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THE 
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(monthly or oftener), the issue of Books and Tracts 
calculated to instruct on the subject of Prophecy 
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Christ, the glorification of the church at that epoch, 
the dissolution of the heavens and earth by fire, 
their renewal as the everlasting inheritance of the 
redeemed, and the establishment of the kingdom 
of God ; and while rejectii.g—as it has from the 
commencement of its existence—the doctrine of the 
unconscious state of the dead and extinction of the 
being of the wicked, it will aim to present the truth 
pertaining to the cross and crown of Christ in such 
a way as to make one of the best family papers. 
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VOL. XXXIV. NO. 40. 
BOSTON, WEDNESDAY, OCTOBER 15, 1873. 
WHOLE NO. 1680. 
I hall make all things new. 3. God's 
will is perfectly done in heaven by the 
angels, cherubim and seraphim, for they 
I all bow with adoring worship and rever-
ence, and cry, " Holy, holy is the Lord 
God of hosts, the whole earth is full of 
thy glory." And sO hi the new earth, 
" Thou art worthy to receive honor, and 
riches, and dominion forever." Amen. 
Yours for the truth, 
J. R. GATES. 
province. It will not cause waters to 
I spring forth in the desert, nor make the 
' wilderness flourish and blossom as the 
Irose. It will not dethrone the god of 
The 
God is quiet in his workings. Mighty 
are his vast machineries in nature, all 
move quietly in the fullness of his ever-
lasting power. His Spirit is quiet as " a 
still small voice," though its working is 
wide in the world. The heavens are 
quiet, while they declare his glory. 
Comets, meteors, wandering stars rush 
and stagger in their courses, but the 
great orbs that light the steady flow 
of ages, roll in quiets-
:.- way, 
Christ, the great revelation of God to 
man, was quiet in the days of his flesh. 
He did not strive nor cry, nor cause his 
voice to be heard in the street. We 
should be like him. The waves fret, 
the rocks are quiet. The dry leaves 
rustle, the great mountains are serene.* 
Little brooks babble, rivers roll silently 
and calmly on. Small machines rattle 
and clatter, great engines roll smoothly 
and in quiet. Hell's host may. clamor 
and clash, heaven. is quiet, and in all its 
chiming melodies there is neither discord 
nor confusion. Earth will be quiet 
when God's will is done in it, as it is in 
heaven. " First pure, and then peacea-
ble." The world is polluted, it can have 
no rest. Christians have purified their 
souls by obeying the truth through the 
Spirit. Hence, they can be at peace. 0 
for the "peace of God that passeth all 
understanding " to keep our hearts and 
minds through Jesus Christ. 
Com)flunitation% 
Articles not dissented from will not be under-
stood as necessarily endorsed by the editor. We 
solicit communications on prophetic subjects irre-
spective of any views which we cherish,—corres-
pondents being responsible for the sentiments they 
advance. 
• 
CANDOR—AN APPEAL. 
the service of the church as well as to 
service of his pocket ? Why cannot 
Christian physician make 
discipline 
his profession, a profession which 
the severe 
up in the Assein- the 
soon as a deputy the 
which has fitted hint 
' The lazar-house, sad, noisome, dark, wherein are I rises 
laid 
Numbers of all diseased, all maladies 
Of ghostly spasm, or racking torture, qualms 
Of heart-sick agony, all feverous kinds, 
Convulsions, epilepsies, fierce catarrhs, 
Intestine stone and ulcer, colic pangs, 
Demoniac frenzy, moping melancholy, 
And moon-struck madness, pining atrophy, 
Marasmus, ana wide-wasting pestilence, 
Dropsies and asthmas, and joint-racking rheums.' 
scientific 
for 
specially requires stores of information 
Philadelphia, Pu., AS'ept. 25, 1 573. 
and research—why cannot his acquisi-
tions be made available for the church 
also ? All professional men, in propor-
tion as they have fitted themselves well 
for American professional life, by so 
much have already gone through the 
mental training to make good Bible-class 
teachers, and which, in some instances, 
may have certain advantages over the 
technical schooling of the theological 
seminary. How many men also of 
culture, travel, and leisure there are in 
our churches, whom all their acquaint-
ances know to be well-informed, and yet 
who occupy no place in the church ex-
cept the pew or the Sabbath-school. A 
united and sustained effort throughout 
our country, such as the great modern 
movement which has instituted the Sab-
bath-school, might soon give us back 
our old apostolic order of church-teach-
ers, enrich us with a truly_ great and vat-
uable Biblical literature for the people, 
and, finally, make the church aggressive 
instead of defensive against the skepti 
cism of the age, by putting in the hands 
of every Christian the sword of truth 
which is too exclusively committed now 
to one professional class. 
For initiating such a new development 
of the forces of the church, the Young-
Men's Christian Associations of our 
country seem to afford a providential 
basis and opportunity. Whatever be 
our denominational names, here we can 
all unite, for the Bible belongs to every 
one of us, and it is well for us to begin 
its real study together. If each Associ-
ation throughout America would deter-
mine to have a Bible-class they could 
make it prosper easier than any single 
church would be do in the be- 
ginning ; for, by their constitution, they 
are enabled to choose the best qualified 
as teachers from among the different 
denominations. A truly successful class 
in each city could not long exist without 
greatly increasing the interest in Bible 
study throughout the whole Christian 
community, and it is because I look to 
this agency as affording the most prom-
ising opening for establishing Bible 
study on its true footing in the church, 
that I have ventured to thus bring the 
subject before them. 
THE GELATION OF THE SUPERNAT-
URAL TO THE NATURAL. 
In this age of " Mushroom Philoso-
phy," of "Development Theories," when 
very many scientific men, unfortunately 
for themselves and for the public whom 
they instruct, and for whom they con-
duct their investigations, are disposed 
not only to deny, but also to scoff at the 
idea of an overruling Providence, and to 
that end apparently bend all their pow-
ers of reasoning and research.,77-not " to 
find out God," but to find evidence to 
deny his existence, or, at all events, his 
attention to and care for his creatures, 
when they are ready to adopt any theo-
ry, no matter how incredible, so long. as 
it may serve to get quit of the thoughts 
Of his pervading presence and watchful 
love, it is refreshing indeed to find a sci-
entist, able in. his profefcsion, candid in 
judgment., and devoted in his consecra-
tion to the service of the Almighty, ad-
ministering a rebuke to those scientific 
students, wise in their own conceit, who 
from their wisdom leave out the knowl-
edge of God, and stating clear as crys-
tal, in a beautiful illustration, his own 
conviction of the relation of the super-
natural to the natural, in the following 
paragraphs. He is speaking of a scien-
tific theory that rests for a foundation 
on the idea of a direct revelation from 
God . to man, a theory that assumes 
(agreeably to Scripture) that man was 
not originally a savage, but that the sav-
age state is the result of degradation 
fron an original condition of high intel- 
_ 
1 et-ta 91 ,icti N:ify- amid ability. lI.e says :— 
" That theory, generally, is addressed 
and offered to those only who already 
admit that a Divine command supern8t-
urally given is a very eamsa; as science 
terms cause recognized already to. have 
existed in the case of other known phe-
nomena,, and therefore in a certain sense 
a hand or available for the present hy- • 
p1 >thesis. Those who openly .deny this 
are quite consistent in pronouncing this 
* * * * theory to be fanciful. To such 
"But all this is to be done : and when 
the number of the elect is complete,—
that number known only to Him who 
keeps the book, the Lamb's book of 
life,' in which their names are written ; 
when the last of the little flock shall have 
heard the shepherd's voice through the 
instrumentality of the preaChing of the 
gospel—then the trumpet shall sound, 
and the dead shall be raised incorrupti-
ble, and we (the living) shall be changed 
in a moment, in the twinkling of an eye. 
And then the kingdom shall come, and-
God's will be done on earth, as it is done 
in heaven, and the groans of creation 
shall cease. Let the angel speed, then, 
his flight through the midst of heaven, 
having the everlasting gospel to preach 
unto them that dwell on the earth, and 
to every nation, and kindred, and tongue, 
and people, and say with a loud voice, 
Fear God, and give glory to him, for 
the hour of his judgment is come.' For 
then shall come the restitution of all 
things promised before the foundation of 
the world. For concomitant with and 
consequent upon the second coming of 
Christ shall be : The resurrection of the 
sleeping saints, the change of the living 
saints, the casting out and binding of 
Satan, the destruction of Antichrist, the 
gathering of Israel, the descent of the 
New Jerusalem, the eradication of the 
curse from the earth, the deliverance of 
the creature from the bondage of cor-
ruption, the kingdom of Christ and his 
saints, the whole earth filled with his 
glory ; and then shall the Redeemer see 
of the travail of his soul and be satis-
fied. And we shall be satisfied, too, if 
by any means we may attain unto the 
resurrection of the dead, awake in his 
likeness, and share in his glory." 
CHARLES SABINE. 
 9.-.1110. • 
BIBLE STUDY. 
BY W. H. THOMPSON, M. D. 
BE QUIET. 
of the 
Dear Brethren :—When I attended 
your Ministerial Association in this city 
yesterday, it was with interest and profit, 
in many respects; 
Your " Essay " as 
given by Bro. Gilbert, on " Candor," 
was one of the best things that I ever 
listened to. It was 'a masterly produc-
tion, as you all very well know;• 'apd it 
showed not only " Candor," but a sound, 
logical mind in the brother that gave it. 
But I now ask you, in all candor, did he 
not spoil it by submerging it in the 
world's conversion, when God has only 
promised to take ,a people out of the na-
tions for his name, to aggregate the innu-
merable number of saints that shall-cOn-
stitute his "heirs" and "joint heirs" in 
the world to come ? Christ is to see of 
the travail of his soul -and be satisfied 
with this innumerable company tha,t;aball 
live and reign with him for ever in .-his 
kingdom. 
kingdom. 
And now my dear brethren, did not 
the great Dr. Rosen, .at the " Saint 
George," spoil his most admirable sermon 
in the same way ? • The doctor truly 
quoted the Lord's prayer, "Thy king-
dom come, and thy will be done on earth 
as it is in heaven," &c. Now you do not 
hold that the kingdom has come yet, 
(although some do ; that it came on the 
day of Pentecost, and that it is prepos-
terous for us to pray this prayer now.) 
The kingdom was not to- come with the 
Holy Ghost, but with the ,S022, of Man, 
and the Nobleman from heaven. 
The 
I-Ioly Ghost was sent to take the place 
Of the blessed. Jesus as our Comforter 
and Sanctifier, and the world's Reprover 
until the restitution ; then he gathers 
out of his kingdom (territorial domain) 
all them that do iniquity, and casts them 
into a furnace of fire. Is not that the 
fate of all the tares, all the bad fish,' all 
the goats, all the evil servants, all the 
foolish virgins, &c. ? The kingdom con-
sists of four constituents, at least : king, 
territory, subjects, capital ; these all ex-
ist to-day, but in a dissevered condition 
—a state of isolation, like the constitu-
ents of Solomon's temple before it was 
reared up. Jesus is now in exile, on his 
Father's throne ; he must have his own 
—David's throne. His subjects are in 
death and mortality ; they must be raised 
to reign with him. His territory, the 
earth, is usurped, and leased to the four 
universal kingdoms to the end of the 
aion. 
The capital, New Jerusalem and 
Paradise, is reserved in the third heaven, 
and not to be revealed until the last time. 
John, 21st chapter, assures us that it 
does not come down until the new heav- 
ens and new earth ; then he heard a 
great voice from heaven. saying, " Be-
hold the tabernacle of God is with men, 
and he will dwell with them, and there 
shall be no more death, nor sorrow, nor 
curse." Then it will be called " Beulah " 
and "Hephzibah," (married,) and God's 
" delight will -be in her forever." Then 
and there is where God's will will be 
done :on earth as it is done in . heaven. 
It can never be done here • in this world, 
but it can be most admirably fulfilled in 
the world to come. Notice the analogy 
—1. No devil, nor fallen angels, nor sin-
ners in heaven, nor will there be either 
in the new earth. 
2. No death nor curse 
there, and none on the earth when God 
the 
this theory is note offered ; .a previous 
question must be settled with them, 
namely, the existence of supernatural 
words and acts from the Creator to his 
intelligent creatures ; or, according to a 
symbol chosen by him as the most appli-
cable,—the existence of the Presiding 
Potter and the fact of the touch of his 
finger as a vow cousa in the history of 
the cosmos, over and above the mere ro-
tation of the wheel (of Nature) on which 
his work is being performed, as a contin-
uous and uninterrupted basis." 
"It is no discredit to the cosmos nor 
to its Creator, that he designed and in-
tended it to produce results by connec-
tion with,—and not as isolated from,—
his direct action. • It is no discredit to 
the potter's rotary apparatus, that it 
should be intended for his own direct 
use ; not to work as a clock in his ab-
sence, but to produce its results by the 
combination of the intelligent and va-
ried touch of his hand with the notori-
ous rotation of the apparatus itself, 
while, moreover, that too, is continuous-
ly sustained by his foot. 
Rotation scripturally symbolizes Na-
ture, natural law, the fixed order of cre-
ation or cosmos itself ; therefore in con-
trast to 
Radiation, supernatural power, (Heb. 
1) the effulgence of the shekinah,—Al-
mighty power, that originated nature it-
self, and which keeps it going ;—and 
which does not desert it, but continues 
pervading it,—using Nature in combina-
tion with this direct supernatural power, 
this finger of God '—the ray of his own 
outstretched arm and hand—as when the 
Spirit brooded on the waters of the cos-
mos to produce organic life." 
" The principle is symbolized in nature 
itself by solar radiation working in con-
cert or unison with terrestrial rotation." 
"This all-important principle, that the 
supernatural and the natural in combina- 
tion produce a result, and that the result 
is not produced by either separately, is 
very plainly illustrated in Scripture by 
the symbol, several times employed,— 
the potter's wheel. His wheel with ro-
tary action (natural law, Eccles. 1 : 3- 
13), works in unison with the action of 
his finger, or hand (the supernatural 
termed in ScriptUre `the finger of God,') 
which is at right angles any way to the 
rotary motion,—an expressive symbol of 
their absolute non-correlation ; these, 
combined, produce the base. The pre-
siding potter, meanwhile, himself sus- 
. was pinting and striving after,—a body 
fashioted like unto the glorious body of 
his beoved Lord. No wonder the early 
I 
 
