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The Prayer of Eabakkuk. 
With fear I was speechless, 
I trembled, O Lord, 
At ihe sound of thy voice, 
The might of thy word, 
O'er hesven his glory 
A canopy spread, 
And his praise on the earth 
In fulness has shed. 
Before him marched grimly 
Plague, sickness, and death, 
And fires in his pathway 
Were lit by Ins breath. 
He stood ou the heavens, 
And measured the earth ; 
Divided the nations, 
Struck down in their mirth. 
The hill-tops were scattered, 
Unshaken of old 
The roots of the mountains 
Torn up from their hold. 
They saw thee aud trembled— 
The rivers flowed by ; 
The deep muttered hoarsely, 
His hands raised on high. 
In their high habitations, 
The moon and the sun, 
Stood still in their courses 
O'er broad A.jiilon. 
For his people's salvation 
He scattered the foe ; 
To aid the anointed, 
Dealt death in each blow. 
Though the fig shall not blossom, 
Nor fruit bend the vine ; 
Though the folds shall lie empty, 
No stall filled with kine; 
Yet will 1 be joyful, 
Still trusting his grace ; 
Still waiting for mercy, 
Though hidden his face. 
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Press. 
The Work of the Messiah. 
BY RIDLEY H. 
HERSCHELL, 
PASTOR OF A CHURCH OF CONVERTED JEWS IN LONDON, ENG. 
(Continued frfftn our last.) 
AFTER the giving of the law, which the apos-
tle Paul is instructed by the Holy Spirit to call 
" the ministration of condemnation " (2 Cor. 3: 
9), Moses had to act in another capacity, dis-
tinct from, yet intimately connected with, his 
mediatorial office. 
He had to act as a priest, 
the atoner for sin. 
He again summoned Israel 
to appear before Sinai; he took sacrifices, and 
offered up burnt-offerings and peace-offerings. 
He took the blood of these offerings and sprin-
kled the half of it upon the altar, and with the 
rest he sprinkled the people and the book of the 
covenant. 
He thereby showed not only that 
they could not draw nigh unto God with-
out a mediator, but that a mediator alone 
cannot suffice, unless he be also an atoner for 
their sins, unless he can sprinkle upon them 
atoning blood. That fiery law, which " was or-
dained to life," which was calculated to pro-
mote, if adhered to, the creature's life and well-
being, Moses knew would be a " ministration of 
death " to corrupt and fallen man; so that it 
was not enough that, he should be the medium 
through whom these commands were conveyed 
to them ; it was also needful that he should be 
able to atone for those sins which the breach of 
these commandments would involve. 
In the interpretation of the types of Scrip-
ture, I am disposed to think much confusion 
has arisen from expecting to find in the anti-
type the same degree of separateness that ap-
pears in the type. 
When he offered up the 
sacrifices at the foot of Horeb, Moses himself, 
and the blood of the victims, formed but one 
type, the type of that Prophet, like unto Him, 
who was at once to be priest and offering. 
In 
like manner, when Aaron and his sons were 
ordained to the priest's office, they, together 
with Moses, formed but one type of the Mes-
siah. 
And why ? 
Because no man was able 
to combine, in himself, even the shadow of the 
various excellencies that were requisite in Him 
this would still have been a fulfilment of the 
promise to Abraham, only with this difference, 
that the line of descent would commence with 
the younger son of one of the descendants of 
Levi, instead of the younger son of Isaac.— 
But there was something clearer to the heart of 
Moses than his own honor—the honor of his 
God. " And Moses besought the Lord his God, 
and said, Lord, why doth thy wrath wax hot 
against thy people, which thou hast brought 
forth out of the land of Egypt, with great pow-
er, and with a mighty hand ? 
Wherefore, 
should the Egyptians speak and say, For mis-
chief did he bring them out, to slay them 
in the mountains, and to consume them from 
the face of the earth ? 
Turn from thy 
fierce 
wrath, and repent of this evil against thy peo-
ple. 
Remember Abraham, Isaac, and Israel, 
thy servants, to whom thou swearest by thine 
own self, and saidst unto them, I will multiply 
your seed as the stars of heaven, and all this 
land that I have spoken of will I give unto 
your seed, and they shall inherit it forever.— 
And the Lord repented of the evil which he 
thought to do unto his people." Ex. 32:7-14. 
I pretend not to explain how, or in what 
sense, the Lord repented and changed his in-
tentions; I take the Scripture narrative simply 
as I find it. 
From the time of Abraham and 
onwards we find the Lord accessible to the in-
tercession of His people. 
What a relief it is 
to turn from the tortuous theology of those 
who, under cover of what they are pleased to 
term " the immutability of God's purposes," 
at once deprive man of his responsibility, and 
God of His love and tenderness, to the simple 
and honest declarations of Scripture ! 
Doubt-
less, the inspired penmen believed in the " sove-
reignty of God," as firmly as these more mod-
ern divines—nay, more firmly: for they are so 
strong in the consciousness of its truth, that 
they are not afraid of its being impugned, and, 
therefore, they make their statements in a plain 
and straightforward manner. The ground-work 
of the theology 
of the school we allude to, 
seems to be, " The Lord delighteth in condem-
nation ;" whereas, the Scripture saith, He " de-
lighteth in mercy." 
True, He executeth judg-
ment from time to time ; but it is " His strange 
work;" and if we could see the end from the 
beginning, we should see that judgment is in 
order to mercy—judgment to the few, in mercy 
to the many. 
From this time until the day of his death, 
• the great and distinguishing work of Moses 
was his mediatorial work; in after times they 
had other leaders 
and commanders ; 
other 
priests; other prophets; but never had they 
again such a mediator. 
What a picture of human nature does the 
history of the children of Israel present! 
The 
Lord " bare them on eagle's wings;" delivered 
them in every emergency ; and yet, when each 
new trial came, they enacted the same unbe-
lieving and rebellious part. Well might Moses 
say unto them," Ye have been rebellious against 
the Lord from the day that I knew you."— 
" How oft," says the royal Psalmist, " did they 
provoke him in the wilderness, and grieve him 
in the desert! 
Yea, they turned back and 
tempted God, and limited the Holy One of Is-
rael. 
They remembered not his hand, nor the 
day when he delivered them from the enemy." 
"They forgot God their Saviour, which had 
done great things in Egypt; wondrous works 
in the land of Ham, and terrible things by the 
Red Sea. 
Therefore, he said, that he would 
destroy them, had not Moses, his chosen, stood 
before him in the breach to turn away his wrath, 
lest he should destroy them." Psa. 78:40-42 ; 
106:21-23. 
When the consuming fire of the Lord came 
upon them at Taberah, to punish their mur-
who was to be the Deliverer not of Israel only, 
but of humanity. 
Moses 
piteously confesses 
his inability to bear the burden and responsi-
bility of his office. 
He cries unto the Lord, 
"Wherefore hast thou afflicted thy servant? 
and wherefore have I not found favor in thy 
sight, that thou layest the burden of all this 
people upon me ? I am not able to bear all this 
people alone, because it is too heavy for me." 
Num. 11:11-14. 
Moses had not long been chosen by the peo-
ple as their mediator, until he was called upon 
to perform another branch of his mediatorial 
work. 
He had been the medium of communi-
cation between God and the people; he had of-
fered up sacrifices for the sin of Israel; he was 
now to act as the intercessor, as the pleader 
with God that He would forgive their sins. 
I believe most readers of the Pentateuch are 
conscious of a feeling as if the follies of the 
children of Israel were almost incredible; as 
if the sin of making the golden calf, so soon 
after the awful transaction at Sinai, were next 
to impossible. 
This delusion, lam convinced, 
arises from not taking into account the effect 
produced on our own minds by the brevity of 
the narrative. 
The history of the golden calf 
seems the key to the explanation of all idolatry. 
It is evident the people of Israel viewed Moses 
as the visible representative of God; and fear-
ing he had left them altogether, they desired 
Aaron to make another visible representation 
of God ("make us an Elohim"), 
which should 
go before them. 
It is impossible to imagine 
that any other people, even in a state of the 
most savage ignorance, could believe that a lit-
tle image which had no existence until their 
earrings were melted to form it, could be the 
identical Being that brought them out of Egypt 
about three months previously. 
They, with all 
other originators of image-worship, must have 
viewed it simply as a representation of the in-
visible God. 
That the mass of their success-
ors, however, worshipped the idol as being it-
self the Deity, all history proves; and it was 
donbtless this'natural tendency of the human 
mind to worship the visible, that caused the 
prohibition against making images to stand im-
mediately after the command to have no God 
but Jehovah. 
The formation of the golden 
calf was a direct breach of the second com-
mandment ; they made an image, and bowed 
down before it. 
True, they proclaimed a feast 
to Jehovah ; but had He occupied their minds 
when they were engaged in worship, they, 
would not have " risen up to play." 
Who that 
has lived much in a Popish country, can read 
this account of the Israelites, without being re-
minded of the union of superstition and frivo-
lous gaiety that is so often to be seen there ? 
The gaudy procession (rnis-named religious) 
is 
naturally followed by the thoughtless revel. 
And if we look nearer home, we shall find that 
devotion to religious forms and devotion to 
worldly fashions are often united in the same 
person. 
While Moses was engaged in intimate com-
munion with the Lord, who spake to him 
" face to face as a man speaketh with 
his 
friend," this delightful intercourse was inter-
rupted by the painful intimation of Israel's 
guilt. 
lf And the Lord said unto Moses, Go, 
get thee down; for thy people, which thou 
broughtest out of the land of Egypt, have cor-
rupted themselves. 
I have seen this people, 
and behold, it is a stiff-necked people: now, 
therefore, let me alone, that my wrath may wax 
hot against them, and that I may consume 
them ; and I will make of thee a great nation." 
Ah ! how many there are who would willingly 
have said, Amen, to such a proposal! 
Moses 
could not be insensible to the honor of being 
progenitor of the chosen people of God; and 
muring and discontent, "the people cried unto 
Moses, and when Moses prayed unto the Lord, 
the fire was quenched." Num. 11:2. 
When 
an evil report was brought of the promised 
land, they again complained and said, " Would 
God that we had died in the land of Egypt!" 
" And the Lord said unto Moses, How long 
will this people provoke me ? and how long 
will it be ere they believe me, for all the signs 
which I have showed among them ? 
I will 
smite them with the pestilence, and 
disinherit 
them, and will make of thee a greater nation, 
and mightier than they." 
But the mediator 
was again faithful to his office, and urged his 
former plea with yet more earnestness, " Then 
the Egyptians shall hear it, and they will tell 
it to the inhabitants of the land;" and so he 
goes on, pleading that God's gracious presence 
with His people, that He is seen by them face 
to face, and that His cloud is over them, is 
known by report to these inhabitants; and that 
if He should destroy this people the nations 
would say, " Because the Lord was not able to 
bring this people into the land which He sware 
unto them, therefore, He hath slain them in the 
wilderness. 
Pardon, 1 beseech thee, the ini-
quity of this people, according unto the great-
ness of thy 
mercy, and as thou hast forgiven 
this people, from Egypt even until now. 
And 
the Lord said, I have pardoned according to thy 
word." Num. 14:11-20. When the people ga-
thered agaiust Moses and Aaron, and upbraided 
them with having "killed the people of the 
Lord," God commanded them to remove from 
among the congregation, that He might con-
sume the murmurers in a moment. 
But Mo-
ses desired Aaron to take fire from the altar, 
and make an atonement for the people; in or-
der that the wrath of the Lord might be stayed. 
Again, when " the soul of the people was much 
discouraged because of the way, they spake 
against 
God, and against Moses, Wherefore 
have ye brought us up out of Egypt to die in 
the wilderness; for there is no bread, neither 
is there any water, and our soul loatheth this 
light bread ?" 
The fiery serpents brought the 
people to a sense of their sins, and they again 
appealed to their mediator," Pray unto the Lord 
that he take away the serpents from us. 
And 
Moses prayed for the people." Num. 21:4-7. 
I have 
placed together these various 
in-
stances of the mediatorial character of Moses 
before my brethren, that they may the more ea-
sily apprehend the character of the Prophet 
"like 
unto Moses;" that they may perceive 
that the work of atonement and intercession 
was the distinguishing feature of the character 
and office of their early guide; even as they 
were to be the distinguishing characteristics of 
their Messiah. 
Now, as the mediatorial cha-
racter of Moses is undeniable, what becomes of 
the assertion 
so oft repeated in Jewish wri-
tings, that an atonement and a mediator are 
alike unnecessary ? The whole history of Israel 
seems recounted with such detail, for the express 
purpose of exhibiting the absolute necessity of 
both. 
Was there any difference between the 
nature of Israel while in the wilderness, and 
that of the rest of mankind, that Israel needed 
a mediator then, and that neither Israel nor 
any one else needs a mediator now? The Jews 
often ask the question: " If Jesus were the 
Messiah, why did our fathers reject him?" Did 
they not reject Moses,—not merely at first, but 
time after time, although God had repeatedly 
shown that He was with Him? 
Did they not 
reject the prophets of God ? 
Never has any 
true reformer appeared, who has not been re-
jected by the many, and received only by the 
few. 
And they must remember that although 
the Jewish nation as such, rejected Jesus, ma-
ny thousands of Jews received him ; and that 
Christianity 
subsisted, 
and 
flourished, 
and 
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spread, for eleven years before there was a 
single Gentile convert. 
Bat while Moses was a lively type of the 
true Mediator and Intercessor, he at the same 
time showed forth the weakness and insuffi-
ciency of a mere human agent. 
It requires 
the patience of a God to bear with the multi-
plied provocations of fallen man. 
The meek-
est of men, who had stood so many trials of his, 
patience, at last gave way. 
At the waters of 
Meribah he dishonored God by impatience and 
unbelief; and on this account was not permit-
ted to enter the promised land. 
This was a 
striking lesson to Israel of the inadequacy of a 
merely human Messiah, of a fallible mediator. 
This showed that the successful intercession of 
Moses rested not on his own merits, but on the 
merits of that Mediator of the covenant, whose 
love to fallen sinners formed the ground-work 
of Moses' intercession. 
To the superficial reader of Scripture, the 
history of the children of Israel, from their de-
parture out of Egypt till their establishment as 
a kingdom under Saul, appears but! the annals 
of a people in a semi-barbarous, and almost a 
childish state. 
But to tho^e who are able, un-
der all the phases which society presents, to 
perceive the workings of a common humanity, 
it is an instructive chapter of the history of 
man. 
It is a picture of human nature divest-
ed of the 
flimsy 
and glittering veil that the 
world's refinement throws over it. 
Is not the 
general course of the world still, a forgetfulness 
of God in prosperity; a hasty appeal to Him 
for help in the time of adversity; and forget-
fulness again, when the judgment is removed ? 
And what are all men around us so busily toil-
ing for? 
What is it that prompts the labor of 
the merchant, and urges the student to his mid-
night task ? 
It is the desire of obtaining the 
good things of this life. 
And what is it they 
weep over, when their efforts are unsuccessful, 
or when a sudden reverse has deprived them of 
their wealth ? 
Is it, that they can no longer 
love and be loved ; that they can no longer do 
good to their fellow-creatures; that they can 
no longer honor and serve God? 
No; the 
things whose loss they mourn are as ignoble as 
the good things of Egypt, after which the chil-
dren of Israel wept. 
In their honest simplicity 
they confessed what it was they mourned:— 
" We remember the fish, and the cucumbers, 
and the melons." 
Men are less honest now, 
because more enlightened; they feel that the 
things on which their daily happiness depends, 
are not the things that ought 
to form the happi-
ness of a rational and immortal being; there-
fore, by general consent they do not name " the 
fish, and the cucumbers," and all the other lux-
uries of the establishment; but each is con-
scious that these, and such as these, are really 
the good things that their souls lust after. 
Is-
rael is man under the dominion of the fall ; 
and the work of the Messiah is to deliver men 
from all the consequences of the fall; to bring 
them " from the bondage of corruption, into the 
glorious liberty of the children of God." 
I might proceed from the Pentateuch through 
.the subsequent 
records of Israel's 
history, 
through the Psalms of David, and the greater 
and minor prophets, and trace in them all the 
same features; the same recognition of the evil 
state of man and his habitation; the same hope 
of redemption to both through a Deliverer.— 
But this examination would far exceed my lim-
its; I must content myself with directing the 
attention of my readers to a few of the more 
prominent points ; leaving them to pursue the 
investigations more fully themselves— (To be 
continued.) 
A Plea for the Persecuted. 
The arrival at New York of upwards of sixty 
Portuguese, driven by persecution from their 
own country, who have committed themselves 
to the care of the American Protestant Society, 
has awakened much sympathy in the com-
munity. 
The object of this address is to present 
some facts respecting the past and present state 
of this people, and to appeal to a generous com-
munity for aid. 
Whether they are worthy of 
confidence, or have strong claims upon our 
benevolence, the reader can decide when he has 
become acquainted with the facts we here pub-
lish. 
These refugees are natives of Madeira, an 
island under the government of Portugal, con-
taining about 100,000 inhabitants, all Roman 
Catholic. 
A few years since, Dr. Kalley, of 
Scotland, a very philanthropic and benevolent 
man, made Madeira his place of residence. 
Solicitous for the welfare of the Portuguese, 
whom he found in the deepest ignorance, he 
began to establish schools for their benefit. 
From his own purse he sustained teachers and 
furnished books, until upwards 
of 800 
adults, 
besides 
children, were 
under a prosperous 
course of instruction. 
His self-denying efforts 
for the Portuguese, who had no special claims 
on him, made at first a favorable impression on 
the municipal authorities of Funchal, the chief 
city on the island. 
They passed a vote of 
thanks to Dr. Kalley for what they styled " his 
disinterested acts of benevolence, or philan-
thropy, such as the establishment of schools in 
different parts of the island, at his own expense, 
furnishing the people with medical attendance 
and medicines gratuitously," &c. 
Dr. Kalley at the same time, gave the Portu-
guese Bible to all who desired to read it. 
All 
were destitute of it, and many had never heard 
of the existence of such a book as the Bible. 
