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GOD'S JEWELS. 
As. 'mid the rocks and sands of earth, 
The costly diamonds lie ; 
As gold is sprinkled through the depths, 
Unseen by human eye ; 
As pearls lie gleamless in their caves 
Beneath the restless sea ; 
As earth's deep vaults of wealth are hid 
For ages yet to he— 
So sleep the jewels of God's grace, 
The diamonds of his love, 
Amid earth's darkness and its gloom, 
Till raised to joy above. 
They dazzle not in crowded streets, 
Nor gleam in gilded halls ; 
They do not give their brightest rays 
Within high palace walls ; 
We do not see on beauty's brow 
Their mystic flash always, 
Nor do they wake in hearts of men 
Their words of warmest praise. 
But oft in lowly homes they shine 
With softest brilianey. 
Where God's own Spirit deigns to dwell, 
And guards them lovingly. 
What though they gleam unseen below, 
Or lie in slumbering worth ? 
An eye unseen beholds them all, 
And loves his gems of earth. 
Not always, 'mid the wreck of time, 
Shall God's own jewels lie ; 
His own right hand shall gather them, 
To grace his throne on high. 
There, where the Godhead's brightest rays 
Fall with effulgent beam, 
They shall the radiance evermore 
Reflect with loveliest gleam. 
Ah, yes ! these toils,these prayers, these tears, 
These conflicts of the soul, 
These stern and angry storms of life, 
That o'er the spirit roll, 
Shall but refine and polish well 
Each find and lovely gem, 
And mould and fashion it aright 
For Christ's own diadem. 
And he shall tell his holy ones 
How, in earth's gloomy night, 
He hastened to its awful wreck, 
And seized his jewels bright. 
Rivers—how they Flow. 
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Rivers in this way are just like wise men,who 
keep one side of their life for play and another 
for work, and can be brilliant and chattering and 
transparent when they are at ease, and yet lake 
deep counsel on the other side when they set 
themselves to their main purpose. And rivers 
are just in this divided, also, like wicked and 
good men ; the good rivers have serviceable deep 
places all along their banks, that ships can sail 
in ; but the wicked rivers go, scooping irregular-
ly under their banks until they get full of stran-
gling eddies, which no boat can row over with-
out being twisted against the rocks, and pools 
like wells, which no one can get ont of but the 
water kelpie that lives at the bottom ; but,wick-
ed or gdod, the rivers agree in having two kinds 
of sides.—Ruskin. 
Jerusalem. 
A letter from Jerusalem, of the 15th Jan., in 
the Monde, says the fearful weather of the last 
month has prevented the French, Austrian, and 
Russian packets from appearing in the roads of 
Jaffa, and disasters at several places are spoken 
of. 'On the land the weather has been as bad 
as at sea, the oldest inhabitant scarcely remem-
ber such torrents of rain. The rivers of Palestine 
have risen violently from their beds to ravage 
the country,and carry away all that opposed the 
fury of the waters. The Nile of Jerusalem—that 
is to say, the Kedron—usually so dusty and so 
dry, has overflowed 'its banks ; for twenty days 
the famous torrent has really existed. and rolled 
its yellow waves precipitately towards the sea. 
By a rare circumstance,the waters of this melan-
choly and biblical torrent find themselves increas-
ed by the too full supply of the Bir-Ayoub, or 
Well of Job,which is for the Jews and the Chris-
tians the ancient well of' Nehemiah,in which was 
found the fire of the altar concealed in its depths 
at the time of the departure of the Hebrews for 
the captivity of Babylon. At the present moment 
the water rushes, not only from the orifice of the 
vast reservoir,but from an opening in the ground, 
at a distance of forty paces lower down in the 
valley, and in the bed of the Kedron. It is not 
often that the inhabitants of Jerusalem have an 
opportunity of seeing this phenomenon.and there-
fore the appearance of the temporary source is 
quite a fete for the people, who in the course of 
the whole year only see the water which they 
pour in their glasses. Hardly does the waters 
of the Bir-Ayoub make its inroad, than the fell-
ohs of Siloeh fill with it, amidst cries of jubila-
tion, little pitchers, which they then take to the 
Governor, to the different civil and religious au-
thorities, and personages of distinction, who, in 
exchange for the good news, gratifiy them with 
a present. The phenomenon is hailed with the 
more joy that it is the announcement of a good 
harvest in an arid country, where not a drop of 
All rivers, small or large, agree in one char- water falls for eight or nine months. Then corn-
acter, they like to lean a little on one side ; they mence promenades, parties of pleasure, feasts in 
cannot bear to have their channels deepest in the the open air on the banks of the Kedron, or on 
middle, but will always, if they can, have one the esplanade of the Well of Nehemiah. On the 
bank to sun themselves upon, and another to get first fine sunny day, cafes are improvished,kitch-
cool under ; one shingly shore to play over,where ens installed, amusements organized ; and the 
they may be shallow, and foolish, and childlike ; echoes of the deep valley, with which are blend-
and another steep shore, under which they can ed those of Jehoshaphat and Ben Hinman, ring 
pauseand purify themselves,and get their strength with the thousand sounds of joy, of primitive 
of waves fully together for due action. musical instruments, and of extempore songs in 
which invariably the higheil notes predominate.' general appearance, however, was like one vast 
However, if the eruption of the Bir-Ayoub have ruin of nature; and many of the pieces of rock 
their joys,the diluvian rains which have produced driven out of the volcanoes, appear to be laid at 
them bring their sadness. To say nothing of tl various distances." 
Arabian dwellings overturned in the villages, of We have here a strong, nay, a complete con- 
houses and shops swept away at Jerusalem, we firmation of the most interesting recent discover-
have had to deplore in the town the death of a ies of the continental philosophers, Maedler of 
young Mussulman, crushed under the rubbish of Dorpat, and Baer of Berlin. The result of their 
a shop beaten down by the rain. 
curious and elaborate observations have been a 
map of what may now, without a figure, be call- 
God our Refuge. ed the geography of the moon, in which the sur- 
face of that satellite has been laid out with as 
God is whatever his people need, and what- much accuracy as that of our own globe. Of 
ever he is, he is to them. Are they in danger ? this map,a singular triuroph of human ingenuity, 
He is their refuge. Here they are safe from the I Dr. Nichol has given a reduced copy, besides a 
avenger of blood, the justice of God, and the 
threatenings of a violated law. Are they weak ? 
He is their strength. He will strengthen them 
for conflict with the foe, strengthen them while 
in the engagement,and bring them off more than 
conquerors. Are they in trouble? He is a help, 
a very present help in trouble. He will help 
them to bear trouble. He will help them to im-
prove trouble. He will deliver them in six trou-
bles, and in seven shall no evil touch them. 
Christian, in every danger run to thy God. His 
arms are open to receive thee. His heart is a 
refuge for thee. lie will screen thee. He will 
shelter thee. He will defend thee. He will be 
thy protection in adversity and prosperity,in life 
and death. In thy infirmities, repair to him for 
grace. He is the strength of the poor, and the 
strength of the needy in his distress. He has 
strengthened thousands of poor feeble ones, and 
he will strengthen thee. In all thy troubles go 
to him for solace and succor. He will help thee. 
Hear his own precious words, addressed to his 
people when in deep trouble and distress :—
"Fear thou not, for I am with thee ; be not dis-
mayed, for I am thy God : I will strengthen 
thee ; yea, I will help thee ; yea, I will uphold 
thee with the right hand of my righteousness." 
He is thy shield in danger, and thy very present 
help in trouble. He is always at hand, always 
ready to help,always willing to bless thee.—Rev. 
fame Smith. 
What is in the Moon. 
The comparative proximityof our own satellite, The most important doctrines of the Christian 
the Moon, has necessarily rendered it an object faith are by both Apostles based upon, or at 
of the greatest interest, and it has, perhaps, in a least indissolubly bound up with the actual pres-
greater degree than the other celestial orbs,been ence of' the glorified body of our Lord in a place 
subjected to the scrutinizing observations of the where alone it is now to be found. It is not with-
telescope. Since the completion of the great in- in our scope to quote and expound the passages. 
strument of Lord Bosse, that nobleman has fre- But whosoever examines them and marks, more-
quently observed it ; and its appearance, as seen over, the Greek terms by which both Apostles 
by the great telescope, is thus described byDr. always express the act of the Ascension,will feel 
Scoresby :— 
that it was the design of the Holy Ghost to ac- 
"It appears like a globe of molten silver, and custom the Christian Church to contemplate the 
every object of the extent of one hundred yards mediatorial work behind the veil as carried on 
was quite visible. Edifices, therefore, of the size by a Person who in the glory of the Holy Trin-
of York Minster, or even of' the ruins of Whit- ity wears the human form, and is beheld as Man 
by Abbey, might be easily perceived if they had by all the hosts of heaven ; who, though no long. 
existed. But there was no appearance of any- er a "man of sorrow," is still "acquainted with 
thing of that nature ; neither was there any in- grief," and feels a human sympathy with men 
dication of the existence of water, or of an at- upon earth, and to whom we are all encouraged 
mosphere. There was a vast number of extinct to direct our human hearts' desire and prayer. 
volcanoes, several miles in breath ; through one The theology of the New Testament makes the 
of' them there was a line, in continuance of ot e Man in heaven as precious a reality as the Dian 
about one hundred and fifty miles in length,which upon earth. It represents his functions above 
ran in a straight direction like a railway. The as discharged in their full perfection lay the same 
number of plates, representing on a large scale 
special parts of the surface. The general char-
acter of the moon is highly irregular, marked by 
huge mountains and pits, the height and depth 
of which have been accurately measured. About 
a third part only of the surface presented to us 
is comparatively regular, this regular portion be-
ing plains, and not seas, as was formerly imagin- 
ed. There is no appearance of water ; and al- 
though astronomers are divided in opinion about 
the existence of an atmosphere, we are to con-
clude that the moon is not, in its present state, 
adapted for the abode of organized beings. 'With 
regard to the mountains, a great number of them 
are isolated peaks, such as Teneriffe ; mountain 
ranges, of which some reach a great elevation, 
are also present in the moon, though not a chief 
features in its surface. At least three fifths of 
its surface are studded with caverns, penetrating 
its body, and generally engirt at the top by a 
great wall of rock, which is serrated and often 
crowned by lofty peaks. These caverns or craters, 
as they are called, vary in diameter from fifty to 
sixty miles to the smallest visible space. And 
it is also remarkable that as they diminish in 
size they increase in number.—Enylish Quarter-
ly. 
We have often thought the moon may prove 
to be the great prison house of the lost from this 
planet. How that may be,eternity alone can re- 
veal. 
ED. 
Jesus at God's Right Hand. 
146 
THE ADVENT HERALD. 
with his own exertions, and expecting to receive 
the compliments and congratulations of his quan-
dum chum. 
"Well, my Lord," he asked, "and how did you 
like the sermon ?" 
"0, most wonderfully," replied Yelverton ; 
"it was like the peace of God,it passed all under-
standing ; and like his mercy, I thought it would 
have endured forever." 
person in human nature below. It presents to 
our faith the same Jesus who in the Gospels was 
present to our sight. It puts no difference in 
this respect between heaven and earth. It gives 
no sanction, or makes no allusion to the refine-
ments which would resolve away all the essen-
tials of his humanity, and make the Ascension a 
crisis at which the corporeity of Christ was re-
leased from all coporeal notions,and from all the 
limitations of time and space.—London Review. 
John Fox's "Christ Triumphant." 
(From the London Quarterly Journal of Prophecy.) 
It may interest our readers to get some ac-
quaintance with an old work, written in Latin, 
"Christus Triumphans : Comcedia Apocalyptica," 
when they know that this piece was written by 
John Fox, the famous Martyrologist. He calls 
it "Christ Triumphant : An Apocalyptic Drama." 
It was published first at Basil,or Basle, in 1556, 
while Fox himself was abroad on the Continent, 
during the days of Bloody Mary.* But in 1672 
we find T. C. of Sidney College editing and pub-
lishing the book at London, and delicating it to 
all teachers and men of letters, "on account of 
the remarkable elegance of its style, that fitted 
it so well for being used in schools." Accord- 
ingly it appeared in 1672, with a commendatory 
preface (also in Latin) by T. C., wherein he re-
minds the reader that it is good to instruct our 
youth by such compositions as this, referring to 
the example set by Castellio's Dialogues, the 
Christus Patiens of Grotius, and Buchanan's 
Jephthah and Baptistes. The printer was "Ro-
bert Clavel, in the street "Little Britain," and 
the motto on the title-page is "Spiritus et Sponsa 
dicunt Veni Dornine," a right application of the 
often misapplied invitation of the Spirit and the 
Bride of.the Lord, whom they were entreat to 
enter on His promised kingdom. 
One of our reasons for introducing our read-
ers to this curious piece is, that it brings out a 
view of The Thousand Years which ,though wholly 
untenable,and now abandoned by all, was preva-
lent in the Reformation period. It will be some-
what interesting to see this view developed in 
this sacred drama, of which we propose to give 
a succinct 'account, accompainecl by translations 
of some of the passages in blank verse. The char-
acters introduced, all of them, have reference to 
Scripture-truth and Scripture-history ; most of 
the names that seem strange are compounds of 
Greek words, whose simple meaning at once dis-
cover the author's mind, just as do the names 
introduced in Bunyan's "Holy war." Let us pre 
sent the personages to the readers,and then hear 
the prologue. 
