" WE iftvg Nor FOLLOWED CUNNINGLY DEVISED FABLES, WHEN WE MADE KNOWN UNTO YOU THE POWER AND COMING OF OUR LORD JESUS CHRIST, BUT WERE EYE-WITNESSES OF HIS MAJESTY ...WHEN WE WERE WITH IIIM IN THE HOLY MOUNT." 
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he sanctified, that his kingdom may come, and the Gospel and the name of Christ so awfully trembling and melting away of men for fear, 
that his will may be done, and that he would blasphemed. to see Christians so cruelly de- the impending destruction and the roaring of 
at some time or other deliver us from all evil. stroyed with such bitter persecutions, the true the air, the water, and every creature, were like 
For as I have often said, no better or more holy doctrine so opposed, the kingdom of the devil, the budding and blossoming of trees ? Yet here 
state of life is to be hoped for in this world ; together with every species of malice, iniquity, it is said to be like the flourishing and breaking 
and more especially in these times, when it and sin, so encouraged by impunity, and every forth of trees, and the dawning of summer : and 
seems to be come to the height of its depravity, saint lying neglected, ground to dust and pow- it certainly is language never heard before. I 
and to be on the brink of the gulf of perdition. der by persecution, and cast into oblivion. should rather have thought, the contrary corn- 
For it is filled with a generation of their father Let us then cry unto God with as loud a parison might have been made with more pro- 
the devil, and with those fruits concerning which voice as we can, praying that he would display priety :—that such things were like the ap-
no hope can be entertained ; and all labor in and vindicate his honor and glory to himself proaching of the cold and inclement winter, kill- 
attempting to reform and ameliorate it, is spent and his Christianity; that he would revenge his ing arid destroying before it all fruits and every 
in vain. This we see openly : for the Word of name and the blood of his children, and would thing that grows upon the face of the earth.—
God goes on to be despised more and more, and exalt and bring them to that glory which he But Christ is the most perfect master of words, 
errors of every description, pestilential sects, has promised them, and has of old prepared for and knows how to speak of things and how to 
and enormous iniquities, gain ground daily; by them. And if, on account of thy flesh, thou raise up his disciples with an effectual consola-
all which, it is continually growing worse and feelest thyself still filled with fear and alarm lion better than we do : he can make unto us 
worse, and leaves us no room to hope for any concerning that day, then fix carefully in thy out of the most unlovely sight, the most lovely, 
repentance. Why then should we have any mind the words of Christ, by which thy heart and a view full of consolation, from explaining 
desires to live amid such miseries and calami- is to be fortified, and in which he commands his own words by a beautiful interpretation.— 
ties ? Nay, what consolation should we find if thee to lift up thy head and to be of good tour- So that, if I shall see the sun and the moon to 
we should consider what would be the life of age, calling that " day our redemption ;" that is, be darkened, the winds and the waters to he put 
men and the state of things in the world that not death, but life eternal ; not wrath, but pure in commotion by storm, and tempests, and 
should be left behind us, if, while we who have grace ; not hell, but the kingdom of heaven ; mountains to be cast down and leveled with the 
the Gospel are alive, all things are turned up- not terror nor peril, but rejoicing and gladness. plains, I will say,—Glory be to God ! for the 
side down ? 
Hence, Paul to Titus, chap. 3 : very properly fruitful summer at length appears ; I now see 
But, even if we should not desire this last calls that day, "that blessed hope, and the glo- the woods begin to leaf and the trees to bud.—
day for ourselves, yet the perils and necessities rious appearing of the great God and our Sa- In this manner no man, no reason, no human 
of our brethren scattered everywhere through- viour Jesus Christ." Wherefore, we ought to wisdom throughout the world, can speak or ir►-
out the world, ought to move us to expect ear- be of good courage ; for he who is well ac- terpret : that under these signs, so fearful to 
nestly that day. And in what a state their af- quainted with these things, and is touched with the sight, nothing but redemption and perpetual 
fairs are we plainly see ; for they are not only a true desire after them, will not be afraid of joy are signified as approaching; which seems 
compelled to see and hear those things that fill his salvation and his eternal life, together tivith rather to signify, to reason and human wisdom, 
them with the greatest grief, but to endure every all its blessings, nor will he dread the coming the approach of death and every destruction. 
kind of insult, violence, and injury, and the of him who gave unto us the Gospel and grace, Wherefore, come, let us learn and accustom 
most bitter persecutions. Some of them are —riot that we should deny them, but love and ourselves to this kind of speaking, whereby we 
killed and murdered with divers and cruel tor- confess them, and endure, for their sake, every may consolingly fix these things in our minds, 
menu. And how many, I pray you, have we, thing that may be inflicted upon us either by and view them and judge of them according to 
during our lifetime, seen carried off, some being the devil or by men. 
the Word. For, by following reason and wis- 
openly burnt, some destroyed by one punish- Thus behold, this day will not be terrible, dom, we can learn nothing, but must dread and 
meet and another, and some despatched trench- but desirable and lovely in its appearing; not shun such things. For reason unwillingly be-
erously and clandestinely. I make no mention however unto the world, but unto us miserable holds all things to be obscured by terrible dark-
now of those saints who have been killed before and distressed sinners, who are compelled to lie ness, and to carry a threatening appearance : 
us, since the days of Christ down to our times, here in this den of robbers, where the devil is and to her, thunderings and lightnings, and 
or rather, since the beginning of the world ;— plotting destruction against us day and night ; hurricanes of winds, are by no means pleasing. 
whose blood, yet unavenged, expects with long- not only desiring to take away from us our lives But the Christian ought riot to be moved by 
ing desire the coming of that day, wherein and our poor fortunes, but terrifying our hearts these things, but ought to lay hold of the Word, 
they shall at once be called to the enjoyment of and consciences, that we may dread the day of wherein Christ opens our eyes, in order that we 
their long-expected honors, and shall see ven- our redemption ; and may, being deprived of may interpret it as Christ interprets it—that 
seance taken on the world. This John (Rev. our consolation, despair and sink under our these things indicate that the fruitful summer 
6,) shows ; where God comforts those saints by perils. 
is approaching ; that the earth shall shortly pour 
saying unto them, " that they should rest yet But this same day shall bring to the world forth an abundance of the most flourishing lilies 
for a little season, until their fellow-servants nothing but terror, trembling, death, pestilence, and roses beautiful to behold ; and that imme-
also and their brethren that should be killed as destruction, and all the torments of hell; though diately after this wretched and depraved life, in 
they were, should he fulfilled." Hence both the world will never believe these things till which we are now tossed to and fro, there shall 
the living and the dead saints require of us, they feel them. Wherefore, when this day be found a haven of rest, felicity, and pleasure, 
that we should be a help to them in praying shall come upon them on a sudden, and shall that never shall end ! 
unto God, that he would hasten their redemp- destroy all things with utter destruction, thou And this is the will of Christ—that as we are 
tion. 
hast no reason whatever to fear that it will hurt new creatures, so we should entertain new and 
And what could happen to Christians more thee, and that thou shalt fall and perish together other thoughts, understandings, and feelings; 
calamitous than the being compelled utterly to with the world ; for at that day thou shalt ei- and behold nothing with the eye-of reason as 
hold their peace while under oppression, and ther be raised again out of the tomb and from the world does, but view them as they are in 
while the devil and the world ceased not to rage the dust, and shalt be caught up into heaven; his sight. And morever, that we should walk 
against and triumph over them with all ferocity or, thou shalt, in a moment, be changed into an according to our future, invisible, and new life, 
and exultation, but only went. on to murder the eternal blessedness, where there shall be no which we hope we shall certainly have after all 
more of them ? What ! shall we cease to pray, sin, no terror, no peril, no sorrow, but where these tribulations ; and that we should not har-
in order that men may seduce the more, and go pure grace, righteousness, joy, peace, life, rest, bor any desires of remaining in this life, nor be 
on to commit more and more those sins which and immortality, shall reign forever ! And affected with sorrow because we are to depart 
they found it impossible to commit before ? By these things we wait for, and hold forth to the from it, or because the world with all its crea- 
that means, we should have to endure the more poor simple flock who shall receive them ! tures, together with so many men must perish. 
evils and wounds, and that from our own fault. This then is that consolation which no man But rather, we are to feel for the miserable 
We now hearandsee that the Turk—as well as can give or imagine, and which comes only by Christians ; both those who are alive, and are 
the Pope-antichrist rages against and assails the the Holy Spirit through the Word of Christ.— so afflicted and oppressed, and also those who 
name of Christ and the blood of Christians with Let then the sun and the moon, and all crea- are dead and asleep in their graves, and wait-
the most cruel tyranny, and the many diverse tures, wearan awful aspect and threaten terror: ing to come forth into their glory, like corn 
sects contradict our Gospel. Should we then —their sight shall be terrible to the world, but buried during the winter in the earth, or like 
still be sitting down with our hands folded, and not unto us. Upon us they shall sweetly sap concealed in the trees; which, being hin- 
calmly looking on, while the devil is exerting smile, because we can see under them that con- dered by the cold, cannot break forth into new 
with all his power, and without intermission, solation which Christ has set forth to us in these leaves and buds, but thirstingly waits for the 
every species of his lust and temerity ? Should words, where he concludes, adding a beautiful summer, that it might at length burst forth in 
we not rather call upon God concerning it with- simile—" Behold the fig-tree, and all the trees : buds and grow and flourish. In the same way 
out cessation ? There can be no vein of the when they now shoot forth, ye see and know of we ought also to rejoice because that day is 
Christian nature in thy body, if thou dost not your ownselves that summer is now nigh at coming; and ought to say, The rigor of the 
beg of God from thy heart, to be delivered from hand. So likewise ye, when ye see all these winter has now continued for a long time, but 
such miseries as soon as possible. 
things come to pass, know ye that the kingdom at length the fruitful summer will come, and 
Wherefore, if we have any desire to be Chris- of God is nigh at hand." 
that summer which shall never cease. At the 
tians, we must give all diligence to devote our- This indeed is a wonderful representation, comingofwhich,not all thesaintsonly,butalsoall 
selves to prayer with all our heart ; even as which I could never have applied to this subject, the angels, shall exult and rejoice ; nay, which 
Christ himself has taught us, and as our neces- nor ever have thought of. For who ever once the whole creation expects and anxiously awaits. 
sities urgently require. For it ought to be heard that the darkening of the sun and moon, —For, the heaven, the earth, the sun, the stars, 
unto us a source of the greatest grief, to hear and threatening ruin of heaven and earth, the the air, and all creaturest can no longer endure. 
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THOUGHTS OF HEAVEN. 
ON THE 
COMill:4' of Christ, and the Signs that shall 
precede the Last Day. 
BY MARTIN LUTHER. 
"And there shall he signs in the sun, and in the moon, 
and in the stars ; and upon the earth distress of nations 
through perplexity," &c.—Luke 21. 
(Concluded from our last.) 
Wherefore, if thou be not filled with a desire 
after the coming of this day,. thou canst never 
pray the Lord's Prayer, nor canst thou repeat 
from thy heart the Creed of Faith. For with 
what conscience canst thou say, " I believe in 
the resurrection of the body and life everlast-
ing," if thou dost not in thine heart desire the 
same ? If thou didst believe it, thou must of 
necessity desire it from thine heart, and long for 
that day to come : which, if thou dost not desire, 
thou art not a Christian, nor canst thou boast 
of thy faith. Nay, thou canst not even perceive 
the meaning of the Ten Commandments. For 
what is the meaning of those words where it 
says, I am the Lord thy God—thou shalt not 
take my name in vain ?" And again, " Thou 
shalt not kill, Thou shalt not steal, Thou shalt 
not commit adultery," &c.? Do not these very 
words show, to what sins and iniquities our life 
is subject ? that we are in that state, that we 
cannot live without sins and the greatest perils, 
because the devil is striving with all his might 
that God may not be God alone, and that we 
might not live among each other a peaceable, 
quiet, and divine life ? and that the devil is 
ever establishing mere idolatry, and investing 
abuses and blasphemies of the divine name, and 
driving men with all his powers to disobedience, 
seditious, wrath, lust, uncleanness, rapines, thefts, 
and murders, and to the perpetration of every 
iniquity and enormity ? As a remedy against 
which, and for the averting of which, the Lord's 
prayer was formed and instituted by Christ 
himself. If, therefore, we feel those dire evils, 
and desire to be delivered from them, nothing 
else remains but that now the remedy is shown 
unto us, we use it with all devotedness, and 
that we cry unto God that his holy name may 
No sickness there— 
No weary wast im; of the frame away ; 
No fearful shrinking from the midnight air—
No dread of summer's bright and fervid ray ! 
No hidden grief, 
No wild and cheerless visions of despair ; 
No vain petition for a swift relief-- 
No tearful eyes, no broken hearts are there. 
Care has no home 
Within the realm of ceaseless prayer and song ; 
Its billows break away, and melt in Mart). 
Far from the mansion of the spirit throng ! 
The storm's black wing 
Is never spread athwart celestial skies ! 
Its wailings blend not with the voice of snring, 
As some too tender Ilowret fades and dies ! 
No night distils 
Its chilling dews upon the tender frame ; 
Nor morn is needed there ! The light which fills 
That land of glory, from its Maker came ! 
No parted friends 
O'er mournful recollections have to weep ! 
No bed of death enduring love attends 
To watch tile coming of a pulseless sleep ! 
No blasted bower 
Or withered hod celestial gardens konw 
No scorching blast or fierce descending shower 
Scatters destruction like a ruthless foe ! 
No battle word 
Startles the sacred host with fear and dread ! 
The song of peace, creation's morning heard, 
Is sung wherever angel minstrels tread ! 
Let us depart, 
If home like this await the weary soul ! . 
Look up thou stricken one ! Thy wounded heart, 
Shall bleed no more at sorrow's stern control. 
With faith our guide, 
White-robed and innocent, to lead the way, 
Wily fear to plunge in Jordan's tide, 
And find the ocean of eternal day ? 
A Sarmon of Consolation 
THE ADVENT HERALD. 
the iniquity of the world : which iniquity they 
are compelled to witness, but with the greatest 
grief, because they must be abused by the in-
dulgers in sin, and be a help to every kind of 
ungodliness both to the world and to the devil ; 
and they would fain be delivered from all this 
iniquity together with us, and become that new 
heavens and a new earth of which Peter and 
Isaiah speak, in which righteousness alone shall 
dwell. For the iniquity and wickedness of 
men exceed all bounds, so that they are no 
longer tolerable ; and hence all the creation is 
moved, and, as it were, cries unto God for de-
liverance. 
And therefore it is, that Christ thus con-
cludes—" So likewise ye, when ye see these 
things begin to come to pass, know ye that the 
kingdom of God is nigh at hand, Verily I say 
unto you, this generation shall not pass away 
till all be fulfilled. Heaven and earth shall 
pass away, but my words shall not pass away." 
As though he had said, Ye have prayed," Thy 
kingdom come," and " deliver us from evil :" 
therefore now be ye assured, (and so assured 
as my word is sure arid eternal,) when ye see 
these signs, that your prayers are heard, that 
the kingdom of God will come according to your 
prayers, and that the kingdom of the devil and 
all sin will come to an end, and be abolished 
for ever. When therefore he shall come in the 
clouds with all the angels in great glory, and 
in a flame of fire unspeakable, at which all 
creatures shall melt away and be consumed ; 
then shall all things shine with light and sp!en-
dor unspeakable, our bodies shall be so glorious 
that they shall exceed the brightness of the sky, 
and shall shine transcendently before all crea-
tures, and before the heavenly hosts, and shall 
enjoy with Christ ineffable glory. Moreover, 
we shall see the wicked under our feet, naked 
and in perpetual shame, fearing, trembling, ac-
cursed, and cast down into hell. 
Behold, it is thus that the signs that shall 
precede the last day, are to be set forth unto 
Christians ; that they indicate unto us unspeaka-
ble joy, and bring with them nothing to hurt 
us ; but are for our benefit and profit. Let as-
trologers tell others that they portend nothing 
but war, murder, and extreme perils ; and let 
them tremble and fear, since they are such who 
neither have nor desire any thing beyond this 
temporal life and days of self-enjoyment. We, 
however, shall lift up our heads as being new 
creatures in Christ. Arid, as he is Lord of the 
heaven, the earth, and the whole creation, so 
we also are lords of all signs, and whatever is 
terrible ; nor can any thing whatever hurt us, 
although it assaults, and even takes away this 
life. For our life and conversation are not here, 
but we look for another life, wherein our body 
shall be delivered ; which life is now hidden by 
faith with Christ in heaven, (as Paul saith,) but 
which shall soon be revealed before the whole 
world in eternal life and everlasting glory.—
Amen. 
Pre-Millennialism, 
In its Connexion with the Ministry and with 
Missions. 
FROM THE LONDON " QUARTERLY JOURNAL OF PROPHECY.'' 
There is one preliminary complaint which, in 
this controversy, we have sometimes had to 
make, namely, that judgment is often given 
against us with a hastiness and a bias unbefit-
ting the greatness of the cause ; nay, that our 
system is evil-spoken of and pronounced un-
scriptural by thousands who have never done 
either themselves or us the justice of asking 
what we do, and what we do not, believe. 
