WHOLE NO. 986. 
BOSTON, SATURDAY, APRIL 14, 1860. 
VOLUME XXI. NO. 15. 
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Publication. 
Rollin represents Hannibal as saying to his sol-
diers on the eve of one of his great battles—" It is 
not words that we want, but action." His soldiers 
acted, and as the result above seventy thousand Ro- 
mans fell on the battle-field. �
I have some where 
read of Demosthenes that when asked, What is the 
first part of an orator ? he replied, Action ;—What 
the second? Action ;—.and what the third?—Ac- 
tion ;—so we may say the first, second, and third 
part of a Christian is, Action. 
Up ! warriors, up ! the night is dark, 
The contest fiercer grows ; 
Press onward, upward to the mark, 
And fearless face your foes. 
Sleep not upon the enchanted ground, 
But bravely play the man 
If you would at the last be found 
As soldiers in the van. 
Trust not in native strength, and vaunt 
To sing the victor's song : 
It is not words, but deeds we want 
To show where we belong. 
White devils now surround our path 
As messengers of light, 
But they are full of hate and wrath 
To Christians,truth and right. 
The devil knows his time is short 
And dreads the final hour, 
And therefore, as a last resort, 
Has sought religious power. 
In olden time he used the sword, 
The fagot and the flame, 
To kill the servants of the Lord, 
And extirpate their name. 
But now he thinks that men may have 
A name to live while dead, 
If they will not in Christ believe 
And own Him as their Head: 
They may have form without the power,—
Religion as a cloak— 
Serve Christ in word, but every hour 
Wear Satan's galling yoke. 
A state of things like this proclaims 
The warfare soon will end, 
And robed in glorious majesty 
Our Savior will descend. 
Then, soldiers up ! the night is dark, 
The contest fiercer grows ; 
Press onward—upward to the mark, 
And bravely face your foes. 
J. M. ORROCK. 
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THE ALARM. 
Let us look at another chapter, revelation.—
Creation is full of inscrutable wonders ; provi-
dence in its every chapter is replete with impen- 
etrable mysteries. Are there no difficulties in 
revelation ? What is election ? what is God's 
sovereignty ? what is the incarnation ? what is 
the resurrection ? what is free will ? what is 
grace? what is regeneration of heart? Words 
that express glimpses of great truths, dimly un- 
derstood. �
If you ask me, Has God fixed the 
current of every individual's life ? I say, Yes. 
Do you ask, then are we Mahometan fatalists? 
thirty or forty feet down all is calm and un-
troubled. Come storm, come tempest, come con-
vulsion, come war, come pestilence, come plague, 
the Lord reigneth ; he sitteth above the floods; 
he holds the reins. Not an atom can fall, not an 
injury can occur, not a convulsion take place, 
which he does not permit; and though we can-
not see the why of the present troubled state, be 
still, be patient : at evening time it shall be 
No; your duty is to act as if all depended upon light. 
that act ;and yet Christians are chosen Christians �
This leads to the last clause—the prediction 
before they were born. Do we comprehend that? of what shall be the issue of all : at evening time 
can we explain it ? No. Is it true, " No man it shall be light. What does this prediction teach 
can come unto me unless the Father draw him "? I us? That there is light, though at present we 
There is God's sovereignty : is it equally true, cannot see that light. In other words, the world 
" Him that cometh unto me I will in nowise cast is not chaos, though it often seems to us to be so; 
out ?" Both are equally true. Can you recon- and the instant that the light settles upon what 
cile God's sovereignty with my free will ? I an- is taking place, we shall see that it was not chaos, 
sorer, No, I cannot, and it is of no use attempt- nor confusion, but " all things working together 
ing it. Again, we speak of the Trinity. The for good to them that love God, and are called 
Father is God, the Son is God, and the Holy according to his purpose." There has not been 
Ghost is God; and yet there is but one God.— an accident on earth from the days of Adam and 
Do you ask me to explain how there can be three Eve in Paradise ; and what seem to us accidents 
and yet one? I cannot; and the more I look at are, as they will be seen to have been at the even-
it the less Icomprehend it. But, does that prove ing time's light, the emissaries and the mission-
that the Bible is wrong ? It only shows that it aries of God. In the second place, this idea, 
is in harmony with all God's other provinces. �
" at evening time it shall be light," teaches us, if 
Creation is full of impenetrable mysteries ; we apply it to individual life, that it is but a day. 
providence is full of impenetrable mysteries ; and The longest life has its morning,its noon, and its 
God's book is full of impenetrable mysteries too. night. As long as we are under forty years of' 
And therefore it is no evidence that the Bible is age, time feels rather heavy. �
The schoolboy 
not true because it has perplexities; it is only thinks the holidays will never come; but when 
true that, like creation and providence, it has i he comes to be a youth, he finds that the wheel 
depths that we can never sound, and heights that revolves a little faster ; still he thinks it will be 
we can never climb. �
a long time before he is settled in the meridian of 
Take the events that sweep past us. If any- manhood. But when he has reached forty-five 
body will be at the trouble to go over the history he has reached the top of the hill ; he then be-
of the last six, or the last ten years, probably the gins to descend, and he soon discovers how rap-
most startling epoch since the beginning of the id the descent is, till at last, as we look upon 
Christian era, he will find far more than he can month succeeding month, and Christmas follow-
comprehend. War breaks out here, peace sud- ing Christmas, we exclaim, " Who could have 
denly closes its wound there ; nations seem as if thought this is 1859 ?" Our life is but a dream, 
struck by an electric shock, to become instantly a tale that is told, a fugitive shadow; the grass 
convulsed ; and then as if some mighty power that flourisheth and fadeth, or is cut down at 
laid the influence, they become again composed noon. 
and quiet. The tempest broods in the East, war- �
But there is ah evening time, when it shall be 
clouds gather in the West ; till one leading daily light. Be patient. What God does, you know 
reflector of public opinion says, only forty-eight not now, but hereafter, at evening time, you shall 
hours ago, that all Europe is now gazing at the know. Then do not murmur and repine, for there 
black electric cloud in the skies charged with ele- will be an adjustment of all that is wrong, and the 
ments of destruction and ready to burst and over- explanation of all that is difficult. Rest in the 
whelm the earth. �
Who can explain these Lord, wait patiently for him ; fret not because of 
things ? �
evil doers ; all things are just as they should be. 
Go back some seven or eight years ago, and Our conceptions are often in the wrong ; God's 
you hear nothing but prophecies of peace. �
In works and ways are always in the right. 
1851, when that fairy vision, that beautiful crea- �
" At evening time it shall be light" teaches us 
tion, the Crystal Palace, burst like a gleam of another lesson, namely, the unexpectedness of 
heaven's sunshine upon the earth for a little, ev- God's solution of difficulties, and our extrication 
ery one was congratulating his neighbor. Arm- out of troubles. When the evening comes, we 
ies might be disbanded ; navies might be burnt ; expect the sun, to use the common language, to 
nothing was to reign but peace; nothing to be re- descend more and more, till we see but the mere 
ciprocated but love and brotherhood. Oh, what rim of his disc above the western horizon, and at 
miserable prophets we were ! �
How truly have last he disappears. �
Then what do we expect? 
facts contradicted the predictions ! At this mo- You expect the cool and enveloping, but dark 
ment, look abroad on Europe. Let a reflecting shadow of night to settle on the earth. But in-
mind that can look below the surface, study it at stead, to your surprise, at evening time the or-
this moment. God only knows into what temp- der of nature seems reversed, and there breaks 
ests it may soon burst, into what quiet bays its forth light. 
troubled waters and its restless surf may ultimate- �
Now, such is the exact expression of what our 
ly settle ; the only thing we know,is that after all, i experience often is. �
A knock comes to your 
it is but the surface that is troubled ; just as in door ; you think it is the hand of poverty : at 
the ocean the heaviest storm that beats upon it, , evening time ft is light—it is the hand of one that 
tells you of a fortune. The postman brings you 
a letter; your expectation is that it will be sor- 
rowful and sad tidings from the gloomy East—it 
brings news that your son is promoted, that vic-
tory is in the van of your country's armies. A 
night of weeping overtakes you, and that night 
of weeping breaks in a morn of joy. You look 
up into the sky under the shadow of a great cal-
amity ; all is cold and dreary within, all is black 
and ominous without ; not a star in your sky, 
nor a taper in your home, nor warmth on your 
hearth ; you look still, and the great black cloud 
that was threatening to burst upon you, in the 
cold show of which you pined and were sorrow-
ful, begins to turn out its lining of purple and of 
beauty and of glory ; and if one sun has left you 
—the sun that shines from the meridian of day 
—ten thousand suns take his place, as stars in 
the sky, 
" Ever singing, as they shine, 
The hand that made us is divine ;" 
and you learn hew sinful it is to forebode and 
distrust ; how truly the prophet spoke when he 
said, " At evening time it shall be light." This 
is true in the case of each and of all, and in the 
experience of all. You have lost, perhaps, what 
was dear and precious to you. God in his prov-
idence has taken from you your wealth, property, 
your estates ; much that made life sunny and the 
heart happy. Your present construction of it is 
" All this is unmingled calamity." You see the 
cloud only, the dark and shaded day. If you live 
long enough, you will see there was no chance, 
but an errand not only of wisdom, but of mercy 
and love. Many a soul in heaven will bless God 
through eternal ages that he was confined for 
years to a sick-bed, or was deprived of the prop-
erty he made his god ; for the loss dimmed the 
sheen of terrestrial things, made heaven seem 
nearer and earth appear more worthless, and 
weaned the heart from a world it was clinging to 
too closely. �
The key-note of many a joyous 
anthem in heaven will be, " It was good for me 
that I was thus afflicted." 
Or perhaps you have lost your nearest, dear-
est, and best beloved. You sit down under the 
cold shadow of this great calamity, and you see 
no light ; you walk, or rather you sit in darkness ; 
you ponder, you seek direction from God, you 
look up to him for light, and you find at the eve-
ning time of life's saddest and most sorrowful day 
there breaks forth light ; you discover you have 
got a new grave in which you have an interest on 
earth, but over it a new mansion, in which you 
have an interest in heaven. You have lost one 
tie that knit you to this world, and you have 
gained mother that lifts and attracts you to 
heaven.' 
 
Often in our individual, spiritual, and Chris.. 
tian experience, we find the same thing, especial-
ly in the evening of life. Youth is the morning, 
manhood is the noon and the meridian, old age 
is the evening of life. The shadow becomes 
heavier ; a thousand things begin to show, wheth-
er we like to look at it or not, that man is going 
to his long home. What a happy thing if; as 
the heart begins to stand still, it ponders more 
deeply upon better and brighter things ! if the 
grey hair be the light of the better land ! When 
you take a retrospect at that evening time of the 
past, do you often discover that your bitterest 
cup was your best ; that your heaviest sorrow 
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was God's greatest mercy; that your protracted and love, and we the happy possessors of it for 
illness was wholesome medicine ; that your disap- ever and ever. 
pointments, aches, and cross winds, the obstruc- �
From the Great Tribulation, by Dr. Cumming. 
tions, the rugged road, and all the difficulties you 
met in your long journey, were all as wise as �Opposites in Religion. 
they were well ; and your evening is so light, be- 
cause God never forsook you in your morning, �
" Not forsaking the assembling of yourselves 
or left you to yourself in meridian day ? And together, as the manner of some is, but exhort-
when we come to that hour that comes to all, ing one another and so much the more, as ye see 
when the body shall go the way of all the earth, the day approaching."—Paul. 
and the spirit shall go the way of all souls, to be �
,, I believe I'll stay at home to-day, as it is 
able then in a light that we see for the first time, rainy and I don't like,to go and spend my time 
the evening light, to look back upon the whole listening to Bro. W., for he can't preach much 
of life, and to discover in the variegated web of anyhow."---Fair Weather Laziness. 
life, not one thread in its warp or woof is out of �
" Pray without ceasing, and in every thing 
place ; that there was not one tear that was not give thanks, for this is the will of God in Christ 
expedient; that there was not oae pang that was Jesus, concerning you."---Paul. 
not of God and from God, Oh, what a blessed 
I can't find time to pray, and then I have so 
and beautiful evening light will that be, when many things to attend to, and my mind is so ta- 
one can say with Paul, "I am now ready to de- ken up with the business of the day, that 1 am 
part; I have fought a good fight, I have finished not prepared to pray.— Worldly-mindedness. 
my course ; henceforth there is laid up for me a 
" See that none render evil for evil unto any 
crown of righteousness; which the Lord, the man, but ever follow that which is good, both 
righteous Judge, will give me at that day !" 
among yourselves and toward all men."---Paul. 
