lies fully within 
their grasp." 
heaven, and worshipped and served them. He 
also filled Jerusalem with innocent blood, from 
one end to another. Among all these sins and 
crimes, there is one other, which was deemed 
of sufficient importance to be twice recorded.—
He made his son to pass through the fire in the 
valley of the son of Hinnom, and observed times, 
and used enchantments, and dealt with familiar 
spirits and wizzards. This was contrary to the 
law, and contrary to the practice of his prede-
cessors, for among all the wicked men who had 
reigned over Judah, history informs us of only 
one who had sinned in like manner. When 
Saul had been rejected of God for his iniquity, 
the Lord refused to be inquired unto by him.—
Yet in his extremity, he desired to know what 
was to befall him, and because he could obtain 
no answer from the Lord, neither by dreams, 
nor by Urim, nor prophets, he resorted to the 
agency of familiar spirits, who were believed to 
be in the service of Satan. Instead of turning 
unto God, with humiliation, fasting, and prayer, 
he says—" seek me a woman with a familiar 
spirit, that I may inquire of her." 
These acts, which gave Manasseh such an 
unenviable notoriety, had been most strictly 
forbidden in Israel, from the first calling of the 
nation. Thou shall not suffer a witch to live, 
was one of the statutes and judgments made 
for Israel at Sinai, as recorded in the book of 
Exodus. In the book of Deuteronomy—which, 
as its name imports, was a second declaration 
of the Law—we find the same principle ex-
panded, and again enforced by Moses, as he 
himself was drawing near to the grave. There 
shall not be found among you, any one that 
maketh his son or his daughter to pass through 
the fire, or that useth divination, or an observer 
of times, or an enchanter, or a witch, or a charm-
er, or a consulter with familiar spirits, or a 
wizzard, or a necromancer, for all these things 
are an abomination unto the Lord. This lan-
guage was evidently designed to include every 
kind and species of attempt to pry into the se-
crets of the other world, and places the ban of 
heaven upon the conjurer, the enchanter, the 
wizzard, the sorcerer, the magician, the sooth-
sayer, and the necromancer,—unless it can be 
shown that this law was limited in its opera-
tion, or has since been repealed. Without en-
tering into a particular consideration of the va-
rious modes by which these ancient rites were 
performed, it is evident at a glance that all 
agree in this : that they were attempts to pry 
into the concerns of the other world, by means 
which God had not approved. The same prin-
ciple lies at the foundation of all. The Diviner 
sought to read the history of the other world, 
by the means of augeries and lots in this. The 
Observer of Times attempted to read it in the 
aspects of planets and comets, to learn it from 
eclipses, or other natural obscurations of nature, 
or detect it in the appearance and motion of the 
clouds. The Enchanter looked into the entrails 
of beasts, or watched the flight of birds, or 
marked the movement of serpents, to see what 
was to happen to man. The Wizzard and the 
Witch consulted the drugs, and herbs, and per-
fumes, of time and sense, in order to see what 
would happen to man in the world of spirits.— 
The Charmer used spells of magic words, the 
knitting of knots, the commingling of the 
strange, out-of-the-way, and absurd things of 
earth, with the hope of unfolding the unknown 
and mysterious things of heaven. The Con 
sulter with familiar spirits applied to an un-
known and invisible agent, which he supposed 
to be a " medium " between the two worlds, in 
order to ascertain what had been determined in 
the other, in regard to this. 
The Necromancer, as the name imports, in-
quired directly of the dead themselves concern-
ing the past, the present, arid the future. Amid 
all this diversity of means, the end is clearly 
the same—prying into the secrets of the other 
world, by means of man's inventing. Upon 
every attempt of this kind, by whom, or however 
attempted, Holy Writ has placed its most ran: 
qualified condemnation. Israel was told that 
all these things are an abomination unto the 
Lord ; and the wizzard, the witch, and those 
that had familiar spirits, were to be stoned with 
stones. This law, at first rigorously executed 
by Saul, was subsequently transgressed by him, 
but not until he had become such a God-forsaken 
wretch, that made him the fit representative of 
those who have since imitated his example.—
Neglect of this law, and the using of enchant-
ments and divinations, are enumerated among 
the offences of Israel, for which they, were car-
ried away captive into Assyria. For the same 
offences, Manasseh was carried captive to Baby-
lon. Babylon itself was also destroyed because 
of the multitude of her sorceries, and for the 
abundance of her enchantments. She had been 
forewarned, that neither the astrologers, nor 
star-gazers, nor the monthly-prognosticators, 
should be able to protect or defend her, in the 
day of her visitation. And yet, astrology and 
soothsaying, and magical arts—" black arts," as 
they have been pertinently called—have con-
tinued to ensnare and mislead mankind from 
that time to the present. Simon-Magus, that 
hand of God, " I was dumb with silence, because 
thou didst it." 
Christian Intelligencer. 
Pretended Communications with 
the Spiritual World. 
A Discourse preached in St. Luke's, Glastenbury, on Sunday 
Evening, March 9th, by the Rev. A B. CHAPIN, A. M. 
" And Manasseh seduced Israel to more evil, than 
did the nations whom the Lord destroyed before the 
children of Israel."-2 Kings 21:9. 
Of all the monsters of iniquity that found 
their way to the throne of Judah, Manasseh 
was the chief. Though young in years, he was 
old in iniquity, outdoing even Jeroboam, whose 
cognomen in Scripture, is, that he made Israel 
to sin. The first act of his reign was to re-
build the altars of Baal, which his father had 
thrown down. He also planted a grove in which 
to worship his idols, like that of Ahab, king of 
Israel. He went so far in his impiety and idola-
try, as to build altars to idol gods, in the very 
courts of the Lord's House. He set up graven 
images also in the place where the Lord had 
placed His Name, to dwell there—in the house 
of Him who said, Thou shalt not make unto 
thee any graven image, nor the likeness of any 
thing that is in the heaven above, in the earth 
beneath, or in the waters under the earth. In 
that place, he built altars for all the host of 
 
 
THE ADVENT HERALD. 
is the Magician, was a Sorcerer, in the days 
of the Apostles, and so were those vagabond 
Jews who were Exorcists, who attempted to 
cast out devils by the Name of Jesus. The 
last we hear of this class of persons in the flible, 
is at the close of the Revelation, where it is 
said, that the fearful, and unbelieving, and the 
abominable. and murderers, and whoremongers, 
and sorcerers, and idolaters, and all liars, shall 
have their part in the lake that burneth with 
fire and brimstone. There we must leave di-
viners and dreamers, exorcists and enchanters, 
magicians and charmers, wizzards and witches, 
soothsayers and sorcerers, and all who trust in 
them, to receive the just rewards of their deeds. 
—(To be continued.) 
1)L fahent )wall. 
"BEHOLD! THE BRIDEGROOM COMETH!" 
BOSTON, SATURDAY, APRIL 19, 1851. 
All readers of the HERALD are most earnestly besought to give it 
room in their prayers ; that by means of it God may be honored and 
his truth advanced ; also, that it may be amid acted in faith and love, 
with sobriety of judgment and discernment of the truth, in nothing 
carried away into error, or hasty speech, or sharp, unbrotherly dis-
putation. 
THE FRUIT OF THE SPIRIT. 
" The Fruit of the Spirit is love, joy, peace, long-sulTering,gentle-
r
1
law."- Gal. 
51h,.23neekness temperance against such there is 
PETER Gives utterance to an expression similar to 
the above when he says : " And besides this, giving 
all diligence, add to your faith virtue ; and to virtue, 
knowledge ; and to knowledge, temperance; and to 
temperance, patience ; and to patience, brotherly 
kindness ; and to brotherly kindness, charity. For 
if these things be in you, and abound, they make 
you that ye shall neither be barren nor unfruitful in 
the knowledge of our Lord JESUS CHRIST.-2 Pet. 
1:5-8. 
LOVE.—The first and greatest of the above men-
tioned virtues is " lore." 
It is nearly allied to, if 
not the same, as the " charity " mentioned by PAUL. 
While " knowledge puffeth up," it is "charity " 
which " edifieth," or buildeth up the subjects of its 
love ; for " Charity suffereth long, and is kind ; char-
ity envieth not; charity vaunteth not itself, is not 
puffed up, doth not behave itself unseemly, seeketh 
not her own, is not easily provoked, thinketh no 
evil ; rejoiceth not in iniquity, but rejoiceth in the 
truth ; beareth all things, believeth all things, ho-
peth all things, endured' all things."-1 Cor. 13 : 
4-7. While there " abideth faith, hope, and chari-
ty," the " greatest of these is charity "—if a man be 
destitute of which, he is profited " nothing." 
Christian love is manifested towards various ob-
jects. 
GOD is the supreme object of all his affections : 
" Hear, 0 Israel : the LORD our God is one LORD : 
and thou shalt love the LORD thy God with all thine 
heart, and with all thy soul, and with all thy 
might." " Know therefore that the LoRD thy God, 
he is God, the faithful God, which keepeth covenant 
and mercy with them that love him and keep his 
commandments to a thousand generations."—Dent. 
6: 4, 5 ; 7 : 9. " I will love thee, 0 LoRD, my 
strength." " 0 love the LORD, all ye his saints : 
for the LORD preserveth the faithful, and plentifully 
rewardeth the proud doer."—Psa. 18 : 1 ; 31 : 23. 
They love the Law of the LORD :—" Oh how 
love I thy law ! it is my meditation all the day. . . . 
I hate vain thoughts : but thy law do 1 love. . . . 
Great peace have they which love thy law : and 
nothing shall offend them."—Psa. 119 : 97, 113,165. 
3 They love their fellow men : " Thou shalt not 
avenge nor bear any grudge against the children of 
thy people, but thou shalt love thy neighbor as thy-
self : I am the LORD.—Lev. 19 : 18. 
Christians love their enemies :—" Ye have 
heard that it hath been said, Thou shalt love thy 
neighbor, and hate thine enemy : but I say unto you, 
Love your enemies, bless them that curse you, do 
good to them that hate you, and pray for them which 
despitefully use you and persecute you ; that ye may 
be the children of your Father which is in heaven : 
for he maketh his sun to rise on the evil and on the 
good, and sendeth rain on the just and on the un-
just."—Mat. 5 : 43-45. 
In a more particular manner, they love the chil-
dren of GOD: while we are to " honor all men," we 
are to " love the brotherhood "-1 Pet. 2 : 17. 
" This is my commandment, that ye love one anoth-
er, as I have loved you."—John 15: 12. " Be-
loved, let us love one another : for love is of Goo ; 
and every one that loveth is horn of GOD, and know-
eth Got). He that loveth not, knoweth not GOD ; for 
GOD is love. In this was manifested the love of GOD 
toward us, because that GOD sent his only-begotten 
Son into the world, that we might live Through him. 
Herein is love, not that we loved GOD, but that he 
loved us ; and sent his Son to be the propitiation for 
our sins. Beloved, if GOD so loved us, we ought 
also to love one another. No man bath seen GOD 
at any time. If we love one another, GOD dwelleth 
in us, and his love is perfected in us. . If a man 
say, I love Goo, and hateth his brother, he is a liar. 
For he that loveth not his brother, whom he bath 
seen, how can he love Goo, whom he hath not seen?" 
1 John, 4 : 7-12, 20. 
JOY.—IS nearly allied to and is a consequent of 
love. " For the joy of the Lord is your strength." 
Neh. 8 : 10. " In thy presence is fullness of joy ; 
at thy right hand there are pleasures for evermore." 
Psa. 16 : 11. " 0 let the nations be glad arid sing 
for joy : for thou shalt judge the people righteously, 
and govern the nations upon earth."—Psa. 67: 4. 
They that sow in tears shall reap in joy. He that 
goeth forth and weepeth, bearing precious seed, 
shall doubtless come again with rejoicing, bringing 
his sheaves with hina."—Psa. 126 : 5, 6. " There-
fore with joy shall ye draw waters out of the wells 
of salvation." "The meek also shall increase their 
joy in the LORD, and the poor among men shall re-
joice in the Holy One of Israel." " The wilderness 
and the solitary place shall be glad for them ; and 
the desert shall rejoice, and blossom as the rose.—
It shall blossom abundantly, and rejoice even with 
joy and singing : the glory of Lebanon shall be giv-
en unto it, the excellency of Carmel and Sharon, 
they shall see the glory of the LORD, and the excel-
lency of our GOD. . . . And the ransomed of the 
LORD shall return, and come to Zion with songs and 
everlasting joy upon their heads : they shall obtain 
joy and gladness, and sorrow and sighing shall flee 
away." " Break forth into joy, sing together, ye 
waste places of Jerusalem : for the LoRD bath com-
forted his people, he bath redeemed Jerusalem."—
" For ye shall go out with joy, and be led forth with 
peace : the mountains and the hills shall break forth 
before you into singing, and all the trees of the field 
shall clap their hands." " Whereas thou hast•been 
forsaken and hated, so that no man went through 
thee, I will make thee an eternal excellency, a joy 
of many generations."—Isa. 12 : 3 ; 29 : 19 ; 35 : 1, 
2, 10 ; 52 : 9 ; 55 : 12 ; 60 : 15. 
PEACE.—The Savior is the Prince of Peace," 
and those who love him are " children of peace." 
" To be spiritually minded is peace." Such "de-
light themselves in the abundance of peace."—
" Mark the perfect man, and behold the upright : 
for the end of that man is peace." " I will hear 
what GOD the LORD will speak : for he will speak 
peace unto his people, anti to his saints : but let 
them not turn again to fully. . . . Mercy and truth 
are met together ; righteousness and peace have 
kissed each other." " Great peace have they which 
love thy law : and nothing shall offend them."—
" He maketh peace in thy borders, and filleth thee 
with the finest of the wheat."—Psa. 37 : 37 ; 
85 : 8, 10 ; 119: 165 ; 147: 14. The ways of wis-
dom " are ways of pleasantness, and all her paths 
are peace."—Prov. 3 : 17. " Lotto, thou wilt or-
dain peace for us : for thou also bast wrought all our 
works in us." " And the works of righteousness 
shall be peace ; and the effect of righteousness, quiet-
ness, and assurance forever." " And all thy chil-
dren shall be taught of the LORD; and great shall 
be the peace of thy children."—lsa. 26 : 12 ; 
32 : 17 ; 54 : 13. This was the Saviour's parting 
gift : " Peace I leave with you, my peace I give 
unto you : riot as the world giveth, give I unto you. 
