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of the speedy, personal, pre-millennial advent of 
Christ, the glorification of the church at that epoch, 
the dissolution of •the ,heavens and earth by fire, 
their renewal as the everlasting inheritance of the 
redeemed, and the establishment of the kingdom 
of God ; and 'while rejectitg—as it has from the 
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WAITING. 
ose -two-
r griev- 
In the lone watches of the lonely night, 
Eyes wet with tears, 
I wait for Thee to quiet all my fears, 
Ev'n as the first faint gleam of morning light 
Chases the shadows from each mountain height. 
I wait for Thee when sunshine glads the day 
And far and near 
' The hum of labor falls upon my ear. 
And like a flowing river on its way, 
In crowds will pass the sorrowful and gay. 
The night is dark, but far above I see 
Heaven's lamps hang out, 
As if to smile away the inward doubt 
That will not leave my heart, but clings to me. 
Like my own shadow, wheresoe'er I be. 
I wait to hear Thy voice so soft and sweet, 
To see Thy smile 
Comfort and soothe my doubting heart the while. 
I grope my *ay through alley, lane and street 
Alone; no friend in all I pass or meet. 
I wait for Thee. Oh! wert Thou very near, 
Grief then were joy, 
And doubts and fears would then no more annoy 
My soul. Arise! the still, small voice I hear; 
Like music sweet it falls upon my ear. 
--(,'hristian-Ttiaeviw• 
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A,' s esti 
THE PEACE OP GOD. 
BY GEORGE F. gErrrgcosT. 
they may test, there may be found some 
which are invariably inaccurate. What 
is the difficulty ? Examine one. It ap; 
pears well. It is an example of exquisite 
workmanship, apparently as perfect a 
piece of work as ever was made. Take 
it to pieces, and put it together again 
and again, and you discover no defect 
whatever. Yet there is a difficulty 
somewhere. It does not keep time ac-
curately. What is the difficulty ? 
Is it not possible that, the balance-
wheel, which looks so, well, has come 
into contact with a magnet ? Apply a 
needle to it, and you find that it is more 
than possible ; it is the simple , fact. 
Such a watchssan never keep accurate 
time nor be repaNe., But change the 
wheel for a new one, and the machinery 
will work with regularity, and be re-
liable. 
Such is the complicated mechanism 
of the human soul. The heart, the bal- 
ancecwheel of the moral system, has 
been, disordered by the dreadful touch of 
sin. Under the influence of such a 
power, all the fine machinery works 
irregularly and wrongly. And what 
here is the remedy ? Plainly, there 
must be an unmagnetized balance-wheel. 
The evil heart of unbelief must be 
changed for "a new heart and a right 
spirit." Then, and not till then, all will 
be right. Then the immortal watch will 
mark the flying hours of probation wise-
ly and well. 
While, then, men do not wonder at the 
necessity of an unmagnetized balance- 
wheel in the watch, let them not " mar-
vel " at the necessity of a new heart.—
L. T., in Tract Journal. 
THE DOOR OP HOPE. 
ing." Said -PA u 1, " They that sleeii 
sleep in the night." "Let '11:1 not sleep 
as do others." Said Jesus, "Watch, 
lest, coming suddenly, he find you sleep-
ing." • 
To our mindPaul Speaks,prophetically 
whezTtesW" The night is far spent;" 
he speaks for a people whole " salvation 
is nearer," inn-ed, than " when-they be-
lieved." " The end of faith " is the 
"salvation of our seals." Faith began 
With the revelation of its " Author " in 
the first pro-inHie ; it ends with the com-
ing of its "Finisher." "The church, 
therefore, uf the morning hours, may say, 
 
" The night is, 
 spent." 
There 'dfrtIVO
,i' means by whicieztli‘e 
watcher detertiusies that " the day is at 
hand "—the Cree•k1' and the streaks of 
gray. 
.0s • . • 
grays that herald the sun. To the first 
insiVer the'-great prophetic 
periods ; to ,the second, the signs of the 
times. The hands upon the face of 
time's clock have seemed to move slow-
ly, but thes;''tave. moved surely ; and 
now they are hastening to indicate the 
final hour, and peal it forth to the world. 
In harmony with this the horizon shows 
not the almost indistinguishable grey, 
but the brighi,sed flush of the coming 
glory. In view..of this the church may 
well say, "The day is at hand ! " 
Notwithstanding this, there is a ten-
dency te.„.drowsiness quite difficult to 
overcome. The long watch has not been 
without its effects, and weariness is ,felt. 
The church is not weary of watching, 
but in w4ching. „Per whole desire is to 
.be "found watching," but the struggle 
required is great. But the watching 
must not cease, for "he that endureth 
unto the end shall be:saved." The com-
ing of the day will bring the end of 
weariness, for the immortal are ,snat 
weary. 
"Let us,-.therefore, cast off the works 
of darkness, and let us put on the armor 
of light." The idea of the apostle is, 
that a realization of _such facts will- ex-
ert a powerful. influence upon us to in-
stitute a careful search for any " works 
of darkness" that may be still about us, 
that we may cast. them off. The " armor 
of light ?'is-the " armor of God " which 
Paul so well describes in Eph. 6. The 
opposite -must be -" the works of dark-
ness." There may be some "root of 
bitterness" that should be dug up, which 
has contaminated the-soil of ourshearts, 
and preveintestabenithier growth.ss*Ime 
other evil thing may have for. a .time 
marred our peace 'and lessened our watch, 
but a look at the' clock and the sky has 
again turned our attention to;fihrist and 
ourselves. May the Divine Spirit fill us 
fully withrihri+o for • kihrist's appearing, 
for "the dariA- atignd."—Herald of 
 
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NEED 4iirEs WON DER ? 
dated views, and to richer realities in 
" the peace .of God, which passeth all un-
derstanding." 
`The heart that God breaks with affliction's stroke, 
I
Oft, like the flower, when stricken by the storm, 
Rises from earth, more steadfastly to turn 
Itself to heaven, whither, as a guide, 
1 Kindly, though stern, affliction still is leading.' 
"Thus it is also with Christian experi-
ence in its issue at death. 
sr scs; 
"The beloved disciple, in the revelk 
given him of the redeemed in heaven; 
was assured by his celestial informaiit 
that 'these are they which came out of 
great tribulation.' This is only another 
application of the declaration that 'the 
Valley of Achor is ,,the door of hope.' 
The way to heaven, which is strait and 
narrow, lies directly through the dark val-
ley. But like the 'via dolorosa,the 
street of grief, along which Jesus bore 
his cross towards his crown, is the way 
which conducts the Christian to the scene 
-of his most glorious triumph.' 
"Through the dismal 'valley.. of the 
shadow of death '.he passes only to enter,. 
triumphant, the Golden Gates of Day. 
The awful 'shadow' of the valley (lees 
but add new glories to the upper lig141. 
The frowning battlements of the gate- 
way only set off the more conspicuously 
the gold and gems of the celestial streets. 
'Behold ' said the dying Stephen, as he 
trod the Valley of Achor paved by the 
stones of his martyrdom, behold, I se 
the heavens opened, and the Son of ma • 
standing on the right hand of God.' Al 
most well,' exclaimed the dying .Baxter 
as he passed through the open door 
that led from his chamber of sufferin, 
 