DRAMATIS PERSONAE. 
PROLOGUE. 
" Peace be to you, and fruit of all your toils ! 
Silent attention from you is the suit 
Of a new poet (to his audience new), 
While a new spectacle he brings before you 
Upon the stage, nought else than Christ tri- 
umphant ! 
Oh that we saw Him coming in the clouds 
Triumphant ! and perhaps that day is near. 
There shall be no stage spectacle that day, 
For with these eyes we shall behold at last 
The things fulfill'd that God has promised long, 
Meanwhile be not unwilling for a time 
To gaze as through a lattice, on the likeness 
Of these realities set forth before you. 
Our theme is holy—all from that blessed book 
The Apocalypse, and speaks of things which all 
Have heard oft-times,but which no eye has seen. 
Lend me, then, sacred silence, such as men 
Refuse not when they meet in sanctuaries. 
Why should not eyes as well as ears be holy ? 
First, we shall set before you the true form 
Of God's own Church ; then Satan's rage and 
fury ; 
Next Antichrist revealed, with the dire tumults 
Raised everywhere by the Babylonian harlot. 
Nor less upon the stage shall come Nomocrates 
Who with his bill of charges troubles souls. 
But yet at length, triumphant over all, 
Christ shall be seen. Such is the scene before 
you. 
Be silent, then ; lend us your ears, we pray ; 
We hire your tongue for silence and we seek 
Exemption from both sneers and flatteries, 
And envy, and all malice. Morose Aristarchus, 
And biting Memmius, be far from us ; 
For we sing with the Graces and we know 
That we are not Roscius,but, on the other hand, 
We fondly trust that you are not as Momus. 
The actors seek to please you all ; 
The poet seeks to injure none, 
But to do good to all that come. 
The same he asks of' you again, 
And will applaud you in return. 
If this dramatic piece seem lengthen'd out, 
Remember that the matter is most varied. 
I own it has its chinks and chasms wide, 
Arising from the nature of the theme ; 
But still good men are pleased with what is fair, 
The ill-intention'd not even with the best, 
Such is our prologue. It is a brief compend 
Of our dramatic piece, which is not brief." 
But Eve replies— 
"Let us wait calmly, for I think the issue 
Must be the bringing forth of some strange won-
der, 
Great God !-0 let us flee ! 'Tis Satan, Satan ! 
Breathing out rage and fury." 
It turns out that this is the battle spoken of 
in Rev. xii., Michael and his angels have been 
fighting in heaven against the drgaon ; and here 
is the old dragon,in his flight and disaster, belch-
ing out malice and impotent revenge. Part of 
Satan's soliloquy is as follows ; its poetry far 
from Miltonic, and yet the vein of thought re-
sembling Milton :— 
"Woe ! woe ! Yet after all boast not, 0 Michael ! 
Enjoy your victory ; 'twas not won by you, 
Nor is it yours!! For if the Godhead helped thee, 
Is it then wonderful that victory came ? 
Were it a battle without God, betWeen 
Me and all angels, and cherubs, 
And seraphs too, and though all came upon me 
In one tremendous onset, soon they should know 
How I would grasp them; and with hands,nails, 
heels, 
Thrust down, tear, crush them, and their brains 
dash out! 
Break their strong loins, grind every bone,stamp 
down, 
Trample, and thresh, and pound them, beat and 
bray them !" 
Thus Satan raves; then suddenly he descries 
Psychephonus and Adopylus, with whom he con-
descends, after a furious scolding, to talk over 
the story of his defeat. But this scene passes, 
and we find ourselves listening to the calm voice 
of Jesus,risen victorious o'er hell and death. He 
brings out Psyche from her prison, while Satan 
looks on and gnashes his teeth in desperate but 
impotent hate. Christ triumpant, as he passes 
on, speaks to Psychephonus and Adopylus :— 
"0 death, I am thy death ! 0 grave, thy grave !" 
While happy Psyche, delivered from death, hell, 
guilt, adores and wonders :— 
"My Jesus, I am Thine ! Whate'er I am, 
I owe it to Thy merit so abundant." 
"Maximo merite Too," is the expression. But 
while Psyche is getting from the Lord still fur-
ther tokens of victory, she turns pale. Christ 
asks, "Why tremblest thou?" "Behold him at 
my right hand, Satan !" Forthwith,Satan is com-
pelled to deliver up the indictment containing all 
his charges against Psyche, and it is nailed to 
the cross. After this Christ speaks : 
Christ. 
"In heaven and earth, all power to me is given. 
Come hither Raphael ; take this key from me, 
(It is the key of yonder bottomless pit ;) 
This tether, too, and hurry off at once 
This hater of man's race, and bind him fast 
In that abyss." 
Raphael. 
"My Prince, it shall be done as Thou hast 
spoken." 
Christ. 
“Let him be there shut up and firmly held 
That he assault not any one on earth 
During the thousand years that now begin. 
There is my seal, to seal the prison door. 
And now, 0 Psyche. go to my disciples ; 
The good news let them hear. Then for a time 
We both shall up to paradise ascend, 
Where you shall wait in joy a little season 
Thy brother Soma's resurrection-day." 
(To be continued.) 
A Tedious Preacher, 
Baron Yelverton, when Chief Baron of the 
Exchequer in Ireland, went to a lent circuit,and 
one of the assize towns happened to be a place 
of which one of his college cotemporaries held 
the living ; at his own request, the Chief Bar-
on's reverend friend preached the assize sermon. 
The time being the month of March, the weath-
er was cold, the Judge chilled, and unhappily 
the sermon long and the preacher tedious. Af-
ter the discourse was over,the preacher descend-
ed from the pulpit and approaching the Judge. 
smirking and smiling, looking fully satisfied 
EVE. 
MARY. 
SATAN. 
CHRISTUS. 
PETRUS. 
SAUL, who is also PAUL. 
PSYCHE, the human soul. 
Raritaxe, an angel. 
ECCLESIA, mother-church. 
PSYCHEpHONUS, (caller of the soul,) 
THANATUS, (death,) 
NOMOCRATES, power of the law,) a tyrant. 
Anonveus, (janitor of Hades,) a servant. 
ANABASIUS, (one who comes up,) a messenger. 
ARCHIEREUS, high priest. 
NOMOLOGUS, (discourser on the law,) a priest. 
POLYHARPAX, (griping,) a scribe. 
DIOCTES, persecutor. 
PORNAPOLIS, (city of fornication,) the whore Bab- 
ylon. 
PSEUDAMNUS, (pretended Lamb,) Anticlarist.f 
AFRICUS, 
ASIA, young men. 
EUROP.EUS, 
HIEROLOGUS, (discourser on holy things,a preach- 
er. 
CHORUS of FIVE VIRGINS. 
* It was translated into French and publish-
ed at Geneva, with the following title :—"Le 
Triomphe de Jesus Christ, Comedie Apocalpyti-
que, traduite du Latin, en rithrne Francoise et 
augmentee d'un petit discours de la maladie de 
la messe, par Jacvues Bienvenu." 
f In one of his sermons Fox speaks of " the 
false horned-lamb," referring to Rev. xiii. 11. 
Satan having accused the children of Eve,No-
mocrates receives the handwriting from heaven, 
by which Psyche (the soul) is handed over to 
hell, and Soma (the body) to death. Meanwhile 
the children of Ecclesia,(the Church,) Europmus, 
Africus, and Asia, are seized by Nomocrates, 
and detained in the prison of Sciolethron, (shad-
ow of death,) to be handed over to Thanatus, 
(death,) his lictor. Ecclesia herself begins to be 
in peril. But when all seems ruined, and no 
help of man at hand, Christ (who is Philanthro-
pus, lover of man, as Satan is called Misanthro-
pus, hater of man) appears and assists the 
wretched sons of Adam, frees Psyche from hell, 
gives Soma the hope of a better life,and delivers 
the three sons of Ecclesia by means of Paul and 
Peter. He further strips Nomocrates of his 
right to the handwriting, and punishes Satan by 
sentencing him to chains for a thousand years. 
After a time,Satan, let loose again, raises terrif-
ic commotions and uproar by means of Antichrist, 
the pseudo-lamb, le enemy of the true Lamb 
and His Church. But the Lamb triumphs, and 
tthe Church is clothed for her marriage. The 
theatre is rent with deafening applause. 
The Iceberg. 
For the Herald. 
Spmpathy. 
Amid all the social feelings that are cultivat-
ed in the human heart, there is none which casts 
its fragrance on the dark storms of sorrow or 
contribute so much to our present happiness as 
sympathy. It is the fountain from which springs 
that friendly intercourse tint renders life a bles-
sing, that cheers the harsh word or unkind 
look, and causes the stream of friendship to flow 
sweetly along. In the affairs of interest and 
selfish passions, that attend the changing scenes 
of this life, how often man meets with disappoint-
ment in his professed friends. While enjoying 
wealth, or worshipping at the altars of fasion,he 
is owned by the moving multitude, but when 
the bow of hope is gone, and adversity settles 
like a dark cloud, he is too often deserted, and 
compelled to mourn in sorrow the society of the 
companions of his more prosperous hours. 
The poet has sung what his aching heart at 
the time realized, when he touched his harp in 
such strains :— 
"Friendship is but a name, 
A charm that lulls to sleep, 
A charm that follows wealth and fame, 
But leaves the wretch to weep." 
Bad however as the world is,—though often, 
when self is not the principle that incites to ac-
tion, we find the human heart destitute of sym-
pathy,—yet there are some, like stars breaking 
through the storm that darkens the skies : that 
shine like angels of mercy, kindling the sunlight 
of happiness beside the stricken household of 
sorrow and mourning. 
When the priest and the levite have passed 
on, leavipg the bruised stranger to perish,the good 
Samaritan stops, binds up his wounds, conveys 
him to the inn, ministers to his wounds. 
Some years since a vessel lay becalmed on a 
smooth sea, in the vicinity of an iceberg. In 
full view, the mountain mass of frozen splen-
dor rose before the passengers of the vessel, its 
towers and pinnacles glittering in the sunlight,and 
clothed in the enchanting and varied colors of 
the rainbow. A party on board the vessel re-
solved to climb the steep sides of the iceberg, 
and spend the day in a pie nic on the summit. The 
novelty and attraction of the hazardous enter-
prise blinded them to the danger, and they left 
the vessel, ascended the steep mountain of ice, 
spread their tablet on the summit, and enjoyed 
their dance of pleasure on the surface of the 
frosty marble. Nothing disturbed their securi-
ty or marred their enjoyment. Their sport was 
finished, and they made their way down to the 
water level and embarked. But scarcely had 
they reached a safe distance before the loud 
crash of the crumbling mass was heard. The 
scene of their gayety was covered with the huge 
fragments of the falling pinnacles, and the giant 
iceberg rolled over with a shock that sent a thrill 
of' awe and terror to the breast of every specta-
tor. Not one of that gay party could ever be 
induced to try that rash experiment again. 
But what is this world with all its brilliancy, 
with all its hopes, and its alluring pleasures, but 
a glittering iceberg, melting slowly away ? Its 
false splendor, enchanting to the eye, dissolves, 
and as drop after drop trickles down its hidden 
pores, its very foundations are undermined, and 
the steady decay prepares for a sudden catastro-
phe. Such is the world to many who dance ov-
er its surface,and in a false security forget the 
treacherous footing on which they stand. But 
can any one who knows what it is, avoid feeling 
that every moment is pregnant with danger, and 
the final catastrophe is hastening on 2—The 
Prayer Meeting. 
This is the plain introduction, not certainly 
poetical, but in the approved style of the old 
Latin dramatists. The first act then opens. We 
hear Eve lamenting the misery brought into the 
world ; then by a wide stretch we find ourselves 
at the side of Mary, lamenting her son, Jesus. 
They communicate their sorrows, and Eve asks 
much about Jesus, and has just been told His 
wondrous history and. His death, without any. 
cause in Him why He should die, when they are 
startled by a fearful sound overhead, a sound of 
war and uproar. At last Mary exclaims—
"What can this be? Unless that heaven itself 
Is shaken into ruin, what can this mean ?" 
THE ADVENT HERALD. 
147 
It has been strikingly exemplified in the life 
of our great teacher, who wept at the grave of 
Lazarus, whose sympathies were broad as the 
human family—who came to our polluted earth 
not alone to save the high and mighty ones, but 
to give sin burdened souls a happy release, with 
a blessed hope, of "entering that rest that re-
mains to the people of God." 
Sympathy for our race, pity for the fal-
len, ever seemed to dwell in His heart. He 
raised the widow's son, encouraged the down-
trodden, healed the sick, comforted the mourn-
er ; and even the beggar in the street was not 
unnoticed. 
Let no false pride, or vanity,keep us from fol-
lowing the example of one who went about do-
ing good,that when He shall come to gather his 
ransomed ones, it may be said to us as one of 
old, "She hath done what she could." 
S. E. C. 
&afford Hollow, March 24, 1852. 
Then let us often invite him to come. John 
did, for, having set forth His coming, he cried, 
'Even so, Amen.' And again, 'Even so, come 
Lord Jesus.' So also, 'the Spirit and the bride 
say, Come, And let him that heareth say,Come.' 
