WHEN WE WEKE WITH HIM IN THE HOLY MOUNT. 
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The Family Altar. 
'O come, let us worship and bow down ; let us kneel liefore our 
Maker!" 
Come to the place of prayer! 
Parents and children, come and kneel before 
Your God, and witli united hearts adore 
Him whose alone your life and being are. 
Come to the place of prayer! 
Ye band of loving hearts: O come and raise, 
With one consent, the grateful song of praise 
To Him who blessed vou with a lot so fair. 
Come in the morning hour ! 
Who hath raised you from the dream of night ? 
Whose hand hath poured around the cheering light ? 
Come and adore that kind and heavenly power. 
Come at the close of day! 
Ere weary nature sinks in gentle rest; 
dome, and let your sins be here confessed ; 
Come, and for his protecting mercy pray. 
Has sorrow's withering blight 
Your dearest hopes in desolation laid, 
And the once cheerful home in giooin array'd ? 
Yet pray, lor he can turn the gloom to light. 
Has sickness entered in 
Your peaceful mansion ? Then let your prayer ascend 
On wings of faith, to that all-gracious Friend 
Who came to heal the bitter pains of sin. 
Come to the place of prayer! 
At morn, at night—in gladness, or in grief. 
Surround the throne of grace; there seek relief, 
Or pay your free and grateful homage there. 
So in the world above, 
Parents and children there may meet at last, 
When this their weary pilgrimage is past, 
To mingle then their joyful notes of love. 
T?e Work of the Messiah. 
BY RIDLEY H. HERSCHELL, 
PASTOR OF A CHURCH OF CONVERTED JEWS IN LONDON, ENG. 
(Continued from our last.) 
AMONG the secondary causes that have con-
tributed to the rejection of Christianity by the 
Jews, a very prominent one is, the misinter-
pretations of the Old Testament Scriptures, 
that have prevailed so generally as to give 
them an impression that such erroneous views 
are " part and parcel " of Christianity. Among 
these misinterpretations the most gross and 
glaring is that"which asserts, that the promises 
made to the Jewish nation in the Scriptures 
delivered to them, have been all fulfilled, or 
are in the process of being fulfilled, to the 
Gentile church.* 
The evil of such a mode of 
interpretation, as far as the Jews are concerned, 
can hardly be overrated. It is not merely their 
national pride that is wounded, as some main-
tain ; it is that their sense of truth, of justice, 
of reverence for the Almighty, is outraged ; 
because they feel it is directly charging the God 
of Israel with a He. 
I shall, not repeat the arguments that have 
been used in a previous part of this workt res-
pecting the promises to Israel as a nation , but 
in briefly noticing the predictions respecting 
Messiah and His work that are contained in 
the prophecies of Isaiah, we shall meet with 
many passages of Scripture that reiterate these 
promises. 
There was a time when it would have been 
very unnecessary to tell my Jewish brethren 
that every blessing promised them was to come 
10 and through the Messiah. 
This, for a long 
Period in their history, was never denied. 
But 
the case is now altered. 
Their desire to get 
j"'d of the doctrine of atonement and mediation, 
leads them to prefer the notion of dealing with 
God directly, without the intervention of a 
Messiah ; feeling conscious that the admission 
a Messiah is a great step towards the ad 
. * We say, will be fulfilled to the pious of that na-
tlon» hi the new earth.—Ed. Her. 
t See " Mystery of the Gentile Dispensation."* 
* 1 his we have already given in previous numbers 
—Ed. Her. 
mission of a Mediator. 
All this, of course, is 
not avowed; to begin openly to deny a Messi-
ah, when this had, for many centuries, been the 
leading idea of Judaism, would be very impoli-
tic, and would greatly shock the orthodox ; on 
this account even the most violent reformers do 
not venture to deny the doctrine of the Mes-
siah, in words. 
But, though not formally de-
nied, the doctrine is so completely kept in abey-
ance, both by reformed and orthodox Jews, that 
it is virtually abandoned. 
I, on the contrary, 
maintain with the old orthodox Jews, that all 
the glorious things predicted of Israel refer to 
" the days of the Messiah;" that every deliver-
ance promised by God is to be wrought by the 
Messiah ; that when he says, " I will do it'," it 
is by His " servant, whom he upholdeth, his 
elect in whom his soul delighteth," (Isa. 41:1,) 
that He doeth it. 
The early part of Tsaiah's prophecy was de-
livered in the reign of Uzziah, (or Azariah, as 
he is called in 2 Kings 15,) king of Judah.— 
When we consider the outward condition of 
the kingdom at the time this prophecy was 
given, we see how painful the office of the seer 
must have been; how he must have been re-
garded as a " man of strifes," as one 
who 
" spake parables;" and more painful than all, 
the message delivered to him by God for the in 
struction of those among whom he dwelt, must 
have been received by the great majority of 
those who heard it as the ravings of a diseased 
and melancholy mind. 
The outward condition 
of Judah during the reigns of Uzziah and his 
son Jotham, was very prosperous. 
Uzziah 
was not only victorious over his enemies, but 
by his wisdom and power he brought his king-
dom into a state of prosperity it had never en-
joyed since the days of Solomon. He not only 
" built towns, and fortified them," but he culti-
vated the arts of peace as well as of war; " he 
digged many wells, for he had much cattle, 
both in the low country and in the plains ; hus-
bandmen also, and vine-dressers in the moun-
tains, and in Carmel ; for he loved husbandry." 
2 Chron. 26:10. 
In the early part of his reign 
he sought the Lord ; " and as long as he sought 
the Lord, God made him to prosper." 2 Chron. 
26:5. 
One fatal error, however, he committed 
at the beginning of his reign, which was, proba-
bly, the germ of all the evil that was afterwards 
developed ; " the high places were not removed; 
the people sacrificed and burnt incense still on 
the high places." 2 Kings 15:4. 
This root of 
bitterness, this mixture of true and false reli-
gion, produced in time the evil condition as to 
spiritual things, of which Isaiah complains. 
Uzziah himself seems to have been led away 
from his trust in the Lord, by trusting to an 
arm of flesh. He had a standing army of three 
hundred and seven thousand five hundred men, 
furnished with all the appliances of war ; " and 
he made in Jerusalem engines invented by cun-
ning men, to be on the towers and upon the 
bulwarks, to shoot arrows and great stones 
withal. 
And his name spread far abroad; for 
he was marvellously helped till he was strong. 
But when he was strong, his heart was lifted 
up to his destruction : 
for he transgressed 
against the Lord his God, and went into the 
temple of the Lord, to burn incense upon the 
altar of incense." 2 Chron. 26:13-16. 
The form which Uzziah's transgression took 
is very remarkable. 
Had he been ensnared by 
the riches and pleasures of this life—had he 
multiplied his horses and chariots, and got him 
singing men and singing women, like Solo-
mon, it would have been but the natural course 
of the 
fleshly 
mind. 
But why intrude .into 
the priestly office ? 
I think it not improbable, 
that Uzziah's prosperity, and the 
flourishing 
condition.into which he had brought bis king-
dom, may have puffed him up with the notion 
that ht was the promised Messiah ; and though 
it was after his time that Zechariah recorded 
that.Messiah should be a "priest upon his 
throne," yet one of the inspired song^ of his 
ancestor David, spoke of a priest" after the or-
der of Melchizedec," who was both king and 
priest; and this union of the kingly, priestly, 
and prophetical office in the person of Messiah, 
was necessarily implied in his being the " proph-
et like unto Moses," 
Although Aaron and his 
sons were afterwards invested with the priestly 
office, on account of Moses' inability to bear 
the whole burden alone, yet, at first, Moses 
was at once prophet, priest, and ruler in Israel. 
Such, it is probable, did Uzziah now suppose 
himself to be. 
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Filled with spiritual pride and vain-glory, he 
entered the temple of the Lord, and boldly 
seized'the censer. 
But, whatever might be 
the general religious declension, there was a 
faithful band of priests, who, in the discharge 
of their duty to God, knew no man after the 
flesh; 
and who would not permit even royalty 
itself to intrude into the affairs of God's house. 
"Azariah, the priest, went in after him, and 
with him fourscore priests of the Lord that 
were valiant men ; and they withstood Uzziah, 
the king, and said unto him. It pertaineth not 
unto thee, Uzziah, to burn incense unto the 
Lord, but to the priests, the sons of Aaron, 
that are consecrated to burn incense; go out of 
the sanctuary, for thou hast trespassed: nei-
ther shall it be for thine honor from the Lord 
God." 
While a blustering contempt for all au-
thority and control is a degrading trait in fallen 
humanity, a manly declaration of truth, regard-
less whom it may offend when the honor of 
God is concerned, is one of its noblest exhibi-
These " valiant men," I doubt not, wil-
tions. 
lingly rendered to the Csesar of the day the 
things that were Cesar's; but they would not 
render to Caesar the things that were God's. 
:" Then Uzziah was wroth, and had a censer in 
his hand to burn incense; and while he was 
wroth with tbe priests, the leprosy even rose 
up in his forehead before the priests in the 
house of the Lord, from beside the incense al-
tar. 
And Azariah, the chief priest, and all the 
priests, looked upon him, and beheld he was 
leprous in his forehead, and they thrust him 
out from thence ; yea, hinjself also hasted to go 
out. because the Lord had smitten him. 
And 
Uzziah, the king, was a leper unto the day oj" 
his death, and dwelt in a several house." 
Chron 26:17-21. 
Sad termination to spiritual 
ambition and carnal pride! 
Josephus mentions, probably on the authority 
of some tradition, that the " earthquake in the 
days of Uzziah," mentioned by Zechariah and 
Amos, (Zech. 14:5; Amos 1:1,) took place at 
the time when Uzziah thus intruded into the 
priestly office. 
Let us, now, keeping in view the condition 
of the kingdom of Judah at the time, proceed 
to glance at the first portion of Isaiah's prophe-
cy ; contained in chaps. 1-5. 
The description 
he gives of the state of the people is that of 
being sensual and worldly, combined with a 
profession of religion. 
Their land was full of 
silver and gold, horses and chariots, and "plea 
sant pictures ;" they were " lofty and haughty." 
And yet they offered a " multitude of sacri 
fices;" 
the Lord was "full of the burnt-offer 
ings of rams, and the fat of fed beasts." 
And 
was He satisfied with this scrupulous attention 
to outward observances ? did He consider the 
ordinances He had Himself appointed, as pos-
sessing any intrinsic value? 
No; he pours 
contempt upon them. 
" Bring no more vain 
oblations; incense is an abomination unto me; 
the new moons and Sabbaths, the calling of as-
semblies, I cannot away with; it is iniquity, 
even the solemn meeting." 
This evil state of 
society brought no immediate judgment; but 
the eye of the seer beheld it as the cause why, 
some centuries after, the "country should be 
desolate, and the cities burnt with fire ;" that 
"strangers should devour their land in their 
presence," even as it is in Judea at this day. 
Many vicissitudes have taken place since the 
days of the prophet Isaiah ; the Jews 
have 
been driven out, have returned, and been driven 
out again ; but the prophetic eye is so riveted 
by the grand consummation, that it takes no 
note of progressive events. 
It overleaps all 
intermediate occurrences, all partial 
deliver-
ances, and contemplates the time when this 
evil shall be purged away by the Redeemer ; 
when Zion's " judges shall be restored as at 
the first, and her counsellors as at tbe begin-
ning;" when she "shall be redeemed with 
judgment, and her returning ones with right-
eousness." 
In the days of the prophet, the 
nation and the king gloried in their mighty ar-
my, equipped with " shields, and spears, and 
habergeons, and bows;" but the glory of the 
latter days was to be something 
very dif-
erent; 
it was not 
to 
consist in " making 
war with mighty power," as Uzziah's " mighty 
men 
of 
vaTor " did, 
but in learning "the 
ways of the Lord, and walking in His paths;" 
and 
then, 
instead 
of 
glorying 
in. instru-
ments of destruction, they will "beat their 
swords into plough-shares, and their spears 
into pruning-hooks; nation shall not lift up 
sword against nation, neither shall they learn 
war any -more." 
I have elsewhere noticed that the prophets, 
m all nearer and minor events, whether of 
judgment or deliverance, see, only the grand 
and 
final 
consummation. 
This they divide 
into its two great acts, the one consisting of 
trouble and conflict, the other of deliverance 
and glory; the former of these being generally 
called, "the great aud terrible day of the 
Lord ;" the account of which invariably termi-
nates with a recital of the glory which is im-
mediately to succeed it. 
From the beginning 
of chap." 1 to chap 2:5, we have these two 
subjects in the order above stated. 
In this in-
stance, however, .Tudah's sin and punishment 
are dwelt on at length ; while " the great day " 
is only briefly hinted at in chap. 1:24: "Ah ! 
I will ease me of mine adversaries, and avenge 
me of mine enemies." 
But in the following 
vision, which begins at chap. 2:6, and contin-
ues to the end of chap. 4, we find the terrors 
of the " day of the Lord " detailed at great 
length ; while the vision, as usual, concludes 
with the glory of the latter days. 
It is impossible to read the account of the 
social state of the kingdom of Judah as nar-
rated in Isa. 3, and again taken up and enlarged 
upon in chap. 5, without seeing many points 
of resemblance to the present state of society 
in this country. 
The covetous desire to41 join 
house to house, and lay field to field;" the 
sumptuous 
luxuriance of feasts, while 
men 
" regard not the work of the Lord, neither con-
sider the operations of his hands;" and the 
fastidious refinement and luxurious vanity pre-
valent among the female part of the popula-
tion, may all find a parallel in the present day, 
even in this land, where there is more know-
ledge of truth than in any country under hea-
ven! 
The elite bf female society in the capital 
Britain, may learn in the description of the 
"daughters of Zion " in the time of Judah's 
outward prosperity and glory, that excessive 
pride, and vanity in apparel, are mentioned 
among the things that bring the anger of the 
Lord ^against a nation, and precede its down-
fall ; and the millionaires, 
who pride themselves 
on astonishing the world by the great wealth 
and vast amount of houses and lands of which 
they are possessed, may learn from the same 
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portion of Holy Writ, that they are not making 
to themselves a friend of the mammon of un-
righteousness, but converting it into their own 
and their country's bitterest enemy. 
^ As Uzziah mistook himself for the priestly 
King promised to Israel, it is probable that 
some of those who at that time " looked for re-
demption in Israel," entertained the same views 
in regard to him, and may have had their hopes 
disappointed, and their faith shaken, by his dis-
grace and death. 
To comfort such, the Lord 
vouchsafed a glorious vision to Isaiah, " in the 
year that king Uzziah died." Isa. 6:1. 
In this 
vision he " saw the Lord ['3TK] sitting upon a 
throne, high and lifted up." 
We believers in 
Christ, who receive the later revelation made 
by God to man, know that this was a manifest-
ation of the true " priest after the order of 
Melchizedec," the kingly priest, John 12:41. 
The effect of this vision upon the prophet is 
very remarkable. 
The future glory of Israel 
under the reign of " the King, the Lord of 
hosts," when not Israel only, but the whole 
earth, shall be filled with His glory, was, for 
the time, entirely forgotten by Isaiah. 
An 
overwhelming sense of his own sinfulness, 
such as must ever accompany a powerful mani-
festation of God's glory, caused him to cry out, 
" Woe is me !" 
And what is the comfort held 
out to him while in this state of conscious guilt 
and self-abasement ? 
Simply the Gospel—the 
good message of pardon through atonement. 
One of the seraphim touched his lips with a 
" live coal," part of the sacrificial fire taken 
from the altar, on which the atonement had 
been offered, and pronounced these cheering 
words : " Lo, this hath touched thy lips; and 
thy iniquity is taken away, and thy sin purged," 
or atoned for; the word translated purged, 
be-
ing 13J, the word always used for atone. 
When 
thus made sensible of forgiving love, then was 
the prophet ready to run in the way of God's 
commandments with an enlarged 
heart: 
heard the voice of the Lord, saying, Whom 
shall I send, and who will go for us ? 
Then 
said I, Here am I, send me." Isa. 6:8. 
The concluding prediction of this chapter is 
very remarkable. 
The Lord foretels to Isaiah 
the blindness and rejection of the Jews. 
The 
prophet understands the promises of God too 
well to suppose this rejection to be final; he 
therefore asks, " Lord, how long ? 
And he 
answered, Until the cities be wasted without 
inhabitant, and the houses without man, and 
the land be utterly desolate." Isa. 6:11. 
Such 
is the present state of Canaan. 
Is not then 
their term of rejection nearly 
accomplished? 
and will not the receiving of them again soon 
take place ?*—(To be 
continued.) 
Faith at Christ's Coming. 
" Nevertheless- when the Son of Man cometh, 
shall He find Faith on the Earth."—Luke 18:8. 
The evidence that there is a God, and that 
He hears the cry of His dependent children on 
earth, and supplies all their wants, is as con-
clusive to the eye of faith, as the father's hand, 
or the judges authority is seen, felt, and realized 
daily in the different occurrences of life by our 
physical senses ; yet our Saviour more than in-
timates that when he comes again, he will not 
find faith on the earth. 
We presume he means 
strong, living, 
consistent faith. 
We will con-
sider, 
First. The supposed condition of the world 
when the Son of Man shall come; viz: with 
out living, strong, consistent faith. 
1. The power or life of faith. 
Faith now 
supplies the strength which men lost in the fall. 
Under the legal economy, or Mosaic dispensa-
tion, faith possessed almost an unlimited power. 
Jacob by the strong arm of faith held the angel, 
and would not let him go. 
Hence the angel 
said—" For as a prince hast thou power with 
God, and with men, and hast prevailed." 
The 
apostle, in adverting to the character of a host 
of ancient worthies, says—" Who through faith 
subdued kingdoms, wrought righteousness, ob-
tained promises, stopped the mouths of lions, 
quenched the violence of fire, escaped the edge 
of the sword, out of weakness were 
made 
strong, waxed valiant in fight, turned to flight 
the armies of the aliens, women received their 
dead bodies raised to life again," &c. 
Those 
mighty and miraculous deeds were performed 
by the exercise of faith in God, through the 
grace of a promised Messiah. 
Nor can 
rationally suppose that this Divine principle 
would lose its power and efficacy under the 
sacred influence of the Gospel. 
In contrasting 
* The prophet teaches (v. 13) that only a tenth 
part shall return, which may be the proportion of 
that nation which shall arise in the resurrection 
Ed. Her. 
the legal and evangelical dispensations, 
the 
apostle says—"For if the ministration of con-
demnation be glory, much more doth the min-
istration of righteousness exceed in glory." 2 
Cor. 3:9. 
