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1.11611 that in crowded city art arrived, thou knowest not 
how, 
By what path, or on what errand — list and learn thine errmd 
now. 
From the palace to the city, on the business of thy King, 
Thou avert sent at early morning, to return 'az evening. 
Dreamer, waken; loiterer, hasten; what thy task is, understand; 
Thou art here to purchase substance, and the price is in thy hand. 
Has the tumult of the market all thy sense confused and drowned ? 
'Do its glistening wares entice thee, or its shouts and cries con-
1.0111111 ? 
O ! beware lest thy Lord's business he forgotten, while thy gaze 
Is on every show and pageant which the giddy square displays. 
Barter not his gold for pebbles ; do not trade for vanities; 
Pearls there are of price, and jewels for the purchase of the wise. 
And know this: at thy returning thou wilt surely find the King, 
With an open book befbre him-, waiting to make reckoning. 
Then large honors will the faithful, earnest service of one day, 
Reap of him, but one day's folly largest penalties will pay. 
Christian Treasury. 
The Pope, the Man of Sin, 
AND 
Reille, the Babylon of the Apocalypse. 
Two Lectures, delivered on Tuesday, May 27th, and Thursday, 
May 2911t, 1851, in Exeter Halt, London. 
BE.. REV. J. CUMMING, D.D 
(Concluded.) 
Again, in the Canon Law, which Dr. Wise-
man has professedly come to set up in his dio-
cese, it is said : " If the temporal ruler being 
required and admonished by' the Church to 
purge his territory of heretics, and shall have 
refused, let him be hung up with the chain of 
excommunication—[that does not mean to be 
hung by the neck]; and if he shall not have 
satisfied, let his vassals or his subjects be re-
leased from their allegiance to him, that, here-
tics being exterminated, the Catholics may pos-
sess the country, without any molestation, for 
the future," 
I have given these proofs that the Church of 
Rome is " drunk with the blood pf saints," and 
that she has not abjured these principles, nor re-
pented of the past. If she will come forward, 
and say, " The law of the fourth Lateran is 
wrong ; the bull Unigenitus is wrong ; Alphonzo 
was not a true representative and exponent of 
the Church ; and the Canon Law ought to be 
cast into the Thames, or burned by the hang-
man in the public streets ;" then I will accept 
her repentance, and will thank God that the 
unchangeable Church " has changed ; parted 
from her infallibility, and acknowledged herself 
to he like us, fallible and liable to err. But she 
has riot done so, she will not do so ; she remains 
unchanged, and unchangeable, till she perish 
beneath the judgment of that God who has alike 
enunciated her crimes, and predicted her doom. 
You may rest assured that the Church of Rome 
only wants power to develop these principles. 
Her principles are the same. I give her credit 
for inveterate unchangeableness in evil. I do not 
say there are riot good Roman Catholics among 
the laity, who have a horror of these principles; 
I do not say that there are not laymen in the 
Church of Rome who abominate these dogmas ; 
speak of the bishops and priests who know 
these things, and who know that all the charges 
I have made are words of truth and soberness. 
But when the Church of Rome cannot per-
secute, we are told, in the language of the Apoca-
lypse, that she intoxicates and commits her sins 
with the kings and princes and nations of the 
earth. How has she done this ? She cajoles 
and threatens by turns. She has two plans—
exact counterparts of the Babylonian despot. 
She says : " If the sounds of the sackbut and 
psaltery, and of all sweet music, will prevail on 
you to bow down and worship the golden image 
that I have set up, then well ; but if these will 
not charm you to do it, the furnace heated 
sevenfold shall compel you." The Church of 
Rome has her gentle entreaties, her enchant-, 
ing strains, her captivating appearance ; and 
when these fail, she has Dominus Dens poking 
his fires in Ireland, and Alphonzo de Castro 
stirring his in Westminister, and Cardinal 
Wiseman setting up the Canon Law in every 
diocese of England, prepared by that Canon 
Law to exterminate heretics, that the Catholics 
may have England all to themselves. Rome 
has tried to win our rulers by flattery, and she 
has failed. In the language of Hooker, " she 
has fawned on kings and princes by her spirit-
ual cozenage, and made merchandize of them." 
She gives them Agnus Dei and holy beads, and 
empty titles for their power. She has tried, in 
her dealing with our country, a new process. 
For the last twenty-five years her policy has 
been thus to get England quietly and peace-
fully to accept her drugs, her presents, and flat-
tering promises. She has failed in the gentler 
process, at least to a great extent ; and she is 
now proclaiming the terrible one she has pre-
pared for us. She has tried to get the great 
Samson, if I may use the expression as a type 
of our native land, to lay his head upon that 
Delilah's lap, that she may shear him of his 
locks, and his strength, and his beauty, and his 
glory, while he sleeps securely ; but she has 
failed to deceive him. His hair has grown 
again. He is yet strong and unsubdued. Let 
Rome beware : he will rise in his reinvigorated 
strength, and more blessed than the ancient pro-
totype, involve Rome in the ruins of her empire, 
and escape and live gloriously himself. 
But I hasten on to another feature. She is 
described as sitting upon a scarlet-colored wild 
beast, covered with precious stones and gems. 
In all the processions and cavalcades of the 
Pope in the Ceremoniale, you may notice what 
a large space the color of scarlet occupies.—
The Papal habit is said to be adorned with pre-
cious stones, "rubeum pretiosum," " mitram or-
natant gemmis," &c. In the procession to the 
Lateran, there is a strange officer who goes first, 
then there is the barber and shoemaker of the 
Pope. Then they are to have red portman-
teaus, containing the robes. Then follow the 
nephews of the Pope, or his near relations, and 
cardinals. There is also to be a ladder cov-
ered with red cloth. He is to carry in his hand 
a red stick. Then there are standards, two and 
two, hats are red, and persons running before 
them also, with red garments. There is like-
wise the standard of the Jerusalem order, also 
red. In fact, all is red, robes, staves, garments, 
hand-boxes, all is of the scarlet color on that 
occasion. I need not tell you that the Car-
dinal receives, as a mark of dignity, a red hat, 
and the Pope says to him, " I give you this red 
hat in token that you will be prepared to shed 
your blood for the elevation of the holy Mother 
Church." The Cardinal wears red gloves also. 
In the Exhibition, you will. see two of them 
thus dressed, with jewels upon their fingers. 
They have also red stockings. Black gaiters, 
I believe, are put on over them, in this country, 
which will by-and-bye be taken off, as soon as 
the Cardinal becomes acclimated, and the pub-
lic become more accustomed to the color. 
In Pugin's Glossary of Ecclesiastical Orna-
ments are the following accounts of Babylonish 
robes and splendor, and precious stones,—the 
very reading of which is a commentary on the 
Apocalypse : 
"The jewels belonging to the Lord Bishop of 
Lincoln's mitre : To the fore-part of the mitre, 
seven stones, blue and red, and eight clusters of 
pearls, with four in a cluster. Item, two an-
gels, holding eight stones, and eighteen pearls." 
—p. 159. In that mitre alone were several hun-
dred precious stones and pearls. 
Again,—" Mitres formerly belonging to the 
cathedral church of St. Paul : One mitre em-
broidered with stars before and behind, with 
stones set in plates of silver gilt. In the front 
are seven stones, and many pearls. Also a 
mitre which belonged to Henry Wengham, 
richly ornamented with golden plates, with tre-
foils set with stones and pearls."--p. 159. 
" Pontifical rings formerly belonging to the 
cathedral church at York : A great Pontifical 
ring, with a stone called an emerald set in it. 
Item, a Pontifical ring with a large sapphire and 
twelve pearls."—p. 183. 
Again,—" Gold, mingled with silk and pur-
ple, enriches the sacerdotal vestments, and the 
hangings of the altar."—p. 137. 
The tiara, which is never worn by the Pope 
within the church—it being the symbol of uni-
versal temporal sovereignty—has three circlets 
of gold, set with jewels. 
" Red is the second canonical color, of which 
there are three sorts : crimson, amethyist, and 
violet color."—p. 178. 
" Lincoln cathedral had a chasuble of red 
cloth of gold, set with pearls, blue, white, and 
red, with plates of gold enamelled. Item, a red 
cope broidered with images of gold," 
Let any one read the Apocalyptic inventory 
of the riches and jewelry of Babylon, and com-
pare with it the descriptions of Mr. Pugin, or 
the beautiful paintings which he adds, and the 
conclusion will be irresistible that John's picture 
was drawn from the future—that future the 
Church of Rome. 
You have here another feature identifying the 
Church of Rome as Babylon—the scarlet color 
of her vestments, and adorned with precious 
stones. If you will take the trouble to go to the 
Exhibition, as I have already stated, and ex-
amine the Belgic part of it you will see a rep-
resentation of Cardinal Borromeo and another 
Cardinal bishop ; and if you look at their attire 
you cannot fail to be reminded of the woman 
clothed in scarlet sitting on a wild beast also 
clothed in scarlet; adorned with precious stones, 
and gold and silver, and pearls, and thyine 
wood, and feel that there is another visible link 
established between the Babylon of the Apoca-
lypse and the woman described there, and the 
Roman Catholic Church. I might mention 
many other points, but I cannot dwell on them 
now. 
Rome boasts of her pomp and splendor ; but 
it is the pomp and splendor of Babylon, not of 
Jerusalem. I see in her splendor the trappings 
of the dead ; 1 hear in her music the mzserere 
of the oppressed, and over all her grandeur, to 
my eye, enlightened by the Spirit of God, I see 
" lchabod, Ichabod, the true glory is departed." 
Brilliancy of style is not affluence of argument; 
buttercups on a field are not proofs of golden 
mines below ; and all the splendor of Babylon 
is but the evidence to me that there is some-
thing- at fault beneath, which that splendor is 
needed to conceal. I recollect when I was a 
boy, going to school, seeing a painter painting 
a new door, and putting extra spots of paint on 
different parts of the panel. Being very in-
quisitive, I asked the man what he was about, 
and he said : " You see these are resinous flaws 
in the wood, and I am putting on extra coats of 
paint that they may not be seen when the whole 
is painted." I instantly thought of the Church 
of Rome. She is conscious of great flaws, of 
terrible shakes in her system, and she puts on 
extra coatings of decoration in order that they 
may be concealed. Our decorations are to be 
of another stamp. Let our lives be the living 
pictures in our churches. For censers swing-
ing with incense, let us lift up holy hands ; for 
decorated churches, let our bodies be temples of 
the Holy Ghost ; the girdle of our loins, let it 
be truth ; our robe, let it be righteousness ; and 
our mitre with its most precious gems, that 
" crown of righteousness that fadeth not away." 
If Rome be Babylon, all the splendor of her 
ritual only makes her a more splendid Babylon. 
She is Catholic—that is, universal. I deny 
it. She has a few here and there. Open any 
history, and you must smile at her pretensions. 
Amid the millions of India, and the millions of 
China,—is she universal there ? The Church of 
Christ is universal in her destiny, but will not 
be universal historically until the dawn of the 
millennial day. The church is Catholic in this 
sense—that it has a religion for all people, for 
all nations, for all countries, and embraces all 
that love the Lord Jesus Christ in sincerity and 
truth. In that sense we are Catholic ; but 
Catholic, in the sense of filling the whole world, 
we shall not be till the millennium comes. The 
Church of Rome's assumption of Catholicity 
is only a part of that mimicry and antedating 
of the millennial church, which is her character 
—a part of that system in which the Pope 
places himself in the room of Christ, chewing 
himself as if he were Christ, and she herself 
in the place of the church of the future. 
She also assumes to be Apostolic, an assump-
tion in her case perfectly grotesque. Think of 
a Cardinal with his pomp, splendor, and mag-
nificence; and then of Peter pulling his net, 
and rowing a boat on the lake of Galilee. The 
Apostolic church said that a bishop should he 
the husband of one wife; the Church of Rome 
says that he must not, at his peril, be the hus-
band of a wife at all. The Apostolic Church 
said : " We break one bread ;" the Apostate 
Church says it ceases to be bread. The Apos-
tolic Church said : " Prove all things ;" Rome 
says : " Prove nothing at all, but take every 
thing upon trust." The Apostolic Church said : 
Bodily service profiteth little ;" the Apostate 
Church says : " Penance, fasting, and other tor-
turings of the body, are most meritorious to-
wards forgiveness of sin." She is truly Apos-
tate—not at all Apostolic. The Church of 
Rome also assumes sanctity. It is Babylonish, 
not Christian sanctity, it is riot at all the holiness 
of the Scriptures. When we speak of a saint, 
we mean a Christian. The epistle of the Phi-
lippians was written " to the saints at Philip-
pi." The Church of Rome means by a saint a 
man like Liguori ; who half-starved himself, 
licked the ground before he ate his food, scourged 
himself till he nearly committed suicide, lay 
upon thorns, and girded himself with sharp 
spikes ; or like St. Francis, who was a saint of 
exactly the same description ; or St. Bonaven-
ture, who wrote the atrocious and idolatrous 
Psalter. We may well say, if such fierce fanat-
ics, such self-torturing devotees, so like Hin-
doos, were the saints of Rome, what a black list 
her sinners must he ! 
The Church of Rome also assumes unity. 
Let her have it. What is that unity ? The 
unity of Babylon. Prove that she is a Baby-
lon, and then all her assumptions go for ab-
solutely nothing. Were an army of rebels in 
arms against our county and Queen to plead, 
" We are most united," your answer would be, 
but you are rebels still." Were the Sultans, 
the free Shahs, and the Cadis of Islamism to 
say, " We are most united," you would answer, 
" Yes, but you are Mohammedan still." Arid 
when the Church of Rome says, " We are all 
perfectly united," you must say, " Yes, but you 
are Babylon still. Your unity must be, unity 
in truth, to be the unity of the Church of Christ ; 
unity in falsehood only proves you to be Baby-
lon." But she will instantly tell you, " You Pro• 
testants are split among yourselves." If the re-
verned Father had come into Exeter Hall he 
would have said, " here are Independents, and 
Baptists, and Wesleyans,and Presbyterians, and 
Episcopalians; what a miserable group ! All 
are split and divided ; Dr. Cumming against. 
Dr. sombebody else, and Dr. somebody else 
against him. In short, all Protestantism is a; 
mass of heterogeneous materials, and of dis-
cordant professors." I answer, we are divided 
into these sections, but our difference is only 
about discipline, not about doctrine ; we hold 
all essential doctrines. Does my friend Mr. 
Robinson wear a white gown ? and do I wear a 
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names We argue, but things. I might ask where 
was the name transubstantiation before the 
ninth century ? It was never heard of. If 
names being new prove things to be new, then 
transubstantiation was invented in the ninth 
century. if she ask where our Creed was, I 
answer it was in the Bible. Does she ask 
where we ourselves were ? She knows where 
we were. Some pining in the cells of the 
Inquisition ; bones of others bleaching in the 
rains and winds of heaven; and the blood of 
innumerable Protestant saints crying from the 
ground, " 0 Lord, how long ?" But if she ask, 
where could we exist if she was the over-
whelming,-majestic, and impressive body, I re-
ply : God preserved us in modern Babylon just 
as he preserved the Jews in ancient Babylon. 
Our preservation in her is proof of her being 
Babylon. I have before now endeavored to il-
lustrate this by a simple fact. A traveller dis-
covered in one of the pyramids of Egypt a bul-
bous, or rather tuberous root in the hand of a 
mummy, and the hieroglyphics upon that mum-
my proved that it was at least 3000 years old. 
The traveller was anxious to ascertain whether 
the root could have retained its vitality for so 
long a period ; and he opened the hard mechani-
cal fingers of the mummy, took out the root, and 
planted it in his garden. To his amazement 
and delight it germinated, shot up, and grew a 
beautiful and lovely dahlia. If you ask me, 
then, where Protestantism was, I answer, it was 
in the cold, tyrant grasp of the Romish Apos-
tasy ; and what Martin Luther and John Knox 
did was to go and unclench that hard and ty-
rannous grasp, take out the precious deposit, and 
plant it in old England, and old Scotland, aye, 
in old Ireland too ; and it has shot up into these 
glorious Churches, composed of all who love 
the Saviour, that are the beauty and defence of 
the land in which we live. 
Concerning the New Heavens and 
New Earth. 
BY THOMAS BURNET. 
[Mr. BURNET a learned English writer and 
Secretary to King WILLIAM was born A. D. 
1635. His " Theory of the Earth," from which 
these extracts are taken, does not favor probation 
after the advent.] 
(Continued from our last.) 
We have given fair presumptions, if not proofs, 
in the precedent chapter, that the sons of the 
first resurrection, will be the persons that shall 
inhabit the new earth, or the world to come. But 
to make that proof complete and unexceptiona-
ble, I told you, it would be necessary to take a 
larger compass in our discourse, and to examine 
what is meant by that reign with Christ a thou-
sand years, which is promised to the sons of the 
first resurrection, by St. John in the Apocalypse ; 
and in other places of Scripture is usually called 
the kingdom of Christ, and the reign of the 
saints ; and by ecclesiastical authors, in imita-
tion of St. John, it is commonly styled, the mil-
lennium. We shall indifferently use any of 
these words or phrases ; and examine, first, the 
truth of the notion and opinion, whether, in 
Scripture, there be such an happy state prom-
ised to the saints under the conduct of Christ; 
and then we will proceed to examine the nature, 
characters, place, and time of it. And I am in 
hopes when these things are discussed and 
stated, you will be satisfied that we have found 
out the true inhabitants of the new heavens and 
new earth; and the true mystery of that state 
which is called the millennium, or the reign of 
Christ and of his saints. 
