_"~HIS SAME JESUS WHO IS TAKEN UP FROM YOU INTO HEAVEN, SHALL SO COME IN LIKE MANNER AS YE HAVE SEEN HIM GO INTO HEAVEN." 
YOI. XIV. 
No. 16. 
BOSTON, SATURDAY, NOVEMBER 20, 1847. 
THE ADVENT HERALD 
deed each bishop, might issue ecclesiasti-of less elevated sanctity." In effect the dently such as the world in general would 
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cal thunders, within his or its sphere and 
s~ven hills seemed, like Olympus of old, not have perception of;) and then the 
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dio~ese. But the Papal bulls and ana-to be an almost necessary earthly adjunct prospective vision appended of the nlti-
BY J. V. HIMES.' 
themas were emphatically tke thunders, to the mock ideal heaven of the Papal mate salvation and glory of the redeemed, 
-the Pope tke thunderer. 
Regarded as anti-Christ's Apostolic supremacy. 
· 
wherein he actually held colloquy with 
he was in the light of God's Vicar on 
And now then I think I may say that some of the twenty-four presbyters round 
earth, there was supposed to be the con-the signification of the seven thunders the throne :-all which, otherwise enig-
demning voice of God Himself in the here spoken of is clear. 
The five Apoca-matical and most obscure, seemed to be 
thunderbolts of his wrath. 
Invested with lyptic distinctives answer completely,one explainep as simply as satisfactorily by 
which terrors by the prevailing supersti-and all, to the thunders of the Vatican : reference to Christ's doctrinal revelation 
lion, throughout the long middle ages, nor, I will be bold to say, is there any-of Himself, and his electing grace, and 
where was the kingdom in Western Eu-thing else whatsoever, to which they can the final assured salvation of his elect, to 
rope that did not. tremble 1-where the with the slightest semblance of plausibi-one that was St. John's truest successor 
heart so stout, of noble or of prince, that lity be made to answer. 
And when, in spirit ·at the chronological epoch cor-
did not quail before them? 
· 
their signification being thus settled, we responding jnst before the Gothic inva-
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'fltc 'fhrcc Voices. 
What saith the past to thee? Weep! 
Truth is departed ; 
Beauty hat11 died like the dream of a sleep, 
I.ove is faint-hearted ; 
Trifles of ~en~e, the profoundly unreal, 
Scart' from our ~pirits Gnd'~ holy idea1-
8~.• as a funeral btll, slow and deep, 
So tolls the past to thee ! W ee11 ! 
How speaks the pre8ent hour? Act ! 
Walk, upward glancing; 
So shall thy footsteps in ~lory be tracked, 
Slow, but 11dvaur.ing. 
Scorn not the smallness of daily ende!lvor; 
Let the grel	 rneuning ennohle it tVPr; 
J)J·uop uot o'er eff'urt8 eXJlended in vain ; 
Work, as believing that labor i8 gain. 
What dnth the future' ~RY
? Hope! 
Turn tl1y face sunward! 
Look where thtl light frin!!C8 tlw far rising slope ; 
Day cometh onward. 
, 
W~ttch! though so long be twilight dlliRying, 
Let the first 8Unbeam arise on thee praying, 
Fe11r nut, fnr ~reRter is God by thy side, 
Tlt.Ln nr.nie~ of Sat au. gain:<t thco. allic•l ' 
[Protestnnt Unionist.] 
The Seven Thunders. 
BY E. B, ELLIOTT, A. M. 
There remains the distinctive of the next enquire whether what is said in the sions: I mean Augustine.-And now be-
septenary numeral. 
And this indeed is prophecy of the seven thunders uttering-hold the apostle in 
per~onal association 
all that is wanted to complete the evi-their voices of opposition, immediately with a yet brighter vision of Christ, and 
dence of the Papal thunders being those on the Angel's lion-like roar, had its ful-more glorious manifestation of Himself 
intended. 
For we are not to regard it filment in the utterance of Papal thun-on the Apocalyptic mundane scene, than 
merely as affixed to the thunders in ques-ders against Christ's voice by Luther, it even in the Sealing Vision; and moreo-
tion because of its being the sacred num· need only that we look into the histo1ic ver yet more prominently, variedly, and 
ber, and so a further indication of their pqge to see it. 
Scarce had Luther pub-remarkably acting out his own part in the 
claim to sacredness of character: al-lished ·his Theses, when the attack on 
dramati~ vision. 
For we read of his ris-
though possibly this too might be intend-them by Sylvester Prierias, the official ing up to meet the revelation, and not-
ed, considering the common papal affec· Censor at Rome, and which was dedi-
with~tanding the cloud that mantled the 
tation in adopting the number. 
There is cated to Pope Leo, showed what was to Covenant-Angel, realizing the glory and 
omMhing, [ doubt not, much more point-be expect~d from the Pope himself: and the divinity of his a~pect and his voic ; 
ed and characteristic intended chiefly by ere a year had elapsed, a solemn Papal -then, on occasion .of be even thun-
thP. numeral ; a something which history Bull condemnatory of Luther's Theses, clers sounding, preparing to write, until. 
will readily suggest to us, and which the and in defence of the whole system of deterred by a \Varning from heaven 
Apocalyptic account of anti-Christ, given indulgences, was committed to Cardinal against it ;-then hearing a solemn dec-
afterwards, might eqllally well have sug-Cajetan, and· by him presently after pub-laration from the Covenant-Angel res-
Rov. 10:3, 4-" And cried with a loud voice, gested to St. John. 
For what in the 17th lished. 
pecting the chronological place of this 
as when a lion roareth: and when he had cried, 
I · d 1 d 
A d h 
seven thunders uttered their voices. And when chapter of this prophetic Book was told 
tIS a ue , " 
n w en the seven thun-intervention in the great mundane drama, 
the seven thunders h<~d uttered their voices, I was him of the locality of tke tkro 
of anti· ders had uttered their own voices, I was as separated by but one Trumpet more 
about to write: nnd I heard a voice from heaven Christ? 
It was this,-that it woulJ be about to write;" <fc. We have here a state-from the consummation :-then, under 
saying unto rne, Seal up those .things which the seated upon the se~1en kills, the fated sev-ment which will be found to lead us for-the same heavenly impulse as before, go-
seven t.hunuers uttered, and wnte them not." 
en hills, of Rl)me. 
Thence were his ward another step, and a most important ing and taking the book out of the h::
d 
We have to remark the distinctive pre-thunders and lightnings to issue. 
Now one, in the history of the Reformation. of the Covenant-Angel, and eating it, 
fix of the dPji.nite article attached, on it accords with the figurative style, alike In order however to our drawing this in-and tasting its sweetness and its bitter-
their first mention, to these thunders.-in prophecy and in poetry, to apply the ference from it, it will be necessary that ness ;-then receiving the Angel's soi-
" When he had cried, tke seven thunders nu~eraf distinction of the parts charac-we recal and apply that important exeget-emn charge to prophesy again ;-then be-
uttered their. voices." 
The singularity terizing the locality, whence a voice or ic principle, to the which I alluded ear-ina presented with a reed, like unto a rod, • 
and strangeness of this bas been noticed other emanation might issue, to that voice lier in t.his,lection,-namely, of St. J()kn's wherewith to measure the temple and 
by critics. So Bishop Middleton. ""Vhy or emanation itself. 
So, for example, in symholzc Cftaracter on the Apocalyptic them that worshipped in it ;-then, final-
the article is inserted here, I am unable a choric ode of Euripides, we find the scene. 
ly, having the history of Christ's Vv it-
to discover :"-asking, as that which oracular light flashing from Parnassus . For I trust that the reader will by this nesses through ~he dark ages preceding, 
might solve the difficulty," Were the sev-called the two-topped lightning, in the tu.ne have become not only familiarized even .up to the t1me th.en pre~e~t, re:ro-
en thunders anything well known and sense of lightning from the two Parna~-wJth, but convinced of the truth of this spectJvely set before him. 
Which bemg 
pre-eminent?" and adding, as his own sian summits. 
Just similarly the seven most important view of the Evana~list's so, supposing we are satisfied that St. 
supposition, that there may probably have tlmnde1·s are explicable as being thunders cha~acter, in the figurations of the Apoc:a-.John is to be viewed ?s a symbolic .cha-_ 
been a reference to some Jewish opinion, from the seven kills of Rome: and they lypt1c drama: it having been in various racter, not merely will the generalmfe-
giving them this notoriety; of which, may indeed have pealed on the Evange-ways not onl.y illustrated by me from par-renee follow that there m~st have been 
howe\u00b7er, he says, he found not a vestige. list's ear from some septenary elevation allel p~~pheuc Scriptures, and patri~tic pre-.figu:ed hereby some smgu!ar re-a~a­
Had the learned prelate advanc.ed thus marked as such, in its proper locality on authonues, but also confirmed from his-kmwg m the church at that tzme of mzn-
far with us in the historical exposition of the ApocaJyptic scene. 
And the truth is, tory in the preceding Volume. 
It will isterial apostolical spirit, in all its energy 
the Apocalypse, methinks he would have that this specification of the locality has, be remembered generally that what was of action-such as i~ fact we know to 
seen the soiution of the critical difficulty in the case before us, a: peculiar point and 
s~en and heard by him on the Apocalyp-have be~n the case, .m ~asure u~p~ece­
in the very fact that he suspected of the propriety. 
For so it was that the locality tic scene, appeared to be that which would dented smce apostohcal t1mes, wllh the 
notorif'tV and pre-eminent:e of the thun-of Rome seemed necessary to give the be seen and heard by the faithful, whom Fath~~s o~ the Reformation; insomuch 
der:s spoken of: not however as recog-Papal thunders full sacredness and au-at each successive epoch in the advanc-that h1stormns can scarce speak of Lu-
nized by the Jewish cotemporaries of St. thority in the estimation of Christendom. ing drama hP pre-signified; whether the ther more e~pecially, and his firstactings 
John, b•1t as recognized by the inhabitants During the seventy ye.ars secession of desolations of war, mutations of empire, in the Reformation, without noticing the 
of Roman Christendom, and at that time the popes to Avignon, this became nota-or persecutions, sufferin~s, impressions, paral.lel,-but also, as to details, thateach 
to which the prophetic vision had refe-rious. It is remarked on by Mosheim. It and worshippings of Christ's people partzcular thing heard or done by the 
renee. 
For we ha,·e already seen reason is remarked.on again by Le Bas. 
The themselves. 
More especially he will re-Evangelist in vision must have been 
to suspect, from the three previously noted language of the latter, more especially, member that memorable sealing vision, meant to symbolize something corres-
characteristics, that these thunders were is quite illustrative of the phrase we are just before the bursting of the Trumpet-pondent in the views, history, and actions 
the voices of the Papal anti-Christ. And discussing. "The thunders," he says, judgments, wherein was exhibited to St. of these reforming Fathers, his successors 
does it need anything ~ore than the me~e "which' shook the w~rld when they is-
J~hn ~ manifestation of Christ, as rising in office and in spirit. 
mention of them to satisfy us as to tkezr sued from the seven kzlls, sent forth an with light from the East, and selectin" 
To show this is now my duty, as an 
notoriety and pre-eminence? In a subor-uncertain sound, comparatively faint and and sealing his own people from amid~ Apocalyptic expositor: and 1t will occupy 
dinate sense each synod, each primate, in-powerless, when launched from a region the professing Israel; (a revelation evi-us both in what remains of the present 
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chapter, and also in the three next chap-If I had th.en braved the Pope as I now only, an awful and certain reality to him. dedicated according to the imposing forms 
ten~, afterwads following. 
1 
do, I :should have expected every hour And when at length, in the summer of of the Roman ritual. 
About 6000 of our 
For the present it is the meaning of that the earth would have opened to swal-1520, the Pope's Bull of anathema and neglected Indians have been deceived aud 
the first particular statement, viz.:-low me up alive, like Korah and Abi-excommunieatiol) came out against him, baptized as meinbers of the Roman Cath-
" When the :seven thunders had uttered ram." It was in this fram~>. of mind that when the seven thunders pealed against oiic church, and have sworn allegiance to 
their own voices 1 was about to write," in the ummer of 1518, a few months af-the voice that the Covenant-Angel had the Pope. 
There are flOW in the hands , 
	ogether with that of the clause follow-ter the affair with 'fetzel, he wrote that uttered by him, with all their fury,-ac-of the priests about 15,000 men, who are 
ing, "And I heq,rd a twice from lttaven memorable letter to the Pope, of which cordantly with that admonitory voice passing through their preparatory course, 
saying unto me, Seal up those things the tenor may be JUdged of from the from heaven which bade his Apocalyptic and who within a few months '"ill also 
which the seven thunders uttered, and clause following; and what can more ad-representative St. John long before to enter the church of Rome. 
Yes, within 
write. them ·not," that claims our attentiun. mirably illustrate the passage we are con· "seal them up," (the very phrase of the a short time, more than 20,000 of the In-
" And when the seven thunders ut~ sidering? "Most blessed Father! pros-times, I inay observe, for rPjecting Papal dians in Oregon, who ought long since 
tered their own voices I was about to trate at the .feet of thy Blessedness, I of-Bulls, and consigning them to oblivion,) to have received the Gospel. from Pro-
write." Applying the principle of inter-fer myself to thee with alii am and all I he did an action by which all Europe was testants, will be beyond their reach, 
pretation just laid down to this statement, have. 
Kill me or make me live, call or electrified. 
He summoned a vast con-strongly intrenched in the Roman C<tiho-
th~ fact pre-signijied seems clearly to be recal, approve or ieprove, as shall please cours.e of all r~nks otHside the walls of lie church. 
thts-that those members of Christ's true thee. I will acknowledge thy voice as the Wittemberg; himself kindled a fire in a 
'fo aid the Jesuits in their· ork, the 
church whom we suppose St. John to voice of Christ presiding and speaking vast pile of wood previously prepared Society for the Propagation of the Faith 
have symbolized, Luther most of all, in thee." 
Thus when the seven thun-for the purpose; and, by the hands of in France has appropriated, during the 
·even after witnessing the glory and beauty ders uttered their own ?;oices he was about the common hangman, committed the last year, 54,560J'r. to the Archbishop of 
of Christ's revelation of Himself as the to write: i. e. as the word means, to re-Bull, together with the Papal Decretals, Oregon, and 44,900fr. to the Society of 
Sun of Righteousness, would yet, on cei·ve, publish, submit to them; ev~n as if Canons, &c. accompanying, to the flames. the Jesuits in the Rocky Mountains. 
hearing the hostile Papal thunders, be they had b.:en what they pretended to be, Moreover, in his published Answer to the Here you see the round sum of about 
ready to receive and publish them, 1\S if an tlfacle from heaven. 
Bull, he rejected and poured contempt on S20,000 given by one. society on the oth-
they we e what they professed to be', a 
But so it was, that just at this critical its1thunders, as the infernal voices of ANTI· er side of the Atlantic for the suppurt of 
voice from heaven. An intimation strange roint of temptation and danger, a real CHRIST. 
Jesuits in Oregon the past year. 
The 
indeed! 
Was it possible that such could voi..:e from heaven, the voice of God's 
appropriations for Oregon have been 
have been the case with Luther?-We Spirit, saying, "Seal up what the seven RomanismGirdingthe United States. greater, while they have beenlessduring 
look into history; and behold! we find thunders have uttered, and write them 
WHo has not heard the tocsin of alarm, the past year in some of the states in the 
thl·s to h 
b · 
th 
I d d 
., 
h' 
· 
AI 
d 
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valley of the Mississippi. · 
ave een 
e very case. 
n ee , not, was 
1s preservatiOn. 
rea y 10 rousing the fears of men in view of the 
it forms a feature so prominent and in-the October of that year, on being sum-increase of Popery in the valley of the 
2. Again, the same policy has been 
teresting in the history of the progress mooed and appearing, as we have inti-.:.Wississippi? 