Let not your heart be troubled, neither let it be 
afraid."—John 14 : 27. " One God and Father of 
all, who is above all, and through all, and in you 
all. But unto every one of us is given grace accord-
ing to the measure of the gift of CHRIST."—Eph. 
4:6,7. 
LONG SUFFERING.—The " long suffering of OM' 
LORD is salvation." When the LORD passed before 
MOSES he "proclaimed, The LoRD, The LORD God, 
merciful and gracious, long suffering and abundant 
in goodness and truth, keeping mercy for thousands, 
forgiving iniquity and transgression and sin, and that 
will by no means clear the guilty, visiting the ini-
quity of the fathers upon the children, and upon the 
children's children, unto the third and to the lhurth 
generation."—Ex. 34 : 6, 7. " The LORD is not 
slack concerning his promise, as some men count 
slackness; but is long suffering to us-ward, not wil-
ling that any should perish, but that all should come 
to repentance."-2 Pet. 3 He " endured with 
much long suffering the vessels of wrath fitted to 
destruction.—Rom. : 22. We therefore should 
imitate this virtue, " in all things approving our-
selves as the ministers of GOD, in much patience, in 
afflictions, in necessities, in distresses, in stripes, in 
imprisonments, in tumults, in labors, in watchings, 
in fastings ; by pureness, by knowledge, by long-suf-
fering, by kindness, by the Holy Ghost, by love un- 
feigned, by the word of truth, by the power of GOD, 
by the armor of righteousness, on the right hand and 
on the left, by honor and dishonor, by evil report 
and good report ; as deceivers, and yet true ; as on-
known, and yet well known ; as dying, and behold, 
we live ; as chastened, and not killed ; as sorrow-
ful, yet always rejoicing ; as poor, yet making many 
rich ; as having nothing, and yet possessing all 
things."-2 Cor. 6 : 4-10, Thus we shall be 
" strengthened with all might, according to his glo-
rious power, unto all patience and long-suffering 
with joyfulness, giving thanks unto the Father, 
which bath made us meet to be partakers of the in-
heritance of the saints in light : "—Col. 1 : 11, 12. 
" Put on therefore, as the elect of GOD, holy and be-
loved, bowels of mercies, kindness, humbleness of 
mind, meekness, long-suffering ; forbearing one an-
other, and forgiving one another, if any man have 
a quarrel against any : even as CHRIST forgave you, 
so also do ye."—Col. 3: 12, 13. 
GENTLENESS. — The Psalmist acknowledged to 
GOD : " Thy gentleness bath made me great."—Psa. 
18 :35. PAUL besought the Corinthian Church " by 
the meekness and gentleness of CHRIST," that he 
might not, be bold, as if he walked alter the flesh : 
" For though we walk in the flesh, we do not war 
after the flesh : for the weapons of our warfare are 
not carnal, but mighty through Goo to the pulling 
down of strong holds ; casting down imaginations, 
and every thing that exalted] itself against the knowl-
edge of GOD, and bringing into captivity every thought 
to the obedience of CHRIST."-2 Cor. 10:3-5. To 
the Thessalonians, PAtir, says : " We were gentle 
among you, even as a nurse cherisheth her children." 
—1 Thiess. 2:7. " The servant of the LORD must 
not strive; but be gentle unto all men, apt to teach, 
patient ; in meekness instructing those that oppose 
themselves ; if GOD peradventure will give them re-
pentance to the acknowledging of the truth."-2 
Tim. 2:24, 25. 
GOODNESS.—" Oh that men would praise the LORD 
for his goodness, and for his wonderful works to the 
children of men ! For he satisfieth the longing soul, 
and filleth the hungry soul with goodness." . . . . 
" Surely goodness and mercy shall follow me all the 
days of my life : and I will dwell in the house of the 
LORD for ever:" . . . " Oh how great is thy goodness, 
which thou hast laid up for them that fear thee ; 
which thou hast wrought for them that trust in thee 
before the sons of men !"—Psa. 107:8, 9 ; 23:6 ; 
31:19. 
FAITH.—" Now faith is the substance of things 
hoped for, the evidence of things not seen."—Heb. 
11:1. " Without faith it is impossible to please GOD ; 
for he that cometh ,to GOD must believe that he is, 
and that he is a rewarder of them that diligently seek 
him.—v. 6. " Now the just, shall live by faith : but 
if any man draw back, my soul shall have no pleasure 
in him."—Heb. 10:38. " For by grace are ye saved, 
through faith ; and that not of yourselves : it is the 
gift of Goo :"—Eph. 2:8. " Faith cometh by hear-
ing, and hearing by the word of GOD."—Rom. 10:17. 
THE LORD'S DAY—THE CHRISTIAN 
SABBATH. 
The following testimony, gathered from the Sab-
bath Manual, will show the faith of the early Church 
in regard to this question. It appears certain, that 
GOD designed a change of the day from the seventh 
to the first day of the week, at least, so the apostles 
and primitive Fathers understood it. 
MositErm says : " In the first century all Christians 
were unanimous in setting apart the first day of the 
week, on which the SAVIOUR arose from the dead, for 
the solemn celebration of public worship. This pious 
custom, which was derived from the church in Jeru-
salem, was founded upon the express appointment of 
the apostles, who themselves consecrated that day to 
the same sacred purpose; and it was observed uni-
versally, as appears from the united testimony of the 
most credible writers The seventh day was 
also observed as a festival, not by Christians in gen-
eral, but by such churches as were principally com-
posed of Jewish converts."—vol. 1, p. 45. 
IGNATIUS, Bishop of Antioch, A.D. 101, who lived 
contemporary with the apostle JOHN, only about half 
a dozen years after his death, says : " Let us (Chris-
tians) no more sabbatize,"—that is, keep the seventh 
day, as the Jews did,—" but let us keep the LORD'S 
day Let every one that loves CHRIST keep 
holy the LORD'S day, the queen of days, the resurrec-
tion day, the highest of all (lays." 
THEOPHILUS, Bishop of Antioch, about A. D. 162, 
says : " Both custom and reason challenge from that 
we should honor the LORD'S day, seeing on that day 
it was that our Lotto JEsus completed his resurrec-
tion front the dead." 
IRENEUS, Bishop of Lyons, a disciple of POLYCARP 
who haul been the companion of the apostles, A. D. 
167, says, that the LORD'S day was the Christian 
Sabbath. His words are, " On the Loan's day every 
one of us Christians keeps the Sabbath, meditating 
on the law, and rejoicing in the works of God." 
DIONYSIUS, who lived in the time of IRENAUS, in 
writing to the Romans, A. D.' 170, says : " We cele-
brate the LORD'S day ;" and he informs them that 
epistles of CLEMENT, their late bishop, were read in 
the church at Corinth, " while they were keeping 
the LORD'S day holy." 
CLEMENT, Of Alexandria, A. D. 192, says : " A 
Christian, according to the command of the gospel, 
observes the LORD'S day, thereby glorifying the res-
urrection of the LORD." And again he says : " The 
Lotto's day is the eighth day ;" that is, according to 
the reckoning, on the day that came next after the 
Jewish Sabbath, viz., the first day of the week. 
TERTULLIAN, about the same time, says : " The 
LORD'S day is the holy day of the Christian Church." 
" We have nothing to do with the Sabbath,"—that 
is, the Jewish Sabbath. " The Lorin's day is the 
Christian's solemnity." 
BARNABAS, who lived in the apostolic age, says : 
" We (Christians) keep the eighth day,"—that is, 
the first day of the week—" as a joyful holy day, 
on which day, also, JEsus arose from the dead." 
PLINY, die younger, who was governor of Byth-
nia, A. D. 107, not ten years after the death of the 
apostle Joma, writing to the Emperor TRA.IAN, says : 
" They "—the Christians—" were accustomed on a 
slated day to meet before daylight, and to repeat 
hymns to CHRIST, as to a god, and to hind themselves 
by a sacred obligation, not to commit any wicked-
ness, but on the contrary, to abstain from thefts, 
robberies, and adulteries ; also, not to violate their 
promise or deny a pledge ; after which it was their 
custom to separate, and meet again at a promiscuous 
and harmless meal "—that is, for the celebration of 
the LORD'S supper. 
What " stated day " that was may be learned from 
the foregoing testimony, and from the writings of 
the apostle PAUL. 
Hence the fact, that their persecutors, when they 
wished to know whether men were Christians, were 
accustomed to put to them this question, viz., " Has 
thou kept the LORD'S day?" If they had, they were 
Christians. This was the badge of their Christiani-
ty, in distinction from Jews and Pagans. And if 
they said they had, and would not recant, they must 
be put to death. And what, when they continued 
steadfast, was their answer ?—" I am a Christian 
I cannot omit it." 
JUSTIN MARTYR, in his " Apology for the Chris-
tians," addressed to the Emperor ANTONINUS, A. D. 
147, gives the following account of the practice of 
Christians in his day : " On the clay called Sunday, 
there is a meeting in one place of all the Christians 
that live either in the towns or in the country ; and 
the memoirs of the apostles,"—that is, their memoirs, 
as is supposed, of the SAVIOUR, in the four gospels—
" or the writings of the prophets, are read to them 
as long as is suitable. When the reader stops, the 
president pronounces an admonition, and exhorts to 
an imitation of those noble examples; after which 
we arise and begin to pray."—Apol. 1, chap. 67.—
He then describes the celebration of the LORD'S sup-
per, and the collection which was taken up for the 
poor : and closes by mentioning several reasons why 
they selected that day of the week for public worship. 
AMBROSE, Bishop of Milan, says : " The LORD'S 
day is sacred, or consecrated by the resurrection of 
CHRIST. 
AUGUSTINE says : " The LORD'S day was by the 
resurrection declared to Christians ; and from that 
very time it began to be celebrated as the Christian 
festival." 
ATHANASIUS says : " The LORD transferred the 
Sabbath to the LORD'S day." 
EUSEBIUS was the great historian of the ancient 
Church. He lived in the third century, was a man 
of vast reading, and was as well acquainted with the 
history of the Church from the days of the apostles 
as any man of his day. Till he was about forty 
years old, he lived in great intimacy with the martyr 
PAMPHILUS, a learned and pious man of Cesarea, and 
kinder of a very extensive library, to which EUSE-
RIUS had constant access. He was a learned and ac-
curate historian, and had the aid of the best helps for 
acquiring information upon all subjects connected 
with time Christian Church. In his Commentary onthe 
Psalms he says : " On each day of our SAvroua's 
resurrection, which is called Loan's day, we may 
see those who partake of that consecrated food, and 
that body (of CHRIST) which has saving efficacy, 
after the eating of it, bowing down to him. 
" I think that he (the Psalmist) describes the 
morning assemblies in which we (Christians) are 
accustomed to assemble throughout the world."—
Again he says : " Service is performed very early, 
and every morning of the resurrection day, through-
out the whole world." And again, after observing 
that the sabbatical law was addressed to the Jews, 
and that they often violated it, he says : " The Word 
(CHRIST), by the new covenant, translated and trans-
ferred the feast of the Sabbath to the morning light, 
and gave us the true rest, viz., the saving LORD'S 
day ; the first (day) of the light, in which the Sa-
viour'. of the world, after all his labors among men, 
obtained the victory over death, and passed the por- 
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tals of heaven, having achieved a work superfor to 
the six days' creation. 
" The Scripture teaches that we are to spend the 
LORD'S day in leisure for religious exercises, and in 
cessation and vacation from all bodily and mortal 
works-which the Scripture calls Sabbath and rest." 
And again : " On this (LoRD's) day, which is the 
first of light and of the true Sun, we assemble, after 
an interval of six days, and celebrate holy and spirit-
ual Sabbaths,-even all nations redeemed by hirn 
throughout the world." 
" And all things whatsoever, that it was the duty 
to do on the Sabbath,"-meaning the Jewish seventh 
day-" these we have transferred to the LORD'S day, 
as more appropriately belonging to it, because it had 
a precedence, and is first in rank, and more honora-
ble than the Jewish Sabbath." 
THEODORET, speaking of the Ebonites, a party of 
Judaizing Christians, says : " They keep thelSab-
bath according to the Jewish law, and sanctify the 
LORD'S day in like manner as we do."-Haerat. 
Fab. 2, 1. " This," says Prof. STUART, " gives a 
good historical view of the state of things in the 
early ages of the Church. The zealots for the law 
wished the Jewish Sabbath to he observed as well as 
the Lotto's day ; for about the latter there appears 
never to have been any question among any class of 
Christians, so far as I have been able to discover.-
The early Christians, one and all of them, held the 
first day of the week to be sacred." 
Dr. CUMMING, in his Apocalyptic Sketches, says : 
" The Sabbath was observed by apostolic precept 
and apostolic example not upon the seventh, but upon 
the first day of the week." Again he says : " We 
find that immediately after the resurrection of JESUS, 
converts from the Jewish religion observed both the 
Saturday and the Sunday, though the Gentile con-
verts unanimously observed only the first day of the 
week." 
We think it is incontestably proved by the forego-
ing testimony,- 
First., That the words, " LORD'S day," found in 
Revelation, means His resurrection day,-" the first 
day of the week." 
Second, That the early Christians, with the ex-
ception of a few Judaizing ones-who kept the 
seventh day for the same reason doubtless that PETER 
taught circumcision-unanimously kept the first in-
stead of the seventh day of the week as the Christian 
Sabbath. " Go thou and do likewise." We ear-
nestly commend this article to all whom it may con-
cern. And I would candidly inquire, if we who are 
expecting the return of JESUS prefer, like IGNATIUS, 
to " no more sabbatize," but keep the " LoRD's day," 
in so doing are receiving the " mark of the beast," 
why did not IGNATIUS, THEODORET, THEOPHILUS, 
IRENJEUS, DIONYSIUS, CLEMENT, TERTULLIAN, BAR-
NABAS, JUSTIN MARTYR, ATHANASIUS, EUSEBIUS, 
and a host of others, who lived several hundred years 
before the " beast " ever had an existence, receive 
that •‘ mark" also ? May we be guided into " all 
truth." 
D. 1'. T. JR. 
THE PARTING. 
