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upon 
"We see him lifted bodily by two men 
into the pulpit, and then leaning wearily 
upon it for support. We hear his trem-
ulous, faltering uncertain tones as he 
opens the text. We listen as he 'pro-
ceeds moderately for the space of half 
an hour ;' and then entering his 
application, he warms and glows until 
he makes the students 'tremble so that 
they cannot hold their pens to write,' 
and kindling with the rush and mo-
mentum of his - thought, the spirit tri-
umphing over the half-dead body, we 
see the shrivelled limbs become instinct 
with life and energy, and the whole man 
'so active and vigorous that he is like to 
ding the pulpit in blads and fly out of 
it.' " 
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cast down at the foot of the cross, and 
the righteousness of Christ must be trust-
ed in and taken hold of by faith. Attn:,-
' ed in that spotless robe, we can confi-
dently appear before God our heavenly 
I Father, but in no other way. The soul 
is thus introduced more and more into 
the hidden life of Christ, 4iaintains com-
munion with God her Saviour, and lives 
and rests in her true element. 
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THE DIVINE PRESENCE PROMISED. 
BY L. OGLER. 
 
THE TREE GOOD, THE FRUIT GOOD. 
" Walk worthy of the Lord unto all pleasing."—
Col. 1: 10. 
To walk worthy of Him, is to walk in 
some measure as the blessed Lord him-
self walked, according to the precepts of 
the gospel. Don't think it a matter of 
indifference with God whether you serve 
him or not. Don't get that fearful doc-
trine into your head that it is no matter 
what your life is if you are only one of 
the elect. If you are one of the elect, it 
will make you desirous of pleasing God, 
and be very tender about offending him ; 
and this will regulate- your daily walk 
and conduct. You will be saying from 
time to time, " Is this pleasing to God ? " 
What a number of sins you would be 
kept from, what a number of snares you 
would escape, were you to ask yourself 
the question, " Is this pleasing to God or 
not ? " How it would regulate your con-
duct ; how it would keep your tongue, 
your eyes, your ears,, your heart, your 
hands ; and how-blessed a guide it would 
be in every movement of your life I You 
might tell us you had the best pear-tree 
in the country ; but let us see how it is 
in the autumn. You might tell us what 
a beautiful garden you had, the most 
beautiful in the country ; let us see how 
it looks in the spring and in the summer. 
So you may say you know this doc-
trine and the other doctrine ; but what 
are their effects on the heart and life ? 
You see how Scripture speaks of these 
things, and how the Apostle prayed that 
the Colossians "might walk worthy of 
the Lord unto all pleasing, being fruitful 
in every good work." Don't think that 
good works are to be set aside. They 
are like the fruit that grows upon the 
tree ; they don't make the tree to be a 
good tree, but they manifest it. It is 
not having beautiful pears that make a 
tree a good tree, but if it be a good tree 
it will brilig forth good pears. It is not 
the fine crop of wheat growing upon a 
farm that makes good soil ; but good 
soil and good cultivation produce the 
good crop. So it is in grace. It is not 
the mere doctrines talked of, but it is the 
effect of these things upon the heart. 
Where there are good doctrines implant-
ed, the result is like that of a good farm 
or a good tree ; there will be a good 
crop, good fruit. And it is by these 
things you judge whether the doctrines 
are mere doctrines, or whether they are 
received into the heart with a divine 
power. 
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RESTING IN GOD. 
"In returning and rest shall ye be sav-
ed ; in quietness and confidence shall be 
your strength" (Isa. 30 : 15.) As in a 
calm stream alone the sun can reflect his 
face ; so the Holy Spirit can reflect the 
image of Christ only in a soul that is at 
rest. To attain to this state of mind, we 
must turn off our eyes and thoughts from 
the things of time and sense, and fix them 
on Christ. He must become more pre-
cious to the soul than all besides. Our 
sinfulness and all our infirmities must be 
 
MOUNT TABOR. 
TABOR. 
This mountain is situated about sixty 
miles north of Jerusalem, and six miles 
from Nazareth in the plains of Esdraelon. 
It rises from the plains to the height.of 
four miles, presenting a figure represent-
ing a half sphere. From the top of this 
mountain can be had one of the most 
beautiful and gratifying scenes in the 
world. "From the top of Tabor," says 
Maundrell, "you have a prospect which, 
if nothing else, will reward the labor of 
ascending it. It is impossible for man's 
eyes to behold a higher gratification of 
this nature. On the north-west you dis-
cern at a distance the Mediterranean 
and all around you are the spacious and 
beautiful plains of Esdraelon and Galilee. 
Turning to the south you have in view 
the mountains of Gilboa, fatal to Saul 
and his sons. Due east you discover the 
Sea of Tiberias distant about one day's 
journey. A few points to the north ap-
pears that which they call the "Mount of 
Beatitudes." To the south-west is Car-
mel, and on the south the hills of Sama-
ria. The history of this mountain is very 
interesting. 
It is first spoken of in the Bible in the 
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of the speedy, personal, pre-millennial advent of 
Christ, the glorification of the church at that epoch, 
the dissolution of the heavens and earth by fire, 
their renewal as the everlasting inheritance of the 
redeemed, and the establishment of the kingdom 
of God; and while rejecting—as it has from the 
commencement of its existence—the doctrine of the 
unconscious state of the dead and extinction of the 
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ONWARD. 
" Casting aside every weight." 
Silent, like men in solemn haste, 
Girded wayfarers of the waste, 
We press along the narrow road 
That leads to life, to truth, to God. 
We fling aside the weight, the sin, 
Resolved the victory to win; 
We know the peril, but our eyes 
Rest on the grandeur of the prize. 
No idling now, no, wasteful sleep, 
Our hands from earnest toil to keep, 
No shrinking from the desperate fight. 
No thought of yielding or of flight. 
No love of present gain or ease, 
No seeking man or self to please; 
With the brave heart and steady eye, 
We onward march to victory. 
—Bonar. 
KEEPING THE HEART. 
I know an ancient fortress which one 
brave man could have held against an 
host. Perched on the summit of a lofty 
rock, around which the sea goes foaming, 
and parted from the mainland by a dizzy 
chasm, over which a narrow arch, hang-
ing like a thread in mid-air, is thrown, 
that old castle stood in other days im-
pregnable. There was but one way of 
approaching, and that such as one man 
could hold against a thousand. As 
might be inferred from these words of 
Scripture, "Keep thy heart with all dili-
gence, for out of it are the issues of life," 
it is otherwise with us. With appetites 
and passions, each of which may be made 
an instrument of sin, our hearts lie open 
on many sides to attack. Take, for ex-
ample, the most innocent of these appe-
tites, that of hunger—"Give me neither 
poverty nor riches," says the wise man, 
praying as much against the first as the 
second ; because, though happily we 
know nothing of it, it is difficult for a 
hungry man to be an honest man. The 
empty sack, as the pro-verb says, cannot 
stand upright ; and he tempts the poor 
through this appetite who used it to 
tempt our Lord himself—saying to Jesus 
when he was an hungered, "If thou be 
the Son of God, command that these 
stones be made bread." In this, as in 
other ways, Satan tried with his fiery 
darts every joint of our champion's ar-
mor ; and only failed because, as Jesus 
himself said, "The prince of this world 
cometh, and hath nothing in me !" We 
cannot say so. Like—traitors lurking 
within a beleaguered city, out natural cor 
ruptions are ready to open the gates and 
betray us to the enemy. Hence he who 
would keep his heart from evil, and 
pure and holy, must plant a sentinel at 
every avenue by which sin may find ac-
cess there—guarding against none more 
than the little sins, as they are called, 
that are like the urchins who enter by 
the window and open the door for bigger 
thieves. The man of God has his eyes 
to keep ; and so Job said, "I have made a 
covenant with mine eyes—his tongue, 
and hence the exhortation, "Keep thy 
tongue from evil, and thy lips from 
speaking guile"—his ears, and hence the 
warning, "Cease, my son, to hear the 
instruction that causeth to err"—his feet, 
and hence David says, "I have refrained 
my feet from every evil way, that I 
might keep thy word." And since there 
is no gate of the five senses by which the 
enemy may not, unless the Spirit lift up 
a standard against him, come in like, a 
flood, we have need to guard every port 
and write over every portal, "Here there 
entereth nothing to hurt or to defile." 
The work of grace is carried on within 
the heart. It is therefore the state of 
our affections more than our outward 
conduct that should occupy our chief 
attention and engage our most earnest 
prayers. Let me illustrate and enforce 
this by an analogy. The burning thirst, 
the flushed cheek, the bounding pulse, 
the restless nights of fever, are but the 
symptoms of disease. That thirst physi-
cians may allay by cooling draughts ; 
and opiates may dull the sense •of pain, 
and shed sleep and sweet oblivion on the 
eyes of the weary sufferer.* The symp-
toms are alleviated, but the disease is 
not arrested—the evil is but masked, not 
mastered. And that is all which is 
achieved in the reformation which some-
times passes for regeneration; in that 
outward improvement of habits and de-
corum of life which will never supply the 
place of sanctification in the judgment 
of a holy, heart-searching God. Man 
looketh on the outward appearance, but 
God looketh on the heart. I once heard 
physicians say, as they stood baffled by 
the bed-side of one fast posting on to 
death, "We can do nothing now but 
combat the symptoms." Ominous and 
fatal words. Divine grace, thanks be to 
God, does more. Let it reach the heart, 
and those works of the flesh, which are 
the outward symptoms of indwelling sin, 
will ere long pass away, like a plant 
which, cut at the root, droops, and with-
ers, and dies. It is in the heart, the 
change is wrought for salvation ; and 
I ing but decay ; whose ears hear nothing 
but the clashing moans of despair ; whose 
tongues taste naught but wormwood ; 
whose nostrils scent nothing but dead 
souls, and whose touch distinguishes 
nothing but the, slime of the bottomless 
pit. 
Such is the scorner, whose only joy is 
to grin at a child of God on his knees. 
This is the last scene of all that ends this 
strange, eventful history ; the curtain 
falls ; the flickering stage-lights of life 
are blown out, and the actor sinks in the 
capacious arms of eternal death.-31-eth-
°dist Home Journal. 
THE 
THE BURIAL OF JESUS. 
i book of Judges when Deborah was judge 
of Israel. It has at different times been 
I the field of carnage and blood. Thrice 
'previous to the coming of our Saviour, it 
had felt the tread of infuriated hosts 
marching to battle, and then engaging 
in the deadly conflict. But that which 
makes this mountain more noted than all 
else is the scene that transpired on its 
summit during our Saviour's sojourn on 
earth. How different from scenes that 
preceded or followed was this scene. 
No earthly king appeared in royal attire 
with scepter in hand commanding hosts 
to battle and to death. There was a 
King there, but it was the King of peace, 
whose birth was heralded to the shep-
herds as peace on earth and good will to 
men. Oh, how beautiful he must have 
appeared ! His face did shine as the sun, 
and his raiment was white as the light. 
No gathering gloom or sulphur cloud 
gathered around them, but a beautiful 
bright cloud over-shadowed them and a 
voice out of the cloud which said, "This 
is my beloved Son in whom I am well 
pleased, hear ye him !" There was no 
armed host, no battle array there. Jesus, 
Peter, James and John, and behold there 
appeared unto them Moses and Elias 
talking with him. What a blessed place 
to have been in ! No wonder Peter 
thought it was good to be there. How 
gladly he would have continued on the 
mount. So it is yet; wherever Jesus 
shines upon us we feel that that is a good 
place to be. Let us go up to Christ on 
the mount where we can enjoy the sun-
shine of the blessed Redeemer, that he 
may fill our hearts with light, joy, and 
peace. Let us get above the clouds, the 
smoke, and fog of sin, to live with Jesus 
in the light. Shortly he will take us 
away to that city where they have no 
need of suns to rise and where no clouds 
nor storms can ever come—Rev. P. R. 
Adams. 
THE THREE STEPS TO DEATH. 
In the first verse of the first Psalm, 
we have the process of a sinful life 
photographed very clearly in three stages 
of disobedience—I may say stages, for 
the whore verse is a condensed drama, 
portraying three forms of guilt, each one 
approximating nearer the insensibility of 
moral death. This three is multiplied 
by three, giving the perfect number of 
nine : showing that sin has its perfect or 
complete work, even as the fruits of the 
Spirit. In this process of obliquity, 
there are three postures, three compa-
nies, and three degrees of evil, which 
may be tabulated thus : 
Postures. Degrees. Companies. 
WALKING, COUNSEL. 
UNGODLY, 
STANDING, WAY, SINNER, 
SITTING, SEAT, SCORNER. 
there, as a building rises from its foun-
dations, the work of sanctification is 
carried onward, and upward to perfec-
tion. Cleanse this fountain, and purity 
will flow in all its streams. Let our 
I heart be turned heavenward, and our 
members and affections, our powers, and 
time, and influence will all follow and 
obey its movements—as from stem to 
stern, from her keel that ploughs the 
wave to the masts that rake the sky, 
a ship obeys the hand of the steersman 
and movements of the helm. Who, 
therefore, would grow in grace, would 
die daily to sin, would live daily to 
righteousness ; while they strive to keep 
their hands from doing, and their ears 
from hearing, and their lips from speak-
ing evil, let them strive above all things 
to keep their hearts with all diligence, 
since out of them are the issues of life. 
—Dr. Guthrie. 
' eference to the coming flood. "The 
God of glory appeared to Abraham when 
in Mesopotamia." Moses conversed with 
1, God face to face, as a man talketh with 
his friend ; and when required to lead 
Israel through the wilderness he pleaded 
for the divine presence as the only con-
dition on which he could gyo : " And Mo- 
ses said unto the Lord, See, thou sayest 
unto me, Bring up this people : and thou 
hast not let me know whom thou wilt 
send with me. Yet thou hast said, I 
know thee by name, and thou hast also 
found grace in my sight. Now there- 
fore, I pray thee, if I have found grace 
in thy sight, shew me now thy way, that 
I may know thee, that I may fin& grace 
in thy sight : and consider that this na- 
tion is thy people. And he said, My 
presence shall go with thee, and I will 
give thee rest. And he said unto him, 
If thy presence go not with me, carry us 
not up hence." Exod. 33: 1 1-1 5. 
The 
same Holy One was in the tabernacle and 
temple, as the light and sanctity of the 
place, and would have continued there 
till type blushed into antitype and proph-
ecy ended in fulfillment, had not the sins 
of the nation caused the glory to depart. 
In the present dispensation, according to 
the promise of Christ, the Comforter, the 
Holy Spirit, is to be with the ministry 
and church. He is the one promised in 
the text. He was to be with the minis-
try to illuminate. He makes revelations 
of truth, love, and power to the saints, 
which are not made to the world. What 
Christian minister, or, child of God has 
not realized at times remarkable unfold-
ings of divine truth, by the especial illu-
minations of the Holy Spirit ? Spiritual 
things are apprehended by the spiritually-
minded. 
The Spirit's presence sanctifies. 
Thus 
it was on Pentecost. Thus it was de-
signed to be through the age. As the 
Jewish priests were set apart for their 
work, by the holy anointing ail, so the 
Christian ministry was to receive an 
especial fitness for their work by the 
anointing from above. All their powers 
were to be brought into submission to 
the divine will, and be entirely set apart 
to the dii,ine service. 
This is 
from they One. 
Divine guidance is another part of the 
Spirit's work. He was to guide into 
truth—into all truth. The Christian 
minister in intermeddling with all knowl-
edge needs the especial guidance of the 
Holy Spirit. In comparing spiritual 
things with spiritual he must be spiritu-
ally-minded to obtain the mind of the 
Spirit. The Spirit guides in duty. To 
be " led by the Spirit of God" is to have 
divine direction in all the affairs of our 
earthly pilgrimage. How uncertain and 
dangerous are all our steps, taken with-
out divine guidance ! How blessed to be 
prepared to say, " He leadeth me ! " 
The Spirit strengthens. "Helping our 
infirmities in prayer " ; assisting in utter-
ance ; giving boldness in the discharge 
of duty, and making the labor of the 
ministry effective. 
The Spirit is present to comfort,—to 
comfort in discouragement, darkness, 
trial, conflict, suffering : by leading into 
truth, imparting grace, giving success, 
and inspiring hope. 
