J. V. IIIMES, Proprietor. 
WHOLE NO, 691. 
(For the Herald.) 
Churches, Church Order, Creeds, &c. 
BY SIMON. 
(Continued 
from our 
last.) 
THE church is likened to competitors 
in the 
Olympic Games. 
" So run that ye may ob-
tain." 
" I therefore so run, not as uncertainly; 
so fight I, not as one that beateth the air." 
(L Cor, 9:24, 26.) 
41 I press toward the mark 
for the prize of the high calling of God in Christ 
Jesus." 
(Phil. 3; 14.) 
" Wherefore seeing we 
also are compassed about with so great a cloud 
of witnesses let us lay aside every weight and 
the sin which doth so easily beset us, and let us 
run with patience the race that is set before us." 
(Heb. 12:1.) 
" 1 have fought the good fight," 
The points of resemblance are these : 1. A race, 
fighting, or wrestling match: 2. Rules and laws 
to be governed by : 3. Strict obedience to those 
laws: 4. A prize to be given to the victor: 5, 
A judge to decide who was worthy of the prize, 
and to award it to them. 
None could obtain 
the prize unless he did so lawfully—he 
must 
comply in every respect with the rules of the 
games. 
So are Christians running in a race, 
for an incorruptible crown;" and 
there 
are 
rules—orderly 
arrangements 
enjoined 
upon 
them which, the church in her individual and 
collective capacity, must religiously 
observe, 
or else the "righteous Judge," at the end of 
the 
race, will 
not bestow 
the " crown 
of 
glory " on those who have not lawfully strives 
for it. 
Where there is labor performed in new 
fields, 
and 
sinners 
converted to God—back-
sliders awakened, and persuaded to return to 
their first love—and thus a company of believers 
raised up; if they are not cared for—are not 
collected together in church capacity—to keep 
the ordinances of the Lord—to observe the or-
der and discipline of the gospel—to mutually 
encourage,'and be encouraged;—then the labor 
or labors of the servants of Christ are paralyzed 
it not in most cases lost; who thus have been 
fighting like one who " beateth the air "—noth-
ing being permanently accomplished. 
It has been too much so with us as a peo-
ple, in time past, and we trust that all who pos-
sess any love for the advent cause, do, or will 
see the stern necessity of watering " God's hus-
bandry," that He may give an increase, and the 
• fruitx»f his servants labors may be so cherished 
and cared for, that in the " day of the Lord 
Jesus," they may come " bringing their sheaves 
with them," as " the crown of their joy." 
5. The church is likened to an army of sol-
diers, 
" Put on the whole armor of God that 
ye may be able to stand against the wiles of the 
devil. 
For we wrestle not against flesh and 
blood, but against principalities, against powers, 
against the rulers of the darkness of this world, 
against spiritual wickedness in high places." 
(Eph. 6:11, 12.) 
« Fight the good fight of 
faith." 
(2 Tim. 6:12,) 
"War a good war-
fare." 
(Chap. 1:18.) 
1. An army has a com-
mander-in-chief—so 
has the 
church. 
" The 
Captain of our salvation :" 2. An army has of-
ficers that serve under the chief commander,— 
. 
so has the church—" overseers "—" rulers." 
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3. All orders emanate from the commander of 
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the army—so the Head of the church has left 
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His c mmands for her to obey. 
4. The officers 
in the army, see that the orders of their general 
are executed—so it is the duty of the officers in 
the church, to'see that the commands of Christ 
are obeyed. 
5. There is order and discipline in 
an army—so there must be in the church. 
6. 
There have been traitors in the armies of all 
countries—so there have been in the church of 
Christ. 
7. Victories have been lost, discomfit-
ure, ruin and death, have been brought upon 
armies, in consequence of disorder and confu-
sion in their ranks—so has much good been lost, 
and incalculable evil done, by the disorderly 
conduct of those professing to be the soldiers of 
Jesus Christ, by, at the same time, disobeying 
his commands. 
Can a people reasonably ex-
pect success in the cause of truth—and not labor 
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to sustain unity, harmonious action, co-opera-
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tion, and consistent and orderly conduct? 
We 
are persuaded they will not for any length of 
time. 
Such are some of the similes in the New Tes-
tament which either directly or indirectly teach 
the fact and necessity of church government, or-
der, or discipline. 
2. Your attention is now called to the posi-
tive and inferential 
statement of scriptures and 
apostolical example, in reference to this subject. 
St. Paul says to Titus, " For this cause I left 
thee in Crete, to set in order the things that 
were left unfinished, and appoint ciders in every 
city, as I commanded thee." (Chap. 1:5.) 
From 
this passage we gather : 1. That labor had been 
performed in Crete, by the apostle, or others in 
the gospel. 
2. That the labor had been fruitful, 
and a religious 
interest 
awakened. 
3. The 
apostle in company with Titus had set some 
things in order, and some were wanting, or 
unfinished. 
4. The apostle commanded Titus 
to " set in order the things" 
which were 
yet 
wanting, 
among which were, " elders to be or-
dained, or appointed in every city," in the 
island. 
Now if the apostle was so particular to 
have " things set in order," that there might be 
orderly churches in every city in Crete, would 
he not follow the same course, in all places where 
he labored and the word took effect ? 
If it was 
necessary for the well being of the cause of truth 
in that island—in " every city " of that island 
—to have elders ordained, and " things set in 
order,"—why not in every country—in every 
age? 
In 
the foregoing 
passage, 
then, we see, 
first, a positive 
command 
to Titus—second, an 
apostolic 
example 
of church order—and third, 
the inference 
that if it was necessary for the 
good of the church, to observe order then, that 
it is equally imperative now. 
(Acts 20:28.) 
"Take heed therefore unto yourselves, and to 
all the flock, over which the Holy Ghost hath 
made you overseers, to feed the church of God, 
which he hath purchased with his own blood. 
For I know this, that after my departing shall 
grievous wolves enter in among you, not spareing 
the flock. Also, of your own selves shall men 
arise, speaking perverse things, to draw away 
disciples after them." 
In this passage the apostle exhorts the " el-
ders " of the chunh at Ephesus, whom the Holy 
Spirit had made " overseers," to " take heed," 
&c; 
because 
there 
would 
come 
"grievous 
wolves," and " men speaking perverse things," 
that would divide the flock ; hence, they must 
use their authority and influence to keep those 
" wolves " out of the fold and from devouring 
the sheep, and making disorder and destruction 
and division. 
"But," says a reader, "these 
' overseers' were appointed by the ' Holy Spirit,' 
and therefore, are not man-made appointments." 
True. 
All men who are called by the " Holy 
Spirit," to preach the gospel 
and take the 
" oversight of the flock," will, in all things fol-
low the teachings of 
that 
same Spirit, and 
those who do not obey the commands of the Holy 
Spirit, 
in 
reference 
to 
church government, 
give 
conclusive 
evidence that they are 
not 
called to the work of the ministry ; or, if they 
are, they are " disobedient to the heavenly call-
ing." 
Such, cannot say as did Paul to the el-
ders of Ephesus : " I have not shunned 
to de-
clare unto you all the counsel of Got?." 
In this 
passage 
we see officers in the church ; and 
therefore the church- was an organized body; 
(for when anybody of men choose officers to pre-
side over them, they are an organized body.) 
2. 
The necessity 
for such officers, and the duties 
enjoined upon them. 
(1 Cor. 12:28.) 
God 
hath set in the church, first apostles, and after-
wards prophets, teachers, miracles, gifts of heal-
ing, helps, governments, diversities of tongues." 
Now if God has set in the church, 
"govern-
ments," He designed them to be beneficial; and 
that the church should submit to them. 
God 
has placed them there, and who shall take it up-
on him to say, that it is an " innovation " upon 
the liberties of the church ? 
(1 Tim. 3d chap.) 
" This is a true saying, If a man desire the office 
of a bishop, he desireth a good work." 
Let the 
reader turn to the chapter and read the charac-
ter that should be possessed by " overseers " and 
" deacons " in the church. 
They must sustain 
the very best moral and Christian character, 
both in, and without the church. 
But why so 
particular, 
if the offices of 
"bishops" 
and 
" deacons" are of so little importance, as some 
think?—so lightly esteeming them as to alto-
gether neglect to appoint, or ordain them in the 
churches, and teaching that it is an " innova-
tion 
human machinery," and the like. 
The apostle says " If a man desire the office 
of a bishop, he desireth a good work." 
But in 
these days, men have grown so " wise." that the 
m an who endeavors to fill that office well, and faith-
fully, is called "the abomination of desolation !" 
" These things I write unto thee, that thou may-
est know how to behave thyself in the house of 
God." 
There are some, doubtless, whom it 
would not harm much, to study the same lesson. 
The apostle says farther, that the church is the 
" pillar and ground [or foundation] of the truth." 
In the same degree that the foundation is weak-
ened, or disordered, the superstructure is endan-
gered : hence, if the church is torn, divided, dis-
orderly, disobedient and lawless, the truth is 
brought into disrepute, and is made ineffectual, 
for the salvation of sinners. 
The apostle, in his epistle to Titus (chap. 1,) 
says that among the Cretians " there were many 
unruly and vain talkers and deceivers, specially 
they ol the circumcision : whose mouths must be 
stopped, who subvert whole houses, 
teaching 
things they ought 
not, for filthy lucre's sake." 
If there are no " rules " to be broken, there can 
be no " unruly 
" persons. 
If there is no gov-
ernment, 
there can be none that are 
ungoverna-
ble. 
If there is no order, 
there are none that 
are disorderly,—for, 
•' where no law is, there is 
no 
transgression." 
Further, the apostle says of these characters. 
'' They profess that they know God; but in 
works they deny him, being abominable, and dis-
obedient, and unto every good work reprobate," 
(or, useless ;) although they make a profession 
of Christianity, their works—actions and con-
duct, are a libel on their profession; for their 
works are works of " disobedience." 
" Unto the pure all things are pure : but unto 
them that are defiled and unbelieving is nothing 
pure;"—no, not even good, wholesome gospel or-
der and discipline! 
It is an abominable thing, 
in their eyes! ! 
(1 Thes. 5:14.) 
" Now we 
exhort you, brethren, warn them that are un-
ruly, [disorderly, margin] comfort the feeble 
minded." 
(2 Thes. 3:11, 14.) 
" For we hear 
that there are some which walk disorderly, 
working not at all, but are busy bodies. 
Now 
them that are such we command and exhort by 
our Lord Jesus Christ that with quietness they 
work, and eat their own bread. . . . And if any 
man obey not our word by this epistle, note that 
man, and have no company with him that he 
may be ashamed ;" (verse 6, same chap.) 
" Now 
we command you, brethren, in the name of our 
Lord Jesus Christ, that ye withdraw yourselves 
from every brother that walketh disorderly, and 
not after the tradition which he received of us." 
In the above scripture as the apostle affirms that 
there are some who are 
"unruly"—"disor-
derly," the influence is, that there was estab-
lished in the primitive churches rules of conduct 
—church order—which some were guilty of dis-
regarding ; and the duty of the church in regard 
to such cases, is clearly pointed out, viz : " Ex-
hort "then—"warn" them, " note them," with-
draw from them—" have no company with them," 
&c. 
(1 Cor. 14:40.) 
" Let all things be done 
decently, and in order." 
(Col. 2:5.) 
" For 
though I may be absent in the flesh, yet am I 
with you in the spirit, joying and beholding 
your order, and the stedfastness of your faith in 
Christ." 
(1 Cor. 11:34.) 
" And the rest will 
I set in order when I come." 
(1 Cor. 7:17.) 
" And so ordain I in all the'churches." 
These 
statements show that order was ordained in the 
churches and that it was necessary for their good 
success in the cause of God, and growth in grace 
and knowledge. 
A few passages show more particularly, apos-
tolic and primitive example, in reference to this 
subject." 
(Acts 
6:2, 3.) 
"Then the twelve 
called the multitude of the disciples unto them, 
and said, It is not reason that we should leave 
the word of God, and serve tables. 
Wherefore 
brethren, look ye out among you seven men of 
honest report, full of the Holy Ghost and wis-
dom, whom we may appoint over this business. 
. . . . And this saying pleased the whole mul-
titude," &c. 
Here, then, is an example of appointing men 
to office in the church at Jerusalem. 
They had 
a " church meeting "to do business relating to 
the welfare of the church ; men were chosen— 
the apostles "prayed," and " laid their hands 
on them,'" and thus they were ordained to the 
office of" deacons." 
Was it right for the church 
at Jerusalem to have deacons ? 
Was it agreea-
ble to the will of God, that all the churches in 
the apostolic age should observe order? 
If so 
why 
is 
the 
appointment of 
deacons in the 
churches in this age an act so wicked ? 
Why 
should it be called an " innovation " upon the 
liberties of the saints ? 
2. The apostles, elders and the church, as-
sembled in conference also at Jerusalem, as we 
learn from the 15th chap, of Acts. 
The ques-
tion of Judaism was subverting, distracting and 
dividing the-churches, and a conference was con-
vened to take counsel on the matter. 
They discussed the question—and the discus-
sion resulted in sending letters, (or " decrees," 
as they are called in the following chapter, (v. 
4,) to the churches in different parts. 
Paul and 
Barnabas was at that conference, and they were 
looked upon with suspicion ; but they gave an 
account of their labors among the gentiles—of 
the success that attended them—and then, as 
Paul says: (Gal. chap. 2.) 
" James, Cephas, 
and John gave to me and Barnabas, the right 
hand of 
fellowship as much as to 
say, we 
have found out who you are, and what you have 
been doing, and now we can receive you into our 
midst and fellowship." 
But, there were some 
there, who did not sympathise with the objects of 
the conference, who came in privily to spy out 
our liberty which we have in Christ Jesus, that 
they might bring us into bondage. 
To whom we 
gave place, by subjection, no, not for an hour! 
Although they " seemed to be somewhat in con-
ference, they added nothing 
to me." 
(Gal. 
chap. 2.) 
Thus we see an example of the " apos-
tles and elders," in the first and purest ages of 
the church, of holding a conference to take into 
consideration the wants of the cause which was 
so near their hearts. 
They were opposed in 
their work just as the church has been in all 
ages, and still is, by " unreasonable [absurd] and 
wicked men." 
(To be oontinued.; 
The Reformation in Armenia-
TiiEYhave lately formed in England a " Turk-
ish Mission Aid Association," for the purpose 
of aiding Armenian missions in Armenia, which 
expects to aid the present year to the amount of 
$10,000. 
At a meeting of the association on 
the 5th of May, Rev. C. G. Young said that: 
"Twenty years ago there was not known to 
be a single enlightened Armenian in Asia Minor 
or Armenia Proper. 
Dr. Dwight, who is one of 
the senior missionaries at Constantinople, and 
Dr. Eli Smith, at Beyrout, made a very extended 
tour through Asia Minor and Armenia, and they 
reported, that they were not satisfied with a 
single case. 
There are individuals now present 
who were then in Turkey, residing in Bagdad 
and other places, who could bear the same testi-
mony. 
Now things are much changed. 
There 
are sixty-five preachers, foreign and native, in 
different parts of the Turkish Empire—Protes-
tant, Evangelical preachers. 
There are now 
100 Bible-classes of young people and adults in 
various parts occupied by the American Mission. 
Bibles, books, and tracts have been circulated 
during these twenty years to the extent of 109 
million pages. 
More than 450 different tracts, 
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FABLES." 
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250 
THE ADVENT 
HERALD. 
averaging fifty pages, and books of all sizes, 
have been put into circulation, not only in Con' 
stantinople, Smyrna, Bey rout, and other out-
ports, but in the vallies of Lebanon and Hermon, 
and even in Ararat, 
The movement is extending 
throughout the lands which we are accustomed 
to call Bible lands. 
