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The Inquiry. 
Tell me, ye winged winds, 
That round my pathway roar, 
Do ye not know sonic spot 
W here mortals weep no more ? 
Some lone and pleasant dell, 
Some valley in the West, 
W here, free from toil and pain, 
The weary are at rest ? 
The loud wind dwindled ton whisper low, 
And sighed for pity as it answered, " No." 
Tell me, thou mighty deep, 
Where billows round me play, 
Knowest thou some pleasant spot, 
Some island far away, 
Where weary tnan may find 
The bliss for which he sighs— 
Where sorrow never lives, 
And friendship never dies ? 
The loud waves rolling in perpetual flow, 
Stopped fir a while, and sighed to answer, " No." 
And thou, serenest moon, 
That with such lovely face 
Dost look upon the earth, 
Asleep in night's embrace— 
Tell me, in all thy rounds, 
Hest thou not seen seine spot 
Where miserable man 
. May find a happier lot ? 
Behinds cloud the 1110011 withdrew in woe, 
And in sweet voice, but sad, resAnded, " No." 
Tell me, my secret soul, 
0 ! tell ine, hope and faith, 
Is there m, 
From sorrow, sin, and death ? 
Is there no happy spot, 
Where mortals !nay be blessed, 
Where grief may find a balm, 
And weariness a rest ? 
Faith, hope, and love, best boons to mortals given, 
' 
 
 Waved their bright wings, and whispered, " Yes, in heav- 
en." 
The Reformation of Luther. 
THERE is, in every great reformation, a simi-
larity in the evils to be corrected, in the instru-
ments by which they are to be corrected, and 
in the character of the opposition to the pro-
gress of truth. In reading. D'Aubigne's His-
tory of the Reformation of Luther, we have 
been particularly struck with the number of co-
incidences which it presents to what we have 
witnessed in the progress of the doctrine of the 
Advent, in our own day. It had the same hum-
ble beginning, encountered the same obstacles, 
was attacked by the same weapons, with the 
same spirit, and met with the same hindrances 
in its progress. These coincidences are so nu-
rnerous, that with a change of names and 
places we could almost fancy we were reading 
the history of the Advent doctrine. 
We find that the great truths which were 
then about to be agitated, had slumbered in the 
church so long, that their existence was almost 
unknown ; while the errors which prevailed, 
and which it was necessary to expose and 
eradicate, had so long been the prevailing be-
lief, that they had been supposed to have been 
the faith of the church from the days of the 
apostles. God chose an obscure monk—Lu-
THER—a man of great natural ability, as the 
first instrument in the great work which was 
then commenced. " An old, wooden chapel, 
thirty feet long, and twenty broad," was the 
cradle of the Reformation, which it was 
first to any purpose preached ; and a contem-
porary remarked, that it might " be aptly com-
pared to the stable in which Christ was born." 
Among the thousand cathedrals and parish 
churches with which the world was filled, not 
one was chosen for the glorious announcement 
of everlasting life. Such a beginning forcibly 
reminds us of Mr. Miller and our own Char-
don-street Chapel, which was but a stable at 
first. 
" In a short time," says D'Aubigne, " the 
little chapel of Luther could no longed' contain 
the crowds that flocked thither ;" his doctrines 
astonished his auditors, his fame spread far 
with a series of propositions ; but they were 
overthrown by John Knipstrow — a boy of 
twenty : and yet Tetzel is made a Doctor as a 
recompense, and contents nimself with hurling 
his anathemas at Luther. The priests raised 
a shout against the poor monk, and " Luther's 
name resounded from all the Dominican pul-
pits." " They stirred up the passions of the 
people, called him a madman, a seducer, a 
wretch possessed of the devil ;" and " his 
teaching was decried as the most horrible of 
heresies." 
Luther saw the necessity of meeting his ad-
versaries boldly; " but at the same time their 
weakness discovered to him his own strength, 
and inspired him with a consciousness of what 
it really was." Said he : " They are so igno-
rant both of human and Divine things, that it 
is humbling to have to dispute with them; and 
yet it is this very ignorance which gives them 
their inconceivable boldness, and their brazen 
front." At Rome, for a time, they would not 
condescend to meddle with Luther's opinions ; 
it is a " squabble among the monks," said Leo 
X. ; " the`hest way is, not to notice it." But 
when a .Roman censor sees fit to attack him, 
he employs " ridicule, revilings, and threats." 
Luther's fundamental proposition was—" the 
word of God, the whole word of God, told noth-
ing but the word of God." His opponents re-
lied " only on the phrases and opinions of St. 
Thomas." They discovered more malice than 
argument. John Eck, a Doctor of Divinity, 
speaks of Luther as " his feeble adversary," a 
"pestilent man," " a heretic," " seditious," 
" insolent," " rash," " dull," It stupid," and 
" ignorant ;" but this only lave Luther fresh 
courage, who shows in reply that he is not 
convicted of heresy, either by the Scriptures, 
or the fathers of the church ; and only by 
mere opinions. The more Luther was opposed, 
the more his opinions were read. To every 
objection the doctors made, Luther always had 
a ready reply ; " but," said he, " it is useless 
to talk to a deaf man : these doctors cling to 
their petty distinctions, though they confess 
they have nothing to confirm them, but what 
they call the light of reason." When he ap-
pealed to the princes of the church, some 
laughed at him ; others turned a deaf ear ; 
but Luther ever expressed his wishes, that if 
they were able from the Scriptures, they would 
convict him of error. When arraigned before 
the kgate of the Pope, lie said, " Deign to in-
form me wherein I have erred." To the Elect-
or of Saxony he wrote : " Let them bring for-
ward their reasons : let them instruct me who 
desire to be instructed ; let the Lord deprive 
me of his grace, if, when I am shown a better 
doctrine, I do not embrace it." But all who at-
tempted the task, were obliged to retire in si-
lence, after a vigorous reply from the Reform- 
er. Many replied to him to advance their own 
fame, but injured their cause by so doing.—
When they attempted, by contemptible decre-
tals of Roman pontiffs, not four centuries old, 
to prove the primacy of the Roman church, he 
arrayed against this claim the credible history 
of the early church, the express declarations 
of Scripture, and the conclusions of the coun-
cil of Nice,—the most venerable of all councils. 
While the pulpits were all open to the ene-
mies of the Gospel, they were shut -to those 
who proclaimed it ; and " it was currently re-
ported of Luther in the meetings of the clergy, 
that he carried about with him the devil in a 
small box." Said Dr. Eck : " I am astonished 
at the humility and diffidence with which Lu-
ther undertakes to stand alone against so ma-
ny illustrious fathers ; thus affirming that he 
knows more of those things than the Sove- 
ful if God had hidden the truth from so many 
saints and martyrs, till the advent of him."—
Luther replied : " The fathers are not opposed 
tome—St. Augustine, St. Ambrose, and the 
most eminent divines say as I do ;" and he 
claimed that Eck " ran over Scripture without 
touching it." D'Aubigne says, that in Luther's 
controversy with Dr. Eck, the doctor " obtained 
the victory in the opinion of those who do not 
understand the question, and who had grown 
grey in scholastic studies ; but Luther, in the 
judgment of those who have intelligence and 
modesty." They saw Luther relying on the 
word of God, while Eck took his stand on the 
traditions of men ; and though defeated, he 
" gave himself up to the intoxication of what 
he tried to represent as a victory ; and " the 
more he felt his weakness, the louder were his 
clamors." At another time, a princess in- 
quired, " Who is this Luther ? an ignorant 
monk ? well, you are learned, and so many, 
write against him ; the world will surely be-
lieve a company of learned men, rather than a 
single monk of no learning." But the learned 
found it easier to condemn and burn his wri-
tings, than to reply. The Pope attempts to si-
lence him by a bull of excommunication; Lu-
ther, in return, excommunicates the Pope.—
When overwhelmed with reproaches, and ac-
cused of standing alone, teaching new doc-
trine, he replied : " Who knows whether God 
has not called me for this very purpose ? Mo-
ses was alone when the Israelites were led out 
of Egypt ; Elijah was alone in the time of 
king Ahab ; Ezekiel was alone at Babylon. 
God has never chosen for his prophet, either 
the high priest, or any person of exalted rank ; 
but generally men of mean .condition—like 
Amos, a simple shepherd. The saints in every 
age have been called upon to rebuke the great 
of this world ; and they have more reason to 
fear, because I am alone, and they are many. 
Of this I am sure, that the word of God is 
with me, and it. is not with them. They affirm 
that I bring forth novelties ; but I affirm that 
they are not novelties, but truths which have 
been lost sight of. I am accused of rejecting 
the doctors of the church ; I reject them not, 
but test their writings by the Bible. It is ob-
jected that I am censured : but the Scriptures 
show that they who persecute are in error ; 
and that the majority are always on the side of 
falsehood." 
Such was the manner in which the Reforma-
tion was ushered in. Who cannot see that it 
encountered the same elements which the re-
formation of our day has been called upon to 
encounter ? 
Failing of intimidating Luther, the church 
began to exert its influence over those who had 
embraced his doctrines. At the confessional, 
the questions were, Have you read Luther's 
writings? and do you approve of his works'? 
And irthey would not renounce them, they 
were anathematized. This expedient brought 
many under the yoke of the church ; licit' it 
strengthened others in their faith. Luther bade 
his followers to adhere to the truth of God, if 
it was at the expense of the " altar, the priest, 
and the church." And he proved from the 
prophecies of Daniel, John, Paul, Peter, and 
Jude, that the Papacy is the Antichrist pre-
dicted in the Bible ; and, said he, " may God 
hasten the day of the glorious coming of his 
Son, in which he shall destroy the man of sin." 
This caused the people to renounce their at-
tachment to a church which appeared, in every 
particular, so directly opposed to the example 
of its Founder. A man of humble station, 
holding the word of God in his hand, had stood 
in the presence of earthly dignities, and they 
had quailed before him. Learned divines and 
astonished theologians saw the weapons of their 
scholastic logic shivered in their hands. " Aca-
demicians, lawyers, nobles, the inferior clergy, 
many even of the monks, and vast numbers of 
the common people, embraced the Reformation." 
The Papists, in answer to Luther's arguments 
from the Scriptures, replied : " The Bible--it 
is like wax; you may stretch and mould it any 
way, and prove from it any doctrine you please." 
But they could not disprove from it Luther's 
doctrines. Their cry was—" He refuses to be 
set right ;" " these Lutherans are a motley rab-
ble of insolent grammarians, disorderly monks, 
and ignorant, misled and perverted plebeians." 
Again, when seeing Luther's advantage, they 
would say : " Only give up " such and such 
points which are unimportant, " and all will be 
well ;" " we agree in all essential points—the 
only question between us relates to some .sec-
ondary points." 
When .Luther visited Worms,.at.the sum-
mons of the Emperor Charles Y., crowds 
flocked to see him ; some of Whom had con-
ceived an idea of him as a prodigy of wis- 
and wide, and many flocked from distant places 
to hear. Luther obtained a profound know-
ledge of the word of God ; he reasoned out of 
the Scriptures in a way that was new and as-
tonishing to the people, and God raised him up 
friends. He then went forth, supposing the 
church had only to hear the truth—to be shown 
the evidences of its authenticity, and she would 
receive it. His motto was : " The writings 
of the prophets and apostles are more certain 
and sublime, than all the sophisms of the 
schools." Multitudes listened to him with ad-
miration, and marvelled that they had not ear-
lier seen and acknowledged truths, which he 
made so plain ; and they compared his preach-
ing to a new light arising, after so long a night. 
Pious souls were attracted and penetrated by 
the sweetness of his doctrine. The firmness 
with which Luther appealed to the Scriptures 
gave power to his teachings, and his audiences 
acknowledged that he believed what he taught, 
and that his life corresponded with his pa cepts. 
The more men loved the Christian virtues, the 
more they inclined towards him As Luther 
continued his labors, he satv more of the cor-
ruptions of the church, and of the hopelessness 
of the expectation that she would embrace the 
truth. Those who wished to stand well with 
Rome and with society, spoke of him as a proud 
fellow and an ignorant monk, instead of meet-i 
ing him with opposing arguments. For a time 
Luther's works were read in the theological 
schools with but little Sensation ; at a later pe-
riod all gave ear to admire or oppose. He had 
no desire of becoming a reformer ; he was dis-
trustful of his own powers, and moved only as 
God seenied to open the door for him. He 
sought not to please men abut God ; and so fol-
lowed where his Master called. He had no 
settled purpose ; his only wish was, that the 
watchmen of the church should arouse them-
selves, and endeavor to put a stop to the evils 
that were laying it waste. But the princes of 
the church closed their ears to the voice of 
God, which was making itself heard in so af-
fecting and energetic a manner by the voice of 
Luther. They would not understand the signs 
of the times ; they were struck with thht blind-
ness which had been the ruin of so many.—
" But," said Erasmus, " I observe that the 
more irreproachable men's morals, and the 
more evangelical their piety, the less are they 
opposed to Luther." 
All Luther's efforts might have been spent 
on the air; but the partizans of Rome prevent-
ed their eliding thus. They fanned the flame, 
instead of extinguishing it. Eager to crush 
the audacious monk, they raised a shout of in-
dignation ; they disputed with him, and reviled reign Pontiff, the councils, divines, and urn-
hun. On one occasion Tetzel opposed Luther versities ; it would, no doubt, be very wonder- 
26 
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on whom the love of the marvellous had the 
most power threw themselves into the open 
arms of the eccentric preachers of Zwickau. 
" But scarcely had this heresy, which had 
shown itself of old in the days of Mentanism, 
and again in the middle ages, drawn together 
a handful of separatists, when it encountered 
in the Reformation a strong opposing power. 
Nicholas Haussman, to whom Luther gave that 
noble testimony,—' What we teach, he acts,'—
was at this time pastor of Zwickau. This good 
man was not led away by the pret&nsions of 
the false prophets. Supported by two deacons, 
he successfully resisted the innovations Storch 
and his followers were seeking to introduce.. 
The fanatics, repelled by the pastors of the 
church, fell into another extravagance ; they 
formed meetings, in which doctrines subversive 
of order were publicly preached. The people 
caught the infection, and disturbances were the 
consequence ; the priest bearing the sacrament 
was pelted with stones, and the civil authority 
interfering, committed the most violent of the 
party to prison. Indignant at this, treatment, 
and intent upon justifying themselves and ob• 
taining redress, Storch, Mark Thomas, and 
Stubner, repaired to Wittemberg. 
" Making sure of co-operation, they waited 
upon the University professors, to receive their 
sanction. We,' said they, are sent by God 
to teach the people. The Lord has favored us 
with special communications from Himself; 
we have the knowledge of things which are 
coming upon the earth. In a word, we are 
apostles and prophets, and we appeal, for the 
truth of what we say, to Dr. Luther.' The pro-
fessors were amazed. 
" Who commissioned you to preach ?' in-
quired Melancthon of Stubner, who had form-
erly studied under him, and whom he now 
received at his table.—' The Lord our God.' 
' Have you committed any thing to writing?' 
The Lord our God has forbidden me to do 
se.' Melancthon drew back, alarmed and 
astonished. 
bigne 
" There are indeed spirits of no ordinary 
" Whenever a great ferment is working in kind in these men,' said he ; but what 
the church, some impure elements are sure to spirits ? . . . none but Luther can solve the 
mingle with the testimony given to truth ; and doubt. On the one hand, let us beware of 
some one or more pretended reforms arise out quenching the Spirit of God ; and on the 
of man's imagination, and serve as evidences other, of beink seduced by the ,spirit if the 
or countersigns of some real reformation in devil.' 
progress. Thus many false Messiahs in the " It was not long before one who listened to 
first century of the church were an evidence these enthusiasts might have thought that there 
that the true Messiah had already come. The were no real Christians in all Wittemberg, 
Reformation of the sixteenth century could save only those who refused to come to con-
not run its course without presenting the like fession, persecuted the priests, and ate meat on 
phenomenon, and it was first exhibited in the fast days. The bare suspicion that he did not 
little village of Zwickau. 
reject, one and all, the ceremonies of the 
" There were dwelling at Zwickau a few Church as inventions of the devil, was enough 
men, who, being deeply moved by the events to subject a man to the charge of being a 
 
passing around them, looked for special and di- worshipper of Baal. We must form a 
rect revelations from the Deity, instead of de- church,' they exclaimed, that shall consist of 
siring, in meekness and simplicity, the sanctifi- the saints alone !' 
cation of their affections. These persons as- 
" Thus it was that doctrines were put forth 
directly opposed to the Reformation. The re- 
serted that they were commissioned to corn- 
plete that Reformation which in their view vivals or letters had opened a way for the re- 
What is the formed opinions. Furnished with theological 
Luther had but feebly begun. 
learning, Luther had joined issue with Rome ; 
use,' asked they, of such close application to 
and the Wittemberg enthusiasts, similiar to 
the Bible ? Nothing is heard but the BIBLE. 
Can the Bible preach to us ? Can it suffice those fanatical monks exposed by Erasmus and 
for our instruction ? If God had intended to Reuchlip, pretended to trample under foot all 
instruct us by a book, would he not have given human learning ! Only let Vandalism once 
 
us a Bible direct from heaven ? It is only the establish its sway, and the hopes of the world 
SPIRIT that can enlighten ! God himself speaks were gone ; and another irruption of barbari-
to us, and shows us what to do and say.' Thus ans would quench the light which God had 
 
did these fanatics, playing into the hands of kindled among Christian people. 
" It was not long before the results of these 
Rome, impugn the fundamental principle on 
which the whole Reformation is based ; name- strange lessons began to show themselves. 
 
ly, the perfect sufficiency of the Word of God. Men's minds were diverted from the Gospel, 
" Nicolas Storch, a weaver, publicly de- or prejudiced against it ; the school was almost 
Glared that the angel Gabriel had appeared to broken up: the demoralized students burst the 
him by night, and after revealing to him mat- bands of discipline, an& the states of Germany 
ters he was not allowed to divulge, had uttered recalled such as belonged to their several 
the words—" Thou shalt sit on my throne !' jurisdictions. Thus the men who aimed at 
A senior student of Wit'emberg, named Mark reforming, and infusing new vigor into every 
Stubner, joined Storch, and forthwith aban- I thing, had brought all to the brink of ruin. 
 
doped his studies,—for, according to his own One more effort,' thought the partisans of 
 
statement, he had received immediately from Rome, who, on all sides, were again lifting 
 