I do not understand that the miracu-
lous power given to the church in apos-
tolic times is continued till the present, 
yet the Spirit is as certainly vouchsafed 
to the faithful. His powerful workings 
in the hearts of men may, without ques-
tion, be expected ; and the church is de-
void of power, when not enjoying his 
presence, 
Intimately and essentially connected 
with the working of the Spirit in and 
with the ministry and church, we have 
the providential overruling of Christ for 
the accomplishment of the divine de-
signs. The power in the Redeemer's 
hands is used for the furtherance of the 
work to be done. All the attributes and 
perfections of the Deity are engaged for 
the church. Christ holds his ministers 
in his right hand, while walking in the 
midst of the churches. 
III. How long is this promised pres-. 
ence to be enjoyed ? 
Through all the days of Christ's ab-
sence, or until the commission is fully 
carried out. These days would be : 
Days of darkness and the powers 
of darkness. The world is in darkness, 
and Satan is exerting a mighty power to 
keep the human mind in the bondage of 
ignorance and unbelief. The church's 
work is to dissipate the darkness as far 
as possible. 
Days of abounding corruption. The 
prophetic portraiture of this dispensation 
makes manifest the increase of Moral evil 
through the age, down to the end. 
Days of toil. The church is in the 
vineyard to work, and the days of toil 
will continue until the great Sabbath-
keeping comes, in the eternal ages. 
Days of persecution and suffering. 
Christ plainly declared that during his 
absence his people should be in sorrow, 
while the world would rejoice, and the 
" And lo, I am with you alway, even unto the 
end of the world."—Matt. 28: 20. 
The work of the Christian church is 
divine. Its origin is divine.. It origi- 
nated in the council-chamber of the 
Trinity. The instrumentalities engaged 
in its prosecution have been and are of 
divine calling, fitness and direction. The 
divine blessing has attended the carrying 
forward of this holy enterpriseso far as 
the commands of the great Captain have 
been adhered to ; and the final and glo-
rious results of this stupendous scheme 
will be manifest to the universe. As the 
heavenly Zerubbabel laid the foundations 
of the spiritual temple, his hands also 
shall finish it, and the headstone shall be 
placed with shoutings,—crying, " Grace, 
grace unto it." 
Christ had finished his earthly minis-
try—having given infallible proof of the 
truth of his claims by his life, teachings, 
miracles, death and resurrection—and was 
about entering upon his work of media-
tion in the heavenly, holy place. Before 
leaving the world, however, he gathered 
his chosen ambassadors around him, re-
vealed to them the basis of his authori-
ty—" All • power is given unto me in 
heaven and earth,"—and then commis-
sioned them, " Go ye therefore and teach 
all nations, baptizing them in the name 
of the Fathor, and of-the iSuu, and or 
the Holy Ghost " ; and as an incentive to 
kity and faithfulness, and a cause of en-
couragement, he added : " And lo, I am 
with you alway, even unto the end of 
the world." 
I. This at once determines the origin 
and authority of the Christian ministry. 
The Saviour selected twelve men from 
among his immediate disciples, whom he 
appointed to an especial work ; and as 
that work covered a period requiring suc-
cessors to the original number chosen, 
Jesus made provision for the exigency by 
imparting gifts on his ascension, as the 
result of his accepted atonement :—
" 
-Wherefore he saith, When he ascended 
up on high, he led captivity captive, and 
gave gifts unto men. Now that he as-
cended, what is it but that he also de-
scended first into the lower parts of the 
earth ? He that descended is the same 
also that ascended up far above all heav-
ens, that he might fill all things. And 
he gave some, apostles ; and some, proph-
ets ; and some, evangelists ; and some, 
pastors and teachers : for the perfecting 
of the saints, for the work of the minis-
try, for the edifying of the body of 
Christ."—Ephes. 4 : 8-12. The Chris-
tian ministry therefore was to continue 
through the present dispensation, during 
which the purposes of God would be car-
ried out in the accomplishment of Christ's 
commission. It should ever be borne in 
mind, that intimately connected with the 
work of the Christian -ministry, is the 
co-operative work of the Christian church. 
This is plainly taught by Paul in the quo-
tation already made. All the divine 
gifts, imparted by the Head of the 
Church, were for the 'work, or help of 
the ministry. The early history of the 
church at Jerusalem furnishes a striking 
illustration to the point. In consequence 
of the persecution that arose about Ste-
phen the church was scattered abroad ex-
cept the apostles. These scattered saints 
carried the glad tidings through Judaea, 
Samaria and Syria, and even unto Cy-
prus, resulting in the salvation of many 
and the establishing of Christian church- 
es. Christ intended that his body should 
be a unit. United to him, as the living 
Head, the members were to be one in 
spirit, faith, hope, interest and toil. 
IL To this ministry is the divine 
presence pledged. 
In what sense and manner are we to 
understand this promised presence ? 
In 
Adam's unfallen state he doubtless had 
frequent interviews with Jehovah, with-
out a vail. After sin had robbed man of 
his glory and dignity, and dimmed his 
spiritual vision, it was necessary that Je-
hovah should vail himself that mortal 
man might behold him. Thus it was 
that Jehovah appeared to the antediluvi-
an and postdeluvian patriarchs. " Enoch 
walked with. God." Jehovah in person 
communicated to Noah his designs in 
One thing alone is wanting, that the 
manner of the Jews in burying may be 
observed—a bier to lay the body on, to 
bear it to the sepulchre. There has been 
no time to get one, or it is felt that the 
distance is so short that it is not needed. 
But that body has the best bier of all, 
the hands of true affection, to lift it up 
and carry it across to the new tomb 
which waits to receive it. The feet let 
us assign to Joseph, the body to Nico-
demus, and that regal head, with those 
closed eyes, over which the shadows of 
the resurrection are already flitting, let 
us lay on the breast of the beloved dis-
ciple. The brief path from the cross to 
the sepulchre is soon traversed. In si-
lence and in deep sorrow they bear their 
sacred burden, and lay it gently down 
upon its clean, cold, rocky bed: The last 
look -of the dead is taken. The buriers 
reverently withdraw, the stone is rolled 
to the mouth of the sepulchre ; separated 
from the living, Jesus rests with the 
dead. The burial is over now, and we 
might depart ; but let us linger a little 
longer, and bestow a parting look upon 
the burying ground. "In the place 
where he was crucified there was a gar-
den, and in that garden a sepulchre." 
Plant yours-elf before that sepulchre,-
and look around. This is no place for 
graves ; here rise aroir,KI you no memo-
rials *of the dead. You see but a single 
sepulchre, and that sepulchre in a gar-
den. 'Strange mingling this -of opposites, 
the garden of life and growth andbeauty, 
circling the sepulchre of death, corrup-
tion and decay. Miniature of the strange 
world we live in. What garden of it 
has not its own grave ? Your path may, 
for a time, be through flowers and fra-
grance ; follow it far enough, it leads 
ever to a grave. But this sepulchre in 
this garden suggests other and happier 
thoughts. It was in a garden once of 
old—in Eden—that death had his first 
summons given, to find there his first 
prey; it is in a garden here at Calvary 
that the last enemy of mankind has the 
death-blow given t6 him—that the great 
conqueror is in his turn overcome. Upon 
that stone which they rolled to tie. 
 
mouth of the sepulchre Jet us engrave' 
the words, "0.,death, where is thy sting ! 
0, grave where is thy victory ? Thanks 
be to God, which giveth us the victory 
through our Lord Jesus Christ." What 
a change it has made in the character 
and aspect of the grave, that our Saviour 
himself once lay in it ! He has stripped 
it of its terrors, and to many a weary 
one given it an attractive rather than a 
repulsive look. "I heard a voice from 
heaven saying"—it needed a voice from 
heaven to assure of the truth—"Blessed 
are the dead which die in the Lord." 
To such the grave is, indeed, a bed of 
blessed rest. Buried with Jesus, they 
repose till the hour of the great awaken-
ing cometh, when with him they shall 
rise to that newness of life over which 
no shadow of death shall ever pass. 
Hanna. 
RELIGION A HELP IN LIFE. 
How it helps a man to suffer and to 
toil ! How it calms his temper and 
soothes his spirit! How it heals his 
wounds and anoints him with joy. "His 
tool slipped," says Malan, in his beauti-
ful tract, The Watchmaker of Geneva, 
" his tool slipped, and the work was 
spoiled. He repeated the attempt, and 
again he was unsuccessful. A slight and 
momentary expression of trouble appeared 
on his countenance, but the cloud soon 
passed away. He clasped his hands and 
1 ooked upward, while his lips moved as if 
uttering a silent and fervent prayer; the 
expression of trouble disappeared—he 
resumed his work." And so, many a 
good man in his cottage or workshop, 
amidst the spoiling of his work or the 
breaking of his tools, or the anger of his 
master, or the losing of his employment, 
or the cries of his children, or the sor- 
rows of his wife; or the sickness of his 
body, or trouble of his soul, finds prayer 
is the secret of peace. And in manifold 
ways does religion bless the poor man in 
his pilgrimage. Faith is a rod with 
which He cleaves Red Seas of difficulty; 
and God's Word is a pillar of cloud by 
day, and of fire by night, amidst the 
rocks of a sandy wilderness. And Sab- 
baths are wells of water, and ordinances 
are beautiful and shady palm-trees; and 
prayer brings down manna every morn- 
ing; and the sight of the cross heals the 
bite of fiery serpents; and hope is a spy 
going beforehand, to bring back the clus 
-ters of Eshcol. And then, at last, Gods' 
presence is as the ark in the midst of the 
river; and the pilgrim passes dry-shod 
into " the land that floweth with milk and 
honey." 
41,4111. 
A PRIVILEGE OP THE SONS OF GOD. 
We should dwell much on the confi-
dential nearness into which grace has 
brought us in Jesus. It has made us 
sons, and given us access through Him, 
by one Spirit, to the Father. Little cares, 
little trials, little perplexities, make up 
the sum of our little lives. To meet 
these we need the spirit of adoption, 
whereby we cry, Abba; for we need a 
parent's care, a parent's heart, and noth-
ing can suffice us save to be shown the 
Father. We lose much holy joy because 
we so little know Him. How would the 
thought, My heavenly Father knoweth 
what things I have need of, deliver us 
from care about many things! Rarely 
do we find Christians going as children 
to their Father ; telling Him, with art-
less confidence, the little things that try 
them, sure of finding a Father's heart in-
to which they can cast their cares. We 
May be strict and busy in public worship 
and service, but it is in the closet that 
we have specially to do with the Father, 
and to tell Him all our private necessi-
ties, which can be told to none but Him. 
Do you, my brother,, experimentally know 
this privilege ? It is certain that you 
do not, unless that you are no longer a 
servant, but a son.—The Witness. 
-.11.1...1111.--11, 
THE PREACHING OF JOHN• 4NOX. 
Rev. Professor Samuel J. Wilson says 
of the great Scotch Reformer :—"Knox 
was no longer able to walk to church or 
to ascend the pulpit without help. Yet 
he was as watchful and fearless as ever. 
His friends feared for his life. The 
castle was full of Hamiltons, all thirsting 
for his blood. He was shot at through 
the window of his own house. But he 
was totally unconscious of fear. At 
length he was prevailed upon to leave 
Edinburgh, on the ground that his 
longer continuance there would. involve 
the lives of his friends. 
"He went to St. Andrew's. James 
Melville, who was then a student, has 
preserved for us in his diary a very 
graphic account of the habits and appear-
ance of the great reformer at this time. 
He brings the scenes vividly before us. 
We see the tottering old man walking 
and sitting in the yard at St. Salvator's 
college, calling the students around him, 
exhorting them to be diligent in their 
studies, to know God and his work in 
the country, and to stand by the ‘gude 
cause.' We see him in his great weak-
ness creeping to the kirk, 'slowly and 
wearily,' with a 'furring of martins about 
his neck,' a staff in one hand, and his 
trusty servant supporting him on the 
other side. 
This is a graduated scale of the devel-
opment of transgression in the life. The 
act of walking expresses so accurately 
the first wandering from the path of rec-
titude. The soul has not abandoned in-
tentionally the road of virtue, but makes 
a careless excursion into forbidden fields. 
what some people regard as a pardon-
able exuberance of youthful nature ; and 
..this lawless sally of the soul is not in any 
firm and intimate alliance with evil, but 
in that tender state which is easily sus-
ceptible to false counsel. In the first 
act of this drama, the youthful wanderer 
does not exchange words with evil, but 
listens to false counsel ; the misinterpre-
tations of Scripture, dishonest principles 
of trade, twisted constructions of science, 
etc. ; and this false counsel does not 
come from the worst class of men, but 
from the most respectable class of unbe-
lievers—thE ungodly. They are moral, 
educated, refined, who respect religion ; 
they are simply ungodly—that is, not 
like God ; not having the divine princi-
ple within them. Here, then, we see the 
best class of unbelievers dropping a little 
counsel to those who are only occasional 
excursionists from the rank of religion. 
When the young candidate for death 
has gone through this initiation, and 
learned the silvery, tinkling alphabet of 
sin, he is prepared to change his posture 
;from the tiresome walking to the more 
indolent one of standing. Disobedience 
is no longer an occasional thing, but has 
grown into a stationary fact. Having 
crossed the boundaries of truth so fre-
quently, he thinks it not worth while to 
return. The place, too, where he now 
takes his stand is the "way," the street 
and thoroughfare of sin. Before, he 
used to make brief transits across the 
path of sin ; now he stations himself 
right in the broad avenue of evil. In 
this way where he has fixed himself, he 
does not find those respectable and pol-
ished transgressors, the ungodly, who 
serve to gild the outer portals of death ; 
but he finds himself standing in the high-
way of a lower species of men—the sin-
ners : those who openly and unblushing-
ly renounce the claims of God on them. 
When the swift-growing culprit has 
passed over the second stage in the 
gloomy theatre of wrong, he becomes 
still more reconciled to vice, and extin-
guishing every remaining vestige of 
struggling virtue, he seats himself in the 
final posture of guilt. As long as he re-
mained standing,.he could look over into 
the meadows of grace, and entertain 
thoughts of repentance ; but now he 
sinks down closer to the earth, as if to 
seek an infamous repose in the deep 
abandonment of sin. In thus setting 
himself down amid the rusty ruins of his 
fallen nature, he gets right in the "SEAT" 
that is the citadel and centre of vice. 
Heretofore, he has been indentified only 
with the suburbs of. transgression : mov-
ing in the outer orbits of guilt, but 
drawn by the gravity of wrong, lie is 
now lodged in the very centre and seat 
of the dark system ; enthroned in the 
black core of the black empire of sin. 
His companions in this last stage are the 
lowest species of rebels against God ; the 
"Scornful"—those who see nothing vir-
tuous, fair or good in all this wondrous 
universe ; those whose eyes can see noth- 
THE ADVENT HERALD, JUNE 11, 1873. 
90 
the best and most effectual provocation 
to love and good works," says the prac-
tical Henry. We hope several of our 
readers will be very much provoked by 
the above note. 
4 .4 
WORKS OF DR. SEISS. 
well as his mercy to respect. I write 
with the deepest sense .*If my un-
worthiness, but I write with confidence 
because of the covenant and the blood. 
With anxious longings for the morning. 
remain, as ever, • Yours, D. BOSWORTH. 
Bristol, Vt., May 25th. 
CHRISTIAN SYMPATHY. 
table, nor put into the hands of a com-
mittee for decent interment, but carried 
by a prompt and unanimous vote in the 
form of a thousand dollars in "green-
backs." It can be done if there is only 
a hearty determination in the case ; and, 
as is suggested, it would help the office, 
the cause of truth, the ministry and the 
membership. 
We would suggest that those donating 
to this fund send, if they can, the ad-
dress of the minister or ministers to 
whom they want the Herald sent. Who 
will be the first to respond ? 
THE TWO GUESTS. 
We have for sale a few copies of the 
following pamphlets by the Rev. J. A. 
SEISS, D. D., of the Lutheran church, 
Philadelphia, Pa. Without accepting 
every idea advanced in them the reader 
will find much that is Scriptural, earnest 
and timely on the coming and kingdom 
of Christ. 
The Church's Hope, 22 pp. each (by mail) 12 ets. 
Blasphemy Against the Holy Ghost, " 10 " 
The Burning Bush, 24 pP., 
10 " 
The Threatening Ruin, 39 pp., 15 " 
Our Dead, 24 pp., 
12 " 
Our supply of the pamphlet Will there 
be a Millennium, before the Coming of 
Christ ? is nearly exhausted, and no more 
can be obtained. Price 40 cents. 
