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Sabbath, and on Monday, Tuesday, Wednesday, Thurs- 
day and Friday evenings.  
AT THE CHURCH, corner of Christie and Delancev  
Streets, three times on the Sabbath, and every evening  
during the week, except Saturday.  
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son-streets, Lectures three times on the Sabbath, and  
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conference meeting on Wednesday evening.  
BRO. HIMES. writing from the city of Washington,  
under date of March 3d, says ;  
Bro. Miller finished lecturing here to-day, and has  
gone to Baltimore with Bro. Litch. I remain and lecture 
till Monday. We purpose to spend the second Sabbath 
in March at Philadelphia ; on Monday following, March  
11th, at Newark, N. J., where Bro. Miller will lecture  
in the evening. Tuesday, Wednesday and Thursday in 
New York.  
Our meetings have had a powerful influence here, and  
we trust much good will have been accomplished. The  
late terrible catastrophe has spread a melancholy gloom  
over society. It is a solemn time.  
BRO. MILLER, Providence permitting, will deliver a  
lecture at Newark, N. J., on Monday evening next, 11th  
inst, at such place as the brethren may provide.  
GEO. A. STERLING.—This brother, who is a ministe^of  
the Protestant Episcopal Church, expects by divine per- 
mission to visit this city and the city of Newark, N. J?,  
in a few days, for the purpose of heralding the approach  
of the Bridegroom.  
1CF" A NEW PLACE OF WORSHIP—Our brethren have  
made arrangements, that will secure to them the use of  
the spacious church corner of Christie and Delanecy  
streets. See notice of meetings.  
O3 It is expected that Brethren Miller and Himes  
wili be in the city on Tuesday, 12 inst., and will lecture  
during the week, at the Church corner of Christie and 
Delancey streets.  
Bro. Whiting, Storrs, Teall and H. Jones, have been  
lecturing in this city during the past week. Bro.  
Matthias left for Albany last Saturday. Bro. E. S.  
Fleming from Western New York, is now in the city.  
DIED, at the city of Brooklyn, Feb. 24, 1844, ALONZO  
TEALL, in the 28th year of his age. He died in the pros- 
pect of a speedy resurrection. He was a son of BROTHER  
H. V. TEALL, and has been sick for many months past,  
in consequence of which Bro. Teall has been confined to 
this city and vicinity. Bro. Teall will now be more at  
liberty to comply with the calls for his labors in different  
places.  

BABEL.  
In the Presbyterian" of January 27th, I find an arti- 
cle headed " New Discovery," and signed " SAYRS GAR-
LAY." The article would not be worthy of notice if it  
did not exhibit the perfect Babelism of these last days. 
The writer is opposing the views of another, and says :  
" Coming and appearing, are words of different import,  
and represent different things. Heb. ix. 26, 28, says  
nothing about comings ; but of appearances, which I  
contend are only two: one at the commencement of the  
gospel dispensation, and the other at the end of it, and at 
the end of the world. But the comings of Christ are per-
haps of no less than six different varieties ; the first and  
the last only, being attended with His personal appear 
ance. First, He came personally when he was born in 
Bethlehem, Rom. ix. 5. And of whom, as concerning  
the flesh, Christ came. This was His first coming, and 
His first appearance. Second, He came in another sense,  
according to Scripture, to convert men, or in every con-
version of a sinner.  
So, according to this writer, there never was a soul  
converted till after Christ came in the flesh—for he ex-
pressly says, that " was His first coming."  
Rev. iii. 20. Behold, I stand at the door, and knock .  
if any man will hear my voice, and open the door, I will  
come in to him. In this coming there is no visible appear-
ance. Third, He comes again to comfort and support  
his saints, John xiv. 18, 23. I will not leave you com- 
fortless : I will come to you. If any man love me—the 
Father and I will come to  him, and make Gur abode with  
him.  
The same may  be said as before : none were ever com- 
forted till after Christ came in the flesh ; for, I repeat it,  
this writer makes the coming 1800 years ago the " first."  
Is there any  personal appearance here 1 Fourth, He  
came to destroy Jerusalem with an awful overthrow that 
spread its lustre further than a meteor. Matt. xxiv. 27. 
For as the lightning, &c. Here was a coming in judg-
ment ; but without any personal appearance.  
Did he " gather his elect" then ? 
Fifth, He comes to every man when He calls him away  
by death.  
Then no one ever died before Christ came in the flesh,  
or else he came a great many million times before he 
came the " first" time ! !  
The Lord of that servant shall come in a day when he  
looketh not for him ; Rev. xxii. 20, He that testifieth  
these things saith, surely I come quickly. Amen, even 
so, come. Lord Jesus. And Luke xiii. 7. Finally, the  
sixth and last coming of the Son of God will be at the 
end of th® world, " probably more than eleven hundred  
years hereafter."  
" My Lord delayeth his coming." Now, if such expo- 
sitions of the Bible are not Babel—that is, "confusion," 
it would be difficult to tell what is confusion.  
GEO. STORRS.  
WATCH MEETINGS.—These meetings were origina- 
ted by Mr. Wesley, in accordance with the admonition 
of our Saviour, to watch for his coming. Mr. Wes- 
ley was an adventist, and expected the Lord about this  
time ; and so taught. These meetings are still contin- 
ued by the Methodists, but the great body of them  
have ceased to be followers of John Wesley, in look- 
ing for the Lord. And they now present the strange  
anomaly, of watchiug, but expecting nothing.  
K? " How QIJIET" says a writer " countless millions  
slumber in the arms of their mother earth. The voice of 
thunder shall not awake them—the loud cry of the ele-
ments—the winds—the waves—nor even the giant tread  
of the earthquake, shall be able to cause an inquietude in  
the chambers of death. They shall rest, and these things  
will pass away ; but, then a silver voice at first just 
heard, shall rise to a tempest's tone and penetrate the  
voiceless grave. For the trumpet shall sound, and the  
dead shall hear its voice."  

A FOCAL POINT.  
We are evidently approaching a point of time, that  
has connected with it, associated interests, or at least,  
that is made interesting from the fact that it is the 
nucleus, around which has clustered the hopes and  
fears and expectations of Christians, Jews, Mahome- 
dans, Theologians, Politicians, &c. &c. Among the  
intelligent and observing, all eyes have for sometime  
past, been turned toward this portion of the horizon 
of time, anxiously anticipating some important event.  
This expectation is far from being confined to advent- 
ists. The character of the event, is what is peculiar  
to them. Very many of various classes, pretty much 
agree with us in the termination of the prophetic dates, 
at which point they suppose, some very important 
event will certainly transpire ; but the event they sup- 
pose, will be quite different from what we apprehend. 
A late English writer speaking on this subject, says ;  
"Amongst the students of prophecy, there is a uni- 
versal agreement in this one point, however they may 
differ in others, that we are now living under the influ-
ence ofthe sixth vial, waiting daily for the pouring out  
ofthe seventh, which is to consummate the wrath of 
God, and bring his indignation to an end. And no one  
that hears me is ignorant how every politician and  
statesman, and among others, the man* who attracts  
most eyes at present, continually declare that the next  
war which breaketh out, will convulse Europe to its 
centre, and prove like no other war that has been be- 
fore it, a war, not of offence or of defence, but a wast-
ing and convulsing war of opinion. All observers, 
prophetical, spiritual, and political, do thus consent and 
agree, with one accord, that the present is a pause of  
preparation, filled up with the utmost activity ; and that  
we stand upon the eve  of a last and awful struggle for  
the ancient things, a struggle which wisdom may  
postpone, but which no earthly power can prevent."  
Again, the following, which we extract from a late  
English paper, corroborates our position. Although  
the article is evidently of skeptical origin, it neverthe- 
less shows the expectant state of feeling, that pervades 
the public mind.  
[THE YEAR 1844 ]  
" Now that the new year has fairly commenced to  
run its appointed course, we may be excused for say- 
ing a little about it'. Some people think that all years 
are alike ; but we are of a different opinion. * * * *  
The coming ofthe year 1844, was predicted long ago,  
and now we are all living witnesses to the fulfillment.  
Very much unlike the human race, the existence of 
years is forseen and talked of long before they are  
born. They also acquire a sort of celebrity long before  
they come into existence. The year 1844, is one of  
these celebrated years. It is now sixteen or seven- 
teen years since we first heard it particularized as a  
year of remarkable events; and almost every year 
since that, we have seen it alluded to, or heard it allud- 
ed to, as the probable date or epoch of some important  
changes. Some people expect that the Jews are to be  
gathered and restored to their old land, this year.  
Many of the Jews expected this in 1840 ; but as there  
are always four years of grace allowed upon such sub- 
jects, the present year is quite as good. Besides, 1840  
gave them an earnest of it, in the beginning of some  
movements in Judea, which are still looked forward to 
as fraught, with important consequences to the bearded  
disciples of Moses and the Prophets, who read the law  
as the Christians do the gospel, but  refuse to keep it.  
The prophecy from which the year 1840 is fixed up- 
* The late Mr. Canning. This was said by him in Pariiment, '  
when prime minister.


on, is nearly 2500 years old. It is contained in the  
prophet Daniel, and says that in 2300 days, the sanc- 
tuary will be cleansed. Dating from 456 B. C- (the  
date of the prophecy ofthe death of Christ, to happen 
in 490 days, or years.) we find that, subtracting 456  
from 2300, we have 1844/ Being so very simple,  
and so freefrom the ambiguities attending many other  
prophecies, it has been much talked of amongst theo-
logians of all sects and parties, though of course with  
different opinions, as to the precise event which was  
to take place at that period. And the recent efforts  
and success of. the Society for the Propogation of 
Christianity amongst the Jews, have caused many  
Christian wiseacres to suppose that the Jews are  
about to be converted to all the shades and degrees of  
Christian sectarianism, and that their present unity  
and brotherhood are to be broken up by a gathering in- 
to the disunity and hatred of Christian Gentilism.  
Much good, no doubt, it would do them, to be made  
comfortable in spirit to High Churchmen, Evangelicals,  
Methodists, Presbyterians, Independents, Congrega- 
tionalists, Baptists, Anabaptists—and such like here- 
tics Protestants and Popish, Grecian and Armenian—  
who all denounce one another as sinners, whose sal- 
vation is very doubtful ! The Jews themselves have 
no such notions, and those who are converted to  
Christianity, only cease to be Jews, and are cut off  
from their people. The Jews never were and never  
will be converted to any species of Christianity, now  
in vogue amongst the Gentitle nations. They know  
better than to make bad worse, by running barefooted  
,into:the thorny woods, and thickets, and wilderness of  
Christendom ; and the conduct of the Christian Em- 
peror of Russia, who is driving half a  million of them  
from their peaceful homes .into the heartless interior  
of his barbarous dominions, is not very likely to wean 
their hearts, or the heafts ©f their brethren more for- 
tunately circumstanced, from the faith, and;the hopes,  
and the worship of their fathers."  
The infide}, like the buzzard, seeks polluted flesh.  
Like the shamble fly, he is almost instinctively at- 
tracted to the plague spot; and it is a  mortifying truth,  
that such spots are found upon the body of the nominal  
church, or rather on the mangled fragments of that  
body. But it is a poor principle,  to judge of a thing by  
tke abuses of its sychephantic adherents. Shall I re- 
fuse to eat bread because others have become gluttons ? 
Thus many judge. Such is the philosophy of skepti- 
cal accumen, from which, may we be delivered.  
" The year 1844, therefore, is pregnant with inte- 
rest to many parties, and it is gratifying, amongst the 
numerous absurdities in which the interest is wrapped  
up, that there is something great and generous to make 
atonement for other defects. These expectations are  
all connected with ideas of universal restoration for  
the world, when a new order of things will be estab- 
lished, and when Justice and Truth—so long expect- 
ed, but never yet come—will cover the earth as the 
waters the sea; and when righteousness will flow 
through our streets like rivers of water. It is a be- 
nevolent and virtuons wish, and in so far as it is be- 
nevolent and virtuous, we should rejoice to see it rea-
lized. But there is a mighty struggle to encounter  
I before this huge mass of iniquity, called the world, can  
be brought down, and a new world erected on its ruins.  
The following, we gather from a discourse, lately  
delivered by Rev. Orville Dewey, D. D. ON THE 
SIGNS AND PROSPECTS OF THE AGE. He says:  
" We would not be thought to give utterance to a  
mere sounding sentence, when we say, that in the his- 
tory of the world, there never was a time when all  
thinking minds were so pressed to the contemplation 
ofa Providence over nations, as at the present moment.  
Human affairs seem to be approaching,  if not actually  
passing through another of those great crisis, which  
determine the fate of after centuries. To us, we con- 
fess, it appears, if we may venture to express our  
thought, like the winding up, the last act, in the great 
drama: to be followed by a thousand millennial years,  
or by ages of disaster and blood. All the grandeur of  
\ a momentous epoch is foreshadowed to us in the future,  
and with a form the most distinct, though less exact in 
time: Less violent aud tremendous, less wild and tu- 
multuous than the overthrow of the Roman empire :  
less brief and bloody than the French Revolution ; the 
coming change will spread itself over a wider theatre, 
and through remoter times."  
Again, speaking of the discouraging and perilous as- 
pects ofthe times, he says :  