God the ability to interpret holy Scripture.— I their heads, and all will be ours !' 
Mark Thomas, also a weaver, associated him- The prompt repression of these fanatical ex- 
self with them ; and another of the initiated, cesses was the only means of saving the Refor-
by name Thomas Munzer, a man of fanatical mation. 
turn of mind, gave to the new sect a regular "The evil, therefore, was gaining ground,and 
organization. Resolving to act according to no one stept forward to arrest its progress. 
the example of Christ, Storch chose from Luther was absent far from Wittemberg. Con-
among his followers twelve apostles and seven- fusion and ruin impended over the city. The 
ty disciples. All these loudly proclaimed, as Reformation beheld, proceeding, as it were 
we have lately heard it asserted by a sect of our from its own bosom, an enemy more to be 
own days, (the Mormons,) that apostles and dreaded than Popes and Emperors. It was as 
prophets were at last restored to the church. if on the brink of an abyss." 
the Spirit.' fhe answer of Luther was marked 
by the cool contempt and cutting homeliness of 
his expressions : • I slap your spirit on the 
snout !' said he. Hereupon their outcries re-
doubled. Cellarius was more violent than the 
rest. He stormed till he foamed at the mouth, 
—and their voices were inaudible from the 
tumult. The result was, that the pretended 
prophets abandoned the field, and that very 
day they left Wittemberg. 
" The Sacred Writings,' said Luther, were 
treated by them as a dead letter, and their cry 
was, the Spirit ! the Spirit !' But assuredly, 
I, for one, will not follow whither their spirit is 
leading them ! May God, in His mercy, 
preserve me from a Church in which there are 
only such saints. I wish to be in fellowship 
with the humble, the weak, the sick, who 
know and feel their sin, and sigh and cry con-
tinually to God from the bottom of their hearts 
to obtain comfort and deliverance.' These 
words of Luther have a depth of meaning, and 
indicate the change which his views were un-
dergoing as to the nature of the Church. They, 
at the same time, show how opposed the re-
ligious principles of the rebels were to the re-
ligious principles of the Reformation. 
" The most noted of these enthusiasts was 
Thomas Munzer ; he was not without talent ; 
and read his Bible, was of a zealous tempera-
ment, and might have done good, if he had 
been able to gather up his agitated thoughts, 
and attained to settled peace of conscience. 
But with little knowledge of his own heart, 
wanting in true humility, he was taken up 
with the desire of reforming the world, and, 
like the generality of enthusiasts, forgot that it 
was with himself he should begin. Certain 
mystical writings, which he had read in *his 
youth, had given a false direction to his 
thoughts. He made his first appearance in 
public at Zwickau ;—quitted Wittenberg on 
Luther's return thither,—not satisfied to hold 
a secondary place in the general esteem, and 
became pastor of the small town of Alstadt, in 
Thuringia. Here he could not long remain 
quiet, but publicly charged the Reformers with 
establishing by their adherence to the wriiten 
Word a species of Popery, and with forming 
churches which were not pure and holy. 
" Luther,' said he, has liberated men's 
consciences from the Papal yoke ; but he has 
left them in a carnal liberty, and has not led 
them forward in spirit towards God.' 
" He considered himself as called of God to 
remedy this great evil. The Revelations of 
the Spirit, according to him, were the means 
by which the Reformation he was charged 
with should be effected. He who bath the 
Spirit,' said he, ' hath true faith, although lie 
" Stubner exhortet them to stand firm. Let should never once in all his life see the Holy 
'let 
 Scriptures. The heathen and the Turks are 
him come forth,' interposed Cellarius; 
him give us the meeting ; let him only afford better prepared to receive the Spirit than many 
us opportunity to declare our doctrine, and of those Christians who call us enthusiasts.' 
then we shall see.' . . . 
This remark was directed against Luther. In 
order to receive the Spirit,' continued he, we 
" Luther had but little wish to meet them. 
He knew them to be men of violent, hastyeven 
,and must mortify the flesh—wear sackcloth—neg- 
lect the body---be of a sad countenance—keep 
haughty temper, who would not endure 
kind admonitions, but required that every one silent—forsake the haunts of men—and im- 
plore God to vouchsafe to us an assurance of 
should, at the very first summons, submit to His favor. Then it is that God will come to 
them as to a supreme authority. Such are 
enthusiasts in every age. Nevertheless, as an us, and talk with us, as lie did of old with 
 
interview was requested, Luther could not de- Abraham, Isaac, and Jacob. If He were not 
cline it. Besides, it might be doing service to to do so, he would not deserve our regard. I 
the weak of the flock to unmask the imposture have received from God the commission to 
 gather together His elect in a holy and eternal 
of the prophets. Accordingly the meeting took union.' 
place. Stubner opened the conversation. He 
showed how he proposed to restore the Church 
ana reform the world. Luther listened to him 
with great calmness Of all you have been 
saying,' replied he, at last, gravely, there is 
nothing that I see to be based upon Scripture. 
It is a mere tissue of fiction.' At these words 
Cellarius lost all self-possession. Raising his 
voice like one out of his mind, he trembled 
from head to foot, and striking the table with 
his first, in a violent passion, exclaimed against 
Luther's speech as an insult offered to a man 
of God.' On this Luther remarked, Paul de-
clared that the signs of an apostle were wrought 
among the Corinthians, in signs and mighty 
deeds. Do you likewise prove your apostle-
ship by miracles ?'—' We will do so,' rejoined 
the prophets. The God whom I serve,' 
answered Luther, will know how to bridle 
your gods.' Stubner, who had hitherto pre 
served an imperturbable silenee, now fixing 
his eyes on the Reformer, said, in a solemn 
tone, Martin Luther, hear me while I declare 
what is passing at this moment in your soul. 
You are beginning to see that my doctrine is 
true.' Luther was silent for a few moments, 
and then replied. The Lord rebuke thee, 
Satan.' Instantly the prophets lost all self- 
dorm ; others, as a monster of iniquity ; and 
yet on hearing him, all were struck with the 
joy of his countenance, and the wisdom of his 
discourses, which the Papists ascribed to the 
influence of the devil ; and any one, who 
manifested the least interest in his cause, was 
instantly cried down as a heretic. The ene-
mies of the truth never failed to circulate in-
ventions of pretended doctrines of Lather ; and 
nothing was too absurd and silly for them to 
ascribe to his belief : but all those only re-
coiled on their own heads. The Reformation, 
which only sprung up in the hearts of a few 
monks, spread abroad, lifted itself on high, 
and assumed a station of publicity. Like the 
waters of the sea, it rose by degrees, until it 
overspread a wide expanse. The Bishop of 
Constance complained that evil-minded persons 
were reviving doctrines which had been con-
demned ; and that learned and unlearned men 
were alike everywhere irreverently discussing 
the most exalted mysteries. And the partizans 
of Rome, with that blind infatuation common 
to those who have long held power, were pleas-
ing themselves with the thought, at every 
seeming advantage, that the Reformation was 
forever at an end. Many of those weak per-
sons, who, when things were nearly balanced, 
were found on the side of truth, whenever 
their own interest was concerned, were quite 
wiling to take up again with error. When 
such left the cause, the priests were ready to 
exclaim, " We have silenced him who troubles 
Israel !" The most celebrated schools and pro-
fessors gave their verdict against the Reforma-
tion, and pronounced the doctrines of Luther 
heretical ; he, however, showed them that the 
heresy was in Rome and the schools, while the 
catholic truth was in Wittemberg. 
When all the efforts of Rome to crush the 
Reformation had failed, and the frail bark, 
which had been tossed in every direction by so 
many winds, and been well nigh wrecked, had 
apparently righted itself, it was called to en-
counter obstacles in another form. Says D'Au- 
judgment; even the prophets appealed to him. 
All united in entreating him to return. 
" We may guess what was passing in the 
Reformer's mind. The harsh usage of Rome 
seemed nothing when compared with what 
now wrung his heart. It is from the very 
midst of the Reformation that its enemies 
have gone forth. It is preying upon its own 
vitals ; and that teaching, which, by its power, 
had sufficed to restore peace to his troubled 
heart, he beholds perverted into an occasion of 
fatal dissensions in the Church. 
"',If I knew,' said Luther, at an earlier 
period, that my doctrine had injured one 
human being, however poor and unknown, 
—which ft could not, for it is the very Gos-
pel,—I would rather face death ten times 
over, than riot retract it. And lo ! now, a 
whole city, and that city Wittenberg itself, is 
sinking fast into licentiousness.' True, in- 
deed, the doctrine he had taught had not been 
the cause of all this evil ; but from every 
quarter of Germany voices were heard that ac-
cused him as the author of it. Some of the 
bitterest feelings he had ever known oppressed 
his spirits at this juncture, and his trial was, of 
a different kind. Was this, then, he asked 
himself, to be the issue of the great work of 
Reformation ? Impossible ! he utterly rejected 
the doubts that presented themselves. God 
has begun the work—God will fulfil it. I 
prostrate myself in deep abasement before the 
Eternal,' said he, and I implore of Him that 
His name may rest upon this work, and that if 
anything impure has mingled in the doing of it, 
He will remember that I am but a sinful man.' 
" Luther was aware that the ancient and 
primitive Apostolic Church must, on the one 
hand, be restored and opposed to that Papal 
power which had so long oppressed it,—and on 
the other hand, be defended against enthusiasts 
and unbelievers, who affected to disown it, and 
were seeking to set up some new thing, regard-
less of all that God had done in past ages. 
" He set about his work in the spirit of an 
humble pastor—a tender shepherd of souls. 
It is with the Word we must contend,' ob-
served he, and by the Word we must r 
fute and expel what has gained a footing 
by violence. I would not resort to force 
against such as are superstitious ;—nor even 
against unbelievers ! Whosoever believeth let 
him draw nigh, and whoso believeth not, stand 
afar of Let there be no compulsion. Liberty 
is of the very essence of Faith.' 
" The most noted of the prophets were not at 
Wittemberg when Luther arrived there. Nico-
las Storch was on a progress through the 
country. Mark Stubner had quitted the hos-
pitable roof of Melancthon. 
" The agitation and ferment which were 
working in men's minds were not a little favor-
able to the spread of these enthusiastic ideas. 
Men love the marvellous and whatever flatters 
their pride. Munzer having inoculated with 
his own views a portion of his flock, abolished 
the practice of chaunting, and all the other 
ceremonies annexed to public worship. He 
maintained that to obey princes devoid of un-
derstanding,' was to serve, at one and the 
same time, God and Belial ; and then setting 
off at the head of his parishioners to a chapel 
in the neighborhood of Alstadt, to which pil-
grims were accustomed to resort from all 
quarters, he totally demolished it. After this 
exploit, being obliged to leave the country, he 
wandered from place to place in Germany, and 
came as far as Switzerland, everywhere car-
rying with him, and communicating to all 
4vho gave ear to him, the project of a general 
revolution. Wherever he went he found men's 
minds prepared. His words were like gun-
powder cast upon burning coals, and a violent 
explosion quickly ensued. 
" Such preaching made a deep impression "' Luther!! Luther !' was the cry from one 
on the popular mind. Not a few devout per- end of Wittemberg to the other. The burgh-
sons were startled by the thought that proph- ers were clamorous for his re-appearance. 
ets were again given to the church, and those Divines felt their need of the benefit of his command. They shouted aloud, The Spirit, On the side of the print es it was repeated, and 
" That moral agony which Luther had first 
undergtve in his cell at Erfurth, was perhaps 
at its height after the revolt of the peasants. 
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27 
in many quarters believed, that Luther's teach- 
ing had been the cause of the rebellion ; and 
groundless as was the charge, the Reformer 
could not but feel deeply affected by the credit 
attached to it. On the the side of the people, 
Munzer and all the leaders of the sedition 
represented him as a vile hypocrite and flat- 
arena of theological dispute; expecting, at one 
full blow, to annihilate the Reformation from 
the earth. He could not conceal the contempt 
which he felt for his "feeble adversary ;" and 
was not sparing of hard epithets, calling him 
" an infernal wolf," a e poisonous serpent," and 
" a limb of the devil." 
When his workappeared, the Catholic party 
set no bounds to its praises, and it was by them 
received with" profound adulation;" they styled 
it "the most learned work the sun ever saw." 
He was compared to a St. Augustine, a Con- 
stantine, a Charlemagne, and a " second Solo- 
mon ;" and the whole Roman world exulted 
with joy. 
 
Luther read Henry's work with a smile, 
mingled with disdain. The falsehoods, and 
and personalties it contained, the air of 
contempt the king affected, and the thought 
that the Pope and enemies on all • sides regard- 
ed it as having demolished the Reformation, 
filled him with indignation. He showed how 
Henry only supported his statements by " de- 
trees and doctrines of men." " As for me," says 
 " I do not cease my cry of the Gospel ! the 
Gospel !—Christ ! Christ !—and my enemies 
are as ready with their answer—Custom ! cus- 
tom !—Ordinances ! ordinances !—Fathers ! fa- 
thers !----, That your faith should not stand in 
the wisdom of men, but in the power of God,' 
says St. Paul. And the apostle, by this thun- 
der-clap from heaven, at once overturns and 
disperses, as the wind scatters the dust, all the 
foolish thoughts of such a one as Henry !— 
Alarmed and confounded, the Aquinases, Pa- 
pists, Henrys, fall prostrate before the power 
of these words. To all the decisions of fa- 
thers, of 
 
men, of angels, of devils, I oppose," 
says he, " not the antiquity of custom, not the 
habits ofthe 
 many,but the word of the eternal 
God—the Gospel—which they themselves are 
obliged to admit.' It is to this book that I 
keep—upon 
 
it I rest—in it I make my boast— 
in it I triumph and exult. The King of hear- 
en is on my side ; therefore 1 fear nothing." 
And thus, with argument drawn from the 
Word, did Luther demolish and scatter to the 
winds all the sophisms of his opposers. And 
though all seemed to combine against him, yet 
this new sect, few in number, with no organi- 
zation, or acting in concert, or concentration of 
power, carried consternation to the heart of 
Rome. 
Luther's writings were read in the boroughs, 
cities, and hamlets ; even the village school- 
master had his fire-side audiences. Some per- 
sons in every place would be impressed with 
the truth and receive the word, and men were 
raised up to proclaim it far and wide, at whose 
eloquence the people were astonished. Such 
preaching excited terrible opposition ; and the 
clergy, aided by the magistrates, used every 
means to win back their hearers, whose Souls 
were escaping from bondage. But there was 
an irresistible energy, and accordance with the 
Scriptures, in the new preaching, which won 
the heart ; and sometimes the people, irritated 
at the thought how long they had been duped, 
drove away their priests. Persecution often 
scattered the favorers of the Reformation to 
new places, where it had never before been 
heard. There they would find some hospita- 
ble roof, where they would preach to the listen- 
ing townsmen, and sometimes from the pulpit 
of a church. if not permitted to enter there, 
any place became a temple ; and their words 
would spread like fire through the town, and 
no effort could stay their progress. Simple 
Christians, with the Bible in their hand, were 
ever ready to defend their doctrines. Says 
D'Aubigne :— 
" Individuals were often seen with the New 
Testament in their hand, offering to justify the 
doctrine of the Reformation. The Catholics, 
who adhered to Rome, drew back in dismay ; 
for the study of Holy Scripture was reserved 
to the priests and monks alone. The latter 
being thus compelled to come forward, discus- 
sion ensued ; but the priests and monks were 
soon overwhelmed with the scriptures quoted 
by the laity, and at a loss how to meet them. 
' Unhappily,' says CochiHus, ' Luther had per- 
suaded his followers that their faith ought only 
to be given to the oracles of Holy Writ.' Often 
clamors were heard in the crowd, denouncing 
the shameful ignorance of the old theologians, 
who had till then been regarded by their own 
party as among the most eminently learned. 
" Men of the humblest capacity, and even 
the weaker sex, by the help of the knowledge 
of the Word, persuaded, and prevailed with 
many. Extraordinary times produced ex- 
traordinary actions. At Ingolstadt a young 
weaver read the works of Luther to a crowded 
congregation, in the very place where Doctor 
blood was shed, and towns were pillaged ; and
ners 
spirits. Its character was distinctly seen ; and
I 
it
fanati- 
he,
God. 
Eck was residing. The university council of 
the same town, having resolved to oblige a dis- 
ciple of Melancthon to retract,—a woman, 
named Argula de Staufen, volunteered to de- 
fend him, and challenged the doctors to a pub- 
lic disputation. Women, children, artizans, 
and soldiers, had acquired a greater knowledge 
of the Bible thin learned doctors or surpliced 
priests." 
Thus on public occasions, in their encounters 
with the Roman doctors, they would carry on 
the assault with an ease and confidence that 
embarrassed the dullness of their adversaries, 
and exposed them before all to deserved con- 
tempt. The clergy, in the irritation of their 
defeat, went the length of calling the Gospel 
truth "an invention of hell." And the differ- 
ent parties of Romanists, the Dominicans, Au- 
gustinians, Capuchins, so long opposed to each 
other, were reduced to the necessity of living 
together—an anticipated purgatory for those 
poor monks. 
The whole of the authorities, civil and ec- 
clesiastical, combnied.to crush the Reforma- 
tion, which they called " a new and strange 
heresy," which was taught " by those who 
were neither priests nor monks, and had no 
business to preach." The torch and the faggot 
were lighted ; and men were called to testify 
to their faith by their blood, and seal it with 
their lives. And yet it spread ; and men went 
everywhere preaching the word. Throughout 
Germany, particularly in the Saxon states, in 
France, and Holland, in Switzerland, and 
England, and still in other lands, God caused 
the truth to take deep root, and to spring up 
and bear much fruit. All the persecutions of 
the civil and ecclesiastical authorities only 
served to extend it farther ; and all the 
cism which the devil endeavored to infuse into 
 
its ranks, served but to envelope it in dark-thew 
ness. It was the cause of God ; and he pre- 
served it from dangers which assailed it alike 
on either hand ; so that it became like a good- 
ly tree, with stately trunk, its roots extended 
deep, and its boughs far and wide, and clothed 
with perennial verdure ; withstanding all the 
assaults of Rome for near three hundred years. 
But, alas ! how obscured have become the 
principles for which Luther so strenuously and 
triumphantly contended ! In these last days 
many Christians have sunk into the same 
lethargy and stupor from which Luther, with 
the thunders of the Gospel was aroused. The 
odious practices of Rome, and her disgusting 
mummeries, it is true, have not been again ern- 
braced. But there is again the same respect 
for the opinions of men, the same fear of the 
human church, the same reliance upon creeds 
and formulas, the same worldly-mindedness, 
and love of the things which now exist, the 
same deadness, and coldness, and lukewarm- 
ness, and putting far off the day of the Lord, 
and the same substitution of human commentas 
ries for the unadulterated word of God ; so 
that when the angel, flying through the midst 
of heaven, began to preach the everlasting 
Gospel to them that dwell on the earth, and to 
every nation, and kindred, and tongue, and 
people, saying with a loud voice, Fear God, 
and give glory to him, for the hour of his judg- 
ment is come ; most were unwilling to heed the 
cry. And when the servants were sent forth 
at supper time to say to them that were bidden, 
" Come, for all things are now ready ;" the 
great body of them began with one consent to 
make excuse ; and they turned away, one to 
his farm, another to his merchandize, and ano- 
ther to his marriage-feast, saying, I pray thee 
have me excused—I cannot come ; and so they 
refused to go out to meet the Bridegroom. 
But He who never slumbers or sleeps, has 
set in progress another reformation—the anti- 
type of that of the days of Luther. He has 
raised up men of the same energetic, self-deny- 
ing spirit, who have gone into the field wield- 
ing the same weapons, with the same results 
that were then witnessed. In the days of Lu- 
ther one of the German princes dreamed that 
he saw a monk writing with a mighty pen, the 
feather end of which reached to Rome, and 
caused the lions there to growl and roar ; and 
that from out of this pen proceeded thousands 
of others, all of which were busily employed 
in writing against the Pope. So has the same 
pen, with all its auxiliary helps, been called 
into exercise now ; and it has caused the lions 
of the church to snarl and growl with all the 
venom that was manifested then. The re- 
formation now encounters the same obstacles 
which it encountered then; it meets the same 
contumely and reproach ; the same contempt 
is manifested towards it ; the same arguments 
and sophisms are arrayed against it; it encoun- 
ters alike the hatred of the church and world ; 
and every legal measure is resorted to to crush 
it. It also has the same internal enemies, en- 
deavoring to eat out its very vitals, and to wreck 
the ship of Zion on the rocks and quicksands 
of fanaticism, by leading those who favor it 
into unseemly excesses, and the extravagancies 
of mysticism. The battle which it is called to 
fight is as manifold as was that of Luther.— 
Like that, it is called to contend against the 
cold apothegms of rationalists, philosophers, 
and schoolmernsand against the reveries of en- 
thusiastical hallucinations. It is showing to 
the world that its mission is to keep constantly 
a middle course, between all extremes ;remote 
 
alike from fanatical distortions, and death- 
like slumbers. It also is crowned with 
the same success in its encounters with 
the doctors of the day, whose efforts to crush 
it have onlydisplayed their own weakness.—
The most humble individuals, with the word of 
God in their hands, have distanced those who, 
pleading the customs of men, have retierd 
abashed. 
 
