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Concerning the New Heavens and 
New Earth. 
BY THOMAS BURNET. 
[Nr. BURNET, a learned English writer and 
Secratary to King WILLIAM, was born A. D. 
1635. His " Theory of the Earth," from which 
these extracts are taken, does not favor proba-
tion after the advent.] 
(Continued from our last.) 
We have already noted some moral characters 
of the millennial state; and the great natural 
characters of it is this in general, that it will be 
paradisaical ; free from all inconveniences, ei-
ther of external nature, or of our own bodies. 
Now the Scripture seems plainly to exempt 
the sons of the new Jerusalem, or the millenni-
um, from all pain or want, in those words, (Apoc. 
21:4), " And God shall wipe away all tears from 
their eyes : and there shall be no more death, 
neither sorrow, nor crying; neither shall there 
be any more pain : for the former things are 
passed away." And the Lord of that kingdom, 
he that sat upon the throne, said, " Behold 
make all things new."—v. 5. This renovation 
is a restoration to some former state; and I 
hope, not to that state of indigency, and misery, 
and diseasedness which we languish under at 
present ; but to that pristine paradisaical state, 
which was the blessing of the first heavens and 
the first earth. 
As health and plenty are the blessings of na-
ture, so in civil affairs, peace is the greatest 
blessing : and this is inseparably annexed to the 
millennium ; an indelible character of the king-
dom of Christ. And by peace, we understand 
not only freedom from persecution upon relig-
ious accounts, but that nation shall not rise up 
against nation," upon any account whatsoever. 
That bloody monster, war, that hath devoured 
so many millions of the sons of Adam, is now 
at length to be chained up ; and the furies, that 
run throughout the earth with their snakes and 
torches, shall be thrown into the abyss, to sting 
and prey upon one another: all evil and mis-
chievous passions shall be extinguished ; and 
that not in men only, but even in brute creatures, 
according to the prophets : " the lamb and the 
lion shall lie down together, and the sucking 
child shall play with the basilisk." Happy days ! 
when not only the temple of Janus shall be shut 
lip for a thousand years, and the nations shall 
beat their swords into ploughshares ; but all 
enmities and antipathies shall cease, all acts of 
hostility, throughout all nature. And this uni-
versal peace is a demonstration also of the 
former character, universal plenty ; for where 
there is a want and necessitousness, there will 
be quarreling. 
Fourthly, it is a kingdom of righteousness, 
as well as of peace : these also must go to-
gether ; for unrighteous persons will not live 
long in peace, no more than indigent persons. 
The Psalmist therefore joins them together; 
and plenty, also, as their necessary preserva-
tive, in his description of the kingdom of Christ. 
'• Mercy and truth are met together : righteous-
ness and peace have kissed each other. Truth 
shall spring out of the earth, and righteousness 
shall look down from heaven. Yea, the Lord 
shall give good, and our land shall yield her in-
crease."—Psa. S5:10-12. This will not be a 
medley-state, as the present world is, good and 
bad mingled together, but a chosen generation, 
a royal priesthood, an holy nation, a peculiar 
people. Those that have a part in the first 
resurrection, the Scripture pronounceth them 
holy and blessed ; and says, " The second death 
shall have no power over them." Satan also is 
bound and shut up in the bottomless pit, and 
has no liberty of tempting or seducing this peo-
ple for a thousand years : but at the end of that 
time, he will meet with a degenerate crew, sepa-
rate and aliens to the holy city, that will make 
war against it, and perish in the attempt. In a 
word, those that are to enjoy this state, are al-
ways distinguished from the multitude, as peo-
ple redeemed from the earth, (Apoc. 5:9) that 
have washed their robes, and made them white 
in the blood of the Lamb ; and are represented 
as victors over the world ; with such other 
characters as are incompatible to any but the 
righteous.—chaps. 7:14 ; 14:3, 4 ; 21:27. 
Fifthly, this will be a state under a peculiar 
divine presence and conduct. It is not easy, in-
deed, to determine the manner of this presence ; 
but the Scripture plainly implies some extraor-
dinary divine presence to enlighten and enliven 
that state. When the new Jerusalem was come 
down, St. John says, (Apoc. " And I 
heard a great voice out of heaven, saying, Be-
hold the tabernacle of God is with men ; and 
he will dwell with them, and they shall be his 
people; and God himself shall be with them, 
and be their God." And the like is promised 
to the palm-bearing company, (chap. 7:15) where 
they are admitted to the privileges of the new 
Jerusalem. When our Saviour was incarnate, 
and vouchsafed to dwell amongst the children 
of men, the same phrase is used by this same 
author, Eskeenoose (John 1:14), " The Word was 
made flesh, and tabernacled amongst us : and 
we beheld his glory," etc. We read it, he 
dwelt amongst us : but rendered more closely, 
it is, he set his tabernacle amongst us. And 
that which the Hebrews call the Shekinalt, or 
divine presence (Maimon, Mor. Nev. par. 1, 
chap. 25), comes from a word of the like sig-
nification and found with the Greek word here 
used. Therefore there will be a Shekinah in 
that kingdom of Christ : but as to the mode of 
it, I am very willing to confess my ignorance. 
The last character that belongs to this state, 
or rather to those that enjoy it, is, that they are 
kings and priests unto God. This is a charac-
ter often repeated in Scripture, and therefore 
the more to be regarded. It occurs thrice in 
the Apocalypse in formal terms—chap. 1:6 ; 
chap. 5;10 ; chap. 20:6. And as to the regal 
dignity apart, that is farther expressed, either 
by the donation of a kingdom, as in Daniel's 
phrase, (chap. 7:18, 22, 27) ; or, by placing 
upon thrones, with a judicial power; which is 
the New Testament style.—Matt. 19:28; Luke 
:22:29, 30 ; Rev. 20:4. These two titles, no 
doubt, are intended to comprehend the highest 
honors that we are capable of ; these being the 
highest dignities in every kingdom; and such 
as were by the ancients, both in the east and in 
the west, commonly united in one and the same 
person ; their kings being priests, like Melchis-
edeck, or, as the Roman emperor was, Ponti- 
fex Maximus. But as to the sacerdotal charac-
ter, that seems chiefly to respect the temper of 
the mind ; to signify a people dedicated to God 
and his service, separate from the world, and 
from secular affairs, spending their time in de- 
votion and contemplation, which will be the 
great employments of that happy state : for 
where there is ease, peace, and plenty of all 
things, refilled bodies, and purified minds, there 
will be more inclination to intellectual exercises 
and entertainments; which they may attend 
upon without any distraction, having neither 
want, pain, nor worldly business. 
The title of king implies a confluence of all 
things that constitute temporal happiness. It 
is the highest thing we can wish any in this 
world, to be a king: so as the regal dignity 
seems to comprehend all the goods of fortune, 
or external felicity; and the sacerdotal, the 
goods of the mind, or internal ; both which con-
cur in the constitution of true happiness. There 
is also a further force and emphasis in this no-
tion of the saints being made kings, if we con-
sider it comparatively, with respect to what they 
were before in this world ; where they were not 
only mean and despicable, in subjection and ser-
vility, but often under persecution, abused and 
trampled upon by the secular and ecclesiastical 
powers. But now the scene is changed, and 
you see the reverse of providence, according as 
Abraham said to the rich man : " Son, remem-
ber that thou in thy life time receivedst thy good 
things, and likewise Lazarus evil things : but 
now he is comforted, and thou art tormented." 
Now they are set upon thrones and tribunals, 
who were before arraigned as criminals, and 
brought before tyrannical judicatures : they are 
now laws and law-givers to themselves, in a 
true state of royal liberty, neither under the 
domination of evil men, nor of their own evil 
passions. 
Some, possibly, may think that this high 
character, of being made priests and kings to 
God, is not general to all that enjoy the millen-
nium ; but a prerogative belonging to the apos-
tles and some of the chief martyrs, who are 
eminently rewarded for their eminent services. 
But Scripture, as far as I perceive, applies it to 
all that inherit that kingdom : " The redeemed 
out of every kindred and tongue, and people, 
and nation, are made kings and priests to God, 
and shall reign on the earth."—Apoc. 5:9, 10. 
And in the 20th chap. v. 6, all the sons of the 
first resurrection are made priests of God, and 
shall reign with him a thousand years. Here 
is no distinction or discrimination thus far : not 
that we suppose an universal equality of condi-
tions in the millennial state ; but as to all these 
characters which we have given of it, I do not 
perceive that they are restrained or confined by 
Scripture to single persons, but make the gen-
eral happiness of that state, and are the portion 
of every one that is admitted into the new Je-
rusalem. 
Others, possibly, may think that this privi-
lege of the first resurrection is not common to 
all that enjoy the millennial state. For though 
St John, who is the only person that hath made 
express mention of the first resurrection, and of 
the thousand years reign of Christ, does join 
these two as the same thing, and common to 
the same persons ; yet I know there are some 
that would distinguish them as things of a dif-
ferent nature. They suppose the martyrs only 
will rise from the dead, and will be imme-
diately translated into heaven, and there pass 
their millennium in celestial glory ; while the 
church is still here below, in her millennium, 
such as it is : a state, indeed, better than ordi-
nary. and free from persecution, but obnoxious 
to all the inconveniences of our present mortal 
life, and a medley of good and bad people, with-
out separation. This is such an idea of the 
millennium, as to my eye, bath neither beauty 
in it, nor foundation in Scripture. That the 
citizens of the new Jerusalem are not a miscel-
laneous company, but a community of right-
eous persons, we have noted before, and that the 
state of nature will be better than it is at pres-
ent. But, besides this, what warrant have they 
for this ascension of the martyrs into heaven at 
that time ? Where do we read of that in Scrip-
ture ? And in those things that are not mat-
ters of natural order, but of divine economy, 
we ought to be very careful how we add to 
Scripture. 
T he Scripture speaks only of the resurrection 
of the martyrs, (Apoc. 20:4, 5) but not a word 
concerning their ascension into heaven : will 
that be visible ? We read of our Saviour's res-
urrection and ascension, and therefore we have 
reason to affirm them both. We read also of 
the resurrection and ascension of the witnesses, 
(Apoc. 11) in a figurative sense ; and in that 
sense we may assert them upon good grounds. 
But as to the martyrs, we read of their resur-
rection only, without any thing expressed or 
implied about their ascension. By 'what au-
thority then shall we add this new notion to the 
history or scheme of the millennium ? The 
Scripture, on the contrary, makes mention of 
the descent of the new Jerusalem, (Apoc. 
making the earth the theatre of all that affair: 
and the camp of the saints is upon the earth, 
(v. 9), and these saints are the same persons, so 
far as can be collected from the text, that rose 
from the dead, and reigned with Christ, and 
were priests to God.—vs. 4-6. Neither is there 
any distinction made, that I find, by St. John, 
of two sorts of saints in the millennium, the 
one in heaven, and the other upon earth. Last-
ly, the four and twenty elders, (chap. 5:10), 
though they were kings and priests unto God, 
were content to reign upon earth. Now who 
can you suppose of a superior order to these 
four and twenty elders ? whether they represent 
the twelve patriarchs and twelve apostles, or 
whomsoever they represent, they are placed 
next to him that sits upon the throne, and they 
have crowns of gold upon their heads.—chap. 
4:4, and 11:16. There can be no marks of 
honor and dignity greater than these are ; and 
therefore, seeing these highest dignitaries in the 
millennium, or future kingdom of Christ, are to 
reign upon earth, there is no ground to suppose 
the assumption of any other into heaven, upon 
that account, or upon that occasion. 
This is a short and general draught of the 
millennial state, or future reign of the saints, 
according to Scripture ; wherein I have endeav-
ored to rectify some mistakes or misconceptions 
about it ; that viewing it in its true nature, we 
may be the better able to judge, when and where 
it will obtain : which is the next thing to be 
considered.—( To be continued.) 
Opening of New College, London. 
Address to the Students. 
BY REV. T. BINNEY. 
(Concluded from our last) 
2. But, passing from this worst case,—in 
which the two things that ought to meet in the 
same person are totally disunited—let us take 
another and more favorable instance ; one, in 
which office and gifts shall be confessedly asso-
ciated with spiritual character. It is not diffi-
cult, even here, to find scriptural suggestions 
which give force and pungency to our Lord's 
adinonition. 
In the first place, all gifts, offices, and dis-
tinctions, involve corresponding duties and res-
ponsibilities. The ranks and conditions of civil 
society, its stations and functions, from the low-
est to the supreme, have all their appropriate, 
some of them their heavy and awful, obliga-
tions. The lowest thing that can be called a 
talent—low in itself, though not so, in respect 
to what it can achieve, aid, or command,—
money, or that which money represents,—it has 
passed into a proverb, that this " has its duties 
as well as its rights." Property is to be re-
garded as a means to an end ; as an entrusted 
power, which is itself to be used with scrupu-
lous fidelity, and which originates moral rela-
tions to others, prolific of calls that have a claim 
on the- conscience. Genius and ability, original 
capacity or acquired talent, force of intellect,, 
eloquence, and song, everything which confers 
social distinction and social influence, is given to 
man with the implied injunction, " Occupy till 
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1 come." The same law not only obtains within 
the precincts of the church, but obtains, we may 
suppose, with intenser exactness, and demands 
to be acknowledged with deeper solemnity. To 
be invested with high office, to be furnished 
with great powers, to have natural gifts polished 
and perfected by discipline and culture, to be 
placed in a sphere of religious action, and called 
to the work of perfecting the Church and sav-
ing sinners,—these things, in themselves con-
sidered, are not so much matters for joyous ex-
citement, as for serious thought and stern re-
flection. Instead of producing a flutter of the 
spirits, and filling the heart with exultant com-
placency, they should rather repress these ten-
dencies to inflation, and send the individual to 
solitude and prayer,—peradventure, also, to 
tremor and tears. Paul was not insensible to 
the honor conferred upon him, in being " called 
to be an apostle " and " put into the ministry." 
He was ready on occasion to " magnify his of-
fice," and to require others to respect it too. 
But he was burdened by the weight of the honor 
he had received, by the thought of the respon-
sibility that it brought along with it. He not 
only asked, " Am I not an apostle ?"—not only 
said, " to me is this grace given,"—but he also 
said, " Though I preach the gospel, I have noth-
ing to glory of. A dispensation of the gospel 
is committed unto me. Necessity is laid upon 
me ; Yea, woe is unto me, if 1 preach not the 
gospel." Instead of rejoicing in the mere fact 
of his office and gifts, his miraculous ability, 
his talents and tongues, he went softly " in 
weakness and in fear, and in much trembling," 
—" keeping under his body, and bringing it into 
subjection, lest, after having preached to others, 
he himself should be a castaway." 
It is next to be observed, that office and gifts, 
which are thus calculated to produce deep seri-
ousness from the responsibility they involve, are 
things which, even by good men, may be per-
verted and abused. All endowments, secular 
and sacred, are received upon conditions. We 
come into a conditional world ; we live in a 
conditional Church. The idea of responsibili-
ty implies this : the thought of accounting for 
what we are entrusted with, if it means any-
thing—means that our account may be ulti-
mately rendered either with " joy " or " grief." 
The talents committed to us may, or may not, 
be faithfully traded with, and adequately used. 
And not only may they fail, who have no ground 
of spiritual character, out of which can spring 
the fruits of obedience ; but even they, in whom 
gifts and grace must be supposed to unite, may 
not only come short in the amount of service, 
but may render the highest advantages useless, 
by culpable weakness, negligence, and sin.—
This may be illustrated by two striking scrip-
tural examples. The one furnished by the mel-
ancholy facts of the Corinthian Church ; the 
other found in the practical reasonings addressed 
to it by Paul. You are all aware of the ex-
traordinary perversion of supernatural gifts, 
which prevailed in the Church to which I have 
referred. Now, it would not be right to sup-
pose that all the parties blamed by the apos-
tle were absolutely bad ; that they were hollow 
and hypocritical, and belonged to the class we 
have already disposed of, in which office and 
gifts were absolutely separated from spiritual 
character. They are rather to be referred to 
the second class, which we have now before us, 
in which outward distinctions and inward grace 
are supposed to be united, but in persons by 
whom the responsibilities of office, or of per-
sonal endowment, are not correctly understood, 
seriously considered, or practically felt. The 
Corinthians had extraordinary powers confer-
red upon them. Now, in such cases, the law 
is, that all gifts are conferred on the individual 
for the good of the whole. " The manifesta-
tion of the Spirit is given to every man to pro-
fit withal." Each has to consider himself as 
belonging to a body ; to lose his individualism 
from sympathy with it; to be content with con-
tributing to its growth, harmony, beauty, and 
perfection, by the exercise of whatever power 
he is entrusted with, but not to covet, and cer-
tainly not to attempt to secure personal distinc-
tion. All this, however, was lost sight of in 
the Church at Corinth. Many of its members 
were highly endowed ;—they had extraordinary 
gifts, some of which were analogous to forms 
of ability among ourselves—to learning and 
eloquence, and other seductive and captivating 
talents. They neglected the conditions on 
which they were conferred ; they perverted 
them to purposes foreign to their use ; they 
employed them as instruments of personal dis-
play ; they made them servitors to vanity and 
selfishness ; and thus, instead of all seeking to 
edify the rest, each was ambitious of separate 
distinction ! The church became a scene of 
confusion and disorder, and instead of being 
profited by its abundance of gifts, was thrown, 
by their abuse, into schism and sin ! The in-
ference from all this, which I wish you to no-
tice, is, I think, obvious : The mere possession 
of gifts and endowments, which are capable of 
being perverted even by the good, is not in it-
self a ground for exultation. It can only be- 
come so after trial and service, when time and 
fidelity have furnished proofs that the " grace 
given " has not been " received," or exercised, 
"in vain." The other illustration, strongly en-
forcing the same truth, is the parable of the 
apostle addressed especially to the teachers at 
Corinth. He takes two men, puts them into the 
ministry, calls " them builders," supposes each 
of them to be sincere and upright—(for both of 
them are received by the Master at last)—and 
then shows with what a vast difference they 
may do their work. The men are alike minis-
ters by office, and each is supposed to be a 
Christian in heart; they have the same sta-
tion and the same duties ; but the one acts, so 
that in the end " his work remains, and he has 
a reward ;" the other so that " his work is 
barnt," and he " suffers loss " and is " saved as 
by fire." 
He is saved ;—he hath real faith, 
therefore,—a genuine spiritual life in him ; his 
name, so to speak, was " written in heaven," 
and in that he is permitted ultimately to rejoice; 
but his whole ministerial life is a failure,—his 
office and gifts terminate in nothing. Again, 1 
think, the inference is obvious ;—a mere induc-
tion into that which is capable of being so mis-
managed, is not in itself a ground for rejoicing. 
We must wait to the end, or for a good while, 
at least, before exultation can properly begin. 
Call no man happy till death." Let no min-
ister exult till near it. The offence which ex-
cluded Moses from Palestine, was committed in 
the last year of his life ! It was not till just 
upon the close of his, that the apostle exchanged 
his practical caution for certainty and song. He 
who before had " kept under his body " lest he 
should fail, then " rejoiced " as he had never 
done before.—" I have fought a good fight, I 
have finished my course, I have kept the faith. 
Henceforth there is laid up for me a crown of 
righteousness, which the Lord, the righteous 
judge, shall give me at that day, and not to me 
only, but to all them also that love His ap-
pearing." 
Before closing this second series of illustra-
tions, an additional remark may be made, which 
I think well worthy your serious attention. Ob-
serve, then, that not only are there duties and 
responsibilities, involved in office and gifts, suf-
ficient to make any man grave and serious ; 
and not only is it possible for these to be neg-
lected, or inefficiently attended to, even by good 
men ; but it does so happen, that, from the 
present condition of human nature, there is 
great danger of this being the case. This arises 
from the tendency in men to be dazzled by the 
external ; to attach importance to power and 
ability distinct from their use : to desire office, 
elevation, pre-eminence, without regard to their 
practical obligations ; to make self, in some form 
or other, the central point in their scheme of 
life,—its satisfaction or honor the central power 
and motive of action. Human nature is never 
more than imperfectly sanctified. Its corrupt, 
or contemptible tastes and tendencies are mani-
fest in the church as well as in the world.—
Students, devoted to the highest science, aspir-
ing ultimately to the divinest vocation, may 
look too much at the outward and secondary, 
as well those of inferior pursuits. The New 
Testament is full of examples to admonish and 
warn. Only think how the disciples before us 
must have appeared to their Master,—elated as 
they were with a sort of childish joy at what 
they achieved, and, at the thought, doubtless, 
of having been the objects of wonder, and the 
topic of discourse to the people they had sur-
prised. They lost sight of the great spiritual 
end of their mission, from the pleasure they 
felt in the exercise of the powers by which it 
was to be reached. They were taken up with 
admiring their accoutrements—the clothes and 
weapons with which they were furnished and 
sentforth—instead of being intent on the vir-
tues they had to cultivate, and the work they 
had to do. What a scene, again, was that, 
when the two disciples, selfishly eager to get 
ahead of their brethren, and to secure an ad-
vantage by being the first to ask, came to the 
Master with the ambitious request that they 
might be chosen to sit, " the one on His right 
hand, and the other on His left, in His king-
dom." To think, too, that the apostles, more 
than once, had a strife and a controversy 
" which should he the greatest," and that some-
thing of this sort actually occurred on the very 
evening of the Pascal Supper, and subsequently 
to Christ's affecting addresses. The Corinthi-
ans, also, it may be remembered, not only were 
distinguished by a variety of gifts, but they 
were all anxious to have the very best—each of 
them wished to be in possession of something 
that might invest him with lustre and give him 
pre-eminence ; and this, be it observed, not as a 
means that God might sanctify to high uses 
and benevolent aims, but simply for the grati-
fication of his personal vanity. How frequently 
do we find this spirit checked and rebuked in 
the New Testament ! Jesus took a little child, 
and setting him in the midst of the apostles, 
