''THIS SAME .JESUS WliO IS TAXEN UP FROM YOU INTO HEAVEN, SHALL SO COME IN .LIXE MANNER AS YE HAVE SEEN HIM GO INTO HEAVEN." 
No. !1. 
BOSTON AND NEW YORK, JULY 1. 1~46. 
THE ADVENT HERALD 
pledge of the thing typified,-a ·visible pose of such matchless and holy us~ to 1 ic days, or 76 years from the year 1793; 
18 rusLIBHBD 11vsaT waoNssnu 
prophecy that the event shall come.-man, rises altogether beyond the rank ofl in the year 1868. 
AT wo. g 1\IIL:t STREET, Dos-roN, 
The dissolution of the Jewish govern-human and temporal influences. It is a 
The previous epoch of 1290 years is 
BY 1. V. HIMES. 
ment and nation was the pledge of a SIGN; and, like the first preaching by I not declared to be connected with any 
more extensive dissolution, sanguinary the gift of tongues, attests equally the event, and is probably but a boundary be-
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The date of this event rna y presenee of a spiritual energy, and the tween the French Revolution and the 
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ace, should be directed to "J. v. HIMES, Boston Mass." secret in the bosom of Providence. 
Yet, 
Within thirty-six years from our Lord's that the trial is at length determined and 
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lddreu, •hould be distinctly gi~en, when money is for-as the disciples were then commanded to death the consummation came. 
,But, approaching. 
warded. 
lift up their eyes to the signs of its com· lest we should conceive that the original 
To this date of the peace of the Church 
Jesus .Hath Died. 
Oil wllo are those happ~· !Uid emiling ones 
That echo their aong• in immortal tones? 
Who purcha~ed the glory they seem to wear, 
!nd the e'fer green palma in their hands they bear~ 
Whence came those crowns so sparkling and bright, 
Which encircle their brows in living light! 
Who placed them there? surely mortal kings 
Nner wore such glittering, glorious things. 
gated: and a voice which 11eerned near me replied 
Ia tooea of soft beauty, that "Je•ns b&d died." 
Their forms are enrobed 111 mantles white, 
Wb01e lustrous beauty quite dazzle• the light. 
Apparel so rich, so glorious and flllr, 
No beihgs of time shall ever wear. 
By the side of lhe riv~r of life they recline, 
And quaff' rich drBughtll of the nectar divine. 
Long life's fair tie waves over esch head, 
And s htllo of glory around them IM shed. 
1llstened: agsin the sweet voir.e near my aide 
Said in tones of soft beauty," Jraus hllB dit'd." 
A gorJeous city I now behold! 
,_built of bright diammtds and pesrls snd zold. 
Ob msny and Jreat are the cities elf men, 
-
But none can compare with Jerusalern,-
While &round for ll measureless space art' ~een 
Elysian fields and pBlltnrt:S gre.en : 
.o
d p01session of 1111 is sweetly ,l!iven 
To thOflejoyful ones.-Oh it s~;emslike he!lven. 
Tell the name of the giver, sweet spirit, I s11irl, 
But the voice only whispered, "Jesus once died." 
011 ye seraphs who roam o'er those plains of bliss, 
Who purch1111td such rapturous glory a• this! 
You city of gold and hiry lands? 
Your ~rowns and the palinR yon bear In your hands? 
Your pure white robes so lltrpassingly fair? 
Bhall I ever such robes and diadems wear ? 
Can t ever reach thllt blissful shore? 
Tell me now, and 1 'II give my murmuring• o'er. 
And In tones wild nnd thrilling the Si•irit now cried, 
"Je.ua the matchless and sinless bath died." 
"Je.ua the suffering Son of mlln,-
Je~~u• ha~ died, but has ri~en IL!(Rin, 
Anrllll!cerrded on high ; but soon wi11 r.ome 
To live THEil thBt bright tmd beruttiful horne. 
On the CROSS he won for thee all thou· hast seen, 
Yon golden city, and earlh ~o green. 
'Tis real, and future, but' nigh at hllnd.' 
Be ready, snd I{O to th11t fairy land." 
"Love God," said the spirit, "great blin thou shall 
at~e, 
!11 the gil\ of him who has died for thee." 
Ob who wonld not live 11 Christilln here, 
To one dsy inherit a world ao fair, 
Wh .. re aickness, nor sorrow, nor death, nor pain, 
all ever he felt or known again? 
For the sake of him who died on the cro•a, 
Of alltsrthly things I will suffer the lo~s, 
For my spirit is rBvished, Oh I long to go, 
8ur.b exqui•ite bli11 and joy to know,-
To that world of jnv none will he deuierl, 
Tltat believe in Christ, who once hath died. 
D. T. TuLoa, Ja. 
Routet Point, (N.Y.), June 10th, 1846. 
The French Revolution. 
IY lEV. GEORGE CROLY1 A. lll. H. R. 8. L. 
ing; so may the command and the means proportion of time between his ministry may be objected the very ancient and 
be equally applicable to those among our-and that of the witnesses, of common natural analogy, by which, as the seventh 
,selves, who will de ·ire unpresumpttwusly years to prophetic, is to be preserved in day of the creation was the sabbath, with 
to search, and be prepared. 
the period yet to come; it is declared the seventh thousand should begin the 
A ver~ striking typical connexion to that the end shall be quickly; and the sabbath of Christianity. But Chronolo-
this effect, and which seems to have been distingui hing facts, the French Revolu-gy is still so imperfect a science, that all 
overlooked, is traceable between our tion, the monastic influence, &c. are giv-the early epochs are unsettled. There 
Lord's ministry, and the predicted career en by which its approach is capable of be-arP. no less than 200 dates offered for the 
of the "Two Witnesses." (ch. 11.) 
ing ascertained. 
creation, and a scarcely inferior number 
Our Lord preached in Judea three 
We are now in the 34th year [1827] for the deluge. 
Even the date of the' 
years and a half. 
from the abolition of Christianity in Nativity is stiJI a matter of dispute. The 
He was crucified in Jerusalem. 
France: and, if the analogy were to be difference of 132 years sinks into nothing 
After three days he rose again. 
exact, in two years would commence the compared with the enormous diversities 
At his rising there was an earthquake. general overthrow. 
But we have no assigned by Chronology. No argument 
(Matt. 28:2.) 
right to determine strictly in matters fu-can be shaken by objections derived from 
He remained on earth for a certain pe-ture, and of this high import ; a few a science which remains the dishonor of 
riod after his conquest of tl~e grave. 
yea~s further may make no interval in literature. 
He asc.ended to .heaven. 
. 
~te eye oJ' Providenc~; and w.e J?lay not 
So far as we ca discover the ways of 
To tlus the htstory of the" two Wit-. 1~1probably be. left, hke the dis.ciple~, to Providence, it acts by a system of gene-
nesses," or the preaching of the Scrip-d1scover the ume by that evidence of rallaws interfered with from time to time 
tures under the Papacy, is a close paral-events .w~ich sup.p~ies its k~owled.gc only by the ,~ill of the Deity for his immediate 
lelism, and evidently a designed one. 
to Chnsuan humiltty,.a~d d1sappom~s and purposes of mercy. 
The ruin of a na-
The Bible is preached in depression elude.s the haughty vJston of the wtsdom tion infected by a corrupt faith seems to 
during three prophetic years and a half. 
of this world. 
· 
follow the overthrow of that faith, by an 
It is slain-" in the great city where 
But the close of this stupendous sub-established law. 
Of the peculiar reli-
our Lord was crucified," actually France, version is declared in Daniel. "From gious corruption of mankind before the 
but with a direct reference of phrase to the time that the daily sacrifice shall be flood we have no certain knowleda-e, but 
the place of our Lord's death. 
taken away, and the abomination that it is clear that they had debased th~ orig-
In three proph~tic days anrl a half it is mal,eth desolate set up, there shall be a inal idea of God, and it is the natural 
raised again. 
thpusand two hundred and ninety days. working of the mind to invent a substi-
At its rising there is an earthquake. 
Blessed is he that waitet.h, and cometh to tute; they and their fal e religion per-
It remail)S for a period" on its feet," the thousand three hundred and five and ished together. 
The idolatry of Canaan 
-in a state of greater security than be-thirty days. 
But go thou thy way till was pro cribed; and the people were 
fore, but still unexalted. 
the end be: for thou shalt rest and stand with idolatry destroyed. 
The corruption 
It is summoned by the voice of God, in thy lot at the end of the1days." (Dan.12: of the Jewish covenant wrought its down-
and ascends to glory ,-a scriptural figure 11-13.) It is thus revealed to the pro ph-fall; and with it the nation was destroyed. 
for its diffusion through all 11ation's. 
et that he shall enter into his rest, the The fall of Roman Paganism was pre-
Thus far the ministry of our Lord, in .abbath of the saints, and shall once more dieted by the Spirit of God; and with it 
person, and his ministry by the Bible, be a priest before the Lord, at the end of the whole civil frame of the Western 
have been parallel. 
And we may pur-1:135 years from the abolition of the dai~ Empire, the seat of Paganism, was un-
sue the analogy as a key to the future. ly sacrifice. 
The actual abolition had oc-done in the midst of boundle~s slaughter. 
One of the most remarkable signs, by curred at various periods, from Nebuchad-The corrupt religion of the later Rome, 
which the disciples were to discover the nezzar to Titus. 
But the temple service the second shape of Paganism, VtUSt per-
immediate approach of the fall of Jerusa-was a continual type of the Christian ish; and from the argument of all the 
lem, was the propagation of the Gospel. Church; and the true prophetic abolition past, independently of prophecy, its fall 
" This Gospel of the kingdom shall be of the daily sacrifice was when Popery must involve a vast extent of sanguinary 
preached in all the world. for a witness abolished the purity of the Gospel, at the overthrow. 
But prophecy is explicit; 
unto all nations ; and then shall the end beginning of the 1260 years. 
That epoch and all langqage sinks under its fiery 
come." There is sufficient reason to be-is distinctly referred to; " And I heard breathings of the fierce and resistless ven-
(Continued from our Jut.) 
lieve that~ before the fall of Jerusalem, the man clothed in linen, which was upon geance, the comprehensive and final ruin, 
Rev. 6:8, 7.-" And when he had opened the fourth the Gospel was actually preached in the the waters of the river, when he held up that is to cover Popt>dom from the eye of 
leal, I besrrlthe voicP. of the fourth benst say, Come and remotest portions of the world; and then his ri!rht hand and his left hand unto man. 
lee. And I looked, aurl behold, a pale horse : rllld hia 
~ 
d 
h 
1111me that aat ou him wu Death, and Hell followed came the end. 
The same extraordinary heaven, and sware by him that liveth for 
The vengeance shall sprea ; t e bru-
wtth him. And pow!'.r was given nnto them over the diffusion of the Gospel has taken place in ever, that it shall be for a time, times, and 
ti~h idolatries and hideous cruelties of 
~orth pRrt of the enrth, to kill with "word and with 
B ba 
e:r~~~,' snd with death, and with the ~euat• or the our day to the same extent, and for the a half; and when he shall have accom-the 
ar rian superstitions shall be en-
first time since the Pentecost. This dif-plished to scatter the pc,wer of the holy wrapped in the same cloud of wrath ; and 
. The Jewish economy, in its rise fusion has been effected, not simply by people, all these things shall be finished." the earth be finally cleared by some great 
an~ progress, was typical of Christianity; the labors of a single kingdom, but by a {Dan. 12:7.) The things, whose fulfilment elemental age11cy, a deluge of flame, for 
of Its original suffering ; the gradual cor-great combination of all the kingdoms of was to commence at the end of the 1290 the dwelling of an unstained generation 
rupti?n that was suffered to invade its Europe out of the bondage of Popery, years, are the universal war, and the fall of man. 
The fate of our own country 
doct!lles, and the calling of a pure and by their dependencies and allies m of Popery ~Jnd its adherents. 
The proph· in this visitation may well exercise the 
portwn out of the national body of cnme. the other quarters of the world. 
An et then asks, " 0 my Lord, what shall be deepest interest of piety and human na-
But a .sc~ptural type is more than a operation of such extent, of such labor, the end of these things?" (v. 8,) and he is lure. 
She. may be severely tried; it is 
shadow; It Is at once a picture and a of snch singularity, and directed to a pur-answered, that it shall be in 1385prophet-scarcely conceivable that in so va. tan ex-
162 
· THE ADVENT HERALD. 
tent of suffering she should r~main un-vish of cloth, for they set as ti 
o ,I11Je gone so fpt, because God was on my put it on the floor by his side, and taking 
touched. 
But she has been huherto sus-skin as they could conveniently. 
His ide, and every thing was overruled for out a pocket Bible, turned to the prophe-
tained in a manner little short of miracle. vest which did not come down q 
to me his servant and chosen prophet." 
cies to read by himself. 
In the great trial which has so lately his pantaloons, was a "linsey woolsey" 
"Yes, I see; well now which way do 
All this scene, thus far, seemed to me 
passed upon Europe, E 
land wa ... of all fabnc, "vith a standing collar, and large t you go 1" 
at 
e time the most ridi ulous I ev r be-
nati 
, placel in the m st direct road of brass 
tton , which had probably been 
"1 want to go the quickest way to get held; but when the first novelt 
had 
per~l. In the Revolutionary race we had used for a coat. 
He had on a cotton shirt to Jerusalem, onlv I must go by the way passed, and I saw the poor delud d man 
th natu 1 means, and. hereditary powers, (unbleached), and around his neck a high of Rome, for it has been revealed to me, turn to' his Bible, tqe ble ed 
vela ion of 
th 
right. to have flung even France be-black patent leather stock, and on his head as it as to Paul, that I must b perse-God and .con _its sac:ed p!ige ith thatin-
hind ; a more democratic constitution, a .a hair seal skin cap. If you will · s*-c 
d and suffer at Rome; she is the tense gaze, w1th. which no man looks but 
more democratic spirit than any other dition to this description, ricture to-YOUJW mO\her of harlots, the beast, the false an honest man, It was by far the saddest 
monarchical people; a national character, self a face unshaven for tt-month, of the-propke~ Satan's seat. and no prophet of sight I ever witnessed. 
I thought of his 
more daring, disciplined, and obstinate; most undescribable solemnity all stern"' God. can go the:e without persecution; I friends, and t~eir 
entr~aties that . he 
a bolder and more numerous array of the ness, you have the man. 
shall he ther m pti on twenty days as would &tay at his home, m the beautiful 
higher ranks on the popular side; our 
As he entered, he came up to me with has been revealed to me, and suffer great town of his birth and pass his days peace-
mean 
of public corre pQnuenc.e more hi cap still on hi head, and pulled down torments and tortures for which I am pre-fully : I thought of the care that had 
rapid and· more secure; our m3ans of over his ear~, he . aid, 
pared, and then God will come to deliver worn him thinner than a shadow, in pur-
public inflamm!ltion more prerare:l ~y the 
" Be you the United States Counsel?" me from prison, as he did Peter and Si-suit of a shade, and of. the disappoint-
general hahits of the people. 
The press, 
"Y ei':', sir." 
las, an.d I shall go on my way to Jeru-ment that awaited him when he reached 
an open and inexhaustible armory of 
''Well, I'm a prophet of God, and my salem." 
the holy spot, where the'Savior ot men 
weapons, old and new, which no power of worlilly name is---. I was born in 
"Why, my friend, it seems to me that died, and on which I doubt no more than 
government could shut upon the people, Worcester, in old Massachusetts, twenty" if they are to handle you so roughly in he, that he will stand again at his second 
and where the sound. of the insurrection-eight years ago, or thereabouts. 
