Luke 9: 28411. 
" WE HAVE NOT FOLLOWED CUNNINGLY DEVISED FABLES, WHEN WE MADE KNOWN UNTO YOU THE POWER AND COMING OF OUR LORD JESUS CHRIST, BUT WERE EYE-WITNESSES OF HIS MAJESTY • ...WHEN WE WERE WITH HIM IN THE HOLY MOUNT., 
 
NEW SERIES. VOL. X. WOOTOXIg oaxolimaw, avavoui S4L 404'4 
NO. 9. WHOLE NO. 589 
THE ADVENT HERALD 
Is PUBLISHED EVERY SATURDAY 
AT NO. 8 CHARDON-STREET, BOSTON, 
(Nearly opposite the Revere House.) 
JOSHUA V. HIMES, 
PROPRIETOR AND EDITOR. 
ALL COurnoniCations, orders, or remittances for this office, should 
he directed (post pail) to .1. V. !TIMES, Boston, Mass. Subscri 
tiers' names, with their Post-office address, should be distinctly 
given when money is forwarded, 
*.* For terms, &c., see last page. 
THE PASSING BELL. 
" Dust to dust — ashes to ashes." 
1' Dust to dust !" yon solemn bell 
Daily says or seems to say, 
Hark! its rolling, tolling knell ! 
" Dust to dust—anti clay to clay." 
—By the Angel sow at rest ! 
By the flower my bosom wore, 
Snatched untimely from illy breast, 
Hollow herald! toil no more.i 
Hast thou, tongue of iron frame, 
Never note for ')arum call ? 
Tone to tell of threatening Sortie? 
Joyous sound for festive hull ? 
Yonder goes a bridal train— 
Peal love's merry roundelay ? 
—Toll'd the deep—deep bell again, 
" Dust to dust—and clay to clay." 
" Dust to dust !" Once more that sound 
Thrills upon the listening ear; 
Under voices whisper round— 
Tearful glances watch the tier; 
Like as billows fall and rise, 
Echo answers far away ; 
(Bridegroom turn aside thine eyes,) 
" Dust to dust—and clay to clay." 
Whose is now the requiem lone, 
Polhill! on the evening wind ? 
Whose is now the spirit gone, 
Leaving hearts of care behind ? 
—Booming from I lie belfry high, 
'Heath the hammer's measured play, 
Slowly surged that ONE reply— 
" Dust to dust—and clay to clay " 
N. Y. Journal of Commerce. 
Genesis. 
FROH THE LONDON "QUARTERLY JOURNAL OF PROPHECY." 
(Resumed frost the Herald of June 26th.) 
CHAP. III. 
We have been looking at a perfect world. 
We have seen it to be such as God could call 
" good ;" not a cloud in its sky, not a ruffle on 
its ocean breadth, not a tinge upon its verdure, 
not a pang, or sigh, or groan, or tear, all over 
its bright plains. It is the dwelling of the un-
fallen, the outer chamber of heaven, the land 
wherein dwelleth righteouness. We have seen 
the harmony of creation ; all its parts linked to-
gether in loving oneness, the animate and in• 
imate, the intelligent and irrational ; no jar, no 
dissonance in any. Man is the head, the lord, 
appointed to exercise holy dominion under Je-
hovah as his head and lord. We have seen 
the beauty of creation, with its flowers and dew, 
its gems and gold, its sunshine and starlight 
above, its green stretch of hill, plain, forest, be-
low. We have seen it as a world without a 
sin, or a shadow, or a sigh, or a wrinkle ; nei-
ther decay nor disease have entered it ; there 
are DO tossingsick-beds, no heart-breaking death-
beds, no severing bonds, no bitter farewells, no 
heaving tombs. It is a world altogether good ; 
a world which angels might visit ; over which 
God might delight, and in which he might 
dwell with man. We need not say of it, as 
has been done, " fit haunts of gods ;" we may 
at once say, " fit dwelling of Jehovah." A visi-
ble dwelling for the invisible God is that which 
was designed. This has always formed one 
special part of God's purpose in all its unfold. 
ings. 
We have now to learn the story of its change ; 
its change from being the seat of life and right-
eousness and joy, to becoming the region of 
death, and evil, and sorrow ; from being the 
dwelling of God, to becoming the haunt, nay, 
,the regal residence of Satan, and the sphere of 
peculiar action to his hosts," the rulers of the 
darkness of this world." From this chapter 
onwards to the twenty-first of Revelation we 
have the sad story of its sin. The first two 
chapters of Scripture tell of its unfallen glory, 
the last two of its restored perfection ; but all 
between is gloom, a story of ruin and desola- 
V. 1—" Now," (or and) " the serpent was more 
subtile than any beast of the field which the Lord God 
had made." 
This language is too simple to be allegorized 
or perverted. It obviously refers, in the first 
place, to the literal serpent. This was the 
visible instrument through which the enemy 
spoke and acted. Nor is it a greater difficulty 
to suppose that Satan spoke to Eve through the 
wisest of animals, than that God spoke to Ba-
laam through the stupidest, when he opened the 
ass's mouth to utter his message. The descrip-
tion here given is as usual, of the matter just 
as it appeared. * 
It was the serpent that was 
seen and heard. It was the serpent that acted 
throughout, so far as Eve or Adam understood 
at the time. Hence it is the serpent alone that 
is mentioned. Yet that it was Satan assuming 
the disguise of a serpent, is evident. No mere 
animal could thus of itself reason of good and 
evil ; could thus plot man's ruin, and show such 
hatred of God. Besides, the sentence after-
wards pronounced on it implies this, just as the 
apostle's statement does. (2 Cor. 11:3. See also 
Rev. 12:9-14 ; 15:20-22.) 
Thus we learn, even at the outset, that God 
is not the author of sin. It is the creature that 
introduces it. God, no doubt could have hin-
dered it, but for wise ends he allows it. We 
know also how sin spreads itself. It is always 
active. It multiplies and propagates itself. 
Every fallen being becomes a tempter, seeking 
*" As Satan can change himself into an angel of 
light, so did he abuse the wisdom of the serpent to 
deceive man."—Bishop's Bible. The original nature 
of the serpent is evidently referred to as being " more 
subtile " than other animals. Dathe's idea, that it 
derives its characteristic from the event, and not from 
its nature, cannot stand with the words of Scripture. 
to ruin others,—to drag them down to the same 
death into which he has himself been driven. 
Nor is it merely the upper orders of being 
that become snares or tempters. The lower 
parts of creation can be made instruments of 
ruin. God cannot tempt, but the creature does, 
in all its parts. The smallest, commonest thing 
—a leaf, a tree, an animal, may become Satan's 
instrument. Whatever can touch or affect any 
of our desires or feelings, may be made use of 
by Satan for our injury, just as the serpent 
was made use of here. How watchful ought 
we to be in such a world, where so many things 
minister to the lust of the flesh, and the lust of 
the eye. Flee sin,—flee its very shadow,—flee 
its most distant approach under any guise ! 
Say not the temptation is a feeble one. That 
cannot be. The strength of the temptation lies 
in yourself, far more than in the tempting ob-
ject. Get as far from sin and as near to God 
as you can—that is your only security. In God 
you are safe ; but nowhere else. In him who 
is God manifest in flesh, you are beyond the 
reach of danger. No tempter can succeed ; no 
enemy can reach you there. 
" And he said unto the woman, Yea, bath God 
said, Ye shall not eat of every tree of the garden I" 
The angels fell untempted. Man's case was 
different. A tempter ensnared him. That 
tempter took the form of a serpent. Hence he 
is named so specially, " that old serpent, which 
is the devil and Satan." (Rev. 20:2.) He had 
himself fallen untempted, but this did not make 
him less willing to tempt. He had become the 
enemy of God, and thus became the enemy of 
man. A ruined being himself, he sought to 
ruin others, that so he might have companions 
in guilt and woe, and thus avenge himself upon 
God. 
From the first clause regarding the serpent's 
subtilty, we are prepared for a well-laid plot, 
manifesting consummate art and guile. The 
temptation will be well disguised ; the snare 
will be well laid. The tempter must speak fair, 
if he hopes to succeed at all. He must veil 
himself as well as his object; for if he be recog-
nized, or if his object be discovered, the victim 
will elude his grasp. 
It is the wornun that he assaults, as being" the 
weaker vessel," and therefore more likely to 
yield, and, in yielding, to draw the man with 
her. Then, as now (as, for example, in Popery), 
he avails himself of woman's weakness arid wo-
man's influence. 
He comes up to Eve, as one may suip)se 
that a stranger might do, seeking information. 
He feigns to be one who has just heard a ru-
mor that has greatly surprised him,—a rumor 
which he cannot credit, so insulting does he 
deem it to God's character, so injurious and un-
kind to man. It is evident that he had God's 
prohibition. 
How we know not; but we see 
here that he has access to learn what is taking 
place amongst us. He can hear and see the 
things that we hear and see ! He is on the 
watch to gather them up,—ever listening, ever 
looking, ever following us, that he may discover 
alike what we say to God, and what God says 
to us. At one time he is the beguiling serpent, 
at another the devouring lion, but always "go-
ing about,"—" walking to and fro throughout 
the earth," to learn what may serve his pur-
pose of malice towards man and revenge against 
God. 
With well-feigned surprise and incredulity, 
he puts the question, " Yea, bath God said, Ye 
shall not eat of every tree of the garden ?" 
meaning thereby to insinuate the harshness of 
the injunction which he pretended hardly to be- 
lieve. Is it possible that God can have said so? 
Is it conceivable that he who has just made you, 
and provided you with such abundance, should 
grudge you a little fragment of that plenty, and 
debar you from the garden's choicest fruits.; 
making you lords of creation, yet not allowing 
you to put forth your lordship, nay, refusing 
you access to that tree, the fruit of which would 
enable you rightly to exercise wise dominion ? 
In this his object was to calumniate God,—at 
least. cunningly to suggest an idea which would 
misrepresent his character to man. He keeps 
out of sight all that God had done for man, all 
the proofs of love, so manifold, so vast ; he fixes 
on one thing which seemed inconsistent with 
this ; he brings up this before man in the way 
most likely to awaken evil thoughts ef God. 
Not as if he wished to say any word against God, 
nor even as if he needed to say anything; but 
as if the thing itself were too plain to be mis-
taken,—as if, on the supposition of its being 
true, it could admit but of one interpretation. 
He leaves the fact to speak for itself. His ob-
ject is to isolate the one fact, and so to separate 
it from all God's acts of love as to make it ap-
pear an instance of harsh and unreasonable se-
verity. Man had hitherto known the prohibi-
tion ; but he had put no such construction on 
it ; he had riot imagined it capable of being so 
interpreted. Now Satan brings it up, and sets 
in out in an aspect likely to suggest such con-
structions as these :—" God is not your friend 
after all ; he but pretends to care for you. He 
is a hard master, interfering with your liberty, 
not leaving you a free agent, but constraining 
you, nay, fettering you. He mocks you, mak-
ing you creation's head, yet setting arbitrary 
limits to your rule, placing you in a fair garden, 
yet debarring you from its fruits. He grudges 
you his gifts, making a show of liberality, while 
withholding what is really valuable." 
Thus Satan sought to calumniate God, to 
malign his character, to represent him as the 
enemy, not the friend, of man. If he can suc-
ceed in this, then man will begin to entertain 
hard thoughts of God—then he will become 
alienated from hint ; then he will disobey ; and 
then come the fall, the ruin, the guilt, the doom, 
the woe ! Man is lost ! Hell gets another 
inmate. The devil gets another companion. 
God's second work is marred, and he himself 
is left to grieve over his new-made child torn 
from his embrace. In this way Satan thrusts 
in the wedge between man and God—breaks 
the link between the creature and the Creator. 
How simple yet how successful the process ! A 
single question is put. God's character is ma-
ligned. The lie is believed. Man suspects 
God and perishes ! Such is the dark process 
still by which Satan seeks to hinder our return 
to God. His aim is to misrepresent God to 
man—to prove God to be unkind in what he 
has declared. The Gospel is the full repre-
sentation of God's gracious character made 
known by God himself that the sinner may be 
induced to return. Satan perverts it or says it 
is untrue. Man believes the tempter, stands 
afar off, and dies ! 
V. 2—" And the woman said unto The serpent, We 
may eat (or, we shall eat) of the fruit of the trees of 
the garden. But of the fruit of the tree which is in 
the midst of the garden God harts said, Ye shall not 
eat of it, neither shall ye touch it, lest ye die." 
Had the woman fully understood the wicked 
suggestion of the serpent, or had she seen who 
it was that was speaking to her under the guise 
of the serpent, she would perhaps have fled at 
once. But not fully realizing either, and wish-
ing perhaps to vindicate God for imposing, and 
herself for submitting to, such a restriction, she 
stood still to reason with the tempter. To a 
certain extent she was not so inexcusably guilty 
in this thing as we are in parleying with Satan 
instead of resisting him at once and placing 
God's armor between us and his assaults ; still 
there was enough to leave her without excuse, 
Even though she might not fathom the malig-
nity of the suggestion, still it touched the ques-
tion of obedience or disobedience to God, and 
this she ought at once to have resented and 
flung off with abhorrence. 
Yet she does not yield at once. On the con-
trary, she defends her position. She makes 
ready mention of God's kindness and wide lib-
erality, reminding the tempter that there was 
but one tree forbidden, and that all the rest 
were free for use. 
Still she alters the words of the prohibition, 
and in this we see her beginning to waver. 
The change may be a slight one, yet we cannot 
help thinking that there is a meaning in it. 
She adds to it, for God had not said, " Neither 
shall ye touch it ;" she talc:4 from it, for she 
tion—" written within and without with lamen-
tation, and mourning, and woe." We have seen 
a summer's sky overcast in an hour, the heavens 
puiting on sackcloth, and the sun which had 
risen in calm going down in storm. So was it 
with our world, as this chapter proceeds to re-
cord ; once holy, yet only for a day. How 
sudden and sad the change ! Yesterday it 
was Paradise; to-day the wilderness. Yester-
day it was God's footstool ; to-day it is Sa-
tan's throne. Yesterday it was linked to the 
sanctuary above by a bond that seemed ever-
lasting ; to-day that bond is broken, and it com-
mences a swift descent into the uttermost dark-
ness. 
This third chapter records the manner in 
which this change was effected ; the different 
steps which led to it. And here we have the 
true origin of evil—God's own account of the 
way in which tares were first sown in the field 
in which God had sowed the finest of the wheat. 
The passage takes for granted that there was 
already an enemy in existence. There had been 
sin before, somewhere, though where is not said. 
There had been an enemy somewhere ; but how 
he had become so, or where he had hitherto 
dwelt, or how he had found his way to this 
world, is not recorded. All that is implied in 
the narrative is, that there did exist an enemy 
—one who hated God, and who now sought to 
get vent to that hatred by undoing his handi-
work. 
This enemy now makes his appearance. He 
has riot been bound ; he has not been prohibited 
entrance : he gets free scope to work. He shall 
be bound hereafter, when the times of restitution 
of all things commence, but not yet. He shall 
not be permitted to enter the " new earth," but 
he is allowed to enter and do his work of evil 
in the first earth. In order to deceive, and in 
order to prevent any suspicions arising, or any 
questions being put as to what he was, or 
whence he came, or what he sought, he takes 
the form of one of those animals with which 
man was surrounded ; he selects that which 
possessed more intelligence than the rest, not 
only to excite less suspicion, but probably be-
cause, according to the nature of things, he 
could more easily and more fully take posses-
sion of it, and wield it more successfully as the 
instrument of his deception. 
THE ADVENT HERALD. 
the popular interpretation which makes matter 
to have had no existence till 6,000 years ago. 
For this is as contrary to astronomy as to 
geology. 
2. It will be found a safe rule, in reading 
the ancient Scriptures, •not to be looking for 
modern science, nor for any other than the 
science common at that day. The great end 
for which the Bible was given, was to teach 
theology, (including, of course, morals, and the 
way of salvation.) Even theology was not 
then taught in a scientific way, but in a popu-
lar manner adapted to uncultivated mind.—
The revelation in Gen. 1st was made to the old 
patriarchs, and was intended to give them no 
scientific knowledge of the sun, moon, or stars, 
nor of the earth and its inhabitants, further 
than was necessary to furnish them with right 
ideas of the power, and glory, and goodness of 
God. Things were described to them as they 
appeared, not in all cases as they were in real-
ity. The theology of the chapter was the same 
to them, with their imperfect science, as it is to 
us with all our superior knowledge. 
" The theology of creation is the same viewed 
through the science of the patriarchs, as when 
viewed through the science of Newton and La 
Place. 
" 3. If we read the Bible with the eyes of a 
modern science, we shall be constantly in dan-
ger of losing the spirit in the letter." 
REMARKS. 
No German Rationalist would speak more 
slightingly of divine revelation than the writer 
of the passages just recited. The Rationalist 
might reject the teaching of the Bible on sub-
jects widely different from the one now under 
consideration, but he claims the privilege of 
setting aside the utterances of the book of God 
whenever his reason or rationalism pronounces 
that it was not the design of the Bible to teach 
the subject on which he wishes to destroy the 
testimony of God. This reviewer says, " the 
Bible is an infallible teacher on all subjects 
which it professes to teach, or was divinely in• 
tended to teach." Then he tells us it was not 
intended to teach geology, astronomy, &c.—
We are therefore to infer that the Bible is not 
an infallible teacher except on those subjects 
which the reviewer supposes it was divinely in-
tended to teach. 
Our idea is, and we were happily educated 
to believe that " ALL SCRIPTURE is given by 
inspiration of God, and is profitable for doc-
trine, for reproof, for correction, for instruction 
in righteousness, that the man of God may be 
perfect, thoroughly furnished unto all good 
works." If the doctrine is admitted, that we 
are at liberty to believe the Bible is not an in-
fallible teacher on this, that, and every subject, 
which in our wisdom is not essential to salva-
vation, we destroy the value of the book alto-
gether. It is no better than an old almanac, 
if a quarterly reviewer may teach us that it was 
not intended to teach what we see that it does 
teach. And we are so antiquated in our Bibli-
cal education, as to suppose that the Bible was 
" divinely intended " to teach all that it does 
teach. We had supposed that when a corn-
pleted revelation of God's will to man was 
given in a book so small that a man may carry 
it in his pocket, there was no superfluous mat-
ter in it, which we are permitted to believe or 
not to believe, just as we please. If God said 
it, it is true, whether a " science " of yesterday 
can reconcile it with the last results of the 
spade and pick-axe or not. This reviewer says 
the Bible " never teaches falsehood," and why 
then does he labor through so many pages to 
show us that the Bible was never intended to 
teach geology. If it never teaches falsehood, 
why does he not prove his theory from the 
Bible, which certainly tells us more about the 
creation than any other old book we ever met 
with. 
Indeed, we believe that Genesis was expressly 
given to teach the very doctrine which this re-
viewer says it does not teach. There is to our 
mind no obscurity, no contradiction, no conflict 
with science in that Look. We could adopt the 
modern geological theories, as held by Hitch-
cock, or by Silliman, and never be tempted to 
write down the Bible doctrine, as the reviewer 
has attempted to do in the unfortunate article 
before us, Prof. Mitchell, the most eloquent 
of modern astronomers, delivers as his most 
eloquent lecture a discourse to prove that the 
Bible reveals the modern system of astronomy ; 
.and a splendid argument he makes, as we can 
testify from personal hearing. He takes the 
book of Job, perhaps older than the book of 
Genesis, and shows that the inspired writer had 
views of the solar system in most surprising 
harmony with the present theories ; surprising, 
however, only to those who forget that the 
Bible was written by him who made the 
heavens and the earth, and of course knew 
more about them than any one else. Bible as-
tronomy is the true astronomy. And when the 
school of geology, now in its infancy, constantly 
running its head against a rock it had not seen, 
or sinking into a sand-bank it did not expect, 
greatly softens the threat, making it not " thou 
shalt surely die," but " lest ye die." She thus 
exaggerates the restriction, as if wishing to 
prove it to be a hardship, and she dilutes the 
penalty, or at least the awfulness of its certainty, 
as if trying to persuade herself that it was not 
quite such a certainty as she had once thought 
it. Thus does sin work still. It magnifies 
God's prohibitions into hardships, in order to 
find an excuse for disobedience., and then it tries 
to underrate both the certainty and the great-
ness of the penalty. Simple obedience is what 
man does not like. Simple acquiescence in 
God's commands is what he is slow to learn. 
He altered God's words in order to get an ex-
cuse for departing from God, and so he still al-
ters " the word of the truth of the Gospel" for 
the purpose of excusing himself for not return-
ing at once to God and taking advantage of the 
free welcome of his abundant grace.—(To be 
continued.) 
Genesis before Geology. 
We have no quarrel with geologists about 
geology. We have not the slightest objection 
against any man for believing as the Presby-
terian Quarterly Review does, that this little 
planet of ours has been rolling through count-
less millions of years! And during all that 
time successive generations of animate creation 
have been dwelling here, answering the ends 
for which they were made. A man may be-
lieve this, and be a sincere Christian, and we 
will not quarrel with him about his earthly 
faith. He may believe this and a thousand 
other theories of science, and be as humble, 
prayerful, reverent, and faithful, as if he were 
nit half so wise. 
But we have a quarrel with such writers as 
the author of an article in the first number of 
the Presbyterian Quarterly Review, who ex-
amines the question, " Is the science of geology 
true ?" Not the conclusion to which he finally 
comes to do we complain of. It is the irrever-
ent, and almost contemptuous terms in which 
he speaks of the BIBLE, in the course of his rea-
soning. We will quote a few of the expres-
sions, and submit them to the candid judgment 
of Christian men. 
" As an inspired volume, the Bible is an in-
fallible teacher on all subjects which it professes 
to teach, or was divinely intended to teach.—
On the subject of Theology, Morals, and the 
Way of Salvation, it comes to us as an infalli-
ble directory; and whatever be its mode of 
teaching, the lesson intended to be taught is 
everlasting truth. But it does not come to us 
as a Revelation of quite everything under the 
heavens and above the heavens, and under the 
earth. It does not profess to be a divine com-
munication of the most perfect system of gram-
mar, or of rhetoric, or of metaphysics, or of 
geography, or meteorology, or chemistry, or 
botany, or physiology, or astronomy, or geology, 
or of any earthly science whatever. Excellent 
and admirable as the record is on all these 
points, it was evidently no part of the object of 
Divine Revelation to anticipate future inven-
tions or discoveries in philosophy and science; 
and men who go to it for an inspired system of 
astronomy or geology, might as well go to it 
for a heaven-contrived system of architecture, 
or agriculture, or navigation ; might as well 
look in the Pentateuch for the telescope, and 
the steamboat." 
" While, therefore, we look to the Bible for 
moral truth, and for it alone, we can never be 
deceived ; we rest upon the Rock of Ages.—
But the moment we go to this blessed book, ex-
pecting to find an inspired system of botany, 
meteorology, chemistry, astronomy or geology, 
we go without being sent ; and expose ourselves 
to needless trouble, and to be driven again and 
again from what we falsely regard as a divine 
entrenchment; and when we fall, we imagine 
the Bible is falling with us !" 
" There should be no longer any hesitation in 
admitting the following among other truths, as 
beyond all preadventure, forever established by 
the discoveries in geology. And unless we 
would kindle a war between Science and the 
Bible, in which Science will most certainly 
triumph, every wise man will allow these truths, 
which every age will more and more demon-
strate, to have their proper influence in future 
interpretations of the word of God I" 
" With the latter, geology never can be re-
conciled, any more than astronomy. With the 
Bible, reconciliation may be somewhat difficult, 
so long as men are slaves to traditional inter-
pretations ; but it is by no means impossible, if 
men will but receive the Bible as it was given ; 
and look to it only for what it was intended to 
teach." 
" On this point we beg leave to observe, 
" 1. That either of the foregoing modes of in-
terpretation is better and safer, and more sure 
to result in the ultimate honor of the Bible, than 
shall have pecked its way into the crust of the 
subject it professes to understand, the great dis-
covery will be made that the Bible teaches the 
true theory of creation—that Genesis is before 
Geology—and that the fears of the Quarterly 
Reviewers are all idle, when they say as this 
reviewer does, that in "a war between Science 
and the Bible, Science will most certainly 
triumph." We concede to our reviewer all the 
credit he deserves for his charitable anxieties 
for "the ultimate honor of the Bible," when he 
implores his readers to adopt his views, but we 
entertain no apprehensions that those who be-
lieve in the plenary and verbal inspirations of 
the Scriptures, will ever bring any discredit 
upon the word of God. On the other hand, 
our fears are that the conceit of half fledged ad-
venturers in the fields of science, will lead them 
to substitute their crude conclusions for the 
wisdom that laid the foundations of the earth. 
He who made a thing knows better how it was 
made than he who takes it to pieces. And 
thus far in the history of man, it has been found 
true, that each successive step of human dis-
covery, has served to confirm the confidence of 
all right men, in the completeness and truth of 
the whole book of divine revelation, It needs 
not the aid of modern science to hold it up, 
nor does it fear its assaults. N. Y. Observer. 
How Long! 
" Behold, I make all things new."—Rev. 21:5 
Do they still linger,—these slow-treading ages? 
How long must we still bear their cold delay ! 
Streak after streak the glowing dawn presages ; 
And yet it breaks not,—the expected day ! 
Each tossing year, with prophet-lip hath spoken, 
" Prepare your praises, earth, awake and sing!' 
And yet yon dome of blue remains unbroken ; 
No tidings yet of the descending King ! 
Darkness still darkens; nearer now nearer 