" This heart-sinking, however, is a striking feature  
of the present time. Within a few years past, the par- 
ty to fear has been growing apace, and is stronger at  
this moment perhaps, than it has been at any time  
since the world was temporarily shocked and alarmed  
by the outburst of the French Revolution. Even in 
America this party is strong; and in Europe, of course,  
it is far stronger. The retrograde movement of the  
English Church, is partly of this nature, and even in  
the little republic of Geneva the same thing is witness- 
ed. In England, indeed, it has connected itself with  
High-Church principles, and has proceeded farther  
than any conservative or panic movement of the day. 
But it is not merely in the Church that this fear is  
found, nor in the courts of absolute monarchs, nor in  
the pledged ranks of legitimacy, but in the secluded  
studies of philosophy, in the minds of many liberal  
thinkers. Many such are to be found, who have, in 
fact, given up the cause of modern freedom, who have  
relinquished their high hopes and aspirations; who  
have fallen back upon the single prayer for security ; 
who have come to the sad conclusion, that the world,  
that human nature is not good enough to be free. We 
have sat in the studies of such men, and have listened  
to their mournful discourse. ' We had thought better  
things," they said ; 'we had hoped better things ; but  
it was all a dream. No, it will never do. Innocent  
beings might have liberty ; angels may have liberty ;  
but men are not fit to be free. No ; a strong, even an  
oppressive government must we have ; one that will  
hold in check, the struggling elements of our wild,  
reckless, depraved humanity.' Nay, not to speak of 
particular instances, we have thought in general, that 
the liberal party in Europe, under the combined influ-
ence of disappointment and exasperation, is, at this mo-
ment, a harsher judge ofthe popular tendencies, if pos- 
sible, than any other party. Even in Americans resi-
dent abroad, as well as at home, in those whose posi-
tion called for a faithful support of their national princi- 
ples, we have found a deep-seated distrust of them."  
We will now turn our attention to a different kind of  
testimony, touching the tokens ofthe present age, and 
the expectation of a coming crisis. Cotton Mather,  
who died in Boston, Feb. 13th 1728, was a learned  
man, as all who are acquainted with his history will  
admit. The following we present as the views of 
Mr. Mather, respecting the near approach ofthe coming 
ofthe SON OF MAN,  
" By all just and fair computations, the twelve  
hundred and sixty years allowed for the Papal Empire, 
must be near, if not quite expired. By consequence,  
the one thousand, three hundred and thirty-five years,  
which bring the time of the end, when Daniel, with  
every other good man, is to rise and stand in his lot,  
are not likely to extend beyond the present century."  
Such were the opinions of Cotton Mather, respect- 
ing the approach of that great and notable day of  
the Lord. He died in 1728. What would he have 
said, had he lived till 1828, and witnessed all the proofs  
of the approach of that time, which have since been 
developed 1  
We will here insert a few extracts from Cotton  
Mather's preface to his work, entitled, " Directions  
for a candidate ofthe ministry," published in 1725.  
" The second advent ofthe Lord Christ, which must  
be expected for the destructionof Anti-Christ, and per- 
dition of that fourth empire, which he will abolish at  
his own illustrious coming is next, and immediately to  
be expected.  
" But it is not to be wondered at, if there be very  
few who would believe such a preacher.  
" For when the Lord shall come, he will find the  
world almost destitute of true and lively faith, and es- 
pecially of faith in his coming ; and when he shall des-
cend, with his heavenly banners and angels, what else  
will he find, almost, but the whole church, as it were  
a dead carcass, miserably putrified with the spirit and 
manners and endearments of the world." ' When I  
should wish to stir up my brethren, who are in a deep 
sleep, with these messages and admonitions, to shake  
off this soft, and indeed lethargic and guilty slumber, I 
know that I shall appear to them a vain dreamer, a sort 
of Lot, and that they will treat me as one in jest or 
sport, and as a man in the falling sickness, seized with 
I know not what enthusiasm ; and that sleep may hold  
them in still more pleasing fetters, they will make use 
of as it were sleepy medicines, a diversity of commen-
taries on certain prophecies, as not yet fulfilled."  
" But this word of God is in rny mind, like burning  
fire shut up in my bones; nor can I any longer forbear,  

but must again and again denounce this doom to the 
earth, sufficiently prepared for the fire, and a sorceress 
condemned to the flames.  
" Yea, though some Nero should command me to be  
burned in the flames, I will not cease to preach and  
foreiel with an earnest voice, the dissolution, renewal,  
and purification ofthe world by fire.  
" Speedily, with flaming fire, but who knows how  
soon ? The Son of God, about  to descend, will inflict  
vengeance on them that know not God, and obey not  
his gospel: but he will manifest his kingdom in the  
earth, which is to be possessed by our second and  
heavenly Adam; and this we confess is ascertained  
to us by promise, but in another state, being after the  
resurrection.  
" They indulge themselves in a vain -dream, not to  
say insane, who think, pray, and hope, contrary to the  
whole sacred Scriptures, and sound reason, that the  
promised happiness ofthe church on earth, will be be- 
fore the Lord Jesus shall appear in his kingdom.  
" The rest of the saints, and the promised sabbath,  
and the kingdom of God, in which his will shall be 
done on earth as it is in heaven, and those great things 
of which G od hath spoken by the mouths of his pro- 
phets, all prophesying as with one voice, all shall be 
confirmed by their fulfillment in the new earth, not in 
our defiled and accursed earth.  
" This was the opinion of the primitive church, this  
her piety and the ancient faith.  
" O Justin, I appeal to thee as a witness ; in this  
faith all the orthodox unanimously consented in the 
primitive church.  
" Yery many, indeed, own, that when the Roman  
beast, which now deceives and enslaves the nations, 
shall be slain, the body of that beast is to be delivered  
to the burning fire, and therewith to be destroyed. But  
they augur that this fire will be altogether metaphori-
cal, and rave of painted fires only—a wonder if not  
feigned also. A most vain surmise this ! What ! 
And even the second coming of the Lord will become, 
by and by, metaphorical also, and must be resolved,  
and vanish away into I know not what mystical dis-
pensations !* Away, with such dotings of drivellers.  
" Scoffers they are, who think that all things are to  
continue as they were from the beginning of the crea-
tion, and fancy that they can lurk under their metaphors,  
and hide themselves, in the obscurities of figures, from 
the sight of Him who sitteth on the throne. ' There 
are many good men, to be numbered, not indeed with 
scoffers, but yet with sleepers, and such as lull others 
to sleep, who  by improper and excessive allegorizing,  
darken and injure the truth. Would that some Nepos 
might arise to confute these allegorists, before the 
event does it for them.' "  
It is also evident that THOMAS PRINCE, Pastor of  
the OLD SOUTH CHURCH, Boston, and a contemporary  
of Mr. Mather, and who was considered, in learning., as  
second to none in New England, but to Mr. Mather, 
entertained the same views.  
JOHN WESLEY, MARTIN LUTHER, MR, NEWTON, and  
many other distinguished servants of God, had their  
eyes turned to somewhere about this point of time, 
when they expected the Revelation of the Son of God  
from heaven. The present time may truly be regard- 
ed as A Great Focal Point. L. D. F,  
* This was virtually a prophetic utterance, which is now strictly  
fulfilled before our eyes. It ie even becoming a popular doctrine,  
to make the coming of Christ a mere metaphorical affair. It is evi- 
dent, also, from this paragraph, that it was far from being a common  
thing in Mr, Mather's day, to make the coming of Christ a spiritual  
event. L. u- r.  
The Time is at Hand.  
Hark ! hark ! a sound salutes my ear,  
Proclaiming God's own Kingdom near: 
The reaping season soon will come,  
And God's dear people be called home.  
Ye slumbering virgins, up, arise,  
Or you in vain will seek the prize,  
For soon the rising blast will sound.  
And snake the earth and seas around,  
When foolish virgins, with dismay,  
Will find that they are turned away.  
Oh, what, a scene! the door be shut,  
And Christ proclaim, " I know you not."  
Fly, FLY, ye perishing, and live,  
While Christ is waiting still to save.  
Newark, N. J., Feb., 1844. s. H. W.


