ADVENT HERALD. "THIS SAME JESUS W:S:O IS TAKEN UP FROM YOU INTO HEAVEN, SHALL SO COME IN LntE MANNER AS YE HAVE SEEN HIM GO INTO HEAVEN." VOL XI. No. 17. BOST.ON AND NEW YORK, JUNE 3, 1846. WHOLE No. ~6§. THE ADVENT HERALD until a comparatively recent date; and shoul~ come. For a si~ilar .mode o~ vent prophecies, point to some period in rs PuaLxsaED EVERY wEDNESDAY those professed Christians who apply speakmg of events far d1stant m the fu-the past or future for their fulfilment- AT NO. 9 MILK S'l;'REET, DOS TON, these portions in a different sense, do so ture as present, see :es. 2:7; 1 Thess. Those who apply them to the destruction without any authority from the. word of 4: 15. . of Jerusalem point to the past; those who God, or from history. 1. It is attempted 2 .. It IS attempte~ to apply some of t~e~e apply them to the manifestations of the to apply some of the portions in question portwns to the marufestatwns of the Spmt. Spirit point to the past, to the day of Pen- to the destruction of Jerusalem; but noth-In reference to this it is enough to say, that tecost, or the future, to the introductiQTI of ing can be more evident thw the fact, it is entirely unwarra~t~d in a single _in-· the millennium; and those who apply that our Lord designed to guard his disci-stance. ~hen the Spmt speaks of hm~-them to the Spirit, and also, the true per- ples against looking for his coming in self, ~e I~ very care~ul to express ~Is sonal advent, point us to the introduction connection with that infliction of " ven-meanmg m terms which cannot be m1s-and close of the millennium, as the pe- geance" on the Jews: for in that part understood, ~s in spe~king of the Fa~her riods of their fulfilment. It must be seen of his discourse contained in Matt. 24: and Son, or m speakmg of what m1ght at once, that if the theories are nqt true and 25:, which must embrace the answer be said of them in common. How can which place the great events brought to to the question of the disciples which re-any man dare to say, then, that" the Son view in these prophecies in the past, or so BY J. V. illDIES. TERI'Ils-$1 pt>l" Volume of 26 Numbers. $5 for Six copies. $10 mr Thirteen copies. All communications, orders or remittances for this of- lice, sb.ould be directed to "J. V. HllES, Boston Mass." (post paid). Subscribers' names, witll their Post-ollice address, should be distinctly given, when money is for- warded. Remember Lot's Wife. A warning from heaven, the Lord has come near, He calls to the world, and commands them to hear l Then ye who believe him, esc,ape for your life, And look not behind you-remember Lot's wife. The words are fulfilling, the seals now are broken- fmTed to Jerusalem, he says, " Then zif of man,"" th_e.Lord Jes_us," o.r '.' Phrist_," far distant in the future, they must be pro- What seers have predictetl, what prophets nave spoken; 1 S B d Then ye wllo behold it escape for your life, any man shall say unto yon, ' Lo, he1·e is mean t 1e pint? es1 es, It IS certam ductive of the most fatal resulrs. Accord- And look not behind you-remember Lot's wife. Christ, or there,' believe it not." Matt. that the apostles, who enjoyed the pres-ing ,to one of them we have a wide and No time now to revel, to sell, and to buy, 24:23. As the disciples evidently sup-ence of the Spirit, in as full_ a measure boundless sea before us, and the course The Lord's ear is opt>n, and sleepless his eye; f: 11 h 1 f f The cry has gone upward, escape for your life, posed, from what he had said to them, that as can a to t e ot o men m a stnJe o of the world is never to be interrupted by And look not behind you-remember Lot's wife. the coming of Qhrist in his glory would mortality, never understood the enjoyment any of these events ; ac.cording to the Look not on the wine cup, that mantles in blood, take plate when Jerusalem was destroyed, of that blessing to be denoted by the com-other Q"eneration after generation may 'Tis the prelude to that of tile wrath of our God; h "' But ftce to Mount Zion, escape for your life, he corrects their mistake .by assuring ing of the Lord, for in the hig est enjoy-yet pass away without any apprehension And look not behind yon-remember Lot's wife. them, that his coming would not take men.t of this blessing they looke.d forward of danger from this source : all is past, ~~: ~~~da~~s~~~~~~~~~=~h:egn~~ ;a~~~1:k?~:; place "then." With such testimony in to l11s coming as an event yet future-as or too far distant in the future to cause Then seek no false refuge-escape, for yonr life, the case, we cannot but reaard the warn-" the aay of redemption, unto which they any alarm! vVe hardly need to add, that And look not behind you-remember Lot's wife. ing, against those who a~ tempt to skow ""'ere sealed by the Holy Spirit." ~o the larger part of professed Christians are ~h~~~l;i~~~ff!~rl;~~If ~~~~~~: ~~ 1~~:;n'd with a tear; that Christ came " then," and "believe confound the two things together is a v10-willing to run the fearful hazard of receiv- Let Christ ue your refuge, your leader, your lift>, them not." - lation of all sound principles of interpreta-ing these theories as the truth. As we And look not bellinu.you-remember Lot's wife. n. We know it is supposed that this false tion, it is an impeachment. of the wisdor_n have already shown that the first is not application is the only one that can be of Go~, and a flagrant d1sreg~rd of his only without foundation, but make:;; the sustained, on any admissible interpreta-authonty and command, by addmg to, and prophecy on which it claims to be based tion of the words, "Verily I say unto taking away fr~m the word, _which is and a contradiction, by assuming it to predict, vou, This generation shall not pass, till must be productive of confusiOn and every that the coming of Christ was not to take .Address To Belienrs iu· our Lprd Jesus Christ, IN ENGLAND, SCO'rL.>I.ND, IRELAND, AND ELSEWHERE. J 'l k all these things be fulfilled." (v. 34.) To evi wor •. . place till "after" the event which his The General Conference of Second Advent this we reply, if "all the things" spoken 3. Some of _those portiOns of the_ New coming denoted, it deserves no farther· Believers of .B.merica, held in Boston, .Tf'Iay of in this discourse, or in that part of it . Testament which speak of the commg of consideration. A more fatal absurdity 26, 1846, sendeth greeting: S h f which preced~s thie verse, took place du-the on of man are applied to t e event o could not be conjured into existence by The coming of our Lord Jesus Christ, rina the " aeneration" then present, or death. It is certain, however, the apostles any effort of stupid or inaenious depravi- and the great events with which his com-ha;e taken ;lace even now, we have no could not associate death and the coming of ty. The other theories, though not less ing is to be connected, have been, as you record of the fact. vVho has seen the Christ together as the same thing. When fatal, we may consider more at length, as well know, subjects of the deepest inter-sian of the Son of Man in' heaven, and the Savior told Peter by what death he the error involved in them has become est to all truly intelligent Christians from all the h ibes of the earth mourning on should glorify God, and Peter wished more prevalent by the sanction of gre~t the time our Lord ascended to the Father account of it?, Who has s@en the Son to kn?w what. J oh_n's fa~e was to be, Je-and worthy names, and is well nigh con- to the present time. To his coming they of Man coming in the clouds of heaven s?s said unto him,_If I will that he tarry secrated by many of the truly devout, have looked as the end of suffering and with power and great glory ?-(v. 30.) till I come, what 1s that to thee? Then who have been seduced to "fall down sin, of labor and toil, to the Church; to When did he send. his angels with a great went this saying. ab_road among the b~eth-and worship': according to " another G?s- this they have looked as the event which sound of a trumpet, who gathered his ren, that that disciple should not dze.-pel," the device of Satan transformed m- is to confer on them the crown of glory, elect from the four winds? (v. 31.) Who (John 21:18-2~.) Mark their i~ea ?f to an angel of light.· and grant them an entrance into the ev-will presume to say that "these things" what Jesus satd: If John tm·nes tdl It · d b h d·vision f th erlasting kingdom of our Lord Jesus took place in that generation, or that they Christ comes. John cannot die! Now, if " . 1 ~t asls~mle Ytleac wh 1 0 beli"evo" the Ch · 1 I . . h ld ' h h d h spm ua c ass-1 ose e e nst. have ta cen place ~t all? t ~s certam, t ey cou not eupp?se t at t e eat advent of the S irit, only to be brou ht As Christians we cannot be indifferent also, that the appeanna of the s1gr1 of the even of an apostle m1ght be denoted by t · · th p d ent prophe · g d h . b • h · Ch . · . h o VIew m e a v c1es, an to t ese great events at the present time. Son of Mhan, ~nd h~s commg; 'vere to _be t e ~ommg ohf nst, 1 _can. we &"Ihve t ebse those who believe also in the advent of To us there appears to be the strongest " after t e tnbulatwn" connected w1th portwns sue an app 1cat10n Wit out e-th L d J -that certaJ· 1· "d "bl h 1 . f J I · · b h . . . 1 e or esus n por wns ev1 ence poss1 e, t at we w 10 are now the destructiOn o erusalem : " mme-mg WISe a ove w at IS wntten . h" h ak of the comi"no f th L d r . h . d h" h . b . l !: th "b l . 'f h d Th 1 h" h h . w lC spe 0 0 e or tvmg occupy t e peno w 1c IS to e dmte y atter e tn u at1on o t ose ays ;" e Qn y ~vent !ow IC t ese. portwns are to be understood to point out a special marked by the return of our Lord; and (v. 29,) or, a~ Mr .. Milman renders it, can _be apphed, With any propnety, (ex-and lorious outpourin of the S irit viewing the subject in this light, we feel " After _the tn?ulatiOn, sudden~y,"* shall ceptmg the texts before referre.d to, and whicl will secure the tri~mph of the hos~ called upon to urge upon the attention the specified s1gns of the •. commg of the the proph~cy of the trans~g:u.rahon, ~att. pel generally; and so the nations of the of our fellow Christians a candid and Son of Man be seen: It woul~ see~, 16:28, wh1ch wa_s an exhibltJOn of 'the earth are to be subdued to Christ, in serious consideration of the question in th~ref?re, that the tlnngs referred ~om pow~r ,~t;Id :omm_g of our Lord Jesus which state they are to be continued for a which all that they should value is in-thiS drf!icult tex~, (v. 34,) w~re the signs Chnst m ~1s maJesty and glory, 2 Pet. thousand years at least, before the Lord volved. of Chnst,'s commg, st.ated m v. 29, _to-1: 16-18,) IS the comi~g of tl).e sal?e ~e-shall come to 'udge the world, or to ·ud e That those portions of the New Testa-gether w1th that event Itself; all of wh1ch sus who was taken up mto he.aven, m hke men without Jcomino-, and fix their Jdest ment which speak of tl:e coming _of the were to come "after" the d?struct~on of ma:n_ner as h_e :vas seen go mto heaven. nies for eternit . S~ Paul is to be u.n· Son_ of Man, the appearmg of Chns~, the Jerusalem; and as these_ thmgs did not 'Vh1le the d1sc1ples ~e~eld,_ he was take_n derstood, it is !ontended, when he ~nfolds com~ng of the. Lord, &c.,_ refer exclusively take place in that generation, the genera-up; and a cloud received hmi out of t~?IT the fate of the Papac -"the Man of to hts appear.mg or ~ommg, at the end ?f tion. spoken of must. be one that should sight, Acts 1: 9 ; behold he comet~ "Ith Sin"-" whom the Lok shall consume ~e. present dispensation, (except ,vhen his ~ liVIn~ when t~e s1gns stated should be-clouds, aud every eye shall see hrrn.-with the spirit of his meuth, and shall Vts~ts to places where he was _present ~n: this generation should not :pass aw~y Rev. 1 : 7. destroy with the brightness of his com- while on earth are spoken of, as In Matt. hll all should be fulfilled-till Chnst FATAL ERRORS ON THE GENERAL PERIOD ina, (2 Thes;: 2·8) 10:23, and Luke 10:1), appears to have OF THE ADVENT. o· ... ,. • · been the uniform opinion of the Chu!ch *Notes on Gibbon, chap. 15. All who express any view of the ad- (Continut>d on page 132·) I' I j. .... -· ~ 130 THE ADVENT HERALD. • --·-·- -E sent before ·the 25th of March, 5;13.