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"Lord, Teach us How to Pray." 
O thou that hearest prayer 
And teanhest how to pray, 
My grovelling heart prepare 
To wing its heavenward way, 
High as thy mercy-seat to rise, 
And there pour out its earnest cries. 
Oil when I wish to come 
Before thy presence, Lord, 
My sins so strike me dumb, 
I cannot speak a word 
And oflen when I strive to pray, 
My wuywsrd thoughts are all astray. 
The world too often fills 
My heart, and hinders prayer; 
Too often pride instils 
Its secret venom there ; 
And lively feelings ebb or flow, 
Directed by that subtle foe. 
Too oft, when faith is weak, 
I fear my prayers are vain, 
The blessings that I seek 
1 scarcely hope to gain ; 
My wants appear too great and high 
Even for thy bounty to supply. 
Though driven by my need 
To seek the throne of grace, 
Earth's trifliw oft impede 
My progress to that place: 
The flesh resists religion's sway, 
And sloth is clamorous for delay. 
Lord, give me faith and light, 
Humility and love; 
And from my clouded sight 
The carnal film remove; 
Kindle devotion's languid flame, 
Aud bid mc come in Jesus' name. 
Christian 
Observer. 
Tlie Work of the Messiah. 
BY RIDLEY IT. 11ERSCIIELL, 
PASTOR OF A CHURCH OK CONVERTED JEWS IN LONDON, ENG. 
(Continued from our last.) 
But though Jeremiah does not appear to 
have been much known to Josiah in the eigh-
teenth year of his reign, it is natural to suppose 
that, in the course of the thirteen years that 
succeeded, the youthful prophet assisted the 
youthful reformer with liis counsel and sympa-
thy. 
True, the prophet knew these reforms 
were but temporary; "the seer's sad spirit" 
doubtless showed him that " notwithstanding, 
the Lord turned not from the fierceness of his 
great wrath wherewith his anger was kindled 
against Judahand that He was determined 
to "remove Judah also out of His sight as He 
had removed Israel'; (2 Kings 23:26, 27); yet 
thirteen years of peace and comparative right-
eousness are not to be despised by the people 
of God. 
" The long-suffering of God is salva-
tion" to individual sinners of the human race. 
I do not think it at all a legitimate conclusion, 
that because we look for the entire breaking up 
of the present frame-work of society, and ex-
pect no permanent amelioration of any evil 
until the Lord shall take unto Himself His 
great power and reign, that we are therefore to 
despise all partial amelioration, and withdraw 
from all participation in schemes for the spiritual 
or temporal benefit of our fellow-men. 
Most 
precious is every season when the winds of 
persecution are hushed, when pressing want is 
unknown; then is the time to be diligent in 
bringing the power of the everlasting gospel 
to bear on the consciences of sinners, trusting 
that the Holy Spirit will then seal many of the 
servants of God in their foreheads. 
When 
the churches have rest, they should be both 
edified and multiplied. 
(Acts 9:31.) 
I believe 
much unnecessary prejudice is excited against 
scriptural views of the coming kingdom, by the 
attitude of isolation assumed by many who 
entertain them. 
They are apt to look with in-
difference, at least, if not with contempt, on the 
efforts for the spiritual benefit of others, that 
are made by those who believe that the world 
is to be converted through missionary exertions, 
and new-modelled through improved political 
institutions. 
Let us carefully avoid separating 
ourselves from any portion of Christ's body. 
Let us cleave to the good, and refuse the evil; 
assisting to the utmost of our power in spread-
ing the knowledge of God in the earth, though 
we know that in this dispensation its effects are 
not universal, but partial; let us assist in " un-
doing the heavy burdens," in adding to the ex-
ternal comforts of our poorer brethren of man-
kind at the present time, although we expect, 
ere long, all things around us will be shaken 
and overturned. 
The mistakes of good men, 
or the godless infidelity of evil men, do not 
alter the eternal distinctions between right and 
wrong; good remains good, and evil remains 
evil, whoever be the agents by whom either is 
accomplished. 
But while we reject no man's 
good, let it be distinctly seen that we connive 
at no man's evil. 
Let us not put " bitter for 
sweet, and swbet for bitter." 
From the various visions of Jeremiah I can 
only select a few. His prophecies are arranged 
without any regard to chronological 
order; 
some of those that were delivered in the reign 
of Zedekiah, being placed before others that 
were given in the reign of his predecessor, 
Jehoiakim. (See chaps 23,24,25.) 
I shall first 
shortly notice one of the earliest, because it 
contains one of the many proofs that the restora-
tion of the Jews, spoken of by Jeremiah and 
the other prophets, in connection with the glory 
and happiness of Israel, was not the restoration 
from Babylon. 
In this vision (chap. 3:6-25), 
after a touching appeal to the backsliding Israel-
ites, the Lord promises to take them one of a 
city, and two of a family, and bring them unto 
Zion, to give them pastors after His own heart, 
who will feed them with knowledge and under-
standing, and then declares," At that time they 
shall call Jerusalem the throne of the Lord ; 
and all the nations shall be gathered unto it, to 
the name of the Lord, to Jerusalem; neither 
shall they walk any more after the imagination 
of theirevil heart." (v. 17.) 
They know little, 
indeed, of the history of the Jews after their 
return from Babylon, who can suppose any of 
the features of the above description to belong 
to that period. 
They had not then pastors ac-
cording to God's heart; all nations were not 
then gathered to the name of the Lord at Jeru-
salem ; and, certainly, the greatest stickler for 
the return from Babylon being the fulfilment 
of the glorious predictions concerning the res-
toration of the Jews, will hardly venture to 
maintain that since that time they have no more 
walked " after the imagination of their evil 
heart."* 
It is remarkable what a prominent feature 
" pastors after God's own heart" is in the de-
scription of restored Israel. 
Chapter 23 begins 
by denouncing a woe on the pastors who had 
destroyed and scattered the sheep of His pas-
ture ; those kingly and priestly guides whoq, 
the Lord reproaches by Ezekiel as " the shep-
herds of Israel who do feed themselves, and 
feed not the flock," (Ezek. 34:2, 3); and it then 
proceeds at once to Israel's final issue out of all 
these troubles. 
" I will gather the remnant of 
my flock out of all countries whither I have 
driven them, and will bring them again to their 
folds ; and they shall be fruitful and increase. 
And I will set up shepherds over them which 
shall feed them; and they shall fear no more, 
nor be dismayed, neither shall they be lacking, 
saith the Lord." (Jer. 23:3, 4.) 
The prophecy 
then proceeds to declare how this happy state 
is to be brought about, even by the Deliverer, 
the Messiah. 
" Behold the days come, saith 
the Lord, that I will raise unto David a right-
eous branch, and a king shall reign and prosper, 
* Of course not; and yet it seems that all nations 
are to be gathered with the remnant of Jews here 
assembled.—Ed. 
and shall execute judgment and justice on the 
earth. 
In his days Judah shall be saved, and 
Israel shall dwell safely; and this is his name 
whereby he shall be called, The Lord our right-
eousness." (v. 5, 6.) 
Here, as in many of the 
otlrer prophecies, the work of Messiah is con-
nected with the restoration and prosperity of 
the Jewish people.* 
And how have such ex-
press declarations been generally treated by 
Christian commentators ? 
We may take Dr. 
Adam Clarke as expressing the ordinarily re-
ceived views on the subject. 
" The real Jew 
is not one who has his circumcision in the flesh, 
but in the spirit. 
The real Israel are true be-
lievers in Christ Jesus; and the genuine Jeru-
salem is the church of the firstborn, and made 
free, with all her children, from the bondage of 
Satan, death, and hell. 
All these exist only in 
the days of the Messiah. 
All that went before 
were the types or significations of these glorious 
Gospel excellencies." 
Does the worthy com-
mentator mean to say that Abraham, and David, 
and Daniel, were not delivered from the bondage 
of Satan and hell? 
As to the bondage of 
death, it is one from which the saints are not 
yet delivered, nor shall be until the resurrection. 
The prophet pursues the theme of Israel's res-
toration through chapters 31-33 ; chapters that 
ought to be attentively and prayerfully perused 
by all who feel any doubt on the subject of the 
restoration of the Jews, 
I cannpt follow this 
subject out at present, but only notice it in con-
nection with the Messiah. 
After mentioning 
that the Jews shall be in great trouble previous 
to their final deliverance (declarations to the 
same effect being afterwards more nfiinutely 
given by Zechariah, in chapter 14,) the Lord 
states by the prophet, (Jer. 30:9,) " They shall 
serve the Lord their God, and David their king, 
whom I will raise up unto them." 
The same 
promise is repeated in Ezek.34:23, "I will set 
up one shepherd over them, and he shall feed 
them, even my servant David." 
And again, 
in Ezekiel 37, when the prophet has, by the 
symbolical action of the two sticks becoming 
one in his hand, prefigured the future reunion 
of the severed kingdoms of Israel and Judah, 
it is said, " I will take the children of Israel 
from among the heathen whither they be gone, 
and will gather them on every side, and bring 
them into their own lard ; and I will make them 
one nation in the land, upon the mountains of 
Israel; and one king shall be king to them all; 
David my servant shall be king over them; 
and they shall dwell in the land that I have 
given unto Jacob my servant, wherein your 
fathers have dwelt; and mv servant David shall 
be their prince forever."! (Ezek. 37:22-25.1 
And Hosea, after predicting that the children 
of Israel should "abide many days without a 
king, and without a prince, and without a sacri-
fice," says, " Afterwards shall the children of 
Israel return, and seek the Lord their God, and 
David their king." (Hosea 3: 4, 5.) 
That the 
ancient Jews referred these passages to Messiah, 
is beyond question. 
The Chaldee paraphrase 
on" Jeremiah 30:9, ^ays, '"They shall obey 
in "D nrvtro1?, Messiah, the son of David." 
Messiah, the Redeemer of the world, is also, 
in an especial sense, king of the Jews. 
" The 
government shall be upon his shoulder." " The 
Lord shall give him the throne of his father 
David." 
Well might the wise men inquire. 
" Where is he that is born king of the Jews?" 
He that is to sit " upon the throne of David, and 
upon his kingdom, to order it and to establish 
it. with judgment and with justice, from hence-
forth even forever." (Isaiah 9:7.) 
The 
king 
who shall "reign in righteousness" will first 
* With the pious of all kindred and climes and 
ages.—Ed. 
f It is then in the eternal, and consequently in the 
resurrection slate.—Ed. 
exhibit the fruits of His righteous dominion in 
the Jewish nation ; and the blessed order and 
harmony there displayed will diffuse itself over 
all other kingdoms. 
It is difficult to say which 
of the two absurdities is the greater; to treat 
all those distinct intimations of a certain civil 
and social condition upon earth, as symbolical 
expressions for a spiritual change on the hearts 
of men ; or, in order to avoid this absurdity, to 
maintain, in the face of all history, that these 
things were fulfilled at the return from Babylon. 
" Behold, I will gather them out of all countries 
whither I have driven them." 
Is Babylon " all 
countries ?" 
" And I will bring them again into 
this place, and I will cause them to dwell safe-
ly. 
And they shall be my people, and I will 
be their God; and I will give them one heart, 
and one way, that they may fear me forever, 
for the good of them, and of their children after 
them : and I will make an everlasting covenant 
with them, that I will not turn away from them 
to do them good ; but I will put my fear in their 
hearts, that they shall not depart from me. 
Yea, I will rejoice over them to do them good, 
and I will plant them in this land assuredly, 
with my whole heart, and with my whole soul." 
(Jer. 32,37-41.) 
Have the Jews received at 
the restoration from Babylon, "one heart and 
one way," that they might fear the Lord forever? 
Has the Lord never since then turned from 
doing them good ? 
Has He so put His feaT in 
their hearts as has prevented them from turning 
away from Him? 
It is almost blasphemy to 
maintain that God could thus deceive 
His 
chosen people ; that He could promise them 
blessings so large in extent, and so glorious in 
kind, as these, concerning a temporary restora-
tion that was to terminate in a fiercer deluge of 
wrath, and issue in a far longer and more terri-
ble captivity than they had previously under-
gone. 
Truly, God's ways are not so unequal. 
In the close of this vision one would almost im-
agine He alludes to these mistaken views in 
regard to His purposes concerning Israel, that 
are unhappily so common in the present day : 
" Considereth thou not what this people have 
spoken, saying: The two families which the 
Lord hath chosen He hath even cast them off; 
thus they have despised my people that they 
should be no more a nation before them." 
Now 
is not this what is currently said at the present 
day, that the Jews exist no longer as a nation ; 
that their national polity ceased forever at the 
dispersion ? 
If the Lord counted it strange 
that men should think He had cast off His 
chosen people then, is it not equally strange in 
the present day ? 
Is there any possible form of 
words by which the fact of Israel's continuance 
as a nation could be more equivocally stated 
than the following ?—"Thus saith tbe Lord, 
which giveth tbe sun for a light by day, and 
the ordinances of the moon, and of the stars, 
for a light by night; which divideth the sea 
when the waters thereof roar; the Lord 
of 
Hosts is His name : if those ordinances depart 
from before me, saith the Lord, then the seed 
of Israel also shall cease from being a nation 
before me forever."* (Jer 31:35, 36.) 
It may 
be right to notice a passage in this 
chapter, the application of which, by the Evan-
gelist Matthew, has appeared difficult and ob-
scure to many readers. " Thus saith the Lord : 
A voice was heard in Ramah, lamentation and 
bitter weeping; Rachel weeping for her chil-
dren, refused to be comforted for her children, 
because they were not. 
Thus saith the Lord: 
Refrain thy voice from weeping, and thine eyes 
from tears; for thy work shall be rewarded, 
saith the Lord ; and they shall come 
again 
from the land of the enemy. 
And there 
is 
hope in thine end, saith the Lord, that thy 
* i his must also refer to the pious of the nation 
raised in the new earth.—Ed. 
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children shall come again to their own border." 
(Jer. 31:15-17.) 
This is applied by Matthew 
to the massacre of the infants at 
Bethlehem 
by Herod; and many readers find it difficult 
to understand how this murder of the children 
can be a fulfilment of the prophecy of Jereftiiah. 
I think the difficulty will be found to vanish 
when the prophecy is considered in its full ex-
tent. 
Rachel, it will be remembered, died at 
Ephrath in giving birth to Benjamin, whom 
she called, Benoni, tjie son of my 
sorrow. 
Her tomb remains to this day, situated between 
Jerusalem and Bethlehem. 
Rachel is there-
fore poetically represented as dwelling there, 
looking with deep interest on the fate of the 
Jewish nation, that is, of the two tribes of Judah 
and Benjamin, of the latter of which she was 
the mother. 
God had been promising, through 
Jeremiah, great blessings to the house of Jacob; 
their restoration to their land, and the peace 
and prosperity they should there enjoy. 
Ra-
chel is represented as weeping at the captivity 
and dispersion of her children, and she is told 
that there is hope laid up in stoie for her. 
At 
length, in the fulness of time, the Messiah, the 
great Deliverer is born in Bethlehem. 
Are 
the immediate consequences of His birth, peace 
and blessedness to the Jewish nation ? 
No ; 
Rachel is again represented as viewing the 
massacre at Bethlehem as a first instalment of 
the misery and oppression of her afflicted chil-
dren ; she sees them about to be driven out 
from the land once more, and will not be com-
forted, because they are not. 
In this weeping 
case is Rachel still; but there is hope in the 
end, that her children shall come again into 
their own border. 
This is a portion of the 
mystery that meets us at every turning; the 
non-fulfilment by the Messiah, of that which 
the prophets declared He was to accomplish. 
He was to be " the Prince of peace;" and yet 
Christ " came not to send peace on earth, but a 
sword." 
Into this subject I have entered fully 
in the previous treatise. 
The answer to the 
unbelieving Jew and the infidel, who both tell 
us that Jesus Christ did not fulfil what the 
prophets predicted of the Messiah, is the same 
that was given to comfort Rachel: " Then is 
hope in the end." 
The children of Israel* 
shall come again to their own border; and shall 
enjoy all the blessedness promised through the 
various prophets.—{To be 
continued.) 
[NOTE—Here follows a long argument on the par 
tial restoration of the Jews before the Advent, and a 
personal Antichrist, which we pass over as of little 
interest to our readers.—^.] 
The New Jerusalem. 
REV. JOHN CUMMINGS. D. D. 
(Concluded.) 
H He that talked with me had a golden reed 
to measure the city." 
This act is the symbol 
of taking possession. 
Thus in chap. 11:1, 
the Reformed churches were separated from 
the Romish apostacy by a measuring reed,— 
a reed, frail and perishable, because it was a 
separation only of a visible church from a visi-
ble apostacy,—-the former having somS sinners, 
and the latter retaining some saints. 
But here 
a golden reed is used, to denote a perfect and 
everlasting distinction between the saved and 
the lost. 
Thus the mockery of sovereignty 
was once put into the hands of Jesus : the un-
questionable reality of authority, and power, 
and empire will be seen in his hand in the 
New Jerusalem. 
" The city lieth four-square." 
Tim is lan-
guage significant of stability; a cube is firm 
in any and every position. Among the Greeks, 
a man of firm resolution was called a^p Tijrpa-
yui>ot, literally, a four-square man. 
This is 
the city that hath foiindatious that cannot be 
shaken, whose builder and maker is God. 
No 
earthquake shall upheave it,—no violence dis-
turb, or enemy enter it. 
It rests an immortal 
fabric on its everlasting site. 
" The building of the wall was of jasper." 
The word f^o^o-u is 
properly 
a bulwark ; 
and as jasper is used to describe the Lord Je-
sus, it is here implied that the Redeemer is its 
bulwark 
"The city was pure gold, like unto glass." 
Gold is the symbol of incorrodibility and of 
value ; it is the most precious of all the met-
als, and the least affected by decay; but this is 
not sufficient to express its full beauty; it is 
also " clear as glass." 
In the visions of the 
harpers on the glassy sea, we had the purity, 
but not the permanence, of the church; but 
here we have the purity, " clear as glass," and 
the permanence too, " pure gold." 
These its 
* And of all nations.—Ed. 
manifold glories are associated with that mys-
terious IJrim and Thummim, or precious stones 
in the High Priest's breastplate. 
There are 
employed the blue sapphire,—the variegated-
veined chalcedony,—the green emerald,—the 
dark red sardonyx,—the sea-green and pale 
chrysolite,—the blue-green beryl,—the brilliant 
topaz,—the 
dark tinted 
chrysophrasus,—the 
deep red hyacinth, and the violet amethyst,— 
all sparkling in the splendors of the light of 
the Lamb ; and dull, and dead, and colorless, 
except in reflecting around his beams. 
The 
people of God are represented in Scripture 
under various names. 
They are frequently 
compared to living stones, and, occasionally, to 
precious stones., Thus it is declared by God, 
" They shall be mine, saith the Lord of Hosts, 
that day when I make up my jewels." 
These jewels, or precious stones, sparkling in 
the same light, have each its own peculiar 
characteristic. 