When CHRIST appears, the final separation which 
will then be made between the righteous and wicked, 
will, to the wicked, be heart-rending in the extreme. 
It will be a parting unlike any that ever preceded it ; 
and then husbands and wives, parents and children, 
brothers and sisters, neighbors and friends, will part 
to meet no more again FOREVER. Then many a doting 
husband will see the beloved partner of his bosom 
ascend to meet her Lord in the air, while the black-
ness of darkness is reserved for him. Then many a 
fond wife will behold her more faithful husband for 
the last time, and will be left to lie down in everlast-
ing despair, while he joins in the anthems of the gen-
eral assembly of the Church of the first born on high. 
Parents will behold their children, received as lambs 
in 'the SAVIOUR'S arms, themselves consigned to the 
'world of wo. Children will behold their pious pa-
rents received into the realms of glory, while a hor-
rible tempest will be their portion. Those who have 
taken sweet counsel together, and have walked to the 
house of GOD in company, will find the ties of kindred 
and affection suddenly sundered. These will receive 
the " well done, good and faithful servant," while 
others will receive the dreadful sentence, " depart, ye 
cursed." And Oh, what different attainments will 
be theirs ! The one will walk the golden streets of 
the New Jerusalem, with harps of gold, and crowns 
upon their heads, with songs and everlasting joy ; the 
other will be consigned to those regions of woe where 
hope can never enter, and eternal despair among the 
damned will be their portion forever. The one will 
become priests of GOD, the other will become demons 
of darkness. The one will enjoy the feast of fat 
things, of wine on the lees well refined, prepared by 
the LORD for his people ; the other will pine away 
in a world of woe. The death of the one will be 
swallowed up in victory, the other will suffer the 
second death. The LORD will wipe all tears from 
the eyes of the one, while the other will go where is 
weeping, and wailing, and gnashing of teeth. The 
one shall dwell in a peaceable habitation, and in sure 
dwellings, and in quiet resting places ; the other will 
dwell in the fire that is never quenched, and with the 
worm that never dies. The one will possess right-
eousness, and peace, and quietness, and assurance 
forever ; the other will be doomed to eternal misery, 
and disappointment, and anguish, and despair.-
The LORD will he unto the one a place of broad riv-
ers, and streams ; and unto the other a burning flame. 
The one shall never say they are sick, and they shall 
he forgiven their iniquity ; while the other will never 
know any good thing. The one will obtain joy and 
gladness, and sorrow and sighing shall ever flee 
away; the other will forever endure unutterable 
misery. The one will enter into an everlasting rest, 
which the Father bath prepared for those who love 
hint : and the other will for ever gnaw their tongues 
for very pain and anguish, which will know no miti-
gation. And now, 0 sinner, is there nothing for 
you to gain, and nothing which you may lose? Can 
you hesitate a moment which of those companies you 
will strive to join? Husband, can you endure to be 
left behind, when the partner of your bosom shall 
ascend to meet her Lord in the air? Wife, are you 
content to go away into everlasting despair, while 
your husband shall sit at the marriage feast? Pa-
rents, will you not join your children in the New 
Jerusalem? Children, will you then be separated 
from your parent's kind embrace ? Brothers, sisters, 
friends, are you willing to part for ever with those 
who shall be taken when you are left ? Remember 
the time is short. The day of the LORD draweth 
nigh. Soon, He that cometh will come and will not 
tarry. The Bridegroom is at the door. The Mas-
ter of the house will soon rise up and shut to the 
door, and those who are ready will enter with him 
to the marriage feast. Are you ready ? Are your 
lamps trimmed and burning ? If not, delay not ; 
look not behind ; tarry not in all the plain ; flee to 
the mountains, and lay hold on the hope that is set 
before you in the gospel, that you may make your 
Judge your friend before it is too late. if you walk 
contrary to GOD, he will walk contrary to you. If 
you reject. CHRIST, he will reject you. Unless you 
are willing to take up your cross and follow him, you 
are none of his disciples. If you choose this evil 
world, you refuse the next. What will it profit you 
if you gain the whole world and lose your own soul ? 
Delays are dangerous. Now is the accepted time, 
and now is the day of salvation. You have no as-
surance of to-morrow. To-day, if you will hear his 
voice, harden not your hearts. Soon the seventh 
trumpet will sound, and the mystery of GOD be fin-
ished. Then He will come whose right it is to 
reign, and will take the kingdom to himself ; and the 
greatness of the kingdom under the whole heaven 
will be given to the saints of the Most High. Then 
CHRIST will descend from heaven with a shout, and 
the voice of the archangel, and the trump of GOD, 
and the dead in CHRIST will rise, and the righteous 
living will be changed, and together caught up to 
meet the LORD in the air. Are you ready for that 
event ? Have you made that preparation which you 
wish to make before you enter his presence ? You 
have no time to loose. The last sands of Time's 
hour-glass are fast running out, and time shall be no 
longer. If you are wise you will be wise for your-
self; and if you perish you alone must bear it. That 
great separation will soon he over, and that. last part-
ing will soon be made. Have you made your elec-
tion ? And will you strive to be found on the right 
of your Judge ? or will you perish for ever ? 
Christ, our Example. 
It was highly important and desirable that our great 
High Priest should not only obtain for us the heav-
enly inheritance, but also go before us, in the path 
which leads to it; that he should not only describe 
Christianity in his discourses, but exemplify it in his 
life and conversation. This our blessed SAVIOUR 
has done. In him we see pure and undefiled religion 
embodied. In him Christianity lives and breathes. 
And how amiable, how interesting does she there 
appear! How convincing, how animating is our 
SAVIOUR'S example ! How loudly, how persuasive-
ly, does his conduct preach ! Would you learn sub-
mission to parental authority? See him, notwith-
standing his exalted character, cheerfully subjecting 
himself to the will of his parents, and laboring with 
them, as a mechanic, for almost thirty years. Would 
you learn contentment with a poor and low condi-
tion ? See him destitute of a place where to lay his 
head. Would you learn active beneficence ? See 
him going about doing good. Would you learn to 
he fervent and constant in devotional exercises ?-
See him rising for prayer before the dawn of day.-
Would you learn in what manner to treat your breth-
ren? See him washing his disciples' feet. Would 
you learn filial piety ? See him forgetting- his suf-
ferings, while in the agonies of death, to provide 
another son for his desolate mother. 'Would you 
learn in what manner to pray for relief under afflic-
tions? See him in the garden. Would you learn 
 
 
 
THE ADVENT HERALD. 
how to hear insults and injuries? See him on the 
cross. In short, there is no Christian grace or vir-
tue, which it was proper for a perfectly innocent 
being to possess, which is not beautifully exempli-
fied in his life ; and there is scarce any situation, 
however perplexing, in which the Christian, who is 
at a loss to know how he ought to act, may not de-
rive sufficient instruction from the example of his 
divine Master. 
Payson. 
Mr. and Mrs. " They Say." 
Reader, did you ever see Mr. arid Mrs. " They 
Say?" We have never seen this notable couple, 
although we have heard much of them. They in-
trude themselves into all sorts of society, and have ac-
complished a great many mighty things, but we have 
never seen them. They have broken up families, 
set near and dear friends at variance, raised tremen-
dous tumults and excitements in neighborhoods, dis-
turbed and even ruined the peace and prosperity of 
churches and societies, and have occasioned a great 
deal of gossipping, backbiting, slandering, and evil 
speaking, among the peop le, and yet we very 
much doubt that Mr. and Mrs. " THEY SAY " were 
ever seen. They are every where, concerned in 
every one's business, but seem to have no personality 
or tangibility. They are often referred to, but are 
entirely beyond the reach of observation. If a ru-
mor is set into circulation, Mr. and Mrs" They Say " 
are referred to for authority. " Did you hear the 
rumor that is in cicrulation concerning Mr. and 
Mrs. ? No, I did not! What is it? " They 
Say " (and here follows the rumor,) &c. Can this 
be true? "' They Say ' it is, and I suppose it must 
be so." 
Whether Mr. and Mrs " They Say " are descend-
ants from our first parents, or from the fallen angels, 
we know not. They evidently existed before the 
flood. But as the Scriptures inform us that but eight 
souls were saved in the ark, we conclude that they 
and their progeny, not having souls, contrived some 
how or other to keep their heads above water and 
survived the flood. They must have had a numerous 
progeny, for they are every where present. 
" They Say " have the most to say of all that is 
said, in regard to rumors and slanderous stories in 
circulation, or they must have exceeding broad shoul-
ders to bear up under all the gossips and slanders 
that are imputed to them, Every foul-mouthed tra-
ducer and meddler in other men's matters, and who 
wishes to put in circulation and give currency to 
their scandal or slander, summon Mr. and Mrs. 
" They Say" as endorsers. 
From all the information we can obtain in regard 
to them, we are forced to conclude that Mr. and Mrs. 
" They Say," are vicious, foul-mouthed, miserable, 
contemptible, scandalous beings ; and all who retail 
their scandals are, in our opinion, equally as misera-
ble and contemptible as they are themselves ; and we 
would advise all candid, well disposed persons, not 
to be confederate or form an acquaintance either with 
Mr. and Mrs. " They Say," or those who are con-
federate with them in destroying the peace and hap-
piness of others by their scandal. 
Free Will Baptist Repository. 
Holy Life. 
The beauty of a holy life constitutes the most elo-
quent and effective persuasive to religion which one 
human being can address to another. We have many 
ways of doing good to our fellow-creatures ; but none 
so efficacious as leading a virtuous, upright, and well 
ordered life. There is an energy of moral suasion 
in a good man's life, passing the highest efforts of 
the orator's genius. The seen but silent beauty of 
holiness speaks more eloquently of GOD and duty 
than the tongues of men and angels. Let parents re-
member this. The best inheritance a parent can be-
queath to a child is a virtuous example, a legacy of 
hallowed remembrance and associations. The beauty 
of holiness beaming through the life of a loved rela-
tive or friend, is mere effectual to strengthen such 
as do stand in virtue's ways, and raise up those that 
are bowed down, than precept, command, entreaty, 
or warning. Christianity itself, I believe, owes by 
far the greater part of its moral power, not to the 
precepts or parables of CHRIST, but to his own char-
acter. The beauty of that holiness which is en-
shrined in the four brief biographies of the Man of 
Nazareth has done more, and will do more, to regen-
erate the world, and bring in an everlasting right-
eousness, than all the other agencies put together.-
It 'has done more to spread his religion in the world 
than all that has ever been preached or written mi 
the evidences of Christianity. 
Chalmers. 
Suspicion. 
Suspicion amongst thoughts are like bats amongst 
birds, they ever fly by twilight. Certainly they are 
to be repressed, or at least well guarded, for they 
cloud the mind, they lose friends, and they check 
with business whereby business cannot go on currently 
and constantly. They dispose kings to tyranny, 
husbands to jealousy, wise men to irresolution and 
melancholy. They are defects, not in the heart, hut 
in the brain, for they take place in the stoutest na-
tures, as in the example of Henry VII. of Eng-
land, there was not a more suspicius man, nor a more 
stout. And in such a composition they do, small 
hurt. For commonly they are not admitted but with 
examination, whether they be likely or no? but in 
fearful natures they gain ground too fast. There 
is nothing makes a man suspect much more than to 
know little, and therefore men should remedy sus-
picion, by procuring to know more, and not to keep 
their suspicions in smother. What would men have? 
Do they think those they employ and deal with are 
saints? Do they think they will have their own 
ends, and be truer to themselves than to them?-
Therefore there is no better way to moderate sus-
picions, than to account upon such suspicions, as 
true, and yet to bridle them as false ; for so far a 
man ought to make use of suspicions, as to provide, 
as if that should be true that he suspects, yet he may 
do him no hurt. Suspicions, that the mind of itself 
gathers, are but buzzes ; but suspicions that are artifi-
cially nourished and pet into men's heads by the 
tales and whisperings of others, have stings. Cer-
tainly the best means to clear the way in this same 
wood of suspicion, is frankly to communicate them 
with the party that he suspects ; fir thereby he shall 
be sure to know more of them than he did before, and 
withal shall make that party circumspect, not to give 
further cause of suspicion. But this would not be 
done to men of base nature ; for they, if they find 
themselves once suspected, will never he true. The 
Italian says, Sospetto licentia fede, as if suspicion did 
not give a passport to faith ; but it ought rather to 
kindle it, to discharge itself. Lord Bacon. 
Population of the Principal Towns in the 
United States. 
According to the Cpexx,:fhs1Si57(,),17.,selZ,f;ezt,lzrertshem from floating 
Bangor, 14,441 ; Portland, 26,819. We have 
not noticed the population of any other towns in 
Maine. if any of our subscribers can give us the 
population of either of the towns of Augusta, Belfast, 
Machias, Eastport, Waldoboro, Hallowell, Saco, 
and York, they will oblige us. 
IN NEW HAMPSHIRE.- Concord, 8,584 ; Gilman-
ton,3,282 ; Dover, 8,186 ; Portsmouth, 9,739; Nash-
ua, 5,820 ; Keene, 3,392 ; Hanover, 2,352 ; Haver-
hill, 2,405 ; Lancaster, 1,559 ; Manchester, 13,933. 
We have not seen the population of any of the 
towns in Vermont. Would like to learn that of 
Montpelier, St. Albans, Burlington, Vergennes, 
Windsor, Rockingham, Brattleboro, Bennington, 
and other principal ones. Those in Massachusetts 
we gave last week. 
IN RHODE ISLAND. - Providence, 41,513 ; War-
wick, 7,740 ; Newport, 9,563. 
IN CONNECTICUT. -Hartford, 17,851 ; Norwich, 
10,265 ; New London, 9,006 ; Middletown, 8,791 ; 
New Haven, 22,529 ; Bridgeport, 7,558. 
IN NEW YORK. - Catskill, 5,454 ; Newburgh, 
11,417 ; New York, 515,394 ; Brooklyn, 96,850 ; 
Poughkeepsie, 13,944; Hudson, 6,214; Troy, 28,785; 
Utica, 17,240 ; Fishkill, 9,240 ; Kingston, 10,252 ; 
Rochester, 36,560 ; Buffalo, 42,266. 
