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David's Lamentation over Saul and Joni than. 
2 SAM 1 
Slain ! slain ! is the beauty 
Of Israel's host: 
On yonder high places, 
The battle is lost! 
The mighty are fallen! 
0, let not the word 
In Gath or in Askeloa 
Ever be heard ! 
Philisti&'s daughters 
Would loudly rejoice •, 
The uncircumcised foe 
Would lift up his voice. 
On Gilboa's mountains 
1,et no dew descend: 
No fruitful rain fall, 
Or ripen'd corn bend! 
The shield of the mighty 
Is cast away there ;— 
The shield of king Saul, 
As a vile thing it were! 
From the fat of the mighty, 
The blood of the slain, 
Did Jonathan's bow, 
Nor SauPs sword turn again. 
So pleasant in life, 
And united in death-
17-27. 
The king and his son 
Have yielded their breath! 
Excelling the eagle 
In swiftness they flew : 
In strength as the lion, 
They the foe did pursue. 
Ye daughters of Israel, 
Weep overSaui, 
Who in beautiful vek'meuts 
Did clothe you withal. 
On the high places fallen 
Is Israel's might: 
The strong ones were slain 
In the midst of the fight! 
O Jonathan! thou 
Wert kind unto me: 
My soul is in anguish, 
Distressed for thee! 
Surpassing the love 
That women do show, 
Thy affection to me 
Intensely did glow. 
Oh! weep for the fallen 
Of Israel's host! 
The weapons are perish'd— 
The battle is lost! 
H. H. 
Apocalyptic Sketches. Jfo I. 
BY REV. JOHN CUMMIN G, D. D. 
[Continued from our Last.] 
" The Revelation of Jesus Christ, which God gave unto him to 
show unto His servants things which must shortly come to pass ; 
and he sent and signified it by His angel unto His servant,John: who 
bare record of the Word of God, and of the testimony of Jesus 
Christ, and of all things that he saw. Blessed is he that readeth, aud 
they that hear the words of this prophecy, and keep those things 
which are written therein: for the time is at hand."—Rev. 1: 1—3. 
The time at which the Apocalypse was writ-
ten, was about the year 97. John was banished 
to Patmos by the Emperor Domitian; and if 
we had no other evidence that it was during 
the reign of Domitian, we have it in the fact 
that he was the first Roman Emperor who 
adopted that mode of punishment. 
But John's 
banishment from his earthly home lifted him 
nearer a heavenly one. 
He was condemned 
and banished by a king that died, that he might 
be favored, and comforted by "the King of 
kings," that liveth and reigneth forever. An 
inner radiance was poured into his spirit, that 
more than compensated for his external night. 
God thus gives His people in all their trying 
circumstances compensatory elements. 
In the 
history of His church, He often makes afflictions 
beautiful, by weaving throug-h them the rainbow 
of His mercy and love. 
He thus made barren 
Patmos 'a scene of manifestation of far richer 
glories than Tabor. 
He can make the tents of 
Mesech and the tabernacles of Kedar repose in 
a sunshine more glorious than ever fell on the 
towers of Salem. 
God's Shechinah often illu-
minates the desert. 
Daniel beheld in Babylon 
bright visions he saw not elsewhere ; John, in 
Patmos, saw a glory he never witnessed in Je-
rusalem ; John Buriyan, in his lonely prison, 
had dreams and visions, approaching in their 
purity aud splendor to apocalyptic scenes ; and 
Martin Luther, during his confinement in Wart-
burg, translated the Scriptures, and had the 
enjoyment of a freedom and repose to which 
thousands outside were strangers. 
It is the 
heart, not the house, that makes home. 
And 
thus, while the afflictions of God's people 
abound, their jofs abound also. 
The cloud 
that is darkest, is fringed to their eyes with 
beams of celestial lustre, and crushing calami-
ties unbosom by degrees their latent mercies ; 
and those who have been in the deepest afflic-
tion, have been the first to exclaim, each as he 
emerged from its depths—"It was good for me 
that I was afflicted." 
. This book has been recognized as canonical 
in every age of the Christian church. 
I will 
quote only one or two references, but these will 
sufficiently vindicate it. Perhaps you are aware 
that the Church of Rome has made the frequent 
objection, that we Protestants are indebted to 
her decision, for the possession of the Apoca-
lypse at all. 
They say, the Apocalypse was 
not admitted by that church by any public act, 
or by any synodical decision, till the fifth, if not 
the sixth century. 
But if this be true, instead 
of proving that the Church of Rome has great 
credit, it rather reflects upon her the greatest 
discredit—for it shows how sleepy that church 
must have been, how blind her vision, how for-
getful of her duties, seeing that sbe failed to 
recognize as canonical a Divine book during six 
centuries in succession. Does it not also show, 
how much more trustworthy is private judg-
ment than ecclesiastical decisions, when fathers 
and writers, and doctors saw the inspiration of 
the Apocalypse, and pronounced it to be Divine, 
while the Church of Rome did not know that 
it was part of the Sacred Canon at all? 
For 
instance : Ignatius, one of the earliest of the 
Christian fathers, who lived in the year 107— 
that is, just ten years after John wrote the Apo-
calypse—quotes several passages from this book, 
thus proving it was in existence in his day. 
Polycarp, a father and martyr, who lived in the 
year 108, when he was brought to the faggot 
to be .consumed in the flames, offered up the 
prayer used in the eleventh chapter of the Book 
of Revelation, at the seventeenth verse—" We 
give Thee thanks, Lord God Almighty, who 
was, and is, and is to come." After him, Ire-
nseus,"whose name is associated in import with 
peace, and whose writings contain some beau-
tiful appeals on its behalf, quotes portions of the 
Apocalypse, and adds the interesting statement, 
preserved in the writings of Eusebius, that John 
wrote it at the latter end of the reign of Domi-
tian, when in exile at Patmos. 
Justin Martyr, 
who lived in the year 140—that is, forty-three 
years after the Apocalypse was written, not only 
read it, but wrote an explanation of it. 
And 
Eusebius, in the fourth century, and Jerome, 
the most learned of all the Latin fathers, like-
wise quote it as a portion of the inspired Rec-
ord, and record their reflections upon it. 
It is, 
however, only just, to add, that some divines of 
the fourth century rejected the Apocalypse, on 
the ground that it contained, as they alleged, 
prophecies of what they erroneously believed 
to be a - carnal Millennium ; just in the same 
way as some Christians still argue, that the 
Bible cannot be God's Word, because it contains 
truths that cross their prejudices, or lays.on 
them duties which they decline to fulfil, or un-
fold, the mere outward drapery of stupendous 
mysteries, which angels cannot soar to, and 
which the human imagination canqot of course 
comprehend. 
But to argue in this way is to 
argue most illogically. 
The divinity of the 
book rests upon its own basis; the explanation 
of the book is to be decided on just and proper 
principles. 
I must notice here, that there is a special 
benediction pronounced upon those who read it. 
Many people say—" Oh ! the Revelation is full 
of dark things we ought not to meddle with." 
But what does the Spirit of God say ? " Bless-
ed is he that readeth, and they that hear the 
words of this prophecy, and keep those things 
which are written therein." 
Shall we say it is 
wrong to read what the Spirit of God has 
thought it right to record ? 
Shall we say that 
the difficulty of interpreting the book is a reason 
why we should not even read, still less try to 
understand, what the Spirit of God has inspir-
ed ? 
Shall we hold it perilous to study what 
the Holy Spirit has pronounced it blessed to 
read, and, by fair inference, possible to under-
stand ? We may read it in a presumptuous 
spirit—that is sinful; but to attempt to under-
stand it, in a reverent and prayerful spirit—that 
is blessed. 
Lay aside the presumption, that 
dictates as eternal truths its own hasty conclu-
but do not give up the prayerful study 
sions 
and perusal of the book, on the very vestibule 
of which the Spirit of God has written—" Bless-
ed are they that read and hear the words of this 
prophecy." Far be it from me to conceal, that 
there is an awful and a solemn anathema pro-
nounced upon all who shall attempt to subtract 
from, or add to " the things that are written in 
this book." At the close of it it is said—" If 
any man shall add unto these things, God shall 
add unto him the plagues that are written in 
this book. 
And if any man shall take away 
from the words of the book of this prophecy, 
God shall take away his part out of the book of 
life,' and out of the holy city, and from the 
things which are written in this book." 
This 
is an awful announcement, which ought to sol-
emnize the mind of every student of it: but if 
it be perilous to misinterpret it, can it be safe 
•not to read it at all ? Would not the legitimate 
conclusion be, not to lay it aside, because there 
is an anathema on him who perverts it, but to 
open the book, and diligently study it, and pray 
for the Spirit of God to enlighten our minds, 
and lead them to a sober and true exposition, 
and then we shall be lifted from the anatherrfa 
'Hat descends upon the wilful misinterpreter, 
iftid shall be placed under the blessing that 
lights on him who reads and understands it ? 
I regard this book, not as a dark and inex-
plicable hieroglyphic, which it is humility and 
duty to leave unopened, but as a light that 
shines on the dark and troubled waters of time 
—those waters over which the church of the 
redeemed is ploughing her arduous and perilous 
way; not like a light u^on th£ stern, leaving 
useless brilliancy in her wake, but a light upon 
the prow, showing before the beacons it is our 
safety to avoid, and the course it becomes our 
duty to pursue, till that day break upon the 
waste of waters, when the great Pilot himself 
shall enter into the vessel, and say to the stormy 
waves around it—" Be still;" and guide her to 
a haven of perpetual peace. 
Now while I feel that there is much, in the 
past history of the interpretation of this book, 
to make us cautious and prayerful, I still think 
there is nothing to warrant neglect. 
Poor Ed-
ward Irving, (one of the most gifted minds, but 
awfully—all but fatally shipwrecked,) it is true 
grafted upon this book the most extravagant 
and monstrous delusions ; and because he left 
behind him explanations as unsound as mis-
chievous, it is argued, that we should not at-
tempt to study and understand where so gifted 
a genius has failed. But it seems to me that 
misinterpretation in the past, instead of being a 
reason for neglect, is only a new reason for 
more prayerful and earnest efforts after just 
and proper interpretation for the future. Abuse 
is not certainly a reason against use ; past error 
in the pursuit of truth does not make future 
success impossible ; and may it not be true, 
that the failures of former expositors shall prove 
the surest pioneer of success on^the part of 
those that follow ? 
Every ship that is wrecked 
in our channel serves to show to succeeding 
navies the safe course they are thereafter to 
pursue. 
It is thus that the failures of gifted 
minds who have preceded us as interpreters, 
will help us to make nearer approximation to a 
clear exposition of that beautiful and holy book, 
which the Spirit of God has written for our 
learning. 
If the people would study the Rev-
elation more, their ministers would be likely to 
indulge in fancies less. It is because you know 
so little about the book, that ministers have 
been suffered to make so many misinterpreta-
tions of its meaning. 
Study well its history 
and contents, ponder prayerfully its predictions, 
and your knowledge will be the best check upon 
the imagination of the minister. 
Light in the 
pew necessitates light in the pulpit. The Bible 
in the hands and hearts of the people is the 
surest guarantee for truth from the lips of the 
preacher. 
I know that some excellent Chris-
tians entertain the notion, that their personal 
salvation is all they have to do with. 
Far be 
it from me for one moment to under value the 
necessity of a deep and solemn interest in our 
personal acceptance before God. 
What shall it 
profit a man if he should be able to explain all 
the mysteries of the prophets, or gain the whole 
world, and inflict on his soul that loss which 
never can be retrieved ? 
But, my dear friends, 
while this is true, and ought to be felt to be 
true, are we to forget that there is an end even 
higher than the safety of the soul—not indeed 
in reference to us, but in reference to God ? 
The glory of God is the end of the universe, 
and ought to be the first aim of intelligent crea-
tures. 
If I address members of other commu-
nions, let me lay before you a piece of splendid 
philosophy, as well as true theology, by telling 
you the first question and answer contained in 
the catechism which our Scottish children are 
taught from their earliest infancy. " What is 
the chief end of man ?" Not, to save himself; 
that is not said. 
" The chief end of man is to 
glorify God, and to enjoy Him for ever." We 
are called on 10 consult the glory of God first, 
our salvation next. 
Yet it is in the pursuit of 
the former that we never can lose the latter. 
And whilst, therefore, our personal acceptance 
before God is an essential thing, which no in-
terest can be a substitute for, which no duty can 
supersede, we must recollect that if God has 
revealed a book to evolve His glory, it is not 
for man, surely not for a Christian, to say—" I 
have no interest in that glory, nor shall I take 
any part in making the meaning of the myste-
ries which reflect it intelligible to others."— 
[ To le continued.] 
That Wonderful Book—The Bible. 
BY REV. J. N. DANFORTH. 
It is pure from all exaggeration. 
Nothing 
is overstated in point of doctrine or of fact. 
All truth is presented with its appropriate 
evidence, and is strictly coincident with the 
analogy of nature. 
If the eternal purpose of 
God touching the salvation of his people is 
herein vested with a high and holy sovereignty, 
we find that same principle manifest in all his 
dealings with men. 
If the delineations of the 
depravity of men are strong, and to the super-
ficial observer highly colored, they never tran-
scend the bounds of truth, for the truth meets 
us through the whole train of our own experi-
ence, and in every just observation which we 
take of individual character. 
If the oracles of 
God have established a connection between 
certain means and ends, a similar connection 
holds good in the ordinary affairs of men—in 
the moral and natural world. 
If the grand 
doctrine of mediation pervades this book, it is 
equally conspicuous in the history of civil 
society. 
If it be the keystone of the spiritual 
arch, it is also the bond of human relations.. 
Who is a stranger to substitution—to inter-
cession ? Who ever lived without the aid of 
his superior or fellow ? 
Fer which of us has. 
not some one suffered, planned, prayed, wept, 
or died ? Have you not had a father, a mother, 
an elder brother, a sister, friend ? I appeal to 
the labors of the departed—to the anxieties of 
bosoms on which the cold earth now presses— 
to the treasured tears of affection once bestowed 
on you. 
In all this we discern the image of 
that deep toned benevolence—that all-sacrificing 
love, which constituted the chief element in 
the character of heaven's Mediator. 
It is not 
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HERALD. 
a dream of fiction. It is a reality. 
There 
cannot be exaggeration. 
All is just, harmo-
nious, sublime. 
In all other systems which have claimed the 
faith of men as spiritual and immortal beings, 
we find confused theories, distorted views, false 
assumptions, and aggravated fictions. Like 
the great sheet let down to earth in the vision 
of Peter, they are full of wild, monstrous and 
cruel things. 
How unlike the holy mantle of 
revelation, let fall by the great Prophet of the 
church, her ornament and her glory! 
This book is clear from. all 
PREJUDICE. 
It 
pronounces no random judgments on men or 
things. 
Its author, enthroned above all the 
selfish passions, and petty interests of mortals, 
himself essentially true, could have no tempta-
tion to deal otherwise than in the most sincere 
and unprejudiced manner. 
Prejudice is blind, 
hasty, unteachable, impervious to argument, 
and impatient of contradiction. 
It praises 
without knowledge, and condemns without dis-
crimination. 
The reverse of all this is the 
demeanor of Truth. 
She asks for light, insists 
on deliberation: weighs arguments, and calmly 
proceeds to conclusions : withholds no deserved 
commendation, and inflicts no undeserved cen-
sure. 
Such is this Book. 
It dwells in the 
light. 
It has a transparent soul. 
No mist of 
prejudice hangs on its pure pages. It nowhere 
represents man as more or less than he is. 
It 
declares that he was created in the image of 
God, a noble and exalted being. 
But it with-
holds not the painful truth that he is fallen: 
that the gold is become dim; it is the state-
ment of a fact hateful to God, humiliating to 
man. 
, 
The Bible is free from the arts of Oratory 
and the flowers of Rhetoric. 
I do not mean 
that it is not eloquent, for never book so spake ; 
it abounds in the eloquence of thought, of argu-
ment, of description and of emotion. 
But I 
mean that it does not seek it as an end, or as 
a display. 
The subjects are too grand, the 
thoughts too weighty, the motives too solemn, 
and the threatenings too awful to admit of 
oratorical flights. There is nothing here to 
amuse the fancy; no design merely to captivate 
the imagination. 
The imagination is indeed 
called into exercise, but it is within the limits of 
the field of truth. 
When the aspirations of the 
soul are directed towards heaven, it is with a 
license to conceive all it can of its untold 
glories, while it is in no danger of reaching 
and comprehending the reality. Simplicity and 
sublimity being the strongest elements of the 
most exalted eloquence, in this book it is found. 
Sincerity and earnestness, being other element-
al qualities of a true eloquence, do pervade 
this volume. 