The following article, headed " MILLERISM," we cut  
from a late number of the " Missouri and, Illinois Bap- 
tist." It evinces a generosity, and an honesty, that  
are worthy of being imitated by some of our Baptist 
editors in the east. We would particularly commend  
the last paragraph in the article, to the notice of the  
BAPTIST ADVOCATE.  
MILLERISM.  
God, in his providence, has permitted me to hear a  
believer in the second advent of Christ in 1843, Jew- 
ish time, deliver three lectures upon that very interest- 
ing subject. I heard him without prejudice : and why 
should I, or any one else, be prejudiced 1 There are,  
indeed, some doctrines which should be condemned as  
soon as heard, without examination ; because all can  
see* if they will, that their tendencies are 'evil, and only  
evil.' But this does not appear to be the effect of Mil-
lerism, at least so far as I have observed it; and what  
will be its effects after March next, should the event  
looked for, not take place, remains to be seen. And  
here permit me to say, that there is much in Mr. Mil- 
ler's scheme of prophecy, besides the belief of the sec- 
ond advent in 1843; and should his computation of  
time prove incorrect, it would not materially affect the  
principal events which, according to him, the prophe- 
cies foretel. He may be in error as to the time of 
Christ's coming, and yet be correct in maintaining that  
human probation will close, and that the righteous 
dead will be raised, and the living saints be quickened  
at his appearing. And if the ' heavens must receive  
Christ, until the time of the restitution of all things  
which God hath declared by his prophets,' it  would  
seem that no space would be left for probation after his  
appearing.  
He may be in error as to the time, and yet be cor- 
rect in maintaining that the millennial state will be an  
immortal state. * * * *  
' But,' says an objector, ' it precludes the idea ofthe  
literal restoration of the Jews.' That is true; but  
writers of great respectability, have long since con- 
tended that the Scriptures do not teach that doctrine.  
If that doctrine is an error, Mr. Miller is not the father  
of -it.  
The first lecture to which I listened from Mr. Ste- 
vens, the speaker above alluded to, was devoted prin-
cipally to the support of the following proposition: 
' That iniquity, and systems of iniquity, will continue 
on earth until the second appearing of Christ.' He 
brought as proof, the parable of the wheat and tares,  
and laid considerable stress upon the words, ' Let both  
grow together until the harvest;' ' The harvest is the  
end of the world.' He labored also to show, that Paul 
speaks of the personal appearing of Christ in his epis- 
tles to the Thessalonians, and then showed that Paul 
teaches us that the Man of Sin will be destroyed ' by  
the sword of his mouth, and by the brightness of his 
coming.' He remarked that Christ, in his parable of  
the sower, teaches the manner in which the preaching 
ofthe gospel is received, without giving us any inti-
mation that it will ever be otherwise while time shall  
last He said, Christ informed us that the gate of life  
is strait, and the way of life narrow, and little frequent-
ed—that the gate and way to death was broad, and  
thronged with travellers, but that he has no where inti- 
mated that it will be reversed, and the way of life be- 
come broad and thronged. He represented the reign  
of Antichrist as being the 'last time,' and that conse- 
quently, there cannot be time after he shall have been  
destroyed. ' It is the last time ; and as ye have  
heard that Antichrist cometh, and already there are  
many Antichrists, therefore ye know it is the last time.' 
The conclusion at which he arrived, was this : ' That  
if iniquity, and systems of iniquity, shall exist on earth,  
until the second appearing of Christ, and shall be de- 
stroyed at his coming, then there can be no thousand 
years of the universal prevalence of righteousness be- 
fore his coming.'  
From this very imperfect sketch of his argument,  
the reader can judge whether there is force in it. And 
if it does really appear from the Scriptures, that Christ  
will destroy the Man of Sin at his personal coming, is  
it not our duty to be looking out for his appearing 1  
and instead of reviling at the idea of his coming  
suddenly, would it not be wise in us to see that our  
lamps are trimmed and burning,Jthat we may be ready  
to hail his approach ? Let us beware of the fate of  
the foolish virgins !  Most likely they thought that  
probation would not close at the coming of the bride- 
groom, but that he would allow them time after his  
arrival to procure oil, and light up their lamps; but they  
were too late. " Watch, therefore, for ye know not  
when the time is.'  

THE LOCALITY OF HEAVEN.  
The heaven ofthe Saints, their eternal abode,  
is a subject concerning which ideas  of the chris- 
tian community are exceedingly vague. They 
have been accustomed to think of it as being in  
some state or place, far removed from this earth  
we now inhabit, far above the aerial heavens.  
They have supposed, and understood the Bible  
to teach, that at the appearing of Christ in the  
clouds of heaven, and at the final Judgment, the  
saints are to be caught up to meet the Lord in  
the air, to remain there forever. Perhaps the  
difference between our views and those who en- 
tertain the above ideas, may be briefly stated 
thus:—They believe the heaven of the saints  
will be " above the whole heaven ," while we be- 
lieve with Daniel 7 : 27 ; that 11 the kingdom and  
the dominion UNDER the whde heaven, shall be given 
to the people of the saints of the most high, whose  
kingdom is an everlasting kingdom." We also 
believe with our Saviour, Matt. 5:5; that the  
meek are blessed, because they shall inherit the 
earth. And we also think the whole redeemed  
family are correct, when they sing as in Rev. 5 :  
10: " And hast made us unto our God, kings  
and priests, and we shall reign on the earth."  
Our sentiments are well expressed in the Me-
thodist Hymn Book, Supplement, page 572.  
' I call the world's Redeemer mine,  
He lives who died for me I know ;  
Who bought my soul with blood Divine,  
Jesus shall reappear below,  
Stand in that dreadful day unknown.  
AND FIX ON EARTH HIS HEAVENLY THRONE.  
We also most heartily coincide with the senti  
ments of Charles Wesley, in that hymn, which  
begins thus, " Stands the Omnipotent decree,"  
when he says—  
Nothing hath the just to lose,  
By worlds on worlds destroyed ;  
For beneath his feet he views  
With smiles, the flaming void ;  
Sees this universe renewed,  
The grand millennial  reign begun,  
Shouts with all the Sons of God  
Around the eternal throne-"  
For we have no expectation that the saints  
will inherit it until it is renewed, and paradise 
is restored. Then it will be in the most emphat-
ic sense, " the kingdom prepared for" the saints  
"from the foundation ofthe world" Matt. 25 : 34.  
We know of no kingdom prepared for them then,  
except the earth, the dominion of which was 
given to Adam. See Gen. 1 : 26.  
RESURRECTION STATE.  
With respect to the nature of the resurrection  
ofthe body of the saints, we can fully express 
our sentiment by the following lines :  
" In this identic body, I  
With eyes of flesh, refined, restored,  
Shall see that selfsame Saviour nigh,  
See for myself my smiling Lord,  
See with ineffable delight,  
Nor faint to bear the glorious sight."  
Their bodies will be like Christ's body after  
his resurrection; they will be quickened then,  
not by mortal and corruptible blood, but by the  
uncorruptible spirit of God. Hence their bo- 
dies will be spiritual, not natural or carnal.  
Then they can endure to eternity, to enjoy the  
kingdom forever.  
Forgetting that these bodies are to be thus  
raised and enjoy the new earth forever, has in- 
troduced all the confusion that exists in the  
church on the subject of the millennium and  
restoration of the Jews. For if the earth is to  
be abandoned at the coming of Christ, and the 
saints removed to some other sphere, then the  
promises of God to be enjoyed by them on earth,  
must be fulfilled before the advent; but if they  
are really to inherit it forever in their spiritual  

bodies, then those promises will there be fulfilled  
in their most literal sense.  
We believe that Abraham, Isaac, and Jacob,  
with all their natural seed or descendants, who  
lived and died in the same faith with Abraham,  
will be raised up from the dead, according to  
Ezek. 37th chapter, and animated by God's 
spirit, go into that land which God promised to 
the Fathers, and will dwell there, in the new 
earth, eternally. While at the same time we  
believe God will render indignation and wrath, 
tribulation and anguish upon|every soul of man 
that doeth evil; to the JEW first, and then also to 
the Gentile.  
There is no Millennium taught in the Bible,  
except that which follows the  first resurrection.  
See Rev. 20th chapter. The 19th chapter of 
Rev. also, shows that it is to follow the coming of  
Christ, and the destruction of all the wicked.  
The millennium seems to be a perfect sabbath 
of a thousand years, which the saints will keep  
with Christ in the beloved city. Then, after the 
wicked (Gog and Magog) are raised, and cast in-
to the lake of fire, the saints will go out and in- 
herit the entire earth forever. And they will  
go up from one Sabbath to another, and from 
one new moon to another, to worship the king, 
the Lord of Hosts. See Isaiah 66 : 23.  
Reader take these few hints with you, and go  
to your Bible; read its everlasting promises to  
Abraham and his seed, and see if it does not  
make God's word a new Book.  
ANECDOTE OF MR. MILLER.  
About six years since, the family physician of  
Mr. Miller had remarked at various places, that 
Esquire Miller (Mr. Miller had been a Justice of  
the Peace among his neighbors) was a fine man,  
and a good neighbor ; but on the subject of the  
Advent he was a monomaniac. Mr. Miller heard  
of this ; and, one of his children being sick one 
day, he sent for the Doctor. After he had pre-
scribed for the child, he noticed that Mr. Miller  
sat very mute in one corner, and asked him what  
ailed him. "Well, I hadly know, Doctor. I  
want you to see what does, and prescribe for 
me." The Doctor felt of his pulse, &c., and  
could not decide respecting his malady ; and in-
quired what he supposed was his complaint.—  
" Well," says Mr. Miller, " I don't know but I 
am a monomaniac ; and I want you to examine  
me, and see if I am ; and if so, cure me. Can 
you tell when a man is a monomaniac 1 The  
Doctor blushed, and said he thought he could.  
Mr. Miller wished to know how, " Why," said  
the Doctor, " a monomaniac is rational on all 
subjects but one ; and when you touch that par-
ticular subject, he will become raving." "Well," 
says Mr. Miller, " I insist upon it, that you see  
whether I am in reality a monomaniac; and if 
I am, you shall prescribe and cure me. You  
shall therefore sit down with me two hours, 
while I  present the subject of the Advent to you ;  
and if I am a monomaniac, by that time you will  
discover it." The doctor was somewhat discon-
certed, but Mr. Miller insisted, and told him, as  
it was to present the state of his mind, he might  
charge for his time as in regular practice.  
The Doctor finally consented; and, at Mr.  
Miller's request, opened the IBible and read from 
the eighth of Daniel. As he read along, Mr. 
Miller inquired what the ram denoted, with the 
other symbols presented. The Doctor had read 
Newton, and applied them to Persia, Greece,  
and Rome, as Mr. Miller does. Mr. Miller then  
inquired, how long the vision of those empires 
was to be. He replied, 2300 days. " What!" 
said Mr. Miller, "could those great empires 
cover only 2300 literal days Y* " Why/' said 
the Doctor, those days are years, according to  
all commentators; and those kingdoms are to  
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continue 2300 years." He then asked him to  
turn to the second of Daniel, and to the seventh ;  
all of which he explained the same as Mr. Miller.  
He was then asked if he knew when the 2300 
days would end. He did not know, as he could  
not tell when they commenced. Mr. Miller told  
him to read the ninth of Daniel. He read down  
till he came to the twenty-first verse, when Dan  
iel saw "the man G-abriel," whom he had " seen  
in the vision." " In what vision V' Mr. M. in- 
quired. " Why," said the Doctor, "in the  
vision of the eighth of Daniel." " Wherefore  
understand the matter and consider the vision."  
" He had now come, then, to make him under- 
stand that vision, had he?" "Yes," said the  
Doctor. "Well, 'seventy weeks are deter- 
mined;' what are these seventy weeks apart of7"  
" Of the 2300 days." " Then do they begin  
with the 2300 V' "Yes," said the Doctor.  
"When did they end V' " In A. D. 33." " Then  
how far would the 2300 extend after 33 ?" The  
Doctor subtracted 490 from 2300, and replied,  
1810 ; " why," said he, " that is past." " But,'''  
said Mr. Miller, " there were 1810 from 33; in  
what year would that come V' The Doctor saw  
at once that the 33 should be added, and set 
down 33 and 1810, and, adding them, replied,  
1843. At this unexpected result the Doctor set- 
tled back in his chair, and colored; but imme-
diately took his hat and left the house in a rage.  
The next day the Doctor again called on Mr.  
Miller, and looked as though he had been in the 
greatest mental agony. " Why, Mr. Miller,"  
said he, " I am going to hell; I have not slept  
a wink since I was here yesterday ; I have look- 
ed at the question in every light; and the visions 
must terminate about A. D. 1843 • and I am un- 
prepared, and must go to hell." Mr. Miller  
calmed him, and pointed him to the ark of safety; 
and in about a week, calling each day on Mr. 
Miller, he found peace to his soul, and went on  
his way rejoicing,—as great a monomaniac as  
Mr. Miller. He afterwards acknowledged that  
till he made the figures 1843, he had no idea of  
the result to which he was coming.—Advent 
Herald.  
REMARKS OF BRO S. S. SNOW,  
At the Tabernacle, Boston, on New Year's eve  
A relation of his experience.  
The story which I have to tell you, my dear hearers,  
I shall relate in as brief, plain and simple a manner as  
possible. I stand before you as a monument of the 
grace of God, a living proof of his truths, the power  
of which I have experienced upon my soul. A few  
years ago I was a callous and hardened Infidel, and  
was so for years. I received my religious impressions 
in childhood; but falling in with unbelievers in the  
Bible, and various characters of sceptics, I became  
impregnated with their false doctrines, and, up to my  
35th year, I was a settled unbeliever in the Bible.— 
Until the autumn of 1839, I rejected the Bible 
as ^foolish, and trampled it under my feet; and from  
1833 to 1839,1 was a constant patron of the Boston  
Investigator, the organ of the Infidels, then conducted  
by Abner Kneeland. As I took an active part  in  
this cause, and was for several years an agent for the  
Investigator in Connecticut, and a contributor to its 
columns, my friends from time to time took an interest 
in my welfare, and called my attention to different  
books advocating the cause of Christianity. I often  
read them, hut not one produced any effect upon my  
mind, and nothing ever removed my scepticism; for it  
seemed  to me as though the Bible was filled with  
nothing but gross absurdities. When I read it, it was 
with the view only of finding contradictions and absur-
dities, and to hold them up to ridicule.  This, my  
hearers, is the mode of argument resorted to by infidels  
against the Bible. Now, my friends, if I had never 
received any more light than what I did from those  
calling themselves teachers of Christianity, I should  
have remained a sceptic to this very day. I used to  
argue with professed Christians, and would always  
endeavor to confound them by bringing up these Bible  
contradictions, and objections which they could not  
answer.  