It may be designed to set forth 
this idea by imprinting on each stone in the 
walls of the New Jerusalem an apostle's name. 
If this be so, we may suppose that the name of 
John will be upon the sapphire, the mild sky-
like lustre of which expresses best the charac-
ter of the loved and loving John. 
The bril-
liant topaz may bear the name of the spletdid 
and impressive Paul. 
The red dark sardonyx 
may denote the glowing zeal of Peter; and 
the purple amethyst may be dedicated to the 
grave and dignified James; and the emerald, 
so agreeable to the eye, the cultivated and 
holy Luke. 
It is thus that stones have ser-
mons, and gems a language ; and the twelve 
precious stones in the foundation of the New 
Jerusalem, on which were inscribed the names 
of 
the twelve apostles, may have a deeper 
meaning than appears on the surface. 
All that is beautiful in nature may have its 
counterpart in something beautified by grace, 
and these two strings, once dissonant, may be 
touched anew, and prove again harmonious 
chords in the great and eternal harmony. 
All the precious stones in the crowns of 
kings, and in the cabjnets of museums, are 
the scattered fragments of that explosion which 
sin kindled in ancient Paradise, now strewn 
over the earth, and buried frequently in its 
depths ; relics in short of its magnificence, and 
memorials of its catastrophe. 
In this city 
these precious stones shall be exhibited in all 
their pristine glory ; in masses, pot in minute 
fragments; 
brilliant and pure, not dimmed 
and shaded. 
Ruby rocks and quarried dia-
monds shall be there. 
Its floors shall be em-
eralds, and its dome shall be like sapphire ; 
and its High Altar the Son of God, " the 
Pearl of great price," from which 3hall ascend 
perpetual incense, and around which 
shall 
rise, as from innumerable hosts, a hurricane of 
praise forever. 
The very dust shall be of dia-
mond, and the meanest thing where all is 
magnificent shall be gold. 
Its soil shall be 
ever fresh and fragrant as the rose; its sky 
around like the rainbow, and over it all flower-
ed with stars; and its distant hills shall be 
ever alive with light. 
Darkness shall 
flee 
away from it like a doubt before the truth of 
God, and no night shall draw its sable curtain 
over earth's head. 
All space shall be full of 
Deity, the stars shall be the Scriptures of the 
sky, and the light of the Sun of Righteousness 
the apocalypse of all. 
All sounds shall be 
harmony, and all mysteries light; the uni-
verse itself shall be a glorious hymn, and the 
worlds the words in which it is written; and 
pine-forests, and palm-groves, the lichen and 
green fern, and the giant oak, and the hill tops 
visited all night with troops of stars, shall 
overflow with the light of love, and life, and 
glory, and all so pure that snow would stain, 
and dew defile them. 
A new and yet more 
glorious genesis shall come upon our world. 
This poor earth, for six thousand years a vast 
sarcophagus, shall recover more than 
tden 
life and beauty after its baptism of 
fire. 
It 
shall be:— 
A cathedral boundtesss as our wonder, 
Whose quenchless lamp the sun and moon supply, 
Its choir the winds and waves, its organ thunder, 
Its dome the sky. 
Magnificent scene! 
Yet more magnificent 
citizens ! 
The antediluvian will be 
there, 
whose prospective faith, penetrating clouds and 
darkness, reposed on the Lamb of God. 
The 
patriarch, who saw Christ's day from afar and 
rejoiced, will be there also. 
Each age of the 
world will contribute to this happy city; and 
that age will be seen to have been the noblest 
and the best, 
which 
poured through these 
twelve gates the mightiest crowds of redeemed 
citizens. 
Persons from every clime will be 
there. 
The African from his burning sands, 
and the Laplander from his everlasting snows ; 
the Jew from his wanderings, and the Arab 
from his tent. 
All the descendants of Ham, 
Shem, and Japhet, who have seen and accepted 
Jesus as their Saviour, drawn by a great cen-
tripetal attraction, shall meet in that new Jeru-
salem ; and, like globules of quicksilver, min-
gle in fact, as they have met in spirit, and so 
be for ever with the Lord. 
Men from all 
ranks will be there. 
The monarch and me-
chanic, the prince and the peasant, denuded of 
all circumstantial differences and distinctions, 
and glorious in that common 
righteousness 
which humbles the heart while it exalts the 
person of the wearer, shall there see in each 
other brethren, and wonder they failed to see 
it before. 
Monarchies and republics, schools 
and universities, sects and parties, shall all 
present to this city happy citizens,—the fruits 
of that living Christianity, which so many of 
them would neither understand, nor patronise, 
nor thrust out.—Such is our inheritance, in-
corruptible and undefiled. 
How should we rejoice in the prospect, the 
certainty, rather, of spending a blissful eterni-
ty with those we love below! to see them 
emerge from the ruins of the tomb, and the 
deeper ruins of the fall; not only uninjured, 
but reformed and perfected, with every tear 
wiped from their eyes, standing before the 
throne of God and of the Lamb, with palms in 
their hands, crying with a loud voice, " Salva-
tion be unto our God and to the Lamb for ever 
and ever." 
What delight will it afford to re-
new the sweet counsel we have taken togeth-
er ; to recount the toils and labors of the way, 
and to breathe, and to gaze, about the throne 
of God in heaven ! nay, rather, to join in the 
symphonies of holy voices, amidst the splen-
dors and 
finition 
of the beatific vision. 
To 
that state all the pious on earth are tending. 
Heaven is attracting to itself whatsoever is 
congenial to its nature, is enriching itself with 
the spoils of earth, and collecting within its ca-
pacious bosom whatsoever is pure, permanent, 
and divine ; leaving nothing for the last fire to 
consume but the objects and slaves of corrup-
tion ; whilst every thing that grace has pre-
pared and beautified shall be selected from the 
beauties of the world, to adorn that eternal 
city which has no need of the sun or moon to 
shine in it, for the glory of God doth lighten it, 
and " the Lamb is the light thereof." 
There 
has existed in every age of the world a longing 
after a state on earth more pure, permanent, 
and divine, than any yet realized. 
Travellers 
have explored all realms, and poets have em-
bodied their highest presentiments, and tradi-
tions have handed down dim and distant recol-
lections of departed beauty as pledges of its 
return. 
From Cain to Job, from Job to Abra-
ham, and from Abraham to Columbus, weary 
humanity has been in pursuit of a city that 
hath foundations, and " desiring a better coun-
try, that is a heavenly." 
This glorious city is 
the response to these yearnings ; it is the cor-
onal of the brightest hopes,—the consumma-
tion of the grandest prophecies,—the satisfac-
tion of the deepest and most earnest yearnings 
of the human heart. 
It is plainly a literal city,—a material as 
well as a moral structure,—for risen bodies as 
well as regenerated spirits ; and thus matter as 
well as mind and conscience will reach its per-
fection. 
This city will show what a renovated 
earth is capable of; what an array of glory, or-
der, harmony, and perfection this chaos shall 
become at the bidding of Him on whose head 
are many crowns. 
It will be that brilliant fo-
cus on which shall converge all the beams of 
material and moral glory which are at present 
scattered over all the realms of Deity. 
Its permanence, too, shall equal its perfec-
tion. 
There shall be no waning moons,' and 
setting suns, and enveloping night; no flood 
nor ebbing tides, nor drifting snows, nor frosts, 
t« injure the everlasting verdure of that scene. 
No lightning shall smite its walls or scathe its 
cedars; no whirlwind disturb its air, nor fire 
leave its black footprint in any of its dwell-
ings. 
Earth thus restored, with Jerusalem its sub-
lime capital, may be the great school of the 
universe,—the sublime 
instructress of other 
worlds, and thus it may play a part in the fu-
ture that will cover all the shame of its first 
aberration. 
These are truths which we should do well to 
study more. 
The contemplation of its ap-
proaching glory would dim all earthly lustre, 
and draw off our affections from things seen 
to things unseen, and constrain us to confess 
that here we are pilgrims and strangers. 
We 
should feel, too, the force of the Apostle's ap-
peal :—" Seeing ye look for such things-, what 
manner of persons ought ye to be in all holy 
conversation and godliness ? " 
Does the pros-
pect wing our souls with new zeal, and enemy 
and strength ? 
Does it lift you above all that 
is grovelling and impure ? 
Just in as far as it 
elevates, sustains, and sanctifies us, do we be-
lieve it, and no further. 
Open your eyes to 
this brightness, and your hearts to this warmth 
and love, as the expectants of such a home. 
Its advent becomes 
nearer every day; 
all 
things hasten it. Earthly cities are dissolving • 
kings are falling from their thrones ; nations 
are convulsed and agitated as if struck succes-
sively by irresistible tempests ; the bonds and 
joints of the social fabric are being loosened 
and dissolved. 
" The cities of the nations 
fall." 
Great Babylon is coming into remem-
brance before God. 
These are the " removing 
of those things that are shaken, as of things 
that are made, that these things that cannot be 
shaken may remain." 
Oh, let it not be forgotten that our prepara-
tion for this glorious city is not an acquaintance 
with its mineralogical or geological characteris-
tics, nor a poetic sympathy with its glory and 
pure splendor. 
We may be poets able to sing 
all sweet songs, and painters able to transfer to 
the canvass all bright scenes; we may be able 
to group and catalogue the stars, describe and 
classify the flowers, and yet not be Christians. 
It is the pure in heart who shall see God. 
It 
is they who are like Christ who shall live 
eternally with Him. 
It is holy character that 
abides forever. 
The New Jerusalem is being 
prepared for those who have new hearts, new 
affinities, new affections, and new 
natures. 
Corruption cannot inherit its incorruption. Un-
sanctified feet may not tread its golden streets, 
nor impure eyes rest upon its beauty, nor one 
unregenerate heart beat amid its blessedness. 
There is but one essential franchise — anew 
nature : " Except a man be born again he can-
not see the kingdom of heaven." 
No qualifi-
cation will be accepted as a substitute for this. 
Make sure of a new heart, and you may 
safely calculate on an entrance into this city. 
This is the only indispensable qualification. 
It matters not how obscure, despised, or forgot-
ten you may be; you may be renewed and 
sanctified, and made meet for this "inherit-
ance of the saints in light," by that Holy Spir-
it who is promised to all that ask. 
" If ye, be-
ing evil, know how to give good gifts to your 
children, how much more wil] your Father in 
heaven give the Spirit to them that ask him!" 
It is no superiority to the necessity of a vital, 
moral, and spiritual change, that you belong to 
the very highest eiders in the realm. 
"Ye 
must be born again." 
Nothing besides is any 
other than responsibility. 
This alone is meet-
ness for the inheritance of the saints in light. 
-The Patriarchs' Tombs. 
" And after this, Abraham burred Sarah his 
wife in the cave of the field of Machpelah, be-
fore Mamre: the same is Hebron, in the land 
of Canaan,"—GEN. 23:19, 
What a cluster of bright associations, hal-
lowed by all the veneration that antiquity can 
demand, gathers round the cave of 
Machpelah. 
The Jew gazes on it and sighs that he may not 
enter and commune over the ashes of his patri-
archal ancestors, Abraham, Isaac, and Jacob, 
with their wives, Sarah, Rebecca and Leah. 
The cave with its tombs, is sheltered by an 
immense and magnificent mosque, OF Moham-
medan temple. 
This beautiful structure is 
about two hundred feet long, one hundred and 
fifty wide, and perhaps fifty feet high. 
rI he 
Mohammedans, who consider themselves the 
only faithful descendants of the patriarchs, have 
possession qf the place, in care of their priests; 
nor will they for bribes or influential' interest, 
permit their holy place to be defiled by the feet 
of any but adherents to their prophet. 
In 1807 
a Spaniard, who could converse readily in Ar-
abic, disguised himself in the Moslem costume, 
and under the assumed name of Ali Bey, was 
admitted as a devout Mussulman. 
He des-
cribes each separate tomb in the cave as car-
peted with rich and costly green silk, superbly 
inwrought with gold. 
Such is the veneration 
they pay the patriarchs. 
* 
But we were about to mention an incident 
which, as it is not generally known, may be of 
interest in relation to the above. 
We think it 
was in the autumn of 1846, that a beautiful 
stranger was seen crossing Elm street, near the 
synagogue. 
He wore the loose mantle of the 
East, while his head was covered with a turban ; 
in short, so far as climate would permit, he was 
clad in complete oriental costume. 
With a 
full yet not heavy beard, a florid cast, almost 
ruddy on each cheek, while the general com-
i 
plexion was slightly of the orient, with eyes 
that beamed intelligence, softened with benig-
nity, and over all a most commanding forehead, 
his stature noble, and such as gives dignity to 
man. 
Add to all this, just enough of gentle 
feminity to make greatness and 
intelligence 
loveable and amiable, and you have a picture 
of this venerable stranger. 
The observer, soon 
after this, seeing ex-judge M. M. Noah, re-
marked, " Judge, I've seen a very remarkable 
stranger." 
After listening to the 
description, 
the judge replied, " Ah ! he is a great man ! 
His name is Michael Cohen Becher, from He-
brohn, Palestine. 
He is an elder of the Jews 
there, and is come to solicit 
subscriptions 
among us, for his countrymen who are suffering 
by famine. 
This elder is a man of great learn-
ing, converses fluently in many languages.— 
When he put up at my house, I felt as did 
Queen Elizabeth when receiving the Spanish 
embassy. 
It was her duty to address them, at 
the reception, in Latin, which she did with 
some difficulty, remarking to a courtier after-
wards with an oath, 
' I must brush up my 
Latin.' 
I felt before the elder, I must brush 
up my Hebrew. 
But," continued the Judge, 
"I must state an incident. 
The elder has en-
tered the cave of Machpelah; 
a 
privilege 
which no Jew has enjoyed before for many 
years." 
" How did this happen, Judge ?" was 
asked. 
" In this way," he answered. 
" There 
had been a drought for six months in Hebrohn. 
It was in vain that the Mohammedans called on 
Allah for rain—the drought continued, and the 
people wept for food. 
Driven to desperation, 
a committee of their priests waited on the Jew-
ish Elders, and begged that they would suppli-
cate their Jehovah, that the windows of heaven 
might be opened. 
They answered they would 
on condition that they should be allowed to en-
ter the cave containing the tombs of their patri-
archs ; there, in the Caveof Machpelah, by the 
ashes of their much-loved fathers, they would 
wresde with their God, and the God of Abra-
ham, Isaac, and Jacob. 
But no ; the Moham-
medan 
priests 
declared 
their 
sacred 
place 
should not be desecrated, by the§e unworthy 
sons of the 
patriarchs. 
The famine raged 
wor^e, and the people cried the louder; the 
priests prayed to Allah, but no rain came. 
Again they appealed to the Jewish Elders, and 
were met by the same response. 
Compelled 
for the first time in many centuries, by the 
force of circumstances, 
the Moslem priests 
yielded. 
Who shall depict the emotions that 
throbbed in the hearts of Michael Cohen Bech-
er and his brother elders, when they, the fa-
vored Jews of centuries, entered the habitations 
of their great, and good, beloved ancestors, the 
patriarchs of Israel, and the founders of that 
wonderful people ! 
Overcome with the emo-
tions of their breasts, the elders fell on their 
knees, but for a while they forgot what brought 
them there, and with swelling hearts, and fer-
vent supplications, they prayed the God of Is-
rael that he would let them die then and there, 
on the very spot, where for ages had reposed 
the ashes of their fathers, Abraham, Isaac and 
Jacob."—(Chris. Intel.) 
Ruins of the Jewish Temple. 
M. M. Noah has furnished a long communi-
tion for the " Journal of Commerce," describing 
the ruins of the Temple at Jerusalem, which 
he contends are still in existence beneath the 
Mosques of Omar and El Aksa, on Mount Mo-
riah at Jerusalem. 
He cites, in attempting to 
prove the fact, the testimony of James Nathan, 
a Jew, of New York, who says he visited the 
ruius in company with Dr. Titus Tobler, of 
Switzerland, in 
1846; 
and 
that 
they 
ob-
tained access to them in the night, through 
the assistance of a poor Arab mason, whom 
they bribed to open a hole in the walls of the 
Mosque, and conduct them into the subterra-
nean apartments. 
He describes a number of 
curious antiquities in these underground re-
gions, all of which Mr. Noah believes to be 
the entire ground floor, or the first story of the 
Temple. 
Mr. Noah also cites the testimony of Mr. 
Catherwood, who, in 1833, was in the service 
Ibrahim Pacha, at Jerusalem, as civil engi-
neer, and wearing the dress and speaking the 
language ofthe Mussulmen, strayed one day 
into the boundaries of the great mosque of 
Omar, and took a drawing of the interior. 
He 
proceeded to the mosque of El Aksa, and de-
scended into the subterranean vaults. 
In his 
description of them he says: 
" At the south-ea3t corner of this rock (a 
lime-stone rock under the dome of the Mosque) 
there is an excavated chamber, to which there 
ls a descent by a flight of stone steps. 
This 
THE ADVEN 
chamber is irregular in form, and its superficial 
area is about six hundred feet, the average 
height seven feet." 
In another part of his des-
cription he says, in reference to these ruins, 
" Here are fifteen rows of square pillars, from 
which spring arches, supporting the platform. 
The whole substruction appears to me of Ro-
man origin, and in connection with the Golden 
Gate, and the one beneath El Aksa, together 
with the ancient bridge, to have formed a con-
nected plan of foundations to the great temple of 
Herod." 
After describing the length of the 
last wall, 1520 feet, of the south 940, of the 
west wall 1617 feet, and of the north 1020, the 
remains of which, still existing, Mr. Cather-
wood says, in conclusion, " The Mosque of 
Omar occupies the position of the Holy of Ho-
lies of Solomon's Temple." 
He.also cites Mr. Tipping, who visited the 
spot in 1842, and through the aid of a deaf and 
dumb lay gained an entrance through a hole 
in the wall, who gives a similar description of 
the remains to Mr. Nathan ; or as he 
might 
have said, Mr. Nathan gives a similar descrip-
tion to Mr. Tipping. 
This seems to be about 
all the testimony which Mr. Noah produces in 
regard to the existence of the first story of 
the Jewish Temple, notwithstanding the fact 
that they must have remained there for 18 
hundred years in as perfect 
condition, 
at least, 
as they are now. 
That there are subterranean 
apartments beneath these Mosques, we will not 
attempt to deny: but that they are the remains 
of the Temple is a question which Mr. Noah 
has failed to prove. 
He asserts that the ruins 
"remainedfive hundred 
years without disturb-
ance, during which long period the earth accu-
mulated over them, covering up and concealing 
them some 
twelve or fifteen feet below the 
surface." 
But he should have 
remembered 
that the Temple stood on Mount Moriah, which 
is represented as being considerably elevated 
above other 
portions 
of 
the city, and 
ac-
cording to the laws of gravitation, the earth 
(and whatever would float offthe ruins,) would 
naturally wash down the hill, instead of rising 
fifteen feet higher than it was before. 
But we 
do not consider the statement worthy a serious 
reply. 