along the shining path. :And said anoth 
er, Oh, heaven is open to me':. I shat 
soon be there.' And another still,- th 
seraphic Jane-way, L:sta,ed, as it ,.,Ayer, 
with one foot in heaven, and tte othe 
upon _earth. I hear the, melody of ,heav 
en, and bye faith. see angels waiting t 
carry my soul to the. bosom "of Jesus. 
And who does not remember with wha 
words of seraph-melody the lips of th 
dying Paysonsthade glad ' the way, when 
in the deepest •cfepths -of the Valley o 
_Achor, he descried the door of everlast 
ing glory and passed triumphant throiq, 
it? 
" So haVe I-seen the homeward-born 
vessel, with sails all set, and filled wit 
breezes more Welcoine than those of Ar 
aby the Blest,' leap forward, 'liken-thin 
of life,' throtigh those 'Straits of Troub 
le,' the far,fained fvVere,..to 
many a weary day, it hadslren detained 
beneath the Battlement Rock, lookin 
for deliverance more than they tha 
watch for the morning.' They, who. pas 
through the Valley. a Baca, under c1i 
vine 
go from 
strength to strength,' till they appear in 
lion before .God.! 
" 0, ,Christian, let us press gratefully. 
on, -through the door of hope' that God 
thus opens to us out of our Valleys of 
Achor,' into the larger aMtgreener pas-
trifei Cif his-grace. 'And though'the hosts 
of a hostile army may be behind us, the 
Red Sea before nut, and impassable moun-
tains on either , side, yet shall even this 
strait- of trouble prove ,a .door of hope. 
The waves shall part, aspndef, and with 
a song of triumph, weshall pass through 
the gate-way opened before us, untouched 
by the enemy assel :unharmed by the wa-
ters, into. the land of promise. nor God 
hath giyen even 'the Valley of Achor 
for a Door of Hope.'—L. T.," in Tract 
Journal. 
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ABRAHAM'S TEMPTATION. 
It is one thing to .believe the doctrine 
of the new birth, and quite another to 
experience it. Many believe in the Per-
sonality and indwelling of the Holy 
Ghost, as a teaching, of the New Testa-
ment, who have never realized it as an 
experience. So, with regard to " the 
peace of God, that passeth all understand-
ing," it is believed in, and preached as 
a doctrine .; but how few, comparatively, 
have the experimental at realization of 
God's peace; Christ's. peace, dwelling in, 
their hearts, keeping their hearts and 
minds, as• taught in Philippians, 4 : 7, 
Col. 3 : 15 ; and yet this peace was be-
queathed tgehis disciples .by Christ, as a 
parting gift : " Peace I leave with you, 
my peace I give unto you," What a 
precious gift is this—how shall we esti-
mate it ? "My peace !" "the peace of 
God 1" " the peace of Christ 1" A pastor 
only has need to go among his flock to 
find out how surely care, anxiety, rest-
lessness, fretfulness, misgivings of . all 
kinds, with the reference to the spiritual 
life ; how the things of this world trouble, 
perplex and cast them down, and sq to 
discover the absence of that blessed peace 
which the dear Lord left us to " keep," 
and " rule in our hearts." And when we 
speak to them of the gracious provision 
God has made for us, with reference to 
" everything " that could disturb or 
trouble, they not unfrequently answer : 
" Oh yes, that_ will do for you and other 
people, who, have placid diepositens, and 
aretnaptrally,patient and even-tempered," 
etc:-; thue,ascribing to nature what God 
has mado4o, be of grace. What, then, 
is the peace, of -God? It is not " peace 
with God," in the sense of our reconcil-
iation, on account of the atonement of 
Christ.. It is not peace of conscience 
which comes, also, by the purging of 
blood. It is not peace with all men, or 
among the brethree ; but it is that calm, 
deep rest that inhabits the being of God, 
" the counterpoise of all trouble and 
anxiety,".gfahu, 16 : 33,) and wl}i.ch.oPle4 
works into the soul by the Holy Ghost, 
Those memorable words of Christ : " My 
peeteeikgive unto you," must stamp it .aa 
being,* peculiar and blessed gift 
especially is it significant in view of fill; 
fact that it seems to be a distinguishing 
character of the divine being. Our Lord 
is called, again and again, the " God of 
peace," the " Lord of,.peace;" and again 
it is signitiant in view of. the connections 
in which we find it spoken of. In John, 
14 : 16, it is spoken of as fortifying us 
against "troubled hearts," and against 
" tribulations in this world." Paul, writ-
ing. from his prison, says : " And the 
peace of God shall keep (ga,rriaon).your 
hearts and minds ;" as much afi, tfpff44y,. isi 
all your troubles, in all your perplexities, 
do nut be cast down ; they cannot hurt 
you ; they are under God's eye and 
hand ; re miser. that God's peace stands 
guard 9;1mo/et,: (this is the force of the 
word 
word Aiwop,7 in Phil., 4) what shall 
wake yen .afraid—what shall disturb 
you ? and so, again, in Qol. 3 : 15, where 
we are exhorted to " let the peace of God 
rule in our hearts."- . Oh ! if God's peace 
be king within us, how surely shall all 
disorder give place to order,—all anxiety, 
and care, and troubts_to a calm and un -
disturbed repose ! And let it not be sup-
posed that the blessed calm that comes 
to that soul who lets...the peace of Christ 
rule in his-beart, is:the eallnw of indiffer-
ence, or the dullness of insensibility ; for 
it comes into and guards our hearts, when 
circumstances are such that would natu-
rally fill us with fear and quivering anx-
iety,; that preserves the calmness and 
quiet of the soul in the face of such prov-
ocation as would set " the old man of sin " 
in a passion or rage. In fact, it is that 
peace--" My peace "—that governed and 
comforted the dear Lord through all his 
ministry of trial ; that enabled him, 
when reviled, not to revile again ; when 
nee.- • . • 
The surprisVIIci 
A l-Wicodemus express- 
ed, when 404111444fisisted upon -the -neves-
sity of the new birth; was not essentially 
different fronrtihat 
-Which has always 
been common among Men in reference 
to the kittnr0eat moralibltit4e. 'in one 
way and another every man, who has 
not ifelkille.iied the change, expresses 
his wonder in—relation to what it is, why 
it iimrrtliisfl6tiiialsle, and h'ow it is effected. 
"How can these things be ? " is a ques-
tion which some Nicodeinus is asking 
every day. 
Jesus 151.7fs the wonderers not to mar-
vel, and virtually declares that there is 
no need whatever of surprise at the ne-
cessity he asserts. Is he not right ? 
Both from the teachings of his Word, 
and from the examples of regeneration 
of which his word furnishes the records, 
—to say nothing of our own observation 
of Such changes,—men may sufficiently 
understand the nature of the change. 
The case of Saul of -Tarsus, transformed 
into Paul the Apostle, is of itself all 
that is necessary to illustrate it. 
And so may they understand the 
grounds 9n,,which the. necessity pot this 
change is based. Both observation and 
experienTe*"ar ample witness that man 
does not naturally love God and holi-
ness, and IS not morally fitted _to enjoy 
his society, or even to endure it. The 
human heart, 'by nature, does not beat in 
unison with the will and law of God. 
Every one may know this. Nicocledms 
himself need not mistake here. And 
just here he /nay see why he must be, _re-
generated in order to he at peace with 
God, and qualified to dwell for ever and 
happily in God's immediate presence. 
Some okl writer- has illustrated this 
necessity bstthe disordered movement of 
a watch. Men 'are generally moreror 
less familiar with the curious mechanism 
of the watch, and know the secretssof 
its fidelity, in saw-king the hews of 
time. :• But -among many; whose accuracy 
in the midst of great darkness, to rest in then, brings the end of this long night 
his Father's peace. It is 'God's loving : cif. weeping, W`inl introduces a day that 
I hand laid on the soul, to hold it in poise 1. shall know no declining shadow. 
and quiet. -1Citi' Christ's strong, yet I 
IDUring this lengthy night the church 
gentle voice, saying : " Let not your 1 watches, while the world sleeps. Said 
hearts be troubled." 
I David, " My'soul waiteth for the Lord 
Let me attempt—if it is not vain to at- 3 shore than they that watch for 'the morn-
tempt-to define that which passeth all. un-
derstanding. It is that frame or condi"-
don of heart and mind, that enables the 
possessor caluslas_to survey all outward, 
passing events; whatever may be- the 
nature of them, without fear. It is that 
condition of heart and mind that enabilgs 
us, unhesitatingly, to believe that all'-' 
things, however adverse or painful in 
themselves they may be, are working to-
gether for good, and not only ito' b6lieve. 
it, Mit to enter into the peitge k it. The" 
peace of God looks through'tbiltiekand of 
011 things, and sees, as with God's `eii" 
Oaf the end--Pof thingSA to 
lOve God, ill6Q,1150` weveil 
one-the affliction may be., 
 st. 
I was:crossing Fulton Ferry, one even-
ing, about six o'clock, to the- Brooklyn 
side. the boat *as very meat. crowded, 
es canal atthat hour, and as .we passed 
4ato tiaisselip on the -Broo,leynTzeislel4he 
tide running very high at the time, the 
boat::bronght -np with a terrible -bang, 
and careened way over on her beam's 
end. For a moment, everything was con-
fusion ; pitasengers losing their footing 
were thrown hither and yon ; the horses 
were struggling to regain their lost bal-
ance ; the drivers were halloaing at their 
teams. In the midst of the confusion, 
my attention was called to a little child 
some five years old, sitting on the knee 
of one of the hackmen, whose daughter 
she evidently was. Xs soon as the'lioat 
struek, and the noise and confusion broke 
on her ear, she•was filled with alarm and 
terror ; the little chin began to quiver, 
the tears started to her eyes, and a cry 
of fear sprang from her lips ; but turn-
ing-quickly and looking into her father's 
face, she Saw him laughing, and not the 
least bit afraid. Instantly, without hav-
ing anything explained, the tears dried, 
the little month straightened out, .and 
the cry of fear gave place to a merry 
laugh. What was it ? Why, without 
knowing anything, she had just entered 
into her father's peace about the -matter. 
If we could have read that little heart, 
we should have found something like 
this there : "Father is not afraid : why 
should I be, especially as I am in his 
arms ? " Child of God your dear Lord 
knew all the tribulations, the trials, the 
disappointments, the vexations, the prov-
ocations, arid cares, that would come 
upon you in this life, and made provision 
for them, when he, leaving, said : " Peace 
I leave with .you'; My peace I give unto 
you. * * '1E44111ot your heart be 
troubled, neither let it be afraid ; " and 
again : These things have I spoken 
utitoicyou, that in Me ye might have 
peace. Inthe world ye shall have tribre-. 
lation .; but be of good cheer. frhtive 
overcome the trOtidt",,:, -And so: tlieetear 
Spirit sent this- chliesitage by Pati)4 6' Be. 
carfful loritiething : but in everything, 
by iriyei and lupplication, with thanks= 
giving, let your requests be made known 
unto God. And the peace e'ficGbitt; 
(Which passeth all andersta'ktnK,Shall 
keep your hearts and minds through 
Jesus' thrfet,,, : ii I • it!.s;tf 
st‘ 
Dear reader, I know these promises to 
be true—I have tried and proved ,then;. 
I know that God's *Kee keeps htatt.and 
mind in deepest tri41,. in 'smalleitt. vexa-
tioit. 
Oh t then let the peace of -Christ 
rule' in'tybur heart. You cannot 0 keep 
or rule your own heart," but yon can, 
in sheer helplessness, open it to let 
the peace of God come in andrule. And 
so may the dear Lord lead .yeu.---Chris- 
tian at Work.- gob :rio-917 1,rtn Lid1 
rm-mart..• 
THE NIGHT AND THE DAV. ! 
" The night is far spent, the day is at hand ; 
let Rs therefore cast off the works of darkness, 
and let us put on the armor of light."—Rom. 
13 : 1 2 . 
- 'We delight in sunbeams. Light re-
veals ; darkness covers all beauty. Light 
is life, and tfdilliii6ss is death. - Could 
the sun be blotted from the heavens, all , 
life would become extinct. Could Christ 
he reinovarTidm the "moral heavens,. 
moral life Votild cease; and if he neWeri 
returns to this earth, rising upon Wilk 
the " Sun of righteousness," lifgral dealt 
must become eternal upon all. 
Death, like a mighty substance, eNats 
its shadow from the fall of .fflan to the 
resurrection ; and the intervening time 
is thereby wade a night. The hours 
during which the sun shines upee.lhe 
opposite side of our globe 'we call The 
night season—a season of sleep. thdfigh 
we are frequently-glad at its return, it is 
because of our weariness—a sign of our 
mortality. .}eeiiis a type of death, and 
to awaken, a type of the resurrection. 
"Many 'Wit, sleep in the dust of the 
earth*:diiiit awake." "Awake and sing, 
ye diVitirell in dust." " Wt eping lnay 
endure for a night, but joy corneal' in 
gilt Dian The coming of LOrd, 
r..i 
In. the old English Bibles that were 
used in the fourteenth and fifteenth cen-
turies, the expression found in Gen. 22 ; 
1, " God _did tempt Abraham," was trans 
hated" God did assay Abraham ; " whic 
word is used when gold and silver are 
tested in order to . ascertain the degree 
of their purity, . the quantity of alloy 
they contain. Thus was Abraham tried 
in the furnace,, tested there as git4) iti4 
tested, refined..there " as silver itisivolitir 
ed." Relative to the nature of tl.)eitecit; 
the characteristic, essential qualities of 
it—it was unique ; for he was commaed-
ed, by a God of love and justice-to offer 
a human burnt offering : was severe ; 
for: that offering was " his son, his only 
son Isaac, whom he loved : " was a proof 
of ibis faith.sanct obedience; for though 
he believed that Isaac was the child of 
rt
he promise, through whom as his seed 
all the nations of the earth were -to be 
blessed, he 'nevertheless was ready to 
obey the command from heaven to slay 
him, " accounting that God -was able to 
raise him up even from the. dead I" had 
a desigeed, typical and.prophetical.rchar-
acter;—the ram caught in the thicket 
and offered in the place of Isaac, prefig-
uring.the sacrifice of the Lamb of God, 
the real AtoniAg. One who " once in the 
end of:the world -was to appear to put 
away sin by the sacrifice .of Himself : " 
and.was an inspiring example, to quicken 
and strengthen the faith and obedience 
of the people of God in all coming 
. ages kf for lie "against hope, believed - in 
4 b..401 3 • ,;•• • • 0 . a si es ' .s s : .., . -. ..s ,.., tets.s; 
"About ten miles north of Jerusalem, 
and from one to two miles east of Bethel, 
the place of Jacob's vision, there is a 
valley, which, though comparatively un-
known at the present day, was celebrated, 
in the history of _ God's ancient people, 
as a place where they were brought into 
a condition of sorest trial. It was called 
the 'valley of Achor,' because it was 
here that Achan, or, as he is sometimes 
called, Achar, was for disobedience put 
to death. As the name. Achar, meaning 
troubler, is used in allusion to the fact 
that he, to whom it was given, here troub-
led Israel, and the kindred word 'Achor' 
means trouble ; the 'valley of Achor' 
signifies the Valley or Strait •of Trouble. 
By this expressive name the -place was 
known for many generations, and seems 
to have passed into a proverb by- which 
to describe any position of special trial. 
Hence the appropriateness of the promise 
which God utters by the month of one 
of the. later prophets : 'And I will give 
—the Valley of Achor for a door of hope.' 
So it proved in the case of the hosts of 
Israel ` Man's extremity 'became God's 
opportunity.' Even the season of troub-
le' was made subservient to their greater 
prosperity,—the open door' to a richer 
experience of God's goodness, in the 
green pastures and-beside the still waters 
of his love. 
" How aptly does this incident in the 
history of God's ancient people illustrate 
the experience of his people in every age. 
The Valley of Trouble. is made the Door 
of Hope. It. is the remark of an old 
commentator that 'trouble for sin, if it 
be sincere, opens a door of hope, for 
that sin. which truly troubles our hearts, 
shall not ruin us.' 
"No one ever found the door of hope 
who did not first pass through the valley 
of trouble. First comes the wound in-
flicted by the sword of. the Spirit,' and 
then the healing and soothing balm. 
First, the alarm and sorrow connected 
with a sense of sin 1111pardoned, and a 
heart consciously unreconciled to God, 
and then, the hope and peace connected 
with a sense of pardon and reconciliation. 
To this*rule there is no real exception. 
And never is the minister of Christ so 
confident that hope and peace are not far 
off in the case of a 'troubled' sinner, as 
when he finds him in the darkest part of 
the Valley of Trouble,' unequivocally 
confessing Cis lost and helpless-condition, 
and despairing of help in any human ref-
uge. It is riot indeed certain ticat he. will 
even now enter the door OrhOpe,' but 
it is far more likely that he will than it 
would be were he not in the Valley of 
Achor.' leassrf il.;!,11 ',111 it.,,
u, t,, , 
" And thus it 'is: though: in' aens'e mod-
ified by the believer's new relations to 
God, with Christian experience in its 
• 
progress. - 
" An ancient fable tells us of a certain 
remarkable stream which passed through 
the salt sea and reappeared in Sicily 
without lostngsaught of -its originalfreSh-
ness. Something- analogous to this fic-
tion has often been more than realized 
in the experience of God's people. They 
have emerged from the deep sea of trouble 
with even more than their former fresh-
ness of jize,mnd joy. Their, trials were 
but the introduction to a higher Chris-
tian lifessyskjae stepping-stosse,„tp, snore el- 
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hasty exit of that personage, and bade 
Economy be wiser in counsel next time, 
sustaining all the above appeals in be-
half of the cause they plead, and malimg 
me feel that I could not do a more 
wise thing than to stop my paper. 
at power, and ` reign with his saints 
the earth.' Then will be 
cones surrAiloting fable, and yet true ! 
es of accompli4e7rbli:-s ! cartes, 
nh but in distant prospe nl)t feel 
self refreshed with foretaste of the joy ?'" 
4.• 4 40. • 
ARD MEETING OP TEE A. M. AS 
SOCIATION. 
"OH, MOTHER DEAR, JERUSA 
Again :-" If any man will serve, 
Then let him follow me, 
`That where I am, Wtheu right sur 
There shall my servant be." 
And still :-" If aa
g 
 
