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BOSTON, SATURDAY, 
SATURDAY, MARCH 15, 1862. 
 
VOLUME XXIII. NO. 11. 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
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BATTLE HYMN. 
Mine eyes have seen the glory of the coming of the 
Lord ; 
He is trampling out the vintage where the grapes of 
wrath are stored ; 
He hath loosed the fateful lightning of His terrible 
swift sword : 
His truth is marching on. 
I have seen Him in the watch-fires of a hundred cir-
cling camps, 
They have builded Him an altar in the evening:dews 
and damps ; 
I can read His righteous sentence by the dim and 
flaring lamps : 
His day is marching on. 
I have read a fiery gospel, writ in burnished rows of 
steel,— 
"As ye deal with my contemners, so with you my 
grace shall deal :" 
Let the Hero,born of woman, crush the serpent with 
his heel, 
Since God is marching on." 
He has sounded forth the trumpet that shall never 
call retreat : 
He is sifting out the hearts of men before His judg-
ment-seat : 
Oh, be swift, my soul to answer Him ! be jubilant, 
my feet! 
Our God is marching on. 
It the beauty of the lilies Christ was boin across the 
sea, 
With a glory in his bosom that transfigures you 
and me ; h_ 
As he died to make men holy,let us die to make men 
free, 
While God is marching on. 
upon it for man's transgression. This of course. 
carried us back to Gen. iii. 17 : "Cursed is the 
ground for thy sake ;" teaching us that up till 
that time there was no curse upon it, no vanity, 
no decay, and reminding us of the original ver-
dict of Jehovah: Gen. i. 31, "And God saw eve-
ry thing that he had made,and behold it was very 
good." Then the apostle declares that this state 
of vanity and corruption was yet a state of' 
"hope," and that this bondage of corruption was 
not to be perpetual, for deliverance was promis-
ed, nay, liberty, the liberty of the glory of the 
sons of God. Then, reverting to the idea thrown 
out in the Church, he shews that, parallel with 
this, there was the time of bondage to creation, 
—a time of "groaning and travailing in pain," 
—the Church's sorrows and creation's sorrows 
keeping pace with each other,the Church's groans 
and creation's groans ascending together in the 
ears of the Lord God of Sabbath. And in what 
is all this to end ? In what the apostle calls (ver. 
23,) "the redemption of the body," i. e. the re-
surrection. And as we know that the Lord him-
self comes to raise the dead, so we conclude he 
comes also to deliver creation. In other words, 
as the Lord's coming and resurrection occur at 
the same time, so that coming and creation's re-
storation must also occur together. Into the 
prophetic descriptions of that mighty deliverance 
for creation, or into the glimpses of the ages of 
blessedness and glory in reserve for it, we do 
not enter. We leave this passage, merely asking 
you to keep in mind how it establishes our po-
sition as to the twofold character of the prophet. 
ic lines. It exhibits the present state of creation 
as dark and sad ; it points to its future state as 
glorious and blessed ; and it affirms that the in-
teresting event—that which marks off these two 
portions from each other—is the Lord's coming. 
Thus we learn that from the day that sin enter-
ed, up to the day of Christ's advent, creation is 
to be subject to vanity, to groan and travail ; 
but that from that day onward,it is transformed 
into a blessed world,its vanity exchanged for in-
corruption, its groans for rejoicings; its travail-
pangs having at length issued in an immortal 
birth more glorious than paradise of old. 
(2.) The second general passage which I cite 
is Acts iiii. 19-21. There is a period predict-
ed here called by the twofold name of "times of 
refreshing," and "times of restitution." These ex-
pressions, of course, imply a previous condition 
of things altogether different. The first assumes 
that creation is in a parched,withered, decaying, 
condition, like a flower drooping under a scorch-
ling sun, or like the land of Israel in the day of 
Elijah, when for three years and a half, there 
was neither rain or dew. The second intimates 
that creation is in ruins, falling to pieces,crumb-
ling down, its very foundations out of course. 
This double calamity, of decay and dilapidation, 
has been affecting creation since the curse was 
pronounced upon it, and it will continue to do so 
till the period here foretold—the time of refresh-
ing and the time of restitution. Then all shall 
be reversed, and the earth become as fresh and 
as stable as before the curse had begun to wither 
and desolate it. Now, mark the point at which 
this transformation takes place. It is when the 
heavens shall cease to retain him who has ascend. 
ed into them, and sat down on the right hand of 
God. In other words, the intersecting event is 
the Lord's advent. The heavens retain him till 
the times of restitution of all things. Then he 
reappears to make all things new. He "comes 
down like rain upon the mown grass, and like' 
 