I remained a sceptic till 1839, and then, through the  
power of God, who ordered my steps to be turned into  
the right way, a book written by Mr. Miller fell into my 
hands, which advocated the coming of Christ. This  
book was brought by a pedlar, and sold to my brother,  
who, after reading it a little, laid it one side. It was 
at my brother's that I saw it. I took it up and asked,  
" What's here V  My brother replied. " There's a  
book which you ought to read." I commenced read-
ing it in the presence of my sister, a professor of reli- 
gion. I had often heard of Mr. Miller and his views,  
and supposed them to be all moonshine. While read-
ing that book, 1 said to my sister, " Do you call all  
this nothing 1" When I questioned her in earnest as 
to the coming of Christ, and stated the views contained  
in this book, she replied, " If it is true, we shall know  
it when it comes." She,my hearers, is still like many  
of you ; indifferent to the truths found in the Bible. I  
took the book home and read it, and the more I read it 
the more was I impressed with its truth. I compared  
it with the Scriptures, and saw at once that it con- 
tained an argument that could not be rejected. I saw 
that every thing was complete. 1 saw the perfect  
harmony between Daniel and the Revelations, and the  
history which is a perfect fulfilment of these Revela-
tions. I asked myself in all seriousness, how copld  
this great knowledge be obtained unless it were inspi-
red by God. I then saw that the Bible which I had 
so long rejected, was the word of God, and I melted  
down before it. I saw then that 1 had been rebelling 
against him, and I sought to wash away the guilty spots  
from my soul. I prayed to God in secret, I prayed in 
my family, and I went forward in the discharge of that  
duty which belongs to Christians. The light gradu- 
ally fell in upon my mind, and it has been growing 
brighter and brighter till this moment.  
In the autumn of 1840, I united with a Congrega- 
tional church, but there was something that whispered 
to me that I was not doing right; but there being in  
the place where I resided no other church, I united 
with them; but I felt it was wrong, for it carried its  
influence against the Advent faith, which i loved and 
cherished. I continued a member till last fall, when I  
felt it my duty to recede. I did so, and then became  
one of the Lord's free men. I sent a letter to the 
church, stating my views that the churches were in  
general anti-christian in spirit and in practice, and that  
upon this ground I thought it my duty to recede. My 
union with them was dissolved, and they voted to cut  
me off because I had cut myself off. In the year 1842,  
I felt it my duty to go out and preach the truth of my  
Lord Jesus Christ to the world. I felt that the period  
of man's probation on earth would terminate in 1843  
yet I was unwilling  to preach it, but preached the near  
coming of Christ, but my works were not blessed.  
In East Kingston, at a camp-meeting, I came out  
for the first time, and laid all down upon the altar be- 
fore God, and consecrated myself to God, from that  
time forever. Since that time, I have been laboring  
in the vineyard of my heavenly Father. I left my  
family, and have been preaching without purse or  
scrip; and I feel that when the blessed time shall  
come, I shall have a few souls to present, at least, as 
stars in my crown of rejoicing.  
All that I have seen and all that I now see, seems  
more and more to confirm the truth found in the Bible.  
The truth there established, has been a lamp to my  
feet, and a light to my path. I believe that as certain  
as the Bible is God's truth, that just so certain the 
next event will be the coming of the Lord Jesus  
Christ; ny fervent prayer is, Come Lord Jesus.  
Contrast my feelings four or five years ago with  
what they are now. Then I was a scoffer, as you are: 
and I could make light of the church of our Lord Jesus 
Christ, and of his coming. But now I see the truth 
shining like a bright light over my head. I once could  
trifle with these elements of his body, broken for you,  
and this wine, as his blood spilled for the sins of man.  
Oh my friends, I earnestlv invite you, who are not  
ready to meet Christ at his coming, to examine these  
things carefully ; search for the truth diligently, and 
go to God in fervent prayer, and he will give you the 
light and knowledge. I was an unbeliever, and prayed,  
and found the truth. Let all of you pray; try the  
spirit of prayer; try to search the Scriptures; for it is  
for yodr eternal interest. Do not reject the Bible—  
do not trample it under your feet, and resist its tender 
influence ; but like the noble Bereans, try and find if 
these things are so. May God bless the truth; and  
when our Redeemer and Master shall appear we shall  
exclaim in rapture, " this is our God, we have waited  
for him, and we will be glad and rejoice in our sal-
vation."  

TIIEJ1IDNIGHT CRY.  
THURSDAY, MARCH, 7 1844.  
WILLIAM MILLER BY THE FIRESIDE.  
I have just had the privilege of meeting with this  
humble servant of God, at the fireside of a friend, and 
I can truly say that my earnest expectations were  
more than realized in the interview. There is a kind- 
ness of soul, simplicity, and power, peculiarly original,  
combined in his manner, and he is affable and atten- 
tive to all without any affectation of superiorty. He 
is of about medium stature, a little corpulent, and in  
temperament, a mixture of sanguine and nervous. His  
intellectual developments are unusually full, and we see  
in his head, great benevolence and firmness, united 
with a lack of self-esteem. He is also wanting in  
marvellousness, and is NATURALLY sceptical. His 
countenance is full and round, and much like the en- 
graving we have seen, while there is a peculiar depth  
of expression in his blue eye of shrewdness and love.  
Although about sixty-two years of age, his hair is not 
grey, but of a light glossy auburn, his voice is full and  
distinct, and his pronunciation somewhat northern-
antique. In his social relations, he is gentle and af-
fectionate, and ensures the esteem of all with whom  
he mingles. In giving this charcoal sketch to the pub- 
lic, I have merely sought to correct numerous mis  
statements, and gratify the honest desire of many dis- 
tant believers, with a faint outline of the character and 
appearance of the man, whom God has chosen to give  
the " Midnight Cry" to a sleeping world.  
Philadelphia, c. s. M.  
The Baptist Advocate and Bro. Elon Galusha  
again.  
We find in the Advocate of the 22d ult. a letter head- 
ed " FANATICISM—Extract of a letter from a venerable  
minister of the gospel in Western New York."  
We are not informed who this " venerable minister"  
is, but a few extracts from his letter will show some-
thing of the spirit that actuates him. In reading the  
letter in question, we were forcibly reminded of the  
common adage, that "circumstances alter cases." We 
believe that ELD.GALUSHA has generally been regarded  
as one of the first stars in magnitude in the Baptist  
denomination. But since he has come to look for the  
return of the Bridegroom, the whole aspect is changed.  
In speaking of Bro. G., the writer says :  
"Millerism seems to absorb his whole soul ; and the  
means adapted t,o advance the kingdom of Christ, are 
neglected, or forgotten, or deemed useless."  
Does the writer really speak the honest convictions  
of his heart in the above paragraph 1 Has Bro. G. 
" forgotten" to preach, or has he " neglected" to warn  
the perishing1? Has he ever, we ask, evinced a more 
fervent and disinterested zeal for the advancement of 
"the kingdom of Christ than now 1 The difficulty in  
the mind of this "venerable minister' evidently is,  
that he makes the interest of a sectarian organization,  
and the interest of the cause of Christ, identical. In  
his estimation, because Bro. G. has given up his 
salary—thrown himself entirely out upon what he re- 
gards the faithful promises of God—and devoted 
himself, with the strongest evidence of disinterested  
zeal, to the promulgation of those truths of God, which  
bring upon him the curses and the reproaches of the  
infidel, the Universalist, the abandoned, the profligate,  
and the hypocrite ; I say, because of this, the writer  
regards it as evidence positive that Bro. G. has  
abandoned the interests of "the kingdom of Christ" // j  
What strange deductions! How shockingly sectarian j  
interests blind the moral vision, and blunt the moral j 
perceptions ! Hear him again. He says :  
" Brother Galusha has entered into this system of  
delusion with his whole heart, and it has become with j  
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him the all-absorbing subject: every thing else with  
him seems to appear of minor importance. Though  
he possesses many amiable and excellent qualities,  he  
does not possess a well balanced mind. In its compo-
sition, the sanguine and the erratical appear to be the  
prevailing qualities."  
What an astonishing  argument this is against the  
views entertained by Bro. Galusha. Would an oppo- 
nent employ slander and abuse, if he were possessed  
of better weapons of defence 1 Certainly not. But, if  
Bro. G. is possessed of an ill-balanced mind, in the  
composition of which the erratical and sanguine prevail,  
which is the necessary cause of his aberation, why  
doth his brother y et find fault 1 "Shall the thing form- 
ed say to him who formed it, why hast thou made me  
thus 1" Consistency  is a jewel.  
I In speaking of the elements that compose the ranks  
of the Adventists, the writer names " excluded Bap-
tists," &c., and by this, no doubt, designs to give the  
impression that none from the (so called) orthodox 
churches have embraced these views but expelled  
members, nothing  of which could be more false. It  
certainly must be a weak and sinking  cause, that feels  
itself under the necessity of calling to its aid such fla- 
grant violations  of truth and principle.  
Again, the writer, not content with indirectly  pour- 
ing odium on Bro. G., holds up Bro. Cook to reproach  
also, and says:  
" Our lovely and amiable brother Cook is already  
ensnared by these evil communications  and associa- 
tions ; and brother Galusha, whom we have all re- 
spected and loved, is now associating  with men who  
deny the supreme divinity  of Jesus Christ, and who  
embrace other destructive errors. His situation  ap- 
pears not less dangerous than that of brother Cook."  
We seldom find more wholesale slander in so few  
words. We have no marvel that the writer in ques- 
tion has chosen to hide his name. He may rest as- 
sured however, that it is too late in the day to hide  
the rising  light of divine truth by the flimsy gossamer  
of vituperous  assertions. The cry of " destructive  
heresies," "destructive errors," "sanguine and errati- 
cal," "Millerite system," "evil associations,'''' "danger- 
ous," "delusion,"  &c., &c., is a kind of argument that  
will not satisfy " the common people" of this age, for  
they begin to think that they have the right to seek 
the truth for themselves,  and to ask in matters of the- 
ological dispute, for the whys and the wherefores.  
* L. D. F.  
PROPHETIC  MIRROR—LAST DAYS,  
ISA. 22 : 4, " Therefore said I, Look away from me : I  
will weep bitterly; labor not to comfort  
me, because of the spoiling of the daugh-
ters of my people :  
5, "For it is a day of trouble, and of treading  
down, and of perplexity ;  
12, "And in that day [as the end approaches]  
will the Lord God call to weeping, and to  
mourning, and to baldness, and to girding  
with sackcloth :  
13, "And behold, joy and gladness, slaying  oxen,  
and killing sheep, eating flesh and drink- 
ing wine : let us eat and drink, [they will  
say,] for to-morrow we shall die, [i. e. we 
shall not live to see the coming of the 
Lord.]  
14, But, says the prophet, "It was revealed in  
mine ears by the Lord of Hosts, surely this  
iniquity  shall not be purged from you till  
ye die, [i. e. they will pursue the same 
course till destruction  comes upon them ]  
Speaking of the last times, and of the  
conduct of the evil servants of those times,  
our Lord says,  
Matt. 24 : 49, "And shall begin to smite his fellow ser- 
vants, and to eat and drink with the drunk- 
en."  
The state of things shadowed forth in the above pro- 
phetic mirror, seems to be among the last tokens that 
shall precede the Lord's coming. With what nice pre- 
cision has the spirit of prophecy pointed out the entire  
way. Why does it mention EATING  AND DRINKING 1  Have  
not people always ate and drank 1 The use of this lan- 