y Snarl loves me, 
Filihl 
Him loves my `dear, 
Whom-I do love, to' ' myself 
In glory shall appear." 
Lord, take away my miseries, 
That then I may be bold 
With thee in thy Jerusalem 
Thy glory to behold. 
And so in Sion see rely King, 
My love, my lord, my all, 
Whom now as in a glass I see, 
Then, face to face I shall. 
O. dossed be the a use in heart 
Their Sovereign they sha I see 
0 ye most happy heavenly wights 
Who of God's household be. 
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e give below the Secretary's minutes 
the special meeting of the Board held 
t week, and the Treasurer's quarterly 
ort-which would have been append-
to the minutes of the Board meeting 
Id in October last had it been received 
season : 
SECURTARY S MINUTES. 
ec. D, 101 A. Theffreslident, J. 
arson, Jr., in the chair. Prayer by 
o. G. W. Burnham. 
he attention of the Board was called 
the matter of change of name of the 
raid. In was stated that a ehange of 
me would incur the liability of losing; 
right to the office rooms of the As-
iation. After conversation, it was 
cided to authorize the Committee to 
ply to the Legislature to make the 
and that, if they fail in that, *to 
tlie publication of the Advent 
nefr issue the Messiah's Herald 
0 Lord, with speed dissolve my boada, 
Those gins and fetters strong ; 
For I have dwelt within the tents 
Of Kedar over long. 
Yet once again, I pray thee, Lord, 
To quit me from all strife, 
That to thy hill I may obtain, 
And dwell there all my 
owe 
With cherubim and seraphim, ...1t3f.. 
And holy souls of men, 
To sing thy praise, 0 Lord of hosts, 
If 
For evermore. Amen. 
"HILL'S SAINTS' INHERITANCE." 
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"Then they that feaileil the Lord spake'ofe one- 
to another ; and the tord,hearkenesionte,hreeistll it, 
and a book of remembrante was written Work 
for them that feared the Lord, and that,fong,Xt 
upon his name." 
that we so much evidence now in 
favor of Christ 
would 
addition of miracu-
lous power wOuid not,to any great de-
gree add tote °effectiveness of the gos-
pel, and I am not sure it would in the 
leastn. 
O 
iV"thing is certain, if God saw that 
such a demonstration of his power would 
be for the best "interests of his cause, it 
would., be given even now, and what 
deems beet to God, ought to be accepted 
by man as such. 
Praise the Lord ! I know too much 
of the rich grace and love of Christ by 
an experimental knowledge to be led to 
doubt .the word of God. I know that 
' of Christ d
- 
wells richly in my 
heart, and that, from the bountiful hand 
tGod r eleestoeVetl tten me blessings 
without number, fOr am indeed 
sere,- thankful ; and though my knowl-
edge of the Scriptures is as yet very im-
perfect, I do know that God is true, and 
though men attempt to prove the Bible 
a fabrication, yet5 Will my trust be in 
Jesus as the• only source of true peace of 
soul and hope of future life. 
What a Chi-Pear) knows by experience 
of the love of God, all the infidels that 
ever drew breath cannot make him be-
lieve to be false ; and whenever an ob-
jection to God's word is presented, or 
anything looks 6, little out of joint, my 
confidence in God's word will • let me 
have no rest until that point is clearly 
settled to my own mind, for I know that 
the Bible' has everything in it that is 
needed to successfully oppose all that 
can be 'brought to bear against ittt 
t 
, Comes my 'friends, never give up the 
ifible, but ever remember what God has 
It one for you; and starting there you can 
fbrin forward arguments thiit Satan 
im if cannot gainsay. 
Yours for Christ's.s.ake, 
E. CeerleoGeses. 
Providence,-11-: 
-Dee: 5th. 
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' YOUR LABOR IS NOT IN VAIN IN 
THE LORD." 
The Board selected a style of letter 
the new heading. 
It was 'voted to demand of the Tress- 
r of the Boston. Advent Association 
unpaid dividends which have accru-
, and the President, J. Pearson, Jr., 
s authorized to make the demand. 
Voted, that the chairman call the at-
tion of the subscribers of the _Herald 
the matter of systematic beneficence, 
connection with the distribution of 
rds which have been prepared. 
A communication was read by the 
'airman, from Dr. T. Wardle, relating 
the above subject. 
The Missionary, Elder Geo. W. Burn-
rin made his report, which will doubt-
ss appear in the Herald. 
Voted, that a statement of the account 
our Missionary be so preFiented from 
eek to week in the gere/d that the 
iends abroad may be apprised of the 
ducial condition of the mission. 
II. CANFIT,',I,D, Rec. Sec. 
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o the standing Committee of qi;431A. M. Associ-
on the Treasurer respectfully submits the quar-
'y Report ending Oct. 1, 1873 :- 
Rcceipts. 
r Subscfption to Herald A07 97 
ooks and Tracts sold 142 10 
ash donations. 
 1072 80 
A Scotch lady in Canada, now over 
eighty years of Vie, sends us four pages 
of tile home and _Foreign Missionary 
Record .for the I:ree Churohrik Scotland, 
published in 1844, _and which she has 
treasured up all these yearafor the sake 
of the above-named "anCient canticle," 
which it contains. .;fie 
cal ion in the Herald, and we willingly 
comply with her request, thing that' 
others may be attracted and comforted 
by some of its stanzas. 
A KEY TO THE HEART. 
Perhaps we might as well preface this 
"spiritual song" by the following inci-
dent, related by a correspondent of the 
Missionary Record :-"A Presbyterian 
minister, American by birth, but of 
Scottish parentage, happening to be in 
New Orleans sonic short time ago, was 
asked to visit an old Scottish soldier who 
had wandered to New Orleans, sickened, 
and was convend to the hospital. On 
his entrance, an'd on announcing his er-
rand, the Scotsman told him, in a surly 
tone, that he desired none of his visits, 
-that he knew how to die without the 
aid of a prieSt. In vain he informed 
him that he was no priest, but a Presby-
terien minister, come to read to him a 
portion of the Woi•d of God, and to 
speak to him of eternity. The Scots-
man doggedly refused to hold any con-
versation with him, and he was obliged 
to take his leave. Next day;'however, 
he called aeffeain, thinning that the reflec-
tion of thee:man on i i13 own rudeness 
would prepere the way for a better re-
ception. I3tit his tone and manner *Ore 
equally rude and repulsive ; and at length 
he turned himself in bed, with his face 
to the Wall, as if determined to hear 
nothing and relent nothing. The minis-
ter bethought himself, as a last resource, 
of the hymn well known' in Scotland, 
the composition, I think, of David Dick= 
 
son, minister of Trvine, beginning, 
'0 mother dear, Jerusalem, 
When *shall I come'dlhee? ' 
which his Scottish mother had taught 
him to sing. to the tune of Dundee.' 
He began to sing his mother's hymn. 
The soldier listened for a few moments 
in silence, but gradially turned himself 
round, with' a relaxecPcountenaiice, and 
the tear in his eye, to inquire, Whit 
learned you that ?"My mother,' re-
plied the minieter ; ` and so did 'mine,' 
rejoined the no* softened Soldier, whose 
heart was opened by the recollection of 
infancy and of country, and now gave a 
willing ear to the man that had found 
the Scottish key to his heart." 
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THE HTMN. 
Ddar Editor :-Rev. G. W. Burnham 
has been with us for, the last four weeks ; 
and)like his Master, whom he faithfully 
seelf* he has gone about " doing good." 
crib'ha preeklied t three 'discourses each 
Sabbath in'thtilltieeolhalls that he obtain-
ed; but 014 atteattance h as not been large, 
owing to the Silation'of the year and the 
common prejudice of the Philadelphians 
against worshipping in a hall when, there 
are churches so numerous in the city. 
Thisstoie, is the experience of Rev. Mr. 
Eberly, late of Shiremanstown, who is 
here:in a hail on Girard- Avenue, trying 
to raise an interest in the cause of the 
United Brethren. He has an up hill 
time. 
• 
his home in Newburyport, carrying with 
him our best wishes and prayers for his 
future success in the 
Bro. Burnham left us yesterday for 
great soieeionary 
field, for which God in his providence 
has so well qualified him. His discourses 
here were able, eminently practical, and 
well calculated to do good. His last 
twohiermons-on the Abrahamic cove-
nant-4,dd ore' the kingdom of David's 
(stetetth. Sondilevere antong the 'best that. 
we have heard for a Idrig time ; in fact, 
Isitent home-rejoicing and blessing God 
tifft44'had Vver cast in my lot with a 
oebpl'e that are so sound in the faith of 
Abraham and of David. Should the 
'irblifise fail to them then it will or may 
lo so to us ; but it can never fail, for 
"it is ordered in all things and sure." 
'toe has said, "If you can break my 
covenant with day and night and if the 
,Yrdinances of heaven should fail, then 
will my covenant With David fail" 
(Jer. 31 : 85-37 ; f 20, 21) ; conse- 
quently we rest smite on-the never fail-
ing promises of God. All will be real-
lied and that before long. 
ThanksgivingsdarElder Burnham, Dr. 
Prirdle and naPielf Went to hear Dr. 
SPEW He took for his' tbxt Rev. 21 : 1-
5;attnePigi'VdJus a thantitgiting sermon 
LETTER. FROM BRO. HIGGINS. 
Dear Brother. Orroek 
rft.ti,.. 
Sabbaths since I heard .a sermon aisetbe 
prophetic periods of Daniel's • prophety 
(Dan. 9th and 12th), and was ,well fd.eas-
ed with the way the subject was handled 
until the preacher made one or two state-
ments that I am persuaded will not bear 
investigation. These were brought out 
in connection with the period of seventy 
weeks (Dan. 9 : 25-27,) and were, sub-
stantially as follows 
The new covenant was elf ined 
by miracles for one week (seveneyears :) 
first by Christ and afterward, bee the 
apostles,-Christ being "cut off " in the 
" midst of the week," or in other words., 
crucified. The week was said to end at 
the time that the sheet was let down 
before Peter (Acts 10 : 9-16), thus con-
vincing him that the gospel was not only 
for Jews but Gentiles also, and from 
this time onward no miracles were per-
formed. 
The preacher said, that he was 
often asked why there were no miracles 
in the present age of the Church, and he 
always silenced them by stating that it 
was not in accordance with the Bible,, 
for the day of miracles ended three and, 
one half years• after Christe.slied, and 
further, the proving .of miracnlOuspeiwer 
tahfteeBr tibhlaet. ,i.isXCf of 
,emeiut 
At the time these -13tatdmenVsfoteri, 
made my confidence in the-preaehtroW 
me to drink it all in as pi-tithe but after a 
very short interval I was impressed, with 
the fact that there were miracles per- 
formed several years after the expiration 
of the three and a half years. This led 
me to look for myeelf, and I am brought 
to the following conclusions ;- 
There were many miracles perform-
ed by Paul at from ten to nearly tleir,ttv. 
years after Christ's death-for exampAire 
-1. A man impotenterisei the feet e‘eae 
made to leap and wiejkl(Acts 14401414 
D. 45. A spirit of divination was cast 
out of a woman (Acts 16 : 17, 18.) A. 
D. 53. The Amparting of the Holy 
Ghost to pomp, of the dieeiples of John 
the Baptist (Acts 1 9 : 6!) :A. D. 54. 
Many special miracles eeesumerated in 
Acts 19 : 11, 12. A. D. e5.7,e The restos 
ration of life to the dead body of Eutese' 
chus (Acts 20 : 9, 10.) A. D. 58. .The 
viper's bite that was not fatal (Acts 28 : 
35.) A. D. 62. The healing of the man 
who had the bloody flux (Acts 28 : 8.) 
A. D. 62. -Other diseases cured on the 
island of Melita (Acts 28 : 9.) A. D. 62. 
The performance of miracles after 
the end of one week does.not -snake the 
confirmation of the covenant any the less 
true. Peter after his,vitliou of the sheet 
began to preach to 
 Gentiles (Acts 
10 : 34-38) and Paul confined his labors 
to this people, while previous to this 
time Christ preached to the Jews only 
and confirmed his preaching by mira-
cles, and the Apostles for three yeare 
and six months also labored with Jews-
thus confirming the covenant to that 
people for one week. 
If miracles were required to con-
vince the Jewish people of the true 
character of Christ, would not the same 
be still more of a necessity to convince 
a people that had no knowledge of a 
coming Saviour ? This would of course 
call for miraculous demonstration just 
at the time when it was given by Paul 
an doubtless the other Apostles had the 
.. • 
hettiiiit He (15 contrasted the 
nAV1 heaViAtiii and neWi`earth, and the 
hey city; ltid New Jerusalem, with the 
pfderiltustelit WitVens and earth and this 
city-aid 4striht a contrast he made I 
(2.) He showed who will celebrate the 
" harvest home" in the kingdom of God 
-the saints. The president here 'ap-
points the day of thanksgiving and calls 
Upon all Americans to Celebrate it ; but 
this great God of the universe has made 
a call upon all nations of the earth to 
come to his grand banquet-the harvest 
home of the redeemed. (3.) He noticed 
the condition of those who heed the 
call to our national thanksgiving, and 
the future condition of those who heed 
the call to that eternal one to come. 
Here we are mortal, sickly, feeble, and 
dying ; but there the gathered ones -will 
be immortal, having no more pain, nor 
sorrow, nor death : "for the Lamb 
Which is in the midst of the throne shall 
feed them, and shall lead them unto 
fountains of living water, and' the Lord 
God shall wipe out all tears from every 
eye," (or remove the cause of all sorrow.) 
And when the doctor exclaimed, " Would 
God I were there !" my heart respond- 
ed, " Amen, even so ; come, Lord Jesus." 
Yours in the great and glorious hope, 
I. R. GATES. 
Philadelphia, I'a., Dec. 5, 1873. 
Within thy gates nothing can come 
That is not passing clear ; 
;.No spider's web, ho dirt, no dust. 
' No filth may there appear. 
ah, Lord ! now come, I pray, 
And end my grief and plaints; 
ake me to thy Jerusalem,-
Place me among thy saints ; 
:Who there are crowned with glory great, 
And see God face to face : 
They triumph all, and do rejoice 
Most happy is their case. 
But we. who are in banishment, M. 
Continually do roam ; 
We sigh, we mourn, we sob, we weep, 
Perpetually we groan. 6 
Oureemsetness mixed is with gall; 
Our pleasures are but pain ; 
purils are not worth looking on:1 rte t e 
- Our sorrows still remain. 
But there they live in such delight, 
Such pleasure, and such play, 
That unto them a thousand years 
Seem but as yesterday. 
my sweet home, Jerusalem, 
Thy joys when shall I see ? 
Thy King in glory on his throne, 
And thy,felicitie ? 
Thy vineyards and thy orchards, 
So wonderfully rare, 
Are furnish'd with all kinds of fruit, 
Must beautiful and fair. 
Thy gardens and thy goodly walks 
Continually are green ; 
There grow such sweet and pleasant flowers 
As nowhere.ehe are seen. 
There cinnamon and sugar grow, 
There riard and balm abound ; 
No tongue can tell, no heart can think, 
What pleasures there are found. 
There nectar and ambrosia spring, 
There musk and civet sweet, 
And many a firm and dainty drug 
Are trodden under feet. 
Along the street with pleasant gerund 
The stream of life doth flow ; 
And on its hanks on every side 
The tree of life doth grow. 
These trees each month do yield their fruit,--- 
Forevermore they spring ; 
And all the nations of the world 
To thee their homage bring. 
Jerusalem, God's dwelling-place, 
Full sore I long to see; 
that my sorrows had an end, 
That I might dwell with thee, 
There David stands, with harp in hand, 
Among the heavenly quire ; 
A thousand times that man was blest 
Who might their music hear. 
Jerusalem, Jerusalem ! 
Thy joys fain would I see ; 
Come quickly, Lord, and end my grief, 
And take me home to thee. 
write thy name on my forehead, 
And take me hence away ; 
That I may dwell with thee in bliss, 
And sing thy praises aye. 
Jerusalem, the happy seat,- 
Jehovah's throne on high ! 
O sacred city, queen and wife 
Of Christ eternally. 
O comely queen with glory clad, 
With honor and degree, 
All fair art thou, exceeding bright,- 
No spot is found in thee. 
I long to see, Jerusalem, 
The comfort of us all; 
For it is sweet and beautifulot 
No ill can it befall. 
In thee, Jerusalem, I say, 
No darkness dare appear, 
No night, no shade, nor winter foul; 
Time cloth not alter there.. 
No candles burn, no moon doth shine, 
No glittering stare do light ; 
For Christ, the Sun of Righteousness, 
Forever shineth bright. 
A Lamb unspotted, white and pure, 
To thee doth stand in lieu 
Of every light : thy glory is 
Thy heavenly King to view. 
He is the King of kings, beset 
In midst his servants right; 
And they, his happy household all, 
Do serve him day and night. 
There dwell the quire of angels brighto-e- 
There the supernal sort 
Of citizens who now are freed 
From danger's deep resort. 
There be the prudent prophets all, 
The apostles six and six, 
The glorious martyrs in a row, 
The confessors betwixt. 
There doth the crew of righteous men 
And matrons all exist ; 
Young men and maids who here on earth 
Their pleasures did resist ;- 
These sheeps and lambs, that hardly 'wept. 
 