It is this double unfairness,—the unfairness 
of deducing impatient conclusions for which our 
theory is to be held answerable, and the unfair-
ness of drawing upon fancy, or hear-say, for the 
data on which these conclusions are made to 
rest,—it is this that makes a brief statement of 
the actual case needful at the outset. Without 
this, much of the reasoning that follows would 
be weakened, if not wholly thrown away. 
On various points connected with the ques-
tion before us, we have been misunderstood, 
and, in some cases, misrepresented. It has been 
affirmed that we are the enemies of missions; 
that our theory makes us so of necessity : that 
it sets aside the work of the Spirit, and intro-
duces unscriptural agencies ; that it ungirds the 
loins both of minister and missionary ; that it 
damps Christian zeal, and straitens Christian 
liberality ; and that if, in any case, a Pre-millen-
nialist is energetic, and buoyant, and large-
hearted, he is so in spite of the deadening and 
depressig tendencies of his systernr—a system 
which is said to lay as mule an arrest as fatal-
ism, upon all that is practical and benevolent—
on all that is generous and noble. 
Let us, then, state briefly our real belief on 
the subject of ministerial and missionary effort 
—a belief which we have endeavored to draw 
directly and simply from the Word of God.—
Man's theories of missions, whether founded 
upon his ideas of humau progression, or the ab-
sorption of the evil by the good, or the power 
of intellectual enlightenment, are vanity. God's 
theory of missions is the only one worth inquir- 
ing into ; and that theory rests entirely upon 
his " eternal purpose, which he hath purposed 
in Christ Jesus our Lord," 
What we have gathered from Scripture re-
specting this purpose may thus be stated. 
The present dispensation is not universal, but 
elective, and is to remain so till the Lord come. 
Its basis is election, both as an eternal purpose 
of Jehovah, and as a process carried on from day 
to day. Such was the teaching of Christ him-
self. There are few that are saved ; many are 
called, but few are chosen ; the gate is strait, 
the way is narrow, and few there he that find 
it. The Lord draws the contrast between the 
little flock which the Father had given him out 
of the world, and that world out of which they 
had been chosen arid called. He points out 
trial, sorrow, hatred, persecution, as the Church's 
lot during his absence, and gives us the days of 
Noah and of Lot as specimens of the state in 
which the world is to be, specially towards the 
close of the dispensation. His parables hinge 
upon this great truth of an elective, not a uni-
versal dispensation; so much so that the intro-
duction of universality throws them out of date 
and renders them unmeaning. There is the 
sower, the tares, the net, the wicked husband-
men, the marriage of the king's.son, the talents, 
the ten virgins, the great supper, the unjust 
judge, the pounds. These are intended to mark 
the characteristics of the dispensation ; and each 
one of these characteristics refers to election in 
different aspects, and takes for granted the few-
ness of the saved, the multitude of the lost; 
one Noah out of the world, one Lot in Sodom ; 
so that this is the conclusion to which he brings 
us—" When the Son of man cometh, shall he 
find faith on the earth ?" 
Thus, then, the Lord himself announced the 
peculiar and partial nature of the dispensation, 
declaring that the Gospel of the kingdom was 
to be preached for a witness to all nations, and 
that then " the end " was to come, that is, the 
end of the age or dispensation.—Matt. 24:14. 
In accordance with the declarations of the Lord 
we find that the apostles expressed themselves. 
Thus, in Acts 15:14, we have the conjunct an-
nouncement of Peter and James : "God hath 
visited the Gentiles, to take out of them a people 
for His name," (XEU 
 EOM's). Such state- 
ments as these also imply the same truth."—
" The Lord added to the Church daily, such as 
should be saved " (Acts 2:47) ; " as many as 
were ordained to eternal life believed " (13:48). 
In like manner all the Epistles take for granted 
the same truth, and give us no hint of aught 
like universality during the present age. They 
proceed upon the idea that the Church was to 
he in the minority—nay, that she was to be 
persecuted and trodden down. Neither in their 
preaching of the Gospel at first in a heathen 
city, nor in their after instructions to the 
Churches when planted, do they point to any 
other state of things than that described by 
John when he said, " We are of God, and the 
whole world lieth in wickedness."-1 John 5:19. 
Such is the present dispensation, according 
to our reading of the Scriptures. When it has 
run its course ; when God's purpose has been 
accomplished; when the number of the elect 
has been filled up ; when the cup of the world's 
iniquity has risen to the brim, and the long-
suffering of God exhausted, then the Lord comes 
in glory and majesty, as the world's Judge and 
King. He comes to raise his dead saints and 
change his livings ones ; and with both caught 
up together into the clouds to meet him in the 
air, he descends to execute the Father's yen- minister of Christ.—( To be continued.) 
geance upon his enemies. Then Antichrist is 
smitten, and goes into perdition in the very 
height of his pride ; apostate Christendom is 
swept with the besom of destruction. 
(1.) is success the foundation of ministerial 
respon,sbility ? 
Responsibility turns solely upon 
our being entrusted by God with a commission 
to preach his Gospel. " Go ye into all the 
world, and preach the Gospel to every creature ; 
he that believeth shall be saved. and he that 
A considerable number of witnesses were then 
believeth not shall be damned." The uncertainty 
called. 
 
of success is embodied in the very heart of the CLERK.—Look upon the prisoner at the bar, 
commission. Our obligation to act upon the you that are sworn. You shall understand, 
command, "Go," has nothing to do with the that the prisoner at the bar stands indicted by 
number of those that are to believe our message. the name of Antichrist, &c., late of the City of 
Our responsibility remains the same, though Rome in Italy, Clerk ; for that he together, &c., 
not one were to be saved. Ezekiel's commission (here the indictment was read) upon which in-
brings out the true nature of the position occu- dictment he hath been arraigned, and thereunto 
pied by every messenger of God. " Son of man, bath pleaded Not Guilty ; and for his trial, 
I send thee to the children of Israel, to a rebell- bath put himself upon God and the Country, 
ious nation that bath rebelled against me'; for which Country you are. Now your charge is 
they are impudent children and stiff-hearted ;. to inquire, whether he be Guilty of the High 
and they, whether they will hear or whether Treason in mariner and form as he stands in-
they will forbear, yet shall know that there dieted, or Not Guilty. If you find that he is 
hath been a prophet amongst them„ and thou Guilty, you shall inquire what Goods and Chat-
shalt speak my words to them, whether they tell he had at the- time of committing the Trea-
will hear or whether they will forbear.."—Ezek. son, or any time since then, If you find that 
2:3, 5, 7. " A dispensation of the Gospel is he is Not Guilty, you shall inquire whether he 
committed to us ; necessity is laid upon us, yea, did fly for it ; it you find that he fled for it, 
woe is unto us if we preach not the Gospel."— you shall inquire of his Goods arid Chattels as 
1 Cor. 9:26. And what can alter this " dispen- if you had found him Guilty. If you find that 
sation ?" Can the prospect of success make this he is Not Guilty, nor that he did fly, you shall 
necessity greater than it is ? Can it diminish say so, arid no more. And take heed to your 
or augment the greatness and the awfulness of evidence. 
that woe ? The reasoning of our opponents The Right Hon. Faithful Investigation, His 
upon the question before us is certainly fitted 
to tempt men to measure their responsibilities 
by their prospects of success ; or at least, un-
consciously to shake off a measure of responsi-
bility when assurance of success is denied. If 
the prospect of a large amount of immediate suc-
cess be indispensable to right exertion, then a 
wrong direction is given to our sense of respon-
sibility, the effect of which is materially to blunt 
its edge. The theory against which we are ar-
guing, virtually tells a minister that he is re-
sponsible for the conversion of every soul under 
his charge ; and it actually does tell the Church 
that she is responsible for the conversion of the 
world. Now the moment that our sense of re-
sponsibility takes a false direction like this, it 
becomes diseased, and thus far enfeebled. We 
are responsible for the faithful discharge of our 
commission, but for no more. We may, nay 
we must and will look earnestly for saving re-
sults, if souls are precious to us, but for these 
results we are not responsible. As soon as we 
begin to overstretch our responsibilities, we 
weaken our sense of them ; as soon as we imag-
ine ourselves accountable for more than God 
has committed to us, the real and healthy feel-
ing of responsibility, which would have impelled 
us to any amount of doing, or daring, or suffer-
ing, dies away, and is supplanted by a far less 
lively and energetic principle—a principle which 
partakes more of unbelief than of faith—which 
calculates consequences and weighs probable 
results, and timorously shrinks from daring en-
terprise, unless explicitly assured of a success 
sufficient to recompense its risk and toil. 
(2.) is success the true motive to ministerial 
exertion ? That it is one motive, and a lawful 
one, we do not deny. Our hesitation is as to 
Majesty's Attorney General, then addressed 
the Court and Jury, 
My Lords and Gentlemen of the Jury 
It is my duty to state to you, in as concise a 
manner as I can, the nature of the charges pre-
ferred against the prisoner at the bar, and the 
evidences that shall be produced in support of 
that charge, Gentlemen of the Jury, you on 
your part are to decide upon the evidences ; it 
is for you to draw such conclusions as you may 
by the evidences be warranted to do. 
My Lords arid Gentlemen of the Jury, I con-
sider myself highly honored in being one of the 
instruments in bringing before you, this day 
into judgment, one, who riot only has been 
guilty of the blackest treason and rebellion, but 
who has been for many centuries the plague 
and curse of nations. The highest crimes of 
which a subject can be guilty, attended with 
various aggravating circumstances, are charged 
against the prisoner at the bar, who was the 
leader and original mover of many insurrections 
and rebellions which have deluged the earth 
with human blood, and brought many whom 
he had seduced, to condign punishment both 
here and in the eternal world. It will appear in 
evidence, that the persons who were principally 
connected with, and who received their authori-
ty from the prisoner, were those who were con-
cerned in the rebellions of 606, and of every 
succeeding century, in Italy, Germany, France, 
Spain, Portugal, Holland, Sweden, England, 
Wales, Scotland, Ireland, and most of the na-
tions of Europe. 
My Lords and Gentlemen of the Jury, It is 
riot possible that any mortal being, in the space 
of one hundred years, could state a tenth part 
of the treasons and murders which the prisoner 
the place of prominence which the post-millen- at the bar has committed. The most youthful 
nial theory requires that it should have. And and able council would grow grey-headed in 
such questions as these naturally arise respect- the court, while barely citing the acts done by 
ing it :-1. How much success is needed to form him only during the space of half a century.—
a sufficient motive? 2. How much success has The Court itself could not contain half the rebel 
God warranted us to count upon ? 3. To what proclamations, or Pope's Bulls, which he has 
extent has God permitted us to introduce this ele- published to the world, the design of which will 
rnent, and to allow it to weigh with us? 4, evidently appear to be, the subversion of His 
Would the certainty of a large measure of sue- Majesty's Government, and the promotion of 
cess not have a tendency to supersede or de- rebellion in all the earth. 
stroy the truer and purer motives which it is And in order to effect his treasonable designs, 
God's special desire we should cultivate ? 5. he imbrued his hands in the blood of thousands 
Could we in our present imperfect state be of his fellow creatures; crimes that do not, that 
trusted with a large amount of success ? and cannot admit of the smallest extenuation. The 
would it not overset our humility, and lead us prisoner at the bar stands charged with com-
to forget that the treasure is in earthen vessels? muting several overt-acts of High Treason, by 
These are most serious questions, each one wor- which he has manifested the wickedness and 
thy of a lengthened answer. Such answers, traitorous imaginations of his heart. I shall 
however, we cannot at present give. Our reply briefly state a few of the overt-acts, and if you 
believe the evidence, you will be convinced, 
must be brief and general. We deny that the 
G 
hope of great immediate success has been held Gentlemen of the Jury, it is your duty to find 
 
out by God as the great incentive to labor for the ,prisoner Guilty. 
him. By many arguments are we exhorted to 1 here are several counts in this indictment. 
That of compassing and imagining the death of 
spend and be spent for him ; but this is kept 
behind. God does indeed teach us to take tor the King. Of usurping his Sovereign Power. 
granted that he would never be awanting to us, Adhering to the Kings's enemies. Counterfeit-
arid that such an amount of success would al- mg the King's great seal of Heaven. Levying 
ways be granted as was consistent with his 
glory ; but He does not set this success on high 
as the great motive of duty. He mingles it 
with others in due proportion. And let us be-
ware of altering that proportion. Let us beware 
of taking this motive out of its due place, and 
for the sake of a theory, giving it a peculiar 
prominence which Scripture nowhere gives it, 
and which would lead us to believe that, with-
out it, such other motives as the glory of God 
and the doing of his will are quite inadequate 
to impart or sustain the needed energy in a 
(Continued from our last ) 
The Proceedings at a Special Commission, held 
at the Sessions House of Truth ; in order to 
the Trial of Antichrist, for High Treason 
against His Most Sacred Majesty, King of 
Heaven and Earth. 
The Trial of Antichrist. 
war against the King. Deposing several em-
perors and kings. Abolishing the laws of our 
beloved Sovereign, and substituting his own.—
Offering rewards to encourage rebellion. The 
murder of many hundred thousand subjects of 
our Lord the King. Arid others stated in the 
indictment now read. 
Gentlemen of the Jury, the overt act of levy 
ing war, is a compassing and imagining the 
death of the King, although it may not be car- 
ried into effect. I shall not make many obser-
vations upon it, as it must be comprehended by 
any sensible man, for in the language of the 
law, the levying war is held to be the compass-
ing and imagining the death, of the King, al-• 
though it may not immediately be carried into 
execution, yet it may ultimately attach to his 
person. Any conspiracy by force of arms, to 
alter the laws, the constitution, or the govern-
ment of our Lord's kingdom, leads to the gen-
eral destruction of the King, although it doth 
not to the life of his Majesty. Thus those who 
have been acknowledged as the subjects of our 
Sovereign, by lifting up their rebellious arms 
against his government, are said to Crucify or 
Kill him again, arid to bring him to open shame. 
The intention to alter by force of arms, the con-
stitution of his kingdom, is one of the overt-acts 
laid in the indictment, as a means to compass 
the death of the King. 
I shall proceed to lay the evidences before 
you, in support of the charges laid in the indict-
ment. 1 shall briefly mention the evidences 
and the facts, and the circumstances, that I am 
instructed to say, they will prove : and it is for 
you, Gentlemen of the Jury, to judge what in= 
ferenees and conclusions you may draw. I-
state the nature of the evidences that will be 
produced, merely for the purpose of your under 
standing more satisfaCtorily the nature of the 
testimony the witnesses may give ;. and your 
verdict will be according- to those evidences, 
and according to the credit that you may give 
them, of which you are the constitutional judges. 
We shall produce witnesses to prove, that the 
prisoner at the bar lived at Rome in the year of 
our Lord 606; and that he did usurp the title 
of Universal Bishop, and was known by the 
name of Pope Boniface III. That he continued 
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to change and alter his name from time to time. 
That he did arrogate to himself the government 
of our Lord the King. That he did associate 
with other false traitors. That he did levy war 
against our Sovereign. That he did issue out 
many thousand rebellious proclamations. That 
he did with fire and sword put many of his 
Majesty's loyal subjects to death, in a manner 
enough to make human nature shudder. That 
he did counterfeit the hand-writing of our be-
loved Lord. That he did depose Emperors and 
Kings. That lie did abolish the laws and con. 
stitution of the kingdom of God. And that he 
did commit. treason and rebellion in every age 
of the world, from the time he first usurped his 
treasonable authority. 
Gentlemen of the Jury, we might follow the 
prisoner at the bar from name to name, and 
from century to century, to the present period, 
and glance at a small share of his history, and 
thereby give a comparative view of his tragical 
cruelties. But your time is precious, we shall 
therefore let the witnesses speak, and doubt not 
but to prove, that the prisoner is one of the 
greatest culprits ever brought to the bar. We 
shall now call the evidences, and show by them 
that the prisoner at the bar is guilty of the 
charges laid against him in the indictment. It 
is for you to decide upon the guilt or innocence 
of the prisoner, as you on your oath shall be 
of opinion is agreeable to the case. If the charge 
is not supported, you will of course acquit him. 
Mr. Historical -Truth beingcalled and sworn, 
was examined by the Attorney General. 
QuEs.— Have you been acquainted with 
Antichrist, the prisoner at the bar ? 
ANSW.—Yes. I have known him for many 
centuries. He has often employed my pen. 
Q.—Where did he live when you knew him ? 
A.—At the city of Rome in Italy. 
Q.—Do you recollect at what period you first 
became acquainted with him ? 
A.—I knew him before he claimed the title 
of Universal Bishop, but from the time he 
usurped it, I have taken particular notice of him. 
Q.—In what year did he first assume that 
title ? and what name did he then go by ? 
A.—lu the year of our Lord 606. He was 
then known by the name of Pope Boniface III. 
Q.—Are you acquainted with any circum- 
stances that contributed to the establishment of 
the prisoner by that title ? 
A.—I am. 
Q.—Will you briefly state them to the court? 
