" THIS SAME JESUS WHO IS TAKEN UP FROM YS)U INTO HEAVEN, SHALL SO COME IN LIKE MANNER AS YE HAVE SEEN HIM GO INTO HEAVEN." 
YOI. XII. 
No. 8, 
THE ADVENT HERALD 
II P TBLI8fi.SD BVBRT WBDNBSDA.Y 
AT NO. 9 MILK STREET, BOSTON, 
BY J. V. HiniES. 
BOSTON AND NEW YORK, SEPTEMBER 30, 1846. 
on this wise, I will give you the sure not a creature, but a Creator, of whom 
mercies of David. 
we are speaking; he on whom we depend 
·And it is on this foundation both Isaiah for life and breath and all things. 
With 
and St. Paul proclaim the free salvation what reverence, then, should we search 
of the' Gospel, the full remission, the into these deep things of God; and with 
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abundant pardon of all sins to every re-what obedience of faith ought his truth tq 
Israel. even the Lord is in the midst of 
thee." Equally explicit are the applica-
tions of the New Testament: " Thy 
throne, 0 God, is for ever and ever : a 
sceptre of righteousness is the sceptre of 
thy kingdom." Where. was there ever a 
monarch that could make &uch claims, or 
who possessed Divine glories and perfec-
tions like these? . Oh! what a glorious 
and blessed :Monarch is this our heavenly 
Monarch. What a kingdom is his, which, 
amidst all the shaking and passing away 
of every other kingdom, has yet to be de-
veloped and established on our earth ! 
"Wherefore we receiving a kingdom 
which c~nnot be moved, let us have grace 
to serve God acceptably, with reverence 
and godly fear."-( To be continued.) 
All communications, orders, or remittances, for this of-'turnincr sinner and free J. ustification from be submitted to and received. 
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not e of God, far above all angels! the root as 
llldreu, ahould be distinctly ghen, when money is for-justified by the law of Moses, to every be-well as the offspring of David; David's 
warded. 
liever. 
(Isa. 55:6-9; Acts 13:33-39.) Lord as well as David's Son; the true 
Come, Lord Jesus. 
These are the present blessings to be ob-and eternal God, in his acts of love to 
tained. 
My text, however, rather directs man, is here set before us. 
He claimed 
your attention to the character and glo-this when on earth as his proper character 
Thv people, Lord, with wRiting eyes, 
Expect thy coming near; 
They eager watch the eastern skies, 
To crown the festive year. 
With ilincere hearts of holy joy, 
They view eRch promised sign ; 
Redemption all their hearts employ-
They wait the promised time. 
But though with rapturous joy they sing 
Thy prllises here helow, 
And wish to see thrir glorious Kina, 
And thee more fully know: 
lo tribulation on they stand, 
With grievous care opprest ; 
0 ! !earl them by thine own right hand, 
Into the promised rest. 
By f11ith they view the opening skies 
Reveal the coming One; 
And lo! they l'nise t.heir fervent cries-
Lord, come, 0 quickly come! 
0 come, and ~a\u00b7e tiline Israel'~ seoo, 
Who long hRve sou)!ht thy fllce ; 
Anrlmay they from the tempter freed, 
Rejoice in conquering grace. 
Tben shall thy people all rejoice 
In Mong-of noblest 11rai~e ; 
Whi!P. every heart and every voice 
Shall chant redeeming gracr. 
Ten thoustuullyre8, in concert sweet, 
Shall ~w~ll the angelic hand ; 
Di•cordant notP.s sh!!.llnever greet 
The dwellers of the land. 
Then shall the glittt>ring SJ)ires shine 
On Uauaan's lHt!lflY 
short~, 
With rays of glory bright divine, 
Increasing evermore. 
The songs of thP. retlremed shall ring 
With ev.erlasting joy, 
Immortal ]Hilise to Christ their King 
Shall every tongue employ. 
0 ! long expected Savior, come! 
Thiue advent hasti'D, Lord! 
Thy little flock all sigh for home-
Fnlfll thy sacred word. 
Seraphic millions join the prayer-
Lord Jesus, quir.kly eome! 
Then shall wr all in triumph share 
Our glorious rest at home. 
Portamouth, N. H. 
The Sure Mercies of Da vld. 
BY THE REV. 
EDW.\RD BICKERSTETH, 
REC'fOR OF WATTON, HERTS, ENG. 
2 Samuel 7:12-16.-" I will set up thy seed 
af\er thee, which shall proceed out of thy bow-
~ 
and l will establish his kingdom. 
He shall 
tbeild an house for my name, and I will stahli~h 
, throne of. his kingdom for ever. 
I will be 
h'! f~tl~er, and he shttll be my son. 
If he com-
lltlt tmquity, I will chasten him with the rod of 
Do, and with the stripes of the children of men : 
llt my mercy shall not depart away from him, 
., I took it from Saul, 'whom I put away before 
thee. 
And thine hotise and thy kingdom shall be 
=lished for ever hefore thee : and thy throne 
be established for ever." 
Y text contains that foundation prom-
to which Isaiah refers, as St. Paal 
does in preaching to the Jews in the syn-
~ogue at Antioch. 
We declare unto 
~ good tidings, how that the promise 
tch was made unto the fathers, God 
~ 
f~lfilled the same unto us, their chil-
re~, 10 that he hath raised up Jesus 
tn; a~ it is also written in the second 
hem," Thou art my Son; this day have 
gotten thee." And' as concerning 
e raised him up from the dead, now 
ore to return to corruption, he said 
ries of the everlasting kingdom. 
and glory; and for claiming this, his due 
We will consider-
right and title, the unbelieving Jews re-
I. The King announced. 
jected him as a blasphemer, and he was 
2: The national hope of Israel. 
. 
crucified as a malefactor. 
0, Divine Im-
3. The house to' be built. 
• manuel! may we adore thee the more, 
4. The kingdom of the Son of David. and love thee more intensely. 
· 
1. THE KING ANNOUNCED. 
2. Au other title is, The Seed of David: 
The Sacred Mountans. 
MOUNT TABOR. 
BY THE BEV. J, T. HE.lDLEY, 
. ''I will set up thy seed· after thee, "I will set up thy seed after thee." 
which shall proceed out of thy bow-· There was here, in the first instance, 
els. 
I will establish the throne of his a typical reference to Solomon, who liter-
kingdom for ever. 
I will be his Father, .ally succeeded David on the throne of Is-
and he shafl be my Son." 
rael. 
But the proper and full application 
What stra~ge contrasts this' earth of 
We have in the promises three titles of the promise is to our Lord Jesus Christ. ours presents. It seems to be the middle 
given to the Mof¥lrch here announced. 
He is often expressly mentioned in the spot between heaven and hell, and to par-
I. THE SoN o.F Gon. "I will be his New Testament as the seed of David. take of the character of both. 
Beings 
Father, and he shall be my Son." 
Thus St. Paul tells the Romans that he from both are con5lantly occurring upon 
At first this might seem to be no more was separated unto the Gospel of God it. 
The glory from one and the midnight 
than the general promise made to all be-concerning his Son Jesus Christ our Lord, shades from the O\her meet along its bo-
lievers, "I will receive yon, and will be which wa3 made of the seed of David som, and the song of angels and the 
a Father unto you, and ye shall be my according to the flesh, and declared to be shriek of fiends go up from the same spot. 
sons." 
But the promise is opened out the Son of God with power. 
And the Noonday and midnight are not more op-
and explained in the New Testament, same apostle, speaking to the Jews at posite than the scenes that are constantly 
and there the Divine Spirit teaches us Antioch, says, "Of this man's seed hath passing before our eyes. 
The temple of 
that it is designed to set forth a far supe-God, aerording to his promise, raised un-God stands .beside a brothel, and the ~lace 
rior Sonship to that of the children of to Israel a Saviour, Jesus." The title of prayer 1s separated only by a smgle 
God bv creation or adoption, even the implies his true humanity: ·of our very dwelling from the "hell" of the gambler. 
eternal· Godhead and co-equal glory of nature; bone of our bone, and flesh of Truth and falsehood walk . side by . side 
the only-begotten Son of the Most High. our flesh. 
It implies that like David he through our streets, and vice and vutue 
Thus St. Paul writes to the Hebrews,-should go through afflictions and sorrows, meet and pass every. hour of th~ day. 
"Unto which of the angels said he at through deep humiliations and many tri-The hut of the starvmg stands m the 
any time, Thou art my Son; this day als, as the preparation for the P-xercise of shadow of the palace of the wealthy, and 
have I begotten thee? And again, I will his kingly office. 
Though he were a the carriage. of ~iv~s every day throws 
be to him a Father, and he shall be to me Son, •yet learned he obedience by the the dust of Its ghttermg wheels over the 
a Son. 
And acrain, when he brincreth in thincrs which he suffered; and beincr tattered garments of Lazarus. Health 
the first-begotte~ into the world, h~ saith, ·mad~ perfect, he became the Author of and sickness lie down in the same apart-
And .let all the angels of God worship eternal salTation unto all them that obey ment i joy and agony look out of th.e 
him. 
Unto the Son he saith, Thy throne, him. Thns he had full experience of same ·window; and hope and despair 
0 God, is for ever and ever." Hence it is temptation and suffering, and is able to dwell under the same roof. 
The cry of 
clear the Sonship of Christ is truly divine. sympathize with his people in their afflic-the new-born infant and the groan of the 
So we see when his birth was an-tions, preparing them also for their future dying rise together from t.he same dwell-
nounc:ed to his virgin mother, the angel glory. 
Oh, how should this endear to us ing; the funeral pro;-esswn treads close 
told her, "He shall be great, an1i shall be our Redeemer! He knoweth our frame. on the heels of the bnd.al party; and the 
cal\ed the Son of the Highest." When He has a f~>llow-feeling with us. 
In all tones of the lute and VlO~ have scarcely 
she was astonished, and asked how could our affliction he is afflicted.· 
died away before the requiem for the dead 
this be? the ~ngel said unto her," The 
A third title her~ given is THE KING. comes swelling after. 0! the beauti.ful 
Holy Ghost shall come upon thee, and This title, through the Psalms and the and deformed, the pure and corr~pt, J?Y 
the power of the Highest shall over-prophecies of the future glory of the Jew-and sorrol, ecstacies and agomes, li~e 
shadow thee; therefore also that holy ish nation, 8pecially relates to the Messiah. and de.ath, are strangely blent on th1s 
thing which shall be born of thee shall He is particularly predicted in them as restless planet of ours ! 
be called the Son of God." 
the future King of Israel: "Behold a 
But the past and future present as 
This Divine glory is. farther ~Uustrated King shall reign in righteousness, and s~range contrasts as the pres~t. What 
by St. John in the opemng of h1s Gospel, princes shalt rule in judgment: and a d1fferent events have transpued on the 
" In the beginning was the Word, and man shall be a hiding-place from the s~m~ spo.t. 
Where the smoke of the In-
the Word was with God, and the Word wind, and a covert from the tempest; as dmn s wigwam arose, and the stealthy 
was God. 
And the . Word was made the shadow of .a great rock in a weary tread of the wolf and panther .~as heard 
flesh, and dwelt among us; and we be-land, and as· rivers of waters in a dry over the autumn leaves at tWilight, the 
held his glory, the glory as of the only-place." So again it is foretold of him, population ·or New York now surges 
begotten of the Father, full of grace and "Thus ~aith the Lord, the King of Israel along. 
Where on£ Tyre, the quee~ of 
truth," 
and his Redeemer, the Lord of hosts, I the sea, stood, fishermen are spreadmg 
See, then, the Divine majesty and glory am the First and I am the Last; and be· their nets on the desolate rocks, and the 
of the Son here promised to David. 
It is sides me there is no God. 
The King of bright waves are rolling over its marble 
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columns. 
In the empty apartments of on the tumultuous and chaotic field. 
Na-feeling also the inf�nce of that heavenly and that obeyed not his-gospel." Now 
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Edom the fox makes its den, and the dust poleon descended from Mount Tabor with atmosphere, and carried away by sudden all this was perfectly true and scriptural 
of the desert is sifting over the forsaken his little band, while a single twelve impulse, says to Jesus, in low and tremu-whether he had any ~pecial authority t~ 
ruins of Palmyra. 
The owl hoots in the pounder, .fired from the heights, told the lou.s accents: "It is good to be here; let proclaim it or not; but ere these prophe-
ancie t hlls of ings, and the ·wind of wearied Kleber that he \Vas rushing to us build three tabernacles; one~~ thee cie of Elijah 
ere fulfiUed, Mr. 
ince 
the summer night makes sad h�sic the re cue. 
Thrown into confusion and one for Moses, and one for Elia.l:s." 
Con-appeared among us h~ & oth~ cha 
ter, 
through the trents of once. gorg'eou 
pal-trampled 
er foot, th'a't mighty army fused by the scene, and dazzled by the a's ohe o the Two W1messes; a 
ttow 
aces. 'f 
!Arab. sp~us h1 
steed 1\ Ol\g rolled �r lently back to'vard the -.T-or-splendor, he was ignorant of what he he an~ Mr. 
tark , in ti'rtu 
f tl\ 
n'e'~ 
the streets of ancient lerasalem, or scorn-dan where ilurat was anxio sly ~aiting was saying. 
He knew not the mi!'aning offiC'e, profu s to 
ave shttt the 
or"6f 
fully stands on Mount Zion, and curls his to mincrle in the fig-ht. 
Dashincr with his of this sudden appearance, but he knew mercy against all, except those whom he 
lip at the pilgrim pressing wearily to the cavalry among the disordered ~anks, he that heaven was near and God revealing (MI. Prince) having duly examined in 
sepulchre of the Savior. 
The Mue:t:zin's sabred them down without mercy, and himself, and he felt that some sacred cer-his prophetic character, pronounced to be 
voice rings over the bones of the proph-raged like a lion amid the prey. 
The emony would be appropriate to the scene; shut in. 
ets, and the desert wind heaps the dust chivalric and romantic warrior declared and while his bewildered gaze was fixed 
Now let us'for a moment examine how 
above the foundations of the seven church-the remembrance-of the scenes that once on the three forms-before him, his uncon-far all this has been fulfilled. Mr. P~ince, 
es of Asia. 0, how good and evil, light transpired on Mount Tabor and on the~e scious lips murmured forth the feelings of in the character of Elijah, proc·laimed 
and darkness, chase each other over the thri~e consecrated spots, came to him in his ·heart. 
No wonder a sudden feeling " the immediate coming of the Lord in 
world! 
the hottest of the fight, -and nerved him -came over him that paraly~zed his tongue power and great glory, and that every 
But it may be asked, what this fit of with ten·fold courage. 
and c~u hed hi.m to the earth, when in eye should see him, &c.;" but now, this 
musing has to do with Mount Tabor. 
It 
As the sun went down over the plaths the ~mdst 'Of. h1s speech, he saw a cloud so-called Elijah has passed off the stage, 
came upon me unawares and was suer-of Palestine and twilicrht shed its dim fall hke a falhng star from heaven, and and the Lord has not so come, neither 
gested by two different sce~es my imagi-rays over th~ rent and tr~dden and dead-
bri~ht and daz~ling, balance lS~el~ o~er has every eye seen him.-Again, Mr. 
nation drew upon that mountain. 
covered field, a sulphurpus cloud hung thpse .forms of.ltght. 
Perhaps h1~ md1s· Prince, in his new character, as one of 
·Forty-seven years ago, this month, a around the summit of Mount Tabor.-creet mterruptwn had bro~ght th1s mes-the Two Witnesses, having duly e~am· I 
form was seen standihg on Mount Tabor, The smoke of battle had settled there senger down, and fro~ .1ts bosom the ined some three or four hundred of his 
with which the world has since become where once the cloud 
f glory rested, thunder and flames .of Sma~ w~re to burst i followers in this neighborhood, antl hav· 
familiar. 
It was a bright clear morning, while groans and shrieks rent the air. and he fell on h1s face m silent terr~r. ing formally entered their names, as reg· 
and as he sat on his steed in the clear sun-Nazareth, Jordan, and Mount Tabor!-But that cloud ~as o~ly a c~nopy for Its istered in heaven, declared that when the 
light, his eye Tested on a scene in the What spots for battle-fields! 