We begin with St. John, whose words in the 
20th chapter of the Apocalypse (vs. 1-6) are 
express, both as to the first resurrection, and as 
to the reign of those saints that rise with Christ 
for a thousand years ; Satan in the mean time 
being bound or disabled from doing mischief, 
and seducing mankind. The words of the 
prophet are these : " And I saw an angel come 
down from heaven, having the key of the bot-
tomless pit, and a great chain in his hand. And 
he laid hold on the dragon, that old serpent, 
which is the devil and Satan, and bound him a 
thousand years. And I saw thrones, and they 
sat upon them, and judgment was given unto 
them ; and I saw the souls of them that were 
beheaded for the witness of Jesus, and for the 
word of God, and which had not worshipped the 
beast, neither his image, neither had received 
his mark upon their foreheads, or in their hands ; 
and they lived and reigned with Christ a thou-
sand years. But the rest of the dead lived not 
again until the thousand years were finished. 
This is the first resurrection. Blessed and holy 
is he that bath part in the first resurrection ; on 
such the second death hath no power, but they 
shall be priests of God, and of Christ, and shall 
reign with him a thousand years." These 
words do fully express a resurrection, and a 
reign with Christ a thousand years. As for 
that particular space of time, of a thousand 
years, it is not much material to our present pur-
pose : but the resurrection here spoken of, and 
the reign with Christ, make the substance of 
the controversy, and in effect prove all that we 
inquire after at present. This resurrection, you 
see, is called the first resurrection, by way of 
distinction from the second and general resur-
rection ; which is to be placed a thousand years 
after the first. And both this first resurrection, 
and the reign of Christ, seem to be appropriated 
to the martyrs in this place : for the prophet 
says, " the souls of those that were beheaded 
for the witness of Jesus," etc., " they lived and 
reigned with Christ a thousand years." From 
which words, if you please, we will raise this 
doctrine ; that those that have suffered for the 
sake of Christ, and a good conscience, shall be 
raised from the dead a thousand years before the 
general resurrection, and reign with Christ in 
an happy state. This proposition seems to be 
plainly included in the words of St. John, and 
to be the intended sense of this vision ; but you 
must have patience a little as to your inquiry 
into particulars, till in the progress of our dis-
course we have brought all the parts of this con-
clusion into fuller light. 
In the meantime, there is but one way, that 
I know of, to evade the force of these words, 
and of the conclusion drawn from them ; and 
that is, by supposing that the first resurrection, 
here mentioned, is not to be understood in a lit-
eral sense, but is allegorical and mystical, signi-
fying only a resurrection from sin to a spiritual 
life ; as we are said to be dead in sin, and to be 
risen with Christ, by faith and regeneration. 
This is a manner of speech which St. Paul does 
sometimes use, as Eph. 2:6, 14, and Col. 3:1. 
But how can this be applied to the present case ? 
were the martyrs dead in sin ? it is they that 
are here raised from the dead : or, after they 
were beheaded for the witness of Jesus, natural-
ly dead and laid in their graves, were they then 
regenerate by faith ? There is no congruity in 
allegories so applied. Besides, why should they 
be said to be regenerate a thousand years before 
the day of judgment ? or to reign with Christ, 
after this spiritual resurrection, such a limited 
time, a thousand years ? why not to eternity ? 
for in this allegorical sense of rising and reign-
ing, they will reign with him for everlasting. 
Then, after a thousand years, must all the wick-
ed be regenerate, and rise into a spiritual life ? 
It is said here, " the rest of the dead lived not 
again, until the thousand years were finished." 
—v. 5. That implies, that at the end of these 
thousand years, the rest of the dead did live 
again ; which, according to the allegory, must 
be, that, after a thousand years, all the wicked 
will be regenerate, and raised into a spiritual 
life. These absurdities arise upon an allegori-
cal exposition of this resurrection, if applied to 
single persons. 
But Dr. Hammond, a learned and worthy di-
vine, (but one that loves to contract and cramp 
the sense of prophecies) making this first resur-
rection allegorical, applies it not to single per-
sons, but to the state of the church in general : 
the Christian church, he says, shall have a res-
urrection for a thousand years ; that is, shall 
rise out of persecution, be in a prosperous con-
dition, and an undisturbed profession of the 
true religion, for so long a time. But, this 
agrees with the prophecy as little as the former : 
if it be a state of the church in general, and of 
the church then in being, why is this resurrec-
tion applied to the martyrs ? Why are they said 
to rise ? seeing the state they lived in was a 
troublesome state of the church, and it would be 
no happiness to have that revived again. Then 
as to the time of this resurrection of the church, 
where will you fix it ? The prophet Daniel 
places this reign of Christ at, or after, the disso-
lution of the fourth monarchy ; and St. John 
places it a thousand years before the last day of 
judgment. How will you adjust the allegorical 
resurrection of the church to these limits ? Or 
if, in point of time, you was free, as to prophecy, 
yet how would you adjust it to history? Where 
will you take these thousand years of happiness 
and prosperity to the church ? These authors 
suppose them past, and therefore must begin 
them either from the first times of the Gospel, 
or from the time of Constantine. Under the 
first ages of the gospel, were, you know, the 
great persecutions by the heathen emperors ; 
could those be called the reign of Christ and of 
his saints ? was Satan then bound ? or was this 
epocha but a thousand years before the day of 
judgment? And if you begin this resurrection 
of the church from the days of Constantine, 
when the empire became Christian, how will 
you reckon a thousand years from that time, for 
the continuance of the church in peace and 
purity? For the reign of Christ and of his saints 
must necessarily imply both those characters. 
Besides, who are the rest of the dead, (v. 5) that 
lived after the expiration of those thousand 
years, if they begun at. Constantine ? And why 
is not the second resurrection and the day of 
judgment yet come ? Lastly, you ought to be 
tender of interpreting the first resurrection in an 
allegorical sense, lest you expose the second 
resurrection to be made an allegory also. 
To conclude; the words of the text are plain 
and express for a literal resurrection, as to the 
black one ? The one is just as Popish as the 
other : neither is necessarily so. Now I have 
often said that I prefer a white one, and for a 
very simple reason, not because I am a Puseyite, 
or think it symbolical. The silk gown in which 
I preach was given to my by the ladies of my 
congregation, and it is growing very brown ; the 
color does not stand at all like the Cardinal's 
ink ; but if I had a white gown I could get it 
washed, and ironed, and mangled every week, 
and so renewed every Sunday. We do differ 
in discipline, but has not the Church of Rome 
also differences in discipline ? She has Au-
gustinians, Dominicans, Franciscans, Benedic-
tines, Carthusians, Cistercians, Redemptorists, 
Passionists, Black Friars, Blue Friars, Grey 
Friars, and the rest. if the Church of Rome. 
then, insists that we are all divided because we 
differ in discipline, I say, " Gentlemen, those 
who live in glass houses should not throw 
stones ; are not you divided in discipline also ?" 
Suppose we were to summon here on one side 
of this hall the ministers of different parishes, 
the Rev. Mr. Nolan of St. John, Mr. Noel, Mr. 
Brock, Dr. Liefchild, Mr. Binney, the Arch-
bishop of Canterbury, myself, and others whose 
names are familiar to you ; and suppose we 
summon on the other side my friend Father Ig-
natius of the Passionists, with his bare feet, 
and also Dominicans, Augustinians, Francis-
cans, Passionists, Redemptorists, Blue Friars, 
Grey Friars, Black Friars, and Red Friars, to 
assemble with him. And suppose the apostle 
Peter were vouchsafed to us, to come from his 
happy rest, and to hear the one side saying, 
" Peter, we believe your epistle; we believe the 
succession of your doctrines, which we hold to 
be the true succession ; and we are your chil-
dren and followers ;" and hear from the other 
side, " Peter, we are the true succession ; you 
are our great founder ; our church is built upon 
you ; we have inherited a likeness and lineage 
of your character and principles." I am sure 
Peter would turn round and say, " Mr. Noel I 
know, Mr. Binney I know, Dr. Sumner I know, 
Dr. Cumming I know,—but pray, gentlemen, 
who are you ?" Recollect the points of dif-
ference. Here, we are different denominations, 
differing in discipline, but forgiving the micros-
copic points on which we differ, because we 
cling to Christ, the great centre of all. On the 
other hand, here are Augustinians, Franciscans, 
&c., &c., &c., all differing from each other in 
discipline, but forgiving their differences on con-
dition that they cling to the Pope of Rome, to 
Antichrist, to the chair of St. Peter. The dif-
ference between us is this : they differ among 
themselves, and forgive all, if all cling to An-
tichrist; we differ among ourselves, and forgive 
all, on condition that all cling to Christ and him 
crucified. 
Now, let me ask you to try and realize in the 
present day the real unity of the Church of 
Christ. It is an important truth, and the pres-
ent hour is the hour for its development and 
manifestation to the utmost. Show the Church 
of Rome that we are united ; all are under the 
same grand roof, all in the same illimitable 
cathedral : yet each in different chapels in that 
cathedral ; worshipping the same God, in dif-
ferent dialects of the same catholic and glorious 
tongue ; and waiting till we rise from the crypt 
where we now are, and hear the beautiful 
voice," Come up hither," and ascend to Christ's 
Father, and our Father, to his God, and our 
God ; presented to him a glorious church, not 
glorious for her jewels, her gems, her scarlet, 
but because we have washed our robes, and 
made them white in the blood of the Lamb. 
But the Babylon puts forth another pretence 
—that of Antiquity. The Church of Rome is 
an old church ; there is no doubt of it. But 
many other things are old. The mummies in 
the British Museum are old, but still they are 
mummies ; the Pyramids are old, but still they 
are tombs of dead kings. The mmgatherium, 
and the ichthyosaurian monsters dug from the 
earth are very old, but they are still petrifac-
tion. It is not age but truth that we look to. 
I admit that there is much that is plausible in 
Rome's pretension. She worships at altars 
raised by Constantine, and around crosses ele-
vated in Flavian amphitheatres, by the cata-
combs of ancient martyrs, and on the stones of 
the Appian Way ; but while she worships, she 
worships the Virgin Mary, and gives to the 
creature the homage that belongs only to God. 
Her antiquity is her inveteracy. I quote against 
her Cyprian, who says, " Custom without truth 
is antiquity of error ;" Teroillian, who says, 
" Nobody can prescribe against truth ; neither 
space of time, nor patronage of person, nor pri-
vilege of countries." Fratricide is as old as the 
days of Cain, drunkenness is as old as the days 
of Noah ; self-righteousness is as old as Adam 
when Adam fell ; but they are not right. The 
synagogue of Satan is old, but the Church of 
Christ is first ; Babylon is old, but the Church 
of the living God is first. But you will be twit-
ted, and asked by Roman Catholics, " Where 
were you Protestants before Martin Luther and 
the Reformation ?" as they call it. If she ask 
where our names were, I reply, it is not about 
first, as well as the second ; and there is no alle-
gorical interpretation that I know of, that will 
hold through all the particulars of the text, con-
sistently with itself and with history. And 
when we shall have proved this future kingdom 
of Christ from other places of the Apocalypse, 
and of holy writ, you will the more easily ad-
mit the literal sense of this place; which, you 
know, according to the received rule of interpret-
ers, is never to be quitted or forsaken, without 
necessity : but when I speak of confirming this 
doctrine from other passages of Scripture, I do 
not mean as to that definite time of a thousand 
years, for that is nowhere else mentioned in the 
Apocalypse, or in Scripture, that I know of; and 
it seems to be mentioned here, in this close of 
all things, to mind us of that type that was pro-
posed in the beginning of all things, of six days 
and a Sabbath ; whereof each day comprehends 
a thousand years, and the Sabbath, which is the 
millennium state, hath its thousand ; according 
to the known prophecy of Elias, (b. 3, chap. 5) 
which, as I told you before, was not only re-
ceived among the Jews, but also owned by very 
many of the Christian fathers. 
To proceed therefore to other parts of St. 
John's prophecies, that set forth this kingdom of 
Christ ; the vision of the seven trumpets is one of 
the most remarkable in the Apocalypse ; and the 
seventh trumpet, which plainly reaches to the 
end of the world, and the resurrection of the 
dead, opens the scene to the millennium : hear 
the sound of it : " The seventh angel sounded, 
and there were great voices in heaven, saying, 
The kingdoms of this world are become the 
kingdoms of our Lord, and of his Christ, and he 
shall reign for ever and ever. And the four and 
twenty elders, which sat before God on their 
seats, fell upon their faces, and worshipped God, 
saying, We give thee thanks, 0 Lord God Al-
mighty, which art, and wast, and art to come; 
because thou hast taken to thee thy great power, 
and hast reigned. And the nations were angry, 
and thy wrath is come, and the time of the dead, 
that they should be judged, and that thou 
shouldest give reward unto thy servants the 
prophets, and to the saints, and them that fear 
thy name, small and great, and shouldest destroy 
them that destroy the earth," etc.—Apoc. 11:15-- 
18. This is manifestly the kingdom of Christ; 
and with this is joined the resurrection of the 
dead, and the rewarding of the suffering prophets 
and saints, as in the 20th chapter. This is that 
" mystery of God that was to be finished in the 
days of the voice of the seventh angel," as it is 
said in Apoc. 20:1. " As he bath declared to 
his servants the prophets :" namely, the mystery 
of this kingdom, which was foretold by the proph-
ets of the Old Testament, and more especially 
by Daniel, as we shall see hereafter. 
The New Jerusalem (as it is set down, Apoc. 
21:2-7) is another instance or image of this 
kingdom of Christ. And the palm-bearing com-
pany (chap. 7:9, etc.) are some of the martyrs 
that shall enjoy it, They are plainly described 
there as Christian martyrs ; (v. 14) and their 
reward, or the state of happiness they are to 
enjoy, (v 15-17) is the same with that of the 
new Jerusalem, (chap. 21:2-4, etc.) as, upon 
comparing those two places, will easily appear. 
Farthermore, at the opening of the seals, (chap. 
v.) which is another principal vision, and reaches 
to the end of the world, there is a prospect given 
us of this kingdom of Christ, and of that reward 
of his saints. For when they sing the new 
song to the Lamb (vs. 9, 10,) they say, " Thou 
art worthy to take the book, and to open the 
seals thereof ; for thou vast slain, and hast re= 
deemed us to God by thy blood ; and hast made 
us unto our God kings and priests ; and we 
shall reign on the earth." This must be the 
same mate, and the same thousand years reign 
mentioned in the 20th chap., where it is said, 
(v. 6,) the partakers of it e shall be priests of 
God, and of Christ, and shall reign with him a 
thousand years." 
Another completory vision, that extends itself 
to the end of the world, is that of the seven phials, 
(chap. 15 and 17). And as at the opening of the 
seals, so at the pouring out of the phials, a tri-
umphal song is sung, and it is called the "song 
of Moses and of the Lamb," (chap. 15:3). It 
is plainly a song of thanksgiving for a deliver-
ance, but I do not look upon this deliverance 
as already wrought, before the pouring out of 
the phials, though it be placed before them ; as 
often the grand design and issue of a vision is 
placed at the beginning : it is wrought by the 
phials themselves, and by their effusion, and 
therefore upon the pouring out of the last phial, 
the voice came out of the temple of heaven, from 
the throne, saying, consummatum est ; it is done, 
(chap. 16:17). Now the deliverance is wrought, 
now the work is at an end ; or, the mystery of 
God is finished, as the phrase was before, con-
cerning the 7th trumpet, (chap. 10:7). You see 
therefore this terminates upon the same time, 
and consequently upon the same state, of the 
millennium; and that they are the same persons 
that triumph here, and reign there, (chap 20,) you 
may see by the same characters given to both of 
them, (chap. 25:2). Here those that triumph are 
said to to have gotten the victory over the beast, 
All who were members of the church, 
were to bring their children into the same re-
lation, by the rite of circumcision.-Gen. 1'7 : 
10-15. 
All their servants, whether of Abraham's 
seed or not, should be made members in the 
same way.-'Lev, 17 :12,13 
Provision was made for the reception of 
other members from the heathen round about, 
whether descendants of Ishmael, Esau, or other 
nations, with some limitations ; also by circum-
cision.-Num. 9 :14. 
All these members, whether of Abraham's 
seed or not, stood on the same footing, and were 
members in full of the church ; entitled to all 
its privileges, and heirs to all its promises,-
Ex. 12:48, 49. 
Provision was made for the regular excom-, 
munication of "any profane person as Esau,' 
who should wilfully despise the covenant of his 
God ; he was to be " cut off from his people." 
-Num. 15 :30, 31 ; 19 :19, 20. 
And if we look at the subsequent history of 
the church, we find that these laws were carried 
out. We often read of proselytes coming into 
the church. We notice no distinction between 
the members as to their origin, but the contrary. 