I lived Rome, I should give them the slip and coming, while I sat gazing at the poor 
ary workman was ringing day and night; in sin and. iniquity, like all the rest of the go some other way." 
victim of d~lusion before me, and heard 
itself threw all the capabilities of foreign folks in Worcester, till nigh three years 
"Oh no, I am commanded to go to. the involuntary sigh that now and then 
rebellion into scorn. 
The defilement of ago1 when the Almighty revealed to me Rome and proclaim to the pope that the came from his restless spirit, I felt a sa$1-
the British throne, ar.d the triumph of hi~ son as he did to Paul; I was struck day of God's judgmeht is come, and that ness which I cannot describe; I could 
faction, fierce passion, and lust of power, dumb, and; like Paul, after his dark sea-in a few weeks he will be cast into the have wept over the man, but I could not 
would have found us no novic~s; we son, I had revealed to me wonderful signs, bottomless pit." 
smile at him again. · I made out his 
should have been driven 'to no obscure sights, and visions, when I was brought 
"And what do you think his holiness passport, sent it to be signed by the prop· 
search among the reliques of the middle out into great light. 
Right off I see that will say to this interesting piece of intel-er authorities, and then went with him to 
ages, like our neighbors, for the R3volu-everybody else was wrong; that the ligence ?" 
the steamboat office, saw him on board 
tionary costume. 
We had the whole priests was leading 'em all to perdition. 
"He will order me to great torments-the steamer, which was just weighing an-
picture-gallery of subversion among our So I lifted up my full voice, and like but God will deliver me." 
chor for old Rome. 
I hav.e heard noth· 
heirloom~, scarcely a century ·old; and. Noah, I warned 'em of approachin~ 
"Well, my friend, tell us something ing from him since. 
He had money 
had but 1 to follow the fashions of men, wrath; hl'tt like the Ante-Deluviaus, they about the tate of things in Jerusalem af-enoug-h to take him to Jerusalem, as he 
whose names were familiar as household stopped up their ears and kept on sinning. ter you get there." 
· 
was willing to undergo any privation.-
words, whose desperate triumphs were re-About six weeks ago it was revealed to 
'' Well as I was saying I don't want to His health was declining evidently ; he 
corded. before ?ur eyes, and. whose blood me that. l was th~ prophet of God, po· detain .the Lord Jesus7' nor keep him was wast!ng a~ay _like a rna~ with the· 
was still runmng through our boscms.-ken of m Malachi, and the rest of the waitino-for me so I shall get on the consumption; h1s life was bemg burnt 
Yet from this unrivalled peril England prophets, that were to prepare the way ground as quick as possible. 
Then I out of his heart by a slow fire. 
Before 
was saved; anu more than aved; raised for the second c.oming of Christ; and shall keep a holy fast of forty days.-now he has probably reached Jerusalem, 
to be sur.ces ively the refuge, the cham-that as he would appear at Jerusalem at When this is done the Lord Jesus will and not unlikely he has died of hunger 
pion, and the lead~r of the civilized su~h a time, _I mus~ go there and prepa~·e be revealed from heaven, and set up his and disapp?intment, without the ~ate of 
world.-( To be conttnued.) 
thmgs. ~or his commg; s~. I a~ here' m kingdom in J~rusalem. Then the.day the ~oly Ctty, where the dogs have eat-
the sprrlt and power of Ehjah, and I am of reckonina will come for all the world. en his flesh and the vultures of heaven 
bound for the h?ly e.ity. 
Ifyou ~is~ to All creeds 
0will be burnt up, and judg-have picked his bones. 
A Case of Over Excitement. 
esca~e the last vial nf wrath that IS JUSt ment taken on all priests, churches, and 
The following from theN. Y. "Even-a go_mg to be, poured out, help me on wicked men, and a little while given 
L 
Interior of a Romish Seminary. 
ing Mirror," was furnished by Mr. 
es-me JOurney." 
them to repent, and if they don't do it, 
ter, U. S. Consul at Genoa. 
"\Veil, sir," I replied, somewhat~' used Christ will destroy them all. 
The Jews 
BY JOHN noNuE •. 
Havipg to deal with all sorts of char-up/' I confess, by the prophet's communi-will all be gathered, to Jerusalen out of 
The following graphic description of 
acters, and being confined for many days cations, " [ am g1ad to see you. 
Woq't all nations to which they hav
1
e
1
been driv-the method of training Popish priests in 
ffi 
. 
h d 11 
d 
.1 f b . you ~ake a seat friend.? 
You are off for en, and all the holy dead sha be raised Germany, is from the pen of John Ronge. 
to my 0 ce m t e u e t etal s 0 
usl-Jerusalem, then, hy the first boat?" 
to live and reign with Christ; I shall W 
ness, it is a great relief sometimes to 
h 
~· 
e commend it to those, who, by their 
.th 
ld 
. 
h b 
k 
" 0 yes, sir. 
I must go quick, too." 
be is prime minister, and great prophet. influence, patronage, or monev, ate ai'd-
meet WI 
an o 
gellms w o rea s up 
0 
1 
J 
the monotony of life, and has his own 
''All right. 
We can take you there 365, 00 years, and. then the word will be ing to multiply and sustai.n similar hot 
story to tell. 
Not long ago I was favored by steam, and that's faster than the old burnt up or burnt over, and a new -world beds of tyranny in our own land. 
Of 
with a call from two persons in one day, prophets used to travel, I expect, except ~ade ou.t of the old one, and we shall the internal arrangements of Popish semi-
of a singular description, and they were ~ow and then, some of them, who took, hve ?n It for ev~r and. ever, even to all naries, Protestants know but little, except 
the last two I ever experted to meet.-
hk~ Jonah, the belly of a wha~e for a etermty. 
He~ WI~l be m. the centre of what is gathered from occa ional expo.• 
The fir.st was a Yankee from Worcester, cabm. 
But I hope you are not m such the earth, wh1ch 1s nothmg .but fire and sures like the following.-South. Church. 
Mass. 
He was a long, lean, shabbily great h~~e bu~you can ?ass afi day, or ~elted lavad and there they lllll be ~u~,ed 
In the month of December, 1839, I 
dressed fellow-but I'll stop and o-lveyou two wu us 
ere; we ave a ne city, or ever an ever, even to a etermty. 
. d . t th 
. 
d 
b" 
filled with palaces and works of art." 
"But do you really believe all this my wt asdreceJve 
~ndo f e semmfalry, adn 
~n-
a more particular description. 
Abou,t 
. 
' 
ere on a per10 o mourn u an pam-
three o'clock in the morning, I heard a 
"Oh! I care no more for these 'e-,: 
fnend ?" 
ful conflict. 
The confidence I had hith-· 
thlipdering knocking at the door, by which things t~an Paul did when he stood. ?n 
" Relieve it 1 Why I know it, for it's erto reposed in our spiritual teachers, was 
I knew a stranD"er was there, for all Ital-Mars ~Ill, and see the whole people g1v-
al~ been ,~evealed to me, and 1 can't be soon expelled from'my breast, by a nearer 
ians ring a belt ;vhen there is one to ring. en to Idolatry. 
I must be on my way, mi,~laken. 
. 
. 
, 
survey of their mode of life, and replaced 
The servant opened the door, and ushered for I have yet to get to Jerusalem and 
But what if Je.sus Chnst don~' come by the deepest horror and loathing, which 
in the stranger. 
He seemed to be a kee~ a holy fast of forty, days before w~;~ou have_fimshed,your fast 1 
seized me wh~n I became aware how 
young man, not more than eight and twen-Chnst can come, and I don~' want to de-
" 
hy he wjll come. 
. 
shamefully they abused religion for the 
ty-tall, lean, most pa,rticula1·ly lantern lay the Lord Jesus, you see._ 
Well, but if so strange a thmg should purpose of degrading and subjecting the 
jawed, and what the Yankees call bony. 
"Oh no, of course not; I should be happen as tha;,,~e should not come, what people to th~i:t will; when I saw by what 
He had on a pair of cow hide shoes of an very orry to have you do that; I dQn't would you do; 
. 
a fearful veil of hypocrisy deceitful Rome 
enormous size, into the soles of which think we ought to do such thi~s. But 
"~hy, you may JUSt as w~ll ask me surrounds us from our cradles to our 
not less than half a pound of horse nails tell ,u.s a word about the way yo~ got what if there was no Jesus Ch:ru;t ! But graves ; when I saw how the holiest .ordi-
had been driven ; if I could judge by the here. 
I have a great interest in your I have s.tayed. here too long already;. I nances are insultingly misused, to crush 
clattering his feet made on the marble mission. 
I have not seen such a man for was gomg right away, but the captam the dignity of human nature. The dis-
floor as be came in. 
Between his shoes many a day." 
told me I must have a passport, or the graceful fetters galled me, which till now 
and the bottom ofhis pantaloons, (no small 
"Well, just as soon as this revelation earthly po~ers would ~top me; I wa~~ to I had not felt; and I perceived what many 
distance,) were clearly visible a pair of come, I sold out my earthly goods to get go; make It out as qmck as you can. 
of my fellow sufferers endured, and all 
Yankee knit, mixed wool socks, and till a little money, and left friends a_nd hom:, 
"You shall have ~tin an hour frie?d·:' the more severely, th~ less they dared 
a little above the socks, which had fallen for you ~now wba~ ?ur Lord satd, that 1f 
" And I'll pay for It now; what will It avow t~e causes of theu suffering. 
For 
down a little over said shoes, was visible a man d1dn't hate his father and mother." cost? I've g·)t a little money left." 
the pohcy of Rome knows how to en· 
quite a piece of a lean and somewhat &c.' I got to Boston, and found a steam-
" Oh I don't charge prophets anything twine, in bonds from which there is no 
hairy leg. 
Since I have begun at the bot-ship a-going to leave the next day for for pas~ports, and will get the go~ernor, escape, all Christian.s who profess its 
tom to describe my hero, I will go up, England, and I took passage ; we was 13 and poliee, and papal consul to VIse our creed ; and, more skilfully than Moses, · 
and end where common historians begin days at sea. 
The same ?aY we got to passports gratis! a~d y~u can ~o on board who once dr~w water from the barren 
-at the head. 
But really the feet were Liverpool! went to Londonm the cars, and the steamer Vugtl this evenmg, and be rock, can conJure money from thE> impov-
some o.f the most . conspicuous things the day after I got there I ~ent aboard an off for Rome without delay." 
. 
. erished people; but thei~ principal care 
about hts person. 
his pantaloons were of English vessel, and we satledhere to Ge-
"Well then, I'll stay here till It and most consummate skill are cqnstant· 
home made bottle green woollen, and cut noain lSdays. So you see it's o!l_!y 36days comes." 
ly directed towards their servants that is 
by somebody who was not particularly la· since Ileft my father's house in Worcester; 
So. the prophet took off his cap, and to say, to the inferior clergy and their 
THE XD"VENT HERALD. 
education. 
The inferior clergy are so The young man who wishes to become sistible sweep overran empires ; here 
securely bound in spiritual and external a teacher of 1 tHe people, must witness they all appear, and here they are all 
fetters, that, for the greater number, it is his open and upright manliness ruined; lost-lost, like the small drop of a buck-
a,lmost impossible to escape. 
The pecu-he must blin.dly obey, anu submit h~mself et, when plunged amidst the boundless 
liar and appropriate armory for these de-to the most degrading oppre~jon, for the and unfathomable ocean. Oh! the mal-
grading bonds, is the college or seminary first injunction laid on him is unconc1ition-titudes which these eyes s	).].1 behold, 
for priests. 
It is th~re that the youth al obedience. 
He sees that the arrange-when God calleth the heavens from above, 
who wishes to devote himself to the teach-
~ents and det!rees of the hierarchy are and the earth, that he may judge his peo-
ing of the people, has the brand of slavery contrived for the degradation, and not the ple ! 
stamped deep and painfully upon him; improvement of his country; and that 
The time draws on, 
it is there that he is condemned to holy he himself, as the servant of a foreign When not a single spot of burial-earth, 
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Whether on land, or in the l'pacious sea, 
id eness; 1t lS t ere t at 
IS spmt IS 1et-power, lS expect 
to as ist in the oppres· But must give back its long-committed dust, 
tered and bowed to blind obedienpe by sion of the .land which gave him birth. Inviolate; and faithf11lly shall these 
sQperstitious dread and sacred statutes; He is also doomed to bear the weight of Make up the full acromit, not the least atom 
it is there that he is inoculated in heart infamy which accompanies every state of Ernbezzled, or mislaid, of the whole tale . 
. and soul with hypocrisy and self-egotism; slavery, and the disarace which now at-Each soul shall have a body ready furnished, 
h 
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And each shall have his own. Hence, ye profane! 
itis there t at man is degraded to the taches to the entire priesthood, from the Ask not, How can this be? Sure tbe same powet, 
condition of a slave, and becomes a pas· immorality of many among them, whose That reared tbe piece at first, and took it down, 
sive tool. 
The pain, the torment of this celib cy is a false profession. 
Can re-assemble the loose scattered parts, 
sacrifice is fearful, and nature instinctive-
Can glittering coin, wrung from starv-And put th~m as they were. Almjghty God 
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Has done much more; nor is hi ann impaired 
y revo ts w en s e IS ro 
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er 10-mg poverty and pious fanaticism, or Through length of days; and what he can, he will, 
liJlst rights, of the mo t valued gifts of wines and dainty viands, make amends? His faithfulness is bound to see it done. 
the Creator. 
And yet the slave is silent, Y e , if he prefer the life of a gluttonou 
When the dread trumpet sounds, the slumbering 
and all the more so, as the grave is deeper animal to that of a man. 
Who can sus-
dust 
where his freedom and his dianity lie tain him? The hope alone that he may Not unatt~ntive to the call, shall wake, 
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Ana every joint possess its proper place, 
bune . 
t IS but seldom that a despair-
on~ day aid in breaking the chains which With a new elegance of form, unknown 
ing cry e~capes from his inmost soul, and bind his native country! That thought To its first state. 
dies away i~ utterance amid the empty it was which animated me, and kept me 
As the day dies int<;> the rtight, so doth 
sounds of stimulated prayer. 
. 
upright and secure under the pressure of the summer into the winter. 
The sap is 
I cannot think, without tremblin<T in my fearful servitude. 
But mui>t not the sa,id to descend into the root, and there it 
my. every nerve, on all the igno~iny nature ~nd the disposition suffer _from the lies buried in the ground. 
The earth is 
whtch was heaped upon, and on the dis-depresswn, and Will the moral v1gor take covered with snow, or erusted with· frost, 
graceful treatment which we must en-n? seathe ? Ah! what if one were to and bec!Jmes a general sepulchre; when 
dure. And I could wish the pen I write ~we way to ~e ,Pressure, to settle. down the spring apearetli, all begin to rise; 
with were a blazing torch, to illuminate u;to a hypocntel to become an object of .the plants and flowers peep out of their 
tae deep abyss wherein hearts are stifled, contei?pt to one's self and the rest of graves, revive, and grow, a d flourish.-
and spiri~ overwhelmed, amid hymns of n:ankmd! All these doubts and apprehen-This is the• annual resurrection. 
The 
praise! I need, however, only to depict swns forced ~hemselves, even at f?~ fir.st, corn, by which we live, and for want of 
in quiet, sober colors, what I have seen ?efore my mmd, and filled my spmt with which we perish with famine, is not-with-
and felt, to rouse with certainty the wrath-
~neifable sadness, and ~ey. were and are standing cast u.pon the earth, and bmied 
f~l horror, and the deepest sympathy of JUStified-but t.oo well JUStl~ed. 