And when the evening light of this world shall 
My neighbor has done me so much evil and 
come—for I believe that as this dispensation has acted so badly that I will not stand it any 
draws to its close, the light that shines upon it onger ; I'll make him know that I have rights as 
will be its brightest—when we shall see the last other men and I'll make him respect them.---Re-
chapter of its history, and read it in that soft and venge. 
holy evening light, we shall then find that, after �
" Repent and be baptized every one of' you in 
all, right was might, and truth was victory ; we the name of Jesus Christ for the remission of your 
shall see no more through a glass darkly, but face sins, and you shall receive the gift of the holy 
to face. Then creation shall be lifted out of its Spirit."---Peter. 
shadow: and we shall understand its mysteries ; �
I do not see what good baptism will do ; the 
inexplicable events will be made plain ; sore trib- Spirit of God does its work upon the sinner's 
ulations will be explained ; our disappointments heart, outward forms and ceremonies are not of 
will be set in their true light ; we shall see that any use.-- Skepticism 
God was always in the right, that our suspicions �
" Strive to enter in at the strait gate." --- 
and murmurings were always in the wrong. Then Christ. 
mistakes will be rectified: we shall miss many a �
All will be made holy and happy, and there is 
loud professor in that blessed light of whom we no use in striving, as there is no danger.---Pre-
were sure that he was going to heaven, and tak- sumption. 
ing many with him ; and we shall find many a �
" Contend earnestly for the faith, once deliver- 
happy possessor there, who said little but did ed to the saints."---Jude. 
much ; who also bent the knee in prayer, but as �
Don't preach doctrinal sermons, or you will 
often moved the foot in duty and in obedience to offend some people.---Faintheartedness. 
God's word. We shall there, too, discover that �
" Withdraw from every brother that walks 
many, who thought themselves antagonists, were disorderly, and have no fellowship with the un-
working in the same harvest-field, and binding fruitful works of darkness, but rather reprove 
up the same sheaf for the Lord of the harvest ; them."---Paul. 
and that blows that we thought struck for a par- �
If we withdraw from Bro. B. he will do us all 
ty were overruled by God for the good of all man- the injury he can, and I think we had better let 
kind. Then we shall see that the worst was well; him alone.--- Trimmer. 
we shall see why he gave, and why he took away ; �
"Seek first the kingdom of God and his righte- 
why that generous man was poor, and could not ousness."---Christ. 
give ; and why that selfish man was rich, and �
As soon as you get settled in life it will be 
would not give ; why the worthless were spared, easy for you to serve God, but you cannot well 
and the brightest and best were taken. We do it before.---Satan. 
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shall see that under the splendid prosperity we �
" They that preach the gospel should live of 
envied, there were abysses we did not know ; and the gospel."---Paul. 
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that the sorest trials we deprecated were the �
I think that they should preach for nothing, 
seals of affection, the tokens of love ; and that or at least should follow some other business for 
the heavy storms, and the hard rough road, and their living.---Covetousness. 
all the ills and aches we encountered, were sent 
of God to quicken our journey home. 
Day by Day. 
Let us learn humility and submission. �
Our 
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ignorance fails to comprehend, our impatience �
" The inward man," says the apostle, " is re- 
frets because we cannot do so. 'We wrangle with newed day by day." It is the province of God 
Providence ; we dispute about our difficulties ; to renew the inward man---to invigorate its graces 
we think the ways of God are wrong. It is our ig- ---to breathe strength into it for every conflict. 
norance that is dense; it is our impatience that This work is not performed once for all,---it is an 
is fretful ; it is our ways that are crooked.— oft repeated work. God does it day by day. 
Trust where you cannot comprehend ; lean on an That is the rule. So, also, the prophet teaches : 
Omnipotence that you cannot now grasp. Cease " The Lord God wakeneth morning by morning, 
to charge God foolishly. God is ever right, even He wakeneth my ear to hear" His voice. If we 
when He is inscrutable. �
Never forget God is would be strong in the power of his might, there- 
love to-day ; he will be to us love to-morrow ; and fore, we must seek daily invigoration. We do 
when we shall see the love that God is to-day in not receive this gift one day, for the next. We 
the light of that blessed evening of to-morrow, receive it every day, for that day. Oh, do we 
our greatest grief will be that we ever murmur- live under a sense of our constant dependence 
ed and complained ; and our greatest thankful- upon fresh supplies of grace ? 
ness that we could say over the grave that re- �
Daily invigoration, if needed, is effectual as 
ceived our dead, " The Lord gave, and the Lord well. It cannot fail those by whom it is sought. 
hath taken away; blessed be the name of the "The inward man ;s renewed day by day," says 
Lord :" after the hurricane that swept our homes the apostle, " though our outward man perish." 
what the Patriarch could also say, " Shall we re- No combination of unhappy influences can pre-
ceive good from the Lord, and not evil ?" And vent the grace of the day from being adequate 
then we shall see the whole of creation, the whole to the necessities of the day. Receiving and im-
of providence, the whole of individual life, the proving these supplies of heavenly strength, be-
whole of Christian life, the whole of revelation, lievers are " like the children of Israel in Egypt 
no longer a mystery, no longer light and shadow, —the more they were afflicted, the more they 
but a brilliant transparency, where all is light grew." They are " like the palm tree—the more 
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" Except ye be converted and become as little 
children, ye cannot enter the kingdom of heav-
en." 
So said the Savior. The necessity of humil-
ity seems mainly to be what our Lord here meant 
to inculcate. But there is another thought of 
great importance connected with it, namely, trust 
and confidence. Answer the question of your 
little child and it is a fixed fact with him, wheth-
er he can understand or comprehend the subject 
or not. " Father .said so," and that is enough 
for him. So far his mind rests. And you see 
sometimes a kind of indignation manifested, if 
his father's word is doubted. Now, the necessi-
ty of such trust, an implicit confidence in the 
Christian, is obvious. There can be no true faith 
without it. And I have often thought that the 
faith of children and young people was more sim-
ple and implicit, more entire, than that of some 
older people. Should we have a more childlike 
confidence in God's Word, a more simple trust, 
and less pride of reason, how much better would 
it be for us ! How indignantly should we then re-
sist every temptation of Satan to disbelieve ! 
Our heavenly Father has said so—should satisfy 
us, though we could not comprehend or explain 
it. The man that will not believe what he can-
not comprehend or explain, will never be like a 
little child in this respect, and never can believe 
unto salvation. This simple faith, confidence, 
and trust must be exercised by every soul that 
enters the kingdom of heaven. Those who will 
not take God's word as to heaven and the way 
of life, will never find it. And the moment we 
leave the simple truth, the plain Word of God, 
we are like Noah's dove, flitting over a sea of 
doubt. 
the child, for if thou beatest him with the rod, he 
shall not die. Thou shalt beat him with the rod, 
and shalt deliver his soul." 
Prov. 29:17: " Correct thy son, and he shall 
give thee rest ; yea, he shall give delight unto 
thy soul." 
Prov. 22:9 : " Train up a child in the way 
he should go, and when he is old he will not de-
part from it. Verse 15, Foolishness is bound 
up in the heart of a child, but the rod of correc-
tion shall drive it far from him." 
Prov. 13:24: " He that spareth the rod hateth 
his son ; but he that loveth him, chasteneth him 
betimes." 
Prov. 29:15, " The rod and reproof give wis-
dom ; but a child left to himself bringeth his mo-
ther to shame." 
Isa. 38:19 : " The father to the children shall 
make known thy truth." 
Eph. 6:4 : " Ye fathers provoke not your 
children to wrath ; but bring them up in the nur-
ture and admonition of the Lord." 
Deut. 6:6,7, " These words which I command 
thee this day, shall be in thy heart ; and thou 
shalt teach them diligently unto thy children." 
These passages, with numerous others, touch-
ing the same point, carry upon the face of them 
a tone of authority, and posstive command. 
Authority to govern the family is vested in 
the parent for religious ends. It is a distinct 
and peculiar power, differing entirely from mere 
instinct or natural affection, and the investiture 
is constantly guarded and solemnized by the 
most awful moral sanctions. The exercise of 
parental authority and government is often view-
ed as an optional prerogative, always lauded 
when judiciously put forth, but the want of it 
viewed rather as a weakness than a sin, rather as 
as an excusable fault than a culpable offence. 
What we wish to urge here is, that parental au-
thority, put forth with all the wisdom and dis-
creetness the parent possesses, is just as much re-
ligious duty, just as much a matter of moral obli-
gation, as feeding, clothing and protecting the 
child ; just as much as praying, believing, and 
bearing the cross. God has not left the awfnl 
powers at the option of the parent to use or to 
neglect. He has interposed express precept, 
added gracious covenant promise to their faithful 
exercise, and guarded against neglect by some 
of the most awful threatenings contained in his 
word. The soul of the child will largely be re-
quired at the hand of the parent, and the parent 
is then clear only when he has used faithfully for 
the salvation of the child, all the means the Crea-
tor has placed in his hands for this end. 
We do not just now aim to speak of all the 
parent can and ought to do, but only of this one 
point, the right use of governmental authority. 
Turn to the word of God, and see the language 
and tone of divine precept. 
Gen. 18:19. " For I know Abraham, that 
that he will command his children and his house-
hold after him, and they shall keep the way of 
the Lord." 
Dent. 32:46 : " Set your hearts unto all the 
words which I testify unto you this day, which 
ye shall command your children to observe to do, 
all the words of this law." 
Prov. 19:18 : " Chasten thy son while there 
is hope, and let not thy soul spare for his crying." 
Prov. 23:13 : " Withhold not correction from 
weight is hung upon it, the more it thrives." Let 
us make full proof of our high calling in this re-
gard, and not be content until we prove " more 
than conquerors" in our daily warfare against 
the enemies of the soul.—Rel. Herald. 
Jesus' Love. 
" Whosoever shall do the will of my Father 
which is heaven, the same is my brother, and my 
sister, and mother." Matt. 12:50. 
As if no solitary earthly type were enough to 
image forth the love of Jesus, he assembles into 
one verse a group of the tenderest relationships. 
And who are those who can claim the blessedness 
spoken of under this imagery ? On whom does 
he lavish this unutterable affection ? No outward 
profession will purchase it. No church, no priest, 
no ordinances, no denominational distinctions. 
It is on those who are possessed of a holy char-
acter : " he that doeth the will of my Father 
which is in heaven." He who reflects the mind 
of Jesus, imbibes his Spirit, takes his word as 
the regulator of his daily walk, and makes his 
glory the great end of his being ; he who lives to 
God and with God and for God ; the humble, 
lowly, Christ-like, heaven-seeking Christian—he 
it is who can claim as his own this wondrous 
heritage of love. 
Though we are often ashamed to call Jesus 
" brother," " He is not ashamed to call us breth-
ren." He looks down on poor worms, and says, 
" The same is my mother, and sister, and broth-
er." " I will write upon them," he says in ano-
ther place, " my new name." Just as we write 
our name on a book to tell that it belongs to us, 
so Jesus would write his own name on us, the 
wondrous volumes of his grace, that they may be 
read and pondered by principalities and powers. 
Have we " known and believed this love of 
God ?" Ah, how poor has been the requital ! 
Who cannot subscribe to the words of one whose 
name was in all the churches : " Thy love has 
been as a shower ;" the return but a dewdrop, and 
that dew-drop stained with sin.—Words of Je- 
sus. 
Parental Authority. 
Trust in Christ. 
The Elements of Christian Theology. 
For the use of young Preachers and others. 
NO. 6.—PRESIIMPTIVE EVIDENCES OF CHRISTIANITY. 
The Presumptive Evidences in favor of Chris-
tianity or the Christian Scriptures, are drawn 
from such preliminary considerations as prove 
that a Divine Revelationis Necessary, Possible, 
and Pr'obable. We prosecute this branch of our 
subject in the order thus allotted to it, because 
that order seems to be the most natural ; for, as 
the necessity of a Revelation is always employed 
as a Presumptive Evidence in favor of the Bi-
ble, it forms an appropriate starting point to the 
whole inquiry, though it is generally otherwise 
placed by theological authors. 
1. �
A Divine Revelation, or an extraordinary 
communication from God, over and above what 
the light of nature or unaided reason teaches, 
is NECESSARY. This position is founded, or sup- 
posed to be founded, on an impartial examination 
of facts relating to the history and condition of 
our race. And we think that the Christian in-
quirer can well afford to be impartial ; but he 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
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tutes" Part 1 Chap. VII. VIII. Horne's " In-'der the cross, delightful. �
And Second, love to 
troduction" Vol. 1. Chap. 1. Div. -V.) �man—a love for such as are born of God, which 
(.3) Consider also the state of their lives, would lay down one's life for them, as brethren ; 
with regard to moral duty. How regardless of and a love even for enemies, which will prompt 
in doing them every possible good, never retali-
ating, or rendering evil for evil, but contrariwise 
blessing. 
gathered from among every people, tongue, and 
nation, having washed their robes and made them 
on the earth. " In time past they were not a peo-
white in the blood of the Lamb, who will reign 
ple, but are now the people of God." " A tree 
is known by its fruits," says our Lord ; and it is 
hoped that both the writer, and the reader of 
this article, may be so rigid in self-examination, 
as not to be self-deceived. 
Such, is the character of that "holy nation," will rejoice and be glad in it." Psa. 118:24. 
my request) in its last issue, gave his views of 
the above passage ; but as they do not quite ac-
cord with my idea of its meaning, " I also will 
show mine opinion," 
pondent, that the context leaves us no room to 
Here we are happy in agreeing with your corres-
doubt. The " Head-stone of the corner," refer-
red to in the 22 vs. is without doubt referred by 
Christ to himself, Matt. 21:42,44 ; and the same 
" This is the day the Lord hath made ; we 
An esteemed correspondent of the Herald (at 
1st. The day to which reference is made. 
H. BUCKLEY. �
reference of it is made by Peter, Acts 4:10,11. 
The only question in regard to it is, When did 
he become the Head-stone of the corner ? or 
" The stone laid in Zion for a foundation." Pe-
ter seems to indicate the time, Acts 4:11, " This 
is the stone which was set at nought of you buil-
ders, which is become the head of the corner." 