Do we not wish the weary creation to rest ? Do 
we not wish the suffering Church to be happy ? 
Do we not wish Jesus to be honored, and glori-
fied,where he suffered shame,contempt,and death? 
Do we not wish the reign of sin to cease, and the 
reign of perfect, perpetual,and universal holiness 
to commence? Do we not wish the kindgoms o 
this world to become the kingdoms of our God 
and of His Christ? Do we not wish the holy 
city, the New Jerusalem,the city that bath foun-
dations, the city prepared for patriarchs, proph-
ets, and all saints, to descend out of heavtn 
from God?? Do we not look and long for 
the new heavens, and the new earth, wherein 
dwelleth righteousness ? Do we not desire to see 
Satan bound, and shut up in the bottomless pit, 
that he should deceive the nations no more. Do 
we not long to see the saints living and reigning 
with Chri4 on earth ? Do we not desire to in-
herit all things, having God for our God,and en-
joying the glorious liberty of the sons of God ? 
In a word, do we not long to see Christ, to be 
with Christ, to be like Christ, to live and reign 
with Christ? Then let us often cry, 'Come Lord 
Jesus, come quickly.' For until Jesus comes, 
these things shall not be realized and enjoyed. 
But then the mystery of God will be finished ; 
then shall be accomplished the exciting words, 
'The sun shall be no more thy light by day ; neith-
er for brightness shall the moon give light unto 
thee : but the Lord shall be unto thee an ever-
lasting light, and thy God thy glory. The sun 
shall no more go down ; neither shall thy moon 
withdraw itself : for the Lord shall be thine ever-
lasting light, and the days of thy mourning shall 
be ended. Thy people also shall be righteous : 
they shall inherit the land for ever, the branch 
of my planting,the work of my hands,that I may 
be glorified.' 0 glorious prospect ! Good and gra-
cious God hasten, 0 hasten it in Thy time ! 
"Will Jesus come quickly ? Then sinners 
should beware. The coming of Jesus will, to the 
unconverted, be like the coming of the flood on 
the world of the ungodly, and like the fire and 
brimstone which destroyed the city of the plain. 
Then the door of hope will be shut, and shut for 
ever. Then the way of access to the throne of 
grace will be closed, and closed for ever. Then 
salvation will be impossible,and all that remains 
for the unconverted will be wrath, the wrath of 
God, the wrath of God for ever and for ever. 
Into the lake which burneth with brimstone and 
fire they must be cast. With Satan and his an- us, when the Lord Jesus shall be revealed from 
gels they will be doomed eternally to dwell. 0, heaven with his mighty angels." (2 Thess. 1: 
sinner, thoughtless sinner, ask the solemn ques- ' 7.) 
ton, 'What will yon do in the day of visitation ?'i In thus speaking of the rest of the Advent, it 
'Row can you escape, if you neglect the great will be needless to draw any distinction between 
salvation ?' 
, the two great periods into which the coming rest 
"0 sinner, free and easy sinner, 'What will may be again divided,by the delivering up of the 
you say when He shall punish thee?' 'The Lord kingdom,as described in 1 Cor. 15: 24. The fi-
5 not slack concerning His promise, as some men nal hope presented to us in Scripture is the Ad- 
"Will Jesus Come Quickly ?" 
should come to repentance. But the day of the 
Lord will come as a thief in the night ; in which 
the heavens shall pass away with a great noise, 
and the elements shall melt with fervent heat,and 
the earth also and the works that are therein 
shall be burnt up. Seeing, then, that all these 
things are to be dissolved, what manner of per-
sons ought ye to be in all holy conversation and 
godliness, looking for and basting unto the com-
ing of the day of God, wherein the heavens be-
ing on fire shall be dissolved, and the elements 
shall melt with fervent heat ?' Reader are you 
ready for that solemn, that momenteous event? 
Are you in Christ? Are you born again ? Have 
you come to Jesus, as a poor sinner, to be saved 
by His grace ? Make sure of this,for there is no 
safety without it. If you have come,come again, 
come daily, and live by the faith of the Son of 
God. If you have not come, or if there is any 
doubt about it, come, 0, come at once — delay 
not one moment, lest Jesus come, or death ar-
rest you, before you have fled for refuge to lay 
hold on the hope set before you in the gospel ? 
"L1y soul, see that thou art ready for the 
Lord's appearing. Keep thy conscience clean 
and tender, by faith in the atoning blood ; keep 
thy eye fixed on the glory of thy God and Sa-
vior ; and keep all thy talents employed in his 
service, and for his people's good. And now, 0 
thou most gracious and most glorious God, pre-
pare us for the coming of Thy beloved Son ; by 
the teaching and operation of thy Holy Spirit, 
by daily communications of' grace, and by close 
and intimate fellowship with Thyself, may we be 
niade ready, and kept ready, that at the first 
signal of His presence we may rise and receive 
Him joyfully. Or if Thou should send for us by 
Thy messenger death,before the Master's advent, 
may we be equally ready, and willing to depart 
and be with Christ in Thy presence and glory. 
Give, 0 give us grace, that we may so believe, 
so live, and so work, as to be ready for what-
ever may come, for our dear Redeemer's sake. 
Amen."— Watchword for Christians. By Rev. 
J. Smith. London, 1862. 
Now, this rest has all the features of the rest heart, when she is once more in the midst of her 
in heaven. There is much added, but there is little ones, no longer now to part from them in 
nothing taken away. There are the same per- the helplessness of their infancy, but to welcome 
sons enjoying it, viz., the redeemed. There is them as her joyful companions in the kingdom, 
the same peace, the same security of outward and to present them to the Lord as her joy and 
circumstances, the same inward holiness, and the crown of rejoicing, that henceforth as one un-
same satisfaction in Christ. He is still in the broken family they may altogether rest in Je-
midst of his people, and through his grace they sus. 
are still like him. But all the defective points Then, again, the living will attain their rest, 
of the other picture are now filled up, and the or, in other words, the church militant will be 
rest of expectation gives place to the rest of per- merged into the church triumphant. 
feet and unmixed satisfaction in the eternal en- We cannot say that the people of God have 
joyment of the Saviour's love, 
entered into their rest, when a large portion of 
(1.) It will be a rest enjoyed by the whole of that people are still in the very midst of their 
God's elect. The whole body of God's chosen conflict. The living believer is as dear to the 
people may now be classed under three great Lord as the departed spirit before the throne. 
divisions. There are those who, having fought The poor unworthy Christian, who worships and 
the fight of faith, have departed hence, and fal- witnesses below, who groans over indwelling sin, 
len asleep in Jesus. Next, there are those who and struggles in weakness to glorify his Lord, 
are in the midst of their conflict,—the present has as close an interest in the Father's love, as 
witnesses for Christ on earth ; and, lastly, there the twenty-four elders who now surround the 
are others not yet called, some unborn even in throne, for it is the righteousness of Christ that 
the world, and others not yet born of God. Now, forms the only loveliness of them all ; and while 
the first of these classes is the only one that en. one saint is still struggling, the people of God 
joys the rest of heaven ; the second has the germ are not yet perfected in their rest. But the rest 
of it in the form of spiritual peace ; but the third at the Advent is to comprehend us all, as we are 
has not yet tasted of its blessing. But, at the taught (11:40), "God having provided some bet-
coming, all shall be united ; and all will be there, ter thing for us, that they without us should not 
and all conquerors. The whole body of God's be made perfect." They must not enter on the 
elect will be gathered, nor will there, through- fullness of their joy till we are called to share it 
out the multitude, be one in whom remains the with them. Now, think of the rest as provided 
smallest taint of sin. The dead will be there, for the living church. The last days are to be 
for "those that sleep in Jesus will God bring with charged with heavy trial. They are to be days 
him ; " and the living will be there, for "we of delusion, of deception, and distress. So ter-
which are alive and remain shall be caught up rible is to be their character,that the elect them-
together with them in the clouds, to meet the selves shall scarcely stand, and for the elect's 
Lord in the air ; and so shall we ever be with sake they must be shortened. The Lord's chil-
the Lord." And those yet unborn shall be there, ren will then be much like the little boat's crew 
for "the promise is to you and to your children, on the sea of Galilee, toiling at the oar, but mak-
and to those that are afar off, even as many as ing no way against the storm. But as with 
the Lord your God shall call." 
them, so with us. He will come, walking on the 
Thus there will be a reunion of the living and waters ; and the moment he comes there will be 
dead in Christ. 
a calm. There will be none of the intermediate 
Now, we must not underrate the pain of sep- pain of death. The Sun of Righteousness will 
aration. Believers are borne through it by the arise before the night of death closes in ; and in 
Lord's grace ; but still the pain is bitter, and the midst of their activity, they will find them-
the gentle heart must bleed at the day of part- selves resting in the Lord. There will be no 
ing.' Our Lord himself wept at the death of tempters to deceive, no more doubts to harass, 
Lazarus ; and it is no sign of the Lord's spirit and no more Antichrists to persecute ; the Lord 
if we can watch unmoved death's progress, and himself shall put an end to all, and the Lord's 
bid a tearless farewell to those beloved associ- people shall rest in his unresisted kingdom. 
aces whose faithful affection has been the joy and 
(To be continued.) 
delight of our lives. It is a heartless son that 
does not weep over a mother's grave. And we The destruction of Jerusalem. 
may weep. The Scripture never tells us that 
we are not to sorrow, but rather gives directions 
as to the character of Christian grief. We are 
not to "sorrow as those that have no hope." 
There is to be a gleam of sunshine sparkling in 
the tear ; and the reason is, that when the Lord 
comes, there will be reunion, "for if we believe 
that Jesus died and rose again, even so them al-
so which sleep in Jesus will God bring with 
him." 
And who can attempt to realize the blessing of 
that united rest ! Consider it for one moment, 
as it bears upon our homes. The pious mother, 
e. g., is gathered into her rest before the throne, 
and she leaves behind her group of little ones. 
How did she, when here, plead for them with 
God ; how did she wrestle in unceasing prayer 
ou their behalf ; how did she strive with God, 
that,whatever were withheld,this might be grant-
ed—that every one might be safe in Jesus But 
the day of parting comes ; the little group is gath-
ered around her ; she gives her last kiss, she of-
fers her last prayer, and dies ! She dies in the 
Lord, and so she rests before the throne ; but the 
motherless children are left to buffet their way 
through this rough world,and to seek from stran-
gers what no stranger can ever give,—the inde-
scribable tenderness of a mother's love. But 
the prayer is heard, and they grow up as the 
soldiers of the Lord, faithful believers, and un-
flinching witnesses for the Cross : till at length 
there is a new sound heard,—it is the voice of 
the archangel, the trump of God : the Son of 
hovah. 
Let us here pause,and take, ourselves,a mourn-
ful glance at Jerusalem as it then was. The ci- 
The Rest which remaineth for the 
People of God. 
BY THE REV. E. IIOARE, M.A., 
incumbent of Christ church, Ramsgate. 
"There remaineth therefore a rest to the peo-
ple of God." Hebrews 4. 9. 
(Continued from our last.) 
In the first place, it is the rest of only a por-
tion of God's elect. It is the privilege of the 
family in heaven ; but, meanwhile, the family on 
earth, the younger brethren, are still struggling 
against sin, and fighting their way through a 
wicked world. 
In the next place, even with themselves it is 
incomplete ; for, according to the description of 
St. Paul, the spirits only are made perfect,while 
the poor body is lying under the curse of death, 
corrupting in the grave. The rest, therefore, 
cannot be complete until the whole man, soul 
and body, shall be reunited in its joy. 
Nor is the triumph of the Redeemer yet per-
fected. He is still rejected and disobeyed. His 
law is still broken, and his saints still despised ; 
and how can there he perfect rest till he see of 
the travail of his soul and is satisfied ?—till the 
last enemy is destroyed, and the Lord alone ex-
alted in his kingdom ? 
We are to look forward, then, for some more 
perfect rest still remaining for God's people. 
We have ascended two of the lower ridges in the 
range, but now we are to look out for the lofty 
mountain-top, which towers in heavenly gran-
deur above them all. 
3. This perfect rest we shall find in the ad-
vent. "And to you that are troubled rest with 
Sir E. Bulwer Lytton lately delivered a lec-
ture in Lincoln, Eng., on the early history of 
Eastern nations. He gave an outline of the his-
tory of the Babylonian,Assyrian,Persian, Egyp-
tion, Greek and Jewish nations, and closed by 
the following description of the destruction of 
Jerusalem by Titus : 
Six years after the birth of our Lord, Judea 
and Samaria became a Roman province, under-
subordinate Governors,the most famous of whom 
was Pontius 1 date. These Governors became 
so oppressive that the Jews broke out into rebel-
lion, and seventy years after Christ, Jerusalem 
was finally beseiged by Titus, afterwards Empe-
ror of Rome. No tragedy on the stage has the 
same scenes of appalling terror as are to be 
found in the history of the seige. The city it-
self was rent by factions at the deadliest war 
with each other—all the elements of civil hatred 
had broken loose—the streets were slippery with 
the blood of citizens—brother slew brother—the 
granaries were set on fire—famine wasted those 
whom the sword did not slay. In the midst of 
these civic massacres, the Roman armies appear-
ed before the walls of Jerusalem. Then, for a 
short time, the rival factions united against the 
common foe ; they were again the valiant coun-
trymen of David and Joshua—they sallied forth 
and scattered the eagles of Rome. 