Those now in this city can testify that they 
never heard of it, until Dr. K. informed them 
of its existence. 
Soon after the people began to read and to 
learn the doctrines of the word of God, it was 
taken from them by the priests, and committed 
to the 
flames. 
But its influence was not con-
sumed. 
As the little girl said when the priest 
burnt her Bible, " You cannot burn up the 
verses I have in my mind," so it proved to be 
with them. 
The truth had taken deep root in 
the heart, and the fruit appeared, 
They were 
forbidden to read the Bible or to meet for reli-
gious worship. 
But their love of prayer, and 
strong affection for each other, brought them 
together secretly in the night. 
The low, solemn 
voice of prayer entered the ear of God ; but 
no hymn could be sung, as this would be the 
signal for the mob or the police to arrest them. 
When they could not safely assemble under a 
roof, they stole away into the fields and moun-
tains in the night, and lifted their united sup-
plications to God for their enemies. 
While 
thus engaged many were arrested and thrown 
into prison. 
They were bound with ropes, and 
most cruelly, treated. 
Some who are now in 
New York have been in the dungeon two years, 
and some three years, whose only crime, in 
view of the priests, was reading the Bible. 
Dr. Kalley was the special object of Papal 
vengeance. 
He was illegally imprisoned. 
As 
a subject of the British government, liberty of 
conscience and of worship was guaranteed by 
the treaty of England with Portugal. 
The 
government and the priests were obliged to re-
lease him from prison, after a cofinement of five 
months. 
But he was not suffered to reside in 
Madeira. 
His house was entered by the mob, 
excited by the priests, the windows broken— 
his splendid library, valued at $10,000, with 
many Bibles, was thrown into the streets, and 
reduced to ashes. 
He was obliged to fly from 
the violence of the mob, in the dress of a female, 
to a British vessel, and returned to Scotland. 
The Portuguese who were guilty of reading 
the Bible, were persecuted without mercy. 
The 
sentence of excommunication was thundered 
against them from every Roman Catholic pulpit. 
One now in the office of the American Protes-
tant Society was among the first who fell under 
this awful sentence. 
A friend was excommuni-
cated with him. 
These two were declared by 
the highest ecclesiastical authority in Madeira, 
" to be excommunicated by the curse of Al-
mighty God and of the blessed St. Peter and 
St. Paul, with those of Gomorrah and Sodom, 
and with Korah, Dathan, and Abiram, whom 
the earth swallowed alive for their disobedience. 
Let no one give them fire, water, bread, or any 
other thing that may be necessary for their 
support. 
Let no one pay them their debts. 
Let no one support them in any case which they 
may bring before a court of Justice. 
Let all 
put them aside as rotten and excommunicated 
members, separated from the bosom and union 
of the Holy Mother Catholic Church, and as 
rebels and contumacious." 
Any person who shall speak in favor of these 
persecuted people, or should give anything to 
them, even a cup of water, or should pay them 
their just debts, was threatened with the same 
excommunication. 
The persecution of the Bible readers, 
Prot-
tants, Calvinists or Presbyterians, as they Avere 
called, was of the most violent kind. 
The 
houses of such were set on fire during the 
night. 
On one night five houses were set on 
fire while the inmates 
were asleep. 
The 
crackling of the flames awoke them, and they 
fled for their lives in their night-dress. 
Some 
were arrested when on their way from a secret 
prayer-meeting, knocked down in the streets, 
and died of their wounds. 
One man who had 
a family of six or seven children, whose house 
had been burnt, was quietly on his way home 
when he was knocked down—his arm broken 
—four wounds in his head opened to the bone; 
and even females were excited to tear his flesh 
on his cheek while he was lying upon the 
ground. 
Notwithstanding these cruelties, the number 
of Bible readers and of Christians increased. 
The work of God went forward. 
The prisons 
were filled, and new converts multiplied. 
One 
lady, who refused, in the presence of the court, 
to confess that the wafer in the hands of the 
priest is the real blood and flesh of Jesus Christ, 
was condemned to be publicly executed. 
After 
about three years severe confinement in the 
dungeon, she is in Trinidad. 
Some of her 
children are now in this city. 
Her nephew is 
here, who had the charge of eighty 
schools 
established by Dr. Kalley in Madeira. 
When 
the persecution began, the first notice he had 
of his danger was on awaking in the night he 
found eighteen of the police about his house, 
who had come to arrest him. 
He rose and 
rushed out of his house, and escaped to the 
mountains. 
The government then 
commis-
sioned 200 soldiers to arrest him. 
They pur-
sued him upwards of a month, but were not 
able to find him. 
During this time he never 
slept under a roof, but on the soil, or in caves 
of the earth. 
He had no change of linen, and 
was reduced to a state of starvation. 
The 
manner in which he was saved from death is 
worthy of notice. 
The place in which he had 
concealed himself was unknown to the Chris-
tians as well as to the soldiers. 
There was 
only one human being that knew where he was, 
and that was a Roman Catholic girl. 
Her 
heart was moved with compassion for these 
suffering Christians. 
She did not dare to tell 
any one, not even her parents, that she knew 
where he could be found. 
But she stealthily 
took flour from the barrel, when her mother 
was absent, and baked a cake in the ashes. 
She then rolled it in her apron, and seizing an 
opportunity, she ran into the mountains and 
gave it to him. 
On this he lived four days. 
This cake, and this only, with the blessing of 
God, kept him from starvation, and gave him 
strength to reach the deck of a British vessel. 
He sailed first to Demarara, then to Trinidad, 
and finally to this city. 
We 
cannot protract 
this statement by a particular account of indi-
vidual sufferers that would be interesting and 
thrilling. 
One of the men now with us, when 
arrested, had his arms crossed, and bound in 
that position^ and kept in the dungeon twenty-
two months. 
What was their conduct, and what their feel-
ings under such cruel treatment ? 
Much inter-
est will be felt in this inquiry. 
Capt. Tate, of 
the British Navy, who was an eye-witness of 
their suffering in Madeira, has given noble testi-
mony of their excellent spirit. He says," Never, 
perhaps, were the members of any church more 
like-minded one toward another, according to 
Christ Jesus, than the little flock at Madeira. 
Never was there simpler faith, simpler hope, 
simpler 
love. 
Their 
humility, 
gentleness, 
guileless simplicity, and burning love, were 
seen and acknowledged by their most bitter 
enemies." 
A Portuguese merchant, who was reckless 
on religious subjects, said that " if he were 
called upon to choose a religion suddenly, and 
without further thought, he believed he should 
fix upon that of these people, because he saw 
them suffer without 
complaining." 
The mate and steward of the vessel, in which 
were two hundred and eleven of these converts 
gping to Trinidad, frequently said, " that 
they 
had never seen folk love one another as these folk 
did." 
A little incident on this vessel furnishes a 
fine illustration of their spirit. 
There was on 
board a Roman Catholic family, as emigrants 
to Trinidad, who had been their bitter persecu-
tors. 
The family was very poor. 
Through 
the kindness of British Christians, the converts 
had received some clothing. 
They asked those 
who had given it to them, if they might now 
regard it as their own, and do with it as they 
pleased. 
Their benefactors inquired the reason 
of such a question. 
They replied it was their 
desire to obey their Lord's command, " Love 
your enemies ; bless them that curse you, do 
good to them that hate you, and pray for them 
which despitefully use you, and persecute you." 
Then they divided their small supply of cloth-
ing with their enemies. 
These enemies public-
ly expressed their amazement at such £onduct. 
Finally, in the prospect of perpetual persecu-
tion, multitudes of these persecuted people fled 
from their native land, leaving all their property 
and many of their relatives forever. 
About one 
thousand took refuge in the West India Islands ; 
upwards of 600 in Trinidad. 
About fifty of 
those who are in New York came directly from 
Trinidad, and the others from St. Kitts. 
Their desire is to form a Colony in the ! 
Western country, where they can cultivate the ' 
soil, educate their children, and have the gospel 
preached to them. 
The 
Society expects to 
send them West as soon as it can be done. 
Perhaps a few may go this autumn, but the 
most will be sustained here until spring. 
We 
do not think it would be right to send them 
forth unless provision could be made for th^ir 
wants the coming winter, which we have not 
yet been able to make. 
When they first arrived, we took them to the 
Sailor's Home for a few weeks. 
Since then 
we have rented buildings, where they can live 
together, and we furnish them with provisions 
more economically than we could hire their 
board. 
They had no clothing suitable to our climate. 
We have been able, through the benevolence of 
the community, to clothe them with warmer 
garments. 
Still clothing will be acceptable. 
Shawls and cloaks for winter are much needed, 
and also boots and shoes for men, women and 
children. 
All kinds of provision, such as flour, 
meal, meat, fish, potatoes, rice, coffee, tea, sugar, 
&c., will be very acceptable. 
Especially 
does 
the Society require money to sustain these, and 
to supply the wants of our missionaries, who are 
greatly in need of aid. 
Of the excellent character of our Portuguese 
brethren we are prepared to bear witness. 
Not 
a murmur has been heard from them, although 
they must at times have been sufferers on ac-
count of the want of sufficient clothing for our 
climate. 
We were much gratified, a few days 
since, in conversing with one who was a farmer, 
who constantly employed five or six men on 
his farm. 
This man was taken from his farm, 
and shut up in a loathsome dungeon three 
years. 
We 
inquired of him whether it was 
not hard to lie in the dungeon so long when he 
had not committed any crime. 
" Oh ! no," he 
replied, " it is not hard if you believe in the 
Lord Jesus Christ and in the Bible." 
We then 
reminded him that Paul and Silas prayed and 
sang praises to God in the prison. 
Yes, he 
said, he often thought of that, but he was for-
bidden by the priests and officers to sing in 
prison. 
Such is a brief statement of the case of our 
expatriated and suffering brethren. 
The plea 
for aid is found in the facts of their history. 
Is 
it ndt a plea that comes with irresistible power 
to the breast of every Christian and philanthro-
pist? 
Who can hold his money with a firm 
grasp, while these suffering disciples are in 
need of it ? 
Our hearts have bled in view of 
their condition. 
Our sleep has been disturbed 
as we have thought of them during the silence 
of night. 
After such a night, how has the 
keenness of our anguish been increased in the 
morning, when we have met them, and found 
them cheerful and happy, with the very smile 
of heaven on the countenance ! 
No sadness, 
no despair, no complaint; but the full-hearted 
expression of gratitude to God for the blessings 
they enjoy, and for the hope of a better in-
heritance in a brighter world. 
The principle on which we appeal in behalf 
of these persecuted brethren is stated by Him 
before whom every reader will soon appear, and 
hear him say, " inasmuch as ye have done it 
unto one of the least of these my brethren, ye 
have done it unto me," and the reverse. 
Matt. 
25:34-56. 
We assure you the Portuguese 
are not the only persecuted ones. 
Converts 
from the Church of Rome, under the labors of 
our missionaries, in our own country, have suf-
fered severe persecution. 
But we cannot now 
give a narrative of facts. 
We plead earnestly 
for the persecuted, and for the means requisite 
to sustain them and the missionaries who labor 
for their spiritual welfare. 
Donations of money, clothing, and provisions, 
should be directed to the American 
Protestant 
Society, 150 Nassau street, New York. 
HERMAN 
NORTON, 
Cor. Sec. of American Protestant 
Society. 
November, 1848. 
The French Revolution of 1848. 
A 
SERMON, 
PREACHED 
IN 
THE 
CHURCH 
OF 
ST. 
STEPHEN, WALBROOK, 
BY THE REV. GEORGE CROLY, LL. D. 
" The earth is the Lord's, and all that therein is; 
the compass of the world, and all that dwell therein," 
Psalm 24 : 1. 
The declared desire of the God and Father 
of all, is the happiness of all. 
And this glori-
ous and merciful desire, though shown in un-
numbered ways, is especially shown in the 
three forms, of the Physical Government of the 
Globe, the Moral Government of Man, and the 
Providential Government of Nations. 
The 
THE ADVENT HERALD. 
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147 
1 
first is conspicuous in the richness and loveli-
ness of Nature; the next, in the truths and 
rewards of Religion ; and the last, in that con-
stant control of Kingdoms, by alternate prosper-
ity and punishment, which, like the attraction 
and repulsion of the planetary forces, keep 
those moral planets in their course, and prevent 
the confusion of the System. 
If one of the most powerful and magnificent 
of those kingdoms has now burst from its orbit, 
and threatens to force all the rest along with it: 
" 
-Such as if Nature's concord broke, 
Amid the constellations war were sprung, 
And planets rushing from aspect malign, 
Of fiercest Opposition, in mid sky 
Should combat, and their jarring spheres confound." 
It is not merely within the province, it is the 
actual duty, of the pulpit, to investigate the 
cause of changes which so deeply involve the 
happiness of all human beings ; to clear up the 
gloom thrown by such vast and ruinous events 
over the contemplation of the Christian ; and, 
so far as such high tasks may be within the 
reach of our infirm faculties, to " vindicate the 
ways of God to man." 
The laws of morality are always the same, 
whether acting on the smallest, or the largest 
scale ; whether throwing light into the individ-
ual bosom, or illustrating the conduct of nations. 
But there is a memorable difference in their 
application. 
Kingdoms have no future state ; 
there can be no reserve of punishment or re-
ward for them, beyond the grave. 
Here their 
retribution must exist, or not at all. 
We lose 
the whole lesson, unless we see the scaffold, 
the execution, and the tomb. 
But, direct retribution on individuals would 
break up the whole order of Society; for it 
must extinguish the whole discipline of the 
human heart. 
When the blow was struck, 
penitence could find no place, reformation would 
be too late, righteousness could plead no con-
version, and gratitude offer no prayer. 
We 
thus see, more and more, the wisdom of the 
command in the parable of the Tares, " Let 
both grow together, until the harvest." 
Still, 
the principle of retribution is not altogether 
extinguished, in the instance of man. 
The 
general tendency even of the most personal 
vice is, to produce personal suffering. 
There 
is a silent avenger on the step. 
The sentence 
is already written. Intemperance inflicts decay. 
Profligacy cankers character. 
Extravagance 
dilapidates fortune. 
Until disease, contempt, 
and beggary consummate the ruin. 
There are exceptions ; and we may be some-
times startled- with the splendid impunity of 
notorious want of principle. 
Yet, who is to 
know the reality of things ? 
Who can fathom 
the depths of the heart, perhaps, at the moment, 
palpitating with the dread of detection ; bitter-
ly shrinking from its own success ; or glancing 
down the long vista, at the end of which it sees 
only sorrow and shame. 
To how many of the 
most showy figures and exulting countenances 
of society is the agony of the Spartan boy no 
fable ? 
But, the Future 
State is the true rectifier; 
as it is the true life of man. 
Here he is but 
the infant in its cradle, limited in capacity, in 
suffering, in enjoyment, in everything. 
There 
he shoots up to his full stature at once, with the 
Universe for his range : " Sown 
in dishonor, 
raised in glory; sown in weakness, raised in 
power," with 
angelic 
faculties 
for 
angelic 
thoughts, purposes, and happiness. 
There all 
shall be known, and all explained. 
There the 
moral difficulties of life will disappear, as if a 
man looked down from the zenith upon our 
world rolling through the sunlight, and saw 
nothing of it but its smooth splendor. 
But, 
there too will " the judgment be set, and the 
hooks be opened." 
Every portion of society has its temptation, 
the poor man in his poverty, the rich man in 
his wealth ; the law is universal. 
The tempta-
tion of kingdoms is power. 
And their especial 
Punishment always refers to their especial crime. 
Wars of aggression constitute that crime. 
And 
the punishment of those wars will be found to 
be the principle, 
on which the Divine Govern-
ment uniformly 
acts in the sufferings of Euro-
pean thrones. 
I'1 inquiries of this nature, I propose no pic-
turesque interest: I leave to the historian all 
the romance of action, and to the philosopher 
J" the romance of thought; to the one all that 
"eld which he makes living with combats and 
c°uncils; and to the other, all that loftier clime 
which he fills with the ethereal shapes of his 
,e speculation. 
The Christian teacher, intent 
jj y on ascertaining the divine rule, discards 
ail the interposing brilliancy of the world, un-
peoples the scene of its assemblages of the 
sreat and bold; closes his perceptions to the 
thousand voices of earth, in its triumphs and 
its tumults : and, like the patriarch on his travel, 
with night and the wilderness alone around him, 
waits for the vision, which shows the providen-
tial " angels ascending and descending." I mean 
to offer not even a historic sketch. 
My purpose 
is simply, to demonstrate a great principle in 
the government of the world. 
Since the rise of modern Europe, nearly a 
third of every century has been consumed in* 
war. 
Its Gothic invaders knew nothing but 
arms; they had been cradled in arms, and by 
arms alone they had obtained possession and 
power. 
The hardships of their German and 
Scandinavian life, had made Southern war a 
pastime, and they rushed upon the languid and 
indolent empire, with the fierce instinct of men 
born of the forest, the seashore, and the storm. 
Yet, even in the collisions of those early sove-
reignties, rude and hurried as they were, it 
might not be difficult to discover the principle— 
that wars of aggression are the especial object 
of divine punishment. 
But I commence the inquiry, from the middle 
of the Seventeenth Century, the period which 
first formed a system of Balanced 
Power in 
Europe; the direct purpose of that system, 
being, to preserve the peace of nations; by 
protecting the weaker States against the ambi-
tion of the stronger; and by combining the 
efforts of all States to forbid all wars of aggres-
sion. 
This was an immense advance. 
It was the 
virtual erection of a Tribunal in the centre of 
Europe, to which all might appeal. A Tribunal, 
not dependent on the caprices of popular will, 
or on the fragile authority of barbaric thrones, 
but founded on the eternal maxims of justice, 
national necessity, and human welfare ; invisi-
ble, yet to be felt in every future transaction of 
kingdoms; and irresistibly appealing from the 
violences of the hour to posterity and to God. 
This discovery was to statesmanship, what the 
discovery of the circulation of the blood was to 
tho science of the frame. 