guage evidently implies something  peculiar—something  
out of the ordinary course of things, or how could eating 
and drinking be regarded as a sign 1 Whatever is held 
out as a signal must of course have something  peculiar  
in itself  to distinguish  it as such ; otherwise, how could  
it be a sign ? A distinguishing  feature of this sign was  
to exist in the fact that it should be exhibited among and 
by those who profess to he the children—the  servants of  
God. God's (professed) people eating and drinking with  
the drunken ! !  
An enquiry now arises, is there any thing going on at  
the present time that will justify the application  of this  
prophecy to it * We answer, there are indications  which  
show, in a marked manner, that this sign is now being 
fulfilled. There are those who profess to be the servants 
of God, who are beating their fellow servants, who are  
"eating flesh and drinking  wine" "with the drunken and  
the abominable." The present is a time of church fes- 
tivals, church fea-parties, church fairs, church concerts,  
and church lotteries. So immoral and obnoxious is lot- 
tery gambling regarded by the civil authorities,  that in  
many of the states it is suppressed by law. Yet strange 
to tell, a species of lottery gambling  is practised in  
many of the churches, and the gain of iniquity appropri- 
ated to church emolument.  What is it but gambling  to  
purchase a small piece of cake at an exhorbitant  price  
with the desire and hope of finding therein a jewel of  
gold 1 &c.  
The Apostle charges the Corinthians not to eat with  
the incestuous, the covetous, or the idolatrous ; not to  
have any unnecessary  familiarity  with such, 1 Cor. 5: II.  
Yet, much of the emolument  derived from church gam- 
bling festivals,  comes from such. The worldly, the cov- 
etous and the vile, are welcomed to these anti-christian  
festivities  as heartily as any others. The spirit of feast- 
ing in the churches is spreading over the length and 
breadth of the land. We give below a few of the many  
notices of feasting, concerts, &c., in professed Christian  
churches. We hope the church will be induced to cast 
a glance into the Prophetic Mirror, and see if the image 
there reflected, bears any resemblance to this feature of  
the present times.  
First, we call attention to a few cases in our own  
city :  
"GRAND FESTIVAL by the Ladies of the 16th Street Baptist  
Church, Wednesday evening, January 24th, at the Tri- 
voli Saloon, (the proceeds to go for liquidating  the  
Church debt.) Tickets may be had of S. Smith, 164  
18th-street; C. Tousley, 252 Bleeker-street; B. S.Whit- 
ney, 57 Wall-street ; J. W. Carhart, 113 Christopher;  
F. S. Miner, 93 Maiden Lane ; B. B. Merrill, corner of  
16th-street and 8th Avenue ; and at Nelley's, 221 Bleek- 
er-street ; Patinson's,  corner of Ann and Nassau streets;  
J. Lott's bookstore, 156  Fulton-street;  Leavitt & Trow's  
bookstore, 194 Broadway ; Hale's Letter Office, 58 Wall  
street ; Journal of Commerce, Tribune, and New York  
Citizen offices, and at various other places, and at the  
door on the evening ofthe festival."  
We give another : 
"UNPRECEDENTED  ENTERTAINMENT  at the United States  
Hotel, corner of Pearl and Fulton streets, on Thursday  
evening, the 25th January, 1844.  
1. The ladies of the Nassau-street  Congregation  will  
commence their Annual Festival in the spacious Saloons  
of the United States Hotel, on Thursday evening, the  
25th inst., precisely at 7 o'clock. The Festival will 
close at 11 o'clock. The windows on Pearl and Water 
streets will be brilliantly  illuminated.  
Prof. Bronson, who, by a happy combination of exten- 
sive science, with commanding  powers of oratory, is at- 
tracting multitudes  in other parts of the city, has gener- 
ously tendered his services for the evening. At suitable  
intervals he will deliver several of his most entertaining  
and instructive  recitations. He will also give an expo- 
sition and exemplification  of Ventriloquism.  
3. Pioi. Nash, whose vocal powers will hear compar- 
ison with any musical performer in the United States,  
has also consented to be present. Several duetts, solos,  
and other pieces may be expected during the evening,—  
The Professor will be accompanied by Miss Dobson, on  
one of Atwill's grand pianos. The sweet and unaffected 
vocal and musical performances of Miss Dobson would 
alone enrich any entertainment.  
Tickets 50 cents for a gentleman, and 25 cents for a  
lady, may be obtained at the United States Hotel, Pearl-
street House, Waverly House, City Hotel, Atwill's mu-
sic store, Astor House, Athenaeum Hotel, Howard  Hotel,  

and Carlton House, Broadway. Also at Johnson's re- 
fectory, Fulton street : Firth & Hall, Franklin  Square;  
and Raynor's bookstore, 76 Bowery."  
Here is another : 
" GRAND FESTIVAL by the Ladies of the Bloomingdale  
Baptist Church, on Wednesday evening, February I4th,  
1844, At Niblo's Saloon.  
Gentlemen's tickets 50 cents, Ladies' 25 cents."  
The following is the way they do such things out west,  
and is the copy of a bill which advertised a Fair at  
Rochester :  
"LADIES' FAIR—ST. JOHN'S CHURCH.—A Rare Supper,  
at 8 o'clock this (Wednesday)  evening. A Splendid  
Young Deer, fresh from the Alleganies, ROASTED  
WHOLE, will be served up with other delicacies. Tick- 
ets for supper 50 cts. Admittance fee 12^ cts. Admit- 
tance in the day time free. Supper tickets to be had at  
the Fair.  
Rochester, Dec. 20, 1843."  
"This feast was held in the church in charge of Mr.  
Hubbard, and in which Dr. Lucky, of Rochester, preach- 
ed last year : its ostensible  object being to raise money  
to purchase curtains for the pulpit, and other extravagan- 
ces for the church. To raise money for such useless 
extravagances, more in accordance with the teachings 
of her on the scarlet colored beast, than with the exam-
ple of primitive Christianity,  it was necessary to appeal  
to the carnal appetites of the wicked, to tempt them with  
feasting and revelry to contribute to the pride of the  
Church. Our Saviour does not say that they will eat  
and drink and be drunken, or that they will drink any  
thing that can produce drunkenness  ; but only they will  
eat and drink with the drunken. Now, if inviting  all  
who are able to purchase a ticket to come in and eat and  
drink, is not inviting  the drunken with the sober, and  
eating and drinking  with the drunken, it will be difficult  
to conceive what could be a fulfilment  of that text.  
" They were, however, not only to eat and drink with  
the drunken, but were to smite their fellow servants, and  
deny the coming of the Lord. At this last feast this  
was also fulfilled in a most striking manner. Dr. Sam- 
uel Lucky, as named above, wrote a pamphlet of 24 
pages, entitled 'Strictures on Millerism, or the Second  
Advent doctrines, as taught by its advocates, and partic-
ularly the system of measures by which they are dissem- 
inated." In this pamphlet, from its title-page  to its finis,  
we have been unable to find a single text of Scripture  
quoted in support of his views ; and yet he endeavors—  
1st. To show the time in which we expect the Lord, is  
past; and 2d. Impeaches the motives and purposes of its 
advocates, by claiming that while their ostensible object  
is to save souls and prepare for the judgment, their real 
one is the selfish purpose of building up a sect ! He  
thus, in the first place, claims that the Lord delayeth his 
coming; in the second place, smites those who are look-
ing for the Lord. These pamphlets were sold in that 
church on this occasion, where were present the military 
and fii'e companies in uniform, and a band of music,  
playing that which ill accorded with a house dedicated  
to the Lord. Well did our Saviour say, Matt. 24 : 37-39,  
'But as the days of Noe were, so shall also the coming of  
the Son of Man be. For as in the days that were before  
the flood, they were eating and drinking, marrying and 
giving in marriage, until the day that Noe entered into 
the ark, and knew not until the flood came, and took  
them all away : so shall also the coming of the Son of 
Man be.' "  
Here comes a CONCERT, exhibited in a house from  
which, possibly, the doctrine of Christ's coming would he  
spurned with indignity.  
We cut from a late Pennsylvania  paper the following  
notice of "A Miscellaneous Concert, on Saturday evening,  
February 17th, 1844, at the PRESBYTERIAN  
C H U R C H," &c. The character of the concert will  
be gathered from the following  
PROGRAMME.  
Part I—Song, My Helen is the fairest flower (! !) Air,  
from Somnambula ; Solo, violin ; The Miller's Maid ;  
Song ; Marseilles Hymn ; Quick Step, composed for the  
occasion, with solo for cornet-a-piston.  
Part II.—Overture. Caliph of Bagdad, (piano and vio- 
lin ); Song, 'Twas not my own native land ; Conestoga  
March ; Solo, violin, introducing  popular airs and imita- 
tions ; Life on the Ocean Wave ; Song ; March from 
Norma; Lucy Long (!!)  
Tickets 25 cts., to be had at the principal Stores and  
Hotels.  
We might greatly multiply  these examples, but as our  
object is simply to call attention to the present state of  
the churches—the signs of the times, these specimens  
must suffice. How applicable are the words of our Sav  
iour to the present times. See Matt. 16 ; 1-3, " The  
261