GLEANINGS. 
stances, imposing mutual responsibilities ; 
but a higher and holier responsibility 
rests upan the ministry and church of 
Christ. On the one hand, the ministry 
has the interests of Christ's bride in 
charge—her culture, growth, effective-
ness, perfection and happiness, are to be 
regarded, promoted, secured ; and on the 
other hand—it is the duty of the minis-
try and church to give tongue and utter-
ance to these sacred oracles, which make 
known the life and purposes of our ador-
able Redeemer. " A life, which, issuing 
from the depths of Divinity, and plant-
ing itself in the depths of humanity, re-
veals even in his humiliation, an incom-
parable, all-transcending lustre, glory and 
beauty." This wonderful Counsellor, 
mighty God, everlasting Father, Prince 
of peace, must be held up to the atten-
tion of men, until the divine character 
and government shall be vindicated in 
the presence of the universe, by the un-
foldings of that day when every knee 
shall bow, and every tongue shall confess 
that Jesus Christ is Lord, to the o ry of 
God the Father. 
tut gkdrent 
BOSTON, WEDNESDAY, JUNE 11, 1873. 
THE "EXTRA" HERALD. 
Bro. G. Pillsbury writes from Kingston, 
N. H., May 20th :—" The Lord is bless-
ing us in our meetings ; four came forward 
yesterday, with penitential tears, to join 
the praying band." 
Bro. S. F. Grady, in a note dated " Rich-
ford, Vt., June 3rd," says : — "I have 
been very sick with the measles, but am 
recovering. Hope to be able to preach 
once next Sunday." 
Bro. Jonas Sornberger writes from St. 
Armand, P. Q., Canada, May 26th 
"We are enjoying some very excellent 
meetings. A week ago yesterday I bap-
tizedfive happy souls, and we are almost 
every week receiving members into the 
church." 
(Eorropontente. 
Orders for it are coming in well and 
will be filled as rapidly as possible. Our 
visit to Harrisburg has caused an accu-
mulation of business, but we hope to 
work through it in time. Send in your 
orders, brethren, and let the issue of May 
28th be scattered far and wide. By mail, 
12 copies for 50 cents, or 30 copies for a 
dollar : by express, 100 copies for $2.50—
the express to be paid by the one sending 
the order. Churches should rally to this 
work, and not leave it to individual 
effort. " Let not your hands be slack." 
LETTER FROM ELDER BOSWORTH. 
HARRISBURG AND TRENTON. 
Dear Bro. Orrock : —There are many 
thoughts in my mind that I want to ex-
press to you, and perhaps I cannot do 
better than put some of them in the form 
of a letter. First then, I am so situated 
that at present I am deprived of the associ-
ation of those of "like precious faith." I 
attended service this morning and lis-
tened to an excellent discourse on the 
"discipline" of saints: but the triumph 
when the discipline is ended was not allu-
ded to, or if referred to at all, in such a 
misty way as to show it was too little ap-
preciated and less understood. Being 
called on to pray at the, 
 close of the dis-
course, I wanted to talk with God about 
Our blessed Lord charged the ancient 
people of God with hypocrisy, because 
by their traditions' they made void the 
commandment of God respecting pa-
rental honor ; allowing a selfish son or 
daughter to say to the parent respecting 
whatever might be of profit to him when 
in need and suffering, "It is corban," that 
is to say, a gift—something devoted to 
the service of the temple—and he shall 
be free. Thus they suffered the son no 
more to do aught for his father or moth-
er. In this way a corrupt church, with 
avaricious priests, claimed the means of 
its people, leaving none wherewith to 
fulfil the commandment of God, in pro-
viding for suffering parents. 
In the Christian church the apostle 
compares believers to the members of 
our body, and teaches that there should 
be no schism in the body ; if one mem-
ber suffer, all the members suffer. with 
it, or if one member be honored, all the 
members rejoice with it ; and it is evi-
dent that the sympathy should run to 
the weakest and most suffering. 
The popular churches of our day have 
a variety of objects claiming the means 
and money of their members, and strange 
to say,s' the main object standing out 
prominent in the teaching of Jesus and 
the apostles is hardly mentioned, namely, 
to support the poor -saints. The great 
cry is, money to build churches, educate 
young men for the ministry, for church 
extension,, and to increase the benevo-
lent fund for supporting superannuated 
ministers, their widows, and the educa-
tion of their children. Ought not the 
widows of deceased pious laboring men 
and mechanics to have the same claim on 
the sympathy of the church ? There are 
affluent church members who give by 
thousands for church extension, etc., 
and perhaps have it published in the 
periodicals of the day, who in a walk of 
a few squares could find any number of 
suffering, poor and ignorant people, 
both saints and sinners," whose hearts 
would be made glad by receiving but a 
tithe of the large amounts thus given, 
and the giver be abundantly rewarded 
by God's blessing and the blessing of 
the friends thus made to themselves by 
means of the mammon of unrighteous-
ess. 
Perhaps there never was a time when 
money was given in such abundance as 
the present, and yet the Scriptural object 
—the support of poor saints—appears to 
be largely overlooked and neglected. I 
do not wish to be understood as regard-
ing all claims presented by modern 
church policy as unworthy, but rather 
that the evil lies in pressing some to the 
exclusion of others more worthy. We 
all agree that the great, underlying prin-
ciple of religion is love to God and our 
fellowmen. Jesus, whose example was 
set for 'us to imitate, was unselfish in all 
his acts, and showed disinterested be-
nevolence towards all. Our field of op-
eration is mainly not far from home. 
Those in the providence of God whom 
we have known and seen, who had elahns 
on our benevolence and were by us neg-
lected, will be the trouble in the great 
day : "I was an hungered and ye gave 
me no meat, thirsty and ye gave me no 
drink," will be . the declaration of the 
Judge. Perhaps in surprise, the ques-
tion may be asked, "When ?" and the 
answer will be : "Inasmuch as ye did it 
not 'to one of the least of these, my breth-
ren [poor saints], ye did it not to me." 
God grant that our love and Christian 
sympathy may flow in the direction in-
dicated by the precious word of God. 
Your brother in the Lord, 
LEVI MERKEL. 
Mechanicsburg, Pa. 
 -4 4•••••••- • 
THE PENNSYLVANIA CONFERENCE 
OF MESSIAH'S CHURCH. 
189.00 
 
- 
— 
and Bro. Zeigler's circuit. After confer-
ence last year the chairman of the com-
mittee requested each church (through 
their pastor) to raise and forward $12.; 
but only a few responded and $53 was 
received as the result. 
The report was accepted and the com- 
mittee continued. Reports of churches 
were then read. (See below.) A mo-
tion was passed that our visiting breth-
ren be invited to participate in the ses-
sions of the conference. Committees 
were then appointed as follows : 
On ordination : Revs. M. L. Jackson, 
D. Elwell and W. H. Swartz. 
On destitute ministers and churches : 
Rev's L. Osler, W. H.:§wartz and, J. A. 
Aldred. 
A communication was then read from 
Bro. H. M. Stonier and his license re-
newed for a year. The reports of the 
Penn Valley and Morrisville churches 
were referred to the committee on minis-
ters and churches. The Conference then 
proceeded to consider the general inter-
ests of the cause. Rev's Osler, Buckley, 
Zeigler and Orrock, spoke concerning 
our relation and work in connection with 
the American Millennial Association. 
The Herald interests also being dis- 
cussed, it was voted, that we recommend 
to the A. M. Association that hereafter 
the ADVENT HERALD be sent only to pay-
ing subscribers. Rev. J. Pearson then 
addressed the conference in behalf of 
the A. M. Association, and the confer-
ence adjourned. 
In the afternoon, the Al essianian Mis-
sionary Society met. 
Friday A. M. Conference opened at 
9.30. 
Committee on place and preacher 
appointed were Rev's J. Zeigler and M. 
H. Moyer. Report of committee on des-
titute ministers and churches was read 
and accepted, viz. : " We have received 
application from brethren Stokely and 
Aldred, and the reports of the Bucks 
county circuit have been referred to us 
for consideration. 'W'e recommend that 
Bro. Stokely continue in his present field 
of labor another year ; that Bro. Aldred 
visit the Moshannon circuit with the 
view of taking charge, if satisfactory 
arrangements can be made ; and we re-
commend that the Bucks County circuit 
receive a visit from Bro. Jackson with 
the same view." 
Committee on credentials report, as 
accepted, was:— 
Ministers present : Elders J. Litch, L. 
Osier, M. L. Jackson, D. Elwell, H. P. 
Cutter, M. H. Moyer, Thomas Hollen, N. 
Stokely, W. H. Swartz, A. L. Brand, J. 
Az Aldred, J. Zeigler, I. R. Gates and J. 
Heagy.
• 
Delegates : Joseph Merrich, P. Reside, 
J. Donson, P. Smith, E. Kinney, M. A. 
Lovett,
ey. 
 J. M. Barstow, D. Rupp and J. 
nag 
 
Visiting Clergy: J. Pearson, G. W. 
Burnham, J. M. Orrock, F. Gunner arid 
H. Buckley. 
I Visiting Laity : R. It. Knowles, IL 
Ballou, F. Holly, J.'Huff, H. Hough, A. 
J. Shivery, P. L. Hopkins, Geo. Phelps, 
from Bro. M. B. Laning in which he in-
forms us that he has joined the Ameri-
our President that his name published 
had been 
him as a member, and now requests that 
ously understood by communication with 
stricken out, but finds by our 
minutes of last year that we still hold 
his name be erased from our roll, we 
therefore recommend that his request be 
granted. 
Brown not having been heard from for 
several years past, we recommend that 
their names be stricken from the roll. 
can Baptist Conference, that he previ-. 
sAta.TnIhtdeeinmig. 
report 
n, S. P. Smith, A. Rutter, 
ported :— 
J. G. Bobb, S. Prior and others. 
2., A communication has been received 
3. All others on the roll are in good 
Committee on ministerial character re-
1. Brethren P. B. Hawker and. A. 
was accepted. 
The committee on place and preacher 
reported that Sterling and Trenton had 
applied for the next conference and they 
recommend that Sterling be the place, 
and that the preacher be D. Elwell, al-
ternate M. L. Jackson. The report was 
accepted. It was voted that the stand-
ing rule on time of conference be sus-
pended in this case, and that the next 
conference meet at Sterling the first 
Wednesday in June, 1874. 
Committee on nomination reported as 
officers for the ensuing year : President, 
J. Litch ; Vice President, D. Elwell ; 
Secretary, H. P. Cutter ; Assistant Sec-
retary, W. H. -Swartz : Treasurer, John 
Dosnon,—and they were elected. 
Committee on ministerial character ap-
pointed consists of Rev's Jackson, Zeig-
ler and Cutter. 
Committee on business, Rev. D. El-
well. The following resolution was 
passedor 
Resolved, That we, as an , ecclesiasti-
cal body, recognize the hand of AlmiVity 
God in the sudden death of sister I lora 
Jackson, and that we heartily sympathize 
with our beloved brother, Rev. M. L. 
Jackson, and his family, in their bereave-
ment. 
A resolution was passed, that we re-
turn our heartfelt thanks to the pastor, 
members and friends of Messiah's church 
of Harrisburg for their kindness and hos-
pitality ; and to the railroads that fur-
nished reduced fare. 
Friday P. 11'I. 
The following pream- 
ble and resolution were passed, and it 
was voted that the same be published 
and a certified copy furnished to Rev. I. 
R. Gates :— 
Whereas, our beloved brother, Rev. I 
R. Gates,—a member in„ good standing 
in this Conference, has entered into ar-
rangements for a public discussion with 
Rev. Wm. McCarthy, a Universalist 
minister in the city of Philadelphia, 
therefore, 
Resolved, That this Pennsylvania Con-
ference of Messiah's church, in yearly 
conference assembled in the city of Har- 
SIXTEENTH ANNUAL SESSION. 
Wednesday,' May 28, 1873. In the 
absence of the President, .Rev. D. El-
well, Vice President, called- the Confer-
ence to order and religious service was 
held. Our services were held in the ves-
try of the new church in Harrisburg : it 
is a plain, comfortable and commodioUs 
audience room, and an honor to our 
cause. Business session being deferred, 
a good social meeting was enjoyed. In 
the evening, at 7.30, the annual sermon 
was delivered by Rev. J. Litch. 
Thursday, A. M . The President call-
ed the conference to order, and the fol-
lowing committees were appointed :— 
On nominations : Rev. M. H. Moyer, 
N. Stokely and J. Zeigler. 
On worship : Rev. W. H. Swartz. 
On credentials : the Secretary. 
Standing committees reported as fol-
lows : 
On Publication of Liturgy, that 1000 
copies were published the last year and 
disposed of, and that 290 copies of the 
first edition are on hand, and more can 
be supplied. On ordination, that no ap-
plications had been received. On busi-
ness, that their plan was published in the 
Herald. On cottage at Hebron :— 
Cost of cottage, 
$316.63 
CONTRA. 
Paid in 1871, by H. Rupp, $100.00 
by I. R. Gates, 25.00 
Receipts at cottage, above ex- 
penses, 
13.00 
Collections from churches in 1872, 44.00 
Rec'd at cottage, above expenses, 7.00 
Church in her militant state, 
Who is weary and cannot forbear, 
Of a bride who in agony waits 
To see her dear Lord in the air. 
But such prayers seem to be little under-
st °Jai in the popular congregations of to-
day. Oh for congenial spirits !—those 
who can sympathize when our burdened 
souls cry, "When shall I come and ap-
pear before God ? " I have looked 
abroad to-day and, as Luther- said, seen 
"Creation put on her Easter garments," 
but amid her emerald robes the; winds 
seemed to chant a requiem, and the sigh-
ing of the breezes told that sin was there; 
and my soul cried again, "Fly swifter 
round ye slow revolVing seasons and 
whirl away a sinful and ruined world. We 
would see a sight to which as yet our 
eyes are strangers, — a world that does 
not sin and suffer for its crime." "Come 
then, Lord Jesus, come." 
I was much pleased a little while ago, 
with the anecdote you related in the pa-
per about the lady who was expecting to 
be saved by God's justice ; and Bro. 
Hotchkiss' letter in which he refers to 
the harmony of God's attributes sets the 
thing in a still clearer light. Some years 
ago I was trying to preach from Rev. 22 : 
14, and the thought that they may have 
right to the tree of life," impressed itself 
very strongly on my mind. In looking 
up the 'subject I found Barnes, Cumming 
and others approached it very cautiously, 
and commented on the word as though 
it meant simple privilege. But still my 
soul believes "right" is the word, and 
that it expresses just the mind of Him 
on the throne. I don't believe we are 
simply going to be tolerated in the Di-
vine presence. He who hath "set us as a 
seal upon his heart, as a signet upon his 
aim ; whose love is stronger than death," 
will say of his people, "They are daily 
my delight." Let me illustrate. Here 
is a rich man, his grounds are spacious, 
his bowers are beautiful, the walks are 
pleasant, fountains flowing, fruit abund-
ant ; and within certain limits, he allows 
the neighbors to come in and enjoy them 
all. But while they joyfully accept the 
privilege, they feel it is a privilege, not 
a right. In process of time there comes 
among them a maiden, she enjoys the 
privilege, but claims no right. He marks 
her actions, attends upon her footsteps, 
and finally he offers her his heart, his 
hand, and his inheritance. He is accept-
ed ; she rejoices in his love and he "joys 
over her with singing." As she goes 
forth from his banqueting house, she 
treads those lawns, partakes of those 
fruits, and reclines in those bowers—not 
as a privilege, but as a right, obtained 
through covenant with the chosen of her 
heart. So of the saints of the Lord. 
They are the chosen of his heart, —unit-
ed to him as the branch is united to the 
vine ; and as the branch partakes of the 
sap and fatness of the vine by right of 
its relation to the vine, so saints shall 
inherit the kingdom by right of their 
relation to the King. If "as he (Christ) 
is, so are we (his saints) in this world." 
(1 John 4 : 17) we can understand about 
"coming boldly to a throne of grace," be- 
cause of right ; and going further we 
read of " having boldness in the day of 
judgment." Surely this must be be- 
cause saints have rights accorded to them 
by the Father, in the covenant with his 
Son, which he has bound his justice as 
" Weeping may endure for a night, but joy 
cometh in the morning."—Psalm 30 : 6. 