drew from the qualities belonging to childhood, a 
lesson that might repress and cool their am-
bition. He took a towel and girded himself, 
and washed their feet, and moved amongst them 
as one that served ; and then he told them he 
had answered the question that interested them 
so much, " who should be the greatest in the 
kingdom of heaven ?" To be great rather than 
good, is the wish of humanity ; a wish that 
goes with it into the church, and retains its 
hold of it even when regenerate. It is possible 
to be ambitious of spiritual gifts—not for the 
sake of their spiritual use, but for the pleasure 
which the natural faculties and tastes find in 
their exercise. Hence the danger, that, without 
great watchfulness, gifts may be possessed with-
out your thinking of the duties they involve—
those duties be consequently neglected, or im-
properly performed—and you exposed to the just 
censure of rejoicing more " in spirits subject to 
you," than in your having your " names written 
in heaven." * * * * 
I cannot conclude this address, without re-
questing you to notice one or two things that 
are suggested by it, which illustrate the genu-
ine spirit of our religion, or bear on the in-
terests of all who possess it. It is a striking 
fact, and well worth observing, how, amid the 
blaze of miracles and prodigies, our Lord and 
His apostles never lost sight of the sober 
and the practical. He was never dazzled by 
the signs and wonders which everywhere sur-
rounded Him, or forgot for a moment the great 
inward and spiritual ends which were neces-
sary to be accomplished to make humanity 
loving and obedient. Nor do the apostles, 
when moving among the many supernatural 
wonders that distinguished the church in the 
first age, or when giving utterance to the hig-
est forms of speculative truth, ever, either in 
speeeh or writing, disparage, or ignore, plain, 
downright, practical goodness. They would 
seem to have preferred preaching the truth to 
working a miracle ; speaking " five words " to 
the common ear and the common intelligence, 
to " ten thousand in an unknown tongue ; " and 
from all their flights to the third heaven of doc-
trinal discovery and high inspiration, they al-
ways return to the ordinary world and the com-
mon virtue of every-clay life. It is worth re-
marking, too, that that which was selected and 
eulogized by Christ as the ground of apostol-
ic joy, is nothing of the nature of an apostol-
ic distinction, but just the possession of that 
spiritual and inward life, which is the common 
endowment of all who believe. Ministers and 
people may differ in many things. In office 
and gifts, honor and pre-eminence, the "guides " 
of the church may possess an advantage ; but 
the highest and the most distinguished of them 
all, can only rejoice, with a becoming joy, in 
those principles and in that life which belong 
to them as believers, and belong to the general 
body of the faithful. Observe, also, how the 
respective tendencies of ecclesiastical systems, 
and the delusive errors of opposite sects, are 
exposed and corrected by the subject before you. 
One party idolizes a creed, another a commu-
nion : one attaches importance to true thought, 
another to the reception of valid sacraments; 
one rejoices in an orthodox opinion, another 
that he is permitted to approach the altar ; a 
right understanding of our Lord's words would 
fix the attention of both parties upon something 
else. Right belief is very important ; it is a 
good thing to be in visible fellowship with a 
true church ; but these things are only means 
to ends; secondary advantages on which the 
attention must not terminate, and from which, 
in themselves considered, rational rejoicing can-
not spring. Light withont love is not religion ; 
spiritual advantages, in rites and sacraments, 
are not, in themselves, spiritual life. "Knowl-
edge puffeth up, but love buildeth up :" one in-
flates, the other edifies. Judas might partake 
of the Lord's Supper, blessed and administered 
by the Lord himself, and receive no benefit 
from the Divine institution. ' The kingdom 
of God is not meat and drink, but righteousness, 
and peace, and joy in the Holy Ghost." The 
entire spirit and teaching of Scripture are in 
constant harmony with statements like this. 
The whole Church, as well as the ministry, are 
required to distinguish between the outward 
and the inward—the sign and the substance—
spirit and form—gift and grace—external ad-
vantage and actual character ; in other words, 
between " casting out devils " and working 
wonders, and " having their names written in 
heaven." 
At the same meeting, Dr. CAMPBELL made 
some remarks, an extract from which is annexed. 
It is worthy of consideration. 
In the meantime, we—the Church of God in 
all its branches—are but a small minority. 1 
trust that advance is being made. One word 
more suffer me, with all raspect, to utter : I say, 
then, beware of the pride of Letters.. (Hear, 
hear.) There is great danger of this in a high 
state of civilization. As much literature as 
you please : make as many Porsons and Ba-
cons as you can ; but give your men the old 
Methodistic spirit. Provide for the Churches 
men that will not be ashamed to preach at the 
market-cross, in the highway, in the school- 
room, or the stable—places where I have many 
a time preached. Give us men that can do 
such rough work. (Hear, near, and cheers.) 
The professors are all well able to discharge 
their several duties ; but God send down among 
them more and more of prophet-like simplicity 
arid power, that the young men under their 
care be not filled and puffed up with pride. 
Give us men of the old stamp with all the new 
improvements. Give us polished, brilliant men, 
that will lighten while they thunder; but let 
them feel that their business is to seek the sal-
vation of souls. A young man, who was torn 
between his friends and his conscience, once 
wrote to Whitefield, his spiritual father, on the 
subject of taking a degree before he commenced 
preaching, when that noble man replied, " The 
highest degree on earth is to be a mobbed, stoned, 
pelted, Methodist preacher." (Hear, and laugh-
ter.) You may be dead, and damned for neglect-
ing perishing souls before you get a degree; go 
and preach the Gospel. One word with respect 
to this matter of degrees. I confess to have 
been by no means one of those who intensely 
rejoice in the affiliation of this and the other 
colleges with the London University. In one 
view, the thing is all very well ; but I look at 
it in another view, and my fear is, lest it should 
present strong temptations to the young men, 
to neglect the primary for the secondary, the 
essential for the ornamental. Young men of 
even but moderate powers may shine in one 
particnlar department of knowledge, if the at-
tention and effort are solely concentrated upon 
it; but I fear lest they should consume the 
midnight oil, waste their strength, and impair 
their health by seeking a degree which would 
be clearly bought at the expense of higher at-
tainments. Besides, they are going to speak 
English, not Latin ; they have to teach justifi-
cation by faith in the Son of God, and not the 
mathematics. (Hear, hear.) The great thing 
is to impress the young men with the fact, that 
their one great business is to turn men to right-
eousness ; and to this end they must have a 
general and deep knowledge of men and things. 
Dr. Johnson has finely observed, that you may 
live with a man for half a life-time without be-
coming acquainted with his knowledge of hy-
drostatics or astronomy; but his moral and pru-
dential knowledge immediately appears. If 
men with special parts, and from having enjoyed 
early advantages, can take degrees easily, and 
without neglecting higher and more important 
objects, let them do so by all means ; but let 
them rather seek to attain to that character by 
which the Holy Ghost will estimate them—
(hear, hear,)—let them become polished shafts 
in his hand, that they may succeed in " turning 
men from darkness to light. and from the power 
of Satan unto God." You will excuse my 
freedom. I have spoken all that was in my 
heart; and, like our good brother in Germany, 
I feel all the more comfort, now that I have 
disburdened my conscience. 
Conversion of the Jews. 
We have given several articles on this sub-
ject from the pen of Rev. E. M. DODD, missionary 
at Salonica, in which we saw nothing to dissent 
from. The design of these articles is to show 
that all men, Jews and Gentiles occupy a simi-
lar relation to GOD, and that no one race as a 
race is shut out more than others, if they will 
only repent and believe the gospel. We give 
below another of his articles from the N. Y. 
Evangelist, which likewise, as we conceive pre-
sents the Bible view of the question, with the 
exception of the final conversion of that and of 
all nations. We hold that the Jews are as prop-
erly subjects of missionary efforts as any people; 
that Christians can be no more excused in their 
case titan in others from the command to preach 
the gospel in all the world to every creature ; 
that they may preach to them with as rational 
hope of success, and that we may expect all 
such labors will be sufficiently blessed, to war-
rant the most energetic efforts and the most 
lavish expenditure of men and money, in at-
tempting the salvation of dying men. Yet the 
church will ever be only a remnant gathered 
out of all nations, as it has been in all past 
times, until the Husbandman shall himself come, 
gather out of his kingdom all things that offend 
and those who do iniquity, and cause the right-. 
eous to shine as the sun in the kingdom of 
their Father. 
JEWS NOT CAST AWAY. 
We now come to our second question—" Do 
the Jews rest under any peculiar curse, which 
renders them more unlikely subjects of gospel 
grace, and their immediate conversion more im-
probable than that of the Gentiles ?" 
All Christians are agreed in expecting the 
Jews' conversion; but there is an undefined 
rConsequently, although God may magnify 
infidelity among Christians, with regard to their 
immediate conversion and present labor among 
them. 
When this exists, it may usually be attributed 
to a belief, more or less definite, varying from 
a vague idea to a settled conviction, that the 
Jews, as a people, are under a special curse of 
judicial blindness and hardness of heart, given 
over by God to believe a lie, because of the cru-
cifixion of Christ. 
his mercy in the conversion of individuals from 
among them, we are riot to expect any such suc-
cess as to warrant special missionary labor in 
their behalf ; but should rather leave them in 
the hands of God and his sovereign mercy. 
In short, the responsibility is thrown upon 
God, and we are free. 
The agreement between this conclnsion and 
the sloth of our carnal hearts, should cast some 
doubt upon it, and lead us carefully to examine 
its foundation. 
The paasages from which it is drawn are 
mostly Isa. 6:9-13—" Make the heart of this 
people fat, and make their ears heavy, and shut 
1 their eyes; lest they see with their eyes, and 
hear with their ears, and understand with their 
heart, and be converted, and I heal them "— 
and Rom. 11, where Paul speaks of " the cast-
ing away of them," their being " broken off,"&c. 
Concerning the passage in Isaiah, it is very 
clear that it was not the whole people who were 
given over by God. In the same chapter, and 
more clearly elsewhere, Isaiah speaks of the 
" remnant " whom God had left them ; the " ho-
ly seed." this " remnant " is continually kept 
in view by the prophets, and assured of God's 
favor and love; all the promises and encourage-
ments are addressed to them. To them, the 
" poor of the flock," as Zechariah calls them, 
Jesus appeared, and they received and loved 
him. 
It was, then, a part of the people, the larger 
part indeed, whom God left to hardness of heart 
and blindness of mind. And is this peculiar to 
Jews ? Has not God treated all nations the 
same ? What has the church of God ever been 
in .the world save a " remnant," while the 
great mass of men are left to hardness of heart 
and eternal ruin. 
This language, instead of being any peculiar 
curse of the Jews, is but the special mention 
and application to that generation of that gen-
eral truth, that the true Israel is a small rem-
nant ; that they are few who walk in the nar-
row way ; while the great mass, left of God to 
blindness and hardness of heart, go in the broad 
road to death. 
But let us pass into the still clearer light of 
the New Testament. The other passage re-
ferred to is found in Rom. 11, and here it would 
seem as if Paul, afraid of being misunderstood, 
had taken special pains to guard against this 
misinterpretation.—" Hath God cast away his 
people ? God forbid ! for 1 also am an Israel-
ite." 
Paul, as a converted Jew, was a standing 
proof that God had not; and then, quoting from 
Kings and Isaiah, where the "seven thousand" 
and the " remnant" are spoken of, he says, 
" Even so then, at this present time, there is a 
remnant according to the election of grace." 
Israel " (the race) " hath not obtained that 
which he seeketh after; but the election bath 
obtained it, and the rest were blinded," just as 
we know true among us. " And if some of the 
branches (not all) were broken off, and thou, 
being a wild olive tree, wert graffed in among 
them "—i. e. among the Jewish branches left. 
" For I would not have you ignorant, brethren, 
that blindness, in part, hath happened to Israel, 
till the fullness of the Gentiles be come in." 
Paul's doctrine and aim seem to be this: He 
is combatting two opposite errors : 
given to a remnant among the Gentiles, who 
should hold it along with the godly Jews—
bringing Jews and Gentiles to a level ; and he 
says this equality should continue. Just as 
long as a remnant alone of Gentiles were in the 
church, so long should only a remnant of Jews 
share its light—i. e., The " blindness in part 
should continue among Jews until the fullness 
of the Gentiles should come in." 
All this "blindness," and "cutting off," and 
casting away," is predicated of the ungodly 
Jews alone, the dead branches, and no snore de-
clares a reprobation and peculiar curse of the 
race, than the excommunication of ungodly 
members of a church shows the reprobation of 
a whole church by God. 
The apostles evidently did not think the Jews 
under any such curse. According to the com-
mand of Christ, they " began at Jerusalem " to 
preach the gospel, and three thousand Jews 
were converted on the day of Pentecost, no one 
hindering; wherever they went they preached 
first to Jews, and from them were their first 
converts; and we have reason to believe that 
as large a proportion of that generation of Jews 
were converted as can now be found pious in 
any Christian land. But on whom should the 
curse of blindness fall, if not upon the very 
generation that crucified Christ ? 
As the spirit of anti-Christ entered the church 
conversions ceased, both among Jews and Gen-
tiles, till the Reformation. 
It is worthy of notice that when missions to 
the heathen were first proposed, precisely the 
same objections were made by the church : viz. 
" God has given them over to blindness ; we 
must not interfere with his decrees; let us sub-
missively wait his time." That excuse is now 
seldom heard concerning the heathen ; when 
shall it cease concerning the Jew, to whom it 
has just as little application ? 
The Church and the World. 
In these times of excitement in behalf of the 
cause of political freedom, we gain an argument 
in behalf of the spread of the gospel which we 
would do well to improve. " The children of 
this worid are wiser in their generation than 
the children of light." The apostle of political 
liberty carries with him all hearts and all voices; 
but what attention is bestowed upon him who 
comes among us to plead in behalf of not a 
nation only, but a world literally lying in bond-
age to sin and Satan ? Who has as yet listened 
to the Macedonian cry from Borneo, and gone 
over to assist those devoted men laboring to 
bring the benighted Dyacks into the light and 
liberty of the gospel? Has not a missionary 
been among us for months, making efforts to 
get one or two more to go to that dark region 
and help him ? The harvest, it is said, is plenty, 
but the laborers—where are they ? Not a man 
can be obtained by the devoted brother now 
among us, nor even by the American Board it-
self. The dignity of -the missionary enterprise 
seems to be lost sight of ; and the more of po-
litical stir we have among us, the more it is 
cast into the shade. Even in our very midst, 
we cannot help thinking the ways of Zion 
mourn, and comparatively few come up to her 
solemn feasts. And were it not for the over-
ruling providence of God, and his promise that 
he will be with his Church and people to the 
end of the world, we might be disposed to sit 
down in despair, and say that we were a people 
forsaken in a spiritual point of view, though 
triumphant on the tide of national prosperity. 
Should a missionary from China or the dark 
regions of India now come among us, and tell 
us of a people who, by millions, were consum-
ing their idols, and had broken in pieces the 
great Juggernaut, under whose wheels so many 
thousands in times past have been crushed to 
death ; that there, in those once dark regions, 
there were no " fields white for the harvest;" 
how comparatively few would buckle on the 
armor, or go to thrust in the sickle ! This has 
been called by a great writer " the glory of the 
age ;" and glory it certainly is to every soldier 
who enlists in such a cause. But to make 
achievments worthy of the gospel and of its 
value to mankind, we must take an example 
from the children of this generation, whose 
whole souls are carried away by the eloquence 
of a great leader in the cause of national free- 
dom. The halo of glory that encircles the 
brow of the warrior belongs not to the humble 
missionary of the cross. But let us remember 
that, where there are " garments rolled in 
blood," they are bedewed also with the tears of 
the widow and the orphan. Who that has ever 
seen the wreck of the battle-field, strewed with 
the dead and dying, could dispassionately feel 
elated or satisfied with such glory, even with all 
the adventitious aid of martial music and the 
cannon's roar ? It is said that seventy thousand 
Austrians fell in the Hungarian struggle; and 
we may safely conclude, an equal number of 
Hungarians. How many years of even the al-
leged oppression of Austria would it have re-
quired to destroy such a host? We ask for a 
war in which there is " no discharge ;" but the 
warfare is bloodless, because the "weapons are 
not carnal," although mighty through God to 
the pulling clown of the strong holds of sin and 
Satan. We fear that even at home the enemy 
is coming in like a flood Christian Intelligeneer. 
Autumn Musings. 
His fresh, young vigor seems inexhaustible; the 
strength of his prime bids defiance to decay ; 
but the frost of gathering years touches him at 
length ; the weight of care bows him down ; 
infirmity drains him of his vigor; he withers 
under the blight of disease, and is found no 
more among the places that knew him. 
Wealth and honors are only for a summer 
season. Eagerly may we hoard earthly good, 
as though laying up a portion for eternity. We 
may climb to the pinnacle of fortune, we may 
crowd our mansions with ministrations of pleas-
ure, but it is all fading and transitory. It will 
not endure. Worldly splendor and glory are 
short-lived. They will wither quickly, like the 
dying herbage; they will be blown away like 
the summer flower and dead leaves. 
This lesson of our own frailty and the transi-
tory nature of all we glory in, is one of the 
most impressive lessons of the waning year. 
We are to commune with ourselves in the au-
tumn fields.—" Soon, like the withered grass, 
will my strength and grace be gone. I shall be 
swept away by the next breath'of time, like that 
fluttering leaf. All I have gathered around me 
to enrich my lot will fade and fall away like 
those scattered roses." What can there be like 
the sense of this to check our giddy chase of 
the world ? 
And again, the lesson is of earth's fading 
joys. In this season there is a peculiar and 
pensive habit of thought thrown over the mind. 
All life seems declining. The birds, with whose 
plumage and notes we have become familiar, 
leave one by one their summer haunts. Some 
widowed songster pipes a solitary lay in some 
grove whence his companions have fled, and its 
solitariness makes it sadder than silence. The 
leaves are fading and falling ; the grass sounds 
crisp under our morning footsteps; the harvests 
are gathered and the fields are bare; and we 
sing with the poet, 
" The melancholy days are come, the saddest of the year." 
Even the " calm, mild days " that yet linger 
with us, have, in their pale sunshine and soft, 
hazy sky, a dreamy pensiveness which the 
mind is quick to catch, and to which all its 
sympathies are attuned ; and the themes which 
our thoughts revolve in such mood are naturally 
of departed pleasures and sundered ties. 
"And then I think of one who in her youthful beauty died, 
The fair, meek blossom that grew up and faded by my side. 
In the cold, moist earth we laid her when the forest cast the 
leaf, 
And we wept that one so lovely should have a life so brief. 
Yet not unmeet it was that one like that young friend of ours, 
So gentle and so beautiful, should perish with the flowers." 
So we think of young days fled; of early 
scenes, that come no more ; of morning compan-
ions, who long ago left our side ; of youthful 
dreams, from which we have awaked ; of cher-
ished hopes, now blighted ; of loved ones dead, 
with whom we had trusted to walk all the length 
of life's pilgrim path, and drop a tear to memory. 
And out of these thoughts there awakens 
within us the sense of immortal wants. The 
conviction is on the heart that the good this 
world has to offer cannot satisfy. There comes 
upon us an undefined, vague sense of want—a 
longing for something higher, purer, more en-
during than this world can give—a thirst for 
immortal pleasures. The heart, if unrenewed, 
feels, in this pensive hour, the sadness of its 
unprovided state, sighs for solid bliss and per-
manent hopes, and sickens of all the vain and 
passing show of time. This is an influence 
lent to the season by its Author, that it may 
conduct the empty and pining soul, sorrowful 
because sinful, to Him, to be pardoned, sancti-
fied, gladdened, and made the heir of eternal 
blessedness. 
Congregationalist. 
The Dead Sea. 
Mr. Robert J. Graves, as. D., has communi-
cated to the Edinburgh "Philosophical Journal" 
a very interesting article on the causes why the 
waters of the Dead Sea are destitute of fish, 
and other marine animals. The Dead Sea con-
tains no living thing within its fatal boundaries, 
yet this salt sea, so famous in story, is supplied 
with water from fresh water rivers, which abound 
in fish and vegetables. The surface of the 
Dead Sea is 1300 feet below the level of the 
Mediterranean, is 1000 feet deep, 60 miles long, 
and nine broad. It receives all the waters of the 
Sea of Galilee. A correct chart of thisold 
lake was never given to the world until the ex-
pedition under Lieut. Lynch surveyed it. The 
full credit of this important fact is given to our 
country by Mr. Graves. It had been stated by 
Dr. Robinson and Mr. Warburton, that the 
shores of the Dead Sea were non-volcanic, but 
the expedition brought some specimens of lava 
and scoria, thus refuting former accounts. 
There is another sea in the world just like 
the Dead Sea of Sodom, this is the Great Salt 
Lake of the Mormon country, discovered and 
explored by Lieut. Fremont. This lake con-
tains no living thing within its bosom, and it 
also receives the fresh waters of Lake Utah. 
The waters of the Dead Sea of Jordan con-
tain 21 per cent. of saline matter, consisting of 
chlorides of potassium, sodium, calcium, mag- 
1st. In chapters ninth and tenth, that of the 
Jews, who thought themselves God's people by 
divine right, and a kind of .patriarchal " succes-
sion ;" and 2nd, that of the Gentiles, who 
thought the Jews cast away and cursed. 
In chapters nine and ten he shows that be-
fore Christ the Jews were God's people only in 
name, that all the time a remnant alone was 
truly God's ; and, therefore, mt're connection 
with the race, blood-descent, ensured none of 
God's favor. 
In chapter eleven he shows that this " rem-
nant "is not cut off nor cast away under the gos-
pel; that only the ungodly portion were cot off 
from their nominal, visible connection with God's 
church, and The peculiar privileges which that 
relation gave them. These dead branches were 
cut off from the olive tree, in order that Gen• 
tile branches might be graffed in in their place, 
and thus "their fall was the riches of the 
world." 
Wheras, before Christ the Jewish nation, 
good and bad, had enjoyed all the light of God's 
word and privileges of his church, while the 
Gentiles were all in darkness; now there was 
to be a more equal distribution according to the 