Our Saviour in describing the faith 
of the Gospel day, 3ays, " For verily I say unto 
you, if ye have faith as a grain of mustard seed, 
ye shall say unto this mountain, Remove hence 
to yonder place, and it shall remove ; and noth-
ingshallbe impossible unto you." Matt. 17:20. 
Again, " If thou canst believe, all things are 
possible to him that believeth." Mark 9:23. 
And when the Lord Jesus commissioned His 
disciples to go into all the world and preach the 
Gospel, He added—" He that believeth and is 
baptized shall be saved, and he that believeth 
not shall be damned." 
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Can we now find an unwavering and consist-
ent belief, or faith in thq attributes of God ? 
say His omnipresence. Where can we find that 
faith which uniformly realizes that great truth, 
Thou God seest me?" 
Who believes that 
God hears every word he speaks, and that he 
is constantly in his immediate presence ? Where 
shall we find that individual, who says or does 
nothing which he would not say and do if the 
Lord Jesus were personally present ? 
Can he 
be found on earth ? 
We may hope, but alas ! 
our fears rise above our hopes. 
Further, where shall we find the man who 
fully and consistently believes God's holy word? 
We must believe all that is written in God's 
book, or it will profit us nothing. 
Who really 
and constantly believes the following declara-
tion ? " But the day of the Lord will come as 
a thief in the night; in the which the heavens 
will pass away with a great noise, and the ele-
ment^ shall melt with fervent heat, and the 
earth also, and the works that are therein shall 
be burned up." 2 Peter 3:10. 
As that mo-
mentous day will come as a thief in the night, 
we should expect it this night—the next hour, 
but who does ? 
Alas ! how few there are, who 
live and act as if they were even willing to see 
the Lord Jesus come. 
Had even a stranger 
have informed us that a band of incendiaries 
would burn down our house one night during 
the next week, what a deep impression it would 
have made cm our mind ; it would drive peace 
and sleep far away unless we were well pre-
pared to meet the event; but when God speaks, 
and makes a more awful declaration, we feel 
but little concerned about the event; perhaps 
we retire to our bed unprepared to meet that 
solemn doom which will come on us as a thief, 
and may come this night. 
The apostle says—" For we walk by faith, 
not by sight," and " whatever is not of faith is 
sin." 2 Cor. 5:7; Rom. 14:23. Thus every act 
of our life, should be an act of faith, believing 
confidently that it will please God. " Whether 
therefore ye eat or drink, or whatsoever ye do, 
do all to the glory of God." 1 Cor. 10:31. 
0 
how few there are now on earth who live by 
faith; who regard not the opinion of men; 
neither their own secular interest, but believe 
confidently that what they say and do will 
please the Lord Jesus Christ-, and benefit the 
human family ! 
All these things living, con 
sistent faith fully realizes. 
But can we find 
its existence on earth ? 
Secondly. 
The coming of the Son of Man. 
We may inquire into the design, the manner, 
and the time of His coming. 
1st. The design. 
It is presumable that the 
great object of Christ's second coming, will be 
to establish His kingdom on earth in peace, and 
truth ; when individual and universal righteous-
ness shall obtain. 
Then, and not until then, 
will God's will be done on earth as it is in 
heaven. 
In that happy day, all mankind shall dwell 
together as one great family of God on earth; 
nor will there be one discordant sound or sen-
timent heard among men, any more than those 
sounds are heard among the multitudes in 
heaven. 
The Lord Jesus taught His disciples 
and followers to pray for this glorious era, by 
using that comprehensive petition, " Thy will 
be done on earth, as it is done in heaven." 
Our 
faith, however, has been very weak, and our 
work, (in regard to doing God's will as it is 
done in heaven) has been even more defective. 
Hence we have ceased ardently to desire the 
consummation of Christ's great work of re 
demption, either in our own souls, unless it 
should be effected near the close of life, on the 
brink of the grave. 
And its universal effect, 
we have placed far, far away, even at some re 
mote period of the world's history, which we 
are quite willing shall not be in our day. 
The prophets have 
spoken 
in the most 
elevated and glowing strains 
in 
regard 
to 
the Messiah's kingdom and reign on earth. 
When nation shall not lift up sword against 
nation, neither shall they learn war any more, 
but their swords shall be beat into plough shares, 
and their spears into pruning hooks. 
When 
the lion and the lamb shall lie down together, 
and nothing shall hurt or destroy in all God's 
holy mountain. 
In the New Testament, Christ's coming and 
kingdom is spoken of in exalted terms—" For 
the Son of Man shall come in the glory of His 
Father, with His artels; and then shall He 
reward every man according to his works." 
Matt. 16:27. "When Christ who is our life shall 
appear, then shall we also appear with Him in 
glory." Col. 3:4. 
" So Christ was once offered 
to bear the sins of many; and unto them that 
look for Him shall He appear the second time 
without sin unto salvation." Heb. 9 28. 
Texts 
might be multiplied in regard to this subject; I 
will add but one more. 
" And the seventh 
angel sounded ; and there were great voices in 
heaven, saying, the kingdoms of this world are 
become the kingdoms of our Lord, and of his 
Christ, and He shall reign forever and ever." 
Rev. 11:15. 
2d. The manner of His coming. 
As He 
went into heaven, so will He come in like man-
ner again; so said the angels to the astonished 
disciples. 
" And while they looked steadfastly 
towards heaven as he went up, behold, two 
men stood by them in white apparel; which 
also said, Ye men of Galilee, why stand ye 
gazing up into heaven ? 
This same Jesus 
which is taken up from you into heaven, shall 
so come in like manner, as ye have seen Him 
go into heaven." Acts 1:10,11. All consistent 
Christians believe that Christ ascended up into 
heaven in the same body in which He appeared 
to His disciples at different times after His res-
urrection. 
Therefore, it is fairly presumable 
that He will come personally. Again. " Behold 
He cometh with clouds; and every eye shall 
see Him, an<i they also which pierced Him; 
and all kindreds of the earth shall wail because 
of Him. 
Even so, Amen." Rev. 1:7. 
The objector may say that Christ cannot 
come personally, as in that case He could not 
be omnipresent—that every eye could not be-
hold Him on earth if He were confined to a 
physical location1 
These difficulties exist not 
with an omnipotent God. 
Nor should we limit 
the Holy One of Israel in this day of wonderful 
—almost miraculous light. 
Fallible, ignorant 
men can now regulate and control the magnetic 
fluid so perfectly and mysteriously, that distance 
is almost annihilated, and those who are separ-
ated by hundreds and thousands of miles, can 
converse together! 
It is not however important that we should 
either know, or be able to define the manner of 
Christ's coming; it is enough for us to know 
that He will come ; the manner we leave to a 
God of infinite wisdom and omnipotent power. 
3d. The time. 
Man should not presume to 
be wise above that which is written. 
Secret 
things belong to God, and those which are re-
vealed, to us and our children. 
As God has 
wisely and mercifully concealed from man the 
day of his dissolution, so has He seen good to 
conceal from us the time of His coming. Christ 
has plainly informed us that it will be as a thief 
in the night—at an unexpected hour. 
There-
fore, every prudent individual should look for, 
and expect that glorious event, every day—every 
hour; nor presume, or dare to live one day, or 
one hour, unprepared to meet the Lord Jesus 
with joy at his coming. 
Who of us would re 
joice to see Christ make His glorious appearance 
now—this moment ? 
To all such I would say 
be of good cheer, the night is far spent, the 
glorious morning is at hand, when the Sun of 
Righteousness shall arise to set no more. 
The present state of the world, and of the 
church, indicates the immediate appearance of 
Christ as conclusively as the budding of the 
trees bespeak the opening spring, and the return 
of summer, those signs, and the fearful repre 
sentations given of that day, should alarm us 
all, and cause us to live momentarily prepared 
for that great event. 
The Lord Jesus gives us 
the following salutary caution in regard to that 
day: " And take heed to yourselves, lest at 
any time your hearts be overcharged with sur-
feiting and drunkenness, and the cares of this 
life, and so that day come upon you unawares. 
For as a snare shall it come on all them that 
dwell on the face of the whole earth." Luke 
21:34, 35. 
Again. 
" Likewise also as in the days of 
Lot: they did eat, they drank, they bought 
they sold, they planted, they builded, but the 
same day that Lot went out of Sodom, it rained 
fire and brimstone from heaven, and destroyed 
them all. 
Even thus shall it be when the Son 
of Man is revealed." Luke 17:28-50. 
With those solemn and alarming declarations 
continually sounding in our ears, can we liv« 
carelessly one moment, without a pure ar>d 
holy heart, and perhaps contending 
earnestly 
about meats and drinks—about forms and cere 
monies? 
Nay, should we not rather fast and 
pray, day and night, until our hearts are pUri-
fied by the precious blood of Jesus—until we 
can stand by faith, continually before God. un-
blamable and unrebukable in His sight? Amen" 
Lord, awake a guilty world, and a slumbering 
church, to a sense of our imminent danger.-I 
Christian Repository. 
Weighed in the Balances and found 
wanting, 
" Tekel: 
Thou art weighed in the balances 
and found wanting."—Daniel 5:27. 
This was a part of the ominous inscription 
written upon the wall of the palace of Belshaz-
zar, the impious king of Babylon. 
Being as-
sembled with his lords, his princes, his wives 
and his concubines, for purposes of festivity' 
and while all was hilarity and revelry, "there 
came forth fingers of a man's hand, and wrote 
over against the candlestick, upon the plaster 
of the wall of the king's palace, and the king 
saw the part of the hand that wrote." 
What 
could the writing mean ? The guilty conscience 
of the king anticipated, it would seem, its dread 
interpretation; 
for 
"his 
countenance 
was 
changed, and his thoifghts troubled him, 
So 
that the joints of his loins were loosed, and his 
knees smote one against another." 
Kings and 
wise men, magicians and astrologers, Chaldeans 
and soothsayers, 
were 
summoned 
in vain. 
None save the prophet of God could read and 
interpret the characters traced by the mysteri-
ous hand. 
Special cases of the warnings, denunciations, 
and judgments of heaven, are recorded in the 
Scriptures for general instruction. 
For this 
purpose I propose to employ a part of what was 
so solemnly addressed to the devoted Belshaz-
—" Thou art weighed in the balances and 
found wanting." 
The Bible is designed to furnish us with such 
clear tests of character as to enable each one 
for himself to judge of his standing in the 
sight of him who " searcheth the hearts and 
trieth the reins of the children-of men." If 
God should reveal to all individually, as he did 
to the king of Babylon, their true character as 
he understands it, on the wall of how many 
palaces, and princely mansions, and less prince-
ly dwellings, would the expressive " TEKEL " 
be inscribed! 
Thus he will not do.—But he 
has as clearly revealed to us the principles 
up-
on which he will act in the transactions of the 
judgment day, as though a voice from heaven 
should reach us now pronouncing in tones of 
thunder the portentous " Tekel," or as though 
a visible hand should inscribe it on our very 
front. 
These principles are simple, definitely 
stated, and such as commend themselves to the 
reason and conscience of every rational being. 
Does it not become us, then, to acquaint our-
selves with them, to try ourselves by them, and 
in anticipation to undergo the searching scru-
tiny of the judgment bar ? 
" Fool!—Fool!" 
will be the fit inscription certainly upon the 
forehead of that man, who, having had the 
Bible in his hand, shall yet suffer disappoint-
ment in the day of judgment, when the uni-
verse shall be weighed in the balances of eterni-
ty, and their destiny forever sealed. 
Disap-
pointed 
!—madmen 
they were, not to have 
known their doom long before. 
Disappointed! 
upon whom can they charge the blame but 
themselves ?—They 
cried 
" Peace, 
peace," 
when Jehovah had said, " There is no peace! 
But what are the standard weights by which 
God will weigh us, and by which if we were 
wise, we would weigh ourselves ? 
They are 
many in form ; in substance one. 
The tests 
of Christian character, though the same in 
principle, are variously stated, that none may 
have an apology for self-deception or self-igno-
rance.—The professing Christian that cannot 
abide these tests, must, if he be honestf write 
upon his own forehead—"TEKEL: Thou art 
weighed in the balances and found wanting-" 
Of the many that are presented in the Bible, 
but a few of the most simple and palpable can 
at present be given. 
1. The true Christian will have an ardent 
love for 
the Bible. 
The sacred writer, in de-
scribing the character of the godly man, says 
of him :—" His delight is in the law of the 
Lord, and in his law doth he meditate day and 
night." 
If this is not our character, we are 
weighed in the balances and found wanting-
Dear reader, can you say with the Psalmist, in 
the true spirit and meaning of the language— 
" O how love I thy law ! it is my meditation all 
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369 
the day ?" 
Would such be the spontaneous 
expression of the feelings of your own heart? 
But as if this were not enough, he adds, from 
the overflowing of his soul—" How sweet are 
thy words unto my taste! yea, sweeter than 
honey to my mouth. 
More to be desired are 
they than gold; yea, than much fine gold; 
sweeter also than honey and the honey comb." 
Professing Christian, is the Bible thus precious 
to you ? 
Do you find it to your own heart so 
full of richness and sweetness that you delight 
to dwell upon its heavenly luxuries, and drink 
and drink asrain at its exhaustless fountains ? 
" Holy llible, book divine, 
Precious treasure, thou art mine !" 
Can it be otherwise than that the Christian 
heart should feel thus in respect to this precious 
volume ? 
Yet how many who bear the Chris-
tian name will be weighed in the balances and 
found wanting, when tried alone by this simple 
test! 
The dust that in many a cottage has 
gathered for weeks upon the family Bible in-
terprets to all the ominous hand-writing. TEKEL 
is the inscription. 
2. The real Christian loves communion with 
God. and he has it. 
" Truly our fellowship is 
with the Father and with his Son Jesus Christ." 
And in the enjoyment of this fellowship he is 
represented as finding his highest delight.— 
" In his presence is fulness of joy." 
" As the 
appletree among the trees of the wood, so is 
my beloved among the sons. 
I sat down under 
his shadow with great delight, and his fruit 
was sweet to my taste. 
He brought me into 
his banqueting house, and his banner over me 
was love." 
" Tell me, 0 thou whom my soul 
loveth, where thou feedest?" 
And will not 
the Christian love prayer? 
Aye, in his own 
experience he knows it to be true that 
" Prayer ardent opens heaven and lets down 
A stream of glory on the consecrated hour 
Of man in audience with the Deity." 
The mar? who knocks for admittance at the 
gate of heaven, ere he has learned on earth to 
find his home in the bosom of God, and his 
happiness in the secret place where God is met, 
will be repulsed from that holy city of which 
God's presence is the glory, and his smile the 
everlasting light. 
What would he do there ? 
Admire the golden city, with its walls of jasper, 
and its foundations of sapphire, and sardonyx, 
and beryl, and topaz ? 
Its resplendent bright-
ness would dazzle his sensual vision, and the 
occupation of its inhabitants, least of all, could 
he have any sympathy. 
With " Tekel" self-
inscribed, he would leap from its battlements 
to find somewhere else a more fitting place. 
3. 
The true Christian, as a matter of fact, 
finds in God a satisfying portion. 
" Thou art 
my portion, 0 God ; whom have I in heaven 
but thee ; and there is none upon earth that I 
desire beside thee." 
" He shall be satisfied 
with marrow and fatness; thou shalt make him 
to drink of the rivers of thy pleasures." Breth-
ren and sisters, is it a matter of fact with you 
that the blessings which God bestows satisfy 
your souls so fully that you are not disposed to 
resort to worldly pleasures and sensual gratifi-
cations ? 
If not, be honest; write TEKEL upon 
your religion until you can adopt the language 
of the Psalmist and the song of Solomon as the 
language of your own experience. 
4. The true Christian has deep and abiding 
peace. 
" Thou wilt keep him in perfect peace 
whose mind is stayed on thee." 
"Great peace 
have they that love ihy law." 
" 0 that they 
had hearkened unto my voice ; then had their 
peace been as a river." If God in uttering these 
and many similar statements be true, what but 
" Tekel" can be the inscription upon that pro 
fessing Christian who is constantly perturbed, 
crowded with care, tost with tempest, and not 
comforted? 
5. The true Christian makes advancement. 
"The path of the just shineth brighter and 
brighter unto the perfect day." The professing 
Christian, therefore, who does not find it so in 
his own experience, but that on the other hand 
his light grows dimmer and dimmer, may know 
that, if God be true, his path is not that of the 
just, an(j that when weighed in God's balances 
he shall be found wanting. 
6. The true Christian obeys God. " If 
man love me, he will keep my words." " Here-
by we do know that we know him, if we keep 
his commandments. 
He that saith, I know 
him, and keepeth not his commandments, is a 
'iar, and the truth is not in him." 
Whoso, 
therefore, doth not manifest his love in a prompt 
AND cheerful obedience has TEKEL written upon 
him by the finger of God. 
The trice Christian is conformed to the 
i-mage of Christ, t" If any man have not the 
sPirit of Christ, he is none of his." 
" He that 
saith he abideth in him ought himself also to 
walk even as he walked." 
" He that hath this 
hope in him purifieth himself even as he is, 
pure." 
Reader, if this is the language of God, 
decide solemnly; lest in the end he shall say 
to thee—" Thou art weighed in the balances 
and found wanting." 
Such are a few of the passages which might 
be quoted descriptive of the Christian character. 
Brethren and sisters, ponder them; for they 
are the words of Jehovah, which he has uttered 
in good faith and with solemn 
earnestness. 
" Examine yourselves, prove your own selves, 
whether ye be in the faith." 
These tests of 
the Christian character we may honestly apply 
to ourselves now, and if aught of deficiency 
be found, it may now be supplied. 
God, in 
delineating the character of his true saints, has 
not spoken in mockery. 
Neither has he de-
signed to terrify us without cause, or wantonly 
to trouble us. 
What he has, has been uttered 
in unfeigned sincerity, and with unchangeable 
veracity. 
GOD'S 
STANDARD 
WEIGHTS 
WILL 
NEVER BE CHANGED. 
"I am the Lord; I 
change 
not." 
Therefore, " be not deceived ; God is 
not mocked; whatsoever a man soweth, that 
shall he also reap." 
And although it may be 
painful now to see our true characters exposed, 
and TEKEL inscribed upon them; nay, though 
as in the case of the king Belshazzar, it may 
cause our countenance to change, and our 
thoughts to trouble us, so that the joints of our 
loins should be loosened, and our knees smite 
together, yet infinitely more dreadful will it be 
to sleep on in imagined security, ill at ease, 
until the trumpet of God shall awake us to 
judgment, to hear for the first time the inter-
pretation of the hitherto unseen inscription— 
Tekel, 
TEKEL. 
Foolish, presumptuous, reckless is the man 
who will close his eye to his real peril rather 
than secure his permanent safety. 