-empire; the building of a vast number of of the Bible. By the decree of the THE SUPPRESSION AND PROPAGATION OF THE For, in his letter of that date to Epiphan-Churches in honor of the Saints and for French Government, declaring that the Croly on the Apocalypse. scRIPTURES. ius he speaks of its having been already Saint worship; the creation o~ a multi-nation acknowledged no God, the Old A. D. 533. The Pope was declared despatched, and repeats his decision, that tude of festivals, adopting the forms of and New Testaments were slain throug·h- head of all the ch'lltf'ches by the Emperor all aff..'lirs touching the Church shall be the abolished pagan rites; and the com-olit the limit~ of Republic~n FraJ)ce. Justinian. referred to the Pope, "Head of all Bish-mencement of that sullen and benighte~ But contumelies to the Sacred BOQks The circumstances of a transaction, so ops, and the true and effective corrector ignorance of Scripture and literature, could not have beun wanting, )fl th~ geJl- prei'lant with the {llost momentous reEults Qf keretics. which for six hundred years brought bac.k eral plunder of every pl~e of wo hip. to the Christian world, are to be found at In· the same month of the following barbarism upon tile European world. In Lyons they were draggetl a• the tail ef large in the Annals of Baronius; the year, 534, the Pope returned an answer, With the ti•Je of "Universal Bishop," an ass in a procession through the s_tree~s. chief Romish Ecclesiastical historian. repeating the language of the Emperor, the power of the Papacy, and the Dark . A. very rem~rkabl~ and prophet1c _dis- Justinian being about to commence the applauding his homage to the see, and Ages, alike began. tmctl?n of t~1s. peno~ was ~he spwlt of Vandal war, an enterprize of great diffi-adopting the titles of the imperial man- The Latin language, overwhelmed in frenzied fest1v1ty \'hlch se1zed upon culty, was anxious previously to settle date. He ·observes that, among the vir-the dialects of the Gothic invaders, had France. the religious disputes of his capital. 'l'he tues of Justinian, " one shines as a star, ceased to be spoken; the Latin Striptures The capital and al~ :epublican towns Nestorian heresy had formed a considera-his reverence for the Apostolic chair, to were thus in an unknown tongue; and ~ere the scene of civic feasts, proces- ble number of partizans, who, conscious which he has subjected and united all the the people, disturbed and impoverished si.ons, and shows of th~ mo~t extravagant of the Emperor's hostility to their opin- Ch~rcites, it being truly the Head of aJl; by perpetual war, had neither time nor kmd: The most festlv~ tune~ of peace ions, had appealed to the Bishop of Rome. as was testified by. the rules of the Fath-knowledge for their translation. 'l'he ig-under the most expei].Slve Kmgs were To counteract the representations of Cy-ers, the laws of Princes, and the declara-norance had reached the clergy; and the thr~wn into the shade by the fre9.uency, rus Eulogius, the Nestorian deputies, the tions of the Emperor's piety." , Pope, more a warrior and a statesman v~r~~ty, and extent_of the Republican ex- Emperor sent two distinguisheq prelates, The authenticity of the titl~ re~eives than a priest, found that he could rise to htbllwns: "Yet tlus was I.J. time of per- Hypatius, Bishop of Ephesus, and Deme-unanswerable proof from the edicts m the dominion without the writi1ws of either petual rrnsenes throughout France. The trius, Bishop of Philippi, in the charac-"Novellre" of the Justinian code. prophet or apostle. The Scriptures died gyillotine wa~ bloody from morn till acter of envoys, to Rome. . The preamble of the 9th states that. out of the world's memory. mght. In the smgle month of July, 179-1, Justinian had ber.n remarkable for ta-"as the elder RQrr:e was the founder of But, in the twelfth century, the at- ?e~rly e~gh.t hu.nd~e~ ,Jerson,s, the ma- king an unkingly share in the dubious the la_ws; so was It IJOl to be questioned tempts of the little Christian congrega-JOnty, prmc1pa~ mdlVlduals ot the. ~tate, theology of the time : he felt the pas-t.hat. m he,~· was the supremacy of the tions of thl Alps to translate the Gospel a~d a~l possessmg. so:r:-e rc.specta?Ihty of sions of a disputant; and to his latest pontificate. came like a tlmnderclap to the ears of Situatwn,. were gm~lotmed m Pans alone. day enjoyed the triumphs of controversy The 13lst, On the ecclesiastical titles Rome. In the absence of all rule of In the m!dst of this horror, there were with the deligh~ of a zealot, as he some-and privileges, chap. 2; states: "\Ve ther~- Scripture, the papacy had followed the twenty-six theatres op~n, fille~ with -t~e times signalized them by the fury pf a fore decree that the most holy Pope of course of human nature, adding supersti-most profane and . profligate d1splays m persecutor. On this occasion, whether th~ elder Rome is the first of all the ~ion t~ superst.ition, and power to power. honor of the" !numph of ~eason." to purchase the suffrage of the Roman pnesthood, and that the most blessed The sttter on 1ts throne, in the fantastic But more fOimal scoffings were pre- Bishop, the Patriarch of the West, Archbishop of ConstantinoP.le, the new madness of ambition and ignorance, as-pared by the express comma~d of the whose opinion influenced a large portion Rome, shall hold. the s~cond rank after s~med th.e attr.ibutes of Deity, proclaimed government. ?n the 1st of .Noven:ber, of Christendom; or to give irresistible the holy Apostohc cbatr of the elder himself mfalhble, the remitter of sins, 1793, ~obet, '' 1th the R~pubhcan pnests weight to the verdict which \Vas to be Rome." Lord of the gates of Hell and Heaven, of. Pans, h~d. thrown off the gown, and pronounced in his own favor; he decided The supremacy of th~ Pope . had by the Vicar of God, the image of God on ~bJu~ed ~;hg10~. On the ~,lth, a" Grand the precedency which had been contested those mand~tes and edJcts rece~ved the earth. The fountain of ~auctity to man, F~s:Iv~!' dedtcate~ to. Reason and by the Bishops of Constantinople from . fullest san~twn that could be giVen by h~ made saints, he wrought pretended Tiu~h,. was cele~I.ated m the Cathedral the foundation of the city; and, in the the authonty of the maste1~ of the Ro-miracles, he was worshipped with incense. of None Dame, whtch had been desecra- fullest and most unequivocal form, de-man world. But the yoh:e sat unea;;ily The King of Kings, he sent forth his ted, a,nd been nam~d "the Tem~le of dared the Bishop of Rome the Chief of on the Bishop of Constantinople; and on oracular voice to the Sovereio-ns of the Reason;" ~ pyramid was erected m the the whole Eccleslasticill body of the em-the death of Justinian the supremacy earth, he claimed tribute of all nations centre ?f tn~ Church, surmounted by ·a pire. >vas utterly rlenied. The Greek who he took away and gave diadems and temple, mscnbed "To Philosorhy." The His Jetter was couched in these terms : wore the mitre in the imperial city of the commanded their wearers to come and kiss .t~rch of ·:,Truth ". was. on the altar of "Justinian, pious, fortunate, rel).ovmed, east, must have looked with national con-the dust at his footstool! R~ason, sprea~mg hght, &c. The triumphant, Emperor, consnl, &c. to tempt ou a pontiff' w·hose city had lost His temple had been built in a nio-ht of ~atwnal Conventi.M. and all the authori- John the most holy Archbishop of our the honors of the imperial resl.denc.e, and six hundred years; and it had been~from ~Ies attended at tlus burlesque and insult- city of Rome, and patriarch. . whose person \Yas in the power of the ao-e to ao-e, f{llinrr, unrepron~d with the mg ceremony. "Rendering honor to the Apostolic barbarians. Towards the close of the s~·ano-e ~vorks of darkness. the forms of In February, 1794, a grand fete was chair, and to your Holiness, as has been sixth century, John of Constantinople, ancie~t heathenism, the ri~es of the bar-ordered by ~he Convention, in which always and is our wish, and honoring surnamed for his pious austerities the barian conquerors of the "\Vest, and the h!~ns t? Liberty, were c~~nted, and a your Blessedness as a father; we have Faster, summoned a council and resumed still more monstrous inventions of monk- pag~ant m hono~ of the ab~btwn of s1ave- hastened to bring to the knowledge of the ancient title of the see, "Universal ish dxeams, the embodyino-s of mingled ry m the colomes \Vas dJsplayed in the yo:u Holiness all matters relating to the Bishop." The Roman Bishop, Gregory absurdity and terror. The lio-ht from "T~mple of Reason." In June another state of the Churches. It having been at t~e Great, in.dignant at the usur~ation, and the Gospel suddenly broke iQ, and showed fes~Iv:~ was ordered-T~ the Supreme all times our great desire to preserve the either hurned away by th~ vwlence of the whole portentous abomination.-Bemt>' the God ~f .l:hllosophy. But unity of your Apostolic c.hair, and the con- ~ontroversy, or, in tl~at day ~f mo~strous Thousands shrank at the sight~ and the most .s~p~;? exhibJ:wn was the" Ge.n- stitution of the hohr Churches of God l~n~ran_ce, una~quamted w1th his own turned to the living God. But Poperv eral Fes!n~l ~n honor of the Repu?hc. which has obtained hitherto, and still ob- dtst~nctw~s, funously deno~nc~d John, was not to be converted. Sincerity and ~t .'~as dJstmgmshed by a mor~ audacwus tains. cnllmg h1m an "usurper at1nmg at su-wisdom would have rejoiced in the light, spmt of scoffing an~ p~ofanatwn than. all "Therefore we have made no delq.y in pre~acy o.ver the wh?le church," and de-and cast ~way the abomination. Tyran- th~ former. Rob~sp1erre acted the" High subjecting and uniting to you1· Holiness clanng, w1th unconsciOus truth,~a-t who-ny and bigotry loved the darkness better P~Iest of Reas~n on. the day, and made all the priests of the whole East ever daimc? supremacy was Antichrist. than thE' light, and strove to crush the hnn~elf consptCllous .In blasphemy. He "For this reason we have thought fit to The accessiOn of Phocas at length deci-Gospel. A code of the most furious per-was th~n at the summ1t of power,-actual bring to your notice the present matters of ded the question. He had ascended the secution was established against all who sovereign of France. disturbance; though they are manifest and throne of the e~~t by the n:urder ~f the dared to bring the Scriptures out of the . T~a~ d~~ had passed the sentence upon unquestionable,' and always firmly held E.m~ervr Mauntms.. The .msecunty of dust, and put a tongue into the d~ad. his Imqmties. It was. remarked eYen and declared by the whole priesthood ac-lus title r.endered him anxtous to obtain The Gos-pels were trampled and des-!hen., that, _from .the tune of that most cording to the doctrine of your Apostolic the sanctl?~1 of the Patr~arch of the west. troyed, their readers were proscribed and Impious festival' h1s fortunes turned. chair. For we cannot suffer that any The condttwns were easily settled. The exterminated. Rome, in the name of T~e 14th of July was the date of the thing which relates to the state of the u~urper rec.ei,·ed the benedi~tion .of the Christ, raged against Revelation, that he Festlv_al. On the 28t~, Robespierre was Church, however manifest and unques- ~Jsh.op of Rome; ~nd .the Bish~p m 606 had commanded with his latest words to J ~utllated ~runk, Wtth ~ll Franee. ex- tionable, should be moved, without the nndicated from lns nval patnarch the be "preached to every man under Hea'· ulung over his body. A smgle fortmght knowledge of your Holiness, who are gorgeous title; that had been almost a en." - had separated the throne and ·the scaffold. The Head of all the Holy ChuTClle.