G~d, and _from Its ~r~ght foldmgs came a door was shut, "they were so shut in, 
~ale below, which w~s ·sublime and ap_Pal-
. Roll back .twenty centuri~s, a~d again ~mceh sayi1ng, "T~lSlls mdy hbe.lovedh~0~: that they could not possibly get out."-
lmg enough to q�ken the pulsatiOns v1ew that hilL 
The day 1s bnght and m w om am we .P.ease ' earye liD. 
Now, what has been the result? why, of 
of the calmest heart. 
That form was beautiful as then, and the same rich orien-
How long the ~lslon .lasted, we ~ann?t the three or four hundred who were so 
Napoleon Bonaparte, and the scene before tal landscape is smiling in the same sun. te~l, but all that mght did Jesus, With ~Is shut in, I believe more than one half have 
him the fierce and terrible "Battle of There is Nazareth with its busy popula-fnends, stay on. that lonely mountam. already come out; and some of them, 
Mount Tabor." From Nazareth, where tion-and the same Nazareth from which Of the conversatiOn that pa~sed betw.een persons to whom he had given the most 
the Savior once trod, Kleber had marched Kleber marched his army; and there is them ther.e, w~ kno~. nothm~ i but httle solemn assurance that "they could not 
forth with three thousand French soldiers Jordan rolling its bright waters along-sl.eep, we Imagme, VISited thm;r eyes th~t get out, even if they would." 
But what 
into the plain, where, at the foot of Mount the same Jordan along whose banks mght, and as· they sa: on the high summit saith he now? 
He says they are not 
Tabor, he saw the whole Turkish army charged the glittering squadrons of Mu-and watched the star:s as ~hey rose one af· only out, but that" they are in the bla~k­
drawn up in order of .battle. 
Fifteen nit's cavalry; and there is Mount Tabor-ter another above the honzon, a~d gazed ness of. darkness. for ever;" th~reby,,m· 
thousand infantry and twelve thousand the same on which Bonaparte stood with on th~ moon as she poured·her hght .over contestlbly provwg t~at he h1mslf 1s. a l 
splendid cavalry moved down in majestic his cannon, and the same beautiful plain the dtm and darkened landscapes, words false prophet. 
For, If he now adrmts ' 
strength gn this band of three thousand where rolled the smoke of battle, and we~e spoken that seemed born of Heav-
those persons are really come out, of \ 
French .. Kleber had scarcely time to struggled thirty thousand men in mortal en ' an~ truths never to be forgot ton were whom he before declared that " they. could 
throw his handfull of men into squares, combat. 
But how different is the scene uttere.:l m ~he. ears of the subdued and not get ~ut," surely he condemns h1mself 
with the cannon at the angles, before that is passing there ! The Son of God reverend disc~ples. 
. 
1 out of h1s own mouth. 
those twelve thousand horse, making thP stands on that height, and casts his eye 
Oh, how different IS heaven and earth· 
Again,-Mr. Prince had a revelation 
earth smoke and thunder as they came, oYer the quiet valley through which Jor· Can there be a stranger. contrast than the before he came to \Veymouth, that he 
burst into a headlong gallop upon them. dan winds its silver current. 
Three Bat~le and Tran figuratiOn ~f Mount Ta-was to go forth as some great one, and to 
But round those steady squares rolled a friends are beside Him. 
They have bor · 
One shudrlers to thmk of Bona· convert millions,-that the twelve La:mr 
fierce devouring fire, emptying the saddles walked together up the toilsome way, and parte a~d .the Son. of G.od on. the same peter Brethren were to be his apostles, 
of those wild horsemen with frightful ra-now the four stand, mere specks on the mou~tai.n' one With his w~stmg cannon and to receive a ministerial gift through 
pidity, and strewing the earth with the distant summit. 
But the glorious land-by .his. side, and the other WI.th ~oses ~nd believing in him,-and that Mr. Rees 
bodies of riders and steeds together.-scape at their feet is forgotten in a sub-Ehas J~St from heaven .. It IS llke seemll was, in some mystPrious way, to be , 
Again. and again did those splendid squad-limer scene that is passing before them. the devil and the angels m the same Eden united to himself in this great work.-· 
rons wheel, re-form, and charge with The Son of Mary-the carpenter of garden. 
. 
Now, what has been the result of this 
deafening shouts, while their uplifted and Nazareth-the wanderer with whom they 
But no. desecratiOn can destro.y the first revelation 1 why, notwithstanding the ut· 
flashing scimetars gleamed like a forest have ate and drank and travelled on foot c.onsecr~twn of Mount Tabor' for hap· most exertion on the part of Mr. Prince, 
1 
of steel through the smoke of battle; but many a weary league, in all the intimacy tlzed wi:h the glory of Heaven, and hon-both by writing, by deputation, and by 
that same wasting fire reeeived them. of companions and friends, began to ?red With t?e ~ondrous scene of the personal application,-both by wooings 
Those squares seemed bound by a girdle change before their eyes. 
Over his soiled Transfig_urahon, It stands the ~ftll Sacred and by threatenings,-only three of the 
of flame, so rapid and constant were the and coarse garments is spread a strange Mountam on the earth.-N. Y · Obserur. Lampeter Brethren have obeyed the cal!, 
discharges. 
Before their certain and light, steadily brightening tointenser beau-
the other nine having utterly rejected 1t 
deadly aim, as they stood fighting for ex-ty, till that form glows with such splen-
A False Prophet. 
as visionary and unscriptural. 
Now, 
istence~ the charging squadrons fell so dor that it seems to waver to and fro and 
[The following is copied from a small permi~ me to ask you one or two pla~n 
fast that a rampart of dead bodies was dissolve in the still radiance. 'fhe three pamphlet, published by Mr. Piers, Vicar and s1rnple questions.-From whom did 
soon formed around them. 
Behind this astonished friends gaze in breathless ad-
Mr. Prince receive that revelation? was 
embankment of dead men and horses, this mirntion, and then turn to that familiar of Preston, Eng., for the purpose of un-it from God, or from the devil? 
You 
band of warriors stood and fought for six face. 
But lo ! a greater change has deceiving some simple souls of his charge, will say from God. If so, then I would 
dreadful hours, and was still steadily passed over it. 
The man has put on the who had been drawn from the truth, by ask again,·-how is it that God did not 
thinning the ranks of the enemy, when G'Od, and that sad and solemn face that the impudent pretences of the man Prince, prepare the hearts of tho e whom he 
Napoleon debouched with a single divis-has been so often stooping over the couch who claims to be "Elijah "-sent to pre· had appointed, to obey the call? and how 
ion on Mount Tabor, and turned his eye of the dying, and entering the door of pare the way of the Lord.] 
is it that he has suffered so great a work 
below. 
Wha~ a scene me~ his g~ze. the hut of poverty, in the stre~ts of l'e-
Beloved Friends :-Knowing, as I do, to dwindle into a mere nonentity? 'Vhen 
The whole plam .was filled WI~h chargmg rusnlem, a~d by the weary ~ayside-aye, the sincerity of your motives, and the our blessed Lord went forth to collect his 
squ~drons of w1dely gallopmg steeds, ~edewed Wit~ th~ tears of ptty, now burns sacrifices which some of you are making disciples, we read of no deputations, no 
wh1le the thunder of ~annon. and fierce hke the s":n m mtd-day spl~ndor. Meek-in following Mr. Princ.e, but believing at wooings, and no threatenings; he simply 
rattle of musketry; amidst which now and ness ha~ given way to MaJesty-;-sadness the same time that you are most grossly 
aid to one and another, "Follow me," 
then was heard the .blast of tho.usands .of to dazzlmg glory-the look of .Ptty t? the deceived, I am sure you will give me and they instantly "left all, rose u'p, and : 
trum~ets, ~nd strams of ~rttal mus1c, grandeur of. a God. 
The st1ll radiance credit for equal sincerity, in laying before followed him," without even presuming 
fille.d the ~u. The smoke of battle was of Heaven sits o~ .that serene brow, and you a few plain and simple reasons for to inquire why or wherefore they we.r~ to 
rollmg fur1?usly over the ~osts,. an~ all all around that dtvme form flows an atmo-my having come to this conclusion. 
. 
do so, thereby manifesting the dwwe 
was confus10n and chaos Jh hts s1ght. sphere of strange and. won~rous beauty. 
In the first place, (not to sJty anythmg power and authority by which he spake. 
Anfid th81"'twenty-seyen thousand Turks Heaven has poured 1ts bnghtness over of the earlier period of Mr. Prince's life,) 
Again,-I would ask, who are the Two 
that cov~red the plam, an~ enveloped the that. con,ecrated ~pot, 11.nd on the beams when he first came into this neighborhood, Witnesses? You will say, Mr. Prince, 
enem~ hke a cloud, ~nd atmed the inces· of .light that glitter there, Moses. and he appeared among us as the prophet Eli-and Mr. Starky. 
If so, I would ask 
sant d1scharge of artillery a~d mu'ketry, El~as h~v~ descended, and wrapped m ~he jah,-as "having a special message from again,-whence the mysterious signature 
Napoleon could tell.where h1s own brave same shmmg vestments stand beside hn~n. God to proclaim unto us the second com-" Br. P. and R.?" If you do not know, 
~oops were struggling,~ the steady and W ?nderfollowswond~r,for~hose three ght-ing of our Lord,-that he was really com-I will tell you.-Mr. Rees, the appointed 
st.m~ltaneous volleil wh~cb sh?wed where termg f?rms are ~~kmg wnh each other, ing ?Jery soon,-that he would come in witness, having utterly reject~d the ~all, 
tbsctpline was eorlf~ndmg With the wild tmd am1d the thnllmg aecents are heard the clouds of heaven with power and Mr. Prince, by a certain hocus pocus Jug-
val?r Of overpowermg ~umbers. The the words, "Monnt Olivet,"'' Calva!)·," great glory,-that every eye should see gle, converted poor Mr. Starky into Mrf 
constant.ftashes from behtnd that rampart the agony and the death of the crucifix· hiin -that he would come to take ven-Rees, and then united him to himsel 
of dead bodies were like spots of flame ion 
Peter, awe-struck and overcome, gee.~ce upon them that knew not God, under the mystic character of "Br. P. 
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While I thank God for the efforts of themselves Christians admit these facts. 
d R. ·" so that Mr. Starky is now Bro. cially that all th.e events predicted in.Holy Bro. Miller and others, in calling 'the at-Then why do. any doubt the reahty of 
~ h (Mr Smrky) having no longer Writ to occur before the second commg of of men to the speedy second coming of the second manifestation of the self-same 
es, le 
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f ht's own. and Mr. the Lord Jesus Christ are fulfilled, I thank 
f ll 
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War•t of faith in a 
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the JudCYe 0 a , yet, as a 
mus a m1 
R e. thou()'h utterly unconscious of it you for the can or w IC a owe. m your errors h~ve been made as to the time, we living and promise-keeping God,--;-false 
hi~;~lf, is o now the active coadjutorlof columns a place for myhremarksb.l' h d 
may properly inquire whether this w~rn-views of the inspired word,-theorCiehs .of 
Mr. Prince in this great work. 
Sure y, 
I observed. that you . av~ pu 
lS e a in()' is not intended to prepare our minds men beclouding the living truths of 
n~-
eh juCY<T}ery as this, is only worthy of very interestmg document m a late num-fo; that which is speedily to try 1;1s all. 
tianity,-are among the reason.s wh~ this 
;;:. .. .;;. from whence it comes, but is her, being extracts from the answer of the 
1 have inquired of many what ts me~nt soul-gladdening promise -thts mtghty 
ot worthy the reception of Christian men. Bishops consulted by the Pope, m. h1s by the worship of the beast and his tm· inceniive to Christian zeal and untmng 
• Again,-when Mr. Prince first came distress at the progress of Protestantism. age, but have never yet been satisfied effort in theca ;e of God, is absent from 
into this neighborhood, ~e, Mr: Starky, It would grat1fy. me, and per~aps oth~rs, with any answer g1ven. 
I should feel the minds of modern professors. 
It was 
and myself, had a long discusswn, as to if you would g1ve us farther mformatwn deeply indebted to any one ,~ho would evidently 'God's purpose that ~is peopl.e 
the meaning of onr Lord's words, as with respect to. that doc~I?ent, that we clear up this matter to me. 'V1th regard should be constantly expectmg t~eu 
recorded in. M~t~. 24 : 35, he a~d ~r. may rely upon Its a,u~henttctty. 
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, to receiving his mark in the f~rehead or Lord's return. 
This world they. are 
Starky mamtammg that they 1mplted 
I am much pleased to read Bro. Lttc~ s the hand, I think that I have hght. The taught to regard as ~place of s?journing 
that ·marriage was unla\-~f~l i I, on the commqnications. 
I used to entertam following are my opinions on this sub--their sphere of tnal-an evil .-yorld :, 
contrary, expmssing my opmwn that they some ideas similar to his, with respect t9 ject. 
The worshippers of the true God they are forbi~de~ to. partake· o~ It~ d~­
were only intended to show that the the two horned beast: but the fact that have a mark in their foreheads-a seal. lights, or acqmre Its goo.4s. \Vhile ~n It, 
wotld would then be no more expecting the beast with seven heads and ten horns, Rev. 7: 2, 3. 
This apppears to be" the they are commanded to l~v~ sobe~ly,nght­
his eoming, than the inhabitants ~f the is represented as having the horns name of their Father written upon their eously, ~nd godly; proyidmg thmgs h9n· 
old world were expecting t~e flood, m the crowned, appeared to point. out the royal foreheads." Rev. 14 : 1. 
This name of est in the sight of mel).; but always" l?ok-
days of Noe. 
~ furthe: I?-stanced the authority of ~h~t beas~, .and led me to their father who is in heaven is LovE.-ing for that blessed hope, and the glonous 
case of our Lords sanctwnmg the mar-conclude that It IS the CIVIl Roman power See 1 John 4:8,16. God is love. 
This appearing of the great God, and our Sa-
riage in Cana of Gal~lee i ,~o which Mr. in the hands of the ten king~. But if is the mark which the Lord Jesus Christ vior Jesus Christ;" or as Paul ex~re~ses 
Prince instantly rephed, 
0, I do not Bro. L. can show that the Jesmts are the himsPlf said that they should be known it in Col. 3:1-5.. T?e early .Chnshans 
mean to say ·that marriage was always two horned beast, the other must repre-by John 13: 35. 
The mark by which .looked for the commg of their ~ord.­
unlawful, but only that it is unlawful for sent the Roman civil and ecclesia-stical beiievers have acknowledged that they The prophetic Scriptures, m~rkmg out 
persons to marry now that they have power united .. I am of. the number of have passed from death to life. 1 J?hn 3: the true se~son ?f tbe advent, .were not 
heard the Testimony ; "-that is, after those who consider that six of the seven 14. 
On the other hand, the worsh1ppers understood m th.etr day: accordmg to the 
tftey had heard his declaration, " Behold vials of wrath have already been poured of the beast and his image have also a Spirit's declarat~on, they were to be closed 
he cometh ! " It was not, however, many out upon the men who had the m~rk of mark. As the beast is the enemy of God, up and sealed, ttll the tJme of the end. 
days after this, when, to my great su~-the beast, and upon them ~hat worsh1pped his mark is directly the reverse of t~at 
Whenever the expectation of Chnst's 
prise, Mr. Starky announced to me hts his image. That these vtals began to be of God .. While the disciples of Chnst, coming has prevailed, piety, zeal, a~d 
mtention of marrying Miss Perry ; but poured out at the tJ~e of th~ Reforma-his worshippers, are known by " the love heavenly • mindedness have been dts-
it was afterwards explained to me, that tt tion: that the fifth vtal was poured out which they bear to each other," I con-played. On the oth?r hand, :when thts 
was only a spiritual marriage, and that during the tlme of the French Revolu-ceive that the mark of the beast, ts HA-has ceased to be a topiC of Ch~tstJan con-
it was merely adopted as a matter of ex-tion; and the wars that followed; that. the TRED To THE DisCIPLEs oF CHRIST. 
But versation, or theme of prear.hmg; luke-
pediency. 
sixth on the great river Euphrates, the how can this mark be in the forehead or warmness and worldlines have been ex-
Shortly after this, there was a large Turkish power, (the second woe trumpet,) the hand 1 The forehead is the thinking hibitec\. 
Few churches are _pr~ised as 
ftithering of Mr. Prince's converts at has been ~oured out smce the battle of contriving part. 