gospel law. 
That light was removed from the ungodly 
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making a " blindness in part," and 
The season of the falling leaf is peculiarly 
friendly to thoughtfulness and meditation. In 
the spring all is impulse, life and action. Our 
pulses leap to the waking heart of nature. We 
feel like joining the rush of the streams ; we 
revel in the elastic energies of the youth of the 
year. In the summer our spirits are all fervid 
and glowing, like a noon of July. But when 
sober autumn comes, and, taking us by the hand. 
leads us out over the brown fields and through 
the russet woods, pointing us to the withered 
herbage beneath our feet, and " the forest rain " 
of falling leaves from overhead, it seems to be 
its mission from the sender to cool our ardor in 
life's hot pursuits, and dispose our minds to se-
rious and solemn reflection. 
The seasons of the year have a higher signifi-
cance than just to regulate the labors of the hus- 
bandman and guide the flight of migratory 
birds. The spring is more than the time to 
plough and sow; the summer more than the 
time to till and reap; the autumn has other of- 
fices than to shake its ripe fruits into our lap; 
the winter, than to rest and recruit the soil and 
to make us snow paths. Not only are they all 
vocal of God, and eloquent in his praises, but 
they are intimately connected with our training 
as moral beings, and furnish us hints and sym- 
bols of the grandest moral lessons. Else why, 
by the links of our material nature, are our 
souls brought into such closeness of contact 
with the outer world ? why is there such a 
powerful and mysterious sympathy between our 
spiritual, our inner life, and these changeful as- 
pects of nature ? Must we not understand that 
the Author of our being has written truths for 
us. in the many-leaved volume of his works, 
which, if we diligently gather them, will en-
rich our minds and improve our hearts ? 
We hear, then, in the autumn winds a plain-
tive sigh over man's lost innocence—the moan of 
the elements for the primal curse. The corres-
pondence of nature with man's moral history, 
is a truth, we think, fully certified in the Scrip-
tures of inspiration. When we read in the 
sentence pronounced after the fall, " cursed is 
the ground for thy sake, . . . . thorns also and 
thistles shall it bring forth to thee," and then, 
walking abroad, tread everywhere on the thistle. 
and feel everywhere the sharpness of the thorn, 
we cannot think this is figurative language. 
We must believe the earth suffered change and 
loss as the fruit of the great moral disaster; 
that it was refitted, and furnished with new 
adaptations, for the second trial of the race. 
This is riot the state of things in which the 
Tempter found the first dwellers on the earth. 
There were no withered leaves in Paradise, no 
frosts were there, no chill winds. The happy 
pair whose home it was, stood up uncovered by 
night and by day in the soft airs of that Eden 
clime. It was when God sent them forth, after 
the sin, into the wilderness, that he clothed 
them in the robing of furs. These frosts of 
ours, this dying grass, the sere and yellow 
leaves, these sighing gales, are testimonials of 
a great historic truth. They are continual re- 
minders of man's first disobedience. These 
melancholy winds of the season lift up a wail-
ing for the lost glory and purity of our first es-
tate. This is one secret of the sombre hue 
which the gray sky of autumn ever throws over 
the spirit. It will not let us forget that we are 
sons and daughters of a ruined race. 
The autumn again serves to illustrate the in-
stability of human power and greatness. " All 
flesh is as grass, and all the glory of man as 
the flower of grass." " We do all fade as a 
leaf." 
How changed the fields since the early spring 
robed them in green ! The starting blade put 
on a living freshness. The verdure deepened 
as the footsteps of May went by. Like emer-
ald waves it rolled in rich luxuriance before the 
summer breezes. The autumn frosts came 
down, and all is withered and dead. There 
was a crimson bud on its stern. Sunshine and 
soft showers opened it into a full bloom. The 
breath of morning, moist with dews, paused to 
inhale its fragrance. The autumn wind arose 
and scattered its leaves afar, and none now can 
find a trace of its beauty and sweetness. There 
was a green leaf waving on its branch in the 
spring months. There it fluttered in the sum-
mer breeze ; it made shade in the summer sun-
shine; it sheltered the young fruit that grew 
beneath it, and the bird that sung under its can-
opy. The firet frost kissed it, and yet it did 
riot droop, but only blushed. A ruder touch, 
and it began to shrink ; another, and it faded to a 
pale, sickly hue, and the next sighing of the 
gale bore it from its parent stem and laid it be-
side its dead fellows. Such, say both prophet 
and apostle, are the beauty and glory of man. 
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CONVERSION OP THE JEWS. 
In another part of the paper will be found another 
article from Mr. DODD, missionary to Salonica. A 
still later article from his pen is respecting the time 
of their conversion. He says : 
We now come to our third question, as proposed 
in the beginning of these letters : " What is the 
comparative probability of the early conversion of the 
Jews?" 
1st. Do the Scriptures speak positively upon the 
subject? From two passages in Romans, (Rom. 11: 
15, 23,) directly opposite conclusions have been 
drawn with regard to it. Both cannot be true. But 
the two taken together, seem to teach that some of 
the Jews would remain in blindness, until great mul-
titudes of heathen should be brought in ; (and per-
haps Paul, from his stand-point in the first century, 
would consider that now accomplished ;) and second, 
that the general conversion of the Jews should have 
a great effect upon the conversion of the heathen. 
The idea naturally drawn from the 15th verse, 
that the general conversion of the Jews would pre-
cede that of the heathen, does not necessarily contra-
dict the 25th verse ; if we consider the meaning of 
" fullness " and " blindness in part." But is there 
no other light upon this point? We think there is. 
What we can see of some of the principles of God's 
dealings with men, connected with the present state 
of the Jews, we think throws light upon it. 
Although God is a sovereign, and " has mercy on 
whom he will," we may observe some general laws, 
which regulate the bestowment of his free grace. 
One of these is, that it is more frequently bestowed 
upon those who are in some degree prepared for it. 
As in the case of the rich young man who came to 
Christ, there are degrees of proximity to the king-
dom of heaven, among those who are out of it, and 
it consists in this preparation for it. 
We will speak of two things as marking this state 
of preparation. 
He then specifies their religious knowledge, and 
their moral condition ; from both of which, he argues, 
" we might expect the conversion of the Jews, be- 
fore that of the heathen." He then closes as fol-
lows : 
" They are beloved for their fathers' sake." " The 
promise is to you and your children." So it is with 
nations ; those, whose fathers loved God, are beloved, 
and peculiarly hopeful. 
Such are the Jews : of them Paul says, '° They 
are beloved for the fathers' sake." Because of this, 
the apostles were commanded to " begin at Jerusa-
lem," to preach the gospel ; and because of this, we 
have so many precious promises in the Scriptures 
concerning the conversion of the Jews, such as, 
" They shall look upon me whom they have pierced." 
From all these considerations, we think we have 
reason to expect the early conversion of the Jews; 
earlier than that of the great mass of the heathen 
nations. As we have seen, there are no obstacles to 
their conversion, that are not common to all ; and 
these common obstacles are lighter with them than 
with the heathen. 
And what is the duty of the church, in view of 
those things ? Is it not to rise up at once, and take 
possession of the land ? to enter at once upon this pe-
culiarly promising and interesting field ? 
There are many things in the present state of the 
Jews, which show that it is time to work. The 
harvest is ripe; and reaping cannot be put off much 
longer, if we would gather the wheat into the Lord's 
garner. 
Disappointed in the coming of Messiah; sick with 
hope deferred ; groaning under the oppression of the 
idol shepherds, who devour the flock, they are look-
ing and waiting for something new. 
They must soon receive the New Testament, or re-
ject the Old ; become Christians or infidels. Which 
shall it be? Let the Church answer. 
The passages in Romans referred to, are, we be- 
lieve the only ones in the New Testament ever 
quoted to prove the conversion of the Jews. Mr. 
Door), lays much less stress on these, than is usually 
done. These texts, omitting the words in italics 
which are not in the original, read as follows : 
" For if the casting away of them be the recon- 
ciling of the World, what the receiving but life from 
the dead / • For I would not, brethren, that ye 
should be ignorant of this mystery, (lest ye should 
be wise in your own conceits) that blindness in 
part is happened to Israel, until the fullness of the 
Gentiles be come in."—Rom. 11:15, 25. 
Any one who will read attentively the entire chap-
ter, we think must see that PAUL in the 15th verse 
is comparing what was then present, with what 
would then have been, had the whole nation em-
braced the gospel, instead of the few who believed. 
Consequently he is not speaking of any future res-
toration. It is not therefore in harmony with the 
25th verse, where it is positively asserted that their 
blindness will continue in part until the fullness of 
the Gentiles is accomplished. Our comments on the 
word " fullness " we shall reserve to the close of the 
article. 
We attach no great importance to their present 
moral or religious interests—particularly as Mr. DODD 
has specified no instances of progressive reformation 
among them. From acts within our knowledge we 
have supposed that in this country, the great body 
of them are becoming infidel. And though they are 
beloved for their fathers' sake, it does not follow that 
those of this, or of any future generation will be 
more beloved on that account, than those of past 
generations have been, or than those of PAUL'S day 
were. Because they were then thus beloved, the 
first proclamation of the gospel was made to them ; 
but because they rejected it, the apostles turned to 
the Gentiles. So will Goo turn away from all who 
finally reject the gospel. 
The other promise quoted, that they shall look 
unto him whom they pierced, is to us no evidence of 
a future looking, that promise having been quoted by 
an inspired evangelist, and affirmed to be fulfilled at 
the crucifixion. We are disappointed that so little 
scripture is referred to by Mr. DODD. Below we 
give some remarks on the word fullness. 
PLEROMA, OR FULLNESS OF THE JEWS. 
" Now if the fall of them be the riches of the world, 
and the diminishing of them the riches of the Gen-
tiles, how much more their fullness?—Blindness in 
part has happened unto Israel, until the fullness of the 
Gentiles be come in."—Rom. 11:12, 25." 
In a few words let us search the meaning of the 
above passage. That it is obscure, the diversity of 
views respecting it is evidence. And the obscurity 
seems to lie in the sense of that word, pleroma, ren-
dered " fullness" in the text. What means the ple-
roma of the Jews, and the pleronia of the Gentiles? 
According to GREENFIELD'S Greek Concordance, 
the word pleroma occurs fourteen times in the New 
Testament, in the following places : 
In Matt. 9:16, and in Mark 2:21, in the parable of 
the old garment tattered and patched with new cloth, 
where pleroma implies the patch. 
In Mark 8:20, it expresses the fullness of baskets 
of fragments. In the above instances the sense of 
the word pleroma seems to be completion, complement, 
full quantity. 
It next occurs in John 1:16 : " Of his pleroma, or 
of fullness, have we all received, and grace for grace." 
Here it seems to mean full quality or perfection, an 
attribute of Goo. 
It next occurs in our text; and again Rom. 13:19, 
" love is the pleroma, or fulfilling of the law." And 
in Rom. 15:29, " I shall conic in the pleroma, or full-
ness, of the blessing of the Gospel of CHRIST." 
And in 1 Cor. 10:26, " For the earth is the Logo's, 
and the pleroma, or fullness, thereof." 'rite sense 
in the above passages seems to be completion, full 
measure. 
Again, in Gal. 4 : 4, " But when the pleroma, 
or fullness, of time was come, GOD sent forth his 
Son." And Eph. 1:10, " That in the dispensation 
of the pleroma, or fullness, of times, he might gather 
together in one all things in CHRIST, both which are 
in heaven and which are on the earth, in him." In 
these two passages, pleroma seems to mean fullness in 
the sense of end; the completion of any time being 
the end of that time. 
" The fullness of him that filleth all in all."—
Eph. 1:23. 
" That ye might be filled with all the fullness of 
GOD."—Eph. 3:19. 
" Unto the measure of the stature of the fullness of 
CHRIST."—Eph. 4:13. 
" In him should all fullness dwell."—Col. 1:19. 
" For in him dwelleth all the fullness of the God-
head bodily."—Col. 2:9. 
In the last five instances, the word pleroma, trans- 
lated fullness, seems to signify perfection, an attribute 
of GoD. 
For the use of the word pleroma in these twelve 
places, we may be assisted to understand its meaning 
in the only two remaining, found in the text. 
When applied to persons or character, the word 
seems to signify fullness in the sense of quality, i. e., 
perfection; when applied to things, it signifies fullness 
in the sense of quantity, full measure ; and when ap-
plied to times, it seems to signify fullness in the sense 
of completion, or end of the times. 
The question is, in which or what sense is it to be 
understood in the text What is the pleroma, or full- 
ness, of the Jews? And what is the pleroma, or 
fullness, of the Gentiles? 
1. Of the Jews. Does the pleroma of the Jews 
apply to their personal character or quality? Then 
it would seem to express the perfection of that char-
acter in a heavenly sense ; full quality, perfection, 
an attribute of GOD. 
Does it apply to their times ? Then it would seem 
to imply the end of their times. The fullness of a 
time is the end of that time. 
Does it apply to their number, or quantity? Then 
it would express the completion of that number or 
quantity ; full measure. 
In one or the other, or all of these senses, it does 
probably apply to the Jews, and it seems to apply 
mainly to their character or quality; and also to their 
times and quantity. For, 
The apostle has spoken of their " fall " and " the 
diminishing of them," which is to be understood re-
ligiously of their quality and depravity, and not 
physically or politically of their quantity or number, 
or national power.* 
" The fall of them," (to paraptoma autoon) means 
" their transgression," in the sense of ADAM'S fall, 
or transgression ; and " the diminishing of them," 
(to ettema autoon,) means " their fault," in the sense 
of depravity. It is of their conduct and character 
the apostle is speaking, when he names their parap-
toma and their ettema, their transgression and de-
pravity ; and it is of their conduct and character he 
speaks when he also names (to pleroma autoon) their 
fullness. So that "fullness," in Rom. 11:12, con-
clusively to my mind, is to be understood of the char-
acter of the Jews, in the sense of full quality, heav-
enly perfection, an attribute of GOD. But this full-
ness is only by faith, now in the fullness of time it 
will come in fact. " In the dispensation of the full-
ness of times," the blindness of the Jews will be 
cured, their " deliverer " will " turn away nngodli-
nest from Jscou," and " take away their sins," ac-
cording to this same chapter of Romans, verse 26 
and the rest. 
The apostle reasons from their sin to their perfec-
tion. Their sin and depravity of the Jeas opened 
the way of salvation to the Gentiles ; how much more 
shall the perfection of Israel open the way of salva-
tion. " For if the casting away of them be the 
reconciling of the world, what shall the receiving of 
them be but life from the dead?" The apostle ar-
gues from the less to the greater : if the LORD'S re-
jection of the Jews be made the adoption of Christen-
dom into his favor, what will their restoration he, if 
not the resurrection of the dead and the marriage 
supper of the Lamb! This I humbly take to be the 
meaning of the apostle. 1 know it is surrounded 
with difficulties; but I am not at liberty to alter the 
text, to make it read as " life from the dead," in or-
der to escape from the force of the conclusion which 
the apostle draws. 
It is no hyperbole to say, if the offence of the Jews 
be the riches of the world, and their transgression be 
the niches of the Gentiles, that their perfect obedience 
will open the gates of heaven for the risen dead. 
If their fault in rejecting CHRIST be the riches of 
the Gentiles, it may well he that their perfect recep-
tion of him will overflow with benefits to the sleep-
ing- dead. If the rejection of them be the occasion 
of the reconciling of the world, the restoration of 
them may also be the occasion of the crowning of the 
saints. And the apostle intimates as much, when 
he places it in the time of " the fullness of the Gen-
tiles," when " all Israel shall be saved : as it is writ-
ten, there shall come out of Zion the deliverer." No 
coming remained at the time when the apostle wrote, 
but the second time, without sin unto salvation, when 
all that are in the graves shall hear the voice of the 
Son of man and come forth. 
When He that will come has come, He will save 
all Israel, and perfect them with his fullness, when 
He takes away their sins ; but this would seem to be 
only in heaven and eternal life, where neither parap-
toma or ettema, offence nor fault, can enter, come, or 
happen. At the same time is the fullness of the 
Gentiles to come in ; they are not left out of the 
kingdom. The end of their time is their fullness; 
after their fullness is come in, no more can enter; 
otherwise full is not full, which is absurd. The end 
of their time is the beginning of " the dispensation 
of the fullness of times," in " life from the dead." 
Then all things in CHRIST, both in heaven and earth, 
are to be gathered together in CHRIST, constituting 
the pleroma of Him that filleth all in all. 0 glorious 
day ! 0 happy hour ! 
" How long, dear Saviour. 0 how long, 
Shall this bright hour delay." 
The word rendered " fall" is paraptonia, which according to 
Greenfield, occurs twenty-one times in the New Testament, and is, 
in every other place but this chapter, translated "offence, sin, or 
transgression ;" and in that sense, " of them," in thetext, is 
explained by" their offence," " their sin, or transgression." 
So likewise the word ettema, translated " the diminishing" of 
them, occurs, according to Greenfield. in one other place only in 
the New Testament, viz., 1 Cor. 6:7, where it is translated " a 
fault." Let our text so betranslated, and it would read, If their 
offence he the riches of the world, and their fault the riches of the 
Gentiles, how much more their fullness." To carry out the con-
trast of the words "offence " and " fault," " fullness" must be 
taken in the sense of perfection, full quality. 
THE MISSION Ot' KOSSVTII. 
The purposes of Kossumx seem now to be fully 
developed by his numerous speeches and addresses 
since he has come among us. It is nothing less than. 
to get " effective aid " from this government to- pro', 
test Hungary against Russian interference in its 
expected struggle to cast off the Austrian yoke. If 
diplomacy will do this, well and good. If that fails, 
he expects that powder and ball, armies and navies 
will be put in requisition ; and that the diplomacy 
will be made effectual, only as it is shown that it 
will be backed up by those more effective instrumen-
talities. Strip Kossuttes speeches of their nicely' 
worded rhetoric and they amount precisely to this. 
It is natural that the heart of every lover of liberty 
should beat with interest in favor of oppressed Hun-
gary. But while sympathizing with the down-tro& 
den, the idea of taking up arms and bearding the 
combined armies of Russia and Austria, is entirely 
another affair. Our government cannot thns assist 
him, without reversing its entire policy from its eom- 
mencenent, and engendering a spirit of war, which it 
would be difficult ever to allay. 
M. Kossuun is no doubt a great, a gifted, a pa-
triotic, highminded and sincere man ; and he is 
worthy of being received with marked respect ; but 
some of the speeches addressed to him, exhibit evi-
dences of man-worship, which is not consistent with 
the professions of those who thus adulate him. The 
following extract from the Boston Traveller of the 
16111 inst. presents some almost blasphemous expres- 
sions in relation to him by some of the N. Y. clergy. 
It says : 
Some of the clergymen of New York, last Sab-
bath, occupied the time usually devoted to the wor-
ship of God, in exhorting their hearers to worship 
the Hungarian idol. Rev. Mr. Eddy, pastor of the 
Cannon-street Baptist church, spoke of Kossuth as 
the man raised up by God for these times," and 
said that " his great mission was su linked with 
Christianity, and so identified with it, that every Chris-
tian could but feel a lively interest in his success. 
His language was that of Christianity ; and his pres-
ervation and reception in the United States were 
evidences that he was set up by Jehovah for a glo-
rious purpose. It was impossible to read his speeches 
and prayers without seeing that he was God's man 
for the times. Rev. Mr. Corey, of the Baptist 
church in Twelfth-street, considered the coming of 
Kossuth as illustrative of the second coming of 
Christ. He compared the Hungarian exile to Cy-
rus, whom God raised up and called to liberate the 
Jews. Christ, he said, had his Judas, and Kossuth 
his Gorgey. The " opposition to Kossuth, from the 
highest station in the church down to the kitchen 
maid, was because of his religious principle !" The 
church might bow down to Kossuth, as an instru-
ment in the hands of God. The reception of Christ 
in Jerusalem was compared to the reception of Kos-
suth in New York, which was " the second coming 
of the Saviour of the world !" Our readers will 
bear in mind that this harangue was a pulpit exer-
cise of the house of God, and not a speech at the 
dinner table of the Irving House. Rev. Mr. Geis-
senhainer, of the Evangelical Lutheran Church, 6th 
Avenue, appealed to his hearers on behalf of the 
Kossuth loan. 
We are not particularly surprised at such expres-
sions from those who look for the kingdom of Goo to 
be set up in this world. 
The following extract from the speech of the Rev. 
HENRY WARD BEECHER, also contains some very re 
prehensible remarks. It does not become a clergy-
man to play on words, and use expressions which in 
ordinary conversation would be considered profane. 
It is but a few weeks since he felt compelled to deny 
in the columns of the N. Y. independent, that he 
commenced a sermon one Sabbath in July last with 
the phrase, " It is damned hot ;" and his present 
play on that word, really needs an apology. He 
boldly countenances war, if that shall be needed to 
accomplish the end. He a minister, professedly, of 
the Prince of peace, holds up war, under certain cir-
cumstances, as a Christian duty—the first time that 
we have ever seen where such a monstrous proposi-
tion was defended by a minister. One would almost 
be inclined to believe that he regarded the establish-
ment of civil and religious liberty as the setting up 
of the kingdom of Gun for which he prays. And 
he would establish peace on the earth by fighting 
for it. We give the following extract from his 
speech at the KOSSUTH celebration, as a sign of the 
times : 
There are revolutionary societies, too, established 
in this country, which have their missions not only 
in France, but in Asia, Persia, Arabia—in almost 
every part of Europe, and all over the world.—
There is the Bible Society also, one of the most 
revolutionary organizations in the world. Do not 
think I mean a play upon words. Why, the whole 
New Testament itself gives more bomb-shells, more 
rockets, more devastating elements against the power 
of despots, than all other books taken together. And 
that man who sends a Bible or a Protestant minister, 
to preach the Bible, is a missionary of revolution. 
This is no figure of speech. Every step of progress 
that that man makes is preparing that people for 
civil and religious liberty, as the sun is preparing the 
tree for blossoms and fruit when it warms the earth 
and its roots, and causes its buds to shoot. Now 
having interfered thus far, shall we begin to 2-11c 
about backing out, when there is required 
pluck—as the English call it? [Cheers.1 0 long 
 
