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BOSTON, TUESDAY, JANUARY 20 1863. 
VOLUME XXIV. NO. 3 
THE ADVENT HERALD 
Is published every Tuesday, at 1G 1-2 Kneeland st. (up 
stairs), Boston, Mass., by 
"The American Millennial Association.'9 
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Office,"I will receive prompt attention. 
JOSIAH LATCH, 
Co mittee 
J. M. ()BROCK, 
on 
ROBT. R. KNOWLES, Publication. 
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SNOW. 
How beautiful is snow, 
The blossom of the rain ; 
How like serial flowers 
Wafted from floating isles 
More buoyant than the air, 
The silent flakes descend, 
Snow on the earthly sphere, 
Is the pellucid spray 
Of ocean, that cold air 
Weaves into fleecy robes 
To clothe the winter world. 
For the Herald. 
Perplexing Questions. 
The question has been often asked with a tone 
of triumph,by the champions of materialism, "If 
a man die, his body be deposited in the grave, 
and his soul exists in Hades, which is the 
man ?" That this should perplex multitudes is 
not surprising, and they should be relieved of 
their perplexity. 
Which then is the Man ? 
This must be determined by the simple law of 
language. That any considerable part, sufficient-
ly large to identify it as such, of any person, 
place, or thing, is properly designated by the 
generic name of that person, place,or thing. But 
if it is desired to designate any particular part, 
specific terms expressive of that particular must 
be employed. 
This rule is so obvious that it seems almsse use-
less to illustrate it. But lest some should not 
perceive its force, I will give a few illustrations. 
Suppose an apple to be divided into sever-
al parts, and I should see one of those parts ly-
ing upon a table, should I speak correctly if I 
said, give me that apple ? Who would not an-
swer, yes ; for that is the generic name of the 
fruit, whether there be more or less of it ; and a 
part of it is enough to identify it as an apple ? 
But if I wished any particular part of that ap-
ple as distinguished from other particular parts, 
it would be necessary to use the specific terms 
embracing its description, as, That piece of ap-
ple ; a. half of an apple ; that half with the red 
cheek, &e., 
Supposing I say of certain persons, They 
ton. The soul or spirit have just the same right 
to the generic name, man,that the body has. 
J. LATCH. 
For the Herald. 
Immortality. 
In complying with the request of Bro. Litch, 
I must say I am disappointed to think that he 
claims to have proved that man was made im-
mortal, without one proof text. I know that it 
is easier to show what the Bible does not prove 
on some points, than to show the proof on the 
point itself. Be patient, and I will shew my 
opinion. In doing so, allow me to say I am no 
scholar ; I know nothing of Greek, or Hebrew, 
or Latin, and am not even a scholar in English ; 
but to the point : 
Did God make man immortal ? Gen. 2: 7, in-
forms us that God made man of the dust of the 
ground and breathed into his nostrils the breath 
of life. And in ch. 1: 27, we are informed that 
God made man in his own image. Again we 
are taught in Hebrews, 1: 3, that Christ was the 
express image of his (God's) person ; and again 
in 2. Cor. 4: 4, and Phill. 2: 6 ; col. 1: 15. 
Now if the expression, his own image, or like-
ness means that God made man immortal, then 
Christ was immortal, and born immortal. Then 
in what sense did God make man after his own 
image : First, I claim it was morally ; and 2d. 
physically. 1st. Man had a mind God like, 
what Paul in Eph 4: 24 called righteousness and 
true holiness. 2d. By having a body in form 
like God. Thus man was made in mind God 
like, and in body after his likeness or form ; not 
immortal, but a probationer. He must be tried, 
and if a probationer, then a probationer for im-
mortality. Just what God's people have before 
them now, as- probationers. Rom. 2: 7. 
But man rebelled, the mind yielded, the mor-
al image of God was lost, and immortality was 
lost ; and man was sentenced to die, Gen. 3:19. 
Then, in providing a Savior, his blood was shed 
to purge our conscience from dead works, Mb. 
9: 14. called the robe in Rev. 7: 14—thus mak-
ing provision to restore the moral image of God ; 
and, 2d. Christ died and rose again and thus 
abolished death and brought life and immortali-
ty to light through the gospel,2 Tim. 1:10. Thus 
at the resurrection, the people of God are to 
have through Christ, immortality. This mortal 
shall put on on immortality, 1. Cor. 15: 53, 54. 
It is through Christ, because he procured it at 
his resurrection, and he only has it ; because it 
belongs to mortals as their physical blessing, 1 
Tim. 6: 13-16. 
Bro. bitch also claims that because it is said 
that the saints in the resurrection are to be equal 
to the angels, they must now be immortal, and 
the angels immortal ; but see Luke 20 : 45, 36, 
which proves one point, not that angels are im-
mortal, but deathless; and the saint is to be sub-
ject to death no more. If it is proof that angels 
are immortal because they never die, then there 
is the same proof that devils are immortal ; which 
I have never seen the proof of as yet. Thus I 
understand man was a probationer. Immortali-
ty was before him; and then not to be translat-
ed ; but perhaps man's probation lasts until he 
had fulfilled the command of' God. Gen. 1:28. 
"Be fruitful, and multiply and replenish the 
earth" &c. thus the earth would be peopled with 
an immortal race, as it will be when God in the 
dispensation of the fulness of times gathers to-
gether in one all things in Christ, Eph. 1st 10, 
when he shall have accomplished his purpose in 
taking out of the nations of the earth a people. 
for„his name, when he shall have gathered those 
wIlo have died and those who live in hope of im-
mortality into the one fold around the one shep-
herd in the sorrowless land, Rev. 26: 4, and they 
will sing to Him that loved us "and washed us 
from our sins in his own blood Rev. 7: 14, and 
141 redeemed us to God by thy blood out of ev-
ery kindred and tongue and people and nation, 
and hast made us unto our God kings and priests 
unto God,and we shall reign on the earth." Rev. 
5: 9, 10. Thus, then, his purpose is accomplish-
ed. 
I hope through grace to meet Bro. Litch there. 
I often think when I read the writings of some 
who write on what is called the life and death 
question, that both are on the extreme, and the 
truth lies between. I want to say that I am 
glad that I am blest with what Bro. Litch calls 
more than Roman firmness ; and though thus 
blest I am not a Roman. I have no pope, I am 
a free thinker. I have an independent mind ; if' 
I had not, I know not what I should do when I 
see those whose writings we have had from the 
beginning change their views almost every time 
you hear from them. 
I would say in conclusion. I did not ask the 
question of Bro. Litch for the purpose of con-
troversy, or with the expectation of writing ; for 
I have to labor hard with my hands and am un-
fit to use the pen. I remain, Bro. Litch, your 
Bro. in hope of Immortality through Christ at 
his appearing. 
D. W. SORNBERGER. 
REMARKS. 
Our brother in the foregoing overlooks the 
position I stated—Viz : That if' Adam had been 
mortal in his creation, that is subject to de.,th 
whether he sinned or not, then the penalty was 
no penalty ; it was merely carrying out the con-
dition of his being. He had in him the life of 
God. In Eph. 4: 18. Paul speaks of "having 
the understanding darkened, being alienated 
from the life of God." &c. To be alienated im-
plies a previous interest in a person or thing ; 
as for instance, when we say that the south is 
alienated from the Union, it implies a previous 
interest in it. So if' the unconverted are alien-
ated from the life of God, they once had it—
not personally, but in their federal head. The 
marginal reading of' Gen. 2: 7., 'Breath of 
lives," indicates a two fold life, an animal life, 
the soul, and the zoe or life of God. 
Again if Christ was the express image of the 
person of God, it must be in that sense in which 
he did not think it "Robbery to be equal with 
God," and not in that sense in which he "Hum-
bled himself' and became (what he was not be-
fore) obedient unto death." The reason wby 
Christ could and did die, the apostle teaches us, 
was, 'God sending his own Son in the likeness 
(not of sinless flesh such as man originally pos-
sessed, but) of sinful flesh,that he for sin might 
condemn sin in the flesh." 'Rom. 8: 3. And 
even in the likeness of sinful flesh, it was only 
when the "Iniquity of us all was laid upon him, 
Isa. 53 : 6, that he died. And when he had 
fully met that penalty, death had no more do-
minion over him : it was impossible that he 
should be holden of it. 
Once more. I gave the literal meaning of' 
the word immortality, deathless, as applicable to 
man in his original condition. But I will now 
go a step further and say that he was immortal 
in the true scriptural sense of the word, which 
implies a divine and happy existence, with no 
tendency to decay or dissolution. He was sin-
less and allied, as already shown,to God by the 
zoe or life of God. The probation was not as 
Bro. S. assumes, for life, for he possessed it al-
ready, but.for death. "In the day thou eatest 
thereof thou shalt surely die." 
There is a prevailing misapprehension, that in 
order to establish a scriptural point it is neces-
sary to find precisely the word in controversy in 
some text ; thus overlooking the fact that ail 
words are expressed by their synonyons or equi-
valents as clearly as by their own use. 
Bro. S. says. "Bro Litch claims that because 
it is said that the saints in tha resurrection are 
to be equal to the angels, they must now be im-
mortal, and the angels immortal." 
This is a misapprehension. I did not claim 
that Christians are now immortal. My refer-
ence to the angels, was, to show that they are in 
the ,iteral sense of the word immortal, although 
that word is not applied to them. For whatev-
er is deathless is in the literal sense of the word 
immortal ; no matter what phrases may be used 
to denote it. Man was originally deathless, 
hence, immortal ; the angels are the same ; and 
hence the saints will be the same in theresurrec: 
tion. 
J. LITCH. 
The Indian Execution. 
The execution of the thirty-eight Indians con-
demned to death for participation in the recent 
massacre of whites in Minnesota, took place at 
Mankoto on the 26th of December. A full and 
interesting narrative of the circumstances attend-
ing the dreadful tragedy is given in the St. Paul 
Press, from which we make some extracts, show- 
i Tiwhat spirit lie misguided savages expiat- 
ed their terrible _crimes. The gallows was a 
structure twenty-four feet square, fifteen feet 
high, and so arranged as to afford room for the 
dress, for six months. 
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$5, will pay for six copies, sent to one ad; ing element of his being; and spirit is the specif- 
ic
4, 
 name of the knowing or thinking element. If 
asked, then, which is the man ? What is the 
proper answer ? All ; the same as Washington 
and Tremont streets are both embraced in the 
generic name of Boston ; and I may say of a 
resided in Boston. This is the generic word 
embracing all the incorporated teritory of Bos-
ton. It may be in Tremont street or Winter 
street, Pleasant street, or some other street. But 
suppose one of them to live in Washington street, 
and the other in Tremont street ; and I say of 
them they live in Boston ; which is Boston ? Is 
it Tremont street ; or is it Washington street ? 
Ans. Both. Both are embraced in the gener-
ic name, and each in the specific names. So al-
so.—Man is the generic name of that creature 
whom God made to have dominion over all the 
earth. Body is the specific name for the earthly 
labor made ; soul is the specific name for the liv- 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
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hanging of ten Indians. When the sentence of 
death was formally read and interpreted to the 
doomed red men, they received it very coolly, 
some of them composedly smoking their pipes. 
Nearly all the condemned made confessions to 
their spiritual advisers previous to execution. 
On the Wednesday previous, each Indian was 
permitted to send for two or three of his friends 
among the other condemned Indians,to bid them 
adieu, and the scene is said to have been very 
affecting. Each Indian had some word to send 
to his parents or family. When speaking of 
their wives and children almost every one was 
affected to tears. Good counsel was sent to their 
children. They were in many cases exhorted to 
an adoption of Christianity and the life of good 
feeling towards the whites. Most of them spoke 
confidently of their hopes of salvation. They 
had been constantly attended by several cler-
gymen who understood the language. Some of 
the Indians, however, pretended to disregard 
the dangers of their position, and laughed and 
joked. The majority of them were young men, 
but several were quite old and gray headed. 
The scenes at the prison on the morning of the 
fatal day and at the execution are thus describ-
ed : 
The doomed ones wished it to be known among 
their friends, and particularly their wives and 
children, how cheerful and happy they had died 
exhibiting no fear of this dread event. To us it 
appeared not as an evidence of Christian faith, 
but a steadfast adherence to their heathenish su-
perstitions. 
They shook hands with the officers who came 
in among them, bidding them good bye, as if 
they were going on along and pleasant journey. 
They had added some fresh streaks of vermillion 
and ultramarine to their countenances, as their 
fancy suggested,evidently intending to fix them-
selves off as gay as possible for the coming ex-
hibition. They commenced singing their death-
song, Ta-zoo leading, and nearly all joining. We 
had never heard this song, and could not tell it 
from the war-song, but it was wonderfully ex-
citing. 
Their irons were knocked off, and one by one 
were tied by cords, their elbows being pinioned 
behind and the wrists in front, but about six 
inches apart. This operation occupied till about 
9 o'clock. In the mean time the scene was 
much enlivened by their songs and conversation, 
keeping up the most cheerful appearance. As 
they were being pinioned, they went round the 
room shaking hands with the soldiers and report. 
ers, bidding them "good bye," &c. After all 
were properly fastened, they stood up in a row 
around the room, and another exciting death-
song was sung. They then sat down very quietly 
and commenced smoking again. Father Ha-
voux came in, and after addressing them a few 
moments, knelt in prayer, reading from a pray-
er book in the Dakotah language, which a por-
tion of the condemned repeated after him. Dur-
ing this ceremony,nearly all paid the most strict 
attention, and some were affected even to tears. 
He then addressed them again. 
The caps were then put on their heads. These 
were made of white muslin taken from the In-
dians when their camps were captured,and which 
had formed part of the spoils they had taken 
from the murdered traders. They received these 
evidences of their near approach to death with 
evident dislike. When it had been adjusted on 
one or two, they looked around on the oth-
ers who had not yet received it with an appear- 
ance of shame. Chains and cords had not mov- 
ed them—their.wear was not considered dishon-
orable—but this covering the head with a white 
cap was humiliating. There was no more sing- 
ing, and but little conversation and smoking now. 
All sat around the room ; most of them in a 
crouched position, awaiting their doom in si- 
lence, or listening to the remarks of Father Ra-
voux, who still addressed them. Once in a 
while they brought their small looking-glasses 
before their faces, to see that their countenan-
ces yet preserved the proper modicum of paint. 
The three half-breeds were, the most of all af-
fected, and their dejection of countenance was 
truly pitiful to behold. 
At precisely 10 o'clock the condemned were 
marshaled in a procession, and headed by Capt. 
Redfield, marched out into the street, and di-
rectly across through files of soldiers to the scaf-
fold, which had been erected in front. They 
went eagerly and cheerfully, even crowding and 
jostling each other to be ahead, just like a lot of 
hungry boarders rushing to dinner in a hotel. 
the soldiers who were on guard in their quar-
ters stacked arms and followed them, and they 
in turn were followed by the clergy, reporters, 
&c. 
As they commenced the ascent of the scaffold, 
the death-song was again started, and when they 
had all got up, the noise they made was truly 
hideous. It seemed as if pandemonium had brok-
en loose. It had a wonderful effect in keeping 
up their courage. One young fellow who had 
been given a cigar by one of the reporters, just 
before marching from their quarters, was smok- 
ing it on the stand, puffing away very coolly, 
during the intervals of the hideous'lli-yi-yi, hi-
yi-yi,' and even after the cap was drawn over 
his face, he managed to get it up over his mouth 
and smoke. Another was smoking his pipe. The 
noose having been properly adjusted over the 
necks of each, by Capt. Libby, all was ready 
for the fatal signal. 
The scene at this juncture was one of awful 
interest. A painful and breathless suspense held 
the vast crowd, which had assembled from all 
quarters to witness the execution. 
Three slow, measured and distinct beats of 
the drum by Major Brown, who had been an. 
nounced as signal officer and the rope was cut 
by Mr. Duly—the scaffold fell, and thirty-seven 
lifeless bodies were left dangling between heav-
en and earth. One of the ropes was broken and 
the body of Rattling Runner fell to the ground. 
The neck had probably been broken, as but lit-
tle signs of life were observed, but he was im-
mediately hung up again. 
As the platform fell, there was one, not loud 
but prolonged cheer from the soldiery and citi-
zens who were spectators, and then all were 
quiet and earnest witnesses of the scene. For 
so many,there was but little suffering ; the necks 
of all, or nearly all, were evidently dislocated 
by the fall, and the after struggling was slight. 
The bodies were cut down, placed in four ar-
my wagons, and taken to the grave prepared for 
them among the willows on the sand bar nearly 
in front of the town. They were all deposited 
in one grave, thirty feet in length by twelve in 
width, and four feet deep, being laid on the bot-
tom in two rows, with their feet together and 
their heads to the outside. They were simply 
covered with their blankets and the earth thrown 
over them. 
For the Herald. 
Political and Army Scraps. 
Gen. Roscrans is regarded as having accom-
plished one of the most important achievments 
of the war in the capture of' Murfreesboro. 
A Rebel Raid to Holly Springs, Miss., the 
head quarters of Gen. Grant's army, surprised 
and made prisoners of several thousand Federal 
prisoners, whom they paroled ; and destroyed, 
some say, four or five million of dollars worth 
of property. 
General Butler says he went to New Orleans 
a hunker democrat of the hunkerest sort, but 
came away an out an out Abolitionist. He jus-
tifies his execution of Mumford for pulling down 
the union flag from the U. S. mint in N. Orleans, 
From the fact that the Thugs and blacklegs of the 
city declared he should not be hung ; it thus be-
came a question who should rule the city, the 
mob or government ? 
The Freedmen of the south received, so far as 
heard from, the boon of freedom from the Presi-
dent on the first of Jan. with great satisfaction 
and gratitude to God and the President. As 
yet, there has been none of those dreadful scenes 
of insurrection and murder which proslavery 
men predict as the immediate result of emanci-
pation ; all is quiet among them. 
Gov. Andrews of Mass. recommends an As-
sylum for inebriates. He says "drunkenness is 
a disease as well as sin. We have long enough 
legislated for its punishment, let us not delay to 
Original. 
On the Chmistry of Food-
NAE. 
The apostrophe to Adam, "Dust thou al.. and 
unto dust shalt thou return, " is suggestive of 
the Chemistry of Organic Substances—more es-
pecially that of Food, and its relation to the 
Animal System. 
What a wonderful thing is a living human Le-
ing—a material form, the dwelling of an imma-
terial intelligence. The material alone is visible; 
but the immaterial is none the less real : it beams 
in the eye, and lights up every feature—making 
its presence as manifest as the form that en. 
shrines it. 
That man is constituted of matter and mind, 
we know; for, "The Lord God formed man of 
the dust of the ground, and breathed into his 
nostrils the breath of life, and man became a 
living soul." We know also that mind is distinct 
from matter ; for when the "dust shall return 
unto the earth as it was," then "the spirit shall 
return unto God who gave it." They are thus 
of diverse origin : the one is ofthe earth, earthy ; 
the other is God given. They are also of 
diverse characteristics ; for the properties, or at-
tributes of the one, are not possessed by the 
other. Mind has volition, memory, conscious. 
ness : it wills, and loves, and hates ; it plans and 
executes. The properties of matter are none of 
these ; but it has attraction, inertia, and exten-
sion. It has no consciousness—can neither know-
nor feel ; it has no will ; nor can it move, except 
as it is moved by other agency : 
"Has matter innate motion ? then each atom, 
Asserting its indisputable right 
To dance, would form a universe of dust. 
Has matter more than motion? Has it thought; 
Judgment, and genius ? Is it deeply learned 
In mathematics ? Has it framed such laws 
'Which, but to guess, a Newton made immor- 
tal ?" 
No : these are attributes only of' the immate-
rial : they are developed by no chemical experi-
ment—are detected by no chemical anaylsis, and 
are the properties of no material substance. And, 
in treating of the material man—of all that con-
stitutes his bodily form,—it will be entirely ir-
respective of this immaterial. 
Chemistry determines the Elements of things, 
with their laws or affinities. It is not purposed to 
dwell on the abstract principles of this science, 
nor to deal largely in its technicalities; and, 
where it is practicable, things will be called by 
their common and not by their scientific denom-
inatives. 
It is difficult to realize that the material forms 
of a living audience are so closely allied to in- 
animate substances. But, "all flesh is grass, and 
all the goodlinessthereof is as the flower of the 
field,"—in a more literal sense than is generally 
realized. And grass and flesh are only dust. 
However humiliating may be the thought, it is 
none the less true, that these bodily structures, 
which we do so prize and cherish, are built up 
of combinations of matter which may have been 
disintegrated from various primitive rocks, have 
formed a part of the soil of the earth, or have 
fallen in rain from the clouds of heaven,have 
flowed in river or brook, and been drawn from 
fountain or well,have undergone organic changes 
pecular to the varied forms of vegetable life,and 
beeneaten in grasses and herbs by beasts of the 
field which, in turn, have served man for food. 
As we are about to consider some of the rela-
tions which the human body sustains to other 
material forms, it will be necessary to refer to a 
few of the Elements which enter into the compo-
sition of things, and to define some of the terms 
employed. All substances capable of analysis,or 
division into differing constituents, are called 
Compounds; and those not susceptible to such 
treatment, are known as Elements. These, vari-
ously combined, will produce results wonderful)" 
dissimilar, which are ;often constituted of the 
same Elements,—their proportions varying but 
a little. 
Earth, air, water, and fire, were regarded as 
elements by the ancients, who supposed these 
four were the constituents of all material forms• 
legislate for its cure." Of the. Old Common-
wealth's "Heroic dead," he says : 
"There is a history in almost every home of 
Massachusetts, which will never be written. But 
the memory of kindred has it embalmed forever. 
The representatives of the pride and hope of un-
counted households, departing, will return no 
more. The shaft of the archer, attracted by the 
shining mark, numbers them among his fallen 
In the battles of Big Bethel, of Bull Run, of 
Ball's Bluff, of Roanoke Island,of Newbern, of 
Winchester, of Yorktown, of Williamsburg, of 
West Point, of Fair Oaks, the battles before 
Richmond from Mechanicsville to Malvern Hill, 
of Jame's Island, of Baton Rouge, of Cedar 
Mountains, of Bull Run again, of Chantilly, of 
Washington in North Carolina, of South Moun-
tain, of Antietam, of Fredericksburg and Golds-
boro—through all the capricious fortunes of the 
war the regiments of Massachusetts have borne 
her flag by the side of the banner of the Union. 
And, beyond the Atlantic slope, every battle-
field has drunk of the blood of her sons, nurtur-
ed among her hills and sands, from which in ad-
venturous manhood they turned their footsteps to 
the West. officers and enlisted men vied with each 
other in deeds of valor. The flag whose stand-
ard-bearer, shot down in battle, tossed it from 
his dying hand nerved by undying patriotism, 
has been caught by the comrade,who in his turn 
has closed his eyes for the last time upon its star-
ry folds as another hero-martyr clasped the splin-
tered staff and rescued the symbol at once of 
country and of their blood-bought fame. How 
can fleeting words of human praise gild the 
record of their glory? Our eyes suffused with 
tears, and blood retreating to the heart, stirred 
with unwonted thrill, speak with eloquence of • 
nature, unuttered, but unexpressed. From the 
din of battle they have passed to eternity. 
Farewell ! warrior, citizen, patriot, lover, 
friends—whether in the humbler ranks or bear-
ing the official power,whether private,or captain 
for all these in the heady fight have passed 
away.—Hail ! and Farewell ! Each hero must 
sleep serenely on the field where he fell in a 
cause "sacred to liberty and the right of man-
kind." 
Worn by no wasting, lingering pain, 
"No cold gradations of decay, 
Death broke at once the vital chain, 
And freed his soul the nearest way." 
Charleston S. C. is said to be a deserted ci-
ty. A writer of Dec. 12th says he believes 
there were not 20 ladies left in the city. 
Western "Virginia has been admitted into the 
union as a state, making the 35th star on our 
banner. The eastern portion is very violent 
and Governor Letcher declares they will never 
submit to it. 
Gen. Butler says, the negroes in those parts 
of La. excepted by the Presidents proclamation, 
are nearly all free from other causes. The 
same is also true of Eastern Va. 
The Governors of Del. and Ky. in their an-
nual messages are exceedingly bitter against the 
President's proclamation of pardon. It is possi-
ble they will yet be insane enough to rebel and 
force the President to complete his work, by de-
claring those states free. 
Congress will probably pass a general bank- 
rupt law this term, designed to relieve honest 
and oppressed debtors. 
The French government has signified to the 
U. S. that the Emperor has the most friendly 
feelings towards the Union and desires its pres-
ervation. 
The great Pacific Rail Road is commenced at 
Sacramento, Cal., and is to he pushed forward 
with all possible dispatch. About 30 years ago 
Benjamin Kingsbury, Ed. of Zion:s Herald pre-
dicted that in less than fifty years, there would 
be a Rail Road over the Rocky mountains. His 
prediction is likely to be more than verified. 
Fourteen days after the President's proclama-
tion of Sept. 22nd was issued, it was in print in 
the Sandwich Islands. Days of wonders ! 
A young lady wrote in Dec. from Port Royal, 
S. C. where she is teaching the Freedmen, that 
she was learning them that sublime Anthem, to 
be sung the first of Jan. 1863, beginning : 
"Sound the loud timbre] o'er Egypt's dark sea' 
Jehovah has triumphed, his people are free ?" It has, owe ver, been demonstrated by modern 
A 
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THE ADVENT lifiRALD. 
sees 
stances, and that the last is only a chemical 
science that the first three are not simple sub- preach, except they be sent." Rom. 10: 15. He 
must be called of God to tlie work. He must pos-
ses a desire and fitness for the work, and then 
phenomenon. 
be led by Providence to enter it. If there be a 
The latest results give sixty two elementary 
'woe" upon those who refuse to go when they 
principles, which no chemical skill has been able are sent by the great Head of the church, it is 
to decompose ; and all known compounds, are 
none the less true that a "woe" is upon those 
constituted of two or more of these. The com- 
who run without a divine commission. (See Jer. 
mon minerals—antimony, arsenicum,bismuth,cal- 
23: 21--22.) Lorenzo Dow used to say, that 
cium, copper, gold, iron, lead, mercury, silver, 
"God called some men to preach the gospel, the 
sulphur, tin, zink, &c., are Elements, which no devil called some, some were called by other 
science or art has been able to analize. But 
men, some called themselves, and some were not 
such products as salt,chalk, stc.,are easily shown 
called at all. Every minister whom God will 
to be compounds. 
own and bless must belong to the class first 
The analysis of salt develops two substances--- 
named. 
a vapor of a greenish yellow color, which is call- 
The Duties of the Christian Ministry. 
ed Chlorine, in allusion to its peculiar tint, and a 
1. It is a minister's duty to give himself 
solid of a silvery lustre, called Sodium. There 
wholly to the work to which God calls him. 'Till 
being no way to analyze, or simplify either of 
I come, give attendance to reading, to exhorta- 
these, they ranks as Elements. The analysis of 
tion, to doctrine. Neglect not the gift that is in 
chalk, also, exhibits two new substances—an in- 
thee, which was given thee by prophecy, with 
visible vapor, and a white solid ; but these, un- 
the laying on of the hands of the presbytery. 
like the constituents of salt, are susceptible of 
Meditate upon these things ; give thyself wholly 
still farther division ; for which reason they are 
to them that thy profiting may appear to all. 
called Proximate Elements. The invisible vapor 
Take heed unto thyself, and unto the doctrine; 
yields an invisible gas and a black solid ; the 
continue in them, for in doing this thou shalt 
white solid yields the same gas and a solid of 
both save thyself, and them that hear thee," 1 
silvery. ,splendor ; and, neither of these being ca- 
Tim. 4: 13-16. The work of the ministry 
pable of farther analysis, they are called Ulti- 
should be the business of his life. He should feel 
mate Elements. As every thing must have a 
that he has no time for other, and minor things. 
name, the chemist calls the invisible gas Oxy- 
When solicited from within, or without, to en- 
gen, because it will rapidly combine with vari- 
gage in other employment, he should feel and 
ous substances, by which are produced acids. 
say with Nehemiah, "I am doing a great work, 
The black solid is the pure inflammable princi- 
so that I cannot come down ; why should the 
ple of coal, termed Carbon. The invisible vapor, 
work cease, whilst I leave it, and come down to 
which was the combination of this gas and solid, 
you ? Yet they sent unto me four times after this 
is Carbonic acid ; and the solid of silvery,splendor 
sort, and I answered them after the same man- 
is found to be a constituent of lime, and is there- 
ner." Neb. 5: 3 4. Jesus enjoins this duty in 
fore called Calcium. 
his instruction to the man who desired,when call- 
In like manner may all compound substances 
ed to follow the Saviour, to "first go and bury 
be resolved into their Proximate or Ultimate 
his father. Jesus said unto him, Let the dead 
Elements. Nor is it more wonderful that all the 
bury their dead ; but go thou and preach the 
varied forms of inorganic and organic matter 
kingdom of God." Luke 9: 59, 60. 
should consist of so limited a number,of elements, 
"A man that warreth entangleth himself 
than it is that the sixty five thousand words of 
with the affairs of this life : that he may please 
our language should be constituted of twenty six him who hath chosen him to be a soldier." 2 Tim. 
simple letters. 
2: 4. Roman soldiers were not allowed to en- 
As the chemist may analyze, so may he com• gage in trade, or farming, or any work which 
bine, in chemical proportions, diverse elements 
would at all divert their minds from the great 
and produce a great variety of results. The 
object of pursuit. When men enter our army as 
union of two or more Ultimate Elements consti- 
soldiers, they give up all other business. The 
tutes a primary combination ; and that of two or 
farmer leaves his field, the blacksmith his anvil, 
more Proximate ones, a secondary. All combina- 
the jeweller his bench, the student his books the 
tions are governed by fixed proportions : six parts merchant his counter, and others their previous 
of clorine and four of sodium, constitute salt ; and 
employment ; and they all devote themselves en- 
they will combine for that result in no other pro- 
tirely to the duties of the soldier. This is what 
portion. It is the same with other combinations, 
ministers of the gospel should do, says the apos- 
any departure from the requsite proportion being tle. They are not at liberty to engage in farm-
incompatible with the desired result. 
ing or speculation, or any worldly business. No 
A Chemical Combination differs widely from 
man can say he is fulfilling the design of his call- 
a mechanical mixture. The lady who adds cream 
ng as a minister of Christ who cannot truthful- 
and sugar to her tea, produces no new chemical 
y affirm that he is not "entangled with the af- 
result. The sugar is dissolved, but only mingles 
fairs of this life." A good minister will find 
with the cream and water. It is the same with 
the trader who roasts and grinds up beans with enough to do in his work to comsume all of his 
his coffee, or "extends" his brandy. But an al- time. He will find no opportunity or disposition 
kali and oil, brought into contact under the to attend to secondary matters. To obey the 
divine injunction to ePreach the word : be in-
proper conditions, not only mingle, but combine 
tsant in season, out of season ; reprove, rebuke 
and form a new substance called soap : which is 
exhort with all long suffering and doctrine," wil 
unlike, and is possessed of properties not belong- 
ing to,either of' its elements. 
ED. be all he can well accomplish. 
2. He must not be indolent, but dilligent in 
(To be continued.) 
work. He should help himself if he would be 
The Christian Ministry ; helped. "Study to shew thyself approved unto 
AND THE GOSPEL METHOD OF ITS INCREASE AND God, a workman that needeth not be ashamed, 
SUPPORT. 
rightly dividing the work of truth." 1 Tim. 2: 
BY C. CUNNINGHAM. 
15. 
He must obey the command to "Search the 
5. He should possess an irreproachable char- Scriptures," "Comparing spiritual things with 
acter. "A bishop then must be blameless." 1 spiritual," so as to be able to heed the injunc-
Tins. 3: 2-7. His moral character should be tion, "If any man speak, let him speak as the 
Pure. He should be noted for his uprightness of oracle of God." Otherwise, his labour will be 
conduct,and integrity in his dealings with his fel. unprofitable. He will lose the reward he might 
low men. There can be no greater bane in society have received if he had been careful on this 
than a wicked, dishonest minister. A man who point. 1 Cor. 3: 11-15. We should under-
is not regarded as upright in all his dealings with stand our duty, and then know how to perform 
the world is unworthy of the high position oc- it, if we would not have our "work burned, and 
cupied by the Christian Ministry. And no church we suffer loss." 
et justified in listening to, or in any way encour- In order to become "all things to all men in 
aging a man against whom a charge of immoral- order to gain some," will require some labor and 
ity can be established. To do it is to be guilty study I assure you. 
of the same sin themselves. 
3. He is to have a regard to all under his 
G. He must be "sent." "How shall they care. Acts 20: 28. "All the flock," the poor as 
For the Herald. 
Foreign Correspondence. 
FROM DR. R. HUTCHINSON. 
daily walk and conversation. "Let no man des- 
DEAR 13110. BLISS :—Since I wrote you last my 
pise thy youth ; but be thou an example of the health has not been very good, "and tired na- 
believers, in word, in conversation, in charity, ture" has refused the trouble of taking notes of 
in spirit, in faith, in purity." "In all things matters and things; hence I must draw upon 
shewing thyself a pattern of good works ; in memory for my present letter. 
doctrine shewing uncorruptness,gravity,sincerity, 11y last was dated Coldstream, Scotland, Nov. 
sound speech that cannot be condemned ; that he 18th. On the evening of the following day I 
that is of the contrary part may be ashamed,hav- preached in that place, and on Friday the 25th 
ing no evil things to say of you." 1 Tim. 4h12. I went to Kelso, where I was warmly received 
Tit. 2: 7 8. Then he can say to his people, "Be by a gentleman who was enlightened on the Sec- 
ye followers of me, even as I also am of Christ." and Advent many years ago through reading a 
He is to "Rule with diligence," Rom. 12: copy of "The Voice of Elijah." I made the sab- 
It is his duty to see that the New Testament bath a day of rest, and heard Dr. Bonar twice. 
discipline is properly regarded, and that the or- The subject of his second discourse was the king- 
dinances of God's house are regularly observed. dom of God, showing that when it comes the 
He is also required to give the household tribulations of his people will end,and that there-
"meat in due season." To administer the right fore its coming is an event to be greatly desired 
food at the right time. To some he is to give by them. In reading a lesson from Ezekiel he 
"meat ;" to others "milk." He is to be able to maintained that the Jewish and other nations 
adapt his communications to the wants and cir- will exist in flesh and blood during the millennial 
cuwstances of those to whom he ministers. He age, and said that Jacob's ladder will form the 
should be prepared to administer comfort to the connection between the earthly Jerusalem and 
afflicted, reproof to those who offend, warning to the heavenly Jerusalem. The next day he called 
the unruly, encouragement to the weak, and in. to see me, and [though I had expected to sit a 
struction to the ignorant. The proud, the ava- his feet, yet I found him very much disposed to 
ricious, the passionate, the idolator,the inactive, listen and to receive light ; and he has evi-
the extortioner, and in short all classes of men dently a remarkable quickness in perceiving a 
should be able to hear the truth adapted to their new thought which may be presented. He ex-
special cases, especially should he be able to im- pressed his regret at the fixing of definite times 
part dispensational, or "present truth" as the for the Second Advent, as he thinks it has an in- 
apostle terms it. 2 Pet. 1: 12. 
jurious effect on a good cause. After we had en- 
While all the truth of God should be present- joyed an agreeable interview he expressed a hope 
ed, each truth should have its proper place. that I should visit the place again and in a bet-
"Present truth," therefore, should be kept the ter state of health. In the evening my friend 
most prominent. God's true servants have al- took me to a meeting of the Independents, and 
ways observed this order,both under the Old and as soon as the first prayer was offered I was in- 
New Dispensations. 
vited to occupy the time, and in responding to 
This is seen in the ministry of John the Bap- the invitation, I gave a sketch of my history,and 
tist, and that of the twelve. Before Christ's re- presented the blessed hope, and its speedy re-
jection and crucifixion, their message was "Re alization. My own soul was refreshed while talk-
pent, for the reign of heaven is at hand." After ing. 
his resurrection, the people were required to During my stay in Kelso I formed a happy 
"confess with their mouth the Lord Jesus," and acquaintance with a most devoted young minis-
to "believe in their heart that God bath raised ter who holds the premillennial Advent, but who 
him from the dead," in order to "be saved." had entertained the idea that these things should 
"Preaching through Jesus the resurrection of be preached only to believers. I told him to preach 
the second Advent to all and in this way alarm 
the dead" was present truth then, and its pro- 
sinners as well as comfort saints. The same false 
mulgation "grieved the priests, and the captain 
of the temple, and the Sadducess," just as the notion is very common among millennarians ; 
 