Persuasion, not as an art, but as 
the instinctive soul of divine truth, is part and 
parcel of the inspired system. 
This book makes no display of Science. 
Scientific men did not write it: scientific terms 
are not to be found in it; no aim in science 
was had by its authors, and yet it perfectly 
harmonizes, not only with science as it was, 
but as it is. 
All the developments of science 
do but confirm the Bible system. 
The most 
truly learned have been believers. 
No professed biographers are here written. 
The spirit and power of biography are exhibited 
in an eminent degree. 
The force of example 
is everywhere recognized, but the thing is done 
rather by sketches, than by full length portraits ; 
rather in scattered fragments, than in complete 
forms. There is indeed an immense variety of 
individual character, but it is not in the fore-
ground of the picture, nor concentrated at one 
particular point on the holy canvass. 
Its tints 
are rather sprinkled over the whole surface. 
Where is the biography of Moses written ? 
where that of Joshua ? of Israel ? of Paul ? of 
Peter ? of John ? of Balaam ? of Ahab and 
Judas ? 
Yet who has not a distinct, individu-
alizing conception of their respective characters ? 
Who does not see that moral excellence and 
moral turpitude could not be better represented ? 
That in no way so effectual could the loveliness 
of virtue and the deformity of vice be set forth ? 
Such embodiments of moral qualities are al-
ways most impressive—powerful to attract or 
to deter. 
With such illustrious models of 
meekness and of boldness, of holy courage, 
unshaken faith, enduring fortitude and tri-
umphant devotion, who would not be ani-
mated ? 
Who could be careless ? 
Who 
could be slothful? 
Who would not be 
follower of them who through faith and 
patience inherit the promises ? With such 
atrocious examples of wickedness glaring upon 
us, who would not be warned ? 
Yet the good 
among all these are nrt the subjects of eulogy 
The biographer does not praise them. 
He 
dares not give utterance to his own partial 
sentiments in the august presence of the 
Spirit. 
Nor does he censure and condemn. 
If so permitted, how could Luke or John re-
strain their indignation at the baseness of 
Judas ? Nor is even the character of Christ 
himself a finished portrait, with well propor-
tioned lights and shades, designed and drawn 
by the pencil of the professed artist. 
There 
are the actions of his life—the sentiments of 
his heart—his various emotions in different 
situations—all stated as matters of fact, but 
who amongst his most devoted disciples and 
enthusiastic admirers, presume to lift the voice 
of corfunendation ? Not even that disciple who 
reposed on the heart of Jesus—the beloved 
John—is permitted to give vent to his feelings, 
nor to overstep the rigid limits of historical 
narration. 
Whom he loves most, he praises 
least; but then if he interweaves none of his 
private sentiments with his public narrative, it 
is that the great Subject of that narrative may 
stand forth the supreme and the sublime Medi-
ator between God and men.—N. Y. Evang. 
My Saviour. 
BY JOHN EAST, M. A. 
LAMB. 
MY 
SAVIOUR is " the LAMB 
OF 
GOD, which 
taketh away the sin of the world." (John 1:29.) 
Did not fallen but penitent Adam have a view 
of his promised deliverer under this name, 
when he shed the blood of his first sacrifice in 
Eden, and knelt beside its consumed flesh on 
the altar of atonement ? 
It is highly probable, 
that the first creature of this lower world, 
Lamb." 
(Rev. 6:16.) 
To Christ, under this 
character, the white-robed host in glory are to 
look for all their bliss, (Rev. 7:9, 10, 14, 17) 
having overcome their great adversary, and 
gained the palm of victory, through his blood. 
(Rev. 12:11.) 
The light of his presence and 
glory is to be the never-setting sun of the hea-
venly world (Rev. 21:23); and the full tide of 
everlasting happiness to the millions of the 
saved, is to flow from the throne of" the Lamb." 
(Rev. 22:1.) 
0 my soul, wilt thou not give 
up all things, to be numbered with them " who 
follow the Lamb whithersoever he goeth" ? 
(Rev. 14:4.) 
Beauties of the Scriptures. 
The following admirable address was deliv-
ered at the anniversary meeting of the New 
York Bible Society, by the Rev. Dr. DURBIN, 
of the Methodist Episcopal Church:— 
" It has been said that history is philosophy, 
teaching by example. 
But how much 
But Moses found it was not compatible with his 
duty to God, and he " chose rather to suffer af-
fliction," &c. Is there any magnanimity like 
that on record ? 
And yet you find that narra-
tive in a book that must be true in every part 
of its history. 
Look at his meekness. 
The 
people of Israel, misled by spies who had not 
courage to be honest, rebelled; and the anger 
of God was kindled against them, and he said 
to Moses, " Let me alone, that I may consume 
them, and I Vill make of thee a great nation." 
But Moses besought the Lord for them, and 
said, " Nay, Lord, for then the Egyptians will 
say that thou wast not able to bring them into 
the Promised Land. 
I will not consent to dis-
honor thee." 
No well-instructed youth can 
have read that story without feeling his young 
soul grow larger and better. 
Is there any tale 
in romance equal to it ? 
But some will say, the • Bible is a private 
book; it gives no narratives illustrative of pub-
lic life. 
Sir, there are nowhere illustrations of 
public life, equal to those found in the Bible. If 
you want an example of integrity in a magis-
trate, read the history of Samuel. 
God was 
opposed to giving the Israelites a king, (and 
that the first creature of this lower world, ful 
in 
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that had strayed in joyful security, over the 
lawns of Paradise. 
With the unblemished 
fleece of that spotless victim were " our primal 
parents clothed." 
(Gen. 3:21.) 
They were 
significantly taught by him who, doubtless, con-
descended to explain the types of mercy, that 
they might look for atonement and righteous-
ness to the Lamb of God—to Jehovah, incar-
nate in the woman's promised seed. 
What 
other object met and rejoiced the eye of Abel's 
faith, when he was kneeling at the accepted al-
tar of burnt sacrifice, and when he breathed out 
his soul into the hands of the Saviour in whom 
he believed, beneath the murderous blows of a 
brother's hand? 
(Gen. 4:4-8; Heb. 11:4.) 
If the morning and evening sacrifice of a 
lamb was instituted at the fall, and was contin-
ued uninterruptedly on some altar or other raised 
by the Lord's people, in that sacrifice alone, 
three millions of lambs assisted the faith of be-
lievers, before John the Baptist exhibited to 
view the grand antitype. 
All that perfection 
of atoning virtue, which" was shadowed forth in 
the careful selection of lambs for the Jewish 
altar, was fully displayed in Christ; and the 
prophetic circumstances of their slaughter 
whether for the altar or for the paschal table, 
were fulfilled in the affecting particulars of his 
death. 
May the Christ-revealing Spirit engage my 
soul in frequent, deep, and delightful medita-
tion on this grand turning-point of its deliver 
ance from eternal death,—that I was " not re 
deemed with corruptible things, as silver and 
gold, but with the precious blood of Christ, as 
of a lamb, without blemish and without spot." 
(1 Pet. 1: 18. 19.) 
How complete was the 
atonement which Jesus made for my guilt! 
How perfectly free from blemish, and from de-
filing spot, must be the soul that is washed in 
that "precious blood "! 
Joyful assurance,—it 
" cleanses from ALL sin "! 
(1 John 1:7.) 
My 
soul, " dost thou believe on the Son of God " ? 
(John 9:35.) 
Art thou looking to the Lamb of 
God ? That look of faith transfers all thy guilt 
to his past sacrifice, and confers on thee his ev-
erlasting righteousness. 
The church—the 
soul that has been redeemed by a Lamb thus 
unblemished and spotless, must be itself without 
spot, in the sight of divine justice. 
That jus 
tice is satisfied with the sacrifice of " the Lamb 
slain from the foundation of the world," (Rev 
13:8) and is therefore necessarily reconciled to 
the soul which is interested in the spotless of-
fering. 
In turning over the prophetic pages of the 
Apocalypse, I am struck with the prominence 
given to this name of my Saviour, in all that is 
said of the future periods of the church mili 
tant and the church triumphant. 
When I be 
hold my Saviour, I shall immediately recog 
nize the sacrificial marks of the slain Lamb 
(Rev. 5:6.) 
He is adored and praised by the 
heavenly hosts themselves, as " the Lamb that 
was slain." 
(Rev. 5:12, 13.) 
The great ob-
ject of dread to the reprobate multitude, in the 
day of account, will be " the wrath of the 
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But the Author of the Bible cannot his Prime Minister. 
When Samuel was one 
be charged with ignorance or partiality. 
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tent> blew a trumpet, and at the signal, all the 
as teaching by example. 
I am the more care- people gathered ^und their venerable magis-
m the enunciation of this proposition be- [rate. 
And what wanted Samuel? 
There was no 
invasion, no plague nor evil in the land, no re-
volt or outcry of the people. 
When silence 
was obtained, Samuel arose—" I am old," said 
he, " and my head is grey. 
I am about to go 
the way of all the earth.J I have directed your 
affairs for ten years, and I am about to step intp 
the grave. 
Whose oxen have I taken, or whose 
asses ? 
Of whom have I taken a bribe among 
you ? 
Let him speak, and I will return him 
four-fold." 
And there came up an answer 
from that multitude, " Thou hast wronged no 
man—thou hast injured no man." 
And he 
turned and said, " God is witness, and ye are 
witnesses." 
And they repeated, " We are wit-
nesses." 
And yet you say the Bible has got 
no life in it—no elements of action! You who 
say so have not read the Bible. 
Would you see the other side—the reverse 
of the picture. 
Look at Absalom. 
He was a 
goodly and beautiful young man. 
But he was 
ambitious, and for forty long years he stood at 
the gate, when the king was in the palace, and 
when any one came to the king for justice, 
Absalom took him aside and said to him, " I 
wish I were judge in the land, then would I do 
justice to you. I see your cause is right," &c. 
and thus did he for forty years. 
If you go to 
the political meeting of your own country, you 
will find Absalom at the door—the demagogue 
who will put his arm round your neck, like Ab-
salom, who kissed those who came to the gate, 
and said to them, " I wish I was judge in the 
land." 
It is the voice of the demagogue every 
where, and has the same effect. The tools of 
Absalom were tempted to make him judge. But 
there was a God above the demagogue of Is-
rael, as there is a God above the demagogues 
of America, and all demagogues of every coun-
try. 
Then, there is a beautiful picture of sorrow-
ing David—" 0, Absalom, my son, my son "— 
words at which, in an oratorio, you have wept 
again and again. 
Is it not most natural ? 
If 
you ask for examples of pure, ardent, devoted 
friendship, no classic story produces anything 
equal to the history of David and Jonathan. Of 
deep, yet refined and delicate devotion and love! 
What romance ever equalled the story of Ruth 
and Naomi ? The painters have not yet done 
painting it. 
Ruth is the embodiment of every 
thing that is true and elevated in the female 
character. 
The world is cheated by the devil in this 
matter! 
He keeps them away from reading 
stories of more absorbing interest than any oth-
er book affords." 
with mystery—have been described as so pure, 
so elevated, so far beyond the reach or compre-
hension of men, that many persons have learned 
to regard them as scarcely giving a practical il-
lustration of what man ought to do. 
There is no position in life, however humble, 
however elevated, that does not find a beautiful 
and forcible illustration in this actual history of 
man, the BIBLE. 
Here we have example with-
out theories—that peculiar element which gives 
zest to what are called romance novels, the light 
literature of our day. 
Why does the press 
pour out its vast numbers of trashy literature, 
read in almost every house in your city ? 
It 
will not do to say that the whole people who 
read them are corrupt. 
Men of sense, of mor-
als, of religion, read them. 
The only reason 
is this :—that whether true or false, they pro-
fess to detail actions that men and women have 
done, and thought, and felt, and said. 
And it 
is because they present human beings acting, 
that they have this power over the human mind. 
Now, every thing that is captivating in ac-
tion, or critical in circumstances, that awakens 
a tragic influence, that can arouse and lead on 
the human heart, is recorded in that book as 
having actually taken place. 
Why, then, 
should not the world receive the heavenly story 
—the record of human actions, under the ap-
probation or disapprobation of God ? And I 
regard the New York Bible Society with pecu-
liar interest, because they propose to present 
that record to the thousands of people who, 
from their circumstances and education, and 
habits, are unable to reason out splendid specu-
lations and great theories in religion and mor-
ale, but who can see-the beauty of religion in 
the single acts of individuals recorded in that 
book. 
There are moments in the life of every man 
when he feels the need of resting upon, and 
confiding in, some unseen power. 
Such a mo-
ment comes to every man, at some stage of life 
or other. 
In this respect the life of Abraham 
is one of the most romantic histories ever writ-
ten. 
He heard the voice of God, bidding him 
to go to a distant country ; where, was not 
told him ; it was to the westward ; that was all 
the information given him. 
As he sat at his tent door one night, God 
called to him, and bid him look abroad and 
count the stars in the sky, that beautiful sky 
into which I have looked, where the stars are 
multiplied to the imagination — to old and 
childless Abraham, whose wife too, was well 
stricken in years, God said, " Thy seed shall 
be as the stars of heaven." And Abraham 
staggered not. His faith was strong; his foot 
step firm ; he took his staff and went forth, not 
knowing whither he went. 
Is there no lesson 
in this ? 
Arianism and Socinianism. 
" In an assembly of the presbyters of Alex-
andria, the bishop of that city, whose name was 
If we ask for an example of meekness and Alexander, expressed his sentiments with a 
we turn 
to ]vioseS) than whom high degree of confidence, maintaining, among 
other things, that the Son was not only of the 
same eminence and dignity, but also of the 
same essence with the Father. 
This assertion 
was opposed by Arius, one of the presbyters, 
! a man of subtle turn, and remarkable for his 
magnanimity 
no nobler example ever lived upon earth. 
See 
him with the glory of the greatest kingdom 
and the crown of Egypt laid down at his feet 
and the only inheritor of that throne desiring 
asking, begging only to be called his mother 
THE ADVENT 
HERALD. 
19 
eloquence. 
Whether his zeal for his opinions, 
or personal resentment against his bishop was 
the motive that influenced him, is not very cer-
tain. 
Be that as it will, he, first treated as 
false, the assertion of Alexander, on account of 
its affinity to the Sabellian errors, which had 
been condemned by the church; and then, 
rushing into the opposite extreme, he main-
tained, that the Son was totally and essentially 
distinct from the Father ; that he was the first 
and noblest of those beings, whom God had 
created out of nothing, the instrument by whose 
subordinate operation the Almighty 
Father 
formed the universe, and therefore inferior to 
the Father, both in nature and dignity. 
His 
opinions concerning the Holy Ghost are not so 
well known. 
It is, however, certain, that his 
notion concerning the Son of God was accom-
panied and connected with other sentiments 
that were very different from those commonly 
received among Christians, though none of the 
ancient writers have given us a complete and 
coherent system of those religious tenets which 
Arius and his followers recently held."—Mo-
sheim Ecll. Hist., Harper's Ed., v. i. p. 124. 
Socinianism originated with Faustus Socin-
ius, the sum of which is thus expressed by 
Mosheim, v. ii., p. 1-50 :— 
"God who is infinitely more perfect than 
man, though of a similar nature in some re-
spects, exerted an act of that power by which 
he governs all things; in consequence of which 
an extraordinrry person was born of the Virgin 
Mary. 
That person was Jesus Christ, whom 
God first translated to heaven by that portion 
of his divine power which is called the Holy 
Ghost; and having there instructed him fully 
in the knowledge of his will, counsels and 
designs, he sent him again into this sublunary 
world, to promulgate to mankind a new kind of 
life, more excellent than that under which they 
had formerly lived, to propagate divine truth 
by his ministry, and to confirm it by his death. 
Those who obey the voice of this Divine 
Teacher, shall one day be clothed, with new 
bodies, and Inhabit eternally those blessed re-
gions, where God himself immediately resides. 
Such, on the contrary, as are disobedient and 
rebellious, shall undergo most terrible and ex-
quisite torments, which shall be succeeded by 
annihilation, or the total extinction of their 
being." 
The Divorce of Josephine. 
BY REV. JOHN S. C. ABBOTT. 
[Concluded from our paper of February 5.] 
The next day after the public announcement 
to the imperial Council of State, of the intend-
ed separation, the whole imperial family were 
assembled in the grand saloon of the Tuileries, 
for the legal consummation of the divorce. 
It 
was the 16th of December, 1810. 
Napoleon 
was there, in all his robes of state, yet care-
worn and wretched. 
With his arms folded 
across his breast, he leaned against a pillar, as 
motionless as a statue, uttering not a word to 
any one, and apparently insensible of the trag-
edy enacting around him, of which he was the 
sole author, and eventually the most pitiable 
victim. 