North Syria, Mesopotamia, 
Assyria, Armenia Proper, Asia Minor,—in all 
those districts the movement is spreading far 
and wide. 
There are now nineteen churches 
formed there, whereas eight years ago there 
was not a single church established. 
There are 
now 100 native agents at work, evangelists, pas-
tors, and colporteurs, at twenty different posts. 
There is now full toleration enjoyed by Protest-
ants, whereas, only some eight years ago, Prot-
estants dared not avow themselves to be such at 
the risk of th^ir lives. 
The Bibles which have 
been distributed have been in the Armenian, the 
Turkish, and also in Armeno-Turkish. and Greco-
Turkish. 
The people generally, though they 
talk Turkish, are more familiar with Armenian 
or Greek, as the case may be ; and the few Turks 
among whom copies of the Word of God have 
been circulated, in the same way read Arabo-
Turkish, and thus, by means of the Word of God 
and religious tracts, a way has been prepared for 
Christian Missionary effort. Young men scarcely 
of age have acted as colporteurs, and the few 
words they have spoken have been the means of 
leading to a deep conviction of sin, and a pro-
fession of true evangelical religion. 
It has 
pleased God to bless the native agency more em-
inently and manifestly than that of the foreign 
missionaries, and hence the missionaries are more 
than ever anxious that there should be provision 
made for native evangelists, pastors, 
colport-
eurs. and school-masters. 
There are two very 
nearly a third of the population of Europe, have 
been so entirely neglected. 
There has been no 
mission at all among them. 
North of the Dan-
ube are the Principalities of which we hear so 
much, Wallachia and Moldavia, containing four 
million members of the Greek church ; they be-
long to the old Dacians, mixed with Romans, 
and they speak a dialect like Latin. 
Then south 
of the Danube there are the Albanians, to the 
number of more than one and a-half million : 
they are of the old Illyrian stock. 
In Bosnia, 
there are 200,000 or more Turks, who are, I 
think, independent in a measure of the Turkish 
Government. 
The particular field that is occu-
pied by the American mission, extends from 
Constantinople toTrebizond, and from the Black 
Sea to the Tigris and Euphrates. 
North Syria 
is comprehended in it. 
The foregoing statistics respecting the devel-
opment of Protestantism in the Mohommedan 
empire, are interesting in connection with the 
other movements respecting that country. 
er comforteth, so does Jesus comfort his chosen. 
He satisfies the soul as with marrow and fatness. 
The world gives deceitfully. 
"Trust not the 
worlds for it never pays what it promises," said 
Augustine.- 
It is circumspect of ceremonies, 
but it is heartless. 
It has no depths of tender-
ness. 
It is not sincere. 
" They speak peace to 
valuable institutions at Constantinople, 
which 
have been the means of sending forth many na-
tives into the field Most of the native pastors 
and evangelists at present at work, have been 
trained at the seminary atBebek, near Constanti-
nople. That seminary has thirty-four Armenian, 
and sixteen Greek pupils; but they could easily, 
had they the means, raised the number to a hund-
red. 
The female seminary at Constantinople 
has been also blessed, and in both institutions 
there is evidence of deep 
religious emotion. 
There is a deal of self-sacrifice and self denial 
among the students in the Bebek institution. 
Six or eight young men in the seminary, Armen-
ians and Greeks, have spent their vacations in 
going about as colporteurs. 
There is an earnest 
call on all sides for more Bibles, more tracts, 
more colporteurs, more evangelists, more la-
borers of every class. 
The field that is occupied 
is very extended. 
There are a million of people 
in the city of Constantinople and in the different 
villages-on the Bosphorus. 
In 
Constantinople 
Proper, the Turkish Quarter, the Frank Quarter, 
the Greek and other quarters, there are 600,000, 
In the villages on the Bosphorus, twenty in num-
ber, and at Scutari (which has alone 100,000,) 
there may be 400,000 more. 
One Missionary 
thinks there must be 1,400,000 in Constantinople 
and the suburbs. 
Of these the large proportion 
are Mohammedans, There are, however, 200,000 
Greeks ii> the city and in the villages. 
Many vil-
lages on the Bosphorus are inhabited entirely by 
Greeks, 
The American Board are prepared to ex-
tend their operations if only assured of aid from 
England, 
The Secretary of the Board wrote to 
that effect not long ago. 
There is room, I am sure, 
for four Missionaries among these Greeks at 
once, and they would find ample work to do 
Everything is encouraging. 
There is an open 
ing in the khans, or inns, of the East, such as 
never existed before. 
Four or five years ago 
one of the Bebek students who went into one of 
the khans was attacked by 400 or 500 people 
and narrowly escaped with his life. 
So altered 
is the state of things now that some four or five 
of them are accustomed frequently to go out at 
sunset when the khan gates are closed, take 
room, and spend the evenings in reading the 
Bible and tracts, distributing them, and talking 
to the people. 
Mr. Blakiston, the chaplain at 
the Embassy, works most heartily with the Amer 
ican Missionaries, and so do the Missionaries 
to the Jews, of the London Society and of the 
Free Church of Scotland. 
There has been 
great advance in education throughout the field 
occupied by the Americans. 
A number of very 
interesting cases were cited,in illustration of the 
extent to which the work has progressed. 
The 
Mission in North Syria, in the region of Antioch, 
in Sidou and Lebanon, has much that is encour-
aging connected with it; but the movement has 
been specially developed among the Armenians. 
There are also openings for the Gospel in Euro-
pean Turkey. 
Between the Danube and the 
Balkans, are four million Bulgarians, members 
of the Greek Church, who are much more hope-
ful than those that speak Greek. 
Last year 
more copies of the Word of God were bought by 
the Bulgarians at Constantinople than by all 
others put together; yet no missionaries have 
ever b -en among them. 
Then there are a mill-
ion of Servians. 
These five millions are Sclavon-
ian in origin and language. 
It is surely a very 
sad fact, that the Sclavonians, who comprise 
Not as the World Giveth, Give I 
unto you. 
THE world gives things of little or no value. 
But Jesus gives the best things; things which 
cost him many tears and his heart's blood. 
He 
gives grace and glory, peace and righteousness, 
joy and salvation. 
He giveth songs in the night. 
He giveth us the victory. 
He gives crowns that 
fade not away, and kingdoms that cannot be 
moved. 
He gave himself for us. 
The world gives sparingly of the little it can 
bestow. 
It doles out a meagre pittance. 
It 
retains for its own use all it esteems most pre-
cious. 
It hardly throws scraps to the dogs. 
Many a man has actually died of starvation in 
the sight of abundance, and no man gave unto 
him. 
But Jesus gives bountifully. 
His grace 
is large. 
There is not room to receive his bless-
ings. 
He gives good measure, pressed down, 
and shaken together, and running over. 
His 
storehouse is full. 
His riches are unsearchable. 
Every believer may sing, " My cup runneth 
over." 
The world gives grudgingly. 
At every step 
it reluctates. 
To yield up what it prizes is like 
parting with eye-teeth. 
Even a good man has 
need of the exhortation, "Let him give, not 
grudgingly, nor of necessity." 
But with Christ 
it is different. 
Even his sufferings for us were 
borne joyfully. 
" I delight to do thy will, O 
my God: yea, thy law is within my heart." 
For 
the joy that was set before him he endured the 
cross, despising the shame. 
"I lay down my 
life. ... 
No man taketh it from me, but I lay 
it down of myself." 
" Having loved his own, 
which were in the world, he loved them to the 
end." 
To his people he says, " all things are 
yours." 
He withheld not himself. 
He with-
holds no good thing. 
He gives like a God. 
The world gives expecting an 
equivalent, 
"Sinners lend to sinners to receive as much 
again." 
But man can make no adequate return 
to his Creator, Preserver, Benefactor, Redeemer. 
Can a man be profitable unto God, as he that 
is wise may be profitable unto himself? 
Is it 
any pleasure to the Almightly, that thou art 
righteous? or is it gain to him, that thou makest 
thy ways perfect ?" 
" When ye shall have done 
all these things, which are commanded you, 
say, We are unprofitable servants." 
Christ 
loved us freely. 
He accepts us graciously. 
We 
never can pay the debt of love we owe him. 
He 
does not expect that of us. 
their neighbors, but mischief is in their hearts." 
" The words of his mouth are smoother than but-
ter, but war is in his heart; his words were sof-
ter than oil, yet were they drawn swords." 
It 
kisses, but stabs under the fifth rib. 
Its tender 
mercies are cruel. 
But Jesus makes good prom-
ise, yea, he does exceeding abundantly above all 
we ask or think. 
The world gives when its favors are not 
needed. 
It sends presents to the prosperous, and 
makes feasts for the victorious. 
Men will praise 
thee when thou doest well to thyself. 
But the 
poor are forsaken ; the feeble are forgotten , the 
slandered are avoided. 
Yet Christ gives what 
we need, and when we need it, strength to the 
feeble, warning to the careless, comfort to the 
afflicted, salvation to the perishing. 
God's rich-
est blessings are for the children of sorrow. 
The greater our need, the larger are his mercies 
towards us. 
He gives double for all our sins. 
He abundantly pardons. 
There is none like him. 
No gifts are like his gifts. 
They are so season-
able, so wonderful, so innumerable. 
In the words which stand at the head of this 
article there is special reference to peace, one of 
Christ's best blessings. 
" Peace 1 leave with 
you, my peace I give unto you: not as the 
world giveth, give I unto you. 
Let not your 
heart be troubled, neither let it be afraid." 
To give peace to any one is to wish him well, 
to bless him, to declare good will and friendly 
intentions towards him. 
Christ's legacy to his 
people was peace. 
" This comprised peace with 
God, peace of* conscience, a sweet serenity of 
mind, arising from confidence in God and sub-
mission to him, with the hope of heaven, and a 
disposition to mutual love and harmony." 
No 
gift ever excelled this. 
The world is full of compliments, which may 
mean anything, or nothing. 
Its insincerity is 
the poor tribute it pays to goodness and virtue. 
But Christ is the Prince of peace. 
He came to 
guide our feet into the way of peace, and to bring 
glory to God in the highest, peace on earth, good 
will toward men. 
When he sent forth his apos-
tles, it was with this salutation to every family, 
Peace be to this house. 
In him we have peace. 
Yea, he is our peace. 
After his resurrection he 
twice said, Eirene 
nmie, 
Pax 
volis, 
Pa! 
seja 
comvosco, Peace unto you, Peace be unto you. 
This peace passeth all understanding. 
Noth-
ing can exceed it. 
Nothing can break it. 
It 
is the peace of God. 
It is efficacious. 
It quiets 
all fears and agitations. 
It is the fruit of the 
blessings bought by Christ, 
It is itself one of 
his chief mercies. 
By means of it we pass 
through tempests to our desired haven. 
'' Glory 
be unto Him, who was, and is, and is to come ; 
and let every creature say, 
AMEN. 
N. Y. Observer. 
He comes with crowns of victory on his brow— 
Then at his feet in awe and reverence bow ; 
Tune all your harps—in joyful numbers raise 
A song of love, thanksgiving and of praise; 
Throw down yoar crowns at Prince Immannel's 
feet, 
While heaven and earth the glad acclaim repeat, 
"Worthy the Lamb, worthy the Lamb once slain, 
Worthy the Lamb who died, but lives again." 
The humble followers of the Nazarene, 
In silent awe gazed oil the dazzling scene : 
Beheld their Lord in power and glory rise 
Up the bright pathway of the parted skies, 
And while they strove with piercing eyes in vain, 
To catch one glimpse of that dear form again, 
Two angels left their happy homes above, 
On messages of peace, of joy and love. 
Oh ! glorious message to that faithful band, 
Who, on the mountain's top bewildered stand'; 
Oh ! glorious tidings to each ransomed soul, 
From sea to sea, from spreading pole to pole, 
In every age the joyful news proclaim, 
That very Jesus shall return again. 
Hark ! angel voices rend the vaulted sky, 
In thrilling tones those shining angels cry : 
" The heavens conceal your risen Master now, 
The time will come when yonder heavens shall 
bow, 
Yon glistening dome be rudely rent in twain, 
And ye behold that self-same form again. 
Oh Soldiers of the cross! devoted band! 
Press forward now the conflict is at hand ; 
Prepare ye for the bloody battle field, 
Bind on your helmet, grasp your shining shield; 
Go forth in warlike panoply arrayed, 
And bravely wield your trusty battle blade. 
The blood-stained cross your glory and your 
pride, 
Your motto, "Jesus and him crucified," 
Your watchword, " I the chief of sinners am," 
Your signal, "free salvation thro' the Lamb," 
And your alarm to the advancing foe, 
Judgment to come, eternal wrath and woe." 
While o'er your heads the blood stained banner 
floats, 
And the loud trumpet peals its martial notes, 
Rush bravely forward 'mid the battle's din, 
No common priz£ your fearless sword shall win. 
On, and stiil on, with firm and stately tread, 
Your glorious Captain marches at your head; 
Ye have his orders and his last command, 
' Go sound the gospel trump in every land, " 
And when ye faint and falter by the way, 
His promise shall your drooping spirits stay, 
" Lo, 1 am with you to protect and guide," 
Fear not: your Lord and Master will provide; 
The victory will be yours, and the reward 
Destined for you by your returning Lord. 
For when the clouds reveal your Saviour's form, 
All robed in glory, amid flames and storm, 
When that same Jesus shall return again, 
A mighty King and Conqueror to reign, 
Before his throne ye shall exulting stand, 
Ye shall be crowned by Prince Immanuel's hand, 
The royal diadem your brows shall wear, 
Thrones shall await you and dominion there. 
Magog, 
C. E. 
' 
II. M. J. 
The world gives to its friends. 
Christ gives 
to his enemies. 
He gave new hearts and full 
pardons in one day to three thousand of his mur-
derers. 
" Scarcely for a righteous man will 
one die : yet peradventure for a good man some 
would even dare to die. 
But God commendeth 
his love'toward us, in that while we were yet sin-
ners, Christ died for us." 
" Christ died for the 
ungxlly." 
O matchless kindness, and he shows 
That matchless kindness to his foes. 
We love him because he first loved us. 
The world often regrets the gifts it has made, 
and wishes it had them back. 
But the gifts and 
calling of God are without repentance. 
Jesus 
recalls no blessings. 
He revokes no promises. 
He never fails nor is discouraged. 
He brings 
forth judgment unto victory. 
What he under-
takes he accomplishes. 
By his grace and Spirit 
he gives repentance and faith. 
To these he adds 
courage, knowledge, temperance, patience, god-
liness, brotherly kindness and charity. 
If Christ 
does one act of mercy towards a sinner, it seems 
but to prepare the way for many others. 
The world gives unsatisfyingly. 
When it does 
its best, its beneficiaries still cry, Who will show 
us any good ? 
They toil and pant, and still find 
that they are spending money for that which is 
not bread, and their labor for that which sat-
isfieth not. 
Vanity of vanities is the best thing 
that can truly be said of all the world is, or has, 
or gives. 
But God giveth us richly all things 
to enjoy. 
" When he giveth quietness, who can 
make trouble ? and when he hideth his face, who 
then can behold him ?" 
As one whom his moth-
(For the Herald.) 
The Ascension. 
A 
WELL known group stood on the mountain's 
side, 
And in their midst appeared the Crucified; 
Oft had they stood in that sequestered place, 
Their beaming eyes fixed on their Saviour's face, 
But never met on Olivet's fair brow, 
With such emotions as they cherished now; 
And never with such eager spirits hung 
•Jpon the words that fell from Jesus' tongue. 
