THE American Millennial Association, Organized in Boston, Mass., Nov., 1858, has for ITS OBJECT The publication of a Pre-Millennial period'eal (monthly or oftener), the issue of Books and Ti ,•ei s calculated to instruct on the subject of Pioplieey and of a practical character, and the support of 111 it- isters or Colporteurs in destitute fields of 11.1.0:. BOARD OF OFFICERS FOR 1872-3. President: REV. JOHN PEARSON, N ewbury pi •rt, Mass. Vice-Presidents: JOSIAH LITCH, L. H. Them As. F. GUNNER, I. H. SHIPMAN, M. L. JACKSON and WM. L. ETOPKINSON. Recording Secretary : REV. H. CANFIELD, North Attleboro', Mass. Corresponding Secretary: REV. C. CUNNINGHAM, 59 East Brookline St., Boston, Mass. Treasurer: R. R. KNOWLES, Providence, R. I. Auditor: ANTHONY PEARCE, Providence, R. I. Directors: L. Osier, D. Bosworth, W. H. Swartz, S. Prior, A W. Brown, P. L. Hopkins, Geo. W. Burnham, E. W. /garden, W. J. Hurd, S. Foster, Wesley Burnham and D. Rupp. „,essommesemeresereseessenosiesonsee..,, zesessieresosessee IPI7aZ.ZSZtXci) lerT °XIS= 442411*(CAle ..SSOCralr*OZT• "'Behold. I comes quickly." "Occupy till I 00111:11.43.." BOSTON, WEDNESDAY, JULY 2, 1873. VOL. XXXIV. NO. 26. Sceltetion0. of the word used in reference to the ves- sels of the tabernacle and temple, and to God's affair rather than our own ; his Iwork, and not ours ; and the activity and personal energy, which God requires of us always, consist simply in following him in faithful obedience and abandon- ment of self. Here is profound and perfect peace. God cannot lead us astray.- We are often disturbed by the thought that we are not doing enough, or that we are doing wrong, or not doing the work which God has given us to do. I remember, particularly, the first few weeks after the physicians had pro- nounced their opinion in my case, how much I was troubled at the thought that my work was not done. By God's grace, I have been freed from this thought, be- cause I have been brought to understand that it is not a question of my work, but God's work.—Adolphe Monad. STRANGERS AND PILGRIMS. REST. "Thou host made us for Thyself, and the heart never resteth till it findeth rest in Thee."—St. Augustine. • Made for thyself, 0 God Made for thy love, thy service, thy delight : Made to show forth thy wisdom, grace and might; Made for thy praise, whom veiled archangels laud. 0 strange and glorious thought that we may be -COME TO. JESUS NOW. Consider how precious Christ is. "In him there is life eternal." In him there is pardon for the vilest sinners. In him there is sweet peace of conscience—peace with God. In him there is rest for the weary soul—the way Co tire Father—an open door into the fold of God. In him there is a fountain of living waters—un- searchable riches—full supplies of grace and truth fOr weary souls. In him there is acquittal at the judgment-day, and a glorious crown. Oh, should you not leave all for this ? Shall a lust or a pleasure, or a game, or the smile of a friend keep you from all this ? "Eye hath not seen, nor ear heard, nor hath it entered into the heart of man to conceive the things which God hath prepared for them that love him." The greatness of the Saviour shows the sinfulness of not coming to him. He is the eternal Son of God whom sinners are despising. John bore witness of him ; his miracles bore witness of him ; his Father bore witness of him ; the Scriptures, on every page, testify of him ; yet ye will not come to him that ye might have life. It is the Son of God that hath undertaken the doing and dy- ing of all in the stead of sinners ; and yet you, a trembling sinner, will not honor him so much as to trust your soul upon his finished work. Ah ! how shall you escape if you neglect so great a sal- vation ? The loveliness of . the Saviour shows the sin of not coming to him. Methinks there is a touch of heaven's melody in these words : "Ye will not come to me." I know not whether they more express the high indignation of an insulted Sav- iour, or the tender compassion of him that wept upon the Mount of Olives over Jerusalem. It is as if he said : I have left the bosom of mW Father, to suffer and bleed, and die for sinners, even the chief ; yet, 0 sinner ! you will not come unto me. I have sought the lost sheep over mountain and hill ; I have stretch- ed out my hands all the day to the gainsaying and disobedient ; I have cried after sinners and wept over sinners ; and yet ye will not come to me, that ye might have life. If sin against love be the blackest sin under the blue vault of heaven, this is your sin, because ye tram- ple under foot the blood of the Son of God, and do despite unto the gentle Spirit of grace. If there is any of you convinced that you are perishing ; that heaven is like a great city with walls ; that you are out- side, and the storm of wrath about to fall on you ; and that Christ is the only gate into the city ; the strait gate, and yet wide enough to admit any sinner in all the world ; ah ! then without delay strive to enter it ; fervently pray to Jesus for salvation : "As the heart pant- eth after the water brooks, so panteth my soul after thee, 0 God !" If there is any of you convinced that sin is a mortal disease : that all other physicians are vain ; that Christ is passing through the midst of us full of virtue, to heal ; then at once press forward, whatever others do : feeling " if I may touch the hem of his garment I shall be healed." —Mc C Aeyne. Aaron and his sons, and everything per- tamping to the service of God under the IaW of Moses. They were sanctified, that is, set apart and cleansed from every other use to God. And this is the sense in which our Saviour prays for our sanc- tification, saying, "Sanctify them though thy truth : Thy word is truth." This is evident from the fact that be follows this petition immediately with the state- ment that for our sake he sanctifies him- self, that we might also Je sanctified through the truth. He sets himself apart to the Father, to suffer and die and rise and reign for us, that we may be set apart also to God. The word rendered sanctify is the same both in our Saviour's prayer for us and in his statement about himself, and its meaning is, set apart or separated. The other idea, that of progress toward perfection in himself, or growth in his own virtues, would be absurd and utterly inadmissible in application to Christ, and it is no less untrue in application to us. The whole prayer in our behalf is, that we may be completely united with God in Christ, and this particular petition is that we may be set apart to him for this union. The misapprehension includes still another error, that of the idea of Self- san.chfication by the truth. The prayer of our Saviour is understood as if he had said, "Father, let them sanctify them- selves by the truth ; Thy word is truth," thus making us our own sanctifiers by reading the Word of God ; whereas the prayer to 'the .Father. 'is, "Sanctify them through the truth,"4.-e., do thou sanctify them by the truth. It is God's own province to sanctify us to himself. The Holy Spirit is the sanctifier. He sets us apart to God, and takes possession of us for God, and fills us' with God, by un- folding God to us as he is manifested in Christ Jesus. Truth is his instrument ; the Word of God is the sword of the Spirit. He wields it, and by it he cuts the cords that bind us to the world, and severs every bond of satan, every fetter of his, and sets us free to God in Christ. We might delve away at the Word of God a whole life-time, expecting to sanctify ourselves by it, and come short at last, but he can set us free and separate us to God in an instant at a single stroke of his glittering two-edged sword. .We might commit the whole Bible to mem- ory from Genesis to Revelation, and yet fail to set ourselves apart to God by means of it. He often takes a single verse and makes that the key to unlock our- hearts to God, and to unlock the treasures of God to us. Our Saviour bids us search the Scrips tures. Why? Because we shall sanctify ourselves by them ? No, but because thsty testify. of -Him. Christ is our sanc- tification, the Holy Spirit is our sancti- fier, the Word of God is the sword of the Spirit ; therefore we are to search the Scriptures, looking unto Jesus the giver of the Spirit, 'that he may take the things of Christ and show them unto us, and set us apart to God, and fill us with his presence.—Times of Refreshing. PASSIVE VIRTUES. VIRTUES. How seemingly contradictory are the directions of the Word of God ! I read, "Work out your salvation with fear and trembling." Again .I read, "Stand still, and see the salvation of God." Indis- posed as we are, by the corruption of our nature, to put forth effort to be sav- ed, methinks it is a severer service to stand in our lot and behold the workings of God in our behoof. Our impetuosity urges us on, the pride of efforts excites, and we fancy all will be. lost if we fold our hands and wait the evolvings of Providence. We stop not to reconcile the difficulty, which is easily shown to be only apparent, but pass on to .remark that it is evidence of no small degree of Christian advancement to wait in quiet expectation. Israel, hemmed in between two rugged mountains, and terrified by the roar of Egypt's pursuing chariots as they thundered along the highway over which they had passed, the sea before them, murmured in their fear at the hardship of their lot. The unbelief which -finally shut them out from Canaan was developed at the outset of their march. The graves of Egypt seemed strangely preferable, and a life of bond- age to the dangers which appalled them. Then, above the clamors of this excited multitude, were' the clear, calm tones—stand still. How often has hu- man nature renewed these murmurs, and acted over this unbelief ! How hard to abide in calm waiting till Heaven works for us! . , Passive endurance is as much a duty as the most vigorous effort. There are times when God says stand still—wait, be patient, I will have the glory. He can lay aside or dismiss his instruments THE AD VENT HERALD, The Oldest Prophetic Journal in America, Is PUBLISHED WEEKLY, AT 46 KNEELAND STREET, (up stairs,) BOSTON, MASS. J. M. ORROCK. EDITOR. COMMITTEE ON PUBLICATION: L. OSLER, J. LITCH, H. CANFIELD, W. H. SWARTZ, U. CUNNINGHAM. [For Terms, &c., see Fourth Page.] this paper is specially devoted to the advocacy of the speedy, personal, pre-millennial advent of Christ, the glorification of the church at that epoch, she dissolution of the heavens and earth by fire, their renewal as the everlasting inheritance of the redeemed, and the establishment of the kingdom of God; and while rejecting—as it has from the commencement of its existence—the doctrine of the unconscious state of the dead and extinction of the being of the wicked, it will aim to present the truth pertaining to the cross and crown of Christ in such a way as to make one of the hest family papers. WHOLE NO. 1666. at his pleasure, or accomplish his pur- pose by humbler agencies. I must glorify him by simple waiting, by shrinking into myself and waiting for the way to be opened. through the sea. A minister, in the floodtide of his usefulness, is laid aside in the midst of schemes of good. God closes his mouth. What a mystery ! all exclaim—what shall be done now ? Though we cannot scan the secrets of the dispensation, and are assured of its wisdom—yea, of its mercy—there is no caprice in that empire, no fitful move- ments. The fall of a sparrow is as much ordered as the motions of a comet. A missionary falls at his post on the front- ier of gospel effort. Like young Lowrie, he has mastered a difficult language and won the confidence of his fellows. Sav- age pirates end his life by a bitter death. How strange, how mysterious, that the training of whole years and the possession of eminent gifts perish in a moment I I know not the secret of the divine purpose, "out of seeming evil still educ- ing good." His early death, for all that I know, may accomplish more good than a life extended like Schwartz's. The death of Harriet Newell when she first touched heathen ground, and sank to her early grave on the isle of France, was overruled for mightier good than a lifetime could have overtaken. How hard, at the outset of American missions, to realize and believe all this ! How pride revolts, and conceit swells ! 'W'e think ourselves buried alive, but we can burn as lamps in the very sepulchre till God brings us forth. Moses was forty years a shepherd on the sand deserts of Horeb, and from those lonely commun- ings with God he came forth to be king in Jeshurun. Yet this was not our plan ; we would have considered the time Jost. He stood still and saw the salvation of God, and read the lesson in the bush which burned with fire. Man learns his weakness. I do not need thee to work ; stand still ; wait my bidding. He lifteth up and casteth down at his pleasure. None has been his counsellor. Combinations against him are feeble. The Lord will have them in derision. Thus Israel were re- duced to helpless and hopeless extremity —were made to feel it. This is his pur- pose. The struggle is between man and his Maker, and the issue humbles the sinner. How hard to feel this ! I am impelled to seize the reins and manage the chariot ; amid the storm and heav- ings of the vessel I rush to the helm—I must work to maintain my importance, and cannot bear to be humbled. The discipline of life is to teach me the lesson, to bid me rest in quiet submission at his feet—to sink in the dust, and confess my meanness. Angels need no such train- ing,—the will of God is their will. To go or stay, to labor or stand still, is in their sight equal honor. It is to those pure spirits no matter whether they fly on wings of might to the uttermost stars or stand with folded wings at the footstool of the throne. To minister at the death- bed of a beggar who dies in Christ, is honor equal to leading the heavenly harmonies. How much of Christian life is trial ! Many are the shadows which pass over the believer. In the dark day he must stand still. Peaceable are the fruits which come to those exercised thereby. The bud may be bitter, and the flower. sweet—like the little book in the Apoc- alypse, sweet as honey, and yet bitter. The very richness of Christian experience is by these methods. Views of their own character, and displays of God's mercy, are often obtained iu the solitude of same secluded chamber, which are never known in busy, bustling life. For this reason it is good to be afflicted. It stops the man, humbles him, and shows him the wondrous kindness of interpos- ing heaven. "God makes no mistakes," said the paralytic who had lain in help- lessness long years upon his bed. Won- derful the teaching which thus led a liv- ing man to more than submission to the dealings of God. Nothing goes wrong ; no cloud is without its silver lining ; no trial too severe for upholding mercy. When the believer stands shivering 'Oil the border of the sea, and hears the in- solent shouts of pursuing foes, the very sea will open a path dry and safe through its waters, and he shall stand and sing a song more jubilant than Miriam's as she led the daughters of Israel in her victo- rious strains. Beyond the sea there is the land of praise and the home of bliss. The severer the fire, the greater the re- fining. The file of the lapidary evolves the lustre of the diamond, and causes light to flash from its points and angles. Let us learn the lesson so severe to our corruptions and so opposed to our pride. It is not the whole of life to live in busy, bustling action. With reverence we say, the passive obedience of the Saviour was as needful as his active. God pruneth the vine that it may bring forth more fruit. The gardener spares not the vig- orous shoots—hesitates not to reduce the excess of vernal luxuriance. We Ineed pruning, that we may be fruitful. Such are God's dispensations, and such is the training in his school.—Presbyterian. 'eye is upon me. He singles me out hope of a more liberal bukshish (present) among whole vast multitudes,. numbers than he would otherwise secure. the hairs of my head, and sees my every But for the tomb ;—it' is really heart- footstep. He rejoices in my joys ; he sickening to see in how many ways this sympathizes with my sorrows. Jesus is poor people are imposed upon by crafty I I the lover of my soul, and there is room men. This is one of the most reinarka- on his bosom for me to lean, just as there] ble instances I have noticed. The tomb was for that disciple whom he loved long, consists of a mass of masonry raised centuries ago. If Jesus is my intimate perhaps four feet from the ground, and friend, and not only knows me thorough.' 