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that religion ; but an appeal to the authorities 
on which Christianity is based--the gospels and 
epistles, compared with the law and the proph-
ets, sets the matter fully at rest. So also did 
the early fathers, who succeeded the apostles, 
all declare the same thing ; the personal and se-
cond coming of Christ, to reign in Jerusalem ov-
er all the earth. A change so great as this in 
political affairs cannot fail to be a matter of in-
terest to all thinking persons ; and that interest 
will be in proportion to the faith or hope they 
have of its realization. If it be only a change 
of earthly rulers for a brief period, it produces 
deep feeling and interest among the people. How 
much more should they be moved at the thought 
of a kingdom which shall never be moved, but 
"shall fill the whole earth and stand forever." 
Such a kingdom as this, the "God of heaven" 
proposes to set up at no distant day, and calls 
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TEARS A RELIEF FOR SORROW. 
My soul, seas are rough, and thou a stranger 
In these false coasts ; 0 keep aloof ; there's danger; 
Cast forth thy plummet ; see, a rock appears ; 
Thy ship wants sea-room ; make it with thy tears. 
Quarles. 
Scripture Illustrations. 
NO. 145. MERCY IN GOD. 
"According to his mercy he saved us." Titus 
3:5. 
A short time before her decease, Miss A. L. 
Newton lay with a happy smile on her worn 
countenance,meditating on the chapter (Tit. III) 
which had been read to her the previous even-
ing. 'According to his mercy He saved us,' she 
slowly repeated twice,alluding to verse 5 ; "'Ac-
cording to His mercy He saved us ; If I can say 
no more, angels, and devils too shall hear me 
say, 'Mercy ! mercy ! According to His mercy 
He saved us !" 
NO. 146. CHRIST OUR DELIVERER. 
"Forasmuch then, as the children are partak-
ers of flesh and blood." Heb. 2:14, 15. 
Bunyan was one day sitting by the fire in 
his house, oppressed with a sense of his natural 
wretchedness. "The Lord brought to him that 
scripture—'Forasmuch, then, as the children are 
partakers of flesh and blood, He a so himself 
took part of the same, that through death he 
might destroy him that had the power of death, 
that is, the devil, and deliver them who through 
fear of death were all their lifetime subject to 
bondage 1" "The glory of the words is so weigh-
ty" on him, that he is "bah once and twice 
ready to swoon ; " yet "not with grief and trou-
ble, but with solid joy and peace." 
NO. 147. CHRIST'S SYMPATHY. 
"For in that he himself hat's suffered." Heb. 
2:18. 
"How differently," writes Miss A. L. New-
ton, "sympathy is felt when it arises out of felt 
experience, from the mere sympathy of kind fel-
low feeling ! I have this strongly on my mind 
lately, from these words in Heb. 2:18. "In that 
he himself bath suffered, being tempted, he is 
able to succor them that are tempted." 
et, and thou Bethlehem in the land of Judah, 
art not the least among the princes of Judah, for 
out of thee shall come a governor, that shall rule 
son is he ?" asked Jesus. "They said he is the 
son of David." These were all correct scriptu-
ral answers ; and on this basis their faith rested. 
But did the Jews correctly understand the 
prophetic scriptures concerning the Messiah ?" 
Let us consider some of the predictions con-
cerning him, and see if they can be understood 
in any other way than that in which the Jews 
understood them. 
Isa. 9:6, 7: "For unto us a child is born," 
&c. �
"Upon the throne of David and his king- 
dom to order it and establish it, with justice and 
judgment from henceforth and forever. The 
zeal of the Lord of Hosts will perform this." 
Can any other than a literal meaning attach to 
this prediction ? Well might the Jews from such 
language conclude that their Messiah would reign 
in Jerusalem, on David's throne. 
But we turn to Jer. 23:5, 6, and read, "I 
year. Ittv. Mr. Arthur, a secretary of the So-
ciety, says: 
"The ministers make the missionary cause their 
own ; and all, children as well as adults, and the 
poor as well as the wealthy, are invited to con-
tribute. 
"Mr. Arthur's reply states the rationale of 
the wonderful success which has attended the 
missionary plans of our English brethren, and 
we believe it would be as successful in our coun-
try. Let us analyze it," says Dr. Eddy, "after 
a homiletic fashion : 
"I. 'The ministers make the cause their 
own.' 
They study it. 
They enter into it heartily. 
They faithfully present it. 
"II. All are invited to contribute : 
"1 'All. (1.) �
Children ; (2.) Adults ; 
(3.) Poor ; (4.) The wealthy. The classifi-
cation is exhaustive. 
"2. �
'Are invited to contribute.' 
" (1.) They are 'invited' in due season, not 
on the heels of conference. 
They are 'invited' to give according to 
the measure of ability. 
They are 'invited' earnestly. 
They are 'invited' successfully." 
The Northern Advocate says : 
"If the preachers and people of the M. E. 
Church in this country will apply the above plan, 
the difficulties of raising missionary money will 
quickly vanish away, and our mission may be 
liberally sustained even in these hard times." - 
Suffer Little Children. 
Some think that the little child cannot be con-
verted, because he is too young to understand 
religion. They might as well say he cannot live 
on food because he cannot tell bow the grass that 
feeds the ox is turned into flesh and then nour-
ishes him. They might just as well say he can-
not be warmed with his clothes because he can-
not tell how the grass the sheep eats is turned 
into wool, and how wool is made into cloth. The 
greatest man that ever lived cannot tell how the 
grass is turned into flesh, or into wool, and thus 
made to nourish or warm us. 
The little child can eat the food and live ; the 
philosopher can do no more. He can put on his 
garments and be warm ; the great and learned 
can do no more. 
A poor blind beggar once cried out in the 
street, and asked Christ to have mercy on him. 
What did be want ? Lord, that my eyes 
might be opened. How could he tell how Christ 
could open his eyes ? And when he found them 
cured what could he say when they asked him, 
"How opened he thine eyes ?"—"By what means 
he opened mine eyes I know not ; but one thing 
I know, that whereas I was blind, I now see." 
Could the greatest man that ever liked say 
more ? 
Every child knows what it is to love its moth-
er, but can he tell you any more about it than 
that he feels ? Can any man say more ? Every 
child can take hold of his father's hand, and go 
with him in the dark, and that is having faith 
in his father ; but he cannot tell what faith is. 
A little child once got lost in the woods, and 
night came on, and it grew dark, and they could 
(Original.) 
The New Administration, 
That there is to be an entire change of govern- my people Israel." 
mental administration over the whole earth by 
We have heard out of the law that Christ 
the establishment of a monarchy, whose seat abideth forever," said the Jews in their contro-
shall be in Jerusalem, is now heartily believed versy with Jesus, on the day of his triumphant, 
by very many of the most able, learned,eloquentiroyal entry into Jerusalem, where David's king-
and pious divines of both hemispheres. Nor is idorn was proclaimed. John 12:34. "Hath not 
this a new theory, recently developed. For it the scripture said that Christ cometh of the seed 
is the basis of the Christian religion. It is true of David and out of the town of Bethlehem where 
that of late years it has been to a great extent, David was ?" Thus reasoned the Jews among 
lost sight of and discarded by the ministers of themselves. "What think ye of Christ, whose 
on men to make timely submission to the coming will raise unto David a righteous branch, and a 
King, that they may reign with him. 
"The kingdom of God," was understood by 
the Jews in the days of Christ, to signify the 
Jewish race, in the land of Palestine, under the 
divine law, administered by the Messiah. All 
that was wanting in their estimation, to complete 
its organization, was, for the Messiah to appear 
and restore the throne of David in Jerusalem. 
Hence, when John the Baptist came preach-
ing in the wilderness of Judea, saying, "Repent 
ye, for the kingdom of heaven is at hand," the 
Jews understood it to be a simple enunciation 
that the Messiah was soon to make his appear-
ance. That such was the Jewish understanding 
of the phrase, is conceded by nearly all Divines 
and commentators. It is not now the question 
whether they had a correct view of the matter, 
but simply, whether this was the view they en-
tertained. Who will dispute it ? And if so, 
how did they understand Jesus, when, "after 
that John was cast into prison," he "came into 
Galilee preaching the gospel of the Kingdom of 
God and saying, The time is fulfilled, the king-
dom of God is at hand ; repent ye and believe the 
Gospel ?" 1:14, 15. 
How did they understand the twelve apostles 
and the seventy disciples, when they went forth 
teaching the same fact ? Matt. 10:5-7 ; Luke 
10:10, 11. Could they have understood by it, 
that an entirely new order of government, in 
which there should be no visible monarch,but that 
it should consist entirely in a spiritual dominion 
over the affections and hearts of men, was to be 
established ? They understood no such thing. 
"Where is he that is born King of the Jews," 
said the wise men from the east, as they entered 
Jerusalem. Matt. 2:2-6. And thus the chief 
priests and scribes answered them,—"In Bethle-
hem of Judea, for thus it is written by the proph- 
king shall reign and prosper. In his days, J u-
dah shall be saved and Israel shall dwell safe- 
ly." Could they do otherwise than look for a 
personal Messiah to reign over the house of Ja-
cob, if at all they believed the prophet ? 
The prophet Micah was so distinct in his ut-
terances on the subject that he was well under-
stood by all the "chief priests and scribes of the 
people," when Herod asked, "Where shall Christ 
be born ? they said, 'In Bethlehem of Judea ; 
for thus it is written by the prophet:'—"Out of 
thee shall he come forth unto me who shall be 
ruler in Israel." 
To say nothing of many other passages, these 
shut up a Jew to the faith of Messiah as a king 
of David's royal line ; he could not help himself 
except by rejecting the word ; for he had not 
learned the art of neutralizing it by spiritualiz-
ing it. 
When the kingdom of God was preached by 
John, Jesus, the twelve and seventy, what else 
could the people understand than that they pro-
claimed the Messiah at hand as their king ? 
When the Pharisees asked Jesus when the 
kingdom of God should come, what could they 
mean but to ask, When will our Messiah come ? 
And what could they understand him to answer, 
except that the Messiah is in the midst of you? 
But the time drew near when this question 
was to assume a legal form and be decided be-
fore the highest tribunal of the land. It is this 
legal investigation and decision which will next 
claim our attention. 
How the Wesleyans do it ; or, how they raise 
at the rate of $700,000 missionary money in a 
How it can be Done. 
J. LITCH. 
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THE ADVENT HERALD. 
nit find him for a long time, At last he lay 
down under a log, cold and afraid, and cried as 
loud as he dared. At length he heard some 
one calling. He was afraid that it was a wild 
beast. Then he ,plainly heard his own name. 
Still he aid not stir. But when the voice came 
nearer, and he heard his own name called, he 
stopped crying, and jumped up and went toward 
the voice. He could not see anything, but he 
heard his father's voice, and ran to him. Thus 
he could have faith, though he could not tell 
what faith was. The child Samuel could say, 
"Speak, Lord, for thy servant hear'eth" though 
he could not know the voice of the Lord from the 
voice of Eli. 
So the little child can believe in Christ, and 
love him, though he cannot know all the deep 
things in religion, He can live upon the sincere 
milk of the word, and grow thereby, and that is 
a'l that is necessary for his being gathered to 
Christ. 
The beautiful rose does not know how the 
dews of the night refresh it and revive it, but 
they do. The modest lily that peeps up and 
catches a few of the bright sunbeams does not 
know how they make it white and pure, but they 
do. �
The valley that lies at the foot of the moun- 
tain does not know how the gentle rills that run 
down the sides of the mountain, bursting out 
from hundreds of little springs, make it bright 
and fertile, but they do. So the little one does 
not know how he believes in Christ, and how he 
lives by faith, but he does. And the tall tree of 
the forest, and the giant oak on the hill, can no 
more tell how they are nourished by the rain 
and sunshine, than the little violets that grow in 
a crack of the rock ; and the lofty tree in the 
garden, and the frail lily are alike, for they 
know not how. When the child has said that 
he feels love to Christ in his heart, could a New 
ton with all his great mind say more ? 
A Just Rebuke, 
A Refugee's Statement. 
seven years a resident of the South, living un-
disturbed, until the breaking out of the present 
rebellion. Then there was a change. He had 
been doing an extensive and very prosperous
, 
 
business, was largely, and, as he supposed fa-
vorably known, to great numbers in the south. 
Yet, twice he had been seized in order to be 
hung. Once had he been tried by a Vigilance 
Committee, and he now had with him a full dis-
charge from all ground of suspicion. For three 
weeks he had been guarded night and day by 
armed friends, who defended them at the risk of 
their own lives, and at last he had escaped by 
almost herculean efforts. He had left all be-
hind him, and accounted it a great mercy to be 
free in the 'Nord), with nothing. Often had he 
been in want of the barest necessaries of life. 
He left $25,000 behind him. 
If you think, said he, that you can conceive 
of the state of things at the South, you are sim-
ply mistaken. A wide-spread system of the 
worst form of despotism which the world ever 
saw, prevails. Over all the South terrorism, 
such as you cannot conceive of,reigns. No man 
feels safe. No man feels as if he knew what 
the end was to be. No man knows what senti-
ments he may express to-day, that will not be 
perverted to his destruction to-morrow. It is 
only necessary to raise a cry against a man, and 
no power on earth could save him, after that. 
I have seen hundreds suffer under all sorts of 
indignity and outrage. I have even seen women 
born and reared at the South, owners of slaves, 
with half of their hair shaved off. All this was 
because they had dared to express some senti-
ments in favour of the Union. This terrorism 
is growing worse every day. It is a despotism 
of the most fearful kind. If there is any class 
of people on the wide earth who need your pray-
ers, it is the people of the South, white and 
black. 
N. Y. Ob. 
As a result, he had sent them the gold by his 
clerk, and the provisions by his country ser-
vant, saying, 'God forbid that any of Christ's 
ambassadors should be strangers and we not vis-
it them ; or in distress, and we not assist them.' 
Desponding Christian, though for a time your 
earthly prospects look dark, remember you 'have 
a rich father in heaven.' And you to whom God 
has given an abundance, now may you show your 
gratitude by distributing to the necessities of 
others. Follow the promptings of your heart 
to such charities. It may be the whisperings 
of God's Spirit to your soul, and if you do not 
listen he will choose a worthier instrument. 