The pulpit, the press, the adopted by the Roman church in Texas. 
both of L.uther's O\~n min~ a?d of. the mated, before the Papal Legate, Cardinal agent of almost every benevolent society 
A diocese, sul)ject to the See of Rome, 
~eformatlon, that no ecclesiastical h1sto-Cajetan, when the Pope's judgn.ent was or institution, direct the eyes of men to has been created, .and a bishop has been 
nan can P.rope! develop~ the advan.ce of affirmed by the Legate to be in favor of this valley as the great, the central point appointed. 
The same Foreign Society 
tl~at. ev('ntful history~ without makmg a indulgences, and also of the efficacy of of danger. 
The community by univer-put into his ,hands about $10,000 to facili-
distmct reference to 1t. 
the sacraments ex opere opemto, and inde-sal assent seem to regard it not only as tate his operations in that territory. 
He 
The truth was that Luther formed ac-pendent of faith in the recipient,-seeing the main spot where danger is to be ap-is surrounded by numbers of priests, who 
quaintanc'e with the character of Christ its contradictoriness both to the word and prehended, but as the only place concern-have introduced the various orders of the 
some years before he formed it with that spirit of the Gospel, he would not receive ing which they should be much alarmed. Ro:nan church. 
They are now estab-
of anti-Christ. 
The cry of the Pope be-it. 
Th~ Spirit's whisp~r began," Write 'fhe valley of the Mississippi, or" the lishingthemselves, and consolidating their 
ing anti-Christ, raised long previously by not!'' Still however for a whi)P, he re-Great West," as it is usually sty!ed, is by efforts. 
They are locating their institn· 
the followers of Waldo, Wicldi{f, and mained partially in suspense. 
He doubt-no means the whole of the Western tions, and preparing for future time. 
Huss, had almost died away in Christen-ed,indeed discredited, the fact of the Papal country under the government of the 
3. Within a year or two, the Jesuits 
dom; and, i~ heard of by Luther at Er-
s~nc:.~ion: But soo~ after, ~vhe!l the pub-' United States, and we believe by no were withdrawn from one of the states in 
furt or at Wittemberg, had been heard of hcatlon of the Popes Bullm d1rect sane· means the only place where we have to the ?;alley of the Mississippi. 
only as. a blasphemous heresy. 
'YV'ith 
~ion ~f indulgences. had 
f~rced him t.o fear ?r guard again~t ~he wily efforts of 
And where were they sent? They 
a: e?nsc1ence 
v~ry tender, trembhngly 1den.t1fy the Pope h1mselfw1th those ant•· Jesuits. 
That there IS danger in the were not sent. to any of the outposts of 
af1a1d of offef\dmg ~od, the supposed ~hnstmn abuses,-an~ yet 
1ore w~en great valley we fully .believe, and also .which we have been speaking, as you 
sacredness and authonty of the Pope, as m the year next followmg, on occasiOn that Popery has made fearful advances might naturally suppose. 
They were or-
head_of t~e church and ~hrist's 
icar, of the approachi.ng di
1sputation .with Eck, there-has gaived many converts from dered to the city rj New York. "New 
(f~r such 10 a~c.ordance. with the long-re-he .w~s brough~ I~to tne nec.esslty of ex-the ranks of Protestants, and 
1will gain York," they say," is the London or Paris 
c~Jved.superstl~wn. he as yet regarded ammmg the ongm, foundatiOn, and cha-many more. 
We do not question the of America, and we must make a strong-
him,) mduced m h1s mind a pre--disposi-rueter of the Papal supremacy, then the political influence that the advocates of hold here." 
tion to bow with implicit deference to the real anti-Christian character of the pJ. Popery have obtained a mona our'\ estern 
Here they came last year, and from 
~apal decision, both in o~her thing~, and p~cy began more a,nd more to open t.o his politicians, nor the wide-spr~ad influence time to time we have the evidence of their 
m the controversy about 10dulgences that v1ew. 
About the end of 1518 we find of va.rious kinds of schools, and SF-mina-presence. 
Developments are made in 
he had engaged in. 
In his Theses no-him writing to his friend Link, on send-ries, and institutions of the Roman this city of which we may speak more 
thing appeared against the authority of ing him a copy of the acts ju~t published church. 
Our read;rs know that \>Ve have particularly at another time. 
the Pope, but the ~on.tra~y. Liste.n t~ his of t~e conferenc~ at. Augsbu~g. "My spoken out on these subjects, and have 
The Papal press in E•Hope has in· 
ow~ account of h1s feehngs at th1s time, pen IS ready to g1ve blfth to thtngs much tried to call forth the prayers and efforts formed us that the Bishop of New Yor~ 
as g1ven many ye.ars after~ards. "When greater. 
I know not myself ~vhence of Protestants ·in view of these things. at his last visit to Europe, had secured the 
I began the aff<m of the mdulgences. I these thoughts come to me. 
I '"•11 send We have assured our readers that there funds for the erection of two Jesuit 
~vas~ monk and a most mad Papist. So you what I· '~rite, that .YQU m.ay.see if I are materials in that valley of such a churches in this city. 
One of these 
Intoxicated was I, and drenched m Papal have 'V:ell c~nJectured m behevmg that character, that, when once ignited, may churches was dedicated the 31st of July, 
dogmas, that I would have been most the anti·Chmt, of whom St. aul speal<s, produce an explosion that will shake the the day of the feast of St. Ignatius, the 
rea?y to murder, or assist others in mur-now :eigns in the court of Rome." For foundations of the whole country. 
founder of the Order. 
dermg, any person who should have ut-a while, hOever, he combated the thought, 
We wish now to call attention to some 
4. Roman priests, in unusually large 
t~red a syllable ag~~nst the du~y of obe-to him ~o fearful. . Some three or four otheT paTls of our widely extended terri-numbers, have landed in New England 
dt~nce to the P?pe.. 
And ag~m ;, "Cer· ~onths after,-for .It was ?o very lo~g tory, and to the fax-reaching designs of the past year. 
tamly at that time I adored htm m ear-t1me before the d1spute With Eck,-m Rome. 
While the cry of danger has 
Durin!! a period of ~ix weeks about fifty 
nest.'' He adds; "How distressed my answer to a request from the Elector of come up from this great valley-while Roman Catholic priests landed in Boston. 
heart was in that year 1517, and the fol-Saxony to be in all things reverential to the eyes and efforts of Protestants have Others have landed from time to time, 
lowing,-how submissive to the hierar-thE! Pope, he wrote to Spalatinus, "To been turned in that direction, as thouah who have spread rhem~elves over New 
chy, not feignedly, but really,-those lit-sep11rate myself from the Apostolic See there could be no cause of alarm fr;..n England. A Jesuit college stands at 
~le know who at th.is day insult ~he rna-of Rome, has. not entered my .mind." the plans and operations of Jesuits in any Worcester, in the midst of the sons and 
j{'Sty of the Pope wHh ~uch pnde and B?t no~ the views t~at h: had hmted to other section of the country, by a stroke daughters of the Pilgrims. 
Tn the sta· 
arroga.nce. · · . : . I was Ignorant of rna-Lmk pressed on h1m with greater and of policy characteristic of the Order, the tistics of the Roman Catholic church for 
ny thmga wh1ch now, by the grace of gr.eater force. 
The Elector was startled Jesuits have fortified themselves in oth-1847, there are said to be sixtv-five 
God, I understand. 
I disputed; I was wJth heari·ng, "I have been turning over er places. 
. 
priests in New England. 
Doubtless 
~pen. to conviction. 
Not finding s:cyisfac· the Decretal.s of the Popes, with a view 
Do you enquire where they have gone, the're are upwards of a hundred at this 
t10n 10 the works of theologians, I wished to the ensumg debate at Leipsic; and and what t1tey have done? 
time. 
to cons~lt the living members of the ":ould whispe_r it into thine .ears t~at I ~e-
1. They have gone over the Rocky 
Finally, the Romanists are pouring in 
church Itself .. There were some godly gm to entertam d~ubt (~o 1s Chnst d1s-Mountains, and planted their churches upon us from Canada. 
s.ouls that enttrely approved my proposi-honored and cruc1fied m them) whether arzd institutions in Ortgon. 
The thousands who come to us from 
LIOns. 
But I did not consider their au-the Pope be not the very anti-Christ of 
There are now in Orerron about thirty the North, do not emigrate to the West. 
thority as of weight with me in spiritual Scripture." Further study of Scripture, missionaries, under the direction of ten They are found in the state of New York, 
concerns. 
The popes, bishops, cardinals, and further teaching of the Holy Spirit, Fathers of the Jesuits. 
Others are soon and in the New England States. 
monks, priests, were . the objects of my concurred wi~h th~ ~ope's reckless su~-·to join them. 
Fifteen hundred Roman-
· Such is a brief glance at the present 
confidence. 
~ft~r bemg enabled to an-
por~ of all an_u-Chr1~t1an errors and abom1-ists have gone from Canada to co-operate policy and doings of the church of Rome, 
swe.r every obJection that could .be brought nations ag~mst wh1c~ ~e had proteste~, with them. 
Already. have they begun and especially of the Jesuits. By this 
a~amst me from ~acred Scr1pture, one (~n.d well d1d the remtmscences. to.o of illS their literary institutions. 
One college our readers may discern the signs of the 
dJfficuhyonly rElmamed,--that th.~ church" VlSlt to Rome help on the convt.•tton,) to nnd two academies are now finished. times, and the pomts of dang-er from 1he 
(\h.e .l(omane,hurch) "oqght to ~e obeyed. make what was for a while a suspicion Fourteen churches have been finished and assaults of Rome. 
She has literally 
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girded the country with her forces. The Mexico refuses to cede to us a third of 
United States are in the midst of the cir· her entire territory, thinkina we ouaht to 
cle, on the circumference of which, atdif-be content with Texas, antan eiahth of 
ferent distances, Rome is strenathening the balance; and on this sole gro~nd of 
her outposts and erectii1g her b~lwarks. difference hostilities have been resumed, 
Is it not time for Protestants to fix a and thousands have already bit the dust. 
wat<:hful eye upon her movements? 
Is But the President's oraan is still insatiate. 
it wise to keep alive the ery, ''there is It complains that e have been too len· 
no danger," while the enera·v and success ient and mercif•1l thus far toward Mexico, 
. of the Jesuits are so app~rent, and the an.d·indicates that new regimei)tS must be 
apathy of Protestants so great? Is this ratsed, new loans made, new injuries in-
the best way to express a deep interest in flicted. 
We must confiscate, plunder, 
the welfare of the country? 
Is this the ravage, burn, and waste, as well as kill 
best way to stimulate Protestants to those We must make Mexico pay the expenses 
counteracting ~fforts that must be put of the war henceforth, (to the great re· 
forth, or the country will be ruined? We lief of Secretary Wal'ker.) 
In short, we 
solemnly appeal to eve1·y Minister of the have been at play thus far, and now must 
Gospel and to every laymrzn, who have go to work and make the Mexicans dread, 
favored the cry of" no danger," and be-hate, abhor us. 
We must make our· 
seech them to look at the present state of selves widely abhorred in order to secure 
things. 
Unless they believe the country Justice and Peace-and this in the Nine· 
is· to be saved by miracles wrought by the teenth Century ! 
tinc.tly heard twenty-five miles distant. served surrounding the visible pol~.-' 
They were likened to the discharges of This highly illuminated spot is to be seen 
heavy artillery. 
Streaks of the intensest most plainly when it emerges from the 
light glanced like lightning in all direc-long night of \he winter season ; but 
tions; the outskirts of the burning lava when it has passed slowly beneath the 
as it fell, cooled by the shock, was shiv-heat of the solar beams, it is fou~d to 
ered into millions of fragments-and ha'e grarlually contracted its dimenswns; 
borne aloft by strong breezes, blowing to and at last, before it has plunged into light 
ward the land, were scattered in scintil· on the opposite side, to have entirely dts-
lant showers far into the country. 
For appeared. 
But the opposite pole, then 
three successive weeks the volcano dis· coming into similar relations, is found to 
gorged an uninterrupted burning tide, be furnished with a like luminous spot, 
with 
s~arcely a diminution, into the which, in its turn, dissolves as it becomes 
ocean. 
On either side, for twen.ty miles, heated by the summer sun. 
Now these 
the sea became heated, and with such ra· facts prove to us, incontestibly, that the 
pidity that, on the second day of the very geographical regions of Mars are 
junction, fishes came on shore dead in fac. similes of our own. 
In its long pular 
great numbers at Keau, fifteen miles dis-winters the snows accumulate in the deso-
tant. 
Six weeks later, at the base of the lation of its· high northern aud southern 
hills, water continued sc11lding hot, and latitudes, until they become visible to us 
sent forth steam at every wash of the in consequence of their reflective propPr-
waves. 
ties; and these are slowly melted as the 
power of God, is it not high time to wake 
"Is it possible that the history of Bo· 
out of this present sleep?~ 
napart~'s operations in Spain is unknown 
1an·es' Scenes in the Sandwich Isles. 
sun's rays gather power in the advancing 
season, until they cease to be appreciable 
to terrestrial eyes. The fact is a most 
striking one in reference to the i>resent 
question. If the moon has proved to us, 
incontrovertibly, that one of the celestial 
luminaries is a solid sphere, carved into 
elevations and depressions analagous to 
those familiar to us, as the mountains and 
valleys of the terrestrial surfaces, Mars 
teaches us as emphatically that another 
among them is a world, filled with its. 
rains, and snows, and douds, and sea-
sons, to the purpose~ and wants of or-
ganic life, which is intimately dependent 
upon such adaptations for its being. 
' 
Amencan Protestant. 
to our rulers? That struggle commenced 
like this-in weakness, indecision, dis-
traction, discomfiture, on the part of 
Spain, met by. power, energy, unity, and 
victory-on that of Napoleon. 
But' con-
tributions,' 'retaliations,' &c., were after 
a time resorted to, so that Spain should 
feel the evils of war. 
The issue is writ· 
ten on the soil of Spain in the blood of 
Six Hundred Thousantl Frenchmen. 
The Mexicans are in part of the same 
blood, with a country scarcely different 
in natural peculiarities and warlike re· 
sources. 
Shall we not heed the lesson?" 
Are the Planets Inhabited? 
}; "Heady" Natio~. _ 
We have long looked with pain at the 
reckless, a~d practically atheistic course 
of the " Washington Union," the Presi-
dent's mouth-piece. The venerable, gray-
haired man who conducts it, uses the fol-
lowing language in his J>aper of Satur-
day evening, Oct. 2:-
1' Mexico now finds herself conquered 
and butnbled past retrieval by the energy 
of our Government, and the valor of our 
arms, and yet assumes to reject with 
scorn, even while her strongholds are in 
our possP.ssion, and her capital wholly at 
our mercy, all the propositions of equitable 
and honorable pt>ace which we have kept 
constantly open to her acceptance. 
To-
wartl such an enemy our course is plain. 
The character· of our war must change. 
It mu:;t be prosecuted \Yith new ardor and 
with new power. 
Our enemy must be 
made to feel its burdens and its evils, 
mote and more. 
She· must bearthe brunt 
of its expenses. 
The inhabitants of her 
towns must be laid under stringent con· 
tributions. 
Subsistence for our armies 
must be gathered from her country.-
Since conciliation is spurned, the strong 
hand must be resorted to, to maintain our 
rights and our honor. 
Mexico must be 
made to feel that sh~ now continues the 
war at her peril-at her peril of incur-
ring all its evils and losses-at her peril 
of paying the penalty of its farther pros· 
ecuLi n in terms of peace even less fa· 
, vorable to her pretensions than those 
which we have already offered. 
Mean· 
time nothing must be wanting on our part 
to the most vigarous prosecution of the 
war. 
'Ve must pour in new troops upon 
her, and demand and take from her peo· 
pie the means of subsisting and support· 
ing them in the field." 
This is the voice of a people who talk 
. of their rights, as resting on their swords, 
as if there were no God, wbo commands 
his children to "support the weak,"-not 
crush them. The New York" Tribune," 
. after quoting the above, justly comments 
thus:-
" Such is the language held by the 
PresiJent's organ with reference to our 
future operations in Mexico! 