-Isa. 56:6-8. 
We see many children of Abraham by blood 
excommunicated ; even of the children of Ja-
cob. Many of them were cut off by Divine 
judgment, as the sons of Korah ; and at one 
time nearly the whole tribe of Benjamin. 
This, then, is the substance of what we have 
discovered thus far : 
1st. The church before Christ was not wholly 
Jewish. 
2d. All Jews (much more all children of Abra-
ham) were not members of the church. 
Such was the condition of the outward visi-
ble church, until the coming of Christ. Within 
this was the invisible church, the little company 
of the regenerated ; always a little flock, a rem-
nant only, and alone the true church. 
Connection with the outward church, entitled 
all Jews or Gentiles to the outward privileges 
of the church, and made them heirs of all that 
was outward and physical in the covenant with 
Abraham. They were all heirs of Abraham, 
by law, to all his temporal blessings. 
Regeneration, connection by faith with the 
inward true church, alone entitled them to the 
spiritual blessings, and made them heirs of 
Abraham, by faith, to all the spiritual promises. 
-Rom. 4:16 ; Gal. 3:29. N. Y. Evangelist. 
Fifty-six Wants 
Of the Children of Zion, all furnished front the Fountain Head. 
I want 
I want 
I want 
1 want 
I want 
1 want 
I want 
S. I want 
I want 
I want 
I want 
1 want 
1 want 
I want 
I want 
I want 
I want 
I want 
I want 
I want 
I want 
I want 
I want 
I want 
to feed on Jesus' word. 
communion with the Lord. 
salvation full and free. 
my Father's face to see. 
to prove each promise sweet. 
to lie at Jesus' feet. 
his mercy every day. 
upholding all the way. 
to live as Jesus' bride. 
in his dear wounds to hide. 
to prize his fulness more. 
his person to adore. 
to hear his heavenly voice. 
in Jesus to rejoice. 
to joy in him by faith. 
to credit all he saith. 
to trust him with my all. 
on his dear name to call. 
to die to all things here. 
on him to cast my care. 
to see the Gospel spread. 
on Satan's power to tread. 
to see the proud made sad. 
to see poor mourners glad. 
THE ADVENT HERALD. 
3311, 
him who sows the supposed seed, it is a sad 
misapplication of a figurative statement concern-
ing the resurrection of the human body, con-
tained in the sublime argument of the apostle 
Paul for that doctrine in 1 Cor. 15. The strik-
ing phrase in Malachi 2:15, " Yet had he the 
residue," (margin " excellency,") of the Spirit 
is inappropriately employed in prayer. 
A careful examination of the passage will 
convince us that it refers to the creation of the 
first human pair, as of one flesh and one soul. 
Archbishop Newcome renders it, " And did he 
not make one flesh and one spirit thereof a godly 
seed ?" The received version shows clearly 
enough, that this disjointed sentence should not 
be used in prayer as an argument for the out-
pouring of the Holy Spirit in the church and 
the world. 
The passage in 1 Cor. 2:9, 10, " Eye hath 
not seen, nor ear heard, neither have entered into 
the heart of man, the things whieh God bath pre-
pared for them that love him," is almost uni-
versally applied to illustrate the supposed entire 
ignorance in which even Christians are found of 
the joys of heaven ; a dogma which appears not 
much in harmony with other statements of the 
Bible. This, however, is a misapplication of 
the saying, which being a quotation from the 
Old Testament, refers to the imperfect acquaint-
arice of men in the early ages of the world with 
the disclosures and joys of Christians. This is 
evident from the words of the apostle immedi-
ately following : " But God bath revealed them 
unto us by the Spirit." 
There is a deceitful handling of the Word of 
God, in which certain doctrinal points are un-
dertaken to be proved, by the citation of a dis-
jointed phrase, which bears a distorted or oppo-
site view to that of the passage to which it be-
lougs. As when the passage, Philip. 2 :12, 13, 
" Work out your own salvation with fear 'and 
trembling, for it is God which worketh in you 
both to will arid to do of his good pleasure," is ar-
bitrarily divided in twain, one part used, and 
the other purposely withheld : or, as when frag-
ments are torn from their connexion and strung 
together in conformity with the whim or ca- 
price of the person using them. Such tamper-
ing with any other kind of documentary evi- 
dence would be denounced by honorable men ; 
but persons often take such liberties with the 
Word of God, as would render them liable to a 
charge of untruthfulness if they so acted in 
reference to the words of their fellow creatures. 
It may be well to remember that we are told 
concerning all the words of Deity, " Add thou 
not unto them, lest he reprove thee ;" Prov. 30: 
6, and that the closing part of Revelation sa- 
credly guards the integrity of the Apocalypse 
by the most solemn threatenings against those 
who shall add to, or take from, the words of 
this prophecy. 
takes the vows of God upon him, and has the 
covenant confirmed. 
Thus Ishmael, the sons of Keturah, and Esau, 
might have shared with Jacob all the blessings 
of the covenant, if they had chosen. It is noth-
ing, against this, that God is everywhere spok-
en of as rejecting them, and choosing Isaac and 
Jacob. The same is said of every sinner who, 
having the offer of life, refuses it : God had from 
all eternity rejected him-hut still he might 
have gone to heaven, if he had chosen. 
With the sons of Jacob, God is more forbear-
ing. He does not cut them off for their early 
wickedness, but gives them space for repent-
ance, as he did the world after the flood. They 
seem to have improved the privilege, and re-
pented. 
God shows the same forbearance with the 
generation in Egypt, and that in the wilderness, 
although guilty. They are acknowledged as 
his church ; and with them the covenant is re-
newed, new laws and ordinances given, and 
thus the church is more fully organized. 
Let us stop here and observe the constitution 
of the church, with especial reference to the 
point of membership. For this we must look 
both to the first constitution given to Abraham, 
and the fuller declaration of its laws by Moses. 
We observe the following things : 
and over his image, and over his mark, and over 
the number of his name, (chap. 20:4). And 
there, those that reign with Christ are said to be 
those " that had not worshipped the beast, nei-
ther his image, neither had received his mark 
upon their foreheads, or in their hands." These 
are the smile persons therefore, triumphing over 
the same enemies, and enjoying the same re-
ward. 
And you shall seldom find any doxology or 
hallelujah in the Apocalypse, but it is in pros-
pect of the kingdom of Christ, and the millen-
nial state : this is still the burden of the sacred 
song, the complement of every grand vision, and 
the life and strength of the whole system of 
prophecies in that book : even those hallelujahs 
that are sung at the destruction of Babylon, in 
the 19th chapter, (vs. 6, 7,) are raised upon the 
view of the succeeding state, the reign of Christ. 
For the text says, " And I heard as it were a 
voice of a great multitude, and as the voice of 
many waters, and as the voice of mighty thun-
ders, saying, Hallelujah : for the Lord God Om-
nipotent reigneth. Let us be glad and rejoice, 
and give honor to him : for the marriage of the 
Lamb is come, and his wife hath made herself 
ready." This appears plainly to be the new 
Jerusalem, if you consult the 21st chap. v. 2 : 
" And I John saw the holy city, new Jerusalem, 
coming down from God out of heaven, prepared 
as a bride adorned for her husband." It is, no 
doubt, the same bride and bridegroom in both 
places ; the same marriage, or preparations for 
marriage, which are completed in the millennial 
in bliss, the kingdom of Christ and of his 
saints.-(To be continued.) 
Conversion of the Jews- 
BY RBV. B. M. DODD, MISSIONARY AT SALONICA. 
TEMPORAL HOPES. 
I propose, in a few successive letters, to con-
sider the future prospects of the Jews, and their 
relations to the gospel, and church of Christ. 
To this end, three questions are suggested for 
consideration, viz : 1st. Do the Scriptures hold 
out to the Jews, the promise of any peculiar 
temporal good, which they are to enjoy under 
the gospel, in distinction from the other nations 
of the earth ? 
2d. Do the Jews rest under any peculiar 
curse, which renders them more unlikely sub-
jects of gospel grace, than Gentiles ; and their 
immediate conversion more improbable ? 
3d. If not, what is the comparative probability 
of their conversion, compared with the heathen ? 
1st. The Temporal Prospects of the Jews. 
Preliminary to this question, I wish to sug-
gest a few thoughts, upon the constitution of 
the church, before Christ. They are suggested 
with diffidence, feeling that the subject demands 
a more able investigator ; and are presented only 
as suggestions, for consideration by wiser heads. 
God has always had his chosen ones in the 
world, from the days of Abel; but until Abra-
ham, religion seems to have been only an indi-
vidual matter. With Abraham, we suppose, 
begins a regularly organized church, with an 
accredited sign of membership, and ordinances. 
God made Abraham the head and father of 
that church, as Paul calls him, in Romans, and 
made the covenant with him, for himself, and 
all the future members of the church, represent-
ed in him their head, and called in Romans, 
his " children by faith." For the seal of that 
covenant, and the sign of membership with the 
church, God appointed the rite of circumcision. 
That this constitution of the church, and this 
covenant, did not refer to his blood descendants 
alone, is clear from what Paul says in Romans. 
(Rom. 4:11, 16.) It only referred to them as 
members of the church ; and to those alone of 
them who were members. The headship of 
this church was to continue in Abraham's family 
till the Messiah came, who was the true head, 
and should come of his seed. 
All of his seed had this privilege; that each 
one might, by circumcision, become a member 
of the church, and enjoy its visible privileges ; 
and, dwelling in the land of Canaan, apart from 
the heathen, having the oracles of God and his 
true worship, stand in peculiarly favorable cir-
cumstances for receiving the grace of life, and 
becoming the children of Abraham by faith. 
Consequently, Abraham circumcised his eight 
sons, and his servants, and they became mem-
bers of the church. 
But in God's plans, it was foreknown, as it is 
with regard to many baptized children now, that 
seven of these sons should reject his grace, and 
annul the covenant, as far as concerned them-
selves. 
Isaac alone should be found faithful ; foresee-
ing which, God says, " I will establish my cove-
nant with Isaac." Isaac circumcised both his 
sons in faith, hoping doubtless, that they might 
both receive the promises ; but, as before, God 
had chosen only Jacob; and Esau, left to his 
own heart, despising his birthright, and rejecting 
the blessing, cuts himself off from the church. 
Jacob, alone, of all the grandsons of Abraham, 
I want to see the hungry fed. 
1 want by Jesus to be led. 
I want him as my guide and friend. 
I want him to my journey's end. 
I want him as my Priest and King. 
I want his precious love to sing. 
I want him as my rock and tower. 
I want him in each trying hour. 
I want him as my brother dear. 
I want my Jesus ever near. 
1 want his eyes, his hands, his heart. 
I want with all things else to part. 
I want him as my husband kind. 
1 want in him my all to find. 
I want him as my daily bread. 
I want him as my living head. 
I want him as my hiding place. 
I want him as my God of grace. 
I want him as my life and peace. 
I want him as my righteousness. 
I want his great atoning blood. 
I want to bathe in that dear flood. 
I want his Spirit's voice to hear, 
I want the love that casts out fear. 
I want him now in Achor's vale. 
I want him when all hell assails. 
I want him when all flesh gives way. 
I want him as my only stay. 
I want his smiles, his looks of grace. 
1 want to see him face to face. 
I want his wisdom, strength and love. 
I want to dwell with him above. 
Christian Secretary. 
Dishonor Done the Bible. 
We give our readers the following from the 
London Biblical Review : 
The most serious damage and dishonor are 
done to the Bible by interpolations, which have 
gradually crept into many of the passages in 
common use. These, probably, originated in 
the desire to make more plain the supposed 
meaning of the written text, or to express the 
theological sentiments of the persons adopting 
it. Nevertheless, these alterations are anything 
but improvements, as may be seen in the fol-
lowing examples :-The memorable promise of 
our Saviour, (Matt. 19:20,) "Where two or three 
are gathered together in my name, there am I 
in the midst of them," is often used with the 
addition, " and that to bless them." This addi-
tional sentence is probably a mutilated frag-
ment of the promise of Jehovah, (Ex. 20:24), 
" In all places where I record my name I will 
bless thee." But it is a superfluous appendage, 
not in harmony with the design of the Redeem-
er's promise, and when attributed to Him, as His 
own word, is incorrect. The wish expressed by 
the apostle Paul, 2 Thess. 3: 1-. That the 
word of the Lord may have free course and be 
glorified," is often quoted with the addition, 
" and run." This appears to be an incorpora-
tion of the proposed marginal reading, for " free 
course " is mere tautology, and consequently 
should be avoided. The cheering declaration, 
(Eph. 3:20) that God " is able to do exceeding 
abundantly, above all that we ask or think," has 
often appended to it, the somewhat unmeaning 
and unscriptural sentence, " or at all worthy to 
receive." Now, as salvation is of grace, we are 
not worthy of any mercy at the hand of God, 
and this addition is, consequently, incongruous 
with the passage. The beautiful and aflecting 
declaration, (Psa. 130:7) that " with the Lord 
there is mercy, arid with Him is plenteous re-
demption," is sometimes encumbered with the 
ungraceful appendage, " that He may be sought 
unto," which, certainly, is not in the text, nor in 
the ode from which it is taken. 
All sorts of emendations have been attempted 
on the Lord's Prayer, and in the apostolic bene-
diction, (2 Cor. 13:14) with which our public 
religious services usually conclude. Indeed, so 
common are the alterations in the latter, that, 
in a majority of instances in which it is used, it 
is employed with some interwoven comment or 
addition. Surely, the beautiful, comprehensive 
and universally appropriate words of the Chris-
tian form of benediction might be allowed to ob-
tain among us, as it was in apostolic times, 
without the numerous interpolations which con-
ceit or vanity foist into it. 
Many are the misapplications of Scripture in 
common use, even when accurately cited. We 
content ourselves with noticing only the follow-
ing : We have often heard persons, both in and 
out of the pulpit, quote, with a view to prove 
the universality of divine influence, (1 Cor. 
12:7) " But the manifestation of the Spirit is 
given to every man to profit withal." The 
slightest examination of the context proves that 
the " manifestation " refers to spiritual gifts, not 
to grace ; and that the " every man " means, 
not every human being, but every privileged 
person in the Corinthian church. This quota-
tion is often mangled as well as misapplied, by 
substituting the phrase, a measure " for " a 
manifestation." Some pious persons supplicat-
ing a blessing on the preaching of the Gospel, 
pray that what " is sown in weakness may be 
raised in power." Now to say nothing of the 
uncomplimentary character of the allusion to 
The Index Expurgatorius• 
It is well known that the Roman Church 
keeps an extensive and formidable list of books, 
the circulation or perusal of which she forbids 
with all the stress of her authority. This lit-
erary policy is of very early date, though it 
never acquired system and comprehensiveness 
until the invention of printing made it neces-
sary to protect the errors and abuses of the 
church from the instinctive assaults of the press. 
In 1471, Sextus IV. ordained that no book should 
be printed without express Papal permission ; 
and this broad canon of literary despotism, re-
enacted at various times, is still the law of the 
church. At the Council of Trent, a Board of 
Censors, entitled the Congregation of the Index, 
was appointed, which continues in existence and 
operation to the present hour. With this Board, 
under the presidency of " the Master of the 
Holy Palace," lies the duty of inspecting, li-
censing, and prohibiting books, and by its au-
thority the official Roman Index is put forth. 
At present the " Congregation of the Index " 
consists of thirteen cardinals, with a few theo-
logians as consultores-among which latter class, 
for many years, was the present Cardinal Wise-
man. The Index, which records and publishes 
their interdicts, consists of two parts-the' In-
dex librorum prohibitorum," the catalogue of 
books utterly forbidden ; and the " Index libro-
rum expurgandorum," books to be purified or 
expurgated. The books of the latter class may 
be read after they have undergone the Papal 
revision ; those of the former may not be read 
at all-except for a good fee. 
The last edition of the Index specifies above 
five thousand works which are poremptorily for-
biddden. Many of these are not individual 
books, but classes of works. All the religious 
writings of Protestants, for example, come under 
the ban in one entry in the Index. Not only 
the religious but the ethical and literary pro-
ductions of Protestants are proscribed by a 
sweeping generalization. Among the proscribed 
are most of all modern authors of eminence. In 
theology, Wycliffe, Luther, Calvin, Sherlock, 
Tillotson, Usher, Whitby, Prideaux, Simeon, 
Turretin, and Michaelis, are specimens of the 
men who are pilloried. In scholarship, Rome 
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called down upon the head of TAMERLANE or NERO 
the execration of mankind." Thus he even refuses 
to permit Gon to decide when it is necessary to make 
an example of a nation on account of their wicked-
ness, when they have " filled their cup of iniquity !" 
and he also refuses to permit GOD to judge of the 
means the best adapted, to show his abhorrence of 
their sins !! He claims to be more merciful and hu-
mane, than the Bible represents GOD to he! and there-
fore he would reform the ALMIGHTY ! ! 