The members of the Bonaparte family, 
who were jealous of the almost boundless in-
fluence which Josephine had exerted over their 
imperial brother, were all there, secretly rejoic-
ing.in her disgrace. 
In the centre of the apart-
ment there was a small table, and upon it a wri-
ting apparatus of gold. 
An arm-chair was 
placed before the table. 
A silence as of death 
• pervaded the room, and all eyes were fixed up-
on that chair and table, as though they were 
the instruments of a dreadful execution. 
A 
side door opened, and Josephine entered, sup-
ported by her daughter Hortense, who, not pos-
sessing the fortitude of her mother, burst into 
tears as she entered the apartment, and contin-
ued sobbing as though her heart would break. 
All immediately arose, upon the appearance of 
Josephine. 
She wore a simple dress of white 
muslin, unadorned by a single ornament. 
With 
that peculiar grace for which she was ever dis-
tinguished, she moved slowly and silently to 
the seat prepared for her. 
Leaning her elbow 
upon the table, and supporting her pallid brow 
with her hand, she struggled to repress the an-
guish of her soul, as she listened to the read-
ing of the act of separation. 
The voice of the 
reader was interrupted only by the convulsive 
sobbings of Hortense, who stood behind her 
mother's chair. 
Eugene also stood beside his 
mother in that dreadful hour, pale, and trem-
bling like an aspen leaf. 
Josephine sat with 
tears silently trickling down her cheeks, in the 
mute composure of despair. 
At the close of 
this painful duty, Josephine for a moment 
pressed her handkerchief to her weeping eyes 
—but instantly regaining her composure, arose, 
and with her voice of ineffable sweetness, in 
clear and distinct tones pronounced the oath of 
acceptance. 
Again she sat down, and with a 
trembling hand took the pen and placed her sig-
nature to the deed which forever separated her 
from the object of her dearest affectious, and from 
all her most cherished hopes. Scarcely had she 
laid down her pen, when Eugene dropped life-
less upon the floor; and he was borne to his 
chamber in a state of insensibility, as his mother 
and sister retired. 
But there still remained another scene of an-
guish in this day of woe. 
Josephine sat in 
her chamber, in solitude and speechlessness, till 
Napoleon's usual hour for retiring to rest had 
arrived. 
In silence and in wretchedness Na-
poleon had just placed himself in the bed from 
which he had ejected the wife of his youth, and 
his servant was waiting only to receive orders 
to retire, when suddenly the private door to his 
chamber opened, and Josephine appeared, with 
swollen eyes and dishevelled hair, and all the 
dishabille of unutterable agony. 
With trem-
bling steps she tottered into the room—ap-
proached the bed, and then irresolutely stopped 
—and burst into an agony of tears. 
" Delica-
cy—a feeling as if she now had no right to be 
there—seemed at first to have arrested her pro-
gress ; but forgetting in the fullness of her 
grief, she threw herself on the bed, clasped her 
husband's neck, and sobbed as if her heart had 
been breaking. 
Napoleon also wept while he 
endeavored to console her, and they remained 
for some time locked in each other's arms, si-
lently mingling their tears together." 
The at-
tendant was dismissed, and for an hour they re-
-mained together in this their last private inter-
view, and then Josephine parted forever from 
the husband she had so long, so fondly, and 
so faithfully loved. 
As Josephine retired the 
attendant again entered, and found Napoleon so 
buried in the bedclothes as to be invisible. And 
when he arose in the morning, his pale and 
haggard features gave attestation to the suffer-
ings of a sleepless night. 
At 11 o'clock the next pnorning,\Iosephine 
was to leave the scene of all her earthly great-
ness, and to depart from the Tuileries forever. 
" The whole household assembled on the stairs 
and in the vestibule, in order to obtain a last 
look of a mistress whom they had loved, and 
who, to use an expression of one present, car-
ried with her into exile the hearts of all who 
had enjoyed the happiness of access to her pre-
sence. 
Josephine appeared, leaning upon the 
arm of one of her ladies, and veiled from head 
to foot. 
She held a handkerchief to her eyes, 
and moved forward amid silence, at first unin-
terrupted, but to which almost immediately suc-
ceeded a universal burst of grief. 
Josephine, 
though not insensible to this proof of attach-
ment, spoke not; but instantly entering a close 
carriage, with six horses drove rapidly away, 
without casting oAe look backwards on the scene 
of past greatness, and departed happiness. 
The palace of Malmaison was assigned to 
Josephine for her future residence, and a joint-
ure of about six hundred thousand dollars a 
year settled upon her. Here, after many months 
of tears, she gradually regained composure, as 
time scarified the wound which had been in-
flicted upon her heart. 
She heard the merry 
peals of the bells, and the thunders of artillery, 
and the shouts of the populace as they wel-
comed Napoleon's new bride, Maria Louisa, to 
the throne and the palace from whence she had 
been banished. 
She witnessed the illumina-
tions and the rejoicings with which all France 
was filled, upon the birth of the long wished-for 
Napoleon continued to cherish for Jose-
way of securing the favor of Napoleon, than 
by paying marked attention to Josephine. 
She 
was consequently treated with the utmost defe-
rence- by all the ambassadors of foreign courts, 
and all the crowned heads of Europe. 
The 
household of Josephine was one of imperial 
magnificence. 
Here she reigned by the resist-
less magic of love. 
She was never known to 
speak a harsh word to a member of her house-
hold. 
When any one was sick, Josephine was 
ever at the bedside to cheer the sufferer. 
And 
the poor, for many leagues around, regarded 
her almost with adoration. 
When Napoleon, separated from Maria Loui-
and his child, was sent to Elba, all the 
warmth of a wife's tender love burst forth anew 
the bosom of Josephine. , She received a 
sa 
in 
very affectionate letter from the Emperor. The 
perusal of it overwhelmed her with grief. She 
exclaimed, " I must not remain here—my pre-
sence is necessary to the Emperor. 
That duty 
is indeed more Maria Louisa's than mine; but 
the Emperor is alone—forsaken. 
Well, I at 
least will not abandon him. 
I might be dis-
pensed with while he was happy—now I am 
sure he expects me." 
She immediately wrote 
to Napoleon, soliciting his permission to share 
his exile with him. 
" I have been on the point," 
she says, " of quitting France to follow your 
footsteps, and to consecrate to you the remain-
der of an existence which you so long embel-
lished. 
A single motive restrains me, and that 
you may divine.—If I learn that, contrary to 
all appearance, I am the only one who will ful-
fil her duty, nothing shall detain me, and I will 
go to the only place where, henceforth, there 
can be happiness for me, since I shall be able 
to console you, when you are thus isolated and 
unfortunate ! 
Say but the word, and I depart." 
But care and sorrow had preyed so heavily 
upon her, that her health became extremely 
precarious. 
A few days after this letter was 
written, the Emperor Alexander, with a num-
ber of distinguished foreigners, dined with Jo-
sephine. 
In the evening the party went upon 
the beautiful lawn, in front of the house, to en-
joy the favorite game of prisoners. 
Josephine, 
while striving to promote the enjoyment of her 
guests, took cold, and after a few days' illness, 
closed her eyes upon all the eyentful scenes of 
her earthly lot. 
The Emperor Alexander, Eu-
gene and Hortense, stood by the bedside of the 
ying Empress. 
All the Allied Sovereigns 
paid tributes of respect to her memory, and she 
was followed to the tomb by countless thou-
sands, with a pomp of sorrow such as earth 
had seldom witnessed before. 
The place of 
her burial is now marked by a very beautiful 
white marble monument, with the simple, yet 
affecting inscription, 
EUGENE AND 
HOHTENSE 
TO 
JOSEPHINE. 
phine the most sincere regard, and though from 
motives of delicacy he never saw her alone, he 
frequently called upon her, and continued fre-
quently to correspond with her. 
In all the bu-
siest scenes of his downfall and ruin, he would 
seize moments to write to Josephine. 
And a 
letter from her was immediately torn open, the 
moment it was received, however pressing the 
engagements in which he was involved. 
And 
strange to say, Josephine continued to cherish 
for him emotions of the most ardent affection. 
She seemed most cordially to rejoice in the birth 
of his child. 
All her griefs were forgotten in 
seeing Napoleon happy. 
The Emperor often 
called, taking with him his idolized boy, who 
was as great a favorite of Josephine as of the 
father. In a letter to Napoleon, she says, " The 
moment I saw you enter, leading the young 
Napoleon in your hand, was, unquestionably 
one of the happiest of my life. 
It effaced, for 
a time, the recollection of all that had preceded 
it; for never have I received from you a more 
touching mark of affection." 
It was soon evident that there was no su 
Fourth Universal Monarchy. 
NUMBER X. • 
Fourth Trumpet.—" And the fourth angel 
sounded, and the third part of the sun was 
smitten, and the third part of the moon, and the 
third part of the stars; so as the third part of 
them was darkened, and the day shone not for 
a third part of it, and the night likewise." 
This passage symbolizes the fall of the West-
ern empire by the Heruli, under Odoacer, A. D. 
476. 
He was the first of the barbarian kings 
of Italy. 
This trumpet marks one of the most 
noted events in the history of the Latin gov-
ernment, the final thrust which made the wound 
deadly. 
From this event, we date the transfer 
of the DIADEMS from the heads to the horns; 
and at the same time, the supremacy passes 
from the Roman, or " iron " dynasty, to the Ro-
mano-German, or " IRON-CLAY " dynasty. 
It is 
a mixed rule—the rule of two distinct classes 
of people, as widely dissimilar as iron and 
clay : yet this family was to continue up to its 
annihilation by the 
STONE. 
We have now 
closed the reign of the pure Roman family, in 
our historical sketch. 
The reader is prepared 
to follow us while we detail the events in the 
history of the Latin government, under the do-
mination of-the ROMANO-GERMAN 
DYNASTY. 
As we are about entering upon the history of 
one of the most powerful dynasties ever brought 
into being; and as we have given it a new 
name, it will be expected that we should show 
the propriety of the term. 
The metallic image 
(Dan. 2:33, 40-43) connected with the south-
western Europe, since A. D. 476, has furnished 
me with the name. 
The pure iron symbolizes 
the Roman dynasty: this will not be disputed. 
They continued a distinct people for nearly eight 
hundred years. 
It was esteemed a great honor 
to have the title ROMAN CITIZEN conferred upon 
one who was not born under that government. 
This title was not bestowed upon the barbarians 
of Europe. 
So long as the barbarians made 
no conquests in the Roman empire, they were 
esteemed an inferior race. 
So far as we find 
no mixture, the Roman blood flowed in pure 
channels. 
We regard the image as symboliz-
ing four purely civil governments. 
The mix-
ture of iron and clay would symbolize a mixed 
government, resulting from the mingling of two 
races in one political family. 
What other race 
did thus mingle with the Roman family—what-
ever that race is, its symbol in the meta'lic im-
age is " CLAY." 
We now proceed to show that 
that race was the 
GERMAN. 
We shall show, 
1st. What nations sprang from the German 
family—and may be considered members of 
that family. 
2d. That these nations did min-
gle with the Romans—1st. As servants. 
2d. 
As soldiers. 3d. As allies. 4th. As conquerors. 
1st. What nations have sprung from the 
German race ? For proof on this question, we 
quote from various historians. 
Murphy, in his 
translation of Tacitus, thus speaks of the Ger-
mans:—^The history of that country is the 
more interesting, as the part of the world which 
it describes was the seminary of the modern 
European nations: the 
VAGINA 
GENTIUM, as 
historians have emphatically called it. 
Where 
ever the barbarians, who issued from their 
northern hive, settled in new habitations, they 
carried with them their native genius, their ori-
ginal manners, and the first rudiments of the 
political system which has prevailed in differ-
ent parts of Europe. 
They established mon-
archy and liberty; subordination and freedom; 
the prerogative of the prince, and the rights of 
the subject; all united in so bold a combina-
tion, that the fabric in some places stands to 
this hour the wonder of mankind. 
Montes-
quieu says, the British constitution came out of 
the woods of Germany. 
The same author de-
clares it impossible to form an adequate notion 
of the French monarchy, and the changes of 
their government, without a previous inquiry 
into the manners, genius, and spirit of the Ger-
man nations. 
Much of what was incorporated 
with the institutions of those fierce invaders, 
has flowed down in the stream of time, and 
still mingles with our modern jurisprudence. 
He calls Germany the cradle of the British na-
tion." 
Hesren, in his political system of Eu-
rope, thus remarks of 
Germany:—"The 
strength of the European political system de-
pended on its centre, GERMANY. 
Enlightened 
policy soon perceived, that, with the preserva-
tion of the present order of things in Europe. 
Germany'furnished queens for all Europe, and 
thus became connected with all the reigning 
families." 
He calls Germany the cradle of 
European Religion and Politics, 
From Gib-
bon we take the following :—" The warlike 
Germans, who first resisted, then invaded, and 
at length overturned the Western monarchy of 
Rome, will occupy a much more important 
place in this history, than Persia or Scythia, 
and possess a stronger, and, if we may use the 
expression, a more domestic, claim to our at-
tention and regard. 
The most civilized nations 
of modern Europe issued from the oods of 
Germany; and in the rude institutions of those 
barbarians we may still distinguish the origi-
nal principles of the present laws and manners. 
Ancient Germany, excluding from its independ-
ent limits the province westward of the Rhine, 
which had submitted to the Roman yoke, ex-
tended itself over a third part of Europe, 
Al-
most the whole of modern Germany, Denmark, 
Norway, Sweden, Finland, Livonia, Prussia, 
and the greater part of Poland, were peopled 
by the various tribes of one great nation, whose 
complexion, manners, and language denoted a 
common origin, and preserved a striking resem-
blance." 
Speaking of their invasion of the 
Roman empire, the same author remarks:— 
" The Germans, who carried with them what 
they most valued, their arms, their cattle, and 
their women, cheerfully abandoned the vast si-
lence of their woods for the unbounded hopes 
of plunder and conquest. 
The innumerable 
swarms that issued, or seemed to issue from the 
GREAT STOREHOUSE OF NATIONS, were multiplied 
by the fears of the vanquished and by the cre-
dulity of succeeding ages." 
Western and 
south-western Europe is peopled by nations of 
German origin. 
The New World has been 
settled by colonies from western and south-west-
ern Europe. 
We may safely remark, that all 
the political world west of Russia and Turkey 
is under the Romano-German dynasty. 
We 
have now traced the modern nations to that 
race. 
We shall attempt, in the second place, 
to follow up to their origin ten primary king-
doms into which the Western Roman empire 
was divided. 
Did they not all spring from the 
German race ? 
The following is a summary 
20 
THE ADVENT HERALD. 20 
of those kingdoms as enumerated by Machia-j year of Jehoram of Israel would synchronize with the 
vel, Lloyd, Bishop Newton, Sir I. Newton, and 
Bishop Mede, viz.: 1. Ostrogoths. 
2. Visi-
goths. 
3. 
Suevi. 
4. Vandals. 
5. 
Franks. 
6. Burgundians. 
7. Heruli and Anglo-Saxon. 
9. Huns. 
10. Lombards. 
11. Alemani. 
12. 
Goths. 
These authors vary some in their lists, 
yet these are the names of the new nations 
springing up in the Western empire during the 
fifth and part of the sixth centuries. 
We shall 
trace their origin in the order named above. 
1. Ostrogoths, or eastern Goths; came from 
the eastern part of Sweden. 
2. Visigoths, or 
western Goths; from the western part of Scan-
dinavia, or Sweden. 
These names were given 
the Goths in the third century, after their ir-
ruption into Dacia. 
Those who came from 
Mecklenburg and Pomerania, were called Visi-
goths; those from the south of Prussia and the 
northwest of Poland, were named Ostrogoths. 
These were from ancient Germany. 
3 The 
Sued. 
"In that part of Upper Saxony be-
yond the Elbe, which is at present called the 
marquisate of Lusace, there existed, in ancient 
times, a sacred wood, the awful seat of the su-
perstition of the Suevi. 
It was universally be-
lieved, that the nation had received its first ex-
istence on the sacred spot. 
The wide extended 
name of Suevi filled the interior countries of 
Germany from the banks of the Oder to those 
of the Danube." 
4. Vandals. 
" The Vandals 
and the Goths belonged equally to the great 
division of the Suevi." 
The Vandals, the 
Goths, and the Suevi are of the German race. 
5. Franks. 
About A. D. 240, a new confede-
racy was formed under the name of Franks, by 
the old inhabitants of the Lower Rhine and 
the Weser. 
The present circle of Westphalia, 
the landgrave of Hesse, and the duchies of 
Brunswick and Lunenburg, were the ancient 
seat of the Chauci, who, in their inaccessible 
morasses, defied the Roman arms ; of the Che-
rusci, proud of the fame of Arminius; of the 
Catti, formidable by their firm and intrepid in-
fantry ; and of several other tribes of inferior 
power and renown. 