The Hebrew word here rendered " en-
dure " is also translated " tarry " and 
" lodge"—often the latter, as in Ruth 1: 
16, " Where thou lodgest I will lodge " ; 
1 Kings 19 : 9, " And he came thither 
into a cave, and lodged there." Com- 
pare 2 Sam. 19 : 7 ; Prov. 19 : 23. Fol-
lowing this rendering we have the Psalm- 
ist introducing to our notice two guests 
-" WEEPING " and "JOY "-the former 
comes as a lodger in the evening, to " tar-
ry for the night" (Jer. 14 : 8), and at 
break of day departs, leaving the latter 
to take her place. Blessed exchange ! 
Night settled down upon our world 
nearly six thousand years ago, amidst the 
ruins of the first Paradise. Then WEEP-
ING came, and has been Earth's guest 
ever since. There are few faces indeed 
over which the silent tear has not at some 
time or other flowed. Much weeping 
has there been for the dead and not a lit-
tle for the living. The weight of Sor-
row's hand has rested heavily upon all 
classes. If the helpless babe in the ark 
of bulrushes wept (Exod. 2 : 6) so did 
the God-man at the grave of Lazarus and 
over guilty Salem. Many tears have 
been shed on which no human eye has 
rested ; but God has seen them all. The 
springs of grief are innumerable, but are 
every one known to Omniscience. No 
darkness is too dense to hide from Him 
who ruleth in the heavens. He sees, he 
knows, he sympathizes. 
WEEPING is a 
sleepless guest. Though the night has 
been long, she has never lain down, and 
never was she more active than now. 
But a change is approaching ! " JOY 
cometh in the morning." And in view 
of that change Christians can afford to 
shed a few more tears, if need be. " Eve 
when she wept, wept with her back upon 
Eden and her face to the desert ; but let 
us rejoice, that when we weep it is with 
our backs to the desert, and our faces to-
wards a better Eden, to which we are 
rapidly hastening." Listen to the word 
of the Lord : " Sing, 0 heavens ; and be 
joyful, 0 earth ; and break forth into 
singing, 0 mountains : for the Lord hath 
comforted his people, and will have mer- 
cy upon his afflicted." Therefore the 
redeemed of the Lord shall return, and 
come with singing unto Zion [an " image 
from the custom of singing on a journey, 
when a caravan is passing along the ex-
tended plains of the East,"—Fausset]; 
and everlasting joy shall be upon their 
head [here the reference may be " to a 
custom of wearing a wreath or chaplet 
of flowers in times of festivity, as is 
often done now, and as was commonly 
done among the ancients in triumphal 
procession,"—Barnes]: "they shall obtain 
joy and gladness ; and sorrow and sigh-
ing shall flee away." " And God shall 
wipe away all tears from their eyes ; and 
there shall be no more death, neither sor-
row, nor crying, neither shall there be 
any more pain : for the former things are 
passed away." 
These are a few of the Biblical pen-
pictures of the joy which " the morning" 
will bring ; and in view of them we may 
say with our departed sister, Helen M. 
Johnson : " Look up, Christian ! It is no 
time for desponding. The glittering 
spires of the eternal city are heaving in 
sight ; perchance another storm, another 
beating against thy fragile bark, and 
thou art there ! Already the music of 
that glorious land steals softly over the 
roaring billows, and reminds thee thou 
art nearing the peaceful shore. Already 
the dark cloud which gathers above thy 
head is tinged with the beams of immor-
tal glory, and away in the distance thou 
canst behold the first faint glimmerings 
of the morning star. Joy for thee, 0 
wanderer ! the shadows of the night are 
passing away, and the unclouded morn-
ing comes on apace ! " 
Look again at the Psalmist's declara-
tion—weigh well his words, that thy sad 
and lonely heart, O. lover of Jesus, may 
even now be measurably comforted : 
" WEEPING may lodge for a night, but 
JOY cometh in the morning." The dark-
robed guest of Sorrow must soon give 
place to the white-robed virgin of Joy—
the night of weeping be succeeded by 
the day of eternity. " The night is far 
spent, the day is at hand : let us there-
fore cast off the works of darkness, and 
let us put on the armor of light." 
ever held in this State. The number was 
nearly twice as great as at any previous 
one. We feel that a great blessing has 
been left behind by the dear friends that 
have just gone from us and whose pres-
ence we so much enjoyed. I expect we 
shall see glorious fruits of the labor here 
yet. God has many names in this city. 
Our meetings on the Sabbath were inter-
esting, and our congregations excellent. 
In the afternoon we held an open-air ser-
vice on the river bank, near the centre of 
the city, that was well attended, and the 
discourses were listened to with breath-
less attention. Elders Gates and Osler 
addressed the people, and their remarks 
were well-timed and effective. The Lord 
evidently directed in the choice of the 
subjects and their delivery. The gener-
ous offering bestowed on the church here 
and given to us also calls for deep grati-
tude from us, and we feel thankful. 
Words cannot tell the emotions of our 
heart at the remembrance of all the 
Lord's mercies to us. What an eventful 
year this has been ! A year of sunshine 
and showers ; and I trust of correspond-
ing growth in grace and in the knowl-
edge of God. But oh, how slow to learn, 
how slow to trust and to believe all 
things spoken to us ! I hope the many 
who have remembered us in the past will 
still remember Harrisburg in prayer and 
supplications. Amen. 
Yours in Christ." 
We need only add that quite a number 
of the pulpits of the city were occupied 
by our ministers on the Sabbath, and 
that several hundred copies of the "extra" 
Herald were gratuitously distributed 
during the meeting—the fruit of which 
will be seen in the day of Christ. 
TRENTON. 
On our way to the capital of New Jer-
sey we stoped just long enough in Phil-
adelphia to dine and make a visit to "In- 
dependence Hall," where our company 
had the pleasure of seeing the desk , on 
which, in 1776, the "Declaration of In-
dependence" was signed, the chair occu-
pied by the signers, the great bell that 
was cracked in ringing out the announce-
ment of "liberty," etc., and then "run" 
to the depot to catch the train. But 
Trenton was reached at last, and Saturday 
night found us the guest of brother 
Prior, with everything needful for our 
comfort provided. 
Sunday, June 1st, dawned in splendor, 
giving us a beautiful day for the dedi- 
cation of the new church—a fine stone 
building that will comfortably seat about 
400 people. Elder Gunner preached in 
the vestry in the morning from Acts 17 : 
2, 3. The Sunday school met at the 
usual time and presented the church 
with an elegant Bible for the pulpit. 
The dedicatory services commenced at 
half past three in the afternoon, Elders 
Elwell, Gunner, Jackson, Aldred and a 
Methodist minister assisting. The house 
was filled and good attention given to 
the word. Our text was Haggai 2 : 9, 
"The glory of this latter house shall be 
greater than of the former, saith the Lord 
of hosts ; and in this place will I give 
peace, saith the Lord of hosts." As this 
is the second house our brethren have 
had in Trenton we trust that in an ac-
commodated sense the text will be found 
true in their case. Elder Jackson 
preached in the evening front Zech. 4 : 
6, "Not by might nor by power, but by 
my Spirit, saith the Lord of hosts"—
showing wherein the strength of the 
church lies. It was an auspicious and 
profitable day to believers. As the 
building, which cost over $16,000, is al-
most free of debt (about one half the 
expense having been met by Brother S. 
Prior and son), and the church has now 
a very neat, comfortable and commo-
dious place for preaching, Sunday school 
and other services, there is much to en-
courage the pastor's heart, and we wish 
Brother Elwell abundant success in the 
city where he has already spent about 
eight years. 
Though we had received no command 
as Jeremiah did, (Jer. 18: 1-10) to "arise 
and go down to the potter's house," yet 
Monday forenoon, having decided to re-
main another day in the place, we con-
cluded to visit " the pottery" and there 
saw many at "work on the wheels." In 
some instances the "vessel made of clay 
was marred in the hand of the potter, so 
he made it again another vessel as seem-
ed good to the potter to make it." Some 
vessels were "unto honor" aid "some to 
dishonor." We "saw and considered it 
well, we looked upon it and received in-
struction." In the afternoon brethren 
Osier and Pearson arrived from Harris-
burg, and cheered our heart with a good 
report of the meetings there. In the 
evening Elder Osler preached in the new 
church on Christian duties, from Jude, 
20th verse. The discourse was timely 
and acceptable. 
Tuesday afternoon we bade the friends 
adieu and about eight o'clock next morn-
ing reached home—well but weary. 
A GOOD PROPOSITION. 
PROVOKING. 
$127.63 
Cash in hand, 
9.00 
Am't. due, with interest, 118.63 
$127.63 
That which has been paid has mostly 
been raised in a few places, viz. :—Tren-
ton, Philadelphia, Cumberland Valley 
The word provoke is generally used in 
a bad sense, as "to arouse to anger or 
passion, to incense, to offend ; " but it 
has not necessarily such a signification, 
as it is derived from the Latin pro, forth, 
and vocare, to call, and simply means "to 
call forth, to excite or stimulate to ac-
tion." It is used in the good sense in 
Heb. 10 : 24, "Let us consider one anoth-
er to provoke unto love and to good 
works." A brother in Wisconsin sends 
us the following provoking note : 
" I have made up my mind that the 
Lord shall have one tenth of what I earn 
this summer. I have earned fifty dol-
lars this spring, and I send you a post-
office order of five dollars. Do with it as 
the Lord seems to direct. Yours in 
Christian love, hoping the Saviour's cause 
may be advanced." 
"A good example given to others is 
If we can get light into the pulpit it 
will be likely to find its way to the 
pews. Bro. G. Pillsbury of Kingston, N. 
H. appears to be of this opinion, and 
therefore makes the following sugges-
tion : — 
While sending my subscription for 
the Herald permit me to say I feel anx-
ious to have those blessed truths more 
generally understood, which we hold 
and teach in regard to the second advent 
of Christ. But how shall such a desire 
be realized ? It seems to me one of the 
most important steps towards its accom-
plishment would be to send our paper to 
ministers of all denominations who will 
receive and read it, and I am persuaded 
that there are many dear brethren scat-
tered abroad who are desirous to aid in 
spreading the glad tidings of the coming 
kingdom who would gladly unite in such 
an effort, and thereby not only spread 
the light of coming glory, but render 
needful and timely aid to the office. Now 
why not commence at once by opening a 
subscription list for the purpose of send-
ing the _Herald to five hundred ministers 
outside the Adventist denomination for 
one year ? My means are limited but I 
will pay ten dollars." 
We are decidedly in favor of this mo-
tion and hope it will not be laid on the 
After a busy time of preparation we 
left home Tuesday, May 27th, to attend 
the Pennsylvania Conference of Messiah's 
Church. Taking the 5:30 P. M. train 
from the Boston & Providence depot we 
arrived (by steamer from. Stonington) at 
New York about 8 o'clock next morning, 
where we took the New Jersey Central 
route to Harrisburg. The distance from 
Boston to Harrisburg by this route is 
about 400 miles, and the road lies through 
some of .the fairest portions of New Jer-
sey and Pennsylvania. The day was 
oppressively warm, and the way dusty, 
yet the prospect was pleasant and the 
company cheerful. Brethren Pearson, 
G. W. Burnham, Osler and others, were 
our companions in faith and travel. The 
broad, green fields, well -cultivated, the 
indications of a fruitful season, the roll-
ing rivers and bratiching woods, and the 
numerous car loads of coal being borne 
eastward, reminded us of God's goodness 
fir prow Wing for 1,11-b- wants and tngtoo of 
mankind. 
But we have no time to moralize. We 
reached Harrisburg a. few minutes after 
4 o'clock Wednesday afternoon, and 
were met at the depot by brethren 
Swartz and Jackson. We dined with 
Brother Swartz where we were warmly 
greeted by several old acquaintances, 
and by some whom we only knew through 
correspondence. In the evening we met 
in the new Chapel. It is a large, plain, 
wooden building—a noble result of many 
prayers, numerous donations and per-
severing effort. The main audience-room 
is as yet unfinished, hence all the 
services were held in the vestry. Dr. 
Litch gave an appropriate opening dis-
course from Acts 1 : 8, "But ye shall re-
ceive power, after that the Holy Ghost 
is come upon you ; and ye shall be wit-
nesses unto me both in Jerusalem, and in 
all Judea, and in Samaria, and unto the 
uttermost part of the earth." Elder 
Gunner's text Friday forenoon was 
Mark 13 : 37, "What I say unto you I 
say unto all, watch." On Thursday 
evening we spoke from Col. 3 : 11, "But 
Christ is all, and in all ;" and on Friday 
evening from Jer. 6 : 4, "Woe unto us ! 
for the day goeth away, for the shadows 
of the evening are stretched out." 
The attendance throughout the session 
was good, the attention given to the 
word excellent, the reports from church-
es on the whole encouraging, the social 
meetings interesting, and the business 
sessions characterized by unity and cour-
tesy. There were nineteen ministers of 
our faith and order present, together 
with a goodly number of brethren and 
sisters from a distance. The pastor's 
promise of a hearty welcome and hospit-
able entertainment was faithfully carried 
out. The confidence felt in the Mission 
in Harrisburg, may be judged from the 
fact that on Friday afternoon, even after 
several had left for home, more than a 
thousand dollars was paid and pledged 
for its support. The church is located 
where with prudent management and 
earnest labor much good may be accom-
plished. Brother Swartz has - made a 
good beginning, and the work must not 
be allowed to cease for want of means. 
Our stay in the capital of Pennsylva- 
nia was short, but the remembrance of 
the visit will be long. In order to meet 
our engagement in Trenton we had to 
leave Saturday morning. We have since 
learned that the meetings continued to 
increase in interest to the close—as the 
following note from Elder Swartz, dated 
June 3d, will show : 
"Dear Bro. Orrock :—We had a most 
gracious meeting after you left. Some 
fourteen arose for prayers on Sunday eve-
ning after Bro. Pearson concluded his 
sermon. It was a most refreshing season, 
and a very fitting conclusion of the con-
ference. A number of these professed 
to find peace, and I expect all will soon 
be fixedly joined unto the Lord. I think 
all who were present and have a knowl-
edge of past conferences concede that 
this has been by far the most refreshing, 
as well as the largest gathering we have 
change would only come at his return 
(John 16 : 16-22). 
5. Days of patient waiting. The be-
fitting attitude of the church in view of 
the absent Bridegroom is that of earnest 
longing, patient waiting, and unwearied 
diligence.—Mark 13 : 33-37 ; Acts 1 : 
10, 11 ; James 5 : 7, 8. 
IV On what conditions was this 
promised presence to be enjoyed? 
First, Perfect submission to the divine 
will : " But tarry ye in Jerusalem until 
ye be endued with power from on high." 
This submission was to show itself in pa-
tiently bearing toil, deprivation and suf-
fering for Christ's sake. 
Second, Consecration. It was not 
enough that the apostles had seen and 
heard Christ, and been with him through 
his earthly ministry, learning the gospel 
from his own lips. It was not enough 
that they witnessed his betrayal, trial 
and death, and were with him forty days 
after his resurrection ; no, a more import-
ant prerequisite was necessary to fit 
them for their great work, and that was 
the tongue of flame, the gift of power, 
the baptism of the Holy Spirit. This 
has been the necessary and crowning 
qualification of the ministry through this 
dispensation, and will be to the end. The 
minister, in his personal experience must 
(to be successful) enjoy what he recom-
mends to others. As the prophet said to 
King Asa,—" The Lord is with you while 
ye be with him" (2 Chron. 15 : 2). 
Third; Perfect obedience. " Go," do 
not confine the gospel' to one place. " Go 
ye into all the world and preach the gos-
pel to every creature "—not to a select 
few : make no distinction of class, color, 
or nationality. "Preach the gospel,"—
deliver my message with unfaltering 
faithfulness ; deliver it fully, fearlessly, 
directly, kindly. Do not preach human 
philosophy, science, or literature ; not a 
partial, or garbled gospel, nor yet with 
human admixtures. Christ must not be 
divided, but presented in all his relations, 
offices and work,—as the pre-existent 
Word, the object of prophecy, etc. Hu 
man redemption must be explained, show-
ing its necessity in man's apostacy, and 
his recovery through Christ alone. The 
conditions of salvation must be made 
plain : repentance, faith, obedience and 
holiness. The divine ordinances and dis-
cipline must be faithfully administered 
and enforced, without alteration or fal-
tering. Human destinies must be un-
veiled, and the future opened before 
saint and sinner, for the encouragement 
of the one and the warning of the other. 
Modern fastidiousness and scepticism 
must not deter the minister of Christ 
from the free and unambiguous use of 
Scripture language, announcing the di-
vine anathemas against sin and sinners. 