Had the first story of the Jewish Tem-
ple remained entire after the destruction of the 
city of Jerusalem, the fact would have been 
known by thousands, and handed down to us 
in history; and the Infidel world would 
have 
used it as an argument against the truth of 
Christianity; but as nothing of this kind was 
ever attempted, it is presumed that of the Tem-
ple " not one stone was left upon another " in 
the terrible destruction that befel the city of 
Jerusalem. 
It is too late in the day to attempt 
to get up such a story as this. 
The modifica-
tions of society that are going forward in Eu-
rope, will eventually reach the Eastern world, 
and will probably unfold the history of the 
Mosques of Omar and El Aksa, and the vaults 
under them. 
In his communication, Mr. Noah corrects 
a mistake which the public has fallen into in 
regard to the rebuilding of the Temple. 
He 
says it is a splendid 
synagogue 
which the 
Jews are now proposing to build in Jerusalem, 
and not the Temple. 
The building of that 
edifice must be delayed till there are Jews 
enough in Jerusalem, to rebuild it in a magni-
cent style.—(Chris. 
Secretary.) 
"The Latter Day." 
Under this title the Presbyterian Treasury 
offers a few hortative paragraphs, which are so 
much in harmony with our own remarks of 
last week, on the duty of prayer, that we are 
happy to copy them, in the hope of thus im-
pressing the subject more deeply on the minds 
of our readers.—(Chis. Intel.) 
" Prophecy and Providence seem to unite in 
pointing to important developments in the his-
tory of the Church and of the world. 
That a 
crisis in the affairs of the Redeemer's kingdom 
is not far off, seems to be a very general im-
pression. 
Under these circumstances, 
what 
should be the feelings with which Christians 
should abide the issue ? 
" 1. These providential dispensations should 
find Christians watching. 
A state of indiffer-
ence or of negligence is inexcusable. 
The era 
of overturnings, so full of interest to Zion, de-
mands a watchfulness of 
all 
events. 
The 
Church must have her watch-towers duly oc-
cupied, and all her outposts ready for emerg-
encies. 
Providential opportunities to spread 
abroad the gospel must be embraced without 
delay. 
And not only must Christians watch 
for outward changes and opportunities, they 
must watch also for those inward feelings suit-
able to the terrors and hopes of the approach-
T HERALD. 
ing crisis. 
The language of our Saviour still 
applies : 1 What I say unto you, I say unto all, 
Watch.' 
" 2. The coming events of the latter day 
should find Christians praying. 
The spirit of 
earnest supplication well becomes those who 
know 
that 
the 
most 
mighty 
and eventful 
changes are at hand. 
Prayer is the privilege 
of Christians in time of trial. 
The events of 
Providence, which are ordered for the welfare 
of the Church, require the acknowledgment 
of her dependence upon the King of kings. 
Those who desire to see, amidst the general 
overturnings, the walls of Zion standing for 
'salvation,' and her gates established 
with 
1 praise,' must earnestly entreat the mercy and 
the power of God. 
The graces which should 
shine so brightly in the Christian's heart amid 
the gloom of an awful interval of darkness, 
must be kept burning on the altar of intense 
devotion. 
The duty of prayer is peculiarly in-
cumbent at such a time as this—prayer in the 
closet, in the family, at the monthly concert, in 
the sanctuary—prayer for the favor of God 
towards his people, and for his interposition to 
restrain 
1 the remainder of 
wrath,' for the 
good of Zion and for the glory of his name. 
"3. 
The latter times should find Christians 
trusting. 
Fear and despair are dishonoring 
attributes of the Christian character. 
God is 
to be trusted when most his presence is need-
ed. 
Calamities which shake our confidence in 
the Head of the Church, should make us dis-
trust our own interest in the Redeemer's aton-
ing work. 
The only hope of the Church is 
from above. 
He who has led her thus far 
through the wilderness to the confines of the 
promised land, will not forsake her in the 
presence of the latter day Canaanites. 
Let 
every Christian renew his trust in the Lord of 
hosts, both as regards his own personal hopes 
and the general safety of the Church. 
"4. 
The impending 
changes should find 
Christians 
denying 
themselves. 
A state 
of 
luxurious ease is inconsistent with the duties 
of an arduous warfare. 
' Deny thyself,' is the 
command of Christ from the earliest period of 
personal discipleship; and it is a duty peculi-
arly to be exercised in times that call forth the 
most earnest energies of the whole sacramen-
tal host. 
Now, in a special manner, does the 
Lord invite his people to take up the cross and 
follow?, him." 
The Judgment. 
And is it certain that I must appear at the 
judgment? 
Yes. 
"We must all appear be-
fore the judgment seat of Chfist." 
And must 
I there give an account of my actions? 
Un-
doubtedly ; every one will be judged " accord-
ing to that he hath done, whether it be good or 
bad." 
And will my most secret iniquities be 
revealed in the light of that day ? 
They will. 
" For God will bring every work into judgment, 
with every secret thing, whether it be good, 
or whether it be evil." 
Must I render an account of my words 
as 
well as my actions? 
Even so. 
" But I say 
unto you, that every idle word that men shall 
speak, they shall give an account thereof in the 
day of judgment." 
Will any account be taken 
of our thoughts, 
and of the secret desires and 
imaginations of the heart, on that day ? 
Most 
certainly; for the heart is the source of all 
wickedness, and God knows and remembers 
every evil thought which ever passed through 
the minds of men ; these come under the class 
of "secret things:" and it is written, " God 
will judge the secrets of men," in that day, 
" by Jesus Christ." 
Perhaps this relates to 
secret actions. 
Not alone; for it is written, 
" Therefore judge nothing before the time, un-
til the Lord come, who both will bring to light 
the hidden things of darkness, and will make 
manifest the councils of the hearts." 
Will all sinners feel alike on that day ? 
All 
impenitent sinners will be condemned to ever-
lasting misery ; but there will be a wide differ-
ence between the punishment of those 
who 
sinned in ignorance, and those who sinned in 
the midst of light and against ligfht. 
It will 
be more tolerable for Sodom and Gomorrah 
than for Bethsaida and Capernaum. 
" That 
servant that knew his Master's will, and com-
mitted things worthy of stripes, shall be beaten 
with many stripes; while he that knew not 
his Master's will, and committed things worthy 
of stripes, shall be beaten with few stripes."— 
Every man shall receive according to his works. 
" This is tbe condemnation, that light is come 
into the world, and men choose darkness rather 
than light, because their deeds are evil." 
Is 
the Judgment-day 
determined ? 
Yes. 
" For he hath appointed a day, in which he 
187 
will judge the world in righteousness by that 
man whom he hath ordained." 
Is theft reason 
to think that day is near at hand ?v It is nearer 
now than ever before. 
It comes on apace ; but 
of that day and that hour knoweth no man, nor 
the angels in heaven. 
Will any man be able to stand in the judg-
ment? 
None but such as are clothed in the 
righteousness of Christ; these shall not only 
be acquitted, but their imperfect works of faith 
and labors of love shall be richly rewarded. 
All others shall be condemned. 
No man's 
morality or good works can stand the scrutiny 
of that day. 
All not interested in Christ will 
be cast into outer darkness; they will hear the 
Judge's sentence, " Depart, accursed, into ever-
lasting fire."— American 
Messenger. 
The Saint and the Sinner. 
If Christ should say to the wicked as to the 
righteous on the last day, " I was an hungered 
and ye gave me meat; I was tbirsty and ye 
gave 
me drink," &c., they would not ask, 
"When 
saw we thee hungry?" &c. 
They 
would think themselves deserving of the com-
mendation, for they always contended they had 
good hearts, and loved Christ. Just so it is now. 
Hisenemies mostconfidently and strenuously as-
sert that they love him, while his friends are 
very suspicious of themselves, 
often doubt 
whether they do love him, and are always slow 
to declare it, and when they do, it is always 
with regret that they love him so little. 
Christians 
wonder 
why they should 
bq 
saved. 
Sinners wonder why they should not 
be saved. 
The sinner asks, " What have I 
done ? " 
The Christian, " What have I not 
done ? " 
The sinner says he does the best he 
can. 
The Christian knows he does not. 
Who 
was it that said, " Behold I am vile ? " 
Was 
it Saul, Judas, or Jeroboam ? 
No. 
It was 
Job, " a perfect and upright man, one that 
feared God and eschewed evil." 
The habits of an evangelically righteous man 
are holy; his sins are but occasional acts, con-
trary to his fixed habits: whereas, with the 
unregenerate, it is just the reverse. 
He may 
do good actions, but his habits are sinful. 
The 
Christian acts out of character when he sins ; 
but when the other sins he acts in character.— 
With the former, sin is a digression ; with the 
latter it is the main stay. 
The one walks in 
the ways of obedience, though he is guilty of 
occasional aberrations ; the other walks in the 
ways of disobedience habitually. 
Devotion is 
with the Christian a habit, though he is some-
times undevout; so is trust in God, though he 
sometimes distrusts him ; so is sobriety and the 
severest rectitude, though he may occasionally 
be betrayed into acts that are opposed to these 
virtues. 
It must be acknowledged, that if the sinners 
are not out of their senses, the saints are.— 
There is madness somewhere. 
If Festus was 
not beside himself, Paul certainly was. 
The 
one party or the other is breaming. 
Who is it, 
Paul or Festus ?—Nevins. 
The Slanderer. 
His tongue is a devouring fire, which tar-
nishes every thing that it touches ; which exer-
cises its fury on the good grain equally with 
the chaff—on the profane as on the sacred ; 
which whenever it passes, leaves only desola-
tion and ruin ; digs even into the bowels of the 
earth; turns into ashes, what only a moment 
before had appeared to us so precious and bril-
liant; acts with more violence and danger than 
ever, in the time when it Was apparently smoth-
ered up andalmost extinct; which blackens what 
it cannot consume, and sometimes sparkles and 
delights before it destroys. 
It is an assemblage 
of iniquity—a secret pride, which discovers to 
us the mote in our brother's eye, but hides the 
beam which is in our own—a mean envy, which, 
hurt at the talents and prosperity of others, 
makes them the subject of its censures, and 
studies to dim the splendor of whatever out-
shines itself; an unworthy duplicity, which 
praises to the face and tears in pieces behind 
the back ; a deliberate barbarity, whigh goes to 
pierce an absent brother. 
It is an evil full of 
deadly poison ; whatever flows from it is in-
fected, and poisons whatever it approaches, 
even its praises are empoisoned—its applauses 
malicious—its silence criminal; its gestures, 
motions and looks have all their venom, and 
spread it, each in its way. 
Still more dread-
ful is this evil when it is found among those 
who are the professed disciples of Jesus Christ. 
—Massillon. 
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Cjeratft. 
'nEHOLD! THE BRIDEGROOM COMETH! 
BOSTON, SATURDAY, JANUARY 13, 1849. 
"The Times ofthe Gentiles." 
And they shall fait by the edge or the sword, and shall be led 
away captive into-ali nations: and Jerusalem shall betr.Klden down 
of the Gentiles, until the times of the'Gentiles are fulfilled.»-
Luke 21:24. 
IA previous articles, on the address of Mr. NOAH, 
we have considered the evidence of the signs of the 
approaching termination of Judah's captivity. 
As 
Jerusalem' was to be trodden down of the Gentiles 
till the fulfilment of their times, it follows that the 
evidence of the near termination of the predicted 
period' of Judah's bondage, is also evidence of the 
fulfilment of " the times of the Gentiles." 
IT is, 
therefore, important to have some correct understand-
ing of the import of that phrase.-
By this expression it is evident that either some-
thing well understood is referred to, or that it denotes 
something which is clearly explained in other Scrip-
tures. 
The inspired writings of the Old Testament 
giive various' intimations that the Gentiles were to 
have open on them a more glorious period of gospel 
privileges than they had before enjoyed. 
ISAIAH pre-
dicted that in the day when " a root of JESSE " shall 
"stand for an ensign of the people," that "to it 
shall the Gentiles- seek."—11 : 10. 
CHRIST was 
to be " a light to the Gentiles," and was to " bring 
forth judgment " to them.—42:1,6. 
When the hand 
of GOD should be lifted up to the Gentiles, and his 
standard set up to the people, the LORD said (49:22, 
23) " and they shall bring thy sons in their arms, and 
thy daughters shall be carried upon their shoulders; 
and kings shall be thy nursing fathers, and their 
queens thy nursing mothers." 
Speaking to Zion, 
the LORD said (60:3, 5) " And the Gentiles shall 
come to thy light, and kings to the brightness of thy 
rising" . . . " Then shalt thou see and flow together, 
and thine heart shall fear and be enlarged ; because 
the abundance of the sea shall be converted unto 
thee, the forces of the Gentiles shall come unto thee." 
In view of this gathering in from the nations, ISAIAH 
exclaims, (54:1—3) " Sing 0 barren, thou that didst 
not bear; break forth into singing, and cry aloud, 
thou that didst not travail with child ; for more are 
the children of the desolate than of the married wife, 
saith the Lord. 
Enlarge the place of thy tent, and 
let them stretch forth the curtains of thy habitations; 
spare not, lengthen thy cords, and strengthen thy 
stakes-; for thou shalt break forth on the right hand 
and on the left; and thy seed shall inherit the Gen 
tiles." 
The ushering in of the Gentile glory was to 
be indicated by a change of ttie name by which GOD 
should recognize his people ; for when 
ISAIAH pre 
diets that the Gentiles shall see thy righteousness and 
all kings thy glory," (62:2) he also adds, " and thou 
shalt be called by a new name which the mouth of 
the LORD shall name." 
The foregoing are some of the promises, contained 
in the Old Testament, of blessings to be extended to 
the Gentiles, of which the Jews alone had been almost 
sole partakers. 
In accordance with the above, we 
find the Saviour predicting that " this gospel of the 
kingdom shall be preached in all the world as a wit-
ness to all nations," (Matt. 24:14) ; and also com-
manding his disciples, to go " into all the world, and 
preach the gospel to every creature."—Mark 16:15. 
The dependence of Scripture on Scripture, leads 
us to reason a priori, that " the times of the Gen-
tiles," spoken of in the text, are synchronical with 
the predicted period of Gentile illumination.. This 
period of gospel privileges the Gentiles have enjoyed 
At the first Pentecostal season after the expiatory 
sacrifice of the Lamb slain from the foundation of the 
world, the 
SPIRIT of the 
LORD was poured out on 
" Parthians, Medes, Elamites, and the dwellers in 
Mesopotamia, and in Judea, and Cappadocia, in Pon-
tus, and Asia, Phrygia, Pamphylia, in Egypt, and 
in the parts of Lybia about Gyrene, and strangers of 
Rome, Jews, and proselytes, Cretes, and Arabians 
who, with men from every nation under heaven, were 
assembled at Jerusalem ; and of them were converted 
about three thousand souls." 
Thus enkindled, the 
light of the gospel jllumined the dark corners of 
Asia during the first century; in the fourth, shone 
over benighted Africa; at a later period had its rays 
reflected from every part of Europe; 
has since 
dawned on the whole extent of the American conti-
nent, and is now blessing the isles of the Pacific with 
its cheering rays. 
And thus, like the course of the 
natural sun, the Sun of Righteousnes has smiled in 
turn on every portion of the globe,—beginning in the 
east, and journeying to the west,—until now it would 
be difficult to point to the nation, or tribe, that has 
not heard the proclamation of salvation—witnessing 
to them as a savor of life to those who believed, and 
of death to those who believed not. 
Truly the Gen-
tiles have come to its light, and kings to the bright 
ness of its rising 
Kings have been the nursing 
fathers, and queens the nursing mothers of the 
church. 
This Gentile dispensation was not to be eternal: 
its duration was limited. 
The SAVIOUR informed us, 
(Matt. 24:14,) that when this gospel of the kingdom 
shall be preached in all the world for a witness unto 
all nations, " then shall the end come." 
It was to 
be preached, mark, not for the conversion, but as a 
witness to all nations. 
Until the times of the Gentiles 
are fulfilled, J?rusalem is to be trodden down of 
them.—Luke 21:24. 
When Jerusalem shall cease 
to be in bondage to them, their times will have ex-
pired. 
The evidence, therefore, of the relaxation of 
the bonds of Jewish servitude, which we have con-
sidered in previous articles connected with Mr. NOAH'S 
address, is also evidence of the near fulfilment of the 
times of the Gentiles. 
It does not follow that Jeru 
salem is to be then restored to the Jews: it might 
or might not, as the plan of God might permit or no 
That such a restoration is not consonant with GOD'S 
plan, before the Advent, we see by the evidences 
which the SAVIOUR connects with the termination of 
the times of the Gentiles. 
After speaking of the 
fulfilment of this period, he says, " And there shall 
be signs in the sun, and in the moon, and in the stars 
and upon earth distress of nations, with perplexity 
the sea and the waves roaring ; men's hearts failing 
them for fear, and for looking after those things which 
are coming on the earth : for the powers of heaven 
shall be shaken. 
And then shall they see the Son of 
man coming in a cloud, with power and great glory 
And when these things shall begin to come to pass 
then look up, and lift up your heads: for your redemp-
tion draweth nigh."—Luke 21:25—28. 
These sup 
plementary remarks would be meaningless to us, if 
the signs therein enumerated were not to indicate the 
approaching fulfilment of the times of the Gentiles 
" And there shall be signs in the sun," &c.—Signs 
of what? 
They can surely be nothing but the signs 
of the near termination of the period the 
SAVIOUR 
was speaking of. 
Consequently the evidence being 
given of the removal of Jewish disabilities among 
the nations, at a time when the signs specified by the 
SAVIOUR have been witnessed in the physical and moral 
world, how can we regard it as other than an addi-
tional token of the approaching advent ? 
We know that others quote Rom. 11:25, 26, that 
" blindness is happened to Israel until the fulness of 
the Gentiles be come in. 
And so all Israel ahall be 
saved: as it is written, There shall come out of Sion 
the Deliverer, and shall turn away ungodliness from 
Jacob." To get a full understanding of this passage, 
it is necessary to inquire, 1st, What is denoted by the 
fulness of the Gentiles? 
2d, Who are the all Israel 
that will be then saved? and 3d, Who is the Deliver-
er, and what is denoted by his coming out of Sion. 
1st. The fulness of the Gentiles. 
The word ren-
dered fulness is 7RX£POJTta, which, according to ROBIN-
SON and others, denotes the full contents of anything, 
the full measure, &c. 
As no Gentiles can be added 
after the full number of Gentiles have come in, it fol-
lows, that when the fulness of the Gentiles have 
come in, that the dispensation of the Gentiles will 
then have ended. 
2. All Israel.—We have be-
fore shown that the all Israel who are to be saved, are 
all who are of the faith of ABRAHAM. 
3. The De-
liverer, and his coming out of Zion. 
This can be 
no other than CHRIST at his second coming. 
" As it 
is written," saith the Apostle. 
By turning to Isaiah 
59:20, 21 we find it written, " And the 
REDEEMER 
shall come to Zion, and unto them that turn from 
their transgression in Jacob, saith the LORD. 