The snares of death and hell, 
Triumph in joy eternally, 
Whereof no tongue can tell ; 
And though the glory of each one 
Doth differ in degree, 
Yet are the joys of all alike 
And common, as we see. 
There love and charity do reign ; 
And Christ is all in all, 
Whom they most perfectly behold 
In glory spiritual. 
They love, they praise, they praise and love, 
They " Holy, holy," cry; 
They neither toil, nor faint, nor end, 
But laud continually. 
O happy thousand times were I, 
If, after wretched days, 
I might with listening ears enjoy 
These heavenly songs of praise, 
Which to th' Eternal King are sung, 
By heavenly wights above, 
By sacred souls and angels sweet, 
To praise the God of love. 
O passing happy were my state, 
Might I he worthy found 
To wait upon my God and King, 
And there his praises sound; 
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R. R. KNOwL.Us. 
The editor of- the Record says of the 
old hymn : " We have long admired it 
on far higher grounds than antiquarian 
ism can furnish, and would wish it to be 
in the power, of mothers especially, to 
speck to their children in this spiritual 
song.' . If Mr. Lewis be right in his con 
jecture, as to the authorship, our readers 
will agree with us that this production 
does not detract from the well-earned 
fame of the great and godly minister 
whom he names. We rather think Mr. 
Lewis is mistaken in supposing the hymn 
to be well known, at the present time, 
in Scotland. Tho choral verse lingers in 
many parts of the landsAott so far as our 
observation has gone, and we hale been 
somewhat curious on the point, little else 
theexception of twelve lines which do 
 
is remembered. We give it entire, with 
aot harmonize with the rest, and which 
have evidently been interpolated for a 
purpose which it isenot difficult to di-
vine." 
0 mother dear, Jernirareni'll' w•"11- 
When shalt I some to thee? ;.) 
When shallinyflorrows leave an end ? 
Thy joys when shall I see ? 
O happy harbor of U ,d's glints ! 
0 sweet and 'pleasant soil! 
In thee no sorrow may he found,- 
No grief, no care, no toil. 
In thee no sickness is at all,- 
No grief, no toil, no care ; 
There is no death nor ugly sight, 
But life for ever mair. 
Providence, Oct. 1, 1873. 
 
4 41. 44- • 
1.) I 
at 
it, 
No dimming clouds o'ershadow thee, 
No dull nor darksome night ; 
For every soul shines as the sun, 
And God himself gives light. 
There lust nor lucre cannot dwell ; 
There envy bears no sway ; 
No hunger, thirst, nor heat are there 
But pleasures every way. 
Jerusalem ! Jerusalem ! 
Would God I were•in thee ! 
0 that my sorrows had an end, 
Thy joys that I might see ! 
No pain., no pang. no bitter griefs 
No woful night is there ; 
No sob, no sigh, no cry is hoard ; 
No willawa nor far. 
from Junction 
Jerusalem the city is 
Of God our King alone ; 
Tho Lomb of Gol the light thereof, 
Sits there upon the throne. 
0 God, that i Jerualem, 
With speed might go behold ! 
For why ? the pleasures there abound 
With tongue cannot be told. 
Thy turrets arid thy pinnacles 
With carbuncles do shine ; 
With jasper, pearls, and chreaolites, 
Surpassing pure and fine. 
Thy houses are of ivory ; 
Thy windows crystal clear; 
Thy streets are laid with beaten gold, 
Where angels do appear. 
Thy walls are made of precious stones ; 
Thy bulwarks diamonds square ; 
Thy gates are made of orient 'earl,-
0 God, if I were there ! 
STOP TTY PAPER! 
The following we find in an exchange. 
'e know not its author, but we can ap-
eciate the course he suggests. Let 
none who think of stopping the Herald 
the close of the volume fail to read 
1.) Selfishness said-Do it. You will 
ye by it, and be the richer. 
(2.) Economy said-Do it. Your ex-
penses are large. You must take in sail 
somewhere, and here is a good place to 
begin. 
But I had other advisers, and told the 
above named to be quietivehile I heard 
others. 
e • I) 
(L) Intelligence said-in the more 
than fifty issues of the paper, durieg 
the year, you will have every variety 
of food for your intelleete.theimee, art, 
commerce, agriculture, manufactures, 
learning, old and new, history,' geogi•a-
by, biography, Scc., will spread a very 
respectable portion of their stores before 
one and you cannot but be wiser before 
he year ends. 
(2.)And _Benevolence said-You are 
not any too large-hearted now ; and if 
anything can melt the ice of selfishness, 
and expand the heart with true and 
fervent good will too men, it will be such 
a picture of the world's sins, wants and 
miseries as, during twelve months, it 
will lay before you. 
And AS'piritual Wisdom said-
There is scarcely any better Commentary 
on the Bible than a good religious peri-
odical. Ten thousand bees will bring 
forth the honeys Prophecies are rapidly 
being fulfilled,' divine promises are being 
performed, Bible doetrines confirmed, 
prenidences illustrating the sacred retort 
constantly 'occurring, missionary opera-
tions in all lands successful, &e. ; all 
these bright clouds will sail over your 
horizon so that, in fifty weeks, you will 
get fifty times that number of the 
lessons of that wisdom that cometh from 
above. 
Personal Piety said-A higher 
type of the Christian life shou d be the 
history of the near at. hand New Year : 
and you cannot get anywhere, save from 
the Bible, more varied and pressing and 
affecting appeals for the higher life of_ 
the soul than are contained in the week-
ly sheets of a good religions periodical. 
Conscience here appears d, and 
gave Setishness a frown that caused a 
And to enjoy my Christ above, 
Ilis favor and his grace, 
According to his promise made, 
Which here I interlace :- 
" 0 Father dear," said he, " let them 
Whom thou bast given of old 
To me, be there whereso I am, 
My glory to behold, 
" Which I with thee before the world, 
Was laid in perfect wise, 
i Have had, from whence the blessed sun 
Of glory cloth arise." 
same powers. 
4. The fact that miracles can be 
proved to have been wrought after the 
point of time stated by our brother does 
not to my mind detract from the truth 
and divine authority of the Bible, but 
rather should strengthen the same inso-
much as it shows more conclusively that 
God gave the Gentiles all the chance of 
saving themselves that lie gave to the 
Jews. 
.If asked why miracles are not 
wrought in our day, the reply would be, I 
EXTRACTS FROM LETTERS. 
Sister Mary Green writes 
City, Kansas, Dec. 2nd :--- 
"All I learn of that blessed hope' of 
the appearing of our Saviour, the Lord 
from heaven, I gather from the Bible 
and the Advent Herald. I have prayed 
and longed for some of our good Advent 
preachers to come west, that they might 
be the means, with the, Lord's blessing, 
of preparing a people for the coming of 
the Lord. I give away all my papers 
after I 
read them, that some may there- 
may be under an influence which causes 
it to deviate. And yet God leads those 
eafely through spiritual trial whose desire 
is to serve him, notwithstanding their in-
densities, and exereiees His gracious care 
to keep their souls 'from fatal harm. 
Such is ofr4th'e -ehrintian's experience as 
he passes through life. 
_ e 
 isma 
winos geputment. 
BOARD MEETING. 
A meeting of the Board of the Mil-
lennial Missionary Society of Vermont 
and Canada will be held at Richford, 
Vt., Friday, Dec. 26th. All the mem-
bers are requested to be present. 
J. Liven, Pres., 
W. B. KINNEY, Sec. 
QUARTERLY CONFERENCE. 
- 
A quarterly Cronference of Messiah's 
Church (Evangelical Adventists) will be 
held at Black Creek, P. 0., Canada, Sat-
urday and Sunday Jan. 3 and 4, 
1874. 
All are cordii,414 invited to attend. 
CA.MFIELD, PreA4 
S. EBERSOLE,. Sec'y. 
 • 
As the subscription of many of our 
subscribers expires next month and they 
doahtless,iertenel:to renew about the first 
of elen yearoyeeworeld suggest to those 
of gwin,,who.e4ni that they do it imme-
diately. This would not only furnish W4 
with money ewhieh we greatly need at 
the present time, but would render it 
easier for us in the business department 
—as the rush of letters in January and 
February always crowds us. 
-Why not 
divide the work a little by giving us an 
opportimity to do part of it before the 
next voInme commences ? 
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NEW SUBSCRIBERS. 
For two dollaes we will send the Herald 
to a new subscriber from the time the 
subscription is received till Jan. 1, 1875, 
the Lord willing. This will give him a ' 
few extra numbers of the present volume 
free. 
WANTED. 
Hundreds of new subscribers ought to 
be entered on our list within a few weeks, 
Ind we think it might be done if preach-
srs and people took hold of the matter 
as they should. The best time to get 
subscribers is within the next two or 
three months, as many subscriptions ex-
pire with the year, arid people will be 
looking about them to see what paper 
they had better take for a year to come. 
Will you not show your neighbors ours 
and present its claims kindly and fairly? 
Don't delay in the matter till it is too 
late, but begin at once. 
RENEW—RENEW. 
SPEAK OUT. 
I do not live in Grumbling street, yet 
I have something whereof to complain. 
I do think the glorious Gospel is worthy 
of being preached—not in an undertoue, 
or in a whisper, or in mumbling accents, 
but—right out, so that all can hear. One 
emindnt'Illifister, who could speak out if 
he would, and whose words, fitly chosen, 
fairly-1511eath with living thonOt 
preaches the first half of his seriteell .65 
those who -are n4ar oneftigh hear; and 
the latter half tod the vahtile' congrega- 
tion, including the choir the-ifaliery. 
Another speaks' mit well' tnongh ,for' the 
most part but now and tAseiNhe will 
come up toi a word, or part of a sentence, 
which for, some unaccountable reason, 
he will see fit to convey in a whisper to 
the lamp-posts of the pulpit and the al-
tar railing. Very likely the penes whis-
pered out are are key-notes of whole 
sentence and paragraphs, whieh of course 
the congregation lose. Others, alas ! 
how many—speak out at times as though 
they wanted the very streets to hear, 
then lower their voices as though they 
expected the front pews to catch Ai-tt 
even, so much as a word. -One moment 
they are up to the top of the gamut ; 
next they ,are down in the neighborhood 
of D flati,;, pow your as me stunned 
and yonr nerves jarred by an outburst of 
noise ; and now your senses are strained. 
in the effort to hear an articulate sound. 
This is mangling and mincing the gos-
pel message. I have seen hundreds of 
people quietly sitting together with up-
turned faces, eagerly waiting for the 
word of life; and getting it only by piece-
meal. It's ,enough to make one feel as 
though he would like to ascend the pul-
pit himself, and at least talk, to the peo-
ple ! 0 f'4 less mannerism, and sing-
song, and stage whispering, and more 
earnest, natural, sympathetic talk, that 
reaches every ear and every' heart !—
Correspondent of the Jirethoth'st Home 
Journal: 
4 ..411. 414..- • - • 
"FAITH OF ABRAHAM AND OP 
CHRIST." 
This work of the Rev. Henry Dana 
Ward, M. A., ought to be much more 
extensively circulated than it is. We 
thinivit hi S best. To encourage its pub-
licatiou the A. M. Association agreed to 
take two hundred copies.. None of them 
aught to be allowed to yemaid long on 
our hands. It will aid us,•enconrage the 
author, .and decnelit the purchaser to have 
sOde 
' We S'end. the book by mail, post-paid, 
for $.1.75. 
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LETTERS RECEIVED. 
needlessly drive, upon the spenensegf war. 
—Morning Star. 
NEWS ITEMS. 
ITEMS. 
London was enveloped in an unusually 
dense fog Tuesday afternoon, Dec 9th, 
and on Wednesday morning. A telegram 
dated the 10th says: "There were nu-
merous accidents yesterday both in the 
streets and on the Thames. The hospi-
tals are filled with people who were -run 
over or otherwise wounded. On, the 
river three persons were killed by colli-
sions between crafts." 
The decision of the court martial in 
the case of Marshal Bazaine, one of the 
oldest officers in the French army has 
been reached. He was accused of capi-
tulating Metz and the army in the open 
field without doing all that was pro-
scribed by honor and duty to avoid the 
surrender, and after a trial -which has 
run through months the Marshal has been' 
declared guilty. His sentence is that he 
be degraded from his rank and afterward 
executed. All the members of the court 
have signed an appeal for mercy. 
Several chiefs of the Kaffirs,fiegoutik 
Africa, recently visited the Coltmlfire,S8c1 
 