The _hand executes the Thessalonilll! : and tht_s body. of 
Taunton and Charlinch, and on thetr Waterloo, m the remarkable humblmg of what the forehead contnves. Hence It Christians stood pre-einment m the faith 
'"'•rn, I was informed that four of his the Turkish power; and now We ap~e~r is to be expected. that some will contrive and desire of Jesus' second appearm!l'--
ministerial followers were about to be to have come to that ~mportant pen~a, plans, as in the Irish and French massa-When, from the, tenor .X h1s first epiStle, 
united in marriage with four of the ladies when the way of the kmgs from the ns-cres of the Protestants, and others w1ll some had inferred the zmmedwte commg 
IJho were then present, three of whom, ing of the sun is prepared, and the three execute, by putting to death! if possible, of .Christ, and this cauSed them to neg-
! understood, had never seen each other unclean spmts hke frog>', out of the such as fear God and keep his command-lect their proper bus!Qe,., the apostle 
before. 
At this, I again expressed my mouth of the dragon, the beast, and the mOots. 
Hence I think that m Ret. 14: writes a secbnd time, not to reprove t~em 
arprise, inq uirin~ how such a procee~-false . proph~t,-the 
pirits of · demons 13 there is a promise peculiarly give~ to for in<htlging this. glorious expecta I! on, 
ing eould be consistent with Mr: Prmce s workmg rruracles, haYe. gone. foFth upon believers. in the approachmg tlme ?f tnal, but to correct a m1stake mto wh1ch they 
~vowed principle, " that marn~ge was the kings of the whole mhabited world, when the number of the martyrs IS to be had fallen. , He informs them that the 
!toto unlawf u 11 " In rep I y to this, I was to gather them together to th~ battle of fulfilled according to that in Rev. 6: I 0, 11. man of sin must first be revealed, and 
~h assured "they were only spiritual the great day of God, the Ahmghty. 
WILLIAM BmnLE. 
prays the Lord to direct _their hearts mto 
tiarriages." 
Now, what h~s been the 
It was this conviction of the fulfilme:rtt 
New Canaan (Ct.), Aug. 29th, 1846. the Jove of God, and mto the patzerd 
ftlolt of these spiritual marnages 
1 
why, of the•e prophecies respecting the six 
The document alluded to in the aboVe, waiting_ for Chris~-
~Alas! how fHew 
..., out of the four ladies have since vials, w hie h first made me believe, bef o~e we found in the " Protestant Churchman'" need thts exhormtton m our day.) . e 
been separated from their husbands by 1 saw Bro. Miller's works, or knew hiS 
. 
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1 
h t the sharply rebukes those who walked dtsor• 
14r. Prince, I belteve, m dugrace, and name, that the warning of v. 15 is ad-and know n~thmg of tt, on y w a 
derly, being jealous for the )tonpr of the 
o~ of them has lately produced a fine dressed to thl' men of this age ana gene-article contamed. 
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Gospel. He even commands the brethren 
ipr; -I leave it to yourselves to judge, ration-" Behold I come as a thief ! " 
Ottr views of the battle are, that tt fol-to withdraw themselves from such, y~t 
iberefore, how far those marriages have 
But what can this. battle bel In it lows the resurrection. 
The reoisons for not discarding the"! totallr: upo~ then 
lleeQ spirituaL 
. 
must be two contendmg ann!... The tl t . w we have so frequently and fully repentance, to recetve them agadm .. ~ 
Al!ain,-you tell us that you _are In 1-i nus of the whole inhabited earth. and ,. vte 
. h Thess. 3 : 6--16. 
We now procee wt tn 
!he KINGDOM, that is, I presume, m the the~ armies, and the beast and the false given, that to dwell on them ~e.re mig t further proof of God's design. that the 
t11t1lennial kinodom,-that you are free prophet are all C<lmbined against the appear like a superfluous repel!tJOn. 
As Church should always be Waitlng the 
6.01 fteoh bei~• all spirit, and conse-Lord and •"ainst his Anointod, his Mes-Bro. Litch is writing on the two horned Savior's return, the consummatwn of 
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siah. 
In what m~ner, '!J*Y . mqutre, beast, he may append a few remar s m their opes. 
tt. : 
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oold ask you ~ne or two more queslJ?ns. rna y we expect thts 1 I 11 not m a um-
b th 
I Cor. 1-7; 2 Pet. 3:11' 12. 
From t ~ e 
II you are really in the m,Jlenmal kmg-veml manner, that which was practised rep!~ to our ro er. 
and other Scriptures, it is rendered plah~' 
<!.-.free from flesh, anrl free from sm, by Saul of Tarsus, in a limited degree, 
not only that it is God's purpose that bJS 
hq., is it that you eat, diink, sleep, a~d when he persecuted God's saints! Is it 
The A4veJit, 
people should be ever awa~e to ?'~ su • 
.,. subject to all the weaknesses and tn· not to be expected that through the length "Wll"• Christ, who is""' life, shallappenr, then ject of the advent, but tht tt e~htbtts
1
the 
~rmities of our nature like other men 1 and breadth of the earth, the powers that 
ol>nll ye nl"' nppoor with him in glory."-Col. very vitality of the Chnsttan s sou to 
ay, how is it that some of you curse, be, will 1· oin to!!ether to persecute thos_e 
1l : 4• 
Ion!! for it, and look foF Jt. 
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position 
ear, get run '.an ° er~I~e 
1 who "'ill not worship the beast, an 
JS 
G d h d turies had passe 
1or.e any ex 
nner unbecomm()' the ChnstJan name. . 
nor receive his mark? 
the inspired penman, the Son of . o 
a~ of the 1260 days of Dame! and John de-
rely, dear brethr; n, it behoves you to tm(f:; blessed Master, at the close of his once appeared in this world. Th ts I)! am-noting years was published: From the 
gn w ll these thm ' as m the balance :affecting address to his faithful apostles, festation of a Divine 'Being was the most prevalence of the Septl~agt~t over the 
tbe aanetuary, ere you suffer yourselves said, " In the world ye shall have tribu-remarkable event in relation to man, since He brew versio~ of '?e Bible !n the early 
be led away by speciOus appearances. latWn ; " and can we think that when the his creatiw. Amazing and inconceivable period. of ChmttaDJty' the tdea of the 
y, who .hut a short time ago w~re so angel having the everlasting Gospel to to the mind of the qatural man. 
As IS 6000 years drawmg to a close was gene-
ll~a.y .I~ke yourselves,-equally ex-preach to them that dwell upon the earth, the second gloriou~ appearing of Jesus ral in the churr.hes. 
Subsequently, the 
~d t_n spmt,-equally confident thai all to every nation, and kindred, and tongue, Christ this, his first advent is yet 0re rise of papacy afforded ground of expo;· 
~ nght, are now blessmg G?d, that and eople &c. has fulfilled his commis-marvellous. 
For that Being, by whom tation, it being undel'stood by Pauls 
U..y have been delivered from thts snare ,-n p(and '1 -v~rily believe it is in the the world's were made, to take our nature writings, that Jesus must come to destroy 
ol the wicked one. 
And that _Y.OU "!"Y c~u;se of fulfilment,) that no trial of the upon him,-be llorn as men are born, and him. How long h~ wa~ to _continue th~y 
e canse, ere long, to bless htm m hke faith of such as listen to him. and fear this, t•o, in circumstances more lowly knew not, Pa~l not staung Jt, and Dame) 
nner, is th~ sincere_ prayer of 
. 
God and 
-ve glory to him, is to take than gen~rally befall thebum blest of mor· and the Revelator yet sealed on tht~ sub-
oor affectionate frlend and servant m pl 
1 Tfe w~min<T given by the third tals ; to hve a hfe of pnvatwn .and sco:n, ject. It is indeed a~serted that m the 
l.ord, 
0CTA VIUS PIERS. 
an~:,· is assolemn a; any within the lids the poorest of th~ poor' the object hf :d si:rth century'. with regard to the 3 1-2 
Letter from Bro. Wm. Biddle. 
our insertion of my last, ought to be 
wledged as an unlooked-for favor. 
ring from you in some points, espe· 
of the Bible, assuring us of the never suit and persecuti~n; to taste /eatffi, ~n days of John, some viewed that space .as 
ceasin ' never ending woe of such as drink the most hltte~ cup . o su er~ ~ signifying years ; but it was not so with 
worsh~ the beast, and his image, and r~-ever a!lot~ed to the venest obJeCt of ~a~!~ respect to the 1260 days. 
(See "Advent 
ceived his rr.ark in their forehead~, or m all this IS wonderful, but rnevertde 
11 Herald," spring 1845.) At the Reforma· 
t err an s. 
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h · h d 
true 
And those who pro1ess an ca 
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THE ADVENT HERALD. 
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tion the hope of the Lord's speedy com-
ina revived aaain. The second advent 
and the judg~ent were preached with 
poWer by the early Methodists and others, 
and the word proved mighty to the pull-
in<r down of strong-holds of Satan and 
da~kness. But when, instead of these, 
the blighting and unscri ptural doctrine of 
a spiritual Millennium, world's conver-
sion, &c., were substituted, worldly-
mindedness, to an extent, perhaps, beyond 
any precedent, characterized the mass of 
the professed disciples of the heavenly 
Jesus: and the cry which for a few years 
has been heard sounding throughout 
Christendom,-" Behold, the Bridegroom 
cometh,"-found the churches almost ig-
norant of the glorious truth of Messiah's 
approaching ad vent. 
which is the areat commandment in the law~ 
Jesus $aid un7o him, Thou shalt love the Lord 
thy God with all thy heart, and with all thy 
soul, and with all thy mind ;-this is the first 
and great commandment,"-it embraces all 
comprised on the first table of stone. The 
Savior then referred to the contents of the 
second table, and added, ''And the second 
is like unto it : Thou shalt love th}' neigh-
bor as thyself: on these two command-
ments hang all the law and the prophets." It 
will thus be seen that no man who loves his 
neighbor as himself, will violate any of the 
precepts of the second table of stone. And 
no man. who loves the Lord hie God with all 
Correspondence of the English Mission. 
NUMBER XIV. 
good in the vineyard of the Lord. We con-
clude to take for our text the 13th of 1 Co-
The ETang~lical Alliance-The Slavery Q.u~stion-'Rev. 
John Czer8ki, the German Catholic Reformer-Pr~f. 
Tholuck-Sir Culling Eardley Smith-Dr. Von Rem-
thaler-The Slaves' Uelegate-Cheering lutelligence. 
LONDON, Se(ltember 3d, 1846. 
To those who have embraced this truth, 
it has been like a transit from dim twi-
light to noon-day brilliancy, and thou-
sands are rejoicing in that light, stead-
fastly expecting and waitiog their deliv-
erance, and that speedily. 
Each preeed-
ing generation might expect their Lord, 
as the Scriptures we have quoted taught 
them to do. The veil being over the true 
import of the prophecies on the time, they 
had no assurance of the delay of the 
event beyond their own day. 
Now the 
time of the end has arrived. 
The book 
is opened. The warning has been given. 
Signs have appeared. And to this aston-
ished generation· will appear the most 
sublime spectacle ever witnessed by man-
kind,-the advent of the Son of man, in 
the glory of his Father and the holy an-
gels. 
his heart, soul, mind, and strength, will vio-
late any of those contained in the first; that 
is, they will not knowingly and wilfully v in-
late them. 
These precepts and requirements 
are denominated the" Moral Law," because 
they havE: respect to our moral duty, in dis-
tinction from the ceremonial law, which was 
afte1 wards imposed on Israel, and which has 
been since abrogated,-nailed to the cross. 
Our stay in London has been protracted 
beyond our eJCpect.ations; nor have we ac-
complished while here just what either you 
or ourselves would have anticipated; though 
we have been exceedingly busy, and perhaps 
in the end may find that we have actually 
accomplished more fur the cause of Christ, 
than we might ha,•e effected by efforts di-
re~ted exclusively to the propagation of the 
truth relating to the Advent. We have is-
sued Nus. 2 and 3 !1f the '' European Her-
ald," have given a number of lectures in the 
city, with encouraging success, have distrib-
uted our papers in various directions, and 
prepared the way greatly for future labors, 
should Provide nee permit us to resume them. 
None but those who are on the ground can 
understand the difficulties connected with an 
rinthians. It is not understood, ho\,ever, 
that these obligations conflict with the great 
duty of. cnntending earnestly for what we 
each believe to be the faith which was once 
delivered to the saints. 
Nor is it supposed 
that our views harmonize in relation to the 
future. 
Many of the Alliance are strong\ 
advocates for the pre-millennia! doctrines; 
some l'f the most forward of its members 
are of this class, arnong whom are Messrs. 
Bickersteth, Birks, and Campbeil. 
The 
latter gentleman, who is one of the pril)cipal 
Secretaries, and was one of .the original 
movers in the Alliance, sch!::me, distinctly 
stated in Conference, that he regarded this 
gre~t movement as one of the signs of the 
times, and as preparatory to the coming of 
the Son of man in the clouds of heaven.-..J 
You will observe by the minutes of the 
meetings, that1it was moved by Mr. C., and 
seconded by Bro. Brown, that in one of the 
articles of the basis, the clause "his blessed 
coming" be inserted : they were induced to 
withdraw this motion for amendment, after 
The following texts will prove the ad-
vent future, visible, and personal ; taking 
place at the resurrection and glorification 
of the saints, and the establishment of the 
kingdom of Christ.· Acts 1:11; Matt.24:30; 
Rev. 1:7; 1 Cor. 11:26; Heb. 9:28; 2 
Tim .. 4:1; 1 Thess. 3:13; 1 Pet. 1:7,13; 
1 Thess. 4:14-18; 1 Pet. 5: 4; 1 John 
3: 2; and our text-=-" When Christ, who 
is our life, shall appear, ye shall also ap-
pear with him in glory." 
Of all the commandments so solemnly ut-
tered, that which forbiJs our taking the name 
ot the Lord our God in vain, is one of those 
the m\l:st t~oletnnly enunciated, inasmuch as it 
is connected with the awful consequences, 
that " the Lord will not hold him guiltless 
that taketh his name in vain." 
WHAT IS IT TO TAKE THE NAME OF Gon IN 
VAIN 1 
People, and even those who are good and 
conscientiuus, often profane that huly name, 
wl.en they little realize it. 
To profane any-
thing is to reduce it from a sacred to a com-
mon use : thus we read of profane history, 
in distinction from sacred. A vain use of 
anything, i::~ the use of it in such a time or 
manner that no good results from it. When 
we are forbidden w take the name of God in 
vain, we are forbidden to use it needlessly, 
or when we can just as well avoid using it. 
We are not to speak it familiarly., or intro-
duce it unneceesarily in our speech, or writ-
ings ; and when we do speak His name, it 
should be in tones the most solemn, and with 
effort to direct the attention of a great com-
munity like this to a deep consideration of 
any moral or religious subject. We have 
just r&ached a point where we might consider 
that we have encouragement to begin work; 
bu~ now we must quit or leave the field un-
surveyed. 
As Great Britain is not a flower-
garden, through which one may run in a day, 
or a month, neither is this, her great metrop-
olis, to be viewed, and understood and acted 
upon in an hour. 
One may be here for 
weeks without hardly being conscious of it. 
Station himself whetever he may, he is yeL 
remote from much that is transpiring within 
the limits of the city. We feel that we have 
gained much through our lectures and papers. 
Nor has our work been retarded by 1 faith-
ful discharge of our duties in the World's 
Temperance Convention, and the Christian 
Alliance. 
As our views of the "Advent" 
became known, we were frequently inquired 
uf in relation to our past and present posi-
tion, so that we were afforded with the op-
portullity of scattering our papers and works 
in very desirable and extensive directions, 
and of disabusing the mi11ds of many in re-
lation to us and the cause we advocate. In 
a word, we are confident of having been 
much profited, and of having effected as 
much, or more, for the cause of Christ, during 
our stay here, than during all the previous 
portion of our time since we landed in Eng-
having made some remarks upon it, at the 
sug~estion of Mr. Bickersteth, who thought 
the point implied in another part of the basis. 
It was easy to perceive that there was some 
sensitiveness on the question of our Lord's 
personal c01uing; a few thought such a com-
ing implied his personal reign. 
We are 
happy to know that this article of the faith 
of the church is not so much disputed here 
as on the other side of the Atlantic. 