. . 
in the ground, with a design tha4 it may 
my fellow citizens, who may still be un-
Then the t1me was skilfully .divided corrupt1 and being corru..pted, may revive 
acquainted with the fearful strategy of between . ~ttenda~ce 'at ceremomes, and and multiply.: Our bodie are fed with 
the church of Rome. 
the .repetition 
~ hp-~rayer~, for from fo.ur this constant experiment, and we continu,e 
During th~ first few days after enter-to SIX hours dm~y, (mclq.dmg the br~~la-this present lite by a succession f resur-
itlg the seminary, I saw depic.ted in the ryprayers.) 
Fl~e hours of prayer dally, rections. 
Thus, all things are· repaired 
countenance of my companions in mi for-
an~ such prayer J f?r young men hf twen-by corrupting, are preserved by perishing, 
tune, consternation, or timidity, the deep-ty-our -years, 
esigned •to bet. e salt of and revived by dying. 
Arid can we 
est grief, or a sort of desperate. resigna-the earth. 
Rome uses devotiOn as a think that 1'nan the lord of all these 
tion, according to their several dispo itions; means of enslaving men. 
I tried by ~v-
thing~, which th~s die and revive for him, 
the first evening, for example, of il' ac-ery means to escape from the debasmg should be detained in death as never to 
q_uaintances and friend , who were con-feeling, from the repr?ach of conscience, live ag~in? 
'. 
s1gned to the same cell, none uttered a t~at I had done nothmg. 
After ~he bre-
, I it imaginC~.ble, that God should t}),us 
single word; all forgot their speechless v1ary prayers were concluded, there ~ere re~ton~ all things to man, and not restore 
misery in sleep. 
Forty young men, in only about three Jl?urs left for J;>rlvate 
an to himself3 If there WP.re no other 
the bloom and strength of their man-study; an~ the spl.ntual work was to be consideration, but of the principles of hu-
hood, glided silentlyaboutlikemummies. performed m the midst of twenty youths, man nature of the liberty and remunera-
We looked <m. one another in gloomy, who had no farther exam_inatidn for office billty of hu~an actions,. and of natural 
and speechless sorrow, and each sought, to undergo, and who besides were other-revolutions and resurrections of other 
in the countenance of 
his friend, wise fini hed! 
It wa.s :':ith horror that I creatures, it' were abundantly sufficient 
to ascertain the state of feeling in his contemplated the posslbihty that my mor-to render the resurrection of our bodie 
heart. 
We all endeavored to attain that al strength might be weakened by the in-hiahly probable.-Bishop Pearson. 
heroism which can resolve at once tosar.-fluence of idleness and dissimulation.-
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rifice the heavenly d;-eams. of youth, its My case, was, tb.erefore, often desperate.; 
The Portuguese Jews. 
hopes, its wishes, and its freedom: in or-. and many a time, in fever heat, have I 
"The Portuguese nation," says the 
der, as *ey told us, tha,t we might the O}lt-watched the nig t, and prayed i~ spir-Duchess of Abrantes, "is three pa ts 
more successfully promote the temporal it, "If it be possible, iet the bitter cup Jewish." Obliged to conform outwardly 
and eternal well being of outfellow men; pass from me." I was forced to drink it; to the Church of Rome, so stroncr wa 
as if it were po sible for him to raise but a gleam of prophetic brig_htness light-their attachment to the religion of their 
m~n to I'ndependence and ~elf respect, ed me through the niaht, and showed me 
t 
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t th 
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ance ors, 
a 
e governmen , 
roug 
who cannot boast of their existence in in dreams the day of my ema:ncipation. motives of policy, was obliged f11om time 
his own bosom. 
That, however, whir.h Miserably diseased in mind and di posi-to time to acknowledge the existence of 
most excited my indignation and horror, tion, I left the seminary in 1840· 
the feeling; and at length by an edict, in 
was the ghastly stagnation, whioh, seen 
the year 1773, allowed the children qf 
from one side, exhibited depression, from 
The Resurrection. 
Moses to hold their festivals-relieved 
the other, levity, discont~nt, or cowardice. 
If, as is commonly supposed, the earth them from taxe levied on them as Jews 
The young man of four and twenty had contains, at any one given period of time, -and made honorable mention by name 
closed accounts with himself and ali man-no less than four hundred millions of of certain officers of state who were Jews, 
kind i the dearest ties were broken which souls, what a congregation must all those yet had.been prime ministers and trea-
~und him to his fellow men. 
The glow-geneFations make which have succeeded surers, and finally declared that " the 
mg and joyful fire of youth; which seeks each· other for six thousand years ! 
blood of tlie Hebrews is the blood of our 
ta achieve for itself a bright futurity, was 
What an immense harvest of men and Apostles, our deacons, our presbyter., and 
~xtingnished, egotism poured the freez-women springing up from the caverns of our bishops." 
1 g ·poison of su. picion, envy, and self-in-the earth, and the f!epths of the sea!-
Prior, however, to this act of toleration, 
terest, into the warm and youthful veins. Stand awhile my soul, and contemplate the flames of the Autos de Fe, and the 
\Ve felt as if we were enveloped for eter-the wonderful spectacle. 
Adam formed dungeons of the Inquisition, had, by the 
nity, into one impenetrable shroud, and in paradise, and the babe born but yester-terror they in pired, driven from their 
as if doleful spirits were singing to us day ; the earli t age and the-last gen-homes great numbers of the Portuguese 
burial songs throughout the gloomy night. eration~, meet upon the same level. Jews Jews. 
These, generally sp~aking, fled 
The despotism of the Roman hierarchy and Gentiles, Greeks and Barbarians, to England and Holland. They were 
glared at me like an awful monster; a people of all climes and languages, unite composed of all ranks,-noblemen, offi-
mo~st_er which digs graves for the burial in the promiscuous throng. Here those cers, learned .physicians and opulent mer-
of hvmg youth; graves which engulf vast armies, which like swarms of locusts, chants ;-many carried with them great 
the freedom and the happiness of nations. covered countries; which, with an irre-wealth, and there were individuals who 
maintained in England a Ducal establish-
ment. 
the first names of the Portuguese 
may still be traced among their present 
de cendants, who occupy very different 
situations. The Villa Real~, the Alva-
rez, the Mendez, the Francos, the Rebel-
los, the D~ Salvas, the Garcias, the 
D'Aguilans: the Son,zas, the De Castros, 
the Sal vadors, and a long list, betray their 
Lusitanian lineage. 
These distinguished persons constitued 
for many years what is ealled the com-
munity of Spanish and Portuguese Jews 
of London. 
The nobler families who 
brought wealth, assumed their rank in 
society. 
The mercantile class opened 
new 
~ources of commerce-many of 
their physicians obtained great practice 
in England; and Jews have excelled in 
that science from remote ages. 
The Portuguese Jews of London could 
never drop their national characteristic; 
they were remarkable for their haughti-
ness, their high sense of honor, and their 
stately manners. 
Subsequently, Jewish 
emigrants flocked frorh Germany, Poland, 
and Barbary, a race in every respect of in-
ferior rank. The Portuguese shrank from 
all contact with them ; differ~nt syna-
gogues separated them; and the Lusita-
nian Jew would rather have returned to 
the fires of Lisbon than have intermar-
ried ,~:ith the Jew of Alsace or Warsaw. 
The latter was humiliated by indigence, 
and pursued the meanest and pot uofre-
quently the most flisreputable crafts.-
The former, opulent and high-minded1 in-. 
dolent, polished and luxurious, splendid 
in dress and equipage, felt himself dis-
graced by the beard and gaberdine of 
the Polander. 
As the 'property of the Jews was for-
merly entirely personal, and they were 
prohibited from holding real estate, the 
wealth of Jewish families, it has been ob-' 
served, never outlasted two generations. 
This has been th,e fate of the Portuguese 
Jev'S. 
By the chances aQd changes of 
fortune, some of the German Jews, 
emerged from their lowly state,-skilled 
in the arts and the artifices of finance,, 
and the wealth of the Jewish nation is 
depicted in their coffer::;; and these nor'th-
ern Jews are even courted by the humble 
descendants of their haughty Portuguese 
brethren. 
Before leaving the &ubject, it may be 
stated for the information of the cunous, 
that at the time of the first great expul-
sion of the JeY'S from Spain, fifty thou-
sand families were driven into Portugal. 
Of these, those whose fathers had re-
ceived baptism, were known as Chri.s-
tianos novos; they were numerous, and 
senetly Juda'ized. 
Under the adminis-
tration of the great Pombal, the priests 
persuaded King Jo eph t{) renew t.hat 
badge of Judaism, the yellow hat, to mark 
the Christianos novos.among his subjects. 
The edict wa prepared; Pombal the next 
morning appeared PE:fore his majesty with 
three yellow hats ; one he offered to the · 
King, one to the Grand Inquisitor, and 
put the third on l:is own head; sayin<T, 
" I obey your majesty's order, in provi-
ding these ·badges, to be worn by those 
wr\ose blood has been tainted by J uda-' 
ism."-Geniu,s of Judaism. 
0. A. Brownson. 
" It ha ever been in the order of Prov-
idence that evils should be met by reme-
dies, and heresies, the greatest of evils, 
by sturdy champions of the truth. 
Thus, 
to the Arians wa opposed St. Athana-
siu , to the Pelagians and Mahicheau~, 
St. Augustine, toihe. Albigenses, St. Do-
minic, [! !] and to Lutheran.' and Calvin-
ists, St. Ignatius [Loyola, the founder of 
the Jesuits] and his c.ompanions."-
Brownson's Rev., Ap., 1846,p. 17'8. 
ThP-above allusion to Saint Dominic, 
the founder of the Inqui ition, and the 
immediate instigator of the the wholesale 
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THE ADVENT HERALD. 
system of PLUNDER and MURDER 
Wicked or Ignorant. 
contenti{ln; we love all who love our Lord 
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J~sus Christ, and evince that love by a holy 
w IC 
Wa$ practise 
upon t e 
au <JlS, 
\re re"ret tl1at \Ye hav" sc1 frequent cause 
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n e feel bound, huwever, to reprove 
lS compete Y astoun mg. 
t liS one 0 
tn complain of the injusti~e of the remarkA and expoie sin and error! whether in our 
the possibilities, we acknowledge, that of tho:;e who atterupt to rc::present our views own ranks, nr others, whether in churches, 
even 0. A. Brownson could be so tran -
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The remarks of must o t ose or tn lVI ua s: an1 t1us 1 ·e t e a post es, 
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anattctsm as to regar 
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in our measure, we wuulcl warn every man, 
Dominic, that bloody and blood~thirsty who spP.'tk of our _vtews etther ~ho~s a great aud teach everv man in all wisdom, that we 
demon, who descended to his grave with ohtu~eness. 
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11 their part, a perl.ect Ignorance lllay present every man perfect in Clmst 
his hands reeking in the blood of \Vidows I of our poslltou, or a fixed .del!Jg~' to lll~n~er J esu&. 
and orphans slain for conscience' sake, ar.d malign us. 
A wmer 10 the 
ChrtstJan 
With Mr. Shaw's opportuui ty for knowing 
as a Sai'llt ~· but certainly, no live man Herald,'' whu signs himl!e)f "S." wltich is the P"sitiun of the body nf Adventists, we 
could have calculated such a thing as unclP.rstoocl to si~rni(v Elijah Shaw, says:-
cannot believe him ignorant on that point. 
among the list of probabilities. 
Importallt Avowa/.-Conversiug a few It looks more like an attempt to justify ~im-
Mr. Brownson has wheeled square day:s since with one of the Advent preach-self for the course he has pursued,-in com-
about from the most ultra Liberal Chris-ers, he complained that we scoffed. I re-
tianity to the most benirrhted Catholicity. plied, that for one, . 1 not comp am at.a 
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And, (as it seems to ~18) as if to efface !hat they ~hou!!h~ d1ffe~ent frm~ me r~l:t~Ive Advent nigh,in a fourpenny neological tract-
_. 
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1o1he particular lime ol the coming ofChrtst; a Jut of which we have on hantl, uot bPing 
from the tab. lets of hts own .. memory the but I was not eatisfied that they shuuld con· 
d fh r 
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.able t11give themaway,-inwithdrawingall 
recor s o 
IS 10rmer oppos1t1011 to 
ano-stanlly do all they could to breaK up evecj 
lie principles, he seems to be seeking to church, and to get every person they coulcl sympathy from those who differ from him-
purge them from him by swallowing as tu lea'e the church. H~ then replied, "That self on this question,-in misrt:presenting 
sovereign balms, anodynes, anJ elixirs, is correct_: that ill what. we are doing." This the Adveutists,-and in doing all he could to 
those very monstro ities in the history of I call a.n tmpnrlaTit aL'owal. . . 
. 
break up the churches of the Adventists and 
the Roman Catholic Church which still 
h !eems tube a general pnnctpleon whtch 
g_ et thern into his church,-even by insinua-
l 'll h 
p 
E 
they aet: and when they gtve their reasons 
c. 11 
t .e great. heart of 
rotestant 'u-f(,r so actin!{, they are obliged to show in ting to brethren and siters his doubts of 
rope ~Ith .thetr bare reme~brance ·~ word as weli as deed, tl:at they have nu Mr. Himes' honesty, and other unchristian 
·He VIes With the most ancient fanatic Christian fellowship or sv:c1pathy ..-tth any means. 
A!!d now, he would justify himself, 
and de,rotee in the church, in his ob-church or people but ~h~mselves. It ought 
· h 
d by accusing the Adventists, of the things of 
sequiousness and abject submission!-to he understood th_at what. 1s 
er~ state 
No slave, no creature before its creator, refers, nut to the w1ld fana11cal facttons,. hut which he is himself guilty, on the avowal of 
can seem more supple and pliant. 
He to the r.wst mod~rate and regular Adve~tlsts. some one individual, contrary to the publish-
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And yet I believe there are many stncere ed declaration of the body. 
proc atms 
Imse 
rea ¥ an . ea~e; to Christians among them, who, I am hopine; 
swallow whatever doctrmes lus ~p.mtual will yet be able to see Chri.;tians elsewhere, 
teacher and father confessor admmtsters : and not remain so narrow and prejudiced as 
yes, he, Orestes A. Brownson, scarcely at present they appear. 
S. 
the second philosopher and metaphysi-
That there are those who have no Chris-
ciao alive,-he who could teach these 
lordly Catholics whose great toe he seems 
almost willing to kiss, their a, b, abs, in 
the scientific and philosophic mind,-he 
stoops before a mitred bishop,-confesses 
his sins to, comparatively, a child he-
fore him,-buys an inrlulgence,--craves 
ahsolution,-believes in the Real Pres-
ence,-writes a Review,-and lauds Saint 
Dominic!!! 
We give it up. 
"He that exalteth 
himself shall be abased," and vice versa, 
saith certain books. 
Both extremes of 
this proposition have certainly been illus-
trated in Mr. Brownson. 
He imagines 
he is enormously exalted by his con ver-
sion to Romanism. 
We really cannot 
see nor imagine the bottom of that Hell 
of mental degradation, to the depths of 
which he seems trending with the speed 
of forty centripetal forces !-Boston bwes-
tigato7·. 
~~e 1\~uent fljernlb .. 
11BEHOLD! THE IIRlDKGROOM COMETH!!" 
The 011ice. 
BOSTON, 1ULY 1, 1~. 