A —Yes. I recollect well, that for a long 
time there was much dispute between the pris- 
oner at the bar, and another person, who went 
by the name of the Bishop of Constantinople, 
about who should have the title and power con-
nected with it, as head of the Church. The 
Emperor of Rome, Mauritius, with all his fami-
ly, consisting of six sons and two daughters, 
being murdered by Phocas, who usurped the 
Roman Government ; and who being sanctioned 
by the prisoner, he iii return conferred on him 
the title of Universal Bishop. 
Q.—Do you recollect on what pretext the 
prisoner at the bar founded his claim to this 
title ? 
A. — On a supposition that the Apostle Pe-
ter had been at Rome to found the Church of 
Rome, as Mother and Mistress of all Churches. 
And that our Lord the King had delegated him 
with power to invest his successors with the 
title of Vicar of Christ, &c. 
Q.—Was it from ignorance or wickedness, 
do you suppose, that the Prisoner was first led 
to arrogate his supremacy ? 
A.—I do believe it proceeded. from wicked-
ness. For it never could proceed from igno-
rance, as his predecessor Gregory, who was 
Bishop of Rome, had openly declared to the 
knowledge of the prisoner, " That whosoever 
calls himself, or desires by others to be called 
Universal Bishop, is a forerunner of Antichrist." 
He also knows that he never had been owned 
by that title before Phocas granted it to him, 
and he also well knows now, that he was not 
universally acknowledged after his usurpation. 
Cross-examined by Counsellor Quibble, Counsel 
for the Prisoner. 
Q.— You say that. you have been long ac-
quainted with the prisoner; was you inthnately 
acquainted with him ? 
A.—Yes. 
Q.—On your oath, do you, or do you not be-
lieve, that when the prisoner at the bar first 
claimed his title, that it never was his inten-
tion to aim at further power ? 
A.--It is probable that he might not have in-
tended to have carried his rebellious arms so 
far at first, but he soon convinced the world 
what he would do when he obtained the power. 
Q.—Did he not style himself Servant of ser-
vants? 
A.—He did, but acted as King of kings and 
Lord of lords. 
Phocas, the Emperor, examined by the Solicitor 
General. 
This witness, being a prisoner, was brought into 
the court attended by two of the keepers of 
the black gulf, and inade a most awful and 
terrific appearance. 
Q.—Are you Phocas, the Roman Emperor? 
A.—Yes. My name is Phocas, and I am 
called Emperor of Rome. 
Q.—Did you know the prisoner at the bar, 
at Rome ? 
A.—Alas ! I did, to my sorrow. 
Q.—Will you relate to the court, what you 
knew of the prisoner, during your residence at 
Rome? 
A.—I am compelled to do it by the constrain-
ing hand of justice. And I look forward with 
terror to that great and tremendous day, when 
the Judge of the world will constrain me to 
make a more public declaration. When I came 
to the throne, which I obtained by means, the 
reflection of which adds to my misery, the pris-
oner at the bar, then Bishop of Rome, so in-
sinuated himself ilito my favor, that I readily 
granted his request, and by an edict established 
him by the title of Universal Bishop. I was 
led to this measure by my ignorance of the real 
motives of the prisoner arid of true religion.—
And as I detested the Bishop of Constantinople, 
and stood in the need of the prisoner's influence, 
I sanctioned his claim. 
Q.—He was, therefore, principally by you, 
established in his supremacy ? 
A.—Yes. 
Cardinal Baronius examined by Mr. Impar-
tiality. 
Q.—Do you know the prisoner at the bar ? 
A.—Yes.—I am intimately acquainted with 
him, as thousands know by my writings. 
Q.—Of what religion are you ? 
A.—I am a rigid Roman Catholic, and have 
long acted by the prisoner's authority. 
Q.—Are you acquainted with the way and 
mariner in which the prisoner first obtained the 
title of Universal Bishop? 
A.—I wrote and published to the world, that 
Phocas the Emperor, after he murdered Mauri-
tius and family, and usurped the government, 
established Boniface III., Pope of Rome, by the 
title of Universal Bishop. Anastasius and 
Paul Deacon wrote nearly the same, and many 
have confirmed the testimony 1 have given. 
The Clerk of the Crown then read the fol-
lowing extracts, which had the prisoner's signa-
ture to them. 
Christ made Peter the chief, that from him 
as from a certain head he might diffuse, as it 
were, his gifts into his whole body ; for that 
having taken him in Consortium hulividuce 
Trinitatis, into the Partnership of the Undivided 
Trinity; he would have him called that which 
the Lord himself was saying, Thou art Peter, 
and upon this Rock I will build my Church." 
Signed, BONIFACE VIII. 
" Peter, saith St. Bernard, walking upon the 
waters as Christ did, declared himself the only 
Vicar of Christ; which should be Ruler, not 
over one people, but over all. For many waters 
are many people. And from hence he de-
duceth the like authority and jurisdiction to 
his Successor, the Bishop of Rorne."*—(To be 
continued.) 
* Note on Matt. 14:29. Rhentist's New Test.: Published by the 
Pope's authority. 
General Judgment. 
" For we shall all stand before the judgment seat 
of Christ." 
The fact that God " will judge the world in 
righteousness, by that man (Christ Jesus) whom 
he hath ordained," is probably the most solemn 
truth connected with the history of man. The 
light of heaven clearly developes this indescriba-
bly grand, glorious, and awful event. 
" For we shall all stand before the judgment-
seat of Christ. For it is written, As I live, 
saith the Lord, every knee shall bow to me, and 
every tongue shall confess to God. So then 
every one of us shall' give account of himself to 
God."—Rom. 14:10, 11. None will be absent, 
but all, without a single exception, shall stand 
before God, that he may be judged according to 
the deeds done in the body. " For we must all 
appear before the judgment-seat of Christ; that 
every one may receive the things done in his 
body, according to that he hath done, whether 
it be good or bad."-2 Cor. 5:10. 
"Marvel not at this," says Christ, " for the 
is coming, in the which all that are in the graves 
shall hear his voice, and shall come forth ; 
they that have done good, unto the resurrection 
of life, and they that have done evil, to the 
resurrection of damnation."—John 5:27, 28.—
The grandeur and sublimity of this amazing 
event passed in apocalyptic vision before John 
when on the Isle of Patmos. I saw (says 
John) a great white throne, and him that sat on 
it, from whose face the earth and the heavens 
fled away; and there was found no place for 
them. Arid I saw the dead, small and great, 
stand before God ; and the books were opened, 
and another book was opened, which is the book 
of life; and the dead were judged out of those 
things which were written in the books, according 
to their works. And the sea gave up the dead 
which were in it, and death and hell delivered 
up the dead which were in them ; and they 
were judged every man according to their 
works."—Rev. 20:11-13. The judgmentrherue- geance is announced—the great day of his wrath 
fore will not only be general and awful, bat ex-- is come—when its dark caverns are lit up by 
tremely minute. 
the lightning of His indignation against sin, 
Nor is this a doctrine exclusively of the New and the thunder of His violated law betokens 
Testament. The same has been taught , in the wrath of an offended God. 
every age of the church, Hence the solennn \ But turn from these extremes to earth, whose 
language : " Rejoice, 0 young man, in the y 'end has come. The hum of industry, the sound 
youth ; and let thy heart cheer thee in the daY"sof mirth, the bacchanalian song, and the voice 
of thy youth, and walk in the ways of thiincof prayer, fall upon the ear. Men eagerly pur-
heart, and in the sight of thine eyes ; but know sue all the various avocations of life, the whole 
thou, that for all these things God will bring machinery of society moving on as though to-
thee into judgment."—Eccl. 11:9. " For God morrow would be as to-day, and more abundant-
will bring every work into judgment, with every ly—when lo ! the canopy of heaven parts asun-
secret thing, whether it be good, or whether der, a light surpassing that of ten thousand suns 
it be evil."—Ecclesiastes 12:14. " But I say begird the earth, the shout of the King of kings, 
unto you, that every idle word that men speak, the voice of an archangel, and the trump of 
they shall give account thereof in the day God, terrible as ten thousand thunders, fall upon 
of judgment."—Matthew 12 : 36. " Behold the ear ; the sleep of death is broken, the count-
the Lord corneth with ten thousand of his less millions of earth start from their graves to 
saints, to execute judgment upon all, and to behold God in grandeur, and the world on fire. 
convince all that are ungodly among them of The throne is set, the books are opened, an 
all their ungodly deeds which they have com- eternal severance commenced. The sinner 
mitted, and of all their hard speeches which stands aghast, amazed, confounded, at his own 
ungodly sinners have spoken against him."— pollution. Fearful hour, who can describe thy 
Jude 14, 15. " Behold he cometh with clouds ; revelations, thy joys and sorrows ? Justice, 
and every eye shall see him, and they also that thy hour is come. Terror, muster thy courage 
pierced him : and all kindreds of the earth shall of wrath. Vengeance of the Lord, marshal thy 
wail because of him."—Rev. 1:7. 
forces, for the great day of God Almighty has 
Nor is this all, for this great day of God, come. Mercy and justice, joy and sorrow, an-
when the obligations of earth and hell shall be gels and devils, heaven and hell, have met ; the 
rignted up in perfect accordance with equity, character of God is vindicated, and the eternal 
will be sudden and unexpected. " But the day destiny of man sealed. St. Louis Presbyterian. 
of the Lord will come as a thief in the night; 
in the which the heavens shall pass away with 
a great noise, and the elements shall melt with 
fervent heat, the earth also and the works that 
are therein shall be burned up."-2 Pet. 3:10. 
Well therefore might this servant of God, in 
view of these things, exhort his brethren to "all 
holy conversation and godliness," and say of 
the wicked, " whose judgment now of a long 
time lingereth not, and their damnation slum-
bereth not." 
There will therefore be a great difference be-
tween the saint and sinner in this day of ven-
geance. Speaking of the two classes, God says: 
" But after thy hardness and impenitent heart 
treasured up to thyself wrath against the day 
of wrath, and revelation of the righteous judg-
ment of God ; who will render to every man 
according to his deeds. To them who by pa-
tient continuance in well doing, seek for glory, 
and honor, and immortality, eternal life : but 
unto them that are contentious, and do not 
obey the truth, but obey unrighteousness ; in-
dignation and wrath, tribulation and anguish, 
upon every soul of man that doeth evil ; of the 
Jew first, and also of the Gentile."—Rom. 2:5- 
9. " And to you who are troubled, rest with 
us, when the Lord Jesus Christ shall be re-
vealed 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 everlasting 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 (be-
cause our testimony was believed) in that day." 
—2 Thes. 1:7-10. 
This will be a glorious day to the children 
of God : "For the Lord himself shall descend 
from heaven with a shout, with the voice of an 
archangel, and with the trump of God : and the 
dead in Christ shall rise first : then we which 
are alive and remain, shall be caught up toge-
ther with him in the clouds, to meet the Lord 
in the air, and so shall we ever be with the 
Lord. Wherefore comfort one another with 
these words."-1 Thess. 4:16-18. " For our 
conversation is in heaven, from whence also we 
look for the Saviour, the Lord Jesus Christ : 
who shall change our vile body, according to 
the working whereby he is able even to subdue 
all things unto himself."—Phil. 3:20, 21. 
As to the time when God will judge the 
world in righteousness, or the propriety of such 
a procedure, we are but little concerned when 
these things are compared with the position 
we will occupy in that fearful event. What 
tongue can tell—pencil paint—or what imagina-
tion conceive the effect that will be produced 
when the angel, with one foot on the sea and 
the other on the earth, shall lift his " hand to 
heaven, and swear by him that liveth for ever 
and ever," that time shall be no longer. Who 
describe the scence in heaven, when it is an-
nounced from the eternal throne, that the great 
day of God has come ; the day on which every 
soul shall be united with a body—its own so 
dear, so loved, so long consigned to the grave; 
but now it bursts the bars of death, is raised an 
immortal, incorruptible, spiritual body, fashioned 
like unto Christ's glorious body. Each will 
partake of others' joys, will rejoice with them 
that rejoice. The diseased, pale, emaciated 
body of the parent, child, brother, or sister, 
that was with inexpressible grief committed to 
the dark grave, comes forth clothed in all the 
vigor of eternal youth, and all the dazzling 
beauty of Christ's glorious body—the tide of joy 
rolls high, and will swell and roll on for ever. 
How different will be the apalling effect in 
the prison of hell, when the day of God's ven- 
It must have been a very strange and strik-
ing change that passed over the face of a man 
in a prisoner's box, accused of blasphemy and 
treason, when, instead of turning pale with fear, 
his countenance shone with so much brightness, 
that " all who sat in the council, looking stead-
fastly on him, saw his face as it had been the 
face of an angel." 
I never saw an angel, and none of those 
judges on the bench had ever seen one ; but 
they saw something in Stephen's face that made 
them think of an angel, and it seems to me that 
if I should meet one in the street, as some have 
been met, I should recognize him as a visitor 
from a better world. Stephen's face answered 
to the idea of an angel as it dwelt in the minds 
of the judges. We all have an image of an-
gelic form and beauty that comes to us in our 
meditative hours, when thoughts of holiness 
and heaven, and high enjoyment in God's ser-
vice, are in our minds. In early life such im-
ages have come to us in our dreams, and we 
have brought with us from the realms of sleep 
the memory of angels as they have stood around 
pillows, or beckoning us to conic up higher.—
Jacob saw them in his sleep, and his dream 
was never forgotten. I think we have all 
dreamed of angels. Still we do not know how 
" the face of an angel " looks. 
It must be a face of exceeding purity. That 
is the first thought I have of an angelic counte-
nance. Sinlessness is reflected in the face.—
So would sin be, if there were any in the 
heart. The breast of an angel is transparent 
as glass, and you may read the soul on the 
robes that clothe it. 
Holiness is in the face of an angel. This is 
more than purity; that is freedom from sin, 
this is purity with love ; the love of God and 
all that is good, glowing like the sun, and burn-
ing to glorify Him whom it longs to be like.—
These images of infinite purity and desire are 
combined in my idea of an angel, and the tame 
picture of beauty, such as painters seem to be 
satisfied with, never answered to the type in 
my soul. 
Arid more radiant than these is joy, the flower 
of holiness that blooms on the brow of an angel. 
Happy as an angel is the highest thought of 
joy. Happiness, perfect and supreme, must 
reign in the heart of angels, and shine in the 
face. So it was it was with Stephen, with the 
scowls of a.hostile council on him. Joy was 
beaming there, so that any one who looked at 
him would know that he was happy, though 
bonds, and the imprisonment, and a cruel death 
were before him. 
All good people ought to wear pleasant faces. 
There is no virtue in frowns, no piety in sour 
looks, no sin in a genial smile. If the heart is 
full of love to God arid love to man, it ought to 
be a heart full of joy. And the face ought to 
reflect the heart. Some Christians act and 
look as if they thought it a dreadfully wicked 
thing to be cheerful, You are in no danger of 
mistaking them for angels. They make others 
look sad, and the world think that religion must 
be a very miserable business if those who have 
it are always so gloomy. 
The face of a Christian ought to be as much 
like the face of an angel, as it is possible for 
the earthly to resemble the heavenly. Holiness 
and happiness should beam in the features.—
Then the world would take knowledge of Chris-
tians, that they live with God and are like him. 
Religion would be commended to these who 
have it not as the source of highest joy. An-
gels would dwell with men, or at least, we 
The Face of an Angel. 
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should often say of this or that saint, as welito reikn] on his part, and they [the northern barba-
looked steadfastly on him, that his face is as' 
 rtans] Shall pollute the sanctuary of strength [Rome], 
the face of an angel. 
and 8pail take away the daily sacrifice [of' paganism], 
There is no poetry, no fancy, but practica1 arid they shall place the abomination that maketh 
deskilate [the idolatries of the papacy]. [' This 
truth, and I trust, good sense in this. Of al wt,uld well accord with Paul's view of the subject 
men in the world, the good have the best rigit (2 'chess. 2.), where he tells us "the mystery of 
to he happy. And if the heart is right, the fee iniiquity [paganism] loth already work ; only he who 
ought to show it, Angels look happy, be,:,i',, , nliaow letteth will let, until he be taken out of the way, 
they are happy, and they are happy becaee !l'ionl then shall that wicked be revealed." From this 
they are always good and doing good, !t!it would seem that the apostle. understood that there 
were to be two systems which should oppose them- 
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"BEHOLD! THE BRIDEGROOM COMETH!" 
BOSTON. SATURDAY, MAY 3, 1851. 
All readers of the HERALD are most earnestly besought to 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 troth, in nothing 
carried away into error, or hasty speech, or sharp, unbrotherly dis-
putation. 
PARAPHRASE OF DANIEL XI. 
" I will show thee that which is noted in the scripture of truth." 
-DAN. 10:21. 
(Continued from our last.) 
MR. BIRKS. 
V. 30.-" For ships of Chittim shall come against 
him ; [' When Antiochus met the Roman legates he 
saluted them as they arrived, and offered Popillius his 
right hand, Popillius gave him the tablets that con-
tained the message of the senate, and bade him read 
it first of all. When he had read them through, and 
said that he would consider, with the advice of his 
friends, what he ought to do, Popillius, with his 
usual severity of mind, drew a circle round the king 
with the staff which he bore in his hand, and said, 
Before you quit this circle, tell me what answer I 
shall carry back to the senate. When he had hesi-
tated a moment, struck mute by so imperious a com-
mand, I will do, he said, what the senate thinks right. 