The lightnings gleam; the sea's scorched bil-
lows moan ; 
And the sere leaf of earth is growing serer ; 
Creation droops, and heaves a bitterer groan. 
0 storm and earthquake, wind and warring 
thunder, 
Your hour is coming ;—one wild outburst 
more,— 
One other day of war, and wreck, and plunder,—
And then your desolating reign is o'er. 
These plains are not your battle-field for ever ; 
That glassy deep was never made for you ; 
These mountains were not built for you to 
shiver; 
These buds are not for your rude hands to 
strew. 
Flee and give hack to earth its verdant gladness, 
The early freshness of its unsoiled dew; 
Take hence your sackcloth, with its stormy sad-
ness ; 
And let these wrinkled skies their youth re-
new. 
Give back that day of days, the seventh and 
fairest, 
When, like a gem new set, earth flung afar 
Her glory, of creation's gems the rarest, 
Sparkling in beauty to each kindred star. 
Come back, thou holy love, so rudely banished, 
When evil came, and hate, and fear, and 
wrong ; 
Return, thou joyous light, so quickly vanished ; 
Revive, thou life that death has quenched so 
long ! 
Re-fix, re-knit the chain so harshly broken, 
That bound this lower orb to yon bright 
heaven; 
Hang out on high the ever-golden token, 
That tells of earth renewed and man forgiven 
Withdraw the veil that has for ages hidden 
That upper kingdom from this nether sphere ; 
Renew the fellowship so long forbidden ; 
0 God, thyself take up thy dwelling here ! 
London " Quarterly Journal of Prophecy." 
Do You Pray ? 
It is morning. A dark and stormy night has 
passed. The winds have howled about your 
dwelling as though they would tear it down. 
Many of your fellow-beings have been in great 
peril, and some are no more in this world. 
What was a quiet night of sleep to you, was 
to them the sleep of death. You were resting 
on your bed, on the, great ocean they were 
thrown about. You see the light, are in health, 
and the blessings of a kind Providence are most 
bountiful. God has watched over you, and 
guarded you, and brought you to enter upon 
the duties and privileges of the day. Do you 
thank him for it ? 
It is evening. The day has passed; and 
during it you have dashed on in your work. 
You have been fed and clothed, and have had 
strength to meet its many engagements. No 
accident has befallen you—no loss to your prop-
erty. You feel that you have done a good 
business. The hour of rest draws nigh. Will 
you sleep without thanking God for the bless-
ings of the day, and asking him to keep you 
through the night ? How hard must be your 
heart, and how stupid if all God's mercies call 
forth no grateful remembrance'. 
The Sabbath has come. The church-bell is 
beginning to make its peals. The people are 
going to the house of God. You are permitted 
to join them, You hear the prayers and praises 
of the sanctuary ; the Gospel too, its warnings 
and promises. You are edified and comforted, 
perhaps. Do you pray, and praise, and thank 
God for all these privileges? 
You are in health. A short time since you 
were sick. You were confined to your bed. 
You could not see to any of your business. It 
was thought that you might riot recover. Who 
raised you ? Who has given you health and 
strength again ? From God cometh every good 
and perfect 'gift. Do you thank him for it? 
Should you not esteem it a great privilege to 
do so ? 
Reader, you can live without prayer. You 
can be unmindful of all your obligations to God. 
You can neglect all the vital duties of religion, 
and go through life as stupid as an ox. But what 
then ? There is a God, and a heaven, and a 
hell. You are bound to the judgment, and 
must answer for it all. You are most unwise 
to be irreligious. If you live without prayer, it 
will be a sad matter to settle in the end. Those 
who pray not have no grace, and no ground to 
hope. Oh ! if you have lived praverless till 
now, do it no more. Pray in the morning; 
pray in the evening; pray upon the Sabbath ; 
pray in health ; pray always with all prayer 
and watch thereunto ; pray without ceasing. It 
will do you good ; it will tit you to live or die. 
Pour out your heart before God. 
Religious Recorder. 
Popery in Great Britain. 
The seed sown last year has already begun 
to take root. The Synod of Oscott has met 
for the first time as the Synod of the Province 
of Westminster. There was a preliminary 
meeting of the Bishops on the 5th current ; the 
regular business commenced "on the following. 
day. There were present the Cardinal Arch-
bishop and his Suffragans, with the exception 
of the Bishops of Liverpool and Nottingham, 
who were represented by their respective pro-
curators. Each Bishop had the privilege of 
bringing a " Theologian," chosen either from 
his own diocese or from any other, and the re-
sult was, a phalanx of keen logicians—red-hot 
advocates of the Vatican. These men appear 
to be consummately skilled in the conduct of 
business. The various members of the Synod 
were divided into Committees of particular con-
gregations, over each of which several Bishops 
presided, assisted by a number of the said 
Theologians. Those Committees sat regularly, 
often twice a-day, from nine to half-past one, 
and again from three to half-past five. In this 
way, the business to be submitted to the " Fa-
thers " was maturely examined and discussed ; 
after which, all the members of the Synod as-
sembled in congregations, which were held in 
the name and in the presence of all the Bishops, 
with the Cardinal at their head. The Theolo-
gians aforesaid were again invited to state their 
opinions, and, after they had retired, the Bish-
ops remained in deliberation, attended by the 
Secretaries of the Synod. In this way they 
occupied the '7th, the 13th, and >the 17th.—
While this work was going on, before each Ses-
sion, something called " the Mass of the HOLY 
GHOST " was solemnly celebrated by the Car-
dinal Archbishop! It is in vain we look into 
the New Testament for the meaning of this 
monstrous farce, or the explication of the awful 
thing to which it refers. Sure it is, PAUL 
knew nothing of such masses. But there were 
more things not easily comprehensible on New 
Testament grounds. Before the first Session, 
and at the close of the last, the Members of Coun-
cil marched in procession round the cloisters of 
the College, to accomplish what objeCt we are 
not told, unless it may have been to stretch their 
priestly limbs after so long a Session. After 
the procession on the last day, a " Proclama-
tion," inviting all present to pray for His Holi-
ness the Pon, for the Sacred College, the 
Archbishops and Members of the Council, was 
chaunted. The preaching part of the business 
was done by Dr. NEWMAN and the Rev. H. 
MANNING, so that due distinction was given to 
those two notorious converts from the English 
Church. Their sermons were, of course, viru-
lent in spirit towards Protestantism, and full 
of vain and lofty boastings as to the present 
position and the prospects of Popery. Great 
things are said of the harmony and cheerfulness 
that reigned throughout the assembly ; and we 
can believe it, for somehow, whatever disturb-
ances prevail elsewhere, there are none in such 
meetings. The principle of implicit obedience 
reigns paramount. The Cardinals surround 
the Pope, the Clergy surround the Cardinals, 
the prostrate people surround the Clergy, and 
THE ADVENT HERALD. 
275 
thus is constituted a pyramid of moral strength 
which it is difficult to shake, and which can be 
crushed by no burden. But the unity is a unity 
arising not from truth, bte from error. It is 
the effect not of freedom, but of bondage the 
most galling the world has seen. Its impress 
is that of death,—wide spread and universal 
death ! 
While this exhibition has been going on in 
England, Scotland, too, has been doing its part. 
The Catholic Clergy of the eastern district 
have just held their Annual Meeting in Edin-
burgh, where the same busy, bustling spirit ap-
pears to have animated the assembly. The 
first and the last thought of all concerned was, 
by what means they might most further the 
interests of the Vatican. Of the salvation of 
man no account is made. Indeed, the term, as 
explained in the New Testament, is not under-
stood. 
The subject of Maynooth still continues to 
occupy these priestly groups, and great is the 
wrath which appears to be manifested concern-
ing those who have felt bound in conscience to 
do away with this grievous abomination. No 
terms are sufficiently bitter to express the abhor-
rence in which the " Saints " and the " Evan-
gelical world of England " are held. It is in-
sinuated, that the outcry against Maynooth is 
"a California mine " to a class of booksellers 
in London, who, with their agents, have been 
industriously excavating the hidden recesses of 
Popery, and exhuming the filthiness and gross 
indecency which distinguish it. Our readers 
are to understand as the solution of this, that 
many tractates have appeared of late, the ob-
ject of which is to display the real character of 
the Romish system, which combined especially 
with the great trial of Aemeei v. NEWMAN, have 
done not a little to illustrate its true nature and 
the operations of its principles. 
The most notable event in the history of Irish 
Elections, is the return of Mr. Lucas, the Editor 
of the Tablet, which appears to have surpassed 
the expectation of his most sanguine friends, 
and, perhaps, his own. He stands for Meath, 
where he has found that measure of support 
from the clergy which never fails to lead to vic-
tory. His opponents were Corbally and Grat-
tan. Mr. Lucas heads the poll. Our readers 
should know that this Mr. Lucas was a Quaker 
gentleman, who turned Catholic, and since that 
time has conducted a Catholic newspaper with 
no inconsiderable zeal and ability. He has im-
parted to the service a good deal of the sagacity 
of the Quaker, with the solid intelligence, and 
straightforward thinking, and vigorous speech 
of the Englishman. How far it was expedient 
for a man so circumstanced to become a can-
didate for Senatoral service remains to be seen. 
He will, of course, we presume, continue the 
Editorship of his Journal; but how to combine 
the onerous duties of the Tablet with the tear 
and wear, and continued toil of the Senate, 
with due regard to health, requires a skill 
greater than ours to explain. It strikes us that 
either is work enough for an ordinary mortal, 
—and we are not aware that Mr. Lucas has 
any claim to rank with the more highly privi- 
leged class of mankind. British Banner. 
A Ghostly Delusion. 
The Rev, Mr. B., a Presbyterian minister, 
took lodgings a short time since, in a Roman 
Catholic house or family, in Philadelphia, for a 
few nights. The family consisted of the father 
and mother, two daughters and one son. The 
house had a room or kitchen on the ground 
floor, and stairs leading therefrom to two other 
upper apartments, the stairs terminating at the 
entrance into one room on the right, and the 
other on the left. These rooms were separated 
from each other by a thin wooden partition, so 
that the least noise in the one was sufficient to 
disturb the occupants of the other. 
In one of these upper rooms slept the minis-
ter, and son of the family ; and in the other, 
the father, mother, and two daughters. And 
here it may be necessary to state that the fam-
ily were all aware that the Rev. Mr. B. was a 
Presbyterian minister, and consequently a stern 
opposer of the errors of Rome. On a certain 
night, the Rev. Mr. B. retired to his room, and 
shortly after, the father, mother, and two 
daughters to theirs. The son being out, the 
doors were made fast to prevent his ingress, by 
the heads of the family. However, after the 
family had all retired, by some means he ef-
fected an entrance, and carefully ascended to 
his bed-room without disturbing any one.—
Having undressed, and being in the act of get-
ting into bed, he laid his hand on a table to 
assist him, when the table moved making a 
loud noise. One of the girls in the next room 
immediately exclaimed, 
" Father, father! did you hear any noise ?" 
" Yes, Bridget, I did, what is it ?" 
" Mother, did you hear it ?" 
" Troth and sure daughter I did. Kate, are 
you sleeping ?" 
"No, no.",. 
" Hould your tongue, it's a ghost !" 
" A ghost !" exclaimed Bridget, " sure there 
never was a ghost in this house." 
" Ah, but," replied the old man, " it is be-
cause we have in the house that heretic, that 
Presbyterian minister." 
" Then," replied the old wife, " it is the devil. 
Mary, Mother of God, have mercy on us." 
At this, the young man who by mistake had 
made the noise, finding himself safe, deter-
mined to play the prank further, and so enjoy 
the joke. In order then to amuse himself, he 
took hold of the table and shook it as if thou-
sands of ghosts or devils were in the room,_ 
And now, who can describe the horror! Heads 
were covered up and wrapped in bedclothes, 
whilst, after a few minutes' suspense, and on 
which seemed to depend the destinies of the 
soul for eternity, the silence was broken by 
prayers to Marv, Peter, Bridget, &c. ; all min-
gled, however, with execrations on the head of 
the poor minister, as the sole cause of disturbing 
their rest, and filling the house with infernal 
spirits. 
By this time the Rev. Mr. B. became a little 
alarmed ; thinking of the persecutions of Prot-
estants by Papists, and fearing that his life 
would pay the penalty of the young man's 
amusement. The playful mind of the youth, 
however, was not satisfied; for, pulling a drawer 
from the table, he gathered a number of spools 
and flung them down the stairs, when pop, pop, 
they rolled from top to bottom. And now what 
is to be done. The affrighted father, mother, 
and daughters, all believed that half the devils 
from the bottomless pit were let loose at the 
bidding of the Protestant heretic in the next 
room. 
" Get up, father," exclaimed Bridget and 
Kate. 
But the father declined : " I am afraid," said 
he, " to encounter the ghosts of departed here-
tics; they. must be the spirits of Wickliffe, Cal-
vin, Luther and Knox; and if Popes, Cardinals, 
and Priests trembled before them while on earth, 
what can I now do with them ? I tell you I 
will not arise." 
" At this the wife spoke thus to her husband ; 
" Patrick, 1 have here my beads, let us again 
implore Mary, and see if we can banish these 
heretic ghosts ; and by St. Patrick, in the morn-
ing we'll make this Mr. B. soon fly, for he is 
the cause of all." 
To this proposal all assented ; so beads were 
counted, prayers offered to the departed saints 
and angels, at the same time the most awful 
anathemas were heaped upon the head of the 
supposed originator of this evil. 
A long silence ensued ; imaginary ghosts and 
heretic devils seemed to have departed, and 
thanks were offered to Mary, Paul, and others, 
for their kind intervention, and timely aid.—
But alas, the tranquillity was of short duration ; 
for just as they were about to enjoy the sweet 
slumbers of repose, the young man seized the 
candlestick from the table and flung it down 
the stairs, making a great racket. Now what 
was to be done ? Bridget cried out, 
" Father, is there any holy water in the 
house ?" 
" Not a drop," was the reply, " it is all used." 
" But," says Kate, "I have some in a jug." 
And so, after a few moments' consultation, it 
was agreed that all should arise and sprinkle 
the house with the holy water. Father, mo-
ther and daughters did actually sprinkle holy 
water, and then retire to rest. By this time, 
the young man had fallen asleep, and the ghosts 
appearing no more, was attributed to the power-
ful influence of the holy water. 
Next morning what was their astonishment 
when they saw the spools, candlestick, &c., at 
the foot of the stairs, and heard the young man 
confess that he was the cause of all. At 
length, when Mr. B. came down stairs, they 
inquired of him if he had heard any noise 
during the night, hoping that he had not. 
Yes," replied he, " I heard your son arous-
ing your superstitious fears by his tricks, your 
curses against me as a heretic, your prayers to 
saints and angels, counting of beads, and sprink-
ling of holy water." 
At this, shame so overcame them, that pale-
ness seized upon their countenance, and at once 
they perceived that their religion was a hum-
bug, arid Popery a delusion. And now we do 
hope that this circumstance will, by the power 
of Divine grace, enlighten their minds, and turn 
them from Satan to God, and from antichrist to 
Jesus the Saviour of sinners. Christian Chronicle. 
An Eruption of the Geiser- 
I now rode on to the Geiser without meeting 
any further impediment; though this great ob-
ject of my eager curiosity, was concealed from 
my eyes by a prominent hill, till I was within 
half a mile of the spot where it lay. At last 
the mighty columns of steam were in sight ; 
and, approaching to about eighty paces from the 
principal cauldron, we halted, not venturing 
to advance any further without a guide. A 
peasant, who had followed us from one of the 
neighboring huts, now stepped forward, and 
perceiving my hesitation, he took me by the 
hand and constituted himself at once my cice-
rone. Unfortunately, it was Sunday ; and he 
had indulged himself so freely in his fondness 
for the brandy-bottle, that his gait was far 
from steady ; but I could not pause to consider 
the risk, and, without waiting to ascertain that 
he was sufficiently conscious to remember the 
dangers of the place, I confided myself to his 
directions ; my Reikjavick guide being of opni-
ion that I might trust him, and promising to 
accompany us, to interpret his Iceland gib-
berish into Danish. 
He led me to the edge of the basin, which 
lies on a gentle elevation of about ten feet. 
The diameter of the basin is about thirty feet, 
and that of the cauldron six or seven. Both 
were full to the brim with water as clear as 
crystal, which was slightly boiling. In this 
state the neighborhood is very dangerous, as 
they might overflow and empty themselves at 
any moment ; and we therefore left the spot 
at once and visited the different springs. 
My new friend pointed •out to me those 
which I might approach without fear, and 
warned me against the others. We then re-
turned to the Geiser, where he left me in 
order to make some preparations for my ac-
commodation ; having first furnished me with 
some rules to enable me to know when an 
explosion might be expected. 
For fear of missing an explosion, it is cus-
tomary to watch during the whole night. An 
occasional vigil would present no great diffi-
culty to many travellers, but for me it was a 
serious undertaking ; however, there was no 
remedy ; for an Iceland peasant is not to be 
depended upon, and few of them would be 
roused by an outbreak of Hecla itself. 
I sat either beneath my tent or in front of 
it, listening with stretched attention for the 
signs I had been told to expect. Towards 
midnight—the hour for spirits-1 heard a few 
dull sounds, like those of a distant cannon; 
and rushing from the tent, I waited for the 
subterranean rumblings and the trembling and 
splitting of the earth, which, according to the 
books I had read, were the forerunners of an 
eruption. I could hardly defend myself from 
a paroxysm of fear ;—it is no slight thing to 
be alone at midnight in such a scene. And 
many of my friends will perhaps remember 
how often I told them before my departure, 
that if my courage failed me anywhere dur-
ing my travels in Iceland, it would be when I 
spent a solitary night at the Geiser. 
The low rumblings were repeated thirteen 
times at very short intervals; the basin over-
flowed after each noise, and nearly emptied it-
self of its waters; the sounds appearing to 
proceed from their violent ebullition rather 
than from any subterranean commotion. In 
a minute and a half the whole was over.—
The waters no longer overflowed the basin 
and cauldron, which remained nearly full ; 
and, disappointed in every respect, I returned 
to my tent. The phenomenon was repeated 
every two or three hours ; but I heard nothing 
further during my first watch, nor all the next 
day and night. 
At last, after waiting till the second day of 
my sojourn at the Geiser, the long-desired 
explosion took place, on the 27th of June, at 
half-past nine o'clock in the morning. The 
peasant, who came twice a day to inquire if I 
had yet seen an eruption, was with me when 
the first dull sounds which announced the event 
were heard. We hurried to the spot, and as 
the waters boiled over as usual, and the noise 
died away, I thought I was doomed to dis-
appointment again ; but the last tones were 
just expiring when the explosion suddenly took 
place. I have really no words to do justice 
to this magnificent spectacle, which once to 
behold in a life-time is enough. 
It infinitely surpassed all my expectations. 
The waters were spouted with great power 
and volume; column rising above column, as 
if each were bent on outstripping the others. 
After I had recovered in some degree from my 
first astonishment, I looked round at the tent ; 
how small, how diminutive it seemed, compared 
to those pillars of water ! And yet it was nearly 
twenty feet high : it was lying rather lower, it 
is true, than the basin of the Geiser; but tent 
might have been piled on tent—yes, by my reck-
oning, which may not have been perfectly accu-
rate, however—five or six, one above the other 
would not have reached the elevation of these 
jets, the largest of which I think I can affirm, 
without any exaggeration, to have risen at least 
to the height of a hundred feet, and to have 
been three or four feet in diameter. 
Fortunately, I had looked at my watch when 
the first rumbling was heard, for I should cer-
tainly have forgotten to do so during the ex-
plosion ; and by the calculation I made when 
it was over, I found that it lasted nearly five 
minutes—the actual outbreak occupying more 
than half that time.. 
When the wonderful scene was ended, the 
peasant went with me to examine the basin 
and cauldron. We could approach very near 
them without the least danger, but there was 
nothing further to he seen. The waters had 
entirely disappeared from the basin ; into which 
we entered, and walked close up to the caul-
dron, where they had also sunk to the depth of 
seven or eight feet, though they were still boil-
ing and bubbling with great violence. 
Madame Pfeffer. 
A Man-of-war, or a Man of Peace: 
It will probably be remembered that, a few 
years ago, a great excitement was caused by 
the discovery of vast deposits of guano upon 
the island of Ichahoe, situated on the West 
coast of Africa. The remarkable fertilizing 
qualities of guano gave it great value as an ar-
ticle of commerce, and a large number of ves-
sels were dispatched from various ports to take 
in cargoes at the island. It was computed that 
at one time not less than five hundred vessels 
were lying off Ichaboe, and as there was no set-
tled authority to regulate the trade of the place, 
a scene of indescribable confusion and tumult 
soon presented itself. The crews of several of 
the ships having established themselves upon 
the table land at the top of the island, (the 
island being little more than a huge rock, rising 
with almost perpendicular cliffs from the ocean,) 
a dispute arose between them and their cap-
tains, which soon proceeded to open mutiny on 
the part of the men. The only access to their 
position being by long ladders, the men set their 
masters at defiance, and held possession of their 
stronghold, which was inaccessible, except by 
permission of the mutineers. The captains 
dispatched a vessel t9. the Cape of Good Hope, 
for the purpose of laying a complaint before the 
governor, and soliciting his aid. The governor 
was about to dispatch a man-of-war—the only 
remedy that is generally thought of in such 
cases—when a good devoted man, a mission-
ary at Cape Town, named Bertram, hearing of 
the aflair, represented to the governor his earn-
est desire to spare the effusion of blood, and his 
conviction that, if he were allowed to proceed 
to the island, he could bring this quarrel to 'an 
amicable settlement. 
Mr. Bertram obtained the consent of the au-
thorities, and the order for the sailing of the 
man-of-war was suspended. He proceeded to 
Ichaboe, and being rowed ashore, began to as-
cend one of the lofty ladders. Two seamen, 
well armed, who had guard above, shouted to 
know who he was and what he wanted. " A 
friend, who wants to speak -with you," was the 
reply. The guards seeing a single man, un-
armed, climbing fearlessly towards them, per-
mitted him to ascend. He called the men 
around him, spoke kindly but faithfully to 
them, heard their complaints, and undertook to 
negotiate for them. He did this with so much 
tact and judgment, that a reconciliation was 
soon effected, and harmony restored between 
the captains and their crews. Mr. Bertram re-
mained ten days with the men on the summit 
of the island, employing the time to the best 
advantage in preaching and teaching amongst 
them. It was only on the plea of urgent duty 
that the men would permit him to leave them. 
They clustered round him, as he was about to 
descend from amongst them for the last time ; 
each was eager to wring him by the hand, and 
tears rolled down many a weather-beaten cheek 
as he bade them a last adieu. " God bless you, 
sir !" they exclaimed ; " you have been our true 
friend ; would that you could stay amongst us, 
for we feel that you have done us good." It 
will be well for nations when they have more 
faith in the power of a man of peace, and less 
in that of a man-of-war. Bond of Brotherhood. 
Terrible Retribution. 
The Catholic faith had ceased to be the faith 
of the large mass of earnest thinking capable 
persons ; and to those who can best do the work, 
all work in this world sooner or later is com-
mitted. America was the natural home for 
Protestants ; persecuted at home, they sought a 
place where they might worship God in their 
own way, without danger of stake or gibbet, 
and the French Huguenots, as afterwards the 
English Puritans, early found their way there. 
A certain John Ribault, with about four hun-
dred companions, had emigrated to Florida.—
They were quiet, inoffensive people, and lived 
in peace there several years, cultivating the soil, 
building villages, and on the best possible terms 
with the natives. Spain was at the time at 
peace with France ; we are, therefore, to sup-
pose that it was in pursuance of the great cru-
sade, in which they might feel secure of the 
secret, if not the confessed, sympathy of the 
Guises, that a powerful Spanish fleet bore down 
upon this settlement, The French made no re-
sistance, and they were seized and flayed alive, 
and their bodies hung out upon the trees, with 
an inscription suspended over them, " Not as 
Frenchmen, but as heretics." At Paris all was 
sweetness and silence. The settlement was 
L
iz 
THE ADVENT HERALD. 
276 
1 
tranquilly surrendered to the same men who the LORD ; neither be weary of his correction : for and fear."—Dent. 21:18-21. Had this rebellious son that they may recover themselves out of the snare of 
had made it the scene of their atrocity ; arid whom the LORD loved] he correcteth ; even as a fa- been submissive to his earthly parents and given them the devil, who are taken captive by him at his will." 
two years later, five hundred of the very Span- ther the son in whom he delighteth."—Proverbs 3: reverence, he would have lived ; so will all live who —2 Tim. 2:22-26. 
iards who had been most active in the murder 11, 12. 
submit to their Father in heaven ; but if they refuse " Having therefore these promises, dearly beloved, 
were living there in peaceable possession, in We are to receive all chastisement as from the to recognize his hand in the chastisements they re- let us cleanse ourselves from all filthiness of the flesh 
two forts which their relation with the natives LORD who has said : " As many as I love, I rebuke ceive from Him, they perish. 
had obliged them to build. It was well that 
 