It showed the mutual 
importance of every part of the European struc-
ture ; the means of counteracting its distempers, 
of sending life through its smallest nerve, and 
of restoring the enfeebled energy of its existence. 
The international law of Europe is the noblest 
memorial of civilization. 
On this point, the contrast between the an-
cient and the modern worlds is of the most re-
markable kind. 
In the ancient world, wars of 
aggression were universal, and yet were seldom 
punished. 
It would seem as if God, indignant 
at the offences of heathenism, had abandoned 
man to the work of his own hands ; suffered 
him to be the prey of his own passions, and 
left him to raise thrones, only that he might be 
overwhelmed in their ruins. 
All the great 
kingdoms of antiquity fell in rapid succession, 
but one, and that one reserved, only to bring all 
nations within the circle of Christianity. " There 
were giants in the earth in those days," and, as 
in the days before the flood, the earth was " filled 
with violence." 
The fall of those kingdoms 
was scarcely to be accounted for on the ordina-
ry grounds of national evil. 
In general they 
exhibited but few of the symptoms of decay. 
Some fell, like the Babylonian king, in the 
height of national luxury, with their thousand 
princes feasting in their halls; some in the 
field, in the vigor of life, and with the sword 
which had swept the half of Asia before them, 
still gleaming in their hand ; some, like Titans 
prostrated by the thunder-bolt. 
Yet, of all the chief sovereignties of modern 
Europe, since the origin of its ten diadems, 
but one has perished :* an unchanged duration 
of a thousand years. 
This was the work, al-
most the miracle, of Christianity. 
The primal 
settlement of the European kingdoms was not 
its operation. 
But the vigor, the intelligence, 
the growing activity, and the solid system, 
which in their degrees had sustained them all, 
were its exclusive operation. 
The form was 
first moulded of earth, but the breath of life in 
its nostrils was from above. 
It is equally striking, that this distinction be-
tween the ages of Heathenism and of Chris-
tianity should have existed, almost to our own 
day. 
While the pettiest European 
kingdom 
has remained unmoved, empires, as mighty as 
the Babylonian or the Macedonian, have risen 
in the East, and fallen in the height of their 
ascendancy. 
The empires of Genghiz and of 
Tamerlane, whose foundations covered the land 
from the wall of China to the Euxine.and whose 
strength was wholly irresistible in their day ; 
the empire of the Moguls in India, the empire 
of the Mahrattas; vast accumulations of power; 
•Poland—a country, however, which, by being an 
elective Monarchy, could scarcely be reckoned in the 
file of European kingdoms. 
each gathering force and rapidity, like the ava-
lanche, let loose, we know not how ; but sweep-
ing everything before it, and gathering every-
thing into its mass, as it thundered down ; and 
each, like the avalanche, no sooner stopping in 
its course, than it dissolved, leaving nothing 
behind but fragments of the wreck which it had 
borne along. 
The presence of England 
has 
checked those outbursts of sovereignty in the 
East; but the wilds of Tartary may be at this 
moment training the future devastator, and pre-
paring the nursling of the wolf for the founder 
of an empire broader than the Roman.* 
I pass rapidly over the general struggles of 
the eighteenth century, though often devastating 
and desperate ; but ail dwarfed beside the mag-
nitude of the war with which it elosed. 
The 
French Revolutionary War is still without a 
rival, in the recollections of human havoc and 
human crime. 
Yet, through the whole series 
of those earlier conflicts, the principle of pun-
ishment on the agressor is, with more or less 
distinctness, steadily sustained. 
In the second year of that century, the French 
king, tempted by the prospect of overthrowing 
the Government of England, espoused 
the 
cause of the family which had been expelled 
from the throne. 
This aggression was even in 
direct violation of a treaty.t 
Its punishment 
was instant and condign. 
The famous war of 
the Grand Alliance began. 
The armies of the 
aggressor were overthrown, in a perpetual suc-
cession of defeats. 
His ambition was broken 
down, his military renown was trampled, he 
was reduced to an ignominious peace, and was 
glad to find a shelter, even in its ignominy, for 
his dismantled throne. 
That war threw France 
out of the rank of leading powers, for nearly a 
hundred years. 
In the middle of the century another war, 
then unexampled for the rapidity and violence 
of its conflicts, shook Central Europe. 
In the 
last year of the preceding century, the Duchy 
of Prussia had been erected into a kingdom, 
by the ambition of its sovereign. 
It had been 
made a military power, by the rude vigor of his 
successor; and it took the sudden and brilliant 
shape of a great political and conquering power, 
under the genius of its third monarch, 
Fred-
eric II. 
One of the first acts of Frederic was, to seize 
on a Province of Austria. 
From that act 
sprang the memorable " Seven Years' War." 
(From 1756 to 1763). 
This war, though brief, 
was the bloodiest known in Europe. 
It was a 
constant succession of pitched battles, murder-
ous on both sides; but the sufferings of the 
aggressor were fearful. 
Prussia was repeated-
ly overrun, its capital was seized, its population 
was laid waste, as if by a pestilence. 
Its king, 
though exhibiting the highest rank of military 
talent and the fiercest intrepidity, yet, at length, 
saw nothing before him but death on the field, 
or by his own hand. 
He was finally rescued 
from utter ruin, not by his genius or his courage, 
but by the death of his most powerful antago-
nist, and the protection of his last ally. 
The 
war was then suddenly brought to a close, but 
its punishment was long felt, in a depopulated 
kingdom and exhausted resources. 
Prussia 
retained the province for which she had begun 
hostilities ; but she had scarcely recovered from 
her wounds, during the next fifty years. 
I touch lightly on the war of England with 
her American colonies; a contest still dubious 
alike 
in its policy and 
in its 
provocation, 
and begun reluctantly on both sides ; but of all 
wars the most beneficial to both. 
It was a 
sharp, short operation, which severed the infant 
from the parent, relieving the one from an in-
cumbrance which it could no longer sustain, 
and giving the other that independent existence 
for which it was made. (Begun in 1775—ended 
in 1782). 
But the European results of the 
contest are still ominous and incalculable.— 
The principle of punishment for aggression 
stands out prominent, in a time when all other 
principles exhibit only perplexity and perver-
sion. 
For nearly thirty years of the latter half of 
the century, England and France had been at 
peace. 
The confidence of England was sin-
cere, the cordiality of the people was unbound-
ed, the English nobility delighted in the refine-
ments, the splendors, and the graces of France. 
The French nobility exhibited equal interest in 
the philosophy, the literature, and the political 
science of England. 
The connexion 
seemed 
indissoluble; until the moment when England 
was startled by a sudden declaration of war. 
The temptation jof enfeebling the strength of 
* i'hey may be preparing; but will never perfect. 
—Ed. 
Her. 
f By the treaty of Ryswick in 1697, Louis XIV. 
had acknowledged the title of William to the throne 
the British Empire, by assisting the revolt of 
America, had been too strong for the royal in-
tegrity.* 
That declaration was but the " beginning of 
sorrows." 
But, even then, the punishment fell 
heavily on the aggressor, his fleets were des-
troyed, and his troops baffled. 
They brought 
no laurels from America, but they brought revo-
lution. Their swords, useless in battle, bore on 
their points the Republican flame. It is not de-
nied, that the Government of France had been 
long preparing its own ruin. 
It had insulted 
the middle class by its neglect, for, to national 
intelligence there can be no deeper insult than 
neglect. Relying on the policy of the old sove-
reigns, yet, unable to discover that it had lost 
their power; the Government, retaining all the 
pomps and formalities of its predecessors, float-
ing in the old gilded galley of Louis XIV., with 
all its purple sails, and perfumed airs, and em-
broidered streamers, had forgotten that it was 
entering on an entirely new navigation, when it 
suddenly found itself deserted by the tide—the 
galley was on shore. 
The events which followed, form the most 
painful chapter in tbe whole history of royal 
misfortune. 
The unoffending character of the 
monarch, the majestic spirit, and captivating 
elegance of his queen, and the domestic fond-
ness and helptess virtue of those who shared 
their dungeon, excited universal sympathy in 
Europe, and to this hour draw many a tear. 
But, the calamities of war are so intense ; 
they spread to so vast an extent; they fall with 
such weight upon the harmless; they so totally 
scorch and sear the gentle verdure of society ; 
they throw up such huge and repulsive obsta-
cles to the progress of nations; and, so far as 
man may thwart the Divine will, they so dar-
ingly challenge it, by all the venomous subtle-
ties, and burning passions of human evil; that 
no punishment can be too significant, or too se-
vere, for the guilt of aggressive war. 
The French Republic stands before us in a 
thousand points of view, but I restrict myself 
to one : Retribution. It instantly consumed the 
monarchy, and with it the unfortunate wearers 
of the crown. 
The blood of the sovereigns 
was the first libation of those horrid ceremoni-
als, and mysteries of appalling crime, with 
which France swore to the spirit of anarchy.— 
(To be continued.) 
The State of Affairs in Europe. 
To whatever country we turn our regards, 
we are at once convinced that the liberty of the 
press, inscribed on the banner of the late revo-
lutions, finds itself in a state of subjection and 
servility unknown even when the censorship 
was most formidable. 
The people have taken 
the law into their own hands without trial or 
sentence. 
No matter what the pretext, whe-
ther " Jesuitism " or " Re-action," it overthrows 
and massacres all that offer any resistance to its 
tyranny. In Switzerland, the heroes of Propa-
gandism waged a war against the press worthy 
the best days of French terrorism. At Vienna, 
the sovereign faction of the students commenced 
by burning the law which abolished the cen-
sorship, and have laid a violent hand upon 
newspaper editors. 
It is thus that we are con-
demned to behold one excess giving birth to 
another. 
Every one attempts to be free with-
out being able to control himself. 
Every one 
wishes to dominate, and cannot cast ofl' the 
yoke of his own passions, does not know how 
to respect the rights and the liberties of others. 
They commence by putting all authority at de-
fiance, 
and then pretend that the proletaries 
and the provinces should respect the constitu-
tional throne and the unity of the empire. And 
what, after all, is the mainspring of their ac-
tions ? 
A servile imitation of that party spirit 
and misguided notions which have character-
ized the Paris propaganda, whose handiwork is 
visible in every commotion in Europe. 
We 
have seen it send its legions into the duchy of 
Baden—excite the civilians against the sol-
diery of Treves and at Mayence; at Munich it 
did not disdain the services of a Spanish cour-
tisane; at Frankfort it paid the claqueurs 
in 
the church of St. Paul, and excited pillage and 
murder in the streets and public squares. 
At 
Naples, as at Rome and Milan—at Berlin, as 
at Vienna—everywhere the propaganda fixes 
the day and the hour, and pulls the strings that 
move the puppets—always ready to seize upon 
every fault or act of negligence of a Govern-
ment, or to take advantage of the misery of 
* It is strikingly confirmatory of this origin of the 
revolutionary movement, that nearly all the chief of-
ficers of the army sent to America afterwards figured 
in Republican politics : La Fayette, Custine, Lauzun, 
the Lameths, Beauharnais, D'Estaing, Rochambeau, 
Matthew Dumas, Gouvion, and Berthier. 
148 
THE ADVENT* HERALD. 
the masses. Dull-headed students and the scum 
of political writers give the signal, the enlight-
ened bourgeoise 
follow them, until the moment 
arrives when the mob, who have been made 
use of for the great object, come, with weapons 
in their hands, to demand pay for their work. 
The same comedy is played everywhere, the 
object of which escapes the discernment of the 
people, until they are startled at the end, to-
wards which they are dragged along. 
Barri-
cades at Paris, barricades at Vienna and Ber-
lin ; general arming at Paris, comprising thieves 
and assassins, the same at Vienna and Berlin ; 
down with the military at Paris, down with the 
military at Berlin and Vienna; Democratic 
journalists and club-leaders proclaim the Re-
public at Paris, the very same occurs at Vien-
na, Berlin, and Frankfort. 
How can the peo-
ple, then, be astonished, if this liberty, equality, 
fraternity, so loudly proclaimed, should be eve-
rywhere attended with the same results—anar-
chy at Berlin and at Vienna; political, social, 
and economical bankruptcy on the banks of the 
Seine, of the Danube, and of the Spree. 
But 
wherefore extend the comparison ? 
Now that this ultra-Radicalism has been suc-
cessively put down at Paris, at Frankfort, and 
at Vienna, the bandage will fall from the eyes 
of those who ought, long since, to have dis-
cerned their real interests, and perceived the 
precipice on which they were standing. 
The 
public is still excited by the events at Vienna, 
The issue will prove to the authors of these 
terrible calamities that they have no hope, and 
they will be made aware that the only liberty 
worthy of mankind is that liberty which is 
based on religion, on morality, and on right. 
These alone can establish union, confidence, 
and order, and ensure their blessings to the 
world. 
Unhappily, that era seems still far distant, 
and, without daring to be prophets of bad ti-
dings, we still fear that all is not over. 
What-
ever may be the judgment of history on the 
sanguinary excesses caused by a handful of un-
principled men, they have, at all events, amply 
avenged Louis Philippe in France, and Metter-
nich in Austria.—London Morning 
Chronicle. 
®l)c 
3tfmettt 
fjeralft. 
"BEHOLD! 
THE 
BRIDEGROOM 
COMETH!!" 
BOSTON, SATURDAY, DECEMBER 9, 1848. 
Extracts on Prayer. 
FROM 
REV. E. 
BICKERSTETH. 
(Continued froin our last.) 
XII. 
ON THE SPIRIT OF PRAYER FOR THE 
EN-
LARGEMENT OF THE KINGDOM OF CHRIST. 
Amid all that sin and sorrow which the Christian 
sees in the world, observes in his family, or feels in 
his own heart, there is one bright prospect on which 
his eye can dwell with unmingled satisfaction, and in 
the anticipation of which his heart can exult with 
unbounded joy ;—the promised time when truth, and 
righteousness, and peace, shall universally prevail. 
That such a time will come, a simple-minded and 
humble reader of the Scriptures can have no doubt. 
Such passages as the following plainly point out an 
extension of the gospel which has never yet taken 
place. 
" All the ends of the earth shall remember, and 
tij/rn unto the LORD, and all the kindreds of the na-
tions shall worship before thee." Psa. 22:27. 
" All 
kings shall fall down before him: all nations shall 
serve him.'' Psa. 72:11. 
" All nations whom thou 
hast made shall come and worship before thee, and 
shall glorify thy name." Psa. 86:9. 
"The earth 
shall be full of the knowledge of tbe LORD, as the 
waters cover the sea." Isa. 11:9. 
"Blindness in 
part is happened to Israel, until the fulness of the Gen-
tiles be come in ; and so all Israel shall be saved." 
Rom. 11:25, 26. 
" The kingdoms of this world are 
become the kingdoms of our LORD and of his CHRIST ; 
and he shall reign forever and ever." Rev. 11:15. 
This blessed consummation i3 in the Scriptures 
connected with the return of our coming LORD. 
No 
time of universal rest, peace, and holiness is prom-
ised in the New Testament to the church of CHRIST, 
before that blessed hope; till then the church is af-
flicted, the world abounds with wickedness, and the 
people of CHRIST are gathering out from the world. 
The great hope of the church is the resurrection of 
the saints at our LORD'S coming, and the establish-
ment of his kingdom. 2 Thess. 1:5-10. 
But for this we are to be earnestly praying : " look-
ing for, and hastening unto, the coming of the day of 
GOD," and the promised " new heavens and new 
earth, wherein dwelleth righteousness," (2 Pet. 3:13,) 
and offering up continually the last general wish of 
the church expressed in the Bible ; " Surely I come 
quickly: Amen, even so come, Lord JESUS." What 
glorious and animating- hopes does this prospect set 
before us, and what enlarged encouragements for 
abounding intercessory prayer! 
While it is clear from various promises, that the 
kingdom of CHRIST shall universally prevail, it is no 
less manifest that there are difficulties which only a 
Divine power can overcome. 
There are many opposing powers of a nature that 
no arm of flesh can subdue. 
Man may contend with 
man with some hope of success; but in contending 
" with principalities and powers, with the rulers of 
the darkness of this world, and with spiritual wick-
edness in high places," we want Divine aid. 
We 
must pray with the prophet, "Awake! awake! put 
on strength, 0 arm of the LORD !" 
How can Satan 
be dethroned from his palace, the heart of man, " till 
a stronger than he shall come upon him and overcome 
him?" 
Many of the great promises of Scripture relative 
to that happy period of which we have been speaking, 
seem to call for the spirit of prayer. 
Observe the determination of the SAVIOUR and his 
church : " For Zion's sake I will not hold my peace, 
and for Jerusalem's sake I will not rest, until the 
righteousness thereof go forth as brightness, and the 
salvation thereof as a lamp that burneth. 
And the 
Gentiles shall see thy righteousness, and all kings thy 
glory:" (Isa. 63:1, 2:) and then notice how this de-
termined zeal in seeking to promote the light and glo-
ry of the church is approved and required ; " Ye that 
make mention of the LORD, keep not silence ; and 
give him no rest till he establish, and till he make Je-
rusalem a praise in the,earth." Vs. 6, 7. 
Observe the directions to pray. 
Our LORD, seeing 
the harvest to be great, and the laborers few, in-
structed his disciples to use this means of obtaining 
them: " Pray ye, therefore, the 
LORD of the har-
vest, that he will send forth laborers into his har-
vest." Matt. 9:38. 
One half of the prayer which 
he has taught us daily to use, relates to this: " Hal-
lowed be thy name, thy kingdom come, thy will be 
done in earth as it is in heaven." 
Doubtless when 
" all the ends of the world shall remember and turn 
unto the LORD, and all the kindreds of the nations 
shall worship before him," (Psa. 22:27,) those peti-
tions in the LORD'S prayer, with its simple but sub-
lime and magnificent .conclusion, " Thine is the king-
dom, and the power, and the glory, forever and ev-
er," will receive a more manifest accomplishment 
than ever they have yet done. 
We are told in Isa. 