 
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as it is safe, you can fight, you are a little addicted 
to peace principles. [Laughter.] So long as it is safe, 
you are willing to send your missionaries, and all 
our pious men may read to our audiences, and our 
most conservative men may wipe their eyes and cry 
" Blessed be God !" [Loud cheering.] Gentlemen, I 
am a little like a river, so that if you stop me by 
cheers, it dams me up, and I don't want to be damned! 
[Great laughter.] Therefore I hope you will not 
cheer. [Cries of " go on," " go on."] I say that 
while we rejoice—even the most conservative of us 
—in all this early interference, which I believe God 
directs and prospers, will you shrink when the tug 
of war appears? Have not the husbandmen gone 
out and sown the seed broadcast, and has not the seed 
sprung up and flourished, and grown green, and from 
green to yellow, and will you not now come and aid 
to reap the harvest ? If men are ashamed to reap, 
they should be ashamed to sow. Either stop pray-
ing " Thy kingdom come," or else when it does 
come, recognize it ! [Laughter and cheers.] For my 
own part, gentlemen, I have no sympathy whatever 
with those who believe that it is our chief duty to talk 
bravely, but take good care when the time conies not 
to do anything. 
That seems to be the motto of a school that has re-
cently risen up. God grant that it may be crippled 
in both its legs, so that it can't stand. [Cheers.] On 
the contrary, I believe that the doctrine contained in 
the legacy of WASHINGTGN. I declare that no man 
can act on the policy of his farewell address, who 
adopts the motto of this conservative school. That 
is not the doctrine of the Bible. The doctrine of 
the Bible teaches that those who are strong, shall 
bear the infirmities of the weak. Therefore it is that 
we are taught in early life these principles by our 
fathers and our mothers, and that child who would 
run away and leave his infant sister exposed to dan-
ger in the street, because he did not like the doctrine 
of intervention, would not be tolerated long by one 
of his own household. What mother would tolerate 
such a viper? Nay, the family teaches us in the be-
ginning of life, that this is manly to defend the 
weak. That those who are strong should see to it, 
that the weak are kept from aggression and harm. 
When we come into the church, the same thing is 
taught, still more strongly. Now we must do what 
we have been taught in the family, and in the church, 
and we ask in God's name, " shall a nation, when 
it is called on to repress the same doctrine, turn 
around and suck its own thumb ?" [Laughter.] It 
would be mean in a boy—in a child. It would be 
most contemptibly mean in a man, and I say it is most 
abominably and audaciously mean in a nation. 
Now, gentlemen, you will ask me, " Do you be-
lieve in interfering ?" I believe in interfering, and 
how, I will tell you in one word. By just those 
ways that will make our intention felt. If it be less, 
then good. If it requires more, then take more. I 
do not believe one word of this cant. I used to 
think I was a peace man, but I am afraid I ain't. 
[Laughter.] I do believe that while God is the au-
thor of peace among nations, yet you must reach all 
by such influences as you can ; and though it be by 
war, I believe that even war is better than a state of 
things where there is no right of war. I do not re-
gard war as the worst evil which this world knows. 
There are States in which men are compelled to be 
in wretchedness. Ask what nation which has been 
represented here to-night—which has been ploughed 
till every seed has brought forth an hundred 
believe the expressed opinion of America, will make 
the Autocrat of Russia come to a stand-still—if we 
may be permitted to say, " Thus far shalt thou 
come and no further." If he understands from the 
outcry that is made, it is enough. But if he wants 
more—if it is not enough—then let him have one 
more round—one formal governmental protest, and if 
that is enough well and good, and if that is not 
enough, then give him something else. [Cheers.] 
Kossum, in his speech at the great military festi-
val at Castle Garden, in New York, on Tuesday 
evening—reiterates, in clear and emphatic terms, the 
reasons which induced him to visit this country, and 
expresses confidence in the realization of his hopes 
and wishes. He says, " The great object for which 
he seeks the support of the United States is to check, 
and not permit the interference of Russia in Hungary, 
so that Hungary may have an opportunity to organize 
her strength against Russian despotism and barbari- 
ty." He says, further, that " the people of the 
United States having successfully asserted their own 
independence and freedom, have scarcely any other 
calling than to become the asserters of freedom 
equally for other lands !" And he " confidently 
hopes that we shall not deny him a generous support 
in carrying out the great principle of non-interference 
in the new struggle of Hungary for freedom and 
independence." 
This language, correctly interpreted, means that 
the object of the visit of the great Hungarian patriot 
to this country, is to induce our government to plunge 
madly into a war with Russia, Austria, Prussia, and 
probably with France—nations with which we have 
ever been on the most amicable terms—and with the 
chivalrous ardor of a Don Quixotte go forth to fight 
the battles of all the oppressed nations of Europe. 
It is idle to say that if we should be so unwise as to 
listen favorably to the eloquent appeals of Kossuth, 
and issue a proclamation declaring that no despotic 
power shall draw the sword against a people strug-
gling for liberty in Eurupe—it is idle to say that we 
should not at once become involved in a protracted, 
obstinate, ruinous, and sanguinary WAR—which be- 
sides being attended with manifold and obvious evils, 
would endan,ger our own liberties, and this in all 
likelihood without promoting the objects for which 
we are so strongly urged to contend. 
It is to he rezretted that KOSSUTH has not confined 
his " mission " is an attempt to excite the sympathy 
of our people for his oppressed countrymen, and to 
obtain pecuniary aid from generous and noble-hearted 
individuals, as was the case during the present cen-
tury in regard to unhappy Poland, and the far more 
fortunate Greece. In such a mission, success would 
undoubtedly have crowned his expectations, for the 
sympathy and aid of our people never have been, and 
NEVER WILL us, withheld from a brave nation in a 
struggle with tyrants. But the enthusiastic recep-
tion of KOSSUTH in New York, the magniloquent 
addresses which have been made to him, and the 
powerful impression which his own eloquence ap-
pears to produce on the feelings of his auditors, have 
evidently misled him in regard to the true policy of 
our government, and the real views, feelings, and in-
tentions of the great body of our people. He greatly 
underrates the intelligence of our citizens and the 
wisdom of our government, if he supposes that in 
response to his inflammatory appeals for substantial 
aid, this nation will buckle on her armor, abandon 
her neutral position, voluntarily forego all the advan-
tages of peace, and acquire the not very enviable 
name of the " Game Cock of America "—ready, be-
cause we have achieved our own independence, to 
take up arms and enter on a bloody war, at the beck 
or behest of every foreigner, who, under the hal-
lowed guise of " a PATRIOT," may visit our shores! 
DEMOCRACY OF TAMMANY HALL.—The Democrat-
ic Republican Committee, headed by Mr. DANIEL E. 
SICKLES, waited upon KOSSUTH at the Irving House, 
on Wednesday, and invited him to Tammany Hall. 
The Chairman stated that at the tap of the drum, one 
hundred thousand armed men will rally around the 
first American standard which is sent across the At-
lantic, to be unfurled on the field where the issue be-
tween freedom and despotism is to be decided. The 
strife will be who shall be allowed to go. There 
will be no conscripts. I can at least speak for one ; 
for although I might make but a poor soldier,I could 
carry one of those modern bayonets which, you have 
so happily said, now-a-days "Think." I offer my 
services as a volunteer. I don't like to advise any 
fighting to be done in which I would not take a hand 
myself, as I would never vote fir any war, which I 
would not sustain in the ranks, if necessary. 
Mr. SICKLES concluded by offering to KOSSUTH, as 
his contribution to the " Treasury of freedom," a 
golden dollar fresh from the mines of the Pacific. 
KOSSUTH replied at considerable length.—" Now, if 
they do not aid me will they have peace ? Will there 
be no revolution in Europe? By no means; that is 
a necessity. Every man must feel that the revolu-
tion in Europe depends not upon the success of my 
mission here. It will take place; it is an unavoidable 
necessity, even by the French Constitution itself.—
Therefore, there will not he peace whether they aid 
or aid me not. There will be war in Europe in any 
case. Therefore, the material interest of those gen-
tlemen is rather to give their hand to the cause of the 
people. . . . If material aid is withheld from the attain-
ment of that peace, it is possible the next struggle may 
crush down the nations who will not be contented, but 
will rise again and again a hundred times. So there 
will be no tranquillity to Europe ; she will constantly 
be a burning volcano, ready to burst out at the first op-
portunity. Therefore, if gentlemen must have peace, 
they must aid the Revolution, which is to be the last 
resort—the last successful struggle for the rights of 
humanity. (Applause.) I could conceive the in-
difference of men, if they hoped to avert the war, 
by withholding aid. But they cannot, and the con-
sequence will be that the revolution will not be lost, 
but. it will be won by a longer struggle, than it would 
if all the means could be employed which are in the 
power of these very gentlemen, in favor of the people. 
KOSSUTH, in an address at Brooklyn, in the church 
of Rev. HENRY WARD BEECHER, said : 
" I am fully convinced of the truth that the next 
great event of our period is to bring about a new re-
formation in Christianity, not in respect of doctrines, 
but in respect to these great principles of Christiani-
ty, which teach us to love our neighbor as we love 
ourselves. They may and will be raised out of the 
private life, also in the intercourse of nations one with 
another, and that will be the new development of 
Christianity—giving not only the hope of bliss to man 
in heaven, but also giving him liberty here on earth. 
. . . I belong by connection and by birth to the 
Lutheran Protestant church The temporal 
power of the Pope is about to fall down forever ; 
(cheers) that is my conviction. The temporal power 
of the Pope will probably fall down in the next revo-
lution, which is already in the air, pointed out by 
the finger of God. I say this prophetically. 
1 have 
already read it in the book of Providence, which is 
made to be a revelation to mankind. I have read it 
in history and in the enlarged public spirit of hu-
manity, and in the reliQious knowledge, and in the 
resolute public spirit of the nations." 
A Change in the French Government. 
The intelligence from Europe furnished by the late arrivals, 
is of the most interesting and important character. The 
events which have been enacted in Paris, are calculated to 
exercise a great influence in the great cause of constitutional 
freedom among European nations. Louis Napoleon, with his 
characteristic boldness, and with a determination to perpetu-
ate his power over the French Government in spite of oppo-
sition on the part of the constituted authorities, has for the 
time thrown aside all constitutional restraints, and following 
in the track of a Cromwell, has assumed a more than regal 
power, dissolved the Legislative Assembly, thrown his po-
litical opponents into prison, new-modelled the Government 
to suit his own particular purposes, and ordered a new elec 
tion=by an army devoted to his interests, and the people—
of a President of the Repbblie, whose term of office is ex-
tended to ten years—which means during life ! 
The long-dreaded coup d'etat has been made, and the Presi-
dent, having seized the reigns of Government, dissolved the 
Assembly, declared a state of siege, arrested the leading op-
ponents of his policy, has appealed to the people. All this 
was done at an early hour on Tuesday, the 2d inst., prepara-
tions for it having heeen perfected with consummate skill and 
secrecy during the preceding night, and the whole thing done 
and completed before any one had the least idea that it was 
in progression, or contemplation. An entire new Ministry 
was formed during the night of Monday. Proclamations, 
dissolving the Assembly, restoring universal suffrage, and 
proposing a new system of Government, were printed at a 
private office in the Elysee, and posted throughout Paris be-
fore daylight. Copies of these and of circulars from the 
Ministry and Prefect of Police, printed in like manner, were 
despatched to all the Provinces, announcing what had been 
done, appealing to the nation at large, and conveying the 
most stringent orders and instructions to all the officers of 
the Government throughout the country. 
The President's proposal is the instant restoration of uni-
versal suffrage, the instant election by the people and by the 
army of a President, to hold office for ten years, supported by 
a Council of State, and by two Houses of' Legislature ; and 
that during the few days required to complete the elections, 
the executive power shall remain in the hands of the Presi-
dent. The election is fixed to take place during the present 
month, and the President promises to bow to the will of the 
people, whether they elect himself or any one else, and de-
clares that he holds power only until the will of the people 
can be made known. In the meantime, he demands a pre-
liminary vote from both the army and the people, to declare 
whether they confide to him the executive power ad interim, 
the army to record their vote within forty-eight hours, the 
people being allowed a longer time. 
The President declares himself to have been forced into 
this measure, and it is ascertained that Generals Changar-
nier and Lamoriciere, Thiers, and others of his opponents, 
had decided to demand his arrest and impeachment on the 
2d inst., and were together and in the very act of confirming 
this decision, when they were themselves arrested and con-
veyed to Vincennes. 
The temporary Hall used for the Assembly has been taken 
down by the Government, and whenever Members have at-
tempted to meet officially, they have been ordered to disperse, 
and arrested if they refused—more than two hundred having 
been arrested—many, however, being released in a few hours; 
but all the leaders of the opposition are imprisoned. 
Marty Members of the Assembly have given their adhe-
sion to the President—it is said as many as three hundred 
during the first day. 
No organized resistance to the Government was attempted, 
and telegraphic reports from the Departments declared the 
news to have been hailed with enthusiasm by the provincial 
population. Subsequently, however, partial attempts at op-
position were made in Paris, and rumors reached that city 
hotile to the alleged unanimity of feeling in the provinces. 
Barricades were erected in the more turbulent quarters of 
Paiis, but were all broken by the troops. At one of them, 
two Members of the Assembly, taking prominent places, 
were killed in the conflict. 
A section of the Assembly contrived to meet on Tuesday, 
and had decreed the deposition of the President, and his im-
peachment for high treason ; but the meeting was dispersed 
by the troops, and the decree ridiculed and disregared on 
all hands. 
In addition to the arrests, troops were placed in the houses 
of some of the ex-officers of the Assembly, who were ex-
empted from arrest. Among others, that of M. Dupin, 
President of the Assembly, was occupied by troops, and him-
self put under a sort of durance, although he was not actu-
ally arrested. 
The full rigor of martial law had been proclaimed against 
all persons concerned in barricades, and they were accord-
ingly shot without delay. 
Up to Saturday night, the success of the Government 
seemed certain, but new elements were constantly mixed in 
the struggle. The difficulty of obtaining reliable informa-
tion, however, is very great. 
The next news from Europe will be looked for with un-
wonted interest, for it is evident that the crisis in the fate of 
Louis Napoleon has arrived. 
To Correspondents. 
E. P. II.—We regard the angel of Rev. 14:6 as a symbol 
of those who are preaching, or engaged supporting those who 
preach the everlasting gospel, in connection with warning of 
the approaching judgment. The gospel preached is the 
same that Paul preached ; for even an angel from heaven 
would subject himself to Paul's anathema, by preaching any 
other gospel. The continuance of that instrumentality, has 
the presence of Christ promised to it, till the end of the 
world. 
R. Weller—We should like, if possible, to visit you next 
spring. If anything can be done, we will help you. 
W. Nichols—Thank you for your kind epistle. ltafforded 
us pleasure to hear from the friends in A. The Lord will no 
doubt sustain us to the end. 
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number we shall be called on by the Post-office torpay in ad-
vance one quarter's postage on all the papers we send to 
Canada. We shall do so for all who have paid in advance, 
or up to the end of this volume ; but those who are in ar-
rears, who are already indebted to us for postage advanced 
as well as for the paper, will need to forward the means 
which will enable us to send the paper to them, or they must 
not be surprised at its discontinuance with this number. 
NOTICE.—It is our intention to open new books at the 
commencement of the coming year. As a settlement of back 
accounts on the part of agents and patrons is desirable, bills 
will be sent to all, in the hope that arrangements will be 
made to settle the same. If a prompt response is not made, 
we shall not be able to meet our bills. It is only a little for 
each one to pay, but it would relieve us from all perplexity. 
Let each one try, and try NOW. 
We learn that Elder J. J. Porter has so far recovered his 
health, as to be able to labor again in the cause, and that by 
his efforts, in connection with those of other faithful breth-
ren, a new chapel has been reared in the Seventh Avenue, 
near Eleventh-street, New York city. The brethren there 
have labored hard, and raised a greater part of the sum re-
quired for its erection, and we hope that the benevolent will 
remember them at the opening, so that they may be enabled 
to meet the balance of their bills. Providence permitting, 
we shall preach at the opening of the new chapel, the first 
Sunday in January. 
HARTFORD AND BRIDGEPORT.—On our way to New 
York, we shall preach in H. Jan. 1st, evening, and in B. 
he evening of the 2d. 
TRURO.—Bro. Adrian will not be able to be with the 
brethren in Truro till the first Sunday in January. Bro. A. 
is sorry to disappoint the friends in T., but circumstances 
over which he has no control prevent his going sooner. 
Providence permitting, he will be with them at the time 
above stated, when he will make all the amends in his power. 
Advent Depot at Rochester, N. Y., No. 2 Exchange-street. 
We regret to learn, that Bro. Busby, our faithful agent in 
Rochester, has been burnt out, losing much of his furniture, 
and many of our Advent publications. A new supply has 
been sent him, which can be had by those residing in that 
region, by addressing Bro. B. as above. 
Brn. I4wkes and W. Burnham, now on a tour in New 
Hampshire, are authorized to receive subscriptions for the 
Advent Herald. 
Bro. Hines supplied the church in Providence the last two 
Sabbaths. Nothing new touching the law case has come to 
our knowledge. 
The Boston Almanac for the Year 1852, by Damen & 
Moore and George Coolidge. Published by B. B. Mussey & 
Co., No. 29 Cornhill. 
We are indebted to the publishers for a copy of this de-
sirable annual, which is as usual very neatly got up, and con-
tains a mass of information, with a map of the city, making 
it almost indispensable to strangers visiting Boston. This is 
the seventeenth year of its publication, which is an evidence 
of its great popularity. 
The Ladies' Parlor Magazine, for December, bass been 
published by George Pratt, No. 122 Nassau-street, New 
York. The next number commences a new volume of this 
well conducted periodical. 
BUSINESS NOTES. 
E. H. Shuman—It was an omission—thank you. We 
now credited you to No. 580, changed E. S. to J. Waite, 
and credited to 554, credited 0. Rockwell 77 eta. to 554, and 
W. White $1 77 to 580. 
T. Foote—We have credited you to 580—$1 your due. 
E. Hawkes—By reference to our books, we find that you 
paid $1 the first week in Dec. 1850, to No. 508, and on the 
3d of March last $1 to 534, leaving 77 cts, due at the end 
of this volume—the present week—as marked on your paper. 
J. B. Knight—Two copies of the Children's Herald have 
been sent regularly to Bro. Hubbard. We now change as 
you request. Your Herald, by the present arrangement, is 
paid to 612. 
B. W. Coffin—The last we received from you, previous to 
the present remittance, was $1 in Feb. 1850, which paid your 
to 482. The $2 you say you sent by a Mr. W. has not been 
received. The $2 now sent pay to 534. 
Bro. G. R. Griggs will preach in Westboro', Mass., Jan. 
4th. The Saturday previous there will Ire a meeting for the 
adoption of some plan which will enable the church to carry 
out snore effectually Bible discipline and watchcare, so neces-
sary for the prosperity of the body. (In behalf of the church.) 
G. H. CHILD, Sec'y. 
Brn. W. Burnham and P. Hawker, will tie at Claremont, 
N. H., Sunday, Dec. 28th ; Mount Holly, Vt., 29th ; Low 
Hampton, N. Y., 31st ; Addison, Vt., Jan. 2d, and Sunday, 
4th ; Bristol, 8th, 9th, 10th, and Sunday, 11th ; Waterbury, 
15th, 16th, 17th, and Sunday, 18th. 
Bro. I. H. Shipman will preach at North Springfield, Vt., 
Sunday, Dec. 28th. 
There will be a conference in Windsor, 11le., commencing 
Thursday evening, Jan. 1st, and to continue over the Sab- 
bath. 
F. H. BERIcK. 
The receipts for the past week will be given in our next. 
SUMMARY. 
The Grimed Jury at New Orleans have found true hills of indict-
ment against five of the persons concerned in the disgraceful riots 
there last summer, in which the house of the Spanish Consul was 
outraged. 
In France, a few weeks since, while a train was passing on the 
St. Florentin and Tonnerre line, a wolf suddenly sprang upon the 
tender, and attacked the stoker, who had the presence of miiid, 
however, to repel his aggressor with the shovel.—The wolf fell up-
on the rails. and was crushed in an instant. 
It is related that Rear-Admiral Sir John Ross, the celebrated Arc-
tic voyager, on being shown a print of the Bloomer costume, recog-
nized it immediately as the female Esq iiimaux dress ; quaintly add-
ing, ' Silks, instead of seals, that's all." 
J. S. /Tester, a member of the Indiana State Senate has been 
indicted and arrested for forging papers to obtain land warrants. 
A fox lately entered a house in England, and seizing fill infant 
which lay asleep in its cradle, dragge4 it by the throat to the fields. 
When pursued, it dropped its unusual prey, and made off; but the 
child was picked up quite dead. 
Dr. Paul Cullen, the Catholic " Primate of all Ireland," unmind-
ful of the prior claim of St. Patrick, has stated that the Virgin Mary 
is in future to be the patron saint of the Emerald Isle. 
THE FUTURE OF ITALY.—We find the following remarks upon 
the future of Italy, in the London Quaterly Review :—.• English-
men, if they will, really and in earnest, give a thought to the " 
of Italy, must learn to pronounce, not only without shuddering, 
but even with some degree of faith and hope, the words ' Italian 
Republic ' And this is rapidly coming to pass. Hundreds of our 
most eminent men, who, a few years ago, would not have minted a 
republic with patience, and who even now would resent, itt the 
strongest manner, as sheer impudence and disorderly pedantry, any 
attempt to raise a republican controversy in England, have become 
convinced, and daily and openly declare in their conversations on 
the subject, not only that a republic is the only solution possible for 
Italy, bat that the hour is not greatly to be deprecated when all the 
thrones on the continent will have to prove themselves before the 
bias tof a republican hurricane. 
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366 
THE ADVENT HERALD. 
001aMELDONDIENOM. 
"TOWER OF THE FLOCK."—" FIRST DO-
MINION,” &c. 
BY 5. P. FARRAR. 
" And thou, 0 tower of the flock, the strong hold 
of the daughter of Zion, unto thee shall it come, even 
the first dominion ; the kingdom shall come to the 