The love of liberty was 
the ruling passion of these Germans. 
They 
deserved, they assumed, they maintained the 
honorable name of 
FRANKS, or freemen,— 
which concealed, though it did not extinguish 
the peculiar names of the several states of the 
confederacy. 
J. P. 
WEETHEE. 
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Jjeralb. 
'BEHOLD! THE BRIDEGROOM 
COMETH!!' 
BOSTON, SATURDAY, FEB. 19, 
Sacred Chronology— 
THE KINGS OF ISRAEL AND 
JUDAH. 
(Continued from our last.) 
JEHORAM.—" Now Jehoshaphat slept with his fa-
thers, and was buried with his fathers in the city of 
David. And Jehoram his son reigned in his stead. * . 
Jehoram was thirty and two years old when he began 
to reign, and he reigned eight years in Jerusalem." 
2 Chron. 21:1, 5. 
" And in the fifth year of Joram 
the son of Ahab king of Israel, Jehoshaphat being 
then king of Judah, Jehoram the son of Jehoshaphat 
king of Judah began to reign." 2 Kings 8:16. 
From its being said in 2 Kings 3:1, that Jehoram 
of Israel began to reign in the eighteenth year of Je-
hoshaphat, Archbishop Usher, and others, have con-
cluded that the fifth year of Jehoram, or Joram,—as 
the name is indiscriminately called,—would synchro-
nize with the twenty-second of Jehoshaphat; and that, 
consequently Jehoram of Judah reigned from the 
twenty-second to the death of Jehoshaphat, or three 
of his eight years in connection with his father, and 
but five alone. 
And therefore dating from the death 
of Jehoshaphat, they have allowed but five full years 
for the reign of Jehoram his son. 
It has, however, already been shown, that the reign 
of Jehoshaphat, commencing in the fourth of Ahab 
the twenty-two years of Ahab's reign would extend 
to- the nineteenth of Jehoshaphat's, and the two years 
of Ahaziah's of Israel, to the twenty-first, and that 
therefore the first of Jehoram of Israel could not be-
gin before the twenty-second of Jehoshaphat, which 
would make his fourth synchronize with the twenty-
fifth and last of Jehoshaphat. 
Consequently the fifth 
first of Jehoram of Judah, dating his reign from the 
death of Jehoshaphat. 
An objection to this is found in the phrase in the 
text, " Jehoshaphat being then king of Judah." 
But 
this Dr. HALES affirms " is an anachronism, and an 
interpolation in the Massorite text." 
That Jehosha-
phat died before the accession of Jehoram his son to 
the throne, and that the eight years are to be reckoned 
subsequent to his death, is also indicated by the texts 
in 2 Chron. 21:1, 5, quoted above. 
This is farther proved by another consideration : — 
As Jehoshaphat began to reign in the fourth year of 
Ahab, and Ahab reigned subsequently eighteen years, 
those with the two years of Ahaziah, and twelve of 
Jeljporam of Israel, his successors, would equal thirty-
four years from the commencement of the reign of 
Jehoshaphat to the death of Ahaziah of Judah by 
Jehu. 
To equal this period on the part of the kings 
of Israel, would require the twenty-five full years of 
Jehoshaphat, the entire year of Ahaziah of Judah, 
and the eight yearS of Jehoram the son of Jehosha-
phat, reckoned from the death of his father. 
And, 
consequently, if Jehoram of Judah reigned three of 
the eight years of his reign during the last three of 
his father's twenty-five, it follows that the reigns of 
two of the kings of Israel must have also synchro-
nized three years with each other. 
Such a supposi-
tion is unreasonable, and is not only not warranted 
by, but is contradictory to, Scripture. 
And conse-
quently we reckon, with Dr. HALES, and others, the 
eight years of Jehoram of Judah from the death of 
his father, to B.C. 896, A.M. 3265. 
AHAZIAH.—" And Joram [of Judah] slept with 
his fathers, and was buried with his fathers in the 
city of David; and Ahaziah his son reigned in his 
stead. 
In the twelfth year of Joram the son of Ahab 
king of Israel did Ahaziah the son of Jehoram king 
of Judah begin to reign. 
Two and twenty years old 
was Ahaziah when he began to reign; and he reigned 
one year in Jerusalem." 2 Kings 8:24-26. 
" Forty 
and two years old was Ahaziah when he began to 
reign; and he reigned one year in Jerusalem." 2 
Chron. 22 : 2. 
In this last text there is evidently an error; for as 
Dr. CLARK remarks, as Jehoram of Judah began to 
reign when he was thirty-two, and reigned but eight, 
being forty years when he died; it would make Aha-
ziah two years older than his own father! 
Dr. 
CLARK therefore adds:—" I am satisfied the reading 
in 2 Chron. 22 : 2 is a mistake; and that we should 
read there as here [in 2 Kings 8 : 26] twenty-two in-
stead of forty-two years." 
Says CALMET on this 
point, " Which is most dangerous, to acknowledge 
that transcribers have made some mistakes in copy-
ing the sacred books, or to acknowledge that there 
are contradictions in them, and then to have recourse 
to solutions that can yield no satisfaction to any un-
prejudiced mind? 
" And in the eleventh year of Joram the son of 
Ahaz began Ahaziah to reign over Judah." 2 K. 9:29. 
We read in 2 Chron. 21 : 18, 19, that " the Lord 
smote him [Jehoram of Judah] in his bowels with an 
incurable disease. 
And it came to pass, that in pro-
cess of time, after the end of two years, his bowels 
fell out by reason of his sickness: so he died of sore 
diseases." 
Being sick two years, Dr. CLARK supposes that 
Ahaziah began to reign, according to 2 Kings 9 : 29, 
as viceroy with his father in the eleventh of Jeroboam 
of Israel, and in the twelfth year, according to 2 K. 
8:25, his father died, and he reigned alone. 
It is a 
reasonable supposition. 
" And Ahaziah the son of Jehoram king of Judah 
went down to see Joram the son of Ahab in Jezreel 
because he was sick." 2 Kings 8 : 29. 
" Jehu the 
son of Jehoshaphat, the son of Nimshi, conspired 
against Joram." 
And " Jehu rode in a chariot, and 
went to Jezreel; for Joram lay there. 
And Ahaziah 
king of Judah was come down to see Joram 
And Joram king of Israel and Ahaziah king of Judah 
went out, each in his chariot, and they went out 
against Jehu, and met him in the portion of Naboth 
the Jezreelite. . . . And Jehu drew a bow with his 
full strength, and smote Jehoram between his arms, 
and the arrow went out at his heart, and he sunk down 
in his chariot. . . . When Ahaziah the king of Judah 
saw this, he fled by the way of the garden house.— 
And Jehu followed after him, and said, Smite him 
also in the chariot. 
And they did so at the going up 
of Gur, which is by Ibleam. And he fled to Megiddo, 
and died there." Chap. 9 : 14,16, 21, 24, 27. " And 
the Lord said unto Jehu, . . . Thy children of the 
fourth generation shall sit on the throne of Israel.' 
Chap. 10 : 30. 
Thus were the king of Israel and the king of Ju-
dah both slain on the same day. 
Now as the reigns 
of Rehoboam of Judah, and Jeroboam of Israel, both 
commenced at the same time, and those of Ahaziah 
of Judah and Jehoram of Israel both tenninated at 
the same time; it follows that the sums of the reigns 
of the kings of Israel and the kings of Judah,—from 
the division of the kingdom at the death of Solomon 
to the death of Jehoram and Ahaziah by Jehu,—must 
be of equal length. 
That such is the result, and 
consequently that the time allotted for the reign of 
each respective king is correctly given, may be seen 
by adding the reigns of each as in the following ta-
ble :— 
Kings of Judah 
Rehoboam 
Abijam 
Asa 
Jehoshaphat 
Jehoram, or 
Joram 
Ahaziah 
Thus from the death of Solomon to the reign of 
Jehu was ninety-five years, which brings us to B.C. 
895, A. M. 3266. 
In harmonizing the reigns of the remaining kings 
of Israel and Judah, we have here another era to date 
from where the reigns of the two kingdoms commence 
together. 
(To be continued.) 
Kings of Israel. 
- 
17 Jeroboam 
- 
22 
3 
Nadab 
2 
- 
41 Baasha -
- 
23 
25 
Elah -
1 
Q Zimri and Omri 
- 
11 
O Ahab 
22 
1 Ahaziah 
- 
2 
Jehoram 
12 
95 
95 
The Argument from Design. 
An exchange paper contains the following forcible 
argument, from the adaptation of things to their uses, 
to prove the Creator must be the Great Designing 
Mind:—" To exhibit the whole of these wonderful 
contrivances would require a complete dissection of a 
human body. 
A volume might be written respecting 
the hand: another concerning the eye. 
Nothing can 
surpass the beauty of form, nicety of design, and per-
fection of execution in the eye. 
It is a world of 
wonders, and affords unequivocal evidence of being 
the workmanship of an Infinite Designer.—Mark its 
adaptation to the external world. 
By the simple ad-
mission of rays from the sun, an image is formed of 
an object on the retina of the eye, and by that means 
the object itself becomes known. 
Why an image 
should be formed at all, but more especially why by 
it an idea of the object should be conveyed to the 
mind, the philosophy of all past ages has been una-
ble to explain ; nor can it be accounted for except on 
the admission that an infinitely wise God was its 
maker. 
The heart is an instrument of remarkable 
parts and powers. 
Who can examine it and not see 
unequivocal marks of design—if design, then a de-
signer. 
It is the centre of vitality in the human sys-
tem. 
By its perpetual dilations and contractions, the 
blood, conveying nutriment, is driven into every part 
of the human system. 
The will of man has little or 
no control over its motions. 
They continue from the 
commencement of life till the breath leaves the body. 
What shall we say of the organs of speech ? Why 
is man the only being of all that moves on earth, ca-
pable of conversation ? 
What but a great Designer 
constituted the difference between him and other 
creatures? 
Everywhere in the human frame are 
the most undeniable marks of adaptation of parts to 
constitute a whole. 
Not a mistake has been commit-
ted in the plan, or in the execution. 
We see how 
man's body could not have begun to exist; it did not 
originate itself—chance did not give it a being—it is 
no modification of another order of agents ; whence 
is it ? 
The watch before me, I know must have been 
the product of some artificer. 
To doubt it, would 
be violating the dictates of common sense. 
Shall I 
believe that the human frame, which is a million times 
more complicated than a watch, had no Artificer? 
cannot; the laws of the mind will not admit it. 
I am 
compelled to conclude that it had a Maker and a 
Builder, and that he could have been none but an In-
finite Being;—the knowledge and wisdom requisite 
are so great, that we can set no limits to them. 
Eve-
ry effect must have a cause adequate to produce it; 
the human body is an effect—hence there must be a 
cause, an adequate cause; therefore God is the cause 
To be the cause, he must exist—wherefore, there is 
a God. 
' 
As yet I have not dwelt upon man's intellectual 
endowments. 
These are more wonderful than the 
arrangements of the body. Intellect! Whence is it 
Can it be from any other source than from God ? 
Search for proof—it is not to be found. 
Intellect is 
an effect—every effect must have an adequate cause 
No cause but an infinite God can be its cause. 
Nor 
can I account for my moral nature but by attributing 
it to the same source. 
Man is but a single link in a chain of vast extent, 
of infinite extremes. 
From him, the most noble be 
ing on earth, is a regular series of gradations to the 
most simple of all animal existences. 
It is not, 
however, a series in which there is the least change. 
The lower orders do not ascend, neither do the higher 
descend. 
They all remain as they were originally 
ranked. 
Thousands of years have produced no al-
terations. 
Leaving the lowest species in the animal kingdom, 
we enter upon that of the vegetable. 
Here, too, are 
wide extremes. 
The cedar rears its head to where 
the lightnings are at home, and the thunder drives its 
car—that is in one extreme ; in the other we see the 
rush bowing before every breeze, and the moss man-
tling the wall. 
Through all this range, perfect sym-
metry and system prevail. 
Nothing is out of place. 
If there be a plan, and one must be blind not to see 
it, then also there has been a planner, and a carrier 
out of the plan. 
Who can he have been? 
No finite 
being, certainly, for such an one could not have 
formed and executed such a plan as we know must 
have been laid out and executed. 
The eye cannot 
turn in any direction without perceiving the most de-
cisive marks of intelligent design. 
The more mi-
nutely the works of nature are scrutinized, the more -
manifest do these marks appear. 
Visit the mountain 
oak, and ask why its roots strike so deep, and why its 
arms extend so wide.—It replies, the latter is to in-
hale the air and catch the dew, and the former is to 
defend me from the storms and winds that would oth-
erwise upturn me. 
The elephant is adapted to the 
clime which he inhabits. 
The lion is found only in 
countries fitted to his nature. 
Every climate has its 
own peculiar species of animals, and each animal is 
furnished with means of support, pleasure, and self-
defence. 
Not an instance can be found in which a 
creature has been brought into existence and left des-
titute in any of these respects. 
Each understands 
how to procure necessary food, and each is provided 
with means for self-defence. 
The elephant defies all 
enemies by his great strength ; the deer seeks safety 
in flight; the asp infuses a deadly poison ; the bee is 
armed with a sting; the Alpine Marmot appoints a 
sentinel to watch, while he is in search of food, or is 
taking pastime on his rocky eminence. 
In construct-
ing their habitations, animals display a degree of in-
genuity and sagacity, which can be accounted for only 
by admitting that they have been endowed by an in-
telligent Being, who adapted them to their respective 
conditions. 
Examine the houses of th« beavers, the 
artificial hills of the African termites, and the hexa-
gonal cells formed by the bee. 
There are fixed laws running through the vegeta-
ble kingdom. 
A limb on one side of a tree, is bal-
anced by a limb on the other side ; and this arrange-
ment is adapted to the law of gravity. 
The exact 
harmony which characterizes all things in the world 
of nature, proves that there was a presiding Power, 
that planned and perfected the whole." 
The Labor of Publishing. 
Few people have any idea of the amount of labor 
requisite to issue a weekly paper. 
In the first place, 
to present an acceptable sheet, much reading, study, 
thought, and research, to collect and arrange the most 
suitable matter is necessary. 
To do this an editor 
should be almost constantly employed day and night. 
Those who trespass on his time and patience little 
realize that his attempts at mental exertion during 
such interruptions, task his powers far beyond a 
much longer period of uninterrupted study. And they 
thus render him less able to present a profitable paper 
to his readers. 
In the second place, the mechanical labor is very 
great. 
To get out the Herald we have to set up a 
very few less than two hundred thousand types, 
which have to be taken letter by letter each week 
from their respective boxes, and then after the paper 
is issued be put back again, letter by letter, to be in 
readiness to be set up for the next week's paper. The 
more fine type we use the more of these letters have 
to be taken and put back into their places. Thus the 
type in which we set our Items on the last page, is 
called agate, and contains about three-eighths more 
letters to aline, than the long primer on the first page; 
and also as many more lines to a page, so that one 
column there is nearly equal to our entire first page. 
The contents of a paper are, therefore, not propor-
tioned to its mere size, but to the fineness and solidity 
of its type. Some may not understand the distinction 
between leaded and solid matter. Under the editorial 
head, the reader will notice that the reading looks 
lighter than on the first page. 
This is effected by 
putting between each line a thin plate of type metal 
called a lead. By inserting this we are enabled to get 
only about three-fourths as much on a page, as with-
out it; yet it is always customary to distinguish the 
matter under the editorial head in this way from the 
THE ADVENT 
HERALD. 
21 
other parts of the paper. 
Some, to save expense, 
lead their whole paper, and print with large type. If 
we should print our entire paper with the type like that 
on our first page, and lead it, we should have about 
sixty thousand, or about one third less type to set up 
and distribute each week than we now have, without 
lessening the size of our paper. 
The matter in a 
paper is therefore proportioned to the smallness and 
solidity of the type, and the size of the sheet. 
Our 
readers will thus be enabled to appreciate our efforts 
to give them a large amount of reading, weekly—to 
do which we spare no labor or expense. 
If a pub-
lisher will exert every nerve to prepare valuable 
matter, and subscribers, to enable him to circulate it; 
both will act in unison, and each perform an accepta-
ble work for the cause. 
WESTERN TOUR RELINQUISHED, FOR THE PRESENT. 
—It is with deep sorrow and disappointment that I 
am compelled to announce to my beloved friends at 
the West, my inability to prosecute my intended tour. 
Every means have been employed to rid myself of 
my present indisposition, but in vain; my infirmity is 
becoming worse, and nothing but an entire cessation 
from preaching will afford a hope of my life being 
prolonged. 