And Oh if 
the angel of Jehovah should descend from 
heaven to weigh in his balances the inhabitants 
of. earth, upon the foreheads of how many pro-
fessing Christians would the awful TEKEL be 
inscribed! 
" Should I among them stand ?" 
may well be the solemn inquiry of every one. 
Morning 
Star. 
The Congregation of the Dead. 
BY REV. JOHN CUMMINO, D. D. 
' And I heard a voice from heaven saying 
unto me, Write, Blessed are the dead who die 
in the Lord from henceforth: yea, saith the Spi-
rit, that they may rest from their labors ; and 
their works do follow them."—Rev. 14:13. 
I have already unfolded several features of 
the family of God. 
I showed you in previous 
lectures the state of the 144,000—the sealed 
ones—true Christians in the sight of God 
" they are without fault before the throne of 
God;" that is, " there is no condemnation to 
them that are in Christ Jesus;" they are "justi-
fied " by Him, and have " peace with God." 
" Who shall lay anything to the charge of 
God's elect? 
It is God that justifieth." 
They 
" have washed their robes, and made them 
white in the blood of the Lamb." 
Next, I 
described their practical conduct upon earth ; 
or the mode in which they visibly develope in 
their intercourse with the world, those great 
Christian principles which they had received 
through grace : they " follow the Lamb whith 
ersoever he goeth." 
They follow him in the 
great aim and end of His life—in His appeal 
to the only standard of truth, the word of God 
in his intercourse with the world, sympa 
thizing with him in all his sorrows, and reflect-
ing all his joys. 
You have thus, then, the 
state of Christians before God—" without fault 
before the throne;" you have, next, the prac-
tical course before men—they " follow 
the 
Lamb." 
Having thus read their biography in life, let 
us read and comment upoi> the epitaph upon 
their tombstones. 
Their state is justification 
before God ; their practical character is follow-
ing the Lamb; and the beautiful epitaph which 
may be inscribed upon their tomb, and pro-
nounced as the noblest requiem over the ashes 
of the dead, is, " Blessed are the dead who die 
in the Lord from henceforth: yea, saith the 
Spirit, that they may rest from their labors 
and their works do follow them." 
I allow 
there is here a special reference to the first res-
urrection, and I believe the blessedness to be 
associated primarily with their relation to this 
great event; but its main truths are not affect-
ed by chronology—they are always true. 
Let us consider, first, those who are des 
cribed as " the dead ;" secondly, their peculiar 
and distinctive relationship —" the dead in 
Christ;" thirdly, the benediction pronounced 
upon them—" blessed are the dead;" fourthly, 
the special reason of that blessedness—" they 
rest from their labors ;" and lastly, the evidence 
of their entrance into that blessedness—" their 
works do follow them." 
Let me endeavor, as 
fully as the time will permit, to lay before you 
some remarks upon each of these several di-
visions into which I have split the text, dwell-
ng rather on its general than on its special 
prophetic bearing. 
The dead." 
Where are they ? Where are 
they not? 
My dear friends, has the thought ever struck 
you, in looking around the world, that its dead 
outnumber its living? 
Afar greater amount 
of the population of the globe is beneath the 
soil, than there is at any moment treading and 
breathing above it. 
Our churches, our homes, 
our thrones, the theatres and playhouses of the 
world, are all built on the dust and ashes of the 
dead. 
Our corn-fields and vineyards wave 
above the soil that was once warm with life— 
the toe of the dancer treads upon the ashes of 
the dead." 
" Where is the dust that hath not been alive ? 
The spade, the plough, disturb our ancestors : 
From human mould we reap our daily bread. 
, 
The globe around earth's hollow surface shakes, 
And is the ceiling of her sons; 
O'er devastation we blind revels keep, 
Whole buried towns support the dancer's heel." 
This great globe on which we dwell seems 
to be as much a sarcophagus of the dead as it 
home of the living. 
What are all its 
graves, but various compartments in this one 
great and silent mausoleum! 
The ashes of 
Abraham may mingle somewhere with those 
of Martin Luther ; and that of Martin Luther 
may mingle somewhere with those of Napole-
and the dust of Napoleon may, in a few 
years, mingle with the dust of a far better man 
that has recently passed from the stage of life 
—Thomas Chalmers. 
Thus the world is a 
vast sarcophagus; its groves are its chambers, 
or compartments; and those compartments are 
not able to prevent the dust of all from min-
gling together. 
But not only the remains of those who never 
had a quarrel—who lived in friendship, and 
died in peace—but of those who were sworn 
and implacable foes, by a great law must min-
gle and blend most peacefully together. 
The 
ashes of Martin Luther, and of Leo the Tenth, 
who hated him so heartily—the dust of Wick-
liffe, and that of those who cast his into the 
stream which bore it to the silent sea—the dust 
of John Knox, and that of Queen Mary, must 
blend and lie right silently and peacefully to-
gether. 
Thus not only the dust of friends, but 
of bitter foes, as if to cast reproach upon their 
feuds, must blend and mingle together, in spite 
of all their repulsions. 
It is now dead —disintegrated—mingling 
with all streams—mixing with all elements— 
blown by all winds; yet there is not a particle 
of that dust, incorporated with trees, mingled 
with the sea, or buried in the earth, that shall 
not hear the first tone of the resurrection trum-
pet, and become instinct with a life that can 
never end ; for each one that died, whether he 
died in Christ or not, shall, each in his own 
order, come forth. 
Some shall rise from the 
depths of the fathomless sea, and come; some 
shall cast off their only winding-sheet, the 
sands of the desert, and come. 
The Pharaohs 
shall leap forth from their pyramidal cham-
bers ; the Ptolemies shall start from beneath 
their marble monuments; Napoleon, and those 
who fought and fell beneath his banner at Je-
na, at Austerlitz, and at Waterloo, shall rise 
and gather in shivering crowds around him ; 
the dust of Martin Luther shall be quickened 
at Wirtemberg, and put on the apparel suited 
to a citizen of the New Jerusalem ; Caivin shall 
rise from his grave, which is now unknown : 
Oberlin and Felix Neff shall start from their 
Alpine repose—some rejoicing in the hope that 
accompanies them to the realms of glory, oth-
ers calling on the hills to cover them, and on 
the mountains to conceal them, and all shall 
gaze as they gather together into that tremen-
dous infinitude, the eternity that stretches be-
fore them. 
Brethren, you and I, if we never met in the 
congregation of the living before, must meet 
together in the congregation of the dead. Each 
atom of our dust " rests in hope again to rise;" 
And when we stand upon that vast platform, 
amid that mighty surging multitude—a multi-
tude more countless than the waves of the sea, 
or the leaves of the forest, or the sands upon 
the sea-shore—and when we take a'retrospec-
tive view of all we have passed through, how-
poor and paltry will many things look which 
we have fought, and struggled, and spent our 
health and strength for on earth! 
My dear 
friends, seen from the judgment-seat of Christ, 
the most brilliant crowns will grow pale, and 
the proudest coronets will appear denuded of 
all their attractions, and thousands shall feel 
that the gold which we worshipped, instead of 
being fit to be turned into shrines and gods for 
us to adore, was only worthy to be turned into 
a pavement on which our feet should tread, in 
our passage to another, a better, and more glo-
rious repose. 
This leads me to the second point that I wish 
to consider—that there are not 
only " the 
dead," but distinctively—"the dead in Christ." 
There are three expressions used to describe 
our relationship to Christ. 
There is, first, to 
be "without Christ:" the state of nature.— 
There is, secondly, to be "in Christ:" the 
state of grace. And there is, lastly, to be "with 
Christ:" the state of glory. 
To be "without 
Christ" is our state by nature; to be " in 
Christ" is our state by grace; to be " with 
Christ" is our destiny, our happy destiny here-
after. 
It is here implied, that there are but two dis-
tinctions upon earth that are real—" in Christ," 
or out of Christ; and there is not a tombstone 
in London, on which affection has written its 
varied eulogy over the ashes of the beloved 
dead, if it had the inscription which God would 
write upon it, that would not record—" Dead 
in Christ," or " Dead out of Christ." 
Hence, 
after all, what is the real value of many of 
those distinctions, which may be expedient or 
inevitable, but about which men dispute and 
quarrel? 
How startled will the High Church-
man be at the discovered emptiness of those 
peculiarities in which he gloried! 
I mean 
high churchmen in the popular sense, not in 
the true sense; for, in the right sense of the 
word, I hold that I am a higher churchman 
than Dr. Hook or Dr. Pusey. 
The high churchman is not surely the man 
that measures the church by the height of the 
steeple, but he who belongs to the congregation 
of the redeemed. 
In this view, those who call 
themselves Dissenters, adopt a questionable 
name. 
If it apply to separation from the Es-
tablishment, it is, at most, of no eternal mo-
ment: but if it meant dissent from the true 
church, the church of the redeemed, the name 
is a reproach. 
How startled will the Dissenter 
be, to find that his shibboleth was a shibboleth 
earth-sprung, and that it died on earth, and has 
no place, or part, or mention, at the judgment-
of Christ! 
And there, amazed beyond expres-
sion, will the Puseyite be (fori trust that there 
are some of them who, amid all the rubbish, 
hold the foundation,) when he discovers that 
his section gave the fewest members to the 
church of the redeemed in glory ; and that his 
candelabras, and his genuflections, and his 
crucifixes, and his altars, were just so much 
wood, hay, straw, stubble, which he piled upon 
the true foundation. 
It will not be asked, when we stand at tbe 
judgment-seat of Christ, Whence 
are you ?— 
but What 
are you ? It will be no recommenda-
tion that you are a Churchrnan—it will be no 
disqualification that you are a Dissenter. These 
distinctions will have dropped away, and per-
ished as unreal in that light in which reality 
only lives. 
You may have been baptized—you 
may have belonged to the visible church—you 
may have been one of its ministers—-you may 
have been a communicant—you 
may 
have 
been a liberal supporter of the ordinances of 
Christ—and yet may not have been in Christ. 
I believe that what will be seen and witnessed 
in the hereafter, will startle and surprise many 
participants of it. 
You will miss many a bold 
professor, whose voice you thought you would 
hear loudest in the choir of the redeemed ; and 
you will find there many a suspected one, that 
you in your ignorance shut out, or in your 
uncharitableness anathematized, highest and 
brightest in the number of the saved. 
You 
may find there some poor tonsured monk, with 
his shaven crown and rope girdle, who looked 
in his cell beyond the crucifix which he held in 
his hand, and saw in all his glory the Son of 
Man nailed to the cross, the only atonement, 
and " washed his robes and made them white 
in the blood of the Lamb." 
You may find 
there some poor Jew, who rejected Jesus of 
Nazareth, the Saviour, but who, in his deep 
humiliation, in his sorrow and sighing, and 
crying to be emancipated from the curse and 
taint of his sins, and to be at peace with God, 
shall discover that he held the Saviour in sub-
stance, while he recollects with sorrow that he 
repudiated Him in name. 
"We shall find there 
many that we cast out, whom we had no busi-
ness to cast out; and we shall miss many 
whom we had no right to number among them 
at all. 
All minor distinctions will then be done 
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away; the trappings of rank, the disputes of 
party, the robes, and rales, and eeremonjes, 
will all be left behind in the grave ; and the 
only distinction that will appear indelible for-
ever will be, the living in Christ, or the dead 
out of Christ.—(To be 
continued.) 
"BEHOLD! 
THE 
BRIDEGROOM 
COMETH!! 
BOSTON, SATURDAY, DECEMBER 23, 1848. 
Extracts on Prayer. 
FROM REV. E. BICKERSTBTH. 
(Continued from our last.) 
" Watch unto prayer." 
It i3 observable how fre-
quently watchfulness and prayer are joined together 
by our LORD and his apostles. 
JESUS CHRIST says, 
" Watch ye, therefore, and pray always, that ye may 
be accounted worthy to escape." Luke 21:36. 
St. 
PAUL says, " Continue in prayer, and watch in the 
same 
(Col. 4:2;) and St. PETER, after saying, 
" The end of all things is at hand," exhorts them, 
" Be ye, therefore, sober, and watch unto prayer." 
1 Pet. 4:7. 
Many are the advantages of humility : " Humble 
yourselves in the sight of the LORD, and he shall lift 
you up." James 4:10. 
"The 
LORD is nigh unto 
them that are of a broken heart." Psa. 34:18. 
The 
tears of the penitent avail much with him. 
When 
" HEZEKIAH wept sore," (2 Kings 20:5,) his prayer 
was heard. 
It is said of the people of GOD return-
ing to Zion, " They shall come with weeping, and 
with supplications will I lead them." Jer. 31:9. The 
showers of heaven run off the high and steep Kills, 
leaving them dry and barren, while the lowly valleys 
are saturated with the refreshing rain, and become 
fruitful. 
Go to the throne of grace, not in the spirit 
of the self-conceited Pharisee, fancying yourselves 
better than others; but in the humility of the publi-
can, crying, " GOD be merciful to me a sinner." 
" The high and Lofty One that inhabiteth eternity, 
whose name is holy, dwells with him that is of a 
contrite ar.d humble spirit." Isa. 57:15. 
It is by go-
ing in this spirit, relying on the merits, obedience, 
and intercession of the SAVIOUR, that we shall find 
acceptance with GOD. 
XVI. 
AN EXHORTATION TO CONSTANT PRAYER. 
Prayer being at the root of every other good, mark-
ing the commencement of the Christian life; being 
the pulse by which its strength and vigor may be 
known, or the hands by which its daily nourishment 
is obtained and ministered, the reader will bear with 
me, while I attempt still farther to press this duty on 
the conscience. 
Christian Ministers. 
We should be men- of prayer; 
it is the half of our duty, and lhat by which we carry 
on the rest. 
" We will," says the apostle, " give 
ourselves continually to prayer, and the ministry of 
the word." 
The prayers of ministers avail much. 
We may expect more assistance than others. 
It is 
the divine direction for oar people—"Is any sick 
among you? let him call for the elders of the church, 
and let them pray over him." 
WThen ABIMELECH 
was.threatened with death, he was told to send for 
ABRAHAM ; and the reason was," for he is a prophet, 
and he shall pray for thee, and thou shalt live,"—» 
Should not we then abound in prayer ? 
Christian Parents! 
We next address you. Pray 
for your children. 
" Whenever," says Bishop HOP-
KINS, " thou comest unto the throne of grace, bring 
these thy dear pledges upon thy heart with thee.— 
Earnestly implore of GOD that he would own them, 
and provide for them as his own children ; that he 
would adopt them into the family of heaven, make 
them heirs of glory, and co-heirs with JESUS CHRIST : 
that he would give them a convenient portion of good 
things for this life, that they may serve him with the 
more cheerfulness and alacrity ; and a large portion 
of spiritual blessings in heavenly things in CHRIST 
JESUS , and at length bring them to the heavenly in-
heritance. 
And know assuredly that the prayers of 
parents are very effectual, and have a kind of au-
thority in them to obtain what they sue for. 
This is 
the blessing which holy fathers in scripture have be-
stowed on their children. 
Thus ABRAHAM asked, 
' 0 that ISHMAEL might live before thee.' 
Thus JA-
COB prayed for and blessed his children and his grand-
children. 
Thus JOB remembered his children, and 
" offeree! burnt-offerings according to the number of 
them all." 
Bring them up, also, in the practice of 
prayer. 
They cannot too early begin lo seek their 
SAVIOUR, and to lisp his praise. 
No habit will be 
more profitable to them than that of daily prayer. 
Teach your children this, and they will then rise up 
and call you blessed. 
Store their young minds with 
the Scriptures'; furnish them with short portions for 
all occasions. 
This will arm them wilh invincible 
strength against their enemies. 
They are about to 
journey through a dangerous wilderness ; teach them 
to pray morning and evening, and it will direct their 
way, like that pillar which guided Israel through the 
wilderness, as a cloud by day to shadow them, and 
as a fire by night to comfort them." 
Prayer is a duty at all times, and in all seasons of 
life. 
Are you in prosperity ? 
Let praise and prayer 
sanctify all your enjoyments. 
Great is the snare of 
outward prosperity. 
How " hardly shall they that 
are rich enter the kingdom of heaven." 
You have 
need to pray much, lest that which was designed as 
a talent for great usefulness, occasion your eternal 
ruin. 
Let nothing hinder you from giving regular 
and full time to devotion. 
The days of health and 
strength should be given to GOD, " while the evil 
days come not, nor the years draw nigh, when thou 
shalt say, I have no pleasure in them." 
Are you afflicted? 
That is the time for special 
prayer. 
" Call upon me in the day of trouble, and I 
will hear thee, and thou shalt glorify me." 
In the 
absence of the sun, the mild and peaceful radiance of 
the moon illumines our path. 
Let devotion spread a 
cheering light over your darker hours. " The queen 
of night," says BOWDLER, "unveils its full beauty 
when the hours of joy and lustre have passed away, 
pouring, as it were, a ho'y light through the damps 
and darkness of adversity." 
Thus will constant 
prayer cheer the darkest season of affliction. 
Are you young? 
Let that rapid torrent of youth-
ful strength and vivacity, which, if left to itself, 
would only be wasted and dashed against rocks, from 
precipice to precipice, be turned into a profitable 
course. 
Let this stream be brought into the channel 
of devotion, aud it will move the machine of the 
Christian life, and communicate innumerable bless-
ings to man. 
" Those that seek me early shall find 
me." Prov. 8:17. 
Nothing is more pleasing', no-
thing more profitable, than early devotion. 
Slight 
not him in your strength, who will be the only pro-
tector of your weakness. 
Are you in middle life? 
In the might of this 
world's engagements, how are you encompassed, as 
in a maze of temptation ? 
Let prayer be the secret 
thread which leads you safely out of this labyrinth 
How are you surrounded with duties of the first im-
portance ! 
What a happy influence, then, would de-
votion have in making you a general blessing to your 
family, your neighborhood, and your country ; like 
the regulator in the watch, though unseen outwardly 
it would keep the spring of your actions in order ; it 
would make all your movements certain and useful. 
Give the strength of your years to GOD, and you will 
leave " a good name better than precious ointment.' 
Eccl. 7:1. Remember," the prayer of faith," as Bish 
op PORTEUS says," moves the hands of Him that mov-
eth all things." 
Are you in declining years ? and you will not hold 
converse with Him whom you are so soon to meet 
and see face to face! 
Why should you enter the 
eternal world a stranger to the great King who rules 
there, when you have an opportunity of being adopt-
ed into his family, enjoying his presence here, and 
sharing the splendors of his crown and of his glories 
hereafter. 
" What," says one, " can be more truly 
desirable than to attain to a measure of that light and 
peace which, in their full measure, belong to a higher 
condition? and what more excellent than that occu-
pation which connects the service with the enjoyment 
of GOD, the duties of this life with the glories of the 
better!" 