daughter of Jerusalem."—Micah 4:6-8. 
Prophecy enriches a wide field, and comprehends 
the past, present, and future. In the study of it by 
divine aid, the soul is refreshed, the purposes of the 
heart strengthened, the mind enriched, and also for-
tified against the encroachments of the enemy of all 
good. But were not its predictions mingled with 
practical truths, it would be like a garden without 
water—like a barren desert : in wandering in its 
paths, and exploring its mysteries, we should find a 
destitution of heavenly fragrance—a want of popes 
taste. 
Our text contains, as we conceive, a direct prophecy 
of the future, mingled with practical truths. May 
the Lord bestow his heavenly aid in contemplating it. 
The points to be observed are- 
Zion.—Zion was a part of Jerusalem, as we 
learn from 2 Sam. 5:5-7, also 2 Chron. 5:2. Hence 
the terms are synonymous. It was formerly in pos-
session of the Jebusites ; but in the days. of David 
it was subdued by Israel, and afterward became their 
metropolis. Through their disobedience it was taken 
from them and demolished (B. C. 588) by the king of 
Babylon (Jer. 52d), and, although rebuilt, (see Ezra 
and Nehemiah,) again destroyed by the Romans, A. 
a. 70 (Josephus.) 
Since that it has been " trodden 
down of the Gentiles," and is to remain so until their 
" times" expire. (Luke 21:24.) 
The daughter of Zion.—The term daughter is 
illustrative of the offspring, or children of Jerusalem 
—its inhabitants—vs. 10-13. 
The flock.—This is another expression to de-
note the Israel of God, and is frequently employed by 
Jehovah as an appropriate figure to express the re-
lation they sustain to Him. (Ezek. 34:31 ; Jer. 
.23:1-4 ; Acts 20:28.) Thus, He leads them (Psa. 
77:20) and they go not astray. He feeds them, and 
they want not.—Psa. 23:1. He watches over them, 
and they fear no evil. He seeks for the lost who 
are scattered in a cloudy and dark day, and gathers 
all his willing ones as the darknnss recedes, and the 
morning dawns when joy shall swell the bosoms of 
the sons of God. They are a little flock, (Luke 
12:32), yet have the promise of great blessings : the 
few to be realized in the present state, the many, 
" when the chief Shepherd shall appear."-1 Pet. 5: 
The flock is now composed-1st, of the remnant 
of Israel, (Micah 2:12 ; 4:7 ; Rom. 9:27) ; but who 
are the remnant? Those who are selected by grace. 
—Rom. 11:5. " They are not all Israel who are 
of Israel," (Rom. 9:6) ; only believers are recognized 
of God as such : the rest blind in unbelief and wicked 
works, are of their " father the devil," (Jno. 8:44) 
and in the day when He " will render to every man 
according to his deeds," (Rom. 2d chap.) will 
receive " tribulation and anguish, indignation and 
wrath." 2d. Of a remnant of the Gentiles being be-
lievers.—Isa. 56:8 ; Acts 15:14 ; Matt. 7:13, 14.—
Christ, when among the Jews, spoke of gathering 
" other sheep," (Jno. 10:16) and Paul declares 
(Eph. 2:11-14) that the circumcised and uncircum-
cised are made nigh—both one by the blood of Christ 
and the middle wall of partition broken down.—
Where is then the distinction I There is none ; 
(Gal. 3:28, 29 ; Rom. 10:12), all are placed on a 
level, and our gospel missionary labors should ex-
tend to the Jew and the Gentile, wherever there is an 
open door, equally. A remnant, then, of the Jews 
and Gentiles being believers, compose the flock at the 
present time—are Abraham's seed—heirs of the 
promise, and will be gathered into the heavenly land. 
4. 'Ile tower and stronghold.—These expressions 
an Israelite especially could understand, and the 
terms are undoubtedly used in their highest sense. 
The Lord seizes upon the tower, a structure of fre-
quent use, and Jerusalem, a strongly fortified city, 
as illustrative of what He is to his people. Accord-
ingly we hear David addressing Him as his " high 
tower," (2. Sam. 23:3), and the prophet Nahum 
(chap. 1:7) speaking of Him as a " stronghold in 
a day of trouble " to those who trust in Him. The 
appropriateness of' the figures as applied to him may 
be learned from their uses. Do we learn from Judges 
9:50-52, that a tower was a place of safety? 
We 
learn also from Psa. 61:3, and Psa. 18:10, that the 
Lord is a strong tower from the enemy, and His 
name a tower into which the righteous may run and 
be safe. Are we informed from Num. 13:19, that a 
stronghold was a dwelling place? We are also in-
formed front Psa. 90:1, and 1 Jno. 4:16, that the 
Lord is the dwelling place of all who love Him. Do 
we learn in Songs (4:4,) that David's tower was 
his armory, and that upon it hung the shields of the 
mighty men? We likewise learn in Eph. 6:10, 
that the Christian has an armor, being engaged in a 
warfare ; and we believe that God is his armory—
that the armor is received from Him, and that upon 
Him hang the equipments of the mighty, such as 
Abraham, Isaac, Jacob, and all the worthies. It is 
" the armor of God." Are we informed from Heb. 
2:1, that a tower was a place for the watch ? We are 
also informed from the Scriptures of truth, that God 
requires us to watch, (Mark 13:37), and in no place 
can we watch, except in the Lord, the Christian's 
tower : then may we survey the whole field of the 
enemy (1 Pet. 5:8), we may watch in reference to his 
advantage ground concerning ourselves, and if it be 
persecution, flattery, or shame, we may with our 
Christian armor on give him a glorious defeat, and 
exclaim, " Thanks be unto God who giveth us the 
victory through our Lord Jesus Christ." Again. if 
in him we may watch for his coming, and realize, in 
the language of the Psalmist (Psa. 130:6), that " my 
soul waiteth for the Lord more than they who watch 
for the morning." 
The first dominion.—That the Lord is to have 
dominion is a truth admitted by all evangelical de-
nominations, notwithstanding their different opinions 
respecting its nature. This is implied in all the 
prophecies relating to him as king : such as " The 
Lord shall reign."—(Text) " A king shall reign 
and prosper."—Jer. 23:5, 6. " Of the increase of 
His government and peace, there shall be no end upon 
the throne of David."—Isa 9:6, 7. " David my ser-
vant shall be king over them."—Ezek. 37:24. " He 
shall reign over the house of Jacob forever."—
Luke 1:30-33. " Art thou a king then? To this 
end was I born."—Jno 18:36. 37. Having presented 
the harmony of the Old and New Testaments on this 
point, we pass to notice the nature of His reign. Is 
it to be personal or non-personal? This inquiry being 
answered, we have found the key to unlock the whole 
subject respecting the kingdom of God, and present 
to our vision its true light. Says God by the mouth 
of Nathan to David, (2 Sam. 7:12, 13), " I will set 
up thy seed after thee, which shall proceed 'out of 
thy bowels, and I will establish his kingdom." Says 
God to David, (Psa. 132:11), " Of the fruit of thy 
body will I set upon thy throne." Says Peter res-
pecting David, (Acts 2:30), " God bath sworn with 
an oath to him, that of the fruit of his loins according 
to the flesh, He would raise up Christ to sit on his 
throne." His reign is not spiritual, in the absence 
of the person, as Paul was present in spirit with the 
Church at Corinth, but absent in body (1 Cor. 5:3) ; 
but as the above quotations teach, the fruit of Da-
vid's body, in the person of Jesus Christ, will sit 
and reign on his throne : here the question is readily 
solved, and the truth of the personal reign estab-
lished. As He is to reign, we very eaturally inquire 
after the locality of his dominion. It is a universal 
law (Matt. 9:16, 17), that theme is an adaptation of time 
and things to the purposes ;for which they are used. 
For example, in this fallen state, the earth is under 
the curse—is subject to change, things in it are sub- 
ject to change, so is man : this law of adaptation 
would lead us to expect him to reign over personal 
subjects, in a literal territory, having his throne in 
a real metropolis. The text speaks of the locality 
as the first dominion, and the first ever given to a 
child of God, as recorded in the Scriptures of truth, 
is noticed in Gen. 1st chap. After " God made 
heaven, earth, sea, and all that in them is," with the 
exception of roan, He says, (v. 26), " Let us make 
man in our own image, after our likeness, and let 
them have dominion over the fish of the sea, and over 
the fowl of the air, and over the cattle, and over all 
the earth, and over every creeping thing that creepeth 
upon the earth." Here the earth with its contents as it 
flowed out from the plastic hand of its Maker, and 
pronounced " very good," is presented as the first 
dominion : consequently the Lord's reign is located 
on earth. Other portions of holy writ corroborate 
this important truth. God says to His Son, (Psa. 
2:8), ". Ask of me and I shall give thee the uttermost 
parts of the earth for thy possession ;" and again the 
Psalmist predicts that (Psa. 72:8) " He shall have 
dominion also from sea to sea, and from the rivers 
unto the ends of the earth." The heavenly voices 
proclaim under the sound of the seventh trumpet, 
(Rev. 11:17,) " The kingdoms of this world are be-
come the kingdom of our Lord and of his Christ." 
His seat is to be in Mount Zion, or Jerusalem, as 
the seat of Victoria's empire is London. In dis-
cussing still farther the nature of this reign, we in-
quire, Is it to be spiritual or carnal—heavenly or 
earthly ? This leads us, 1st, to inqure respecting 
its chronology ; 2d, to notice its blessings. 
1. Its chronology. As the Lord was about to de-
molish Jerusalem by the king of Babylon, He utters 
this prophecy, (Ezek. 21:25-27), " And thou, pro-
fane wicked prince of Israel, whose day is come, 
when iniquity shall have an end, thus saith the Lord 
God ; remove the diadem, and take off the crown : 
this shall not be the same : exalt him that is low, 
and abase him that is high. I will overturn, over-
turn, overturn, it : and it shall be no more until He 
come whose right it is ; and I will give it Him." 
Previous quotations show that Christ has a right to 
the kingdom, and, until he come, it would cease to 
be an independent government. Only two comings 
are recognized in the word of God ; the past and fu-
ture.—Heb. 9:28. The first was in humility ; the 
second will be in power and great glory. The first 
was the acceptable year of the Lord ; the second will 
be the day of vengeance of our God. He came first 
as a sin offering ; he will come the second time 
without a sin offering. At his first, he suffered by 
his enemies ; at his second, he will destroy them. He 
came first to save men ; he will come the second 
time to judge them. At his first advent he was sub-
ject to the powers that be ; at his second, he will 
reign. That he did not reign at his first advent, may 
be learned from the following text : " The Son of 
man bath not where to lay his head."—Luke 9:58. 
Again, after his ascension, he is declared to be not 
on his throne, as the son of David, but the Father, 
(Rev. 3:21), " from henceforth expecting " his " un-
til his enemies become his footstool."—Heb. 10:12, 
13. His subjects are still subject to the powers that 
be. As lie did not receive it at his first corning, he 
must at his second (Luke 19:11 ; 2 Tim 4:1) ; con-
sequently in an immortal, glorified state ; and the law 
of adaptation would require a like change in the 
earth over which he is to reign. That there is first 
a change may be learned from Heb. 2:5. " Unto the 
angels hath (or will) he not put in subjection the 
(Oikoumenen) habitable earth to come ; but to Jesus 
Christ who has been made a little lower than the an-
gels : but now we see not all things put under him." 
—Heb. 2:8. Again, Christ affirms before Pilate that 
" my hingdom is not of this world ; if it were my 
servants would fight that I should not be delivered 
to the Jews."—Jno. 18:36, 37. Its nature: is not of 
earthly kingdoms in any respect ; this is implied in 
the expression, " then would my servants fight."—
All understand that where one kingdom is invaded by 
another, there is war; but there was no war when 
Caesar arrested Christ, for the very reason that Christ 
claimed no organized kingdom in the present dispen- 
sation as it regards territory law, subjects, or capital. 
There are elements to be sure, but nothing more. 
That early Christians viewed the chronology of this 
event in the same light, may be learned from an ex-
tract of H. D. 'Ward's address befbre the General 
Conference of Adventists at Boston, in 1840. " The 
first of these royal witnesses is Dornitian, under 
whom St. John was banished to the Isle of Patmos 
for the word of God, and for the testimony of Jesus 
Christ.' Gibbon relates, on the authority of Euse-
bins and Hegesyppus, that the expectation of the 
Lord's coming in his kingdom, about the end of the 
first century, was so general, and so confidently en-
tertained, that the report of it came to the ears of 
the emperor, and troubled him ; as the coming of 
the wise men to Jerusalem at the birth of Christ 
troubled Herod, and all Jerusalem with him. Do-
'Innen had brought before him from Judea some of 
the loyal seed of David, surviving in grandsons of 
Jude, and he demanded of them if they were of the 
family of David. They said it was most true.—
Then the emperor would know what kind of a king-
dom they expected and when it would be. They re-
plied that it is not a terrestrial kingdom, but celes- 
tial, and its time is in the end of this world. The 
emperor, seeing their hands were hard, and they were 
poor laboring men, despised them, and set them at 
liberty, not regarding the kingdom to come, if he 
might be allowed to have that which is now here." 
It is very evident from the above, there must be a 
change ; what is that change ? It is not the annihilation 
of the present earth, and the creation of a new one that 
never previously existed : the new one in this sense 
would not be the " first dominion," it would not be 
" the kingdom prepared from the foundation of the 
world."—Matt. 25:34. Such a change would be 
the making of all new things, instead of " all things 
new."—Rev. 21:5. But is it affirmed that the pas-
sages which speak of the change in the present earth 
declare its annihilation? We answer, the same ex-
pressions are used to denote the punishment of the 
wicked ; let us compare them with each other : 
EARTH. 
" For a fire is kindled in mine anger, and shall 
burn unto the lowest hell, and shall consume the earth 
with her increase," &c.—Deut. 32:22. 
" The elements shall melt with fervent heat, the 
earth also; and the works that therein shall be burnt 
up."-2 Pet. 3:10. 
" From whose face the earth and the heaven fled 
away; and there was found no place for them."—
Rev. 20:11. 
WICKED. 
" The enemies of the Lord shall be as the fat of 
lambs: they shall consume; into smoke shall they 
consume away."—Psa. 37:20. 
" Arid the day that cometh shall burn them up, 
saith the Lord of hosts—that it shall leave them nei-
ther root nor branch."—Mal. 4:1. 
" As the whirlwind passeth, so are the wicked no 
more."—Prov. 10:25. 
Do my readers believe the above expressions as 
applied to the wicked express their annihilation ? Pro-
bably most of them do not, as " the spirit returns to 
God who gave it," while the body goes to dust, and 
remains as " ashes under the souls of the righteous' 
feet," until one thousand years, or the day of the 
Lord, is past. (Carefully read Psa. 59:13, 14.) They 
are consumed in the morning, but in the evening re-
turn again—have a resurrection.—Rev. 20.5. So of 
the earth, like the wicked it is to be " no more " in 
its present condition : it is " consumed, burned, clean 
dissolved," yet out of the mighty chaos arises " a 
new earth, wherein dwelleth righteousness." From 
Dr. Clark's comments on 2 Pet. 3d, he must have en-
tertained the same view : he says, " All these things 
will be dissolved, separated, be decomposed! but none 
of them will be destroyed. 
And as they are the origi-
nal matter out of which God formed the terraqueous 
globe, consequently they may enter again into the 
composition of a new system ; and therelbre the 
apostle says, v. 13, We look for a new heaven and a 
new earth ;' the others being decomposed, a new sys-
tem is to be formed out of their materials. There is a 
wonderful philosophic propriety in the words of the 
apostle in describing this most awful event." 
Permit me here to digress a moment by saying, 
that some admit that the above expressions, as ap-
plied to the earth, do not prove its annihilation ;'yet 
adduce passages having the same expressions to 
prove the annihilation of the wicked, so far as being 
is concerned; the reverse argument is equally good : 
if the expressions prove annihilation in one instance, 
they do in the other. But to return, we have an 
analogous change at conversion. Says Paul, " If 
any man be in Christ he is a new creature."-2 
Cor. 5:17. Does Paul mean that the former being 
became extinct, and a new one produced ? Cer-
tainly not ; the grace of God operates upon his 
heart, his purposes and affections are changed, and 
a new shape given to the moral life. Likewise iu 
the earth ; we have to change rather than an ex-
change—a new structure of old materials, produced 
by the element of fire at " the day of judgment and 
perdition of ungodly men," when Christ shall come 
the second time, and the "times of restitution " ar-
rive, embracing the establishing of the kingdom of 
God. Hence it is not an earthly, but a heavenly—not 
a carnal, but a spiritual kingdom. This point will 
be more clearly seen in noticing, 2d, its blessings, 
more particularly- 
1. The King.—He is immortal—" of the increase of 
his government there shall be no end." 
Long time 
ago it was declared to John, " I am he that liveth 
and was dead ; and behold 1 am alive for evermore." 
In his kingdom there will be no Jews to cry, " Away 
with him ;" or Pilate, to scourge arid deliver him to 
be crucified ; no cross for him to faint tinder in bear-
ing it to the fatal spot ; no soldiers to mock him with 
feigned worship—quench his thirst with vinegar and 
gall—smite him—spit upon him—crown his head 
with limns—taunt him, saying, " save thyself," or 
thrust a spear into his side ; no weeping and la-
menting over his condition by the daughters of Jeru-
salem ; no death to seize his frame, or sepulchre to 
lay him in ; no sadness of disciples because Jesus is 
dead, and their hope apparently of a restored king-
dom cut off. No, no ; the immortal Christ is there, 
alive for evermore." 
The subjects.—They are immortal, as " flesh 
and blood (or mortal man) cannot inherit the king-
dom of God," Hence " this mortal shall put on im 
mortality, and this corruption incorruption."-1 Cor. 
15:50-55. They are" equal unto the angels, to die no 
more;" " their vile bodies are changed and fashioned 
like Christ's glorious body ;" " they shall be like 
him ;" " they shall possess the kingdom for ever, 
even for ever and ever." What blessings are in 
reserve for the faithful ! No tempting devil to draw 
them away from Christ—worldly, unhallowed influ-
ence to allure, or lusts to gain the ascendancy ; for 
he " gathers out of his kingdom all things that of-
fend ;" no wild beast of the forest to disturb their . 
peace—famine to reduce them—foul, ravaging dis-
ease to mar their beauty, or icy death to thin their 
ranks. " They shall hunger and thirst no more ; 
everlasting joy shall be upon the heads of the re-
deemed, sorrow and sighing shall flee away."—
Rev. 7:16, 17. 
The Metropolis.—It is of heavenly vigor,: it 
originated in the mind of, made by, and will descend 
from God out of heaven ; consequently never polluted, 
—Rev. 21 and 22. It is " an inheritance incorrupti-
ble ;" no perishable matter there ; " undefiled," no 
sin or sinners to enter it ; " and that fadeth not 
away ;" it is eternal.-2 Pet. 1:4, 5. Its transparent 
golden lustre—garnished foundations—pearly gates 
—street of gold—pure river of life, and tree of life, 
with leaves for (Herapeian) service, are of divine 
birth. With the glory of God for its light—the 
throne of God and the Lamb for its throne—the pure 
and holy, its inhabitants—the living and true God, its 
God, and eternity its existence, no one can cherish 
the thought of a sensual paradise. Reader, do you 
wish to enjoy it? if so, remember that " blessed are 
they who do His commandments, that they may have 
right to the tree of life, and enter in through the gates 
into the city. For without are dogs, sorcerers, 
whoremongers, murderers, idolaters, and whosoever 
loveth and maketh a lie." 
2. The territory.—Its elements are Glory, Peace, 
Righteousness. Thus " all the earth shall be filled 
with the glory of the Lord."—Num. 14:21. " The 
meek shall inherit the earth, and delight themselves 
in the abundance of peace."—Psa. 37:11. " The wolf 
and the lamb shall feed together, and the lion shall 
eat straw like the bullock, and dust shall be the ser-
pent's meat. They shall not hurt nor destroy in all 
my holy mountain, saith the Lord."—Isa. 65:17-25. 
" We according to his promise look for a new 
earth wherein dwelleth righteousness."-2 Pet. 3:13. 
" They shall not build and another inhabit; they shall 
not plant and another eat ; for as the (lays of a tree (of 
life) are the days of my people, and mine elect shall 
long enjoy the work of their hands; they shall not la-
bor in vain, nor bring forth for trouble, for they are 
the seed of the blessed of the Lord, and their off-
spring with them."— Ise. 65:22, 23. Such are 
some of the passages that speak of the blessings con-
nected with the reign of the corning One. We learn 
in the discussion of this subject that the Load is per-
sonally to sit on David's throne in Jerusalem, which 
is to descend upon earth, and include Mount Zion now 
under the Gentiles, but then rescued and restored so 
that " there shall be no more curse," and forever 
sway his sceptre over a renovated earth, peopled with 
immortal subjects ; such a kingdom will be spiritual 
—heavenly. 
The proximity of the event.—Permit me before 
closing my remarks to briefly present the evidence, 
drawn flow the context and exposition of the same, 
of its nearness, In vs. 6, 7, we are informed that 
" in that day" the Lord's reign shall commence. 
What day? The inquiry is answered in vs. 1-4 in-
clusive. One class of expositors believe that what is 
here delineated concerning the mountain of the Lord's 
house,—all people flowing unto it—learning war no 
more, etc., will actually transpire, and argue from 
the signs of the times, &c., that it is an immediate 
event. If their conclusions are correct, the Lord's 
reign will soon be introduced. Another class believe 
that the prophecy is not exclusively from the Lord, 
but a part, to say the least, from the people: " Many 
nations shall go and say," (see alto Psa. 2d) and that 
many people are already predicting of a time prior to 
the judgment, when " nation shall learn war no 
longer." It is not my design to speak of the truth-
fulness of either exposition, as each proves the point at 
issue, by presenting some evidence of the proximity 
of the blessed end. 
Conclusion.—In the language of Hugh Mc.Neile 
upon the text, I would say, " under this beneficent 
sway we recognize the world as it shall be :" and shall 
Christian hearts remain unmoved, and not throb with 
interest upon this blessed subject? Many subjects of 
a far interior character are engrossing the mind at 
the present day, it is to be feared, to an alarming ex-
tent, while that of a superior is set aside as a thing 
of naught, and confined to the few. Let me call upon 
all of like character to arouse from their stupor, make 
diligent search of the word of God, believe the truth 
touching this heavenly theme, and let it have its 
practical influence upon your lives. And in view of 
this subject—its immediate connection whir the day 
of judgment and perdition or ungodly men, let me 
address those who are still unreconciled to God in the 
thrilling language of another, " Dear impenitent 
reader—receive a friendly warning : it may be the 
last—you may soon hear the trump of God, see the 
dead in Christ arise, feel the earth tremble beneath 
your feet, arid behold the Judge descending the parted 
skies! And should the time seem to have passed 
away, and, Belshazzar-like, you should spread the 
bachanalian feast, deride our hope, and insult our 
God, your triumph will he short.—The song of rev-
elry soon will cease ; the voice of mirth be heard no 
more forever ; the chilling horror will suddenly seize 
upon you ; the sheltering rocks will not protect you ; 
the falling mountains will not hide you ; the fiery 
stream will not spare you ; the wail of anguish will 
not relieve you—nor gushing tears; nor Mercy's 
name, nor bleeding Lamb, will then avail you ! 
" Now is the accepted time ; now is the day of sal 
vation." Now, while the last tide may be ebbing, 
while the last sand may be falling—#3y to Jesus, 
swiftly fly—your sins confess—for mercy plead : 
while He is on the mercy seat." 
 