For never had their Master's voice before 
Sounded so sweet, as when his missson o'er, 
He gathered round him that devoted band, 
To give his blessing and his last command. 
" Go ye and teach all nations in my name, 
The Jew and Greek, the bond and free the same, 
Go ye and bid a sleeping world arise; 
Bid them repent, believe and be baptized; 
But first of all, declare a Saviour s love, 
To those who thirsted for a Saviour's blood, 
That they rejoicing thro' his death may live, 
And know their risen Saviour can forgive. 
Ye shall proclaim salvation's waters free, 
And bid all nations to the fountain flee; 
And tho' ye meet with perils dark and drear, 
And tribulation be your portion here, 
Tho' persecution with uplifted sword 
Shall call 
for blood, and your own blood be 
poured, 
Yet know that I, your Saviour and your friend, 
Will be with you till life itself shall end; 
And with all those who boldly shall proclaim 
To a lost world salvation thro' my name, 
In every land, in every age and clime, 
Till the last trump shall sound the knell of time. 
Now lift your heads ye everlasting gates, 
The King of glory for an entrance waits; 
Has burst the bands of death and of the tomb, 
Lift up your heads and give the 
Conqueror 
room. 
Rejoice ye angels! worship and adore, 
And welcome back the Son of God once more ; 
Dialogue. 
TUE following dialogue, &c., was once given 
at a meeting by the late Wilbur Fisk : 
Christ. 
Go preach my gospel. 
Answer. 
But, Lord, I have other engage-
ments. 
C. You are not your own you are bought with 
a price. 
A. But, Lord, I have been preparing myself 
tor another profession ; I have been struggling 
for an education ; I have high prospects before 
me, &c. 
C. What have you that you have not re-
ceived ? 
A. Lord, I have strong domestic feelings, and 
I hope one day to have a family and home of 
my own. 
C. He that loveth houses or lauds, wife or 
children more than me is not worthy of me. 
A. Lord, I have aged parents, and I am an 
only son. 
Filial love and duty require that I 
should look after them. 
C. He that loveth father or mother more than 
me is not worthy of me. 
A. Lord, is there none else ? May not ano-
ther answer? 
C. The gifts and callings of God are without 
repentance, 
A. At least, let me first stop and bury my 
father and mother. 
C. Let the dead bury their dead. 
. 
A. At any rate, I must wait awhile, and ac-
quire some property, &c. 
C. He that putteth his hand to the plough, 
and looketh back, is not fit for the kingdom of 
heaven. 
A. Lord, I cannot go. 
C. Woe unto you if you prcach not the gos-
pel. 
A. But, Lord, wilt thou not pity a poor help-
less wretch, who begs for an excuse as one who 
would plead for his life ? 
C. Ye know the grace of our Lord Jesus 
Christ; that though he was rich, for your sakes 
he became poor that ye through his poverty, 
might be made rich. 
Here the dialogue ended. 
The young man 
covered his face with his hands, and bursting into 
tears, cried : 
Nay but I yield, I yield." 
The bond was signed and sealed, and the youth 
was consigned over, soul and body to the church. 
The next thing I saw of him, he was threading 
a pathless forest among the Green Mountains, 
bordering upon the Canada line, driving his horse 
before him, because of the roughness of the 
wilderness, cheerful as an angel on an errand of 
mercy. 
Brief Extracts. 
" HE that hath tasted the bitterness of sin will 
fear to commit it; and he that hath felt the 
sweetness of mercy will fear to offend it."— 
Rom. 6:1, 2 ; 2 Cor. 5:14. 
" The guilt of one sin is a greater misery than 
the burden of a thousand crosses."—Heb. 11:25. 
Mr. Charnock. 
" We cannot begin to lead a holy life, till 
we first look to Christ for pardon of sin."—Luke 
1:74, 75. 
" Repentance is the greatest honor next to in-
nocence."—2 Cor. 7:12. 
" The comfort of a Christian lieth not in his 
own fulness, but in Christ's."—John 1:16; Pbil. 
4:13. 
Thomas Cole. 
" He that lives in sin, and expects happiness 
hereafter, is like him that soweth cockle, and 
thinks to fill his barn with wheat or barley."— 
Luke 6:44; Gal. 6:7, 8. 
" One leak will sink a ship, and one sin will 
destroy a sinner."—Gen. 2:17; Ezek. 18:4. 
John Banyan. 
"•Praying only for carnal things, sliows a 
carnal heart, and leaves it carnal."—Hos. 7:14; 
James 4:3. 
Mr. Marshall. 
" To put on the name of Christ, and not to 
walk in the ways of Christ, what is it else than 
to prevaricate with the Divine name?"—Titus 
1:16. 
Cyprian. 
"In vain do men pretend to religion while 
ungodly 
company 
is 
their 
choice." —Prov. 
13:20; Psa. 119:63. 
Mr. Boston. 
" He that is content with just grace enough 
to get to heaven, and escape hell, and desires 
no more, may be sure he hath none at all; and 
is far from being made partaker of the Divine 
nature."—Psa. 5,1:6; 40:8; 1 John 3:3. 
Jno. Janeway. 
" All our present glory consists in our prep-
aration for future glory."—Col. 1:12. 
Dr. Owen. 
"One only gift can justify 
The boasting soul that knows his God,— 
When Jesus doth his blood apply, 
I glory in his sprinkled blood!" 
Meth. Coll. 
"In the name of Jesus the whole Gospel lies 
hid: thLs name is the light, food, and medicine 
of the soul."—Song 1:3.' 
Giassius. 
Live not so much upon the comforts of God 
as upon the God of comforts."—Psa. 63:3. 
Mr. Mason. 
" Poor worldlings ! what will ye do when the 
span-length of your forenoon's laughter is ended, 
and when the weeping side of Providence is 
turned to you ?"—Luke 6:24. 
" Sin's joys are but night-dreams, thoughts, 
imaginations, and shadows."—Rom. 6:21; Eccl. 
1:7-10. 
Rutherford. 
" He is no true believer to whom sin is not 
the greatest burden, sorrow, and trouble." 
Rom. 7:24, 
"He that loves Jesus Christ most, is most 
like unto God."—John 16:27 
Dr. Owen. 
" He is too covetous whom God cannot suffice: 
he hath all things that hath Him that hath all 
things."—Rom. 8:32. 
B"'1^-
Reader! think of these things, and seek for 
' present holiness. 
ALEPII. 
Herald and Journal. 
Foreign News. 
BY the arrival of the Canada at this port on 
the 2d inst., we are putin possession of some 
additional intelligence which was not contained 
in the telegraphic dispatches from Halifax, as 
published in the last number of the Herald. 
Nothing definite is known as to the intentions 
of Austria respecting the war although the state-
ment by the Paris correspondent of the London 
Chronicle, that she has made overtures to the 
Western powers to open negotiation with the 
Czar, is very plausible. 
VIENNA, July 
19.—Colonel 
Manteuffel is 
here for the purpose of enforcing the views of 
the Prussian government respecting the treaty 
between itself and the government of Austria 
The Prussian cabinet is satisfied with the ad-
vances made by the Czar as a beginuing, and in-
timates that the aid stipulated for in the treaty 
would not be due from Prussia should Austria 
uov, enter into hostilities with Russia. 
OPERATIONS 
ON 
THE DANUBE.—The 
accounts 
from the Danube are confused and unreliable. 
There seems to be no reason to doubt, however, 
that the Turks have gained an important advan-
tage at Giurgevn, which they still hold. 
One 
account says that the main body of the Rus-
sians, who a few weeks ago had retired towards 
Moldavia, have now returned in immense force 
to Bucharest, and are pushing to the South as 
if to give battle. 
Their advanced guard is at 
Fracestchi, not far from Giurgevo. 
But this re-
port is inconsistent with other accounts, which 
state that the main body of the Turks was move-
ing down the river, leaving only a garrison to 
hold Giurgevo. 
The following further details respecting the 
defeat of the Russians at Giurgevo and at Olten-
itza have been published. 
The struggle began at Giurgevo on the 2d. 
On the 4th, 6th, and 7th of July sanguinary en-
gagements took place. 
On the last mentioned 
date the Turks, who were in great force, were 
completely masters of the Islands between Ruts-
chuk and Giurgevo. 
The Russians, early in the 
morning of the 8th, evacuated Giurgevo and re-
tired to Frateschti. 
The troops stationed at 
Budeschti, 
under the command of Generals 
Barmgartner and Dannenberg, are said to have 
advanced to the assistance of the corps at Fra-
teschti. 
If this statement be correct, the Turks 
who crossed the river at Oltenitza would meet 
with little difficulty in getting to Bucharest. 
General Dannenberg on his arrival took the com-
mand of the troops and in the morning of the 
8th made a violent attack on the Turks. 
The battle lasted many hours, and ended with 
the defeat of the Russians, and their retreat to 
Falaschtuk, which is on the left bank of the 
Njuschlow, a tributary of the Argish. 
The 
Turks, who were commanded by Said Pasha, the 
governor of Rutschuz, received reinforcements 
but on the 9th they bad not quitted the bank of 
the river. 
On the 8th the Turks passed the 
river between Tartaritza, and 
Silistria, 
and 
inarching west attacked the Russian detachment 
posted at Oltenitza. 
The Russians were obliged 
to leave Oltenitza in the hands of the Turks, 
who occupied the place itself and the islands in 
front of it. 
The Turkish corps at Giurgevo 
which has a regular pontoon bridge across the 
Daunbe, were in communication with the troops 
at Oltenitza. 
The main force of the Russians left 
Ursitscheny, where Prince Gortschakoff had his 
head-quarters on the 8th, and advanced in forced 
marches by way of Bucharest, to Oltenitza and 
Giurgevo. 
According to advices of the 8th 
Irom Widden, the Turks had passed the river at 
several places into Little Wallachia, in order to 
keep the Russians from crossing the Aluta. 
The London Times of July 21, has the follow-
ing remarks on the progress of the war on the 
Danube, and the position of the allies: 
" We now learn with certainty that on the 8th 
of July the Light Division was still at Davna, 
the 1st Division at Aladyn, and the 2d and 3d 
Divisions between that place and Yrarna. 
The 
advance of the army upon Giurgevo was a thing 
only talked of in the camp, and even the visit 
of Omar Pasha to the British head-quarters on 
the 4th was not followed by any decided move-
ment. 
We are less accurately informed as to 
the position of our French allies; but it is clear 
from the intelligence now before us, that the 
statement of the Moniteur 
that 18,000 allied 
troops had reached Giurgevo on the 7th of July 
was entirely inaccurate and the honor of the ex-
ploits recently performed on the left bank of the 
Danube belongs exclusively to the Turkish army. 
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# 
* 
# 
A moment's reflection 
con-
vinces us that to plunge into extended operations 
on the banks of the Danube would have been to 
abandon or to defer the chief exploit of the cam-
paign, and we confidently believe that the regret 
felt at an apparent want of alacrity in marching 
to the relief of Silistria, or in joining the attack 
on Giurgevo, will be effectually removed by 
orders to the whole force to proceed against Se-
bastopol. 
That is the real point for us to assail, 
and on the Danube the Turks have stood in little 
need of our aid. 
" Actiug unquestionably upon this independ-
ent principle, Omar Pasha threw forward the 
bulk of his army from Shumla to the Danube 
early in the present month, and there is no 
reason to suppose that the accounts we have al-
ready received of his success are at all over-
stated. 
Even the Russian organs admit the 
evacuation of Giurgevo in language similai; to 
that in which they described the abandonment 
of the siege of Silistria. 
It appears that the 
Russian forces in and about Giurgevo must have 
amounted to nearly 30,000 men, while the Turks 
had not more than 25,000 men, but the result 
of the battle was, that the whole Russian corps 
was driven back behind the Argish, and the left 
bank of the Danube, from Turnu to Oltenitza, 
is in possession of the Turks. 
" We trust that Omar Pasha will not be led 
to risk this important advantage and the fate of 
his gallant army by permaturely accepting the 
challenge of the Russians to fight a general ac-
tion ; for it is clear that several considerations 
of importance must be weighed before the allied 
generals could take the step of marching north-
ward, with a view to a passage of the Danube 
and a campaign in Wallachia. 
It is in the first 
place highly improbable that such a step should 
be taken until the allied commanders were satis-
fied that the river itself was under their com-
mand, both because it is indispensable to have 
entire security as to the communications of the 
army in its rear, and because the navigation of 
the Danube would powerfully assist the move-
ments of forces, by affording water carriage to 
the stores and supplies. 
In other words, if the 
army is to engage in a campaign in the Princi-
palities, having its operations in Bulgaria, the 
command of the Danube is naturally to be re-
garded as an indispensable preliminary; 
and. 
whether the allied forces actually advance in 
that direction or not it is of the greatest import-
ance to secure the free navigation of the great 
stream on whose banks the struggle must be con-
ducted." 
The following is the latest report from the 
Danube: 
CONSTANTINOPLE, July 10.—The Russian coast 
has been closely reconnoitered, from the Kilia 
mouth of the Danube to the mouth of the Dnies-
ter. 
Three steamers of the allied fleets guard 
the mouths of the Danube, to prevent the escape 
of the Russian flotilla, while a party of British 
seamen has gone overland to Rutschuk, to unite 
with the Ottoman river-fleet in an attack on the 
enemy's boats. 
The fourth division of the French army, con-
sisting of 8000 men, under General Forey, had 
not landed at Varna on the 5th, although Ad-
miral Bruat's squadron, in which it was em-
barked, entered the Black Sea on the 30th ult. 
It was believed that the land troops will be em-
ployed against Anapa (on the Circassian coast), 
in the neighborhood oi which Admiral Lyons, 
with a steam squadron, was known to be. 
The Spanish Insurrection. 
SPAIN is now undergoing one of those political 
earth piakes in which misgoverned countries, and 
especially those on which the military power is 
superior to the civil, are periodically subject, and 
to which Spain is no stranger. 
A brief review of the more recent history of 
Spain will illustrate more fully the present pos-
ture of affairs in that unhappy country. 
Ferdin-
and VII., the father of the present Queen, 
died in 1833. 
His reign had been long and 
chequered. 
He was deposed by Napoleon, but 
was re-instated by the allies, and very unwisely 
too, on the exile of that potentate. 
It is suffi-
cient to say of his administration of affairs, that 
he died execrated by his subjects. 
Upon his 
death, the Queen mother, Christina, a bold, am-
bitious and bad woman, seized upon the reins of 
government as regent, in behalf of her daughter, 
who was then but three years of age. 
The crown 
was claimed by Don Carlos, brother of the late 
King, under the Salic law, which prohibits a 
succession in the female branch of the royal fam-
ily, and the protracted civil war which ensued, 
will doubtless be remembered by our readers. 
It ended in the defeat and exile of Don Carlos. 
But peace was not restored to poor distracted 
Spain, for in the meantime the Queen mother 
had made herself so obnoxious to the people by 
her open profligacy, and by her extortions and 
gross mismanagement, that she was deposed from 
the regency and banished the country. 
This was 
in 1840. 
A new regency was appointed, at the 
head of which was Espartero, who rising from 
among the humble class of the people, had worked 
his way to a commanding position in the army, 
and had aquired great popularity by his valor 
in the recent civil wars. 
Espartero governed Spain for six years, put-
ting down several formidable plots which origi-
nated with the Queen mother, and had for their 
object her restoration to the regency. 
In one of 
the insurrections which grew out of these plots 
he bombarded Seville, and succeeded, by his en-
ergy and determination, in quelling a most formi-
dable outbreak. 
He was popular with the peo-
ple, but the vox poptili 
in Spain is subservient 
to the voice of the army, and the gold of Queen 
Christina in the end proved more powerful than 
the popularity and influence of Espartero. 