AS for 
me, this is my covenant with them, saith the LORD ; 
my Spirit that is upon thee, and my words which I 
have put in thy mouth, shall not depart out of thy 
mouth, nor out of the mouth of thy seed, nor out of 
the mouth of thy seed's seed, saith the LORD, from 
henceforth and forever." 
Thus we find that the 
promise is written only to those who turn from trans-
gression in Jacob, and that it ushers them into the 
eternal state. 
This accords with the 15th verse of Rom. 11: " If 
the casting away of them be the reconciling of the 
world, what shall the receiving of them be but life 
from the dead ?" 
We reply, it can be nothing but 
life from the dead. The resurrection alone, by taking 
the departed saints from their hiding-places in the 
grave, can restore them to the promised inheritance. 
Another evidence of the near termination of the 
times of the Gentiles" is seen in the waning of 
the temporal power of the Pope, by which most wri-
ters have understood that the " little horn " of Dan. 
7th is exemplified. 
This, DANIEL says, he " beheld, 
and the same horn made war with the saints, and 
prevailed against them, until the Ancient of Days 
came, and judgment was given to the saints of the 
MOST HIGH, and the time came that the saints pos-
sessed the kingdom."—Dan. 7:21, 22. 
In the 26th 
verse he says : " But the judgment shall sit, and they 
shall take away his dominion to consume and to des-
troy unto the end." 
That power being now appa-
rently taken away and destroyed, the end to which it 
was to continue must be very nigh. 
The Catholics 
tell us that this is " the third Pope within the memo-
ry of those living who has thus fled ;" and therefore 
they argue that it does not follow, but he, like them, 
may again recover the patrimony of St. 
PETER.— 
This granted, still the evidence of his restoration is 
very dubious. 
It is a singular fact connected with the flight of 
the Pope, that it should have occurred in the year 
1848,.the very year to which ROBERT FLEMING, one 
hundred and forty-seven years before, pointed out as 
" the final period of Papal usurpations."* 
These 
events thickening around us admonish us to watch, 
to study the word of GOD, to be prepared for the 
things that are coming on the earth, and to look for 
most momentous results to hasten upon us. 
In connection with the foregoing, we feel that the 
following, by Rev. HENRY DANA WARD, communi-
cated for the first volume of the Signs of the Times, 
will be now read with interest:— 
" PLEROMA, OR FULNESS OF THE JEWS. 
"' Now if the fall of them be the riches of the 
world, and the diminishing of them the riches of the 
Gentiles, how much more their 
fulness?—Blindness 
in part has happened unto Israel, until the fulness of 
the Gentiles be come in.'—Rom. 11:12, 25. 
" In a few words let us search the meaning of the 
above passage. 
That it i3 obscure, the diversity of 
views respecting it is evidence- 
And the obscurity 
seems to lie in the sense of that word, 7rXi)p^jw.a, ren-
dered ' fulness' in the text. 
What means the plero-
ma of the Jews, and the pleroma of the Gentiles? 
' According lo Greenfield's Greek Concordance 
the word pleroma occurs fourteen times in the New 
Testament, in the following places :— 
" In Matt. 9:16, and in Mark 2:21, in the parable 
of the old garment tattered and patched with new 
cloth, where pleroma implies the patch. 
" In Mark 8:20, it expresses the fulness'of 
bas-
kets orf" fragments. 
In the above instances the sense 
of the word pleroma seems to be, completion, comple-
ment, full quantity. 
'It next occurs in John 1:17: ' Of his pleroma, 
or fulness, have we all received, and grace for grace.' 
Here it seems to mean, full quality, or perfection, an 
attribute of God. 
" It next occurs in our text; and again in Rom 
13:19, ' Love is the pleroma, or fulfilling of the law.' 
And in Rom. 15:29, ' I shall come in the pleroma, ot 
fulness, of the blessing of the gospel of Christ.'— 
And in 1 Cor. 10:26, ' For the earth is the Lord's 
and the pleroma, or fulness, thereof.' 
The sense in 
the above passages seems to be, completion, full 
measure. 
" Again, in Gal. 4:4, ' But when the pleroma, or 
fulness, of time was come, God sent forth his Son." 
And Eph. 1:10, ' That in the dispensation of theple-
roma, or fulness, of times, he might gather together 
in one all things in Christ, both which are in heaven 
and which are on the earlh, in him." 
In these two 
passages, pleroma seems to mean fulness in the sense 
of end ; the completion of any time being the end of 
that lime. 
"'The fulness of him that filleth all in all.'— 
Eph. 1:23. 
"' That ye might be filled with all the fulness of 
God.'—lb. 3:19. 
" ' Unto the measure of the stature of the fulness 
of Christ.'—lb. 4:13. 
" ' In him should all fulness dwell.'—Col 1:19 
"' For in him dwelleth all the fulness of the God 
head bodily.'—Col. 2:9. 
" In the last five instances, the word pleroma, trans 
lated fulness, seems to signify perfection, an attri 
bute of God. 
" From the use of the word pleroma in these 
twelve places, we may be assisted to understand its 
meaning in the only two remaining, found in the text. 
" When applied to persons or character, the word 
seems to signify fulness in the sense of qnality, i. e., 
perfection ; when applied' to things, it signifies ful-
ness in tne sense of quantity, full measure ; and when 
applied to limes, it seems to signify fulness in the 
sense of completion, or end of the times. 
" The question is, In which or what sense is it to 
be understood in the text? 
What is the pleroma or 
fulness, of the Jews? 
And what is the pleroma or 
fulness, of the Gentiles ? 
" 1. Of the Jews. 
Does the pleroma of the Jews 
apply to their personal character or quality ? Then 
it. would seem to express the perfection of that cha 
racter in a heavenly sense ; full quality, perfection" 
an attribute of God. 
' 
"Does it apply'to their times? Then it would seem 
to imply the end of their times. 
The fulness of a 
time is the end of that time. 
" Does it apply to their number, or quantity ? Then 
it would express the completion of that number or 
quantity; full measure. 
" In one or the other, or all of these senses, it does 
probably apply to the Jews, and it seems to apply 
mainly to their character or quality ; and also to their 
times and quantity. 
For, 
" The apostle has spoken of their' fall,' and ' the 
diminishing of them,' which is to be understood reli-
giously of their quality and depravity, and not physi-
cally or politically of iheir quantity or number, or'na-
lional power.* 
"' The fall of them,' 
(TO 
UVRUM,) 
means, ' their transgression,' in the sense of Adam's 
fall, or transgression ; and ' the diminishing of them ' 
(TO QRTI^A uvrrn,) means,' their fault,' in the sense 
of depravity. 
It is of their conduct and character 
the apostle is speaking, when he names their parap-
toma and their etlema, their transgression and de-
pravity; and it is of their conduct and character he 
speaks when he also names (To 7rXijpcopa uvrwv) 
their fulness. 
So that' fulness ' in Rom 11:12, con-
clusively to my mind, is to be understood of the cha-
racter of the Jews, in the sense of full quality, hea-
venly perfection, an attribute of God. 
But this ' ful-
ness' is only by faith, now in the fulness of time it 
will come in fact. 1 In the dispensation ofthe fulness 
of times,' the blindness of the Jews will be cured 
their ' deliverer' will 'turn away ungodliness from 
Jacob,' and ' take away their sins,' according to this 
same chapter of Romans v. 26, and the rest. 
" The apostle reasons from their sin to their per-
fection. 
The sin and depravity of the Jews opened 
the way of salvation to the Gentiles; how much 
more shall the perfection of Israel open ihe way of 
salvation. 
' For if the casting aw-ay of them be the 
reconciling of the world, what shall the receiving of 
them be but life from the dead v 
The aposlle argues 
from the less to the greater: if the Lord's rejection 
of the Jews be made the adoption of Christendom 
into his favor, what will their restoration be, if not 
the resurrection of the dead and the marriage supper 
of the Lamb ? This I humbly take to be the mean-
ing of the apostle. 
I know it is surrounded with dif-
ficulties ; but I am not at liberty to alter the text, to 
make it read as 'life from the dead,'in order to 
escape from the force of the conclusion which the 
apostle draws. 
" It is no hyperbole to say, if the offence ofthe Jews 
be the riches of the world, and their transgression be 
the riches of the Gentiles, that their perfect obedience 
will open the gates of heaven for the risen dead. 
If 
their fault 
in rejecting Christ be ihe riches of ihe 
Gentiles, it may well be that their perfect reception of 
him will overflow with benefits to the sleeping dead. 
If the rejection of them be the occasion of the recon-
ciling of the world, the restoration of them may also 
be the occasion of the crowning of the saints. 
And 
the apostle intimates as much, when he places it in 
the time of ' the fulness <uf the Gentiles,' when 
' all Israel shall be saved: as it is written, there 
shall come out of Zion the deliverer.' 
No coming 
remained at the time when the apostle wrote, but ihe 
second time, without sin unto salvation, when all that 
are in the graves shall hear the voice of the Son of 
Man and come forth. 
" When he that will come has come, he will save 
all Israel, and.perfect them with his fulness, when he 
lakes away their sins ; but this would seem to be 
only in heaven and eternal hie, where neither parap-
toma or ettema, oil'ence nor fault, can enter, come, or 
happen. 
At the same time is ihe fulness of ihe Gen-
tiles to come in ; they are not leii out of the kingdom. 
The end of their time is their fulness; 
after their 
fulness is come in, no more can enter; otherwise full 
is not full, which is absurd. 
The end of their time 
is the beginning of ' the dispensation of the fulness 
of times,' in ' life from the dead.' 
Then all things 
in Christ, both in heaven and earth, are lo be gathered 
together in Christ, constituting the pleroma of Him 
that filleth all in all. 0 glorious day ! 0 happy hour! 
" How long, dear Saviour, O how long, 
Shall this bright hour delay !" 
" Here many things rush on the thoughts. We are 
despised for regarding this state of things above any 
temporal millennium, and above the conversion of 
this world. 
We cannot help it. 
Let the truth run 
through the earth, and God will be glorified. 
Our 
prayer is for the pleroma of Israel, and also of the 
Gentiles, with Christin ihe earth on the throne of his 
glory." 
* See "Rise and Fall ofthe Papacy," by R. Fleming-first pub-
lished in 1701. We have a few copies for sale at this oifice. Price, 
31 1-2 cts. 
* " The word rendered ' fall' is*-upciTrruipu, (pa-
raptoma,) 
which, according to Greenfield, occurs 
twenty-one times in the New Testament, and is, in 
every other place but this chapter, translated, ' of-
fence, sin, or transgression ;' and in that sense, ' fall 
of them,' in the text, is explained by ' their offence,' 
' their sin, or transgression.' 
" So, likewise, the word vrrypa., (ettema.) trans-
lated, 'the diminishing' of them, occurs, according 
to Greenfield, in one other place only in the Testa-
ment, viz.,.1 Cor.. 6:7, where it is translated, 
'a 
fault.' 
Let our text so be translated, and it would 
read, ' If their offence be the riches of the world, and 
their fault 
the riches of the Genliles,, how much 
more their fulness.' 
To carry out the contrast of the 
words ' offence ' and ' fault,' ' fulness' must be taken 
in the sense of perfection, full quality." 
THE ADVENT 
HERALD. 
189 
Roman Affairs. 
The temporal power of the POPE appears to have 
terminated. 
This 
the leading 
Catholic journal 
seems to admit. 
To show what they themselves say 
of this result, we copy the following from the Lon-
don Tablet, of Dec. 9th. 
It says : — 
The latest news up to the time at which we are 
now writing announces that the Holy Father has 
escaped out of the hands of the assassins, who form 
the most active portion of his subjects, and in the 
disguise—first of a livery servant, and then of Chap-
lain to the Bavarian minister, Count de Spaur—has 
succeeded in making his way across the frontier, to 
the stronghold of Gaeta, the most considerable port 
and fortress in the northern part of the kingdom of 
Naples. 
A letter from Naples, published in the Times, de-
scribes the effect of this salutary flight on the minds 
of the Roman people. 
" A general stupefaction^ 
seized all classes of society. 
No one dared to give 
utterance to his thoughts, and men looked on each 
other in despair, and as if the reign of terror had ar-
rived. ... All the letters I have seen desciibe the 
people of Home as stupified by these events, and 
that even when the proclamations are read no one 
ventures to utter an opinion in favor of or against 
them." 
In the meantime the new Government ad-
dresses a proclamation to the Romans—that is, to 
two classes < f men: murderers and bravos, of 
whom they are the organs and nominees, and cow-
ards, who tamely submit to murder and dare not lift 
up tongue or hand against the most awful ruffianism. 
The murder-king, President and Monsignore, Muz-
zarelli, with his accomplices Galletti, Lunati, Sterbi-
ni, Campello, and Stereni, the morning after the 
flight of his Holiness, in mingled accents of whim-
pering and mock heroics, inform their constituent 
stiletto-operatives that " the Pontiff left Rome last 
night, yielding to deplorable advice." 
" Deplora-
ble," no doubt, but deplorable 10 whom? 
To those 
gangs of cowardly miscreants who, having just 
presence of mind enough to run away from a field of 
battle, and just courage enough when in the propor-
tion of twenty to one to stab an unarmed man in the 
back—have, some of them, murdered in cold blood a 
Prime Minister, and others taken upon them with the 
coolest deliberation the guilt of his murder, and have 
installed another ministry, in which, it is thought, 
galley slaves and cut-throats may feel thejutmost con-
fidence and security. 
To these men—ripe for the 
gallows—the darlings of the Roman Assembly and 
the creatures of Monsignor Muzzarelli, the Pope's 
departure is of course a deplorable event. 
They 
thought to mop up the blood of M. Rossi with the 
Pope's tiara. 
They hoped to make the parallel be-
tween Louis XVI. and Pio Nono complete. 
They 
wished to keep " the Pontiff" in their own hands; 
to use him as their instrument; to employ his influ-
ence as a part of their political capital, and the cred-
it of his sanctity as a covering for their diabolical ex-
cesses. 
No doubt their imaginations suggested many de-
lightful scenes for the future. 
By the help of their 
bloody arithmetic they calculuted how much coercion 
would^prpduce, how much connivance ; what amount 
of bodily fear or tender humanity would 
induce 
" the Pontiff" to lend a seeming sanction to their 
crimes; and when it would be necessary to make 
the blood of friend or servant spout out upon bis 
hands and upon his garments as an inducement for 
further concession. 
For a time it would have been extremely useful to 
have in their guardianship a man whom they fancied 
they could rule by cutting a human throat or two on 
bis stairs or in his ante-chambers. 
And when, by a 
long course of unmanly submissions, the character of 
the Pope 
had been used up, 
and his influ-
ence was found to be 
as small as his presence 
was inconvenient, then he would have been drawn 
°ut of the sty iu which they intended him to fatten, 
and the knife would have severed his own throat. 
Thus, no doubt, or to this effect, ran the Monsig-
norial calculations. 
Rome was again to be exalted 
in moral grandeur above the rest of the world ; and 
modern Rome above the ancient. 
The knights of 
the guillotine in Paris had indeed operated on a larg-
er scale, but the highest of their achievements was 
the decapitation of a King. 
The patriots of the old 
city in the days of their patriotism had stabbed noth-
1(ig higher than a Dictator. 
But our modern Brutus 
and Cassius could have capped former "precedents by 
a nobler example. 
Herod and Pontius Pilate were 
indeed above their reach; that awful crime they 
could not hope to emulate, much less to surpass ; 
but by how ntuch the Representative of Christ sur-
passes a King or a Dictator, by so much would the 
sublimity of their crime tower over all other ancient 
and modern ferocity. 
This was no doubt an enno-
Whig and hopeful calculation, but it left out of ac-
count some small but essential circumstances. Thus, 
it seems entirely to have forgotten that a " flight to 
Varennes," not a mere flash in the pan like that 
('f Louis XVI., but altogether successful like that 
which has just taken |>lace, was a most probable 
event. 
The actors in these deeds of infamy imagin-
ed that their tenure of the Pope was during good 
pleasure. 
They forgot that there are such things as 
'ivories, false mustaches, back doors, and ambassa-
dorial carriages. 
They imagined that nothing could 
e transacted in secret but their own plots and mas-
sacres. 
And thus, when the morning broke and 
snowed that the captive was fled, they found them-
8e'ves in an awkward predicament, and obliged to 
whine and moan about the Pope having " yielded 
'o deplorable advice." 
A he next ejaculation of the new Government is in 
Pfaise of themselves ; what they have done to pre-
serve order, and what they will do. 
Among other 
)lngs, then future, was the appointment of a com-
mission to punish with all the rigor of the law all 
who " dare attack the lives of the citizens." 
This 
is most ungrateful. 
What! 
Shall the thing form-
ed rebel against that which formed it? 
Shall the 
spawn of bloody daggers cry out against the shed-
ding of blood ? Shall the offspring of Rossi's as-
sassination reprove those who " dare attack the lives 
of citizens? " 
Why ? By what rule? 
If Brutus 
is still in favor and his acts counted heroic, why pun-
ish deeds of heroism? 
Why use the rigor of the 
law to repress the highest manifestations of divine 
virtue? 
On the contrary, why are we not permitted 
to look forward with pleasing anticipation to the time 
when six poniards will offer up to the infernal gods 
the blood of the six Ministers who now set in M. 
Rossi's seat? 
What is there in the euphonious 
name of " Muzzarelli " to render his muscles a less 
suitable sheath for six inches of cold steel than those 
of his predecessor? 
Those who know him say he 
would make a very respectable corpse, and we 
have 
no doubt that the dogs would 
lap 
his 
blood with quite as much relish as that of the 
poor Swiss-French-Italian whom he has succeeded 
in authority, and of whose untimely grave the princi-
ples which have raised him up should make him a 
speedy participator. 
But the last paragraph in this document is the 
choicest. 
Having just driven the Pope from Rome 
by a deed of blood which, not indeed the whole city, 
but the bulk of the active politicians in Rome, in-
cluding the legislative assemblies, have deliberately 
taken upon their own heads—Monsignore Muzzarel-
li concludes by bespattering the murderers with the 
most exalted commendation. 
" Prove yourselves," 
he says to them, " worthy of the name you bear, 
and reply with greatness of soul to the calumnies of 
your enemies." 
As far as we can see, the modern Romans are 
likely 
to 
prove themselves 
in every way wor-
thy 
of the 
name 
of modern 
Romans; 
those 
who are good amongst them being cowards, and 
those who are evil, fiends. This is what we under-
stand by Romans in the present day, and just now 
they bid fair " to prove themselves worthy " of a 
name which bears such a meaning. 
As to " great-
ness of soul," that seems to be shown mostly in 
imitations of Brutus, and we suppose, therefore, we 
must make Monsignore Muzzarelli's last sentence to 
be an invitation to wash away the blood of M. Ros-
si by the help of fresh torrents from other victims— 
an invitation not unlikely to be soon practically ac-
cepted . 
But let us leave these hidfeous topics, and pass to 
more wholesome matters. 
The Pope, as we said, 
has left Rome, and taken refuge in Naples. 