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TLINE OF A SERMON. 
furnish a sketch of a sermon preached 
the forenoon of Thanksgiving day, in 
Chapel, Salem. The subject of the 
sinful anxiety about worldly things, 
, based on Phil. 4:6—" Be careful for 
the introduction to his subject, called 
general indifference that exists among 
ristians in reference to the vital duties 
d attributed the cause to the great 
sted about the perishing things of the 
towed that many professing Christians 
st energies on things of little moment, 
nothing but their wasted energies left 
he service of God and religion ; that 
f things is wrong, should riot exist, and 
should be reversed. The cause of God 
time, talents, and best energies. He 
explain— 
hihition. 
heavenly things that are prohibited. 
eed of this. (See Eccles. 9:10 ; Luke 
. 12:11 ; Phil. 2:12 ; 2 Pet. 1:10, and 
quires the utmost diligence to secure the 
salvation of the soul. Time is short.— 
against us, and therefore the important 
d us to do must be done with zeal—
r might." 
er degree of carefulness for the things of 
not forbidden. While we live in this 
test take care for meat, drink, raiment, 
quires us to le honest and industrious 
calling, to enable us to " provide for our 
are commanded to labor six days in the 
o. 20:9.) It is our duty to provide things 
e sight of all men. (Rom. 12:17.) 
s" are reproachEd. (2 Thess. 3:10-12 ; 1 
Gen. 3:19.) Thts our duty in this par-
early revealed in e Scriptures. 
cling, immoderate and distrustful cares 
n. A care that wo d distract, divide, and 
mind, we must not ncourage. 
sinfulness of the arefulness the text 
anity of the things out which so many 
emselves should be cc sidered :—they are 
of time, and are desti ed soon to perish. 
of necessary. God kn eth all our wants, 
which, " fret net thy elf;" and having 
intent, let us " twrewit be content." 
injurious, both to God and ourselves, and 
own for his service ; and frequently leads 
se unlawful trims to accomplish lawful 
carry out their inrposes. 
fruitless, for which of you by taking 
n add one cubitto his stature?" It is also 
1, and leads is to distrust our merciful 
nly Father, vac, in his providence has 
to provide fo us : " Wherefore, if God 
he grass of th field, which to-day is, and 
is cast into le oven, shall he not much 
le you, 0 ye e little faith 2"—Matt. 6:30. 
e remedy for se distractions. 
nterest in the.,ord Jesus Christ, and recon- 
God ; and nen " all things are yours ; 
Paul, or Aptlas, or Cephas, or the world, 
death, or thigs present, or things to come ; 
ours; and e are Christ's, and Christ is 
1. Cur. 3:.C,--23. 
rudent, terperate, and wise management of 
dly affair: This is the place where we 
gin if wewish to avoid innumerable diffi-
and if weiegin right and continue right, all 
eace and :der. 
ristian Ould love the world, or the things 
orld, as 4ch, but merely use them. " God- 
ith colt utment is great gain. For we 
nothingnto this world, and it is certain we 
nothin out. And having food and raiment, 
erewitlhe content. But they that will be 
into tnptation, and a snare, and into many 
nd hitful lusts, which drown men in de-
and.terdition. For the love of money is 
of alevil : which while some coveted after, 
&end from the path, and pierced themselves 
wittmany sorrows."-1 Tim. 6-10. 
eryThristian should keep his temporal af-
soca condition, that under ordinary circum-
he iay have no occasion for distraction. He 
nt, into no speculation or business by which 
7,1 great risks beyond his means to meet.—
',contract no debts that tie has not a reasona- 
f paying ; and in all cases keep out of debt 
possible. Unpaid debts will distract an 
n ; while those persons who get into debt, 
concern about paying them, prove thereby 
are not Christians. And although such 
ess much, pray in meeting, and talk about 
don, they will, alas! never enter therein 
eformation. 
'hat similar is the case of societies who pur-
rse of dishonesty in their associated capaci-
hey would shrink from us individuals. It 
remarked that corporations have no con-
God will not bless them unless they are 
nd prudent. 
relies it is the duty of her officers to see to 
heir receipts and expenditures are duly bal-
at the minister is remunerated for his ser- 
d if they cannot, they should not claim the 
f his time and labor. " The laborer is wor-
is hire." 
hes should do their duty to their ministers, 
oncerned,—and then a society may prosper, 
from " care " and embarrassment, and be 
p to God, acts of charity, and devotion. A 
n, a minister, a society embarrassed with 
nnot fail of being distracted with corroding 
hen thus embarrassed through misfortune, 
wise, the only remedy is retrenchment ! 
Re-
our expenses and bring them within your in-
f it brings you to bread and water. This is 
ough for the best of us. Be industrious, re-
nd be prudent, and all demands may be met. 
t till every claim is discharged within your 
meet. 
same holds good in reference to a society. 
that a minister should support himself with 
his own hands, than that he should embarrass the so-
ciety with a heavy tax they cannot meet: Retrench, 
and all things will come out right. 
The present crisis demands this. The times to 
some are hard, and will he worse before long. Many 
will he out of employ during this winter, and with 
no means of support. The poor we shall have with 
us, and it will be our duty to aid them in their ne-
cessities, and administer to their comfort. Nothing 
but retrenchment in our personal, and family, and so-
ciety expenditures can save us from perplexity and 
distracting cares. 
The sermon of which the foregoing is a sketch, 
was preached with feeling and energy, listened to 
with attention, and appreciated by the brethren and 
friends present. The detail of the sermon was 
strikingly appropriate, and the earnest exhortation at 
its close, doubtless produced the designed effect, and 
caused some to decide to heed the admonition of the 
text. 
J. W. BONHAM. 
Worcester, Dec. 9th, 1851. 
To the Friends of the "Herald." 
Brethren, permit me to call your attention to a few facts 
for your serious consideration : 
You do not doubt that the " Herald " may be justly 
called the best religious paper published in the country, of 
which you have any knowledge. 
That the Advent cause in this country owes, in a great 
measure, its extent, prosperity, and permanence, to the teach-
ings and influence of the "Advent Herald." For you know, 
my brethren, that the " Herald " has never been like an ig-
nis lams, or a comet ; but like a heavenly luminary, gov-
erned by settled laws, giving a clear and steady light to guide 
the way-worn traveler to his heavenly home. 
'1 he " Herald " has not only had, from the commence-
ment of its existence, to stem the tide of opposition from 
without, but to endure the still more fierce and cruel torrent 
(raised by disaffected elements) from within. And all this 
because of its steady and undeviating course. No one can 
justly charge the " Advent Herald " with being a misnomer ! 
You know the means that have been and are still being 
used to destroy the circulation and influence of the " Herald." 
I believe the principle laid down by the Saviour at his first 
advent, relative to himself, will hold good in this case : " He 
that is not for the is against me ; and he that gathereth not 
with me scattereth abroad." 
The " Herald " is not sustained by magic. It was got 
up and has been continued by constant, faithful, persevering, 
and self-sacrificing labor. 
The existence of any paper is dependent upon the inter-
est, integrity, and promptness of its patrons. 
In conclusion, allow me to say to each friend of the 
" Herald," when you read this, ask yourself the question, 
Have I paid my just dues for this paper 1 My Bible tells me 
to "deal justly ;"—have I done so in this matter 1 If I 
have not, then I will, before I go to meeting and tell how 
much I love God, his cause, anti truth. 
Finally, if every reader of this paper would do what he 
ought and might do, its conductors would have their hearts 
cheered, and find themselves placed beyond embarrasment, 
by having presented to them a noble and worthy New 
Year's gilt, in the form of an enlarged subscription. By so 
doing, the patrons of the " Herald" would suffer no injury. 
L. OSLER. 
PROVIDENCE, Nov. 23d, 1851. 
The Church of Adventists in Providence to those of like precious 
faith, and to all sister churches, greeting : 
Encouraged by repeated expressions of your union with us 
in faith arid object, we take this method of appeal to you in 
relation to the Rrosecution now pending against our beloved 
brother J. V. Himes. Bro. Himes was with us when the 
suit was instituted. The whole of the circumstances are 
known to us. The leading facts have been already laid be-
fore you in the "Herald ;" but we wish here to recall your 
attention to them. 
Bro. Himes was faithfully and laboriously endeavoring to 
advance the cause so dear to us all in this city and in a neigh-
boring village. A certain pamphlet was being circulated gra-
tuitously and with characteristic zeal—and which had been 
often repeated, in defiance of our most urgent remonstrances 
—much to the annoyance of the friends of our holy cause, 
and greatly to the detrimenttof the religious interests of our 
respective meetings. In the judgment of the friends, and of 
Bro. Himes himself, it became his duty briefly to expose the 
nature of raid pamphlet, and those repeated annoyances, in 
which he nobly stood, in defence of our religious rights and 
privileges. For thus exposing that pamphlet, and defending 
our religious freedom from those aggressiveannoyances, with 
the approbation of the brethren and large audiences of the 
public, from the pulpit, he has become subjected to the labor 
and expense of defending himself in the Court of Common 
Pleas of this State, against what we verily believe to be a 
malicious prosecution. 
Brethren, and friends of religious liberty, we feel that the 
burden thus laid upon Bro. Himes should be borne by those 
in whose behalf he was laboring. Our religious privileges 
are worthy of the sacrifice ; and duty to our brother calls 
for it. We need make no further appeal, — this simple 
statement will insure your response. To defend himself tri-
umphantly, will require a large expenditure for counsel and 
witnesses. This Church would delight in the privilege to 
endure the whole of this, if we were able ; but knowing our 
pecuniary inability, and being assured that very many who 
ardently love our brother, our glorious cause, and our reli-
gious freedom, will esteem it a privilege to aid, we have 
appointed a committee to raise a " Relief Fund," with which 
to enable Bro. Himes to meet these expenses. The follow-
ing brethren are appointed said committee :—Chester S. 
Wood, Arnold W. Brown, James Wolstenholine, John H. 
Lonsdale, Charles Sisson, Thomas Snow, George S. Har-
wood, William A. Munroe, Anthony Pearce. 
Any funds for this object may be forwarded to ARNOLD 
W. BROWN, the treasurer of this fund, who will, under the 
direction of this Church, see that it is appropriated to this 
object. Or if more convenient, funds may be sent to the 
"Herald " office. 
At a meeting of the Second Advent Church, held in Nevy-
market Hall, Providence, Nov. 23d, 1851, the foregoing ad-
dress was adopted, with a request that it be published in the 
" Advent Herald " for several weeks. 
A. PEARCE, Sec'y. CHESTER S. WOOD, Ch'm. 
"GUNNER'S ESSAYS."—Bro. Himes : Permit me through 
the Herald to call attention to the new work recently pub-
lished by Bro. F. Grinner, of this city, with the above title. 
It consists of twelve essays on subjects connected with the 
glorious advent and reign of Christ on earth; beginning with 
the purpose of God in the creation of the world, tracing its 
history through the fall, the great work of redemption by 
Christ, the recovery of believers from guilt and pollution, as 
a preparation for the kingdom, the relation of the Jews to 
the promises of the everlasting inheritance, the nature of the 
kingdom of heaven, the evidence of the speedy approach of 
the kingdom, and all its glorious concomitants, as evinced by 
the fulfilment of the long chains of prophecy, &e. The work 
isidesigned, and admirably calculated to lead the mind, step 
by step, to the grand awakening, and, to the Christian, soul-
cheering conclusion, of the speedy personal manifestation and 
reign of the Saviour with his redeemed saints, on a renewed 
and glorified earth. It is a manual such as every Adventist 
would do well to keep by him, to put into the hands of those 
who are inquiring after truth, or those whom he may wish to 
lead to its investigation ; and I earnestly hope it will have 
an extensive circulation among us. 
J. LITCH. 
Philadelphia, Nov. 18, 1851. 
,GENERAL DEPOSITORY 
OF AMERICAN AND ENGLISH WORKS ON THE PROPHECIES RELATING 
TO THE SECOND ADVENT OF CHRIST AND THE MILLENNIUM. 
WE have made arrangements with a house in London, to far 
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THE AMERICAN VOCALIST. 
BY REV. D. H. MANSFIELD. 
THE popularity of this excellent Collection of Music is sufficiently 
attested by the fact, that although it has been published but 
about one year, 19,000 copies have been printed, and it is in greater 
demand than ever. 
It is divided into three parts, all of which are embraced in a single 
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From Henry Little, Editor of the Wesleyan Harmony. 
From my heart I thank you for the arrangement of those sweet 
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THE ADVENT HERALD. 
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183, 270 
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103, 239 
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206, 239 
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86, 358 
 