~, for c_entury bef~r~ conferred on the papal A. D. 1793. The Bible had passed ip all things, as we have already declared, ~:ara Ly J ustmmn. He was ~he~ceforth out ?f. th~ hands: of the people, in all the we are anxious to increase the honor and . Head. of ~!1 t~e Chur:hes, ,Withou~ a dommwns of Popery from the time of authority of your Apostolic chair." eompetltor, Umversal B1shop of Chns-the Supremacy. The doc.trines had per- The letter then proceeds to relate the ten~om. Th~t Phocas repres:-~d th.e is~ed, and left their plac.e to human rev- matter in questio~, . the heresy of the claim of the B1shop of Con.stantmople IS enes. The convert1'! were martyred. At monks and the missJon of the bishops, ?~yond a doubt. . ~~t the htghest a~uhor-length, th: full triumph of the old spirit and desires to have a rescript from Rome 111es among the CIYllians and annalists of of corruption and persE>cution terribly ar- to Epiphanius, Archbishop of Constanti-Rome spurn the idea that Phocas was rived .. In the yea.r 1793, twelve hundred nople, giving the papal sanction to the the foundN of the .s~premacy of ~?me; and sixty years from the ·letter of Justin- judgment already pronounced by the Em-they ascenrl to Justiman as the legitimate ian declaring the Pope" Universal Bish- peror on the heresy. It further mentions source, and rightly date the title from the op," the Gospel was, by a solemn act of that the Archbishop also had writtE>Tt memorable year 533. the peop)e, abolished in France. The in- to the Pope, '•he being desirous in all The ~ixth century is disting?i$hed by dignit~e· offered t~ the aetual copies of things to follow the Apostolic authority other features of that extraoromary 11s-the Bibte were ummportant after this· of his Blessedness." pect which the Romish see so portentous-their life is in their doctrines and the ex: The Emperor~& letter must have been ly assumed in its ambition of boundless tinction of the doctrines-i& the BlX.tinction .. Babylon. From Dr. Sleigh's" Christian's DcfensiTe Dir.tionary." The c~pi.tal of the ancient kingdom of Babyloma 1s supposed to have been situ- ated in N. lat. 32" 34·, and in E. long. 44° 12' 30''. It was founded by the fir.st desc.endants of Noah, 2231 years before Chnst, enlarg-ed by Nimrod, the great wandson of Noah, 2000 years B. C., and m a manner completely rebuilt, about 1200. ~ears B. C., by the Assyrian queen, Semms .. It was ~eatly strengthened an.d beaut1fi~d by var1ous succeeding sove- reigns; but It was by Nebuchadnezzar and his daughter, Nitocris-, that it was brought to such a degree of magnificence and -I 1 I THE ADVENT HERALD. splendor, as rendered it one of the won- "That which kindled the wrath of God session for the bittern, and pools of water; The first part of this argument Mr. ders of the world. against Babylon was, 1. Her insu~porta· (Isaiah 14:23, 24.) and I will sweep it Marsh coneedes, and rather strangely Babylon stoo1 in the miast of a large ble pride; 2. Her inhuman cruelty towards with the besom of destruction, saith the affirms that no one, in his lmowledge, has plain, in a very deep and fruitful soil. the Jews; and 3. The sacrilegious impi-Lord of hosts. The Lord of hosts hath denied it. Yet the figurative exposition, It was divided into two parts, by the river ety of her king, sworn, saying, Surely as I have thought, in its most usual form, has rested main- Euphrates, which flowed through the 1. Her pride. She believed herself to so shall it 'come to pass; and as I have ly on assuming the opposite, that the text city from north to south. The old city be invincible. She said in her heart, I proposed, so shall it stand.-( To be on-does not relate personally to the martyrs was on the east, and the new city1 b11ilt am the queen of nations, and I shall re-tinued.) themselves. Nay, Mr. Marsh himself, by Neb11chadnezzar, on the west sid~ of main so forever. There is no power after modifying the hypothesis so as to the river. Both these divisions were en-equal to mine. All other powers are Birks on the First Resurrection. avoid the difficulty, relapses in another closed by one wall, and the whole formed either subject or tributary to me, or in lr 'V h 1 d . ll t page into this very interpretation. " By ,a romplete squate,· four·hundred. and alliance with me. I shall never know .e ave .a rea Y given an exce .en the martyrs liying again, is meant, I con- eighty furlongs in compass. Each of either barrenness or widowhood. Eterni-treatise by Btrk on the first re~urrectwn. tend, the re'ival M the spiTit they exhibi- the four sides of this 15quare had twenty-ty is written in my destiny, according to That treatise was reviewed in England ted when on earth.n Yet this is precise- five gates of solid brass, at equal dis-the observation of all thOse that have con-by Rev. E. Garrad Marsh. The follow-ly the view which is refuted by the strict- lances; and at e~ery corner was a strong suited the stars to know it. ing is Birks reply to Mr. Marsh.-This ly p·ersonal meaning of the word, soul; tower, ten feet higher than the wall. ·In 2. Her cruelty. !t is God himself . . f . th d f and whieh the respected author seems those quarters, where the city had lea~t that complains of it. I was willing, says IS a specimen. 0 usmg ~p e enyers 0 to affirm no one has ever maintained. natural defpnce, there were also three of he, to ·punish my people, as a father t~o -resurrec~I~ns, .that should .~e a :au- Mr. Marsh himself, however escapes these towers between every two of the chastiseth his children. I sent them for tlon to all spmtuahzers. 0 h1s prevwus the argument in another way. He inter- gates; and the same number between a time into banishment at Babylon, with disco11rse he says :- prets the passage thus, that the souls of each ~orher, ,~nd th.e nearest. gate on its a design to recall them, as soon as they The time of the Second Advent, as un, the Ihl;lrtyrs in paradise, by sympathy, re- two sides. I he City was. composed of w~re become more thankful and ~ore folded in Chap. 17th of the present work, joice in the triumph of holiness on earth, fifty streets, each fifteen miles long, and faithful. But ·Babylon and her. prmce involves naturally the doctrine of the and thus may be said both to live and one .hundred and fifty feet broad, pro-have added to the paternal chastisement Frst Resurrection. ' I have avoided how• and reign (p. 21.) Thus the metaphor, ceedmg: from the tw~nty-five gates on which I inflicted, sueh cruel and inhu-ever, the djrect introduction of this' topic, driven from its usual strong hold in the e~ch side, and. crosslllg each .other at man. treat~ent as my clemency abh~rs. partly from the abundant variety of other word, souls concentrates itself in the rest nght angles, ?esides four half stre~ts, two Theu des1gn h,as been .to destroy ; mme evidehce; and partly, as having treated of of the phrase, as a more tenable position. hundred feet m breadth, surroundmg the was. to save. The. bamshnent they have it elsewhere in one of the recent ;, Lee- To this new form of the hypothesis whole, and fronting towards the outer turned into a severe bondage and captivi-tures on th~ Advent " Since then a \here are two or three decisive objections. wall. It was thus in.tersected into ~ix ty, ·an~ have shown ~o co~pas.sion ~r re-pamphlet has appear~d, by the Rev. 'E. First, since the passage is owned to de- hundred and seventy-six squares, wh1ch gar~ either to age, mfirmlty, or vJrtue. Garrard Marsh, expressly designed to re-scribe some change that personally affects exten~ed _four fu~)ongs and~ half on each (Isamh 47:6.) fute the arguments of that discourse. It the martyrs, and they have beyond doubt, of theu ~Ides, and alon~ wh1ch the houses 'The sac:ilegious impiety of h.er king. seems due to the character and courtesy at SO.J:Ile·tiine or other, personally to live were bUilt, at some distance from each To the pnde and cruelty of h1s prede-of the author to notice his observations again by the reunion of soul and body, why other. The~e intermediate spaces, as cessors, B~lshazz~r added ari i~piety that and no occasion is likely to offer itself not leave the' term its natural meaning? well as the mner parts of the squares, was pec':lia~ t? ?~mself. He d1d not only more suitable than the present. I will Why have resourse to such a far-fetched Were employed as gardens, pleasure-prefer his divm1t1es to the true and only therefore in a few paues explain and interpretation, they lived again; that is, ground~, &c.; so that not ab.ove one half God, but fancied that he had vanquished confirm the disputed pa~·ts 'of the former by sympathy, their joy in Paradise was of the Immense extent whiCh the walls his power. aruument increased and they reigned, that is, their inclosed was occupied by buildings. Make bright the arrows, gather the Six re~~ons wet'e advaneed in the dis-disembodied spirits in Paradise rejoiced ~he walls of Babyl~n we~e of extra-shields, sanh the prophet, speaking to course to prove the literal nature of the that truth was reigning on earth ? Sqre- ordmary strength, bemg e1ghty-seven th~ ::'ledes and Pe:s.ians. The. Lord hath fir~t resurrection-the grevious events, ly it must he hard for a simple mind to feet-b~oad, and three hundred and fifty ra1sed up tl~e spi~lt o_f the .lungs of the the subject~ of the resurrection itself, the aequiesce in such a strained and violent feet htg~, and they ·were' surrounded on Medes, for h1s device IS agamst Babylon, office assiuned to them the mention of construction, when the personal living t~e outside by an immense ditch. The to ~estroy it, because it is, the ven~eance the' souls cl th~ .martyr~, the promise to again of t}le martyrs at some time or oth- Clty c?mpre~en~ed . a !egular squ~re, of the Lord, the vengeance of h1s tern-the confessors, and the resurrection of the er, is a fact of Divine revelation; and the ~o~ty-eight m1les m CirCUit, ~n~ was eight ple. (Jer. 51:11.) rest of the dead. Four of these, inrlu-only hindrance is, that to place it here times larg~r .th~n ~ondon With Its append- Howl ye, for the day of the Lord is at ding some of the strongest and plainest, does not suit our pre-conceived notions. a~es. (Gilhes Hvst. of the the '\Vorld, hand,--'-a day cruel both with wrath and are left untouched by Mr. Marsh in his Again, on this vie,,· the prophecy tells Vol. I. P· 166.) .fierce anger to lay the land desolate. reply. He examines two only, the fourth us nothing of what occurs on earth. but The celebrated French Historian, M. {Isaiah 13·6, 9.) Behold, I will punish and the sixth, and parts the former of only an ~ccurrencc in Paradise. How Rollin, gives, in his Ancie_nt History, the the king of Babylon, and his land, as I these into several fragments. His obser-can this be possiple, if 've look for one following account of the besieging and have punished the king of Assyria. (Jer. vations on these shall now be carefnlly moment at the context of the passage? taking of Babylon, by Cyrus. "The 50:18.) examined. Thirdly, the martyrs; reign is clearly· taking of Babylon," says he, "is one of Shout against her round about. (Jer. I. THE MENTION OF THE soULS oF THE connec.ted with the thrones in the vision. the greatest events in ancient history; and 50:15, 29, and 51:3.) Recompense her MARTYRS was alleged ip the discouTse as Hence if ·their living and reigning refers the principal circumstances 'Yith which it according to her work; according to all one proof of the literal sense. This, 1 to an event in Paradise, the thrones must was attended were foretold m the Holy that she hath done, do unto her :-and was aware, might at first seem a .para-be in Paradise also. B-ut the vision plain- Scriptures many years before it _happened. spare not her young men; desrroy ye dox, since th8 words have been common-ly teaches a different lesson, and implies "Cyrus, whom the Divine Providence utterly all her host. Every 9ne that is ly reckoned the chief pillar of the figura-that the thrones are on the earth. The was to make use of, as an instrument for found shall be thrust through, and every tive interpretation. The usual re.ason-personal meaning, therefore, of the word the ~xecuting· his design of mercy and one that is joined. to t.hem shall fall by ing is of this kind. The spirits of the soul, conceded by our author, yields an g:oodness towards his people, was men-the sword. _Their children. aho shall ~e martys, and not their bodies, are here argument fatal to the metaphorical con- honed in the Scripture, bv his name, dashed to