'What a pleasure it is,' said the noble Howard 
as he took a cluster of lusciowl, grapes to refresh 
a dying soldier, 'tb afford relief even to the bo-
dies of men !' 
Presbyterian. 
Faith of the Martyrs. 
Titelmann was the most active of all the agents 
in the religious persecution at the epoch of which 
we are now treating, but he had been inquisi- 
tor for many years. The martyrology of the 
provinces reeks with his murders. He burned 
men for idle words or suspected thoughts ; he 
rarely waited, according to his frank confession, 
for deeds. Hearing once that a certain school- 
master, named Geleyn de Muler, of Audenarde, 
"was addicted to reading the Bible," he sum-
moned th3 culprit before him, and accused him 
of heresy. The schoolmaster claimed, if he was 
guilty of any crime, to be tried before the Judg-
es of his town. "You are my prisoner," said 
Titelmann, "and are to answer me, and none 
other." The inquisitor proceeded accordingly 
to catechise him, and soon satisfied himself of 
the schoolmaster's heresy. He commanded him 
to make immediate recantation. The school-
master refused. "Do you love your wife and 
children ?" asked the demoniac Titelmann. "God 
knows," answered the heretic, "that if the whole 
world were of gold, and my own, I would give 
it all to have them with me, even had I to live 
on bread and water, and in bondage." "You 
have then," answered the inquisitor, "only to re- 
nounce the error of your opinions." "Neither 
for wife, children, nor all the world, can I re. 
nounce my God and religious truth," answered 
the prisoner. There upon Titelmann sentenced 
him to the stake. He was strangled and then 
thrown into the flames. 
In the next year Titelmann caused one Robert 
Ogier, of Ryssel, in Flanders, to be arrested, to- 
gether with his wife and two sons. Their crime 
consisted in not going to mass, and in practicing 
private worship at home. They confessed the 
offense, for they protested they could not endure 
to see the profanation of their Saviour's name in 
the idolatrous sacraments. They were asked 
what rites they practiced in their own house. 
One of the sons, a mere boy aaswered, "We fall 
on our knees, and pray to God that he may en- 
lighten our hearts and forgive our sins. We 
pray for our sovereign, that his reign may be 
prosperous and his life peaceful. We also pray 
for the magistrates and others in authority, that 
God may protect and preserve them all." The 
boy's simple eloquence drew tears even from the 
eyes of some of his judges ; for the inquisitor had 
placed the ease before the civil tribunal. The 
father and eldest son were, however, condemned 
to the flames. "0 God !" prayed the youth at 
the stake, "Eternal Father, accept the sacrifice 
of our lives, in the name of thy beloved Son." 
"Thou liest, scoundrel ! " fiercely interrupted 
a monk, who was lighting the fire ; "God is not 
your father ; ye are the devil's children !" As 
the flames rose about them, the boy cried out 
once more, "Look, my father, all heaven is open- 
ing, and I see ten hundred thousand angels re-
joicing over us. Let us be glad, for we are dy-
ing for the truth." "Thou liest ! thou liest !" 
again screamed the monk ; "all hell is opening, 
and you see ten thousand devils thrusting you 
into eternal fire." Eight days afterward the 
Jacob Before Meeting Esau. 
The Reign of Terror in France. 
M. Louis Blanc thus writes of the insecurity 
of life during the French Revolution : 
"It makes one shudder to remember how men's 
lives were at that time disposed of'. A register 
clerk of the tribunal has been denounced. At 
five o'clock in the morning he was arrested in 
his bed ; at seven he was taken to the Concier-
gerie ; at nine he received notification of the act 
of accusation ; at ten he stood in the dock ; and 
at two o'clock in the afternoon he was condemn-
ed ; and at four he was a corpse ! 
It may well be supposed that such terrible 
haste as this would lead to some mistakes, espec-
ially when whole families were numbered among 
the accused. An old counsellor of Parliament, 
named Sallier, was condemned in place of his 
son ; and a young man named Saint-Pure in 
place of his father. The latter, on the day on 
which he appeared on the fatal steps, was seated 
by the side of a gendarme, who, believing that 
the lad's youth would protect him from punish-
ment, and anxious to give him courage took his 
hand. Young Saint-Pure, with his parents and 
sisters, was accused of having taken part in the 
massacre of the people on the 10th of August. 
He demanded liberty to prove, by means of his 
certificate of baptism, that he was only seventeen 
years of age, and affirmed that on the 10th of 
August he was not in Paris. The President 
cut him short, however, with the astounding re- 
mark that "he had no need of his certificates." 
The gendarme perceived that the unhappy boy 
was lost, and withdrew his hand, when the latter, 
turning to him, said, "I am innocent, and have 
no fear ! But how unsteady your hand is." 
The Comet of 1861. 
The comet has come and nearly gone, exciting 
the wonder of all star-gazers from the astrono-
mers down. It appeared all of a sudden on Sun-
day night, the 30th ult. in nearly full splendor, 
with a head or nucleus of the largest dimension, 
much larger than that of the comet of 1858, and 
Dr. Howe's report upon the sanitary condition 
of the Massachusetts troops at Washington, con-
tains the following incident: 
"There will be many captains like the one 
whom I could name in the Massachusetts Fifth 
—the stalwart man, every inch of whose six 
feet is of soldier stamp; the captain who eschews 
hotel dinners, and takes every meal with his 
men, eating only what they eat, who is their res-
olute and rigid commander when on duty, but 
their kind and faithful companion and friend 
when off duty ; who lies down with them upon 
the bare ground or floor, and if there are not 
blankets enough for all, refuses to use one him-
self ; who often gets up in the night and draws 
the blankets over any half covered sleeper, and 
carries water to any one who may be feverish 
and thirsty; the man who is like a father as well 
as a captain of his soldiers." 
"He is the man who administered that stern 
rebuke the other day to the upstart West Point 
Cadet sent to drill the company. The first day 
the cadet interlarded his orders with oaths—his 
commands with curses. The men complained to 
their captain. �
stop that tomorrow,' says he. 
The next day's drill begins,and the cadet begins, 
and the cadet begins to swear at the soldiers. 
'Please not swear at my men sir,' says the cap-
tain. 'What do you know about the drill ?' says 
the cadet, 'and what can you do about my swear-
ing ?"Sir,' says the captain sternly, know 
this, and you ought to know it- -swearing is for-
bidden by the army regulations ; and if you con-
tinue to break the rule, I'll order my men 
to march off the ground, and they'll obey me,and 
leave you to swear alone.' The cadet took the 
rebuke, and swore no more at that company." 
In the Fulton Street Prayer Meeting the 
other day, there rose up a tall fine looking man, 
having the type and air of a Southern gentle-
man. He said that in the extreme South, he 
had often heard and read of this meeting. Oc-
casionally he had read notices and reports of it 
in the religious and secular papers. Little did 
he think he should be standing up in it, and ask-
ing prayers for such as himself. He had been 
Commit thy Way unto the Lord. 
In times of scarcity in money and employ-
ment, how many hearts beat with a painful anx- 
iety, lest the barrel of meal and cruse of oil' 
should utterly fail ! How many at the present 
time, now in comparative comfort, look forward 
with painful forebodings to the future for them-
selves and those dependent upon them ! Every 
one realizes, as perhaps they have seldom done 
before, that they 'know not what a day may 
bring forth.' It is such time as this that tests 
the superiority of the Christian's faith above the 
hope of the mere worldling. The promises of 
God arc full and precious to those that put their 
trust in him, and the inspired Psalmist could 
say in his old age, �
have never seen the righ- 
teous forsaken nor his seed begging bread.' The 
hand which ruled the affairs of earth then, is the 
same yesterday, to-day, and forever. 
Many years ago a devoted English clergyman 
was in a strange place, and became reduced to 
great straits. His money was all gone, and not 
a particle of food remained for his household. 
In the depth of his distress he cried mightily 
unto the Lord at the hour of morning prayer. 
When he arose his little ones begged for bread, 
and as there was none to give them all burst in-
to tears. But a sleepless eye had watched all 
his footsteps, and even while he was yet speak-
ing, had sent a messenger to relieve his distress. 
The door-bell rang, and a man presented to the 
astonished wife a small parcel, saying he was di-
rected by a gentleman to leave it there, and that 
some provisions would arrive shortly. Very 
soon a countryman drove up with a load of pro-
visions of almost every description. The paper 
was found to contain forty gold pieces. Such a 
profusion had never been known in the house of 
the poor minister before. It was with feelings 
almost of awe as well as boundless gratitude,that 
this marvellous relief was regarded, so plainly 
was the hand of God to be seen in it. These 
timely gifts were continued at intervals until the 
day of his death, yet it was long before he could 
learn from whence they came. At length it was wife of Ogier and his other son were burned ; so 
found to be a benevolent Christian merchant,whe that there was an end of that family. 
had often observed the clergyman walking the �
From Motley's Dutch Republic. 
streets with a grave, dejected air, and had been 
led to inquire privately into their circumstances. 
Noble deeds are but noble truths realized. 
To morrow Esau and Jacob are`to meet. There 
was a quarrel of long standing between them, 
which had all the bitterness of a domestic feud. 
Jacob bad foully deceived and deeply injured 
his brother. He had not seen Esau for many 
years, and, dreading his vengeance,he now heard 
of his approach, at the head of four thousand 
men, with fear and.trembling. Greatly alarmed, 
he cried, God of my father Abraham, God of my 
father Isaac, deliver we, I pray thee, from the 
hands of my brother.; for I fear him, lest he 
will come and smite me, and the mother with the 
children. Pattern to us, when temptation threat-
ens, or dark misfortunes lower, Jacob, having 
done all that man's wisdom could devise, or his 
power could do in the circumstances, flies for 
help to God. He will prepare for to-morrow's 
trial by a night of prayer. Sending on his wives 
and children across Ja,bbok's stream, to place 
them as far as possible out of danger, and leave 
these innocent ones to forget it in sleep's sweet 
oblivion, he seeks himself a solitary spot. With 
deepest silence all around him, and the bright 
stars above his head, he is on his knees alone 
with God. Suddenly, as if he had approached 
with the stealth of a creeping savage, or had 
sprung from out the ground, some one grasps 
him. Folded in his arms, Jacob cannot cast him 
off. Now it becomes a struggle for the mastery. 
Locked together, they wrestle in the dark ; they 
bend ; they try each to throw the other ; and, in 
some mysterious commingling of bodily and spir-
itual wrestling, the night passes, and the conflict 
lasts till break of day. Let me go, said the 
other, whose eye had caught the gleam of morn-
ing, for the day breaketh. Jacob but held him 
faster. He had found out the other wrestler ; 
danger gave him boldness ; faith gave him confi-
dence ; and, clinging to God with the grasp of 
a drowning man, he replied, I will not let thee 
go, except thou bless me. And when he had 
prevailed, and got the blessing, "Jacob called the 
name of the place Peniel ; for I have seen God 
face to face, and my life is preserved."—Guthrie. 
THE ADVENT HERALD. �
243 
pious preacher who was the first to take the ben-
efit of the "contraband act." He reported that 
his people had long been watching and praying, 
and that "when they heard Massa Lincoln was 
'lected, they knew the Lord was 'gwine to come; 
and when they heard that war was begun, they 
knew the Lord had come sartin." What a pow-
er is arrayed against our enemies, in the prayers 
of the slaves ! "When He maketh inquisition for 
blood, He remembereth them. He forgetteth 
not the cry of the humble." Let us see to it that 
we place ourselves as a nation upon the side of 
these prevailing prayers, by assuming our whole 
responsibility for the oppressed, and working for 
their deliverance.—Independent. 
Cannibalism in Africa. 
day that was to bring the dreaded enemy. The 
mother and children opened their eyes to find 
that a "such wall" had indeed been built for their 
defence. The snow had began to fall the even-
ing before. Through the night it had collected 
rapidly. A high wind had blown the snow in 
drifts against the low house, so that it had en-
tirely covered it. A low shed behind protected 
the way to the outhouse where the animals were, 
and for few a days the mother and her children 
kept themselves alive within their cottage, shut 
in and concealed by the heavy barricades of 
snow. 
It was during that time that the dreaded 
scourge passed over the village. Every house 
was ransacked ; all the wealthier ones deprived 
of their luxuries, and the poorer 'ones robbed of 
their necessities. But the low-roofed cottage 
lay sheltered beneath its walls of snow which in 
the silent night had gathered around it. God 
had protected the defenceless with a "sure wall." 
General Havelock's Prayer-Tent. 
Many people excuse themselves from God's 
service for want of time. The apprentice does ; 
the schoolboy in the hurry of term-time does ; 
the man at his work-shop ; the mother with her 
large family around her. 
General Havelock, that distinguished General 
in India, whose wisdom and bravery did so much 
to put a stop to the cruel and bloody mutiny of 
the Sepoys, never made this excuse to get rid 
of the service of his Heavenly Father. He had 
time, among all the hurry and worry of camp 
life, to make the business of religion the first 
business. He found time. He did not believe 
God ever put men in posts where they could not 
serve him. He was a man of prayer, and he 
found time to pray ; not only to pray by himself, 
but with his men. Among his camp baggage 
was a praying-tent, the biggest one he had, and 
this he used to pitch at the stations, and hold 
prayer-meeting in it, and read the precious word 
of God to his soldiers. 
He well knew if there was a class of men in the 
world that needed the comforts and the help of 
the Lord Jesus Christ, it was soldiers ; and many 
a poor soldier found how superior was a heaven-
ly service over any thing the Queen of England 
could offer. In the hurried and awful marches 
which General Havelock and his regiment were 
forced to make in the late war, he arose two 
hours before his men, in order to have time to 
pray. If they were to begin their march at six 
o'clock in the morning, he was up at four. If 
the camp were to break up at four, he was up 
at two. He believed there was time for the busi-
ness of religion. And the papers tell us there 
were no soldiers so prompt and faithful in duty, 
so reliable in those dreadfnl times, as General 
Havelock and his praying regiments. 