IN NEW JERSEY.-Trenton, 6,466 ; Morris, 4,997; 
Paterson, 11,341 ; Newark, 38,893 ; New Bruns-
wick, 10,020 ; Camden, 9, 618 ; Salem, 3,052. 
IN PENNSYLVANIA.-Harrisburg, 8,173 ; Carlisle, 
4,575 ; Chambersburg, 4,272 ; York, 7,702 ; Lan-
easter, 12,382 ; Philadelphia, 406,358 ; Pottsville, 
7,515 ; Reading, 15,821 ; Erie, 5,850 ; Alleghany, 
21,270 ; Pittsburgh, 46,601. 
IN 0Hro.-Columbus, 17,867; Circleville, 3,411 ; 
Chillicothe, 7,098 ; Portsmouth, 4,011 ; Galliopolis, 
1,686; Springfield, 5,108; Newark, 4,155; Marietta, 
3,133 ; Zanesville, 8,007 ; Steubenville, 10,355 ; 
Cleveland, 17,585 ; Akron, 3,266 ; Norwalk, 1,441 ; 
Sandusky, 5,088 ; Toledo, 3,819 ; Dayton, 13,103 ; 
Cincinnati, 116,078. 
IN OTHER STATES-Wilmington, Del., 13,931.-
Baltimore, Md., 169,123. Washington, D. C., 40,- 
072. Richmond, Va. 30,280. Charleston, S.C., 
42,604. St. Augustine, Fa., 1,935. Mobile, Al., 
20,514. Memphis, Tenn., 11,365. Detroit, Mich., 
21,057. Indianapolis, Ind., 8,034. Louisville, Ky., 
42,000. New Albany, Intl., 9,785. Chicago, Ill., 
28,269. Madison, Wis., 1,871. Milwaukee, Wis., 
20,035. Winnebago, Wis., 1,176. St. Louis, Mo., 
81,107. New Orleans, La., 94,526. 
If editors would publish the returns in their res-
pective States, they would accommodate those seeking 
for early Census returns. 
If our subscribers in any of the States can send us 
any accurate information respecting the population of 
the principal towns, not contained in the foregoing, 
they will oblige us. 
WE we wish to say a word in relation to the Advent Harp. 
We do consider it the best collection of hymns _and music 
with which we are acquainted. It is calculated to inspire a 
spirit of heavenly devotion. It is deserving a wider and 
more general circulation. 
L. KIMBALL, 
A. W. BROWN. 
THE ADVENT HERALD. 
ing of our Lord, the Jews will all return to the land. 
of Canaan, and again assume their nationality. If 
this doctrine be correct, then how could the wall of 
separation between Jew and Gentile he said to be re-
moved by the sacrifice of Christ, and the statement, 
" he is not a Jew who is one ourwardly," and " cir-
cumcision is of the heart," be coma ? We are 
aware of the numerous passages which speak of the 
restoration of Israel, they are of two distinct classes. 
One refers to the return of the carnal Jew, from the 
Bahylonish captivity : but it roust be remembered, 
they were uttered previous to that event. The other 
class refers to the gathering of the spiritual seed of 
Abraham to the New Jet usalem, which we are told 
in the 21st chapter of Revelation, 2d verse, will 
" descend from God out of heaven " * upon the new 
earth, described in the 1st verse of the same chapter. 
Here, as in all the leading passages oft his chapter, it 
will be perceived that the restoration of Israel is to be 
subsequent to the new creation. As examples, we re-
fer the reader to the clear and forcible account of this 
event contained in the 11th and 65th chapters of 
Isaiah. 
The pomp and glory of our Lord's second coming, 
and the sublimity of the scenes which will attend that 
great event, open before us a wide field on which to ex 
patiate. irhe scripture accounts are so copious, com-
prehensive, and sublime on the subject, that we con-
ceive it would not only be folly, but presumption, 
with our limited power of description, to attempt a 
task, which would but weaken the force. We shall 
therefore do little inure than mention the leading 
events connected with that event. The heavens 
above and the earth beneath shall combine to pro-
claim the advent of their glorious Creator and King. 
The sun, that great and incomprehensible luminary, 
shall be turned into darkness" with respect to this 
world, his light being no longer required, for Christ 
the" Sun of righteousness," gives indication of his 
rising " with healing in his wings," to be the light 
and glory of his new creation. The moon, which 
cheers us with its silvery beams, "shall be turned 
into blood," and " the stars shall withdraw their 
shining," for the night. of moral darkness is forever 
passing away, an eternal day is about to dawn, du-
ring which the world will enjoy the unclouded shining 
of the ".Sun of righteousness," and they shall " fall 
from heaven," fOr the " powers of heaven shall he 
shaken." Earthquakes shall shake the earth 
through all its continents, amid the confusion of 
which " every island shall flee away," and by which 
the ocean shall be agitated as by a mighty tempest. 
Thunders shall reverberate front pole to pole, and 
the lightning's terrific glare will break in upon the 
dark pall which shall envelope all nature, and for a 
time substitute the cheering rays of the sun. The 
awful pause of nature when these fearful commotions 
shall have subsided, will in a moment be broken in 
upon'by the sound of the announcing trumpet, which 
shall reach every living ear, and the " glorious ap-
pearance of the Son of man," attended by " ten thou-
sand of his saints," (a retinue compared with which 
the most gorgeous of earthly courts is but as a drop 
compared with the mighty ocean, or as the lamp's 
glimmering ray compared with the sun in his noon-
day effulgence) will be hailed with a universal shout. 
He shall descend upon a great throne of dazzling 
whiteness, emblematic of the purity of the judge, 
which shall be borne upon the fleecy clouds through 
the heavens in majestic splendor. Then, with a 
sound exceeding ten thousand thunders, shall the 
archangel's trump send forth its dead awakening 
peal, calling together the particles of decayed hu-
manity, whether scattered to the wind, or mingled 
with the waters, when "the dead in Christ shall 
rise first," and the righteous who have not experi-
enced the pains of death, shall in a moment undergo 
some unaccountable change, which will enable them, 
with the risen saints, to meet their Lord in the air.—
The wicked too shall hear the awful sound of the 
trump and awake, not however to soar with joyful 
wings to meet their Lord in the air, but to be assem-
bled on the earth, the scene of their guilt and rebel-
lion, and experience that withering sentence, " De-
part, ye cursed, into everlasting fire prepared (not for 
them, but) the devil and his angels." In that day 
how different will be the condition of the despised 
and humble follower of the Lord Jesus Christ, and 
the proud worldling who proclaimed in his every 
day conduct, "I will not have this man to reign over 
me." That day will to the righteous be the consum-
mation of their ardent and oft repeated prayer, " Thy 
kingdom come." They shall he filled with a joy so 
inconceivable that language fails to convey an ade-
quate idea of its intensity. And those who are not 
sheltered by the "rock of ages," will, under the 
In view of difficulties such as are inseparable from withering blast of divine vengeance experience men- 
the popular creed, many persons, unwilling to give tal agony, which shall equal in intensity the joy of 
up their preconceived opinions, neutralize the doe- the righteous. He who for a time laid aside the re-
trine of a millennium, by substituting for a thousand gal dignity of heaven that he might, by his humilia-
years of universal righteousness such as we have at- iron and death, effect man's salvation, will then " sit 
tempted to prove shall exist, a thousand years during upon the circle of the heavens and laugh at" the 
which the world will be under the influence of nomi- " calamity " of those who forfeited the salvation he 
nal Christianity as at present in some Protestant wrought out for them, for the paltry pleasures and 
countries. This theory presents the strange anoma- treasures of the world. Then shall be the great 
ly of Jesus Christ and Satan having the supreme harvest of the world, when Christ shall send forth 
control of the world at the same time. Nominal his reapers, the angels, to gather the fruit of the gos-
Christianity cannot, we think, produce the astonish- pel seed into a place of security, and to gather the 
ing change which the millennium, as described, will tares, the fruit of sin which the enemy sowed, to be 
present. Experience teaches us that nominal Chris- burned with unquenchable fire. On that day the 
tianity removes not sterility and thorns from the records of heaven will he exhibited to an assembled 
earth,—it as rigidly as ever demands the sweat of world, and the eternal destinies of the whole human 
Man's brow for the produce it affords him. Such a family will be irrevocably fixed " according to the 
millennium will never cause men to turn their weap- deeds done in the body." How affecting will be the 
ons of warfare into implements of husbandry. It scene, when Christ will separate the righteous from 
will not change carnivorous into herbivorous ani- the wicked as a "shepherd divideth the sheep from 
trials ; the lion, in such a millennium, will not " eat the goats," when husbands and wives, parents and 
straw like the ox," nor shall the lamb approach the children, brothers and sisters, friends, who like Jona-
jaws of the wolf with impunity. It will not remove than and David were hound by the strongest affec-
the venom of the cockatrice, " the weaned child " tion, and even church members, will bid an eternal 
dare not approach his den, or " play upon the farewell. After the final sentence shall have echoed 
hole of th easp." The gospel will undoubtedly be through the wide extent of creation, then shall the 
" preached for a witness to all nations," before the devouring elements burst forth in every department 
second coming of our Lord ; but we cannot conceive of creation, and this vast globe become a flaming 
that it will be " preached for a witness to all nations" mass. ."The heavens shall be rolled together as a 
for a thousand years, as a millennium of nominal parchment," and " the elements will melt with fer-
Christianity would indicate. In the millennium 
" one shall not.say to another, know the Lord, for all 
shall know him, from the least to the greatest." 
Some are of opinion, that before the second com- 
dignity of the object ; the church of God, the most 
excellent and honorable society in the world—The 
tender regard that Christ hath to this church, and 
the price it cost him ; he purchased it with his own 
blood. 
The terms in the text do not require much expli-
cation, 7rpoo-E8E0 (prosekein) is in general to apply 
the mind to anything with strict and close attention. 
Here it signifies, diligently to watch over ourselves, 
over our own conduct and behavior, our heart and 
our life : all our tempers, words, and actions.—
notpstos (poinonion, a little flock) does not here sig-
nify the whole church of Christ ; but that particular 
church of which those elders had the charge.—
E7roomo7rov4, (bishops or overseers) persons appointed 
by Christ to teach and guide those churches, or that 
particular church, in the way of salvation. The 
same persons who before are called elders of the 
church of Ephesus, are here called bishops. EOvro 
(etheto, hath made, placed, ordained, or constituted), 
and imports the qualifications and appointment of 
these elders, or bishops, by the Holy Ghost, to their 
particular charge. no,pulYEtv EXIAnTit.GY TOY 
()goy (Poimainein teen ekklesian ton Theon) to feed 
the church of God. 110LpoCtiYfiY (poimainein) is by 
some rendered barely to feed, as here, and by others 
to rule: but it ought not to be confined to either: for 
it comprehends both, or the whole of the pastoral 
work. In a word, it is to do the work of a pastor to 
all the flock, or church of God, over which he is 
appointed.--Hr Trfpiorovr,6caro (een periepoiesato) 
which he (God) hath acquired or purchased, in a ,pe-
culiar way and manner, viz : Aim .”v Ant, ctipaTorr 
(dia tou aimatos) with his own blood. Jesus Christ 
is he who purchased the church with his own blood, 
and is here expressly called God. He indeed is God 
over ALL blissed for evermore. 
The doctrine contained in the text is, that the pas-
tors, or overseers of the church of Christ, must take 
great heed both to themselves and to all their flock, 
in every part of their pastoral work. In handling 
which I shall (1) briefly show you what is meant by 
pastors and churches.—(2) What it is to take heed 
to ourselves, and wherein it must be done. (3) Give 
some reasons for that part of the work.—(4)What it 
is to take heed to all the flock in our pastoral work, 
and bow it must be done.—(5) I shall make some 
application of the whole. 
1. By a pastor 'or bishop here is meant an officer 
appointed by Christ for the ordinary teaching and 
guiding a particular church and all its members, in 
order that they may be saved, and walk so as to 
please God. The office itself he has appointed in 
his holy word, and he calls men to it :—(1) By en-
dowing them with suitable gifts.—(2) By his provi-
dential dispensations.—(3) By the work and inspira-
tion of his Spirit in their hearts.—(4) By the ordi-
nation or appointment of his present officers and the 
approbation of the church. 
Teaching and guiding comprehend the main part 
of the work to which they are appointed. A partic-
ular church is the object of their work, by which 
they are distinguished from apostolical itinerant min-
isters. By the flock and church is meant that par-
ticular society of Christians, of which these bishops 
or elders have the charge, associated for personal 
communion in God's public worship, and other mu-
tual assistance in the way to salvation. 
II. Let us consider what it is to take heed to our-
selves, and wherein it must be done. 
1. 'rake heed to yourselves, lest you be void of that 
saving grace of God which you offer to others, and 
strangers to the effectual working of that gospel 
which you preach : and lest while you proclaim the 
necessity of a Saviour to the world, your hearts neg-
lect him, and you miss of an interest in him and his 
THE DUTIES OF A PASTOR. saving benefit. Take heed to yourselves, lest. you 
perish while vou call upon others to take heed of per- 
BRO. HIMES:-1 send you the following, from ishing ; and lest you famish yourselves while you 
"The Reformed Pastor, by Rev. Richard Baxter." prepare them food. . . Many men have warned 
His principles appear to be sound, his warnings are other
s not to go to that place of torment, who yet 
correct, and his appeals are pertinent and fervent, have basted thither themselves. . . . Is it rea-
1 hope his hold and .stirring thoughts will be careful- sonable to imagine that Good will save men for offer-
ly pondered, though their light should shine in the ing, salvation to others, while they refuse it them- 
reader's own face. 