and therefore this blessed light is to a great ex-
preaching of present truth grieves the people in 
these days. 
tent kept under a bushel. 
I may add that expecetd to find Dr. Bonar a 
To properly "feed" the church, duty requires 
that we acquaint ourselves with prophecy,history, very mild, quiet, calm preacher, but he has a 
 
and the signs of the times,so as•to know our posit- good share of energy, and often raises his voice 
tion in relation to the proximity of the day of to a high pitch even in the beginning of his dis-
God both for our own and the Church's good, course. This however is common with Scotch 
and so we may be able to answer correctly the preachers. 
 
inquiry now coming from every quarter, "watch- 
Thursday 26th I went to Hawiek—distance 
man what of the night ?" The book of Revela- about 26 miles. Here the Lord gave me much 
tion was given "to shew unto his servants things fruit of my labor 15 years since. I found the 
which must shortly come to pass," and it is the man who first invited me there. What a warm 
 
duty of Christ's ministers to study it, and so be reception I got! He and his wife are still strong in 
our precious faith and hope. She is fast sinking 
prepared to unfold its meaning for the comfort 
and encouragement of the saint,and the awaken- to the tomb, but she looks with joy to the resur- 
ing and conversion of the sinner. 
rection morn. A person who was a little girl 
w 
Some have felt that the doctrine of the Sa.hen she first heard me, came to greet me on 
 
m 
viour's soon coming was the only truth to bey arrival. I spoke words of instruction and 
 
proclaimed in these days, and hence have neg- comfort to her and to others ; and our meeting 
lected the study and development of other por- was mutually gratifying. But where were all 
tions of God's word,not only to their own injury, the rest ? Some of them in different parts of 
but to that of the "flock." A Christian minis- Sootland,—some of them in England, some of 
ter, as implied in the very term itself, is to them in Australia,and some of them dead. How-
"preach Christ" (2 Cor. 4: 5.), which takes in ever I have joy in what I have been informed of 
all the Bible. The "Scriptures are they which them. 
testify of Christ." "The testimony of Jesus is The best objection to the second coming of 
 