'sae_ 
retary and pathetically imploreiferrrmetb 
prevent the licensed sale of liquor among 
them. 
Statistics show that in the mountain-
ous regions of Switzerland and Savoy, 
deaf mutes are More numerous than in 
flat countries. 
England annuAlly puts 3,000 street 
boys under training for her navy. At 
17 they commence a ten years' period of 
service, and at 27 they are free. There 
are 20,000 now in-the serviee, and the ex-
periment has succeeded so admirably 
that it is strongly urged: that. the sys-
tem be extended, and 10,000 a year be 
taken to train for .soldiers, engipeers, 
and artillerymen. 
The American trade' dollar has been 
made legal tender at 'Canton, and it. is 
expected that it will become such through-
out the East., 
A CALIFORNIA paper describes the dis-
covery of three villages of: Zuni Indians, 
supposed to be the survivors of the -ans 
cient Aztecs. They dwell on the great 
trail from Fort Mohave on the Colorado, 
to Albuquerque, on the Rio Grande, and 
are about a day's journey from the • dia-
mond field. They number about 6000, 
and are very different from other tribes, 
being in looks, bearing, and pride, of 
dress a manifestly superior race.- The 
women are 'comely and modest in. their 
dress, their houses are clean, and their 
cooking is good. These people have fields 
of corn, wheat and vegetables, flocks of 
sheep and goats, and they keep all th.e, 
domestic animals. 
Ten counties in Southern Kansas have 
suffered so severely from prairie fires,' 
losing the winter's store of food, that 
actual starvation- is threatened unless re-
lief shall come from the outside. 
Twelve hundred of the public-school 
teachers in New York city have peti-
tioned for a restoration of the right to 
inflict corporeal punishment on 'students. 
The. Observer says that the petitieners 
have "divine wisdom" on their side. 
Manufactories throughout the coantry 
are resuming operations, and ere long 
trade will be as brisk as before the panic. 
The city -Of Dover, N. H., has attained 
its two hundred and fiftieth birthday, 
being seven years timesenior of Boston. 
It is, with the exception of Portsmouth, 
which was settled at the same time, the 
oldest settlement in the state. 
A wonderful trade is that of petrole- 
um. TivelVe -years ago the first sate em- 
braced 250 barrels and the sale was. her-
alded .a "large" one. In 1861, the ex-
port of the whole country amounted to 
1,500,000, gallons. In 1872, the ,export 
amounted to 150,000,000 gallons, and 
during the seven months of the present 
ye.ar, more than 145,000,000 gallons have 
been exported. 
by beenlightened on this subject. I am 
striving through grace to be prepared to 
meet my Saviour with joy and not with 
grief.. As I am now seventy-four-yeare 
old, I expect my time is short on earth. 
May the Lord help you to keep the truth 
before the people till the Lord comes to 
give reward to his faithful servants." 
Bro. M. S. Perkins writes from Montague, 
Mich:, Nov. 28th :— 
" I am fully persuaded that the day of 
the ford is at hand, and em seeking a 
moral . fitness for its solemnities and 
grandeur. Our world has almost come 
to be a grand insane asylum! The salt 
of the earth ' has lost much of its 
savor' by being too freely used to season 
church festivals, and in making vanity 
fairs' to suit the -.tate of the world— 
pampering . a perverted appetite for 
'husks' and .the apples of Sodom' at 
the expense of the soul ! 'Eating and 
drinking with the drunken' was literally 
carried out a short distance from here 
not long since. A drunken- man at the 
table was the clown where money wag 
squandered freely for a sister church 
benefit ' ! 'How Long, 0 Lord, how 
long.'" 
Bro. Wm. S. Hovrden of Bristol, Vt., writes 
under date of Dec. 3rd :— 
"I am a strong believer in the final 
destruction of the wicked ; yet I like 
the lerelesiff, for it is conducted in a Chris-
tian-like manner and ,has a good spirit, 
and wish its circulation was very ranch 
larger than what it is. We do not all 
look alike, and do not. all see things 
alike; but that is no reason why we 
should not treat. each other as brethren 
as far as we walk in the footsteps of our 
Saviour. When we meet on Canaan's 
happy shore we shall probably see some 
we did not expect; and some we did ex-
pect, will not be there. We shall then 
find out (if not before) that we here, in 
our present state, see through a glass 
darkly,'—although I believe that nearly 
, all the light there is on .earth at the 
present time, is with those who believe 
in, and are looking for, the speedy com-
ing of our Lord from heaven. One thing 
weeniust guard against, and that is sec- 
tarianism; it will creep upon us like a 
thief in the night, if we do not watch. 
Oh! what. a mighty influence those who 
are looking for Christ's coming kingdom 
might have if they were only united. 
All things go to show that we are near-
ing, the end. May the Lord bless you. 
exceedingly, is my prayer." 
 Obituarg. 
"The Lord himself shall descend from heaven 
with a shout, with the voice of the archangel, and 
with the trump of God, and the dead in Christ shall 
rise first; then we which are alive and remain shall 
be caught up together with them in the clouds, to 
meet the Lord in the air; and so shall we ever be 
with the Lord. Wherefore comfort one another 
with these words. 
DISRAELI'S PROPHECY. 
The cable a few .days ago reported 
that Disraeli had just delivered a speech 
at Glasgow; in which he predicted a gen-
eral European religious war,—or, as he 
put it, a conflict between the spiritual and 
temporal powers,—before many years, 
and that the result would be anarchy arid 
confusion itself. 
That is all .that the cable brings, but it 
must be confessed there are pretty good 
reasons for making the prophecy. The 
present condition of all the great Euro- 
pean powers suggests it. Mr. Miall's 
persistent efforts to separate Church and 
State do not tend to allay British temper 
towards the question. The agitation for 
Irish home-rule may, as the famous Jew 
hints, tear the mask from much that is 
now concealed, and bring bitter oppo- 
nents, made thrice determined by the 
subtile and variant efforts of Priest and 
Bishop, face to face. What is the Carlist 
movement in Spain but the outcome and 
expression of a fierce religious supersa- 
tion ? The soldiers of that -fanatical 
leader even cover their hearts with wool- 
en shields,—embroidered appeals to the 
Almighty that he will protect them while 
waging his holy fight. In Italy almost 
the sole antagonists of the Government 
are found in the clerical party. Emissa- 
ries are said to be at work throughout 
the -Kingdom, trying to weaken Victor 
Emanuel's power, and to incite an insur- 
rection whose 'aini'sball be the restoration 
of temporal power toethe Pope. 
In 'France the-staterla affairs is quite 
As unassuring. The clerical party, in-
deed, which mainly niales the strength 
of the monarchists there; feeeived ome-
thing of a check in the late failure of 
the Bourbons to ascend the throne. But 
the plotters themselves. still live. A 
mere rebuff will not silence them. Nei- 
ther would a much more serious rebuff 
than thet awe them into quiet. The Ho- 
ly , Father has repeatedly- assured the 
French monarchists that his eyes are ever 
yearningly towards .them in his time of 
abasement. It may he. safely assumed 
that he will leave no means untried to 
precipitate an uprising there that will 
help the Catholic cause. The French 
are easily wrought upon, and he may 
have some' hope who would seek to arouse 
in them almost any destructive purpose. 
One of the' representatives of PrOtest-
elitism in France, M. Pressen-se, lately 
wrote to a Paris journal as follows 
"It becomes more and more evident 
that religious questions are assuming a 
preponderant place in the struggles of 
this so called positive century. Just now 
we find religion undeelying the whole 
State action. It dominates our tome 
and our foreign policy; and if we do not 
show ourselves watchful and resolved, 
we shall ere lone- -find ourselves engaged 
in that most frightful form of war—a re-
ligious one. Crusades are preached in -a 
shameless and a ruthless spirit, not only 
from the pulpit, but in episcopal letters 
and those circulars which give the tone 
to. French pilgrimages." 
Those are significant utterances, and 
the basis of fact on which they rest only 
increases their interest. And they would 
apply to the condition of Germany quite 
as well as to that of France. The move-
ment there, which is led by Hyacinthe 
and Dollinger and other conspicuous 
members of the. "Old Catholic" order, 
and which means a reform of the abuses 
which have so large 'a place in modern 
Catholicism, is Winning its way, perhaps, 
but it has foes who only wait for the op-
portunity to choke it to death. The late 
correspondence between. the Emperor 
and the Pope, 'which' was referred to here 
floe- long since, only shows how strongly 
opposed to, each are the aim and policy 
of the other. Intriguing priests are fre- 
quently found whispering in the German 
ear, and the activity of the clerical party 
is only equaled by that of the state. In 
the light of this condition, the recall of 
Bismarck to the Cabinet and.. the com- 
plete authority which he is given over 
that body, receive fresh significance. The 
late serious conspiracy of ROmish eccle-
siastics in Russia brings even that cold 
-country into the passionate circle. 
So we have a condition of almost cler-
ical conspiracy, from the British Isles, 
across to Spain and -Italy, up through 
France and Grermauyeand extending into 
Russia itself. There is evidently ground 
enough for Disraeli's prediction to stand 
upon, and that without putting so much 
as a_ toe on American soil, where the Bi- 
ble-in-School and the Sunday questions 
would not forbid it to appear. 
Wee to Europe if the ex-Premier 
,prove to be a prophet indeed. There eis 
no 'war so fierce as a religious one, as *ell 
there shouldn't. be. But there is, doubt-
less, no' nemediate cause of alarm. Al-
though the condition abroad may cer-
tainly warrant this detailed allusion to 
it, stiff the reins of government are most.-
'ly in prudent hands, and they Wilt • 236 
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NOTES TO CORRESPONDENTS. 
PEARc,E.--7p shall probably be 
able- to' 'Announce something "definite 
about "the Slraree " before long. se! 
InOney was ree'ds 
and your name dilly, ez,Inrelli (44 our 
 