The errtire range of gospel teaching 
must be taken by the ministry and church, 
and prominence in teaching be given to 
those truths made prominent .in the 
vitt 'or 6rt,i. .111 i3t t1Nla,ao 1s 
by inspiration of God, and is profitable " 
for the faith, discipline, and perfection 
of the church ; and is necessary for the 
thorough furniture of the man or minis-
ter of God ; so that all its teachings 
should claim the attention of the minis-
ter, and through him the attention of the 
people. We must not be ashamed of 
Christ in any of his offices or work, nor 
yet of his words. 
As the developments of God's provi-
dence, during the history of the church, 
would more fully unfold the divine pur-
poses regarding the approaching end, 
and the startlingly solemn events con-
nected with the end, the duty of the 
church to herald the tidings would in-
crease. More especially is this true at 
the present, when the hope of the gospel 
is dimmed by false hopes, which are 
leading multitudes from the ancient path 
of hea,srenly brightness. The crowning 
glory of the gospel should not be omit-
ted in evangelical teachings. The suf-
ferings of Christ and the glory that 
should follow are intimately and essen-
tially connected in the gospel, and can-
not without great injury be divorced. 
Christ would have his church sympa-
thise with him in his earnest longing for 
the period when he shall come to con-
summate the work he has so long been 
engaged in (Heb. 10 : 12, 13). 
In the language of Bourdaloue 
French clergyman who flourished in the 
17th century, in his sermon on the "Pas-
sion " of Christ) we say : " Do you ask 
what is his last will and testament ? 
What the disposition of this dying man's 
effects ? What personal property or 
landed estate does he bequeath ? Ah ! 
my brethren, what riches had he to leave 
who had not where to lay his head !—
who in ordinary circumstances was sus-
tained by alms, and in extraordinary 
cases by miracles ? . What then does he 
give ? From that engine of torture to 
which he was fastened he looks down, 
and what is before those eyes that begin 
to be weighed down by the hand of 
death? His own mother, Mary, and his 
beloved disciple, John—that is the price-
less treasure, the precious succession. 
At this sight, all exhausted as he is, his 
heart awakens ; in his state of suffering, 
increasing every moment, he is not so 
occupied as to be regardless of these 
friends ; he cannot leave them without 
giving them a last proof of his remem-
brance, and a genuine pledge of his love ; 
he cannot commend his spirit into the 
hands of his Father without affording 
them consolation. With serenity, firm-
ness and tenderness, he turns to his moth-
er—Behold thy son'—he will discharge 
the filial office, guard, nourish, and de-
fend thee ? Then saith he to the disci-
ple, 'Behold thy mother'—regard her as 
thou wouldst the tenderest of all con-
nections, as thy mother. And from 
that hour that disciple took her to his 
own home." 
That was an important and solemn 
charge, given under peculiar circum- 
Lake Village, N. H. Sabbath, June 15th. 
H. P. CUTTER. 
NewYork,229 Bowery,Sabbath June 15th. 
" " 138 West 24th St„ " 22d. 
Albany, N. Y., 110 State St., Sabbath 
July 6th. 
GE°. W. BURNHAM. 
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A LATELY DISCOVERED PARABLE, 
WITH A SUPPLEMENT. 
DR. John Hall is reported to have an-
swered the question, Is it right to dance ? 
in this way : " If one should come to 
me with a conscience troubled about this 
matter, I should say, If you are truly 
converted to God you do not wish to dance ; 
and if you are not, it is high time you 
were.' " 
CAEVER-BUSH. By the Rev. J. Zeigler, at his 
residence in Milesburg, Mr. Jacob Carver to Miss 
Euretta Bush, both of Centre Co., Pa. [Time not 
given.-Ed.] 
.111111GMMEIR......1111111...M11901,116 
pusintoo gtpututeut. 
APPOINTMENTS. 
UP TO THE HILLS. 
FOURTH OF JULY MEETING IN KINGS-
TON, N. H. 
This annual gathering will be held in the 
Chapel, near my residence, on the fourth of 
July, to continue over the following Sab-
bath. Elders Gunner, Haskell, and W. 
Burnham are expected to be present to 
c' preach the word." 
This may be our last " Fourth of July 
meeting," and we trust it will be the best. 
Brethren, come to the feast. 
F. GALE. 
 - - 
NEW HAMPSHIRE ANNUAL CONFER- 
ENCE. 
The Evangelical Advent Conference of 
New Hampshire will hold its annual session 
at Lake Village, commencing Thursday ev'g 
June 19th, (instead of the 5th as formerly 
announced,) 1873, at 7-} o'clock, to continue 
over the following Sabbath. 
Every minister in the State, who is in 
sympathy with the faith we so ardently 
cherish, should be present-making sickness 
and death the only excuse for absence. 
Brethren Shipman, Bundy and East-
man we hope to see on that occasion ; while 
from Massachusetts and elsewhere it is ex-
pected that several will be in attendance. 
We cordially invite them. Good accommo-
dations will be furnished for all. Come, do 
come. 
0. G. SMITH, Sec'y. 
0. G. SMITH.-Your letter came after 
our paper had gone to press. 
MRS. H. ADSIT.-Have marked you 
paid to Jan. 1, 1874 ; donations from 
others will help make up such deficien-
cies. 
HENRY AUGHT.-it was an oversight : 
all right now. We prepay postage quar-
terly on all the papers we send to New 
York city, and they ought to be so 
stamped at our post-office-will look into 
the matter. 
••-•)I• • GE.- • 
91 
THE ADVENT HERALD, JUNE 11, 1873. 
not hold their peace ; that had to dis-
turb the tranquility, and overthrow the 
hypothesis of scientists. The temple of 
the Assurbanipal, having been 'dug out 
of, and freed from its rubbish, was found 
to have inscribed upon its walls a record 
of the deluge in arrow-headed characters. 
This record agrees with the respective 
descriptions of the Bible in all import-
ant points. Men of knowledge, Mr. 
George Smith of the British Museum, 
and Mr. Schrader, D.D., the German de-
cipherer of the old Assyrian characters, 
correspond in their reports, that declare 
that the account of Genesis, in regard to 
the flood, is very remarkably confirmed 
by the above named old Assyrian inscrip-
tion. It appears therefore, that the tes-
timony of the crying stones also tears 
the earliest history of men, as recorded 
in the Bible, out of the jaw of unbelief 
and skepticism, and triumphs over them. 
Yea, verily : the stones would immedi-
ately cry out, if the disciples should hold 
their peace.- Translated from the Ger-
man for the " Golden Censer." 
out at the close of the day on the flat 
battlemented roof of our hotel, and en-
joy the beauty and grandeur of the sur-
rounding scenery. At such an hour Leb-
anon is one of the most striking objects 
in the world. It is impossible to describe 
the splendor of the sun, or the magnifi-
cence of the mountains, with its wondrous 
combination of light and shade. Hue 
after hue, and tint after tint arrest the 
eye, like the changing colors of the cha-
meleon. It was impossible to stand there 
and gaze at such a sight, without quoting 
in application to it, the Scripture excla-
mation, "that goodly mountain .1" 
Beyrout is the centre of the missionary 
operations of the American Board in Sy-
ria. There is a fine church here with a 
good congregation. Another preaching 
service has recently been established 
which promises well, and may ere long 
call for another church in this city. 
There is a Protestant Coltege, of which 
the Rev. Dr. Bliss is president, with six 
ordained clergymen as professors, and a 
corp of six native tutors. Several other 
schools are also in operation here, sus-
tained by Christian people in England 
and Scotland, as well as in this country. 
These agencies are producing a powerful 
effect on the minds of the population 
throughout the land. 
And then the press too is lending its 
mighty influences to aid in this good 
work. The American missionaries have 
translated the entire Bible, and it is now 
issued in many editions either complete 
or in parts. An edition of the Gospel 
in raised Arabic characters has also been 
issued for the blind, at the expense of a 
benevolent English gentleman. They 
have prepared and published some sixty 
works, both religious and educational in 
their character ; they also edit and pub-
lish a weekly religious journal, which has 
a regular list of over a thousand sub-
scribers, with a constantly increasing cir-
culation. 
May. God bless these agencies for the 
regeneration of Syria !-Rev. Dr. Yew- 
ton. 
- - 
REGENERATION APPLIED TO BAP- 
TISM. 
A POINTED ANSWER. 
increasing success. We sustain a union 
Sabbath school. 
J. C. MICHAELS, Secretary. 
No reports were received from New 
Kingston, Toby, Mix Run and Caledonia 
churches. IT. P. CUTTER, Secretary. 
who attend the Protestant Italian prayer 
meetings, and calls upon- the military au-
thorities to interfere, 
The Marquis of Lorne and his wife,-the 
Princes Louise, have lately taken up the 
cause of the poverty-stricken curates of 
yesterday and left his card. The Presi-
dent returned a message acknowledging 
the courtesy with compliments. 
Thirty women were made widows, and 
ninety-two children fatherless, by the ex-
plosion at Drummond Colliery, Nova 
Scotia. 
HALIFAX, N. S., June 5. Heavy fires 
are raging in the woods in different parts 
of the Province. The woods in the vi-
cinity of Liverpool have been on fire 
two days, and last evening the town was 
in great danger. A large tract of land 
has already been traversed by the flames, 
and much damage done in Pictou coun- 
.• ON- - • 
the English Church. The former has 
LETTER FROM ELDER ZEIGLER. written to the Archbishop of Canterbury 
on the subject, proposing that the laity 
Dear Brother Orrock :-I have arrived of the church be called upon to raise a 
here after the soul-refreshing seasons of central fund large enough to provide 
our conference session at Harrisburg. each curate with a living of at least $1000 
Of all our annual conferences" in this per annum. The subject has brought 
State this has, perhaps, been the most out some interesting figures respecting 
encouraging and fruitful ; some fifteen the number and salaries of the curates in 
or more having decided for the Lord, England and Wales. Together they 
I ty. The fire swept from the west branch 
who hitherto were the servants of sin. present a body of 19,500 clergyman. Of 
The truth has been faithfully preached these the receipts of 2363 do not exceed 
and well-spread, and doubtless many $1500 : of 1782, X1000: of 1854, $750 
serious and lasting impressions have been 
made. To God be the praise when the 
harvest is gathered. 
But I now behold other things. My 
of the river John to Black river and on 
the east branch of the river John for a 
distance of twelve miles, destroying ev-
and of 1585, $5007 Such livings, in the erything in its course. The value of the 
Marquis's opinion, can only support a con- property destroyed cannot be estimated 
dition of genteel starvation, and are a The woods through which the fire passed 
are the most valuLb le in the country. 
risburg this 30th day of May, 1873, here-
by commend our brother as an_ able 
champion of evangelical doctrine, and a 
worthy representative of this body in 
vindication of such truth. 
It was voted, that we desire the Amer-
ican Millennial Association to carry out 
the previous action regarding the publi-
cation of an edition of the ADVENT HER-
ALD under the name of MESSIAH'S HER-
ALD. 
As the President was obliged to leave, 
Rev. M. L. Jackson was chosen President 
pro tem. 
J. A. Aldred having been pre-
sented was chosen a member of the con-
ference as an ordained minister. The 
Harrisburg church interest was then 
brought up by the pastor, Rev. W. H. 
Swartz ; Rev's. Pearson and Osler and 
brethren Prior and Knowles made re-
marks, and a letter was read from the 
Providence "Do Society," after which 
the conference proceeded to raise funds 
towards liquidating the debt on . the 
church, and one thousand and fifteen dol-
lars were raised in cash and pledges. 
The minutes were read and accepted and 
the conference adjourned. 
H. P. CUTTER, Secretary. 
REPORTS OF CHURCHES. 
Harrisburg, (W. II. Swartz, Pastor), 
extends a cordial welcome to the confer-
ence, to our city and our homes. In re-
viewing the mercies of God toward us 
the past year, we can but exclaim, 
" What hath God wrought ! " Surely, if 
God ever smiled on any work he has on 
this. The dedication services of the ves-
try of our church took place January 12, 
413.7.3.---We have some debt on our house 
yet, but we trust that God will order ac-
cording to his wisdom in the removal of 
it. Our membership has more than dou-
bled ; souls having been brought to the 
Saviour, and others on receiving the 
truth have east their lot among us. 
G. W. SHAFER, Clerk.. 
Trenton (D. Elwell, Pastor), reports 
prosperity during the year-about twen-
ty have professed conversion. The church 
building having been completed will be 
dedicated June 1. Sabbath school pros-
pered greatly during the past few months. 
JOSEPH MERRICK. 
Mount Hope (T. Hollen, pastor). The 
Lord has blest us, and we are waiting 
the appearing of our Lord and Saviour 
Jesus Christ. Sabbath school on the un- 
ion plan. H. M. BAILEY, Secretary. 
Yardleyville, no pastor. Had preach-
ing by Elder S. F. Grady until Novem-
ber 1, 1872. Social meetings have been 
sustained. Have Sabbath school regu-
larly. Elder Aldred held a meeting dur-
ing the winter ; eight professed conver-
sion and five joined the church. The 
church desires preaching, and will e p 
sustain it. M. A. LovErr. 
Penn Valley (J. A. Aldred, pastor). 
Have had some prosperity. At a meet-
in# in the winter eight professed faith 
in Christ and several joined the church. 
Interest in the Sabbath school is encour- 
disgrace to the nation. 
thoughts have been led off in another 
direction, on looking over one of the The membership of the Church of Eng- 
daily papers published in the same city. land is about twelve million. 
To show that there are two sides to the A congress of Sunday-school teachers 
affairs of this world, as well as the fear- was recently held at Nimes, France, 
ful abounding of iniquity, I enumerate when it was reported that there were 
the following items whose headings are nine hundred and fifty Sunday-schools in 
thus given : "Suit against the Credit the Republic. 
Mobilier Company,"-this bespeaks fraud 
The towers of the Cathedral of Co- 
on no small scale. "A serious shooting logne have reached the hight of 230 feet. 
affair,"-this tells of a man discharging The construction of the spires, which are 
the contents of a loaded shot-gun into to bring the total hight up to 600 feet, 
will be commenced. Six years more are 
required for terminating the work. 
THE CHOLERA ALARM.-Cholera has 
made its appearaw-,e in this country, sev-
eral cases having occurred in New Or-
leans. It has not ye? assumed an epi-
demic form; but as it came to the cen-
tral part- of the country in 1849 from 
New Orleans, it is 
 that due precau- 
tionary measures should,be adopted. 
Georgia has twenty condemned crimi-
nals who are sentenced to be executed 
between this time and the Fourth of Ju-
ly next. 
Between Saturday, May 31st, and June 
8th, nearly 13,000 immigrants arrived at 
New York. 
the arm and leg of another, and then 
fleeing from the scene. "An important 
liquor decision,"-the "decision" is that 
manufacturers "have the right to inject 
carbonic acid gas into wine made of 
grapes," of course regardless of all con-
sequences in the sight of God, as they 
need p no tax to the United States. 
"Banquet to the delegates of the Pres-
byterian Convention." Perhaps I may 
as well give the item :- 
Philadelphia, June 1.-The delegates 
to the Convention of the United Presby-
terian church partook of a banquet yes-
terday at Belmont, on an invitation of 
members of Philadelphia churches. Three 
hundred gentlemen sat down to the din-
ner, which was followed by a number of 
speeches from delegates front abroad and 
For sixteen centuries, men have been 
learning and teaching regeneration by 
baptism. That they are " illuminated," 
obtain spiritual sight, are born again new 
creatures, and made the children of God 
by holy baptism. I blame no one for be-
lieving as he is taught ; for teaching what 
he believes, or for preaching to the glory 
of God and the salvation of men, accord-
ing to his faith. Pointing out this mis-
take is not to reproach brethren, or the 
Church of Christ which suffers the error. 
Our blessed Lord knew that his twelve 
apostles, every one, during all his minis-
try in the flesh, expected him to be 
crowned in that day. He taught them 
better, but left to them the 'responsibil-
ity of studying the lesson. He told them 
that he should be rejected, betrayed, 
killed, and after three days rise agaiT4 
This they could not comprehend at all. 