What 
will be his uliimate destination it is not at present 
very easy to tell. 
The place of his first halt in this 
commencing pilgrimage has evidently been deter-
minded by considerations of immediate practicability. 
He has gone to Naples, because Naples offered the 
nearest and surest asylum. 
Other rumors were set 
afloat rather by the wishes of speculators than by ev-
idence of facts. 
The first accounts had all but land-
ed hi in in France ; then came a report that an Eng-
lish steamer had conveyed him to Malta. 
It must be 
a relief to every Catholic—even we should imagine 
to every French Catholic—that for the present neith-
er of these reports is true. 
Whatever permanent 
arrangement be made it must be maturely consider-
ed : but, until some plan for the future is well and 
thoroughly digested, it is obviously better that tbe 
Pope should be in Italy, enjoying the hospitality of 
a third-rate poyver, with the protection of France 
(and perhaps even of England) iu the back ground 
as a security for his personal and ecclesiastical free-
dom, than that he should be thrown an absolute de-
pendent into the arms of any great power, and hold 
towards it a similar relation to that which was held 
towards the Crown of France by a succession of 
Popes residing at Avignon. 
Upon the importance of Papal independence it is 
not necessary to enlarge. 
No Catholic who de-
serves the name wishes to see the Pope dependent 
upon any temporal power, whether of his own 
country or of any other state. 
It would be insuffer-
able—if there were any other alternative—to see the 
Supreme Pontiff installed at the Tuilleries, and not 
merely^ ruling the affairs of the Church under tbe 
protection of French cannon, aud by the aid of 
French subsidies, but in the event of a war with 
France, cut of} from all possible intercourse with 
those parts of Christendom which might happen to 
be at war with that kingdom. 
Just as unsatisfacto-
ry—indeed, far more so—would it be to see his Ho-
liness take permanent refuge under the shadow of 
St. James's, a prey to the threats and machinations 
of that Cabinet, which, whatever party may be in 
power, is by habit and constitution one of the most 
crafty and persevering enemies of the independence 
of the Church. 
A permanent establishment in 
either capital we think all Catholics would regard as 
threatening great and signal calamities to religion 
Meanwhile the hand of God is directing the Holy 
Father to Naples, where he has been hospitably and 
reverently welcomed ; and where he has at least se-
cured time to look about him before a fina\ arrange-
ment shall be made. 
The establishment and main-
tenance of the Papacy is so purely a matter within 
the direct ordering of Providence, that it is extreme-
ly difficult to speculate upon it as one would do 
about any other human event. 
That the small, un-
quiet temporal sovereignty of Rome should, amidst 
all the revolutions, wars, and changes by which 
Europe has been overrun, have been maintained in 
almost unbroken continuance for twelve centuries, is 
itself an event miraculous rather than in the ordinary 
course of nature. 
During that long period it has 
been maintained just so far as to afford, on the 
whole, the largest measure of independence that is 
readily conceivable; and it has been broken just so 
much as to demonstrate the vast importance of the 
temporal power to the free action of Catholicity. 
So far as it has been maintained, it has secured for 
the Holy See a free exercise of its ecclesiastical au-
thority ; and whenever it has been interrupted, the 
interruption has brought wiih it a partial slavery or a 
miserable partizanship, and with both a long train of 
the most formidable abuses. 
Against these evils 
and against all that are to come, the inherent life of 
the Church, and the omnipotence of its heavenly 
Founder, boUi have enabled and will enable it to 
make bead even to the end of time. 
Hut yet it can-
not be denied that such things are evils of the first 
magnitude; and that when they impend the duty of 
every man who has a function to talk, or write, or 
act for the Church, is to do his part that the danger 
may be lessened and subdued as much as possible, 
When we have done all, to be sure, the issue re-
mains with God, who, though not, it may be, with a 
view to the mere present convenience of nations, will 
no doubt so dispose the hearts both of the children 
of the Church and of her enemies, as best to help 
forward His gracious designs for the redemption "ibf 
mankind, through the one great medium and instru-
ment of salvation. 
We are struck with horror at the 
fiendish malignity of the Roman assassins. 
We 
suffer with the beloved Father of the Faithful in the 
torture of mental anxiety and humiliation which he 
has had to endure. 
But for the Church, for its for-
tunes, and for its destinies, as far as they are affect-
ed by the present revolution, we feel no anxiety and 
not a jot of fear. 
It is at such moments as these ; 
when the bark of Peter labors among the breakers; 
when a huge sea of calamity dashes against her 
sides ; when her chief and pitot is smitten, and, to 
all appearance, driven from his past; when human 
aids seem far off and unavailing ; and when nothing 
but a miracle can save it from destruction—it is pre-
cisely at such times as these that we feel most con-
fidence and most hope, and we look as certainly for 
a providential interference to save her from ship-
wreck, as for the rising of to-morrow's sun. 
It is, 
therefore, with the utmost calmness that we antici-
pate or speculate about the future ; and we can 
front with the utmost composure, if it be necessary, 
the totai abolition of the temporal power. 
We 
know that for the Supreme Head of the Church, 
whether in opulence or beggary, whether in strength 
or in weakness, God will himself provide a home 
and the means of ruling the wide-spread kingdom 
which He has entrusted to the Vicar of His Son. 
Knowing this we are anxious that all to whom du-
ties belong in the matter should fulfil them strenu-
ously and honestly ; but apart from this, we are not 
anxious about the result. 
Many Catholics are vehemently desirous that the 
Pope should be brought back to Rome, and even 
thrust by force upon the necks of the reluctant 
Romans. 
A respected correspondent in this peek's 
TABLET even suggests the raising of a regiment in 
these islands to co-operate in so good a work. 
We 
confess that we have no inordinate desire to force 
matters in any such direction. 
On the contrary, we 
should have the greatest possible repugnance to see-
ing His Holiness brought back by foreign bayonets, 
and upheld by the sovereigns of Europe in a domin-
ion over reluctant subjects. 
We think such a spec-
tacle, objectionable at any time, would, in the pres-
ent day of constitution-making, be in the highest de-
gree dis-edifying, and productive of the widest possi-
ble scandal. 
It is impossible to prophecy in this 
matter; but we have a strong impression that the 
bond which binds the Head of the Church to the 
Tombs of the Apostles is not broken forever. 
But 
if it is ever to be reknit and fastened, we pray Heaven 
that it may never be any thing but a bond of friend-
ly rule and loyal obedience. 
The spiritual head of 
Christendom ruling like a mere despot over unwilling 
slaves, is not a spectacle that we much desire to wit-
ness. 
The truth is, that what ha3 just happened is but 
one phase of what has been happening in various 
countries of the world ever since the beginning of the 
sixteenth century, and we are not to think it strange 
as if some new thing happened to us. 
Four centu-
ries ago the Church throughout Christendom ruled 
everywhere ; occupied the high places of worldly res-
pectability ; and saw the princes of the earth its will-
ing or reluctant subjects. 
But a change then began, 
which has since visited every country, but not in all 
countries at the same time, nor after the same out-
ward fashion. 
It began in 'Germany; it spread through the north; 
it overran England—assuming the forms of heresy 
and schism. 
Through half of Christendom it broke 
down the worship of God, and reduced the Catholics 
to the condition of a small and despised remnant.— 
There—most widely—the temporal power passed 
into the hands of the enemies of the Church, and left 
her children to be the victims of that which had for-
merly been her protector. 
Many efforts, in England 
more especially, were made to restore, through the 
temporal power, the fallen fortunes of the Church. 
They all failed, and every fresh effort was but the 
signal for a deadlier ruin. 
Then came the French Revolution. 
Not now 
heresy and schism, but avowed irreligion, a passionate 
fanaticism against God, overthrew altars, destroyed 
temples, and dragged out priests and bishops to sav-
age butchery. Thus agdin the temporal power which 
had upheld and defiled a great portion of the Church 
was broken to pieces, and the faithful thrust out of 
worldly authority as enemies or aliens 
All through 
Europe the same spirit has run its course in al-
most every country in succession. 
Spain and Por-
tugal have had a like experience, though neither so 
deep nor so wide-spread. ^Nor has Catholic Germa-
ny been wholly untouched. 
In the new world the 
same phenomena are visible. , French Canada has 
fallen under Protestant domination. A small but rap-
idly increasing minority, in the United States, the 
Catholics have constituted themselves not as wielding 
any great temporal power, but as in great part the 
poorest of the poor, as hewers of wood and drawers 
of water. 
Mexico begins to sink under heretical 
domination, and her fanes and altars already tempt 
the cupidity of the woodman of the West. 
We cahnot now pursue this subject into its details; 
but enough has been said to explain what we mean. 
Everywhere the Church has been either violently 
cast down or gradually withdrawn from the high 
places of temporal authority, and has been made to 
occupy a new position ; a position of social inferiori-
ty ; a position not of temporal honor, but very often 
only of labor and peril, with obscurity or outward dis-
grace ; a position in which instead of looking to the 
arm of flesh and the favor of monarchs, it has to re-
sist monarchs and aristocracies, and the richcs and 
wisdom of this world ; has to take these for its open 
enemies, and to find what resources it can in making 
itself to the grossest outward seeming, the servant of 
the servants of the earth. 
In succession this one revolution has visited differ-
ent portions of the globe—ever the tempest of afflic-
tion, beating so that in some part of Christendom 
strength was left to bear along that life which is the 
heritage of the human race. 
And now, France hav-
ing in some degree raised herself from the slough of 
infidelity ; Rhenjsh Germany having gone through 
its ordeal, and come out of the furnace purer and 
stronger with a new strength ; Ireland having eman -
cipated herself, and having scattered the seeds of the 
faith, and planted churches in almost every latitude 
and longitude of the globe ; missions of extraordina-
ry fertility being everywhere established from China 
and the islands of the Pacific, to the Rocky Moun-
tains in the extremity of Northern and Western 
America; the limbs everywhere displaying new life, 
and an exerting activity which fills us with the bright-
est hopes—behold, the time comes in which the head 
suffers its part in the affliction, and the temporal pow-
er even in Italy is passing into the hands of the ene-
mies of the Church. 
Let no man, therefore, be dismayed at what is hap-
pening. 
It is nothing more or less than the estab-
lished order of God's providence; carrying with it 
many calamities, the chastisements of sin, but fertile 
also with great and glorious results of which it is re-
served to us only to see the beginnings. 
What will happen we cannot undertake to say.— 
But rather than that the Holy Father should be up-
held in 'Rome by foreign swords; rather than see him 
in Paris or in London ; we should think it much 
more auspicious to behold him occupying some small 
Mediterranean island or peninsula—a farm rather than 
a kingdom—independent of all temporal control, free 
from mere political agitation, with revenues adequate 
t-o his honorable maintenance, and (so to speak) his 
foreign expenses borne as a burden justly due to the 
whole commonwealth over which he rules. 
DREADFUL 
ACCIDENT.—A dreadful accident oc-
curred on board the steamer Londondeny, 
between 
Sligo and Liverpool, by which seventy lives were lost. 
The steamer had on board three cabin passengers, 
and one hundred and fifty Irish emigrants, for Ameri-
ca. 
Towards night on the 1st December, a heavy 
gale came on, and it soon blew so hard that the decks 
were cleared, and the poor emigrants -wereforced into 
the fore cabin—a room a little more than 18 feet by 
11. 
It was fitted for about 40, and yet 150, of all 
ages, were crowded rnto it, and the companion-way, 
the only aperture for ventilation, was closed, and a 
tarpaulin nailed over it. 
The steamer went on her 
way, and it was not until morning that the seamen 
were aware of the awful tragedy that had been enact-
ed during the night beneath their feet. 
Out of the 
one hundred and fifty passengers who had been driv-
en down the companion-ladder a few hours before, 
seventy two were found to have perished'! 
There 
lay, in heaps, the living, the dying, and the dead, one 
frightful mass of mingled agony and death, a specta-
cle to appal the stoutest heart. 
Capt. JOHNSTONE 
put his steamer into Lough Foyle, but it was twelve 
hours "before he could make up his mind to pass up 
to the quay at Derry. 
The coroner's jury found AL-
EXANDER JOHNSTONE, captain, RICHARD 
HUGHES, 
first mate, and NINIAN 
CRAWFORD, second mate, 
guilty of manslaughter, and expressed in the strong-
est terms their abhorrence of the inhuman conduct of 
the other seamen on board, throughout this unhappy 
transaction. 
THE HARP.—We have made all arrangements for 
a new and complete edition of the Harp. 
We hope 
to get it out by May or June next. We should have 
done it before, but have not felt warranted in making 
so large an expenditure, just at the time when we 
hoped to have other " harps," in another clime. But 
the calls for the revision are such, that we have ar-
ranged to go forward with the work. 
We shall add 
about 300 hymns, expunge some, erase unscriptural 
phrases in others^ and hope to keep the book, with 
all these improvements, at the same price. 
It will 
cost us about $ 600, and will require a union of effort 
to sustain us in the enterprize. 
Several of our 
friends have suggested alterations in some of our 
hymns, and others have new ones, they wish inserted. 
Will they be kind enough to send them to usspeedily. 
We shall make the best selection from all. 
190 
THE ADVENT* HERALD. 
Correspondence, 
Hymn to the Deity. 
Great Ruler of the skies, 
Almighty, sovereign, wise, 
Thee we adore; 
Help us our prayer to raise ; 
Thy goodness let us praise ; 
Lead us, through all our days, 
To love thee more. 
0 Thou, whose throne above 
Consists of truth and love, 
Hear our sad cry; 
Let waves and tumults cease, 
Author of love and peace ; 
From sin our land release, 
Father on high. 
Father, we bend the knee, 
With lifted hand to thee— 
In pity hear; 
May all thy children be 
But one great family, 
In love and unity, 
With godly fear. 
To Thee, O holy One, 
To Father, Spirit, Son, 
All praise be given ; 
0, guide us, Lord, we pray, 
In thy most holy way ; 
Prepare us for that day 
Of rest in heaven. 
O, may our faith increase, 
Jesus, great Prince of peace, 
Thy reign is near; 
Lord, let thy kingdom come, 
On earth thy will be done, 
All praise to Father, Son, 
Through endless years. 
A Discourse on the "Last Days." 
[Written for the last Lord's-day in the year 1848, by F. G. BROWS.] 
" There shall come in the last days scoffers."—2 Pet. 3:3. 
This is the last day of the year of our Lord 1848. 
To a serious and reflective mind, the occasion is 
naturally suggestive of the last day of all our years 
on earth ; and may I not add, that if we are believers 
in divine revelation, the present ought to remind us 
also ot the termination of that portion of duration 
commonly denominated "time," at which point we 
shall enter upon that unchanging state of existence 
called " eternity." 
We are not always to be dwell-
ers here; we are not always to mark the flight of 
time by cycles of the sun and moon ; a last day is be-
fore us, and we shall reach it soon. 
Such a day the 
Scriptures clearly teach. The Jews held to it before 
it was taught by Christ and his apostles. Thus Mar-
tha said to Christ respecting her brother Lazarus : 
" 1 know he shall rise again in the resurrection at the 
last day." 
(John 11:24.) 
And our Saviour taught 
that both the resurrection of the dead and the judg-
ment of men would occur at the " last day." 
To 
the Jews he said : " This is the Father's will which 
hath sent me, that of all which he hath given me I 
should lose nothing, but should raise it up again at 
the last day." 
(John 6: 39.) 
And again: "He 
that rejecteth me, and receiveth not my words, hath 
one that judgeth him : the word that I have spoken, 
the same shall judge him in the last day." 
(John 
13:48.) The atheist, or scoffers, tell us, that because 
our globe suffers no change, it must be eternal, and, 
therefore, there is no last day to time. 
And since 
from the death of Adam unto the present, all men 
have died with no appearance of their rising again 
from their graves, that, therefore, the resurrection of 
the dead is altogether improbable. 
But it is hot sb: 
its Peter responds to such arguments in his epistle— 
the earth has already undergone a miniature destrtic-
tion in the case of the deluge, which fact renders it 
probable that it may finally undergo another. 
And 
as to the dead, since he who is to be the author of 
their resurrection has manifested his power by raising 
to life the brother of Mary and Martha, and the son 
of the widow of Nain, and, above all, has himself 
triumphed over death, it is again exceedingly proba-
ble that the time may come when all that are in their 
graves shall hear his voice and come forth. 
Again we are told by some, that the last day, in 
the scripture sense of this phrase, has past, and that 
we are now living in eternity. 
To this it' is suffi-
cient to reply,—neither the resurrection of the dead, 
nor the punishment of unbelievers and rejecters of 
Christ, have occurred ; and since Christ and the in-
sured apostles connect these events with the last 
day, it is perfectly absurd to suppose that such a day 
has come and gone 
The " la3t day " is yet future ; 
we are living in the last days, and it may be that some 
of us who now occupy these seats, wiH live to see 
the last day of this world. 
Everything around us 
seems to be rushing to a conclusion: the work of 
centuries is being done in a day, so that none can pre-
dict how speedily all the remaining events of pro-
phecy may transpire. 
And here, for such reasons as 
1 trust you will feel the force of before I finish, I de-
sire to go into an examination of certain chronologi-
cal phrases of the New Testament, such as " the last 
days," " the last times," " the latter times." 
It may be gratifying to know the opinion of some 
commentators and critics upon these phrases. 
Says 
Adam Clarke, in commenting upon the expression in 
2 Tim. 3:1—" the last days." "This often means 
the days of the Messiah, but the phrase may mean 
any future time, whether near or distant." Dr. Mac-
knight applies some of these expressions to the last 
days of the Jewish commonwealth, or the Mosaic 
dispensation, though it is his opinion, that as the 
phrase in the original is different in our test from what 
it elsewhere is, that here it means " the last part of 
the days of the world's duration." 
Andrew Fuller 
understands by " latter days," a " phrase uniformly 
applied to express the times of Christianity." 
He 
says further : " The apostles speak as if they had 
passed the meridian, and had entered upon the post 
meridian of the world ; they speak of their days as 
the ' last days,' and of themselves as those ' on whom 
the ends of the woild were come.' 
They declared 
that'the end of all things is at hand,'—that' the 
Judge was at the door,' and the concluding warning 
of the book of God is couched in this strange ex-
pression, ' Surely I come qufckly.' 
But. if the end 
of all things was then at hand, what must we think 
of it after a lapse of nearly eighteen hundred years?" 
Sir Isaac Newton, who studied and wrote much 
upon the Scriptures, thinks that these phrases refer 
more especially and extensively to the winding up of 
the Christian dispensation. 
" It will signify but lit-
tle," he says, " in one sense, whether the prophecy 
of 2 Tim. 3:1 were specially intended for these days; 
it will be manifest that perilous times are impending; 
that the nations of Christendom are given up to hard-
ness of heart, and that wrath is about to fall upon 
them." 
He supposes that the characteristics of the 
" apostacy " predicted in 2 Thess. will become more 
strongly marked and prevalent, and thy times, conse-
quently, more perilous every successive year. 