104 feet in length. It is rounded at the ly, but loves me divinely, then he will top and covered with a green cloth, as if never try me above my ability to bear. it contained a body,—the length of His discipline will never be harsh or ern- Noah's body !rev ing•-beesssa.ss4*ss4f44esns-s.sst el. When he prunes he will never cut declare, precisely that of the tomb. away the wrong branch. When he Over this long mass of masonry is a draws blood, he has the wisdom to touch building designed to protect it. The the right vein. He will see to it that maker of the ark must certainly have the furnace is never heated to consume, been an extraordinary personage. me, but only to purify and refine. His could not resist the temptation to point strokes are sweets. Whom he loves, he out to the superstitious keeper of the chastens ; and if the cross gets too heavy, tomb the wonderful disparity between he will say "part of that cross is mine, let the "prophet," as he called hiM, and one me help thee bear it."—.Dr. Cuyler. of my companions who -is between six and seven feet in height. and was evi- dently regarded by the keeper himself as a prodigy for length. The Suggestion drew from him a significant:milk, which, probably, he and I both understood.' After a detention of half an hour, we were again on, our way. For two or three hours our course was along the margin of the plain, on a fine, level path; after which we rode three hours trans- versely across the :plain; towards the ru- ins of Baalbec, the outline of which was no-W-visible. On every side in the plain of Buka'a, we saw evidences of great fertility. It is certainly deserving of its celebrity. Being about twelve miles in width, and stretching far -away in a di- rection northeast and southwest, between the Lebanon and anti-Lebanon ranges of mountains, it presents an appearance of uncommon interest .to a New Englander. The river Litany (the ancient Leontes) winding through the cultiVated fields ; the flocks.and herds ; the black tents of the Bedouins ; and the patches of beau- tiful greensward, which I have not be- fore seen in Syria, combined to. produce an impression- upon me which was de- lightful, and I think will be enduring. We reached Baalbec at 2 P. M., after a'side. of six hours' from Zahleb. Pass- ing the.ruins we followed a fine stream about thirty minutes, to a splendid foun- tain called Ras-el-Ain, (Head of the Fountain). Here, in a charming spot- upon the bank of the stream, we spread a leh,af (or quilt) upon the green grass beneath a large walnut, _intending after a little rest to pitch our tent in the same place. But our plans were suddenly broken by the appearance of the Emir of the place, with a large train of horse- men. We had often heard of this noto- riously bloody chief of the Metawileh sect of Mohammedans, and had spoken of the insults he had often shown to for- eign travelers. But till this: minute we ;had hoped that we might be fortunate enough to escape him ; and were not- a Jittle confused as-be rode up, with men, and dispao.4nting seated himself un- bidden by our In, a manner wholly unceremonious, he immediately began to ask a variety. of- uncivil questions about our plans- and. object; who we - were, where we were from, and where we were going ; how strong we were and what we wanted, etc... The Turkish soldiers, many of whom were near us, and who 'surely cannot boast of .a very great degree of politeness, were gentlemen in 'compari- son with this fierce-looking Emir. In- deed, they had the kindness to offer us coffee, and in other respects treated us with some civility. But the haughty and 'insolent bearing of the native prince was too much for our republican blood. Were remounted our horses, and Without answering his questions left him, not even exchanging, at parting, the common civil- ities which we took some pains to show the Turks. Probably,- had it not been for the latter, we should not have es- caped .so easily. Returning from Ras-el-Ain to the cele- brated ruins we pitched our tent under a noble walnut at the northwest corner of the great area which contains the tem- ples, and proceeded with an enthusiasm never felt before, to the business of ex- ploration. Aside from the wonderful ruins of Baalbec, the place contains nothing worthy of much notice. 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One, who can guide our aching, wayward feet, To find himself, our Way, our Life, our Peace. In him the long unrest is soothed and stilled ; Our hearts are filled. 0 rest, so true, so sweet ; (Would it were shared by all the weary world !) 'Neath shadowing banner of his love unfurled, We bend to kiss the Master's pierced feet ; Then lean our love upon his boundless breast, And know God's rest ! —Sunday Magazine. " And confessed that they were strangers and pilgrims on the earth."—Ileb. 11 : 13. We are all travelers through the world, yet comparatively few cherish the true pilgrim spirit. The confession of the text implies : .1. That those who confess that they are pilgrims and strangers here, sit loose- ly to the present world. The Christian feels himself to be no more at home in this world than the patriarchs and their.: descendants were at home in the coun- tries in which they sojourned before they reached the land of promise. •The place' called home, he is well aware, is not his permanent abode. He cannot, and would not if he could, remain here always. Not that.this world is barren of enjoy- ment. There are manifold joys and com- forts here. The earth is full of the Lord's goodness. Yet they must be so used as not to bind us to the world, but rather as stimulants and helps in our journey to the better land. By those who confess that they are strangers and pilgrims the better world is earnestly desired. The Israelites who embraced the Divine promises, -not only looked upon Canaan as their earthly in- heritance, but "desired a better country, even an heavenly." And the Christian who enjoys the clearer revelation cher- ishes the same desire. But this is not to be confounded with, the vague and un- defined feeling possessed by the ungodly concerning " going to heaven." It is not a mere longing to escape trouble and se- cure happiness, but a longing for purity and for the unclouded vision of Jesus. Some things which render heaven actu- ally repulsive to the worldling are those which constitute its chief attractions to the Christian. And the text still further implies : That those who confess that they are strangers and pilgrims are actually journeying heavenward. And this means (1.) That the way to the kingdom of heaven has been entered. 'What that way ia we are happily told by One who cannot err. 'Whither I go ye know," said the Saviour to his ,disciples, " and the way ye know." And when Philip replied, "Lord, we know not whither thou goest, and how can we know the way ? " His answer was, " I am the way, the truth and the life : no man cometh unto the Father but by me.." If he is the way, we are only traveling to heaven when we are in him. Our union in him is the commencement of our heavenward progress. While the gospel is very com- prehensive in one direction, it is very ex- clusive in another. It welcomes all who will come to Christ, but it shuts us up to this one " way." (2.) It means that we are making progress heavenward. In- creasing mee'tness for the inheritance is advancement towards it. The different stages described in the "Pilgrim's Prog- ress" do not denote mere change of place or of age, but higher degrees of. Christian character and attainment. For such progress all means and facilities are afforded us, and our confession of "pil- grimage" implies that we. are earnestly availing ourselves of them. Is this our -practical confession ? Do we " declare plainly " that we "seek a country,"—a better country, even an- heavenly ?—Rev. W. Landers. Tenununiration0. Articles not dissented from will not be understood as necessarily endorsed by the editor. We solicit communications on .prophetic subjects irrespective of any views which we cherish, — correspondents being responsible for the sentiments they advance. -4 --••• • 40- MISUNDERSTOOD PASSAGES. EY REV. W. E. BOARDMAN. BAALBEC AND THE CEDARS. GROWTH IN GRACE, (2 PETER 3 : 18.) The very nature of growth in grace is often reversed. Growth. in grace is growth in the grace of God, and yet it is frequently understood to be the growth of our own graces. What is grace ? Is it our virtue? No, but God's favor to us utterly unworthy ones. The new:birth introduces us into the grace of God. Then for the first time we begin to understand the wonder- ful love of God for us guilty ones. Then it is that God's love for us begins to be shed abroad in our hearts. And growth in grace is just growth in God's love for us. This is what St. Paul prays for in the _third of Ephesians 14-21, that we may be rooted and grounded in the love of God for us, and may be able to compre- hend and to know the love of Christ for us, passing knowledge, and so be filled with the fulness of God. The soil in which we are planted is God's love for us, and the apostle would have the root of our faith go down deep into its riches in grace. The atmosphere we breathe, and into which we stretch forth our branches, is God's love for us, and he would have us breathe it in freely ; yea, fill our lungs with it to their utmost and ever. enlarging capacity, and spread forth our arms. to embrace it as widely as possible. The sunlight in whiCh we bathe, and grdw, is the love of God for us, and the apostle would have us spread forth our branches and open out our leaves to drink it in, that we may grow yet more, and expand yet wider in its genial, life-giving power. But oh, how poor a thing is this when reversed, as if growth in grace were the growth of our virtues, or graces ? What ! planted in the soil of our own graces ? What I breathing in and stretching up into our own virtues ? ' Miserable substi- tute for the truth ! A complete inver- sion of our whole nature ! Just as well think that. when one emerges from a dungeon damp and dark, first into the narrow paasage way, where the light be- gins to fall around him, then into the 'open hall where it covers him as a mantle, then out into the sunshine where the cheering beams of the king of day fall in full and unobstructed effulgence upon everything above, below, and around, that this progress is one in his own vir- tsie of sight. No, the Apostle Peter, when he charges us to "grow in grace," does not mean, cultivate your own graces, but, enlarge your comprehension of the length, and breadth, and depth, and height, of the grace of God. So also when St. Paul says, "Ye are saved by grace, through faith," he.does not mean that we are saved by our graces cultivated by ourselves, but by God's love for us, accepted and apprehended by faith. God declares to us that he so loves us as to have given his only begot- ten Son to die for us. We believe him and are saved. SANCTIFICATION ( JOHN 17 : 17.) Growth in grace and sanctification are often confounded together as if they were one and the same thing, and the nature of both is entirely misapprehend- ed. Sanctification is conceived of as be- ing an increase of our own virtues, a gradual progress toward perfection in ourselves ; and growth in grace is un- derstood to be the same thing. Growth in grace is not a progress in our own virtues toward perfection, but a progress in the apprehension of God's boundless favor toward us unworthy ones. And sanctification is BY A RETURNED MISSIONARY. Rditor :-If in the following ex- tracts from a journal of a visit once made by myself and two other New England ministers to Baalbec and the Cedars you can find anything that seems likely to interest your readers, they are at your disposal. Yours truly. T. Zahleb, Sept. 13. We left the village of our sojourn in Mount Lebanon, and directed our course, by the Damascus road, toward the _celebrated plain of Cce- lo-Syria, on our way to Baalbec. Our first view of the great plain (called in Arabic, Buka'a) was full of thrilling in- terest. As we rode along its side, one scene after another opened before us, which reminded us more vividly of our native New England than anything else we had seen in this far-off land. The road, unlike every other we have here travelled, was level and smooth. Nu- merous and beautiful home-like streams, whose banks were lined with a luxurious growth of poplars and here and there mills,—together with -large fields of In- dian corn, the first we have seen in Syria, —continually reminded us of ” home, sweet home." No New Englander, who has not visited this land of strangers and strange things, can fully understand with what exciting-interest we gazed, for the first time since we left our native land, upon objects so familiar to our childhood. We reached this place (Zahleb), after eight hours' travel, a little past five this afternoon. Leaving our Arabs to pitch the tent and make other necessary prep- arations for the night,- we took an excur- sion through the town and its adjacent villages'. .Zahleb is .one of the largest places belonging to Lebanon, having it is said a population of 5000. - It is .finely situated, near the foot of Mount Leba- non, on a small stream which washes down from the heights above into the plains below. The houses are chiefly of mud ; and, being for the most part white- washed, and rising one above another on the sides of the ravine, present an ap- pearance both lively and neat, The peo- ple are mostly Greek Catholics, and ap- pear, for this country, to have consider- able enterprise. Indeed, the extensive and- flourishing vineyards on the higher portions of the surrounding country, and the numerous mills, all in operation, on the stream below the town, together with a 'charming grove of trees on either side of the water, give to the place an ap- pearance of life and thrift rrot often seen in Syria. 14th. Rose (after being greatly re- freshed by a good night's sleep in our tent) at daybreak, and soon were again on our way. Our road, for some time, lay under the rich shade of oriental pop- lars, by the side of the lively stream on which Zahleb is situated. Reaching the level of the Buka'a, we took a northerly course, and in an hour reached Kerak, where, Mohammedan tradition says, the prophet Noah was buried. Merely to gratify our curiosity, we stopped to take a view of the tomb. On reaching the entrance the keeper refused to let us go in, unless we would first take off our shoes. " What," said I, " do you suppose that we can take off our shoes ? We are not Moslems, nor Arabs, but Franks. aud,, Christians. And besides, t11-01.911rsis4,9Pi dirty to walk upon wit4oststA,44,;:s/sWr,sit THE CONDITION OP PEACE. • THAN A BROTHER. Friendship implies intimate acquaint- ance. Jesus knows his own ransomed ones ; not as a mixed multitude, but as individuals. Tie "calleth his own.sheep by name." Their names are engraven on his heart of love. Just as a fond moth- There is no peace possible for the man who takes his career into his own hands. There is always reason to fear that he may deceive himself. He is troubled, and often in error, because human will and human interest are-always subject to much error. He can enjoy no repose, but agitates and torments himself, and inspires deep compassion in others, who, seeing how purely he desires to glorify God, see at the same time how he heaps up obstacles in his own path by his want of simplicity. When, on the other hand, we look to God alone, we cast all our burdens upon him, and he will sustain us ; and, further, if our plans are made trusting only in. ourselves, they may not be practicable. THE FRIEND THAT STICKETH CLOSER I may wish to follow a career involving expense for which I am not able to pro- vide. I may desire to be a painter, and my sight fail me ; an orator, and lose my voice, or a surgeon, and my hand trem- ble ; and so my career is a failure, and I am forever inconsolable. But there would be no such thing as a wrecked ca- reer if my projects were formed and car-er has an individuality of- affection for I ried out according to God's plan in my each child she has ever held on her bosom behalf. The very impossibility, which meets me, of doing that which I had at first proposed to myself, proves to me that that is not what God has called me to do ; and the very infirmities which hinder me are so many lights by which God reveals to me my true field of labor, If we act in this spirit (I say it with profound respect), puy work bee:6MA -for stout Arthur gone to sea, and stu- dious Herbert at his college, and sweet little sick Lucy in the nursery—so does the loving Jesus know every One of 'MS' redeemed household. "My `Svi_to„i:ir''' a great deal nearer and' dearer than tctlie1' Saviour of the'vlOiid.`". 'SesixsT6Vtt me and' ki; el hi fil41.