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110, 262 
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94, 119, 164 
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71, 151, 326 
 
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14, 38, 69, 
78, 103, 191, 302. 
Winn, W. . . 
Wellcome, M. D. 
Wares, M. B. . . 
Watkins, W. . 
White, J. G. . 
MISCELLANEOUS. 
Address of Adventists at Au- 
burn . . . 6, 14, 23 
An Interesting Fact . . 14 
Apocalyptic Sketches 1, 9, 17, 25 
Anecdote . . . 3 
Abounding in Prayer . . 27 
Arch Deceiver, The . . 51 
Admonition to them that-med- 
dle, &c. . . . 61 
An Advent Preacher at St. 
Helena . . . 69 
Advent Publications . . 85 
A Pastor's Sketches . . 133 
Anniversary of the American 
Peace Society . . 135 
Analysis of Matt. 24th . 140 
An Important Movement 
Australia . . 
Access to God . . 
An Earnest Ministry 
Affliction-its Design . 
Acting and Feeling 
Aother band of outlaws in 
Illinois . . . 173 
CORRESPONDENCE. 
LETTERS FROM 
. 310 
. 310 
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206, 326 
. 350 
27 
. 31 
 
. 38 
38,55, 103 
. 38 
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94, 183 
. 165 
 
. 231 
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. 46 
 
. 63 
. . . 190 
46, 70, 214, 294 
. . 119, 278 
. 334 
. 358 
 
. 28 
. . . 310 
32, 95, 127, 
. 95, 
134 
. 231 
. 246 
. 319 
. 149 
. 152 
. 154 
. 155 
. 162 
. 170 
Austrian Superstition . . 175 
Antichrist . . . 182 
Answers to Prayer . . 185 
Analogy of Nature and the 
Resurrection . . 186 
American Census Abroad, The 191 
A Dialogue . . . 213 
Afflictions . . 221, 293 
American Board of Missions 269 
Approaching Conflict with In- 
fidelity . . . . 299 
Alone with God . . 299 
Ancient Egypt and Pentateuch 315 
Advent Min. Conference . 320 
Apocrypha . . . . 325 
Apostolic Age, The . . 346 
Ancient Money Transactions 354 
All Things are Given to me . 355 
Address of Kossuth to the Peo- 
ple of the U. States . . 360 
Autumn Musings . . 363 
B 
Beautiful Extract, A . 3 
Burden of Princes, The 4, 13, 21 
Blue Laws of Connecticut . 11 
Blotting out the Sabbath . 32 
Bible, once for the few, &c. The 35 
Bruised Reeds . . . 51 
Brotherhood . . 
Best Friend, The . 
Beauties of the Heavens 
Blessed Hope, The . 
Bridge for the Soul, A . 93 
Being, Unchangeable, The 138 
Be Careful for Nothing . 155 
Baxter's Reformed Pastor 156 
Boy found in a Wolf's Den, A 163 
Brand plucked out of the fire 174 
Beloved yet Sick . . . 178 
Busy-bodies in other Men's 
Matters . . . 179 
Body of Man, The . . 202 
Bishop outwitted, A . 237 
Bright and Morning Star . 270 
Bible and Philosophy, The 271 
Bible, The . . . . 275 
Blessed Hope of the Gospel 277 
Bacon, at Jerusalem, Dr. . 292 
Behold He Cometh . . 302 
Blue Laws . . . . 349 
C 
Cause in Rochester, The . 5 
Conference at Auburn, N. Y. 
6, 14, 23 
Conference at Salem, Mass., 
29, 32, 53 
Conference at New York . 30 
Conferences at Meredith, Lou- 
 
don, &c., N. Fl. . . 31 
Control your Temper . 43 
Change in the French Gov't 365 
Christians Sentenced to Death 43 
Christian Discipline . . 66 
Christ Suited to our Wants 67 
Comfort in Sorrow . . 67 
Christ our Example . . 77 
Cause in Hallowell . . 78 
Chardon-street Church Notice 80 
Church and its Ministry, The 83 
Christ our Refuge . . 83 
Christ in his Death and Resur- 
rection . . . . 93 
Christian Graces . . 101 
Christian Moderation . . 107 
Colors of the Earth . 107 
Church, The . . . 110 
Conflagration of the Globe . 116 
Close of Life, The . . 134 
Consistency of Character . 147 
Calls for Help . . . 148 
Couple of Pictures, A. . 149 
Conference Address, N. Y. 
 
and Boston, 1851. 161, 166 
Circulation of the Bible . 173 
Contrast, The . . . 173 
Comfort ye My people . . 186 
Candid Notice . . . 189 
Censorious Christians . . 193 
Cast the Burden upon the Lord 198 
Catching a Man Catcher 
Curious Historical Fact 
Church in Portland, The 
Corrupt Church, A. . 
Come unto Me . . 
Courtesy . • 
Cuban Invasion . 
53 
59 
66 
92 
Jehovah-Jireh. . 
Jesuits, The . 
New Works . . . 16 
Note from Bro. Himes . 272 
Prophetic Dates . . 244 
President's Message . . 351 
Religious Opinions, &c. . 350 
Second Advent . . 37 
To Correspondents 5, 13, 53, 
156, 213. 
Theological and Lit. Journal 60 
The " Congregationalist's " 
Remedy . . . 61 
Tour in Vermont . . 64 
T.tis is not my Home . . 172 
Taking up a Reproach, &c. 180 
Terms of the Advent Herald 213 
To the Adventists in Western 
New York . . 229 
Tornado, The . . . 232 
Transfer of the Kingdom . 244 
Literary and Theo. Journal 292 
The 120 Years to the Deluge 340 
Visit to Philadelphia . . 109 
Visit to Plymouth, &c. . 125 
William Miller . . . 156 
Bonham, J. W. 174, 238, 295, 
303, 350. 
Busby, W. . 
Bennett, W. . 
Benedict, A. 
Billings, N . 
Bosworth, D. 
Bentley, M. L. 
Bayles, A. . 
Benedict, A. 
Brown, N. . 
Buckley, H. 
Burnham, G. W 
Brown, Artemas 
Burnham, W. 
Beckwith, M. . 
Boss, H. D. 
Chase, A. jr. . 
Clement, G. W. 
Culross, J. . 
Clapp, A. . 
Chapman, S. 
Campbell, D. 
Clapp, J. L. . 
Campbell, S. 
Dingle, J. . 
Esworthy, T. A. 
Fassett, 0. R. 
164, 206. 
Fancher, Ira 
Fuller, C. H. . 
Fassett, L. E. 
Farrar, J. P. . 
Gross, H. H. 
Gates, I. R. 
Graham, W. E. 
Grant, Miles . 
Gill, John . 
Hutchinson, R. 
Hardy, E. . 
Hobart, P. 
Hoyt, Z. W. 
Hastings, H. L. 
Heath, S. . 
Ingalls, L. 
Ingham, W. M. 
Inglis, Rev. J. . 
Morgan, P. B. 
Merrill, A. . 
Mansfield, L. D. 
Mott, W. H. . 
Marsh, E. . 
Osier, L. . . 
Orrock, J. M. 
Powell, P. . 
Pearson, J., jr. 
Percival, C. J. 
Robertson, R. 
Roney, S. 1. . 
Ruggles, W. G. . 
Robinson, D. I. 
Richmond, C. M. 
Richmond, L. M. 
 
