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[Original.] 
TO THE ADVENT HERALD. 
BY SARAH A. COBURN. 
Herald of glorious life and light, 
Proclaiming news the best; 
Sweet harbinger of peace and joy, 
And everlasting rest. 
For many a year, to heart and home, 
We've gladly welcomed thee; 
Things new and old from God's own Book 
We've clearly seen through thee. 
And though the message thou dost bring 
Thy foes would fain have hushed, 
The hope that message doth inspire, 
With ruthless hands have crushed: 
Yet still thy journey, many-pathed, 
Each week dost thou perform, 
Regardless of the Summer heat, 
The Winter cold and storm. 
troyed. "But the judgment shall sit and 
they shall take away his dominion, to con-
sume it and to destroy it unto the end." 
And this brings us to the time when, "The 
kingdom and dominions and the greatness of 
the kingdom under the whole heavens (or 
throughout the entire earth,) shall be given 
the people of the saints of the Most High, 
whose kingdom is an everlasting kingdom, 
and all dominions shall serve and obey him." 
As this takes place under heaven, it must 
be on this earth ; and of course it must be 
an earthly kingdom that is given to the 
saints that they have the dominion of. 
And this brings us to a time when there 
will be Christian rulers in all the earth, for 
all rulers will serve and obey God. I think 
that John had reference to this time in Rev. 
20: 4: "Arid I saw thrones, and they that 
sat upon them, and judgment was given un-
to them." Judgment to rule and govern the 
people. And the apostle Paul speaks of 
this time, 1 Cor. 6 : 1, 2 : "Dare any of you 
having a matter against another, go to law 
before the unjust, but not before the 
saints ? 
Do ye not know that the saints shall judge 
the world ? and if the world is to be judged 
by you, are ye unworthy to judge the small-
est matters ? Arid when judgment is given 
unto the saints, and they have the rule, the 
kingdoms of this world will have become the 
kingdoms of our Lord and of his Christ ; 
and will reign forever." It is said that the 
saints take the kingdom and possess it for-
ever, even forever and ever ; but this is no 
evidence that it refers to the future state, 
nor that it is not an earthly kingdom. The 
kingdom had been passing from one to an-
other, till the time comes that the saints take 
the kingdom and possess it ; and they will 
then continue to have the rule and possess 
the kingdom as long as earthly kingdoms 
exist, even to the end of the world ; and this 
would be forever. 
Go on, thou messenger of truth, 
And feed the church of God, 
Avoiding all distracting themes, 
Which scatter them abroad. 
[Original.] 
A SHORT SERMON. 
greatness of the kingdom under (not above) 
the whole heaven shall be given to the peo-
ple of the saints of the Most High, whose 
kingdom is an everlasting kingdom, and 
all dominions shall serve and obey him." 
Dan. 7 : 27. 
Why, I again ask does sectarianism even 
pervert the truth which so clearly sets forth 
the locality of their anticipated home ? Be-
cause it is a system of confusion, and conse-
quently a system of error, intermingled with 
with some truth, as was the smoothly told 
tale of the devil in Paradise. The lie he 
told mother Eve, was, that she should "not 
surely die," as God had told her ; and the 
truth he told her, yvas, that her eyes should 
be opened to discern between good and evil, 
which she realized to be true, to her sorrow. 
It is the devil's plan to deal in compounds 
only, that is, truth and error mixed. There 
is no truth in him Jesus says, (John 8 : 44,) 
but he steals as much from God, as will 
make his mixture vendible or saleable, and 
he finds no difficulty in putting it off in 
large quantities to the religious parties of these 
last times. 
In my next I shall give startling facts on 
the perversion of God's eternal truth, for 
which I feel a jealously that cannot be ex-
tinguished at the martyr's stake. Every 
word of God is pure, says Agur, (Prov. 30 : 
5,) not only pure, but David declares, "The 
words of the Lord are pure words : as sil-
ver tried in a furnace of earth purified 
seven times. Thou shalt keep them, 0 Lord, 
thou shall preserve them from this genera_ 
tion forever." Psalm 12 : 6, 7. Now this 
pure word I must, and will most cheerfully 
defend against anything that may oppose it 
in my own practise, -or theory, or in that of 
any, or all others, whether sects, or individ-
uals in the sects. I feel always to know 
the very worst of my condition before God, 
and hence no truth can be unwelcome with 
me, even should the devil steal it from God 
and preach it in order to deceive me' there-
by. I love the truth because it proceeds 
from the fountain of love, which fountain is 
God. 1 John 4: 16. "God is love." 
"We love him, because he first loved us." 
Verse 19. �
JOHN ILINKLE. 
Mechanicsburg, Cumberland Co., Pa. 
Disperse, like Autumn leaves, abroad 
O'er earth's great waiting field—
Sow thick and fast the seed divine, 
Which shall rich harvest yield. 
"Then shall the righteous shine forth as 
the sun in the kingdom of their Fat her."—
MATT. 13 : 43. 
Thy mission shall not fruitless be; 
Thy words of life and cheer, 
Shall bid the saddened heart rejoice, 
With music charm the oar. 
[Original.] 
SOME THOUGHTS ON THE PRESENT 
STATE OF THIS NATION. 
BY JONATHAN WHITMAN. 
Soon shall thy work accothplished be, 
The Saviour soon will come, 
And all who heed thy warnings sure, 
Shall find a blessed home. 
Haverhill, Mass., July 18, 1864. 
In some things this state of the nation is 
nearly the same as it was in the commence-
ment of the war. We were then (as it ap-
pears to me) a drunken nation, and we still 
continue so. It may be that we are a 
drunken nation as relates to wine and strong 
drink. But the drunkenness I am now 
to speak of, is that which is recorded in Isa. 
23 : 9-14; verse 9-12. "Stay yourselves, 
and wonder, cry ye out, and cry ; they are 
drunken, but not with wine ; they stagger, 
but not with strong drink. For the Lord 
hath poured out upon you the spirit of deep 
sleep, and bath closed your eyes : the proph-
ets and your rulers, the seers hath he covered. 
And the vision of all is become unto you as 
the words of a book that is sealed, which 
men deliver unto one that is learned, say - 
ing, Read this, I pray thee : arid he saith, 
I cannot, for it is sealed. And the book is 
delivered to him that is not learned, saying, 
Read this, I pray thee, and he saith, I am 
not learned." 
bled ourselves before him and turned to the 
Lord with penitent and broken hearts, and 
reformed in our external conduct. But it 
has not been so ; and we have no reason to 
expect it, till we take a different view of 
things from what we now do. 
I think we are ignorant of our true position: 
that we do not understand where we are in 
the prophetic history of the world, and do 
not knov, what to look for in the fu-
ture. The people here at the North are ex-
pecting a better time when the war is ended, 
and do not seem to look for any further vis-
itation of God's judgment. They do not 
seem to believe that Christ will smite this 
nations with a rod of iron, and dash them in 
pieces like a potter's vessel ; and that he 
may now be performing this work. And 
our drunkenness consists in taking a wrong 
view of things. But if we should become 
sober (our rulers and teachers,) we might 
feel the need of humility and repentance, and 
a refbrmation in morals. But now, iniquity 
abounds ; profanity exists to an alarming 
extent ; it is quite common in the army, and 
among the people in general. And cheating 
is practised in all branches of business ; and 
many of those that are doing business for 
the Government, are guilty of it. And all 
kinds of wickedness continues, and we see 
no evidence of a reformation ; and at pres-
ent, we, as a nation, are very wicked. And 
what shall be the end thereof ? This may 
be said of us as well as of the Jews. And 
again, what was said of then.: "Shall I not 
visit them for these things ? saith the Lord ; 
shall not my soul be avenged on such a na-
tions as this ?" He was avenged on them, 
and he will evidently be avenged on this na-
tion. And if those that are called evangeli-
cal are drunken and out of the way, 
what shall we think of the nation when we 
see the many isms, and false doctrines that 
exist. Surely we are a drunken nation ; 
and I suppose there is much drunkenness in 
wine and strong drink. But there will soon 
be a great reformation in this nation ; we 
shall become a sober, and righteous, and a 
Christians people ; and the wickedness of the 
wicked will come to an end ; and in this we 
have reason to rejoice. I shall now leave 
this point, and notice some of the kingdoms 
that are spoken of in prophecy. And we 
will first notice Dais. 7: 13, 14, and 27. Verse 
27 : "And the kingdom and dominion and 
the greatness of the kingdom under the whole 
heaven, shall be given to the people of the 
saints of the Most High, whose kingdom is 
an everlasting kingdom, and all dominions 
(or rulers,) shall serve and obey him." This 
is one of the most interesting passages of 
Scripture we have on the subject pertaining 
to the millennium. And according to my 
view of it, there is no passage more poorly 
understood. It is generally quot&l to prove 
something that it was not designed to prove. 
And the reason of their doing so is, that they 
do not understand what kingdom it is ; and 
if we err here, we shall surely come to a 
wrong conclusion. 
Now let us examine the passage for a lit-
tle season, with candor, and see if we can 
ascertain what kingdom it is, and the true 
of 
meaning of the passage. In Daniel, second 
chapter, we have four kingdoms brought to 
our view, and what they represented, and of 
their passing away, and of what followed. 
In the seventh, the same four kingdoms are 
presented, but in a different form ; and re-
presented by four great beasts. Verses 15 
to 18 : "I, Daniel, was grieved in my spirit, 
in the midst of my body, and the visions of 
my head troubled rile. I cause near unto 
one of them that stood by, rind asked him 
the truth cf all this. So he told me, and 
made me know the interpretation of the things. 
These great beasts, which are four, are four 
kings, (or kingdoms,) which shall arise out 
of the earth. But the saints of the Most 
High shall take the kingdom, and possess 
the kingdom forever, even forever and 
ever." 
God, John 14: 21-23. "He that hath my 
commandments arid keepeth them, he it is 
that loveth me." Keepeth how many, Di-
vine Master, dost thou mean ? "When ye 
shall have done ALL those things which are 
commanded you, say we are unprofitable 
servants : we have done that which was our 
duty to do." Luke 17 : 10. 
Now the most blessed Jesus distinctly 
shows, that after all his sayings have been 
fully obeyed, both in manner and in spirit, 
that the best Christian can only attain to 
the degree of an improfitable servant having 
only done his duty, and hence there is not 
in the most perfect obedience of the best 
Christian, long since dead, or now living, one 
single degree of merit. No, not one solitary 
degree of merit in all he has so faithfully 
done. He has only corny lied with the con-
ditional part of salvation, which beir_g his 
duty, and especially his interest, all obedi-
ence is but duty and interest, and hence, 
without the least shadow of merit. 
The meritorious cause of human salvation 
is the ATONEMENT of Jesus Christ. Now, 
then, if the conditional part (which is man's 
part) be well and thoroughly acted, can 
only bring the Christian to the attainment of 
an "unprofitable servant," in whose complete 
obedience there is no merit, and whose final 
and eternal salvation depends on the merit 
of Christ's most precious blood, where, in 
view of this, will the perverters of any 
part, or parts of God's Word appear in the 
near approaching judgment ? To pass by 
any thing commanded or forbidden of God, 
and call it a non-essential, is charging him 
with a want of wisdom for giving useless 
mandates to his creature man, which is not 
only a common, but a fearfully extensive 
evil at this day, amongst all the (so called) 
orthodox sects of which we have any knowl-
edge throughout Christendom. 
Again : The same bold, presumptuous dar-
ing to wrest the Scriptures manifests itself 
by practically robbing any of God's man-
dates of their true import or signification, a 
sin first committed by the devil in paradise, 
when he told Eve she should not surely die, 
though the eternal God had most positively 
declared she should die. Here in this 
garden of Eden this Word-of-God wresting 
took its beginning, and branched itself out 
in spiritualizing, non-essentializing, taking 
from its true meaning, and adding to its 
primary signification, and otherwise wresting 
it of the true import attached by its divine 
and eternal Author. In short, the man, or 
or the set of men forming a religious party, 
whose intellectual or written creed, theory 
or practice, either adds to, or diminishes the 
Word of God in any of the ways herein-
stated, or otherwise, will please to under-
stand it most distinctly, that this evil took 
origin in the devil's first lie as above shown, 
and I here aver, that all the twisting, screw-
ing, turning, all the positives, and negatives, 
all the declamation, logic, and philosophizing 
that can be brought to bear upon the sub-
ject, will leave it just where it took its rise, 
and that was in the devil's smoothy told lie 
in Paradise. 
I showed you in a former article that 
there were but two grand, or supreme sour-
ces of good and of evil. That God Was the 
glorious fountain of all physical or natural 
good, intellectual happiness, and spiritual 
blessedness ; that the devil was the supreme 
source of all physical, intellectual, and moral 
evil in the vast universe of God. Now if 
this be true, and there is no truth more fully 
confirmed than this, then from whence arises 
the spiritualizing of literal Scripture, non-
essentializing express commands and pro-
hibitions of God's Word, adding to, or di-
minishing the primary import of the sayings 
of Jesus, and his inspired apostles, and the 
passing by numerous sayings of the New 
Testament with contemptible indifference, 
and to do it with impunity, which makes 
their sin the more presumptuous in the sight 
of God. 
I ask, from whence emanate these things ? 
Surely not from God, for this would be God 
divided against himself, and therefore he 
could not stand, as Jesus says : a kingdom 
divided against itself cannot stand, Satan 
divided against himself; cannot stand, (Matt. 
12,) and as a matter of course, if God were 
divided against himself, he could no more 
stand, than could a kingdom, and if secta- 
rianism professes to be counselled and di-
rected by Jehovah in wresting his Word in 
the various forms and degrees herein stated, 
then God is divided against himself, for God 
says, "ye shall surely die," sectarianism says 
we shall not surely die. God says let there 
be no schism or division in the body (the 
Church,) sectarianism practically declares 
that schism or division into factions is not 
only right, but advantages to the cause of 
Christ. Jesus prays so importunately for 
the oneness or unity of his Church, (John 
17,) but partyism says, let us have plurality, 
and we will still be right. Now the "God of 
patience commands that the children be like-
minded, one toward another, according to 
Christ Jesus, that ye may with one mind 
and one mouth glorify God, even the Father 
of our Lord Jesus Christ." (Rom, 20: 5, 
6.) �
Sectarianism wrests this passage like 
those already quoted, by practically saying, 
we can be -of quite different minds or opin-
ions, and still be quite right. 
[Original.] 
DEFENCE IN FAVOR OF THE AUTHEN-
TICITY OF THE BIBLE. 