This cause, like that, is also the cause of 
It is 
 His almighty power which has thus 
far sustained it. He will continue to preserve 
it from foes without, and foes within, until it 
has accomplished all that God designs of it. 
But we may learn from the history of the Re- 
formation of Luther, how every good cause 
will he assailed in manifold and divers man- 
; and thus be enabled to shun the pit-falls 
which beset our path, and the snares which 
are laid on every side. To accomplish this, 
we need much wisdom from nn high ; but if 
we take the word of God alone, and look to 
Him for guidance, He will sustain our feeble steps 
and refresh our waiting spirits, until the last 
loud trump shall shortly break upon the listen-
ing ear, and all the sleeping saints, arising from 
dusty beds, shall with the righteous liv- 
inerjoin in one glad chorus, to sing the song of 
Mbosesd the 
anLamb. 
B. 
terer of the great, and their calumnies easily 
obtained belief. The strength with which 
Luther had declared against the rebels, had 
given offence even to men of moderate opin- 
ions. The partisans of Rome exulted, all 
seemed against him, and he bore the indigna- 
tion of that generation : but what most grieved 
him was, that the work of heaven should be 
thus degraded by being classed with the 
dreams of fanatics. 
I " This fanaticism broke forth in lamentableinsults, 
disorders. Alleging, in excuse, that the Saviour 
had exhorted us to become as little children, 
these poor creatures began to go dancing through 
the streets, clapping their hands, footing it in a 
circle, seating themselves on the ground to- 
gether, and tumbling each other in the sand.. 
Some there were who threw the New Testa- 
ment into the fire, exclaiming,—' The letter 
killeth, the spirit giveth life ;' and several, 
falling into convulsions, pretended to have re- 
relations from the Holy Spirit." 
The fanatics, unrestrained, ran into the 
greatest excesses ; revolt was encouraged, 
the mercy of God alone preserved His cause. 
But the firmness with which Luther, and those 
whom God had made foremost in the work, 
met and protested against those delusions, 
showed to the world that the Reformation was 
entirely distinct from the fanaticism of those 
was demonstrated that its mission was to 
keep constantly a middle course between all 
extremes—remote alike from fanatical distor- 
tion and political disorders, on the one hand ; 
 
and from the death-like slumber of the papal 
rule on the other. The battle which the Re- 
formation fought was not one, but manifold. 
It had to combat at once several enemies ; and 
after having protested against the decretals, and 
the sovereignty of the Popes—then against the 
cold apothegms of rationalists, philosophers, 
and schoolmen,—it took the field against the 
reveries of enthusiasm, and the hallucinations 
of mysticism ; opposing alike to these three 
powers, the sword and the buckler of God's 
Holy Revelation. Says D'Aubigne :— 
" We cannot but discern a great resem- 
blance, — a striking unity, — between these 
three powerful adversaries. The false sys- 
terns which in every age, have been the most 
adverse to evangelical Christianity, have ever 
been distinguished by their making religious 
knowledge to emanate from man himself. 
Rationalism makes it proceed from reason ; 
Mysticism from a certain internal illumination ; 
Roman Catholicism from an illumination de- 
rived from the Pope. These three errors look 
for truth in man ; Evangelical Christianity 
looks for it in God alone; and while Rational- 
ism, Mysticism, and Roman Catholicism ac- 
knowledge a permanent inspiration in men like 
ourselves, and thus make room for every 
species of extravagance and schism,—Evan- 
gelical Christianity recognises this inspiration 
only in the writings of the Apostles and 
Prophets ; and alone presents that great, 
noble, and living unity which continues to ex- 
ist unchanged throughout all ages." 
" The office of the Reformation has been to 
re-establish the rights of the word of God, in 
opposition, not only to Roman Catholicism, but 
also to Rationalism and Mysticism." 
Luther perseveres in his soul-charming 
enterprise. He translates the entire Scrip- 
tures, and gives them to the people in their 
own language. This was joyfully welcomed 
by such as loved the Lord Jesus Christ; but it 
was scornfully rejected by such as preferred 
the traditions and ordinances of men. The 
ignorant priests were dismayed at the thought, 
that burghers, and even rustics, would now be 
able freely to discuss with them the precepts of 
the Lord. And .Rome, in the 16th century, 
used the same means to destroy the religion of 
Jesus, that heathenism did in the first ; but 
without effect. 
The more Rome prohibited the reading of 
the Scriptures, so much the more people were 
anxious to read kern. All who knew how to 
. read, studied the New Testament with eager 
delight. They carried it about with them, and 
committed large portions of it to memory. 
Henry VIII., the royal king of England, in- 
dignant that an humble monk should set the 
 
learned world at defiance, laid aside his royal 
dignity, and descended from his throne into the 
WORK OF CHRIST.—As there is so much 
power ascribed to the Truth in Scripture, let it 
be my frequent exercise to summon this one, 
and that other truth into my mind, and with 
care to have a correct apprehension of it— 
dwell upon it simply as it is. And let me 
hence record my experience, that of all the 
Bible truths taken together, there is none 
which tells more pleasurably or more powerful- 
ly upon me, than the work of Christ in the 
room of sinners, as their substitute and their 
surety, and that not only in the way of peace ; 
but sure I am, that when thus occupied, I feel 
on the firmest vantage-ground for the vigorous 
and cheerful and prosperous prosecution of the 
service of God. This experience remarkably 
accords with the pre-eminence given to Christ, 
in his mediatorial offices, through the whole of 
revelation, and justifies the saying.of Paul, " I 
am determined to know nothing among. you. 
save Jesus Christ and him crucified ;" and•so 
also of the expressions, " Christ the power of 
God "—" Christ the wisdom of God "—e the 
cross of Christ, through glory in which the 
world is crucified unto me, and 1 unto the 
world." Let me conform myself more and 
more unto the mediatorial economy of the 
gospel. Let my fellowship be with the Son 
of God, and test the efficacy of the Bible say- 
ings, by acting faith upon them, or cherishing 
the apprehension of their greatness. 0, my 
God, let the Word thus raise me above the 
world ! Let it dwell in me richly in all wis- 
dom ! Above all, let me be sanctified thereby ; 
and may I realize the living evidence of its 
perfection and its power, that I am thoroughly 
furnished by it unto all good works !—Chalmers. 
THE HEAVENLY REST.—" Rest ! how sweet 
the sound ! It 'is melody to my ears ! It lies 
as a reviving cordial at my heart, and from 
thence sends forth lively spirits, which beat 
through all the pulses of my soul ! Rest—not 
as the stone that rests on the earth, nor as this 
flesh shall rest in the grave, nor such a rest as 
the carnal world desires. 0 blessed rest, 
when we rest not day and night, saying, 
" Holy, holy, holy, Lord God Almighty !" 
When we shall rest from sin, but not from 
worship ; from suffering and sorrow, but not 
from joy ! 0 blessed day ! When I shall rest 
with God ! When I shall rest in the bosom of 
my Lord ! When I shall rest in knowing, 
loving, rejoicing, and Praising ! When my 
perfect soul and body shall together perfectly 
enjoy the most perfect God ! When God, who 
is love itself, shall perfectly love me, and rest 
in his lave to me, as I shall rest in my love to 
him.; and rejoice over me with joy, and joy 
over me with singing, as .1 shall rejoice in 
him !" 
" The pretences of the Anabaptists to inspiration 
were in like manner denounced by Melancthon.—
The Anabaptists, infatuated by the devil have boast-
ed of a new species of sanctity, as though they had 
left the earth, and ascended to the skies ; and given 
out moreover that they enjoy extraordinary inspira-
tion. But as the pretence was hypocritical, and de-
signed merely to subserve appetite and ambition, they 
soon plunged into debauchery, and then excited sedi-
tions, and undertook to establish a new Jerusalem, as 
other enthusiasts have often attempted. A like trage-
dy was formerly acted at Pepuza in Phrygia, which 
fanatical prophets denominated the New Jerusalem.' 
" He also refuted by the Scriptures the expectation 
of the Anabaptists of the immediate establishment of 
Christ's millennial kingdom. He regarded the term 
Antichrist as denoting both the Mohammedan empire 
and the Papacy, and held that they were not to be 
overthrown fill the time of the resurrection of the 
dead, and that a considerable period was to pass before 
that event. God showed to Daniel a series of mon- 
archies and kingdoms, which it is certain has already 
run to the end. Four monarchies have passed away. 
The cruel kingdom of the Turks, which arose out of 
the fourth, still remains, and as it is not to equal the 
Roman o in power, and has certainly, therefore, al-
ready nearly reached its height, must soon decline, 
and then will dawn the day in which the (lead shall 
be recalled to life.' He then repeats the saying as-
cribed to Elias, that six thousand years were to pass 
bafore the advent of Christ ; two thousand before the 
law, two under the law, and two under the gospel : 
and proceeds to show that four hundred and fifty-eight 
years were therefore to intervene before the advent of 
the Redeemer, the destruction of Antichrist, and the 
establishment of the kingdom of the saints. It is 
known that Christ was born about the end of the 
fourth millennary, and one thousand fife hundred and 
forty-two years have since revolved. We are not, 
therefore, far from the end. Daniel asked in respect 
to the time of the end, and a number was given 
which, although it seems to respect the time of the 
Maccabees, yet undoubtedly has a reference to the 
end of the world, and the application is easy, if days 
he taken for years. They will be two thousand six 
hundred and twenty-five. We do not endeavor to 
ascertain the moment when the last day is to dawn. 
That is not to be sought. But inasmuch as this num-
ber happily agrees with the words of Elias, I regard 
it as denoting the years through which the world was 
to subsist from the time of Daniel. There were six 
hundred, or near that, from Daniel to the birth of 
As Moses had a Jannes and Jambres to withstand him, so Paul 
teaches that truth will be always withstood by those who invitess 
to be with, but are not of it. No good movement can exist with-
out it corresponding counterfeit one. Even the Advent cause can-
not be of God, unless there also exist a false movement. claiming 
to be in etrect the ovine, and yet continually endeavoring to oppose, 
neutralize, and thwart it.—ED. 
28 
THE ADVENT HERALD. 
Tent-Meeting at Westboro'. 
As the events of this interesting interview are now 
in the past, a sketch of those impressions which have 
been forcibly stamped upon the mind and heart of 
one who was an eye and ear-witness of its meetings, 
from the beginning to its close, may not be out of 
place. 
I left Boston on Tuesday, the 14th, at 8 A. M., for 
the place of gathering, distant thirty-three miles.—
The sky was, in part, overcast. Our route was on 
the Great Western Railroad. As the cars hurried 
us onward, while the ever-varying landscapes were 
checkered with lights and shadows, chasing each 
other alternately, we were reminded of our mission, 
and its effects on the world. In our rapid flight, dif-
fusing light on the cooling and kingdom of CHRIST, 
shadows of error quickly follow. And thus we are 
urging our way to the judgment. Having arrived on 
the ground, our first desires prompted us to take a 
survey of the 
Encampment.— Its location was one peculiarly 
adapted to the occasion. The ground occupied was 
a large circular field of elevated land, so formed as 
to render it healthy and convenient. It was bounded 
in the rear by a swamp in the shape of a half-moon, 
covered with an impervious undergrowth, and flanked 
by meadows and pastures, which were intersected 
with numerous ditches, rendering all approach, ex-
cept through the " strait gate," very difficult. The 
owner of the ground (Mr. HowE) is a member of 
the Congregational Church. During the entire ser-
vices, his kindness and hospitality, and his unwearied 
labors, were felt, and duly appreciated. We are truly 
thankful, that amid the general scoffing at our views, 
there are men who take peculiar delight in entertain-
ing this class of obnoxious strangers. In the centre 
of the field was erected the Great Tent, with its 
banner—the flag of " the holy nation "—and on it 
the substance of our hope and prayer, " THY KING-
DOM COME," floating triumphantly in the swelling 
breeze. This was our church edifice, the place of 
our public meetings, where the people were assem-
bled to hear out of the Divine law. Around this, at 
convenient distances, were our family tents, from 
Worcester, Salem, Boston, and Stowe. In these 
were our social exercises, where our minds obtained 
that strength which fitted us for the more public as-
semblies. 
The Services commenced on Tuesday, and were 
brought to a close on Sabbath evening. A due de-
gree of solemnity was manifested among the mem-
bers through the entire meeting. The conference 
and prayer meetings were harmonious, and ivory en-
couraging, giving us the assurance that the cause of 
our coming King is still first in the affections of our 
people. The interest taken by strangers in our ser-
vices, and in the doctrines taught, persuade us that 
our labor is not yet ended. We had many candid 
hearers from the various Christian sects, who listened 
with great interest. The public discourses were such 
as are usually given by our ministers, on similar oc-
casions. To many, the subjects and matter were 
both new. We can say, truly, that the people gene-
rally gave us a candid hearing. How muclh they 
were profited, will be known hereafter. During our 
public exercises, the conduct was, for the most part, 
unexceptionable. If we recollect the deep-rooted 
prejudices previously existing in that community 
against our views, we cannot wonder when we see 
sotne of their effervescence appear, in so great a con-
course of people . 
The Ministers present were, Brn. A. HALE, G. 
NEEDHAM, C. R. GRIGGs, 
HEATH, 
W. 
W. PRATT, 
 