Chritians were continually exclaiming, 
Corte, Lord Jesus, come quickly. 
And 
whet the last of the holy penmen heard 
the words, Surely I come quickly,' no 
woider that he breathed out his soul in 
th( last words of inspiration, Amen, 
evm so, come, Lord Jesus.' And no 
wander, now that the church -has been 
taight to put death in the place of the 
r(surrection, that she cares not how long 
tie Lord may tarry, or how slow his 
Mariot-wheels may be in coming. And 
vhy this difference, this contrast between 
the hopes and expectations of the prim-
itive and the modern church ? The 
world must be converted before the Lord 
can come. This conversion may, and 
probably will, take thousands of years 
to accomplish ; and when accomplished, 
it is to enjoy a thousand years of bless-
edness and glory, which may mean, as I 
have heard from the pulpit, a thousand 
years, each day for a year, or 365,000 
years ; and then the Lord will come to 
destroy it ; and then the saints shall 
have their resurrection-bodies. What 
wonder, then, that the church has fallen 
in love with the king of terrors, and 
taken refuge in the blessedness of the 
disembodied spirit, clothing it in all the 
glory of the disembodied state ? What 
wonder that books are written by learned 
divines to prove that there is no resur-
rection of the body, but that all the 
change takes place at death ? What 
wonder that a version of the Bible should 
have appeared with 20,000 emendations 
and among them the substitution of the 
' future state' for the resurrection, and 
the introduction of that state for the 
resurrection's synonym ? But wonder it 
is that such things do not startle the 
church from its dream. • Will nothing 
do so but the midnight cry 9 Oh, 
sir, we laymen want apostolic preaching 
and teaching on the subject of dispensa-
tional truth. 
We know what it is, thank 
God ! We have the Bible in our hands, 
the sure word of prophecy, alight shin-
ing in a dark place until the day dawn, 
and the day-star arise.' We are com-
manded to try the spirits whether they 
be of God, since many false prophets are 
gone out into the world ; and we, un-
learned as we may be, can and do try 
them by the standard of truth given to 
RS for that purpose. We compare scrip-
ture with scripture, and doctrine with 
doctrine. We f ird that while some min-
isters are preaching that the world is 
ripening into glory, others are preaching 
that it is ripening for judgment. We 
know that both cannot be true. We 
take the standard of truth in our hands 
at home, in our closets, and we find that 
one class is teaching a Bible truth, the 
other a Popish fable. Ought these 
things so to be ? 'If the trumpet give 
an uncertain sound, who shall prepare 
himself for the battle ?' If one pulpit 
proclaims, 'Peace and safety ! the Lord 
delayeth his coming,' and another, 
Watch, for ye know neither the day nor 
the hour when the Son of Man cometh,' 
who can be surprised if the joyous world 
looks on, listens, and laughs? And lis-
ten and laugh it does—such a laugh of 
merry mockery ! And Satan listens and 
laughs too—Oh, such a laugh of mali-
cious joy ! And the harlot laughs as 
she hands round the gilded cup, and 
sings, for very wantonness, I sit a queen 
forever ; I shall see no sorrow. The 
Lord delayeth his coming. Thou bast 
much goods laid up for many years ; eat, 
drink, and be merry.' 
" Well, here, you say, here we may 
surely sing with a joyful heart. True ; 
but it must not be a strain that tells of 
the world's jubilee' in the absence of 
the world's rightful Lord—of the earth's 
deliverance from bondage while the god 
of this world' is triumphant and making 
the whole creation groan. It must not 
be of a time anterior to that when the 
cry shall be heard, 'The kingdoms of 
this world are become the kingdom of 
our Lord, and of his Christ, and he shall 
reign for ever and ever.' Tell me not 
that it is preaching gospel 
that will do all this. It is only the prov- 
ince of the gospel to announce it. The 
gospel of the kingdom' is one thing, 
the kingdom' itself is another thing. 
The invitation is not the feast. We 
have come to talk about the gospel as 
though there were something cabalistic 
in the word. We have come to regard 
it very much as the Jew regards the law, 
or the Papist the crucifix. It is a mes- 
sage—it is an announcement ; it is not 
that of which it testifies—it is not the. 
kingdom of Christ ; it has done, and is 
doing, and will yet do, its appointed 
work,—gather out the little flock to whom 
it is the Father's good pleasure to give 
the kingdom. But it will do no more. 
It will not heal the sick, for it is not its 
province. It will not give sight to the 
blind, nor hearing to the deaf, nor feet 
to the lame, for it is not its province. It 
will not raise the dead, for it is not its 
Paul bade the Thessalonians to " earn-
estly study to be quiet." They needed 
the instruction in Greece, eighteen hun-
dred years ago. We need it in America 
to-day. The world is full of tumult. 
The chariots rage in the streets—they 
jostle one against another in the broad 
ways. The stormy passions of a God-
less world clash like the rattle of armor 
in the scenes of mortal strife. Business 
leaps and tosses itself, and its votaries 
have as their motto, "Run or be run 
over." Politicians steer their crazy 
barks amid boiling waves and foam-cov-
ered rocks.- Ambition leaps skyward, to 
fall finally as Satan fell, "as lightning 
from heaven." The wicked are like a 
troubled sea that has no rest, casting up 
mire and dirt. False prophets wander 
like " raging waves of the sea, foaming 
out their own 'shame." War swells its 
clarion peal, and awakening hosts rush 
to the charge, the conflict or the rout. 
Earth rings with the blaze of battle. 
Weeping and wailing, pestilence and 
death, follow in their train. Earth 
trembles beneath the thunders of artil-
lery, and quakes at the charge of cav-
alry, or the tramp of armed men. Old 
resentments and hoarded grudges breathe 
out in cursing and hissing and gnashing 
of teeth ; and amid all this seething, 
restless tumult, heralded by lightning, 
driven by steam, and hurried by Satan, 
the world rushes to its final tumult, and 
man rushes to his last conflict—" the 
war of the great day of God Almighty." 
And, if ever, since the world began, 
the Christian should study to be quiet. 
It is a study, and a long one. It is a 
task. The tumult breaks on the ear. 
The pulses quicken at the bruit of war. 
Enthusiasm is contagious. Blood boils 
at the recital of wrongs, and the soul is 
aroused like the mettled charger by the 
trumpet's swell. Here the Christian for-
gets his heavenly calling and his divine 
trust. Here he should study to be quiet, 
to keep his heart and mind in peace. 
Quiet is not idleness. " Study to be 
quiet and do your o wn business, and to 
work with your own hands." Quiet is 
not indifference. Quiet is not sloth. 
Quiet is the work of a soul trusting in 
God—in no hurry while old eternity is 
before it, and God Almighty rules the 
universe. 
THE church has provided us with an 
excellent institution for children's wor-
ship on the one hand, and an equally 
good ordering for the edification of 
adults by preachers on the other, but 
the apostolic order of teachers of the 
Scriptures in every church, is extinct. 
The state of Biblical knowledge in the 
great body of the laity of every denom-
ination in our country is wretched, and 
whether it was better or worse a hundred 
years ago, before the institution of 
the Sunday-school makes no difference. 
Teachers, we must provide for the active 
self-confident mind which has just at- 
tained its so-called majority, for the 
wiser, but disappointed, and therefore 
often doubting mind of mid-life, and 
equally so for those who can best under- 
stand the great author of the 90th 
Psalm. For all such spirits orations 
may serve to console or to incite, as se- 
datives or stimulants are used by physi-
cians, generally however for temporary 
purposes. But really to strengthen we 
must furnish food, and the stores of 
knowledge in the Bible contain -a great 
deal more for them besides the milk diet 
of the Sabbath-school. 
The question demanded of us is. where 
are we to find the material for our order 
of teachers and how are we to set them 
to work ? In the first place teachers 
should be trained men ; the very nature 
of their work implies knowledge, and 
this cannot be born with a man, but 
must be acquired by systematic study. 
It is therefore to the ministry, as the 
only trained class which we have at 
present, that practically we must look 
first for the best Bible-class teachers. 
Let us give them the chance by a settled 
resolution to ask no more than one ser- 
mon each Sunday on any plea whatever, 
except at the advent of some born 
preacher like Whitefield or John the 
Baptist, or on some Pentecost day of 
God's own sending. One speech a week 
is enough. Were this done we would be 
spared the poor spectacle of an adver-
tised evening service to attract outsiders, 
for the purpose of listening to a dis-
course whose real text is the latest hor- 
ror or other thing current. The Ameri- 
can ministry is at a sad disadvantage 
with its present competitor in this line, 
the American press. Let us rather have 
a church meeting for Biblical exposition 
and study, preferably we think in the 
afternoon, when the minister shall leave 
the pulpit altogether and take a chair in- 
stead, for the same reason that a. shrewd I of gifts given to little purpose. Why 
observer has recently remarked that the • should not the Christian lawyer be as 
French will never know how to govern I desirous to turn his educated powers for 
themselves until they remove the " trila- 1 reasoning, analysis, and persuasion to 
this world, for it is not its province. It une " from their legislative halls. 
will not close the door of the world's tribune is a pulj set 
great hospital— 
bly Chamber, and as 
to make a motion or propose an 
' amendment, or ask a question, before he 
I
can say much hii• is assailed with cries to 
go up into the tribtme, Once in that 
box he has to make a speech, whether he 
had any such idea at the first or not. 
The result is that what ought to be leg-
islative acting, too often turns into noth-
ing better than vain speaking. A teach-
er should be much nearer to his bearers 
than the preacher : for it is best to talk 
with them, and if need be for them to 
talk with him : every effort advisable 
being made to remove that feeling of 
dread to speak out in meeting which 
seals the mouths of many who would be 
the best helpers towards a profitable 
Bible-class. 
The next requisite is for the teacher 
to know that his business. is to impart 
information. All sermonizing is out of 
place and the temptation to " improve " 
at the end of some subject treated, with 
hortatory applications, should be resisted 
with the same care that young writers 
forming their style should learn to be-
ware of adjectives. . If this principle 
were oftener borne in mind there would 
be fewer deaths of Bible-classes. In 
many cases also the subjects chosen for 
study are passages for understanding 
which nobody needs a teacher, as for 
example, the discourses of our Saviour, 
which, though each word may be a text, 
yet, throughout are as clear as crystal. 
Every one knows what the answers 
should be to any interrogatories put as 
to the meaning of the Sermon on the 
Mount, and it is a tiresome way to go 
over that sermon by listening to leading 
questions about the beam in your own 
eye or the casting of pearls before swine. 
Meanwhile of all books, the Bible is rich 
in long veins of precious ore, which 
often dip down far .f,,p(1 deep, and need 
to be patiently explw.ed, and it is these 
which the teacher must work upon and 
bring to light, for the benefit of those 
who of themselves would scarcely pos-
sess them. Take, for example, the 
prophecies about the coming Redeemer 
in the Old Testament as a proof of the 
truth of Christianity, and trace their 
steady development from Genesis to 
Malachi, and I know, from personal ex-
perience, that a Bible-class which num-
bers hundreds, may be kept interested in 
that investigation for year after year. 
Or take the histpry of the founding of 
the Christian Church as it is given us in 
the Acts and illustrated in the Epistles, 
and if that subject cannot be made more 
interesting than the history of Greece or 
of the American Revolution, it will be 
solely -due to the mental vacuity of the 
teacher himself, who has been emptied 
by a liturgical reading of the Bible till 
his ears are dull of hearing. 
In proportion as real information is 
imparted, in that proportion will the 
teaeher escape that bane of Bible-classes 
—discussion. A great mistake is often 
made, that a Bible-class should" be a 
kind of sacred religious debating club, 
the inevitable result being that two or 
three born talkers soon get possession, 
and a wearisome comparison of some 
brethren's views takes the place of the 
study and exposition of the Bible itself. 
Questions put for information should be 
encouraged by all means, but arguments 
never, for the reason that not one public 
discussion in a hundred ever convinces 
anybody, and it is far more apt to put 
the mind in a frame the reverse of teach-
able. 
It will readily be inferred from what 
precedes, that it is not a light task which 
we seek to impose upon the Bible teach-
er. Most ministers, at least, ought to 
find the proper preparation for a Bible 
lesson quite as difficult, in its way, as 
the composition of a sermon. Extensive 
reading and study both are requisite to 
make a good teacher in any branch of 
knowledge, and Biblical knowledge is 
certainly no exception to this rule. I 
have attended Bible-classes conducted 
by able ministers, where I have been 
obliged to suspect that we were being 
served with an intellectual feast which 
could not have taken half an hour in its 
preparation. Nor need any one fear 
that labor in teaching God's word can 
not be made as profitable spiritually to 
the people as the sermon itself. While, 
on the contrary, we believe that the va-
riety in work which would thus be se-
cured to the ministry would tend in the 
long run to strengthen the mind and 
widen the sphere both of usefulness and 
influence more than does the present sys-
tem of delivering sermons only. 
But there arises a more important 
question still in this connection. Every 
church in our land, with the average 
membership to render it self-sustaining, 
contains a great deal of unused power, 
ffittertiono. 
" WHO TOUCHED ME ?" 
FROM " WILD THYME." 
And couldst thou feel amidst the throng 
A trembling touch like mine, 
When thousands hurried thee along, 
Nor knew thee as divine ? 
They rudely pressed thee in the crowd, 
And pained thine, ear with accents loud. 
I did not speak, yet thou didst hear 
The prayer within my breast; 
I could'not meet thine eye for fear, 
But only touched thy vest. 
Trembling, I touched its hem alone, 
That trembling touch thy grace did own. 
One moment in the crowd I stood 
Afflicted and defiled, 
My sins o'erwhelmed me with their flood, 
The next, a pardon'd child. 
I knew thy power, thy will to heal, 
And to thy truth I set my seal. 
I set my seal, and, gracious Lord, 
Thy faithfulness was such, 
That though I scarce believed thy word, 
Thy person dared not touch, 
The moment that I felt thy dress, 
Thine eye was filled with tenderness. 
" Thy faith hath saved thee, go in peace 
19 
My faith ! nay, Lord, 'twas thine; 
Thy gift, as thine, my soul's release— 
The tendril owns its vine. 
Thy virtue drew me to be healed, 
I touched, and found my pardon sealed. 
Yes, gracious Lord, " in peace" I go, 
I leave the throng with_thee; 
They press thee close, but do not know 
What thou hast done for me; 
What thou wilt do for all like one 
Who dared to touch the hem alone. 
---9.9•9499.m•-• 
THE HOPE OF THE CHURCH. 
" What has his church to fear ? Why 
should she stop her ear, when she is told 
that the Lord is at hand ? Why should 
the bride tremble at the coming of the 
Bridegroom, or try to believe that his 
coming is all a fable, all a delusion ? 
Why should the Lamb's wife turn away 
her eye from the face of her beloved ? 
Oh, but you say, She does not ; she looks 
for his spiritual coming.' His spiritual 
coming ! What ! Is Ichabod written 
on her door ? Has the Lord's Spirit de-
parted from her ? Has he left h&C-to--
whom was said, Lo, I am with you al-
way, even to the end of the world' ? 
Has he broken his word? Has he, in-
deed, departed in spirit, as well as in 
person, that she is looking for him thus 
to return to her ? His spiritual coming ! 
Who can have taught her thus to tamper 
with, thus to nullify, her hope ? Not 
the Lord himself, not the apostles, not 
the angels, who stood by to comfort the 
widowed and sorrowing church, who, as 
the cloud received her Lord out of her 
sight, thus consoled her : Ye men of 
Galilee, why stand ye gazing up into 
heaven ? 
This same Jesus, who is now 
taken up from you into heaven, shall so 
come in like manner as ye have seen him 
go into heaven.' Did he spiritually go ? 
Then spiritually he will return. Did he 
go personally and bodily? Then per-
sonally and bodily will he return. Who 
mocks the sorrow and taunts the hope of 
the loving wife, by telling her that her 
absent husband will return to her spirit-
ually ? And where is the loving wife 
whom such mockery would persuade to 
quit her watch-tower, or her accustomed 
evening walk, that she may look out for 
and welcome the return of the beloved 
of her heart ? 
"But I hear it asked, as I often have, 
Where is the difference, whether we go 
to him, or he comes to us ? ' I reply, 
simply this : that the departure of the 
individual believer's spirit to the bosom 
of the Lord is one thing, but not the 
thing of which we are speaking. The 
coming of the Lord is another thing. I 
know well that the individual believer is 
taught to concentrate all his hopes in the 
article of death, when the spirit ascends 
to God who gave it, and when he is told 
that he shall receive his crown of glory. 
But, as I know that St. Paul is still wait-
ing for his,—for that crown which the 
Lord, the righteous Judge, shall give 
him at that day, the day of his appear- 
ing, and not to him only, but to all those 
that love that appearing,—I know that 
such teaching is not only unscriptural, 
but that it turns the eye of the church, 
and of each individual member of it, 
from the one great object of hope—the 
coming of the Lord to raise his sleeping 
saints, and to change his living ones, 
clothing them all with his own image and 
likeness. It puts out of sight, far out 
of sight, the resurrection of the body ; 
and not out of sight only, but out of the 
reach of all practical, influential belief. 
This was not the teaching of the apos-
tles, who preached Jesus and the resur- 
rection ; not Jesus and death, as the hope 
of the church. Resurrection,enot as an 
object to; be contemplated at the close, 
but at the commencement, of the mil- 
lennial kingdom. It was the resurrec-
tion of the body which inspired them 
with hope, and which made them look 
with such eager desire for the coming of 
the Lord. If by any means I might at- 
tain unto the resurrection of the dead ! ' 
exclaims one who well knew what he 
piece of white cloth is like a man's repu-
tation ; it can be dyed black, but you 
cannot make it white again." 
Eke Adroit 
traid. 
We call the special attention of the 
friends of the Home Mission to the in-
teresting report of our faithful missiona-
ry, Elder Geo. Burnham, trusting that it 
will elicit a prompt and practical sup-
port of this good work. 
tains the motion of the wheel, on which 
also he does his work of production. 
" Thou art the potter, we are the clay." 
Nature, cosmos, is the wheel, and thus 
the potter's hand represents supernatural 
power working in the midst -of natural 
law ;—as in comparing the first organic 
germs of the various vegetable and ani-
mal generations, and the first human 
couple, and as also seen subsequently in 
angelic ministration and the working of 
the Holy Spirit in Divine inspiration, etc. 
The rationalists wish to say that the 
vessels are produced by the potter's 
wheel without the potter, and that the 
idea that his wheel cannot do that with-
out the hand is a libel on it, and is as 
much as to say that it does not fulfill its 
purpose ! They call the application of 
the potter's hand during the rotation of 
his wheel an interference with the laws 
of nature.— Wm. Petrie, in a letter to the 
Astronomer Royal of Scotland, published 
in his work on the Antiquity of Intellec- 
tual Man. 
w. H. M. 
...1•11... OW- ,11. 
"NATIONAL VICE." 
A young man, calling himself James 
D. Elwell, from New Haven, Ct., is tray 
cling about as a book Agent, and uncle] 
pretence of need is borrowing money 
from various friends. He appears to be 
thoroughly acquainted with Advent min-
isters and the condition of Advent 
churches, and thus deceives Advent 
brethren. His statements vary, and his 
conduct is decidedly questionable. This 
s written as a caution. 
L. OSLER. 
Providence, Oct. 6th, 1873. 
BY J. BUFFUM. 
ROME—PAGAN AND PAPAL. 
even in that the image had a straddlinr, 
attitude, then, perhaps, we might have a 
show of reason for inferring such a 
thing. Moreover while a triple distinc-
tion is mentioned in the Apocalypse eighm 
times, and the ten part division four 
times in the prophecy of Daniel, and 
seven times in the visions of John, a two. 
iold division of the empire is nowhere 
named. 
Then the "feet and toes" are con-
strued to signify two successive division 
try periods. The body of the feet, com- 
posed of iron and clay, as indicative 01 
indefinite, fragmentary divisions of the 
European Roman world, following the 
two-fold state. 
By the same law of interpretation we 
are at liberty to make double symbols o 
the Medo-Persian, and the Grecian king 
toms : the " breast " representing a firs, 
state or condition, the " arms " a second 
io of " the belly and sides " : the "belly' 
1, primary phase of the kingdom, and the 
sides" a later aspect. This mode o 
nterpnetation, however, would be in 
plain violation of the explanation givem 
ty the inspired prophet. "The breas 
end arms "—" the belly and sides " are 
symbols of consolidated, universal king 
Toms : the breast and arms, and the 
telly and sides forming single symbols 
3o the " legs of iron " are a symbol o. 
the " fourth kingdom," in its unity ea. 
power. No hint of divisibility is give] 
intil we come to the "feet and toes.' 
As, therefore, the head of gold, the 
mreast and arms of silver, the belly an( 
ides of brass, and the legs of iron, an 
.ach single symbols to express a on, 
condition of those different governments 
,o the " feet and toes " compose a single 
,ymbol, to represent a one subsequent 
;tate of the fourth empire, viz : its divis 
'onary condition. This is indicated b-
the materials of which the feet and toe 
ire formed, " part of potter's clay, an 
part of iron." The four empires have 
been in their unity symbolized by sing]. 
netals : gold, silver, brass, iron. Now. 
 