the spirit of prophecy." Biography, history, Christ which I ever heard was uttered in this 
prophecy, precept, promises, warnings, threaten. place, by an old woman. Being told that a man 
ings, and illustrations are all to be faithfully from Canada was preaching that Christ was corn- 
given. 
ing, she replied,—"He'll na come again, he'll 
He is boldly and honestly to declare the na come again, for he was na sa weel used when 
truth of God, "whether men will hear, or for- he was here." There was a redeeming quality in 
bear." He must not modify to please the car- her unbelief. There was sympathy with the suf-
nal, corrupt heart of men, 2: 17, and 4: 2. He fering Jesus, if not faith in the reigning Jesus. 
must not be "ashamed of the testimony of our There are other places of former labor which 
Lord," nor shrink from its faithful utterance, I hope to visit, but my state of health and the 
even though it subject him to trial and reproach. season of the year, admonished me to complete 
2 Tim. 1; 8, and 2: 2, 3. 
my tour in Scotlanefas soon as possible ! 
To be continued. 
Saturday 29th I went to Edinburgh. During 
well as the rich, the low as well as the high must 
receive his attention. He must evince no par-
tiality, but manifest an equal interest for all. 
4. He is to be an example to the flock in his 
THE ADVENT HERALD. 
SYLVESTER BLISS, EDITOR. 
In formation Wanted. 
Wanted the P. 0. address of Mark H. Stevens 
that we may credit him two dollars received Nov. 
26th. 
• 
A letter mailed in Boston, has come directed to 
our care for "J. M. Orrock. Will he direct in 
respect to it? 
my stay there I was the guest of a gentleman 
connected with the "Catholic Apostolic Church." 
This church arose, at least in part, out of the 
advent movement under Edward Irving ; though 
what is regarded as the restoration of the "gifts" 
did not begin in his congregation but at Port 
Glasgow. The above mentioned gentleman was 
a witness of those manifestations, and on a visit 
to London informed Mr. Irving of them ; and at 
the request of Mr. Irving he related them in the 
vestry to many of the church members. He fur-
ther told me that the gift of "tongues" first man-
ifested itself in an Episcopal church in London, 
but not being allowed there,the subjects of these 
"gifts" attended Mr. Irving's ministry, where 
they enjoyed freedom. The "Apostolic church" 
holds the four-fold ministry, viz. apostles, pro-
phets, evangelists, and pastors, as mentioned 
Ephesians 4: 1I, and believes that these are re 
stored to the church, with the different "gifts." 
The "tribes of the children of Israel" Rev. 7th 
are believed to be Christendotn,and the "sealing" 
to be by the imposition of apostolic hands, as in 
Ephesians 1: 13, compared with Acts 19: 1-
6 ; and that it is needful to be thus sealed in or-
der to share in the first translation ; and that 
those of God's people who do not receive this 
sealing will pass through "the great tribulation" 
and may share in the second translation, and be-
long to the great multitude whom no man can 
number," Rev. 1: 9. Their worship is some-
what peculiar, and to a stranger must seem po-
pish and especially to one of Puritanical ideas. 
They use a litargy taken from that of the church 
of England, and others. Their house of worship 
in Edinburgh is properly a cathedral, and they 
have had daily worship morning and evening for 
27 years, viz. at 6 o'clock in the morning and at 
5 in the evening; also at 9 in the morning two 
days in the week, and four sermons on the sab-
bath. The worship is conducted by the Angel 
or Bishop,—by at least four Priests, and two or 
tour Deacons. They are all in white vestments, 
excepting the "Angel," who has a dark one shap-
ed like a cloak. They observe the Lord's supper 
every Sabbath, and present the elements on the 
altar daily. Incense is used during the interces-
sory prayer, and it seems to enliven the worship 
which may in some manner be due to the pleas-
ure which it administers through the olfactory 
nerves. During my stay one of the "Apostles" 
came to E linbargh,—whom I heard preach once, 
and with whom I was invited to breakfast, and 
also to dine. He is an unassuming, intelligent, 
and devout man. He reminded me of one whom 
I much esteemed, viz. William Miller. I formed 
an agreeble acquaintance with the "Bishop," 
whom I should take to be a most excellent and 
kindhearted man ; also with an eminent Evange-
list who has labored much on the Continent, and 
who was excluded from Bavaria for seven years, 
by a statute mentioning him by name ; but h 
has now entire freedom,and is doing good in that 
papal country. I may add that there is much 
among those who are connected with this work 
to admire and love. 1. They are orthodox. 2. 
They hold the pre-millennial and speedy Advent. 
3. They make this very prominent. 4. They 
seem to be in the spirit of waiting and expecta-
tion. 5. They show their faith by their works, 
and devote much of their property to maintain 
divine worship, and to sustain those who labor 
as Evangelists. 6. They manifest a catholic spir-
it. In this they are far in advance of other sects. 
To be continued. 
THE TERMS OF THE HERALD. The terms of the 
Herald are two dollars a year, in advance ;—with 
as large an addition, as the generosity of donors 
shall open their hearts to give, towards making the 
A. M. Association an efficient instrumentality for 
good. 
Correspondents, on matters pertaining solely to 
eie office, should write " Office," on tha, envelope, 
t have their letters promptly attended to, if the 
editor be temporarily absent. 
and gnashing of teeth. Then shall the righteous 
shine forth as the sun in the kingdom of their Fath-
er." Ib. 25 : 31-34, 41, 46—"When the Son of 
man shall come in his glory, and all the holy angels 
with him, then shall he sit upon the throne of his 
glory : and before him shall he gathered all nations: 
and he shall separate them one from another, as a 
shepherd divideth his sheep from the goats : and lie 
shall set the sheep on his right hand, but the goats 
on the left. Then shall the King say unto them on 
his right hand, Come, ye blessed of my Father, in-
herit the kingdom prepared for you from the foun-
dation of the world. . . Then shall he say also un-
to them on the left hand, Depart from me, ye curs-
ed, into everlasting fire, prepared for the devil and 
his angels : and these shall go away in everlasting 
punishment, but the righteous into life eternal." 
"The "glory of Lebanon shall come unto thee, 
the fir-tree, the pine-tree, and the box together, to 
beautify the place of my sanctuary ; and 1 will make 
the place of my feet glorious."—v. 13. 
The "glory of Lebanon" is put by a metonymy 
for the cause of its glory—its beautiful and magni- 
ficent cedars. By a metaphor, they are said to 
"come" to those addressed, to illustrate that the 
new creation, the residence of the redeemed, shall 
be adorned with them. 35 : 1, 2—"The wilder- 
ness and the [solitiry place shall be glad, fhr them; 
and the desert shall rejoice, and blossom as the 
rose. It shall blossom ahundantly,and rejoice, even 
with joy and singing : the glory of Lebanon shall 
be given unto it,the excellency of Carmel and Shar-
on, they shall see the glory of the Lord, and the ex-
cellency of our God." 
Not only the cedar, but all manner of pleasant 
trees—the fir, the pine, and the box—will beautify 
the restored sanctuary. God has said, (41 : 19,) 
"1 will plant in the wilderness the cedar, the shit-
tali-tree, and the myrtle, and the oil-tree : and I 
will set in the desert the fir-tree, and the pine, and 
the box-tree together." 55: 13—"Instead of the 
thorn shall come up the fir-tree, and instead of the 
brier shall come up the myrtle-tree : and it shall be 
to the Lord for a name, for an everlasting sign that 
shall not be cut off." 
A "sanctuary" is a holy place. The temple in 
Jerusalem, the mountain on which it was built, 
and the country in which it was situated, 
were all called the sanctuary of God, because of the 
religion of Jehovah which was there observed and 
his presence which was there manifested. In the 
regenerated earth, the new Jerusalem will still he 
his sanctuary, because then, (Rev. 21 : 3, 4,) "The 
tabernacle of God is with men, and he will dwell 
with them, and they shall be his people, and God 
himself shall be with them, and be their God. And 
God shall wipe away all tears from their eyes ; and 
there shall be no more death, neither sorrow, nor 
crying, neither shall there be any more pain : for 
the former things are passed away.'' 
"The place" of God's "feet," is put by a synec-
doche for the place where his presence will be man-
ifested. Bishop Lowth renders it, "I will glorify 
the place whereon I rest my feet." When David 
thought to build a house fur the Lord, he said (1 
Chron. 28 : 2,) "I had in mine heart to build an 
house of rest for the ark of the covenant of the Lord, 
and for our God." In like manner the ark was 
thus denominated, because the holy Shechinah, the 
symbol of the diaine presence, appeared above it be-
tween the cherubim ; and so the Psalmist said, 
(Psa. 132 : 7,) We will go into his tabernacles : we 
will worship at his footstool." The earth also, as 
the place where God was to visit and at length to 
dwell with men, has the same denomination, (lea. 
66. 1,) "Thus saith the Lord, the heaven is my 
throne, and the earth is my footstool." Matt. 5 : 
31, 35—"Swear not by the earth ; for it 
is his footstool." The new earth is called the place 
of his feet, because there Christ will condescend to 
dwell with men, and be their God ; and therefore he 
will beautify it and make it glorious, that it may 
be an appropriate residence fur his redeemed. Num. 
14: 21—"As truly as I live, all the earth shall be 
filled with the glory of the Lord." Rev. 5 : 9. 10. 
"And they sung a new song, saying Thou art wor-
thy to take the book, and to open the seals thereof : 
for thou wast slain, arid bast redeemed us to God by 
thy blood out of every kindred, and tongue and 
people,and nation ; and bast made us unto our God 
kings and priests.and we shall reign on the earth." 
"The sons also of them that afflicted thee shall 
come bending unto thee ; and all they that despised 
thee shall bow themselves down at the soles of thy 
feet ; and they shall call thee, The city of the Lord, 
the Zion of the holy One of lsrael."—v. 14. 
The "suns of them that afflicted thee," are the 
descendents of those who had oppressed the people 
of God. And their coming "bending unto thee," 
is put by substitution for their renunciation of the 
errors of their fathers, and conversion to the relig-
ion of those who were oppressed. Thus the redeem- 
NEW YORK, Jan. 9. The Tribune has by tele-
graph from Washington an important disclaimer 
by M. Mercier, Ambassador of Napoleon HI, on be-
half of his Imperial Master, of any designs or pur-
poses adverse to the restoration of the integt:ity and 
authority of our Federal Union. 
LAST NEW YEAR'S Day. The New York Times 
says last New Year's Day deserves to be' hereafter 
known as a dies mirabilis, and gives the following 
reasons why it should have a special future memory; 
The President's Emancipation was issued on that 
day. 
The New Year opened on a lost field at Vicks-
burg. 
On that morning the rebels attacked our force 
and fleet at Galveston, Texas, and captured the 
place and the war steamer Harriet Lane. 
BOSTON, JANUARI! 20, t862. 
Same morning, General Sullivan attacked the 
fusee of the rebel Forrest near Lexington, Tenn , 
and defeated it with heavy loss. 
On New Year's Day West Virginia was created a 
State by the President's signing a bill for its admis-
sion into the Union. 
On the same day Col. Haskins,with a loyal Ken-
tucky regiment, attacked the guerrilla Morgan at 
Lebanon, Ky., killed several and captured sixty of 
his force, and spent the holiday in pursuing him. 
It is presumed from accounts that on New Year's 
Day Col. Philips, with 1200 loyal Indians drove 
the rebel red men across the Arkansas and destroy-
ed Fort Davis. 
On New Year's Day Hindman's defeated rebel ar-
my in Arkansas was 'dispersing in every direction,' 
and has not been heard of since. 
On New Year's Day the rebels under Marmaduke 
were marching upon Springfield, Mo., the attack 
upon which opened a few days later. 
On New Year's Day, in the army of the Potomac, 
all was quiet, but the rebels were making suspicious 
demonstrations above Falmouth, on the opposite 
side of the river. 
AD VENT HERALD. 
The readersof the Herald are most earnestly besoughtte 
give it room in their prayers; that by means of it God may 
be honored and his truth advanced ; also, that it may be 
conducted in faith and love, with sobriety of judgment and 
discernment of the truth, in nothing carried away into 
rror, or hasty speech, or sharp, unbrotherly disputation. 
Postage Stamps. 
Friends are reminded that postage stamps are no 
longer of any value to us if at all defaced. 
A Good Suggestion. 
BRO. BLISS :—Allow me to ask if you can turn 
to good account a large amount of old paper, such 
as newspapers, pamphlets, &e. If so, would not 
each of the subscribers to the Herald scrape up, box, 
and forward to the Herald office all they can spare, 
and see if some aid to the office may not be thus ren-
dered to compensate for the advanced price of paper. 
The friends in each town might fill a box. Yours 
for the cause of Christ. ERASTUS PARKER. 
Waitsfield Vt. Jan. 3 1862. 
We like the forgoing suggestion. We can dispose 
to our paper maker of any amount of paper that 
may be thus donated. If the friends wish to make 
an effort in that direction,they might collect in cen-
tral places the amounts contributed by the several 
individuals in each respective neighborhood,and then 
forward in large packages. Boxes would be unneces-
sary, as such stock can be sufficiently secured in 
large bundles to reach the office safely. 
It is important that what is done in this direc-
tion be done at once. It costs us twevle dollars ex-
tra, each week, for the advanced price of paper, and 
if this continues through the year it will make a 
large item. 
The friends in Providence offer to send 1000 
pounds. What place will exceed that. Let a com-
mittee be appointed to notify friends where and 
when papers will be received, and then let it be for-
warded. For instance, let the friends in the neigh-
borhood of Waterbury send to some place of deposite 
there, and then forward from there to Boston. In 
this way the freight would be less than if sent in 
separate packages. And the same in other localities. 
We would like a list of all contributors, with the 
number of pounds contributed by each, and will ac-
knowledge such as received. 
In sending, let each bundle contain only one kind 
of paper—that is, if any brown paper is sent, let it 
be in separate bundles from those containing print-
ed papers, which is much more valuable. Please 
mark the weight on each package. We shall look 
to the sisters to put this through. 
Those living isolated and at too great a distance 
can if they prefer, and wish to do so dispose of their 
papers to peddlers and send the avails. • 
We shall announce the receipt of packages in the 
order of their arrival. Who will first commence ? 
Exposition of the 60th or Isaiah. 
"And the sons of strangers shall build up thy 
walls, and their kings shall minister unto thee : for 
in my wrath I smote thee, but in my favor have 
I had mercy on thee."—v. 10. 
Other nations were denominated by the Jews 
"strangers," or foreigners. And the "sons of stran-
gers," so termed by a synecdoche, embrace all con- 
verts of Gentile descent. Their building up the walls 
of Zion, is put by substitution for their contribut-
ing to its prosperity. Thus said Zechariah, (6 : 
15,) "They that are afar off shall come and build 
in the temple of the Lord." 
"Their kings shall minister unto thee," has been 
partially fulfilled in their having been the "nursing 
fathers" of the church, (see note on 49 : 23) ; but 
it doubtless corresponds more perfectly with the 
new Jerusalem state, of which we read, (Rev. 21, 
24,) "The nations of them which are saved, shall 
walk in the light of it : and the kings of the earth 
do bring their glory and honor into it." 
"For," &e. This final restoration is an act of 
mercy, which will doubly compensate the people of 
God for all their afflictions—"smote," being put by 
substitution for the tribulations to which they were 
subjected. 
"Therefore thy gates shall be open continually ; 
they shall not be shut.day nor night ; that men 
may bring unto thee the forces of the Gentiles, and 
that their kings may be brought."—v. 11. 
This passage is evidently parallel with that in 
Rev. 21 : 25, 26—" And the gates of it shall not be 
shut at all by day : for there shall be no night there, 
And they shall bring the glory and honor of the na-
tions into it." 
Their gates being open continually, is put by 
substitution for the freedom of access which all in 
the renewed state are to have to the final blessedness 
of the redeemed ; and their bringing in the forces,or 
as it is in the margin, "the wealth" of the Gen-
tiles, is put by the same figure, for their glory and 
honor which shall be manifested in the converts 
from heathenism to God. 
That this is a period of reward and not of trial, 
is evident from what John adds, (Rev. 21 : 27,) 
"And there shall in no wise enter into it anything 
that defileth, neither whatsoever worketh abomina-
tions, or inaketh a lie : but they which are written 
in the Lamb's book of life." And this is shown by 
the destsuction, at the commencement of this peri-
od, of all the nations who reject Christianity : 
"For the nation and kingdom that will not serve 
thee shall perish ; yea, those nations shall be utter- 
ly wasted."—v. 12. 
This destruction embraces all unbelieving indi-
viduals, as well as unbelieving nations. For. (2 
Thess. 1 : 7-10,) "the Lord Jesus Christ shall be 
revealed from heaven with his mighty angels, in 
flaming fire, taking vengeance on them that know 
not God, and that obey not the gospel of our Lord 
Jesus Christ : who shall be punished with everlast-
ing destruction from the presence of the Lord, and 
from the glory of his power, when he shall come to 
be glorified in his saints, and to be admired in all 
them that believe (because our testimony among 
you was believed) in that day." Zech. 14 : 16—
"And it shall come to pass, that every one that is 
left„of all the nations which came against Jerusa-
lem, shall even go up from year to year to worship 
the King, the Lord of hosts, and to keep the feasts 
of tabernacles." Matt 13 : 40-43—"As 
therefore the tares are gathered and burned in the 
fire ; so shall it be in the end of this world. The 
Son of man shall send forth his angels, and they 
shall gather out of his kingdom all things that of-
fend, and them which do iniquity ; and shall cast 
them into a furnace of fire : there shall be wailing 
Correspondents who give only their town and not 
their State, or who fail to put on the actual P. 0. 
address to which their paper is directed, sometimes 
pmt us to a great inconvenietce,and a search of 
hours to find the name. 
THE ADVEN r HERALD 
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ed are to be from all nations and lands, as John be-
held, (Rev. 7 : 9, 10.) "And, lo, a great multi-
tude, which no man can number, of all nations,and 
kindreds, and people, and tongues, stood before the 
Lamb, clothed with white robes, and palms in their 
hands; and cried with a loud voice, saying, Salva-
tion to our God which sitteth upon the throne, and 
unto the Lamb." 
They that despised thee,bowing down at the soles 
of thy feet, is put by the same figure,for the change 
of feeling which the gospel should effect in the hearts 
of men; of which the conversion of Paul, "who was 
before a blasphemer, and a persecutor, and inju-
rious,"is an illustration. 
"Whereas thou hast been forsaken and hated, so 
that no man went through thee, I will make thee 
an eternal excellency, a joy of many generations. 
Thou shalt suck the milk of the Gentiles and shalt 
suck the breast of kings : and thou shalt know that 
I the Lord am thy Saviour and thy Redeemer, the 
mighty one ofJacob."-vs. 15, 16. 
Judea, Jehovah's sanctuary under the law, has 
been for long centuries desolated and trodden down 
by the Gentiles, and been a by-word among the na-
tions. Instead of being a great commercial centre, 
it has for a long ti me been of little commercial im-
portance. The caravans which visited and passed 
through it, no longer make it a great thorough-fare, 
which is probably the idea intended to be conveyed 
in the hyperbole,that "no man went through thee." 
In the regeneration, it becomes the great centre of 
the world. And this restored condition is to be 
eternal-the phrase "a joy for many generations," 
being a Hebraism' equivalent to a long duration. 
To "suck the milk of the Gentiles," is put by 
substitution for receiving sustenance and support 
from the nations that are not Jews ; and to "suck 
the breasts of kings," is a metaphor illu strative of 
the aid which the rulers of earth should render to 
the interests of Zion. The demonstrations that God 
has saved and redeemed his people will be so abun-
dant, that all will know his agency in their regen-
eration. 
"For brass I will bring gold, and for iron I will 
bring silver, and for wood brass, and for stones 
iron : I will also make thy officers peace, and thine 
exactors righteousness."-v. 17. 
The abundance of gold was a characteristic of the 
time of Solomon, and so much so that, (1 Kings 10: 
21, 27,) "all king Solomon's drinking vessels were 
of gold, and all the vessels of the house of the for-
est of Lebanon were of pure gold ; none were of sil-
ver : it was nothing accounted of in the days of 
Solomon . . And the king made silver to be in 
Jerusalem as stones, and cedars made he to be as 
the sycamore trees that are in the vale for abun-
dance." In a corresponding manner we read of the 
new Jerusalem (Rev. 21 : 18,) that, "the building 
of the wall of it was of Jasper ; and the city was of 
pure gold, like unto clear glass." 
The bringing of gold for brass,silver for iron,brass 
for wood, and iron for stones-superior metals for 
inferior ones-is by substitution,an illustration of 
the perfection, excellence,and abundance of the per-
fected state. 
By the metonymy, "peace" and "righteousness" 
are put for rulers possessed of those characteristics. 
'Exactors were collectors of tribute, or of debts, and 
they were often oppressive in their demands ; but 
there will be no unjust burdens imposed in the new 
creation. "For," (Isa. 33 : 22,) "the Lord is our 
judge, the Lord is our law-giver, the Lord is our 
king ; he will save us." 
"Violence shall no more be heard in thyland, 
wasting nor destruction within thy borders ; but 
thou shalt call thy walls salvation, and thy gates 
praise."-v. 18, 
During the gospel dispensation, as we learn from 
Matt. 24 : 6, 7, wars and rumors of wars were to 
continua. "For nation shall rise against nation, 
and kingdom against kingdom." And Isa. 9: 5, 
"every battle of the warrior is with confused noise, 
and garments rolled in blood." But when "the 
Lord shall utter his voice and the earth is melted," 
(Psa. 46 : G-9. "He maketh wars to cease unto 
the end of the earth ; he breaketh the bow, andcut-
teth the spear in sunder ; he burneth the chariot in 
the fire." Isa. 2 ! 4-"And he shall judge among 
the nations, and shall rebuke many people : and 
they shall heat their swords into plow-shares, and 