To every class of my readers, I say, " PRAY 
WITHOUT CEASING. 
G 
In the foregoing extracts we have given our readers 
some of the choicest thoughts in BICKERSTETH'S Trea-
tise on Prayer, the whole of which is very excellent. 
But we could only give according to our limited space. 
The last 100 pages of the work we have not noticed 
at all. 
It comprises excellent hymns on the subject 
of Prayer, Forms of Prayer, Hints for Morning and 
Evening Prayer, &c. 
We shall close these ex 
tracts in our next, by presenting a chapter of Ejacu-
latory Prayers, from the Scriptures, Promises to 
Prayer, &c. 
M. M. Noah on the Jews. 
We alluded last week to the addressof MORDECAI M. 
NOAH, a prominent Jew, and an editor in New York, 
on the subject of the re-building of the Temple. 
As 
it is always interesting to know the views and expec-
tations of others, we shall make some extracts from 
the address for the benefit of our readers. 
He says : 
" It may not be generally known to our people, 
that since the destruction of our Temple, upward ot' 
1800 years ago, Israel has been without a place of 
worship, dedicated with all the solemnities of our 
faith, and erected with suitable magnificence, to the 
Divine Architect of heaven artd earth. 
The Jews, 
in their own land, on that land which God gave to 
them as an inheritance forever, by a deed consecrated 
and confirmed by ages, were not permitted to erect a 
Synagogue from that fatal moment of the destruction 
of the Temple, even to the present day. 
"The army of the Roman conqueror captured and 
carried away the nation to be sold as slaves. 
A few-
only of the faithful, hid in tombs and caverns, secret-
ing themselves beneath the fallen columns of the 
Temple, remained on a spot endeared to them by so 
many blissful reminiscences, and by the promises of 
the great hereafter. 
The Roman centurions pursued 
them—the Greeks persecuted them—the Persians 
destroyed them, and, in after ages, the followers of 
Mahomet visited them with fire and sword, and the 
Crusaders trampled upon their necks—yet ihey re-
fused, under these unprecedented calamities, to aban-
don the home of their fathers, and their ancient heri-
tage, the rich gift of the Almighty. 
With the laws 
of Moses, which they had preserved : with the sacred 
rolls, written by Esdras,* now in their possession, 
which they bore from the flaming ruins; they read 
the law in chambers—in caves—confined rooms, and 
deserted places—for, among their Pagan persecutors, 
they did not dare to worship openly that God whose 
protecting mercies the civilized world now unites to 
invoke. 
The Mosque of the Musselmen reared its 
domes and minarets on the site of our Temple—Chris-
tians erected magnificent churches and rich-endowed 
chapels on our soil; while our people, the righlful 
inheritors of all that land of promise, crawled in abject 
submission to the walls of the Temple, to bewail their 
hard destiny—to pray for the peace of Jerusalem, 
and weep on the solitary banks of the Jordan. 
They 
never despaired of the -fulfilment of those promises 
which God had made-to them—that still small voice 
continually whispered in their ears, in accents soft as 
the cherub's voice, " Fear not, Jacob, for I am with 
thee." 
" Centuries rolled on—nations arose, flourished, 
decayed, and fell—yet the Jewish people still existed, 
increased in numbers, and under every privation and 
persecution, preserved their identity, their faith, and 
their nationality. 
" At length a sign is given ; the thunders begin to 
roll all over Europe ; the cry is everywhere heard in 
despotic Governments—To arms! The people are at 
war with their kings, and the kings are overthrown ; 
the Sun of Liberty begins to rise ; the chains of the 
Jews are unloosed, and they are elevated to the rank 
of men ; the fires of superstition had burnt out, and 
the age of reason had revived. 
The Sultan of Tur-
key, following the march of civilized nations, says to 
the Jews in his dominions—" You are free ; you have 
my permission to erect a Synagogue in Jerusalem; 
and messengers are dispatched, as they were jn the 
days of Solomon, to ask for aid from their brethren 
throughout the world, to erect a magnificent place of 
worship, the first that has been erected in the Holy 
City since the advent of Christianity." 
To forward the erection of the above temple, we 
learn from Mr. NOAH that an agent, Rabbi ECIIIEL 
COHEN, is now in this country to solicit funds. 
The 
permission to build this temple, Mr. N. regards as a 
" sign," pregnant with great events. 
In review of 
the history of the Jews he says : 
" We sinned against - God because it is the nature 
of man to be sinful ; he punished us as the parent 
does his child, but, in the midst of our stubbornness, 
our disobedience, and hardness of hearl, we did not 
forget the unity and omnipotence of that Divine archi-
tect of the universe, and he pardoned us: his arm 
always has guided us, and amid the vicissitudes of 
6,000 years, the nation never has been lost; from the 
day and the hour that God declared us to be his people, 
down to the present time, we have remained the same 
people—distinct from all others. 
Shepherds of the 
land of promise—slaves in Egypt—a mighty power in 
Canaan—the revolted tribes captured at Samaria and 
blended with other nations, still Judah and Benjamin 
remained, and were still the chosen people. 
The 
whole world of idolatry united to crush us, but the 
handful of God's cnosen servants could not be sub-
dued or won to apostacy. 
By the rivers of Babylon 
they wept in captivity, but could not forget Jerusalem, 
nor the Songs of Zion ; the fiery furnace could not 
subdue them, and Pagan kings, awe-struck at their 
self-sacrificing piety and fidelity, set them free. 
After 
seventy years of bondage, the faithful were restored 
to Zion. 
Punished for their sins thus severely, the 
children of Israel reposed 400 years in their land of 
milk and honey, waiting for that Prince which God 
promised to send them, to consolidate and rule over 
the nation as their temporal Sovereign. 
But their 
glory was again destined to be dimmed—their light 
extinguished, and darkness once more enshrouded the 
people. The ambitious, conquering Romans appeared 
in great force under the walls of Jerusalem, and 
summoned them to surrender. 
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The sieee of Jerusalem lasted 
146 days; and after unheard of sufferings, the flames 
* The rolls written out by Esdras, or Esra, that he refers to, nre 
copies made by him of the hooks which existed before his day. The 
book commonly called the books of Esdras in the Apocrypha did not 
exist till some hundreds of years later than the time of Esdras. 
of their Temple lighted the funeral pile of the nation 
and 1,100,000 souls were buried in the ruins. 
F]-onj 
that day they have been in a perpetual state of mar-
tyrdom, suspended between life and deaih. 
What 
bloody vicissitudes, what scenes of grief', what bar-
barities, what ravages, what disasters, what injustice 
have not been exercised by the different nations of the 
globe, against a people devoted to slavery and aban-
doned by fortune. 
Pagans, Mahometans, and Chris-
tians have by turns occupied the holy land, and deluged 
it with blood. 
Still our people refused to abandon 
the country which God had given them. 
Sentinels 
on the ramparts, they watched for us, prayed for us 
We were driven out among the nations of the earth' 
our home was nowhere; our people everywhere' 
Who has done this? 
Who brought Abjam from Pr-
of the Chaldees ? 
Who sent Joseph a slave into 
Egypt? 
Who authorized Moses to lead the people 
through the Red Sea ? Who gave the law in thunder 
on Mount Sinai ? Who raised a long line of prophets ? 
Who poured forth a living stream of eloquence and 
divine song, which even the present age cannot hear 
unmoved ? Who preserved Daniel in the lions' den? 
Shadrach, Meschech, and Abednego in the fiery fur-
nace? 
Our God, your God, who made bare Iiis holy 
arm in the eyes of all the nations. 
Shall we not 
sustain each other when so divinely sustained and 
protected? 
Shall we turn a deaf ear to the supplica-
tions of our brethren at Jerusalem, who have stood 
by their faith so triumphantly ? 
I hope not." 
He then speaks of the revolution now in progress 
in Europe, as one unequalled since the advent of 
Christianity, as one in which one hundred millions of 
people are in arms against their sovereigns—as a 
struggle for religious as well as civil liberty—as aimed 
at priestcraft, as well as king-craft. 
And this he 
regards as " part and parcel of those promises—the 
first step in the fulfilment of that great event which 
is to manifest to the whole world the power, the unity, 
the omnipotence of the LORD GOD of Israel, one GOD, 
and the GOD of all creation, and lhat he alone is the 
King of Kings, Redeemer of the world, and the 
sole Judge of the earth." 
He then speaks of the 
change in progress in the . fundamental principles of 
Christianity. 
This he thinks favors a union between 
Christianity and Judaism. 
The morality of Chris-
tianity he claims as Jewish. 
He says : 
" Do unto others as you would desire others to do 
unto yon,—love your neighbor as yourself—deal just-
ly to all men, honor your parents, be faithful to the 
governments that protect you, be merciful, be charita-
ble, and Jove God with all your heart and soul—-these 
are Jewish precepts, advanced as such by a great 
Jewish reformer, and ingrafted upon the religion 
adopted by his followers and friends ; but their divine 
origin is unchanged." 
This union, or approximation of Christianity to 
Judaism, he regards as a withdrawing from CHRIST. 
He says: 
"The result of this religious freedom, manifests 
itselfin gradually withdrawing from the great Founder 
of the Chistian 
faith, the divine attril utes conceded 
to Him hj His disciples and followers. 
Since the 
Reformation, this change has been gradually unfolding 
itself; but professing Christians did not dare to ex-
press their doubts even to themselves ; they were un-
believers ever, but only in the deep xecesses of the 
heart; but now Reformers, Socialists, Communists, 
Philosophers, openly express their douhis. 
All Ger-
many is deeply tinctured with this belief, and oilier 
Luthers are springing up, declaring their unchanged 
belief in the sublime morality of Jesus of Nazareth— 
their entire confidence in Ilim as an eminent and 
illustrious reformer, teacher, prophet, brother; but 
denying his divine issue, his participation in the God-
head, and his right to share with the Almighty the 
attributes of divinity." 
Thus it seems the Jews would have no hesitation 
in receiving CHRIST as a great and good man, provided 
no claim is made for his divinity. If the divinity was 
set aside, he says, " all the world would become Uni-
tarian Christians ; and we [the Jews] are the head of 
the Unitarians." 
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* 
" And Christianity would still 
be Christianity, in all its high moral attributes. -
There is enough in the character of Jesus to give to 
Him a rank among the highest practical moralisls, 
divested of all faith in His divine attributes; more, 
much more, than in the character of Mahomet, who 
claimed none of those attributes. 
Jesus declared lhat 
" God was a spirit, and those who worshipped Him, 
must worship Him in spirit and truth." We declare 
no snore. 
And yet, with this he would regard CHRIST as a 
false prophet; for he speaks of one of his predictions 
as a failure. 
He says : 
" It is not the least curious in the erection of this 
new edifice in Jerusalem, that we can direct the 
builders to the spot where all the materials of Herod's 
Temple yet lie in silent grandeur. 
Beneath the 
Mosque of El'Aksa, the great chambers, the immense 
granite pillars, the magnificent marble columns,' with 
exquisitely carved tops and bases, the richly orna-
mented gates, the reservoirs, still filled with v ater, 
in which the Priests and Levites bathed, are at this 
day to be found, not crumbling in ruins, but erect and 
majestic, and have been explored within the last two 
years by one of our people, now a resident of this 
city, proving, beyond doubt, the error of that predic-
tion, which declared that not one stone of that temple 
shall stand upon another." 
The prediction of the SAVIOUR was, when the dis-
ciples pointed out to him the " goodly stones " with 
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165 
which the temple was builded, that " There shall not 
|,e left here one stone upon another, that shall uot be 
thrown down." (Matt. 24:2). 
To fulfil this predic-
tion it would only be necessary to throw down all the 
stones to which the disciples pointed ; i. e. the super-
structure of the building, all above the ground. 
This was so effectually accomplished, that the very 
(rround on which it stood was ploughed over by tbe 
Romans; and visitors on the ground have pointed 
to this as one of the most striking fulfilments of 
prophecy. 
So thorough was the demolition of the 
temple, that a Mahomedan Mosque was built and now 
stands on the very site of the temple. 
All know 
that one building cannot be built on the site of anoth-
er without first removing the foundations of the first. 
Mr. NOAH'S statement would be more worthy of 
credit if accompanied by some testimony from eye 
witnesses. 
Modern English and American travelers 
have never yet discovered them; and according to 
Mr. NOAH, they were not explored by the Jews till 
within two years. 
As the remains are even now all 
under ground, they are as likely to have belonged to 
the first temple, as to the last. 
We are surprised 
that a mail of Mr. NOAH'S intelligence should have 
brought forward such evidences, admitting all he 
claims, as proof of an error in the prediction of the 
SAVIOUR, which was so emphatically fulfilled to the 
astonishment of the world. 
The Religious Telescope has the following remarks 
on this paragraph of Mr. NOAH'S : 
" The reader will perceive that this astonishing 
declaration is supported by no evidence but the testi-
mony of one man—and he an unknown and an un-
named Jew, Who is said to have visited the place 
sometime within the last two years. 
Such testimony 
can never set aside the oft-repeated and definite testi-
mony furnished both by Jews and Christians to prove 
the literal fulfilment of the prophecy in question. 
The learned Whitbv, in commenting on the declara-
tion of the Saviour, that one stone shall not be left 
upon another that shall not be thrown down, sums up 
some of the evidences of its fulfilment as follows : 
" Josephus informs us, that' Titus commanded the 
soldiers to dig up the foundations of the temple and 
city.' 
Eleazer, speaking of this bouse of God, saith, 
'it has been rooted up from the foundations.' 
The 
Jewish Talmud and Maimonides add, that Turnus 
(i. e. Terentius) Rufus, Captain of the army of Titus, 
did with a ploughshare tear up the foundations of the 
temple, and thereby signally fulfil those words of 
Micah :—' Therefore shall Zion for your sakes be 
ploughed as a field.' " 
•'Lightfoot, speaking of the same subject, says, 
" That the city was laid so desolate, that travelers 
could see no sign that it had ever been inhabited." * 
" With the above agree all the ancient writers on 
the subject which we have been permitted to examine. 
Wc
iglit quote other evidences of the complete ful-
filment of the words of Christ, but the above testi-
monies are sufficient to establish the point in question, 
unless stronger proof is brought against it than has 
yet been adduced. 
We are inclined to the opinion, 
that tbe pillars, &c., said to be seen under the Mosque 
El'Aksa, are of more modern origin than the Jewish 
temple. 
Besides this, the Mosque of Omar, instead 
of El'Aksa, is built on the rock Moriah, the original 
site of the temple. 
So say reliable travelers who 
have been on the spot." 
It is, therefore, in the continued rejection of 
\ CHRIST that the Jews are looking for the blessings of 
JEHOVAH. 
Says Mr. NOAH:— 
" How can we doubt the future, in contemplating 
the past? 
Has He not said, ' All the house of Is-
rael, even all of it, and the cities shall be inhabited, 
and the wastes shall be builded?' 
Has He not said, 
'For I will take you from among the heathen, and 
gather you from all countries, and will bring you into 
your own land ?' 
But you shrink from the desolation 
of Judea, and fear that the land will fortver wither 
under its ancient curse. 
Even there we have been 
antictpated by tbe mercy of divine forgiveness. 
' I 
will multiply the fruit of the tree, and the increase of 
the field, that ye shall receive no more reproach of 
famine, and they shall say, this land that was deso-
late, is become like the Garden of Eden ; I the Lord 
have spoken it, and I will do it.' 
Shall we ourselves 
become infidels, and doubt the promises of the Al-
mighty ? * 
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" Christian and Mussulman will march before them, 
in the great advent of the Restoration, surrendering 
their trust, giving up their guardianship, and crying 
aloud, with our great prophet, ' Prepare ye the way 
of the Lord, make straight in the desert a highway 
for our God,' and this advanced guard will bear on 
their banner, as they pass beneath the triple walls of 
Jerusalem, that verse from Scripture, which has ever 
been our guide, ' Yet I am the Lord thy God, from 
the land of Egypt, and thou shalt know no God but 
rae • for there is no Saviour beside me.' 
"An ignorant people cannot make an enlightened 
government; but when the trumpet sounds for us on 
Zion, every country on eaTth will give up its great 
men among the Jewish people, and a combination of 
talent, wealth, enterprise, learning, skill, energy,-and 
bravery will be collected in Palestine, with all the 
J'ghts of science and civilization, and once more ele-
vate those laws which Moses had consecrated to lib-
erty and republican forms of government." 
And then will, he says, go up, " the bankers of 
Europe, the merchants of England, the statesmen of 
France, the philosophers of Germany, the agricultur-
ists of Poland, the poets of Italy, the artists, me-
chanics, and soldiers everywhere," thus forming at 
once a great and powerful nation. 
The foregoing gives us a synopsis of Mr. NOAH'S 
views and expectations, and those of the Jews in this 
country, respecting the future. It is, inshort, that of 
a restoration of the descendants of those who rejected 
and crucified the 
SAVIOUR, with all the rejection 
for which their fathers were dispersed, still rankling 
in the hearts of the children. 
From the reasonable-
ness of such an expectation there will be some to dis-
sent. 
From the extracts we given have from his ad-
dress, the reader will get Mr. NOAH'S general views 
on the subject. 
We suppose they will also be inter-
ested to see what we may say respecting it. 
We dislike expressing an opinion hastily, and have 
therefore kept the subject on hand for a few weeks, 
that we might look at it in its several bearings. 
This sudden disinthrallment of so large a portion 
of the Jewish nation at the present time, is a won-
derful sign of the times, and we think a precursor of 
some providential movement to follow. 
It seems, 
that by the 1st of the present month, they became 
free in Rome. 
This, with the rights granted them 
in their ancient country, gives them new privileges in 
the centre of the Mohammedan and Papal powers. 
When we look back over the pages of prophecy, we 
find that the Jews were to be the subjects of a long 
and cruel servitude. 
They were to be in subjection 
to the nations. 
The Jews have thus been in subjec-
tion till the present time. 
In no nation in Europe 
have they been permitted to enjoy equal privileges 
with other citizens. 
In England they have enjoyed 
the most liberty ; but even there they are denied the 
full privileges of citizenship; for when the Baron 
ROTHSCHILD, the richest banker in Europe, knocked 
at the doors of the Parliament for admission, during 
the present session, as a representative of the city of 
London, which had returned him as a member, the 
doors were barred against him.* 
And why? 
Be-
cause, forsooth, he is a Jew! 
But in other coun-
tries, this unfortunate race have been subjected to in-
dignities at which humanity should blush. 
In most 
of the European countries, their oppressors have 
acted on the apparent supposition that Jews were not 
composed of flesh and blood like other men,—that 
they possessed none of the sensibilities and passions 
of other men. 