showers that water the earth," (Ps. lxxii. 6 ;) 
He comes to refresh the weary earth ; he comes 
to rebuild the ruined creation, and re-establishl 
it in immovable steadfastness for ever. This pas-
sage, then, presents us with this great creation- 
line under the twofold aspect referred to, dark 
and bright,—bisected at the one point, and by 
the one event. During Christ's absence creation 
droops and fades, and falls to pieces. When he 
appears, it lifts up its head, it reflourishes it puts 
on a stability and incorruption which no absence 
of its King shall ever shake or impair. 
(3.) Our third proof-quotation is Isaiah lxv. 
17-25, especially as taken in connexion with 2 
Peter iii. 10-13. Here we have the prediction 
of new heavens and a new earth,wherein dwelleth 
righteousness, implying, of course, a previous 
state, the reverse of this, and requiring this re- 
newal. The preceding verses in both chapters 
shew the wretched condition of things antecedent 
to this change, a change which, both in itself, 
and as the contrast of what existed before,is one 
of the brightest and most gladsome that can be 
conceived. Thus, then, the creation-line is made 
ill, of these two parts, the old and the new ; and 
the intersecting event is the same as in the other 
passages—the advent of the Lord. "The day of 
the Lord," says the apostle, "will come as a 
thief in the night ;" and then, according to his 
promise, "we shall have the new heavens and the 
new earth, wherein dwelleth righteousness." 
Thus the line is divided into two parts, the old 
and the new ; and that which bisects the line—
which ends the old and begins the new—is the 
coming of the Lord. 
The Greatest is Charity. 
An incident in the life of a young man in this 
city came to our knowledge the other day,which, 
from the spice of romance which it contains, as 
well as an illustration of what a vast deal of 
good a slight bestowal of charity sometimes does, 
is worthy of record. 
As the young clerk and a friend were passing 
hastily, through Broad Street, one raw chilly 
day in November, a few years ago, they saw 
standing near the corner of India Street, as they 
turned to go down the wharf, a poor,old woman, 
thinly clad in a calico dress, tattered bonnet and 
shawl, holding on her arm a small basket, in 
which were a few uninviting apples, which she 
vainly offered to the hurrying pedestrians that 
passed her. Her stock ingless feet thrust into 
old slippers, and a few threads of white hair 
scattered over her forehead, she stood shivering 
in the keen, searching wind as our two clerks 
drew near. 
"Poor old woman !" said one,as he approached 
the poor creature, and with a sudden impulse he 
plunged his hand into his pocket, and grasping 
every cent it contained, threw it into her basket 
—the old woman's "God bless you" following 
him on his way. His companion, who witnessed 
the act, ejaculated at the moment of its perform-
ance, 
"Bill, you are a fool to throw your money 
away in that manner on street beggars." 
"Perhaps I am," said the other, "but I could 
not help it; she may be an imposter, but I do 
not b lieve it." 
The next day the matter was forgotten, and 
indeed might never have been remembered again 
had it not been brought to mind in the following 
manner. 
The next summer, one day, as the young man 
was busy over his ledgers in an inner counting-
room at his employer's store, he was summoned 
to the outer office by the message that some one 
wished to see him. Going out, he saw waiting 
a fine looking sailor, in nautical costume, who 
eyed him closely as he approached. 
"Did you wish to see me sir ?" 
"Is your name William `l+" 
"Yes, sir, that's my name." 
"Blue eyes, light complexion, stand straight, 
speaks quick," said the sailor, half soliloquizing. 
"Yes, you must be the man,you look just like 
it," said the tar. 
"Just like what ?" said the young man,a little 
surprised. 
"Why, I'll tell you! Overhaul your, log and 
tell me if you recollect seeing a poor,old woman, 
about ten months ago, shivering in the cold in 
Broad Street, and trying to sell a few apples to 
keep her from starving, and you threw a dollar 
and a half in silver change into her basket and 
walked on—you did—didn't you—you can re-
member can't you ?" said the sailor, with fever-
ish anxiety. 
Somewhat staggered by the questioner's eag-
erness, it was a moment or two before the young 
man collected his thoughts, when he replied that 
he did recollect throwing some change into a 
poor woman's basket, but that the circumstance 
had passed out of his memory. 
"Ah ! but she hasn't forgotten !" said the sai-
lor, warmly, "but do you recollect what the man 
who walked with you said ?" he inquired. 
"Why, yes, now that I recall the circum-
stance, I think I do. He said, Bill, what a fool 
you are to throw your money away.'" 
"That proves it," said the sailor, joyfully, and 
dashing his hat on the floor he seized the aston-
ished young man by the hand,with a hearty grasp, 
saying, "God bless your soul, sir ! you saved my 
mother's life, you did—I knew you must be the 
man," continued he to the astonished clerk, "the 
moment I set my eyes on you ; why, bless your 
generous heart, that poor old woman was my 
mother," said the sailor, a big tear running over 
his brown cheek. 
Drawing his guest aside, the clerk learned 
that ht was the second mate of a ship now in 
port ; that he had been searching for his mother's 
benefactor for nearly three weeks, upon almost 
every wharf in that part of the city ; that dur-
ing his absence the winter before, he had been 
taken sick in a foreign port, his mother had met 
with misfortunes, had heard nothing from him, 
and was deprived of the provision he had made 
for her support during his absence ; that expect-
ing to bear from him, she managed to eke out 
an existence till the chill month of November 
found her without food,fire or clothing,and drove 
her to the street to procure them ; that the hand-
ful of change which the young man threw into 
her basket procured her necessaries till other 
means fortunately reached her. 
In answer to the clerk's inquiry as to what 
From the London Quarterly Journal of Prophecy. 
God's Purpose as Unfolded in 
Prophecy. 
The general passages are the following :— 
(1.) Horn. viii. 19-23.—Here we learn that 
creation is in a state of "earnest expectation" or 
eagtr longing for a certain event or era in which 
it is to be peculiarly blessed. This event or era 
is the manifestation of the sons of God, that in 
the time when these sons of God, now hidden 
and unknown,shall be glorified, "when the righte-
ous shall shine as the sun in the kingdom of the 
Father." Having made this general statement, 
the apostle, in the next verse, (ver. 20,) goes on 
to explain why all this earnest expectation was 
needed. Creation, says he, was "made subject 
to vanity,"—i. e., made a perishable, ruined, de-
cayed thing. But how was this? Not "willing-
ly," not by its own consent or by reason of its 
cwn sin ; but by him who pronounced the curse 
THE ADVENT HERALD. 
clue he had to direct him in his search, he re- sage taught that the time for the judgment of a considerable distance from that, and among both hemis pheres.particularly in America, where 
plied : 
walked off so quickly, and her description of the 
color of your eyes and hai', and of your height, 
are correct. Furthermore, she heard your com- 
"My mother marked you, sir, although you the dead had come, but the judgment of those is different people. I had previous to my engage- its effects were fatally visible in the prevalence 
after the resurrection, hence the resurrection is ment, laid before my employers the fact ak at I of epidemical diseases. During July and Au-
implied, presupposed, and taken for granted. had "turned from idols to serve the living God gust, extensive fires raged in different parts of 
And, again, this same Scripture taught that the and wait for his Son from Heaven"—and they Nova Scotia, especially in the eastern division of 
time was present, when the Lord God Almighty had declared it no barrier ; and yet, not long af- the peninsula ; but the country being generally 
should give reward, not to the martyrs only,who, ter, very complacently dismissed me for this very cleared for a considerable distance round the set- 
panion call you 
and say something about indeed, as such, are not mentioned in this place, reason. Viewing in this as in every thing else, tlements and villages, very little injury was sus- 
the wharf ! so I concluded you must be in a store but to all his people,to his servants the prophets the hand of my Father, I was in no wise dis- tained. In Miramichi, and throughout the 
on the wharf ; so I have been in every store on 
and to the saints and to them that feared his turbed, believing the Lord had provided some northern parts of New Brunswick the season had 
the wharves where there were any Williams and 
name, both small and great ; and what place, I better thing for me,and so it proved. Some years been unusually dry. Scarcely any rain had fal- 
overhauled about two dozen 'Bills," but didn't 
inquired,do you assign to this verse,last quoted? before, the Lord had sent me the same message len, and considerable apprehensions had been en-
run along side the true one till I found you, sir. His answer was, as in the preceding instance : which he sent to Barveh, Jer. 45: 5, which has tertained for the crops. Very extensive fires 
There," concluded the sailor, "that's my yarn. I 
"It pertains to---it follows---it belongs to the pe- been of great benefit all the way along. From were observed in a north-westerly direction : al- 
felt I could not rest easy till I thanked you— 
riod marked in the Apocalypse by the sounding that time I was led to a more real looking to the so along the south side of "Le Baie des Chale. 
and that is what I've called to do. My old moth- 
 of the seventh trumpet, by the seventh angel." Lord for everything, not only in spiritual but in urs"—in several parts of the district of Gaspe—
er is well provided for now, and I am second Both these passages then, I remarked, though all things, and am ready to add my testimony on the Richibucto ; and thence in a southerly 
mate of a ship. God bless you sir ! I will never found in different chapters, belong together---to to God's faithfulness. "There is no lack to them direction towards Westmoreland. From the 
forget your name,and may you never know what the same thing ? "Yes !" Well, doctor, how that put their trust in him." Do I wish to know first to the fifth of October, a season generally 
it is to be poor !" 
many trumpets are there ? "Seven." The seventh, in any ease just what my Father would have me cool, an extraordinary and unnatural heat pre- 
And the sailor wrung the hand of his benefac- 
 then, is the last. "Yes." I then referred to 1 do ? The veil has been rent, and by the new and vailed. The protracted drought of the Summer 
tor, whose heart glowed with the richness of the Cor. xv. 51, 52---"Behold, I show you a mys- living way, I can come with confidence for guid- acting upon the aridity of the forests, had ren-
poor man's blessing as he departed.—Boston tery ; we shall not all sleep, but we all shall be ante. Do I need employment ? My Father has dered them more than naturally combustible. Land 
Commercial Bulletin. 
changed in a moment,in the twinkling of an eye, the best intelligence office in the universe, whose clearing had been carried on extensively all the 
at the last trump: for the trumpet shall sound, telegraphic wires carry communications even spring ; and as this operation includes burning 
Candor, worthy of Imitation. 
and the dead shall be raised incorruptible, and swifter than the lightning, though he may see the trees and roots, the circumstances mention- 
we shall be changed." The apostle, I observed, fit to delay for a season,for the trial of my faith, ed above, facilitated both the progress and dis-
who speaks in this chapter of the resurrection of I have found the message above referred to, persion of these fires, and produced the unusual 
the righteous only, without any reference to the "seeketh thou great things for thyself—seek heat. On the 6th and 7th, the condition of the 
wicked at all, expressly declares that,at the last them not"—of very great service by way of con- people living along the valley of the Miramichi, 
trump (which you have admitted the seventh to tenting me to be doing little errands for the became very alarming. In the rear of Newcas-
be) all those who are asleep (dead) in Christ Lord ; and not unfrequently find those seeming tae—in the vicinity of Douglastown and Moor-
shall arise, and all living saints be changed. His little links are after all an essential portion of fields—and along the banks of the Bartibog, the 
only reply was—"I never thought of that before; the great chain of Providence. As day by day, fires were evidently approaching the line of set- 
I will consider what you have said, and give you I seek the mind of my Heavenly Father in all tlements on the north side of the main river. On 
my opinion." After the lapse of some time, the things, so am I enabled to walk by faith, not by the south side of the river from below Nappan, 
subject was again brought up, and the doctor sight. The word is, "The just shall live by faith." thence upward in the rear of Nelson Town, up 
told me that he had reflected upon it, and that Very well---then we need not go along in a state Cain's river—and along the same menacing pro-
I was mistaken, and gave his reasons for it. I of spirituality,half dead---oh no---we may "live." cess was going on. Indeed the whole country 
opposed his arguments, and the matter was drop- Bless the Lord. Does the Lord wish me to in- appeared to be encircled by a flaming one, which, 
ped,each retaining his own special views. Weeks, troduce the great and glorious truths of the corn- gradually contracting itself by the devastation 
perhaps months afterwards, this interesting topic ing and kingdom of our Lord and Savior, either it had made, seemed as if it would converge into 
was referred to again,and the doctor said to me, to one person, or in a meeting, he always lets a point, as soon as nothing remained to be de-
"You were right." I did not expect him, at his me know it, and though sometimes conscious be- stroyed. 
age, with his experience and knowledge, to yield forehand, of the same reception as the prophet, On Friday the 7th inst., about 9 o'clock in 
to me, or that he would give up his long-cherish- "They will not hear you," yet as He has said, the evening and for some time previous, length-
ed opinions for mine. I opposed him in this thing, "my word shall not return to me void, but shall ened and sullen roars—repeated crashing nois-
not only because he expressly desired my opin- accomplish that which I please,and prosper in the es—and sounds like unto thunder, filled every 
ion, and the result proved the humility of the thing where unto I send it," I rest it there,leav- one with terror. The people seemed to be per-
man, the openness of his heart to the truth, and, ing all consequences with him. Sometimes the fectly stupified. Every body seemed to be alive 
in spite of accumulated years, the progressive truth is received ; sometimes both it and myself, to their danger ; but no one seemed capable of 
character of his mind, whilst many, of far less as we are identified, are barely tolerated---and warding it off. And about the time stated above, 
real intellectual vigor,are dwarfed and stunted by not unfrequently greatly opposed. Sometimes and suddenly,as it struck meshundreds of flames' 
prejudice and the pride of opinion. And now, when the Lord directs me to speak it in a meet- of fire, simultaneously burst from the forests, 
when I look over to the place where we laid him, ing (and I cannot afford to disobey) some one and rushed out upon the settlements : and then 
in the hope of the better resurrection, or when I will say, "let us keep to experience ;" "we have Newcastle, Douglasstown, ana the whole north-
stand by his grave,I feel comforted in the thought got the kingdom in our hearts"---"we don't want ern side of the river, extending from the Barti-
that when he passed through the dark valley, he doctrines"---"what we want is to be prepared to bog to the Naashwaak, a distance of more than 
may have been cheered with the glorious assur. die" etc. etc., and sometimes I have been per- one hundred miles in length, became- enveloped 
ante that he,as one of the redeemed, blood-wash. sonally opposed, and asailed with language too in one sheet of flame, that eventually spread ov- 
ed, and sanctified, should, in common with all rough to ever defile the mouth of a Christian. er some thousands of square miles. 
saints, lay aside the habiliments of the grave, Yet the Lord stands by me, and the more I am I was at the time this great fire occurred re- 
and rise from amongthe dead one thousand years assailed, the more he lifts me up in himself, and siding within a mile of Newcastle ; and my can-
sooner than he had ever believed, before he had enables me to view the assailants with love and did opinion is, that a greater calamity never 
said to me, at the conclusion of our argument, in pity-- greatly fearing they may be found among befel any forest country, and that very few pla-
reference to the resurrection, at the pre-millen. those of whom Enoch the seventh from Adam ces in any country of the same population, and 
nial advent of Jesus Christ—"You were right." prophesied. I find it a great consolation to re- of the same available resources, ever experienc- 
-Kingdom 4-c. pp. 276-281. 
member that Jesus too received the greatest op- ed a greater loss. The following statement of 
position, if not all from the professed people of lives lost, and property consumed, was exhibited 
God, so that in this too, I have fellowship with by a local committee organized for the manage-
him, while my heart responds to his declaration, ment of all matters connected with this disorder 
"It is enough for the disciple to be as his mas- Persons burnt and drowned 
Buildings destroyed 
ter, and the servant as his lord." One thing I 
Head of cattle destroyed • 
find all important,---to follow, not run before 
Loss of property estimated 
the Spirit of the Lord. This we may know,if we 
Less this sum insured 
are walking in obedience---praise the Lord. But 
I must close, reserving the rest for another arti-
cle, as this is already of sufficient length. 
X. 
For the Herald. 
The Great Fire in lifiramichi. 
From "the autobiography of a Weslyan Me-
thodist missionary ;" Rev. Robert Cooney, a 12 
mo vol published at Montreal in 1856 on pp. 
54 58, I copy the following account of this ter-
rific conflagration which was probably unequal-
ed in its extent and grandeur by any other in the 
world. The description given below is all the 
more valuable in its graphic portraying from the 
fact of its being given by an eye witness. 
March, 1862 
D. T. T. 
"The summer of 1825,was unusually warm in 
Rev. J. Oswald, of York, Pa., author of "The 
Kingdom which shall not be destroyed," (Phila-
delphia 1856), was for a number of years, in his 
early ministry,an assistant of Dr. Schmucker Sen; 
and he relates the following reminiscence of Dr. 
S. as "an example worthy of imitation by much 
inferior, younger, but heady and opinionative 
divines." Mr. 0. says : 
"Dr. Schmucker, Sen., had for long years 
studied the prophecies, especially the Apoca-
lypse. After the publication of the German edit-
ion of his work on the Revelation of St. John 
(1843), he made me a present of the book, ac-
companied with the request that, after examin-
ing it, I should give him my opinion of its con-
tents. I cheerfully accepted of the volume, and 
gave it a persual. Meeting afterwards in his 
own house, he wished to know what I thought of 
his Apocalyptic expositions ; I hesitated. He in-
sisted—"but I wished you to give me your opin-
ion, was his remark. I then proceeded : passing 
over some things as non essential, agreeing with 
him in others, until the subject of the Resurrec-
tion came in review, which resurrection is to 
take place at the pre-millennial advent of Jesus 
Christ. The doctor maintained that it was only 
the martyrs who would then rise from the dead. 
I said that I could prove from Scripture, that 
the resurrection, not of martyrs only, but of all 
them that slept in Jesus, would then take place; 
and not only so,but that all saints, also, then,liv-
ing would instantly be changed in a moment—
in the twinkling of an eye. This,of course,chang-
ed the whole aspect of the millennium—trans-
ferred it at once beyond the limits of probation ; 
and though it was a subject so near his heart, of 
which he had thought so long, on which he had 
meditated so deeply, and written so much, and 
though my assertion, if correct, would so materi-
ally affect his long ana deeply cherished views, 
yet his only reply was, "Prove it !" I requested 
a Bible, which, when brought,' opened and read 
—"And I saw thrones, and they that sat upon 
them, and judgment was given unto them ; and 
I saw the souls of them that were beheaded for 