their spears into pruning-hooks : nation shall not 
lift up the sword against nation, neither shall they 
learn war any more." 
Violence is put by metonymy for the sound of vi-
olence ; and its not being heard,illustrates that vio-
lence should not there exist. And by metaphors, 
their walls are denominated "Salvation," and their 
gates "Praise," to illustrate that such will be the 
defenses of the redeemed inhabitants of the new 
earth. Isa. 26 : 1-"In that day shall this song 
be sung in the land of Judah ; we have a strong 
city ; salvation will God appoint for walls and bul- 
warks." In the apocalyptic visions. (Rev. 21: 12-
14,) John saw the New Jerusalem synabolized as 
having "a wall great and high,and had twelve gates, 
and at the gates twelve angels, and names writs 
thereon, which are the names of the twelve tribes o t 
the children of Israel. . . . And the wall of the ci-
ty had twelve foundations, and in them the names 
of the twelve apostles of the Lamb." 
Meeting of the Standing Committee. 
The quarterly meeting of the Standing Committea 
of the A. M. A. was held Jan. 6, 1863 at the offie., 
of the Advent Herald, the President in the chair. 
After prayer by Eld. L. Osier, the minutes of tf e 
previous meeting were read and approved. And a, 
ter that, the quarterly report of the Treasurer w. 
accepted and approved as follows : 
REPORT OF THE TREASURER OF THE A. M. A., Ft 
THE QUARTER ENDING JAN. 1. 1863. 
To the Standing Committee : The Treasurer of 
the A. M. Association would present the followil 
statement of its Receipts and Expenditures for tl 
quarter ending with the commencement of the pret• 
ent year. 
I. RECEIPTS. 
The receipts have been as follows : 
From payments of subscriptions to the Adver 
Herald, 
$726.7 
Sale of Books, 
29.3 
Donations, 
237.8 
Making 
$993.8 
Bal. of Cash Oct. 1 
582.4 
In hands of agents 
81.2 
• 
Total 
$1657 47 
II. EXPENDITURES. 
The expenditures have been for the same period, 
Fur editor, foreman, and compositors $438.00 
6, presswork, 
91.00 
"Folding I apers by machinery, 11.00 
"carting forms, 
13.00 
Pd. Bonham & Chubuck for cleaning 
and repairing stoves, including a new 
stove for office, 
29.46 
Pd. S. Adams for iron ash safe, 3.75 
Hobart. & Robbins for "sorts" and rol- 
lers, 
9.93 
Bills for paper 
307.10 
Postage on papers to Canada and England, 
stamps, and rent of Post office box, 18.90 
Exchange on uncurrent money 
.90 
Flour for paste, matches,oil, &c., 2.75 
Gas Bill, 
2.25 
Total of Expense, 
928.04 
Paid for books, merchandise, 
6.00 
Chash on hand, at date, 
526.80 
In hands of agents, 
196.63 
$1657.47 
After an informal discussson in respect to the ad-
vanced price of paper, and the best means of meet-
ing the increased expense, it was 
Voted, That the suggestion made by our Bro. 
Erastus Parker of Waitsfield Vt., that the readers 
of the Herald send in to the office all their old 
newpapers and other old paper they can raise for 
the benefit of the Herald---be and is hereby approved. 
And the friends at large are requested to join that 
brother in his good plan,-it being hoped thereby 
to prevent the necessity of reducing the present size 
of our Herald. And let all the friends of the cause 
send forward in compact bundles, all the old papers 
they may be able to collect, addressed to the care of 
Sylvester Bliss. 
Adjourned Attest. F. GUNNER, Rec. Sec. 
"That Passage.” 
"I am now ready to be offered, and the time of 
my departure is at hand. I have fought a good fight 
1 have finished my course, I have kept the faith : 
henceforth there is laid up for me a crown of right-
eousness, which the Lord, the righteous Judge,shall 
give me at that day ; and not to me only, but unto 
all them also that love his appearing," 2 Tim. 4: 
6-8. 
During the last months of the venerable Lyman 
Beecher, D.D.-who departed this life at the ripe 
age of 87 years, at the residence of his son in Brook-
lyn, N. Y., on the 11th of Jan. 1863,-his mental 
condition was exceedingly feeble and childlike. "For 
about a year and a half'," said his son in giving an 
account of his closing hours, "he had been like 
a traveler who had packed his trunk, and, expect-
ing every moment to start, could not unpack it." 
About two weeks before his death he called for 
"that passage." 
"After reading a multitude of passages, for he 
was unable to designate the particular one he de-
sired, the reader opened, by the good providence of 
God, to these verses : "For I am now ready to be 
offered, and the time of my departure is at hand. I 
have fought a good fight, I have finished my course, 
I have kept the faith ; henceforth there is laid up 
for me a crown of righteousness,which the Lord the 
righteous Judge, shall give unto me at that day ; 
and not to me only'- 
"They were proceeding to read farther, but my 
father cried 'Stop ! that is not for me ! This is my 
testimony ; write it down as mine.' And I think he 
could use those as fully and as justly as the man 
that wrote them. 
Scraps. 
ComTcrus,the great Chinese philosepher died, B. 
C. 479 ; his tomb is at Tzine-feu, in a magnificent 
grove of oak. 
The Order of Jesuits numbers at present in the 
world,-7.144. Increase in 14 years, 2.592. 
Dr. LIVINGSTON says the falls of Gambeci,Contral 
Africa, are 310 feet high, and in width 1800 years. 
The amount of cotton exhorted from Bombay to 
Europe the first five months of last year, was 837.-
631 bales, against 270.165 for the same time the 
preceeding year. The most strenuous exertions are 
being made in India to increase its production. 
A Moslem Missionary society has just been form-
ed, to carry the gospel to the Mohammedans., 
The French and Foreign Bible society have circu-
lated 3.000.000 bibles in France the last 18 years. 
There are at present in India, 1170 Missionaries, 
native preachers and catechists. 
The Wesleyan (Eng.) Missionary Society, raise 
$700.000 a year. How ? A secretary of the socie-
ty says, all ministers make its interests their own, 
and old and young, men women and children, are 
invited to contribute." An excellent example for 
the friends of the A. M. Association. Let us try it. 
The Polynesian, a Honolulu paper contrasts the 
peaceful state of those Islands with the barbarism 
and murders of the United States,and warns the peo-
ple to beware of our example. Truly, the men of 
Nineveh shall rise up in the judgment against this 
generation and condemn it. 
On the 25th Dec. Senator Lane gave notice of his 
purpose to introduce in the U. S. senate, a bill to 
raise 200 regiments of soldiers of African descent. 
American gold sold in Boston, in the middle of 
Jan. 1863 at $1.46 3-4. 
The Congregational Journal an old paper of over 
40 years standing, and the Oberlin (Ohio) Evange-
list of 25 years standing,have both been compelled to 
discontinue their issue for want of support, and the 
high price of paper. 
Certainly the friends of the Advent Herald have 
gteat reason for thankfulness,' that our Heavenly 
Father has so bountifully cared for its wants. Should 
we not return our thanks to him by trying to do 
more good with it, by increasing its circulation. 
A chaplain at N. 0. in a note to theIndependent, 
says, 
"I am met by men in camp and hospital every-
where,who ask, "Have you anything for us to read ?" 
Who will help supply this demand, and send them 
our tracts? 
DR. LYMAN BEECHER, father of Rev. Henry Ward 
Beecher,Masilarsiet Beecher Stow and other children 
noted fortheir pecularities,has gone to his rest,full of 
days and honors. He is famed as one of the leaders 
in inaugerating the great temperance reform,and for 
the part he took in the Unitarian controversy. He 
was 87 yearsof age last October. 
Monday Jan. 5th. President Lincoln sent the fol-
lowing dispatch to Gen. Rosecrans. "Your dis-
patch announcing the retreat of the enemy has just 
reached here. God bless you and all with you. 
Please tender to all, and accept for yourself, the na-
tion's gratitude for your and their skill, endurance 
and dauntless courage." 
Shinplasters are rejected by newspaper stores and 
Hotels in New York. 
A glorious revival is said to be in progress in 
Evansville, Ind. carried on, not by constant meet-
ings, but by the daily labors, prayers and efforts of 
the people of God. They meet to report results 
and receive converts. The right way to work. 
REV. D. BOSWORTH has resigned the pastoral 
charge of the Evangelical Advent church in Water-
bury, Vt. 
REV. D. ELWELL of Shippen, Pa. has resigned his 
pastoral charge of Messiah's church in that place 
and accepted a call from Messiah's church at Wood-
house, C. W. P. 0. address, Port Dover C. W. 
Rev. W. SWARTZ of Messiah's church Pa. has re-
ceived a unanimous call from Messiah's church N. 
Y. The church is prospering. 
REV. W. H. EASTMAN has resigned his charge of 
the Advent church, Whitefield,N. H. and removed 
to Grantham, N. H. 
REPORTER. 
"Of all occasions," says Cicero "none is more 
noble, none more stable, than that which is formed 
by good men, when they are united by the bond of 
friendship and congeniality of disposition." 
The Word Immortal. 
We apprehend that the difficulty in the mind of 
many in respect to the use of the word "immortal" 
consists in the meaning they attach to it. That is, 
they use it in its common and popular sense ; which 
is not its scriptural use. Common usage makes it 
expressive merely of an ever continuing.existance,ir-
respective of its nature or condition-applying it to 
the lost as well as the saved, But that is not the mean-
ing the Bible gives it, where it is contrasted with in-
dignation,and wrath,tribulation,and anguish,and as 
something to be sought for-showing that man is 
not now its possesssor, and that he never will be un 
less he has part in the first resurrection. Therefore, 
though the wicked exist forever, they will not be 
immortal ; for immortality is incompatable with im-
purity, with insincerity, with sin, or with suffer-
ing. For it is a condition of purity, of holiness, of 
happiness, of deathlessness. If Adam was created 
such, as he surely was, then was he created im-
mortal according to its scriptural usage. But if he 
was created a sinner, and miserable, then was he 
not immortal. Immortality is thus a condition. 
But Adam sinning lost that condition, which can be 
regained only through Christ. 
New Subscribers. 
BRO. BLISS :-Permit me to say a word to the 
friends of the Herald on the importance of increased 
efforts to extend its circulation. With the com-
mencement of the new year can we not all go to 
work and add, within three months, another thou-
sand to its subscription list ? I believe we can. 
The price of paper is nearly doubled and the 
excess of cost must be met ; and this is the proper way 
to meet it. 
It will be a blessing to every family where it 
is read. 
It will increase the interest of its readers in 
the welfare and support of the church and cause. 
It will greatly please the editor, and relieve 
the association from embarrassment. Brethren, sis-
ters, one and all, what say you ? Let us be all at; it 
and always at it. 
J. LITCH. 
The War. 
New York, Jan. 18. A special dispatch to the 
Sunday Mercury from Washinton, dated yesterday, 
says: "The army of the Potomac is in motion and a 
battle is probably raging. The crossing of the river 
was doubtless effected to-day at Richard's Ford." 
The same dispatch also says : "From news received 
at the War ,Department it is now deemed certain 
that Gen. Burnside is by this time across the river, 
and the rebels are skedadling inland. All the army 
officers in Washington have left for the battle-field." 
{Note by Reporter of the Associated Press. The 
forgoing is to be received with caution.] 
The same,correspondent says : "The Vicksburg 
expedition is being rapidly reorganized. Gen. Grant 
is to have command, with Gen. McClernand second 
in command. The force will reach I00,000 men. 
New York, Jan. 17. The Times' Washington dis-
patch, speaking of the Army of the Potomac, says 
for some days it has been known a movement was 
again in contemplation, and the loyal North should 
not be many days behind the rebels in the knowl-
edge that our veterans are again on the road to 
Richmond. 
The same dispatch states there isin the Quarter-
master's department here condemned clothing to 
the value of $1,280,000 which was regularly inspec-
ted and passed last year by the inspectors in Phila-
delphia, and the contractors paid their full value. 
Being unfit for use in the field, it has been turned 
over to the hospitals. 
Unless some unexpected cause shall interfere Gen. 
Butler will be induced to assume command of the 
Department of the South as soon as arrangements 
can be made providing another command for Gen. 
Banks in the same direction. 
Cairo, Ill., Jan. 17. The Rain Storm left Arkan-
sas Post on Monday, and arrival here to-day. She 
confirms the capture of that place. The attack was 
made on Friday evening by the gunboats. The land 
force debarked two miles below, and marched to the 
rear of the rebel fortifications and took them. Two 
miles below the main fOrt the :rebels had erected 
earthworks, which were shelled by our gunboats. 
Three balls entered the port holes of the Lexington, 
killing four men. The main fort,which is represent-
ed as very strong,surrendered on Monday. The offi-
cers of the Rain Storm say that six rebel regiments 
were captured in the earthworks. 
At daylight on Monday, two Texan regiments, 
who came to reinforce the place,being ignorant that 
it had surrendered, were also captured. Nearly all 
the ammunition taken by the rebels from the steam-
er Blue Wing, some days since, was captured. 
A reconnoissance ekt up the river had not return-
ed when the Bain Storm left. 
Our loss is not so heavy as when first reported. 
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CORRESPONDENCE 
In this department, articles are solicited, on the general 
subject of the Advent, from friends of the Herald, over 
their own signatures, irrespective of the particular views 
which it defends. Views of correspondents not dissented 
from, are not necessarily to be considered as editorially 
endorsed. Correspondents are expected to avoid all per-
sonalities, and to study Christian courtesy in all references 
to views and persons. Any departure from this should be 
regarded as disentitling the writer to any reply. Christian 
and gentlemanly discussion will be in order ; but not 
needless, unkind, or uncourteouscontroversy. 
tiornrimi 
Watchfulness. 
"Watch therefore : fur ye know not what hour 
your Lord doth come." 
Brethren, Adventists,children of the Kingdom, ye 
who love, or have loved heretofore the appearing of 
the Lord, to you these words are especially address-
ed by your risen, ascended, and coming Lord and 
King. "Take ye heed. The times are critical. Per-
ils are increasing and await the church. Sad and 
fearful times are at hand for a God forsaken world. 
Wrath, dreadful, awful, is in store for the wicked 
and ungodly. The second woe is past ; and, behold 
the third woe cometh quickly." Even now it may 
have begun ! "The seventh angel is about to sound, 
and the nations become fearfully "angry ;" and 
God's "wrath come, and the time of the dead, that 
they should be judged." And "the time of trouble, 
such as never was since there was a nation" break 
in alarming calamities upon the doomed kingdoms of 
the world. "Men's hearts" are aiready "failing 
them for fear, and for looking after those things 
which are coming on the earth," which will great-
ly increase till they shall expire under the vexatious 
reports and perplexities of the last days. Watch ye 
therefore, and pray always, that ye may be account-
ed worthy to escape all these things that shall come 
to pass, and to stand before the Son of Man." Eve-
ry Adventist in the land and the world now should 
be awake. Every "virgin" should'have her lamp 
trimmed and burning. It is a surprise that with the 
increasing evidences that the day of God is so near 
that any believer should be sleeping at his post. 
Who could have thought that you should ever have 
become so indifferent to the hope of the Lord's com-
ing ? That you should sleep and slumber now, amid 
the muttering thunders of the the approaching:storm 
of the Divine wrath? Alas ! it is so. And will you 
awake ? Awake ! in God's name awake ! Be ye ready 
for the duties of the times, and to reply to the anx-
ious fears that are coming upon the world, lest you 
be dumb and confounded when they inquire, "What 
of the night !" Arise, and shake yourselves from 
sloth, and from the dust of this sordid world and 
trim yonr lamps of faith and of hope to rise when 
your Lord shall come for his chosen ones ; and "save 
yourself from the doom,of this wicked and adulterous 
generation." Seek to save your families, and offer 
prayer continually for the unconverted members of 
your households that they blame you not for your 
unfaithfulness in the day of judgment. Strive to 
warn and save the ungodly and sinners from "the 
wrath to come !" Meet with your brothers of "like 
precious faith," instead of going among the oppos-
ers and scorners of your Lhope, or wandering about 
from place to place where you can have no Chris-
tian influence to enlighten the mind of others on the 
signs of the times," or evidences of the Lord's com-
ing at hand ; not forsaking the assembling of your-
selves together as the manner of some is ; but ex-
horting one another ; and so much the more as ye 
see the day approaching." "Wherefore, comfort 
yourselves together, and edify one another" as you 
should do. Perhaps some of you have like some of 
the followers of Jesus in the days of his flesh become 
"offended" because of "hard sayings" which you 
could not bear ; and murmurings and disputings like 
the children of Israel in the wilderness which you 
could not endure, and therefore have left, and fol-
low the waiting ones no longer. thinking by so do-
ing you would have more peace and punish 
your brethren for their impudence. But you have 
found that you have not grown in grace, but rather 
become cold and dead in faith, and that you have 
punished youselves most, and are liable to perish in 
the burning lake at last. Arise! ye scattered and 
peeled ones, grieved and offended ones, and renew 
covenant with God and his people and come out ful-
ly again on the Lord's side, the side of his truth, 
and meet with the now quiet and happy waiting 
ones joyful in their hope, with light in their dwell-
ings as darkness settles dow upon the luke-
warm church and wicked well" If you treat the 
econd advent with indifference and follow not where 
Jesus' truth leads, and are ashamed of his words, 
you would have so done when Jesus was upon the 
earth in his first coming,and been found with a phar-
asaical and hypocritical multitude who despised the 
Lord. Beware ! study thy heart. Look well to your 
experience and hope. Where there are advent meet-
ings made up of consistent Christian men and wo-
men of faith and prayers within 5, 10, 15: 20 or 30 
miles, arrange to attend if at considerable cost. 
Whatever the trouble or expense, you will be well 
paid in the end, and it will be at less cost than the 
loss of yourselves as cast aways. The Countess lof 
Beauford the last few years of her life rode on horse- 
back upwards of a distance of sixteen miles to and 
from places w here she could hear the gospel in its 
purity ; both summer and winter this was her cus-
tom ; and neither frost, snow, rain, or bad roads 
were sufficient to deter her from the house of God. 
0 how little of this interest and zeal in these days 
to attend on the means of grace as in former days of 
old. In every place, town, village, a city where 
there are two or three adventists,come together and 
start a prayer meeting once a week,or oftener if you 
chose, and when your hearts get filled with faith 
and the holy Spirit invite others to attend. There 
are in the cities advent meetings, where those in ad-
jacent towns can congregate at a trifling expense. 
In this city there are three excellent congregations 
of the saints where the Lord is blessing his people ; 
and such are the communications by horse railroad 
that brethren and sisters could come in and ,,have a 
feast every Lord's day, and be ready for the Lord's 
coming, by the increased faith and zeal which they 
would cultivate. Don't have scruples about patron-
izing these public conveyance on the sabbath for 
this purpose. The devil will have them going, and 
let us improve them for good. It will be no worse 
a sin for us than to harness a horse and ride the 
same distance to attend church. In this be careful 
you dont in your excuses and care for the sabbath, 
"strain at a gnat and swallow a camel." I believe 
we should keep the Lord's day holy, and we do so 
by being assembled with the church on the first day 
of the week." If feeble and infirm, or the distance 
be so great that you cannot walk, at a very trifling 
expense you can obtain the bread of life and enjoy 
communion with your brethren and sisters in the 
established places of their worship. Brethren, Ad-
ventists, you need these means of grace to keep 
alive your faith. Your brethren in every place 
where they assemble need your presence and help in 
these times of peril to encourage them. Dent let 
your brethren go up to war and ye stand idle. Be 
willing as did Moses to suffer affliction with the 
people of God, than to enjoy the pleasure of sin for 
a season ; esteeming the reproach of Christ greater 
riches than the treasures in Egypt ; for he,had re-
spect unto the recompense of the reward " My 
heart and soul are stirred within me to awake my 
dear brethren and sisters throughout the length and 
breadth of the laid to watchfulness, diligence, and 
holy zeal, and work in view of the coming of the 
Lord at hand. Brethren why will you _not rally ! 
Why not awake to the importance of so doing ! 
You have but a little while to prepare for the judg-
men, or to labour in his vinyard. Live every day 
as you will wish you had lived when your Lord 
shall come identified with his waiting people, look-
ing for redemption as you will wish you had been 
when he shall come to redeem them. Where you 
now are—with your influence where it now is—and 
doing what you do—are you satisfied to meet your 
judge ? or will you be ashamed before him at his 
coming? ask yourselves these questions before God. 
May the Lord by his Spirit, make us all more faith-
ful in his service—more willing to suffer with his 
people—more ready to bear the cross—more pure 
and holy minded, that we may be found worthy of 
the reward of the just in the day of his coming. 
"Ye saints of God, awake to duty ! 
Hark ! Hark ! the message from the skies, 
Your King, descending in his beauty, 
With saints and angels bids you rise. 
Shall earthly pleasures, still deceiving, 
With Satan's host and fiery darts, 
Now darken and enthrall your hearts, 
While Christ for your delay is grieving? 
Arouse ! arouse ! ye saints, 
Yours arms and hearts r repare ! 
Press on ! press on ! all hearts resolved 
A conqueror's crown to share." 
0. R. FASSETT. 
Boston Jan. 13 1863. 
Earthly objects are fleeting, 
All earthly joys and pleasure scenes 
Refuse a long delay ; 
Upon the swift winged flights of time 
They're quickly borne away. 
Our friends, though dear, like vernal flowers 
Can ne'er long with us stay ; 
They pass a few brief moments here, 
And then are swept away. 
So we, like friends and pleasure scenes, 
Are creatures of a day : 
A few revolving scenes at most, 
And we are passed away. 
This earthly ball we tread upon 
Is doomed to sure decay ; 
With all its boasted wealth, it will 