II ~· 
tian fellowship with any wha think different· 
ly from thcml:Selves, as well among the Ad-
venti:~ts. as amon~ the Methodists and Bap-
tists, we know; but it i~S as unjust to ascribe 
the feelings of individuals in one body to 
the body. as it is to dn the !ill me in other 
hodies. 
The AdvP.ntists as a body sympa-
thize with all who lovr. the Lord Jesus Christ 
in sinr.er1 .y, wherever they may find them. 
But they have no sympathy fi1r those who 
call themselves Christians, who attribute 
1he views of individuals to the body, when 
posses:s6cl ofthe weans for better information. 
Individual opinions express the views _of a 
body only so far as they go. 
To get the 
views of a body, we must ~o to the published 
acts ofthe body. 
\-V11at have the Adventists 
as n. body publish..:d 1 Mr. Shaw will find 
in the published proceedings of the Confer-
ence of Ad\u00b7entists at Boston, May 27th,1845, 
the following resolution, which was offered 
by Elon Galusha, and adopted unanimously, 
viz:-
Resolved, That this Cunfereuce being a 
voluntary deliberative body, meeting for mu-
tual benefit and the aid of a co•nmon cause, 
has no ri~;tht or disposition to interle.re with 
any one's church relationship-and that be-
longing to any one of the evangelical churches 
~o called is no barrier to an individual who 
is an Adventist. participating in the deliber-
aticm of the ConltJrence. 
In the Acldress put forth by the Conference 
of May 4th, 1843, is the following:-
Our ,Heresy, 
IN WHAT DOES IT CONSIST 1 
The" Pittsburg Catholic," referring to the 
"Protestant Alliance," asks if it is to include 
Millerites, Mornaons, Universalists, Unita-
rian!!, &c. 
The "Presbyterian Advocate," publi11lu:d 
in tht: same city, says in reply :-
"You are more ignorant than even priests 
are commonly, if you do not know tilat the 
' Prutestant Alliance' has as little to do with 
Mormons, Millerites, &c., as Romanists.'" 
'rVe wish to enquire of the "Presbyteri:u, '' 
if this is an auracular intimation that the doc-
trine of the Second Advent, as believed by 
the church in all ages since lhe first advent, 
is to be regarded by the " Protestant Al-
liance" as so great a heresy, that the be-
lievers in it are to be cast out of the pale r r' 
their sympathies, and regarded as Mormons 
and heretics 1 If this is to be the case, we 
think we have the right to demand that our 
great l•eresy he pointed out. This is not to 
be done by pointing to the hallucinations, 
and peurile drea•us of individuals, for which 
Adventists are not responsible; nqr is it tn 
be done by referring lo the fanatical course 
of thuse who have gone out from us because 
they were not of us. 
But it is to IJe clone by 
puiuting out in the acts aod belief of the 
body, that which is s•1bversive of Scriptural 
teachings. What we bt:lieve as a body, is be-
fore the world By Millerites, all understand 
those who believe wttla Mr. Miller, are re-
ferred to. 
Mr. Millt:r, and those who be-
scriptural views, leading to unseemly prac· 
tices, and the sad divisions which have been 
thereby caused by some professing to be 
Adventists, we deem it incumbent on us to 
declare to the world our belief, that the 
Scriptures teach, among others, the following 
llllPORTANT TRUTHS. 
1st. That the heavens and earth which 
are now, by the word of God, are kept in 
store, 
re~erved unto fire against the day nf 
judgment and perdition of un~odly men. 
That 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, the 
earth also, and the works that are therein 
shall bP. burned up. 
That the Lord will 
create new heavenl:l and a new earth, wherein 
right•.ousness-that is, the ri)rhteous-will 
for 
~ver dwell. 
2 Pet. 3:7, 10, 13. 
And 
th;~t the kingdom and the dominion under 
the whole heaven, shall be given to the 
people of the SlJ.ints of the Most High, whose 
kingdom is an everlastin!{ kingdom, and all 
dmninions shall serve and obey him. 
Dan. 
7:27. 
2J. That there are but two advents, or 
appearings, of the Savior to this-earth. Heb. 
9:28. That both are personal and visible. 
Acts l:U, 11. 
That the first took place in 
the days of Herod, ~at. 2:1, when He was 
couceived of the lloly Gh~st, Mat. 1:18,· 
burn of the Virgin Mary. Mat. 1:25 went 
about doing good, Mat. 11:5, suffered on 
the cross, the just fur the unjust,1 Pet. 3:18, 
died, Luke 23:46, was buried, Luke 23:53, 
arose again the third day, the first fruits of 
them that slept, 1 Cor. 15:'1, and ascended 
inw the he;nens, Luke 24:51, which must 
receive him until the times of lhe restitution 
of all things, spoken of by the mouth of all 
the holy prophets. 
Acts 3:21. That the 
second coming or appearing, will take place 
when he shail descend from heaven at the 
sounding of the last trump, to give his people 
rest, 1 Thes. 4:16, 1i; 1 Cor. 15:52, being 
revealed from heaven in tlaming fire, taking 
veangeance on them that know not God, and 
obey not the gospel. 
2 Thes. 1:7, 8. 
And 
that he will judge the quick and the dead at 
his appearing and kingdom. 2 Ttm. 4:1. 
3d. That the second eoming, or appearing-, 
is indicated to be now emphatically nigt., 
even at the doors, Mat. 24:33, by the chro-
nology of the prophetic periods, Dan. 7:25; 
8:14: 9:24; 12:7, 11, 12; Rev. 9:10, 15; 
1,1:2, 3; 12:6, 14; 13:5, the fulfilment of 
prophecy, Dan. 2d, 7th, Sth, 9th, 11th, and 
12th, chaps.; Rev. 9th, 11th, 12th, 13th, 
14th, and 17th, chaps., and the signs of the 
times. Mat. 24:29; Luke 21:25, -2'6. And 
that this truth should be preached both to 
saints and sinners, that the firs& may rejoice, 
kaowing their rt·demption draweth nio-h 
Luke ~1:28; 1 Thes. 4:18, and the last"b: 
warned to ftee from the wrath to come, 
2 Cor. 6:11, before tbe Master of the house 
shall rise up and Bhut to the door. Luke 13: 
24, 25. 
4th. That the condition of salvation is 
We are now receiving tor the paper, not 
near enough to pay our current expenses.-
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heavy bills to meet the first of July. We are 
in the last quarter of the volume-a volume 
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whose good offices we have been so much in-
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if you have paid for the present and past vol-
We have no controversy with any uf the 
religious sects of the day, or existing eccl e-
sias· ical orgauizations, as such. Our standard 
of Chrislian character and fellowship is, lo 
love the Lord our God with -all our heart, 
and strPhgth, sod u.ind, and our neit:hhor as 
ourself-walking soberly, f!UOiy, and right-
eously in this present evil world, dotng good 
as we have an opportunity. 
lieve with him, met at Albany rnore than onr. 
year since, and published a declaration of 
the principles, fur which we contend, and 
which embrace everything essential in which 
we differ from any of the churches,-while 
in all things so111e of the churches agree with 
us-some of them agreeing iu one thing, and 
some in auother 
While our 
distinctivt~ repentance toward God and faith in our Lord 
Jesus Cbriat. Acts 20:21; Mark 1:15. And 
princtples'are thus before the world, we have 
J umes of the " Herald 1 " 
If you have, we 
thank you much. If you have not, the little 
sum due from you, added to like sums due 
from hundreds of other subscribers, would en-
able ua promptly to discharge all our obliga-
tions, and to comply with the Apostolic in-
junction, to " owe no man anything." 
Do 
not lay us under the necessity of breaking that 
commandment. 
Second Advent believers are found in all 
branches of the Christian Church; and when 
we come together we all meet on common 
ground. 
The Conference, just held in thi11 city, in 
their Address published the following dec-
laration on this very point :-
We have one great m~sion of love to all 
men : it is p;Hamount to all others; " the 
Lord it at hand ;'' "tht~ Judge stands before 
the door." And knowin~ the terrors of the 
Lord we persuade men. 
Instances-of undue 
severity on the part. of some who have .id~n­
tified themselves wtth us, toward extsttng 
churches, there have been. 
But such is 
not our work. 
With churches we have no 
that thoee who have repentance and faith, 
the right to demand, that when we are de-
will live eoberly, aud righteously, and godly 
nounced as heretics, the finger of reprobation 
in this pre.ent world, looking for that blessed 
should be placed on the principle which is of 
hope, and the glorious appearing of the great 
infidel tendency. When this is not done, W'! 
God and our Savior Jesua Chrit. Tit. 2:11 
can but regard the wholesale system of de--Ia. 
nunciation which is indulged in, as unchrie-
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General Conference of Adventists, al Al-t e ead will not hve agam unlll after a 
bany, N. Y., April 29th, 1845. 
thouaand years. 
Rt:v. 20:5. 
And that the 
In view of the many contlieting opinions,un-sainte shall not all sleep, but shall be 
cbar.ged in the twinkling of an eye at the 
laet trump. 1 Cor. 15 : 51, 52. 
6th. That the only Millennium taught in 
the word of God is the thousand years which 
are to intervene between the first resurrec-
tion and that of the rest of the dead, as in-
culcated in the 20th of Revelation, 
Rev. 
20:2-7, Aud that the various portions of 
Scriptur~ which refer to the Millennia! state, 
are to have their fulfilment after the resur-
rection uf all the saints who sleep in Jesus. 
Iaa. 11th; 35:1,2, 5-10; 65.17-25. 
7th. That the 
promises that Abraham 
ehould be the heir of the world was nul to 
him, or to his seed through the law, but 
through the righteousness of faith. Rom. 
4:13. That they are nr>l all Israel which 
are of Israel. Rom. 9:6. That there is no 
difference uncer the Gospel dispensation be-
tween Jew and Gentile. Rom. 10:12. That 
the middle wall of partition that was between 
them is broken down, no more to be rebuilt. 
Eph. 2:14, 15. 
That God will render to 
every man according to his deeds . .Hom. 2:6. 
That if we are Christ's, then are we Abra-
ham's seed, and heirs according to the vrom-
iae. G:ll. 3: 29. 
And that the only resto-
ration of Israel, yet future, is the restoratiou 
of the saint!' to the earth,· created anew, 
when God shall open the graves of those 
deacendants of Auraham who died in faith, 
without receiving the promise, with the be-
lieving Gentiles, who have been graffed-in 
with them into the same olive tree-and shall 
cause them to come up out of their graves, 
and bring them, with the living, who are 
changed, into the land nf Israel. Ezek. 
37:12; Heb. 11:12, 13; Rom. 11:17; John 
5:28,29. 
8th. That there is no promise ot this 
world's conversion. 
Mat. 24:14.-That the 
Horn of Papacy will .war with the saints, 
and prevail against them, until the Ancient 
of Days shall come, and judgment be given 
to tile saints of the Mos.t High, and the time 
come that the saints possess the kingdom. 
Dan. 7:21, 22. 
That the children of the 
kingdom, and the children of the wicked one 
will continue together until the end of the 
world, when all things that offend shall be 
gathered oot of the kingdom, and the right-
eous shall shine forth a~ the sun in the king-
dom of their Father. Mat. 13:37-43. That 
the Man of Sin will only be destroyed by the 
brightness of Christ's comini· 2 Thes. 2:8. 
And that the nations of those which are 
saved, and redeemed to God by the blood of 
Christ, out of every kindreJ, and tongue, and 
people, and nation, will be made kings and 
priests unto God, to reign forever ou the 
earth. Rev. 5:9, 10; 21:24. 
9th. •That it is the duty of the ministers of 
the Word, to continue in the work of preach-
ing the Gospel to every creature, even unto 
the end. Mat, 28:19, 20,-calling upon them 
to repent, in view of the fact, that the king-
dam ot heaven is at hand, Rev. 14:7,-that 
their sins may be blotted out, when the 
times of refrP.shing shall come from the 
presence of the Lord. Acts 3:19:20. 
And lOth. That the departed saints do not 
enter their inheritance, or receive their 
crownsat death. Dan. 12:13; Rev. 6:9-11; 
Rum. 8;22, 23. 
That they without us can-
not be made perfect.. Heb. 11:40. 
That 
their inheritance, incorruptihlc and undefiled, 
anti that fadeth not away, i~ reserved in heav-
en, ready to be revealed in the last time. 
1 Pet. 1:4, 5. 
That thera are laid up for 
them and us crowns of righteousness, which 
t.he Lord 1 he righteous Judge shall give at. 
the day uf Christ, to all lh.at love his ap-
pearing. 2 Tim. 4:8. 
That they will only 
be sati~tied when th~y n·ake in Christ'll 
likene:ss. Ps. 17: l5. 
And that when the 
Sun of Man llhall come in his glory, and all 
THE ADVENT HERALD. 
the holy angels with him, the King will say I 
to those on his right hand, Corne ye blessed 
of my Father, inherit the kingdom pfepared 
for you from the foundation of the world. 
Matt. 25:34. 
Then they will he equal to the 
angels, 
bein~ the children of God and the 
resurrection. Luke 20:36. 
A Case of Over Excitement. 
~orrespon~ence. 
LETTER FRoM Bao. I. E. JoNEs. 
Dear Bro. Bliss :-In my recent visit at 
Boston and Worcester, Mass. , and Ports-
mouth, N. H., I was greatly cheered with 
meeting many old and very dear friends, and 
also with the m1.nifest prosperity of the Ad-
The article uuder the above head on anoth-vent churches in those places. 
From my peculiar affiictions for a year past, 
-the sickness and death of Mrs Jones,, and 
sickness of all my five children twice each, 
and two 9f them ~~veral times,-I have not 
been able to spend but two Sabbaths out of 
New York in that time. 
The s~eing my 
family all well1 or nearly so, and 1'hyself pretty 
much restored, visiting old friends and places, 
endeared to me by a thousand interesting and 
er page, was communicated hy Mr. Lester, 
the United States Cundul at Genoa, in Italy, 
and is doubtless authentic. It was written 
hy Mr. Lester in Europe soon after the in-
terview referred tn. 
Mr. Lester has since 
been to this country, and remarked that af-
ter the article was written, he had farthM 
intelligence from him. The young man went 
to Rome, and entered St. Peter's chureh du-
ring some high service, denouncing the Pope hallowed associations, formed a contrast to the 
as the Man of Sin, who was to be destroyed long months of weary watchfulness and care 
by the brightness of Christ's coming, and which had passed over me like a deluge, which 
uttering aoathemas against all his adherents. seemed to be rather a dream than a reality. 
The priests had him arrested imrnedately, 
But as I walked the streets where once hung 
and imprisoned. 
After detaining him in upon my arm the mother of my children, my 
prison a few weeks, they became satisfied "help-meet" indeed, the sad change which 
that he was insane and released him. 
He had since came over me, would stare me in 
then started fur J eru!'ialem, where Mr. Les-the face, and turn my thoughts to that better 
ter understood that he died. 
Mr. Lester is city, whose streets I hope ere long to walk 
with her again. 
a believer in the personal coming of Christ 
at the door, in connection with the return 
of the Jews, and had no iutention,of speak-
ing lightly of this solemn question. 
Those 
facts we received from brother David Camp-
bell, the proprietor of the Water Cure es-
iablishment at Lebanon Springs, N. Y., who 
conversed with Mr. Lester on the subject. 
Since our conversation with brother Camp-
bell, we have received a line from him, in 
which he says that he is informed that the 
person who went to Jerusalem, was Elijah 
Thayer, of Mendon, who has remrned home, 
having visited Rome, Jerusalem, &c., so 
that Mr. Lester may have been misinformed 
as to his death. 