In looking abroad on the ripening fields, 
ready for harvest, I find it exceedingly difficult to heed 
the admonitions of prudence, and to resist launching 
forth. Nothing prevents me from doing so but stern 
necessity. My physicians give me no liberty to at-
tempt to preach for at least three months. 
I have now served the Advent cause for eight years. 
During that time I have had no other interest—I have 
known no other ; I can say with the Psalmist, " The 
zeal of thine house hath swallowed me up." 
The 
Lord knoweth what has been the one purpose of my 
heart from the first day that I saw the light concern-
ing the Advent doctrine, and consecrated myself to 
its support and extension. And although I have been 
most cruelly assailed by avowed enemies without and 
within; and although ungenerous friends have given 
utterance to their " fears," I am, by Divine grace, 
enabled to say with the apostle, " It is a small thing 
to be judged of man. He that judgeth me is the 
Lord." 
The future.—What is to be done? I am happy to 
say, that, although I am utterly disqualified for preach-
ing at present, by an affection of the organs of speech, 
my health otherwise is such as not to prevent my 
writing, or arranging matters, so that the wants of 
the cause may be met. 
I am now engaged in getting out a series of tracts 
and some charts, which will prove valuable auxilia-
ries to our preachers in presenting the truth, as well 
as to our brethren generally. 
I have encouragement from Bro. Litch, and others, 
that they will enter the field in the spring. 
A plan 
for labor will be presented at our Conferences the 
coming spring, if it please God, by which the calls 
from the East, West, North, and South, will be at-
tended to, so far as it may be possible to do so. 
The late improvements made in the Herald 
have brought upon us a large additional expense, 
which was evidently demanded, by the state of the 
cause. 
I expected to be able to meet this increased 
expense by indefatigable effort, as I have done in time 
past. 
But this expectation is now in a great measure 
cut off, as well as what little I have received from la-
bors abroad towards the support of my family. ] 
therefore call upon the friends abroad to unite their 
efforts to sustain us, in all that concerns the real in-
terests of the cause of our Lord. 
In conclusion, I would tender my sincere acknow-
ledgments to my brethren and sisters everywhere for 
their kind and sympathizing epistles, and for their 
substantial support. 
May the Lord abundantly re-
ward them all, at his soon expected coming and 
kingdom. 
J. V. HIMES. 
Boston, Feb. 16<A, 1848. 
Erin—one unbroken chain of graves, where repose 
fathers and mothers, sisters and brothers, in one com-
mingled heap, without a tear bedewing the soil, or a 
stone to mark the spot. Twenty thousand and up-
wards have gone down to their graves, and the whole 
appears to one not immediately interested, like a 
tale that is told." 
The gravest charges arc preferred against several 
eminent British noblemen, by whose inducements, 
and promises of assistance, many of their tenants 
were led to embark for Canada. Lord Palmerston, 
the present British Foreign Secretary, is especially 
censured for his inhumanity. It appears that his 
tenants " were taken from their little homesteads, 
where most had been born, and where they expected 
to end their days, under the positive assurance that 
they should be supplied with suitable clothing on their 
passage, and on their landing here, [Montreal,] should 
receive a certain sum of money to supply their imme-
diate necessities, and assist them to reach their places 
of location—neither of which did they get, agreeably 
to promise. They came out in the Robert Watson. 
Garments were indeed given out by the captain ; but 
in such stinted measure that it seemed but solemn 
mockery—for how did they land here in the month of 
November? Men without coats, and with but partial 
representatives for pantaloons. 
Women without 
shawls, or cloaks, or bonnets, or stockings, or shoes 
—and children with hardly a whole covering to their 
backs ; to say nothing of their bare heads, arms, and 
feet. 
The number of immigrants who died on their 
passage out, was 5000; 3389 diedatGroose Isle, 1137 
at Quebec, 5862 at Montreal, 139 at Lachine, and 39 
at St. John's—making upwards of 15,000 in all. 
Many died in different parts of the Canadas, but it is 
impossible to give the precise number. Many others 
were sent to the United States, at the expense of 
government. The Secretary of the Immigrant Soci-
ety alone sent into the States 1552 persons. 
HEALTH 
OF MR. MILLER.—We are sorry to learn 
by letters from Low Hampton, that Father MILLER is 
laboring under an affection of his eyes, now of about 
three weeks' continuance; which deprives him from 
reading or writing. 
He requests his numerous cor-
respondents to continue writing to him, but they must 
excuse his replying to them, which he is now unable 
to do; but he hopes soon to meet them where the 
lame shall leap as an hart; the tongue of the dumb 
sing; the blind receive their sight; and the deaf 
hear. 
And the nearness of this cheers him, under 
his accumulating infirmities, and declining age. 
We doubt not that a multitude of brethren and 
friends will feel deeply to sympathize with our faith-
ful and devoted, but now afflicted brother ; and the 
prayers of many saints will daily ascend to heaven in 
his behalf. To be deprived of the words of counsel, 
encouragement, and instruction which have been com-
municated by his pen, will be a great loss. 
We intend to visit him soon, as he requests. 
THE 
POOR IMMIGRANT.—The Montreal Immigrant 
Committee have published their report for 1847, in 
which are embodied facts setting forth the horrible 
sufferings experienced by the thousands of poor 
foreigners who arrived that year in the British North 
American dominions. 
Those sufferings were of a 
nature to make men shudder, and the forcible lan-
guage of the Report is by no means calculated to 
deaden the feelings consequent on a knowledge of 
them. 
Of the one hundred thousand persons who 
arrived in Canada from the British Islands, during 
1847, some twenty-five thousand have died. " From 
Grosse Isle," says the Report, " the great chamel 
house for victimized humanity, up to Port Savina— 
along the borders of our magnificent river, upon the 
shores of Lakes Ontario and Erie, and wherever the 
tide of emigration has extended, are to be found the 
final resting plaees of the sons and daughters of 
BUFFALO.—We have received a letter from the 
church in Buffalo, by Bro. M'Williams, in which 
they request that the meeting proposed in that place 
March 29th, on our Western tour, should be a mutual 
conference of the friends of the Advent cause. 
As my tour West is now given up, at least for the 
present, of course it will not be held in connection 
with the contemplated meeting there. 
If they think 
best to have such a meeting, and it is in my power to 
attend, I shall be glad to do so, but cannot give lec-
tures. 
J. v. H. 
The Cosmogony of the Earth. 
EVENING 
CONVERSATIONS 
BETWEEN 
EARTH-READER 
AND BIBLE-READER.—ON THE CREATION. 
PUBLICATIONS, EDITORS, &c.—A late number of 
the Protestant Unionist, in speaking of the qualifica-
tions of an editor, and the reasons of so many failures 
in the attempt to conduct a periodical, makes the fol-
lowing judicious remarks, which are not necessarily 
limited to that denomination :—" It is no uncommon 
merit to be ignorant of one's own profession, or for an 
editor to misapprehend the nature of periodical and 
newspaper literature ; to be blind to the social tenden-
cies to which it points; to overlook its suggestive 
character, and its aspects in regard to enlarging, 
quickening, and exalting the public mind. His mis-
taken notions of his own importance also may con-
found his feelings and perplex his judgment in decid-
ing of the matter of his paper, and lead him to set an 
overweening estimate on his own soft and downy ori-
ginals over crisp and well fabricated selections; and 
to pretermit and neglect the arts of the ' chair edito-
rial,' as collecting, selecting, abridging, sketching, 
etching, cutting, carving, arranging, combining, bal 
ancing, &c. &c. 
All which calls for taste, judgment, 
pure feelings, and holy affections. 
In our Connection, we have far more papers and 
pamphlets than are needed, or are supported. 
The 
rule ought to be, ' multitudes of preachers, but few 
editors.' One man can preach to but few, but one 
editor can write for a million, and every paper or pam-
phlet that goes down for lack of patronage, but damps 
the spirit and damages the reputation of those en-
gaged in this great and glorious cause. 
In no other religious party is the editorial itch more 
prevalent than in ours. In no others has it showed 
itself more malignant or more infectious; some folks 
have been in the fidgets for years—and the pamphlets 
and papers on which, like posts, they have soothed 
their irritation, remind us of the mysterious portrait 
in the Russian Romance, that smote with madness 
whoever had the misfortune to become its proprietor 
so that the cry ran, ' Beware how you purchase that 
portrait.' We neither assert nor insinuate madness 
of the long array of names who have lent their lustre 
to these papers, but which of these men does not now 
heartily wish that some discerning friend had time-
ously warned them and said,4 Beware of that paper. 
QUESTION.—MR. EDITOR :—Is there any thing in 
the Scriptures, or in the nature of the case, which 
prohibits Christians from taking part in the election of 
civil officers, say the President, or Representative in 
Congress, or in Parliament? It seems to me there 
is nothing, though I should like your view on the sub-
ject. 
AN 
ADVENTIST. 
The early Christians had nothing to do with the 
civil government. 
They were obedient to it; sub-
mitted when consistent with their duty to God. When 
it was otherwise, they submitted to the penalty as 
true and faithful men.—j. v. H. 
The following conversations were held for the 
purpose of eliciting information on the subject of the 
creation; and taken down by reporters. Earth-
Reader, by reading the earth, imagines that he finds 
evidence of the earth's age far anterior to the time 
assigned for it in the Mosaic record. 
Bible-Reader 
contends that no phenomena, or facts exist respecting 
the structure of the earth, that militate at all from the 
Mosaic record. To elucidate truth, and place side by 
side the arguments for and against the authenticity 
of the inspired record was the object of the discus-
sion. 
If the earth was the result of a long creative pro-
cess, it would follow that the end must be equally 
progressive. 
But we who hold to its creation in six 
days, claim that its change will be equally rapid. 
FIRST 
EVENING. 
Earth-Reader.—All 
of us here this 
evening 
have arrived at the state of consciousness—we feel 
that we exist—that we stand out from the rest of the 
world of phenomena. 
We are ourselves a phe-
nomena, observed by our own consciousness. Among 
the first subjects that arise in our thoughts are, How 
long have we existed ? Those about us, how long 
have they existed ? We are all agreed that it is but 
a SHORT TIME. 
To prove this we need only observe 
what is going on around us. 
We have seen a great 
number of human beings come into existence, and 
pass away ; but owing to the shortness of life, we can 
know but little of the duration of our species. 
We 
infer that all are subject to the same laws of growth, 
decay, and ceasing to be, at least to appearance. 
And all are agreed that duration here is not eternal. 
I would now enquire whether we know any thing of 
the time when our species began to be—if so, when, 
or about what time ? 
Bible-Reader.—All the knowledge we are pos-
sessed of respecting the origin of the human race, we 
find in the book of Genesis, recorded by the pen of 
Moses. All other conjectures on this subject are vague 
and misty. 
E. R.—I must respect your faith in that Holy 
word, which came by inspiration ; but think that 
information can be obtained also by studying the earth. 
I prefer it. 
True, it may be vague, if vagueness 
consists in having to draw conclusions by many in-
ductions. 
It has been found that in the crust of the 
earth is written a general history of all that has been 
going on for ages. 
Going down through this crust, 
we read proofs of the occurrence and order of former 
events, if not their precise time. The existence of 
fossils is the principal means of proving the compar-
ative time that animal life has existed; and the shal-
low depth in which human remains are found, show 
that man can only have existed for a short period, 
do not remember the precise estimated time, I think 
it is not above 10,000 years. 
Have you any objec-
tions to this kind of proof ? 
B. R.—I agree with you, friend Earth-Reader, 
that the records of earth are not meaningless ; that 
they are to be read in their place, in connection with 
the records of inspiration. 
We are to take notice of 
the several classes of fossil remains, their depth, the 
strata in which they are found, &c. 
But in the 
records of earth, do you read aught that is counter to, 
explanatory of, or inconsistent with the testimony of 
the inspired records, respecting the origin of the hu-
man race, which the Hebrew text locates at about 
6000 years previous to the present time. 
E. R.—Do I understand you to believe that this 
race rose up just 6000 years ago, or as near that time 
as we can estimate by Hebrew chronology; and, 
taking this authority, do we know within a year, or 
ten years, the time of the origin of the human 
race ? 
B. R.—We may not know within a year or ten 
years, because several chronological links of a few 
years each are wanting in the otherwise continuous 
chain of the inspired chronology, which brings us 
down to the time of Cambyses; and from this era we 
have the certain and unerring testimony of Astronom-
ical records to bring us to the present time. 
We, 
however, do claim that we have the period of the 
Creation. 
E. R.—What 
is your proof that you have the 
period of Creation, and what do you mean by that 
period ? 
B. R.—We 
have a continuous succession of 
events, with the time between each,—with the ex-
ceptions above specified,—as recorded in Scripture. 
By the period, we understand a circle of time to 
which our knowledge of chronology must extend, 
making due allowances for the discrepancies in dis-
pute. 
E. R.—As to things having remained in the same 
state for a long period of time, as to the constitution 
of the air, size of earth, &c., my arguments coincide 
with Bible authority. 
I cannot prove that the com-
mencement of the existence of man was not at that 
trme ; and we are both agreed that it was at a com-
paratively recent period. Leaving this, I go back to 
the next question—length of time that the earth has 
existed. Was it only five times twenty-four hours be-
fore man came into existence? 
I wait for an answer 
from Scripture. 
J5. R.—I shall not assume that the earth came into 
existence at the commencement of what is called the 
first evening in Genesis. We read that," In the 
beginning God created the heavens and the earth." 
Wherever that beginning was, we understand that 
God create d all things out of nothing. Again, we 
read that " the earth was without form and void, and 
darkness was upon the face of the earth," &c. How 
long a period intervened from the beginning when 
creation was effected out of nothing, and the subse-
quent period when it was described as a waste, and 
void—whether it was five minutes, or a period suf-
ficiently long for the earth to have passed through 
successive changes, is immaterial to our purpose.— 
That period may have been sufficiently long for the 
production of all the changes noted in the crust of the 
earth which are not accounted for by the events of 
the six days of the first week, the events of the 
flood, and the changes which have since been effected. 
But the time referred to when darkness thus covered 
the earth, we assume, according to the reading of 
Genesis, to be five times twenty-four hours before the 
creation of Adam. 
E. R.—As to the way in which the earth was 
created, whether out of nothing, or otherwise, I shall 
not now go into that, but assume that there must have 
been more than five revolutions of the earth upon its 
own axis, between the time when darkness covered 
the world of chaos, and the creation of man. Before 
going farther, allow me to ask, Have you presented 
all the proof positive you have on this subject, both 
from and aside from the Mosaic account ? 
B. J?.—The evidence on which I rely is simply 
the Mosaic record. 
What testimony have you to 
invalidate the letter of that record ? 
E. R.—As I before said, far be it from me to wish 
to invalidate a justifiable faith in that sacred record. 
In the deductions I bring it is not my object to attack 
that record, but simply the idea that people have of 
that record. 
I accept the burden of proof on the 
ground of stating the case as it may be read from the 
earth, and let the deductions interpret the record. 
Have you any answer ? 
B. R-—I am pleased that you admit the letter of 
the Mosaic record, and that we differ only in its 
interpretation. I therefore trust that in the progress 
of our discussion, you will endeavor to harmonize all 
Scripture with your views of creation; and also per-
mit me to account for any phenomena on the earth's 
surface, by showing how it may have been produced 
by causes subsequent to creation; and therefore be no 
evidence of a pre-Adamite origin. 
(To be continued.) 
THE ADYENT 
HERALD. 
Correspondence, 
Eternal Glory in View. 
Ye weary, heavy laden souls, who are oppressed sore; 
Ye travellers in the wilderness to Canaan's peaceful 
shore; 
Through chilling winds, and beating rains, and wa-
ters deep and cold, 
And enemies surrounding you, take courage and be 
bold. 
Eternal glory is in view—we feel our Father's love; 
And all our sorrows of the way increase our joys 
above. 
Though storms and hurricanes arise, the desert all 
around, 
And fiery serpents oft appear through the enchanted 
ground; 
Dark nights, and clouds, and gloomy fears, and drag-
on's often roar, 
Yet, in the great Redeemer's strength, we '11 press to 
Canaan's shore. 
Eternal glory, &c. 
We 're often like the lonesome dove that mourns her 
absent mate; 
From hill to hill, from vale to vale, her woes she doth 
relate; 
But Canaan's land is just before, sweet spring is 
coming on; 
A few more beating winds and rains, and winter will 
be gone. 
Eternal glory, &c. 
Sometimes like mountains to the skies black Jordan's 
billows roar, 
And make us weary pilgrims fear we never shall get 
o'er; 
But when as from mount Pisgah's top we view the 
vernal plain, 
To fright our souls may Jordan roar, and hell may 
rage in vain. 