Don't see \Acre the tibouble is. 
THE ADVENT HERALD DECEMBER 17, 1_ 8Up-i. fr 
has crushed it under the feet of His 
children. 
"Oh ye obstinate ones, hear me ! 
Hear one of your own brothers, who has 
said mass, and confessed, and preached 
with you. Weep not over me as dead.' 
I am not dead, but among the 'living,' 
and stand before you to- announce the 
resurrection of that church, which you 
have tried to drown in blood. Yes, she 
is rising, glorious as the morning light, 
and ignorance, superstition, heresy, and 
tyranny, flee before her ! 
"Farewell, church of my youth ! 
Farewell, companions of my misery! 
Alas, alas ! it has been a misery of de-
struction! Oh, if my word bas yet any 
weight with you, I beseech you to open 
your eyes to the light—to abandon that 
system of darkness ia which you are 
groping, and accept the true light which 
Jesus offers to you !" 
Well may they gnaSh their teeth upon 
such a man. Let prayer without ceasing 
be offered in behalf of this dear broth-
er.—Selectee. 
of the discovery of America five centu-
ries before Christ. The tablets had been 
acquired by the museum of Rio Janeiro, 
with whose director he was person.d1 
acquainted, and the connection of thi, 
 
gentleman with the discovery of the 
tablets'was in itself a guarantee of the 
correciUM of the report. 'The inscrip-
tions, so 'far as yet deciphered, relate 
that, from a port on the Red Sea, a Si-
doniadu ilbet sailed, and, following the 
east coast of Africa, doubled the Cape ; 
thence folloiving the African west. coast, 
probably with ,the southeast trade winds 
of the southern latitudes, until the north-
east trades, prevereting further progress 
northward, forced the prows of the 
vessel across the broad Atlantic. At 
any rate, according to Mr. Bliss, the 
tablets record the fact of the Phcenician 
'fleet having reached the Americas five 
centuries before Christ, at some point 
now known as northern Brazil ; that the 
tablets give the number of vessels, the 
number of the crews, the name of Sidon 
as their home, and, indeed, various very 
interesting. particulars. Mr. Bliss has 
promised, when he acquires further par-
ticulars, to hand them to the Society.— 
Sc ie t ifie Amer lean. 
associates have followed him to inquire 
what is truth. Last week, in one day 
twelve priests called on Mr. Wall to ask 
for light. Among them was a D. D., an 
LL. D., and a D. P. : another, the su-
perior of a convent, on Sunday sent 
a priest to Mr. ,Wall for tracts and Scrip-
tures, to distribute among the inmates. 
For a few days nothing was heard 
from " headquarters " concerning the 
"apostate." But last Sunday the silence 
was broken. The Vatican had decided 
to try its strength—revive the Inquisi-
tion, and make an • example of Father 
Grassi ! The "Infallible" comforted a 
delegation of priests with, the assurance 
that the "apostate" would soon be 
swept away. 
Immediately he was summoned before 
the Inquisition to recant or endure the 
penalty. He decided at once to appear, 
not because he acknowledged its author-
ity, but because it gave him an oppor-
tunity to declare theetruth -before these 
men. 
He applied to the goternment for pro-
tection, bat was advised not to venture, 
and that if he did go he must bear the 
responsibility. 'Rev. Messrs. Wall 'and 
Duni called on the Inquisitor-General. 
He accompanied them, but remained out-
side SO as to be out of danger. 
During the interview the General, 
learning that he was below,, secretly 
sent an officer saying, "Your friends 
desire you to come in." Not suspecting 
the snare, he followed—not, as he 
thought, to where his friends were, but 
to another part of the Inquisition. 
By some means the door was open, 
and 'Mr. Wall caught a glimpse of him 
as he --pkalssied. The treachery flashed 
acrois his mind, and he called to him to 
instantly escape, which he did. Of 
courW" nothing Wrong Was" intended." 
Another interview-. was appointed for 
nine-ee:clock the next morning.: 'Father 
Grassi, assisted by Mr. Wall and a priest, 
who is a prominent professor in a college 
in Rome, spent nearly the whole night 
in preparing his vindication. 
In the morning, after bowing together 
and committing all to God, we started 
for the Inquisition. Father Grassi took 
my arm, and as we, walked along the 
Via del S. Uffizio (street of the holy 
office) thinking of our brethren who had 
preceded us, but who never returned, I 
reminded bine of our SaViour's words, 
"Pear not them who kill the body," 
etc. (Matt. SO : .28-320 and of the pre-
cious encouragement, "Let not your 
heart be troubled," etc. (John 14 :1, 2). 
Arrangements had been made for friends 
to stand_ in the street ready to render 
Assistanee if needed. Four of us went 
in. . We were promised permission to be 
with him, but they desired to see him 
alone a moment first. 
He had been advised not to trust him-
self in their hands, but now 'camea 
trial of moral courage such as. Nehemiah 
experienced when he refused to shrink 
from danger, asking, "Shall such a man 
as I flee?" and Luther, when he said, 
"I will go to Worm*: though the devils 
are as thick as the tiles on the houses." 
Grassi entered alone, and. the door was 
shut. We could only beg God to keep 
him and enable him to "open his mouth 
boldly," and declare the truth. 
Soon loud and earnest talking was 
heard. Again and again: admission as 
demanded and promised, but not grant-
ed. ForinArly an hour we waited, then 
the door opened, and our brother- was 
with as. again. Taking- my hand and 
pressing it to his heart. he 'said with deep 
emotion,. ",E finite 1 finite! " "It is 
finished ! It is finished!" 
 
Significant words ! The Vatican had 
determined to' revive the most infernal 
iastitutioa ever devised .by diabolical 
ingenuity, and try its power upon one 
who had so long been a favorite. This 
Mr* its first attempt, and I greatly mis-
take if Grassi's words will not be found 
applicable to the "Most Holy woman 
Universal Inquisition." 
. He is nalen tender, humble, and mod-
est, yet firm and fearless. Not often do 
we witness such nibral heroism. '-'Alone 
he stood before his iriquisitoks' , declared 
the truth, entered his protest, denounced 
their iniquities, defied their powers, and 
scorned their anathemas. To give you a 
more • correct idea of the man, I give 
you a few closing sentences of his de-
fence. Think of him alone, unprotected, 
and in such a place. Warming up into 
the holy enthusiasm of Stephen, the 
first Christian martyr, and turning upon 
his inquisitors, he .said,— 
" Oh you inquisitors, pontiffs, cardi-
nals, and prelates, God. speaks to you! 
To what have. you brought the true 
church? She that was so pure, so beau-
tiful, so glorious, you have betrayed, 
violated, despoiled, wounded, and cruci-
fied by your doctrines, superstitions, and 
immorality, and sealed her doom by your 
blasphemous 'Dogma of Infallibility.' 
Hear what God says to His suffering 
children : The God of peace shall 
'bruise 'Satan under your feet shortly.' 
Do you not tremble at these words?
' 
Who but •Satan instigated and inflicte d 
the: tortures in this .place? Oh, could 
these walls, within which so many have 
, been burned, speak—could this reof but 
echo back the cries of agony from your 
innocent victims, and the vaults beneath 
us reveal t he corpses of those who have 
been buried, alive, no other sentence of 
condemnation would be required. 
"But the breath of God has forever 
extinguished the fires of the Inquisition, 
and swept away your. power; therefore 
I stand before you tbeday, and declare 
these truths, while you dare not touch a 
hair of • my head ! Yes, God has begun 
the work, and soon this tribunal, these 
walls and instruments, will be bruised 
under our feet, and scattered as ashes to 
the four winds, proclaiming to. the world 
that the 'Most Holy Universal Roman 
;1141;164;0o is dead—dead, because Go.r3 
A Salt Lake dispatch says several par-
ties of Morman converts, who emigrated 
from the old country last summtr, have 
within the last few weeks returned, dis-
appointed and disgusted. 
SYBIL.JoNns, wife of Eli Jones, and for 
forty years a favorite preacher of the 
Society of Friends, died Thursday, Dec. 
4, at her residence in China, Maine. In 
the year 18.51,...b,aving visited and ad-
dressed a large portion of the society in 
the United States and Canada, she in 
company with her husband, also a distin-
guished preacher, visited the new Repub-
lic of Liberia in the'love of the .gospel. 
And from 1,853 to 1855 they traveled in 
the same service through England, Ire-
land, Scotland, Norway, Sweden, the 
south of France and Switzerland, and 
were everywhere well received. In the 
year 1866 they again visited England 
and Ireland, and made thence two mis-
sionary tours to Eygpt and the Holy 
Land. The important feature of these 
missions was the presentment of Chris-
tianity by a woman to Mohammedan wo-
men, from the Quaker standpoint of Chris-
tian equality of the sex in social life, re-
ligion and the ministry of the word. 
She was listened to with great attention, 
and schools in which her views are being 
taught are now in successful operation 
in those countries. In her later life she 
was largely engaged in visiting prisons 
and in presenting the gospel to the un-
fortunate and friendless. 
Rev. Dr. Phelps preached the closing 
sermon of his twenty-eight years' pas-
torate with the First Baptist church in 
New Havere7Ct., Sunday, Dec. 7th. It 
was a season 'a deep interest; his sub- 
ject being " Reunion and Recognition in 
e 
Heaven" ; text, 1 Thes. 2 : ' At the 
close of the sermon, a young manea, 
cent .convert, was baptized. Dr. P. stat-
ed at the communion in the afternoon, 
that during his pastorate 1,217 had unit-
ed with the church ; 615 by baptism. 
He had eolemnized 531 marriages, offici-
ated at 587 funerals, and preached 3,340 
sermons. 
A Massachusetts correspondent of the 
Advance has found a Scriptural argu-
ment in favor of half-fare passes for 
ministers—or free passes for that matter, 
His text is Ezra 7: 2. "Also we certify 
you, that touching any of the priests and 
Levites, singers, porters, Nethinims, or 
ministers of this house of God, it shall 
not be lawful to impose toll, tribute, or 
custom upon them." 
"BISHOP CUMMINS has unfurled his 
new Episcopal banner," says a corre-
spondent of the Christian Secretary, 
"so that we now have High Church, 
Low Church, Broad Church, and that 
other church; and when we read, as we 
have been wont, of The Church, we shall 
hardly know which The Church' is re-
ferred to." 
Right Rev. D, B. Smith, D. D., Bish-
op of Kentucky, has issued a paper an-
nouncing that Dr. Cummins will be tried 
for a violation of section 1, canoir9, title 
2, and saying that any Episcopal act of 
his, pending this trial, will be null and 
void. All members of the church are 
enjoined to give no countenance to the 
movement in which Dr. Cummlirs is en-
gaged. 
A NEW TRACT. 
MQRRILL. 
Died, in Pittsford, Vt., Oct. 29, 1873, 
after a long and very distressing illness, 
which II she bore with great patience, 
Aleigail, widow of Robert Morrill of 
Peabody, Mass. 
All that is "lovely and of good re-
port" belonged to her character. The 
Bible and Advent Herald. were her chief 
joy, and if the latter failed to come the 
day it was due she would be greatly dis-
appointed. Though a firm and consist-
ent believer, she could not seem to bear 
the thought of dying,—nature shrunk 
from the pain and eweakuess consequent 
ort grappling with." the last enemy" (1 
Cor. 15 ; 26), and she hoped to live 
until the Master's 'return. 
," Let others build their hopes below," 
etc., was her 'last lucid utterance. I 
love to, think: ,(I -wish I knew) that the 
spirits of loved ones. came to her in the 
hour of need, to help her and to accora-
pany her to the rest that is for, the 
weary. [We have reason to conclude 
that angels come to convey the spirits of 
the just to paradise (Luke 16 : 22), heir 
not that the spirits of 1w/eels:in-es depattes 
ed -do it. —Ers. 
- - - — 
Dear, sweet mother' ! 141111rATs 
bright example, and we hope. tcr meet 
her again in the "eevreet by-and-by." • 
Muss G. if. Oseonee„ 
"A WEED IN THE SERMON," is the 
title of a four-page tract recently issued. 
It ought to go into the hands of church-
memberseand ministers everywhere who 
are indulging in the use of tobacco. A 
brogy in Pennsylvania ordered. 500 of 
theria distribution in his section. 
Who will imitate his example? Price, 
post-paid, 50 cents a hundred.- 
THE BIBLE A UNIVERSAL BOOIL 
The following; paragraph is out from 
the Bible Society Record: 
"The severest test to which a book can 
be subjected is that,of translating it into 
other languages than the one in which it 
wrol written. 'Melt-oral) is not much of 
a book in any language but the Arabic. 
Even, Sleakeepeare is no longer Shake-
spearepi rin Fwip. The Bible is mostly, 
Serifita6 ena provincial ; and yet ill every 
language lisr,Voice is clear, ringing, and' 
untessetio.- the. only book that lens 
ever made the circuit of thp globe, beeld-
ine- it own in every imporr
tt langurige 
tcf , 1 
o;dialeet of man."'"" ' 
We believe the'SeI 4Vemen'tsi to be facts. 
And if they be taic they are exceedingly 
r 
important. It ict/Often charged that Chris-
tianity is oniy'hn-ethnicm-ehigion- that it 
, 
is adapted., oni.yeeti .tsheWestern nations'; 
and that it can --never, therefore, become 
universal. But this is a narrow and eero-
neous view. The Bible is really a uni-
versal book ; more, it ;is the only one. 
The reason is two-folds In the first place 
human nature is one—one in intellect, 
one in heart, one in conscience ; and, in 
A 'ITN-T.—There are two small church-
es in a littleevillage. All the new peo-
ple who come to' live in the village go to 
one of these churches and uot the other. 
Both are neat, both are pretty,, both have 
the-pure gospel preached in them, both 
have good pastors, both have good mem-
bers. Now what draws strangers and 
outsiders to one church more than the 
other? Can you think.? Because the 
people in the one shake hands with them, 
and are glad to see them. When a stran-
ger comes to town, they take pains to 
hunt him up, and ask him to come to 
church with them, and make room for 
'him in their pews,— ObservereeinseLicesn-
tronwealthele 
-tc:Lial 
.7711Hico.) 
CHURCH THZITthlti.—irlieVOI;St of it 
is, out conscience is • so defiled that we 
feel quite as innocent and out of harm's 
*ay in some theatres as we do in some 
churches. That is to say, we find very 
bad actors in both, and occasional clowns 
in the pulpit, and grave and serious gen-
tlemen in the theatres. And we see peo-
ple going to church with all their world-
liness, diamonds, and lace, and tucks and 
frills upon them; and saying with the 
most beautiful acting in the world, 
"Lord, be, merciful to us miserable sin-
- ners " ; an4,,a)ye cannot for a moment 
helRaskifir--tiviren we see what wesee—
if if-is not the theatre.—.Bassner of Ho-
liness. 
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remittances for the ADVENT HERALD 
should be addressed to J. M. OgaocK, 
Kneeland Street, Boston, Mass, 
, 
(12er'I'1le figures printed 'oppos'ite the 
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wrapper indicate the time to .wineh he 
has paid tleus ,"Jul. 73 " means that 
the subcription is .paia to the first of 
July, 1873, and at the rate of $2.00 a 
year a- subscriber ea,n thus tell at any 
time how his account stands The letter 
" f" indicates that the paper is sent free. 
Mary Green 2.00; E. L. Curtis 2.00; 
EXTRAORDINARY DARKNESS. 
The London News of October 24d 
says Early yesterday, -Woolwich ex- 
perienced a sudden and almost -unexam-
pled visitation of darkness. The morn-
ing,had been wet and .gloomy through-
out, but at 1 P. M., the sky was over-
cast by a dark pall, which seemed to ob-
scure every vestige of light from above. 
----The darkness was not that of a Lon-
don fog, for vista of lighted windows 
could be seen for a long distance. It 
was rather the darkness of midnight, 
but there was a reddish tint in the sky 
like that occasioned by a great fire "The 
atmosphere was very heavy and ori0,40-1 
 