B. M. selves, or for telling others those truths which they 
themselves neglect or abuse? Believe it, brethren, 
Acts 20 : 28, " Take heed therefore unto your- God never saved any man for being a preacher, but 
selves, and to all the flock over the which the Holy because he was justified and sanctified, and conse-
Ghost loath made you overseers, to feed the church (pettily faithful in his master's work. Take heed 
of God, which he hath purchased with his ovvii 
blood." 
therefore to yourselves first, that you be that which 
you persuade your hearers to be, and believe that 
Though some think that Paul's exhortation to which you persuade them daily to believe ; and have 
these elders proves him their ruler, we who this day heartily entertained that Christ and Spirit which you 
speak to you from the Lord, hope that we may fully offer unto others.—(To be continued.) 
do the like, without any jealousy of such a conclu-
sion. Though we teach our people as officers set 
over them in the Lord, yet we may teach each other 
as brethren in office as well as in faith. If the peo-
ple of our charge must teach, admonish, and exhort 
each other daily, (Col. 3 : 16 ; Heb. 3 : 13) no doubt 
teachers may do it to one another without any super-
eminence of power or degree. We have the same 
sins to mortify and destroy, and the same graces 
to be quickened and strengthened as our people 
have ; we have greater works to do than they, great-
er difficulties.to overcome, and im less necessity is 
laid upon us ; and therefore we have need to be warned 
and awakened, if not instructed, as well as they ; 
so that I confess 1 think such meetings should be 
more frequent, if we had nothing else to do together 
but this. And that we should deal as plainly and 
closely with one another as the most serious among 
us do with our flocks, lest if they -only have the 
sharp admonitions and reproof's, they only should be 
sound and lively in the faith. That this was Paul's 
judgment, there needs no other proof than this rous-
ing and heart-melting exhortation to the Ephesian 
elders—a short sermon, but not soon learned. 
Our time will not allow me to touch any part of it 
but my text, which contains a two-fold duty, and a 
powerful motive to enforce it. 
The first duty is to take heed to themselves; the sec-
ond, to take heed to all the flock ; and the work for the 
flock, which is to be done with the greatest care, is 
to feed them, or act the part of a good shepherd to-
wards them. 
The motives are these :—Their engagements and 
relations ; they are the overseers of the flock. The 
efficient cause, even the authority and excellence of 
him who called them to it, the Holy Ghost—The 
(Concluded.) 
That the fertility of the ground will be improved 
is placed beyond doubt in this passage, "The wilder-
ness and the solitary place shall be made glad, and 
the desert shall blossom as the rose. Instead of the 
thorn shall come up the fir tree, and instead of the 
brier shall come up the myrtle tree." In view of 
this fact we would ask the candid reader, is it likely 
that Christ will " smite with the rod of his mouth " 
a world thus renovated, and enjoying all its primitive 
felicity I If we know anything of the reason why 
God will destroy this world, it is because of the 
wickedness of which it is the scene, and to create it 
a pure untainted residence for his saints. That the 
creation of the " new heavens and the new earth " 
will take place before, and be the scene of the millen-
nium, is, we think clearly proved by the following, 
" Behold, I create new heavens and a new earth ; 
and the former shall riot be remembered nor come in-
to mind. But be ye glad and rejoice forever in that 
which I create, tOr behold I create Jerusalem a rejoic-
ing, and her people a joy, and I will again rejoice in 
in Jerusalem, and joy in my people : and the voice of 
weeping shall be no more heard in her, nor the voice 
of crying." This corresponds with that Jerusalem 
which the Apostle John describes in the 21st chapter 
of Revelation : " And I saw a new heaven and a new 
earth ; for the first heaven and the first earth were 
passed away, and there was no more sea. And I John 
saw the holy city, New Jerusalem, come down from 
God out of heaven, prepared as a bride adorned for 
her husband. And I heard a voice out of heaven 
saying, Behold, the tabernacle of God is with men, 
and he will dwell with them, and they shall be his 
people, and God himself shall be with them, and be 
their God. And God shall wipe away all tears from 
their eyes; and there shall be no more death, neither 
sorrow nor crying, neither shall there be any more 
pain : for the fOrmer things are passed away. And 
he that sat upon the throne said, Behold, I make all 
things new." If these paragraphs are descriptive of 
the millenni5.1 state, which we think none will deny, 
they establish beyond all dispute, that the millenni-
um will take place on the new earth under the per-
sonal reign of 'our glorious Redeemer. We have 
already attempted to show that this earth is now un-
der the curse of God, and that this curse will not be 
removed until it is given to Jesus Christ for a pos-
session, when he will come as a glorious king " in the 
clouds of heaven, with power and great glory," and 
" create all things new." Until this is accomplished 
his work of restoring what was lost through the 
" first Adam " remains unfinished. As in the first 
creation, God rested not until his work was finished, 
so (we may think) in the re-creation, he will not rest 
until he has made all things new ; then shall he take 
possession of the throne of his father David, and rest 
with those who are found worthy, on the new earth. 
If a thousand years of universal righteousness will 
be produced by the preaching of the gospel, Christ 
must rest before his work is finished. He is now 
our mediator before the throne of God ; but when sin 
shall have no dominion on the earth (as undoubtedly 
will be the case in the millennium) what will then be 
his office ? As soon as sin shall cease to exist in the 
world, Christ will cease to intercede. Will he re-
main inactive a thousand years before he comes to 
finish his work ? Proof that he will, cannot, we 
think, be discovered. Some writers are of opinion 
that the saints will be raised at the commencement 
of, and dwell on the earth during the millennium.—
So far we agree with them, but in opposition to a 
passage which they quote to prove this, which reads 
as follows : " For the Lord himself shall descend 
from heaven with a shout, with the voice of the arch-
angel and with the trump of God, and the dead in 
Christ shall rise first." They believe that Christ 
will not make his appearance until the thousand 
years are accomplished ; th'e opposite of this opinion 
is so distinctly taught in the passage we have just 
quoted, that it would he superfluous to add a single 
argument on the question. 
OOMMMONIDIENOM. 
THE SECOND ADVENT. 
* That this is the Jerusalem to which they will be 
gathered is sanctioned by the fact, that they will not, 
as on their return from Babylon, be required to build. 
vent heat." This world, so long the subject of sin's 
polluting influence, will then be thoroughly renova- 
ted, and the new earth shall come forth in all the or- 
der and beauty of the first creation, before the blight-
ing influence of sin spread devastation, death, and dis- 
order. Then shall the New Jerusalem in all its 
splendor " descend from God out of heaven," and 
" all Israel " shall enter into its pearly gates, Christ 
himself reigning king in Zion. 
That Christ will reign with his saints on the 
earth, is we think fully sustained by the following 
passage of scripture. Isaiah, in speaking of the mil- 
lennium, says in the 11th chapter, " In that day there 
shall be a root of Jesse, which shall stand for an en- 
sign for the people, to it shall the Gentiles seek ; 
and his rest shall be glorious." And in the 6th 
chapter, " I saw the Lord sitting upon a throne, high 
and lifted up, and his train filled the temple." The 
existence of the temple, and the connection with this 
passage of the statement, " the whole earth is full of 
his glory," indicate that this portion of scripture has 
reference to the New Jerusalem state. Jer. 13 : 5, 
" Behold the days come, saith the Lord, that I will 
raise unto David a righteous Branch, and a king shall 
reign and prosper, and shall execute judgment and 
justice in the earth," who, it is added in verse 6th, 
" shall be called the Lord our Righteousness."—
Mic. 4 : 7—" And the Lord shall reign over them in 
Mount Zion from henceforth, even forever." Dan. 8, 
" In the night vision, and behold, one like the Son of 
man came with the clouds of heaven, and there was 
given hint dominion, and glory, and a kingdom, that 
all people, and nations, and languages should serve 
hint ; his dominion is an everlasting dominion, which 
shall not pass away, and his kingdom that which 
shall not be destroyed." The angel in his address 
to Mary, Luke 1: 31, said—" Behold, thou shalt 
conceive in thy womb, and bring forth a son, and 
shalt call his name Jesus. And the Lord shall give 
unto him the throne of his father David." Zec. 2d 
chap.—" Sing and rejoice, 0 daughter of Zion; cot 
lo ! I come, and I will dwell in the mid:. t of thee, saith 
the Lord. And I will dwell in the midst of thee ; 
and thou shalt know that the Lord of hosts bath sent 
me unto thee ; and the Lord shall inherit Judah his 
portion in the holy land, and shall choose Jerusalem 
again." Rev. 21 : 3, " And I heard a great voice 
out of heaven saying, Behold, the tabernacle of God 
is with men, and he will dwell with them, and they 
shall be his people, and God himself shall be with 
them and be their God." 
Baying thus briefly touched upon the leading 
points of our subject, we would, in conclusion, urge 
its importance upon every mind. All who admit the 
truths of the Christian religion, however they rimy 
differ in opinion respecting the various details of the 
subject, are agreed on the main question. They be-
lieve with us, that Christ will come and " render to 
every man according to the deeds done in the body." 
Agreed as we are upon this point, let this question have 
a bearing upon every future act of our lives. Shall I 
on that day feel a thrill of holy joy communicated by 
the words, " Come, ye ,blessed of my Father, inherit 
the kingdom prepared for you ?" or shall I experi-
ence the withering effect of that sentence, " Depart, 
ye cursed, into everlasting fire prepared for the devil 
and his angels?" If the latter be our sad portion, 
the bitterest ingredient in that cup of sorrow will 
be that we rejected eternal life, though it was held 
out to us during the whole of life's journey, and al-
lowed ourselves to be allured to eternal ruin by the 
tinsel of worldly gratification. Let us therefore 
as wise men redeem the time, and endeavor so to live 
that we may be in constant readiness to meet our 
Lord at his coming. 
OMEGA. 
THE CAUSE IN HALLOWELL. 
DEAR BRO. Hines :—Thinking you are always in-
terested to learn the prosperity of the cause of our 
coming Lord, and wishing to say a word for the en-
couragement of others, I drop a line to you about our 
matters at Hallowell. On returning to this place I 
find the cause is rising, by God's blessing, under the 
faithful labors of our brethren, who are constantly 
extending to others the knowledge that the judg-
ment is at hand, and laboring for their salvation.—
And the Lord he praised, their labors in the Lord 
are not in vain. During flue past winter a number 
have been converted and reclaimed, and others are 
pricked in the heart, and are seekiug pardon and sal-
vation. The proclamation, " Behold the Bridegroom 
corneal," has not lost its power to awaken men.—
Our meetings are now attended by a new class of 
hearers, who wish to know about the coming of the 
Lord. 
The more experience I have, the more foully I am 
convinced of the importance of planting ourselves on 
the stern, living truths that the Lamb is at hand, the 
kingdom is yet to come, the inheritance is the new 
earth, the reward is at the resurrection, preaching 
other truths of course in connection. There is no 
great good accomplished by us in a half hearted, 
half concealed faith ; in these things our banner must 
be unfurled to the breezes of heaven, and borne by 
the ministers of God in such a manner, that all the 
world may see that we believe these things, and then 
those who want the truth on these subjects will in-
quire for it, and seek it, while others are left to do 
their own work. This is the way our brethren are 
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striving by God's help to do in this place ; and when 
any one is brought into God's grace by this course, 
they are enabled to see things as they are, and to 
cleave to God for grace to keep them from the perils 
of these last days, and such, I will add, generally 
" hold on their way," in weal or in woe. While 
those who are converted to Christ without a knowl-
edge of the inheritance, or the nature of the king-
dom of God, or the doom of the world, and the signs 
of the times—the perils, the fables so rife among us, 
how little do they have to keep them from turning 
again to the world—to its spirit and practice. Alas ! 
how soon such, in many instances, become the scof-
fers of Peter's description. Only a few days ago, a 
friend from a neighboring city, and .who has lately 
been converted there at a protracted meeting, came to 
our meeting for the first time, and listened to a dis-
course on the inheritance of the saints—the oath to 
Abraham ; but her mind was so averse to it that she 
declared she would never attend another Advent 
meeting. She told us that one of our preachers had 
been preaching much at the meeting where she was 
converted, but that he did not say a word about the 
Lord being at hand. I only mention this instance to 
show some of our brethren who are exceedingly cau-
tious, that when they labor with other churches in 
revivals, and do not even let the converts know they 
believe the Lord is coming, they put an instrument 
into the hands of those who seek to put off the day 
of God, to crush and neutralize our proclamation of 
the judgment. It is earnestly reported here, to those 
who have some interest in our work, that our breth-
ren in certain quarters have given it up, and they 
say to us, " Why can't you labor for sinners, and not 
say anything about the Lord's coming ? more would 
he converted, " &c. Our answer is, God's ways are 
better than our ways, and his word is better than the 
traditions of men. The motives he has given for 
men to repent, and for Christians to endure cannot be 
supPrceded by the inventions of this age of wonders. 
And the signs which our God has shown this gene-
ration for their instruction, cannot be slighted with 
impunity. Let us then labor with our might to 
point sinners to Christ, and not put our light under 
a bushel, but let it shine. No one should under-
stand me to say that we should not unite to labor 
with others, or that we should at all times preach on 
the Advent, but only make it as prominent as God 
has done, and it will not he said we have given it up. 
Yours as ever, looking for Jesus, 
Hallowell Apr. 9, 1851. I. C. WELLCOME.. 
LETTER FROM C. H. FULLER. 
Bao. HIMES :—Perilous times indeed are these in 
which we live, iniquity abounds, and the love of ma-
ny is w rxing cold. The evil servants are seen smi-
ting. their fellow servants, and are saying in their 
hearts, " My Lord delayeth his coming." Many 
even who are professing to be looking for the Lord 
from heaven are among this class. And yet they 
say they are actuated by the purest motives. 0 Pu-
rity ! thou lovely white robed cherub, how art thou 
insulted. Even Satan himself would seek protec-
tion under thy wings, but thou wilt not shelter him. 
What course does he then take 1 Have all his plans 
failed? and is he vanquished? Not yet, he is " more 
subtile than any beast of the field," he manufactures 
a robe for himself, and he calls it a robe of purity, 
but 0 ! how different from purity's spotless robe.—
Who that hath eyes of discernment can fail to detect 
the counterfeit? Though the dark spots of iniquity 
are whitened by the chalk of deception, it requires 
but a second glance to discover the filth that is be-
neath. Yet many an unsuspecting victim is deceived 
by it. But what says the word, the great counter-
feit detector? " Every one that doeth evil hateth 
the light, neither cometh to the light, lest his deeds 
should be reproved ; but he that doeth truth cometh 
to the light, that his deeds may be made manifest that 
they are wrought in God." Purity never seeks to 
hide her deeds in darkness, ah ! no, she is a daugh-
ter of light, she ever dwells with the meek angel of 
peace, in all the churches of the saints. See, yon-
der is a little band of Zion's pilgrims "looking for 
that blessed hope and the glorious appearing of the 
great God and our Saviour Jesus Christ," rejoicing 
in hope of the glory of God ; yes, rejoicing in tribu-
lation, reckoning with Paul, that " the sufferings of 
this present time are not worthy to be compared with 
the glory that shall be revealed." But more trying 
scenes are their's. The enemy of all righteousness 
has beheld their unity, he has laid a plan for their 
overthrow. Behold him as he approaches, clad in 
his garb of mock purity, bringing, with him envying 
and strife. Confusion now takes up her abode there, 
and purity and peace hie themselves away. But a 
few have not turned aside unto vain jangling, they 
have left the city of confusion, and fellow peace, 
knowing that without her no man can see the Lord. 