But the triumph was brief, and ferocity of 
the ill-fated Jews was soon again wasted on 
themselves. And Titus marched on,and encamped 
man is come, and those that sleep in Jesus are his armies close by the walls,and from the heights 
the joyful companions of his progress. Now, if1the Roman gazed with awe on the city of Je-
all thoughts are not absorbed by the one subject 
count slackness ; but is long-suffering to us-ward, vent ; and the kingdom then to be introduced is of the Redeemer's glory, imagine, if you can,the 
not willing that any should perish, but that all the resting-point of our present faith. unutterable joy which must fill the mother's 
 
148 
THE ADVENT HERALD. 
fight, against ignorance and error on every side, it 5. Twice do the Scriptures affirm that the 1st. 
behoves them not to let discussion and discord creep , year of evil Merodach was "the seven and thirtieth 
into their ranks, but to bury the hatchet of' mutual year of the captivity of Jehoiachin," (2 h...5: 27 
strife and to pass round the calumet of peace, and to and Jer. 52: 31) ; whilst the table puts Jehoiachin's 
prove the truth of the axiom that "in union there is 
strength." Note 11. 
captivity in A. M. 3519, and the first of Evil Mer- 
I would take this opportunity of mentioning with odach in A. M. 3561-42 years apart, and so vary- 
regard to an objection you have raised to Napoleon , ing five years from the Scriptures. 
being the Head of the Ten Kingdoms, as expressed 
Again, the erroneousness of the table in "Bible 
in my pamphlet on the End of the World. that it is 
not considered that Napoleon is yet the Head of the Chronol pgy," is shown by its inconsistency with the 
Ten Horns, because he is still one of the Horns other parts of the book. On p. 105 it is stated that 
themselves, but it is believed that, as the Personal Daniel had his "visions of the four wild beasts, etc. 
Antichrist, he will ultimately appoint some deputy 
ty was fortified by a triple wall, save on one 
side, where it was protected by deep and impas• 
sable ravines. These walls,of the most solid ma-
sonary, were guarded by strong towers ; oppo-
site to the loftiest of these towers Titus had en-
camped. From the height of that tower the sen-
tinel might have seen stretched below the whole 
of that fair territory of Judea, about to pass 
from the countrymen of David. Within these 
walls was the palace of the kings—its roof o 
cedar, its doors of the rarest marbles, its cham-
bers filled with the costliest draperies, and ves-
sels of gold and silver. Groves and gardens 
gleaming with fountains, adorned with statues 
of bronze, divided the courts of the palace itself. 
But high above all,upon a precipitous rock, rose 
the temple, fortified and adorned by Solomon. 
The temple was as strong without as a citadel 
within more adorned than a palace. On enter 
ing you beheld porticoes of numberless column 
of porphry, marble and alabaster ; gates adorn 
ed with gold and silver ; among which was th 
wonderful gate called the Beautiful. Farthe 
on, through the vast arch, was the sacred portal 
 
which admitted into the interior of the tempi 
itself, all sheeted over with gold and overhun 
with a vine-tree of gold, the branches of whit 
were as large as a man. The roof of the tempi 
even on the outside, were set over with golds 
spikes, to prevent the birds settling there an 
defiling the holy dome. At a distance,the whol 
temple looked like a mount of snow, fretted wit 
golden pinnacles. But alas the vail of th 
temple had been already rent asunder by an i 
expiable crime, and the Lord of Hosts did n 
fight with Israel. 
But the enemy is thundering at the wall. 
around the city rose immense machines, fro 
which Titus poured down mighty fragments 
rocks and showers of fire. The walls gave wa 
the city was entered---the temple itself w 
stormed. Famine, in the meantime, had ma 
such havoc that the besieged were more like sp 
tres than living men ; they devoured the belts 
their swords, the sandals of their feet. 
Even nature itself so perished away, that 
mother devoured her own infant—fulfilling t 
awful words of the warlike prophet who had fi 
led the Jews toward the land of promise : "T 
tender and delicate woman amongst you, w 
would not venture to set the sole of her foot 
on the ground, for delicateness and tenderness 
her eye shall be evil toward her young one, a 
the children that she shall bear ; for she sh 
eat them for want of all things, secretly, in 
siege and straitness wherewith the enemy sh 
distress thee in thy gates." 
Still, as if the foe and the famine were 
scourge enough, citizens smote and murde 
each other as they met in the way, false pro 
ets ran howling through the streets—every 
age of despair completes the ghastly picture 
the fall of Jerusalem. And now the temple 
set on fire, the Jews rushing through the fla 
to perish amid its ruins. It was a calm sum 
night, the tenth of August ; the whole hill 
which stood the temple was one gigantic b 
of fire—the roofs of cedar crashed---the gol 
pinnacles of the dome were like spikes of c 
son flame. Through the lurid atmosphere 
was carnage and slaughter ; the echoes of she 
and yells rang back from the Hill of Zion 
the Mount of Olives. Among the smoking 
ins, and over piles of the dead, Titus pla 
the standard of Rome. 
Thus were fulfilled the last avenging pro 
ties---thus perished Jerusalem. In that dr 
ful day men were still living who might 
heard the warning voice of Him the crucifi 
 
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come upon this generation .. . . 0 Jerus 
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is left unto you desolate !" And thus wer 
Hebrew people scattered over the face o 
earth, still retaining, to this hour, their my 
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those prophets they had scorned or slain-
vainly awaiting that Messiah whose Divin 
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me 
The Propriety of Correcting errors in ('hr( 
dology, Criticised. 
(Concluded.) 
Thus it appears that the principle defect whit 
was alleged to exist in Mr. Shimeall's work, at 
which in the opinion of his opponents constitut 
which 
 
head and front of his offending, is at any ra 
one with which the greatest Commentary of 0 
; day is equally chargeable, and, therefore, Mr. Shia 
call has the consolation, at any rate, of having gu 
in very good company. Note 9. 
The other faults which are asserted to he discovi 
able in his book are of microscopic and Lilliputi 
dimensions, and scarcely discoverable, when we lo 
at the work as a whole, and perceive in it an i 
tnense amount of valuable information brought . 
gather, which is specially suited to these moment, 
tunes, and is for the most part in agreement w' 
your views and those of other leading chronolog 
of and commentators. Note 10. 
I believe that Mr. Shitneall as well as yourself I 
studied chronology for more. than twenty years, :1 
there cannot, be much real difference between ye 
conclusions'since you both terminate the 6000 ye 
within 13 years of the same period. In view of 
common bettle, which prophetic writers have 
(chap. 7; 8; 11,) in the fifty-third and fifty-sixth 
years of his captivity." But according to the table, 
the 3d of Belshazzar, in which Daniel had his 
vision of the 8th chapter, was only 49 years from 
the first of Nebuchadnezzar, which is there made to 
synchronize with Jehoiakim's 10th year, and would 
place Daniel's captivity in Jehoilikini's 4th year-
19 years before the table begins the captivity; which 
is just the extent of the error, and makes those 19 
years twice counted in the second, as well as in 
the first volume. 
N. BAXTER. 
NOTE 10. It so mircoscopic, how came our cor- 
r.. S. In your extract on the first page of last respondent to think that "Bible Chronology" was 
week's Herald, two or three lines were missed out • erroneous to the extent of four years between Cyrus 
at the 8th line of the 2d Column, which interfered and our A. D; twelve years between Amaziah and 
Azariali ; two years before division of land ; six years 
in the time of Joshua; and 9 years in the anarcy fol-
lowing? And was it a microscopic error to include 
the 24 years given to Samuel, in harmonizing the 
time with Paul's 450 from the division of the land 
to that prophet?—an inadvertence that is repeated? 
NOTE. 11. Most cordially would we welcome co-
operation with all 'candid minds of similar views , 
but men of candor solicit and never repel the expo-
sion of their errors. We should consider any union 
dearly purchased, if the price required to be paid 
for it was, that seeing an erroneous conclusion, we 
should be required to keep silent respecting it. Be-
inghame, Habershon, Hales, Jarves, Usher, the sides we have no election. Our readers demand of us 
Duke of Manchester, Prideaux, Hengstenberg, Ken- that we analyze calculations of this nature, and give 
nedy, Playfair, Petavious, and every writer of any them the means of judging of the reliability of claim-
reputation on Chronology. Expositors are not ne- ed dernonstations. And had we failed to show the 
cessarily chronologists ; but nu standard writer on 
chronology gives other than seventy years for that 
period ; the accuracy of which is thus demonstrated: 
1st. By the prophecy, (Jer. 25 : II, 12,) that 
"these nations shall serve the king of Babylon seven-
ty years;" which period must have begun when Ju-
dah became subject to Babylon, in the 4th year of 
Jehoiakim. And as God said, "When seventy years 
are accomplished, I will punish the king of Baby-
lon and that nation," (24: 12,) that period must 
have ended when "Belshazzar the king of the Chal-
dean's was slain and Darius the Median took the 
kingdom," Dan. 5 : 30 31. For service to the king 
of Babylon could not exist after its conquest. Both 
that among the subjects of grace were a man and 
wife who experienced great sorrow last summer (the 
summer of 1861) in the death of a dear boy of theirs 
by fire—an-account of which went the rounds of the 
papers. This correspondent says : 
"Little Charlie was really a remarkable child, es-
pecially in a fixed presentiment of early death— not 
expecting "to be a man and join a brass band," as he 
would have liked to, and hardly supposed when five 
years old, that he would live to be six. He even 
asked his mother,a few days before his death,wheth-
er she would prefer "to be sick and die, or to be 
burned to death." 
She, too, had sad for ebodings, and when he had 
repeated his closing petitions every night in childish 
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Nebuchadnezzar 11th—a discrepancy of six years. 
The Scriptures make the 11th of Zedekiah syn-
chronous with Nebuchadnezzar's 19th ; but the ta-
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an ble makes it his 13th—also a discrepancy of six 
ok years.—See Jer. 52: 4-12. 
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to preside over France and will then himself be an 
eleventh person beside the Ten Horns or Kings who 
will give their power and strength to him during 
the 3 1-2 years' hour of tribulation. I find that al-
though Mr. Shimeall has not touched on this point 
in his book, yet he is most firmly of the opinion that 
Louis Napoleon is the Antichrist and eight Head of 
the Beast and is destined to gain supreme power over 
England and America and to have a literal image 
made of himself and worshiped by his subjects under 
penalty of death in case of refusal to bow before it. 
Note 12 
Your truly, 
with the sense of the passage. 
NOTES TO THE ABOVE. 
NOTE 9. It is immaterial in what company a man 
goes astray. A blunder made by a king,or by a phil-
osopher, is no less a blunder because of the kingly 
or other title. Truth is what is desired, and not 
agreement in error with some great mind who in 
other things is mainly correct. The question is, 
whether 89, or 70 years should be reckoned between 
the 4th year of Jehoiakin and 1st year of Cyrus. 
And that seventy years is the precise measurement 
of that period, is the conclusion of Messrs. Blair, 
Bickersteth, Birks, Browne, Chapin, Clinton, Cun- 
truth, we should have been recreant to duty. For 
no confidence could be placed in the reliability of a 
guide, who fails to point out-the pitfalls by the way. 
Our correspondent has not shown himself a safe lead-
er, in thus attempting to deprecate the exposure of 
chronological errors. 
NOTE 12. Such predictions as this are not in har-
mony with our views of the teachings of Revelation. 
We think, also, they tend to bring the study of 
prophecy into disrepute. 
 
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Self Immolation by a Roy. 
A correspondent of the New York Observer, in 
giving an account of a revival at the Alpine House, 
our correspondent and the one he defends, have con- in the vicinity of the White Mountains, N. II. states 
founded this service to Babylon with a captivity in 
Babylon. But God had said, "The nations that 
bring their neck under the yoke of the king of Baby-
lon, and serve him, those will I let remain still in 
their own land, saith the Lord ; and they shall till 
it and dwell therein," Jer. 27: 12—showing that 
the 70 years service was not that of the captivity—
there being 70 years from Jehoiakin to Cyrus, when 
the service to Babylon began and ended, and also 70 
years between the burning of the temple in the 11th 
of Zedekiah, and its rebuilding 18 years after Baby-
lon itself became tributary. 
2d. By the Canon of Ptolemy, which reckons 70 
years the length of' the Babylonian kings covering 
this period. 
3d. By the Chaldean Annals, as quoted by Jo- I phrase, "Now, Lord, forgive father and mother.and 
sister and brother, and baby and me, good night," 
she used to trembled lest his sweet voice should soon 
be hushed. 
The fatal day came — a bright June morning. 
Little Charlie came in from his play, and begged 
to have his darling baby sister taken from the cra-
dle that he might hold and sing to her. This he did, 
his mother joining him in his little song : 
"Around the throne of Gud in heaven, 
Thousands of Children stand." 
He kissed the baby ; the mother laid her in the cra-
dle and left the room, and her beautiful boy took a 
match,ran out to his "play-house" among the boards 
sephus from Berosus. 
4th. By Jewish history,which is in harmony with 
this period. 
5th. By the Phwnecian annals, also quoted by 
Josephus from Berosus. 