While the 
bodies of three thousand of our own gal-
lant countrymen are festering in ghastly 
death or writhing in horrible agony with· 
in siaht of the Mexic.an Capital-while 
the ~hrreks 'of the crowds of Mexican 
women and children torn and mangled 
b} o.ur shells and shot yet rack the gen'e-
ral ear-while it is even doubtful whe-
ther our gallant army is not enveloped in 
fearful perils and decimated by fresher 
conflicts-The Union .ets up its wolfish 
howl for blood, and still morE: blood.-
Are the planets inhabited? is a ques-
tion which naturally presents itself to the 
human mind, and. for the solution of 
which we as naturally look to the science 
of astronomy: But when the in:mense 
distance which separates us even from 
the nearest of the planets is remembered, 
it ean scarcely be a matter of surprise 
that the telescope affords no direct evi-
dence of the question, whether the plan· 
ets, like the earth, are inhabited globes. 
Yet, though it gi,•es no direct answer to 
the inquiry, modern astronomy has col· 
Westminster Review. 
lected together a mass of facts, connected 
A Torrent of Burning Lava Poured by the positions and motions, the physi-
Philosophical Facts. 
into the Ocean. 
cal character and conditions, and the 
\Vhen the torrent of fire prer.ipitated parts played in the solar system by the 
The change of pfoPerties which takes 
itself into the ocean, the scene assumed a several globes of which that solar system place when chemic;al attraction acts, is not 
character of terrific and indescribable is composed, which forms a vast body of confined to metals, but is a general result 
grandeur. The magnificence of destruc-analogy, leading the intelligent mind to in every case where different bodies are 
tion was never more perceptibly displayed the conclusion, that the planets are worlds, brought in o this state of combination or 
than when these antagonistic elements fulfilling in the economy of the univer~;e chemical union. 
Frequently we find 
met in deadly strife. 
The mightiest of the same functions, and created by the that the properties of each body are to-
earth's magazines of fire poured forth its same Divine hand, for the same moral tally changed, and the substances, from 
burning billows to meet the mightiest of purposes, and with the same destinies! beiug energetic and violent in their na-
oceans. 
For two score miles it came, as the earth. Thus, for example, we find ture, become mert and harmless, and vice 
rolling, turn~ling, swelling forward, an that these orbs, like our own, roll in regu-'Versa. 
For instance, that useful arid 
awful agent of death. 
Rocks melted lated periods round the sun; that they agreeable substance, culinary salt, ~vhich 
like wax in its path; the very hills were have nights and days, and successions of is not only harmless, but wholesome, and 
lifted from their primeval beds, and sank seasons, that they are provided with at-absolutely necessary to the. well-being of 
beneath its tide, or were borne onward by mospheres, ~Supporting clouds, and 
a~i-man, is composed of two formidable in-
its waves; the works of man were to it tated by winds; and that thus, abo, thPir gredients, either of which taken into the 
but as a scroll in the flames, nature shriv-climates and 
sea~ons are modified Ly stomach proves fatal to life; one of these 
elled and trembled before the irresistible evaporation, and that showers refresh is a metal, and the other an air-the for-
foe. 
Imagine Niagara's stream, above their surfaces. 
For \Ve know that wher· mer is called sodium, the latter chlorine. 
the brink of its falls, with its dashing, evPr the existence of clouds is made mani-When presented to each other, the via-
whirling, tossing, and eddying rapids, fest, there water must exist; there evapo· lence of their nature is manifested by 
madly raging, and hurrying on to their ration must goo ... ; there electricity, with their immediately bursting out into flame, 
plunge, instantaneoosly converted into its train of phenomena, must reign; there and instantly they are both deprived of 
lire, a gory hued river of fused minerals; rain must fall; there hail and snow must their virulence. 
Can anything be more 
the wrecks of created matter blazing and descend. 
Notwithstanding thP dense at· striking tluin the c.hange of properties in 
disappearing beneath its surface; vol· mosphere qnd thick clouds with which this case, and who could have supposed 
umes of hissing steam arising; smoke Venus and Murcury are constantly en· that culinary salt is composed of a metal 
curling upwards from ten th.ousand vents, veloped, the telescope has exhibited to us united to an air? The medicine called 
which gave utterance to as many deep great irregularities on their surfaces; and Glauber's salt is another instance: it is 
toned mutterings, and sullen, confined, thus proves the existence of mountains composed of two caustic poisons of dif-
ominous clamorings, as if the spirjts of and valleys. 
But it is upon the planet ferent kinds; one called oil of vitriol, 
fallen demons were struggling against Mars, which approaches nearest to the and the other barilla, or soda. 
There 
their final doom; gases detonating and earth, that the greatest advances have are also two substances known to chem-
shrieking as they burst from their hot been made in this department of inqlliry. ists which are disgustingly bitter liquids: 
prison house; the heavens lurid with Un~er favorable circum.stanc:es, its disc is one is railed nitrate of silver, and the 
flame; the atmosphere dark, turgid, and seen to be mapped out by a varied outline, other hyposulphate of soda; when mixed 
oppressive, the horizon murky with va· some purtions being less reflective of light they form n compound of considerable 
pors, and gleaming. with the reflected than others, ju~t as wa,er would be less sweetJ'lless. 
But the atmosphere which 
contest; while cave and hollow, as the reflective than land. 
Baer and Maedler, we breathe is the most extraordinary of 
hot air swept along their heated walls, two Pru~sian astronomers, have devoted all instances; it most be surprisivg to 
threw back the unearthly sounds in a many years' labor to the examination of those who are unacquainted with the 
myriad of prolonged echoes. 
Such was Mars, and the r<>sult has put us in posses· fact, that atmospheric air, indispenable as 
the scene, as the fiery cataract, leaping a sion of a map of the geography of that ~t is l? life, is composed of the same 
precipice of fifty feet, poured itsilood up· planet, almost as exact and defined as that mgrrdJents as that most violent and 
on the ocean. 
The old line of coast, a we possess of our own; in fact, the geo· destructive liquid, called aqua fortis, or 
mass of compact, indurated lava, whi-graphical outlines of land and water have nitric acid. 
This powerful acid being 
tened, cracked, and fell. 
The waters re· been made apparent upon it. 
But a still made to act upon su~ar, the sweetest of 
coiled and sent forth a tempest of spray; more extraordinary fact, in relation to this all things, produces aesubstance intensely 
they foamed and lashed around and over planet, remains to be considered. Among bitte-r to the taste. Charcoal is, of ail 
the melted rock; they boiled with the the shadl'd marl>ing5 which have been known substances, the most difficult to 
he~t, and the roar of the conflicting noted by the telescope upon its disc, a re-convert into vapor, so much so, indeed, 
agencies grew thicker and louder. 
The markable region of brilliant white light, that the conveJsion has never yet been 
reports of the exploding gas were dis· standing out in bold relief, bas been ob-decidedly effectual ; it is also-a ~ry solid 
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THE ADVENT HERALD. 
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substance; and diamond, whir.h is nothing 
but chrystalized charcoal, is one of the 
hardest bodies in nature. 
Sulphur, in 
the solid state, is also a hard substance, 
and to holt! it in vapor requires a high 
temperature. 
But when these two sub-
stances, carbon and sulphur, are made to 
combine, chemically, so as to form the 
substance called ·bisulphuret of carbon, 
their properties are strikingly changed. 
Instead of the compound bein.g hard, it 
is a thin liquid, and it is not known to 
freeze or solidify at any degree of cold 
that can be produced. 
Instead of the 
compound being difficult to vaporize, it is 
of all liquids, one of the most evaporable. 
Charcoal is the bl\ckest substance with 
which we are acquainted-sulphur is of 
a most lively yellow hue; but the com-
pound is as colorless as water. 
A new 
smell and taste are acquired, and, in a 
word, there is not one point of resem-
blance with the component. 
These facts 
are strikingly illustrative of the change 
of properties which follows on the exer-
tion of chemical attraction between the 
ultimate particles of bodies. 
prove from the Scriptures, that there would be 
but ' one faith ' among those who desire to 
know the truth." All true, undoubtedly : if 
men were not sinners-they would not be sin-
ners. 
It is one thing to show the cause of 
disunion, another to point out the true remedy, 
and still another to make it work. If the apos· 
ties could have been made a~qnainted with 
these causes of disunion, and that would have 
prevente.d it, how much trouble it would have 
saved them. 
The false apostles, Jezebels, 
Baalamites, Nicolaitanes, &c., would have 
been as harmless ae charmed serpents. 
tures given by inspiration of God." But we 
remember that an apostle has said, in telling 
us how we are to 11 take heed " to the " sure 
word,'~ to" know this first, that no prophecy 
of the Scripture is of any private interpreta-
tion :''-literally," of its own untying," not 
self-interpreted ; and that" the false teachers, 
who should be among U:l," as the false proph-
ets, were among the people of old, would bring 
in their damnable heresies "privily "-they 
would assume that the mind of the Spirit is 
to be ascertained on a subject· by taking half, 
or less than half, its tes_timony on that subject ; 
awl perhaps take that for his testimony that 
never was spoken by hirn. 
God has made us 
acquainted with the mode by which we are to 
ascertain what he" means," when he speaks. 
There is such a thing as "rightly dividing the 
word of truth "-such a thing as ''searching 
and inquiring diligently what the Spirit of 
Christ signifies "-such a thing as " compar-
ing Scripture with Scripture." And for the 
purpose of doing this intelligently and safely, 
we have known b;ethren to make ~s~ of very 
good rules, to this effect :-
The experience and views of Solomon, while 
a deist, when he " said in his heart," " there 
is no remembrance of the wise more than of 
t._he foul forever" (2: 15, 16)-that" man hath 
no pre-eminence above a beast" (3:18-22)-
when he seem~ not to have had a thought uf 
any "portion" beyond "the grave,'' (9:9, 
10,) these are not our experience, or our 
views. 
Nor do they agree with the " prac-
tice" of our brethren, who so inconsiderately 
Donovan's Chemistry. 
. 
~l)t 1uent !jeralb. 
Assuming that " all men possess the same 
phrenological organs, and that consequently 
the quality of the minds of all men is very 
nearly or quite the same; and that every man, 
divested of prejudice, will understand a plain 
sentence alike;" after po~nting out the" class" 
of men the Scriptures were given to instruct-
" babes, little children "-he proceeds:-
" Does any one ask how shall we be thus 
united 1 I answer, simply by believing God. 
It is the simplest and easiest process imagina-
ble.'' We have also a specimen of the work-
ipg of the " proce~.>s " on the doctrines on 
which we differ, out of a wrong view of which, 
it is said, " arises the divisions and contentions 
among us." We will give it at length :-
"sEHoLn! THE BRIDEGROOM coMETH!!" 
"In regard to the doctrinesaboutwhichwe 
differ: when it is said, 'The dead know not any 
BOSTON, NOVEMBER 20, 1847. 
"'The Advent Question." 
thing-The dead cannot praise thee-There is no 
know:edge or device in the grave whither thou 
goest-Man's breath goeth fortb, he returneth to 
his enrth; in that very day his thoughts perish-
Man lieth down and riseth not; till the heaven11 
OUR COURSE-" IJANGER OF DIVISION "-THE be no more, they shall not awake, nor be raised 
"PROCESS" OF" ElTHim PARTY," &c. &c. 
out of their sleep -or-' The soul tha.t ~inneth, 
No. II. 
it shall die-The wages of sin is d~ath-The 
wicked shall not see life-Shall not have life-
It is clear, then, that the object of the " Har-Shall utterly perish-Shall be destroyed-Shall 
binger,'' and those who go on the same plan, cease from the land of the living-Shall consume: 
is not the obje·ct of the "Herald." Theirs into smoke shall they consume away-The day 
may be better than ours; but it is not ours. lf that cometh shall burn them up, saith the Lord 
of hosts, that. it shall leave them neither root nor 
it is a better plan, the evidence of it remains branch-Shall be ashes under the feet of the re-
to be brought forward. If there has not been deemed-They shall be as nothing; and they that 
a satisfactory experi~ent made, let " one and strive. with thee shall peri:>h-Thou shalt seek 
them and shall not find them, even them that 
all" assist in perpetuating that which is now contended with thee-They that were against 
going on, till they are satisfied. 
While the thee shall be as nothing, and as a thing of nought 
·1 
f 1 
h 
f 11 
d 
· 
-They shall become as though they had not 
sal s o t Jat s eet are u y sprea to recetve been-Thou shalt diligently consider their place 
every wind of doctrine, which "can reasona-and it shall not be ;' and such other plain literal 
hly be interpreted or viewed,"' by its" head," expressions, believe them. 
'But,' says an ob-
as being" embraced " in" the entire economy jector, 'this means '--Stop, objector. There 
is where you get your fables and doctrinea of 
of grace," let all the "messages," and the men. 
No matter if millions say God means the 
whole cirCle of doctrines involved in "the reverse of what he says, that ought not to affect 
apostacy," be presented, and according to his us who profess to believe God. 'Let God be true 
and every man a liar.' This would. completely 
" best ability " he will " proclaim the truth, remedy the evil.' 
the whole truth, and nothing but the truth." 
Yes. 
No doubt thia would make ps " per-
That is not our work; and those who have it fectly united;'' whether it would be-" in the 
to be done, well know where to call. The truth" or not, is another question. 
But his 
assurance is given, that you will " be more next paragraph spoils the " pror.ess :" These 
and more strongly united in the blessed truths shall go away into everlastjng punishment, 
of the Bible." That certainly is a great work. " means" " that the wicked shall be punished 
Would to God it might be accomplished. 
with everlasting extinction of life." Still far-
It may be asked, perhaps, if the" process'' ther, of the ''three meanings" ff which he 
has been made known by which this most de-says the answer of Christ to the prayer of the 
s)rable wotk is to be accomplished 1 The most thief on the cross " may have,'' he gives us 
de~nite and authentic statement of it which what he "understands tQ be the meaning." 
has fallen under our notice., is contained in And in the text quoted by Peter, to prove that 
the "Harbinger" <?f Oct. 26, in an article Christ's" soul was not left in hell, (hades,) 
which responds to the editor's motto, "Union neither his flesh did see corruption," he un-
for the truth,'' by which the writer was '' in-derstands" his soul" to mean "he." This 
duced t'l pen a few lines, to prevent the little is the way "doctrines" are to be "thoroughly 
flock from running· into either of the baneful tested by the only proper standard," in order 
extremes of bitter wrangling and heated con-to get "the truth, the whole truth, and noth-
tention for the truth, or of silence and lfurying ing but the truth."-You have only to let the 
of talents for the sake of union.'' A noble process-maker hold the glas'3 for you, and tell 
motive, certainly. This plan of "union for you where to look, and it will be the "sim-
the truth," assurues that.all men are "con-plest and easie:lt process imaginable" for you 
stituted" so nearly alike, that the principal to see eye to eye with him. How wonderfully 
eause of disunion among those who profess to " some of the brethren might be benefitted by 
·" 1ove the truth, is two-fold, viz., 1. There-and be thankful for a few feeble hints." 
ee.ption of the doctrines of men as truth, be-
With all the reasons brethren have had to 
cause they are generally acknowledged to be ... fear" that we ate "imitating the sects," 
such, without properly canvassing them, and w~ have never seen or "hinted" at the ne-
testiog them by the only proper ~tandard-the cessity for any such Procrustean bedstead as 
word of God. 2. An underrating of the im-this " process " for making brethren " per-
portance of holding the truth in purity, un-fectly united.'' That we "are to believe 
mixed with error. But for these two things," God," we have always contended; and also 
he adds, "I am boltl to assert, and ready to that" he means what he says," in the" Scrip-
adopt them. 
But admitting Solomon· did · 
speak " by inspiration of God " in this case, 
does it teach that death is " the utter extinc-
tion of all being," so that there is nothing 
of a man to be' in any state, conscious or un-
conscious, asleep or awake-the only assump-
tion as to what God " means," on the state of 
the dead, which has caused any difficulty 
among Adventists 1 
"To understand doctrine, bring all the scrip-
tures together on the subject you wish to know; 
then let every word have its proper influence, 
and if you can form your theory without a con-
tradiction, you cannot be in an error." 