Pharisees also with the Sadducees came, and tempting,  
desired him that he would shew them a sign from heav- 
en. He answered and said unto them, When it is eve- 
ning ye say, It will he fair weather, for the sky is red : 
and in the morning, It will be foul weather to-day, .for  
the sky is red and lowering. 0 ye hypocrites ! ye can  
discern the face of the sky ; but can ye not discern the  
signs of the times ]"  
How true it is, that "the truth maketh manifest;"  and  
shall not "the wise understand!'' All the necessary  
means are being employed by our Heavenly Father to  
call and to bring his chosen ones out of Babylon. "For 
thus saith the Lord God, Behold I, even I, will both  
search my sheep, and seek them out. As a shepherd 
seeketh out his flock in the day that he is among his  
sheep that are scattered ; so will I seek out my  
sheep, and will deliver them out of all places where 
they have been scattered in the cloudy and dark day."  
Ezek. 34; 11,12.  
O may none, through the craft of Satan, be blinded to  
the indicated will of God : but tnay all who would have 
the truth in preference to every thing else, be led to see  
in the aspect of the moral heavens the importance of the  
position we occupy.  
Since preparing the above,  the following notice has  
fallen into our hands, presenting another picture of 
Church gambling. The preaching of the cross of Christ  
is not regarded as possessing  sufficient  attraction to call  
the people together: and more especially to induce them 
to contribute for the promotion of the truth ; but they 
must have a presentation, not of Christian example, but  
of political "characters," &c. And then, the "pleasures 
of the evening" will be enlivened by what 1 Why, "The  
BAND OF THE NORTH CAROLINA ! !" Then, not the least  
inducement will be the table "delicacies." Thus the  
morbid appetite of mind and body are administered to  
to get them to contribute to ' wnat they are pleased to  
call the cause of God !  
If the Theatre should prosecute their exhibitions  on  
the same principle that " THE CHURCHES" do, it would  
excite a riot, and the Theatre would be torn down over 
their heads We in this refer to the tact, that at these  
festivals  they sell more tickets than can find room at the  
scene of festivity.  Hence, they who do not get to  
the scene of action in season to secure a place for their  
person, must do  the best they can. And as it regards  
the money they have paid, as it is a Church afTair, they  
can hardly be expected to ask for their money back, and  
they must make the best of it. But here we give the 
notice :  
" LADIES' FESTIVAL AND LECTURE will be held at  
Niblo's Saloon, Friday, March i, for the benefit of the  
German Mission  Methodist E. Church, in Second-street.  
The Rev. Prof. J. N. Maffitt will, by special request, de-
liver a lecture on the American and French Revolutions,  
Characters of'76—of Washington,  Napoleon, Lafayette,'  
Ireland, and Flight of the National Eagle. The Band of  
the North Carolina will enliven the pleasures of the  
evening.  
The doors will be opened at 4 o'clock. Lecture to  
commence at 7 o'clock. Doors to the supper saloon will 
open at half past 8  o'clock. No expense or pains will be  
spared to render the occasion one of great interest and 
satisfaction.  
Tickets 50 cents, to be had at the Tribune and Sun  
Offices ; R. Smith's carpet store, No. 448 Pearl-street ;  
Benedict & Squires', 276 Bowery ; Niblo's Bar ; and at 
the door.  
N: B. To prevent an excessive crowd, it has been  
thought expedient to limit the number of tickets."  
THE DANCING CLERGY.—The Western Times, an  
English paper, records the names of not fewer than  
te.: clergymen of the Church of England, as being pre- 
sent at a fashionable ball, recently given at Newton in  
the South of Devon!  
DECEITFULNESS OF SIN.—What fruit had ye ?—  
There is no real fruit in sin ; the promises thereof are  
all false and deceitful, Gehazi promised himself gain, 
but got the leprosy. Balaam pursued honor, but met  
with a sword. Achan found a wedge of gold, but it  
cleaved asunder his soul from his body. The only  
fruits of sin are shame if we repent, and death if we  
do not repent.—Bishop Reynolds.  

1 The following, from a Friend, (commonly called  
quakers,) will no doubt be read with interest, from the 
fact that the Friends are generally regarded, as making 
the coming of Christ wholly figurative  or spiritual.  
Hear what he says.  
BETHPAGE, L. I., the 26th of second month, 1844.  
Friend Southard,—I have been a constant reader of  
the Midnight  Cry for the last twelve months, and I can  
truly say I have spent many a happy hour in looking  
over its precious columns. Oh, that the midnight  cry  
might be heard to the ends ofthe earth, and awake all 
the slumbering virgins wherever thev may be found,  
and prepare them to meet the Royal Bridegroom, when- 
ever he may appear.  
Now my dear friends, let us bring the subject home  
to ourselves. Are we prepared to stand in that great 
and dreadful day, wherein the heavens, being on fire,  
shall reveal the great and mighty  judge of all the earth  
to an astonished and horror-stricken world 1 Words 
cannot express, nor the imagination  conceive, the ter- 
ror of that day. My dear brethren, all that is within 
me, is tendered while penning these lines, and I hope  
it may nave the same effect on you, in the reading of 
them. Well may we call on rocks and mpantains to  
hide us in that day, from his dreadful appearance, if we  
should be found without our wedding garments. In  
that day a man will cast his idol of silver, and his idols  
of gold, to the moles and to the bats. Now my dear  
friends, let us pause in view of these things,  and see  
where we stand, are we merely making a profession of  
religion, and slumbering  under a hireling  ministry '?  
Behold the cry has already gone forth, "come out of  
her my people, and be not" partakers of her sins."  
This is a theme on which I delight to dwell. It is  
the rejoicing of my heart, and in this happy state of  
mind, the following  lines were penned.  
Come, all my dear brethren, let us see how we stand,  
The day is a dawning, the time is at hand •  
And you, my dear sisters, be up and awake, 
The Lord is expected, who died for your sake.  
The time is so precious, now do but behold ;  
To the bats cast your idols, your silver and gold ;  
And Jet us be ready, and make no delay,  
The season is passing so swiftly away.  
The day star is rising, the morn will appear, 
The time is approaching, the Saviour is near ;  
Behold, he is coming, hark ! now for the voice,  
The trumpet is sounding, now let us rejoice.  
The second coming of the Saviour, or last advent,  
now looked for, is believed by many, to be some new  
doctrine, and to have originated  with William Miller,  
hence it is called milierism.  I would call the attention  
of those person to the scriptures of truth, and to the  
writings of the different denominations  of Christians,  
especially the primitive Friends. See Sewel's History, 
2nd vol. page 508, 9, and 10. Also Joseph Phipps, 
page 46 and 176. Sewel's History, 2nd vol. page 508,  
gives us their views ofthe last day, general judgment,  
&c., which is found to be the same as at the present  
day. Oh that the dear people might come to the truth, 
and judge for themselves,  is the prayer of thy friend.  
SAMUEL P. SMITH.  
LETTER FROM LONDON.  
Bear Bro. Himes,—In connection with the friends  
ofthe cause in England, I herewith return you thanks  
for the second box of books. If time continue, they  
will soon be distributed, as our brethren who are trav- 
elling, find pretty good sale for them, and are very  
thankful  to the friends in America.  
Since I  wrote last, our brethren have been laboring  
with success, especially in Norwich, where they lec°  
tured to 7000 people. In every place they go, there is 
great anxiety manifested  to hear. Although  they  
meet with much opposition from some of the ministers,  
yet the cause flourishes. Bro. Barker was a few 
days in London, and delivered some lectures in a small  
Chapel at Westminster.  He is now in Norfolk. He  
is strong in the faith of the speedy coming ofthe Lord;  
and he says, " Wlierever I go, there are hundreds 
brought to God." He has access to Methodist and 
Independent churches, barns and dwelling-houses,  and  
the open air; and almost without exception, there are  
crowded congregations, where they sit with breathless  
silence, to hear on this solemn subject. Eternity 
alone will tell the story. We received a letter from a  
friend in Ireland, dated Belfast, Jan. 22d, who says,  
" all last week the sky had the appearance of fire in  
every direction." He says, " about the last of day  

Nov. in the eve, the moon was seen like a green pea;  
this evening it appeared like two and a-half quarter 
moons, bright, and one clear spot at the top ; the moon 
is now three days old exactly to an hour, he says, the  
people wonder what it means.  
E. LLOYD.  
London. Jan. 1844.  
LETTER FROM BRO. I. R. GATES.  
Searsburgh, Tompkins Co., N. Y.,  
Feb. 20th, 1844.  
Dear Bro. Southard.—You have not heard from me for  
a long time, but I have not been idle, neither have I lost  
my zeal in the Advent cause ; I still continue to do all I  
can to advance its interests.  After leaving Montrose,  
where my last was written, I gave a course of lectures  
in Towanda, where the doctrine was coldly received 
There was an effort made to mob me; one egg, the onlv 
argument made use of, was thrown ; but finally all was 
quelled and I came off without injury. " The wicked  
shall do wickedly. I next went to the head of Lycoming  
and gave a course with much success. Many embraced 
the time, Christians  were cheered and sinners awakened,  
the fruit of which I expect to see in eternity. From 
there I went to the Block House Country, Tioga Co., 
where I gave a course, much good being done. A 
teacher in Israel, of the Christian order, came out and  
embraced the doctrine, and is now preaching it. Next I  
went to Covington,  where the truth was received gladly;  
thence to this place, where I formerly had a pastoral 
charge and preached a number of years. I had a deep 
feeling for the people here, and felt a great anxiety for  
the welfare o! my old friends and neighbors, conse- 
quently I have been longer here than at any other place ;  
1 have been over two weeks laboring day and night'  
almost constantly,  and I trust in God not in vain. The  
lectures were very feelingly  received ; after which I  
made an effort for sinners, and I have now been labor- 
ing about one week in a protracted effort, which, " to  
God be the glory," has resulted in much good. A num- 
ber have experienced religion, and many more are now  
seeking. Yesterday (Sabbath) I had the privilege of  
waiting on seven dear souls into the liquid stream,  
and baptising them. To-morrow a number more are 
going to obey their Lord in that blessed ordinance, (the  
Lord willing,) my labours then will be closed here. I 
have a number of calls—I am not settled where to go,  
but am determined to " warn" and  occupy until the  
Master comes. Bro. Mitchell is still with me. I was 
sorry I could not attend the call to the conference noticed  
in the Cry. Circumstances  would not admit. I was  
with you in mind and desire, but was discharging other  
duties.  
Yours in the blessed hope,  
I. R. GATES.  
EXTRACT OF A LETTER FROM BRO. S. C.  
CHANDLER. 
TROY, N. Y., Feb. 26, 1844.  
Dear Bro. Fleming,—Time rolls on, and I  
find myself still laboring in the vineyard of the  
Lord. And while the day of probation lasts,  
how vast the field, how great the labor to be  
performed. The earth teeming with its mil-
ions, all groaning under the curse, and so soon 
to be destroyed by the last vial of God's wrath, 
presents a spectacle to the devoted laborer cal- 
culated to move him to the extremity of action.  
I feel assured that the scenes of this present 
world will soon, close, that Christ will come to  
" give reward unto his servants the propets, and  
to the saints, and them that fear his name, and 
to destroy them, that destroy (corrupt) the earth." 
It appears perfectly plain to me from the fulfil-
ment of prophecy and the signs of the times, 
that there is every indication ofthe speedy com-
ing of the Saviour, that a benevolent God could  
give, by which the wise might know when it  
is near even at the door ; hence, they need not 
walk in darkness that that day should overtake  
them as a thief.  
The churches are flattering themselves that  
when time proves our calculations false, we 
shall confess and return to their bosoms We  
make no calculations on being disappointed;  
but if we are, we cannot go back to them.  We  
know light from darkness, and can assure them 
that whereas we were once blind we now see.  
_ I have finished my course of lectures at Lan- 
singburgh and Middletown. I have constant  
applications to lecture from the adjoining towns,