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. Rl TO N JP.. POMT
ELL, E. BURNHAM, 
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PAR- 
SON, jr., J. DANIELS, I. R. GATES, and L. OSLER. 
TIN lbuent tjeralb. 
"BEHOLD! THE BRIDEGROOM COMETH!!" 
BOSTON, SATURDAY, AUGUST 25, 1849. 
Interpretation of Symbols, Figures, etc. 
(Continued from Herald of July 28th.) 
The events of the 10th chapter, and those of the 
11th, which precede the fifteenth verse, evidently oc-
cur under the sixth trumpet, during the continuance 
of its sounding, and before the termination of the 
chronological period given in chap. 9:15. 
THE MIGHTY ANGEL. " And I saw another 
mighty angel descending from heaven, clothed with 
a cloud : and the rainbow was Over his head, and his 
face was like the sun, and his feet like pillars of fire ; 
and he had in his hand a little book, opened : and he 
set his right foot on the sea, and his left foot on the 
land. And shouted with a loud voice, as a lion roar-
eth : and when he shouted, seven thunders uttered 
their voices. And when the seven thunders uttered 
their voices, I was about to write : and I heard a 
voice from heaven saying, Seal up those things which 
the seven thunders uttered, and write them not. And 
the angel, whom I saw standing on the sea and on 
the land, raised his hand to heaven, and swore by him 
who liveth forever and ever, who created heaven, and 
the things in it, and the earth, and the things in it, 
and the sea, and the things in it, that the time should 
not yet be, but in the (lays of the voice of the seventh 
angel, when he will [or delay to.—Mar.] sound, the 
secret of GOD will be finished, as he hath announced 
to his servants the prophets. And the voice, which 
I heard from heaven, spoke with me again, and said, 
Go, take the little book, which is opened in the hand 
of the angel, who standeth on the sea and on the land. 
And I went away to the angel, and said to him, Give me 
the little hook. And he said to me, Take, and eat it up; 
and it will make thy stomach hitter, but in thy mouth 
it will be sweet as honey. And I took the little hook 
from the angel's hand, and ate it up ; and it was in 
my mouth sweet as honey ; and when I had eaten it, 
my stomach was bitter. And he said to me, Thou 
must prophesy again concerning many people, and 
nations, and tongues, and kings."—Rev. 10:1-11. 
these, we can conceive of no reason fur, unless it be 
that suggested by Mr. LORD, that the intelligible res- 
ponse of the thunders was not to be inspired, but to 
consist simply of the thoughts and affections of those 
who should utter them. 
Immediately after the commencement of the Re-
formation, when vast masses of minds had become 
violently agitated by the truths then promulgated, a 
corresponding mass of errors followed in thunder 
tones, almost rivalling in depth and volume the sound 
of the truths before proclaimed ; but with this differ-
ence : the crying of the angel like the roaring of a 
lion was a unit, as all truth is ; while the thunders 
were multitudinous, as error is always manifested. 
There could he no more appropriate and expressive 
mode of symbolizing that such errors should follow 
the promulgation of the truth, and should be from 
beneath, than the significant declaration of the an-
gel : " Seal up those things which the seven thun-
ders uttered, and write them not "! ! 
The nature of the violent expressions of thought 
and passion, symbolized lethOlseven thunders, may 
be seen in any history of those times. D'AUBIGNE, 
in his History of the Reformation, and others, have 
drawn most vivid pictures of those scenes. As in all 
effillts for good Satan is careful to attempt a counter-
feit, or mingle impure elements, to draw the minds of 
men away from the truth, so in the Reformation 
there were false reformers.* THOMAS MUNZER, and 
others, in 1525, incited vast numbers on the borders 
of the Danube to make physical war on the Papal 
ecclesiastics. He denounced LUTHER, also, with the 
same violence that he did the Pope. In his mad at-
tempt to slay the ungodly, he and a vast number per-
ished. Others succeeded him, teaching that GOD 
spake to them in person, instructing them how to act. 
They professed the most extravagant doctrines, set-
ting aside both LUTHER and the Bible. The former 
did not go near far enough for them : and the latter 
was in their view insufficient for man's instruction, 
who could only be taught of GOD. They taught that 
the world was to be immediately devastated, and no 
priest or ungodly person be left alive, and that then 
the kingdom of Gm) would commence, and the saints 
possess the earth. Those who adhered to LUTHER 
united with him in bearing a faithful testimony against 
such extravagancies, adhered to the written Word, 
denounced new revelations, and showed from the Bi-
ble that Antichrist was to be overthrown by the per-
sonal advent of CHRIST, and not by the sword of man. 
We make the following extracts from Mr. LORD : 
Christ. There remained, therefore, two thousand 
years as the last age of the world.' 
" Luther also founded his t Supputation ' of times 
on the saying of Elias, that the world was to continue 
seven thousand years, and regarded the sixth thou• 
sand as having commenced with the eleventh centu-
ry, and as therefore little more than half passed at 
his publication of that work in 1545. 
" Flacius, in his Catalogue of Witnesses,' repre-
sented the twelve hundred and sixty days of the wild 
beast as having commenced in 606, and consequently 
referred 
year
erred 
86
it1sd6.estruction and the advent of Christ to 
the 
" These views corresponding so conspicuously with 
the symbol, continued to be repeated by a crowd of 
writers, till at the distance of sixty-seven years from 
the death of Melancthon, the celebrated Joseph Mede 
published his Clavis Apocalyptica,' in which he 
showed from the coincidence of the periods of the 
wild beast and the witnesses, that the advent of the 
Redeemer, and destruction of the anti-Christian pow-
ers were not to be expected until twelve hundred and 
sixty years had passed from the rise of the ten king-
doms, and that near one hundred of them therefore 
were still to revolve. As that period expired, and 
the knowledge of the prophecy advanced, the catas-
trophe of the wild beast was referred to a later time. 
Many recent expositors regard the twelve hundred 
and sixty years as having reached their end in 1792 ; 
and must refer the fall of the anti-Christian powers 
to the last half of the present, or the beginning of 
the next century."—Ex. of Apoc., pp. 238-240. 
By reading D'Aumost's history of the Reforma-
tion, it will be seen that all the vagaries of the vari-
ous sects of heretics were connected with an expec-
tation of the immediate establishment of CHRIST'S 
kingdom. That the seven thunders which were not 
to be written gave utterance to such an expectation is 
evidenced by the response of the angel, when he lift-
ed up his hand to heaven, and with the solemnity of 
an oath, by Him who liveth forever, affirmed that 
"the time should not yet be;" but that " in the days 
of the voice of the seventh angel, when he delays to 
sound,* the secret of Goo will be finished, as he bath 
announced to his servants the prophets." Why such 
an annunciation at this stage of the vision l It must 
he to correct a misapprehension which should exist 
at a corresponding time in its fulfilment respecting 
the immediate appearance of the kingdom. Thus 
did PAUL correct the Thessalonian brethren, when he 
wrote to them in his second epistle not to be hastily 
shaken in mind, as that the day of the LORD was 
then impending. 
Thus the teachings symbolized by the seven thun-
ders are disowned by the Spirit, by the command not 
to write them ; and the expectation of the establish-
ment of CHRIST'S kingdom then to be set up, in con-
nection with those heresies, was shown to be prema-
ture, by the oath of the angel, that " the time should not 
yet be," under the sixth, but should he in that little mo-
ment of delay when the seventh angel is preparing to 
sound—in the " quickly " before the coming of the 
third woe. 
After this annunciation, the disavowal of the truth 
of the heresies, and correction of the time respecting 
the completion of the mystery of GOD, the angel pro-
ceeds with the unfolding of the vision. The voice 
the revelator heard from heaven, again speaks to him ; 
in obedience to the command, he takes the book from 
the angel's hand, and eats it : it is sweet in his mouth, 
but in his stomach is bitter. 
To eat is to feast on, and enjoy the contents of any-
thing. In ISAIAH the people are invited to " buy and 
eat ;" and the SAVIOUR says, " I have meat to eat 
which ye know not of." The little hook is the same 
as that which before was open in the angel's hand—
the word of the LORD ; to eat it is to receive and 
feed on its contents. The first result of this was de-
lightful to the soul ; but when divisions and subdi-
visions followed, parties multiplied, heresies abound-
ed, and bitter and mischievous discussions, and fierce 
and rancorous contention followed—based on the un-
derstanding which several parties attached to portions 
of Scripture, it was fitly symbolized by the bitterness 
which followed the eating of the book. From the 
time of LUTHER to the present, hostile quarrels have 
greatly rent and marred the peace of the church—
einbittering the sweetness which the exercise of in-
dividual judgment first communicates. 
And he said : " Thou must prophesy again before 
many peoples, and nations, and tongues, and kings." 
Before the consummation it would be necessary for 
the contents of that little book to be once more spread 
before the nations of the earth. As at the com-
mencement of the Gospel promulgation, it was 
preached to every creature under heaven, so before 
its termination it should again be witnessed to the 
ends of the earth—be translated into all languages, 
and preached to all nations.—( To be continued.) 
* See margin of Whiting's Testament. Lord has it, "when he 
can be ready to sound," i. c., not yet sounded. 
Our brethren were assembled from a great distance, 
and were highly gratified with the instruction given, 
and were prepared anew to enter the field of labor. 
Our parting was one of peculiar interest. When the 
tents were removed, we assembled in a circle under 
the open canopy of heaven, and while the deep, emo-
tions of our hearts were uttered in prayer and praise 
to Goo, we said, indeed, that we were ONE, and that 
we would utter the cry of our coming LORD with 
more zeal. How sweet the communion of kindred 
spirits, in this our pilgrimage r. but compared to what 
we shall enjoy, it is but as a drop to the ocean. 
There was one class, however, not interested in 
the truth of the doctrines which we proclaim. We 
refer to those who preferred the` hours of darkness 
rather than light, as more suitable to their purposes. 
These dark elements began to gather as early as 
Wednesday evening, On Saturday night the winds 
were tempestuous. The howlings of these " winds " 
were rather unpleasant to the nervous. A few gusts 
were, for a time, irresistible, breaking through the 
We make a distinction between the agents who di-
. rected the unfolding of the visions to JOHN, and the 
agents who are presented as symbols during their un-
fsildiv. The angels who successively sounded were 
inktre• unfolders of the vision. The messengers bonnd 
were symbols of agents who should act conspicuous 
parts during its fulfilment. 
The mighty angel who now appears is, evidently, 
the SAVIOUR. • As Mr. ELLIOTT remarks, " there is 
no single instance of a created angel appearing vest-
ed in a cloud. It was the ensign of Deity ;" lie 
who " maketh the clouds his chariot ," whose " pa-
vilion round about him was dark waters and thick 
clouds of the skies." It is the same being JOHN be-
held, at the opening of the Apocalyptic visions, 
whose feet were like fine brass, as if they burned in 
a furnace, and his eyes like a flame of fire, who made 
these revelations unto his servant JOHN—the same 
that EZEKIEL saw, when he beheld " the likeness of 
the glory of the LORD ;" and DANIEL, when he fell 
at his feet as dead. He does not appear to JOHN as 
a symbol of his personal advent, but as the unfolder 
of the vision. Nor can he symbolize inferior agents ; 
but when he speaks, inferior agents may respond, 
and corresponding results may follow. 
Mr. ELLIOTT supposes the period here presented 
is the commencement of the Reformation, and from 
this opinion we do not dissent. 
The angel sets his foot on the sea, and on the land : 
the whole earth is affected by that movement. 
He cries with a loud voice : the whole world was 
startled by the sound of the truths which were pro-
claimed by the Reformers throughout Europe. 
The little hook in the hand of the angel was open : 
the word of Goo had before existed only in the Latin, 
Hebrew, and Greek. It was then translated into the 
language of the common people, and became accessi-
ble to all. 
As soon as the cry of the angel is heard, its rever-
berating sound is followed by the utterance of the 
voices of the seven thunders : these the apostle is 
commanded not to write. Why he should not write 
THE ADVENT T HERALD. 
29 
enclosures, and strewing the fields with these frag-
ments. Before any serious damage was committed, 
they were again " bound up," and imprisoned in the 
prison-house of our modern " Eolus." It is truly, 
however, an " ill wind, that blows nobody any good." 
And so in the present case ; for among the frag-
ments carried before this sirocco, was a hand-bill, 
blown from " spiritual Mount Zion, at Andover," en-
titled, " A confession of want of faith in Millerism, 
or the truth seen respecting a book called, CHRIST'S 
second coming.' " As a specimen of this three-col-
umned and two-cent document, printed at, Andover ! 
and re-sold at Boston, and elsewhere, we subjoin the 
following, remarkable for beauty of diction and sound 
theology ! " Millerites are all of them such a sort 
of men as love to get waked up about some new 
thing." "I knew a fellow to study for three weeks 
to learn how bird ' spelt ' goose.' " " Do n't let 
you and I get befogged along with these ignorant 
chaps." " I reckon we.can tell when 3 and 3 make 
16." " This world is a good world, and I should 
hate to have it burned up. Reader, should not you ?" 
Such theology puts the blush on PETER.-2 Pet. 3: 
12. We are happy to say, that these elements were 
effectually restrained by the proper authorities.--
Praise to the officers and citizens of Westboro', that 
they recognized the fact that they were not to " bear 
the sword in vain, and that they were ministers of 
GOD, avengers to execute wrath upon him that doeth 
evi,;" and that it is their duty to " hold the winds " 
urn the messenger from the sun rising has sealed 
the servants of Goo.—Rev. 7:3. 
DEAR BRO. HIMES :-1 have so much anxiety that 
peace and harmony, with verity and love, might pre-
vail, that it has Made me rather impatient to do some-
thing myself to bring about this state of things. But 
then, I cannot help what others will do,—they will 
judge for themselves, and so act. You will no doubt 
expect that some others will take the course pursued 
by the writers of the letter from Batavia, who accuse 
you of waging an " ungodly warfare," making a 
" stretch for power, popularity, and honor among 
men," and of a " disposition to crush and trample 
down those who honestly differ from you," &c. &c. 
These are hard sayings from professed friends in these 
last days; but so it is in New York State, as well as 
in Maine, and other places. Well, in the midst of all 
these hard sayings, (and, I believe, false sayings, 
too,) there is this promise to console us, that all things 
will work together for good to those who love the 
Lord.—Rom. 8th. And while this, with kindred 
promises, stand on record, we have only to " keep 
ourselves in the love of God, looking for the mercy 
of our Lord Jesus Christ unto eternal life."—Jude. 
We shall come out right in the end. Courage, then, 
my brother, and although in minor points we see not 
eye to eye, yet in the great work of proclaiming the 
everlasting gospel of the kingdom, we will labor 
shoulder to shoulder, until the last note of alarm is 
sounded to a perishing world. I am grieved exceed-
ingly at the course of some. I hoped that the kind, 
yet faithful appeal to Bro. Marsh would have caused 
a oneness again ; but, alas! I fear the breach is wider 
still. May God give you wisdom to know when to 
speak, and when to be silent. 0 keep, if possible, 
keep the unholy warfare out of the " Herald :" let 
it be filled with sound sense, and with meat in due 
season for the children, who are crying, " Give us 
this day our daily bread." I hope and pray that you 
gray be sustained amid your trials, and healed of all 
your infirmities. I regret to hear that your lungs 
have become somewhat affected again. It was the 
saying of one anciently, that every man was immor-
tal until his work was done. So it will be with you, 
my brother, and with the " Advent Herald." Love 
to all the friends in Boston. T. Smerri. 
 