" For his kingdom is at hand and if it 
come not here now, when and where will 
it come, and how shall we be with him 
enthroned in it ?" They were allowed 
full liberty of opinion. This liberty is, 
and has ever been, the same with the 
ministers and teachers who have followed 
the apostles. Every one is responsible 
for his private judgment, and for his pub-
lic teaching. All are liable to error of 
doctrine, to follow the desires of our 
own heart, and to depart from the faith, 
as Israel did. The visible Church is not 
an exception. Adhering to the form of 
sound words is safe. But by substi-
tuting others words, or by supplying a 
new sense to the old words, the visible 
Church itself is taken, as Eve was taken, 
and Jerusalem was taken-in the snare of 
the murderer, and must fall beside them, 
to rise no more in this world. But "in 
the regeneration, when the Son of Man 
shall sit on the throne of his glory," he 
shall reckon with his servants, and re-
ward them in personality, if not as a 
Church polity also, at the resurrection of 
the just. 
Holy baptism is the appointed sign of 
this faith in God and in the regeneration, 
when all this creation here now lying in 
darkness, under condemnation of death 
and bondage to corruption shall be de-
livered into the glorious light and liberty 
of the children of God, and the same en- 
emy which early persuaded all mankind 
first to call the signs and the images by 
the name of God, and then to accept and 
worship the images for God,led the Church 
also gradually to call the sign-Baptism-
by the name of the faith it signifies i. e., 
Regeneration. The sign is true ; the new 
new creation, new creature, all things new, 
or the Regeneration of which Baptism 
is the sign, is also true. Yet Baptism is no 
more Regeneration than the canvas pie= 
ture is the person it represents ; no more 
than Raphael's Madonna and child are 
the blessed Virgin and holy child Jesus. 
This key unlocks the Regeneration in 
Baptism, and the reader can apply it for 
himself.-Rev. H. D. Ward, in The 
Episcopalian. 
" From thence shall come my help." 
-By A. D. W., from " Old and New." 
Then shall the kingdom of Satan be 
likened to a grain of tobacco seed ; 
which though exceedingly small, being 
cast into the ground grew, and became 
a great plant, and spread its leaves rank 
and broad, so that huge and Vile worms 
found a habitation thereon. And it came 
to pass in the course of time that the 
sons of men looked upon it, and thought 
it beautiful to look upon ; and much to 
be desired to make lads look big and 
manly. So they put forth their hand 
and did chew thereof, And some it 
made sick, and others to vomit most 
filthily. And it further came to pass 
that those who chewed it became weak 
and unmanly, and said, " We are enslav- 
ed, and can't cease from chewing it." 
And the mouths of all that were enslav-
ed became foul, and they were seized 
with a violent spitting, and they did spit 
even in ladies' parlors, and in the house 
of the Lord of Hosts. And the saints 
of the Most High were greatly plagued 
thereby. And in the course of time it 
same also to pass that others snuffed it, 
and they were taken suddenly with fits, 
and they did sneeze with a great and 
mighty sneeze, insomuch that their eye 
were filled with tears, and they did look 
exceedingly silly. And yet others cun-
ningly wrought the leaves thereof into 
rolls, and did set fire to the one end 
thereof and did suck most vehemently at 
the other end thereof, and did look very 
grave and calf-like 
And the cultivation thereof became a 
great and mighty business in the earth, 
and the merchant-men waxed rich by the 
commerce thereof. And it came to pass 
that the saints of the Most High defiled 
themselves therewith ; even the poor who 
could not buy shoes, nor bread, nor 
boo'ks for their little ones, -spent their 
money for it. And the Lord was -great-
ly displeased therewith, and said, 
"Wherefore this waste and why do these 
little ones lack bread and shoes and 
books ? Turn now your fields into corn 
and wheat, and put this evil thing far 
from you, and be separate, and defile not 
yourselves any more, and I will bless you 
and cause my face to shine upon you." 
How many commentators of the Old 
Testament tried their very best to reduce But with one accord they all exclaim- 
the Scripture narrative, in regard to -the ed "We cannot cease from chewing, 
! 
creation, to only a fable. But the stones snuffing and puffing-we are slaves 
 
begin to cry out against these perverters 
SUPPLEMENT. 
of the blessed pages ; they declare most And it came to pass that the women of 
emphatically, that, " what is written," is the laud began to use it ; and they broke 
irrefutable, and that their theology is sticks and made little mops thereof, and 
moth-eaten and brittle. 
with tobacco powder they did besmear 
Boldly declared the critic, that Nine- their mouths. Then was to be seen a 
veh, the metropolis of the ancients, could sight deplorable. Some it made hypo-
have never been so large, as stated in the 
Old Testament. Therefore the Bible re-
port is not true in regard to this state-
ment. But mark ! The stones testify 
to the honor of the book of Jonah. Lay-
ard's works state that the discoveries 
made by the digging up of the very city 
of Nineveh bear witness, as to the valid-
ity of the statement in Jonah concerning 
the size of the city. 
The history of the children of Israel 
and of Moses in Egypt was regarded ' as 
exceedingly fragile and uncertain, by the 
critics, knowing everything, and a little 
more-judging of all things, and not able 
to be judged by any one. Yet again, it 
was the stones which refuted the argu-
ment of the critic and told the true story 
in spite of them. In the ruins of the 
old Egyptian temples, pictures were dis-
covered, revealing the servitude of the 
sons of Abraham, and inscriptions con-
firming the writings of the Pentateuch. 
Not only Hengstenberg in his works, 
The Books of Moses and Egypt, have 
shown the truth of this statement ; but 
also the valiant Bunsen, and, in later 
times, the celebrated Egyptologist, Geo. 
Ebers, of Leipsic. 
Again, the critic questioned the truth-
fulness of the books of Samuel, and the 
books of the kings. Since that, the 
stones in the land of Moab were heard 
to be crying out. A stone was found 
which contained an inscription of Mesa, 
the king of Moab. The German theolo-
gists, Ichlottman, Noeldecke, Schrader 
and Hitzig competed eagerly in translat-. 
ing the inscription. And look at the result ! 
The inscription of the rock of the land 
of Moab verified, in a striking manner, 
the statements of the books of the Kings 
in regard to king Mesa, and the Moab-
ites. 
The aboriginal history of man has al-
ways been considered by the critics as 
fable and fiction, fiction and fable, and 
no more. The ancient oracle was not 
surer than they, and he who would not 
at once accept their doctrines was thrust 
into exile as being unscientific, and as 
holding on to old notions, no agreeing 
with present progress and enlightenment. I full in view of the beholder here. I 
But it was the stones again, that could used to love, during our stay here, to go 
CANADA AND VERMONT CONFER- 
ENCE. 
city clergymen, some being of a highly 
humorous character. They were also 
entertained by a band of music during 
dinner. The party did not return to the 
city till nearly 10 P. M. During their' 
progress through the park to Belmont, 
stoppages were made at the principal 
points, inchiding General Grant's cabin, 
where George H. Stuart made some 
happy allusions to various events that 
had transpired within its walls while used Scriptures, in whole or in part, have been 
as an army headquarters." 
"Burglars at work," is the next item. put into circulation by Bible Societies 
They were busy of course, and vigilant alone in various parts of the world. 
 
ex- Translations have now been made in two 
as their master. They surceeded in 
tracting fifteen hundred dollars worth of hundred and fifty-seven languages. 
 
! 
watches from a manufacturer's establish- During the past year the English socie-
ty has found a marvelous opening in 
Russia for its work, where it distributed' 
 
"I will lift up mine eyes unto the hills," 
Though cold the mists of morning shroud their 
brow, 
And faith, as through a glass, sees dimly hem 
"From thence shall come my help." 
"I will lift up mine eyes unto the hills " 
Through the fierce heat and burden of the day, 
The " shadow of the rock " lies o'er the way 
" From whence shall come my help." 
"I will lift up mine eyes unto the hills" 
When reverent evening sets the gates ajar, 
And glimpses come of what the glories are 
"From whence shall come my help.': 
"1 will lift up mine eyes unto the hills,-" 
Through night of agony and bloody sweat 
The angels ministered on Olivet: 
Juggernattth cars still make their ap-
pearance at certain Hindoo festivals, but 
without the horrid features of sacrifice 
which formerly characterized them. Cu-
riously enough, however, the natives 
make the present cars so heavy and 
clumsy that they seriously endanger life 
when dragged through the streets. At 
the late Ruth Festival near Serampore, 
six persons were crushed to death by 
these "machines of murder" (in which 
respect they must be not unlike a civil-
ized railroad car) ; and the Lieutenant-
Governor of Bengal now thinks it is high 
time the Juggernauth should be sup-
pressed. The trouble is that it is a re-
ligious symbol with the natives, and can 
only be touched with caution by the 
Government of India.- Christian Union. 
The Secretary of the British and For-
eign Bible Society estimates that during 
the present century about one hundred 
and sixteen million copies of the Sacred 
THE TESTIMONY OF THE CRYING 
STONES. 
The Province of Quebec and Vermont 
Conference will hold its twenty-second an-
nual session in Richford, Vt., commencing 
Thursday, June 19th. at half past 10 A. M., 
to hold over the following Sabbath. 
Churches should elect delegates in season, 
and furnish them with the necessary statis-
tics. The ministers of the Conference-
every one-should come, or report them-
selves by letter. Elder S. F. Grady, who 
has charge of the church in Richford, would 
like those who purpose to attend the meet-
ing to Avritelim to that effect, as it will 
aid him in making arrangements to enter-
tain ilOSP who come. 
I" ' H F, 
W. B. KINNEY, Sec'y. 
In response to several inquiries I would 
say, that while it would give me great 
pleasure to attend the above Conference, I 
do not see at present my way clear to do so. 
Elder C. Cunningham gives some encour-
agement that he will attend. 
J. M. ORROCK. 
went. "Another wife Murder." "Ar-
rest of a well-known Hotel , Swindler." 
"Horrible Murder of Sixteen Persons." 331,000 copies of the Scriptures in no 
What times do we live in ? Do you 
ask ? I will tell you : We live in a time 
when those who should speak, are most-
ly silent ; and those who should be silent, 
do commence to give testimony, namely: 
the stones ! You are surprised ? Veri-
ly be astonished ! Indeed, we live in 
such a time, where the stones• cry out, 
that the sacred word is true in all its de-
tails ; but that the doetrine of Rational-
ism-of Skepticism-is ,gals._ tO its very 
foundation. The historical books of the 
" Old Testament " do not contain a myth, 
as it is contended, but history-sacred 
history-in which, as Haman says, each 
single stroke is a prophecy running from 
century to century, and verifying itself in 
thousands of cases before the eyes of 
men. 
CG• 
"Murder of a colored man. "Found less than sixty distinct dialects. The en- 
guilty of Murder." "Attacked and tire European field is encouraging. 
 
seriously injured." "A man MurderedThe commission charged by the Ger-
for Seven Cents." "Arrest of two per- I man authorities with the duty of ascer- 
aging. 
sons supposed to belong to the notorious taming what are the religious orders 
 
11xis-ity B. SEALACE, Secretary. Bender Family." "An interesting Bil- allied to the Jesuits, has issued its re- 
Morrisville nopastor. Report not Hard Match." It may have seemed. in- port, and names the Redemptionists, 
flattering ; sustain regular meetings. teresting," but the time hastens when 
Have some small debts unpaid. ; it will be called up again and the parties 
 
En. RYAN, Sec,•etary. interested will find "the tables turned.' 
Sterling Run, (M. H. Moyer, pastor). Next comes an account of "a white wo-
New chapel is fitted up for worship. ! man outraged by a Negro," after which 
he crushed her skull with an axe. Two 
Have regular preaching service and so- other items I clip and send herewith 
vial meetings ; eleven have been received 
"A spiritual meeting of colored citi- 
into church fellowship the past year. zens was held in New London township, 
Sabbath school is large and flourishing. Chester county, one night recently, at 
 
D. R. NELSON, Secretary. which the evil spirit was manifested. 
Huntley, -(M. H. Mover, pastor). A TO vary the monotony of the occasion 
'physical knockings' down were substi-
small church organized by Eld. Moyer tuted for 'spiritual rappings,' and a knife- 
recently, arid with good prospects. blade was sheathed in the body of one 
_Emporium circuit (N. Stokely, pas- Joe Nelson." 
tor, J. Hausler, Secretary). Emporium "An Ecclesiastical court, composed of 
church: about as last year in numbers the members of the Pittsburgh and two 
other adjoining conferences will corn-
and interest. Need a house of worship, 
are now using a school house. 
Rich Talley church: Not quite as 
strong as last year ; have regular preach-
ing ; Sabbath school not organized yet. 
Have appointments also at Portage, 
Sinnemahoning and North Creek. 
Centre County Circuit, (J. Zeigler, 
pastor). Churches embraced in the cir-
cuit are Marsh Creek, Central, Dick's 
Run, Zion, 'Washington, Central City, 
and Pleasant Valley. Work of grace 
during the year has been more steady. 
Public services are well attended. There 
are six Sabbath schools on the circuit. 
Messiah's church of Zion has been finish-
ed and dedicated, at a cost of $1200. 
Marsh Creek church has been remodelled 
-cost $400.00. 
Cumberland Circuit (A. L. Brand, 
pastor). Mechanicsburg church. 
State 
of the church is good. The relations of 
Elder M. L. Jackson ceased with us on 
April 1, 1873. Since then Elder Brand 
has been employed. 
J. DoNsoN, Secretary. 
Shiremantown church. No additions 
are reported ; one ' has passed away 
(Flora Jackson). Elder M. L. Jackson 
left us April 1st. We have now Rev. A. 
L. Brand as pastor. Have regular preach-
ing, good Bible class and Sabbath school. 
DANIEL RUPP, Secretary. 
LETTERS RECEIVED. 
Lazarists, Congregation of the Holy 
Ghost and Company of the Sacred Heart 
of Jesus. Besides these, there are in 
Prussia 47 religious congregations of 
men and 50 of women, who, according 
to the law of the 4th of July 1872, have 
some affinity with the Company of Jesus. 
The commission demands a severe scru-
tiny of the Constitutions of such, in 
Prussia and the other States of the Con-
federation. As to the four Orders first 
named, it demands the strictest applica-
tion of the law, and says they will have 
to dissolve in six months at least from 
the time they are notified. 
Dean Alford lies buried, according to 
his wish, beneath a yew-tree in St. Mar-
tin's church-yard, and, also according to 
his wish, these words were carved upon 
his tomb :-DEVERSORIUM VIATORIS HIE-
ROSOLYMAN PROFICISCENTIS, i. e, "The 
inn of a traveller on his way to Jerusa-
lem." 
Rev. Geo. Kline ; A. F. Adams, 2.00 ; 
Rev. W. B. Armstrong ; Josiah Lucas, 
5.00 ; A. Rogers, 2.00 ; G. W. Lewis, 
2.00 ; Henry M. Hayes ; Geo. W. Burn-
ham, 2.00 ; Prof. J. F. Huber, 1.00 ; 
Richard R. Hill, 5.00 ; J. F. Guild (have 
not-time to do it) ; W. B. Kinney, 1.00 ; 
Edward Lloyd, 7.00 ; S. C. Sherman, .25; 
Mrs. L. Kimball, 2.00 ; T. A. Godfrey ; 
J. B. Estabrook, 5.00 ; W. P. Stratton, 
1.00 ; Rev. K. Holt, 2.00 ; A. Pearce, 
2.50 ; W. S. Cutting, 2.50 ; E. H. Sher-
man, .50, (yes) ; D. W. Aldrich ; Rev. 
E. B. Rollins ; Jonas Sornberger ; S. 
Ruhlman, 2.00 ; Gideon Higgins, 2.00 ; 
Thomas S. Parks, .50 ; Julia A. Brown, 
2.00 ; Mrs. E. P. Pierce, 2.00: Crosby 
Horn, 6.00 ; Adam R. Smith, 2.00 ; Jo-
seph Miller, 3.@0 ; Stephen Marvin ; T. 
M. Preble ; R. J. McKusick ; Heni7 
Menus, .60 ; Sam'l Ebersole, 1.50 ; J. 
H. Hampton ; Mrs. H. Adsit, 2.00 ; Si-
las G. Tyler ; M. F. Eaton, 1.00 ; U. W. 