"To Jearn the true meaning of figure~, trace 
your figurative word through your Bible, nnd 
where yoq find it explained, put it on your figure, 
and if it makes good sense, you need look no fur-
ther ; if not, look again." 
This is the apostolic "process;" this is 
ours. 
But has this ever been used by those 
who propose to work the new "process" for 
" one and all," according to their " best 
abiiity "1 
We are to remember, too, that in inquiring 
what the Spirit signifies, and in dividing the 
word, there are some things in '' that precious 
book " that were not spoken " by inspiration 
of God," or'' given by" it, to be believed s 
truth, on the point to which they refer. 
The 
experience and errors. of men while in their 
sins, recorded and confessed after conversion, 
are not to be received as Christian experience, 
and Christian faith. 
What may be said by 
the servants of God in their haste, when in 
doubt that they have the Spirit of God, or un-
der the buffetings of Satan, so that life becomes 
a burden to them, inay not be the mind of the 
Spirit on what they thus ::;peak of. 
Still fur-
ther. In what the Spirit has said, there are 
such things as figures as well as literal state-
ments of truth, in which the figures and 
terms used may have more than one significa-
tion. 
Sentences and terms may also be used 
in an absolute, or only in a general sense. 
Suppose ·now we should look, for ap exam-
ple, at one of the portions cited in the above 
illustration of the " process" for obtaining 
"union and truth." Does this process bring 
"the only proper standard," to bear" p~op­
erly" on the " doctrines'' to which the por-
tions are supposed to refer, so as to get" the 
truth, the whole truth, and nothing but the 
truth 1" The fir::;t portion is a detached sen-
tence of Eccles. 9:5; a book that makes no 
claim to being wliUen by inspiration of God, 
for the purpose of asserting true " doctrines," 
though it is doubtless " given" for " instruc-
tion," by presenting a true record of the ex-
perience and errors of Solomon during the 
"days of his vanity," and perhaps of his con-
version. There is not a'' thussaith the Lord" 
in the whole book. Viewing it in this light, 
there would be about as much propriety in 
adopting tbis book as an expression of Chris-
tian faith, as there would be in making some 
parts of the 7th chapter of Romans a state-
ment of Paul's Christian experience ; or the 
73d Psalm, which records David's cogitations 
when his "steps had well nigh slipped," and 
he had become so " foolish and ignorant," 
that he " was as a beast before" God, as his 
"doctrines" when he spake as " a prophet." 
-
The whole verse together contains as per-
fect an an!ithesis as words could be made to 
express-a mods of speech which it is " the 
easiest thing imaginable" to understanrl, as 
to the scope of the writer's meaning, and the 
most difficult to pervert. Look at the two 
parts of this antithesis : " For the living know 
that they shall die : but the dead know not 
anything."-One part is an exact opposite 
parallel to the other part. If one part is to 
be understood in the absolute sense, the other 
must be so understood.-If one part of the 
text, the dead know not anything," .means" 
that all the dead are incapable of knowing 
anything-all the dead while under the power 
of death-the spirit that returns to God as 
well as the dust that returns to dust, then the 
other part of the text "means/' that all the 
living, while men live on the earth, must 
"know that they shall die." Now we have 
only to ask, Can any one suppose this to be 
-" the truth, and nothing but the truth," when 
he has "properly" brought the supposition 
to "the only true standard "1 Does the word 
of God make no exception to the general 
truth," th~ living know that they shall die "1 
Do all our brethren " know, they shall die "1 
If not, the text canriot be understood in the 
absolute sense. It has been, and still is, a 
general, but not absolute and universal truth, 
that the living know that they shall die. 
So 
it may be a genetal truth, that the dead 
know not anything; but it does not follow that 
there are no exceptions to this general " state 
of the dead." The word of God abundantly 
teaches us there ar.e. 
Much less are we to 
suppose that " the spirit of man," which the 
Lord God " formed within him," and which 
constituted him " a living soul,'.' ceases to ex-
ist, ~hen the man, as a living soul, ceases to 
be. Such a "process" for obtaining" union," 
and for coming to a knowledge of the truth, 
must expose those who adopt it to the belief 
of anything" but the truth," even while they 
fancy that above all men they "believe God." 
Now it is only by assuming that this detached 
portion is to be nndertitood in ·the absolute 
sense, that it can be made to render any sup-
port to the " dDctrine," that the dead have 
experienced such an " utter extinction of ail 
being," as to be incapable of knowing any 
thing. 
The doctrine can be got out of that 
text only by a " process" like that said to 
have been discovered by Elias Smith, for get-
ting cider out of cotton wool, viz., by first' 
putting the cider into it. 
If brethren expect us to agree with them 
"on. all the doctrines" of the Bible, they 
must adopt a different process in their " inves-
tigations." In the use of this we should be 
"ever learning, and never able to come to the 
knowledge of the truth." And if by any 
process we ever shoulq be brought to agree 
wi\h them, on the doctrines in question, we 
shall not obtrude the investigation of them into 
pablications and places devoted to other ques-
tions. 
Though what we say here is not de-
signed to bear on the doctrines involved, but 
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125 
only on the manner of the investigation; and to have them remarked upon, and for other 
we "thought perhaps some of the brethren brethren, on the same si{le of the question 
mi~ht be benefitted, and be thankful for a few with those whp' sent the articles, to order 
feeble hints." If the portions cited were all their papers to be stopped, because the re-
duly considered, it would be seen that they marks did not agree with their views. 
They 
are as" privily" interpreted as the first. 
are not fully satisfied that brethren who are 
This is not the "process" by which we so excessively scrupulous and zealous fur 
came to a knowledge of the truth on the Ad-"the truth," though they may put forth their 
vent doctrine. And " if we are to understand " " best abilities," possess that amount of 
brethren tu assert that they were convinced of "knowledge," with their" zeal," that a man 
its' truth by such a process, we du not marvel needs, to know what he is about. 
And when 
that they speak as they qo of what we " call they see brethren at one time filled with ap-
the Advent question," or that they should prehen~ion, lest the adoption of the unscrip-
cherish the "fears" they do of their "dear tural word, "Advent," or "Adventist,'' as 
brethren:" it would be perfectly natural, per-the designation of those who take a special 
fectly, characteristic. If they can substitute 'interest in the Bible event to which the w01d 
such a "process" for that which God has refers, are "imitating the sects," and at ana-
pointed out, in order to the proper investiga-ther time sending out an "Advent " paper, in 
tion of his word, how could we expect them which the" definition of the Advent question'' 
to treat our words in a better manner 1 It is is confounded with what it" embraces," and 
enough for the servant to be as his master. what it "embraces" is contended for as the 
We have not so learned Christ in this particu-" definition " "to be justified by the word of 
lar. 
And when we hear it cl~med, that this the Lord," and that will carry one and all 
is the process which has been adopted in in-clear of "the sects;" at one time full of zeal 
vestigating the Advent question, we consider against the" Advocate" as a dangerous agent 
it as high ar• insult as was ever cast upon its in the field, and at another time joining heart 
defenders. 
We repel the scandal, as worthy and hand with it, defending it againilt what 
only of the enemies, not merely of the Ad-they inilinuate the" Advent Herald" reported 
vent question, but of the whole Bible. 
For about" the conductors and friends of the' Ad-
such ones to talk of division as a future thing vocate,'" which the "Herald'' never did re-
is a mockery of all language. 
Why, it al-port abou't them, and stating that what the 
ready exists. It has always existed; and the "Herald" did "report proved to be incor-
sooner its form becomes defined and understood, rect," which was not "incorrect :"-when 
th~•better we shall like it. 
Of all the enemies they see such vacillation, they feel grieved, 
we have harl to encounter, none have been so af-and see that there is soma room for doubt whe-
flicting and fatal as those which have come upon ther they will work the" process" to produce 
us and the cause from this class of pretended the promised result. 
brethren. 
It is not any particular question, 
These brethren, though they do not agree 
doctrine, or opinion, that causes the trouble. with us on all questions, do not like to see old 
One qnestion, doctrine, or opinion, good or bad, friends treated like enemies, merely for the 
true or false, is the same with them as another. sake of a fight, or even a victory, as they see 
j\.11 the difference of opi!Jion wbich now exists and know that such treatment is made to ap-
bas existed for years, but that difference, on the pear plausible only by juggling a false conclu-
questions now brought forward as the pre-sion out of a false assumption; that an affected 
tended cause of alienation, never produced the horror of spiritualism, popery, paganism, and 
mischief that has beeiJ going on for some the devil, is exhibited in the most affecting 
months past. It is not the difference, but the forms, apparently to cover, with the most 
manner of contending about that difference. damning odium, the position of "dear breth-
We know many of our brethren, who differ ren" who may give as good a reason from the 
from us on these questions, are sick at heart Bible for their opinion, on any point the Ad-
of the course pursued by the ones who promote vent question embraces, as those who thus 
this spirit of contention, because of their un-appear to seek their injury. 
fortunate manner, not to give it a harder 
"name," in contending for their views. 
One 
of them said to us the other day, that he was 
"sorry his side had been discussed by so many 
who were not competent to discuss it; but 
then," said he," those who are competent are 
too wise to bring it forward at this time for 
discussion." 
Now, although these brethren 
differ from us, they are among the truest 
friends of the Advent cause, as it has been 
sustained, as it now is, and as they desire it 
may be. 
Bnt they see that the same elements 
are at work on these questions, that have al-
ways done the same work of mischief, as far 
as they were able, on many other q nestions 
that have come up. And they do not like con-
tention so well as to use their opinions only 
for thai purpose. 
They d9 not desire " our 
Advent offices and editors" to give the time 
and place which belong to " the Advent ques-
tion," to other questions; and then attempt to 
make brethren believe, that those who give 
that question the time and place which belong 
to it are "mistaken ;• in so doing. 
They do 
not think it is exactly fair for one brother to 
request the insertion or au extract of some 
work, say of Josephus, in an Adve~t paper, 
and for another, in sympathy with the one 
who made the request, to get up a war of holy 
indignation, that excites his" whole being" 
to its highest capacity, against that paper for 
preferring ''Josephus to Jesus, and Plato to 
Paul." Tbey do not think it the most honora-
ble to their side of the question, for brethren 
to send articles for publication, with a request 
To OuR BRITISH SuBsCRIBERs.-In re-
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American steamer Washington's letters by the 
British Government, the Post Master General has 
given notice, that after the 16th of the pre-
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ish posseasions o~ this Continent will be allowed 
to leave the United States until United States 
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therefore, until some arrange!'lent is made be-
tween the two governments, be subjected to the 
expense of 1 1-2 cents postage on each paper that 
we send to our subscribers in Canada, New 
Brunswick, and Nova Scotia. As this will be a 
heavy weekly tax, we shall be onder the neces-
sity of discontinuing to those Trom whom we have 
not heard for a long time in those provinces, and 
who ar~ in arrears. We have sixty-nine snbscri-
bers there who owe for the last volume, fifty-five 
of whom owe for several volumes. If any of 
this last number do not receive the "Herald" 
after thi~, they will understand the reason: and 
if they wish tor its continuance, they will please 
inform us. 
To CoRRESPONDENTs.-Artemas.-Your 
argument making JAMEs K. PoLx. the beast of 
Revelation, whose number is 666, is ingenious, 
but not conclusive. There are scores of names, 
the letters of which, like his, will make that num-
ber. The New York" Evangelist" showed some 
vears ago that the letters in the words " Captain 
Miller " would form that number. And we have 
a letter in our possession from Mr. Miller, in 
which he shows that the united letters in our own 
name will form the same result. The name of 
Napoleon Buonaparte, and that of several other 
great men, produce a like result. There are ma-
ny who might aspire to the seat of the btsast, as 
far as the letters in their name are concerned. 
Summary. 
Volcanic Eruption.-The" Mountain Eagle" 
states that great excitement and alarm prevails 
among the inhabitants of Walker and Dade coun-
ties, Ga., produced by a burning volcano which 
is said to have bursted out from the high peaks of 
the Look Out Mountain, at a place called the 
"Narrows," on the 19th ult. 
Some of the in-
habitants, it is stated, bad removed from the 
neighborhood. 
The" Journal" relates an ummcr.essful attempt 
executed as to elude detection, unless great care 
is taken in the examination. 
The wife of J. H. Titus, of Jackson, Mich., 
was lost from a steamer on Lake Erie in the 
night, supposed to have walked overboard while 
dt•lirioos. 
The church at the villnge of. Piscataway, N.J., 
was con11umed hy fire on Saturday evening last. 
The Cherokee "Advocate" says, all the pa-
pers relating to cases appealed from the circuit 
courts to the superior court of the Nation, have 
been stolen from the court bouse in the night. 
to rob a gentleman in Roxbury • Ml!ss. 
In the 
The tavern and barn of widow John C. Hinds, 
evening a woman accosted him, on the turnpike at Antwerp, N. Y., was burnt in the night, with 
near the rail-road, and asked him for money; 
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two horses aud a shoe shop. 
and upon his refu11mg she stepped back, and he 
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that they mtended to p~II htm through the fence, Loss, from $I2,000 to $l5,000. 
and then gag and rob h1m. 
. 
About 11 o'clock on Saturday mght a ~re broke 
Reuben Sawyer, chairman of the selectmen of 
St~rling, Mass., bung himself on Saturday, after 
having taken an ounce of laudanum. He was a 
man of talents, and leaves.a wife, without chil-
dren. 
He was 40 years of age, and is supposed, 
from letters about his person, to have ~een in em-
barrassed circumstances. 
Miss Welsh, a young lady, fell off the highest 
point of St. Vincent rocks, at Bristol, Eng.,, 300 
feet ; every bone in her body was broken. 
In Cleveland, 0., Alexander Collahan•s house, 
near the lake, was turned over and all the f~rni­
ture broken by a land slide ; the family left it 
the day before. 
At Niagara Falls, one of the bears in Mr. Bar-
nett's museum killed a boy, and almost killed Mr. 
Barnett himself, before he could Le rescued. 
The ship Lord Ash burton, which left Liverpool 
·on the 13th of SeptemLer, arrived at Grosse Isle, 
below Quebec, ou the 4th inst., haviug lost on her 
passag.e one hundred and seven of her passengers 
by fever and dysentery, with a large number still 
on the sick list. 
On Jetting off a blast on one of the sections of 
the R. H. rail-road above Peekskill, a large stone, 
weighing a 1000 lbs., flew into the air, and in its 
descent, passed through the roof of a shanty, just 
as its occupants were sitting ·down to dinner, stri-
king in the middle of the table, smashing the 
dishes, and breaking a man's leg in two places. 
In the middle ages, in France, a person con-
victed of being a calumniator was condemned to 
place himself on all fourR, and bark like a dog, 
for n quarter of an hour. If this custom were 
adopted at the present day, there would be some 
barking. 
J. W. Newhall's store, Saugus, wa<1 broken into 
on Saturday night, and robbed of five hundred 
pairs of shoes. 
In Springfield, G. W. Powers, a teamster, had 
his skull fractured by the kick of a horse in the 
forehead, but may recover. 
On the Utica and Schenectady Rail-road some 
wretch placed parcels of gunpowder on the track, 
with percussion caps ; the explosion, inl!tead of 
throwing off the train, as in~ended, oiJly set fire 
to the woodPn casing of the boiler, which was 
destroyed. 
In Cambridge, Md., Denwood, a negro, bas 
been sentenced to be bung for murder. 
Among the ruins of a barn burnt in Canton, 
1ass., a few days since, were found the bones of 
1>1 man and a pipe. 
Mrs. Regan, an immigrant, and a little daugh-
ter of 1r. Timson, were terribly and fatally man-
gled in the machinery of a mill at Whitehall. 
The Providence" Journal" says :-"The bal-
ance wheel attached to the engine at the Roll4)g 
lill broke yesterday afternoon, and a heavy piec~ 
of iron struck one of the workmen, Daniel 
McCarthy, and killed him instantly ; he left a 
wife and two children. 