`f ifor'ine; 'nsit9 tr;ie ;di of iel*q elatlyt 'AO not growth in grace at all, but it is being set apart or separated unto God, This is the import tra cat 34-Tsal, '44 . iffiCrisql-91,:rft:1") ,?1,i.E;Ttil vtt t.V[ .0,7 91.9W ,.;97 , c1,91ifis-,9,1f-fori 4 Total paid and pledged, $160.75 Balance still due, and referred to Execu- tive Board, $56.95 On motion it was agreed that the Board of officers and directors remain the same as they now stand, except that Bro. J. Donson be substituted for Bro. Thos. H. Prior in the Board of Direc- tors. On motion, Elders Orrock, Pearson, Gunner and Thos. H. Prior were received as Life Members of the Messianian Mis- sionary Society. Adjourned te me, 6.30 P. M. M. M. S. Exesutia e Board met accord- ing to adjournmeut. On motion, Elders D. Elwell, M. L. Jackson and W. IL Swartz were appoint- ed Executive r'ommittee for the ensuing year. A request by the Moshannon circuit for a pastor was presented and the result, together with other decisions made by the Board at this and a subsequent meets) ing, is given in the report of the com- mittee on destitute ministers and church- es published in the Herald of June 11, 1873. Adjourned. J. ZEIGLER, Rec. Sec. FROM REV. HENRY DANA WARD. 102 THE ADVENT HERALD, JULY 2, 1873. received the kingdom he is to return (Luke 19 : 12-27) ;—when I consider that he is "on the right hand of God from henceforth expecting till his ene- mies be made his footstool " (Heb. 10 : 12, 13), I am ready to wait also (together with the saints enumerated in Hebrews 11th) for the coming of the Lord "in the timese of restitution of all things" to open the home of the saints in the "new heav- ens and new earth wherein dwelleth righteousness." (2 Peter 3 : 13.) How- ever mysterious this may seem it is so re- vealed. The adamah (ground) is cursed, not the earth (arets) for Adam's sin (Gen. 3 : 17) and is redeemed for Christ's righteousness ; while this whole creation here waits for the inheritance of the purchased possession, until the time ap- pointed of the Father,— "that in the dispensation of the fullness of times he might gather together in one, all things in Christ, both which are in heaven and which are in earth, even in him." (Eph. 1 : 10). The misapprehension of the word, and ridicule stamped on it with feet and hands, was trying to the heart of the af- firmative. But patience, my brethren ; our Lord endured contradiction to save the erring. I was brought up in the views of the negative of this question, and now Sin sure that the traditions of the kingdom already come, and of a thousand years of peace and safety in this world yet to be attained, and of the perpetuity of the race in mortality, and some other like things, are the tradi- tions of men without warrant of Scrip- ture. • But how shall we persuade others except we bear with them,—bear with their misapprehensions and jests, and even their shouts of triumph? The mar- tyrs testified plainly—and endured pa- tiently with the Lord, saying, "Father, forgive them ; they know not what they do." Had one tried to find a place in the temple, where the Apostle might stand and warn the worshippers of its overthrow by Titus, the whole body of the respectable people—Pharisees, Saddu- cees and Herodians—would have turned their backs, and some of the ruder sort would have mocked and turned him out headlong. We are called to be wise and harmless ; by all means encourage inquiry, paying respectful attention to the negative, while with full faith in the holy word maintaining the affirmative. Our doc- trine cannot please men who are lovers of this world ; but our faithful lives will :haw attention to it, even from the un- godly. To be greedy of gain, of place of honor,—to be ready to promise and apt to forget,—to make professions to the face, and amidst the cares and bur- dens of life to leave them behind the hack,—to depart from the truth in its simplicity and to follow the fashions in their vanity, are manners at variance with the life and doctrine of God our Saviour. "And above all things put on charity, which is the bond of perfectness" (Col. 3 : 14). "For though I understand all mysteries and all knowledge, and though I have all faith—and have not charity, I am nothing." (1 Cor. 13 : 2.) H. D. WARD. Philadelphia, June 20th. — to) bitung. " The Lord himself shall descend from heaven with a shout, with the voice of the archangel, and with the trump of God, and the dead in Christ shall rise first ; then we which are alive and remain shall be caught up together with them in the clouds, to meet the Lord in the air ; and so shall we ever be with the Lord. Wherefore comfort one another with these words." not necessitated to annihilate this eahh and let Satan thus far triumph. He will redeem it, and that, too, in connection with the return of Jesus. " Why do not all Christians look for Christ ? Because they put a temporal millennium between themselves and his coming,—they look at their own achieve- ments instead of to Christ. Let us be faithful to our work, and await the ful- fillment of his promise.", On motion, the business of the society was taken up. The Executive Commit- tee reported acceptably as follows : In accordance with the decision of the Missionary Board, the services of Bro. Aldred were secured for Bucks county— his last year's field of labor. We refer to his report for an account of his labors, and to the Treasuer's re- port for the f -.audition of the society. apparent reason, that this grand temple, dedicated to "the Great Gods of Heli- opolis," was never finished. Whether it was or not, the design of the artist is evident ; and, surely, was the very per- fection of all that pertained to his pro- fession. The symmetry, the exquisite taste and beauty, the magnificence and grandeur, all, combined, almost over- whelm the beholder. (To be continued.) the Adunt /brad. $OSTON, WEDNESDAY, JULY 2, 1873. HEBRON ! •••••-- CAPTAIN HALL'S BURIAL. therefore say that at present we can send any number that may be wanted—from one copy to a thousand. The paper is one of permanent value and will not, like a daily newspaper, be comparatively worthless in a week. Containing as it does an able review of the N. Y. Ob- server's article, " The Millerite Scare," it ought to be well and widely circulated. Churches ought to order them by the quantity for gratuitous distribution. By mail, 12 copies for 50 cents ; or 30 copies for a dollar ; by express, 100 copies for $2.50—the express to be paid by the one sending the order. Tratopondrurt. "Then they that feared the Lord spake often one to another ; and the Lord hearkened and heard it, and a book of remembrance was written before him for them that feared the Lord, and that thought upon his name." THE ANNUAL SERIES OF MEETINGS AT HEBRON, MASS., WILL COMMENCE THURSDAY, JULY 31st, POUR WEEKS FROM TO-MORROW ! THE LAND WHERE THEY DIE NO MORE. a.. Eew sme, N. L. JACKSON, WM. H. SWARTZ, Executive Com. sport was next submit- fully carried out will be likely to secure and the world," and says : "He pictured a better representation at the Conference in vivid colors the strength and menac- in future, should the Bridegroom tarry. ing attitude of Heathenism, of Moham- On the whole we can look back to this medanism, of Popery, Infidelity, and Ra- convocation with pleasure, and feel sure tionalisn ; described the alarming preva- that many went to their homes feeling lence of licentiousness in literature and that it was good to be there. We would in practice ; of drunkenness, luxury, un- like to say more, and to make a note of devoutness, and Sabbath-breaking. Any the hospitality and kindness received differences that existed in the Free from Bro. Bundy and others, but cannot Church were not worthy to be named in do it now. God knows it all, and He comparison with the mighty crisis the who has promised that "a cup of cold Church was called upon to face at home water" given in his name "shall not lose and abroad. They could not afford at a its reward," will remember every work time like this to be splitting up into hos- of faith and " labor of love." tile camps. The Church must unite against the powers of evil, and in all disputed points, except the grand funda- mental doctrines essential to salvation, must adopt the Scriptural order, and ex- ercise mutual brotherly forbearance." One of our British exchanges refers to this address of Dr. Duff as a "powerful and startling exhibit of the sapping and mining of religion and morals by infidel and impure literature," and deems it of sufficient importance to be published in a "special extra number." We purpose to refer to this address again—making some extracts. It would be easy to muliply paragraphs like these, but we forbear. The world is wise but wicked—wise in the things of time, foolish in „those which pertain to eternity. It still "lieth in the wicked one," and happy, are they that are "in Him that is true" even in Jesus Christ. Is this blessedness yours ? Bro. Aida, ted :— As your mi. eonary I have labored in Penn Valley, Chestnut Grove, Creek school-house, Dolington and Yardley- ville. Have preached 140 sermons, held two protracted meetings, which resulted in 16 souls professing faith in Jesus. Eight were baptized, and. nine received into church fellowship. Have traveled 963 miles to fill appointments. JAMES A. ALDRED. The TreasZirer's report followed : M. M. Society, Dr. To one year's salary paid Bro. Aldred, " bill of 500 missionary boxes, Total expenditures, CREDIT. By balance on hand June 3, '72 $50.80 " cash from Eld. Stokely, Emporium 6 00 " " " Eld. Elwell, Trenton 56.63 " Eld. Grady, Yardleyville 1.27 Eld. Aldred, Penn Valley .... 168.35 Eld. Zeigler, Centre county,....55 27 Bro. S. G. Alltn, Morrisville .. 25,00 Eld. Aldred, Chestnut Grove 7.53 Bro. Samuel Prior, Trenton... .100.00 Eld. Swartz, Harrisburg 5 50 Bro. P. Swartz and family 5 00 Eld. Cutter, Moshannon circuit 9.50 Eld. Jackson, Cumb. Co. circuit 12.00 Eld. M. L. Jackson 8.00 [For particulars see "Business" column.] 4•1.. • ATTENTION, BRETHREN. The following incident is reported to have occurred in a Southern State at the time of the cholera's ravages. "Who can tell of a land where they'll die no more ?" A strong wan cried as he rushed from the door; "Here death-groans are beard on every hand, As 'mid the dying and dead I stand; Oh who can tell of a better land— A land where they'll die no more ?" A messenger of Christ was passing by And heard this loud agonizing cry ; He told him of Jesus, the Son of God, Who gave for poor sinners his precious blood ; To buy them a home beyond Death's flood,— In a land where they'll die no more. But a few brief hours had passed away, And night had scarce given its place to day, When this strong-looking man, now with death- glazed eye, (By cholera seized) laid him down to die ; But his faith was strong in a Saviour nigh And the land where they'll die no more. Oh cholera," said he, "thou bast come too late ; I fear thee not, though I know my fate, For I've heard what the Saviour has bought for me, How he paid its price on Calvary's tree,— And now I long that place to see, 'Tis the land where they'll die- no morel" D. TIMMER. That nineteen persons—men, women and children—should be separated from their vessel in the darkness of an Arctic night, in the midst of a fierce gale and driving snow-storm, and for about six months (from Oct. 15, 1872 to April 30, 1873) remain on floating ice, or in an open boat till picked up by the Tigress, off the coast of Labrador, savors more of romance than of reality ; yet that such was the case is manifest from the testi- mony which has recently been given before the authorities in Washington. The account of their dangers, disappoint- ments and sufferings is one of sad inter- est. CAPTAIN HALL died about a year before their separation from the vessel. One evening, on his return to the Polaris from a land expedition to the north, he was taken seriously ill, and about a fort- night later (Nov. 8, 1871) died. Three days afterwards he was buried on shore. One of the survivers thus describes the burial:— "All hands except the cook, attended his funeral. It was a dark, dismal, cold, windy and disagreeable day. The wind was mournfully howling, and the hearts of all were enveloped in deepest sadness. held a lantern, and, by the light of it, the beautiful service of the Episcopal Church was read by Mr. Bryant. As the soothing words, 'I am the resurrec- tion and the life, saith the Lord,' fell 'ipon the ears of the auditors, there were Few dry eyes ; and there amid the say- lge desolation of nature most rugged. the power of Christianity made itself felt by those who had never before acknowl- adged its influence ; and when the clos- 'ng words of the service were spoken, 'In sure and certain hope of the resur- section,' the mariners on the ice thanked God that amid all the privations witl, which they were threatened, there still sem ained the blessed hope of an immor- ality where the 'weary should be at Vest.' Few of those who were present at the burial will forget the deeply af- fecting scene. Old sailors, whose faces had been bronzed by summer suns and frozen in Arctic seas, wept aloud." WISDOM AND WICKEDNESS. $700.00 Dear Bro. Orrock :—You are already aware that the Vermont and Canada Conference held at Richford last week appointed me to make arrangements with the Vermont Central agents here for half fare to the Hebron campmeeting. The best terms I can get are the pledge )f half fare provided twenty-five persons 7o on the line of their road. Now let every one who will go and pass over any part of the Vermont Cen- tral road drop me a line without delay, tnd if that number can be raised, the arrangements can be perfected. The cheapest and most expeditious route from White River Junction will be .)y Bellows Falls and Fitchburg. Tak- ng at Fitchburg the Boston, Clinton and Fitchburg railroad, you will arrive at Hebron some three hours earlier than by he way of Boston, and avoid the incon- venience and expense of being obliged cross the city by private conveyance. Come, brethren and sisters of Mt. Holly, Low Hampton, Bristol and Springfield. .ome to this feast of tabernacles. Man.), sf you I know are abundantly able. Re- nember and write me at owe—every one that will go. Yours &c., H. BUNDY. St. Albans, Vet., June 24th. P. S. About a dozen pledged them- ;elves at Richford to go, so we have en- 3ouragement at the start. H. B. We invite special attention to the above note. Bro. Bundy has acted promptly, and let there be a prompt and satisfactory response on the part of all interested. Is not Christ's law of love applicable here—" Bear ye one another',, 5urdens" (Gal. 6 : 2) ? The failure to make up the required number will sub- ject those who do come to full fare, and our brethren and sisters should so realize this as to lead them to more than an or- dinary effort to attend the meeting. 