and spirit, perfecting holiness in the fear of Goo."— 
and chasten : be zealous therefore, and repent."— There is however a great difference between re- 2 Cor. 7:1. " For we through the Spirit wait for the 
there were other Frenchmen living, of whose 
consciences the Court had not the keeping, and 
hope of righteousness by faith."—Eph. 5:5.—(To be 
A Rev. 3:19. JOB exclaimed : °' For he nualteth sore, ceiving chastisement from GOD and from men. 
who were able on emergencies to do what was
right to them : but he for our benefit, that we might partake of his 
V lo-"Far they indeed, for a few days, chastised us as it seemed continued. 
and biudeth up : he wounded], and his hands make 
whole. He shall deliver thee in six troubes : yea, holiness." 
right without consulting it. A certain privateer 
named Dominque de Gourges, secretly armed in seven there shall no evil touch thee."—Job 5: It reads in the margin, They corrected us " as NOT TO BE REASONED WITH. 
 
and equipped a vessel at Rochelle, and, stealing 18, 19. And JAMES has said : " Blessed is the man seemed good, or meet to them," which was only for While we are always to be ready to give a reason 
across the Atlantic, and in two days collecting that endureth temptation : for when he is tried, he a few days—during the minority of their children. of the hope that is within us, to every man who 
a strong party of Indians, he came down sod- shall receive the crown of life, which the LORD hath They might correct injudiciously ; but GOD never meekly and in the fear of GoD shall seek to be en-
denly upon the forts, and taking them by storm, promised to them that love him."—James 1;12. Said correcteth without reason, and does it that we may lightened respecting it, there are, unfortunately times 
slew or afterwards hanged every man he found the Psalmist : " Blessed is the man whom thou beprofited thereby. " Wherefore gird up the loins when no notice whatever is to be taken of the impor-
there, leaving their bodies on the trees on which cliastenest, 0 Loan, anti teachest him out of thy law, of your mind, be sober, and hope to the end for the 
they had hanged the Huguenots, with their own 
tunnies of others. 
inscription reversed against them, "Not as 
that thou rnayest give him rest from the days of ad- grace that is to be brought unto you at the revelation The Saviour left on record an example of silence, 
1:70Dent tjeralb. 
"BEHOLD! THE BRIDEGROOM COMET H !" beat him with the rod, and shalt deliver his soul from places."—Isa. 32:17, 18. 
by a reply, be kept silent and answered nothing—the 
Being exercised thereby, is another reference to most effectual way of administering a pointed rebuke. 
hell."—lb. 23: 13, 14. 
Of the different classes of persons, who are un- 
While GOD thus correcteth every son whom he re- the Grecian games—those who were to take a part 
BOSTON, SATURDAY, AUG. 28, 1852. 
in them, having to go through a process of training, worthy of a reply, the first is the dishonest. A dishon- 
ceiveth—sitting " as a refiner and purifier of silver or exercise, by which they were fitted to perform an est person is not to be reasoned with. PAUL prayed 
All readers of the HEitAt.o are most earnestly besought to give 
be ho„- . . . . that they may offer unto the LORD an offering 
ored and his truth advanced ; also, that it may he conducted in 
acceptable part in them. As this exercise in the 
it room in their prayers ; that by means of it God may 
that he might " be delivered from unreasonable and 
faith and love, with sobriety of judgment and discernment of the in righteousness " (Mal. 3:3), it follows that those Olympic games, resulted in the giving to the victor wicked men." They desire not a knowledge of the 
truth, in nothing carried away into error, or hasty speech, or who are permitted to go on unrebuked, are cast off 
sharp, unbrotherly disputation. 
of a crown " of olive"—an emblem of peace, FABER truth. Their motives are not to be enlightened re- 
by JEHOVAH. The exemption of any from trouble, concludes that the Christian's crown is represented specting the way of right and duty. They are of 
is therefore no evidence of real prosperity. Thus the 
PAUL'S EPISTLE TO THE HEBREWS. 
by " the peaceable fruits of righteousness." 
CHAPTER XII.
Vs. 12, I3-" Therefore strengthen the wearied hands, and the those who, 
Are of the same °pillion still." 
Psalmist testified : "Truly GOD is good to Israel, 
"convinced against their will, 
even to such as are of a clean heart. But as for me, feeble knees ; and make straight paths tor your meet, lest the lame 
(Continued from Herald of Aug. 14th,) 
Vs. 1, 2-" Therefore, since we are also encompassed by such a my feet were almost gone; my steps had well nigh be turned out of the way ;btu rather let it be healed." 
Fairness in argument is riot to be expected of them. 
cloud of witnesses, let us lay aside every weight, and the sin 
becoming weary Their delight is to misrepresent another's meaning, 
doth so constantly beset us, and let us run with perseverance the slipped. For I was envious at the foolish, when I 
race set before us, looking away to Jesus the author and finisher of 
and discouraged. 'Utley are exhorted to renewed ex- and put into his mouth words which he repudiates.f 
our faith ; who, for the joy that was set before him, endured the saw' the prosperity of the wicked. For there are no 
cross, despising the shame, and hails sat down at the right hand of 
croons in view of the fruits of righteousness which Correct such, and show them their perversion of Ian- 
the throne of God." 
bands in their death : but their strength is firm.— 
theta that are of a fearful heart, Be strong, fear not : have been fully manifested, so that those of ordinary 
and because so many have, by their faith, obtained a passeth them about as a chain ; violence covereth behold, your Gen will come with vengeance, even capacity 
may perfectly understand their drift and 
title to the rest promised to the people of GOD, PAUL them as a garment. Their eyes stand out with fat- 
Spaniards, but as murderers." For which ex- versity, until the pit be digged for the wicked."— of JESUS CHRIST: as obedient children, not fash- when to the interrogatories of the high priest, he 
ploit Dominique de Gourges had to fly his Psa. 94:12, 13. " I know, 0 LORD, that thy judg- Toning yourselves according to the former lusts in answered not a word. His infinite wisdom enabled 
country for his life ; and, coming to England, ntents are right, and that thou in faithfulness hast af- your ignorance : but as he which hath called you is him at all times to know when to speak, and when 
was received with honorable welcome by Eliza- flitted me."-119:75. 
holy, so be ye holy in all manner of conversation ; to be silent. Finite minds are liable to err in this 
beth. 
Westminster Review. 
Vs. 7, 8-" If ye endure chastisement, God treateth you like sons: because it is written, Be ye holy ; for I am holy. respect by reason of their inability always to fathom 
for what son is there, whom the father chastiseth not ? But if ye 
 