Eddington (Me.), July 8th, 1849. 
It is as painful to us as to our brother, to occupy 
any portion of the Herald with extraneous matters. 
We think we see the time arriving, when matters 
will be so well understood, that it will be no longer 
necessary to notice any of the attacks on our East-
ern brethren from professed friends. Our brethren 
may be assured, that we shall say as little as we can, 
and not feel that the cause of GOD is dishonbred by 
our silence. GOD will soon reveal where the wrong 
lies. Let none suffer their minds to be diverted from 
more important considerations by these light afflic- 
tions, which are doubtless permitted as a trial of pa-
tience and endurance of evil for CHRIST'S sake.—ED. 
TO CORRESPONDENTS.—J. TURNER—Your letter to 
Bro. H. has been received. The " change " in our 
note connected with your statement of which you 
speak was made at the proposal of a member of the 
council, between whom and yourself there seems to 
have been some misunderstanding in reference to the 
fixing whatever was published in the case—you 
supposing that he was to be specially consulted in 
preparing the document, while he was not aware 
that this was expected of him ; and as he was not 
present when the article agreed to by yourself was 
written, he thought the fact of a seeming delay in 
the article expected to be published should be stated, 
as he had spoken of it, without intimating that there 
was any reluctance or unwillingness to have it ap-
pear. But we certainly had no idea that the change 
" reverses" and makes " utterly false " what the 
article, as you agreed to it expresses ; nor was it 
intended to assert that you agreed, " before the com-
mittee," to make any public statement. We give 
the portion of the note in which the " change " oc-
curs, as you request ; and all who are interested to 
do so can compare it with that published last week. 
" We further state, that the report said to have 
been circulated by some, to Bro. Turner's prejudice, 
that he agreed before the committee and parties con-
cerned to make a confession, and failed to fulfil his 
agreement, is incorrect, and wrong. If there has 
been any unexpected delay in carrying out the deci-
sion and wishes of the committee, it has resulted from 
the absence, or pressing engagements of others, and 
not from any reluctance on the part of Bro. Turner." 
H. P. S.—It lacks rhyme and rhythm. 
A THEME FOR POESY.—" In Bath, Me., a child of 
Dr. Shaw, two years of age, died on Saturday after 
a sickness of six hours, from eating cobalt prepared 
for flies. When her eyes began to grow dim with 
death she fancied it was night, and she was going to 
sleep, and she died with her customary " Good night, 
mamma; good night, mamma," many times repeat-
ed on her trembling lips. 
We hope that some of the sweet singers of Israel 
will catch the poetic fire, and, tuning their harp strings, 
will send us some of their sweetest and most lyrical 
thoughts, in harmony with the above—thoughts that 
breathe in words that burn. 
Dear child, she thought that death was but the 
return of usual slumber, and thus she fell asleep. 
Yes, she sleeps in JESUS. Her slumber is doubtless 
sweet, with no disturbing dreams. And when she 
awakes in the morning/ of the resurrection, may she be 
clothed upon with immortality, and find her dear 
papa and mamma with the glorified throng of the 
redeemed, to greet them in the long wished for 
morning. 
ORDERS FOR Booxs.—Many may be waiting for us 
to send books without a specific order. Let all who 
want books, Harps, tracts, &c., send their orders, 
without delay the first that comes is first attended 
to. An order for " some books " is quite too indefi- 
nite. Give the kind and number wanted. We can-
not send large lots of books, of all kinds, as formerly, 
to lay on hand dead for some time, and then be re-
turned, worth less to us than when sent. We shall 
keep a full supply of all the books we advertise, and 
answer all orders promptly, to any and all responsi-
ble persons. We are getting a full supply of the 
new works. We have worked night and day to get 
them out. But few know the difficulty of getting 
out such books. Our friends will, therefore, pardon 
past delay in attending to their orders. 
" The Seventeenth Annual Report of the PERKINS 
Institution for the Blind," has been received, and 
presents that institution in a flourishing condition. 
There, those who are shut out from beholding the 
beauties of nature, and never can gaze ort the lumi-
naries of heaven, are educated and instructed in 
various handicrafts, so that instead of being a burden 
to themselves and friends, they become interesting 
companions, and productive members of the com-
munity. Beds, cushions, &c., embracing a great 
variety of articles, are manufactured by them, and are 
for sale at their store, Nos. 20 and 22 Bromfield-
street, Boston, at wholesale and retail. Those who 
look in there can do a deed of charity, and also get 
their money's worth. 
BOOKS WANTED.—With the exception of Whi-
ting's Testament, we have no hooks which are pub-
lished at the " Advent Herald " office. We would 
like a general assortment. Please send immediately. 
—Harbinger. 
Bro. M. knows what books we have, what kinds, 
and 'how many of each kind he wishes. We will 
send immediately, on his informing us how many of 
each kind he needs. With an indefinite order we 
have no means of judging how many are needed.—
Agent. 
TOUR WEST.—We intend, if GoD permits, to 
hold two Tent-meetings while in Western New 
York : one at Homer, as advertised, and perhaps one 
at Syracuse, or as Providence may open the dom. 
Bro. D. I. ROBINSON and Prof. WHITING we hope, 
with others, will be in attendance, to give lectures on 
the great question of the Advent. The state of our 
health is such still, that we cannot promise to do 
much, but will do what we can. 
THE TENT. —Bro. LENFEST, our Tent-master, 
started for Homer with the Tent on the 20th inst., 
and will have all in readiness on our arrival. We 
are detained a few days by sickness in our family, 
but leave tille 25th inst. We shall, by special re-
quest, spend Sunday, the 26th, at North Wilbraham, 
and then go through to Homer direct. 
" Would it be right to ask the Harbinger,' 
through the Herald,' the reason why he has sup- 
pressed that last letter? WM. JOHNSTON." 
We see no impropriety in your so doing.—ED. 
Foreign News. 
The royal mail steamship Hibernia arrived at her 
wharf in East Boston on Wednesday evening, August 
15th, bringing dates seven days later from Europe. 
There is little change, either in a commercial or 
political point of view, since our last accounts. The 
weather had been good, and the market for bread-
stuffs was depressed. The cotton market was dull, 
bosh at Liverpool and Havre, buyers standing aloof, 
while a brisk demand was kept up for Manchester 
goods. American provisions were in request. Con-
sols had slightly declined. We give below extracts 
from our files of English papers received by the 
steamer. A 
England.—The news from England possesses hut 
little interest. Parliament had been prorogued, and 
the Queen embarked on the 1st inst. on board the 
royal yacht, on her tour to Ireland. 
The ravages of the cholera continued, but were 
mostly confined to the destitute population. Out of 
the 600 daily cases of alai, more than 250 apply 
to London, whilst the r nder take place in the 
whole kingdom, including about 50 in Scotland. 
Ireland.—The news from Ireland is unimportant 
—the only topic of interest being the visit of the 
Queen. The crops look promising. 
O'GORMAN MAHON brought before the attention of 
the House of Commons a most extraordinary fact. 
He produced a candle, which he placed on the 
Speaker's table, which had been manufactured from 
the peat of the bogs of Ireland. A discovery has 
been made by chemical process to make availa-
ble the vast peat bogs of Ireland, and a gentleman 
named Owen, whom Lord ASHLEY pronounced " a 
discret, sober, generous, high-minded and religious 
man," is Working the adventure to a considerable 
extent. It will be seen by a detailed statement else-
where, that 100 tons of peat which cost £8, and the 
labor of converting it a father £8, produced no less 
an amount than £91 16s. 8d !! ! Mr. OWEN, it is 
stated by Lord ASHLEY, has experimented upon 
thousands of tons of peat during the last twelve 
months with similar results. 
Frane.—France remained quiet. The President 
was on a tour to the south, and arrived at Tours on 
Wednesday morning, August 1st, where he was re-
ceived with much enthusiasm, at the review of the 
army at Angier. The troops cried out, " Five 
Napoleon ;" the National Guards, " Vive la Presi-
dent." It was remarked that the cry of " Vive la 
President " was the mot d' ordre of the magistracy 
and of the municipal councils, who had come from 
differents points of the department ; that of " Vive 
Napoleon," the cry of the army and clergy. The 
people and the National Guard cried, " Vive la Re-
publique." Only two or three shouts of " Vive 
l'Empereur," were heard from some old soldiers of 
the empire, dressed in their old uniforms ; they had 
no political signification, and found no echo in the 
people. 
It is announced on good authority, that the Presi-
dent of the Republic will hold a grand review of the 
whole of the armed force, amounting to 150,000 men, 
in the department of the Seine, on the 15th inst., the 
anniversary of the birthday of the Emperor Napoleon. 
The French fleet in the Mediterranean has been 
ordered to return to Toulon. A few days ago Ad-
miral BAUDIN was suddenly deprived of the command 
of the fleet, which was conferred upon Admiral 
PARSEVAL DUCHESNES, and it was then announced 
that the fleet was ordered to remain at the llyeres 
Islands to wait for orders. The intention was to 
send the fleet to Civita Vecchia to carry the Pope 
back to his dominions in state. The fact is, the 
Government, which appears destined to be always 
making blunders on the talian question, fondly 
imagined that, once they en erect Rome, there would 
be no difficulty in inducing Pius IX. to return to his 
capital. lcut his Holiness is not so easily to be 
moved. He refused to go back on the conditions 
proposed to him; and as Admiral PARSEVAL Du-
CHESNES cannot force him to accept of hospitality on 
board a French squadron, the fleet, having nothing 
else to do, has been ordered hack to Toulon. 
It has been positively stated in the lobbies of the 
Assembly, that the ex-king Louis PHILIPPE had the 
intention, for the most pious object, to demand per- 
mission of the French Government to make a pil-
grimage to Dreaux, where the bodies of the Duke 
of Orleans, and other members of the ex-royal family, 
are deposited. The ex-king would only remain two 
days, and would return again to England. He 
would assume the title of Count de Ponthieu, and 
would only be accompanied by a valet-de-chambre. 
The Council of Ministers have deliberated on the 
propriety of taking off the state of siege in Paris. 
That course will be almost immediately adopted. 
Business was somewhat active on Thursday on 
the Bourse, and prices improved ; but the reason of 
which is not stated. 
Portugal. —The ex-king of Sardinia, CHARLES 
ALBERT, died, after intense suffering, on the 28th of 
July. His body was embalmed, and placed in the 
cathedral, to await the arrival of a steamer appoint-
ed to take his remains to Genoa. 
Italy.—Letters from Rome state that M. de 
Corcelles has gone to Gaeta, and that, the Austrian 
General Wimpfen had arrived in Rome. The Pope 
has issued a proclamation, declaring that a com-
mission will be appointed to regulate the Government 
of the State. An amnesty is also talked of, from 
which, however, are expected to be excluded the 
members of the triumvirate, the deputies, com-
missioners, chief of sections, clergymen, and the 
amnestied of 1846. The Pontifical authority has 
been re-established at Albano, and a solemn Te 
Deum sung in the cathedral, at which the French 
garrison, and the civil, municipal, and religious 
authorities assisted. 
The following ordinance, published in the " Gior-
male di Roma," of the 19th ult., is very significant 
and suggestive :—" During the night numerous as-
semblages of people have been observed to parade 
the town, notwithstanding the laws in vigor. Con-
sidering that such assemblages cannot be qualified 
otherwise than as criminal and reprehensible in their 
object, it is ordered : Art. 1. Every crowd of persons 
consisting of more titan five during the night is ex-
pressly prohibited. 2. Transgressors shall be im-
mediately arrested and punished according to the 
rigor of the laws. 3. The armed force is directed to 
enforce the execution of this decree. Everybody is 
informed that particular instructions have been given 
to the armed force on this subject." The real truth 
seems to be that the citizens decline to associate with 
time French, or to have dealings with them in any 
way. Garibaldi was at Arezzo on the 22d ult. 
The Pope has issued the following address to the 
inhabitants of the Roman territories :— 
Pius IX. to his beloved subjects—God bath 
raised his arm, and hath commanded the tempestuous 
ocean of anarchy and impiety to stop. He hath 
guided the Catholic armies to support the rights of 
humanity, which had been trampled upon—of faith, 
which had been attacked—and of the Holy See and 
our Sovereignty. 0 Eternal Glory, which even in 
the midst of Thy wrath does not forget Thy mercy ! 
Beloved subjects, if amidst the whirlwind of these 
horrible events our heart has been saturated with 
bitterness, on reflecting upon so many evils which 
the church, religion, and you have suffered, it has 
lost none of that affection with which it has ever 
loved you, and loves you still. We hasten by our 
vows the day which will lead us again among you ; 
and when time day shall have come, we shall return 
with the fervent desire of bearing consolation unto 
you, and with the determination to devote all our 
energy to your real advantage, by applying difficult 
remedies to great evils, and consoling those excel-
lent subjects who, while they await institutions in 
accordance with their wants, wish, as we also wish, 
to see the freedom and independence of the Ponti-
fical Sovereign, so necessary to the tranquillity of the 
Catholic world, guaranteed. Meanwhile, in order 
to re-organise public affairs, we shall shortly name a 
commission, which, invested with full powers, and 
seconded by a Ministry, will direct the Government 
of the State. We implore to-day, with increased 
fervor, the blessing of the Lord, which we have 
ever implored, even at a distance from you ; we imy 
plure that it may be abundantly shed upon you ; it is 
a great consolation for our soul to hope that all those 
who have made themselves unfit to gather its fruits 
by their errors, may render themselves worthy of it 
by a sincere and constant return to righteousness. 
" Given at Gaeta, July 17. Pius IX." 
A spirit-stirring proclamation has been addressed 
to the Romans by Mazzini, in which he recommends 
them to endure, with constancy and firmness, the 
calamity of foreign intervention which smites them 
at present, and not to give way to discouragement. 
He calls upon the municipalities to repeat, with 
firmness, that they adhere voluntarily to the Repub-
lican form, and to the abolition of the temporal pow-
er of the Pope, and that they consider every Gov-
ernment illegal which has not been freely approved 
by the people, and he reminds them that it is im-
possible to imprison a whole nation. 
The " Piedmontese Gazette " of time 28th says—
" General Oudinot left Rome on the 23rd for Gaeta, 
in order to consult the cabinet of his Holiness." 
The " Opinione " of Turin, of the 28th, states that 
Marshal Wimpfen left Rome on the 21st, after hav-
ing had long conferences with General Ondinot, who 
had limited himself to conversation of a merely 
military character, saying that M. de Corcelles al( ne 
was entrusted with the political part. 
Sardinia and Piedmont.—It is confidently affirmed, 
and upon trustworthy authority, that the negotiations 
between Sardinia and Austria have terminated in the 
acceptance of the Austrian ultimatum, with some 
modifications. It is stated that the indemnity to be 
paid to Austria has been fixed at 75,000,000 francs. 
Austria and Hungary.—The news from the seat 
of war in Hungary continues to announce victories by 
the Hungarians. On the 13th ult. they had the fol-
lowing positions : 
General Aulich, with 15,000 regulars and 20,000 
well-disciplined levies, was at the Platten Lake, 
14,000 regulars and a vast number of levies were on 
the banks of the Waag ; 30,000 men were in and 
around Comorn. Dembinski's force of 40,000 troops 
and 100,000 levies, was divided into two corps, one 
of which was at the foot of the Carpathians, while 
the other was united with Georgey's corps, near 
Ypolyzagh. There is a force of 35,000 regulars and 
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THE ADVENT HERALD. 
30 
Correspondence, 
THE PILGRIM'S SONG. 
We are passing away, but we're homeward bound, 
To the realm of the pure and the free ; 
Where the sweet gliding waters of life are found, 
And the throne in its radiancy. 
Here bitter drops flow in our sweetest cup, 
And thorns are in all our flowers; 
But we'll drink from the fount where angels sup, 
And roam amidst thornless bowers. 
We have tempests to brave, and rough surges to 
breast, 
We have sighing, and sadness, and gloom; 
But lightly they sit, as a gossamer vest, 
For we're going where joys ever bloom. 
Oft the unbidden tear forth in bitterness steals, 
And the form goes low bending with pain ; 
And the spirit is pressed with the woes it feels, 
But 0, why should we ever complain? 
We have trials, too, but will leaVe them all 
At the gates of our Eden home ; 
Why speak of the pain, the thorn, or the gall, 
When the glory so soon will come? 
We shall meet our King on his bridal morn, 
Who a costly ransom hath given, 
To waft us away from the flames that burn, 
To the glory-clad hills of heaven. 
Then brother cheer up, and gather thy wings 
For thy long, bright, blissful home; 
For hearken ! the trumpet's glad echo rings, 
And the angels are bidding thee come. 
We are passing away—but we're homeward bound, 
We shall meet where the holy ones dwell, 
Where the sweet-gliding waters of life are found, 
And where none ever murmur Farewell ! 
D. T. T., JR. 
LETTER FROM HALLOWELL, ME. 
to know whether such a disposition existed : we have 
not seen nor felt it. The " Herald " has not advo-
cated our sentiments in the above-named points of 
doctrine, it is true, nor has it done them justice in at-
tempting to disprove them ; but we do not accuse 
them of knowingly, or intentionally, doing injustice. 
Nor do we feel that an attempt has been made to 
crush us. It is true, that some correspondents have 
said things of us, on account of our faith, that looked 
very unchristian, and others betrayed much ignorance 
of our sentiments ; but we can well endure all this, 
with a " charity that thinketh no evil." But the 
" Herald " occupies too useful a place in the cause 
of our coming Lord for us to abandon it, because it 
does not teach all that we believe to be truth ; and 
the integrity and value of Bro. limes as a Christian 
are too well known for us to withdraw our sympa- 
thy arid support from him. • 
We here wish to say, that we have seen much 
abuse shown the " Herald " and its conductors, by 
some editors and their correspondents, who believe as 
we do, and if we are capable of anything like judg-
ing rightly, we have seen and felt a powerful attempt 
made, first to convert the " Herald," anti failing in 
that, to destroy its influence ; and this has so far suc-
ceeded, as to poison theilids of many of our hon- 
est and devoted brethre that they will not read 
the " Herald," and ca arcely be familiar with 
those that do. This, however, does not change the 
truth which they hold ; but shows a spirit in some of 
our professed friends and " pioneers," which causes 
shame and grief to all who love righteousness, and 
know the facts in the case. 
We being well acquainted with the brethren of 
the " Herald," and knowing their spirit and practice, 
are ready to give them a hearty support, according to 
our ability, and can labor with them in the fullest 
confidence that they will not betray or " crush " us. 
We wish also to help bear their burdens, and receive 
a share of their reproaches and persecutions for 
Christ's sake, by being co-workers with them in ex-
tending the proclamation of a soon coming judgment. 
And we are willing to aid them all that we can, " in 
taking journeys, anti distributing tracts," for the 
same purpose that they have—to warn a guilty world 
of its approaching ruin,—to prepare a people for the 
kingdom of God, and to comfort the church of Christ 
in these perilous times, with the news of their re-
demption being at hand. This is their object ; and 
you, brethren of the West, need not fear to heartily 
support and assist these men when they come among 
you : they have a higher object than to go about to 
circulate tracts in order to buy up influence. We are 
free to say, a more false and wicked charge was never 
made. We would to God that others, who see the 
great truth of the approaching judgment, would, in-
stead of laying up treasure on earth, investing money 
in houses and lands, or staying at home for ease, do 
as these brethren have done, use the Lord's property 
and their talents to advance the cause of Christ, and 
be ready for his corning. 
We subscribe ourselves your brethren in the Lord, 
waiting for the kingdom of God. 
In behalf of many Eastern brdthren, " who hon-
estly differ," but fully subscribe to the above senti- 
tnents. I. C. WELLCOME, 
N. SMITH, L. L. HOWARD, 
D. MINOR. J. THOMAS, jr. 
LETTER FROM H. H. GROSS. 
DEAR Beep. Himes :—It is just six weeks since I 
left New York on my present tour. I visited the 
friends in Middletown, Saratoga county, and preached 
to them on the Sabbath ; they continue to prosper, 
and are quite anxious that one more rousing effort 
should be made there this autumn, especially if you 
can attend. They think it might do well to pitch the 
tent there. I left with them a set of your best charts, 
to be used in their chapel, where they maintain meet-
ings every Sabbath, and proceeded to Milton Centre, 
where a few tried friends assembled, and we pro-
claimed our anticipated independence from the "iron 
and clay " kingdom of this world, by the speedy es-
tablishment of the kingdom of God, which shall fill 
the whole earth. 
How striking the contrast ! in the village of Ball-
ston, through which we passed, (morning of July 
4th,) in the railroad-cars, on the public roads,—all 
told of the gathering of vast multitudes, to joyfully 
celebrate the declaration of American independence 
from British oppession. But at a distance of some 
two miles from that assembly, might have been seen 
a very small remnant of sober, yet joyful souls, whose 
minds were girded up with the truth concerning the 
speedy coming King andikingdom, and themselves 
patiently waiting and' watching for the grand crisis of 
this w'orld's history ;—with their lamps (God's word) 
trimmed and giving light, brighter and brighter as 
they near " the perfect day," assembled in a long 
since forsaken and dilapidated old-fashioned Presby-
terian house,—engaged in worshipping God accord-
ing to his Spirit and his truth ; speaking as becom-
eth the oracles of God concerning the signs of the 
times, which demonstrate that " we have not followed 
cunningly devised fables, when we made known the 
power and coming of our Lord Jesus Christ," to 
fulfil the exceeding great and precious promises con-
cerning his everlasting kingdom. 
Sabbath, July 8th, I preached in the village of 
Saratoga Spa to a very good audience ; considerable 
interest was manifested. Meetings ought to be sus-
tained here at regular intervals, as there are several 
families in the vicinity who are devoted to the cause, 
and others who are interested. Held several meetings 
some three miles west, at the house of Bro. Hill, 
where are a few warm-hearted friends of the coming 
Saviour. 
Sabbath, July 15th, preached in Jamesville to a 
full congregation, assembled in the loft of a wagon 
shed. The friends were assembled from Saratoga 
Spa, Ballston Spa, Milton, Galway, Greenfield, Provi-
dence, &c., and in the forenoon we celebrated the 
death of our now living Lord and Saviour. Left 
with them a set of your best charts, as meetings are 
held there every Sabbath : it is a central location, and 
meetings should be maintained there at regular in-
tervals. 
Gave two lectures at Providence, and had a very 
good attendance, considering the season. There are 
but few devoted friends to the cause here. 
Sabbath, July 22d, by invitation of one lone Ad-
vent family in Greenfield Centre, I preached twice in 
the Baptist house (the last time on Sabbath morning) 
to a full and remarkably attentive congregation, who 
heard for the first time. Quite a number declared 
their faith in the subject, and many eagerly received 
publications, in order to search further. It was a '42 
occasion. I have appointed a protracted meeting in 
September in the same place, and hope that much 
good may be done in the name of Jesus. In the af-
ternoon I rode to Rock city, a distance of about seven 
miles, and preached to the friends ; quite a number 
were present from a distance. 
Bro. Brown, of Cranberry Creek, was on hand to 
convey us to his house, more than twenty miles dis-
tant, where we found a few friends assembled to wel-
come us. There are a few tried friends in this re-
gion, who have never forsaken the assembling them-
selves together, as the manner of some is, and conse-
quently they enjoy the favor of God, and the blessing 
of his Spirit, and have not left their first love. The 
communion and fellowship of such people is indeed 
heaven on earth. They expected to have commenced 
a protracted meeting at Foudabush on the 24th, as a 
prominent member of the ---- church in that village 
had engaged to secure for the meeting probably the 
church, but in case of failure, he agreed to fit up his 
barn, so that, in any case, the friends in Mayfield, 
Cranberry Creek, &c., expected the meeting to be 
held there, and had circulated notice accordingly ; 
but the individual referred to failed to give us the use 
of his barn, and at the eleventh hour we were with-
out any arrangements for a place. A prayer meeting 
was held, and on the .23d Brn. Brown and Gardner 
went forth to spy out the land. After travelling six 
or eight miles, as far as Benedict's Corners, in 
Broadalbin, they inquired of Mr. Benedict whether 
he could inform them of a barn or grove, to which he 
promptly responded, by offering the use of a grove 
on his land ; and further, that he would seat it, and 
make a home for friends from a distance and their 
horses. Thus the Lord opened the way, and the 
news was speedily circulated, by sending my bills into 
different towns and villages. The meetings com-
menced Thursday afternoon, and the number and in-
terest continued to increase until the Sabbath, when 
I closed with three discourses to the assembled thou-
sands of eager listeners, from many miles around.—
God was with us, and his word accomplished much 
gOod. Many confessed the truth, who had never heard 
before, and others purchased publications, or received 
them gratis. I distributed several hundred publica-
tions, in part by the liberal aid of our beloved Bro. 
Judson, and the hearts of hundreds were made glad. 
This was a new field, and was opened by the espe-
cial providence of God. To him be all the glory. 
Durinethe four weeks to that date, I was so sit-
uated as to be obliged to labor far beyond my health 
and strength, principally in consequence of Brn. lug- 
mire and Gates not being with me, as was expected ; 
and now, for nearly two weeks since the 29th oh., 
I have not been able to preach any, and have suffered 
intensely, with but little prospect of being able to re-
sume my labors ; however, I am gaining, and, God 
being my helper, shall preach twice to-morrow in 
Toddville. 
It has been exceedingly trying to me to frequently 
witness much bitter invective against you and the 
" Herald," because of the course you have been ob- 
liged to pursue towards the " Harbinger " and its 
editor. This too often results from a personal bias— 
a sectarian spirit ; as on enquiry, I have frequently 
found that the statements of only one side have been 
read, and the judgment satisfied in that way ; a course 
that reminds die of the Dutch justice, who, having 
heard the witnesses on one side, declared himself 
satisfied. However, I have seen honest minds drop 
their bitterness at once on hearing a brief statement 
of the facts in the case. It is well known, that for 
some years previous to last winter, I had rather fa-
vored the " Harbinger," although there was so much 
in that paper which I considered wrong, that I could 
hardly recommend it. I have kept myself thoroughly 
acquainted with the whole subject during its rise and 
progress for some two and a half years past, and have 
hoped it would finally be brought to a just and harmo-
nious conclusion. The investigation at Rochester 
last spring encouraged me to expect it to end there ; 
and had not an " if" stood in the way, I should not 
have been so sadly disappointed and grieved. The 
cause lies bleeding from its main artery in conse-
quence of the sad results of that conference. Bro. 
H., you was declared guilty to a certain extent, and 
you confessed your wrong, and God says you " shall 
find mercy ;" but the course pursued since by Bro. 
Marsh can but meet the disapprobation of every un-
prejudiced and informed brother and sister. 
The editorial of the " Harbinger," in reply to the 
report of the committee of the New York and Bos-
ton conferences, headed " Ultimatum," is so well 
calculated to cover up the truth in the case, and to 
win sympathy, and thus make had worse, that my 
heart sunk within me—my whole being groaned—I 
could but weep in anguish ; and when I saw some 
of the first fruits of that sympathetic appeal, in the 
alienation of friends in places where I have travelled, 
as well as a specimen published in the " Herald," 
(letter of Bro. Smith and others, of Batavia,)—I 
concluded to keep silence no longer, although I shall 
keep aloof from every contention and intermeddline 
in the affair ; but endeavor to heal up by frankly ex- 
plaining the truth in the case, as occasion may from 
time to time require, and exhort all to strive, by all 
righteous means, to keep " the unity of the Spirit in 
the bond of peace." 
13th.—Yesterday I preached twice to a very full 
congregation in Toddville, near Cooperstown, and 
we enjoyed much of the presence of God's Spirit.—
A good congregation, mostly of persons quite inter-
ested to hear, and some thorough believers, could be 
maintained here ; out in Cooperstown village, all is 
dead, twice dead, and will soon be plucked up by the 
roots and burned. I can but hope there will remain 
even there five who have faith. Dr. Altny and family 
have always expressed much desire to hear, and have 
always made me a father's home whenever I have 
visited Toddville. Worthy brethren will find friends 
to entertain them, and to receive the word with avidity, 
whenever they may be passing, and stop to speak the 
faithful word in the village. Dr. A., and other phy-
sicians of great experience, direct me to mostly cease 
my public speaking,—that is, they decide that I must 
do so, and only speak perhaps twice on the Sabbath, 
if I would live any length of time. I have been well 
aware of my condition, and have labored so much be-
yond my strength only on the full assurance of faith, 
that he that is coming will come in a little while, and 
will not tarry. Thus I shall continue on, or do what 
I can for some two months longer, but cannot jour-
ney constantly through another winter. Yours in 
blessed hope of speedy redemption. 
Cooperstown (N. Y.), Aug 11th, 1849. 
HISTORY OF CHRIST. 
(Continued from our lag.) 
In the fifteenth year of the reign of Tiberius, the 
word of God came unto John in the wilderness, and 
he was moved by the Spirit of God. He came *so 
all the country round about Jordan, preaching the 
baptism of repentance, for the remission of sins, ful-
filling the words of Esaias, saying, "The voice ef 
one crying in the wilderness, Prepare ye the way of 
the.Lord, make his paths straight." John's preach-
ing moved the hearts of all the people. There seas 
a power and truth in it that they could not gainsay 
nor resist. They came to him from Jerusalem and 
all Judea to hear him, and to be baptized by him.—
His preaching was very popular with them until he 
began to reprove them for their sins, and to call them 
a generation of vipers. It appears to me that a simi--
lar message, or cry, is to be made in the world just 
preceding the second advent. John, the revelator, 
saw in vision an angel flying through the midst of 
heaven, having the everlasting gospel, saying, " Fear 
God, and give glory to him, for the hour of his judg-
ment is come ;" and again : " Behold, the bridegroom 
cometh ; go ye out to meet him." These and many 
other passages convince me that a special cry is to 
be made just before the advent. 
While John was preaching and baptizing, some 
thought that he was the Christ, and others that he 
was a prophet. But he tells them that he is not the 
Christ, but the voice of one crying in the wilderness. 
" I indeed baptize you with water, but one mightier 
than I cometh, whose shoes I am not worthy to un-
loose : he shall baptize you with the Holy Ghost and 
with fire." 
It appears that Jesus came also with the people 
where John was ; he saw him, and says, " Behold 
the Lamb of God, who taketh away the sin of the 
world." When John was nearly through baptizing 
the people in Jordan, Jesus came also to be baptized 
of him, but John forbade him, saving, " I have need 
to be baptized of thee." But Christ said, " Suffer 
it to be so now, for it becometh us to fulfil all right-
eousness ;" and he baptized him. When Jesus came 
up out of the water, the 'Spirit of God, in the form 
of a dove, descended from above and alighted on his 
head ; and a voice was heard from heaven, saying, 
" This is- my beloved Son, in whom I am well, 
pleased." 
Here is a worthy example for all who love and be-
lieve in Jesus, to follow him jn this solemn and de-
lightful ordinance, which was a figure of his death, 
burial, and resurrection. 
Afterwards, Jesus was led away into the wilder-
ness, was tempted of the devil, and fasted forty days. 
He resisted all temptations, and did not listen to any 
of his charms nor his promises, but baffled him on 
every hand, and came off victorious. 
Let us also resist every temptation, and all the 
fiery darts of the adversary, who is going about like 
a roaring lion, seeking whom he may devour. Let 
us be overcomers, as he overcame, and hold out faith-
ful unto the end. 
Jesus returned in the power of the Spirit into 
Galilee, and taught in the synagogue, being glorified 
of all. God anointed him to preach the gospel to 
the poor, to heal the broken-hearted, to preach deliv-
erance to the captives, and recovering of sightsto the 
blind, to set at liberty them that are bound, and to 
preach the acceptable year of the Lord. The above 
words he read from the prophecy of Isaiah, when he 
came to Nazareth, where he had been brought up . 
When he had read as far as the words above quoted, 
he closed the book and said, " This day is this scrip-
ture fulfilled in your ears." 
Jesus was now about thirty years old, and the 
Spirit of the Lord was upon him, as the prophet said 
it would be, when he began to preach, and it re-
mained with him through all of his labors. We see 
that the Spirit and the Word go together. Jesus was 
the Word, and was made flesh, and dwelt among 
men. It is not all spirit, and no word, as some teach, 
nor all word, and no spirit, as others teach. Jesus 
preached in the demonstration of the Spirit and with 
power. And the people wondered at the gracious 
words which proceeded out of his mouth ; and they 
said, by way of reproach, " Is not this Joseph's 
son?" 
Jesus' course of preaching was, according to his 
commission, among the poor, the lame, the blind, and 
DEAR BRO. RIMES:—It has appeared to us since 
reading the charges of E. M. Smith, against you and 
" some of the Eastern brethren," published in the 
" Herald " of July 28th, that some of us, who are 
well acquainted with you, and the work in which you 
are engaged, should speak to our brethren who do 
not know the truth in this matter. We take pleasure, 
under these afflicting circumstances, in being able to 
say, that we know that said charges are entirely 
groundless, and false in the extreme. The writer of 
the letter referred to says he is " compelled, from the 
necessity of the case, to withdraw his support from 
the Herald." Well, we do not doubt his sincerity ; 
but what has caused him to feel such necessity ? We 
are not in doubt about this matter. We have ex-
pected that many of our Western brethren would be 
misled, their minds soured and prejudiced, against 
the "Herald," our Eastern Conference's, and the 
brethren who sustained them : for we are not igno-
rant of the influence that has been exerted over many 
of them. We have read all the false statements, the 
ingenious misrepresentations, and the unholy insinua-
tions, that have been published by our professed bro-
ther in the West, in relation to us, our motives, and 
our " acts." And then, when he was told of his 
fault, and exhorted to desist, and assured that he was 
not publishing truth about us, he called on us as a 
conference to correct him. This has been done, both 
for his good and that of the cause of Christ. But 
instead of receiving it in that light, he has perverted 
our doings, and by other misrepresentations, con-
verted them into persecutions. Therefore we could 
but expect, that many of our brethren, both West and 
East, who were not acquainted with the facts, would 
be deceived and prejudiced by such statements, com-
ing as they did from a professed friend and watch-
man, and in such a tone of sanctity and interest for 
the cause of truth. Our hearts have been often pained 
while reading them, for we knew they were not true, 
and we could foresee what an influence they would 
produce on those who were far from us, and could not 
easily learn the facts. But-we trust the way is being 
opened to develop real character, which will disabuse 
the minds of many, and set all right with honest 
hearts ; if not before, " the manifestation of the sons 
of God " will determine it. 
The first charge of the writer of the letter alluded 
to shows, that it came from a highly prejudiced mind, 
one who appeared not to be aware that his brethren 
in the East knew such a charge to be false. But we 
will speak more of this under the third charge, for 
they are blended in one. The second charge falls 
powerless on all who are well acquainted with Bro. 
Himes and his labors. The almost unparalleled tide 
of persecution, by the press, pulpit, and mobs, in or-
der that the well-disposed might not hear from those 
brethren the last message to a doomed world, too 
plainly contradicts the charge of " a stretch for popu-
larity," to need any attempt at refutation at our 
hands. 
The third charge—" a disposition to crush and 
trample down those who honestly differ, and are 
searching after truth "—we think requires more at-
tention from us. As we are of that class who differ 
from Bro. limes and the " Herald" on points to 
which we suppose the writer refers, viz., the Son-
ship of Christ, the state of the dead, and the final 
disposition of the wicked,—we have yet to learn that 
there is a disposition in Bro, Himes, or the " Herald," 
to crush us for that " honest difference." Neither 
have we been able to see such a disposition manifested 
towards others who honestly differ from Bro. Himes 
in opinion. Were such the case, we think it would 
not be likely to give him much popularity, as the 
second charge says he seeks. We have been asso-
ciated with Bro. H., in public and in private, and 
under such a variety of circumstrnces, long enough 
• 
THE ADVENT HERALD. 
the halt. It was with these that he performed nearly 
all of his benevolent acts, in preaching, healing the 
sick, raising the dead, restoring sight to the blind, 
and causing the lame to walk. It was from the poor 
fishermen that he called some of his apostles. He 
did not call the Scribes, Pharisees, and doctors to be 
CO-Workers with him. He introduces a new dispen-
sation, and illustrates by a parable : " Men do not put 
new cloth into an old garment, nor new wine into old 
bottles ; neither do I call any of the Scribes to he 
co-workers with me." 
After John was cast into prison, and was rather 
disheartened, he sends to Jesus to know if he was 
the Messiah, or whether he was to look for another. 
Jesus did not give the messenger a direct answer, 
but said, " Go and tell John the lame are made to 
walk, the blind see, the devils are cast out, and to 
the poor the gospel is preached." This was enough 
to satisfy John. 
Christ's sympathies seemed to be drawn out to the 
poor. His preaching was more acceptable to the 
common people, and they thronged in multitudes to 
hear him. He not only held meetings in the syna-
gogues, but in the fields and groves, where thousands 
would flock to hear him. In addition to his preach-
ing, he would show forth his omnipotent power and 
Divinity, by performing miracles, such as turning wa-
ter into wine, feeeing thousands in the fields with a 
few loaves and fishes, healing the sick, raising the 
dead, causing the lame to walk, and restoring sight 
to the blind. His fame went out through all Judea, 
and was spread abroad in every direction. A great 
many believed on him, from the evidence which he 
exhibited of his being the true Messiah. 
A. CLAPP. 
LETTER FRCM H. BUCKLEY. 
DEAR BRO. hairs :—Cireumstanees sometimes de-
mand that a man should speak in self-defence. Paul 
frequently did thus. I am happy to see you imitate 
his example. And I feel that justice demands that 
the lovers of truth,—of God's cause, and God's 
agents, should speak in defence of his faithful ser-
vants. I have ever felt an ardent attachment for 
those especially who first gave me light on the glo-
rious gospel of the kingdom at hand. Bro. Miller 
and yourself were the first T ever heard on the sub-
ject. That was in '42, in Vergennes, Vt. The truth 
was then fastened in my heart, as a nail in a sure 
place. 
Since that, I have been an attentive reader of what 
you have published, have frequently been favored 
with opportunities of hearing you preach, and have 
closely watched your course ; and I feel to praise 
God to-day, that you have been obedient. to the grace 
given, and have kept by the grand truth—the procla-
mation of the kingdom at hand. There was a time 
when I looked with great admiration upon the course 
of Adventists generally,—when they strove for the 
unity of the faith in the bonds of peace. But my 
heart has been greatly pained to see many turn aside 
to sectarian questions, which have gendered strife 
and division. The most painful feature of this case 
is, that those who have turned aside have not been 
satisfied with freely advocating their sentiments, but 
have appeared resolved to force all to adopt them, on 
the penalty of being classed with " apostates," " in-
fidels," " heathen," &c. Though at times you may 
have appeared to be too severe in rebuking the unfair-
ness or wickedness of your opposers, yet subsequent 
developments have generally shown that you have 
rebuked them none too sharply. Many sensitive 
minds have been disgusted and turned away from the 
truth by this inconsistency of some of its advocates, 
and the many errors connected with it. But I thank 
God for some faithful watchmen—good shepherds, 
who would lay down their lives for the sheep. Such 
will stand by God's cause through gloom or glory. 
Bro. H., continually abide by and carry out the reso-
lution to be a man—an honorable man—a Christian, 
and the Lord will sustain you, the " Herald," and 
the cause. 
Your late visit to this section was a very wel-
come one, and I think will result in much good to 
the cause. All we had to regret was, that you were 
unable to speak as in former times. And permit me 
to say, my tears 'express the grief of heart 1 feel 
when I consider the motives attributed to you in a 
letter from Batavia, N. Y., published in the last 
" Herald." From a close and intimate acquaintance 
with you, I know of no evidence of the correctness 
of those charges, and believe them to be utterly false. 
We say to those brethren, and to all, our " sympa-
thy and influence " will be extended to those who 
labor unremittingly for our welfare and the good of 
the cause, at the sacrifice of domestic comfort, worldly 
honor, gain, and health. 
I spent the 20th, 21st, and 22d of July at Lisbon, 
in this county, and preached five times. On Sunday 
the meeting was held in a grove. The audience 
was large, and very attentive. There are quite a 
number in that section, mostly members of the Wes-
leyan Methodist church, who are looking for the 
Lord. Bro. Win. S. Ingraham is located in that 
place, and is doing much good. He feels a deep in-
terest in the " Advent Herald." Yours truly. 
Racket River (N. Y.), Aug. 3d, 1849. 
LETTER FROM W. M. INGHAM 
BRO. HIMES :—I wish to inform the brethren and 
friends that I am well, and still striving for the king-
dom ; and I hope, by the grace of God, to endure to 
the end, for such, and such only, have the promise of 
being saved. I think it my duty to inform the breth-
ren of the state of things in Nova Scotia. 
More laborers are needed here to spread light on 
the speedy coming of the Lord. There appears to 
he a general impression on the minds of the people 
that something is about to take place, but they do not 
know what. If they would take heed to the sure 
word of prophecy, and to the signs of the times, they 
would see that Jesus is soon coming. There is quite 
an extensive field hero that should be occupied in 
sounding the alarm of the speedy judgment. New 
places are opening to spread the light on the speedy 
advent of our blessed Lord. But who is there here 
to give the light, or to sound the alarm of the soon 
coming King? Alas! but very few. I would it 
were otherwise. I think diet if some of the brethren 
from the States could come here and labor a while, 
good might be done in the name of the holy child 
Jesus, and a people prepared for his coming and king-
dom. If any should feel it duty to come, I think the 
brethren here would be glad to see them, if they 
come in the name of the Lord, and have the spirit of 
Jesus. Such is the class that we want here, those, 
too, who are not afraid of toil and labor, and a few 
unpleasant looks and hard speeches from those from 
whom we once expected better things. Brethren, 
will you come? I cannot promise you a very great 
temporal reward, but 1 think you will get food and 
raiment : and if we feed the flock of God, as directed 
by Peter, we shall have a crown of glory when the 
Chief Shepherd appears. Daniel says, " They that 
be wise shall shine as the brightness of the firma-
ment ; and they that turn many to righteousness, as 
the stars for ever and ever. So we shall have a good 
reward if we do the will of the Lord. 
I have two regular appointments, three weeks 
apart, one here, and the other in Clements ; the rest 
of my time is occupied in various places, as I think 
duty and circumstances require. There are a num-
ber of places that might be occupied if there were 
anybody to occupy them ; but there is not. Bro. Len-
fest being unwell, expects to leave in a few days with 
his wife for the States, which will leave this place 
rather destitute of Advent preachers, or those that 
believe in the immediate coming of the Lord. If 
any of the brethren should come, and do not wish to 
labor in new fields, they may take my place, and I 
will go to other places. They will find quite a con-
venient way to come from Boston, in the vessels that 
carry wood from this place. If any should conclude 
to pay us a visit, and land at Clements, inquire for 
Josiah Potter; if at Granville, for Mr. Woodworth. 
Yours, hoping soon to meet all God's saints, to part 
no more forever. 
Lower Granville (N. S.), July 26th, 1849. 
Extracts from Letters. 
From China Grove (Ala.), July 30th, 1849. 
DEAR Bro. H1MES :—I am a very old and a poor 
man, entering upon my 78th year. I am blind, and 
have never read a word in your papers in my life, 
though I have a son who reads them to me. I have 
been in the Methodist church fifty-three years, and it 
is about twenty-five years since I got light on the 
doctrine which Bro. Miller preached ; I obtained this 
light by searching the Scriptures. For that length 
of time I have believed that the end of six thousand 
years would usher in the millennium, which would 
not be done by the preaching of the gospel, but by 
the renovation of the earth by fire. This doctrine 
will go down here ; for I believe it is an easy matter 
to get the people to believe it. But as for myself, I 
have tried to mention it to some, but have been laughed 
at by nine out of ten. I have endeavored to spread 
your papers as much as possible, giving them to those 
who appeared able to comprehend the depth of the 
wisdom contained in them. 
I want to know, Bro. Rimes, what is the reason 
that you do not send preachers into these Southern 
States? I have thought that you must have the idea 
that there is no religion in the slave States. But 
there is, and even among slaveholders. Would you 
believe me if I should say, that two-thirds of the peo-
ple in the Southern States are not slaveholders? 
May God enable us all to meet in the millennial 
era, where we shall arrive to Adamic perfection ; and 
when the Son delivers up the kingdom to God, even 
the Father, may we meet in the heaven of heavens, 
at the right hand of God, where there is pleasure for 
evermore. I remain yours, &c. WM. BOYD. 
As Bro. Boyd is advanced in years, infirm, and not 
rich in this world's goods, he need not fear our stop- 
ping his paper for want of pay. Our brother mis-
apprehends our power to send preachers. They do 
not go at our bidding ; each one goes where duty 
seems to demand, and where the door seems to open. 
One reason that so few have gone to the South is be-
cause there have been so few calls from there for la- 
borers, and so little interest manifested in the doctrine 
of the Advent. If some brother, seeing this, should 
be stirred up to visit that section, we have no doubt 
that some good might be accomplished.—ED. 
From Saratoga Springs (N. Y.), Aug. 7th, 1849. 
DEAR BROTHER :—The position you occupy as 
editor of the " Advent Herald," and the responsi-
bility that rests upon you, naturally calls forth the 
sympathy of all Mose hearts are warmed with like 
precious faith. And we who stand in the back-ground., 
can do little more than express our sympathy and at-
tachment to the cause, and breathe forth prayers for 
those in the heat of the battle. 
There are but few in this vicinity that openly con-
fess faith in the speedy return of our Lord. But I 
think there are many that believe privily, or, at least, 
their judgments are convinced ; and if they only had 
moral courage enough to throw off the shackles of 
sectarianism, would, no doubt, add many to God's 
waiting people. 
I think it was in 1839 that I heard the first lecture 
on the Second Advent of our Saviour, delivered by 
Father Miller in Troy. My heart was then warm 
with love to God and man. I was a young convert, 
not having professed religion much over three years. 
I was young, but I understood the position that the 
good old man had taken, and I loved the sublime 
truths that flowed from his lips. But when I found, 
to my surprise, that the truths he advanced were un-
popular amongst the generality of professors, I did 
not embrace them ; and many a time has my heart 
been pained by hearing the doctrine spoken against, 
and its noble advocate called a false prophet. I con-
tinued in the church, however, but did not, as I could 
perceive, grow in grace, and in the knowledge of 
our Lord and Saviour Jesus Christ; but there seemed 
to be a stand, or a going backwards, until within one 
year, when God, in his infinite wisdom and mercy, 
has seen fit to call me again, and this time by reading 
his word, and observing the fulfilment of prophecies. 
And la hen I submitted to the truth, there appeared 
to be a beauty and harmony in the Scriptures that I 
was little acquainted with : indeed, it was to me a 
second conversion to the truth. But I had been in 
great danger of making shipwreck of what little faith 
I had, and began to doubt the resurrection, and could 
scarcely hope that I had a hope ; and when the break-
ers were past, I looked back with terror on my nar-
row escape. And now my art goes up in thanks- 
giving
* 
 for that blessed wo hich I treated with so 
little attention ; I say littl cause, although I was 
a Sabbath-school teacher, I did not study God's word 
with the love, and desire for instruction, that I feel 
now. 
For the above reasons, which are but imperfectly 
expressed, I wish that something may be written and 
said that may reach the hearts of those who are sit-
uated as I was, that they may see the danger of being 
slow to believe God's truth, and to take a decided 
stand on the side of truth, let the result in regard to 
temporal hopes and prospects be what it may. I 
should be mast happy to be able to say something to 
cheer the tried hearts of the waiting ones, and es-
pecially those that labor in word and doctrine. Your 
trials are severe ; but we know that God the right-
eous judge will give every faithful teacher of his 
word a crown, when St. Paul, and all those who love 
the Saviour's appearing, shall receive theirs. 
Yours, waiting for the hope of Israel, 
E. J. Coox. 
From New Orleans (La.), July 22d, 1849. 
DEAR BRETHREN :—I have long been impressed 
with the importance of a Southern Mission ; of late 
have thought more about it ; and take this opportu-
nity to address the Committee on Missions, and urge 
them not to forget us. But 0, we beseech you, send 
us some one to break the bread of life to us—one full 
of faith and the Holy Ghost, that he may not only 
raise and gather societies, but ordain elders, " and 
set in order the things that are wanting." I think 
this can be done in most of the large cities and towns. 
I fear you have an incorrect idea of the general state 
of society South ; perhaps you think it not safe to 
preach the Aevent doctrine here. But this is not the 
case. An Advent minister would be just as much 
respected, and as safe, as any other minister, by the 
non-professors of religion. I think there is as much 
of vital piety in the Southern, as there is in the 
Northern churches. Here it is no worldly advantage 
to belong to a church ; at the North it is. There 
are many local ministers in the Methodist church, 
and deacons in the Presbyterian and Baptist churches, 
who are convinced of the truth of the Advent doc-
trine. If some efficient man, wino can be relied on, 
could travel among them, and strengthen them, set-
ting worthy men apart to preach the gospel of the 
kingdom, we should soon have Southern Advent 
ministers, against whom there. would not be those 
prejudices which exist to some extent against North-
ern men. In conclusion, I would suggest this city 
as a place where there could be a permanent mission, 
and an Advent church established. This is the empori-
um of the South and South-west ; in fact I might say, 
there are people out of nearly every nation under 
heaven. I will pay one hundred dollars to help sus-
tain such a mission in this city for a year. I suppose 
five hundred dollars would sustain a mission a year 
here. I think a church of some ten or twenty mem-
bers could be organized here in a short time. I ant 
perfectly satisfied that it is our duty to preach, whe-
ther they will hear or forbear, to organize churches 
on the Bible plan. It is worse than useless to expect 
the old organizations to proclaim this last message, 
or to expect to do our whole duty while we remain 
in them. They will fetter us in spite of all we can 
do. I hope our Northern brethren and sisters will 
remember us, and bear us up in their prayers. Will 
you please write me, stating how much can be done 
towards sustaing a mission here, if anything? 
N 
ingo?yEIs.re- 
main your brother in Christ, 
E 
 