There were admitted to Deer Island hospital 
for week ending Nov. lOth, 29 patients, died, 8, 
discharged, 64, remain, 314; admitted in all1879. 
Mrs. brae! Parshall was burnt to death, in 
Cherry Valley, N. Y.,"by her dress taking fire. 
A large lfllantity of counterfeit coin, &c., has 
been discovered at Cincinnati, hich are so well 
out in A. Howard's ribbon store, No.5 Hanover 
street, and was not extinguished until the stock 
had been considerably injured. 
Mr. E. T. Towle, machinist, was struck by an 
iron bar on the head near the temple, at the North 
Malden rail-road depot, on Friday morning, and 
although the contusion was slight, he died in the 
evening from the wound. It was receh·ed while 
changing the engines on the switch. He leaves 
a wife and three children at Great Falls, N. H. 
We learn from the Pottsville" Journal," that 
on Thursday last an explosion of carbonic acid 
gas occurred in the mines of Messrs. Mann and 
Williams, by which Wm. Beadle and Jas. Mur-
ray were killed. 
The Secretary of the Treasury bas instructed 
the Collector of New York, the New York" Sun" 
says, to reduce Custom House expenses at least 
:en per cent. 
Thi:c~ will effect an important sa-
ving for the government-about $100,000 per 
annum. 
The first striking clock was made in Arabia, 
where the arithmetical figures were invented, and 
the first Encyclopredia prepared. 
A journalist has disco\u00b7ered that, all things con-
sidered, railways are very slow, and behind the 
age. He says, that when travelling be 
blush~s 
to think the message on telegraph flies like light-
ning, while be is lazily creeping on at or.aly thirty 
or forty miles an hour. 
There has been a storm and freshet in Indiana; 
on the White Water River, doing much damage 
to the White Water Canal. The destruction of 
property was immense. A large number of hogs 
were drowned. 
A New Orleans bouse has seized the English 
ship Royal Saxon, from Londonderry, at Phila-
delphia, for $20,000, a debt against the English 
owners, who have failed. 
Mr. Daniel Sawyer, a worthy farmer, aged 66 
years, was run over by his oxen and killed in Bol-
ton, on the 4tn. 
J~ 
Advices from Louisiana speak of continued fine 
weather for the sugar crop, which would be abun-
dant. 
In Cuba, at lat~t accountll, the weather had 
been very favorable, and, the burrir.ane season 
being passed, a very large crop was expected. 
New sugar would be in the market early in De-
cember. 
The lake imports of breadstuffs at Buffalo for 
the first week in August, show a lar&e incrt~ase, 
as compared with the corresponding week lpst year. 
The girl who killed and burned her step-mo-
ther bas been tried at Pittsburg, and a verdict 
rendered of not guilty, she being considered of 
weak intellect, in consequence of disease. 
An officer writing from the city of Mexico, says : 
"I believe the war bas just begun, and will n.:>t 
terminate with thi~ generation." 
Serious difficulties have arisen between Pern 
and Bolivia. 
The government of ihe latter 
charges that the citiZt!ns of the former have at-
tempted to produce a revolution in Bolivia. Both 
have called extra sesaions of Congress. 
Madame Restell has been found guilty iu New 
York of a m:ildemeanor, not manslaughter, for 
which sbe wal! indicted. The punishment of her 
ofFence is imprisonment for one year ! ! ! ~ 
126 
THE ADVENT HERALD. 
moment. 
But there were evident seasons 
when they felt as men under their sufferings. 
A Sermon. 
There was no want of tendernessjn Saul of 
Tarsus when he bade his countrymen adieu; 
By N. N. WHITING,deliveredintheBig-.Tent he must have felt the bitterness of parting 
at New Yo-rk, Friday morning, Oct. 1st, with faithful, long tried friends as much as any 
1847. 
one. 
And when a father, or brother, or rela-
Text-Jam. 5:7-" Be patient therf'fore, brf!lhren, un-tive, took the sword against them, they must 
to the cowiug Qf the Loru. 
Hehoid, the hu~lmullmau 
waiteth for the precious fruit of the earrll, aud huth lung have felt as men ordinarily f~el ·under such 
parience for it, until he receive the early aud llitter,ruin." circumstances. 
Among other striking facts that showed the 
We would find, rontinued the speaker, on 
ruin that came upon our natures in conse-examining the Bible hiiltory of tbe church in 
quence of sin, the speaker remarked, was this its purest age; that there was an impatience 
one-the peculiar nature of the moral disci-manifested for the coming of the Lord. This 
pline under which God placed his people here might be thought a t~trange assertiou to his 
on earth. 
Man had fallen, in consequence of (Mr. W.'s) hearers, especially when at the 
his transgressions against .his Heavenly Fa-present time, instead of an impatience being 
ther, had broken the comm11nion he once had manifested for his coming, there was an evi-
with HirQ, and became a creature of earth, dent unwillingness to even hear about it. The 
with earthly hopP.s and objects before his mind. apostle Peter, in his second epistle, in reply-
Now, in his recpvery, God had not only sent ing to the question of the scoffers, "Where 
his Son to bear o•u sins in Iris body on the is the promise of his coming?" observed, that 
tree, became manifest himself in the flesh, "the Lord is not slack concerning his promise, 
died, and ascended, bringing life and immor-as some men count slackness; but is long-suf-
tality to light; but he ,operated on the hearts fering to us-ward, not willing that any should 
of those whom he saved,-a change which perish, but that all should come to repentance." 
made them truly new creatures in Christ Je-Why, he, Mr. W., would ask, did the apostle 
sus. Henceforth, when light broke into the make the remark, if it had not been that the 
soul, new desires were created, new feelings c urch was longing and looking with eager-
sprung forth, and the emancipated sinner felt ness for their redemption, and deliverance 
that he belonged to a new and better world. 
f~om their conflict with the world, that they 
Said Christ to his apostles, "They are not of might enter into the rest of the saints, arad 
this world, even as I am not of this world." wear the crown of righteousnes!l? 
Old things have passed away, and all things 
Saul had something 'of this feeling, when he 
have become new unto him. The sinner was remarked that he had a desire to depart and 
an inhabitant of another, a lietter conntry-be present with the Lord. 
lt was so with 
had a..no\her home, other kindred and urethren, Moses,. when leading the Israelites through 
when he had gone over to the Lord's side. 
the wilderness; but he waited patiently the 
The believer was then placed under a disCi-will of the Lord for forty years. 
That long 
pline, just as was the soldier. 
Tt was not and weary pilgrimage was a trial of Moses's 
enough that the soldiei should leave his faith. 
Thus it was that the faith of the holy 
country and bear arms, but he must use men of old was disciplined. 
them, and in the conflict of fighting he learned 
The amollut of moral discipline a man 
hi~ profession. 
So wi1h God's children: they needed to fit him for glory, the speaker said 
had all to figbt the good fight of faith on earth. he did not know. 
Man was like a child in 
They must " walk by faith, not by sight." 
pupilage, placed under the control of his pa-
But while an impenitent sinner, he could rents: as soon as it began to read and under-
not feel his Creator touching as it were the stand, it would fancy it had the judgment of a 
heart-springs of action. He might admire the mau, and to question whether it diu not kuow 
spirit of kindness and love that pervaded all as much as its father. 
So with God's chil-
ChrisL's labors. 
But when Christ came and dren : they thought they knew sometimes 
bealed the eye of the mind, causing him to more than the Lord did, and that in such and 
see in a new spiritual sense the loveliness of such matters God should take the course they 
God's character and attributes, when he looked had marked out. Th1s waf:; a common trait in 
at spiritual things in this lighC, they appeared our moral nature. 
The meek a11d quiet spirit 
as re&lities tu his soul. This new sense was of the little child was the spirit of true Chris-
faith. 
The man that had tha~ faith wrought tianity; "for except ye be converted, and be-
in him by the Divine Spirit, would realize the come as little children, ye shall in no wise en-
truth of all God had said and done. 
God's ter into the kingdom of heaven " 
After a 
map, or panorama, of a better state, would be man's conversion, there was a process nece~;­
unfolded to his vision; and in proportion as sary to make him more and more humble, to 
faith was large, so would these thiugs appear make him see his own sinfulness, and assist 
realities to him. 
him towards the point to which Christ came, 
From these views of the subject, we were when he said, "Not my will, but thine, be 
abl~ to account ti1r the. fact, that he had such done." 
a l"ve for Jesus Chnst. 
When a man "aw 
Waiting patiently was consonant with the 
Christ with an eye of faith, it was as the Sun highest degree of activity. 
Rom. 2:7-" To 
of this world. 
He saw the Be-all and End-them who by patient continuance in well-do-
all of the world, had a peculiar love for him, ing, seek for glory, and honor, and immor-
and in proportion to the strength of his faith, tality: eternal life." -Persevering in doing 
he saw Christ. 
wbat was right was in truth Christianity.-
Gocl had placed man under the moral disci-Ana,lagous to that position, he might suppose 
pline of faith, to be trained on this hard field that Lhe commander now waging war on the 
of our earth, and as a good soldier to enter the borders of this' country was spoken to by one 
contest, anrl continue to do good service to of his soldiers, who complains of the hard-
the end. 
ship and danger to which he is exposed, and 
"Be patient therefore, brethren, unto the desires that he may ~!'et away from the camp. 
coming of the Lord." 1t was obvious enough What would the commander sa.y1 Why, sol-
to him, Mr. W., that he ancient church laid dier, you must have pati.ence till your govern-
very great stress upon the truth of the coming ment makes peace. 
What would be under-
of the Lord. ll was no sunshine campaign stood by this answed Why, that he must 
that the apostles and holy men of old had fight on. 
That was perseverance in what the 
fc,mght; there were storms and darkness military man termed well-doing. 
So the 
arnLtnd them continually. 
They had to stand Christian soldier was to persevere in fighting 
with the shield of faith, not against the pre-'the good fight of faith, and thus be trained for 
judices of certain sects, but against a banded glory and immortality, and made fit to meet 
world. The inner eye of the mind was opened, his Lord. 
and they saw so clearly the better cuuntry in 
What were the particular items that made 
store for them, that they lost sight of all other up this discipline 1 he, Mr. W., would next 
objects that e.ucompassed and ueset them-inquire. 
We were not permitted to select 
Such was the strength of their faith, that they our trials, no more than was the soldier per-
once made an· arithmetical estimate ~s to the mitted to select the road on which to travel, or 
dimendions a.od' wei!!ht of all the afflictions the number of his enemi!ls to encounter. God 
thaL pressed upon them. "Our light affiic-would no\ suffer his children, we were told, to 
tion, wlaich i~ but for a moment, worketh out. be tempted above that they were able to bear. 
for us a far more exceeding and eternal weight We co.uld not know our patticular trials, but 
of glory; while we look not at the things it was enough to know, that when they came 
which are seen, but at the things which are hi8 grace was sufficient for us. It was thus 
not seen: fur the things which are seen are with Abraham: he left his own country, and 
temporal; but the thio~s which. are not seeu went. _forth into. a stra.nge land_L nor did God 
~re ete.rnaJ. 
,For we know that tf our earthly tell h1m what d1fficuhtes he woulcl have to eu-
house of this tabernacle were dissolved, we counter. He went forth by faith, trusting iu 
h~ve a building of God, an house not made God. And we were to pray. fUr a fervent faith! 
wah bauds, eternal in the Leavens." This, that we might walk worthy of the profes~on 
eoutinued the speaker, was the result of the whereunto we were called, and overcome the 
calcHh	io~a. Persecutions, scourl{ing, chains, world; "for this was the victory that over-
and dea~h, they termed light atBictioos; the came the world, e.ven our faith." 1o propor-
period of endurance they termtd but for a tion as oui faith was weak, so would our diffi-
cnlties increa~e, and grow formidable and dis-an 
the Jil'ling sain~ changed,-tllat all the 
couraging. We should throw our b.urdens ou p oud and the wicked will ue destwyed uy 
the Lord, and rely and trust 1m him ;-just as 
re, 1he eaPth and the elements thereuf melt 
if we were travelling with a h~vy, weari-
own, aud the heavens be wrapped together 
some burden on our shoulders, and a giant as a scroll, and all things made new,-that 
should come along and say," Hete, give me the kingdom nf Christ and i-nheritance of the 
this, you are not able to carry it." .We were saints will be the earth renewed, which they 
to roll our burdens on the Lord. The great will possess for ever and ever. 1 still believe 
difficulty was, however, that we thought we that Christ is at the door, \hat the signs. of 
knew how to carry them better than he could. his coming have appeared, that we l1ave the 
When we were weak, then were we strong. right interpretatiou of the prophetic 11umbers, 
lf we felt our own weakness ar.d insufficiency, and th& ouly indefiuiteness as to the time of 
then was the very time the Lord would take the coming of our Lord consists in the imper-
our burden in his arms, and carry it. 
fection of human chronology. 
I know of no 
" Behold, the husbandman waitetl1 for the important proptJetic event tor which we should 
precious fruit of the earth, and hat!. long ra-look before the sou11ding of the third woe 
tience for it., until he receive the early aud [seventh trumpet],,when the kingdoms of this 
latter rain." 
The husbandman sowed his world will become the kingdoms of our Lord. 
seed, enclosed it carefully in the earth one 
You say a certain minister in conven,ation 
day, but did he expect to reap its fruits the agrees with you on several points, but is cau-
next day, or in a week 1 No. The price of tin us about advocating them in public. 
That 
labor was not to be received at the ruoment is one of the principal causes of hindering the 
the labor was performed. 
We were to wait ptogress of the Advent cause. Not only do 
till it received thP. early and latter rain, before many ministers who are convwced of the 
we carne home with our sheaves shouting. 
truth of the doctrine avoid preli.ching it, but I 
We were also to he firm minded. One great fear some of them even oppose it, tor :popu-
difficulty that hindered us from making pro-larity's sake. They dare not deviate from the 
gre!ls iu religion, was the want of firmuess of established creed of the denomination, lest 
mind. 
The firmness of mind in the Christian their good natl1e, or their fine prospects, should 
was not the firmness of nerve manifested in be effected thereby. Some who once acknow-
the world, but it was a steacly reliance upou !edged the truth, and preached it, when they 
God. 
found it unpopular, soon became bitter op-
To some of the assemblv, who had been posers, and thus seenaed to atone for the sin of 
waiting patiently for the coming of the Lord preaching what they belived to be the truth of 
during the last three or four years, it would God's word, by_ abusing those Vlho contiuued 
seem as though they had lived a century, aud faithful to their own convictions at tlte peril of 
had endured a vast amount of suffering and their reputations. I sigh over the sad derelic-
trial. 
But he would have any who thought tion of the ministry. 
Its bold independence 
in this wise, to loo'k back at the holy prophets, is gone, I fear. 
There are {ew VIIJO would 
and men of old, and see how long some of become martyrs sooner than deny the faith.-
them endured. 
Three score and ten years' I sympathize with those who stand alone in 
\fRictions they suffeted, laboring in an nn-defence of the glorious doctrine of the king-
friendly world. lf we had any-standard o( dom. 
But it is far better to stand alone, upon 
piety, he, Mr. W., said, let us have the an-the impe1·ishable pillar of truth, than with a 
cient standard, not the modern one, as gene-multitude, on: the sinking quick-sands of error; 
rally set up, of mea!luring ourselves by our-for Jehovah IS the God of t;uth, and he "111 
selves. If this was not enough, see what our vindicate it, and sustain all those Vlho adhere 
Lord suffered.-The disciple i:ihould not be to it. 
above his Lord. 
The church in Perry did not drop my 
There was another consideration. 
Christ name from their record because of the doctriue 
l1ad not made his great arran!?:ement for salva-whieh I preach, but because they were miflled 
tion, and for his coming in great glory, merely by the pre~s. ann su~po~ed l had renounced 
for the sake of his elect. 