Rogers ; W. J. Halse ; D. Elwell ; Sarah 
L. Mann, 2.00 ; Thomas Sweet, .25 ; 
Wm. M. Page, 2.00 ; Simon P. Powley, 
4.00 ; A. K. Fox, 3.20 ; A. B. Russell ; 
J. Zeigler, 31.50 (at Conference) ; S. A. 
Harrop, 2.00 ; M. D. W. (manuscript) ; 
Rev. L. Thompson ; Annie E. Smith ; 
D. McNair ; John Barnes, 2.00 ; Kate 
T. Dennis ; Sarah Trautman, 1.26 ; Jo-
seph Clark, 1.50. 
crites, for they did use it in secret. Some 
it made bold by its energy, to use it in 
defiance of decency, and the wishes of 
their friends ; and they all did slobber 
and spit, and their mouths did show the 
sign thereof, with the unsightly dark 
stain around them, and they did run their 
tongues round their lips to clean them, 
and then they did spit again, and their 
handkerchiefs were defiled, and often-
times their clothes. Many grew sallow 
and husky, and tremulous, and said they 
were nervous, and had more trials than 
anybody, and died before the time, and 
bequeathed impaired constitutions to 
their children, and the world was cursed 
by this fashion exceedingly, and a sigh 
was raised by the thoughtful of the land; 
for the hurt of the daughters of the peo-
ple was great. 
And it was said, " What shall be done ? 
Alas ! what shall be done ? "-Methodist 
Protestant. 
NOTES TO CORRESPONDENTS. 
mence a session in Beaver on Wednes-
day next. The court will be composed 
of twenty-one preachers, and will be pre-
sided over by Bishop Simpson. The case 
to be tried is that of the Rev. Mr. Gregg, 
who is charged with abusing his family. 
The accused is not expected to be pres-
ent, but will be represented at the trial." 
Here we have in all, seventeen in-
stances of horrible crimes, of various 
shades, recorded on the first page of a 
daily paper. Place this dark picture 
opposite the report of our Annual Con-
ference, which we so much enjoyed, and 
our soul dies within us : scarcely a glim-
mer of light can be seen through the 
thick darkness. 
Speaking from a Christian's stand- 
point, we may safely say "the shadows 
of the evening are stretch ed out ;" yea, 
gross darkness is on the land, and it 
becomes more and more intense as the 
fiends of darkness exert their powers, 
according to their diabolical devices 
against light, and truth, and justice ; thus 
fulfilling in and by themselves the words of 
Christ, "iniquity shall abound." 
(Matt. 
24 : 12). But we need look for nothing 
better this side of the consummation of 
all things, when He, whose right it is to 
reign, will come and cut the work short 
in righteousness. "Even so, come Lord' 
Jesus. Yours looking for Christ and 
deliverance. 
J. ZEIGLER. 
Carlisle, Pa., June 3d. 
BEYROUT. 
The theatres are now used in London 
for ‘special religious services for the 
masses, which, during the past season, 
were attended by two hundred and forty 
thousand persons. The movement orig-
inated fourteen years ago, and it is still 
well sustained. Its friends are making 
an effort to raise $50,000 as a fund for 
opening rooms in districts where theatres 
and halls are not obtainable. 
Dr. Ray Palmer's Hymn, "My Faith 
looks up to Thee," has been translated by 
Mr. Blodget into the Mandarin dialect, 
the generally spoken language of China. 
It is proposed among the Moravians 
to celebrate in this country the five hund-
redth anniversary of the birth of John 
Huss, which will occur on the 6th of 
July next. 
-4 --ad.. a.- • 
This town is the seaport of Damascus, 
which is some sixty miles distant from 
it. It is the most important harbor found. 
along the coast of Syria, from Alexan-
dria in Egypt to the extreme northern 
boundary of the land. Beyrout is de-
lightfully situated in a vast crescent 
formed by the Lebanon range, surround-
ed by magnificent mountains, and at the 
head of one of the most beautiful bays 
in the Mediterranean. It is built upon 
the slope of a hill, so that most of the 
houses command a good view of the sea. 
The population of the town is about 
60,000. One-third of these are Moham-
medans, and the rest Christians, Jews, 
and strangers. The population and bus-
iness of the place are rapidly increasing. 
With its bustling quay, and crowded 
port, and large warehouses and stores, 
and beautiful suburban villas it is assum-
ing every year more and more the appear-
ance of a European town. 
Of course the object of greatest inter-
est in connection with Beyrout is the 
glorious range of Lebanon that stands 
NEWS ITEMS. 
LONDON, June 3. The steamship 
Drummond Castle, while on a voyage 
from Hankow for this port, went ashore 
on Chusan Island, off the east coast of 
China, and became a total wreck. Thirty 
persons Were drowned. 
A dispatch from St. Petersburg, Rus-
sia, says that there is no truth in the re-
port that Khiva has been taken, and the 
Khan is a prisoner. There is much anx-
iety in St. Petersburg concerning the ul-
timate success of the expedition against 
Khiva. 
On Saturday, May 24th, a measure 
highly favored by Thiers was defeated, 
whereupon his Ministry tendered their 
resignations to him, and he tendered his 
to the Assembly, which accepted it, and 
elected Marshal MCIVIahon in his stead. 
This is regarded by some as a victory 
on the part of the Monarchists. 
PARIS, June 8. Prince Jerome Napo-
leon called upon President MacMahon 
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SCHOOL LIFE. 
I sat in the school f sorrow ; 
The Master was teaching there ; 
But my eyes were dim with weeping. 
And my heart was full of care. 
Instead of looking upwards 
And seeing the face divine, 
So full of the tenderest pity 
For weary hearts like mine, 
I only thought of the burden, 
The cross that before me lay, 
So hard and heavy to carry, 
That it darkened the light of day. 
So I could not learn my lesson, 
And say "Thy will be done ; " 
And the Master came not near me 
As the weary hours went on. 
At last, in my heavy sorrow, 
I looked from the cross, above, 
And I saw the Master watching, 
With a glance of tender love. 
He turned to the cross before me, 
And I thought I heard Him say, 
"My child, thou must bear thy burden, 
And learn thy task to-day. 
"I may not tell the reason, 
'Tis enough for thee to know 
That I, the Master, am teaching, 
And give this cup of woe. 
So I stooped to that weary sorrow ; 
One look at that face divine 
Had given me power to trust Him, 
And say, "Thy will, not mine." 
And then I learnt my lesson, 
Taught by the Master alone, 
He only knows the tears I shed, 
For He has wept His own. 
But from them came a brightness, 
Straight from the home above, 
Where the school-life will be ended, 
And the cross will show the Love. 
ANECDOTES OF MINISTERS. 
IT IS RELATED of the distinguished 
Rev. Dr. Bellamy that he had seasons of 
deep despondency when he was confident 
he was going to hell. His brethren often 
labored with him in vain. One day, after 
all reasoning had failed, one of the minis-
ters said : " Well, brother, you know 
more about yourself than we do. To us 
you appear very well ; but after all, you 
may be a whited sepulchre-beautiful out-
side, but inwardly full of corruption. If 
so, you will go to hell. I should like, 
however, to know what you will do when 
you get there." " Do ?" cried the Doc-
tor, with great animation and emphasis ; 
what will I do ? I will vindicate the law 
of God and set up prayer-meetings." 
" All right," said the brother ; " but in 
that case the devil will not keep you there ; 
he will soon turn you out, as unfitted 
for his place and company." The Doc-
ter came out of his gloom and was happy. 
THE GOSPEL MORE THAN TRUTH.-
A minister who married the widow of 
a deceased preacher, soon noticed that 
his wife became dejected under his ser-
mons. Solicitous as to the cause of thi 
depression, he was at length answered 
with much trembling, Sir, your preach- 
ing would starve all the Christians in the 
world." " Starve all the Christians in 
the world ! Why, do I not speak the 
truth ?" " Yes," replied the wife, " and 
so you would were you to. stand in the 
desk all day and say my name is Mary. 
But sir, there is something beside the let-
ter in the truth of the gospel." Thank 
God the minister is commissioned to preach 
the word cf power. The letter may kill ; 
" but the Spirit giveth life." The holy 
anointing should accompany the commis-
sion, that joy and not sadness may attend 
the word. 
Francis Wayland, when but eighteen 
years of age, had excellent ideas of the 
use to be made of books. In a letter to 
his sister, found in pages 45-47 of the 
first volume of his life, he thus writes : 
"Do not care so much to read a good deal, 
as to read well and thoughtfully." We 
should usually take notes and make com-
ments as we read. A good deal of thought 
should be expended as we go over the 
pages. Wayland recommended the habit 
of copying beautiful passages and memor-
izing the choicest of them. 
But reading hastily and rushing from 
book to book, we receive very little if any 
benefit. The torrent rushes through the 
mind and leaves nothing behind. By 
reading slowly-stopping often to think, 
to analyze and criticise,-the mind has 
time to absorb and digest. The seeds of 
thought settle on the bottom, and take 
root. In reading the-more solid books it 
is well to go over dome of the pages two or 
three times. Their contents should be 
mastered before we pass on. A single 
page of Coleridge's prose may claim an 
hour's time. Miss Martineau read the 
pages of more than one author at that 
slow pace. She read to strengthen her 
mind, and not to amuse herself or to kill 
time. 
It is said that Comte, the French posi-
tivist, read but few books ; what he did 
read "laid there fructifying, and came out 
a living tree v ith leaves and fruit." It 
is not always the most wholesome fruit, 
but it is the product of a mind inured to 
"strong meat." It is safer to recommend 
Comte's method of reading, than his phil-
osophy or his religion. 
John Foster, was not, I believe, a liter-
ary gormand. The staple of his mental 
aliment WAS of the beef-steak order. The 
great thoughts of the best authors were 
deposited in his own mind, and what fruit 
they yielded ! He was not only an orig-
inal, but a grand thinker, and his thoughts 
to-day are seed corn in thousands of 
minds. 
The late F. W. Robertson was a very 
slow reader of the very choicest works. 
The kings of thought, from Plato to But-
ler and Jonathan Edwards, had front 
seats in his library. 
Too many people read simply for amuse-
ment. No higher aim prompts them to 
indulge in their books. They want to 
kill time, and they use "light reading" for 
that purpose. In some instances Christ-
ian people.do this. But time is too pre-
cious a boon to be killed. Who gave any- 
body autha'ity to thUs•dispose of it? 
• 
Others read simply for the imaginary 
adornment of the mind. I say imaginary, 
for such readers hurry through a volume, 
with litt reflection and no annotations, 
and the benefit is trifling. Their intel-
lectual cutlery is white-washed, and very 
soon makes a poor show. To really 
adorn the mind by reading, we must give 
most of our spare time to such books as 
Bacon said should be chewed and digest-
ed. 
People sometimes boast of the number 
of books they have read, as though their 
intellectual wealth could be guaged by the 
length of the list. But let us remember 
what Dr. Parr, a prodigy of learning yet 
a slow reader, once said to a person who 
boasted of his multifarious reading : "You 
have read a great deal ; you have thought 
very little, and you know nothing.". Rob-
ert Hall said that Dr. Kippis "laid so 
many books on his head that his brains 
could not move." 
LONELY WORKERS. 
 
 
TO ATHEISM AND BACK. 
BY REV. JOSEPH BARKER. 
Many Christians have to endure the 
solitude of unnoticed labor. They are 
serving God in a way which is exceeding-
ly usefel, but not at all noticeable. How 
very sweet to many workers are those lit-
tle corners of the newspapers and maga-
zines which describe their labors and suc-
cesses; yet sume who are doing what 
God will think a great deal more of at the 
last, never saw their names in print. Yon-
der beloved brother is plodding away in 
a country village ; nobody knows any-
thing about him, but he is bringing souls 
to God. Unknown to fame, the angels 
are acquainted with him, and a few pre-
cious ones whom he has led to Jesus know 
him well. 
Perhaps yonder sister has a class in 
the Sunday-school ; there is nothing strik-
ing in her or in her class ; nobody thinks 
of her as a remarkable worker ; she is a 
flower that blooms almost unseen : but she 
is none the less fragrant. There is a Bi-
ble-woman ; she is mentioned in the re-
port as making so many visits a week, 
but nobody discovers all she is doing for 
the poor and needy, and how many are 
saved in the Lord through her instrument-
ality. Hundreds of God's dear servants 
are serving him without the encouragement 
of man's approving eye, yet they are not 
alone, the Father is with them. 
Never mind where you work; care 
more about how you work. Never mind 
who sees, if God approves. If he smiles, 
be content. We cannot be always sure 
when we are most useful. It is not the 
acreage you sow, it is the multiplication 
which God gives to the seed which will 
make up the harvest. You have less to 
do with being successful than with being 
faithful. Your main comfort is - that in 
your labor you are not alone, for God, the 
Eternal One, who guides the marches of 
the stars, is with you.-Spurgeon. 
WHEN REV. DR. CAREY, the great pio-
neer of mission work in Indi4, first pro-
posed his plans to his father, he said: 
"William, are you mad ?" His discour-
agements in first entering upon his work 
in India were appalling. When he found 
himself without a roof to cover his head, 
without bread for his sickly wife and four 
children, he made up his mind to build a 
hut in the wilderness, and live as the na-
tives did around him. He either 'trans-
lated or assisted in the completion of 
twenty-seven versions of Scripture, re-
quiring a knowledge of as many languages 
or dialects. What was the secret that 
enabled the shoemaker's apprentice to be-
come one of the most distinguished men 
of the age ? He tells us ale secret himself. 
Not laying claim to brilliant gifts, or gen-
ius, he says: " I can plod-I can perse-
vere." - He does not say, as we hear too 
often now-a-days: " I could always manage 
to get along, and keep up with my clasS. 
I could jump at the meaning of my les-
sons, or I can catch up a trade without 
years of hard labor ; but, " I can perse-
vere." 
Martin Luther gave some good advice 
to a preacher of the gospel, which is not 
altogether out of date : "Let all thy ser-
mons be of the simplest. Look not to 
the princes ; but to the simple, unwise, 
rude, and unlearned people ; for the 
prince is made of the same stuff. If I in 
my sermons were to regard Philip Me-
lancthon and the other doctors, I should 
do no good ; but I preach in the simplest 
way to the unlearned, and that pleases 
all. (I keep the Hebrew and the Greek 
for the times when we learned men are 
alone together. Then we can talk such 
crabbed stuff they may well wonder at 
us in Heaven)." The profound disquisi-
tions that are sometimes delivered in the 
pulpit, to promiscuous congregations, 
might better be reserved for the time 
when "we learned men are alone." 
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A BIT OF WISDOM. 
" Let me tell you," said Isaac Walton 
to his scholar, " I have a rich neighbor 
that is always so busy that he has no lei-
sure to laugh ; the whole business of his 
life is to get money, and more money, that 
he may still get more and more money. 
He is still drudging on, and says that Sol-
omon says, the diligent hand maketh 
rich ; ' and it is true indeed, but he con-
siders not that it is not in the power of 
riches to make a man happy. It was 
wisely said by a man of great observation, 
there be as many miseries beyond riches 
as on this side of them ; ' and yet God 
delivers us from pinching poverty, and 
grant that, having a cc mpetency, we may 
be content and thankful. Let us not re-
pine, or so much as think the gifts of God 
unequally dealt, if we see another abound 
with riches, when as God knows, the cares 
that are keys that keep those riches hang 
often so heavily at the rich man's girdle, 
they clog him with weary days and rest-
less nights when others sleep quietly. Let 
us, therefore, be thankful f r health and 
competence, and above all, for a quiet 
conscience." 
41 -.MP 0. •••••- 
HE IS FAITHFUL THAT PROMISED." 
ileges as the citizen of a kingly common-
wealth, a member of the blood royal of 
Heaven ! What wouldst thou sacrifice, 
what effort wouldst thou grudge, if thou 
wert included at last in the gracious bene-
diction-"Come ye blessed of my Father, 
inherit the kingdom prepared for you 
from the foundation of the world ?" 
Here we are not a bit nearer taking that 
place than when we sat down before it. 
I can bear this no longer, and may as well 
try and put an end to it. So I took my 
musket and went down yonder in a des-
perate state about eleven o'clock ; but as 
I got round the point I heard some person 
singing, How bright these glorious spirits 
shine,' and I remembered the old tune 
and the Sabbath-school where we used to 
sing it. I felt ashamed of being so cow-
ardly, and said, Here is some one as bad-
ly off as myself, and yet he is not giving 
in. I felt he had something to make him 
happy of which I was ignorant, and I be-
gan to hope I too might get the same hap-
piness. I returned to my tent, and to-day 
I am resolved to seek the one thing." 
" Do you know who the singer was ?" 
asked the missionary. t‘ No," was the 
reply. " Well," said the other, " it was 
I ; on which the tears rushed into the 
. -4 
soldier's eyes, and he requested the Scrip- 
ture-reader to take back the half-sover-
eign, saying, " Never, sir, can I take it 
from you, after what you have been the 
means of doing for me." 
thing in its silent bosom-that lake was to 
me an emblem of "the deep things of 
God." Man is easily fathomed and soon 
drieth up. , God is the unexhausted sea. 