_zieces of the last named metal are taken 
Ind mixed with clay, and of these info, 
cible substances the feet and toes are 
constructed, showing divisibility, and 
as°, a permanent state of division 
['his is settled beyond question by the 
plainest and most positive language :— 
And whereas thou sawest the feet and 
toes, part of potter's clay, and part of 
'ron, the kingdom shall be divided ; "— 
and whereas thou sawest iron mixed 
,with clay, they shall mingle themselves 
with the seed of men ; but they shall not 
sleave one to another, EVEN AS IRON Is 
NOT MIXED WITH CLAY." 
If the number of the divisions int( 
which the iron sceptre of Rome should 
te broken is predicted in this prophecy. 
then we find the enumeration in the 
natural number of toes belonging to the 
human feet—ten. 
(To be continued.) 
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158 
THE ADVENT HERALD OCTOBER 15, 1873. 
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Russians with unexpected fury and ob- light was diffused in that village on this (excepting the third Sabath of Sept.) manding a view of the Bay, which in 
, t i n a c y . The Afghans are at war with subject. In the present largely increased and having learned since;that time of more prosperous4 times was termed the 
the Persians, and at the same time in- population, with perhaps a proportionate the earnest efforts of brdhren in and " light house," is now occupied as a store 
rigning with the Emir M Bokhara. 
increased ignorance of the prophetic near Taunton, Mass., to • ,st before its in the village of Welli-leet. Still a few 
The whole region of Central Asia is scriptures, we may see inducements for people the important princyles of gos- remain who love the appearing of the 
it unrest, and being laid waste by say- renewed efforts there. 
pel faith we cherish, and pist,suming on -;aviour, and occasionly hear preaching 
BOSTON, WEDNESDAY, OCT. 15, 1873. 
age warfare. The central scene of all 
I deem it proper to say, that having the committee's approval, [Thought it •nn that and kindred subjects. It would 
;rouble is Bokhara—the advance and arranged positively for no appointment might be well, should eircumances ap -)rornote their own spiritual interests, 
iccupancy of this country by the Rus- beyond our Hebron meeting, and enter- pear favorable, to hold a shop series 01 and thus diffuse a healthier influence on 
inns has greatly excited the powerful ing upon the mission-work without par- meetings there, including th next tw( 
11 around them, to maintain a prayer 
kfghans. 
titular instruction as to the parts of Sabbaths. In conferring wit6riends on and conference meeting. Sept. 24th gave 
At this time there is anxiety, distrust, the country I should visit, it was some- my arrival, I was gratified to m than i discourse there on occasion of the fun-
mud forboding in all parts- of the old what of a perplexing question as to for several months, a few de• ed be- oral of Brother ,Thomas Lombard who, . 
.vorld—what the next hour •may bring where the first labors should be bestow- lievers, with several Christian friend, ,vebelieve, "died in the Lord." Never 
'orth the rulers know not, but are pre- ed. Consequently, some circumstances sympathizing with them, had ma tainted, lid those words, used as the text, seem 
CAUTION. 
I )aring for the worst. 
attending them may appear to have been stated services at Treseott Street 'Impel, nore sweet and real, "I will raise him up 
 
 rather unadvantageous. 
Torropondenrc A visit to Gloucester, Mass, Aug. 15th, ciety, which was kindly offered t•then ;(1. be -our God, the morning will soon 
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• 
formerly occupied by the Christ n So it the last day," than at that hour ! Bleas- 
"Then they that feared the Lord spake often one with the view of securing a suitable on reasonable terms. During the .ime. 'mak, and Jesus forgetting not one 
o another ; and the Lord hearkened and heard it, place for preaching on the following Sab- the Sabbaths were improved, muc t( ' whom the Father has given him " will 
end a book of remembrance was written before him bath and longer if possible, proved un- their satisfaction and encouragemen 1)3 raise up again in his own image, a glori-
or them that feared the Lord, and thai thought successful. The exorbitant prices for Brother W. J. Halse of Cambridge i rt ms family to die no more ! The Metho-
mpon his name." 
 
ei 
list pastor assisted, with appropriate re- 
lUARTERLY BOARD MEETING OF quiries in that direction necessarily de- union and zeal, are regarded as g
halls, and want of time to extend in- An increase of- hearers, and of Christ,' 
 
ferred the object for a while. Our long_ proofs that he is appreciated in the pla 
narks and fervent prayer. I trust the 
THE A. M. AbSOCIAIION. 
;id event was improved to some good 
The regular Board meeting of the A. suffering God may yet "set before us an As' to the future, he gives promise of i 
ffect. 
The church at Wellffeet consists of 
Ierald office, 46 Kneeland street, Bos- importance certainly demands our atten- proposal to hold extra meetings, wa en or twelve members, about the num-
J. Association was held it. the Advent open door," in that flourishing port. Its creasing usefulness in the Ministry. TI 
on, Mass., Tuesday, Oct. 7th, at 101 A. tion. 
deemed timely, and gratefully accepted er when organized six or seven years 
,I., with the President in. the chair. 
Spent most of the 16th at Amesbury ['here we connnenced on Saturday even since. Brother P. W. Higgins, a mer- 
In the absence of Eld..11. Canfield, Mills, and Belleville, or the northern part ing Sept. 6th, and closed Sabbath even , ;hant there, chiefly at his own expense 
„Id. F. Gunner was chosen Secretary of Newburyport, endeavoring to learn ing the 14th-. I gave dining the time tted up over his store a convenient 
mro tem. The usual Opening prayer was where we may address the people hereaf- nine discourses, to audiences averaging ' .1a,11, which we call the Bethel. Al-
aered by Eld. George W. Burnham, the ter, with partial success. The former is about forty adult persons, ' many ce hough but a few, and at rather long in- 
_Tome Missionary of this Association. 
a large manufacturing and rapidly grow- whom were but slightly acquainted witl ervals assemble to listen and speak con- : 
Deacon R. R. Knowles, of Providence, ing village, and being conveniently situ- 
-,.11e precious doctrines we cherish. Evi- .rning the cross in connection with the . 
.I. I., submitted his quarterly financial ated to receive gospel help, if no other, ilently 'a few of our hearers, evinced : 
own of our glorious Lord, they are 
report, w hich was read and accepted, and from our brethren in the latter city, it deep and growing interest to learn, ane , nerally holding fast to the blessed 
.vhich will be published hereafter. 
may be considered as one among the expressed their joy and gratitude for the s e. We have spent many precious 
The following missionary and financial thousands inviting such labor. From the light received. We had brother H 
e s 
alse't 
' 
tatement was read and submitted by 20th to the 25th of August, I found tssista,nce on the Sabbaths, in a discourse 
e sons together, and the room has often 
ed indeed " like the house of God 
`LI:1d. G. W. Burnham, of Newburyport, something to do in Nashua, N. H. This on each, which, with other service ren in the gate of heaven " ! The interest 
nlass. [See below.] 
city has a population of about twelve lered by him, were very appropriate am t t iis last visit, although confined to a 
It was then voted, That the Treasurer thousand inhabitants, and in its business contributive to the interest of the occa :ma assembly, was not less deep than 
d the A. M. Association open a Dona- interests appears to be advancing under dons. We have to acknowledge wit] Orm rly. I fondly hope to reap some 
ion account, in aid of our missionary new impulses of prosperity. Meetings sadness that the result,—and many suet ruit rom this place in the final gather-
Terations, and publish the same in the have been held here at intervals for sev- results—seem vastly incommensurabl• rig d: v We should not forget our scat-
columns of the Herald at his own dis- eral years, by a few adventists, chiefly with the glorious gospel we preach, be- ered • rethren on the Cape. 
retion. The vote was made practical materialistic in their views of the Soul
Sab ath Oct. 5th I preached three 
sides being- in our poor judgment, une- 
ty the brethren in session, who promptly &c., but who sustain no regular service lual to the earnest endeavors and sacri- imes iix a Hall at West Amesbury Mass. 
ontributed and paid the amount annex- at present. The preaching and social dis- liceS made to sound it forth in the ears n the morning there were present about 
md to their names. 
cussions relative to our Saviour's appear- of perishing multitudes. This matter, orty persons, fifty in the afternoon, and 
r. C. Lowe, 
$10 00 ing, have been accompanied'to a consid bowever, we have only to commit to Wont seventy in the evening. The chief 
tiST.' A. Lowe, 
5 00 
1.0 00 able extent, as in many other places, by Aim who will shortly be enthroned as rosiness of the village being the mak- 
Dea. R. R. Knowles, 
notions and circumstances, which have the Judge of all, trusting that then he ng of carriages, a large number of 
1-1:1d. Jno. Pearson,
10 00 " caused their good to be evil spoken may reveal purposes of grace, wrought young and Middle. aged men have concen- 
Dea. W. J. Hurd, 
2 00 of," thus creating unnecessary prejudice by his own wisdom and power throng]. Crated there. My audiences appeared to 
 
 against us. If, however, ministers witl tur weakness, that we could not discoyen ixhibit the peculiarity which marks the 
$37 00 their flocks there, will candidly follow bere.- While aware of the fact, that in place, quite a predominance of males, 
The annexed communication was re- the noble suggestions of St. Paul in Phil. Taunton, as everywhere else, there arc not I have found in- no place of late 
ceived from the Lake Village church, and 1 : 9, 10, these things doubtlesS would many adversaries who naturally feel greater respect, nor more quiet atten-
voted to be published in the Herald, be justly considered by them, and so not envious at any -evidence of our pertha- ive listeners. The prospect is fair 
with a solicitation for help in the direc- be allowed to obstruct the course, a; nent prosperity, yet, the humble corn- for good results, if we should be able to 
tion indicated. Adjourned. 
now, of the sublime dispensational truths ,many of watchers and workers evince a protract services in this Village. 
F. GUNNER, Sec. pro tern. of Jehovah in their midst. Assisted b3 talm determination to press forward, 
GEO. W. BURNHAM. 
Salem, Mass. 
brother Geo. W. Newell, who is an in tearing the reproach for Christ in the 
ELDER BURNHAM'S REPORT. 
luential member of the congregations' ;oyful hope of Soon sharing with him 
To the A. .211: Association :—The Lake 
Village church which is struggling for church, I secured the City Hall, and cir he
, 
endless rest and glory ! May this 
MISSION RECEIPTS. 
continued existence is at the present culated a thorough notice for Sabbath. :interest prosper still under his guiding 
time greatly in need of help. We can- ,he 24th. In the character and. number _land, until the place and its surround-
:not raise for our pastor the amount he- of attendents, our expectations were ngs shall blaze with the light of a noble 
should have. Under present - circum- nore than realized. We had about sev- -loud of gospel witnesses, who shall 
stances we are not fable to raise more -nty-five in the morning, and at each of ever be ready lovingly and fearlessly to 
SHE CLD WORLD. 
than $6 per week. Will you help us in 
this matter ? We shall endeavor to d( he next two services, nearly twice that ;tam' up for Jesus ! 
ill we can in the future and think if we 
can be aided during the next six months. 
we shall be able after that to meet all o. 
our obligations. 
For the Church, 
C. F. RICHARDSON, 
C. WEBSTER, 
B. L. SANBORN, 
Committee on pastor's support of the 
Evangelical Advent Church. 
$7 00 
5.00 
13.57 
7.05 
3.85 
10.00 
15 90 
5.00 
17.00 
5.86 
90.23 
Aug. 10, • Wakefield, Mass., 
1 7, 
Newburyport, " 
" 24, Nashua, 
N. H., 
" 31, Pitt-field, 
Barn-tead, 
" 
T zmtod, 
, 
21, ProvincctOwn, 
" '24, Truro, 
" 
28, W dill -et . 
Oct. 5, 
W. Amesbury " 
op- 
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HOME MISSION. 
Rev. W. H. H. Murray, in a recent arti- 
cle in the Congregationalist, says that 
As the "toes " of the image were spe- 
"Lying is fast becoming the national :_tifically noticed, we may infer that it was 
the mind of the Holy Spirit to indicate 
vice." Many of us have an idea that it 
_ 
really became so sometime age), and is -hereby, that ten kingdoms should arise 
 
and be established within the world 01 
rapidly becoming more 'so ; and we are 
,Jrophecy, taking the place of the one, in 
glad so eminent and influential a divine 
npusition to, and as persecutors of th( 
has made the discovery ; and it is to be 
hoped he will look further, and see the ;hurch of God " in the latter days." 
 