He was set at nought by those Jewish builders 
while officiating in his ministry—buffetted, while 
on trial before an unjust judge—ridiculed, while 
he hung upon the cross—and mocked as a deceiv-
er, while he lay in the tomb. The hopes of his 
people in the meanwhile sinking at each success-
ive step, until as the foundation stone -passes 
from their sight into the tomb, they confess with 
sadness, " We thought it had been he that should 
have redeemed Israel. 
But the third day dawns—a rumor circulates 
that Mary has seen the Lord—angels occupying 
that vacant tomb declare that he has risen--s-
those who travel to Emmaus feel their hearts 
burn within them while a stranger demonstrates 
the necessity for Christ's sufferings, and they re-
cognize a risen Messiah, as he blesses the bread 
they essay to partake. With joy they run to 
Jerusalem to tell the tidings, and as they pro-
claim a resurrected Savior, he appears in their 
midst and exclaims, " Peace be unto you." Joy 
and rejoicing take possession of every heart ; 
and those whose souls had been filled with sad-
ness may now exclaim with the prophet; " This 
is the day the Lord hath made, we will rejoice 
and be glad in it." 
Thus it is clear that the day of Christ's resur-
rection is pointed out as a day of joy and rejoic-
ing. 
But on what ground is it claimed that it is a 
day of weekly recurrence ? Your correspondent 
refers to Rev. 1:10 ; to Ignatius, Theophilus, 
Irenmus, Mosheim, &c. Now this may be good 
collateral testimony, but to my mind not sufficient 
to establish the point. We come then to the 
question, 
2d. �
Of its weekly recurrence. That the Jew- 
ish Sabbath ceased by its own limitation, at the 
cross, there is little room to doubt. See Ex. 31: 
13,16. Its limitation—" your generations." Its 
object—a sign of the covenant. Has the coven-
ant ceased? Was it not nailed to the cross ? Then 
has the sign passed away. Have their genera-
tions ended ? The priesthood which ran parallel 
with their generations ended when another priest 
arose. See Heb. 7:11,12 ; and Matt. and Luke • 
reckon their generations to Christ : and as he 
had no lineal descendants, they were violently 
broken off when with wicked hands they cruci-
fied the Lord of life and glory. 
Have we then a weekly recurring sacred day? 
A candidate for " holy orders" not long since 
being asked that question, answered, " We have : 
Formerly the seventh day in commemoration of 
the creation ; now the first day in memory of 
Christ's resurrection, by the appointment of the 
apostles." I ask, where appointed ? and echo 
answers, where ? But as the Sabbath is and has 
ever been regarded as typical---and as the type 
cannot cease until it reaches the antitype---and 
further ; as the Jewish Sabbath (which was giv-
en them as a memorial of their deliverance from 
Egypt. See Deut. 5:15,) was about to pass away, 
it was perfectly natural that the prophets, in no-
ting the event that brought the sanctified obser-
vance of that day to an end, should also allude 
to " the day the Lord had made," to be observed 
as a day of joy and rejoicing to the praise of his 
name. Accordingly we hear him exclaim---as 
will find it needful to see that those on the other 
side of this question, do not proceei on princi-
ples of unfairness. When persons allege that 
the light of nature is sufficient to instruct us in 
Divine authority, human claims, and personal 
the knowledge of truth and duty, they must 
not refer us to ethics, or systems of morals fram- consistency ! Paul's description of the heathen 
world, in the first chapter of his Epistle to the 
ed by Christian philosophers and divines, under 
the head of natural religion ; or by others who Romans, which is enough to make us feel like 
 
have been surrounded with all the benefits of putting a veil on our faces while reading it,—is 
 
Revelation ; for this is disingenuous or unfair, confirmed by all the monuments and histories of 
 
t 
In our inquiries concerning the competency or the pagan world. Even while their sages spoke 
 
incompetency of the light of nature without Re- 
velation, we must confine ourselves to those, 
whether in ancient or modern times, who have 
possessed the light of nature only. 
Locke says, " When truths are once known to 
us through tradition, we are apt to be favorable 
to our own parts, and ascribe to our own under-
standing the discovery of what, in reality, we 
borrowed from others ; or, at least, finding we 
can prove what at first we learned from others, 
we are forward to conclude it as an obvious truth, 
which, if we had sought, we could not have miss-
ed. . . . A great many things which we have 
been bred up in the belief of from our cradles, 
and are now grown familiar (and as it were, na-
tural to us under the gospel), we take for unques-
tionable, obvious truths, and easily demonstrable, 
without considering how long we might have 
been in doubt or ignorance of theta had revela-
tion been silent. And many others are beholden 
to revelation who do not acknowledge it. It is no 
diminishing of revelation, that reason gives its 
suffrage too to the truths revelation has discover-
ed ; but it is our mistake to think, that, because 
reason confirms them to us, we had the first cer-
tain knowledge of them from thence, and in that 
clear evidence we now possess them." 
Therefore in ascertaining whether a Divine 
Revelation is necessary or not we are to examine 
" those countries where the records which pro-
fess to contain the Mosaic and Christian revel-
ations have been or are still unknown" :—in 
other words, we are to weigh facts relative to the 
moral condition of the heathen in all ages. 
Consider the state of their minds with 
respect to the knowledge of themselves,—God, 
—the certainty of a future state of happiness, 
and the way to obtain it. How dark and uncer-
tain on these subject are the wisest of them ! In 
the affairs of this life, many pagan philosophers 
and legislators have appeared to be more than 
human ; but in religious knowledge and skill, 
they seem less than children. " The world by 
wisdom knows not God." In the sable and 
gloomy night they walked at random. Some 
of them apparently had an aim, and were con-
scious there was something to seek after ; but 
they groped about, " if haply they might feel 
after God and find him." All the light which 
they possessed, only served to make their dark-
ness more visible, oppressive and appalling. Did 
they not, then, including the most enlightened of 
them, as well as the great mass of the pagan 
mind, need more light? (see Horne's " Introduc-
tion," Vol. 1. Chap. 1. Division IV". Watson's 
" Institutes" Part 1. Chap. VI.) 
Consider too the state of their hearts, 
with respect to their desires, affections and pro-
pensities. How " earthly, sensual, and devilish" ! 
Unrestrained by salutary fear and control, these 
inward impurities burst forth in a wide and des-
olating tide, which must have been offensive to 
God, injurious to others, and destructive to them-
selves. What a view of the pagan heart is af-
forded in the admired productions of Theocritus, 
Terence, Virgil, Horace, and the poets of India! 
Instances alas ! might be multiplied almost with-
out end. Jews, and Christians, so called, have 
also indulged these things ; but it has been,in 
direct and flagrant opposition to their avowed 
belief ; while Pagans have indulged them from 
principle and precept, their religion itself conse-
crating all kinds of pollution ; and the best that 
can be said of their gods is, that, " They were 
the finest representations which the ingenuity 
and skill of the sculptor could furnish of the bas-
est of human passions." Do not men, then, thus 
sunk in defilement need a revelation of the Di-
vine nature and will, in order to restrain their 
desires, regulate their affections, and infuse a 
new moral elemenent ? (See Watson's " Insti- 
and wrote in favor of virtue, they practised vice, 
and of course their teachings had little or no in-
fluence on the conduct of others. " Across the 
night of paganism, philosophy flitted on, like the 
lantern fly of the tropics, a light to itself, but 
alas ! no more than an ornament of the surround-
ing darkness." It did not reform the life and 
manners. 
Therefore, in these circumstances of darkness, 
depravity, and crime, was not a Divine revela-
tion, with new light, provisions, and authority, 
indispensably necessary ? (see the same referen-
ces as those last mentioned ; also " Institutes" 
Part I. Chap. I.—V may be read.) 
If so, the necessity of the case is a Presump-
tive Evidence in favor of the Divine claims of 
Christianity, and of our Scriptures. 
R. H. 
(Presumptive Evidences continued in my next) 
In a former article it was shown that " the 
vineyard," or " kingdom," was violently usurped 
by rebellious Israel; they having rejected and 
maltreated the prophets sent to them in the name 
of the Lord, and to fill the cup of their iniquity, 
having 'rejected Him whom they at heart ac-
knowledged to be " the heir," saying " Come let 
us kill him ; and let us seize on his inheritance." 
As our Lord declared that for this violent re-
jection of the heir, " The kingdom of God, should 
be taken from them, and given to a nation bring-
ing forth the fruits thereof," it becomes a matter 
of deep interest to know what are the fruits of 
the kingdom. Isaiah declares that the "vineyard 
of the Lord of hosts is the house of Israel, and 
the men of Judah his pleasant plant : and he 
looked for judgment, but behold oppression ; for 
righteousness, but behold a cry." Judgment, 
justice,or equitable dealing, as the word here im-
plies ; for it is in opposition to " oppression," is 
the first quality specified of the fruit which the 
Lord looked for from his well-cultivated vine-
yard. 
Israel " justified the wicked for reward, and 
took away the righteousness of the righteous from 
him." They " oppressed the hireling in his wag-
es, the widow and the fatherless, and turned 
aside the stranger from his right." �
All such 
fruits are " wild grapes,"—the fruit of a "degen-
erate vine." The opposite is required. 
The second quality of the fruit of the Lord's 
vineyard is " righteousness." �
It is this which 
gives it its peculiar fragrance and sweetness.—
"Not every one that saith unto me,Lord,Lord,shall 
enter into the kingdom of heaven ; but he that 
doeth the will of my Father which is in heaven," 
is the declaration of him to whom all judgment is 
committed. 
Righteousness, is holiness, or virtue. �
It is 
not possessed by man in the absolute, or most 
perfect sense, and not at all in his natural state. 
But a faith which works by love, and purifies 
the heart, is imputed to him for righteousness. 
A faith without works, such as the devil, and 
wicked men possess, is dead. �
It brings with it 
no consolation or comfort,but fear and trembling. 
" Abraham believed God, and it was imputed to 
him for righteousness ;" and Paul says, " If ye 
are of faith, then are ye the seed of' Abraham." 
James says, "by works was Abraham's faith made 
perfect." The beloved disciple says, " All un-
righteousness is sin," and that " sin is the trans- 
gression of the law." �
A faith, then, which re- 
sults in obedience to the law of the new cove-
nant is the fruit of that "nation," to whom the 
Lord will give the kingdom. 
That law is embraced in the one word love : 
First, love to God, which makes sin appear odi-
ous, or hateful ; and obedience, though it be un- 
Original. 
The fruits of the Kingdom. 
" Blessed and holy is he that hath part in the 
first resurrection," Rev. 20:6. 
How cheering and heavenly are these words 
—big with the hope of a glorious immortality ; 
and how beautiful the thought that we can con-
template them in a literal sense !—as a resurrec-
tion of the body,the same body that sleeps in the 
grave, but wholly changed from its former cor- 
ruption into a glorious immortal body. �
" For 
this corruptible must put on, incorruption, and 
this mortal put on immortality." 
Yes, when Jesus comes, we shall be changed. 
How cheering to the heart of the dying Chris-
tian ! How dreary death .and the grave would 
be without this enlivening prospect ! Death has 
passed upon all; it has been doing its sad work 
for a long time ; but it will be conquered. For 
Christ has died, and risen from the dead, and 
those that sleep shall arise as he arose. The 
long-expected morn will soon dawn upon a dying 
world. �
God's prophecies are being fast ful- 
filled, as time speeds on in its unwavering course. 
The glories of that heavenly morn are not far in 
the distant. The voice of the archangel and the 
trump of God will soon pierce earth's remotest 
bounds. �
Those poor, despised, diseased, pallid, 
wasted mortal forms that suffered in indescriba-
ble agony, with all the deformity of sin-ruined 
nature, and were consigned to mingle with the 
dust again, will come forth at the voice of the 
Son of God, having incorruptible, glorious, im-
mortal forms, shining as the sun, fashioned like 
unto his glorious body, nerved with immortal en-
ergy, and ready to meet the Lord in the air. 
Glorious consummation ! great redemption ! 
The ransomed of all ages, of all generations, and 
nations,blooming with celestial glory, are then to 
be presented faultless before the Judge of all. 
With these views, dear reader, are you ready 
to participate in the glorious spectacle? Death 
breaks up every association here. Dear friends, 
one by one, go down into the tomb. We mourn 
for them, but with the blessed assurance if they 
died in Jesus we shall soon meet them again.—
Yonder graveyard will soon present to our sight 
a heavenly view. Friends that have long been 
separated will soon embrace each other, in an 
eternal meeting. Soon we shall meet those wor-
thies who have braved the fearful storms of life, 
and now are waiting for their glorious redemp-
tion. Soon all that great innumerable company 
will be gathered together ; but only " those that 
have come up out of great tribulation, and have 
washed their robes in the blood of the Lamb." 
Again dear reader are you ready to stand with 
that great number acquitted and ready for the 
glorious possession ? Or are you one of the num-
ber who are idling away their precious moments 
in the vain pursuits of a wicked world, heedless 
of the near coming of that great day, when a 
burning world shall present to your view no es-
cape from the pangs of the second death in which 
there will be no hope forever ? If you are one of 
this number prepare to meet your God. For soon 
the voice of the archangel and the trump of God 
will be heard, and only those that are in Jesus 
will be caught up to meet the Lord in the air and 
to reign with him forevermore. 
C. L HEATH. 
Burlington, Vt. 
Original. 
The Resurrection, 
Original. 
The Day the Lord Hath Made. 
BOSTON, APRIL 14, 1860. 