ive, the rain had ceased, and the Vrt/crld 
which had been blowing from the south-
east, entirely abated. The effect was 
dismal in the extreme.—Nervous people 
encouraged the most, dread forebodings ; 
more reasonable ones attributed the darks 
ness to an eelipee of the sun, but found no 
confirmation i in the almanac. Fowlawent 
iese 
to roost, pigeons. and other birds stopped 
ees 
in their flight to seek the regareet shelter, 
and every living thing eeeiiied impressed 
by the scene. The period of intense 
gloome lasted about five minutes, when 
light gradually broke from the west, 
and, in an hour afterwards there was 
brilliant sunshine." 
nature has spoken to the human soul in 
the Bible. The great moral and Spiritual 
voice is heard around the World.— Chris-
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Rev. A. Carrasco of Madrid, who was 
lost on the Ville du Havre on his return 
from the meetings of the Evangelical 
Alliance, of which he was a member, es-
tablished the first Protestant Chuach in 
Madrid. When only sixteen years of age 
he was sentenced to the galleys for life 
on account of his religious opinions, but 
was afterward released and banished 
from Spain. Recent events admitted of 
his return to that country, where he has 
been an efficient Christian worker. 
Catholic lady who died not long 
since in Hamburg left $60,000 to the Jews 
of that city, and now there is trouble 
about the proper disposition of the money. 
Dr. Heurtley, Margaret professor of di-
vinity at Oxford, recently withdrew from 
the Oxford Union banquet because pre-
cedence was given there to Archbishop 
Manning over bishops of the English 
Church. He has issued a circular giving 
the reasons for the course he adopted. 
The Rev. Henry Brown, a Strafrodshire, 
England, clergyman, was married lately 
to the daughter of the Rev. E. T. Codd, 
vicar of Tachbrook. As the bride and 
bridegroom wer'e leaving Mr. Codd's 
house, the customary old shoes and a 
quantity of rice were thrown at them: 
Some of the missiles struck the horse, 
which bolted. The driver was thrown 
oft the box, and the carriage passed over 
him. The carriage subsequently came in 
collision, with a cab and capsized, and 
was smashed to pieces. The bridegroon-i 
was thrown out of the window, and is in 
a precarious state. The bride was not 
hurt. 
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THE DIRECTION OF PROVIDENCE. 
On a voyage in a sailing-vessel across! 
the Bay of Biscay, from -the northwest of 
Spain to the western part of France, which 
is* notoriously dangerous coast, every 
Pfetcaution was taken according to the 
ordinary methods, and even peculiar care 
was exercised, to keep the ship well to 
the westward. The result however, was, 
that when the first flash from a light-house 
on the coast was seen in a dark and stormy 
night, we found that we were close in 
with theeshore, with the wind and the cur-
rene urging us on to the rocks. It was 
an anxious night. But by God's blessing 
on skillful management, the sailors work-
ed out slowly and safely to windward, and 
we were in the open sea before daybreak. 
And why had we beeri in danger at all? 
It was ascertained afterward that some 
iron guns were in such a position on board 
that they driaw aside the needle of the 
compass, atid- prevented it from pointing 
quite truly. It is well known to scientific 
men,rttikap the question of compasses in 
shipe;naleiclontaerieron is a difficult sub-
ject, ,Anistne similar difficulty exists in 
reference to man's spiritual voyage. 
Even when there is, on the whole, the! 
steady ,desire to do right, some disturb- I 
ance may arise fro the 
the power of pre-
+ailing Motiire. Conscience itself, the ! 
'Moral compass, even while we obeyit, 
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THE INQUISITION IN RONE.--1...u.r.entt. 
mom REV. W. C. VAN NETER- 
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"Whom the gods would destroy, they 
first make mad," is being illustrated by 
the " infallible " Pio Nono. 
Father Grassi, who for thirty-six years 
performed successively the duties of 
priest, confessor, curate, mitred abbot, 
Lent-preacher, and lastly, incumbent of 
the great Basilica, Santa Maria Maggi-
ore, has cast down robes, honor, emolu-
ments, abandoned prospective promotion, 
and united with the Baptist church 
under the paatoral, care of Rev. Mr. 
Wall, of England. 
A few weeks ago, with Mr. Wall, he 
called to bid his associates farewell. It 
was a scene not to be forgotten. They 
knew well that he whom they had so 
long known, loved, and honored, was 
sincere. As a loving father he told them 
of the terrible conflict through which lie 
had passed ; why he bad given up all 
and chosen his home with a little com-
pany of Christians meeting in a tent, 
and begged them to consider well his 
reasons. All were deeply moved; and 
when be arose, they gathered around, 
embraced, and kissed him. of kin 
DISCOVERY or AMERICA—COLUMBUS 
ANTICIPATED, 
Interesting relics of the early discov-
ery of America occasionally turn up. 
At a late meeting of the Mexican Geo-
graphical Society, Mr. Bliss stated that 
some brass tablets had been lately dis-
covered in the northern part of Brazil, 
and not far from the coast, which care-
ful examination_ had shown were cos-er- 
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never matured, 
morrow) any 
No messen- 
day we left- 
Elliot, the missionary to the Indians, 
set apart whole days for the closet. Sir 
Matthew Hale, the upright judge of 
England, remarked, that nothing went 
well with him during the day, if he omit-
ted his regular and stated seasons of 
reading God's word, prayer and praise in 
the morning. Doddridee while a student 
made the most rapid advances in his 
studies, while on his knees before God in 
his closet. 
" l've heard of a man named Xavier, 
Uncle, who had great power with God 
upon this closet-work ? " 
This wonderful man spent whole hours 
in secret devotion, with the Word of God 
before him. When he Came forth his 
face shone like an angel's. This closet-
business too was the secret of Tennent's 
,,wonderful success in gospel ministration. 
"The oftener we visit the closet, for 
grace, and to make our wants known to 
the Lord, the better we shall like it, shan't 
we, Uncle ? " 
Soon it will be delightful, joyful, soul-
cheering, life-giving, our meat and our 
drink, heaven's gate to glory. We never 
take so firm hold of God as in secret. 
What a privilege to be alone with God, 
who hears prayer, and who loves to hear 
it, waits to be gracious! No wonder our 
Saviour said: " Enter into thy closet, 
and when thou haat shut the door, pray 
to thy Father who is in secret." 
so loved the world, that he gave his only 
begotten son, that whosoever believeth in 
him should not perish, but have everlast-
ing life" (John 3: 16) ; for "the blood 
of Jesus Christ his Sim cleanseth us from 
all sin,, (1 John 1: 7). "Look unto 
me, and be ye saved" (Isa. 45: 22). 
" Having, therefore, boldness to enter 
into the holiest by the blood of Jesus-let 
us come boldly unto the throne of grace, 
that we may obtain mercy, and find grace 
to help in time of need" (Heb. 10: 19; 
4: 16) ; "for by grace are we saved 
through faith ; and that not of our-
selves ; it is the gift of God" (Eph. 2: 
8). "If ye then, being evil, know how 
to give gond gifts unto your children, how 
much more shall your heavenly Father 
give the Holy Spirit to them that ask 
him ? " (Luke 11: 13). Ask, and it 
shall be given you; seek, and ye shall 
find; knock, and it shall ,be opened unto 
you" (ver. 9). 
I then knelt down with the young 
woman, and earnestly entreated that God 
would water his own omnipotent word 
with his own life-giving Spirit. I soon 
took my leave of the poor girl, begging 
her to come to me immediately if her 
brother evinced (before the 
symptoms of consciousness. 
midst, to keep beauty and sweetness ever 
before us. But we need old people as 
well. . Conservative they generally are; 
and only enough so, to put on the brakes 
where they are needed. The old trees 
in a forest contribute much to the wood-
land view. We must have both May 
and January to make the comelete year. 
Every old person is a sermon-a re- 
minder and a warning of what we are all 
coming to. But when old age is crowned 
with piety, how rich and manifold are the 
lessons which it brings to us!'The grace, 
the providence, the divine mercies which 
are represented by three-score and ten 
years are wonderful. If the limbs are 
feeble, there is the quiet testimony, and 
there is the abounding prayer. God may 
detain some of his aged children from 
their rest for many weary years, that the 
church and the world may have the bene-
fit of their prayers, There are certain 
fruits of piety which are perhaps never 
exhibited, or at least-
until old age is reached. 
Every pesiod of life has its mission- 
youth, middle age, and old age too. Old 
age does not release from responsibility. i 
It imposes duties peculiar to itself. To 
be useful in old age is the coveted blessing 
of the good, the promised privilege of 
the consecrated soul. David declares of 
those that be planted in the house of the 
Lord, " that they shall still bring forth 
fruit in old age." 
If it be given to us in declining years 
to be kept in the harness, and with una-
bated strength and undimmed eye to 
labor in the Master's vineyard, so much 
the more to be thankful for. But if we 
be compelled to retirement and compara-
tive inaction, let there be no repining ; 
but a grateful view of the dienity and 
sweetness of giving these last years to 
Christ in the very way which he himself 
has appointed. 
Let us consider the rarity of the ex- 
perience of old age :-how few know 
anything about it ! its fruit is the scarcest 
and most precious of all. It is a distinc-
tion to become old. It is a special boon, 
when old age is reached graciously, and 
when it is full of life's mellow clusters. 
Fruit in old age is the privilege: but as 
to the manner of it, it is for God to say. 
In the shape of almost miraculously pro-
longed activity, it may be with some. 
Others are tied down by infirmities ; 
sonic shut up as prisoners: then submis-
sion is the prominent grace; and the 
Advo- 
cate. 
Spirit is the Comforter.-/V. 0. Advo- 
TRACTS. 
leen e 
He who takes his boys to the beer shops, 
and trusts that they will .grow up sober, 
puts his coffee-pot on the fire and expects 
it to look bright as new tin. Men can 
not be in their senses when they brew 
with bad malt and look for good beer, or 
set a wicked example and reckon upon 
raising a reasonable family. You may 
hope and hope till your heart grows sick; 
but when yon, send your boy up Att chim-
ney, he'll come down black feeo alkeyour 
hoping. Teach a child to lie, and then 
hope that he will grow up honest; better 
put a wasp in a tar barrel and wait till he 
makes you honey. As to the next world, 
it is a great pity that men do not take a 
little more care when they talk of it. If 
a man dies drunk, somebody or other is 
sure to say, " I hope he iagene to heav-
en." It is all very well to wish it, but 
to hope it is another thing. _ Men turn 
turn their faces to hell and hope to get to 
heaven ; why don't they walk in the 
horse-pond and hope to be dry'f -Aiceies 
of heaven are solemn things, and slukild 
be tried by the word of God. A 'Man 
might as well hope, as our Lord says, to 
gather grapes of thorns,or figsAttrietles, 
as look for a happy hereafter IA: 
 tile erect 
of a bad life. There is .94,y pile Rock 4! 
build hopes on, and that, isi esest Peter, as 
the Pope says, neither is uitwsacrarnents, 
but in the merit of theereendiJesus. There 
John Ploughman rest4 titesit he is not 
afraid, for this is a firintofetSting, which 
neither life nor death cati‘'Shiske ; but 1 
must not turn preacher, 83 please remem-
ber that presumption is a. ladder which 
will break the mounter's neck, and don't 
try it as you love your soul-JohnPlough-
man's 7alk. 
Were I to preach a-Serinoni this text 
would be most suggestive : "Make 
straight paths for your feet, lest that-
which is lame be turned out of the way ; 
but let it rather be healed." "A straight 
line is the shortest distance between two 
given points," and a straight path is the 
shortest road between earth and Heaven. 
To draw a straight line between two 
given points, fix the eye on the farthest 
one, and firrely guide the hand to it. 
With the eye on the star of Bethlehem, 
as Christ walked the earth, living above 
it, so may we. If our attention is turned 
downward to note the effect of our path-
way, to institute comparisons between our 
footsteps and those of our neighbors, we 
may be certain the path is crooked, how-
ever correct i may appear to us. The 
flowers of life that we may gather with 
impunity grow by the side of the straight 
path. Our loving Father has made the 
choicest flowers bloom where his 'dear 
children can pluck them without stepping 
asides ...Sense flowers seen at a distance 
may eopeer_ to rival those that grow in 
the Christian's path, but if tempted to step 
aside to gather them, our hands are de-
filed with the poison they convey to the 
touch. The fruits of Eden were not 
fairer than those God has -suffered_ to 
grow close by the path of Ahe.Christian 
toiler, and it may be plucked more easily 
while in the straight and narrow way. 
Day by day, minute by minute, our 
footsteps indicate the line of our life path; 
aye more, the path to be trodden by 
those that come after us. A Christian 
mother, .edrnest in the performance . of 
many duties, now grieves over the eon-
duct of -her wayward' child. -",Why 
should my daughter this sin, when all my 
life I have pointed out the right way." 
Did you tread the path of purity when 
you familiarized her with sin by your 
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the village. 
In a few years, the poor girl's sorrow 
and her dying brother's awful state van-
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unto me void" (Isa. 55: 11). About 
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" Oh, ma'am, how can I express my 
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"0 enter thou thy closet then, 
And shut on thee thy door; 
Exclude the world and welcome Christ, 
The guest for evermore." 
"Was it for our imitation or example 
that Jesus retired so often into secret 
places to pray, or was it because he de-
lighted in talking with his heavenly 
Father, Uncle ?." 
Both, dearest, Christ is our great Ex-
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delight to commune with his Father in 
heaven, as it should be ours. He spent 
whole nights in secret devotion. At oth-
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day and went out into a solitary place 
and there prayed." 
"Are there not very many folks, little 
and big, Uncle, that have no closet or 
place of retirement, to talk with God, 
read the Bible, meditate and pray ? " 
By the closet, dear Mary, we under-
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deed, that God alone may witness the 
solemn transaction between us and him-
self. It may be a retired room in a 
house, a barn, a stable, in a field, a forest, 
under the shady oak or sycamore tree, on 
the high mountains or any other place: 
Christ's closet was a mountain, Isaac's a 
field, Peter's the house-top. God is not 
confined to places. 
"My closet! this I need to seek- 
It everywhere is found; 
Where e'er my Saviour's footsteps lead 
I find it holy ground." 
"Don't closet-work or talking with God 
a good deal, alone lead on or pave the 
way to other good and beautiful things 
in doors and out, Uncle ? " 
Nothing like it, child ; sparks, heaven-
ly, kindling in the soul at early dawning 
in reading God's word and lifting hely 
hands to the hills whence cometh our 
help, when no eyes see us but God's, are 
quite sure to rekindle and sparkle glow-
ingly in the family, around the family 
altar, in the social circle, in the great 
congregation: Begin the day in prayer 
and we end it in praise. 
"I've heard some one say, Uncle, that 
prayer and provender never hinder 
journeying but rather facilitate it." 
"The closet, dearest, is the Christian's 
arsenal, a spiritual ref ository of arms 
whether for land or naval service. Here's 
the place for equipments, for putting on 
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it. Eph. 6: 10, 19. No one old or 
young should step foot from this arsenal 
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4' Restraining prayer, we cease to fight." 
" Can children, or little girls like me, 
Uncle, put on the heavenly armor and 
burnish it brightly as the big folks can ? " 
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my sweet niece Mary Newton, who let 
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"is there any limitation, as to time, 
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There can't be, dearest. The whole_ 
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FRUIT IN OLD AGE. 
Morrisville, 
Martin Luther said: "The more he 
had to do, the more frequently and fer-
yeetly he prayed." Once he remarked, 
"I've so much to do to-day that I shall 
have to pray three hours." Whitfield 
was on his face in his closet, whole days, 
wrestling in prayer for grace to stem the 
tide of incoming iniquity. John Welsh 
of Scotland often leaped from his bed at 
midnight and wrapped a plaid about him 
and wrestled with ,he Lord, till break of 
day; and when he entered the pulpit, it I order that 
was fire, fire, FIRE !-the sword of the work ; for 
large experience may 
young, and the good of the past 
down to the present and the future. 
The world needs the children; and 
iGod takes them, and sets them in our. 
A sense of uselessness is one of the 
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mon complaint of old people that they 
feel themselves to be a burden and in the 
way, and they are no longer capable of 
active service in-the cause of God. 
But it is not for them to argue about 
the providence _which still keeps them in 
the world. For themselves it may be in 
patience may have her perfect 
others, in order that their 
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be useful the 
brought 
by it the salvation of a soul may be secured. dying sinner. His sister listened for his 
breathing; she raised his hand and it 
The best legacy from parent to ehikl is I fell heavily at his side. " Alas ! " said 
the record of an upright Path in life. A 
stranger, and without money, in San she, "it is too late, he is quite insensible; 
am sorry, ma'am, I have troubled you 
Francisco:W.-as ialetlfikie of its wealthy 
ea. s 
to come." " He still breathes," I re- 
and citizens most Cordially. 
re-
" Your father was very kind to me when plied: "nothing is too hard for God; we 
 