He speaks of " this impious claim of a corrupt 
church, that GOD inspired the writers of the Bible, 
so that they gave utterance to the divine will when 
they called to war " &c. And he adds : 
" In consequence of these warlike rules and prac-
tices which prevail under the Old Testament regime, 
we find in the Bible wrong views put forth of the di-
vine character. God is represented as a man of war. 
He accompanies the Israelites to their battles, and 
fights in their behalf. He teaches the Psalmist's 
fingers to war. He is constantly invoked to inter-
pose and rain down fury and desolation upon the 
heads of his enemies, to sweep them and their little 
ones away in one general tide of indiscriminate ruin. 
This is shocking to a heart filled with the spirit of 
Christian love." 
And so he concludes that 
" Moses and Joshua, arid Samuel and David, and 
other Old Testament leaders, in claiming the sanc-
tion of God for their barbarous and unjust wars, were 
mistaken." 
He says : 
" We are required even to believe that God set 
aside the laws of Nature, and caused the sun to ap-
pear to be fixed, for an hour, in one point of the heav-
ens, while Joshua led the host of Israel in an act of 
furious slaughter against a flying and beseeching mul-
titude." 
Here he shows that he attacks without reading his 
Bible, and makes a blunder that a Sunday-school 
child of six years would be ashamed of—the language 
of the Bible being : 
" And the sun stood still, and the moon stayed, un-
til the people had avenged themselves upon their ene-
mies. Is not this written in the book of Jasper? So 
the sun stood still in the midst of heaven, and hasted 
not to go down about a whole day. And there was 
no day like that before it or after it, that the Lord 
hearkened unto the voice of a man : for the Lord 
fought for Israel."—Josh. 10:13, 14. 
He says that " Reason, in its unperverted state, 
has an unerring intention, a divine revelation, which 
rejects the monstrous claim [that GOD commanded the 
Jews to destroy their enemies] and fully and for ever 
exonerates Goo front the tyranny acid crime so 
charged [by the Bible] upon him." 
He next attacks the Jewish Sabbath and affirms 
that it " was not of divine appointment; that the 
cruel severity with which the observance of the Mo-
saic Sabbath was enforced, was abhorrent to the 
spirit of infinite love." Also he says " the forms of 
the Jewish church were not appointed by infinite wis-
dom, but were the result of human and finite wisdom 
entirely." 
He next speaks of polygamy, and says : 
" This most wicked system was introduced by 
Moses into the social policy of the Hebrews ; and 
we are required to believe that he was acting under 
the direction of God's mind, arid in obedience to a 
special inspiration, when he established this system. 
1 hesitate not to say, that no claim more impious and 
monstrous than this was ever put forth, by man, in 
the name of God. I could just as soon subscribe to 
the claim of the corrupt Tetzel, who affirmed that he 
had power from the head of the Holy Church to 
giant plenary indulgence to sin, on the payment of 
money, as to this. 
The whole legislation of the He-
brew church, so far as woman was concerned, was par-
tial, unjust, and oppressive." 
Here he makes a broad assertion that Moses intro-
duced polygamy into the Jewish economy ; yet he does 
not mention a single text in the Mosaic enactments 
in which it is even referred to. A man who is evi-
dently anxious to find reasons for rejecting the Bible 
can easily make assertions that it teaches thus and so, 
and then denounce it for thus teaching, But he who 
maliciously thus adds to GOD'S law and thus judges 
the ALMIGHTY, assumes a fearful responsibility. 
The Old Testament, however, is not alone dis 
credited. The New comes in also for its share. He 
says : 
" I am asked, did not Paul command the wife to 
be subject to her husband I Did he not enjoin si-
lence upon her in the churches? Did he not direct 
her to ask her husband at home, if she would learn 
any thing ? Did he not represent the husband to be 
the head of the wife, even as Christ is the head of 
the Church? Did he not regard and speak of wo-
man as occupying an inferior position in the social 
state I admit all this, without one jot of Oberlin re- 
servation or explanation ; and then I answer the ob-
jection by showing, in the light of Christ and con-
science, that Paul was mistaken in these views. His 
education and early associations unfitted him to be a 
true teacher on this point. He was a Jew, educated 
after the order of the strictest phariseeism, and he 
had the Jewish view of the Scriptures, and of wo-
man's capacity, responsibility and duty. It is clear 
that Paul never got rid of all his Jewish prejudices 
It is the extreme of fully to suppose that God so acted 
upon the mind of Paul, or of any other man, as to 
destroy his personal identity, or affect his personal 
freedom and responsibility. God did not correct the 
prejudices of Paul's mind. So far as this was done 
at all, it was the work of the apostle himself, acting 
as a free, responsible man. Paul's views, then, about 
gibbets the fame of Scaliger,Campanella, Sava-
narola, Fleury, Lightfoot, Dupin, Bayle, Cud-
worth and the like. Hallam, Roberston, Hume, 
Burnett, Maimebourg, Mosheim, and others, 
among the historians, are marked—though the 
skeptic Gibbon is spared. Philosophers are 
comprehensively a dangerous class — Bacon, 
Bentham, Malebranche, Leibnitz, Condorcet, 
Hobbes, Locke, Kant, Reid, and indeed every 
celebrated modern pshvchologist is honored with 
the Papal brand, Defenders of Christianity of 
the mildest and most catholic type, as Addison 
and Grotius, are there also ; Newton and all 
the astronomers : Dean Swift, and the whole 
family of literateurs ; Dante, Milton, and Be-
ranger, lead off the poets ; Fielding leads the 
list of novelists. 
This is Rome's literary judgment—the esti-
mate of that Church of the genius, learning, 
and science of modern times. It is a striking 
confession that the literature of the world is 
against Popery ; and as striking a confession of 
the inherent weakness of the system, if there 
were no other proof of the identity of Protest-
antism and progress, the deliberate confessions 
of the Index would be sufficient to proclaim it. 
N. Y. Evangelist. 
2hent Aeralb. 
"BEHOLD! THE BRIDEGROOM COMETH!" 
BOSTON. SATURDAY, NOV. 29, 1851. 
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HUMAN ARROGANCE. 
The Boston Liberator of Nov. 14th contains a 
sermon preached by DANIEL FOSTER in Concord, 
Mass., Oct. 26th, and entitled " The Bible not an 
Inspired Book." • 
Mr. FOSTER was a Congregational minister, and 
lately supplied the pulpit of the church in Concord. 
But the sentiments put forth in his published sermon, 
shows that his estimate of the Scriptures entitles him 
to anything but the title of an evangelical minister. 
Such sad and startling developments of infidelity, 
shows the importance of guarding against the first 
departure from reverence for the Scriptures, as a full 
and sufficient, and the only rule of faith and practice. 
We propose by extracts to show the arrogance and 
wickedness the human heart may reach when it 
breaks away from the only safe position. 
Mr. FosTER professes first to " examine the Bible in 
paints wherein it is mistaken and unchristian." 
His 
first point is: 
" We read that, in the beginning, God created man 
sinless and free, and placed him in a paradise of beau-
ty, where every thing ministered to his pleasure by 
the gratification of each sense and longing of his na-
ture. We are told that God planted a tree laden 
with beautiful fruit, the eating of which would give 
to man a knowledge of good and of evil. Another 
tree by its side bore fruit, the partaker of which would 
thereby he endowed with immortality, with power of 
endless life. We are informed that our first parents 
were told that they might eat of all the fruit of Eden 
save that which grew on these two trees. Of this they 
were strictly commanded not to partake, on penalty 
of losing God's favor, and of being deprived of life. 
Eve was tempted, and did eat. Adam listened to 
her solicitation, and also partook of the forbidden 
fruit. In this act they became sinners, and entailed 
upon the countless millions, who were to descend 
from a common parentage, a sinful nature, a life of 
suffering, an inevitable death. 
" Now I ask, does Christ or does Reason admit 
this narrative, with which the Bible opens, to he 
true? Search and determine for yourselves. I un-
hesitatingly affirm, that it cannot be true. On its 
face it bears the impress of impossibility. Among 
the principles of the divine government which Christ 
and Reason make clear, these propositions are funda-
mental truths, God is the same yesterday, to-day, and 
forever. In the Past, Now, and in the Future, he is 
the same glorious Being of infinite love and excel-
lence. In him there is no variableness or shadow of 
turning. He cannot tempt any one to sin. His de-
sire is fervent and enduring for the happiness of each 
one of his numberless subjects. He gives no com-
mand which is arbitrary or unreasonable. He en-
joins .nothing which is not right and necessary. You 
admit that these principles are taught by Christ, and 
confirmed by Reason. Well, now see how they set 
aside the narrative which I am considering. If this 
narrative be true, then God did make an arbitrary, un-
reasonable law, and connected moral guilt with con-
duct, in itself as innocent as that of looking at aflower 
would be; and ordained Consequences to flow therefrom 
which should fill this world with wretchedness and 
death. Nor is that all. If this senseless Story he 
true, God did actually tempt man to sin, by placing 
within his reach a fruit pleasant to the eye, fragrant 
to the nostril, palatable to the mouth, and then for-
bidding him to taste of that fruit. Sharpening his 
desire by such an arbitrary, unreasonable prohibition, 
God left man subject to such influences as he had 
foraseen and foreordained should induce disobedience, 
and entail upon the human family countless and fear-
ful woes. All this is directly opposed to the spirit 
of Christ's life and word ; and you must reject it, 
or give tip the gospel of Jesus. But Reason has 
something also to do with this story. Adam and 
Eve, having bodies formed of perishable matter, in 
accordance with the laws of nature, must wear out 
and die. To reach this result, it was not necessary 
that they should eat of the fruit of a particular tree. 
Their bodies were moral from the first. If they had 
not a discriminating knowledge of good and evil, 
when first created and endowed with a living soul, 
then they were not moral agents, and could not sin. 
It is a manifest absurdity, whoever states it, and 
wherever found, that there ever was a tree of life, 
the eating of whose fruit would confer immortality 
upon the partaker. We have, then, no alternative. 
We are forced to conclude that the writer or compiler 
of Genesis, in this instance, relates a myth of the dim 
and distant past, which accorded with the supersti-
tion of his own time. But he must be mistaken in 
this whole matter ; for, if he is correct, then God 
is tyrannical and MALICIOUS and UNREASONABLE; a 
charge not to lie, for a moment, even in thought, 
against the Father and tender friend of man. Where, 
then, stands this claim for the plenary inspiration of 
the Bible?" 
We hardly know whether to wonder most, at the 
arrogance, the blasphemy, or the ignorance of the 
above! 
In the first place the story is falsified. There were 
not two trees, as Mr. FosTER asserts, which Gun pro-
hibited. The language is : 
" And the Lord God commanded the man, saying, 
Of every tree of the garden thou mayest freely eat : 
but of the tree of the knowledge of good and evil, 
thou shalt not eat of it : for ill the day that thou eat-
est thereof thou shalt surely die."—Gen. 2:16, 17. 
When man had disobeyed, by eating of the one 
forbidden tree, then GOD prevented his having access 
to the tree of life, to which before his sin he could 
freely eat. He was not, even afterwards, forbidden 
to eat of it, but it was made impossible for him to 
get to it. 
The arrogance of the above is shown in the flip-
pant declarations of what is possible, and what im-
possible. The issue is between Goo and Mr. Fos-
TER ; and he virtually, though he disclaims so doing, 
gives GoD the lie. 
GoD by inspiration has affirmed 
its truth ; Mr. FOSTER declares its impossibility. 
But " who art thou, 0 man, who repliest against 
GoD ?" He declares that CHRIST and reason, will 
not admit its truth. "Whose reason is to be the stan-
dard ?—that of Daniel Foster ? Is he wiser than 
the ALMIGHTY that he should contradict his MAKER? 
CHRIST sanctions the Scriptures of the Old Testa-
ment as the words of truth, and his testimony will 
be looked for in vain against their truth. Who is 
this DANIEL FOSTER, who dares to accuse GOD, of 
making " arbitrary and unreasonable laws, of being 
tyrannical and malicious, and unreasonable ?" Is man's 
puny intellect to penetrate the secret chambers of 
the Most High, and there fathom all the reasons 
which actuated the Creator of all things? How 
can he know all that GoD saw necessary for the 
trial ADAM was subjected to? Can lie tell all the 
interests in the universe affected by that act ? if 
not, it is the height of arrogance thus to comment on 
it. But then what blasphemy to pronounce it a lie, 
and to apply such terms to GOD ! 
Mr. FosTER passes on to ABRAHAM'S offering up 
ISAAC. The record of this he &so stamps " as a lie" 
and " wholly destitute of truth," and pronounces it 
to be " a myth which was consonant with the super-
stition of a dark age." 
Of the history of JACOB and ESAU, his " conclusion 
is, that this whole story is false" . . . " the whole 
story about JACOB'S election and ESAU'S reprobation 
is necessarily untrue." 
He next turns to the " Mosaic code." He re-
gards " MOSES " as " one of the remarkable prophets 
of GoD, as Confucius was among the Chinese:" but 
affirms " that GoD did not, and could not, consistently, 
interfere with him, as to destroy or diminish his free-
dom and personal responsibility "—in organizing the 
Mosaic code. And he pronounces that system in 
many respects, "dark, inhuman, barbarous, and wick-
ed,"—bold words to he uttered by fallible man, who 
is of yesterday and knows nothing. He calls cir- 
cumcision a " bloody and cruel rite," anti says that 
CHRIST in breaking down the wall of separation be- 
tween the circumcised and the uncircimicised, " dem- 
onstrates the sin of its creation." He speaks of " the 
revengeful spirit of the Mosaic law, and the forgiv- 
ing spirit of the Christian " as being " as opposite as 
Zenith is from Nadir ;" and therefore he declares, 
that " MOSES, and JosnuA, and DAVID, and ELIJAH, 
are. wrong." 
He next denounces the " law given by MOSES " be-
cause the Israelites were commanded to exterminate 
the Cananites, which he says " would have justly 
woman's destiny in the Christian brotherhood, were 
not in accordance, arid therefore were not inspired. 
They were Mosaic, Jewish, partial, wrong, and, 
without hesitation, 1 reject them, as no part of the 
word of God." 
Thus the Bible, which alone has raised woman 
from being a slave of man, and made her in every 
respect man's social equal and companion, is to be re-
jected because it does not also impose duties on her 
from which modesty and propriety shrink. Let the 
Bible ne once thus trodden under foot, and how soon 
would woman again sink to the position from which 
it has rescued her. Woman owes her all to the Bi-
ble. Let her then cherish its teachings as her only 
hope. 
He says : 
" I want you should definitely understand, that the 
true reformer, who sets his whole moral teree against 
social injustice and wrong, and in behalf of the uni-
versal brotherhood, cannot hold on to the doctrine of 
the plenary inspiration of the Bible. 
HUMANITY 
must strike down that pillar of superstition, on which 
slavery, war, bigotry and sect rest, or fall herself to 
rise no more." 
" The claim is false, which is put forth from so 
many pulpits around you, that the Bible, the whole 
Bible, from Genesis to Revelation, is the word of 
God. It is a dark superstition. It is the foundation 
of the sectarian divisions, of the war systems, of the 
fearful enslavement and debasement of man, which 
we see around us, in our own and in other profess-
edly Christian lands. May the truth set you free 
from the terrible power of this delusion, and may you 
serve God by loving and helping the members of the 
human brotherhood, even as Christ loved and aided 
suffering men !" 
There is then to be a contest between the Bible on 
the one hand, and a class of Bible rejecting reform-
ers on the other hand ! When they openly avow 
such principles, can they wonder that those who love 
and reverence the Bible should shrink from identifi-
cation with them in their reformatory movements, 
and fear lest they should catch the same spirit and at 
length avow like sentiments? Do they not see that 
by causing good men thus to stand aloof from them, 
they peril the very reforms they would advance? 
His views of inspiration are thus stated : 
" Abraham was doubtless a child of God, and 
guided, more or less, by Cod's Spirit ; but in no 
such way as to destroy, or diminish, at all, his own 
freedom and responsibility, in each fact of his life. 
In just that way you may be and should be inspired. 
It is absurd to suppose that one age has had a mo-
nopoly of inspiration. Moses was inspired, and he 
expressed many sublime and precious truths. But 
he was biased, and went wrong in many of his views, 
as I have shown. This could not he prevented by the 
Divine Spirit ; for Moses was free, and acted freely 
in the founding of the Jewish state. The writers 
of the Old Testament followed out the principles of 
the Mosaic code, and some improved very much upon 
the Law which was given by Moses. This is es-
pecially true of Isaiah, the most sublime arid heav-
enly-minded of all who wrote the Old Testament 
Scriptures. The Evangelists and the apostles were 
still more under the influence of inspiring truth.—
They drunk more constantly at the fountain of truth, 
and their teachings were not marred so radically 
with erroneous views as were the instructions of 
the Old Testament. Besides, they preached and 
wrote in a certain stage of the world's progress, 
which demanded an application of truth, in many Im-
portant respects, different from that which our times 
need and demand. My liberty is not, then, to be cir-
cumscribed by the rules which they enacted. I think I 
can show, to the entire satisfaction of any candid, in-
telligent mind, that the Jewish apostles were influ-
enced by prejudice, on some momentous questions, to 
such an extent as to vitiate altogether their testimony 
on those points. Paul's views of woman furnish a 
case in point. The views entertained by the apostles 
of the divine character and government, views drawn 
from the Old Testament Scriptures, which they re-
garded, in common with their countrymen, with an 
undue reverence, caused them often to err when 
preaching the terrors of the Lord.' They were in-
spired, I admit ; but in no sense in which you may not 
be. Other men, for instance, Confucius, Zoroaster, 
Pythagoras, Socrates, Plato, Kempis, Swedenborg, 
Penn, Wesley, were inspired men. Mrs. Fry, in 
Newgate, was full of inspiration, as she sought to 
reclaim the wretched, degraded prisoners of that 
English hell, front the ruin of unrestrained sin. How-
ard, in the dungeons of Europe, was inspired and sus-
tained by the Divine Spirit, in the prosecution of 
his self-denying, heavenly work. Clarkson was in-
spired, when pleading and wearing himself out in 
behalf of the despised negro. Every good man is 
inspired. Every good word and thought and deed 
form a part of the great inspired work which is going 
on, and will go on, till all wrong and wretchedness 
are no more. Revelation, like life itself, is, of course, 
progressive. 