He had taken a them and the denomwauon; and on learmng 
wider and more consistent view 'of the subjeC't. their. mistake, the~ rescinded t~eir vot.e, an~ 
There was not another place where sin could 
pubh~hed the far.~i\ 111 tl!e "Bap11s~ Re~n~ter. 
be forgiven, and G_od was long-&uffering· to I hold my standmg with. them wllh theu full 
usward, not willing that any should perish.-knowll'dge of all my sentJmeitts, aud my open 
lu all reason we ought to bear the heat and and public indication of them. 
lndet:d, most 
burden of the day, in order that souls might. of the church agree with me. I have preached 
be converted to Jesus Christ, and be made a dozen Advent sellnons to them, and they ap-
rnete f0r immortality and eternal life. 
We pear always glad to hear me. 
should look not on our own uurdeus but on 
I am [!lad to hear from you, that there is a 
the multitudes around us that were with;JUt God pro peel of your clnuch 's corning to take ac-
and lu1pe in the world. 
We were to keep in tion agai.ust slavery. It is astoui::-IJing ~hat. so 
stant in prayer and pray much for dyinrr sin-many of the chmches of our de1wmwatwn 
ners around us: 1f we lovecl souls, we ~ould can •. by sil~nce aud inaction, virtually aid ~he 
not become impatient, but seek to increase the homhly w1cked system of slavery, whJCh 
number of Christ's future household. The John Wesley justly called the "sum of all 
spirit of selfishness required a great deal of villany," and "the vilest that the sun ever 
watchfuluesto. 
Tt was very natural for men to ~aw." But the ~ause is ''ery palpable-an 
make themselves the centre of their, hopes, 
Jdol~trot!s regard for the populanty of the de-
attd bring all other things into subordination nomntatwn, and a gteater love of peace than 
to them. We should be guarded on this point. purity. 
. . 
. 
"Charity seeketh not her own." The apos-
As to whether It 1~ consistent f(~r ~church 
ties and prophets had endured all manner of to attend to the Lords Su~per, adnllttlllg there 
suffering, that sinners might be saved. 
Such be a fP.w who arc lamenting the l~w. s~ate of 
was th..e spirirof·Christ-such should be our 
t~e church, 1 can ouly say, t~at It 1s JO('~lTJ­
spirit. 
~Istent; but they should cease d.omg. tha~ winch 
"Be patient therefore, brethren, unt-o the 1s U'1'ong ra~her than that VlhiCh 1s nght, to 
coming of the Lord.'' 
The settled fact was resto.re consJ!ltet~cy. .rr:he few ought nut t·o be 
he would come 
He would appear the second depmed of then priVIlege on accou~t of tl~e 
time without sin. unto salvation; and that, time many. 
As every one must stan? or fall to h1s 
would come soon enough. The wicked would 
o~·n Master, let t~ose who are f~tthful part~ke 
fall soon enough linde'r the Divine displeasure. of the feast, wa;rnng all ~he delinquents fanh-
1n conclusion Mr. W. de~ired that God in fuJiy, and then 1f the unworthy partake, they 
his mercy might enable them aU to exerci e mn t settle it with the Master. 
~f yon faith-
this patience, to walk by faith and not by fully ~eprove and eJ~hort your emng brethren, 
si~ht, so that they might go steadily forward, and gJVe. the~ to u~derstand that yuu ha,,e no 
relying on their Heavenly Father faithfully, fellowship wllh tb.elr wrongs, and cannot en• 
and obeying his blessed commands. 
dorse then defecme character, 1 doubt whe· 
Letter from Brb. E. Galusha. 
[The following letter was written Lo Bro. J. 
CoLE, of Salisbury, N. Y., with permission 
to send it for publication.] 
Dear Bro. Cole :-My health is good. never 
better; and my views of all the es.senti&l doc-
trines of the Second Advent of our blessed 
Lord unchanged, and unabated. I still firmly 
believe the only return of the Jews (except 
individual conversion, which Paul calls en-
grafting) will be wlren God "opens theit 
graves, and hrin~s them•intu their own land, 
and makes 'David fChJist) kin~ over them,'' 
as tanght in Ezek. 37th,-thatthe millennium 
will commence at the persnnal appearint! of 
Christ, when the pious dead will all be raised, 
ther your good, or theirs, or the cause, would 
be promoted by yuur leaving the chnrch or 
communion. They who partake" unworthily, 
will eat and <!rink coucltmnation to them-
selves;'' and you haviug rebuked them, and 
not suffered sin upon then., i. e., not having 
approbated, or winked at it, will be clear. 
May God 
strer.gt~en, comfmt, and guide 
you to the end. 
Yours truly, in" the blessed 
hope," 
ELoN G ... LUSHA. 
Lockport (N. Y), Oct. 25th, 1847. 
QuERY.-Christ is" the way, the truth, and 
the lite," so that no man cau come unto the 
Father but by him; ancl "theu·ay is so straight, 
and the gate [Christ is also the door] is so nar-
row, that few only find it "-bow can all of 
auy one age be couveTted 1 "0Ln PATHS." 
LETTER FROI\I BRO. J. P. WEETHEE. 
Del!'r Bro. Himes :-I purposed writing to you 
long !llllce; but many cireumstltn0es have caused 
n delay to the present titTle. 
Thi~ 11xteusive tield 
in which you formerly took so deep an interest: 
has changed materially in •its character. 
Many 
who once stood firrn, and held a prominent pnsi-
tion in ~he Advent cau~e, have beeome weary 
and retired .. Changes are still taking place. Yet 
we arn not d1she:trte.ned : nor are we disposed to 
lay down the weapons of our warfare, while so 
many dangers are impending, and so mud1 re-
mains to be done. 
Enduring to the end will 
aloue be rPwarded. 
The Tabernacle, which was erectP.d in 1844 
was lnst in the summer of 1846. 
The condition~ 
of the ground rent were too ~eve•e for the dimin-
ished and di~couraged r.ongreg••tion. The owner 
of the lot, taking advantage of the conditions of 
the lea~e, became the possessor of the building 
for a tnfie-a mere song. 
From that time our 
congreg 1tio~ wa~ a wanderer, up to the apring nf 
1847. 
Durmg that space of time, some old, and 
as we supposed, unflinching Adventi~t~, with-
drew from u~ ..••• \-Ve have lost nearly all our 
men of property, and the 1~au,oe i~ now mostly 
supported by the poor, and thnse in moderate r.ir-
cum~tances. Our congregation is, perhaps, too 
Io.wly for some. Last spring we erected a very 
r.otufortable church edifice; and since the last 
Sabb,,th in May, we have had .a quiet and r.on-
venieut place of worship, with an increasing au-
dience. 
While some are stepping out, others 
are coming in ; and on the whole, I think the 
cause i~ on the advance. 
Jn June la~t, l vi~ited the region of my former 
lauors, and was much pleased with the progress 
which is there being made. 
Bro. Butt i~ labor-
. ing with them with. great succes~, and is much 
e~teemed. We still have friends to the cause in 
Ha111iltnn, and beyond there. 
We visit them oc-
casionally, and are much delighted wit It their 
spirit. 
My time is closely occupied in the city. 
We have meetings twice in the week, and three 
times on the Sabbath. 
We have, likewise, a 
!lmall Sabbath-school. 
I hope you will still re-
member us in yo•u prayers, and in your labors 
of love. 
E. Jar.obs has left us a very unplea~ant 
posiLion in this city ; yet the Lord hath hitherto 
susta incd us. 
The " Herald " still brings us good news-
many nccusions for gratitude to God for his good-
ness and tnercy. 
I see you still have trial!!! ; yet 
the Lord will finally deliver you. 
Go on, in the 
noble cause. The signs are ceria inly such us 
are calcuh ted to fix our attention upon coming 
eveut~-the advent of Chri~t, and the fall of all 
his enemies. 
I have been an attentive reader of the opinions 
of my brethren since 1"842. 
I have refrained 
fr<?tn hurthening your paper with rny thoughts on 
the subjects of the Advent. 
Up to the vresent 
time, I have not written any article on tlte promi-
nent doctrines of our hope. 
If it be thought ad-
Vii.lUie, I will tJend you a series of articles on the 
hi~tory of the seven-headed and ten-horned heast 
and hi~ rider, together with all their connections. 
, Jn those articles l design to shuw-lst. What 
power is sy111bulized by the sevt::n-head~::d and 
ten-horned beast. 2d. 'fhe seven heads. 
3d. 
'l'he ten horns. 
4th. The little hurn. 
5th. The 
tw~-horued beast. 
6th. 'fhe image uf the bea,;t. 
7th. Hi~ rider. 
8th. The false prophP.t,-the 
judgments of each power. 
l shall introduce the 
intJuiry, whether a wild beast, or the horns of a 
wild beast, ever symbolized an er.clesiastical 
body? 
And whether, since A. n. 800, the Ger-
man empire is not the ueast on which the harlot 
rides to the judgment? And wbether that im-
peri<tl body is not the beast which Daniel sees 
slain, and 
hi~ body destroyed and given to the 
burning fl<~rne. And whether the present signs 
in Europe uo not point U!i to such an i~sue. These 
•••hjects I wish to pre~ent for an open and candid 
inve:~tigation,-binding on no person my views, 
but soheiting information from all. 
I have bten 
looking at the~e subjects for nearly a year, and 
would now, with your permission, present them 
to the public. 
You will plel!se let me know 
throu!!h the "Herald." Yours in the blessed 
.hope.-
J.P. WEETHEE. 
Cirtcinnati ( 0.), Nov. 3d, 1847. 
[We shall be glad to hear from Bro. Weethee, 
M hti proposes. 
We desire all the light that can 
be thrown on this question, which i11 one of no 
ordinary importance at this time. 
We wonder 
th.Jt any vestige of the Advent cau e is left 
in Cinr.innat1. The course of Mr. Jacobs, and his 
a~soci..ttes, was wicked and reckless enough to lay 
the be<~t of causes in ruins. 
We hope Bro. W. 
will be sustai_ne_d_.]=-------
LETTER FROM SISTER C. CHISMAN. 
Dear Bro. Himes :-The blessed hope of 11oon 
seeina the Master comfort3 my own heart, and 
ou.,.ht to be a great source of joy and consolation 
to ~II who truly love the Savior. But a!as ! we 
see rnauy who profess to love the Sav1or, who 
seem not to comfort themselves with these heav-
euly wnrds ! How ignorant .of these thi~gs is 
the sleepin~ world ! How bhnd and stuptd are 
the mass ~f professing churches ! Did not our 
bles~ed Ml\jter teach us, by his own words-
'' When ye see these thiugs begin to cmne to 
pass, then look up and hfl up your head:~, (or 
THE ADVENT HERALD. 
yoor reilemption draweth nigh"? 
Likewise 
Paal, when speaking to the Thessalonians about 
the corning of Chri:~t, and the resurrection uf the 
dead, says, "Wherefi1re, comfort one another 
with the~~ ~or?s." Ought we not, therefore, 
who ar~ hv1ng 111 these last days, and beholding 
thos~ s1gns, greatly to rPj.>ice in view of 1>ur re-
demption ? It appear,. as if the words of Peter 
are fulfilled to the very letter: "Knowing tlus 
first, that ~here shall co~ne in the last days scof-
fers, wal.k1og after their own lnsts, and l!Uying, 
Where 
·~ thfl promise of his coming?" 
It ap-
pears as 1f there would be soruethina said about 
the co111in~ of Christ to call forth this question 
~rom the h_ps o~ tJCoffers. 
We hear them sa)ing, 
111 every d1!ect1on, "The time;~ are all past, and 
the world Is not yet burnt,-all things continue 
as thP.y were uefore." 
But we are informed, 
that thi~ world is reserved unto fire, against the 
day of judgment and rerdition of ungodly men. 
We hear of tniliiY "lo heres;' and "lo 
theres ;" many are running to and fro, and 
knowledge i~ incrt:asing. 
We hP.ar of wars and 
rumors of war~, pestilences, famines, and earth-
quakes in divers places. 
The Man of sin has 
been revealed many years, and we are ju tified 
in looking for his destructiou very !>peeJily. 
In 
view of thee:e thing~, what manner of perso11s 
ought we to be in all holy conversati(ln and god-
liness? 0 ! let us gird on the whole armor of 
God, watch and be sober, and'keepourselves un-
~>potted from the world. 
Let our affectinns be 
placed on thing~ ilbove, and our lives hid with 
Christ in God, then, when tho sinner:~ in Zion 
shall be afraid, and fearfulness surprise the hy-
pocrite, shall we dwell on high, and our place 
of defence shall be the munition of rocks. 0, 
blessed thnught! we shall be sheltered from the 
dreadful storm till the indignation be overpast . 
Then shall we shine forth as the sun in the king-
dom of vur Falher. 
The Adventists in this place are few, and have 
no preaching or regular meeting. 
Sorne of these 
belong to the ditle•ent churche~, nnd others, 
though not having their name~ recorded in any 
church'~ book, have them, I trust, written in the 
Lamb's bnok of life. 
Bro. Blair, from 
Green:~­
burg, who came on a visit to his relatives in this 
place, preached to u~ from Rev. 20:4-6, and n 
rnore solemn and deeply-interesting sermon I 
never heard. l'htny who were opposed to the 
doctrine of the A1h>ent near, li~tened with deep 
attention. Bro. Blair is in hi~ sPventy-third year, 
and has been a minister of theM. E. church more 
than forty years. 
He is a firm believer in the 
speedy advent of Christ, and mourns bitterly 
over the luke-warm state of the churche11. 
May 
the LMd help us by hi:! power, through fitith, unto 
eternal life. Yours, in hope of speedy redemptil>n. 
.llurora Ind.), Nuv. lst, 1847. 
Bro. LEWIS lxGALLS writes from Nunda, N.Y., Nov. 
3d, 1847:-
Since my second birth, I have deemed it ex-
pedient to ''on tribute for the promulgation of that 
faith whi~h Christ on earth uegan. Having given 
a portion of my time in consulting the most ap-
proved a uthor.i of ancient church history, I am 
often led to ask, " Where, 0 where, Lord, is 
there any resemblance of the faith once delivered 
to, and enjoyed by the saint.s ?" And if we have 
so gros,-ly apostutized from primitive purity, how 
can we contribute to the Lord's glory? 
Can the 
lofty looks and fP.eling;;·of rnan flourish in the last 
day? Shall the thoughtless, who indulge in evil 
lusts and pride, p1o~per then and thereafter? 0, 
the dreadful judgments that hang, as it were, 
suspended over the perverters of the truth !-
Suntetimes I have wisb~d that I had lived in the 
days of the apostles and martyrs, when vital, 
practical religion flourished, iu·tead of a pP.riod 
wherein i:~ revived the religion of the days of 
Cnnstantine. I pray God to equip us for any 
work or matter that shall be .his will for us to 
perform or endure: whether perils by land or 
sea; by the enduring of stripes, evil ~peaking, 
false nccusations, fine!!, iutprillontuents, or exclu-
sion froru the ranks of profeijsing Chnetians. 
Bro. J,\COB F. HuBER writes from Middletown, ca., 
Nov. lllh, 1847:-
Dear Bro. Himss:-Mny the God or wisdom 
and of grace guide and support you 11till in your 
arduous work, and crown )Our labors with nbun-
dant success, that in the day of I-fill coming you 
may have many st.ar11 in the crown of ynur re-
jnicing. 
By grace l am still detern.ined to hold 
fast the beginning of roy confidence firm untn the 
end, and to look for that blesaed hope, and tl.e 
glorious nppearing of the great God aud our Sa-
vior Jesus Chri:~t. Many ure, indeed, our trial-4 
and 
di~appointmenti! ; but we have the heart-
cheeriug proruise, that all things ahall work to-
gether fur good to them that love God. 
And 
surely such urnazing condescension and goodnes11 
on the part of our heavenly Father, should not 
only calm all ou~ fears, su,rpreu all our m~rmur­
ings and complamts, hut ~II our .hearts wllh re-
Joici{lg and than I<~, even 10 the. m_tdllt nf our se-
verest trials and deevest ufll1ctwns. 