pmces before then eyes, theu said to r-i:3e arrain. And therefore the str•1ctiort, either utder the old or the new above 200 years before be was born. ho~ses shall be spoiled, a?d t~eir wives prophecy relat~s, not to a bodily, but a form. ' " Thus saith the Lord to his anointed, to ravtshed. . Behold, ~ w1ll stu . up the spiritual resurrection, on which the spi-rits, The life of the soul, I had fur her sta- Cyrus, who3e right hand I have holden Medes. agamst them,, who shall notre-or principles of the martyrs, are anima-ted, consist~ in its union with the body, to subdue nations before him; and. I will gard silver; and as ior gold, they shall ted with new life in the person of their as the life of the spirit in its union with loose the loins of kinus, to open before not delight in it. Their bows also shall holv successors. God. Hence the living· again of the him the two-leaved gates, and the uates dash the young men to pieces, and they The reasoning opposed to this iu the martyrs' ~ouls must imply . their bodily sha11 not be ·shut. 1 will uo before ~hee shall have no pity on the fruit of the Lecture is the following. The 'Souls, resurrection. Two texts are here quo .. and make the crooked places straight: womb; their eye shall not spare children. and not the spirits of t~e martyrs, are ted jn reply. Fjrst, our Lord's address I will break in pieces the gates of brass, 0 daughter of Babylon, (Ps. 137:8, 9.) here mentioned. But the word smll is tQ the apostles. (Matt. 1~:28.) But this and cut in sunder the bars of iron. And who art to be destroyed, happy shall be constantly used in connexion with what-is not.applic~ble, f?r a plam r~ason. T.he I will uive thee the treasures of darkness be that rewardeth thee as thou hast served ever is most strictly pen(mal: while the questwn .at Issue IS whet~er, m. the ~crlp­ andhidt:lden riches of secret places, thattho~ us. Happy ~hall he be that taketh and word spirit is. commonly employed where· tures, when souls are sa1d to bYe, 1 has 'mayeA~t know, that I am the Lord, which dasheth thy httle ones ~ainst the stones. there is a federal, or vicaTivns meaning. reference to natur~l.and p~rsonal, or else call thee by thy name: I have surnamed And Babylon, the glbry of kingdoms, Thus John came in the spjrh of Elias; to a federal or spmtual h~e. But here· thee, though thou hast not known me." and the beauty of the ChalQees' excellen-but it would do violence to every rule of the death ?f the soul .w~Ich our Lord (Isaiah 14:1-4.) cy, shall be as when God overthrew scripture language, to say that he came spea~s. of IS eqU.Illly d1stmct from both, "God Almighty was pleased not only Sodom and Gomorrah. (Isaiah 13:19-with or in the soul of Elias .. The latter and IS the second death. to cause the captivity, which his people 22.) It shall never be inhabited; nei-word occurs in the New Testament more Next, the words of Luke 20. are al- were to suffer at Babylon, to be foretold a ther shall it be dwelt in from generation th~ a hundred times, and, with two ex-leged for the same purpose-" God is ~g time before it came to pass, but like-to generation; neither shall the Arabian ceptions at the most, always denotes what not the God .of the dead, but of the liv- Wlse to set down the exact number of pitch tent there; neither shall the shep-is exclusi~ly and strictly personal. ing." But these seem clearly to proYe years it was to last. The term he fixed herds make their fold there; but wild Again, the prophecy does not affirm a the exact reverse. For our Lord's ex- for it was seventy years-after which he beasts of the desert ~hall lie there; and resurrection, but a life of the souls, or press object there, is to prove the ressur- promised to deliver them, by bringing a their houses shall be full of doleful crea-of the martyrs to ";}lorn they belon~. rection of the body; and his reasoning remarkable and irretrievable destruction tures, and owls shall dwell there; and Now by the life of the soul is meant, m thus compels us to l'efer the words to the 11~ the city of Babylon, the place of satyrs shall dance there; and the wild the general usuge of scripture, its natural natural life of the patriarchs in the day theu confinement. ' And these nations beasts of the islands shall cry in their life, or union with, the b()dy. Hence the of their resurrection. If death, in them shall serve the king of Babylon seventy deSGlate houses, and dragons in their plea-life of the souls here mentioned must im-were not hereafter to be swallowed up in years.' (Jer. 25:11.) · • sant palaces. I will also make it a pos-ply a bodily resurrection. victory, the living God would never haYe .J l l . ~ I . ~. 132 THE ADV~NT HERALD. called himself by their name. It is true our gathering together unto him."-and others a~ little understood, prove that less submissive m·ultitudes, and _the rio- that some learned writers have referred He simply argues to show that the day of the world WI~l be con~erted. Any theory, lent opposition of its maddened victims; the passage to the separate state: but the Lord, to be ushered in by his coming how~ver, ~vh1ch req~ues such an unau-and has involved those, whom Providence only by doing violence to the evidence and about which they were troubled, thor1zed mterpretat1.o!l of the ~v~rd of has raised to power, m such perplexity, of the whole context, which expressly re-should 'not come immediately-not till .~od, a~d such a posmve contrad1ctwn of that even ordinary human foresight un- lates to the resurrection. cirtain well-known prophetic events had Its plamest statements, must be from the consciously anticipates, as already im· On the other hand, out of a hundred tak~n place. And one cannot help ask-father of lies. pe.nding, what the prophets of God have passages in the New Testament where ing, If Paul had believed in this triumph GENERAL PERIOD oF '!'HE ADVENT ARRIVED. proclaimed as the fate of the kings of the the word soul occurs, there are forty 'in of the Gospel, and in this modern mil- Since it is impossible that the Advent earth, in the final catastrophe: 1 ' Stay which the idea of natural life is so promi-lennium, to succeed the apostacy, and all prophecies can have been fulfilled in the yorirselves, and wonder; they are drunk, nent, that the word is used in preference to transpire before the coming of the Lord, past, and as it is the highest absurdity to en, but not with wine i they stagger, but by our translators. WheQ the apostles could he have failed to speak of it, in apply them to" the advent of the Spirit," not with strong drink; for the Lord hath were ready to C~J.ll for the fire from hea-such a case 1 If he had been like the or to expect the triumph of the Gospel poured out upon· them the spirit of deep ven, the answer is, " the Son of man is popular apostles of our times, it is ~ertain prior to the comi.ng of our Lord to judge sleep, and hath closed their eyes: the come, not to destroy men's souls, but to he could not. The strongest argument the world and to reign for ever, no other prophets, your rulers and seers hath he save them." Souls are described as possible would have been given against event of prophecy is to be. looked for but covered!" "The nations shall rush like hazarded, (Acts 15:26,) as laid down, the approach of that event; and how his glorious appearing. The succession the rushing of many ~aters: but God · (John 13:37; 15: 13,) and cllt off, (Acts much more effectually would he have qui-of empires, which were to have supreme shall rebuke them, and they shall flee far 3:23,) in reference to natural life only. eted all the trouble by adding the millen-authority over the world, before the set-off, and shall be chased as the chaff of And so in this very prophecy, the mar-nium to the apostacy, before the advent. ting up of the universal and eternal king-the mountains before the wind, and like tyrs "loved not their souls even unto A millennium without Christ may be ac-dom of God, have all risen, and the last a rolling thing before the whirlwind .... death." The same phraseology is still ceptable to modern Christians, but it would has passed through its predicted changes This is the portion of them that spoil us, more usual and conspicuous in the Old 'not do for Paul and his brethren. They preparatory to its being dashed to pieces, and the lot of them that rob us. lsa. 17: Testament, where more, I believe, than must be sustained from heaven in pa-as also what remains of other kingdoms, 13, 14. a hundred passages of this kind occur. titntly waiting for Christ. to give place to that eternal kingdom. This state of things in the ecclesiasti- The last verse of St. James is perhaps The views in the Revelation of John are 'fhe papacy' that direst scourge of the cal and political world, is accompanied the only distinct example of an opposite equally decisive. Like Daniel, he sees saints of God, has passed through the with equally ominous developments in usage. . the cruel aud blasphemous powers of this period of its appointed dominion over the moral and social world.-As it was .The phrase! therefore, employed. m world, symb(/l~zed by dragons and beasts, them; and, although still making war in the days of Noah, and of Lot, the this passage, dtsproves rather than war-who make war with the saints and over-and prevailing against them, is laboring-earth is filled with violence; and the most rants a figurative ~nterpretation. Criti-come them, until the final catastrophe, sometimes as a suppliant, sometimes with perishable interests of this life, eating cal ~xactness forbids us to apply the when they take the field against the King its characteristic arrogance and impu-and drinking, planting and building, buy- , .promise made to the soul~ of the J?artyrs of kings, and Lord of lords; and it is dence-to recover its lost position of su-ing and selling-in the midst of luxury themselves. And the hfe as~nbed to not till these enemies of the Lord are premaey; and it is evidently preparing, and pride the most offensive, and of de- them, unles~ we renounce the general cast into the lake of fire, and judgment though unconsciously,forthelaststruggle, .basement and destitution the most pain- ~sage o! scnptu~e, J?Ust-'be t~e natural is given tq the righteous, which we know in which it will receive the predicted doom f~l-have become the engrossing ques- hfe, which consists m th.e reumon of soul cannot be till this mol·tal state is ended, of this Babylon of the Christian age from twns of the age. With the prophetic and body,-( To be cont2n_ued.) that the triumphant reign of the wicked the hand of the Lord God that judgeth history of the world, in its general outline, terminates. How then is it possible that her. and the more specific signs spoken of by · Address. the Gospel and the Church can triumph Mohammedanism, with it~ scorpion our Lord and the apostles, the prophetic (Continued from page 129.) at the same time their enemies are in a army from the bottomless pit, and of periods harmonize, in their bearing upon Wi~hout dwelling upon the reckless state of triumph? • It is a moral, a philo-horsemen breathing fire and smoke and the present, as the period of the second absurdity of this unwarranted assurnp-sophical impossibility. Such a condition brimstone, has inflicted its woes upon the advent of our Lord.