Eternal glory, &c. 
Methinks I now begin to see the borders of that land; 
The trees of life with heavenly fruit in beauteous or-
der stand . 
The wintry time will soon be gone, the summer 
soon appear; 
The glorious day is rolling on—the great sabbatic 
year. 
Eternal glory, &c. 
0! what a glorious sight appears to my believing 
eyes! 
Methinks I see Jerusalem, a city in the skies: 
Bright angels whisper me away—" 0 come to glory 
come"— 
And I am waiting to be gone to my eternal home 
Eternal glory, &c. 
The Prominent Bible Doctrine. 
Jnde 20,21—" But ye, beloved, building up yourselves on your most 
holy faith, praying in the Holy Ghost, keep yourselves in the love of 
God, waiting i'or the mercy of our Lord Jesus Christ, unto eternal 
yoi 
yourselves in the love of 
Jude seems to have written this epistle to particu 
larly bring to our minds the second epistle of Peter 
respecting the " mockers of the last time "—to guard 
us against them, and to stir us up " to contend more 
earnestly" for what they scoff at, "the promise of 
the coming" of Christ—"thefaith once delivered to 
the saints." 
This faith he terms " the most holy, 
or that belief which produces the most holiness. 
To every arch there is one stone, called the key-
stone, more important than any other; for without it 
it can only he sustained by props. 
To every sun-
glass there is a focus, without which it would be use 
less. And to every system of planets, there is a sun 
or centre, without which all would go to disorder.— 
So with revealed truths; there is one great, crowning 
truth, without which all the others would be lost to us 
Let us turn, then, to the faithful Record, and see 
what truth produced more holiness with " holy men 
of old, than any other. 
Paul, all will admit, became 
vety holy, so that he could exhort us to follow him 
as he followed Christ; and he informs us in Phil. 3 : 
7-11, that the truth, which led him to cast away all 
things, and count them but dung, was the hope of 
being raised out from among the dead. 
This case is 
a very clear one; but there are many. 
In Jjuke 14: 
13, 14, the Saviour requires a deadness to this world 
which but few ever attain unto; and the only motive 
which he presents to lead to it is, "recompense at 
the resurrection of the just." 
What was it that nerved Abraham's arm to raise 
the deadly steel over the son of promise? 
" He be-
lieved that God was able to raise him from the dead." 
What held Job from cursing God, and made him hold 
fast his integrity? 
The faith that his " Redeemer 
lived, and would stand upon the earth at the latter 
day;" and that he should then " see God in his flesh." 
But the time would fail me: I will therefore turn 
to the whole line of " holy men " of old as given by 
Paul in Heb. 11th, every one of whom wrought won-
ders, and despised deliverance, "that they might ob-
tain a better resurrection." 
"The recompense of 
the reward," was alone found able to induce Moses 
to " choose affliction with the people of God." 
Again. 
This faith formed the ground of the 
strongest appeals, both with Christ and the Apostles. 
Does Christ wish to console his afflicted flock, he 
assures them that it shall be but " a little while " be-
fore he " will come again and receive them to him-
self." 
Does James wish to comfort the oppressed? 
He assures them that "the coming of the Lord 
draweth nigh." 
Does Paul wish to stir up the saints 
to "cast off the unfruitful works of darkness?"— 
He assures them that " the night is far spent," and 
that " it is high time to awake out of sleep." 
Does 
he wish to draw the Thessalonian brethren from er-
ror on time? 
He beseeches them " by the coming 
of our Lord Jesus Christ, and by our gathering to-
gether unto him." Does he wish to impress Timothy 
with faithfulness? 
He charges him "before God, 
keep the commandment without spot, unrebukable, 
until the appearing of our Lord Jesus." Does Christ 
wish to comfort seventy millions of martyrs ? " Surely 
~ come quickly." 
And John responded in behalf of 
all the heirs of a " crown of righteousness," " Amen. 
Even so, come, Lord Jesus." 
John declares that this crowning truth produces 
the highest state of holiness attainable in this life, 
aking the believer in it holy, even as Christ is holy. 
John 3:2, 3. 
Notwithstanding he had witnessed 
the glorious scene on Tabor, and once in Patmos had 
mistaken a glorified prophet for the Lord, he says, 
that " it doth not yet appear what we shall be." 
" No one has ever yet conceived, or can, 
How good is God; how great, if good, is man." 
But he says that we know all respecting it that we 
are capable of understanding. 
But we know that 
when he shall appear, we shall be like him, for we 
shall see him as he is. 
Or as Paul says, " Our vile 
body shall be made like his most glorious body."— 
And every man that hath this hope in him purifieth 
himself, even as he is pure. 
This crowning truth, instead of detracting'from the 
first Advent, gives to it its chief importance. 
But 
for the crown, the cross would be of no avail. 
It is 
like the mariner's compass, which, while it points 
steadily to the north pole, equally indicates the south. 
Improvement. 
1st. We see from this subject, that saving faith is 
founded upon the PROMISE of God, and is not a mere 
emanation of joy, nor a freak of fancy. 
2d. We see also from this subject the importance, 
both as ministers and members of the body of Christ, 
of having our own hearts fully sanctified by this truth, 
that in speaking and exhorting, we may speak out of 
the abundance of the heart, and give to it the impor-
tance which God has attached to it in the system of 
revealed truth. 
Men who make any other question 
the question of this age, or of any other age, would, 
if they had the solar system at their disposal, put th£ 
sun in the orbit of Mars, and Mars in the center of 
the system. 
The devil cares but little how splendid or extensive 
you build the arch, if you will put an inferior stone 
for the key-stone; for he well knows that you will, 
in the end, only have the more splendid ruin. 
How 
absurd and monstrous would it sound in any of the 
appeals, or instances of sanctification, above referred 
to, to substitute a belief in Judaism, the sleep of the 
dead, or probation after the Advent? 
This great 
truth once delivered to the saints, was sustained by 
them for about three centuries, " and did not go 
wholly into disrepute until the full establishment of 
the Papacy." 
So says Bishop Newton. 
This truth 
alone had the power to sunder the sectarian bands 
which bound us to our various sects; and it alone has 
power to hold us together. 
Multitudes have before 
believed in all the theories which some are now so 
anxious to exalt among us, without making them any 
better than the other sects. 
As said a brother from 
New Hampshire the other day, "I believed in the 
sleep of the dead some twenty years ago, and after-
wards was convinced to the contrary; and I do not 
think that it made me a better or worse man. 
But 
when I embraced the Advent, it made me . a new 
creature." 
Blessed is that servant whom the Lord, when he 
cometh, shall find giving meat in due season." " He 
that hath ears to hear, let him hear." 
How would 
Paul's injunction in Heb. 10 : 25 read, as a practical 
one, to substitute anything in the place of " the day 
approaching." 
If it will not be criminal, let us try 
it.—But exhort one another, and so much the more 
as ye believe the outward Jews are to return.—But 
exhort one another, and so much the more as ye be-
lieve the dead will be eternally unconscious.—But 
exhort one another, and so much the more as ye be-
lieve that the heathen will have probation after the 
judgment! 
If he had said, Bewilder and confuse 
each other in the last generation of time, in propor-
tion to your belief in those things, he would have 
been extensively obeyed. 
Soon will the Saviour come with the light of a 
thousand suns, and then shall every man stand or fall 
to his own master. 
Time's career is closing; and 
what is done for the eternal state, must be done 
quickly. 
Yours waiting for the Advent, 
' 
1. E. 
JONES. 
New York, Jan. 9th, 1848. 
Remarks on Rev, 20:4,5. 
" 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. But the rest of the dead lived not again until the 
thousand years were finished. This is the first resurrection." 
Some have been exceedingly puzzled to make this 
passage sustain their theories, and correspond with 
their views of other scripture. 
Some derive from it 
the doctrine of a spiritual resurrection, or a resurrec-
tion of spirits, and a spiritual millennium. 
Others, 
to avoid this, conclude that because the word soul, in 
scripture, often signifies the whole person, that it 
must have this meaning here. 
A glance at the lan-
guage in connection will dispel such an idea. 
If 
John had said he saw the souls which were beheaded, 
it would have been clear that he meant persons, as 
Peter did when he said, speaking of the deluge, 
" Eight souls were saved by water." 1 Pet. 3 : 20. 
John says, I saw the souls of them "—of whom? — 
Of the persons beheaded. 
The word "souls," as 
here used, cannot mean persons, but something per-
taining to persons. 
When we speak of the hands 
at work on a building, or in a field, we mean the per-
sons ; but when we say, My hand, or, My foot, we 
do not mean our whole body, but one of its members. 
And when we say the hand of one beheaded, we do 
not mean his person. 
With the same propriety I 
speak of my soul, without including my whole per-
son, and also speak of it as one of the parts of my-
self. 
So when John says, " I saw the souls of them 
that were beheaded," it does not convey the idea that 
he saw their whole persons. 
My opinion, I think, is 
sustained by the text, that he saw them in their sepa-
rate, or dead state, before they lived, just as he had 
seen them, on a previous occasion, under the altar.— 
Rev. 6:9. 
Then they were waiting for deliverance, 
and crying to have their blo^d avenged on those that 
dwelt on the earth; now their time of deliverance 
has come—their little season of rest under the altar 
has ended. 
That he saw them while dead, is farther evident 
from the same verse, which says, " And they lived," 
— showing that the vision had progressed from 
their dead state, — and the 5th verse, which says, 
" The rest of the dead lived not again," &c.,—which 
shows that the souls were first brought to view as a 
part of the dead. 
For what sense would there be in 
say ng, that " the rest of the dead lived not," unless 
there were some of the dead that did live, who had 
before been shown as dead. After having introduced 
them to us in their dead state, he says, " They lived 
and reigned with Christ a thousand years." 
And he 
adds, " This is the first resurrection." 
How did these souls live ? as naked or unclothed ? 
or as in their proper bodies ?v I assume the latter, 
and will present my evidence. 
Christ says, Rev. 3 : 
21,—" To him that overcometh will I grant to sit 
with me in my throne, even as I also overcame and 
am sit down with my father in his throne." 
The 
saints are to commence their reign in connection with 
Christ on his throne, after they have overcome, even 
as he also overcame, previous to taking his seat with 
the Father on his throne. Hence if we can ascertain 
how Christ overcame previous to taking his seat with 
the Father, we may learn how the saints are to over-
come previous to taking their seat with Christ. 
After Christ was risen from the dead, he appeared 
unto his disciples, and said, " All power is given unto 
me in heaven and in earth." Matt. 28 : 18. 
He had 
attained "a degree of power above that of any other 
being save the Father. 
In Eph. 1 : 19-21, we are 
taught that when Christ was raised from the d ad, 
the Father set him at his own right hand, far above 
all principality, and power, and might, and dominion, 
and every name that is named, not only in this world, 
but also in that which is to come. 
From these, and 
similar passages, we learn, that Christ, after his res-
urrection, was elevated to the right hand of the Fa-
ther, where he now sits, himself a conqueror, making 
intercession for us, that we may obtain a victory over 
the world, and be raised from the grave triumphant, 
clothed with immortality, to be seated with him on 
his throne. 
For confirmation of what is here stated, 
see the following passages :—Phil. 1: 8-11; Col. 2 : 
8-15; Rom. 14 : 9 ; Heb. 2:14 ; 1 Pet. 3 : 22 ; Mark 
16:17; Acts 7:55,56. 
It follows, that, as Christ overcame and sat down 
with His Father on his throne, when he was raised 
from the dead, so also the saints shall overcome, and 
sit down with Christ on his throne, when they are 
raised from the dead. 
This being true, the idea of 
the saints reigning in their dead or unclothed state, 
must be unscriptural. 
So that the saints who have 
died cannot sit with Christ on his throne without a 
bodily resurrection. 
I am not aware that the Scrip-
tures speak of any resurrection of the dead (I mean 
the bodily dead—not the morally dead), save a bodily 
one, or a resuscitation of the person that died. If this 
be true, then " the first resurrection " in the text must 
denote a bodily resurrection,—a re-clothing of the 
spirits which John saw,—of those who were beheaded 
that they might reign with Christ. 
The time of the 
commencement, of this reign indicates the nature of 
the first resurrection. 
" When the Son of man shall come in his glory 
and all the holy angels with him, before him shall be 
gathered all nations: and he shall separate them one 
from another as a shepherd divideth his sheep from 
the goats : and he shall set the sheep on his right hand 
but the goats on the left. Then shall the King say 
unto them on his right hand, Come, ye blessed of my 
Father, inherit the kingdom prepared for you from 
the foundation of the world." 
(Matt. 25:31-34/ 
This is said to all the saints,—those who died pre-
vious to his coming, and those then living. 
For the 
apostle says, " If we believe that Jesus died and rose 
again, even so them also which sleep in Jesus will 
God bring with him. 
For this we say unto you by 
the word of the Lord, that we which are alive and 
remain unto the coming of the Lord, shall not prevent 
[go before] them which are asleep. 
For the Lord 
himself shall descend from heaven with a shout, with 
the voice of the archangel, and with the trump of 
God; and the dead in Christ shall rise first [that is 
before the living are caught up]; then we which are 
alive and remain, shall be caught up together with 
them in the clouds, to meet the Lord in the air: and 
so shall we ever be with the Lord." 
(1 Thess 
14-17.) Thus, at the coming of Christ, the righteous 
both dead and living, will meet him, and ever after be 
with the Lord,—obtaining a fulfilment of the promise 
" I will come again and receive you unto mvself."— 
(John 14:3.) 
Paul, when about to depart this life, exulted in the 
prospect of the crown which he, with all that love 
Christ's appearing, will receive at his coming. (2 Tim 
4:8.) 
And Peter says, " When the Chief Shepherd 
shall appear, ye shall receive a crown of glory that 
fadeth not away." 
(1 Pet. 5:4.) 
Thus, the reward of the righteous is called " 
And gladly wander up and down, 
And smile at toil and pain. 
" I'll travel on, secure from fears, 
'Till my Deliverer come, 
And wipe away his servants' fears, 
And take his exiles home." 
CHAS. T. 
CATLIN. 
West Troy (N. Y.), Feb, 1st, 1848. 
Letter from Bro. J. Litch. 
DEAR BRO. HIMES :—My long silence has not been 
on account of iny want of interest in the subject of 
our blessed hope; but from a fear that I should add 
to the already great distraction which exists among us. 
I have one sure anchor to my soul, in a theoretical 
sense: it is, that Jesus Christ is the Seed of David 
and of Abraham according to the flesh, and is heir to 
their inheritance and dominion ;—that he has gone 
away, and in " a little while " will come again. This 
is conclusively proved to my mind, by the passing 
away of the four great empires to the last end of the 
fourth. 
I say last end of the fourth, because the bon-
dage of the Jews, whose scourge Rome has been, is 
broken, even in Rome itself. 
The Pope is in as criti-
cal a position (and nearly the identical position) as 
Louis XVI. of France was at the breaking out of the 
French Revolution. 
Comparing the scourge raised 
against him, and the burden departing from the shoul-
der, and the yoke from the neck, of the Jews, with 
Isa. 10 :25-27, I am constrained to believe that it is 
the last end of the fourth empire. 
It reads thus :— 
" For yet a very little while, and the indignation 
shall cease, and mine anger in their destruction. And 
the Lord of hosts shall stir up a scourge for him ac-
cording to the slaughter of Midian at the rock of 
Oreb : and as his rod was upon the sea, so shall he 
lift it up after the manner of Egypt. 
And it shall 
come to pass in that day, that his burden shall be ta-
ken away from off thy shoulder, and his yoke from 
off thy neck, and the yoke shall be destroyed because 
of the anointing." 
I have never entertained a doubt that the prophetic 
periods will be understood before the end, and that 
clearly. 
But I cannot rest on any data less strong 
than we had in 1843, as the basis of a theory on time. 
is matter of deep regret with me, to see my breth-
ren labor to build up a theory of the ending of the 
1290 and 1335 days, by endeavoring to fix a date for 
only one end of the period. 
For instance; after fix-
ing on 1802 as the time when the concordat between 
Napoleon and the Pope took effect, and concluding 
that the 1260 and 1290 days, or years, end there, they 
do not stop to ask, how the date for their commence-
ment is to be fixed. The truth is, there is no event of 
strongly marked character from which to date,which 
will end either period there. 
Yet no argument can be 
sound, and worthy of confidence, which is deficient 
in that point. 
And it is still more difficult to fix on 
events for date, if we remove one year further for-
ward, and end the 1290 days in 1803. 
My idea is, 
that it would be far better to wait until clear light 
breaks on us, than to build up theories on conjecture, 
and grope on in darkness. 