Mr. Lester had forgotten 
the name of the one he described, and ma.y 
have rettmed to another person. 
While we 
deplore the over excitement of any, we 
should regard them unly with kindness and 
affection ; fur such may · be as sincere, 
and their feelings as real to them, as those 
of the more judicious and caution:,. 
Hon·id Effects of Presbyteriap,ism !-A Pres-
byterian preacher, son of Rev. Shepherd Kol-
lock, committed suicide by cutting his throat, 
in Elizabethtown, N.J., on ·the 11th inst.-
He was engaged as a school teacher, and no 
cause has been assigned for the act·, unless it 
be the doctrine of Presbyterianism. 
Shall 
not public indignation be aroused to put down 
a doctrine which is thus spreading its deadly 
venom through our land 1 Shall the vile mis-
creants, promulgating such a doctrine, escape 
the vengeance of ruined families and disgraced 
communities1 
Now, though no one thinks of 
attributing to Pre&byterianism the cause of this 
suicide, yet, had the unfortunate young man 
been a " Millerite," the above, or similar dole-
ful lamentations and calls for vengeance would 
have been heard from Maine to Oregon. How 
long ere the public mind shall be disabused on 
thiB point 1 What ! the religion of Jesus 
cause suicide 1 Never ! The prospect of fu-
ture, and especially of near judgment could 
never induce it. 
T. 
Afflictions, which break"U.~ the' hopes and 
Joys 'of this life, if sanctified, make one feel 
the more anxiously with his feet, for the Rock 
of Eternal Ages,-and to settle in his mind 
with greater care and interest, that "his Re-
deemer liveth, and shall stand upon the earth 
in the latter day. '1 
No unreality, no vague 
indefiniteness, no spiritualism, no repealed 
covenant; nothing but the " blessed hope of 
the glorious appearing of the great God and 
our Savior Jesus ·Christ," to raise the dead in 
Christ first, and change the righteous. living, 
and take them all up to meet him, and to be 
for ever with him--can comfort one at such a 
time. That hope, and none but that, " is like 
an anchor to the soul." All attempts to heal 
the wounded heart with any other hope, are 
but " mise~able comforters." We have heard 
too much of Jesus, ever to be satisfied with 
anything but seeing him. 
The same is true 
respecting our departed friends. 
They who 
sleep in the dust must awake aud sing, before 
our mourning can end 
Every feeling of in-
describable loneliness which steals over me, 
every increase of difficult responsibility and 
care, induces me the more earnestly to groan 
with the whole creation for the liberty of the 
sons of God to be realized, at the coming, and 
in the kingdom of the Lord. 
My whole be-
ing cries, " Come Lord Jesus." 
If any are sighing for a place in a respect-
able church where this hope, if found at 
all, is cheritlhed only by a few, let me as-
sure them that it is not induced by the fire 
of affliction, unless it be affiiction growing-
out of " persecution for the word's sake." 
Anv other affiicuon, would sooner induce 
them to " wait fur God's Son frurn heaven," 
with all who have "turn1:1d from idols to 
serve the living God." 
J):J'" The article entitled " The Meaning of 
Days in Prophecy," on page 167, was re-
ceived and handed to the printer a long time 
since, and we had forgotten it, till he found 
it, and put it in type. It is n6ft.rly out of date. 
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The friends here have been extremly 
kind through my long and dreary affliction. 
They took me upon their shoulders as it 
were, and bore me through it ; or I should 
now have been sleeping by the side of my 
companion, and my liLLie ones would have 
been without a human guide and protector. 
May the blessng of the orphan's Gud be 
upon them. Besides all this, they have taken 
care uf their own poor, and helped several 
of the other i'OOr, besides helping IOll.ny fwm 
abroad; and some of them considerably. 
And yet nearly all of them are what would 
be called poor in this world : but they s re-
ly have been rich in good works. To be more. 
judicious and effective in their works ol 
charity, they took the Bible ftlr their guide, 
and chose out seven men from among them 
who were full of faith and of good report, to 
attend to this work. Till then; they would 
often bestow too much in one case and not 
J[J> Bro. I. H. Shipman wishes us to state, 
that he cannot consistently fulfil the appoint-
ment at Bolton, C. E. 
JI::i" H. H. is infonned that anonymous enough in another. But very few have ~inee 
communications are not published. 
then taken it opon themselves to beg duect-
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tr, or employ one to do it, of the congrega-
tiOn, without submitting the careful examina-
tion of their ease to the board of Ptewards, 
or deacons, anti having it introduced by 
the?l. 
~nd, in the few cases ctf this char-
acter wluch have occurred, we have gener-
ally been .grossly imposed upon. 'I speak 
more partiCularly uf the church at Croton 
Hall: but the churches at Bruoklyn -and 
Hudson streets, N. Y., have adopted similar 
re!!ulittions. Sume call this;, orcranization ·'' 
hut we, preferring " the word; which the 
Holv Ghost teacheth, to those which man's 
wis!ium teacheth," call it Bihle order. 
We 
have. moreover, det.ermined to call -thinas 
bv Bible names, as preachers, instead "'of 
lecturers; deacuns, or stewards, instead of 
committees: churches, instead of bands, &c. 
I am aware that some sincere brethren are 
afraid of these names, because that those 
use them who have turned away from -the 
truth to fables: but, if we wait for a true 
hill, till we find one just unlike the counter-
feit, we shall never find it. 
Besides, if we 
allow otherb to spoil thP.se Bible names, so 
that we cannot use them, we may as well 
throw the names of God and Christ, of faith 
and hope, in with them! We cordially in-
vite those who think that we have followed 
the Bible in these things, if they have not 
already, to gt~ and do likewise. 
I. E. Jons. 
New Yo~lc, June 24th, 1846. 
Bro. J. WEsToN writes from Orrington, 
Me., June 21st, 1846:-
Bro. Bliss :-Yesterday (June 20th) we 
finished our Conference at Frankfort ; and 
though the weather was ver:y unpropitious, 
yet there was a good gathering, and it was 
truly a refreshimg season to the saints. 
Sev-
eral confessed their former errors of the " shut 
door," &c., and I do think that the cause has 
an appearance of rising in Maine. 
The breth-
ren generally take a deep interest in the " Her-
ald," and the English Mission. 
We design to have a Conference at this 
place, to commence next Friday, and one on 
the following Friday, at South China, to con-
tinue over the Sabbath. The brethren are in-
vited to attend. 
Afterwards, I think I shall 
return home, and if the Lord direct, prepare 
to go out to the island of Jamaica, to proclaim 
the gospel of the Kingdom there. 
l,ETTER FROM BRo. E L. BLAKESLEE. 
Bro. Himes:-The Apostle Paul informs us 
that he had perils among false brethren, and 
he says moreover, that evil men and seducers 
shall wax worse and worse, deceiving and be-
ing deceived. This doubtless is the reason 
why he continues, in the language of prophe-
cy, to speak of the perilous times that should 
come in the last days. 
We are not left in 
the dark concerning those perils. The Lord 
has described the character and conduct of 
false brethren, so that we are without excuse, 
if we suffer ourselves to be controlled by their 
influence, or fellowship the unfruitful works 
of darkness. 
Many times have I been to a 
meeting with a desire for instruction, when the 
meeting h11-5 been confused, and every evil 
work has followed ; and this is caused, pretty 
generally, by those who make the greatest 
professions of godliness. 
Those who seek to 
produce confusion, are false apostles-deceit-' 
ful workers, transforming themselves into the 
apostles of Christ. 
Satan himself is trans-
formed into an angel of light ; therefore it is 
no great thing if his ministers also be trans-
fonned as the ministers of righteousness.-
The apostle speaks of such in 2 Tim. 3: 6.-
W e do not suppose any one individual will be 
possessed of all those traits of character, but 
they belong to false brethren. 
Of this sort, 
says the apostle, " are they which creep into 
houses, and lead captive silly women laden 
with sin, led away with divers lusts; ever 
learning and never able to come to the know-
ledge of the truth. Now as Jannes and Jaql-
bres withstood Moses, so do these also resist 
the truth : mQn of corrupt minds, reprobates 
concerning-the faith. 
But they shall proceed 
no further ; for their folly shall be made mani-
fest unto all men, as theirs also was." If we 
ascertain how Jannes and Jambres withstood 
Moses, we shall be well able to detect false 
brethren. In Exodus 7 : 11, 12, we find that 
they withstood Moses by working miracles. 
Are there any such now~ Yes. Look at 
those passages which they quote to sustain 
their pretentious: Mark 16:1~18--" And he 
said unto them, Go ye into all the world, and , , 
preach the gospel to every creature. He that 
believetl~ and is baptised, shall be saved ; but 
he that believeth not, shall be damned. 
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011 the si'ck and they shall recover." On this trials but have ~rlhered as yet to the truth. 
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time of trouble such as never was. 
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the truth. This command of our Lord, to-brought a good account of 
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the saints will bP. delivered. 
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brethren would all preach thus, and then the 
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sigl}s, was uttered JUSt ~efore he was taken and were encouraged to la.hor •or the sa va-
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wicked would not feel so much at ease.-
up mto heaven. . Haa thiS been fulfilkd, to-lion of sou f s, and sem~l com p:meer in gs 
Deor Bro. Bli" :-H" ing a few leisure · Bm. Gates and Jon eo have visited os late I y, .
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Says Paul, anC: conferences are appo~nte~; the tine at moments at .this time, I thought tu communi-which revived us much. Tell Bro. Hale, or Jr 
Rom. 10 : 18, "Have they not heard 1 Yes Sidney you will please notiCe In the Herald, cate. a few ltnes .tu you. 
Many are the af-
Bro. Clayton to come down aM preach the 
verily,theirsound went into all the earth,,~nd see" Voice of Truth." One of our most fttcttons o~ the nghteous, but the Lord de-blessed hope to us. 
B. G.'GETCHEN. 
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their words unto the ends of the world. :-f'Xcellent and Pffi.cient hrethr~n. in .Toro~to I livereth IHm out ~f them all. 
Y.es, I can. 
Portsmouth, (N.H.), June 21, 1846. ! 
gr. ounded and settled, and be not moved away land, Scotland, and srread as far as possible, 1 tower into which '.the right.eous run and ~re 
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heard, and which was preached to every crea-was desirous that I should accompany him, John saw, ::ame up out of great tribulation. W. T., June 10, 1846 :-
ture which is under heaven; whereof I Paul but the want of pecuni)lry means deprived out of the Gentile kingdoms, and we must 
Dear Bro. Himes :-I am now at my place 
am made a minister." CoL 1:23. Did those me nf the privile11e; I trust, however, that be among that number, if ever we are saved. of destination. 
On my way here, I visited 
signs follow that preaching1 The last verse our brethren who have gone ~o Eng-land will I have my trials in comnwn with all ~he dear the brethren in a number of places, and found 
of Ma<k 16th says, " And they went forth, visit Senti and, if time P"m it.-We feel that saints. to which we a<e •objec l In '" these them generally. strong in the faith of the com· 
and p<eached Overy where, tM Lord workmg the Confere nee in To ron In was a V"<Y prnfita-last days, yet I feel thot the hi essed hope .'"d ing of the L:J<d at hand. 
We had a ve<y m· 
with them, and confirming the word wzth S:!ns ble and hles~ed meeting, allCi trust that the glorious appP.aring. of my Savi1~r,.to d~hver teresting time .. ~om? places have been In-
following. 
Amen." And Paul says, lieb. savor of it will be felt until the Lord come. his people from tins curse, sustain~ me t.n all fested with spmtuahsm. 
The churches at 
2:3, 4, "How shall we escape, if we neglect 
Bun·ALo.-I was deprived th.e privilege my afflictions. 
Yes, .glory t~ hrs bless~d Cleveland and Akron, 0., have suffered much. 
so great salvation; which at the fu:st began of enjoying the entire Conference i~ th!s nome. forth;. blossed hope whrch I have. rO We anived here May 30th .. Vfe found. a 
to be spoken by the Lo,d, and was wnfirmed city, it seem i n• dot y ro supply Bro. Robm'"n s my sou I, n I sooo seerng Jesus, and berng sm>ll company of brethren wrutmg to recetve 
unto us by them that heard ~im, 0od also place in Cleveland on the Sabbath. 
The made lik.e. him. 
I can ~ruly say, I ha.ve l.ong us whoSP. hearts were warmed w1th the love· 
bearing them witness, both .with signs ~nd brtthren however bring a good report of been waiting; and yet 1t has been but a httle of' God and looking for their King. 
I have 
wonders and with diven; mrracles, and gofts the meeti••· booth in <espectto nnmbe<e and while since the vision began to lar<y, thno~h spent t:Vo Sabbaths with them,'and yreached 
of the Holy Ghost, according to )>is o~n intmst. Rrn' Pearson, RobiD"on, Porte<, it seems long to os. My soul crres out some-in the court-house. I think there ts a p<os· 
will1" In 1 Cor. 13th we have the conclusiOn Bywater, Morley, and Hoyt, were present, times, How l~ng, 0 Lurd, how lo~g wilt thou pect of good being done here. 
Bro. D. I. 
of the whole subject. 
Says the apostle, as also sisters Seymour and Parks. They tarry: and Still I want to be res1gned to the Robinson from Cleveland, had just made them 
"Charity never faileth: .but whether there be hoped to have enjoyed the lah.ors of. Brn. will of ~od. I can adopt the language of a visit, and the brethren were mu9h edified.-
prophecies, they shall fa1l; whether there be Galusha and Miller, but were d1sappornted. Bro. Miller, ''lf I could have seen the way I expect next week to go into the country to 
tongues they shall cease; whether there be A large and interestf'd audience were in. we have been led, beforeba.nd, since the vis-visit the brethren. 
This is a large field of 
knowledge it shall vanish away." '\Vhen ?-attendance on the Sahbath. 
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the apostle'tells us presen~ly, "For we know been a few cases of defection from the truth But 0 how' good God is in keeping these 
in part, and we prophesy m part: But w~en in this citv, hut there is still a good number things from us." I should have been gl~d quickly. 
I' 
that which is perfect is come, then that whwh of firm beiicvers and warm liberal hearts. to have met with the dear brethren and srs-
It would have been very gratifying to me • 
is in part shall be done ~wax<' Is any ready Bro. Porter has remained with them, but ters at the last Conference in Boston, but I to have been with you at the Conferences in j 
to enquire how that whw~ ISm part sh~l,l be has been unable to preach some of I he time could not conveniehtly; yet I feel that G~d New York and I}oston. 
My heart was whh 
done a way '-tum to 2 T~m .. H6, 17-All .,0 acc"'m t of, ill health ; it is now better, and was wi 1 h you, to bless a II you~ end8a vn<s m you. I am happy to hea< of such harmony 
scripture is given bJ: mspll'atwn of God, and he is in the field, with his accustomed v1gor his holy cause. I feel now It was the Will as prevailed among the brethren. 
United we 
is p<Ofitable fo< doctrme, for <ep<oof, fo< cor-of hod y and ole> oti n n of heart, and will 'pend of 0 od that oo r dm breth<en 'hoo ld go to stand. It is God's cau..,__it must go furwa<d. i 
rection, for instruction in righteousness: that several weeks in attending conferences. 
England, or the way and ~ean~ would not The brethren here are all with you, heart and , 
the man of God may be perfect, thoro~~hly 
Cu:VE~AND.-The severe trials through have be.en provided. 
Bt!t 1tme IS very short hand, and are all much intere~>ted in the. mis-
fumished unto all good wmks." 