SYLVESTER BLISS, EDITO. 
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THE ADVENT HERALD. 
a hope in Christ ; that is, he may justly hope that 
if the religious doctrines of Christianity should be 
true, he will be saved in a future state. He may 
obtain this hope by endeavoring, as far as possible, 
to make justice and beneficence the chief objects of 
his life." 
Poor man ! He has to learn that " by the deeds 
of the law shall no flesh be justified," and that it is 
" with the heart man believeth unto righteousness." 
No, no. God will not be mocked by such heartless 
service. 
A PROPOSITION. Bro. Raisbeck of N. Y. propos-
es to be one of ten to pay $50 each for the A. M. 
Association. He now waits to hear from the nine 
others. Shall lie wait in vain ? 
As the note respecting the health of Eld. Edwin 
Burnham in the last Herald, may have given some 
anxiety to his friends, we will add that we learn his 
health is improving, though not restored. 
CASSELL'S ILLUSTRATED FAMILY BIBLE. Part 3 of 
this serial, before noticed, has come to hand, and 
completes the book of Genesis. The subjects of il-
lustration are : Esau and his family departing ; Jo-
seph's dream ; his being cast into the pit ; his coat; 
his being in prison ; and his being in before Phara-
oh ; a bird's eye view of Egypt ; honors bestowed 
by Pharaoh on Joseph ; Simeon's detention ; the 
putting of the cup in Benjamin's sack ; the finding 
it there ; Joseph's revealing himself ; Jacob's de-
parture for Egypt ; Joseph's presentation of Jacob 
to Pharaoh ; Jacob's blessing his twelve sons ; his 
blessing Joseph's sons ; and the embalming of Jo-
seph,—of a third of a page or more each, with some 
8 or 10 smaller engravings. 
It will comprise about 50 Nos., at 15 cts. a No., 
or 7 Nos. for $1; 15 for $2, or 24 Nos. for $3, and 
is issued on the 1st and 15th of each month. 
CASSELL'S POPULAR NATURAL HISTORY. The first 
No. of this is received, and is devoted to a consider-
ation of the " four-handed animals," and a com-
parison of them with man, with an abundance of 
illustration. Twelve Nos. will make a volume com-
plete in itself. There are to be 4 volumes, and the 
price and frequency of publication are the same as 
with the Bible. 
" The Theological and Literary Journal. Edited 
by David N. Lord. No. XLVIII. April, 1860. 
New York : Published by Franklin Knight, 348 
Broadway." 
The April No. of this valuable Journal contains 
its full complement of able articles ; as will be seen 
by the following table of its contents : 
Dr. Fairbairn's Typology. 
God is Love. By Rev. Dr. Pond. 
Dr. J. F. Bergs False View of the Second Ad- 
vent. 
Divine Authority of the Bible, in Review of Rev. 
A. Barnes. By Rev. II. Carleton. 
Designation and Exposition of Isaiah, Chapters 
52 and 53. 
Answers to correspondents. 
Acts of the Divine Nature in Christ. 
The Desolation of Edom. 
Literary and critical Notices. 
The crucifixion of Christ. 
Winer's Grammar of the New Testament dic-
tion. 
Dr. Jamieson's Pentateuch and Joshua. 
Life's morning. 
Jesus only. 
Mr. Caldwell's Lectures on the Psalms. 
Dr. Wood's life and character of Parker Cleve-
land. 
Dr. Cumming's Great Tribulation. 
The Revival in Ireland. 
The death of Washington Irving. 
Dr. Jamieson's historical books of the Old 
Testament. 
H. Miller's Popular Geology. 
Dr. Hoge's blind Bartitueus. 
Dr. Lillie's lectures on Thessalonians. 
British periodicals. 
Catalogue of the Library of Prof. W. W. 
Turner. 
ITEMS AND NEWS. 
One of the oil wells in Pennsylvania is owned by 
a Mr. Evans, a blacksmith, and a poor man. He 
prosecuted the work of boring himself, and struck a 
vein of oil at the distance of seventy feet. He has 
been offered, it is said, $50,000 fur his well, but has 
declined selling on these terms. 
Plymouth, April 4. Charles S. Peterson, while 
digging yesterday near the Railroad station on a piece 
of made land, came upon a human skeleton buried 
in a sitting posture, about a foot below the surface. 
A small fragment of clothing, and a pair of stout 
sewed shoes with copper nails in the heel, were found 
with it. The skull was fractured near one eye, and 
the left temple broken in, giving evidence of foul 
dealing. Some suppose the remains may be those of 
a sailor named Bodd, who left his boarding house in 
Water street one evening about twenty years ago, 
and has never been heard of since. He had several 
he beholds the moral creation springing from the 
chaos into which it had fallen, with the uprising 
of the rejected stone, " This is the Lord's doings, 
and it is marvelous." 
When the material creation was completed the 
morning stars sang peans of praise, and all the 
eons of God shouted aloud for joy. 
When God ended the labors of that creation 
he sanctified the following day, 
" And called the hours his own." 
And as the prophet looks down through the 
vista of time, and sees Jesus escaping from the 
" grave he made with the wicked," and thus com-
pleting the great work of salvation; he announces, 
" This is the day the Lord hath made." 
Your correspondent says---almost all Protes-
tant Christendom say---that the day was appoint-
ted at and its appointment made known by the 
resurrection of Messiah. 
But who would have known that Christ's res-
urrection marked it, or that it was to be of week-
ly recurrence, had not the prophet in the passage 
under consideration, announced the first, and for 
the last referred to the only day (except the 
Sabbath given to the Jews, and limited to the 
legal covenant) that God ever sanctified, and es-
pecially made his own. Why not then put two 
and two together, and stand on tenable ground ? 
instead of trying to make " the worse appear the 
better reason." With this view, the collateral 
evidences brought by your correspondent, form 
a three-fold cord that cannot be broken. With 
any other, the light emitted by them, only tends 
to make darkness visible. 
Here we have a Sabbath---the Edenic Sabbath, 
and the man who keeps it, in the spirit in which 
thA Psalmist penned the passage under consider-
ation---whether of the household of God, or of 
" the sons of the stranger," will doubtless have 
grace given to observe other days, and other re-
quirements in such a manner that he will be pre-
pared to enjoy the Sabbath that remaineth. 
D. BOSWORTH. 
Waterbury, Vt. March 28, 1860. 
ADVENT 'HERALD. 
excursion on Charles River, were upset and drown-
ed. 
The Journal farther says ; 
" The Shawmut Club, comprising some sixty gen-
tlemen from Boston and vicinity, took breakfast, as 
has been their custom for several years past, at the 
Lexington House. The unusually fine weather turn-
ed a great many city people into the country, and 
the hotel was consequently filled with ladies and gen-
tlemen during the day. 
" The annual clam bake occurred at Quincy and 
was attended by many lovers of fun from the city, 
who had a right good time.'" 
The following is from the Providence Journal of 
Jan. 12 :— 
" For the aid of Grace Church in San Francisco, 
the parishioners got up a raffle which yielded $5000, 
and they mean to follow it up with a ball, and per-
haps a grand, consolidated Buck at faro. until $45, 
000, necessary funds, are raised." 
Comment at this seems needless. 
“Philotheism.” 
This is a name, proposed in the Boston Investiga- 
tor by one G.A. Hammet, for a new phase of belief, 
or rather of a mixture of unbelief with a fear of the 
truth. The creed of Mr. H. is thus expressed by 
himself : 
" The following is my religious belief. 
In reality and in theory I am an Atheist, but fig- 
uratively and practically, I believe that the eternal, 
nonordial, or ataxic cause of the order of harmony 
of the visible universe may properly be termed God, 
whether that cause is material or immaterial, intel-
ligent or unintelligent, since it operates in many re-
spects like an intelligent Being, especially in reward-
ing the just and punishing the guilty. 
I believe that man has no existence after death. 
I believe that the punishment of the wicked and 
the reward of the righteous are necessarily eternal, 
since there is really neither motion, change, nor suc-
cession in the universe, and consequently, every pain 
and pleasure, though apparently transient, is with-
out beginning and without end. Many eternal pains 
and pleasures are therefore of a very trifling char-
acter." 
He then goes through the farce of dedicating him- 
self to this one God,—modeling his covenant after 
that of a Christian Church ; arsi this he fancies 
might be a common ground " on which Atheists 
and believers might unite." 
Whilst, however, he thus " believes," he has some 
fears that the God of the universe is, after all an in-
telligent Being, and so he thinks to guard against 
this contingency as follows : 
" Believing that it is possible that the first cause 
is an intelligent Being, I have been accustomed, dur-
ing many years to repeat, nightly, before I sleep, a 
short and silent prayer. Such a practice On the 
part of an Atheist, will be regarded by many with 
contempt ; but how can a true man be willing to en-
counter misery and death for the right, if he cannot 
brave, when duty requires, what is called the 
world's dread laugh ?" 
With such unbelief, the prayer nightly offered, 
must be like that of another infidel who prayed, " 0 
God, if there be a God, save my soul, if I have a 
soul." 
He says of a church founded on the principle he 
recommends; " They might even meet at stated 
times to commemorate, by symbols of bread and 
wine, the life of the great and admirable reformer, 
Christ : for such is the force of early impressions and 
of our sympathy with our fellow men, that we can-
not know with absolute certainty that he is not a 
Deity. " 
And after referring to his reasons for "believing 
that the first Cause, though acting in many respects 
like an intelligent being, is, in reality, nothing but 
the unintelligent, regular, nonordial adaptation of 
matter." He adds : " But this, I have long main-
tained, is an inference merely of high probability, 
not of absolute certainty,—Hence the reasonableness 
of prayer and praise. But in the course of ages, 
when all remains of belief in an intelligent Deity 
shall have been overcome, no prayer or praise or 
other religious ceremony will be required." 
Thus Mr. Hammet finds himself very much in the 
condition of the sailor, who was in a sinking ship, 
and who was so exceedingly doubtful whether he 
should fall into the hands of the Lord, or of the 
great adversary, that he prayed to each alternately ! 
It also brings to mind a story that the late Wm. 
Miller used to relate of a Universalist up in Ver-
mont, who believed in Universalism, and who "had 
no doubt of its truth," but who used to say of it, 
" I would give my best yoke of oxen, if I only 
knew certain." Just so Mr. Hammett : he don't 
" know certain," and so he would cast an anchor 
to windward by observing the ordinances of Christ 
and outwardly practicing his precepts. And thus, 
he says : 
" I believe that an Atheist may reasonably possess 
hundred dollars in his possession at the time. Meas-
ures have been taken to preserve the fragments for 
investigation. 
Over one thousand acres on the Fishkill moun-
tains, in Dutchess county, N. Y., were burnt over 
on Saturday and Sunday last. The spectacle is re-
presented as having been terribly grand, and was 
seen for many miles around. 
In Cincinnati, a few days since, a woman was sen-
tenced to four months imprisonment for stealing a 
ham. Her husband,who was present, and who had 
assisted in disposing of it, on hearing the sentence, 
bowed politely to the Court, and expressed' himself 
much gratified at the result. 
A house at East Abington, belonging to Benjamin 
Beal and occupied by Irish families, was destroyed 
by fire on Wednesday. Insured for $1000. On 
Sunday, as we learn from the Standard, several acres 
of woodland in Centre Abington, were burned over. 
The dwelling house of William Killfoile, at Troy, 
N. Y., slid down a steep bank, on which it was built 
on Saturday night, while the family were asleep, 
and although the building and furniture were thor-
oughly wrecked, the family escaped without inju-
ry. 
The examination of Jackalow, the Chinaman, has 
resulted in his being held for trial on the charges of 
piracy, murder and larceny. On Tuesday he was 
quite low spirited. He had a settled conviction that 
when his examination ( which he seemed to consid-
er a trial) was concluded, he would be hung in the 
prison yard, by the Chief of Police, and no assurance 
of the Chief quieted his apprehension. 
A. B. Wesson was murdered, and his tending boat 
robbed of $3000, near Vicksburg,on Saturday night. 
The robbers also killed a colored man on the boat,and 
threatened the wife of Wesson. Two brothers nam-
ed Castleman, have been arrested and identified as 
the murderers. 
The Orleans Crescent states that one day last week 
a gang of thirty-four Plantation slaves from Oak 
Grove, St James Parish, about fifty miles from the 
city, came into town in a body to consult a lawyer 
and find out who their master was. �
It seems that 
the slaves belonged to the estate of the late James 
H. Shepherd. The negroes say that for five years 
they have not known whether they had a master or 
not ; that lately a new overseer was put over them, 
and treated them cruelly without proper cause ; 
knocking them down with clubs, and flogging them 
till their backs were all raw. They were taken to 
the lock-up for future disposition. 
The earthquake of Wednesday evening was very 
sensibly felt at Orleans and at Eastham. 
On Sunday, 11th, as Mr. Benjamin Green of Ber-
nardston was returning from meeting, which he had 
attended all day in his usual health, he dropped the 
lines and came near falling from the wagon. He was 
near a house and help was called, but he almost in-
stantly expired. His age was 68. 
Delaware is rapidly getting rid of her slaves. She 
had 8000 at the first census, and but 2200 at the 
last one. Their owners find it more profitable to sell 
them at the South than to keep them. Sussex coun-
ty alone ships to the south on an average, six per 
week, or three hundred and twelve a year. Every 
census shows a decrease of ten per cent. in the slave 
population. 