 
 are without chastisement, of which all have been made partakers, And if ye call on the Father, who without respect the motives of those they come in contact with.— 
then ye are bastards, and not sons." 
of persons judgeth according to every man's work, Even the inspired direction respecting the answer 
The Jews have a proverb : " Woe to the man who 
_,--;-'7'/ 
pass the time of your sojourning here in fear."-1 that should be returned to a fool, or wicked person, 
goeth out of the world without tribulation." GOD Pet. 1:13-17. 
is somewhat paradoxical, and requires an opposite 
said to the children of Israel : " Thou shalt also con- 
v. a-" Now every chastisement for the present seemeth not to course of action under different circurnstances.—See 
Sider in thy heart, that as a man chasteneth his son, be joyous, but grievous : but afterwards it yieldeth peaceful fruit of 
Prov. 26:5, 6. Sometimes, to prevent his being 
ss s-s-,.... 
so the LORD thy God chasteneth thee.''—
Dent. 8:5. righteousness to those exercised by it." 
E.= 
.4.- -.- ,,-, 2 
-.'--- , 
c,.. ,,, 
" And the fruit of righteousness is sown in peace wise in his own conceit, it is necessary to make his 
" He that spareth his rod hateth his son :but he that 
--,
of them that make peace."—James 3:18. " And folly manifest; but at others, to do so would be de- 
loveth him chasteneth him betimes."—Prov. 13:24. the work of righteousness shall be peace; and the scending to the same depth of folly with him. When 
" Chasten thy son while there is hope, and let not 
the Jews sought to entangle the Saviour in his talk, 
thy soul spare for his crying."—lie 19:18. " With- effect of righteousness, quietness and assurance for 
ever. And my people shall dwell in a peaceable habi- his discreet answers discomfited them, and showed 
hold not correction from the child : for if thou beat- tation, and in sure dwellings, and in quiet resting- their hypocrisy ; but when no good was to be gained 
est him with the rod, he shall not die. Thou shalt 
are to follow. Said Ismail : " Strengthen ye the guage, and the correction will be perverted in turn. 
°` Wherefore,"—because GOD has provided that They are not in trouble like other men ; neither are weak hands, and confirm the feeble knees. Say to They may be set down as incorrigible. When they 
better portion in which we and they alike will share, they plagued like other men. Therefore pride corn- 
GOD with a recompense; he will come and save you." bearing, they have ceased to be dangerous, and may 
exhorts Christians to strive to reach the same haven tress : they have more than heart could wish. They 
of rest. He illustrates this point by a comparison are corrupt, and speak wickedly concerning oppres- —Isa. 35:3, 4. 
safely be let alone. Their perversions, their niisrep- 
The idea of a race is still continued. To move resentations will in due time be justly appreciated, 
with the Grecian games. Those who ran as corn- sion : they speak loftily. They set their mouth against with celerity over the course, it is necessary that the and to show them up it' their own hollow hearted and 
petitors for the prize, did not allow themselves to be the heavens, and their tongue walketh through the path in which we run should be straight, or as in the hypocritical pretensions, would be only a work of 
encumbered with any needless weight to obstruct earth. Therefore his people return hither : and wa- margin, " even." Therefore, " Let thine eyes look 
their course. Sins are the weight which obstruct the ters of a full cup are wrung out to them. And they 
supererogation. 
right on, and let thine eye-lids look straight before The stupid are another class on whom the expen- 
Christian's course, and must therefore be laid aside say, How doth GoD know ? and is there knowledge thee. Ponder the path of thy feet, and let all thy diture of reason is wasted. Often wiser in their own 
—even those to which each one may be the most in the Most high I Behold, these are the ungodly, ways be established. Turn not to the right hand nor 
25-27. Stumbling-blocks in the way cause the lame reason would make its exit from the world with 
ty, so are Christians to be animated by the great cloud my hands in innocency. Fur all the day long have to fall. So in the Christian course we must take them, they may be brayed in a mortar with a pestle, 
of witnesses who encompass them. As they in run- I been plagued, and chastened every morning. If I 
liable. As the runners were anitnated by the pres- who prosper in the world ; they increase in riches. 
estimation than seven men who can render a reason, 
to the left : remove thy foot from evil. Prov. 4: arid really believing that should they chance to die, 
ence of spectators, who were witnesses of their agili- Verily I have cleansed my heart in vain, and washed 
away the obstacles from the spiritually lame. We as the wise man testifies, and their foolishness will 
ning kept their eyes fixed on the goal, and allowed say, 1 will speak thus; behold, 1 should offend against should aid, and strive to heal their moral infirmities. not depart from them. Such will perceive distinc- 
nothing to. divert them from the prize, so are we to the generation of thy children. When I thought to Said PAUL : " Brethren, it' a man be overtaken in a dons where there is no difference, arid will find the 
look continually to JEsus the beginner and end of our know this, it was too painful for me ; until I went fault, ye which are spiritual, restore such an one in most striking resemblances in things dissimilar.— 
faith. 
into the sanctuary of GoD, then understood I their 
the spirit of meekness ; considering thyself, lest thou Cause and effect, become wonderfully mystified with 
Because at the celebration of the games, the sic- end. Surely thou didst set them in slippery places : also be tempted. Bear ye one another's burdens, and 
tors in the morning combats did not receive the prizes 
 
 
them ; and the antecedent is often mistaken for the 
thou castedst them down into destruction. How are 
till the evening, but looked at those who engaged in 
 
 
so fulfil the law of Christ."—Gal. 6:1, 2. consequence. Place them right, and the first wind 
they brought into desolation, as in a moment ! they 
the succeeding combats, the apostle in allusion to 
V. it-e Follow peace with all, and holiness, without which, no that blows turns them askew ; and learning their 
that custom, by a high rhetorical figure, represents are utterly consumed with terrors. As a dream when one taut see the Lord." 
whereabouts at night, gives no assurance of their 
the ancient patriarch's, and prophets, and judges, and one awaketh s so, 0 Lots, when thou awakest, thou " Bless them which persecute you ; 'bless, and 
kings, and captains, and righteous men, mentioned in 
position in the morning. Logic and sophistry affect 
shalt despise their image."—Psa. 73: 1-20. curse not. Rejoice with them that do rejoice, and 
the preceding chapter, who had been victorious in 
V. 9-" Is it so, then, that we have had fathersr,of our flesh who weep with them that weep. Be of the same mind them equally, provided either is in accordance with 
their own combats, as standing round the Hebrews chastised us, and we reverenced them : shall we not much rather be 
their own conceptions. Like the woman, who cau- 
and observing how they acquitted themselves in the subject to the Father of spirits, and live ?" 
one toward another. Mind not high things, but con- 
Christian race. By using this figure, however, the GOD is called the " Father of spirits." " And descend to men of low estate. Be not wise in your tioned her returned sailor son not to attempt any de- 
apostle did not mean. to insinuate that the saints in
ception with her, with Ins stories about flying fish, 
they fell upon their faces, and said, 0 GOD, the GoD own conceits. Recompense to no man evil for evil. 
the other world know what we are doing in this ; but 
they at once credit the declaration of the discovery of 
to teach us to think of them often, that by the recol- of the spirits of all flesh, shall one man sin, and wilt Provide things honest in the sight of all men. If it 
lection of their trials and vittues we may stir our- thou be wroth with all the congregation."—Num. be possible, as much as Beth in you, live peaceably Pharaoh's chariot wheels in the Red Sea. Improba-
selves up to greater diligence in the Christian course. 16:22. " Let the LORD, the God of the spirits of all with all men. Dearly beloved, avenge not yourselves, bilities are to them perfectly credible, but anything 
—Itlacknight an Hebrews%
in accordance with fact, which may have transpired 
flesh, set a man over the congregation."—/b. 27:16. but rather give place unto wrath : for it is written, 
Vs. 3, 4-" For consider him, who endured such opposition of sin- 
beyond the circle of their own observation, will be 
Tiers again
st himself, lest ye be weary and disheartened your " For I will not contend for ever, neither will I al- Vengeance is mine ; I will repay, saith the LORD, 
souls. Ye have not yet resisted to blood, struggling against sin." 
 
 
mythical and apocryphal. They can believe that the 
ways be wroth : for the spirit should fail before me, Therefore, if thine enemy hunger, feed him ; if he 
Those who became weary in the race, frequently and the souls which I have made."—Isa. 57:16. As thirst, give him drink : for in su doing thou shalt sun moves, but the revolution of the earth is beyond 
 
gave out before reaching the goal, and those who be- he is the Father of spirits, it becomes us to sub- heap coals of fire on his head. Be not overcome of their powers of conception. They can credit the 
 
came dispirited, would give up without much effort. mit to his spiritual chastisements, as children submit evil, but overcome evil with good."—Rom. 12:14-21. declaration that the sun is a globe of fire ; but if 
 
As a protection against both of these tendencies., we to the bodily chastisements which they receive front " For to this end CearsT both died, and rose, and born within the tropics, the idea of water becoming 
 
are to consider what the SAVIOUR endured and over- their earthly parents who love them. It was required revived, that he night be LORD both of the dead and hard, so as to make secure bridges over lakes and 
came, who is fully able to succor those who look to of the Jews, that, `• If a man have a. stubborn and living. But why dust thou judge thy brother? or streams, would require an effort of the imagination 
rebellious son, which will not obey the voice of his why dost thou set at nought thy brother? for we which they would be unequal to. Convince such, 
" Ye have not resisted unto blood," is another al- father, or the voice of his mother, and that, when shall all stand before the judgment-seat of CHRIST." and they stay convinced only till they have turned 
lesion to the Grecian game of boxing—those who they have chastened him, will not hearken uuto them: —lb 14:9, 10. " Flee also youthful lusts : but fol- around ; and therefore to measure words with them 
were victorious often becoming besmeared with blood, then shall his father and his mother lay hold on him, low righteousness, faith,, charity, peace, with them is ineffectual and vain. 
' 
while they still contended, even dying without stir- and bring him out unto the elders of his city, and that call on the LORD out of a pure heart. But fool- 
the impetuous are not greatly removed from the 
rendering.
former class. In whatever direction they may 
unto the gate of his place ;. and they shall say unto ish and unlearned questions avoid, knowing that they 
chance to be tending, the first impulse starts them 
Vs. 5, 6-" And ye have forgotten the exhortation,. which. speak the 
 to Yon as to soils, My son, despise not Mon the chastisement of the elders of his city, This our son is stubborn and do gender strifes. And the servant of the LORD must 
the Lord, nor be disheartened when thou art rebuked by him for 
off, with all the velocity and with about the same 
the Lord chastiseth him, whom he loyeth, and heateth every son, rebellious, he will not obey our voice ; he is a glutton, not strive ; but be gentle unto all men, apt to teach, 
whom he reeeiveth." 
 
 
reason, that the young animal loosened from its pen, 
and a drunkard. And all the men of his city shall patient ; in meekness instructing those that oppose 
This exhortation is from the Book of Proverbs and
give them capers in the direction that its nose happens to point. 
stone him with stones, that he die : so shalt thou put themselves ; if GOD peradventure will 
reads thus : " My son, despise not the chastening of evil away from among you, and all Israel shall hear, repentance to the acknowledging of the truth ; and They jump into their position at a single bound.— 
/se" 
THE ADVENT HERALD. 
277 
The evidence by which it is sustained, they look for 
after they arrive. They may leap from it as sud-
denly as they took it, making a farther advance ; or 
they may go sideways, backwards, or in a gyratory 
motion ; or they may turn a theological somerset. 
But it will be utterly impossible by any law of 
science to calculate the ellipticity of their orbit, or 
the period of their revolution. It is only by the doc-
trine of chances that their possible position can be 
indicated. They are all things by turns, and noth-
ing long. Go where they are, and they are not 
there. Such are clouds without water, driven to 
and fro by every wind that blows. Not being rea-
soned into any given position, it is useless to attempt 
to reason them out. 
The bigoted are another class with whom reason 
has but little influence. They are fixed, firm, and 
settled, and mean never to be otherwise. Their 
creed is their standard of truth, and whoever does 
not square himself by it, is a heretic. Not content 
to present his views in clear and cogent language, 
leaving others to judge whether the creed he holds to 
is in accordance with the word of God, he would 
palm it off on others, or have them theologically de-
capitated for rejecting it. No matter what his creed 
may be, whether it be that a man shall have no creed 
—and such are usually the most ready to anathema-
tize and unchurch those who differ from theirs 5—or 
whether it be an unwritten undigested hodge podge 
of absurdities, he will make the precise view which 
he happens to have taken, the criterion of truth to 
which others must succumb. lie has prejudged.—
He has decided the case before he comes to the trial. 
Argument is lost on him ; for truth is not wlaat he 
seeks. He is confident of his own position ; and to 
move him from it not to be hoped for. 
The fanatic is another unreasonable being ; but as 
he is usually sincere, he can be better endured than 
the others. There is also room to hope that his sin-
cerity will get the better of his fanaticism, and that 
he will return to reason and truth. Patience is re-
quisite in his case, and instruction may in time ef-
fect what at first may appear so hopeless. But for 
the time being, example is better for him than pre- 
cept. 
• 
In all the above classes there are shades of differ-
ence. The bigot may also be a fanatic ; and the 
stupid man, dishonest. They run into and intersect 
each other, and sometimes it may be difficult to know 
just where to class a man. But when it is evident 
that information is not sought for, that the desire to 
advance truth is not the actuating purpose, where 
there is no lofty and enlightened understanding to 
guide and direct, is not at the bottom ; the custom of 
Sir ISAAC NEWTON never to reply to the contradiction 
of another, is usually the wisest course. 
THE RELIABLENESS OF THE DEMONIA-
C AL TEACHINGS. 
We prefer the word demons to spirits, when allud-
ing to the rapping spirits, because it is the scriptural 
word, which in the original is used to designate the 
kind of spirits who disobey GOD by communicating 
with mortals in a forbidden mariner. 
A lady correspondent in the last number of the 
Spiritual Telegraph reports that having made all sorts 
of crooked marks, and getting a friend to alter them, 
so as to be sure of their utter meaningless, she sent 
them to a " medium " as a spiritual communication 
she had received, and wished to have deciphered. 
She says : 
" The following day, one of the circle told me 
that my communication was received, and that the 
characters were pronounced to be Hebrew. Very 
soon I received the following from the medium, 
which, he says in his letter, he gave to me unal-
tered and unainended.' The translation was as fol-
lows : 
" Ye must concentrate thy thoughts more firmly 
and strongly upon the subject of Spiritual Philoso-
phy, that a great and important TRUTH may be re-
vealed unto thee. It is a Truth that ye should know, 
as it will make thee stronger, more influential, and 
more truly reliable and uncontradictory by any out-
ward or exterior circumstances, which are always 
operating upon the mind. If ye heed this message, 
ye shall he both happier and wiser, and also more 
fully an apostle of the cause of spiritual truth.' 
" On the receipt of tile above I wrote him (the 
medium,) that I would inform him of some facts con-
cerning spiritual clairvoyance, if he wished fur truth, 
that I telt sure would be of service to him; but from 
the answers I received from him, I infer that he does 
not like to meet facts, or he chooses darkness instead 
of light, which I have good reason to tear is the case 
with many others." 
In commenting on this, the editor .says: 
" We are by no means to presume that every ef-
flux of pot-hooks is the work of spirits, since mortals 
can make crooked lines ..... We will not disguise 
the fact that there are many spurious exhibitions, 
and these false media make the most arrogant pre-
tensions to intercourse with the most exalted spirits. 
Spiritualism, however, is in no way accountable for 
As an illustration, some :one has sent us a sheet which we sel-
dom see, in which some waling whose creed is opposed to ours, 
and who would illustrate several of these classes, is down on us for 
believing that a man has a right to be honest enough, to express 
clearly and distinctly what he believes the Bible teaches; so that 
when he professes to believe the truths !herein taught, it rosy be 
seen whether he has or not substituted others in his own mind for 
those of the Bible. 
t The reference in the foregoing note would also illustrate this. 
the frauds and follies of such persons, any more than 
Christianity is responsible for the existence, and an-
swerable for the conduct, of the false Christs and 
false prophets' who deceived so many in the ancient 
church. The fact that Judas betrayed his Master did 
not affect the validity of Christ's teachings, nor cor-
rupt the beautiful fidelity of John, who, to the last, 
was the faithful and beloved disciple." . 
Now we beg leave to intimate that the two cases 
are not parallel. It being expressly forbidden to seek 
unto them that have familiar spirits, no spirits who 
will thus communicate are to be relied upon at all. 
They may speak the truth in given cases, and for a 
given effect ; and yet if it would any better serve 
their purpose, they would just as readily falsify. 
They speak not according to the word of GOD, and 
consequently there is no light in them. 
The Spiritual Telegraph has an address purporting 
to come from the spirit of ex-President JOHN QUINCY 
ADAMS, in which they put these words into the mouth 
of the " old man eloquent :" 
" Talk of the responsibility of politicians, of the 
powers of Congress, of the influence of this man in 
the Senate, or of that man in the lower House, or of 
the other as President—the whole mass of them to-
gether are not so responsible for the nation's welfare 
as are the spiritual mediums and the professed friends 
of the spiritual cause. It is through them that the 
world is to become enlightened, and when enlight-
ened it will become elevated, for the one as necessa-
rily follows the other as effect follows cause. The 
day is now dawning when men will stand up in the 
halls of Congress, spiritually magnetized, and pro-
claim the truth and the whole truth, and each and 
every one within the sound of their voices will feel 
the correctness of every statement, the force of every 
remark, and they will not stop to ask, ' What is the 
color of the spirit's hair and eyes, that influences 
you,' but they will say, Verily, verily, a prophet 
stands before its.' " 
As chroniclers of the signs of the times we feel 
bound to notice these things. As evidence of the 
way in which chairs tables &c. skim about the room, 
we give the following from the Telegraph, which is 
paper there copied from another : 
" Some very curious phenomena, indicative of an 
invisible agency of some kind, whether produced by 
electricity, magnetism, the human will, or something 
else, deponent saith not,' have recently been wit-
nessed in this town. A large, heavy mahogany table, 
difficult for a strong man to raise, has been seen to 
rock violently to and fro, with a stout man sitting on 
it, and keeping time to music ; while a smaller table 
was observed to dance on one leg, lift up all its feet 
from the floor to exhibit them to the over-curious 
spectator, then walk deliberately out of the door, and 
commence going down stairs ; returning, lift itself up 
a foot or more, climb on to a high-post bedstead, with 
a fat, high feather-bed upon it, and lay itself down 
there on its face, legs up in the air--and this with 
no visible agency—then come down, walk toward a 
high window, put one foot, then another, on the mop-
board, and thrust its head out of the window, pulling 
its legs after it, till it was taken back by its anx-
ious ' friends, who didn't like to have it ' out.' A 
stand is said to have followed a venerable and highly 
respectable gentleman around the room, out in the 
ball, down the steps, and out of doors. In the above 
cases, a circle of most worthy and reputable people 
sat or stood around the table, touching it, when they 
could very lightly, with their hands. The following 
pranks have also been witnessed lately, viz. : a stand 
dancing about most vigorously and vivaciously, with 
no one touching it at all, and a large table keeping 
time to music, and answering questions for the hour 
together, with a circle of people sitting back around 
it, with no one touching it with even their little fin-
gers, or the hem of their garments. And, in corrobo-
ration of this statement, we have the testimony of 
men and women of the highest character, and civil 
and social position, who were present, for the sake 
of testing the fact of a powerful invisible agency." 
Greenfield Democrat. 
A New Paper—The Liquor Law; 
The first number of the Boston Weekly Chronicle 
has made its appearance on our table. To say that 
it is a handsomely printed paper, containing articles 
well selected, ably written, and judiciously arranged, 
would be only the truth. But " its leading intent is 
the repeal of the present liquor law." We have no 
expectation that the world will ever be reformed by 
legal enactments, or that vice will hide abashed 
when outlawed ; yet we do confess to a feeling of 
pleasure, when law is made and enforced against 
whatever mars the peace and welfare of the com-
munity. We have no right to persecute ; but we 
may protect. We have no right to interfere with 
any man's convictions of duty ; but when he floods 
the land with poison, disease, poverty, crime, and 
death, is it unjust to interpose law between him and 
his victims? It is claimed that to proscribe the sale 
of liquors, implies the right to interfere with any 
honest calling ; but is the sale of morn an honest call-
ing! We can charitably believe that multitudes en-
gaged in it, do not realize the evils entailed on the 
community by it ; but it none the less fills our alms 
houses, penitentiaries and jails. We venture to say 
that no man ever commenced the business out of mo-
tives of humanity. And no one will deny that a vast 
amount of suffering is its inevitable attendant. Noth-
ing is gained by calling hard names, and using un-
dignified epithets ; and we repudiate such arguments. 
But we do feel that the sympathies of the Christian 
must be on the side of the sufferer. If we may re-
strain dangerous animals, if we may protect chastity 
and property, we may surely make rum a contraband 
If an " ox were wont to push with his horn in 
time p: le, and it had been testified to his owner, and 
he bath not kept him in, but that he bath killed a 
man or a woman, the ox shall be storied, and his 
owner also shall be put to death."—Ex. 21:29.—
That is sound and just doctrine, and it is very appli-
cable to the present case. This ox has been wont to 
push with its horns—in fact, that is its sole business. 
It is a dangerous animal. It has gored many a man, 
woman, and promising youth to death ; and we go 
for knocking it in the head, and subjecting its owner, 
who refuses to keep it in, to the penalty which 
should justly fall on the author of such mischief. 
The conductor of this new paper proposes to meet 
the question fairly. We hope therefore he will take 
into consideration the impropriety of letting that, 
which is wont to demoralize and impoverish, run at 
at large. 
ARE YOU REGENERATE: 
BY J. C. KYLE, OF ENG. 
(Continued from Herald of Aug. 14th.) 
Reader, the man who denies the universal neces-
sity of Regeneration, can know very little of the 
heart's corruption. He is blind indeed who fancies 
that pardon is all we want in order to get to heaven, 
and does not see that pardon without a change of 
heart would he a useless gift. Blessed be GOD that 
both are freely offered to us in CHRIST'S Gospel, and 
that JEsus is able and willing to give the one as well 
as the other. 
Surely you must be aware that the vast majority 
of people in the world see nothing, feel nothing, and 
know no nothing in religion as they ought. How 
and why is this, is not the present question. I only 
put it to your conscience, is it not the fact ? 
Tell them of the sinfulness of many things which 
they are doing continually ;—and what is generally 
the reply ? " They see no harm." 
Tell them of the awful peril in which their souls 
are, of the shortness of time, the nearness of eternity, 
the uncertainty of life, the reality of judgment. They 
feel no danger. 
Tell them of their need of a Saviour,—mighty, 
loving, and divine, and of the impossibility of being 
saved from hell except by faith in him. It all falls 
flat and dead on their ears. They see no such great 
harrier between themselves and heaven. 
Tell them of holiness, arid the high standard of 
living which the Bible requires. They cannot com-
prehend the need of such strictness. They see no 
use in being so very good. 
There are thousands and tens of thousands of such 
people on every side of us. They will hear these 
things all their lives. They will even attend the min- 
istry of the mosf striking preachers, and listen to the 
most powerful appeals to their consciences. And yet 
when you conic to visit them on their death-beds, they 
are like men and women who never heard these 
things at all. They know nothing of the leading 
doctrines of the gospel by experience. They can 
render no reason whatever of their own hope. 
And why and wherefore is all this t What is the 
explanation, what is the cause of such a state of 
things? It all comes from this,—that man naturally 
has no sense of spiritual things. In vain the Sun of 
righteousness shines before him : the eyes of his 
soul are blind, and cannot see it. In vain the music 
CHRIST'S invitations sounds around him : the ears of 
his soul are deaf, and cannot hear it. In vain the 
wrath of GoD against sin is set forth :—the percep- 
tions of his soul are stopped up,—like the sleeping 
traveller, he does nut perceive the coming storm. In 
vain the bread and water of life are offered to him :— 
his soul is neither hungry for the one, nor thirsty for 
the other. In vain he is advised to flee to the Great 
Physician :—his soul is unconscious of its disease ; 
why should he go ? In vain you put a price into his 
hand to buy wisdom :—the mind of his soul wanders, 
—he is like the lunatic, who calls straws a crown 
and dust diamonds,—he says, " I am rich, and in-
creased with goods, and have need of nothing." Ah ! 
reader, there is nothing so sad as the utter corruption 
of our nature. There is nothing so painful as the 
anatomy of a dead soul. 
Now what does such a man need I He needs to 
be born again and made a new creature. He needs 
a complete putting off the old man, and a complete 
putting on the new. We do riot live our natural life 
till we are born into the world, and we do not live 
our spiritual life till we are born of the Spirit. 
But, reader, you must furthermore be -aware that 
the vast majority of people are utterly unfit to enjoy 
heaven in their present state. I lay it before you as a 
great fact. Is it not so! 
Look at the masses of men and women gathered 
together in our cities and towns, and observe them 
well. They are all dying creatures,—all going to 
the judgment-seat of CHRIST. 
But where is the 
slightest evidence that most of them are in the least 
degree meet and ready for heaven 
these people do in heaven 1" 
You and I, it may be said, know little about heaven. 
Our notions of heaven may he very dim and indis-
tinct. But at all events, I suppose we are agreed in 
thinking that heaven is a very holy place,—that GoD 
is there,—and CHRIST is there,—and saints and an-
gels are there,—that sin is not there in any shape,—
and that nothing is said, thought, or done, which 
GOD does riot like. Only let this be granted, and 
then I think there can be no doubt the great majority 
of people around us are as little fit for heaven as a 
bird for swimming beneath the sea, or a fish for liv-
ing upon dry land. 
And what is it that they need in order to make 
them fit for heaven ? They need to be regenerated 
and born again. It is not a little changing and out- 
ward amendment that they require. It is not merely 
the putting a restraint on raging passions and the 
quieting of unruly affections. All this is not enough. 
Old age,—the want of opportunity for indulgence,—
the fear of man may produce all this. The tiger 
is still a tiger, even when he is chained, and the ser-
pent is still a serpent, even when he lies motionless 
and coiled up. The alteration needed is far greater 
and deeper. They must every one have a new na-
ture put within them. They most every one be made 
new creatures. The fountain-head must be purified. 
The root must be set right. Each one wants a new 
heart and a new will. The change required is not 
that of the snake when he casts his skin, and yet re-
mains a reptile still. It is the change of the cater- 
pillar when he dies and his crawling life ceases ; but 
from his body rises the butterfly,—a new animal with 
a new nature. 
All this and nothing less, is required. Well says 
the Homily of Good Works, " They be as much 
dead to Goo that lack faith, as those are to the world 
that lack souls." 
The plain truth is, the vast proportion of profess-
ing Christians in the world have nothing whatever of 
Christianity except the name. The reality of Chris- 
tianity, the graces, the experience, the faith, the 
conflict, the tastes, the hungering and thirsting after 
righteousness,—all these are things of which they 
know nothing at all. They need to be converted as 
truly as any among the Gentiles to whom PAUL 
preached, and to be turned from idols and renewed 
in the spirit of their minds as really, if not as literally, 
And one main part of the message which should be 
continually delivered to the greater portion of every 
congregation on earth is this, " Ye must be born 
again." I write this down deliberately. I know it 
will sound dreadful and uncharitable in many ears, 
.But 1 ask any one to take the New Testament in his 
hand, and see what it says is Christianity, and com- 
pare that with the ways of professing Christians, and 
then deny the truth of what I have written, if he can. 
And now let every one who reads this article re-
member this grand principle of Scriptural religion, 
" No salvation without Regeneration, no spiritual 
life without a new birth, no heaven without a new 
heart." 
Think not for a moment that the subject of this 
article is a mere matter of controversy, au empty 
question for learned men to argue about. but not one 
that concerns you. Away with such an idea forever ! 
It concerns you deeply. It touches your own eternal 
interests. It is a thing that you must know for your-
self, and experience for yourself, if you would ever 
be saved. No soul of man, woman, or child, will 
ever enter heaven without having been born again. 
And think not for one moment that this Regenera-
tion is a change which people may go through after 
they are dead, though they never went through it 
while they were alive. A way with such a notion 
forever ! Now or never is the only time to he saved. 
Now, in this world of toil and labor,—of money- 
getting and business,—now you must be prepared 
for heaven, if you are ever to be prepared at all. 
Now is the only time to be justified, tow the only 
time to be -sanctified, and now the only time to be 
born again. So sure as the Bible is true, the man 
who dies without these three things, will only rise 
again at the last day to be lost forever. 
You may be saved and reach heaven without many 
things which men reckon of great importance,—with- 
out riches, without learning, without books, without 
worldly comforts, without health, without house, 
without land, without friends ;—but without Regenera- 
tion you will never be saved at all. 
Without your 
natural birth you would never have lived and moved 
and read this article on earth ;—without a new birth 
you will never live and move in heaven. I bless 
GOD that the saints in glory will be a multitude that 
no man can number. I comfort myself with the 
thought that after all there will be " much people " 
Look at the greater part of those who are called 
Christians, in every part throughout the land. Take 
any parish you please, in town or country. Take 
that which you know best. What are the tastes and 
pleasures of the majority of people who live there? 
What do they like best, when they have a choice? 
What do they enjoy most, when they can have their 
own way ? Observe the manner in which they spend 
their Sundays. Mark how little delight they seem 
to feel in the Bible and prayer. Take notice of the 
low and earthly notions of pleasure and happiness, 
which everywhere prevail, among young and old, 
among rich and poor. Mark well these things, aid 
then think quietly over this question,—" What would 
in heaven.. But this I know and am persuaded of 
from GOD'S word, that of all who reach heaven there 
will not be one single individual who has not been 
born again. 
" Are you born again ?" 1 say to every one whose 
eye is upon this page. Once more I repeat what I 
have already said," no salvation without a new birth." 
(To be continued.) 
THE PHENOAIENA OF THE RAPPING SpiRiTs.— 
Those who were unable to get a supply of the first 
edition, can now be accommodated. See advertise-
ment for its contents and price. 
CORRESPONDENCE. 
 vemeskseatznoimasemaramiiists 
 