What folly to confine God to any book, 
and make that the Alpha and Omega of truth ! I re-
ceive Christ's teachings as infallible. He occupies 
to my soul a position which no other teacher does. 
Give me the words of Christ, and I receive them as 
wholly true. But, remember, we have only reports 
of this instruction, made after the establishment of 
the new faith, by men, who report from memory 
the words of Him who spake with such wonderful 
power. These reports are evidently not infallibly 
correct. They are made by good men, and are, in 
the main, no doubt, correct so far as they go. We 
are fully competent to make the discovery for our-
selves of mistakes in the Gospel of Matthew, Mark, 
Luke and John. God has not left himself without a 
witness." 
We have made this long quotation that we may do 
him full justice. We are pained and sickened at 
such avowals. We are pained that noble reforms 
should be left to be advocated in connection with 
such dishonor to His word, which alone can guide 
aright in the accomplishment of any true reform. 
THE ADVENT HERALD. 
THE PAY OF MINISTERS. 
bottom of the well, and finally the rush became so 
great, that the bannisters gave way, and the children " The laborer is worthy of his hire."-Luke 10:7. 
were precipitated down, more than fifty steps, and 
Laborers who till our fields, expect their pay 
piled one on the other at the bottom of the well. promptly on the performance of their work ; and em-
The confusion can be better imagined than described. ployers expect promptly to pay them. But some 
The poor, unthinking infants, all screaming with who are prompt in the payment of all temporal dues, 
fright or with pain, followed so swiftly one on the are sadly negligent of the wants of those who ad-
other, that many who were not injured in the fall minister to their spiritual necessities. Have spiritual 
were smothered by those who fell on them ; and, laborers any less a claim, than those who administer 
worse than all, the street doors opening inwards, to our carnal wants Those " who labor in word 
were closed by the mass of children against them, and doctrine," are to be " counted worthy of double 
so that it was impossible to open them from the out- honor." And, " the laborer is worthy of his re 
side, and there being no means of egress for those ward."-1 Tim. 5:17, 18. " Who goeth a warfare 
who arrived without injury at the bottom, they were any time at his own charges? who planteth a vine-
crushed and smothered by those who fell upon them. yard, and eatetlt not of the fruit thereof? or who 
As soon as the nature of the excitement was known feedeth a flock, and eateth not of the milk of the 
to them, the teachers displayed the most praiseworthy flock ?"-1 Cor. 9:7. Says the apostle, " Say I these 
presence of mind. Miss LOUISA MCFARLANE, one of things as a man ? or saith not the law the same also? 
the assistants in the primary department, placed her- For it is written in the law of MosEs, thou shalt not 
self in the door-way, and did all in her power to pre- muzzle the mouth of the ox that treadeth out the corn. 
vent the affrighted children from rushing out, and the Doth GOD take care for oxen? or saith he it alto-
other teachers did as much, otherwise the destruction gether for our sakes ? For our sakes, no doubt, this 
is written : that he that plougheth should plough in 
of life must have been much greater. So impetu- hope ; and that he that thresheth in hope should be 
ous was the rush, Lowever, that five of the teachers, partaker of his hope. If we have sown unto you 
two, MARGARETTA L. SMITH, Miss CORNELIA L. spiritual things, is it a great thing if we shall reap 
BARNES, from the female department, and three, your carnal things? If others be partakers of this 
power over you, are not we rather ? Nevertheless 
MISS ELLEN D. TRAPHAGEN, MISS LOUISA MCFAR- we have not used this power : but suffer all things, 
LANE, and Miss JULIA BLAKE, from the primary de- lest we should 'hinder the gospel of CHRIST. 
DO 
partment, were forced over the bannisters and fell ye not know that they which minister about holy 
with
things live of the things of the temple, and they 
the children into the well. They were, how- 
 
which wait at the altar are partakers with the altar? 
 
ever, happily not seriously injured. 
Even so hath the LORD ordained that they which 
The time in which all this took place, was much preach the gospel should live of the gospel."-1 
less than we have occupied in describing it. Mean- Cor. 9:8-14. 
It is needful sometimes to call to remembrance, the 
while the excitement in the street was intense. The duty of hearers, to help those who teach, after a 
alarm of fire had collected a dense crowd, and though godly sort. Ministers need to live, as well as others; 
the police were eagerly on the spot, in strong num- and it is not always that their' hearts are sufficiently 
hers, they had great difficulty in obtaining a passage encouraged, by the supply of their temporal wants. 
Such become discouraged and turn their eyes to other 
through the excited assemblage. Finding all their departments of labor. Many have been thus driven 
effiurts at forcing the front doors useless, the police from the field—have been starved out. Those who 
entered the building the backway, and broke open a are unworthy, there is no harm in being thus rid of. 
door leading into the well, from the basement. The But the faithful, efficient, meek, and devoted soldiers 
of the cross are needed ; and merely saying to them, 
children were then taken out, alive and dead, and Be ye warmed, he ye fed and clothed,does not always 
conveyed to the Station-house near by, followed by enable them to feed and clothe their loved ones at 
a large number of mothers and sisters, each one home; and when they see an abundance, and receive 
anxious to ascertain if their own little relatives were only scanty remuneration, will they not feel that their 
services are not valued? A little thought, arid a lit-
tminjured. In the Station-house, the wounded were tie care in such matters, will not be more than duty 
summoned. The dead were laid out to be 
 
in these things. 
placed in cots, and efficient medical aid immediately 
recog- 
nized by their friends. We are incompetent to 
describe the heart-rending grief of the searchers, The Gospel teaches us to consider ourselves hut 
while looking among the mutilated bodies for their as drops in the ocean of being. The very essence of 
little ones. Many mothers were there, who but a 
 
few moments before had equipped their only children 
for school, and now were suddenly called from home, of human selfishness is a habit of engrossing atten-
to look among the fearfully mutilated bodies fur all lion to men's own concerns, rights, interests, feelings, 
that remained of their offsprinV. Others there were, 
 
who after searching in vain for their lost ones, again 
and again turning over the ghastly remains, were al-
most prostrated with joy at discovering their children lacerated, their rights invaded, their interests compro-
alive and well. We leave mothers and fathers to raised, not so much from any deliberate design to in-
imagine the scene as they only can ; describe it, we jure them, as from mere thoughtlessness and want of 
cannot. 
consideration. Each man, bustling forward in eager 
pursuit of his own particular ends, and wholly over- 
FIFTY CHILDREN KILLED. 
The majority of the injured are likely to recover; looking those of his neighbor, comes, perhaps for 
but very few limbs were broken, and many of those the first time, in contact with him on learning that 
" A voice was heard in Ramah, lamentation and weeping : 
Rachel weeping for her children refused to be comforted for
dead were suffocated, and not killed in the fall. 
he has given him serious and just offence, and caused 
her children, because they were not."—Jer. 31:15. 
The bannisters of the stairway were of heavy ma- a rupture not to be easily healed. Whence, in the 
first instance, springs this habit of inconsideration ? 
One of the most painful casualties we were ever hogany, and were fastened in the usual manner, two It is, indeed, the fruit and token of a deep-rooted 
called on to record, occurred at New York on Thurs- rails confining each clamp on the end of the step. selfishness. But in its turn it powerfully confirms 
day, the 20th inst., in the afternoon, at the NinthThe height from the floor of the well to where the and strengthens the evil from which it springs. It 
Ward School-house, in Greenwich Avenue, when bannisters first gave way, is about twenty-five feet, is equally the sure effect and the copious cause of 
fifty little children, boys and girls, were without a and the children's bodies were piled up ten feet at 
this vice. A man who will not " look on the things 
of his neighbor," is cut off from the only possible 
moment's warning hurried into eternity. 
 
The school building is a large five story new stone 
leaW the dead and wounded had all been recog- 
least. 
Lhen 
means of doing his duty by him. Ile on the other 
hand, will avoid a thousand acts of injustice, unkind-
edifice, built, as was supposed, in the most thorough- nized, they were taken home by their friends ; but ness, and positive cruelty who will but cultivate a 
habit of " looking not upon his own things only, but 
going manner. The stairway is of that description as the news of the occurrence spread, an excited on the things of others also." No doubt, there is a 
known among builders as a well-staircase, flagged crowd surrounded the school-house, eagerly watch- kind of looking, a prying into other men's secrets, 
with stone on the ground floor. In the rear of the ing for every new item of information which might searching out their faults, watching them with an 
building there is another stairway ; but the princi- throw light upon the casualty. 
eye of jealousy and envy, which is mean and despi- 
well-staircase. 
cable. 
What the postle aspeaks of in the words just quot- 
pal mode of access to the school-rooms is by the The accounts of the agony of families and the be- 
reavement of parents are heart-rending, and several ed is, we conceive, a habit of kindly attention and 
On the first landing is located the Primary Depart- persons, it is feared, will become maniacs, from the consideration of the circumstances, feelings, difficul-
ment ; on the second, the Girls' Department ; on the suddenness of the accident and acuteness of the pain ties, rights, and interests of our fellow men, that we 
may not lose sight of the duty we owe to them, but 
third, the Boys' Department, and so on ; and, daily, produced. Various reports are in circulation as to discover the ways in which it may be in our power 
some eighteen hundred children of both sexes attend the cause of the bannisters giving way—one of which to serve them. Christian humility and love breaks 
the school. 
is, that sonic firemen who got into the building, find- up the miserable selfishness in which the natural 
Shortly after two o'clock on Thursday, all the pu- ing the stairway blocked up, climbed up outside the heart delights. It leads a man to place himself of-
pils being in the building, the principal of the fe- bannisters, and thus broke them down. The calamity ten at the bar of his conscience, and to undergo the 
scrutiny which will decide whether he really sympa-
male department, Miss Harrison, was suddenly seized is due in a great degree to the thoughtless firemen thizes with his neighbor in his sorrows, and rejoices 
with a fit of paralysis, and fell fainting from her and others outside, who raised the alarm of fire, with him in his joys. 
chair. The pupils became alarmed, and two or three and surrounded the building with shouts and cries Are you attentive to your own character and inter- 
ran out to procure assistance for her. Seeing the well calculated to create a panic among the children. 
ests ? Cultivate, then, the same solicitude for the 
character and interests of others. Have you a 
children running, some inconsiderate person in the Of course no blame can be attached to the teach- worldly lot to manage? Have you a claim on the 
street raised the cry of fire ; the bell on Jefferson Mar- ers. But the responsibility must lie somewhere— knowledge, judgment, ability, advantages, and opin- 
ions
ket Station, which is within a block, was quickly where the investigation will reveal. Miss HARRISON, 
 of your brethren ? So have others ; or look to 
the next hovel of the poor man, who is destitute of 
struck, and in a moment a crowd gathered around we are happy to learn, had last evening somewhat what you possess, and to whom you may extend 
the school-house. The alarm of fire having com- recovered from her paralytic fit. 
kindness and relief. Would you wish to confine 
municated to the pupils, rendered them almost fran- " Thus saith the Lord ; Refrain thy voice troth yourself within your own bosom, and have SELF 10 
tic with excitement, and they all rushed out in a weeping, and thine eyes from tears : for thy 
work eat there, as cloth a canker, till death ensues? Con- 
sider who bath made you and your fellow-beings of 
body, from the four flours, crowded down to the street shall be rewarded, saith the Lord ; and they shall one flesh and of one blood. " Whatsoever ye would 
by means of the well-staircase. In the excitement of come again front the land of the enemy. And there that men should do to you, do ye also so to them." 
the moment, the children were some of them forced is hope in thine end, saith the Lord ; that thy chil- If we allow not this principle its due weight, and 
forbear to walk by this divine rule, Christianity (if 
over the bannisters, others leaped down, and were in- dren shall come again to their own border."—Jer. 
 
it can be so called) is a mockery and
stantly killed by falling upon the pavement at the 31:16, 17. 
the sight of Con and man. Protest
antacnhuirnesbunilatni.n 
THE GOLDEN AGE—WHAT IS IT ! land, with your fellow martyrs, LATIMER and RID- 
LEY, what say you about a Golden Age in this world ?" 
A state of things once existing on this earth, now 
 
lost, and yet to be restored to this earth. For it, the With one voice they reply : " In the 41st of those 
GREAT KING has taught us daily to pray, saying, Articles of Relia
-ion, for the confession of which we 
were taken as malefactors, and binned at the stake ; 
" Thy kingdom come, thy will be done, on earth, as 
it is in heaven."—" Prayer also shall be made for we declare, that they who seek to renew the fable of 
the Millenaries, oppose the Scriptures, and plunge 
Him continually, and daily shall He be praised." 
into the doting fancies of Judaism." 
 
But that age on earth was not in this world, nei- This is how the old boatmen understand the matter, 
ther when restored again to the earth will it be in though the green ones cannot comprehend it. 
 
this world, even as CHRIST is not of this world, nei- So little children always promise themselves gold- 
ther His kingdom ; but He is from above, and He en times, when they come of age ; but experience 
cometh down from above in His kingdom, " to judge corrects their errors. I recommend you, my studi-
the quick and the dead, whose kingdom shall have no ous readers, to what the historian of the Decline and 
end." 
Fall of the Roman Empire says about the views of 
The Golden Age, that was on earth, preceded this the Christians of the first three centuries, in relation 
world ; and, when restored, it will follow this world. to this subject. No man of modern times is a more 
For " the children of this world marry and are given competent judge ; he rejects their views as every un-
in marriage ; but they which shall be accounted wor- believer will ; but he testifies to the fact of their views 
thy to obtain that world, and the resurrection from with unimpeachable accuracy, in the words which 
the dead, are equal unto the angels, and are the chil- follow : 
 
dren of Goo, being the children of the resurrection." " In the Primitive Church, the influence of truth 
In " that world " to come, is the Golden Age. As- was very powerfully strengthened by an opinion 
TREA of the poets will, in person, return from heav- which, however it may deserve respect for its useful-
en to earth ; " a sceptre of righteousness is the seep- ness and antiquity, has not been found agreable to 
tre of thy kingdom ;"—" thy people also shall be all experience. It was universally believed that the end 
righteous; they shall inherit the land forever ;"— of the world, and the kingdom of heaven, were at 
" the meek shall inherit the earth." For the day hand. The near approach of this wonderful event 
will come when " the greatness of the kingdom had been predicted by the apostles ; the tradition of 
der the whole heaven shall be given to the people of it was preserved by their earliest disciples ; and 
the saints of the Most High, whose kingdom is an those who understood, in their literal sense, the dis-
everlasting kingdom, and all dominions shall serve courses of CHRIST Himself, were obliged to expect 
and obey Him." 
the second and glorious coming of the Son of Man 
Such a Golden Age is to be relied on, is to be in the clouds, before that generation was totally ex-
greatly desired and longed for, and from the Holy tinguished which had beheld His humble condition, 
Word, is sure to come, not in this world, but in the and which might still be witness of the calamities of 
end of this world. This world is " reserved unto the Jews under VESPASIAN or HADRIAN. The revo-
fire'against the day of judgment "—and not to a Gold- lution of seventeen centuries has instructed us, not to 
en Age. 
press too closely the mysterious language of prophecy 
" Monstrous doctrine ! Monstrous !" Thus the and revelation ; but as long as for wise purposes this 
world thinks, and so the apostle Peter once thought error was permitted to subsist in the Church, it was 
when he rebuked his Master, our LORD, saying, " Be productive of the most salutary effects on the faith 
it far from thee, LORD, this shall not be ;" hut after- and practice of Christians, who lived in awful ex-
ward he learned to place all his hope in JESUS and pectation of that moment when the globe itself and 
the resurrectiou, instead of JESUS and this Jerusalem ; all the various races of mankind should tremble at 
he was willing to be crucified in this world, in the the appearance of their Divine Judge." 