Soulouque is economical for an cx-Emperor. He 
has changed his lodgings to save $3 per month, and 
his wife does the family washing. 
On Wednesday afternoon a fire broke out in the 
woods on the north side of the town of Clinton in 
this State, and fanned into a terrific flame by the 
high wind which prevailed, it destroyed a track of 
young wood estimated at one mile long by half a 
mile wide. The fire approached a number of dwel-
ling houses on the margin of the wood, which •were 
saved from destruction by the energetic labors of 
the Fire Department. �
The fire was finally sub- 
dued. 
The other Sunday an eminent divine was preach-
ing upon the parable of Dives and Lazarus, and when 
he arrived at the point where Dives lifted up his eyes 
and asked Abraham to allow Lazarus to come to him 
with a drop of water, he said, " To this apparently 
reasonable, but under the circumstances, totally in-
admissible request, a negative answer was return-
ed." 
It is said that in the Associate Reformed Theolog-
ical Seminary at Due West,South Carolina, the pro-
fessor of Theology and four-sevenths of the students 
are sons of ministers. 
A renowned clergyman of N. Y. lately preached 
a lung sermon from the text : " Thou art weighed in 
the balance and found wanting." After the congre-
gation had listened for about an hour, some began 
to get weary and went out ; others soon followed, 
greatly to the annoyance of the minister. Another 
person started, whereupon the parson stopped in 
his sermon and said : " That's right, gentlemen, 
as fast as you are weighed pass out !" He contin-
ued his sermon at length, but no one disturbed him 
after that. 
The readers of the Herald are most earnestly besought to 
give it room in their prayers; that by means of it God may 
be honored and his truth advanced ; also, that it may be 
conducted in faith and love, with sobriety of judgment and 
discernment of the truth, in nothing carried away into 
error, or hasty speech, or sharp, unbrotherly disputation. 
Tax TERMS OF TUB HERALD. The terms of the 
Herald are two dollars a year, in advance ;—with 
as large an addition, as the generosity of donors 
shall open their hearts to give, towards making the 
A. M. Association an efficient instrumentality for 
good. 
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A Sign of the Times. 
" This know also, that irf the last days, perilous 
times shall come. For men shall be �
 lovers 
of pleasures more than lovers of God." 2 Tim. 3: 
1-4. 
Thursday of last week was set apart by the au-
thorities of the State as " a day of fasting, humilia-
tion and prayer ;" but like other days of the kind, 
it was more devoted to sports than prayer. The 
Boston Journal says of it : 
" The weather Thursday was delightful, and ope-
rated to fill all the principal thoroughfares with 
promenaders. The Common, which hasalready put 
on its spring attire, was the centre of attraction.—
Here base ball, foot ball and marbles reigned from 
morning till night, in conjunction, with the usual 
crowd of showmen and hucksters, whose harvest sea-
son is the holidays. The usual services were held in 
the churches, some of which were quite well filled 
and others were but poorly attended. In the after-
noon, some of the Sabbath schools held their anni- 
versary exhibitions. �
In the evening, the places of 
amusement were filled to overflowing." 
Two young men in Cambridge,one named Osborne 
and the ether Whitney, dtvoting the day to a boat 
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Excitement in Concord. 
The town of Concord in this State, was thrown 
into quite an excitement on Tuesday of last week by 
the arrest of one of her citizens by U. States officers. 
Mr. Frank B. Sanborn, a highly respectable citi-
zen, and a teacher of youth in Concord, was subpee- 
ned July 16,1860, to appear as a witness before the 
Senate's special committee that has under investiga-
tion the Harper's Ferry insurrection. Mr. Sanborn, 
doubting the authority of that committee to compel 
his presence at Washington, declined to go. The 
vice Pres. of the U. States, then acting as pres. of 
the Senate, issued a warrant on the 16th of February, 
directing D. R. McNair, Sergeant at Arms of the 
Senate, to arrest the said Sanborn, wherever he 
could find him, and bring him before the Senate. 
Mr. Sanborn from that time has anticipated an ar- 
rest ; and it was everywhere published and well un-
derstood in this State, that when arrested, he would 
appeal to the State courts and have its legality ful-
ly tested. Ile did not hide himself, nor prepare for 
any resistance, but proposed to try his rights before 
our Supreme Court and submit to its decree. 
On the evening of Tuesday, April 3d, a company 
of four subordinates from the office of the U. States 
Marshal in Boston, visited Concord, and were there 
reinforced by the postmaster of the village, a subor-
dinate in the custom house who resided there, and 
one other. It was not until about nine 
o'clock at night that their presence there 
was suspected. Early in the evening a man had 
called at the door of Mr. Sanborn, and finding it un-
fastened walked in. He was met by a servant and 
enquired for Mr. S. Being informed that Mr. S. was 
out, he told the girl he had an important paper for 
him, and she understood it was something about a 
situation. On the return of Mr. S. he was told 
of it. Mr. Sanborn says : 
" I came in from a call about 9 o'clock, and was 
sitting in my slippers, at my desk, when a knocking 
called me to the doeir. I went down stairs, opened 
the door, when a small man entered and said, ' Does 
Mr. Sanborn live here ?' ' That is my name, sir,' 
said I, putting out my hand to welcome him. ' Here 
is a paper for you,' said he, handing me a folded 
one, which I took. 
Outside of the envelope it was addressed : 5 To 
F. B. Sanborn, Esq., present.' Its contents were 
as follows : 
"' Sir : The bearer, a worthy young man, solicits 
your aid in procuring employment. 
Help him if you can. �
BUFFUM. 
SAUGUS, April 1, 1860.' 
" At that moment a gray haired, tall and stout 
man entered the open door and said, ' I arrest you, 
Mr. Sanborn.' �
By what authority,' said I, 
' and what is your name ?' He gave no name, but 
said, ' 1 am from the U. S. Marshal's office,' or 
something of that sort. " What is your authority 
—your warrant ?" repeated I. " We have a war-
rant," said some one, for by this time two more men 
appeared. " Show it—read it," said I. A small 
man, calling himself Freeman (afterwards) for none 
would give their names, began to read a paper, but 
had got only through a few lines, when the grey-hair-
ed man took a pair of handcuffs from his pocket and 
proceeded to put them on my wrists, I standing in 
my own house, without a hat or boots, only in slip-
pers of cloth. 
" A whistle was given ; some men rushed in, none 
of them known to me, and carried me by force to 
the street, where stood a carriage with two horses. 
They lifted me from the ground, and tried to put me 
in the carriage. �
I resisted with my feet, for 
my hands were fast in the manacles. They tried two 
or three times without success, breaking the car-
riage, but the horses started and they could not get 
me in. In the meantime, my cries and those of my 
sister had called my neighbors from their homes, 
who surrounded and prevented them from carrying 
me off. 
" I stood in the street in my slippers half an hour, 
wearing the handcuffs, until Deputy Sheriff Moore 
took me under a writ of habeas corpus, issued by 
Judge Hoar. Their names, given after a long time 
and reluctantly, were Silas Carlton, — Coolidge, 
Tarleton, and — Freeman. There were two 
or three others, whose names I have not learned. 
" Fifteen minutes after I was handcuffed, stand-
ing in the street, Freeman read me a warrant, sign-
ed by Vice President Breckenridge, for my arrest, 
with an endorsement from McNair, Sergeant-at-Arms 
of the U. S. Senate, authorizing Silas Carlton to 
seize me. 
" I at-first offered no resistance, but when the 
handcuffs were put on I refused to go, not having 
heard any warrant, or seen any signatures, or been 
told the names of the officers, or the nature of my 
offense, so far as I can recollect. When they drag-
ged me into the open air, without allowing me to 
put on my boots, overcoat or hat, I cried murder and 
resisted with my feet, as well as 1 could with four 
stout men holding me. They dragged me to the car- 
ge,
ri �
which had been brought up by a fifth or sixth 
La 
Quiet was restored when they had departed, 
though bands of citizens patroled the streets for hours, 
and took good care that no new attempt was made 
to arrest again. 
On the morning of Wednesday, Mr. Sanborn was 
brought before the Supreme Court of Massachusetts, 
on the writ of habeas corpus granted by judge Hoar. 
Messrs. Samuel E. Sewell, John Andrew and John 
S. Keyes, appeared for the petitioner, and C. Levi 
Woodbury and Milton Andros, United States Attor-
neys, for the respondent. 
At 11 o'clock Chief Justice Shaw and Judges Bige-
low, Metcalf, Merrick and Hoar came in, and the 
case was called. 
The issues raised by the counsel for Mr. Sanborn 
were 
That the Sergeant-at-Arms, in his capacity as 
an officer of the Senate, had no authority to execute 
process out of the limits of the District of Columbia, 
over which the United States Senate have, by the 
Constitution, exclusive general jurisdiction. 
That a Sergeant-at-Arms is not an officer 
known to the Constitution or laws of the United 
States, as a general executive of known powers, like 
a Sheriff or Marshal ; that he is appointed and recog-
nized by the rules of the Senate, as an officer exer-
cising powers regulated by the rules of the Senate, 
can only exercise such powers as are conferred on 
him by such general rules and orders, made with a 
view to the regular proceedings of the Senate ; or 
such as may be conferred by the Senate by special 
resolves and acts, as a single department of the gov-
ernment, without the concurrence of the other mem-
bers of the government. 
That by the warrant returned, the power to 
arrest the respondent was in terms limited to 
McNair, the Sergeant-at-Arms, and could not be ex-
ecuted by a deputy. 
After a patient hearing, the Chief Justice, at 4 
P. M. gave the opinion of the court. On the first 
point they were not prepared to say that the juris-
diction of the Sergeant-at-Arms was limited to the 
District of Columbia. The second point was re-
garded as more material, and it was decided that 
that official was not a general officer known to the 
law, as a Sheriff or Marshal, and that he has no 
authority to deputize any one to perform the func-
tions of those offices ; and on the third the Court 
were unanimous that the power conferred in the 
warrant by the Vice President was given 
alone to McNair, Sergeant-at-Arms, that there was 
nothing to indicate any intention on their part to 
have such arrest made by any other person ; and 
that there was no authority given by this warrant, 
to delegae the authority to any other person. 
The decision of the court was then as follows : 
" On the special ground that this respondent had 
no legal authority to detain the petitioner in his 
custody, the order of the court is that the said San-
born be discharged from the custody of the said 
Carlton." 
Upon the conclusion of the above, there was a 
considerable demonstration of applause from the 
audience, which was promptly checked by the Sher 
iff. Mr. Sanborn almost immediately left the court 
room, followed by many of his friends. 
The United States officers were then arrested on a 
warrant from Justice Ball, by Deputy Sheriff Moor, 
and let off on their own recognizance to appear at 
Concord to answer for assault and battery and for 
attempt to kidnap. 
On Friday the 6th inst. they appeared at Concord. 
The first charge of assault &c. was dropped; and on 
the charge of attempt to kidnap they gave bonds for 
their appearance at the next term of the Superior 
Court at Concord. 
On Thursday Mr. F. B. Sanborn was arrested by 
Deputy Sheriff More, on a warrant issued by justice 
N. Ball, for an assault upon officers Carlton, Tarl-
ton, Coolidge and Freeman on the 3d inst. He 
waived an examination, and was also bound over 
with sureties to the June Superior Court at Concord. 
Foreign News. 
New York, April 6. The steamship Kangaroo, 
from Liverpool, arrived this morning, bringing dates 
of the 21st inst—three days later than per Arabia. 
The annexation of Savoy to France has been defin-
itely settled by France and Sardinia, and the treaty 
signed. 
In the English Parliament, the proposition in fa-
vor of the ballot was rejected by large majorities in 
both Houses. The Reform Bill was being debated, 
but attracted but little interest. 
A squadron of four vessels, headed by the screw 
steamer Hero, is to convey the Prince of Wales to 
Canada. 
The London Times strongly recommends that the 
Prince make the tour of the United States, and feels 
sure a visit to the President will be appreciated. 
Mrs. Jameson, the authoress, is dead. 
Florence Nightingale is seriously ill, and prayers 
are offered in the garrison chapel for her. 
The mnnicipal Council of Nice have voted against 
the annexation of Savoy to France, and sent a depu-
tation to Turin on the subject. 
The commercial treaty between England and 
France is in full operation. 
Senor Farini has formally presented to the King of 
Sardinia the votes of Aemilian provinces in favor of 
annexation. �
The King, in reply, said he accepted 
the vote, as also that of the Romagna, but at the 
same time he would not fail in deep devotedness to 
the Pope. 
The Pope had addressed an admonitory to Victor 
Emmanuel, breaking off all relations, and excommu-
nicating him. 
Austria declines to renew diplomatic intercourse 
with Sardinia, owing to flagrant violations of the 
treaty of Zurich by the latter power. 
Baron Ricasoli reached Turin on the 22d, and 
presented to the King of Sardinia the vote of Tus-
cany on the annexation question. The King, in re-
sponse to a congratulatory speech by Ricasoli said : 
" I accept the vote of Tuscany, which after having 
been expressed by the National Assembly, is now 
confirmed by the unanimity of popular suffrages.—
Tuscany, in associating her destinies with those of 
Piedmont, far from removing, continues her glorious 
traditions, and augments their importance by uniting 
them to those of the other parties of the State. The 
Parliament, in which the representatives of Tuscany 
will take seats beside those of Piedmont, Lombardy 
and the Remelia, will bring the laws of the country 
into conformity with the truthful principles of liber-
ty. Thus Tuscany will enjoy the blessings of ad-
ministrative autonomy,without weakening the union 
of power and the national will, upon which the pros-
perity and independence of the country are princi-
pally dependent." 