And as they go they cry " with a loud voice, Fear 
God, and give glory to him, for the hour of his 
judgment is come." " The great day of the Lord is 
near, it is near, and hasteth greatly." They are 
blowing the trumpet in Zion, and sounding the alarm 
in God's holy mountain : they see the sword coming, 
and will not hold their peace day nor night. They 
have passed Ahrough severe trials, and will doubtless 
he called to pass through more, but the promise is, 
to those who have kept the word of his patience, 
he will keep them from the hour of temptation, which 
shall come upon all the world to try them that 
dwell upon the earth. How does this state of things 
affect the child of God ? It teaches him that the time 
has come when he cannot trust in any brother.—
Now he remembers that it is written," Cease ye from 
man whose breath is in his nostrils." He looks for-
ward to that bright morn of glory which brings de-
liverance to all God's people, he hails with joy each 
succeding token of its approach as it is unfolded to 
his view, and soon he will hail Jesus with shouts as 
he comes in the clouds, saying, " Lo, this is our God, 
we have waited for him, and •he will save us." 
" Lo! 'tis He ! our hearts' desire, 
Come for his espoused below; 
Come to join us with the choir, 
Come to make our joys o'erflow." 
Your's in hope of eternal life. 
Cheshire, Apri19, 1851. 
Extracts from Letters. 
Bro. J. COLE writes from Salisbury (N. Y.), 
March 13th, 1851 :— 
DEAR BRO. HIMES :—Although I never saw you, 
if I am not deceived, I have a more correct know-
ledge of you than I have of some of my neighbors. 
You have great reason for encouragement, notwith-
standing the powerful exertions of designing men for 
your overthrow. I believe the cause you have so 
long advocated is of God, and will eventually tri-
umph. I doubt whether there has, since Luther's 
day, been any religious system presented to the pub-
lic, which has moved so much mind, and which has 
led to such anxious inquiry for truth, as the Advent 
doctrine has done. In conversing with ministers of 
different orders on two important points, they told 
me they had become convinced that the Scriptures 
have been erroneously construed, and that they had 
given up the idea of ever seeing any better times 
than we have had on this old, sin-polluted earth.—
They likewise believe that Christ's redemption will 
not he complete until the restitution of all things 
spoken by the mouth of all the holy prophets since 
the world began. 
I requested a Baptist minister to give me his views 
on Romans 8:19-23. He gave it in writing. After 
showing why he differed from others who had written 
on the subject, and showing in what sense creation 
now groans under its burden, waiting for deliverance, 
he says, a day of deliverance approaches; harmony 
is ultimately to be restored in new heavens and a 
new earth, in which righteousness is to have its habi-
tation. Until then the great work of redemption will 
be incomplete. The restitution of all things, when 
the burden shall be removed from this sin cursed 
world, awaits the second coming of that Saviour who 
has undertaken the work of bruising Satan under his 
feet, and saving men. The time will arrive when 
he will come to be glorified in his saints, and admired 
in all them that believe. As creation has contributed 
to the degradation of man, so it is the design of 
Christ that it shall also contribute to his redemption. 
May the Lord give you strength of body and mind, 
that you may be able to pursue and advocate the good 
cause for which you have suffered, is the prayer of 
your unworthy servant. 
Bro. ASA D. WHITTEMORE writes from Worcester 
(Mass.), April 5th, 1851 : 
BRO. HIMES :—By the changing events of time, 
and the revolution of the seasons, we have been 
carried down time's rapid stream, and our lives are 
lengthened out, and we are permitted to see the 
spring season of 1851. And we still hear the anxious 
inquiry of the world, Who will show us any good ? 
All eager in their pursuit to attain some temporal 
good. Though multiform may be their endeavors to 
attain it, how soon will it, like the morning cloud 
and early dew, be past away like all earthly things. 
Bro. H., when I look back over the portion of life 
that has now past, and more especially the last twenty 
years, at which time i date my first hopes for the 
kingdom of Christ, I say the time has past like a 
dream. But the last ten years has been still more of 
interest, since the time that myself, with nine others, 
formed ourselves together to send for Father Miller. 
At his first appearance in our place, we procured a 
Hall for him to lecture in, which wasnightly crowded 
with from two to three thousand. I repeat that the 
last ten years have been years of great and important 
interest to the believers of the near approach of the 
new heavens and new earth, and the coming of our 
King, Jesus Christ, in his glory to take his people 
home to that everlasting kingdom to which there shall 
be no end. But it has been a matter of no small 
grief to me that so many have fallen out by the way 
while on their journey to the promised land. I have 
felt many a time like reading in the book of Lamen-
tation. But I shall try to contend for the kingdom 
of our heavenly Father while passing over the 
stormy sea of human life. 
Bro. L. KIMBALL writes from Providence (R. I.), 
April 7th, 1851 : 
BRO. HIMES:—We feel grateful to our heavenly 
Father for the blessings and tokens of his love which 
we have received whilst passing through severe 
trials and conflicts. The devil has been rallying his 
forces to distract, divide, and ruin, but God has 
blessed us. The cord of love is greatly strengthened. 
The discordant note is not heard amongst us. We 
have been blessed with the spirit of revival, and sin-
ners have been converted to God. Yesterday I had 
the joyful privilege of leading two happy converts 
down the banks of our Jordan and planting them in 
the likeness of Christ's death, from which they were 
raised in the likeness of his resurrection. The trials 
and conflicts we have had without, have only in-
creased our love, and harmony, and peace within, so 
that our afflictionS have been turned into blessings. 
Praise ye the Lord. If we only keep humble, and 
have the spirit of Christ, God will continue to bless 
US. 
Your labors here were highly appreciated by all 
the true friends of the Advent cause. And although 
it called forth the wrath of opposing influences, yet 
we feel that the result must be good. 
Bro. LEVI DUDLEY writes from Perry's Mills (N. 
Y.), April 1st, 1851: 
DEAR BRO. HIMES :—I wish to say to the brethren 
that I can heartily acquiesce in the proposition made 
by Brit. D. I. Robinson and P. Hawkes, that every 
town or section see that their own poor is supplied 
with the " Herald," and Advent tracts. There are 
sonic worthy poor scattered through the world that 
are not able to pay for themselves, and the brethren 
inn each section know who they are. I have thought 
of this plan before, and in one instance commenced 
this plan. I found an Advent sister that had not the 
privilege of hearing but very little preaching, and 
did not take the "Herald," but once in a great while 
would get hold of one, and received comfort and 
consolation in reading it. I made her case known 
to a few brethren, who freely contributed a few 
cents apiece, made up a dollar, and sent it to the 
office, and the sister has had the satisfaction of read-
ing her own paper every week since. Now, breth-
ren, the way is to go at it and do as well as say. Let 
some one in each place attend to it, and then it will 
be done, and none but the worthy will receive the 
paper. 
It seems, dear brother, that the grace of God has 
been sufficient for you thus far under all your trying 
circumstances. 1 do believe the Lord is on your 
side, and if you continue to put your trust in him, 
you will be more than a match for all your enemies. 
May God take care of you and yours, and his glori-
ous cause, in which you are engaged. 
Sister P. BLooD writes from Manlius (N. Y.), 
March 13th, 1851 : 
DEAR 13110. HIMES :—I have not need to express 
my friendship and confidence in your Christian char-
acter ; I think those who are endeavoring to destroy 
it, are fast bringing the opprobrium on their own 
heads, by evil insinuations and false representations. 
A comparison of the different relations of the Salem 
Conference must open persons' eyes who are not 
blinded by prejudice. It is indeed painful to witness 
what we do. How much it becomes all the lovers 
of peace to walk softly inn these perilous times, and 
cling around the blessed Saviour with a single eye. 1 
sympathize with dear sister H., but God's promises 
are so abundant, and so diversified, to suit every case, 
that any consolations that 1 could offer would be like 
adding a taper to the mid-day sun. It appears to me 
that everything that is transpking is adding to the 
truth of the speedy consummation of our hope. The 
battle between Christ and Belial will increase, until 
the latter is silenced by the Captain of our salvation. 
DEAR BRO. Hiatus :—We have reason to lie en-
couraged, for the Lord is reviving his work in many 
places. I find an increasing anxiety to hear upon 
the great truths of the coming kingdom of God. At 
the time the Salem Conference was in session, I was 
engaged in a protracted effort at Haydenville, Mass., 
and I record with gaatitude to Almighty God the 
conversion of many souls to Christ. Some heads of 
families have been brought to the light of truth, and 
a deep and solemn interest was manifested by all 
who heard. All appeared determined to be ready 
for the events to come, and I can but hope great good 
will he the result of that meeting. Brn. Sheldon 
and Daricks have been standing almost alone until 
recently ; their hearts are greatly encouraged in view 
of what God has done. Oh may the great Shepherd 
of the sheep take care of them all, and preserve 
them unto his heavenly kingdom. I. ADRIAN. 
Obituary. 
" I ain the RESURRECTION and the LIFE he who believeth in ME, 
though he should die, yet he will LIVE and whoever liveth and be-
lieveth in me, will NEVER die."—John 11 : 25, 26. 
DEAR BRO. HIMES :—I have been requested by 
Bro. James Belden to write to you a notice for the 
" Herald " of the death of his wife. 
ANNA MARIA. BELDEN died March 28th, aged 41. 
Our brother is truly deeply afflicted, yet he mourns 
not as those who have no hope. Her disease was 
consumption ; she was first taken unwell in August, 
but we had some hopes of her recovery until about 
the first of March. She was a woman of peculiar 
temperament, very domestic in her life, and at times 
was much interested in the subject of religion. During 
the past winter her husband had evidence of a deeper 
work of grace, and as she drew near her end, his 
heart was cheered, and he felt she was prepared to 
go. I sat by her bed the last two days of her life, 
and never did I see a person so calm and so patient 
under so great suffering ; she was perfectly sensible 
until tine last, and a short time before sloe expired 
sine repeated these lines : 
" Jesus can make a dying bed 
Feel soft as downy pillows are." 
Her voice was a faint whisper, and a sweet smile 
was on her countenance. There are some of our 
Advent preachers who have partaken of their hospi-
tality in years gone by, who will remember her, and 
I doubt riot will rejoice to hear of her peaceful 
death. For myself, I feel it rny duty to bear my 
testimony to the kindness of brother and sister Belden 
no myself and my fatherless children. Many a time 
they have carried me to our tent-meetings when 
others were not willing to provide a,conveyanee ; and 
for which I can never repay them'; but they will be 
rewarded by my heavenly Father in the resurrection. 
Since writing the above, the daughter of Bro. 
Belden has sent the following lines for insertion in 
the " Herald." Yours affectionately, 
MSRIAM BECKLEY. 
The light bath gone out, 
And our dwelling is sad : 
The mother who loved us 
Is laid with the dead ; 
But so willing and ready, 
Oh ! could we say nay, 
When our Father who gave thee 
Had summoned away ? 
The treasure departed, our home is no more ; 
Thou art gone to thy birth-place, a happier shore, 
And Oh ! may our Father, the Spirit of love, 
Guide and lead us to join thee, our mother, above. 
TRUTH is as impossible to be soiled by any out-
ward touch, as the sunbeams; though this ill hap 
wait on her nativity, that she never conies into the 
world, but like a bastard, to the ignominy of him 
who brought her forth ; till time, the midwife rather 
than the mother of truth, have washed and salted the 
infant, declared her legitimate, and chnrched the fa-
ther of his young Minerva, from the needless causes 
of his purgation. 
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Albany, N. Y.—H. H. Gross, 44 Massena, N. Y .—J . Danforth. 
Elm-street. 
Milwaukee, Wis.—Saul. Brown. 
Auburn, N. Y.—H. L. Smith. New BedJ ord, Mass.—II.V. Davis 
Buffalo, " W. M. Palmer. Newburyport, Dea. J. Pear- 
Brattleboro',Vt.- B. Perham. son, or., Water-street. 
Cincinnati, 0.—Joseph Wilson. Nev, York City.—Win. Tracy, 73 
Clinton, Mass.—II. It. Gray. Delancey-street. 
Derby Line, Vt.—S. Foster, jr. Philadelphia, Pa. — .1. 1.i oil, 70i 
Detroit, Mich.—L. Armstrong. North 11th street. 
Eddington, Me.—Thos. Smith. Portland, Me.—refer Johnson, 37 
Glanville Annap., N. S.—Elias Su in mer-st ree t. 
Woodworth. 
Providence, R.I.-G. R. Gladding. 
Hallowell, Me.—I. C. Wellcome. Rochester,N.1( .—W nn. Busby. 
Hartford, Ct.—Aaron Clam). Salem, Mass.—L. Osier. 
Heuvelton, N. Y.—W. I). Ghotilln Toronto, U. W.—JO. Campbell. 
Homer, N. Y.—J. L. Clapp. Wardsboro',Y1.—tea roan. 
Lockport, N. Y.—H. Robbins. Waterloo, tAtellbrd, C. E. — R. 
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is their opinion of the CHERRY PECTORAL, may he seen in the 
following • 
Valentine Mott. M. D., Prof. Surgery, Med. Col., N. Y. says 
"It gives me pleasure to certify the value and efficacy of Ayer's 
Cherry Pectoral, which I consider peculiarly adapted to cure dis-
eases of the throat and lungs." 
The Right Rev. Lord Bishop Field 
writes in a letter to his friend, who was fast sinking under an affec-
tion of the lungs: "Try the Cherry Pectoral, and if any medicine 
can give you relief, with the blessing of God that will." 
CHIEF JUSTICE EUSTIS, 
of Louisiana, writes, " That a young daughter of his was cured of 
several severe attacks of Croup by the Cherry Pectoral." 