Then, at length, Popillius held out his right hand to 
the king, as a friend and ally.'-p. 143.] : therefore 
he shall be grieved and return, and have indignation 
against the holy covenant [' He led back his forces 
into Syria,' as Polybius relates, grieved and groan-
ing-, but thought it expedient at present to yield to 
the times.' After two years fully expired 
(A. c. 168) the king sent his chief collector of tribute 
unto the cities of Judea, who came to Jerusalem with 
a great multitude : and spake peaceable words, but 
in deceit ; for when they had given him credence, 
he fell suddenly on the city and smote it sore, and 
destroyed much people of Irael. And when he had 
taken the spoils of the city, he set it on fire and 
pulled down the houses and walls of it on every side. 
And the women and children they took captive, 
and possessed the castle.'-p. 145.] : he shall even 
return and have intelligence with them that forsake 
the holy covenant. [' The sole difficulty in tracing 
any part of this remarkable prediction, arises from 
the loss of many ancient histories, so that fragments 
which remain are very imperfect.'-p. 146]." 
MR. LITCH. 
V. 30.-"For ships of Chittim shall come against 
him ; [' Italy was invaded by Heraclian, count of 
Africa. The ports of Africa were immediately filled 
with the naval forces, at the head of which he pre-
pared to invade Italy ; and his fleet, when he cast 
anchor at the mouth of the Tiber, indeed surpassed 
the fleets of Xerxes and Alexander, if ALL the ves-
sels, including the royal galley and the smallest 
boat, did actually amount to the incredible number of 
three thousand two hundred.'-p. 69] : therefore he 
shall be grieved and return, and have indignation 
against the holy covenant : so shall he do ; he shall 
even return and have intelligence with them that for-
sake the holy covenant. [' The emperors had indigna-
tion against freedom of opinion in the church and on 
teligious questions, and had intelligence with the 
church of Rome,-which forsook the holy covenant, 
and became the apostacy, or "falling away," ‘• the 
man of sin,"-for the purpose of putting down the 
barbarous Arians. The final result of the establish-
ment of Popery by the Greek emperor,.was the over-
throw of the Goths and Vandals, and the termination 
of the Arian controversy.'-p. 78]." 
MR. BIRKS. 
V. 31.-" And arms shall stand on his [Antiochus'] 
part, and they shall pollute the sanctuary of strength, 
[Jerusalem-' Thus they shed innocent blood on 
every side of the sanctuary, and defiled it, insomuch 
that the inhabitants ofJerusalem fled because of them, 
and the city was made an habitation of strangers:-
1 Mac. 1:37, 38.] and shall take away the daily 
sacrifice [of the Jews' burnt offerings], and shall place 
the abomination that maketh desolate. [' Now the 
fifteenth day of the month Casleu, in the hundred and 
forty-fifth year, they set up the abomination of deso-
lation upon the altar, and builded idol altars through-
out the cities of Judah on every side. . . . Now the 
five and twentieth day of the month they did sacrifice 
upon the idol altar, which was before the altar of 
God.'-1 Mac. 1:54, 55, 59. And they polluted 
also the temple of Jerusalem, and called it the tem-
ple of Jupiter Olympius. The corning in of this 
mischief was sore and grievous to the people ; for 
the temple was filled with riot and revellings by the 
Gentiles . . . . the altar also was filled with profane 
„things which the law forbiddeth.'-2 Mac. 4:2-5]." 
MR. LITCH. 
V. 3L-" And arms [military power] shall stand 
us by the hand to their wider meaning, when he re- deal corruptly wits flatteries.' Of these flatteries 
fers to the abomination of desolation, spoken of by the Gospel and Acts afford us many examples, and 
Daniel, to the ruin then impending over Jerusalem. they lasted until the final ruin of the city. We see, 
The very places which these verses occupy may in Josephus himself, a Jew corrupted by these Re-
prove of itself, that they form a transition from Anti- man flatteries, who could reject the true Messiah, and 
ochus to the time of the end. And what were the gravely :lasert that Vespasian fulfilled the national 
leading events of that interval, which hear directly pl•opheci,,, of a Deliverer to arise in the holy land. 
on the Church of God 2 Clearly these-the gradual The language of the chief priests to Pilate, the prom-
encroachments of the Romans in Judea, till at length ise of Pilate to release whom they would, the address 
they destroyed the city and temple, and brought on or Tertullus to Felix, and the wish of Felix and 
the desolation which has now brooded for ages over Festus to do pleasure to the Jews, are further exam-
Jerusalem ; the ministry of our blessed Lord ; thelples of these hollow flatteries, which soon brought 
bold and zealous preaching of the Apostles, the i on a bitter destruction. 
spread of the Gospel through the Roman empire, the'" But the people that do know their God shall he 
bitterness of the Pagan persecutions ; the triumph strong, and do exploits.' We need not look beyond 
of the faith when the whole empire nominally re- the Acts and the Epistles for evidence of the fulfil-
ceived it ; the rapid corruption of the visible Church, meat of these words, during the forty years from the 
renewed troubles and persecutions, and the growth baptism of John to the fall of Jerusalem. The dis-
of an apostate tyranny, without example in the his- ciples, who knew their God, even the God and Fa-
tory of the world. All these, except our Lord's titer of the Lord Jesus, were indeed strong in the 
personal ministry, which had been just revealed in a Lord and in the power of his might, and did exploits 
separate prophecy, seem here distinctly pourtrayed in the midst of' hatred arid persecution. Of these 
to us in their natural order, and in colors of light.- triumphs wrought by Christian warriors, the apostle 
Let us trace once more, in order, the words of the has twice and three times given us the description 
text and their fulfilment. 
in his own person, 1 Cor. 4:9-13 ; 2 Cur. 21:23-29 ; 
" And from him arms shall stand up.' These 2 Tim. 3:10-12, and the history might be enlarged 
words serve to describe very accurately the character without end. While Roman flatteries were prompt-
and course of the Romans, from the days of Antiochus ing that servile speech of politic dissemblers-We 
to the conquest of Judea. Arms (brachia) are used have no king but Cesar-the servants of Christ were 
throughout these prophecies to denote military forces bold in their God to preach the gospel of God with 
or power. They are said to stand up, when they much contention.' No suffering could damp their 
manifest themselves in vigorous action. After the ardor, no danger abate their zeal ; they were will-
defeat of Antiochus the Great by the Romans, and ing not only to be bound, and to suffer joyfully the 
the repulse of Epiphanes himself by their ambassador spoiling of their goods, but to die also for the name 
in the ships from Chittim, which have been al- of the Lord Jesus. 
ready announced, it is natural that their formidable " And they that understand among the people 
power should be next predicted. The word rendered, shall instruct many.' The former clause is naturally 
on his part, may, as in verse 23, denote simply a sue- explained of the faithful witness of the apostles and 
cession, in time." 
first disciples among the Jews ; these words are an 
" And they shall pollute the sanctuary of strength,' equally exact description of their message to the 
In the time of Antiochus, the sanctuary was first poi- idolatrous Gentiles. They who had the true knowl-
luted, by the blood which he and his generals shed edge.of Messiah among the Jewish people, or in 
through the city, and by his own intrusion, under other words, the apostles and first Jewish Christians, 
the guidance of Menelaus, into the holy place. instructed many. Their voice to their unbelieving 
" A further pollution of the sanctuary by the Ro- countrymen was loud and clear. It was necessary 
mans took place on the accession of Herod, A. C. 38, that the word of God should first he preached to you. 
when Sosius took the city by storm. The first wall But seeing ye put it from you, and judge yourselves 
was taken in forty days, the second in fifteen more, unworthy of eternal lite, lo ! we turn to the Gentiles.' 
when some of the cloisters about the temple were Be it known unto you, that the salvation of God is 
burnt. And when the outer court of the temple, and sent unto the Gentiles, and that they will hear it.' 
the lower city were taken, the Jews fled into the in- So that, very soon, one of the foremost of this glo-
ner court of the temple and the upper city : but fearing noes eompany could affirm with truth-' From Jeru-
lest the Romans should hinder them from offering salem round about unto Illyricum I have fully 
their daily sacrifices, they sent an embassy, and de- preached the Gospel of Christ." 
sired that they would only permit them to bring in ‘" Yet they shall fall by sword, by flame, and by 
beasts for sacrifice. And now all parts were full of' captivity, and by spoil, many days.' Phese words 
those that were slain by the rage of the Romans; describe to us vividly the Pagan persecutions. Al-
and as they were flying to the temple for shelter, though the truths of the gospel spread rapidly, and 
there was no pity taken of infants or the aged, nor many received them, the kingdom of darkness was 
did they spare those of the weaker sex, and none re- not invaded so rudely, and shaken to its foundations, 
strained their hand from slaughter." (Ant. xiv. without a bitter and desperate opposition from the 
16. 3.) 
powers of hell. Many converts were beheaded with 
" And they shall take away the daily sacrifice.' the Roman axe ; many were tortured, like Polycarp, 
The cessation of the. daily sacrifice in the Roman by the burning flame. Many suffered the spoiling 
siege of Jerusalem, A. C. 70, is too well known to of their goods, and took it joyfully for Christ's sake ; 
require many testimonies. It is mentioned, as fol- and the devil cast many into prison, and sent upon 
lows, by Josephus 
them a fiery tribulation. From the reign of Nero, 
" And now Titus gave orders to his soldiers to dig A. D. 66, to the abdication, of Diocletian at due close 
up the foundations of the tower of' Antonia, and make of the last and heaviest persecution, A, D. 313, the 
him a ready passage for his army to come up. And furnace was almost perpetually kindled against the 
he himself had Josephus brought to him, for he had servants of God ; and no words could describe more 
been informed, that on that very day, which was the accurately than this verse, the general state of the 
seventeenth day of Panernus, the sacrifice called the Church for two hundred and fifty years. 
daily sacrifice, had failed, and not been offered to " < Now when they fall they shall be holpen with 
God, for want of men to offer it, and the people were a little help, but many shall cleave to them with 
grievously troubled on this account.' (Wars vi. flatteries.' The Church,' Bishop Newton well ob- 
1.) 
serves, had now labored under long arid severe per- 
secutions from the civil power. The last was begun 
been fulfilled for ages. The children of Israel shall by Diocletian ; it raged, though not at all times 
abide many (lays without a king, and without a prince, equally, ten years; and was suppressed by Constan-
and without a sacrifice, and without an image, and tine, the first Roman Emperor who made open pro-
without an ephod, and without teraphim.' 
This fession of Christianity ; and then the church was no 
event, with the total destruction of the temple which longer persecuted, but protected and favored by the 
presently followed, were indeed a signal era in the 
history o the Church ; the final close of the Jewish, state.' 
f 
" And some of them of understanding shall fall, 
and the full introduction of the Gentile dispensation. to try them, and to purify them, and to make them 
It forms therefore a fit commencement of the histori- white, even to the time of the end ; because it is yet 
cal transition from the period of Daniel, and the sec-, for a time appointed.' Here a season of renewed 
and temple, to the new and mysterious history of persecution is announced, hut with two distinctive 
Gospel times, which occupies the close of his latest 
prophecy. 
features, in contrast with the former. It is partial, 
as to its objects, and it is of longer continuance. . . . 
" And they shall place the abomination that Real Christians have been found since, partly shel- 
maketh desolate. These words acquire a deep and tered, from open violence by an outward communion 
peculiar interest, from the reference which our Lord with the dominant church, in which they have still 
has made to them in His own prophecy, and the retained the vitals of the faith ; partly cast out as 
special note by which the Spirit of God fixes our at- heretics, and witnessing in sackcloth against the pre- 
tention on this part of the message. When ye vailing forms of idolatrous corruption. This cheq- 
shall see the abomination of desolation, spoken of by ured and mingled state of the church began soon 
Daniel the prophet, stand in a holy place (let him after the days of Constantine, and it has continued 
that readeth understand) ; the!, let them which be in down even to our own times, which may be called, 
Judea flee to the mountains.' Fhese words of our with a peculiar emphasis, the time of the mi."-
Saviour are commonly referred, and with much rea- (To be continued.) 
son, to the times of Vespasian. But since it has been 
maintained that they refer solely to some future 
event, a few remarks are needed to prove their true 
THE BLESSED HOPE 
application, and show their connection with the pres- (FROM THE LONDON " QUARTERLY JOURNAL OF AROPHECT.") 
eat verse. 
" Now the words of our Lord form the answer to 
"Looking for that blessed hope."-Titus 2:13. 
 
a definite inquiry, made just before by the disciples. The apostle exhibits the believer in this connexion, 
They ask when that temple on which they were gaz- as the scholar of grace. " The grace of GOD, which 
ing with a finid admiration], and which their hopes bringeth salvation, hath appeared to all men, teach-
had connected with all the glory of Messiah's king- ing us that, denying ungodliness and worldly lusts, 
doin, was to be overthrown and destroyed. Of the 
fact itself they had just been assured by our Lord, we should live soberly, and righteously, and godly in 
and it filled them with deep sorrow. They now in- this present wicked world ; looking for that blessed 
quire the time, when these things should he.'- hope, and the glorious appearing of the great GOD 
Whatever else tnay be added to their question, this 
was their first and immediate object. Our Lord's and our SAVIOUR JES13S CHRIST." The teachings of 
answer corresponds, and gives them a sign when the grace produce holiness and hopefulness. The Gos-
desolation would he close at hand. And as this was pet, rightly received, is the power of Goo to rescue 
the first practical object of the prophecy, the Holy the soul from sin, to strengthen it for all holy de-
Spirit fixes the attention of the early Christians on 
this part of' our Saviour's warning, and inserts the votedness, and to carry the thoughts and affections 
direction in two of the gospels-' whoso readeth, let forward to eternal things. The observatory of hope 
him understand.'" 
stands upon the rock of holiness (for only those who 
" And such as do wickedly against the covenant are like CRHIST desire to see him), and that rock is 
shall he corrupt with flatteries.' Or the words may based upon the high mountains of redeeming love.- 
be explained distributively, by a frequent idiom, as 
they are translated by some writers who refer the The man who is separated from the principles and 
pasage solely to Antiochus-' each one of them shall Practices of this evil world, and who lays out his en- 
MR. BIRKS. 
V. 32.-" And such as do wickedly against the 
covenant shall he corrupt by flatteries [many of the 
Israelites sacrificed 'into idols and profaned the sab-
bath :] ; but the people that do know their God shall 
be strong and do exploits. [' Then Judas Maccaheus, 
and they that were with him, called their kinsfolk 
together, all such as tontinued in the J1V.S' 
and assembled about six thousand men.. Arid he 
came at unawares, and burnt up towns and cities, 
and put to flight no small number of his enemies, in-
somuch that the report of his manliness was spread 
every where When he had made them bold 
with these words, and ready to die for the laws of 
the country, he divided his army into four parts.-
And by the help of the Almighty, they slew above 
nine thousand of their enemies, and put all to flight 
and pursued them far . . . and yielded exceeding 
praise and thanks to the Lord who had preserved 
them that day, which was the beginning of mercy 
distilling upon them.'-2 Macc. 8:1-27. So he 
gat. his people great honor, and put on a breastplate 
as a giant, and put his warlike armor about him, 
and made battles, protecting the host with his sword. 
In his acts he was like a lion, and as a lion's whelp 
roaring for his prey. For he pursued the wicked, 
and sought them out, and burnt up those that vexed 
his people. Wherefore the wicked shrank for fear 
of him, arid all the workers of iniquity were troubled, 
and salvation prospered in his hand. . . . So that he 
was renowned unto the ends of the earth, and re-
ceived unto him such as were ready to perish.'-1 
Mace. 3:3-9]." 
MR. L1TCH. 
V. 32.-" And such as do wickedly against the 
covenant [who have more regard for human traditions, 
and the decisions of Popes and councils, than they 
have for God's word] shall he [the Pope] corrupt by 
flatteries [shall beguile by the show and glitter of 
pompous ceremonies, and high sounding titles] : but 
the people that do know their God [the humble fol-
lowers of the Saviour] shall be strong and do exploits 
[shall keep pure religion alive in the earth during 
the darkest times]." 
MR. BIRKS. 
V. 33.-" And they that understand among the 
people shall instruct many [shall unfOld the book of 
the law] ; yet they shall fall by sword, and by flame, 
by captivity, and by spoil, many days. [' During the 
whole desolation under Antioch us, these various afflic-
tions came upon the faithful Jews. They fell by the 
sword. The enemies shed innocent blood on every 
side of the sanctuary.-1 Macc. 1:37. Running 
through the city with weapons they slew great multi-
tudes.' "Phere was killing of young and old, malt-\ 
ing away of men, women and children, slaying of 
women and infants.' They fell also by flame. The 
seven sons and their mother, in 2 Macc. 6, were tor-
tured with burning fire. A thousand of the Jews 
who had hid themselves in the caves being discovered 
to Philip, were all burnt together, because they for-
bore to help themselves, fur the honor of the most 
sacred day.' (2 Macc. 6:11 ; 1 Macc. 2:33-38).-
They fell by captivity and spoil. At the first assault 
of Antiochus ou Jerusalem, there were destroyed 
fourscore thousand, whereof forty thousand were 
slain in conflict, and no fewer sold than slain.'-
' Apollonius was ordered to slay all those who were 
in their prime, and to sell the women and younger 
sort.'-2 Macc. 5:14, 24]." 