Now If all which 0,, breohreoo in thi• city have passed, -the ~w~do!m of God Is my nea< i yes, I sion to England. I believe God will go with 
scripture is necessary to perfect men m hoh-bave resulted, as you are aware, in a Yery believe w1tlun a few months. 
We ought to you. 
Soon you will be discharged. 
0 may 
ness, he was not thorong!Jy fumished • until pain f 01 di '"veri ng qflhe 00 em be<s of C h ri•t 's watch ond pray e my ~oHnent, lest we be we have a joyful day when the King of kings 
all scripture was revealed. 
Therefore, he body, tor the tilne being; but the prospect found without the weddwg ~a~ment, when shall come. The Lord hasten the day. · 
could not be perfect, until that which was is now favorable for a re-union of many of be shaH ~pp~ar to make up Ius Jewels. 
J~-
P.S. I have Advent books. The brethren in, 
perfect had come. 
those who IHJ.V€ been sepal'ated for several sus says, Fast gatl)er toget.her the tares In the West can be supplied by sending to me 
We have shown from the "sure word of months. 
A liind and affectionate spirit per-bundles to be ,?urned, t~en gather my wheat likewise. 
I will' attend to all the calls in this 
prophecy," that the speakin~ in unknown vaded the conference, and its influence, I into m_v barn.. 
Does It ~ot lool~ as though part of the country, as far as practicable. If 
tongues, and the working of m~.racles, has no bave no doubt, will be salutary. 
Brethren they were bemg gathered In parcels t~rough the brethren anywhere in the West wish to 
place among God's people now, and that w~o-from Akron, Norwalk, and o1her places, the kingd?m.s 1 f?r it cannot ?e all In ooe have me attend Conferences and Camp-meet-
soever preaches that it has, is preachmg were prcsenl and were very much blessed place, as n· 1s. sard that the slaw o~ the Lord ings, just write me. 
My Post Office address 
another gospel. 
Says the Revelator, "And in the meeti~g. The hope of our blessed in that day ~11l be· from one end ot the·ear~h is Milwaukie, W. T. 
M. C. 
the beast was taken, and with him th.e false Lord's appearing in the present or next year even to t~e other end of the earth. I Wlll 
prophet that wrought miracles before him. · · · was fully presented by Bro. Pearson and give the w1cked tQ tl~e sword, satth the IJord.-
These both were cast alive into a lake of fire was listened to with solemn interest by a And he s~ys to the ng~teous, Tbou shalt see 
burning with brimstone." 
large audience. 
The brethrPn and sisters it with thine eyes, but ~t shall no~ corn~ near 
LETTER FROM BRo. C. B. TuRNER. 
II 
I perceive from the word ~f God, th~t t~e generally feel strong confidence in this po-thee. 
Therefore I thmk the sawts "Ill be 
Lord's people have become nghteous, JUSt m sition., and hope very soon that we shall del!vered before the ?attle commences, and 
proportion as the righteousness of Chnst ~as have evidence of the correctness of this last wlul.e th.ey a.re f!athen~g for theh?attdl~ .. ~u: 
been revealed. 
And this view of the subJect calculatinn on time, by the occ~rrence.ot:the Savwr ~n hi~ Instr~ctwns to . '! 
ISclp es 
abaseth man, divests him of his own righteo~s-event. There are rnany interesttng Chrrstians concerning hJs c~rnmg .and ktn.,.~om, after 
ness and magnifieth the righteousness whwh in this city and reoion who really love the enumeratmg the Slg~s thts generation should 
is or' God. "Ble;;sed are they which do hun-Lord's appearing,"' and who gladly stand see, nu"':here has said that such a great bat-
ger aud thirst after righteousness, for they u on the platform upon which we placed' tie should occur.. 
He leav~s that out, and 
shall be filled:" and that the time has come o~rselves years since-i. e. "That. God has stops whe~·e the sal~ts are delivered. There-
to put away childish things, is evident; ror revealed the time of the advent of our Lord,, fore, I th1nk ~he t.Jme .of trouble wh~n the 
I' the apostle, in speaking of t~e means by whwh and feel that it is as strong as ever, and even saints are de.hvered, wrll be the sha~mg of 
God communicated these things to the worl?, stronger. I do fpeJ that the arguments in the powers of the heavens, and the sig~ of 
says, "That we henceforth be. no more C~ll-favor of the Lord's coming in 1846 or 7 are the Son ?f man, a~, or about the fl.arne time, 
dren, tossed to and ~ro, and came~ about with Ill ore conclusive than any we have before which will b~ as h!eral as the falhng of .the 
every wind of doctrme, by the sleight of. m~n had, and while we avoid all d·ogmatism and stars, and whiCh w11l cause all the the ~rtbes 
and cunning craftiness, ~·hereby they. he m assumption of spiritual g·uidance so as to be of .the earth to mourn. 
Surely that Will be 
wait to deceive, but speakmg the truth.m love, infallible in our calculation, we are at liberty a ume of trouble such as never was, for that 
not walking according to those who bemg p~st to expect the calculations will prove to be never has been seen yet. 
But battles and 
feeling have given themselves ove~ to laser':-correct and Christ will appear in accordance bloodshed we have had a plenty of, ever 
iousness,-to work all uncleanness with greedl-with th,em, and I do expect we shall find the since the. world began .. I see a ~r~at many 
ness." But it is to be hoped that some who declaration true," the wise shall understand," of the \~IOked are lookwg an~ ta~kmg about 
are under the influence of this spirit may see even if thev mistake many times. The min-these thmgs. They liay the Mtllentes preach 
their error1 and repent, and turn to the Lord istering brethren who attenderl the conference them, and that they 'f!lllSt ?orne before. the 
who is merciful, and he will abundantly par-at Buffalo and this place, separate here-world' e.nds, and therefore, If these thwgs 
don. 
Yours truly, 
E. S. BLAKESLEE. 
some go to Michigan, and some to Cin-·come before the end, we shall understand as 
I yet love the Advent cause, and the idea 
of a coming Savior. My soul is yet absorbed 
in the all important subject. 
Although my 
labors are usually circumscribed, yet I ,am 
acting as will, in my view, under the circum-
stances, most subserve the cause of O.hrist.-
I am yet, with humble patience, waiting the 
coming of Jesus, which I anticipate soon.-
The cause is suffering much, as I learn by 
correspondence from difterent parts of the field 
of my former labors ; but the Savior will soon 
come to the rescue. 
I suppose you are aware of the. cause .of my 
remaining, for 'the present, where I am. It is 
not " having loved the present world," yet 
there are duties that I must discharge ; and 
whenever the way shall be open, I am pre-
pared to labor wherever it may most subserve 
the cause. The small pox is producing con-
siderable excitement from the few severe ·cases 
among us, which, if nothing else, would seem 
to demand my attention at presen~. 
'In haste, yours in love,· 
C. B. TUR!IfER. 
Elizabethtown, (N. J.), J~ne 13, 1846. 
!I 
P~ospect, (Ct.), June 11, 1846. 
cinnati. The field at the \Vest is very large well as they,.although they pretend to be s.o 
and much to be done, and calls for other wise. 
Th1s 1s the language of many, and It 
fields are pressing. 
Bro. Livingstone, from i:s compl~te. peace and safe~y to t~em. ~ow 
Oberlin, \·ho several years since resided in Jesus said It should be as 1t was m the days 
the West Indies, and emancipated hi:s slaves of Noah and Lot. Was therean~gr~atbat­
there, is now anxiou~ 1o return and spread tie or bloo~shed then, or. any d~structwn.be­
the tidings of the corning kingdom in those fore the saints were delivered . 
Certainly 
Islands. 
He is anxious to have me accom-not. 
It ~as peace and safety. 
But .some 
The Westt~rn Conferenees. 
Dear B1'o. Bliss:-Your readers will be 
interested'ln hearing the result of the several 
Conlerences which have been held in the 
West, as the tone of the meetings 
indicat~s 
the general feeling among the brethren m 
this region. 
. 
. 
ToRONTo.-The meetmg at this place was 
well attended by brethren and sisters from 
different parts of the prov.ince and the S!ates. 
Brethren Pearson, Porter, and Byater, 
were1 present from the. Sta.tes, beside most 
of the ministering brethren In Canada West. 
There was once a very considerable nrinlber 
of professed believers in the Advent .doctrine 
·~
. 
an him, or some other lecturing brother. say, that 1n Luke 21st, ~etween the f~lhng of 
f c?n hardly decide to do so at present, but the stars and t~ shakwg of. the ~eavens 
h 
tl Lord will direct· my heart is fixed to there shall be dtstress of n~~tons with per-
Ja0toer 
1
~nd toil in this 'cause until Jesus plexity, and me.n's hea.rts faihng_ them, &c., 
M 
the blessing of God rest upon and does not th1s constitute the time of troo. 
combes. h 
ay. ho have gone to Enuland . ble 1 I answer no. These are the last signs 
our ret ren w 
o 
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f 'fill' 
See the distresses 
th 
·11 have the svmpathies and prayers -:t ese are ul 
mg now. 
/y WI . 
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of Ireland China Poland, and others; and 
0 
Tmhany .m our ban ·holy united and laborious many a he'art has' failed them for tear, and 
at we may e a 
, 
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Bro. E. RABER writes from Middletown, 
Ct., June 13th, 1846 :-
The l' Herald " is truly a welcome messen-
ger to us, and more especially at this time, 
when deprived of such preaching as is meat 
in due season. 
We might have preaching, 
and be able to sustain a minister, if we were 
not so much divided. 
But we share the same 
deplorable fate of many others of our Advent 
brethren scattered abroad. 
But we bless the 
Lord for the promise that the scattered ones 
of the Lord shall be gathered together from 
the four winds of heaven, and that the signs 
of the times indicate that auspicious morn 
nigh, even at the door; when~not only those 
that remain alive unto the coming of the Lord, 
but also those which fell asleep in Jesus, yea, 
' 
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' 
Lbose that have been taken from our side, shall 
also come forth and put on incorruption and 
immortality, and we shall be caught up to-
,gather to meet the Lord in the air. 
Bro. I. R. GATES writes from Exeter, N. 
H., Jllne 131h, 1846 :-
Dear Brother:-My visit to New York 
was one of much interest. ' I spent three 
weeks in and about the city. I divided my 
time equally bet.een the congregations in 
Brooklyn, Hudson-street, and at the firoton 
Hall. 
Brn. Whitiug, Jones, and Cnrry, who 
have steadily ministered the word of life to 
the brethren for the year past, have been 
much blesseq of the Lord, and are highly 
esteemed for their work's sake. 
The cause 
in New York and its vicinity has had itt! re-
version of fortune, but Providence again 
smiles, and the fog and mist are cleared a way, 
as before the bright rising sun. 
I arrived home on Tuesday in good health, 
although much fatigued from my labors. 
I 
am now rested, and ready for a't!Other cam-
paign, whenever God i[\ his providenoe shall 
open the way. 
In reply to Bro. S. Foster's request for 
me to visit Canada, I would sav, that the 
Lord willing, I w.ill preach at Stanstr.ad, Fri-
day evening, Aug. 14, and at Derby Line on 
the 15tn and 16th. 
I shall expect to spend 
one month in Canada. 
The brethren there-
.fore are at liberty to ma.Ke appointments as 
they think best, (not, however, to exceed 
more than one a day in the week, and three 
on the Sabbath,) and 'where they think proper. 
L. M. R,ICHl\lOND writes from Lebanon, 
Madison county, N.Y., June 13th, 1846:-
lJear Bro. Himes :-Amidst the darkness 
that su.rrounds 1 us, and the troubles that 
thicken and press upon us on every side, 
bappy .is he who. has n;tade the Lord his trust, 
and the Most High his confidence ; who 
trusteth· not in an arm of flesh, but in the 
living and true God : for "in due time we 
shall reap; if we faint not." Let us remem-
ber continually, and let it be our consolation, 
that "God is not a man that he should lie, 
nor the son of man that he should repent.-
Ha:h he said, and will he not do it~ hath he 
spoken, and will he not make it g.ood 1'"-
God is not slack, as 8ome men count slack-
ness, for lie wil.J surely come at the tim~ ap-
pointed, and perform those promises made 
unto our fathers. 
Nothing shall fail of all 
that he hath .spoken. 
God will in wrath re-
m~mber mercy, and will reward every man 
!'~cording .to_his 'worksA 
. 
Praying at all times for th·e continuance of 
your faith, for. your complete sanctification, 
and sucr.ess· in every good ·work, I remain 
affectionately your. compa(Jion in tribulation, 
waiting for the speedy redemption of 4srael. 
Bro. W. D. C'ooK writes from Sodus,J>oint 
N. Y1, Jqne 7t~, 1846:-
Dear Bro. 'Himes :-It gives me much .joy 
to know that,Y?U have concluded .to ~espQnd 
to the Macedoman cry," Come over and help 
us." Go, and may the Lord bless and pros-
per the,m.issioiJ. 
I hope that" near, even at 
the door," and "before the generation" that 
was living on the earth .in the year 1780.shall 
pass away, will be as definite as the mission 
from the oew world will proclaim to the old 
the time of the Lord's advent. · I hope also, 
that Bro. Himes will not forget the conver-
sations I had with him at Rochester during 
the la~t Conference tllere. 
Brother, point 
o~t and remo~e th~ ... stumbling blocks.'' 
· ,ftliscdlnny. 
ftc Meaning of Day& ia Preph8~Y· 
Jtlr Editer--,We are commaaded to'' sear.ch 
tbe seriptures "-and to "prove aU things ; 
aDd to bold fast that which is good." When 
therefore any advance sentiments, or put forth 
expositions of scripture, it is our duty to prove 
them, and not to adopt them without examination, 
thoup their authors may be ever to respectable. 
~d tbe authors themselves should be more 
eoQr.emed for the maintenance of the troth, than 
of their own views, and should be willing that 
tht!se views l'hould be examined. And if rational 
and scriptural, they can undoubtedly maintain 
them. 
. Since Mr. Miller published his absurd no-
tions abopt the " Second Advent," and his 
strange appliation of prophetical numbers, Prof. 
Btnart hal published hili " Hints on the Prophe-
cies," in whieb he contends, that days in Daniel 
and the Revelation are to be explained literally, 
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THE ADVEN'll HERAL·D. 
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i. e. 1260 days mean three years and a half, and Christians who fled from Jerusalem remain at are less trammeled by superstition than most 
so on. 
And others have followed him. 
Pella &c., three years and a half, according to countriE>s where the Roman Catholic religion 
As I under tand that Prof. S. is writing a Prof. S's interpretation of the 1260 days? 
And prevails. The Papal See, a few years since. 
Commentary of the Reveltion, it is peculiarly what were" the waters which the dragon cast se,it a Leg-atfl to this country. It is expected 
desirable and important, that his views should out of his mouth after the woman," i.e., the in uch casE's that the salary of the Legate 
be correct. Very serious objections to his expo-Christians who fled from Jerusalem? 
And how will he paid hy the country to whic~. he is 
sitions have, however, occurred to my mind, did "the earth swallow up the flood?" 
And accredited. 
But the Brazilian Legislature, 
which perhaps he, or some of his friends, will who were" the remn':lnt of the woman's seed," not having the fear of th€ V'atican before 
obviate, if they are \lnfourided. 
I will therefore i. e., the remnant of the seed of those Christians 
suggest a few of them. 
who thus fl.r,d? 
tl,eir eyes, voted that thE' Pope might pay 
He says, that the Apocalypse is not" a kind 
Prof. Stuart says, the beast with 7 heads and 
hi1S own representative. 