Continued. 
I continue from my last to show how the 
religious sects are allied with skeptics, fana-
tics, and infidels in wresting the Scriptures, 
a sin exquisitely aggravating, and one of 
which the poor obscure pilgrim writer has 
been guilty whilst blinded by the god of 
sectarianism, who prevented him from en-
joying the independence of reading, judging, 
and thinking for himself, and obeying God 
in all his "commandments and ordinances." 
Luke 1 : 4. 
To "wrest the Scriptures," is to fight 
against God ; and a more dangerous and 
wicked undertaking than fighting Hirn, can-
not be conceived of, when done voluntarily, 
or out of choice. To do so ignorantly, and 
from the prejudices of religious education, 
greatly mitigates the crime of "wresting the 
Scriptures," but does by no means declare 
the man or the party innocent before God, 
at whose door this sin lies. This wresting, 
twisting, and screwing of God's Holy Word, 
which he has "magnified above all his name," 
(Psalm 138: 2 verse,).is done quite vari-
ously. It is done directly, indirectly, 
positively,- negatively, mediately, and inundi-
diately. 
Some given command or prohibition is 
taken up for discussion by one party, who 
will force the mandate into their service by 
constraining to signify more than its prima-
ry meaning, or, in other words the meaning 
that God attached to it, which can always 
be comprehended by explaining Scripture by 
Scripture, the only certain and infallible rule 
of exposition. 
This same mandate is taken up for discus-
sion by another religious fraternity, who 
force it into their service by compelling 
it to teach less than its primary significa-
tion. 
Another, or third sect, wrest this same 
mandate, or prohibition, as the case may be, 
by passing it by with utter indifference as 
non-essential, but have a kind ef domestic 
charity to leave their neighbors to enjoy the 
pleasure of attending to the matter, without 
censuring them for their childish credulity. 
Another party is not content, virtually to 
wrest said mandates, by passing them by 
with contemptuous indifference, but add in-
iquity to sin and transgression, by thinking, 
speaking, and writing lightly of the thing 
commanded, and of those who "show their 
faith by their works," (James 2,) the only 
true evidence of living, active faith, which 
works by love. "He that loveth me keepeth 
my commandments," saith the glorious Son of 
Again : God says, "Now I beseech you 
brethren, by the name of our Lord Jesus 
Christ, that ye all speak the same thing, and 
that there be no division among you ; but 
thatye be perfectly joined together in the same 
mind, and in the same judgment." 1 Cor 
10. Partyism says, we May speak many 
things, and there may be divisions amongst 
us, and it is not necessary to be so perfectly 
joined together in the same mind and in 
same judgment as Paul says. Is not this 
the practical course of all the sects ? 
Is not variety of opinion, notion, and whim, 
a very special peculiarity of the religious 
organizations of these "last days ?" and do 
not many of their members glory in the 
freedom they use in judging of God's 
holy, plain, and common-sense -Word? ? Let 
us give the problem a brief solution. 
In a former article I gave the reader sev-
eral thoughts on this point, from that migh-
ty, unparalleled, and ever memorable model 
sermon of the world's most blessed and di-
vine Redeemer, as recorded in Matthew 5 : 
6, 7 ; which I would here most earnestly be-
seech every one to read, and read it often ; 
and those who cannot read it, let them have 
it read by others, who 'can do so. 
As this sermon of the Redeemer's is the 
prime article in God's mighty creed, I shall 
use it to purpose in the discussion of the 
question under consideration. This omnipo-
tent sermon forms an impregnable fortifica-
tion, and from behind it, the most destruc-
tive execution may be done to corrupt hu-
man opinion, and man made creeds, which 
conflict with its most blessed contents. 
Our, most blessed Lord in the opening of 
that sermon, pronounced quite a number of 
blessings on his children ; among them, this 
is one : "Blessed are the meek, for they shall 
inherit the earth ?" What reply does secta-
rianism make to this announcement of Jesus 
to his saints ? Well, I suppose with few ex-
ceptions, their creeds, intellectual or written, 
deny that this earth shall be the eternal res-
idence of the saints, after having been regen-
erated and brought back to its primeval 
state. I suppose that were the masses ques-
tioned as to the eternal residence of the 
meek, who "shall inherit the earth" as Jesus 
says, they would tell the interrogator, that 
the residence of the meek was "beyond the 
bounds of space and time," and where that 
is, none of them could tell, and what kind of 
a place that is for the meek to dwell, none 
could tell but those who have been there, 
and as none have ever been there, in that 
untangible saintly locality, no information 
can be derived as to its location, and hence 
those emigrants who are on their way to 
their imaginary heaven, are going with as 
much uncertainty, as to the locality of 
their heaten, as Mohammedans are as 
to which of the seven heavens of Mo-
hammedanism they will be admitted, for it 
said that Mohammedanism has seven heaven. 
Were thousands upon thousands amongst 
many of the sects asked as to the final and 
eternal home of the saints, they could no 
more give an intelligent answer to the ques-
tion; than I could give, as to who was the 
principal architect in building Noah's Ark. 
And why all this ignorance, and why all this 
opinion, and giddy fancy and notion, as to 
the final home of God's family, so plainly, 
clearly, and expressly set forth by the glo-
rious Son of God and his inspired prophets 
and apostles ? 
Why all this I inquire ? I answer, the 
monstrous truth-perverter, the demi-god of 
sectarianism, like Herod of old, (Acts 12 : 
21-23) sits royally upon his throne and 
makes this oration, and the sects exclaim, 
that it is the "voice of a god and not of a 
man," and live, and believe, they know not 
what. Now these notions, whims, and per-
verted opinions form a complete perversion 
of the declaration made by our blessed and 
adorable Lord, that the "meek shall inherit 
the earth. (Matt. 5 : 5.) 
Who in the wide realm of Christendom 
does not know that the meek whom Jesus 
addresses, do not inherit the earth since the 
devil cheated them out of it, but which he 
will shortly be called to surrender for ever 
unto Him who is the rightful owner and 
Sovereign ? Who knows not that this earth 
is inherited as a general thing, by the self-
conceited, the high-minded, the proud and 
aristocratical, instead of the meek, who are 
not inheritors, but pilgrims, journeying 
onward to become inheritors, when the 
curse shall have been removed, and Eden 
restored. 
I now close this article by presenting the 
final home of the meek, as one of the plain-
est literal facts, recorded in the blessed book 
of God. And first: Malachi declares in 
most positive language the burning of the 
contents of the earth. See 4th ' chapter-. 
Peter declares the same fact, 2d Epistle 3 : 
6, 7-10-12. Then, after the burning of all 
the earth's surface has ended, God will 
fit up the home of the meek. See Isaiah 
65: 17, 18. 2 Peter 3: 13. Revelation 
21 : 1 verse—besides other places. Nov why 
in the name of Him who bought the saints' 
eternal residence with His most precious 
blood, do men not believe what the Bible so 
plainly teaches on this point ? Why do they 
teach, and why do men and women believe, 
that they shall reign above the sky, (as they 
often sing,) when God so expressly declares, 
that the "kingdom, and dominion, and• the 
Though this is spoken of the Jews, I think 
it will apply to us as well as unto them. It 
seems as though the Lord has poured out 
upon our rulers and teachers, a spirit of deep 
sleep, and hath closed their eyes, so that the 
book which contains the prophesies, has be-
come unto them as a book that is sealed. 
If you pray them to read the book, to ex-
plain the prophesies, they will say that they 
cannot ; for the book is obscure, and hard to 
be understood ; the same as to say, it is 
sealed. This seen* to. be quite common, 
yet there are some who attempt to read the 
book ; but it is with them as it was with 
those in former times ; if the Lord has 
poured out upon them the spirit of deep 
sleep, arid has closed their eyes, and the 
seers are covered, they will be likely to err 
in their exposition of prophecy. They will 
err on important subjects. 
And so it is with those who are consid-
ered to be evangelical in their doctrine. 
The doctrine of the conversion of the nations 
before the millennium, or as being the means 
of preparing the way for it, has done much 
in darkening the minds of those who believe 
it. Men are generally governed by their 
creed in the exposition of Scripture ; and 
when they have this doctrine in their creed, 
they will explain Scripture in a such a way 
that will harmonize with it. If we were to 
judge from the past and the present, we 
should have no reason for believing that the 
nations will ever be converted. 
It is evident that this nation has beers in-
creasing in wickedness for several years past ; 
and at a great rate since the war commenced. 
We, as a nation, had become very wicked ; 
and (as I think,) the Lord had a controversy 
with us as a nation, and has suffered us to get 
into this unnatural, unrighteous and unholy 
war, as a just judgment to punish us for our 
manifold sins ; and we ought to have hum- 
As Daniel was interpreting the hand-writ-
ing of Belshazzar, lie says : "Thy kingdom 
is divided and given to the Medes and Per-
sians. In that night was Belshazzar the 
king of the Chaldeans slain. And Darius, 
the Median took the kingdom," &c. The 
language is the same here, as that which is 
spoken of the saints. It was the Chaldean 
kingdom that was divided and given to the 
Medes and Persians ; and the same that Da-
rius took, an earthly kingdom. And as Daniel 
passes along and sees those four kingdoms 
pass away, (all of them having taken the 
kingdom and possessed it,) he comes to the 
time when the saints take the kingdom and 
possess it. This mirk of course be an earthly' 
kingdom ; the same as the Chaldeans, or 
Persians, or Grecians, or Romans, represent-
ed by the four great beasts ; and when they 
had passed away the time came that the 
saints took the kingdom (an earthly king-
dom,) and possessed it. And we find it near 
the same in verses 21 and 22 : "I beheld, 
and the same horn made war with the saints 
and prevailed against them ; until the An-
cient of days came, and judgment was given 
to the saints of the Most High, and the 
time came that the saints possessed the king-
dom." The same kingdom as that in verse 
8th, and the same as that in verse 27th. Ins 
verse 26th the judgment sits on the anti-
christian beast till it is punished and des- 
Christ has told us in these parables that 
precede the text, that there is a distinction 
between the righteous and the wicked ; and 
that the righteous only can be saved. The 
psalmist has told us (Psa. 9 : 11) that the 
wicked shall be turned into hell, with all 
nations that forget God. This will be at the 
time when Christ shall come and set up a 
kingdom for himself, and all nations shall be 
gathered together before him to answer for 
the deeds done in the body. 
But who are the righteous? They are 
they who follow in the footsteps of Christ, 
and endure temptation and the frowns of the 
world, and obey the Gospel of our Lord, and 
are ready at his bidding to leave this tene-
ment of clay, in the natural state, and be 
with Christ, which, Paul says, is far better. 
There is a great promise to those who labor 
in the service of the Lord, and endure unto 
the end, for they will come up at the first-
resurrection, blooming in immortality. Then 
will they shine forth as the sun ins the king-
dom of their Father. These are they upon 
whom. the second death will have no power, 
for they are made kings and priests unto 
God, and will reign with him forever. Tile 
righteous will be caught up to meet the 
Lord in the air, and so be forever with him. 
They will not be in the air, but will inhabit 
the earth. For the Psalmist has said (Psa. 
37,) that the righteous shall inherit the land 
and delight themselves in the abundance of 
peace. 
This promise was made to Abraham and 
to his seed after him. But, says Paul, (Heb. 
12: 13,) "These all died, not having re-
ceived the promises, but having seen them 
afar off; and were persuaded of them, and 
embraced them, and confessed that they were 
strangers and pilgrims on the earth. These 
will come forth and receive the laud prom-
ised to them, to enjoy it forever. Then will 
they shine forth as the sun in the kingdom 
of their Father. Then will they enjoy the 
blessing of the kingdom prepared for them 
from the foundation of the world." 
Peter liar spoken of this promise, when 
he says, "The earth shall be burned up, but 
we, according to his promise, look for a new 
heaven and a new earth, wherein dwelleth 
righteousness." This will be the kingdom of 
their Father when he shall make the place 
of his feet glorious, when the New Jerusalem 
shall come down from God out of heaven, 
prepared as a bride for her husband. This, 
a nobler Paradise than Adam ever saw, 
the righteous shall inherit. 
Do we hold a position with the righteous ? 
Are we ready if Christ should come to- 
day, to meet him with joy ? If so, it is 
well ; but if not, let us remember that there 
is a preparation to be made while here, and 
it is now time we were up and doing while 
the day lasts ; for if we refuse we must sub-
mit to the ordeal of punishment, and go 
down to the shades of hades unlamented. 
But let us take it into consideration While. 
we have time, and not be deceived. God 
is not mocked ; for, "whatsoever a man sow- 
eth that shall he also reap." Strive to en-
ter in at the straight gate, and may the God 
In my sketch of Mr. Oncken's lecture on 
his labors in Germany, &c., I promised to 
annex a narrative of the journey home of 
one of his converts, which the reverend gen-
tleman gave us, which will give an insight 
into the workings of that successful move-
ment with which the youth had become iden-
tified, and for which he had not been in-
structed to labor and suffer in vain. 
"After spending some time in Hamburg 
with Mr. Oncken's church, the young man 
resolved to return home to his family in 
Hungary. He was provided with tracts 
and Testaments to distribute on his journey, 
and on his arrival at home, as occasion 
would allow. He had not proceeded far, 
however, before he commenced giving away 
some of the tracts, rather indiscreetly and 
openly ; and being then in the kingdom of 
Hanover, where such practices are strictly 
prohibited, he was speedily arrested and cast 
into prison. Here he felt free to sing, and 
also to pray aloud, which displeased the 
jailer, who thereupon thrust him into an in-
ner prison. In the evening, however, the 
jailer thought it well to fetch him into his 
own house. Now it so happened that there 
were quite a number of women in the house, 
who laid conic to spin. in company, and on 
the prisoner entering tine room they all held 
their peace. After a short time the young 
man broke the silence by observing that he 
would read them something out of a little 
book be had ins his pocket, if they had no ob-
jection, and proceeded to read to them the 
ever fascinating and touching story of the 
"Prodigal Son." Having finished, he said 
he would talk to them about it, and did so 
for a short time ; and then astonished them 
still further by adding, he could also pray 
ith them, and thereupon lie knelt down and 
poured out his heart to God in prayer. It 
was two or three days before he was brought 
up for trial or examination, and so the next 
cevesilingain 
much 
to hear
chbile 
r number of 
 
1 y'ixni:1; 
came together 
 
man. All who had spinning wheels ap- 
peared to have brought them, and those who 
had none, had borrowed—all sorts of old 
things were brought ; and evidently the spin- 
ning was not their object. Well, the same 
thing was repeated that evening ! (and who 
shall presume to say what the result was ?) 