If they were " tickled," they were 
not expected to "laugh," nor if "pricked," to 
" weep." 
Their plagues have been wonderful, and 
of long continuance. 
They have been scattered 
among all the nations of the earth ; and among these 
they have found no ease, nor the sole of their foot 
rest; but the LORD has given them a trembling of 
heart, and failing of eyes, and sorrow of mind. The 
heavens over their head has been like iron, and the 
earth, brass, under their feet. 
They have fled as be-
fore the sword when none pursued them ; and the 
sound of the falling leaf has chased them. 
And all 
this has been because they despised the judgments of 
the LORD, and abhorred his statutes. 
These judgments which they have endured, had 
been all predicted. 
GOD had made an absolute cove-
nant with ABRAHAM, which he repeated to ISAAC and 
to JACOB, that he would give to them and their seed 
the land of Canaan for an everlasting inheritance. 
His subsequent covenants to the descendants of JA-
COB respecting their residence in the land of promise, 
were all of a conditional character. 
Said GOD, " IF 
ye walk in my statutes, and keep my commandments 
and do them ; then will I give you rain in good sea-
son," &c. 
(Lev. 26:34.) 
With an observance of 
the laws and ordinances of JEHOVAH, they were to be 
prospered above all the nations of the earth. 
But on 
the other hand, saith the LORD, " IF ye will not 
hearken unto me, and will not do all these command-
ments ; and IF ye will despise my statutes, or if your 
soul abhor my judgments, so that ye will not do all 
my commandments, but that ye break my covenant: 
I also will do this unto you—I will even appoint over 
you terror, consumption, and the burning ague, that 
shall consume the eyes, and cause sorrow of heart... 
And I will scatter you among the heathen, and will 
draw out a sword after you ; and your land shall be 
desolate, and your cities waste." (lb. vs. 14-16,33.) 
The Jews did not obey the word of the LORD, and 
for their sins they came into subjection to the Gen-
tiles. 
They continued to offend against the LORD 
with increased wickedness, till the wicked reign of 
MANASSEH, when the vengeance of the LORD could 
be restrained no longer. 
This wicked prince "did 
that which was evil in the sight of the LORD, like 
unto the abominations of the heathen, whom the 
LORD had cast out before the children of Israel."— 
For he built again the high places which had been 
broken down, reared altars to Baalim, made groves, 
and worshipped all the host of heaven, caused his 
children to pass through the fire in the valley of the 
son of HINNOM, observed times, used enchantments, 
dealt with familiar spirits and wizards, set up a 
carved image in the house of GOD, and made Judah 
and the inhabitants of Jerusalem to err, and to do 
worse than the heathen. 
For this " the LORD spake 
by his servants the prophets, saying, Because MA-
NASSEH king of Judah hath done these abominations, 
and hath done wickedly above all that ihe Amorites 
did, which were before him, and hath made Judah 
also to sin with his idols: therefore, thus saith the 
LORD God of Israel, Behold, I am bringing such evil 
upon Jerusalem and Judah, that whosoever heareth 
of it, both his ears shall tingle. 
And I will stretch 
over Jerusalem the line of Samaria, and the plummet 
of the house of AHAB : and I will wipe Jerusalem 
as a man wipeth a dish, wiping it, and turning it up-
side down. 
And I will forsake the remnant of mine 
inheritance, and deliver them into the hand of their 
enemies ; and they shall become a prey and a spoil to 
all their enemies : because they have done that which 
was evil in my sight, and have provoked me to anr 
ger, since the day their fathers came forth out of 
Egypt, even unto this day."—(2 Kings 21:11-15.) 
" And the LORD spake to MANASSEII, and to his peo-
ple : but they would not hearken. 
Wherefore the 
LORD brought upon them the captains of the host of 
the king of. Assyria, which took MANASSEH among 
the thorns, aud bound him with fetters, and carried 
him to Babylon."—(2 Chron. 33 :10,11.) 
According to the concurrent testimony of chronolo-
gers, the captivity of MANASSEH was about 677 B. c. 
From that period to the present, they have never been 
an independent nation. 
It is true that MANASSEH, 
when he humbled himself before the LORD, " was 
brought in again to Jerusalem into his kingdom," 
and his son reigned in his stead after his death ; but 
they reigned dependent on the king of Babylon ; for 
NEHEMIAH, after the return from the Babylonian 
captivity, in his memorable prayer, acknowledged that 
they were still in servitude, and dated that servitude 
back to the days of the king of Assyria, which took 
MANASSEH. 
He says: " Now therefore, our GOD, 
the great, the mighty, and the terrible GOD, who 
keepest covenant and mercy, let not all the trouble 
seem little before thee, that hath come upon us, on 
our kings, on our princes, and on our priests, and on 
our prophets, and on our fathers, and on all thy peo-
ple, SINCE THE TIME OF THE KINGS OF ASSYRIA UNTO 
THIS DAY."—(Neh. 9:32.) 
And, " Behold, we are 
servants this day, and for the land that thou gavest 
unlo our fathers to eat the fruit thereof, and ihe good 
thereof, behold we are servants IN IT."—(v. 36.) 
From this time they continued in subjection to the 
Persians, Grecians, and Romans, till the time of the 
SAVIOUR, when, because they did not know the things 
which belonged lo their peace, nor the time of their 
visitation, and rejected the LORD their Saviour, their 
enemies came and cast a trench about them, and kept 
them in on every side, laid their city even with the 
ground, slew multitudes of their children, and scat-
tered them among all nations. 
Here the question naturally arises, Is there any 
predicted length to this cruel bondage ? On recurring 
to the testimony of the prophets, we find various ex-
pressions which give a clew to the period of its ter 
mination. 
In the 26th of Leviticus, in connection 
with their threatened punishments, GOD declared that 
he would punish them " seven times " for their sins. 
This could not have referred to (for it does not com-
pare with) the number of their dispersions, and it has 
been explained by judicious and enlightened com 
mentators to denote a period of time—seven times, or 
seven times 360 prophetic days, or 2520 years. Com-
mencing with B. C. 677, tbe time assigned by the best 
chropologers for the captivity of MANASSEH, and the 
commencement of Judah's bondage as the terminus 
a quo of this period, its terminus ad quem could not 
vary far from the present time.—(To be continued.) 
There is still a prospect that this disability will be soon removed. 
The Pope. 
It will be seen by reference to our foreign news, 
that tbe Pope has been entirely shorn of his temporal 
power, having been obliged to submit to the dictation 
of his late subjects. 
The London Tablet, the leading 
Papal organ in England, thus comments respecting it 
" What shall we say of the terrible intelligence 
from Rome ? 
In a few lines nothing worth saying 
can be said. 
The gnilt of the Roman, and generally 
of the Italian Liberals, can hardly be exaggerated 
The critical position—not of the Popedom; that was 
never safeT or more firmly established—but of the 
Pope: of the Holy Pontiff, who, a few months ago 
was the idol of all the pretended worshipers of free-
dom, is too patent to require enforcing by many words. 
Everybody asks, What will become of ihe Pope? 
Will he take refuge in France? 
Wijl he accept the 
hospitality of England? 
Will he carry St. PETER'S 
Chair from the blood-stained city, in old times the 
Babylon of the apostles, and transfer it to the modern 
Babylon, from the inhuman ferocity of Rome, afflict-
ed with a new Paganism? 
Will he erect his Spirit-
ual Throne in Ireland ? 
Will he dignify the New 
World with the presence of his august Pontificate ? 
These questions are in every mouth, and it is more 
easy to ask them than to find any satisfactory solution 
of the great problem they involve. 
" A question so entirely within the providential and 
miraculous government of the world, requires to be 
thought of and judged with a peculiar reserve. The 
Pope, it seems, has not yet abandoned his dominions, 
and may never abandon them. 
But it seems almost 
more than probable that the system of outrages which 
now flourishes in Rome, is but a temporary phase of 
the great Italian distemper. 
The miscreants who 
there outrage all humanity by their crimes, are pow-
erful only by their superior audacity, and as to real 
numbers and permanent importance, are weak and 
impotent. 
Sooner or later they must and will be put 
down ; and they can only be effectually put down by 
the development of unwonted courage and energy, in 
the vacillating and cowardly majority. 
The Pope is 
not yet in exile ; but if he be driven forth, depend 
upon it, he will return in triumph at no very distant 
date :—he, if GOD spares his life to see the end of 
that strange revolution of which be has witnessed the 
beginning—his successor, if the providence of GOD 
calls him speedily to the reward of a heavenly king-
dom. 
" Meanwhile, we need hardly say how much a du-
ty it is for every* Catholic lo be instant in prayers to 
the Throne of Grace, for that divine and supernatu-
ral protection which has never deserted the Church in 
far blacker and fiercer trials; and a confidence which 
enables every true Catholic to feel in his heart, his 
courage, and his faith elevated, amidst those terrible 
chastisements which the ALMIGHTY sends upon his 
children for the purification and amendment of their 
lives. 
Not for his own sins, but for ours, the Shep-
herd of the flock is smitten. 
He is bruised for our 
transgressions; and the healing of his wounds must 
be sought in our prayers, our penances, our austeri-
ties, the affliction of our souls and bodies, and the 
correction of our vices and concupiscencies." 
To CORRESPONDENTS. — W. 
PRATT—Your kind 
nqte is reciprocated. 
WM. PEABODY.—Thank you, and hope to profit 
by it. 
To MANY CORRESPONDENTS.—We could fill our 
sheet with the cheering letters of our friends, highly 
approving our course, and sympathizing with us in 
our labors. 
They will accept our most hearty 
thanks. 
To the few solitary ones who have cen-
sured us for our honest and consistent 
course, 
we express our thanks, and hope, though we seek in 
vain to profit them, that we may be benefited by their 
rebukes. 
WE have received a letter from Bro. P. B. MOR-
GAN, in which he informs us he has visited Batavia, 
Laona, Jamestown, Busti, Gerry, Buffalo, Y. Y., 
North East, Pa., and other towns, in all of which 
places he has labored more or less, for the up-building 
of the cause. 
He has now returned to Connecticut 
for a time. 
His wish for a conference on the Housa-
tonic, will be complied with, as soon as we can sup-
ply previous calls. 
May the LORD bless our brother 
in his eff rts to promote the good of the cause. 
REQUESTS FOR CONFERENCES.—We have received 
quite a number of requests for conferences. 
They 
will be attended to as soon as practicable. 
We find 
by recent trial, that our health will not yet admit of 
incessant public labor ; but we shall do all we can. 
Friends will be patient. 
CHURCH OF ENGLAND.—A London correspondent 
of the National Intelligencer says : " The Estab-
lished Church is undergoing the ordeal of very search-
ing and astounding statistics. The income of the cler-
gy of the Establishment is said to be £10,000,000 
per annum ; while that of the clergy of all Europe, 
independent of Great Britain, is only about j£7,000,-
000. 
The arguments based upon and deduced from 
such statements, are not favorable to the recipients of 
this immense sum. 
To ALL new subscribers, who pay in advance for 
the next volume of the Herald, we shall send the bal-
ance of the present volume free. 
OuRlate meetings at NewtonUpper Falls, and West-
boro', were well attended, and we hope profitable. 
166 
THE ADVENT* HERALD. 
Correspondence. 
Letter from Bro. A. Hale. 
Matters in Porlland-The Council-Portland Platform-Difficul-
ties removed-Prospects-Case of " J. Turner »-APeculiar Geniue 
-Beautiful Blunders-Correction-Courseinreference to the 
Har-
biuger." 
BRO. HIMES :—It is well known to all who are ac-
quainted with the history of the Advent cause in this 
city, that the state of things, since 1844, has been, 
most of the time, very unpromising, and very trying 
to its friends. The difficulties have arisen, as in most 
other cases, not so much from the want of a know-
ledge of what is gospel order, as from the omission 
to observe that order. 
Difficulties, which were com-
paratively trifling in their original form, by being 
taken hold of in an improper manner, have given rise 
to a host of other difficulties, ten-foid greater than 
the first, until a public separation of the brethren was 
the result. 
A few weeks ago, at the request of brethren here, 
a council was called, consisting of Brn. Stinson, E. 
Burnham (whose place was supplied by Bro. Goud), 
and the'writer, to investigate, consider, and report 
their decision on the existing difficulties; and to at-
tempt a reconciliation. Our labors thus far have been 
attended with greater success than our fears permitted 
us to hope for. 
The report of the council on past 
difficulties was unanimously adopted, and the mea-
sures proposed by the council for effecting a future 
union are likely to be sustained by the larger part, if 
not by all, the Adventists here who have been pub-
licly identified with the cause. 
A more enlightened 
devotion to the service of God, with his blessing, will 
make all right. 
The great points to be met in effecting the desired 
union and harmony were, 1. The uniting of individ-
uals by the adjustment of their personal difficulties. 
2. The selection of men to fill the offices of the 
church, in whom all could agree. 
And, 3. The fix-
ing upon the place of worship. 
The last item only 
occasions any present embarrassment; and even this 
we believe and hope will soon be obviated. 
Not-
withstanding the loving, but specious lectures which 
have been given against written recognitions of church 
fellowship°in preference to unwritten, attempting to 
show that they are all but part and parcel of " the 
great apostacy ;" and in favor of that sort of " gos-
pel order " which consists in opposing everything in 
particular, and the practical adoption of nothing, our 
brethren here have not been able to see that there was 
any more sin in writing what they express by word, 
than in speaking what they think, in reference to those 
with whom they are agreed to walk as Christians in 
the order of the gospel; and therefore, that they 
may have it set down " in black and white," as well 
as in the mind, whom they are associated with, what 
they are associated for, and how the association is to 
be sustained, they have agreed to adopt, mutually 
and severally, the following written basis :— 
" The undersigned, being desirous to obey the call 
of God as made known in the gospel, do hereby unite 
ourselves together as a church, covenanting to ob-
serve and maintain the order of the gospel. 
" And while we acknowledge and receive the 
whole Bible, as the appointed and divine expression 
of the will of God, as the only and sufficient rule of 
faith and practice to individuals, and the only stan-
dard for the due regulation of worship, doctrine, gov-
ernment, and discipline to the church ; we believe 
and feel that we are called thus to unite, in order to 
profess, promulgate, support, and defend, more ef-
fectually, the Bible testimony on the coming of our 
Lord Jesus Christ and its accompanying events, 
which we believe ought now to be continually ex-
pected ; and to assist each other and our fellow-men 
in securing the needed preparation." 
Individuals were now received, one by one, who 
recognized in the above an expression of their views 
of duty in the service and cause of God, to the num-
ber of ten or a dozen, against whom no objection was 
presented. 
As each one presented himself or herself, 
(after the first one was received by the council) the 
question was proposed, if they could fellowship those 
received as Christians; and the same question was 
proposed to those received in reference to the one pre-
sented. 
Others have since been received. Of course 
all that the council did was " human." 
We did not 
hear any one claim to be divine; and we hope no one 
will suppose that any such pretension was made, even 
to being " a commander" in place of " Christ," 
however they may " feel" endowed and commis-
sioned for the discernment of " spirits." The divine 
work we trust had already been done. 
The council 
only attempted to " set in order the things that are 
wanting." 
Tit. 1:5. 
The brethren have also elected two deacons, and a 
prudential committee of three, in whom all have con 
fidence, and whom all are agreed should take upon 
them their respective work and office, to attend to the 
proper duties which the health and prosperity of the 
body necessarily demand. 
Now, the existing diffi 
culties between individuals came up, each case by it-
self, to be deliberately and fairly investigated; and 
if settled, the difficulty is to be left at the church door, 
and the individual is received to the fellowship of the 
body. 
If the difficulty cannot be settled there, the 
individual is expected to remain until it can be re-
moved. 
By taking hold of things this way, difficul-
ties that seemed to be almost of a hopeless character, 
lose full half their magnitude as soon as they are 
taken in hand; and so far, all have been adjusted, or 
are in a fair way of being so. 
In fact, as soon as it 
was known that this straight-forward course was to 
be pursued, brethren and sisters, tried with each 
other, began to attend to the causes of the trial by 
themselves: and so those who have stood in a posi-
tion that made them, by the subtle and malicious 
agency of the devil, the greatest trial to each other, 
have come to a better understanding. 
So much in 
reference to Portland affairs for the present. 
It is thought to be somewhat singular (though not 
so singular, considering lhat some things are better 
known here than in some other parts of the country. 
—I speak of peculiar genius, not of " character ") 
that " J. Turner " should persist in taking the course 
he does, or that any others should be found to sustain 
him in such a course. 
That he should charge whole 
"conferences" with co-operating with "certain in-
dividuals " in a tremendous conspiracy to " crush the 
Advocate," by destroying his " fair character ;" that 
he should then pretend to have applied to a " com-
mittee," so often stigmatized by him and his partizans, 
as "the creed-power"—as "legislating for Jesus 
Christ"—as the makers of "iron bedsteads," &c., 
to examine into his case, is understood here to be but 
another exhibition of his peculiar, noble, and aspiring 
genius. 
And the failure of the " Advocate" is 
viewed only as another strong manifestation of the 
common-sense of the Adventists. 
A man with a 
"character" as "fair" as that of Gabriel, who 
should conduct a paper as the " Advocate " has been 
conducted, would insure it the same fate. 
As it is to be continued on a different footing, per-
haps the hinl may now be taken from this rebuke of 
its misguided projectors, not to carry an imposition 
too far. 
The more deliberate cunning of policy may 
profit by the hasty, suicidal blunders of a too confi-
dent self-conceit. 
However, the circumstances under 
which the chanee takes place seem to point out this 
as a providential opportunity to comply with the wish, 
so often expressed by many brethren, (who, like 
yourself, unwilling to give up tbe " Harbinger" as 
past hope, have borne and hoped, and borne and 
hoped, till hope has ended in an abiding contempt and 
loathing,) that the " Herald " take no farther notice 
of the attacks of a paper which makes contention its 
chief work, and even justifies this kind of " fighting " 
as " a Christian duty." 
But to return to the case of " J. Turner." 
It is 
thought here, that it would have been time enough to 
publish to the world that " the committee," to whom 
l\e pretends to have applied, had declined to attend to 
his request, after he had found out who the commit-
tee were ; after he had written to that " committee ;" 
after he had used some means to ascertain that his 
letter had been received by the one addressed, and 
after he had learned that they (feclined to answer his 
letter and to act in his case. 
Now " J. Turner " in 
forms me, by a letter received since he made the above 
proclamation to the world, that I am the one to whom 
he wrote, supposing me to be a member of " the com-
mittee." 
But I was not on " the committee," nor 
did I receive the letter he says he sent to me as a 
member of it. 