An 
insurrection headed by Narvaez deposed the re-
gency, and Espartero was forced to fly to London. 
The Queen mother returned to Spain, and 
Queen Isabella was placed upon the throne, an-
ticipating by a decree of the cortes, her majority. 
Narvaez was for a time all powerful at court, but 
his influence with the Queen mother soon began to 
decline, and he was removed from the ministry 
about a year ago, and " has leave io withdraw " 
from Spain, though permission was subsequently 
given to him, as it had already been accorded to 
Espartero, to return to his country as a private 
citizen. 
We will not enter into the particulars of the 
marriage of Queen Isabella, nor lift the curtain 
which ought to hide the immoralities of the Court 
from public view. 
Suffice it to say that the Court 
of Isabella is in all respects the reverse of that 
of Queen Victoria; that the King consort isa 
mere nobody. 
The marriage was forced upon 
the Queen by Louis Phillippe, and the husband 
of the queen is merely tolerated at the Court. 
His name is never mentioned in connection with 
political affairs. 
The queen has been governed, 
and the country in reality ruled, by favorites, 
and the indignation of the public at the open prof-
ligacy of the Uourt has doubtless contributed to 
bring about the present military 
revolution. 
The most prominent leader in this insurrection 
is General O' Donnel, who was at one time Cap-
tain General of Cuba. 
This General is of Irish 
descent, his father having been implicated in the 
rebellion of 1783, and forced to flee from his na-
tive country. 
It would seem by the last accounts 
that Espartero is about to place himself at the 
head of the revolution, and that his old rival, 
but recent companion in retirement, Narvaez, 
has offered his services to the Queen to form a 
new ministry. 
Both of these men could com-
mand the support of a large party. 
It does not 
appear, however, that the restoration of either 
to power, forms a part of the plans <of the 'actual 
leaders of the revolution. 
The insurgent Generals, in a proclamation 
dated July 1, state the following as the objects of 
the revolution :—" Return to the Constitution of 
1837—maintainance of Queen Isabella II.—per-
petual exile of the Queen mother—dismissal of 
a despotic ministry—withdrawal of the forced 
loan—re-establishment of peace." 
These are 
the avowed objects of the revolutionists, but it is 
believed that there are other and more import-
ant ends in view, which are not embraced in this 
programme. 
It is said that a union of'the whole 
peninsula is contemplated, and that the deposi-
tion of Isabella will be followed by the estab-
lishment of the young King of Portugal, Don 
Pedro V., who is yet an infant, upon the united 
thrones of Spain and Portugal. 
The union of 
the two kingdoms has long been a favorite pro-
ject with some political dreamers in Spain and 
Portugal, who look upon this as the best mea?is 
of restoring the faded glory of the two kingdoms. 
A glance at the map will showr that such a union 
is by no means unnatural, although there are 
many important political considerations which 
will induce the other European powers to oppose 
the " annexation." 
• 
The revolution has evidently assumed a formi-
dable character, and has extended into the prov-
inces. 
Christina, the Queen mother, has fled to 
France, and the abdication of Queen Isabella is 
anticipated. 
The ministry has been dissolved 
and a new cabinet formed, but these changes will 
not probably stay the revolution. It is to be feared 
that Spain has but just entered upon a season of 
anarchy and civil war which will last for years, 
and which will terminate only when the most 
powerful military chiefs have exhausted their 
resources and desolated the fairest provinces of 
their unhappy country. 
Boston Journal. 
The Eastern War. 
THE Russians appear to have re-occupied the 
principalities of Moldavia and Wallachia 
as 
rapidly as they were said to have evacuated 
them. 
It will be recollected that they were re-
ported to have retired beyond the Pruth, after 
the defeat at Silistria. 
This report, as we an-
ticipated, turned out to be unfounded. 
It was 
then said, and more plausibly, that they had re-
tired upon the line of the Sereth, retaining only 
Bucharest and a few other important places in 
Upper Wallachia. 
It now appears that they 
continue in full possession of Wallachia, with 
their advance guards on the Aluta, and their 
main body, or a strong detachment at least, at 
Bucharest. 
It is even reported that the Rus-
sians have not yet quitted the Dobrudscha. 
So 
that all the advantages gained by the Turks and 
their allies since the siege of Silistria was raised, 
have been gained on paper only. 
The last arrival reports a victory of the Turks 
at Giurgevo, whence it is said the.Russians have 
been driven with the loss of nearly one thousand 
men. 
But no confidence can be placed in this 
report, if for no other reason than because it is 
inconsistent with previous reports from the same 
source that the Russians had evacuated Lower 
Wallachia. 
Speculation upon the progress of 
the war, with such contradictory reports for a 
basis, would be profitless. 
The London 
Times assumes that nothing of 
importance can be gained by the British troops 
on the Danube,—that Austria will interpose to 
prevent any further advance of the Russians,— 
and urges the immediate despatch of the long-
talked-of expedition to the Crimea. 
The main 
body of the allied army are now at Varna, where 
they are waiting employment, but it is doubtful 
whether new operations in other quarters will be 
undertaken before the position of Austria, rela-
tive to the contending parties, is positively 
known. 
• 
Austria is still apparently playing the game 
of fast and loose. 
It is now certain that her ar-
my has not entered the principalities, and she is 
THE ADVENT 
HERALD. 
supposed by the English papers—very charita-
bly We think^to be still engaged in negotiating 
With the Czar for the evacuation of those prov-
inces. 
To the accomplishment of this object the 
Austrian court is committed by its treaty with 
the Sultan, but menaced by Russia with an in-
vasion in a vulnerable quarter, and restrained by 
Prussia, the court of which ,is undisguisedly in 
the interests of the Czar, it is by no means im-
probable that Austria will yet refrain from ac-
tive interference. 
It is for the interests of the 
German powers to maintain a strict neutrality, 
and none have a larger stake in the maintenance 
of that policy than Austria, though circum-
stances have of late compelled her, however re-
luctantly, to assume an attitude of hostility to-
wards her powerful neighbor. 
For the part she 
has already taken, she is now menaced with a 
Russian invasion, and it is evident that the Em-
peror is in a dilemma from which he will find it 
difficult to extricate himself. 
If we look at the results which have already 
been attained by the contending powers, we shall 
find no reason to believe that the war will be 
speedily terminated. 
The Russians have been 
checkmated but not defeated—they have been 
shut up within the lines which they occupied at 
the commencement of the war, but they have 
not been humbled,'neither have they experienced 
any serious reverse. 
Unless the allies strike a 
blow speedily, either in the Baltic, or on the 
Danube, or in the Black Sea, the campaign of 
1854 will be a miserable failure, so far as the 
Western powers are concerned. 
• 
Boston Journal. 
®lje OWwcnt fjevalft. 
Lord. 
Behold, as the clay is in the pottef's hand, 
so are ye in mine hand, 0 house of Israel."—Jer. 
18:6. 
Rom. 9:20, 21—" Nay but, 0 man, Who 
art thou that repliest against God? 
Shall the 
thing formed say to him that formed it, Why hast 
thou made me thus? 
Hath not the potter power 
over the clay, of the same lump to make one ves-
sel unto honor, and another unto dishonor?" 
" Hands," in v. 9, is put by a metonymy fot the 
skill and wisdom evinced by the potter in mould-
ing his work—it being done chiefly by his hands. 
Isa. 29:6—" Shall the work say of him that made 
it. He made me not? or shall the thing framed 
say of him that framed it, He had no understand-
ing?" 
In v. 10, the interrogation is varied, to illustrate 
by another example the folly of man's striving 
with his Maker. 
He who finds fault with the in-
struments of God's providence, indirectly censures 
the Almighty. 
Thus saith the Lord, the Holy One of Israel, and his Maker, 
Ask me of things to come concerning my sons, 
And concerning the work of my hands command ye me.—v. 11. 
In continuing the idea of the preceding texts, 
Israel is spoken of as the potter would speak of 
the vessels which he had fashioned with his hands 
from clay. 
There are two views taken of this pas-
sage. • William Lowth, Barnes, and others, regard 
it as a direction to the Jews to inquire of God re-
specting what was not revealed of the future, and 
to inform him of their wishes respecting them-
selves. 
Mr. Scott however, remarks that the verbs 
are not in the imperative, and he regards the text 
as a rebuke for their presumptiously questioning 
the wisdom of God's predictions respecting them. 
This last view is more in harmony with the scope of 
verses 9 and 10. 
Bishop (Robert) Lowth, there-
fore, in accordance with this view thus translates 
it: " Do ye question me concerning my children? 
And do ye give me directions concerning the works 
of my hands?" 
God again proceeds to assert his sovereignty as 
the Creator and Director of all things: 
BOSTON, JULY 12, 1854. 
THB readers of the Herald are most earnestly besought to give it 
room in their prayers ; that by means of it God may be honored and 
his truth advanced ; also, that it may be conducted in faith and 
love, with sobriety of judgment and discernment of the truth, in 
nothing carried away into error, or hasty speech, or sharp, uubroth-
erly disputation. 
THE PROPHECY OF ISAIAH. 
CHAPTER XLV, 
Drop down, ye heavens, from above, and let the skies pour down 
righteousness: 
Let the earth open, and let them bring forth salvation, 
And let righteousness spring up together ; I the Lord have created 
it 
v. 8. 
This personification of the heavens, is the ex-
pression of an ardent desire for the ushering in 
of the reign of righteousness. 
Its general preva-
lence is illustrated by the spontaneous growth of 
plants when freely watered by showers and dew. 
Th us righteousness, by metaphors, is represented 
as being rained down from heaven, and as growing 
up out of the earth—as the Psalmist said, 85:11, 
12—" Truth shall spring out of the earth ; and 
righteousness shall look down from heaven. 
Yea, 
the Lord shall give that which is good • and our 
land shall yield her increase." 
Woe ttnttf him that striveth with his Maker ! 
Let the potsherd striva with the potsherds of the earth. 
Shall the clay say to him that fatshioneth it, What makest thou ? 
Or thy work, he hath no hands ? 
Woe unto him that saith unto his father, What begettest thou i 
Or to the woman, What hast thou brought forth >—vs. 9,10. 
The connection of these texts with the preceding 
is not very apparent; unless they are designed to 
meet the cavils of unbelieving Jews who should 
murmur at the allotments of God's providence and 
be disposed to arraign his wisdom and goodness, 
in his dispensations respecting them—in permitting 
them to be 6ppressed by their enemies and then 
promising them deliverance, instead of preventing 
their captivity. 
For man to question the wisdom 
or righteousness of God's sovereignty in any par 
ticular, is to strive with his Maker, makes him 
the subject of this dreadfal malediction, and is a 
manifestation of the greatest folly. 
Men may con-
tend or argue with their equals, but not with the 
Almighty. 
By an elliptical metaphor, the inhabitants of 
earth are denominated " potsherds "—fragments 
of broken earthen vessels—a proverbial expression 
for anything weak, fragile, or contemptible. 
For 
impotent man to call in question the doings of the 
omnipotent Jehovah is as absurd and presumptu-
ous' as for the clay to attempt to control the pot-
ter respecting the form into whieh it was being 
fashioned. 
Isa. 64:8—" In a little wrath I hid 
my face from thee for a moment; but with ever-
lasting kindness will I have mercy on thee, saith 
the Lord thy Redeemer,"—" 0 house of Israel, 
cannot I do with you as this potter? saith the 
I have made the earth, and created man upon it: 
I, even my hands, have stretched out the heavens, 
And all their host have I commanded. 
I have raised him up in righteousnes, and I will direct all his 
ways : 
He shall build my city, and he shall let go my captives, 
Not for price nor reward, saith the Lord of hosts.—vs. 12,13. 
The heavens, as in 42:5, are spoken of as a 
tent or ourtain extended over us; and their " hosts " 
are the stars which stud the heaver.s, whose revo-
lutions with their rising and setting are all under 
the direction of their Creator, as an army is obe-
dient to the commands of its leader. 
Him," in v. 13, must refer to Cyrus, who is 
brought to view in the first verse of this, and in 
the last verses of the preceding chapter,—as the 
future re-builder of Jerusalem. 
This recurrence 
to him again, confirms the view before taken that 
verses 9 to 11 are a rebuke for the dissatisfaction 
of some in reference to this prediction respecting 
Cyrus—it being declared that God's raising him 
up was an act of righteousness, and that Cyrus's 
restoration of the Jews would be an act of disin-
terestedness. 
By a metaphor, the Persian mon-
arch is said to be " raised up," as from a lower to 
a higher position in space, to illustrate the emi-
nence to which God would enable him to attain, 
so that he might accomplish the Lord's purposes 
respecting Israel. 
He returned them as freemen, 
not as slaves — demanding no remuneration for 
their liberation. 
— 
Thus saith the Lord, the labor of Egypt, 
And merchandise of Kthiopia and of the Sabi ans, men of stature, 
Shall come over unto thee, and they shall be thine: 
They shall come after thee •, in chains they shall come over, 
And they shall fall down unto thee, they shall make suplication un-
to thee, saying, 
Surely God is in thee ; and there is none else, there is no God. 
—v. 14. 
This apostrophe is evidently addressed to Israel. 
In addition to their restoration they were to be the 
recipients of signal blessings, and were to exert an 
influence over surrounding nations. 
The " labor " of Egypt is put by a metonymy 
for the wealth of Egypt which was the result of 
their labor. 
Jerusalem was again to become a 
commercial centre and to he resorted to by traders 
from other countries. 
"Ethiopia" and Cush, 
was in Upper Egypt: and " Seba " is supposed to 
be the sanje as Meroe in that country—(see Note 
on 43:3.) 
Herodotus (iii. 20,) spoke of the Ethio-
pians as " the tallest of men ;" Solimus affirms 
that they were " twelve feet high ;" and Agathar-
chides, an ancient Greek 
historian quoted by 
Bochart (Phaleg ii. 26) said of the Sabeans, " The 
bodies of those who dwell there are worthy of 
special remark,"—Thus they were " men of stat-
ure." 
In allusion to Seba, Solomon said, Psa. 
72:10, " The kings of Tarshish and of the isles 
shall bring presents : the kings of Sheba and Seba 
shall offer gifts." 
It seems that subsequent to the 
return of the Jews they received tokens of favor 
from neighboring kings. 
We find in 2 Mac. 3:3, 2, 
" that even the kings themselves did honor the 
place, and magnify the temple with their best gifts ; 
insomuch that SelUcus king of Asia, of his own 
revenues, bare all the costs belonging to the ser-
vice of sacrifices;" and in v. 5, " that the treasury 
in Jerusalem was full of infinite sums of money, 
so that the multitude of their riches, which did 
not pertain to the account of the sacrifices, was 
innumerable." 
" In chains," is expressive of subjection ; not 
only their merchandise, but themselves were to 
belong to Israel. 
The concluding portion of the 
verse, however, shows that they were to come rec-
ognizing Jehovah as God, and supplicating his 
grace. 
The present Ethiopians, or Assyrians, who 
are Christians of the Greek Church, maintain that 
the Jewish religion was universally embraced in 
their country from the time of the return of their 
queen in the days of Solomon ; and that the eu-
nuch who was baptized by Philip was steward to 
their empress. 
Jahn, speaking of the persecutions 
of Antiochus Epiphanes, says, that, " in conse-
quence of the stand the Jews then took, and the 
victories they won, whole nations, as the ldume-
ans, the Itureans, and Moabites, professed the 
Jewish faith."—Arch. p. 399. 
In Egypt the Mo-
saic religion so extensively prevailed that a tem-
ple was erected, and the Jewish rites were performed 
for several centuries. 
(Note on 19:18.) 