 
THE ADVENT HERALD. 
THE CHRISTIAN SABBATH. 
TYPES IN THE CEREMONIAL LAW POINTING TO A CHANGE 
OF THE DAY. 
BRO. RIMES was much interested with Bro. 
Bliss's article on the Sabbath in the Herald a few 
weeks since. Some I am persuaded have yet very 
lax notions on the subject. You may speak of the 
providence of God as indicating the first day of the 
week to be observed as the day of rest, from the con-
sideration that the resurrection and the outpouring 
of the Spirit occurred on that day. I think we may 
ascend a step higher and find in two instances at 
least types in the laws of Moses pointing unequivo-
cally to a change from the seventh to the first day of 
the week. In all the discussions which I have seen 
I have not met with these arguments adduced from 
the Scriptures. 
God often teaches as significantly by action as by 
precept. It was when the cloud of glory had rested 
six days on the mount, Moses waiting all that time 
in solemn silence, that the Lord called unto him on 
the seventh day. (Ex. 24:16.) Moses evidently con-
sidered the " ten commandments " which God au-
dibly communicated to the people, of a higher char-
acter to the " statutes and judgments " communicated 
through himself. In the latter part of his life he refers 
the people especially to the " words which the Lord 
spake with you in the mount out of the midst of the 
fire in the day of the assembly."—Deut. 9:10. " And 
the Lord spake unto you out of the midst of the fire : 
. . . . and he declared unto you his covenant, which 
he commanded you to perform," i. e., ten command-
ments. " And the Lord commanded me at that time 
to teach you statutes and judgments," &c.—Deut. 
4:12-14. The Lord, first, orally gave to all the peo-
ple in solemn assembly and afterwards graved with 
his own finger the words on tables of stone. These 
tables had the ark made expressly for a depository, 
surrounded and enshrouded by all the mysterious and. 
sacred appendages of the holy of holies. The sab-
bath, in observance at the time, was incorporated in 
the ceremonial code as well as in the decalogue. The 
sabbaths of that code, including the weekly, per-
tained to the earthly inheritance—the land of Ca-
naan. When that inheritance came to be ever after 
trodden down of the Gentiles, so that the other sab-
baths could not be kept, the weekly sabbath remained 
unaffected. It belonged to a higher order of institu-
tions. It looks always to the " eternal inheritance." 
Paul in his masterly argument to the Hebrews 4: 3, 
4, 9, affirming the rest that remaineth—the keeping 
of a sabbath,—declares the works of that rest to have 
been finished from the foundation of the world ; con-
necting the works finished at the foundation, with the 
rest at the consummation or end of the world, by 
one single grand link—the weekly sabbath. The 
sabbath, at its original institution, related to the en-
tire globe, the abode of man. It became for the 
time being, restricted to a district two hundred miles 
long by fifty wide, until the exclusive nationality 
was disinherited and dispossessed of the earthly in-
heritance ; but still the weekly sabbath, like some 
distant star that preserves always, with respect to 
the earth in its orbit, the same position, also keeps 
its place unaffected by all the changes of Patriarchal, 
Mosaic, or Christian eras. It is the everlasting, never-
ceasing type of the rest that remaineth—the eternal 
inheritance,—the works of which were finished at the 
foundation of the world. Because the sabbath was 
incorporated into the code ceremonial, it does not 
follow that it partakes of the obsoleteness of the code ; 
and is not so attached to it as to be taken out the way 
with it. If it does, then the law of murder given to 
Noah incorporated into the ceremonial code, ended 
with that code. Moreover, by this reasoning we 
may declare that the marriage covenant is abolished. 
That institution, coeval with the sabbath, was recog-
nized by the decalogue; it was also incorporated in, 
and more largely amplified by the code ceremonial, 
than was the sabbath. But who will pretend to say 
that the institution of marrriage was abolished at 
the blotting out of the hand-writing of ordinances. 
The sabbath was instituted when man was in inno-
cence, and his first complete day was the sabbath day. 
It was afterwards joined to a national code of laws, 
without necessarily partaking of their perishable and 
ephemeral character. 
We now look at the types that indicate a change 
in the day. 
1. The law of the wave-sheaf, the fourth in the 
decalogue, is the only one of time. Having become 
a part of the law of ordinances is there, in its new 
position, any intimation from God that there would 
be a change of the day from the seventh to some 
other day of the seven ? The law of the wave-sheaf 
the first fruits of the harvest, the first new grain from 
the old kernel that had perished, required that sheaf 
to be waved " on the morrow after " the weekly 
sabbath of passover week, and further it was to he 
waved by the priest early in the day before any food 
was tasted. (Lev. 23:14.) God said to Adam, 
" Every herb bearing seed and every fruit of a tree 
yielding seed : to you it shall be for meat." " But 
of the tree of knowledge of good and evil thou shalt 
not eat of it ; for in the day that thou eatest thereof 
thou shalt surely die." In the 6th of John Christ in-
structs the people to labor not for the meat that per-
isheth but for the meat that endureth to everlasting 
life. " I am that bread of life "—" this is that 
bread which came down from heaven."—Much of 
the chapter is on this interesting topic. Again, he 
says, " Verily verily I say unto you except a corn of 
wheat fall into the earth and die, it abideth alone, 
but if it die it bringeth forth much fruit."-12:23, 24. 
" Thou fool that thou sowest is not quickened except 
it die."-1 Cor. 15:16. The wave-sheaf, a striking 
type of the resurrection, was fulfilled when Christ 
rose from the dead. He had often told his disciples 
that he should rise on the third day ; and although 
the passover, the fourteenth day of the mouth might 
fall on any day of the week, yet in this ytat of the 
crucifixion, the day when the sheaf was to be waved 
was the fourteenth day, " the morrow after the sab-
bath," the third day from the crucifixion. The oc-
curring of the " third day " from the fourteenth day 
of the month, and this coincident with the morrow 
after the sabbath of passover week, could only tram 
spire once in several years. This morrow after the 
sabbath was to be kept holy—no servile work to be 
done—a holy convocation to be proclaimed. We see 
the apt and most striking character of the type of the 
wave-sheaf fulfilled in the resurrection of Christ in 
the most signal manner as to the time of the day. 
" And ye shall eat neither bread, nor parched corn, 
nor green ears until the self-same day that ye have 
brought an offering unto your God." " Now upon 
the first day of the week "—" the morrow after the 
sabbath "—" very early in the morning they came 
unto the sepulchre and found not the body of the Lord 
Jesus." Angels proclaimed : He is not here—he is 
risen. " And the bread that I will give is my flesh 
that I will give for the life of the world." Christ 
expired at the hour when the paschal lamb was slain 
—in the evening—he rose the third day, the mor-
row after the sabbath, the very time of the day when 
the wave-sheaf and its accompanying lamb offering 
was made,—early in the morning. Christ our pass-
over is sacrificed for us—Christ our wave-sheaf is 
risen from the dead and become the first fruits of them 
that slept. 
2. The law of the wave-loaves—or bread of first 
fruits at the feast of weeks. The feast of weeks was 
a festival observed when the people had gathered 
their harvest or first fruits. The law required, " And 
ye shall count unto you from the morrow after the 
sabbath, from the day that ye brought the sheaf of 
the wave offering ; seven sabbaths shall be complete 
even unto the morrow after the seventh sabbath shall 
ye count fifty days ; and ye shall offer a new meat 
offering unto the Lord. Ye shall bring out of your 
habitations two wave-leaves of two tenth deals, they 
shall be of fine flour, they shall be baken with leaven, 
they are the first fruits unto the Lord." These with 
the accompanying sacrifices were to be waved by the 
priest. (Lev. 23:15-20.) Moreover, this fifteenth 
day, or morrow after the sabbath was to be kept holy 
—ye shall do no servile work and a holy convocation 
was proclaimed. (v. 21.) How significant—how 
striking the arrangement. The seven weeks began 
with a two days or double sabbath, and ended in the 
same manner. Christ rose from the dead on the sec-
ond of the first series, and the holy Spirit made his 
advent on the second of the last series—" the mor-
row after the sabbath," and appeared in cloven 
tongues like as of fire. Manifestly it was a great 
week, or week of weeks. It witnessed the resurrec-
tion and ascension of Christ, and the descent of the 
Holy Spirit. We see the wave-sheaf and the two 
wave-loaves were offered, at an interval of seven 
weeks, annually always on the morrow after the sab-
bath. Surely the hand of the " Lord of the sabbath " 
is here. When the day of Pentecost was fully come, 
they were all with one accord in one place. Christ 
had manifested himself repeatedly to his disciples on 
the first day of the week after his resurrection. They 
had witnessed ten days before his ascension.. Does 
Jesus come again among them? He had gone away. 
But the comforter comes. They understand but a 
single language. Suddenly their tongues break forth. 
into all languages. It is more miraculous than that 
which confounded at Babel. Thousands are added 
the same day—the morrow after the sabbath—the 
first day of the week to the Lord.. Is there in these 
things any indication on the part of God of a change 
of the day for keeping the rest ? There is no repeal-
ing statute—no new precept, but what shall we say 
of these exact appointments of the old dispensation,. 
correspondingly coinciding with such solemn, sub-
lime, and amazing manifestations of the new ? When 
successive generations of children have inquired what 
meaneth these ceremonies " on the morrow after the 
sabbath " doubtless the answer could be made now 
with a more intelligent and impressive reply. 
It is probable that the last vision of Daniel in which 
the resurrection is dwelt upon occurred either on the 
seventh or the first day of the week. It is also most 
likely from Luke 9:28 and John 20:26, that the 
scene of the transfiguration transpired on the first day 
of the week. God changed the order of the months 
of the year so that what had been the sixth or seventh 
month came to be called the first month or beginning 
of months. This was at the vernal equinox. In all 
temperate latitudes there is in the vegetable world a 
resurrected or new life begun at this period. It Was 
in this first month of the new order of months as well 
as on the first day of the week that Christ rose from 
the dead. Are we not constrained to believe that 
when the fabric of the ceremonial code which had 
united with it the weekly sabbath was about falling 
to pieces, that God dissevered the sabbath therefrom 
and restamped the day of rest on the first day of the 
week by a series of the most amazing and stupendous 
miracles which man has ever witnessed. 
A. PENFIELD. 
A SIMILE. 
What beauty in the early flowers 
That blossom mid spring's verdant bowers ; 
In the gladsome songs that fill our ears 
When chilling winter disappears ; 
When his relentless power is gone 
Quell'd by the beck of vernal morn. 
In the nnchain'd rill that leaps along 
In an unfetter'd joyous song ; 
Glad from its ice chains to be free ; 
In haste to mingle with the sea ; 
There to expand in native grace 
Arid swell thro' an infinite space. 
So shall our spirits, rise and soar 
When all its hinderances are o'er; 
No more to strive with grief and sin 
When that glad morn is usher'd in : 
On unimpeded wings to range 
Where time nor beauty ever change. 
For then old earth's destroying blasts 
With all its witherings are past ; 
No sorrows shall invade the breast 
Within the saints' eternal rest ; 
Our eyes but fadeless flowers shall see 
For lo ! 'tis spring perennially. 
Our ears shall list the thrilling sound 
As we rove amid Beula's ground, 
Of mingled songs, from living springs 
Borne on ambrosial zephyrs' wings,— 
On that resplendent glassy sea; 
Of richest, sweetest minstrelsy. 
As spring bursts forth in garbs anew 
Rejoicing in the matin dew, 
Her gorgeous flowers that bloom and nod 
Late hurried 'neath the chilling sod,—
So wakes the soul rejoicingly, 
A renovated form to see. ABBIE. 
LETTER FROM J. W. DANIELS. 
BRO. H1MES :—The cause we love presents an en-
couraging aspect in this vicinity. The friends were 
cheered by your recent very welcome visit and inter-
esting discourses. Especially do they rejoice that 
the severe ordeal through which you have passed has 
left you in the enjoyment of so good health and spir-
its—nothing daunted by your adversaries. The breth-
ren and sisters here are determined to let their light 
shine in the surrounding region to the extent of their 
abilities ; and with commendable zeal have constructed 
a good and convenient tent larger than our meeting-
house. vy e hope with the divine blessing to present 
to, and enforce the reasons of our hope on the minds 
of some hitherto unacquainted with our views. The 
bundle of new Tracts that you sent on Necromancy, 
&c., was disposed of in such great haste without sup-
plying the demand, that I send for more. 
We hail the new Tract not only as a comprehen-
sive exposition of an important part of the Apoca-
lypse, but as a welcome, and we trust efficient anti-
dote for the double extract infidelity which at present 
is so ruinously engrossing the attention and confi-
dence of a certain portion of the community. In the 
face of the clear declaration of our Saviour, after his 
resurrection, " Behold my hands and my feet, that 
it is I myself : handle me, and see ; for a spirit bath 
not flesh and bones as ye see me have." 
Our il-
lustrious successors of James and Jambres in this 
vicinity tell us that " Christ psychologized the apos-
tles so that they supposed they saw flesh and bones 
but they were mistaken, they saw his spirit only, 
for the body did not rise." A very polite way of 
throwing the Bible into disrepute, and saying that 
Christ was a magical impostor. And while they 
thus deny the Bible themselves, they tell us about 
their converts from infidelity ! Their " revealments " 
inform them that all shall be saved ; that the mil-
lennium will soon bless this present evil world ;, and 
there shall be no resurrection of the bodies of the 
dead. Our Universalist, temporal millennium, and 
Saduseeic friends may now congratulate themselves 
with their new and valuable auxiliaries ;—the Ad-
ventists will certainly rejoice at finding themselves 
associated with a body, and engaged in a work not so 
naturally identified with the faith and interests of 
such justly disreputable supporters. Another matter 
of joy to us is found in the evidence presented in 
these magical developments of the speedy revelation 
of our King. 
A God in grandeur soon appears, 
Whose clarion wakes resistless fears, 
With banner wide 'unfurled,— 
He comes ! He comes embed in fire ! 
He speaks—the nations feel his ire ; 
He speaks a burning world. 
Morrisville (Pa.), Aug 16th, 1852. 
LETTER FROM ILLINOIS. 
BRO. HtMES :—We told you in a previous letter, 
of the success that attended Bro. Chapman's labors 
in these parts. We are still rejoicing, that a kind 
providence ever directed him here. For his untiring 
labors here arid elsewhere, we owe him a debt, that 
this world, with all its vain wealth and glory, is 
not able to pay. When we look back on days gone 
by ; and our condition then, it seems that had the 
nobleman come and called, we should have been found 
wanting. Now we are rejoicing in the " blessed 
hope," and the glorious appearing of the great God, 
and our Saviour Jesus Christ. We shall receive our 
reward when he comes to make all things new, and 
to " reward every man according as his works shall 
be." 
We desire your prayers. We are here alone—a 
it the church daily looking for the Master to appear. 
Surrounding churches give us little or no sympathy. 
And to add to our trials, there has been a doctrine 
preached among us called the " Age to Come," and 
has confused the minds of some. It is a doctrine that 
we cannot believe. We are without a preacher ; 
and have no one to defend us, when we are asailed ; 
we are young in the cause, and have not the experi-
ence or ability.to defend ourselves. We need an able 
man, to " give meat in due season." What shall 
we do? we are a church (as it were) sprung into ex-
istence in a day ; and the next day, left without a 
protector. When Bro. C. left us, he did riot prom-
ise us peace and prosperity ; but, persecution and 
trouble. And indeed we have had it, and can see 
more coming. But these things must be, if we live 
godly in this world. Bro. Mines give us some ad-
vice upon this point. .We prize the Herald one of 
the best papers we ever read, it is like cold water to 
a thirsty soul. We regret to say, it comes very irre-
gularly at present ; at first it came regularly, we have 
lost five numbers up to this time. What can be the 
matter? can the evil be remedied? Our love to Bro-
Chapman, and the brethren scattered ahroad in the 
land. May the Lord sustain you in the spread of the 
gospel, to shed the light of the Advent near, to this 
benighted world. Yours looking for
J.P. 
 C hris 
MALLORY. 
S. R. GLENN. 
Cooperstown (Ill.), Aug. 1st, 1852. 
REMARKS.—The best advice we can give is this. 
Trust in God and do the best you can. Study the 
word of God, and believe all its teachings. Live in 
charity with all men, and by gOdly and consistent 
lives commend the doctrine you profess to the con-
sciences of all true Christians. Laborers are few ; 
and it seems to devolve on those who raise up 
churches, to extend to them the protecting care. It 
is a question of expediency whether it is well to 
leave those unprotected who have been called out 
separate from others. When there is no reasonable 
hope of supplying them with a spiritual teacher, it is 
a question whether they should not avail themselves 
of the next best instruction at hand, and by the study 
of the word, be able to extend the knowledge of the 
doctrine of the pre-millennial Advent. 
THE HOMES OF THE LONDON POOR. 
MR. EDITOR :—In my last I gave you some ac-
count of the poorer classes of this country. I have 
visited some of their " homes "—one or two of which 
I will endeavor to describe. It being unsafe to visit 
such places alone, with a friend and a policeman for 
a guide and protector, we went forth into a low, ob-
scure district, in the eastern end, around which the 
bright gas-lights in flaring fronts, shone in unblush-
ing brilliancy as they directed the poor victims who 
support them, to have another" pennorth o' gin," or 
mug yill." Our object was to see some of the 
cheap lodging houses, as they are called, where for 
two pence or three pence a night, these poor crea-
tures are lodged and " done for." In the first house 
we came to, kept by a bloated old man, for a small 
fee we were shown round. Being rather early 
in the night, few visitors had arrived, and we 
had ha better opportunity of reconnoitering. On a 
brick floor, totally unacquainted with the office of a 
scrubbing-brush, stood three bedsteads of antique 
style, covered by quilts of many colors. A small 
table with a comb chained to it, and a looking-glass 
against the wall, with three little benches, completed 
the furniture—all evidently more for use than orna 
THE ADVENT HERALD. 
279 
meat. From this we went into another, kept by a 
woman, in which were rooms of different degrees of 
comfort, from three pence to half a crown a night. 
informed, 
were
we saw young females, who, I was 
were the daughters of the proprietor, seven of whom 
were led into the infamous path of their infamous 
parent, and all now living together in one mass of 
undisguised pollution, on the wages of their iniquity. 
And it is such, and from such places that the decoy-
birds come, who watch for the stranger ; and it is into 
these houses where the stranger from the country, 
who is unable to pay for better accommodation, is se-
duced, and his ruin is effected. From what 1 saw my-
self and from what I heard, I unhesitatingly say that 
the greater proportion of the cheap lodging-houses of 
Britain, in her large cities, are nurseries of crime—
hotbeds in which the vilest passions of our race are 
nurtured into the most rank luxuriance. 
Look at one of these places of the lower kind. See 
there huddled together, both sexes, of all ages. Hear 
their recital-of the doings of the day, and how they 
have made some one pay the night's footing. Inflamed 
by liq ior, and encouraged by the low obscenities of 
the " penny gaff," what can we expect but that, like 
the brute beasts, they will live, apparently, only re-
moved above them one step, by the power of speech 
alone. And see what a ragged, terrible specimen of 
humanity ! There it is before you, eyeless, toothless, 
lame, halt, bloated, ragged—and shame, the last at-
tribute of manhood, gone. But why need we write 
thus? The world beyond it cares not for hearing of 
such things. It has its business to attend to. " Arn 
I my brother's keeper?" seems to be the universal 
maxim, self-interest the uniform practice, and the 
" almighty dollar " the only and chief end of our 
aim. Thousands of pounds are spent in splendid 
monuments around these places ; large subscriptions 
are eagerly entered into, to provide some testimonial 
for a man who does not require it ; immense sums 
are spent in erecting splendid edifices, calling them 
" the poor man's churches," (satirically, one would 
think) ; fortunes are received and spent by " the 
preachers of righteousness " connected with them, 
but nothing is done, or at least but little, for a re-
moval of the evils of which I have been writing.—
With the inconsistencies of society around staring 
them in the face, can it be wondered at, that the 
.moral influence of Christian precept only is so slight 
upon them. They do not understand the abstract 
reasoning of " do as I say, not as I do !" They 
don't believe such a doctrine, and as a consequence, 
they despise the system which perverting teachers 
bring before them, apparently, only because " they're 
well paid fur it." 
Neither in Boston, New York, or any of our 
American cities, does vice show itself so openly as 
here. In the former places it requires seeking out ; 
here it presents itself before you in every conceivable 
shape. Go out in the evening along Finsbury, the 
City road, Cheap.side, Ludgate Hill, the Strand, 
Haymarket, Regent-street, &c. ; you are continually 
accosted—but in no instance in the rough, brutal 
manner that distinguishes the same class in 'Man-
chester, Liverpool, or Glasgow. Fallen though they 
are—and deeply, almost irrecoverably—yet there are 
in most of them some remembrances of a better life. 
But while the smile of joy appears on their cheek, 
there is no joy within ; it is a false glare having no 
substantial foundation, which the refusal of aid from 
the passing stranger can instantly dispel. Speak to 
some of them as they come up to you ; they are of 
the same family as ourselves still, but perhaps a lit-
tle more sunk in crime than we are ; touch their bet-
ter feelings ; what do they say ? " Alas ! my heart 
is broken—nothing to look forward to hut misery, 
all misery ; and after I'm gime—but I'd rather not 
talk about it ; it can't be helped now." Yes, but 
it should be helped now ; and is it not an awful state 
of society that has prevented us from helping it long 
since—that has almost prevented us from speaking of 
such matters, because a mawkish delicacy has grown 
up, too often only the assumption of a modesty that 
has no real existence Are those who act thus, and 
who claim the title of Christians, acting as did He 
who tells us to forgive our brother though he falls 
seventy times seven ? No, while we loathe the sin, 
let us exercise some charity for the sinner ; whilst no 
circumstance can render less odious the crime, let us 
not judge too harshly, or think, too, 
" That thou hast often sinned, 
And sinful yet mayst be." 
Look at the poor girl of whom Dickens writes, 
who, on being kindly spoken to by one of her own 
sex, too often the most bitter against them, (a bitter. 
ness, too, not always mingled with sorrow) her re-
ply showed there were still traces of good left there 
—" Ah ! lady, lady, were there more like you, there 
would be less like me—there would—there would." 
What an amount of good might be effected, as has 
already been done in Belfast, by Magdalene Institu-
tions, in which these poor unfortunates are placed—
and for a time removed from the influence and ne-
cessity of crime, taught lessons of virtue, and pro-
vision made for their wants. And why are they not 
more general I Many a poor creature would never 
have fallen, had not necessity, stern, unfeeling neces-
sity, driven her to it—and even then worse than their 
physical sufferings appear to them the crime they 
have done, to them apparently almost unpardonable. 
Many a one whose only crime was to be loved and 
then betrayed, has been lost forever, when one kind 
word, or a refuge for her, might have brought her 
back to truth and a better life. Not long since a thril-
ling incident occurred here. A poor unfortunate died 
in a garret, broken-hearted, left in the wide, wide 
world of this great city by the wretch who took her 
from her home by honied words and left her there—
a terrible wreck—to die, yet clinging, to the hope and 
thought that still he loved her. And the circumstance 
is only one of often occurrence, over which a coroner's 
jury record the verdict, '° Died by the visitation of 
God." Barry CornWall has a few lines on a similar 
scene, so appropriate that I may be pardoned for quot-
ing a part of them : 
" Muffled to the teeth, that evening 
I was struggling in the storm, 
Through pestilent lanes, and hungry alleys; 
Suddenly an ancient form 
Peered from out a gloomy doorway 
And with trembling croak, it said—
' In the left hand empty garret 
You will find a woman—dead. • 
Never stepped a finer creature, 
When she was a simple maid : 
But she did like many others— 
Loved a man and was betrayed. 
I have seen her in her carriage 
Riding, diamonds, in het hair ; 
And I've seen her starving, (starving, 
Do you hear ?) and now she's there !' 
There on rough and naked boards, 
A long, gaunt, wasted figure lay 
Murdered in its youth by Hunger, 
All its beauty—wrinkled clay : 
Life's poor wants had left her nothing, 
Clothes, nor fuel, food nor bed. 
Nothing—save some ragged letters, 
Whereon lay the ghastly head, 
And with her now, they lie mouldering, 
And a date upon a stone 
Telleth where (to end the story) 
Love's poor outcast sleeps alone. 
Mourn not : for at length she sleepeth 
The soft slumber of the dead, 
Resting on her loved love-letters, 
Last, fit pillow for her head !" 
Such, alas, is too often the end of many a strange 
history of " Woman's Love," a history that might 
have been written in other characters, had woman's 
duty been performed, and which will be prevented in 
hundreds of instances, if the noble hearted women 
of our great cities in all lands, throwing aside the 
coldness that they exercise too frequently toward their 
fallen sisters, would but unite, and by founding asy-
lums for them, and extending their kind sympathy 
toward them, teach them a different lesson. Society 
will then be purified, and thousands and tens of 
thousands will rise up to call you blessed. 
London Correspondent of the Boston Journal. 
A Gloomy Prospect. 
Thurlow Weed, Esq., the talented editor of the 
Albany Evening Journal, who has just returned from 
the tour of Europe, presents the following picture of 
the present condition of the European continent. He 
says; 
" It is sadly true that the whole continent of Eu-
rope is in a condition of profund reprise.' The 
despots have retracted all, or nearly all, that had 
been extorted from them. Martial law, or law scarce-
ly less rigorous, pervades the continent. Freedom 
is crushed to earth,' and in most places even the 
hopes of freedom have perished. 
" Three years ago the European people held their 
destiny in their own hands. The Emperor of Aus-
tria and the Kings of Prussia, Belgium, Saxony, 
Sardinia, Naples, &c., were unable to resist, offered 
terms to their subjects. The people compromised 
with their rulers. Constitutions were given. To 
save their crowns they promised to surround their 
thrones with popular institutions. All this was to 
gain time. When the popular voice was hushed, 
and the people returned to their occupations, their rul-
ers augmented their armies, and with the aid of Rus-
sia, recovered their power, and now their rule is 
more grinding than ever. In Naples there is a des-
potism as unrelenting and cruel as any that existed 
in the darkest ages. In Austria the masses toil, not 
for themselves, but to support an expensive court and 
an overwhelming army. In Belgium and Sardinia 
alone, kings have kept faith with the people. Every-
where else they were perfidious. 
" But there is no probability of any r immediate 
revolution ' in Europe. Despots have it all their 
own way. The sad failure of Republicanism in 
France gave despotism advantages which it is inr-
proving." 
Recent Development. 
It has long been suspected and said that the lead-
ing Puseyites of England were actual Jesuits in dis-
guise. It was known that from the establishment of 
the order to the present time, it has been a favorite 
expedient to assume like disguises and enter other 
churches than their own, for the sake of seducing 
those whose confidence they could gain. For this 
purpose many a Jesuit in disguise co-operated with 
the Ana-baptists, and with the English Puritans. 
And it was strongly suspected that the same game 
was in progress among the Puseyites. And now the 
truth comes out. The New York Observer's corres-
pondent says : 
" It is now ascertained that Dr. Newman was a 
Roman Catholic, and studied in Rome before he en-
tered Oxford. Why he entered it, wrote violently 
against Romanism, then set on foot the Tractarian 
movement, remained five yenrs in the University af-
ter he had become a papist, and then returned to his 
first love, I may not say. Others do. They say the 
whole was a Jesuit scheme." 
The correspondent named above gives the follow-
ing on the effect which Dr. Achilli's trial is having 
on the public mind : 
" I believe nothing for half a century, has done 
such deep and deadly injury to Romanism, as this 
trial, and I feel assured that our Legate Cullen and 
the English Cardinal Wiseman would give all it has 
cost them—and that is no trifle—a thousand times 
told, that his Eminence had been mesmerized when 
he wrote the article which had done it all, and that 
Newman had been buried in his academic education 
Studies when he boded forth that article so as to 
make it fitted to be dealt with by a British judge and 
jury. The fact is, Britain and the world have got, 
by means of this trial, a picture of Italian Popery, 
traced by Popish priests, and witnesses of their own 
training, where the system is in full blow, unchecked 
by opposition, and with all its favoring influences, 
such as, had it been given in a romance, would have 
been denounced as too revolting for reality ; and 
which will do more to unmask the priesthood, and 
dissipate the charm of convents and the confessional, 
than countless tomes of controversy." 
Presbyterian Advocate. 
A Fanatic Greek Monk. 
The monk Populaki, a sort of apostle among them, 
and who has been going about for some months, 
preaching among the people of Greece, and stirring 
them up, is continuing his unholy warfare. The 
populace is perfectly fanatic. He travels about from 
place to place, followed by a body of about two thou-
sand women and children, and five hundred armed 
men. The Government called upon the authorities 
to interfere. The civil authorities of Kalamata, hear-
ing that he was at a distance of about three miles 
from the city, preaching a crusade against the Gov-
ernment, sent to him a body of the most respectable 
religious persons, lay and ecclesiastic, desiring him 
not to appear there. He accordingly withdrew, but 
issued a proclamation to the following effect : " Who-
ever kills one of the king's soldiers is a saint ; who-
ever is killed iir skirmish, is a martyr ; whoever can 
kill one of the king's soldiers, and refrains from 
doing so, shall go to hell ; whoever takes part in this 
holy war shall keep all the booty he can lay hands 
en, and shall likewise receive one hundred Spanish 
dollars ; whoever distinguishes himself shall receive 
military rank and honors." As soon as this procla-
mation was made known at Kalamata, all the women 
and children, with the chief of the property, were 
taken for safety to Koron, on the opposite side of the 
gulf, while every man able to bear arms and a small 
military force, remained to defend Kalamata. A body 
of sixty soldiers, under the command of Major Kant-
zeanupolis, pursued the monk, who fled like a goat 
from crag to crag. They at last brought him to a 
standstill, and called upon him to surrender. The 
monk replied, " Let me go; I hurt no man. I am 
only proclaiming the word of God, of which you are 
so lamentably ignorant." The soldiers and their 
leader bowed down before the tnonk and crossed 
themselves, and the Major snapped his sword, and 
suffer the robber-monk to escape. The Government 
of Athens, upon receiving intelligence of this, im-
mediately deposed the Major, and appointed another 
to take his place. 
Anzieger Zeitung. 
"6 He was not Smoke to the Eyes." 
I once knew a young man (said an eminent preacher 
the other day, in a sermon to young men) that was 
commencing life as a clerk. One day his employer 
said to him, " Now, to-morrow that cargo of cotton 
must be got out and weighed, and we must have a 
regular account of it." 
He was a young man of energy. This was the 
first time he had been entrusted to superintend the 
execution of this work ; he made his arrangements 
over-night, spoke to the men about their carts and 
horses, and, resolving to begin very early in the 
morning, he instructed the laborers to be there at 
half-past four o'clock. They set to work, and the 
thing was done; and about ten or eleven o'clock, his 
master comes in, and seeing him sitting in the count-
ing-house, looks very black, supposing that his com-
mands had not been executed. 
" I thought," said the master, " you were re-
quested to get out that cargo this morning." 
" It is all done," said the young man, " and here 
is the account of it." 
He never looked behind him from that moment—
never ! His character was fixed, confidence was es-
tablished. He was found to be the man to do the 
thing with promptness. He very soon came to be 
one that could not be spared ; he was as necessary 
to the firm as any of the partners. He was a re-
ligious man, and went through a life of great benevo-
lence, and at his death was able to leave his children 
an ample fortune. He was not smoke to the eyes, nor 
vinegar to the teeth, but just the contrary. 
We know of some persons who might learn a 
profitable lesson from the above. When that young 
man knew his master's will, he did not parley about 
it, by saying, " these are not the men, and this not 
the time," but by cheerfully engaging in the wo•k 
at once and with the facilities at hand, when his mas-
ter arrived, the work had been accomplished. 
N. Y. Chronicle. 
OBITUARY. 
" I ant the RESURRECTION and the LIFE he who believeth in 
ME, though he should die, yet he will Live : and whoever liver] 
arid believeth in me, will never die."—John 11:25, 26. 
I lost my youngest child, ALPHONSE SETTELLUR 
(aged five months,) July 31st. He was buried on 
Sunday, Aug. 1st. The funeral sermon was preached 
by the Baptist minister of this place. The text was 
from Jer. 31:16, 17. He gave an excellent Advent 
discourse. We expect soon to see the little ones re-
turn from the land of the enemy. Yours, waiting 
patiently for the Master. ROBERT T. PRICE. 
Elizabethtown, Aug. 16th, 1852. 
In this city, of bilious fever Mrs. EMILY GILE fell 
asleep in Jesus August 12th, 1852, aged fifty years, 
after a short and distressing illness of five days. Sis-
ter Gile, an active member of the Church many years, 
has for the several years past waited patiently for the 
glorious hope of our coming Lord, her daily example 
and precepts conforming thereto with unshaken con-
fidence and untiring zeal ministering and advocating 
the blessed truths of the Saviour near to her fam-
ily and friends. With her gain the Church, husband, 
and children, sustain an irreparable loss, the Church 
a zealous member and living ornament of the gospel 
of Christ, the family a devoted and affectionate com-
panion, and one of the best of mothers. Even though 
an entire stranger to her history preceding death, and 
watching its approach for many hours of her uncon-
sciousness I felt a peculiar sympathy and nearness of 
feeling, which naught but the teachings of a Christian 
atmosphere alone can inspire. " 0 let me die the 
death of the righteous, and let my last end be like 
his." 
A SPECTATOR. 
THE ADVENT HERALD. 
This paper having now been published since March, 1840, the his-
tory of its past existence is a sufficient guaranty of its future 
course, while it may be needed as a chronicler of the signs of the 
tunes, and an exponent of prophecy 
The object of this periodical is to discuss the great question of the 
age in which we live—The near approach of the Fifth Universal 
Monarchy ; in which the kingdom under the whole heaven shall be 
given to tine saints of the Most High, for an everlasting possession. 
Also to take note of such passing events as mark the present time , 
and to hold up before all linen a faithful and affectionate warning to 
flee from the wrath to come. 
The course we have marked out for the future, is to give in the 
columns of the Herald-1. The best thoughts from the pens of origi-
nal writers, illustrative of the prophecies. 2. Judicious selections 
front the best authors extant, of an instructive and practical nature. 
3. A well selected summary of foreign and domestic intelligence, 
and 4. A department for correspondents, where, from the familiar 
letters of those who have the good of the cause at heart, we may 
learn the state of its prosperity in different sections of the country. 
The principles prominently presented, will be those unanimously 
adopted by the " Mutual General Conference of Adventists," held at 
Albany, N. Y., April 29, 1845 ; and which are in brief— 
The Regeneration of this earth by Fire, and its Restoration to 
its Eden beauty. 
The Personal Advent of CHRIST at the commencement of tha 
Millennium. 
His Judgment of the Quick and Dead at his Appearing and 
Kingdom. 
His Reign on the Earth over the Nations of the Redeemed. 
The Resurrection of those who Sleep in Jesus, and the Change 
of the Living Saints, at the Advent. 
The Destruction of the Living Wicked from the Earth at that 
event, and their confinement under chains of darkness till the Sec-
ond Resurrection. 
Their Resurrection and Judgment, at the end of the Millen-
nium, and consignment to everlasting punishment. 
The bestowment of Immortality, (in the Scriptural, and not 
the secular use of this word,) through CHRIST, at the Resurrection. 
The New Earth the Eternal Residence of the Redeemed. 
We are living in the space of time between the sixth and sev 
enth trumpets, denominated by the angel " QUICKLY :" "The sec-
ond woe is past ; and behold the third woe comet] quickly"—Rev 
11:14—the time in which we may look for the crowning consumma-
tion of the prophetic declarations. 
These views we propose to sustain by the harmony and letter o, 
the inspired Word, tine faith of the priMitive church, the fulfilment 
of prophecy in history, and the aspects of the future. We shall en-
deavor, by the Divine help, to present evidence, and answer objec-
tions, and meet the difficulties of candid inquiry, in a manner becom-
ing the questions we discuss ; and so as to approve ourselves to 
every man's conscience in the sight of Gon. 
These are great practical questions. if indeed the Kingdom of • 
Gon is at hand, it becometh all Christians to make efforts for re-
newed exertions, during the little time allotted them for labor in the 
Master's service It becometh them also to examine the Scriptures 
of truth, to see if these things are so. What say the Scriptures ? 
Let them sneak ; and let us reverently listen to their enunciation. 
Agents of the Advent Herald. 
Albany, N. Y.—W. Nicholls, 185 L. Hampton, N.Y—D. Bosworth 
Lydius-street. 
Morrisville, Pa—Sarni. G. Allen. 
Auburn, N.Y.—H. I,. SmItil. New Bedford, Mass—H.V. Davis. 
Buffalo, " John Powell. 
Newburyporte " Dee. J. Pear- 
Cincinnati, 0.—Joseph Wilson. son, sr., Water-street. 
Clinton, Mass. —Dea. J. Burditt. New York City.—VV. Tracy, 246 
Danville, C. E.—G. Bangs. Broome-street. 
Dunham, " D. W. Sornberger. Norfolk, N.Y.—Elder B. Webb. 
Durham, " J. M. Orrock Philadelphia, Pa.—J. Litch, 70-1 
Derby Line, Vt.—S. Foster, jr. North 11th street. 
Detroit, Mich.—L. Armstrong. 
Portland, Me—Wm. Pettingill. 
Eddington, Me.—Thos. Smith. 
Providence, R. I—A. Pierce. 
Farnham, C. E.—M. L. Dudley. Rochester, N. Y.—Wm. Busby, 
Glanville Annap., N. S.—Elias 215 Exchange-street. 
Woodworth. 
Salem, Mass.—L. Osier. 
Hallowell, Me.—I. C. Wellcome. Toronto, C. W.—D. Campbell. 
Hartford, Ct.—Aaron Clapp. Waterloo, Shefford, C. E. — R. 
Homer, N. Y.—J. L. Clapp. Hutchinson. 
 