 
hope of being glorified in that world whose children Thus the unbelieving historian, Giesoar, testifies 
are born again in the likeness of the second ADAM. truly that the Primitive Church were constantly ex-
Though this doctrine at first strikes you, as it did peeling, not a Golden Age in this world, but after 
St-PETER, you may come to think better of it, as the end of this world. The Roman Catholic Church 
the apostle did, and lift up your voice with him, to stamps the doctrine of a Golden Age in this world 
praise " the GOD and Father of our Lord JESUS as a heresy, and puts its teachers under the ban. Lu-
'CHRIST, which, according to His abundant mercy, THER and the continental Reformers denounce it as 
bath begotten us again to a lively hope, by the res- " a Judaizing notion." And the English Reformers 
urrection of JESUS CHRIST from the dead ;" a hope, pronounce it " a fable," among " the doting fancies 
not of this world's Golden Age, but of a heavenly of Judaism." Notwithstanding which, it has come 
inheritance. 
to be the current doctrine of this day ; and a Chris- 
" I admit all about St. PETER and the heavenly in- tian, who does not believe himself to be actually in the 
heritance, which does not forbid my expecting a kingdon of heaven, is looked upon as almost out of 
blissful period to come in this world yet." his senses. I commend a tooth-ache for the cure of 
This is what I said : " the ark " has been left to
Protestant Churchman. 
this "doting fancy."—w. 
float its own way, on the stream of time, since it left 
the straits of persecution, and has thus become silently 
turned round, head up stream, and the passengers 
are not aware of it ; but the old boatmen understand 
the matter. Ask them. 
" BatioNius, historian of the Latin Church, what 
do you say? and what says the Church of Rome, 
about a Golden Age in this world ?" 
The Latin historian replies : This doctrine was 
denounced in a Council at Rome, under Pope DAMAS-
CUS, A. D. 373,—" The heresy, however loquacious 
before, was silenced then, and since that time has 
hardly been heard of."—(Bar. 373, Sec. 14.) He 
adds, (A. D. 411, Sec. 48,) " The figments of the 
Millenaries being now rejected everywhere, and de-
rided by the learned with hisses and laughter, and 
being also put under the ban, were entirely extir-
pated." 
" Does the Roman Catholic Church repudiate the 
doctrine of a Golden Age in this world, and condemn 
it ?" 
So says their historian : and they are not alone 
in it. 
" MARTIN LUTHER, pillar of the great Reforma- 
tion ; what do you say, and what say your brave as-
sociates at Augsburg, about a Golden Age in this 
world?" 
LUTHER and MELANCTHON make answer : " In our 
day of trial, in the presence of the Emperor at the Di-
et of Augsburg, we solemnly declared our condemna-
tion of those who circulate the Judaizing notion, that 
prior to the resurrection of the dead, the pious will 
engross the government of the world, and the wicked 
be everywhere oppressed ; or that prior to the resur-
rection of the dead, the pious will establish a separ-
ate temporal government, and all the wicked be ex-
terminated."—(See the Aug. Con. Latin and Ger-
man copies, Art. 17.) 
" What ! Rome and Augsburg agree to condemn 
the doctrine of a Golden Age in this world?" 
Yes, and with them agree Geneva and Canterbury ; 
but we ask only Canterbury. 
" CRANMER, martyr of the Reformation in Eng- 
worldliness flatters man into the belief that he is 
the ocean itself. One of the most striking features 
and pursuits. Scarce one thought in a hundred is 
ever given by this class to the things of others. In 
instances innumerable we see the feelings of men 
SPIRIT OF SELFISHNESS. 
r334 
THE ADVENT HERALD. 
CDOMMMPONEMECTE. 
SCRIPTURAL EXPOSITION. 
BY WILLIAM MILLER. 
(Re published by request.) 
" The Lord hath appeared of old unto me, saying, 
Yea, I have loved thee with an everlasting love : 
therefore with loving-kindness have I drawn thee. 
Again I will build thee, and thou shalt be built, 0 
virgin of Israel : thou shalt again be adorned with 
thy tabrets, and shalt go forth in the dances of them 
that make merry. Thou shalt yet plant vines upon 
the mountains of Samaria : the planters shall plant, 
and shall eat them as common things. For there 
shall be a day, that the watchmen upon the mount 
Ephraim shall cry, Arise ye, and let us go up to 
Zion unto the Lord our God. For thus saith the 
Lord ; Sing with gladness for Jacob, and shout among 
the chief of the nations : publish ye, praise ye, and 
say, 0 Lord, save thy people, the remnant of Israel. 
Behold, I will bring them from the north country, 
and gather them from the coasts of the earth, and 
with them the blind and the lame, the woman with 
child and her that travaileth with child together : a 
great company shall return thither. They shall come 
with weeping, and with supplications will I feed 
them ; 1 will cause them to walk by the rivers of wa-
ters in a straight way, wherein they shall nut stum-
ble : for I am a father to Israel, and Ephraim is my 
first-born."—Jer. 31:3-9. 
I find in the prophets that the return of the Jews 
is spoken of in two ways :-1st. Their return to 
their own land from captivity. 2d. Their return unto 
the Lord by repentance, weeping, confession, and 
faith. The first is never spoken of by any prophet 
after they returned from the Babylon captivity, be-
cause this part of the prophecy was literally fulfilled 
then. The Jews rejected Christ, who fulfilled much 
of the prophecy concerning himself at his first coin-
in?: ; and the only possible excuse the Jews had for 
their infidelity was, that Jesus did not perform all 
that the prophets said he would, and deliver them 
front their temporal enemies. Yet the prophets no 
where promised that he would do this at his first 
coming, but at his second. 
The Jews claimed that their Messiah was to give 
their nation the kingdom under the whole heaven. 
But it was to be given to the saints, (Dan. 7:18, 22,) 
and the little flock of believers, (Luke 12 : 32,) and 
the time is at Christ's second coming, (Dan. 7 : 13, 
14.) On this account the Jews, as a nation, rejected 
Christ and his gospel, and became an infidel nation, 
" reprobate silver." And as then, even so now, the 
Judaizers are rejecting the manner, object, and de-
signs of his second coming and kingdom. They 
now plead that the Jews must return and possess the 
kingdom under heaven, either before or after Christ's 
second coming. I ask, have they not returned from 
one captivity since the promise or prophecy was 
given ? 0 yes. Has God any where said that he 
would return them from a second captivity ? No. 
Very well; how can you prove that the return al-
ready fulfilled is not the return spoken of by the 
prophets? 1st. Because the Lord was to plant them 
ia their own land, " and they shall no more be pulled 
up out of their land which 1 have given them, saith 
the Lord God."—Amos. 9 : 15. Whom was he to 
plant in their own land ? Why, see chap. 5 : 14—
" And I will satiate the soul of the priests with fat-
ness, and my people shall be satisfied with my good-
ness, saith the Lord." You see that it is " my peo-
ple Israel," not spiritual Israel, for they are to mul-
tiply and build houses as at the first : so it is literal 
Israel.-1 agree it must be his people Israel. Now 
let me ask, did they go back from Babylon as God 
said they would, and perform all the acts that God 
said they should ?—(v. 14). Yes : but they were af-
terwards plucked up by the Romans. Whom did 
God promise should never be plucked up ? His 
people Israel. Very well. And were the Jews 
God's people when they were destroyed by the Ro-
mans? No. Paul shows plainly that they were ex-
cluded years before. Isaiah prophesied (65 : 15)—
" And ye shall leave your name for a curse unto my 
chosen : for the Lord God shall slay thee, and call 
his servants by another name." (See also Isa. 43:28.) 
Hosea 1:9, " Then said God, Call his name Loammi : 
for ye are not my people, and I will not be your 
God." Did not God preserve them as long as they 
were his people Antiochus sent a large army with 
one of his most warlike princes, threatening to pluck 
up and exterminate them. But with only a few hun-
dred men, God preserved the nation, and fulfilled his 
word. And until they, as a nation, rejected the Mes-
siah, God did not reject them. 
Let me illustrate the case. God says, " He that 
endureth unto the end, the same shall be saved." 
But suppose you do not endure ?—then you will be 
damned. Just so. God never made any covenant, 
or promise, to the nation of Israel only on condition ; 
and when they broke the covenant, God would not 
continue it to them. Yet God has made a new cove-
nant with the house of Israel, (not with the nation, 
hut with the head—David,) that he should have a 
seed, a remnant out of that people, and out of all 
other nations on earth. When the nation of the 
Jew's ceased to be his people, and were destroyed by 
the Romans, God, by his grace and the preaching of 
the gospel, had prepared another people, a remnant 
according to the election of grace, who were not to 
ba plucked up, or destroyed, like the Jews. Neither 
were they as Christ prophesied, (Matt. 24 : 16,) and 
as Josephus testifies in his history of the Jewish war, 
hut were most miraculously delivered from destruc-
tion. 
Now look at the second objection. " That the 
description given by the prophets in many places as 
blessings which would follow that event, are so glo-
rious and grand, that nothing which has happened, 
or did happen at that time, can lie called a fulfilment ; 
and therefore that it must be a future return from 
another captivity than Babylon." This is a main 
pillar ; but an objection proved against one theory is 
no proof that another theory, usupported by other tes-
timony, is right. For a man to pull down my house, 
is no proof that he has built another. How would 
this argument have looked against Zerobabel the day 
after he and the Jews had returned, whilst praising 
God and rejoicing in their return to their own land ? 
If you had said, " You need no rejoicing, for you 
must be plucked up and go into captivity again, be-
fore these prophecies of Jeremiah can be fulfilled," 
what would have been the answer ? " To fulfil the 
word of the Lord by the mouth of Jeremiah, until 
the land had enjoyed her sabbaths : for as long as she 
lay desolate she kept sabbath, to fulfil threescore and 
ten years."-2 Chron. 36:21. Had the objector said, 
Nothing which has taken place as yet is so glorious 
and grand as the prophet Jeremiah has described (31 : 
4, 5)—" Again I will build thee, and thou shalt he 
built, 0 virgin of Israel : thou shalt again be adorned 
with thy tabrets, and shalt go forth in the dances of 
them that make merry : thou shalt yet plant vines 
upon the mountains of Samaria : the planters shall 
plant, and shall eat them as common things ;" what 
answer would Zerobabel have given ?—" And I will 
cause the captivity of Judah and the captivity of Is-
rael to return, and will build them as at the first."—
Jer. 33 : 7. Then Ezra and Nehemiah would build 
the walls and streets. •‘ Then answered 1 them, and 
said unto them, The God of heaven, he will prosper 
us ; therefore we his servants will arise and build : 
but ye have no portion, nor right, nor memorial, in 
Jerusalem."—Neh. 2 : 20. But Sanballat opposed 
this ; for they had some unbelieving critics in that 
day. " But it came to pass, that when Sanballat 
heard that we builded the wall, he was wroth, and 
took great indignation, and mocked the Jews. And 
he spoke before his brethren, the army of Samaria, 
and said, What do these feeble Jews? will they for-
tify themselves? will they sacrifice ? will they make 
an end in a day ? will they revive the stones out of 
the heaps of the rubbish which are burned ? Now 
Tobiah the Ammonite was by him, and he said, 
Even that which they build, if a fox go up, lie shall 
even break down their stone wall. Hear, 0 our God, 
for we are despised : and turn their reproach upon 
their own head, and give them for a prey in the land 
of captivity : and cover not their iniquity, and let 
not their sin be blotted out from before thee : for they 
have provoked thee to anger before the builders. So 
built we the wall ; and all the wall was joined to-
gether utito the half thereof : for the people had a 
mind to work."—Neh. 4 : 1-6. Not so " glorious 
and grand." Why, " even that which they build, 
if a fox go up, he shall even break down their stone 
wall." But, " so built we the wall, for the people 
have a mind to work," says Nehemiah. And every 
day for more than five hundred years they saw the 
words of Jeremiah fulfilling. The temple was re-
built as at the first, the walls reared up, the houses 
repaired, and the city was established on its own 
heap, and the hill of Zion was re-peopled as of old 
time, and the prophecies had their literal fulfilment 
among the Jews, before the Shiloh came, when they 
ceased to be, as a nation, the people of God. They 
built houses and inhabited them for five hundred 
years or more—the age of a tree. They planted 
vineyards, and drank the wine. They planted gar-
dens, and eat the fruit' of them ; and they were not 
plucked up as long as they continued to be the peo-
ple of God. 
Here was every earthly blessing which God had 
promised them in their national captivity : even the 
BRANCH was raised up unto them, the Gospel and all 
its glorious promises, were effered them, even eter-
nal life, until as a nation they crucified the Christ, 
persecuted his servants unto death, and counted them-
selves unworthy of eternal life. What could God 
have done more ? Indeed, God has asked the ques-
tion, (Isa. 5:4,) " What could have been done more 
to my vineyard, that I have not done in it? where-
fore, when I looked that it should bring forth grapes, 
brought it forth wild grapes?" Read to v. 7th. In 
v. 5th he tells what he will do with them, and he 
has done as he said lie would,—the nation will no, 
 
more be " pruned nor digged."—v. 6. He has done 
all he could ; yet these men who tell us God will 
yet restore them to their own land and convert them, 
and make them his people again, (the nation,) after 
God has done all he could for them, and destroyed 
them as Isaiah prophesied he would : yet men can 
charge God with falsehood, and say, Will not God 
do much more for these Jews as a nation ? What 
folly ! What presumption ! Believe therm not, my 
brethren, lest you be found partakers of their evil 
deeds. 
I close this communication by laying down two 
rules for the Bible student : 
All blessings promised to the Jews as a nation, 
were fulfilled either before, or at the first coming of 
Christ, when the seventy weeks of the prophecy of 
Daniel ended. 
All the blessings promised to the elect people, 
which is called a remnant out of all nations, to be 
fulfilled in this old earth, or in probation, must and 
will be fulfilled before or at the second coming of 
Christ, which is the end of the 2300 days of prophecy, 
and is the time specified for the fulfilment of all that 
the prophets have spoken since the world began. 
See Acts 3 : 21—" Whom the heavens must receive 
until the times of restitution of all things, which 
God bath spoken by the mouth of all his holy proph-
ets since the world began." Also Rev. 10:7—" But 
in the days of the voice of the seventh angel, when 
he shall begin to sound, the mystery of God shall 
be finished, as he bath declared to his servants the 
prophets." Here then must and will end all such 
prophecies, however glorious or grand they may be. 
The time specified by God for the accomplishment 
of all these glorious promises, from the return of Is-
rael from captivity in Babylon to the end, is 23,00 
years. (See Dan. 8th.) And those who teach a 
probation for the Jews as a nation after the cutting 
off of the seventy weeks, and those who teach indi-
vidual probation after Christ comes the second time, 
and the end of the 2300 years, are deceiving you, 
a:.d are antichrist. So I believe, and so I speak. 
LETTER FROM J. L. CLAPP. 
DEAR BRO. 'TIMES :—I presume it may be gratify-
ing to you and many of the dear brethren scattered 
abroad, to learn the influence that the late meeting in 
this place, in which you arid Bro. E. Burnham 
preached those great and thrilling truths connected 
with the coming and kingdom of our blessed Lord, 
had on the church and community. These truths are 
meat in due season to the " little flock " of God, as 
has been demonstrated hundreds of times; and that 
they continue to be such, is manifested by the church 
in this place, by the revival of spirituality in the 
minds of a goodly portion of it, and the reclaiming 
of some that were 10 a backslidden state, and alarm-
ing others. Sinners, also, have been induced to make 
the inquiry, " What shall I do to be saved?" We 
cherish the hope, that the judgment of the great day 
will show that one or more has been savingly benefitted 
thereby. The influence of the meeting on the com-
munity has been good ; prejudice, which had existed 
in the minds of some, has been removed, and many 
of the citizens regretted much that your and Bro. 
Burnham's labors closed with us so soon. The strong 
probability is, had you continued with us a week 
longer, there would have been no meeting-house in 
our village but would have been well filled, provided 
we could have had one of the largest. We fondly 
cherish the hope that both you and Bro. Burnham 
may, in the providence of God, be permitted to visit 
us again, and feed the flock of God with that which 
nourishes, strengthens, and builds up in the faith once 
delivered to the saints. Questions that gender strife 
I have no relish for, and hope that all the dear breth-
ren and sisters in Christ, while they learn and feed 
upon the great and glorious prophetical truths of 
God's word relative to the coming of Christ, and the 
restitution spoken of by the prophets, will manifest 
as much anxiety to learn also the great practical 
truths of God's word, and so learn them that they 
will sink deep into the heart, and so affect the life, 
that no other spirit will be manifested but the spirit 
of the meek and lowly Jesus, without which none of 
us can be prepared to meet the King of glory in 
peace. Suffer me, then, dear brethren and sisters, to 
exhort you, while contending earnestly for the faith 
once delivered to the saints, to use no other weapons 
but the sword of the Spirit, which alone is mighty, 
through God, to the pulling down the strong holds of 
Satan. " Stand, therefore, having your loins girt about 
with truth, and having on the breast-plate of right-
eousness, and your feet shod with the preparation of 
the gospel of peace ; also taking the shield of faith, 
wherewith ye shall be able to quench all the fiery 
darts of the wicked. Praying always with all prayer 
and supplications in the Spirit, and watching thereunto 
with all perseverance, and supplications for all saints." 