other sins -which may well be called "na- 
We feel a great degree of assurance 
tional" ; a list of them may be found in in so interpreting the import of the 
' toes" from the fact that, in the- parallel 
2 Tim. 3 : 1-9 ; and as to whether " ly- 
ing " is a "national," or a personal sin, it prophecy, recorded in the 7th chapter, 
 
w 
is not found alone ; so more or less of 
here four beasts are introduced as 
 
the other sins mentioned in the apostle's Imbols of the kingdoms, represented 
 
list may always be found in company sy the four parts of the image, it is dis 
with lying. So then, this is the state of 
.inctly said by the angelic interpreter :— 
The fourth beast shall be the fourth 
things in these United States, which we 
;_ingdom upon earth 
 and the ten 
consider the most religious and moral 
nation in the world. Now, while we morns out of this kingdom are ten kings 
kingdoms] that shall arise." 
have, with the prophet Isaiah, great rea- 
In obedience to this plain statement 
son to be thankful that the "Lord of 
we are warranted in looking for exactlb 
hosts hath left us a small remnant " who 
do love and fear God, Mr. Murray's tes- 
his number of kingdoms to be devel- 
timony is true ; lying is already a " na. Ted as successors to Pagan Rome. And 
- 
tional sin," and such is the preYalence of mrofane history has not left this portion 
d the prophecy in doubt. Ten king- 
all manner of evil, that we may go l
fur- 
ther, and apply the apostle's account ofoms did appear on Roman territory, and, 
 
the sins of the heathen (Born. 1 : 28- :or many centuries have acted their part 
; 
32) to this nation, which God has so n opposition to Christ, and as fearful 
highly favored, and which is therefor 
nppressors of his people. 
 
doubly guilty :—" fornication, covetous 
There are a number of valid reasons 
 
ness, maliciousness, envy, murder, de- 
why the student of prophecy should fix 
bate, deceit, malignity, whisperers, back 
npon the western empire as the place for 
biters, haters of God, despiteful, proud. 
these kingdoms to be developed, and 
 
relieve that the ten have arisen, and 
boasters, inventors of evil things, disci- 
tearly accomplished their appointed des- 
bedient to parents, covenant breakers," 
&c. All these abominations abound in tiny. 
this country, and not only here, but it 
History gives conspicuousness to to', 
 
the other nations of the world also. •otemporary, independent dynasties on, 
Witness Dr. Duff's address " at-the late 
he western tern itory of Rome. These 
 
nave exerted an all-controling influence 
meeting of the General Assembly of th( 
n 
Free Church of Scotland," now in course 
the political and religious interests 
 
of publication in the. Advent Herald. 
if the old world. 
While this is confessedly the condition 
When the gospel which first shed its 
 
of things in the world at large, what is mlightening beams at the east, moved 
The telegraph brings the most startling 
it 
oward the west, and when the power of news from France. The French Repub 
the -State of the Christian church ? Is 
not lamentably lukewarm and worldly 
special Rome was being weakened, am', ic seems to be rapidly approaching a cri- 
Our blessed Lord, in answer to his disci- 
he countless hordes of savages from the 
is. The designs of the Illtramontan( 
plea' question, "What shall be th( 
morth of Asia and Europe were pourirq 
,onspiracy have been sufficiently devel- 
sign of thy coming, and of the en( 
lown-in resistless force upon the pro 
sped to awaken the liveliest fears among. 
 
aces below, and sub-dividing the em 
he leading Republicans. The radica. 
of the world"? said, "Because iniquity 
dre, the church of Christ was beii4 eaders have sent out an earnest appear 
shall abound the love of many shall wax 
cold" -(Matt. 24 : 12). The love of the 
ransferred to the mountainous region; 
o their sympathizers in this country to 
world, its wealth, fashions, and follies. 
sf southern France and the strong fast- 
mrganize clubs, and hold public meetings, 
have taken strong hold of the various 
lesses of the valleys of the Alps, to be and so create all the moral influence pos- 
bodies of Christians, and is seen in the 
herished and strengthened for the ap- :ible in their behalf. And a singular 
waste of money in building splendic 
)poaching conflict with the Papal anti- alliance has been formed between Prince 
 
hrist. The followers of Christ to( Terome Napoleon, and some of the prom- 
Beloved Brethren c—Several years' ex. 
houses of worship and denominations 
edifices, in private luxury and extrava- 
vere found as organized bodies within ,nent and active men- of the socialistic perience in the mission-field has so dis- 
gance, from which . come the numerous 
he -limits of these different kingdoms. party ; the object evidently being to se- tinctly impressed me with its exigencies 
defalcations and commercial irregulari- 
Iere, in the west, was the great battle- cure votes in the assembly against the and responsibilities—although I am con- 
ties, tenderly so-called ; at the same time 
field between Christ and Satan—between nonarchists. If the Republic should be scions of no abatement thereby of love t( 
the societies which are employed in send- Christianity in its heaven-born purity, overthrown, there may follow an intes- the work—as to constrain more emphati• 
ing the gospel to the heathen, are tom- and its organized, hell-born counterfeit. tine war : however it is certain that tally than ever the exclamation, " Who is 
plaining of want of funds to prosecute 
kind what a terrible war has been waged ! serious European complications will fol- sufficient for these things"? Our recog- 
their work ! The money wasted in 
Pagan Rome, with all its hatred and low the accession of Count de Chambord nition too of the apparently demonstrable 
building magnificent churches in Boston titter persecutions of Christians might to the throne of France. 
fact, that to the closing part of the great 
mold up its hands in horror, at the scenes 
The Catholic hierarchy is making the gospel mission, we have been divinely ap- 
and New York for a few years past, 
would have filled the treasuries of all mf malice and torturings inflicted upon most strenuous efforts to restore the pointed; in nowise-detracts from its grand 
„he lovers of Jesus by the devils incar- emporal power of the Pope. A Repub- importance. And if, my brethren, the 
the boards of foreign missions to the 
full ! How can those who preach in and mate of Rome Papal. 
,ie is, necessarily, opposed to the restora.- consciousness of moral imperfections, 
Therefore, as no worldly governments Lion of the ancient, despotic preroga- mental defects, together with physical in-
sustain such costly churches, ask the 
ire ever noticed by the sacred penmen Lives of the Roman Papacy ; hence, as a firmities, be mentioned in connection 
cumstances, to contribute to sustain 
public, especially those in moderate cir- 
,mxcept when they lay rude hands on the body, all over the world, the Jesuits are and contrast with the magnitude of oum 
missions at home or abroad ? Such in- „rue church : and, as the church was working for the subversion of every common work, we cannot cease to adore, 
transferred from the east to the west, government not in sympathy with the in utter self abasement, our Supreme 
consistency does not show a very strong 
an that there has been the great theatre claims and purposes of the Pope. If Head, for his condescending grace in 
faith in "the conversion of the world" ; 
and the coldness and deadness in all the nf Christianity for ages ; and, as, ten 
the Roman church can succeed in honoring us with such a ministry ! While 
denominations, show plainly that the listinct sovereignties did come out of placing a Catholic, such an one as would we must therefore often contemplate it 
world is rapidly converting the church 
-`the fourth kingdom " and did appear be of its own selection, at the head of in these self-humiliating aspects, we may 
to its follies and vanities. Fast horses, in that part of the empire, and for many the French government, Italy would be also know that it is our priceless privi- 
fine dresses, splendid palaces, and luxu- 
years furnished the means of _persecuting obliged to submit to the demands of the lege to wax joyfully confident in him In 
ries of all kinds, contrast strangely 
to the death multitudes more of the Pope : restore his civil rule and quit spite of all human weaknesses, and every 
saints than the universal kingdoms be- Rome, or be involved in a war with foe, we can exclaim, midst the toils and 
enough with the low estate of Him who 
"had not where to lay his head," or with :ore noticed, we may feel warrnted in France. In anticipation of such an event, perils of this solemn period of his ripening 
 
recognizing those kingdoms as the ten 
kings of Germany and Italy have, of harvest, "Our sufficiency is of God." That 
the lot of his servant Paul. God grant 
that those ministers to whom he has giv- predicted in the prophecy. 
,ate, had a conference, and none question unfailing promise, "Behold I am with 
Then there is the geographical fitness out that an alliance has been consum- you all the days till the consummation of 
en great opportunities of access to the 
people, by placing them in eminent posi- of location. 
nated between them. If so, then France the age," is able to inspire us with the 
bons, may look still more intently at our 
 
 
The time is yet to come when the pre- will hesitate in committing herself too disposition and courage to do and suffer 
ceding empires are to be broken to lee-ply in the affairs of the Pope. Ger all that his wisdom may here assign us. 
n.ttional vices, and speak as earnestly in 
condemnation of them all as Mr. Murray 
pieces together. 
This will be accom- many not only bears a strong civic Thus assured, I accepted as my post of 
has in reference to the "national vice" plished when the stone smites " the im- arm, but is- immensely anti-Catholic. duty as well as pleasureable service for 
ige upon his feet." Hence they will co- There is a severe struggle going on in the present, the home mission depart-
of lying ; and God grant that they may 
see what this condition of things in exist in some form to the end. If so, Prussia between Church and State, the went, under your auspices. 
church and world foretokens, and no then each will have its own distinct ge- result, however, is not doubtful. 01 
The power of the Holy Spirit is, I 
)graphical boundary. Therefore to find the various forms of religious faith, ix, trust, unitedly and earnestly invoked, 
longer virtually teach that " my Lord 
my of the ten in the eastern empire Prussia, opposed to Roman Catholicism, that its duties may be so performed as 
delayeth his coming." 
would be to have them appear as a part there are 17,712,666 adherents : while that the hastening day of earth's harvest 
of the thighs of brass. 
the number of Roman Catholics is only may reveal fruit herein gathered unto 
An absent-minded man walked into a 
Some there are who teach that the 
3,950,679. 
life eternal. 
tailor-shop the other day, handed the toes of the image are yet to be develop- 
Looking to Egypt, we notice its eman- 
My first Sabbath, Aug. 10th, was im- 
proprietor a button, and ordered him to ed, i. e., that the ten kingdoms are in the cipation. A firman has been issued from proved at Wakefield, Mass., formerly 
sew a broadcloth coat to it. We have future. In looking over the theory the Turkish Sultan which practically south Reading. Preached thrice to a soci-
read also of folks taking a little theory which supports this interpretation, we makes Egypt an independent nation. ety of adventists not specially in sympathy 
of their own, bringing it to the Bible find there is instituted a series of divis- ['he Khedive is now permitted to make with our conference. Our account of dis-
and trying to fit thereto the whole scheme ions which are not recognized in the pro- laws, regulate the finances, control the lordant influences and some uneyangeli- 
of divine revelation. Which was the phetic scriptures. For Illustration :— 
army, construct war vessels, and contract !al views prevailing among them, theim 
more sensible ?— Church• Union. The two legs of the image, are said to or renew conventions with foreign coun- power in the community to win sinners 
indicate a division of the empire into tries. 
to Christ, does not appear so effective as 
A man once took a piece of white cloth two cotemporary parts, namely, eastern 
There now exists a general disturbance it might be. Yet I presume that some 
to a dyer to have it dyed black. He Was and western Rome. It is true that the in Central Asia. In Khokan a civil war is of this company, with many exemplary 
so well pleased with the result that after empire was so divided, but there is an raging with gm-eat violence, having for its believers of their faith, scattered abroad, 
a time he went to him with a piece of utter want of evidence that this two-fold object the dethronement of their ruler, will rejoice in the presence of Jesus at 
black cloth and asked to have it made division was indicated by the two legs. Khadajar Khan. The Turcomans in the his coming. Through the instrumentali-
white. But the dyer answered : " A If we had an intimation to this effect, neighborhood of Khiva are fighting the ty of some of our early ministers, much 
number of attentive listeners, a large 
From thence, Sept 17th, I visited the 
 
oroportion of whom are unaccustomed t( loWer end of Cape Cod, and preached in. :mounting in nine weeks to 
near concerning the soon coming and the towns of Wellfleet, Truro, and Prov- 
MISSION jEXPENSES. 
:ingdom of Messiah. The themes pre- .ncetown, nine discourses, remaining in 
re Oct. 5th, Traveling , xpenses, 
44 44 
46 " T. Rent of Halls, 
815.65 
18.00 
ented were, the hopeful, ready position 
hat
„ 
►part till the 28th. Barnstable coup- 
 
his Bride ; evidence, by one of the •-•3T, or the entire cape, may, with Mudd 
‘• Printing 1,000 large bills, 7.00 
;rand prophetic chains, that her hop( 
(4 44 
” Posting Bills 
 
propriety be considered as missionary 
........ 1.50 
.._ 
will very shortly be "changed to glad ;round. I addressed respectable con 
-?,mounting to 
42.15 
:ruition," and the promise and oath of ;regations at Provincetowc on Sabbatl 
Salary nine weeks, 
126.00 
the Almighty to his servant David, that !1st, three times, and baptized one young 
Amount, with Expenses, 1168.15 
"of his loins, He would raise up Christ mud firm disciple of Jesus, who came m. 
Deducting- Receipts, 
90.23 
60 reign upon his throne, in Mount Zion, from the baptismal grave, joyful in the 
Leaving a deficiency of 
77.92 
and in Jerusalem, and before his ancients !lope of being " raised up " at his corn- 
(1 n my report to the A. M. Board, rent of 
sloriously "! By the increasing solemnity ing, m his own glorious likeness ! The Hall at w est Amesbury ($3.00) was inadvert-
ltroughout, we thought good impres- smblent is of his own wisdom ; and cheer- •ntly omitted.) 
dons were made. Could there be a ful, prompt, obedience by the believer, 
All items furnished when required. 
 