the witness of Jesus, and for the word of God, 
and which had not worshipped the beast, neither 
his image, neither had received his mark upon 
their foreheads,or in their hands ; and they lived 
and reigned with Christ a thousand years." Rev. 
xx. 4. Now this passage, I retnarked,teactes the 
resurrection of the martyrs clearly (for it is a res-
urrection which is here intended,'as the succeed-
ing vcrses,5, and 6,prove), but as respects others, 
it neither affirms nor denies aught. Now, doc-
tor, where does this Scripture (passage) belong ? 
To what period of time ? His answer was, as I 
well knew, from his intimate acquaintance with 
the subject, it would be---"It belongs to the pe-
riod designated by the seventh trumpet." I then 
turned to Rev. xi. 18—"And the nations were 
angry, and thy wrath is come, and the time of 
Vie dead, that they should be judged, and that 
thou shouldest give reward unto thy servants,the 
prophets, and to the saints, and them that fear 
thy natne,small and great ; and shouldest destroy 
them which destroy the earth." Now this pas- 
L 
Bro. Bliss :—In a communication in the Her-
ald of Jan. 4th, I promised an occasional chap-
ter ; so I again take the pen. The "trials and 
encouragements" have served to keep me so well 
balanced,that "having obtained help of the Lord 
I continue till this present time." My experi-
ence of both, has been about in proportion to my 
activity in the cause, and faithfulness in testifying 
so that in this regard I have the satisfaction of 
a scriptural experience. In a town where my 
home was cast for a season, I found the people 
all ready to look at (as they supposed) a very 
queer one—one of' those uncouth things termed 
"Millerites." But as they afterwards testified 
found only a quiet, plain dressed person, who 
carried conviction to the heart of being a sincere 
christian. During a few years residence with 
those, for the most part, very candid people, no 
one was led to think any more lightly of the 
"blessed hope," but like Bereans they searched 
the Scriptures for themselves,and therefore some, 
like them, believed. True, there was some con-
tention and opposition to meet, but truth was in 
the ascendant scale. My next residence was at 
£192,273 
That the stranger may form a faint idea of 
the desolation and misery no pen can describe, 
he. must picture to himself a large and rapid riv-
er,thickly' settled for one hundred miles or more, 
on both sides of it. He must also fancy four 
thriving towns, two on each side of this river ; 
and then reflect that these towns and settlements 
were all composed of wooden houses, stores, sta-
bles, and barns ; and that the arrival of the fall 
importations had stocked the warehouses and 
stores with spirits, powder,and a variety of com-
bustible articles, as well as with the necessary 
supplies for the approaching winter. He must 
then remember that the cultivated, or settled 
part of the river,is but a long narrow strip about 
a quarter of a mile wide, and lying between the 
Net Loss, 
160,000 
595,000 
875,000 
£204,323 
12,050 
be took fire once more, and enforced, with re- 
doubled energy and richness, the freeness, the 
simplicity, the security, the sufficiency of the 
great method of justification. How astonished 
and impressed we all were ! He was at the full 
thunder of his power ; the whole man was in an 
agony of earnestness. The drover was weeping 
like a child, the tears running down his ruddy, 
coarse cheeks---his face opened out and smooth-
ed like an infant's ; his whole body stirred with 
emotion. We all had insensibly been drawn out 
of our seats, and were converging toward the 
wonderful speaker. And when lie sat down, af-
ter warning each one of us to remember who it 
was, and what it was, that followed death on his 
pale horse, and how alone we could escape---we 
all sank back into our seats. How beautiful to 
our eyes did the thunder look---exhausted---but 
sweet and pure ! How he poured out his soul be-
fore his God in giving thanks for sending the 
Abolisher of death ! Then, a short psalm and 
all was ended. 
We went home quieter than we came ; we did 
not recount the foals with their long legs, and 
roguish eyes, and their sedate mothers ; we did 
not speculate upon whose dog that was, and 
whether that was a crow or a man in the moor---
we thought of other things. That voice, that 
face ; those great, simple,living thoughts ; those 
floods of resistless eloquence ; thatpiercing,shat-
tering voice---"that tremendous necessity." 
Dr. John Brown. 
The California Floods. 
It will be recollected that in July last an in-
surrection broke out at Loja, and finally so ex- 
tended through Southern Spain as to require 
that the territory be placed under martial law. 
The battle cry of the insurgents was, "Down with 
the Pope. Live the Republic." The move- 
ment was unjustly attributed to Protestant in-
fluence, and Matamoras and the many others 
then in prison were made to feel, severely, the 
rigor of their task-master's service. Mr. Mata-
amoras writes, under the date of Sep. 3: 
"On the 8th of July I was dragged from my 
cell and sepulchre to a dungeon, the most dis- 
tant and lonely in this horrible prison, poisonous 
with evil odors, and only lighted by artificial 
lights, and there left in perfect solitude. When 
my food was brought two keepers accompanied 
the servant * * This servant, who was himself 
a prisoner, was summoned by the Governor and 
Captain-General, who offered him his liberty 
(though under a sentence of seven years' penal 
service) and $ 1,600 if he would reveal what he 
knew of us. We had never spoken to him—not 
only not of politics, of which we rarely, if ever 
think or speak, but not even of religion ; yet the 
man gave a testimony, and was liberated. Af-
ter a fortnight of examinations, declarations and 
vexations, we were released from our solitude, 
but were strictly forbidden to speak to any one. 
"On the 2d of August my room and person 
were again searched,but of course nothing found. 
In declaration, I protested against all this, and 
declared my perfect innocence of any political 
question, adding : 'It is not so in matters of re-
ligion : my faith calls on me to propagate the 
Word of God, and in this I have labored and 
will labor, accepting willingly the consequences.' 
I fear nothing from this calumny, though one 
prisoner was offered $ 300 if he would make a 
declaration corroborating the statement of the 
person already referred to. He refused to do 
so.' A second time I was cast into the dark and 
horrible dungeon, and confined there eighteen 
days. This was on a charge of propagating Pro-
testantism amongst the prisoners. 
"My case has now passed from the military to 
the civil courts, where the truth is more easily 
heard. Still there are many calumnies and 
much prejudice against me, but I trust in the 
Lord and in the strength of my innocence. Pray 
for me, and pray for my unhappy enemies, that 
God may forgive them, as I do from the bottom 
of my heart, all that they make me suffer." 
By later dates we learn thatnot only Mr. M., 
but others, also, whose only crime was that they 
had preached and taught the Word of God, had 
been sentenced to eight years in the galleys, 
which is equivalent to death, for few survive the 
ceaseless labor and exposure. 
Thus much of freedom in religion is there in 
Spain, our original fatherland,in this nineteenth 
century. 
H. C. H. 
river and almost interminable forests, stretching 
along the very edge of its precincts and all around 
it. Extending his conception, he will see these 
forests thickly expanding over more than 6000 
square miles, and absolutely parched into tinder 
by the protracted heat of a long summer, and by 
the large fires that had streamed through almost 
every part of them. Let him then animate the 
picture by scattering countless tribes of wild an-
imals, hundreds of domestic ones,and even thou-
sands of men through the interior. Having done 
all this he will have before bin-1,a feeble descrip-
tion of the extent, features, and general circum-
stances of the country,which on the night I have 
mentioned was suddenly buried in fire. 
If my opinion be entitled to any consideration 
this is its candid expression.—A greater calam-
ity than the fire which happened in Miramichi 
never befel any forest country, and has been 
rarely excelled in the annals of any other ; and 
the general character of the scene was such,that 
all it required to complete a general judgment, 
was the blast of a trumpet, the voice of the 
archangel, and the resurrection of the dead." 
Death and its Abolisher• 
We remember well our first hearing Dr. Chal-
mers. We were in moorland a district in Tweed- 
dale, rejoicing in the country, after nine months 
of the High School. We heard that the famous 
preacher was to be at a neighboring parish church, 
and off we set, a cartful of irrepressible young- 
sters. "Calm was all nature as a resting wheel." 
The crows, instead of making wing, were impu- 
dent and sat still; the cart-horses were standing, 
knowing the day, at the field gates, gossiping 
and gazing, idle and happy ; the moor was 
stretching away in the pale sunlight—vast, dim, 
melancholy, like a sea ; everywhere were to be 
seen the gathering people, "sprinklings of blithe 
company ;" the country-side seemed moved to 
one center. As we entered the kirk we saw a 
notorious character, a drover, who had much of 
the brutal look of what he worked in, with the 
knowing eye of a man of the city, a sort of big 
Peter Bell— 
"He had a hardness in his eye. 
He had a hardness in his cheek." 
He was our terror, and we not only wondered 
but were afraid when we saw him going in. The 
kirk was full as it could hold. How different in 
looks to a brisk town congregation ! The min-
ister comes in, homely in dress and gait,but hav-
a great look about him, like a mountain among 
hills. The High School boys thought him like 
a "big one of ourselves ;" he looks vaguely round 
upon his audience, as if he saw in it one great 
object, not many. We shall never forget his 
smile ! its general benignity ;—how he let the 
light of his countenance fall upon us ! He read 
a few verses quietly ; then prayed briefly, sol-
emnly, with his eyes wide open all the time, but 
not seeing. Then he gave out his text ; we for-
get it, but its subject was, "Death reigns." He 
stated slowly, calmly, the simple meaning of the 
words ; what death was, and how and why it 
reigned ; then suddenly he started, and looked 
like a man who had seen some great sight, and 
was breathless to declare It ; he told us how death 
reigned—everywhere, at all times, in all places; 
how we all knew it, how we would yet know 
more of it. The drover, who had sat down in 
the table-seat opposite, was gazing up in a state 
of stupid excitement ; he seemed restless, but 
never kept his eye from the speaker. The tide 
set in—everything added to its power, deep call-
ed to deep, imagery and illustration poured in ; 
and every now and then the theme—the simple, 
terrible statement, was repeated in some lucid 
interval. After overwhelming us with proofs of 
the reign of death, and transfering to us his in-
tense urgency and emotion ; and after shrieking, 
as if in despair, these words, "Death is a tremen-
dous neeessity," he suddenly looked beyond us 
as if into some distant region, and cried out : 
"Behold a mightier !—who is this ? He cometh 
from Edom, with dyed garments from Bozrah, 
glorious in his apparel, speaking in righteous. 
ness, traveling in the greatness of his strength, 
mighty to save." Then, in a few plain senten-
ces, he stated the truth as to sin entering, and 
death by sin, and death passing upon all. Then 
papers of extreme exposure, hardship and dan-
ger endured by thousands of people. A great 
many deaths by drowning are reported, and it 
would seem as if hundreds must have met with 
watery graves. One dispatch mentions that the 
town of Alvarado was six feet under water ; and 
that the inhabitants had been firing minute guns 
to call attention to their distress, but it was im-
possible to render them any assistance. Along 
the rivers the inhabitants generally were provid-
ed with boats by which they could reach places 
of safety, but in the interior they had no such 
means of escape, and were entirely at the mercy 
of the flood, which came upon them with fearful 
rapidity. A family of six persons were taken 
from a farm where the water was four feet deep. 
The father was on horseback holding the two 
youngest children. The mother was standing 
with the water nearly up to her armpits. 
From the New York Observer. 
Religious Persecution in Spain. 
Something more than a year since, Rev. Mr. 
White, of Northampton, (since deceased) called 
at my room in Malaga, Spain, to invite me with 
a few other American and English gentlemen, to 
meet Matamoras, a prisoner in charge of a de-
tachment of soldiers, that morning arrived from 
Barcelona, 200 miles distant, and who in one 
hour was to leave by diligence for his dungeon, 
seventy-five miles inland. 
We know little, comparatively of Spain, and 
less concerning the persecutions there borne by 
our brethren for their love of the truth as it is 
in Jesus. In our newspapers there has been lit-
tle more than an occasional notice of the fact that 
Matamoras and others had been imprisoned and 
sentenced. 
One cause of this ignorance is that few trav-
elers visit Spain, and fewer still remain suffici-
ently long to become acquainted with those who 
would cheerfully introduce themselves, but from 
fear of betrayal. Then again, Spanish journals 
are prohibited from publishing anything indicat-
ing a want of adhesion to the Catholic faith. I 
had traveled weeks in Spain, and might have 
gone on for months without any knowledge of 
these suffering ones,had not the occurrence above 
mentioned afforded us the opportunity of express-
ing to Matamoras the sympathy of American 
Christians, and thus led the way to the confi-
dence of Christian friends in that city. 
Mr. Matamoras was arrested in Barcelona, 
near the confines of France, in December 1860, 
his only offence being that he taught and 
distributed the Word of God. Mr. Matamoras 
is about 35 years of age, tall, erect, a perfect 
gentleman, very intelligent, easy and pleasing in 
conversation, a calm, earnest, noble follower of 
the Saviour. Taken from the bosom of his fam-
ily, he had been manacled and hurried on board 
the first steamer without being permitted a knowl-
edge of the charges preferred against him, and 
thus far he had come on the way to prison in a 
distant portion of the kingdom. A few of' us, 
Americans and English, protected by our flags, 
dared tell him that the prayers of many would 
follow him, and to be of good courage. 
I shall never forget his words of hope for the 
future of Spain, or of his cheerful farewell as he 
climbed to his place among the baggage for the 
dreary night trip over the mountains ; nor yet 
shall I forget the scornful hate that was depict-
ed on the countenances of more than a score of 
the minions of Rome, who, under priestly in-
structions, were there to note every word of re-
cognition or support. 
To this day, no reason has been assigned for 
thus conveying him 400 miles from home to this 
wretched prison, or that others less prominent, 
but equally faithful, should also there suffer in 
cells so noisome and cold that their own exhaled 
breath was too sweet for an exchange. 
Three months later, while I still remained at 
Malaga, the trial of Matamoras was commenc-
ed in that city, at rooms to which none but the 
agents of the Government and the Church were 
admitted, and without the knowledge, much less 
the presence, of either Mr. M. in person, or by 
counsel. Trials, devoid of justice and without 
attendance of defendant, were at the same time 
in progress in Barcelona and Granada. 
The Evacuation of Columbus. 
Oftentimes when the lumbermen of the Penob-
scot look at a jam of logs covering many acres, 
they can pick out the one or two which, being 
cut away, will set the whole mass in motion. 
Those less skilled at the business might spend 
days and weeks on the job without having much 
to show for it. In the same way the rebel lines 
of defense at the West might have been dealt 
with by our forces. Bowling Green, which it 
took months to approach, might have consumed 
as much more time to take, and then at a great 
loss of life ; while Columbus might have proved 
almost another Sebastopol. Happily more com-
mon sense—which is often called "strategy" in 
military language—was used. Between these 
two strongholds, and commanding the country 
back of them, lay the Tennessee and Cumber-
land rivers, easy of access, and feebly defended 
in comparison. Our officers saw the advantage, 
pushed up, reduced Forts Henry and Donelson, 
and then down came the whole system of rebel 
defenses,so elaborately prepared for manymonths. 
Bowling Green was evacuated at once, the idea 
of defending Clarksville and Nashville was giv-
en up as soon as it was resolved on,and now Co-
lumbus is vacated, and its garrison is flying in a 
panic down the Mississippi river. 
To appreciate the vast extent of this move- 
The citizens of Central California, embracing 
the Sacramento and San Joaquin valleys, have 
lately, as our readers are aware, been subjected 
to a succession of most terrific floods. Nothing 
like them has ever been experienced on this con-
tinent, within the knowledge of its civilized in-
habitants. In speaking of the second flood, the 
San Francisco Herald says that it has inflicted a 
blow upon the State from which it will hardly 
recover in half a century. Many are of the opin-
ion that so wide spread is the second flood, and 
so universally destructive has it been, that thou-
sands upon thousands of citizens have been tru-
ly bankrupted. Of the general scope, effects 
and cause of the flood, the Herald remarks : 
"It occurs to us that the word flood does not 
fully express the extent of this disaster. It has 
been a deluge. The plains from the extreme 
northern portion of the State to the Tulare val-
ley, and from the foot hills of the Sierra Neva-
da to the Coast Range of mountains, are under 
water to a depth of from four to eight feet. In 
other words, water covered at least one-third of 
the State, and that comprehending the richest 
we can boast. In round numbers the loss may 
be estimated at fifty millions of dollars : and no 
can yet tell the number of lives that may have 
been lost, or form an idea of the extent of the 
human suffering which has been endured. Cat-
tle, horses, sheep, hogs and the rest of the live 
stock of our farmers, together with all their fen-
ces, outbuildings,and most of their other improve-
ments which have been the work of years of care-
ful industry, have been swept away, and them-
selves utterly ruined. It is an overwhelming 
calamity,and one that will be remembered through 
all time. 
The extent of the deluge has astounded the 
oldest inhabitants of the country. It is true that 
the Spanish population have traditions that in 
remote times, California was frequently visited 
by fearful floods, but the most alarming of these 
legends did not tell of a deluge so wide spread 
as the one which is now upon us. It is no ex-
aggeration to say that the present flood is un-
precedented in the recorded history of the world, 
save in the instance when Noah ascended the 
ark. 
The numerous disasters which are immediate-
ly consequent on the flood, do not fully repre-
sent the extent of the calamity which has befal-
len us. The snow has been entirely melted from 
the Sierra Nevada,and when summer shall come 
the beds of the mountain streams will be dry. 
The miner being unable to obtain water, the 
grand necessity of his industry, will then have 
his day of suffering." 
Many instances are narrated in the California 
84 
THE ADVENT HERALD, 
remove the debt from the Association,encouraged the i But Jesus gave him no answer." At this, the Ro- You will excuse the liberty I have taken, as I think 
hope that future aid would be supplied with equal man governor attempted the assumption of author- accurate statistics are of the highest value to your 
generosity. It is not pleasant to be obliged to re- ity over the Prince of princes, and said "unto him, cause. 
mind friends of these necessities ; but it is still more Speakest thou not unto me ? knowest thou not that 
Yours very truly, ORLANDO LUND. 
unpleasant to lack the adequate means for the Her- I have power to crucify thee, and have pdhver to Homer N. Y. Feb. 24,1862. 
aid's publication. This is the season of the year, release thee ?" But "Jesus answered, Thou couldet 
when, better perhaps than any other, it is easier to have no power at all against me, except it were giv- 
No apology is needed for the correction of any- 
obtain new subscribers, and to remit donations. en thee from above,"—John 19: 9-19. thing erroneous, or supposed to be erroneous in the 
Our treasury needs aid in both these directions ; and Again did Pilate seek to release Jesus : but the columns of the Herald,—its object being to elicit 
 