-The most reason- Lion, the principle of which would lead for the two parties at the same time, in inhabitants of the earth; it has filled up able calculation of the periods which have to the most criminal and fatal perversion this mortal state, is as impracticable as the period assigned by Providence for its uniformly been understood to indicate the of the word of God, it must be seen, by that two bodies should occupy, at the sam~ triumph, and now ~xists as a body politic time of his corning, assure us that the a careful reference to those portions of time, a space which one of them would only by sufferance, giving us an assurance period in which their termination must prophecy which all admit present to us fill. that the second woe is past, and that the fall has arrived. Although we have not the history of the church and the world Again. This Apostle shows, that the third woe cometh quickly, when, with the yet reached the ultimate point to which down to the end, that such a state of tri-world is to be the subject of '.'woes," that beast and false prophet, it shall be cast they can extend, accordin(}' to most ~m~h ~f the Gospel, for any length. of end only with the destruction of those into the lake of fire. authentic dates for the eovents with tim~, IS absolutely precluded. Damel, who destroy the earth, when the time· of The more specific indications made which these periods begin, we have no c.hr.Ist, Paul, and John the Reevla.tor, ~11 the dead, that they should he _judged, kn~wn in the prophecies-the signs by authority, from any intelligent calculation d1~tmctly announce the state of thmgs m comes, and the servants of God, his proph-wh1ch the coming of the Son of man of them, t~ put the coming of our Lord this respzct till the end r.ornes. Great ets, and saints, and them that fear his should be known to be near even at the a moment m the future. With such posi- persecuting and blasphemous organiza-name, small and greaJ, receive their re-door-speak as impressively of our rela-tive evidence from the word of God that tions of worldly power, called beasts, and ward. Rev. 11: 14-18. The w01ld is tion to that event as the more general no such period of peace and triumph to horns of beasts, tread down, make war, also visited with "plagues," which it is prephetic views of imperial revolutions ~he church, as many expect, can be en- and prevail against the saints, until the said, "fill up the wrath of God" against an·d antichristian misrule. Whether the JOyed before the advent; with so many Ancient of days comes, and judgment is "their evil deeds;" and in the midst of signs stated by our Lord as recorded by portions of prophecy to fix upon the pres- given to the saints of the Most High, and them we hear this declaration, " Behold, Matthew, Mark, and Luke, are under-ent as the period of that event, how can the time comes that they possess the I come as a thief! Blessed is he that stood literally or symbolically the result we remain silent 1 In duty to our fellow- kingdom. Dan. 7th and· 8th. The wheat watcheth and keepeth his garments, lest is the same.-The state of things in the men with whom we must soon appear be- and the tares-representing the righteous he walk naked and they see his shame." religious, political, and moral world, are fore God, and bound by our most sacred and the wicked-gro\ together till th¥ (Rev. 16 : 15.) Again we ask, can it also painfully true to the picture !riven of obligations to him, we must be faithful, . harvest, and the harvest is the end of the be possible that God, should pour out the last days: the love of Christians has we must speak! "Behold, the judge world, or age. Matt. 13th. these" woes" and" plagues" upon a con-waxed cold-politicians are filled with standeth at the door." "The end of all That Man of Sin, the son of perdition; verted world 1 If not, it is impossible perplexity-iniquity abounds. things is at hand ! "-(To be continued.) who opposeth and exalFeth himself above that the world can ever be converted, for In the church, there are more by far to all that is called God, or that is worship-these cover the whole period till the judg-scoff at the promise of the Lord's cominO" ped: that wicked, or lawless one, whose rnent of the dead, and the coming of the than to believe it, so that it is pre-eminen~ coming is after the working of Satan, Lord. ly true of this time, there is but little faith with all power, and signs, and lyi?g. won· We are aware that certain phrases and in the ear.th.-In t~e State, the obligations ders, was to be reyealed, and s1t m the fragments of texts are. often repeated, of those m authol'lty, to God and to his temple ~f God, showing himself to _be whic~, it appears to.be confi~ently thought, truth, appe~r ~o be.forgotten, especially by God, until the Lord should consume h1m sustam the error m questwn. The fQl· the most d1stmgu1shed Christian rulers; ":ith,..the spirit .of his mouth: and d.estroy lo~v~ng portion of the second .Psalm is fa- an~ a s?rdid, grasping, worldly policy, him by the bnghtness of his commg.-mihar to all: " He shall giVe thee the whiCh disregards the claimsof the Great 2 Thess. 2d. heathen for thine inheritance, and the ut-Ruler of the universe upon earthly rulers, We should remark on this text, that it termost parts of the earth for thy pos· as'' sent by Him" to~" His mi~isters ;" was ,~he a~owed ~esi,!fn of Paul to :' :-om~ session." And ~his portion of Revelati.on ·which le.ads them ~o te~nporize and join fort and ' stabhsh the Thessalomans, also, both of which are often repeated m· hands With the ern1ssanes of those errors who ,had beco~e "shaken" and "trou-correctly: "The k_ingdoms of this world which have always been visited with the bled, by supposmg t~at the.day of Christ are beco~e the. k~,ngdoms of our Lord curse of heaven upon the nations ~vhere wa~, en est eke n, Immediately at hand. and of h1s Chnst. Rev. 11 : 15. :Sut they have been cherished; and Impels As It c~~~~. not have ~een " the advent of the slightest :eference to the .coRtex(, in t~~m to crush with unsparing cruelty the the Spmt about wh1ch they were trou-each case, w1ll sho.w that .these texts re-nsmgs of opposition, on the part of those bled; and as Paul does not tell them that fer to a state that IS anythmg but that to whom these rulers should have elevated such an advent was to take place, before which they are misapplied. If to be bro-and blest, against the wrongs and injus- that about which they were troubled ken with a rod of iron, and dashed in tice which they have inflicted :-this prac- should occu~, they certainly are wise pieces like a potter's vessel; if a woe; tical ~theism and base worldly minded- above what IS wntten who assume that if the comin(}' of the wrath of God; if ness, m the State, has already called forth he speaks of al!Y other event than " the these terms 0 express the conversion of I the remonstrances of the righteous and coming of cur Lord Jesus Christ, and the world, the texts just now repeated, humane, the turbulent murmurs of the r A Candid Statement. The following is from the " Signal of Liberty," published at Ann Arbor, Mich. Progress of Delusion.-When men al-' low themselves .. to depart from the gov- ernment of legitimate reasoninu there il'l no predicting the extent to which they will go in absurdity. We have had occa- sion to thin~ of t~is from reading the nu- merpus nottces m our exchanges of the Second Advent people. Some, or rather many of these, have given themselves up to the grossest delusions, and made themselves amenable to the laws of the land for the practice of crimes. We le~rn from a credible source, that some in this State, once accounted pious and res- pectable people, have cut loose from rea- son and common sense. They say that the world has come to an end, as predict- ed?~ Miller, altho?gh !lot in the way he anticipated : that It will be a thousand years in purifying, and will then become the everlasting heritage of the saints : that time has ended, and eternity already I• : ' ! ' : .. ~ I :,-,•ttommenced, and the saints will not be sick or die Q.ny more, &c. &c. This new version of the delusion i& said to have been brought from Ohio by one of the Second Ad vent preachers. The 'ex- travagances of these enthusiasts, however, lkauld not he alleged against the whole body of 'Second Advent believers, the greater part of whom we S1tppose to be sober and exemplary in their lives. · We have no desire to cover up iniq nity; and when editors will make a distinction .THE ADVENT HERALD. --· T 133 to these inquiries, Bro. Himes remarked, first, twelve Cresars. Never can two men occu-and his intention \Vas to put the evidences of as to the goo(! that might be accomplished. py the sarn& plane at the same time. By the the Advent at hand in other languages, and Our brethren in England tell us that there providence of God, Bro. J. V. Himes has send them to Italy, France, and other coon- are numerous congregations throughout the beon called from the heginning of the cause tries in Europe, to the extent of the means country that desire our aid; and that incal-to take the lead, and no one has been able to that will be contributed. There is in all the culable good would be produced by a mission occupy or fill his place. In the days of Mu-countries of the old world a feverish and like the one proposed; and in their judgment, ses there were those that rnurmured against restless state of society. Millions of the it will also prove a blessing to many who him, and charged hirn with taking too much crushed and down-trodden have no hope, save have given the subject but little if any con-responsibility; but God made such men mani-what they have in this world. The Chartists sideration. And we have no doubt but there fest, and destroyed those that offered strange of England are a noble and energetic class is a great chance to do our brethren there fire. And what has been our history1 We have of people, but they are crushed down by op- good, who need our sympathy and support as no need to revert to the history of tho~e pression and tyranny. Their hope i~ for a well as· others. As regards the character of who have fallen from their .apparent height of charter of rights. My heart burns to give the mission, it should be an efficient one, of grace by the same presumption. Bro. Himes them a better charter than they are attempt- between these fanatics, and the honest sufficient wisdom anJ ability to af!complish has conducted this cause from the beginning ing to secure : they see the cmruption of the good, a persevering one, that will not be under God. There are those that look upon church of Rome, of the church of England, and industrious of the Advent faith, we daunted or disheartened by unfavorable ap-him with suspicion. · Bui those that know and in many instances, that of the Dissenters. thank them for their candor, and commend pearances. Well, if God sends us, he will him best love him most. My conviction ·has He wished to show a brighter side to the re- give us this wisdom and.abilitv. For one, I been for a lung time that he ought to go.--ligion of Jesus, and overcome their infidelity them for their honesty. never felt more my insufficiency for the task. And when I saw the unanimity of feeling at by acts of kindness. This Jarge class of But God will give us all the zeal and perse-New York on this subject, I had not the least England's population, if they could once hear verance req1:1ired. Our sufficiency is of him. doubt but that this mission. was of God, and Father Miller through a course of lectures, As regards the work, we shall at once on our that he would fill his place at home. As to· would he greatly benefitted, and their infideli- landing, propose a Conference in Liverpool, .the other brethren, Brn. Hutchinson and ty would be swept away forever, the effect and I might say that already there are pre-Brown, they Jive in our hearts. They are of the study of the prophecies is fo subdue liminary arrangements made for holding our men of moral integrity, a,nd in whom we the strongest and proudest of infidel minds. first Conference. We shall have our plan of have the utmost confidence. Friends, these Bro. Elam Burnham said, I have not operation and labor there, very much like our brethren that are about to embark on this read the proceedings of the Conference at that at home. We shall appoint Conference~ mission do not want your simple expression New York, having had no access to them in several parts, scatter publications, liave an that they should go, nor simply your dollars till now. But still, I have learned from this office at head quarters, where we shall en-and cents to aid them o·n their way, but your discourse what the import of those proceed- deavor to publish a paper or magazine, and hearts wa•·m with tE:rvor, and your prayers ings are. The first difficulty that arose in concert and mature plans for the extension of for their success in the enterprize, that the my mind when I heard of this Mission being the truth. In relation to the means with name of God may be glorified. It will be in contemplation was, not that I was opposed, which to·sustain the mission, I would say, indee~. a trial to part with these dear breth-but I had not seen the matter taken up so that one brother in England has promised rP.n. We shall miss their guidance and coun-that I could take hold of it. Besides, there me a £50 note, on my arrival; and there !J.re sel. But, brethren, we shall soon meet ag-ain: were serious r~asons why I did not think others in that country able and willing to give if not here, it will be on the fair hills of Zion, proper at this late day to advocate a mission to sustain the cause. There is also a wil-where we shall nieet to part no more. We of the kind. But now when I see the mat- lingness and freedom on the put of our have every thing to encuurage us. The Lord ter come up in the manner it docs, I cannot 'fhe Rev. Editor of the "Olive Branch" gives in his paper a pitiful case of a "Millerite " iri Springfield, who has been stealing. How true the story may be we know not. And why a " Millerite," occasionally, as ·well as Baptists, and Methodists, may not fall from grace into the clutches of the patron saint of the " Olive Branch,'.'' we know not. We would, however, respectfully enquire of the said editor, if stealing is peculiar to 1.! Millerites ?" .A. Truth.