MR.,LITCH. 
And they that understand among the 
people shall instruct many [as did the Waldenses, 
the Albigenses, and the Huguenots, who under the 
dominion of the man of sin fell as predicted:] ; yet 
they shall fall by the sword, and by flame, by cap-
tivity, and by spoil many days [-during the 1260 
years of the Papal supremacy]." 
MR. BIRKS. 
Now when they shall fall, they shall 
be holpen with a little help ; but many shall cleave 
to them with flatteries. [As was fulfilled in the 
conduct of multitudes of apostate Jews upon the suc-
cess of Judas, and in the treaty made by Lysias and 
Antiochus Eupator. immediately on the death of 
Antiochus Epiphanes.'-p. 238]." 
MR. LITCII. 
V. 34.-" Now when they shall fall, they shall 
be holpen with a little help [shall have a partial de-
liverance at the dawn of the Reformation] : but many 
shall cleave to them with flatteries. [When the Prot-
estant cause should become more popular]." 
MR. BIRKS. 
V. 35.-" And some of them of understanding 
shall fall [as did Eleazer, the brother of Judas, those 
who perished with famine in Jerusalem], to try them, 
and to purge, and to make them white, even to the 
time of the end : because it is yet for a time ap-
pointed [to the time of the prophecy]." 
In additiOn to the above application, Mr. BIRKS 
says, that verses 31 to 35 " correspond also with no 
less accuracy, on a wider scale, to the whole course 
of Providence towards the Jews and the Christian 
Church, from the time of the Maccabees far into the 
present dispensation." 
" Our Lord, in His own prophecy, seems to lead 
93Nd 
ergies for GOD, will be strong and clear-sighted, and 
will find true happiness in dwelling among the glo-
ries of the coming future. While listening to the 
teachings of the Gospel of the grace of GOD, and en-
deavoring to act aright as regards himself, his neigh-
bor, and his Goo, by " living soberly, righteously, 
and godly," he will look beyond this present scene 
for his highest happiness. When true to his princi-
ples, looking for that blessed hope " rightly de-
scribes him. The coming SAVIOUR is the object arid 
end of his hope. Christ is the blessed one. The 
term blessed is applied to Gon, arid is descriptive of 
his excellency and supremacy---Rom. 1:25; Tim. 
1:9. He is a being in whom all excellences dwell, 
arid who should be perpetually praised, honored, and 
blessed. CHRIST 1S " the Son of the Blessed," and 
in this respect he is the image of GoD, the outshining 
of his glory. Yet he is the Son of man, and it is as 
clothed in our nature that he is revealed to us as the 
blessed one. 
CHRIST iS the blessed of God. The Father hath 
spoken highly of him, and bestowed the largest favors 
and the highest horrors upon him.—Psa. 21:6 ; 45:2. 
The proofs of GOD'S blessing of CHRIST are seen in 
his offices, dignities, possessions, and hopes, and in 
the fact that all who trust CHarsT, all who love him, 
are blessed in him with all spiritual and eternal bless-
ings.—Psa. 72:17 ; Eph. 1:3. 
CHRIST the blessed one of GoD, is the blessed of 
saints and angels. On earth, when he confessed 
himself to be " the Son of the Blessed," they accused 
him of blasphemy, and crucified him.—Mark 14:61, 
64. But how diffierent the verdict of heaven, where 
all the heavenly hosts delight to ascribe blessing arid 
glory to the Lamb !—Rev. 5:12. With this angelic 
testimony, many on earth are brought to agree, and 
to join the Psalmist in singing, " Blessed be His 
glorious name for ever, and let the whole earth be 
filled with his glory."-72:17, " Blessed be He 
that cometh in the name of the LORD, hosanna in the 
highest." How happy are those who are thus 
brought to sympathize with Goo as regards his views 
of and feelings toward CHRIST! 
He who is the BLESSED ONE is the hope of his peo-
ple, JESUS is the saints' hope. How emphatically 
does the apostle state this (1 Tim. 1:1), " The LORD 
JESUS CHRIST, who is our hope." He, in His glori-
ous righteousness arid precious blood, is the founda-
tion of their hope ; in his session and intercession, 
He is the home of their hope ; and in his coming and 
kingdom, the object and end of their hope. 'rake 
Him away, and they have nothing to hope in or to 
hope for. They are without a plea, and without 
a portion. They hope in Min and for Him, because 
He is God's blessed one. They view Him as surety, 
head, husband, king, and in all blessed, crowned with 
glory (Heb. '2:9) ; filled with all fulness (Col. 1:17) ; 
and in Him they hope. Man's great mistake is, to 
make that his hope which GOD }lath not blessed : he 
hopes in that which is cursed and dying ; and then 
himself, his hope, and his portion, perish together. 
He does this notwithstanding the most solemn warn-
ings not to do so, and the sweetest invitations to fix 
his trust arid hope in JESUS. It is otherwise with 
the believer, and his hope shall never make ashamed. 
At his second corning, the Lord Jesus will fulfil all 
the expectations and desires of his people. Expectation 
and desire are the components parts of hope. The 
former has reference to what Goo has said, and the 
latter to the state of the heart toward it. Many per-
sons expect what they du not desire, and often desire 
what they have no good ground for expecting. Now, 
what does the saint expect arid desire ? Perfect 
knowledge. He hopes soon to know as he is known, 
and no longer to see through a glass darkly. When 
CHRIST comes there will be " a revelation of GOD." 
It will be " a morning without clouds," a day of re-
splendent glory. Then the understanding will be 
clear, the memory retentive ; the eye will then be 
satisfied with seeing and the ear with hearing. In-
crease of knowledge will not increase sorrow then ; 
but every new discovery in heavenly science will 
bring new tides of joy into the soul. The believer 
desires perfect purity. This is secured to him by 
GOD'S promise, and shall be realized at the coming 
of JESUS : " when he shall appear, we shall be like 
him ; for we shall see him as he is." This hope of 
being perfectly holy is a lively hope ; it stirs up the 
soul now to purify itself even as CHRIST is pure.—
Perfect happiness is anticipated also by the believer. 
To desire to be happy is natural to fallen man ; but, 
alas ! in what foolish ways does he seek to gratify 
his desires, and to realize his hopes. If we ask the 
worldly man in what happiness consists, he will talk 
of health, wealth, honor, worldly estates, and tell us 
that if he could have all these, have plenty of them, 
and that for ever, he would be happy. But this can-
not be. Time and death sternly forbid it ; and even 
if it could, the soul of man could nut be satisfied with 
them. But let these words be considered as referring 
to spiritual things, and let these have the impress of 
eternity upon them, and we have indeed all the ele-
ments of happiness. When the LORD JESUS comes 
to gather his people to himself, he will give to both 
soul and body perfect and perpetual health ; he will 
enrich them with the treasures of eternity ; raise 
them tip to the highest horrors; introduce them to 
the whole family in heaven, not one of whom shall 
ever die ; and, above all, he will make them heirs of 
GoD arid joint heirs with himself for ever and for 
ever. 
Once more, the believer longs for the reign of order 
and harmony. It grieves him to hear the groans of 
creation, the yells of blasphemy, and the wailitig,s of 
sorrow. He longs to see Satan cast out and GOD 
enthroned ; creation renovated ; and man restored to 
his true dignity : and all shall be done when Jesus 
comes again. The heavens must receive Him until 
the times of the restitution of all things ; and then 
shall he come again the second time, without sin, 
unto salvation ; and then shall GOD'S kingdom of or-
der and harmony come, and his will be done on earth, 
even as it is done in heaven. The hopeful heart lis-
tens to these testimonies, and cries, " Even so, come, 
LORD JESUS." 
If, at the second coming of the SAVIOUR, all that 
the saints expect and desire shall be fully realized, 
it follows that they shall constantly look for him.—
Looking for that blessed hope should be descriptive 
of every saint of GOD. It should be the habit oftheir 
minds. They should ever realize a settled convic-
tion that CHRIST will come again, and that he may 
come soon. This was evidently the habitual frame 
of the primitive saints, and it is a very important in-
quiry, how saints mny attain to a similar habit of 
mind, or state of thought and feeling. Let there be 
a diligent study of his own Word, without testing 
the same by human systems. A simple dependence 
on his merits, ever cherishing the thought that He 
gave himself for us. Connected with these, there 
should be delight in his person and offices; and if 
the good Spirit work in us this disposition to medi-
tate on truth, to repose under the cross, and to de-
light in the SAVIOUR, we shall then desire Iris com-
pany, desire to see him as he is. We shall not look 
upon the doctrine of his cotnirg with suspicion and 
dread, but with the deepest interest and the liveliest 
hope. We shall see GoD's highest glory and man's 
deliverance bound up with his coming, and shall not 
wish it delayed. 
This habit, when possessed, may be weakened by 
worldliness, by unbelief, and by neglecting the words 
of CHRIST. If we would have our interest in his 
coming kept alive, if we would not have the eye of 
hope grow dim, we must read his testimony, and the 
letters which he bath sent to us ; we must consider 
GOD'S plan as a great whole, to he consummated at 
the glorious appearing of CHRIST. 
This looking will be a most powerful antidote, as 
well as a profitable employment. If our eyes are 
employed in looking on proper objects, we shall be 
preserved from seeing evil. The baits of sin, the 
shadows of earth, will have no attraction for those 
who are conversant with the glories of the Coming 
One. For all distracting and discouraging, as well 
as decoying things, looking unto and looking for JE-
SUS is an antidote. There are three things which 
sometimesdismay. Looking within on our own hearts, 
round upon our enemies, and forward to what is 
coming upon the world. Look in, arid if your sin 
and guilt dismay, look back upon the Cross. Look 
round, and when oppressed by the sight, look up to 
the throne of the Mediator. Look forward to the 
corning storm, and then look beyond it. Yes, beyond 
the great image (Dan. 2) is the everlasting kingdom. 
Beyond the reign of the beasts and crushing tyranny 
of the little horn, is the reign of the Son of Man and 
his saints.—Dan. 7. Beyond the troublous ocean of 
time, lies the continent of eternal glory, all bright 
with GOD'S own light. Beyond the region of sor-
sow, trial, and conflict, rise the turrets of the new 
Jerusalem, where there shall be no more sorrow, 
tears, nor death. 0 believer, bind to thy heart the 
glorious fact, the Blessed One is coming to abolish 
evil arid introduce blessing. 
Hope, then, evermore in Him. 
CHRIST IN HIS DEATH AND RESURREC- 
TION. 
In the estimation of an unthinking world, accord-
ing to outward appearances, our LORD, when lifted 
upon the Cross and consigned to the sepulchre, was 
covered with ignominy. In the eyes, however, of all 
holy intelligences these events combined to furnish 
the brightest manifestation of his dignity and glory. 
The Almighty Father now looked down upon a ran-
somed world with infinite complacency, and beheld 
the radiance of all his perfections shining forth with 
the most resplendent lustre. The price of man's re-
demption had been stipulated in the councils of eter-
nity, and for the space of four thousand years count-
less myriads of the human race had passed into bliss 
upon the promise of its payment. The price was 
now laid down, the reign of slavery was abolished, 
and the claims of Satan were eternally silenced.—
Angels and archangels bent from their thrones to.pry 
into the nrysteries of redemption, while the redeemed 
perceived with ineffable delight the glorious medium 
of their eternal felicity. Christian penitents also have 
been thinking on these things, which have come to 
pass. They have been standing by the cross and 
grave of CHRIST, and what have they learned, when 
they contrasted his humiliation with his essential 
greatness, and witnessed in his lifelessness the curse 
pronounced against transgression? They have learned 
the odiousness of sin, in the sight of the Eternal; the 
vastness of the evil, as evinced by the greatness of 
the remedy ; the boundlessness of Goo's grace, in 
not sparing his own Son, but in giving him up to 
death for us all ; the condescension of the Redeemer, 
in entering the gloomy mansions of the dead, that he 
might walk as a very Brother with his chosen through 
the dark valley of the shadow of death ; the complete-
ness and sufficiency of the satisfaction offered for sin-
ners, by Immanuel exhausting every threatening of 
the law, and enduring all its penalties. But still an-
other truth has been brought home to their ininost 
heart. They have learned to look, and to look again 
on the SAvrouR, as one whom they have pierced 
and who has purchased their ransom from eternal 
death by sorrows and sacrifices, which neither time 
nor eternity will enable them to estimate. With 
what deep-felt emotions of gratitude and joy will such 
disciples hail the recurrence of the Easter Festival ? 
The resurrection of their SAVIOUR proved him to be 
Omnipotent, as his life had before proved him to be 
sinless, and his death infinite in love. It proved 
him to be a sacrifice well-pleasing to GoD, an infalli-
ble publisher and unerring bringer to pass of prophecy, 
a most sufficient SAVIOUR, and a most truly Royal 
Prince of peace. And above all, his resurrection 
has established ours, and afforded assurance unto all 
men of a day of general judgment. But still, until 
that day dawns, when CHRIST who is our life shall 
appear, and the Christian appear with him in glory, 
still do sin, sorrow, and death remain, and those evils 
for the sake of which the wrath of GoD conneth upon 
the children of disobedience. The end, the great 
destruction, the complete victory, is not yet. The 
trumpet must first sound ; the earth and the sea give 
up their dead ; the living that remain meet the LORD 
in the air ; all things shall then be subdued unto Him 
—" all things shall be put under Him." Death, the 
last enemy, shall himself experience the destruction 
he had been so long inflicting. Time, and chance, 
arid every thing transient and perishing, and con-
tributing to evil, shall be brought to naught. Sin 
and sorrow shall disappear amid the ruins of their 
place of sojourn ; evil shall cease, imperfection shall 
be done away; " the wicked shall be turned into 
hell," and the author of evil into the torment that he 
made for others. This is the doctrine which may 
well give point and force to the Apostle's call in the 
Epistle for this festival ;—" to seek those things which 
are above "—" to set our affections on things above " 
—" to mortify our members which are upon the 
earth." 
Protestant Churchman. 
A Bridge for the Soul. 
The penitent soul sometimes gets over the gulf 
and makes its way to Gon by a very strange process. 
The idea in question has been suggested to us num-
berless times by a certain style of prayer which we 
meet with in the Scriptures, and yet we never fol-
lowed up the thought in the manner that Dr. CHEE-
VER has done, in one passage of his " Windings of 
the River of the Water of Life." We quote him 
thus :— 
" There it is in the 32d Psalm, and David going 
over it. And what is to be thought of the prayer, 
For thy name's sake, pardon mine iniquity, for it is 
great?' Would it not be the strangest of all strange 
prayers for a criminal to offer to the Government, a 
criminal guilty of a monstrous murder, for example, 
if he should say, t My murder is the worst that was 
ever committed since Cain's ; the most atrocious, 
the most deliberate, cruel, cold-blooded, inexcusable ; 
and therefore I beseech you for the Government's 
sake to pardon me.' And yet that is David's prayer 
to God, that is the prayer that God teaches us to of-
fer for his mercy. r For my name's sake pardon 
mine iniquity, for it is great.' And so David went 
over the bridge of his own sins into the heart of God's 
mercy. And there it is again in the 2d Chronicles 
33:12, 13 ; and Manasseh going over it, that mon- 
strous sinner ! But God was entreated of him, and 
heard his supplication. And there it is again, in 
Luke 15, and the Prodigal Son going over it. And 
here it is again, in 1st Timothy 1:15, and Paul him-
self going over it as the chief of sinners, with the 
same argument. For thy name's sake pardon mine 
iniquity, for it is great.' 
And here let us stop one moment and see the 
Progress of Paul's experience. There is a peculiarly 
beautiful and instructive series of climacterics in it, 
which has often been noted. In the year of our 
Lord 59, he is the least of the apostles, and not meet 
to he called an apostle, because he persecuted the 
Church of God. In the year of our Lord 64, after 
five years more of growth in grace, he is less than 
the least of all saints. But in the year of our Lord 
65, and not long before lie was to receive his crown 
in heaven, he is the chief of sinners. So a man as 
he goes down in self goes up in God, and as lie goes 
up in God, goes down in self." 
Our Hope. 
Shut up the Bible, which, like the pillar of cloud 
to Israel in leading their march, is entitled to the 
first place in every gospel sanctuary, whose explana-
tion, enforcement, and application are the peculiar 
work of the Christian ministry, and I challenge the 
production of a warrant for the hope of forgiveness 
and eternal life from the range of the universe. 'Tis 
not to be found in the face of the sky, nor in the 
breadth of the earth. These works were finished 
before there was a sinner of our race, and they do 
not convey an intimation of provision for, nor can 
they be expected to bear the impress of even a refer-
ence to what had not yet happened. Through they 
tell of the glory of God, they contain not a word of 
reply to the agonizing inquiry, " What must I do to be 
saved ?" and they can do no more than echo back and 
deepen the horror of the cry, Lost, lost, lost ! Man, 
then, is a sinner, and God is in Christ. These are 
the two great collateral truths of Christiauity. These 
render it so glorious to God, so beneficial to man. 