14.11, " Thus saith the LORD, the Holy One of Is-
rael, and his Maker, Ask me of things to come, con-
cerning my sons, and concerning the work of my 
hands command ye me." 
St. PAUL thus earnestly 
presses this duty : " I exhort, therefore, that first of 
all," (as a matter of chief importance,) " supplica-
tions, prayers, intercessions, and giving of thanks, be 
made for all men;" and he afterwards adds, "For 
this is good and acceptable in the sight of GOD our 
Saviour, who will have all men to be saved and to 
come unto the knowledge of the truth ;" (1 Tim. 2: 
1-4;) and again, he says, " Brethren, pray for us, 
that the word of the LORD may have free course and 
be glorified, as it is with you." 
We have also examples to encourage us thus to 
pray. 
DAVID prays, " Have respect unto the cove-
nant, for the dark places of the earth are full of the 
habitations of cruelty." 
Psa. 74:20. 
"Peace be 
within thy walls, and plenteousness within thy pal-
aces." Psa. 122:7. 
ESTHER, when the peculiar peo-
ple of GOD were on the point of destruction, sends to 
all the Jews to fast and pray, with her and her maid-
ens ; and their united prayers are heard. 
DANIEL'S 
prayer for the church, when in captivity, is well wor-
thy of imitation. (Dan. 9:2, 16, 17.) It is probahle, 
that on the very evening of the day on which our 
LORD directed his disciples to pray for more laborers, 
he himself went into a mountain, and continued all 
night in prayer to GOD; and after thus praying all 
night, on the following morning he chose his twelve 
apostles. (Matt. 9:36-38; 10:1-5; compared with 
Luke 6:12-16.) 
The apostles, after his ascension, 
all "continued with one accord in prayer and suppli-
cation :" and at length, on the day of Pentecost the 
Holy Ghost was given, " The LORD gave the word, 
and great was the company of those that published 
it." Psa. 68:11. 
The church of Antioch "fasted 
and prayed," and then sent forth BARNABAS and SAUL 
on that great mission to the Gentiles, the benefits of 
which ultimately reached even to England. Acts 134. 
Never, then, think a prayer to be at all complete, 
which does not include the heathen world. Never be 
satisfied with a prayer, either in your closet, in your 
family, in your walks, with your relatives and friends, 
or in the house of GOD, in which you have not asked 
of GOD something relating to his ways being " made 
known on earth, his saving health among all nations. 
Pray for all the societies engaged in this work, ei-
thei at home or abroad ; for all the missionaries 
sent forth among the heathen: and all preparing to 
go; and for all who conductor support missionary 
efforts. As a real Christian, you will bean immense 
gainer by the enlargement of the kingdom of CHRIST, 
and the increase of the communion of saints. 
And as this is the duty of individuals, so there 
seems a special efficacy in united prayer. 
Much 
that has been said on social, family, and public wor-
ship, applies here. 
Let Christian assemblies in every 
part of our land, come frequently together to pray 
for the coming of CHRIST'S kingdom : and it should 
be one of the happiest signs of i\s approach. 
Let love to your SAVIOUR, benevolence towards 
man, your own interest in this promised and happy 
era, the remarkable signs of the times, and your plain 
and positive duty, all combine, and influence and ex-
cite you really and often to pray, " Thy kingdom 
come." 
XIII. 
ON DISTRACTIONS IN PRAYER. 
Observe the nature of distraction, 
it is the wan-
dering of the heart from GOD. Some indeed manifest 
this in public worship, by the wandering of the eye, 
the irreverence of their outward behavior, unnecessa-
ry whispering, and salutations; but I would rather 
dwell on the root of the evil—the wanuering of the 
heart. 
In the midst of a solemn prayer, the heart 
will be dwelling on an earthly business, or pursuing 
a vain pleasure. 
It will be engaged in thoughts of 
doing good, on a subject foreign to the prayer then 
offering up with the lips, or be led aside to circum-
stances relating to the subject of our prayer. 
To some, almost the whole of their prayers is, at 
times, little else but one continued distraction ; they 
have not a single thought really offered up to GOD in 
any part of the service ; and, alas! if the thoughts of 
most Christians during their worship were expressed 
with their prayers, what strange petitions would be 
offered up to GOD ! 
We make light of distractions on account of their 
commonness ; but GOD greatly condemns them. 
A 
curse is pronounced on those who do " the work of 
the LORD deceitfully," or negligently. Jer. 48:10. 
GOD declares, " I know the things that come into 
your heart, every one of them." Ezek. 11:5 
Sins 
iu public worship must be peculiarly offensive to the 
holy GOD. 
SOLOMON says, with marked emphasis, 
" I saw the places of righteousness, that iniquiry was 
there." Eccles. 3:16. 
It is an awful character described by DAVID :— 
" There is no faithfulness in their mouth, their in-
ward part is very wickedness, their throat is an open 
sepulchre, they flatter with their tongue." Psa. 5:9. 
Observe, too, how this sin agrees to EZEKIEL'S des-
cription. (Ezek. 23:31.) " They come unto thee as 
the people cometh, and they sit before thee as my 
j people,—for with their mouth they show much love, 
but their heart goeth after covetousness." 
GOD has ever shown himself to be jealous respect-
ing those things which concern his immediate wor-
ship. 
Thus we find NADAB and ABIHU punished 
w.th death for offering strange fire before the LORD. 
Lev. 10:1, 2. 
We read that 
UZZAH was smitten 
with death for touching thearkof GOD." 2 Sam, 6:6. 
There may be an infirmity arising from the state of 
bodily health or constitution, and the like, of which 
timid and anxious Christians, who are most apt to 
be troubled by their wanderings in prayer, should not 
lose sight of, in judging of themselves. 
PRESTON 
observes, " One may aim at a mark, and do his best, 
and yet be hindered, either by the palsy in his arm, 
or by one who jogs him when about it." 
But the 
general cause of our distractions is the power of Sa-
tan, the remaining strength of corrupt nature, and 
our unbelief of GOD'S promises. 
Though the Chris-
tian is born again of GOD, he has two contending par-
ties within—" the old man " and " the new man ;" 
and distractions mainly arise from the weakness of 
faith, the strength of sin, and the temptations of Satan. 
Remember, first of all, your entire dependence on 
GOD. Know your own weakness. 
" We are not 
sufficient of ourselves, to think anything as of our-
selves:" but while you see this, know your SA-
VIOUR'S strength, that his " grace is sufficient f0r 
you ;" and these things being duly impressed on your 
mind, in his strength seek to overcome this evil 
Remember that JESUS 
CHRIST has opened UP a 
plain way for communication between earth and hea-
ven. 
How sweet the Divine testimony:—"Having 
therefore, brethren, boldness to enter into the holiest 
by the blood of JESUS, by a new and living way which 
he hath consecrated through tbe veil, that is to say 
his flesh, and having a High Priest over the house of 
GOD; let us draw near with a true heart in full assu-
rance of faith." Heb. 10:19-22. 
By him alone we 
can go to GOD; by him alone spiritual and heavenly 
blessings descend on us. 
How can you attain hea 
venly benefits, if the means of communication be 
neglected ? 
Send up fervent petitions for Divine assistance, es-
pecially when you first find that your heart is wan-
dering. 
This s an effectual help. 
It engages the 
power of GOD against the power of Satan and sin. 
The Psalms are full of suitable expressions, that 
may be used with advantage.—" My soul cleaveth to 
the dust, quicken thou me according to thy word. 
Create in me a clean heart, O GOD : renew a right 
spirit within me. 
Cast me not away from thy pre-
sence, and take not thy Holy Spirit from me." Thus 
contend against your spiritual enemies, and you must 
overcome them. 
Determine to strive against wanderings. 
" Resist 
the devil, and he will flee from you." James 4:7. 
Are you not in general going carelessly to the wor-
ship of GOD, as a matter of habit and custom, with-
out much thought of engaging your heart to approach 
unto him. This seems to be a too general case, from 
the enquiry, "Who is this that hath engaged his 
heart to approach unto me, saith tbe LORD?" Jer. 
30:21. 
The heart must be engaged to serve GOD. 
We should resolve with JEREMIAH, " Let us lift up 
our hearts with our hands, unto GOD in the heavens." 
Lam. 3:41. Before you enter on this holy duty, pause, 
and pray with DAVID, " Unite my heart to fear thy 
name ;" (Psa. 86:11;) as if he had said, " I find my 
heart divided, and my thoughts dissipated ; gather in 
all my wandering affections ; may they be fixed on 
one great object; may they all be united in this sin-
gle act that is before me:"— 
" That all my powers, with all their might, 
In thy sole glory may unite."—hen. 
—(To be 
continued.) 
The Future State, 
AS PRESENTED IN THE SCRIPTURES OF THE OLD TESTA-
MENT. 
(Continued from our last.) 
In a former 'No. we demonstrated the falsity of 
GIBBON'S assertion that the future state, called by him 
the " immortality of the soul," is " omitted in the law 
of MOSES." 
We now proceed to demonstrate the 
falsity of his other assertion, that it is only darkly in 
timated by the prophets. 
The prophets have spoken respecting the glorious 
future in language that need not be misunderstood. 
We shall have occasion only to quote from the proph-
ecy of ISAIAH. 
Looking beyond the present scene, 
he in prophetic vision saw that " It shall come to 
pass in the last days, that the mountain of the LORD'S 
house shall be established in the tops of the moun-
tains, and shall be exalted above the hills, and all na-
tions shall flow unto it. 
And many people shall go 
and say, Come ye, and let us go up to the mountain 
of the LORD, to the house of the GOD of JACOB, and 
he will teach us of his ways, and we will walk in his 
paths; for out of Zion shall go forth the law, and the 
word of the LORD from Jerusalem." (Isa. 2: 2, 3). 
The above Scripture is usually applied to the 
millennium ; and there it evidently belongs. If then, 
as we think we demonstrate, that period is to be sub-
sequent to the personal advent of CHRIST and the 
resurrection of the just, this Scripture brings to view 
a period after the probationary state of man shall have 
ended. 
This is evident from the context; for we 
read that "the lofty looks of man shall be humbled, 
and the haughtiness of men shall be bowed down, 
and the LORD alone shall be exalted in that day. 
For 
the day of the LORD of hosts shall be upon every one 
that is proud and lofty, and upon every one that is 
lifted up ; and he shall be brought low 
And 
they shall go into the holes of the rocks, and into the 
caves of the earth, for fear of the LORD, and for the 
glory of his majesty, when heariseth to shake terribly 
the earth" 
(v. 11—19). 
Thus the context indicates 
a period in connection with and subsequent to the 
Advent. 
It also evidently synchronizes with Rev. 
6 : 16, 17, when men will say " to the mountains and 
rocks, Fall on us, and hide us from the face of him 
that sitteth on the throne, and from the wrath of the 
Lamb : for the great day of his wrath is come ; and 
who shall be able to stand." 
THE ADVENT 
HERALD. 
149 
In he 11th of ISAIAH, we 
read of the LORD, that 
« with righteousness shall he judge the poor, and re-
prove vith equity for the meek of the earth ; and he 
shall snite the earth with the rod of his mouth, and 
with the breath of his lips shall he slay the wicked." 
(v 4). This slaying of the wicked must be in con-
nection with the second advent; for in 2 Thess. 1: 7 
__10, we lead that " the Lord JESUS CHRIST shall be 
revealed fiom heaven with his mighty angels, in 
flaming fire taking vengeance on them that know not 
GOD, and that obey not tbe 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 (because our testimony among you was 
believed) in that day." 
After the slaying of the wicked, ISAIAH proceeds to 
describe the condition of things. 
He says, "And 
righteousness shall be the girdle of his loins, and 
faithfulness the girdle of his reins. 
The wolf also 
shall dwell with the lamb, and the leopard shall lie 
down with the kid ; and the calf and the young lion 
and the fading together; and a little child shall lead 
them. And the cow and the bear shall feed ; their 
young ones shall lie down together; and the lion shall 
eat straw like the ox. 
And the sucking child shall 
play on the hole of the asp, and the weaned child 
shall put his hand on the cockatrice's den. 
They 
shall not hurt nor destroy in all my holy mountain : 
for the earth shall be full of the knowledge ot the 
LORD, as the waters cover the sea." 
In the 24th of ISAIAH, the 
end of the present dis-
pensation is again brought to view: "Behold the 
LORD maketh the earth empty, and maketh it waste, 
and turneth it upside down, and scattereth abroad the 
inhabitants thereof.,. . . . The land shall be utterly 
emptied and utterly spoiled; for the 
LORD hath 
spoken this word. 
The earth mourneth and fadeth 
away, the world languisheth and fadeth away, the 
haughty people of the earth do languish. 
The earth 
also is defiled under the inhabitants thereof; because 
they have transgressed the laws, changed the ordi-
nance, broken the everlasting covenant. 
Therefore 
hath the curse devoured the earth, and they that 
dwell therein are desolate : therefore the inhabitants 
of the earth are burned, and few men left 
The 
earth is utterly broken down, the earth is clean dis-
solved, the earth is moved exceedingly. 
The earth 
shall reel to and fro like a drunkard, and shall be re-
moved like a cottage ;, and the transgression thereof 
shall be heavy upon it; and it shall fall, and not rise 
again. 
And it shall come to pass.in that day, that 
the LORD shall punish the host of the high ones that 
are on high, and the kings of the earth upon the 
earth. 
And they shall be gathered together, as 
prisoners are gathered in the pit, and shall be shut up 
in the prison, and after many days shall they be visit-
ed. Then the moon shall be confounded, and the 
sun ashamed, when the LORD of hosts shall reign in 
Mount Zion, and in Jerusalem, and before his ancients 
gloriously." 
In the 25th chapter, CHRIST'S second coming is 
brought to view. 
The chapter commences with praise 
to GOD for the wonderful things he has done. 
" 0 
LORD, thou art GOD ; I will exalt thee, I will praise 
thy name ; for thou hast done wonderful things ; thy 
counsels of old are faithfulness and truth. 
For thou 
hast made of a city an heap ; of a defenced city a ruin ; 
a palace of strangers to be no city ; it shall never be 
built." (v. 1, 2). 
The prophet proceeds (v. 6—8). 
" And in this MOUNTAIN shall the LORD of hosts 
make unto all people a feast of fat things, a feast 
of wines on the lees; of fat things full of marrow, 
of wines on the lees well refined. And he will de-
stroy in this mountain the face of the covering cast 
over all people, and the vail that is spread over all 
nations. 
He will swallow up death in victory; and 
the Lord GOD will wipe away all tears from off all 
faces: and the rebuke of his people shall he lake 
away from off all the earth: for the 
LORD hath 
spoken it." 
The above is a most beautiful prediction of the 
glory subsequent to the resurrection of the just at 
CHRIST'S coming. 
This is proved, 1, by the context; 
for in vs. 9 and 10 we read, " And it shall be said 
in that day "—the day above referred to—" Lo, this 
is our GOD; we have waited for him, and he will 
save us: this is the Lord; we have waited for him, 
we will be glad and rejoice in his salvation. 
For in 
this mountain shall the hand of the LORD rest, and 
Moab shall be trodden down under him, even as straw 
is trodden down for the dung-hill." 
2. It is proved 
by the divine comment of the apostle. (1 Cor. 15 :51 
—55). He says, " Behold I show you a mystery ; 
we shall not all sleep, but we shall all be changed, 
m a moment, in the twinkling of an eye, at the last 
trump : for the trumpet shall sound, and the dead 
shall be raised incorruptible, and we shall be changed. 
For this corruptible must put on incorruption, and 
ihis mortal must put on immortality. 
So WHEN this 
corruptible shall have put on incorruption, and this 
mortal shall have put on immortality, 
THEN shall be 
brought to pass the saying that is written, DEATH IS 
SWALLOWED UP IN VICTORY. 
0 death, where is thy 
sting ? 
0 grave, where is thy victory." 
Thus 
PAUL expressly affirms, that the saying 
quoted from ISAIAH will be fulfilled when the righteous 
dead shall have been raised, and the living changed, at 
CHRIST'S second coming. 
It must follow, then, that 
the "face of the covering cast over all people, and 
the vail which is spread over all nations," which the 
LORD will destroy, is the vail with which man is 
shrouded by the curse. 
Tbe " feast of fat things " 
which the LORD will then make, must synchronize 
with the bridal feast—the marriage supper of the 
LAMB, brought to view in Rev. 19, when the church 
shall be " arrayed in fine linen, clean and whitk; for 
the fine linen is the righteousness of the saints." 
And the " mountain " in which the 
LORD of hosts 
shall make this feast " unto all people," must, be that 
brought to view in the 2d chapter of this prophecy,— 
the "mountain of the LORD'S house" which "shall 
be established in the top of the mountains," to which 
"all nations shall flow," when " out of Zion shall 
go forth the law, and the word of the LORD from 
Jerusalem." The wiping away of" tears from off all 
faces," also evidently points to that period brought 
to view in Rev. 21, in the new earth, when " tbe 
tabernacle of God is with men, and he will dwell 
with them, and they shall be his people, and GOD 
himself shall be with them, and be their GOD." 
It 
is then that we read, " And GOD shall wipe away all 
tears from their eyes ; and there shall be no more 
death, neither sorrow, nor crying, neither shall there 
be any more pain ; for the former things are passed 
away." 
We farther read in the 26th of ISAIAH, a confirma-
tion of this application. 
Says the prophet, " In that 
day shall this song be sung in the land of Judah ; 
We have a strong city ; salvation will GOD appoint 
for walls and bulwarks. 
Open ye the gates, that the 
righteous nation which keepeth the truth may enter 
in. Thou wilt keep him in perfect peace whose mind 
is stayed on thee: because he trusteth on thee. Trust 
ye in the LORD forever ; for in the Lord JEHOVAH is 
everlasting strength." 
He then contrasts the condi-
tion of the wicked with that of the, just—shows how 
those who dwell on high are brought down—how the 
lofty city is laid low, and brought to the ground, even 
to the dust—to be tread upon by the feet of the poor 
and needy—while the way of the just is upright. 
He then recurs back to the resurrection. 