28.55 flowing from Ras-el-Ain by several rapid streams through the town, it has attrac- tions seldom seen. One can hardly re- sist the impression that this immense and beautiful valley, which stretches out in finch richness, far almost as the eye can reach, was once the garden of the prince- ly people who inhabited these palaces and worshipped in these temples when they were in their glory. The remains of the ancient city are quite extensive, and lie in confusion at every turn. The wall, which surrounded the place, is still distinctly traceable. Were there no other attractions in Baal- bee than those outside the great temple area it would be well worthy of a visit. The constant occurrence of prostrate col- umns and other remnants of former splen- dor at first nearly bewilders one. For myself, I could not realize that my eyes were actually gazing on objects that ex- isted. It seemed like a dream, and I more than once involuntarily exclaimed, " This cannot be real—we are in a fairy land ! " Among the objects which particularly attracted my attention was a beautiful little temple, of a circular form and Co- rinthian architecture, a few rods south- east of the great area before mentioned. It appears to have suffered sadly from earthquakes, and threatens every moment to fall. Notwithstanding, however, its present dilapidated condition, the eye never tires in looking upon it. The splen- did columns which surround it, the orna- ments, the matchless symmetry of the whole, make an impression which, it seems to me, can never be effaced. We all as one exclaimed as we gazed upon it, " It is an exquisite gem." But the grand attraction of Baalbec is seen in the ruins enclosed within the great temple-area. Any description of their magnificence, and of the effect they produced upon my mind, which it is in my power to give, must of necessity be meagre and unsatisfactory. Such thoughts as occur to me, however, I will venture to give, trusting that my friends will excuse me, even if I quite fail to tell the story in the style that suits the ear of criticism. The area that includes the great tem- ples is a little more than 900 feet in length, varying in breadth from 150 to 500 feet. The principal entrance was originally at the eastern extremity. A flight of steps leading from the ground up, some 20 or 30 feet, to a grand Corin- thian colonnade, first introduced one into a porch 36 feet wide. This ancient en- trance is now walled up, and its extrem- ities are flanked by two square, battle- mented towers. A breach through the wall is now the only entrance on this side of the enclosure. It opens into a court of hexagonal shape, connected on the one side with the porch before mention. ed, and opening on the other into anoth- er court which is quadrangular and large, having, in the centre, an elevated plat- form, apparently the foundation of SOME edifice. Around this large space, which is between three and four hundred feet in length, and nearly the same in width, there were formerly beautiful arcades, some nearly fifty feet square, others semi- circular, of smaller dimensions and cor- responding to each other in position on the two opposite sides. The roofs of these rooms have fallen.in, but the exte- rior walls still remain, and are sufficient- ly perfect to give an idea of their former splendor. Along the whole length of these walls are niches for statues, which are richly ornamented with moulding. Beneath this quadrangle and the hexag- onal court connected with it, there are two vaulted passages, connecting with each other, and containing Roman in- scriptions and sculpture. We entered both and rode entirely through them on horseback,—a distance, perhaps, of 500 feet. These vaults, the foundations of the splendid superstructure already de- scribed, extend to what is properly the area of the temples, where they were originally entered by gateways similar to those at their other extremity. From the quadrangular court is a wide passage into the enclosure of the largest temple, which, according to our measure- ment by the tape, was 320 feet long, by 150 feet wide. At present, the only re- markable trace of its fomer glory is a colonnade, consisting of six magnificent Corinthian columns, surmounted by an architrave of surpassing beauty. Origi- nally the number appears to have been sixteen, corresponding to which was a similar row on the opposite side. The ground is strewed with those which have fallen. The dimensions of one of these which we measured, we found as follows: circumference, 24 feet ; height of the pedestal, 7 feet, 6 inches, by 7 feet, 4 inches square. The column itself con- sisted of three sections joined together by square pieces of iron fitted in sockets in the centre. The first of these sections measured 25 feet in length ; the next, 17 feet, 6 inches ; and the third, or highest, 12 feet. The capitol was 7 feet long, and 9 feet square. The entablature above was so shattered that we could not measure it. We estimated it to be at least 20 feet. Supposing it to be so, the whole height of the columns, not includ- ing the foundation on which they stand, —which elevated them from 20 to 30 feet above the area of the Temple of the Sun near by,—is 89 feet. The six that yet remain standing make a most majes- tic appearance. Everything about them seems to be matchless perfection. How could these enormous stones be raised to such a height ? was a question which continually recurred to us, but which we could not solve. Even the di- ameter of the pillars exceeds the length of the tallest man ; and yet there they stand nearly one hundred feet above the ground, a mass of solid and exquisitely chiseled limestone,—alone, in solitary grandeur. It is conjectured, with some HAVE YOU BEEN WITH CHRIST TO-DAY? As the Israelites knew by the radiance of the face of Moses that he had been with God on Mount Sinai, so should men know by our spirit, conversation and practice in every-day life that we have "been with Jesus"—talking to him in prayer and listening to his voice in the Holy Scriptures. The Rev. Andrew A. Ronar of Scotland beautifully illustrates and enforces this point in one of his works, thus :— "In the days when the Mosque of Omar was first built, over that spot of Moriah where the worshipper could touch a piece of the unhewn original rook of the hill, it was customary to bring loads of incense and all aromatic -zhrubs into the shrine, which was called iakhrah. As a consequence, if any one rrom the city had been worshipping there, he carried away with him so much of the fragrance of the place, that when neople passed him in the market-place of Terusalem, or in the streets, they used to .ay to each other, 'He has been in the 'akhrah to-day !' Would to God we thus lived, coming forth daily with our `garments smelling of the myrrh, and aloes, and cassia, from the ivory palaces.' With fresh holiness every day drawn from Christ, what witnesses for him should we he HOW joyfully should we listen to the loving voice that is ever calling 'Be holy, for I am holy ;' and he who speaks thus would hasten to give us more and more when we repair to him. "We are 'looking for and hasting unto the coning of the day of God' (2 Peter 3 : 12). Now, is it not written,'When we shall see him, we shall be like him ; for we shall see him as he is ; and every man that hath this hope in him purifieth himself, even as he is pure' (1 John 3 : 2, 3)? That day approaches. Therefore, beloved, seeing that we look for such things, and seeing that all present things shall so soon be dissolved, 'what manner of persons ought we to be in all holy conversation and godliness ?" $728.55 ti Total, $510.85 Balance due Treasurer, 217.70 $728.55 Tnos. H. PRIOR, Treasurer. Report accepted, and measures taken to make up the deficiency :— Thirty-one persons paid $1.00 each as an annual membership fee $31.00 Two friends paid cash.. .75 On Life-Membership of Eld. J. M. Orrock $25.00 " Eld. .T. Pearson, 25.00 `• " Thos. H. Prior,* 25.00 Marquette, Wig. REPORT OP THE MESSIANIAN SIONARY SOCI1 TY OF PENNSYL- VANIA. „ it " Eld. F. Gunner,....25.00 Pledges to be paid in one month. W. H. Swartz $7 Or R. Gates (paid) 6 Of Zeigler 10:0( M. L. Jackson 5 Or Mary Rupp (paid) a 2 0( This society held its annual meeting in the Mission chapel of Messiah's church in Harrisburg, Pa., on the 29th of May, 1873, at 3 P. M. Dr. J. Litch, President of the society, introduced for discussion the theme, Our Mission and Work. He alluded forci- bly to the past state of the Christian mind—as having been chained by error, —but the glorious light of the gospel has broken in and dispelled the gloom. " The advent of . Jesus is imminent and pre-millennial. At his coming his peo- ple will be raised, and in immortality will reign with him upon the new earth to all eternity. Many ministers, truly united to Christ, are still blinded on these truths, and hence the necessity of our mission and work. Many, when 1843 had passed, and Jesus did not appear, had not stamina enough to resist the op- position which arose against their faith ; but others stood firm and to-day are in full assurance of faith. I ask for Chris- tian unity. I stand not here to declare that I love other Christians less, but be- cause I love Christ more. We must never let go the object of our work—to bring souls to Christ ; and when we have brought them to him, we must build them up, instruct and teach them con- cerning the fulfillment of the promises of God at the second advent of Christ. The judgment day is upon us,. and I be- lieve we are doing the world a great deal of good. It is true that we are in an age of apostacy ; and we can only save men by pulling them out of the fire,' —we must follow them up day after day, if we would save them at all. The theme to which we give prominence is not pop- ular. How the multitudes feel about it is well expressed in the remark made to me by Dr. Seiss of Philadelphia The butterflies are all gone when it is known that I will preach on the coming of Christ.' They do not like it. We have a specialty as a denomination, and that is, to hold up the coming of Jesus and to preach it." Rev. J. M. Orrock followed in a hearty indorsement of the above : " We must follow the injunction of the apostle, Quit you like men.' A vessel as it nears the shore is surrounded by increas- ed and multiplied dangers ; so is it with the church as she nears the haven of eternal rest. Hence we have a special reason for watchfulness and work. The apostle very strikingly portrays the dark- ness of Christendom in contradistinction to that of Heathendom, when in 2 Tim. 3 : 1-5 he speaks of those who have a forni of godliness, but deny the power thereof.' (Compare with Rom. 1 : 28- 32). The theology of the day seems to be largely mixed with what manufac- turers of cloth in England call Devil's dust,'— a little truth with a great deal of error. What, then, is our duty ? To stand up for the truth—not like children, but like men,'—even if we have to do it alone, as did Micaiah in the presence of King Ahab. We not only need faith, but fortitude, and in a spirit of love to hold forth the sufferings of Christ, and the toil of his people, his coming in glo- ry and the gathering of his jewels to him in the day of his revelation." Elder J. Pearson next followed : " Uni- ty characterized the church in its early history—to-day it is broken into frag- ments. But among them all there is the unseen, mystical body of Christ. As a denomination we have a work to do. We have a system of faith to uphold : a complete redemption in Christ. God is THAT DEBATE. JOURNAL LEAVES OF A RETURNED MISSIONARY. We commence this week, in the " Com- munication" department, an interesting series of articles from the journal of one who was a missionary in Syria for about Four years—six months of which time he was a resident of Jerusalem. The jour- ney to " BAALBEC AND THE CEDARS " was made in 1842, yet he says, " I have no loubt that were I to revisit this year the places described in my journal I should find them substantially the same : there is very little change in that land outside the large cities, and, with the exception of Beirut, not much even in them." It is hardly necessary to bespeak for these articles a careful perusal, as those who begin them will be likely to go through to the end. For our own part we have been much interested in them. THE CONFERENCE IN R/CHFORD. ",But thou, 0 Daniel, shut up the words and -zeal the book, even to the time of the end ; many shall run to and fro, and knowledge ,hall be increased."—D_ n. 12 : 4. "This know also, that in the last days perilous times shall come. . Evil men and 9educers shall wax worse and worse, deceiving and being deceived."-2 Tim. 3 : 1, 13. These texts emphatically teach an in. crease of wisdom and wickedness "in the last days"—at "the time of the end." The newspapers of the day are one of the best commentaries we can have on the apostolic, predictions of "the latter times." Men and women, within and without the pale of the Christian church, are "de- parting from the faith" and "giving heed to seducing spirits and doctrines of Soon the most popular preacher will not be the one who is most "orthodox"— judging from what has heretofore been regarded as orthodoxy,—but he who is an eloquent speaker and teacher of "smooth things." "For yourselves know perfectly that the day of the Lord so cometh as a thief in the night : for when they shall say, Peace and safety—then sudden destruc- tion cometh upon them, as travail upon a woman with child, and they shall not es- cape." That there is an increase of knowledge in the arts and sciences is undeniab le, but that wickedness grows apace—with startling rapidity—is conceded even by those whose theory of millennial glory leads them to conclude that in some way or other righteousness must triumph over wickedness before the end. The New York Observer for example speaks of the recent Walworth parricide as "an expression of that want of rever- ence and subjection which domestic life in our day exhibits," and adds : "The crime is without a parallel in modern an- nals. The old Greeks are said to have had no law to punish this crime because it was not considered possible that such a monster as a parricide could be. All theories of education, culture and associ- ation as restraints, fail in presence of such a tragedy. We see a youth in his teens, yet old enough to feel all social in- fluences, with his mental and moral facul- ties in perfect exercise, deliberately plan- ning the murder of his father in a distant city ;" he conceals his purpose, travels a hundred and seventy miles, procures and loads a revolver ; calls at the house of his father prepared to kill him if he found him there ; leaves a note to decoy his unsuspicious victim into his room in a public ,house ; and then standing up before his defenceless parent, shoots him down like a dog ; shoots him four times to make his savage vengeance sure ! We repeat it, the crime, for malignity, base- ness, meanness, cowardice, cold-blooded atrocity is without a parallel in modern annals." The same journal refers to the address of the Rev. Dr. DUFF, Moderator of the General Assembly of the Free Church of Some who order the "Extra" of May Scotland, at its last session, as indicating 28th do it with hesitancy lest we should "a crisis in the affairs of Christendom be unable to fill their orders. We would CLOUGH. I write to inform you of the death of my mother, Mrs. ELIZA CLOUGH. She was for a number of years a subscriber to the Advent Herald, which she loved, and watched eagerly for its arrival. She fell asleep in Jesus on the second day of May. She was strong in faith and felt the presence of the Lord until the last. I believe I shall meet her in the world to come if I continue faithful. Your sister in Christ. MRS. M. C. ANNI5. Saratoga Springs, N. Y. "The public debate announced to come off between Messrs. McCarthy, Univer- salist, and I. R. Gates, an opponent of that fallacy, through some technical inis- understanding, has been deferred. Bro. Gates is an old and accomplished contro- versialist, and is eager to use up ' this heterodox brother as effectually as he has a number of others, in the course of his ministry. He is endorsed by his own, and several reliable members of other evangelical denominations, as an earnest and faithful minister of the New Testa- ment." The above from the Methodist Home Journal of Philadelphia refers to the discussion mentioned in the report of the Conference at Harrisburg. The Rev. A. V. Group says, in a note we have received from him : "A public announcement reveals an indefinite post- ponement of the struggle—perhaps a withdrawal, ne plus ultra, from the weapons of truth. Universalism is a spread-eagle, and if pierced to the heart, will fall to the earth ; and we fondly hoped that the deadly arrow of truth, hurled, by the help of God, from our skilled champion, would bring the proud bird from her airy and sky-botind home to the oblivious tomb ; but unfortunately for our cause the dextrous bird has al- ready learned what kind of weapon is reserved for the attack, and in whose hands that weapon is held. The plea for postponement is the fact that the trus- tees of my church (Union Street, Phila- delphia,) have declined to give the church for the holding of the debate, and that Dr. Kynett refused to endorse Brother Gates as a competent defender of evangelical doctrine ; but since it is well known that other prominent minis- ters have endorsed Rev. Mr. Gates un- equivocally, and other places for holding the discussion might have been secured, these reasons are insufficient. They are only avenues through which the bird escapes the weapon. I have never been favorable to doctrinal discussions, but I confess that there are sufficient reasons why this one should not have been de- ferred." My dear Bro. Orrock : —This morn- ing I laid out an article on the five king- doms, presented in the order of their suc- cession by the prophet Daniel, which I intend to send you. Weeks ago I would have offered it in channels thirsty for such small rain (well knowing that the readers of the Herald are constantly re- freshed with the hope of the coming king- dom at hand), but as the dead flies in the ointment of the apothecary are fatal to the rich fragrance, so is the odor of the end of this world to respectable papers and peoples of this world. Any serious question of a brighter prosperity soon to come and forever to last in this fourth kingdom of the prophecy, disgusts the taste of such as make nosegays for the fashion out of doctrines gathered among the traditions of men. I speak the truth —not to censure, but to sympathize with them who ignorantly leave the holy cov- enant, to obey the commandments of men. While in the act of sketching a word of introduction, your paper of the 18th instant came, and I laid down my pen and laid aside my article, for the Herald of that date has a far better notice of Daniel's prophecy, by J. M. Code of Bath, Eng., than I had written, and a most in- teresting and Scriptural interpretation of the question, "Is this earth regenerated to be the home of the saints ?" by the Rev. Joseph Scott of the M. E. church, Boston, as reported by Elder Cunning- ham, together wisl- --- earnest reply by the Rev. R. of Cliftondale, Mass. I cow .