Lockport, N. Y.—H. Robbins. 
Worcester, Mass—J. J. Bigelow. 
Lowell, Mass.—J. C. Downing. 
BOOKS FOR SALE AT THIS OFFICE 
NO. 8 CHARDON-STREET, BOSTON. 
Norm.—Under the present Postage Law, any book,-bound or un- 
bound, weighing less than two pounds, can he sent through the 
mail. This will be a great convenience for persons living ara dis-
tance who wish for a single copy of any work ; as it may be sent 
without being defaced by the removal of its cover, as heretofore. 
As all books sent by mail must have the postage paid where they 
are mailed, those ordering books will need to add to their price, as 
given below, the amount of their postage. Arid that all may esti-
mate the amount of postage to be added, we give the terms of post-
age, and the weight of each book. 
TERMS OF POSTAGE—For eac!v ounce, or part of an ounce, that 
each book weighs, the postage is 1 cent for any distance under 500 
miles ; 2 cents if over that amid under 1500 ; 3 cents it over that and 
under 2500 ; 4 cents if over that and under 3000 ; and 5 cents if over 
that distance. 
BOOKS PUBLISHED AT THIS OFFICE. 
THE ADVENT HARP.—This book contains Hymns of the highest 
poetical merit, adapted to public and family worship, which 
every Adventist can use without disturbance to his sentiments. 
The " Harp "contains 454 pages, about half of which is set to 
choice and appropriate music.—Price, 611 cts. (9 ounces.) 
Do do bound in gilt.-80 cts. (9 oz.) 
POCKET FIARP.—This contains all the hymns of the former, bit 
the music is omitted, and the margin abridged, so that it can be 
carried in the pocket without encumbrance. Price, 371 cents. 
(6 ounces.) 
Do do gill-60 cts. (6 oz.) 
WHITING'S TRANSLATION OF THE NEW TESTAMENT.—This is an 
excellent translation of the New Testament, and receives the 
warm commendations (Wall who read it.—Price, 75 cts. (12 oz.) 
Do do gilt.—St. (12 oz.) 
ANALYSIS OF SACRED CHRONOLOGY ; with the Elements of Chro-
nology ; and the Numbers of the Hebrew text vindicated. By 
Sylvester Bliss.-232 pp. Price, 371 cts. (8 oz.) 
Do do gilt. —50cts. (8 oz.) 
FACTS ON ROMANISM.—This work is designed to show the nature of 
that vast system of iniquity, and to exhibit its ceaseless activity 
and astonishing progress. A candid perusal of this book will 
convince the most incredulous, that Popery, instead of becom-
ing weakened, is increasing in strength, and will continue to do 
so until it is destroyed by the brightness of Christ's coming. 
Price (bound), 25 cts. (5 oz.) 
Do do in paper covers-15 cts. (3 oz.) 
THE RESTITUTION, Christ's Kingdom on Earth, the Return of Is-
rael, together with their Political Emancipation, the Beast, his 
linage and Worship ; also, tine Fall of Babylon, and the Instru 
meats of its overthrow. By J. Litch.—Price, 371 cts. (6 oz.) 
DEFENCE OF ELDER .1. V. DIMES: being, a history of the fanati-
cism, puerilities, and secret workings of those who, under the 
garb of friendship, have proved the most dewily enemies of the 
Second Advent cause. Published by order of the Chardon-st. 
Church, Boston. —283 pp. I'rice (thin covers), 25 cts. (4 oz.) 
Do do thick covers-371 cts. (6 oz.) 
ADAENT TRACTS (bound)—Vol. I.—This contains thirteen small 
tracts, and is one of the most valuable collection of essays now 
published on the Second Coming of Christ. They-are from the 
pens of both English and American writers, and cannot fail to 
produce good results wherever circulated.—Price, 25 cts. (5 oz.) 
The first ten of the above series, viz, Ist, "Looking Forward," 
2d, " Present Dispensation—Its Course," 3d, " Its End," 4t11, 
" Paul's Teachings to the Thessalonians," 5th, " The Great 
Image," 6th, " If I will that he tarry till I come," 7th, " What 
shall be the sign of thy conning ?" 8th, " The New Heavens and 
Earth," 9th, " Christ our King," 10th, " Behold He cometh 
with clouds."—stitched, 12) cts. (2 Or.) 
ADVENT TRACTS (bOUUd).—Vol. II. contains—" William Miller's 
Apology and Defence," " First Principles of the Advent Faith ; 
with Scripture Proof's," by L. D. Fleming, "The World to 
come! The present Earth to he Destroyed by Fire at the end 
of the Gospel Age," " The Lord's coming a great practical doc-
trine," by the Rev. Mourant Brock, M. A., Chaplain to the 
Bath pepireariary, "Glorification," by the senile, " The Second 
Advent Introductory to the World's Jubilee a Letter to the 
Rev. Dr. Raffles on the subject of his Jubilee Hymn," " The 
Duty of Prayer and Watchfulness in the Prospect of the Lord's 
coming." In these essays a full and clear view of the doctrine 
taught by Mr. Miller and his fellow-laborers may be Mend. Tiny 
should find their way into every family.—Price, 331 cts. (6 oz.) 
The articles in this vol. can be had singly, at 4 cts each. (Part 
of an ounce.) 
KELSO TRACTS—No. 1—Do you go to the prayer-meeting ?-50 cts 
per hundred ; No. 2—Grace and G lory. —$1 per hundred. No. 
3—Night, Day-brhak, and Clear Day.—S1 50 per hundred. 
BOOKS FOR CHILDREN. 
THE BIBLE CLASS.—This is a prettily bound volume, designed for 
young persons, though older persons may read it with profit. It 
is in the form of four conversations between a teacher and his 
pupils. The topics discussed are-1. The Bible. 2. The King-
dom. 3. The Personal Advent of Christ. 4. Signs of Christ's 
coming near.—Price, 25 cts. (4 oz.) 
NOTE.-Subscribers omitting to give their State, as well 
as sometimes their Post-office and county, and sometimes to 
sign their names, cause us much perplexity, often, in credit-
ing the money they send for their papers. 
280 
THE ADVENT HERALD. 
FOREIGN NEWS. 
The Collins' steamship Atlantic arrived at New York on 
Sunday morning last. 
France. 
Prince Napoleon Bonaparte, son of the ex-king Jerome, 
has been offered the ministry to the United States in place of 
M. Sartiges. M. Bonaparte has declined the embassy, but 
will go temporarily to Washington. 
The rumor of the bombardment of Tripoli was nearly but 
not quite correct. Dispatches, dated 30th July, had arrived 
in Paris, announcing that the prisoners, respecting whom the 
difficulty had Occurred, had been given up at the moment the 
French ships were about to open fire. The cause of the dif-
ficulty was the ill treatment of two French deserters, who 
had taken refuge at Tripoli, where attemps were made to 
convert them to Islamism. 
A further modification of the Cabinet is entertained, but 
without the introduction of any new element. M. Baroche, 
it is said, will be transferred to the Home Department, and 
Persigny to the Department of State, and Fould to the Min-
istry of Finance. 
Louis Napoleon has ordered the Due d'Enghein's monu-
ment in the Chapel of Vincennes to he defaced. 
The rumors that a treaty of commerce with England was 
contemplated, are decisively contradicted by the Constitu-
tionnel. 
The Moniteur announces that the commercial relations be-
tween France and Belgium are placed under the regime of 
the common law, the treaty of 1845 not having been re-
newed. 
Continental Items. 
The Belgium Ministry will retain office, with the excep-
tions of M. Frere Orban, who'quits the Finance Department. 
There are rumors of a ministerial crisis in Copenhagen. 
A letter from Rome gives some details of the recent ar-
rest of members of the revolutionary committee residing in 
Lombardy, Tuscany, and the Roman States. It appears that 
the Austrian consul at Genoa, hearing of the death of a per-
son, a Lombard by birth, went to place seals on his property, 
when it was found that the deceased was one of the paymas-
ters of the conspiracy. The mode of carrying on the cones-
pondence;was also discovered, being by means of silk hand-
kerchiefs, the colors of which disappeared by chemical wash-
ing, the writing being brought out by the same operation. In 
consequence of this discovery, arrests have taken place at 
Ferrara, and other places in the Roman States. 
A circular has just been issued by the Prussian Minister of 
the Interior, to the Regencies of the cities, charging them to 
make known to all masters of public schools, without distinc-
tion, that they must submit to the regulations of Government 
Inspectors, and that all hopes of the emancipation of schools 
from the control of the Church, must be given up as wholly 
inadmissible. 
 