NOTE.-Tiliti is the true missionary spirit. We 
have long desired to visit the South. But this would 
he impossible. Yet there are brethren who might do 
so with safety. We shall he glad to correspond with 
any competent brother, who would regard it his duty 
to undertake such a work. None should think of en-
gaging in such a work as this, unless he is well versed 
in the whole question, and is blameless, as to minis-
terial character. Such a one would receive our sup-
port, with that of Bro. Noyes. We would give 
$ 100 from this office, if prospered, so as to do so. 
We shall give the subject our consideration.—Ere 
From Geneva (N. Y.), Aug. 14th, 1849. 
BRO. HIMES :—I embrace this opportunity to in-
form you of our meeting recently held at Herkimer. 
Though we have but few believers in that section, 
yet we felt it our duty to try and do something in the 
name of tine Lord for that community. The meeting 
was one of interest ; much inquiry was elicited, arid 
some acknowledged the truthfulness of our position. 
The great demands for our books we judged one good 
evidence of tine interest awakened. The congregations 
were large; orderly, and very attentive, except a few 
miserable rowdies, who were a disgrace to themselves, 
and the grief of the greater portion of their friends 
and acquaintances. We pity them, and mourn their 
degradation. Bro. Bywater was confined to his room, 
and most of the time to his bed, during the meeting. 
Much anxiety was felt by us as to the result of his 
sickness, and we were disappointed in being deprived 
of his labors ; but we consigned his case to God, who 
has mercifully blessed means'for his recovery. He is 
now quite comfortable again, and at his post. 
On Fast day, by invitation from the Methodist min-
ister of that place, we attended meeting in the morn- 
ing at his chapel, and I addressed a full house on 
Amos 4:12, showing, 1st. The cause of God's judg-
ments on the nations of the earth. 2d. His purpose, 
or end, in such visitations. 3d. Our duty to return 
unto Him, because He does so afflict us. Finally, 
that in the present devastating plagues prevailing 
among mankind we see evidences of their heinous 
guilt, and unmistakable signs of the final judgment 
near, when, prepared or not, we roust meet a just 
God. We humbly trust good was accomplished.—
For the opening brought out more to our tent, and 
tine minister above-mentioned took hold in the spirit 
of a Christian in our conference and prayer meetings. 
He stated, that " if he thought any of the Methodist 
church in that place were opposed to the doctrine, he 
should be ashamed of them." God forbid that shame 
shall ever sting his heart, or crimson his cheek, on 
this account 
Brethren of Herkimer and vicinity, we exhort you 
to be bold for God and the truth. The Lord is at 
hand. You have made some sacrifice to place the 
evidences of His speedy coming before your friends 
and neighbors. God has blessed you in so well-doing, 
Faint not. "To do good and communicate forget 
not, for with such sacrifices God is well pleased." We 
shall remember you all with much affection. • 
From Herkimer we came directly here, where our 
meeting has progressed three days under favorable 
prospects. We will inform you of the state of things 
when we get through. We continue over next Sab-
bath, if God permit. Brethren, pray for us. 
Yours, in hope of eternal rest, 
G. W. BURNHAM. 
From Salem (Mass.), Aug. 6th, 1849. 
The meeting-house at Essex, which was erected 
by an association of individuals of different religious 
sentiments, was dedicated on the 4th inst. Services 
by Elder P. R. Russell, of Manchester, of the Chri\s-
tian connection, Elder Baker, of Ipswich, Methodist 
minister, and the writer, each preaching a sermon 
appropriate to the occasion. The attendance was 
good, and harmony and good feeling prevailed. The 
importance and propriety of 'erecting this meeting-
house was first suggested by Bro. Elam Burnham, 
who was soon joined by many noble-minded individ-
uals. Thus the meeting-house has been completed, 
notwithstanding all the opposition and the many pre-
dictions to the contrary. It is pleasantly situated, 
and will accommodate from two to three hundred 
persons. 
E. OSLER. 
From Edinburgh (Scotland), June 1st, 1849. 
From the present aspect of things in Europe, the 
great image seems as if it were now about to be 
beaten to powder, and swept away, to give place to 
the kingdom of glory. What an awful time we live 
in, and how unconcerned and insensible the whole 
world seems to it ! What apathy, indifference, and 
aversion to look at the subject among our clergymen ! 
The days are evil and full of unbelief, The churches 
seem all slumbering, or sound asleep, to the things 
coming upon the earth, and refuse to be awakened, 
so that were the Son of man now to come, the ques-
tion might be applicable, " Shall he find faith on the 
earth ?" Grant, Lord, that we may have the wed-
ding-garment, and he ready when the sign is given 
to be caught up to meet him with the risen saints, 
Obituary. 
DEPARTED this life, on the.6th inst., in the sure and 
certain hope of a speedy resurrection, our beloved 
Bro. HOWARD TEMPLE, aged about 26 years. He 
was one of the goodly number that embraced the doc-
trine of the near coming of our Lord during the la-
bors of Bro. J. Pearson at Litchfield, in the winter 
of '43 and '44 ; and from that time to the day of his 
death, he maintained a life every way consistent with 
his profession. His death was such as might be ex-
pected from his life. God's promises were realities 
to him—realities in which •he felt assured of a per-
sonal interest. In his struggles with disease and 
death, he was not only relieved and cheered by all 
that the utmost parental kindness, aided by the un-
wearied attention of neighbors and friends, could do 
for him ; hut, especially in some of the last days of 
his life, by sweet manifestations of the Divine pres-
ence and glory. He has finished his course, and, we 
believe, kept the faith, and henceforth awaits the 
crown. (By request.) 
H. STINSON. 
Gardner (Me.), Aug. 13th, 1849. 
DIED, at Lowell, Mass., on Sunday, Aug. 12th, 
of disease of the heart, PRUDENCE TILDEN, aged 82 
years. She had loved tine Lord for many years, was 
a believer in the coming of the Saviour, and although 
not fully identified with us, she considered our blessed 
hope a glorious, soul-cheering doctrine. On the morn-
ing of her demise, she felt anxious to attend the 
Advent meeting in Lowell ; but feeling unwell, she 
insisted on her daughter, Sister Johnson, going, who, 
shortly after the commencement •of the service, was 
called away by a messenger, and on her return, found 
her mother a corpse. She fell asleep without a strug-
gle or groan, leaving a son and a daughter, with five 
grand-children, to mourn her loss. The funeral ser-
vices were conducted by the writer. How cheering 
the hope of the resurrection, and what a source of 
consolation in times of bereavement. 
J. W. BONHAM. 
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THE ADVENT HERALD. 
THE ADVENT HERALD. 
BOSTON, AUGUST 25, 1849. 
head against the Austrian troops that are now march-
ing forcedly to the Ban's succor. 
Latest News.—The accounts from Hungary, via 
Paris, Vienna, and Cologne, announce another battle 
in Hungary, and another victory for the Hungarians. 
At Eglau, it appears, the troops of Dembinski and 
Paskiewitch came to an engagement, which ended in 
the defeat of the -Russians. Paskiewitch is cut off 
from his line of operations, and Dembinski, Bern, 
and Georgey, are in communication. Haynau is 
described as in a roost perilous situation. The Mag-
yar Generals are roasters of the whole line front Es-
seg to Assova, facilitating their connection with Bel-
grade and the Turkish provinces. The Cabinet of 
Vienna are obviously in a state of alarm. 
Russia .—A Polish paper states that a Republican 
conspiracy has been discovered in Russia ; that 
numerous arrests have been made, and the whole 
affair was divulged by a secretary of Count Orloff. 
Turkey.—Adviees front Constantinople state that 
an army of 80,000 men is ordered to assemble on 
the Hungarian frontier, between Tmeswar and 
Semlin, to protect the Turkish territory, and to dis- 
 