Most surely pass away. 
The silvery moon, and golden sun; 
Which rules the night and day, 
Are destined, by the eternal word, 
To also pass away. 
The nightly gems, and starry hosts, 
That mark the "Milky Way," 
Will cease in their celestial course, 
And they will pass away. 
Time, old father time himself, 
Who first did give the day, 
A mighty angel will declare 
That he has passed away. 
ALONZO PHELPS. 
The "heavens," declared in the Scriptures to be 
destined to be dissolved, we regard as this lower 
heavens, in which the birds fly and winds blow ; so 
that the heavenly orbs, with the restored earth, we 
regard as a permanency. 
Ed. 
New Yeas's Wishes. ' 
DEAR Bee. BLISS : I wish you a happy new 
year. Now if I am sincere in this wish, I ought to 
do what God requires of me in contributing toward 
your happiness during the year now commenced. I 
have thought not a little during the day in regard 
to the subject of wishing others a happy new year. 
It is to be feared that a large proportion of those 
who give utterance to this wish do it merely from 
the force of habit, and therefore take no pains af-
terwards to prove by their works that they were sin-
cere wishers. 
First of all, we shsould truly desire the spiritual 
good of the one to whom we wish a happy new 
year ; that such a one, if already a believer in God 
by having confessed his Son before men, may this 
year,more than in any one previous "grow in grace 
and in the knowledge of our Lord Jesus Christ ;" 
and to the one that has not yet confessed Christ, 
that this may be the glad year of an espousal to 
"the Lamb of God which taketh away the sins of 
the world. 
In a work entitled "A Spiritual Treasury," for 
the children of God, consisting of meditation for 
each day in the year upon select texts of scripture, 
written by William Mason many years ago, is the 
following for January 1 : Text—" We see Jesus. 
Heb. 2 : 9. Fine sights of human pomp and world-
ly grandeur captivate and ravish worldly minds. It 
is common to hear persons say, 0, I could sit all 
night to see a fine play ! But one sight of the 
matchless charms and dawning glories of our Sa-
viour makes all other things appear mean and con-
temptible. We turn our eyes from them and say, 
I put away these childish things ; I have a heaven-
ly object, infinitely superior to such low and per-
ishing vanities. 
"I know one, who having heard that faithful 
minister of Christ, Mr. Whitefield, when be first 
preached in the field, upwards of thirty years ago, 
on being asked which he liked best to hear him 
preach, or see Vauxhall ? profanely replied, 
"Whitefield only preaches of heaven, but Vauxhall 
is heaven itself." Poor soul ! he was then blind to 
his want of Christ, and to Christ's glory and excel-
lency. But to the glory of his rich grace,that poor 
sinner is out of hell, and can now happily join the 
faithful in saying, we see Jesus. So then, the once 
profane sinner is changed into the "enthusiast " 
Enthusiasm to Jesus ! "Enthusiastic this ? "Then 
all are blind but rank enthusiasts." The essence 
of the Gospel, the joy of sinners, and the glory of 
faith consist in this sight. What is life itself with-
out it ? Alas, we have lost all righteousness, holi-
ness, and happiness, in ourselves ; but we see all 
these, with heaven and glory, restored to us in 
Christ. 0 blessed day ! happy hour ! joyful mo-
ment ! when the sight of our inestimably precious 
Savior first saluted the eyes of our mind and be-
came the object of our faith ! It:was the begin-
ning of days ; yea, our birth day to eternal blessed-
ness. 
"This sight is a feast to our souls all the year. 
We delight to begin the year with seeing Jesus. We 
salute one another with, wish you a happy hew 
year. What mean we, but I wish you to see Je-
sus ? What can make the year happy without 
this ? This creates heaven is the soul. Then it is 
a happy year indeed. But without this precious 
view of faith we can get no ease from the burden of 
sin, and our souls must be miserable. This world 
can afford us no real happiness. The thoughts of 
death will torment us ; and the view of judgment 
fill us with dread and terror. But, 0 happy sin-
ners, who can bless God with Simeon and say, 
'Mine eyes have seen thy salvation !' Luke 2 : 30. I 
see Christ ; he is all my salvation and all my desire. 
Ye heaven-born, highly favored souls, well may ye 
say, 'Time hasten on ; years, roll round ; moments 
fly swiftly ; and bring me to the full enjoyment of 
my beloved Savior in his kingdom of glory.' 
"We see Jesus, who saw us, loved us, pitied and 
saved us when dead in our sins, caused by the law, 
and polluted in our blood. We look back and see 
him an outcast babe, a despised MAN, crucified as 
a vile malefactor, and bearing our sins on the cross, 
made a sacrifice for our souls, and redeeming us to 
God by his blood. We glory in him as the only 
atonement for our sins and our own righteouanese 
to justify our souls ; for he is the Lord our right- 
eousness. Jer. 23 : 6. We look up and see Jesus 
crowned with glory and honor, pleading our cause 
and intercedingefor our persons at the right hand of 
God, and ever living to save us to the uttermost. 
We look forward to judgment ; awful day ! we see. 
" 'A trembling world, and a devouring God.' 
"But 0 bow bright the prospect ! we see Jesus 
coming with power and great glory to receive us to 
his kingdom, that where he is there we may he also. 
"Do we thus see Jesus by faith as revealed in the 
word of truth ? Then we are new creatures in him. 
We are called with Moses, 'to endure as seeing llim 
who is invisible.' Ileb. 11: 27. We are exhorted to 
Slay aside every weight, and the sin which doth so 
easily beset us, and run with patience the race set 
before us, looking unto Jesus, the author and finish-
er of onr faith.' Ileb. 12: 1, 2. Thus we obey the 
will of God our Father, who commands us, 'Behold 
mine elect, in whom my soul delighteth,' lea. 42: 
1; 'my beloved Son, in whom I am well pleased.' 
Matt. 3: 17. 
To the foregoing I must add a hearty, Amen. Let 
me assure you, dear brother, that the coming of the 
Lord has never seemed to me more desirable than 
for two or three months past. 0 I find it to be good 
and heart cheering to be settled in the belief of a 
soon coming Saviour. I don't know how I could get 
along without such a blessed hope. It is indeed con-
soling in these troublous times to believe that Jesus 
is soon coming. Then, then will be no more wars 
nor rumours of wars ; but all will be peace and glo-
ry when the meek will come into possession of that 
earth which Jesus promised them,when he was here 
on this earth. 
I was thinking about giving a short sketch of my 
experience in regard to this blessed hope,but I must 
defer it to another time as it would make this arti-
cle entirely too long. 1 will say, however, that it is 
about twenty one years since 1 first become interested 
in the speedy personal coming of the Lord Jesos 
Christ. 
JOSEPH. FAIRBANKS. 
Farmington Me. Jan. 1 1862, 
From Bro. J. Spear. 
BRO. BLISS :—I rejoice that there are a few in 
these last days, amid the excitement of war and 
trials of the present age,looking for the blessed hope 
and glorious appearing of our Lord and Saviour Je-
sus Christ,—though we are told by some that we have 
no reason to look for the speedy advent of Christ, 
because of there being a great work to be done be-
fore he can come, the second time ; and that his 
kingdom did come at his first advent, and is now be-
ing established by the preaching of the gospel. Such 
are looking for the fulfillment of Isaiah 2: 4, "And 
he shall judge ainong the nations, and shall rebuke 
many people and they shall beat their swords into 
plowshares and their spears into pruning hooks ; na-
tion shall not lift up swords against nation, neither 
shall they learn war any more. 0 house of Jacob, 
come ye and let us walk in the light of the Lord." 
Others deny the divinity or God head of Christ. 
This to my mind is a very erroneous doctrine and 
yet some will harp on it where ever they go. 
We have no regular preaching; but the Spirit of 
the Lord is with us, and we pray the Lord of the 
harvest to send some faithful preacher this way. It 
affords me pleasure to forward you the name of a 
new subscriber for the Herald. 
Yours in hope of immortal life. 
JEREMIAH SPEAR. 
Bebee Plain, C. E. Jan. 7 1563. 
Tour West. 
My health is now good and I shall continue my 
labors, as follows : 
Buchanan, Mich. as D. R. Mansfield shall ar-
range, Jan. 20 and over the sabbath. Ho ,se for a 
general gathering. Reading Miclo as N. N. Sey-
mour shall arrange Jan. 30, over the sabbath and 
the week following. 
Then I go to Ill. to hold some meetings, as shall 
be arranged by the friends there. I wish to hear 
from them at Buchanan, Mich. care D. K. Mans-
field. I will try to make up for the disappoinment 
at Deer Park, by the will of God. 
From Iii. I shall go to Kentucky instead of Can-
ada West. 
JOSHUA V. DIMES. 
Lying of all vices is the hardest to be got rid 
of. 
_eseee4:1- 
THE ADVEN F HERALD 
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DIED in Gilford, Nov. 5 Brother BENJAMIN T. 
LIBBY, of typhoid fever,in the sixty seventh year of 
his age-over half of which he had been a professor 
of religion. He was a firm believer in the speedy 
coming of the Lord ; which was his theme and com-
fort through life, and his support in death. He 
was a kind husband, an obliging neighbor, a good 
citizen, and an exemplary Christian. lie bore his 
sickness with patience and resignation, and con-
versed freely with his companion giving all needful 
directions, feeling that the time of his departure 
was at hand. He was all ready to be offered, and 
longed for the time to come. lie has left a wife, 
one son,grandchildren,and many other warm friends 
who deeply mourn his loss. 
A discourse was delivered at the funeral by the 
writer, from Rev. 14 : 13. JOHN KNOWLES. 
The above beautiful hymns have been published 
in sheet form,arranged to familiar airs for the piano. 
Price post paid 1 copy 5cts. 12 do 5o et. Address 
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COME ALL YE WEEPING PILGRIMS. 
SONG OF THE SECOND ADVENT. 
MUSIC. 
 111111••=11111. 
When Christ, in his majesty,biddeth her "come ;" 
The sweet resurrection ! that bright day of glad-
ness ! 
Will snatch from the tomb her dust and decay ; 
No anguish or pain, no sorrow or sadness, 
Can visit thee then, as time passes away ! 
She patiently bore the disease that was blighting 
Her body, nor murmured at anguish and pain ; 
The goodness and love of our God was delighting 
Her heart, from him praising she ne'er could re- 
frain . 
The purest religion her bosom was filling; 
No pain could restrain her from praising the name 
Of the One she adored, whose glory was thrilling 
Her breast, as she dwelt on his undying fame ! 
She has faded away, as the pure light of morning 
That shineth so brightly, then leaves us the while; 
The sanctified earth she will soon be adorning-
Then on her pure lip is wreathed joy's sunny smile. 
She is waiting the moment the blessed Eternal 
Shall call her to dwell on the glorified, earth, 
There to dwell with the seraphim pure and super- 
nal, 
As she gains through the Saviour an immortal 
birth. 
Gone ! gone from our midst, is the pure and the 
holy, 
To dwell with the righteous, immortal and fair; 
When the earth is renewed-the good and thelow-
ly, 
Will enter a land free'd from sorrow and care, 
That beautiful laild where pure rivers are flowing, 
And flowers gently nourished forever will bloom ; 
To this pearly-hued home our departed is going, 
When the casket is snatched from the merciless 
tomb. 
She has gone, and forever, from this vale of sorrow, 
To dwell in a purer and happier clime; 
In a lovlier sphere, and a far brighter morrow-
Unsullied by grief, and untarnished by Time ; 
In the purified earth, with rejoicing and singing, 
And soft swelling strains from the harp and the 
lyre, 
Ere long, through the City, the notes will be ring-
ing, 
Melodious ! sweet ! from the immortal choir ! 
Farewell !-for a time-the adieu's sadly spoken ! 
We mournfully miss thee, but know it is vain ! 
From earth thou hast withered, the circle is brok- 
en. 
Oh ! may we not happily meet thee again ? 
Sweet be thy repose, and downy thy pillow, 
With bliss may thy cup be for e'er running o'er ; 
May thy bark gently pass o'er the dark lonely bil- 
low, 
And anchor in safety upon the bright shore ! 
TIIEO. D. C. MLLLER. 
WHITTEN'S GOLDEN SALVE is a step by way of 
progress in the healing art. It is adapted to all the 
purposes of a family Salve. It effectually cures piles, 
wounds, bruises, sprains, cuts, chilblains, corns, burns, 
fever-sores, scrofulous humors, erysipelas, salt-rheum, 
king's evil, rheumatism, spinal difficulties, chafings in 
warm weather, &c. &c., and is believed by many experi-
enced and competent judges to be the best oc•nbination of 
medicinal ingredients for external inflammatory difficul-
ties that has ever been produced. Many of the best phy-
sicians of the various schools use it and also recommend it. 
Every farmer should have it for horses ; for the cure of 
scratches, sprains, chafings, &c., and also for )re teat on 
cows. It cures felons. It cures warts. 
From Mr. Morris Fuller, of North Creek, N. Y.: "We 
and your Golden Salve to be good for everything that we 
have tried it for. Among other things for which we have 
used it, is a bad case of ' scald head ' of our little girl. 
tss effect in this case was also favorable. 
We like your Golden Salve very much in this place 
Among other things I knew a lady who was cured of a 
very bad case of sore eyes. Walter S. Plummer, Lake 
Village, N. H. 
Mrs. Glover, East Merrimack street, Lowell, was cure p 
of a bad case of piles by the use of one box of the Salve, 
Mr. Farrington, a wealthy merchant ,and manufacturr 
OBITUARY. 
Bao. Buss: It becomes my duty to give notice of 
the death of our eldest SOB, LOREN DUDLEY, w o 
was killed on the battleifield October 8,1862. He was 
born March 31, 1822, in Chazy N. Y. He was a 
very pleasant and obedient boy ; and I can say of 
him, what not every Father can say of his son, that 
he never told rue a falsehood, to my knowledge, in 
his life. When about 14 years old, he gave his 
heart to Christ, and became a member of the M. E. 
church ; where he remained, a consistent Christian 
until the Fall of 1844, when he embraced the soon 
coming of Christ, and the doctrines connected with 
that event as taught by Win, Miller. He was mar-
ried when about 24 years old ; and in the course of 
four or five years afterwards he, with his little fam-
ily, removed to Wauwega, Waupaca Co., Wis. 
where he settled on a farm. There being no Ad-
vent church in that place, he joined the M. E. 
church, where he stood in full connection when he 
enlisted. He did not think it was his duty to be 
drafted, when the country was in such great peril. 
lie enlisted August 9th, left his home September 
11th, prayed with his family as usual, told them 
they might never meet again in this world,but that 
they must try to meet in heaven,and took his leave 
of them to see each other no more until the morn-
ing of the resurrection. He belonged to the 21st 
Regiment, Company B., Wisconsin Volunteers. He 
went to Cincinnati, Ohio, with the regiment, and 
then to Kentucky ; and in two months, lacking one 
day from the time he enlisted, he gave up his pre-
cious life in that awful battle at Chaplin heights, 
near PerryvilleKentucky, on the 8th day of Octo-
ber 1862. He will be held sacred in the memory 
of a great many Christians who have been blessed 
under his prayers, exhortations, and songs. He 
was one of those sort of Christians who are always 
at their post. It has been said to me by some of 
his former associates, since we heard of his death, 
that they always found Loren as his post in Zion. 
But, alas, he is gone. We have had some severe 
trials to pass through, but this far exceeds all oth-
ers put together. I have thought some times that 
I was prepared for the worst ; but when my dearly 
beloved son came to his end as he did, it was too 
much for me, as well as for my wife,to endure with 
the supply of grace we had. We fled to the only 
source for help ; by our renewing our covenant with 
God, he does sustain us ; and we have a hope that 
takes hold of the speedy return of the Nobleman, 
who will write up his people, and make an end of 
anguish and misery. I do not expect to see any 
better times than I now see until he does come. 
This from your humble Brother in deep affliction. 
LEVI DUDLEY. 
Murfreesboro, N. Y. Jar,. 11th, 1863. 
DIED. At Castleton Jan. 7, 1863 SABRIONA, 
wife of CLARK STEVENS, in the 59th year of her 
age. 
Death has entered the cheerful cottage home, and 
taken from our midst a wife and mother. After a 
painful illness of cancer, which was patiently borne, 
she has left us, but for a little season. 
She lived a pious life, and was respected by all 
who knew her ; and, as a neighbor asserted : her 
death is a loss to the neighborhood and society. 
Many friends and relatives will miss the kind friend 
now cold in death ; and that lonely house-hold band 
will mourn the cheerful but departed light of home. 
They hope to meet her in a more blissful abode ; 
for soon will dawn a brighter morn,when she will be 
clad in immortality, and reign with the righteous 
in the Kingdom of God. 
She has gone from onr midst-from this drear vale 
Frailof sorrow- 
ge 
,12e will Pilgrima ende-her work is mw done ; 
peacefully rest
d 
 till the fair comilg-morrow 
in Lowell, was relieved of piles which had arnicted him 
for many years, and remarked to friend that it wa • 
!worth $100 a box for piles. 
Miss Harriet Morrill, of East Kingston, N. H., says : '1 
have been afflited with piles for over twenty years. The 
eat seven years I have been a great sufferer. And though 
never expect to be well, yet to be ;relieved as 1 am from 
Jay to day by the use of your Golden Salve, fil may heart 
with gratitude." 
From Mr. J. 0. Merriam, Tewksbury, Mass. "I have 
a large milk farm. I have used a great deal of your Gol-
den salve for sore teats on my cows. I have used man) • 
other kinds of salve. Yours is the best I ever saw. 1 
have also used it for sprains and scratches on my horses. 
It cures them in a short time. I recommend it to all who 
keep cows or horses." 
From Dr. Geo. Pierce, Lowell : " Your Golden Salve is 
good. It will have a great sale." 
From Dr. W. S. Campbell, New Britain, Conn. : "Your 
Golden Salve is a great thing ter chilblains. I have also 
used it in afflicting cases of salt rheum, erysipelas, and 
sore nipples. Its effect was, a speedy and permanent cure." 
Dr. Bliss, of Brunswick, Me., says : " I have several 
friends who have been cured of scrofulous humors by the 
Golden Salve. You may ecommend it from me as a val-
uable Salve." 
" I received a wound in my foot by a rusty nail ; by 
reason of which I could not set my foot to the floor for 
two weeks. The pain was excruciating. When your Gol-
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and two and a half boxes of it wrought a perfect cure."-
Mrs. Lucinda A. Swain, Merideth Centre, N. H. 
Mr. H. L. W. Roberts, Editor of Marion Intelligencer, 
Marion, Ill., says, "Every person that uses the Golden 
Salve testifies favorably." He has also published a list of 
names in his paper, of persons cured of wounds, sores, hu-
mors, rheumatism, &c., and gives the public reference to 
them ; who, he says, are among the first citizens of the 
place. 
THE GOLDEN SALVE-A GREAT HEALING REMEDY.-It 
is with much pleasure we announce the advent of this new 
article in our city, which has met with such signal sii,ocess 
in Lowell, where it is made, that the papers have teemed 
with cases of truly marvelous cures. They chronicle one 
where the life of a lady was recently saved-a case of bro-
ken breast ; another where the life of a child was saved-
a case of chafing ; another of a lady whose face was much 
disfigured by scrofulous humor, which was brought to a 
healthy action in a few days ; also another of an old man, 
who had a sore on his foot for twenty years-cured in a 
few weeks. Our citizens will not be slow in getting at it 
merits, and will herald it over the land.-Boston Herald. 
Boston, July 12, 1859. Bro. Whitten : I have used your 
Golden Salve in my family, and I am acquainted with a 
large number of families also who have used it ; and I 
have reason to believe that it is really what you recom 
mend it to be. 
J. V. HIMES. 
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all parts of the United States and Canada. A large dis- 
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For sale at this office. 
DANIEL CAMPBELL, 
GENERAL AGENT. 
P. 0. address, Carlisle, C. W1 
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Stewart on Prayer and Watchfulness 
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Brock on the Lord's Coming a Practical Doctrine 4 
Brock on the Glorification of the Saints 4 ' 
Litch's Dialogue on theNature of Man 6 
flyer's Cherry Pectoral, 
Ayer's Sarsaparilla. 
Ayer's Cathartic Pills. 
THE peculiar taint or lane-
tion which we call SCROF-
uLA lurks in the constitu-
tions of multitudes of men. 
It either produces or is 
produced by 4in enfeebled, 
vitiated state of the blood, 
wherein that fluid. becomes 
incompetent to sustain the 
vital forces in their vigorous 
EKstaction, and leaves the sys-
-ray, tern to fall into disorder 
and decay. The scrofulous 
contamination is variously 
caused by mercurial dis- 
- ease, low living, disordered 
digestion from unhealthy food, impure air, filth and 
filthy habits, the depressing vices, and, above all, 
by the venereal infection. Wliptever be its origin, 
it is hereditary in the constitution, descending "from 
parents to children unto the third and fourth gen-
eration ; " indeed, it seems to be the rod of Him 
who says, " I will visit the iniquities of the fathers 
upon their children." The diseases which it orig-
inates take various names, according to the organs 
it attacks. In the lungs, Scrofula produces tuber-
cles, and finally Consumption ; in the glands, swell-
ings which suppurate and become ulcerous sores ; 
in the stomach and bowels, derangements which 
produce indigestion, dyspepsia, and liver complaints; 
on the skin, eruptive and cutaneous affections. 
These all having the same origin, require the same 
remedy, viz., purification and invigoration of the 
blood. Purify the blood, and these dangerous dis-
tempers leave you. With feeble, foul, or corrupted 
blood, you cannot have health ; with that " life of 
the flesh " healthy, you cannot have scrofulous 
disease. 
Ayer's Sarsaparilla 
is compounded from the most effectual antidotes 
that medical science has discovered for this afflict-
ing distemper, and for the cure of the disorders it 
entails. That it is far superior to any other rem-
edy yet devised, is known by all who have given 
it a trial. That it does combine virtues truly ex-
traordinary in their effect upon this class of com-
plaints, is indisputably proven by the great multi-
tude of publicly known and remarkable cures it 
has made of the following diseases : King's Evil 
or Glandular Swellings, Tumors, Eruptions, 
Pimples, Blotches and Sores, Erysipelas, 
Rose or St. Anthony's Fire, Salt Rheum, 
Scald Head, Coughs from tuberculous depos-
its in the lungs, White Swellings, Debility, 
Dropsy, Neuralgia, Dyspepsia or Indigestion, 
Syphilis and Syphilitic Infections, Mercurial 
Diseases, Female Weaknesses, and, indeed, the 
 