The problem of practical cannibalism is de-
finitely set at rest by Du Chaillu's sojourn 
among the Fans. His first intimation of the pre-
valence of the horrid practice, beyond the report 
of tribes nearer the sea coast, was almost simul-
taneous with his arrival in a Fan village. 
"On going out the next morning, I saw a pile 
of ribs, leg and arm bones, and skulls, (human) 
piled up at the back of my house, which looked 
horrid enough to me. In fact, symptoms of can-
nibalism stare me in the face wherever I go, and 
I can no longer doubt. 
"Eating the bodies of persons who have died 
of sickness, is a form of cannibalism of which I 
had never heard among any people ; so that I 
determined to inquire if it were indeed a gener-
al custom among the Fans, or merely an excep-
tional freak. They spoke without embarrassment 
about the whole matter, and I was informed that 
they constantly buy the dead of the Osheba tribe, 
who, in return, buy theirs. They also buy the 
dead of other families in their own tribes, and 
beside this, get the bodies of a great many slaves 
from the Mbichos and Mbondemos, for which 
they readily give ivory, at the rate of a small 
tusk for a body. Until to-day I never could be-
lieve two stories—both well authenticated, but 
seeming quite impossible to any one unacquain- 
ted with this people—which are told of them on 
the Gaboon. A party of Fans who came down 
to the sea shore once actually stole a fresh buried 
body from the cemetery, and cooked it and ate 
it among them ; and at another time, a party 
conveyed a body into the woods, cut it up, and 
with a tail of about 100 degrees in length. Its 
position was near the Great Dipper. At first it 
was thought to be the great comet of Charles V., 
which last appeared in 1556, and which was ex-
pected to appear again in 1858, the time that 
Donati's comet was seen ; but that idea is given 
up. �
It is now stated to be the comet that Mr. 
Thatcher, an astronomer of this city, discovered 
on the 4th of April last. At the time of its ap-
proach to the sun it was discovered by Mr. 
Thatcher, who published an account of its appear-
ance. It already has lost much of its brilliancy, 
and in the early hours of the night does not ap-
pear to be more than halt its original size. As 
the small hours of the morning approach it be-
comes more luminous and attains to its greatest 
magnitude. The nearest approach to the earth 
that has been made is computed at 12,000,000 
of miles, being a little nearer than timid people 
would desire, taking into consideration the velo- 
city with which comets are in the habit of trav-
elling. Donati's comet, about which some fear 
was expressed on account of its close vicinity to 
our globe, was never nearer than 52,000,000 of 
miles.—N. Y. Observer. 
The Beard. 
The Evangelist gives the following historic 
view of the clerical "Beard Question" :— 
"Most of the fathers of the Church wore and 
approved of the beard. Clement of Alexandria, 
says : 'Nature adorned man, like a lion, with a 
beard, as the mark of strength and power.' Lac-
tantius, Theodoret, St. Augustine, and St. Cyp-
rian, are all eloquent in praise of this character-
istic feature ; about which many discussions 
were raised in the early ages of the Church, 
when matters of discipline engaged much of the 
attention of its leaders. To settle these disputes 
at the fourth Council of Carthage—A. D. 252, 
Can. 44---it was enacted 'that a cleric shall not 
cherish his hair nor shave his beard.' (Clericus 
nec comam nutriat nec barbam radat.) Brigham 
quotes an early letter, in which it is said of one 
who from a layman had become a clergyman, 
'His habit, gait, and modest countenance, and 
discourse were all religious, and agreeably to 
these his hair was short and his beard long.' A 
source of dispute between the Roman and Greek 
Churches has been the subject of wearing the 
beard. The Greek Church has adhered to the 
decisions of the early Church, and refused to ad-
mit any shaven saint into its calendar, thereby 
condemning the Roman Church for the opposite 
conduct. And on the other hand, the Popes, to 
make a distinction between the Eastern and 
Western decisions, make statutes De radendis 
Barbis, or shaving the beard. Some, however, 
believe that faith and nature might be reconciled. 
The leading English and German Reformers 
wore their beards, with an exception or two. 
Most of the Protestant martyrs were burnt in 
their beards." 
The Prayers of Slaves. 
One of the most striking and affecting types 
of piety to be found among any people is that 
exhibited by the Christian slaves at the South. 
Their outward privations make them the richer 
in spiritual joys ; the hardness of their earthly 
lot leads them to prize the more their heavenly 
hope. Their very ignorance gives often a touch-
ing simplicity to their prayers and a childlike 
beauty to their trust in God. Such faith pre-
vails with God ; such humble cries enter the ear 
of the Lord of Sabaoth, and are mightier than 
cabinets or armies. When the Israelites in Egypt 
sighed and cried to God by reason of their bon-
dage, God heard their groaning and had respect 
unto them. 
The pious slaves of the South have long been 
praying for the day of their emancipation. They 
have never found in the Bible the doctrine that 
slavery was ordained of God for their good. 
They always long for freedom. They continual-
ly pray for it. Of late under a vague impression 
that Mr. Lincoln's election would in some way 
work out their deliverance, they have prayed 
with renewed faith and fervor for the day of free- 
, �
dom. Ot this a touching example is given in the 
smoked the flesh, which they carried away with 
them. The circumstances made a great fuss 
among the Mpongwe, and even the missionaries 
heard of it, for it happened at a village not far 
from the missionary grounds ; but I never credit-
ed the stories till now, though the facts were 
well authenticated by witnesses. In fact, the 
Fans seem regular ghouls, only they practice 
their horrid custom unblushingly and in open 
day, and have no shame about it. I have seen 
here knives covered with human skin, which their 
owners valued very highly. To-day the Queen 
brought me some boiled plantain, which looked 
very nice ; but the fear that she should have 
cooked it in some pot where a man had been 
cooked before—which was most likely the case 
—made me unable to eat it. On these journeys 
I have fortunately taken with me sufficient pots 
to do my own cooking. They are the finest, brav-
est looking set of negroes I have seen in the in-
terior, and eating human flesh seems to agree 
with them, though I afterwards saw other Fan 
tribes whose members had not that fine air of 
these mountaineers. As everywhere else, loca-
tion seems to have much to do with it. These 
were living among the mountains, and had all 
the appearance of hardy mountaineers." 
God is a Sure Defence. 
In the campaign of Napoleon in Russia, while 
the French army was retreating from Moscow, 
there lay in a poor low cottage, in a little vil-
lage, an invalid boy. This village was exactly 
in the course of the retreating army, and already 
the reports of its approach had reached and ex-
cited the terrified inhabitants. In their turn, 
they began to make preparations for retreat ; 
for they knew there was no hope for them from 
the hands of the soldiery, seeking their own pre-
servation, and who gave no quarter. Every one 
who had the strength to fly, fled ; some trying to 
take with them their worldly goods, some to con-
ceal them. The little village was fast growing 
deserted. Some burnt their houses or dismantled 
them. The old were placed in wagons, and the 
young hurried their families away with them. 
But in the little cottage there was none of 
this bustle. The poor cripple boy could not move 
from his bed. The widowed mother had no 
friends near enough to spare a thought for her 
in this time of trouble, when every one thought 
only of those nearest to him, and of himself. 
"What chance in flight was there for her and her 
children, among whom one was the poor cripple 
boy? 
It was evening, and the sound of distant voices 
had died away. The poor boy wos wakeful with 
terror, now urging his mother to leave him to his 
fate, now dreading lest she would take him at his 
word, and leave him behind. 
"The neighbors are just going away ; I hear 
them no longer," he said, "I am selfish, I have 
kept you here. Take the little girls with you, it 
is not too late. And I am safe; who will hurt 
a poor helpless boy ?" 
"We are all safe," answered the mother ; 
"God will not leave us, though all else forsake 
us." 
"But what can help us ?" persisted the boy. 
"Who can defend us from their cruelty ? Such 
stories as I have heard of the ravages 'of these 
men ! They are not men, they are wild be sts. 
0, why was I made so weak,—so weak as to be 
utterly useless ? No strength to defend, no 
strength even to fly." 
"There is a sure wall for the defenceless," an-
swered his mother ; "God will build us up a sure 
wall." 
"You are my strength now," said the boy ; "I 
thank God that you did not desert me. I am so 
weak, I chug to you. Do not leave me, indeed ! 
I fancy I can see the cruel soldiers hurrying in. 
We are too poor to satisfy them, and they would 
pour their vengeance upon us ! And yet you 
ought to leave me ! What right have Ito keep 
you here ? And I shall suffer more if I see you 
suffer." 
"God will be our refuge and defence," still 
said the mother; and at length, with low, quiet-
ing words she stilled the anxious boy, till he too 
slept, like his sisters. The morning came of the 
Blank Verse in the Pulpit. 
Not I, but Christ. 
A few years ago, while traveling on a rail-
way in Germany, an incident occurred which at 
the time made a deep impression on my mind. 
The remembrance of it will remain fresh and 
vivid to my dying day. I was seated in a third-
class carriage, which was filled with Germans. 
A feeling of loneliness and isolation for a while 
oppressed me. I tried to amuse myself by lis-
tening to the animated conversation of those who 
sat near me, the language being not quite unfa-
miliar to my ear. I found that the principal 
topic that occupied the busy talkers was the 
Evangelical Alliance, which had met in the city 
of Berlin. The papers that had been read, and 
the addresses that had been delivered during the 
several days of meeting, had evidently awakened 
a deep interest in the minds of all. The fact 
that the King and Queen of Prussia had attend-
ed some of the meetings of the Alliance, and had 
also shown much personal kindness to its mem-
bers, by inviting them to the palace of Potsdam, 
could not fail to add to the eclat of the proceed. 
ings, and draw public attention more directly to-
ward them. 
Amid the general noise of many voices, and 
the smoke from many cigars, my attention was 
specially directed to two men, in a corner of the 
compartment I occupied, sitting vis-a-vis, en. 
gaged in the most earnest conversation on a sub-
ject which was plainly deeply interesting to both 
of them. I listened attentively, and heard that 
the theme was Christ. I instantly leaned for-
ward, to catch, if possible every word. I dis-
covered that the principal speaker, an elderly 
gentleman, was narrating a remarkable change 
that his views had undergone, in consequence of 
an address which he had heard at one of the 
meetings of the Alliance. From this conversation 
I learned that, up to the time of his hearing tha t 
The last thing we should have fancied, says 
the London Athenaeum, is to have heard within 
the pulpit, echoes of the form and fashion, of 
Longfellow's " Hiawatha." In the fore part of 
the season down at (then not crowded) Ramsgate, 
an acute dissenting preacher, to attract a numer-
ous gathering, advertised his fixed intention, 
twice (D. V.) on the next Sunday, sermons twain 
then to deliver, in majestic blank verse uttered. 
And he did it. They who listened had a weary, 
weary season ; season very weary had they, lis-
tening to the man who did it ; man obese, obese 
his wit too. To describe we will not venture, 
how the pump went onward working at each 
lifting of the handle, dribbling forth its stinted 
measure. Very painful 'twas to hear it, very 
pleasant to the speaker ; love was the all grace-
ful subject ; quite unlovely was the treatment. 
But 'twas with a moral pointed : moral pointed 
very sharply ; sharply pointed to the pocket ; and 
it showed how if our bosoms glowed but with 
the love he painted, we should prove by a lib'ral 
coming down at the collection ! 
We have a great many blank cartridges fired 
off in American pulpits, but never have heard of 
sermons delivered in majestic (?) blank verses.—
Boston Transcript. 
Very prettily expressed. But did a dew-drop, 
falling into the sea, ever become a pearl ? Gems 
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"And there was given him dominion, and glory, 
and a kingdom." When our Lord ascended on 
high, he was set "far above all principality, and 
power, and might, and dominion, and every name 
that is named, not only in this world, but also in 
that which is to come," Eph. 1:21. But whilst he 
is thui supreme over this, as well as all worlds, he 
has not yet taken to himself his great power and 
reigned as he will on the overthrow of the beast, 
(see Rev. 11:17) ; "we see not yet all things put 
under him," Heb. 2:8 ; but, "The Lord said unto 
my Lord, Sit thou on my right hand, till I make 
thine enemies thy footstool," Matt. 22.44. "For 
he must reign, till he bath put all enemies under 
address, he had always regarded himself a sound 
and honest Christian. He had been regular in 
his attendance at church, and had paid all re-
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maintained an outwardly decent and respectable 
character, and would have taken it highly amiss 
if any one had suggested doubts about the gen-
uineness of his claim to be regarded as a true 
Christian. He told his companion how entirely 
that good opinion he had formerly entertained of 
himself had been dissipated by the truths he had 
heard expounded in Berlin. They had forced him 
to the sorrowful conclusion that all his former good 
opinions of himself, and of his relation to Chris-
tianity, were wholly a delusion. 
"But now," said he, and his beaming eye and 
quivering voice betokened the warmth of his 
emotion, "now I have discovered what it is to 
be a Christian." Opening his New Testament 
at the place, he read, with distinctness, and with 
emphasis which showed that he understood and 
felt what he read, these words of the Apostle, in 
the fine old translation of Luther : "LAI bin mit 
Christo gekrecziget ; Ich lebe aber ; doch nun 
nicet Ich, sondern Christus lebt in mir." ("I 
am crucified in Christ ; nevertheless I live ; yet 
not I, but Christ liveth in me." (Gal. 2 : 20.) 
"The man who can say that," he continued, "is 
a Christian." He expatiated with great earnest-
ness and warmth on the vast importance of the 
truth which he had discovered, explaining to his 
willing hearer all the precious things which lay 
hid in this, to him, most marvelous text. The 
warmth and impressive seriousness of his manner, 
when in the course of his remarks he again and 
again exclaimed, laying his hand on his 
heart, "Nicht Ich, sondern Christus lebt in mir" 
(not I, but Christ liveth in me), deeply moved 
me, and I could not help saying within myself : 
"If this stranger has made a great discovery as 
to the Christian character, so, too, have I." 
Familiar with the words he quoted and commen- 
ted upon, they never appeared to me before so 
full of meaning, luminous. The text came upon 
me with all the freshness and power of a new 
discovery. No commentary ever written, no 
critical exposition, however learned,could exhibit 
it with so much power as did the simple, fervent 
utterance of my fellow-traveler. 