He was informed of this by the first 
mail after I received information of the blunder, not 
to say injustice, he had perpetrated ; and yet no cor-
rection of it has ever appeared, but he goes about 
among brethren pressed with " sore trials," (see 
Har. Dec. 2.) and seeking their sympathy as the sub-
ject of awful persecution. 
Whether he chooses thus 
to deceive brethren for the purpose of exciting sym-
pathy, I do not presume to say ; but I do say, that so 
far as I have any knowledge of his " sore trials," 
they are fairly to be attributed to his own agency : 
whether he has intentionally sought them, or blun-
dered into them, is better known lo himself and to 
heaven than to me. 
It appears to me that a man's 
trials" would take a different name, if he had a 
common sense of decency, to say nothing of con-
science, when he knew that such misstatements as 
he has published to the world were not corrected, af-
ter they were known to be such. 
Instead of affect-
ing such grief as a persecuted man, I should think 
he would feel " sore " with shame and fear lest his 
" fair character " should suffer by having such a 
wrong publicly inflicted upon whole conferences and 
committees, whom he has falsely accused, left for 
anothei to correct. 
But there it stands, and probablv 
will stand, till the common voice of the Adventists 
shall minister a sufficient rebuke, if not for the com-
mon Judge of all the earth to clothe him with merited 
shame and contempt. 
I have felt it my duty to say so much on this case, 
that " the committee," whoever they may be that he 
refers to, may not remain under the imputation of re-
fusing to any man a fair hearing; and lhat those 
whose sympathies are misled, may see who are the 
true subjects of sympathy. 
Portland, Dec. Uth, 1848. 
" Do this in Remembranee of Me." 
" And as they were eating, Jesus took bread, and 
blessed it, and brake it, and gave it to the disciples, 
and said, Take, eat; this is my body. 
And he took 
the cup, and gave thanks, and gave it to them, say-
ing, Drink ye all of it; for this is my blood of the 
new testament, which is shed for many for the re-
mission of sins."—Matt. 26 : 26-28. 
It was common for the Saviour, prophets, and 
apostles, to speak of things that were lihe each 
other as being the same.—" I am the vine."—" I 
am the good shepherd."—"lam the door of the 
sheep." 
As well might it be proved that Jesus 
Christ is now a vine growing in Judea, and that all 
who are saved are grafted into it as the branches, or 
that he is a shepherd in Judea, now attending sheep, 
or that he is the door of some sheepfold in Judea, as 
that the wafer is turned into the body, and the wine 
into the blood of Christ, under a few words of Latin 
by a priest. 
It is common for persons about to die, or to leave 
for a far country, to give their miniature to their dear-
est friends. 
Such a gift is understood to betoken the 
highest degree of friendship, and is only bestowed 
upon a few of the choicest of his friends. 
This is 
valued more than jewels or diamonds; for few have 
a memory so retentive as not to be renewed by such 
a memento. 
Such a memento has the Saviour left to his friends ; 
uot, however, drawn by the engraver's art, but ex-
hibited by bread, which is " the staff of life," and 
" wine, which maketh glad the heart of man." 
He 
thateateth his flesh, and drinketh his blood,-shall 
never die. Not only have we no engraving, or paint-
ing, by which lo learn the physiognomy ot the Sa-
viour, but il is not even described by any of the evan-
gelists. 
The prophet has simply said, that there 
was nothing prepossessing in his features, but " his 
countenance was more marred than the sons of men." 
All other historians have been particular to describe 
the physiognomy of their heroes. 
The Bible only 
describes their genealogy and their' acts. 
The Sa-
viour, instead of wishing us to remember that his 
hair was black, or brown, or red, that his eyes were 
grey, blue, hazel, or black, that he was great or 
small in statue, &c., desired us to eat bread and drink 
wine in remembrance that he had tlied for us, to atone 
for our sins. 
If, instead of these symbols, we were 
to expose to your view the mangled body, as it was 
taken from the cross—his head full of wounds by the 
thorns, and swollen ; his hair dishevelled and clotted 
with blood, his eyes distorted, upturned, and glassy ; 
his hands and feet torn by the nails and swollen, his 
back bruised and mangled by scourging, many would 
faint, and others shriek and hasten from the house. 
He has therefore selected these symbols both to re-
mind us of his sufferings, and the benefits thereby 
accruing to us, when he shall " drink wine with us 
in the kingdom of God." 
For, as the mariner's 
compass, while it steadily points to the north-pole, 
equally indicates the south ; so do these symbols 
point equally to Calvary and Mount Zion. 
The truly 
devout can never think of the one without recurring 
to the other. 
But what a contrast! what a blending 
of extremes! 
No light from all the chandeliers in 
the measureless space around this orb, can penetrate 
the darkness which hangs around Calvary, when the 
sins of all generations are converged upon its bleed-
ing victim ! There was no adamant in Judea so hard, 
as not to rend asunder at the vibration of his dying 
groan. 
What an hour for the infernal hosts! 
His 
heel was bruised. 
I fancy I hear them say, " He 
will never again drive us into ' dry places without 
rest,' nor into the deep. 
He has fallen ! 
We have 
at last prevailed. 
Honor forever to our immortal 
chief. 
This earth is ours." 
Yonder—afar off—I see a group of five or six, 
weeping. 
I see Peter overhauling and mending his 
nets, and repairing his boats. 
I see two men, with 
saddened hearts, journeying to Emmaus, to recom-
mence business. 
I hear the Sanhedrim—seventy 
hoary heads—congratulating each other on the final 
termination of the most dangerous heresy that had 
ever threatened their commonwealth ; and, after a 
prayer, proceeding to business, with more alacrity 
than had characterized their deliberations for the pre-
ceding three years. 
The priests all breathe freer.— 
The Pharisees resume their prayers at the corners, 
and thank God that they have saved their holy reli-
gion from dishonor, and their state from the Romans, 
by slaying the pretended King of the Jews. All who 
had hojled that it was he who should deliver Israel, 
had yielded to despair, and " every man was scattered 
to his own." 
The Jews had said, "If he be the 
Christ, let him now come down from the cross, and 
we will believe on him." 
He did not come down 
and his disciples ceased to believe on him. 
That heart, which had been the abode of seven dev-
ils, alone retained a spark from which to re-kindle the 
flame of Christianity. 
On the morning of the third 
day, she was alone of all the masses who had at 
one time followed him, at the sepulchre, and in tears 
If her faith was palsied, her love was not quenched. 
Blessed woman ! 
Having much forgiven, she loved 
much. 
Alas! his body is stolen. 
Her eyes swimming in 
tears, she inquires of the gardner (as she supposes) 
where he has laid him? 
" Mary," in the mostfamil 
iar tone, falls startlingly upon "her ear! 
" Master . 
Master!" she exclaims, and washes his feet with 
tears of gladness. 
The next moment sees her flying 
across tho valley to the city, the first herald of the 
resurrection of Him who was thereby demonstrated 
to be the Son of God with power. 
He would not 
thus demonstrate himself by descending from the 
cross, but by arising from the grave. Peter and John 
were soon at the sepulchre, and returned to confirm 
the good tidings. 
Scarcely had they finished, when 
two returned from Emmaus, and related, in breath 
less excitement, that they had seen Jesus alive. 
And just as they had concluded, and in turn had the 
testimonies of Mary, Peter, and John, as a glorious 
climax, Jesus stood in their midst! 
A lightning-
winged messenger bears the glad news to the skies, 
and along the shining ranks the shout is extended, 
" He is alive! he is alive for evermore!" 
The Sanhedrim turn pale; the people collect on 
every corner, and the most active measures are 
adopted to meet this fatal emergency. 
Hell recoils, 
and heaves a hideous groan. 
Their hard-won vic-
tory is lost. 
The Conqueror ascends in triumph to the right 
hand of the Majesty on high, there to intercede for 
his chosen, till he shall return to swallow up death in 
victory, and make upon Mount Zion, a post for all 
his people. 
No curtain of night shall ever skirt its 
brilliant top. 
No earthquake shall ever shake its 
towering, chrystal-gold walls, nor rend its precious 
stones. 
The throne of God and the Lamb shall be 
there, and his servants shall serve him. 
As the light 
of the heavens was shut out from Calvary by impene-
trable darkness, it shall be excluded from Zion, by 
the transcendent brightness of ihe Father of lights! 
" 0! for this love, let rocks and hills 
Their lasting silence break, 
And all harmonious, human tongues 
The Saviour's praises speak." 
Gratitude is the main-spring of Christian obedience, 
—" we love him because he first loved us. 
And he 
has given us his miniature, that we may never foiget 
our debt of gratitude. The heathen admitted ingrati-
tude to be a crime. 
Alas! how many Christians 
who have left their " first love," will they condemn 
in the day of judgment! 
When Gen. Washington 
was President, a vast assemblage of people were col-
lected, in a certain town in the South, to see a crimi-
nal pay the penalty of the law, by being hung. Just 
as the sheriff had lifted his hand to loosen the drop 
all eyes were turned to behold a man approaching' 
with the speed of the wind, on a foaming charger in 
the distance, and waving his hat. 
An awful pause 
ensued. 
The criminal had said his prayers, and an-
nounced himself ready, and he could not comprehend 
the reason of the delay. 
A passage was cleared to 
the gallows, and the messenger leaped from his 
horse, and put an open paper into the hand of the 
sheriff, who, after reading it, raised the cap from 
the criminal's face, and read aloud bis reprieve from 
Piesident Washington. 
He looked up to the skies 
upon the people before him, and around upon the 
scenery—to all of which he had given a farewell look 
—and grasping his reprieve, exclaimed, " Gratitude! 
gratitude! 
Every drop of blood in my veins cries 
Gratitude to General Washington !" 
But to make the event anything like an illustration 
of Christ's love to us, Gen. Washington, instead of 
signing a reprieve, should have laid aside all the 
honors ' of his office, come forth and ascended the 
scaffold, and there die. 
Did ever a President or a 
king, do the like? 
Yet Jesus has done incompara-
bly more than that for us. 
Angels desired to look 
into it, but were not able. 
But if we cannot com-
prehend, we may adore. 
Our song shall be unto 
Him who hath washed us in his own blood and hath 
made us kings and priests, to reign with him on the 
renewed heard). 
Amen. 
I. E. JONES. 
A Few Thoughts. 
Do the 21st and 22d chapters of Revelation des-
cribe the renewed earth ? There are three interpre-
tations of this portion of the Bible which we propose 
to notice. 
The first is, that the language is highly figurative, 
and hence descriptive of the prosperous state of the 
church on earth during a thousand years, previous to 
the resurrection. 
We cannot adopt this view, for the 
reason, lhat the new creation is an event lhat is to 
take place after the second coming of Christ and the 
resurrection of the saints. 
The Whitby Millenriists, 
if they will take the pains to examine this point, will 
find it to be so. 
The second interpretation is, that the new heavens 
and new earth, and new Jerusalem, are emblematical 
of, and designed as metaphorical language to describe 
the heaven beyond the stars. 
We dissent from this 
view for the following Reasons. 
1. The design of the Bible as a revelation is, to 
give information concerning the affairs of our planet 
—not of the sun, or moon, or stars, or any other dis-
tant world. 
The Paradise of Genesis, and the Para-
dise of the Apocalypse, both have the same locality. 
If the one was on our planet, so is the other. 
2. The announcement of a heaven where Deity is 
supposed more immediately to manifest his glory, and 
where angels reside, is no revelation. 
Let the ^ew, 
ana the apostles and primitive disciples, Jews as well 
as heathen, be told of such a place and state, and it 
is no news to them—there is the disclosure of no 
new fact. 
This had been known for ages before 
Christ came to earth. 
But let the announcement be 
made, that this earth is to be restored to its more than 
paradisaical condition, when love, and peace, and or-
der will flow in their ancient channels, and we have a 
stupendous truth revealed, something made known to 
us that we did not know before. 
John himself ap-
pears to have been amazed at the assertion—" Be-
hold, 1 make all things new "—and perhaps mani-
fested some little reluctance to believe news so good. 
Hence, he was told to " write, for these words are 
true and faithful." It is a singular fact, that a heaven 
beyond the bounds of time and space, is no where in 
the Bible mentioned as a subject of prophecy.— 
Prophecy has respect to events in the world in which 
we dwell, rather than what is usually called the heav-
enly state. 
Instead of describing the " heaven of 
heavens," it represents the glory of that state as 
" coming down upon the earth." • 
3. We have reason to believe that the new heavens 
and earth of these two chapters are as literal as those 
of 2 Pet. 3:13—" Nevertheless we, according to his 
promise, look for new heavens and a new earth, 
wherein dwelleth righteousness." 
We know of no 
principles of Bible interpretation that requires us to 
believe that the words of Peter are literal, while 
those of the Revelator are figurative. I am disposed 
to regard the language of Peter as a guide to a cor-
rect understanding of all parallel passages. 
Had it 
not been for the record of these words, the Bible stu-
dent would not know whether lo interpret kindred 
passages literally or 
figuratively. 
With this key, 
however, lie may easily unlock their mysteries, 
hi 
more senses than one, Peter has the keys of the 
kingdom. 
A third interpretation of the chapter is, that this 
earth is to be renovated at the second coming of 
Christ. 
Concerning this, Andrew Fuller, the great 
theologian of the Baptists, in his notes on the Apoca-
lypse, writes thus : "The trulh appears to be this: 
it is a representation of heavenly glory, in so far as 
that glory relates to the state of the earth on which 
we dwell: which, instead of being the stew of the 
mother of harlots, shall become the seat of the holy 
city, the New Jerusalem, coming down from God out 
of heaven, prepared as a bride adorned for her hus-
band." 
" The earth will not be annihilated by fire 
any more than it was by water. 
It will be purified 
from sin and all its effects. The generations of a 
corrupt race of creatures having terminated, it will 
become the perfect and perpetual abode of righteous-
ness. 
The creation has long been subjected to the 
vanity of supplying its Creator's enemies with tlie 
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167 
on* of carrying on their rebellion against him.— 
5 
this bondage of corruption it has groaned and 
failed as it were in pain, longing to be delivered. 
And now the period is arrived. 
The liberation of 
^ 
Son of God'from the power of the grave shall be 
the signal of deliverance to the whole creation.-
Rom 8 19-23.) 
It is not the object ofthe Holy 
E
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t
o 
tell us what the heavenly glory is, but ra-
ther what this world shall become, in opposition to 
what it now is. 
The world, purified from sin, be-
soms the everlasting abode of the righteous, who 
having been raised "from the dead, are immortal 
Such is the interpretation of Fuller, one which both 
rP,«on and revelation lead us to adopt. 
But here the question may arise, Why so much so-
litude to prove the restoration of the world to its 
former magnificence and glory ? We answer: not so 
much because of the bare truth of such restoration in 
itself considered : but because of its connection with 
other matters of momentous interest. 
1 
Because it is a truth revealed. 
WThat God has 
thought worth revealing, is worth knowing. 
•2 "Because it gives us a clear and comprehensive 
view of the scheme of redemption, and the original 
n]an of God in reference to man, and the earth he in-
habits 
He who is ignorant of the regeneration of 
the earth, has views ofthe plan of grace exceedingly 
defective. 
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, 
3. Because the signs of the times indicate the event 
to be nigh at hand. 
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. 
, 
4 Because it gives clear conceptions ot Ohrist s 
kingdom, which is not of this world. 
His kingdom 
wiH be the renewed earth. 
Thus we have thrown out only a few thoughts on 
the literal interpretation of these two chapters of the 
Apocalypse, with the view of calling out a laboreo 
argument on this subject from some of the corres-
pondents of the " Herald " more able than myself. 
R 
E. T. 
audience last evening. 
The word found a place in 
many hearts, and the way is now open for further ef-
fort "to spread the glorious gospel of the kingdom. 
Belchertown, Dec. Uth, 1848. 
Letter from Bro. G. Needham. 
DEAR BRO. HIMES:—I am now in this town, the 
scene of excitement in by-gone days, where Ebenezer 
Walker died from mal-practice, and the Advent cause 
had to bear the odium that belonged to others, and 
you became the victim of popular fury. Those days 
are past; and by the perseverance and good conduct 
of the majority of those who are looking for the glo-
rious Lord, prejudice and passion have so far given 
way, that there is a hearing ear at the present tune 
in the community. 
Little did I think, when the ac-
count ofthe violence and outrage upon yourself, with 
the ostensible causes thereof, reached me in the far 
West, seven or eight hundred miles distant, or when 
a few months after, I lay at death's dark door, in the 
wilds of western Ohio, that I should ever visit these, 
hills and valleys to preach the gospel of the kingdom 
in such a place, and where it would seem as if every 
ear must be stopped. 
But so it is. 
Truly, God's 
ways are not as our ways, or his thoughts as our 
thoughts! 
I came to Three Rivers last Wednesday, and 
preached in the evening, Thursday evening in the 
neighborhood of the late E. Walker, and at the 
school-house where those diabolians reported him to 
have caught the mania under the preaching of Bro. 
Lyon, 
f had a quiet audience, but small, in conse-
quence of the inclemency of the weather, among 
whom was the present husband of the widow of Mr. 
Walker. 
I am assured, that could I have preached 
another evening, I should have had a full house.— 
But my arrangements were all made. I have preached 
every evening since, and three times Lord's-day at 
Three Rivers. 
Last evening I spoke to a respecta-
ble and (I should judge) deeply interested audience 
(among which was Elder Curtis, the Baptist minis-
ter,) in the Town Hall, on the visions of Daniel.— 
They sat for two hours, without any appearance of 
weariness, while I spread before them the history of 
the kingdoms of this world, and of that, for which 
we look and pray. 
This evening I expect to preach 
again, and then leave for home. 
There has never 
been an Advent sermon before in the village of Bel-
chertown. 
I wish you could come up here and hold 
a conference of a few days : I believe good might be 
done. 
I have two appointments on my way home—one of 
two evenings in Pittsfield, in the neighborhood of 
Sister Williams, which is new ground. 
I bless God 
for health and strength to preach the unsearchable 
riches of Christ. 
When I left Albany, we were in 
a better state than we had been in for months. Praise 
the Lord ! 
I think the labors of Bro. Weethee were 
a blessing to us. 
Some of our brethren at Three Rivers feel the ne 
cossity of gospel order in the church of Christ, 
hope they, and all our brethren, will take the New 
Testament, which is our Magna Charta, and follow 
it. If to follow it, is to organization, let us have it 
But I hope they will not step one step beyond this 
to add one human appendage. 
Let churches, as well 
as individuals, do what our Lord has commanded, and 
they will be divinely organized, and all will be well 
Nothing like this to stop anarchy and confusion. 
One thing worthy of remark I will mention, 
brother in a neighboring town asked another if he 
was going to hear me preach. 
He answered no.— 
The reason was, Bro. Needham has such a bad spirit! 