Then may we, when our dear Lord shall come, ex-
pect to hear him say unto us, " Come ye, blessed of 
my Tather, inherit the kingdom prepared for you 
from the foundation of the world." Yours, expect-
ing to see the King in his beauty. 
Homer, (N. Y.), Nov. 17th, 1851. 
To the Friends of the "Herald." 
Brethren, permit me to call your attention to a few 
facts for your serious consideration. 
You do not doubt that the " Herald " may lie 
justly called the best religious paper published in the 
country, of which you have any knowledge. 
That the Advent cause in this country owes, in 
a great measure, its extent, prosperity, and perma-
nence to the teachings and influence of the " Advent 
Herald." For you know, my brethren, that the 
" Herald " has never been like an ignis fatuus, or a 
cornet ; but like a heavenly luminary, governed by 
settled laws, giving a clear and steady light to guide 
the way-worn traveler to his heavenly home. 
The " Herald " has riot only had, from the com-
mencement of its existence, to stem the tide of oppo-
sition from without, but to endure the still more fierce 
and cruel torrent (raised by disaffected elements) from 
within. And all this because of its steady and unde-
viating course. No one can justly charge the " Ad-
vent Herald " with being a misnomer! 
You know the means that have been and still 
are being used to destroy the circulation and influence 
of the " Herald." I believe the principle laid down 
by the Saviour at his first Advent, relative to him-
self, will hold good in this case : " He that is not for 
me is against me ; and he that gathereth not with me 
scattereth abroad." 
The " Herald " is not sustained by magic. It 
was got up and has been continued by constant, faith-
ful, persevering, and self-sacrificing labor. 
The existence of any paper is dependent upon 
the interest, integrity, and promptness of its patrons. 
In conclusion, allow me to say to each friend of 
the " Herald," when you read this, ask yourself 
the question, Have I paid my just dues for this pa-
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done so in this matter ? If I have not, then 1 will, 
before I go to meeting and tell how much I love God, 
his cause, and truth. 
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in the form of an enlarged subscription. By so doing, 
the patrons of the " Herald " would suffer no injury. 
L. OSLER. 
Gunner's Essays. 
BRO. HIMES :—Permit me through the " Herald " 
to call attention to the new work tecently published 
by Bro. F. Gunner, of this city, with the above title. 
It consists of twelve essays on subjects connected with 
the glorious advent and reign of Christ on earth ; be-
ginning with the purpose of God in the creation of 
the world, tracing its history through the fall, the 
great work of redemption by Christ, the recovery of 
believers from guilt and pollution, as a preparation 
for the kingdom, the relation of the Jew's to the prom-
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kingdom of heaven, the evidence of the speedy ap-
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tants, as evinced by the fulfilment of the long chains 
of prophecy, &c. The work is designed, and admi-
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grand awakening, and, to the Christian, soul-cheer-
ing conclusion, of the speedy personal manifestation 
and reign of the Saviour with his redeemed saints, 
on a renewed and glorified earth. It is a manuel 
such as every Adventist would do well to keep by 
him, to put into the hands of those who are inquiring 
after truth, or those whom he may wish to lead to its 
investigation ; and I earnestly hope it will have an 
extensive circulation among us. J. LITCH. 
Philadelphia, Nov. 18, 1851. 
Scraps for the "Herald." 
" Hast thou a thought upon thy brain, catch it 
while thou canst."—Tupper. 
The snuffers that were found 
In the temple of old, 
Belonging to the candlestick, 
Were of pure gold. 
So a man who would reprove 
A neighbor for a sin, 
(And thus a wrong uncover,) 
Ought himself to be clean. 
A lie will run a hundred miles, or more, 
Before the truth has gone outside the door. 
Questions for the consideration of a 7 avern-keeping 
Professor. 
What sort of spirits do you sell ? 
Say, are they good, or evil ? 
Do they lead men to heaven, or hell,— 
To God, or to the devil ? 
To a Christian. 
Lean not upon the world, 
But ever keep humble, 
For it will slip aside, 
And cause you to stumble. 
There might be written on the gate of heaven, 
" A free gift, through Immanuel given ;" 
While on the gates of hell we trace— 
" Deserved by all the human race." 
J. M. ORROCK. 
Extracts from Letters. 
Bro. M. HELM writes from Springfield (Ill.), No-
vember, 1851 : 
Bro. S. Chapman is still operating most success-
fully in this State, in the region between the Illinois 
and Mississippi rivers. At the last account, lie was 
full of faith, in good health, and fine spirits. The 
demands for his labors continue to increase, and the 
probability is, that he will remain in the State during 
the winter. He is a model of industry and perse-
verance. 
[We are much gratified to hear of the success of 
our faithful brother. May blessings still attend his 
labors. Our friends in the West may, as we have 
no doubt they do, rely upon him as a true-hearted 
Adventist.—ED.] 
Bro. JOHN W. DANIELS writes from Morrisville 
(Pa.), Nov. 14th, 1851 : 
BRO. HIMES :—We are prospering, both in this 
place and in Yardleyville. The brethren generally 
stand fart, rooted and grounded in the faith of the 
gospel. Four have recently been baptized, and there 
is before us a good prospect of a revival of the Lord's 
work, which we hope ere long to realize, to the joy 
of our hearts. Prejudice against our views is being 
constantly diminished, and new fields of labor are 
presenting themselves in the adjacent region, in which 
we have reason to hope that our labor will not be in 
vain in the Lord. 
Bro. DEXTER WHITNEY writes from Bellingham 
(Mass.), Nov. 12th, 1851 : 
DEAR BRO. HIMES :—I know that you like to hear 
from all those who love the Lord and his appearing 
and kingdom. Our number does not increase, but 
we do not forsake the assembling of ourselves toge-
ther. We have no preaching, but meet together and 
read the word, which will make us wise unto salva-
tion. I hope that you may be supported through the 
coming trial by all who love the Lord. May the God 
of grace be your support, until the King of kings, 
and Lord of lords shall come. 
Bro. S. G. MATTHEWSON writes from West Win-
sted (Ct.), Nov. 12th, 1851 : 
DEAR BRO. HIMES :—The cause of God in this re-
gion is onward. Some are embracing the truth, and 
th,e congregations continue to be large and deeply in-
terested. The camp-meeting was the means of doing 
much good. Bro. Burnham is with us, and laboring 
to good acceptance. We hope that much good will 
be the result. 
Obituary. 
.‘ I am the RESURRECTION and the LIFE : he who helieveth in mE, 
though he should die, yet he will LIVE : and whoever liveth and be-
lieveth in me, will NEVER die."—John 11:995, 26. 
DIED, at Palmer Depot, Nov. 6th, HARRIET N. 
BENSON, daughter of Artemas and Abigail Hitch-
cock, of Brimfield, aged 25 years and five months. 
My beloved companion fell asleep in Jesus after a lin- 
gering, sickness of trui months, leaving a little daugh-
ter eleven months old. I mourn not as those with-
out hope, for Harriet will come up in the first resur-
rection. For a few days before her death, she was 
almost impatient for the time to come, for she wanted 
to be at rest. She died happy. Her disease was con-
sumption. The funeral sermon was preached by 
Elder P. Powell, from 1 Thess. 4:13. 
She wakes not, she whose look was love, 
Whose voice was music's breath ; 
That angel smile is caught above, 
That voice is lost in death. 
HERSCHELL C. BENSON. 
Lines to the Bereaved, on the death of sweet " Flora Grace•" 
As your bark stood out on the sunlit-tide, 
Gliding on to its destined haven ; 
A beautiful gem, both your joy and pride, 
To your care was briefly given. 
Placed in your hands as a love-gift bright, 
''['was yours while the gem was holden, 
To fit it to shine in a crown of light, 
On a shore all dazzling and golden. 
Far dearer to you than all else below, 
Its care a delicious duty ; 
Each day and night love bending low, 
Still watched its brightening beauty. 
Months passed away in your happiness, 
But while blessing the glorious Giver, 
The treasur'd gem, from its loved embrace 
Plunged low in death's dark river. 
Then you calmly the lent love-gift gave op, 
To sleep for a while 'neath the billow ; 
But it sparkles still in the bow of hope, 
For His love has gilded its pillow. 
Soon the waters of death will all sweep by, 
And your gem will leap from its hiding, 
To be set in the crown of the King of the sky, 
In His presence forever abiding. 
Then the love-lent gem, with a fadeless sheen, 
To your trust shall for aye be given ; 
To vie with the jewels and jasper green 
'Mid the star-gemmed courts of heaven. 
D. T. T. 
A "LITTLE WAR" IN INDIA. 
Another outbreak—if the running a muck of sev-
enteen Moplah fanatics can be so called—took place 
at Kohlatoor, in Malabar, on the 22d of August—the 
fourth similar occurrence in nearly the same locality. 
These Moplahs belong to a new sect which has been 
founded of late years by the preaching of a mad 
Mussulman saint; their peculiar tenet is the extra-
ordinary virtue they attach to the act of killing an 
idolator, which, together with dying in the cause of 
religion, they believe insures them an immediate and 
peculiar reward in the next world. 
When a party of these fanatics meet together and 
resolve on taking their places among the saints,some 
idolator has to die withiu a mile of the place where 
the plan is made, and as more eclat follows the death 
of a great man, some rich and high caste Hindoo is 
generally selected. On the present occasion, fourteen 
of these fanatics, having devoted themselves to death, 
proceeded to the house of a wealthy Brahmin, whom 
they murdered, setting fire to his house. They then 
killed another Brahmin, and cut down and left for 
dead the head man of the village, and are stated to 
have subsequently killed two more that day. Next 
morning they went to another village, three miles 
off, where they are said to have killed the head man 
and seven others. They then stormed a high caste 
Brahmin's house well situated for defence, and there 
ensconced themselves. 
The outbreak commenced on Friday, the 22d, but 
no steps seem to have been taken to prevent further 
mischief till the 24th, though there was a strong de-
tachment of 39th native infantry, under Major Wil-
kinson, at Malea-Pooran, only seven miles distant. 
On the 24th, Major Wilkinson sent seventy of the 30th 
under Ensign Turner, to dispose of the fourteen Mo 
plahs ; this detachment on their arrival, continued 
firing at the house from two to four, without effect. 
The Moplahs then rushed out and charged the sepoys, 
who became panic struck and fled, many of them 
throwing away their muskets. They lost two men 
arid a drummer. 
On this Major Wilkinson asked for the aid of the 
detachment (fifty strong) of her Majesty's 94th, and 
another company of the 39th, stationed at Galicia, 
about forty miles distant ; these troops arrived at Ko-
latoor on the 27th of August, where they were joined 
by Ensign Turner's detachment, the whole amount-
ing to 220 men. The Moplahs, who had increased 
to seventeen, came out to meet the troops ; the 94th de-
tachment then advanced and delivered a volley without 
any effect, but their second discharge killed s ven of 
the enemy. The Moplahs then charged, and were 
met with a fire from the sepoys (drawn up on the 
left flank of the Europeans) which staggered them, 
and before they could recover themselves the 94th had 
reloaded and fired. The surviving Moplahs then, 
knife in hand, dashed in among the troops, who in a 
few minutes disposed of them, but not before they 
had killed four of the 94th, and a Subedar of the 39th. 
The Sun and the Clock. 
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justly tax the miscredulity of those who will rather 
trust to the Church than to the Scriptures. 
Bishop Hail. 
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T" 
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and four daughters to mourn her inestimable loss. 
Having been brought up by her pious parents in Eng-
land in the nurture and admonition of the Lord, she 
became early a subject of conversion, and for up-
wards of thirty years by a consistent Christian walk 
showed forth the beauty and excsilence of religion, 
and was a bright example of the power of the grace 
of God. Favored as she was by her Creator with a 
most noble form, a bright intellect, and the kindliest 
and most generous feelings, divine grace superadded 
to these natural endowments made her indeed a most in-
teresting companion, and endeared her to all that knew 
her. As an affectionate wife and faithful counsellor 
none but her deeply afflicted husband can form a due 
estimate of her priceless value. AS a mother she 
was most tender and indulgent, and yet provident and 
prudent, ever manifesting the deepest concern for the 
spiritual welfare of her children. It was the burden 
of her fervent prayers that she might be spared to 
see them grown up and blessed with saving grace, 
and the Lord has signally answered her prayers, so 
far at least as to permit her to see all her children 
grown up, and most of' them rejoicing in the Sa 
viour's love ; and I pray the remaining ones may, 
by means of this afflictive providence in the removal 
of their excellent and pious mother, also be shortly 
brought nigh to God through the blood of the Lamb, 
so that in the last day she may he able to say : 
" Here, Lord, am I, and (all) those whom thou hast 
given me." Never, I think, can they forget their 
mother's fervent prayers and earnest solicitude for 
their salvation, which will follow them through all 
the scenes and vicissitudes of life as a guardian an-
gel, arid having been lodged in heaven on the wings 
of faith and love, will, may I not fondly hope, as I 
fervently pray they may, be fully answered in the 
conversion of all that were so near and dear to her 
mother's heart. But the loss occasioned by our be-
loved sister's death is felt not only in her afflicted 
and bereaved family, and in the circle of her numer-
ous kindreds and friends who had shared largely in 
the outgoings of her generous heart—nay, the neigh-
borhood and the whole community deeply feel and 
lament her death as a public calamity—fur she was 
one of the excellent of the earth, whose delight it 
was ever to hasten to the relief of the afflicted, and 
not only with kind words to soothe and comfort the 
sorrowing heart, but with watchings and labors 
abundant to afford the aid she could. The church 
too has lost, in our sister's death, one of its bright-
est ornaments, for, though most unassuming arid 
modest, she was ever ready to engage in the private 
or public duties of religion. In 1842-3, she was 
brought to believe in the near personal advent of our 
blessed Saviour, and soon felt it her duty, after hav-
ing been for many years a consistent member of the 
Methodist Episcopal Church, to unite herself more 
intimately with those of like precious faith, in which 
union she continued to the end of her earthly career, 
never, however, for a moment manifesting the least 
degree of uncharitableness or want of sincere love, 
towards those that could not see in every point as she 
did, provided they gave evidence that they loved the 
Saviour. Bro. Southmayd's house has been for a 
number of years a welcome home for God's minis-
ter's and people, and many times it might have been 
said of his lamented companion, as of Martha of old, 
that she was" cumbered with much serving," for she 
was ever ambitious to excel in acts of kindness and 
hospitality to the humblest disciple, and especially 
to the weary and suffering minister of her blessed 
Master. She loved to dwell much on the glorious 
doctrine of the resurrection of the just, and to ex-
patiate on the love and mercy of God through the 
blessed Redeemer. The closet and the mercy-seat 
were her daily and favorite resort, and the Bible was 
her constant companion and delight ; the prayerful 
reading of this precious volume may he said to have 
been her last earthly work, for on Saturday evening 
prior to her decease, though she felt fatigued with 
the labors of the day and of the week, and was withal 
so unwell that she was advised to take medicine, (fear-
ing, if she did, it might prevent her going to the 
sanctuary on the Lord's day, when Elder Fassett was 
to preach and administer the Lord's Supper, for the 
partaking of which she had an earnest longing desire,) 
she declined to take any, but betook herself to the read-
ing of God's blessed hook, and then with prayer and 
meditation committed herself to the care and mercy of 
her covenant-keeping God, hoping, through His good-
ness, to awake in the morning, refreshed by rest, and 
able to commemorate with her brethren the dying 
love of Jesus. But that same night she was sud-
denly seized with a most violent attack of malignant 
dysentery, which, being accompanied with other 
alarming symptoms, soon excited the fears of her 
family respecting the result, and medical aid was im-
mediately procured. Her sickness was short, but 
her sufferings were very intense, and runt f of the 
time she appeared to he in an unconscious stupor, 
but when her senses returned she manifested through-
out a calm resignation to the will of God, engaging 
in fervent silent and ejaculatory prayer, and request-
ing her dear family to unite their petitions with hers 
to the throne of grace for her final victory. And 
thanks be unto God that ardent prayers of faith were 
offered with hers, and heaven did answer—not indeed 
as we might have desired in her restoration to health, 
but in granting her a peaceful exit out of this life, 
and a glorious hope of a blissful immortality through 
faith in the atoning blood of Christ. Thus our sis-
ter sleeps in Jesus till the morning of the resurrec-
tion, when she will rise glorious and immortal to be 
an heir of the everlasting kingdom—and we are ad-
monished to mourn not as those that have no hope—
and though she was deprived of the privilege of par-
takieg of the last Lord's Supper on earth, we have 
great reason to thank God and to rejoice in the thought, 
that through divine grace she will soon be permitted 
to drink of the fruit of the vine anew in her Father's 
kingdom with the blessed and adorable Saviour. She 
had for several years cherished the fond hope that she 
might live to witness the second advent of our Lord, but 
recently she appeared to have had some premonitions 
that she might be called away before that time, and 
as her beloved mother and two of her sisters died at 
the age of fifty-six, she was led to think that this 
might be the terminus of her life, and so it proved to 
be, for death has been permitted to do his work of 
destruction upon her, and in less than one short week 
to lay her noble, strong, and healthy frame prostrate 
in the dust, and seal those lips in silence that but 
four days before were vocal with God's praise, and 
ready to bless with kindly words all that came near 
her reach. Short, however, will be his triumph, for 
soon the voice of the coming Son of God will rend 
the graves, and bid the sleepers rise, when death will 
be swallowed up in victory, and the redeemed of the 
Lord will bloom in immortal youth and beauty in the 
paradise of God. Truly our sister has fought a good 
fight, she has finished her course and kept the faith, 
and henceforth there is laid up for her a crown of 
righteousness, which the Lord, the righteous Judge, 
will give her at that day, and not to her only, but 
to all them also that love his appearing. In full 
hope of her coming forth glorious and immortal at 
the first resurrection, she was committed to the grave 
last Lord's day, when a large concourse of sympa-
thizing people, and three ministers of' different de-
nominations, all personally acquainted with her, and 
voluntarily and most cordially engaging in the funeral 
services, bore ample testimony to the excellence of the 
Christian character of the departed. May the richest 
consolations of God's grace be imparted to the sorely 
bereaved and most deeply afflicted husband and chil-
dren of our beloved sister deceased, and to her two 
surviving brothers and sisters, and numerous other 
relations—and may the event be sanctified to their 
good, and may we all lie stimulated to follow her as 
she followed Christ, that like hers, our may be peace- 
ful, and our eternity glorious! J. F. HUBER. 