You 
will observe under the head of General Prin· 
, H. HEYES. 
~~e 2uent fljeralb. 
1111EHOLD! THE IIRIDEGROOM COMETH!!" 
BOSTON, SEPTEMBER 30, 1846. 
Profanity. 
"Thou shalt not take the name of the J,ord thy God 
in vain: for the Lord will not hold him guilUea that 
'aketh his name in uin."-Exodu• 20:7. 
The above is one of the ten command· 
ments, uttered from Mount Sinai, when the 
Lord descended on it in fire, an~ the smoke 
thereof ascended as the smoke of a furnace, 
and the whole mountain quaked greatly ;-
when the voice of the trumpet sounded long, 
and waxed louder and louder, and God an-
swered Moses by a V(lice,-where there were 
thunders and lightnings, and a thick cloud on 
the mountain, and all the people of Israel in 
the camp trembled at the exceedin(l loud 
voice of the trumpet,-who, when they saw 
the thunderings, and lightnings, and the noise 
of the trumpet, and the mountain smoking, 
removed and stood afar off. 
These ten commandments, uttered in so 
solemn a manner, must contain within them-
selvea moral principles which cannot be eet 
aside. They are sometimes called the two 
commandments, because they were written 
on two tahles of atone ; the first, containing 
the first four of the ten, which respect our 
duty to God : the second, containing the last 
aix, which respect our duty to our fellow-
men. 
Thus our Savior endorses the ten 
commandments, by referring to the two ta-
bles, aa tlae first and second commandments, 
when one ofthe Sadducees, a lawyer, aaked 
him, tempting him, and saying, " Maater, 
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feelings the most reverential, so that it shall 
oe seen that we reverence that name which 
is above every name. 
The Jews had so 
great a reverence for the name of Jehovah, 
that they would not allow th'emsP.lves to 
apeak it ; and it is said of them, they would 
never venture to tread on a piece of paper 
without first knowing that that name was not 
written on it. 
Those who reverence the name of God, 
are always much pained when it is used 
needlessly, or with familiarity ,-when it is 
used merely to give point and force to what 
is said, or to round a well turned period. 
Some speakers are very prone to repeated 
ejaculations of some of the titles of God. If 
they knew how it weakens the effect of the 
reasoning, they would totally refrain. If we 
wi!!h to refer to Him who has made us, and 
preserved us all our days, there are te.rms 
enough by which it may be done. 
We may 
speak of him as our }"'ather in heaven, as our 
Savior commanded us when we pray ; or we 
may refer to the Majesty of heaven-the 
King of kings, and the Lord of lords; but 
we should ever refrain from a common use 
of those names which have been chosen by 
himself. 
We are not only to do it, for its 
good taste,-for respect to the feelings of 
those who are pained at any approach to ir-
reverence ; but we are, above all, to refrain 
from it, bucause he bas said amidst the thun-
derings and lightnings of Sinai, the quaking 
of the mountain, and the sound of the trum-
pet,-" Thou shalt uot take the name of the 
Lord thy God in nin, [or needlessly] ; for 
the Lord will nut hold him guiltless that tak-
eth his name in vain." 
land. 
, 
An Evangelical Alliance was to be formed: 
the principle of Christian union was no new 
thing to us,-its desirableness we have often 
felt; sectarianism and bigotry we have often 
denounced as among the crying sins of the 
professed church. 
A. propdsition, therefore, 
coming from the four winds of heaven, to 
cast away fur ever all those prejudices and 
animosities with which we had mingled our 
religion, and henceforth to love as urethren 
all whu love our Lord and Savior Jesus 
Christ, we were in duty bound to hail with 
pleasure, cuneiderinj:l that, as Advent be-
lievers, we should derive as much benefit 
from this movement as any other branch of 
the church of Christ, providing thb great 
principles of union be carried out in good 
faith. If heretofore, on all hands, we have 
not been as cautious as we should have been, 
in expressing ourselves in relation to each 
other, henceforth we will mutually watch.-
If we have cherished great esteem for those 
who rank higher \han ourselves as denomi-
nations, and felt it easy to extend the frater-
nal hand to those who were on a ldvel with 
us, hereafter we have resolved nut to over-
look, or to withhold \he hand of love and the 
heart of sympathy from any honest, con-
scientious body of Christians, who a~e strug-
gling for life, and for an opportunny to do 
ciples, the recognition of "The Divine lnsti· 
tution of the Christian Ministry, and the Au-
thority and Perpetuity of the Ordinances of 
Baptism and the Lord's Supper." This arli-
cle is understood to exclude from the Alli-
ance both the Quakers and Plymout.h Breth· 
ren. 
Another article, making nine in all, 
was added to the "basis" of belief, at the 
suggestion of Dr. Cox, of New York, and 
runs as follows: "The lrnmnrtality of the 
Suul, the Resurrection of the Body, and the 
Judgment of the World by our Lord Je· 
sus Christ, with the Eternal Blessedness of 
the Righteous, and the Eternal Punishment 
of the Wicked." A great many amendments 
were pruposed tu each of these articles~ and 
a great deal of demurring was heard against 
them, on the ground that they would exclude 
thousands of excellent Christians. But it 
was argued, that truth should be the basis of 
charity-that it eould not be supposed thai 
the basis should be so broad as to include all 
Christians throughout the world, &e. In 
the course of this debate, much was said 
about truth, principles, &c., the bearing of 
which upon another all-exciting question, 
was seen and felt, no doubt, before the Con· 
ference ended, buth by those who contended 
for "truth," and '' principles," and by those 
who were silent hearers of the discussion! 
Bro. Hutchinson moved that the phrase," the 
immortality of the soul" be rescinded from 
the Theological Basia : he showed with 
great freedum of speech, that the word im· 
mortal, or immortality, is never used in the 
seuse intendt>d,-that the&e terms are only 
used six times in the Bible, and are applied 
exclusively to God, to Christ, and to the 
saints when made like him at his coming.-
The Rev. T. Binney, of London, seconded 
Bro. H.'s amendment, assigning as the rea-
son, that the "immortality of the soul" sa· 
vora more of heathenism than Christia11iiY· 
The Rev. Mr. Kuntye, of Berlin, supported 
the amendment, and said that the ph rasA," the 
immortality of the soul," is not use I by t~e 
Evangelical ministry in Germany, aa i• 11 
one of the gods which Rationalists of. t~at 
country worship. While many of the dtstlP-
guished and thinking voted in favor of Bro. 
I J 
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61 
H. 1 proposition, yet the majority were on 
lfae other side. 
Dr. Cos, of New York, on a previous oc. 
aaioB, -had stated, t-hat the followers of Mr. 
iller, in the United States, had all gone 
orer to the view of the destruction of the 
\Wicked, after the passing of the time in which 
the Lord had been expected hy them. 
Bro. 
tmes corrected this statement. 
It was 
ery manifest that Dr. Cox felt for sumP. 
time Yery uneasy at the presence in the Con-
ference of some of " th/3 followers of Mr. 
Miller :" hut we were very happy to find 
bim quite reconciled to their P.ornpany before 
die Conference broke up. 
The Dr. lacked, 
18 we often have, a little of that charity 
which " thinketh no evil.'' 
We are much 
indebted to him for that portion of the basis 
which includes the doctrine of the '' resur-
rection of the body: ' he defenlled this point 
nobly aQ'ainst what he called Sweden-Bush-
iam. The Dr. was one of thJ stars io the 
ecclesiastical g~.Jaxy : none were listened to 
with more profound interest, as none were 
more eloquent. 
Bro. Hutchinson and his 
former Wesleyan friends seemed to have 
little or no intercourse, though many of them 
were present at the meetings of the Alliance. 
However, Bro. H. moved and spoke as 
dlough he was not afraid of them, or ashamed 
of his past conrse. 
A Wesleyan, who did 
not know him, asked him to preach for him 
in London; but when Bro. 11:. informed him 
~r his former relation to the Conference, and 
his present standing, the minister said he 
would see him the next dav. 
The next day 
he told Bro. H. that he did not see his way 
clear to press the invitation: he could not 
do as he would. 
Bro. H. preached for a 
Presbyterian church, on the gloriou::~ hope, of 
course. 
He has now gone to Scotlanrl.-
Bro. Brown was invited to preach on the 
Rme dav for the well-known John Howard 
Hinton, ·(Baptist,) bnt was too much fatigued 
to labor anywhere. Mrs. H. is an Adventi~t. 
We took notes of the 
proceedin~rs and 
speeches made in the private meetings of 
the Conference, and of those delivered at 
Exeter Hall, hut it would be a very laboriou'l 
job to transcribe them ; besides, we are much 
fatigued, and the mail for A1irerica closes 
lbis evening, sn we must senrl what we have 
hastily pnt together, and refer you for the 
apeeches and particulars to the file of news-
papers which we senti you. 
In due time. 
,00 may expect to recE"ive the "minut.es '' 
not already proved a splendid failure. 
We 
write not this line because we have desired 
such a result, far otherwise. 
Nor is any one 
to be held responsible for this insinuati~n bnt 
the writer of this communication [Bro.B.J .\Jl 
the meetin.!!s were characterized fnr mutual 
harmony, uiJtil towards their conclusinn, when 
slave-hulding, as a disqualification for mem-
bership, wa~ intro•luced, and warmly dispttted 
for two or three days. 
A motion was made 
and supported in a speech hy John Howard 
Hinton, of Lon,Jon, and sec.mdP.d. with somfl 
remarks, by J. V. Hime~, of Buston, to the 
effect, that no slave-holder shall he eligible to 
rnernhership in the Aliiance. 
This m:Ltter 
was fioally put into the hands of a large se-
lect commit ee, which. after twelve hours 
sitting, reported almost unanimously, as you 
will see, that no slave-holder, who is such hy 
his own fault, and for the sake of his owu in-
terest, shall be a member of the Alliance.-
This report was adopted, hut unhappily, was 
re-considered the next day. The majority of 
the American part of the Conference being 
opposed to it. 
Again the matter was com-
mitted to the Committee, and when there was 
no hope of reconciling all parties, the Cnm-
mittee artd the Conference generally, united on 
this ground, that the "Alliance consist, first, 
of all such members and corresponding mem-
bers of the Provisional Committee, as shall 
still adhere to its principles and objects ; and 
secondly, of such Branches as may hereafter 
be formed in consistency with them. That 
persons who may be hereafter admitted Mem-
bers of any Branch of this Alliance shall be 
regard~d as Members of that Branch on! y to 
which they have been admitted, until the con-
currence of a General Conference, when they 
may be, by its authority, admitted Members 
of the Alliance.-That th'e next General Con-
ference be held at such time and place and 
consist of such persons, as by correspondence 
between the Branches of the Alliance in dif-
ferent countries, and under the guidance of 
Divine Providence, shall hereafter be unani-
mously determined. 
A Conference of any 
two or more of the Branches may be held at 
the pleasure of the Branches desiring it." 
If, therefore, slave-holders be introduced 
into the American Branch, it is clear that the 
British Branch will never unite with them, or 
second the motion for a General Couference. 
We will not close this letter without allod-
ing to the presence, in Lnndon, of Czerski, 
the German Catholic Reformer. 
You will 
fiod in the papers we send you two or three 
articles in relation to him. Several meetings 
have been held in his behalf, during his brief 
visi_t to this wetrtlpolis; we attended tone of 
an interesting character, which we believe is 
nnt referred to in the papers, but which was 
much like those alluded to there. 
Czerski 
is a man of rather small stai.urt>, and, perhaps, 
about 33 years of age. There is nothing in 
his mere appearance which indicates reform-
ing abilities. 
About two hundred congrega-
tions have drawn off from the Roman Cath-
olics,through his and the exertions of Ronge, 
though it is said that very many of this nu:tl-
ber are nothing better than infidels. 
Runge 
himself is a Rationalist,and the piety of Czar-
ski is questioned by many on the Continent, 
who bad seen and conversed with him, while 
some, on the other hand, are satisfied that he 
is a true Christian, and attribute many of his 
de,ficiencies, and seeming inconsistences, to 
his want of Christi'ln counsel, &c. 
Professor Tholuck, of Halle; was at the 
Alliance, and of course was one of tlte on-
served ; he seems to be quite a modest man, 
and i::~ very agreeable in conversation. The 
Professor believes the wacked will have the 
Gospel preached to them after dea•.h, and be 
hopes that all will finally be saved ! 
The venerable and excellent ''Jay," of 
Bath, was present at one of the public meet-
ings. 
Several "Baronets," "Lorde," and 
Members of Parliament took part in the meet· 
ings, and gave us good proof that rank and 
titles may not be insurmountable barriers to 
the attainment of true Christian humility and 
piety of heart. 
The Chairman of the meet-
ings, Sir Culling Eardley Smith, (Baronet,) 
won the admiration of all present by his di•'· 
mty, p'l.tience, kindness, liberality, and Chri~· 
foreig-n members took breakfast at his house 
on Monrlay morning last, at which time steps 
were taken.for forming a Societv in London, 
for the purpose of giving the Gospel to the 
100,000 foreigners residing in this city, of 
whom 5,000 are Italians, and 30,000 are Ger-
mans. 
An allusion to another individual, at 
the ConferPnce, we mean Dr. Von Reinthaler, 
a German nobleman, who, on being converted 
to Christ, immediately devoted his time and 
his fortnne to the foundation and support of a 
school for " bad boys;" he resides at Erfurth, 
and occupies, for his school, the very monas-
tery in which Luther labored and suffered : he 
has sought out and placed under his tuition 
five lads, who are the lineal descendants of that 
great and good man. 
The Doctor is worthy 
of a place among "noblemen." 
On the last day of the Conference, who 
should make his appearance, but Rev. M. M. 
Clarke,pastor of the African Episcopal church, 
'Washington city, a colored man. 
He was 
sent to represent the interests of the free eol-
ored population and the slaves. He was in-
troduced by Bro. Himes, and presented a writ-
ten address to the Conference, with a reque15t 
that it be printed with their minutes, in ~hich 
was expressed the duty of the church to use 
her influence to aoolish slavery. His arrival 
at an earlier day of the meetings was prevent-
ed by adverse winds. 
. 
But we must say adieu for the present. We 
are hearing good tidings from brethren scat-
tered over the field in this kingdom. 
Bro. 
Burgess writes that he has already baptized 36 
in Exeter. The Hall is filled every Lo.rd's day. 
The work is onward there : he has also stir. 
red up the people in Tiverton. Bro. Mickle-
wood says, ''Few weeks pass without realiz-
ing some additional members to our ranks.'' 
The following is another specimen of the cha-
racter of letters which we are frequently re-
ceiving. Truly we ought to be thankful :-
Sir :-It is with much pleasure that I have 
just been presented with the first number of 
the "Advent Herald," by Mr. Morgan, of 
Hertford. He tells me he met with you at 
the World's Temperance Convention in Lon-
don, where you gave it him for circulation.-
As T deem it a great desideratum i these days, 
so clearly marked by the speedy return of 
Christ, I shall be obliged if you will forward 
me one of each of the numbers from the com-
mencement to the present time. 
I enclose 
postage stamps for the payment of them, not 
knowing how to send so small a sum in a letter. 
We have a great many Christians in Hertford 
who believe in tile pre-millennial advent of our 
Savior, and who, I have no doubt, will be glad 
to become subscribers to your Herald. TherP. 
arP. a large body of Saints, called Plymouth 
Bretbten, who are looking for the revelation 
of the Savior, and two of the clergymen of 
the Establishment are firm believers in his 
speedy advent. 
The independent minister is 
also now giving a course of lectures on the 
sl)bject, I shall show your publication to as 
many as I can, and 1 think they will notre-
quire persuading to take it, but will at once be 
convinced of its desirableness. 
Wishing 
you, by God's blessing, great success in awa-
kening the Christians in England to a sense of 
the nearness of the manifestation of the Lord 
Jesus Christ from heaven, to be glorified in 
his saints, and to be admired in all them that 
believe. 
l remain yours respectfully. 
A member of the Established Church from 
Ireland informed Bro. Hutchinson, that the 
Episcopal clergy there nearly all held the doc-
trine of the pre-millennia! advent. 
~orrtsponbtnct. 
The lesoits-Their WorK. 
No. VI. 
they ·say, was possessed of this power. 
B. 