GEO. W. BURNUAM. 
,hrough presentation of the doctrine in a is the safe way for him or her, and that 
_ _ ___ _ _...............___- -- -- 
course of meetings, if need be, of two which the Head of the church does most 
OUR MISSIONARY. 
Report to the Board at its last session, 
by its missionary, Elder G. W. Burnham. 
n- three weeks, at some expense perhaps certainly approve. " I had no peace,' 
It is well known to those who attend- 
;o the Association for the time, we might she said, until I gave up all for him." ed our late campmeeting and conference 
tope to save souls from the second death Her walk and sentiments, since her dis- at Hebron, that Elder G. W. Burnham 
tad probably establish a church there. cipleship commenced, have convince( accepted the appointment to travel and 
Play we yet be cheered by favorable many, that the change was more than r. labor as a missionary at large, especially 
news from Nashua. 
mere flutter of excitement, or merely r, -to sound aloud the cry—" The hour of 
From Aug. 26, to Sabbath evening three month's campaign. • The day's sec- tis judgment is conic "—and in view of 
;he 31st, my work was in Pittsfield and vices, especially at the water-side, were the startling 'fact, to 'call upon men to 
3arnstead Center, N. H. Gave six 'dis- marked by deep solemnity. Availint 'Fear God, and give glory to him." At 
courses in the former village to small as- themselves of railroad convenience, of cur Board-meeting yesterday, the 7th 
4emblies excepting the last, when the the Old Colony Company who now run rest, he was present and gave his -report, 
Ihapel was pretty well filled and deep se- their cars from Boston to this point vhen it appeared that his receipts for the 
iousness visible as the meeting progress- several friends were present from Well line weeks of labor since the meeting at 
id. In the day time, on Sabbath, spoke fleet, some fourteen miles above, am :amp Hebron fell short of the expenses 
twice to the people of the latter place. 
while being blesSed, were made a bless ome seventy-five dollars. Thirty-seven 
The fixed attention given the preacher ing to others. Of ministerial labors ply lollans of this amount were immediately 
rather encouraged the hope that a few forth in this busy seaport, within six- ledged and paid to him from five breth-
tt least might receive permanent benefit. teen years, to instruct and warn the un• en, indicating their love for the truth, 
by the word of truth. This may have saved, as well as to comfort the religious and sense of responsibility to make it 
been the case. So far however as proof portion of its people respecting the ap- !:nown to the world. Now the question 
of this was expressed in the collection pearing of our Lord, there is some sub- 'rises, Are there not many of the readers 
for the weary laborer at the close,—three stantial fruit I think discoverable. Manx tf the Herald who will esteem it a ltixu-
loilars and eighty-five cents,—one could who still cleave to their respective church- ry to help make up the balance of this 
not be sanguine. Would'it not be pleas- es, are quite ready at times to confess ;um, and continue their gifts to aid in ex-
'ng to Him, who. is " Head over all that we have the truth, while there an rending the cryr---" Behold lie cometh "—
things, for the congregation which is his others not bound by such connections, ty our Missionary all over New England, 
body" to, have pastorless churches, that who, with perhaps of those members, ii he States, and Canada ? We want him. 
are praying for a supply, connect with they could receive through our preacher; o go forth untrammeled as to means to 
their prayers a higher appreciation of in successive efforts, a little more en- 'rocure places in which to sound the 
r, he just claims of approved evangeliAts, couragement, with a. prospective supply, ,larm, on- to care for the necessities of his 
who try to assist them in their destitu- would probably under the Divine bless 'amily. The judgment is now hard upon 
lion ? 
This suggestion is doubtless ing be ready to unite together in Churcl is, or else we have been, and are, as a 
suited to various places. (The special capacity. With others, I am impresses meople, following an ignis fatuus. This 
attention of our mission supporters, and by the thought, that if our pastors coub we do not allow for a•momerrt. If then, 
all others, is directed to the financial or would act more in the character 
,s our good Deacon Knowles said yester- 
tccount, given in connection with this missionaries, and press the battle for : lay, Noah had a judgment message to 
report.) 
while a little stronger in such places, meliyer to his generation, irrespective of 
In regard to particular circumstances doubt very signal results in the salva osults, and we have the same for ours, 
and influences among and outside of our tion of sinners would be achieved, an- 
-,'nen it is no time for us to stop to calcu-
people in Pittsfield and vicinity, which churches would arise as a natural conse ate too closely about results any more 
may in a measure account for the low quence. In this way our older churche 
han it was for him. In other words, we- 
state of religious interest, I do not judge and many isolated, widely scattered bretl 
;-ant a man to go and warn the world of 
it for the general good to specify. We I ren, would feel newly inspired in thei 
he coming day of God and perdition of 
are however justified in the remark that experience. Our time for right action tngodly inen, without feeling that he 
no profession of Christian faith will is swiftly drawing to a close ! Blesses rust beg for means to support his mis- 
avail any one in the day of Christ's rev- Master, inspire us all with thine own 
ion, or stop to raise up churches for 
elation, whose heart shall be destitute of heart of love, and consuming zeal ! 
which we have no men to send as pas- 
his 
love, and whose life therefore, 
In Truro, the next town above, we had. ors. Let us furnish him_ with means to 
wanting the cheerful deeds and sacrifices, formerly, and for several years, a churc] 
-o and hire halls, where the churches are 
shall be found yielding no proper of about thirty members. By means o 
not opened for him, and "sound an 
fruits of it. I trust the angel reapers removals to other parts of the emu. 
larm " that all the inhabitants of the 
will gather some from that section, of try, deaths, and the love of some wax and (may) tremble : for the day of the 
this class. 
ing cold, the light of this candlestick i 
Cord cometh, FOR IT IS NIGH AT HAND." 
Wednesday, Sept. 3d, left home with nearly gone. The chapel, which wa 't is surely "HIGH TIME to awake out 
no arrangements for future Sabbaths, situated on one of the barren hills, corn-. of sleep, for the night is FAR SPENT, and 
159 
Parried. 
DEAN-G-ALLAGHER.-In this city, the 
7th inst., b Rev. C. Cunningham, Mr. 
Robert E. Dean to Miss Bridget A. Gal-
lagher, both of Boston. 
REED-RILEY.-At North Attleboro' 
Mass., Sept. 10th, by Rev. H. Canfield, 
Mr. Athur W. Reed and Miss Susie J. 
Riley, both of North Attleboro'. 
BRAINARD-CROSSLEY.-By the same 
Oct. 10th, Mr. William C. Brainard and 
Mims--firaitr-Orossiey,- -be*11--crf---North At-
tleboro'. 
tiointso gtpartment. 
Providence permitting I will preach 
in Newburyport the last two Sundays in 
October-the 19th. and 26th. 
J. M. ORROCK. 
 