His ways are past finding out. 
And one of the deep things of God is 
His Word. No fathoming-line has ever 
touched its bottom. No consumption of 
its pure refreshing waters has ever low-
ered it an inch. Within it plays the lev-
iathans. Its sublime utterances are as 
the sound of many waters. "Deep calleth 
unto deep." And in its profound bosom 
lie all manner of pearls and precious 
stones ; any one of them is worth all the 
pebbles of earthly streams. That single 
pearl "God is love" outweighs the globe 
in value. 
and there was nothing but utter and eter-
nal darkness spread over all. It seemed 
impossible that I should ever hope, or ever 
be happy again ; and I gave myself up to 
despair. All 1 could do was to reconcile 
myself as best I could, to a hateful uni-
verse, and make the few remaining years 
or moments of my wretched life as endu-
rable as possible, and linger on till death. 
Oh my good God, my gracious Father, 
thine eye was upon me in that dark hour, 
though I knew it not ; and in my sad and 
sinful forgetfulness of Thee, Thou didst 
look on me with pity ! And at that very 
moment, when my last faint hope had ex-
pired, a change for the better was com-
mencing unconsciously in my poor soul. I 
had drunk the cup of Atheism to its dregs, 
and already Thy hand, Oh my God, un-
known to me, was preparing for my afflict-
ed soul the cup of consolation ! 
Trials came-Arials of many kinds, and 
many of them very grievous ; and dan-
gers came, and strange deliverances ; and 
bereavements, and bodily suffering ; and 
mental anguish came, and my lot was one 
of many sorrows. But God was merciful. 
He spared my life ; and the afflictions 
which he sent were for my good. A si-
lent change was taking place within. The 
demon of unbelief had spent his power, 
and was losing his deadly hold on my soul. 
I traveled, I lectured, I wrote, and often 
on the wrong side, but the change went 
on. I came at length to look on Infideli- 
ty as hateful, even if true ; and on Chris-
tianity as desirable, even if false. I be-
gan to look into my old religious books, 
crept into churches and listened to the old 
sweet story of a Heavenly Father and a 
Saviour's love. The demon of doubt still 
held me in bondage, but I began to strug-
gle for freedom. I was weak, -I might 
almost say powerless,-but I did what I 
could. Time passed. I read, I studied, 
I talked at times with well disposed reli-
gious people, and I searched the scriptures. 
At length I came in contact with Christ 
as presented in the Gospels. I studied 
his character, and was astonished at his 
wonderful beauty and loveliness. My 
heart, hard as it had been, melted at the 
sight of his love. I wept, I prayed, and 
the fetters of doubt that had galled me so 
long, gave way ; and I was free. I joined 
the church. I told my sad and joyful 
story, and others wept, and many rejoiced, 
and skeptics were converted ; and many 
who had started on the downward path of 
doubt, stood still, considered, and returned 
to Christ ; and sinners were saved ; and 
saints were comforted ; and I was happy ; 
and my wife and children were happy ; 
and many old friends cnme round me to 
congratulate me on my return to God, 
and joined me in sweet songs of praise. 
And now I have been preaching the reli-
gion of Christ for nearly twelve years ; 
and notwithstanding the pangs of regret 
that have often seized me, and wrung any 
poor heart at the rememberance of the 
past, these twelve years have been the 
happiest of my life. And I am happier 
now than ever. My cup of joy runs over. 
Every day do I praise my God for His 
boundless love, and often at night, when 
lying awake on my bed, do I recount his 
mercies, and call on all that is within me 
to bless his holy name. I love him more 
than I ever loved him in all my life before. 
I love Jesus more. I love good people 
more. I love religion more. I love the 
Bible more. 
I love God's universe again. 
It is no longer the hateful, horrible ma-
chine it formerly was, grinding forever un-
der the blind and heartless power of fate; 
but a world of beauty, of blessednes:i, and 
glory, governed by infinite 'wisdom and 
love, and working eternally for my good. 
The earth has got back its charms, and 
the heavens their glory. There is light 
'and love and blessedness everywhere. 
The present is a paradise, and the future 
heaven. Pain and loss are sanctified, and 
death is abolished, swallowed up in vic-
tory. 
I have but one desire, and that is to 
work for God. This is my heaven. For 
this I long, I pray to live. Gladly *would 
I spend a hundred years in toiling for the 
spread of the Gospel and the salvation of 
mankind. I have no desire for wealth, or 
power, or sensual pleasure. My only de- 
sire is the privilege of working for God 
and the good of men. I hate infidelity 
and sin with all my heart, and I wish to 
help on their utter destruction. My love 
for the religion of Christ is unspeakable, 
and I want to do something towards its 
world-wide spread. I have given myself, 
body and soul, to my God and Saviour, 
and for the furtherance of his cause I de-
sire to use my tongue and pen, my time 
and property, to the end of my life. 
"Happy if with my latest breath, 
I may but gasp His name ; 
Preach Him to all, and cry in death, 
Behold, behold the Lamb." 
-Method,st Home Journal. 
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THE DEEP THINGS OF GOD. 
Just compare, to-, all the human books 
ever written with this one Book as the 
subject of pulpit and private study. Upon 
this one book the most cultured and de-
vc ut minds have been engaged for eight-
een centuries. Millions of spiritual and 
soul-saving discourses have been drawn 
out of it. And the Bible is as fresh and 
faithful as when Augustine explored it 
twelve hundred years ago. Men run 
dry ; but the Bible never. 
What human production could have 
survived such a constant process of search 
and "sounding ?" Plato was the wisest 
of the ancients, but Plato's brook is easily 
forded. Shakspeare is the acutest of 
modern intellects ; but Shakspeare does 
not contain religious truth enough to fill a 
pint measure ; the little that he has, he 
dipped out of God's Word. Just imagine 
all the ministers in Christendom trying to 
preach for a lifetime out of Shakspeare-
substituting "Hamlet" for St. John, or 
"Macbeth" for the Psalms of David I 
Theodore Parker used occasionally to take 
his text out of Shakspeare ; but the ser-
mon had not enough religion in it to save 
the mouse that ran under his pulpit. God 
only lent to Shakspeare a narrow rivulet 
of thought, and that too was often agita-
ted and mudded with impurity. But, 
"the sea is HIS, and he made it ! " He 
"giveth his people drink as out of the 
great depths." 
Ah ! there is precious fishery in the Bi-
ble. We are all the time commanded to 
"launch out into the deep, and to let down 
our nets for a draught." When we have this 
done, we have not been able to draw the 
net to land for the multitude of the fishes. 
The most needful truths are easy of reach; 
they lie near to the surface. A child can 
apprehend them. Nothing can be sim-
pler than "Thou shalt love the Lord thy 
God with all thy soul," or "Believe on 
the Lord Jesus Christ, and thou shalt be 
saved." But there are other truths of 
profound mystery-such as Creation, the 
Trinity, the Incarnation, the Divine De-
crees, the Resurrection, etc., that go 
down many leagues below our longest 
lines. These are the deep things of God. 
Our congregations sometimes tell us 
ministers that our preaching is tantalizing; 
it stops just at the point where they wish 
to know more, and to go deeper. Our 
answer must be that there is a limit to all 
human fishing-lines and fathoming-lines. 
For example, the doctrine of Election is 
too deep for my fishing-tackle. And if 
any unconverted sinner is wasting his 
precious time in trying to find out whether 
he is "elected to Pe saved," or even what 
God's secret decrees may be, he is more 
likely to be caught in the Devil's net than 
he is to catch much truth in his own net. 
There are a great many things which no 
father tells to his own children. The "se-
cret things belong unto God; but the things 
which are revealed belong unto our-
selves and to our children," and these vi-
tal truths let us spend our short lives in 
studying and obeying. It will be time 
enough to understand the Trinity and 
Predestination when we reach the high-
school of heaven. 
There are deep things of God that 
belong also to His daily providence. I 
have stood lately by two coffins that were 
to me "past finding out." Why a loving 
God permitted those permature deaths, 
was to our eyes the darkest of mysteries. 
Verily He is a God that hideth Himself ; 
His way is in the sea, and His footprints 
are not known. I cannot pretend to 
fathom the mystery of a thousand seeming 
failures of great and holy undertakings ; 
no, nor the mystery of tens of thousands 
of sick chambers, or early graves, or shat- 
tered hopes and broken hearts. We puz-
zle and torment ourselves over these enig- 
mas until brain and heart ache. 
How of- 
ten we call our loving Father cruel ! How 
often we have been tempted to murmur, 
"0 I could have borne this trial a little la- 
ter, or a little sooner, but just now, it is so 
hard. If God had taken my property 
and left to me my wife-or if that partic- 
ular child had not died, or just this blow 
had been spared me, I could have submit- 
ted better." So we foolish children talk. 
But a wiser spirit replies in sharp rebuke, 
"Thou fool ; be still and know that He is 
God." Our blind, selfish ignorance is 
sure to err, and scan His work in vain. 
We shall read these hard and trying chap- 
ters of our lives with very different eyes 
when the light of eternity illuminates the 
tear blotted page. It will be one of the 
joys of heaven to find out some of these 
deep things of God. 
For after all the deepest of God's 
deep things will be his unfathomable 
LOVE. 
Into this infinite ocean our lines 
sink without reaching bottom. It is deeper 
than human depravity or human wretch- 
edness. When man fell, he sunk fearful-
ly low, but not beneath the reach of re-
deeming love. Oh, the breadth and the 
Tivrmito, P. 0., ` 
When the Chief Shepherd shall appear, ye shall 
receive a crown of life that fadeth not away."-
1 Pet. 5 : 4. 
" A crown of life." What ! is the 
beggar to be raised from the dunghill, set 
among princes, and made to inherit a 
throne of glory ? In dust and ashes a 
puny rebel, a guilty traitor, to be pitied, 
pardoned, loved, exalted from the .depths 
of despair, raised to the heights of heaven, 
gifted with kingly honor, royally fed, roy-
ally clothed, royally attended, and, at 
last, royally crowned ? 
0 my soul ! look forward with joyous 
emotion to that day of wonders, when He 
whose head shall be crowned with many 
crowns shall be the dispenser of royal dia-
dems to his peeple ; and when they shall 
begin the joyful ascription of all eternity 
-" Unto Him that loved us, and washed 
us from our sins in his own blood, and 
bath made us kings ; to him be glory and 
dominion for ever, and ever. Amen !" 
Wilt thou be among the number ? Shall 
the princes and monarchs of earth wade 
through seas of blood for a corruptible 
crown, and wilt thou permit thyself to 
lose the incorruptible, or barter it for some 
of the perishable nothings of earth ? 0 
that thou wouldst awake to thy high des_ 
tiny, and live up to thy transcendent priv- 
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I first got outside the Church in which 
I had been a minister, and having suf-
fered grievously from the intolerance of 
my colleagues,- I refused to enter any 
other. I was free, and 1 resolved to re-
main so. I now entered on an unre-
strained investigation and discussion of 
all the leading points of the orthodox faith, 
and not being in a state of mind to do 
justic to the orthodox side, and having 
but feeble opponents, I drifted, in course 
of time, into Unitarianism. Unitarians 
gathered round me, and 1 spent much 
time in their society, and found the change 
from priestly persecutions to freedom and 
favor exceedingly agreeable. But I soon 
found that the Unitarians were everyti.ing 
from the comparative Christianity of 
Channing down to the borders of Atheism ; 
and as the more advanced were more 
zealous to pass me on from stage to stage 
on the descending path, than the better 
class were to keep me where I was, I 
found myself in the course of a few years, 
an anti-supernaturalist. Christianity was 
but a natural outgrowth of the human 
mind. From this point the passage down-
ward became more rapid, and in a few 
years more I was on the borders of Athe-
ism. I had lost all my rich religious joys 
long before this, but the excitement of re-
search, and the delight I found in what I 
deemed important discoveries, and the 
charms of pure and friendly and ever-
changing society, kept me comparatively 
cheerful and light-hearted. And I was 
sustained by a hope also, that my investi-
gations would at last bring me into a 
world of light, where my soul would be at 
rest. But now, face to face with the blank 
horrors of Atheism, my heart grew sad. 
My hopes as well as my joys were gone, 
and all was darkness and despondency. I 
had no trust in a Fatherly God, no hold 
of a loving sympathising Saviour, no pros-
pect of a blessed life in the future. The 
horrid doctrine of necessity, or of blind, 
eternal, universal fate, forced itself on 
me. I was a machine. The universe 
was a machine. A machine without a 
governing mind. My own mind,-man's 
mind,-was the greatest mind in the uni-
verse, and it was powerless. It was the 
product and the slave of blind matter. 
The unconscious elements were the ruling 
powers, and I and all that were dearest 
to me were the sport of their blind unfeel-
iag agency. The heavens grew dark. 
The earth was desolate. The beauty of 
the earth had fled. The glory of the heav-
ens was gone. The light of life had fa- 
ded. The infinite and eternal universe 
remained, but it seemed, it felt like a si- 
lent, sad, and boundless desolation. There 
was pain, but no great comforter. There 
Was death, but nothing after death. The 
soul of the universe was dead, and there 
was no helper, and I wished that I had 
never been born. 
When the night is darkest look for the 
dawn. The night that had come down 
upon me was darkness itself, gross dark- 
ness, a darkness that could be felt. It 
was the shadow of death. Neither sun, 
nor moon, nor star appeared ; and it was 
in vain to search farther, there was noth-
ing beyond but hideous, utter, and eternal 
death. My highest, my only remaining 
hope now was to sink into nonentity, and 
be no more-an awful close to a life which 
once had passed along with such gladness, 
and pleased itself with such bright hopes, 
and such anticipations. I had fallen from 
heaven to hell, and must soon be swal-
lowed up of everlasting night. I was in 
the lowest depths,-in the darkest, drear-
iest, most hopeless condition,-to which a 
soul could sink. If a change was to take 
place, it must be a change for the better. 
I could go no farther into darkness. If I 
was to move, it must be backward, to-
wards the light. But I saw no prospect. 
I had no hope of a change. I seemed, I 
felt, as if doomed to my present mournful 
lot for life. It was not as if I had left 
the light, and might go back to it ; the 
light, to all appearances, had gone out, 
One of the companions of my childhood 
was a little brook that ran near the home-
stead. It was my playmate. Some-
times so transparent that I could see every 
pebble on its bed-sometimes so shallow 
that it scarce covered my foot ; when it 
got rains from heaven it ran full, hut 
"what time it waxed warm it vanished 
away." That little shallow, short-lived 
brook is to me a picture of humanity. 
Just in view of our house was a deep pure 
lake, double the size of the Sea of Galilee. 
In its glassy surface the clouds were mir-
rored ; over it our skiffs floated, but no 
man ever saw its bottom. That deep 
placid lake, unchangeable in summer and 
in winter inexhaustible, and hiding every- 
" SONGS IN TEE NIGHT." 
One night, weary and sad, Duncan 
Matheson was returning from Sebastopol 
to his poor lodgings in the old stable at 
Balaklava. He had labored all day with 
unflagging energy, and new his strength 
was gone. He was sickened with the 
sights he had seen, and was depressed 
with the thought that the siege was no 
nearer an end than ever. As he trudged 
along in the mud knee-deep, he happened 
to look up, and noticed the stars shining 
calmly in the clear sky. instinctively his 
weary heart mounted heavenward in sweet 
thoughts of the " rest that remaineth for 
the people of -God," and he began to sing 
aloud the well-known verses : 
" How bright these glorious spirits shine ! 
W hence all their white array ? 
How came they to the blissful seats 
Of everlasting day ? 
" Lo ! these are they from suffering great,-
Who came to realms of light, 
And in the blood of Christ have washed 
Those robes which shine so bright." 
Next day was wet and stormy, and 
when he went out to see what course to 
take he came upon a soldier standing for 
shelter below the verandah of an old house. 
The poor fellow was in rags, and all that 
remained of shoes upon his feet were ut-
terly insufficient to keep his naked toes 
from the mud. Altogether he looked 
miserable enough. The kind-hearted mis-
sionary spoke words of encouragement to 
the soldier, and gave him at the same 
time half a sovereign with which to pur-
chase shoes, suggesting that he might be 
supplied by those who were burying the 
dead. The soldier offered his warmest 
thanks, and then said, " I am not what I 
was yesterday. Last night, as I was 
thinking of our miserable condition, I 
grew tired of life, and said to myself,