but have concluded to stop a short season in  
Troy. I am to be assisted in giving a thorough  
course of lectures in this city by sister Hersey.  
I must say, let the Lord send by whom he will.  
Yours in the blessed hope,  
S. C; C HANDLER.  
LETTER FROM BRO. JOHN HI PEARCE.  
FAYETTEVILLE, N. C. Feb, 14, 1844.  
Dear Bro. Southard ;—I have frequently affirmed,  
and now repeat, that more comfort has been afforded,  
and true knowledge imparted to me, from the numbers of  
" the Midnight Cry," than from all the commentaries 
which I have eagerly searched ; and I may add, from 
all the preaching attended by me, for more than half a  
century past. May I not say, ''I am jealous over you  
with a Godly jealousy.'" I have attentively perused  
brother Plumb's article, "Come out from Babylon," and  
find much there 1 heartily subscribe to, as a timely and  
important warning, but fear that an exciting subject, 
particularly so to the South, may have a tendency to  
bar up your way-'of usefulness in these regions. * *  *  
There is but one remedy for moral evil of every  
kind, the religion of the blessed Saviour ; and could we  
bring all to believe, slaves and masters, what I have no  
doubt of, that HE is near, even at the door, the evils 
of slavery would disappear, together with every species  
of ungodliness. And now can it be politic, can it be  
humanity, much less can it be Christian like, to cut off  
the ears of thousands, and stop the progress of the  
most important, soul stirring, heart comforting doctrine,  
ever preached ; which is Bible truth, came from God,  
and leads to God 1 * * * * *  
The only possible way of reaching them, to their  
profit, is to preach Jesus the " COMING ONE,"  
either to masters or slaves.  
We doubtless are called upon to seperate from Anti- 
Christian churches, As Babylon is called a "mother,"  
of course she must have children. Not that we are to  
expect universal, individual purity, for our Lord's fami- 
ly contained a Judas.  
Yours truly in the blessed hope  
JOHN H. PEARCE,  
P. S. I learn from Wadesboro, N„ C., that a great  
excitement exists there, on the subject  of the advent.  
Cannot a lecturer be sent here, I think great good  
would result from his labors.  

the injunction of the Scripture,—" Remember Lot's  
wife."  
The world is in exactly the condition we are told in  
the Scripture it would be at the Second Advent; but  
they see it not. The clashing of foreign nations which  
is heard, like the mutterings of a distant storm—the  
unsettled condition of all governments—the angry roar  
reverberating in wild and uncouth dissonance about us—  
all are bidding us, as with the voice of thunder, to haste  
in our work, for " the Judge standeth at the door."  
E. GUERNSEY.  
THE SECOND ADVENT CAUSE is yet onward in its  
course. It is but about six years, since our respect- 
ed and beloved brother Miller stood alone before the  
world, as a public advocate of the doctrine of Christ's 
coming and kingdom the present vear. Since that  
time, God in his holy providence has raised up ad-
vocates of this truth among the Clergy of all the evan- 
gelical denominations of Christians with which we  
are acquainted, in the country. The doctrine has  
spread over the whole land, and found a friend, or  
friends in almost every town and city in the United  
States. This has been accomplished, by the blessing  
of God, chiefly by individual  effort. We have no  
church organization to bind the believers and advocates 
of this doctrine together ; nor do we wish for any bond  
but that of love. Our intercourse and fellowship  is of  
the most voluntary character, each one being at per-
fect liberty to pursue the great object before us in his  
own way, on his own responsibility.  
Publications on the subject, have, several times  
over, been sent to each Post Office in the country.  
There are large congregations of believers, in all the  
principal cities in the North and East, and in a num- 
ber of the Western cities. In Boston there are two 
congregations ; three in New York city; two large 
ones in Philadelphia; and one in Baltimore. And had  
we men to fill the places, there might be twice as  
many in each of those cities, as we now have. Other  
cities and country places are similarly situated with 
the above.—Southern Mid. Cry.  
CORRESPONDENCE.  
BALLSTON SPA., N. Y., Feb. 29, 1844.  
Dear Bro.,—I am now engaged in lecturing  
about three miles from this, at a place called  
Malta Ridge. My first lectures in that place 
were given in a house belonging to the Protes- 
tant Methodists ; but the rulers not being able 
to endure sound doctrine on this subject, denied 
us the further use of their house, and the pro- 
prietor of a public house very generously offered  
us the use of his ball room, a very convenient  
place, where I expect to continue lecturing over  
the Sabbath. What the result will be, I leave  
for the retribution of the great day to unfold.  
Will you please to say through your paper  
that I will commence a course of lectures (the 
Lord willing) in Syracuse, Sabbath, March 10th, 
to continue  over the second Sabath. Also in  
Ithaca, Sabbath, March 24th, to continue one  
week or more.  
Yours in the blessed hope,  
GEO. W. PEAVEY.  
LETTER FROM BRO. E. GUERNSEY.  
NORTHFIELD, CT., FEB. 24th, 1844 —Dear Brother —  
I am spending a portion of my time in proclaiming to the 
people the threatened judgments ofGod, and urging them  
to seek shelter from  the impending storm. Never has  
my faith been stronger—never have I clung with so much  
firmness to the promises of God as at the present time.  
Oh ! we have the truth. Our Saviour will soon come  
and break the nations of the earth as with a rod of iron,  
and dash them to pieces like a potter's vessel and take  
the kingdom, and with the saints possess it forever and  
ever. The cause in this part of the country is ONWARD ;  
I know of no one who has once embraced these views,  
after a candid examination of God's word, that has given 
them up. There may be many which have been led to  
embrace these views in times of excitement, when that  
excitement has subsided, their interest has died away,  
and they have gone back where their affections were,  
into the world. It would be well for them to remember  

We make the following cxtract from an excellent let- 
ter received from Bro. J, B. Cook, dated Warren,  
Ohio, Jan., 20, 1S44 :—  
Dear Bro. Southard—We had, in Cleveland, last Sun- 
day, a good season. I had the priviledge of " preaching" 
and " baptis'ng" in the name of Jesus. Nine were bap-
tised ; among whom was sister Fitch, and a sister ofthe  
Episcopal Church. On Monday evening Bro. Fitch gave 
a lucid account of his conviction of duty to he baptised.  
It was based, as you may suppose a good Second Advent  
believer's would be, on the plain, unsophisticated lan- 
guage of the Bible. On Tuesday morning I baptised him  
in tbe faith of the gospel,—the coming of Jesus and the  
RESURRECTION. Then he aided in baptising 10 more—in  
all 28. The audience at the lake, which was our baptis-
tery, was large and solemn. Our good sister F., and  
the only one who spoke of the very cold air and cold  
water, said to her enquiring friends, " I was not con- 
scious of the least chilly &ensation—I never enjoyed a  
religious service so much ; it is a new era in my relig- 
ous experience," &c.  
In Akron I had the privilege of baptising 11. Obe- 
dience will not—cannot, injure the spirit of a Christian, 
as some absurdly suppose, for to be a perfect Christian is 
to obey God in all things. I have given up all my sectari- 
anism—have come out of the Baptist Church ; and now 
ask no one to take any yoke but that of Christ, nor to  
believe any thing but God's truth. The good cause is  
onward in all this region—glory to God.  
G. S. Miles, writing from Albany, Feb, 29th, says :  
"Bro. and Sister Hersey have been lecturing at Peters- 
burg. The people there received the word with all  
readiness of mind. They are now in Troy. There is  
increasing interest through all this region."  
CANADA WEST.—Bro. A. A. Sawin, writing from Ro- 
chester, N. Y., Feb. 28, says the cause in C. W. is pro- 
gressing more rapidly than ever, though amid the most  
bitter persecution. Himself, with other laboring breth- 
ren, are nearly worn out with lecturing, but are cheered  
on in their efforts by the bright prospect before them of 
speedy deliverance, in which they shall be taken from  
labor to reward.  
We also learn by his letter that the cause at Rochester  
is in a  most encouraging condition.  
MARYSVILLE, 0.—Bro. G. W. Cherry writes, Feb. 24 :  
"Bro. J. B. Cook has just closed a course of lectures in  
this place. Much good has been done. He goes to  
Delaware, thence to Richmond, and then returns to  
meet his family, who remain here during his absence —  
The brethren, as the  time draws near, grow stronger."  