Reader, it is my most fervent prayer that you 
may be able to enter with me in some measure, 
into the deep significance of these words, "I 
live ; yet not I, but Christ liveth in me." It is 
true, as the venerable, warm-hearted Gdrman so 
earnestly pressed upon his companion, that it is 
not outward conduct that constitutes a Christian. 
You may attend with regularity and all assiduity 
to the external forms of a religious life, but ah ! 
something greater, better far, than this, is needed, 
ere you can attain to the blessedness and the 
dignity of the true Christian. You must have 
Christ living and reigning in your heart ; you 
must become so entirely identified with him that 
he will be as the very soul of your soul. Your 
thoughts, feelings, desires, hopes, must all be as 
if they had originated with Christ, as if Christ 
within you were thinking, feeling, desiring, hop-
ing and not yourself. 
"Not I." Is self, in all its forms, crucified and 
slain? Through a living faith in Christ, are you 
so one with him that your heart beats in unison 
with his ? Do you realize the import of his gra-
cious words, "Because I live ye shall live also ?" 
If so, then you are united to him as the branch 
to the vine,and you will assuredly be found bring-
ing forth the fruits of righteousness,to the praise 
of his glory.-Prot Magazine. 
SHORTSIGHTEDNESS OF MAN. 
A dew-drop, falling on the ocean wave, 
Exclaimed in fear-"I perish in this grave ;" 
But in a shell received, that drop of dew 
unto a pearl of marvellous beauty grew ; 
And, happy now, the grace did magify 
Which thrust it forth-as it had feared-to die : 
Until again, "I perish quite," it said, 
Torn by rude divers from its ocean bed ; 
0, unbelieving !-So it came to gleam, 
Chief jewel, in a monarch's diadem. 
his feet," 1 Cor. 15:24 ; and-when this is done, as 
the kingdom will then have been delivered from the 
dominion of all evil rule, have been rescued from all 
malign and apostate influences, been brought into 
full allegiance to God's rightful sovereignty, and re- 
stored to its original harmony with unfallen worlds, 
there can thenceforth be no interruption to the reign 
of Christ on earth ; which will he entire, universal, 
and eternal. 
The "dominion and kingdom" here symbolized, 
as given to "One like the Sun of man," can be no 
other, except as it shall be more full, complete, and 
universal, than the dominion which had been pre-
viously exercised, in succession, by the four mon- 
strous beasts. Having been taken away from each 
in turn, it is bestowed upon the Son, who thence-
forth "shall have dominion also from sea to sea,and 
from the river unto the ends of the earth," Pea. 72; 
8. �
It is to be universal, for "all people, nations, 
and languages" shall serve bins ; and it will be eter- 
nal, for "his dominion is an everlasting dominion 
which shall not pass away, and his kingdom that 
which shall not be destroyed." It is thus in mark-
ed contrast with the changing and perishable dynas-
ties previously symbolized. 
Whilst there is nothing in the symbol to indicate 
the form in which Christ's kingdona will exist, or 
the condition of his subjects, this is elsewhere fully 
revealed. The inspired interpretation shows that it 
is the saints' coronation day,as well as that of their 
Lord. For when Daniel "came near unto one of 
them that stood by, and asked him the truth of all 
this," he told him, "These great beasts, which are 
four, are four kings, which shall arise out of the 
earth ; but the saints of the most High shall take 
the kingdom, and possess the kingdom for ever, ev- 
en for ever and ever," vs. 16, 17. And when the 
prophet enquires further of the events and agents 
that precede the time that "the saints possess the 
kingdom" (v 22), he is told that "the kingdom 
and dominion, and the greatness of the kingdom un-
der the whole heaven, shall he given to the people of 
the saints of the most High, whose kingdom is an 
everlasting kingdom, and all dominions shall serve 
and obey him," v. 27. The locality of the kingdom 
over the entire earth, and its eternal duration, are 
thus unequivocally affirmed, and not arrived at by 
inferential reasoning. Other scriptures bring to 
view events synchronous with this symbolization of 
Christ's assumption of the kingdom, and thus show 
more fully the condition of its subjects. Paul gives 
charge to Timothy "before God, and the Lord Je-
sus Christ, who shall judge the quick and the dead 
at his appearing and his kingdom," 2 Tim. 4:1. ; 
which shows the resurrection and judgment to be 
also at this epoch. The apostle is elsewhere even 
more explicit, and affirms that mortals must become 
immortal to share its glory. He says: "Now this 
I say, brethren, that flesh and blood cannot inherit 
the kingdom of God ; neither doth corruption in-
herit incorruption. Behold, I show you a mystery; 
we shall not all sleep, but we shall all be changed, 
in 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," 1 Cor. 15 : 50-52. John, in vision, 
when the seventh and last angel sounded, heard 
"great voices in heaven, saying, The kingdoms of 
this world are become the kingdom of our Lord, 
and of his Christ ; and he shall reign for ever and 
ever." And the saints and elders made response, 
"We give thee thanks,0 Lord God Almighty,which 
art, and wast, and art to come ; because thou bast 
taken to thee thy great power, and halt reigned. 
And the nations were angry, and thy wrath is come, 
and the time of the dead, that they should be judg-
ed, and that thou shouldst give reward unto thy 
servants the prophets, and to the saints, and them 
that fear thy name, small and great ; and shouldat 
destroy them which destroy the earth," Rev. 11:15, 
18. 
This harmonizes with what our Saviour says in 
Matt. 13:40-43, "As therefore the tares are gather- 
ed and burned in the fire, so shall it be in the end of 
this world: The Son of man shall send forth his an- 
gels, and they shall gather out of his kingdom all 
things that offend, and them which do iniquity, and 
shall cast them into a furnace of fire: there shall be 
wailing and gnashing of teeth. Then shall the 
righteous shine forth as the sun in the kingdom of 
their Father." The only kingdom out of which, 
can be gathered offenders against the Divine gov-
ernment, is this earth in its condition of apostacy-
the dominion of which has been successively com-
mitted to dynasties, symbolized by horrid monsters, 
the gathering out from it of all things offensive and 
sinful, corresponds to the consignment of the body 
of the beast in Daniel, to the burning flame. And 
the shining forth of the righteous as the sun in the 
kingdom of their Father, when that cleansing shall 
have been affected, also corresponds to the invest-
ure of "One like the Son of man" with its regal 
dignity, and the possession of the kingdom by the 
saints. And in harmony with this, our Saviour 
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elsewhere said, in Matt. 25:31-46: "When the 
Son of man shall come in his glory, and all the ho- 
ly angels with him, then shall he sit upon the throne 
of his glory, and before him shall be gathered all 
nations ;" and "then shall the King say unto them 
on his right hand, Come, ye blessed of my Father, 
inherit the kingdom prepared for you from the foun-
dation of the world"—the sentence to those on his 
left being, "Depart ye cursed " &c ; for "these shall 
go away into everlasting punishment, but the righ-
teous into life eternal." The epoch of the fulfill- 
ment of this prediction, can he no other than that 
in Daniel ; it is "when the Son of man shall come 
in his glory ;" and therefore the kingdom that the 
righteous will be thus summoned to inherit, is iden- 
tical with "the kingdom and dominion, and the 
greatness of the kingdom under the whole heaven," 
which "shall be given to the people of the saints of 
the most High," at the termination of the beastly 
governments, and the transfer to the Son of ever-
lasting dominion. 
As the foregoing scriptures are explicit,—teach-
ing that flesh and blood do not inherit the kingdom, 
that the resurrection of the pious dead and change 
of the pious living to immortality mark its intro-
duction, that out of it are to be gathered all things 
offensive and workers of iniquity, and that the do- 
minion of the saints is then to be universal and 
eternal,—it is conclusive that sin and sorrow, sick- 
ness, and death, and corruption will be henceforth 
forever unknown. And as nations of mortals on 
probation will no longer exist, the people and lan- 
guages who shall serve the Son for ever will be those 
seen by John in vision—the"great multitude,which 
no man could number, of all nations and kindreds, 
and people and tongues," who "stood before the 
Lamb, clothed with white robes, and palms in their 
hands ;" of whom the angel said, "These are they 
which came out of great tribulation, and have wash-
ed their robes, and made them white in the blood of 
the Lamb," Rev. 7:9-14. And these sang to the 
Lamb, "a new song, saying, Thou art worthy to 
take the book, and to open the seals thereof : for 
thou wast slain, and hast redeemed us to God by thy 
blood out of every kindred ,and tongue,and people,and 
nation ; and bast made us unto our God kings and 
priests : and we shall reign on the earth," Rev. 5: 
9, 10. 
Of such our Saviour said, "They which shall be 
accounted worthy to obtain that world, and the res-
urrection from the dead, neither marry, nor are 
given in marriage ; neither can they die any more ; 
for they are equal unto the angels, and are the 
children of God, being the children of the resurrec-
tion," Luke 20:35, 6. And not man alone, but the 
entire creation will share in that wonderful renova-
tion. "For the creature was made subject to vani-
ty, not willingly, but by reason of him who hath 
subjected the same in hope, because the creature it-
self also shall be delivered from the bondage of cor-
ruption into the glorious liberty of the children of 
God. For we know that the whole creation groan-
eth and travaileth in pain together until now. And 
not only t: ey, but ourselves also which have the 
first fruits of the Spirit, even we ourselves groan 
within ourselves, waiting for the adoption, to wit, 
the redemption of our body" Rom. 8;19, 23. We 
thus now have only "the earnest of our inheritance 
until the redemption of the purchased possession," 
(Eph. 1:14) ; when, "One like unto the Son of 
man" will exercise the sovereignty of earth. "For 
unto the angels hath he not put in subjection the 
world to come, whereof we speak. But one in a 
certain place testified, saying, What is man, that 
thou art mindful of him ? or the son of man that 
thou visitest him ? thou madest him a little lower 
than the angels; thou crownedst him with glory and 
honor, and didst set him over the work of thy hands ; 
thou hast put all things in subjection under his 
feet. For in that he put all in subjection under 
him, he left nothing that is not put under him. But 
now we see not yet all things put under 
him. But we see Jesus, who was made a little low-
er than the angels for the suftering of death, crown-
ed with glory and honor,that he by the grace of God 
should taste death for every man." Heb. 2:5-9. 
And having thus vanquished death, made provi-
sion for the recovery of immortality by his redeem-
ed ones, and re-purchased the forfeited inheritance, 
we may, "according to his promise, look for new 
heavens and a new earth, wherein dwelleth right-
eousness," (2 Pet. 3:13): when He will take to him-
self his great power, and reign over the renewed 
earth for ever—his enemies being made his foot-
stool. For the Lord "shall send Jesus Christ,which 
before was preached unto you: whom the heaven 
must receive until the times of the restitution of all 
things, which God bath spoken by the mouth of all 
the holy prophets since the world began," Acts 3: 
20, 21. And thus will be fulfilled the vision in Ba-
bylon of the Hebrew seer, of One like the Son of 
man coming in the clouds of heaven, and receiving 
dominion, and glory, and a kingdom, that all peo- 
ple, nations, and languages,—i. e. the righteous 
ones gathered from all such,—should serve Him ; 
whose dominion is an everlasting dominion, which 
shall not pass away, and His kingdom that which 
shall not be destroyed. 
The Government Retreat. 
Last week we had to record the retreat of the gov- 
ernment troops from before the face of the insur-
gents. When king David had sinned by numbering 
Israel, God gave him his choice of judgments : The 
prophet God said to him, "Shall seven years of fam-
ine come unto thee in thy land? or wilt thou flee 
three months before thine enemies, while they per-
sue thee? or will there be three days' pestilence in 
thy land?" 1 Ch. 24 : 13. A defeat, therefore is a 
judgment ; so that the retreat of our forces shows a 
fault somewhere. There was either a spirit of re-
venge, or self reliance, an independence of God's 
guidance, or some other cause; which made a re-
treat necessary. For God, in any war, may find it 
necessary to punish both sides in the contest,—even 
that side whose arms he may design ultimately to 
crown with success. 
This principle is strikingly illustrated in the con-
test between the children of Israel, and the erring 
Benjaminites, as recorded in the 20th chapter of 
Judges :— 
The children of Benjamin, having wrought folly 
in Israel, when remonstrated with, instead of put-
ting away the evil from themselves, gathered togeth-
er twenty six thousand men, and went out to make 
war upon Israel. Here was an insurrection in Is-
rael,—a secession of one tribe from the twelve. Be-
ing thus assailed with the sword, "the children of 
Israel arose, and went up to the house of God, and 
asked counsel of God, and said Which of us shall go 
up first to the battle against the children of Benja-
min? And the Lord said, Judah shall go up first." 
They did so, and the men of Israel put themselves 
in array against Benjamin but the men of Benja-
min slew twenty-two thousand of them. 
Then "the children of Israel went up and wept 
before the Lord until even, and asked counsel of the 
Lord, saying, Shall I go up again to battle against 
the children of Benjamin my brother ? And the 
Lord said, Go up against him." They again went, 
and again Benjamin slew of them eighteen thousand 
men. 
"Then all the children of Israel, and all the peo-
ple, went up, and came unto the house of God, and 
wept, and sat there before the Lord, and fasted that 
day until even,and offered burnt offerings and peace 
offerings before the Lord. And the children of Israel 
enquired of the Lord, saying, Shall I yet again go 
out to battle against the children of Benjamin my 
brother, or shall I cease ? And the Lord said go 
up; for to-morrow I will deliver them into thine 
hands." The children of Israel again went up 
against Benjamin, who began to smite the men of 
Israel as before,and slew about thirty of them ; when 
the battle turned, "and the Lord smote Benjamin 
before Israel : and the children of Israel destroyed of 
the Benjaminites that day twenty and five thousand 
and an hundred men." So that of the entire army 
of Benjamin, only six hundred escaped and fled to 
the wilderness unto the rock Rimmon, where they 
abode four months ; and the entire tribe was almost 
annihilated. 
In this instance, justice, as between the men of 
Israel and of Benjamin, was evidently on the side of 
the former : God designed the punishment of Benja-
min, and so directed Israel to go up against them ; 
but then Israel,as appears from the result, could not 
have been faultless, and also needed chastisement ; 
and so God in punishing Benjamin by the hand of 
Israel, and almost exterminating them, first inflicted 
chasteisment on Israel by destroying forty thousand 
of them, as a punishment doubtless for their sins. 