On the 
day of Pentecost there were foreigners present 
from Egypt and the adjacent countries ; and it is 
not improbable that in Upper Egypt, or Ethiopia, 
Judaism was as prevalent as in Egypt. 
kind sfeemg to have been carried to perfection in 
Bab'ylcm.''—Lon. Qtiaf. J Our. of Pfoph. 1854, p. 
110. 
As the conquest in Babylon resulted in the de-
liverathee Of Israel, the condition of the one was in 
marked contrast with that of the other—showing 
the wisdom of trusting in the Lord, and the folly 
of worshipping images. 
Verily thou art a God that hidest thyself, 0 God of Israel the 
Saviour.—v. 15. 
" Thyself," in the apostrophe to God, is evi-
dently put by a metonymy for his plans and pur-
poses, the reasons for which are often unappre-
ciated by man; though the result of infinite Wis-
dom. 
" For," he has said, (Isa. 55:8, 9,) " My 
thoughts are not as your thoughts, neither are my 
ways your ways saith the Lord. For as the heavens 
are higher than the earth, so are my wtys higher 
than your ways, and my thoughts than your 
thoughts." 
However incomprehensible or myste-
rious the dispensations of his providence may at 
any time appear to the comprehension of finite 
intelligences, the result always demonstrates Him 
to be the God and Saviour of his people—as he 
was then to be in the restoration of Israel from 
the captivity to which for a season they wero to 
be subjected. 
— 
They shall be ashamed, and also confounded, all of them. 
They shall go to confusion together that are makers of idols. 
But Israel shall be saved in the Lord with an everlasting salvation : 
Ye shall not be ashamed nor confounded world without end. 
—vs. 16,17. 
The antitheses here appears to be in reference to 
the deliverance of Israel from Babylon, and its de-
struction because of its trust in idol gods and con-
tempt of Jehovah. 
In Belshazzar's impious feast, 
(Dan. 5:3, 4.) they desecrated the vessels that 
were taken from the house of God in Jerusalem, 
by drinking wine in them ; and they praised their 
idol " gods." 
In Jer. 50:38, it is given as a rea-
son for the destruction of Babylon, that " it is the 
land of graven images, and they are mad upon 
their idols." 
And Daniel said to Belshazzar. 
(5:25,) " Thou hast praised the gods of silver, 
and gold, of brass, iron, wood, and stone, which 
see not, nor hear, nor know: and the God in whose 
hand thy breath is, and whose are all thy ways 
hast thou not glorified ;" and this he gives as the 
reason why " the part of the hand " was sent, and 
the writing written against him on the palace 
wall. 
This text predicts that these worshippers of idols 
should be confounded; and this is in accordance 
with Jer, 50:2, " Babylon is taken, Bel is con 
founded, Merodach is broken in pieces ; her idols 
are confounded, her images are broken in pieces 
Also Jer. 51:47 
Therefore behold, the days 
come, that I will do judgment upon the graven im-
ages of Babylon : and her whole land shall be con 
founded, and all her slain shall fall in the midst 
of her." 
" The idolatry of Chaldea began with the wor-
ship of the heavenly orbs, but it ended in the wor 
ship of graven images. 
That which has been 
deemed a more refined and elevated kind of super 
stition, in the process of ages sank down into the 
basest forms of ignorant idolatry. 
It is said that, 
when Babylon was taken, the idols amounted to 
several thousand ; and it is remarkable that, in 
the recent excavations of that region, not only 
have the catalogues of the kings been found but 
of their gods, and already have the names of five 
hundred idols been deciphered. 
Nothing can paint 
this more strikingly than the description of the 
prophet Isaiah (46:1, 2), in which he speaks of 
the carrying of the idols, and the beasts groaning 
under the burden. 
In the description given by 
Herodotus, we find the same features of idolatry, 
and very early in the history of the city, the stat-
ues of heathen gods and goddesses were to be 
found placed upon the tower. 
Idolatry of every 
THE " WOMAN 
IN THE 
"TVLTIDERNESS." 
Rev. 12 ih. 
MR. EDITOR :—I wish, with your permission, to 
ask a few questions in relation to this " woman," 
which if you will be pleased to answer, will gratify 
your correspondent, and probably, many readers of 
the Herald. 
1st. What is symbolized by the " wilderness " 
into which the " woman " fled? 
2d. Did she continue to be the true church, ajter 
she fled into the wilderness ? 
3d. Was she persecuted after she fled into the 
wilderness ? 
4th. Is not the " woman " which the angel 
showed John (17:3,) in the "wilderness," the 
same one that " fled into " it ? (12:6.) 
5th. If not, are there not two women in the same 
wilderness ?" 
6th. Does the " woman " come out of " the wil-
derness '" before she comes to " judment ?" 
7th. If so, when ? 
Yours in lore, &c., 
SIMON. 
ANSWER.—1st. The flight of the woman into the 
ilderness, 
symbolizes, the retirement of the 
church of Christ into obscurity, from before the 
errors which w;ore embraced by apostates from the 
true worship at the commencement of the dark 
;es. 
2d. That the purity of the true church was to 
be maintained during its wilderness state, is evident 
from the declaration that she goes to " a place pre-
pared of God, that they should feed her there" &o. 
3d. While in that state, the church was not per-
secuted as a church ; for the fact of its existanee 
as such was unknown to the world and to the apos-
tate on the scarlet colored beast—its wilderness 
state implying the invisibility of her who lived it. 
But saints as individuals, who as saints were in 
fellowship with all who loved the Lord in sincerity, 
were persecuted, being given into the hands of the 
little horn. 
4th. In Rev. 17, John does not see the woman 
that was in the wilderness ; but he himself goes in 
a vision into the wilderness, place shimself in sym-
pathy with the woman which ,had fled there, and 
in that position is shown the persecutor of the 
saints, — symbolized as a woman on a scarlet 
colored beast—the Papacy. 
Thus he does not see 
the woman in the wilderness, which was clothed 
with the sun, &c.; but he in the wilderness sees a 
woman of very unlike characteristics, who had 
never fled thither, but was visible from that posi-
tion, being sustained by the civil power of the 
state. 
5th. There are not; for only one of them had 
fled to the wilderness, and the other was only seen 
from thence. 
6th. The »woman comes out of the wilderness 
when the church thus symbolized becomes again 
visible as a church, and is apparent as such to the 
world and to its persecutors. 
7th. The epoch of the revisibility of the church, 
we think dates from the reformation of Luther, 
which was 1260 years after the formation and set-
tlement of the Papal ecclesiastical hierarchy—the 
government of which was modeled after the new 
form of government introduced by Constantine into 
the State. 
(See Bower, v. 1, p. 47.) 
This has re-
mained the government of the Papacy to this day. 
Pope Sylvester, under whom it was adopted, was 
chosen in 314—two years after the conversion of 
Constantine. 
And under this Pope occurred what 
Bower calls " the first Christian persecution,'''' (v. 
1, p. 72,) when the Donatists were exiled, their 
churches taken from them, and some- of them led 
to execution. 
NEW WORKS. 
A Summary Summing of the Charges, with (heir 
Refutations, in Attacks upon Noah Webster, L.L.D., 
his Dictionaries, or his Publishers," &c. &c. 
" Springfield, Mass.: George and Charles Mer-
riam. 
1854." 
This is the last pamphlet we have seen, which 
the controversy between the publishers of Web-
ster's and Worcestor's Dictionaries has given rise 
to. 
In the merits of a personal controversy we 
take no interest; nor do we suppose that our read-
ers would, and therefore we shall not enlarge on it 
as discussed in the pamphlet. 
If any person 
wishes for more full information on it they have 
only to write to the publisher for a copy, and they 
will doubtless receive one tree of cost. 
In the reputation of Noah Webster, however, as 
a Lexicographer, we do take an interest—his name 
having been a " household word " from the com-
mencement of OUT earliest school days. 
How many 
THE ADVENT 
HERALD 
253 I 
pleasing recollections cluster around 
Webster's 
" Spelling Book," and Webstet'B " Elements of 
Useful Knowledge," with which our earliest efforts 
at learning are associated! 
Noah Webster was horn in Hartford, Conn., in 
1758—96 years since. 
At the age of 20 he gradu-
ated at " Yale;" and commenced the next year the 
occupation of teaching in his native city ; and at 
the end of two years, was admitted to the practice 
of law. 
Literature, however, and the compilation 
of school books, was the profession to which he 
more particularly devoted himself. 
In 1783 he 
published his spelling book; and soon after, an 
English grammar, and the reading book entitled 
" Elements of Useful Knowledge," which were 
the first books of their kind ever attempted in this 
country. 
Of the former, about thirty millions of 
copies have been sold ; and its popularity is such, 
that it still isells at the rate of about a million of 
copies a year. 
Soon after its appearance, the com-
pilation of a Dictionary was suggested to him by 
one of the trustees of Yale College; but it was 
about ten years before he found himself in a pecu-
niary condition to commence that 
undertaking. 
About twelve years later, in 1806, he published 
his " Compendious Dictionary "—a small work 
preparatory to his larger one ; and then he made 
preparation for the compilation of that. 
After 
laboring three or four years, that he might possess 
himself of a thorough acquaintance with the origin 
of words, he spent ten years in a comparison of 
Tadical words, and in forming a synopsis of the 
principal Words in twenty Languages, arranged 
in Classes under their primary Elements or Letters. 
Having thus laid a foundation, he proceeded to the 
completion of his large Dictionary. 
In 
1828, 
about 35 years from the time of its first concep-
tion, it was published in two volumes, comprising 
from 70,000 to 80,000 words, and sold, if we re-
collect aright, for $20. 
Dr. Webster, the Honorary degree of L. L. D. 
having been conferred on him by Yale College in 
1822, had now reached the age of 70 years ; but 
his literary labors were continued till his death in 
1843, aged 87. 
During his long liie he was 
laboriously active, and his pen was never idle, be-
ing «mployed in the difcussion of all the great 
practical questions which agitated the times. 
He 
wrote on Government, an Jurispendence, on 
the 
laws ol Health and Disease, on Education, and on 
a variety of topics; and no man of his day did 
more to tiould public opinion, to give confidence 
in the nev form of government then just adopted 
as an experiment in this country, to inculcate rev-
erence for v.rtue and religion, and to lay a broad 
foundation br the education of the people, than 
he did. 
And,no one his contemporary, began to 
do so much as he did, to give a uniformity to the 
spelling and prtnunciatian of the English language 
in this country ; which has excited the astonish-
ment and comments of foreigners. 
His large Dictionary, containing three times the 
matter of any otler English Dictionary, is now 
published entire, ftr $6, in one volume, of 1456 
quarto pages, with t^e following title : 
" An American Dictionary of the English Lan-
guage ; containing tht whole vocabulary of the 
first edition in two volumes quarto ; the entire cor-
rections and improvemekts of the second edition in 
two volumes royal octavt; to which is prefixed an 
Introductory Dissertation on the origin, history, 
and connection, of the languages of Western Asia 
and Europe, with an explanation of the principles 
on which languages are fonned. 
By Noah Web-
ster, LL.D. , Member of the American Philosophical 
Society in Philadelphia ; Felow of the American 
Academy of Arts and Sciencts in Massachusetts ; 
Member of the Connecticut A»ademy of Arts and 
Sciences ; Fellow of the Royal Society of Northern 
Antiquities in Copenhagen ; Mtmber of the Con-
necticut Historical Society ; Co
esponding Mem-
ber of the Historical Societies Jo Massachusetts, 
New York, and Georgia ; of the Academy of Medi-
cine in Philadelphia, and of the (olumbian Insti-
tute in Washington ; and IIonoraryMember of the 
Michigan Historical Society. 
41 GENERAL SUBJECTS OF THIS WTRK." 
" 1. 
Etymologies of English woids, deduced 
from an examination and comparison 
words of 
corresponding elements in twenty languages of 
Asia and Europe. 
" 2. The true orthography of words, aScorrected 
by their etymologies. 
" 3. Pronunciation exhibited and madeobvious 
by the division of word's into syllables, by\cccnt-
uation, by marking the sounds of the accented 
vowels, when necessary, or by general rules. 
"4. 
Accurate and discriminating definifions, 
illustrated when doubtful or obscure, by examples 
of their use, selected from respectable authors^or 
by familiar phases of undisputed authority. 
" Revised and enlarged, by Chauncey A. GooU 
rich, Professor in Yale .College. 
With Pronounc 
ing Vocabularies of Scripture, Classical, and Geo-
graphical names, 
Springfield, Mass. 
Published 
by George and Charles Merriam, Corner of Main 
and State-streets. 
1854." 
This is unquestionably the American standard 
of English Lexicography. 
Its vocabulary is more 
perfect than that of any other dictionary extant; 
the learner can find in it all the words in gen-
eral use—their definitions being full, clear and 
precise; their orthography, that On which the 
leading school books in this country are based, 
and their pronunciation, simple, natural, intelli-
gible, and in use by the best speakers. 
It is na-
tional authority for the use and meaning of words, 
and is of constant reference in courts of justice, 
halls of legislation, and in all matters of public 
debate. 
It has received the most unqualified ap-
probation from educated men, and institutions of 
learning, both in this country and England. 
And 
it is finding its way into the library of every edu-
cated man, on to the table of every teacher, and 
writer for the press, and as fast as it is appre-
ciated and their means will permit, into the family 
of every one who wishes to furnish his household 
with the best faciiitieo for perfecting their knowl-
edge of the English language. 
It stands far above 
any competition, and the sales of Websters Dic-
tionaries far exceed those of all others published 
in the country. 
No student, or person desirous of 
making progress in this department of science, will 
willingly be without a copy of this wonderful com-
pilation of words, their copious and precise defini-
tions, and the many aids afforded by it, to think, 
speak, and write with elegance and purity. 
Sunny Memories of Foreign Lands. 
By Mrs. 
Harriet Beecher Stowe, author of Uncle Tom's 
Cabin. 
Illustrated from designs by Billings. 
In 
two volumes. 
Boston : Philips, Sampson, & Co.; 
New York : J. C. Derby. 
1854." 
The reputation of being the writer of a popular 
work of fiction, on a subject touching a tender spot 
in the human heart, having preceded Mrs. Stowe to 
England, and the work itself having found many 
admirers 
there, her 
reception 
was very 
com-
plimentary to herself, and could only have im-
pressed her with pleasing recollections. 
The vol-
umes before us, therefore, necessarily partake of 
the coloring associated in her memory of such a re-
ception. 
They contain no small amount of very 
pleasant reading ; and introduce the reader into 
some circles and scenes which the American trav-
eler does not always have access to. 
" The Conflict of Ages; 
or the great debate on 
the Moral Relations of God and Man. 
By Edward 
Beecher, D. D. 
Fifth edition. 
Boston: Philips, 
Sampson, & Co.; London : Sampson, Low, Son & 
Co. 
1854." 
This volume has made no small noise in the reli-
gious world. 
We have not yet read but are read-
ing it, and cannot therefore yet speak intelligibly 
of its merits or demerits. 
We intend to notice it 
more in full, and to give our impressions respect-
ing it. 
" A nswers to questions of a Correspondent." 
" 
BRO. HIMES :—I notice in the Herald of August 
5th, the above to be the heading of a series of 
questions proposed by " John Jones," of Lewiston, 
Me. 
il The 13th question is as follows:—' Does his-
tory show of more than one subject any way a 
Christian, put to death openly ! sanctioned by the 
Court of Rome, since 1779 ? if so, when and 
where V 
" To this question is given the following answer: 
1 We know of only one.' 
" I am somewhat at a loss to know how to har-
monize this answer with what is found in ' Put-
nam's Home Cyclopedia' or 'The World's Pro-
gress, a Dictionary of Dates, edited by George P. 
Putnam, sixth edition,' p. 184. 