P:~schal, who wrote in the 17th century on 
the Mystery of JesuitiEm, -as himself a firm 
and devoted Ruman Catholic ; but yet ar 
honest man, and despised from the bottom of 
his heart, the abominable corruptions and 
duplicity of the Jesuits, and devoted himself 
to an expose of them. 
He has given .the 
fullowing quotations from the eulogists of 
St. Ignatius, at his canoniozation as a Saint, 
hy the Roman Catholic Church. 
Th~! po!ll-
session and exercise of such powers are the 
lrround of his canonization. 
The Church 
of Rome has thus vouched for the truth of 
the miracles. The first quotation relates to 
prodigies which took plar.e when he first re-
solved to quit his military life. 
It is from 
Valderama, in the canonization of Ignatius. 
" When it first came into the mind of Ig-
natius to quit his military life; the house 
wherein he was shoc,k, the walls thereof 
werP-shattered, and all the beams and rafters 
cracked, insomuch that all those who were 
within left it. ''-Mystery of Jesuitism, p.356. 
This prodigy we, of course, are left lo un-
derstand transpired, !lS an attestation of the 
interest felt in the spiritual world in this 
change of Loyola's calling. That there was 
great excitement in that quarter, I have no 
douht. 
But I must pass to his personal ap-
peara'nce for another wonder, marking him 
as au extraordinary character. "When the 
Pope had looked very earnestly on the hands 
of Ignatius, he would find no other insorip-
tion or impression therein, than that of the 
name of JESUS :-Whereupon he said, 
' The finger of God is here. I find nothing 
in these hands but the fingers of Go~.'"­
Paschal from Valderama. 
I trust the reader will recollect that this 
was at the time Ignatius presented his Soci-
ety, " The Society of Jesus," to the Pope 
for confirmation and acceptance. 
But what 
follows, surpasses in blasphemous assump-
tion, anythin~ I have ever heard or read. h 
is a prot(ssion, that the name C~f lguatiuR is 
more powerful, and of greater efficacy, than 
the N AMg OF GOD himself. 
He is here 
set " above -all that is called ()od or i$ wor-
shipped." Valderama says," It is not much 
to be wondered ttat Moses did very great 
miracle~. for he wrought them by the un-
'speakable p'ower of the name of God tngra-
ven in his staff. 
Noli is it any more that the 
apostles did su many wonders, when all was 
done in the name of God. 
BUT THAT 
IGNATIUS SHOULD WITH HIS OWN 
MAME, WRITTEN ON A PIECE OF 
PAPER, DO MORE MII{ACLF.S THAN 
MOSES AND ALL THE APOSTLES 
PUT TOGETHER, &c., that should raise 
in' us an excess of admiration for him." 
Did ever blasphemy reach a higher pitch ! 
But let us hear from the same author, how 
and what that wonderful name accomplished 
for the afflicted. 
Speaking-of the miracles of Ignatius, Val-
derama sa~·s, "And to effect this, there neede 
no more than the putting of Ignatius' name 
written upon the woman in danger. For at 
the very sight of that name the blind recover 
their sight, lhe handless hands, and the lame 
their feet; nay, it dissolves I he storae in the 
reins, and makes women have an easy deliv-
ery." 
What .higher claims can be set up, I would 
ask, in behalf of any being', than are here 
set up in behalf of Ignatius Loyola, the foun-
der of the Jesuits, by the Church of ~ome' 
This must suffice for hiro ; and we wtll now 
turn to St. Francis Xavier, the socond mem-
ber of the Society of Jesus, and the great 
Jesuitical apostle to the East Indies. I quote 
now from a work entitled, " St. lgMti1U 
and his Companions, by Rev. Dr.Pi.se. '' Dr. 
Pise is a Jesuit, and was educated at George-
town, D. C., in the Jesuit Ct'Jlege of that 
place. 
the private and puhlic meetin;{s of the 
Conference, which will he quite voluminous. 
We will add, that the prelimin~ry meetings 
commenced on the 12th ult., In the Lower 
ltoom of Exeter Hall; they were afterwards 
lrabsferred to nue of the large rooms con. 
nteted with the Freernasou's Tavern, Great 
Queen-street, and finally on the evenincr of 
tile 23<1, to the splendid H:tll connected ;it,h 
this latter establishment, called '' Freema-
IIWI'e Hall." 
Four pnhlic meetinirs have 
been held in Exeter Hall, at which some 
thousands were present. The object of the 
public meetings was tn give an expose of the 
principles of the Alliance, and to enforce 
upon the Christian public the duty of loving 
~ne another. 
Individuals composing the Al-
hance were present from all parts of the 
ktnjldom, from ~.,rance,Germany, Italy, West 
Indies, United States, the Canadas, &c.-
£6000 were, or had been raised, for the 
purpose uf entertaining toreign brethren, and 
Cur meeting other expenses of the Confer-
ence. 
An auto)!'raph register of the mem-
bers of the Conference is to he lithocrraphed, 
and will prohably be appended to the 7ninutes. 
Almost every denomination was rPpresented, 
though there were hundreds of ministers 
tYen in London, and thousands of Christians, 
who stood aloof from the movernent. 
At 
leaat, one of the minist~rs of the E~tablished 
Church had to purchase his connexion with 
the Alliance, at the expense of suspension 
hy his bishop : and we opine that the part 
~me of his brethren t{lok in this enterprise, 
wall, sooner o:' later, brin!! them into diffi. 
cohy too: we hope not. The meetings were 
well interspersed with devotional exercises, 
and a good Christian spirit prevailed. 
We 
were benefitted by the interview, and have 
le&eun  believe that others were, in like 
•anner; t .. ough we have our fears that the 
Work was Hot deep enough to insure perma-
IM!ncy fGt the enterprise. Deep piety must 
be the basis of uuion-pure, s1 rong love to 
~ 
wtll necessarily be attended with afft!c-
&ioo fer all his children. 
Without this, all 
anion is but artificial bu~;~lness, and will soon 
eotne to aought. 
We must leave it to your 
ltaders to determine whether the pr "ject has 
tian meekness. 
A mvre perfect gentleman, 
and Christian, it is selJom our priYile~e to 
meet. 
The benedictions of many a Cbri$tian 
heart will always follow him. 
He is the in-
dividual who, a few years ago, was detected 
in distributing tracts in Rome, and just •es-
caped lodgings in the prison of the holy city 
for nis temerity. He is much interesteJ in 
the suhject of the Papacy, and has distrilluted 
among the members of the Alliance several 
valuable works bearing upon the~matter. The 
So grea& success as has followed the J e-
!luits in the heathen world, must have some 
adequate cause. TEN thousand heathens 
and Mahomedana would no~ become Papists 
in one day, without some means adequate to 
the end being used. Do the Scriptures re· 
veal the mystery 1 In Rev. 13: 13, 14, we 
read of a certain power desig11ated ·a beast, 
having two horns like a lamb, who "Doelk 
great wor,ders, so that he maketh fire to cume 
down from heaven on earth in the sight of 
men, aTid deceiveth thern that dwell on the 
earth, by means of those miracles which he 
had power to do in sight of the berut." 
I will now present the evidence that the 
Jesuits have, from their origin, professed the 
possession and exercise of the power l.o 
work miracles, and by that means have suc-
ceeded in converting thousands on thousand• 
to Romaniem. The founder of the Society, 
St. Xavier "Having restored discipline to 
the Church of God, he departed for the coast 
of Malabar, a pearl .fiaherv, more than a hun-
dred and fifty league• distant. 
The inhabit-
ants styled themaelves Christians, but pos-
sessed the name merely. On his arrival, 
Xavier hastened to baptize a number of chil-
dren, and to announce the kingdom of heaven 
to the Pagans. 
IN oRDER To coNVINOI THEM 
or THE 
DIVIKITY of the doctrine which 
he proclaimed, St:VII:RAL MIRACLES 
WII:RII: 
WROUGHT THROUGH HIS AGENCY; OF WHICH 
TBI HOST ASTOUNDING-BUT WELJ, AUTBI:N• 
TICATIP---:-WAS, THE RESTORATION TO 
LIFE OF TWO DEAD PERSONS " pp. 
113, 114. • 
. 
Agam, &he same author relates, p. 116, 
t.bat "His sanctity oot only shone uo1 in 
hie heroic virtues with aucll briliancy aa 10 
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attract the admiration of all, but it was ten-
dered wonderful, by the many prodigies 
which he performed in the name of Chri.t." 
While Xavier was in the Japan Isles, Fa-
ther Pise relates of him, "No sooner did he 
commence his heavenly task, than his under-
taking waa sealed by the omnipotent stamp 
of the King of kings. 
Like his divine Mu-
ter, he healed a leper, cured a Lov afflicted 
with a mortal disease, and even raised a de-
ceased maiden to life. 
Many converts im-
mediately enrolled themselves under the 
cross; among whom were the wife and 
dau~hter of Paul." p. 138. 
Once more, in Macao, Japan Isles: "Again 
the Seal of the Omnipotent was impressed 
on the dogmata which he taught. 
Contem-
porary evidences show, that by the sign of 
tha cross he effected sudden and mclrvelous 
cure~, and performed indubitable miracles. 
The consequence was, that tee thousand 
Amanguchians became Christians. "-Ibid. 
p. 143. 
Have I not, reader, presented a sufficiency 
of evidence to establish the characteristic of 
working miracles, to influence men to become 
Papists, or to worship the beast, on the So-
ciety of Jesus, from its very outset 1 And 
what the Jesuits professed then, they pro-
fess to this day. 
• 
J. LITCH. 
PhiladelpMa, Aug. 1846. 
THE ADVENT HERALD. 
will be with them. 
We express the feelings 
of many, when we express our feeling of deep 
thankfulness for their hospitality. 
Yours in faith and lt~ve, 
N. SouTHARD. 
LETTER FROM BRo. 0. R. FAsSETT. 
Derzr Bro. Himes :-The cause in this State 
has, in a ~ood measure, recovered from the 
sad effects of spiritualism. 
We see but here 
a,nd there an individual that still advocates 
the doctrine that our work is done, and the 
atonement finished. 
The mnral death and 
stupor which has been the result of thA false 
theories hare put forth, is gradually being 
overcome, and a healthy state of thing-s is 
beginning to exist throughout our ranks.-
signed him by his Master. Shall we take a 
course that we would reprimand in others 1 
Show us in the present age of the church 
that false doctrines, false teachers, and inj~­
dicious conduct has not existed. 
Bpt be-
cause these exist it should not dishearten, 
but rather encourage us, from the fact, that 
the devil ever has endeavored to mar and 
destroy everything of a heavenly origin-to 
distract and ruin the church of God. 
Brethren, we know in whom Wt' believe, 
and in what we believe. 
May the Lord aid 
ns by his divine Spirit, to be faithful unto 
the end, that we mav receive a crow(l of life. 
Yours in the" blessed hope. 
0. R. FASSETT. 
Portland (Me.1) Sept. 2, 1846. 
The brethren almost unanimously are ri&ing-
I ... ETTSR FROM Bao. If. FooTE. 
up to the work anew. 
I have visited s~veral 
parts of the State, and find a disposition on 
I intend to take the Herald as long as 
the p'rt of believers, to rally around the Jive, or until the Lord comes, so long as it 
standard of truth again, and open places of maintains and defends the blessed truths, it 
public worship, that others may be benefitted. now inculcates. 
I am a member of the Con-
I have also had the privilege of giving the gregational church in this place, and with the 
reasons of our most blessed qope, in some exception of some eight or ten brethren in 
places where but little had been done to eo-it, and the Methodist church, stand alone in 
lighten the people, and have been greatly en-this County. 1 have arrived at the opinion, 
couraged to put fvrth renewed efforts by see-that the doctrine of the Second Advent is 
ing the effect the truth still has upon the truth, after a praJerful, faithful, and patient 
minds of such. I may perhaps hereafter examination of the whole subject. 
I have 
give a more particular account of these la-read everything on both sides, for the past 
bors. 
four years that came in my reach; have de-
'l'he in4nences arrayed against us in this bated the whole ground over and over again, 
Conference at Newburyport. 
city are of a peculiar and trying nature. 
On wit.h all who fel disposed to do so candidly; 
This was a season of refreshing to many. the one hand, the injudicious conduct of those including three of my brothers, clergymen of 
It reminded me, of the precious meetings who itill adhere to visions and dreams, and the Congregational church, and many other 
held in 1843, when the brethren and sisters who have left the teachings qf the Word, ministers, who are cousidered abQndantly 
were·of one heart, and the Holy Ghost was cause t,he way of truth to be rwil spoken of. qualified to defend their position, and I am 
manifest in its purifying, uniting power. The While O!l the other, some who were once prepared to say, that every such debate has 
meeting convened, according to appointment, with us, ilnd whose whole influence gave &up-
only confirmed me in the conviction of the 
at the plain, yet spacious chapel, which the port to the cause, now occupy either a neu-
correctness of our views, of this all important 
brethren have occupied the last half year.-tral position, or are violent opposers. of the subject. 
And I flatter myself that in every 
I did not arrive at the place of meeting till truth. 
Two ministerial brethren, who were instance, where I have discussed the subject 
Saturday noon. 
Soon after one o'clock, the once flaming heralds of. the Gospel of the fully with my brethren, I have convinced 
brethren and sisters assembled in much larger Kingdom at hand in this region, and who them that the peculiar views of the Advent-
numbers than I anticipated, and I could hear have preached this Gospel with the Holy ists, are not to be annihilated by sophistry, or 
them speaking one to another of the blessed Ghost sent down from heaven, have turned reasoned down by a display of logic. 
And 
season they had enjoyed. 
Among the num-their influence against us. 
Alas! what will especially when "the law and the testimo-
ber, was Bro. Swasey, of Exeter, whom I these brethren have to answer for, should ny" are appealed to. 
The overwhelming 
had formerly heard preach, when he was a their Lord come while saying in their heart, amount of evidence in our favor, is so easily 
Baptist Elder, in Lyme, (N.H.,) my native not only, but by their public position, ''My made to appear, and their weakness and in-
town. 
To him I made myself known, and Lord delayeth his coming 1" I would sin-consistency is so apparent, that they are made 
was soon introduced to Bro. Edwin Burnham, cerely inquire of these and all otfters in like to feel, and sometimes acknowledge they have 
and many others. The whole afternoon was circumstances, "who have been once en-
doubts in regard to the correctness of their 
spent in singing, prayer, and testimonies by lightened, and have tasted of the powers of views. 
the brethren and sisters, which it was delight-the world to come," who have witnessed to 
Brethren, the leaven is working, be encou-
ful and affecting to hear. 
the regenerating and sanctifying effect nf aaed to proceed in the good work. 
If the 
Many of them had made sacrifices to at-this truth, Will you, my brethren, " be able c~ming of our Lord delays, don't be discour· 
tend the meeting, but all seemed to feel they to abide the day of his coming 1" It is sad aged, or impatient. 
A great work has begun, 
had been largely overpaid. One young broth-to reflect what an influence such are exerting and although I am not one who believes in 
er, who labors in a f3ctory, at Salem, declared against us, notwithstanding they may n.ot ue the 11 Omnipotence of Truth," yet I believe 
that he should have felt it a privilege to at-violent opposers. 
Says our divine Lord, that truth when kindlv and faithfully present· 
tend the morning meeting, even if that had ''He that is not for me is against me.''-ed to the mind of a humble child of God, will 
been the only one, and it had cost him ten There is no neutral or mi.tdle ground that have its legitimate effect. Cultivate Christ-
dollars. 
At the close of this exercise, the we can occupy with safety tn ourselves or ian kindness, patience, and boldness ; with 
Lord's Supper was commem()rated. h was a others. 
They may make, a~ an excuse for ,these virtues combined, and an inte~ligent 
solemn and pleasant occasion. Among those not preaching the Advent nigh, the restitu-view of the Scriptures, you have nothing to 
present at the meetings, were Brn. Plummer, tion, the resurrection, &c. giving the evi-fear. 
Thousands throughout the land are 
.Crowell, of Brunswick, (Me), Hazeltine, of dences upon which these doctrines are based reading more or less upon this subject: many 
Derry, (N.H.), Elam Burnham, who preaQh· as gi'Ven in Scripture, that the people will are examining the subject, Nicodemus-like1 
es in the neighborhood of Ipswich, Elder not hear. But this excuse will not avail. secretly. 