When the youth was brought before the au- 
thorities they were satisfied that he had 
transgressed through ignorance of the law ; 
but they deemed hinn unfit to roam at large, 
so they concluded to send him home in 
charge of a gendarme. On their way, at 
the end of each day's journey, the gendarme 
told all lie came in contact with what a sin-
gular young man he had in charge ; in con- 
sequence of which quite a number of per- 
sons came to see him every evening, to whom 
he spoke , the words of eternal life. On 
reaching home the youth wrote to Mr. 
Oncken informing him of his safe arrival, 
and that lie had never travelled so cheaply 
in his life ; that all the expenses of his jour-
ney had been kindly defrayed by the King of 
Hanover ; and all the dollars he had ins his 
pocket when lie left Hamburg, he still pos-
sessed when he reached home, and had the 
pleasure of dividing them with his widowed 
mother !" 
It is evident that the members of Mr. 
Oncken's church and his associates, have a 
zeal, fortitude, perseverance, patience and 
faith which might be advantageously copied 
by Christians both in England and America. 
Can it be wondered at, that their self-sacri-
fice, love, and devotedness, make lasting im-
pressions on their fellows, and give a benign 
fluence to the truth ? The following in-
teresting incident, developing the same in-
domitable spirit of love and zeal, and show-
how they turn every opportunity to advan-
tage to speak of Jesus, is extracted from one 
of Oncken's magazines. 
"My wife was last week visiting some 
Christian friends at a neighboring town, 
(says Bro. Kemmitz, writing from Templin,) 
two of whom had just been baptized at Tern-
plin. At nine o'clock in the evening as they 
were assembled at family worship, the Mayor 
of the place suddenly entered, accompa-
nied by his brother, a cavalry officer and 
a gendarme. They enquired who belonged 
to the family, and immediately required my 
wife and another visitor to accompany them 
to the police court at Mirow, eight miles 
distant. Remonstrances were in vain, a ve-
hicle was at once procured, and in spite of 
storm, rain, and darkness they set off ; and 
reached Mirow at one o'clock on the fol-
lowing morning." On arriving they were 
handed to the jailor and put into a mis-
erable little room, with no furniture ex-
cept a little bedstead with straw on it. 
"After some time, however, they obtained, 
two blankets, through the gendarme, whose 
compassion had been excited for them on the 
journey, and by the word of God, which they 
had spoken to him by the way." . . . . "In the 
morning a piece of coarse bread and a mug 
of coffee was pushed in, and the door again 
(See First Page.) 
Brother Whitman is willing to admit the 
saints to the possession of the kingdom un-
der the- whole heaven, to reign in the ab-
sence of their Lord "forever," "even to the 
end of the world : and this would be for-
-ever." It May be so ; indeed we believe It 
will, -be so, "forever and ever:" We can 
hardly be made to believe that that world 
will ever pass away or end. Is it not a 
"kingdom which cannot be. -moved," which is 
to. come at the shaking of all that can be 
shaken? And why is our brother so anxious 
to exclude our Lord from a place at the 
head of the saints in that everlasting king-
dom ? Is not "the Lord God to give unto 
him the throne of his Father David" where 
"he shall reign over the house of Jacob for-
ever ?" Yes, Brother W., please let Jesus 
have added to his many crowns one more, 
"The crown of all the earth ;" for he alone is 
"worthy." 
The saints in mortality have never made 
good government. Their success has at 
best been poor, even in the church itself 
where we look for the best of men, and best 
of government. Human- nature must be 
radically changed before it can be .successful 
in making good government. But "The 
kingdoms of this world" shall "become the 
kingdoms of our Lord and his Christ, and 
He shall reign forever and ever." 
—•••••• 
GROVE MEETING. 
That little while wll soon end and Christ, 
true to his promise, will come in all his 
glory to receive you to himself. 
"Every fresh alarming token 
More fulfills his faithful word; 
Nature, for its Lord bath spoken, 
Must be suddenly restored. 
From this national confusion 
From this ruined earth and skies, 
See the times of restitution, 
See the new creation rise !" 
Surely we have fallen on these times of 
national confusion ; Nye have been witnesses 
of alarming tokens, and should cling the 
more closely to the Saviour, and look up and 
lift up our heads, for our redemption draw-
eth nigh. 
RENAMES ON J. WHITMAN'S ARTICLE. 
THE GERMAN REFORMED CHURCH. 
The German Reformed Church has just 
celebrated its tercentenary, it being three 
hundred years since its origin. The public 
and denominational celebration for the 
United States was held at Reading, Pa., 
May 21 to 25, 1864. It was a season oe 
great interest to the denomination: 
i21 
HERALD. 
T H E 
Al) VENT 
—• 
s • 
trol all that is tender and sacred in the in-
terests of the Church and State. No So-
lon or Lycurgus is laying the foundation of 
codes of law so deep, or taking so fast a hold 
on all that is to affect the present and future 
destiny of man. We love, therefore, to look 
at such venerable locks, and to contemplate 
these ministers of God which stand between 
the rising generation—feeble, helpless, and 
exposed to a thousand perils—and the Eternal 
Parent ofall. They stand between the past and 
coming age—remnants of the one, and lights to 
the other ; binding the past with that which 
is to come ; living lights of experience to 
guide. the footsteps of the ignorant and err-
ing; to illuminate the coming generation—
to obtain for it blessings by counsel and 
prayer, and then to die. And if the earth 
contains, amid its desolations, one spot of 
green on which the eye of God reposes with 
pleasure, it is the collected group, with the 
eye of the father raised to heaven, and the 
voice of faith and prayer Commending the 
little worshippers to the protecting care of 
Him who never slumbers nor . sleeps.—Al-
bert Barnes. 
locked, till at ten o'clock, they were brought 
up before the magistrate. The hearing lasted 
two hours. My wife assured the magistrate. 
she was only on a friendly visit, and that the 
family worship was only that which we 
constantly practiced in our families. The 
magistrate replied, 'It might be all very 
avell in Prussia, but in Mecklenburg it could 
not be allowed l' She was then told that if ever 
she showed herself in the country again, she 
would be immediately imprisoned. Her Bi-
ble, and the hymn and tune books which had 
been on the table, were taken posiession of ; 
and she was then conveyed, in a cart, under 
escort of a cuirassier, across the borders. 
The brother at whose house she was arrest-
ed, and who accompanied her on the journey 
to Mirow, but was not a11 �
to 
I was walking up and down the streets of 
Boston, shouting glory to God. It was not 
at the time in the form of a star, but parabolic 
about twenty feet in length, large in the 
middle, and smaller at the ends. It seemed 
to approach the earth very suddenly, and 
stood for a while in one 'position, and there 
seemed to waver a little. It was light in 
the night. 
I shall' look with interest at the appear-
ance of this comet ; and if it has the effect 
upon me and the multitude, and the appear-
ances in the heavens that the one in my dream 
amsared to have, I shall be confirmed that it 
is indeed the sign of the Son of Man, and 
that deliverance is at hand. 
D. M. Small-. 
if any of them are heirs of the kingdom, 
"nevertheless the foundation standeth sure 
having this seal. The Lord knoweth them 
that are his." Duty, therefore, is mine, re-
sults are with God. If I do what I can to 
impress men's minds with a sense of Divine 
truth, I discharge myself of my responsibil-
ity and they reject that truth at their peril. 
Of the ultimate triumph of God's clime I 
have not a shadow of doubt, but I more than 
doubt if that triumph is to be effected by the 
conversion.of all his enemies. Millions have 
died in the past, millions are dying in the 
present without being converted, and judg-
ing by analogy, I see no reason to doubt that 
millions will perish in the future. Yet this 
will not prevent the final triumph of God's 
cause ; God is indeed glorified in the salva-
den of the penitent, but he is not less surely 
glorified in the destruction of the impenitent. 
[Original.] 
WILL THE WORLD EVER IMPROVE? 
BY A PEDESTRIAN MISSIONARY. 
THE DANGERS OF THE TIMES. 
entire exclusion of every religious consider-
ation. 
This deplorable state of matters rend-a-id 
all the more deplorable, by the fart that re- 
peated revivals of religion, or events of vari- 
ous kinds, having a decidedly beneficial ef-
fect upon the cause of religion have taken 
place since the times of the Reformation, and 
yet, notwithstanding of these, the cause of 
the Redeemer is in its present depressed con- 
dition. The downward course has not been 
one of unvarying- declension. The spirit of 
God has been continually striving with men, 
and ever and anon these strivings have pro-
duced the most glorious results. God's 
work has been renewed in men's hearts, re- 
ligion has exercised its hallowed influence 
over entire communities, and the most skep-
tical have been constrained to admit that 
that Christianity which heretofore they had 
hated and despised, was from God. Promi-
nent among these glorious movements was 
the revival that took place in England, and 
elsewhere through the instrumentality -of 
Whitefield and Wesley, and the noble band 
of men who labored with them in the Gos-
pel. Its results were in the first degree 
beneficial and will last through all eternity. 
A slumbering world was once again brought 
face to face with a living church and 
compelled to acknowledge that religion was 
a reality. Of a similar character was that 
which took place in America in the early 
part of last century and that which affected 
part of Scotland about the same time. Not 
to mention lesser movernents_of a like kind 
in the earlier part of this century, we have 
had the Great Awakening, as it was called, 
in the United States in 1857, followed by 
the revivals in Ireland, Scotland, England 
and Wales, and ultimately in Canada. 
Each of these events, although differing in 
degree, were essentially of the same character, 
and each and all of those bore a testimony 
for God and forCibly recalled men's thoughts 
to eternity. Undoubtedly, also, the first 
French Revolution with the wild excesses 
which followed in its train, had a similar 
tendency, for not only did it startle the 
church from its slumbers, but it alarmed the 
world also by exhibiting before its eyes a 
fearful proof of the evil consequences of 
infidelity, and thus predisposed the minds of 
man to listen to the dictates of inspiration. 
'Thus, then, God has repeatedly, and in the 
most practical manner, asserted his right to 
reign in the hearts of men, and demonstrated 
the highly beneficial character of his supem-
acy by the moral reformation of wicked men 
and' ungodly communities. Skeptics may, 
and do deny that God governs the physical 
universe and directs the daily life of men, 
The following extract from a sermon by 
theaRev. Dr. Post, of St. Louis, "on Chris-
tian heroism displayed in the life of Dan-
iel," contains thoughts worthy of serious con-
sideration: 
4—.11••••I•--1— 
METHODIST TRIBUTE TO CALVIN. 
Among the many eloquent and learned 
tributes to Calvin and Calvinism evoked by 
the 300th return of his death-day, we have 
met with none more hearty, intelligent 
and outspoken than one by the editor of the 
N. Y. Methodist. We copy a paragraph or 
two 
sion, orphan's Homes, and Widow's Fund 
Society. 
THE THEOLOGICAL ASPECT ON THE 
TERCENTENARY CELEBRATION. 
This subject was brought before the Con-
vention on Tuesday evening by the report 
of the committee, containing a number of 
propositions, such as the following : The na-
ture of the origin and history of the German 
Reformed Church has been brought out in 
clearer light by the historical and theologi-
cal papers prepared and published during the 
past year. The Apostles' Creed is the for-
mative principle in the organic structure of 
the Heidelberg Catechism, and rules its in-
terpretation. The relation of the German 
Reformed Church to the Lutheran, and'to 
other branches of the Reformed Church, has 
been more clearly exhibited. We have be-
come convinced of the propriety of consider-
ing seriously' The subject of returning to the 
original title, Refbrmed, instead of contin-
uilialid.
. 
contin- 
uing �
use our present one, German Re- 
fo
During the sessions of the Convention reso-
lutions were adopted expressive of the ,de-
votion of the, people ,of the , German Re-
formed Church to the government, of their 
deep sympathy with our soldiers and sailors, 
and exhorting them to continue to pray that 
God may grant them success to the efforts 
made to put down the rebellion and preserve 
the government. 
The Convention then engaged in its clos-
ing devotional services. The last chapter in 
Revelations was read by the president, after 
which thanksgiving was offered in the words 
of the Te Deum, closing with the Lord's 
Prayer, in which the whole Convention au-
dibly joined. 
remain 
there, ists. sine_ �
arrestead �. 
It was subsequently ascertained that one 
precious soul had bten converted by means 
of the testimony given by Mrs. Kemmitz, on 
the occasion of- her imprisonment at Mirow ! 
Take another case. From Brunswick, 
Bro. Bramme writes as follows : 
"On Saturday, while we were holding a 
church meeting, and had just been hearing,-
from a new convert, the confession of repent-
ance towards God, and faith in our Lord 
Jesus Christ, we heard in the lower part of 
the house enquiries for me, such as caused us 
all to fall on our knees in prayer, immedi-
ately. The room was forcibly entered by 
two civil officers, who arrested me, and at 
once carried me away to a lonely cell, where 
I was treated as a common criminal. Four 
days I remained here, in quiet communion 
with my God, and without seeing any living 
creature, save a tiny mouse, or hearing other 
sound than the occasional uproar caused by 
a drunken man being dragged by the jailers 
into some neigboring cell. Our brethren 
were the more distressed as they could not 
even obtain permission to bring me a little 
food. It. was allowed to some, they were 
told, but not to such as I. I could hear one 
outside begging at least to send me in a jug 
-of hot coffee ; but it was refused and the 
coffee . sent back. After four days I-was re-
moved to a compartment where four thieves 
and a vagrant were confined. They were 
young men from nineteen to twenty-two 
years of age but three of them were old in 
crime. On the first evening, when they lay 
down on their straw sacks, they were all 
anxious that the new-comer should tell them 
some tales, so I began the story of my own 
life ; and for hours they listened to the life 
pictures and histories of conversions. I then 
told them that before I slept I must thank 
God for all his mercies, and that, with their 
permission I would pray aloud. ;nen I 
had done so, one said, with a sigh, '0, what 
words ! If only I could say that myself ; for 
it has gone through my heart.' I gave him 
a New Testament with psalms, to keep ; and 
because he would not be content without, I 
wrote on the blank leaf a prayer, somewhat 
similar to the one I had used. The next day 
I had opportunities of speaking with each 
alone ; and: in the evening I told them the 
ever touching story of the 'Prodigal Son.' 
On the following day I was removed ; and 
in company with another criminal, was 
transported over the borders. From one 
—.?ialson to anothermai-were. passed, in some 
of which itSo filthy that, when I had a 
piece of bread to eat, I was obliged to shut 
my eyes that I might not see the dirt." 
irilte A,drent Xitrald. 