He was of course 
of syllabus of civil history, or of civil and er.cle-10 horns was the Roman empire, and the 7 rE>called. 
Such has been tre abuse here of 
I• 
siastical history, disclosing the leading events heads were the 7 first emperors, and Nero was ecclesiastical swav. such it8 interference in 
that are to take place down to the end of time the 6th head which was" wounded to death, temporal matters,·s~ch its onerous exactions, 
among nations and kingdoms. 
A very small and whose deadly wound was healed," Rev. that the civil power even of the Pope is set 
pqrtion of the book (strictly speakiog only chap. 13:1-3.-But does not this description imply at defiance. As for the prieEts here, should 
20) has respect to the distant future." 
I have that this beast has but seven heads? There were tlusy at.t.empt to s~t up any secular authority, 
not time to state the many objections which however 
1any empero s. 
Prof. S. supposes they would nnly expose their weakness to 
appear to lie against. this snpposition. lf the thlJt the wounding to death of the 6th bead refers contt:>mpt. 
There is more reverence among 
expression, shortly come to p(LSs, Rev. 1 i I, to a" predictio,n IJy soothsayers of Nero, that he the Roman Catholics 9f, the cit\T of New 
proves that." a very small portion of the book should be deprived of his ollice, flee his country, York, with Bishop Huf!hes at their hea~, 
~as respect to the distant future," it will prove go to the East, and there recover dominion, for the authority of the Pope, than there IS 
that none of it has, not even ehnp. 20. 'fhe especially in Palestine. In consequence the great 
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meaning theretiore seems obviously to be, the 
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razi . 
ere a 
oman 
mass o t e com mona J y' a 
a perw , o no 
Bishop h':lre to interfere at elections, he 
things revealed will shortly begin to come to appear to believe in the reality of Nero's death." 
. 
pass. 
And this explanation Prof. Stuart himself Prof. S. seems·to think that it " is quite plain," would be hurled from his episcopat.Ej. 
It is 
gives in one place. 
and .~almost certain," that John re(erred to for us, Protestant Americans, to tolerate 
This limitation of the prophecies·in the Revela-this prediction, and these reports about Nero, such an outrage upon the sanctity of the 
tion is contrary to the opinions of nearly all.the and that this affords proof that the Apocalypse ballot box." 
expositors whom I have consulted, as Henry, was written before tbe reign of Nero. But is it 
Cllristian Unior,.-Tt seems that the pro-
Doddridge, Newton, :Faber, Scott, Edwards, reasonable to suppose, that the Holy Spirit would ject for an alliance .of Evangelica1 Christians 
Bellamy, Hopkins, &c. 
And so is the literal have referred to these false predictions of heathen 'meets in Enoland with considerable oppo-
explanation of the numbers 1260 daye, 42 months, soothsayer!), and repre r.nted their predicted sit.ion. 
Many"' clergymen of the Established 
time, times, and a haW, &c.-I believe that a even'ts as real faCts ?-It is said that this beast Church decline all r.o-operativn, on the ground 
longer time' than a year is·no where in scripture should continue 42 months, i.e., according to 
d. 
expressed in days, except in these plnces, and Prof. S's explanation of the time, three years 1 hat they cannot thus countenance 
lssent . 
in Ezek. 4:5, where 3~0 days are mentioned.-and a half. A,nd did the Roman empire continue Among these are several from whose friendly ' 
And there God said expressly, "I have appointed but three years and a half? 
aid a strong influence was confidently an-
thee each day for a year," verse 6. Instead of 
Many other difficultie 
occurred to my mind ticipated. On the other hancl, many prominent 
expressing a longer time than a year, or ·evE)n in reading Prof, Stuart's Hint~.-But if th
1
e~e Dissenters withhold their sympathy, le:;t 
two o~ three months by days, it is expressed by can be removed, perhaps the1r removal Will' they :;hould weaken the force of their own 
months, or by years and 111,pnths. 
Thus we read obviate others. 
objections to the establishment. 
On both 
of 2,3,4,5,6,7, 9 and 12 months-and 1 year and 
Prof. S. made one t:emark which th~ Miller-sides they are fearful that they may comprolll-
4 months, 1 year and 6 months, 7 yell;rs. 11nd 6 ites seized upon with avidity. "I do not say ise their principles. Dr. Camphell,nfLnndon, 
months, and 3 ygars and 6 months. 
the world will not r.ome to an end in 1843; for I the battle-axe of dissent, it i~ said, has ad-
Now. if 1260 ~ays rneunt litera~ly 3 years and do not know this.''-lf the Bible predicts the dressed a powerful appeal to Sir Culling 
.6 months, why was it not so expressed? 
future 'conversion of the Jews, and that" the Eardly Smith, himself a Dissenter, and the 
The prophetical part of the book of Revelation fulness of the Gentiles shall come in," then we prime mover of the scheme, denouncing, in 
is not written in plain, but figurative, or ~ym-may know that the world will not come to an severe term . the whole plan of union. RIH'. 
bolical language. It would therefore have been end, till these predictions are fulfilled. 
Rom. 
cont~:ary to the general use of lal}guage in the 11:25-27. 
INQUIRER, 
Hugh McNeile, of Liverpool, an e\u00b7angelical 
book to have expJ:essed time literaliy by years. 
churchman, and one of the most popular 
Prof. S. says, "the holy city," Rev.-11:2, Blessed is the Man Wllom Thou Chastcneth. clergymen in the kingdntn, has published a 
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pris11.-hris. A lianr.e. 
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ns tans are from the pen of the late Right H<•n. ~ir 
in Jerusalem and Judea, when invaded 't1y the 'Robert Grant, late Governor-General of Indta, 
The Gospel.-'· And seeth the stone taken 
Romans, who, while they were subduing the and brother to Lord Glenelg. 
away frurn the RPpulchre.'' John 20: 1. 
Jews and taking Jerusalem, were treading 
The resurrection or Christ is the argument 
"t~e holy city under foot42 JDOnths," i.e., three 0 Savior, whose mercy, severe in its kindness, and claim of our happy resurrection; for 
years and a half.. 
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Has chastene~ my wanderings and guided my God chose and appointed Him to be the 
. But would the Holy Spirit call Jerusalem 
way, 
example and principle from whom all divine 
"the hbly city," and the temple then," the Ador'd be the power which illumined my blind-hiE>ssinas shonld be deriverl tons. "Because 
temple qf God," after the Jews had rcje ted 
11ess, 
I live ;e sha.ll live also.'' 
Our nature was 
and crucified their ·Met~siah, and were broken oft' 
Apd weaned me from p.hantoms that smiled to 
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from the good olive-tree, Rom. 11 :17-21; and 
betray. 
raised in his pE>rson : and in our nature all 
their dispensation was superseded by the gospel Enchanted with all that wa dazzling and fair, believers: therefore is he called "the first 
dispensation, and their ritual and temple service 
1 followed the rainbow i 1 caught at the toy ; fruits of them that sleep: "because as the 
was abrogated? How was John directed by And still in displeasure, thy goodness. was th~.re, fir t fruits were the pledg-e and assurance 
the angel to measure the Jewish tempte, &c. ? 
Disappointing the hope, and defea~mg the JOy. of the following harvest, and as the condition 
And ~llat was •meant by his leaving out the 
of th~ first fruits being offered to God, 
court, because it was given to the Gentiles? The blossom blushed bright, but a worm was the whole harVPSt was entitled tn consecra-
lf the Gentiles here mean the Romans, was 
below ; 
tior, ; so our Savior's resurrection is called 
only the country given to them? Did they not 
'l'he moonlight shone fair, there was blight in "the first-horn among the dead," and <'Wns 
take·a:nd destroy the whole temple? 
And did 
the beam ; 
the race of departed believers as his breth-
they tread Jerusalem under foot only threll y~ars Sweet whispered the breeze, but it whi~pered ren, who shall be restored to life according 
arid a half? Did they not keep po8session of 
of woe; 
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to hi's pa'tern. 
He 1·s ''the head," believers 
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are " his mt>mbers," a.nd,thP.refore shall have 
t e two Witnesses, or 
nstlans m erusa em, 
communion with him in his life.-W. Bates. 
" prophesy 1260 days," or according to Prof. So, cured of my foil), yet cured but in part, 
Stuart, "three years and a half, clothed in 
1 turned to the refuge thy pity dispijlyed ; 
Lord Erskine. was distinguished throu~rh 
sackcloth?" And how were they slain, "when And still did this eager and credulous heart 
life for independence of principle, for his 
they had fu..ished their testimony?" 
Weave visions of promise that bloomed but to scrupulous adherence to truth .. He. once ex-
Prof. S. says, that "Christians during that 
fade. 
plained the rules of his conduct, whwh ought 
period would be persecuted and slain." lf they 1 thought that the course of the pilgrim to heaven, to be deeply eugraved on every heart. Hfl 
would be slain during three years and it half, 
Would be bright as the ummer, and glad as said, "It was a first command and counsel 
how could it be at the end of that period? Some, 
the morn; 
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of my earliest youth, always to do what my 
he 
say~;~, remained in Jerusalem, and were Thou show'dst me the path; it was dark and conscience told me to be ~duty, and to lea;pe 
-slain by the Zealots, 
Henry, Dr. A. Clarke, 
uneven, 
the consequence with God. 
I shall ca~ry 
Bp. Porteus in Scott, and Marilh, in his Eccle-
All rugged with rock, and all tangled with with n•e the memory, and I trust the practJ<'e 
siastical History, says, that in obedience to the 
thorn. 
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command of Christ, Matt. 24:15, 16, all the· 
of this paternal les~on to t e grave. 
ave· 
Christians retired from Jerusalem to Pella and I dreamed of celestial reward 11nd renown ; 
hitherto followed it, and have no reason to 
other places. But if any, disr~garding the com-
I grasped at the tdump!) ~hich bleSI!es the complain that my obedience to it has been a 
mand of Christ, remained, were they the two 
brave ; 
temporal sacrifice. 
I have found it on the 
witnesses? And did "the people, and kiodreds, l asked for the palm-branch, the robe and the contrary, the road to prosperity and ~ealth, 
and nations see their dead bodies lie in the 
crown,; 
and shall poiin out the same path to my 
street of the great cit.y three days and a half, 
I ask~d_:au.d thou show'dst me a cross and a children for their pursuit." 
and not suffer their dead bodies to be put in the 
grave. 
'"'aves? And how did "they that dwell upon 
The Strong Points-In the controversy 
1!).. 
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quently their resurrection most be a literal r~sur-
ism emes, by setting up tra ltlon as a JOint 
rection. 
And did they, "after three days and a Thero are mansions exempted from sin and from and co-ordinate rule of faith. 2. 
The right 
half," 1·ise literally, and "ascend in a cloud 
woe, 
and duty of every man to judge of and inter-
to heaven?" 
But th!ly stand in a region by moJ:tals untr(J(i ; pret the seriptu'rP.s for himself. 
Thi$ Ro-
Prof. Stuart says the worrian, Rev. 12 chapt. There are rivets of joy-but they roll not below ; mani m41enies, by settit'lg up ·an ecclesia tftJ. 
is "the Church," and that her fleet-s into the 
There is rest-but it dwells in the presence of cens, or teaching chorch,to do the individual's 
wilderneBI'I, wbereshe was nourished 1260 day11, 
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referred to the Jewish Christians fleeins from 
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Jerusalem to Pella, &c. But how were these 
lmpQteTJCJ of Popery *n Bra:zil.-The fol-only in· the atpniog blood of Christ. ThiW 
fiew Chr18
• tl'ans the Oh••rch, when the Chur~h 
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, Romanism makes of non-effect, by teaebin ' 
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was at this time spread over the known world, 
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Rl·o De Ja••et'ro, dated '~'annary 6th, 1846. 
r s1'ng t the pr1'est and the l1'ke -~·11 
and flourishing churches had been planted in 
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Europe, Asia and Africa ?-And did these 
"The Brazilians, in their legislative policy, avail to aalntion.-Chris. Alliance. 
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The Evangelical Alliance. 
We are glad to perceive by the following 
article from the •• Christian Alliance,'' that 
some of the difficulties in the way of the ex-
pected World's Conference are beginning to 
be perceived. 
We wish all success to every 
effort for preaching the gospel to every crea-
ture. But the conversion of every creature, 
we have no promise for. 
The Rev. Dr. Bacon, nf Ne\V Haven. 
has just published in: the New York Evange-
list, a 1nost important article in reference to 
the great movement now on foot for the pro-
motion of Christian union. 
The article 
opens with the declaration of pleasure that 
the movement is making progress, and that 
there is likely to be a full representation 
from the churches of thill countrv, and then 
advances with the expression of wise and 
precautionary fears for the result. 
These fears, Dr. Bacon l!tates as arising 
from an "apparent want of a clearly defined 
purpose " on the part of those who are m_an-
aging the preliminaries of the conventtun, 
from "the largeness of the body assemnlecl, 
and its consequent incapacily uf deliberate 
discussion," and from the fact, that "this 
great gathering, if it shall be great, will be 
essentially an English meeting." He thinks 
it highly desirable 1hat these sources of 
danger should be looked fairly in ihe face, 
1 and that the best minds, hoth in Europe and 
Amenca, should be diligently employed 
between this and the meetiu•r of the conven-
tion, in devising means fo; breaking their 
force. 
"With these prdiminarv remarks 11nrl pre-
cautions, he pwceeds in an able manner, to 
unfold his 11 conception of what such a meet-
ing oul!ht to be, and what it ought to du." 
It should be a meetin!! in which the various 
countries and communities of evang-elical 
Christians shall be, tn as great an exlent.afl 
possible, fairly represented. 
A formal rep· 
resentation by appointed delegatE's, would be 
impracticable. 
Many of these t>cclesia~tical 
L()(lies in various countries would be ~low to 
commit themselves tu 8Ueh a convention irt 
advance. "The only repre:;entation practi-
cable is an informal one, consisting-uf indi-
viduals who recognize each other, not as 
aetiog with any delegated power, hut as 
witnesses competent to tflstify to each other, 
concerning their respective countries anrl 
com111unities, and competent tn carry back 
to their respective c.ountries and communities 
the result of tht' cnnventiou." "The one 
leading object of the convention,'' says Dr. 
Bacon; 
11 the unity and cha ra1~ter of all its 
liroceedinj!rs, ~hould be evangelist. 
All the 
inquiries auJ discussions should be cowlncted 
with reft•rence to the one object of promoting 
that aggressive moveraent against the king-
dum of darkness, which gives character t•• 
the Christianity of this nineteenth century. 
All the healthi"ul symptoms in the present 
condition ot the church, this waking up to u 
more active and scriptural kind uf piety-
these tendencies towards common sense an~ 
the Bible in distinction from seholasticism-
and, most of all, thebe• yearnings in every 
quarter, towards a l_leneral manilestation and 
recounition of the living onitv of Chri~t's 
follo;_ers-are plainly cunnected with the 
great dfurt for the conversion of the wurld .. 
Is it not plain that the one ohject ~~~ the 
proposed meeting should be evangelism 1 
Bv this, I mean nut missions merelv, fur that 
w~trd is far frn:U conveying all that I wish 
to express-but the entire movement uf the 
church towards the subjugation of the world." 
The Dr. then proceetls to state the follow-
ing particulars as proper suhjects to come up 
f()r exan!ination be tine such a bndy. 
1. 
\Vha.t is the actual strenl!lh of evan-
gelical Christianity in each coimtry, and in 
each communitv 1 He would have Tholuck, 
and other delegates from the German states, 
tell the n1eeting ahout Germany; Monod, 
De Felice, and AudeberJl ahont France; 
Merle ll'Aubigne an.i hie associates about 
Switzerland, &c. 