And here let me say, that you 
Philbrook, of Rye, (N. H), Bro. A. Hale, of We are commanded to preach God's word need not fear of publishing too much upon 
Charlestown, (Mass.), and several others, faithfully, "whe\her men will hear or fur-first principles. 
It strengthens those who are 
whose names I do not remember. 
bear;" and we know that if we are act.ually confirmed in the fuith, frequently to review 
Saturday evening, Bro. Edwin Burnham living in the time of the Advent of onr Lord, the grounds of it, while it enlightens others. 
occupied most of the time, speaking on the we are to labor with the discouraging fact The old papers after being read by the friends, 
text in Micah 2: 7, "Do not my word& do continually starin!! us in the face,-" As it should not be filed up, but scattered far and 
.uood to him that walketh uprightly 1 '' This was in the days of Noah, so shall it be in the wide, sent .by mail to friends at a distance, 
he illustrated by speaking of the blessed ef-days of the Son of man." Yet "blessed is that carried from house to bouse, and in a friend-
feels resuhing from a hearty reception of the servant whom his Lord,when he cometh. shall Jy way distributed. All we ask is a candid 
wor•l of God, which teaches the coming of find giving meat (warning) in due season.'' hearing, and that we can and must have.-
the Lord at hand. 
They may make as an excuse tha' the "Ad-The amount of prejudice indulged against 
On the forenoon of Lord'A-day, after a ventists'' are weak and few in number. 
So this doctrine is astonishing. We are class-
prayer·roeP.ting of an hour, I occupied the much the more, dear brethren, the need of ed with "every unclean and hateful bird;" 
tirae, in so.me remarks, founded mainly upon their influence and talents. Or again, that placed along9ide of every wretched delusion, 
tbe declara,ion of our Savior, in John 7: 17, the cause has bet::n brought into disrepute by· that has cursed our J.and, and the only way to 
"If any man \Viii do his will, he shall know . its professed friends. 
Well, then, like Mo-remove that prejudice is, first by showing 
of the doctrine, whether it be of God, or ses, tep into the breach and rtlanli.Jily de-"good fruit,'' and then, as before stated, by 
whether I apeak f myself." 
clare, I "choose rather to suffer affliction an unceasing application of truth. 
Io t~e afternoon, the attendance was still with the people of God, than to enjoy the 
I am glad that you publish such copious ex-
JargP.a: than it had been at any time before. pleasures of sin for a season." And like our tracts from English works. Any one of them 
Bro. Hale spok upon the prophetic periods, divine Lord, who suffered without the gate, is worth the price of a volume. 
I trust you 
presentilur the argument l.hl	 they must end, because the bodies of those beasts, whose will continue so to do, and that the pens of 
at latest, during the year 1847. 
blood was brought into the sanctuary by the our own American brethren who have fo.r· 
The closing exercise was. ·in the evening. high priest for s1n, were burned with their merly so ably advocated these truths, will 
Several speakers ocaupied the time, and the flesh, skin, and fihh without the camp. 
So not remain silent. 
brethren seemed to feel it bard to part. At Jet us go forth without the camp bearing his 
I had intended to say a word about com-
the close, Bro. Hale made some appropriate reproach, " for it is not good that the disci-ing out from all the churches with whom we 
temarks, expressing hi belief~ that the breth-pie be above his Lord." How would the are severally associllted, but can only say, 
ren ~~ Newhury~prt were n~ver ill a better apostJe Paul been regarded in uur estimation, that I doubt the propriety of so. doing, aslo~g 
oon•htwn for labonng harroomoualy and etfee-if he had abandoned the churches he had as we are permitted to remam, and retam, 
tively in the cause, than at this moment. 
taken the pains to plant in the different parts and at all proper times, speak out our senti-
T~e~ hav~ suffered much io times past by of the world, when dissensions, divisions, false menta, 
You may say that this is the point, 
the md1scret.10n of some who ha.ve labored doc1rines, and false teachers swept over them and these the reasons, why so many are com-
among them, and they have ne one to labor like a tlood l We would have regarded him as ing out. Well, but firet let the brethren in-
statedly now, but they maintain meetings reg-a weak and imbecile mao, not worthy of con-quire, Have they in meekness instructed 
ularly, and we llu t the ble88ing of &.he Lord Adeooe, nor qualified for tbe g:eat work de-
those who oppose the truth 1 Have they at 
aH times, shown a spirit of forbearance to· 
ward their brethren 1 Have they not some-
timeil returned railing for railing. Have they 
not been too ready to anathematize those who 
have not seen at once and immediately adopt-
ed their views, and those views, too, which 
have proved erroneous 1 I have little doubt 
but if the Advent brethren had all frankly 
confessed the error of their belief, when ap-
parent-had they rnflnifested a different spirit 
from their opposers, uniting meekness with 
boldness, they might ha'-:e won mul~itud.es of 
their brethren to the truth. 
Yours in love, 
HoucE FooTE. 
Rockford, Winnebago, Co, (Ill). 
LETTER FRO~l BRN. R. & J. w. NAPIER. 
Dear Bro. Himes :-Your receipts still 
seem to be decreasing, and althoug~ yuu have 
said nothin~ very definite, in your last paper, 
about your financial business, yet I fear your 
prospects are lowering. Do come out freely, 
and let the worst be known, in time to rem-
edy the evil, should any be impending. I 
think the brethren IT)ay be encouraged to 
keep the "Herald'' in circulation until the 
Lord come. My love for it, and interest in 
it, are increased with every number I receive 
-so much so, that if any mail fail to bring 
it to me, (which sometimes happens,) I am 
disappointed indeed, and unhappy, to some 
considerable. extent, until it arrive& again. 
May I suggest a. little plan to you 1 Ascer-
tain, as nearly as you can, what will be ne-
cessary to kaep it up annually; then, in 
every number, let the brethren know what 
your circumstances, as to finances, are, and 
should they be unfavorable, ask how many 
will give the pledge to furnish $25 yearly 
for its support. 1 am willing to pay this 
much as long as I shall continue to be pleased 
w1th it, as I nnw am. 
I am very willing to 
receive the Advocate, if they can send it 
gratuitously; but I have no disposition or 
wish to divide my recuniary patronage. I 
think the "Hertlld" has the first claim upon 
us. 
I see but little done for the English 
Misainn, in'the last number. 
We send $10, 
to be disposed of as you may deem best for 
the blessed cause. 0, Lord, shield and 
guide thy people, I pray thee, and bring us 
in holy triumph into the promised land. 
Yours in the common faith, longing for 
immortality. 
R. G. & .T. w. s. NAPIER. 
Mflrengo Co., Alabama, A.ug. 6, 1846. 
llEMARKs.-We have said nothing of our 
finances lately, because for the last few 
weeks we have bedn getting on very com-
fortably, as we always do near the termina-
tion or commencement of a volume. 
Our 
receipts are the lightest near the middle of 
the volume. We have never hesitated frank-
ly to tell our readers uf our wants, and they 
have never failed heartily to respond to our 
calls. 
We anticipate no difficulty in contin-
uing the Herald so lung-as it shall be needed, 
without the pledge you speak of. 
We have 
subscriuers enough to sustain it, if they would 
pay promptly. 
But we not only wish to sus-
tain the Herald, uut also to be enabled tn car-
ry un the work in different and distant places, 
in which we have to omit our lahors, when 
our means fail. 
'vVe had, however, ra1her 
depend on the dues (or the papers, in con-
nection with the free-will offerings of our 
friends-than to resort to 
pledge.:~ of given 
amounts lor its support. We are much obliged, 
to all our friend!:! for the interest they feel 
in our welfare; but we are happy to inform 
them that our list of subscribers is not de-
creasing; and we cuhfidently ~rust that He 
who haR thus far watched over us and admin-
istered to our necessities, will not leave us 
or forsake us, but will raise up friends as he 
shall see that we need. As we approach the 
middle of this volume, we perceive ~hat our 
receipts are growing light again. 
Lr.TTU no~1 Bao. G. HIGGINS. 
Dear Bro. Himes :-J esteem the" Advent 
Heral4l" a valuable publication : it always 
contaill8 some articles that are instructive, 
and full of interest, and I read them with 
pleasu~e, and I hope with some profit. 
I 
think it has done muoh good, and 1 should be 
glad to have it well sustained ; it is almost 
the only thing by which l learn anvthing of 
the progress of the Second Advent ca~se at 
tbis day. 
I do not have the opportumty t.o 
hear Second Advent lectures, as I should 1f 
I lived in some large city. As most of lhe 
leeturPrs, especially the most disti_n~uished 
and abll', seem to resort 'to la~ge c1t\es, and 
neglect the country towns, wh1~h don t seem 
to be exactly following the example of Christ 
tHfd his apostles: who, it appears, went every 
where into towns and villages as well as i!'! 
citie . ' I have not heard in Connecticut, for 
more than two years, a Second Advent lec-
ture or sMmon, on the 
secon~ coming nf 
Chrlst. Last sum•ner, (18415.) I heard with 
mu~h pleasure and satisfaction, at Hnche::ter, 
New York, Bro. Barrv, and at Buffalo, Bro. 
1. J. Portel', a numher of 'times each, b'Jt in 
the country towns in Cunne~ticut, Second 
A1lvent lecturers are few atJd far between. I 
hfllieve it is two years la!'t Novembln, that 
'Bro. Bachelor gave one lecture in this place. 
tu the jnv of a number, and I believe that is 
the Ia t l have knnwn in 1 his town. 
Bro. II. 
Jones, sometime before that, gave a few lec-
tures here to the g'ood acceptance of many. 
And I believe, if there had been half as much 
pains taken by Second Advent lecturt:lrs in 
country towns as there has been in cities, the 
Second Advent iloctrines would have been 
much more generally-understood, the Advent 
preacht"rs and publicati-ons much better sup-
ported and encouraged, and much more good 
have been done. 
Very few publications, 
comparatively ,-C!Itlld be supported if it was 
not for country subscribers, and great pains 
are taken by agents of a vast many other 
publications to procure subscribers in country 
towns. 
I reside not very far from the cen-
tre of a tract of country of 45 or 50 rqiles 
square, which I think, without making any 
p:utieular calculation, contains more than 
100,000 inhabitants, which are an intelligent 
people, on almo·st all subjects, and yet unac-
quaintfld with the Scripture doctrines of the 
Second Advent of Christ, and 'are famishipg 
ror want of an understanding of the truth. 
I think it is qnite as good a field for a mission 
a F.ngland : from the accounts given in the 
"Herald," Englanrl ts much hettP.r supplied 
with lecturers. It is seldom I hear o"f any 
Second Advent lectures being given in this 
whole distriet of country, except in Middle-
Mvn, and occasionally in a very few of the 
nther towns. 
In some of the large towns or 
ities adjoining, such as Hartford and New 
lla en, they have lectures: most of the peo-
ple in this section of country that I hear 
peak on the suhject of the S~cond Adv~nt, 
rail it Miller delusion, and speak of it as be-
in!! tlt>a41, and they don't know that there is 
auy society or church of thP Advenlists now 
in nistence, or that the •·Advent Herald," 
nr '·.Vni!!e of Truth," are now pnhlished. 
This at first may appear strang-e: but when 
we rPcoJIP.ct that almost. all other newspapers 
at this time, that allude to the subject, 
ri•lictJie, blind, and mi:;lead, and the peo-
ple (lo nut get corre..:t information on the sub-
Ject until they first hear it preached, and find 
1t ag-rees with the word of God : then thev 
becorne anxiuus to hear more, anti s.ome wiil 
],., induced to subscrihe for Ad vent papers. 
We ha.ve the best reason to believe that 
Christ took the qest possible course to pro-
mulgate his Gospel, by first sending-nut 
preachers to call up the attention of the peo-
ple. 
Many will go to hear that dun't have 
mueh opportunity or desire to read. 
But 
thanks be to God, I have his word, and can, 
by his grace assisting me, read that. And 
0 may "A'e all be found watching unto prayer, 
and livinD' hv raith in the Son of God, and 
our love ~ade per feet in him, and we be pre-
p~red to hail his appearance with joy and not 
wnh fear. 
I an, verv glad th>tt there are 'H' many lec-
turers in England, and I hope the Jailors of 
the Miesiun will he blest, anrl great ~rood be 
done in the name of the Lord,-that God 
~ay be honored .'lnd g-lorified In the salva-
tion of my fellow creatures. 
I have given 
the foregoing sketch of some of my views as 
they occurred to me, and have f'Xtended 'my 
letter mueh beynnrl what I intended when I 
bellan: may the will of the Lord be done. 
My house i11 always opened tu 'hose that 
lnY"e God, preach his word, "and seek the 
honor that cometh from God, nnly ," and t'hey 
Ire W&lcome to such fare a T have. 
GmEoN HIGGINS. 
Erut Haddam. (Ct.), Aug. 25, '1846. 
'Bro. J. ADRIAN writes from Champlain, 
· Y., Aug. 23d, 1846:-
Detw Bro. 1limes :-I have a few leisure 
to~e~ts &his rnornin~t, and I will spend them 
fll9tosr some account of thinl:{s in these 
11t. I have been attending conferences 
r the la'St three weeks. Great interest has 
manifested, and .great good done. 
By 
I do not mean_ many have been brought 
THE ADVENT HERALD. 
to Christ, but the church was revived, sett.led, taken by the Bible Advocate. 
When I re-
and strengthened in the truth. 
Conflicting ceived the first number, I supposed that the 
opinions and strange absurdities have not conductors were honest,and that the (rue nb, 
divided us yet. 
The meetings above re-ject of the paper was set forth in the ptos-
ferred to were characterized in a remarkable pectus, that it was designed to give meat in 
manner by the relation of experience, which due season to the poor of the jloclc. I ac-
produced an effect on the mind, and in the cordingly wrote a letter to Bro. Cole, ex-
meeting, such as I cannot describe. 
The pressing my approbation of the paper. When 
meeting-s were sound, peaceful, glorions, and l found the manner of starting the paper and 
united in love. 
Dear brethren, do we love the object of it, I wrote to Bro. Cole, my en-
the truth ab<lVe all things 1 Can we sacrifice tire disapproval of it. 
This he does n 
nur own interests for the cause of truth 1-. choose to publish, so that this paper still goes 
Are we willing to retire lbehind the curtain, with my approval. 
No candid person can 
and let the truth stand out conspicuous on pretend that the prominent doctrines there 
the stage 1 or will we let the truth expire inculcated have anything to do with fi.tt.ing 
and care fur nothing but to exalt ourselves souls for the kingdom, cunsequent.ly they are 
on its ruins1 
God forbid. 
Why I 
spea~ not meat in due season. If time should con-
thus, ·is because I have seen a disposition tinue until spring, 1 firmly believe that the 
manifested to ride int.o notice at all events, adherents of these sentiments will be farther 
totall¥ regardless of a y thing but self.-off from God and his truth than those who 
What, I ask, can we think when we see followed the" Hope within the Veil," "Day 
brethren,-because they cannot rule the Star," or "Jubilee Standard." I pray God 
press and pulpit,-run off and make divis-that the conductors af the Advocate may see 
ions 1 This ought not so 'to be. We cannot their dapgllr ill departing from the plain word. 
be too careful about divisions. 
God's truth of Gq~ l:reft;~re it be for ever too late. 
is before us, arrd every combination against 
q? Voice of Truth, please copy. 
it will come to nought. 
Of this I am con-
Yours, ~c. 
1 
J. WEsToN. 
63 
your views, having read your paper regular-
ly for the bst four or five years, and I very 
much admire the consistent course you have 
taken1 considering the many sever9 trials 
yon have had to pass through. 
But the L~rd 
will stay you up if you trust in him, as T sm-
cerely believe you do. I am fully persuaded 
that the Advent cause is Gotl's r.ause, and 
the gates of hell cannot overcome it. I well 
temem"er the raovement under Edward Ir-
viug snme years ago inEn~land and Scotland. 
{I Jived in Englanq at the timfl,) and with 
what zeal they proclaimed the Lord's com-
ing; but they ran into fanaticism, and soon 
their cause went down. 
But not so this 
movement. 
Though disappointed in .time, 
ye t.h'e main· bbdv are looking for the Lord, 
and heeding tlHi apostl
1e's injunction, "Be 
patient, brethren, stablish .ypur hearts, for 
the coming of the Lord draweth nigh." 