Neander, one of the most evangelical and learned 
of German theologians, thinks that these chronologi-
cal terms were designed lo include all that portion of 
time between the first and second advents, and that, 
of course, the signs or events with which the sacred 
writers connect them were to run through the gospel 
dispensation,—to be attendant on certain epochs in 
the church, aud to multiply and be more and more 
prominent or conspicuous as time draws to a close. 
Dr. Robinson, in his Greek Lexicon, says:— 
" These expressions seem, therefore, strictly to cover 
the whole interval between the first and final advent 
of Christ; but they sometimes refer more particularly 
to the period in which the sacred writers lived, adja-
cent to the first coming, as Acts2:17; Heb. 1:1; 1 
Pet. 1:20; Jude 18; 1 John 2: 18; and elsewhere 
more to later times, before the second coming, as 2 
Tim. 3:1; James 5:3; 1 Pet. 1:5 , 2 Pet. 3:3." 
But let us recur to these phrases ourselves, and en 
deavor, if possible, to oblain their meaning. 
We 
will look at them in the order in which they are writ 
ten, beginning with the expression, "thelast days," 
the first of which occurs in 2 Tim. 3:1—" In the last 
days perilous times," &c. 
Now, did the apostle 
mean to be understood as referring to a time present, 
at hand, or future? 
In other words, does he allude 
to the last days of the Jewish dispensation, or to the 
last days of Christianity, or time? for I suppose that 
these are the only two questions at issue. 
When, 
then, did the Jewish dispensation end? 
All, I pre-
sume, will allow, that it ended either at the first ad-
vent of Christ, at his death, or, at the farthest, at the 
destruction of Jerusalem. All will admit, too, I take 
it, that, when this epistle was penned, the advent and 
death of Christ had occurred. 
It is conceded on our 
part, that Jerusalem had not been destroyed : if the 
chronology of our edition of the Bible be correct, 
four years were wanting to reach to the year 70, in 
which Jerusalem was overthrown. 
Let it be ob-
served here, that the apostle is informing Timothy 
not that of which he is already advised by personal 
observation, but of that of which he is already igno-
rant,—of what u shall come;"—ihat 
the time " will 
come when they will not endure sound doctrine"— 
that evil men and seducers shall wax worse and 
worse. 
In the nature of things it could not be ex-
pected that all the forms of wickedness here speci-
fied would manifest themselves within the space of a 
few years. 
But that some had alieady began to be-
tray a spirit which might end in such fearful wicked-
ness, the apostle intimates when he says, " Of this 
sort are they which creep into houses, and lead cap-
tive silly women." 
It is worthy of special conside-
ration, that both here and in other places of the New 
Testament where marks of the last days are given 
us, that, as Mr. Newton says, " they are founiUo be 
coupled with a form of godliness;" 
thus "lovers of 
pleasures more than lovers of God,"—having a form 
of godliness,—reprobate concerning the faith,—ever 
learning, and never able to come to a knowledge of 
the truth,—they will not endure sound doctrine,— 
they shall heap to themselves teachers, having itching 
ears,—they shall turn away their ears from the truth, 
and shall be turned unto fables. 
As we proceed, 
you may observe that almost all the characteristics of 
the " last days " are associated with professions of 
piety. 
It is this peculiar feature in these predictions 
that greatly aids us in assigning the time for this ful-
filment which the Holy Ghost intended. 
I think, 
therefore, that the apostle did not refer particularly 
to " times " in which himself and Timothy were liv-
ing ; such moral characteristics could not then gene-
rally apply to professed Christians. 
There is nothing in the context, as I perceive, by 
which we may be able to determine the precise mean-
ing of the expression "last days," next in order, 
as recorded in Heb. 1:2—"hath'in these last days 
spoken unto us by his Son." 
The phrase in the 
original is the same as in 2 Tim. 3:1. 
The phrase 
occurs again i.i James 5.«3—" Ye have heaped trea-
sure together for the last days." 
The ohapter in 
which these words are found, represent the rich as 
having amassed gMd, and silver, and garments, by 
rapine and fraud, and as now about to suffer the pun-
ishment which was justly due them for their wicked 
course of oppression, while the objects of their 
cruel injustice are exhorted to patience " unto the 
coming of the Lord "—" for the coming of the Lord 
draweth nigh ;"—" behold the Judge standeth before 
the door." 
It is probable that in this, as iu the other 
example, reference may be had somewhat to the 
times in which the apostle James wrote. 
It is by no 
means certain, however, that the entire chapter is to 
be located or confined to the time when Jerusalem 
was overthrown, from the fact, that the victims of 
the covetous and oppressive are encouraged to pe-
tience because " the coming of the Lord draweth 
nigh." 
Supposing that the whole chapter refers to 
the times of Jerusalem's destruction, it were even 
then pertinent to comfort the afflicted with the assu-
rance of the Lord's coming, of his being nigh, and 
before the door. 
Relatively this was so, as the Sab-
bath is nigh when Friday has come; or as compara-
tively but a short interval transpires between the day 
of one's death and of his resurrection. 
But that this 
chapter does not refer to any times that were exclu-
sively applicable to those of the apostles, I think is 
evident from these repeated expressions—" the com-
ing of the Lord." 
There can be but two comings of 
Christ; this the apostle has settled for us in these 
words—"Unto them that look for him shall he ap-
pear the second time."—(To be continued.) 
Shaking of ihe Heavens. 
" For thus saith the Lord of hosts ; Yet once it is 
a little while and I will shake the heavens, and the 
earth, and the sea, and the dry land ; and I will shake 
all nations, and the desire of all nations shall come : 
and I will fill this house with glory, saith the Lord of 
hosts. 
The silver is mine, and the gold is mine, 
saith the Lord of hosts. 
The glory of this latter 
house shall be greater than of the former, saith the 
Lord of hosts: and in this place I will give peace, 
saith the Lord of hosts."—Hagg. 2:6-9. 
We have been often told that this passage refers 
to Christ's first advent, and that he filled the^Temple 
with his glory when he entered it and turned over the 
tables of the " money changers," and drove out those 
who polluted it by making that " house of prayer " 
into a " den of thiaves;" and by manifesting his real 
personal presence, made that Temple more glorious 
than the former one. 
Also, that the shaking of ihe 
heavens and the earth, mentioned in this scripture, 
mean the turmoil in the political elements, and the 
commotion and changing, or passing away, of na-
tions. 
But so the Scriptures do not speak. 
It must be acknowledged that in Heb. 12:25-27 
Paul quotes from the above words of Haggai, and 
that his exposition is the correct one. 
Otherwise it 
is of no use arguing any subject of divinity; for if 
the writers of the Scriptures do not agree that they 
have been inspired, and the words indited by the same 
spirit, is false: and their testimony will not harmo-
nize and make plain the truth ; neither will men of dif-
ferent opinions ever be able to see things in the same 
light, through the medium of Biblical evidence. We 
will therefore take Paul's view to be the correct one. 
Paul says: " See that ye refuse not him that speak-
eth. 
For if they escaped not who refused him that 
spake on earth, much more shall not we eseape, if 
we turn away from him that speaketh from heaven : 
whose voice then shook the earth, but now he hath 
promised, saying, Yet once more, I shake not the 
earth only, bul also heaven. 
And this word, Yet/ 
once more, signifieth the removing of those things 
that are shaken, as of things that are made, that those 
things which cannot be shaken may remain."—Heb 
12 :25-27. 
But first, as to Hagg. 2:6, 7. 
If the shaking of 
the heavens and earth iu this passsage refers to the 
commotion in the political elements, and to the first 
advent of Christ, how can we understand its fulfil-
ment? 
There were but little of such commotion 
from the birth of Christ till the destruction of Jeru-
salem, which took place about forty 
years after his 
death; and, in fact, at his birth was not the Temple 
of Janus closed, thereby declaring almost universal 
peace? Again, the prophet says, " And in this place 
will I give peace, saith the Lord of hosts." 
Now if 
the exposition so often given were correct, we should 
expect the prophet meant, that at Christ's first ad-
vent the world would be all in political commotion, 
and the nations passing into other hands, but that 
Christ would give or restore peace—such peace as 
was characteristic of the Messiah, the " Prince of 
peace." 
But we find the very reverse took place : 
that at his birth there was no commotion, and peace 
continued to the nations for many years after his 
death, which, when broken, was succeeded by much 
turmoil in the nations, and chani*in<r of kingdoms 
And we find Christ himself saying, " I came riot to 
bring peace, but a sword." 
But again, Paul says, these words, oi this expres-
sion, of Haggai's, 
signifieth, the removing of those 
things which are shaken as of things which are 
made, that those things which cannot be shaken may 
remain." If the above view were correct, when this 
shaking of the nations, and turmoil in the kingdoms 
took place, it was that those nations which were sha-
ken might be removed, and that those things which 
could not be shaken or moved—the nations, people, 
and governments which succeeded such shaking— 
which sprung out of it, and were established by it— 
" might remain." 
Therefore, either since the early 
ages of the Christian era, when such commotion in 
the political elements, and turmoil in the nations, or 
the changing of kingdoms, took place—and we can-
not think of going back less than to the fourth and 
fifth centuries—there has not been any political com 
wmmuuuu, aou oissoi 
motion, nor changing of kingdoms, nor upheaving of succeeded by peace, happiness, and joy. 
nations; no turmoil in governments, nor dissolution rpdppmpd «f th* 
«,t,„n _„.—' 
of monarchies; no falling of empires, nor upturning 
of dynasties ; no national revolutions, nor overthrow 
of thrones; neither can there ever be, for the nations 
which succeeded such turmoil, and agitated state of 
affairs, wore not to be shaken, but " remain ;" or the 
view so often presented is not scriptural, nor borne 
out by historical events, and the prophecy alluded to 
not yet fulfilled. 
Again, at that time, says the prophet, " the desire 
of all nations shall come." Christ could not be styled 
" the desire of all nations," at his first advent. 
But 
rather, as Isaiah beheld him in vision—" A man 
sorrows and acquainted with grief, and we hid -,1 „ 
were our faces from him." 
"And when we sha 
see him there is no beauty in him that we should dp 
sire him." 
He was not the "desire" of the Jewish 
people, for " he came unto his own, but his own J 
ceived him not;" they " esteemed him stricken sn.iT 
ten of God, and afflicted" 
He could not at Z, 
ume be " the desire of all nations," for the Gentile* 
did not believe in him, expect him, or desire him 
1 he Gospel was not freely aud publicly offered to 
them, until after Christ's crucifixion.—Matt 10-5 fi 
Acts 11:19 ; 13:46. 
The seventy weeks of Dan 9 
were "cut off" for, and belonged to, the people „f 
Daniel; and not until the end of these seventy weeks 
(of years) was the Gospel offered to the Gentiles— 
which period some suppose extended seven years be 
yond the crucifixion. 
It is evident, thereiore thai 
such a view is not correct. 
Let us, then, try to find out the meaning by ]et-
ting the Scriptures speak for themselves. 
JMaoeai 
as Paul explains to us, evidently had an eye to the 
giving of the law by Jehovah, on Mount Sinai (read 
Exod. 19), when speaking of the shaking of the 
earth, and says: " Yet once it is a little while, and I 
will shake the heavens, and the earth, and the sea 
and the dry land." 
Paul clearly demonstrates this 
m Heb. 12:18-21, 25^-27. 
How such language can 
be made to bend to suit the views of those who would 
make the Scriptures speak so figuratively as to des-
troy their meaning, I cannot conceive. 
Language 
cannot be more literal and emphatic than is here em-
ployed. 
The prophet Joel also speaks very emphati-
cally on the same subject. 
" The Lord also shall 
roar out of Zion, and utter his voice from Jerusalem; 
and the heavens and the earth shall shake : but the' 
Lord will be the hape of his people, and the strengih 
of the children of Israel."—Joel 3:16. 
And so sure 
as he shook the earth when He gave the law on Mount 
Sinai, so sure will he shake the earth again, and also 
heaven—the elements around this terrestrial globe— 
(but lo what extent, and whetherto include tlie whole 
planetary system, 1 cannot determine)—which hea-
vens have nothing to do with the political elements 
of the nations. 
Not that the nations will not be sha-
ken, for the prophet adds besides, " And 1 will shake 
all nations." 
But the stars shall fall and the heavens 
depart as a scroll w hen it is rolled together. 
And 
overy mountain and hill shall be removed out of their 
places. 
The rocks shall be thrown down before him 
and the hills melt. 
The earth shall reel to and fro 
like a drunkard, and be removed like a cottage This 
will take place at his second coming—when he shall 
come to take vengeance on them that, know not God, 
and obey not the Gospel—but to be glorified in his 
saints, and admired iu a 1 them that believe—at the 
day of the Lord's vengeance, and the year of recom-
penses lor the controversies of Zion—when he shall 
appear the. second time w ithout a sin-offering unto 
sa.vatiou. 
At his second advent he will be " the 
desire of all nations," because people of all nations, 
languages, and tongues will desire and Tejotce at his 
appearing.—Rev. 5:9. 
" The nations ot them that 
are saved" are gathered out of all nations, and all 
people, nations, and languages shall serve him."— 
Dan. 7:14. 
And this glorious " God-man," the De-
sire of all nations, "shall reign in Mount Zion, and 
in Jerusalem, and before his ancients gloriously."— 
And the neiv Jerusalem shall be more glorious than 
the former, and shall be filled with his glorious pres-
ence far more resplendently than was the sanctuary 
at its dedication in the days of Solomon ; for " the 
tabernacle of God will be with men," and the sanc-
tuary will be the whole earth, and " the glory of the 
Lord will cover the earth as the waters cover the 
sea;" and then and in such manner " shall he fill the 
house," or tabernacle, " with his glory." 
Although the 6th verse of Hagg. 2 does not teach 
a commotion in the political elements of the nations, 
many other scriptures do; and they also direct us to 
the period just preceding our Lord s second coming, 
and allied to events connected with his appearing.— 
The prophet Haggai adds in the 7th verse, " And I 
will shake all nations." 
John beheld in prophetic 
vision that after ihe second woe was past, just before 
God " rewarded his servants the prophets, and them 
that feared his name, small and great,"" the na-
tions were angry." 
Let tha readei carefully peruse 
and examine, in connexion herewith, the 25th chap, 
of Jeremiah ; and let me ask, Is not God nojv sha-
king the nations? 
Has not the present generation 
witnessed such a turmoil among "the kingdoms of this 
world, such a breaking up of empires, such a falling 
of thrones, such an overthrow of governments, and 
such unprecedented revolutions, as no other genera-
tion ever did ? 
Yes, events have transpired in our 
day; remarkable alike for their magnitude as for the 
rapidity with which they have been accomplished, 
which our forefathers would have thought incredible. 
The Lord is shaking all nations, and will also very 
shortly shake the heavens, and the earth, and the sea, 
and the dry land—which, as Paul savs, signifieth 
the removing of those thines which are shaken as of 
things which are made, that those things which can-
not be shaken may remain. 
" Nevertheless we, ac-
cording to his promise, look for new heavens and a 
new earth, wherein the righteous shall forever dwell." 
All this shaking, commotion, and dissolution shall be 
succeeded by peace, happiness, and jov. 
" And the 
redeemed 
of the Lord shall return', and come to 
Zion, with everlasting songs upon their heads; they 
shall obtain joy and gladness, and sorrow and sighing 
shall flee away."—lsa. 35:10. 
"And 
in this place 
will I give peace, saith the Lord of hosts."—hagg. 
2:9. 
For .yet a little while, and the wicked shall 
not be : yea, thou shalt diligently consider his place, 
and it shall not be. 
But the meek shall inherit the 
earth ; and shall delight themselves in the abundance 
of peace. 
Wait on the Lord, and keep his way, and 
he shall exalt thee to inherit the land : when the 
wickedarecut off thou shall see^."-Psa. 37:10,11,34. 
THE ADVENT 
HERALD 
191 
Let the Infidel scoff, and the ungodly deride our 
hope but let us not be moved : our hope is firm and 
steadfast, and like an anchor cast within the veil.— 
» The Lord of hosts is with us, the God of Jacob is 
our refuge.' 
Let the professing brethren, who hate us, and cast 
our names out as evil, because of" the faith once de-
livered to the saints," protest against us, and ask, 
" Where is the promise of his coming 1" 
But let us 
hold fast the beginning of our confidence steadfast to 
the end, for he shall appear to our joy, but they s.iall 
be ashamed : " for ye are not come unto tbe mount 
that might be touched, and that burned with fire, nor 
unto blackness, and darkness, and tempest, and the 
sound of a trumpet, and the voice of words ; which 
voice they that heard entreated that the word should 
not be spoken to thein any more. 
But ye are come 
unto mount Sion, and unto the city of the living God, 
the heavenly Jerusalem, and to an innumerable com-
pany of angels, to the general assembly and church 
of the first-born, which are written in heaven, and to 
God the Judge of all, and to the spirits of just men 
made perfect, and to Jesus, the Mediator of the new 
covenant, and to the blood of sprinkling, that speak-
eth belter things than that of Abel. 
See that ye re-
fuse not him that speaketh." 
God grant we may be counted worthy to escape 
those things which shall come to pass, and to stand 
before the°Son of M^n. 
C. A. THORP. 
Middktown, Leeds {Eng.), 
Nov., 1848. 
Christ the Creator of all Things. 
" For by Him were all things created, that are in 
heaven, and that are in earth, visible ajid invisible, 
whether they be thrones, or dominions, or principali-
ties, or powers: all things were created by him, and 
for him/'—Col. 1:16. 
Now if the Arian had at his disposal as many mil-
lions as have lived since Adam, and could employ 
them as many millions of years as there are now in-
habitants upon the earth, he could not only not make 
anything, but he could not raise up such a pile as the 
Andes and Rocky mountains! 
Poor, puny man !— 
He that made all things is God. 
Now, to say nothing of " things invisible," of 
"thrones, principalities, dominions, and powers,"let 
us look by the feeble aid of philosophy at a few of 
the " things" which are "visible." 
Look to " the 
moon and ihe stars, which He hath ordained," and 
see if you can count them. 
Halle's comet has trav-
elled for seventy-five years beyond tbe orbit of the 
most distant planet in the solar system, and has re-
turned and told us that no material body exists within 
two hundred thousand millions of miles beyond that 
orbit! Again, there are instruments which can meas-
ure any distance where a bearing of two seconds can 
be obtained. But the earth's orbit, which affords abase 
of two hundred millions of miles, will not give any bear-
ing by which to measure the distance of any fixed star. 
If it would give two seconds, then the distance would 
be 20,000,000,000,000 of miles. 
We only know 
that the nearest fixed star is not within that distance 
of the earth. 
How much farther off it may be, man 
cannot tell. 
There is what is called photometry, or the measur-
ing distances by the photometer. 
Now if the sun 
were removed twice its present distance from the 
earth, its light would be three-fourths less than it now 
is. 
Woollaston calculated in this way, that Sirius 
is thirteen times larger than the sun. 
If the sun 
were removed to one hundred and forty thousand 
times its present distance from the earth, it would be 
only about as bright as the dog-star. 