will not the friends see to it that it is supplied ? Jews cried out,saying, "If thou let this man go thou facts and truth, and not to substantiate theories or 
 
They would not wish us to abandon the Herald ; art not Caesar's friend : whosoever maketh himself subserve opinions. And where opposing views pre-
but its weekly issue costs money, and it is not the a King speaketh against Caesar." Pilate then again vail in regard to anything, it is always desirable 
policy of the Association to run into debt. We have brought Jesus forth, and said to the Jews, "Behold that they be presented. 
 
kept out thus far,but without more abundant week- your King . . . Shall I crucify your King ? The As it respects the Population of China,we have 
 
ly remittances, this cannot continue. What is now chief priests answered, We have no king but Caesar.supposed it in former times, to have been over esti- 
' 
wished for, is that every subscriber will endeavor to Then delivered he him unto them to be crucified," 
universal Gazetteer for 1840, edi- 
mated. Brooks 
forward the name of an additional one. And we al- John, 19: 14-16. 
fed by John Marshall, says : 
so wish to see a full column of Donations.each week, Having effected Christ's condemnation, the rulers "According to an account furnished by an intelli- 
till it shall amount to $400 ; which was needed "derided him, saying,He saved others ; let him save gent native of China to the agents of the English 
East India Company, in Canton, in 1823, the terri- 
by January first. 
himself, it he be the Christ, the chosen of God. And 
Brethren and Sisters,shall this expectation be rea- the soldiers also mocked him, coming to him, and tory of China proper was then divided into nineteen 
civil and military jurisdictions. Notwithstanding 
lized ? 
offering him vinegar, and saying, If thou be the all the magnified impressions which have heretofore 
King of the Jews save thyself." One of the male- 
Exposition of Daniels Prophecy. factors, crucified with him, "railed on him, saying, prevailed in reference to the supposed populousness 
CHAPTER VIII. 
If thou be the Christ, save thy self and us," Luke, of China, relatively in proportion to the extent of 
23: 35-39. "And Pilate wrote a title, and put it territory in the two countries, its population is but 
-1 if ,. 
(Continued from our last.) 
little more than half that of England and Wales." 
the cross :and the writing was, Jesus of Nazar-
The officials of the Jewish nation having thus re- on
As England and Wales comprise 57,812 Sq. m., 
eth, The King of the Jews." The priests said, 
jected their King, they immediately planned his de- 
 
 
and at, the time refered to, contained in round num- 
"Write not The King of the Jews ; but that he 
struction. They brought him before the great San- 
hers, twelve millions of inhabitants, or about 208 
saith I am King of the Jews." But Pilate answer- 
 of the Jewish nation, and "sought false wit- ed,"What I have written, I have written." Thep 
 rsons to the sq. m. ; one half of that would give 
nesses against Jesus, to put him to death ; and 
 the 1,298.000 sq. m., of :Mina only about 135, 
chief priests then, mocking said, "If he be the King 
found none. For many bore false witness against 
 
 
000,000 inhabitants in 1823. In M'Culloch's Ge- 
of Israel, let him now come down from the cross, 
him, but their witness agreed not together," Mar. 
°graphical Dictionary, ed. of 1840, we find the ful- 
14: 55, 6. Having failed to procure legal testimo- and we will believe on him," Matt. 27: 42. "Let lowing 
Christ the King of Israel descend now from the 
ny with which to proceed against him, the high 
 
 
"China has long been very generally believed to 
cross, that we may see and believe," Mark, 15 :32. 
priest called upon our Lord to testify, respecting 
be the most densely peopled country of any consid- 
The heavens, however were soon veiled in black- 
himself ; he put him on his oath,—the most solemn 
 
 
erable extent in the world. The Jesuit Seined°, 
ness, the earth quaked, rocks were dissevered, and 
form of asseveration known by that Jewish tribu- 
writing in 1645, remarks that, after 
u r 
and as 
was rent in twain 
vail 
's 
l 
; o 
temple's 
nal—saying, "I adjure thee by the living God, that the
living in the country 22 years, he was no less sur-
Lord expired, the Roman centurion confessed, "Cer- 
thou tell us whether thou be the Christ, the Son of 
 
 
prised on leaving than on his first arrival, at the 
tainly this was a righteous man," Luke 23.47. 
God," Matt. 56: 63 ; or, as Mark has it, "the Son 
 
 
immense number of persons he met with, not only 
this man was the Son of God,"Mark, 15: 
of the Blessed ? And Jesus said, I am : and ye shall "Truly
in the towns and cities,but on the highways, 'where' 
see the Son of man sitting on the right hand of pow- 34'
" says he, 'there is at all times as large a crowd as is 
er, and coming in the clouds of heaven. Then the Our Lords body was then given to Joseph of usually to be met on some festival or public occa- 
Arimathma, an honorable councillor, which also 
high priest rent his clothes, and with, What need 
 
 
sion.' The Jesuit Amiot, founding on official doe- 
waited for the kingdom of God, " (Mark, 15:23) ; 
we any further witness ? Ye have heard the blas- 
uments, estimated the Pop. in 1743 at about 143, 
phony : what think ye ? And they all condemned and who buried Jesus in his own tomb. "His 000,000, which, adding for some classes that he had 
him to be guilty of death." Mark, 14: 61-64. soul," however, "was not left in Hades, neither did omitted, may be carried to about 150,000,000 ; and, 
The Jews had not power to put any one to death ; his flesh see corruption." Acts 2: 31. On the in 1792, Lord Macartney was informed by a man- 
and so they led him away to the judgment hall of third day, he was "declared to be the Son of God darin, 'a plain, unaffected, honest man,' whose 
the Roman Governor—not going in themselves, with power, according to the spirit of holiness, by statement is said to have been made on the authori- 
"lest they should be defiled ; but that they might the resurrection from the dead," Rom. 1:4. And ty of official documents, that the population was 
eat the passover. Pilate went out to them, and he ascended to "the right hand of God ; from hence- 333,000,000, and later accounts carry it up to above 
said, What accusation bring ye against this man?" forth expecting till his enemies be made his foot- 360,000,000. We confess, however, that, with the 
John 18: 28, 9. "And they began to accuse him, stool," Ilab. 10: 12, 13. 
exception of that of Amiot, these statements appear 
saying, We found this fellow perverting the nation, To no other one than our Lord can those titles, to us to be altogether incredible, and in point 
and forbidding to give tribute to Caesar, saying that "the Prince of the host" and the "Prince of princ- of fact,we have no certain information as to the popu- 
he himself is Christ a King," Luke, 23 : 2. es," be applicable. No other power than the Ro- lation of China. According to the statements in 
"Then Pilate entered into the judgment hall man ever stood up against Him, putting him to Chinese official works the population of the empire 
again,and called Jesus, and said unto him, Art thou death for claiming to be the Prince thus predicted. amounted in 1393, to 60,545,000 ; and in 1578 to 
the King of the Jews ? Jesus answered him, sayest And therefore only the Roman power is symbol- 60,692,000. It is supposed to have continued at or 
thou this thing of thy self, or did others toll it thee ized by the little horn, that waxed exceeding 
__ __,--,
about this amount till the Tartar conquest in 1514, 
,- 
 '. 
of me ? Pilate answered, Am I a Jew ? Thine own great and that stood up against the Prince of 
---1--_-...,,---_,--, _ --..-. ---, 
-"Zi.... 
nation and the chief priests have delivered thee un- princes. 
a year before the publication of Semedo's work. But 
 
 _ - —_,:, —
it appears from an imperial proclamation, quoted 
to me : what halt thou done? Jesus answered, My 
in the Chinese Repository issued in 1792, and said 
kingdom is not of this world, (aion) if my kingdom The Population of China. 
to be founded on official data, that the population 
were of this world, then would my servants fight, Mr. Bliss, Editor Advent herald—Dear Sir :—I had been reduced in 1711, to 28,605,716 ! (vol. 1. 
that I should not be delivered to the Jews : but now am becoming so much interested in the reading of 
BOSTON, MARCH 15, 1862. 
the Herald that I feel its loss if it does not reach me p. 356 ; Canton, 1833). This extraordinary dimi- 
is my kingdom not from hence ;" for it had been 
notion is attempted to be explained in the work now 
taken from the Jews, and from this aion, or dispen- every Saturday night. Of course I look it careful- 
SYLVESTER BLISS, EDITOR. 
refered to, by the mortality occasioned by the long 
ly through as each number arrives, and without 
cation, and reserved unto the aion or world to come, 
and bloody wars that accompanied the establish- 
 when it shall be established under the whole heav- wishing to be captious, or seeming to be so, I would went of the 
The readers of the Herald are most earnestly besought to en." Pilate therefore said unto him, Art thou a call your attention to what appears to me to be a Manchoo dynasty, by the fact of a )me 
give it room in their prayers; that by means of it God may 
of the provinces in the south not having been fully 
be honored and his truth advanced ; also, that it may be King then ? Jesus answered, Thou sayest that I am slight error in the last number. T. M. Preble of 
conducted in faith and love, with sobriety of judgment and a King. To this end was I born,and for this cause Concord N. H., asks the question, "What is the subdued when this census was taken ; and by the 
discernment of the truth, in nothing carried away into 
population of China,&e." ?Your answer is 170 mil- circumstance of a poll-tax being then imposed,which 
error, or hasty speech, or sharp, unbrotherly disputation. I came into the world, that I should bear witness 
to the truth," John 18: 33 37. 
lions. Is it not 350 millions at the present time ? made it fur the interest of individuals to escape be- 
Wishing still to save Jesus, Pilate said to the 
Previous to the year 1800 Lord Macartney was ing enrolled in the census. Now admitting the 
force of some of these statements, though we believe 
THE TERMS OF THE HERALD. The terms of the Jews, "Ye have a custom, that I should release un- sent on an embassy to China by the English Gov- 
Herald are two dollars a year, in advance ;—with 
ernment and was the man—"outside barbarian," as them to be greatly overstated, and allowing that but 
as large an addition, as the generosity of donors 
the celestials say—who obtained the first authentic for the wars occasioned by the Tartar conquest, and 
to you one at the passover : will ye therefore that I 
release unto you the King of the Jews ? Then cried 
shall open their hearts to give, towards making the 
 
 
information respecting that Empire. He informs the imperfectly subdued state of parts of the coun- 
they all again saying Not this man, but Barab- 
try, a correct census taken in 1711 would have giv- 
A. M 
bas,"—a noted robber, vs. 30, 1. Pilate answered. 
en a population of 60, or 70, millions ; still, we 
M. Association an efficient instrumentality for 
us it was divided into 15 Provinces, containing 
good. 
"What will ye then that I shall do unto him whom 4402 walled cities ; the population of the whole 
 
Correspondents, on matters pertaimig solely to ye call the King of the Jews ? And they cried out country was then given at 333,000,000 and it must ask, can it be credited that the population should 
the office, should write " Office," on the envelope, again, Crucify him," Mark. 15:12, 13. 
have largely increased since that time. 
. have increased from even that amount in 1711, to 
to have their letters promptly attended to, if the 
Pilate then "took Jesus, and scourged him. And' Its revenues were then set down at 66,000,000 above 300,000,000 in 1792 ? Had China been a 
new country, or had the Tartars by whom she was 
editor be temporarily absent. 
the soldiers platted a crown of thorna, and put it on pounds sterling ; and its army, including the Tar- 
his head, and put on him a purple robe, and said, tars, 1,000,000 of infantry, and 800,000 cavalry overrun in the 17th century, been distin- 
To the Patrons of the Herald. Hail King of the Jews." Thus arrayed in mock- The above facts, and others like them, you will find guished by their superior intelligence and 
industry, an increase of this sort might have been 
cry of' his claimed royalty, "came Jesus forth, wear- given in detail in Williams' "Middle Kingdom," possible. But the reverse of all this is the fact. 
For the successful prosecution of the work, for 
 