(icr Scott's views clear, bright, soles n'l conclusive in support of the affirm question ; and the Rev. Mr. i's in the negative the Our readers, having been already in- formed that we attended the twenty- second annual session of the Canada and Vermont Conference, held in Richford, Vt., June 19 to 22, may be expecting a Few words from us in relation to the meetings in advance of the secretary's report ; we would therefore say, that while for several reasons the attendance was not so large as it ought to have been and might have been, yet it exceed- ed our expectation, and the session was one of harmony, encouragement and blessing. Having participated in the organiza- tion of this Conference, and for nineteen years in succession attended and acted as secretary we, of course, have ever felt a deep interest in its working and wel- fare, but for two years past have been prevented from attending its annual meetings. It was therefore a great, and rather unexpected pleasure to be able this year to meet and greet so many with whom we were wont to assemble in years gone by. The good hand of God was with us supplying journeying mercies— of which we cannot now speak particu- larly—and in the Conference itself. The meetings were held in the church where Bro. Grady preaches half the time. It is a fine, commodious structure, which has been built since we were last there. We gave four discourses and heard sermons from Elders Reynolds, Blake and Kinney. A precious commun- ion season followed the Sunday morning discourse. Elders Levi Dudley of Mooers, N. Y., and H. Bundy of St. Albans, Vt., attended to the breaking of bread. Bro. Kinney by request supplied the pulpit of the Methodist church Sabbath forenoon. Our service Sunday evening was largely attended and a solemn feeling manifestly pervaded the audience. The reports from the churches were not so full nor so many as they should have been, yet they were quite encouraging. Arrange- ments are being made to hold a camp- meeting early in September—probably in St. Armand or vicinity, and some oth- er measures were adopted which if faith- 41111.— • (Stunt futtitigturt, RELIGIOUS SUMMARY. From Russia there come accounts of sad and bitter persecution of evangelical missionaries. It is said by the Baptist papers that eleven of the most sifted brethren have been in prison almost a year, at Kier, on the Dneiper. In 1820, there were but four Protest- ant places of worship in Paris and vi- cinity, and five or six ministers, includ- ing the English clergymen. Now there are fifty-eight Protestant places of wor- ship in Paris and its immediate vicinity, forty-seven of which are within the city proper. Many of these places are very small, while in most of them the attend- ance is limited to a hundred hearers or less. There are between seventy and eighty Protestant day schools in Paris, where sixty years ago there was but one. France is now open. The British and Foreign Bible Society is now engaged in the translation of the Bible into the Japanese language, and the first installment, that of the Gospel of St. John, has been completed and trans- mitted to Japan. The Secretary of the British and For- eign Bible Society estimates that during the present century about 116,000,000 copies of the Scriptures, in whole or in part, have been put into circulation by Bible societies alone in various parts of the world. The sale of the great Perkins Librar in London, early in June, realized £26,- 000 or *136,000. The "Mazarin Bible" printed on vellum, which has the double distinction of being, probably, the first edi- THE EXTRA HERALD. best that one find in brief on that side of the question. Not to argue here what was there better done, I call at- tention to what I consider two mistakes in Mr. Allen's opening : First, "We are not to wait for the earth to be renewed for our home ;" and Second, "This earth is cursed." Once I believed so myself, but when I see that the Son of God waits for his possession (Pea. 2: 8 ; Luke 1: 33), which he is gone to receive, and having the Akser, the Russians are only 350 miles from Peshawttr, in India, and only 200 miles from Cashmere. Khiva is 850 miles from the nearest post on the Indian front- ier.- Christian, Union. A letter from the Fejee Islands states that the mountain savages killed a family of whites named Burns and some Poly- nesian laborers, altogether 16 whites, whose bodies were found terribly muti- lated. Some of the bodies were carried away for a cannibal feast.• The Chinese are flocking into Califor- nia faster than ever. Already they num- ber one quarter of .the male adults in the State. A fiend in the shape of a woman re- cently died in Kansas, and confessed on her death-bed that she had poisoned six persons ; the dose which she had pre- pared for her seventh intended victim she Accidentally took herself, thus saving the State the trouble of hanging her. By the upsetting of a boat at Calais, Vt., on a recent Sunday, five persons lost their lives. A pork-packing establishment in St. Louis was burned on Thursday, and1200 live hogs were merged - in one shrieking holocaust. THE CHOLERA in Nashville and Mem- phis, Term., has already proved a terri- ble scourge-hundreds have perished by it. A few cases are also reported. in Cin- cinnati, Ohio, and elsewhere. THE YO-SEMITE VALLEY. Rev. E. Payson Hammond, the well- known evangelist, thus writes from the Yo-Semite Valley, Cal., May 5th, to the London Christian, respecting God's won- ders in nature and grace :- " I have never enjoyed seeking to win souls to Christ more than during the past winter. Each of the six cities in which I have had meetings has numbered from sixteen to thirty thousand, and in each of them from five hundred to one thou- sand have been received, on the profes- sion of their new-found faith in Christ, into the churches. In each of these cities, all of the evangelical churches have united, so that there has been little, , if any opposition. From each of them we have gone out, with ministers, and Christians, and young converts, number- ing from forty to ninety, by rail, to small- er places, and begun meetings, whici have been carried on for weeks and months afterwards, and resulted in the conver- sion of many souls. " It is not my object now to give yor an account of these meetings, but to con vey some idea of this wonderful vallei Yo-Semite. It is situated one hundre( and forty miles south-east of San Fran- cisco. Part of the way we came by rail and two days by stage, and finally eight eon miles on horseback. One night of the way was spent on the spur of th, sierra Nevada, amid snow seven thou sand feet above the sea. Two clays he fore we were in the valley covered witl flowers. "As we had heard and read so mud of the Yo-Semite, our expectations wet-, very great ; but they have been mor( than realized. the longer we remaii here, the more deeply we feel that it; grandeur cannot be exaggerated. "The valley is from eight to ten miles in lersgth, and from half a mile to a mil( in width. It is surrounded on all sides by perpendicular granite walls, from 2500 to 4000 feet high. The prominent points have suggestive names given to them. The height of each has been accurately measured by State authority. A few of these I will mention, with their exact height. "They have been repeatedly measured, and there can be no mistake. Their alti- tude is given from the bottom of the valley which is itself four thousand feet above the level of the sea. Cathedra] Rocks, are 2600 feet above the valley ;- their form suggests the outline of a dilap- idated Gothic cathedral. Cathedral Spires 2400 feet ; Sentinel Rock, 3043 feet above the river at its foot ; Sentinel Dome, 4150 feet ; Glacier Rock, 3705 feet ; Stair King, 5000 feet ; Mount Broderick, 5000 feet ; El Capitan with two perpendicular fronts, a mile long, 3300 feet high, and bounded above by a sharp edge, upon which the very sky seems to rest. " The numerous waterfalls are also a chief attraction of the valley. They va- ry in height from 300 to 2600 feet. Just opposite from where I am now writing, the Yo-Semite Fall,' with three succes- sive leaps, is pouring down its white foam- ing sheet of water, 2641 feet in length. A stream of water flowing nearly straight down for half a mile in length is certain- ly a most wonderful sight. As we ap- proached it we were quite ready to be- lieve Mr. Bancroft, who says, It is the loftiest waterfall known on the face of the globe, setting its forehead among the stars, and planting its feet at the base of the eternal hills.' " On our way here we visited some of the big trees,' one of which was eighty- one feet in circumference, but even this great tree made no such impression on our minds as this waterfall. From no part of the valley can we see any snow or mountain beyond the Yo-Semite Fall, and at first sight it seems a wonder where all the water comes from. Day and night it comes thundering down the mountain side, and when it reaches the valley, it causes the grass and flowers to spring up and gladden many hearts. " Just so I have thought it is with those who can say with the Psalmist- ' All my springs, Lord, are in Thee.' Those who live above the world, and much in the presence of God are contin- ually sending forth streams of usefulness which make all about them happy. I have seen many young people and chil- ing that the arm of the _Lord will be made bare in behalf of a perishing race. Pray for us. J. ZEIGLER, Pastor. HEBRON CAMPMEETING. tion of the Latin Bible, and the first book printed with metal types by Gutten- berg and. Faust, somewhere between the years 1450 and 1455, brought £3400 or $21,400, the largest price ever paid for a single book. Another copy printed on paper realized £2690. In spite of the tenacity of faith char- acteristic of the Jews, Christianity does make some progress among them. Of the thirty thousand Jews living in Lon- don, two thousand are members of ,phris- tian churches. Of the eighteen thousand living in Berlin, two thousand are said to have been converted. The total number of Jews in Europe is estimated at 3,431,700, and of these twenty thou- sand are reckoned as Christian converts. • The census gives some interesting items about the Jews. In 1850 they counted only 18,371 members in the country, and in 1870, 73,265. In 1850 they had but 36 synagogues, and in 1870 they had 152. Such progress as this shows the attraction this country has of- fered this people. In Philadelphia they have eight synagogues, and in New York twenty-six. Metropolitan centres appear to be their favorite fields, and they will be found strong, relatively, in all the leading cities of the nation. The Bishops of the M. - E. Church it appears, receive $4,000 each, except Bishops Janes and Simpson, who each receive $4,500, and Bishop Morris, whose stipend is stated at $1,500. The Secre- taries, Dashiell, Reid, Eddy and Haven, receive each $5,000. The Book Agents at New York $4,500, and those in Cin- cinnati $4,000. The Editors $4,000 each, except one, the Editor of the Atlanta Advocate, whose salary is $2,500. One of the official papers is represented as having cost the Church over $50,000 for its support, the Editor of which receives for his services $4,000 a year. Bishop Whipple, of Minnesota, in a re- cent speech, said that there are now eight Episcopal churches in his diocese composed of Indians, and four of the clergymen are Indians. The little church at Mount Washing- ton, the very southwestern corner of the State, has been reduced to a single mem- ber by death and removals. This aged sister, feeling the loneliness of her situa- tion, recently sought refuge and the fel- lowship of the nearest church, that of South Egremont. But as she was the sole survivor, there was no church but herself to give a letter of dismission and recommendation. So she brought the church record certifying her membership, and her good standing being known she was welcomed by the church to which she applied, and by that vote of welcome was a whole church absorbed by another -two churches thus made one-a fact we have not seen paralleled in the histo- ry of our Zion.- i'ongreOationalist. Dr. Bellows, who is rated as one of the ablest and most conservative of the Uni- tarians, has recently given some utter- ances descriptive of that denomination. He says : " We can and do admit all manner of men into our Society-Spirit- nalists, Catholics, Atheists, Infidels-all are equally welcome, if they do not at- tempt to measure others by their stand- ard orthodox. Unitarianism, I think, will become evangelical. Our future de- pends only on the limitations of the hu- man powers and science. We hold the religion of the future, if such a thing ex- ists." Again, he says, "Our whole ar- rangement is one rather of a mutual un- derstanding than of a fixed purpose. If we were cut up into forty different bits, and each fragment set afloat on its own individual shingle, I think we should gradually work our way together into pretty much what we are now. There are some few who have either left us or stand ready to return to Christianity ; but they would probably go into some- thing like Beecher's free religion. They are conservative, and are afraid of such loose fish as Frothingham coming into the quiet pool and raising a general dis- turbance. He may do so at any time. We cannot prevent it." NEWS ITEMS. ITEMS. The Sultan of Zanzibar has signed the treaty with Great Britain for the suppres- sion of the slave trade, negotiated by Sir Bartle Frere. Sir Bartle Frere reports that thirty thousand persons are annually exported from Africa and sold into slavery. The Sultan of Turkey has issued a fir- man granting to the Khedive of Egypt an independent internal government, and au- thorizing him to augment the army and conclude foreign treaties. A Constantinople dispatch states that a treaty has been concluded between the Khedive and Sultan for mutual protec- tion, by which the former, in case of the invasion of Turkey, agrees to provide 150,000 troops. The Khan of Khiva has capitulated to the Russian forces. The Shah of Persia is having a grand reception in Great Britain and the Con- tinent. A new Atlantic cable has been success- fully laid. Russia has '200,000 troops in the Cau- casus, with water communication behind them by river and canal all the way to St. Petersburg. This army is thus all ready to march upon India by the route which the great Napolean had chosen for his own march upon India. On the Cas- pian Sea an overwhelming fleet is ready to support this army, thus placing both Persia and the route to India, just men- tioned, at the mercy of the Russians. It is not at Khiva chiefly that Russia ap- proaches India. On the upper waters of Jzrinms-HILL.-At Richford, Vt., June 19th, by the Rev. S. F. Grady, assisted by the Rev. W. B. Kinney, Elder J. M. Jennings to Cynthia C. Hill, both of Woodbury, Vt. LIITHER-HAYS.