whole series of complaints that arise from impurity 
of the blood. Minute reports of individual cases 
may be found in AYER'S AMERICAN ALMANAC, 
which is furnished to the druggists for gratuitous 
distribution, wherein may be learned .the directions 
for its use, and some of remarkable cures which 
it has made when all other remedies had failed to 
afford relief. Those cases are purposely taken from 
all sections of the country, in order that every reader 
may have access to some one who can speak to him 
of its benefits from personal experience. Scrofula 
depresses the vital energies. and thus leaves its vic-
tims far more subject to disease and its fatal results 
than are healthy constitutions. Hence it tends to 
shorten, and does greatly shorten, the average dura-
tion of human life. The vast importance of these 
considerations has led us to spend years in perfect-
ing a remedy which is adequate to its cure. This 
we now offer to the public under the name of 
ATER's SARSAPARILLA, although it is composed 
of ingredients, some of which exceed the best of 
Sarsaparilla in alterative power. By its aid you 
may protect yourself from the suffering and danger 
of these disorders. Purge out the foul corruptions 
that rot and fester in the blood; purge out the 
causes of disease, and vigorous health Will follow. 
By its peculiar virtues this remedy stimulates the 
vital functions, Tad thus expels the distempers 
which lurk within the system or burst out on any 
part
Ne know 
 ofit 
V 
 the public have been deceived by many 
compounds of Sarsaparilla, that promised much 
and did nothing ; but they will neither be deceived 
nor disappointed in this. Its virtues have been 
proven by abundant trial, and there remains no 
question of its surpassing excellence for the cure 
of the afflicting diseases it is intended to reach. 
Although under the same name, it is a very dif-
ferent medicine from any other which has been 
before the people, and is far more effectual than 
any other which has ever been available to them. 
AYR'S 
CHERRY PECTORAL, 
The World's Great Remedy for Coughs, 
Colds, Incipient Consumption, and 
for the relief of Consumptive 
patients in advanced sta- 
ges of' the disease. 
known, that we need do no more than assure the 
This has been so long used and so universally 
public that its quality is kept up to the best it tier 
has been, and that it may be relied on to do all it 
has ever done. 
DR. J. C. ATER & CO., 
Prepared by 
Practical and Analytical Chemists, 
Lowell, Mass. 
Sold by all druggists everywhere, and by 
Sold by all Druggists and Dealers in iNledicin 
everywhere. 
From Bro. S. D. Northup. 
DEAR Brio Buss : W bile perusing the welcome 
pages of the last issue of the Herald, my eyes rest-
ed on the names of two brothers in Christ who, un-
der present circumstances are unable to continue 
their subscription for the Herald, and the words of 
Jesus werelforcibly brought to mind,"Blessed are the 
poor in spirit, for theirs is the kingdom of heaven." 
May the Lord bless those brethren, with all others 
in their afflictions, and make all their bed in their 
sickness, and hasten the day, when the people will 
be gathered into that land where "the inhabitants 
will not say, I am sick, and they that dwell there 
shall be forgiven their iniquity." Having full con-
fidence in the word of God, and believing that "He 
who gives to the poor, lends to tho Lord," I enclose 
one dollar, towards sending theHerald to the poorl; 
and praying God to open the hearts of the brethren 
and sisters, in the same direction, I remain your 
brothers in hope of a glorious immortality through 
Christ. 
5. D. NORTHUP. 
At the Depository of English and American Works 
Prophecy-in Connection with the Office of the AD VEN2 
HERALD-at No. 46 1-2 Kneeland-street, a few step 
West of the Boston and Worcester Railroad Station. The 
money should accompany all orders. 
BOOKS. 
PRICE. POSTAGE 
Morning Hours in Patmos, by Rev. A. C. 
Thompson, D.D. 
1.00 
Bliss' Sacred Chronology 
40 
The Time of the End 
75 
Memoir of William Miller 
75 
Hill's Saints' Inheritance 
75 
Daniels on Spiritualism 
50 
Kingdom not to be Destroyed (Oswald) 1 00 
Exposition of Zechariah 
2 00 
Litch s Messiah's Throne 
60 
Orrock's Army of the Great King 25 
Preble's Two Hundred Stories 
40 
Fassett's Discourses 
10 
Memoir of Permelia A Carter 10 
Questions on Daniel 
.12 
Children's Question Book 
.12 
Bible Class, or a Book for youngpeople, 
on the second advent, 
.15 
The New Harp, Pew Edition, in sheep, 50 
Pocket " 
60 
1.25 
The Christian Lyre 
60 
Tractsin bound volumes, 
15 
Wellcome on Matt. 24 and 25 .33 
Taylor's Voice of the Church 1.00 
.18 
.16 
.15 
.15 
'15 
CHILDREN'S DEPARTMENT 
"FEED MY LAMBS."—John 21:15. 
BOSTON, JANUARY 20, 1862. 
Life's Questions. 
Drifting away 
Like motes on the stream 
To-day's disappointment 
Yesterday's dream; 
Ever. resolving— 
Never to mend--
Such is our progress ; 
Where is the end 7 
Whirling away 
Like leaves in the wind ; 
Points of attachment 
Left daily behind ; 
Fixed to no principle, 
Fast to no friend-- 
Such our fidelity 
Where is the end ? 
Floating away 
Like clouds on the hill, 
Pendulous, tremulous, 
Migrating still ; 
Where to repose ourselves ? 
Whither to tend? 
Such our consistency ; 
Where is the end? 
Crystal the pavement, 
Seen through the stream; 
Firm the reality 
Under the dream. 
We may not feel it, 
Still we may mend—
How we have conquered 
Not known till the end. 
Bright leaves may scatter, 
Sport of the wind ; 
But stands in the winter 
The great tree behind. 
Frost shall not wither it, 
Storms cannot bend ; 
Roots firmly clasping 
The Rock at the end. 
Calm is the firmament ; 
Over the cloud ; 
Clear shine the stars through 
The rifts of the shroud. 
There our repose shall be; 
Thither we tend— 
Spite of our wanderings, 
Approved at the end. 
Johnny and the Blue Marble. 
"Mother," asked Johnny, "what verse 
do you think is best for lirtle boys like 
me ?" 
His mother thought a moment, and then 
said : 
" 'Thou God seest me;' because, I sup-
pose little boys sometimes do naughty 
things, thinking their mothers don't see 
them, and won't know it. This teaches 
them that there is somebody who forever 
sees them," 
"Does God look into boys' pockets?" 
asked Johnny. 
"Yes," said mamma. 
"I wish God would speak as well as 
see," said Johnny. 
"He does," said mamma. 
Johnny immediately opened his eyes 
very wide. 
"Does !" he cried. 
"Oh yes," said mama; "he speaks in a 
'still small voice.' " 
"I never heard him speak," said the 
little boy. 
"That is because you don't choose to 
hear it. 
"Does it make a noise like the winds ?" 
asked Johnny. 
"No," said mama. "God's voice does 
not sound like the wind's ; it speaks to 
your heart, and you must hearken to it 
in order to hear it; in fact, it is your con-
science." 
"What does it say 1" asked Johnny, 
much interested. 
"When you are naughty, it says 
`Don't do that, Johnny; pray don't.' 
When you do right it says, It is sweet 
to be God's child. God's children love 
to do right.' " 
"I want it to say that to me," said 
Johnny ; and I am sure his mother wanted 
it to say that to him. 
For several days Johnny behaved as if 
he was listening to the little voice, and as 
if it whispered pleasant words to him. 
He tried to do right, and seemed a happy 
child. 
One day, when he took his marbles 
out of his pocket, his mother observed 
among the marbles a very handsome 
blue one. 
"Where did you get that marble?" said 
his mother. 
Instead of answering his mother, like a 
good little boy, he attempted to snatch it 
out of her hand, and then put it in his 
pocket. 
His mother, as you may suppose, was 
rntwh surprised. She looked at him,and 
he hung his head, as if conscious of do-
ing wrong. 
Then she began to be afraid there was 
something wrong; before, she was not ; 
and she asked again, "Where did you get 
this marble ?" 
Johnny made no reply. He seemed to 
be meditating deeply about something, 
and appeared very sad. The mother did 
not ask him the question again,but went 
away. 
At night Johnny climbed into his moth-
er's lap, and laying his head on her shoul-
der, said in a low, sorry tone: "I took 
that glass marble, mama." 
"Took it from whom T' said his moth-
er, anxiously. 
"I took it from the ground," said the 
little boy. 
"Did it belong to the ground 7" asked 
his mother. 
"No," said Johnny. 
"Did the ground go to the shop and buy 
it ?" 
Johnny tried to laugh at such a funny 
thought, but he did not succeed at all in 
doing it. At length he mustered courage 
to say,''1 saw it on the ground,and 1 pick-
ed it up." 
"What little boy had it before?" asked 
Ins mother. 
"Asa May's, it is, I guess," whispered 
Johnny. 
"When you put your hand to take it, 
did you forget, ' Thou God seest me 
Always remember that my son, and 
that you have no right to Asa May's mar-
ble, simply because you found it." 
APPOINTMENTS. 
NOTICE. 
The members of the Conference of Messiah's 
Church and friends of the Cause in Canada East, 
are hereby admonished of the time and place of 
their annual gathering, which will be the second 
Wednesday in February next, (being the eleventh.) 
The place is Black Creek Settlement, township of 
Woodhouse, near Port Dover, The friends in that 
place are making provision for the meeting. Their 
new house will be ready to be dedicated to the Mes-
siah on the second Sabbath in February, which is 
the eighth previous to the Conference on the 11th. 
Brn. Litch and I. R. Gates are invited to attend the 
dedication. Brethren, please accept this request of 
the Church, and fail not to attend. Other minis-
tering brethren in the Province are hereby invited 
to attend the dedication—namely,. G. W. Camp-
bell, D. Campbell, S. R. Lake, B. Reynolds and J. 
Pearce,—and all brethren and sisters interested in 
the promotion of the truth. Will brethren and 
sisters pray that these means of grace be a blessing 
to all ? 
D. W. FLANDERS, 
Sec. of Conference. 
P. 0. ADDRESS. 
My Post Office address will be for the present, 
Grantham, N. H. 
W. A. EASTMAN. 
January 4 , 1862. 
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THE ADVEN T HERALD. 
The Post office address of Elder Daniel Elwell, 
for the present year, will be Port Dover, Canada 
West,—having removed from Shippen, Pa. 
APPOINTMENT. 
I will preach (D. V,) in Dunham, C. E., as Bro. 
Fuller may arrange, Jan. 20 and 21st; Clarence-
ville and Ash island the 22d and 23d, as Brn. Col-
ton and Schutt may appoint ; and in Roxham the 
24th, and Sunday, 25Ih, as Bro. Miller may deem 
best. Week-day appointments will be at 6 o'clock. 
J. M. ORROCK, 
NOTICE. 
Rev. 0. R. Fassett has commenced his pastoral 
labors with the Hudson street church in this city, 
corner of Hudson and Kneeland streets. Brethren 
and sisters, and friends corning into the city are invi-
e d to attend service at the Chapel, and make them-
sefvoe at home. His Post Office address for the pres-
nt is care of S. BLISS, 46 1-2 Kneeland street, or 
No. 1 Lincoln street, Boston, Mass. 
0. C. FASSETT. 
NOTICE. 
On account of sickness I shall not be able to is-
sue the ‘•Voice " promptly the first of this month 
as I intended. It is nearly ready for the press, and 
will be out soon. I sent a notice, recalling my ap-
pointments in Illinois, but it did not reach the of-
fice. Friends in the West will hear from me again, 
soon. 
J. V. III3IES, 
MESSIAH'S CHURCH in New York worship tempo 
rarily in Room No. 20 Cooper's Institute, entrance 
on Eighth St., between Third and Fourth Avenues. 
Preaching on the Sabbath, at 10 1-2 A. M. and 3 
P. M. The prayerful support and co-operation of 
all Christians is solicited. 
BUSINESS NOTES. 
•— 
.F Davis. Received $3 for books sent Dec 17—leav-
ing $2.40 due. 
S D Northup. Thank you,—shall appropriate accord-
ingly. 
Wm K Stamp. Sent Harp the 19th, 
Mrs Nancy A Hill. The $2 was received Jan. 1, and 
paid to 1179. In removing a block next to yours, the 
one removed was by mistake your own. Excuse the error. 
Have not the back Nos. We have not the Lectures. 
DONATIONS. 
ACKNOWLEDGMENT OF RECEIPTS UP TO TUESDAY, JAN. 20. 
50 
$1,00 
1,00 
1,00 
25 
2,00 
1,25 
1,00 
8,00 
1,00 
6,00 
ANNUAL DONATIONS. 
It is desirable that there be raised by donation five or 
six hundred dollars each year, by annual subscriptions ; 
and the following may be a suitable form of pledge for 
teat purpose. 
e agree to pay annually in furtherance of the objects 
of the American Millennial Association, the sums set 
against our respective names. 
Samuel Prior, Yardleyville, Pa ............ ...... .5.00 
Stephen Sherwin, Grafton,
'........1.00 
 