ANALOGY OF THE. PAST. 
In examining the question, Is the world 
improving ? I endeavored to establish my 
argument upon a solid basis of fact. I looked 
at the question from both points of view, the 
affirmative and the negative, giving facts to 
show that the world is making progress, and 
then giving facts to show that it is retrograd-
ing. The gist of the argument amounted 
to this, that the world is now possessed of a 
far greater amount of civil and religious lib-
erty than it was three centuries ago ; and 
that the arts and sciences, with all their ele-
vating and enlightening influences, have 
made, and are now making rapid strides ; 
but in the Midst of these vast advantages 
men have forgotton God. The world there-
fore, is improving manward, but deteriorat-
ing Godward ; it is becoming more enlight-
ened and more Atheistic ; better acquainted 
with the works of God and less acquainted 
with himself; skillful in the discovery of 
second causes, and blind towards , the great 
First Cause. 
Now, as we are enjoined in the Scriptures, 
"whether we eat or drink, or whatsoever we 
do, to do all to the glory of God," it follows 
that forgetfulness of God in the midst of 
abounding light, and after eighteen- hundred 
years of Gospel preaching, is an infallible 
proof that the world is not improving. "The 
Lord made all things for himself." "The 
earth is the Lord's and the fullness thereof, 
the world and they that dwell therein ;". but 
if men, notwithstanding the training of eigh-
teen centurkes, are still bent upon doing 
their own will, regardless of the will of God, 
it would perhaps be nearer the truth to say 
that the world is getting . worse rather than 
better. 
When, however, we come to consider the 
question, Will the world ever improve ? in 
other words, will it ever be better than it 
now is ? we are of course compelled to 
change our ground, for upon this subject 
facts are yet in the future. Here we must 
either reason from analogy, the analogy of 
the past, or form our opinion from the pres-
ent aspect of things, or endeavor to see our 
way into the -dim vista of years by the aid 
of the candle of the Lord, the Bible. Judg-
ing by the analogy of the past, it is somewhat 
difficult to see the likelihood of any improve-
ment. 
I can well understand how Luther, when 
translating the Bible into Gernian, or Tyn-
dale, when translating it into English, could 
have been exceeding hopeful of vast results. 
At that time men's minds Were in a state of 
religious ferment. They were groaning un-
der the intolerable burden of Popery, and 
longing for deliverance. Every effort that 
had been made by men of preceding genera-
tions, to mitigate the evil, had come to 
nought, and had resulted in consigning those 
who had lifted up their voices against the 
tyranny of the man of sin, to the faggot and 
the stake. Popery is not a system to be 
improved ; it is an evil to be destroyed, and 
as the teachings of Scripture are destructive 
of it, nothing mild be imagined more likely 
to promote the welfare of the human race 
than the translation of the sacred volume in-
to the vulgar tongue. It was natural, too, 
for men of ardent temperments whose own 
hearts were inflamed by the love of God, 
and who were rejoicing in their newly found 
freedom, to imagine that others would feel 
as they did, and -be as willing to receive the 
Gospel as they were, and so nothing could 
be more natural than for men to look 'for-
ward to a bright and a glorious future. 
Only, we may imagine them saying, let the 
Word of God have a free circulation ; and 
the result cannot fail to be the conversion of 
the world ; for then must come to pass the 
saying that is written, "the earth shall be 
full of the knowledge of the Lord as the 
waters cover the sea." 
But we who are now liVingathree hundred 
years since these men of God descended in- 
to their honored graves, know that these 
bright anticipations, if • indeed they ever 
were formed, were never realized. They did 
indeed confer a vast amount of benefit upon 
the world, as every Christian who labors as 
heartily for God as they did, are sure to do, 
but they did not convert it. The Reforma-
tion spread far and wide, but ere long it 
stopped, and for two hundred years has re-
mained stationary, while it is scarcely neces-
sary to say that only a moiety of those who 
embraced the Reformed religion, embraced 
at the same time the religion of Christ. 
Were Luther and Tyndale, and Knox and 
Calvin, to revisit the world again in our day, 
we may imagine how saddened their hearts 
would be at the spectacle they would be-
hold. In -their times men were contending 
ever to the death for the liberty wherewith 
Christ has made them free, and nothing oc-
cupied so prominent a place in the public 
mind as the cause of religion. And now all 
is changed. Religion occupies an infinitessi-
mal part of the mind of the masses. On the 
Sabbath day, indeed, our places of worship 
are filled with well-dressed congregations, a 
larger proportion of whom lay aside their re-
ligion on Monday with their Sabbath clothes, 
to be resumed again on the first day of the 
week ; but- the masses, especially in our 
larger towns, go to no place of worship at 
all. Business, pleasure, war, gossip, in a 
word, the world in one shape or other, occu-
pies the minds of nineteen twentieths of the 
people in Protestant countries, to the almost 
TUESDAY, A-UG UST 2. 1564. 
JOSIAH LITCII, EDITOR. 
THE ALPHA AND OMEGA. 
"Three hundred years have now elapsed 
since the personal efforts of this great refor-
mer were arrested by the hand of death. 
But his work has by no means been inter-
rupted. It has steadily grown, developed, 
enlarged, in Switzerland, France, Germany, 
Hungary, Holland, Scotland, England, the 
United States, and now it stands forth in 
history in so conspicuous a relief that no 
writer is so blinded by fanaticism or bigotry 
who would deny the immense influence which 
Calvin has upon the Church history of the 
last three centuries. , 
The theological system taught by Calvin, 
and the Reformed Church Constitution es-
tablished by him, are still perpetuated in the 
Christian world by the Presbyterian and 
Reformed Churches, which together, count 
many millions of members. But they are 
by no means the only religious denomina-
tions that revere Calvin as one of the great 
Church fathers of Christianity. The Con-
gregationalists, the Baptists, the -Arminian 
and Lutheran Churches, while they differ in 
several points from his views, heartily con-
cur in doing honor to the eminence of his 
Christian character and the greatness of his 
work. They, in common with the entire 
Protestant world, look upon him as the most 
efficient assailant of the Roman hierarchy, 
and the restorer of the Biblical idea of 
priesthood of all believers, who, in opposi-
tion to the monopoly of 'power claimed, in 
the Church by a domineering and selfish 
priesthood, reestablished the rights of the 
laity, and thus prepared the way for a *More 
active cooperation of the mass of Christian 
believers in carrying out the mission of the 
Church upon earth, than any former century 
had yet witnessed. And thus Calvin, by 
development in every Christian believer the 
consciousness of his full rights and duties as 
a Christian, is justly regarded as having 
struck a fatal blow at not only ecclesiasti-
cal but political despotism, and -as hafing 
become one of the fathers of the principle of 
civil and religious liberty—one of the chief 
and most glorious characteristics of our pres- 
ent civilization." �
• 
There will be a grove meeting (D. V.) in 
the town of Rilie, Co., St. Clair B., Michigan, 
five miles-from Memphis, eleven miles from 
Ridgeway. Station on Grand Trunk Rail-
road. The meeting will be held in what is 
generally called "John Lomis' neighborhood." 
Meeting will commence on Friday, August 
19th, and continue over the Sabbath, and as 
much longer as is thought profitable. Elds. 
B. S. Reynolds, D. W. Fuller and other, 
are expected to attend the meeting to preach 
the word. We should be glad to have as 
many of our ministering brethren as con-
viently can, to attend this meeting, from all 
parts of the States and Canada ; and, also 
our lay brethren and sisters. Come, breth-
ren and sisters, one and all, to this feast of 
the Lord, and let us work fOr the salvation 
of souls and the glory of God. Time is 
short, and what we do must be done quick-
ly. Soon the Lord will come and the door 
of mercy will be closed, and poor sinners 
lost. Let us therefore do all we can to save 
souls before the Lord shall rise up to shut 
to the door. There will be ample provis-
ion made for all that come. 
In behalf of the church. 
J. B. SIMPSON. 
ends : There are ever needed Daniels 
in the world, for the days of evil are perpet-
ual in the history of men. The times al-
ways need them, and the times wherein we 
now live and which are upon this people, 
eminently need thein They are times of 
temptation-Ltimes of terrible moral and re-
ligious trials upon. God's people, and they 
come upon the'whole land like a snare. In 
the first place that universal disturbing shock 
—which has to such an extent overturned 
institutions, dissolved the social relations 
and scattered old ideas and made old truths 
seem falsehoods—has made it almost as 
though we stood in a moral and social ruin. 
There is a confusion of ideas and principles, 
wherein right and wrong, truth and false-
hood seem blended together, often rendering 
it difficult for us to extract the true and the 
right. 
The times are full of violence and the 
ordinary sense of right is prostrated. There 
are. in such times, great temptations. There 
is not only a confusion of ideas, in these 
times, in which the old is overturned, and 
the authority of the past is ignored, but 
there is danger that we may forget that after 
all, a man to 'save his soul and glorify his 
God, and do his whole duty, must be some- 
thing more than loyal simply to his country. 
We are apt to think that one virtue may 
now atone for many vices. 'We are apt to 
make apologies for vices now, which in or-
dinary times we would regard with abhor-
rence. There is danger in this tacit counte-
nance of evil, there is danger in this fellow-
ship, and there is danger that we forget 
that after all in, God is our refuge, in 
the Almighty Xing is our safety, .or we have 
none. 
There are at this hour prizes held forth 
to individual cupidity and ambition far 
mightier than those that mark our ordinary 
history, and which tend to intoxicate and 
madden the human mind and make men for- 
get the ordinary laws of morality in their 
pursuit of, them. All this tends to produce 
a moral chaos—social and moral anarchy, 
and it is a time that tries the souls of men. 
There 'is danger this hour that many of our 
landmarks be overwhelmed and our defences 
of morality beaten down. Our common 
ideas. of intemperance and the guards against 
it seem to be ignoi ed-and forgot, and blasphe- 
my becomes less offensive as we hear it from 
thousands of lips—those lips, too, from 
whom we often hear utterance of loyal sen-
timent. Thus blasphemy and vice in its va-
rious forms, and. intemperance and awful. 
corruption—corruption that reminds one of 
that which drew down upon ancient Tyre 
the vengeance of heaven, stalk abroad bold-
ly and defiantly throughout the land, and 
are around us this very hour, perhaps inevi-
tably so in the awful storm which we are 
involved. But the point I have now to in-
sist upon is that in this hour we should re-
member that some things. are not changed 
and never will be ; that the eternal God 
still sitteth above the floods, and that in his 
hands are our destinies still—that virtue 
will draw divine protection -and love, and 
that vice will bring .down certain displeasure 
and ruin; that there are eternal laws in the 
moral economy of God's government, which 
we can no more break away from than we 
can tear the earth from its orbit ; and we 
are bound by those laws in the days of sor-
row and trial. How have we been pained 
to see the recklessness, frivolity and godless-
ness- which seem to go forward pace by pace, 
together with the solemn crisis that is upon 
this land. One would think that we might 
be a sober people at least while God's judg-
ment are thundering through the sky, and 
while the sword is suspended over the land ; 
that we would not ,be wholly given up to 
worldliness and pleasA, dissipation and ex-
travagance, like to a revel over a grave, or a 
wassail beneath the guillotine �
 
I do not believe the nation will be saved be-
cause they are all righteous, but I hope it 
may be for the principles that are involved, 
and if God's people are true, if they are 
sober and earnest and prayerful ; but if these 
turn away, if these abondon the strongholds 
of religion and. morality, and thus mingle in 
this wassail of pleasure and this tumult of 
worldliness and corruption, what power can 
save us ?" 
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With the apostles, Christ was "all and in 
all." He was "the head of the body, the 
church ;" he was the center around which 
revolved all their faith and hope, and where 
was concentrated their love. They received 
him as the Christ, the only begotten Son of 
the living God ; they acknowledged him as 
supreme, in heaven and earth, and believed 
that all creatures should bow the knee be-
fore him and own him Lord, to the glory 
of God the Father. They had accompanied 
him in his pilgrimage on earth ; they had 
seen him in his agonies and death ; they had 
followed him to the tomb and marked the 
place where they had laid him. They knew 
the spirit of determination on the part of his 
enemies to hold his dead body till his pre-
diction, "I will rise again the third day," 
was defeated. And that third day they had 
seen the open and vacant tomb. They met, 
and saw and handled the person of Jesus, 
and knew him to be alive, death's conqueror. 
They had listened to his words concerning 
his kingdom, and had seen him go into- 
heaven from the brow of Olivet. They had 
heard the angelic message, "This same 
Jesus shall come again," and they believed 
the word. How could it be otherwise 
All they had seen and heard hitherto had 
confirmed their faith in him and attracted 
their love to him. They believed that not 
one jot or tittle of his word should fail of 
perfect accomplishment. "We believe and 
are sure that thou art the Christ the Son of 
God," was their noble confession. Were 
they guilty and needed pardon ? Christ was 
the propiciation for their sins. Were they 
defiled ? His blood was the cleansing foun-
tain. Were they weak, and needing strength? 
It was found in the spirit of Christ, strength-
ening them "with all might" "in the inner 
man." Were they mortal ? He was the 
resurrection and the life; and they felt sure 
that' he would quicken their mortal bodies 
by his spirit dwelling in them, and raise 
them up at the last day. Were they poor, 
with no home or lands ? He was the "heir 
of all things" and had promised them an 
everlasting "inheritance" with him. Were 
they persecuted by the powers of earth? 
They believed the time would come when 
their Lord should be king over all the earth, 
and would reward his faithful servants for 
all their toils. They firmly believed that 
He, and His, would one day triumph. The 
idea that when Jesus, defeated and killed by 
his foes, had gone to heaven, alive, and that 
that was his last on earth, never entered 
their minds. They firmly believed that 
"His dominion shall be from sea to' sea, and 
from river to the ends of the earth." "That 
all kings shall bow down before him and all 
nations shall serve him." How with the 
Psalms and prophets before them, could they 
believe otherwise? �
This faith was their 
"victory aver the world." 
With this faith, would it not have sounded 
strange to Peter, to -John and Paul, to have 
heard modern Christians saying, "Well I 
have no objections to his coming ?" And 
how much more strange to hear them say, 
"I do not believe he will ever come again in 
person." But most of all to hear them 
object to His speedy coining. Their 
whole being cried out "come Lord Jesus." 
All the promises await his return for their 
consummation ; and the whole suffering body 
must suffer on till He appears. 