Speaking 
of the wicked, he says, " They are dead, they shall 
not live"—at the first resurrection the time here 
brought to view—" they are deceased, they shall not 
rise ; therefore hast thou visited and destroyed them ; 
and made all their memory to perish." 
But of the 
righteous he says, " Thy dead men shall live, togeth-
er with my dead body shall they arise. 
Awake and 
sing, ye that dwell in dust; for thy dew is as the 
dew of herbs, and the earth shall cast out the dead." 
This is evidently the first resurrection, presented in 
Rev. 20, all who have part in which will be blessed 
and holy, on whom the second death will have no 
power, but who will be priests of GOD and of CHRIST, 
and shall reign with him a thousand years, during 
which time the rest of the dead will not live again. 
No wonder then the prophet exclaims, " Come, mv 
people, enter thou into thy chambers, and shut thy 
doors about thee ; hide thyself as it were for a little 
moment, until the indignation be overpast. 
For be-
hold, the LORD cometh out of his place to punish the 
inhabitants of the earth for their iniquity : the earth 
also shall disclose her blood, and shall no more cover 
her slain."—(To be continued.) 
Random Statement. 
In the November number of the New Church Re-
pository, we find the following sentence : " He who 
affiims what he does not know to be true, is justly as 
guil-.y before God as he who asserts what he knows 
to be false." 
The above is doubtless a truth ; and yet how many 
there are, who, for the purpose of bringing contempt 
on a hated doctrine, are very ready to assert what 
they do not know to be true. 
Of this character we 
presume is the following extract from a sermon, as 
reported in the N. Y. Tribune of Nov. 28th, and 
preached in the Broadway Tabernacle by Rev. JOSEPH 
P. THOMPSON, Sunday morning, Nov. 26th, 1848, 
from the text, " Occupy till I come." (Luke 19:13). 
" During the prevalence of Millerism, a few years 
since, a man of property in one of the Eastern States* 
abandoning his business, sold bis possessions for the 
common benefit, and watched daily for the coming of 
the Lord. 
But when the predicted day arrived, and 
the sun rose and set with no appearance of fire and 
blood, and all things continued as they were, this man, 
instead of adopting new theories, or waiting for the 
result of other calculations, quietly resumed his busi-
ness, and appeared to be as much engaged in the affairs 
of tbe world as if he had never heard of the Second 
Advent. 
On being asked whether he had given up 
the expectation of the speedy coming of Christ, he 
replied : " No, but a certain text of Scripture has 
struck my mind iu a new light." 
" What is that?" 
Occupy till I come !" 
" I see that I have no right 
to be idle, even if Christ is coming to-morrow, but I 
must continue to perform all the duties of life up to the 
latest moment. 
And that is the true way to prepare 
for the coming of the Lord." 
" It is to be hoped lhat this fortunate discovery has 
enabled that man, in ihe five years that have since 
elapsed, to regain the property which he so indiscreet-
ly squandered, and to put his earnings to a better 
use." 
If the Reverend gentleman were called on to in-
stance the person he describes, he would doubtless be 
much puzzled. 
It is evidently a mith of his own, to 
throw contempt ou the doctrine of the Second Ad-
vent. 
Had he familiarized himself with the facts of 
the case, he would have learned that Mr. MILLER, or 
his followers, never taught the squandering of prop-
erty ; and that only those squandered their property 
who perverted 
the teachings of Mr. MILLER. 
We 
suppose thai Mr. MILLER is no more to be held respon-
sible for the acts of those who pervert his teachings 
than LUTHER is for the acts of MUNZER and others who 
perverted his. 
Mr. MILLER ever taught that we must 
" occupy " till CHRIST shall come. 
And his follow-
ers have thus occupied. 
It is true that they became 
less miserly than before ; did not so much regard the 
things they possessed as their own ; more considered 
themselves as stewards of the Lord ; when they saw 
a brother or a sister in need, did not so much as for-
merly shut up their bowels of compassion ; and when 
they saw an opportunity for doing good with the 
LORD'S money, their hearts and purses were more 
ever open, to assist the needy, or to extend ihe knowl-
edge of their Master's kingdom. 
In short, they came 
into just that state of feeling and action respecting 
the things they possessed, that is described in the 
New Testament, and to which all evangelical minis-
ters say they wish to bring their own people. 
We 
trust that but few have departed from this feeling of 
consecration of themselves and their all to GOD. Mr. 
T., occupying the position he does, should be the last 
man to speak reproachfully of a doctrine that has had 
the happy effect to bring Christians where he has 
ever taught that they should come. 
His taunt that property was " indiscreetly squan-
dered," and might have been put to a " better use," 
is on a par with the taunts of all who might be dis-
posed to doubt the truth of any doctrine thus extend-
ed. 
If the doctrine of CHRIST'S personal coming 
and reign, is a doctrine of the Bible, and there it is 
clearly and repeatedly enunciated,—which he cannot 
gainsay,—no belter use can be made of one's money, 
than to aid freely in its promulgation, in connection 
with other doctrines of the gospel, to the multitudes 
of our fellow men who are living and dying without 
GOD and without hope. 
The love of souls, sympathy 
for perishing sinners, should prompt energetic efforts. 
Let no man dissuade any from endeavoring to save 
others, 
COURTEOUS.—"We have obtained and read the 
' Three Lpctures of J. W. Bonham,' delivered in 
England, on ' The Eternal Punishment of the Wicked 
not Annihilation.' 
We had seen the Boston organ 
of endless misery's notice ofthis work, which led us 
to desire to see the puffed ' Lectures.' 
They are, in 
our mind, a most singular failure—quite a good echo 
from Boston, Massachusetts; and a pity if Boston 
could not praise its own child. 
At another time, we 
may give our readers a specimen of the double-faced 
character of that abortion." 
A friend has called our attention to the above no-
tice—in a late number of Bro. GEORGE STORRS' paper, 
from the pen of the editor—of Bro. BONHAM'S tract. 
Justice to Bro. B. requires us simply to state, that 
his " Lectures " were written, preached, and pub-
lished iu England, at his own expense, unknown to 
us until we received a copy in print. 
Bro. B. had 
never resided in Boston, and til] we receiving a copy 
of his Lecturcs, we did not know his views on the 
subject; and although he was our agent in London, 
we cared as little. 
On receiving a copy of the work, 
we perused it with much pleasure, and gave the fol-
lowing notice of it:— 
" NEW WORK.—' The Eternal Punishment of the 
Wicked not Annihilation. By J. W. Bonham.' We 
have received from England several copies of the 
above work, which was embraced in three discourses 
delivered by Bro. B. in London. 
We have perused 
it, and find it a very thorough and conclusive argu-
ment. We have a few only for sale. Price, 15 cts." 
supposed we had a right to give, without being sub-
jected to taunting epithets. 
We also suppose Bro. 
BONHAM ha<3 a right to publish his views, without 
subjecting himself to such epithets as are applied to 
him by Bro. STORRS. 
DR. 
CHANNING 
FOR 
RELIGIOUS 
REFORM.-—The 
learned and eloquent Channing, in one of his late 
works, holds forth the following language in relation 
to the worldly spirit of subserviency, which charac-
terizes the current religion of the day. 
He says : 
" As a general rule, the Christianity of the imme-
diate followers of the Lord. 
Then the meaning of a 
Christian was, that he took the cross and followed 
Christ, that he counted not his life dear to him in the 
service of God and man, that he trod the world under 
his feet. 
Now, we ask leave of the world, how far 
we may follow Christ. 
What wrong or abuse is 
there, which the bulk of the people may think essen-
tial to their pr<rsperity, and may defend with outcry 
and menace, before which the Christianity of this age 
will not bow? 
We need a new John, who, with the 
untamed and solemn energy of the wilderness, shall 
cry out among us, Repent! We need that the Cruci-
fied should speak to us with a more startling voice, 
" he that forsaketh not all things, and followeth me, 
cannot be my disciple." We need that the all-sacrific-
ing, all-sympathizing spirit of Christianity should 
cease to bow to the world. 
" It is a solemn duty to speak plainly of wrongs 
which good men perpetrate. 
It is very easy to cry 
out against crimes which the laws punish, and which 
popular opinion has branded with infamy. What is 
especially demanded of the Christian is, faithful, 
honest, generous testimony against enormities which 
are sanctioned hy numbers, and fashion, and wealth, 
and especially by great and honored names, and which, 
thus sustained, lift up their heads to heaven, and re-
pay rebuke with menace and indignation-." 
D'AUBIGNE 
AND UNION.—At the close of a late 
public address in Geneva, this distinguished historian 
and theologian uttered the following truly Catholic 
sentiment. 
He remarked :— 
" I have one wish to express to-day. 
It is, that if 
it be possible, and as much as lieth in us, there may 
be no more controversies wilh brethren ! Let Chris-
tian union be realized I 
Are we not called to this du-
ty by the surprising events of our days? 
WThat will 
become of the church, in the midst of national con-
vulsions, and when the most fatal errors arc already 
triumphant;—what will become of the church, if its 
members are not cordially united, according to the will 
of its Divine Head ? 
Have we not one Spirit, one 
Lord, one.Father ? Are we not one mystical body in 
Jesus Christ?" 
Yes, " if it be possible, and as much as lieth in us," 
we should avoid all controversy " with brethren." 
But it is impossible to live in peace with some who 
profess themselves "brethren." 
CONTROVERSY.—"lam persuaded, that but little 
good is effected by what is commonly called religious 
controversy. 
There is so much of self-love mixed 
up with our opinions, especially in religion and poli-
tics, that it is next to impossible for one man to cor-
rect the errors of another. The pride of self-derived 
intelligence is far stronger than the love of truth ; 
and the experience of Mr. JEFFERSON,—who once re-
marked, that he had never known an individual con-
vinced, by argument, of error of opinion on either of 
these subjects,—is the experience of every observing 
man."—New Church Repository, p. 655. 
There is much truth in the above. 
To convince a 
man of error, we need to pray for GOD'S agency. 
DR . TYNG preached an Advent discourse in his new 
church, in New York, on Thanksgiving Day. 
Gov. 
YOUNG was present. His text was, Rev. 17:15. 
He 
showed that the present commotions in Europe, in-
stead of springing from religious principles, was a 
war against the LAMB, which would soon be succeed-
ed by his personal reign, &c. 
BILLS.—We have begun this week to send out 
bills to subscribers. 
We hope all will attend to them 
as soon as they can. 
We have received the money 
from some to whom we have sent, before they could 
have received their bill 
Such will excuse us. 
To CORRESPONDENTS.—H. M'D.—We are unable 
to answer your question, except to say, that you look 
for more than the SAVIOUR explained tbe tares to de-
note. 
All the truths we are to draw from it he gave. 
We are not to make parables go on all fours. 
" THE RADIATOR."—This neat and spicy sheet 
continues its weekly visits, being published on Thurs-
day of each week, at Clinton, Oneida Co., N. Y. 
It is a miscellany of general literature, science, and 
foreign and domestic intelligence. 
WANTED.—We are in want of No. 24 of the last 
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Will some one who has a 
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THE ADVENT* HERALD. 
Correspondence, 
Come, Lord Jesus, 0, Come Quickly! 
By the ills that we feel, 
By the anguish we share, 
By our sighs for thy coming, 
0, Jesus, prepare 
To descend from thy station 
In glory on high, 
And save us, for all things 
Betoken thee nigh. 
The nations are angry, 
The foemen are stirred, 
The famine and war-cry 
Together are heard ; 
Men's hearts are now failing, 
For fear of their doom, 
For dark clouds of evil 
Are thick'ning in gloom. 
The future is hidden 
From the eye of the 9agef 
The thrones are all trembling 
'Neath popular rage; 
The great men are howling, 
As Babe) comes down,— 
The way is preparing 
To set up Thy throne. 
Come quickly ! we pray thee, 
O come! for we wait 
To hail thee with rapture, 
Enshrouded in state; 
When vengeance before thee 
Flames red through the sky, 
And all hearts are opened 
To thy searching eye. 
The wicked are scoffing 
Because you delay ; 
All flesh is corrupted, 
As in Noah's day ; 
And the cities of Siddim, 
That sank in the flame, 
Are not more unworthy 
Than what now remain. 
Then, O kind Redeemer, 
Descend, and restore 
The earth to perfection 
And beauty once more ; 
O, banish corruption, 
And death, its compeer, 
Sin, sinners, and Satan, 
From their dwellings here. 
Come quickly J we pray thee, 
Nor let thy delay 
Encourage the scoffer 
In his wicked way ; 
For black is the darkness 
The faithless do throw 
On the signs thou hast given 
Thy coming to show. 
But bright is the glory, 
And pure is the ray 
Discerned in thy promise 
By children of day ; 
And loud is their shouting— 
Thine Israel below— 
For their King to descend 
With sling and with bow,— 
To conquer the demon 
Of death, and prepare 
A home for his children, 
All shining and fair; 
Their peace shall brood over 
The world like a dove, 
And all be united 
In eternal love. 
C. T. 
CATLIN. 
Review of "Anniversary 
Conferences." 
In July last, two weeks after the publication of the 
proceedings of the conference meetings of brethren 
and sisters, who assembled from different parts of our 
country, in New York and Boston, Bro. Marsh, edi-
tor of the " Harbinger," commenced a series of ar-
ticles in his paper, calling in question the right of 
brethren thus to assemble. 
These meetings he de-
nominated " Anniversary Conferences." 
After a column of remarks, by way of introduc-
tion, he proceeded to caution his readers to " ponder 
well what we [he had] said," that they might " be 
prepared the better to appreciate our [his] motive in 
the work before us [him]," etc., and then comes to 
notice, first— 
" THE 
ORGANIZATION." 
Under this head, his first effort was to prove that 
there exists a " permanent organization." 
If he 
failed in this, he well knew he failed entirely. 
If 
there is no " permanent organization," no matter 
what plans might be laid, or measures devised, there 
can no more be an issue than in individual plans and 
measures; and a man has just as good a right to. con-
demn Bro. Marsh for publishing the " Advent Har-
binger," as he his brethren and sisters, for their united 
plans to spread the tmth. 
Well, reader, how do you 
suppose he sustained his position ? 
Hear him :— 
" That a regular Annual Advent 
Conference has 
been permanently organized, is evident from the fol-
lowing facts : (1) Such a conference for a few years 
past has been annually held in New York and in 
Boston. 
(2) The report of the conference, recog-
nizes it as a conference. 
(3) The organization of its 
annual sessions, is marked with all the formality and 
ecclesiastical or conferential order of the oldest or-
ganized conferences, councils, or synods which exist 
among the sects." 
Here are three specifications.—We admit them all. 
(1) " That a conference has been held." 
(2) That 
" the report of the conference " does recognize " it as 
a conference." 
(What else, in the name of common 
sense, was it?) 
If it was not a "conference," it 
was nothing ! 
(3) We admit the third specification 
also :—'and what then ? 
Why, just nothing at all! 
1. What is a conference? 
It is a meeting of two 
or more persons, to confer, or consult together, for 
any given purpose or object. 
Very well: such were 
our meetings. 
This was what made them " con-
ferences." 
2. What is a " permanent organization ?" 
Before 
answering this question, we observe, that the attempt 
to prove them a " permanent organization," was for 
the purpose of giving them a legislative character: 
for, if they have no legislative character—if they 
were merely spontaneous gatherings of the brethren, 
yearly or annually, they are divested of their obnox-
ious features. 
No'w, were these meetings such, or is 
there a " permanent organization ?" 
We know there 
is no such thing; 
and Bro. Marsh knows it now. 
If 
he did not when he attempted to prove it, he had no 
better evidence of it than the infidel has of his ac-
ceptance with God, and he has since been apprised of 
the fact. 
Bro. Marsh is not ignorant of the usages of the 
" oldest sects." 
He and we know full well, that all 
the similarity there was between them and us, con-
sisted in the mere appointment of officers, and man-
ner of conducting the meetings. 
If Bro. Marsh is capable of editing a paper for 
the edification of his brethren, he is also capable of 
understanding the sense in which the Secretary used 
the phrase, "permanent organization." But that our 
readers may understand it fully, we call their atten-
tion to the published reports:—"Bro. Hutchinson 
was appointed chairman pro tern., i. e., for the time 
being, or present, in order to a complete organization 
of the meeting. 
In no other sense was the phrase, 
" permanent organization," used. So far, then, from 
any transactions, connected with the opening of the 
meeting, affording the least evidence of our resolving 
ourselves into a legislative body, the whole transac-
tion shows there was no such thing done. 
The New 
York conference adjourned to Boston, and the Boston 
conference adjourned to—Where? 
If Bro. Marsh 
will find its location anywhere in the universe, we 
will confess him right, and ourselves wrong. 
In the " oldest organized conferences, councils, or 
synods" " among the sects," Bro. Marsh well knows 
they have their " stated clerk, or scribe," who stands 
from year to year, and whose business it is to keep a 
record of the names of members, and of all the do-
ings of the body, from time to time; that they have 
stated times for meetings ; and that it is his business 
to give notice of the time and place of such meetings, 
etc. etc. 
When they adjourn, it is to come together 
again, by virtue of their constitution. 
How unlike 
this were our meetings! 
Nothing like this has been 
done by, or has an existence among us ! 
When our 
conferences were convoked, it was by mutual consent 
—they were spontaneous gatherings; when they ad-
journed, they did so from day to day to the last, and 
then they adjourned to MEET NO MORE ! 
From 
that moment there has existed no organization, called 
a conference, among us. 
I was amazed at the perti-
nacity of Bro. Marsh when I denied his assumption, 
and called his attention to the fact, that the confer-
ence adjourned without day, and, consequently, had 
now no existence—(did 
you ever!): he went right 
into a labored argument to prove that it did exist!— 
And no doubt he succeeded with himself, though, 
like Dr. Weeks' other Apocalyptic witness, it may 
be difficult to tell where. 
But why spend so much time to refute what every 
individual, who attended the conferences, knows to 
be false? 
Because others have been made to believe 
it was true. 