I ani in hopes our Missionary brethren will 
visit the county of Qornwall, in England, 
particularly Truro, Falmouth, Sl. I ves, Red-
ruth, 'Helstone, ,Pe~~al)ce, and Launceston, 
towns of considerable, siz~. wher;e I think 
they will ha.ve an attentive hearing~ 
fident. Those .men who have had to do with 
Grafton r·P"t.), Sept. '5, '1.846. • 
• 
Bro. E.GAIJUSHA writes 'from Shaftesbury, 
t.hese things, will have to suffer. 
Does not 
(Vt.), Sept. 9, 1846 :-
the moral, political, and even phyaical con-
Bro. F. MILLET writes from South Abing~ Dear Bro. Himes :-I am pleased and pro-
d it ion of the world, all prove that the reign ton, Mat.s., Sept: 7th, 1846 :-
fitted by the communications of the Mission-
of God approacheth. 
Thus it looks to me. 
Dear Bro. Himes :r-I rejoice to see y~u
, ary brethren, and hope their labors of love, 
I view the coming of my Savior near. I firm and well-grounded. in the truth: and de-
will prove a signal blessiRg to both countries. 
feel the importance of union among tho:!e tennined to conduct the ('Herald," in a The "Herald'' is inc~easingly interesting, 
who are of lik 
precious faith. 
God grant stra.ight-fo.rward course, not taming to the Its circulation ought to be greatly enlarged. 
that our one object may be to keep this great Tight or left for friend or foe. May the Lord There are thousands who, would appreciate 
truth before the minds of this present gene· give you grace to continue in the gpod old its merits, if they knew them. If our breth-
ration. 
way of Gospel 'truth. 
Fear 'not for the des-ren would throw their influence jnto this val-
LETTER FROM BRo. w. BATES. 
ti~y of_the "Herala." 
~e faithf?l,_aml Go_d uable periodical, instead of spending their 
. 
. 
wtll ra1se up those who wtll suntam 1t, I ven-srtength for nought in ~romoting distracting 
B~·o. Htme~ :-The dor.tnoe of the spee.dyt ly believe. 
If not, it better, far better go efforts and novel messages, they would ad-
commg n? k1~gdom of ou.r Lord and Savwr down, than relinquish one truth, or advocate vance, rat er than retard the Advent pro-
Jesus Chnst, IS, and eontmues to be, a sub-one error in reuard to a truth of so vital im-gress. 
May the Lord give them wisdom. 
ject of th~ greatest ioter~st that can occupy portance ~0 the Adventist, as the resurrection 
In haste, yours truly, in "the blessed 
t~1e attentwn ~f mortals 10 a s~ate o~ proba-. of the saints and the wicked. What, give up hope.'' 
• 
t10n. 
Accordmg to the promise, lh1s same the first resurrection as bein(J' a literal resur-
--------· ... 
Jes~s \lhich from Olivet mount was ~akenl rection of the righteous! 
No, never. Give , 
bbituary. 
, 
up L,nt~ h~aven, the angels declare w~IJ so tnat up, and you give up not only one of the 
Bro. Himes:-Sister SARAH PIERCE, daugh-
~ome In like manner a~ ye have see_n htm ~0 best truths of tt e .Bible, but onP. of the great-
Ler of Eld. George Pierce, of Lowell, Mass., 
Ill to _heaven. 
T_he. evtdences o_f hts speedy est truths delivered to man. Why, spiritual-sleeps in Jesus. 
She die~ on Thursday 
corrnng a?out thts t1me are beyond a doubt. izfl that, and ynu may spiritualize the second evening, Sept. 15th, after 7 weeks' sir.k11ess, 
~e has ~tven us all the ~a~-marks from ,a coming (If Christ. I also believe that theTe with fever, which wa& very distressing, and 
gtven potnt, ?own to. the wmdJ_og up of earths is a thousand years t'• intervene between the which she endllred like a Christian indeed. 
drama so plain, that a way-~artng man, though two t:e8 mections, for God has declared it in Although she had the utmost attention, both 
a fool_, nee~ not err t,heretn. 
He peaks of his holy wor11. 
But nev-er fear discussion as it re pects medicine and 
nursery,·ye~ it 
the tr1bulatwn of God~ people, the Lo heres, on this, or any other trutlt. 
·For troth will seemed as if the enemy for the present must 
and Lo theres, and platnly tells us not to f~l-stand, and ail the sophistry and wisdom of triumph; for nothing that could be done 
low them. 
Behold (s_ays ~ esus), T have told men cannot overthrow it. 
Again, if you seemed to have a permanent influence over 
you before: as. the lrghtnmg cometh out of spiritualize the first resurrection, then yon the di$ease. 
the east, and shtneth even unto t~e west, so must of course spiritualize the thousand 
Saran was converted about fOtitt~en years 
s~all my ~omtng be. 
He then giVes ~s the years' reign of Christ on earth .. And shall ago, and since then she has indeed loveil 
s.tgns, whtch were to.occur.after the tnbul~-
we giv~ this up1 1 think I almost hear every righteousne-ss. 
Her death and last hours, 
twn, and precede hts cormng: and there IS Adventist answer No never. 
Well then and qnring all of her 3ickness, were charac-
nnt a shadow of a doubt_ that' we occupy the 1 say to each one: :Hoid fast to the who!~ terized by calm and quiet submission to the 
space betw_een the falling-of the stars and truth. For as soon as you give up one prime will of God. And when she could no longer 
the departing of the 
~eavens as a ~croll, truth, your mind becomes wavering, and yo 
speak, she pointed to heaven in transport, 
when the Son of man wtll be revea~ed In the can with much more ease' give up a second and smiled with pleasure. 
Her death has 
clouds of heaven, and the resurrect.ton of the than the first. and so on until you will not been a heavy stroke to the family, and a 
dead take place, together wit.h the chang-ing know what is ~ruth, if ~nd~ed .you know what large cir()le of friends ; fur Sarah was em-
of the living, in a moment, in the twinkling yoll be1ieve. 
phatically "mild and lovely.:• 
But let the 
of an eye, for this torruptibte must put on 
1 mourners be comforted, for she ~>ball soon 
incorruption, and this m~~rtal must put on im-
Bro. R. V. LvoN writes. from Hampton, " come &D'ain from the land of the enemy." 
mortality. 
So when this corruptible shall Ct., Sept. 7th, 1846:-
She die/'in hope of immediately seeing Je-
have put on iqcorruption, and this mortal 
Bro. Himes:-The following is a copy of sus cotne. 
EDWIN BuRNHAM. 
shall have put on immortality, then shall be the doinas of the Ministerial Conference of 
Exeter, (N. H.), Sept. 22nd, 1846. 
brou~ht to pass the saying that is written, 
t" 
1 
Death is swallowed up in victory. 0 death .g
1e A~hford A~socia~~li held in1 Woodsto?k, 
Bro. T. SMITH writes from Brewer, Sept. 
where is thy sting 1 0 grave where is thy . t., 
ug. _l2, 4~; 
1 tou Pease to .~.LV€ 8th, 1846 :-'-
victory 1 The sting of death is sin and the tt ~place 10 the 
Herald, 
t_hat the wai~IOg 
Dear Bro. Himes :-We are again called 
strength of sin is the Jaw. 
But thanks be to chtldren may know the st:aodtng I have ln a 1 
1 1 d ug .... ~er who "fell 
d 
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d to weep over a ove y a 
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God which mveth us the victory throurr. h our 
enomtnattoll Wll w tc 
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th 29th ult 
She was 
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Lord Jesus Christ. Therefore, mv beloved 
Wl~'X 0}t'iJeL an 
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a-miable, obedient, and lovely in life; patient, 
brethren, be ye eteadfast, unmovab.le, always h 
~-: 
· .. lyC-f t::-:-;r h1 
.~t~~ ~
~ resigned, and ha!}py in death. 
Disposing of 
abounding in the work of the Lord; foras-
t e 
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_£'? e "'~ce \.! 
t. e 
s or 
her little <all, as her end approaetrl'!d, with 
much as ye know that your labor is not in Assoctatwn, now tn sesswn at thts place, to! 
.t. I 
though at the age \'hen 
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perJec composure, 
vain in the Lord. 
DAVID BATES. 
tra~Jsnllt 10 yourse 
~ e 10 owtng reso ullon,, the feelinD's of buoyant youth bids high with 
Blandford, (Mass.), Aug. 23, 1846. 
whwh has been ~nantmously adopted and re-t earthly ·e:pectatiM. 
For two &ummers alld 
corded on our mtnutes :-
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t she had been enoaged in 
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LETTER FROM BRo. J. WESTON. 
eso ve ' 
at sue 
as een e co~rse school teaching, tile latter of which school 
Dear Bro. Himes:-We had an excellent pursued by Ralph_ V Lyon for a lo.ng ~tme she was not able to finish on account of the 
. past, that we c~nstder htm no long~ ent~tl_ed disorder which fastened upon her and termi-
Conference last week, at Mount Holly, Vt. to our fellowslnp as a regul_ar Ba.pust mtms-
nated her life and sufferings. We believe· 
It was a melting time to the eaints, and all 
t~r, and therefor,e erase hts name from our her "l!leep" will be shurt, as .. 'the Lord him-
seemed to feel that they should st:e their hst of members. 
self will soun descend frorrl heaven with a 
Lord very 60on. 
Several backsliders were 
(A true copy of Resolved.) 
shout, with the voice of the' atchangel, and' 
reclaimed, and one impenitent sinner con-
(Att t) 
S :S 
verted. 
There was an awful solemnity on 
es · 
C 
· 
A.~Hows, ., 
1
1 with the trump of God, and the dp,ad in Christ 
lerk of Con_,erence. 
will rise .first" &c. We are comforted with 
the minds of the impenitent ~enerally, -and 
I wish to say that the Conference, in with-tbtlse words,'" and are comforting one an-
m:tny of them wept when the truth was 
pressed home upon them. 
Bro. L. Kimball, drawillg the hand ~f fellow111.•ip from me, other," with the promise that he who h~th 
R. Baker Dow, and A. Sherwin, were pres-
have not taken one stngle step In accordance the powur of death will 'be destroyed, With 
ent and took part in the exercisee. 
At the with 'the discipline of the Baptist denominii-this devourer of our fondest earthly hopes. 
close we had a communion season to cele-tion. 
R. V. LvoN. 
She waa sewenteen last Februarv. A twin 
d 
sieler. Her dear sister 'WM au~vive11, atlll 
brate tbe dying Jove of our Lor . 
. 
' 
There are some very excellent brethren 
Bro. J. CRASE writes from Westmwster, cries to God for.grace to help i Ibis our lime 
among tbe Green mountains, in Mount Hoi-'(Mass.,) Aug. 28, 1846 :-
of need. 
ly, Jan1aica, Springfield, and Grafton. 
J)ear Bro. Himes :--.Although a stranger 
Yours, still in this vale ·of teara, looking 
I am exceedinilY pained at the course to you personally, I am well acquainted with 10r redemptiotl. ' 
TH:"M'AI B 
'l'lf. 
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64 
Foreign News. 
· 'l'he Cambria arrived at thii! port the 18thinst., 
with 16 days' later intelligence from Liverpool. 
From our files of foreign papers, we cut the fol-
lowing itePps :-
The Wqrld's Temperance Oonvention.-Thi.s 
body has continued its sitting:> daily since our 
last publication. 
Among the speaker<~ were the 
Rev. Jo3hua V. Hillles (U. S.), and the Rev. H. 
Osborne, of Rhode I:>land, whose speeches have 
been remarkable for perseverance, eloquence, 
and a bold determination to grapple with the sin 
of drunkenness.-Will mer's T-imes. 
From Ireland the accounts of the potato rot are 
mo3t distrei!sing. 
The Mini3ters however have 
introduced and carried various measures for the 
prevention of utter destitution in Ireland and 
its consequences. 
They are promi~ed the hearty 
support of Mr. O'Connell and the people of Ire-
land. 
From the East.-It appears by the advices 
brou~ht by the overland mail, that peace prevails 
in the East Indies, but in the Punjaub, it is an 
armed peace, and there will probably be another 
war With the natives before long. 
The advices 
from China state that the British authorities.had 
not given up Chusan, according to the terms of 
the treaty, and a Chinese mob had expelled for-
eign residents from the city of Foo-chow-foo.-
Hitherto the violence oi the populace had been 
confined to the city of Canton. 
Two cases of 
during piracy had occurred as follows :-
' " On the 6th of June, a junk, bound from Can-
ton to Amoy, and full of passengers, was board-
ed by Chinese pirates from a fishing smacl;:, who 
wounded several of the junk men, stole all they 
-.:ould lay their hands on, and exacted heavy ran-
soms from the passengers On the 17th of June, the 
schoaner Privateer, Captain Martell, bound from 
Hong Kong to Cumsingmoon, with opium, Wail 
seized by pirates off Linti-n, aud after an ineffec-
tual resistance, ~as plundered of much valuable 
property. Of the crew, fifteen in number, five, 
namely, the captain, mate, and three Manilla 
seamen, were killed by the pirates, in cold blood ; 
four were taken away with them; and six, name-
ly, four Manilla men, and two seamen, were 
saved. These ruffians also had a large fishing 
boat full of men, and were supposed at first to 
be fishermen." 
France.-We Jearn. from the papers that the 
increase in the pricP. of corn has created a great 
deal of discontent in France. Some serious riots 
have taken place in-the departments, and the pa-
pers speak as if they thoug:ht that the discontent 
had by no means reached Its utmost height. In 
the middle and east of France the discontent has 
taken •a more alarming shape. Every day's pa-
pers bring accounts of incendiary fires in differ-
ent quarters, and they appear to be daily in-
creasing. 
The Chamber of Deputies was opened on the 
17th ult. by the King, with a speech from the 
throne. 
His Majesty was most enthusiastically 
received by the Chamber. 
Spain.-The young Queen of Spain has at 
length been provided with a husband, in the per-
son of her cousin, the Duke of Cadiz, eldest ~on 
of Don Francisco de Paula. This arrangement, 
ii is thought, will be satisfactory to all parties.-
It i3 also stated that Maria Louisa, sister of the 
Queen, only thirteen years of age, will be united 
to the Duke de Montpensier, youngest son of 
Louis Philippe. 
In Portugal, there has been some alarming dis-
turbance!!, created by the adherents of Don Mi-
guel. 
, 
Earthquake in Italy.-The dukedom of Tus-
cany was visited by a violent earthquake on the 
16th of August. At Leghorn it created the great-
est confusion. The inhabitants Bed in every di-
rection, and all the shops were closed. 
The 
houses sustained much injur}, but no lives were 
lost. In the Tuscan Maremme!! and the adjoin-
ing country it caused considerable damag~. Sev-
eral villages, and amongst others, OrCJana and 
Lorenzana. are half de~troyed. In the latter the 
ground opened, and from the fissure thf.rt. issued 
a torrent of dark fluid. 
The• shock lusted be-
tween nine and ten second8. 
'l'hree shocks of 
an earthquake took place at Lausanne ou the 
night of the 16th inst.-
The oscillating motion 
caused in some places, was sufficiently strong to 
shake down chimneys and split walls. 
Egypt.-Ibrabim Pacha has reached Constan-
tino,»e in goud health and spirits, pleased with 
his trip to Europe, 
The Cholera was making dreadful ravages 
along the Red Sea coast. 
At Medina the deaths 
were two hundred a day. At Suez there had 
been four c:1ses of cholera, but none of them had 
terminated fatally. 
It was expected that Mebemet Ali would leave 
Constantinople, on his return to Alexandria, on 
the 15th. 
Holland.-Many of the people are making 
preparatioBS to emigrate to the United States .. 
From the vil~e of \V yostersyk, which 00111iats 
only of 8000 inhabitants, not less than 950 have 
gone an ~e. A fall in the valllt! of lanaed 
propeny -end bou.sea to the exteat of from 25 to 
-
--~ 
THE ADVENT HERALD. 
35 per cent has been the collseqlleDce. The 
Government is said not to be without auiety with 
respect to these sweeping emigrations. 
Doctor Maedle'r, director of the Dorpat 0~­
servatory, Russia, well knl'wn to the astroiJomi-
cal world announces that he has dis~:overed the 
Pleiades to be the central group of that mas.<~ of 
fixed stars limited by the stratum composing the 
milky way, and Alcyeue as the individual sta_r of 
this group, which, among all others, combmes 
the greatest probaLility of being the true central 
sun. 