NOTICE. 
4 Dear Bro. Orrock :-Yesterday was 
one among the many days which the 
Lord has crowned with abundant evi-
dence of his loving kindness. At the 
close of our usual afternoon service at 
Mechauisburg, we went to the creek, near-
ly three Miles distant, where we adminis-
tered the holy ordinance of baptism to 
three young persons who, we think have 
been led to exercise a living faith in our 
Lord Jesus.Christ. They had all been 
sprinkled not long since, but having their 
minds awakened on the subject of Chris-
tian baptism-its nature, signification, 
&c., they searched diligently the Scrip-
tures, accepted them as a guide, and the 
consequence was they were very soon 
convinced of the fact that they had nev-
er been baptized, and that duty called 
theM to attend to it at once. It was truly 
good to behold therti after they came 
forth from the liquid semblance of a 
tomb. They possessed a blessed conscious-
ness of having followed Jesus ; they had 
been "planted in the likeness of his death" 
and burial; raised to walk in newness of 
life, and unbounded joy they could 
look ferw' d to bless ,d xperience in 
the morning .4 the re-tyrection, when 
they that are Christ's shall come forth 
in his likeness. What a rebuke the ad-
vocates of sprinkling (that hollow mock-
Ory which they term baptism) would 
have received could they have looked 
upon the expression of deep satisfact ion 
and unmingled joy which rested upon 
their features. I can look for nothing 
more than its counterpart if I am per-
mitted to behold them when with David 
they stand in the kingdom of God fully 
" satisfied," clothed in the complete like-
ness of the blessed Saviour. I suppose 
that I felt some like Peter on the Holy 
Mount. I wanted to rear up something 
commemorative of the occasion to the 
_glOry of God ; but his praise was on 
many tongues--c - his love filled many 
hearts, and we lingered-unwilling to 
leave the spot where like Jacob at Peni-
el we had been permitted to enjoy an 
extraordinary blessing. A dear sister 
started 
" Oh, how I love Jesus," 
in which many voices joined, not 4,nly 
with-the Spirit but with the understand-
ing also. We were glad to meet at the 
water-side Bro. and Sister J. A. Heagy, 
with Father and Mother Heagy, of Kings-
ton, and others of like precious faith. 
May • the recollection of that hour go 
with us during life, and may it prove 
wondrous incentive, stimulating the mind, 
energizing the soul and drawing us near 
-very near to God. Those young be-
lievers have been added to •the 'church 
in Mechanicsburg. May they be kept 
by the power of God from the evils that 
are in the world, be bright and shining 
lights as they journey through it, and in 
the " Sweet by-and-by " of which we love 
to sing, may they enter into eternal joy 
and glory in the .kingdom of our God. 
Yours, &c., A. L. BRAND. 
Shhtemanstown, Pa., Oct. 6th. 
NOTES TO CORRESPONDENTS. 
A. W. BROWN.-Yes, and due credit 
was given ; the date opposite his name 
OH our book being changed from Sept. 
1, 1872 to sept. 1873. 
ALONZO PHELPS.-It is now sent ; the 
order was laid aside and overlooked which 
we; regret. 
D. T. TAYLOR.-We are copying from' 
an 'extra number of the London Chris-
tian,. 
The papers desired are mailed. 
(4. E. B. WHEELER.-Where do we 
no* send your paper ? 
T. A. GODFREY.-The address is 
changed and missing numbers sent. 
OUR CORRESPONDENTS, agents, and all 
who write us, will please observe the fol-
loWing :- 
In giving the name of a subscriber, 
give 'us the Town, County and State, 
with it ; and also say whether it is a new 
or an old subscriber. Also in changing 
the address of a subscriber, BE SURE and 
give us the name of the place where the 
paper is now sent. 
Write all names of individuals and 
places plainly. 
Carelessness in this di-
rection causes us much trouble. 
Send the name of the party to 
whom the paper is sent. . Don't send us 
the husband's name when the paper is 
sent to the wife. 
- 
Give us the business part of your 
letter 'distinctly, in as few words as pos-
sible, at its beginning-other matters af-
terwards. 
In observing the foregoing, many mis- 
takes will be avoided. AGT. 
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amount sent. Subscribers who do not 
find the proper credit given on their pa-
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vtierls. J. Coolidge 2.00 ; Phebe Hoyt ; 
y 
Merkel 2.00 ; H. P. Cutter ; A Mc-
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Bride ; H. L. Washburn ; L. Osier 25.00 ; 
C. H. Wyer ; S. E. Gibson 1.10 ; Dr. 
Allen Tillinghast 4.00 ; Chester Royce 
5.00 ; S. Palmer 2.00 ; Alonzo Phelps 
1.001; Rev. L. Thompson 2.00 ' 
• 
Wm. 
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Levi Dudley 1.50 (for book bought of 
Elder West) ; Alina Whiting ; E. B. 
Goodhart 2.00 ; C. W. Beckwith 8.00 ; 
Geo. P. Arnold 5.00 ; Warren and E. 
Boardman 2.00 ; Richard Birks 6.30 ; 
Rev. J. D. Rossier 2.00 • S. F. Grady 
2.00 ; J. W. Horton ; 'WM. L. Rimes 
2.00 (thanks for invitation, but do not 
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5.00 ; D. Williams ; VV. B. Armstrong ; 
Susan B. Winchester 2.00 ; Mrs. G. W. 
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Miller 4.90 ; Rev. C. J. Jones Loo ; Jo‘ 
siab Lucas 1.25, 
THE ADVENT HERALD, OCTOBER 15, 1873. 
L 
with Gloria Patri is scarcely ever repeated 
the after the hymn." 
where pictures are copied in mosaic. less armory of subtle logic and tran 
This process makes a picture almost ever- scendental metaphysics, and their sharp 
lasting. Roman mosaic is formed of tiny wits and acuminated intellects, to wield 
bits of opaque colored glass of various them with effect, we may anticipate re-
shades, amounting, it is said, to the al- sults of a deadly kind, compared with 
most incredible number of 30,000 differ- which, in number and extent, the havoc, 
ent and distinct shades, so arranged as confusion, and corruption produced by 
to form a picture perfect in every detail the Celsuses, the Tryphos, and other en-
-in light, shadow, shade and color. It venomed early adversaries of the Chris-
corresponds, in some measure, to the pie- tian faith, are no more fit to be paral-
tures formed in Berlin wool. The vari- leled than the Calton Hill with Mont 
ous pieces of colored glass are placed in Blanc, or the tiny Forth with the mighty 
their pre-arranged order on a table cover- Fanges of India, or the still mightier 
ed with a sort of cement, and when this Yang-tse-kiang of China. Here, then, 
tedious process is over, for there are is a battle-field of vast dimensions, and 
many thousand pieces in one picture- war on a gigantic scale, fairly confront-
the surface of this picture is then smooth- ing us, by the appointment of Him 
ed and polished. The portraits of all the whom we all acknowledge as our Sover-
Popes who 'have occupied the See of eign Lord and King-a war in. whose 
Rome from St. Peter to Pius IX., made successes and ultimate triumphs we may 
for that magnificent Basilica of St. Paul's all earn lasting renown, and gain laurels 
beyond the Walls, come from this manu- worthy of their indomitable prowess. 
factory of the Vatican. It is said that 
each portrait-a bust-takes over a year 
to finish. This manufactory is the most 
celebrated in the world, and the pictures 
copied in it are the grandest works of 
the greatest masters. At present a large 
picture, designed by Raphael to be wov-
en into tapestry in the looms of Arras, 
representing the Conversion of St. Paul, 
is to be copied in this ever-enduring ma-
terial.-Pilot. 
fect, ! We have, consequently, in a great 
measure; turned aside from the vast field 
of, the world ; we have reared our sep- 
arate castles and towers of offence and 
defence ; established our own distinctive 
causes and ends-and, instead of the one 
glorious standard and banner for our 
combined forces, conspicuously exhibit-
ing the significant words, "Unite and 
conquer," under the leadership of the 
Captain of our salvation-we have set 
up a thousand petty standards and flags, 
each with the fatal words, " Divide and 
conquer "-which can only mean divide 
and conquer in the service of him who 
is the prince of darkness, Apollyon, the 
Destroyer-lord and monarch of the 
bottomless abyss ! 
(To be continued.) 
neous compounds ever and anon result 
from the blending of their own systems 
with ours. Even the once barbarous 
but now partially educated Zulu of 
South Africa has got the credit, by his 
astute questions, of converting an Eng-
lish bishop into an unbeliever in Bible 
inspiration and Bible-revealed truth ; 
while his writings have been inoculating, 
with the rank poison of infidelity, not 
only the colonists of Natal, but many 
within these British Isles, and many, 
many more of the educated English-
speaking natives of India and other 
lands. And thus has it come to pass 
that the world, with the whole of which 
we have to do, and it with us whether 
we will or no, has been brought into a 
state of crisis- 
AN (ECUMENICAL OR WORLD-WIDE CRISIS- 
APPOINTMENTS. 
Boston, Oct. 8, 1873. 
LETTER FROM ELDER BRAND. 
MIDNIGHT meetings are being held in 
tents in the suburbs of London with 
great success. The London Christian 
say4 that the work of this movement is 
progressing, and requires still further 
the aid and sympathy of the Christian 
public to carry on its mission. 
SIGNIFICANT.-Duke de Broglie, at a 
banquet recently given in his honor de-
clared emphatically that a revival of 
clerical denomination in France was im-
possible. 
THE EVANGELICAL ALLIANCE.--The 
meetings of the Christian Congress, as 
the conference of the Evangelical Alli-
ance has been appropriately called, con-
tinues with increasing interest in New 
York. The discussions and addresses 
have been of great interest, and it is 
generally admitted that the Congress is 
the most successful the Alliance has held. 
We notice that there is a tendency in 
some quarters to criticise the tone as-
sumed by some of the speakers in regard 
to Catholicism. This may all be true, 
but it is worth while to note these two 
things-First, that the utterances criti-
cised are few in number and unendorsed 
by the Alliance ; second, that they come 
from the representatives of those coun-
tries where Protestantism wages a strug-
gle for bare existence, and Catholicism 
is its relentless and unyielding foe. In 
those countries antagonism to the Papa-
cy means defence of religious freedom,-
and the position of Protestantism is not 
one of aggression, but merely of resist-
ance and defence. It is hardly reason-
able to expect that men who are fresh 
from such contests should be able to di-
vest themselves, at once and altogether 
of the feeling engendered by them. The 
general tone of the Alliance has been to 
the last degree friendly and conciliatory ; 
points of dispute have been carefully 
avoided ; and the purpose has been sin-
cere and persistent to promote Christian 
unity, and strengthen the ends of broth-
erhood. 
Eld. F. Gunner, having removed his 
family to 396 Essex Street, Salem, Mass., 
proposes to winter there, and supply pul-
pit vacancies in any and every direction, 
as the calls may come, and our gracious 
God may grant him health, strength, 
and opportunity. 
UNIFORM TIME.-The National Ob-
servatory at, Washington is now making 
arrangements with the Western ITnion 
Telegraph Company, whereby the exact 
time shown by the clock at the observa-
tory shall be indicated on chronometers 
placed in all the principal cities of the 
country. 
The Independent's remedy against fu-
ture panics is, among other things, " less 
jewelry, less fine broadcloth, fewer fast 
yachts, fewer costly marble fronts, fewer 
extravagant clubs, and less useless non-
sense generally. 
MISSISQUOI CIRCUIT QUARTERLY 
MEETING. 
THE INDIAN ARCHIPELAGO-AFRICA. 
And what shall I say of the mighty 
islands of the Indian Archipelago ? 
Why, one of them, Java, we know for 
certain contains twelve millions of hu-
man beings, being more than ten times 
the number in all the clusters of now 
partially or wholly Christianized islands 
which are strewn, like so many gardens 
of the Hesperides, over the bosom of 
the vast Pacific ; and yet in that splen- 
The yellow fever continues its fearful did and populous island there is but one 
ravages at Shreveport, and the city is a poor old moribund Dutch mission, while 
scene of the saddest desolation-the dead in the whole magnificent group, which 
left without 'burial, and the sick without together would of themselves make a 
the necessary medical care. 
large continent, there is, so far as we 
know, only one other small mission in a 
state of infancy. Again, then, what a 
vast and all but unbroken field of hea-
thenism have we here before us challeng-
ing our attention and regard ! 
And what of poor, benighted, down-
trodden Africa, with its at least fifty 
millions ? Millions, for the most part, 
the helpless prey of horrid barbarity or 
downright savagism ! Millions, too, the 
ardent votaries and victims of a sense-
less and sanguinary system of Fetishim, 
which leads them to believe they can dis-
cern supernatural power in a worthless 
bead or bone, or piece of .rotten wood ; 
and which, on the death of any chief, 
j
, istellantouo. demands the cruel sacrifice of scores or 
hundreds, and in the case of every great 
chief, of thousands, of innocents. And 
yet, for their reclaniation to the habits 
of civilized life, and the profession of a 
purer faith, there are only some mere 
(Continued.) 
handfuls of missionaries in a few isolated 
INDIA AND CHINA. spots along its western and southern 
shores. Again, what a prodigious work 
has the Church of ChriSt still before it 
here ! And what tremendous penalties 
under the retributive judgments of a 
righteous Providence may the professed 
members of all Christian Churches have 
yet to pay for the countless inflicted 
wrongs of a thousand years ! 
Here, then, in addition to the almost 
countless host of evils with which we 
have to contend at home, we have a still 
greater host of malignances of all kinds 
to contend with abroad-in many in-
stances, the mountain-like accumulations 
of three thousand years ! 
Let no one, in the hateful spirit of the 
first murderer, attempt to evade all obli-
gations with regard to these, by pro-
fanely asking, What of 'all this ? What 
are these lands and these inhabitants 
to us ? 
ARE WE OUR BRETHREN'S KEEPERS ? 
The Lord willing, there will be a quar-
terly meeting held at Fordice Corners, 
commencing Friday evening Oct. 25th, 
to continue over the following Lord's 
day. Will Ilro. Kinney and other min-
istering brethren arrange to attend ? A 
cordial invitation is extended to all to 
come and enjoy the services with us. 
There will be a business session on 
Saturday P. M. Important subjects 
will be considered, and a full attendance 
of the Official board is desired. 
By order, JOHN GILBRETH, Sec'y. 
THE PRESENT CRISIS OF THE CHRIS-
TIAN CHURCH. 
such as it has never been in before, since 
Christianity itself was born in the man-
ger-cradle of Bethlehem. 
In different ages, indeed, as we have 
seen, and in different lands, particular 
forms of error as regards the true faith 
and of sin in the practical conduct-in 
other words, particular forms of scepti- 
cism and heresy, unbelief and moral 
delinquency, or palpable departures from 
God, and God's revealed truth and holy 
law-may have been as rife and as in-
tensely exemplified as any of the cor-
responding forms are now. But the dis-
tinguishing characteristic of the present 
age is universality-universality both as 
regards the kinds• of pestilent error and 
vice, and the extent of their prevalence 
-all old ones being revived, or revived 
under new Protean shapes and phases, 
wholly new ones being added, with end-
less combinations and recombinations of 
old and new together, presenting some-
thing like infinitude as to the diversified 
modes and forms of hatred, malice, and 
outrage against the Lord and his Anoint-
ed : exhibiting also a circulation of them 
everywhere, and that, too, among all 
classes and ranks, races and tribes, and 
professions of men, over the entire 
habitable parts of earth-a circulation 
as liberal and free as that of the circum-
ambient air. 
THE GREAT PRACTICAL QUESTION. 
Now the question-the grand practi-
cal question-that forces itself upon us 
all, whether we like it or not, as in the 
sight of the heart-searching God, is this 
-What have we done, in our individual 
capacity, as professing members of the 
body of Christ ? and what have we done 
in our collective capacity as a corporate 
organized church of Christ, our living 
Head and King ? What have we ever 
done, in our individual and collective ca-
pacity, to stem, or arrest, or hurl back 
the prodigious rush and torrent of the 
mighty flood of error, and unbelief, and 
abounding wickednesswhich is already 
desolating our fairest and most fertile 
plains, already rising above the lesser 
hills, and threatening ere long to over-
top the loftiest summit of our Christian 
Ararat, where for ages the ark of the 
everlasting covenant has in security rest-
ed, and thus submerge the whole realm 
of 'settled order and true godliness, so-
cial and moral worth, in every region 
under heaven ? Flood, I say, not in the 
ordinary sense of a single flood, rolling 
impetuously down a doomed vale, and 
carrying all before it into the ocean ! 
No ! but a flood or general deluge, after 
the type of that of Noah, when the 
fountains of the great deep were every-
where broken up, and the windows of 
heaven everywhere opened to supply the 
waters of a universal inundation. For 
now it looks as if the fountains of«the 
great deep, of a previously underlying 
scepticism and unbelief, disaffection and 
revolt against all authority, human and 
divine, had been violently broken up, 
and the windows of the upper heaven of 
literary, scientific, and aristocratic' socie-
ty, surcharged with the seeds and germs 
of previously-undeveloped atheisr as and 
antitheisms, pantheisms and material-
isms, had been violently thrown open ! 
Yea, more, when we' note the vastness 
and extent of the tumult and the tur-
moil, the virulence and the venom, of 
the almost countless exasperated agen-
cies at work, it really looks as if the lib-
eralism or mock charity of the present 
age, and the vaunted superiority of its 
intelligence, might only serve, in new, 
unwonted, and more terrible forms, to 
concentrate on this last, and greatest, 
and most desperate of struggles, all 
the diabolical subtleties and ingenui-
ties, and energies which character-
ized the antediluvian apostasy, the 
Egyptian bondage, the Babylonish cap-
tivities, and the fierce and fiery antago-
nisms alike of the Pagan, the Moham-
medan, and the Papal Antichrists ; or, 
further still, it looks as if the wondrous 
bridge, conceived by the Miltonic muse 
in " Paradise Lost," had been really con-
structed across the surging, chaotic abyss 
between earth and hell gates, and as if 
myriads of fiends were everlastingly 
passing arid repassing from their Palace 
of Pandemonium to hold their carnival 
of revelry and riot in gleesomely riding 
over the floods which promise a speedy 
and triumphant consummation of the 
infernal stratagems and wiles so' perse-
veringly and successfully plied by Satan 
and his confederate hosts for six thou-
sand years. 
What, then, I must again repeat it, in 
the face of all the multitudinous and gi-
gantic forces with which we have to con-
tend at home, and the stupendous, and 
hitherto, to a great extent, unassailed 
and unbroken hostile systems of the Pa-
pal and Greek churches, Mohammedan-
ism, Brahminism, Confucianism, Taoism, 
Buddhism, and Fetishism, with endless 
nondescript minor systems with which 
we have to contend abroad, have any or 
all of us, individually or collectively, 
done to meet the demands of so tremen-
dous a crisis in the destinies of the world 
THE BROOKLYN SCHOOL MEETING.-
The Academy of Music in Brooklyn was 
filled in every part by citizens assembled 
to protest against any aggression upon 
the public school system, and to take 
measures to secure its permanency. A 
number of clergymen and local repre-
sentatives of the Republican party were 
on the stage. The principal speaker in an 
address said : " We demand high schools 
in Brooklyn, so that Protestant. children 
need not be compelled to complete their 
education in Roman Catholic academies 
and colleges. We demand a Normal 
school, more school libraries, and the 
Bible in the public schools. There should 
be no sectari an appropriations, and all 
religious and charitable institutions 
shOuld be placed on a like footing' with 
other property owners, subject to assess-
ment and tax.". . 
The Catholics in France seem to have 
gone a step too far in their zeal for the 
liberation of the Pope. Their recent 
manifesto, as embodied in the late letter 
from the head of the See of Paris warn-
ing Victor Emmanuel to leave Rome, has 
resulted in a flurry at both capitals-
Paris and Rome. At a session of the 
Permanent Committee, details of which 
have just come to hand, the Duke de 
Broglie was fain Co disavow the letter of 
the angry prelate, and it is reported to 
have created such uneasiness in Rome 
that it will be discussed at the next meet-
ing of the Italian ministry.-Evening 
Post. 
the day is AT HAND," and start out 
renewed zeal and courage to " sound 
awful warning, to rescue souls from 
hell.!" Beloved, if you cannot go abroad 
yourselVes to warn men to " flee from 
the wrath to come," do it at home, and 
'then help all you can-to aid our brother 
who is in the field: We ought to raise a 
fund sufficient to sustain six men in trav-
eling everywhere to proclaim in the ears 
of a sleepy .church and careless world 
the cry-" Behold the Bridegroom com-
eth : go ye out to meet him." 
Some of our brethren have actually 
"fallen asleep" respecting the great truth 
which has made us a distinctive people. 
They never attend our public gatherings 
to be aroused to duty, they seldom give 
any thing to aid in extending the truth 
over the .land, and they are allowing 
themselves to remain as blanks, if not 
blots, upon our Captain's escutcheon. 
Some have lost their identity and value 
to this great cause in allowing themselves 
to be buried up in some of the great. de-
nominations of the day. Others are spend-
ing their time, strength and money, in 
hobby-riding, or spreading pernicious, or, 
at least, questionable doctrines, and so 
men are being left unwarned of the com-
ing hastening day of doom. What a 
ause for weeping May 'God "'preserve 
alive his work in the midst" of these ter-
rible times, is my prayer, and help us all 
so to act as to be " free from the blood of 
all men " in the day of account. 
"Now.to the work of God awake : 
The Master never sleeps, 
But holds thy deeds in full survey : 
His hand the record keeps." 
C. CUNNINGHAM. 
and universal man ? Why, if the plain 
truth must be told, or being told, can be 
endured, instead of Done, done, done, 
Echo answers, and continues still to an-
swer, What, what, what? 
Something, 
indeed, some small thing we may all have 
done or attempted to do, to save appear-
ances, like the Jews-the self-blinded, 
self-deluded Jews of old-who, in spite 
of the express precepts of the law, 
brought the blind, the lame, the diseased 
of their flocks and herds-in short, the 
utterly worthless and useless-to the al-
tar of sacrifice, as if thereby they could 
deceive or satisfy the thrice holy omnis- 
cient Jehovah, who, in righteous indig-
nation, commissioned his ambassador- to 
denounce the impious frud, robbery, and 
hypocrisy with the blast of a withering 
malediction. And if another Malachi, 
with a divine commission, were to rise up 
amongst us, have we not good reasdn to 
fear lest he would come clown upon us, 
and cause our ears to tingle, and our 
very flesh to creep and shiver, beneath 
the blast of another seething curse ? 
What little we may have' done, or at- 
tempted to do, is so utterly insignificant 
in itself ; so utterly disproportioned to 
what we might and ought to have done ; 
so absolutely incommensurate 
-With -the 
imperative requirements of the mighty 
crisis, that it really locks like adding in-
sult and mockery to our robbery of God. 
For what do our unduly inflated and 
loudly-trumpeted doings after all amount 
to ? Why, to my own mind-and I so 
put it in all humility, as I wish to com-
mit no one but myself-desiring that the 
whole scathe and scorn of so apparently 
ungenerous and unpalatable a remark 
may fall exclusively on my own 'devoted 
head-to my own mind's eye, then, after 
years of close observation in the four 
quarters of the globe, and much thought 
bestowed on the subject, the whole of 
our doings, individual and collective, in 
the aggregate and in the face of the 
most tremendous crisis in the whole 
range of the world's eventful history-
really looks nothing wiser, nothing bet-
ter, nothing more adequate, than would 
be the foolish and insane attempt at 
erecting a puny rampart of straw to ar-
rest the progress and ravage of a blazing 
conflagration,• or holding up a frail and 
brittle reed to break the force of a rag-
ing hurricane ; or putting down a few 
cartfuls of loose sand to roll back the 
waters of Niagara, or any other thun-
dering. cataract ! 
This, I admit, is strong language, but 
not a whit too strong to portray the 
force of my own deliberate convictions 
on the subject. True, -it is figurative-
some may say highly figurative-but 
though figurative, it is intended to rep-
resent an actual reality. And let rid one 
presume or dare to set it aside as an ex-
aggeration or mere Oriental hyperbole, 
who is not prepared to stand up, in pres-
enee of this great assembly, and declare 
that he has carefully and repeatedly con-
templated the subject in all its bearings, 
and brought to bear upon it the same 
amount of fixed attention and concen-
trated mer tal energy which the wise pro- 
BY REV. 'DR. DUFF OF SCOTLAND. 
ACKNOWLEDGMENT. 
, 
Received for Star of Hope Mission, 
of J. Pearce of Brentford, P. 0., Cana-
da, through Eld. W. H. Swartz, *5.00. 
From Harry Ashley, of New Haven, 
Vt., through Advent Herald office, *2.00. 
ANNA E. Sal ITH, 
229 South 5th Avenue, New York City. 
Same place as formerly, but the name 
of street' and the number are changed. 
DONATIONS. 
As to the great East-including India 
and China, containing between them 
about one-half of the whole world's in-
habitants-what shall I, what can I say? 
Why, were I to speak from earliest 
morn to dewy eve, it would not be pos-
sible to say what well might be said on 
so perfectly encycloptedic a subject. I 
can only, therefore, bestow upon it the 
most cursory glance. While thanking 
God for so many individual conversions 
in both of these regions of ancient civ-
ilization-conversions in number quite 
proportional to the utterly incommensu-
rate means employed-what are they 
among so many ? Why, really, they 
are so comparatively few, so insignifi-
cant, as almost sorrowfully to remind 
one of Robert Hall's remark, respecting 
the solitary willow-tree somewhere in 
the neighborhood of Cambridge, that it 
" looked like Nature hanging out it flag 
or signal of distress." As to the stu-
pendous systems which, for two or three 
thousand years, have crushed and ground 
down into the dust the hundreds of 
millions of these mighty peoples, among 
whom flourished schools of recondite 
philosophy, when our forefathers were 
little else than painted, naked savages in 
the woods-the Brahminism of India, 
with its pantheisms, polytheisms, athe-
isms, materialisms, and idealisms ; the 
patriarchal Confucianism, or practical 
atheism, the Taoism, or fantastic ration-
alism, the Buddhism, or Nihilism, or 
annihilationism of China, with the 
countless hideous superstitions and idol-
atries which are closely interwoven and 
inextricably interblended with them all 
-why, all the Churches in Christendom, 
alike European and American, with all 
their miserable, puny, and dispropoition-
ate efforts, have done little more than 
touch at a few points of the outer rim 
of their huge circumference, leaving 
their great hearts, beating and throbbing 
so powerfully at the centre, almost en-
tirely unaffected ! What a prodigious 
work, then, has the evangelical Church 
of Christ still before it in these vast 
realms of almost unbroken heathenism ! 
Nor does this view of the case, fearful 
though it be, represent more than half 
the difficulty of the tremendous warfare 
that is yet before us, in the attempt to 
subjugate to the Cross these more than 
demoralized and multitudinous masses. 
Hitherto the aggressive inroads upon 
them have been igo futile and so feeble, 
or, for the most part, so limited to the 
poor, despised, uninfluential classes, that 
the heads of society, the leaders and 
formers of public opinion, the dictators 
in all matters of religious faith and 
worship, have, generally speaking, not 
reckoned it worth their while to take 
any special notice of the movement. 
Rather they have coolly stood by and 
looked at the whole with contemptuous 
indifference. But let us be very sure 
that, when the warfare thickens and the 
battle waxes hot, and the very founda-
tions of the proud citadels of their an-
cestral and hereditary faith-with which 
all their highest worldly interests, per-
sonal, domestic, and social, are insepara-
bly blended-are seriously felt to be not 
only shaken, but in imminent danger of 
being wholly overturned-thousands and 
tens of thousands will arise, and with 
the fire and determination of ancient 
TO THE A. M. ASSOCIATION. 
Mrs. Z. Reynolds 
*3.00 
-aftP 
B OKS, TRACTS. &C., SENT 
During t e week ending Wednesday, Oct. 16th 
By ail.-H. Ashley, Mrs. L. E. Free-
man, I. J. McKusick, Ella Reidy, John 
Dons 
poser of some grand mercantile adven-
ture is sure to devote to his projected. 
 