" What Putnam says is under the head of' AutQ 
da Fe.' 
He says : ' One of the last executions, of 
this kind, was at Goa, where, for the glory of the 
Christain religion (!) and in vindication of the 
Catholic faith, twenty sufferers perished in the 
flames, 
1787.' 
" Is Putnam wrong in his date, or is he not? 
If his date is a typographical error, i. e. if the, 
1787, should have been 1781, it appears that there 
were twenty, who suffered instead of one! 
How is 
this? 
T.M.PREBLE. 
East Weave, N. //., August 
5^,1854." 
ANS. Putnum is doubtless correct. 
Our answer 
had respect merely to our own recollection without 
making any researches to refresh our memory on 
that point. 
" 
BRO. IIIMES :—Please inform your readers of 
the progress of the ' New god, newly come up,' 
and you will oblige, 
n. V." 
ANS.—We have no new developments on this 
subject, and do not know whether the " child," has 
yet become " able to walk." 
FOREIGN NEWS. 
?EW 
YORK, Aug. 
5.—The Atlantic 
arrived at 
abott 8 o'clock this evening. 
She left Liverpool 
on the noon of the 26th, and brings 172 passengers. 
A despatch from Vienna dated July 22d, says 
Prince Gortchakoff's mission to this court has en-
tirely failed. 
The Emperor Francis Joseph will 
not disappoint the expectations of Europe. 
It was 
expected in Vienna that if Prussia did not throw any 
immediate difficulty in view, a new and decisive 
protocol would be signed by the Conference on the 
19th or 20th July. 
X courier with the official com-
munication of the answer of Russia left Vienna on 
Saturday, July 22d, for Paris and London. 
Gen. Baraguay de Ililliers and staff have arrived 
at Copenhagen. 
The Russian army at Bucharest has received 
large reinforcements. 
Orders, it is said, had ar-
rived on the 11th, from St. Petersburg, to drive the 
Turks across the Danube at any cost. 
Princes Sterbey and Ghika, are named Hospodars 
of Wallachia and Moldavia. 
A Malta letter reports the death of Gen. Ney, 
and the death of the Russian General Chruleff is 
confirmed. 
VIENNA, Tuesday. 
At Frankfort, on the 23d, 
the German Diet acceded to the Austro-Prussian 
treaty of alliance by sixteen votes to one against 
the motion. 
An army of 50,000 men is to be concentrated be-
tween Zegedin and Arad. 
The reserves called out 
will amount to 130,000 men. 
Throughout Italy the state of public feeling is 
bad. 
It is said that an insurrection at Moldina is con-
templated. 
The French garrison at Rome is to be reinforced. 
Prince Gortschakoff is enraged at the failure of 
his mission. 
The Turks remain close to the Danube—60,000 
men are strongly fortifying Giurgevo. 
The Russian centre is moving towards Fakshina, 
because the Austrians are marching from Transyl-
vania, northward, for concentration in the Bakow-
ina. 
The British squadron of seven sail containing the 
French troops, was at Kioge Bay on the 24th. 
On 
the 25th the combined fleets steered for the Aland 
Islands. 
Twenty vessles of the fleet had been tel-
egraphed off Loedman light-house. 
THE WAR NEWS.—There is little from the seat 
of war. 
Everything is apparently deferred, await-
ing the action of Austria. 
Prussia more than ever holds aloof from the west-
ern powers and favors Russia, and the fleets and 
armies remain as at last advices. 
Another battle has been fought at Giurgevo, but 
we have no details except that the Turks claim the 
victory, and state that two Russian generals were 
wounded. 
The Anglo-French have not yet seen the enemy. 
Gortschakoff anounces that he is determined to 
hold the principalities with two hundred thousand 
men if necessary. 
Nothing from the Baltic fleet, but when the 
French land force arrived, it is decided to take and 
keep Aland island as an inducement to the Swedes 
to join the Western powers. 
Nothing later from the Black Sea, where at last 
accounts the fleets were cruising. 
Nothing later 
from Greece or Asia. 
The Germanic Diet has unanimously acceded to 
the Austrio-Prussian treaty. 
The Russians continue to destroy the roads and 
bridges leading from Transylvania into Moldavia. 
Gen. Luders is concentrating his strength at Cob-
tlesti, east of Bucharest. 
The Turks are entrenching themselves at Giur-
gevo. 
In the recent action at Giurgevo, the com-
mander of the Cossacks and Gen. Buterline were 
wounded. 
The Turkish Egyptian Division, sent, under the 
orders of Hassan Pacha to the Asiatic Coast, had 
succeeded in landing arms, ammunition and field 
artillery, for the use of Schamyl's army, which is 
every day becoming better organized. 
The Austrian officers of Rend arrived at Schumla 
on the 10th of July, and immediately left for Varna, 
as Commissioners of the Austrian Government. 
Omar Pacha had gone to Rutschuk. 
The advance force of the British army had pressed 
no further than Devno. 
The Generals-in-Chief are 
understood to have now completed all their plans 
for the campaign. 
It is said Paskiewitch will be 
reinstated in command-
The Bey of Tunis has sent a presen t of 42,000.000 
francs to the Sultan. 
There are strong rumors about the reported su-
icideof Gen. Aurep. 
It is said Gortschakoffknows 
more about it than any one else. 
Cholera has disappeared in the Baltic fleet. 
On the 13th of July three English Steamers ar-
rived at Odessa and destroyed some small works 
when the Tiger 
went ashore ; the object being to 
complete the destruction of a vessel to prevent 
marching from being available to the Russians. 
Capt. Parker, of the British frigate 
Firebrand\ 
was shot through the heart at Sulina. 
THE LATEST ASPECT OF THE WAR.—From 
the Lon- 
' 
don Times, July 25 : " According to tho most recent 
i 
telegraphic despatches and the ministerial anounce-
ments in both Houses last night, two points of in- 
' 
finite importance to the further course of the war 
are now answered. 
It is affirmed with confidence 
both that the Emperor of Russia will maintain the 
; 
occupation of the principalities by force of arms, 
and that the Emperor of Austria will, if necessary, 
I 
by force of arms expel him. 
If these resolutions 
j 
have indeed been finally taken by the Courts of St. 
Petersburg and Vienna, respectively, there will be 
an end to all those delays and uncertainties which 
have hitherto attended the land operations of tho 
i 
war. 
Austria, in virtue of her double engagement 
with Europe and with the Porte will enter the Dan-
ubian Provinces in imposing strength, nor is it to 
be reasonably assumed that the forces of the Czar, 
distracted as they will be by the expeditions to the 
Baltic and the Crimea, can withstand the power of 
these new allies with the victorious troops of Omar 
Pacha. 
It would not, however, be prudent to un-
derrate the strength of Russia, or to infer that the 
Czar is altogether powerless, because he has failed 
to overcome the stubborn resistance of the Otto-
mans, though we entertain no doubt of the ulti-
mate result.. W e are not disposed to conclude 
that the principalities will be cleared of the inva-
ders without some hard 
fighting. 
As soon as Aus-
tria has fairly thrown away the scabbard, the le 
gions of the Czar, now massed on the Galatian Bor-
der, will be found in swarms either upon the Wal-
lachian or Austrian Territory, and unless the mil-
itary power of Russia is indeed a fable, a shock of 
some severity must ensue. 
" Hitherto, the bulk of the belligerent forces have 
been observing each other in suspicion and silence, 
while the fighting was left to 50,000 Turks and 
twice as many Russians detached to engage them. 
Now, however, if these announcements are verified, 
suspense will be terminated, and armies of two 
mighty empires will be completely engaged. 
From 
this time, however, we hope we may assume that 
the war will be prosecuted on three several theatres, 
and with three distinct objects—in the Principali-
ties, and possibly in the Banterminon Provinces 
of Austria. 
The force of that power, in conjunct-
ion with the Ottoman troops, will be engaged in 
Uriving the Russians into their own territory, and 
re-establishing the authority of' the Sultan in his 
own dependencies. 
In the Baltic, the fleets and 
armies of France and England, will blockade all 
the ports of the Czar, and menace even his capital. 
While in the Black Sea we trust that the immedi-
ate investment of Sebastopol may contribute a de-
cisive feature to this eventful war. 
" The question now is whether Sebastopol can be 
successfully attacked, and we see no ground for a 
negative conclusion. 
That it cannot be taken by 
a fleet alone seems generally acknowledged. 
But 
Sebastopol is a land fortress as well as a sea for-
tress, and military engineers always assert that 
before a proper expenditure of time and money, 
every land fortress must fall. 
If, then, there is 
nothing antecedently improbable in its capture, 
we can very safely argue that all the ordinary 
chances of a siege are largely in our favor. 
Though the allied forces may not be numerous 
enough for operations in the Principalities and 
the Crimea at once, they are certainly sufficient 
for one of these places singly, and from our entire 
command of the seas, our squadrons would enable 
us to manoeuvre on the water almost as freely as 
on the land. 
It is hardly probable that 70 or 80-
000 Anglo-French troops, supported by fleets of 
such extraordinary strength, could be materially 
impeded in effecting a landing, and when 
this 
much has been accomplished everything but the 
climate would be favorable to the besiegers, while 
the Russians are separated by enormous steppes 
and an impassable Isthmus, from the central re-
sources of the empire. 
The allies would certainly 
enjoy uninterrupted communication 
with 
every 
part of the coast, and be secured with 
unlimited 
supplies of men, victuals and munitions: a siege too, 
is exactly the enterprize in which the powers of the 
two highly civilized nations ought to be most con-
spicuous. 
The French and English engineers pro-
fess to be inferior to none, and the Arsenals of 
of Woolwich are thought 
to be matchless in the 
resources of destruction which they contain. 
If 
these persuasions arc correct, now is the time for 
proof. 
The Crimea, for a'll practical 
purposes, 
will be nearer France and England then it is to 
Russia, and we then could throw regiment after 
regiment on its shores before the Czar could get a 
single reinforcement to its destination. 
That the 
fall of Sebastopol would induce the Czar to sue for 
peace is more than can be said, but it would insure 
the chief object of the war. 
" After the destruction of this fortress, the Black 
Sea would be open. 
Constantinople safe, the Cir-
cassian coasts free from danger, and the mouths of 
the Danube once more restored to Germany and 
Europe. Each and all these conditions would then 
be secured by a guarantee more 
infallible then 
derived from the provisions of a treaty ; that is to 
say, by the very necessity of things. 
The assent 
of the Czar would be almost superfluous to terms 
which he could not contravene if he would. 
The 
power of Russia for encroachment and 
aggression 
would then be effectually reduced, and the purpose 
for which Europe has most unwillingly returned 
to the horrors of war, would be solidly and per-
manently settled." 
254 
THE ADVENT 
HERALD. 
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views they present. Therefore articles not dissented from, will not 
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partment,articles are solicited on the general subject of the Advent, 
without regard to the particular view we take of any scripture,from 
the friends of the 
Herald. 
CONFERENCE REPORT. 
(.Concludedfrom 
our last.) 
THE following resolutions were unanimously 
adopted: 
Resolved, That we regard the system of domestic 
slavery in the United States, as immoral and crimi-
nal, and desire hereby to lift our voice against it, 
and declare that we cannot fellowship as Chris-
tians those who practice it. 
2. Resolved, That the signs of these times cleaily 
indicate to our minds that the great day of the 
Lord is very near us, and that we can but consider 
these indications a loud call on us to exert our-
selves to the utmost of our ability, to warn the 
world, and stir up the church to a preparation for 
the event, and that in pursuance o£ this end, we 
will endeavor to promote by our contributions and 
other means, missionary labors ; and we will hail 
with joy the formation of the American S. A. Mis-
sionary Society, and invite their co-operation in 
Illinois, where a most interesting field is opened 
before us. 
We also consider book and tract circu-
lation a subject of great importance, and will en-
deavor to promote this department of usefulness, 
by our contributions, and we advise the immediate 
formation of a tract and missionary society. 
3. Resolved, That the temptations of children 
and youth are so great in this age as to demand 
more constant and earnest vigilence than ever to 
keep them from the paths of the destroyer, and 
guide them in the way of peace. 
We would there-
fore urge on all our people the importance of 
Sabbath school instruction as well as parental care 
and restraint. 
4. Resolved, That we feel a deep interest in the 
temperance cause, and would urge upon all our 
friends the importance of giving the whole weight 
of their influence, by using every possible means 
for its promotion ; and we advise all our churches 
to incorporate into their organization a temper-
ance rule as a condition of membership. 
Conference then adjourned, to meet at the call 
of tbe President. 
A convention was then called to take into con-
sideration the subject of the formation of a mis-
sionary society. 
A committee was then appointed 
consisting of W. A. Fay, J. Litch, John Cum 
mings, N. W. Spencer and Joshua King, to draft 
and present to 
the Convention a 
constitution. 
Convention then adjourned. 
Convention met at 2 P.M., and adopted the con-
stitution, when eighteen signed it, and proceeded 
to elect officers accordingly. 
Conference called at half past 2 P.M. 
Voted to 
publish tbe minutes of this Honference and Consti-
tution through tbe Advent Herald. 
Voted that we 
tender our thanks to the Jefferson Grove church, 
and friends of this vicinity, for their kindness and 
hospitality during this Conference. 
Conference adjourned to meet Friday, the 29th 
day of December next, at Payne's Point, Ogle 
county. 
Sunday, 
July 2d.—Prayer and conference at 9 
o'clock, preaching at half past 10 by Elder Litch, 
from Luke 21:24. 
Sermon again at 2 P.M. by El-
der Liteh ; after which a goodly number of breth-
ren and sisters came around the table of our Lord 
to celebrate his dying love. 
It was a season of 
solemnity and interest that will not soon be for-
gotten. 
There were many there who believe that 
they shall soon drink wine new in the kingdom. 
N. W. SPENCER, 
Secretary. 
Shabbona Grove, July 10th, 1854. 
Constitution 
of the Northern 
Illinois 
Conference of 
Adventists, 
adopted July 1 st, 1853. 
I. This organization shall be called the North-
ern Illinois Conference of Adventists. 
"II. The object of this Conference shall be to pro-
mote scriptural piety—having co-operation and 
efficiency in publishing the Scriptures of truth, 
and especially that prophetic scripture that re-
lates to the soon coming and kingdom of our Lord 
Jesus Christ. 
IH. This Conference shall be composed of preach 
ers, members of churches represented, and dele-
gates of all churches, who may wish to act with 
this Conference—visiting brethren being made eli-
gible to a sitting by vote of the Conference, each 
Church having power to send five delegates. 
IV. The officers of this Conference shall be a 
President and Secretary, who shall be chosen by 
ballot, and likewise be exoficio members of the 
Board, and continue in office until others are ap-
pointed. 
V. The order of the Conference shall be to meet 
semi-annually at such time and place as shall have 
been previously provided by the Conference. 
1. Hear an opening address; and after organ-
izing, and receiving the names of delegates, shall 
appoint a business committe to devise and present 
business for the action of the Conference, by whom 
all business shall be arranged previous to going 
before the Conference, after said committee is ap-
pointed. 
The Conference taking such action and 
adopting such ways and means as shall seem most 
wise, for the promotion of Divine truth. 
The 
committee shall report the time and order to hear 
reports and letters from the churches ; when it is 
desired that it be stated definitely, their numbers, 
how often they have preaching, Whether they have 
a Sabbath school, and if so, how large—each 
church being requested to send a letter stating 
their condition, &c. 
2. Hear the report of the Board. 
3. Appoint by ballot a Board of Directors, and 
such other committees as they shall think neces-
sary, and adjourn. 
All meetings of the Confer-
ence opening and closing by prayer or benediction. 