ASTHMA AND BRONCHITIS. 
The Canadian " Journal of Medical Science" states, "That 
Asthma and Bronchitis, so prevalent in this inclement climate, has 
yielded with surprising rapidity to Ayer's Cherry Pectoral, and we 
cannot too strongly recommend this skilful preparation to the Pro-
fession, and public generally." 
Let the relieved sufferer speak for himself : 
Hartford, Jan. 26, 1847. 
Dr. J. C. Ayer—Dear Sir :—Having been rescued from a painful 
and dangerous disease by tour medicine, gratitude prompts me to 
send you this acknowledgment, not only in justice to you, but for 
the information of others in like affliction. 
A slight cold upon the lungs, neglected at first, became so severe, 
that spitting of blood, a violent cough, and profuse night sweats, 
followed and fastened upon me. I became emaciated, could not 
sleep, was distressed by my cough, and a pain through my chest, 
and, in short, had all the alarming symptoms of quick consumption. 
No medicine seemed at all to reach my cases, until I providentially 
tried your Cherry Pectoral, which soon relieved and now has cured 
me. Yours with respect, E. A. STEWART. 
Albany, N. Y., April it, 1848. 
Dr. Ayer, Lowell—Dear Sir :—I have for years been afflicted with 
Asthma in the worst form ; so that I have been obliged to sleep in 
my chair for a larger part of the time, being unable to breathe on 
my bed. I had tried a great many medicines, to no purpose, until 
my physician prescribed, as an experiment, your Cherry Pectoral. 
At first it seemed to make me worse, but in less :han a week I be-
gan to experience the most gratifying relief from its use ; and now, 
ill four weeks, the disease is entirely removed. I can sleep on my 
bed with comfort, and enjoy a state of health which I had never ex- 
pected to enjoy. 
" GEORGE S. FARRANT. 
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adapted to the New England trade. We are prepare to offer them 
to the public, adopting the old proverb," Large sales gad small prof 
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THE ADVENT HERALD,, 
THE AMERICAN VOCALIST. 
BY REV. D. H. MANSFIELD. 
rpDE popularity of this excellent Collection of Music is sufficiently 
_L attested by the tact, that although it has been published but 
about one year, 19,000 copies have been printed, and it is in greater 
demand than ever. 
It is divided into three parts, all of which are embraced in a single 
volume. 
Part I. consists of Church Music, old and new, and contains the 
most valuable productions of the most distinguished Composers, an-
cient and modern—in all :330 Church Tunes- besides a large number 
of Anthems, and Select Pieces for special occasions. 
Parts II. and III. contain all that is valuable of the Vestry Music 
now in existence, consisting of the most popular Revival Melodies, 
and the most admired English, Scottish, Irish, Spanish, and Italian 
Songs, embracing, in a single volume, more than five hundred 
'runes, adapted to every occasion of public and social worship, in-
cluding all the GEMS of Music that have been composed during the 
last five hundred years. 
A few of the many notices received of the book are here annexed 
From Rev. G. P. Mathews, of Liberty. 
I do not hesitate to give the " American Vocalist" the preference 
to any other Collection of Church Music extant. It deserves a place 
in every choir, vestry, and family in tine Union. 
From Rev. Samuel Souther, Belfast. 
• 
On a single opening, in the Second Part of the hook, I have found 
on the two pages before me more true, heart-subduing harmony 
than it has been my fortune to find in some whole Collections, that 
have made quite a noise in the world. 
From Henry Little, Editor of the Wesleyan Harmony. 
From my heart I thank you for the arrangement of those sweet 
Melodies, to many of which Sacred poetry is now,-for the first time, 
adapted. It is the best collection of Church Music I have ever seen, 
arid it embraces the only complete collection Of Vestry Music that 
has ever been published. 
From John S. Ayre, Esq., Chorister. 
Having given much attention to Sacred Music for the last thirty 
years, I do not hesitate to say, that it is the best Collection of Sa-
cred Music in use. 
From Rev. R. Woodhull, Thomaston. 
It is just what I have been wishing to see for several years. Those 
old tunes—they are so good, so fraught with rich harmony, so 
adapted to stir the deep feelings Of the heart, they constitute a price-
less treasure of Sacred Song, unsurpassed by the best compositions 
of more modern times. 
From Rev. Moses Spencer, Barnard. 
I regard the'. American Vocalist" as embodying the excellences 
of all the Music Books now known, without the pile of useless lum-
ber many of them contain. 
From N. Perrin, !r., of Cambridge. 
This book calls op " pleasant memories." It contains a better 
SeleCtion of Good Tunes, both for Public and Social Worship, than 
any other Collection I have ever net with. Though an entire strati-
0:er to the author, I feel grateful to him ; and desire thus publicly to 
thank him for the important service he has rendered the cause of 
From Zion's Herald. 
Sacred Music. 
It is one of the best combinations of old and new Music we have 
seen. Its great characteristic is, that while it is sufficiently scientific , 
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THE ADVENT HERALD. 
ADVENT TRACTS. 
The Volume Enterprise.—We promised sometime since to 
put our Advent Tracts into bound volumes, for the purpose 
of placing before the public fir a convenient form, a full and 
fair view of the doctrines believed and taught by Adventists. 
Our duties on other questions of importance to the cause, have 
delayed this arrangement till now. 
We shall issue for circulation this season, two volumes of 
dissertations on most of the great questions which pertain to 
the speedy personal reign of our Lord Jesus Christ. 
Volume I. will contain- 
Looking Forward." 
Present Dispensation—Its Course." 
Present Dispensation—Its End." 
What did Paul Teach the Thessalonian Church 
about the Second Coining 'I" 
The Great Image." 
If I Will that He Tarry Till I Come." 
7.—"What shall be the Sign of Thy Coming'!" 
The New Heavens and New earth." 
Christ our King." 
Behold, He Corneth with Clouds." 
That Blessed Hope." 
The Saviour Nigh." 
The Trite Israel." 
This is one of the most valuable collections of essays now 
published on the Second Coming of Christ. They are from 
the pens of both English and American writers, and cannot 
fail to produce the best results wherever they are circulated. 
Volume H. will contain— 
Win. Miller's " Apology and Defence," 
" First Principles of the Advent Faith ; with Scripture 
Proofs," by L. D. Fleming. 
" The World to Collie ! The Present Earth to-be Destroyed 
by Fire at the End of the Gospel Age." 
"The Lord's Coming a Great Practical Doctrine," by the 
Rev. Mourant Brock, M. A., Chaplain to the Bath Peniten-
tiary. 
"Glorification," by the Rev. Mourant Brock, M. A., 
Chaplain to the Bath Penitentiary. 
"The Second Advent Introductory to the World's Jubilee : 
A letter to the Rev. Dr. Raffles, on the Subject of His 
Jubilee Hymn.'" 
"The Duty of Prayer and Watchfulness in the Prospect 
of the Lord's Coming." 
In the above essays, we have a full and clear view of the 
doctrine taught by Mr. Miller and his fellow laborers. 
Cost of the Established Church. 
A writer in the London Sun, a few weeks since, did good 
service by calling attention to the practical injustice of a 
State Church, whether that church be Papist or Protestant. 
Our danger, just now, is that in attacking the Pope's aggres-
sion, we should forget that of the Church at home. The 
Established Church, in reference to the rest of the community, 
is situated as followt: England contains 8,500,000 Conform. 
ists, 8,000,000 Nonconformists. Scotland contains 860,000 
Conformists, 1,800,000 Nonconformists. Ireland contains 
1,000,000, Conformists, and 7,300,000 Nonconformists.-s 
Total, 10,160,000 Conformists, 17,100,000 Nonconformists. 
In the face of the above, to legiskite for the safety of the 
State Church is a monstrous injustice. The Church has no 
claims on the people. It is the dearest iff all denominations 
of Christian churches ; its practice contradicts its profes-
sions ; its revenues are misapplied. In Catholic times some 
good was done with the Church moneys. Of a population 
of 4,000,000, nearly 50,000 persons were supported by them. 
Now, three millions of the proceeds of Church lands, appro-
priated at the Reformation, go to swell the incomes of the 
richest aristocracy on the face of the earth. Besides, the 
Lord Chancellor has the patronage of 800 livings ; the Duke 
of Devonshire, of 48 ; the Earl of Fitzwilliam, of 30 ; the 
Duke of Bedford, of 29 ; the Duke of Rutland, of 29 ; the 
Duke of Beaufort, of 27 ; the Duke of Norfolk, of 24 ; the 
Marquis of Bristol, of 20 ; the two Universities have the 
presentation of 700 ; the Colleges of Eton and Winchester, 
of 60 ; the rest of the-aristocracy and country gentlemen, of 
6,000. Then the revenue of this Church in England and 
Ireland amounts to £12,600,090. Half of this enormous sum is 
spent as follows : Archbishop of Canterbury, £46,000 ; 
Archbishop of York, 28,000 ; Bishopric of Durham, 30,000; 
Bishopric of London, 60,000 ; the other 25 Bishops, about 
6,000 each, 150,000; Dignified Clergy, Archdeacons, Deans, 
&c., in number about 1,000, at an income of 3,000 each-
3,000,000 ; Aristocratical non-residents, about 5,000, at an 
income of 1,000 each-4,000,000. 
Yet this Church, thus suffering from a plethora of wealth—
thus overstocked with the good things of this life—will exact 
from the Dissenter, who rejects its creed, and who worships 
not at its altars, the uttermost farthing. The following hand-
bill has just been sent to our office :— 
THE " MOST TOLERANT CHURCH IN THE WORLD." 
The following seizures for church rates have just been 
made in the parish of St. Botolph, Bishopsgate : From the 
meeting-house of the Society of Friends, Houndsditch, 48 
chairs ; from Thomas Butler, brusbinaker, Houndsditch, 
goods, value £314s. 00 ; from Charles Gilpin, publisher, 
Bishopsgate-st., goods, value £6 7s. 10 ; Samuel Pierson, 
iron-monger, Sun street, goods,value £8 19s. 8d. 
The amount taken from the Society of Friends for these 
obnoxious and unchristian demands, in the year 1850, was 
upward of £8,800 ! ! ! 
What a commentary upon Lord John Russell's estimate of 
the "MOST TOLERANT CHURCH IN THE WORLD! ! !" 
BOSTON, APRIL 19, 1 8 51. 
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Anniversary Conferences. 
NEW YORK CITY—May 6tif, and continue several days. 
It will be held at Hester-street, as usual. 
BOSTON.—Wednesday, June 4, and continue several day, 
at Chardon-street Chapel. 
These meetings will be improved for the comfort and en-
couragement of the saints among ourselves, and for the 
enlightening of others on the subjects of our faith and hope 
A number of lectures will be given, which we hope will be 
published for the benefit and enlargement of the cause. 
In this time of trial,- as well as of deep interest of the 
Advent movement, every friend of the cause should make a 
special effortto he in attendance, and do what he can. Come 
from the east and the west, the north and the south, and 
make one more united effort in the cause of our coming King. 
A TOUR TO WESTERN NEW YORE.—BITI. J. PEAR-
SON, Jr., anti WESLEY BURNHAH, intend to visit Western 
New York. They will stop at Rochester, Buffalo,Lockport, 
and other places, on their way out, and tarry a Sabbath and 
several evenings in as many places as practicable. They 
would be glad to hear from those who wish their labors.—
Write to Eld. JOHN PEARSON, Jr., Newburyport, Mass. 
SOMETIMES we have orders for hooks which we'keep for 
sale, but do not publish, and then afterwards those who have 
them of us want to return them. Brethren will understand, 
that when they order books that we have to buy and pay the 
money for, we do not expect them to be returned on to our 
hands. We cannot send out such on sale, and trust to their 
being sold. 
some even with large saucepans, to catch the blood. The 
woman was first beheaded, and then the man. The anxiety 
of the spectators was very great, and the moment the man's 
head was severed, they broke through the line of soldiers. 
The soldiers, to drive them back, lustily employed the butt 
ends of their muskets (the muskets were not loaded), and a 
desperate conflict ensued. At last the crowd succeeded in 
reaching the scaffold ; but in the meantime the police bad 
placed the bodies in a cart, and had sent them off under a 
strong escort of cavalry. They had, however, to take the 
precaution of removing by spades and pickaxes the portions 
of the road on which drops of blood happened to fall, to pre-
vent the people from lapping up the blood. When the bodies 
had got fairly off, the crowd gradually dispersed ; two hun-
dred of them were grievously injured, and a greater number 
had received severe contusions." 
Coincidence. 
A traveller who has recently visited the Salt Lake, gives 
the following facts :— 
" The Lake itself is one of the greatest curiosities I ever 
met with. The water is about one-third salt, yielding that 
amount on boiling. I bathed in it, and found that I could 
lay on my back, roll over and over, and even set up and wash 
my feet without sinking, such is the strength of the brine ; 
and when I came out I was completely covered with salt, in 
fine crystals. _ But the most astonishing thing about it is the 
fact (as I was informed by the gentleman who was manufac-
turing salt there at the time) that during the summer season 
the Lake throws on shore abundance of salt, while in the 
winter season it throws up glauber salt in immense quantities. 
The reason of this I leave for the scientific to judge, and 
also what becomes of the enormous amount of fresh water 
poured into it by three or four large rivers—Jordan, Bear, 
and Weber—as there is no visible outlet." 
" Our readers will not fail to see in this accounts everal re-
markable points of coincidence with Lake Asphaltites, or 
the Dead Sea. The same density of the water by which 
heavy bodies are buoyed up, its extreme saltness, notwith-
standing the constant flow into it of fresh water streams, and 
the absence of any visible outlet." 
The Maine Methodist Conference. 
We have been requested to insert the following resolutions, 
passed at the Maine Methodist Conference in 1843. They 
were published in the Rath Inquirer. 
Resolved, That every minister of the M. E. Church has 
virtually pledged himself to God and his church, always to 
minister the doctrines and discipline of Christ as the Lord 
hath commanded—To be ready with all faithful diligence to 
banish and drive away all erroneous and strange doctrines 
contrary to God's word. 
Resolved, That the peculiarities of that theory relative to 
the second coming of Christ and the end of the world, de-
nominated Millerism, together with all its modifications, are 
contrary to the standards of the Church, and we are con-
strained to regard them as among the erroneous and strange 
doctrines which we are pledged to banish away. 