which the American Millennial Association was ing the crown of thorns and the purple robe ; and published previous to 1850. 
China has been settled and civilized for many cen- 
formed, funds are needed; and for the lack of these,Pilate saith unto them behold the man ; "—also China being one of those Empires from which turies ; the great works undertaken and completed 
the Association has not been able to do what it would saying that he found "no fault in him." At the emigration proceeds slowly, its present population by her inhabitants at a very remote period, show 
have otherwise accomplished. The regular weekly sight of Jesus, the priests and officers vehemently cannot be less than 350 to 400 millions. Many wri- that she had been pretty thickly peopled ; and it is 
issue of the Herald, also, is dependent on the goner- demanded .his crucifixion—claiming that by their tors put it as high as one third the population of admitted on all hands that in China the arts have 
osity of friends for a few hundred dollars, annually, "law he ought to die, because he made himself the the entire globe. Lord, or rather,Earl Macartney's been for ages in a nearly stationary state. The Tar-
over and above the amount received from subscribers. Son of God," John 19: 7. For such a claim, by embassy was in 1702—he left England September tars imparted to her little that was new. They 
The whole receipts during the year now closing, any created being, was blasphemy ;sad blasphemy 26th of that year, and remaining there about a year were, in truth, mere roving herdsman ; and though 
have not paid expenses ; which will be embarrassingwas punished with death under the Mosaic law. was ordered by the Chinese Government to depart they might have given the Chinese some instruction 
to the office, unless its friends supply the deficiency This new form of accusation against Christ, start- from Pekin Oct. 7, 1793. The famous edict against in predatory warfare, they could communicate to 
with their accustomed liberality. The promptness led Pilate ; who "went again into the judgment Christianity, by that Government, was in 1812. 
them no useful art, science, or invention. Under 
with which response was made two years since, to hall, and saith unto Jesus, Whence art thou ? The next embassy was by Lord Amherst Feb. 8, these circumstances, we contend that the former 
1816, the objects of which proved an entire failure. 
ment, signalized by the evacuation of Columbus, 
we have only to look batik a single month. Then 
the rebel line of occupation at the West, begin-
ning a few miles beyond Somerset in Kentucky, 
ran above Bowling Green, through Columbus, to 
Springfield in Missouri. Now this entire line 
has been pushed back bodily one hundred and 
fifty miles on an average, releasing the entire 
States of Kentucky and Missouri, and all but the 
extreme lower part of Tennessee. So much for 
striking in the right place. But the efficacy and 
results of the blow are yet far from being fully 
developed. How much advance may be made 
from the basis of Nashville by our troops, does 
nit appear ; but it is evident that the evacuation 
of Columbus starts the long expected expedition 
down the Mississippi river. The New Orleans 
Delta but a short time ago said of Columbus : 
"That is the Northern key to the Mississippi 
delta, That in possession of the enemy, the 
floodgates of invasion will be opened." 
This is more true than the same paper would 
probably admit it to be now. It may be urged 
that the rebels withdraw in undiminished force, 
and with their entire armament. It is true ; but 
they go in a hurry, partially demoralized, no-
where able to find a stronger place than Colum-
bus, and if they found such, without adequate 
time to fortify it. It is estimated that they will 
have for the defense of Memphis about 50,000 
men. We shall have more than that number of 
infantry, well supplied with field pieces, to say 
nothing of our gunboats and mortar fleet. Ev-
ery effort will undoubtedly be made to obstruct 
the advance of this fleet, but it will be in vain. 
There are rebel forts near New Madrid,86 miles 
from Cairo, and some resistance may be made 
there. But the great stand will doubtless be 
taken in the vicinity of Memphis, 252 miles 
from Cairo. It cannot be effective, however. 
We do not know how soon our forces under Gen. 
Halleck can be ready for this grand advance 
down the river—though we presume their pre- 
parations are nearly complete—but when they 
do start, we predict that they will surely and 
not slowly sweep the Mississippi,along its course 
of one thousand miles, to the city of New Or-
leans itself, where there will be a grand victory, 
if there is any need of one. 
Boston Journal. 
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(Concluded.) 
"The canonists are accustoined,accordingly to de-
nominate the Pope a king. 
"The pontiffs were as absolutely the legislative 
and judicial head of this ecclesiastical kingdom, as 
the emperors from Constantine to Augustulus were 
of the civil empire, and imposed whatever laws they 
pleased on subordinate ecclesiastics and on the church 
by decrees, in the same manner as those emperors 
enacted laws or edicts. The decrees, bulls of canoni-
zation, sentences, charters, and other legislative and 
judicial acts of the pontiffs, from Gregory VII., in 
1073, to benedict XIV., in 1757, collected in the 
Bullarium Magnum, fill nineteen folios. Many oth-
ers are contained in the decretals and councils. 
"They appointed to all ecclesiastical offices 
throughout the empire, as the Christian emperors 
appointed to all civil and military offices in their 
dominions. 
"They established courts in which all violations of 
their laws were tried, and a tribunal at the capital 
for the decision of appeals. There were gradations 
of rank in the hierarchy, like those of the 
magistrates of the civil empire. The hierarchies, as 
nationalized by Constantine, were formed in each 
patriarchate,alter the model of the civil government 
in the provinces. The hierarchy of the western king-
doms, under the Pope, was formed after that pat-
tern ; having archbishops or metropolitans at the 
head of the clergy of each nation, or large district, 
and bishops, abbots, and a long catalogue of subor-
dinate ranks, under each metropolitan. 
"They levied taxes for their support of ecclesias-
tic la ics. 
"They inflicted ecclesiastical penalties on the vio-
lators of their laws ; exclusion from communion,sus-
pension from office, deposition, excommunication, 
and a sentence of eternal death."—Lord's Exp. of 
Apoc. pp. 429-432. 
These, with many other striking resemblances,de-
L 
official accounts of the population must have been monstrate that the Roman hierarchy, in all its 
grossly underrated, or that that the later ones must great features, was a counterpart to imperial Rome 
be grossly exaggerated. But supposing that the po- —an image of, and belonging to, the seven-headed, 
pulation really amounted to 150 millions about ten-horned monster, whose deadly wound was heal-
1750, is it credible that it should have exceeded ed. 
330 millions, in 1792, and 362,447,000, in 1812 ? Life was to be given to this image by the two- 
It would require the best possible evidence to make hornet beast. The papal hierarchy is created when 
any reasonable person believe what is so directly at its supremacy over other churches is declared and 
variance with all the best established principles ; sustained ; and the power by which this is done, is 
and no such evidence has been, or,we believe, can be that which gives life to it. This was done accord- 
given with respect to the alleged increase of popu- ing to the following history by the Eastern empire. 
lation in China. 
The power of the papacy, symbolized by the im- 
'• Whether the empire could support the popula- age, had been predicted in Daniel under the symbol 
tion that has been ascribed to it is a question on of "a Little Horn," that came up among the previ- 
which it is needless now to enter. We believe, how- ous "ten horns," before whom "there were three of 
ever, with M. De Guignes, that the fertility of the the first horns plucked up by the roots : and behold, 
country has been greatly overrated ; but whether in this horn were eyes like the eyes of man, and a 
that be so or not,we submit that the rate of increase mouth speaking great things," Dan. 7 : 8. These 
exhibited by the censuses is such as could have been horns were thus explained to Daniel : "The fourth 
realized only in an unoccupied and very fertile coon- beast shall be the fourth kingdom upon earth,which 
try, colonized by a people far advanced in the arts ; shall be diverse from all kingdoms, and shall devour 
and that it is all but absurd to suppose that it the whole earth, and shall tread it down, and break 
should be realized in an old settled country, with it in pieces. And the ten horns out of this kingdom 
stationary arts like China. '(For a further discussion are ten kings that shall arise : and another shall 
of this subject, see the excellent work of De Guig- arise after them ; and he shall be diverse from the 
nes, 'Voyages a Peking' &c. 
first,and he shall subdue three kings. And he shall 
cle on China. 
speak great words against the Most High, and wear 
The above we regard as good reasoning. It must out the saints of the Most High,and think to change 
be considered that China is a self supporting coon- times and laws : and they shall be given into his 
try ; whilst England and Wales cannot raise food hand until a time and times and the dividing of 
for the support of their population,but must import time. But the judgment shall sit, and they shall 
from abroad. The parts of China to which strangers take away his dominion to consume and to destroy 
have access are the most populous ; but it will not it unto the end. And the kingdom and dominion, 
answer to judge from these of the population of the and the greatness of the kingdom under the whole 
entire country, any more than it would to judge of heaven, shall be given to the people of the saints of 
that of America from the population in the neigh- the Most High, whose kingdom is an everlasting 
borhood of Boston ; which could not live without kingdom, and all dominions shall serve and obey 
the grain and beef from the broad fields of the West. him." Ib. vs. 23-27. 
It is not impossible that China has a population of When Paul spoke of the second coming of Christ, 
300, or 400, millions, but our impressions are that in his first epistle to the Thessalonians, they under-
170, or at the out side, 200 millions would come stood that it was an event then imminent. The apos-
nearer the truth. Our view may, however be erro- tle, in his second epistle corrects this impression, by 
neous ; and, so long as it seems impossible to deter- referring to the foregoing prediction in Daniel,which 
mine the matter definitely, the best we can do is must be previously fulfilled. lie assures them that 
thus to present the whole question,and leave to each "the day of Christ" "shall not come, except there 
one his own decision. 
be" an apostacy, or "a falling away first, and that 
We are obliged to our correspondent for thus no- Man of Sin," or the lawless one, "be revealed, the 
tieing what he deemed and which may have been an son of perdition ; who opposeth and exalteth himself 
error, and trust he may find still farther use for his above all that is called God, or that is worshipped ; 
pen in our columns. We also feel complimented by so that he, as God, sitteth in the temple of God, 
the good opinion, which the few weeks of his sub- showing himself that he is God. Remember ye not, 
seription to the Herald has given him of it,and hope that when I w%s yet with you, I told you these 
his inter..st in these pages will continue to increase. things ? And now ye know what withholdeth that 
he might be revealed in his time. For the mystery 
of iniquity doth already work : only he who now 
letteth will let, until he be taken out of the way. 
And then shall that Wicked be revealed, whom the 
Lord shall consume with the spirit of his mouth,and 
shall destroy with the brightness of his coming." 2 
Thess 2: 2-8. 
The uniform application of these predictions to 
the Papacy, by Protestant writers, renders it un-
necessary to argue this point. That power began 
early to be manifested, but its full development was 
"let," i. e., hindered, by the continuance of the 
Western empire, which had to be taken oat of its 
way. Tertullian,near the close of the second centu-
ry, in expounding those words, says : "Who can 
this be but the Roman state, the division of which 
into ten kingdoms will bring on Antichrist ?" And 
he gives as his reason why the Christians of his 
time prayed for the Rome empire : that the greatest 
calamity hanging over the world was retarded by 
the continuance of it. Cyril of Jerusalem in the 
fourth century applied the passage in the same man-
ner, and says : -Thus the predicted Antichrist will 
come when the time of the Roman empire shall be 
fulfilled, and the consummation of the world shall 
approach. Ten kings of the Romans shall arise to-
gether,in different places indeed,but they shall reign 
at the same time. Among these the eleventh is An-
tichrist, who by magical and wicked artifice, shall 
seize the Roman power. A large number of the an-
cient fathers interpreted this text in the same man-
ner. 
In A. D. 257, 1260 years before the time of Lu-
ther, Stephen, Bishop of Rome, began to act the 
pope in good earnest,—excommunicating those who 
dissented from the doctrines of Rome. 
The Image of the Beast. 
"And it was given to him to give breath to the 
image of the wild beast, that the image of the wild 
beast should even speak, and to cause, that as many 
as would not worship the image of the wild beast, 
should be killed. And he causeth all, the small and 
the great, and the rich and the poor, and the tree 
and the bond,to receive a mark on their right hand, 
or on their forehead. And that no one might buy 
or sell, but he, who had the mark, the name of the 
wild beast, or the number of his name."—Rev. 13 : 
15-18. 
In 312, 1260 years before the massacre of St. 
Bartholomew in 1572, Constantine became Emperor 
of Rome, embraced Christianity, and terminated the 
last and bloodiest of the Pagan persecutions—that 
of Diocletian, which had continued ten years. Con-
stantine undertook to remodel the church, in con-
formity to the government of the state, and the un-
hallowed union of the two resulted in the dignities 
of patriarchs, exarchs, archbishops, canons, preben-
daries, &c., which he endowed with wealth and 
worldly honors. 
While paganism was suspended by Christianity 
under Constantine, its ceremonies were not suppress- 
ed. The senate was still pagan ; and "the title, the 
ensigns, and the prerogative of Sovereign Pontiff 
which had been instituted by Numa, and assumed 
by Augustus, were accepted, without hesitation, by 
seven Christian emperors."— Gibbon, v. 2, p. 182. 
Gratian became emperor, A. D. 376, and was the 
first who refused the pontifical robe. In 378, he in-
vested Theodosius with the Empire of the East ; un-
der their rule paganism was "wholly extirpated," 
and the senate was suddenly converted.—Ib. That 
which hindered was thus taken out of the way. In 
378, also, Gratian refusing the office, Damasus, the 
Bishop of Rome,was "declared Pontifex Maximus," 
* and made "the sole judge in religious matters." 
All who would not adhere to the religion "professed 
by the Pontiff Damasus, and by Peter, Bishop of 
Alexandria," were declared heretics.— Gibbon, v. 2, 
p. 156. Damasus by virtue of his power, introduc-
ed the worship of the saints, and of Mary, "the 
mother of God," excommunicating those who dis-
sented. Thus the apostasy, by adopting the gods 
of the heathen,and the name of the heathen pontiff, 
began to be set up, and the excommunicated church 
disappeared in the wilderness. 
* This is given on the authority of the London 
Quarterly Journal of Prophecy, for 1852, p. 330, 
which states that the edict will be found in the 
"Theodosian Code, XVII. to XX." 
iron-clad steamer Merrimac—which everybody sup-
posed had become useless from being overloaded with 
plating—rooting its way out from Norfolk into the 
mouth of James river, where the U. S. war vessels 
Cumberland and Congress lay at anchor off New-
port News. She made for the Cumberland, which 
being a sailing vessel (as was the Congress also) was 
unable to get out of her way. A broadside was 
poured against her iron plates at a short range, but 
had no more effect than if fired from popguns. She 
continued on, ran into the Cumberland, stove in 
her side, and leaving her sinking, turned for the 
Congress. In the meantime the rebel gunboats 
Jamestown and Yorktown had come down James 
river and engaged our vessels on the other side. The 
Congress was obliged to strike her colors. The steam 
frigate Minnesota and the frigate St. Lawrence, 
which went to the assistance of the above vessels 
appear to have got aground, and their fate is un-
certain. The iron monster then engaged our bat-
teries at Newport News. 
The Congress was a frigate of 50 guns, built at 
Kittery in 1841. The Cumberland was a sloop-of-
war, of 24 guns, and was built at Charlestown in 
1842. She had no regular crew on board at the 
time of the fight. 
This was the first day's work, and doubtless it re-
joiced all secessiondom. It was iron against wood. 