From God's thus dealing with his ancient people, 
we may learn that no nation may hope for exemp-
tion from punishment ; and as our own government, 
—althrough the best, excepting that of ancient Is-
rael, on which the sun ever shone—is not faultless, 
and therefore is not undeserving of chastisement, so 
may we not expect uninterrupted success in the con-
test now being waged. No matter how great the 
wickedness of those who are waging war against us, 
and irrespective of the depth of humiliation to which 
God may purpose to cast that traitorous confeder-
acy, He may in the meantime, see fit also greatly to 
chasten the loyal states ; for they have been boast-
ful, and self reliant, and have not been obedient to 
the Divine requirements as they should have been. 
The first thing, therefore, which those loyal to the 
government, ought to do, should be to humble them-
selves before God, become loyal to Him, seek his 
guidance ; and, in going forth to battle,they should 
recognize his might ; for those who trust solely to 
bow or spear, to an arm of flesh, to the legs of a 
horse, or the number and efficiency of rifled ordi-
nance, will lack an element of strength, without 
which victory cannot be hoped for. 
There is one thing in connection with the battle 
of Sunday July 21st, which needs explanation. 
Why was the Sabbath chosen as the day of battle ? 
Did our forces voluntarily make the attack on that 
day ? or were they assailed and compelled to defend 
their own position? If the former, it would be a 
sufficient reason to expect a repulse. We do not 
know that it was so, and hope that it was not ; but 
if not, there were sufficient reasons for fearing the 
result. There has been a bravo, and recklessness on 
the part of some of our regiments, quite painful ; 
and as they advanced south from Washington, there 
was manifested hilarity and mirth,which were quite 
out of place among men about to face danger in its 
most appalling form. And it seems also, that con-
gressmen and others, including ladies, had gone 
down to see the expected fight, and whose presence 
tended to swell the panic. We trust that in the fu-
ture prosecution of this contest, there may be a ful-
ler realization of the solemnity of the undertaking, 
and that God's guidance may be more earnestly 
sought, not only by those called into battle, but by 
all who seek the restoration of the government, God 
has given us, to its benign and peaceful rule. 
The Late Battle. 
The last Herald mentioned the advance of the gov- 
ernment army towards Richmond, and the disastrous 
check it had received at Manassas Junction. The 
Philadelphia North American learns the cause of the 
disaster as follows : 
"It appears that when the weight of the secession 
force made it necessary to fall back, the army wag- 
oners, too confident of victory, had so closely follow- 
ed the advance that it was apprehended that they 
would embarrass the movements of the troops. 
Soldiers not then in action, fatigued with their long 
march and subsequent share in the engagement,were 
resting in and under the wagons and among the 
trees. Orders came for the wagoners to fall back 
for a mile ; the intention being only that they should 
give place for the movements of the troops. Reserves 
were ready near Centreville, at that point, and at 
other places. Indeed the whole column would have 
been brought into action, but for the sudden and 
most unhappy retreat. 
"The wagoners mistook the order for a confession 
of defeat, and save himself who can became the feel-
ing. The fatigued soldiers who were out of their 
ranks, and scattered as above stated, shared the 
panic, and being under no control, acted each for 
himself. The civilians helped the confusion, and the 
rest is known, though our informant contends, and 
clearly shows, more than happened, and a rout 
much more disastrous than the real event was car-
ried to Washington, and thence sent over the whole 
country by the first fugitives, who were of course 
most alarmed. 
"At this point of affairs occurred that incident of 
the battle which will carry grief to hundreds of fire-
sides in Virginia. This , part of the battle was des-
cribed to our informant by a gentleman, a civilian, 
who was an unwilling and horrified witness of the 
slaughter. The Black Rangers, a company of a 
hundred formed of Virginia gentlemen riding their 
own horses, came from the cover of the rebel batter-
ies with the shout, 'kill the d—d red caps !' The 
Zouaves, who were on the point of retreating, faced 
about and received the charge with a volley which 
swept many from their saddles. The scattered sold-
iers at the wayside turned and fired on the Rangers. 
The Zouaves, their pieces being discharged, pulled 
others of the riders from their horses, and finished 
the work of death with the bayonet. The gentle-
man who witnessed this, all unused to such scenes, 
describes the fall of these riders as a spectacle most 
awful. He saw seven of them only escape, ' and 
counted them twice." 
It is thought that the enemy had no conception of 
the extent of our disaster, but regarded our move-
ment as made for the purpose] of drawing them out 
of their entrenchments, a mistake from which they 
have hardly yet recovered. They were suffering so 
severely themselves, and beginning to be so terror-
stricken, that the fortunes of the day would very 
probably have changed had the reserve been ordered 
up; and it is believed by many that had this reserve 
been ordered to make a stand at Centreville, they 
could have successfully done so, until our other regi-
ments not in the action could have come up. 
It now appears evident that the advance towards 
Richmond was contrary to the cool judgment of Gen. 
Scott ; who relies more on stragetic and masterly 
tactics, than on fighting and bloodshed, for success-
ful results. A fearful responsibility rests on editors 
and others who have urged him on ; and it is hoped 
that henceforth he may be permitted to take his 
own time, and conduct the campaign in his own 
manner. 
Now that the smoke of the battle has cleared off, 
it is found that our troops retired with much less 
loss, and in far better order than was last week sup-
posed. The enemy, it appears, were worse cut up 
than our forces, and had commenced a retreat ; and 
they were so ill prepared to believe that our troops 
Atrocious Savageness. 
We have been struck, for a long time, in reading 
the remarks and expressions of the secessionists, 
with the intense hatred generally manifested by 
them towards our government, and everything north-
ern. And this implacability is seen in almost every 
act of theirs. Says the Boston Journal: 
"We hardly know what to make of the reports at- 
tributing inhuman cruelties to the rebels at and af-
ter the late battle. But they rest on apparently 
good authority, being that of many soldiers who 
claim to have been eye witnesses. They are said to 
have kicked and bayoneted our wounded, to have 
fired into our hospital and killed a surgeon while in 
the act of dressing a wounded soldier, and to have 
carried off other surgeons from the midst of the dy-
ing. It is to be expected that exceptional instances of 
cruelty will occur in the excitement of battle, but 
here were orders given by commanding officers to 
bayonet the wounded by the road-side, and the hos-
pital flag was flying openly in the sight of all when 
the balls were sent into the building. Such, at 
least, are the statements. We trust they will be 
carefully examined into, that the public may see 
whether the atrocities which Beauregard and Davis 
so falsely attributed to our troops, have been com-
mitted by theirs. We have about made up our 
minds that we have got to fight men who will stick 
to the woods and masked batteries and false flags, 
but if we are to contend against Sepoys and savages, 
let us know it." 
A correspondent of the Journal, in describing 
what he witnessed of the rout of our troops, writes: 
"I cannot describe the scene which followed. I 
am sick of the sight and would, if I could, banish 
it forever from my mind. All I can say is that 
the cavalry dashed upon our men, capturing Carlis-
le's and a part of Sherman's guns—shooting the 
horses ; captured soldiers ; deliberately shot them 
after they had surrendered ; went into the house 
used as a hospital, and killed the wounded men,and 
committed barbarities which the most abject sava-
ges in the world would scorn to do. One rebel sol-
dier was seen to cut the throat of a helpless wound-
ed soldier ! One took a stake from the fence and 
drove it through the body of a wounded man, pin-
ing him to the earth ! These reports are confirmed 
by several witnesses. 
"Rev. S. Herbert Laney, chaplain of the Second 
Connecticut Regiment who received a slight wound 
in the engagement, is now at the residence of Post-
master Clephane, of this city. He was captured by 
the enemy, but in the confusion escaped. He was 
told that the rebels had taken a solemn pledge to 
kill all prisoners. An escaped Fire Zouave confirms 
the statement. Ile says the Zouave prisoners were 
all handcuffed, their arms pinioned, and they were 
subjected to the most barbarous and inhuman indig-
nities, which they were told were preliminary to 
killing them. 
"It is now said and believed here that the enemy 
killed more of our wounded soldiers by bayonetting 
them as they lay helpless on the battle-field, after 
the termination of the fight, than were killed during 
the regular engagement. 
"A Zouave who was taken prisoner with six oth-
ers, and who subsequently effected an escape, arriv-
ed here to-night with a broken handcuff on one 
wrist. He reports that the Zouaves were treated 
with Indian barbarity by the rebels, many being 
pinioned to trees and tormented with bayonets 
thrust at them." 
It is stated that a private of the First Connecti-
cut Regiment lifted and carried a wounded rebel to 
a shady spot and gave him a drink from his can-
teen, which revived the rebel, who drew his pistol 
and shot his benefactor dead ; also, that a troop of 
rebel cavalry deliberately fired into a number of 
wounded ; also, that the rebels had taken the bay-
onets and knives of our dead and wounded and 
thrust them into their hearts, leaving them sticking 
there ; and that the Louisiana Zouaves amused 
themselves by kicking the heads they cut off as foot-
balls. 
A correspondent of the Newburyport Herald says 
that on the evening of the 4th, the nucleus was ex-
amined by the polariscope and the light found to be 
polarized, while that of the tail was not. The corn-
et is not then a world of flames but simply an opaque 
body shining by reflected light and surrounded by 
a light resembling our aurora. 
had seriously retired, that they did not pursue, and 
gave time for our troops to return and recover guns, 
ammunition, provisions, &e. to the amount of hun-
dreds of thousands of dollars that in the panic had 
been abandoned. 
The government forces have taken up their old 
position on Arlington heights,opposite Washington; 
where it is probable they will be encamped till 
after the hot season. They are being reinforced in 
large numbers. It will be some days yet, before 
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THE ADVENT HERALD. 
Thus be found the experience of Job in his trial : 
When he bath tried me, I shall come forth as 
gold." Job 23:10. To perfect His people in the 
Christian graces, God allows trial and suffering.—
" The fining pot is for silver, and the furnace for 
gold ; but the Lord trieth the hearts." " Behold 
I have refined thee, but not for silver. I have cho-
sen thee in the furnace of affliction." So it is 
written, '' Blessed is the man that endureth temp-
tation ; for when he is tried, he shall receive the 
crown of life, which the Lord bath promised to 
them that love him." 
From Sr. Elizabeth Cape. 
Dear Bro. Bliss :—I have sent my Herald among 
my friends, and they seem to like it very much. I 
think, by the blessing of God, some good will be the 
result ; but some of them say they will not believe 
what it says. They think this dispensation will not 
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end for thousands of years to come. Satan seems 
to he very busy in blinding the minds of the people 
—'knowing he bath a short time. 
Dear brother, I intend to be a subscriber for life. 
The Herald is the only Advent preaching I have 
here, or have ever had since I left our beloved 
church in England over twelve years ago. 1 had 
almost given up in despair, when my beloved sister 
Salt sent me a quantity of Heralds, with two num-
bers of the Voice of the Prophets. These, by the 
blessing of God, enabled me to renew my covenant 
afresh with God. When very young I received a 
change of heart, and believing from the word of 
God that the Baptist church was the right one, I, 
through much persecution from an earthly father, 
joined the church—believing, with the rest, that the 
world must he converted through the preaching of 
the gospel, until twenty-four years ago this month. 
I was then called by Providence to hear a beloved 
brother preach the soon coming Saviour. I hesita-
ted to believe it ; I searched the word of God ; and 
I went to the throne of grace, and asked God to 
show me the right way. In answer, as sudden as a 
flash of lightning I felt, " This is the way, walk ye 
in it." I trust, by Divine help, I obeyed the call; 
and I want the whole world to know our beloved 
doctrine does not come from man, but is the power 
of God to them that believe it. If I am called to 
suffer, and to die for this glorious cause, I am will-
ing to submit, knowing in a little while, " He that 
shall come, will come, and will not tarry." 
Dear brethren and sisters, let us now lift up our 
heads and rejoice ; for passing events tell us, our 
redemption draweth nigh. Then we shall meet 
those we love for Jesus' sake. I can truly say with 
the poet, 
" I love the sons of grace, 
The heirs of bliss divine." 
Yours, waiting for the long-expected day, 
ELIZABETH CAPE. 
From Bro. Thomas Smith. 
Bro. Bliss :—Permit me to say through the Her-
ald that I am still, in the field of labor, preaching 
the acceptable year of the Lord, together with the 
day of vengeance of our God, and endeavoring to 
comfort all that mourn. I am advanced in age, be-
ing nearly threescore and ten, yet my health is 
good, any hope is cheering, and prospects of a better 
world near encouraging. In view of the events now 
passing in the world, I think we Are authorized to 
say, with Peter on the day of Pentecost, "This is 
that which was spoken by the prophet Joel,"—and 
also other prophets—all of which indicate the com-
mencement of the time of trouble, and therefore 
the only safe position we can occupy is that of a 
waiting one. I certainly think it possible, if not 
probable, that our hope may be consummated even 
before the year 1867—.8, the period to which some 
look with so much interest ; but whether so or not, 
our undoubted duty at this, and all times, is to "be 
also ready." May we, through grace, live in con-
stant readiness, that at Jesus' coming we may ex-
claim, " This is the Lord ; we have waitedjor him, 
and he will save us." Amen. �
swri,filIss 
Fraternally yours in hope, err "m1 si)eAr 
THOMAS SMITH. 
Round Pond, Me., July 19, 1861. 
Comanche, June 17, 1861. 
Burns, Wis., July 18, 1861. 
self-justification, and be uncondemned ! While I 
can in meekness and faith and hope affirm, " My 
witness is in heaven, and my record is on high," it 
is in the language and sentiment and feeling of the 
poor colored brother: 
" I am a poor sinner, and nothing at all ; 
But Jesus Christ is my all in all." 
With faith in Christ's righteousness I look up, 
hope, and live, and with this faith resist every ar-
row of unbelief, and the fiery darts of skepticism, 
singing, triumphantly and exultingly :— 
" Should all the forms that men devise 
Assault my faith with treacherous art, 
I'd•call them vanity and lies, 
And bind the gospel to my heart." 