Events of a marked char-
acter are to be looked for every day ;, and, indeed, 
they are transpiring around us, and especially in the 
old world. 
The providence of God will develope 
events which will give us light, as soon as he sees it 
necessary for us to have it. 
We live in fearful times. 
The rapid strides of 
Popery, the world over, the organization of infidelity 
against Christianity of every form, in Switzerland 
and throughout Europe generally, are all indications 
of a coming storm. 'Our Saviour had a strong view 
of these views when he said, " Watch ye therefore, 
and pray always, that ye may be accounted worthy to 
escape all those things which shall come to pass, and 
stand before the Son of man." 
Close by our Shepherd:s side, we are cafe; while 
there, we may boldly say, the Lord is my helper, I 
will not fear. What can man do to me ? The blessed 
truth of Christ's speedy coming and reign on earth is 
as dear as ever to my heart; and 1 rejoice in proclaim-
ing the cheering truth. It gives me the greatest plea-
sure to hear of the steady onward progress of the Sec-
ond Advent faith, where it produces its legitimate 
fruit, purity. 
For every one that hath this hope in 
him, purifieth himself even as he is pure. 
You have the prayers and sympathies of the church 
in this city and its vicinity, in your trials and labors. 
The " Herald " is a welcome messenger to many, and 
they look for it as earnestly as they do for their daily 
food. 
Yours in hope of the kingdom. 
crown of life," " a crown of righteousness,' 
crown of glory," and is invariably connected with the 
resurrection of the saints, and the kingdom of our 
Lord Jesus Christ. Previous to which no saint can 
be crowned, or can reign. 
\ 
" In hope of that eternal crown, 
I now the cross sustain, 
Letter From Bro. J. Pearson, Jim. 
DEAR BROTHER :—I employ the first favorable op-
portunity to express the feelings of gratitude I enjoyed 
in examining and perusing the first number of the 
enlarged volume. 
The vignette on the preceding four volumes } never 
fancied. 
It was so complex, that it appeared blotted 
and clumsy. But the whole arrangement of this head-
ing is beautiful. 
The style of the name is pleasing 
to the eye, yet plain ; and the vignette quite simple, 
yet very expressive. 
The change in the vignette and 
motto is in good taste. The former was the ascension 
of Christ, this is a miniature representation of that 
kingdom for which we are so fondly looking. 
After 
passing through our severe disappointments, and many 
trials, the motto now is, " We have not followed cun-
ningly devised fables, when we made known unto you 
the power and coming of our Lord Jesus Christ." 
Its general order is not inferior to any religious per 
riodical published in this country. 
Our brethren are 
exceedingly pleased with it. 
This extra effort will 
secure you many new subscribers, and the brethren 
throughout the land will appreciate such praiseworthy 
devotion to the cause of truth. 
The " ADVENT Herald " yet lives, and will live, to 
send forth weekly Its pure streams of wholesome, in-
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tellectual, soul-stirring truths, if the name 
continues to express the character of the 
paper. 
The doctrine of the speedy Ad-
vent made us a distinct people;—it has 
been, now is, and will continue to be, 
the question with us, unless we prove 
unfaithful to our trust. 
Some begin to 
learn one fact, and that is, that you have 
nailed that flag at mast-head, and are de-
termined to make all other doctrinal points 
of controversy subordinate to that. Pur-
sue this course, not deviating to the 
right nor to the left, and depend upon 
it, you will be sustained. 
The brethren 
will have one paper wholly consecrated 
to this cause. 
The " Herald " will not 
disappoint our expectations. 
We 
have ascertained the number 
among us who are not able to pay for 
the " Herald," and have voted to sub-
scribe for them as a church, and desire 
it may come in their own name, as their 
own paper. 
The church do this with 
the greatest pleasure, and now we have 
the satisfaction of knowing, that all our 
worthy poor are permitted weekly to 
enjoy the sweet repast with which this 
weekly visitor comes laden. 
It seems 
to me that our churches generally will 
adopt this benevolent plan. 
Is it just 
that a brother or sister should be de-
prived of this great blessing, because 
they are poor, as it regards this world's 
goods, if it lays within our power to meet 
this expense for them? 
Certainly not. 
Is it just to cast this heavy tax upon the 
" Herald," and by thus doing, curtail 
and cramp its usefulness, in some mea-
sure, at least, if we can ourselves share 
this burden with but very little inconve-
nience? 
Certainly not. Think a mo-
ment. Suppose we have one poor mem-
ber to every ten; the expense will only 
be about eleven cents each one!—a trifle 
hardly worth mentioning. Yet, small as 
" 
it is, individually, the result is of great importance. 
1st. The office is at once delivered of a heavy load. 
2d. The " Herald " will at once receive an addition of 
several hundred paying subscribers. 3d. All our poor 
brethren and sisters will receive a paper eminently 
qualified to instruct, (Strengthen, and encourage them 
on their toilsome pilgrimage to the kingdom of God. 
And 4th, which is not the least, " Thou shalt be re-
compensed at the resurrection of the just." 
Newburyport (Mass,), Feb. 8th, 1848. 
Letter from Bro. II. 
Burchard. 
DEAR BRO. HIMES :—I have lately been reviewing 
my file of Advent papers, from January, 1843, up to 
the present time. 
In looking over the history of the 
Advent movements for the past five years, I find much 
to admire and love, and much that sickens and makes 
sad the heart of every child of God, that is sincerely 
praying, " Thy kingdom come." 
Who that ever had the love of God shed abroad in 
tha heart, and by the Spirit's influence in the light of 
the Scriptures, could view the harmony of God's 
plan of salvation, clustering around the interesting 
events of the resurrection from the dead, and the 
coming of the Son of man in the clouds of heaven? 
Who, I would ask, would not rejoice in the evidences 
which for five years past have been presented, and are 
daily accumulating, of the speedy consummation of 
the Christian's hope, and the final establishment of 
the everlasting kingdom? 
When we turn over the 
pages of the faithful" Midnight Cry," the " Watch," 
and the " Herald," how are our hearts saddened in 
reading the solemn exhortations, the sound and Scrip-
tural reasons of brethren who, a few years ago, went 
forth, at the sacrifice of reputation, property, and all, 
and fearlessly heralded the approach of the bride-
groom, and tfnrned the inhabitants of this sin-cursed 
earth of speedy judgment. Then were labors blessed, 
and souls ware converted to God, and a saving influ-
> ence felt over the land. 
But, alas ! may I inquire, 
Where are they now? are they now in the field? is 
their influence now felt? or have they given it to those 
who deride our hope, and say, " Where is the prom-
ise of his coming ?" 
In answer to some of the above inquiries, I 
need no information respecting the whereabouts and 
position of some them. 
There are still others whose 
writings I have read with pleasure and profit from 
whom I have heard nothing of late; it would cheer 
my heart to know they were still holding on to the 
truth. 
Where is 
, who was an instrument in 
the hands of God of opening my eyes "to search into 
the prophetic Scriptures? 
Where are 
, 
, 
, and 
, [these have all turned aside.—ED.] 
and a host of others whose reasonings shall be 
coeval with time ? 
Are they giving that prominence 
to the subject of the coming of the Lord that they 
should in view of the light they have received? 
Will they be enabled in that day to say with a faith-
ful apostle, " I have fought the good fight, I have 
kept the faith, I have fipished my course, and shall 
now receive my crown? " 
Notwithstanding all dis-
couragements I rejoice truth will prevail. 
God's 
m essage is the same, and a few tried veterans remain 
to proclaim this truth to dying sinners. I remain 
yours, in Christian love. 
Hamilton (N. Y.), Feb. 1st, 1848. 
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the full orb, bursting forth in all its splendor, in which 
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From Lincolnville (Me.), January 10th, 1848. 
DEAR BRO. HIMES :— * * * After re-
turning home from the China Confer-
ence, I made an appointment for a pro-
tracted meeting, which continued four 
days. 
The result has been, that more 
than twenty have been reclaimed and 
converted to God; and the work is still 
going on in power. 
We are witnessing 
new conversions almost every day. The 
reformation is mostly among the youth, 
from eight to twenty years of age.— 
Those that were reclaimed or converted 
before I came to the China Conference, 
are strong and faithful. I thank God 
that the Gospel of the kingdom does yet 
have effect on some souls in these last 
days. Yours, in the gospel to the poor. 
R. D. MANSFIELD. 
claims the rising day, That welcome day of 
promise When 
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Now truth unveiled is shining 
With beams of sacred light, 
The morning pilgrims wonder, 
And leave the paths of night; 
Their glowing hearts in rapture 
Are filled with joy divine, 
Burst forth in shouting glory, 
And like their Master shine. 
3 
Come, let's begin the anthems, 
And join the choir above ; 
Exalt the blest Redeemer, 
And praise the God we love; 
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The courts of heaven are ringing 
With songs of highest strains, 
'And holy praise is rolling 
Along the flowerv plains ; 
Oh! could we rise triumphant 
And join with those above, 
To shout, and sing forever 
The Saviour's dying love. 
From Newburyport (Mass.), February 1st, 1848. 
DEAR BRO. HIMES :— 
# * * I have 
seen some of late who have been turned 
from darkness to light, and from the 
power of Satan unto God. This is en-
couraging, and I feel like going forward 
to labor for the good of souls. 
Almost 
every place I have visited for the last few 
months, the people seemed to be hungry 
for the bread of life. 
There has been 
so much cold, dry, systematic, theatri-
cal preaching, without the Holy Ghost in 
it, that the children of God are almost 
starved to death. 
We want the living 
bread from heaven,—we want the genu-
ine power of the Spirit of God, and we 
must have it, in order to enter the king-
dom. 
EDWARD MCGINLEY. 
The rainbow tints, though varied, are so beautifully 
blended as to charm the eye, and leave, as it were, 
upon the mind an impression of but one brilliant ob-
ject. 
A chord strikes the ear, and dies away into 
one melodious sound. 
S^> God designs that his peo-
ple shall be all one. United as the drops of an un-
ruffled stream, so as to present one bright and clear 
image of himself. 
By the aid of microscopic power, beauties are dis-
covered where there is nothing attractive to the 
naked eye. 
And, as the powdr is increased, suc-
cessive and multiplied beauties are seen, until the 
mind is almost overwhelmed by a sense of their 
wondrous beauty and infinity. Thus the believer, 
when searching the Scriptures under the influence 
of the Spirit, makes discoveries that were entirely 
hidden when guided only by his own reason. 
A 
single truth, at every view displays additional beau-
ties, and fills his soul with rapture. 
Like cold water in a burning desert, are the prom-
ises of God in an hour of trial. 
A. C. J. 
Bro. SIMUEL C. BERRY writes from Portsmouth (N. II.), under 
date of Feb. 6th, 1848 
:— 
DEAR BRO. HIMES :—God has suffered the enemy 
death to entei into my family once more, and take my 
two youngest children. On January 24th, Emily Ma-
nila died, aged about five years. 
She was an only 
daughter, and was a very bright and interesting child. 
Her sufferings were short—only thirty-six hours in 
duration—but very severe. 
February 3d Marcellus 
Fleming died, aged two years and seven months. His 
sufferings were also very severe for about twelve days, 
when God saw fit to take his spirit. 
We mourn the 
loss of their company, " but we sorrow not as others 
which have no hope." 
The funeral services were 
attended by Elder E. Philbrick. 
I said that God had 
suffered the enemy to enter into my family. Six years 
ago last September, when I was unreconciled to God, 
he took an active little son, aged two years and four 
months. 
As I stood looking on the little boy, and 
saw him fall asleep in Jesus, I wished my case was 
as well as his. 
Two or three months from that time 
I gave my heart to God. 
Blessed be his name. Five 
years ago last September we had another bright little 
son taken from us, aged about six years. 
I often say 
to my companion, that there are now four cords to 
draw our affections stronger to the heavenly country. 
I feel that God has been with me' in this last afflic-
tion. 
0 what a blessed hope the Christian's hope is, 
to know that these little ones, and all that have fallen 
asleep in Jesus, will God bring with him. 
I believe 
that that day is at hand. 
My prayer is, that God will 
keep me, with all his people, spotless and blameless 
unto his coming and kingdom. 
0, how good it is to 
feel willing that the will of the Lord should be done, 
and to trust in his blessed word. 
0, how good is the 
word of the Lord. 
Bro. REYNOLDS writes from Danville (Vt.), under date of January 
25th, 1848:-
DEAR BRO. HIMES :—I am still laboring in the 
vineyard of the Lord. 
Several backsliders in this 
place have lately been reclaimed. 
My prayer is, 0 
Lord, direct my heart into the patient waiting for Je-
sus. 
I fear lest I shall get impatient, when I rea-
lize that we are in those perilous times spoken of in 
Scripture, and many are departing from the faith, 
giving heed to seducing spirits and doctrines of devils, 
speaking lies in hypocrisy. 
It is not an uncommon 
thing to have a professed brother or sister come along 
preaching the advent of Christ at hand, and then de-
clare that all that constitutes a man an Adventist is 
for him to believe in definite time. " Exclude that," 
say they, " and we are no more Adventists, but are 
patterning after the churches." 
Others are whisper-
ing around, " Bro. Himes is making money," Sic.— 
I do not mention this to discourage you, but to advise 
you of the fact, that we have learned by experience 
how to sympathize with you when in perils among 
false brethren. 
0, sweet is the promise, that " these 
light afflictions, which are but for a moment, will work 
out for us a far more exceeding and eternal weight of 
glory." 
Well might they be called light, compared 
with an " exceeding and eternal weight of glory."— 
The human mind is too weak to comprehend the 
blessings awaiting us. 
Eternity alone will unfold 
the things that God has prepared for ihem that love 
him. May we therefore forget those things which are 
behind, and press forward. It is the reward we want, 
and the reward we shall have, if we finish our course. 
Keep the faith, fight the good fight, and with Paul we 
shall receive a crown at that day, with all those that 
love his appearing. 
Bro. BUTLER IVES writes from Bangor (N. Y.), under date of Feb-
ruary 1st, 1848:— 
There are about twenty in this place who meet to-
gether on the Sabbath, and some evenings, at the 
house of Bro. Reed. 
They are strong in the faith, 
and are endeavoring to keep their garments pure, in 
order that they may be ready for the coming of the 
Son of man. 
A number have been converted in our 
little meetings within the past year, some of whom 
yet stand firm. Brn. Ingraham and Southerland are 
now laboring in the north part, where some souls have 
been converted, and a number of backsliders reclaimed. 
Truly the field is large, but the laborers are few. 
I 
perceive by a recent " Herald," that Bro. S. Chap-
man intends visiting St. Lawrence County ; cannot he 
come as far as Malone ? I want to see him very much ; 
we used to labor together some in Connecticut. 
If 
he, or any other ministering brother, should come, in-
quire for Wm. Reed, or for Mrs. Butler, at Bangor 
Extracts from Letters. 
From Hope Factory Village (Pa.), Feb. 8th, 1848. 
DEAR BRO. HIMES :—I am heartily glad that you 
suggested the idea of my visiting this village. 
The 
prospect now is good, I assure you. 
The house in 
which we hold our meetings is filled to overflowing 
with a people who pay the best of attention.- Your 
brother is exerting a blessed influence in this place. 
There are-a few souls that have been converted, and 
among the rest your brother's eldest son, a boy of 13. 
The Advent truth is as mighty now as it ever was, if 
we will wield it in faith and love for God and souls. 
* * # The meetings in Providence and North Scit-
uate were blessed of God to my soul, and I trust to 
many. 
I expect to continue my labors here a num-
ber of days, and I expect to see the glory of God in 
the salvation of souls. 
_ 
I. R. GATES. 
From Schenectady (N. Y.), February 5th, 1847. 
BRO. HIMES :—May you be able to continue the 
" Herald " until the Master comes: for it is well cal 
culated to keep our faith directed to things not seen, 
which are eternal, and to look for the blessed king-
dom of our Lord and Saviour. 
I pray, let the set 
time to favor Zion come. The ministry and the 
church are looking for the Achan that seems to be in 
the camp, and appear unable to find it. 
I verily be-
lieve they overlook it by passing by the fact of their 
shutting their doors against the Second Advent doc-
trine, refusing the blessed light of the precious gos-
pel of the kingdom at hand. 
WM. B. SCHERMERHORN. 
From East Bethel (Vt.), January 31st, 1848. 
BRO. HIMES :— * * * Let us pray 
more for the spirit and love of Jesus, 
with the fruits thereof, which ought to 
be the test of fellowship. It is enough 
that the servant is as his lord. 
Breth-
ren, let us read in the ninth chapter 
of the gospel by Mark, from the 33d to the 42d 
verse, our Saviour's words to his disciples, and be 
willing to receive reproof from Jesus, and keep hum-
ble before the Lord, knowing that it is not every one 
that saith, " Lord, Lord," shall enter into the king-
dom of heaven; " but he that doeth the will of my 
Father," says Jesus. 