On the second day iron met iron—and Union Iron 
proved the victor. By Providential disposal, every 
Union man will believe,the iron clad steamer Mon-
itor—otherwise known as the Ericsson Battery—ar-
rived in Hampton Roads Saturday night. Yester-
day morning all three of the rebel vessels attacked 
her. The engagement between these floating for-
tresses lasted five hours, resulting in beating off the 
gunboats, and the withdrawal of the Merrimac to 
Norfolk in a sinking condition. Some idea of the 
nature of this tremendous engagement may be had 
when we state that the guns of the Monitor throw 
round balls weighing each 183 pounds, or conical 
balls of 350 pounds. By the terms of her contract, 
she was to be tried and proved before being accepted 
by the Government. We think it safe to set her 
down as a Government vessel. But for her oppor- 
tune arrival, and her efficiency, it is possible that 
the U. S. vessels Minnesota and St. Lawrence,which 
would appear to have got ashore, might have fallen 
into the hands of the rebels—Boston Journal, Mon-
day March 10th. 
Washington, March 10. There is no longer any 
doubt that the rebels have evacuated Centreville, 
Winchester and other important points, indicating 
a general falling back of their forces. 
The Navy Department has received information 
from Com. Dupont that his fleet have captured the 
heavy fortifications at St. Simons and Brunswick, 
Georgia, and Fort Clinch, Fernandina, and St. Ma• 
rys, Florida—the enemy abandoning them. 
St. Louis, March 10. Gen. Halleck telegraphs 
to Gen. McClellan that " the army of the South-
west, under Gen. Curtis,after three days' hard fight-
ing, has gained a most glorious victory over the 
combined forces of Van Dorn, McCulloch, Price and 
McIntosh. Our loss in killed and wounded is 1000. 
That of the enemy is still larger. Guns, flags, pro-
visions, &c., were captured in large quantities. Our 
cavalry are in pursuit of the flying enemy." 
FROM NEW MEXICO. 
Denver City March 7, via Julesburg 6th. The 
following news was received here to-day by military 
express : 
A desperate and terrible battle, lasting all day, 
took place at Velverde,ten miles south of Fort Craig, 
on the 21st of February. 
The fight was probably resumed again on the 22d. 
The loss is great on both sides. Both parties claim 
the victory. A regiment of New Mexicans, com-
manded by Col. Panton, ran away, Capt. McRae, 
who had charge of our artillery, and every one of 
his command were killed at their post, and their 
cannon was taken by the rebels. 
Kit Carson was within fifteen miles of Fort Craig. 
Firing was heard from his direction, with what re-
stilt was not ascertained at the time the messenger 
left. 
Washington March 10. The recently published 
dispatch from Denver to Julesburg is not on its face 
authentic, and must have been verbally communica-
ted through a line of express riders over a distance 
of 700 miles, and Judge Watts has other informa-
tion which satisfies him that the account, to say the 
least, is highly exaggerated,and some parts of it un-
true. 
To Correspondents. 
Short and appropriate articles, of one column or less, 
are solicited from those who have well digested thoughts 
to communicate. Any writer whose article or enquiry is 
not promptly noticed, will please to call the editor's atten-
tion to the omission. 
T. Hollen. Will attend to your question soon. 
Bible Questions and Answers. 
What did our Lord reply, when "the high 
priest asked him,and said unto him,Art thou Christ, 
the Son of the Blessed ?" 
Ans. "Jesus said, I am : and ye shall see the Son 
of man sitting on the right hand of power,and com-
ing in the clouds of heaven," Mark, 14 : 61, 2. 
What said the angels to the disciples, when 
asking them, "Why stand ye gazing up into heav-
en ?" 
Ans. "This same Jesus, which is taken up from 
you into heaven, shall so come in like manner, as ye 
have seen him go into heaven," Acts 1 : 11. 
What did the Savior say when asked "What 
shall be the sign of thy coming,and of the end of the 
world ?" 
Ans. "Immediately after the tribulation of those 
days shall the sun be darkened, and the moon shall 
not give her light,and the stars shall fall from heav- 
en, and the powers of the heavens ahall be shaken : 
and then shall appear the sign of the Son of man in 
heaven : and then shall all the tribes of the earth 
mourn, and they shall see the Son of man coming 
in the clonds of heaven with power and great glory," 
Matt. 24: 3, 29, 30. 
"Nevertheless,when the Son of man cometh, 
shall he find faith on the earth ?" Luke 18 : 8. 
Ans. "As the days of Noah were, so shall also 
the coming of the Son of man be. For as in the days 
that were before the flood they were eating and 
drinking, marrying and giving in marriage, 'until 
the day that Noah entered into the ark, and knew 
not until the flood came, and took them all away ; 
so shall also the coming of the Son of man be," 
Matt. 24 : 37-39. 
243. "But who may abide the day of his coming? 
and who shall stand when he appeareth?" 
Ans. "He is like a refiner's fire, and like fuller's 
soap : and He shall sit as a refiner and purifier of 
silver; and Ile shall purify the sons of Levi, and 
purge them as gold and silver, that they may offer 
unto the Lord an offering in righteousness." Matt. 
3: 2, 3. 
The War. 
Washington, March 9. The Government has re-
ceived information from Fortress Monroe that yes-
terday the Iron-clad steamer Merrimac and the gun-
boats Jamestown and Yorktown attacked our fleet, 
sunk the Cumberland,and took the frigate Congress. 
The Minnesota was a ground when the Fortress 
Monroe boat left. 
Washington,March 9. The following was received 
to-night by Major General McClellan from Gen. 
Wool, dated Fortress Monroe, 6 o'clock this eve-
ning : 
"Two hours after my telegraph dispatch to the 
Secretary of War last evening, the Monitor arrived. 
She immediately went to the assistance of the Min-
nesota, which was aground, and continued until a 
few moments since. Early this morning she was at-
tacked by the Merrimac,Jamestown and Yorktown. 
After the contest of five hours they were driven off, 
the Merrimac in a sinking condition. She was tow-
ed by the Jamestown, Yorktown and several smaller 
boats toward Norfolk, no doubt, if possible, to get 
her into the dry dock for repairs. 
The Minnesota is afloat and being towed towards 
Fortress Monroe. 
THE BATTLE OF THE MONSTERS. 
We venture to say that Hampton Roads witness-
ed a contest yesterday the like of which the world 
never saw. The combatants were hardly more re-
markable than the manner in which they met, as 
will be seen from our exciting dispatches. 
The contest began Saturday noon, by the rebel 
r86 
THE ADVENT HERALD. 
The Quaker Joseph lIoag,s Vision. 
In the year 1803, on the 8th or 9th of the month, 
as I was alone in the field one clay, I observed that 
the sun shone clear, but a mist obscured its bright-
ness. As I reflected upon the singularity of the 
event, my mind was struck into a silence the most 
solemn I ever remember to have witnessed ; for all 
my faculties were low and unusually brought into 
deep silence. I said to myself, What can all this 
mean? I do not recollect ever to have been sensible 
of such feelings before ; and I heard a voice from 
heaven saying, "This which thou seest, which dims 
the brightness of the- sun, is a sign of the present 
and coming times. I took the forefathers of this 
country from a land of oppression ; I planted them 
here among the people of the forest ; I sustained 
them ; and while they were humble, I blessed and 
fed them, and they became a numerous people ; but 
they have become proud, and have forgotten the 
One who nourished and protected them in the wil-
derness, and are running into every abomination 
and evil practice of which the old countries are 
guilty, and have taken quietude from the land, and 
suffered a dividing spirit to come among them. Lift 
up thine eyes and behold ; and I saw them dividing 
in great beat. The division began in the churches 
on points of doctrine ; it commenced in the Presby-
terian society,and went through the various denom-
inations, and in its progress and effects its close was 
the same. Those who dissented went off with high 
heads and taunting language ; and those who kept 
to the original sentiments, appeared exercised and 
sorrowful. And when the dividing spirit entered 
into tite society of Friends, it raged in as high a 
degree as any I had before discovered. It next ap-
peared in the lodges of the Free Masons. It broke 
out,in appearance like a volcano, inasmuch as it put 
the whole country in an uproar for a time. Then 
it entered politics, throughout the United States, 
and did not stop until it produced civil war. An 
abundance of human blood was shed. In the course 
of the combat, the Southern States lost their power 
and slavery was annihilated from their borders.—
Then a monarchical power sprung up, and took the 
government of the states, established a national re 
ligion, and made all societies tributary to support 
its expenses. I saw them take property from the 
Friends. I was amazed at beholding all this, and 
a voice proclaimed, This power shall not always 
stand ; but with it I will chastise my church, till 
they return to the faithfulness of their forefathers. 
Thou seest what is coming upon thy native country 
for their iniquities and the blood of Africa, the re-
membrance of which has come up before me. This 
vision is for many days." 
This vision is copied from a book, the truth of 
which is not doubted. I have been told that this 
vision was seen by the author, but a few miles from 
where I live, and I consider it quite remarkable.—
With your consent, I should like to see it in print. 
You can judge for yourself how far it has had its 
fulfilment. We have not seen the end yet of the 
present war. I believe that the Lord is bringing to 
pass the fulfilment of his prophetic word. We are 
truly living in grand and awful times. The vials 
are being poured out upon the earth. Let us be 
ready for the appearing of the great white throne. 
May the Lord help you to sound the alarm. 
SANDS SUTTON. 
Kensico, Westchester Co., N. Y. 
NOTE. We give the above at the requ'est of Bro. 
Sutton ; but have nothing to say in respect to it, 
except that the visions of the Bible are all that are 
authoritative with us. Others we say nothing 
against. 
ED. 
In this department, articles are solicited, on the general 
subject of the Advent, from friends of the Herald, over 
their own signatures, irrespective of the particular views 
which it defends. Views of correspondents not dissented 
from, are not necessarily to be considered as editorially 
endorsed. Correspondents are expected to avoid all per-
sonalities, and to study Christian courtesy in all references 
to views and persons. Any departure from this should be 
regarded as disentitling the writer to any reply. Christian 
and gentlemanly discussion will be in order ; but not 
needless, unkind, or uncourteous controversy. 
From Bro. Charles Dow. 
Dear Bro. Bliss :—It gives me pleasure to be able 
to send my mite for the weekly food received thro' 
the Herald. I am greatly encouraged, while read-
ing the evidences of different writers on the near-
ness of our Savior's second coming. Although I 
do not expect to live to see it, time to me looks 
short. When I look back upon my past life, it 
seems that I have failed to accomplish the design of ' 
CORRESPONDENCE. 
my being, and in the end may miss of heaven ; but 
God will be just, if this be true of me. My faith 
is in the Savior of sinners, of whom I feel that I am 
chief ; but having cherished the hope that God, for 
Jesus' sake, has forgiven all my sins, and has prom-
ised to be with me in every temptation and give me 
grace equal to my day, I hope for immortality and 
eternal life at the appearing of the great God and 
our Savior Jesus Christ. 0 how much grace we 
need in this hour of trial, to nerve the heart for the 
Christian warfare I expect the conflict to increase 
as we near the port of rest. 
CIIAS. Dow. 
Fowlerville, N. Y. 
From Bro. John Reynolds. 
" how can ye believe which receive honor one of 
another ?" John 5:44. 
These words, which were spoken to the unbeliev-
ing Jews by Christ, are of the same importance at 
this day as they were in the day they were spoken. 
Man is the same now as then, and the All-wise God 
is the same ; for " in Him is no variableness or sha-
dow of turning." 
It is then an important question to be answered 
by all, Are we seeking the honors of men, or the 
honor that cometh from God only ? 
The manner in which this question is asked is 
equal to an affirmation and is the same as if Christ 
had said, Ye cannot believe who receive honor one 
of another ; and, strange as it may appear at first 
view, a little thought will make it as certain as any 
effect produced by a natural cause. Because God's 
word and Spirit agree, and if the Spirit does not 
enlighten the mind and affect the heart, no saving 
knowledge of God's word can be obtained. And if 
the mind is pre-occupied with the spirit of the world 
and the seeking honor from the world, or " of one 
another," which must exclude the Spirit of God, it 
is impossible that we can believe with the heart un-
to righteousness,as the means by which saving faith 
is obtained is without our reach. We may as well 
think to judge of colors without eyes, as to believe 
God's word without His Spirit. 
The Bible, unlike every other book, was written 
by the influence of God's Spirit. " For holy men 
of old wrote as they were moved by the Holy 
Ghost." Hence we find the apostle in writing to 
the church tells them, that " not many wise men, 
after the flesh, not many mighty are called." And 
why? Plainly because they were seeking honor one 
of another. They would not lay aside the good 
opinion of their fellows, and leave their applause 
and titles of honor. 
Agreeing with this view we have abundant evi-
dence of the fact, that in every age of the church 
when titles and honors from man were tolerated by 
the church, there the church was corrupt—there 
the love of money, and pleasure, of ease and self-in-
dulgence, prevailed ; and since the same cause will 
produce the same effect, man's nature being the 
same in all ages, what must be said of the present 
professed church of Christ? Is it a popular, a res-
pectable church, in the eyes of the world ? Do they 
seek honor one of another? or are they seeking the 
honor that cometh from God only ? 0 would that 
it were, and that every member had a single eye to 
God's glory. That there are now, as there always 
have been, pious individuals in these fashionable 
churches, but they are the few, and mostly out of 
sight, having no desire to have the honor of man, 
but the honor of God only. 
The church of Christ is now and always will be 
a little flock, until Christ shall come to gather his 
redeemed into one fold. Because " narrow is the 
way which leadeth unto life, and few there be that 
find it." 
But as the professed church is now honored by 
the world, and as it is popular, and receiving honor 
one of another, and is striving to excel in outward 
grandeur, and to be called Rabbi, and Rev., and re-
gard the style and manner of a discourse far more 
than its possessing the spirit and truth, nothing is 
more certain than that the present respectable 
church is corrupt. 
From Bro. E. W. Coffin. 
Bro. Bliss :—May I drop a few thoughts on the 
parable of the ten virgins, Matt. 25 ? The language 
used leans on matrimonial usages. The definite 
numbers I take for indefinite numbers. The virgins 
are infants, or little children. The bridegroom 
made contract in the garden of Eden, and paid the 
price demanded on the cross, and gave theth all 
lamps, and oil, or grace, that made them members 
of the kingdom of heaven. They all start on their 
journey with their lamps burning,to meet the bride-
groom from the cradle to the grave. All sleep and 
slumber together. Our works on the way make us 
wise or foolish. See parable of the talents, and 
sentence given at the end of the chapter. The cry 
at midnight (either spiritual or political darkness) 
will not hinder beloved Daniel and John, nor any 
of them that have done good, from coming forth 
when they hear thesvoice of the Son of God. The 
confusion of the foolish virgins beggars description. 
The righteous shine forth as stars forever, or as a 
bride adorned for her husband. 
E. W. COFFIN 
Gilead, Me. 
Fr,pm Bro. L. Edwards. 
Bro. Bliss :—I might be ashamed to have sent 
you only one dollar as a donation for the Herald of-
fice, if my physicians had not made heavy drafts 
on my small purse a few days since ; but I hope to 
do more in the future, if I gain my health again, as 
I have now some hopes of, although I am but poor-
ly able to guide my pen To give one dollar to sus-
tain the Herald (the best religious paper within my 
knowledge) when 600 are needed for that purpose, 
is like one lifting with thumb and finger at the wheel 
to roll it out of the ditch, when it required all his 
strength,—especially in these perilous times, in 
which all the powers of darkness are against us, 
who look and long for the soon coming of the Lord 
to gather his elect from the four winds, from one 
end of heaven to the other, Matt. 24:31, destroy 
the unbelievers, v. 39, and make all things new, vs. 
21-5 ; for we wrestle not against flesh and blood, 
but against spiritual wickedness in high places ;—