Can it then be a matter of indifference to 
one who has a true faith in Christ, whether 
he comes Or not ? Behold the world held 
in bondage to sin and death ! Mark the 
violence, oppression and carnage which 
every day desolates the earth, and fills it 
with mourning and woe ; while there is no 
ground for hope that it will improve till He 
comes in majesty and glory, the Prince of 
Peace, and causes wars to cease unto the 
ends of the earth. "Happy are all they that' 
put their trust in him," and can say "My be-
loved is mine and I am his." 
Be of good cheer, suffering saint, your 
Lord is not slack concerning his promise. 
He said "A little while and you shall see 
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and refer every thing to secondary causes 
and the operation of natural laws, but when 
they see the thief made honest, the drunkard 
sober, the liar truthful, the licentious chaste, 
they cannot be satisfied with this mode of 
reasoning, but are compelled to feel, with 
Pharaohs magician, that this is the finger of 
God. And such is the spectacle that has 
very frequently been pressnted before the 
eyes of men in every Christian country. 
The word of God is quick and powerful, 
sharper than any two edged sword, . and 
has times and ways without number pro-
duced the most beneficial effects in the 
conversion of sinful man, now singly, and 
anon in masses, proving that in the present 
day, as in the days when he delivered his 
people from Egyptian bondage, the living God 
is still the living God. And yet, notwith-
standing the repeated exhibition of these 
striking phenomena, what has been the re-
sult upon the mass of mankind in the way 
of inducing them to give themselves to God ? 
Melancholly to relate, the unquestionable 
truth is, that the result is coldness, luke-
warmness, indifference, apathy, dislike. 
While a revival is in progress, it is the ob-
ject of mockery, or of fierce dislike to many, 
and when its first effects cease to be visible, 
it ceases to be thought of, and the world 
sweeps onward towards the final goal, for-
getful of eternity, forgetful of God. And 
all this eighteen hundred years after the 
sacrifice of the Son of God ! All this after 
the proclamation of his mercies for eigh-
teen hundred years ! "What could have 
been done more unto my vineyard that I 
have not done unto it ?" 
I lately heard a very excellent and very 
intelligent man publicly declare that if the 
church failed to do its duty, he believed that 
God would convert the world by a miracle. 
I cannot agree with the sentiment, for I do 
not believe that the world ever will be con-
verted ; but I certainly think, if such an 
event- were to happen, it could only be effect-
ed by means of a miracle. God has treated 
men as free moral agents, and by the teach-
ings of his providence and his Word, and 
the strivings of his Spirit, he has labored for 
their well-being and they have rejected him. 
That he will continue his loving kindness 
and that in consequence many more will be 
saved, I can well believe, but judging by the 
past I cannot see any evidence that as a 
whole the world is ever likely to be in a 
much better condition than it now is. Re-
vivals may take place and multitudes be 
born again into the kingdom of God ; but 
these revivals will only affect a few, while 
the great mass will continue to count them-
selves unworthy of eternal life, ever as they 
have done in the past. 
This is not a cheerful view of things, and 
many will on that account feel inclined to 
reject it. It may be objected too that the 
belief in such ideas must have the effect of 
weakening the hands of Christians by leading 
them to doubt the ultimate triumph of God's 
cause. I grant the first of these propositions, 
but I do not admit the second. There is, in-
deed, nothing cheerful in the idea that men 
will continue to reject the mercy of God and 
rush upon ruin despite of all warning, but 
that is no reason why the church of 
God should neglect its duty. "Preach the 
word, be instant in season, out of season, re-
prove, rebuke, exhort with all long-suffering 
and doctrine," are commands as Unding upon 
the church now, ,as they were when first 
spoken, as obligatory, although only one of 
the elect of God were yet unconverted, as it' 
the whole world were destined to salvation. 
When I address a company of unconverted 
men, I cannot tell how many, I cannot tell 
FAMILY WORSHIP. 
NEW SUBSCRIBERS. 
We have received from Elder Osier a 
good list of new subscribers for the Advent 
Herald. This is his first instalment ; we are 
looking for many more before his summer 
campaign ends. 
And we hope he is not alone engaged in 
this work. Who will join with him in ex-
tending our list ? Will not you 5 
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NEW PUBLICATIONS. 
THE ECLECTIC MAGAZINE, for August, 
has come to hand, with its usual variety of 
articles from foreign Monthlies and Quar-
terlies. Its first article, is a scathing review 
of Captain Speke's Journal, of his alleged 
discovery of the sources of the Nile, render-
ing it a matter of great doubt whether that 
discovery has yet been achieved. 
THE YOUTH'S VISITOR. 
We are sorry to tell our young friends, 
that some of them will have to do without 
the July number. The orders increase so 
much beyond our ealculation that we did 
not have enough to supply them all. We 
will have enough of the August number, so 
be patient. We can supply all back num-
bers except for July. 
In the Second Reformed Church sermons, 
prepared for the occasion, were preached by 
Rev. John Beck, of Easton, Pa., and Rev. 
J. S. Foulk, of Baltimore. 
On Monday morning a permanent organ-
ization was effected by the election of E. V. 
Gerhart, D. D., of Lancaster, for president, 
thirteen vice-presidents, two recording and 
and two corresponding secretaries. The or-
der of business was then reported by Rev. 
T. G. Apple, which recommended the fol-
lowing 
Reading of classical tercentenary 
 
re-
ports. 
 
A committee on tercentenary offerings. 
3.A committee on the enrollment and 
census of the church. 
4. A committee to report a paper for dis-
cussion on the best method of developing 
and perpetuating the spirit of benevolence in 
the5.chA m
urecoh. 
mittee to report a paper on the 
theological and religious aspect of the tercen-
tenary celebration. 
6. A committee on the distribution of un-
appropriated funds. 
TaacEarrENaux OFFERINGS. 
These reports were referred to the appro-
priate committee, who subsequently brought 
in a carefully prepared report, from which it 
appeared that these offerings, in. the bounds 
of the Eastern Synod, amounted to the sum 
of one hundred and three thousand and six-
teen dollars and eighty cents (103,016.80.) 
These reports were not entirely completed, 
and as the final report was ordered to be 
left open until the 15th of SepteMber en-
suing, to be finally prepared for the Synod in 
October, this amount, no doubt, will be con-
siderably increased. This amount is exclu-
sive of large sums contributed during the 
year for local objects. What the amount 
raised in the Western Synod is 'we have as 
yet no means of knowing. About $30,000 
of the above-named sum was appropriated 
to the enlargement of the endowment of 
Franklin and Marshall College at Lancas-
ter, Pa. ; $20,000 to the Theological Sem-
inary at Mercersburg, towards the endow-
ment of a tercentenary professorship ; and 
the remainder to home and foreign mis-
sions, beneficiary education, church exten 
NEW YORK CITY.-We learn that Mes-
siah's Church in New York, have for the 
present secured the labors of Eld. M. B. 
Laning as their minister. This is a great 
and laborious field of labor, and if faithfully 
cultivated will be likely to bring forth a 
bountiful harvest. 
But it will require the cooperation of thz 
whole church. These large cities are diffi-
cult to reach, except either by a great ex-
citement or by dint of personal effort. If 
There is not on eaath a scene more in-
teresting than a family thus bending before 
the God of heaven. A collection of depend-
ent beings, with tender sympathies, .with 
common hopes, fears, joys, blending their 
bliss and their woes together, and presenting 
them all to the King of kings and the great 
Father of all the families of mankind. There 
is not on the earth a man that is more to be 
venerated, or that will be more venerated, 
than the father that thus ministers at the 
family altar. No other man like that father 
so reaches all the sources of human action, 
or so gently controls the powers, yielding in 
their first years and following the direction 
of his molding hand, that are soon to con- 
Dear Bro. Litch—The next great event 
of series which were to occur previous to 
the coming of the Son of Man, will probably 
be the sign spoken of in the 24th of Mat-
thew.. There is a difference of opinion 
among Adventists what this sign will be. 
Some have supposed it will be a star ; 
others, that it will be in the form of a scep-
tre ; others, that it will be the great light 
that will appear just previous to the' parting 
of the heavens as a scroll, and, which it is 
said should shine from . the east even unto 
the west ; and others, that it will be upon the 
earth the distress of nations, wars, commo-
tions, &c. But I am inclined to believe that 
it will be a star, and will appear sometime 
before the coming of the Son of Man. 
When God made the sun, moon and. stars, 
he said, "Let them be for signs for seasons, 
.&c.;" as he has used them on former occa-
sions for signs, we may conclude that this 
sign also will be one of these. 
At the birth of the Saviour a star ap-
peared, to guide the wise men from the 
east to the hallowed . spot, and in the sign 
spoken of in the 24th of Matthew, it is said 
"the stars shall fall ;" and in the 21st of 
Luke, "There shall be signs in the sun, in 
the moon, and in the stars, and upon the 
earth distress of nations, with perplexity ; 
the sea and the waves roaring ; men's hearts 
failing them for fear- and for looking after 
those things that are coming on the earth." 
The last of these we believe are now being 
verified—viz., distress of nations, with per-
plexity, &c. ; and, as has been stated, the 
next sign is that of the Son of Man, and it is 
probable that when this appears, there will 
be no doubt or uneertainity with the fol-
lowers of Christ, at least as to its import. 
When the star which heralded the first 
advent appeared, it was known to the wise 
men of the east to be the sign, for, said they, 
"we have seen his star," &c. ; and it would 
seem that it was created for their special 
benefit, for it moved before them, and was a 
guide to them, and it is not improbable that 
another one is already prepared to appear as 
the sign of this second Advent. We know there 
are fixed stars which are always visible ; there 
are also wandering stars, or comets, which 
appear occasionally with greater or less 
brilliancy ; and it is not improbable that it 
will be of this character. We know astron-
mers have predicted the appearance of a re-
markable comet in 1865, so large that it 
will dispell the darkness for several nights, 
and it may be that this will constitute the 
identical sign ; and since reading the account 
of its effects and appearances, I have been 
forcibly reminded of a dregul I had a few 
years since, which was that the sign of the 
Son.of Man appeared, and while multitudes 
were filled with consternation and dismay, 
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wisdom, understanding, and a right judg-
ment in all things, to the glory of his name 
I need not exhort you to be faithful in your 
calling; I know your heart is in the work, 
but I know, also, you have discoura,gements 
in prosecuting your business. The price of 
labor and material is greatly advanced, and 
is there a subscriber that would be offended' 
or think it hard, to pay another dollar for 
his paper ? I think" there are very few, if 
any, who would object to pay three dollars, 
as this would not-be advance in proportion 
to the advance of the expense of publication. 
It may be unpleasant to say anything Elbow 
it, but it appears the cause demands it ; and 
why should you falter when it is necessary 
to keep you from embarrassment ? I say 
thus to you as an individual ; I know ycu 
cannot act individually in this, but some-
thing must be done, and let it be done. 
What do you say, you who take the Herald ? 
I presume you prize it in some degree. Are 
you willing to relinquish it for the sake of 
another dollar a year ? I am not. Justice 
has some demands, and I presume this will 
meet your approbation, and the approbation 
of Him to whom we must give account of 
our stewardship. Write to the Herald, breth-
ren, all of you, and speak your mind, and say 
if a paper that was the first to proclaim the 
-near coming of the Lord, and has, and does 
still proclaim this great and comforting 
truth, shall die for want of support. Pre-
vent it, Lord. 
This may be time last I shall ever write for 
time Herald ; I do not expect to stay much 
longer in the flesh ; I have no reason to ex-
pect it ; but I see the "resurrection near," 
and life, eternal life in Christ is my hope. 
Yours in love, �
J. CROFFUT. 
Brooklyn, July 29, 1864. 
A RESPONSE. 
Bro. Litch—The enclosed $2.50 is for the 
subscription of the Herald. I am perfectly 
willing to pay $3.00 a year, and will send 
the balance ng,airt. As patrons, we should 
not expect our paper at the old price, as 
printing material has risen so enormously. 
Every thing else is advancing, and why 
should not the subscription of our most val-
uable paper be advanced ? 
Obititarm. 
MRS. NAOMI SMITH. 
The report and recommendations were 
unanimously adopted. The reading of this 
paper called out an enthusiastic response of 
"Amen" and applause. 
THURSDAY, June 2.—Rev. T. N. Haskell 
offered, but afterward withdrew, a substitute 
for the report of the committeee on the Me-
morials, for the reunion of the Old and New 
School General Assemblies. The original 
repprt was then adopted, together with three 
resolutions to this effect : 1. That this As-
sembly has witnessed with satisfaction the 
happy influence of correspondence between 
the two bodies ; 2. That it is not expedient 
at present to propose any additional meas-
ure ; and 3. That fraternal intercourse be 
maintained between the two bodies. 
METHODISM AND LOYALTY. 
It is among the proudest records of Meth-
odism throughout the great rebellion, that 
she has never faltered in her loyalty to the 
Republic and its destinies. Southern Meth-
odism has been as decided in her attach-
ment to the rebellion. This is now so man-
ifest, that every one expects the fall of the 
'rebellion to be fatal to the Southern Metho-
dist Church, and -the restoration of the old 
Methodist Church throughout the entire 
territory from which it was expelled by the 
separation in 1844. Time will be required 
to effect this ; but it will be done. , The be-
ginnings of such a return movement are 
here and'thercemaking their appearance. A 
• 
recent instance has occurred in Eastern 
Tennessee. We clip from an exchange the 
following paragraph, which shows that the 
rehabitation of Methodism in the South may 
require less time than many expect : "A 
loyal Methodist Convention was held in 
Knoxville, July 9th and 10th. There were 
fifty-five delegates present, representing all 
portions of East Tennessee. Of this num-
ber, twenty-seven were preachers, and twen-
ty-eight were laymen. It was a loyal- and 
harmonious meeting, and a special commit-
tee developed the fact that there were still 
one hundred and fifteen loyal preachers 
within the bounds of Hotston Conference. 
The Convention resolved to return to the 
old Methodist Church again, and called up-
on the Northern Bishops to meet them in 
Annual Conference at Knoxville, in October 
next. This movement is significant, and 
the assurance is given that a large majority 
of the Methodist membership in East Ten-
nessee remain true-to the old Church and 
*he Union."—Pitsburg Christian Advocate. 
SYBAL JACKSON. 
Died in Columbia Township, Pa., April 
18, 1861, Sybal, wife of Andrew Jackson, 
in the 55th year of her age. 
Sister Jackson was the most kind and af- 
fectionate woman to the poor around her 
that I ever knew ; and it was on one of these 
Samaritan visits to a poor family, that she 
died in a moment's time. The only word 
she uttered was, "how strange I feel !" She 
raised her hand to her head, or rather her 
arm, and sunk back in her chair a lifeless 
corpse. 