I do not know that I ever saw that brother—did not 
inquire his name—it is enough for me that God knows 
all about it, and he knows the source, too, from 
whence the cry sprang. 
I call on Bro. Marsh to re-
tract his false charge against me. 
I have thought 
that, if the world stood, I would give him a public 
call once in a few weeks, that he may have an oppor 
t unity to repent, as publicly as he has sinned. 
" I 
you bite and devour one another, take heed that ye be 
not consumed one of another." 
Yours waiting for the Lord. 
P.S. Wednesday, (3.—I lectured to an increased 
Covetousness. 
" And He said unto them, Take heed and beware 
of covetousness; for a man's life consisteth not in the 
abundance of the things which he possesseth." 
These are the words of Jesus, therefore they de-
mand of us particular attention. 
My soul has often 
been stirred within me, when I have seen the cause 
suffering for lack of funds to carry it forward as it 
should be, while very many who profess to believe in 
the speedy coming of Christ, hoard up their thousands, 
and live in luxury. 
As it was in the days of the Sa-
viour, when the poor widow, who cast her two mites 
into the treasury, gave more than all the rich, so is it 
now, the poor, those who have to labor hard with 
their hands to procure the necessaries of life, do give 
the most to sustain the cause. 
The greatest amount 
of funds comes through them, instead ot the rich. 
Their hearts are in the work of the Lord—they love 
not in word and tongue only, but in deed and in truth. 
With them precept and example go hand in hand. 
Thank God, there are somtf noble hearts, who are 
willing to sacrifice their own selfish interest, and per-
sonal ease, for the sake of Christ. 
In aiding His 
servants, they consider it an act of kindness shown 
to Himself, and they are satisfied with the assurance 
given, that they shall not lose their reward. 
There 
are some souls" who experience the truth of the Sa-
viour's declaration,—" It is more blessed to give than 
to receive." 
They believe the promise, " He that 
hath pity upon the poor, lendetb unto the Lord; and 
that which he hath given, will He pay him again ;" 
they fear not to trust the Lord, for they know His 
jromise is sure. 
But many seem willing to trust the 
Lord with everything but their purse. 
But what saith the Lord to the rich? " Go to now, 
ye rich men, weep and howl for the misery that shall 
come upon you. 
Your riches are corrupted, and 
your garments are moth eaten, your gold and silver 
is cankered ; and the rust of them shall be a witness 
against you, and shall eat your flesh as it were fire. 
Ye have heaped treasure together for the last days." 
Think of this, you rich Advent believers, who art 
hoarding up your wealth, instead of lending it to the 
Lord, so that it may be accumulating interest for you 
in heaven. 
But you say, I do not love my riches. 
If you do not, show by your works that you do not. 
Be rea ly to distribute, and give as the Lord hath 
prospered you. 
Do you give according to your abili-
ty? 
Answer as in the sight of the Lord. 
Remem-
ber that if riches are1 given you. it is that you may 
dispense abroad, and give to him that needeth. 
It is 
your duty to aid the gospel minister, whom God calls 
to devote his whole time and labor to the work of 
winning souls. 
But, say you, " If God calls him, 
he will pay him," and withhold from him those things 
which he needeth. 
Ah, but stop brother, God em-
ploys agents to carry forward his designs, and you 
are o..e of His treasurers, and when he makes a draft 
upon you, through'his woithy children, you are in 
duty bound to accept that draft, if you do not, you 
prove yourself dishonest to Him. 
" He that seeth 
his brother or sister have need, and shutteth up his 
bowels of compassion against him, how dwelleth the 
love of God in him?" 
" Ministering to the necessity 
of the saints," is a plain requirement of the Word. 
It is true that we cannot serve God and mammon ; 
we cannot love the world, and at the same time love 
the Father. 
0 how many have I heard say, and very 
indifferently loo, as though it were a very small thing: 
"I know that I love the world." 
And yet they 
would be shocked if we did not acknowledge them as 
Christians ; but remember the unerring word of God 
assures us that the love of the world, and the love of 
the Father cannot dwell in the same heart. " Choose 
ye this day, which ye will serve." 
" Where your 
treasure is, there will your heart be also." 
Where 
is your heart ? 
You well know what most engages 
your affections. Let your mind be open to conviction, 
for if destitute of qualifications for the kingdom, it is 
far better to know it now, while opportunity is afford-
ed for us to put away the evil thing, than to ascertain 
our mistake when too late. 
The apostle assures us 
that covetousness is idolatry, and we are told that 
idolatry cannot enter the kingdom. 
If you upon ex-
amination find yourself to be of this character, at 
once acknowledge it—act no longer the part of a 
hypocrite, and thus disgrace the cause of Christ. 
If 
riches increase, how apt we are to set our heart upon 
them ; therefore said the Saviour, " How hardly shall 
they that have riches, enter the kingdom of God." 
In conclusion, let me exhort you to seek more dili-
gently for the true riches, than earthly wealth ; im-
prove every opportunity to add to your treasure in 
heaven ; lay up in store a good foundation against 
tho time to come; be faithful stewards for Christ; 
give according as the Lord prospers you, and soon He 
will cause you to inherit substance; even an inherit-
ance which is incorruptible, undefiled, and which 
fadeth not away. 
Yours, seeking a portion at the coming of Christ, 
MARY D. 
WELLCOME. 
left among us, who " stand in the ways, and see, and 
ask for the old paths, where is the good way, and 
walk therein." We believe that it is the will of God 
that we " be established in the present truth," and 
not " be tossed to and fro, and carried about with 
every wind of doctrine." 
Several of our brethren 
who were once with us, and whom we highly es-
teemed, walk no more with us, having imbibed, un-
der Mr. Adams' inculcations, the opinions that they 
cannot be what heaven designs them to be, unless 
they are endowed with those extraordinary gifts 
which characterized a, ostolic times. 
They are look-
ing for the gifts of healing, the power of working 
miracles, the gift of prophecy, the power of discern-
ing spirits, divers kinds of tongues, the interpretation 
of tongues, &c. 
Believing that those brethren are 
being drawn into the eddyings of a frightful mael-
strom of delusion, if not of soul-destroying error, we 
pity them most sincerely; more especially because 
they seem, at present, beyond the power of remon-
strance or argument. 
Those who could reject the 
faithful warnings of Bro. Weethee, when ho was 
among us, and can hear, as they have subsequently 
done, an unequivocal avowal, on the part of Mr. Ad-
ams, of his belief of the Divine inspiration of the 
book of Mormon,—to say nothing of his other strange 
vagaries,—without being startled at his temerity, and 
arOused to a sense of their own danger, will soon be 
prepared, unless Providence shall interpose in their 
behalf, for a pilgrimage to Voree, or some other 
place. 
* 
I am sorry to see brethren withdraw their subscrip-
tion from the " Herald," simply because it raises its 
hands to parry the thrusts which have been so re-
peatedly made at its vitals. 
I am no friend to unkind 
controversies, especially in religious periodicals; but 
an ingenious opponent has it in his power sometimes 
to place us in a dilemma in which silence would im-
ply guilt, and a necessary defence of our integrity, 
with some minds, a bad spirit. 
This I believe to be 
your true position—a position that should excite the 
sympathies of brethren, and not lead to their deser-
tion of you in these perilous times. 
WM. 
WATKINS. 
finish my course with joy, and the ministry which I 
have received of the Lord Jesus, to testify the gospel 
of the grace of God." 
YOUTS in the spirit and hope 
of the gospel. 
THOMAS SMITH. 
P.S. My P. 0. address, for the present, is North 
Truro, county of Barnstable, Mass. 
„ 
From Newington IN. HO. Dec. 6th, 1848. 
DEAR BRO. HIMES :—I feel truly thankful that, by 
the blessing of God, I am enabled to contribute my 
mite in support of so valuable a paper as the " Hei-
ald," and 1 trust it will still continue to herald the 
tidings of our speedy coming King, until faith is 
lost in sight, and hope ends in fruition. There is but 
little interest manifested in this place at present in re-
lation to the coming of our Saviour, although in '43 
and '44 there were a goodly number who irimmed 
their lamps and went forth lo meet the Bridegroom ; 
but while the Bridegroom tarried, they all slumbered 
and slept, and it is to be feared they have turned back 
again into Egypt, and their social meetings are given 
up. 
There are but few who are willing to be reck-
oned with that people who are everywhere spoken 
against, or to give their influence to spread the gospel 
of the kingdom, though some are favorable to the 
doctrine, among whom is the Methodist minister, 
whom I trust will see the importance of taking a 
more decided stand for the truth, before it is too late, 
and that he may be instrumental in preparing a peo-
ple who shall be found unto praise, and honor, and 
glory at his appearing. 
The Lord preserve him from 
his dangerous position. I am pleased with the course 
of the "Herald;" the Lord grant youf wisdom in 
these perilous times, and may you make it your great 
business to proclaim the hour of God's judgment, 
and faithfully warn a wicked world to flee the wrath 
to come, and lay hold on the hope set before them in 
the gospel. 
The Lord strengthen and bless you and 
all of like precious faith. 
G. W. DE ROCHEMONT. 
[This is the true state of the case. 
In relation to 
the critical state of the cause in Baltimore, we would 
exhort our brethren there to remain firm at their post, 
in hope of a final triumph over their trials. 
If we do 
not want wolves to enter the fold, we must be watch-
ful against the entrance of strangers in sheep's cloth-
ing. 
Give no place to pretenders, and we shall then 
escape much perplexity, if not thereby save the 
cause.—ED.] 
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; 
Extracts from Letters. 
From Baltimore <Md.), Dec. 7th, 1848. 
DEAR BRO. HIMES :—That cause which you and 
we regard as the best of causes in these perilous 
times,"has been, for the last few weeks, well nigh 
prostrated in Baltimore. 
But for the special protec-
tion of Him who once said, " My presence shall go 
with thee," we would have, ere this, been scattered 
to the winds. 
A blighting sirocco has passed over 
lls 
We have been " cast down, but not destroyed." 
We still live, and through the blessing of God, there 
is a prospect that we may yet thrive. 
A few are still 
From North Truro (Mass.), Dec. 8th, 1848. 
•DEAR BRO. HIMES :—For your and others' infor-
mation, I would say, that in visiting and laboring in 
my old native place, and enjoying almost constantly 
its sea air, my health is exceedingly good, my mind 
constantly stayed on the Lord, and thus am kept in 
perfect peace. 
As far as my own hope and faith are 
concerned, all is well. 
In relation to the reception of the Advent doctrine 
in this place.—Our country cannot, perhaps, afford a 
people who listen to the preached word with more 
quiet and attention, than the people who assemble for 
worship in the meeting-house in North Truro. 
No 
apparent inattention, or disrespect, is ever manifested, 
and one would be ready to suppose, from this state of 
things, that the word must take effect; but I fear it 
is as of old, " not mixed with faith in those who be-
lieve." 
There are, however, some who do feel and 
manifest an interest in the subjects presented, and I 
sometimes hear some saying they wish to be ready 
for the coming of the Lord, instead of the ofl-re-
peated phrase, " I want to be ready to die." 
It is to 
me very apparent, that an interest is felt in some 
minds, and I am not without hope that good may re-
sult from my labors in this place. 
The congregation, 
to be sure, in comparison with some, is small, as is 
the meeting-house ; yet it is a very respectable house 
and congregation. 
There are from sixty to seventy 
professors of r-ligion—Methodist and Orthodox— 
(about an equal number of each), together with seve-
ral who call themselves Universalists. 
These, with 
few exceptions, generally attend meeting on the Sab-
bath, and are mostly willing to contribute something 
for the support of the gospel, and thus far manifest a 
good feeling and interest. 
How long it may be my 
duty to remain here, I cannot tell; but while things 
continue as they now do, I conceive it duty still to 
minister the word of life. 
I have just returned from a tour into the next town 
(Wellfleet), where I spent two or three days with a 
Bro. Charles Gorham and wife, forming, in themean-
Itime, some little acquaintance with Bro. G.'s sons, 
some of whom, with one of their wives, feel inter-
ested in the advent of Christ near. 
I hope, and most 
fervently pray, that the Lord will enable the people 
i0f Well fleet (the very few who have it) to arise, and 
let their light shine, and I have not a doubt but the 
glory of God would there be revealed. 
The cleTgy 
of the place were opposed to my holding forth in 
> their meeting-houses, and the -town having, a few 
years since, passed a vote, that no religious meeting 
should be held in the Town House, what preaching 
I did, was done in a school-house, in a remote place; 
but it being rainy, but few attended. 
I however un-
derstood that a sympathy was awakened in the minds 
of some ofthe inhabitants, who offered to open a hall 
belonging to the Sons of Temperance, and another 
which is occupied as a Lyceum. 
Believing with all 
my heart, that God has a people on Cape Cod, who 
are desirous of knowing the truth, and the whole 
truth, I humbly solicit an interest in the prayers of 
the saints scattered abroad, that I may be enabled 
" rightly to divide the word of truth," and " study to 
show myself approved unto God, and a workman 
that needeth not to be aBhamed," and that " 1 may 
From Berlin (Ct.), Dec. 11,1848. 
DEAR BRO. HIMES :—I hope and pray the cause 
will not be left to suffer for the want of funds for its 
support. 
There is money enough in the hands of the 
brethren to relieve you, and I trust you will soon re-
ceive enough to meet your bills. 
God grant that 
some of the zeal manifested in '43 for the advance-
ment of the truth may be again revived in the hearts 
of the brethren and sisters; their all will be again 
laid on the altar, and love and unity will pervade the 
hearts of all, and there will be no lack of funds to 
support the cause of the coming kingdom. 
If the 
" Herald " office could have its just dues it would be 
free from embarrassment. 
But, brethren, let us not 
wait for those indebted to send in their dues, but let 
us, one and all, rally to support the Advent cause, (for 
it is the cause of God,) and relieve it at once, that 
Bro. Himes may be at liberty to go out and proclaim 
the blessed hope of speedy redemption. 
I am sorry 
to see the coldness and indifference that are manifested 
by the brethren who profess to be looking for the 
coming of the Lord, toward those that differ from 
them in some points of Bible truth ; but as we can-
not all see alike w hilst looking through a glass dark-
ly, let us love as brethren ; for soon the veil will be 
drawn that hides us from the future:— 
" Then shall we see, and hear, and know 
All we desired or wished below; 
And every hour find sweet employ, 
In that eternal world of joy." 
0 brethren, the time is near when we must stand 
in the judgment! Let us act in view of that day, and 
gird on the armor anew, and stand at our post as good 
seutinels, until relieved by the Captain of our salva-
tion. 
Yours, in bonds not easily broken, 
\ 
H. A. PARSONS. 
From Bristol (Vt.), Nov. 30th, 1848. 
DEAR BRO. HIMES :—I have been suddenly called 
to mourn the death of my beloved companion. 
I 
have met with a loss that never can be made up to 
me in this world. 
I have lost a companion who pos-
sessed all of those amiable qualities that are calcu-
lated not only to make her family happy, but all those 
with whom she associated. 
I have one friend left to 
comfort me in this hour of trial, and that friend is 
Jesus: whom I expect soon to see coming in the 
clouds of heaven. 
0 ! how great is my desire to see 
the day, when there will be no more sickness, nor 
death, nor parting of pious friends. 
Brethren, prove 
faithful, and we soon shall meet where we shall part 
no more, and range the fields of pleasure by our dear 
Redeemer's side. 
I pray the Lord to be with the 
watchmen who stand on Zion's walls, and give them 
wisdom to tell the time of night. 
Yours, in brotherly love, 
WM. S. HOWDEN. 
Obituary. 
DIED, in Wilbraham, Nov. 13th, HENRY 
BRAD-
FORD, youngest son of ABNER B. READ, aged 2 1-2 
years. 
Sweet babe, thou art gone, and shall we 
mourn for thee? 
Ah, no; we must not mourn that 
thou hast gone to rest,—we could not wish thee back 
again, to suffer the ills attendant upon life, in this 
earth, blighted by sin and sorrow, pain and death; 
but rather let us strive to be prepared to meet thee 
beyond this vale of tears, where there will be no more 
parting ; where the rude, relentless hand of death 
can never reach, to tear from our fond embrace those 
we love. 
L. A. READ. 
DIED, in Claremont, N. H., Nov. 17th, ELLEN 
JANE, daughter of D. A. and PHINETTE W. CLAY, 
aged 10 years. 
The hope of " the better—the hea-
venly country," through the better resurrection, at 
the coming of our Lord, when " death shall be swal-
lowed up in victory," has been the comfort of the af-
flicted, in their bereavement. 
A. S. 
374 ' 
THE ADYENT 
HERALD. 
Foreign News, 
The steamship Niagara, Capt. RYRIE, from Liver-
pool, arrived at thi3 port Saturday morning last, with 
seven days later intelligence from Europe. 
The ravages of the cholera in England and Scot-
land have sensibly abated, and strong hopes are en-
tertained that they will soon entirely cease. 
In Lon-
don, the number of cases has decreased so much, as 
to render an official return unnecessary. In Scotland, 
there is also a considerable diminution of cases, and 
in the provinces no cases are reported. 
Ireland.—1There is no news of importance from 
Ireland. 
In the absence of'all political excitement, 
the papers are engaged in discussing the social condi 
tion of the country, which always bad, is now appar-
ently worse than at any previous period. 
The emi-
gration to America continues unusually large for the 
season, and comprises many of the better class of 
traders and farmers. 
The proprietors of estates are 
suffering under the depreciation in the value of their 
property, and the decrease in the amount of their 
rents. 
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Outrages upon the lives and property of persons 
are of every day occurrence. 
The following, con-
tained in a letter dated Dundrum, Nov. 25, is a speci-
men of the revolting outrages which are daily chroni-
cled in the Itish papers: 
A murder has just been committed in this neigh-
borhood under circumstances of peculiar atrocity. 
A 
farmer, of the name of James Hennessey, of Gaffin, 
near Dundrum, having risen on Thursday morning 
rather early, far the purpose of detecting some per 
sons who were in the habit of stealing his turnips, 
was assailed by a number of men, who literally rid-
dled his body with slug3, and not content with that, 
beat, cut, and stabbed hintr in the most dreadful man-
ner. 
France.—'The 
news from France is of the same 
character as heretofore noticed. 
The French people 
are occupied in making preparations for the approach-
ing struggle tor the Presidency, the interest in which, 
as the day approaches, is on the increase. 
Cavaig-
nac arrd Louis Napoleon are the prominent candidates 
It was becoming more doubtful, however, whether 
there would be an election by the people, in conse-
quenca of the number of candidates in the field, the 
constitution providing that the successful candidate 
must have at least two million votes. 