Martin L. Jackson, Milesburg, Pa. 
2 00 
Mill. Aid Society in Providence, 
—16.30 
Millennial Aid Society in Shiremanstown, Pa ..... ..9.00 
" New Kingstown, Pa.... —4.50 
Mrs. S. Blanchard, Barre. Vt. 
1 0,1 
Lloyd N. Watkins, Toronto, C. W................ 1.00 
Church in Newburyport ........ .• 9.00 
Pardon Ryon, Smith's Landing N. I..........2.00 
Josiah Vose, Westford, Mass. (" or more") 
2 00 
Henry Lunt, Jr., Newburyport, Mass....... • .... • • 2.00 
Church in Stanstead, C. E ........ . • • • • • • • • . • • 4.00 
Joel Cowee, Gardner, Mass . 
.1.00 
Joseph Barker, Kincardine, C.W 
 5 00 
H. B. Eaton, M.D , Rockport, Me 
5 00 
Edward Matthews, Middlebury, 0..................1.00 
 
 
Jos. F. Beckwith, Cleveland, Ohio.... ....... 1.00 
Mrs. Mary Jane Yoder, Harrisburg, Pa • • . • • • 5.00 
Miss 0. W. Allen, Johnson, Vt .. • • .. • • • 1.25 
Mrs. Mary Ann Bond, New Haven, Vt .. • • ... • 3.00 
Alexander Wattles, Troy, Mich., .... . ... ....1.00 
James Penniman, Milford, Mass.,.... ... • $1.00 
Philadelphia, no name ............ 
 $5.00 
Mieajah C. Batman, Lynn, Mass.... .... 1.00 
Mrs. Boardman, Seneca Falls, New York 
1.00 
M. B. Woolson, Milford, N. H 
2 00 
William B. Schermerhorn, Schenectady, N. Y $1.00 
Mrs. Sarah A. Coburn, Haverhill, Mass 
 . $2' ;0 
Edwin Howard, St. Johnsbury, Vt. 
 1'00 
Mrs. Mary Hopkins, E. Brookfield, Vt 
1.00 
Helen Nichols, E. Warren, Vt 
 1.00 
Charles Merriman, Akron, 0. . . . . 1.00 
Miss M. A. Swartz, Coopers, Pennsylvania - 1.00 
We leave a blank space here, which it is desirableto see 
filled with names and amounts, of pledges of annual pay-
ments. 
BUSINESS DEPARTMENT, 
A. M. ASSOCIATION. 
The "American Millennial Association,"located in Bos-
ton, Mass., was legally organized Nov. 12th, 1858, under 
 