The King then signed the decree annexing Tusca-
ny to Sardinia. 
RESULTS OF A SPREE.—A melancholy tragedy oc-
curred Friday night in South Reading, the particu- 
lars of which are as follows. 
A Mr. Thompson, a hard-working Englishman, 
who lets the upper part of his house, to an Irish 
family, was so much disturbed by a jollification over- 
head that he went up stairs and asked the persons 
engaged in the tumult to discontinue their disorder-
ly proceedings. They however kept on, when he told 
them that unless they were more quiet he would call 
Mr. Skinner, the town officer. Finding his remon-
strances of no avail, Mr. Thompson started to sum- 
mon the officer. �
When the party ascertained that 
he had gone, a number of the men, furious with liq-
uor, followed him, and as he reports, surrounded 
and attacked him, when, to save his life, he stabbed 
three of them. �
One was stabbed in the neck, the 
knife running downwards. �
Ile died in a few min- 
utes after. Another was stabbed in the abdomen, so 
that his bowels protruded. He cannot recover, and 
was insensible at last accounts. A third was stabbed 
above the groin, and is dangerously wounded. Mr. 
Thompson immediately gave himself up to the offi-
cers, and accompanied them to the jail at East Cam-
bridge, where he is now confined. He will he exam-
ined on Thursday before the Trial Justice for South 
Reading. 
We clip the following b4 of " judicious counsel" 
from the Richmond Religious Herald. 
Judicious Counsel.—" Pittsylvania" has placed 
the following in our drawer : " Never write a com-
plaint against your pastor or the editor of your re-
ligious paper, until you think and pray over it a 
few days." 
Very " judicious counsel," certainly, and it is 
hoped that it will be accepted by those for whose 
benefit it is designed. The writer might have add-
ed, never utter a complaint, &c., for there are peo-
ple who seem to think that ministers and editors 
were born on purpose to be fodud fault with.—Hart- 
ford Herald. 
The loom of life never stops, not while we sleep, 
even ; the pattern which was weaving when the sun 
went down is weaving when it comes up. But what-
ever is of nature's spinning, must all be unravelled 
before Christ's righteousness can be put on. �
Says 
Fuller, many favors which God giveth us ravel out 
for want of hemming through our own unthankful-
ness ; for though prayer purchaseth blessings, giving 
praise doth not keep the quiet possession of them. 
confederate, and attempted to put me in. I broke 
the side of the carriage with my feet, and my sister 
seizing one of the ruffians, they dropped me on my 
feet again. Again they tried to put me in> but my 
sister whipped the horses, who started, and foiled 
them again. They were still struggling with me 
and her—five men against a man and a woman—
when the neighbors came running to my aid. Then, 
and not till then, did they read their warrant, in 
the street, by the light of a lantern, while I stood 
handcuffed and half clothed, in their hands. This 
must have been fifteen minutes after my seizure." 
The screams of Mr Sanborn, who is a strong, ath-
letic man, and of his sister, aroused the neighbors ; 
and the scholars of Mr. S., ran from house to house, 
ringing the door bells and alarming the citizens : 
The town bells were soon pealing out the alarm ; 
the citizens of all shades of party, soon surrounded 
their respected fellow townsman ; and even the la-
dies of the place rushed to the scene of excitement. 
His counsel, Hon. J. S. Keyes, who had been sent 
for, soon arrived, and on demanding to see the au- 
thority for the violent proceedings, was shown the 
outside of a paper which it was stated was signed by 
the Vice President of the United States, directed to 
the Sergeant-at-Arms of the Senate, and by him en-
dorsed over to one Silas Carlton, who was holding 
Mr. Sanborn. Mr Keyes dispatched a messenger to 
judge Hoar of the Supreme Court who lived at a 
short distance, for a writ of habeas corpus, which 
was at once granted, and sent for the Deputy Sher-
iff to serve it. 
Mr. Sanborn's sister seeing the crowd surround-
ing the officers and her brother, and that she could 
do no more good there, seized the whip from the car-
riage and began beating the horses in good earnest, 
but one of the men took the whip from her. She 
then jumped into the carriage to prevent her brother 
being put into it, but she was taken out with more 
force than politeness. 
While the writ was being prepared, the crowd 
gave vent to their feelings in hisses, groans, &c. 
One of the officers turned round and made some kind 
of threat to a bystander, when he was immediately 
seized by the waist and pitched headlong into a 
sandbank, and immediately half a dozen men were 
piled on the top of him. 
Nothing but the assurance that a writ would soon 
be obtained and Mr. Sanborn released in a legal way, 
prevented the exasperated citizens from pummelling 
the officers and rescuing the prisoner. Several at-
tempts were made to attack the officials. One man 
raised his fist to strike, but was restrained by a citi-
zen who observed his movements. Another was on 
the point of hurling a stone at the officers, but was 
arrested in the attempt. 
The carriage of the officers was considerably dam-
aged by stones and other missiles. One door was 
broken and the glass shattered. 
On the arrival of the Deputy Sheriff the writ was 
speedily served. Mr. Carlton refused to give up his 
prisoner, and demanded a copy of the writ; but his 
hold of Mr. Sanborn was released so suddenly that 
he did not miss his hat which he lost in the struggle, 
Carlton and his men were pretty roughly handled, 
and but for the interposition of leading citizens, they 
would have been mobbed. But for the law-abiding 
spirit of New England men prevailed and a riot was 
prevented. 
While they were still waiting, Mr. Sanborn was 
got back into his house. Mr. Keyes, his counsel, 
went out to the officers and asked them for the key 
of the handcuffs, telling them that if they would 
give it to him, he would return them the handcuffs, 
and read the writ of habeas corpus. This was done. 
In the meantime some of the citizens applied to 
Justice Ball for a warrant to arrest the United States 
officers for assault and battery. The warrant was 
issued, but before it could be served, the officers took 
to their carriage and fled, and were pursued to the 
limits of the town of Lexington, but their pursuers 
were unable to overtake them. 
Mr. Rufus Hosmer, a gentleman predisposed to 
apoplexy, was among the witnesses of the exciting 
affair, which produced such an effect upon his sys-
tem, that he was seized with a fit on reaching home, 
and died soon after. 
THE ADVENT HERALD. 
THE SAVOY QUESTION. 
The annexation of Savoy to France was generally 
regarded as an accomplished fact. The London 
Times admits that the Emperor Napoleon had gone 
so far that he could not in honor recede without a 
fight, and says that he must be permitted to carry 
off his prey. 
It is asserted that all the appointments of prefects 
and other officials for Savoy had been completed in 
Paris. 
The Savoy deputation,consisting of forty members, 
had arrived in Paris and had been received by the 
Emperor. 
The Paris correspondent of the London Times says 
all the powers had replied to France relative to Sa-
voy, and gives the following as the substance of their 
notes : Russia says, so long as the right of the peo-
ple to select their rulers is not put forward by France 
and that as the present change does not affect the 
balance of Europe, what Sardinia may do with Sa-
voy is no affair of hers. Prussia says, as the Em-
peror formally disavows the doctrine of natural fron-
tiers, the transfer of Savoy is no business of hers.—
Austria declares she certainly does not approve of 
any annexation of the kind, but as Europe stood by 
when other annexations were effected, she does not 
see what she has to do with the Savoy annexation. 
ITALY. 
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THE ADVENT HERALD. 
CORRESPONDENCE. 
In this department, articles are solicited, on the general 
subject of the Advent, from friends of the Herald, over 
their own signatures, irrespective of the particular views 
which it defends. Views of correspondents not dissented 
from, are not necessarily to be considered as editorially 
endorsed. Correspondents are expected to avoid all per-
sonalities, and to study Christian courtesy in all references 
to views and persons. Any departure from this should be 
regarded as Oisentitling the writer to any reply. Christian 
and gentlemanly discussion will be in order ; but not 
needless, unkind, or uncourteous controversy. 
This book contains the " heavenly things" of which 
Moses' house was the shadow. See Hob. Hence 
the throne, 24 elders, cherubim with wings, sea, or 
laver, slain lamb, and priest-robed angels. Chaps. 
4, 5, and 15. The redeemed, ch. 15, stood by (not 
"upon") the sea, as did the ancient harpers, which 
sea answered like a " glass" for a mirror for those 
armies. See 2 Chron. 5:12, and margin of Ex. 38: 
8. 
Again, we have the " first-fruits," ch. 14, which 
were not defiled with women, as were not the wor-
shipers under the law ; and then the temple, and 
ark of the testimony, and altar, and incense, and 
trumpets, &c. &c. ; and finally the new Jerusalem, 
without which the spiritually impure are kept, as 
were the ceremonially impure from the typical con-
gregation. 
Now St. Paul in Hebrews makes the whole mat-
ter a definite type, not as a mere matter of illustra-
tion, but positively asserts that the former was a 
" shadow of good things to come," and that for 
that reason Moses was admonished, " See that thou 
make all things according to the pattern," Heb. 8: 
5. He declares that because the priests sprinkled 
all the furniture with blood, in order that a perfect 
antetype should be realized throughout. " It was 
therefore necessary" . . . . that the heavenly things 
should be purified with blood also. 9:18-23. 
But he proves that to this end there must be an 
old and a new throughout-a change in the priest-
hood, and testament, and sacrifice and everything. 
Now the common " fancy," and recently announ-
ced in the A. F. C. Union, as I suppose by Mr. 
Shimeall, totally ignores this great principle,-not 
my own, but St. Paul's-of type and antitype.-
Mr. S. has but one daily worship, and one " taking 
away," commencing in the first, and continuing 
through the second dispensation. But there were 
two high priests, type and antitype, the Jewish and 
our High Priest ; two daily priesthoods, the typical 
and the royal priesthood-" kings and priests unto 
God," 1 Pet. 2:9 ; Rev. 5. The tables of stone 
and the sprinkling are antityped by having our 
consciences sprinkled and the law written in our 
hearts, and the incense, by the prayers of the saints. 
The Apocalyptic trumpets are not a continuation 
of the Jewish, but their counterpart ; and so of all. 
There must of necessity be a change. 
Now the Holy of holies represented heaven, but 
the holy place was not in the Holiest. and therefore 
its antitype was not in heaven, but on earth, which 
" house are we." Accordingly the Revelator saw 
the candlesticks on earth, ch. 1 ; but when the Ho-
liest is shown him, he enters a door in heaven, c. 4. 
St. Paul says this holy place is called the " sanctu-
ary," Heb. 9. In it the daily sacrifices are offered. 
Now it is this sanctuary and daily sacrifice, in its 
antitype, which is trampled down, according to 
Daniel and John. Dan. 8:11 ; Rev. 11. For it 
occurs at the time of the end, where the transgress-
ors are to the full, and during the 3 1-2 times, 
which are confessedly in the present dispensation. 
True, the typical daily was removed, but by 
all the true material of the temple and city which 
have so long been in process of preparation, and 
then the true Solomon will be crowned* and gather 
up camp and vessels which before bad been without 
an abiding place ; and at the time appointed, the 
great period for cleansing the sanctuary, the sound-
ing of the last trumpets, the feast of tabernacles, 
shall come. The trumpeters and singers and harp-
ers will be as one to make one sound to be heard in 
praising and thanking the Lord. A seventh month 
demonstration is yet in reserve, in which all the 
family in heaven and in earth will participate. 
A. BROWN. 
Louisville, Ky. 
* Solomon's kingdom and temple were certainly 
typical of Christ's kingdom and the completion of 
the great spiritual temple at his coming ; but as 
Solomon's reign and temple were inaugurated 1000 
years before that system entirely ceased, so will the 
antitype be inaugnrated 1000 years anterior to the 
eternal state. �
A. B. 
The Providence Sunday School. 
Last Sunday was a very interesting day with us. 
We were favored with a visit from that venerable 
and excellent friend of Sabbath schools, Joseph S. 
Tillinghast of New Bedford. He is truly a noble 
man, and is doing much to aid Sabbath schools. In 
the evening we had our quarterly Exercise, which 
was, like those that preceded it, very interesting. I 
will give you in brief the order of the exercises. 
Hymn, sung by the school. 
Recitation of Scripture, Psa. 88:1-12, and Ps. 
114. 
Prayer, by Reuben A. Guild, Superintendent 
of the Brown street Baptist Sabbath school, and 
Librarian at Brown University. 
Hymn, 
Infant class. Poetry, Lord's prayer. 
Infant class. Poetry, the Bible. 
10,1 lesson in the Berean ; subject, the restor- 
ed kingdom ; and 12th lesson, prerequisites for the 
kingdom. In which 40 scholars took part. 
Hymn. 
History and call of Abraham, from the time 
he left Ur of the Chaldees, to the time of his death. 
His journey traced on an outline map, drawn by one 
of the scholars, now in his 13th year. 
Description of Goshen. Israel in Goshen, 
their departure from Goshen, and their travels and 
sojourning in the wilderrness 40 years, until their 
establishment, in Canaan, stopping at 47 different 
stations, all traced on another outline map, made by 
another youthful scholar, and him also in the 13th 
year of his age. 34 other scholars also took part in 
this journey, giving a brief history of what occur-
red at the different encampments. 
Hymn. 
A synopsis of the book of Hebrews. 