Had no one else been affected. I would 
not insult the common sense of my brethren and sis-
ters by asking them to listen to arguments and state-
ments of facts to disprove figments of imagination, 
which they knoio have no real existence. 
I would 
as soon undertake to prove that moonshine was not 
sunshine, because somebody asserted it was. 
We say to YOU, brethren beloved, who were not 
at our meetings, there is NOT now, nor has there 
been, in existence, any organized 
body, called an 
" ecclesiastical conference," or meeting, since the 
evening of June 1st, 1848! So much for a phantom ! 
THE " RULE " OF TRIAL. 
Bro. Marsh took it hard when I called him " law-
giver and judge." 
But did he not attempt to try his 
brethren and sisters, who dared to exercise their lib-
erty in Christ by coming together to pray, sing, 
preach, exhort, and contrive—yes, contrive plans for 
carrying forward the work of God ? 
Let us see. 
He says : " Now, before testing the 
correctness or incorrectness of this conference organi-
zation " (?), " we must first decide by what RULE 
it shall be tried." 
Does he not seat himself in the 
chair of judgment? 
If not, no magistrate ever did. 
But further: " And as we profess to be strictl y a Bi-
ble people, the Bible of course must be that RULE." 
Might we not—nay, ought we not, to expect a little 
of Bible as our " rule " of trial ? But shall we have it ? 
No! 
No!! 
NO, NOT THE FIRST WORD !!! 
You may look for it till both your eyes and heart ache, 
but it is not there ! 
Bro. Marsh goes on:—" Well, does the Bible 
anywhere, either directly or indirectly, justify such 
an organization? 
It does not. 
We repeat it—it 
does not. 
And further, the history of the church 
clearly proves that such organizations, or ecclesiasti-
cal confeiences, were unknown to the church during 
the first centuries of tho Christian era. 
Hence, ac-
cording to the perfect rule laid down in the Bible, 
and the example of the primitive church, such or-
ganizations are superfluous, and everything that is 
superfluous is wrong." Let us try the rule laid down 
by our " lawgiver and judge "—(he has now become 
" lawgiver" also). 
We say the "rule" is of his 
own making. 
He cannot complain if we turn 
"judge " long enough to try him by his own rule, or 
law—(a rule is law). 
Well, "the Bible does not 
justify " " organized conferences ;" because " the 
Bible " says nothing for or against them, therefore 
they are "superfluous," and " everything superfluous 
is wrong!" 
What makes them "superfluous?"— 
The silence of the Bible! 
But the Bible is silent 
about the publication of religious papers,—the publi-
cation of religious papers is, therefore, wrong? and 
Bro. M. is doing that very wrong! (I recollect when 
Bro. C. B. Turner called his attention to this FACT : 
he treated it with contempt, and called it " fallacious 
reasoning," and referred Bro. T. to his article of the 
same week, on "anniversary conferences," where is 
a specimen of "reasoning " that will make a man's 
heart ache.) 
But " ecclesiastical conferences were 
unknown to the chuich during the first centuries of 
the Christian era,"—therefore " they are superflu-
ous " and " wrong." 
Religious newspapers " were 
unknown to the church during the first centuries of 
the Christian era,"—therefore they are " superflu-
ous " and " wrong." 
So we might multiply adfini-
tum. 
Bro. Marsh may pour just as much contempt 
on the application of his own " rule " as he pleases, 
(he made a law, and I tried him by it) ; he can no 
more free himself from it, than from the judgment 
of the great day. 
The remaining paragraph is taken up with abun-
dance of talk about a "Bible people"—doing the 
" work of the Bible "—" What does THY WORD 
teach?" etc., but not one syllable from the Bible on 
the subject. 
There being nothing in the second number, except 
human" 
rules," I pass down to the last paragraph, 
which is a gross misrepresentation of the meetings. 
I refer to the expression, "making rules, or legis-
lating for the church." 
How could Bro. Marsh pen 
such an expression? 
He neither has, nor can, put 
his finger on one act of legislation by his brethren at 
the conferences last May. No, not a step towards it! 
Call you this a " good spirit," that can prompt a man 
to misrepresent his brethren ? 
But what was Bro. Marsh doing at that very time? 
Acting on the principle of the thief, who runs and 
cries, Stop thief! stop thief!!—legislating and send-
ing out his " rule," through a medium " unknown to 
the church during the first centuries of the Christian 
era!" 
CONFERENCE 
"ACTS." 
After two numbers dovoted lo proof of the exist-
ence of a phantom, he proceeded to review our 
" acts." 
I shall not stop to notice this at all. 
Here, 
like his arguments on " organizations," he set up a 
man of straw, and then battled it lustily. 
I suppose 
we have a right to give expression to our views in a 
united capacity, as much as in a separate, individual, 
or isolated. 
I suppose I have as good a right to lay 
before one brother, two, or ten, any plan I may have 
in my mind for preaching God's blessed truth, 
and ask his or their opinion about the wisdom 
of it, as I have to ask them about anything else.— 
That plan may be wise or unwise—I may devise 
and act upon it without the advice of my breth-
ren, or with. 
The principle is the same. 
If I have 
a right to ask my brethren to co-operate with me in 
it, and then, if they assent, all our separate plans be-
come united, and we are in harmony, and all is peace. 
But this is the ghost of legislation that haunts some 
minds by day and by night. 
Only let every man act 
on his own hook, no matter if one renders the other's 
labors an abortion—have no concert of action—this 
is liberty, and all is well! 
I desire no such liberty. 
I desire to act in concert 
with my brethren as much as possible.—Union is 
strength, if united in the truth. 
G. NEEDHAM. 
Letter from Bro. J. Merriam. 
BRO. DEARLY BELOVED :—" According to the good 
hand of my God upon me," I have been blessed with 
the privilege of laboring in this section of the vine-
yard, and have recently witnessed such cheering de-
velopments of divine power accompanying the glad 
tidings of the kingdom, that I thought it might be 
profitable to communicate a word of intelligence to 
the brethren who are " waiting." 
Bro. Gates held a series of meetings at Windsor 
last week, in a place where the community had re-
ceived but little light on the subject of the Advent. 
The thousand and one evil reports respecting us from 
the " father of lies," had anticipated our arrival, and 
reared so mighty a bulwark, that it required some 
effort to demolish it. Many good people were in great 
doubt, whether we were deceivers or honest men; 
but when they saw the reviving power of the doc-
trine, and the heavenly, sanctifying energy that at-
tends it, prejudice gave way to tenderness of spirit; 
and not only were their sanctuaries thrown open, but 
the door of almost every dwelling was open for our 
admission. 
Such cordiality and hospitality among 
those who were just investigating the subject, was 
as grateful as it was unexpected. 
As we went from 
house to house, and met our friends in the social cir-
cle, it was truly delightful to witness the heart-felt 
contrition on the part of the wanderer, solicitude on 
the part of the impenitent, and the triumphant shouts 
of joy among those who had endeavored to be faith-
ful, but were now awakened to newness of life. The 
crowded auditory, and listening ear in our public 
meetings, gave sure indications that the hand of God 
had removed the barriers against the truth. 
Every 
heart seemed open ; and as the surface of the ocean 
is moved by the breath of heaven, so the mass of 
mind in that community were moved by the power of 
the Most High. 
If the brethren there continue to 
investigate in child-like simplicity, and with a firm re-
liance on the teachings of the Word and Spirit, there 
can be no doubt of a happy result. 
And should they 
erect that light which God has given them, and of 
which they have now seen the power, as a beacon to 
'guide the voyagers of life, their own souls will be as 
a well watered garden, and perishing sinners may be 
rescued from the impending wrath to come, aid saved 
in the great day of the harvest. 
In Ilallowell, the work advances gloriously ; Bro 
Gates recently baptized five persons there. ln \Vest 
Gardiner a storm of persecution was raised against 
the doctrine, manifesting itself in popular tumult-
but the Lord overruled it for the futheiance of the 
There seems to be an efficient door of usefulness 
opened throughout this entire region ; and were faith-
ful and judicious laborers to cultivate the vineyard 
the church would be edified, and the gleanings of the 
harvest gathered in. 
As an instance of candor on 
the part of professors in this section, I would name 
the Baptist clergyman in this place, together with the 
official members of his church, who gratuitously in-
vited me to occupy their house last Sabbath, which 
invitation I accepted; the invitation was repeated, 
One of the hearers was converted the same day. The 
Lord is evidently at work in this place, for which we 
render all the glory to his name. 
Yours in Chris-
tian love. 
Palermo (Me.), Nov. 20th, 1848. 
Extracts from Letters. 
From Cheshire (Mass.), Nov. 27th, 1S48. 
DEAR BRO. HIMES :—Some in our midst are seek-
ing to be great, or wish to be at the head. 
Such 
should remember that Jesus is at the head, and thev 
(if Christians) but the branches. Others are too sen-
sitive to live in this world ; for it takes a considerable 
portion of their time to look after their reputation.— 
These should remember, that if they will love God 
with all their heart, and their neighbor as themselves, 
all things will work together for their good. 
Some 
are so fearful that they shall run into fanaticism, that 
they will not come within four hundred miles ot the 
truth ; whilst others have run over the mark. 
Such 
should remember that there is a medium ground to 
stand upon. 
Some are wanting in moral courage— 
do not possess all that magnanimity of soul, and un-
compromising zeal, that seem to be necessary to fit 
them to be special messengers that Jesus has chosen 
to give the last note of warning to this ruined world. 
Let such tremble lest the blood of souls be found in 
their skirts. 
Some have lost sight of the proclama-
tion (Rev. 14:6, 7), and have turned aside to build 
up another interest; they seem to have more of hu-
man sympathy to drive their eneine than of the Holy 
Ghost. 
Let such remember, that none but those who 
are identified with this last message, will be able to 
stand when Jesus comes. 
Some who profess to be 
called of God, are waiting to see whether they shall 
be supported if they go. 
Dear brethren, if God has 
called you to this work, he will take care of you, his 
word for it. 
Venture all upon that word, and in his 
name go forth, remembering that he that goeth forth 
bearing precions seed, shall doubtless come again 
rejoicing, bringing his sheaves with him. 
Notwithstanding all the conflicting elements, there 
is a noble company of valiant ones who are striving 
for the unity of the Spirit, whose hearts aTe knit to-
gether in love, and who are earnestly contending for 
the faith which was once delivered to the saints ;— 
hearts and hands open to every good work. 
No sac-
rifice would be too great for them to make in order to 
give the glorious truth of our soon coming King. 
R. Y. LYON. 
From Springville (N. Y.), Nov. 21sl, 1848. 
DEAR BRO. HIMES :—I have never seen the time, 
since the glorious doctrine of the advent of Christ 
first saluted my ears, that its truths seemed so pre-
cious to me as they do at the present time. 
They are 
to me like manna to the soul; and as the children of 
Israel eat manna in the wilderness until they came to 
the borders of Canaan, so I expect to live on the 
promises of God and this truth until I arrive at the 
promised rest of the saints. 
Without this hope, in 
this time of commotion and trouble, it seems to me 
that ] should be like a ship in a storm, without an-
chor or rudder, when the ocean boils with rage, throw-
ing wave after wave mountain-high. Whichever way 
we look, there is nothing but commotion and strife 
evil men and seducers wax worse and worse ; apos 
tacies from God and truth seem to multiply, and I 
am led to enquire what shall be the end of these 
things. 
I am almost alone, there being but three oi 
four here who believe in the doctrine. 
But blessed 
be the Lord that there are even a few who believe in 
the Saviour's near approach. 
A. R. UPSON. 
From Enosburgh (Vt.), Nov. 24th, 1848. 
I cannot but observe the difference that there is be-
tween Adventists and other professors. 
There are 
in this place sixteen who take the " Chronicle," a 
religious paper of the Congregational order. 
There 
are others of the church who are poor, but who have 
expressed themselves thus: " 0, how I should like 
to have the 'Chronicle,' but I am not able lo get it." 
The publisher would, perhaps, think himself insulted 
if they should ask him to give them the paper for a 
year. 
Neither do the able brethren do anything to 
supply such. 
But God hath not so dealt by me.—I 
have been known and identified as an Adventist, but 
my poverty has not prevented my reading the best of 
papers—the " Herald." 
We have never withheld the " Herald " from the 
worthy poor; and while we have the means we 
never shall. 
Many of the donations sent to us for 
personal use, have been appropriated to send the 
Herald to the poor. 
But all such should endeavor to 
aid us by obtaining new subscribers. 
From Lewiston, Nov. 20th, 1848. 
DEAR BRO. HIMES :—It would afford me pleasure 
to be able to respond more liberally to your call for 
relief, believing, as I do, that your necessity is at 
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least equal to your profession 
The few yet remain-
• „ hprft bearing the name of " Millerites," are not 
intT nciCj 
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ue to boast of high attainments in the Christian 
a
 
ge; yet I believe we love the cause, and delight 
urselves in the immutable promises of Him who, 
after he has prepared " a place, will come again." 
Being much scattered, we have no regular place or 
time of worship, and meet but seldom—when some 
of our travelling ministering brethren chance to come 
this way. 
Bro. Litch passed by us some time since; 
we feel to regret not being favored with a call from 
him; we fee' 
kut little consequence, in every 
sense of the word, yet we would respectfully request 
those whose business it is to " feed my lambs," to 
call upon us as often as possible. 
We need their re-
proofs, their admonitions, and their encouragements; 
and if they need anything we can afford them, they 
will find us happy in dividing with them. 
Yours in 
bonds not easily broken. 
A. GRAY, JR. 
From Worcester (Mass.1). Nov. 1848. 
DEAR BRO. HIMES: — Your remarks upon the 
Hartford Conference, in the " Herald " of Nov. 25th, 
move me to say a word, which, to prevent any mis-
apprehension of my position, I ask you to insert. 
On the Saturday before the Conference, I arrived 
in Springfield, to fulfil my appointment for the Sab-
bath following. 
I was in total ignorance of the con-
ference being appointed, until a ministering brother 
mentioned it to me the same day. 
He showed me 
the circular, and said he thought I had better go. 
I 
went. You say : " We learn that the principal sub-
ject of consideration was, that of uniting the ' Advo-
cate'with the 'Harbinger,'" &c. 
Such was not 
my " subject of consideration." 
Let me say further, that if any suppose that I 
agree with Brn. J. Turner and S. C. Chandler in the 
view of the 1000 years of Rev. 20th being in the 
past, they are utterly mistaken: and with the view of 
the latter brother, and others, of the first resurrec-
tion being spiritual, I have no more fellowship than 
with Swedenborgiauism and Shakerism. 
Let me add, Bro. H., that'I have no concern in 
secret movements. 
Yours for the cause of Christ, 
H. HEYES. 
From Elizabethtown (N. J.), Nov. 22d, 1848. 
DEAR BRO. HIMES :—I have just returned from 
Philadelphia, where I spent the Sabbath very plea-
santly with the brethren. 
They are looking with 
anxiety for the return of Bro. Litch. 
As to Elizabethtown, the truths of the Advent 
faith occupy about the same place in many minds that 
the Saviour did in the minds of many of the chief 
rulers who believed on him, but did not confess him, 
lest they should be cast out of the synagogue. 
At 
least, I have heard them reason in the same manner. 
Here one would be reminded of the remarks of Mr. 
Depping relative to Galileo: " We cannot help de-
ploring the weakness of the human mind, when we 
reflect, that, perceiving the most glorious truths have, 
in every age, found the greatest difficulty in gaining 
belief among men; while errors have invariably 
spread with extreme rapidity. 
Instead of rising to 
the height of Galileo's genius, his ignorant and su-
perstitious contemporaries required him to descend to 
their grovelling standard." 
There are those here 
that love the appearing of the Saviour, and wait with 
anxiety for that event. 
Ileave here to-morrow for the north part of New 
York, Ohio, Michigan, &c. 
Yours in hope. 
C. B. TURNER. 
have it at hand, we copy it from the " Herald " of 
Feb. 26th, 1848: " We as a committee are agreed 
that the following charges brought against Elder J. 
G. Bennett, are fully sustained; and until he shall 
fully remove them, and make ample concession, and 
retrace his steps, we can no longer recognize him as 
a fellow-laborer in preaching the glad tidings of the 
kingdom at hand. 
" 1st. Propagating privately the doctrine of spirit-
ual wifery, or the coupling together of the sexes not 
man and wife. 
" 2d. Evading and denying the same." 
Bro. Dow, referred to in that letter, is an associate 
of Bennett, and does not hesitate to accompany him 
in attending meetings, with a few disaffected breth-
ren from different places. 
If those brethren are dis-
satisfied with that decision, and believe him to be an 
injured man, duty to him and to the cause of God 
demands that they call a second meeting; or other-
wise, it as strictly demands that they acquiesce in that 
decision. 
How brethren, professedly looking for the coming 
of the Lord, can pursue a course tending to distract 
and divide the cause of Christ, is more than we can 
solve. 
We entreat such to pause and reflect on the 
issue of such a course. As ministers of Jesus Christ, 
we feel no liberty to pass such things unnoticed. 
I. H. SHIPMAN, 
A. 
SHERWIN. 
From Hatley (C. E.), Nov. 20th, 1848. 
BRO. HIMES :—The cause in this place is on the 
rise. 
A number have of late been converted, and 
others are enquiring what they shall do to be saved. 
The cry of peace and safety has been the means of 
opening some blind eyes, and should time continue, 
we expect, during the conference which is to be held 
here on the 4th of January next, to see much good 
done, which is our desire and prayer to God. 
Yours 
looking for Jesus. 
A. WADLEIGH. 
On the death of Bro. Wm. W. Bassett, who died 
at Springfield, Mass., on Saturday, Oct. Uth, 1848, 
leaving a wife and two children. 
Tune—" The God of Abraham praise." 
They who in Jesus die, 
For evermore are blest : 
A while beneath the turf they lie, 
In peaceful rest: 
Their toils and sorrows past, 
They only wait to rise 
At the great trumpet's joyful blast, 
To endless joys! 
We sorrow when they leave ; 
But sweeten'd are our tears: 
We grieve not as the hopeless grieve, 
For Christ has died before, 
And all in Him who sleep, 
Like Him shall live for«evermore— 
In hope we weep. 