The greater part of the town of Eisfield, in the principality 
of Coburg, was destroyed by fire on the 29th of July. 
A violenit shock of an earthquake was felt at Lindan, Ba-
varia, on the evening of the 30th ult. 
The Prussian Journal of the 4th says :-" A postal treaty 
has been, or is on the eve of being, concluded between Prus-
sia and the United States, whereby single letters may pass 
between any part of the United States and the German 
Postal Union at a reduced charge of 30-cents." 
The cholera had made its appearance in Dantzig„and been 
very fatal ; four out of every five attacked died. At Seiradz, 
in Poland, its ravages have been very great. 
The railroad treaty between Austria, Parma, Modena, 
Tuscany, and the Pontifical States, has just been published. 
This is the first step of importance towards the realization of 
Austria's grand scheme of uniting the countries of Central 
Europe in one commercial and customs union. 
The banishment of Gorgey, the Hungarian General, to the 
fortress of Kufstein, was in consequence of the Austrian gov-
ernment taking offence at the publication of his book on the 
Hungarian war. He is placed under the surveillance of the 
police. 
It is understood in diplomatic circles in Vienna, that Lord 
Westmoreland,. whose departure for Rome has been already 
mentioned, has been entrusted with a mission of reconcilia-
tion to the Italian potentates, He has been instructed, it is 
said, to assure the authorities everywhere, that the English 
government, although in favor of constitutional liberty at 
home, will never intermeddle with the affairs-of other na-
tions with a view to foster discontent. 
The Berlin Times announces that the property of all Poles 
who took part in the late Hungarian revolution. is confiscated 
to the State, and they themselves proscribed.. 
Cape of Good Hope. 
The steamer Propontis arrived at Plymouth on the 10th, 
with dates from Grahamtown to June 26th. The intelligence 
represents affairs at the Cape to be in a desperate condition. 
The South African Advertiser says disorder and danger, as 
well as actual war„ have become general for fifty miles or 
more on both sides of a border line some one hundred and 
fifty miles in length. On the 11th of June, five ammunition 
wagons were captured by the Caffres. and eleven of the guard 
killed and seven wounded. 
Bro. HINES will preach in Truro, Mass., Sunday, Sept. 
5th. 
He will commence his labors in Canada East, as Bro. 
Hutchinson shall appoint, Sept. 12th, and continue about 
four weeks. Bro. Hutchinson will give notice, if possible, in 
next week's paper. 
THE ADVENT HERALD. 
BOSTON, AUG. 28, 1852. 
NEW WORK. 
• 
" The Phenomena of the Rapping Spirits, &c. : A revival 
of the Necromancy, Witchcraft and Demonology forbidden 
in the Scriptures : Shown by an exposition of Rev. 15-18 
to be symbolized by the Frog-like spirits which were to pro-
ceed from the mouth of the Dragon, Beast and False Prophet. 
For they are the spirits of devils working miracles, which 
go forth unto the kings of the earth and of the whole world, 
to gather them to the battle of that great day of God Al-
mighty.' "-Rev. 16:14. 80 pp. Price, 121 cts. single-
$8 per hundred, or ten copies for $1. Postage on single 
copy 2 cts. fur each 500, or any part of 500 miles. 
This is the title of a pamphlet published at this office. It 
begins with the 15th chapter, and gives an exposition of that 
and the three chapters next following,-ending where the 
tract called the Approaching Crisis begins. It gives : 
The Victors on the Sea of Glass.-Rev. 15:1-4. 
The Angels with the Seven Vials.-15:5-8 ; 16:1. 
The First Vial.-16:2. 
The Second Vial.-16:3. 
The Third Vial.-16:4-7. 
The Fourth Vial.-16:8, 9. 
The Fifth Vial.-16:10, 11. 
The Sixth V411.-16:12... 
The Unclean Spirits.-16:13, 14. 
The Admonition.-16:15. 
The Success of the Spirits.-16:16. 
The Seventh Vial.-16;17-21. 
The Judgment of the Harlot.-17:1, 2. 
A Woman on a Scarlet Colored Beast.-17:3-18. 
The Fall of Babylon.-18:1-3. 
The Voice from Heaven.-18:4-8. 
The Destruction of Babylon.-18:9-24. 
The evidence is given that we are under the sixth vial-
that at this lime there were to lie the manifestations symbol-
ized by the Unclean Spirits-that it was to be a body of re-
ligious teachers, who should present a belief common to Pa-
ganism, Romanism and Mohammedanism, which religions 
are respectively the mouth-piece of Imperial Rome, decent-
regal Rome, and the eastern Roman Empire,-that demon-
worship is coalition to those three religions-that the teach-
ings of the rapping spirits, are in accordance with that de-
mon-worship-that as the necromancy of the Canaanites 
(Deut. 18th) preceded their destruction, so these are to be 
instrumental in gathering the nations to the battle of Arma-
geddon-that this battle will commence in a violent conflict 
between the opinions of men and the word of God-that 
these new lights have arrayed themselves in direct conflict 
with the Bible-and that it will terminate by the destruction 
of the wicked from the earth. 
The Excitement in Cuba. 
The Havana correspondents of the New York press com-
municate a variety of intelligence in regard to the excitement 
which has recently sprung up in Cuba, mostly, it would seem, 
in consequence of the secret issue of the revolutionary sheet 
called The Voice of the People. The letter writers generally 
do not seem to believe that any open outbreak will take place, 
although the disaffection of the Creoles is admitted to be 
general. The N. Y. Herald has received from one of its 
correspondents at Havana, a copy of a letter received by 
hint from Madrid, which states that arrangements are to be 
made with the Emperor of Hayti to land an army of negroes 
on the island of Cuba in the event of a revolution. 'rite 
following are extracts from letters in the Herald : 
Arrests and the searching of houses are of daily occur-
rence. About seventy persons, up to this time, have been 
taken up in Havana. 
A quantity of powder and ball cartridges were discovered 
last week in the Calza de San ',ann.°, and at Regla, in the 
houses of persons of no great note. It is, however, absurd 
to suppose that these Creoles can in any way oppose the gov-
ernment, and the least attempt at insurrection will certainly 
lead to the destruction of those engaged in it. 
The only novelty in tltis line of policy to which the Cu-
bans must now have become accustomed is, that women, who 
have hitherto been considered exempt from such treatment 
by all former Captain-Generals, are now, by order of General 
Canedo, if suspected of entertaining ideas inimical to the 
government, arrested as well as men. 
Assassinations and robberies, attended with unheard-of 
atrocities, have recently prevailed to a great extent about the 
suburbs and in the vicinity of Havana. All this arises from 
the inefficient state of the police, which has become very lax 
since the departure of Gen. Concha, whom all classes of the 
community lament as the only man ever sent from Spain to 
govern Cuba who interested himself inn the welfare of the in-
habitants, and who understood best the true interests of the 
people committed to his charge. 
The government have not yet discovered the secret press 
from which is weekly issued and secretly distributed the se-
ditious papers. 
Iu the hands of this inquisitorial jury the most important 
and sacred secrets of families are exposed to public light. 
Neither sex, circumstances, nor affliction of mind, are re-
spected, and houses have been searched, as also the dresses 
of the lady inmates at the very moment that preparations 
were making for the funeral of a member of the family. Per-
sons are carried to prison on no other charge than the mere 
possession of an insignificant paper. 
The police have found in one house fifteen thousand car-
tridges, and some loose powder and balls, which, it is said, 
were prepared for a pronunciamento on some part of the island. 
The owner of the house is Mr. N. Valdes, and he, with sev-
eral women, has been put in prison. 
Another house, where gunpowder was deposited, has been 
searched by the police, and the inmates and gunpowder car-
ried away. 
The correspondent of the Tribune says : 
Besides the arrest of persons supposed to be concerned in 
the paper affair, some twenty persons have been thrown into 
prison for having large quantities of powder and lead in their 
possession. One man had no less than eight hundred pounds 
of lead in his house when taken, besides a large quantity in 
cartridges already made up, and some demijohns of powder. 
It is also said that depots of salted provisions have been dis-
covered in the country. I assure you that these latter arrests 
somewhat surprise me, for I hind no idea that things were 
taking so serious a turn ; however, I expect that there will 
be no immediate outbreak, as this I merely consider to be the 
shadow of corning events. Those Spaniards-who are men 
of intelligence-who have long resided in the country, and 
who treat familiarly with the Cubans, without being traitors 
to their county, are of opinion that Cuba cannot be saved to 
Spain. Of course that country will not give it up without 
some remuneration while she can maintain from. 20,000 to 
30,000 soldiers on the island frets of cost. Whatever may 
be the destiny of Cuba,. during the present state of things it 
is an unpleasant place for a sensitive foreigner to reside in ;-
for if you are seen with a Spaniard, you are looked upon as 
a friend to despots, and, on the other hand,. if you associate 
at all with Creoles, you are set down as a flibustier and a 
suspicious fellow. 
Of the effect of this intelligence upon the exiled Cubans in. 
New York, the Express says : 
The exciting intelligence from Havana received by the 
" Crescent City," has produced a profound sensation among 
the Cubans residing in this city, and a large class of citizens 
who have frequent commercial intercourse with the gem of 
the Antilles. The so called Cuban Junta, whose heads are 
understood to have planned the ill-fated Lopez expedition, 
will probably be convoked again, and on all hands it is more 
than likely a vigorous attempt will he made to stir up the 
slumbering elements of rebellion. 
Terrible Steamboat Casualty. 
Another of those awful calamities which freeze the blood, 
has just occurred on Lake Erie. About 2 o'clock on the 
morning of the 20th, the steamer Atlantic came in collision 
with the propeller Ogdensburgh, and sunk in half an hour. 
The Atlantic had on board five hundred passengers, and it is 
said three hundred persons lost their lives ! The remainder 
succeeded in getting on board the Ogdensburgh, and reached 
the Erie the same morning. None of the passengers of the 
Ogdensburgh were injured. The following dispatch, received 
by the Traveller, gives a few of the melancholy particulars : 
" Erie, Aug. 20, noon.-At the time of the collision, a 
dense fog was prevailing. The passengers were all in bed, 
and the Atlantic was in charge of the first mate. Immedi-
ately following the collision, the utmost confusion prevailed 
among the steerage and deck passengers, a very large pro-
portion of whom were Norwegian emigrants. Manyof them, 
in their terror, jumped overboard instantly. Capt. Petty 
vainly endeavored to calm their fears,by assuring them there 
was no danger, hoping to keep the steamer on its course and 
reach port in seasons to save them ; but the water gained so 
fast on the efforts of the crew, that by the time she had pro-
ceeded two miles from the spot where the collision took 
place, she was Mund to be rapidly sinking. 
" The fires in the engine room were extinguished by the 
rising water, and a scene of terrible confusion followed. The 
emigrants, who could not understand a word spoken to them, 
added horror to the scene by their cries and exhibition of 
frantic terror. The cabin passengers, and all others who 
could be made to understand the exhortations and orders of 
the captains and officers, remained comparatively calm, and 
provided themselves with chairs, settees, and beds, all of 
which wore patent life-preservers, uhich_buoyed them up in 
the water, and they were thus saved. Great numbers of the 
immigrants jumped overboard in their terror, without any 
provision for their safety, and thus rushed on to certain 
death. The fog was a sad hinderance to the efforts made at 
rescue, lint Soros two hundred and fifty were picked up by the 
propeller and taken to Erie. Large numbers of them left at 
once on the steamer Sultana for Cleveland, and others carne 
down in the cars to this city. 
" From the best information we can gain, we are led to 
believe that not less than three hundred lives are lost." 
The accounts of the actual loss are very contradictory. 
Our last dispatch front Buffalo says, that nine of the crew 
and twenty-five of the cabin passengers are known to be lost. 
How many snore have lost their lives is nut stated.-Journal. 
A Problem for the Scientific.-There are observable at Rye 
Beach, near the Ocean House, at extreme low water, the 
stumps of a forest thickly studding the sand. They are the 
remains of trees of a large growth, but of what kind, the 
change wrought in them by time and the action of the sea 
renders it impossible to determine-at least upon a cursory 
examination. We do not leans that they have ever been seen 
before the present season, the severe storms of last spring 
apparently having washed the sand from them and left them 
distinctly exposed to view. There appears to be no account 
of them from history or tradition. How is the phenomenon 
to be explained Was the bed of the ocean in this quarter 
once verdure covered earth, which some mighty convulsion 
of nature sunk beneath the winters, at a period to which the 
" memory of man runneth not'!" The subject is certainly 
deserving the attention of both the curious and the scientific. 
-Portsmouth (N. II.), Gazette. 
The drouth in all this regions of country is becoming dis-
tressing. It is felt by farmers in their suffering crops, and 
by manufacturers in low streams. Many of the water tanks 
on the Western Railroad, between here and Albany, have 
failed, and water has to be procured at unusual places, and at 
great disadvantage, for running the engines. One train, on 
Thursday, was delayed an hour from this cause.-Springfield 
_Republican. 
ANNIVERSARY OF THE "AMERICAN BIBLE UNION." 
The A11111.1a1 Meeting of the American Bible Union will he 
held in the meeting-house of the First Baptist Church, on 
the corner of Broome and Elizabeth streets, in the city of 
New York, on Thursday, the 7th of October next. The ex-
ercises are expected to continue through several days. 
Among the speakers appointed for the occasion are, Pres. 
Lyind, of Covington Seminary ; Pres. Shannon, of Missouri 
University ; Prof. Adkins, of Shurtleff College, Ill. ; Prof. 
Duncan, of Louisiana University ; Elder Wan. B. Alaxson, 
New York ; Rev. John L. Waller, Editor of the " West-
ern Recorder," Ky. ; Rev. James Pvper, Editor of the 
" Christian Observer," Canada ; Elder R. L. Coleman, 
Editor of the " Christian lutelligeucer," Va., and Rev. 
Messrs. J. G. Stearns, C. I'. Sheldon, William S. Clapp, 
Thomas Armitage, A. Wheelock, W. W. Everts, J. I. Ful-
ton, and others. Discourses upon the Bible are expected to 
be delivered by Rev. Dr. Lynd, A. Wheelock, and J. Pyper. 
The morning hour of Thursday, from eight to nine o'clock, 
will be occupied as a prayer-meeting, in which brethren from 
all parts of the country will unite in seeking the blessing of 
God upon the plans and operations of the American Bible 
Union, especially in reference to the revision of the English 
Scriptures. 
The business meeting will commence at 9 A. M. in the lec-
ture-room, and the anniversary exercises in the body of the 
house at 10 A. M. War. H. WYCKOFF, Cor Sec. 
"Youth's Guide." 
The Aug. number (No. 9, Vol. 6) of this interesting and beautifu 
little monthly paper is now out. 
CONTENTS. 
Richard Bakewell (Chap. 4.) The Little Ragged Boy. 
Interesting Anecdote. Teaching Children to tell False 
An Extraordinary Stomach Load 
hoods. 
Parental Duties. 
The Mother. 
'fire Seasons in Iceland. Profanity. 
The Peewit 
Why You should be Thankful. 
The Will and the Way. Neatness. 
The Schoolmaster at Home. A Sabbath S. Scholar Murdered. 
Enigma, &c. &c. 
TERMS (invariably in advance). 
Single copies 
 25 cts. a year. 
Twenty-five copies (to one address) 5 00 " 
Fitly copies 
 9 00 " 
An Uncomfortable Bed.-A few days ago, two men, named 
James Dolan and Thomas McCormick, were found by police 
officer Weiherby, of Charlestown, sleeping upon a railroad 
track. They were subsequently sentenced to the House of 
Correction as vagrants.-Boston Journal. 
Appointments, &c. 
N OTIcE. -As our paper is made ready for the press on Wednes-
day, appointments ninst be received, at the latest, by Tuesday 
morning, or they cannot be inserted until the following week. 
I will preach at North Danville, Vt , Aug. 31st and Sept. 1st, as 
brethren may appoint ; Derby Line, the 3d, and remain over the 
following Sabbath ; at Head of the Bay, 7th and bah; Richford, the 
10th, and remain over the Sabbath ; Montgomery, 14th-two meet-
ings ; Morrisville, 16111, where brethren may riennoiiNnt.;:LaLteiNrInGus 
may
be 
bl7eilkily fiRint.tleinngoteodn., Sabbath, 19th. It is hoped that the meetings ay 
The friends in Kennebunk, Me., are hereby informed that I will be 
with then) on the first, third, and ficurth Sabbaths in October, but 
cannot remain during the week time. 
The friends in Peacedirle, R. 1., are informed that I will visit them 
on the second Sabbath in October, and reinainErr;wo ioNr ittliurReemitliAlyms: 
 