Addresses were then made by father Tilling-
hast and Reuben A. Guild• 
A collection was taken up, amounting to $23 
(added to this, the morning and afternoon collec-
tions, made the aggregate for the day amount to 
$140.75.) 
Recitation of Matt. 25:34-37, followed by an 
Anthem, containing a portion of these words. 
15. Benediction. 
I clip the following from the Providence Evening 
Press of yesterday. 
ANTHONY PEARCE, Sup't. 
Providence, March 28. 
forts his interest has never flagged. He goes from 
place to place, working Sunday after Sunday, and 
not only paying his entire expenses, but also con-
tributing most liberally to every collection taken up 
where he speaks. His venerable appearance, and 
the plain, simple manner in which his addresses are 
delivered, combine to produce a favorable impression 
upon all who hear him. On Sunday he spoke at 
the Church of the Yahveh, on Broad street, and 
though there had been a collection taken up in the 
morning, and was to be another in the evening, yet 
at the afternoon service $105 were collected for the 
Sunday School. May the Lord bless his labors and 
the cause for which he is so disinterestedly working. 
For of all the means for preventing crime, and rais-
ing the standard of religion and morality in our 
country, the most effective is the Sunday School." 
The Virgins. 
Bro. Bliss :-While looking at the slumbering 
state of the church, my mind was drawn to the par-
able of the ten virgins, Matt. 25:1, and I was struck 
with the thought that the sleeping time had come. 
What a plain declaration we have in this parable of 
the present state of the church-its coldness and 
indifference about spiritual and Divine things. The 
kind Saviour has given us in this chapter, as well 
as in the previous one, much good counsel concern-
ing his coming. He did not answer the four disci-
ples that came inquiring of him concerning his com-
ing and the end of the world, as many of the teach-
ers of this age do,-who say these are hidden things 
which God has not seen fit to reveal to us. The 
Saviour makes it so plain, that we think all who 
read should understand. After giving many signs 
of his coming, in the first forty-four verses of the 
twenty-fourth chapter, he speaks of the faithful and 
wise servant, whom his Lord when he cometh shall 
find giving meat in due season ; and a blessing is 
pronounced upon those who shall be found so doing. 
When Wm. Miller and others begun, like Noah, 
to give meat in due season, warning the world of its 
approaching doom, then the prejudiced of the evil 
servants began to be aroused, and many of them 
stood trembling till the time had passed when the 
virgins thought to have met the Bridegroom, and 
then they began to say, My Lord delayeth his com-
ing, smiting their fellow-servants, and eating and 
drinking with the drunken. This scripture seems 
to speak plainly of the time of the end ; for the 
evil servant could not object and say, My Lord de-
layeth his coming, until the faithful servants begun 
first to say, Behold he cometh. When the evil ser-
vant is saying, My Lord delayeth his coming, then 
the kingdom of heaven is likened to ten virgins who 
took their lamps and went forth to meet the Bride-
groom ; five of whom were wise and five foolish. 
Time has plainly shown that a great many of those 
who went out to meet the Lord, went out through 
fear, more than for the love of his coming ; for 
while the Lord has tarried, some have fallen in 
again with the popular theory of the present day. 
While the bridegroom tarried they all slumbered 
and slept. This word all signifies all that went 
forth to meet the bridegroom,-the wise, as well as 
the foolish. The word sleep signifies the lukewarm 
state of the church during the tarry of the bride-
groom. But at midnight there is to be a cry made, 
Behold the Bridegroom cometh ; go ye out to meet 
him. What that cry will be, I cannot say ; but 
when it is made, the virgins will understand it and 
arouse from their slumbers and trim their lamps : 
but the foolish virgins will find to their great aston-
ishment that their lamps have gone out. While 
they have had a name to live, they have been defi-
cient of the oil, which is the Holy Ghost. It ap-
pears as though there will be a very short period 
between the midnight cry and the coming of the 
Bridegroom. When the cry is made the mediati, n 
of Christ for sinners will cease, and the only refuge 
for the sinner will be to flee to the rocks and moun-
tains ; and these will prove no shelter ; for they 
will disappear at the brightness of the glory of Is-
rael's King. And the foolish said unto the wise, 
Give us of your oil. They will go to the wise for 
assistance ; but it will be too late. The watchman 
will have his work done, and will be waiting to hear 
the welcome voice, Come, ye blessed of my Father ; 
they will find those in whom they had confidence as 
teachers, like themselves, confounded and ashamed. 
While they went to buy the Bridegroom came, and 
they that were ready went in, and the door was 
shut. Their not getting the oil, or the qualifica-
tions for entering, is sufficient reason to believe that 
the door of mercy will be shut when the cry is made, 
and it will be said, " He that is unjust, let him he 
unjust still : and he that is holy, let him be holy 
still." The midnight hour is come ; the cry will 
soon be made. Brethren, are we ready to enter in ? 
Even so come, Lord Jesus. 
S. K. LAKE. 
Cainsvitle, C. W., Marrh 15, 1860. 
ter. It is mean, and wicked ; and a just God will 
not approve it. I uttered this sentiment recently 
before an audience which had been regaled by one 
of these ingrates. 
Much of the great movement was not " written," 
it is true ; but nevertheless those thunders (Rev.10: 
7) aroused and startled the world, and the proclam-
ation which accompanied them " lightened the 
earth as nothing had done before in reference to 
his declarations to his servants the prophets. But 
the book was only then opened. You must eat and 
thoroughly digest it ; for rest assured it is again 
and more fully and correctly to be preached before 
" people and nations." And if the Adventists do 
it not, who can ? 
" They that understand among 
the people shall instruct many," when the daily 
sacrifice is taken away, and the sanctuary is pollut-
ed. Dan. 11:30-5. Or, as expressed in Rev. 11,the 
holy city shall be trodden down, but the witnesses 
shall prophecy meanwhile. These two chapters are 
identified as parallel by the oath and hand lifted to 
heaven and the periods, 3 1-2 times, or 42 months, 
occurring in each. Observe, the 42 months, Rev. 
11, occur after the thunders, the first proclamation 
and the book is eaten. As the 3 1-2 times of Dan. 
12 occur after the daily is taken away and the wise 
understand, and they cannot understand till the 
hook is unsealed (opened Rev. 10) and that must 
be at the time of the end. Dan. 11:31-5 ; 12:4. Be-
sides, the daily is removed during the reign of a 
king who continues to the reign of Michael, 11:29 ; 
12:1, and consequently the 1260 days must be liter-
al. 
But all this is introductory. 
These events and periods are interwoven in Dan-
iel and John. Both books must be read together. 
The great basis of Revelation, and by consequence 
of Daniel, is the Jewish system as its type. This 
great and fundamental fact is generally overlooked. 
The Apocalypse, Antitype of the Law. 
Dear Bro. Bliss :-You are aware that owing to 
my residence being remote from the great centers of 
the advent movement, and from other causes, 
I was but slightly affected by it. Unitl about '48 
I had never heard but two sermons on the subject. 
While attending a theological institution at Con-
cord, N. H., in '48-9, I undertook in a student's 
lyceum to defend the affirmative of the question, 
" Do the moral aspects of the world indicate the 
triumph of the gospel ;" which resulted in my tho-
rough conviction that no such " triumph" awaited 
the gospel ; and my mind was troubled exceedingly 
for many months ; but I found no comfort among 
my companions. 
Many know the rest, of struggle for light and 
truth, and that, as is uniformly the case with the 
mind when emerging from the traditions and ideas 
of a lifetime, some crude, and perhaps fanciful no-
tions, accompanied the transition. 
But one thought then deeply impressed me : that 
in the movement of 1843 was realized the going 
" forth to meet the Bridegroom," Matt. 25:1 ; that 
in the general stupor and sense of security which 
followed in the church after the time passed, was 
fulfilled the slumber and sleep of the virgins ; but 
that another, and this time certain awakening, must 
precede the coming of the Son of man. Twelve 
years have rolled by-years of earnest study of the 
word-during which I have passed the meridian 
of life-and he is today more than ever convinced 
that these impressions were substantially correct. 
Associated as he is, and if it is allowable not with-
out a respectable position with one of the prominent 
denominations, he can have no sinister motive (but 
much otherwise) for the declaration that he most 
unhesitatingly believes that the Advent movement 
was of God ; a Beulah vision of the inheritance, 
obscured for a little while by flying clouds, soon to 
be dissipated forever. Glory to God, I believe it ; 
yea, 1 love it, too. 
Our country contains many thousands of minis-
ters and laymen, pre-millennialists, who advocate 
the truth, but always with the saving clause-a de- 
nunciation of what they term " Millerisru"-when whom ? Not by the typical Israel, but by the gen-
Miller has taught them all they know of the mat- tiles, by aliens ; so the antitypical daily cannot be 
overthrown by the professedly spiritual Israel, but 
by antichrist. The city is to be " trodden down of 
the gentiles," Rev. 11. The court of the gentiles 
was outside that of Israel, but here they encroach 
upon Israel's court and trample down their sanctu-
ary and sacrifice and place in its stead the abomina-
tion, a strange god. 
The Jews had for centuries been essentially 
corrupt and apostate before their worship was over-
thrown. So the church has now, and it is because 
of this apostacy-" because of transgression" that 
a host is given to the little horn against them. Dan. 
8. �
But the common " fancy" makes the Almighty 
give the sanctuary into the hands of apostate Israel 
and punish that Israel by giving it great dominion. 
The inspired representation is that the trans-
gressors, the apostates shall in this visitation be the 
principle sufferers, though some of the understand-
ing ones shall fall to make them white ; but gener-
ally those who worship in the temple and at the al-
tar, genuine Christians who come boldly unto the 
throne of grace, are to be measured, and those out-
side to be trampled down. Rev. 11. 
The genuine Christians will be spared. 
The corrupt professors trodden down. 
But under the Papal dominion it was exactly the 
reverse of this,-genuine Christians were trampled 
down and the apostasy bore rule. 
But no such complete suppression of the regular, 
or continual daily religious worship as is here pre-
dieted has ever yet been realized. It is future.-
That strange imperial prodigy, whose successive 
progressive strokes elicit the wonder and adoration 
of the world is evidently preparing to suppress the 
church; and even Christians, in our dislike of Papa- 
cy, stand ready to shout hosannabs to the man of 
sin as a great reformer. Well, all the world won-
dered after and worshipped him. Rev. 13. 
But the day of trial will fully prepare and unite 
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The Exercises at the Advent Church, (Rev. Mr. 
Osier's) were well attended on Sunday. In the 
evening the house was crowded to witness the exer-
cises of the Sunday School, and many went away 
not being able to obtain seats. 
Father Tillinghast addressed the School and the 
congregation in the morning and afternoon to their 
great delight and profit. 
The exercises in the evening were listened to with 
marked interest and evident satisfaction, at the close 
of which Mr. Tillinghast remarked that the year 
1859 had been the happiest year of all his life, and 
he had spent this evening very pleasantly, and did 
not recollect of ever spending an evening more plea-
santly than this, while listening to the exercises just 
concluded. He attributed his present enjoyment to 
the fact of his laboring to promote the cause of Sab-
bath schools. He was followed by some remarks 
from Reuben A. Guild, ,Esq., who spoke in very 
commendable terms of the evening's exercises ; he 
considered them very interesting, even more so than 
any he had ever attended of the kind. 
We give in this connection the following commu-
nication in relation to the venerable Mr. Tilling-
hast : 
" On Sunday we were glad to see among us our 
venerable friend Joseph S. Tillinghast, from New 
Bedford In the highest sense of the word, he is a 
Sunday school apostle. By the Lord himself he was 
called to the work, and since he commenced his ef- 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
THE ADVENT HERALD �
119 
From Sister L. S. Phares. 
Dear Bro. :-In reading the Herald lately, I have 
been pained by communications from some of its 
old patrons, that they have been obliged to give up 
and do without it ;-after having received so much 
comfort, and instruction from its perusal. Had 1 
the means, I would be glad to help such, especially 
the infirm, who need such consolations as it gives. 
I have many times been much cramped for money 
whilst I have been taking the Herald, and have been 
brought to reflect on the probability of having to dis-
continue it ; and I know what sadness the thought 
gave me-not only, on my own account, but for the 
sake of others. Our family is composed of my mo-
ther, step father and myself,-all readers of the pa-
per. My father is over 90, but can see to read 
very well, and he often expresses preference for the 
Herald, to any other paper. 
I saw a communication from. Bro. Fasset, express-
ing his desire to have the ministry and churches 
aroused, and fully awake to the question of what 
claims each view of the now admitted truth of an 
important era being just upon us. 
He expresses a hope that the desire for truth will 
lead the faithful to come together and that investi-
gations will be extended until all the true people of 
God shall understand, and be prepared for the Lord's 
coming, and he hopes that the day is not far distant 
when there will be a convention held for this pur-
pose in some metropolis to study and consult with 
each other upon this great subject of prophecy. I 
have thought much upon this very subject. I am 
surrounded by those who see nothing but prosperi-
ty for the church ; and I confess that I am some-
times driven by the surrounding tide until I nearly 
lose my whereabouts. We often hear of efforts to 
have some one preach who feels a proper interest in 
the subject of the speedy coming of Christ. But 
Ohio seems to have fallen from the faith, and will 
remain so until something shall arouse Christians 
to feel more interest in this subject. The mass seem 
to think that it is of little importance which view 
we hold. The time may not be far off when God 
will arouse his church to a just appreciation of this 
subject. 