VI. This Conference shall have no legislative 
power over churches—shall be only advisory to 
them—but may hear on all matters referred to 
them by a church, taking such action as may seem 
wise. 
Each member of the Conference shall be 
entitled to an impartial hearing ; but no member 
shall have authority to speak upon any point more 
than three times without permission from the 
President. 
And all preachers of this Conference 
shall be held amenable to the same for their moral 
conduct, and the Conference may withdraw fellow-
ship from any they may deem worthy of the same. 
VII. The Conference shall appoint by ballot, 
three brethren, who, with the President and Sec-
retary, shall compose the Board of Directors— 
whose duty it shall be to have charge of all funds 
raised by the Conference, ascertain the wants as 
to preaching, camp, and protracted meetings, &c., 
of the respective churches of this Conference, and 
as fat as possible provide for such wants—call the 
Conference when not otherwise called, and trans-
act such other business as the Conference may 
deem wise ; being subject to the direction of the 
Conference at all times, and shall faithfully re-
port whatever they do the ensuing Conference. 
VIII. This polity may be revisedor amended by 
vote of two thirds of the members present at any 
regularly appointed conference. 
LETTER FROM JOHN SMITH. 
BRO. 
HIMES :—We were disappointed that you 
did not pay us a visit in your Western tour ; but 
hope you will not disappoint us the next time you 
come West. 
A number of the different denomina-
tions in this city, are waking up to the subject of 
the Saviour's second advent. 
I often feel to say 
with Paul, " while in this tabernacle I groan, be-
ing burdened : not that I would be unclothed, but 
clothed upon, that mortality might be swallowed 
up of life. 
For we know that the whole creation 
groaneth and traveleth in pain together until now. 
And not only they, but ourselves, also groan with-
in ourselves waiting for the adoption, to wit, the 
redemption of our body." 
The old earth 
has 
groaned of late very much. 
It looks as though 
the elements had a commission from the Almighty, 
for the destruction of this sin cursed earth and the 
transgressors of his holy law. 
-'The windows 
from on high are upon, and the foundations of the 
earth do shake. 
The earth will soon be broken 
down, and clean dissolved ; the earth moveth ex-
ceedingly ; the earth shall reel to and fro like a 
drunkard and shall be removed like a cottage, and 
the transgressions thereof shall be heavy upon it; 
and it shall fall not to rise again." 
The elements 
have made great destruction of late, in human life 
and property. 
The tornadoes that have swept 
over this Western country of late has been awful 
Sweeping everything in their way, houses, barns 
fences, and uprooting large trees, and 
breaking 
others like pipe-stems. I doubt whether there was 
ever known so much destruction of property and 
hnman life in so short a time before. 
The ship-
wrecks have been awful, and 1 think there has not 
been less than thirty large steamboats and cargoes 
that have been destroyed in these Western waters 
within a year, by burning and sinking with hund-
reds of lives. 
The fires that have taken place has 
destroyed millions of property, besides the loss of 
lives, and add to these, pestilence, famine, earth 
quakes in divers places, and volcanoes. 
Wars and 
rumors of wars, kingdom' rising up against king-
dom, nation against nation, revolutions in different 
places, " the sea and the waves roaring, and men 
hearts failing them for looking for those things 
that are coming on the earth." 
When we look at 
the present state of the professed church of Christ 
as Mr. Onkin of Germany said, when he was here 
that the churches in this country had sunk so low 
that it had become fashionable to make a profes-
sion of religion, but he said it was never fashion-
able to be a Christian, nor never would be in this 
world. 
The church is governed by worldly prin-
ciples and her prosperity is calculated on by dol-
lars and cents. 
Tbe world might conclude by 
what we publish in the papers that the greatest 
obstacle in the way of converting the world is the 
want of more money; and I am afraid there is 
more dependent on that, than there is on the Holy 
Ghost, to convert the world. 
The church has for-
feited Christ's promise that he made to his disci-
ples before he ascended, that they were to observe 
all things whatsoever he commanded them, and he 
promised to be with them even unto the end of the 
world. 
He fulfilled his promise to them as long 
as they obeyed his commands, and blessed the word 
that they preached to the conversion of thousands. 
They continued steadfast in the apostles doctrine 
and breaking of bread and wherever they went his 
spirit went with them and supported them under 
all their trials and persecutions which they had to 
endure. 
When Paul and Silas were whipt and 
cast into prison, and their feet made fast in the 
stocks, they prayed and sang praises unto God ; 
and the Lord shook the earth and the foundations 
of the prison, and opened the prison door, and 
loosed all their bands. 
He converted the jailor 
and his household, and made him act the part of 
the good Samaritan and washed their mangled 
bodies. 
They found their Lord was as good as his 
promise, and one that loveth at all times and stick-
eth closer than a brother, which more than made 
up for all their sufferings and made the prison a 
little heaven on earth ; for " It is heaven to dwell 
in thine embrace, and no where else but there." 
But there has been a great change since that time. 
The professed ministers of Christ now instead of 
seeking for glory and honor, and immortality and 
eternal life, they are seeking for honor and titles 
from men, which the Saviour strictly forbids them 
to receive; for he says, " Ye are all brethren and 
he that would be greatest shall be servant of all." 
It seems they prefer to run the risk of being called 
the least in the kingdom of heaven and 
break 
Christ's commands, than to leave those honorary 
titles conferred by men, in this world. 
But, " how 
can they believe that receive honor one of another, 
and seek not that honor that cometh from God 
only." 
But the poor brother that is devoting his 
time and talents, and travels through cold and 
heat, and rain and snow, and fares hard, and is 
treated by the world as the apostles were in preach-
ing the gospel of the kingdom, and pointing sin-
ners to the Lamb of God for salvation, has his re-
ward in the presence of his Lord and master, which 
he promised to them who obey and observe all his 
commands, which is far better than all this world 
can bestow. 
Although " troubled on every side 
they are not distressed," although " perplexed, yet 
not in despair ; persecuted, but not forsaken ; cast 
down, but not destroyed ;" " though their outward 
man perish, yet their inward man is renewed day 
by day; for these light afflictions, which are but 
for a moment, work for them a far more exceeding 
and eternal weight of glory, while they look not 
at the things which are sure, which are temporal, 
but the things which are not seen, which are eter-
nal." 
The church has sunk into a Laodicean state 
and are saying, " they are rich, and increased in 
goods, and have need of nothing, and know not 
that they are wretched and miserable, and poor, 
and blind, and naked and have need of all things." 
This state of things has been brought on by disbe-
lieving what the Saviour has said about his second 
coming, and preaching up the " conversion of the 
world and a temporal millennium ;" which has 
lulled the church and the world into a profound 
sleep. 
But it is in the state we are to expect it 
to be, when the Saviour comes, for he said," When 
I come, shall I find faith on the earth?" 
The 
time is fast approaching when the Lord will not 
only shake the earth, but heaven also, that the 
things that cannot be shaken may remain ; when 
all the doctrines and commandments of men, and 
their refuges of lies, will be swept away within 
the bosom of destruction and them that know not 
God and obey not the gospel of Jesus Christ, who 
shall be punished with everlasting destruction from 
the presence of the Lord and the glory of his 
power, while his saints will stand unmoved on the 
sea of glass, " amid the wreck of matter and the 
rush of worlds," and sing " Ilallujah, the Lord 
God Omnipotent reigneth." 
JOHN 
SMITH. 
Cincinnati, May IDA, 1854. 
loss would be more than the gain. 
The wealth 
and honor obtained here is but momentary, and 
generally proves a curse. 
Therefore when I com-
pared the things seen with those not seen, 1 saw 
that it was better to make the sacrifice the gospel 
requires ; for it offers one hundred per cent in this 
life, and in the world to come life everlasting. 
Our best interest is in living in obedience to the 
gospel. 
0, that men would be wise. 
We are liv-
ing a peculiar time. 
Everything in this life is un-
certain, and we are all rushing on to the judgment. 
Soon the holy, will be holy still; and the 
filthy, 
filthy still. 
In view of this, we should live day by 
day. 
Now I wish to say a few words on time. 
I think 
that those make a great mistake who put the same 
confidence in human declarations that we have in 
Divine revelation ; and many are still pursuing 
that course. 
Faith will cause us to act as though 
we knew. 
When God said to Abraham, " Go out 
to a place you shall afterward receive for an in-
heritance," he went, not knowing whither he went. 
God spake, he believed, and acted as though be 
knew ; for it is impossible for God's word to fail. 
Job said, " I know that my Redeemer liveth, and 
that he shall stand at the latter day on the earth ; 
and though after my skin, worms destroy this body, 
yet in my flesh I shall see God." 
Job says that 
he knows this ; how does he know it? 
God said 
it, who cannot fail, therefore Job spake with con-
fidence. 
Now we have the positive testimony of 
Christ, that when signs in the sun, moon stars, and 
earth, should be before he comes the second time, 
begin to come to pass, we may know that our re-
demption draweth nigh ; and when we see all these 
things come to pass, we may know that he is near 
even at the door. 
I understand the darkening of 
the sun to be the first of these signs, and that we 
have had these signs, so we know that he is near, 
even at the door. 
We have the great leading gov-
ernments symbolized and explained which reaches 
to the judgment, so we can trace their fulfilment 
and know when we come to the last prediction be-
fore the event. 
We know that at the end of 2S00 
days the sanctuary shall be cleansed ; and that the 
resurrection shall take place at the end of 1335. 
God does not say at what date in the world's his-
tory the numbers commence, nor can we vithout 
the aid of uninspired chronology. 
Had tie Lord 
told us, we could number off the years and say 
the Lord will come at such a time; but it is not so. 
We may take uninspired history and dates, make 
a harmony in our own minds, and it nay appear 
plain to somethat the calculation is (brrect; 
but 
there can be nothing positive in if. It 
cannot 
amount to faith ; for we cannot sa; we know the 
day, or month, or year, yet I look fir the Lord this 
year because I see nothing why h« may not come> 
not because there are any conclusive arguments 
for it; for I think they are defective ; but we know 
he is near, even at the door ; h's coming must be 
soon, and if be does not cone this year he may 
come next. 
Be like those th/t wait for their Lord. 
My sympathies are with the Herald more than with 
any other paper ; for I thirk it has the most con-
sistent course and sheds*f<Tth the most healthy in-
fluence ; and I give my support to no other one ; 
yet f do not endorse all it contains; I feel as brother 
Chapman has expressed himself, that I shall do 
what I can for its support. 
The article it contained 
a few weeks ago on (he working of the sun stag-
gered some ; but wp must agree to disagree, we 
only see in part anfknow in part; but when that 
which is perfect iscome, then we shall see as we 
are seen, and knoy as we are known. 
Let us keep 
the unity of the spirit, live as brethren and wait 
for His Son froir heaven. 
Your brothei/as ever in hope, 
MOSES 
CHANDLER. 
LETTER FROM M. CHANDLER. 
BRO. 
HIMES :—When I was determined on a/e-
ligious life, the question with me was, What vill 
be for my interest ? I counted the cost; I wmted 
to obtain wealth and honor, but I saw thac if I 
gained the whole world, and lost my own srtil, the 
GENERAI" CONFERENCE AT LOUDON 
RIDGE, N. H. 
AMID all^he strife and confusion of the times, I 
am interested in the call for a general Conference 
at Loudoi Ridge. 
I bopeit will be a conference that will be pleas-
ing to Cod, and profitable to his people ; not only 
in the vicinity where it is to be holden, but gener-
allv throughout the state, 
Inlooking over the 1st vol. of the " Signs of the 
Tines," 
I was forcibly impressed wi,th the pharse-
oligy of the notice for the first general Conference 
-^holden in Boston, in October, 1840. The follow-
ing is the notice : 
" The undersigned, believers in the second com-
ing and kingdom of the Messiah " at hand,'''' cor-
dially unite in the call of a general Conference of 
our brethren in the United States,'and elsewhere, 
who are also looking for the advent near, to meet 
at Boston, Mass., Wednesday, Oct. 14, 1840, at 
10 o'clock, A. M., to continue two days, or as long 
as may then be thought best. 
" The object of the Conference will not be to 
THE ADVENT 
HERALD 
255 I 
form a new organization in the faith of Christ; 
nor to assail others of our brethren who differ from 
us in regard to the period and manner of the ad-
vent ; but to discuss the whole subject faithfully 
and fairly, in"the exercise of that spirit of Christ, 
in which it will be safe to meet him at the judg-
ment seat. 
" By so doing, we may accomplish much in the 
rapid, grand, and powerful spread of " the ever-
lasting gospel of the kingdom at hand," that the 
Lord may be speedily prepared, whatever may be 
the precise period of his coming. 
Signed, Wil-
liam Miller, Henry Davy Ward, Henry 
Jones, 
Henry Plummer, John Train. Josiah Litch, Joshua 
P. Atwood, David Merrill, David Millard, L. D. 
Fleming, Joseph Bates, Charles F. Stevens, P. R. 
Russell, 
Josiah 
Leavey, Timothy Cole, J. 
V. 
Himes." 
Two points in the above notice, are worthy of 
special attention. 
First, the cause of calling the 
Conference. 
Second, its object. 
. 1. The cause—Believing in the " second coming 
and kingdom of the Messiah ' at hand,' " " looking 
for the ' advent near ' "—" immediately to meet 
at the judgment seat." 
No definite time here. 
2. The object—Not to 
form a new organization 
in the faith of Christ "—not to " assail others of 
our brethren who differ from us in regard to the 
period and manner of the advent;" " but to dis-
cuss the whole subject faithfully and fairly ;" hop-
ing thereby to " accomplish much in the rapid, 
general and powerful spread of the everlasting 
gospel of the kingdom at hand." 
Although nearly 14 years have passed since the 
first general Conference was holden, yet I am 
nappy that I can unite, most heartily, with those 
who are interested in meeting together for the 
cause and object, expressed in the above notice; it 
still being applicable to the present times. 
T. 
M. 
PREBLE. 
East Weare, July 29th, 1854. 
Fully endorsing the above, I subscribe my name 
as being deeply interested in the above named Con-
ference. 
BENJAMIN 
LOCKE. 
in thunder-tones, that the great day of the Lord 
is near and hasteth greatly. 
Then all that have 
their names written in the Book will be delivered, 
and shine as the brightness of the 
fimament. 
Hap-
py day to the pilgrims and strangers that have no 
continuing city here, but are seeking one to come. 
I think the time has arrived when God's saints 
can lift up their heads knowing that their redemp-
tion is nigh. 
Is it so? is Jesus about to come? 
Is the last trump soon to sound? 
Is the great day 
of God about to burst upon us with all its reali-
ties ? Is the resurrection near ? 
Is the final testing 
of all mankind about to take place, and the world 
unconscious, and the Church of Christ generally 
asleep on this momentous subject ? Well, brethren, 
seeing we look for such things, what manner of 
persons ought we to be, in all manner of holy con 
versation and godliness. 
Let us take the admoni-
tion of Jesus: "Watch, and pray always, that 
we may be counted worthy to escape all the things 
that are coming on the earth, and to stand before 
the Son of man." 
There is little interest here in some places. 
At 
others, there is more. 
I think it would be better 
for the cause, for some other person to be here 
than for me. 
I think it is my duty to go to other 
places. 
May the Lord direct me right. 
I have 
baptized three 6ince my return. 
Yours, expecting 
redemption at the end of the days. 
WM. 
M. 
INGH.VM. 
Clements (N. S.), July 20th, 1854. 
Questions* 
DEAR 
BROTHER :—I respectfully suggest the fol-
lowing queries, which you can insert if you please 
in your paper. 
1. If the Turks were the four angels who were 
loosed at the sounding of the second woe-trumpet 
when did that trumpet begin to sound ? 