Truly in the midst of life we are in death. 
Sister Jackson was a strong believer in the 
great Second Advent hope. She loved the 
thought of Jesus coming, and would often 
take great pains to entertain the Advent 
preachers. She accustomed herself to good 
works. To show a specimen ; every year 
she would make a large cheese and give 
to each minister's family, together with 
other things needful for their comfort. 
I was with the family on my way to Can-
ada West, last spring, and had one most 
precious visit. But on my return I found 
she had left us. 
Jesus is death's conqueror, and precious 
in the sight of the Lord is the death of his 
saints. 
She leaves a kind husband and wid-
owed mother, and one only son to mourn 
her loss. 
I am glad that it was ever written that 
the righteous "enter into peace." 
May God bless the family, and prepare us 
all to meet her in the everlasting kingdom. 
I. R. GATES. 
HELEN W. AND FREDERICK N. LEACH. 
In Providence, on the 17th instant, Helen 
W., aged 5 years, 11 months and 26 days, 
daughter of Robert and "Margaret A. Leach. 
Not lost, but safe, she is forever blest, 
Safe from all evil, and the sours unrest. 
In Providence, on the 19th instant, Fred-
erick Newton, aged 4years, 3 months and 18 
days, only son of Robert and Margaret A. 
Leach. 
Angels waited while he slumbered, 
Till one more was with them numbered. 
no of tIu *Tot 
WAR NEWS. 
Atlanta is invested, and several severe 
battles have been fought between Hood and 
Sherman, in which the rebels have been 
driven into their entrenchments each time, 
with severe loss. The rebel loss before 
Atlanta since Hood took command is esti-
mated at 18,000. 
Great excitemeni still prevails in Mary-
land, and Pennsylvania, from fear of another 
rebel invasion, which to all appearance is 
impending, with strong force. But reports 
on the subject are very contradictory. 
We may, however, expect very stirring 
times soon, all along the lines. 
BERMUDA HUNDRED, July 27, via FOR-
TRESS MONROE, July 28.—Important move 
ments are in progress from this point. This 
morning, while our troops were crossing the 
James River . on two pontoon bridges, a 
rebel force came down and attacked our men 
before they had time to organize. A 
spirited engagement took place, when the 
rebels were driven back to their entrench-
ments. Our forces continued to arrive, soon 
organized, and attacked the rebels, driving 
them and capturing four guns and many 
prisoners. The guns were marked "Cap-
tured from the Yankees at Drury's Brat:" 
The rebels were finally driven from their po-
sition into the woods and far beyond them, 
where skirmishing continued when our in-
foment left. The gunboats were on hand 
and rendered valuable assistance in covering 
the landing of our troops. The guns cap-
tured are no doubt the same captured from 
Biker's battery by the rebels on the 17th of 
May. These guns are now at City Point. 
WASHINGTON, July 29, P. M.—Advices 
received from the army of the Potomac 
show that General Grant has secured a very 
important strategic position above Bermuda 
Hundred, as the result of the engagement 
on Wednesday. It gives command of a 
good base of supplies only 10 miles from 
Richmond. 
BURNING OF CHAMBERSBURG, PA., BY 
THE RkBELSo—A rebel force under Gen. 
McCausland on Saturday morning came into 
Chambersburg, Pa., and demanded $100,-
000 in gold, as a condition for sparing the 
town ; and as this was impossible, they fired 
the town in various parts. All the public 
buildings are destroyed, and some 3,000 
persons are left homeless and in destitution. 
Reports say they then heard that Gen. 
Averil was approaching with a strong force 
and left for the west with Averil in pursuit. 
LATER.—Despatches from City Point up 
to 7 o'clock Saturday morning state that at 
daylight the mines under the rebel works in 
front of the 9th Corps were exploded, and a 
simultaneous charge was made by that 
Corps, and the artillery opened with a con-
tinuous roar along the whole line. One of 
the rebel batteries was completely destroyed, 
consisting of sixteen guns, and three tiers of 
earthworks had been carried when the boat 
left. In the charge of the 9th Corps a num-
ber of prisoners were taken, some of whom 
were dug out of the dirt badly bruised. 
They state that only about a dozen of their 
TO CORRESPONDENTS. 
G. H. SOUTIIMAYD.—Due July 1, 1864, 
$2.00 
'JERALD. 
T H E ADVENT 
have caught frpm sparks of a passing loco-
motive. Partly insured. 
The Montreal papers state that while the 
woods in the vicinity of Montreal were on 
fire last week the smoke made the day so 
dark that steamers were unable to proceed 
on their voyages. 
Ten dwelling houses and one or two 
stores were destroyed by fire at Seabrook, 
N. H., last Wednesday. 
The livery stable of Capt. James Sher-
man, at Fall River, Mass., was totally des-
troyed by fire Tuesday night, together with 
nine horses and a valuable stock of carriages, 
sleighs, hacks, hay and grain, and a large 
amount of the usual furniture of a livery 
stable. Mr. Sherman's loss is estimated at 
$10,000 ; insured for $3500. 
The Houlton (Me.) Times says that on 
Wednesday morning of last week the fires 
in the woods, fanned by a gale, swept down 
upon the little village of Salmon Brook, 12 
miles above that place, and destroyed almost 
the whole village—upwards of twenty five 
buildings. The fire raged with such fury 
that many sheep and cattle in the vicinity 
were so badly burned that some died, and 
others will have to be killed, as their feet 
are burned to a crisp. 
At the recent fire at the government 
wagon factor/ in Philadelpeia, there was 
consumed 2,000,000 feet of seasoned timber, 
100,000 feet-o? white pine, 100,000 white 
oak spokes, 50,000 hickory spokes, 3000 
pairs of hubs, 500 sets of wagon wheels for 
ordinary purposes, 200 sets of Government 
wagon wheels, antha large number of ambu-
lanaea in course of construction. A number 
of caissons and travelling forges were ready 
for delivery at the time of the fire. 
each member will become a missionary in 
their sphere and labor with individuals by 
conversation, and prayer, and then invite 
them to the house of God, the church may 
be filled and the place become too strait for 
the congregation. Who will try it? Do 
not leave your minister to struggle on alone. 
Hold up his hands by your prayers, efforts 
and contributions, and you may see a glo-
rious ingathering of souls. 
RECEIPTS FOR THE HERALD TO 
JULY 30. 
Charles G. Willey, A. M. Luce, D. B. 
Winslow, Julius Jones, J. Barr, S. Wood, 
F. Billings, J. G. Moore, D. Hunt, G. 
W. Sherman, Rev. W. L. Lennet, J. 
Wheelock, R. L. Hamilton, Lot Brown, 
S. Williams, M. J. Thompson, J. P. Nel-
son, E. Keeny—each $2.00 
Carrel Kinney, W. Plimley, P. A. Pal-
mer, R. Jackman, S. Richardson, M. G. 
Stone, G. M. Southmayd, T. S. Scovill, 
R. E. Price, S. IL Knight, G. W. New-
ell, J. Burley, Rev. G. Cargill, Rev. Mr. 
Gardner—each $1.00. 
Ishi L. Craven, W. Mason, F. F. Cox, 
P. Swartz, M. A. Frank — each $500. 
T. E. Morril, K. V. Davis, —each $3.00. 
J. P. Swift, $1.25. W. Hobbs, 50 cts. J. 
B. Simpson, $4.00. C. Burnham, $2.25. 
J. Yoder, $2.50. S. G. Allen, $1.35. 
est neighbor was a minister, by the name of 
Wayland, who, in addition to his ministerial 
duties, owned and cultivated a large farm. 
One night my attention was attracted to a 
hright light in one of the upper rooms of 
our neighbor's house. In a moment I saw 
the wife fly past the uncurtained window, 
closely followed by the husband, who was 
armed with a huge fire-shovel—round the 
room she went, still pursued, and as I 
listened breathlessly, I thought, nay, I was 
sure, I heard a scream. 
I hastened to my mother, and told her 
what I had seen, we both looked out, but the 
light was gone and all was quiet. Notwith-
standing my mother's judicious warning "to 
say nothing about it to any one," before 
,school was out the next day, I had confided 
it to my bosom friend, and in a week half 
the village knew it, and a great talk it made 
I assure you. 
Finally it reached the ears of the deacons, 
who at once proceeded to investigate the 
truth. My mother looked grave and troub-
led when they called, but conscious of hav-
ing told only the truth, I met them fearlessly 
related what I had seen. Then they left, 
taking a "bee line" tor the minister's, to call 
him to account. With many apologies they 
made known their errand, when to their 
surprise the minister burst into a hearty 
laugh. 
"Wait a moment," said he, "till I call* 
Polly. You see that night I found a big rat 
in the meal-chest and came down for the 
shovel, and bade her hold the light while I 
killed him. Finding no other place to hide, 
the rascal took refuge in the folds of her 
dress, and she rtn screaming till I managed 
to dislodge and kill him." 
I have ever since been careful not to re-
peat an unfavorable report about my neigh-
bors, at least till I knew the whole truth. 
THE POWER OF CHRIST'S COMING. 
"A STRANGE DUTY." 
tegiment—a South Carolina one—now re-
mains. One of the prisoners state that they 
were busy mining under our works, and in 
two days more would have been ready 
to blow them up, but we got the start of 
them. 
GENERAL NEWS ITEMS. 
The milkmen of Bangor announce a rise 
to 8 cents per quart after this mouth. 
The milkmen of Brooklyn, N. Y., have 
agreed to raise the price of lacteal fluid to 
ten cents per quart, retail.price. 
The milkmen of Worcester have decided 
to charge seven cents per quarts for the next 
two months. 
Commodore Charles Stewart, "Old Iron-
sides," completed his eighty-sixth year on 
Thursday last, and he is yet as active and 
cheerful as a man of fifty. 
Farmers in Rhode Island are purchasing 
thousands of bushels of wood ashes in Maine, 
to be used for a dressing for high and dry 
land. 
Sarah Hollingsworth, remembered by the 
residents of Philadelphia, as a starch pedlar, 
died. last week at the extraordinary age of 
110 year,s retaining her mental faculties to 
the hour of her death. 
A MassaChusetts cent of 1788 was dug 
up a few days since in a turnip patch at 
Dartmouth. 
The daily receipts under the Internal Rev-
enue are now average from seven hundred 
and fifty to eight hundred thousand dollars. 
On one day within a week they were over 
eleven hundred thousand dollars. 
The drouth m Wisconsin and Northern 
Illinois has been succeeded by the heaviest 
rainstorms known in that section for many 
years. More water is said to have fallen in 
some places than fell for several months. 
Wild pigeons have been plenty in Wis-
consin this season, so plenty that one man 
near La Crosse has taken 30,000 with a net. 
Another man in Sparta -has taken $1800 
worth at four cents each. 
A newspaper _carrier has paid $5000 for 
the exclusive right to sell papers at the 
depots and on the cars of time N. T. Central 
R. R. 
compensated for by the welcome we received 
from Brother and Sister Gates and family, 
and the abundant kindness lavished upon us. 
Refreshed and comforted, we started the 
8th, with Bro. Gates in company, for Bro. 
Hollen's. We found quite a difference in 
riding in good comfortable car's, among the 
Alleghany ridges, and the ride we took some 
two years since, over the same route, in an 
old ricketty lumber wagon, called a stage. 
On reaching Sterling Run, we were greeted 
by the pleasant faces of Bros. Hollen and 
Jackson, the latter having come from Centre 
County to meet us, a distance of some sixty 
miles, over roads too rough to describe. 
In consequence of the derangement of the 
mail through these regions, growing out of 
a misunderstanding between the Govern-
ment and the Pennsylvania and Erie Rail-
road company, Bro. Hollen had not seen the 
Herald containing my notice, nor received 
my letter informing him of the time of my 
scornieg, and therefore he had not time to 
arrange as he would have desired. How-
ever, meeting was appointed in the Pine 
Street Meeting House, commencing the 8th 
and continuing over the Sabbath, Bro. Gates, 
Jackson and myself preaching. 'rime attend-
ance and interest were good, considering the 
short. notice given. The 11th we went to 
Shippers, the county seat of Cameron Co. 
Here met Bro. Moyer and wife. It was 
court week, and we considered it Providential, 
as affording an opportunity for a good hear-
ing, in which we were not disappointed. 
The usual place of worship not being large 
enough, we repaired to the court house, 
a commodious and -pleasant room which was 
well filled, so that a good hearing was had, 
and labor put forth in hope. Bro. Jackson, 
Gates, Guild and myself did the preaching, 
and the congregation indicated a good inte-
rest to hear. There are some kind and 
whole-hearted friends of the truth in Ship-
pen. May the Lord bless the labors of Bro. 
Moyer among them. - One of the most in-
teresting services while at Shippers, was with 
the Sabbath school there, an account of 
which I will give, according to promise, in 
the Youth's Visitor, for which a liberal sub-
scription was given. Taking leave of the 
dear friends in S., all the ministerial com-
pany now consisting of six, and Sister Moy-
er, returned to- Pine Street the 13th, where 
Bro. Jackson gave a most impressive dis-
course, at the conclusion of which, an inte-
resting young man, Bro. Hollen's son-in-law, 
arose, for prayers, and at time conclusion of 
time meeting rejoiced in hope, while confess-
ing faith in Christ. Thus closed our first 
meeting. �
L. Oar, E iz. 
Clearfield, July 21, 1864. 
 
SUNRISE IN THE CAPITAL FARM 
THE OVERLAID MAIL—IMPORTANT 
INSTRUCTIONS. 
FAST DAY, THURSDAY, AUGUST 4TH.—
Congress and the President have called on 
us to fast and pray, on account of our sins 
and national troubles. God calls on us to 
do the same. Shall we not do it in the true 
spirit of the occasion ? Are we not yet suf-
ficiently scourged ? Shall we insult our 
Maker by refusing to bow at his footstool, to 
seek his pardoning and delivering favor ? 
We beseech every reader of the Advent 
Herald to observe the day with due solemn-
ity and heart-felt repentance. Abstain from 
work, abstain from food, abstain from world-
ly pleasure and turn from all sin ; it may be 
God will hear our cries and turn from us his 
dreadful judgment. 
• 
DONATIONS FOR THE SUPPLY OF READ-
ING FOR SOLPIERS IN HOSPITALS.-131'0. 