This is the Gospel—" Glad tidings to the poor," 
salvation to the perishing, hope for sinners. This 
gives it its value and power. Dilute these leading 
truths, and the contents of the cup of salvation be-
come proportionately powerless. " Take away my 
Lord "—the doctrine expressed in the passages, " In 
whom we have redemption through his blood," " He 
was wounded for our iniquities," " Christ is made 
to us of God, wisdom," etc.—and you take away my 
hope. 
Rev. James Romeyn. 
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Let all come up, to the feast in the fitith and the spirit of the 
LORD. 
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The changing of the Sabbath from the seventh to the first day 
(Jewish time) has been a sul jeer of interest to me, and 1 have often 
wondered why-if the Christian Church should live eighteen hun-
dred years in violation of the fourth command-why it was not a 
subject of prophecy. But if the Jews' Sabbath was 'the sixth day 
according to the Paradisiacal Caiender, and therefore the changing 
of time again front the -Ali to the 1st day (if true) would bring its 
again unto the true Sabbath (or seventh day), as Mr. Jennings 
proves, why then, I think, I can see a great beauty as well as 
harmony, in the purpose and providence of God. I hope our 
brethren will read that article again. Yours, P. M. MORGAN. 
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THE THREE GARDENS. 
If we go back the stream of time, 
Nearly six thousand years, 
Our eyes rest on a lovely clime— 
A goodly land appears ; 
'Tis the garden of Eden, 
So perfect and fair, 
" Very good," God pronounced it, 
Yet death entered there ! 
If we return to Palestine, 
A garden we shall see, 
Where love and sorrow both combine : 
It is Gethsemane. 
Behold the second Adam 
Fallen to the ground, in prayer; 
So grievous are his sufferings 
That blood seems flowing there ! 
Behold the Man of sorrows stand, 
While all his friends retreat ; 
Anon led by a wicked band 
To Pilate's judgment seat. 
Unjustly they condemn him 
To he scourged and crucified ; 
And, Oh ! how strange the story, 
The great Creator died ! 
To .loseph's garden next we come, 
A sepulchre is made, 
And in that dark and silent tomb 
The Son of God is laid ! 
Death entered in a garden, 
Arid was in one o'erthrown, 
And on the day appointed 
The victory was known. 
For (in the first day of the week 
The Conqueror arose, 
And that, though men and devils sought 
His rising to oppose ; 
He now appears in heaven, 
To intercede for men, 
And yet, a very little while, 
And he will come again. 
J. M. ORROCK. 
FAITH IN GODS WORD. 
" This is the victory that overcometh the world, 
even our faith."-1 JOHN 5:4. 
(Continued from our last.) 
Hezekiah's faith is accepted, and his life prolonged 
fifteen years. God honors the faith of three wor-
thies when cast into the fiery furnace, by not permit-
ting the flames to kindle upon them ; and Daniel's 
too, by shutting the lions' mouths, when he was cast 
among them. The Old Testament scriptures abound 
with such illustrations as these, clearly showing that 
" this is the victory which overcometh the world, 
even faith." We will, however, pass from these to 
the time when the predicted harbinger of Jesus 
Christ appears, and utters his message : " The king-
dom of heaven is at hand ! I am the one spoken of 
by Isaiah, saying, The voice of one crying in the 
wilderness, Prepare ye the way of the Lord, and 
make his paths straight !" He appeals to the pro-
phetic word, as affording proof of his divine com-
mission, and for a time the popular current runs high; 
thousands flock to hear this singular personage, and 
are baptized by him in Jordan. " He was a bright 
and shining light, arid they were willing for a season 
to rejoice in his light ;" hut the pointed truths which 
he uttered, by-and-by offended the self-righteous 
Pharisees, and they said, " He has a devil ;" and, 
having incurred the displeasure of Herod, by reprov-
ing him for his wickedness, he was cast into prison, 
where he was shortly afterward beheaded. His 
message was from God, and those who embraced it by 
faith were prepared to receive Christ as the promised 
Messiah, while those who rejected it were hardened 
by unbelief, their minds became blinded, so that they 
could not understand the Scriptures which were read 
every Sabbath day in their synagogue, and they un-
consciously fulfilled them by condemning him. They 
professed to be Bible men, very orthodox and sound 
in the faith ; they adhered with great tenacity to the 
rites and ceremonies of the Mosaic law ; but when 
the great Antitype came, they acknowledged him 
not, although the prophets had so definitely given 
the time of his advent, and clearly described the man-
ner in which he should come. Although previous 
to this time they were justified in the observance of 
the ritual law, they could be so no longer, while re-
jecting Him who was the end thereof. Faith in the 
truths which had been previously developed was still 
required, but in addition to this must be the present 
truth which was being opened to their view. It was 
not now sufficient to believe that a seed had been 
promised, and would come ; but. they must also be-
lieve that Christ was that very seed referred to. 
Without the exercise of this faith, their former faith 
was valueless. " If ye believe not that I am He 
(the Christ) ye shall die in your sins," said the Sa-
viour to the Jews upon one occasion. In vain did 
they appeal to Abraham, and call him their father: 
Jesus tells them that if they were indeed his children, 
they would do the works of Abraham. The plea 
that they are Moses' disciples avails nothing ; for 
he shows them conclusively that were this indeed 
the fact, they would believe on Him : for Moses had 
testified respecting Him. " But," said He, " if ye 
believe not his writings, how shall ye receive my 
word." Notwithstanding their outward show of 
respect for the writings of their law-giver, He shows 
that by their rejection of Him, they manifest their 
unbelief in those writings. Peter and Stephen also, 
afterward appealed to the same prophet, and convicted 
them of unbelief in those Scriptures which they 
_s_ 
professed to regard with great sacredness. They no 
doubt assented to those truths, but when brought to 
bear upon their own time, as being even then fulfilled, 
the strength of their faith was tested, and it was 
shown that they had no real understanding of those 
predictions, nor true belief in them. That they had 
knowledge of the fact that Christ, was to come of the 
seed of David, and out of the town of Bethlehem, 
as predicted by their prophets, is evident from their 
reasoning with the peeple at the feast, who said, 
" Of a truth this is the prophet,'' and others, " This 
is the Christ." They stumbled over the fact of 
Christ's sojourn for a season in Nazareth of Galilee, 
and thus by the very excuse which they made for 
their rejection of Him, they manifested their igno-
rance of the prophetic scriptures. They appealed to 
the Word, as thousands of skeptics will, to evade the 
present truth, saying, " Hath not the Scripture said 
that Christ cometh of the seed of David, and not of 
the town of Bethlehem where David was ?" 
Were 
they ignorant of the testimony of the wise men who 
came to Herod with the inquiry, " Where is he that 
is born King of the Jews? for we have seen his star 
in the east and are come to worship him." When 
all Jerusalem was violently agitated by such an in-
quiry, and when all the chief priests and scribes were 
gathered together by Herod, and the question pro-
pounded to them, " Where Christ should be born?" 
did they know nothing about it? Were they uncon-
scious of the fact that all the little infants of Bethle-
hem and its coasts were put to death, in order that 
this child, whose birth had created such a mighty 
stir, should he destroyed ? They of course roust 
have known all this. And they ought likewise to 
have known that the fact of his sojourn in Nazareth 
was an additional evidence of his being the Christ, 
as it had been predicted by the prophets. The 
evidence that He was the Son of David, arid rightful 
heir to His father's throne, was abundantly conclu-
sive ; but that they had not a correct understanding 
of this prophecy, notwithstanding they appealed to 
it in their attempt to overthrow those who believed 
that He was the Christ, is clear from the question 
propounded by the Saviour to certain of the scribes, 
—viz. : How say they that Christ is David's son? 
and David himself saith in the book of Psalms, The 
Lord said unto my Lord, Sit thou on my right hand, 
until I make thine enemies thy footstool. David 
therefore calleth him Lord, how is lie then his son?" 
" And no man was able to answer him a word." 
Thus did Christ frequently expose the ignorance of 
those conceited scribes and Pharisees, who looked 
down with contempt upon those who were simple-
hearted enough to believe God's word meant what it 
said; and when the officers whom they sent to appre-
hend Christ returned, saying, " Never man spake 
like this man," they scornfully inquired, " Are ye 
also deceived Have any of the rulers or of the 
Pharisees believed on him? But this people who 
knoweth not the law, are accursed." That those 
few ignorant fishermen, despised publicans, and poor 
sinners, should set themselves up to know so much 
about the scriptures, and presume to believe differ-
ently from their teachers, was too insulting to their 
dignity—it was a libel upon their wisdom, and they 
could not endure it. And if any dared to confess 
Christ, they must be cast out of the synagogue, and 
not pollute it with their unhallowed presence. The 
proclamation is made to the Jewish nation, " The 
kingdom of heaven is at hand !" but it meets not 
their worldly expectations, and they indignantly re-
ject it. Jesus makes his public entry into Jerusalem 
in the manner specified by the prophets, while multi-
tudes cry out : " Hosannah to the Son of David ! 
Blessed is he that cometh in the name of the Lord ! 
Hosannah in the highest !" He presents himself 
before them as their king. The rightfulness of his 
claim had been abundantly established ; but in the 
pride of their hearts they cry out, " We will not 
have this man to reign over us !" Poor, infatuated 
souls ! how blind to their own interests. Their 
house is now left to them desolate. The kingdom is 
taken from them, and promised to a nation bringing 
forth the fruits thereof. But this unbelieving nation 
did riot stop here. It is not enough that they have 
rejected Christ for their king, they pant for his life's-
blood, and nothing short of this can satisfy them. 
True, they had garnished the sepulchres of the 
prophets whom their fathers had slain, and very 
sanctimoniously said : " If we had lived in the days 
of our fathers, we would riot have been partakers 
with them in the blood of the prophets." Truly 
they manifested plainly that they were the children 
of those who slew the prophets. They had no more 
love for God's truth than their forefathers ; for John 
they beheaded—Christ they crucified—Stephen they 
stoned to death, and others of the apostles they de-
stroyed in various ways. 
In vain did they " pay tithe of mint, anise, and 
curnmin," while they omitted the " weightier flat-
ters of the law, judgment, mercy and faith." Hypo-
critical was all their boasted zeal for the law, while 
they made it void by their traditions. False was 
their pretended love for the Sabbath, while they 
respected not the Lord thereof. 
They gave alms, but it was that they might have 
" glory of men." They made long prayers, hut it 
was " for a pretence." They fasted, but it was all 
deceptive, and to make the deception more strong, 
they put on a sad countenance, and disfigured their 
faces. These were the men whose piety was shocked 
because Christ healed the sick on the Sabbath clay ! 
These were the men who felt so deeply grieved be-
cause the disciples eat with unwashed hands ! These 
were the men who were sore displeased because the 
children cried "Hosanna to the Son of David !" These 
were the men who said to him whose eyes were 
opened, " Thou wast altogether born in sin, and dost 
thorn teach us?" These were the men who cried, 
" Crucify him ! Crucify him ! and let his blood be 
on us and on our children !" Fearful imprecation, 
and how tearfully fulfilled ! Thus we see the fatal 
results of unbelief in God's truth. It leads people 
on from one wrong step to another, until at last they 
will do with impunity what they would once have 
revolted at the very idea of doing, like the Jews who 
builded the tombs of the prophets, and said, " if we 
had lived in the days of our fathers, we would not 
have been partakers with them in the blood of the 
prophets ;" arid yet they even exceeded their fathers 
inn iniquity, by crucifying the Son of God.—(To be 
continued.) 
M. D. WELLCOIVIE. 
HOW TO BE HAPPY. 
" Rejoice evermore. Pray without ceasing. In 
everything give thanks ; for this is the will of God 
in Christ Jesus concerningyou."-1 Thess. 5:16-18. 
It is the will of God, then, that we should be happy 
in this world. The godly alone have the promise of 
the life that now is, and they only can make anything 
substantial out of it. To the ungodly it is like a 
deceitful dream, it appears what it is not. But the 
only way to turn life to a good account, is to he happy 
in the will of God. 
Since " all things work together for good to those 
who love God," why should not the lover of God be 
happy? What God calls " good " must be substan-
tial good. It is even " an eternal weight of glory." 
But what shall the Christian do, when, overwhelmed 
with a sense of his own nothingness, he can find 
nothing pleasing in himself nor in his circumstances. 
The answer of infinite wisdom is, let him " take 
pleasure in infirmities, in reproaches, in necessities, 
in persecutions, in distresses for Christ's sake : for 
when I am weak, then am I strong."-2. Cor. 
12:10. 
It is common for young Christians to be very much 
cast down whenever they have a clear view of their 
own unworthiness unattended by a smile from their 
Saviour ; but when they come to understand how 
useful this experience is in counteracting spiritual 
pride, they find find a solid satisfaction in their sea-
sons of humiliation, which they had never dreamed 
of before. 
Now what though a deep sense of our unworthi-
ness be as abiding as our consciousness, need we be 
really unhappy? Certainly not if we are willing to 
know ourselves and be alive to God alone. 
We are taught in the Scriptures that a Christian 
may be " in heaviness through manifold temptations," 
for the best of reasons : " That the trial of your 
faith, being much more precious than of gold that 
perisheth, though it be tried with fire, might be 
blind unto praise, and honor, and glory, at the ap-
pearing of Jesus Christ : whom having not seen, ye 
love ; in whom, though now ye see him not, yet be-
lieving, ye rejoice with joy unspeakable, and fall of 
glory."-1 Pet. 1:7, 8. This heaviness, then, is riot 
inconsistent with " joy unspeakable and full of glory." 
And how could it be otherwise ; a feeble mortal suc-
cessfully resisting temptation—still " believing "—
" loving " (for " faith works by love ")—and rejoic-
ing in hope of seeing Christ. The same sentiment 
is taught by the apostle James. He says, " My 
brethren, count it all joy when ye fall into divers 
temptations ; knowing this, that the trying of your 
faith worketh patience. But let patience have her 
perfect work, that ye may be perfect and entire, 
wanting nothing."—James 1:2-4. Rejoice in the 
perfecting of your patience. As the heat must be 
intense to melt and purify the silver, so our tempta-
tions must at times be severe and manifold, to perfect 
our patience. 
But to some there seems to be left but little conso-
lation, because they are conscious of opposing so 
feeble resistance to temptation. One reason for this 
feebleness may be, that they draw too largely upon 
themselves, their fear of apostacy and perdition, for 
motives to resistance. The more powerful, or at 
least, peaceful and sure resource is, the mercy and 
love of God in Christ Jesus. 
I appeal to the Christian's heart for the fact, that 
divine love draws the heart more powerfully from 
temptation arid sin than all the terrors of the law, of 
apostacy, and perdition, added to the most agonizing 
self-reproach. Let us then abandon our hearts to 
the love and mercy of God. Let us " look for the 
mercy of our Lord Jesus Christ unto eternal life." 
Let us cease our childish efforts to be happy in our-
selves, or in our own way. Let us turn away from 
unholy ambition, and worldly pride, from jealousy 
which is cruel, and envy which is worse than death, 
and " quiet ourselves as a weaned child." " Let 
Israel hope in the Lord from henceforth and forever. 
B. M. 
LETTER FROM L. OSLER. 
BRO. HIMES:—Probably sufficient time has elapsed 
since the Conference was held in this place, to enable 
me in some measure to determine the effects that 
were produced by that, and the subsequent protracted 
effort, upon the Church and community here. The 
session of the Conference had the tendency tin remove 
a great amount of prejudice. Many who supposed 
that the faith we cherish was countenanced by a very 
insignificant number, and those of limited abilities, 
were much surprised at the numbers present, and the 
intelligence and harmony manifested during the meet-
ing. Some who had never heard our views before, 
were present during the Conference, and became 
much interested in the " hope of the gospel." Others, 
who since have embraced the Saviour, date their 
conviction from those meetings. After the Confer-
ence, our meetings were continued every evening for 
two weeks, during which time Bro. C. B. Turner 
was present, and labored with great faithfulness and 
profit to the cause here. Ten or twelve have been 
made happy in the Lord, as the result of those meet-
ings ; and quite a number have become interested in 
our meetings and views, who before were altogether 
ignorant of them. After Bro. Turner left, we dis-
continued our preaching meetings every evening, but 
we have had four meetings every week, beside those 
on the Sabbath, all of which have been well attended, 
arid profitably improved. There are still many who 
are candidly investigating the points which distin-
guish us as a people. 
But the beneficial effects of the Conference have 
not been confined to this place. I have received sev-
eral letters from brethren abroad, who attended the 
Conference, all of whom bear testimony to the fact, 
that it was a most blessed and heavenly sitting 
together ; and that the good results of that meeting 
are being realized wherever they go. I am more 
than ever convinced that God especially smiled upon 
that Conference, and overruled all the circumstances 
connected with it for the good of the cause. Those 
who were true-hearted to each other, and to the truth, 
were manifested, and those who came with base de-
signs, received a rebuke, which probably may do 
them good, and the cause which by their conduct 
has been so much injured. 
The course pursued toward the disturbers who 
attended the first day of our Conference, saved some 
of the Hartfind friends the trouble and expense of 
coming from their place to Salem to break up our 
meeting. For one of their own number said, " that 
a telegraphic dispatch " informed them that " there 
was no use to come to Salem, for nothing could be 
effected." 