6th. By the unerring calculations of Astronomy, 
in respect to eclipses, before and subsequent to that 
period ; which requires it to have been of that 
length. And, 
7th. The inaccuracy of the Table in "Bible 
Chronology" is proved by its conflict with the scrip-
tures. For, 
1. The Scriptures give the 10th year of Zedekiah 
as coincident with the 18th of Nebuchadnezzar, (Jer. , and shavings, and in five minutes, by her reckoning, 
was brought back a blackened corpse ! She had even 
suspected that he had a match, and had looked and 
called after him, almost to weak with vague appre-
hension to wove. 
"It was to be l"as she sadly remarked, and it 
!seemed for a time as if that also was to be which she 
synchronous with Jehoiakim's 4th (Jer. 25: 1), but 
the table synchronizes it with Jehoiakhu's 10th—
another variation of six years. 
4. The Scriptures place the reign of Jehoiachin 
in the eight year of Nebuchadnezzar (2 K. 24: 12) ; 
hut according to the table it would be in Nebuchad-
nezzar 51, another variation of six years from the 
Scriptures. 
The Scriptures make Nebuchednezzar's 1st year had mournfully predicted when clasping her boy to 
her bosom she had said to a friend, "If anything 
happens to little Charlie, I shall die." 
She did not die, but lived to declare the works of 
the Lord. After months of agony, bordering on 
despair and distraction, she one day found a hit of 
crumpled paper with these lines and others : 
"Ile has gone to heaven before us ; 
But he turns and waves his hand, 
Pointing to the glories o'er us, 
In that happy, happy land." 
on that mournful Sunday morning three or four 
weeks ago. This, however, is not conceivable ; and 
a battle must ensue between nearly equal numbers, 
with the advantage of position very greatly on the 
side of the Rebels, while in arms and other import-
ant particulars there is a counterbalaacing superior-
ty on the part of the National forces. It were un-
wise to indulge in sanguine anticipations ; yet, 
though Gen. Halleck is anuntried commander, it 
would be sheer affectation to repress the confidence 
generally felt by the loyal in his triumph in the im-
pending struggle. 
Yet it must be borne in mind that this battle is 
to be fought in the very heart of the rebellion,where 
its spirit has been more violent and its domination 
inure complete than any other section. Alabama, 
Mississippi, Georgia, Western Tennessee, and Ar-
kansas, have scarcely heard the union lamented, 
much less defended, since they were swept into the 
swelling,roaring flood of slaveholding treason. Their 
young men ,their poor men,have nearly all volunteer-
ed or been constrained to enter the military service 
of the despotism which now rules and scourges the 
South. Tennessee, now half recovered to the Un-
ion, has thirty or forty thousand of her youth in 
the ranks of Beauregard's army. Kentucky and 
Missouri, both union States, have each their thou-
sands in the same service ; while in Alabama, Miss-
issippi, and the other Cotton States, no man can 
avow himself hostile to the rebel programme with-
out putting his life in instant peril ; and the new 
conscription of every citizen of the seceded States 
between the ages of 18 and 35, is sweeping all that 
remains of disposable force into the camps of Beau-
regard and his Subordinates. Probably every day's 
delay adds some thousands to the numerical strength 
of the host which Halleck must encounter in the 
terrible conflict now awaited with such natural anx. 
iety. 
Count Mercier,the French Minister at Washington, 
whose recent visit to Norfolk and Richmond has na-
turally excited an interest which he declines to grati-
fy,is personally intimate with many of the Rebel lead-
ers,and is regarded by them as at heart a well-wisher 
to their cause. That he formally visited them in 
any oficial capacity, is not probable ; but that he 
bore to them a friendly message from his Imperial 
master, assuring them of Napoleon's desire to inter-
pose his good offices between them and destruction, 
i 1test ble That the Em eror believes 
s scarce y Iona . 
the time at length arrived in which his interposi-
tion might arrest the prodigal effusion of blood and 
restore peace to this distracted country by some ac- 
ceptable compromise between the combatants, this 
mission clearly indicates. The pretense that the 
Plenipotentiary of a great power passed through the 
lines of two great hostile armies to the capital of a 
rebellion, on a purely mercantile errand, impelled 
by his sovereign's interest in a lot of tobacco, can 
deceive no one. Any of the French Consuls in the 
seceded States could have done such an errand with-
out the aid of a steam frigate. M. Mercier's busi-
ness in Richmond was of far higher importance, and 
far more consistent with the dignity of his position. 
No matter—his mission was a failure. He found 
the master-spirits deaf to all his representations,and 
blindly intent on pushing the war to the last extrem-
ity. That they utterly refused to be reconciled to 
the Union on any terms, even of their own dicta-
tion, is well kpown ; that they assured him of their 
determination never to make peace until Western 
Virginia, Tennessee, and perhaps Kentucky, Mis-
souri, and Maryland also,were surrendered to them, 
is currently reported. At all events, the general 
result is certain : There is to be no peace without 
Disunion and the complete triumph of the rebels, 
unless they be vanquished and scattered in the bat-
tle-fields to which they invite us. 
Should the pending battles result decidedly in 
our favor, it is hard to see how the struggle can be 
much longer protracted. If want of men does not 
paralyze the Rebellion, want of arms and other ma-
terial resources soon must. The loss of New Or-
leans is a staggering blow, as no other city at all 
equal to this in wealth, population and position,re-
mains to them. If they can win even partial victo-
ries over our two great armies, they may thereupon 
make new drafts on the credulity of their dupes,and 
perhaps concentrate or detach a force for the recov-
ery of the Crescent City ; but if beaten now in the 
fields where their intrenched armies await attack, 
they can hardly hope to recover. It is possible, in-
deed, that a reverse in the West may be counteract-
ed by a success in the East, or vice versa ; it is pos-
sible that the battles next to be fought may prove 
as indecisive as those near Pittsburg Landing ; but 
neither supposition is probable. The obvious pre-
sumption is that the defeat of either of its great ar-
mies will prove a death-blow to the Rebellion. 
Evacuation of Yorktown. 
After putting the above in type, we have the fol-
lowing important intelligence. 
Washington, May 4th-12: 30 P. M. The follow- 
She resumed her singing, long silenced ; she found 
her voice in prayer, and coming with joy to the ta-
ble of Christ,she says the Lord has himself come and 
taken the place in her heart left void by the removal 
of her darling boy. 
There was evidently a connection between the be-
lief of this little boy of glorification at death and 
his self destruction ; and this result, prupably,would 
never have happened if he had been scripturally edu-
cated in the doctrine that the resurrection and the 
coming of Christ are the events that bring the crown 
and glory. It is a great pity that so much good poe-
try embodies so much unscriptual theology, 
Questions about the Tabernacle. 
What was contained in the inner sanctuary, 
or the Holy of holies ? 
Ans. It "had the golden censer, and the ark of 
the covenant overlaid with gold ; in which was the 
golden put that had the manna, and Aaron's rod 
that budded, and the tables of the covenant, and ov-
er it the cherubim of glory overshadowing the mer-
cy seat." IIeb. 9: 5. 
What was the use made of the golden cen-
ser ? 
Ans. The golden censer was that referred to when 
God said the high-priest, on the 10th day of the 
Jewish 7th month, the great day of. atonement, 
"shall take a censer full of burning coals of fire 
from off the altar of the Lord, and his hands full of 
sweet incense beaten small, and bring it within the 
vail : and he shall put the incense upon the fire be-
fore the Lord, that the cloud of the incense may 
cover the mercy seat that is upon the testimony. 
that he die not." Liv. 16: 12, 13. 
32. How was the Ark of the Covenant made ? 
Ans. "The Ark of the Covenant was made of 
shittim-wood : two cubits and a half was the length 
of it, and a cubit and half the breadth of it: and he 
overlaid it with pure gold within and without, and 
made a crown of gold for it round about. And he 
cast for it four rings of gold, to be set by the four 
corners of it : even two rings upon one side of it. 
And he made staves of shittim-wood, and overlaid 
them with gold. And he put the staves into the 
rings by the sides of the ark, to bear the ark." Ex. 
37: 1-5. 
What was the golden pot of manna ? 
A.tts. The manna " was like coriander seed, white; 
and the taste of it was like wafers made with hon- 
ey. And Moses said this is the thing which the 
Lord commanndeth, Fill an omer of it to be kept for 
your generations ; that they may see the bread 
wherewith I have fed you in the wilderness, when I 
brought you forth from the land of Egypt. . . . As 
the Lord commanded Moses, so Aaron laid it up be-
fore the Testimony to be kept," Ex. 16:33-4. 
What was the rod of Aaron that budded ? 
Ans. It was the rod that buded when one was 
chosen from each tribe, to determine in which the 
Lord would recognize the priesthood. "Moses spake 
unto the children of Israel, and every one of their 
princes gave him a rod apiece, for each prince one, 
according to their father's houses,even twelve rods: 
and the rod of Aaron was among their rods. And 
Moses laid up their rods before the Lord in the tab-
ernacle of witness. And it came to pass that on the 
morrow Moses went into the tabernacle of witness, 
and behold,the rod of Aaron, for the house of Levi, 
was budded, and brought forth buds, and bloomed 
blossoms, and yeilded almonds. And Moses brought 
out all the rods from before the Lord unto all the 
children of Israel : and they looked, and took every 
man his rod. And the Lord said unto Moses, bring 
Aaron's rod again before the testimony, to be kept 
for a token against the rebels." Num. 17: 6-10. 
What were the tables of the Covenant ? 
Arts. Moses testifies : "The Lord said unto me, 
I-Jew thee two tables of stone, like unto the first, 
and come up unto me into the mount, and make me 
ap:ark of wood. And I will write on the tables the 
words that were on the first tables which thou bra-
kest and thou shalt put them in the ark. And I 
made an ark of shittim wood, and hewed two ta-
bles of stone like unto the first, and went up into 
the mount, having the two tables in mine hand. 
And he wrote on the tables, according to the first 
The National Crisis. 
The conviction is wide spread that the present is 
the very crisis of the present struggle of our govern- 
ment with the rebellion—the issue of which is much 
dependent on the battles now daily expected be-
tween the arrayed forces at Yorktown and Corinth. 
As all are anxiously waiting these movements, we 
cannot, in the absence of specified intelligence, do 
better than to give the following, contributed by 
Horace Greeley to the N. Y. Independent. 
At the narrowest part of the peninsula which 
separates the waters of James River from those of 
the York, two great armies, together numbering 
hardly less than three hundred thousand combat-
ants, now closely confront each other. A strong 
line of field-works and more elaborate fortifications 
cover the Rebel position, and forbid a further ad-
vance of the National forces, save at the cost of a 
deadly conflict under circumstances which secure 
great advantages to the intrenched and defending 
army. The ground is historic—it was there that 
Washington and Rochambeau gave the finishing blow 
to British domination on this continent,in the cap-
ture of Cornwallis and his army, more than eighty 
years ago. A conflict equally arduous, involving 
consequences still more momentous, between forces 
more equally matched, ten times more numerous, 
and at least equal in proportionate efficiency, is now 
plainly imminent—nay, may take place before these 
words can have passed through the press to their 
readers. Some of the ablest officers, trained at 
West Point and disciplined on the former battle-
fields for the defense of the American Republic—Lee, 
Joseph Johnston, Samuel Cooper, with Jeff Davis 
himself, will here direct the traitor host that fights 
for Disunion. That the struggle will be a desperate 
one, none can doubt ; let us hnnibly hope that its 
results will be auspicious to the speedy return of 
peace and the universal prevalence of Justice,Truth, 
and Liberty. 
Far Westward of the Virginian battle-ground, 
I near the north line of the State of Mississippi, but 
I more than a hundred miles east of the great river, 
two other great armies face each other so nearly 
that any hour may see them grapple in deadly strife. 
1
Here Beauregard, Polk, Sterling,Price, Van Dorn, 
and other noted Rebel chiefs,have collected a rapid-
ly increasing army of not ess than one hundred and 
fifty thousand men to resist the National forces, of 
equal strength, led by Halleck, Grant, and Buell. 
Here again the Rebels await attack in a position 
strong by nature and made far more so by art and 
industry, unless they can again precipitate their en-
tire strength upon a suprised and unsupported frac-
tion of their opponents, as they were enabled to do 
ing report has just been received from Fortress Mon-
roe : 
"Yorktown was evacuated last night. Our troops 
now occupy the enemy's works. The enemy left a 
large amount of camp equipage and guns, which 
they could not destroy fur fear of being seen." 
Headquarters Army of. the Potomac, 
May 4-9 A. M. • 
To Hon. E. M. Stanton, Secretary of war : 
We have the ramparts. Have guns, ammunition, 
camp equipage, &c. We hold the entire line of his 
works, which the engineers report as being very 
strong. 1 have thrown all my cavalry and horse ar-
tillery in pursuit, surported by infantry. I move 
Franklin's division and as much more as I can trans-
port by water up to West Point to-day. No time 
shall be lost. The gunboats have gone up York riv-
er. I omittedp state that Gloucester is also in our 
possession. Fall push the enemy to the wall. 
(Signed) G. B. MCCLELLAN. 
Major General. 