Well might the Psalmist say : " When I consider 
thy heavens, the work of thy fingers; the moon and 
the stars, which thou hast ordained ; what is man, 
that thou art mindful of him? and the son of man, 
that thou visitest him V' 
Now, when we reflect that all these things, with 
all the greater things which are invisible, were made 
BY and FOR Christ, we are disposed to join with all 
ihe white-robed and glory-crowned hosts, with cheru-
bim and seraphim—to " crown him Lord of all." 
When we reflect that the first Adam, who was 
was so intuitively wise as to know the nature of eve-
ry beast, fish, and fowl, so as to give it an appropri-
ate name—was overcome and cast down by the great 
enemy of our race—we are forced to enquire with 
great concern, respecting the capabilities of the sec-
ond Adam, who has undertaken to repair the ruin 
and loss by tbe first. 
Thank God, " our Redeemer 
is mighty," yea, " ALMIGHTY " (Rev. 1:8). As we 
trace the destinies of the two great leaders, we find 
Satan casts the first Adam out of Paradise, and 
usurps dominion. 
The second Adam casts Satan out 
°f Paradise, and secures dominion forever. 
The 
downfall, to be complete, must be in Paradise, where 
be achieved his proud victory. 
He brought sin and 
sorrow into the world—Christ shall cast both them 
and him out. 
When we contemplate the majesty of 
the second Adam, as seen only in things which he 
has made that are visible, we can feel no fears for the 
•ssue. 
His triumph is at hand. 
Think of the ma-
jesty of that Being who has peopled space with 
worlds the nearest of which to ours is not within 
twenty trillions of miles, a greater number of miles 
than could be counted by all who ever lived on this 
P'aiiet, if thev were to live ten thousand times ten 
'bousand ages of the earth in Ihe fall. 
Talk of such 
a Being as being only a "reformer!" 
He thought 
!t not robbery to be equal with God. 
What shall 
call, then, that whieh makes him inequal with 
? A " mystery " it is indeed, that such a Being 
Was " manifested in the flesh ;" and I would not have 
11 otherwise than a " mystery ;" for if I could com-
prehend it, then surely Satan could overthrow it.— 
he very fact that it is above our comprehension in-
creases our trust and our adoration. 
"Worship 
"ln>, all ye gods." 
Amen. 
1. E. JONES. 
Letter from Bro. S. S. Brewer. 
DEAR BRO. HIMES :—A happy new year to you 
and all our dear brethren and sisters ! 
We closed up 
our public labors here last Lord's-day with three ser-
mons ; and after the evening discourse, for the last 
time in the old year, as it rapidly approached the end 
of its career, we came around the sacramental board, 
to commemorate the'sufferings and death of our once 
crucified but now interceding and soon coming Lord 
and Saviour, after which we held a watch meeting. 
It was a solemn and soul-refreshing time to the dear 
saints. 
The testimonies of all were soul-cheering lo 
the tried ones, and were free from that which so often 
distracts and wounds. 
All seemed to realize lhat a 
theory alone was not a sufficient equivalent for the re-
quirements of God's word. 
There seems to me, if I 
may judge by present appearances, to be a desire for 
more of the mind of Christ,—a waking up to the posi-
tive declaration of our Lord by the great apostle of 
the Gentiles—" Follow peace with all men, and holi-
ness, without which no man shall see the Lord."— 
Heb. 12:14. 
O what a pure company will they be 
who shall stand in his presence ! 
A few minutes belore 12 o'clock, as the last pulsa-
tions of forty-eight were faintly striking on the dial 
of time, we all fell on our knees before our merci-
ful Father, to thank him for his mercies through the 
past, and to covenant anew, by his grace, to serve 
him more faithfully in the future. 
God in mercy 
help us to do so. 
it was a solemn and heart-search-
ing time. 
Farewell, old year, thou art numbered with the 
past; but thy history has been one of deep, thrilling, 
and momentous events. 
On thy worn pages are to 
be seen written lamentation, mourning, and woe. 
God's three great executioners have been treading 
with measured step among the nations. 
Yes, War, 
Pestilence, and Famine, the significant precursors of 
wrath to come, have been pleading awfully, solemnly, 
and most alarmingly; but still the nations grope in 
darkness. 
Great God, thunder at the watchmen's 
hearts, help them to cry aloud and spare not. 
We greet thee, Forty-nine, as thou comest fresh 
from the womb of Time, with feelings such as never 
vibrated in this anxious heart. 
Thy predecessor saw 
thrones, sceptres, and crowns fall before the resistless 
waves of the nations, which make a rushing like the 
noise of the seas. (Isa. 17:12, 13.) The first surges 
of thy troubled waters, as they come booming from 
a distant shore, proclaim throes of wrath and anger 
in thy troubled bosom. 
The crest of each succeed-
ing billow seems lashed into fury, and all hearts en-
quire, When will the storm subside? 
Read the an-
swer in God's word—Zeph.3:8,9; Rev. 11:18. Not 
till then. 
With respect to things concerning our little Zion 
here, the friends seem much encouraged. Our meet-
ings, with the exception of a few (owing to the in-
clemency of the weather), have been well attended. 
The prayer-meetings, in every instance, have been 
seasons of refreshing from the presence of the Lord. 
The late trials of the brethren here have turned out 
blessings;—they have been among the all things that 
work together for good to them that love the Lord. 
Owing to former obligations, we are compelled to 
leave for the present. Dear &aints, lift up your heads, 
our great Deliverer is nigh. 
Close behind the tribulation 
Of the last tremendous days, 
See the flaming revelation— 
_ 
See the universal blaze! 
Earth and heaven 
Melt before the Judge's face. 
God in mercy prepare us for it. 
Amen. 
Yours in 
the bonds of the gospel. 
Baltimore (Md.), Jan. 2d, 1849. 
Extracts from Letters. 
From Saccarappa (Me.), Jan. 1st, 1849. 
DEAR BRO. HIMES :—1 still feel a deep interest in 
the blessed truth of the Lord's speedy coming. I am 
also much interested in perusing the " Herald," 
which is truly the herald of good news lo me. 
When I look over the world, and see the want of 
the right kind of men to carry forward the great work 
of these last days, my prayer to God is. that he will 
keep those who have stood firm, and enable others 
who have gone back, to return again to the advocacy 
of the great question—the coming of our blessed 
Lord. 
I heartily approve of your repeated determination 
to adhere to the original design of your paper. 
I do 
not wonder that you have been measurably diverted 
from tbe course proposed ; for T am aware that no 
one can fully appreciate the trials you are subjected 
to from your peculiar position. 
When I have seen 
the many thrusts that have been made at you by some 
of your professed brethren, I have been glad to see 
you still pursue the onward course, and hold up the 
truth. 
1 expect an editor or preacher to express his 
own views, not mine. 
It is my province to examine, 
addpt, or reject, according to the best light I can ob-
tain upon the subject. 
Many of our brethren have expressed a wish that 
you- would not have so much controversy. 
But it 
seems to me, if they would look on both sides of the 
question, they must see that you have been drawn re-
luctantly into it, by the efforts that are continually 
being made to divert the minds of the brethren from 
the great question; and then if you speak against 
this wickedness of tearing down what others have 
endeavored to build, you are at once condemned as 
having a bad spirit. And now, as the curtain is drawn 
aside, I hope the true friends of the cause will see 
where the trouble is, and speak out, as justice and 
the cause demand that they should at the present 
time, and make an effort to prevent the cause from 
falling into disgrace. 
Much has been lost by disor-
der and confusion among us; and I hope, in time to 
come, lhat we shall try to save all we can, by order, 
and a strict adherence to the word of God. 
May we 
keep in mind, that for all our thoughts, words, and 
acts, we must give an account to Him who judgeth 
righteously. 
May it be our greatest desire to know 
lhat we please Cod in all things, so that we may 
finally be accepted of him when he comes. 
JESSE PATRIDGE. 
your onward course by controversy. 
As long as we 
are in an enemy's land, we may expect assaults; but 
the victory is promised only to the faithful. 
I pray 
God to number us with those who shall return to 
Zion wilh songs of triumph. 
Yours in tbe bonds of 
Christian love, 
J. W. S. NAPIER. 
From Hamilton (O.), Dec. 25th, 1818. 
DEAR BROTHER:—As a Christian brother, I can-
not but sympathize with you when I think of the tri-
als you have endured, not only from the world, and 
professing Christians, but mistaken brethren have 
been contending with you about principles which 
they hold and teach, that the first resurrection is past 
already, and 1 fear will overthrow the faith of some, 
and lead them into the fatal error that the apostle 
bitls us be aware of, and that our existence ceases on 
the demise of the body, and that we have no identity 
or existence until the resurrection. 
This conflicts 
wilh the plain declaration of tbe apostle John, who 
says : " This is the record that God hath given to us 
eternal life, and this life is in his Son ; he that hath 
the Son hath life, and he that hath not the Son, hath 
not life ;" and, consequently, is in a state of condem-
nation. 
Also the doctrine, that infants will have no 
resurrection, is another error, fraught with much 
evil. 
But, my dear brother, while you are battling 
with these errors, which are held by some, may the 
Lord so guide your pen, that you will write always 
in the spirit of meekness and love, or, in a word, as 
a servant of the Most High. 
Paul says: " If a man 
be overtaken in a fault, ye which are spiritual restore 
such an one in the spirit ot meekness, considering 
thyself least thou also be tempted." In the language 
of James I would say, " Be ye also patient, stablish 
your hearts, for the coming of the Lord drawelh 
nigh." 
My brethren, take the prophets, who have 
spoken in the name of the Liord, for an example of 
suffering affliction and patience. 
The " Herald " has been one of the best religious 
papers published in the United States, or the world ; 
yet of late so many articles of a controversial charac-
ter have appeared in it, as to detract much from its 
value. 
I used to lend the papers, but lately I have 
been afraid lest some should say, See how these peo-
ple differ amongst themselves. I deem it of the high-
est importance, that we who are looking for the com-
ing of the Lord Jesus should be as the lights of the 
world, and as tbe salt of the earth, in order that we 
may be instrumental in turning many lo righteous-
ness. 
May all ihe loveliness ot the Christian charac-
tei adorn our lives and tempers, so that those who 
know us, or hear of us, may be forced to say, See 
how these people love one another. 
I cannot drive from my mind the conviction, that 
we are living in the last days. 
Some veiy important 
prophecies that relate to these days have had their 
fulfilment, and others are being fulfilled, and " great 
Babylon is come in remembrance before God, to give 
urlo her the cup of the wine of the fierceness of his 
wralh." 
There are strong indications that there will 
be no more settled governments until the kingdom of 
the Redeemer is set up; but that a general state of 
anarchy will prevail, according to the 24th of Isaiah. 
" Then the kings of the earth, and the great men, 
and ihe mighty men, and every bondman, and every 
freeman, hid themselves in the dens and in the rocks 
of the mountains, and said to the mountains and 
rocks, Fall on us, and hide us from the face of him 
that sitteth on the throne, and from the wrath of the 
Lamb; for tbe great day of his wrath is come, and 
who shall be able to stand?" 
His kingdom shall 
then come, and his will be done on earth as it is in 
heaven. 
Then " the kingdom and dominion, and the 
greatness of the kingdom under the whole heaven, 
shall be given to the people of ihe saints of the Most 
High," wl.o "shall take the kingdom, and possess 
the kingdom for ever, even for ever and ever." 
Your brother in Christ, 
J. HOWELLS. 
From Lowell (Mass.), Dec. 30th, 1848. 
Bno. HIMES :—I have been a subscriber to the 
" Herald " from the first number of an Advent paper 
published in Boston. 
I prize it very highly, and do 
not know how I should get along without it. 
I pre-
fer it to any or all other papers in Christendom ; and 
I should have been glad had there been no other Ad-
vent paper published until ihe wants of the cause de-
manded it. All others have had a tendency to divert, 
distract, and divide the flock, and scatter the lambs 
of the dear Redeemer. 
We feel the effect in this 
city. 
Of all places in the world, Lowell should be 
foremost in the cause, for we have been exalted to 
heaven, as it were, in point of privilege. 
Some have 
desir' d and labored for a better state of things, but 
havC not been very successful. 
As you know better 
than I can write you, the cause has suffered for the 
wan* of unity in Bible order. 
We have some inter-
esting meetings; but in view of the Lord's speedy 
coming, there ought to be a better stale of Christian 
union. 
And while we lack that, we are wanting in 
a very important particular. 
The Lord enable you to keep in the right course, 
and support you in your arduous labors. Father Mil-
ler says, "Hold on, and fear not; opposers will all 
be lost in fog soon." 
I was glad to heaT from him 
through the " Herald." 
J. SEAVY. 
From Boisd'Arc (Ala.), Dec. 21st, 1848. 
DEAR BRO. HIMES :—I -send you the enclosed, to 
help you on in your toils for the promotion of the 
good cause. 
I hope it will reach you safely, and that 
you will never lack the means to keep tbe " Heiald " 
in existence, so long as it is needed to minister to tbe 
household of faith. 
1 think I see the signs increas-
ing and biightening of the time of redemption. 
I 
long for a release. I pray God to increase your faith, 
and arm you for the conflict. Do not be diverted from 
From Brimfield (Mass.), Dec. 28, IS48. 
DEAR BRO. HIMES —Bro Needham was at Three 
Rivers town a week ago last Sabbath, and he gave 
us a rich feast from his well-stored mind. 
He pos-
sessed a good, an excellent spirit. 
I hope that the 
Lord ^tvill stand by him in his trials. 
I am glad that 
he has taken such a bold stand on the subject of con-
ferences. 
God grant that the truth may yet prevail. 
Go on, Bro. Himes, the Lord will give you grace to 
stand under all your conflicts. 
Yours, in love, 
L. H. BENSON. 
Obituary. 
DIED, of consumption, in Barre, Vt., Nov. 12th, 
Sister MARY A. KINNEY, aged 28 years, daughter of 
John Kinney. 
Sister K. experienced religion in 
early life, and united with the,M. E. church. 
In the 
spring of '44 she became interested in the doctrine of 
the second advent of Christ, and remained ever after-
wards a firm and consistent believer. She felt willing 
to forego all earthly pleasure, that she might gain an 
inheritance in Christ's glorious kingdom. 
Previous 
to the last part of her sickness, she often expressed a 
wish to see her Saviour coming, that she might not 
pass through the grave ; but for several weeks be-
fore her death, she seemed wholly resigned to the 
will of Gcd, believing that Gabriel's trump would 
soon wake her sleeping dust, which would come forth 
fashioned like Christ's glorious body. 
The resurrec-
tion was a theme she loved to dwell upon. 
She re-
marked one day, after visiting the graves of her mo-
ther and sister, that the place never seemed more 
pleasant, nor rest more desirable. " Soon, perhaps," 
said she, " my body will quietly sleep by their side. 
Yes, soon all that now live, and all the dead, will 
stand before God." 
She often would exclaim, in 
prospect of death, " Sweet home ! sweet rest! there 
[shall see Jesus!" 
At one time, while suffering 
severe pain, she said, " Wreep not for me, dear sister, 
if we suffer, we shall also reign with him." 
On 
being told that she could survive but a few hours she 
sweetly smiled and said, "O thank the Lord." She 
rejoiced in the hope of soon putting on immortality, 
and sweetly fell asleep in Jesus, leaving a father', 
brother, and sister to mourn her loss, which is deeply 
afflicting, though we mourn not as those who have no 
hope ; lor if we believe that Jesus died and rose 
again, even so them also which sleep in Jesus will 
God bring with him. 
The following lines were 
written by her a few weeks previous to her death : 
'fhd cup my heavenly Father gave 
To drink, shall I refuse. 
Or seek from his just ham! reprieve, 
And thus my path to choose? 
i 
Grant me a calm and peaceful mind, 
My will in Jesus lost; 
Thai through affliction I may find 
A far more glorious rest. 
'Tis not in pain nor grief to harm 
Whom Jesus waits to save ; 
And death of terror he'll disarm, 
Give victory o'er the grave. 
And if the earth my body claim 
From him who being gave, 
It ne'er my spirit can retain, 
For Christ has died to save. 
He soon shall wake my sleeping dust, 
To claim its mansion too; 
But not to us, not unto us, 
ButGod all glory's due. 
Through Jesus Christ I victory see, 
Who through the prophets spake; 
0 grave, destruction thine I'll be, 
0 death, I'll be thy plague. 
When, father, sister, brother, dear, 
1 think of leaving here, 
1 sometimes shed a silent tear. 
And raise my thoughts in prayer, 
That when the storms of life are o'er, 
And we our work have done, 
We all may meet to part no more, 
In our celestial home. 
O there he'll wipe away all tears 
In blood-washed robes of white; 
No sin, no sorrow, more we'll fear. 
For til is pure and bright. 
Grieve not for me, 0 brother dear, 
'Tis God's to wound and heal: 
But now the Saviour love and fear, 
And wear his servants' seaJ. 
'0 may you never cease to pray, 
'Till prayer be lost in praise,* 
And then with saints of endless day, 
Eternal anthems raise. 
L. M. w. 
DIEU, in Worcester, Mass., Jan. 5,1849,CHARLES 
LUCIUS WOOD, son of Bro. Charles Wood, aged 3 
years and four months. 
Little Charles was an in-
interesting and promising boy. 
But the flower has 
been nipt in the bud ; and the hopes of a fond father 
are cut off. His mother '{a sister of our late Bro. 
Jonas D. Johnson) died about three years since.— 
They will rest together till the " voice of Jesus 
sounds to call them to his arms." 
" Suffer little 
children to come unto me and forbid them not, for of 
such is the kingdom of heaven." 
398 
THE ADVENT* HERALD. 
Foreign News. 
The steamship Washington arrived at New York 
on Monday, after a passage of eighteen days, bring-
ing Liverpool dates to the 19th, and London and 
Southampton to the 20th ult. 
Parliament has been prorogued to the 1st Feb-
ruary. 
Advices from the French capital extend to the 
evening of the 18th ult. 
Paris enjoyed universal 
tranquillity. 
There was increase of confidence per-
ceptible amongst the monied and commercial glasses 
of the metropolis and of the departments. 
Laige 
bona fide purchases of French funds liave been made, 
which are still on the rise. 
The new President of 
the republic was" to be proclaimed on the 21st. 
New 
cabinets would be announced immediately afterwards. 
Odillon Barrot was to be head of the new government, 
and Lamartine was spoken of as likely to be put, in 
nomination as Vice President of the Republic. 
The 
soi disant friends of Napoleon were, it was reported, 
already subject to some disappointments and disagree-
ments, and expressed their belief that the prince, in 
his attempts to propitiate existing parties, would dis-
please the most devoted of his own adherents. 
Ireland.—Accounts 
from Skibbereen state that 
this thrice doomed district is again the scene of hor-
rible destitution. 
Out of a population of 6000 in 
one parish, more than 1000 have scarcely a morsel to 
put in their mouths ; they have no clothing or fire-
wood, and live in houses immeasurably worse than 
the English pigsties. 
Many of them are dying of 
starvation. 
The cholera had made its appearance in Ireland. 