arm
._ 
 all who may be dr. across the frontier. 
 
Denmark and Holst The march of the Ger- 
man and Schleswig two from Jutland commenced 
on the 23d ult., and the greater part, if not the whole 
of them, will by this time have arrived south of the 
line of demarkation in Schleswig. On the 25th ult., 
the Schleswig Assembly adjourned its sittings to the 
8th of August. 
" A SIGN OF THE TIMES.—If anything is calcu-
lated," says the New York Express, " to more ef-
fectually show forth the prevalence of the epidemic, 
and its effects upon our citizens, it is the palsying 
influence it is exerting on the well-being of benevo-
lent associations, such as the Sons of Temperance,' 
and the like. So rapid has been the claims of the 
deceased upon many of the mutual benefit societies, 
that in many instances they have been compelled to 
suspend all business, to wind up, or break down.—
We understand this has been more particularly the 
case in Brooklyn, and in some instances, taxes have 
been imposed, from which to pay the funeral bene-
fits. Facts like these certainly have their influence, 
when the provident are unable to counteract the rav-
ages of the pestilence, in the degree in which their 
organizations contemplate." 
CLOSING CHURCHES IN SUMMER.—We perceive 
that the religious papers are speaking out against this 
crying evil. In New York, a much larger number 
than usual have been closed the present season, be-
cause so many ministers and members have left the 
city for the fashionable watering places. We no-
ticed a good hit in a New York paper. A stranger 
entered the Croton water office, and requested that 
they would suspend the flow of water, to let it rest 
during the warm weather. Not succeeding, he went 
to Wall-street, to induce the banks and brokers' 
boards to suspend their usual operations. Failing 
there, he proceeded up town to persuade the churches, 
but finding them all closed, he felt satisfied, and sus-
pended further effort. Why should we not omit to eat, 
and to breathe, as well as omit our spiritual interest? 
HOWARD ANNIVERSARY.—We cheerfully comply 
with a request of Mr. SPEAR, editor of the Prisoner's 
Friend, to notice the festival of the approaching an-
niversary of the birth-day of the benevolent How-
ARD, Sept. 2d. They hold a fair of three days' con-
tinuance, at Washington Hall, to commence Sept. 
3d. Mr. SPEAR will preach at the same place on 
Sunday evening, Sept. 2d, on an appropriate subject. 
The object of the fair is to procure means to aid dis-
charged convicts, in giving them a home, sympathy, 
and advice, and to aid them to resume a course of 
virtue ; and to sustain the journal devoted to this 
interest. 
CHEAP POSTAGE.—We have received a circular res-
pecting cheap postage from Mr. Josirea. LEAVITT. 
Were our sheet an appropriate one for that purpose, 
we should be pleased to discuss the question at length. 
As it is, we are free to confess our opinion as decidedly 
in favor of reducing the postage to two or three cents 
for all single letters any distance, and that of regular 
newspapers, medium size, to 25 cents a-year, paid by 
the subscriber to his Post-office, in advance. Single 
papers, not sent to regular subscribers, should be 
charged more, and pre-paid : and letters which are 
not pre-paid, charged five cents. We think a small 
charge 'on papers necessary for their prompt delivery. 
But reducing the rates of postage to the sums we 
name, we think would increase the numbers sent, so 
that the department might sustain itself. 
DEAR BRO. HIMES :—As my name has appeared 
before the public in the manner it has, it seems ne- 
(Continued from page 29.) 
a large body of levies under Bern and Perczel, on 
the banks of the Theiss, and Bern has left a large 
corps for the defence of Transylvania. 
According to the latest advices from the theatre of 
war in the south, all are flying to Esseg, or into 
Servia. All the male population, from sixteen to 
sixty, have risen in arms in favor of the Magyars. 
All sorts of arms are resorted to, even scythes and 
ploughshares, and carriages, horses, and corn, and 
other provisions, are taken into the fortress of Pe-
terwardein by their owners. The Magyars are mas-
ters of the whole of the Bannat. Nothing was known 
of the fate of Temeswar since the 8th. 
The enthusiasm of the Magyars increases daily. 
The ecclesiastics cause to be carried before them a 
colossal red sword, a red cross, and a large flag, 
with this inscription, " Death to the Russians and 
Austrians !" on it, in black letters. These proces-
sions greatly excite the people. The seat of the 
Magyar Government is at Szekezard and Baja, in a 
steamboat, which ascends or descends the river, as 
circumstances may require, and which is provided 
with cannon for its defence. Kossuth has said that 
on his fete day he will disembark in this boat at 
Pesth. He formerly made such a promise, and he 
kept his word. 
Later accounts from Vienna state that the Hun-
garian commander who defeated the Ban of Croatia's 
troops is not General Bern, as has been supposed, 
but General Guyon, an Irish officer in the Hungarian 
army. General Bern, it is stated, has taken up a 
strong position between Bistriz and Klausenberg. 
Reports of the Russian General Luders, which 
have been published at Warsaw, claim advantages 
in various actions which occurred in the Szekler-
land, and between Cronstadt and Hermannstadt, be-
tween the 2d and 5th of July. On the latter day the 
Magyars are alleged to have lost 550 killed, four 
guns and two colors ; while from the 2d to the 5th the 
Russian loss is said not to have exceeded five killed 
and forty wounded. General Clam's Austrian corps 
arrived at Cronstadt from Wallachia on the 13th, 
and General Luders then caused his van-guard un-
der General Engelhard, to advance in the direction 
of Hermannstadt. General Engelhard, on arriving, 
near the village of Fagaras, found the place occu-
pied by an inconsiderable body of Magyars, attacked 
it in front and rear, carried it, and captured 400 
prisoners and four guns, while the Hungarians are 
said to have lost 200 killed. While these are the 
Russian accounts of what has been passing around 
Cronstadt, it appears that despatches from General 
Grotenhielm, dated on the 18th, at Bistritz, speak Of 
an action apparenly of little importance, in which he 
claims to have obtained advantages. 
We have Vienna dates to the 28th ult. The Eng-
lish papers with the Hungarian debate had arrived, 
and the Vienna public were occupied extensively in 
studying the translations which appeared on the 
above debate of Lord Palmerston's speech. This, 
it is said, has been a clap of thunder to the Ministers. 
The news of Georgey's having beaten the Russians 
at Jaszo, entered Kaschau, and crossed tire Theiss, 
came at tire same time, and already there were ru-
mors of intentions to negotiate for peace. 
It appears that Georgey entered Kaschau on the 
22d, and the papers supply some important details 
concerning his march from Waitzen, which have 
been hitherto buried in mystery. After giving Pas-
kiewitch the slip on the night of the 16th, Georgey 
marched by the Neograd road, northward of the 
Tatra mountains. Reaching at Balassa Gyarmath 
the valley of the Ipoly, he continued his march by 
the broad easy road which runs along this river to 
Losonez, and from thence gained Rima Szombath. 
The absence of all resistance by the corps of Gene-
ral Grabbe upon a road which admitted so easily of 
being barricaded and effectually blocked, renders it 
probable that the General had already left Altsohl, 
and moved futher down the Gran. 
Georges?, having baffled Rudiget's pursuit, proceed-
ed from Rima Szombath to Rosenau. He first met 
the Russian outpost of the north at Jaszo, and in this 
neighborhood he gained a complete victory over a 
strong corps. The Russian garrison at Kaschau 
was struck with consternation at the sudden appear-
ance of an Hungarian army. The garrison dropped 
all thoughts of defence, and the Magyars entered 
without opposition. Kaschau, in a strategic point 
of view, is a highly important place. On this ac-
count it was fortified by Paskiewitch, and made the 
head depot of the commissariat supplies from Po-
land and Gallicia. From Kaschau, Georgey marched 
towards tire Theiss, which he was to cross at Tokay 
and Taszal. The Russian detachments left on the 
other bank are irretrievably lost. The Theiss is, as 
in the past winter, the line of operations. The road 
to Gallicia lies open on one side, and communications 
are established on the other with Dembinski. 
Bern was said to have announced his victory to 
Kossuth in these three words—Bem ban bourn ! In a 
later despatch he says :—" Our army only requires 
now to conquer only two Generals more, Julius and 
Augustus, (Latin and Hungarian for July and 
August.) In the meantime the third Austrian army 
corps is advancing by forced marches to the help of 
the Ban, while General Haynau, with two other 
corps, is employed in preventing Dernhinski's pass-
ing the Danube, which latter commander is operat-
ing, with 50,000 men, between Czegled and Szolnok, 
his right wing extended to Jassberini. It is required 
to drive him back to the left hank of the Theiss. 
In the position he now holds he threatens, at one 
and the same time, the Austrian armies in the south, 
and the Russian armies in the north. It is probably 
in the neighborhood of Peterwardein that the cam-
paign will close, for it is near this fortress, in the 
Bacska and the Tschaikist territory, that the insur-
gents are concentrating their strength, so as to make 
cessary for me to make some little explanation as it 
respects the agency of the " Advent Herald." 
I always have, and still feel much interested in 
reading the " Herald." Before I became agent for 
it, I was in the habit of receiving it very often from 
Bro. Marsh, free of charge ; and as I regularly re-
ceived his own paper free, I did not think it right to 
receive the " Herald " also. In conversation with a 
brother minister, who wag then laboring in Rochester, 
I stated that I should like to have the " Herald " 
regularly, but did not feel able (in consequence of 
sickness) to pay for it, but thought I could get some 
subscribers fur it. He said he knew you would be 
glad to let me have it, arid that he would mention the 
subject when he next wrote to you. I therefore act-
ed accordingly, and shortly after sent on a few names, 
and received the " Herald " in return. Shortly after 
you came to Rochester. You offered me the " Her-
ald " free, and a consideration for every new paying 
subscriber I might get. After sonic time there seemed 
to be some hesitation on the part of some to pay over 
money to me, as my name was not on the list of 
agents, and as I had heard Bro. Marsh express a de-
sire that brethren would send their money designed 
for the " Herald " direct to the " Herald " office in-
stead of to him, I therefore thought it might he for 
the interest of the " Herald " office to notice my 
name occasionally, or regularly, as some persons 
think more of writing a letter than paying the mo-
ney. I therefore wrote accordingly. See " Her-
ald " of Aug. 4th. Your conduct has been honora- 
ble in this matter. 
W. BUSBY. 
Rochester (N. Y.), Aug. 17th, 1849. 
BRO. HIMES :—I herewith send you $ 10, to aid 
in sending the " Herald " to the poor. Your article 
on that subject last week breathed the right spirit. I 
am happy that I can have the privilege of aiding in 
the circulation of a practical and useful paper like 
the " Advent Herald," and one that is what its name 
purports to be. 
CHAS. WOOD. 
Aug. 18th, 1849 
SUMMARY. 
A lady who went aboard the steamer Saranac at Plattsburg, to go 
to St. Albans, Vt., fell overboard arid was drowned. 
Steamer Canada has been seized for smuggling, and is to be wild 
by the collector at Detroit. 
A letter from South Rapid, dated July 27th, states that a half-
breed Indian set fire to the store of Mr. Rice, which contained a 
large quantity of goods, and fitly kegs of gunpowder. The building 
was blown completely to atoms, and everything destroyed. 
Dr. Newton, of Cincinnati, cut out the eye and removed the eye-
lids of a patient, who was under the influence of chloroform, and 
felt no pain. 
The Connecticut river is said to be lower Ibis season than it has 
been, except once, in a period of 130 years. The exception was in 
1616, when it was ten inches lower. 
The Hudson river was so low at Castleton on the 31st ult., that 
filly steamboats, barges, &c., were usable to get along. 
Three little girls were drowned in this city on the 13th. They were 
tilted from a pile of boards, and fell into the river. 
The venerable Albert Gallatin died in New York the 13th inst. 
A child, seven years old, named Sarah A. Ward, was so badly 
burnt on Monday, by her clothes taking fire, that she died on Tues-
day morning. Her mother was absent, having lett her with a brother 
about nine years old. 
At Brighton on Saturday, a young son of Mr. Draper was getting 
over a fence, with a loaded gun in his hand, when it accidentally 
went off; the charge entering the fleshy part of the arm just above 
the elbow. I le will probably lose his arm. 
At Newton Lower Falls, a son of Rev. Mr. Banta, came very near 
being drowned, by the upsetting of a tub, in which he undertook to 
sail on Charles river. 
Three boys, sons of N. B. Moore, S. Roll, and Mrs..1. P. An-
drews, while playing in the water at Augusta, Ga., were drowned. 
A laboring man named Salkins, an Englishman' and about 60 years 
of age, fell from a load of bay in Marblehead, and was killed. 
The nations that call themselves Christian expend annually 
$100,0(10,000 in preparing to destroy each other in war, and about 
$3,000" for preaching the gospel to the heathen. 
On Sunday, in the eastern part of Muscogee county, Ga., Isham 
Hicks was shot by his wife and killed. The family had a drunken 
carousal on Saturday night, in which the matt, his wife, and their 
children participated. Hicks was still drunk on Sunday, and com-
menced beating his wife, when she seized a loaded rifle, and dis-
charged its contents into his abdomen, of which wound he died the 
next (lay. The murderess had fled to the woods. 
BUSINESS NOTES. 
S. Foster-That which you refer to was received. The tracts you 
order are not out. 
.1. Taylor-Sent tracts the 18th by express. 
R. Peck, A. Philips-Well. 
To whom It may concern-Found, at the Westboro' camp-meet-
ing last week, a small bundle, partly open, containing five Restitu-
tions, and 36 tracts of Nos. 3, 4, and 7, and eight sets of tracts. As 
there was no direction on the bundle, we took it to the office to keep 
for the owner, who will oblige us by notifying us of his address. 
E. Marsh-The $5 was not received, but we now credit it to 482. 
W. Bushy, $6 on acc't-Have marked J. R. as you request. 
W. H. Fernald, $1-Sent books. 
\V. F. Fahnestock, $1-Sent three of each. You will be able to 
get that tract in Philadelphia in about two weeks. 
B. F. Brownell, $4-Have sent the books to care of Bro. Glad-
ding, Albany, for you. It pays for them, the C.11., and the Ad. H., 
to No. 482. 
Win. Johnson, 82-Have credited $1 each to Messrs. Cox, 443 ; 
Watts, 443 ; Meech, 443 ; Coons, 445 ; Wiley, 443 ; Briggs (to balance 
old account), 430 • A. Pike, 404 ; Mrs. Hutchinson, 456, which pays 
 