[From the Army Correspondent of the Asscoiated 
Press.] This morning at 5 o'clock your correspon- 
dent entered the enemy's works, which the rear of 
their army deserted four hours before. Everything 
was found to be in utter confusion, as though they 
left in great haste. Between forty and fifty pieces 
of heavy artillery have been left on their works,after 
being spiked, together with a large amount of am- 
munition, medical stores,camp equipage and private 
property of their officers. A negro, who was left in 
the town, states that the rebels threw a large amount 
of ordnance stores into the river, to prevent its fall-
ing into our hands. 
Several deserters lave succeeded in running into 
our lines. One of them, a very intelligent inan, or- 
iginally' from New York, who has been connected 
with the rebel ordnance department ever since the 
works at York town have been constructed, states 
that the rebels evacuated owing to the near approach 
of our parallels covering the immense siege works of 
our men, that they feared the success of the Union 
gunboats in the York and James rivers,by means of 
which their communication with the outer world 
would be cut off. The order to evacuate was given by 
Gen. Johnston, on Thursday, to commence the fol-
lowing morning, which was accordingly done. 
Gen. Magruder was said to have most strenuous-
ly opposed the order, saying that if they could not 
whip the Federals here, there was no other place 
in Virginia where they could ; that he swore in the 
presence of his men, who vociferously cheered him, 
losing complete control of himself. 
The deserters all agree in stating that their troops 
were very much demoralized and disheartened when 
the order to evacuate was made public, as they all 
anticipated having an engagement at that point. 
They also agree that the rebels had 100,000 men on 
the peninsula, together with 400 pieces of field ar-
tillery. 
From the best information received they have fal-
len back to Chiekahominy Creek, beyond Williams-
burg, where it is expected they will make a stand. 
Immediately,on the fact of the evacuation becom-
ing known, the troops were ordered under arms and 
are now in motion from the right and left wings of 
tkie army. A large force, under command of Gen. 
Stoneman, consisting of cavalry, artillery and in-
fantry, are in the advance, and will probably come 
up with the rear of the enemy before night, if they 
remain near Williamsburg. 
The gunboats have passed above Yorktown and 
ar now shelling the shore on the way up. Follow- 
in them is a large steamer and other vessels load-
ed with troops, who will effect a landing. 
Gen. Robert E. Lee, the rebel Commander-in-
Chief, arrived at Yorktown on Wednesday and im-
mediately examined the works of Gen. McClellan, 
when he is supposed to have recommended the 
abandonment of the rebel works, deeming them un-
tenable. 
Foreign News. 
Louis NAPOLEON AND THE ROMAN QUESTION. The 
Paris correspondent of the New York Commercial 
Advertiser thus states what we presume to be about 
the actual position of the French Emperor on the 
much disputed question of his occupation of Rome : 
"It is quite cloar to every one who observes close-
ly the course of events that the Emperor has deter-
mined to maintain his troops at Rome till the death 
of the Pope,unless some new and unlooked for event 
should enable him to evacuate sooner. Two objects 
are gained by this course—the satisfaction of the 
powerful clerical party in France,and the prevention 
of the return of the Austrians to Central Italy. It 
is an uncertain line of policys, surely,to wait for the 
death of a man in order to make a change ; hut the 
Pope is believed to hold to life at the present mo-
ment by a very frail tenure,and when there is great 
difficulty in fixing a policy this one may be consider-
ed as better than none at all." 
writing,, the ten commandments, which the Lord 
spake unto you in the mount out of the midst of the 
flre in the day of assembly : and the Lord gave them 
unto me And I turned myself and came down 
from the mount, and put the tables in the arkwhich 
I 1)10 madea and there they be, as the Lord com-
manded me." Deut. 10:1-5. 
What was placed in the side of the ark ? 
Ans. "It came to pass,when Moses had made an 
end of writing the words of this law in a book, un-
til they were finished, that Moses commanded the 
Levites which bore the ark of the covenant of the 
Lord, saying, take this book of the law, and put it 
in the side of the ark of the Lord your God, that it 
may be there fur a witness against thee." neut. 31: 
24-26. 
What was the cherubim of glory overshadow 
ing the mercy seat ?. 
Ans. "He made a mercy-seat of pare gold : two 
cubits and a half was the length thereof, and one 
cubit the breadth thereof. And he made two cher-
ubim of gold, beaten out of one piece made he them, 
on the two ends of the mercy-seat ; one cherub on 
the end on this side, and another cherub on the oth-
er end on that side : out of the mercy seat made he 
the cherubim on the two ends theoeof. And the 
cherubim spread out their wings on high, and cov-
ered over the mercy-seat,with their faces one to anoth-
er : even to the mercy-seat-ward were the faces of 
the cherubim." Ex. 37: 6.9. 
From what may we judge that this was re-
garded as the throne of Jehovah when he gave au-
dience to Israel and dispensed blessings to them ? 
Ans. The Lord said : "there will I meet with the 
children of Israel, and the Tabernacle shall be sanc-
tified with my glory." "And I will dwell among 
the children of Israel, and will be their God. And 
they shall know that I am the Lord their God, that 
brought them forth out o the Land of Egypt, that 
I may dwell among them." Ex. 29 : 43, 45, 46. 
Great Floods at the West. 
CHICAGO, Ill., May 1. A special dispatch to the 
Times, from Cairo, says the steamer Diligence, from 
Tiptonville, reports an alarming stage of water in 
the surrounding country on the Mississippi. Hun-
dreds of houses on the banks of the river there and 
at New Madrid are submerged. 
Thousands of cattle, sheep and hogs have been 
washed away. Many families are living on flatboats. 
Every where along the river there is great suffering 
in consequence of the unprecedented flood. The 
whole of Columbus up to the fortifications is over-
flowed,and water is running into the windov'ts of the 
houses. Hickman is also suffering greatly. 
The fortifications at Island No. 10 and on the 
main land opposite are still above water, excepting 
the upper battery. A large amount of cannon and 
heavy ordnance stores captured from the rebels on 
the main land are still lying in the bayou, and can-
not be removed until the water subsides. Point 
Pleasant is entirely drowned out. 
VII1111111•111. 
CORRESPONDENCE. 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
150 
THE ADVEN T HERALD. 
 
Thoughts occasioned by Storing. 
As Spring has returned, and the white mantle of 
the earth is disappearing, I have been thinking ; 
and, while thinking, concluded to transfer my 
thoughts to paper. If you consider them suitable 
to be placed before the readers of your paper, you 
may use them. 
First. That this earth, while clad in her white 
robe, was a good emblem of the state of purity in 
the creation. But as her mantle became rent and 
the dark spots began to come forth, it brought to 
mind how sin and iniquity began to creep forth and 
show themselves. 
As Spring advanced, the rays of the sun caused 
the snow to disappear,and the dark spots to increase 
in number and size. It brought to mind how rapid-
ly sin and iniquity have increased since the creation 
of man ; for he was made holy. It seems now as 
though they have almost overcome purity and holi-
ness, as the sun and the vapor from the earth have 
overcome the snow. 
Secondly. That it is important that each person 
should try to stay the progress of sin, by not yield-
ing to it. In so doing,we not only benefit ourselves 
but cast a saving influence over those around us, an 
influence that will last when we are gone. Per-
haps some fellow traveler may take courage from 
our example, and rally when they are hard pressed 
by sin. The best time to commence is in youth, 
for then we may keep the doors closed to iniquity. 
But if neglected till middle age, it is very import-
ant that we commence iminediately,in order to coun-
teract some of the evil we have done. If we have 
neglected to.work until old age, it is of all import-
ance to act at once, for we must die and not live. 
C. S. G. 
T. GILBERT. 
ered by the power of Christ in their souls from the 
power that sin has had over them, can never be 
saved from the death and wrath that are the as-
sured wages of sin ; so that as far as people obtain 
victory over the evil dispositions and fleshly lusts 
they have been addicted to, so far they are truly 
saved, and are witnesses of the redemption that 
comes by Jesus Christ. His name shadows his 
work. ' And thou shalt call His name Jesus, for 
he shall save His pople from their sins.' Matt 1 : 
21. Behold,' said John, ' the Lamb of God, that 
taketh away the sin of the world.' John 1 : 29. 
That is, behold Him whom God bath given to en-
lighten people, and for salvation to as many as re-
ceive Him and His light and grace into their hearts, 
and take up their daily cross and follow Him ; such 
as rather deny themselves the pleasure of fulfilling 
their lusts than sin against the knowledge He bath 
given them of His will, or to do that they know 
they ought not to do." 
I approve of the above, and would like to see it 
in the Advent Herald. 
D. CAMPBELL. 
East Famboro', C. W., April 17, 1862. 
P. S. In the account of my wife's death you 
make me say, Rev. chap. 24, in place of Rev. 14:13. 
D. C. 
Candid. 
A clergyman in Indiana, in sending pay for the 
continuance of the Herald, writes : — 
" I differ from some of the Theological views 
maintained in the Herald, but regard its prophetical 
expositions as valuable, and its practical admonitions 
as excellent ; therefore I gladly contribute, so far as 
paying the subscription price is concerned, to its 
support." 
NOTE. — We cannot all expect to see eye to eye, 
while we can, as now, only see as through a glass 
darkly ; but when the day of perfect vision shall 
have come, we shall overcome all our errors. ED. 
I have been perusing the Advent Herald to-day, 
and it really seemed like conversing with an old 
friend. Some names I see whibh are unfamiliar, 
and others I look fur, but in vain. Where is Bro. 
I. Shipman ? Why dont he write as formerly ? How 
much I should love to read from my old familiar 
friends, with whom I have taken sweet council in 
days past, whose society I am now deprived of. 
Away in this Nova Scotia region,I found an old pa-
per of July 21th, 1858, and while looking over the 
old pilgrim I found a sunny leaf from the life of a 
preacher, which proved to be from the pen of Bro. 
H Bundy It did me good to read from his pen so 
long ago ; but I should be more pleased with some-
thing fresh from his heart. 
I am lonely here, a stranger in a stranger land. 
0, how much I want to see my old friends, my 
brethron and sisters, again on my own American 
shore. Although deluged in war, yet in Jesus there 
is peace. Nothing can separate us from the love of 
Christ. 
Since I came to N. S. I have done what little I 
could in my Master's Vineyard ; but 0, how much 
is needed a strong man, armed with the whole arm-
or, to go through this region to give the alarm, and 
give the gospel trump a certain sound, that the peo-
ple may wake up and prepare for the judgment. I 
believe there is but litte tune to work ; the Master 
will soon come and reckon with his servants. 
0 how precious are the moments. How fast they 
fly. Our friends who sleep in Jesus will soon awake, 
and we shall greet them on the other blest shore. 0 
happy day,when wars will cease and ransomed earth 
be filled with peace. We have not been waiting and 
looking in vain for our long absent Lord. 0, no ; be-
hold he cometh. I believe we are in or immediate-
ly coming into the morning watch. Now don't start, 
Bro. Bliss, or think use fitnatical,I have with others 
been long time on the lookout for day, and watch-
ing for the morning, and the midnight hour passed 
away sometime ago. We have been taking heed to 
the sure word of prophecy. Peter says we have done 
well, and we believe it ; and now the day is about 
to dawn, the day star soon to rise, and Jesus comes 
in his glory. "Watchman what of the night ?" 
ABAGAIL MUZZEY. 
Cornwallace, April 4th. 
For the Herald. 
lierod's Rash Oath. 
BY D. 110YT WILLEY. 
'Twas the birth day of a mighty king ; 
Lords, high captains and chief estates of Galilee 
Had gathered then. 
Pomp and pride, in vain display, 
The palace of the mighty Herod thronged. 
The dance and feast went on ; 
Many a gay laugh the walls resounded, 
And many the wine cups filled. 
'Twas here the fair Salome, 
No hidden beauty undisplayed, 
Su well the mighty Tetrarch pleased. 
Her facinating charms his fully roused, 
And by her beauty moved, 
He made a rash, yet solemn TOW,— 
A vow that half his kingdom proffered, 
Or whatever else her choice should be. 
His vow he soon regretted ; 
For, when Satan rules the heart, 
Each slight advantage sought and gained 
Makes way for deeper crime. 
The life of one she asked, 
Who for words of truth and holiness, 
And denouncing evil deeds, 
Now shared the dungeon's gloomy cell ; 
And at the solemn hour of night, 
When sleep his spirit held embraced, 
The formidable deed was done. 
No groan followed the fatal blow ; 
And no sound save the gurgling crimson, 
Echoed to the dim walls his dreadful fate. 
And while the dance and feast went on, 
Within a charger the Baptist's head was brought, 
And when before the damsel placed, 
She cast a fiendish smile, 
Like devils, when their work is completed. 
For the Ilerald. 
Lines. 
Composed on board the schooner Lively," sailing 
from Boston to Nova Scotia. 
As I leave my own dear native land, 
To sail o'er the ocean's blue deep, 
To heaven I now lift my eye, — 
0, Saviour, the vessel now keep. 
Protect thy poor timorous child, 
Bid storms and raging winds cease ; 
Yet give us a breeze that is mild, 
Waft us on to a port where is peace. 
I leave friends and brethren behind, 
To sail to the old British shore ; 
But I hope to find friends that are kind, 
And those who my Saviour adore. 
With the wide-spreading sails o'er our heads, 
And the vessel rocking beneath, 
I think of my Saviour, who once 
Was sailing upon the blue sea. 
While asleep on his pillow he lay, 
'Tis a cry of distress that he hears, 
Saying, Master, 0 dust thou not care? 