Smith, Dr. N. . 
Schellhouse, R. 
Smith, T. . . 
Shipman, I. H. 
Sweet, A. L. . 
Tracy, Wm. 
Wellcome, I. C. 
. 202 
. 211 
. 222' 
226 
. 227 
234 
. 229 
Clinton Tent Meeting • 230 
Cuban Revolutionists, The . 237 
Centurion's Servant, The . 242 
Creeds . . . . 242 
Chinese Mythological History 249 
Christ Expounding the Law 251 
Centre Co. Pa. Camp-Meeting 254 
Contemporary Intelligence of 
 
Sennachetib . . . 274 
Concerning the Conflagration 
290, 297, 306, 314, 322, 
330, 337, 346, 353, 361 
Confessing Christ . . 306 
Capture of Jerusalem, by the 
Crusaders . . . 306 
Coptic Christians . . 307 
Cumming, Dr. John . . 348 
Conversion of the Jews, 331, 
338, 363 
Cherubim, The . 337, 345 
Chalmers on Millenarianism 351 
D 
Diamond Painted, The . . 3 
Danger of Contemning God 27 
Discipline of a Divine Hand, 32 
Departure of the Soul from 
God . . . 50 
Dreaming . . . 67 
Depopulation of Oceanica . 67 
Days of Noah, The . . 68 
Duties of a Pastor, The 86, 78 
INDEX. 
POETRY. 
Alone in the Dark World . 
Age of Peace . 
Angel Charley . 
Blow the Trumpet 
Bible, The . . 
Behold he cometh . • 
Beatific Vision, The • 
Consolation . . 
Conflicting Feelings . 
Christ alone our Rock . 
Come, Lord Jesus . 
Changing World, The . 
Day after Armageddon, The 
Death of Mirabeau 
Dirge to Charlie . 
Ecce Homo . 
Erring, The 
Forgiveness . . 
Father, thy will be done 
Follow Me . 
Forbearance . . 323 
Fifty-six Wants . . . 331 
Faith, Hope, and Charity . 358 
God . . . . . 201 
Garden Gate, The . . 291 
Home of the Holy . . 32 
Hymn for Advent . . 307 
I Long to See that Day . 48 
Incomprehensibility of God 102 
I am the Way . . 143 
Image, The . . . . 174 
1 have no Father there . 303 
Joy Fills the Golden Cup . 177 
Jerusalem my Happy Home 194 
Jewish.,Harvest Hymn . 321 
Lines on the Death of Angela 
Leslie . . . 111 
Lines-the Moon shining on 
 
the water . . . 255 
Lines on the Death of Sweet 
 
Flora Grace . 335 
Lines to J. V. Himes . 350 
Morn's Offering . 107 
Moonlight Voices . 129 
Morning Prayer 
249 
Mother's Lament . •. 255 
Messiah . . . 317 
Nature, Grace, and Glory . 70 
Nazarene Stranger, The . 253 
Neater to Thee . . 337 
Only Refuge, The . 169 
Petition to Jesus . 49 
Perfect Peace . 
97 
Rest . . 
161 
Rebuke, The . 
162 
Rose of Sharon . 233 
Restitution, The . . 309 
Rock of Ages, cleft for me 353 
Storm, The . . . 9 
Seasons of Prayer . . 33 
Speak not a bitter word . 57 
Spirit of Beauty . 193 
Second Advent, The . 217 
Sounds of Industry, The . 234 
Sit down, Sad Soul . . 257 
Study . . . . . 263 
Signs of Christ's coming . 297 
Seen and the Unseen, The . 315 
'Tis I-Be not afraid 41, 137 
The Thrones . . . 62 
The Wondrous Story . 65 
The Changeful-the Unchange- 
ful . . . 66 
Thoughts of Heaven . . 89 
Three Gardens, The . . 94 
Trust in Me . . . 111 
These Three . . . 113 
The Way, the Truth, the Life 121 
The Wanderer . . 121 
To-day and to To-morrow . 361 
Trust thy Soul to God . . 185 
Three Calls, The . 259 
Trifles 
. 273 
Talents, The . . 329 
Upward-Onward . . 201 
Vision of Heaven, A . 222 
Venal Sanctuary, The . . 266 
Wish (The) and the Prayer 225 
Whom have I in Heaven but 
Thee . . . 238 
What is the Bible . . 241 
Winter is coming . . 242 
You and I . . . . 17 
EINTORIAL. 
Advent, The-Brown vs. Bo-
nar 4, 12, 20, 28, 44, 52. 
Answer to Inquiry on Isa. 65 : 
 
20, 21 . . . 84 
Argument from Design . 108 
Answers to Correspondents 205 
Bro. Himes' Western Tour 16, 24 
 
Business Notice . . 160 
 
Book of Jasher . . . 236 
Chair of St. Peter . . , 8 
 
Canada Subscribers • . ..240 
 
Conversion of the Jews . 364 
 
Dangers of Spiritualism . 180 
Epoch of the Creation 276, 
284, 300. 
Elliott's llorw ApocalypticEe 316 
 
Exposition of Rev. 10th . 348 
 
Free Version of the Bible 8 
 
Foreign Miscellany . . 8 
 
Gospel Messenger, The . 101 
Greatness of his Kingdom 204 
 
Is the Bible from God ? . 108 
 
Influence of the Holy Ghost 109 
Inquiries of a Berean answered 268 
Justice to Father Matthew . 328 
 
Like Begets Like . . 108 
 
Location of the Kingdom . 252 
 
Millenarianism . 36 
 
Mr. Lord's Journal . . 180 
 
New Volume, A . 8 
Dying Wife to her Husband, 
The . . . . 107 
Denial of the Universality of 
 
the Deluge . . 124 
Dangers of Spiritualism . 156 
Death of Mirabeau, The . 179 
Destruction of Sodom . 205 
Dissected Map, The . . 210 
Divinely appointed Heir, The 241 
Death of the Wicked, The 254 
Devil Shot at Pisa, The . 259 
Different Views of Death . 317 
Destruction of a Ship by a 
Whale . . . . 319 
Dishonor done to the Bible 331 
David Our Example . . 347 
Dark Day, A . . . 359 
E 
Edict against Christianity . 43 
Every One at their Post . 46 
Earth Not Your Rest . 49, 57 
Extracts from Rev. S. Shaw 51, 66 
Estimates of Dancing . 53 
Extraordinary Criminal Organ- 
ization . . . . 104 
Early Risers and Results . 154 
Eclipses of the Sun, On . 202 
Evenirg Meditation, An . 238 
Ezekiel . . . 241, 249 
Ends of Man . . . 251 
Elisha's Staff . . . 258 
Exposition of the A pos. by Mr. 
Wickes . . . 260 
Elk Co. Pa. Camp-Meeting 270 
Earthquake near Naples . 272 
Earth Unsatifying . . 277 
Efficacy of Prayer, or Old 
Moses . . . . 283 
Exposition of Romans 11th 
286, 302, 310, 326 
Evangelical Alliance, The 
English Morality . 
F 
Favoritism in the Study of 
Scripture . . 26, 33 
Feet Washing as an Ordinance 32 
Family, The . . . . 68 
Fruit'bf the Spirit . . 76 
Faith in God's Word, 86, 94, 
102, 110, 126 
Face of an Angel . . 91 
Fountain of Living Waters 98 
Fellowship, The 114, 122, 129 
Fires of Satan and Fires of 
God . . . . 
Person in Prayer 
Father Ignatius . 
Foreign News 157, 
Family Life, The . 172, 
Feeling after God 
Family Badge, 
Flock of God . 
Family Discipline, . 213, 
Follow Me. . . . 
Future condition and Destiny 
of the Earth, 209, 218, 
225, 233 
Fiery Trial . . . . 
First Fast and Thanksgiving, 
in Mass. . . . 
First Untruth . . 
Family Rods, . . . 
Fate of the Mocking Children 
Fete Dieu . . . . 
Future Dynasty . . 
Fugitive Slave Riots . . 
Franklin, Sir John 
Fifty Children Killed in N. Y. 
From the Advent Church in 
Providence . • . 
From the Territory of Utah 
Fixed Principles . . 
G 
Geology and Scripture Har- 
monized . . 10, 18 
Geologist needs the Bible, The 75 
General Judgment . . 91 
Gospel Glad Tidings, The 109 
General Conference . . 150 
God's•Word not the occasion 
of Man's different Creeds 170 
God forbids a Hierarchy 174, 182 
Glory about to be Revealed 195 
Going up to Jerusalem . . 211 
Grammar of Prophetic Inter- 
pretation . 212, 220, 228 
Golden Age, The 233, 276, 333 
Godly Widow, The . . 338 
Gospel to the Masses . 354 
H 
He that Cometh to God must 
 
believe, &c. . . . 50 
How to Make Wills . . 99 
Hope of a Papist . . . 107 
Her Ways, Pleasantness, &c. 210 
Holy City, New Jerusalem 235 
Half Century's l'rogress, A 263 
Honesty in Little Things . 315 
Heathenism at Home . 316 
Isaiah . . . . 10 
Increase of the Earth's Popu-
lation . . . . 69 
Integrity of Character . 181 
Inquisition, The . . . 193 
Impending Disaster in Europe 243 
Indebtedness of the Intellect to 
the Bible . . . 258 
Indifference to proof of Divine 
Existence . . . 293 
I shall cross the river to-night 316 
Index Eupurgatorius . . 331 
J 
Jeremy Taylor's Thoughts 58 
Jesus Wept . . . 61 
 
Judaism in China . . 99 
 
Judgment, The . . . 147 
R 
Reign of Peace and Justice, 
'rhe . . . . 2 
 
Realizing the Judgment . 26 
 
Recreation of Christians . 101 
Rail Road through the Afri- 
can Desert . . . 156 
 
Resurrection, The . . 188 
 
Revolution in Cuba . , 197 
 
Ruins of Nineveh . . 219 
Religious Declension Pro- 
gressive . . . 227 
Religious Condition of our 
 
great Cities . . . 229 
U 
Uses of Adversity . . 107 
Unspeakable Gift, The . . 251 
Useful and the Beautiful . 269 
V 
Victims to the Inquisition . 175 
Voluntaryism . . . ;-299 
Views of the Coming King- 
dom . . . . 342 
W 
What doest thou here, Elijah 18 
What is it to believe on Christ? 
What is Romanism 
Wonderful Preservation . 1 
What think ye of Christ ? &c 1 
Watchfulness . . . 
What is Mesmerism ? . 2' 
Wreath around the Cross . 2 
What think you of Heaven? 2 
We love God, because He first 
Loved us . . . 201 
Wonderful Discovery . 21: 
Who are the Rich . . 36 
Worldly Economy . . 339 
You have a Sweet Temper • '262 
54 
154 
299 
22 
105 
216 
282 
34 
81 
174 
231 
345 
1 
222 
281 
145 
153 
. 209 
265 
. 289 
309 
. 360 
133 
148 
152 
181 
196 
186 
204 
204 
220 
215 
227 
243 
250 
260 
265 
271 
282 
307 
319 
333 
336 
341 
355 
. 162 
. 263 
K 
Keith. on the Apocalypse 250 
Kirwan " in Rome . 259 
Keep thy Heart . 275 
L 
Lying Wonders . . . 10 
Letters from England 54, 31, 110 
Love of God . . 46, 54 
Love of a Dog to his Master, 67 
Letter front Brethren in Ro- 
chester . . . 87 
Lecture by Dr. Cumming 164 
Localities in Rome . . 227 
Libel Suit vs. The Common- 
wealth . . . . 253 
Literature of the Bible .. 298 
Letter from an unknown friend 358 
Leaders of Europe . . 358 
M 
Meddling with other Gov'ts. 365 
Messiah the Wonderful . 18 
Millennial Kingdom . 37, 53 
Melchisedek . . . 41 
Moral Law, The . . 58 
Mr. and Mrs. They Say . 77 
Mothers and Daughters of the 
Bible . . 123, 138 
Mormonism . . . 133 
Miud your own Business 141 
Michigan Thugs . . . 168 
Minister's Sin's of Omission 181 
May Romanists read the Bible 251 
Manifesto against the Bible . 263 
Modern Infidelity, &c. . . 260 
Mental Condition of Newman 275 
Moral Reasons of the Deluge 282 
Martyrdom of Cranmer, Lati- 
mer, and Ridley . . 291 
Means of Salvation . . 293 
Malachi . . . . 341 
Maryology . . . 342 
Mission of Kossuth . 356, 364 
N 
Nearing Sun-rise . 34, 42 
Not Yours but You . 66 
Notes on Deuteronomy . 140 
Neapolitan Tyranny . 264 
Nineveh • . . . 265, 
Nature of the Beast not 
changed . . . 285 
New Testament Sabbath . 290 
Non-Evangelized Masses . 323 
New Version . 341, 349, 357 
0 
Overthrow of Sodom . . 19 
On the signification of "Ktisis" 225 
Offensive Doctrines . . 308 
Office of the Holy Spirit . 318 
Objections to the Resurrection 339 
Outrage at Salt Lake . . 350 
Opening of New College, Lon- 
don . . . 353, 361 
Obituaries and Epitaphs . 355 
Outline of Sermon . . 366 
Richmond Tent-Meeting 
Ridiculing Prayer . 
Rich Man-Rich Woma 
Religion of the Russians 
Remarkable Coincidence 
Redeemed Inheritance, 
246 
266 
267 
307 
327 
0, 348 
S 
 
Siberian Winter, A. . 8 
 
Secrets of the Confessiona 11 
Second Advent of Christ 33 
Spiritual Theft . 51 
Second Advent . 0, 78 
Sermon of Consolation, 73, :1, 89 
Silence of the Christian utt er 
 
the hands of God . 74 
Strife for the ownership of e- 
rusalem . . 85 
Strong Delusion . 1 2, 110 
Second Advent Anniversa 
N. Y. . . 1 , 125 
Sacred Geography . . 432 
Scripture AllusionsIllustra d 139 
Sin of the Day, 'rhe . 139 
Second Afvent Anniversa 
Boston . . 1 , 149 
Sermon by L. D. Mansfi d 
142, 157 
Summer Campaign, The 148 
Social Reform . . 149 
Steadiness of Purpose 157 
Saints' inheritance . . 165 
Salvation wholly of God . 173 
Sensible Remarks . . 175 
Sure Title, The . . . 179 
Satan's Soliloquy on Prayer 191 
Sermon at Boston Conferen 
 
Ly C. B. Turner, 182 
" " by D. 1. Robinson 190 
Ser on by Rev. C. H. Cat 
field . . • . 190 
Sa bath Question, The 190 
SI nder . . . . 191 
S owers of Sand in Chi a 194 
anon on the Millennium . 196 
ermon at the Boston Confe 
ence, by H. Plummer . 198 
ermon before the Bosto 
Conference, by D. 
Taylor, Jr. . . 206 
 
" Edvvi 
Burnham . . 
Submission, an Important Les 
son . • 219 
Scurrilous . . . 229 
Signs of the Times . .1 230 
Sermon, by L. Osier 237, 245 
State of Christendom . . 245 
Shortness of Time . . 269 
Scriptures, The . . . 271 
Solomon and Christ as Teach- 
ers . . . . 274 
Simon, Lovest thou Me 1 285 
Spiritua, Interpretation . 308 
Samuel the Prophet . . 314 
Sending Money to Heaven . 315 
Sabbath test . . . 318 
Sermon of Dr. L. Beecher . 325 
Spirit of Selfishness . . 333 
 
Scriptural Exposition . . 334 
Sheep's Clothing thrown off 357 
Phenomena of Death . 11 
Parental Faithfulness will be 
Rewarded . . . 27 
Paraphrase of Dan. XI. 52, 
84, 02, 100. 
Progress of the World . . 58 
Pretended Communications 
with the Spiritual. World 75, 82 
Pre-millennialism 90, 97, 105, 113 
Prayer . . . 101, 109 
Pyramids of Egypt . . 116 
Prospects of Europe 130, 137, 145 
Power of the Pope . . 152 
Power of Religion . . 158 
Patiencelinder'Injuries . 173 
Popery,Alys the Same . 202 
Paul as a Passenger . . 208 
Preaching. . . . 219 
Pompeii . . . . 227 
Politeness of Paul, The . 243 
Prophetic character of the 
great Exhibition 245, 252 
Popery and its Effects . . 251 
Petra . . . . 261 
Pearls for Stringing . . 267 
Progress of the Anglo-Saxon 
Race . . . . 267 
Peace of Jesus, The . 270 
Pope, the Man of Sin, The 
273, 281, 289, 297, 305, 
313, 324, 329 
Pantheism . . . . 285 
Peace and Security of Be- 
lievers . . . . 322 
Pope, the Anti-Christ, The 324 
Paul's Epis. to the Ephesians 324 
Proving, The . . . 308 
Pay of Ministers . . . 333 
Pride . • • • 339 
Q 
Qualifications for the Ministry, 
A Sermon by N. N. 
Whiting . . 221, 229 
 
Question, A. . . . 227 
The Number Seven . . 50 
The Lord's Lay, the Sabbath 75 
The Parting . . . 77 
The Inquisition . . 85 
Trial of Anti-Christ 74, 82, 
90, 98, 146, 115, 122, 
131, 139, 146, 155, 163, 
171, 177, 187, 103, 195, 
203 
The Lord is my Shepherd . 113 
Translation of Zechariah, 
116. 121, 129. 
'rranslatiou of Zepheniah 137, 145 
Travels in the East, 153, 161, 
169, 177, 185, 201, 209, 
217 
The Two Genealogies of our 
 
Lord . . 155 
The Three Angels 161, 169 
This World and the Future . 173 
The Christian and his Crown 173 
Take my Yoke upon you . 174 
The Future Body . . 189 
Tale Bearers, &c. . . 258 
" The Sower Sowetlt the 
Word " . .; . 269 
Two Travellers, The . 271 
Two Singular Conversions . 274 
Types, The . . . 284 
Testimony of God 358 
214