-By Rev. M. H. Moyer, June 12th, Mr. Clarence S. Luther of Luthersburg, Pa., to Miss Rosie C. Hays of Kersey, Pa. guoinno gtputtment. PROSPERITY AND DRUNKENNESS. Amongst the bright spots which have lighted up the history of the old country during the last few years, there is -one shadow, namely, the saddening fact that the remarkable prosperity of the country during the period referred to has had lit- tle effect in reducing pauperism, whilst it has led to a great increase in the , con- sumption of intoxicating drinks. In- deed, the prosperity and the increase in drinking may be characterized as cause and effect. The last Inland Revenue return shows, perhaps, the highest in- stance of self-taxation for strong drink and tobacco on record. The duty on these things, and the cost of licenses for their sale, make a total in one year of nearly thirty-five millions of money thrown into the public treasury by the votaries of the glass and the pipe. Probably an aggregate sum of very much more than a hundred millions is spent in the course of a year on drink and tobacco ! Can it be wondered at, then, that so large a percentage of the working class that can ill afford such profitless ex- penditure, with its frequent attendant loss of time and wages become a burden upon the rates ? This expenditure is go- ing on at an increased ratio, while the augmented consumption of tea, coffee, and sugar, has by no means latterly kept pace with the increase of the population. This would seem to betoken some change for the worse in the taste of the people. It is indeed sad to think, as an English paper observes, in commenting on the foregoing facts, that one of the most strik- ing results of the high wages that have been earned by the working class during the last two or three years is the increased consumption of intoxicating drinks. - Montreal Witness. piortilantotto. through the whole of a dark and dreary winter upon the ice. In their first en- deavors to reach land they occupied for a time different pieces of floating ice, but were forced finally to abandon all hope in this direction. They rested at last upon the floe upon which the Po- laris had been made fast on the 15th August, 1872, in latitude 80 degrees, and from which she broke adrift on the night of October 15 following : the original extent of this floe they estimated at about fire miles in circumference. Snow huts were built by the Esquimaux, in which they lived and kept their provis- ions. Occasionally during the winter the Esquimaux shot seal, and once they killed a bear, and this renewed their sup- ply of meat. On the first of April, find- ing their icy quarters much reduced by the breaking up of the floe, and that the current was then setting them to the southward and to sea, they launched their boat into the open water and pulled toward the west, in order, if possible, to gain the coast. At times, ice getting too closely packed to get their boat through, they were compelled to put the boat up- on it, landing it again as soon as a lead opened to the westward or southward. In this way they passed a month of weary and desperate endeavor. Toward the close of April their pro- visions were almost exhausted, and they were one day absolutely reduced to less than a biscuit apiece and a mouthful of pemmican, when a bear, scenting them on the ice, approached them and was shot, and they were thus rescued from starvation. Revived by this good for- tune and strengthened by this new sup- ply of fresh meat, they struggled on un- til the last day of April, 1873, when they were rescued by the Tigress. At this time they had the coast of Labrador in sight, distant about 40 miles, and were hoping to reach it before they were ex- hausted. The circumstances of this most extra- ordinary voyage are given at length by the witnesses, and as particularly detailed in the diaries that some of the rescued party made day by day upon the ice. At the time of their separation from the Polaris every one belonging to the expe- dition was in good health. Nineteen were upon the ice floe, and they believed all the rest were on board the ship. The Polaris had not then repaired her broken stern, and leaked somewhat, but was easi- ly cleared by the deck pumps. She had plenty of provisions but not much coal, probably about enough to last through the winter. She was last seen apparent- ly at anchor under Northumberland island, where it is most likely she re- mained for winter quarters. Dr. Hayes found Esquimaux residing on that island, and the Esquimaux settlement of Navick is close by As to the question whether the ship can make her way to the Danish settliment of Upper Na- vick or Disco without steam, if she gets free from the ice this season, supposing her to be in as good condition as when the rescued party was last on board, the witnesses differ in judgment ; but the safer, if not the better, opinion is that the will need assistance to bring her completely and safely out. A NEW WITNESS TO AN OLD STORY. LETTERS RECEIVED. S. Foster 14.00 ; D. W. Sornberger ; Henry Crouse ; Jacob Coggin 2.00 ; Rev. L. Thompson ; Ella Reidy 2.00 Wm. H. Merrill 1.00 ; Levi Merkel 8.00 ; Ed. Rowell ; Geo. H. Hurtt 2.00 ; Eva L. Mack 2.00 ; E. T. Scott (the change was made) ; R. Hutchinson 2.00 P. A. Beck- with ; Mrs. Israel Conover 1.00 ; M. S. Perkins .50 ; H. A Dolloff 1.00 ; A. C. White 2.50 (all right) ; Rev. A. S. Dud- ley ; C. H. Wyer 1.50 (it was never pub- lished in tract form) ; E. A. Stockman ; Moody Watson 2.00 ; M. J. P. Thing .13 ; A. McBride 2.00 ; Wm. Stearns .75 ; A. S. Porter 2.25 ; J. B. Tobias 3.00 ; Mrs. Sarah E. Gray 2.00 ; J. J. Lu- cas 1.00 ; J. Zeigler .25 ; N. Stokley ; C. B. Glenville ; S. A. Chaplin 1.00 ; Mrs. B. J. Mott 1.00 ; Wm. Emmitt 5.00 ; A. B. Lombard 2.00 ; M. H. Moyer 10.00 ; James L. Bliss 1.00 ; D. Elwell 2.00 ; M. B. Libby 2.00 ; Dio Lewis ; Mrs. E. H. Burroughs 1.00 ; Mrs. Royal Jackman 1.00 ; Hannah C. Harley .69 ; J. H. Carr .05 ' • Mrs. H. Sharon 2.00 ; J. Buffmn ; W. B. Kinney ; S. A. Coburn 1.00 ; Lu- cia Atkins 1.26 ; John Pearce 18.00 ; Reuben Jackson 2.00 ; John Donson 2.00 ; Jacob M. Shelley 2.00. NCTES TO CORRESPONDENTS. M. WATSON.-Do not consider the evi- dence sufficient to warrant faith in a specific time : we endeavor to give all the light we have on our proximity to the Lord's coming. 0. B. FENNER. - He acknowledged receipt of the book, promising to make all right on his return from a tour west. Will doubtless hear from him soon. D. ELWELL.-It was received, and we are waiting for the remainder of the se- ries before deciding anything about them. W. H. SwARTz.-Will forward your letter to Bro. Pearson. BOOKS, TRACTS, &C., SENT During the week ending Wednesday, July 2. By mail.-Wm. H. Merrill, Levi Mer- kel ; Edmund Rowell ; M. S. Perkins ; C. H. Wyer ; M. Watson ; M. J P. Thing ; Wm. Emmitt ; J. H. Carr ; Lu- cia Atkins ; J. Pearce ; Wm. Stearns. By express.-Elder Jonas Sornberger ; L. D. Wheeler. MEETINGS .AT HEBRON CAMP- GROUND IN JULY. There will be preaching in the chapel at Camp Hebron every Sabbath after= noon at half past five o'clock, during the month of July. Also social meeting every Wednesday evening at a quarter of eight o'clock, during the same month. While all are invited, and all will be welcomed, friends from Attleboro, Taun- ton, Hebron, Central Falls, Pawtucket and Providence, with those encamping on the ground during July, will be especially interested in these meetings. These meetings will be preliminary to the general meeting in August, and it is hoped they will be times of refreshing from the presence of the Lord. Friends of Jesus and lovers of man, rally, to the camp, and sound out 'a warning to the unsaved, and utter a distinct and telling testimony for the approaching Bride- groom. L. OsLEE, (For the Cdmmittee.) • STERLING RUN CAMP-MEETING. This meeting will commence Thurs- day, August 28th and continue one week or more. Ample arrangements for board- ing and lodging on the ground are made. Sterling Run, Pa., is on the Penn. and Erie railroad, 89 miles west from Wil- liamsport, and 159 miles east from Erie. Reduction of fare will be noticed in the handbills. Elders H. Canfield, W. H. Swartz, L. Osler, and others are expected to be present to minister in word and doctrine. Campmeetings have been held in this section for the past fifteen year's, and on the present spot five or six years. Pre- cious seasons have been enjoyed in the tented grove as the waiting ones have as- sembled for worship ; but the coming meeting is looked forward to with unusu- al interest, and an especial blessing is not only prayed for but expected. Vir- gins of the coming Bridegroom, lay aside your worldly cares and business and meet us in the feast of tabernacles in a week's service for the Lord. Brethren in the ministry, arouse your flocks to the importance of this meeting. PHILIP SMITH, for the Committee. 4-•••• • • WORKS OP DR. SEISS. We have for sale a few copies of the following pamphlets by the Rev. J. A. SEISS, D. D., of the Lutheran church, Philadelphia, Pa. Without accepting every-idea advanced in them the reader will find much that is Scriptural, earnest and timely on the coming and kingdom of Christ. The Church's Hope, 22 pp. each (by mail) 12 ets. Blasphemy Against the Holy Ghost, " 10 " The Burning Bush, 24 pn., 10 " The Threatening Ruin, 39 pp., 15 " Our Dead, 24 pp., 12 " Our supply of the pamphlet Will there be a Millennium before the Coming of Christ ? is nearly exhausted, and no more can be obtained. Price 40 cents. 103 THE ADVENT HERALD, JULY 2, 1873. THE ANNUAL MEETING AT CAMP HE- BRON, will commence Thursday July 31 and continue over the two following Sabbaths. J. PEARSON, JR., D. ELWELL. THE AMERICAN MILLENNIAL ASSOCIA- TION will be convened, for business, at such times during the progress of the meeting as will least interfere with the religious exercises of the occasion. JOHN PEARSON, JR., Pres., H. CANFIELD, Sec'y. The annual session of the AMERICAN EVANGELICAL ADVENT CONFERENCE will be held on the Hebron Camp-ground, commencing Monday, August 4th, at 9 o'clock D. ELWELL, Pres., S. F. GRADY, Seey. Note.-The annual sermon will be preached by Rev. I. H. Shipman ; alter- nate, Rev. H. P. Cutter. The committee of arrangements for the CAMP-MEETING report the following ORDER OF SERVICES. 5. 45 A. M. Bell for rising. 6 1-4 " Prayer meeting. " Breakfast. " Family worship. " Social service. " Questions answered. 10 30. " Preaching. 12.30 P. M. Dinner. 2.30 " Preaching. Pollowf.d. by Perviees in the oottages. 7. P. M. Revival services. 10. " Retiring. D. ELwELL, Com. of L. OSLER, 1 Arrangements.. COTTAGES OR TENTS. Those desirous of securing cottages or tents for the coming meeting at Hebron, would do well to write to me immediate- ly. A few cottages, not yet engaged, may be secured. Price $18 and $10 for the season. Tents for $5. Address, H. R. KNOWLES, Providence, R. I. APPOINTMENTS. He knew your danger ; and interposed to prevent it. He has hedged up your way with thorns ; but it is to keep you from following lying vanities and forsaking your own mercies. He tries you ; but it is for your profit. He sees what you can bear. And he who loved you, so as to give his own Son for you, will suffer you to want no good thing. PROPER MOTIVES TO DUTY.-The Ser- mon on the Mount demands that all religious duties to be acceptable to God must be per- formed from right principles-genuine love to God, and with absolute sincerity of heart. For example, good works must have not a shadow of ostentation about them, prayers must be uniform and sincere voluntary du- ties,-like fasting, must be performed from only the purest motives; there must be per- fect faith in God and in his providence while laboring for his cause, and we must be sin- cerely conscious that the treasures which we love are in heaven, and our hearts must be set supremely on them and not on earthly treasures; for then only will the mind be undivided, and the conscience become assim- ilated to the absolutely divine. is making a thorough examination of the whole matter, and will shortly publish a list of the priests before and after Christ, and such other facts as may serve to make this record as useful as possible. I would only add that Mr. El Karey has been most laboriously and successfully laboring at Nablous for the last five years, under the auspices of an English Mission- ary Society. Partly Jew, partly Arab by birth, and now by faith a child of Jesus, he seems peculiarly fitted to carry out this interesting investigation in his native place, and his faithfulness and success in his appropriate work assure the Christian world that the highest credence may be given to any statement he may make on this subject. I ought to add that the translation as given above, is from memory, and it may not be in the exact words of the original, although written within an hour after Mr. El Karey gave them to me. A statement certified by the present priest, will soon be given to the world, which can be re- lied upon.- Chas. H Payson in Christ- tian, Weekly. dren converted, who at once went to work for Jesus, and so were the means of do- ing great good, and it has given me pleas- ure, in spite of the unbelief of lookers- on, to find them years after, like these gushing fountains of water, gladdening and refreshing the hearts of all around. " How is it with you, my young friend ? Did you a few months or years ago, for the first time, drink of the water of life, and is your heart still a fountain, from which flow forth words as refreshing and life-giving as water to those dying of thirst ? " This Yo-Semite Fall before me, as I have said, is fed by the springs and snow high up, though out of our sight, in the Sierra Nevadas. And so if you would lead a happy, useful life, you must be of- ten upon your knees, with your open Bible, in the presence of God, and then you will at times seem to get so near to heav- en that with John, you can say, " HE SHOWED ME A PURE RIVER OF WATER OF LIFE, CLEAR AS CRYSTAL, PROCEEDING OUT OF THE THRONE OF GOD AND OF THE LAMB." THE MEN ON THE ICEBERG. Secretary Robeson has sent to the President his report in full of the inves- tigation of the Polaris matter, from which we make the following extracts respect- ing those who were left on the ice. Capt. Buddington having determined to return to the United States started southward in August, 1872. The report says :- The ship made fast to a large floe of ice in latitude 80 degrees 27 minutes north, and longitude about 68 degrees west, and while still fast to this floe drift- ed south through Smith's Sound, nearly to Northumberland Island. In pursu- ance of the usual orders, under similar circumstances, a quantity of provisions and some fuel had been placed on the deck of the steamer in readiness to be removed to the ice should the safety of the ship become endangered, and it was ordered and understood that if a crisis should be imminent, not only those stores, but clothing, papers, records, instruments, guns, ammunition, etc., were also to be put upon the floe, in order to preserve the lives of the party, and the result of the expedition, should it become neces- sary to abandon the ship and take ref- uge on the ice. A canvas had also been lrected upon the floe for shelter, should the ship be lost. On the night of the 15th of October, in about lat. 79 deg. 53 min. north, during a violent gale and snow, the need for such 'reparation became apparent, as the ship was suddenly beset by a tremendous )ressure of ice, which was driven against ter from the southward and forced under ier, pressing her up out of the water. nd by successive and violent shocks fi- .ally throwing her on her beam ends. 'apt. Buddington directed the provis- -ms, stores and materials in readiness as ,efore described, to be thrown overboard m the ice, and ordered half of the crew ipon the ice to carry them upon a thicker ,art to hummocks, where they would be nmparatively safe. He also sent all the Alscelim aux with their kyocks out of thr hip and lowered the two remaining boats ipon the floe. While so engaged in the darkness of in Arctic night, in the midst of a fierce Tale and driving snow storm, the haw- sers of the Polaris failed to hold her, and she broke adrift from the floe, and in a few minutes was out of sight of the party, who were at that time busily at work on the ice. It is the uniform opin- ion of the witnesses, and our unanimous conclusion from the testimony and from the circumstances detailed, that this sep- aration of the ship from the men, wo- men and children upon the ice floe was purely accidental. After losing sight of the ship, some of the men and a large part of the provisions were found to be afloat on a separate piece of ice. The men were rescued by means of boats, which fortunately had been saved on the ice, and the party thus collected on the main floe passed the night as well as they could. The next day they made several attempts to reach the land with the boats, but failed, notwithstanding their most persistent efforts, owing to the obstruction of ice and the violence of the wind. While thus striving to get on shore, but at what particular time of the day is not exactly ascertained, the Po- laris came in sight to the northward, ap- parently coming toward the floe under steam and sail ; an India rubber blanket was hoisted on an oar and displayed from the top of the hummock, the colors were set and other signals were made to attract the attention of the Polaris, and as she approached so near to them, they plainly saw her down to her rail and could distinguish her escape pipe, and she kept on toward them until they supposed her to be not more than four miles .off ; they felt sure she could force her way through the ice to their position, and that in a little while they would be again on board. In this they were disappoint- ed ; the Polaris altered her course and disappeared behind the shore ; some time afterward, as the floe drifted away, she was again seen by some of the men un- der the land with her sails furled and ap- parently at anchor or made fast to the shore or ice Shoi-tly after the Polaris had been sighted the second time, a violent gale from the northeast sprung up, the weather became thick and the land lost sight of ; the ice drifted away to the southward, with these nineteen persons upon it. In view of the circum- stances detailed, it is our unanimous judgment that this final separation from the ship was also accidental. From October 15, 1872, until April 30, 1873, when they were picked up in lati- tude about 59 degrees north, these nine- teen men, women and children remained Albany, N. Y., 110 State St., Sabbath July 6th. Gloversville, N. Y., Sabbath, July 13th. Newton, N. H., (Christian Church), Sabbath, July 20th. Wellfleet, Mass., Sabbath, July 27th. (As communion service will be held, we earnestly invite all our friends to attend). East Haverhill, Mass., Sabbath, Aug. 3d. Wakefield, Mass., Sabbath, Aug. 10th. Brethren wishing my labors after this will please address me soon at Newbury- port, Mass. GEO. W. BURNHAM. --A LETTER addressed to BENJAMIN HIGGINS, and bearing a Canadian post- mark, has come to this office to our care. What shall we do with it ? THE MYSTERY OF CHASTISEMENT. • OR- -• REDUCED FARE. FROM NEW YORK TO PROVIDENCE.