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2. 
What is, in each country, the streng-th 
of oppo~ing influences, that ia, of influences 
positively hostile to the gospel1 This suh-
. ject of inquiry includes the power, pulitical 
. ; a~cl moral, direct a.nd indirec~, of anti:C~ris­
. Uan churches, sects and parties, tra<UtionaJ-
11, ista or rationalists ; it inelod.-s infidelity, or-
1 ~ ·ganized and unorganized, irreligious literature, 
1•and. the limita~ions of religioua freedom in 
. · vanoua countnes. 
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What fields the provid'ence of God has 
, ! set ope1 for evangelical effort. 
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4. 
Toe influence of emigration and col-
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onies, at the present day, upon the advance-
ment of the gospel. 
5. 
The extent ancl 
actual agreement 
amun11 evan11elical Christians as represent-
ed in the co~ference. 
6. 
All these topics, and others, are 
summed up in the comprehensive inquiry, 
Can we do any thin11 which we are not Joing, 
for the conve~sion ~f the world to Christ 1 
How can we act most wisely, most harmo-
niouslv, most effectually 1 And what reaso:1s 
have we to hope for speedy and wide success 
in this preaching the gospel to every creature1 
Awful Calamity at Quebec. 
Bu1·ning of a 7"'heatre_:.._Se~enty Lives Lost. 
-The" Montreal Herald,. of the 15th contains 
the following :-
It has again pleased the Almighty to afflict our 
chas\ened city. 
Last niaht·at 10 o'clock a fire broke out in the 
Theatre Royal, St. Louis street (for~1erly the 
riding school,) at the close of Mr. Hamson's ex-
hibition of his Chemical Dioramas. From the 
information we have been able to glean, a cam-
phene lamp was overset from some cause or oth-
er, and the stage at once became enveloped in 
flames. 
The house had been densely crowded, but 
some fortunately left before the accident. 
A rush was at once made to the staircase lead-
ing from the boxes, by those who, in the excite-
ment of the moment, forgot the other passages of 
egress. 
In an incredibly short space of time the who!e 
cif the interior of the building was enveloped m 
one sheet of flame-the newly erected platform 
covering the pit, and communicating at each end 
with the stage and boxes, favored the progress of 
the flames. 
The writer of this article was one of the ear-
liest on t.he spot, and present at the closing mo-
ments of the hopelesil beings who perished from 
their over exertions to escape. 
The staircase communicating with the boxes 
was a steep one, aud we are of opinion it had 
fallen from the weight of those who crowded 
upon it. At least such was our opi!lion at the 
moment. 
One foot was interposed betwee_n the hapl~ss 
crowd and eternity ! and on that space we, ~tth 
five or six others stood, the fierce flames playmg 
nround us, and the dense smoke repelling all ef-
forts to extricate. 
As far back as we could see 
there was a sea of heads, of writhing bodies, and 
out-streched arms. 
Noise the1·e was none : but 
a few moans escaped the doomed. 
At the ex-
treme end in view there were faces calm and re-
signed; persons who, from the funeral v~il of 
smoke which gradually enshrouded them, ap-
peared calmly to drop in .. t~ eternal sl~ep. By our 
side was one brother strtvmg toextncateanotber, 
but abandonment was unavoidable. 
One poor 
creature at our feet offered hi3 entire worldly 
wealth for his rescue ; the agonizing expression 
of the faces before us can never be effaced from 
our memory. 
The flames were above and around us-but 
human aid was of no avail. In ·five minutes 
from the time of which we m"ake mention, the 
mass of human beings who bad but a 11hort in-
terval previous been in the enjoymen~ of a full 
and active life, were exposed to our v1ew a mass 
of calcined bones ! 
Up to thi11 hour,Jorty-six bodies have been 1'e-
covered from the ruins! Most of them have 
been recoanized :-a greater loss of life than in 
the two dr~d co~fiagrations of last summer. 
Sad wailing pervades the city. 
Scarcely a 
street can be traversed in which the closed shut-
ter or the hanging crape do not betoken a sudden 
bereavement. Fathers, sisters, children, of both 
sexes, indulge in the deepest lamentation. 
Woe 
has fallen upon many, for those who were thus 
suddenly and awfu.Uy summoned into the pres-
ence of their Creator. 
Signs of the Times. 
The careful observer of the signs of the times 
must be imprettiled with the thought, that we are 
threatened by evils which are painful in their 
character. Storm• seem to gather in opposite 
points at the same time. 
The varius forms of 
infidelity make hostile demonstration on the one 
hand, while superstition, bigotry, and intolerance 
marshal their forces on the other. The practi-
cal development of infidel principles, would be 
the destruction of all moral restraint. 
Prevalent 
skepticism is an evil to be dreaded, even while 
held in check by a large amount of good ; but 
when there is reason to fear that it accumulates 
power more rapidly. than the good is gathering 
strength, it assumes the aspect of an impending 
evil, which threatens to devastate the scene over 
which it breaks. 
No Christian can reflect upon the evident 
grC?wth of skep~ical pr_?pensities in. his own land 
without being pamfully 1mprell86d With the thought 
that there is danger. 
We are threatened however at the saDie time 
by s"qperi!tition, bigotry, an .. d intolera~ce. 
. 
Popery in somewhat vaned forms 18 advancm~ 
at many points. It has discerned the signs of the 
times. 
It has marked the tendency to Ia~ notions a.nd 
practices ; and speciously proposes Its own prm-
ciples and discipline as the effectual remedy. 
We seem to be approaching a most difficult 
and dangerous point, and our situation beco~es 
the more critical, as mists and storm clouds thtck-
en around us : but very soon we shall at once 
emerge from the gloom and the danger, and see 
before us the land of promise, stretching forward 
into the distance, and opening her scenes of beau-
ty to the unclouded sun-light. 
" Violence shall 
no more be beard in thy land, wasting nor des-
truction within thy border ; but thou shalt call 
thy walls salvation and thy gates praise."-Re-
posito,·y. 
.II. Warning-to Chu1·ch Pic-nics.-A pic-nic 
excursion of the young of both sexes attached to 
the First Baptist Church, occurred recently upon 
the banks of the Wissabtcon, hut the enjoyment 
usual! y attending such oc.casions 'Yas abrupt!~ ter-
minated by an event whtch termmated the hfe of 
one of the most joyful of the party. While the 
males of the party were enjoying dinner, a 
young lady about eighteen, Miss Matilda Wethan, 
proc11eded to stroll along the banks with four of 
her female companions. Two of the lads start-
ed after thllm, and they were followed shortly by 
a third, but before either of the three reached 
the party they perceived Miss Wethan, who was 
walking on the shelving rock11 which border the 
stream, slip and fall into the water. The two 
nearest the spot not being able to swim, could af-
ford no assistance, Tl1e third returned in great 
baste to where the company were mostly congre-
gated, and crying out that Mi!IS Wethan was 
drowning, was so overcome with his feelings as 
to fall fainting at their feet. 
In the mean time, a 
young ~entleman, on the other side of the stream, 
bot not belonging to the party of the pic-nic, 
saw the danger of the lady and ru!!hed into the 
water, though unable to swim ; he reached Miss 
Wethan and caught hold of her hair, but in her 
struggles, she defeated his efforts to sustain her, 
and after remaining in the water until exhautated, 
he was forced to leave her and struggle to the 
shore. The unfortunate young lady thus per-
ished in the sight of her companions, who were 
utterly unable to render her any succor.-Phil. 
Ledger. 
· 
Benj. H. O'Neil and 'fhos Risley were shot in 
one of the southern counties of Kentucky on the 
1st in!lt. by W. D. Dun, deputy sheriff, for re-
sisting a pro-::ess about to be served on them.-
The grand jury refused to .find an indictment 
against the sheriff. 
The British Bishops.-The Rev. E. N. Kirk, 
in a letter from Edinburgh to Henry Mason, F.sq. 
editor of the Protestant Telegraph, published in 
this city, says-" I have many fearful convic-
tions in regard to the selfiilh and unchristian in-
fluence of the bench of bishops in the House of 
Lords.'' 
DELINQUENTS. 
lUnder this head we may do some injustice. We 
hope not to. If any noticed here have paid, and through 
mist11ke have not bt>en credited, or are poor, we shaH be 
happv to do them justice.] 
' 
The paper sent to R. Thompsoll, of l'eekskill, West 
Chester Co., N.Y., hus been returned to be stopped, 
there being due on it $2 75. 
The Postmaster of Royalton, Vt., writes, thut M. 
Brewer has moved to the West, and thRt the paper is 
not taken out. He is in arreArs $3. 
Orlando Beesr, of Prospect, Ct., stops hi• paper, ow-
ing $3 76. 
ENG·LISH MISSION. 
(Re<'.eipts forEngll~ll Million-Continued from our18Jit.) 
Whole amount prevloualy acknowledged, 
$582 56 
Re~:eiYed Bince our last, from S. F. B., 
1 00 
Bi1ter Maynard, Lowell, 
5 00 
lrll Fancher, -
5 ()0 
A Friend, 
2 00 
B. Cooper, 
62 
0 Hewett, 
100 
P. F. Green, 
-
1 00 
E. H. Sherman, 
1 0() 
16 62 
Whole 11mol!nt received 
The whole amount expended for the pres-
ent mission, as noticed lt!St werk, is ' 
Amount of expeuditures over receipts, for 
which thiY ofiice is responsible 
NOTICES. 
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~IEETJNos 111 NEw YORK are heltl Sunday mo111ing 
and allernooo at Croton Hall, at the bead of Chatham 
Square, and on Sunday, Tuesday, and Friday evenings 
in the vestry of the German Reformed church in }'or-
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every SundRy, cotner of Christopher and Hudson-streets. 
The meetings at Brooklyn are held every Sunday at 
Washinrton.Hali, corner of Adami aud Tillery-streets. 
MEETINGS Ill BOSTON at the "Central Saloon," No. 
9 Milk-street, nearly opposite the lower end of the Old 
South, three tim eM on Sunday, and on Tuesday and Fri· 
d11y evenings in the vestry, above the Saloon. 
".' The friends visiting Philadelphia, wtll find thfl 
Second Advent meeting on the Sabb11th AT ouR or.D 
PLACE, the &loon of the Chinese ~luseum, jn 9th street, 
between Walnut und Chesuut-sts. 
J. LITCH· 
~,.* The Report of the Rochester Cmtference11 now 
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It is published by Dro .. Marsh, 20 1-2 State-atrr.et, Roch-
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Our friends, by furnishing thern11elvea with a set, would 
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Price 37 1-2 cent• retail, :l3 1-3 whole11ale. 
WHITEHEAD's J,JFE OF THE TWo WEIILEY8.-Thil 
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Itself to every Cbri»tiao. 
CRUD&N's CONCORDANCE.-We bRvt> on hand ll nr.at" 
Taa: "CHILDREN's HERALD. "-As we be-
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pond with the "Harp," ant! one in board1; the former 
fore noticed, we expect to issue the second at $1 so, and the Iauer at •1 25. 
number about the first of J nly. Where ,more 
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prirt two copies on a sheet, so that if we 
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otherwise. 
Therefore where several papers 
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us direct the given number to him, and then 
he can distribute them, at half tbe xpense 
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sf!ribers. Their narnea were DOt 011 the lists or the res-
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aged servant of Chriat.. You will see that for the aurn 
you h11ve aent, we bave balanced your account to the 
end of the preaent vnlume. 
F .. Beckwith-We bad ao&hlDf of the kind you refer 
to, and credited it 1111 on Lhe pllper, as you wHJ.see. 
D. Reynold-We have chanced. the direction as per 
order. 
OOBI'EBE!JC.E& • 
There will be a DMietiDJ. tu North Scituate, R. 1., to 
commence oa JrW.y, the 3d of July, and hold ov'lr the 
SabiJath. Elder Bunting, of Broqkline, Ct., is expected 
to attend. It is hoped that the brethren in the adjacent 
towns wm come to thill meetinr. 
E. BELLows. 
By requeat, I ah11JI 11	end a Conference at the Taber-
nacle in Holder~~e~~, N.H., commeacina the ftrst Fri-
dRy in July, at 10 o'clock 11. ••• , aad continuing over the 
Sabbath. Prtlachers and brethreu in that region are ear-
nestly requeated to attend. 
EDWIN BuRNHAM. 
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AGENTS 
FOR THE "HERALD n lt.IID 8. Jt., PU.LIC1t.TIOK8. 
ALB.'-NY, N. Y .. -G. 8. Mi~. 
BUFFALO, N. Y.-J. J. Porter. 
Ct!ICINN_\TI, 0.-John Kiloh. 
CLEAVELAND, 0 .. -D .. I. Robinaon. 
DERBY LINE, Vt.-Stephen, Foster,jr. 
HARTFORD, Ct.-Aaron CIRpp. 
LOWELL, Maes.-M. M. Geor!fe. 
MORRISTOWN, Vt.-1. Kirnhall. 
NEW BEDFORD, M11ss.-Henry V. Davis. 
NEw You: CtTY-R. R. Hollister, 91 Delaocy-etreet. 
0RRIIIIGTON, Me.-Thomu8mitb. 
PHILADELPHIA, PR.-J. Litch, 3 1-2 North ISnenth-el. 
PoRTLAND, ~le.-Peter Johnson, 24 Iodia-atreet. 
PaovlDENcE, R. I.-George H. Child. 
RocHESTER, N. Y.--.1. Marsh, 20 1-2"8tate-atreet. 
TORONTo, C. W.-DIUtiel Campbe11. 
WATERLoo, C. E.-R. Hutchin110n. 
WORCESTER, Mae•.-D. F. Wetherbee. 
Letten & leeeipts for Week endin~ Jnne !6. 
([]" We llan annexed to ellch aekaowledgment the 
number to whif.h it paya. Where thl' "olurue only ia 
mentioned, the whole volume is paitl for. 
E. F. Brewster, 281; G. Cary, 287-eal'b 50 eta -H. 
Parmelee, 287; Je. Danfurlb, ,. JO; 1. Ho11ki111, v 11; A. 
Hubbard,294; i.lt. Hathorn, v 9; C. Gilman, v 11; W. 
C. Gilman, 282; J. Mott, v 11; J. French, 307; L. L. 
Tuttle,,. 11; A. Y. Culver, v 11; 0. Grinnel, v 11; H. 
Simona, v 11; Jd. L .. Sikes, 2.94; E. J. Allen, 269; G. 
Burrow•, 285; z .. Whitney, • 12; II. Wilson, v 12; 1'. 
F. Green,,. 12; E. H. Sherman, v 11; L. Richard•on, 
29&; L. Morley, 287; W. Sterling,,. 11; J. Hut's, 262; 
M. Fisk, 268; T. Hudson (with pamphlets), 293-eacll 
81.-P. Rithardeoo, v 11-8150.-G 
.. Rittenllcroae, 
291; L. Dick11on, v 12; L. M. Richmond,321; H. Brigs, 
v. 10; T. L. Haw"klna, v 11; W. Bell, 288; W. Rice, v 11; 
B. W. Leonard (as directed), v 12; B .. H. Osbora, 294; 
J.Jlead (as directed)," 12; A. Lewis, 269; F. B~kwitb, 
v 13; J. Perkins,,. ll; J. Hawley, ll08; N. M .. Gregor, 
v 11-earh $2.-C. Northrop, v 11-t2 36.-G. G. 
Freeman,321-$3---A. Andrews (as directed),v 12-$5. 
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