the provisions of the 56th Chapter of the Acts of the Le. 
gislature of Massachusetts of A. D. 1857, for charitable 
and religious purposes. The whole amount obtained by 
donations, subscriptions, or sales of publications, is to he 
expended in the publication of Periodicals, Books, and 
Tracts, and for the support of ministers of the Gospel. 
All contributions to our treasury, will be duly acknow-
ledged, and, at the end of the year, will be embodied in a 
report. When there is any omission of the proper credit, 
due notice should be at once given to 
SYLVESTER BLISS, Treasurer. 
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Agents of the 
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Albany, N.Y 
Burlington, Tow 
 James S. Brandeburg 
Chazy, Clinton Co., N. Y 
Cabot, (Lower Branch),) Vt. . 
 „D Joseph 
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Do Kalb
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Cincinnati, 
Centre,
ati0 
 Ill.. ... ..... .... ...B...1.1rIt.. sbotrunrbveersganert 
Dunham, C. E 
Derby Line, Vt. ........ 
Ellington, Me 
Thomas Smith 
Fairhaven, V t .. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . ...... R. L. 
...........Robbins 
njbedli. lanLsis .ABACI.rlio}al ,:
paelyr 
Freeland, De Kalb Co., Ill 
Homer, N. Y 
Haverhill, Mass 
Lockport, N. Y 
R. W. Beck 
Johnson's Creek, N Y..... ........ 
Russell
...11.iliv.amm.Eitson 
Newburyport, 
 
Kincardine, C. W .... ............ .... Joseph Barker 
Loudon Mills, N. H. ..... .............. .o.(ineeLr.gpe 
Pearson 
Morrisville, Pa 
 
Pa 
Mass 
 John 
New York City J B. Huse, No. 6 Horatio at 
Philadelphia, Pa..... J. Litch, No. 127 North 11th at 
Portland, Me .... .... ... , ..... .... Alexander
AntilonyEpdmeaurnede 
.. . John V. Pinto 
Providence, R. I 
Princess Anne, Md 
Rochester, N. 17 
.D. Boody 
Salem, Mass ..... ........ .... ..s.i.CHhaw
s. iHtb.iBngetroryn 
W 
Springwater, N. y. 
Shabbonas Grove, Be Kalb county, Ill... N. W. Spencer 
 
Stanbridge, C. E 
.... 
Sheboygan Falls, Wis William Trowbridge 
 
Toronto, C. W ..... ... • • • • • ......... Daniel Campbell 
Waterloo, Shefford, C. E. ..... .... R. Hutchinson, M .D 
as
,, ,, 6, .... .... .... .... J. M. Orrock 
Waterbury, Vt... .... ... • .... .... .. D. Bosworth 
Worcester, Mass.... .....• . .... „Benjamin Emerson 
Yarmouth, Me 
I. C. Wellcome 
RECEIPTS, 
UP TO THE DATE OF THIS PAPER> 
The No. appended to each name is that of the HERALD to 
which the money credited pays. No. 1127 was the closing 
number of 1862; No. 1153 is the Middle of the present 
volurne,extending to July 1, 1863; and No 1179 is to the 
close of 1862. Notice of any failure to give due credit 
should be at once communicated to the Business Agent. 
Those sending money should remember that we have 
many subscribers of similar names, that there are towns of 
the same name in different States, and in some States there 
is more than one town of the same name. Therefore it is 
necessary to give his own name in full, and his Post-office 
address — the name of the town and state', and if out of 
New England, the county to which his paper is directed. 
An omission of some of these often, yes daily, gives us 
much perplexity. Some forget to give their State, and if 
out of New England their County, while some fail to give 
even their town. Sometimes they live in one town and 
date their letter in that, when their paper goes to another 
town; and sometimes the name of their town and office are 
different. Some, in writing, give only their initials, when 
there may be others at the same post-office, with the same 
initials. Sometimes, when the paper goes to a given ad-
dress, another person of the same family will write res-
pecting it,without stating that fact, and we cannot find the 
name. And sometimes those who write, forget even to sign 
their names ! Let all such remember that what we want, is 
the full name and post-office address of the one to whom the 
paper is sent. 
Those mailing, or sending money to the office by other 
persons, unless they have a receipt forwarded to them, are 
requested to see that they are properly credited below. And 
if they are not, within a reasonable time, to notify the office 
immediately. 
As a general thing, it is better for each person to write 
respecting, and to send money himself, for his own paper 
thou to send by an agent, or any third person, unless such 
one is more likely to get his own name and post-office right, 
than another person would be ; that money sent in small 
sums, is less likely to be lost than when sent in larger ones, 
and that a third person is often subjected to postage, merely 
so accommodate the one who sends. 
FORM OF A BEQUEST.—"I bequeath to my executor (or 
executors) the sum of dollars in trust, to pay the 
same in sixty days after my decease to the person who, 
when the same is payable, shall act as Treasurer of the 
American Millennial Association, Boston, Mass., to be ap-
plied under the direction of the Standing Committee of 
that Association, to its charitable uses and purposes.' 14 
P K Kue 1153; Wm P Stratton 1127; Mrs A Oliver 
1179; S Wheeler 1153; Geo D Hillard 1153; Mrs D 
Hunt 1153: Anson Smith 7153, by 0 W Alien 1179; 
John Mayo 1058; Dr F Scaflin 1168; Thos Adamson 
1153; C Kinney1153; Mrs L R Boon 1153; Mrs Lydia 
Ruggles 1153; J Cilbreth 1153, eaeh $1. 
8 Welch 1179; P W Higgins 1153; L N Higgins 1179; 
L Edwards 1193; Wm Batchelder by M 0, 1075—$2 due; 
Mrs Rachel Crampton 1179; S K Baldwin 1192; Th(mas 
Dutcher 1127;. Mrs N Coolidge 1179; S Munu 1179; 
Thos H Prushaw 1127; A Culver 1138—$3 in all; Mr? 
SI T Whittier 1179; Mrs Eunice D Boardman 1179; J R 
Jowell 1179; T R Jewell 1189; R W Laird 1179; R. A 
Holden 1179; N Brown of D., N H, 1153; D Bocn 1175; 
David Eaton 1153; Nathan Clark 1153; N Streeter 
1179; James Belden 1179; Samuel Cass 1179; R Starks 
1106; Mrs Aaron Clapp 1179; Mrs M J Yoder for Daniel 
Yoder 1127; Mrs 51 Salt 1179; John Al Hill 1179; 
Cyrus Cunningham 1179; Luther Cunningham 1153; W 
P Woodworth 1179; Mrs E Van Kleek 1179. We inva-
riably mail on Thursday morning, and you ought to re-
ceive it by Saturday. James N Boweu 1145; John 
Hough 1179; Isaac H Gray 1179; Elisha Bass 1179; 
Josiah Vose 1179; Benj SI Fletcher 1179, each $2. 
Geo El Batton 1153; S R Beebe 1179; his 6 A Hitch-
cock 1205; 0 B Russell 1249, each $3. 
John Sax 1101, $4 . 
M. A Frank , 1127 $5. 
Samuel Cass, Plaistow, N H - 
S D Northup, Painesville, Mass. - 
James Belden, West Meriden, Ct. - 
Payne W Higgins, Welltleet, Mass. - 
Mrs Ann Oliver, Philadelphia 
Mrs Rachel Crampton, Homer, NewYork 
Miss Orrilla W Allen, Johnson, Vt. 
Mrs Lydia Ruggles, Grand de Tour, Ill. 
Mrs Martha Salt, E Liverpool, Ohio 
Cyrus Cunningham, N Attleboro, Mass. 
Josiah Vose, Westford, Mass.