enterprise ; or a'skillful and master strat-
egist is sure to bring to bear on his com-
plicated plan for the invasion of a 
mighty military empire ! Fearlessly do I 
then ask, Is there any one such here 
present this day ?-one who can stand 
up and honestly declare that he has de-
voted not only hours, but days, or por-
tions of days, months, and years, intent-
ly, gravely, and meditatively to attempt 
to survey and vividly realize the rugged 
nature and magnitude of the field before, 
us-the number and strength of the 
mighty hosts in fierce battle array against 
us-with their standards upraised-their 
flags unfurled-and all emblazoned with 
the decisive words, " Victory or death " ? 
Or to put the same question substantially 
in another form-Have we-we, the 
members, not only of the Free Church, 
but of all evangelical churches-have we, 
in view of all that' has now been ad-
vanced, and in order to prove that we 
have strenuously endeavored to realize 
the magnitude of the field before us, 
and the multitude and strength, the 
equipment and armor, of the forces ar-
rayed against us-have we, like wise 
men, loyal and true to our Sovereign 
Lord and King, whom we profess to wor-
ship, adore, and obey-have we, dismiss-
ing all petty private views and selfish 
aims, nobly combined our separate and 
scattered forces, intelhgently prepared; 
and resolutely made up our minds for a 
desperate, world-wide struggle, with our 
common standard-the standard of the 
great Messiah, Prince of all the kings of 
the earth, and Head of all the principal-
ities, powers, and dominions of the in-
visible world-valorously upreared, and 
from its skyward summits our common 
banner waving, emblazoned with the 
words, 
" UNITE AND CONQUER ! " 
Alas, alas ! that all this imagining of 
what might and ought to be should seem 
to be little else than the language of 
bitter irony or contemptuous derision. 
Instead of any such wise combination 
and loyally intended effort, what have 
we all-that is, all of us, members of 
the several evangelic churches of Chris-
tendom-actually done ? Done ! Why, 
we have flung wisdom and loyalty, good 
sense and right feeling, to the winds of 
heaven and the billows of the deep ! 
We have, basely or stupidly, listened to 
and entertained the cunning suggestions 
of the foul tempter-the implacable foe 
of Messiah the Prince, as well as of our 
own souls, and the souls of hundreds of 
millions besides-listened, I say, as sure-
ly as our grandparent listened to his 
glozing lies in the form of the subtle 
serpent that haunted the bowers of 
Eden, and with the same disastrous ef: 
4••••••411 
(grunt Ontellinturt. 
RELIGIOUS SUMMARY. 
Geneva, as a city, appears to have se-
ceded from the Catholic Church. The 
Grand Council has formally passed the 
bill for the organization of Catholic wor-
ship, and the three cures will hencefor-
ward be elected by the people, will take 
the oath to the constitution, and will be 
suspended for four years if they break 
it. As no bishop will recognize cures so 
elected, and the pope will excommuni-
cate them, this is equivalent to a suspen-
sion of the Catholic Church in Geneva 
till the quarrel is healed. 
CHURCH MUSIC IN GREAT BRITAIN.-A 
correspondent of the "Standard of the 
Cross " writes : L0 The music everywhere 
is essentially congregatiOnal. There are 
choirs, but they do as they should-lead 
the congregation. Seldom. is the tune 
played over by the Organist before sing-
ing. There are never any interludes. 
The consequence is a hymn of eight 
verses is often sung, and it is Sung in 
less time than one of three with us. The 
EIGHT weeks of " Peter's pence " sub-
scription give a total of over 71,000,000 
francs, or about $15,000,000 currency. 
Pretty good for the venerable inhabi-
tant of the Vatican ! 
It will not be denied that there has 
been an absolute increase in Roma nism 
in this country. But this has come part-
ly by the natural increase in the Ronaish 
population, but chiefly by immigration. 
There has been by no means a relative 
increase. 
The relative progress in New York 
city will furnish a criterion of judgment 
for the whole country, which, to say the 
least, will be fair to the Roman Catholic 
side of the question. The " Christian 
Intelligencer" gives the following sta-
tistics : "InNew York city there were 
in 1830, 99 Protestant churches to 200,-
000 Protestant population and four I tom-
ish churches. In 1870 there were 380 
Protestant churches to 600,000 Protest-
ant population, and 41 Romish to the 
whole papal population of the city. In 
addition to the regularly organized 
churches, there art now 140 Protestant 
missions in this city, 45 of which have 
commodious buildings and all the con-
veniences and ordinances of public wor-
ship." 
Twenty Enfield Shakers have astonish-
ed everybody in the vicinity by taking 
season tickets to the lecture course at 
Lebanon, this Winter. 
NEWS ITEMS. 
From an official document just issued, 
it appears that, last year, there were at 
large, in the English metropolis, 1683 
known thieves. There were 13,699 re-
ported crimes committed, and 4777 per-
sons apprehended. 
The scarcity of animal food in London 
has led to the adoption of one rather cu-
rious means of increasing the supply. A 
number of rabbit establishments have 
been started in different parts of Lon-
don, and are said to be paying very well. 
At these places rabbits are being bred in 
large numbers, and if 'they increase at 
their present rate they will make an ap-
preciable addition to the food of London. 
MOSAIC MANUFACTORY.-Within the 
I Vatican Palace there is a manufactory 
Yes, in an important sense we are. 
From theni all, by their necessities, 
wants, and woes, the Macedonian cry is 
constantly sounding in our ears :- 
" Hark ! what mean these lamentations, 
. Rolling sadly through the sky ? 
Tis the cry of heathen nations-
' Come and help us, ere we die.' " 
But far above and beyond the obligation 
which springs from even such a universal 
cry for help as this, is the command of 
Him whom we all acknowledge to be 
our Divine Head and King, the imperial 
command, " Go ye into all the world, 
and preach the gospel to every creature." 
So that by positive Divine command we 
have to do with all the world, and with 
every creature in it. For eighteen hun-
dred years has this command been ring-
ing in the ears of the Christian Church. 
Our own forefathers almost wholly neg-
lected it. We have never, in the true 
Daniel-like spirit, confessed or deplored 
their total, or all but total, neglect ; and 
so have made ourselves to be heirs to 
the appointed penalty. And we are less 
to be excused than they, because, from 
the prodigious facilities -of intercommu-
nication of late years afforded by rail-
ways, steamboats, telegraphs, printing 
presses, postal arrangements, and other 
appliances, the whole world has rapidly 
become one vast commonwealth of con-
federated nations. Whatever power ex-
ists in one 'part, whether for good or 
evil, quickly transmits its influence to 
another, however distant. The Panther 
 