SARDINIA, N, Y.—Bro. W F. Church writes, Feb. 22;  
"I rejoice in the reception of  the Midnight Cry: lean  
truly say it is food to the hungry soul. There are but  
few in this vicinity that can truly be said to love the  
appearing of Christ, and that few have to meet the de- 
rision and contempt of many who profess to be Christ- 
ians* yet they continue steadfast, looking for that llessed  
hope. We should be glad to have a lecturer come to this  
place, as we have been but little favored with Bible 
preaching."  
PEEKSKILL, N. Y.—Bro. W. E. Blakeney writes, Feb.  
26 ; "Bro. B. T. Young has been with us several weeks.  
Multitudes have attended his lectures, and his labors  
have been blessed. The Methodist P. Church (of which  
1 am a member) was opened for him. Two thirds of us,  
as a body, are looking for the glorious appearing. Bro. 
Young has also lectured several times at Collabury to 
crowded houses. One brother who attended his lectures 
there became convinced of the truth advanced, and is  
now sounding the midnight cry. Bro. Y. is now at Red  
Mills, where Bro. Bellows, who came to this place yes-
terday, has been laboring. He lectured for us last eve-
ning, on the 24th of Matthew. A deep impression was  
made—a solemn awe pervaded the whole congregation-
sinners weie converted, and presented themselves for 
prayers."  
PIJLTNEY, N. Y.—Bro. L. Drew writes : " We have  
had no lecturer in this place except Bro. Gillett, who was  
with us in Dec. last. There has been quite a number of  
conversions since he left. There is quite a band of 
advent believers five miles from this, where Bro. Gillett  
also lectured They hold prayer meetings regularly, and 
are truly a happy band. We are anxious that a lecturer 
should visit us : great good might be done."  
SODUS POINT, N. Y.—Bro. W. D. Cook writes Feb. 23:  
"The Adventists in this neighborhood are few, but in the  
main firm in the belief that this is the last year of time.  
We are doing what we can to convince the people of the  
truth of the doctrine ; but this whole community are em- 
braced in the walls of Babylon ; and as we have obeyed  
the command of God to 'come out of her,' we find that 
our feeble voices are scarcely audible over, or through, 
the high and thick walls of that great city, and especially 
as the watchmen upon her towers are unanimous in  
either sleeping on their post with dead indifference, or  
crying'peace and safety.' May the Lord help us to 
watch and  be ready."  
Bro D.W. Bates, of Pittsburg, Pa.,wishes tbe lecturing  
brethren who may pass through that city, not to forget  
him. He is confidently looking for the "blessed hope."  
BRO. H. HEYES, writing from Trov, N. Y., Feb. 27,  
says : "I feel it my duty to send you an account of  
the precious work the Lord is doing in Pittstown,  
15 miles from Troy, f have not time to do so this  
morning, as I have an appointment for this evening 8 
miles off. I arrived in Troy last evening, from Pittstown,  
after delivering 14 lectures. At the urgent request of  
the people I consented to return and resume a protracted  
meeting to-morrow. The whole community appeared  
aroused. The church (Christian) is pretty spacious, but 
too small for the numbers who attend."  
The following article we cut from " The Gospel Pub- 
lisher," published at Shiremanstown, Pa. We rejoice to 
see it participate in the work of publishing the glad ti- 
dings of the kingdom at hand.  
"Dear Bro. McCartney—There is no subject that is more  
calculated to inspire the hearts of God's people with jov,  
than that of the second advent of our Lord and Saviour  
Jesus Christ. And not only is it a subject upon which  
the lovers of Christ at the present day desire to dwell, 
but in examining the word of God, we learn that the  
prophets, apostles, and the early Christians, dwelt upon  
this theme with pleasing anticipations. And Enoch, the  
seventh from Adam, looked forward (through a long se-
ries of intervening ages) to the time when the Lord should  
come with ten thousands of his saints. And Job, who 
was declared to be a perfect man, cried out in the lan- 
guage of inspiration, and declared that in the latter day, 
his Redeemer should stand upon the earth. And although  
worms might destroy his body, yet in his flesh he should  
see God. And St. Paul, when he wrote to Timothy, de- 
clared, that at that day, i. e., the resurrection, he should  
receive a crown of righteousness, which the Lord, the  
righteous Judge, would give him. And John, while look- 
ing forward to the glorious morn when Christ would  
come to be glorified in his saints, and admired by 
all those who love him, cried out, " Blessed and holy is  
he that hath part in the first resurrection." And the  
early Christians were willing  to suffer persecution and  
death, knowing that if they suffered with him, they would  
also reign with him at his appearing in his kingdom. If  
the prophets, apostles, and the early Christians were en- 
abled to rejoice, while looking forward to the long prom- 
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ised period, when the tabernacle of God would be  
with men, and tears, sorrow, pain and death should  
be felt and feared no more. Ought not we, who  
are living on the eve of eternity, lift up our heads 
and rejoice, knowing that the day of our redemp- 
tion draweth nigh 1 But looking for it will not pre-
pare us to  meet it. Many look for death, but are not  
prepared to die; therefore it behooves us always to  
be ready, 'for in such an hour as we think not, the Son 
of Man cometh.' He may come at midnight—he may  
come while we are about our daily employment—and if  
he should, alas ! how many would he find neglecting to 
visit the fatherless and widow in their afflictions. It  
is evidently our duty to look for Him ; for unto them that  
look for Him, shall he appear the second time, without 
sin unto salvation. C. PRICE."  
Another correspondent of the Publisher, writing from  
Landisville, Pa., in speaking of a meeting there, says :  
" Brother Bowman delivered an impressive sermon on  
Saturday evening the 6th, followed by brother Wine- 
brenner, on the second coming of Christ. Tuesday eve- 
ning, two Second Advent brethren arrived, and preached  
until Sunday following. During which time, and since,  
(inclusive) about, twenty-five have been hopefully con- 
verted to the Lord ; to whom be all the glory. We even  
yet anticipate a greater work to be wrought.'- 
THE ADVENT HOPE.  
After a weary voyage through storms and shade, how  
welcome are the green hills of our native land. After  
a lonely pilgrimage among the uncivilized  nations of a  
dreary waste, how sweet is the first sight of home. 
After wearisome nights of pain, and lingering days of  
hopeless disease, how soul inspiring is the soft breath of  
spring, and returning health ; yet comparison fails to ex- 
press the reality. We are sojourning where the weak 
are a prey to the strong, and are hourly exposed to the  
malice of a powerful adversary, whose artifice and zeal  
are untiring. Our path is beset with trial, disappoint-
ment and pain. When we seek to cool our feverish lips  
with some pleasant fruit, we find it false and bitter at the  
core. When we turn our aching eyes to the beauty of  
some opening flower, we find the canker there, and weep  
to see its young leaves so soon scattered among the  
thorns. Every thing that is lovely is passing away and  
the sin and the curse abides still.  
We love the beautiful and sigh  
For that which never fades,  
The loveliness that cannot die,  
The light without the shades.  
How glorious thus is the hope of Paradise regained,  
and the glad tidings that the day is near when the earth 
shall be restored to its Eden slate, and the glory of the 
Lord cover it as the waters cover the sea. Metaphor is  
tame, and language weak, to express the sweetness of 
the Second ADVENT HOPE, or the reality of our precious  
faith. Having this hope we seek to purify ourselves  
even as He is pure. We love the appearing ofthe Lord  
of Glory, and long to see the Prince of princes restored  
to his kingdom. " We KNOW and BELIEVE the love that 
God hath to us," and therefore rejoice with joy unspeak-
able and full of glory, and feel the bright assurance that  
He-'will come again," and receive us to himself, for 
where He is there shall also his servants be.  
Philadelphia. c. s. M.  
THE ADVENT CROSS.  
The cross of a risen and crucified Saviour was the  
glory of his early disciples, while to the Jewish priests 
and doctors of the law, it was a  stumbling blocK and an  
offence ; and to the learned Greek it was foolishness and  
fanaticism. The Lord Jesus assures us, " whosoever 
doth not bear his cross, and come after me, cannot  be  
my disciple." Hence we perceive, that we must COME  
AFTER him and bear the cross, in whatever dispensation 
or manner it may be identified with him. We would  
then inquire, what is the cross of his followers in these 
latter days, for its offence cannot cease while probation  
continues 1 Certainly it cannot consist in adopting the  
creed of any of our popular sects, for who can be respect- 
able, or esteemed worthy of confidence by the world,  
without an assent to the received usages and forms of  
our Christian public 1 Truly our dispensation is chang- 
ed, and as the Scriptures teach concerning the last days,  
we have much of the form of godliness without its liv- 
ing power.  
A Jewish church once looked for a coming Messiah,  
and it was counted to her for righteousness ; but when  
she persisted in the same attitude, after her dispensation 
was changed, and the Messiah had been manifested, it  
was her unbelief and sin. So now our Gentile church  
is slow to receive the cross of his second advent, and as 
the Jewish church rejected his first coming, so also is 
his second corning neglected by the majority of modern  
professors.  
Who then will be wise, and take up the cross of a J  
coming Saviour, and follow without the camp bearing his  
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reproach 1 Let us look at this ; DO we bear his CROSS 1  
HE that will live godly, must suffer persecution, and in  
the world shall have tribulation. Have we these ESSEN- 
TIAL marks of true children 1 The cross of the second  
Advent doctrine, is the cross of Christ—do we love in  
meekness to bear it 1 c. s. M.  
Philadelphia.  
THE ADVENT FAITH.  
Without faith it is impossible to please God, or to re- 
ceive his truth. The doctrine of the speedy coming of 
our blessed Lord is of God. It is a fundamental part ofthe 
Scriptures, and it cannot be received except through liv- 
ing FAITH in His word. It is not perceived nor retained 
by sight, or by the will or wisdom of man, but by implicit  
confidence in every word which God has spoken. 
Through prayerful and patient examination of the Bible,  
we find a REASON for our faith immutable as the promise  
of the Father, and sure as the eternal councils of his  
throne.  
The traditions and opinions of  men are alike conflict- 
ing and unsafe, but the word ofthe Lord abideth forever.  
The Son has said, " I will come again," and " surely I  
come quickly," and has given us data and signs by which  
we may know assuredly that he is near even at the doors. 
All these way-maiks of the inspired text harmoniously  
close the present Jewish year, and the increasing signs  
in our moral, political, and natural heavens, demonstrate  
the hour at hand, when we shall " see the Son of Man 
coming on a cloud4with power and great glory." Having 
this confidence, we are not easily shaken in mind, nor dis 
couraged by the SEEMING darkness or lateness of the 
hour. We have placed ourselves upon the Word of God  
and we are willing  to abide the issue. Though the moun- 
tains pass on each side, the sea yawn betore, and the 
scoffing enemy press behind, we fear not. He that is  
with us is mighty, Jehovah is his name, and at the ap- 
pointed time he will surely deliver. c. s. M.  
Philadelphia.  
THE ADVENT CROWN.  
The sight of those who gaze with an unwavering  
heart on the glory and brightness of our coming Lord,  
becomes strangely dim to the fascinations of earth. 
They lose much of themselves, that they once valued,  
and the love of sense and self vanishes in the sunlight  
of his perfections. They feel poor in spirit, and hunger  
and thirst after greater.conformity to his image. They 
begin to cry from the heart, " Let thy kingdom come ;" 
and they are looking for and hasting unto the day of the  
Lord. Paul once said. " There is laid up for me a crown  
of RIGHTEOUSNESS, which the Lord the righteous Judge 
shall give me in that day, and not to me only but to all 
them who love his appearing." By these words the 
humble and confiding are encouraged, and though they  
feet most unworthy of a crown, they know that they 
love the doctrine of his appearing, and therefore hope to  
receive it, for it is RIGHTEOUSNESS. They long for the  
glorious hour, when with the elders, they shall cast their 
crowns at the feet of him who sitteth on the throne, 
saying, " Thou art worthy, 0 Lord, to receive glory, and  
honor, and power, for thou hast created all things, and 
for thy pleasure they are and were created."  
The ADVENT CROWN, then, is the RIGHTEOUSNESS that  
shall be manifested in us through Christ, at his appear- 
ing, to whom all the glory shall be returned. Let us then 
be diligent, and comfort our hearts with one of his last 
injunctions—"Behold I come quickly, hold that fast  
which thou hast, that no man take thy crown. Him that  
overcometh will I make a pillar in the temple of my God,  
and he shall go no more out, and I will write upon him  
the name of my God, and the name of the city of my  
God, which is New Jerusalem, which cometh down out  
of heaven from my God, and I will write upon him my  
new name." Amen, even so come, Lord Jesus.  
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