-Those most prone to asperse others, are generally, if their lives be tho- roughly scanned, the most vulnerable per- sons.-Richmond Repub. The above is a correct statement. have never found an instance where any one has wilfully and knowingly stated any falsehood against the Adventists, but the result has shown that they were themselves unmitigated scoundrels. We brethren here to contribute to the mission is round about us for good: and now breth-feel 'th~ lea~t spirit of opposition. I have which is highly commendable. If I was as ren, let us pass the resolution with a hearty felt, were our brethren to leave just at this sure of accomplishing the n1ission to the glo-co-operation. • time, that the cause would sink. But let ry of God, as I am of the mission being sus- Bro. Fletcher sairl, I remember the sa yin!! us look to the Lord, and his word. When tained, I should be satisfied, and rest with of the Savior, "Beware of the leaven of the Paul told the brethren. that they should composure. Bro. Hutchinson and myself Pharisees." I am sometimes afraid of dis-see his face no more, they tell on his neck design to devote ourselves indefatigably to sembling my feelings when I attempt to ex-and wept. And if we do the same, we may preaching the word, and hence we need press myself upon important matters con- weep all the dust ont of our eyes, so that we another brother to act as kind of Secre~ary, nected with Christ'~ cause. And I think in may see th.at it will be for the good of the Conference in Boston, to gather facts, and note them for the benefit this cause, it is not enough that we should cause for them to go. We ought to aid our TUESDAY, MAY 26, 1846. of the cause. Bro. Brown will aid us very say," Be ye warmerJ, and be ye clothed," &c. brethren in this enterpri~e; and it will not The adjourned meeting of the Conference essentially in this work. He will give you, Now these brethren are going a warfare ; do for Adventists to he covetous. Let us do, was held in Boston, Mav. 26th, at 10 o'clock through the medium of the "Herald," the and the g--reat apostle says,'' No man should for the Lord will not say \hen he comes, A.M., according to appo.intment. slate of things abroad,-what the mission is go a warfare at his own charges." Are we well thought of doing, but " Well done, good Prayer by Elder Elam Burnham. accomplishing, w~at the people are doing,-prepared to aid them 1 Perhaps many of us 'and faithful servant." The remainder of the day was occupied the Catholics, Dissenters, &c: This will have felt a desire to preach this gl!lrious ad- Bro. Everett remarked, that he heartily with remarks from Brn. Elon Galusha, J. help the cause at home. It w1ll malrethren, for the "Voice we go, we go on a great and arduous work, ~ro. Himes said, that it was probably the to this call, .and say, Go, and the God of of Elijah," which· amount was sacredly ap- we are to be reproached, despised, and for- desire of the brethren to know what is to be heaven go With you. Those that we con-propriated to the scattering of these papers saken. We therefore cast ourselves on tione in reference to the mission, and the template sending on this mission, are the throughout England, Ireland, Scotland, and your sympathy and prayers, and on God's ~anner of bbath School, and all was 1 e 13eton \JOmtng 0 ll m • ld 1 · · 1 · •· w11u enqurre, as t 11s 1s ~ te ma111 reasun as- vrosperity, when. the atar.m of the tteYeBth To the real Chri;,tian, this subject presents si~nerl whv there must be such a state of the m~111th ery .found _II• wa,Y, toto tl.lt: b"8010 IJf' a lasting theme for contemplafion: it causes world? vVe must confess that we can see ll~ts peaceful soetety .. 1 he excuement ~an his sonl ~o t>Xpanrl \Yilh joy: it aruoses aiJ none; for the ponr heathen are merely ex- htgh, and the dtsappotntrnent was exceedtr.g the dormant faculties of his awn unders-tancl-alteJ to honor, to ue cast down to hell!- ~reat. Mr. E. ~acobs, thei.~ minisl?r, em-ing, and calls them forth in praise to Go~ for Su~h a doctrine is both uurea onable, and uraced the doctnne of the door of mert~y ever havirw thrown around him the glflrlous unscriptural; and hence we cannut couote- being shut," Many of the congregation fell Jirrht of ~uthentic revelati~m. Tl.ere is nan'Je it. ~nto the s~rne views. A division tuok pl.ace n~thin~r which affimls more plea~ ore to the Speaking of the exceeding "ickedness of 10 the sprmg of 1845. Those who rettra.l truly pions, than to knuw that tht> ~conJ this time, he eays :~ from.th.e tab~rnaclfl~ ~'·ere a small com~any, advent of Christ is rapidly apprnxirnatin!!, "Now the wickedness of the world will constsllng ol. only stxteen persons: fills that the time is fast approaching, ~hen He remarkably call for Christ's immediate ap- co. mpany, dunng the summer~ met 10. an e.n· shall come and crather his chosen, hi& ele~t fl · fi k' h d h d .,. pearing in ammg ~e, ta rng vengeance on giOe o~se, on ~r t e most ISco~ragtng clr-people from the four quarters of this trouble-them that know not God, and ooey DIJt the curnstance~, ~h1le the many conttnue~, or as indiviuals whose whole aim or Jlldg"meots and preachmtg of th.e Gospel to uuited and harmonious-whose faith and design is, 10 accumulate money. To every conver~ these apostates . By \ h.at mode of zeal were strong, is now scattered hy 1 he candid 'and thinking mind, this must certainly exegesis sh~ll we m~ke ~ne a spmtual, and blighting touch of the destroyer's hand. The appear a very solemn and awful step for a the other a l.ueral commg trom the same pas- strong tiJe of desolation set io about. the Christian to take. I would, therefore, warn sage of Scr1pture! Hut I would ask, can we lOth of January last, after the return of all professing Christians to beware how they ever look (o.r a seco~d .. ful.6lment of the pas- Mr. Jacobs from the conference at Cleveland. act upou this important subject, and if they sage 1 I th~nk not, 1f. It ~ad a ~ulfilfl!ent at He there professed being born into the ever-cannot exactly coincide with those who pro-the destructiOn of. antJchnst, as tt ev~denfly lasting kingdom. Having returned to Cin-claim the doctrine, at least to lay down th~ir dues, and as ~restdent Edwards adnuts, we cinnati, with zeal, (not accordtng to knnw-animosity, and say nnthing about it, Jest cannot J~ake It to be fulfilled afterw.ards a ledge,) he coursed· his way mtn we many adhere to this theory who are tooacious in a clear firmament will be bnt darkness in saw the conference appointed for this place. believers in the doctrine of the" final perse-comparison, and all the glorious angels shall \Ve hope then to see some qf our ministering vera nee of the saints." To convince them altel)d hirn, thousands, thousands ministering brethren who can render us timely aid. To that a. man that has once met with a chan11e to l1im. and ten thousand times ten thousand our brethren who write frum Illinois, l would of heart, may fall from grace, and afterwards round auout him." (p. 410.) the effort with success. Since writing the above, we have received ' a leUer from Bro. Weethee-on this painful . · aubject, to which we call special attention. Dear Bro. Rimes :-Knowing that you are deeply interested in the prosperity of ,,ur people in this city. I send you a brief state- ment of our trials and future prospects. Du- ring the last four years, about 40 lecturers have labored more or less in this place, teach- ing the doctrines of the Advent. These were generally ministers of the various de- nominations, who having Leen suddenly con- verted to the Advent faith, and zealous for the cause, proclaimed their convictions with ardent feeling and great asstaance. At first, the work progressed slowly, but as li~ht in- creased the prejudices of multitudes gave way, an~ the work assumed a very high de- gree of Interest.· .1'fany were forced to ad- mit that the Lord was in their meetings with converting power, and therefor~ concluded that the entire message must be true. Du- ring the year 1843, time was the watchword. AC041nd it they all rallied. Souls were alarmed, and fled to Jesus for refuge. The spring ..of 1844 passed without any visible de- cline or. interest in the doctrines of the near Advent. A place for public worship was erected, and a. large and flourishinll congre- gation was collected. They had established say, "Though we sympathize wilh you in lose his soul, is imenssible; and yet the,y will · This will be a grand spectacle indeed, your destitutioo, yet, circuUJstanees are such believe that the mtllio[J.il who were once con-should this pa~ge ever have a. literal fulfil- at present, in Cincinnati, that we do not feel verted, an.d eujoyed the favor of God durioa ment, and we contend that i& is to have, and at liberty to leave. Important stations ought the millennium, will finally apoetatize, and President Edwards here adanits the same ; to ue secured. The proclamation can be consequently be lost! Ho~t can they recon-hence we cannot understand why he makes sounded out from this place as a centre, to concile this theory with their belief 1 Per-the following remark in reference to this more advantage than from any other location haps on the ground that thev were once hea- passage with its context when applying it at in the West. You have our prayers for your then, and desire not eo peculiar a favor as the destruct.i&n of antichrist: "A ud this is prosperity, and when assistance can be reo-others living in Chria&ian lands. Says our more lake Christ's Ia&& coming to judgme.nt dered you, it shall be given.'' We should author:- than any of the precedinrr dispensatio~," &c. be rejoiced to see our brethren from sur- ''But the gre~er part of the own words! I conceive that the passages which to-day would interf-ere and disprove such a poshion would hold good .always. Oh coo- aiateucy, what a jewel! LETTER FROM BRo. T. SMtTH. Dear Bto. Himes:--In my travels through nrious. t.lwns, I tind myself here at Bro. Wm. Pullens, near the· Camp-ground, in China. Here are a few breLhren "awake and alive," cunt¥nding "earnestly I(Jr the faith unce delivered to the saints.'' whose con- Yeraation is in h1>.aven, from whenee we luok for the Savior, the Lord Jesus Christ, whose appearing we believe to be near, even at the duor. We are, therefore, girding up the loins of our minds, and hoping unto the end, for the grace which is to be brought unto us U tbe revelation of Jesus Christ. 