Sister, to Jesus cling; 
Children, His love obtain : 
And soon his praises you shall sing— 
He comes to reign! 
Great God ! the widow guard, 
Protect the fatherless: 
O may they share the saints' reward : 
The mourners bless. 
H. 
HEYES. 
From North Springfield (Vt.), Deo. 1st, 1S4S. 
HIMES :—In the " Herald " of Nov. 18th, 
ppears a communication from Woodstock, Vt.,which 
°ntains a sentence calculated to give an injuious in-
fluence to the cause of God. Says the writer: " We 
b!est with the labors of Bro. Dow, and other 
ministering- brethren." 
Now, among the "other 
Mistering brethren," is J. G. Bennett, whose case 
investigated at Claremont a few months since. 
«. w 
cal'for that meeting was given through the 
cernH 
" a sufficient length of time for all con-
inMv 
°jmeet and 
act* 
The brethren met accord-
com" '• 
afler an exainination of the evidence, the 
the d -ee Visited 
the 
accused> 
and 
offered t0 defer 
after nH ^t"' °r *'avor ll'm in any way possible. 
But 
gave th 
y COU,d obtain n0 
satisfaction- 
He also 
ther i t 
t0 understand, that he did not want ano-
Co'uld d 
6W 
with 
,llem- 
Therefore 
the 
council 
cision ° a ° less than Publish to the brethren their de-
• As the readers of the " Herald " may not 
Miscellaneous, 
PANORAMA 
IN 
PALESTINE. 
Dr. HAWES, in his impressions of foreign travel, 
describes the following panorama from the lofty sum-
mit of Safet:— 
" While travelling in Syria and Palestine, one can 
hardly fail to receive a deeper and more vivid impres-
sion of the truthfulness of the Scriptures. The Holy 
Land is indeed a local commentary on the Sacred Vol-
ume. 
One who visits that land with the love of the 
Bible deep in his heart, and a competent knowledge 
of its contents in his mind, will continually meet with 
illustrations of its geography, history, prophecy, com-
parisons, and images. 
He will feel that he is in the 
land of the Bible ; and he will find it the best guide-
book he can have. 
I felt this deeply when in that 
land, and I ofted said, either the Bible must be true, 
or Judea an unreal thing; and all the objects and 
scenes which there meet the eye must be dreams.— 
Take a position on the lofty hill on which Safet is 
built, or on any of the highlands around Nazareth, and 
a vast panorama is spread out to your view, every 
part of which reminds you of some locality, some his-
torical event, some great transaction recorded in the 
Scriptures. 
Mount Hermon raising aloft its snowy 
head, with the sources of the Jordan, and the beauti-
ful vale through which it flows ; the Sea of Tiberias 
with its interesting localities, and the mountains of 
Moab stretching along in the east, like a waving 
line drawn on the horizon—the Mount of Beatitudes, 
where Christ preached to the multitude ; Nazareth, 
where he was brought up; Tabor, where he was 
transfigured ; Nain, where he raised the widow's son 
to life; Gilboa, where Saul was slain ; Endor, where 
he went to consult the woman who had a familiar spi-
rit; Shunem, where Elijah restored to life the Shu-
namite's son ; Mount Carmel, rising in the distance, 
where he usually resided, and where he sent his ser-
vant to watch the cloud, as it rose from the sea, por-
tending rain; Jezreel, the royal residence of Ahab, 
and the great plain of the same name, lying below, 
the scene of many a bloody battle recorded in the Bi-
ble ;—all these, rich in Scriptural associations, lie 
spread out before you as on a map ; and as you con-
template them, the whole seen' of sacred history rises 
to view with a new and wonderful sense of reality. 
The same impression I telt, when from the top of 
Mount Gerizim, I looked upon the frowning front of 
opposite Ebal, and gazed u, on the charming piece of 
ground which Jacob gave to his son Joseph, visited 
the tomb of this his beloved son, and the well where 
the Saviour once sat and refreshed himself, wearied 
with his journey, and traced for many a mile the road 
he was wont to travel as he went to and from Jerusa-
lem through Samaria. Being on the spot, amid these 
sacred localities, and seeing how exactly they corres-
pond with the references made to them in the Scrip-
tures, the truth of the Inspired Volume comes home 
with new power to the mLd, and impresses itself 
with a livelier interest on the heart. 
" So, take a position on the top of Mount Olivet, 
and view the scene that spreads around you, and you 
will seem to hear a thousand voices speaking to you 
of Scriptural events, and giving you a new an<Jdeep-
er impression of their reality. As you leave the city, 
you pass through St. Stephen's Gate, near to which-
is the Pool of Bethesda—you descend into the Val-
ley of Jehoshaphat, cross the brook Kedron, and 
tread the same road that was wont to be travelled by 
the Saviour and his apostles, and up which he was 
led to the hall of Pilate on his way to trial. You en-
ter the Garden of Gethsemane, the place of his last 
agony, and muse with deep emotion on the scenes of 
that dreadful night. 
You reach the summit of the 
mount, and near by, a little to the east, is the place 
whence the Saviour ascended to glory, in the pres-
ence of his disciples; a little further on is Bethany, 
the village of Lazarus and his two sisters, Martha 
and Mary ; at your right is the road leading down to 
Jericho, winding round among the hills and valleys, 
till it loses itself in the dark, gloomy wilderness of 
the Saviour's temptation—beyond which is seen the 
Dead Sea, with all its solemn and affecting associa-
tions. At the south-west, distant some seven or eight 
miles, is Bethlehem, the place of our Lord's birth, 
hanging upon the slope of a lofty hill, and present-
ing a fine view of the Church of the Nativity. 
Be-
neath you, at the western base of the mount, winds 
the deep Valley of Jehoshaphat, and on the opposite 
hill lies spread out before you the Holy City*—and as 
you gaze upon the scene, the * tide of sacred history 
flows massively through the soul,' and the events of 
ages, as connected with this spot, pass in rapid review 
before the mind. 
There is the site of the once joy-
ous city, the city that was full of people, beautiful 
for situation, the joy of the whole earth, the place of 
kings and heaven's inspired messengers—the place of 
the visions of God, and of the ministries of angels 
—over which the Saviour wept as he descended, for 
the last time, from this lovely mount—where he 
taught and wrought miracles, was condemned and 
crucified, and rose from the dead. 
Absorbed in con-
templatinj the past, and beholding the present poor, 
degraded condition of the city—the site of the glori-
ous Temple, now occupied by the dark, unseemly 
mosque of Omar, and signs of desolation and ruin on 
every side, you seem to hear afresh, the voice of the 
Saviour, as, weeping, he uttered the prophetic words, 
' If thou hadst known, even thou, at least in this thy 
day, the things which belong to thy peace—but now 
they are hid from thine eyes ! 
For the days shall 
come upon thee, that thine enemies shall cast a trench 
about thee, and compass thee round, and keep thee 
in on every side; and shall lay thee even with the 
ground, and thy children within thee; and they shall 
not leave in thee one stone u pon another, because thou 
knewest not the day of thy visitation.' " 
ALMOST 
BURIED 
ALIVE. 
It is difficult to conceive of a condition more try-
ing and alarming, or more suited to fill the mind with 
dread and horror, than the idea of being buried alive. 
The late eminent and most worthy Philip Doddridge 
was once very near meeting the dreadful fate of being 
buried alive ; and what made it worse, with a perfect 
consciousness of all that was passing. 
He was supposed to be dead, having fallen into a 
state exactly resembling death, so far as the body is 
concerned. 
His pulse and respiration ceased, his 
limbs became rigid, his face assumed the sharp out-
line characteristic of death, and he remained in this 
condition until all the family, physicians, and friends, 
(all but one,) supposed his spirit had passed. 
That 
one was Mrs. Doddridge; her love refused to despair, 
and she continued to use remedy after remedy to res-
tore animation; finally she poured a spoonful of 
brandy down his throat, and the powerful stimulus al-
most immediately dissolved the trance, and restored 
'Mr. Doddridge to the command of his limbs, and to 
j many years of distinguished usefulness. 
But for it, 
' he had in all probability been buried alive, for the 
; weather was warm, and he already shrouded for his 
j last abode. 
i 
He used to relate, with thrilling effect, his sensa-
tions during the time of his supposed death. 
He 
could not stir a little finger to give notice of his 
|being alive, but his sense of hearing remained per-
fect, and his mind collected. 
He heard the fact of 
, his being dead announced, and the outbursts of grief 
Ithat followed, the directions for shrouding him, and 
; the usual preparations in the chamber of death ! Des-
• perate, but vain as desperate, were his efforts to give 
I some token of life—not a muscle could he move.— 
,'Even despair, and the immediate presence of a fate 
'so appalling, could not rouse his body to perform the 
slightest of its functions. 
At last he heard Mrs. 
Doddridge call for the brandy, with a delight and 
rapture of love for hei which the horrors of his situa-
tion may easily explain. 
He felt that he was saved, 
and he was saved. 
"WHOLLY 
THINE." 
I am thy servant., wholly devoted to Thee, is the 
language of every new convert to righteousness to 
his Maker and Redeemer. 
It is a refreshment to the 
heart to be able to say this. 
How congenial to the 
(State of his grateful heart are the utterances of this 
feeling by the sweet singer of Israel. 
All that I am, and all I have, 
Shall be forever thine; 
Whate'er my duty bids me give, 
My cheerful hands resign. 
Yet if I might make some reserve, 
And duty did not call, 
I love my God with zeal so great, 
That I should give him all. 
Is it too much to pledge to Him from whom we 
derive our being, and all that sustains and blesses it, 
our faculties, and such varied and ample means for 
their improvement; our knowledge and happiness, 
with a capacity for indefinite expansion and increase ? 
Is entire consecration to the Saviour too generous a 
return for what he has wrought for us, in his teach-
ing and sufferings ? 
Is there a Christian on earth, who has not, at some 
time, felt that he was the Lord's? 
And did he not 
choose to be his? 
Might he have been another's, or 
devoted to other service than that of his Saviour, 
would he not have said, " Offer me no alternative. 
The Lord is the portion of my soul ? 
He will satisfy 
me early with goodness. 
Pleasure unutterable may 
be obtained in God, my exceediug joy. 
All the 
fountains of life and delight spring up in him. 
The 
river of his pleasures continually flows to his children; 
the banquet of his love is continually spread; the 
welcome always cordial ; himself always present; 
and in his presence there is fulness of joy." 
Is this to think too worthily of God? 
Is he not 
adequate to confer all this happiness? 
Is there anv 
enjoyment at all comparable to that Which is felt by-
one who can rightfully, and with filial trust, appropri-
ate language like this? 
Why then should we "for-
sake the Fountain of living water, and hew out to 
ourselves broken cisterns that can hold none ?" 
Why 
not choose to be " kept in the love of God, looking 
for the mercy of our Lord Jesus Christ unto eternal 
life?" 
O what suffering comes from such woful, 
criminal alienation ! 
It is a most injurious habit to regard religious duties 
as a burden, and to attend on religious exercises re-
luctantly, as a thing of necessity, rather than a de-
light—the spontaneous expression of our inward 
emotions. 
Such obedience is of a very equivocal 
character—a hard up-hill work. 
It is not what God 
claims ; it is unworthy of the Christian. 
It is love 
to God that makes duty pleasant, and binds the soul 
indissolubly to his service. 
'Tis love that makes our cheerful feet 
In swift obedience hsove. 
" This is the love of God, that we keep his com-
mandments; und his commandments me not 
sriev-
ous."-—Cfm. Mirror. 
s 
PRIDE 
OF 
OPINION. 
Men are often too proud to confess their errors, or 
to change when they are convinced that they are 
wrong. 
There is nothing more absurd than man's 
pride of opinion. 
For men to persist in an error, 
after they are convinced, lest, by giving it up, they 
should show themselves to have been mistaken, is 
madness. 
There is one thought that should humble 
the pride of opinion. 
It is this : All men have been, 
and still are, more or less mistaken in many important 
matters. To this we should add the fact, that wherein 
we are in error, if we do not correct ourselves, oth-
ers will be sure to correct us, as human society pro-
gresses towards its higher destiny. 
When we look 
at ourselves as individuals, we see that we have ar-
rived at our present position by a succession of 
changes, and yet we are ashamed to change. 
The 
whole path of life, from the cradle to the grave, is 
strewed with cast-off ideas and opinions. 
We have 
taken up an idea and brought it on with us for a time, 
and cherished it as truth, but aftei bringing it up for 
some time, we threw it down and picked up another, 
or picked up two in place of it, for most men in-
crease their ideas. 
These were retained for a time, 
and then cast off for others, and in this way we have 
arrived at our present positions, changing at every 
step, and yet all the time ashamed to change, lest the 
world should know that we had been mistaken. The 
same is true of society in general; for the changes 
of individuals in society effect changes in society, and 
all the changes of society are but the changes of in-
dividuals that compose society. 
The present state of 
the arts and sciences has been arrived at by a suc-
cession of changes. 
The principles of the several 
sciences which have been settled by one generation, 
have been rejected and exploded by the next, and yet 
men are proud of their opinions. 
All improvement 
involves change, and yet men are ashamed to change. 
If men will change from bad to good, and from good 
to better, the more rapid their changes, the bettefwill 
it be for themselves and the world.-—True Wesleyan. 
CHRISTIAN, 
Are you down, flat on your back, in deep waters ? 
Do troubles increase, rusfi, wave after wave ? 
Do 
billows on billows rise ! and roar? 
Has Satan locked 
you up in Doubting-castle? 
What do you intend to 
do? lie down and die—give up the ghost? 
Is this 
the problem? 
Nay, up ! wake up ! rouse up, " put 
on thy strength, O Israel!" 
Open the door, break 
loose from Doubting-castle—don't break ihe lock, 
don't pick it, take the key, the key of promise ; God's 
Book is full of these keys. 
Take the key, it will fit 
exactly ; the barred door will fly open instantly. 
Go 
about thy Master's business—visit the poor, the sick, 
the oppressed, 
comfort the feeble-minded, support 
the weak, be patient toward all men," 
" He that 
watereth shall be watered again." 
No marvel at the 
doubting, and die dumpishness, and the gloominess, 
and the deadness of Christians. 
No marvel so many 
are down, down, DOWN! always down! 
They are 
not awake to do their Master's business; they dose, 
they sleep. 
" Yet a little sleep, a little slumber, a 
little folding of the hands to sleep." 
The rod must 
be used.—Golden 
Rule, 
THE GOSPEL THE POWER OF GOD. 
Sent from heaven, but little thought of—locked up 
in that trite small printed book, the Bible—lies the 
germ of moral renovation—the only secrets for making 
base spirits noble, and fallen spirits holy. 
Received 
into the confiding heart, and developed in congenial 
affections, it comes forth in all the wonderful varie-
ties of vital Christianity ; and according as the recipi-
ent's disposition is energy OT mildness, activity or con-
templation, it creates a bold reformer or a benign phi-
lanthropist—a valiant worker, or a far-seeing thinker. 
In bolts that melt as well as burn, it flashes from 
Luther's surchaged spirit; and in comprehensive 
kindliness spreads its warm atmosphere round Me-
lancthon's loving nature. 
In streams of fervor and 
fiery earnestness ft follows Zwingle's smoking path, 
and in a halo of excessive brightness encircles CaK 
vin's awful brow. 
In impulses of fond beneficence 
it tingles in Howard's restless feet, and in a blaze of 
in-door gladness welcomes Cowper's friends. 
But 
(whether its manifestation be the more beauteous or 
the more majestic, of all the influences which can 
alter or ennoble man, it is beyond comparison the most 
potent and persuasive. 
In the sunny suffusion with 
which it cheers existence, in the holy ambition which 
it kindles, and in the intensity which it imparts to 
character, that Gospel is " the power of God." 
I 
m 
THE ADVENT* HERALD. 
Foreign News, 
By the Britannia, commanded by Capt. W. J. C.. 
LANG, which arrived at this port an Wednesday, Dec. 
5, we have received the European Times, of Nov. 18, 
from which we make the following selections 
• 
The total number of cases of cholera already re-
ported in England, from its first appearance, has now 
reached 1039, of which 533 have proved fatal, and 
331 are still under treatment. In Edinburgh the mala-
dy still prevails to some extent,—'the new cases are 
scarcely ever under 20 daily ; the deaths are from 5 
to 10 daily, Upon the whole, we are inclined to hope 
that the disease has slightly lessened in violence ; at 
any Tate it has not made progress. 
In the 90uth of Ireland there have been some few 
partial indications of a renewal of the political storm. 
The project of a rescue of the state prisoners has 
been meditated by some rash persons around Clon-
mef. 
On the 8th instant a body of about 1000 or 
1500 men assembled about a mile and a half from that 
town, and were being drilled by a student named 
O'lieary ; it is alleged that they were about to ad-
vance on Clonmel,when the police and military made 
their appearance, and .the whole dispersed. 
Seven-
teen of them were, however, captured, and sent to 
prison. 
The spirit of private revenge still lurks un-
quelled in various localities in Ireland. 
A bailiff has 
been murdered near Limerick ; Mr. Moore, the agent 
of Lord Annesley 's estates in Cavan, has been basely 
shot at from behind a hedge ; and Mr. Daniel, a 
magistrate of Heist on, in Westmeath, has been fired 
at in a similar mode, the shot having struck him in 
the left shoulder ; his clothes were riddled with balls, 
but he escaped with life. 
France.—^'The contest for the Presidency of this 
Republic begins now to assume a serious aspect; 
and parties are ranging themselves under the banners 
of the two chief candidates, Cavaignac and Louis 
Napoleon, calculating upon future probabilities, rather 
than being attached to either by the ties of regard or 
by a concordance of political sentiments. 
Prussia.-^At 
Berlin the suppression of the insur-
rection at Vienna, has produced momentous results. 
We have announced the formation of Count Bran-
denburg's Ministry. 
No sooner was the triumph of 
the Imperialists known at Potsdam, than the Prussian 
Court made up its mind to act. 