I will preach in Rye, N. It, Sabbath, August 29th, Hampton at 5 
P. st., where Bro. Bachelor may appoint; Kingston Plains, 31st. 
L. D. THOMPSON. 
Bro. I.H. Shipman will preach at Derby Line, VS., Sunday, Aug. 
29th. 
K.S. Hastings will preach in Hartford, Ct., the first and second 
Sabbaths in September. 
I will preach at Derby Line, Vt., Sunday, Sept. 19th.-W. H. 
EASTMAN. 
There will be a Conference in Brookfield, N. H. (at the Town 
House), commencing Saturday, Aug. 28th, and hold over the Sab-
bath.-D. 
There will be a four days' meeting held in the grove near the Un-
ion Hall in Harwich, commencing Thursday, Sept. 9th, at 10 A. nt. 
-ELKANAH NICKERSON. 
There will be a Conference at North Danville, commencing Oct. 
6th, and continuing over the Sabbath. All ministering brethren and 
drlegares from every church in this section, are requested to be 
present on Thursday, Oct 7th, as the Conlerence will be opened 
for business.-B. S. REYNOLDS, S. W. TtiuDBER, 0. DAVIs. 
Camp-Meetings, &c. 
The Lord willing, a camp-meeting will be held in Winsted, cosi-
menchig Aug. loth, to continue One week or more, upon the same 
ground occupied last year. The camp ground is about two miles 
from the depot at the mernnieus of the !Naugatuck Railroad ; and 
those coming by cars or stages will be accommodated with cheap 
conveyance to and from the meeting. 
e invite every hien(' of Jesus, and all who are willing to seek 
eternal life through hint, to meet with us in the tented grove, to 
worship the God of heaven. 
Board and horse keeping on reasonable terms, with an invitation 
to the pour pilgrims to come and eat, without money and without 
price. S. G. MATHEWSON, HIRAM MUNGER, A. D. SMITH, MILES 
GRANT. Committee. 
The Lord willing, there will be a Camp-meeting held by those 
looking for the personal conning of Christ in W est Etyma, Me., 
about fourteen nines from Bangor, COMIlleaCillg 41. ednesday, Sept. 
1st, and to continue over the following Sunday. tire. Churchill, 
Couch, Smith, anal other miiiisterieg brethren, are invited to attend. 
Brethren are invited to come mid bring their tents with them. 
Joan CLIFFORD, EDWARD SMILEY'. 
BUSINESS DEPARTMENT. 
Special Notice. 
We would say to all subscribers and agents, who are indebted 
to this office, that we are in PRESSING NEED of the monies due 
by them. They have received bills of the various amounts they 
owe, and we hope that this notice will ensure an IMMEDIATE 
response to the same. There is due on the Herald about $2000, 
in sums of from $1 to $5, the payment of which would relieve 
us from much embarrassment. Those indebted, will find the sum 
they owe marked on the margin of their Herald of June 26th. 
Business Notes. 
azr Who sent money for P. Densmore, E. Pierce, &c. ? He dint 
not give his name or Post-office address, and therefore we cannot 
credit him the money Ire sent on his account, or seed him the books 
ordered, till he informs us. 
8. M. Case-I do not find by our books that that letter was ever 
received. If it was it Was riot attended to. Was it acknowledged 
at the time ? Reference to it since has not been understood for 
wart of explicitiress. We now credit you $1 to No. Wu, and cuter 
the tour names for the Y. G.-cued. each of them 25 ctss to A o.•72. 
'Thos. Atkins-Von write from Canaan, but do not give us your 
P. 0• address or the State you live in. We naive several Cantons 
in different States on our books, but do not lied your name on ei-
ther of those lists. 
Wm. F. Hunt-Yon have paid to Jan. 1st.-Sent Pamphlet. 
Wm. Goodsell, $12-Have credited all to 603-Jan. 1st 1653. 
PLEDGES 
To defray the expenses of publishing the Report of the late Trial, 
to be paid in case *Wu shall be pledged, and to receive pay in 
The report which it is proposed to publish, 'is the verbatim one 
taken by the Phonograper, which is written out and certified to by 
him as correct, and no be submitted to and upprobated by counsel 
on both sides. 
Herold 
00 Chas. Wood, Worcester. 10 00 
S. C. oerirliye,e 10
Rye, N. 11 10 00 H. Tanner, Buffalo 
1) 
IL H. Gross to 00 J. Drake ........ ........ 110 01)00 
G. Locke 
 10 On W. W . Paltrier ...... 1 00 
Win. Tracy 20 00 
The Advent Herald. 
TEnMs-$1 per semi-annual volume, if paid in advance. If not 
paid till after three.months from the commencemeint of the volume, 
the paper will be $1 121 cm. per volume, or $2 25 cts. per year. 
$i for one copies- to one person's address. $10 Ior thirteen copies. 
Single copy, a cents. To those who receive of agents without ex-
pense of postage, $1 25 for 26 Nos. 
For Canada papers, when paid in advance, $1 20 will pay or six 
months to Canada East, and $1 30 to Canada West, or bt will pay 
for 22 Nos. to the former, or 20 Nos. to the latter. 
Where we are paid in advance we can pay the postage in advance 
to the line-20 cents for six months to Canada East, and 30 cents tor 
six months to Canada West. Wi here the postage is not paid in ad-
vance, it is 1 cent on each paper to Canada East, and 2 tennis to 
Canada Vv est, which added to the price of the vol , $t 121 at the 
end of six months, brings the Herald at $1 36 to Camara East, and 
$1 63 to Canada West. 
ENGLISH SUBSCRIBERS.-The United States laws require the pre-
payment of two cents postage on each copy of all papers sent to 
Europe or to the English West banes. This aniourithig to 52 cents 
for six meths, or $1 114 a year, it requires the addition of 2s. Rix' 
six, or 4s. Mr twelve months, to the subscription price of the her-
ald. So that 6s. sterling for six months, and 120. a year pays for the 
herald and the American postage, which our English subscribers 
will pay to our agent, Richard Robertson, Esq., Lorclon. 
Two HUNDRED STORIES FOR CHILDREN.-Thin book, compiled by 
T. AL Preble, is a thvorite with the little folks, and is beneficial 
in its tendency.-Price, 354 els. (5 oz.) 
Receipts from Aug. 17th to the 24th. 
The No. appended to each name below, is the No. of the Herald to 
which the money credited pays. By comparing it with the 
present No. at the herald-, the sender -will see how for he is in 
advance, or how far in arrears. No. 554 was the closing No. at 
last year. No. 580 is to the end of the first six months of the 
present year ; and No. 606 is to the close of this year. 
W. W. Sherman, 612; H. Johnson,' 606 ; W. Watson, 625, and 
Y. G. ; IL T. Price, 612 ; J. Fairbanks, Or ; J. ehesley, 012 ; J. D. 
Proctor, 614 ; A. Garland, 606: M. A. Starr, 606 ; R. Jackson, 632 ; 
J. G. Smith, 612 ; M. Fogg, 612 ; Libby & Connor, 560-$1 due ; N. 
Brown, 612 ; Mrs. Wilcox, 632 ; P. Densmore, 612 ; 0. Jones (cr. 
two vols.), 580 ; C. Whitney, 599 ; N . lisle, 012 ; C. Marshall, 606-
sent books ; J. Wright, 591, and books sent-we see DO error; W. 
Hopkinson, 612 ; S. P. Eldred for 4ti . E. (have credited you $6,44 
tor the one sent), 560 ; D. B. Winslow, 613 ; G. H. Roberts, 613 ; 
Winslow, 606, with tracts and postage sera ; W. S. Miller, on 
acc't ; L. L. ft allock, 580; N. Doolittle, 012-each $1. 
H. Ruth, (lid ; Flanders, 612 ; E. G. Bryant, 621, Y. G. and 
book ; N. Richards, 606 ; J. Damon, 560 ; F. Adams, 506 ; S. La-
throp, 586 ; J. Danforth, 624, Y. G. and books ; D. Bull, 612; T. J. 
Hoyt, 586 ; G. Wilson, 612; J. Sikes, from 5o4 to 606-Jan. 1st 1053-
each $2. 
G. L. McKenny, on acc't ; S. D. Clement, 586 ; M. Hunting-can't 
find your P.O. address-each $3. J. Stickney, 694 ; H. Flagg, (cr • 
$5,77), 580-each $5. A. C. Hurd, 606-$1 77.,