He finds this 
~reat central star to Le 34 
millions of times the distance of the sun, or sore-
mote, that light, with a velocity of twelve millions 
of miles per minute, requires a period of 537 
years to pass from the great cent1·e to our son. 
The World's Convention. 
Our files of English papers by the last steamer 
were filled with the doings of this body. We 
have not been able yet to mature a synopsis of 
their doings; and we have the more refrained 
from it, because we conclude that in our Eng-
lish correspondence, we shall have, in its regular 
course, as full an account of it as will be con-
sistent fo~ the size of our columns. The ques-
tion of Slavery seems to have been a fire-hrand 
thrown into their midst. 
A motion was made by 
Rev. J. H. Hinton, which in effect excluded 
slave-holders from the Convention; and which 
was seconded by Mr. Himes. 
The London 
"Patriot" says :-
Mr. Himes, who seconded the motion, is a dis-
ciple of Mr.· Miller, whose theory respecting the 
end of the world created some excitement in the 
United States a few years since. He spoke of 
the corrupting influence of slavery, and the im-
portance of preserving the Alliance in its purity 
from all contamination with it. He expressed 
his strong sympathy for the slave, and his :mxie-
ty that the Alliance should give no counten:~uce 
to this worst of abominations, but should bring 
the whole weight of its influence to ·bear upon 
the system. 
The correspondent of theN. Y. "Observer," 
arter speaking condemnatory of the tone of Mr. 
Hinton's remarks, adds:-
Mr. Himes, in seconding the motion, manifest-
ed a different spirit. He !'poke in a becoming 
manner of the corrupting influences of the sys-
tP-m of slavery ; of his sympathy with the slave : 
and of his great anxiety that the Alliance should 
in no way sanction this worst of abominations, 
but should give the whole weight of its influence 
to do it away. 
A most exciting debate followed. 
Says the 
"Patriot:-
The scene at this time is most exciting. The 
combatants have )aiu aside their armor, they have 
risen from the conflict, but it is only for a time. 
Groups are 
ct:~llected together ; knots of dispu-
tants ~re talking loudly and decidedly ; the hard 
words and not softer blows in Conference seem 
to have created the desire for keeping up the 
skirmish, and the words, "our laws," "frP.e-
dom" "colonization," "color," "public opin-
ion," are heard on every hand. 
Clo~~ to me 
stands an American patriarch, whose eyes are 
moist with tears : "Brethren, you are too warm." 
After considerable debate the Rev. Dr. F. A" 
Cox moved, and the Rev. E. Bickersteth second-
ed :-" That the motion uow before the Coufer-
ence,-the amendment proposed by the Rev. J. 
H. Hinton,-together with other suggestions of-
r~red by members of the Conference thereon, be 
referred to the following Committee tor mature 
consideration, and that they report to the next 
sitting of the Conference :-Revs. Dr. BAecher, 
Or. Cox (New York), Dr. Patton, Dr. Schmucl<-
er, E. N. Kirk, Dr. De Witt, Dr. Skinner, Mr. 
Brainerd, Dr. Baird, Prof. Elton, Dr. Peck, J 
V. Himes, Dr. Bunting, E. Bickersteth, B. W. 
Noel, J. H. Hinton, T. Scales, I. Nelson, A. Mo-
nod, T. Binney, Dr. F. A. Cox, Dr. Mori3on, A. 
Gordon, Dr. Wardlaw, Dr. Urwick, Dr. Alder, 
W. 1. Bunting, A. S. Thelwall, Dr. Massie, G. 
Osborn, R. &kett, Dr. Tholuck, J. Burns, and 
Dr. Hoby; and J. S. Blackwood, LL.D., Sir C. 
E. Smith, J. Hamilton, J. Henderson, 1'. Farm-
er, C. Baker, R. T. Haynes, S. E. Morse, and 
J. ~tanfield, Esqrs. 
It finally eventuated in the following comprom-
ise, which seems not tO be satisfactory to any 
one. 
" And in respect especially to the system of 
Slavery, and every other form of oppression in 
anv country, the Alliance are unanimous in de-
ploring them, as in many ways obstructing the 
progress of the Gospel, and express their confi-
dence, that no branch will admit to membership 
slaz•eholders who, BY THEIR OWK rAULT, 
continue in that position, retaining their fellow-
men in slaveryjrom. regard to their own inter-
ests." 
Letter from Bro. A. Hale. 
Dear Bro.-l am now on my way ttl the 
Lincolnville meeting , and do not expect to 
r~turn till after the Conference at P61and, 
which it is expected will be held week after 
next, if time continues so long. 
Our rooet-
ing at Richmond was a very good one. 
The 
brethren here have held on their way, in the 
midst of all the opposition from without, and 
·all the coou otion within; and have been 
much refreshed during the Conference.-
There was also quite a gathering from 
abroad, and all seemed to find a blessing-
some especially, who have been entangled 
with the "doubtful disputations'' which had 
arisen among us. 
The attendance of tho~e 
who have not hitherto been interested in the 
Advent doctrine was not very large; but 
those who were present generally appeared 
to be attentive and serious. 
Since we were here last year, one of our 
beloved sisters, the wife of Capt. Brown, has 
fallen asleep. 
He~'triumph was so complete, 
that their ho1Jse hardly seemed like the house 
of death, while tbe last enemy was doing his 
work. 
Such is the power of the Christian's 
faith. 
The final triumph yet remains; but 
thanks be to God who giv'eth us' the victory, 
through our Lord Jesus Christ. 
1 n haste, 
A. HALE. 
T. Grandy-1. narlow is credi.ted last April tor v 10· 
H. Gardner has paid to end of'v 9; there was a mistak~ 
wittl rt>gard to 0. Moody's account: we have now cred. 
ited him for Sl from 2' to 282.. 
S. J<'oster, jr., $4 by I. R. Gates. How is it to be cred. 
ited? 
I. R. Gates-Did W. Taylor pny you anything?-
Wtlat isS. Littleton's address. 
A. Currier, $5-Wheri did you get the books? We 
fintl no account with you. We ltave no need of agents 
only in a few principal places. 
' 
Wm. Algere, $1-lf you are 11 new ~ulJscriber, it pavs 
to 307: we could not find your name, and therefore have 
entered it at Liverpool; N.Y. 
I. Smith-We have none of those diagrams you wish for. 
R. P. Arn~den-We have sent your letter to Bro. Litch. 
H. Heyes-We have a COJly. .But a re.publication 
would cost more than would be re111ized on it. Cousid. 
erable money was lost in the publication of the other 
one you refer to. The utility of it would be doubtful. 
Such things are only serviceable to critics. It nlway8 
pains us to hear persons speak of, and j!"ive their opinion 
on points, respecting which he does not know the first 
principles. We have filed your article for the "Chil· 
dren's Herald.'' Bro. J. W. Bonham, ot New York 
writes us, thut he hasr received a letter for you, fro~ 
England, with a black seal. 
ENGLISH MISSION. 
(Receipts for English Mission-Continued from our last.) 
Received since our last-from P. -
-5 00 
A. Bickford 
2 00 
Maine 
-5 00 
L. M'Elony 
1 00 
N. Danes 
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1 00 
Joshua S'mith 
50 
E. Gillett 
-1 28 
J. Wilson -
3 00 
L. Crocker 
-5 00 
John Smit'h 
10 00 
D. Boody 
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1 00 
B. Locke, jr. 
1 00 
C. S. Armstrong 
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1 00-36 78 
Amount of expenditures OYer receipts, 
for which this oJllce is responsible 
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373 30 
DELINQUENTS. 
Hallowell (Me.}, Sept. 21, 1846. 
[Under this· head we may do some injO!Itice. We 
hope not to. If any noticed here have paid, and throug~ 
mistake have not been credited, or are poor, we shall be 
BE PARTICULAR.-Brethren who send mon-
happy to do them justice.) 
ey to us, should be very particular in ~iving 
the direction to which their papers are sent, 
which with the name should be written very 
plai11. 
In sending money by others you 
should be very particular to see that they 
make nu mistake. 
vVe often receive letters 
so closely written, or jumbled together, th.at 
it is with the greatest difficulty we can make 
out their import. 
The Post-master of 1\logndore, Summit county, Ohio, 
writes, that the paper sent to A. R. MEAD, i~ not taken 
from the office. He owes $2 64. 
J •. AYRES, of Norwicl1, Ct., sends his paper back, 
wr.it en on "For heaven's sake stop this paper." Our 
y~ungest printer thinks that for justice's sake the $1 28 
due on it should be paid. 
I!T LosT-At the camp-meeting at Bergt>n, N.J., a 
blue·bl11ck coat, with velvet colar and cutis, with plaid 
Jiuings. If it should be found, it may be sent to 37 
Frankfort-street, New York, to James S. Wood, and all 
expeuses will be paid. 
JOHN I. RoBERTS. 
When money is sent by others, we give no 
credit for it until the money is received. 
Bro. Clayton 1111d Edwin Burnham will attend 11 con· 
fercuce at Portsmouth, N. H., commencing the second 
When money is sent for several persons, Friday in October, to continue over the SaiJbath. 
the names should stand in one column,-the 
amount they send in another,-and, if from 
different places, their residences slwuld form 
a_third column. 
t 
To CoRRESPONDENTs.-To Elizabeth.-
Mi~takes in Chronology can only be corrected 
by a logical process of inductive reasoning. 
The error of which you speak is one which 
Adventists corrected long since ; and a re-
correction of it would not affect others, only 
as it is accompanied by the reasons. 
"A CRACK IN THE WALL."-We have re-
ceived a pamphlet with the above title, hy J. 
C. Ott, of Albany, New York. 
In taking 
"a peep in " it, we find it is the '' crack " 
through which Swedenuorg looked when he 
made his discovefies. 
\Ve, fhowever, find 
no light there. It is too sublimated for our 
perception.--------
BUSINESS NOTES. 
W.S.l\liller, $2-You are paid before this to end of v 14. 
You say thi!! i~ for Low Hampton ~ubscribers. Will 
you give us the individual names to whom it is to be 
credited? as otherwi~e we should not know how the 
account of each oue stands. 
We do uot know w.:hen A. Phelps subs.cribt>d, as his 
name was transferred·f1om the books of the ''Watch," 
and ws only mark. the time to which each remittance 
pays, without uoting whe11 it begltn. 
W. P. Stratton, 811-lf you will send us the names of 
those who receh·e the p!tpt:r, we will send to them hy 
mail. That will be better thnn to send so few by ex-
press, since you have moved away. Bro. C. has not 
paid-owes for the whole of v 11. 
W . .!. S. Smyth, 81-Ail rij~ht. 
. 
J.l
. Orrock-Have sent your questions to Bro. Lttch. 
J. Mal'llh, 810-You will see by our last, that we can-
not 11upply orders for the Extra. 
W. E. Hathaway, Sl-Have no Extras. How dis-
pose of your dollar? 
A. A. Partridge-They were sent. 
J. Wilson, 2-To what town is the paper of.Wm. 
Clark~ robe sent. We will send to your care till we 
bear from you. Having no Extras, we credit you on 
"Herald" v 16. 
J.Kiloh-We do not know as it is to be re-published, and 
know of no satidfactory exposition of that part of Scrip-
ture. 
Levi Wiswali-We have sent a package to you, to 
Hyde Park, Vt. 
· 
Erastu11 Parker-We have sent a package to Water-
bury, Vt. 
T. M. Preble S5-We have done aa ~ou Rid. 
A. Pike, 8l~What is your ~ost-office addrt>aa? You 
did not write where the paper 11 llelll 
We cannot 1lnd 
your name. 
N. llillings will be with the brethren at North Sci!· 
uate, R. I., Sunday next. 
CONFERENCES. , 
Should time continue, there will be 11 Conference Rt 
the Union 1\leeting-house, in J.ee, N.H., commencing 
on friduy, Or.t. 9th, nnu continue over the Sabbath. 
Also oue at Tultonburough, N. B., on the tlrst Friday 
in October, commencing and contiuuiug ari the oth~r.­
Urettlren may rail on llru. W. S. Ht>rsey, J. Ne11l, S. 
Ladd, and E. Shepherd. llro. D. Churchill is requested 
to attend. 
EDWIN lluRNHAill· 
There will be a camp-meeting, the Lord willin~, in 
Dodge county, W. T., about si,x miles from \Vawpon 
Sooth, on the road le11ding to Watertown, to commence 
Oct. 7th, and continue ovt:r the SuiJbath. All tht: breth· 
ren who are interested in the coming of the Lord, are 
invited to come, with their tellls and provision. Those 
who cannot provide tor the1uselvcs, can be provided for. 
It is expected that Bro. N. 1
. Catlin, from Indi11na, »Jld 
Sister Park, from Canada West, aud others, will be thtre 
to preach to the people. 
l
. CH.o\.NDLEII· 
There will be a meeting the second Sabbath in Oct., 
on New Durham Ridge. It i::~ expt>cted Bro. Harvey will 
be present. Bro. D. Churchill is reque~ted to attend. 
If the Lord permit, a conference will be holden in El· 
ete1·, N.H., on the fourth Friduy in October, commeuc· 
ing Ill 10 o'clock A. l
., and contiJHtt' over t.he Sabbath. 
l:lrethren will C111l on Bro. George T. St11cy, under the 
Swanscot-bouse, for information. EDWIN B RNliAill· -
Receipts for Week ending Sept. 2§. 
a:::r 'Ve have annexed -t~ch acknowled ment the 
number to which it pays. Where tht> volume ouly is 
mentioned, the whole volume is paid for. 
E. Gillet, v 12-37 1-2 cl.l!.-Z. :Martin, v 8-50 cts. 
1.1	auson, 227-63 cts.-J. Kiloh (3 copies), 3u6; A. 
Winchester, v 12; L. Leavatt, v 18; G. Wnlt!s, v 11; 111. 
L. Clark, 295; R. A. Thompson, v 13; J. Ta) lor, 281; 
T. Tillou, v 10; A. Smith, v 10; M.A. Cook, v 11; A. 
Newton, 365; S. Geer, v 12; J. Alland, v 12-ear.h 75 cts. 
D. M. Alll'n, 306 ; D. Conner, 306 ; N. Blod~et, 3~6; E. 
Gay, 2!12; G. Byram, 807; L. Packard, 317; R. Alldrew, 
315; J. D11nforth, 286; J. B. Kuight, v 11; J. G. Moore, 
v 12; F. Vandurnn, v 12; A. L. Hnsknll1 v 12; H .. c. 
C11mda, 807; C. Norris, 289; R. Smith, 804; L. RobUJ-
son, v 10; L. :rtl• Elony, v 12; E. Chllrnberhtiu, 313; T. 
Smith, v 18; II. Parcher, v 13; L. Atkins, v 12; J.AyerL, 
310; W. Field, 310; D. Greene, 290; C. Smith, v 12; · 
Penshall, v 12; Wm. Clark, v 12; A. Ramsay, v ]2; A. 
Lynch, v 12; J. W. Gorrell, 313; J. Dunu, 313; E L
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Philbrick, v 12; C. W. Smilh, 287; 8. R. Stewart, 30 ' 
J. Barlow, v 11; U. F. Arn~ld, vl2; J. Ho~ner, 31.J7.; :: 
R. Tubor,,. 12; D. lloody, 304; B. Locke, Jr., v 12, 
Ober, v 12; L. Cook, 292; W. E. l.eemnn, 307; .a. Tyler~ 
v 12; Dr. B. Foster, v !J; J. Foster, v 11; J. Brooks, v .12, 
E!d. A. Pease, Y 12; a sister by 1'. F. Greene; E. Elitot, 
v 13; W. Walker, v 12; J. M. Onock, 306; W. Bllfb~r, 
v ll-each 81.-D. Crane, v U-8125.-J.l\lllftlll, 
v 12; T. Littleton, v 11-ellch 81 50.-N. H. Sto.w;: 
v 12; H. Bu~h, v 13; S. Frank, v 12; F. Barker, 289,
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Overton, v 12; Joshua Smith, v 12; M.S. Wild~, 29 1; 
J. Dowing, v l~each 2.-A. G. W. Smith (for se , 
A. S., &c.), Y 13-$3.-E. Parker (4 copie~;), v 13-4. 
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