In the case of Job and the prophets, and the ho-
ly men of all ages, who have attained a high state 
of justification and sanctification, their experience 
has been polished and brightened through the trial 
they were called to pass. The furnace has purged 
them ; and do not we need, and the Christian world 
need afflictions to cleanse us dour remaining dross, 
and drive us nearer to Christ the fountain? 
I will close by giving the experience of that re-
markable character, John Bunyan, while in the 
Bedford jail : 
" I have had," says Bunyan, " sweet sights of 
the forgiveness of sins in this place, and of my be-
ing with Jesus in another world. 0 the Mt. Zion, 
the heavenly Jerusalem ! I have seen that here 
which I am persuaded I shall never while in this 
world be able to express; I have seen a truth in this 
scripture, 1 Pet. 1:8. I never knew what it was 
for God to stand by me at all times, and at every 
effort of Satan to afflict me, as I have found him 
since I came in hither ; for lo ! as fears have pre-
sented themselves, so have supports and comforts 
and encouragements, insomuch that I have said, 
were it lawful I could pray for greater trouble for 
greater comfort's sake. Before I came to prison I 
saw what was coming, and had experienced two 
considerations on my heart : 1st, how to be able to 
encounter death, should that be here my portion ; 
and was comforted by Col. 1:11. 2d, endure pa-
tience and long-suffering ; and instructed by 2 Cor. 
1:9. So that I passed the sentence of death on all 
—everything of this life. . . But notwithstanding 
these helps, I found myself a man encompassed with 
infirmities. The parting with my wife and poor 
children bath often been to me, in this place, as 
pulling the flesh from the bones, and that not only 
because I am somewhat too fond of these great mer-
cies, but because I would not think of the many 
hardships, miseries and wants that my poor family 
were like to meet with—especially my poor blind 
child, who lay nearer to my heart than all beside. 
Oh the thought of the hardships my poor blind one 
might undergo, would break my heart to pieces.—
Poor child ! thought I, what sorrow art thou like 
to have for thy portion in this world ! Thou must 
be beaten, must beg, suffer hunger, cold, nakedness 
and a thousand calamities ! But yet recalling my-
self, thought I, I must venture you all with God, 
though it goeth to the quick to leave you ! Oh, in 
this condition I saw I was as a man pulling down 
his house upon Isis head ; and yet I thought I must 
do it. Then I thought of 1 Sam. 6:10." 
Considering he might be brought to the gibbet, 
he was afraid that he would not have strength and 
consolation for the hour, and that he would shrink 
and not show the confidence worthy of a Christian 
soldier meeting his fate ; but manning his courage, 
lie says, —" If God does not come in, thought I, I 
will not flinch a hair. I shall have a chance to 
speak one word for Jesus to the assembled multi- 
tudes ; I will leap off the ladder, even blindfold, 
into eternity : sink or swim, come heaven, come 
hell : Lord Jesus, if thou wilt catch me, do. If 
not, I will venture all for thy name. I was no soon-
er fixed in this resolution than my heart was full of 
comfort. I would not have been without this trial 
forPWYt I mcomforted,PYPFL4e IWI* of 
From S. J. Lowell. 
Bro. Bliss :—I am very anxious to have the Her-
ald continue ; for I find true satisfaction in perus-
ing its columns from week to week. I am a firm 
believer in the second advent of our dear Redeemer, 
and I am glad I ever embraced this precious doe-
trine, and I am determined to do all that I can in 
the cause. I send you one dollar to lengthen out 
my subscription, which pays to Jan. 1st, 1862. 
-Yours in faith, 
SAMUEL J. LOWELL. 
Winchendon, Mass., July 20. 
From Bro. E. Tritton. 
Dear Sir : — I think if some Advent preacher 
would come this way and give a course of lectures, 
some good might be done. I feel very anxious to 
have one come, and had I the means I would send 
for one. I feel that the time is short, and 1 want 
to be ready when my Master comes, that I may go 
out with joy to meet him, and be re-united with 
those loved ones that have gone before use, and with 
them unite in singing the song of Moses and the 
Lamb forever and ever. 1 hope the Herald will be 
sustained until the Master comes. Yours, 
E. TRITTON. 
From Bro. R. B. Woodcock. 
Dear Bro. Bliss :—In defence of the truth, and 
for the sake of Christ and his little flock, 1 again 
present you with a few remarks for your considera-
tiOn. 
CORRESPONDENCE. 
In this department, articles are solicited, on thegeneral 
subject of the Advent, from friends of the Herald, over 
their own signatures, irrespective of the particular views 
which it defends. Views of correspondents not dissented 
from, are not necessarily to be considered as editorially 
endorsed. Correspondents are expected to avoid all rers 
sonalities, and to study Christian courtesy in all reference-
to views and persons. Any departure from this should be 
regarded as eisentitling the writer to any reply. Christian 
and gentlemanly discussion will be in order ; but not 
needless,unkind, or uncourteous..ontroversy. 
Justification. No. 5. 
Individual and critical examination into our reli-
gious experience, may find many who entertain hope 
of final salvation destitute of a saving knowledge of 
that grace needful to secure it. How important, 
therefore, is self-examination, in the light of God's 
word. We should not compare our experiences 
with others, in these days of religious declension, 
for this would not be wise, but with the only true 
standard and rule of faith and practice, the Word 
of God, by which we are to be judged at the last 
day. We should not take the judgment seat, and 
sit in judgment upon the experience of others, Rev. 
1, but judge and prove our own selves, and see whe-
ther we stand in the grace of God. Let this work 
be thorough,—prying into the depths of our own 
hearts, scanning the emotions, and motions, and 
purposes, of our own souls, and the daily conduct 
of our lives, Like one who in a financial crisis, 
fearing his own embarrassment, takes an account of 
stock to see how he stands with the business world, 
so should we know whether we be " covered " and 
secure in our heavenly inheritance from the de-
mands and claims of the law. " Agre6 with thine 
adversary. quickly, while thou art in the way with 
him ; lest' at any time the adversary deliver thee to 
the judge, and the judge deliver thee to the officer, 
and thou be cast into prison. Verily I say unto 
thee, Thou shalt by no means come out thence, till 
thou hast paid the uttetunest farthing." 
The faith of assurance in respect to our religious 
experience is needed, and should be secured and 
maintained to the end of life, if we would be saved. 
Take up with nothing short of this, as you value 
your own soul and eternal life. It is to be attain-
ed ; but Satan, the world, and your own evil heart 
of unbelief, and evil influences, will hinder you 
from securing this high state of Christian enjoy-
ment, if possible. But dilly-dally nor parley with 
them for a moment, lest you be lost lost ! while 
you delay this work ! Obtain at once the joys of 
his salvation and the witness of the Spirit, Roin. 8, 
if you would he saved. Wrestle, pray, agonize, 
and rather die in the struggle than to give up with-
out the essential blessing of justification and recon-
ciliation with God. The blessing is too valuable to 
be lost. 
An individual of my acquaintance, under deep 
conviction of sin, and his need of Christ, and desir-
ing the assurance of salvation,—for he wished to 
take up with nothing short,—after days of prayer 
and repentance, finally went into his shop, and turn-
ing the key upon the door, resolved he would never 
unlock the door, nor leave the place, until he had 
found forgiveness and pardon, and the peace and joy 
and hope of justification. He would die on the spot 
rather than give up the struggle for the attainment 
of eternal life. The result was what we might have 
expected. The faith and earnestness for salvation, 
which would induce one to do this, could not but 
result in a triumph and victory. Ile was blest,and 
his soul was filled with gratitude and joy and hope 
exceeding and full of glory. The same blessing is 
in store for all others who will thus seek for it ; for 
the promise of God is, " And ye shall seek me, and 
find me, when ye shall search for me with all your 
heart." I have the gratification and privilege of 
offering it to all who will believe on the Lord Jesus 
Christ and seek his salvation. I myself am a sin-
net saved by grace, and know in a measure the 
blessedness of those whose iniquities are forgiven, 
and whose sins are covered, and to whom the Lord 
will not impute sin. Blessed be God for this happy 
experience which fills my soul. I trust I do not re-
ly upon self-justification and self-perfection, for "If 
1 justify myself, mine own mouth shall condemn me: 
if I say, I am perfect, it shall also prove me per-
verse." So said Job, of whom it is written,"That 
man was perfect and upright, and one that feared 
God and eschewed evil," and of whom God said to 
Satan, " Hast thou considered my servant Job,that 
there is none like him on the earth, a perfect and 
an upright man, one that feareth God, and eschew-
eth evil." How much less should I, of less up- 
rightness and perfection and experience, trust in 
The A. M. A.-and the Advent church in general, 
have become thoroughly indoctrinated in the theory 
of a pre-millennial judgment,and a first resurrection 
at the last day. 
This appears on almost every page of the Advent 
Herald, that is so highly prized by its readers, for 
the "meat it gives in due season." But is this 
"Strong meat,"--the pre-millennial judgment, and 
the last great day at hand, the food most suitable 
for the church at the present day ? Would not the 
"sincere milk of the word," if rightly divided, be 
more nourishing to the children of the kingdom, in 
this their hour of temptation and trial? 
Multitudes believing an error will never make 
truth of it ; and truth never loses anything by hon-
est investigation. 
The doctrine alluded to, is seen, in the article un-
der head of "The Stone enlarged to a Mountain and 
Filling the earth." 
In this article Bro. B. has "arrived at the con-
clusion that the Stone was symbolic of Emmanuel, 
� `God manifested in the flesh,' . . . . 
in connection with his ransomed living church ; and 
that the mountain from which the stone was severed 
without hands, was the representative of the 'na-
tions, and kindreds, and people, and tongues,' out 
of which there will have been redeemed to God, . . 
. . the great white robed multitude ;" . . ,. So far 
the conclusion is supported by the truth. But it 
does not follow that all of bro. B.'s conclusions 
are in such perfect harmony with the "word.". If 
Christ, "the head ; " and "they that are Christ's 
at his coming," are united by the first resurrection, 
they then become this living stone, redeemed from 
death and ransomed from the grave. And if they 
that are Christ's receive power to rule the nations 
with a rod of iron, and dash them to pieces, . . . 
it is after they are thus redeemed and united to 
Christ in their resurrected, and immortal bodies. 
Then it follows, that this judgment work of smiting 
the nations represented by the image, is after the 
first resurrection. And if after—How long after ? 
None have part in the first resurrection but the 
"blessed and holy." None who are worthy to en-
ter into that rest that "remains for the people of 
God," and live and reign with Christ a thousand 
years," while the rest of the dead live not. If this 
is true, then when will this smiting of the nations 
be accomplished ? 
They that now sleep in Jesus, are to be "ever 
with the Lord." They will follow the Lamb where-
soever lie goeth." They will follow the King of 
kings, to the great battle of Rev. 19. But when? 
They will "bind the tares in bundles to be burned" 
—"in the time of the harvest." They will "bind 
their kings in chains, and their nobles in fetters of 
iron ; to execute upon them the judgment written : 
this honor have all his saints." But when ? 
"Know ye not that the saints shall judge the 
earth ?" And that this judgment work is after the 
rest of the dead live again, and after Satan is loosed 
out of his prison? -Wherever Satan is, there is woe. 
Till Satan is bruised under foot, death will reign. 
Till death is destroyed the curse remains ; and while 
the curse remains the earth is not made new, nor 
the kingdom prepared for the righteous. if any 
doubt this, let him read Rev. 20th carefully. Is 
not the loosing of Satan out of his prison, at the 
expiration of the thousand years, incontrovertible 
evidence that the curse remains? and that the last 
great day of the wrath of God is post-millennial? 
When Christ by six thousand years' labour, has 
prepared for himself the materials for this living 
stone, in the mountain of the kingdoms of this world, 
he will surely come again, and gather them by 
the first resurrection, at the voice of the seventh an-
gel, or last trump. Will the saints who now sleep 
in Jesus be awaked to this judgment work, with a 
two edged sword in their hand, and without any 
further preparation ? At the coming of Christ in 
the clouds, one is taken and another left. This is 
applicable to the dead, as well as the living. Will 
those who are caught up in the clouds to meet the 
Lord in the air, turn back to smite those who are 
left? Certainly not. This is the work of the wrath-
ful dragon and his angels, under the third woe. 
This third woe follows the first resurrection, and 
brings death to those that are living, who are left ; 
but not the second death. Is not the judgment after 
this? If after, how long after? Is not the whole im-
age included in the rest of the dead, who live not 
again for a thousand years after the first resurrec-
tion ? The great body of the stone, and of the im-
age are now dead ; but it is not a dead stone, that 
smites a dead image. Therefore it must be after the 
stone is brought to life. Again, it is not a living 
stone, that smites a dead image ; but a living stone 
smiting a living image, upon its living feet, and liv-
ing legs, and living body, and living head, and dash-
es it in pieces like a potter's vessel. Therefore the 
smiting of the image is post-millennial. The mem-
bers of the first-born church, can never be added to, 
nor diminished, after the door is shut. 
After the thousand years are finished, and the rest 
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of the dead live again, and the nations stand upon 
their feet, and Satan comes out of the pit, and the 
beast of Rev. 13 comes out of the sea, the mountain 
of believers, or the righteous who are then gathered 
out of the nations, by the stone kingdom, (clothed in 
sackcloth,) in the time of the harvest, becomes the 
bride, the Lamb's wife, and at her marriage feast, 
all things are made new. 
But these can never become the Smiting stone. 
The wheat can never bind the tares, to execute upon 
them the judgment written ; nor will the sheep fight 
against the goats. 
The woman that brought forth the man-child 
who was to rule the nations, (an event yet future,) 
is not herself the ruler of the nations, nor the mi-
ter of the image. But it is by her that the stone 
kingdom is enlarged into its mountain proportions, 
and fills the whole earth, under the peaceful, and 
everlasting reign of Christ her living Head, and of 
the kings and priests of the first resurrection. By 
the power of Christ alone, the nations that now are 
will be ruled with a rod of iron, and dashed in pie-
ces, under the seals and the trumpets, till "in the 
days of the voice of the seventh angel �
 the 
mystery of God shall be finished," . . . and the elect 
gathered home. This commandment, Christ has 
received of his Father. 