which is well in part depicted in the Herald of Feb. 
1, 1862, headed Preparation. I wish you would 
re-publish that piece in the Herald every three mos. 
in the future. It is worth $100. It is on page 34 
of the Herald. 
L. EDWARDS. 
Hampton, Ill., Feb. 10, 1862. 
From Bro. 11. Harriman. 
Bro. Bliss :—I send you one dollar towards the 
five or six hundred that were wanted the first of the 
present year. 1 hold myself responsible only for 
the present year ; but if funds are wanted to for-
ward the blessed cause hereafter, I hope I shall have 
the means or the disposition to bear my share of the 
burden. I feel that all our blessings flow from ef-
fort and exertion and obedience to God's law ; and 
we who profess to be governed by God's law, and 
hope for God's blessings here and hereafter, I fear 
we shall not receive God's blessing in the day of the 
Lord, if we are penurious, close-fisted, and unwill-
ing to make some sacrifices of property which he 
has blessed us with ; for every good and perfect gift 
cometh down from the Father of lights, &c. In him 
we live and move and have our being; and from him 
we derive all our blessings. We have been ungrate-
ful, unthankful, and unkind, and too narrow-mind-
ed ; but still God has been our friend, and his good-
ness has followed us from our infancy until the pres-
ent time. Let us all strive, who have named the 
name of Christ, to be God's loyal subjects the few 
remaining days we have here on this sinful earth, 
that we may be his subjects when he comes to make 
all things new, and to reign King of kings and 
Lord of lords. We can see by the Southern States 
what it is to be disloyal, and what constitutes reb-
els to the government. As our Southern disloyal 
rebels are now receiving their recompense of reward 
for their rebellion, so all who are disloyal and rebels 
to God's government will receive their doom when 
he comes the second time to take vengeance on them 
that know him not, and have not obeyed his gospel. 
0 Christian brother, Christian sister, and impeni-
tent friends, think on these things and be wise ; im-
prove these precious moments to the best advantage. 
0 that we may all meet where troubles, trials, loss-
es, crosses, disappointments and tears shall beknown 
no more forever. Amen. 
Yours looking for a kingdom, 
HIRAM HARRIMAN. 
Georgetomn, Feb. 17, 1862. 
from the dust of the earth to everlasting life, with 
all of those that are delivered. 
W. T. GILBERT. 
PS. Why is the word of prophecy, spoken of by 
Peter, called more sure than that which was men-
tioned by him? 
Please inform whether the original word transla-
ted " prepare" is not of the same import as that 
translated " provide "? 
W .T . G. 
ANSWER. Peter evidently does not use the term 
" more," in this connection, by way of comparison, 
but to give additional emphasis to the expression. 
We do not know to what passage, containing the 
word " prepare," reference is made. The original 
of " prepare" in some texts, is the same as that of 
" provide ;" but it is not uniformly the case. 
ED. 
From Dr. J. Croffut. 
Dear Bro. Bliss :—I am made to rejoice and give 
glory to God for what he has done for me. He has 
healed my foot ; and though it is weak and tender, 
I am free from pain, and am able to get about some. 
My rheumatism is troublesome, but not so bad as it 
has been. Praise the Lord for his mercies. We 
have had sickness in our family most of the time 
during the past year, and two have been consigned 
to the dust. Yet we have had many favors which 
call fur humble gratitude. God is good,—" his 
mercy endureth forever." Bless his holy name. I 
rejoice that as Adventists we have so good a paper 
as the Herald, and I should rejoice still more could 
I help it move along. Brethren, you who have 
means, think of your responsibility, and do what 
you think will please God in sustaining a paper 
which carries comfort to many a waiting soul. I 
feel encouraged that the Herald will be sustained 
till the saints are caught away to meet the Lord.—
May God bless it more abundantly, and bless you 
in conducting it, until your labors are no longer 
needed in this great work. 0 brethren, hold up the 
hands and cheer those who are laboring in publish-
ing comfort and sympathy to the weary, anxious, 
waiting disciples of Jesus. There is ability enough 
with you to do much more than is being done, and 
why do you hold on to that which must soon perish? 
Now you may do good with it, but the time will 
soon come when it will be useless to you and to the 
world. Will God approve with " well done, good 
and faithful servant " ? Let each one of us so act 
that it may be said of us, he has " done what he 
could," she has done what she could.' Open your 
hand wide, and give glory to God. 
Yours, praying for God's blessing on the cause, 
J. CROFFUT. 
Brooklyn, N. Y., Feb. 24, 1862. 
PS. Married, on the 20th of February, by Elder 
J. Croffut, Mr. GEORGE C. GILL, of New York, to 
Miss J. H. P. CROFFUT, of Brooklyn, L. I., young- 
est daughter of Elder C. 
J. C. 
From Bro. C. Beckwith. 
Dear Bro. Bliss :—It is with pleasure I send you 
lanother subscriber. I feel interested for the Herald. 
I It must live. We cannot do without it in these 
perilous times. I feel the time has come when eve-
ry Adventist should show his faith by his works. 
Let us, brethren, come up to our privilege. We 
know not what we can do, by the help of God, till 
we make an effort. Let us take hold of the good 
cause with zeal, with an eye single to God's glory, 
and he will bless us. There are brethren who would 
like the Herald,but are poor as to the things of this 
world ; I would suggest that brethren who have this 
world's goods assist by sending one dollar for them, 
with the promise that they will send the other be-
fore the end of six months. In this way we can do 
good to our brethren, and relieve Bro. Bliss from 
unnecessary anxiety. 
We meet twice a week for prayer and conference. 
The Lord blesses. Yours in the blessed hope, 
C. BECKWITH. 
McDonouyh, N. Y. 
From Sister M. Scott. 
Bro. Bliss :—I have a few things intrusted to me 
over which, in the future, I mean to be faithful, 
that I may at last enter into the joy of my Lord. 
The temptation often comes, You, a weak woman, 
what can you do ? but I can have it said, She has 
done what she could. If two mites, which make a 
farthing, were accepted when Jesus was here on the 
earth, shall we withhold our small donations and 
say we can't do; say, I am poor. But see ; she of 
her want did cast in all she had, even all her living. 
0 that my heavenly Father would increase our faith 
and take away our covetousness, and help us to lay 
ourselves out for usefulness in his cause, and put the 
money to the exchangers, that at his coming he 
may receive his own with usury. What will it avail 
for us to say, Go in peace ; be thou warmed and 
clothed ; or to say we hope the Herald will prosper 
and be sustained? Now who is going to support it? 
From Bro. W. T. Gilbert, 
The Proverbs of Solomon the son of David, the 
king of Israel, 2:6-13, 20. In the 21st and 22d are 
seen the motives ; so doing, 21 ; for the upright,22. 
But the wicked shall be cut off from the earth.—
The promise confirmed by Christ, Matt. 5:5. So 
David says, Psa. 37:22, 38. Rev. 21:5, 7, " He 
that overcometh shall inherit all things "—margin 
reads, " these things." 
Having seen many applications of the numbers, 
mentioned in Daniel, not according to the view I 
entertain, I believe the right application of the 
1290 days is to cover, not only the time from the 
taking away of the daily sacrifice, at the destruc-
tion of Jerusalem by the Romans, but the whole 
time of that power's establishment, or setting up, 
unto the time, times and half—they being given in 
connection with those numbers in order to a better 
understanding of the question asked by the angel or 
man. The 1335 days commenced with the time, 
times, and half, and cover the remaining time ap-
pointed for the scattering of the holy people, so 
called, and in answer to the question reaches to the 
end of the wonders, at the time that Daniel will 
stand in his lot, with the many that shall awake 
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If we withhold more than is meet it will tend to 
poverty, and then what have we gained? I tell you, 
brethren and sisters-for I am a witness-if we 
want to do something for God, and have not the 
means, if we ask him in faith he will let us have 
something to honor him with ; and I believe the 
reason we have to cry so much, My leanness, is be-
cause we as a nation have robbed God in tithes and 
offerings. We haven't anything to give, we say ; 
but where is the Lord's money ? Some have dug in 
the earth and hid theirs, and•somc have got it done 
up in napkins and laid away. Now the Herald Is 
an old friend of mine, for which I will enclose two 
dollars as a donation, with prayers for its welfare 
till the Master appears. 
Your sister, waiting for the day of millennial glo-
M. SCOTT. 
From Bro. George Phillips. 
Sir :-I have taken the Herald nearly eight years. 
I cannot think of parting yet-hoping that it will 
be sustained as long as it needed. 
Respectfully yours, 
GEORGE PHILLIPS. 
West Alburg, Vt., Feb. 21, 1862. 
From Bro. E. W. Mead. 
S. Bliss-Dear Brother :-Please find one dollar 
for the Advent Herald, which pays to the first of 
April next, if I have kept the account right. The 
time is come, under the poor state of my health and 
the advanced age I have arrived at, to close my bus-
iness and leave nothing unsettled. Therefore please 
discontinue my paper at the time to which the en-
closed pays. 
I have and do consider the Advent Herald the 
best religious paper I have ever read. In taking my 
leave I feel to commend you and the readers of the 
Herald to the God of all grace, who is able to keep 
us from falling, &c. 
Yours in the love of God, 
E. W. MEAD. 
Norwalk, 0., Feb. 24, 1862. 
We have received quite a number of letters of 
late, like the above. It is painful to feel that the 
A.M.A. is not able to make provision for such sub-
scribers, so abundant as to supply all who thus de-
sire the weekly visits of this messenger. 
ED. 
From Bro. S. Smith. 
Bro. Bliss :-For the past seven years the Herald 
has been, with few exceptions, a regular Saturday 
visitor, and always a welcome one. 
Respectfully, 
SAM'L SMITH 
Baltimore, Feb. 28, 1862. 
A friend, in sending a donation of one dollar, for 
the Herald, writes 
" I love the pure word, and the medium through 
which it is received." 
Transplanted Flowers. 
BY THEO. D. C. MILLER. 
The sweetest flowers must fade- 
The loveliest forms decay ; 
The earthly casket must be laid 
In Death's embrace away ! 
Why mourn we ? one so fair, 
Unto us lately given, 
Has left this world of sin and care, 
And found repose in heaven ; 
In sweet repose 
Her eyelids close, 
While weeping mourners shed the tear 
Above her cold and silent bier. 
Angelic hosts doth greet 
This bud of beauty rare, 
Their harping strains so sweet, 
Melodious fill the air ; 
While bards seraphic join the band, 
A golden lyre in each right hand, 
And hallelujahs rise 
To Christ the Lord 
With one accord, 
While from the opening skies- 
The blue, ethereal skies- 
A holy form appears, 
Majestic and divine- 
The living Vine ! 
And kindly, gently greets the flower, 
Transplanted to the heavenly bower. 
Bring flowers-sweet flowers, 
From May-day bowers, 
Culled by some gentle hand 
Belonging to the band- 
The household band ; 
A wreathe-a floral offering bring 
Of queens that star the early spring : 
The lily's snowy chalice pure, 
The rose whose fragrance doth endure, 
The glowing violet divine, 
The myrtle and the golden vine ! 
Bring one-bring all ! 
They speak the purity of one 
Whose earthly pilgrimage is done. 
Gently she sleeps 
Beneath the sod ; 
Why should we weep ? 
Her soul's with God. 
Temptation leads her not astray, 
She walketh in religious way ; 
She bore the cross, the crown is won, 
Her Eden-life bath now begun. 
Nurtured in right, 
Robed in white, 
She ever dwelleth in realms of light ! 
Then, mourn her not, but quick prepare 
To meet within those mansions fair ; 
Where all may tune their golden lyre, 
And mingle in the heavenly choir. 
Glen Villa, Dec. 1861. 
OBITUARY. 
DIED, in Berlin, Ct., Feb. 10, Sister NANCY NOR-
TON, aged 61. 
Our sister has soon followed her aged mother,but 
I feel that they are at rest with Jesus. I shall miss 
her, as she was the only one I could talk with upon 
our glorious hope, and I now feel alone. Still I am 
not alone ; for Jesus is with me by his blessed Spi-
rit, and that bo bless. I feel that I too shall soon 
go where the wicked will cease to trouble and the 
weary will be at rest. 
Yours truly, 
MIRIAM BECKLEY. 
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Memoirs of William Miller. 
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terfuges to disguise his defeat, he frankly confessed 
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to guard his followers from the dangers to which 
they were exposed, of relapsing into unbelief, or 
losing their interest in the great doctrine of Christ's 
premillennial coming. 
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Mr. Farrington, a wealthy merchant and manufacturer 
of Lowell, was relieved of piles which had afflicted him 
for many years, and remarked to a friend that it was worth 
a hundred dollars a box for piles. 
Miss Harriet Morrill, of East Kingston, N. H., says: "I 
have been afflicted with piles for over twenty years. The 
last seven years I have been a great sufferer. And though 
1 never expect to be well, yet to be relieved as I am from 
day to day by the use of your Golden Salve, fills my heart 
with gratitude." 
From Mr. J. 0. Merriam, Tewksbury, Mass. : "I have 
a large milk farm. I have used a great deal of your Gol-
den Salve for sore teats on my cows. I have used many 
other kinds of salve. Yours is the best I ever saw. I 
have also used it for sprains and scratches on my horses. 
It cures them in a short time. I recommend it to all who 
keep cows or horses." 
From Dr. Geo. Pierce, Lowell : " Your Golden Salve is 
good. It will have a great sale." 
From Dr. W. S. Campbell, New Britain, Conn. : "Your 
Golden Salve is a great thing for chilblains. I have also 
used it in afflicting cases of salt rheum, erysipelas, and 
sore nipples. Its effect was, a speedy and permanent cure." 
Dr. Bliss, of Brunswick, Me., says : "I have several 
friends who have been cured of scrofulous humors by the 
Golden Salve. You may ecommend it from me as a val-
uable Salve." 
" I received a wound in my foot by a rusty nail ; by 
reason of which I could not set my foot to the floor for 
two weeks. The pain was excruciating. When your Gol-
den Salve was applied, it relieved the pain in a short time, 
Mrs. Lucinda A. Swain, Merideth Centre, N. H. 
Mr. II. L. W. Roberts, Editor of Marion Intelligencer, 
Marion, Ill., says, "Every person that uses the Golden 
Salve testifies favorably." He has also published a list of 
names in his paper, of persons cured of wounds, sores, hu-
mors, rheumatism, &c., and gives the public reference to 
them ; who, he says, are among the first citizens of the 
place. 
THE GOLDEN SALVE-A GREAT HEALING REMEDY.-It 
is with much pleasure we announce the advent of this new 
article in our city, which has met with such signal success 
in Lowell, where it is made, that the papers have teemed 
with cases of truly marvelous cures. They chronicle one 
where the life of a lady was recently saved-a case of bro-
ken breast ; another where the life of a child was saved-
a case of chafing ; another of a lady whose face was much 
disfigured by scrofulous humor, which was brought to a 
healthy action in a few days ; also another of an old man, 
who had a sore on his foot for twenty years-cured in a 
few weeks. Our citizens will not be slow in getting at its 
merits, and will herald it over the land.-Boston Herald. 
Boston, July 12, 1859. Bro. Whitten : I have usedyour 
Golden Salve in my family, and I am acquainted with a 
large number of families also who have used it ; and I 
have reason to believe that it is really what you recom- 
mend it to be. 
J. V. HINES. 
Made only by C. P. Whitten, No. 35 and 37 East Mer-
rimack street, Lowell, Mass. Sold by druggists, and at 
country stores. Price 25 cts. per box, or $2 per dozen. 
I want good, reliable, persevering agents to canvass, in 
all parts of the United States and Canada. A large dis- 
count will be made to agents. aug 13-pd tojan 1 '62 
For sale at this office. 
DR. LITCH'S RESTORATIVE : a great cure for colds and 
coughs. This medicine is highly prized by all who use it, 
for the purposes named. Try it. Price, 37 1-2 cts. 
DR. LITCR'S ANTI-BILIOLS PHYSIC. As a gentle purga-
tive, a corrector of the stomach and liver, and cure for 
common Fever and Fever and Ague, and all the every day 
ills of a family, this medicine is not surpassed. I confi-
dently recommend it to every family who prize a speedy 
relief from disease and suffering, as the best they can use. 
Price 37 1-2 cents. Sold by H. Jones, 48 Kneeland st., 
Boston, next door to the Herald office ; and by J. Litch 
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THE ADVENT HERALD. 
CHILDREN'S DEPARTMENT up, and he thought he saw a moving fig- 
we on the top of the rocks. He climbed 
"FEED MY LAMBS."—John 21:15. up, and there he found the poor sheep, in 
 