Lord, save, or we all perish here ! 
He bids the proud billows be stayed : 
His voice, so melodious, is heard—
The winds and the waves they obeyed, 
And calmness again is restored. 
I ask, is my Saviour on board 
This ship in which I now sail ? 
Ah, yes ; hear his glad voice, 
Saying, I'm with thee to the end of the world. 
And now upon deck I repair, 
To watch if there are signs I can see ; 
But there's no land, or a sea-bird, to tell 
That we near any harbor can be. 
But still we are cheered on our way, 
Fur the waves they are wafting us on, 
And the captain and pilot cloth say : 
Take courage, I'll soon be at home. 
As swiftly we glide on the deep, 
There are signs we are nearing the port ; 
For the sea-weeds and white birds appear, 
And there's land. 0, bow pleasant the sight ! 
And now we are landed all safe, 
The perils of the deep now are o'er, —
Kind friends, they stand ready to greet, 
On the fair Nova Scotian shore. 
But our own Eden home is not gained ; 
That land is for brighter than this ; 
But we know we are nearing that port, 
Fur the signs they are all in the past. 
Our Saviour has given us signs. 
By which we may all understand ; 
And we're nearing the has bor of rest, 
And soon un Mount Zion we'll stand. 
ABIGAIL MUZZEY. 
From Bro. A. Ramsey. 
BRO BLISS : — I could not think of parting with 
the Herald in my family. It is all the Advent 
preaching we get, except that now and then we have 
a sermon from the Free Will Baptist minister. 
Bro. E. Burnam has preached here some, and was 
liked very much. I regret that I cannot do more, 
for the cause I love ; but you shall have my prayers 
and best wishes fur your success. 
AUGUSTUS RAMSEY. 
Taunton Mass., April 12, 1862. 
From Bro. John Reynolds. 
BRO. BLISS : — It may appear to you that I have 
a large development of self-esteem, and think my-
self wiser than the ancients ; but however this may 
he, if I say what is not true its falsity will be known 
in this age, as in the next, —and to our own mas-
ter we must stand or fall. However large my self-
esteem is, the organ of shame and pride are quite as 
large, and appear much larger to me. As I should 
be ashamed to teach what I have not learned, I must 
confess from the bottom of the heart that I feel proud 
of the mercy and goodness of God ; or, in other 
words, I glory and rejoice that God has revealed his 
word unto babes. The foolishness of God is wiser 
than men, and the weakness of God is stronger than 
men. God's ways are high above man's, as high as 
the heaven is above the earth. 
A correct view of any doctrine is not dependent 
on human wisdom, and any truth in the Bible will 
agree with every other ; but in the study of the 
Bible there is the same gradation as in every other 
study — so we cannot expect to understand the 
meaning of the last chapter before we have learned 
the first. The first truth must be known before we 
are prepared to learn the next ; and so on through-
out the Bible, just the same as in every other study. 
Every succeeding revelation to the prophets is given 
with reference to that preceding, and it is expected 
that the preceding is understood. And whatever is 
peculiar in any succeeding revelation, and not before 
made known, must be explained, as we cannot be 
expected to understand it— this difference always 
being known between common science and the study 
of' the Bible, that a portion of it refers to the age to 
come, and is not fully revealed. And as we feel as- 
surred,after years of patient and constant study,with 
a mind perfectly willing to yield to the teachings of 
the Bible, that we know what the beasts in nevela- 
Words of William Penn. 
The following is from William Penn's writings : 
" 0 Christendom, my soul most fervently prays 
that, after all thy lofty profession of Christ and His 
meek and holy religion, thy unsuitable and un-
Christlike life may nut cast thee at that great assize 
of the world, and loose thee so great salvation at 
last. Hear me once, I beseech thee. Can Christ 
be thy Lord, and thou not obey Him ? Or can'st 
thou be His servant, and never serve Him? Be not 
deceived. Such as thou sowest shalt thou reap. 
Gal. chap. 7. He is none of thy Saviour whilst 
thou neglectest His grace in thy heart, by which He 
should save thee. Come, what has He saved thee 
from ? Has Ile saved thee from thy sinful lusts, 
thy worldly affections, and vain conversations ? If 
not, then Ile is none of thy Saviour ; for though 
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He be offered a Saviour to all, yet He is actually a 
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 Saviour to those only that are saved by Him. And 
In this department, articles are solicited, on the general none are saved by Him that live in those evils by 
 
subject of she Advent, from friends of the Ilerald, over which they are lost from God, and which He came 
their own signatures, irrespective of the particular views to save them from. It is sin which Christ came to 
which it defends. Views of correspondents not dissented 
from, are not necessarily to be considered as editorially save man from, and death and wrath as the wages 
endorsed. Correspondents are expected to avoid all per- of it. But those that are not saved, that is, deliv-
sonalities, and to study Christian courtesy in all references 
to views and persons. Any departure from this should be 
regarded as disentitling the writer to any reply. Christian 
and gentlemanly discussion will be in order ; but not 
needless, unkind, or uncourteous controversy. 
The More Sure Word of Propheecy. 
2 Peter 1: 19. From Sister E. S. Brigham. 
Peter assures those who had before obtained like Baca Blass — We prize the Herald, and wish to 
precious faith with him, that they had not followed have it continued to us, and also to the world ; and 
cunningly devised fables when they made known we would gladly assist in sending it to those obscure 
unto them the power and coming of their Lord Je- ones who are deprived of the privilege of hearing the 
sus Christ ; but were eye witnesses of his majesty. truth from the living preacher (which is a privilege 
Mark 9 : 23. The apostles Peter, James, and John we know how to prize in W.), but sickness an 
were not only eye witnesses of his life of humilia- doath in our family prevent us from doing it at 
tion, at his first coining. but of his glory, with present. We are classed among the " poor of this 
which he would come in his kingdom. 
this world," but, if " rich in faith," are heirs to a 
He exhorts, then, to give " dilligence to make large estate. 
their " calling and election sure : for if ye do these Nine weeks ago to-day we consigned to the tomb 
things ye shall never fall : fur so an entrance shall a sister, just in the bloom of youth. During her 
be administered unto you abundantly into the ever- sickness she learned to love and appreciate the truth 
lasting kingdom of our Lord and Saviour Jesus of Christ's second coming. We send one dollar, 
Christ." Peter assures them that Christ " received the last one of our sister's, wishing to use it in the 
from God the Father honor and glory, when there support of the cause she loved. We hope to meet 
came such a voice to hun from the excellent glory, her in the morning of the resurrection, blooming in 
This is my beloved Son, in whom I am well pleased." immortal youth and beauty, no more subject to dis-
The doctrine concerning His coming and kingdom, ease, — and with all the good and blest to sing re-
taught them by Christ, is not the cunningly devised deMption's song. What a choir, and what a song! 
fable of an impostor, but was confirmed by God the I am lost in the contemplation. Who can compre-
Father. They heard that voice when they were bend the grandeur and sublimity of that morn? 
with him on the holy mount. He then says : " We But I must stop. I know not where to stop when 
have a more sure word of prophecy ; whereunto ye I contemplate this subject. I hope to join in that 
do well to take heed, as unto a light that shineth in song. 
MRS. E. S. BRIGHAM. 
a dark place." This prophecy, as the time nears, Westboro', Mass., April, 1862. 
will shed forth greater light to them that under-
stand. As is said in Daniel, " The wise shall under-
stand." Is not this the time ? As the day or morn-
ing star lights up the heavens with its brilliancy at 
the dawn, so will this prophecy show the church 
the approaching day, when the Lord will come in 
his glory. 
From Sister A. Muzzey. 
BRo. Buss:—Feeling to-day like a pilgrim and a 
stranger away from home, as all our forefathers 
were, the words of Jesus, before he was condemned 
to die,John 16th, 33:—"these things I have spoken 
unto you that in me ye might have peace : in the 
world ye shall have tribulation,but be of good cheer 
I have overcome the world," have been a solace to 
my soul in my pilgrimage. 
I am away up in Cornwallace, N. S., about 80 
miles from my P. 0. address, Hillsburgh,Bear Riv-
er, where there are but very few of like faith. A 
Bro. has brought me here, hoping I might through 
God do the people good, by enlightning their minds 
in the Scriptures ; but who is sufficient for these 
things ? It seems as though those that have closed 
their eyes and ears from the truth would not believe, 
if one should rise from the dead. 
From Bro. George T. Havens. 
DEAR BRO. Blass : — I hope yet to do something 
for the A. M. Association. My sympathies are with 
the cause ; I hope to pray that much good may re-
sult therefrom. I do pray that you may be sus-
tained, guided and directed in the discharge of your " 
duties, and that the Ilerald may stiil proclaim the 
glad tidings of the soon-coming King, and to com-
fortt the hearts of God's dear children. 
Yours, GEORGE T. HavEss. 
Homer, Canada West, April 8, 1862. 
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From Bro. F. Gunner. 
DEAR BRO. BLISS : - My Post Office address, for 
the present, is Bridgborough, Burlington Co., N. J. 
I am mending my nets, and hoping to recruit the 
health of my family. Should any of the Churches 
wish me to visit them, I shall endeavor to comply. 
F. GUNNER. 
occupied by the F. W. Baptists, but which is, 1 be-
lieve, a union house. The best of all is that a revival 
commenced soon after we began our labors there. 
Ten persons have been reclaimed and converted, and 
we are still hoping for a greater manifestation of 
God's power to save. I would here add that I have 
been aided by the efficient co-operation of Bro. Geo. 
D. Warren. The praise is all due the Lord-He is 
my strength and my salvation, and exceeding great 
reward. 
May 2, 1862, 
Yours, in christian fellowship, 
HENRY CANFIELD. 
St. Johnsbury, Vt., April 21, 1862. 
AD VERTISEMENTS. 
ley. To this is added "The Testimony of more than 
One Hundred Witnesses," of all ages of the church, 
and of all denominations of Christians,-expressing 
 
faith in the personal advent of Christ, his reign on 
the renewed earth, on the resurrection of the just, 
&c. It is for sale at this office and will be sent by 
snail, post paid, for 75 cts.-to those who do not 
wish to give el., its former retail price. 
Memoirs of William Miller. 
By the author of the Time of the End-excepting 
the first three chapters, which were by the pen of 
another. pp. 426. Price, post paid, 75 cts. 
Few men have been more diversely regarded than 
William Miller. While those who knew him, es-
teemed him as a man of more than ordinary mental 
power, as a cool, sagacious and honest reasoner, an 
humble and devoted Christian, a kind and affection-
ate friend, and a man of great moral and social 
worth ; thousands, who knew him not, formed opin-
ions of him anything but complimentary to his in-
telligence and sanity. It was therefore the design 
of this volume to show him to the world as he was 
-to present him as he appeared in his daily walk 
and conversation, to trace the manner in which he 
arrived at his conclusions, to follow him into his 
closet and places of retirement, to unfold the work-
ings of his mind through a long series of years, and 
scan closely his motives.. These things are shown of 
him by large extracts from his unstudied private 
correspondence, by his published writings, by nar-
rations of interviews with him, accounts of his pub-
lic labors in the various places he visited, a full 
presentation of his views, with the manner of their 
conception, and various reminiscences of interest in 
connection with his life. 
The revivals of religion which attended his labors, 
are here testified to by those who participated in 
them ; and hundreds of souls, it is believed,will ever 
regard him as a means, under God, of their conver-
sion. The attention given to his arguments caused 
many minds, in all denominations, to change their 
views of the millennial state ; and as the christian 
public learn to discriminate between the actual po-
sition of Mr. Miller, and that which prejudice has 
conceived that he occupied, his memory will be 
much more justly estimated. The following notice 
of this volume is from the "Theological and Liter-
ary Journal." 
This volume is worthy of a perusal by all who 
ake an interest in the great purposes God has re-
vealed respecting the future government of the 
world. If the first chapters descend to a detail of 
incidents that are of little moment, and betray a 
disposition to exaggerate and over-paint, the main 
portion of the memoir, which is occupied with the 
history of his religious life, is not chargeable with 
that fault, and presents an interesting account of 
his studies, his opinions, his lectures, his disap 
pointments, and his death, and frees him from many 
of the injurious imputations with which he was as-
sailed during his last years. He was a man of vig-
orous sense, ardent, resolute, and upright ; lie had 
the fullest faith in the Scriptures as the word of 
God, and gave the most decided evidence that he 
understood and felt the power of their great truths. 
Instead of the ambitiousness of a religions dema-
gogue, he was disinterested ; his great aim in his 
advent 
 His de- 
meanor, on the confutation of his calculations re-
specting the advent, was such as might be expected 
from an upright man. Instead of resorting to sub-
terfuges to disguise his defeat, he frankly confessed 
his error, and while he lost faith in himself, retain-
ed his trust undiminished in God, and endeavored 
to guard hie followers from the dangers to which 
they were exposed, of relapsing into unbelief, or 
losing their interest in the great doctrine of Christ's 
premillennial coming. 
A Volume for the Times. 
"THE TIME OF THE END." 
This volume of over 400 pages, compiled by the 
present editor of the Advent Herald and published 
in 1856,treate "the time of the end," (Dan. 12: 9,) 
as a prophetic period preceding the end ; during 
which there was predicted to be a wonderful in-
crease of knowledge respecting the prophecies and 
periods that fill up the future of this world's dura-
tion, to the final consummation. 