But when the great body of the kingdoms, of 
which the image was a symbol, "and the whole 
house of Israel, even all of it ;" are called back from 
their graves, at the expiration of the millennial sab-
bath ; then it is that the first fruits of the kingdom, 
will be associated with Christ, in the power over 
the nations, to save the sheep, and break up and 
acatter the goats to the winds. 
The great multitude of white robed believers,that 
die in the faith of the gospel, are represented by the 
cutting of the stone, (or individual members of the 
stone,) out of the mountain of unbelievers, by the 
preaching of the gospel, and the conversion of sin-
ners. 
The stone, when tried, and finished, and made 
ready for the smiting, represents the church trium-
phant, when the heirs of immortality become im-
mortal. The scattered broken fragments of this 
stone, gathered from the mountains, and dens and 
prisons, and caves, and fires of the earth ; of whom 
the mountain of unbelievers was not worthy ; are 
by the power of the resurrection, united to Christ 
their living head, in one living body ; and by the 
blood of Christ, become like Christ-The power of 
God unto salvation to them that believe, (to the 
sheep,) and the ruling, binding, smiting power of 
God over all his enemies. It is the seed of the wo-
man that shall bruise the serpent's head. The prom-
ise of the Stone becoming a great mountain, and 
filling the whole earth, is no more than was includ-
ed in the blessing to Adam, from the foundation of 
the world ; Gen. 1: 28, and renewed to Noah, Gen. 
9:1. 
When this world passes away, and all things are 
restored to their Eden state, this only law of nature 
by which we live, will be renewed to the bride in a 
new and everlasting covenant that cannot be brok- 
en. �
Then sin, and death, and every curse is remov- 
ed far away. This is the only means by which the 
increase of the government of the stone kingdom 
will be perpetuated, or the Mountain of the Lord's 
house, be established in the top of the mountains, 
and exalted above the hills. To this woman and 
her seed is made the promise of Isa. 59:21, and 46: 
22. While the earth endures, old or new, there 
will be no end of children ; "for of such is the king-
dom of heaven." 
Dear Bro. examine these things carefully, in view 
of eternity. and of the glory of the kingdom, and in 
view of the danger of being deceived. The Lord 
be with you, and give you understanding in all 
things. 
Yours truly, 
II. B. WOODCOCK. 
Connersville Ind. 
Night Thoughts. 
Jesus will come. Who said so ? Jesus. And 
who is Jesus ? The Son of God ; he who was born 
of the Virgin Mary in a stable and cradled in a man-
ger ; he of whom it was announced by the angels, 
to the shepherds, watching their flocks by night, 
on the plains of Bethlehem, "Behold we bring you 
glad tidings of great joy which shall be to all peo-
ple ; for unto you is born this day in the city of Da-
vid a Saviour, which is Christ the Lord ;" he who 
spake as never man spake said, "If I go away, I 
will come again, and receive you to myself that 
where I am, there you may be also.'" 
And will he come again on this earth ? If his 
word he true he will surely come again. Thy word 
0 Lord, is true, from the beginning. Thou didst 
come according to the Scriptures ; thy birth place 
was among the poor and the lowly ; thou west the 
man of sorrows and acquainted with grief ; thou 
, �
didst exclaim, the foxes have belee, the birds of the 
didst exclaim, 
air have nests, but the Son of Man bath not where 
to lay his head ; thou wast taken by wicked hands, 
crucified, wast buried in Joseph's new tomb ; and 
rose again the third day, according to the Scriptur- 
es. �
Before leaving the earth, thou didst say to thy 
disciples, If I go away I will come back again, and 
after thus saying he ascended up and a cloud re-
ceived him out of their sight. And while they stood 
gazing up into heaven, with breathless silence, to 
catch the last glimpse of their beloved Master. God 
sends his angels down with words of comfort to those 
mourning disciples,saying, "Ye men of Galilee,why 
stand ye gazing up into heaven ? This same Jesus 
which is taken up from you into heaven shall so 
come in like manner as ye have seen him go into 
heaven." 
Lord, we believe ; and now what wait we for ? 
We have been looking for thy coming, lo, these 
many years, and hailed with joy every token of thy 
near approach ; and yet thou dost tarry. Thou hest 
given us signs by which we might know that our 
redemption was drawing near. Those signs are in 
the past, and yet thou dost not return. Our days 
have been sad and mournful, while we have follow-
ed our loved ones to the silent tomb. Yes, we have 
thought of the poor widow of Nain, while wending 
our way to the lone burying ground and wished Je-
sus were here to raise the poor widow's son and re-
store him back again ; but still the Life giver does 
not come ; but his voice is still sounding, "I will 
come again and give life to the dead, and rest to the 
weary." 
0 ! ye desponding ones, lift up your heads, and 
look up ; for your redemption draweth nigh. Ye 
watchers on the watch-tower, look yonder ! See 
signs of approaching day. Lo, the Morning corn-
eth, and in watching, waiting, sighing, praying, 
looking, longing, groaning for redemption,believing 
Jesus will come. 
MUZZEY. 
The Philosopher's Scales. 
What were they ? you ask, you shall presently see ; 
These scales were not made to weigh sugar and tea, 
0 no ;-for such properties wondrous had they, 
That qualities, feelings and thoughts, they could 
weigh, 
Together with articles, small or immense, 
From mountains, or planets, to atoms of sense. 
Naught was there so bulky but there it could lay, 
And naught so ethereal but there it would stay, 
And naught so reluctant but in it must go: 
All which some examples more clearly will show. 
The first thing he tried was the head of Voltaire, 
Which retained all the wit that had ever been there. 
As a weight he threw in the torn scrap of a leaf, 
Containing the prayer of the penitent thief-
When the skull rose aloft with so sudden a spell 
As to bound like a ball on the roof of the cell. 
Next time he put in Alexander the Great, 
With a garment that Dorcas had made-for a 
weight ; 
And though clad in armor from sandals to crown, 
The hero rose up, and the garment went down. 
A long row of alms-houses, amply endowed 
By a well-esteemed Pharisee, busy and proud, 
Now loaded one scale, while the other was pressed 
By two mites the poor widow dropped into the chest. 
Up flew the endowment, not weighing an ounce ; 
And down, down, the farthing's worth came, with 
a bounce. 
By further experiments (no matter how) 
He found that ten chariots weighed less than one 
plow. 
A sword with gilt trappings rose up in the scale, 
Though balanced by only a ten-penny nail, 
A lord and a lady went up in full sail, 
When a bee chanced to light on the opposite scale. 
Ten doctors, ten lawyers, two courtiers, one earl, 
Ten counsellor's wigs full of powder and curl, 
All heaped in one balance,and swinging from thence, 
Weighed less than some atoms of candour and sense. 
And not mountains of silver and gold would suffice, 
One pearl to outweigh-'twas the pearl of great 
price. 
At last the whole world was bowled in at the grate 
With the soul of a beggar to serve for a weight, 
When the former sprung up with so strong a rebuff, 
That it made a vast rent, and escaped at the roof, 
While the scale with the soul in't so mightily fell 
That it jerked the philosopher out of his cell. 
Jsne Taylor. 
We think we gave the above some years since, 
but cannot now turn to them. There are a few 
more stanzas we think, in connection. A friend 
has sent them in the present shape, and we give ac- 
cordingly. �
En. 
Little sins multiplied become great. There is 
nothing less than a grain of sand-there is nothing 
heavier than the sand of the sea when multiplied. 
OBITUARY. 
Mrs. PHYLURA BLOOD died, in Manlius, N. Y., 
on Sabbath morning, March 17, 1861, aged 77 yrs. 
This beloved sister was an early friend of the Ad-
vent cause, and has passed through much opposition 
and trial for her faith and expectation of soon see-
ing the dear Redeemer. But now she sleeps in Je- 
sus, having washed her robes and made them white 
in the blood of the Lamb. We mourn her loss,and 
feel it is hard to part with one who was engaged in 
every good word and work. She was always ready 
to talk on our glorious hope, and it was refreshing 
and comforting to meet with her for prayer and ex-
hortation ; but we rejoice to know that she will live 
again, and that we shall meet her, in a little while, 
in the kingdom of our Father, where there will be 
no sorrow, sickness, nor cruel death. Praise God 
for our blessed hope. 
Your brother waiting for Jesus, 
SYLVANUS JUDSON. 
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few weeks. Our citizens will not be slow in getting at its 
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Boston, July 12, 1859. Bro. Whitten : I have used your 
Golden Salve- in my family, and I am acquainted with a 
large number of families also who have used it ; and I 
have reason to believe that it is really what you recom- 
mend it to be. �
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Made only by C. P. Whitten, No. 35 and 37 East Mer-
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Co. 
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From I. Wight, Augusta, Me. 
Mr. Wellcome :-Your G. G. Remedy is decidedly the 
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of phthisic and cough, of 15 years' standing, speaks of it 
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HITTEN'S GOLDEN SALVE is a step by way of 
progress in the healing art. It is adapted to all the 
purposes of a family Salve. It effectually cures piles, 
wounds, bruises, sprains, cuts, chilblains, corns, burns, 
fever-sores, scrofulous humors, erysipelas, salt-rheum, 
king's evil, rheumatism, spinal difficulties, chafings in 
warm weather, Ac. Ac., and is believed by many experi-
enced and competent judges to be the best or-nbination of 
medicinal ingredients for external inflammatory difficul-
ties that has ever been produced. Many of the best phy-
sicians of the various schools use it and also recommend it. 
Every farmer should have it for horses ; for the cure of 
scratches, sprains, chafings, Stc., and also for sore teats on 
cows. It cures felons. It oures warts. 
From Mr. Morris Fuller, of North Creek, N. Y. : "We 
find your Golden Salve to be good for everything that we 
have tried it for. Among other things for which we have 
used it, is a bad case of 'scald head' of our little girl. 
Its effect in this case was also favorable." 
" We like your Golden Salve very much in this place. 
Among other things I knew a lady who was cured of a 
very bad case of sore eyes."-Walter S. Plummer, Lake 
Village, N. H. 
Mrs. Glover, East Merrimack street, Lowell, was cured 
of a bad case of piles by the use of one box of the Salve. 
Mr. Farrington, a wealthy merchant and manufacturer 
of Lowell, was relieved of piles which had afflicted him 
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other kinds of salve. Yours is the best I ever saw. I 
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keep cows or horses." 
From Dr. Geo. Pierce, Lowell : " Your Golden Salve is 
good. It will have a great sale." 
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Golden Salvd is a great thing for chilblains. I have also 
used it in afflicting cases of salt rheum, erysipelas, and 
sore nipples. Its effect was, a speedy and permanent cure." 
Dr. Bliss, of Brunswick, Me., says : "I have several 
friends who have been cured of scrofulous humors by the 
Golden Salve. You may ecommend it from me as a val-
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" I received a wound in my foot by a rusty nail ; by 
reason of which I could not set my foot to the floor for 
two weeks. The pain was excruciating. When your Gol-
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and two and a half boxes of it wrought a perfect cure."-
Mrs. Lucinda A. Swain, Merideth Centre, N. H. 
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names in his paper, of persons cured of wounds, sores, hu-
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them ; who, he says, are among the first citizens of the 
place. 
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healthy action in a few days ; also another of an old man, 
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THE ADVEN T HERALD. 
" Thank you, auntie, I love you, 0 ever in this vicinity, at this meeting. Come up in the name of 
e Lord ; bring your families and tents with you, and 
so much ;" and she kissed the lady's handspend the week especially devoted to the service of God • 
again and again. 
That afternoon Miss Grey spent in ear- 
and. we doubt nut, as in time past, it will tellno:fodrrepeymoosetursr: 
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ecsa,ulseet on s ourbe soon-coming
awa ke a 
nest thought and prayer, and her resolve As Spoldieprsi of 
hwai.ting, watching, praying, valiantly fighting fur God, 
was strong to use her influence for good. ry.ibinee60.sivaennd t o truth.
the 
 faiTthhfeulcoonnfleisct will soon end, and victo- 
She now knew that she possessed a large 
share of influence, and when she thought Committee of Arrangements — Wm. T. Irwin, Jacob 
of Alice's quick sensibilities, her large ea- Hoover, Samuel Shank, D. P. Watson, Joseph Eckley, 
Andrew Heaton, Wm. Reside. 
pacities for learning, she did not underrate �
M. L. JACKSON. 
it. �
Henceforward, the child preserved a +tc•elt oftre4A �
P.iw .7 
home in her heart, and Miss Grey repeated �
Also, a grove or campmeeting at Cooper's Settlement, 
as she heard the feet of Alice bounding C'earfield Co., Pa., to begin Aug. 22nd and continue one 
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week. The above-named brethren and others expected to 
s be pm 
merrily toward her own door, " There �
M. L. JACKSON. 
no one so poor and lowly, so isolated and �
Milesburg, July 16th, 1861. 
friendless, but some one else is either th3 
better or worse for their living." 
Every little child exerts an influence.—
Surely then there is no one who can say, 
"I've no influence." Is there no one ei-
ther better or worse for your living 7 Is 
there no one who loves you? Say not 
then, " I've no influence." Have you tal-
ents? Then you possess influence. Are 
' you alone in the world, poor, without tal-
ent, without love'? still you may influence 
others. 
A kind sentence from you may so far 
influence the mourner, that beneath the 
seeming anger of God, he shall behold a 
smiling face. So far influence him, that 
in meekness he shall bow his head, say-
ing, Thy will be done. In life's brightest 
hours there is at least one, to whom you 
may tell of the Author of your joys,whom 
you may influence for good ; in life's sor-
rows there may be some who will listen as 
you point them to the throne of love and 
mercy. 
A child influences children ; and often, 
0 how often, older people. Friend acts 
on friend ; and sister, on sisters and bro-
thers, and no one can say, " I am alone ; 
I influence no one." No one can say this; 
THE MAINE ANNUAL ADVENT CONFERENCE. The next 
session of this conference will be held in Yarmouth (in 
the Institute occupied by the Advent church) Sept. 11th, 
Wednesday, at '2 o'clock P.M., and continue over the fol-
lowing Sunday. Particulars hereafter. 