0 bow astonishing it is to me, to compare the common teaching with that of the apns- t~, all of whom eighteen hundred years .ago. had their eyes and hopes fixed on the COining of Christ and the resurrection, as the lime when an abundant entrance was to •e mwistered unto them, into the everla~ting kjngdom of our Lord and Savior Jesus Christ; while the modern song is, "Death is the gate to endless joy, A11d yet we dread to enter there.'' _,_ times, when the signs of the corning Savior are past, and he is now near, even at the dour. Surely, my brother, we should nut sleep as do others, but watch and be sober, and give diligence tu make our callinq and election sure," adding to our faith virtue; to virtue, l{flowledge; to knowlerlge, temper- ance; to temperance, patience; to patience, godliness; to godliness, brotherly kindness; and to brotherly kindness, t!harity .'' "For so, (and only so,) an abundant entrance shall be ministered unto us abundantlv into the everlasting kingdom." It is to n1e passing Ptrangc. that 111en need so blinJ their eyes, that they cannot, or will not see these plain Bihle truths. However, it is well said, that men are creatures uf prejudice; and partic- ularly in n~ligious suhjeets. Tu their opin- ions they cling with tenacity, and I fear, in too many iqstances, they will not divest themselves of their prejudices enough to.ex- aritine the subject of Christ's ::'peedy coming. the end of the world, or the inheritance and reward of the saints, with the candor the im- portance of the things demand. Oft have I said. and now more emphatically would I Ray, I wonder why these things do not. ab- sorb our whole minds, ll,nd swallow op every otncr concern: for Sllrely, as much as eter- nity exceeds time in dura· ion, so much these things e,.ceed all others, in theit· importance to us. 0 how much in this expression of Paul, (1 Cor. 15th,)" In a momeut, in the twinklsng of an eye, at the last trump." l<'or it, great God, prepare us. After a scattered aud unsettled state of sonte eight or ten weeks, we are collecting our little together to keep house fur the short time our pilgrimage may coutinue, inllrewer, some three miles above Bangor city, on the opposite side of the Penobscot. My post offi,~e address in the future will be Edding"ttJn, that being the nearest office to my residenpe, although my family will live in Brewer. Truly _yours in hope, THOMAS SMITH. South China, (Me.), May 9th, 1846. llow Sweet to Pray. When our path through life seems dreary And no sun illumes the way, When o.ur hearts with care are weary, Then, we find it sweet to pray. When our brightest hopes are bl!l.sted, Like the flowtets of a day, And our joys as brief have lasted, Then, 0! then, we long to pray. Wh!!n our friends have all departed, Like the sun's last evening ray, Then all lone and brqken hearted Do we turn to God, to pray. When in every best endeavor, We do fail from day to day, Then we feel before that never, Did we need so much to pray. Ever thus, even to life's closing, Ere the Spirit wa(ts away, Doe:~ that heart it:~ trust reposing, In the Savior, Jove to pray. I.... II. S. Portsuwuth (N.H.), April 23, 1846. LETTJs:R FROM Bao. H. PARKER. The following letter from Bro. P. is a cordial to our hearts. In the midst of per- plexing cares, sacrifices, peculiar t& the pres- ent moment, such' communications, with sub- stantial aid accompanying them, are re- ceived with gratitude. How clear the fact, that nearly t•.•;n thou- said years ago, Peter said, (2 Pet. 3 : 14,) "Wherefore, beloved, seeing ye luoli fur such things,"-what things 1 Day of judg- ment, and perdition of nngudly men, v. 7,- ~a.y of the Lord, which will come as a thief tn the night,-=-h~avens pas11 away with a areat noh;e, elements melt, and earth, v. 10. I day uf God, wherein the heavt'ntl being on !!•~·fire,. shall be dissolved, v. 12, new heavens 111 anc¥ new earth-according to his promise, v. 13,-then, 11 seeing ye look for such thit1gs, _Dear Bro. Himes:-I rejoice to .,erceive by the last Herald, that you have concluded to respond to the many and urgent calls from Europe, to "come over and help us." I l1ave. been of the opinion some time. that should you consider it duty to go on that mission, the way would be prepared, and your lauors signally bles:sed, in the salvation of many souls. I am confident no other individual would exert so gre-dt an influence in awaking an in- terest on the subject of our coming King, and as much as your labors are needed in this field, yet I would say, go, go, and may the umted prayerl:l of the brethren gu up in one volume, as ineense before .the th.rone of God, that his protect.ion, and blessing may rest upon you, and that your labors may be crowned with signal succe~s. Not having fully made up my mind to at- tend the Conference next week, I sead you euclosed twenty dullars, to aid y.ou in the enl61ip.riae. Lord is at hand, and ltasteth greatly." I do not profess to be a "prophet, nor a prophet 't~ son,'' yet I think I can already clearly dis- cern a cloud as big as a man's hand.:' oow long it will be before it ccimpletely en- shrouds the horizon I am unable to say, but e\u2022idently cannot be long. Let every true child of God lifr up his head and rejoice, (not in the destruction of life or property.) but, that his 11 redemption draweth nigh." I cannot fiud language to expres.~ to you my feelings : my soul is full! 0 that the breth- ren woniJ heed the admonition, peculiarly applicable at this tin.e; "be not not over- charged with the cares of this life, and :so that day come upon you unawares." Spec- ulation seems to be the spirit of the age, a.ntl ·let all who love the Lord Jesus Christ and love his appearing, guard against this delu:sive spirit; but be diligeut in business, tha.t he may hav~ til givo ll) him that uet>Al- eth,ferve1lt in spirit serving the Lord. Now eomparatively spealproa.ch and contumely of a world loving church'! It seems to nle that if \:e truly appreciate a sound gospel miraistry, and reahze the sphere in whieh Gud has plaeed us, while obtaining our ''bread by the sweat uf the brow," we shall consider 1t obligatory on us to see that his st~rvants are uot impeded in their labors of preaching' the Gospel,, by emharrasstng circumstances, which we should consider it. our dut.y and privile~e to alleviate; and in st1 doin)!, we s.haH find our suul:s enriched thereby. Y ou.ra wa.itinl! and watching, ' H..:N'RY PARKER. LETTER FROM Br.o. S. CHAPl'UN. Dear Bro. Himes:-I have now been in this place about three weel arm is stronger than theirs. By rneaus of this unprovol;ed annoyance, several piOmi- nent individuals have taken a decided stand in defence of the doctrine, aod will, I trust, maintain the ground till the Master's coming. Had there been no special opposition mani- fested, I should not probably have remained here more than ten davs; and now, since there is so general au iuierest excited on the subject of the Lord's coming, it i,; naturally painful to thiuk of separating from each oth- er; but engagements el11ewhere render it necessary. I expect, therefore, to address this people (a. crowded house)this evening, tor the last time, aud in the morning leave for Cooperstown, sixty miles north ot' here. Among the convert!! here, there is a Miss Mary Jane Kelly, about 14 years old, t{l whom I wish you to direct a paper weekly. She is an intelligent child, settled and grounded in the faith, and will not merely receive benefit from the paper herselt, but through that medium, she will benefit her companions. She is poor, and unable to pay a cent, but the l.Qrd will io this case reward you. be dtligent, that ye may be found of him in P~aee, without tlpot and lila.meless." If etght-een hundred years a~ro, the judgment, the day ~f the Lord, the day of God, and the new heavens and earth, were events for l~Jbielt the Christians looked, and cvnse- ~lly expect.ed, and in conseqi.Jence of J~ for wblch !.hey were urged to be diltgent, huw ftlUeh more appropriate :rre aueb appeals to us who live iu these last The signs thieken around us, and look truly omil'lou.a, that "the great day o£ the My brother, I see by the Herald of 29th you have almoa\ deoided to go to Eoglaud. That a.be Lord mayo direct you io this matwr, 135 has heen my prayer. It is an important question to settle. You are greatly needed in this country, but again I say, the Lord direct you. Should you finally dectde to go, you will doubtless be favored with the prayers of thousands of vour brethren. Truly your-s in love, expecting speedy re- demptiOn, SAML. CHAPMAN. Shandaken (N. Y.), May 13, llH6. An aged sister writes from Sulllh Rutland N. Y:- Elder Himes, Sir :-I write to let you know, that my faith in the llppearing of our Lord remains unshaken,-that I am still looking for his appearing. I take great sat- isfaction in reading the" Herald." I am an Pld woman, and have passed thn·)ugh various scenes, and have witnessed many things that to rne betoken the dawn of millennia! glory. I witnessed the darkening of the sun in 1780. Although but a little child, I recollect that event, as though it were but yesterday. I wab born, brought up, anti married in Provi- dence, and have been in Boston many times ; aud when I read in your paper of events that talce place in eitHer of those eities, it dues rny soul good. It seems as thou:;h I heard from home, when I hear of your conferences. 1 thinl<;. that had I the wings of a dove, I would fly away and be in your nndst. As I said bei'ore, I take great satisfaction in read-. ing the Herald: it clleers me on, and bright- ens up my pitthway to the tomh. I am !lOr- ry to.say, my papers come very inegnlarly. There are rseveral numbers back. At one time I did not get any p:lper•rin fout· week~. I enclose one dollar, and have ~ent you three before within a year, hut do nut know that you received it. Yours with respect, • PHEBE MALTBY. . South Rutland ( N. Y.), Ma!J9, 1846. Your na.me is not on our books ; but-as we find three dollars credited to Elder J. Maltby, we conclude that that is your paper, and credit the one dollar you sent to the same, v 11. Our paper is regularly (llailed to Elder J. Maltby, and should be regularly received. The testimony of those who are cheered by the 11 .Herald '' in their homeward jon rney, is a great consolation to us in our .arduous labors. -------- Bro. R. RADFORD, of Detroit, Mich.,writes: Detroit is a large city. I wi:sh some good faithful 'shepherd would come and break the bread of life to God's dear children. Dr. DuffiPid gives some very interestin~ lectures on Wednesday evening-s. I find they are food to my soul. But still he is not our· shep- herd. We want a shepherd, because it is good to have our minds stirred up by way of remembrance. But I could own him as my shepherd, if he came wholly out on the Lord's side, ancl always prucla.irn'ed the coming of my blessed Lord. But he does not often speak of the comiug of the Lord, only on Wednesday evenings. ---------- Bro. A. PIKE, of North Augusta, C. W., writes:-The people in this part of the coun- try are wondering why no lecturer comes this way. I am confident that much good would result in this part of the Province, if there was a ~ood efficient lecturer to direct us. I hope you will u:se your influence to direct on,e this WaJ. (It would be a great gratification, if there were men, who would feed the flock, that could visit all the scattered or.es. As it is, tbere can be but a smaiJ portion of the calls supplied.] Bao. c .. PA.RKER writes from Waterbury, Vt:- . The church in this plaee stand fast in the faith iting for the vision to speak. Our meet 1incrs every Sabbath at the Hall, are well attended and interesting. Preaching about three fourths of lhe time, half the time by Bro. E. L. Clark, otners occasionally. I have been in favor of the mibsion to Enaland for many months. My prayer is that God will bltsa the measure. Yours in the patient waiting for the king- dom of God, ERASTUS PARK&R. 0BJTU:A.RY.