I do praise God for his word, 
which endureth forever, and which will make us wise 
unto salvation, if we take heed unto it even in this 
cloudy and dark day. 
* * * 
A. MERRILL. 
From Marietta (Lancaster Co.,Pa.), January 15th, 1848. 
DEAR BRO. HIMES :— * * * I sympathize with 
you in your trials, seeing that you are assailed on all 
sides by open foes and false brethren. I would gladly 
send you some new subscribers, but the Second Ad-
vent question is at such a low ebb in this place, that I 
meet with few only to whom I offer the perusal of the 
" Herald." 
I should be very glad if some able bro-
ther would make his way to this place, and give a 
course of lectures, as there have been none given here 
since '43. 
The great question is almost forgotten. 
Yours, respectfully, 
H. M. ENGLE. 
From North Chichester IN. H.), February 1st, 1848. 
DEAR BRO. HIMES :— * * * It seems to me, that 
if our trust was in God, there would be no need of 
so much being written and published, and so-much 
anxiety felt, concerning the place where our blessed 
Saviour will keep his followers after death until the 
resurrection. 
If I do God's will to-day, through life, 
I have not the most distant thought that Jesus will 
leave me. 
I believe he will keep my soul and body 
through all the changing scenes they may have to 
pass from this time till the resurrection, and then 
crown me with eternal life. Bless God for the pros-
pect the humble soul has of having part in the first 
resurrection. 
H. ROBEY. 
From East Berkshire (Vt.), January 25th, 1648. 
BRO. HIMES :—I would just say, that the brethren 
and sisters in this vicinity are generally steadfast in 
the faith, and are looking for the blessed hope, and 
the glorious appearing of the great God and our Sa-
viour Jesus Christ. 
The " Herald " is highly prized 
by us, and we hope it will be sustained till the com-
ing of him whose right it is to reign. 
Yours, &c. 
ALBERT STONE. 
From Bristol (.Vt.), January 31st, 1848. 
The Advent cause is rising in this place, and there 
appears to be a steady increase of feeling. 
We are 
anxiously looking for the things that shall come upon 
the earth. 
May the good Lord bless you in the min-
istry, as he has done in time past, and sustain you 
even unto the end. 
W. S. HOWDEN. 
From Burlington (Vt.), February 3d, 1848. 
DEAR BRO. HIMES :—The few friends in this town 
remain strong in the faith, looking for the personal 
coming of the Saviour. 
Although few, we hold our 
meetings on the Sabbath, and two evenings in the 
week ; sometimes we have preaching. 
Our prayer 
is, that God, in great mercy, may make and keep you 
and the dear friends humble and faithful to the end. 
Suffer not weak flattery, or strong opposition, to 
throw you off your guard. 
C. BENNS. 
From Ware iMass.), February 7th, 1848. 
After a most distressing sickness, we have been 
called to follow our little boy to the grave, to await 
the resurrection. 
None but parents can understand 
our feelings; but we anticipate soon meeting him on 
the new earth, where sickness and sorrow, pain and 
death, will be felt and feared no more. 
We take 
great interest in the " Advent Herald," and should 
not know how to get along without it. 
Yours, in the blessed hope, 
W. S. BASSETT. 
From Rouses Point (Y. N.\ January 30th, 1848. 
DEAR BRO. HIMES :— * * * The precious cause 
we advocate is prospering in some degree in this sec-
tion. 
Several intelligent persons in this vicinity have 
recently openly embraced the truth of the Redeemer's 
speedy coming; and there is a desire to hear among 
those who have heretofore been prejudiced. 
Yours, 
waiting. 
D. T. TAYLOR, JR. 
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THE ADVENT HERALD. 24 
Summary. 
Airs. Sullivan and her daughter, returning from a funeral, were 
drowned by their horse running into Chouteau's pond in St. Louis. 
Patrick Ronan and wife, John Rareden, Cornelius Shaine, John 
Ryan, and Patrick Ryan have been committed to jail in Salem, under 
suspicion of having murdered James Cnrren. 
An explosion of fire-damp occurred in the mines at Mount Laffee, 
Pa., by which an Englishman, named John Jackson, was so much 
injured that he died. 
Patrick Conner, 35 years of age, was found lying by the side of the 
Saxonville branch railroad on Monday morning, and was taken to 
Natick, where he died a short time alter, from the effects of exces-
sive drinking. 
Mr. Ezra Moore, of Barre, Vt., committed suicide by cutting his 
throat. 
. 
Samuel F. Davis, aged 23 years, son of Dr. J. W. Davis, commis-
sioner to China, was killed in Carlisle, Indiana, on the 3d, by a piece 
oi timber that lell at the launching of a flat-boat. 
Mrs. Lanman, widow of the late Judge Lanman, came to her death 
at Norwich, Ct., on Saturday morning, from injuries received by Iter 
clothes taking fire the day before. 
At a temperance meeting in Salem on Thursday, it was stated that, 
within a year, the rum shops in that city had increased from 29 to 165! 
On the Worcester Railroad last year, seventeen pursons were 
killed, and sixteen seriously injured. 
There was in Vera Cruz a rumor that Santa Anna had made a pro-
nunciamento, 
by which he called under arms 20,000 men to continue 
the war. This report had been brought to Vera Cruz by an express, 
arrived from the interior of the country a few hours before the de-
parture of the Decatur. 
Thomas Perry, an aged seaman on board the schooner Evelina, at 
Town Point, Va., fell overboard during the thunder storm on Friday 
night last, and was drowned. 
The ten o'clock train from Cabotville to Springfield on Friday, was 
run into by a freight engine going up; the engine of the Cabotville 
train was broken to pieces, and about half the seats in the passenger 
car were torn up. Several of the passengers were bruised. 
Near Farmville, Va., on the 4th inst., James P. Goode and Francis 
Deshazor, exchanged four shots, the last of which took effect in 
Goode's breast, and it is thought he will not recover. 
A lad named John Hanes, aged 12 years, was run over by the cars 
in Philadelphia on the 11th, in Broad-streef,below Spruce. A news--
paper boy was severely injured in attempting to jump from the cars 
while under way. He was sent to the hospital, where he expired in 
a few minutes. 
The passenger train of the Fitchburg road was thrown off the 
track at Littleton, on Friday, and an engine and baggage car consid-
erably damaged. 
An engine was thrown off the track of the Pe-
terboro' and Shirley Railroad the same day, without injury to any one. 
The cause of the accident was, drilling snow. 
James Kelley was found dead in his bed in A-street, South Boston, 
from intemperance, according to the coroner's verdict. He leaves a 
wife. 
Eliza Durant, a girl of about twenty years, living in the family of 
John Goodrich, in Springfield, committed suicide a few days since, 
by taking poison. She has a mother living at Northampton. 
A correspondent of the Montreal Courier deplores the condition of 
Canada, and asks, " Shall we have a separation from the mother 
country, and become a republic ? or shall we join the United States ? 
These are the two questions which the country must now decide. 
Mr. L. Joseph Papineau has declared for a republic. He has caused 
one rebellion to obtain it." 
Mr. Hezekiah Walker, of Peru, Oxford Co., Me., went to his barn 
on the evening of the 26th ult., to feed his cattle. While in the hay-
mow he made a misstep, and fell to the lower floor, striking on the 
back of his head, fracturing his skull, aud killing him instantly. He 
was one of the leading men of Peru, and between sixty and seventy 
years of age. 
^ 
James O'Neil has been sentenced, at Dover, N. H., to ten years 
in the State's Prison, for setting fire to Moses Wiiittier's barn. 
Agnes Thompson and Mary Hughes were knocked down in New 
York by a runaway horse, and injured, it is feared, mortally. 
Mr. William Prentice, of Becket, was thrown down by his oxen 
starting suddenly, and killed by the sled.. 
Charles Grammia, a respectable young German, recently arrived 
in New York, shot himself at 100 Church-street, the residence of a 
frail young woman, who refused to go to Germany with him, and 
was taken to the hospital in a critical stale. 
Ail unknown seaman, injured by falling snow from the roof of the 
Western Exchange, died in the hospital, his skull being fractured,— 
Coroner Smith lias a description of the deceased. 
Felix Renick, an old and valued citizen, was killed in his carriage 
while waiting for the boat at Point Creek Ferry, Ohio, by the fall of 
a heavy piece of timber set in the bank to attach the ferry rope to. 
On Monday evening, a large intemperate colored woman, named 
Beck, hung herself over her dobr in May-street, but was cut down, 
and her life saved by watchman Bnllard. 
Bartholomew Burke has been sentenced to the Penitentiary till 
April, 1853, for killing James Riley, in Baltimore/. 
James Abbott, aged eighty years, and Leander Wass, aged twenty-
years, were killed in Franklin, Me., by falling trees. 
Stephen Brundage, a shoemaker, fainted aud fell in Broad-street, 
Newark, and broke his neck. 
Jane Taylor, a respectable young woman,killed herselfwith opium 
in Elgin, 111.; she said she had not a friend or relative in the world. 
Francis Carroll, who has a brother in this city, was killed by a land 
slide in Huntington, Pa. 
The Post-master General estimates the number of free letters that 
pass through the Post-offices of the United States at about five mil-
lions every year. 
Fifteen persons died of spotted fever in Corunna, Michigan, in twen-
ty-one days, ending Jan. 28th. 
The wife of constable Barnead, of Irondequoit, near Rochester, N 
Y., strangled her child, aud immediately afterward committed sui-
cide by hanging herself. 
A mad dog was killed in Philadelphia on the 5th. 
In Bowling Green, Ky.,T. P. Dunham was accidentally shot and 
killed by Thomas Thornton. 
The President of the United States has signed the act making fur 
ther provision for surviving widows of the soldiers of the Revolution, 
Mrs. Betsey Guyger, a colored woman, was found dead in a pasture 
in Worcester on Sunday. She was frozen to death, and by the side 
of her was a pail of rum. Her husband perished in the same manner. 
Morris Butler, a baker, has been apprehended for the murder of his 
wife, in Aylmer, Canada. The woman is missing, and a little son of 
four years testifies that his father struck her and carried her off on 
sled. 
A son of Bradford R. Wood was run over by a team, in Albany, and 
had his legs broken. 
A little girl about eight years old, child of Mr. George Rushart, who 
resides in Canton-street, was run over and nearly killed on Saturday 
in Washington-street, by a furious horse that took flight. 
An infant child, named Eugene Hickey, nine months old, was burnt 
to death at a house in Broad-street, by her clothes taking flre during 
the temporary absence of the mother. 
A treaty has been ratified between the Pope and the Emperor ofRus-
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APOTHEMS. 
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To-day 
and 
To-morrow. 
To-day, man lives in pleasure, wealth, and pride, 
To-morrow, poor, of life itself denied. 
To-day, lays plans of many years to come, 
To-morrow, sinks into the silent toinb. 
To-day, his food is dressed in dainty forms, 
To-morrow, is himself a feast for worms. 
To-day, he's clad in gaudy, rich array, 
To-morrow, shrouded for a bed of clay. 
To-day, enjoys his halls built to his mind, 
To-morrow, in a collin is confined. 
To-day, he floats on honor's lofty wave, 
To-morrow leaves his titles for a grave. 
To-day, his beauteous visage we extol, 
To-morrow, loathsome In the sight of all. 
To-day, he has delusive dreams of heaven, 
To-morrow cries, " Too lute to be forgiven !" 
To-day, he lives in hopes as light as air, 
To-morrow, dies in anguish and despair. 
The best thing to be done when evil comes upon us, is not lamen-
tation, but action ; not to sit and suffer, but to rise and seek the 
remedy. 
An ardent sensibility to the impression of great virtues and abili-
ties, accompanied with a generous oblivion of the little imperfections 
with which they are joined, is one of the surest indications of a su-
perior character. 
Nothing that is broken bears any value except the heart, which be-
comes the more valuable the more it is broken. 
The successes of intellectual effort are never so great as when 
aided by the affections that animate social converse. 
Human knowledge is a proud pillar, but it is built in the midst of a 
desert of ignorance, and those who have ascended the highest have 
only gained a more extended view of the waste. 
Vain-glorious men are the scorn of the wise, the admiration of fools, 
the idols ol parasites, and the slaves of their own vaunts 
The joys of the world end in sorrow; but the sorrows of religion 
terminate in joy. 
Always use kind words in parting: you may not meet again until 
at the bar of God. 
The devil has a crucible which bums up the gold as well as the 
dross—it is the bottle. 
Should a sluggard ask your advice, refer him to the ant, and tell 
him to " consider her ways and be wise." 
An humble man is like a good tree; the more full of fruit the 
: branches are, the lower they bend themselves. 
Never be afraid to do right because somebody will laugh at you. 
Never do wrong, because that said somebody will applaud you. 
Never be ashamed of an old hat, if it is well brushed, and the best 
you have. 
Content in the humblest dwelling, is better than care in the most 
splendid palace. 
Be careful not to interrupt another when he is speaking ; hear him 
out and you will understand him better, and be able to give him the 
better answer. 
In the treasury of one of the monarclis of Persia was found a vase 
with the following lines, tinged with iiumor as well as philosophy, 
inlaid with gold:—" He who has no wealth, has no credit; he who 
has not an obedient wile, has no repose; he who has no offspring, 
has no strength ; he who has none of these, lives free from every 
care." 
If the young man forgets his God, the old one will seldom find him 
in age -, if in pride and flush of health, we omit to call upon the 
name of him from whom we possess the vigor of life; in the hour of 
sickness, what comfort can we have in approaching his divine ma-
jesty ? And if in the full enjoyment of every species of worldly pros-
perity, we neglect to pause in the midst of our enjoyment to acknow-
ledge the giver of all good gifts, with what can we in adversity fly for 
protection to divine goodness ?" 
Adversity exasperates fools, dejects cowards, draws out the facul-
ties of the wise and ingenious, puts the modest to the necessity of 
trying their skill, awes the opulent, aud makes the idle industrious. 
1 like to see a man patient aud forbearing towards his fellow-men, 
looking at the bright side, as well as the dark side of each man'; 
character, aware of the human infirmities of human nature. 
A calm hour with God is worth a whole life-time with man. 
If thou wishest to be wise, 
Keep these words before thine eyes: 
What thou speakest, and how, beware 
Of whom, to whom, when aud where. 
The pure, the simple, the rational enjoyments of man, seems to be 
one great end in the creation; and if man finds so much to admire in 
the works of the Creator, how much more must those beings find 
who cm understand them better than he. Increased knowledge 
must be increase of admiration. 
Those things which are most eagerly desired, are both most hardly 
gotten and kept—God crossing our desires in what we are over-fer-
vent for. I will, therefore, account all tilings as too good to have, so 
nothing too dear to lose. 
Wisdom is an open fountain, whose waters are not sealed up, but 
kept running tor the benefit of all. 
If a man is not rising upwards to be an angel, depend upon it he 
is sinking downwards to be a devil. He cannot stop at the beast 
Savage men are worse than beasts. 
The improvement of a little time may be gain to all eternity; and 
the loss of a little time may be the greatest loss that can be. 
Those who think themselves to be wise, are the least wise of any. 
The eloquent Summerfleld, when dying, requested that nothing 
likely to create stupor, not even a little porter and water, should be 
administered to him, in order that he might have an unclouded view 
of heaven. 
The mystery of the cross is to be learned under the cross. 
In the morning, prayer is the key that opens to us the treasury of 
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God's mercies and blessings; in the evening, it is the key that shuts 
us up under his protection and safeguard, 
The man who pardons disappoints his fee. 
True devotion is reasonable, kind, and beneficent the more it ties 
us to God, the more it inclines us to live well with men. 
Aristotle, on being censured for bestotving alms on a bad man, 
made the following noble reply:—"I did not give it to the man; I 
gave it to humanity." 
Every man has just as much vanity as he wants understanding. 
God look3 not at the orato7y of your prayers, how elegant they 
may be ; nor at the geometry of your prayers, how long they may be ; 
nor at the arithmetic of your prayers, how many they may be; nor 
at the logic of your prayers, how methodical they may be; but the 
sincerity of them he looks at. 
LARGE DIAGRAMS OF THE VISIONS OF DANIEL 
AND 
JOHN.—The great image of Dan. 2. 
The lion, bear, 
leopard, and terrible beast of Dan. 7. 
The ram, 
goat, and great horn of Dan. 8. 
The greatred drag-
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The ten horned beast of Rev. 13. 
The Scarlet-colored beast, with the harlot of Rev. 17. 
The Turkman's horses and armor, with the three 
wo trumpets, and angels of Rev. 8, 9. 
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