Hamilton, 0., March, 1860. 
Pray for your Minister. 
Bro. Bliss :-The writer of the following lines is 
almost a centenarian, having passed his ninety-second 
year. The lines were handed to me with the remark, 
" Do what you please with them." And I send 
them to you with the same liberty. �
D. B. 
But always keep his wants in sight ; 
Pray for your minister, that is right, 
Remember when you pray, to give 
Your temporal things, that he may live. 
Pray for your minister-that indeed 
Is right, for him with God to plead ; 
On his behalf, that he may be 
Blest, ever in his ministry. 
Pray for your minister-that is good, 
But always give him ample food 
For to sustain decaying nature, 
Then you'll be blest of your Creator. 
Pray for your minister at home, 
Nor suffer selfish thoughts to roam ; 
Open your purse and gran'ry door, 
And pay him from your ample store. 
Pray for your minister, ye saint, 
Nor let him come to church all faint ; 
His temporal wants keep strict in mind, 
Remember none can live on wind. 
Pray for him then with one accord, 
That he may truly preach the word : 
Can it be done-say it you please-
Unless you give him bread and cheese ? 
Pray for your priest-maybe your cry, 
But do not let him starve and die : 
Be not like one who tho't no harm 
To say " Be fed, and be ye warm ;" 
Prayed, but withheld all needed good 
That nature craved, for nature's food. 
Now PRAY, and PAY, and what you give 
Do cheerful, and your soul shall live. 
A. E. 
Bristol, Vt., March 2, 1860. 
A Proposition. 
Bro. James Raisbeck writes me, that he will give 
fifty dollars to aid in the circulation of the Herald, 
on condition that nine others can be found who will 
give a like sum. And when nine others have paid 
in the proposed $450, or fifty dollars apiece, he will 
send his fifty. �
J. V. RIMES. 
Boston, April 2, 1860. 
PREACHING SIX MONTHS ON ONE TEXT.-The Rev. 
Samuel Kennedy, who was settled in Baskingridge, 
N. J. before the commencement of the Revolutiona-
ry War, was eminently an instructive preacher. He 
preached for six months on one text,--Rev. 3:20 : 
" Behold, I stand at the door and knock : if any man 
hear my voice and open the door, I will come in to 
him, and sup with him, and he with me." He 
preached six of these sermons on the word I, exhib- 
iting the character of Christ, in his mediatorial offi-
ces of Prophet, Priest, and King. 
OBITUARY. 
DIED, in Philadelphia, March 1st, 1860, of con-
sumption, in the 23d year of his age, ISAAC YOCUM. 
" Precious in the sight of the Lord is the death 
of his saints." And such was the death of our 
young brother, the subject of this notice. At the 
time of his conversion, in 1855, he was an inmate 
of our family, and very greatly endeared himself to 
us by his upright life and loveliness of his charac-
ter. After leaving us, he united with the South st. 
Presbyterian church, of which the late Wm. Ram-
sey was pastor, and of which he continued a devo-
ted member to the time of his death. His example 
was one worthy of imitation by all young men pro-
fessing to be the disciples of the self-denying Jesus. 
He felt that he had a place in the church and a 
work to do, and with his whole heart devoted him-
self to it. His place in the social meeting, while 
health permitted him to fill it, was seldom vacant ; 
his Sabbath school class were not disappointed ; and 
to their interest he was devotedly attached. 
When failing health induced him to leave his 
boarding house in the city and go to his father's 
house, about six miles out,even with failing strength, 
such was his conscientiousness, that on Sabbath 
morning he would walk to the city to attend church 
and Sabbath school, rather than patronise the Sun-
day car, and thus encourage what he believed a des-
ecration of the Sabbath. This is a specimen of his 
Christian life, and the strict principles by which he 
was actuated. Such a man could not but be very 
much endeared to all his friends, and especially the 
members of his church, who evinced their attach-
ment by unremitting attentions during his sickness. 
And such a sickness ! While the outward man de-
cayed, the inward man was daily renewed. Patient, 
peaceful, resigned, without a murmur, he awaited 
the moment when his change should come, and he 
being absent from the body should be present with 
the Lord. And in this happy frame of mind on 
Thursday, March 1st, he sweetly fell asleep in Je-
sus. And the following Monday, a large concourse 
of sorrowing, yet comforted and rejoicing friends, 
followed his remains to the tomb to repose till the 
trump of God shall call forth and the angelic hosts 
gather together the elect from the four winds. 
" Corruption, earth and worms 
Shall but refine this flesh, 
Till his triumphant spirit comes 
To put it on afresh. 
Arrayed in glorious grace 
Shall this vile body shine, 
And his dear shape, and lovely face, 
Be heavenly and divine." 
J. LITCII. 
Departed this life, Feb. 27th, 1860, sister JEMIMA 
HuonEs, wife of Bro. James Hughes, aged 45 years, 
7 months and 23 days. 
Sister Hughes has been for many years a devoted 
follower of Jesus Christ-a consistent and happy 
Christian. In the summer of '57 she was shocked 
by lightning which struck their house, from the ef-
fect of which she never fully recovered. She bore 
her trials and sufferings with more than ordinary 
patience-yea, was even joyful in them all. She 
died in full hope of a part in the first resurrection. 
A husband and four children mourn her loss. The 
hope of meeting again, in the land of the living, 
when Jesus comes, sweetens their sorrow. 
M. 
My son LEWIS died Feb. 3, in the 26th year of his 
age, with consumption. 
When fourteen years of age he gave evidence of 
being a child of God. After that he lost his interest 
in the service of Christ, and tried to build himself 
up on a sort of rationalism ; but in his last 
struggle with the enemy death, which lasted but a 
few days, this hope failed, and he had nothing to 
support him in a dying hour. At this trying mo-
ment he was again enabled to look to the Lamb of 
God that taketh away the sin of the world. Peace 
and joy again filled his soul, and he found in Christ 
the only sure foundation to build upon. It was a 
great consolation to see him sweetly fall asleep in 
Christ, with love beaming in every feature of his 
countenance. I think I never before so fully real-
ized the power of Jesus' name. 
�
 Sweet name ! its worth I view , 
0 may I wear his nature too ! 
This is our passport to the right hand of God, 
where there are pleasures forevermore. Still I am 
waiting and looking for Jesus to come back again, 
gather up his jewels, reign on the earth, restored to 
an Eden state, when God shall set his king on his 
holy hill Zion, when he shall reign before his an-
cients gloriously. Amen. 
LAWTON WADE. 
Killingly, Ct., March 27, 1860. 
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THE GOLDEN SALVE—A GREAT HEALING REMEDY.—It 
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FEED MY LAMBS."--John 21:15. 
BOSTON. APRIL 14e, 1860. 
The Railroad to Heaven. 
The road to heaven by Christ was made ; 
With heavenly truth the rails were laid ; 
From earth to heaven the line extends 
To life eternal, where it ends. 
Repentance is the station then, 
Where passengers are taken in ; 
No fare for them is there to pay ; 
For Jesus is himself the way. 
The Bible is the engineer, 
It points the way to heaven so clear; 
Through tunnels dark and dreary here, 
It does the way to glory steer. 
God's love the fire, his truth the steam 
Which drives the engine and the train ; 
All you who would to glory ride 
Must conic to Christ—in him abide. 
Come, then, dear children; now's the time 
At any station on the line ; 
If you repent and turn from sin, 
The train will stop and take you in. 
The Ransom. 
During a sad war, there was a Colonel 
of one army taken prisoner. How could 
they get him set free? At last a Colonel 
belonging to the enemy was taken. Now 
there was a way in which our Colonel 
might be released. They could exchange 
prisoners; they could give Colonel for Col-
onel. 
Once in the councils of heaven, there 
was a day when your case was under 
consideration. The question was,—
How shall men--these children, these 
youths, these precious souls—be saved '1" 
There was One who sat there, whose 
blood was precious enough in the sight of 
God to buy all souls. 
He said, " Lo, I come ;" and that was 
as if He had said, " Father, here is my 
blood : that will be a ransom." 
The Father accepted the blood of the 
Son : you know who that Son was. It was 
Jesus Christ, who, I doubt not, forms the 
subject day after day of your teacher's in-
struction. He gave his precious blood, 
and you must have that blood sprinkled 
on your heart, dear children, or you can-
not be saved. The way to salvation is the 
blood of Jesus Christ, applied by the Holy 
Spirit. Dear children, will you not look 
to this Lord Jesus Christ, that you may 
be saved? 
The Happy Boy. 
" When we've been there ten thousand years." 
Just under my window, in a neighbor-
ing yard, is a long wood-pile, and a few 
days since, you might have seen a boy 
come into the yard, and saw away upon 
the large sticks in right good earnest. He 
was a small boy, but he worked steadily, 
and I was quite sure that by-and-by he 
would finish this work, discouraging as it 
must seem at first. I thought he must be 
a very happy boy, because he always sung 
as he worked. From morning till night I 
could hear the noise of his saw, and with 
it came the music of a very pleasant voice, 
keeping time with the sawing. 
One day I listened to catch the words, 
and what think you he was singing? I 
expected to hear some foolish and senseless 
song, such as I too often hear boys sing-
ing through the streets. But no, I could 
understand every word distinctly as this 
cheerful boy sung, 
" When we've been there ten thousand years, 
Bright shining as the sun, 
We've no less days to sing God's praise 
Than when we first begun." 
In an instant I was carried back many 
Years to a low, brown house, miles away 
from my home, where my good grandmo-
ther taught me to sing this same hymn. 
And I wondered if this little boy ever 
thought how much these words meant.—
Do you think, children, when you sing 
them? Orrly to know that if you are good, 
and love Jesus, and try to please him dur-
ing the few years you stay in this world, 
when you die He will take you to be with 
Him always. And when, as this excellent 
hymn says, you've been there " ten thou-
sand years," and look back, over all those 
bright years, to the few days spent on 
the earth, do you think you will be sorry 
that you chose the better part, and can 
then look forward to endless years of hap-
piness and glory? 
Affecting Incident. 
When Dr. Hutton was Bishop of Dur-
ham, (as we are told, by his biographer,) 
and as he was travelling over Cam, Wens-
leydale and Ingleton, he suddenly dis-
mounted ; and, having delivered his horse 
to a servant, walked to a particular place, 
at some distance from the highway, where 
he knelt down, and continued some time 
in prayer. On his return, one of his at-
tendants took the liberty of inquiring what 
was his master's motive for so singular an 
act; in answer to which the Bishop in-
formed him that, wl►ell he was a poor boy, 
without shoes or stockings, traversing this 
cold and bleak mountain on a frosty day, 
he remembered that he had disturbed a 
red cow, then lying on that identical place, 
in order to warm his feet and legs on the 
spot. 
The above anecdote, which so beauti-
fully and touchingly illustrates the charac-
ter of the worthy Bishop, is, taken from 
Whittaker's " History of Richmondshire." 
Does it not teach us two things First; 
that we ought never to be ashamed of poor 
parents, and the mean and lowly circum-
stances of our early days. It is a much 
greater honor to any man to have raised 
himself by his knowledge, his industry 
and his goodness to the highest position in 
society, than if he had inherited such po-
sition merely by the accident of his birth 
or fortune. 
Secondly : that when any little incident 
occurs to remind us of the lowliness or 
privations of our former life, we ought to 
make use of it as an outlet for our grati-
tude to God, and a motive for renewed de-
votedness to His will and service, who 
" raiseth up the poor out of the dust, and 
lifteth up the beggar from the dunghill," 
that he may " set them among the princes 
of His people." 
A Puzzle. 
A witty boy writing a letter to a school 
fellow in a well known academy in New 
England superscribed his letter in the fol-
lowing way : 
Wood 
John 
Mass. 
which three words, with the relative posi-
tion of the name " John," indicate the 
school fellow's whole name, and also the 
town and State where he studied. 
This is one of the prettiest puzzles that 
ever was invented, and the boy or girl 
must be very smart that can solve it. 
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than to send by an agent, or any third person, unless sucn 
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that is, in brief, to express my conviction that it is the 
best work on Matt. 24th and 25th chapters I have ever 
seen. It is truthful, stirring, perspicuous, adapted to con-
vince, and not lengthy,—just the kind of book needed for 
the times. I hope our brethren will circulate it widely. 
"D. T. TAYLOR." 
The following is the index, and will show the principal 
topics treated on in the work : 
Jesus and his disciples at the temple, three questions, 
caution against deception, history of false Christs, notice 
of wars, rise of 10 kingdoms, history of famines, pestilen-
ces, earthquakes, saints hated by all nations, rise of false 
prophets, many deceived, abounding of iniquity, this gos-
pel of the kingdom, abomination of desolation, fleeing to 
the mountains, the great tribulation, days shortened, elect, 
lo here, signs and wonders, Christ's advent personal, visi-
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heavens shaken, sign of the Son of man, Christ comes, 
saints gathered, parable of the fig-tree, days of Noah and 
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levees, olios, Ac., parable of ten virgins, parable of tal-
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foundation of the world, the righteous to eternal life, the 
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The Lord willing, I will preach in Claremont, N. H., 
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Windsor, 23d; Tunbridge, 24th, where brother Cleveland 
may appoint ; Northfield, Sunday, 29th ; Densmore Hill, 
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Elder Rimes will preach in Templeton, Mass., on Friday 
evening, Apr 13, and on Sabbath, April 15th. 
Eld. G. W. Burnham will preach in Boston, Mass., on 
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