Resolved, That though we appreciate the motives of those 
among us who have been engaged in disseminating those 
peculiarities, we cannot but regard their course in this respect 
as irreconcilably inconsistent with their ecclesiastical obliga-
tions, and as having an immediate and more particularly an 
ultimate disastrous tendency. 
Resolved, That those who persist in disseminating those 
peculiarities, either in public or private, and especially those 
who have left their appropriate work for this purpose, be ad-
monished by the Chair, and all be hereby required to refrain 
entirely from disseminating them in 'inure. 
To Correspondents. 
S Coos.—We shall be happy to continue to you the Her-
ald. You should not be deprived of it, while we have the 
means to send it. 
E. C. W.—It is not disposed of—you can have it. 
D. W. SORNBERGER.—Shall be glad to have you do 
what you can fur the Herald in your travels. Bro. Hutchin-
son has a good supply of books, you can get a supply of him. 
GEO. BANGS.—We cannot now commend any one, that 
could be obtained. You will do well to consult Dr. Hutchin-
son. 
CHANGE OF PLACE OF WORSHIP.—The brethren at 
Worcester, who have met for the last few months at Brinley 
Hall, have removed to the Congregationalist Chapel on 
Thomas-street, a very convenient place of worship. They 
invite their friends from the country, coming to the city, to 
come and worship with them. 
THE Massachusetts and Rhode Island Conference will be 
held at Worcester, in the Advent Chapel, some time in June. 
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wise, they cannot be inserted until the followilig week. 
Bro. 0. D. Gibson will preach in Shrewsbury, Vt., Sunday, April 
27th ; Bristol, Vt., Sunday, May 4th ; Addison, Vt., May 5th ; Bur-
lington, Vt., May 7th ; Plattsburg, N. Y., May 8th ; chateaugay, N, 
Y.. Sunday May 11th; Bangor, N. Y.,May 13th; Dickenson, N. Y., 
May 16th ; Brazier Falls, Sui.day, 
ay Isth ; Depeyster, Sunday,
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 25th, where Bro. E. Smith may appoint. I will fill the above 
appointments if they do not conflict with nay others. Those on 
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choose. Yours, in hope, 
0. D. GIBSON. 
Bro B. Morley will be at liberty to supply calls—from Churches 
trot fully supplied—oil the first and third Sundays in each month. 
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the first Sabbath in May, at Enfiekl, Jawbuck Society. 
R. V. LYON. 
Bro. A. Merrill will preach at Ashfield, Mass., Sabbath, April 13 ; 
Ilitydenvifle, 14th, 7 p m ; Granby, lath, 7 e m • Ware, tatti, 7 P M 
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27th, and Fitchburg in the evening ; Westminster, 28th, 4 P /41 ; 
Falesville, 29th, 7 P 51; Athol, 30111, 7 p m. His Post-office address 
Is Northfield, Mass. 
We expect to commence a Conference at Clinton, Mass., on Sab-
bath, the 4th of May, and continue through most of the week. 
Also one at Nashua, N. H., on Friday, May 9th, and continue 
over the Sabbath. 
Emus BURNHAM, 
F. H. Bmticis. 
There will be a Conference in Newfane, Vt., at the iMuse of BYO. 
. Whitaker, commencing April 24th, at a, and continue over 
the Sabbath. 
S. W. BISHOP. 
There will be a Conference in the Free meeting-house at Lincoln-
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ren are invited to attend. - 
D. R. MANSFIELD, 
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Bro. N. Billings will preach in Lynn, Sabbath, the 20th ; Essex, 
Sabbath, 27th ; Westboro', Sabbath, May 40i. 
Bro. F. H. Berick will preach in Augusta, Me., Sabbath, April 13 ; 
Richmond Corner, Sabbath, the 20th. 
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S.D. Hideout, 543 ; J. T. Richardson,534; E. Shepherd, 534 ; Mrs. 
A. Blase, 543 ; 1'. S. Atticks, 534 ; D. oody, 544 ; J. Gordon, 54:1 ; 
Mrs H. Miner, 543 • C. Platten, 593 ; R. Flint , 534; .1. &Wager, 534; 
L. Stone, 547 • T. C. Sever, 517 ; C. 11. Fuller,513 • D. Snow, 508 ; 
S. Paul, 543 ; 'J. W, Cowles, 534 • H. Colton,_50a_.,_• 'A. Pike, 508; J. 
Morse, 534: H. Swan, 546 ; doody, 543 ; W W. Wheeler MO ; 
J . Louse, Jr., 517 ; M. It. Osgood, 521 ; H. alerriliew, 5ta8 ; S• CIiit, 
543 ; S. Burden, 500 ' • R. Scott, 560; E. 'Elutes, 534 ; 91. Nason, 534 ; 
L. Case, 515—each $1. 
J. Cain, 343 ; 0. Grinnell, 569 Mrs. A. Lawrence, 560 ; E. C. 
Bowker, 521 ; E. T. flentinway, 564; H. G. Friths, 566 ; S. Aldrich, 
539; Houghton & Marsh, 569 ; Randall & Peabody,54s; B. Chapin, 
541 ,• A. Anthony, 560 ; R. Jacknian, 934 ;_Mrs. L. Chandler, 534 ; 
E. Mason, 586 ; J. Stoddard, 508 ; J. R. Morse, 560 ; E. W 
534 ; Thos. Hastings, 456 (still owes 824) ; Widow Orr, 553 J• B. 
Botsford, 508; tv. Jackson, 524 ; M. P. Lane, 560 ; S. D. Clement, 
508 ; J. Kimball, 560; M. H. Samson, 462—each $2. 
G. S. Moore, 586 ; S. Cahoon, 534 ; II. S. Burchard, 564 ; C. 
Damon, 930—each $3,— W in.Paul, 568—$334•— W . F. Deland, 
(cr. $54,—$5 60. —Dr. P. Schofield, 768—$10.—C. Ousterhout, 
(84 cents due) 493 ; W. Cornwell, 508 ; Widow Cobb, 521—each 
50 cents.—J. Weldeu, ($14 clue) 48.5—$ 50. 
THE ADVENT HERALD. 
01111111MMImokimm....MMINIIMMIMM 
Swedish Superstition. 
" A letter from Ystad, in Sweden, contains an account of a 
strange scene at an execution which took place there on the 
28th of January. That day having been fixed for the decapi-
tation of a journeyman butcher, named Marcusson, and a 
woman named Botilla-Nilsdotter, for having murdered the 
husband of the latter, a vast number of the peasantry arrived 
on the previous evening, and bivouacked in the town all 
night. Although for upwards of sixty years no execution 
had taken place in the province, and for upwards of eight 
years none in ail Sweden, it was not as much curiosity which 
attracted the multitude, as the desire to swallow a drop of 
the blood of the criminals at the moment it should spurt from 
beneath the axe of the executioner, it being a popular belief 
in Sweden, that it renders the weak strong, cures all sorts of 
maladie, and secures a long life. When the scaffold was 
erected, the people assembled round with cups, glasses, bowls, 
BUSINESS NOTES. 
Sarah Cook, R. Flint, S. Hunter, P. Gardner—Have can-
celled your accounts, and will continue. 
D. Guild—They would come to $6,50—have resumed your 
father's paper and cancelled the old account. 
T. Smith—Sent you books the 15th. 
W. Milton—The mistake occurred as your P. M. suggests. 
Your papers and those at your office, are now all credited to 
No. 508. 
S. A. Bronson—We have sent the paper always to C. T. 
Bronson, and the $2 you sent last January paid to 469 ; you 
now owe $1,88. 
W. Holden—You owe to the present time $1,40. 
I. C. Wellcome—We have none of thosen umbers. The 
extract you refer to, we published some months since. 
Wyman—Sent you books to Brattlebury the 11th. 
W. Paul—Sent you books to G. C. Rand & Co. to be for-
warded as you directed, on the 12th. 
L. D. Mansfield—Sent you books the 12th. Bro. R. 
Roberts subscribed when Bro. H. was West, and paid to 441 
—If he is not at Auburn, will any brother seeing this, give us 
his P. 0. address. 
W. M. Ingham—We have no recollection of receiving a 
letter from you at the date of which you speak, but we find 
from our books that one was received one month previous, 
containing $7, when you was credited 50 etc. to Tract Distri-
bution, and the balance to subscribers at Granville and Hills-
burgh, but none to J. More. There is a John Moore to 
whom the paper is sent at Hillsburgh, but he has not been 
credited to money since you have been in N. S., hence the 
letter which you say contained $3 must have miscarried. 
W. Guild—We find no such name at Baldwinville—the 
paper sent there is to Joseph Giles. Is this the same ? 
J. Beckwith $1—You did not give the State and Co. of 
your address ; but we at length found it—pays to 534. 
D. Campbell—The paper sent to S. Cliff was paid to No. 
495 some time since, and ordered to be then stopped. It was 
accordingly stopped when the time expired. Have now re-
sumed. We have never sent to a Charles Powley at Kings-
ton, but have now entered his name. 50 cents was credited 
you from Bro. P.—now due from you $16 '43. The pocket 
Hymns is a larger book than it was formerly. 
J. W. Lewis—The books can be sent now by Mail with-
out covers, and after July 1st with the covers on. 
NOTICE. 
The Chardon-street Church, BoSton, to the Second Advent ChUreh, 
Providence, R. I., Greeting: 
DEARLY BELOVED:—An advertisement and statements concern-
ing the thing advertised, contained in a paper published in your city, 
called the " Daily Mirror," has been brought to the notice of this 
Church, by some menthera of your body ; and the undersigned have 
been appointed a committee to prepare and forward to You the 
doings of this Church in reference thereto. The advertisement and 
statements referred to are in these words : 
"THE TRIAL OF ELDER J. V. MIMES 
Before the Chardon-street Church, Boston, in pamphlet form, may 
be had at 186 Westminster street, Providence. R. I. 
" The above pamphlet developes the character of Mr. I f Imes white 
professing, to believe in the speedy personal Advent of Christ, and 
shows that selfishness and corruption marked his course even while 
professing a high degree of sanctity. He had refused the most hon-
orable terms of iavestigation, and is therefore shown to be guilty of 
all laid to his charge. 
RANSOM Him." 
This is found ill the " Daily Mirror" of Feb. 20th, 1851, and at 
other times. 
At a meeting of the Chardon-street Church, held March 2d, 1851 
—the above advertisement and statements having been read—the 
following preamble and resolutions were presented by Bro. A. Hale ; 
and on motion of Bru. W. L. Hopkinson, seconded by Bre. Lewis 
Hersey, were unanimously adopted : 
Whereas, the attention of the Chardon-street Church has been 
called to the advertisement in a Providence, R. I., paper, called the 
" Mirror," of a " pamphlet " entitled "The Trial of Elder J. V. 
Moles before the Chardon-street Church, Boston ;" and whereas 
this Church supposes that the editor of said paper had no design to 
do injustice to any person concerned, by inserting that advertise-
ment, but has been imposed on by others ; and whereas the above 
advertisement, whether so intended or not, does the grossest injus-
tice to this Church as a body, and to Elder J. V. Rimes in particu-
lar; and whereas the position and responsibility of those connected 
with the fabrication and circulation of the above " pamphlet " have 
rendered them of late unworthy of any special attention by this 
Church, but as the said pamphlet is now announced and com-
mended to the public through an organ supposed to be of some in-
fluence, and responsible for its contents, this Church deem it right 
and proper that such an organ be held amenable for the part thus 
taken, unless it shall justify itself therein, or honorably clear itself 
from the wrong thus perpetrated ; therefore Resolved, 
1st. That the above " pamphlet " and its advertisement can be re- 
garded only as a base and libelous imposition, as no trial—such as the 
community understand by the word trial—or such as the pamphlet 
advertised pretends to describe, has ever taken place, in the case of 
Elder .1. V. Hines. 
2d. That it is well known to this Church, that at the tine the 
" pamphlet" was being fabricated, Elder J. P. Weethee —one of its 
fabricators—was not " the pastor" of this Church, nor were those 
engaged in aiding and abetting him members of this Church. Arid 
it is equally well !mown that while he was recognized as the pastor, 
and those associated with him were recognized as members, they 
had not the power to force, nor the ability to deceive, this Church 
to take any part with them in the work of darkness, to which the 
pamphlet itself informs us he had devoted himself ; a nd on this ac-
coma he with them went out from us, that they might bring to an 
issue the work they had attempted. 
id. That this Church is by no means displeased that such a pastor 
and such members should depart from them, or that they should 
give a "pamphlet form" to the slanders which they had more pri- 
vately circulated, inasmuch as it testifies under the hands of J. P. 
Weethee and Geo. Needham to the truth of facts which they had 
publicly, repeatedly, and most solemnly denied ; and hits given an 
opportunity for the one chiefly implicated to clear himself trout the 
things charged against him, with such deadly intent, and in so un-
worthy a manlier. 
4th. That, according to the admissions of the pamphlet itself, an 
far as there has been anything done which its authors might call a 
" trial," it has been planned, controlled, mid reported by those who 
first conspired together privately to attempt the destruction of J. V. 
limes' moral character and influence ; and this, after they " had 
refused the most honorable terms of investigation." 
5th. That this Church hereby inform and assure their brethren and. 
friends in Providence, mid it they so advise) the editor amid readers 
of the" Mirror" also, that the article to which this is intended as an 
antidote, so far as it advertises the pamphlet, or pretends to state 
its character, is totally amid utterly false, it jurious, and libelous in 
the extreme ; and this is known to those who fabricated the saute, 
and to all others who are at all-acquainted with its history. 
6th. 'Phut this Church recommend to all who wish to understand 
the merits of the case of Elder J. V. Rimes, as involved in the mat-
ters falsely reported in the above ",pamphlet," to read the'. Vfndi-
cation," which may be had gratis by applying to :any of the estab-
lished agents of the Second Advent publications. 
7th. Filially, resolved, that the Second Advent Church in Provi-
dence be, and hereby are, permittedland requested to make such use 
of this preamble and these resolutions as they deem proper, in order 
that the public may be disabused, and that any farther action tit the 
case may lie rendered unnecessary. 
In behalf of the Church, 
A. HALE, Corn. 
J. Li. 
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