Walker of Orleans, sent us a dollar for this 
purpose. A day or two after, we received 
a note from a gentleman getting up a read-
ing-room in the General Hospital at Read-1 
ville, requesting us to furnish the Herald for 
it. We send it on Bro. Waikeer account, 
where several hundred sick and wounded 
soldiers are located. We would like to sup-
ply many other Hospitals with the Herald. 
Shall we do it ? 
The certainty anti the nearness of the 
Lord's coming, and the duty of waiting for it 
are now, blessed be God, much more gener-
ally acknowledged and° realized. I trust 
that the hearts of Christians are becoming 
more and more established in this solemn 
reality. That it is not a mere careless repe-
tition of words when they say, We believe 
that thou shalt come to be our Judge ; and 
when they say in the creed, He sitteth on 
the right hand of God the Father Almighty ; 
from thence he shall come to judge the quick 
and the dead. Doubt not of the fact at all. 
Be expecting it, and be waiting for it ; 
earnestly desire to be ready and prepared for 
it. �
Lord, we believe ; help thou our belief. 
0, may we live more and more in 
the light of this coining judgment, and ac-
custom ourselves to view everything with 
constant reference to it. The bringing near 
of time final judgment, and the realizing of 
the wrath then to descend on the wicked, 
and the promised glory then to be bestowed 
on time righteous, are full of weighty in-
fluence on all our duties. Time solemnities 
and infinite magnitude of the judgment, its 
irreversible issue, and its eternal decision of 
our future state, as inhabitants of hell or 
heaven.; and the assurance that the Judge 
now standeth at the door, cannot fail to 
quicken every one who receives God's testi-
mony in simple faith.—E. Bickersteth, D. D 
OLD SCHOOL PRESBYTERIAN GEN-
ERAL ASSEMBLY. 
Going to church a few Sabbaths since, al-
most for the first time in many a long month, 
my feelings greatly depressed, and week-day 
burdens still clinging to my spirit, how I was 
startled and rebuked by the announcement 
of time text, "Rejoice in the Lord alway : and 
again I say rejoice." 
"I am a stranger here," said the preacher ; 
"the history, time circumstances, the very 
names of my hearers are all unknown to 
me. �
Yet my Master (as I believe,) has sent 
me to call you in his name to the duty of 
rejoicing. Methinks I hear some of you say, 
'This is a strange duty ; I have more to 
mourn than to rejoice �
Ah, friends ! can 
this be true ? Then, surely, whatever your 
earthly trials, you have God for yonr friend, 
and the promise of heaven for your home ; 
and is' not this a joy to which all afflictions 
are light ? But perhaps you are sinners, 
impenitent and unforgiven ; and in addition 
to earthly sorrows, you feel that time wrath 
of God abideth on you. 
Still you have life and probation ; still 
the golden hours of this precious Sabbath, 
the open page of the Divine Word, and the 
voice of Christ's ambassador, point you to 
Him who bore the curse of His Father's 
wrath, for all who in penitence and faith 
will accept him as their Saviour ; and who 
this day calls upon you, no less than upon 
more favored ones, to 'rejoice in God.' " 
I cannot repeat the remainder of the 
stranger's sermon here my friends ; the ed-
itors could ill afford the space, or I the time. 
But when that morning's services were end-
ed, and a few of us gathered at intermission 
in the Bible class, I found that we were all 
alike impressed with the force of the argu-
ment, and convinced that every considera-
tion urged upon us this much neglected, and 
seemingly strange duty of Christian joy. 
"I feel that I have taken my son's death too 
hard," said Mr. L. "I will try to rejoice 
that God spared him to me so long, and that 
I have a comfortable hope of meeting him 
in heaven." "I, too, have cherished more 
sad thoughts than I ought over my country's 
desolations," responed our white-headed dea-
con. "I will strive to remember that the 
Lord reigns, and that 'his mercy endureth 
forever.'" "And I," whispered a pale-facel 
widow beside me, "will endeavor to bear 
my sorrow more cheerfully, and to rejoice 
that I had a brave and noble husband to 
give to this great struggle for law and liber-
ty." 
The writer did not utter there her self= 
condemnation and resolves; but she felt 
and made them nevertheless.-:---Cor. Congre-
gationalis 
In Addison, Vt., on Sunday the 12th of 
June, at I-past 10 A. M., Mrs. Naomi Smith, 
aged 87. "She sleeps in Jesus." 
The subject of this obituary was the 
daughter' of Caleb and Freelove Olin, who 
are numbered among the early settlers of 
Vermont. The deceased was born in Shafter-
burg Vt., September 15, 1777,—married 
Daniel Smith of Adams, Mass., and was the 
faithful mother of ten Children, eight of whom 
are still living. 
Mrs. Smith experienced hope in Christ at 
about 30 years of age, and was baptized in-
to fellowship with the Addison Baptist 
Church, by Elder I. Howard in 1807, retain-
ing her church connexion over 50 years. 
Mrs. Smith was favored with a good de, 
gree of health, was an active worker in her 
home sphere, and her good moral qualties 
endeared her to all who knew her in life and 
death. �
. 
In view of prospective dissolution, Sister 
Smith was somewhat timid, but during her 
last brief sickness of seven days, she felt 
resigned, and ere she died, confessed her 
trust in Christ Jesus as her shield, fortress, 
and delivering iSaviour. 
Her last moments resembled the lan-
guishment of an infant, to its undisturbed 
slumber. 
Her funeral services were conducted' in 
the Addison Baptist Church, June 14th ; 
sermon by the writer from Rom. -5 : 17 ; 
closing prayer by Elder Goodspeed. 
The remains of the departed are deposited 
in the family cemetery, upon the homestead 
farm—in hope of 'the promised resurrection. 
F. GUNNER. 
The potato crop in Maine has been seri-
ously damaged by the drouth. In Hancock 
county the crop will be an almost total fail-
ure. This will prove a serious loss to time 
farmers, as an unusual breadth of land had 
been planted with this esculent. 
John Warner, of Cambridge, Vt., who 
died last year, gave away over $11,000 dur-
ing the last five years of his life, mostly in 
small sums, to poor people. A few years 
ago he burned up notes and mortgages, the 
collection of which would distress the men 
against whom they were drawn, to the 
amount of about $20,000. 
The hailstorm of the 18th inst, was very 
severe at Winchester and Hinsdale, N. H. 
At Winchester, the steeple of the Methodist 
church was blown down, several barns un-
roofed, and one barn razed to the ground. 
Crops were a good deal injured At HillS-• 
dale the damage is estimated at $30,000. 
V. B. Palmer, Esq., of "Advertising Agen-
cy" fitme, died at his residence in Philadel-
phia on Friday last. Within his sphere, few 
men were more useful to the public than the 
deceased. 
It is asserted by the Southern sympathiz-
ers in New Orleans that Maxirnillian has al-
ready sent privately a commissoner to the 
rebel authorities at Richmond. 
India-rubber shirt collars, cuffs and wrist 
bands are among the novelties announced in 
England. Bonnets of the same material are 
made in France, and colored to resemble 
The following official instructions to post-
masters concerning the mail matter by the 
overland route, have been issued by the De-
partment : 
POST-OFFICE DEPARTMENT, Appointment Office. 
Washington, eay 2J, 18G3. 
Sir : Your attention is' particularly called 
to the fourth section of the act to provide 
for carrying the mails from the United States 
to foreign ports, and for other purposes, ap-
proved March 5, 1864, which provides "that 
all mailable matter, conveyed by mail west-
ward beyond the western boundary of Kan-
sas and eastward from the eastern boundary 
of California, shall be subject to prepaid let-
ter postage rates. Provided, however, that 
this section shall not be held to extend to 
the transmission by mail of newspapers from 
a known office of publication to bona fide 
subscribers, not exceeding one copy,.to each 
subscriber, . . . . at the usual rates, nor to 
properly franked matter." 
You will perceive by the foregoing 
that all the mail matter, except one news-
paper to a bona fide subscriber, and franked 
matter, must be prepaid at letter rates to 
entitle it to transmission through the mails 
by the overland route, between the points 
indicated. 
The Postmaster General directs that you 
be particular in enforcing this. law at your 
office, and see that nothing is sent forward 
through the mails, except in conformity with 
its provisions. The post-master at St. Jo-
seph, Missouri, will be instructed to with-
draw from the mails all matter coming to his 
office not prepaid in accordance with the 
provisions of this law. 
I am, respectfully, your obedient servant, 
ST. JOHN B. L. SKINNER 
Acting First Ass. Postmaster Gen. 
Postmasters throughout the country will 
be governed by the above instructions, and 
charge _the rates therein prescribed on all 
mail matter intended for transmission by the 
overland route. 
Under this law subscribers beyond Kan-
sas must have their papers addressed to them 
separately and individually. We cannot 
send two papers to one subscriber for him to 
distribute. 
Who can but feel grateful, when Nature 
so beautifully spreads herself out before us, 
with her handsome vales and glens, meander-
ing streams, and hills decorated . with the 
purple flush of the violet. �
- 
But where am I? Simply seated quietly 
on a rustic lounge in the Capital Park of 
the State of Wisconsin—and how extremely. 
grand and beautiful. Only think, reader, 
of fourteen acres, studded with native forest 
trees, not large, and in. the centre, rises 
gracefully the proud capital building, a 
structure, .which need not turn away in 
shame beside a New England capital. While 
looking at the majestic coulumns, carved 
stone work—as the orb of day sent his 
piercing glances thfough, among time leaves, I 
could but ask myself, Are these pillars to fall 
before a foreign foe ? Must that flag-staff 
bow humbly before the destroyer of this Re-
public ? Let us all say, No .f • 
But how still all is as still as death, ex-
cept the chirping of bluebirds, and the rob-
bins, as they perch themselves upon the 
branches, as if to drink deep the -splendors 
of the glorious sunrise in the Capital Park: 
And such stillness, interrupted by the shrill 
whistle of an iron steed as he comes howling 
across Lake Monona on the bridge. 
The City Hall clock peals the hour of 
five, matters begin to assume a more lively 
appearance, and soon an air of grace mingles 
with the rays of the morning sun,. and Na-
ture, with all her beautiful garments, seem 
to be spread out before us. 
Many a church spire pointing to the 
clouds, greets the eye, and the reflections, 
would remind us of an oriental minaret, had 
we ever seen one. 
Situated as Madison is, bewteen two 
small lakes, with the Park and massive 
walls of the capital, and the University, and 
College Hill, one mile west, all adds to the 
beauty of the place. 
A Journal of Education is published here, 
besides newspapers—the State Journal tak-
ing the lead for right. 
Should any of you Bostonians, step off the 
platform before sunrise, just come up and 
take notes with me from the Park, and 
breathe the pure air of such a Wisconsin 
morning as this. 
Yours in haste, �J. S. BLISS. 
Torreopontituct. 
A VISIT TO THE ALLEGHANIES. 
• 
FIRES. 
On Thursday morning of last week the sta 
ble of Judd and Field on Merrimac Street, 
in this city, was destroyed by fire, together 
with eleven horses. The fire was undoubted-
ly the work of an incendiary. 
' The tannery of Mr. John Frost, in South 
Danvers, was burned last Wednesday, with 
twenty loads of bark, and a quantity of 
leather ; also a small building belonging to 
Mrs. Jacobs. 
In Templeton, on Friday, the large three: 
story shoe shop owned by Warren H. Bow-
ker, was discovered to be on fire. The 
flames spread from that to a large barn owned 
by him, and thence to the dwelling house 
and barn owned by David Spear, which 
were all entirely consumed. The value of 
property destroyed is estimated at five thou-
sand dollars, and no insurance. 
Acres of valuable woodland are burning 
in Tugus, Me., near Beals' Hotel, and in 
Litchfield, on Mr. Sawyer's and Mr. Dennis' 
farms. The Bangor Coprier reports exten-
sive fires in the neighborhood of that city. 
A vast amount of property has been con-
sumed. 
Fires raging in the neighborhood of Ells-
worth, Me., have swept through mowing 
fields and approached within very dangerous 
proximity to the village. 
A serious fire occurred in Ogdensburg, 
N. Y., last Thursday, destroying a railroad 
elevator and sheds adjoining, containing 
nearly 2000 barrels of flour and 10,000 
bushels of grain. The fire is supposed to 
FROM T. E. MORRILL. 
Leghorn. 
A French paper says that by an accident 
charcoal has been discovered to be a sure 
cure for burns. By laying a piece of coal upon 
a burn the pain subsides immediately. The 
remedy is cheap and simple, and deserves 
trial. 
INTERESTING NEWS FROM TEXAS.—A 
gentleman just arrived from Texas has fur-
nished the Memphis Bulletin with some very 
interesting accounts of the condition of 
things in that State. The people of Texas 
who inclined to secession have been buoyed 
up with stories of Lee having gained great 
successes and captured eighty-five thousand 
prisoners from Grant's army. The Union 
sentiment is gaining rapidly. There are ten 
lodges of Union Leagues in Northwestern 
Texas, and each of them numbers from five 
to seven hundred members. They are very 
secret, and though constantly taking in new 
members, are exceedingly careful to get the 
right kind of men. The Union Leagues 
have many friends and some members in the 
rebel army. Hundreds of men desert the 
rebel cause, and live out, bushwhacking 
against secesh. The friends of the Union 
are mainly among the poorer classes of peo-
ple. All available men among the poorer 
claSses have been conscripted. 
Many slaves have been sent to Texas from 
other States, so that they might be kept 
safely. There are four thousand and fifty 
Union prisoners at Tyler, and they are all 
well treated and fed. The crops at Texas 
are promisifig ; but the yield is not likely to 
be much more than is needed for home con-
sumption. 
SERIOUS FIRES IN MAINE.—The Belfast 
Age says : "We hear of some large mead-
ows in the northern part of this county hun-
dreds of acres in extent, that have been 
swept over, and every living thing burned. 
On Sunday several religious meetings were 
dismissed in the midst of the services, those 
in attendance having to turn out in a body 
to fight fire. In the town of Newport, the 
other day, the goods were removed from the 
stores of the village in anticipation of a gen-
eral conflagration, and one or more houses 
we learn have been burned. Fires are rag-
ing in the western part of this city, in Knox 
and in other towns, and doing extensive in-
jury." 
REPORT AGAINST SLAVERY. 
Hon. Stanley Matthews' report on sla-
very came up on Friday afternoon, May 
28th, and elaborate speeches were made on 
it by Hon. Martin Ryerson and Rev. Dr. 
Rice, of New York. The report, with two 
amendments prepared by Mr. Ryerson, was 
unanimously adopted. 