On the 16th and 17th, no less than five cases, all fatal, 
were reported in the Belfast workhouse, and there 
seemed every probability of its extending. 
France.—We 
are here in a state of considerable 
alarm to-day. 
Just as we thought that every thing 
was progressing towards the quiet and peaceful in-
stallation of the new President, it has been ascer-
tained that some evil disposed persons have deter-
mined to take advantage of the occasion to get up, if 
possible, a disturbance. 
The plan proposed by the 
perturbators is not very well known, but it is believ-
ed to be this: 
A procession is to be formed on the 
morning of the installation, which, after rendezvous-
ing in the Place de la Bastille, is to proceed along 
the Boulevardes and the Rue le Paix to the Place 
Vendoine, where Prince Louis Napoleon resides, 
and there he is to be saluted with cries of " Vive 
Napoleon /" 
" Vive /' Empereur!" 
Should it suc-
ceed, further demonstrations would be made against 
the republic, and in favor of a revival of the em-
pire ; but the present nature of them is not ascer-
tained. 
The Bonaparte family deny all knowledge 
of it, and use all their efforts to prevent it. 
They 
say it is a weak invention of the enemy. 
Intelligence from Rome on the 11th had arrived 
in Paris, to the effect that a provisional government 
had been proclaimed, the members of which were : 
one senator from Rome, one from Bologna, and the 
Gonfaloniere of Ancona. 
The temporal deposition 
of the Pope had also been proclaimed, and he has 
henceforth to bear only the title of Pope Bishop of 
Rome. 
The people were much excited at Rome, 
crying, "Death to the Pope! Death to the cardi 
nals! " 
A letter from Parma of the 7th inst., states 
that 25,000 Austrians were marching over a flying 
bridge into the legation against Bologna. 
Italy.—The 
affairs of Italy every day become more 
involved and menacing. 
King Charles Albert had 
been obliged to yield to the ultra liberals, and to 
commission Groherpi to form a cabinet. 
The con-
templated Italian 
league would 
necessarily give 
umbrage to Austria, and might be attended with 
most lamentable circumstances. 
The Pope still re-
mained at Gseta, surrounded by diplomatists. 
No 
less than 29 cardinals were assembled to give their 
advice to his Holiness. An extraordinary meeting of 
the chamber of deputies of Rome was held on the 
8th of December, convoked to hear a report of the 
deputation sent to Gseta, from which it appeared that 
the members of the deputation were stopped at and 
not permitted to enter the Neapolitan territory. 
The 
members then forwarded a letter to Cardinal Antonelli, 
requesting permission to wait on the Pope, to which 
a reply was returned, stating that his Holiness had 
left Rome of his own accord—that he could not re-
ceive the deputation, but continued to pray the Al-
mighty to bestow his mercy on Rome and the Roman 
States. 
The deputation not having been enabled to accom-
plish its mission, returned. 
Vienna.—Despatches 
of the 14th Dec. inform us 
that a Russian fleet appeared off Trieste for the pur-
pose of suppressing the liberties of the Venetians 
by blockading. 
The accounts from Hungary are 
most contradictory. 
It appears certain that no de-
cisive battle had been fought. 
The general inactivity 
of the imperial troops continued. 
The Hungarians 
meanwhile are burning down their own towns, and 
destroying communication, in order to cut off the in-
vading Austrian army, by cold, fever, or starvation. 
The settlement of the Neapolitan and Sicilian ques-
tion was far from being arranged. 
The emperor of Russia had refused to acknowledge 
the queen of Spain, and the envoy from Madrid was 
to leave St. Petersburg on the 17th Dec. 
THE following is a copy of a manifesto addressed 
by the Pope to the people of Rome, on his retiring 
from that place :— 
" PIUS IX. TO THEYROMAN PEOPLE. 
"The outrage in latter days committed against our 
person, and the intention openly manifested to con-
tinue these acts of violence (which the Almighty, 
inspiring men's minds with sentiments of union and 
moderation, has prevented), have compelled us to 
separate ourselves temporarily from our subjects and 
children, whom we love, and ever shall love. 
" The reasons which have induced us to take this 
important step—heaven knows how painful it is to 
our heart—have arisen from the necessity of our en-
joying free liberty in the exercise of the sacred duties 
of the Holy See, as under the circumstances by 
which we were then afflicted, the Catholic world 
might reasonably doubt of the freedom of that exer-
cise. 
The acts of violence of which we complain 
can alone be attributed to the machinations which 
have been used, and the measures that have been ta-
ken by a class of men degraded in the face of Eu-
rope and the world. 
This is the more evident, as 
the wrath of the Almighty has already fallen on their 
souls, and as it will call down on them sooner or later 
the punishment which is prescribed for them by his 
Church. 
We recognize humbly, in the ingratitude 
of those misguided children, the anger of the Al-
mighty, w ho permits their misfortunes as an atone-
ment for the sins of ourselt, and those of our people. 
But still we cannot, without betraying the sacred du-
ties imposed on us, refrain from protesting formally 
against their acts, as we did do verbally on the 16th 
day of November, of painful memory, in presence of 
the whole diplomatic corps, who on that occasion 
honorably encircled us, and brought comfort and con-
solation to our soul, in recognizing that a violent and 
unprecedented sacrilege had been committed- 
That 
protest we did intend, as we now do, openly and pub-
licly to repeat, inasmuch as we yielded only (o vio-
lence, and because we were and are desirous it should 
be made known that all proceedings emanating from 
such acts of violence were and are devoid of all effi-
cacy and legality. 
This protest .is a necessary con-
sequence of the malicious labors of these wicked 
men, and we publish it from the suggestion of our 
conscience, stimulated as it has been by the circum-
stances in which we were placed, and the impedi-
ments offered to the exercise of our sacred duties. 
Nevertheless we confide upon the Most High that 
the continuance of these evils may be abridged ; and 
we humbly supplicate the God of heaven to avert His 
wrath, in the language of the royal prophet:—1 Me-
mento Dominie David, et omnis mansuetudinis 
ejus. 
" In order that the city of Rome and our States be 
not deprived of a legal Executive, we have nomina-
ted a Governing Commission, composed of the fol-
lowing 
persons: The Cardinal Castricane, Presi-
dent ; Monsignor Roberto Roberti, Principe di Ro-
viana, Principe Barberini, Marquis Bevilaque di Bo-
logna, Leut. Gen. Zucchi. 
" In confiding to the said governing commission 
the temporary direction of public affairs, we recom-
mend to our subjects and children, without excep-
tion, the conservation of tranquillity and good order. 
Finally, we desire and command that daily and earn-
est prayers shall be offered for the safety of our 
person, and that the peace of the world may be pre-
served, especially that of our State of Rome, where 
and with, when children, our heart shall be, wher-
ever we in person may dwell within 
the fold of 
Christ. 
And in the fulfilment of our duty as Su-
preme Pontiff, we thus humbly and devoutly invoke 
the Great Mother of Mercy, and the holy Apostles, 
Peter and Paul, for their it,tercession that the city 
and State of Rome may be saved from the wrath of 
the Omnipotent God. 
Pius PAPA IX. 
" Gaeta die Nov. 28." 
THE ADVENT 
HERALD. 
BOSTON, JANUARY 13, 1849. 
OUR TOUR NORTH.-We hope to be able to accomplish the 
necessary labor connected with our public meetings. Our duties 
will be arduous at best. We crave the prayers and co-operation of 
our friends. We have no time , nor strength, for controversy on 
questions of strife. Those who live on distractions and divisions, 
we hope will take their own course, and leave us and the friends to 
carry forward the cause as formerly, in purity and pence. 
We give ourself, and all that we have, anesv to the cause. We 
ask the confidence and support of oui brethren only so far as we 
may be deserving as a public servant. If the cause is to be sus-
tained iu health and vigor, efficient aid must be rendered. May Goo 
direct and help us in our glorious work. 
Our next tour in contemplation will be West, as far as Buffalo.— 
Bro. HALE will probably accompany us. In the meantime, we 
shall be glad tohcRr from any who wish our labors. 
BURGLARY.—The delay in the last No. of our paper, was caused 
by our office being broken into on Wednesday night ot last week, 
when the form for the last side had been all prepared for the press, 
to be printed Irom the next morning. On opening the office on 
Thursday, it was found thai ahurglar had entered the previous night, 
by a hole cut through the partition between the office and the vestry 
of the chapel. We found our desk forced, the money-draw rifled of 
about St 50 in change, various drawers, &c„ overhauled, and left 
pulled out, four cases of type, of different sorts pied in a heap on the 
floor, and oil poured all over the form ready for the press, on the 
pile of type on the floor, and on the books and papers on our desk. 
The form was so oiled, that on taking it to the press, it slipped from 
the hands of the man who had charge of it, and one page, and part 
of another, fell into pi, which delayed us an entire day in the issue ol 
the last nomber. 
The appearance of the office rendered it evident, that the person 
who entered hud a two-feld object in view—plunder and revenge.— 
Various things also indicated thai the mischief had been done by one 
familiar with the office. For instance, a watch was left hanging in 
the office, which the thief did not see, and various small coin were 
strewed on the floor, showing that the thief had no light, but that of 
the moon ; and yet he knew where to find the lamp-filler, had been 
to the nail-box, and opened private drawers, &c. 
We had been in the habit ol placing the key of the safe in the desk, 
and the key of that in a small drawer of another desk. On one oc-
casion, towards the close of November, the, key of the desk was 
missing; and not being discovered, new keys were procured. On 
the morning of the 15th of December the missing key was found in 
the key-hole of the desk. Oil opening the safe, it was found that $89 
had been substracted from the pocket-book, the most of which had 
been received the day previous. There were $132 in the pocket-book, 
with which we were expecting to pay, in part, a bill for paper, now 
amounting to over §300; but the rogue had left $43 of it. 
As he had 
taken but a part, and had left the key in the desk, we judged that it 
was the work of a novice. This led us to suspect a lad of about 19 
years of age, who had been a volunteer in the late Mexican war, and 
whom we had taken into our family after his return, hoping to save 
him from those dangers to which his late associations had exposed 
hint, intending to let him learn to set type, if he desired to do so. OB 
days of publication, he was employed iu ihe office to fold papers, 
<fcc. He was in the office the day the key of the desk was taken, 
and was familiar with the modes of ingress to the office. He re-
mained in our family until accused ofa foul misdemeanor by a neigh-
bor, on which he took himself away, two days before the first rob-
bery. On suspecting him, he was serit for, and informed of the sus-
picions. He denied everything, but admitted that he had watched 
the clerk, and seen where the keys were put.—besides whom, with 
the publisher and editor, no other persons in the world knew of 
their location,—uttered various threats, dared an arrest, and avowed 
his desire for a home this winter ut the public expense. As on this 
last occasion the very thing was done which he had threatened, 
with other circumstances, we let the officer^of justice arrest him. 
They recovered no money, except a few cents and a foreign coin 
they found in his pocket, which hud been in our desk for some time 
till the last burglary. He was examined before the Police court, and 
in delimit of $500 bail, was committed for trial before the Municipal 
Court in February. 
THE CONFERENCE IN BOSTON.—The brethren who met 
here last week enjoyed a good degree of the influence of the Holy 
Spirit, and were much Quickened and comforted. The watch meet-
ing, held at the commencement of the conference, was a very sol-
emn season. Many resolved on amendment of life, aud during Uie 
little time that remained, to be more devoted lo the great work of a 
ftill preparation for the kingdom of God. There was also a deep in-
terest manifested for the conversion of sinners. The meetings were 
very harmonious and spiritual. We had a feast indeed. 
Brn. DUNHAM, PLUMMEH, HAWKES, FARRAR, and ELIJAH MA-
COMBER, (from New Shurehom,) aided in preaching, &c. Their la-
bors, with those of others, gave much interest to the meetings. We 
were glad to see so many brethren and sisters from the country,who 
returned to their homes much revived and quickeued. 
On the last evening of the conference, at the request of brethren 
in Hopeville, R. 1.. liro. JOHN P. FARRAR was set apart to the work 
of the ministry, by " the laying on hands of the Presbytery." Brn. 
HAWKES, HIMES, and MACOMEER officiated in the service. Bro. F. 
has labored with great acceptance in various portions of the field.— 
He is a worthy and faithful servant ot Christ, and will receive the 
confidence aud support of Adventists. 
CONFERENCES—We expect to attend Advent conferences in 
the places mentioned below, in the following order:— 
Sandy Hill, Jan. 16, in the evening. 
Fort Ann, .lun. 11, in the evening. 
Low Hampton, Jan. 19, 20, aiid 2l. 
Addison, Vt., Jan 23. in the evening. 
Bristol, 24th, evening. Panton, 2ti, 27, and 28. Burlington, 29th, 
evening. Waterbury, Feb. I, 2,3, aud 4. 
Brethren in the surrounding towns will come in and help us. Let 
us make a strong aud united effort for the sacred cause of our com-
ing Lord. 
TO CORRESPONDENTS.—C. A. THORP-We see no evidence 
lor the subdivision of the Roman empire, other than that held by 
Protestant commentators. We regard Dan. 12:1 and Luke 13:25 as 
synchronical. 
P. 11. MORGAN- Glad to hear from yon. Cannot now say when we 
can attend the proposed conference. 
J. WESTON and others are informed, that Bro. ADRIAN returned 
the money referred to to Bro. PULLING by our own hand, and that 
Bro. P., and all concerned, are satisfied both of the honor and in-
tegrity of Bro. A. iu the matter. "A word to the wise," &c. 
A sister wishes for a good article on female prayer-meetings. 
We 
will thank some of our female correspondents to furnish an article 
on that subject. 
WE are exceedingly gratified for the many kind expressions of 
sympathy and confidcnce for us aud our worthy fellow-laborers in 
the Advent cause. We hope so to conduct in all things, as to show 
that the sympathy and confidence of our brethren are not misplaced. 
NEW AGENTS.—We wish to secure one good agent in every 
town where two or more copies of the Herald are taken. We de-
sire those that will be prompt and faithful, and who will feel an in-
terest in the extension and circulation of the paper and Advent pub-
lications generally. Persons that we are not acquainted with should 
give-us some reference. 
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BUFFALO, N. Y.—H. Tanner. 
CINCINNATI, O.—John Kiloh. 
DERBY LINE, Vt.—S. Foster, jr. 
EDDINGTON, Me.—'Thou. Smith. 
HARTFORD, Ct.—Aaron Clapp. 
LOWELL, Mass.—L. L. Knowjes. 
Low HAMPTON,N.Y.-L.Kimball. 
MALONE, N. Y.-H. Buckley. . 
MILWAUKEE, Wis.-L. Armstrong. 
MORRISVILLE, Pa.—John F. Lan-
ning. 
NEW BEDFORD, MS.-II. V. Davis. 
NEW YOR;I Cm -Win.Tracy, 
85 Ludlow-street. 
PALMER DEP., Ms—L.H.Benson. 
PHILADELPHIA,PA.—J; Liicli, 16 
Chester-street. 
PORTLAND, Me.—Peter Johnson, 
24 India-street. 
Icing-
PROVIDENCE, R. I.-G. R. t-lad-
iROCHESTER, N. V.-J. Marsh, 
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" Wm. Busby. 
TORONTO, C. W.-l). Camp^ll-
-{WATERLOO, Slieflord, C.E.-K-
Hutchinsou. 
IW o'FCTMT, Ms.—D. F. Wetherbre. 
Receipts for the Week ending Jan. 10. 
The Ifo. appended to each name below, is the fio. of the Herald to 
which the money credited pays. Hy comparing il with the present 
No. of the Herald, the sender trill see how far lie is in advance, or 
how fur in arrears. 
A. Clapp (on acc't); C. M. Chandler, 3Ss-$l 50 due-each 50cts. 
L. B. Locke, 400- 8 1 25—E. Brisbain, 391-75 cts.-50 cts. due— 
Wm. Long, 404 •, 1. Cain, 413 ; Wm. Gatla (50 cts.-sent books) 410; 
I. II. Lewis, 404 ; Rev. S. Blakeslee, 404 ; R. Bartholomew, 430: F. 
Chambers, 404 : B. Lord, 401; J. Browsley, 404 : IS Chase, 4(4 ; V-
Nutting, 404 : .1. M. Dodge, 430 ; J. U. Kent, 430 ; M. jbettey, 4W ; 
Wm. Scott, 421 •, N. Smith, 411 ; L. Slaylon, 43«/; J. Kendall, 430 ; 
L. Royce, 430L. R. Brigham, 430; D. Barber, 4(4 ; O. Baxter,404 ; 
.). M. 1 uck, 4->0; J. Frost, 3!«i; B. F. Carlton, 404 ; J. Reynolds. 
391 ; I. Howell, OH,; VV. Oilman,430; B. W akefieid, 384-$l 5Udue i 
W. Bart ett, 430; Mrs. R. Tyler, 430; E. Elliott, 4W ; J. Datnpn, 
4afi ; M. Beckley iseni , 470 i II. Rood, 404 ; A. Loomis, 39TI i E. Cou-
ley, 404 ; 8. H. Withinitim, 417-eacb SI—A. Angell. 456; M- A-
Newton, 4a6 ; G J. Turner, 40? ; E. C. Richardson, 4»4 ; H- Kent, 
401 ; E. Ayres, 404 : S. Allen, 451; J. Whilmore, 404 ; L. M- Rich-
mond, 5aa; C. Bailey, 404 ; E. Wentworlh, jr., 4t)4; B W. Perry, 
404 ; K Emery, 404-have mailed regularly ; W. Walsou itredilVO11 
S3 40, leaving S2due), 352; O.Reuben, 404 ; J.C. Downing,4(4; J-
C. W lute, 414; T. Bailey, 404 ; J. Milchell, ten.,404 ; L. W. North-
rop, 41Uj Miss M. Coolidge, 456 ; H. A. Underwood igl sent as vou 
direct; it was net receivedi, 352— $2 due ; J. M Stevens, 401; '>• 
Blewitl, 3b5 ; B. F. Brownell, 430; Wm. Clewley, jr., 404 ; D. W hit-
ney, 430-end of next vol. ; A. Sampson, 433 ; J. Crosby, 37b-$l<lue; 
J. S. Rhodes, 430; A. W. Brown, 449 ; L.Tiffany, 4,4 ; S. Hurlhurt, 
430; S. Stephens, 401; Wm. Giles, 404—cach 
G W . Sharp, 
404 : 1'. MMJruekt-n, 404 ; S. Smith, 4o4-, J. c. Cummin®*, 3t>7; J-
IL M'Ewen,404; F. Millet, 430; S. B. I^jok, 430 ; A. Chalk, 410; 
VV . Dimkiu,404 ; O. B. Fenner, 430; A. Hemingway, 404 ; G. Mer-
rinmn, 430—each $3—H. Myers, 404 ; M. M'Kinney, 430-each $1-
8 S. Brewer ton acc't) ; Ira Hopkins, 4ii4 ; R. V Ljou (on acc't); 
J. Litch (on acc'tj-each $5—J. Sliauklin, 425-Sld.