istic philosophy of India is malignly 
affecting the educated in Europe and 
America ; the infidelity of Europe and 
America is malignly affecting the edu-
cated in India. Our aggressive evangel-
istic inroads have just done enough more 
or less to irritate, without converting, 
the great heathen nations. For one 
whom we have conciliated and turned 
from dumb idol's to serve the living God, 
we have roused hundreds and thousands 
from passive resistance to active opposi-
tion. Instead of our overturning their 
stupendous systems of error, they threat-
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fangled ideas are beginning to spring up, 
which have in them the seeds and germs 
of future heresies. Already some of 
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warriors flee to arms. And with the sharpened by a superior secular educa-
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LIFE'S SUNNY AND SHADY SIDE. 
There is a shady side of life, 
And a sunny side as well, 
And 'tis for every one to say 
On which he'd choose to dwell ; 
For every one unto himself 
Commits a grievous sin, 
Who bars the blessed sunshine out, 
And shuts the shadows in. 
Did they ? Oh ! no, no! They did not 
do so. The daughters of Zion were the 
humblest and noblest daughters of the 
land. They were the most l'eautiful, be-
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vine wisdom. They were the most love-
ly, not because their eyes rolled in daz-
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were sculptured in lines of perfect beauty, 
but because they were good; because 
they loved the patriarchs and prophets ; 
because they loved, not this world, but 
poor sinners ; because they loved God.-
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cream-mixing the flour in a separate 
cup so that it will not be in lumps. Add 
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dime ; and throw in a dozen cloves, to 
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Let it dry away : and when needed, dis-
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In a railroad crash, if you can be quick 
enough, put one hand on the back of the 
seat before you, and the other hand on 
that of your own seat, and swing clear 
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Most of the damage to limb, which is 
not fatal, comes from the jamming of 
seats and what is under them. 
DID GOD ANSWER `I HIS WIDOW'S 
PRAYER? 
The clouds may wear their saddest robes, 
The sun refuse to smile, 
And sorrow, with her troop of ills, 
May threaten us the while ; 
But still the cheerful heart has power 
A sunbeam to provide, 
And only those whose souls are dark 
Dwell on life's shady side. 
Then wear a happy heart, my friend, 
And fix your faith above ; 
A Heavenly Father may afflict, 
But does it all in love. 
And they who strive to do his will, 
And read his word aright, 
With s.,ngs of triumph on their lips, 
Walk always in the light. 
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Somebody wants this, some other body 
that ; this man will perhaps, that man 
won't anyhow ; and you are quite apt to 
find yourself in as bad a plight as were 
Schuyler and Montgomery. 
Now there are two ways of managing. 
One way, the easiest and the shortest, is 
their proposed way. Allow yourself to 
be annoyed, get mad, throw the whole 
thing up, resign. But no purpose can 
ever be accomplished so. Such a way may 
let you out of the difficulty, but it is the 
death of your plan surely. The other 
way-the longest way, the hardest way, 
but the only successful Way-is to remem-
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as these generals testily threatened to ; 
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men, and at the same time silently en-
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It was thus Paul wrought with men, 
Here is an instance : " As touching our 
brother. Apollos, I greatly desired him to 
come unto you with the brethren : but 
his will was not at all to come at this time ; 
but he will come when he shall have con-
venient time." There it is you see. Paul 
had a plan for Apollos. Well, we will 
wait for brother Apollos, then, says Paul ; 
his convenient time will come at last ; 
meanwhile he is brother Apollos loved, 
honored, a little contrary, but sure to come 
out right in the end. Patient apostle, 
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TRACTS. 
ONLY A MATCH. 
" What can I do for him ? I have done 
something for my country, and bear the 
marks of it. Perhaps for this, the first 
crime of my child may be forgiven." 
The old soldier opened the worn gar-
ment that covered his breast, and showed 
the terrible scars of the lately healed 
wounds which he had brought from the 
field of blood. 
The judge and all in the court room 
were deeply affected by the simple and 
touching recital. 
" Take your boy," said the judge, his 
voice husky from his emotions. " You 
have been a brave soldier ; you deserve 
well from your country, and I know you 
will be a good father to watch over him 
and keep him from temptation in the 
future." 
The " dock " where the boy sat was 
opened, and he sprang into his father's 
arms. All in the court cheered them, as 
the two passed slowly, hand in hand, out 
of the room, and started once more upon 
their weary journey. 
What a comfort to that Isoy, in his 
trouble, it was, to find a friend in court 
-nee able to speak for him ; • one that 
loved him so well, and mre that was able 
to save him. 
Dear reader, have we not sinned ? 
Does not something within us sit as a 
judge, and seem to condemn us ? Have 
we a friend who can save us ? We look 
all over the faces around us, even the 
loving ones in our homes, but there is not 
one that can forgive our sins, or has 
power to give us peace. But we have a 
Friend in court. He always comes in 
our helplessness. We have. but to lift 
our eyes, and we shall see him as he 
" stands at the door." If we are so 
weak and ashamed that we cannot pray, 
" not daring so much as to lift our eyes 
to heaven," he will speak for us. " He 
ever liveth to intercede for us at the right 
hand of God."-Good Cheer. 
THE SABBATH. 
A match is a tiny thing, yet it takes 
four hundred trees of the forest every 
year to supply the demands of one manu-
facturer of lucifer matches. Truly, little 
things when multiplied grow into things of 
magnitude. Hence a man who has avoid-
ed gross vices, and yet has daily practiced 
little sins for forty or fifty years, may be 
a very great sinner. Will not many such 
be astounded when they come to see the 
magnitude of their accumulated sins ?-
Good News. 
over his mind the shadow of a coming 
retribution, and science may drive him to 
a dull and cold performance of external 
duty-but he has no spiritual aspirations, 
no foretaste of heaven, no communion 
with God. 
You may see in this mirror, beloved, 
your own condition-here is a touchstone 
of sincerity ; which of these widely differ-
ing features of character is yours ? Rest 
assured, if you love not the holiness of 
the Sabbath, the love of God dwelleth 
not in you. If the Sabbath of earth is a 
weariness, how much more so would be 
the Sabbath of heaven. 
We have not here alluded to the obli-
gations of the divine law. If we may 
dispense with this precept written by the 
finger of God, what other command of 
the decalogue, may not be annulled ? 
The law itself ceases to be a rule of life, 
and the authority of the Lawgiver is con-
temned and denied. 
None but the Christian can love the 
Sabbath in its true relations and its spir-
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was a clergyman of many accomplish-
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called one day, to invite him to a gallery 
of fine arts, which contained some rare 
specimens of mechanical skill. He found 
the doctor reading.the Bible, and in tears. 
I have come, Said be, Dr. Hawker, and 
I hope you will go with me to the gallery 
to-day : 
No, iny, friend, replied the doctor, 
pointing to his Bible ; I have this morning 
been reading the divine word. I have 
seen the " King in his beauty," and the 
blessed vision still lingers on my mind, 
and I am unwilling to lose any of its 
precious influences even among the lawful 
recreations of 'life. 
And thus it is with the Christian ; the 
Sabbath is the day of celestial prospects, 
which rise continually upon his soul ; the 
divine excellency, the glorious perfections 
of God, the wonderful love of the Re-
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of heaven, and the joys of the redeemed ; 
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the firmament of the Sabbath, and with 
heartfelt rapture he repeats the hymn,- 
" Welcome, sweet clay of rest, 
That saw the Lord arise ; 
Welcome to this reviving breast 
And these rejoicing eyes. 
My willing soul would stay, 
In such a frame as this ; 
And sit and ,sing herself away 
To everlasting bliss." 
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Tb® juice of the common wood sorrel 
boiled down or evaporated to a salve or 
paste if applied to a rose cancer, will in 
a few days loosen it so that it can be 
completely removed. 
GRAPES AS Foon.-Men can live and 
work on grapes and bread. The peas-
antry of France, Spain and Italy make 
many a satisfying meal in this way, and 
of the wholesomeness of the diet there 
can be no doubt. Medical men constant-
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patients. Scarcely any plant can equal 
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thousands in these temperate clinics. 
Neither our latitude, longitude, nor lead-
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larger portion of the kingdom. In many 
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perfectly. In almost all.it would ripen 
sufficiently to be useful for eating or 
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them. If any declined to eat their own 
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for home consumption, there is a ready 
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at from fourpence to a shilling a pound, 
according to quality. Thus cottages 
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to do up his vine for him. There need 
be no fear of an excessive supply ; nei-
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or even suspended in a dry room, the 
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even improve by keeping.-London 
Garden. 
No RELIGIOUS WORK is unimportant, 
but the conversion of sinners is the main 
object of all religious efforts. A revi-
val gives unity to the church, develop-
ment to its resources, prosperity to its 
finances, enlargement to its borders, and 
causes even the angels in heaven to re-
j nice. 
Do you really believe, Mrs. Haven, 
that God hears our prayers for temporal, 
as well as for spiritual blessings ? I am 
afraid to carry my foolish perplexities and 
troubles to him, and yet I long to. 
If it is wrong to do so, Helen, why 
does he say that be numbers the very 
hairs of our head : and add, " Fear not, 
therefore, ye are of more value than 
many sparrows " 
Let me tell you how this lesson was 
impressed upon me in my childhood. I 
was sitting one day with my mother, 
learning my lesson, when my uncle came 
in, saying, " I have a good story to tell 
you : 
" I was taking my early ride on horse-
back thi; morning, and when several 
miles from the city, stopped my horse to 
rest in the edge of a wood. Nearly op-
posite stood a neat little cottage, and as 
the windows were open I could not help 
seeing an elderly woman kneeling by the 
bed. As I paused, I heard her say, 0 
Lord, thou knowest I have no meal in the 
house and no money to buy ; remember 
thy servant who trusteth in thee, and 
send help in this time of need.' 
I came home as quick as possible, pur-
chased a barrel of flour, painted on it, 
From the Lord,' and sent John with it 
at once. I told him to put it inside the 
door without her knowledge, if he could, 
and come away. 
" He soon returned and said he had done 
as he was ordered, but waited behind a 
tree to see what would become of it. 
She stepped to the door, and seeing the 
barrel and the direction, knelt right down 
and thanked the Lord, saying that she 
knew he who fed the ravens, would not 
forget his child, and she would never 
doubt again." 
Young as I was, as soon as he was 
gone I asked my mother, " Mamma, don't 
you think God sent my uncle that way 
this morning, and inclined him to stop 
right there, because he knew he was so 
kind and would be just the right one to 
get the flour for hey " 
" Most certainly I do, my child. God 
always uses means, and the most simple 
and natural ones, and that is why so 
many fail of seeing his hand in the provi-
dences that come to them." 
Now, Helen, I tell you this story, which 
often occurs to my mind, that you may 
feel that the Lord Jesus is a friend at 
hand ready and able to help in every 
time of need. 
Carefully watch all your life, and you 
will, be surprised to, see how beautifully 
and wonderfully " all things work to-
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lose one of the greatest sources of com-
fort in life.-Amerlean Messenger. 
THE DAUGHTERS OF ZION. 
REV. 
last two or three years of this good man's 
life, he very frequently repeated the fol-
lowing lines of a well-known poet : 
"And when I'm to die, 
Receive me I'll cry, 
For Jesus has loved me, I cannot tell why ; 
But this '1 can find : 
We two are so joined 
That He'll not be in glory and leave me behind.'l 
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worth many dollars, and a great luxury 
that straw folks never know. Don't split 
the leaves ; they do not become flat and 
solid as many suppose, but curl up and 
make the mass light.-The Household. 
HOW TO SWALLOW A PILL.-The Clil-
cago Medical Times is responsible for 
the following : " Put the pills under the 
tongue and behind the teeth, and let the 
patient immediately take a large swallow 
of water, and he will neither feel the 
pill nor taste it. In fact, he cannot tell 
where it has gone, and I have seen them 
look about the floor to see if they had 
not dropped it." 
PASTE THAT WILL KEEP A YEAR.-F6S- 
solve a tablespoonful of alum in a quart 
of warm water, and when cold stir in as 
much flour as will make it as thick as 
POSTAGE. 
THERE are very many daughters in the 
land. There are many who profess to be 
the " Daughters of Zion." But who are 
the Daughter of Zion ? How many 
good old Ruths are there ? How many 
Sarahs and Rebeccas ? How many Marys 
and Marthas ? Who can tell us where 
Dorcas may be found ? Can you ? How 
many of those beautiful, oriental emblems 
of Zion have we in our midst at the pre:-
ent day ? How many young women 
of our land can call themselves the 
" Daughters of Zion " ? There are in 
the United States more than two hundred 
thousand young women ", who toil not, 
neither do they spin," who are yet clothed 
like lilies of the valley. Are these the 
" Daughters of Zion " ? They thrum 
tie piano, and a few of the more dainty, 
the harp or guitar they walk, as the 
Bible says, " softly," lest brisker move-
ments might snap the tapes drawn to 
their utmost tension. The have read ro-
mances and been to theatres. They have 
wrought algebraic solutions on the black-
board, and have shown themselves no 
mean proficients in the casuistry of Pa-
ley. They are, in short, the very roses 
of the garden. But, let me ask, Are 
these the " Daughters of Zion " ? 
Go with me into the interior villages of 
our rural districts. The fair one sits 
down to clink the wires of the piano. 
We see the fingers displayed on the keys; 
which, we are sure, never washed a hand-
kerchief, never prepared a dinner, or 
made a garment for her robust brothers. 
We need not enter in person. Imagina-
tion sees the pretty one erect on the 
music stool, laced and pinioned, flowing 
sleeVed, and deformed w ith hair shorn 
from other scalps, and redUced to a ques-
tionable class of ringlets or water-fall 
(secundo more), dinging, as Sawney 
would say, at the wires, as though she 
could, in some way, beat out of them 
music, amusement, and a husband. Are 
these the " Daughters of Zion " ? Look 
at her taper and cream-colored fingers ; 
how they glisten with jewels. Is she a 
utilitarian ? Is she a daughter of Shiloh-
come to the dance, where every man may 
catch himself a wife ? (Judges 21 : 21.) 
Ask her when she has beaten all the 
music out of the instrument, Pretty fair 
one, canst thou talk to thy poor father so 
as to beguile him out of the headache or 
rheumatism ? Canst thou repeat the 
Lord's prayer ? Thou wast a chemist, I 
remember, at the examination ; canst 
thou compound, prepare, and afterwards 
boil or bake a good pudding ? Say, lady, 
canst thou make one of the hundred sub- 
ordinate ornaments of thy fair person ? 
In short, tell us thy use in existence, ex- 
cept to be contemplated as a beautiful 
picture. Say you, " We are the Daugh-
ters of Zion" ? Did the daughters of 
Zion possess more surface than solidity ? 
Did they walk and talk, frolic and dance, 
and 
" Trip the light, fantastic-toe 
Till the wee small hours of the morning," 
as though their brains were in their heels ? 
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quarter at the post-office. 
We hear many complaints of the Sab-
bath ; it is a day of weariness, its re- 
straints are irksome, its requirements are 
severe, it is a gloomy day, our forefathers 
did not understand it. They have left 
us a legacy which forbids innocent amuse- 
ment, we cannot, (say the young people,) 
play croquet, ride with fast horses, get 
up new styles of amusement, but must go 
moping to church, read the Bible, study 
our lessons and attend the Sabbath 
School. Men forget the Sabbath was 
made for man ; in France and Germany 
they understand it. Paris is all alive 
with Sunday pleasures, and the pious 
ministers there encourage it and go out 
themselves, and they have splendid din- 
ner parties. Besides, it was meant to be 
a day of rest and rejoicing, and they do 
wisely and well who devote it to those ex-
cellent purposes. 
Now most of this is true. It is a 
wearisome and irksome day to multitudes, 
and they desire to spend it in their own 
pleasures ; some people, especially many 
of the young, are disgusted with the Sab- 
bath ; we should like it, say they, but, 
for those disagreeable restraints, but now 
we hate it, and are glad when its gloomy 
hours are over ; this Puritan strictness 
makes us abhor • the Sabbath, we do not 
believe in this rigid way of keeping it, 
and if our parents had given us more lib-
erty, made it more cheerful and joyous, 
it would have been all the better for the 
Sabbath and for us. 
These views of the Sabbath are the dis-
tinguishing mark of the unregenerate 
and the profane, but there is another side 
to this picture, which crowns the Sabbath 
with a halo of beauty-it is seen in the 
experience of the true believer. 
Oh, day divine, says the Christian, e f 
all my days the holiest and the best-
blessed, thrice blessed, were its kind re- • 
straints which in the days of my unregen-
eracy, turned my unwilling feet to the 
house of God. It was there I found Him 
whom my soul loveth, and in whose arms 
of mercy, my sinning and troubled spirit 
found rest-never a day dawns on my 
eye, like the sweet and holy light of the 
Sabbath ; it commemorates the resurrec- 
tion of my Lord ; it bids me welcome to 
_p,resene:i Q.Laaralaapee-f- my King,where 
his banner over me is love, and his 
fruit is sweet to my taste."' I meet him 
in the sanctuary ; I bow before him in 
humble confession of sin, in the song of 
praise, my spirit ascends to the world of 
sweet and holy communion. Away, ye 
baubles of earth, in the light of this day, 
your glories have faded, your trifles have 
lost their charm-your vanities have 
passed away, and your fugitive and 
worthless dreams, have vanished into 
thin air. Oae day in God's courts. is 
better than a thousand. 
In these two exi eriences we see the 
difference between the believing Chris- 
tian, and the unrepentant sinner. The 
one finds his supreme delight in the spir-
itual duties of. the day ; he has a divine- 
ly enlightened mind ; a new taste, new 
sources of pleasure ; often is his heart 
so well attuned to holy meditations, that 
ere he* aware, the hours have fled and 
the sweet vision of heaven is dissolved by 
the return of secular time. 
But to him who lives the world su-
premely, the Sabbath has no attractions 
-its enjoyments are spiritual and holy, 
and for these he has no desire ; his mind 
recoils from that view of 'the divine holi-
ness which attracts and charms the re-
newed heart. He has no sympathy with 
the duties of the Sabbath. True, it casts 
AGENTS FOR THE HERALD. 
A little fellow, ten years of age, was 
arrested in LondOrasome since for 
stealing. He was brought by the police-
man into court, and placed upon the stand 
before the judge. He was very much 
affrighted, and trembled as he glanced 
around the court yard.. The judge, 
moved by his tender years and gentle 
face, which gave evidence that he could 
not have been long in the company of 
vicious boys, asked him kindly if he had 
no friend in the court room. The little 
fellow cast a timid look over the faces of 
the crowd attending the trials, and then 
turning his childish, appealing face to the 
judge, said, " No, sir ! " He had hardly 
made the answer, when, turning around 
again, and ,pointing toward the door, he 
said, " There, comes my father ! " 
The judge called the father forward to 
the stand. He wore the threadbare gar-
ments of a soldier. His face was yet 
thin and pale. He limped as he came 
through the crowd, which separated to 
let him pass. He was bowed down either 
through feebleness or sorrow, and had a 
very anxious expression upon his counten-
ance. 
To the inquiry of the judge about the 
act for which his son had been arrested, 
he said, with much feeling, lie knew noth-
ing of it until he heard he was in court. 
He feared the boy had done wrong. He 
did not know what he could do about it, 
" but it will break my heart," he said, 
" to have him sent to jail. This little 
boy," he continued, " is all that is left me 
of my family, and if the judge is pleased 
to hear me, I shall be glad to say a few 
words about myself." 
He was encouraged to go on, the judge 
expressing-much interest in his story. 
" A little more than ten years ago," 
said the feeble soldier, " when the child 
was an infant, his mother lay upon her 
dying bed. She besought me in her last 
moments to watch over the motherless 
babe that she was to leave behind her. I 
promised her that he should never be 
away from me if I could help it, and that 
I would do all I could to bring him up a 
good boy. Just after my wife died I was 
drafted as a soldier in the army, and I 
had no means of securing a substitute. 
I could not leave my helpless child behind 
when our regiment was sent to India, so I 
took him with me. He always slept with 
me, and I tried to teach him, as soon as 
he could speak, the prayers that he 
would have learned of his mother, if she 
had lived.. Wherever I went, from camp 
to camp,. I took him with me. In the 
tent, in the barracks, under my blanket 
upon the ground, the boy always slept by 
my side. 
" When the war broke out, and our 
regiment moved to the front, my child 
accompanied me. I have carried him for 
days in. my weary arms during our long 
marches, He was both the care and the 
comfort of my life. In a severe battle I 
was wounded in several places, it was 
thought at first mortally, and I fell upon 
the field. I was carried by my compan-
ions to the hospital, and they took such 
care as they could of my child. -Con-
trary to the expectation of the surgeon, I 
did not die of my wounds-, -tautaat4e.t. 
long period of weakness began slowly to 
recover. But my constitution had been 
broken down, and I left my bed a lame, 
feeble man, unable to endure the labor 
and fatigue of the camp. After a time 
a discharge was obtained for me, and I 
was permitted to come back to my native 
land. 1 determined to return to the 
town where I formerly lived, and was 
known, and try and find some light em-
ployment by which I might be able to 
support myself and my little boy. 
" I reached London a few weeks since, 
and was taken sick almost immediately 
on landing. During my sickness I was 
sometimes delirious, and could take no 
care of my child. The people where I 
boarded were all strangers to me. In 
this time the boy wandered into the 
street, and fell among bad companions, I 
fear. When I became conscious of my 
situation, I found he was not in the 
house." 
" You may imagine illy distress, sick 
Sand helpless as I was. As soon as I 
could get out I commenced inquiries for 
him in every direction, • and finally, 
through the police, heard of the arrest of 
a child about, his age. 
" And here he is," said the father, 
with a trembling lip, as he turned his 
melting eyes upon the weeping boy. 
Bangor, Me 
Thomas Smith. 
Brantford, P. 0., Canada John Pearce. 
Black Creek, " " John Matthews. 
Bristol, Vt 
D. Bosworth 
Cabot (Lower Branch), Vt.. Dr. M. P. Wallace 
Chambersbur , Pa 
 H. E. Hoke. 
Derby Line, Vt 
S Foster 
Driftwood, Pa 
 Thos. Hollen. 
Dunham, P. Q., Canada..
Alex. Fuller. 
East Elmore, t. James M. Jennings. 
Gardiner, Me 
Geo. H. Child. 
Greencastle, Pa 
 Joshua Skeggs. 
Haverhill, Mass 
B. D. Haskell. 
Hinckley, Ill. 
Wells A. Fay 
Lake Village, N. H 0 G. Smith. 
 
H. P. Cutter. 
Morrisville, Pa 
 Wm. Kitson 
 
M. L. Jackson. 
Middlebury, Ohio Edward Matthews. 
Milesburgg, Pa 
Eld. John Zeigler 
Magog, Y. Q., Canada Dr. G. 0. Somers. 
Medford Centre, Me......Eld. Guershon Lord. 
Nashua, N. H., George W. Newell. 
New Haven, Ct George Phelps. 
Newburyport, Mass Dea. Henry Lunt. 
Philadelphia, Pa 
I R. Gates. 
Port Dover, P. 0. Rev. S. Ebersole. 
Portland, Me 
 Alexander Edmund, 
Providence, R I Anthony. Pearce. 
Pawtucket, R. I 
J L. Bliss. 
Perry's Mills, N. Y 
Aaron Miller. 
Rahway, N. J . 
W. B. Ide 
Richford, Vt 
Wm. Impey 
S F. Grady. 
Salem, Mass 
James Faxon. 
San Francisco, Cal Rev. J. B. Knight. 
South Barnston, P. Q., Can , D. W. Sornberger 
Sterling Run, Pa. Geo. L. Smith. 
'1`,,,mito, P. 0., 
 Wm. Marks. 
Trento-I, N. J 
D. Elwell. 
Waterloo, P. Q., Canada W. 0. Lawrence. 
Westboro', Mass 
V. Streeter. 
vanilla:wine, Pa 
Henry Hough. 
At large.-Dr. R. Hutchinson, L. Osier M. H. 
Moyer, G. W. Burnham, M. B. Laning, WI% Kin-
ney, Josiah Litch. 
During the Revolutionary war both 
Gen. Schuyler and Gen. Montgomery, 
who were just then in charge of the im-
portant project of the invasion of Canada, 
became exceedingly annoyed at the hin-
drances and perplexities involving them. 
They were in all sorts of difficulties-mat-
ters did not run straight ; troops were in-
subordinate ; provisions failed to come to 
hand ; arms and ammunition were lack-
ing ; jealousies were breaking out among 
the officers ; everything seemed to be in 
as bad a case as a man's trout line tan-
gled in the bushes, at which he jerks and 
fusses while the trout go swimming gayly 
on uncaught. They determined to resign. 
That is the quickest and easiest way out. 
News reaches Wa-shington. He address-
es to Gen. Schuyler this calm and noble 
letter : 
" I am sorry," he says, " that you and 
General Montgomery incline to quit the 
service. Let me ask you, Sirs, when is 
the time for brave men to exert them-
selves in the cause of liberty and their 
country, if this is not ? Should any diffi-
culty that they may have to encounter at 
this important crisis deter them ? God 
knows, there is not a difficulty that you 
both very justly complain of, that I have 
not in an eminent degree experienced, 
that I am not every day experiencing ; 
but we must bear up under them, and 
make the best of mankind as it is, since 
we cannot have men to our. wish." 
We have thought much, since we read 
them, of these last words. They have been 
to us a kind of talisman of success. There 
is not any man in any walk of life who 
does not find himself confronted with the 
necessity of managing those around him. 
And the difficulty is that you must all the 
time be working with little crooked sticks. 
No man is a perfectly straight stick. Eve- 
ry man has his twists of prejudice, and 
kinks of habit, and gnarled knots of ob-
stinacy. You lay your plans. Your 
plans lie perfectly straight in your head, 
but when you come to actualize your plan 
in men, then men will never lie straight.