- We have made arrangements for half- fare by the Stonington. Line from New York to Providence, R. I.. Friends go- ing from or by way of New York will (sa purchase regular tickets at full fare for Providence, and will receive at Camp- meeting, a certificate from the Secretary, entitling them to return free. The steam- er leaves Pier No. 33 North river at 5 P. M. D. ELWELL. BOSTON AND .PROVIDENCE.- We learn by a note from Elder Osler that "satis- factory" arrangements have also been made for reduced fare over the Boston and Providencerailroad, the particulars of which will be given in due time.-ED. "We glory also in tribulations."-Rom. 5 : 3. Within this leaf, to every eye So little worth, doth hidden lie Most rare and subtle fragrancy. Wouldst thou its secret strength unbind ? Crush it, and thou shalt perfume find Sweet as Arabia's spicy wind. In this dull stone, so poor and bare Of shape or lustre, patient care Will find for thee a jewel rare. But first must skillful hand essay, With file and flint, to clear away The film that hides its fire from day. This leaf ! this stone ! it is thy heart ; It must be crushed by pain and smart, It must be cleansed by sorrow's art- Ere it will yield a fragrance sweet, Ere it will shine a jewel meet To lay before thy dear Lord's feet. The truthfulness of the story of the crucifixion of Jesus Christ hardly needs confirmation ; for the theory that Christ was a mythical personage is no longer accepted by intelligent scholars. But the fact that every new discovery in the Holy Land confirms the Biblical history and none contradict it, is a noteworthy circumstance; and the testimony given below, as it is to the most important fact in the sacred history, so it is the most im- portant confirmation which recent re- searches have brought to the light. It only remains for us to add, that Rev. Charles H. Payson of this city, the writer of this letter, is personally known to us, and we vouch for it that he is neither a man to impose on others, nor one to be easily imposed on himself. SEA OF GALILEE, April 6, 1873. A most interesting, and, if we mistake not, most important item of history was searched out at Nablous, the ancient Sychem, a few days since. It will be re- membered that in this city is found the little remnant of the Samaritans in whose synagogue is the invaluable Sa- maritan copy of the Pentateuch. They claim that it was made by the grandson of Aaron, 3,500 years ago. The anti- quarians deny any such claim ; yet all are ready to acknowledge that it is one of the oldest MSS. in the world. It is of the greater value as collateral evidence, because in the hands of a people that for more thook2,000 years have had no deal- ings with the Jews. It has been the good fortune of Rev. J. El Karey to discover a record kept by the priests of this synagogue, that reaches back hundreds of years before Christ. It contains a record of interest- ing events connected with the synagogue, and was always kept by the leading priest. It occurred to Mr. El Karey, who is a native of Samaria, educated in England, and now missionary-physician there, to search this record. He argued that so great a religious commotion as was oc- casioned by Jesus's visit to Shechem would arouse the anger of the priests, and that he accordingly should find some bitter record in this ancient register. He ascertained that the name of the priest in Christ's time, was Shaffer. On examin- ing the record, he did not find that which he expected, but was rewarded by this statement : "In the 19th year of my priesthood, and the 4,281st year of the world, Jesus of Nazareth, the son of Mary, was crucified at Jerusalem." This was all. But when we remember by whom it was written and when, it seems of the greatest importance. Mr. El Karey DONATIONS. TO THE A. M. ASSOCIATION. Joseph Foss, 3.00 "Persil-beloved in the Lord" 10.00 "0. P. J." (Gen. 28 : 20-22) 2.00 Levi Merkel 2.50 Wm. Emmitt-"to send Herald to the poor." 2.60 • THE INSPIRATION OF SCRIPTURE. After all has been done, the bulk of Holy Scripture remains much as it was before, standing out and beyond any oth- er thing claiming to be of a kindred na- ture, and showing itself to be in its es- sence and bearing, altogether unique and divine. The Koran, the Shaster, the Ve- das, so far as they are not reflections of Scripture, are so limited, unhistorical. and inferior in morality, as to stand at the best on an altogether lower and oth- er platform. And in comparison witl, the spiritual light of other nations, that possessed by the Jews, and that which it. of the essence of Christianity, is-es- pecially when we remember their oth- erwise great inferiority-absolutely ,as different and superior in degree as to amount to a difference in kind, and to be, if not superhuman, yet altogether inex- plicable, save on the supposition of its being a revelation. Standing in the si- lence of the universe, and asking whence we came or whither we are going-who made us, what is our destiny, is there a life beyond ?-we have in the Bible a voice which answers all these questions, sup- plying us with what we need, and leaving us with the impression that the same power which enabled us to ask these ques- tions is that, which in this way has sup- plied the answers.-Bishop of Argyll. . -.R.... • LEARN RESIGNATION. FOURTH OF OP JULY MEETING IN KINGS- TON, N. H. This annual gathering will be held in the Chapel, near my residence, Friday, the Fourth, to continue over the following Sab- bath. Elders Cunningham, Gunner, Has- kell, and W. Burnham are expected to be present to " preach the word." This may be our last " Fourth of July meeting," and we trust it will be the best. Brethren, come to the feast. F. GALE. CENTRE COUNTY CAMPMEETING. Learn resignation under afflictive dis- pensations, either in crossing your schemes, or in reducing your resources. " Because they have no changes, there- fore, they fear not God." It was said of Moab, " Moab bath been at ease from his youth, and he hath settled on his lees, and not been emptied from vessel to ves- sel, neither hath he gone into captivity; therefore his taste remains of him, and his scent is not changed." The prodigal was more favored-a famine drove him home. Manasseh was mercifully ruined -in his affliction he sought the Lord God of his father, and he was found of him. And he gives you the valley of Achor for a door of hope. Do not think hardly of him, under whose discipline you now are. Lord willing, the campmeeting under the auspices of the Centre County Cir- cuit of Messiah's Church, will convene on Wednesday, the 20th of August, to hold their annual services, on the old site near Wallace Run, Centre County, Pa. The place is accessible by railroad from all points on the main line-to Milesburg and thence by Snowshoe Branch (but a short distance). Services will close on the Wednesday morning following. El- ders Osler, Swartz and Elwell are ex- pected to be present on the occasion. Come, brethren, let us Meet in Christian unity and fellowship, hoping and pray- 104 THE ADVENT HERALD, JULY 2, 1873. Zite auxilg Tirrit. the offenders, he consents. "PRAISE WE OUR FATHER." HYMN OF THE MEXICAN CONGREGATIONS. then be free. [The followinghymn, which is sung in Span- Some leap at the proposal and ish, to the music of "John Brown," or the "Bat- tle Hymn of the Republic," is said by a corre- spondent of the Boston Transcript to be effect- ive and much liked by the Mexican Congrega-' tions.] gested the art of printing. The discov- ery of a boy who was amusing himself with two spectacle-glasses, led to the invention of the telescope, that magnifier of God's glory as seen in the planetary heavens. And to the mere falling of an apple are we indebted for the discovery of the law of gravitation, by which the millions of rolling worlds are guided, in part, in their ceaseless course through space.- Our Monthly. I. HE'S BEEN A SOLDIER. God over all omnipotent our Father stoops to be ; The mighty God of heaven and earth from all eternity ; And He who holds within their bounds the bil- lows of the sea, Keeps us with loving care. Chorus :-Glory, glory, hallelujah, etc., Keeps us with loving care. Ile wants no sacrifice of blood, no weary toil or pain ; No gold and silver offerings, no repetitions vain ; The offering of a loving heart whose joy no words explain To Him is dearer far. Our grateful souls we offer then, while we our voices lift To Him who rules the thunder's voice and guides the lightning swift. From us, His children, whom He loves, He asks one only gift, Our gratitude sincere. I V. That He might gain our deepest love, Christ came for us to die : Then, 0 Thou great and powerful One, so infi- nite, so high, Deign to receive and listen to my soul's most earnest cry, Oh ! I implore thee, Lord ! THESE words attracted my attention as, awaiting the arrival of my own train, I watched a third class carriage and its pas- sengers just ready to start for London. The above remark, " He's been a sold- ier by his walk," was in reference to an erect, firm-treading man who had alighted from the train, and had evidently been an object of interest to his fellow passengers. Ay, and lie's been a soldier by the way he carries his pack," said another. Ay, and by his politeness," observed a third. " Did you see how he touched his cap, only because you gentlemen looked at him ? Most of us would have said, What are you staring at ?' " The train started off, the man left the station, and I followed. " Did you hear the remarks of your fellow travelers, my friend ?" He smiled as I repeated them, and said, " Just as it should be, sir, just as it should be ! A soldier in plain clothes should be the same as a soldier in uniform. A true soldier ought to walk so as to be known as such wherever he is." He again gave me a military salute, and we separated. He left me full of serious thoughts, that came to me in the form of the following questions : " Is my walk such as to elicit from all with whom I associate the remark, He is a soldier by his walk ?' " " I have a burden, in the form of a daily cross, to carry. Do I so bear it as to leave no doubt where I learned to car- ry it ? Do I bear it soldier-like ? " As a soldier of the Lord Jesus I have a character to sustain. Do 1 su rtain it, even in the small kindnesses and- courte- to death. Yet so greatly does he love their present position under condemnation have you seen the glorious Saviour with "on dry ground" into heaven itself, your heart, so that the sight has stolen Will they consent ? Will they accept where Jesus is, in virtue of his own blood, your heart away ? "This is the record, this way of escape ? Whoever will, may and in "the power of an endless life." that God hath given to us eternal life ; Christianity is not, then, a preparation and this life is in His Son. He that hath go free for death and judgment, as is commonly the Son hath life ; and he that bath not at once. They trust their kind Substi- thought, but a life ("eternal life in Christ the Son of God hath not life" (1 John 5 : tute, and are saved. Jesus") beyond death and judgment. 11, 12). Some hesitate ; and, wonderful to say, "Verily , verily, I say unto you, he that I charge you, then, in the presence of some are quite indifferent or refuse, and heareth my word, and believeth on him that loving God who gave his Son to take go to their doom in outer darkness. that sent me, hath everlasting life, and your nature, and suffer for sins, the just Of those who accept the pardon, it is shall not come into judgment, but is for the unjust, and who presses him upon proclaimed in court, "Who shall lay any- passed from death unto life." (John 5. your immediate acceptance, not to put thing to their charge ?" There is none 24.) away from you the precious gift, but re- to accuse (Rom. 8 : 31-39). This then, dear friend, which I have ceive him now and live ; for, be sure of Again-there is .no condemnation for now told you about a dying, rising, living, this, that if you perish it will not be be- them. It is God that justifieth. There accepted, glorified Christ, contains the cause no Saviour was provided for you, or is none to judge. very essence of the gospel-the good because you were not made aware of the Again - who alsall separate them ? news of God ; and by knowing it and be- fact, but because you refuse to accept of There is no officer to carry them away. lieving it, you have salvation and can say, Christ as yours that you might be SAVED : Their security is complete, and their sal- -I have been already condemned for my and oh, what a damnation must be yours vation everlasting. sins, and have died ; and now I live for- were you stumbling over a GOD-GIVEN Thanks -eternal thanks-be unto God ever, for I believe in that Christ who was Christ into "THE LAKE OF FIRE ! " for his unspeakable gift ! dead under the wrath of God for me, and Amazing words !-He "gave himself for me.," The Judge, who could only in justice God assures me I am now as free from my For me-rebellious. sinful, guilty me. For me the Saviour bore the cross and shame, condemn, has descended from the judg- sins as the risen Christ at God's right Rejoice, my soul, and bless his sacred name. ment-seat, and once paid the awful penalty hand ; and on that account I can sing For me he left his glorious throne above, For me revealed his Father's wondrous love, due to me for my sins ; and that once from the heart ; - For me he tabernacled here below, For me he drank the bitter cup of woe. paying ansi-ers for my sins forever ; and "I bless the Christ of God ; I rest on love Divine ; For me the stroke of justice he endured, now, believing what he has done for me, And with unfaltering lip and heart, For me a pardon full he has procured, I am set at liberty ! I call this Saviour mine. For me the Saviour meekly bowed his head, me his precious blood he freely shed. 5. Christ was "quickened by the I now, therefore, bring you tidings of a For me he was reviled, despised, betrayed, Spirit." This was God's deliverance of risen Christ, whom the gospel places be- For me was scourged, condemned, and crucified, For me he suffered on the accursed tree, the sin-bearer after he had suffered for fore you in all his majesty, grace, and full- For me,-lost, wretched, vile, unworthy me. sins. If Christ, who came to suffer for ness, and assures you in God's name, that For me in agony he groaned and died, For me God's righteous law he satisfied, sins, had been quickened by the Spirit, he is given to you personally by the gos- For me complete atonement he has made, and raised from the dead by God, he pel, that you may believe on him and be For me he rose triumphant from the dead. v. 0 Thou, my blest Redeemer, dear Master of my he art, Thou whom alone my soul adores, Thy grace to me impart ; My faith's bright, shining beacon, and my star of hope thou art ; Hear and receive my prayer ! For me he hath ascended up on high, For me he intercedes above the sky, For me he conquered death, and hell o'erthrew, For me a crown of life he holds to view. For me a mansion fair he has prepared, Wh, re I shall be forever with my Lord, In that bright world my ceaseless song shall be, Hosanna to the Lamb who died for me. -British Evangelist. THE JUST FOR THE UNJUST ; OR, HOW TO BE SAVED. (CONCLUDED.) 