Louis Napo-
leon will undoubtedly lead the poll, but should he 
not receive the requisite number of votes, the electron 
will go to-the National Assembly, where the choice 
of Cavaignac is certain. 
Spain.—-The accounts from Spain state that a col-
umn of about 500 men of the Queen's troops have 
been worsted and captured by a Carlfst division in 
Catalonia ; and that the Queen's general had pro-
ceeded to Madrid to demand reinforcement. 
Germany.—The 
Frankfort journals state that a 
plot for a Republican and Socialist rising, and for the 
assassination of several members of the German 
Parliament, has been discovered in that city. 
Prussia.—The 
King of Prussia appears to have 
re-established his authority to a great extent, having 
suppressed the incipient rebellion in Berlin, although 
the contest is still going on between the Court and 
the Chamber. 
The country continues far from tran-
quil, however, and fresh disturbances may take place 
at no distant period. 
Austria.—Accounts 
from Vienna state [(hat the 
severe measures adopted, by Prince Windischgratz 
prevented any new outbreak. 
A tranquillity main-
tained by the presence of a large body of troops, and 
by the most cruel excesses, cannot, however, be per-
manently sustained. 
The arrests in Vienna still continue ; upwards of 
200 persons were seized on the 21st 
Such is the 
state of misery aud starvation among tlie workkig 
classes, that, notwithstanding the severity with which 
the laws against clubs and meetings are carried out, 
they continue to hold their clubs and meetings-in the 
suburbs. It is thought that they have the means of 
becoming armed, as not more than one-half the arms 
taken from the arsenal by the peopla have as yet been 
delivered up. Couriers are constantly passing, between 
Olmutz aud St. Petersburgh, and it is said that the 
Sovereigns of Russia, Austria, and Prussia, have 
formed a " Holy Alliance." 
The Emperor has sub1-
scribed 4,000,000 florins towards the relief of those 
persons whose property was destroyed by the storm-
ing of Vienna. 
The news from Hungary is so-contradictory, as to 
render it impossible to reconcile the conflicting ac-
counts. 
According to'one rumor, negotiations were 
in progress, and the Magyars would probably submit 
on receiving an amnesty ; but other rumors directly 
contradict this statement. 
, Italy.—Insurrection 
at Rome. 
Rome has been 
the theatre of insurrection, by which the temporal 
power of the Pope has been, at least for the time 
being, almost completely overthrown. 
The conflict 
was the immediate result of the refusal of the POM 
to dismiss his ministry, at the demand of the people, 
though the latter, for some time past, have been 
urging the Pope to adopt stifl more liberal' measures. 
Count Rossi arrived in his carriage at the hall of 
the Assembly, and on alighting from his carriage he 
was loudly hooted by a crtnvd which had assembled 
for that purpose. 
He is said to have displayed con-
tempt for the hootings of the mob, and a man then 
rushed from the crowd, and mortally stabbed him 
with a knife in the throat. 
After the death of Rossi, a sullen pause ensued, 
though towards evening groups of mingled soldiers 
and citizens, with lighted torches, were heard singing 
in chorus along the streets, " Blessed' is the hand 
that stabbed the tyrant." 
But during the night the 
popular ringleaders were on the alert, and everything 
was organized for a demonstration on the following 
day. 
On the morning of the 16th, at half-past ten" 
a gathering began in the great square del Popolo, and 
symptoms of a menacing character were perceptible 
in the leading streets. 
Printed Papers were handed 
eagerly about, all having the same purport, and con-
taining the following " Fundamental points.—1. Pro-
mulgation and fulladoption of Italian nationality. 
2. 
Convocation of a constituent assembly and realization 
of the federal pact. 
3. Realization of the vote for 
the war of independence given in the Chamber of 
Deputies. 
4. Adoption in its integrity of the pro-
gramme Mamiani, 5th June. 
5. Ministers who have 
public confidence—Mamiani, Sterbini, Cambello, Sali-
ceti, Fusconi, Lunati, Sereni, Galletti." 
Their ostensible object was to proceed with these 
five points to the Chamber of Deputies in a constitu-
tional manner. 
But the chiefs finding themselves iu 
such numbers, and many of the deputies being found 
mixed up with the crowd, the cry was raised to march 
to the Pope's palace.- 
At one o'clock the members 
of the Chamber presented themselves'as the mouth-
piece of the multitude, and transmitted the five points 
to the Monarch. 
In about ten minutes, the president 
of the late ministerial council, Cardinal Soglia, in-
formed the deputation thai his Holiness would reflect 
on the subject, and take it into his best consideration. 
This answer was proclaimed to the people, but a gen-
eral murmur of dissatisfaction gave evidence of its 
insufficiency to meet the crisis, and the crowd insisted 
on the deputation getting a personal audience with the 
Pope. 
This was obtained, and in about a quarter of 
an hour, Galletti, the ex-police minister, appeared on 
the balcony to acquaint the people that the Pope had 
positively declined adhesion to their request, and had 
stated that " he would not brook dictation." 
At two 
o'clock the position of the Pontiff began to grow 
critical. 
All the avenues of the Quirinal palace were 
blocked up by dense crowds, and as no preparation 
had been made for this unanticipated influx of visitors, 
there was but the usual small detachment, of Swiss 
guards on duty. 
These men were known to be reso-
lute, and had there been but a few more of them, the 
Monarch might have cut his way through the mob 
and gained Subiaco in the Appenines, whither it had 
often been a question of retiring from the rabble of 
Rome on previous outbreaks. 
As it was, one of the 
advanced sentinels having been seized and disarmed 
by the mob, the Swiss bodv-guard instantly flung 
back and barred the gates of the palace, presenting 
their muskets, in readiness to fire at once on the im-
mense mass of multittjde which beleaguered the 
Quirinal. 
At this stage of the proceedings, it was evident 
that the die was cast. 
From the back streets men 
emerged, bearing aloft long ladders, wherewith to 
scale the Pontifical abode; carts and wagons were 
dragged up and ranged within musket-shot of the 
windows, to protect the assailants in their determined 
attack upon the palace; the cry was, " To arms! to 
arms! " and musketry began to bristle in the ap-
proaches from every direction; faggots were pro-
duced, and piled up against one of the condemned 
gates of the building, to which the mob was in the 
act of setting fire, when a brisk discharge of fire-
locks scattered the besiegers in that quarter. 
The 
multitude began now to perceive that there would be 
a determined resistance to their further operations, 
but were confident that the Quirinal, if not taken by 
storm, must yield to progressive inroad. 
The drums 
Were now beating throughout the city, and the dis-
banded groups of regular troops and carbineers, rein-
forcing the hostile display of assailants, and render-
ing it truly formidable. 
Random shots were aimed 
at the win'dows, and duly responded to; the outposts, 
one after another, being taken by the people, the gar-
rison within being too scanty to man the out-works. 
Monsignor Palma, private secretary to his Holiness, 
was killed, by a bullet penetrating his forehead. 
A 
shot is also said to have entered the room where the 
Pope was. 
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As if upwards of 6000 troops of all kinds were 
not enough to reduce the little garrison of Swiss, two 
stx-pounders now appeared on the scene, and were 
drawn up and duly pointed against the main gate, 
and a truce having been proclaimed, another deputa-
tion claimed entrance and audience of the Pope, 
which the monarch ordered to be allowed. 
The 
deputation were bearers of the people's 
ultimatum, 
which was a re-production of the five points before 
stated ; and they now declared that they would allow 
his Holiness one hour to consider, after which, if not 
adopted, they announced their firm purpose to break 
into the Quirinal, and put to death every inmate 
thereof, with the sole and single exception of his Ho-
liness himself. Pius IX. no longer hesitated, but sent 
for Galletti, who was instructed to form a ministry in 
accordance with the wishes of the people. 
On ^e morning of the 17th ult., at day-break, the 
people pulled down the barricades which had been 
erected at Montacavallo, but the gates of the Quirinal 
palace were strictly closed. 
A letter from the consul of France to the Minister 
of Foreign Affairs, written at Marseilles on the af-
ternoon of Nov. 28th, says that the Pope left Rome, 
secretly, at 5 o'clock on the morning of the 24th. 
The 
Daily News " says that he left in 
disguise, 
and had arrived at Leata, to which place the steamer 
" Semure " had gone to meet his Holiness, who in-
tended to go to France. 
Rome- remained tranquil, 
and seemed indifferent to the Pope's departure. 
The 
Chambers had passed a vote of confidence in the 
Ministry. 
A subsequent report contradicts the above. 
Certain information had reached Paris to the effect 
that lbraham Pacha, of Egypt, died on Nov. 10th, 
and had been succeeded by Abbas Paeha. 
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THE ADVENT 
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SETTLEMENT OF ACCOUNTS.-Our Ageutsand subscribers 
will call to mind our notice a few weeks since, requesting tliem to 
settle their accounts with this office by the 1st of January next.— 
There is considerable due the office, and we need it to meet our bills 
for paper aud printing. We are obliged to say, to all indebted, either 
they must pay us our dues, or we MUST CLOSE THE OFFICE. We 
mean just what we say. 
We do not beg, nor call for money to in-
vest iu any object foreign to the Advent cause, but/or it. 
Wehave 
large bills to meet between this and the first of January, and unless 
our call is heeded, by a prompt remittance on the part of those who 
are indebted, the cause must, for the first tiirte, suffer in our hands. 
Each one can raise the little sum that is due much better than wc 
can raise the amouut claimed by the paper maker and printer. 
We 
shall be detained at home for several weeks, and we hope that our 
cluim and request will not be disregarded. Let none fail to respond, 
under the impression, that others will make up the required amount 
without the sum they owe. 
Such a course would not be just. Let. 
us have a full and hearty response. 
In addition to the above, we shall have to raise about one hundred 
and fltty dollars, to meet Uie remaining bills of the English Mission. 
This we must pay soon. We do hope that our friends, who have 
the means to assist us, will do so without delay. 
We shall send bills soon to all who are indebted. 
TO OUR SUBSCRIBERS?1*! THE BRITISH PROVINCES.-
We find, on looking over our bdoks, that just three out of every four 
to whom we send the Herald iu the Provinces, yre in arrears tor the 
same. Now, we have to pay 11-2 cents on every copy that we mail 
thither, or 39 cents per vol. As only one fourth of the number have 
paid, it follows, that for every dollar we receive, we are sending pa-
pers on which we pay lour times 39, or 81 56 postage—which 
amounts to above $50 a year that we pay, besides tlie cost of the 
puper sent, above the receipts from the same sources. There is great 
negligence somewhere. 
We have twenty-one subscribers in Hali-
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ceived their names, but not a cent lias been received. Yet we have 
paid 32 c^nts each week while we have sent the paper to them.— 
Now, what shall we do ? We cannot write you each one individ-
ually, because the postage to the line is too great. 
We shall there-
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whom we do not hear in a few weeks. Those in the Provinces, 
therefore, who fail to receive their paper after a reasonable time, 
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to remit the money he collected for those whose names he left with 
us f Such a course of neglect will soon break down any office. We 
hope for an immediate response. 
CONFERENCES—We expect to attend Advent conferences in 
the places mentioned below, iu the following order: — 
Abington, Mass. un the Town Ila.ll , Dec. 22d, 23d, and 24th — 
Those who come from Plymouth may stop at the Centre Deuot, and 
those going Iroui Boston, at the Norm Deput. Friends wift call 011 
bro. S. Ford. Time—LU A. M., and z aud T> P. M. 
Boston, Sunday, Dec. 31st, and connuue through the week. 
We 
shall keep the usual watcn night, and continue the nieetiu°s in the 
following order:—i'rayer aud conference meetings in the moruin", 
at 10 A. M., and 2 p. M., and lectures every evening duriiig the week 
until Friday. 
Coiilerence in Haverhill, Mass., with' Bro. l'lummer's people, to 
commence Thursday, Jan. 4ill, Io49, aud continue over Sunday. 
Brethren in the surrounding towns will coine in and help us. Let. 
us make a strong and united effort for the sacred cause of our com-
ing Lord. 
SUMMARY. 
Not far from Vera Cruz, the diligence was robbed 011 the 20lh of 
November, and Mr. Black, American Consul, was severely beaten. 
Up to the present time, the weather has been very mild, if not 
very pleasant, lu November we had one considerable snow-storm, 
since which there has been not a snap of winter, and poultry and 
meats are not easily kepi sweet lor any length ol time. 
Near Springfield, 111., a son of Harrison Baker, aged seven years, 
discharged a guu loaueU lor deer, instantly killing lus sisler, aged a 
years, tiitaliy wounding a younger child, and mutilating the hand of 
another. 
Mrs. Frances l'urdom rose froin her bed in the night, and went a 
mile and a half and drowned herself in i.ost river, Mo., on account 
of ihe recent death of her husband. 
Seven laboring men were drowned at Johnsville, N. Y., while 
crossing the Moliawk iu a small boat. The names of the lour are, 
ratrick auu Thomas Darais, Henry Banks aud Peter McCoun—all 
recently from West Troy. 
The wife and child of Chas. Kloppel were drowned from a wagon 
while lording a creek at Dayton, U., 0.1 Sunday, ou iheir way to di-
vine worship. 
Miss Sally Powers, a crazy woman, who lived in Greenwich vil-
lage, Alass., and who haU.been missed Irom that place aboul four-
teen weeks, was found dead last Monday 111 a ditch iu that town.— 
Sue was about ao years of uge. 
Mr. William Mear, of Chelsea, accidentally fell overboard from 
the ferry-boat iu crossing from tins city on Thursday evening, ihe 
Hth, aud was drowned. Mr. M. was an old man, an buglishinau, 
and lias been in this country bul about twelve months. 
Hemuiingway's dam on Point crtek, Mich., gave way on the 2d, 
and a pond, twelve leet deep, covering 4uOa acres, rushed into Clin-
ton river, carrying away all tlie dams on ihe creek aud river down 
10 Ml. Clemens. There were six or eight Hour mills on uie hue of 
the freshet, und the uauiage inusi be great. One hundred hogs were 
lost iu one pen, aud several cattle were drowned. 
Some excitement existed in a certain street iu New Orleans, in 
consequence of ihe disappearance of a German merchant, wlio had 
been uivorced, and was 011 the eve of marrying a new wile, Tile 
old Wife appeared at his resilience, with a leuer purporting to be 
from him, declaring thai lie had destroyed niuisell, auu wishing her 
10 take possession of his property. 
A workmau named Pepper, employed in theSomerville dying and 
bleaching establishment, was install iff Killed by getting entangled 
with the belting. 
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e?,lf 
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pected to be present, 
J.' ~ears 
ex. 
E. B. SAWVER. 
APPOINTMENTS. 
The Lord willing, I will preach as follows <-In Coonersrrm-, 
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..evenings of Dec. lib aud 29: Esoeranre. Kni,H»„gi 
Kent, 26-28 ; Litchfield Centre, Sunday, Feb. 4 • Ellsworil'^ 
Sharon, 9-11; Middletown, Saratoga Co., N. Y , 11-16 VI ,>11V 
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Sunday, 18 ; Conference in Esperance, six davs, 20-i5. I 
be directed to New York till Jan. la, and 10 Albany till Feb 
y 
The Lord willing, I will preach at Nashua the InstSebbath in IW . 
Manchester, fiisthabbutli in .Ian.; Lawrence, second in Jan! 
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I wilfpreach the4th Sabbathin Dec. at llarnstead ; theitii aU'in, 
fleW.i [he,first 111 January al Marlboro', Mass.; the 2d in Na»V,L 
the 3d In Concord, N. H. 1 and the 4th in Abington, Mass 
Ua; 
N-BILLINGS. 
I will preach at Lynn Dec. 22, and continue over the Sablmth • n 
South Reading, 31st, and watch out the old year. 
I. R. GATES 
If God wills, I shall fulfil the following appointments —Cohn^ 
Jan. 7th. ID A.M., and bit Poil Hope at 7 P.M. ; Connels,'&th, h do 
Botsford, 9th, 6 do ; Toronto, 10th, 7do ; Oakville, Ulh, 7 do • TW 
dale, 12th, 7do: Nelson, 14th, 10 A.M.; FatherCamrikil's, W 
i 
P.M. ; I. Brown's, loth, 7 do; I. Burrows, 17th, fj do. Let eachoU 
that may be interested in these appointments, pray that Grid's 
may be with us. 
— 
D.CAMPBELL 
The Lord willing, I will preach in Springfield Sabbath, Jan 7,1, 
and at Jawbuck evening of the 9th. 
0. O. TOWNE ' 
ADVENT meetings are held in Brooklyn, N. Y., in Grand Hall 
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day, and ou Ihursday evening, by Elder I. E. JONES 
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ner, 404 ; S. Jacksou, 43(J; T. Hillard, 4U4 ; A. Trumbull 430 • B P. 
Kavel . 430 ; Wm. Ramsdell, 430 ; K. Lalhrop, 41,4 ; MRSB. Wes-
ton, 430; !5. Stone, 45b ; J. Morse, M 
; R. K Hill. 4I(> • A 
L Jurrier. 
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4^";^. Spears 
430; E. Kennedy, 4OV ; G. Dav s, 430; G. Loomis. 404 • J Talford 
408; J. Sheldon, 4U3; W. 
P. Stralton, 404 T 
B. 'LY^K, 
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S. Drake, 404 ; S. R. Dennett, 
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Mj R. schellhouse, 404 ; S. V\ ells, 424 ; C. Church, 
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4U4 ; E• Unckling, 404 ;V. Streeler, 
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deu,392; J. Brown, 430 ; A. W. Muliken, 396-was REE'D f W. S. 
Conn, 414; Wm. Viatsou.430; H. Asseltyne, 417; C. changed to L. 
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M- Clark, ;TE4 ; J. Tniesdide, 
A-Moore, 404 ; E. Sabin, 430; Thos. Lee, 447 ; C. G. Smith, 
** i M-UU-wtie, 436 , j. Junes, 404 ; E. Noyes, 378-SI due ; I. 
Marsh, 430; J. Sanderson, 41H ; Win. W inn, 404 ; A. HlorWett, 404 ; 
B. Dwelley, 409 ; A. ilotchkiss, 430; Wm. B. L!aui,I" 3M • A. F. 
PENNIIIIAU, 41/4 ; J. Hart, 404 ; D. Babbitt, 404 ; A. L. Haskell, 378-
F1 I^E \ 
Draper, 404—each ®2—G. W. de Rochemont, 4N4 ; 
L. buell, 404 ; J. Carter, 404 ; C. Damon, 352—SK! due • H 
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kins, 404 ; J. C. Dementi, 430; J. B. Ludden isentTW; H. Tol-
E O. Bliss, 430; N. Burnell, 488-each $3—E. Raber, 
430; F. Benden, 4O4-each $4—Mrs. PS R. Goodwin, 430-§5.