Accordingly, by a 
decree of the 8th inst., a proclamation was issued, 
transferring the seat of the Berlin Constituent As-
sembly to Brandenburg j a city about as far from Pots 
dam on the west, as Berlin is on the east. 
It was a 
bold step, calculated to relieve the " Right" from 
the terror of the populace of Berlin, but could only 
be carried into effect by firmness, and at the point of 
the bayonet. 
So the event turned out. 
The As-
sembly refused obedience, and passed a decree de-
claring itself en permanence; 
the excitement in-
creased hourly. On the 10th, the Chamber persever-
ing in its resistance, the Government announced its 
intention to use force to compel obedience. 
The re-
quisite number of members to form a House assem-
bled, and in the afternoon General Wrangel, at the 
head of 15,000 regular troops, entered the city, and 
sent an aid-de-camp to inform the President, that he 
had orders to close the doors of the Assembly. 
The 
members refused to disperse. 
General Wrangel cut 
off afl communication with the Sing Academy, the 
place of meeting, and the members finding their po-
sition inconvenient, adjourned till the following day. 
It was generally anticipated that the Berlin mob would 
rise, but their leaders had sufficient influence to keep 
them quiet, and thus bloodshed was avoided. 
The 
troops bivouacked in the streets and squares on the 
night of the 10th, and not the slightest symptom of 
disorder was perceptible. 
The burgher guard du-
ring these proceedings, observed a sort of neutrality. 
On the 11th, the King issued a proclamation, 
throwing himself upon the affectionate loyality of all 
Prussians, and dissolved the burgher guard, which 
was playing the part of a Pretorian band. The As-
sembly met the following day in a distant part of the 
city, and manifested an intention to resist by passive 
force, relying no doubt upon the sympathy of the 
Prussian provinces. 
On the 12th inst. the city was 
declared in a state of siege ; the clubs were closed, 
and no gatherings were permitted in the streets. 
The 
disarmament of the burgher guard is now the point 
of interest. 
The news from the Danish Duchies is still of a 
most warlike character, and the Danes insist upon the 
dissolution of the newly installed conjoint Government 
in Schleswig-Holstein. 
The English charge d'affairs 
is said to have declared that matters were now pre-
cisely in statu quo ante helium. 
We said so many 
months ago. 
The patched up truce could not last. 
The Queen's troops in Spain seem to have gained a 
battle in Aragon, and dispersed the insurgents. Seven 
republicans were executed on the 5th inst. at Huesca. 
A body of the insurgents has got back to France by 
Urdax. 
From Italy we have verv little news of interest. 
The idle threats of Charles Albert of renewing the 
war have all subsided ; and the Austrians having 
maintained their position in Lombardy whilst their 
own capital was in danger, they will now, doubtless, 
remain unmolested. 
On the whole, the intelligence from the continent 
during the week has been of the most important and 
alarming character. 
In the face of the present 
troubles in Berlin, and with the experience of the 
French revolution before him, the imbecile and san-
guinary despot of Austria has characterized his suc-
cesses by the most atrocious a«d cold-blooded murders. 
If anything were wanting to urge the people of 
Berlin, Frankfort, Breslau, and other places to revolt, 
Ferdinand of Austria has fearfully and fully supplied 
it, and we should not wonder to have intelligence, and 
that at no distant date, that these acts have raised a 
flame which neither regal nor imperial despotism will 
be able to extinguish. 
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THE ADVENT 
HERALD. 
BOSTON, DECEMBER 9, 1848. 
SETTLEMENT OF ACCOUNTS.-Our Agents and subscribers 
will call to mind our notice a few weeks since, requesting them to 
settle their accounts with this office by the 1st of January next.-
There is considerable due the office, and we need it lo meet our bills 
for paper and printing. We are obliged to say, to all indebted, either 
they must pay us our dues, or we MUST CLOSE THE OFFICE. 
We 
mean just ivhat we say. 
We do not beg, nor call for monev to in-
vest in any object foreign to the Advent cause, but/or it. 
We have 
large bills to meet between this and the first of January, aud unless 
our call is heeded, by a prompt remittance on the part of those who 
are indebted, the cause must, for the first time, suffer in our hands 
Each one can raise the little sum that is due much better than we 
can raise the amount claimed by the paper maker and printer. 
We 
shall be detained at home for several weeks, and we hope that our 
claim and request will not be disregarded. Let none fail to respond 
under theimpression, that others will make up the required amount 
without the sum they owe. Such a course would not be just. Let 
us have a full and hearty response. 
In addition to the above, we shall have to raise about one hundred 
and fifty dollars, to meet the remaining bills of the English Mission 
This we must pay soon. We do hope that our friends, who have 
the means to assist us, will do so without delay. 
We shall send bills soon to all who are indebted. 
TO OUR SUBSCRIBERS IN THE BRITISH PllOVINCES.-
We find, on looking over our books, that just three out of every four 
to whom we send the Herald in the Provinces, are in arrears for the 
same. Now, we have to pay 11-2 cents on every copy lhat we mail 
thither, or 39 cents per vol. As only one fourth of the number have 
paid, it follows, that for every dollar we receive, we are sending pa-
pers on which we pay four times 39, or $1 56 postage—which 
amounts to above $50 a year that we pay, besides the cost of the 
paper sent, above the receipts from the same sources. There is great 
negligence somewhere. 
We have twenty-one subscribers in Hnli-
fhx, N. S., the money for whom was promised soon, when we re-
ceived their names, but not a cent has been received. Vet we have 
paid 32 cents each week while we have sent the paper to them.— 
Now, what shall we do ? We cannot write 'you each one Individ 
ually, because the postage to the line is too great. 
We shall there-
fore be uiider the necessity of discontinuing the paper to those from 
whom we do not hear in a few weeks. Those in the Provinces; 
therefore, who fail to receive their paper after a reasonable time 
may ascribe il to their neglect to pay for the same. 
Will Bro. LENFEST be kind enough to see about lhat portion of 
the above whose names he sent?' Also, will M. D. be kind enough 
to remit the money he collected for those whose names he left with 
us ? Such a course of neglect will soon break dowu any office. W 
hope for an immediate response. 
CONFERENCES.—We expect to attend Advent conferences in 
the places mentioned below, in the following order: — 
Newlon Upper Falls, Mass. (at Bro. Cunningham's), Dec. 9th 
evening, and Sunday, the 10th. 
Northboro', Mass. (in the Advent chapel), Dec. I4lh, 15th, 16th 
and Sunday the 17th, at 10 A. M., and at 2 and 6 p. M. 
Abington, Mass. an the Town Ilallj, Dec. 22d, 23d, and 24tli. 
Those who come from Plymouth maystop at the Centre Depot, and 
those going from Boston, at the North Depot. Friends will call on 
Bro. 8. Ford. Time—10 A. M., and 2 and ti p. M. 
Boston, Sunday, Dec. 31st, and continue through the week. We 
shall keep the usual watch night, and continue the meetings in the 
following order:—Prayer and conference meetings in the morning, 
at 10 A. M., and 2 p. M., and lectures every evening during the week 
until Friday. 
We shall be happy to see the brethren and sisters from the sur-
rounding towns, who feel interested in the work of bringing souls 
to Christ, and who seek the peace and prosperity of Zion. We are 
happy to say that we enjoy peace, and a degree of prosperity that 
we did not expect. The Lord has- been good to us ; had he not been 
on our side, we should long ago have beeu swallowed up. But we 
have pleasure in saving, that we stand in the " old paths," and the 
ood way," looking for the kingdom of God. 
CORRECTION.—In the last Advocate, Bro. HOLKINS reminds 
us of a statement we made Aug. 5th, 1846.—" How Bro. MARSH 
had $20 sent him, which looked so like bribery, to get him lo favor 
the spiritual resurrection, lhat Bro. MARSH sent the $20 back." 
Mr. HOLKINS says—"the $20 never was [were] returned." 
As we wish always to correct any wrong statements that we may 
have made, we promptly insert the fact, that Bro. MARSH did not 
return the $20. We have a letter in our possession from Bro. M 
dated July 30th, 1846, but "not received until our paper of Aui 
was issued, in which he says •.—" 1 did not send it back, but offered 
to do so if requested. I viewed it in the light of a bribe, but still 
the giver may not have considered it in this light." We intended 
have corrected it at the time. If we did not, we do so on the first 
reference to it. But it seems, after all, that the $^0 were sent, and 
this but a short time after $150 had been acknowledged in the Voice 
from the same source; and we know that Bro. MARSH considered 
that the last was sent to induce him to publish on the resurrection 
past. 
A WOLF .'—We understand that the old, notorious hypocrite and 
impostor, MICHAEL HULL BARTON, whose abominable licen-
tiousness has been so often exposed, is now endeavoring to insinuate 
himself among the Adventists of New Jersey and the Middle Slates. 
He professes to be an Adventist, has the appearance of great sanc-
tity, claims to enjoy any amount of the Spirit, dresses like a Quaker, 
is full fifty, is rather bald, tall, and well calculated for an impostor, 
especially in getting spiritual wives, the main object ofliis devotion. 
He should not be countenanced fn any meetings; and especially 
should be kept out of every family, if they value their peace or char-
acter. Give no place to the devil. 
THE Harbinger of Nov. 25th re-affirms its false charge against the 
New York Conference, that its resolution, condemning " the pre-
vailing spirit and practice of war," was understood " by all the con-
ference" to "justify defensive war." He has had opportunity to 
biotv— having been repeatedly told—that not one member of the 
conference had any such supposition. It is a slander on the breth-
ren who were there assembled, made by one who was not present. 
IN the letter from Bro. GATES, published in our last, the name 
Bro. PULLING " occurs ; it should have been Bro. BKRKINS. 
BRO. GATES commenced a course of lectures in Lynn, in the Free-
will Baptist chapel, on Monday last. It will continue over Sunday 
J. Danforth-We have sent you one of the papers you wish for -
We cannot find the other. 
C. Taylor—E. Thayer was credited $1 to 415. 
J. l'ettinger—Your letter, enclosing $7, was not received. We 
have lost a great deal of money by the way ol Albany this year-L 
There is some iniquity in some Post-office somewhere. 
M. H., $1-We sent the books to J. W. Hopkins, E. Brookfield 
M. T. H. Matherson—Have sent the back Nos. 
E. Tr.ltle-Have sent vou another bundle by Thompson & Livin« 
slon's Express, to be left at U tica till called for. 
Summary. 
The Albany newsboys are in the habit of jumping upon the cars as 
they pass out of the railroad depots, to sell their papers. In doing so, 
James Hayes, aged 14, fell under the wheels of the Mohawk and 
Hudson train, and was shockingly mutilated. 
Dr. Devine, imprisoned at Pouglikeepsie for the murder of Rich-
ard Wall, cut his throat on Saturday night, and was found dead in 
his cell next morning. He had been tried for murder, but the jury 
did not agree. 
, 
Washington J. Merrill was burnt to death in Danville, N. H., in a 
shed in which he slept while tending a coal-pit. Intemperate, of 
course. 
Mr. Morris, proprietor of a foundry in Galena, 111., in a fit of men-
tal derangement, look a revolving pistol aud shot two men—one his 
brotiier-in-law-aud then blew out his own brains. 
In Haverhill-street on Tuesday, a man, who was unloading tim-
ber, had his thigh broken by a falling log. He was carried to the 
hospital. 
Fresh instructions have been sent to our Minister in England con-
cerning the postal arrangements between the two countries, which 
are not yet concluded. 
Mr. Ray Marsh, of Buffalo, offers one thousand dollars reward for 
the recovery of his daughter, Amarillious Ann Marsh, aged 18 years, 
who left her father's house in that city on the 17th ult., supposed to 
be enticed away by some villain. 
Total number of deaths in New Orleans, from all diseases, from 
the 1st of May to Oct. 14th, when the yellow fever disappeared, 3322. 
Mrs. Nixon, of Medina, N. Y., while riding, called at an apothe-
cary's shop lor morphine, to relieve tooth-ache; the boy in attend-
ance gave her strychnine, which caused her death immediately. 
TRUE HAPPINESS. 
True happiness is not the growth of earth 
The soil is fruitless It you seek il there; 
'Tis an exotic ot celestial birth, 
And never blooms but in celestial air. 
Sweet plant of 1'aradise ! iis seeds are sown 
In here and there a breast of heavenly mould ; 
It rises slow, and buds, but ne'er is known 
To blossom here—the climate is too cold. 
Mr. Dingle, a laruier of Great Orcheton, has forsaken his farm, 
and commenced lecturing ou the Millennium, saying he has lieen 
commanded so to do by a vision. He goes from town to town pro-
claiming that the Millennial reign of Christ on earth will commence 
in the year 1850, <fcc. He has crowds of hearers and some believers. 
We do not think the man to be an impostor, but that he is under 
the influente of some hallucination.—Sherborne Journal. 
We do 
not learn the nature of his views on the subject. 
The Whigs of the5th ward in Boston celebrated the election of 
Gen. Taylor, by purchasing a thanksgiving dinner lor every poor 
family in their district, irrespective of party. 
A correspondent of the New York Tribune says of France:—" A 
heavy veil hangs over our nearest future; we tap at the door of the 
Unknown -, we scarcely know to-day, much less to-morrow ; and 
we know no evening when we lie down, whether we shall wake up 
the next morning under the Empire, the Legitimist Monarchy, or 
Ihe Red Republic." 
On Saturday evening, Michael McDonald, of 66 Friend-street, was 
run over by a hack near the head of Hanover-street, and had his 
shoulder dislocated, and two ribs broken. The driver cleared out 
with his carriage as fast as possible. 
About four o'clock on Saturday afternoon, an Irishman named 
John Farran, 40 years of age, fell into au unfinished well on Shurt-
leli'-street, Chelsea, forty feet deep, breaking four of ftis ribs, aud 
puncturing his luugs. Surgical aid was of no avail. He lived in 
great distress until 11 o'clock on Sunday night, when death put an 
end to his sufferings. At the time of the accident, another man was 
at work at the bottom of the well, but escaped injury. Deceased 
leaves a wife aud six children. 
At Brunswick, Me., John, son of widow J. Brown, lost an eye 
and part of a hand, Stephen Royal had his arm broken, and Wm 
Hutchinson was badly injured, by premature explosion of a cannon, 
fired in honor of Gen. Taylor's election. 
Six boys were severely burnt at Mount Pleasant, Roxbury, on Sat-
urday last, bv the explosion of a powder-mine which they had just 
constructed. 
A horn seven feet in length, together with a huge rib and a leg 
bone, were dug from Mount Holly, on the line of the Rutland and 
Burlington Railroads, Vt., on Friday. A horn, which corresponds 
with the above in size and appearance, was taken from the same hill 
some weeks since. 
Merchant Pittsley, Eben Clark, and a boy, a son of the latter, were 
drowned on Sunday last, by the upsetting of a boat in Long Pond, 
Middleboro'. 
James Seigler was killed in New York by the fall of an iron awn-
ing-post, which was blown down by the wind. 
There are eighteen poor sinners iu this neighborhood, who take 
the ground that they are all the saints there are living on the earth. 
Being all together, a few days since, they say it was the first time 
since the day of Pentecost when all the saints on earth have beeu 
assembled in one room. They believe the door of mercy is closed, 
and refuse to perform any manual labor. If it is closed, it will be a 
hard case for them. Some of them have already been before the 
court for stealing. How they can subsist without is a mystery.— 
" He that will not work, neither shall he eat." 
The name of the Frog Pond, ou the Common, has been changed 
to "Shawmut Fountain,"—Shawmut being the Indian name for 
Boston—signifying "Sweet-Waters." 
CONFERENCES. 
The Lord willing, there will be a conference in Ilatley, O.E., com-
mencing Thursday, Jan. 4lh, and continue over the Sabbath, bio" 
I. H. Shipman is exuected. We would request the attendance of 
Bro. Edwin Burnham, as well as ministers and lay brethren gene-
rally. We hope to see a general attendance of believers scattered 
over this region, tin behalf of the brethren.) 
A. WADLEIGH. 
APPOINTMENTS. 
Bro. Hale may be expected at Lunenburg, or where Bro. Heath 
may appoint, Lord's-day Deo. lilth aud 17th. He will come to 
Leominster by the A. M. train on Saturday. 
Bro. Gates will commence a course of lectures in Essex, Mass 
Dec. 13th, and continue over Suuuay. Bro. Elam Burnham will 
make arrangements. 
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1 will hold a two days' meeting in Ashfield, Mass, (where the 
brethren shall appoint;, commencing on the 9th, at lu A. M. 
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R. V. LVON. 
I will preach the evening of the 14th at Lawrence (new city) • 
the loth at Dover, N.H.; the third Sabbath atNew Durham Ridge • 
the 4th at Barnstead ; the 3til al l'ittsiield ; the first in January at 
Marlboro', Mass. 
N.BILLINGS. 
The Lord willing, I will preach at Worcester, Sabbaih, Dec. loth; 
Brimfield, Monday evening, 11th; Three Rivers, Tuesday evening, 
Lth ; Springfield, Sunday, 11th, and Cabotville in ihe evening ; Clii-
copee Falls, Monday evening, loth ; V\ arehouse Point, Ct., Tues-
day evening, lath ; Hartford, W ednesday evening, 20th ; Merideii, 
Thursday evening, 2lst; Middletown, Friday evening, iid. 
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P. HAWKES. 
The Lord willing, Bro. Geo. Needham will preach at Thrte Kiv-
ers Sabbaih, Dec. loth. He will spend about a week in the vicinity. 
(.For the church.) 
VV. G. 11LGGI.ES. 
The Advent Church in New York, under the pastoral charge of 
Bro. D. 1. Robinson, meet at the Hall corner of Hester-street and 
Uie Bowery. Meetings three times on Sunday, and on Tuesday aud 
Friday evenings. 
The P. O. address of Bro. ELON GALL rill A is Walworth, 
Wayne Co., N. Y., he having removed from Lockport to preach the 
gospel ol the kingdom to the Baptist church iu that place. 
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