 
to the respective Nos. annexed. This we understand is all you have 
sent. Have not credited Bro. Johnson, because you did not give his 
Post-office address ; there being two of his name, and not knowing 
which you mean by the prefix you give, we wait to hear from you. 
The eight credited equal the eight sent. 
E. Gillett-The books we have sent to care of Bro. Tracy, N. Y. 
DELINQUENTS. 
If we have by mistake published any who may have paid, or who 
are poor, we shall be happy to correct the error, on being apprised 
M the fact. 
The Postmaster of Northampton, Mass., informs us, that 
the paper sent to J. McKIEL is not taken from the office. 
He owes - - - - - - - - - - - 300 
 
Total delinquencies since Jan. 1st, 1849. - - - - 63 50 
MEETINGS. 
There will he a camp-meeting held at Yardleyvilte, Bucks county, 
Pa., four miles above Trenton bridge, in a grove connected with the 
Yardleyville Boat-yard. to commence 'llursday, Sept. 130. Friends 
abroad are invited to meet with us. The expense from Philadelphia 
will be about 50 its., and from New York, $2, by 6 o'clock morning 
train.
H. 
nt meeting will beheld at Canandagua, commencing Wednes- 
day
A te 
J. Lyre 
evening, Sept. 12th. We hope for a general gathering from sur-
rounding towns. 
Also one at Laona, where Brn. Whitaker and Crawford may ap-
point, commencing on the evening of Sept. 260. Come with tents 
and provisions, so far as you can. Do not be af rai C. 
 tl i3
of ,w 
sacrificing to 
God with cost. it Chiron. 21:24.) j 
 
G. W. BURNHAM. 
A conference will be held at Kensington, N. H., to commence on 
Friday, Sept. 14th, and continue over the Sabbath. A g,ezle,rialign.vi- 
tation is given. (By request of the brethren.) iuytE 
 
Bro. F. T. Mansfield has appointed a conference to beheld at Cold 
Spring, M'Henry county, Ill., near Breit, Jerome, and Fenney, to 
commence Sept. 5th, and continue over Sunday. 
A conference will be held in Holderness, N. II., commencing the 
Friday before the fourth Sabbath in September, and continue over 
the Sabbath. The undersigned expectw to attend.
,EBuRNHAm. 
EDWIN BURNHAM, 
BIG TENT MEETINGS. 
AGENTS FOR THE HERALD. 
ALBANY, N. Y.-F. Gladding, 
MORRIsVILLE, Pa.-J. F. Lan ning 
111 Jefferson-street. NEW BEDFORD, Ms.-H. V. Davis 
AUBURN, N. Y.-II. I.. Smith. ,NEWBURYPORT, Mass.—J. Pear- 
BUFFALO, N.Y.-F. McWilliams) son, Water-street. 
CiNciNNAVI, 0.—Joseph Wilson.i NEW YORK cITY.— Win. Tracy, 
DERBY LINE, Vt.—S. Foster, jr. 75 Delancey-street. 
DETROIT, Mich-L. Armstrong. !PHILADELPHIA, Litch, 16 
EDDINOTON, Me.-Thos. Smith.Chester-street. 
GRANVILLE ANNAPOLIS, N. S.- 'PORTLAND, Me.-Peter Johnson, 
Elias Woodworth. 24 India-street. [ding. 
HARTFORD, Ct.-Aaron Clapp. PROVIDENCE, R. I.—G. R. Clad- 
HOMER, N. Y.-J. I, Clapp. ROCHESTER, N.Y.-Wm. Busby. 
LocRpoRT, N. Y.-H. Robbins. 
TORONTO, C. W.-D. Carn.poell. 
LOwELL, Mass.—L. L. Knowles. WATERLOO, Shefford, C. E.-R, 
Low HAMPTON, N.Y.-L. Kimball. Hutchinson. 
MALONE, N. Y.-H. Buckley. W'O'STER, Ms.—D. F;Wetlierbee. 
MILWAUKEE,W1S—Sa1111. Brown 
FOR GREAT BRITAIN AND IRELAND.—R. Robertson, Esq., No. 1 
Berwick Place, Grange Road, 13erniondsey, London. 
Receipts for the Week ending Aug. 22. 
The No. appended to each name below, is the No. of the Herald to 
which the money credited pays. By comparing it with the present 
No. of the Herald, the sender will see how far he is in advance, or 
how Jar in arrears. 
M. Hare, 430 ; .1. N. Nutter, 456 ; H. Jackman, 456 ; R. Round, 
456 ; W. Allen, 456 ; M. Coolidge, 402 ; W. L. Boyer, 939 ; F. S. Clark, 
430 ; E. Dudley, 456 L. Kimball, 469 ; M. Smith, 456 ; C. P. Stone, 
456 ; C. Whipple, 456 ; D. Whitney, 456 ; N. Whitney, 456 ; W. L. 
Phipps, 456 • R. Yellin, 430 ; J. Barnes, 965 ; M. S. Whitney, 463 ; 
E. R. Merrill, 430; W. E. Hathaway, 456; J. Whitman, 930; L. 
Campbell, 456 ; G. B. Markley, 456 ; D. Ilognrih, 443; J. Morrison' 
412 ; W. Brown, 430; R. Renfrew, 456 ; Rev. B. B. Brown 482 ; S. 
Hewlett, 450 ; T. P. if calgtion, 456 ; J. A. Lock, 438 ; S. Braley land 
 
book), 447 ; .1. T. Dinning 430 J. D. Eckley, 463 ; J. Eckley, 438 ; 
T. Yarnall, 456 ; W. Stanley, 423 ; R. McMullen, 456 ; J. F. Lucas, 
430 ; M. Waterman, 456 ; H. Bishop, 430 ; W. Wood, 456 ; L. Ear- 
ley, 456 • D. White, 456 ; E. Lee, 2d, 956 ; H. N. Elliott, 464 ; Har- 
mony, 448 ; R. W. Beck, 456 ; M. F. Cook, 456; R. Heneage, 436 ; 
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J. Roberts, 430; D. Bradley, 456 • S. Jackson, 456 • T. hated, 456 ; 
G. Miller, 456: Mrs. S. Morley, 443 ; E. E. Austin, 
; I. Bliss, 456 ; 
B. Jennings, 508 ; F. T. Smith, 456 ; M. A. Haywood, 440 ; J. Field, 
456 ; E. Rogers, 456 ; E. Cross, 456-each $1—H. Tolman, 446-
$1 62--R. Wilson, 456-$1 ti—S. Walker, (for the papers and 
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to) 424 ; B. Cooper, 456 ; D. Libbee, 470 • B. S. tteynolds, 430 ; B. 
Loomis, A. Beals, 982 ; B. Jones, 482 ; W. Hopkinson,456 ; J. 
Litchi, on acc't A. 
 Mrs. L. A. Smith, 4141_F. E. Williams, 930 ; M. 
Holbrook, 508 ; S. Sherwin, 456 ; H. H. Tooker, 482-sent back ; J. 
W. Aiken (have credited $3), 404-each $2—E. Root, 43t)-$3— 
D. S. Osborn (S. F. $2 75 to 432, and you to) 508; C. A. Plumb, 334 
-each $5 —H. Robbins, on acc't.-$7—E. Gillett, each of the six 
to No. 956, with C. H. and books-$8. 
MEETING AT HOMER. N. Y. 
This meeting will commence, by permission of Providence, Fri-
day, August Slot, and continue from seven to tell days, as judged 
best at the time.The objects of the meeting will be, in general, to 
set forth and defentr-1. The doctrine of the Second Personal Com-
ing and Reign of Christ on earth, in the Milleunium, and not a spi-
ritual reign, as the great body of the church now teach. 2. That 
this Advent of Christ is now nigh, even at the door, and the next 
great event in historical prophecy, an event for which the church 
should watch, andprepare, and wait. 3. The signs in the natural, 
moral, and political heavens, which show that the consummation 
of the ages is hastening. and will soon break upon us in the infinite 
splendors of eternal glory. 
It,is expected that Brn. Bywater and Burnam will pitch their 
tentin connection with ours, and co-operate in this glorious work. 
All our Advent brethren and sisters, who sympathize in the object 
of this meeting, are affectionately invited to attend, and aid in the 
great work. All who wish to hear the reasons of our hope, are like-
wise invited to attend, and give us a full and candid hearing. The 
present is an eventful age, which affects not only the destiny of na-
tions, but the eternal salvation or damnation of men. Let all be 
aroused from their slumbers, and prepare for the grand assize. 
Brethren going by rail-road or canal from the East, will stop 
at Syracuse, which is about thirty miles from Homer. Those corn-
ing in companies of six or eight, would save a third or half the ex-
pense, by employing a conveyance at some of the livery stables, or 
otherwise, in Syracuse, to Homer. The fare by stage is $1 50. If 
any should go by public conveyance from Syracuse, they had better 
go by way of Skeneatlas, as it would be more pleasant, and they 
would be sure of a passage ; besides, they would arrive much ear-
lier at Homer. The fare would be the same. Friends from the Nk est 
had better leave the rail-road at Skeneatlas, and take the steamer 
for Glenn Haven, at the head of the lake, from which a stage will 
convey them to Homer, about nine miles. Or, if those in compa-
nies of six or eight, will apprise Bro. L. E. Bates, of Horner, of the 
exact time at which they will he at Glenn Haven, lie will provii:e 
a conveyance for them at half the expense. 
Boston, Aug. 4th. 1645. 
J. V. HIMES. 
1 
TENT MEETINGS, &c. 
A tent meeting will be held at Tinmouth, Vt., commencing Aug. 
28th, at 7 P.M., to continue over the Sabbath. Will Bro. Packard 
select the best location, and give notice. 
Also one at Woodstock, Vt., near the Densmore hill, Sept. 4th, at 
7 P.M., to continue over the Sabbath. Brethren will bring provi-
sions with them. Horse keeping may be had on the ground. If this 
is not the best location, will the brethren select at.d give notice. 
R. V. LYON, A. BROWN. 
There will be a camp-meeting in Chelmsford, Mass., on the land 
of Bro. Benjamin Spaulding, the use of which is given gratuitously, 
to commence Aug. 25th, mid continue a week, more or less, as the 
Lord may direct. The land is situated five miles from Lowell, one 
and a half front Stony Brook rail-road, Factory Village depot, and 
two and a half front North Chelmsford. 
Brethren coming on the Concord and Nashua rail-road will pur-
chase tickets to North Chelmsford, where the Stony Brook train 
will take them to the Factory Village depot. Those coming from 
Lawrence, Salem, and Boston, will stop at the Middlesex-street de-
pot, Lowell from thence they will go to Factory Village, where 
there will be a conveyance to take them to the grown'. Morse keep- 
ing on reasonable terms. D. CHURCHILL, G. FIERCE, B. 
SpAULDING, W. W ISWELL, I,. BOUTELL. 
APPOINTMENTS. 
Bro. Hale may he expected to preach at South Reading Sunday, 
Aug. 26th, and at Bristol, R. I., the first Sunday in Sept. 
Bro. Daniels will preach at Newton Upper Falls Sunday, Aug. 
26th. 
Bro. Walter Pratt will preach in Fitchburg the first Sunday in 
Sept. 
Bro. II. Gross appoints to preach as follows :-Syracuse, N. 
Y., Aug. 27th ; Liverpool, 28th ; thence to the tent meeting at Ho-
mer. Post-office adiress till Sept. 8th, Homer, N. Y. 
Bro. Gross also appoints to hold meetings as follows, associated 
with Bro. lugmire, or other efficient brethren :-In a grove at Bette-
dict's Corners, Fulton county, 14 miles north of Amsterdam, Sab-
bath, Sept. 9th ; Jamesville, Saratoga county, 16th ; in the Baptist 
church at Greenfield Centre, coin mencing 18th, at 7 p. M., and con-
tinuing at 10 A. M. and 2 and 7 p. M. each (lay till the 23(1. Post-office 
address from Sept. 8th to the 224, Greenfield Centre, Saratoga co., 
N.Y. 
Bro. N. Billings will preach at South China, 28th to Sabbaths even-
ing, Sept. 2d, as brethren may appoint ; Windsor, 4th to Sabbath 
evening, 9th ; Alta, Sabbath, 16th ; from thence to Hallowell. 
Bro. Bentley will preach at Not thSproigfield, Vt., the fourth Sab-
bath in August ; Claremont, N. H., the first in September, and in 
Woodstock, Vt., the seeond. 
Bro. S. 1. Roney will preach at Granby, Mass., Thursday evening, 
Aug. 20; North Leverett, 31st; Northfield Farms, Sunday, Sept. 
2d ; Townsend, Vt., the 3d, where Bro. Allen may appoint ; Wood-
stock, the 4th, and continue over the Sabbath to the teat meeting ; 
Waterbury, the 11th ; Burlington, the 12th ; Alburgh or Clarence-
vine (where the brethren think best), Sunday, 15th ; Massena, Sun-
day, 224. 
Bro. D. T. Taylor, jr , will preach at Roxbury, Ct., Sunday, 26th 
New Milford, 28th ; Kent, 29th ; Sharon, 31st , Salisbury, Saturday 
evening and Sunday, Sept. 1st and 24. 
Bro. I. R. Gates will preach in Clark's Hall, Portland, the first 
and secend Sabbaths in Sept.