a poor orphan boy, aaid most happy will speak to him; the entrance of thy 
should I be to acknowledge the indebted- Word, 0 my 'God, giveth life. We will 
ness," said the noble man. In sickness even at the eleventh hour use the Divine 
and trials he proved his sincerity, and Word ; and then we will pray the Eter- 
nal Spirit to seal it upon his heart." 
thus returned a kindness tendered by 
I 
one long since gone to his reward. A then slowly repeated the following 
 
beautiful, educated and noble young lady, texts close to the car of the poor man: 
 
day by day grew paler, and shrunk from "The soul that sinneth, it shall die" 
 
the society which she was so well (Ezek. 18: 4). "All have sinned and 
fitted to adorn and bless. Her father's come short of the glory of God" (Rom. 
 3 : 23)• " Sin is the traesgression of 
guilt was discussed in every household. t 
She had loved him most fondly, was the law" (1 John 3: 4). "Whosoever 
 shall keep the whole law, and yet offend 
-in one point, he is guilty of all" (Jas. 
2: 10). "The heart is deceitful above 
all things, and desperately wicked" (Jer. 
17: 9). "Every imagination of the 
thoughts of man's heart is only evil con-
tinually" (Gen. 6: 5). "The thought 
of foolishness is in " (Prow. 24: 9). 
"Except a man be born again, he cannot 
see the kingdom of God" (John 3: 3). 
"Turn ye, turn ye; for why will ye 
die ? " (Ezek. 33 : 11). 
I next began to pour in the balm for a 
wounded spirit. "Ho, every one that 
thirsteth, come ye to the waters, and he 
that hath no money: come ye, buy and 
eat; yea, come, buy wine and milk with-
out money and without price" (Isa. 45: 
1.) "Come now, and let us reason to-
gether, saith the Lord: though your sins 
be as scarlet, they shall be as white as 
snow; though they be red like crimson, 
they shall be as wool "(Isa. 1: 18). 
to "A new heart also will I give you, and a 
new spirit will I put within you: and I 
will take" away the stony heart out of 
your flesh, and I will give you an heart 
of flesh" (Ezek. ,36 : 26). "For God 
Spirit quick and powerful. 
" Where'er it entered in, 
'Twas sharper than a two-edged sword, 
To stay the man of sin." 
-D. F. NEWTON. 
New York. 
NOT ALONE. 
I cannot be alone; 
Where'er I go I find 
Around my steps the presence threw's. 
6c the Eternal Mind. 
Be liver in- al' my thoughts ; 
His home is in my heart; 
There is no loneliness for me; 
I never live apart. 
I sometimes go from men, 
Far in the silent woods; 
But He is with ma even then 
In shady olitudes. 
The fellow of my walks, 
Comparion ever nigh, 
He fills the solitary place 
With love and sympathy. 
I cannot be alone; 
Where'er I go I find 
Around toy steps the preesece thrown, 
Of the Eternal Mind. 
-Prof. Upham. 
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CLOSET- Vir CRK-THE WORE. 
CHIT-CHATS OF LITTLE MARY AND UNCLE. 
" When thou prayes.t enter into thy closet"- 
Matt. 6: 6. 
" 0 blest retreat ! to it I flee 
From earth-born care and strife; 
To hold sweet fellowship with thee, 
My God, my light, and life ! " 
" What think you, dear Uncle, of 
secret prayer or prayer when we are 
alone-shut up by ourselves, when no-
body sees us but God ?" 
It is wonderful, a wonder of wonders, 
and it doeth wonders, things marvellous! 
It soars above the sky, mounts to the 
third heavens. It kills and makes alive, 
unbars prison doors, stops tbe mouths of 
lions, quenches the violence of fire, turns 
lions into lambs. Esau was a lion, his 
heart was full of vengeance, blood, and 
murder, when coming with four hundred 
men to destroy root, and branch the fami-
ly .of Jacob his brother. His heart of 
hatred melted into love the tenderest, 
while Jacob was wrestling with the Angel 
in secret, saying: "I will not let thee go 
except thou bless me." Turn to Gen. 
82d chapter and see. 
The prayers of Abraham would have 
saved Sodom, had there been ten right-
eous in that wicked city. The face of 
Moses shone glisteningly, when he came 
down from the Mount after talking with 
God`forty days, so that he put a veil on 
it; his face shone so brightly and heavenly 
the children of Israel were aft aid to come 
nigh , him. Blessed man! Exod. 34: 
29-35. 
" Does talking with God a good deal 
make faces shine, Uncle ?" 
Beautifully! the faces of both little 
folks aod big, nothing like it. And the 
more frequently we. talk with God, hold 
sweet and heavenly interviews with him 
in secret, the brighter and more beauti-
ful will our faces shine. 
Again, who caused the sun and moon 
to stand still so that they " basted not to 
go down about a whole day" in answer 
to secret prayer? Josh. 10: 12-14. 
How did king Hezekiah stay the army 
of stile blasphemous Sennacharib, an hun-
dred &it. 'Sc ore and five thousand in ofie 
night. Was it by fire-arms, booming 
cannon, sword or spear? Look and see, 
dear. Mary. 2 Kings 19: 15,16. 
"But don't it say in the Bible, Uncle, 
that the angel of the Lord -did the work, 
that ho went out and smote in the camp 
this great army ? " 
:Very true, dearest, but was not this 
terrible slaughter of the Assyrians in an-
swer to the prayer of the good Hezekiah 
while he was alone with God? 2 Kings 
19: 19. 
"1 see it now-Uncle, please proceed; 
excuse my interruption." 
Was not Elisha alone with God when 
he raised to life the dead Shunamite ? 
"He shut the door, and prayed unto the 
Lord."-2 Kings 4: 33. 
Peep in the lion's den; see Daniel 
sleeping, calmly, sweetly, peacefully amid 
the devouring, ferocious lions! How 
came he there? Who shut the lions 
months and kept them quiet, gentle as 
lambs, harmless as doves? Read if you 
please Dan. 6th. 
"Was it because Daniel was good and 
prayed much in secret, that led God to 
send angels to shut the lions' mouths, 
Uncle? " 
Daniel was a holy man, and did his ut-
most to please God in everything: He 
had moreover stated seasons for closet 
duties, andadhered to them unflinchingly, 
lions or no lions. Three times a day, he 
kneeled before God, prayed and gave 
thanks, come life or come death ! Again, 
sweet heart, cast your, eyes into that 
fiery furnace heated seven times hotter 
than it was wont to be heated. Whom 
seest thou? Three men in the midst of 
the fire, and the form of the fourth is 
like .the Son of God! Was an hair of 
their heads singed, or even the smell of 
fire on them? Dan 3: 27. These men 
lied near to God, bowed not to images 
made of silver or gold, wood or stone. It 
was in secret with God that they obtained 
the martyr spirit. " Go thou and do 
likewise," rings in the ear of every true 
follower of the Lamb slain. These are 
mere specks or shreds of things I could 
tea you if time permitted of what closet-
work will do. 
"Don't- most all good folks, both little 
and big, talk a good deal with God in 
secret, Uncle? " 
None are exempt, child,-they can't 
be who shine as lights. The closet is the 
secret of secrets, the philosopher's stone, 
that turns everything into gold.