RE-UNION OF OLD AND NEW SCHOOLS. 
—On Saturday May 29th, a paper unani-
mously passed by the General Assembly 
(N. S.) was received, declaring: 
1. That this Assembly cordially welcomes 
all signs of increased love and union among 
those who hold to the same facts and doc-
trines of the Gospel, and bears its solemn 
testimony with self-humiliation against What-
ever fosters alienation and genders strife 
among the disciples of our Lord. 
That the tendencies of modern society, the 
condition of Protestant Christianity, increase 
of infidelity, the progress of Romanism, and the 
present and prospective state of our country, 
afford powerful arguments against further 
subdivision and in favor of that union and 
unity of the church into which it is to grow, 
and which it is to be its consummation ; and 
that we record with unfeigned gratitude, our 
profound conviction that the spirit of dis-
union and of sectarianism is waning, 
and that the spirit of brotherly kindnesss 
anal mutual confidence is largely on the in-
crease. 
That in an especial manner are those 
churches bound to foster this spirit who 
adopt the same standards of faith and order, 
and whose decisions are local, personal, and 
incidental, and for whose reunion there is 
only needed a wise deference to each other's 
rights and a higher measure of Christian 
charity. Adopting the same formulas of 
faith and form of government, all that is 
needed is to receive them in the same spirit. 
That it is our united and fervent prayer to 
our common Master, that he would so re-
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ADVENT, 
HERALD. 
 
tantilg Cute. 
[Original.] 
The Conversational Historian, 
A GENERAL SYNOPSIS OF 
Ancient and Modern Empires, Kingdoms and States. 
BY NATHANIEL BROWN. 
Author of Essays on Education. 
[Copyright secured.] 
CHAPTER LXIII. 
Crusades-continued. 
Were many lives sacrificed after the 
former losses, in the recovery of Pales-
tine ? 
A very large proportion of the Cru- 
saders never returned to Europe. 
When commenced the fourth Crusade 
under Baldwin, Count of Flanders ? 
In the year 1203 A. C. 
Why did this Crusade end at Con-
stantinople ? 
After arriving in the vicinity of the 
city, they espoused the cause of the 
young Alexis, and displaced the usurp-
er. After this some other revolutions 
took place in the city, when the Cru-
saders, with only 20,000 men, captured 
the richest and largest city of the world. 
Did the Crusaders obtain much 
booty ? 
Millions on millions ! 
Who became emperor? 
Baldwin was invested with the purple, 
but soon after was assassinated. 
How long did this empire of the Lat-
ins last ? 
It lasted fifty-seven years. 
Were there any expeditions to Egypt 
and the Holy Land, between the fourth 
and fifth Crusades ? 
There were several by the Germans, 
Hungarians, French, English and Ital-
ians. 
Did these expeditions result in the ac-
quisition of any country by conqueSt 
No permanent conquests were made. 
Who led the fifth and last Crusade 
against the infidels ? 
Louis IX., King of France. 
With what success did he meet? 
He first went to Egypt, and lost half 
of his army by sickness-lost a battle-
was taken prisoner-ransomed himself 
-went to the Holy Land, and there 
flourished a short time, and then re-
turned to France ! 
When was this Crusade./ 
In the 'former part of the thirteenth . 
century. 
What were some of the causes which 
led to the abandonment of the Holy 
City, and the Holy Sepulchre, and the 
Church of the Resurrection ? 
The insupportable tyranny of the 
Popes-the loss of their moral influence 
-the avarice of the priesthood-the 
scandalous conduct of the court of 
Rome, and the unwillingness of the peo-
ple to be taxed any longer to support 
the profligacy of the hierarchy. 
Were the consequences of the Cru-
sades, upon the whole, beneficial or 
not 7 
Various opinions have been formed by 
mankind. Some contend that they re-
sulted in great good -others that they 
were the cause of an infinite variety of 
evil. No doubt but science, literature, 
commerce and navigation were much 
benefited.. 
Does the endurance of evil result. in 
good I 
Very often ; but we should never do 
evil that good may come. 
Have Christians any guaranteed right 
in jerusalem? 
They have a few specific rights, but 
the weakness of the Ottoman govern-
ment is such, that all their privileges are 
often in jeopardy; and all their claims to 
sacred relics, and all their titles to the 
Holy Sepulchre and the Church of the 
Resurrection, are considered as indul-
gences by the fanatical Turk, and 
would if he had the power be taken in-
stantly from them.- 
PARENTAGE OF 
Or TALENTED PERSONS. 
Although Mille. Rosa Bonheur, the 
princess of painters, may be the daugh-
ter of an artist, Turner was the son of 
a barber ; Albert Durer, of a goldsmith; 
Gainsborough of a clothier; Barry arid 
Romeny, of builders ; Sir Joshua Rey-
nolds, of a clergymen. There is scarce-
ly a trade or profession but can boast of 
being the cradle of men of unusual men-
tal attainments, and in some instances 
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to various sons who have excelled in 
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and Allan Cunningham of the next. 
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Defoe, and Kirke White ; or of the most 
consummate political ability, as in the 
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relieved by the name of William Col-
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Wilkes; drapers, of Isaac Barrow, the �THE POWER OF LOVE. 
mathematician and the instructor of 
Newton, and of Alexander Pope ; jew- 
There was in a certain mission-school 
clefs, of Francis Grose, the antiquary, one old lady, as teacher, whose heart 
never grew cold toward her children, 
Sir Samuel Romily, and others. The whose love for them was always fresh 
church has been most prolific in gifted 
sons.-Home Journal. �
and green. She had a class of unruly 
boys placed in her charge. They could 
THE MADMAN'S WIT. 
not be restrained. Sabbath after Sab-
bath they had let out their wicked na- 
A gentleman of fortune visiting a �
tures in the presence of their teachers, 
natic asylum, where the treatments con- and it was thought nothing could be 
sisted chiefly in forcing the patients to done with them. Teacher after teacher 
stand in tubs of cold water, those slight- had given them over in despair and re-
ly affected up to the knees; .others, signed the class. At last they asked 
whose cases were graver, up to the this old lady to take charge of these 
middle ; while persons very seriously boys. She consented. She went to 
ill, were immersed up to the neck. The them from her closet; went to them 
visitor entered into conversation with with love to God and love to their souls. 
one of the patients, who seemed to have When she came before them she picked 
some curiosity to know how the strap- out one to whom she thought to be the 
ger passed his time out of doors. �ringleader among them, and began to 
"I have horses and greyhounds for talk with him. 
coursing," said the latter, in reply to the �
"Do you love God?" she asked. 
other's question. �
"No." 
"Ah ! they are very expensive T' �
"Do you love your mother ?" 
"Yes, they cost a great deal of "iNo." 
money in the year; but they are the �
"Do you love your friends ?" 
best of their kind." �
"No. I don't love God, nor my 
"Have you any thing more ?" �mother, nor nobody, and I am not corn- 
"I have a pack of hounds for hunting ing any more to the Sunday school." 
the fox." �
The old lady's heart was touched, 
"And they cost a great deal, too?" �
and she said, 
"A great deal. And I have birds for �
"Why, if one of my sons should say 
hawking." �
he did not love his mother it would 
"I see ; birds for hunting birds. And break my heart;" and the thought of 
these swell up the expense, I dare the condition of that boy so overcame 
say ?" �
her that she burst into tears and wept 
"You may say that, for they are not over hint. He, too, was affected. He, 
common in this country. And then l too, burst into tears ; and from that mo-
sometimes go out with my gun, accom- ment that boy and that lady were unit- 
panied by a setter and a retriever." �
ed in heart. At the close of the school he 
"And these are expensive, too." �
said to the superintendent : 
"Of course. After all, it is not the �
"I love that old lady ! and I am al- 
animals of themselves that run away ways coming to this school, and she 
with the money; there must be men, shall be my teacher." 
you know, to feed and look after them; �
That class was pointed out to me as 
houses to lodge them in-in short, the a model class in a very large school. It 
whole sporting establishment." �was love that bound that boy's heart so 
"1 �
see, I see ! You have horses, closely to that of his teacher, and he 
hounds, setters, retrievers, hawks, men was only the representative of the whole 
-and all for the capture • of foxes and class.-Union Magazine. 
birds. What an enormous revenue 
they must cost you. Now, what I want �
RULES FOR HOME EDUCATION. 
to know is this-what return do they 
pay ? What does your year's sporting �
The following are worthy of being 
 
produce I" �
printed in letters of gold, and placed in 
"Why, we kill a fox now and then a conspicuous position in every house- 
-only they are getting rather scarce hold: 
 
1. From your children's earliest 
hereabouts-and we seldom bag less 
in- 
than fifty brace of birds each season." �
fancy inculcate the necessity of instant 
"Hark !" said the lunatic, looking obedience. 
 
anxiously around him. "My friend" �
2. Unite firmness with gentleness. 
-in an earnest whisper-"there is a Let your children always understand 
gate behind you; take my advice, and that you mean exactly what you say. 
get out of this while you are safe. Do �
3. Never promise them any thing un- 
not let the doctor get his eyes upon you. less you 'are sure you can give them 
He duckA us to some purpose, but as what you promise. 
sure as you are a living man, he will �
4. If you tell a child to do any thing 
drown you." �
show him how to do it, and see that it 
The gentleman looked serious as he is done. 
 
passed on. Pt rhaps he thought that he �
Always punish your children for 
 
was as mad as the inmate of the asy- willfully disobeying you, but never pun- 
ish in anger. 
Never let them see that they can 
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The million sons of toil, 
The sailors on the ocean, 
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The workshop must be crowded, 
That the palace may be bright ; 
If the ploughman did not plough, 
Then the poet could not write. 
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That man performs for man, 
And have its share of honor, 
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TAILORS.-Sir John Harkwood was 
usually styled Joannes Acutus, from 
the sharpness, it is said, of his needle or 
his sword. Fuller, the historian, says 
he turned his needle into a sword and 
his thimble into a shield. He was the 
son of a tanner, was apprentice to a tail-
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way to make yourself pleasant to others 
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whole world would serve you so, if you 
gave them the same cause. Let every 
one, therefore, see that you do care for 
them, by showing them the small cour-
tesies, in which there is no parade, 
whose voice is still to please, and which 
manifest themselves in tender and af-
fectionate looks and little acts of atten-
tion, giving others the preference in 
every little enjoyment at the table, in 
the field, walking, sitting and stand-
ing." 
Sonic years ago, a young lady who 
was going into a northern county in 
England took a seat in a stage-coach. 
For many miles she rode alone; but 
there was enough to amuse her in the 
scenery through which she passed, and 
in the pleasing anticipations that occu-
pied her mind. She had been engaged 
as governess for the grandchildren of an 
earl, and was now travelling to his 
seat. At mid-day the coach stopped at 
an inn, at which dinner was provided, 
and she alighted and sat down at the 
table. An elderly man followed, and 
sat down also. The young lady arose, 
rang the bell, and addressing the wait-
er, said: 
"There is an outside passenger ! I 
cannot dine with an outside passenger !" 
The stranger bowed, saying : 
"I beg your pardon, madam ! I can 
go into another room," and immediately 
retired. The coach soon afterwards re-
sumed its course, and the passengers 
their places. At length the coach 
stopped at the gate leading to the castle 
to which the young lady was going; 
but there was not such prompt atten-
tion as she expected. All eyes seemed 
directed to the outside passenger, who 
was preparing to dismount. She beck-
oned, and was answered : 
"As soon as we have attended to his 
lordship we will come to you." 
A few words of explanation ensued, 
and to her dismay she found that the 
outside passenger, with whom she had 
thought it beneath her to dine, was not 
only a noblemen, but that very noble-
man of whose family she hoped to be an 
inmate. What could she do? How 
could she bear the interview ? She felt 
very ill, and the apology sent for her 
not appearing that evening was more 
than pretence. 
The venerable peer was a consider-
ate man, and one who knew the way 
in which the Scripture often speaks of 
the going down of the sun. "We must 
not let the night thus pass," said he to 
the countess. "You must send for her, 
and we must talk to her before bed-
time." He reasoned with the fooiish 
girl respecting her conduct, insisted on 
the impropriety of the state of mind it 
evinced, assured her that nothing could 
induce him to allow his grandchildren 
to be taught such notions, refused to ac-
cept an apology that did not go the 
length of acknowledging that the 
thought was wrong, and when the right 
impression appeared to be produced, 
gave her his hand. That man was a 
nobleman. 
command. 
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temper wait till they are calm, and then 
gently reason with them on the impro-
priety of their conduct. 
Remember that a little present pun-
ishment, when the occasion arises, is 
much more effectual than the threaten-
ing of a greater punishment should the 
fault be renewed. 
Never give your children any thing 
because they cry for it. 
On no account allow them to do 
at one time what you have forbidden, 
under the same circumstances at anoth- 
Cf. 
Teach them that the only sure 
and easy way to appear good is to be 
good. 
Accustom them to make their lit-
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Never allow tale-bearing. 
Teach them that self-denial, not 
self-indulgence, is the appointed and 
sure method of obtaining happiness. 
WOP.DS FITLY SPOKEN.-A teacher up-
on one occasion coming too late to school 
found the door shut, and nearly all the 
boys who formed his class standing 
round about, amusing themselves as 
they best could. • The children were 
singing. The cull-toned melody rose 
long and loud, falling most distinctly on 
the ear. He stood listening in a mus-
ing frame for a moment or two, and 
then suddenly calling all the boys, and 
gathering them close around, he ad-
dressed them thus : 
"What, dear boys, if after all we have 
been hearing, reading and seeing, any 
of us should come up too late at last to 
the golden gates of the heavenly city, 
and should, while we stand without, 
listen in black despair to the resounding 
echoes of that sweet celestial melody 
which unceasingly ascends from ten 
thousand times ten thousand happy ran-
somed souls within, and we never, nev-
er to get in and join ! Oh, let us see to 
it ivell in time !" 
The door of the school shortly after-
ward opened and they walked in. The 
teacher had no occasion to check any 
levity in his class, while a marked im-
provement has been observable in their 
conduct ever since.-Scottish, S. S. 
Teacher's Magazine. 
Talking with the editor of an evening 
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WORK AND PRA V.-When Bro. F. was 
a boy he was one day at work in the 
garden and undertook to pull a large 
beet. He found it more of a task than 
he anticipated. �
After resting from his 
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beet, as might have been expected. 
In the arctic regions when the ther-
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miles. 
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to steer, and strength to pull. 
Such preachers as think themselves 
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thought by others too weak to teach. 
THE POETS.-Keats apostrophized a 
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