Yes, my 
heart says, "Praise the Lord !'' and my inrnodt 
soul does magnify hiil great and glorious name 
0, bles:-~ed thought ! and i1 it so, th;u wnrmi! of 
tbe dust, us we are, shall 110 80Un behold oar glo-
riool! Lord and Savior fl1ce to f:tce, ;md in hi11 
image 11hioe? May the grace of Gud quicken, 
sanctify, and keep us unto the end, and then, 
with all the sanctified, grant us an abundant en-
trance into his everlasting kingdont ! 
Your beloved family, and faithful colleague, 
shall ever, with yourself, have a large share in 
my affeetion11 and prayers. 
Dear brother, pray fur me, and may we soon 
meet iu glory, at the feet of our dear Redeemer. 
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8
~r;;;r::_ CooswELL wr~le~ r~om Lt>ominster, Nov. 
.Dear Bro. Himes :-It is with pleasure I em-
bruce the present opportunity to comwunicate the 
deep interest l feel in the subjects l:trought to me 
by the weekly 
visit~ of the ·• Herald." They 
seem to arouse my feelings, r,md to increase my 
faith in the promises of God conr.erning the final 
deliveranee of his spiritual hrael. I am led 
oftentimes to exelairn, lf God is not with the 
Adventists as a people by hi~ Spirit, I know not 
where to look fur it. 
The events that are taking 
place in the w1nld bespeak, to me, the near ap-
pr6lach of the Soq of man. 0 that we may come 
and receive the truth of God's word, which tell11 
us that the ulood of Jesus Christ cleanses from 
all sin. 
Then shall we be ready to meet hirn at 
any hour. 
"Watch ye therefore; for in tmch an 
lrnur as ye think not the Son of man cometh." 
I feel interested in the prosperity of the " Her-
ald," and hope it will not pass out of your hands, 
after haviug couducted it so long, and with so 
much satisfuc:tion and pleasure to all that love the 
prosperity of the cause of truth. 
Bro. GEoRGE HtLL writes from Guilford, Ct., Nov. 
8th, 1847:-
Dear Bro. Himes :-For fi\u00b7e years I have 
been a firm believer 111 the speedy personal com-
ing of Christ; and the prospect to me is still glo-
riuus. 
It io! truly II ule~sed hope, and I feel that 
we shall soon realize its consummation. It is 
with joy I hail your weekly and monthly llles-
sengert<-the t~o Heralds. I feel thankful to 
the Lord that I am permitted to read the8e and 
other Advent publications from week to week. I 
rejoice to hear from those of like precious faith. 
May the Lord open the hearts of others to aid 
you more than we can, and prosper you, i~ my 
prayer. 
We have very little preaching in this 
place ; but during the past year, Bro. 8. Chap-
man visited us once, and Bro. S. S. Brewer twice. 
The Advent cause, which lies very near my 
heart, is very low in thici place. 
We have hnd 
no regular meetings for six months pa!lt; so you 
see the Advent papers are much needed here to 
keep u~ alive. 
I sllall be very thankful if you 
will continue to send me the papers, and I will 
do alll can for tlteir support. 
Your unworthy 
brother, expecting speedy deliverance. 
ts. E. P. LuM writes from 8enee!l Fdlld, N.Y., 
Nov. 2d, 1847:-
Dear Bro. Himes :-I esteem the "Herald" 
more and more, and greatly rejoice and praise the 
Lord for the substantial instruction I get from it 
in these days of fables. 
The views you are giv-
ing u~ from week to week 1 fully approve. They 
are what I consider "meat in due season ;" al-
though some may think they belong to the one-
idea !!}stem. 
My daily prayer i~ that you lllllY 
be supported, nnd that you may continue to dis-
seminnte the truth until the King of Glory comes. 
Be faithful a little longer; though trial.i increa e, 
deliverance is near. 
Our light afflictions will 
work for us a far more exceeding and eternal 
weight of glory. 
And, all things will work to-
gether for good to them that love God. 0, how 
full of precious promise!!! is the blessed Bible ! 
The words of the :3ftvior are as true now as when 
spoken to his disciple!': "ln the world ye shall 
have tribulation; but in me ye A hall have peace." 
It is through 111uch tribulation we must enter the 
kingdom. 
'l'he great company that John saw 
gathered out of every nation, and kindred, aud 
people, and tongue, clothed in white robes, and 
with palms in their handt~, were those that had 
cornt1 out of great tribulation, and had 
wa~hed 
their robes and made them white in the blood of 
the Lamb. 
Bro. 1\lATTHEW B.a.TCHUOR write• from Pownal, VI., 
Nov. 6lh, 18~7 :-
Dear Bro. Himes :-I am yet alive and wait-
ing for the Lord from hell'en. The grent truth 
of the Lord's conring has Jo t none of it11 intere t 
t~ me. 
l havtl no doubt of the speedy Cllming of 
hun whom my soulloveth. It is u soureeof grief 
to me that orne, who were once waiting for Je 
sus, 11re now spendiug all their energies for this 
world. 
Never, sirwe I embraced the Advent 
doctrine, have I seen the tiooe when I would not 
rathtr part with all that I hold dear, rather than 
with it. 
A bles11ing comes with its reception, 
and those that hold to it have lasting peace. 
It 
iaashield and a buckler. 
(SeeP!la.91:4.) I 
have no doubt it will live, aRd that God will have 
faithful witnesses who will hold it up ; and we 
need not fear, fi•r God will hold up those who 
atand by it. 
Praise the Lord. Let us all gird 11p 
our loins afresh, and put on charity, which is tht! 
bond of Jl"rfec:tness. 
Yours, in the blessed hope. 
E·ttract nf a lllttf'r from Bro. Huv FL oe, .elated 
Wtllt•ton, Vt., Oct., 1847:-
I like the "Httrald" better ani bet&er. I 
hne lliW11Jit hffn particularly ieterested io the 
o~icn• of tbe titJHW ; tlusrefoae wb.& iah:llipnce I 
127 
can get in relation to the religious, moral, and 
political condition of the world, is read with in-
terest. 
Although my views in relation to the 
state of the dead and wicked are the same as 
those of the " Harbinger" and "Advocate," 
yet I love to rend the opposite views of my breth-
ren on that subjPct. 
1 do not expect we shall 
see eye to eye until we enter the inmtortalstute; 
but we can learn mr.re and more of the troth on-
til the consummation. lshall do what I can to 
sustain the Herald. 
Yours in the blessed hope . 
Bro. WM. L. PHIPPS writes from Holliston, Nov. 
6th, 1847 :-
Dea1' Bro. :-1 would inform you that the 
" H!:rald" is a welcome messenger to us. 
We 
could not well do without it. 
We have no other 
Advent preacher, except the Bible. 
I therefore 
feel in duty bound to help sustain it. 
Go on, 
brother, fear not man,-trust in the Lord, and he 
will recompense you at the last day. 
OBITUARY. 
"Bleased art the dead who die in the Lord." 
Gon in his providence, and for some wise pur-
pose, has suffered uflliction's heavy hand to be 
laid on me, by removing by death the wife of my 
bosom. She fell asleep on the 25th nf Sept. She 
was sick only five days, with erysipelas. She 
retained her senses to the last, and seemed per-
, 
fectly re11igned to the will of Goa. I am left 
with nine children, the oldest 18 years, and the 
youngest but few days old when she1 died. This 
dispensation of God's providence is quite an af-
fliction. 
Since lnst June, I have been prostrated 
by sickness, t!O as to be unable to labor, and have 
not enjoyed the blessed privilege of meeting with 
my dear brethren but three times aince that time. 
But blessed be the nnmc of the Lord, his prom-
ises are sure, and in him i11 rny trust. 1 have no 
disposition to complain or murmur.-God's will 
be done with me and mine. A little son is sleep-
ing quietly by her side, and I cherish a fond hope 
of snon sl'eing them again. 
My wife was con-
verted in '43, and was bHptized by our dear Bro. 
Barry; and 1 trust that 'tlhe will he 11 star irt the 
crown of his rejoicing. Just before she died she 
said, "J have nothing to keep me here but my 
li1ntily, nnd if it is the will of the. Lord, I can 
leave them in his hands, and re11.t until the resor-
rectiou 111orning." 
When we thus lny in the 
grave our loved ones, we have a comfort that the 
world knows not of. 
The apostle Paul ha~ writ-
ten, "But I \ould not have you to be ignorant, 
brethren, concerning them which are asleep, that 
ye sorrow not even as others which have no hope. 
For if we believe that Jesus died and rose ngain, 
even so them also which sleep in JesuY will God 
bring with him." This is my comfort. 
" Thrice happy morn for those 
Who love the ways of peace; 
No night of sorrow e'er shall close, 
Or shade their perfect bliss." 
Rochester, N. Y. 
W. llENNET. 
WE are called to mourn the loss of our good 
Bro. WM. PRICE, who died the lOth inst., after 
a long and painful illnel!ls of more than a year, 
which he endured with perfect patience. If he 
had lived to the 25th of this month, he would 
have been 70 years o~' a~e. He was formerly of 
W.orcester, and was the third or fourth person 
baptized by immersion in that place, and one of 
the few that formea the first Hnptist church in 
that town. 
He was a happy convert, and has 
been a worthy Christian ever since. He removed 
to this city, with his family, a number of years 
since, and united with the Bnptist church here. 
Some. ten years ago he was greutly revived in 
his religious ft~elings, and has enjoyed much of 
the Jove of God most of the time since. In '42, 
he fully embraced the Advent faith, and rejoiced 
i11 thll anticipation of soon"seeing Christ, and of 
being with him in glory. He showed hi~ faith by 
hi:'! works; and the consequence was, he was ex-
cluded from the Baptist church, the same even-
ing with hi~ daughter, myself and c·ompanion, in 
18-!3. But ht: has fought a good fight-he has 
k~pt the faith, and has finished his course; and I 
believe n crown of life is laid up for him. 
He 
died in the blessed hope of very soon 11eeing the 
Lord t~ome, when he would have glory, honor, 
immortality, Rnd eternal life. 
He told me a few 
days ago, that he had not a doobtthe Lord would 
soon come,-that we could not lte miataken,-
that the Bible wns true, and could not deceive us, 
-that the signs and events of the day show 
clearly that we are very near the judgment, and 
that we t~hould every moment he prepared for it. 
Since 1842 be had lo~t his wife, and two 111ons. 
Hartford, NofJ. 12th. 
A. CLAPP. 
DIED, on the 13th of Oct., Dea. A. CoollrBs, 
in the 73d year of his age. 
'I'he deceased was a 
native of the State of Maine, but emigrated to 
Clermont Co., 0., thirty-six years ago. Father 
Coombs made a profession of religion more than 
fifty years ago; and during the whule of that time 
he has been a member of the regular Baptist 
church, and a fuithfuland devoted Christian. He 
always maintained an irreproachable moral and 
Chri11tian character. For several years he had 
been an attentive reader of the" Hcn1ld." He 
died in the faith of the gMpel. Our loss is his 
sain. He has lefi a larse fan•ily, and a numerou. 
circle uf 'friends, to mourn his loo, 
New Richmond, 0., .Miv. 8<i 
\V. Cox. 
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THE ADVENT HERALD. 
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Foreign News. 
Two DAY! LATBR FROM FRANCE:.-By the arrival of 
the French stearner New York, at Newport, R. 1., ad-
vices were received at Ne'~ York on Saturday two days 
later than those by the Washington. At Paris, on Oct. 
23d, the money crisis in England bad produced no ap-
parent effect on the funds, and no further failures were 
reportr.d. 
Paris newspapers were discussing the affairs of Swit-
zerland with warmth. 
The French 1overnm~>nt is nbout to send to Senegal 
artillery and munitions of war for the forts which are to 
be errcted there in defem~e of the factories. 
A somewhat severe shock of an earthquake had been 
felt at Sierac, in the depRrtment of Dordojae. It oc-
curred on the morning of Oct. 15th. 
The government had seized Le National newspaper at 
Paris, though on what ground is not apparent. The 
t.ditor of the journal indignantly dentes any intention of 
giving offence. 
Negotiation11 for a concordat between Russia and the 
Holy See had been broken off. 
lTALY.-Pope Pius IX. has promnlg!lted a decree, es-
tablishing a council of state, agreeable to the design ex-
pressed by him in his famous circular of April 19th. He 
trusts to the moderation of the people to appreci11te this 
political benefit_, and aska that they will expre88 their 
gratitude by their pre!!ervation of order. 
Matters are less warlike; but the report so ostenta-
tiously parade-d in the Paris papers, thRt Ferrara had 
been evacuated by the Austrian•, and given up to the 
Pontitlcal troops, on Oct. 3d, turns out t be a pure tlr.-
tion. On the lOth the town was still occupied by the 
Austrians. 
M. Dragonatti has been exiled at Rome,and the "Pai-
Jado" bad been Ruppressell. These two events were by 
some connected with Cardinal Ferrelli's absence from 
the city. 
· In Tuscany the punishment of death had been abol-
Ished by proclamation of the grand duke. The populace 
thereupon broke ope.n the pri~on where the guillotine 
was keJH, and having carrie~ that instrument to the pub-
lic square, set fire to it, while the bells of the town rang 
a werry peal. 
The "Spen!lr Gazette" states that th~ Pope, in sd-
dreHing himself direct to the emperor of Austria, has 
rather retarded than advanced the negotiations respect-
ing the occupation of Ferrara, a»d that •o hope i8 enter-
tRilled of an arrangement wilhout the medium of some 
third power. 
AusTRL~.-The Sardinian minister at the court of 
for the exchan~e of the rafitlcations' of tbe' conventioJn 
of the 15th of !ay last. 
HOL!.AND:-The see ion or the Stales General WRS 
opened by the king, on Oct. 18th, in person. His spl':t'ch 
gave the usul
 1\ssurance of lleace wirb foreijln Joowers, 
but that order had not been restored in the tnwsmarint> 
Dutch East India colonies. 
Ne~ Trgisl'lltive arrange-
mems are in course. of prepar~ttion for ttre Wrst ludill 
colonies. In Surinam, bank paJJer will be exchanged 
for specie. 
INDIA.-By an overh1~d express from Mareeilles, we 
have news from Bombay to Sept 1 Jth. It was stated 
in our ht~t de-spatch, that a conspiracy waM known to be 
concocting in Lahore. The British authorities, being 
aware of iu existt>nce, resolved to crush it in the bud; 
and on the evening of Aug. 20th, Rauee C~unrla, the 
queen mother of Dhuleep Singh, the young Maharahjah 
of Lahorr., was tRken from the palace 11nd conveyed un-
der an escort to Shaikhoopra, 11 fort about twenty miles 
distant, In which the former intriguin~: princesses were 
confined. 
The most dangerous period of the year at Lahor•is 
the Dussr.ra, which takes place in October ; but the 
utmost vigilance is observed by Sir John Littler, aud 1111 
the troops under his command. 
The governor-general was about to procer.d to Oude, 
to r.nter into amwgements with the king, who is des-
cribed as willing to cede the sovereignty to the Hon. 
Company, and to retire., upou his being insured a pen-
sion commensurate with his rank. 
In the Rajpoot states, Doongur Singh is yet at large, 
and fears are entertained of the continuance of his 
ravages when the f>1ir season •e.ts in. 
From Bombay we learn that the rains, which set in 
with such fury in thr. beginning of the monsoon, had be-
come. slack for several weAks in July and Angust; but 
in the beginninl! of September they recommenced, and 
a very favorable season would, it was hoped, ensue 
throughout India. 
From Hong Kong we have pap\!rs to Aug. 25th. The 
stea;ner Pekin had reaclred II ong Kong, taking news 
from London to June 24th, and from Amr.rica to June 1st. 
All remained quiet at Canton, but there was an uneasy 
feeling still existing. 
A trrrible tire in Krostroma destroyed 118 dwe.lling. 
houses, and the convent. The next day another fire or.-
curred, by which seve1ity houses were burnt. 
Le.tters frnm 1arseill~s, of Oct. 18th, state thnt a col-
lision had taken place between two French steamers, 
the Bonaparte and Count de Paris, on the cons! pf Italy. 
The Bonaparte immediately ~unk; three persons were 
drowned. 