It presents various computations of the times of 
Daniel and John ; copies Rev E. B. Elliott's view 
of "our present position in the prophetic calen-
dar," with several lectures by Dr. Cumming, and 
gives three dissertations on the new heavens and the 
new earth, by Drs. Chalmers, Hitchcock, and Wee 
tion mean, we believe it is a duty to show it as we 
have learned it. 
But to those who do not know the meaning of. 
the beasts in Daniel, with their heads and horns, 
these views will not be seen. I mean the beasts in 
Revelation, chapters 12, 13, and 17 ; as the beasts 
of life, in chapters 4, 5, and 6 are entirely unlike 
them, and agree with Ezekiel's living creatures. 
The true significance of the beasts of Daniel will 
enable us to know the meaning of these natural 
beasts in Revelation. The only difference in Reve-
lation is that a power mentioned in Daniel is in 
Revelation represented by a beast and by heads• 
For it is a truth which all can see that the whole 
vision of Daniel, excepting a mere history of facts 
(which of course was no revelation), was concerning 
a power with which those beasts warred, and with 
which they were connected. These are simple 
truths, and only need to he looked at, with a will-
ing mind and a desire to see the truth (as it appears 
to me), in order to be known. 
And when it is said " Here is the mind which 
bath wisdom," it is the same as to say, understand 
this which follows, as this is the key to the whole 
subject and must be known, or you cannot know 
what this power represents. A right knowledge 
then of what follows in chapter 17 will explain all 
the rest ; and as we have before stated that this 
power has a name, indicating its moral character, it 
must be known by this name, as all important to a 
right knowledge of these beasts. 
JOHN REYNOLDS. 
Marblehead, April 20, 1862. 
From Bro. William P. Cutter. 
BRO. BLISS : - I cannot do without the Herald. 
The Bible has seemed like a new book since reading 
it. 1 love it for its straight forward course. 
WILLIAM P. CUTTER. 
Round Pond, Me., April 27, 1862. 
From Brother H. Canfield. 
BRO. BLISS take much pleasure and satisfac- 
tion in reading the Herald, especially the healthy, 
soul-cheering, original cummunications which fre-
quently appear in its columns. It is a source of grat 
ification that there are a few hundred souls scattered 
through this waste-howling wilderness,who in spite of 
wars and tumults, of worldly-mindedness and un-
belief, are striving to fight the good fight of faith. I 
feel that we have many things to encourage us as 
we are journeying onward, and I sometimes think 
we are too unwilling to acknowledge the blessings 
we receive-too slow to realize the willingness of the 
Lord to bestow upon us the things that we need. 
We understand that our heavenly Father is more 
willing to give his Holy Spirit to them that ask him, 
than earthly parents are to give good gifts to their 
children ; yet how slow we are to ask, and how un-
willing to "believe that we receive the things we 
ask for." May the Lord help our unbelief. 
I frequently notice communications from persons 
who are deprived of the blessed privilege of meeting 
from time to time,with those of like precious faith ; 
and I have been led to thank God that the Herald 
was so well adapted to the wants of such. It must 
be indeed a welcome weekly visitor. We may be 
separated from our dear brethren, yet by this means 
we can converse freely upon the subject which ani-
mates the hearts of all christians-the return of the 
nobleman. Brethren and sisters, let us be more free 
to speak through this medium. We know not how 
a single sentence may encourage some weary soldier, 
who is struggling against the adverse winds of trial 
and affliction. 
I would say, for the encouragement of others,that 
the Lord has seen fit to open a comparatively new 
field of labor and has greatly blessed the writer, un-
worthy as he is, in endeavoring to preach the Gos-
PO. Bro. and sister Stetson moved from Danville 
to Wheelock some seven years since ; and, being two 
faithful,well-tried soldiers of the Lord Jesus Christ, 
they have adorned their profession with a well or-
dered life and a godly conversation-which, by the 
way, is the vdry best preaching-and by their uni-
form consistent Christian character,have gained the 
confidence of their neighhorts and acquaintances. Af-
ter telling me plainly the state of feeling among the 
people in that vicinity in relation to the advent doc-
trine, which I confess was very discouraging-Bro. 
S. gave me an invitation to visit the place and 
preach. I did so, and to the best of my ahility,pre-
Sented our views of the Restitution. At the close of 
the services an expression of the meeting was called 
for as to whether I should visit them again. The re-
sult was an almost unanimous vote to continue the 
meetings I have preached there once a fortnight 
for about three months, and measures have been ta-
ken by which tM meetings will he continued. We 
have a very comortable house of worship, formerly 
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"We can cheerfully recommend it to all who de-
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it."-Boston Evening Telegraph. 
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done, as in this."-Portland Transcript. 
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them ; who, he says, are among the first citizens of the 
place. 
THE GOLDEN SALVE-A GREAT HEALING RENEDY.-It 
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with cases of truly marvelous cures. They chronicle one 
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Father Haydn, the Great Musician. 
Adapted from the German of Stickler. 
It was on an autumn day, in the year 
173S, that a company of lively boys strolled 
out together into the forest. They each 
had a little bag ; and all my little readers 
will now say, "Those boys went a nut-
ting." 
You are right. 
The youngest in the company was very 
small, and only seven years old. WLio 
ever heard of so little a fellow going in the 
forest to climb trees, and walk about and 
gather nuts? He soon grew very tired, 
and said to his companions : " I will sit 
down under this fir tree and rest myself. 
When you want to go home you will know 
where to find me. 
Now, don't forget me, 
and go home without me.'' 
So they left the little boy there to sleep 
or do whatever he pleased. His attention 
was directed to a bird that was singing 
near by. You never saw a boy's eye 
sparkle as his did when he listened to it. 
The notes of the bird seemed to wake tip 
his soul. He became so delighted that he 
forgot where lie was. It seemed to him as 
if he were in sonic beautiful country, lie 
could not tell where. When it stopped 
singing, he commenced. Then the bird 
answered him, and he answered it. They 
kept up the strange concert a good while. 
By and by the little songster flew off, and 
the boy lay down on the ground and ent 
to dreaming. It was a pleasant dream, 
and afterward came to pass. 
That was little Joseph Haydn. 
His father was a poor man and worked 
hard at his business, which was wagon- 
making, from early in the morning until 
late in the evening. When he finished his 
work, and the family ended their supper, 
the old man would take down his harp, 
and tell all the children to sit beside one 
another on the long bench. After the first 
few notes he would commence to sing, 
then the mother, and then all the children. 
But little Joseph had the sweetest voice of 
all. 
It seemed to him a hard task, however, 
to sit there all the while, and hear and see 
his father playing. " Why can't 1 play, 
No said he to himself. And many a 
time did he steal away from the old wood-
en bench and go out of doors. Then the 
question would be asked, " What has be-
come of Joseph?" The answer always 
was, " He is out of doors, playing on his 
violin. He has two sticks which he draws 
across one another, and calls them his in-
strument." The old father and mother 
laughed heartily, and never punished their 
boy. He was always obedient, except 
when he wanted to play his violin. But 
his parents did not seem to think that he 
was going to do anything when he grew 
older. " He thinks of nothing but music," 
they said many a time ; "all our children 
will come to something except poor little 
Joseph." 
Rome in a Puzzle. 
Dublin, March 26,1862. 
The Pope, with his infallibility, and his cardi-
nals, with their counsels, are in a sad puzzle, and 
what to do with them is a sad puzzle to the Roman 
Catholic potentates. It is a puzzle to all thinking 
people how his Italians have become, as he says dis-
ciples of indifferentism and infidelity, surrounding' 
the centre of the only true church, and with such a 
staff of clergy, monks and nuns as might serve all 
Europe. And the French Emperor, and the Aus-
trian, compelled to give freedom at home, cannot 
lend their threes to compel submission to effete and 
imbecile tyranny abroad. Spain has fished up some 
edicts of the dark ages, wherewith to punish Bible-
reading, but this makes her odious to the universe. 
And in Ireland, where O'Connell, by his talk about 
civil and religious liberty all over the world, and 
Bishop Doyle, by encouraging discussion, had shak-
en the fetters that hound the Irish mind to Rome—
though the Legate has rivetted these to Ultramon-
tanism by steeping the people in superstition,—yet 
even the masses cannot understand why they should 
be called upon to pay and fight to hinder the free-
dom in Italy which they are taught to clamor for in 
Ireland. 
It is not, however, the first time that far-famed 
wise men became brutishly foolish in their councils, 
and men who were looked to as an oracle of God, 
found their devices prove the veriest foolishness. 
And rebellion is brought down to zero, by the con-
stant harping upon the sin of subverting legitimate 
rule in Italy. At a so-called national banquet, on 
St. Patrick's day,not a M. P., D. S.,J. P., or even 
an esquire, could be got to attend. The complaint 
was, Dr. Cullen had extinguished nationality. 
Altogether, the Pontiff, and all connected with 
him, is a puzzle ; people shake their heads and say, 
"These old-fashioned folks do well enough to con-
duct religious rites, but are unfit for the manage-
ment of civil government, which must be adapted to 
ever-changing times,places and people." They cling 
to what they have got, saying, "It will last my 
time," but the period of diplomacy will run out 
about 1866, and so Alexander will cut the Gordian 
knot, which diplomacy fails to unravel, and the 
crash will come, the signal for the reign of truth, 
peace and holiness. 
EPHOROS. 
The reports form Europe with regard to the grow-
ing wheat crops are unfavorable. The weather has 
been unpromising for a full harvest. The Mark Lane 
Express of the 14th says : 
"We have become much more dependent on for-
eign supplies; and there is already greater firmness 
in the trade, notwithstanding good stock aud heavy 
arrivals, more especially of American flour." 
CHILDREN'S DEPARTMENT 
" FEED MY LAMBS."—John 21:15. 
BOSTON. MAY 10, 1862. 
ANNUAL DONATIONS. 
THE CANADA EAST AND NORTHERN VERMONT CON-
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will be preaching Tuesday evening, June 10th, and the 
business sessions will commence at half-past 10 A. M. of 
the 11th, and close on the Friday following. Hence it is 
desirable that all our ministers and delegates be present 
at the commencement. Preaching may be expected once 
or twice each day, from ministers of the Conference. Let 
the condition and wants of each church be reported by let-
ter. Meetings will be continued over the following Lord's 
day. Ample accommodation will be provided for those 
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waiting ones. Come, brethren and sisters, make some sac-
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It. HUTCHINSON, Pres't. 
J. M. ORROOK, Sec'y of Conference. 
As several friends have wished me to give notice of the 
time of my going to England, I would say, that if nothing 
in the providence of God prevent, I will go soon isater the 
the aboved named Conference. My address till then will 
be, Waterloo, C. E., or Derby Line, Vt., care of Elder J. 
M. Orrock. 
R. HUTCHINSON. 
To. Elder D. CAMPBELL : — I will try to answer yours 
next week. 
J. V. RIMES. 
May 4, 1862. 
MOORE'S VILLAGE, N. Y., April 19, 1862. 
I would say to the brethren of Canada East, I shall visit 
them as soon as the roads permit. 
I wish to say to the brethren in Cahada West, that I will 
visit them, if the Lord will, some time in May. I shall 
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B. S. REYNOLDS. 
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III. 
We, too, shall come to the river side, 
One by one; 
We are nearing its waters each eventide, 
One by one. 
We can hear the noise and dash of the 
stream, 
Now and again, through our life's deep 
dream; 
Sometimes the floods all the banks o'er-
flow, 
SJmetinies in ripples the small waves go, 
One by one. 
Suffer Little Children to Come unto 
me. 
." Suffer the little children to come unto me, and 
forbid them not ; for of such is the kingdom of God." 
—Mark 10 : 14. 
I. 
They are gathering homeward, from every 
land, 
One by one ; 
As their weary feet touch the shining 
strand, 
One by one, 
Their brows are inclosed in a golden 
crown, 
Their travel-stained garments are all laid 
down; 
And, clothed in white raiment, they rest 
on the mead, 
Where the Lamb loveth His chosen to 
lead, 
One by one. 
II. 
Before they rest they pass through the 
strife, 
One by one ; 
Through the waters of death they enter 
life, 
One by one. 
To some are the floods of the river still 
As they ford, on their way to the heavely 
hill, 
To'others the waves run fierce and wild ; 
Yet all reach the home of the undefiled, 
One by one. 
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We agree to pay annually in furtherance of the objects 
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5 00 
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Martin L. Jackson, Milesburg, 
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APPOINTMENTS. 
The Messiannian Conference, Pa., will hold its Annual 
Session at Shiremanstown, five miles west of Harrisburg 
(on the Cumberland Valley Railroad), TUESDAY, May 27, 
1862. Abundant provision will be made for the accommo-
dation of all who will attend. It is to be hoped that the 
several churches will be duly represented, by one or more 
delegates ; and that our brethren in the ministry will be 
present without fail. 
J. L ITCH, Pres't. 
DAN'L ELWELL, Sec. 
The annual meeting of the Northern Illinois Conference 
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mencing Wednesday, May 28th, at two o'clock P M., to 
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thing the world is ; what a vile thing sin is ; what 
a poor thing man is ; and what a precious thing an 
interest in Christ is. — Mrs. Savage.