Middletown (Conn.), Nov. 19th, 1851. 
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THE TRIAL. 
It is expected that the trial will take place some time dur-
ing next month. The exact time cannot now be stated. From 
what I have been able to learn, those as ho have been arrayed 
against me all through the country, manifest a remarkable 
interest is the prosecution of the trial. How far they are 
identified with it, it is difficult to say ; but sotne well-in-
formed friends have expressed the opinion, that some of the 
chief conspirators are at the bottom of it. It is supposed 
that they hope to get a legal sanction to their libellous pro-
ductions, and thereby save themselves from the exceedingly 
trying condition into which they are brought. If this con-
jecture is correct, it will no doubt appear on the trial. The 
" union " of all the opposition elements, formed last year, 
will no doubt continue so long as there is any hope of break-
ing down those who stand in the way of their ambitious 
schemes. But it remains to be seen, whether a man in the 
faithful discharge of his duty, amidst the most trying circum-
stances, surrounded by the bitterest foes, is to he crushed by 
such instrumentalities. With the fullest confidence in the 
providence of God, and the affections of my brethren in the 
churches of Christ, with whom I have labored and suffered 
so long, I feel no fears for the result. 
While I make no claim to any assistance from my friends, 
I will not conceal the fact, that I have not the requisite pe-
cuniary means to meet the common foe before a judicial tri-
bunal. It will be an expensive suit ; and besides, no doubt 
I shall continue to suffer every annoyance, and be subjected 
to every expense that my persecutors can possibly impose 
upon me. I believe that I have ground to expect nothing but 
the worst that they can do. But I have this consolatory re-
flection, that I suffer in this mater for manly and Christian 
deeds in behalf of the cause of God, and I can rejoice, after 
all, that I am accounted worthy to suffer while in the per-
formance of my duty in the fear of God. 
In conclusion, I would call attention to the following com-
munication from the Advent Church in Providence, which is 
timely, and peculiarly gratifying to me at this juncture. The 
brethren in Providence will accept my heart-felt thanks. 
Next week I shall probably be able to state the time when 
the trial will commence, unless measures are taken to defer 
it to another term. 
JOSHUA V. HIMES. 
PROVIDENCE, Nov. 23d, 1851. 
The Church of Adventists in Providence to those of like precious 
faith, and to all sister churches, greeting : 
Encouraged by repeated expressions of your union with us 
in faith and object, we take this method of appeal to you in 
relation to the prosecution now pending against our beloved 
brother J. V. Himes. Bro. Himes was with us when the 
suit was instituted. The whole of the circumstances are 
known to us. The leading facts have been already laid be-
fore you in the " Herald ;" but we wish here to recall your 
attention to them. 
Bro. Himes was faithfully arid laboriously endeavoring to 
advance the cause so dear to us all in this city and in a neigh-
boring village. A certain pamphlet was being circulated gra-
tuitously and wills characteristic zeal—and which had been 
often repeated, in defiance of our most urgent remonstrances 
—much to the annoyance of the friends of our holy cause, 
and greatly to the detriment of the religious interests of our 
respective meetings. In the judgment of the friends, and of 
Bro. Himes himself, it became his duty briefly to expose the 
nature of said pamphlet, and those repeated annoyances, in 
which he nobly stood in defence of our religious rights and 
privileges. For thus exposing that pamphlet, and defending 
our religious freedom from those aggressiveannoyances, with 
the approbation of the brethren and large audiences of the 
public, from the pulpit, he has become subjected to the labor 
and expense of defending himself in the Court of Common 
Pleas of this Stale, against what we verily believe to be a 
malicious prosecution. 
Brethren, and friends of religious liberty, we feel that the 
burden thus laid upon Bro. Nimes should be borne by those 
in whose behalf lie was laboring. Our religious privileges 
are worthy of the sacrifice ; and duty to our brother calls 
for it. We need make no further appeal, —this simple 
statement will insure your response. To defend himself tri-
umphantly, will require a large expenditure for counsel and 
witnesses. This Church would delight in the privilege to 
endure the whole of this, if we were able ; but knowing our 
pecuniary inability, and being assured that very many who 
ardently love our brother, our glorious cause, and our reli-
gious freedom, will esteem it a privilege to aid, we have 
appointed a committee to raise a " Relief Fund," with which 
to enable Bro. Ilimes to meet these expenses. The follow-
ing brethren are appointed said committee :—Chester S. 
Wood, Arnold W. Brown, James Wolstenholine, John H. 
Lonsdale, Charles Sisson, Thomas Snow, George S. Har-
wood, William A. Munroe, Anthony Pearce. 
Any funds for this object may be forwarded to ARNOLD 
W. BROWN, the treasurer of this fund, who will, under the 
direction of this Church, see that it is appropriated to this 
object. Or if more convenient, funds may be sent to the 
"Herald " office. 
At a meeting of the Second Advent Church, held in New-
market Hall, Providence, Nov. 23d, 1851, the foregoing ad-
dress was adopted, with a request that it be published in the 
"Advent Herald" for several weeks. 
A. PEARCE, Seey. CHESTER S. WOOD, Ch'm. 
Do INDIANS SWEAR?—This is a curious question, and 
the answer by Mr. Schoolcraft phould put the white tnan to 
the blush. This gentleman, who has for many years closely 
studied the characteristics of the race, says : " Many things 
the Indians may be accused of, but of the practice of swear-
ing they cannot. I have made many inquiries into the state 
of their vocabulary, and do not, as yet, find any word which 
is more bitter or reproachful than matchiannemoash, which 
indicates simply bail dog.' Many of their nouns have, 
however, adjective inflections, by which they are rendered 
derogative. They have terms to indicate cheat, liar, thief, 
murderer, coward, fool, lazy man, drunkard, babbler ; but I 
have never heard of an imprecation, or oath. The genius 
of the language does not seem to favor the formation of terms 
to be used in oaths, or for purposes of profanity. It is the 
result of the observation of others, as well as my own, to 
say, that an Indian cannot curse." 
A CONFERENCE will be held in Worcester, Mass., at 
the Thotnas-street chapel, commencing Dec. 10th, at 10 A. 
M., and continue through the week. The morning of each 
day will be devoted to the transaction of business, and the 
afternoons and evenings to preaching. Ministers and lay 
brethren throughout New England are invited to attend. 
Friends intending to be present will call at No. 3 Main-st., 
front of the firm of Wetherbee & Partridge. 
J. V. RIMES, 
J. W. BONHAM, 
Cont. 
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THE ADVENT HERALD. 
Children's Advent Herald. 
This little paper, devoted to the interests of children, is published 
monthly, at 25 cents a year, in advance. The Dec. number, being 
No. 8 of Vol. 5, is now out. The following are its contents 
Thankfulness 
Don't Waste Your Time. 
Holy Ground. 
Temptation Resisted. 
Beautiful Allegory. Deceiving Children 
A Story for Little Children. Prayer Good for Home Influence. 
Ingenuity of Birds. Reason in Animals. 
Take Care of Spare Moments. Too Certain, &c. &c. &c. 
JANUARY, 1852. 
— 
END OF THE VOLUME.—Will not all indebted for the 
?erald and books arrange so as to settle their accounts by the 
irst of January next I Let each one resolve to do so and it 
may—it WILL BE DONE. In the meantime, we would call 
pecial attention to 
THE EMBARRASSMENTS OF THIS OFFICE. 
Those indebted to this office will remember that we corn- 
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tor expenses of $100 per week, an expensive law-suit to de-
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mire the prompt payment of dues to the office to hold our 
own—to say nothing of the debt we owe, only a small per- 
ion of which we have thus far been able to pay. Will not 
hose indebted respond to the amount of their dues, and not 
Maher embarrass us by inattention to this reasonable re- 
best I We also wish to publish several valuable works, 
which our embarrassments have caused us to suspend. 
W. R. Parker—Received too late for this number—will 
be given in our next. 
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His Judgment of the Quick and Dead at his Appearing and 
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Ins Reign on the Earth over the Nations of the Redeemed. 
The Resurrection of those who Sleep in Jesus, and the Change 
of the Living Saints, at the Advent. 
The Destruction of the Living Wicked from the Earth at that 
event, and their confinement under chains of darkness till the Sec-
ond Resurrection. 
Their Resurrection and Judgment, at the end of the Millew 
nium, and consignment to everlasting punishment. 
The bestowment of Immortality, (in the Scriptural, and not 
the secular use of this word') through CHRIST, at the Resurrection 
The New Earth the Eternal Residence of the Redeemed. 
We are living in the space of time between the sixth and sev 
enth trumpets, denominated by the angel " QUICKLY :” "The sec- 
and woe is past ; and behold the third woe cometh quickly"-Rev 
1:14-the time in whidchiwe tr 
t 
y look for the crowning consurnma- 
of the 
 
on 
These 
prophetic
views we propose to sustain
. by the harmony and letter of 
the inspired Word, the faith of the primitive church, the fulfilment 
of prophecy in history, and the aspects of the tinure. We shall en. 
deavor, by the Divine help, to present evidence, and answer objec-
ions, and meet the difficulties of candid inquiry, in a manner becom-
hug the questions we discuss ; and so as to approve ourselves to 
every man's conscience in the sight of Gon. 
These are great practical questions. If indeed the Kingdom of 
GOD is at hand, it becometh all Christians to make efforts for re-
mewed exertions, during the little time allotted them for labor in the 
Master's service It becometh them also to examine the Scriptures 
of truth, to see if these things are so. What say the Scriptures ? 
Let them speak ; and let us reverently listen to their enunciations. 
To Correspondents. 
" AN ADVENTIST" is mistaken in supposing that a "day" 
nerely denotes the light, and is not of twenty-four hours' du- 
ration. It very often means only the light, but it also is used 
IS a measure of twenty-four hours. It is thus used as the 
!tidiest measure of time. The Jewish sabbath continued 
rom evening to evening. Because the light only is some- 
imes called day, it does not follow that a day does not also 
nclude both the darkness and the light. A little knowledgeV. 
)f the various uses of words has caused much confusion in 
tome minds, when a little research, would have made all 
dain. 
DEAR BRO. Htm ES :—We read in the Acts of the A pos- 
lea (7 : 59) : " And they stoned Stephen, calling on God, 
and saying, Lord Jesus, receive my spirit." Who called on 
Sod, saying, "Lord Jesus, receive my spirit 1" Please 
give a full explanation of the above, and oblige 
Yours, in hope, HIRA MBAs. DW IN. 
We see nothing intricate in this text. The connection is 
Tory simple ; Stephen alone is the one who says, " Lord 
lesus, receive my spirit." He alone cried, "Lord, lay not 
his sin to their charge." We have understood that some 
ire teaching that it was not Stephen, but the Jews who ut- 
ered the language recorded. Those who thus teach must be 
uncommonly learned teachers, and remarkably versed in the 
icience of language. 
denunciations 
FOREIGN NEWS. 
— 
The English papers continue to be filled with accounts of 
he movements and speeches of Kossunt. Nothing can 
ixceed the enthusiasm with which he is received by the 
;real body of the people, immense numbers of whom have 
gathered on several occasions to see him. The speeches of 
he Governor of Hungary before the Lord Mayor and Com- 
non Council of London, and to the Hungarian and the Italian 
jommittees, are looked on by the English as models of elo- 
pence, and couched ha language of great propriety and deli- 
lacy. He deals out, however, the most bitter and withering 
against Russia and Austria, shows the design 
If those two powers to be to crush the faintest vestige of lib- 
Tty out of Europe, and calls on England to interpose a bar- 
ier to the further advance of absolutism. He does not ask 
hat England actively interfere in the Hungarian struggle, but 
vishes that she would forbid the interference of Russia, and 
eave his country alone to settle the matter with Austria. He 
ays that the emancipation of Hungary cannot be effected 
vithout a war, but expresses great confidence in the ability 
of his country to acquire it, provided England will not give 
he Russian Czar " a charter" to dispose of her. 
One of the most interesting features of his speeches is his 
open avowal of the form of government the Hungarians de- 
ire, which is a Republic, similar to that of the United 
sates. Without reflecting on liberal monarchies, he showed 
eigning family of Austria, and declared that they had caused 
t to lose all confidence in a monarchy for themselves. 
KOSSUTH has had an interview with MAZZINI, the Ital- 
an patriot, and in one of his speeches expressed great grati- 
ication with that gentleman's objects and course, and con- 
the idea, that they may unite and identify the interests 
,1 Hungary and Italy with each other, and together strive 
or a common object. 
Kossuth was to sail for the United States on the 20th. 
The French President's Message strongly recommends the 
epealing of the law restricting the right of suffrage. He 
ays that a revolution can only be averted by restoring uni- 
rersal suffrage. As is usual with all the acts of the Presi- 
lent, great consternation and displeasure in some, and grati- 
ication in others, have followed this announcement. His 
Omer adherents, coinciding in his previous illiberal meal- 
tres, are 110W arrayed against him, while his former oppo- 
tents are now his friends- The English papers look on 
?sena affairs as being in a critical condition. • 
Our readers will remember our allusion to Mr. Gladstone's 
tatuphlet on the cruelties of the Neapolitan government to- 
yards its state prisoners, and to the fact of Lord Palmerston 
;ending a copy to each of the British Ministers at the Euro- 
teat; courts, requiring them to bring the matter to the notice 
if such governments. The government of Naples published 
I pamphlet in reply to Mr. Gladstone, and asks Lord Palm- 
wston, through its Minister in London, to send a copy of it 
vherever he sent the other. The British Minister refusesmencing 
.o do it, and says the government of Naples would do well 
.0 put an eed to the abuses animadverted on by Mr. Glad- 
,tone. 
bury,
eye 
DELINQUENTS. 
mistake published any who have paid, or who are 
If we have by
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E. IRISH, of Alburgli Springs, Vt., does not take his 
paper from the Post-otlice-he owes 
 4 50 
IRA PLA1STED, of Gardiner, Me. do do do 3 54 
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 176 02 
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he
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 wrongs that the Hungarian nation had suffered from the 
APPOINTMENTS, &c. 
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evening, or they cannot be inserted until the following week. 
Bro. J. M. Orroek will hold a conference with the Advent church 
in Cabot, Vt., to commence Dec. 10th, and continue over Sunday. 
(.1 So
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thes1.11k,.,Ldi 
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Adrian will preach in Blandford, (near Bro. Bates's.) Sun- 
Bro Dec. 
day, Dec. 7th; Pleasant Valley, tOth and 11th ; Winstead 12th and 
continue over the Sabbath-as Bro. Grant may appoint. ' ' 
Br°.1tieSisHir 
Hastings will preach at Kent, Ct., Dec. 14th ; Rox-
I
iiisit. 
Bro. 
 S. W. TiLirber will hold a Conference at South Troy, Vt., 
to commence Dec. 501, and continue over Sunday. 
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day, Dec. 11th, to continue over the Sabbath. They will also corn- 
mence a course of lectures in Hallowell, Thursday, Dec. halt, and-
another in Richmond village on Thursday, Dec. 25th each to con 
mine over the Sabbath. (In behalf of the brethren.) ' 
I. C. WELLCOME. 
Bro. 0. R. Fassett will preach in Providence, R. I., Sabbath, 
Nov. 30th ; Hopeville, R. I., Dec. 3d and 401; Bristol, R. I., 7th. 
preach
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Bro.
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I. H. Shipman will preach at Derby Line, Vt., Sabbath, the 
30th, acid remain there a few days. 
Bro. F. H. Berick will hold a conference in South China, com-
Friday evening, Nov. 28th, to continue over the Sabbath. 
Bro. J. M. Orrock will attend a conference at North Danville, 
commencing Friday, Dec. 5th. 
There will be a conference on Meredith Neck, commencing Dec. 
4th, to continue over the Sabbath. Bro. T. M. Preble will be pres- 
ent. We should be glad to have Bro. filmes attend. (For the 
brethren.) 
D. WIGGIN. 
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