-Died at Lisbon, N.H., May 7, '46, Maria Quimby, aged ~years. Also Moses Chandler Quimby, May 13, aged 16 months. Children of Bro. Motres Quimby. Sermon on the occasion, the following Sab- bath, by I. H. Shipman, from Hosea 13 : 14, " I will raMOm them from the power of the grave," &c. 136 Conference in Boston. (Continued from page 133.) \ to the event. The Lord give :you grace that you may be disposed to co-operate in this great mission. Bro. I. R Gates remarked, that he felt deeply interested in the prosperity of this mission. He had some weeks since express- ed his feelings through the "Herald." Adjourned to three o'clock P. M. AFTERNOON SESSION. Pra:yer by Mr. Miller. The committee appointed at the New York Conference to propose an address for the adoption of the Conference in Boston, read the Report. Bro. I. E. Jones moved, that the Report of the committee be received. Bro. Miller moved, that the Report be adopted, and the reason he assigned was, that it meets the present emergency, as we were about to open a mission in F.ngland, where the great majority of the professed church believes in the conversion of the world, return of the Jews, and many that probation continues after the Lord's coming. The power of tradition is mighty, it was so in the days of our Savior, and has been so in every age. And now those that have been traditionated in these compa~itively modern doctrines, it is almost impossible to turn them ; they will neither read, nor hear, and they are riveted in the notion that they are right. But we have met with some success in demolishing these traditions by the word of God at home. And we hope for some success abroad. This Report is a piain and simple statement of our belief, our senti- ments and our doctrine; and those that read it, will have something to digest. It will start some from their slumbers. God is able to use small means to accomplish great ends. I might, enumerate many reasons why I would adopt this report, but it is unnecessary and I close by saying that with my whole heart I adopt that Report. Voted, that the Report be laid on the table. Conference adjourned to 7 o'clock A. M THURSDAY MORNING, MAY 28. Prayer Ly Bro. B. Sherwood. The Chairman stated, that there was some unfinished business at the New York Con- ference, which needed the action of this Conference. The principal of which was concerning the Report of the committee relative to the general mission, and the ap- pointing of a suitable committee to superin- tend and take charge of its interest. Voted, that so much of that Report, as re- ferred to the proportion and location of the general committee be rescinded; and that the general committee be chosen by this Con- ference, to consist of brethren in the various parts of the co~ntry, a quorum of which shall reside at Boston. The committee appointed at New York to nominate the general committee, made their Report. It was then voted, that the following brethren constitute the general commitee of the Advent Mission:-· Wm. MilW, Low Hampton1 N.Y. Elon Gall!~ha, Lockport, N. Y. John G. McMunay, Lansil!~burg, N.Y. Joseph Mar h, Rochester, l'L Y. Josiah Litch, Philadelphia, Pa. t• Israel E .. Jon~, New York city. ' B. Sherwood, H " " ; 11• Prescott Di.W:lson, Boston, Mass .. 1,' Sylvester Bliss, '~ " j ~~~.oc~, . ::. :: Simon Fletcher,· ~' " , Henry Plurruner, Haverhill, Mass, J. T. White, Attleboro', Mass. , Henty Parker, Worcester, Mass. Abel ·wood, Westminster, Mass. ' 0. R. Fassett, Providence, R.I ... Erastus "Parker, Waterbury, V t. Stephen :roster, Derby Line, Vt. I. H. SQimu.an, Sugar Hill Vt, G. Bennes, Burlington, V t: J. P, W_eethee, Cincinnati, 0. D. I. Robinson, Cleveland, 0. Lemuel~, Portlaoo, Me. L. D. Flem4t.,g, Newark, N.J. A. L. Post, Montrose, Pa. Moses Chandler, Milwaukie, W. T. Peter Haugh, Toronto, C. vV. Timothy Cole, Hartford, Ct. A. Clapp, u ~' Voted, that this committee be authorized to fill all vacancies that may occur, and add to their nomber as circ&mstances may re· quire. .. THE ADVENT HERALD. Voted, that three of the said committee several dollars, when able to pay, denotes constitute a quorum, to transact business moral obliqJJity. And for such to continue it, connected with the interests of the Advent Mission. while they do not intend to pay, is also F'RIDAY MORNING, :MAY 29. wrong. Prayer by Bro. Wm. Whitten, of New vVe are happy, however, to find, that we Be~ord. have so many subscribers who pay prompt- Voted, that so much of the report in the ly. ·When embarrassed, we remember them. doings of the New York Conference as related to the Sectional Committee, be rescinded. A. T. "Walker, of Three Rivers, N. H., Bro. Himes stated that he held in his hand writes,-" I don't want any more of your a letter from a conference of brethren in Nova papers, and have not taken any out of the Scotia, which he desired to present for the consideration of the Conference. office ever so long,-don't send any more," Voted, that the letter referred to be entered and yet neglects to pay a balance of $2 50 upon the minutes, and placed in the hands of which he now owes for the Herald, or to in- the Committee on the General Mission. form us that he is unable to pay. To the. BTethren of the Faith of the Immediate Abijah Smith: jr., of Benson Vt. has stop- comtng and Kmgdom of the Lord, assem- . . . ' . ' . bled in Conference at the Centra~ Saloon, ed his paper Without paymg, or mformmg us No. 9 Milk Street, Boston. of his inability to pay $6 50, which he owes Your Bret~ren of like precious faith in Anapo-for the'' Herald." . lis County, Nova Scotia, unite in petitioning you Isaiah Carpenter, of Norwich, Vt., owes for aid. Learning by Brother Potter, that some brethren purposed last winter visiting us, our $150. The Post Master of that place writes hopes were greatly raised, but brother P. has re-that he has left the place, and wishes the turned without the hoped for help, and we felt paper discontinued. the disappointment ; and knowing that a Paul was hindered by Satan once and again, when he Henry F. Goslin, or West Albany, Vt., would had visited his brethren, we have thought owes $3. The Post Master of that place that it might have been the case in this instance, and pray that every obstacle may be removed has returned his paper, and says it h-as not out of the way of whatever brother the Lord bean taken out of the Post Office for six may design sending. And may he be filled with months. the blessed Spirit. Here is all Nova Scotia and E. Grandy, of Panton, Vt., we are inform- New Brunswick, as fields of labor, all shrouded in darkne<~s upon the subject, (with some excep-ed, refuses to take his paper out of the tions). We cannot conjecture just right, but P. 0., and owes $450. think that J>erhaps more good might be accom- C M K H has plished now than at any previous time since the · • · enney, of artford, Con., "Cry" has been sounded in ~heseregions. stopped his paper, and owes $5 40. We meet on Sabbath, and through the week, Otis Bear, North Sandwich, N.H., owes for prayer and r.xhortation; and believing that $2 70. The P. M. of that place sends his "without holineso~ no man can see the Lord," we are endeavoring in a feeble way, to attain un-paper back, saying, " it is not taken from to whatever the word teaches is attainable.- the Office." '£hose of us within the compass of ten or fifteen --------- miles meet once a month to hold a conference, BUSINESS NOTES. and on all such occasions the Divine presence is felt; and the conference held yesterday and to day at Brn. Balcomb and Potter's, has been tru- ly a refreshing season. We are one united fami- ly, and through the blessing of the Lord hope to continue so until the Master appear. We would not wish to present too smooth or pleasing a pros- pect, but wi;;h that the worst may be anticipated that disappointment may not follow. We feel like sharing our morsels with a brother that is deeply imbued with the mind and spirit of Jesus, but would not wish to promise too great things. A brother could try a short if not a long visit and see what state we are in. · In behalf of the Confererence, JoHN BALCOMB, ~Clements. JosiAH PoTTER. 5 IsRAEL RicE, ~Bear River. JAs. H. CARTY. 5 (Signed) AARON HARDY, G ill JosEPH HfTLL. ranv e. J. W oonwoTH, ~ Lower P. S. Two of our Brethren, Israel Rice and Joseph Hull, purpose being at your Conference, the Lord willing, and many others regret that it is not in their power to be likewise. Bro. Himes introduced the subject of the Christian Alliance, and briefly stated its ab- ject. He expressed a desire that the Confer- ence would consider the propriety of sending a delegation to sit in its deliberations. Voted, that Brn. J. V. Himes, R. Hutch- inson, and F. G. Brown, be appointed as dele- gates from the Association of Adventists to said Convention. Voted, that the Committee on the General Mission be recommended to consider the prac- ticability of establishing a mission at the South. Voted, that the Report of the Committee, which was laid on the table, be taken up .. Voted, that the· Report be adopted. Voted, that the credentials adopted by the Conference for the brethren a1)pointed for the English Mission, be signed by the President, Vice President, and Secretary. , Conference adjourned sine die. 0. R. FASSETT, Cle:rk. Delinquents. s() many per~ons have taken our paper a ·length of time, and then stopped it, without paying arrearages, or informing us of their in- ability to pay ; that we feel in justice bound hereafter, to have a published list of such. \Ve have heretofore made a practice of sending bills tq suC'h. But it is not one time in fifty that we have received a word in re- ply. If a man is unable to pay, be haa only. t() eay eo. To discontinue a paper, ewing E. Edg11rton, $2-The books are sent. D. Green-F'or Children'~ Herald-sent. J.P. Weetbee, 1!111, for v 12. We send your paper to Chauncey, 0. You did not say whether you wished it changed or not. II. 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At Franktort, Me., the third Friday in June, com- mencing at 10 A. 111. Minis~riag and lay brethren are invited to attend. J. BOD&X. CIIIDp-meetiq ill Darlingtoa, C. W., Jne 25tl. Valuable nooks. Scarcely below the labors of.the living servants of God are the Jlroductions of their pens. And our brethren aud sisters cannot do better than to avail themselves of this help, in the absence of, or even connection with, the faith- ful servants who give meat in due season. 'Vith our Second Advent publications, our readers are mostly ac- quainted ; and the good they ara doing, and might do in this scarcity of Scriptural teachers, cannot be esti: mated. In addition to these works, we have some otb-· ers of a most valuable character, as may be seen in the notices of books which follow. We now call special attention to "D'Aubigne's His- tory of the Reformation." W-e lulve already given, through the "Hernlil," extended extracts from this deeply interesting history of the great deliverance of the Church from Popery, by Luther and his coadjutors; and we deeply regret that we are not al1le to put the whole work iuto the hands of our readers in the same w11y. No one can read it without having his faith in God, and in the word of God, increased ; without h8.ving-his wis- dom in the things of God enlarged ; his devotion quick- ened ; his Jove for the wonderful and heroic gratilied ; his hatred of Popish usurpations and impositions strengthened ; his mind generally much edified, and his literary taste improved. We have tbis work in sevOJral styles of binding. $ cts. Four vo:Js. half cloth, at 1 25 " " full " 1 75 " fine edition 2 50 One vol. (860 pp.), full cloth 1 00 Fourtl\ vol. 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Our friends at a distance, who may desire to obtain any of the above works, may ha,•e an opportunity to :!~~;,or them, a& the time of the Anniversary Conf~r- While many of our publications are now out of date, there &till remain a good number of them that are well calculRteO so sullserve the cause. Among these may be mentioned-A Treatise on the New Earth, 8 cts. ; the T~bernacle Sermon, 12 1-2 cts. ; tbe Chronology of the B1ble, 6 cts.; Modern Phenome11a of the Heavens 12 1-2 cts.; This W~Jd to hs'lle no other A!!e or. Dh!ped!!ation, 121-2 cts.; Hll!tory flf the Old Sel'pent, 6 cts.; Questions on the Book ofDani~l, 12 1-2 cts. single, $8 per hundred. . * /' We wi.sh that .all who re~urn papers. would be par- ticular and g1ve the!r Post-office addresi, as otherwise we cannot stop Uunr paper. We have no other means of finding their names en Otll' books. *,*AU letter&?rcommuBication• designed for this of fice should be dw:ecwd (po&t paUl) to "J. ¥. HutEs Boston, Mass.'' 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