I hope now, that those who whine so much about 
division, will be careful to avoid those who, in their 
estimation, are such dreadful creatures. I am fully 
convinced that the cause of God would be materially 
benefited by each knowing his proper company and 
work, and attending to them. 
Since the Conference, I have more than ever prized 
the precious cause in which we are engaged, and 
those who are consistently and heartily enlisted in it. 
You may be assured, my brethren, that " God will 
speed the right." He discriminates between profes-
sion and practice, between that which is of the 
" tongue" and that which is of the heart, in " deed 
and truth." 
Let us keep steadily at the work of the 
Lord, and he will soon show us his salvation. 
Yours, for righteousness. 
Salem (Mass.), April 16th. 1851. 
LETTER FROM A. BROWN. 
BRO. I-TIMES :—Many arguments have been drawn 
from the Scripture to prove that the second advent of 
our Saviour will be pre-millennial ; yet I apprehend 
no stronger evidence of that fact exists, than the 19th 
chapter of Revelation affords. The objection, that 
this book is " sealed " and mysterious, is sufficiently 
silenced by its very title—REVELATION. What does 
that word mean ? Who ever heard of a " sealed " 
" revelation?" Then, " these are the true sayings of 
God" 
It is agreed on all hands, that this chapter, from 
verse 11 to the end, is descriptive of the winding up 
scene of earth's rebellion, and gives the immediate 
precursors of the Millennium. 
Now the question to settle is, have we here a des-
cription of this world's conversion ? or does the 
revelator portray instead, in matchless terribleness, 
the awful destruction of all the enemies of God ? If 
the former, then the world will be converted ; if the 
latter, never. For here, remember, we have the last 
events of time before the millennium. And what are 
they ? " I saw the beast, and the kings of the earth, 
and their armies, gathered together "—to cast their 
crowns before the King of kings, and cry, Holy1—
Nay, VERILY, hut " to make war against him."—v. 
19. But are they not converted ? Let the solar 
angel answer : " All ye fowls that fly in the midst 
of heaven, Come, and gather yourselves together 
unto the supper of the great God ; that ye may eat 
the flesh of kings, and the flesh of captains, and the 
flesh of mighty men, and the flesh of horses, and of 
them that sit on them, and the flesh of all men, both 
free and bond, both small and great. . . . And they 
were slain with the sword of Him that sat upon the 
horse, and all the fowls were filled with thetr flesh. 
—vs. 17, 18, 21. What an argument, taking the 
popular theory, that this conquest is achieved by the 
Church, and not by Christ himself, have the Papists 
here for their bloody butcheries !! Terrible as is 
this description, they would fulfil it to the letter,—
" rule the nations with a rod of iron," and slay all, 
" both free and bond, both small arid great," who 
should dare to oppose their course. But if Catholics 
are wrong, and Protestants are to conquer the world 
instead, then they, to fulfil this prediction, must un-
sheath the sword of the " fierceness of wrath," and 
at one fell swoop prostrate in general ruin all who 
oppose tine truth. But we have here, also, the final 
doom of the " anti-christian beast," and his cohorts 
who now—flush from a complete victory over his 
long aggressive mistress (ch. 17:14-16)—makes his 
final rally, and raises his crested head towards heaven. 
But is he converted ? It must be here, if ever ; for 
here he is, and this is the last of time, and if not 
converted, then the world is not, for he is an essen-
tial part of the world. Well, what is his donna ? 
Read it ! " And the beast was taken and "—regen-
erated?—no, no, but " cast alive into the lake of fire 
and brimstone."—v. 20. If this is conversion, then 
the beast is converted, and the lake of fire and brim-
stone is a Pentecostal fount, which not only regener-
ates the " beast," but " whosoever was not found 
written in the book of life," " and the devil that de-
ceivest them."—ch. 20:14, 20. For they are all 
alike " cast into the lake of fire and brimstone." 
Again : By whom is the beast taken, and " the rem-
nant slain?" Why, he has written upon his vesture 
in flaming capitals, " KING OF KINGS AND 
LORD OF LORDS," and St. Paul declares that 
this title belongs '° ONLY to " Jesus Christ."-1 Tim. 
6:15. Then it is stealing the livery of the Son of 
God to serve a theory in, for the Church, either Papal 
or Protestant, to claim this title, and they must have 
it or not do this work. But again : '' His name is 
called the Word of God."—v. 13. Now let the au-
thor of this book himself tell us who he means by 
the " Word of God." " In the beginning was the 
WORD, and the Word was with God. . . . And the 
Word was made flesh, and dwelt among us."—John 
1:1-14. Then it is clear that this " mighty con-
queror" is no other than Jesus Christ. But does he 
here come to the earth? If so, it is his second com-
ing: for the second is always next after the first, and 
He came first 1800 years ago. 
In verse 11 we read, " And 1 saw heaven opened, 
and behold, a white horse ; and he that sat upon him." 
He is now in heaven, but its gates are " opened wide 
to let the King of glory " out. But does he leave 
heaven ? Yes ! for the' armies which are in heaven 
Fonow him." He must therefore go somewhere. 
But where does He go ? To the earth, most as-
suredly; for the kings of the earth, and their armies, 
are gathered together against him and slain. The 
wholwliattle is on earth. Here He comes to the 
earth, then, and therefore His " second " advent will 
be pre-millennial. 
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LETTER FROM 0. R. FASSETT. 
DEAR BRO. RIMES :—Never did I more ardently 
desire to prove faithful to my Lord and Master and 
the word of his grace, that I may be counted worthy 
of being a sharer in the joys of the society of the 
pure and the holy hereafter, than now. I cannot 
bear the idea of being gathered with the wicked at 
last. We have to meet and associate often in this 
world with those who are unsatictified in temper and 
heart ; and in our best and choicest associations, we 
are not free from those who are more lovers of them-
selves than God and his truth ; but this we can endure 
for a season, when we reflect that it is but for a little 
while and then we shall he separated from the un-
holy forever ! But the thought, that at last we may 
be gathered with such, and with them receive a por-
tion in the second death, is truly revolting, and we 
are led to cry out with David, " Gather not my soul 
with sinners, nor my life with bloody men." We 
should be exceedingly grateful that the Lord has 
saved us from the hand of those who would destroy 
us, and also that he has once again saved his cause 
from being perverted and destroyed by them who re-
gard it only to subserve their selfish ends. We have 
nothing to fear in the future, if our trust is in him, 
and if we are faithful to his cause and truth. If he 
be for us, who can be against us ? His enemies may 
triumph apparently for a season, but he will ultimately 
bring them to desolation ; and we have only to wait 
with patience, and " evil doers shall soon be cut down, 
and they that wait on the Lord shall inherit the 
earth." We are fast approaching the fiery ordeal of 
that day, and then it will be seen who are truly the 
Lord's; for " then shall we return and discern be-
tween the righteous and the wicked, between him 
that serveth the Lord and him that serveth him not." 
Let me therefore exhort my brethren far and near to 
" hold fast the profession of their faith without 
wavering, for he is faithful that promised." " For 
yet a little while and He that shall come will come 
and will not tarry." As respects my own faith in 
the speedy coming of our Lord, and the events con-
nected with that coming, as we have thus far pro-
claimed them, it was never more firm than now. 
Every day's experience and observation, as well as 
study of the sacred writings, has a tendency to con-
firm that faith, and I hope soon, by the infinite mercy 
and grace of God, through Jesus Christ my Saviour, 
to reach and attain the immortal state to be ushered 
in by the voice of the archangel and the trump of 
God. Yours, looking for the blessed hope. 
Middlebury (Mass.), April 18th, 1851. 
LETTER FROM WILLIAM WINN. 
DEAR Biro. HIMES :—I feel it my duty to write a 
few lines for the " Herald," on the death of a be-
loved brother in Christ, who departed this life on 
April 11th, in the 77th year of his age. In early 
life he was well taught in many arts, and through 
the agency of the Divine Spirit he became a hopeful 
subject of God's renewing and saving grace. He 
united with the Presbyterian Church, and was chosen 
as one of the ruling Elders of the same, which he 
served for several years, and was stated clerk of the 
Session. He was considered to be strictly honest 
and upright in all his dealings. He was firm and 
decided in principle. Several years ago the majority 
of the church of which he was a member seceded, 
and formed a Congregational Church. He was a 
decided Presbyterian. He was asked if he would 
like to join the new organization, his answer was, 
No ! The reason why was inquired,—his reply was 
that he chose to retain his former standing out of 
principle. About the year 1840, he became deeply 
interested in the second conning of our blessed Lord 
and Saviour Jesus Christ, and was thoroughly con-
verted to the Second Advent faith, and consequently 
renounced his former and erroneous views of the 
Millennium, or spiritual reign of Christ on this sin-
cursed earth. While some of his former brethren in 
the church and others treated him, and the books, and 
papers, with scorn and derision, which he perused, 
with so much delight, he replied that. the doctrine of 
the speedy corning of Christ is a Bible truth ; and 
if they would not believe, it was because they were 
following the commandments and traditions of men, 
and the only way that they could discard it, would 
be to close their eyes, stop their ears, and harden 
their hearts, and turn their backs upon the interest-
ing instruction imparted with a hard and rebellious 
heart of unbelief, as individuals, and say I do not be-
lieve it. He has been a diligent reader of the 
Herald " most of the time since the commence-
ment of its publication, and has long been of a de-
cided opinion that it is the best religious paper, in 
his estimation, that he knew of published in the world. 
He was constantly looking for that blessed hope, and 
the glorious appearing of the great God our Saviour, 
to fulfil his precious promise in receiving every one 
of his children to himself, that where he is there 
they may be also.—John 14:1-3. Bro. Blodgett's 
health, for a number of years past, has been very 
feeble in consequence of a paralytic shock. Notwith-
standing this he has been a very diligent reader of 
the blessed Bible, and various other precious and 
very interesting books and papers. He studied them 
with increasing delight until a few weeks ago, when 
he was seriously attacked with a lung fever, together 
with other diseases, which terminated his earthly 
existence. It was my privilege to be with him much 
of the time during his sickness, and especially most 
of the time during the last month of his earthly pil-
grimage. He was in possession of a calm peace of 
mind, patience, and resignation, to the Divine will, 
until April 11th, 1851, about tour o'clock in the 
evening, when he fell asleep, I trust, in Jesus, with-
out a groan, struggle, or a sigh, in triumphant faith 
of having a ,part in the first resurrection ; and was 
-gathered to his people. 
He found by experience that he had not power 
over the spirit to retain it ; neither had he power in 
the day of death, and that there was no discharge in 
that war.—Eccl. 8:8. He was a firm believer in 
two resurrections and two judgments, as recorded in 
the Revelation, chapter 20th, which he thought to 
be a key to unlock various other portions of the 
sacred Scriptures. 
Extracts from Letters. 
Bro. MILES GRANT writes from West Winsted, 
April 21st, 1851 : 
BRO. HIMES :—The good Lord is reviving his 
work gloriously in this region where Bro. Mathew-
son and myself have been laboring of late. We 
have seen between one and two hundred converted to 
God during the past year ; about one hundred of 
whom Bro. M. has buried with Christ in baptism. 
Our meetings are increasing in interest every week. 
I verily believe, if our brethren in the ministry would 
labor as earnestly for the salvation of our fellow men 
as in '43 and '44, that scores would be converted 
where now we see but two or three ; and that in-
stead of division, we should see a happy union. May 
the Lord inspire us all with new zeal. 
Yours, in the hope of eternal life. 
Bro. J. M. ORROCK writes from Stanstead (C. E.), 
April 14th, 1851 : 
BRO. HIMES :—In relation to the state of the cause 
in this vicinity, I have but little to say. We have 
some good meetings, and the brethren are determined 
to " work while the day lasts." Five persons have 
recently been baptized in Stanstead. We are per-
mitted to see here and there one turning from the 
error of his ways to walk in the path of holiness and 
truth, and to the Lord we give the praise. 
I remain yours, in hope of the kingdom. 
Obituary. 
am the RESURRECTION and the LIFE he who believeth inn ME, 
though he should die, yet he will LIVE and whoever liveth and be-
lieveth in me, will NEVER die."—John 11 :23, 26. 
A FATHER IN ISRAEL FALLEN. 
The way to life is su straight and narrow, the glo-
ries of the Kingdom of God are so measureless, and 
men are so prone to hope for them without the re-
quired qualifications, that obituary notices are often 
written as if men could inscribe in the book of life 
whose names they choose. Yet, when a veteran 
falls, after carrying the banner of the cross streaming 
in every breeze for half a century, with his locks 
silvered in matured righteousness, it becomes us to 
mark the end of such, for it is peace. Such was the 
case with our beloved brother, MATTHEW VOCAL, 
who died in great peace in New York city, April the 
8th inst., aged 83 years and 7 days. 
Some more than fifty years since, he embraced the 
Saviour, under the labors of Elder Roberts, and 
united with the M. E. Church. In 1795 while the 
Yellow fever was spreading consternation through 
New York, and nurses could not be obtained in suffi-
cient numbers at any price, Bro. Vogal readily de-
voted his whole time for many weeks to the care of the 
sick and dying ; and then refused remuneration from 
the city authorities. This was before his conver-
sion ; but God rewarded him with better than silver 
and gold; for, in attending upon Elder Roberts, he 
received the word of life, from which he never de-
parted. 
In 1842 lie went to hear Elder Teal, at Thalian 
Hall, on the subject of the speedy coming and King-
dom of God, which faith he joyfully and fully em-
braced, and continued firmly therein till he slept in 
Jesus. His belief was not an impulse, but a deep 
conviction. 
Accompanied by Bro. Turner and Bro. Tracy, the 
writer called to see him the Friday before his exit. 
Tortured with pleuretic pains, and nearing the 
mighty boundary from which so many shrink, his 
friends thought he would not know us. We took 
his hand and remarked, " Father Vogal, you are al-
most. through." After struggling to speak and wav-
ing his hand several times to his breast, he said, 
" The best of all is, Christ is in me." 
A few moments before his death, sister Vogal said 
to him, " You have often hoped that you might live 
to see our Saviour coming in glory." " Yes," he 
replied, " but I must sleep a little while, and then 
arise to meet him. A little while, and I shall meet 
him. 0 glory, glory ! Blessed be the Lord. My 
peace is like a river." A little atter this, he pressed 
sister Vogal's hand, as if to say, " Farewell," but 
could riot speak ; he beckoned for some water, which 
he drank, and then quietly fell asleep without a strug-
gle. He conversed witn several, through his sick-
ness, on the subject of his blessed expectation of soon 
seeing Jesus. So much did he love the assembly of 
the saints, that, notwithstanding he had been greatly 
;ifflicted with the gravel, he would usually be present 
when the word of life was expounded. 
For several years Bro. Vogal had been clerk of 
Munroe market, and was extensively known through 
the city ; and but few men have bequeathed to it so 
irreproachable a character. Notwithstanding his 
religious belief was despised by many, yet he lived 
respected, and died lamented by all who knew him. 
Like the sun which throws back its reflected rays 
after it has set in the west, does his example remain 
with us. 
The writer has been requested to deliver a dis-
course on the occassion of his death in Washington 
Hall, Hester-street, next Lord's day, P. M. 
I. E. JONES. 
Fell asleep in Jesus, April 11th, Bro. 0. H. 
EDSON, aged 32 years. His disease was consumption. 
For the last eight or ten years he had resided in 
Whitehall. Something over a year ago, finding his 
health failing, he made arrangements for leaving 
Whitehall. He purchased a place but a few rods 
from our chapel. And as there was no stated meet-
ings in the vicinity but ours, and being religiously 
inclined, (he being a member of the Baptist Church, 
and his wife of the Congregational,) they attended 
our meetings, and soon becoming interested in, and 
falling in love with the faith we profess, they publicly 
united with our Church. But a change of circum-
stances, or situation, could not disarm the enemy that 
was seeking his life. 
His disease assumed an alarming type sometime 
in Febuary, so that his friends gave up all hopes of 
his recovery. But as his body grew weaker, his 
faith grew stronger. Said he to me one day as I was 
visiting him, " 1 thank God that I ever became ac-
quainted with his dear people in this place, and the 
faith they profess. With such a faith lean go through 
the last trial without fears or halting." About three 
or four weeks before his death he sent for me to come 
and see him. He warned me to preach his funeral 
sermon from 1 Thess. 4:13, and remarked, that as his 
strength was failing, and he was of no use to the 
world or the church, he longed to depart and he with 
Christ. He said he had no doubts or fears, and with 
regard to the day of his departure could say with the 
poet, 
" Fly swifter round, ye wheels of time." 
The evening before his death I called to see him, 
and, as usual, asking him how he was, he answered 
with some difficulty (for his speach had almost failed 
him), " I am here, but I ask not to stay." 
The 11th inst., about noon, he died as peacefully 
as the child rests on its mother's bosom. On the 
13th a funeral discourse was preached by the writer, 
from the text selected by our brother, to a very large 
and attentive congregation ; after which we deposited 
his remains near those of our lamented Father Miller, 
whence we trust they will both arise in the morning 
of the first resurrection. Yours, in the blessed hope, 
D. BOSWORTH. 
Low Hampton, April 20111, 1851. 