SOCIETY ISLANDS.-Letters of l	ay 17th have been 
Austria had let\ for London, cht1r2ed, it was IJelieved, received, announcing the official tlerlaration of the in-
with an important mission relative tot he state of affairs dependence of the Society (or Leeward) Isl!lnds. On 
in the territories of the king ol the Two 8icilies. 
the 15th, the Frenr.h steamer brought back the native 
A chRoge of ministry wus amicipated 11t Vienna. 
adherents of the French ft om Tahiti. They were tr.llowed 
The archduchess Maria Louisa had fl~ed her departure to land in peace, and are now repairing to their respec-
for Parma for the 24th, and arrangements had been made tive loc!tlities in the seu.lement, to rebuild their housE's. 
for the rapid conveyance of Austrian troops to the du.chy, After being landed, the French authorities gave up all 
In the event of any disturbance. 
claim to the isl11nd. 
SwiTZERL.~ND.-The Swiss diet· mr.t at Berne on Oct. 
Ibrahim Pacha arrived at Malt11 on tht. 14th ult., on 
his way to England. 
ous body to Bruree, firing shots in the tillage. Pe-
ter Nash, bailiff' of Rev. Mr. Westropp, was 
murdered. 
The opposition to the payme~t o( 
rents continues. 
Mayo, Tipperary, and Krng's 
county, are rer,2rted among the most formidal>IP.. 
Active measure!! have been taken bv the govern-
ment to suppress the tumult in the 'southern part 
of Limerick. A large reinforcement of cavalry and 
infantry has been sent to Charleville aud Bruree, 
and other places wjll also he occupied with troop~; 
while Mr. Tahuteau, R. M., has been placed m 
immediate charge of the district. 
Colonel Sir M. 
Creagh has proceeded thither to take command 
of the military. 
The Cork .. Examiner," speaking of the ten-
ant-right demonstration to come c,ff at Kilrnac-
thomas, remarks: .. The requisition by which 
the meeting is convened, is about one of the mo~t 
imposing documents we have .ever seen. It. IS 
signed by nearly eighty Cathohc clergymen, In-
cluding four vicars-general, and over twenty par-
ish priests, and fifty curates, besides 'some 600' 
tenant-farmers, and respectable merchants and 
shop-keepers. Mr. O'Connell is to attend. From 
the intense interest excited thrt~ughout the whole 
connty of Waterford, it is expected the assembly 
will equal in magnitude one of the' monster meet-
ings of '43.' " 
The Catholic prelates assembled in annnal co~­
ference, in Dublio. 
On the 21st they unam-
mously adopted a memorial to the' Lord Li~ute~­
ant on the state of the country, and entreatmg his 
excellency's attention to the destitution prevailing 
in various districts. 
They adnpted an address to 
Pius IX., congratuhiting him upon his succession 
to the chair of St. Peter ; co 1veying an assurance 
of the ardent sympathy of the Irish prelutes .with 
his noble and m~tgnanimous struggle to vindll'ate 
the freedom and independence of the Roman 
states ; and praying that those efforts may be 
crowned with sucr.ess." 
' 
MonEL OF THE CITY oF JERUSAL'EM.-
There i~ now on exhibition at Amory Hull a plas-
ter model of this celebrated spot, presenting in 
miniature, Jerusalem as it is. It is on a sFOall 
scale, but enables the spectator to get a better 
idea of never-to-be-forgotten localities, con~ected_ 
with Biblical history, than can be obtained tn nuy 
other way, except by actual vi~it to the land of 
the Hebrews. 
There can be seen the road~ to 
Joppa, to Jericho, to Bethlehem, to Damascus, 
the well where Jesus talked with the woman of 
Samaria, the mountains where he was wont to 
retire for prayer, where he was c~!lcified, where 
he ascended, the 11pot where he beheld Jerusalem, 
wept over and pronounced it.! doom, where he 
sat when the multitudes came unto him, nnd he 
taught them, the place-of the tran figuration, (h~ 
pillar of Absalom, the ool of Siloam, the place 
where Stephen was stoned, and ali the other lo-
calities of Scripture. 
18th, to discuss tile means of carrying into exl'cntion the 
RussJA.-Frnrn St. Pettrsburg, under the date of Ocr. 
vote of the diet on July 20th. The deputy of Zurich 5th, it is stated in otllcial rr.ports that the cholera was 
OJlened the debate by proposing mt:ans of pacification. making rapid progress. It had broken out at Ore!, Tula 
A conciliatory svirit was shown by all parties. 
(25 miles from Moscow), and at Pen6n. 
In the whole 
A rumor that hostilities had Rlready commenced on government of Astrttkan, which comprises 3I.300 in-
the bauks of Lake Neufcllatttl was current, but not be-
habitants, of 5915 attacked, 3131 died. In the town of 
lieved. Another accounl of the 20th says, that supp!ies Saratou 2507 frll ill, 1991 died. In the country of the 
of r.annon, musketfl, and powder, from the French gov-
Cossacks of the Don, 12,651 persons took the disease 
ernment, are br.ing smuggled into the JE>suit cant'>ns. 
from July 2181 10 Sept. B.th, of whom 7057perished. At 
'I'he model is recommended by Mr. Habershon 
-who has visited Jerusalem, and with whos(l 
name all of our readers are familiar-and by 
other competent j•1dges, as an accurate delinea-
tion of the Sacred City. 
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.hPi'OLNTMENTS. 
Bro. Edwin Burnll'Rm w'll ~upply In Bos-to111at Ct.n· 
tral Hall, 9 Mtlli-et., Nov. 28th. 
Br~. A. Hate will supp~y in Baltimore, Nov. 28th.-
Bro. O~ler will arr!tlllftl. 
Bro. D. T. TayHir will pre11cli in Westborough, Sun-
day, Nov. 21st. We h{)JtC the b1ethren will get th~: town 
house. Moutlay eveuiug he wtll preach in W corcP.ster,. 
Tuesday in Bpringlield, Wedue$day iu Uubot ville, l"t iday 
evening in Albany, N.Y., l!untJay, the 28tll, 111 Wes~ 
Troy, (Bro. Vutter will orFnuge,) ana 
Tue~day aud 
Wedur.~clay evenings, the 30th aud Dec. ht, 111 Fort 
Ann. We hope. llru. Tu) lor will ~ave a good ht:ttrina. 
He is a worthy brothrr. 
I will he in the State of Maine 11n tlle fcollo"ing Sab-
baths: Portland, No~. 28th; lluxton, l>ec. 5th; and 
Pola11il, Dt'c.12th. 
Duriu~t the intermedi11te time, I will 
labor iu place~ where the doctrtne has 1101 beeu advo-
cated tllld where the brethren Will nppoiut. These apJ 
Jloiut:uents 11re suh.it'ct to reviM<lR by tile brethrell in 
that State, ~hould they iu~rfere with otheP appoiut-
mentll. 
0. R. FusETT. 
10" I expect, if time conHnue suring the wiuter, that 
my time will be r.mplttyed in travelling aud visitiug 
those. churche~ where they tlo not have preac.hing, a1od 
other plflc.ea where they never have heard thP. rea· 
sons of our hope, as the way may open. I would ~ay 
to those brethren who are destitute of the prea<:.hcd 
word, if they wi~h me to vi, it them, they will give no-
tice to me in the. ''Herald," or address me by pnvate 
Jeuer,directed to North lilcillrate, R. J. I shall have to 
depend upon the brethren that are allle Lo bear my trav-
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By the last accounts, the rival Cantona were actually Woronisch, a town of 44,000 inhabitants, the cholera 
on the brink of war; Austria had established a fltrong made its apJ!earance on Sept. 4th, and at the end of trn 
"cordon" of troops along the frontiers ; and 1t was re-
days the number affected incr.sed at the rate of 430 
ported that the three great northern Powt'lrs, i9 accorll daily, and that of the dead 150. 
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to be t'lntrusted, it is said, to France and Austria, and 
~:~vi~n::s~ ~:l!r:~:~o~ ~~!;li~~:tde•:~::~.~i:~~:;a;i~~ 
England and Russia are to ai.d and assist them. 
BrAIN.-MRJridjournals of the 17th say, that the king 
and queen continue-d in appare-nt hurmony, and appeared 
together frequently in public. The "Eco del Commer-
cio" states, thllt an assemblage took place at J\lonteale-
gre, in consequence of a citizen having fleen killed by a 
public functionary, the ~oldiers tired on them to CRUse 
them .to disperse, by which four per11ons were killed and 
aeveral wounded. 
Ex-queen Christina had reRched Madrid from Paris, 
and waa revelling paramount iu that city, through her 
minion Narvaez, who was again elevtued, by 110me slight 
of hand, to the ofl\ce of Prime l\linister. lt is believed 
that his reign will be brief. 
Tuau:v.-Constantinopko, Oct. 7th. We have been 
in fear, here, of the arrival of the cholera, which ragr.s 
with considerable intensity on the shores of the Bos-
phorus. It baa not, however, yet arrived. Al Trebe-
sonde it is reported to be on the der.line. The insurrec-
tion still continues in the interior of Greece. It seems 
likely at present to aettle down into a sort of French 
protectorate. 
The news from the Continent is not pttrticululy im-
portant, but tends to »how that O!lerationa are quietly 
a:oing on arnonl[ tile larger and the amaller province•, 
which thr~'lten interruption to the reijln of peace and 
tnmquillity, with which the inbabitalliB of a large por-
tion of Europe have for many year• bee-n ble~ted. 
111 France the popular reform aghtllion 1preada 11pace. 
The Bay lien Senators Ardouin and Deh a (men of color), 
hiLVe presen&ed lettera to the king of the French, ac-
crediting them u Envoys Extraordinary and Miniaten 
Plent)Jotentlary of the Republic of Hayti to France, 
mate to the previous work, by the same author 
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virulence in 1111
y Jtrovincrs in Pt>rsin. Prince Ment-
!'Chikow, the RussiAn governor-gl'neral of Finland, bus 
been deprived of his post, and is repl>1ced by B~tron 
Scroffski. 
Bro. JONES closed his series of lectures here 
on Su01day evening. 
His visit has much revh·td 
the spirits of those interested in the evidenees of 
"Willmar's European Times," of Oct. 23, the u~ar coming and kiogdorn of Christ.' 
continues the reports of distress ancl outrage io 
unfortunate Irelaud. 
LATER INTELLIGENCE. 
'In Limerick a colli!!ion has already taken place 
with the military. 
An uttack was nutde by about 
800 of the pvpulace in a body on the Ruthkeale 
work-house. 
A small party of dragoons inter-
fered, to prev~nt the attack. 
A conflict ensued ; 
some of the soldiers were wound~d, and they 
were forced to retn•at. 
Assassinations, robber-
ies of arms, plundering of pro,·isions, and gene-
ral insubordination of •.he people, are the main 
subjects of all the communications which reach 
us from Ireland. 
On the 9th inst., a young m:m named Bergin, 
son of a r<'sper.tai.Jie farmer, was shot at Lis\u2022er-
nau, in the Glen or Al,erlow, county Tipperary, 
by a care-takP.r, who has sinctl absconded. 
On 
'he Sth, Timothy Reynolds was brutally mur-
dered near Ballinamuck, county Longford. 
In 
the county of Clare, it is thought that during the 
ensuing winter there will be no security for life or 
property, unlet!s some effective means be adopted 
in order to suppress the ri ing spirit of insubor-
dination. 
In Limerick, on the the 11th, a meet-
ireg of peasant l11borers took place at the bill of 
Garryfine, whence they proceeded in a tumultu-
THE WEST,-We cannot visit the West as 
soon as we expected to, but will remember it in 
the coursl:l of the winter, " if the Lord will." 
BUSINESS NOTES. 
W. Cox-Dea. A. Combs had pail! to 370. 
D. Uampbell, 85 on ucc't. John\Jampbell owes for 
four volumes. 
J. l:lurtth~tm-You have Already paid to end of v 14.-
The one) ou iuquire for is living. 
S. Foster, jr -Bro. R>~y's paper is sent regularly.-
That of' J. l
osier'll wu not sent till two weeks dince. 
We r.an find the 1111me of E. Smilh only 'lt Georgeville.. 
R. V. Lyou-Werr. Brn. Young Rnd Johnson ut:W ub-
scribt>rs? We coulol not llnt.l the formr.r narne at North 
Wt~rdsbnro', ur the latter at Northfield, or eithr.r on our 
buoks. We Lhere-forP. entert>d them as new subscribers 
in those plll;:es. We wi!lh brethrrn would be VERY par-
ticular in giving a Post-otilce address, and in specif) ing 
whether a subscriber is a NEW or OLD one. Your acc't 
stand~, Dr. 
32 72, Cr. $24 00-bal~tnce t.lue.,. 8 72. 
W. Pratt, 3-IL was just the amount. We have no 
data by which to answer your question. All we can 
say is, it is extensive. 
Bro. 8. Danil'ls-Your Jetter is received. We wish 
to aRy, that we imputed no blame to you in reanrd to 
the tent. We think the brethren acted for what tht'y 
thought would he for the best good of the c&Uiie. 
We 
do not think it would be of service to tht< cauae to give 
a detailed account of this complicated affair. 
Albany, N. Y.-Geo. Needham. llrimtlt>ld, Mass.-
Lrwi~ Jleuson. Buffalo, N. Y.-J. J. Porter. Ch.am-
plain, N. Y.-Benry Buckley. Cincinnati, 0.-Jolm 
Kiloh. Uleaveland, 0.-D. I. Robinson. lJerby Line, 
Vt.-Stephen I•'oster, jr. Hartford, t:t.--~arou CIBJ.II'· 
Lowell, l\lass.-M.l
. George. l.ow ll~tmptou, N.Y.-
Leouttrd I{imbull. 
Mtlwnuk.ee, W. 'f.-Luzerne Arm-
strong. New Uedford, Mllllii.-Jletuy V. Davis. New 
York Cit)-Witliam Tracy, 71 forsyth-street. 
Or-
rington, 1\laiue-Thont&li Smith. Philadelphia, PR.-J. 
Litch 46 1-2 Walnut-t~ueet, opposite the Exchange. 
Portl~nd, Me.-l'eter Johnaon, 24 ludla-~treet. Provi-
dence, R. I.-George H. Child. Rochl'ster, N. Y.-J. 
Marsh, Tulman Block (third story), l:luffalo-ttueet, op-
posite the Arcade. Toronto, C. W .-lhtniel CllDlpbell. 
Waterloo, C. E.-R. Hutchinson. Worcesler,l'tlass.-
D. F. Wetherbt>e. 
Receipts for tbe Week ending Nov. 18. 
10" We httve annexed to e11ch acknowledgment the 
number to which it pays. Where the volume only 11 
mentioned, the whole volume is paid for. 
Those who have paid money for the "Herald," will 
please so e 1f it is credited. 
C. 0. Taylor, v I4-50cts.-A. Emerson, v 14-8150. 
J. Kiloh (3 copies), 392; R. Morr~.>ll, v 14; I. C. Forhush, 
v 14; G. G. Caiviu, 365; J. F. Huber, v 14; J. KitclqJOw, 
v 14; J. W. Marden, 359; H. P. Langley,365; E.l'd'D~tu­
iel,365; I.Young(ifN.S),365; J.Hailey,vl4; J. 
Clifford, 3ti2; S. Daleff, 330; J. Lunt, v 12; D. E. At-
wood (if N. B.), 365; N .•. Wood, 365; Jl. Tripp, 360; 
C. F. Steven•, v 14-elll'h 81.-J. C. Joaeil, 290; J. 
Lyon, 372; J. Be!iJie, 342 ;'T. Sweet, v 15; N. Hru"n, 
v 15; J. S. Randlett, v 14; J. Burrows, 362; A. M'Ken-
zey, 332; E. Smitb, 307; B. Tucker, 373; A. Jobnsm, (if 
N. S.), 391; J. M.Ciapp, v 15-ellcb 82.-J. Cummi1 &•, 
(books atnt,) v 15-3.-Mr•. F. Beckwith, v 18; G. 
Needham, on acc't-5. 
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