4 -.NO MO- • THE FURNACE FOR GOLD. -4 .4114, POISONED BY TOBACCO. The ore lay in the goldsmith's shop, rude and unrefined. How the costly vessels, pure and polished, glittered be- fore it ! " Ah ! that I were such as you !" cried ' the ore. " I am gold, even as you are; but where is my beauty ? where is my glory 9 ? f " Wait awhile," said the shining ves- sels, " your time will come. But if you isles of life, so as to make the remark of would really be as we are- a lot to which me true, He must also be a soldier by you may be destined-remember not to i the way he behaves toward all-taking flinch from the process that awaits you." affront at nothing, but supposing the best So the ore was cast into the furnace, of our actions ?' "-Tract Magazine. and it mourned and bewailed the fierce- ness of the flame. " You were not satisfied when buried in natural dross ; you are not satisfied now, while being forced to part from it," said the shining vessels. " But when you come forth from that furnace without blem- ish, ready to be wrought into a king's crown, and take your place by us, ysu will forget the flame that scorched and purified you, and love the refiner who loved you too well to keep you in the furnace one moment less than was necessary." life, than to wed a woman who works in a THE VOICE OF THE CHURCH on the Coming and Kingdom of the Redeemer; or, a History of the collar shop, factory, or who spends the Doctrine of the Reign of Christ on Earth. By D. T. Taylor. Price $1.00, including postage. A. very most of her time school-teaching, for the valuable work of 418 pages, embodying as it does a large amount of historical evidence on a subject in simple reason that they invariably make which Christians should always be interested. poor housekeepers. The best dowry that HISTORY OF THE CROSS: the Pagan origin a mother can give her daughter is a thor- and idolatrous adoption and worship of the image. By Henry Dana Ward, M. A. A curious and ough knowledge of the art of housekeep- learned essay, illustrated by cuts of medals, coins, &c. It defends the simplicity of the faith, hope ing. This is very essential, for when she and worship of the gospel, and exposes a long- assumes existing and wide-spread evil. Price, including the functions of a wife and postage, $1.00. housekeeper, it is well for her if she knows EXPOSITORY THOUGHTS ON THE GOS- how to cook, so as to know what a good RPEyiS Le, B; .foAr.F:_ amily and Private use. By Rev. J. C. table is. ' Those who are entirely depend- " II. Mark. Vol. I. Matthew. ent upon hired help make a sorry sight at " III. and IV. Luke. " V. and VI. John, to chap. 12, inclusive. housekeeping. It was a young husband A Millenarian work, thoroughly evangelical; criti- cal, yet plain and practical. $1.50 per volume. who said after he got married, " I had rather that my wife had the three hun- MESSIAH'S THRONE AND MILLENNIAL GLORY. By Josiah Litch. Price 85 cents, posts dred dollars in her, than with her." This age included. The important subjects of the King- dom of God, the Resurrection of the Dead, the ba- you must remember was her marriage per- heritance of the Saints, the Restoration of Israel. and the Signs of the Times, are here discussed with tion, and this sometimes is very good, but candor and ability. the art of housekeeping is still better. THE NIGHT OF WEEPING ,• or Words for Young ladies, we hope you will profit the Suffering Family of God. By Rev. H. Bonar of Scotland. Price 50 cents. Postage 8. Sweet words by this timely advice, and learn all you of comfort they are, and should fall on the ear and heart of every way-worn child of God. can about housekeeping. Love in a cot- THE MORNING OF JOY; being a Sequel to the tage is played out. Life is real. The Night of Weeping. By the Rev. H. Bonar, D. D. moral is yours, young ladies.-Boston Cul- Price 60 cents, postage 8 cents. tivator. 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The articles are printed on two pages of tinted paper, and surrounded by a neat border,-making excellent leaflets for letters. A mixed package of one hundred for forty cents, post-paid. An old schoolmaster said one day to a clergyman who came to examine his school,- " I believe the children know the Cat- echism, word for word." "But do they understand it ?-that is the question," said the clergyman. The schoolmaster only bowed respect- fully, and the examination began. A little boy repeated the fifth com- mandment : " Honor thy father and thy mother," and he was desired to explain it. Instead of trying to do so, the little boy, with his face covered with 'blushes, said almost in a whisper,-"Yesterday I showed some strange gentlemen over the mountain. The sharp stones cut my feet, and the gentlemen saw they 'were bleeding, and-they gave inc some money to buy me shoes. I gave it to my moth- er, for she had no shoes 'either, and I thought I could go barefoot better than she could." In 1853 David Brewster was in Paris, and was taken to see the astronomer Ara- go, who was then in deep suffering and was soon to die. He thus describes the interview ; We conversed upon the marvels of cre- ation, and the name of God was intro- duced. This led Arago to complain of the difficulties which his reason experi- enced in understanding God. " But," said I, it is still more difficult not to comprehend God." He did not deny it. Only," added he, in this case I ab- stain, for it is impossible for me to under- stand the God of you philosdphers." It is not with them that we are deal- ing," replied I, although I believe that true philosophy necessarily conducts us to belief in God ; it is. of the God of the Christian that I wish to speak." " Ah !" he exclaimed, " he was the God of my mother, before whom she al-' ways experienced so much comfort in kneeling."' " Doubtless," I answered. He said no more ; his heart had spoken ; this he had understood. 4 4.- • LACK OF KNOWLEDGE OF HOUSE- KEEPING. (that is, God) must be satisfied in every saved this very moment. particular with his redemption-work ; for He that believes is looked upon by it was as "the God of peace," or a God God as he looks on Christ ; and when an fully propitiated, that he raised him anxious one sees that it is so, what a flood from the dead ; and to every or.e who is of light enters the soul ! "Suddenly," anxious to be saved, God presents Jestis says one such, "the light flashed upon my in his risen life as "His Christ,". who mind that God is pleased only with Jesus, has borne sin, or fully atoned for it-has and with sinners in Jesus. That moment been in the grave as One who has been taught me more of the plan of salvation killed by it, but God raised him, and he than I had learned in thirty years. I is now the living One at the Father's then began to sing, but I sang notes that right hand-possessed o€ all the bless- no man ever composed, and words no man ings which a hell-deserving sinner needs. ever wrote, and the burden of it all was- How important, then, it is to have the "Glory to Jesus my Saviour ! resurrection of Christ, who "once suffered Glory to Jesus my*Saviour !" for sins," seeing that it is the fundamen- In the gospel message God puts his tal fact on which our acquittal before G6d Christ into every man's hand who hears rests ; for "if Christ be not raised, your it, and you have to thrust him away from faith is vain ; ye are yet in your sins." you before you can now succeed in being "But now is Christ risen from the dead," damned ! You cannot really hear the and believing in Him, we are not in our gospel and not be saved ; for God says sins. The gospel, as preached by Paul, "Hear, and your soul shallliVe." Christ contains four capital elements. 1. Christ is yours already in the gift of God (John died for our sins according to the Scrip- 3 : 16), whether you receive hith or not, tures. 2. He was buried. 3. He rose for God in his compassionate love so gave again the third day. 4. He was seen (1 him to the world as a Saviour, that any Cor. 15 : 3-5). And now by faith we see one in all the world may receive him and Jesus crowned with glory and honor in be saved ; for surely the unlimited na- the highest heavens. ture of the gift is indicated by the words "Jesus I know has died and lives ; of Jesus himself--who only knows the On this firm rock I build." Father-when he assures us that he has GOD - whose righteous judgment been so generally given to all, that "who- against sin was borne by Christ in death- soever believeth in him should not perish, hath raised CHRIST from the dead ; and but have everlasting life." Your believ- the importance of showing you that it is a ing in him will give you the blessed reali- Christ who has been raised from the zation of him as yours in your personal dead, on whom we ask you to believe, can experience ; but if he were not yours in be made very obvious. Look at this God's gift before believing, he could not point for a little, and think it over in view be made yours in possession by believing. of this supposed case. God does not give you a dry offer of sal- Were you about to be cast into prison vation. lie presents you in all your sin- for a heavy debt, and if a dear friend of fulness with the precious gift of his Son. yours came and said-I will go out to "We have seen, and do testify, that the Australia and try to amass a fortune, and Father sent the Son to be the Saviour of if I succeed I will come back and pay the World." (1 John 4 : 14.) every farthing of your debt ; that would A DRUNKARD had somewhere heard be acting kindly towards you, but it would this fine sentiment, "God's love is like the not answer your present necessity. But sun." He was sitting in his own misera- if a friend with whom you were wont to ble dwelling, when a ray of the sun's be at school heard him speaking in that light entered through his window and fell strain, and said-I have just returned upon his persqn ; he repeated the thought, from that distant land, having made a "God's love is like the sun ; a ray of the fortune ; here is a cheque for the full sun falls on me, why not a ray of God's amount, take it to my banker, and you loYe ?" He retired to rest full of the will get the money ; that friend in need same thoughts ; in the morning the sun we uld be the truly valuable friend. was up before him, filling his room with Such a friend is a risen Christ; its splendor. He arose, started to his who has gone into heaven, for he has in feet, and basked in its morning beams, himself relief for your every necessity. and then repeated the thought, "God's He has acquired the "unsearchable rich- love is like the sun, the sun is all over es" for you, so that believing on him at me ; if God's love is like the sun, his love God's right, hand, gives you the benefit cf is all over a poor drunkard." all he acquires by his God-glorifying It is this kind of love that melts our death, and the same standing in right- hearts and brings them back to God. We eousness in the presence of God in heav- who believe unto ' salvation, can account en, and the same "newness of life" which for it only in the way mentioned ty the he now has after having gone through apostle : -"God, who isric ( in mercy, the doom of sin at the hand of God : for his great love wherewith he loved us which is death ! For. the wages of sin is even when we were dead in sins, hath death ; but the gift of ,God is eternal quickened us together with Christ (by life in Jesus Christ, who is risen from the grace ye are saved)." dead, having paid. the uttermost farthing The most harrowing representations of that the sinner owed who cleaves to him., "wrath to the uttermost" will never re- He is the life-boat at the edge of the claim us ; the most pungent. c(: nvictions wreck ; he is bread brought into the of our sinfulness will nevcr lead us to the house of the starving family ; he is the enjoyment and service of God ; but reprieve brought into the cell of the crim- when the eyes of our hearts are divinely inal ; he is life brought into the very opened to see Christ once suffering for place of death ; salvation come to sup- s'ns, the just for the unjust., that he plant damnation ; heaven brought into might bring us to God to be forgiven, pu- the very vestibule of hell. rifled, and glorified, we cannot resist the "Christ vlso bath once suffered for drawing influence of celestial love, and sins," died, rose, and ascended-"to we consecrate ourselves to the service of bring us to God."' Not within' a short our Father in heaven. • distance of God, but to God where he is, One of Brainerd's Indians furnishes a in the light of his perfect love and lerfect beautiful illustrasion of this. He conic to holiness. him one day in great joy, and gave the As the- Red Sea was opened mirac a- following account of his conversion : - "I lously from the side furthest from the land often heard you say, that in order to come of bondage, and the waters stood as walls we must feel ourselves utterly helpless on either side all the way through the sea, and undone. I long strove after this, befbre the Israelites were called on to thinking it would be a good fr:,me of mind, march through it; just so was the veil of and that, in return for it, God would be- the temple "rent in twain from the top to stow on me salvation. But the longer I the bottom" (as by a hand from heaven) strove the more wretched I became. At when Jesus died, in token of the opening length I heard you setting forth the glory Up, by his death, of a passage for lost sin- of Christ, and inviting sinners to come to ners from the throne of God in heaven to him naked and empty. That night I saw the very place of condemnation where with my heart the glorious Saviour, and 1 It ux Aook-ffilitivo. PROVIDENCE. BOOKS. FOR SALE AT THIS OFFICE. "For Christ also hath once suffered for sins, the just for the unjust, that he might bring us to God, being put to death in the flesh, but quick- ened by the Spirit."-1 PETER 3 : 18. 4. Christ also bath once suffered for sins. This indicates the completeness of Christ's sufferings for sins. He once suf- fered, but he will never suffer any more, because his work was perfectly done. lie became " obedient unto death," he was "put to death in the flesh," the nature in which sin, deserving of death, had been committed ; but he was "quickened by the Spirit," raised from the dead, and re- ceived up into heaven to sit on the right hand of God. He "dieth no more ;" for lie "after he. had offered one sacrifice for sins, for 'ever sat down at the right hand of God." The onceness (if I may coin a word) of the sacrifice of Christ indicates its completeness, perfection, and perpetu- ity ; "Now once in the end of the world bath lie appeared to put away sin 1-,y the sacrifice of himself." A man was brought before the magis- trate, charged with some breach of the law.- Once the magistrate had been an associate of the crimin41 before him, but now he was a true Christian. Grace had delivered him from his former sins and companionship. But it was not so with the other. Many present in court, knowing the old intimacy between the culprit and the judge, expected a lenient sentence, or perhaps his being dismiSsed with a repri- mand. But many a hard judgment was hastily passed on the worthy judge, as he severely condemned the crime, and passed the severest sentence the law would permit. It was a heavy fine, with alternative of imprisonment. The man was poor ; sin had kept him so. To pay the fine was for .him impossi- ble, and his only prospect was the jail. Upon this the judge, whose one object now was to show how God had pardoned him,. and to preach the gospel to all as- sembled; came down from the bench, took out his purse, and---paid the fine at once and in full. The man was astonished, but he was free. The officers of justice, who before were against him-who were to deliver him to his doom-were in an instant for him-to protect and free him. The law's heaviest demand was met, the penalty borne by the judge on behalf of the offender. Exactly such is the death of Jesus, to the soul that believes in him. The court Of justice is held. The Judge is there, whose holiness, is unap- proachable. His righteous condemnation of every offence must be carried out. His justice in condemning the guilty must have its way. And yet he loves the criminals. He desires to spare them. But justice stops the way to mercy. The trial is over. It is short work in this court. One offence makes men guilty. No need to investigate the extent or num- ber of the, crimes. The unuttered sinful thought, once harbored- for an instant, constitutes each one • a sinner. None plead "not guilty" here. They dare not in the presence of the Holy One. No es- cape on that ground is possible. The Judge pauses as case after case pours in, and each aad all are at once proved guilty. He hesitates to utter the dread- ful words, "Bind him hand and foot, and take hint away, and cast him into outer (lankness." Is there none to. bear the stroke of justice -in their stead ? The Jud:,e's Son comes forward, in character holy and righteous, and yet loving and pitiful. "Lo, I come," he cries, ",to bear their sins. Let their punishment fall on Me." Justice is satisfied with • this. The Judge accepts him as the substitute, , thonji it cost him dear to deliver his Son they stand, so that they. may pass from it stole my heart away." Pear friend, Terms of the Advent Herald, PUBLISHED WEEKLY BY THE AMERICAN MILLENNIAL ASSOCIATION For 1 year, in advance 160 512 00000000 6 months 6 copies to one address, 6 months 12 " 4, Any one sending us at one time $8.00 for four new subscribers, shall have their own paper gratis if they desire it. - Ministers who are interested in the welfare of the Association, and in the doctrines we promul- gate, can have the paper at $1.00 per annum. 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