 a place where it could neither get up nor 
BOSTON. MARCH 15, 1862. down, almost dead with cold and fatigue. 
Oh ! how pleased the shepherd was at 
this sight. He forgot his fatigue, he forgot 
The Shepherd. 
the cold and the wet, as he clasped the 
There was once a shepherd who lived i little creature in his arms and carried it 
I 
the ntl. And how glad he must 
 
in a little cottage on the side of a deep down..-----, 
mountain glen. His sheep used to feed in have been, as he lay down to rest that 
 
night in his snug cottage, to think that he 
the valley; and every morning he went had not been hindered by the difficulties in 
down with them to the side of the stream, the wayfrom seeking his lost sheep. 
It is desirable that there be raised by donation five or 
and, while they wander ed about, he used
six hundred dollars each year, by annual subscriptions ; 
to sit and watch them. And in the even- 
 
 
and the following may be a suitable form of pledge for 
The next morning the shepherd went to 
ht purpose. 
ing he used to call them together by the the fold, to see if the sheep were all safe. ta 
sound of a pipe ; and then he led them up He looked at them all ; but the lamb that of the American Millennial Association, the sums set 
We agree to pay annually in furtherance of the objects 
to the fold and shut them all in, and went he examined most carefully was the little against our respective names. 
to his own house. 
creature that had wandered the night be- Samuel Prior, Yardleyville, Pa 
5 00 
One day, in the autumn, the shepherd fore. And as lie tended 
Stephen Sherwin, Grafton, . , .... .... . ... .... 1.00 
his sheep that Martin L. Jackson, Milesburg, Pa. 
2 00 
had been watching the sheep all day long. day, he thought of " the Good Shepherd," min. Aid Society in Providence, R.I.— .... .... —16.30 
They were some way from the cottage,tor and how He loved His flock. 
Millennial Aid Society in Shiremanstown, Pa ..... ..9.00 
if i, " New Kingstown, Pa ... . .. 4.50 
they had eaten all the grass that grew There were thousands of happy angels s. Blanchard, Barre, Vt........ .... .... .... ..1,o0 
near it, and they had gone some distance round the throne of God who had never Lloyd N. Watkins, Toronto, C. W ........ ........ 1.00 
 9.00 
off to find pasture. As the sun went down, known sin or sorrow. They at all times Church in Newburyport. 
Pardon Ryon, Smith's Landing. N. J. .... .... .... .2.00 
the shepherd sprang from the ground and loved and served God ; but there were Josiah Vose, Westford, Mass. (" or more").... 2 00 
took his pipe. He put it to his mouth,and people on this earth who had disobeyed Henry Lunt, Jr., Newburyport, Mass.... .... .. 2.00 
Church in Stanstead, C. E ... ........ .... .... .... 3.00 
began to play one of his native airs. The Him, and who were sinful and miserable. 
sheep soon collected, and went slowly up And did He leave these sinful ones in their We leave a blank space here, which it is desirable to see 
the valley. It was a lovely evening ; the misery? No; He cared for them with the 
nt 
fil
e
led 
s
with names and amounts, of pledges of annual pay- 
setting sun was lighting the tops of the tenderest pity, and sent His own Son to m. 
hills with red. The sheep came slowly die for them. Jesus came to this world ; 
on, sometimes stopping to crop the herb- and through all His sorrows and all His 
age, and sometimes to drink of the stream sufferings, He still thought of His wander- 
which flowed down the valley, while the ing sheep, and endured all pa iently for 
dog ran barking round and round them. their sake. 
 
As the shepherd came near the fold, he And now Jesus sits on the throne in 
saw his wife standing at the cottage door heaven, surrounded by thousands of hap-
and his little boy running down to meet FY angels and by the spirits of good peo-
him. The little fellow ran to the fold,and pie who have gone to heaven; and per-
pulled out the stick which fastened the haps you, my reader, are sinful, and lone-
hurdles together; so that when his father ly, and unhappy. But still He cares for 
came up with the sheep the door of the Yon, and watches over you, and will be 
fold was wide open. He then helped his ready to listen to you if you pray to Him; 
father to drive the sheep in. The shep- for He died for each one of us. The Bible 
herd himself stood at the gate and counted tells us that a day is coining when He will 
them. There were a hundred of them. sea all his sheep collected around his 
He counted ninety-seven, ninety-eight, throne. And then those who were once 
ninety-nine ; and there were no more—one sinful and unholy, will be happy and holy 
was missing. 
for ever. He is not now, nor will He then 
This was a sad thing for the shepherd. be, sorry that He came to suffer and die 
He could ill afford to lose one sheep, and on earth. 
he knew what dangers it would be expos- Think of this, and when you have read 
ed to in the mountains. He went into the this little account, turn to the eighteenth 
fold, and walking through the ranks,coun- chapter of Matthew, and the eleventh ver. 
ted the sheep again. There were only and you will find: " For the Son of Man 
ninety-nine. One had certainly strayed is come to save that which was lost. How 
away. He looked down the valley, but think ye? if a man have an hundred 
could see nothing of the missing sheep.— sheep, and one of them be gone astray, 
He called it, but there was no answer.— cloth he not leave the ninety and nine, and 
He bade the dog look for it. The dog goeth into the mountains, and seeketh that 
pricked up his ears, and ran barking over which is gone astray 7 And if so be that 
the fields; but he soon returned with his he find it, verily I say unto you, lie rejoic- 
head hanging down. It was not to be eth more of that sheep, than of the ninety 
found. A mist was stealing up the valley, and nine which went not astray. Even so 
and a cold wind that made him shiver. it is not the will of your Father which is 
The shepherd looked at his pleasant in heaven, that one of these little ones 
cottage, and thought of the comfortable should perish." 
supper that his wife had got ready for him 
there. Then he looked at the cold, bleak 
mountains, and thought of the poor crea-
ture passing the night among them, and 
his mind was made up. " I must go in 
search of it," he said. So he told his lit-
tle boy to go back to the cottage, and say 
that he should not be home just yet, but 
that he would come home as soon as he 
could. Then he took his stick in his hand 
and started off with his dog. 
He went down the hill till he came to 
the place where the sheep had been feed- 
ing. There he looked round again ; but 
still he could see nothing of the sheep.— 
Just at this place a little stream came tum- 
bling into the valley. He thought that 
the sheep had very likely followed this 
stream, so he went up by its side. The 
further he went the steeper it became.—
Sometimes lie had to climb over rugged 
rocks, and sometimes to cross the stream. 
Once he fell into a swamp tip to his knees; 
and once the stone he trod upon rolled 
away, and he slipped into the water. So 
he went on far a long time. It grew very 
dark, and he had to light his lantern. And 
then the mist from the valley enveloped 
him; so that, even with his lantern, he 
could not see far beyond him ; and if he 
had not known the way very well he 
would have been in great danger. Every 
now and then he called, or blew his horn ; 
but no answer came. 
At last, after he had been calling very 
loudly, he thought he heard a bleating a 
little to the right of him. He followed 
the sound, and soon he heard it again.—
This time it was above him. He looked 
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close of 1862. Notice of any failure to give'clue credit 
should be at once. communicated to the Business Agent. 
ELDER TITHES' NOTICE. I shall be detained in New 
York city another week, and close my work on the 9th of 
March. The cause here is very low, and requires much Those sending money should remember that we have 
labor to bring it up. " Brethren pray for us." many subscribers of similar names, that there are towns of 
I leave New York March 10th and preach in Dansville the same name in different States, and in some States there 
(and visit " Our Home") on the 11th; Springwater, N.Y. is more than one town of the same name. Therefore it is 
12th; Lewiston, 13th; Hamilton, C W., 14th ; London, necessary to give his own name in full, and his Post-office 
Sabbath, 16th, and continue for a time in that vicinity.— address — the name of the town and state, and if out of 
My P. 0. address will be London, C. W., till further no- New England, the county to which his paper is (Erected. 
tie.
J.V.H. An omission of some of these often, yes daily, gives us 
New
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 York, March 1, 1862. 
much perplexity. Some forget to give their State, and if 
out of New England their County, while some fail to give 
even their town. Sometimes they live in one town and 
It is expected that Elder I. II. Shipman will preach at date their letter in that, when their paper goes to another 
Lake Village March 23; Eld. J. Couch April 6; and bro. town; and sometimes the name of their town and office are 
A. Bean March 16. 
D. G. DRAKE. different. Some; in writing, give only their initials, when 
there may be others at the same post-office, with the same 
A. M. ASSOCIATION. The Standing Committee of the initials. Sometimes, when the paper goes to a given ad- 
American Millennial Association will hold their regular dress, another person of the same family will write res-
pecting it,without stating that fact, and we cannot find the 
quarterly meeting on Tuesday, April 8th, 1862, 10 a. m., 
at 46 1-2 Kneeland street Boston Mass. 
name. And sometimes those who write, forget even to sign 
, , 
J. LITCH, Pres't. their names! Let all such remember that what we want, is 
R GUNNER, Rec. Sec'y. 
, 
the full name and post-office address of the one to whom the 
paper is
si 
smentl.ing, 
or sending money to the office by other 
persons, unless they have a receipt forwarded to them, are 
BUSINESS DEPARTMENT. 
requested to see that they are properly credited below. And 
if they are not, within a reasonable time, to notify the office 
 
 immediately. 
As a general thing, it is better for each person to write 
BUSINESS NOTES. 
respecting, and to send money himself, for his own paper 
— 
than to send by an agent, or any third person, unless such 
Mrs. Elizabeth Smith. Your husband's paper was paid one is more likely to get his own name and post-office right, 
for to last July; but we have credited you till next July, than another person would be ; that money sent in small 
—some money being sent by a brother in N. York that we sums, is less likely to be lost than when sent in larger ones, 
were authorized to use for such purpose. 
and that a third person is often subjected to postage, merely 
J. Pearce. We have entered the address of " Widow to accommodate the one who sends. 
Flat, Sheffield, C. W.;" but it is important that we have 
this sister's full name, in order to insure her receipt of the 
Herald. We do not find the name of " Wm. Willard" on 
E. TURNEY. 
our books, and so cannot send her paper to his P. 0. 
F. J. Hess. Mailed your letter the 10th to G.W.B. at 
Wellfleet, Mass. 
 
The authoress of a little work just issued, entitl- 
J. A. Conover. We have sent to you regularly, for the
t four weeks,461, 
 to Box 
Milwaukee. We now ag 
las
sin 
ed Victorian Enigmas, states that the following en- mail the same. The non-reception must be owing to the 
igma was written by the Queen for the royal child- U. S. mails, 
that 
and not this office. It goes in the same pack- 
ren. It is called the "Windsor Enigma"—"The in- yours must. 
age with 
of D. Wait, and when his reaches your P0. 
 
itials of the following places form the name of a N. A. Hill. Sent you book and tracts the 11th. 
Happy children ! taught to know, 
From the Book which God has given, 
How to serve him here below, 
How to reign with him in heaven ! 
Happy children ! taught to tread 
Wisdom's ways in early youth ! 
By its gentle teachings led, 
Choose ye now the path of truth. 
Happy children ! taught to pray 
In Immanuel's worthy name, 
Seeking freely, as ye may, 
Blessings angels ne'er can claim ! 
Happy children ! taught to sing 
Of the Saviour's dying love ! 
Hither, with your voices, bring 
Hearts to join the choir above. 
With the winged seraphim, 
Here unite to praise his name, 
Chanting that celestial hymn, 
.6 Worthy, worthy is the Lamb. 
" Blessing, honor, glory, power, 
Be to him who fills the throne, 
And the Lamb, forevermore ;— 
Thou art worthy, thou alone." 
Happy children ! taught to live, 
Striving each for others' good ! 
Freely blessed, as freely give ; 
Let no selfish thought intrude. 
Happy children ! when ye die, 
With your lives to Jesus given, 
Ye shall find his presence nigh, 
He will bring your souls to heaven. 
town in England,and the finals (read upwards) what 
that town is famous for—A city in Italy, a river in 
Germany, a town in the United States, a town in 
North America, a town in Holland, the Turkish 
name for Constantinople, a town in Bothnia, a city 
in Greece, a circle on the globe."—The following is 
the solution :—"Naples, Elbe, Washington, Cin-
cinnati, Amsterdam, Stamboul, Tornea, Lepanto, 
Ecliptic—Newcastle, famous for its coal mines." 
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APPOINTMENTS. 
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the provisions of the 56th Chapter of the Acts of the Le-
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and religious purposes. The whole amount obtained by 
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expended in the publication of Periodicals, Books, and 
Tracts, and for the support of ministers of the Gospel. 
All contributions to our treasury, will be duly acknow-
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report. When there is any omission of the proper credit, 
due notice should be at once given to 
YLVESTER Buss, Treasurer. 
ACKNOWLEDGMENTS TO TUESDAY, MAR. 11, 1862. 
DONATIONS RECEIVED SINCE Nov. 1sT — $400 Needed 
January 1. 
 
Amount of previous payments 
 .. 259.25 
From a young friend, received by the hand of A. 
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Paid on the above, by 
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Burlington, Iowa• ...... • • • • • • .. James S. Brandeburg 
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Cordova, Rock Island Co., Ill 
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Cincinnati, 0 
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Dunham, C. E 
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Durham, C. E 
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Derby Line, Vt. 
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Eddington, Me 
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Homer, N. Y 
J. L. Clapp 
Haverhill, Mass 
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Providence, R. I 
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Rochester, N. Y 
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Richmond, Me..............I. 
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Shabbonas Grove, De Kalb county, Ill... N. W. Spencer 
Somonauk, De Kalb Co., Ill . Wells A. Fay 
St. Albans, Hancock Co., Ill Elder Larkin Scott 
Stanbridge, C. E 
John Gilbreth 
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Toronto, C. W 
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Waterbury, Vt... .... .... .... .... .... .. D. Bosworth 
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