On the morning of the 12th of March last, our only 
little girl, aged eight years the 2d of November last, 
was taken with the ear and head ache, which termi-
nated in a gathering in the head, which discharged 
freely, and gave her much pain, and terminated in 
the inflamation of the brain ; and she died about five 
o'clock on the morning of the 24th of March, after a 
g,readeal of suffering„ which she bore with great pa-
tience and fortitude. She used to love to go with 
me to Church, prayer meetings, and sabbath school, 
and to kneel by my side at the family altar, and to 
retire with me in my secret devotions and kneel 
there by my side while 1 have dedicated her to the 
service and worship of God. But Oh how lonely 
many times when I go to my closet alone and no lit-
tle EMERGENE to kneel by side ; and when I come to 
my meals, and at night when fatigued with the labors 
of the day, she does not meet me with a smile and 
embrace me with a kiss, as she was wont to do ; but 
I hope I shall not murmur or repine, but know and 
believe the Lord bath done right, and have his grace 
to sustain us in this severe affliction. Pray for us. 
She was generally considered a very promising child 
by all who knew her, and she was universally be- 
It appeared plain to him, that the righteous dead 
would be raised, and the righteous living changed, 
every one of them, as recorded in Dan. 18:1, at the 
commencement of the Millennium ; and that all the 
wicked living will then be burnt up, as recorded in 
last chapter of Malachi, and various other portions of 
the sacred Scriptures; and will remain as in dust and 
ashes under the soles of the feet of the righteous, 
under the whole heaven and on the new earth, during 
the thousand years of the Millennium, at the close of 
which Satan will be let loose for a little season, and 
then every one of the wicked dead will come forth to 
the resurrection of condemnation. Then in the great 
day of the Lord will the condition of each individual 
of the righteous and the wicked be eternally fixed, 
and receive their final iewards.—See Matt. 25:46 ; 
2 Tim. 4:6-8 ; Matt. 16:27. 
Bro. Blodgett has left a companion far advanced in 
life of the same faith as himself, with whom he has 
lived for more than half a century, and enjoyed much 
of the consolations of the ever-blessed Gospel of the 
Son of God. Her loss is irreparable. God grant 
that she may share in the prayers and sympathies of 
all the dear brethren. He has also left a numerous 
circle of mourning relatives and friends. May they 
all follow his example, and precept so far as he fol-
lowed Christ. 
Hudson (N. II.), April 19th, 1851. 
BRO. WTM. TRACY writes from New York, April 
26th, 1851 : 
BRO. HIMES :—" The same day Herod and Pilate 
were made friends."—We have just had a convention 
in our city, called a union meeting. They came to-
gether under a call written by G. Needham, one of 
the late " secret workers" in the Weethee conspiracy. 
The call states that we (G. Needham and his asso-
ciates) are agreed, first, in " faith," second, in " ob-
ject," and third, " we need concert of action." I felt a 
deep interest in the meeting, being desirous to know 
for myself their " faith and objects." I attended its 
sessions. I found there those who have long been 
the enemies of the " Herald," of yourself, Father 
Miller, and others of your faithful co-workers. The 
most conspicuous were the late conspirators, who 
attempted to destroy your character, and next to 
wrest the " Herald " from you. Mr. Storrs, who 
has no sympathy with, and has not met with the Ad-
ventists in their Conferences in this city for many 
years, was heartily united with them. And many 
others who were never with us at all, to my knowledge. 
And yet others, who were sincere, I think, and had 
no sympathy with the " object" of the leaders. On 
the first day, a great deal was said about " love" and 
" union," in connection with the fact, that they were 
not agreed in sentiment — some believing in the 
Jews' return, others denying it ; some that the Mil-
lennium is past, others that it is future, &c. But they 
were all united ! ! but. I could not see in what, till G. 
Needham read their address to the meeting. It was 
then clear that they (the leaders) were united, first, 
in the profession of faith, that " Hines " was a very 
wicked man. Second, that their " object " was not 
to reclaim, but to crush him, if their " union " and 
influence could do it. And thirdly, that the " con-
cert of action '' desired, was to give character to the 
late slanders of Weethee, Needham & Co. 
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the children while at school. She was slender, but 
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ANN, daughter of Hinam and HANNAH GILBERT, 
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sleep of death, awaiting the spring time of eternal 
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TIIE AMERICAN VOCALIST. 
BY REV. D. H. MANSFIELD. 
THE popularity of this excellent Collection of Music is sufficient] 
attested by the fact, that although it has been published but 
about one year, 19,000 copies have been printed, and it is in greater 
demand than ever. 
It is divided into three parts, all of which are embraced in a single 
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of Anthems, and Select Pieces for special occasions 
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and the most admired English, Scottish, Irish, Spanish, and Italian 
Songs, embracing, inn a single volume, more than five hundred 
Tunes, adapted to every occasion of public and social worship, in-
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last five hundred years. 
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From Rev. G. P. Mathews, of Liberty. 
I do not hesitate to give the " American Vocalist" the preference 
to any other Collection of Church Music extant. It deserves a place 
in every choir, vestry, and family in the Union. 
From Rev. Samuel Souther, Belfast. 
On a single opening, in the Second Part of the book, I have found 
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Sacred Music. 
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THE ADVENT HERALD. 
5 of the Burks Advertiser was among the visitors, 
but the exhibition left rather an unfavorable 
impression than otherwise :-What we saw, 
he says, very prosaically, was a huge cross, as 
if made of pearls and diamonds, and the mother 
of the lowliest being ever the earth saw, a 
carved mother, standing by, adorned like an 
eastern princess, or a lady going to dance the 
polka. And we heard the low lull of music 
for two hours, until our senses nearly meted 
away. But here was the curiosity : a man in 
a black female dress stood at the doorway, de-
manding our money before we entered. We 
were about to push on without taking notice, 
but he stopped us : " You must pay, sir."-
" Pay ! is this a place of public worship 7" 
" Yes, sir, it is." " Is there no way of getting 
in without paying'!" .4 No, sir, there is not." 
"Then, of course," said we with earnestness, 
" the gospel is not free here 1" With the 
greatest frankness, the man in black coolly re-
plied, "No, sir, it is not." We could not 
resist his smile, he was a real brother, though 
in petticoats ; we were restored to a happy 
frame, we paid the sixpence and passed on. 
Conversion of a Romish Priest. 
Under this heading, the " New York Oh-
server " of the 17th, gives a private letter from 
a friend in Geneva, detailing the occasion, pro-
cess, and consequences of the conversion of a 
young man who had been sent to the convent of 
Belley, (France) forty-eight miles from Geneva, 
that he might take priest's orders. The occa-
sion was, the hearing of the words-Ye are 
saved by faith, not by works, read from the 
Romish breviary. This led him to seek a 
New Testament, which. he read with eager-
ness. A fortnight afterwards, in the presence 
of 500 priests and monks, he declared that a 
change had taken place in his mind, and what 
he believed to be the errors of the Church of 
Rome ; this he did with great dignity and 
firmness, abjuring all belief in the virgin and 
the saints. The priests then rushed upon him, 
stript him to the girdle, and gave him fifty 
lashes, with a whip formed of cords with balls 
of lead and iron at the end. His body was 
completely lacerated-but he would not retract. 
A horse-hair robe was then put upon him, and 
he was thrown into a deep, damp dungeon 
filled with rotten straw, and his arms pinioned 
that he could not move. Three days after, 
some of the monks pulled with force the horse-
hair jacket from his body to re-open the wounds; 
and having freed his hands from the cords that 
bound them, he projected and effected an es-
cape, and reached Geneva in a state of the 
greatest bodily suffering, where he was directed 
to Dr. Malan. While in his cell, he had great 
reason to fear for his life ; but he had peace in 
his heart, and a faith that persecution has bailed 
to overcome. 
Chorus. • 
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I'm go-ing, I'm 
• go-ing - I'm on my journey 
Yes, I'm go-ing, I'm go-ing -I'm on my journey 
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Then will the sleeping martyrs rise, 
To meet the Saviour in the skies !-
No more will cry, " How long, oh Lord ! " 
But be aveng'd and have reward. 
Chorus. 
I'm going, I'm going - I'm on my journey home: 
I'm travelling to a city just in sight! 
Yes, I'm going, I'm going-I'm on my journey 
home: 
I'm travelling to the new Jerusalem ! 
3 
Then will the sleeping saints come forth, 
Who lie entombed in sea and earth, 
And, robed in immortality, 
Their Jesus " face to face " will see. 
Chorus. 
I'm going, I'm going - I'm on my journey home : 
I'm travelling to a city just in sight ! 
Yes, I'm going, I'm going -I'm on my journey 
home: 
I'm travelling to the new Jerusalem ! 
4 
The living saints - they too will be 
Remembered in the Jubilee. 
" Caught up together " in the air, 
Their Saviour's triumph they will share. 
Chorus. 
I'm going, I'm going-I'm on my journey home : 
I'm travelling to a city just in sight ! 
Yes, I'm going, I'm going - I'm on my journey 
home: 
I'm travelling to the new Jerusalem, 
THE Piedmontese appear determined to free 
themselves from the shackles of priestcraft. In 
the sitting sf the 27th ult. of the Chamber of 
Deputies of Turin, Signior Peyrone developed 
a proposition. of considerable impottance in the 
present position of Piedmont with respect to 
Rome. The first article directs that no person 
under twenty-one years of age shall take reli-
gious vows in a convent. By article 2, 
such persons must have lived in society 
at least six months within the period of two 
years before their taking the vows, Article 3 
prescribes that no foreigner who shall have 
taken vows in other countries, contrary to the 
rules laid down in the preceding articles, shall 
be admitted into a religious community within 
the Sardinian States. Article four extends this 
provision to Sardinian subjects who have taken 
vows in foreign countries. Article 5 provides 
that any person accepting vows, or allowing 
them to be taken contrary to the above pro-
visions, shall be punished with five years' exile ; 
and any person taking such vows shall be de-
prived of civil rights. 
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we must discontinue the Herald, unless we learn whether it is 
sufficiently prized by them to make it advisable to subject the 
office to the expense of sending it. 
ADVENT PUBLICATIONS. 
We ought to be doing more in every department of our 
work, and especially in the publications. Ministers devoted 
to giving light on the subject of the Advent are few, com-
pared to the multiplied calls for such from every part of the 
country. It is impossible to supply these by the living teachers. 
While, therefore, we do all that is in our power in this way, 
we must add to it the power of the press. An intelligent and 
healthy press is an important auxiliary to ministerial labor. 
A weekly paper should give sound doctrine and wholesome 
precepts,-not pandering to morbid feelings, or corrupt pas-
sions of men,-not given to continual change, on the pretence 
of "advancement," " new light," and " progress,"-not 
holding a given doctrine as "truth" to-day, pressing it as 
necessary to salvation, and to-morrow putting the same 
essential truth among fables ! Those who are thus given to 
change, keep the minds of their readers in a feverish state, 
who can never be fully settled in anything, because they don't 
know what " new creed " their masters (who talk of " lib-
erty," and shudder at " creeds ! !") will next impose on them 
as a part of " all the truth." A press conducted by those 
who profess to be in the " school of Christ," should not be 
open to the apostolic reproach of being "ever learning, and 
never able to come to the knowledge of the truth." 
The Advent Herald, and other works published at this office, 
will show that it has been our endeavor to give wholesome 
truths and precepts, " speaking the same things " from the 
first. Our tracts, both doctrinal and practical, have been 
designed to produce a healthy influence on the mind, to estab-
lish a truly Christian character, and prepare us for the 
greatest usefulness in life, and make us "meet for the inherit-
ance of the saints in light." We do not seek to produce 
unhealthy excitement, and live upon the fruits of this excite-
ment, though this has been unjustly laid to our charge. 
We would therefore invite all Adventists, and all who may 
sympathize with us in our work, to aid in the wider circula-
tion of the Herald, and our publications generally. 
ADVENT TRAC1S.-VOLUME I. 
Looking Forward." 
Present Dispensation-Its Course." 
Present Dispensation-Its End." 
What did Paul Teach the Thessalonian Church 
about the Second Coming 1" 
The Great Image." 
If I Will that He Tarry Till I Come." 
What shall be the Sign of Thy Coming'!" 
The New Heavens and New Earth." 
Christ our King." 
Behold, He Cotneth with Clouds." 
That Blessed Hope." 
The Saviour Nigh." 
The True Israel." 
This is one of the most valuable collections of essays now 
published on the Second Coming of Christ. They are from 
the pens of both English and American writers, and cannot 
fail to produce the best results wherever they are circulated. 
VOLUME IL 
Win. Miller's " Apology and Defence," 
" First Principles of the Advent Faith ; with Scripture 
Proofs," by L. D. Fleming. 
" The World to Come ! The Present Earth to be Destroyed 
by Fire at the End of the Gospel Age." 
"The Lord's Coming a Great Practical Doctrine," by the 
Rev. Mourant Brock, M. A., Chaplain to the Bath Peniten-
tiary. 
"Glorification," by the Rev. Mourant Brock, M. A., 
Chaplain to the Bath Penitentiary, 
"Tire Second Advent Introductory to the World's Jubilee : 
A letter to the Rev. Dr. Raffles, on the Subject of His 
Jubilee Hymn.' " 
„The Duty of Prayer and Watchfulness in the Prospect 
of the Lord's Coming." 
In the above essays, we have a full and clear view of the 
doctrine taught by Mr., Miller and his fellow laborers. They 
should be put into every family where practicable. 
THE KELSo TRACTS. 
No. 1.-Do you go to the Prayer-meeting 1 
No. 2.-Grace and Glory. 
No. 3.-Night, Day-break, and Clear Day. 
There are many important doctrinal and practical tracts, 
which as yet have had but a limited circulation. 
Anniversary Conferences. 
N w Yo RE CITY-May 6th, and continue several days. 
It will be held at Hester-street, as usual. 
BosTos.-Wednesday, June 4, and continue several days, 
at Chardon-street Chapel. 
These meetings will be improved for the comfort and en-
couragement of the saints among ourselves, and for the 
enlightening of others on the subjects of our faith and hope 
A number of lectures will be given, which we hope will be 
published for the benefit and enlargement of the cause. 
A !hit attendance will be important. We hope that Advent-
ists will be at their post. Let us unite heart to heart, shoulder 
to shoulder, and make one more effort both to stave and ad-
vance the glorious cause,of our coming Redeemer. 
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wise, they cannot be inserted until the following week. 
14ro. Chase Taylor will preach in Hingham, Mass., the second 
Sabbath in May, at the house of Bro. Moses Towers. 
The lord will, I will presets in or near Hopeville, R. I., Sabbaths 
the 11th and 15th of Stay, arid in Lynn, Mass., the 25th. 
J. P. FARRAR. 
Bro. }limes :-1 wish you to give notice in the Herald, that I will 
preach, the Lord will, the second Sabbath in May, in Windham, Ct., 
at Widow Robinson's ; also, the third Sabbath at Square Pond. 
R. V. LYON. 
Bro. P. it. Morgan will preach in Chardon-street Chapel Sunda, 
May 4th, at the usual hours of worship. He is expected to remain 
with that Church sonic tour weeks. 
Bro. Morley will preach in Lowell, to the new congregation, 
Sabbath, May 4th. 
Bro. Oster will assist in holding meetings in the ffillowing places 
in Pennsylvania, Lord willing. Philadelphia, May 9th ; Lancaster 
city, Sabbath, 11th ; Middletown, 12th ; Shiremanstown, 13th me! 
1411i ; Potter's Mills, everting of the lith, and continue over the 
Sabbath. Evening of the 22d, commence a Conference ,at Mash 
Creek Chapel, to continue over the Sabbath. At this Wade we de-
sire a full atteudance of the brethren and sisters from all the sur-
rounding region. r.Artoeshoe, May 29th. and over the Sabbath 
Milesburgh, June 5th, and over the Sabbath. Probably Bro. D. I. 
Robinson will accompany Bro. Osier, to assist in the meetings. 
We desire the brethren and sisters to attend, and make all extra 
effort to sustain these meetings. 
5 
Bro. 1. R. Gates will preach in West Troy, N. Y., 
Sil. BOXER. 
Bro.
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11th ; Fort Ann, 13th ; Low Hampton, 15th ; Addison, Sunday, lath 
twill some brother meet him at Ferrysburgh landing on Saturday) ; 
Parton, 20th ; Vergennes, 21st ; Burlington, 220 ; Isle La Mott, 23ii ; 
Rouses Point, Sunday, 25th ; during the week iu the vicinity, where 
brethren may wish ; and Sunday hollowing, at Champlain-each in 
the evening, except Sunday, at 7 o'clock. 
Bro. Edwin Burnham will preach in Providence, R. I., at New 
Market Hall, High street, Sunday, June 8tii, and probably some 
evenings in the week following. 
Bro. N. Billings will preach at Abington the second Sabbath in 
May ; Haverhill, Thursday evening, 15th ; Kingston Plain, N. II., 
Friday, 15th ; New Durham Ridge, Sabbath, 18th. 
Bro. John Couch will preach at Pittsfield, N. H.,first Sabbath in 
May. 
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