I. C. WELLCOME, Sec'y. 
Richmond, Me., July 13, 1861. 
if 
memories clung 
tremblingly : 
" My mother 
dear." 
" Did she? Do you like it?" asked Miss 
Grey. 
" 0 yes, ma'am, more than anything 
else 'most," answered Alice, for the word 
dear always signified kindness to her.—
She couldn't realize any one's saying it 
crossly and angrily. 
Atter Alice had finished her kitchen-
work. she came again to the little sitting 
room, but the smile was full of childish 
happiness; poor Alice had found little 
kindness since her parents' death. Miss 
Grey noticed it, with a resolve to make 
the orphan's life brighter, to be a mother 
to her. " Sit down, dear, at your patch-
work," she said in the same kind tone, as 
she left the room and went up stairs.—
Here Miss Grey began examining the con,. 
tents of a closet, laying the things out 
carefully. Here was a large doll, there 
some aprons, and here some (tresses. They 
had once belonged to Ellen, the youngest 
niece of Miss Grey, and as Ellen died 
about three years before, her aunt still re-
tained her clothes, though for what pur-
pose she had never thought. She had lit-
tle of that feeling which prompts us to re-
tain everything which once belonged to a 
lost friend ; and as her niece was of Alice's 
size, she selected a pink dress and white 
apron, and the doll, and went down again 
to the sitting-room. 
" Here, Alice, try these on." �
• 
The delighted child was soon arrayed, 
and looked prettily enough. 
" This is your doll, dear, and all those 
things in the closet off your room, are 
yours, Alice." 
" 0, thank you, thank you, dear Miss 
Grey." 
" How much she looks like dear Ellen 
did," thought the lady ; then she added 
aloud, 
" Haven't you any relation in the world, 
Alice 'I" 
" None but an uncle out West, ma'am, 
and he's poor." 
A new idea struck Miss Grey, and she 
said : 
" Alice, I haven't always been kind ; I 
did wrong. In future I desire to be like a 
mother to you. Wouldn't you like to call 
me `aunt Jenny,' as Ellen and all my nie-
ces did ?" 
" 0 yes, ma'am, indeed 1 should." 
" Let me hear you do it now, Alice." 
" Aunt Jenny," said Alice, slyly. 
Miss Grew her closer to her, and kissed 
her, then said: 
" I've kept you in a great deal, Alice, and 
this afternoon you may go and play with 
those children on the green." 
"0, thank you, thank you !" and Alice 
started for a sun-bonnet. 
" Thank you, auntie," suggested Miss 
Grey. 
CHILDREN'S DEPARTMENT 
" FEED MY LAMBS."—John 21:15. 
BOSTON, AUGUST 3, 1861. 
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the fair little face, and in the tear-blinded 
eye. 
Owing to the fact of her eyes being fill-
ed with tears, and she herself aroused to a 
passionate feeling of hate toward Miss 
Grey, Alice again tripped, but she did riot 
fail,—though the pitcher did, and broke in 
pieces. 
Miss Grey's first impulse was to say 
something very harsh, but one thought de- 
cided her. �
'; Never mind, Alice ; you 
didn't mean it," she said, kindly, to the 
child who stood as if stupefied, awaiting 
the usual scolding, " never mind, dear, 
hasten to wipe up the water before the 
carpet is completely soaked; go quickly, 
dear." 
The child obeyed, still sobbing, but with 
far different feeling now ; no more hate in 
it, but sorrow, and a feeling which she 
could not herself define. 
" Dinner already ! What- a nice little 
housekeeper you are becoming, Alice ! I 
am getting quite proud of you," and Miss 
Grey seated herself at one side of the ta-
ble, while Alice took the other. 
" I didn't mean to do it, Miss Grey, 1 
didn't mean to do it," said Alice, earnestly 
and sadly. 
" I know it, dear," answered her mis-
tress. 
" Dear !" How the word thrilled Al- 
ice's heart. It made her think of her 
younger days, when her parents were liv- 
ing, and lived in a little cottage, too;—
though they were very poor, kindness and 
affection brightened their daily life. Those 
to Alice, and she said, 
used to always call me 
and of our talents we shall be required to 
give an account of this, too—how we have 
used our influence. 
Cracking a Commandment. 
A little girl once went with her mother 
into a shop. As she stood there she saw 
a basket of oranges for sale. They look-
ed ripe and juicy. While her mother was 
engaged in another part of the store, she 
kept looking at the oranges. They made 
her mouth water. The thought came into 
her mind, 0 I wish I had one of them.—
This was the beginning of the temptation. 
She ought to have resisted this, and turned 
away front them ; but she didn't ; she kept 
looking at them. The longer she looked 
at them the more she wanted one. At last 
watching her opportunity, when DO one 
saw her, she grabbed an orange, put it in 
her pocket, and walked away. ln a mo-
ment her conscience began to trouble her ; 
she felt very uncomfortable indeed. Pres-
ently she slipped up to the basket, and put 
the orange back. Still she kept looking at 
it. She was tempted again to take it, and 
again she put it back. 
As she walked home with her mother, 
she looked and felt very sad. When they 
were alone, she burst into tears, and said, 
" Oh, mother, I have cracked one of the 
commandments. �
1 didn't break it ; 1 
didn't break it, mother, but I'm sure I 
cracked it." 
This little girl did right in putting the 
orange back. This kept her from quite 
breaking the commandment ; but if she 
had resisted the beginning of the tempta-
tion, by turning away from the orange the 
moment she felt a desire for it, she would 
not have even cracked the commandment. 
We must resist little temptations, the very 
beginnings of evil. We must also pray to 
God to keep us from temptation. This is 
what Jesus has taught us to do every day, 
when in the Lord's prayer we say, Lead 
us not into temptation.—King's Highway. 
" Mamma," a little maiden said, 
Almost with her expiring sigh, 
" Put no sweet roses round my head, 
When in my coffin-dress I lie." 
" Why not, my dear ?" the mother cried ; 
" What flower so well a corpse adorns ?" 
" Mamma," the innocent replied, 
" They crowned my Saviour's head with thorns." 
BUSINESS DEPARTMENT. 
1'1° IP BUSINESS NOTES. 
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RECEIPTS. 
VP TO TUESDAY, JULY 30. 
The No. appended to each name is that of the HERALD tO 
which the money credited pays. No. 1023 was the closing 
number of 1860 ; No. 1019 is the Middle of the present 
volume, extending to July 1, 1861; and No. 1075 is to the 
close of 1861. Notice of any failure to give due credit, 
should be at once communicated to the Business Agent. 
Those sending money should remember that we ha I 
many subscribers of similar names, that there are towns of 
the same name in different States, and in some States there 
is more than one town of the same name. Therefore it is 
necessary to give his own name in full, and his Post-office 
address — the name of the town and state, and if out of 
New England, the county to which his paper is directed. 
An omission of some of these often, yes daily, gives us 
much perplexity. Some forget to give their State, and if 
out of New England their County, while some fail to give 
even their town. Sometimes they live in one town and 
date their letter in that, when their paper goes to another 
town; and sometimes the name of their town and office are 
different. Some, in writing, give only their initials, when 
there may be others at the same post-office, with the same 
initials. Sometimes, when the paper goes to a given ad-
dress, another person of the same family will write res-
pecting it, without stating that fact, and we cannot find the 
name. And sometimes those who write, forget even to sign 
their names ! Let all such remember that what we want, is 
the full name and post-office address of the one to whom the 
paper is sent. 
N S Holmes 1067, Mrs P Goff 1065, Mrs D Morehouse 
1075, E Tritton 1075, Mrs B Melvin 1075, Charles Kelsey 
,1062, Mrs C Spencer 1075—each $1. 
J Kinney 1101 and $1 for book, which we cannot now 
find in the city, and have none in the office. What shall 
we do with it? 11 Foote 1075, Z Adams 1075, D Church-
ill 1127, R Harley 1101, 11 B Jones 1075, Caleb Hazen 
1075, Mary Royce 1077, Diana Boyce 1101, C Stark 1075 
0 E Noble AI D 1075—see Note—each $2. 
A Sketch. 
" Every person exerts some influence, 
either for good or evil. No one is so poor 
and lowly, so isolated and friendless, but 
there is some one either the better or worse 
for their living. And, oh dear, I'm sure it 
can't he true, for I, at least, am an excep-
tion. Whom do I influence? Alas, I fear, 
no one," and little Miss Grey sighed. 
She lived in a tiny white cottage, and 
with no companion, save a little " bound 
girl." Her life was lonely and quiet, in 
the little village in which her youth was 
spent, and now she was descending the 
vale of life. Gray hair was sprinkled in 
the brown, and her brow showed the 
marks of approaching age. She had seen 
the orphan children of a deceased sister 
arrive at mature age, and leave her shel-
tering roof for a home in the wide world, 
and she felt almost alone. Yet not alone, 
for Miss Grey was a sincere and humble 
Christian, and she never doubted the prom-
ise, " I wily never leave thee nor forsake 
thee." 
As a companion for her loneliness, and 
an assistant in her household duties, Miss 
Grey had taken a little girl from the alms-
house, a shy, sensitive child of eleven yrs. 
Alice Brown was an orphan, quiet and re-
served, and yet she often, with natural 
longings, yearned to join in the childish 
sports of the village children. But though 
Miss Grey did not mean to be unkind,still 
she could not recall her own youthful days, 
and never thought what an-injury she 
might he doing the child when she denied 
her only request to play with the little 
ones, who would have been her friends. 
And Alice Brown often wept at her tasks, 
and sometimes longed for the rest which 
cometh after death. 
" I've no influence," repeated Miss G.—
and. she let the paper drop to the floor,and 
began to think. The morning sun rose 
higher and higher, and it was almost noon. 
"Alice," called Miss Grey, "Alice." 
" Yes, ma'am," said Alice, quickly ap-
pearing at the door, which afforded an en-
trance way to the kitchen. 
" Hurry up your dinner ; you can get it 
alone just as well as to have me help you. 
I don't think I shall help you so much 
hereafter; you're getting altogether too la-
zy ;" and Miss Grey leaned back in her 
arm-chair as Alice disappeared. 
But Miss Grey saw the shadow on Al-
ice's face, and the question arose, "Have I 
no influence over Alice?" 
She was troubled a little, and called, 
again : 
" Alice !" 
" Yes, ma'am." 
" You may set the table. It's high 
time," 
" Yes, ma'am," answered Alice, meek-
ly. 
The table was drawn out and neatly 
spread ; the plates were laid, and Alice 
brought in a plate of smoking potatoes ; 
but the carpet being loose near the door, 
the child's foot caught, and the next sec- 
ond she fell prostrate on the floor, and the 
potatoes were strewn in every direction. 
" Oh, Alice, you careless child ! Ain't 
you ashamed of yourself '? You don't de-
serve a bit of dinner," cried her mistress. 
" Now pick all up, every one, and see if 
you can't be more careful next time.—
Don't you know better than to put them 
on the table now, child?? Take them in 
the kitchen, and go on about your din-
ner." 
Yes, ma'am," said Alice ; but her 
eyes flashed, and her bosom heaved with 
indignation, at being addressed so crossly, 
when it was only an accident. When she 
was in the kitchen, she gave vent to her 
sorrow in wild sobs, but she soon control-
led them, and started to get some water, 
preparatory to taking up the remainder of 
the dinner. 
Miss Grey heard the sobs, and her con-
science reproached her; and she exclaim-
ed inwardly, " Yes, I have influence, and 
it's exerted for evil." 
The thought brought sorrow, shame, 
and good resolves, and as Alice re-entered, 
she noticed the look of bitter defiance on 
APPOINTMENTS. 
A Campmeeting will be held (D. V.) at Marsh Creek, 
Center Co., Pa., on the ground occupied the last season, 
to commence Aug. 29 and continue one week. Brn. Bitch, 
Osler Pearson and others are expected to be present. Let 
there be a general gathering of our brethren and friends 
Bro. Bliss : — I wish to say to the brethren of C. E. 
there will be a grove meeting in St. Armands, C E., near 
the Guthrie school house, to commence the 11th of Sept. 
and hold over the Sabbath. �B. S. REYNOLDS. 
PS. J. M. Orrock and D. Bosworth are expected. 
B.S.R. 
Providence permitting, I will preach at Bristol, N. H., 
in the Town Hall, the 2d Sabbath in Aug. 
T. M. PREBLE. 
Eld. L. Osier will preach at Loudon Mills, N. H., Aug. 
18th and '25th. �
GEO. LOCKE. 
There will be a campmeeting held at Pine Street, Cam-
eron Co., Pa. commencing Aug. 14th and continuing over 
the following Sabbath. Brn. J. Bitch, J. T. Laning and 
others are expected to be present. By order of Quarterly 
Conference. �
THOS. HOLLEN, Pres. 
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REMOVAL. The Messiah's church in New York city 
will hereafter worship in the meeting-house of the Seventh 
day Baptist church on 11th street, between 3d and 4th 
avenues. Preaching three times each Sabbath, and week-
ly lecture on Wednesday evening. The prayerful support 
and co-operation of all Christians, is solicited. 
D. Elwell. The order came up from P., with others re-
ceived there for the tracts. You can return or keep them, 
on the conditions you name. 
David Barber. It has not been received, but as you 
sent, we credit you $1 to 1075. 
0. E. Noble, M. D. Have sent tracts to the amount of 
$1 and reserved the other, as you direct. 
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Special Proposition. 
"A friend to the cause" proposes to give one hundred 
dollars towards the six hundred needed to publish the 
Herald weekly Vie coining year, provided the amount be 
made up by other contributors. This is not designed to 
interfere with the pledges of annual payment, below.—
Paid on the above, by 
" A Friend of the cause " 
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ANNUAL DONATIONS. 
It is desirable that there be raised by donation five or 
six hundred dollars each year, by annual subscriptions ; 
and the folloWing may be a suitable form of pledge for 
that purpose. 
We agree to pay annually in furtherance of the objects 
of the American Millennial Association, the sums set 
against our respective names. 
Samuel Prior, Yardleyville, Pa ...................5.00 
Stephen Sherwin, Grafton, Vt.... 
1.00 
Martin L. Jackson, Milesburg, Pa .... ............ 2.00