2. If the taking of Constantinople in 1453, be 
the time, did not the period allotted to that woe 
expire in 1844? for an hour, a day, a month, and 
a year, are equal to 391 years, fifteen days. 
3. If the time of that woe has expired, are not 
we very solemnly apprised that another woe is to 
succeed ; the third woe ; and is not our attention 
called to it in Rev. 11:14.—" The second woe is 
past; behold, the third woe cometh quickly." 
4 
If the time of the third woe is distinctly 
marked in Rev. 10:7, as that in which the mystery 
of God shall be finished, is it not the time of the 
end ? 
5. Is not this confirmed by Rev. 11:15-18, where 
the heavenly worshippers speak of this as the time 
of the dead, when they should be judged, and the 
faithful servants of God rewarded, and his enemies 
destroyed ? 
0. If this be the time of the end, are we not tj 
look for the fulfilment of Dan. 11:40 ; the pushing 
of the King of the South against the King of the 
North ? 
7. If, contrary to the opinion held by the con-
ductors of the Advent 
Herald, the little horn of 
Dan. 8:9-14, is not the Roman Power, but 
the 
Mohammedan ; if the latter power be the King of 
the South, do we not witness in the efforts of 
Turkey to push back the King of the North, Rus-
sia, the fulfilment of the first clause of that D&n. 
11:40. 
8. Should such be a correct view of these texts, 
are we not to expect the complete and sudden over-
throw of the Mohammedan Power by Russia, and 
great conquests to be made by the latter power ? 
Such are the ideas of one who is 
AN 
IXQIRER. 
Brookfield (Ct.), 
August Isi, 1854. 
Letter from Wm. M. Ingham. 
Bno. HIMES :—I am still striving to obtjain the 
kingdom. 
My heart is cheered with the prospect 
of soon getting home ; of seeing Jesus, and all the 
family of the redeemed, safely gathered to the in-
heritance that is incorruptible and undefiled, and 
that fadeth not away. 
The evidence is clear from the signs given by 
Jesus and the 
apostles, and the fulfilment of 
prophecy, that the Lord is soon to come. 
The 
movement among the nations of the earth speak 
Letter from T. F. Boyer. 
BRO. 
HIMES :—My heart swells with gratitude to 
God, as I take a retrospective view of the past, 
and behold how the hand of the Almighty has 
gently cleared my pathway, through the trials, and 
the many obstacles that the wearied pilgrim has 
to contend with on his journey to that land, where 
the wicked shall not trouble, and where we shall 
forever be at rest. 
It is also encouraging to learn 
that the cause is in a prosperous condition; and 
your labors of love are owned and blessed by God. 
My prayer is that multitudes may be constrained 
to fall in love with the truth before this weary 
night shall pass away, when the wfath of God 
shall be poured out upon their guilty heads: and 
then shall dawn that glorious morning which will 
be the joy of the saints ; will shine throughout 
eternity. 
And hope, that has so long comforted 
our hearts amidst the storms of life, like the anchor 
that secures the mighty vessel upon the raging 
deep—will then be lost in love which will rule 
predominant throughout God's vast dominion. 
I 
cannot see that there is much difference as regards 
religion in this place ; as when I wrote to you last 
it is at a low ebb. 
Wickedness seems to abound 
everywhere. 
Since you heard from me last, I have 
been traveling considerable through Ohio, Indiana, 
Illinois, and a portion of the state of Iowa. 
1 was 
surprised to find in almost every place the mark of 
the Beast; they are jealous and make use of every 
means to increase their power. 
While 
looking 
over this vast field, I was constrained to exclaim, 
" truly the harvest is great, but the laborers are 
few." 
Oh, let our united prayers ascend to the 
Lord of the vineyard that he would send forth more 
laborers into his vineyard. 
My friends are well 
and join in sending there love to you and yours. 
Your brother in Christ, 
Harrisburg, 
July. 
THEODORE F. 
BOYER. 
One of the Worthy Poor. 
WE take pleasure in sending the Herald to such 
persons as the following : 
" 
DEAR Brother :—I cannot indulge a hope of 
your favoring me with the Herald longer in this 
distant region. 
1 wish I was able fully to com-
pensate you. 
But after my expenses to this place, 
I am left with but five dollars, and am still with-
out house, home, horse or cow. 
" Sir, you see the condition in which I am placed, 
and it is wholly optional with yourself, whether 
to continue or discontinue your paper. 
I have 
thus far been highly pleased with its perusal. 

d must subscribe myself, yours, in the bonds of 
peace." 
This brother has recently removed from the East 
to the West. 
He will not want for the 
Herald, 
while we have the ability to send it. 
Letter from I. Godfrey. 
BRO. 
HIMES :—I have been a constant reader of 
the Herald, for some years, and am deeply inter-
ested in it. 
I was much interested especially in 
the late reports of the Conference, in Providence, 
R. I. 
I am glad that things are coming into some 
order, both as to the churches and ministry. 
For 
there "has been much looseness in discipline, and 
a want of system by which we might know who 
and what we are. 
Some have taken advantage of 
our liberality and want of order, to impose upon 
the churches. 
We have 
recently had a 
man 
among us, who professed to be an Adventist, but 
held himself responsible to none. He imposed upon 
us, and did us much injury. 
We have learned a 
good lesson. 
They are not all Adventists, who pro-
fess to be. 
Some take the name, only to impose 
upon us. 
But this class of men will soon be ex-
posed, and the churches will • understand 
them. 
We have had a good visit of late from Eldef B. S. 
Reynolds, and Wesley Burnham. 
They have done 
us much good. 
They found us in a tried condition, 
resulting from the injudicious course of our late 
minister. 
But their preaching has revived us, and 
given new interest to the cause in this region. 
We were much interested in the labors of bro-
ther W. E. Burnham, of Essex, who has just en-
tered the field. 
We hope he may be encouraged 
to continue in the work. 
In the above I have spoken the minds of the 
brethren here. 
ISREAL 
GODFREY. 
South Vershire, Vt., June 30th, 1854. 
©bituarj). 
' I am the resurrection and the life: he that believeth in me 
though he were dead, yet shall he live: and whosoever liveth, and 
believeth in me, shall never die."'—JOHN 11: 25,26. 
THE late Elder 
JAMES PARSONS, of Canton, Pa. 
was born on Cape Ann, Mass., June 20th, 1791 
His parents soon removed to Boston, where, at 
the early age of thirteen, he embraced a hope in 
the Saviour, and united with the Second Baptist 
church, (now worshipping at Baldwin Place,) un-
der the pastoral care of D. F. Baldwin. 
He was early impressed with a desire to preach 
the gospel, and while quite young obtained a li 
cense from the church, and devoted himself to the 
all-important work. 
He was ordained in the fall 
of 1820, by a Conference of Elders, at Newport 
N. H., where he was then laboring. 
He was married in 1821, and continued as an 
itinerant minister in many parts of New England 
where his labors were abundantly blessed ; espe. 
cially at Strafford, Oxford, Lynn, Newport, N. H. 
and at Reading and Coleraine, Mass. 
In all the 
above places, he was blessed with great and pre-
cious revivals, which gladdened the hearts of the 
people of God, and built up the waste places of 
Zion. 
In the summer of 1825, he received a call from 
the Baptist Missionary Convention of Mass., to go 
to Bradford county, Pa., which he complied with 
He spent several years of his life in the arduous 
work of winning souls to his Saviour, in,that new 
and thinly settled county. 
It was during this pe-
riod that I became acquainted with him, that be-
ing the place of my birth. 
I became early attached 
to him and his family, which has continued to the 
present time. 
Elder P. was a great and good man, and won 
the hearts of his hearers, by his solemn and pleas-
ing address, fine talents, and clarion voice. 
At the end of his seven year's mission, he re-
moved to New York State, where he spent about 
fourteen years. 
In 1838 he obtained the Lectures 
of Mr. Miller, on the second coming of Christ. 
He embraced most of the views advocated in that 
work, and faithfully advocated them in public and 
private until the last; but never considered them 
sufficient reason for leaving the Baptist church. 
In the spring of 1846 he removed to Canton, 
Bradford county, Pa., where he continued his in-
defatigable labors. 
In 1850, he visited New England for the last 
time—the fatigue and exertion of which enfeebled 
his health, but not so as to confine him at home, 
until about the trot of February last. He then had 
a severe attack of influenza, terminating in the 
dropsy, and causing his death. 
I visited him twice during his last sickness. 
At 
my first visit he seemed conscious that he had but 
a few more days to spend on earth, and he thus 
addressed me: " Brother Gates, I have been hop 
ing and praying that I might get able to join you 
in the holy work of preaching the everlasting gos-
pel of the kingdom ; but I feel now, as though I 
should never do it any more. 
My time has nearly 
come. 
Oh, be faithful, and in your journeyings 
t.) and fro always make my house your home— 
you, and all God's dear servants shall have a 
hearty welcome." 
He added : " I was in hopes 
to have attended the camp-meeting in Elk and 
Centre counties, and to have seen and heard Elders 
J. V. Himes, and Litch ; but I have now given up 
all idea of it, and must be resigned to the will of 
my Heavenly Father." 
He further said, that he had reviewed the whole 
ground of the Advent faith and hope, and must 
say he was fully satisfied with its tenableness, its 
scriptural character, &e. 
He was a firm believer in the consciousness of 
the spirit after the death of the body, and he ex-
pected, when absent from the body, to be present 
with the Lord. 
He wished me to pray with him, which 1 did, 
with great pleasure. 
He joined in the holy theme, 
in the true spirit of worship. 
1 then left him, and 
proceeded on my way to visit my father in Brad-
ford county, Springfield, Pa., and returned in 
about one week. 
I found him much reduced, and 
sinking very fast. 
His wife was bowed in prayer 
for his easy exit, and the family were in tears ! 
He knew me well, and expressed gladness to see 
me once more. 
I prayed with him, and left to ful-
fil my appointments at the Block House—he re-
questing me to preach his funeral sermon, which I 
agreed to do, if practicable. 
I returned home, and a few weeks after received 
the following letter from his son James, but I did 
not get it in time to be there. 
But I was told that 
Elder Dwye of the Baptist church spoke on the 
occasion, to general acceptance. 
Thus has fallen a great and good man in Israel, 
and Oh, may his mantle fall on us. 
Yours, in 
hope. 
I. 
R. 
GATES. 
Salladaysbury, 
July 18th, 1854. 
BRO. 
GATES :—It is with sad feelings that I sit 
down to inform you of the death of my venerable 
father. 
He expired this morning, about a duarter 
before two o'clock. 
He remained much in 
the 
same state until last evening, when he complained 
of more sinking feelings. 
After midnight it be-
came evident that he was sinking in death. 
His 
family were all called together, and were all pres-
ent when he quietly breathed his last. 
His last 
moments were tranquil and hopeful. 
He died in 
full hope of a better resurrection. 
We propose to 
have his funeral take place on Wednesday, the 3d, 
at 1 o'clock in the afternoon. 
If you can reach 
here by that time, we should like to have you at-
tend. 
Yours in tribulation, 
Canton, May 
LS<, 1854. 
[. 
C. 
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256 
THE ADVENT 
HERALD. 
Contents of this No. 
MISCELLANEOUS. 
Churches, Church Order, 
Creeds. &c 
249 
The Reformation 
249 
Not as the World Oiveth, 
The Woman in the Wildernes 252 
Sew Works 
252 
Foreign News 
253 
OCRRESPONDESCE. 
i Conference Report 
254 
Give I unto You 
250 
The Ascension (poetry) .... 25u 
Dialogue 
250 
Brief Extracts 
251 
Foreign News 
251 
The Spanish Insurrection... 251 
The Eastern War 
251 
EDITORIAL. 
The Prophecy of Isaiah 
252 
General Conference at Loudon 
Ridge, N. H 
254 
Letter from John Smith 
254 
" 
" 
M. Chandler .... 254 
" 
" 
W. M.Ingham.. 255 
(< 
« 
T jp Boyer 
255 
Questions 
255 
OBITUARY. 
James Parsons 
255 
ADVENT HERALD. 
BOSTON, AUGUST 12, 1854. 
THE A. S. A". MISSION SOCIETY. 
Rec'd and Cr. to A. Pcarce, 
Treasurer. 
S. B. Knight 
$1 00. 
E. Edgerton 
$2 50. 
THE FAMINE 
IN ZANTE 
AND 
ZEPHALONIA.—A 
cor-
respondent of the Traveller says that the famine in 
these islands is on the increase. 
The disease of the 
grape and currant vines is making rapid progress, 
and it is (eared that the olive crop will fail. 
The 
cities are literally beggar cities, and the square of 
the public pawning establishment 
is daily 
so 
thronged with pale and emaciated people, of both 
sexes and of all ages, that policemen are stationed 
there to clear the avenues. 
The writer says " it 
is distressing to see those who have been unable to 
gain admission during the day, towards evening 
stagger homeward in an exhausted state, to spend 
another night in agony, a prey to gnawing hunger. 
And how aggravated the suffering of the desparing 
mother, who returns home after a day of unfruitful 
search, to hear throughout the dismal night, the 
shrieks of her starving offspring, without the pow-
er of relieving their pangs." 
Notices. 
NOTICE.—The subscribers to the chapel, who 
have not paid the enstalment duo on their shares, 
are requested to remember us as early as conveni-
ent. 
We now have special need of all due. 
I wish also to say to any of our friends who may 
have funds on hand which they could loan on good 
security, with interest, that I wish to obtain a few 
hundred dollars for six months, or more, as it may 
best suit them. 
Will any such write to me, with-
out delay ? 
I am in special need at this juncture. 
J. V. 
HIMES. 
FEARFUL MORTAITY.—At Lamar's stage station, 
about fifteen miles from Chicago, there has been a 
fearful mortality recently. 
Of twenty-five persons 
who dined there on Monday, seventeen died in the 
course of a few days, and the rest will probably 
die. 
The cause for this mortality was found in 
the cellar. 
The bottom was covered with water in 
a putrid condition, in which was floating cut pieces 
of meat, decayed vegetables, and other refuse. 
Over this mass, the meat consumed by the family 
was hanging, and through the accumulations upon 
it, the disease—whatever it may have been—is sup-
posed to have been communicated to the sufferers. 
NOTICE.—Elder llimes will preach in the second 
Advent 
meeting-house, 39 Forsyth-street, 
New 
York, morning and evening, Sabbath, Augustl3th. 
And the second Advent chapel, 7th Avenue, in the 
afternoon. 
ELDER I. C. WELLCOME and myself will attend a 
series of meetings in Bristol, Me., commencing 
August 17th, and continue over the Sabbath, at 
Round Pond or where Mr. Harding may arrange. 
NICHOLAS 
SMITH. 
I WILL preach in Litchfield, Me., in the Robinson 
school-house, August 9th. 
Also in the Read meet-
ing house, Richmond, Sunday, August 13th. 
I. C. 
WELLCOME.. 
Book Notice. 
"PROPHETIC VIEWS OF THE CONDITION OF THE 
NA-
TIONS which is immediately to preceed the Second 
Advent. 
By N. N. Whiting." 
Price $2 50 per 
100. 
4 cents single. 
This important tract is now issued. 
It is an in 
structive and timely essay. 
An extensive circula 
tion of it would do much to inculcate correct views 
of the events which are to usher in the consumma-
tion of the Christian's hope. 
GENERAL CONFERENCE OF ADVENTISTS IN NEW 
HAMP 
SHIRE.—There is a desire for a general gathering of 
Adventists in N. H., on the part of many of the 
early, steadfast, and faithful friends of the cause 
It is proposed, therefore, to hold a conference of 
this kind. 
Some of the objects of this meeting will be to 
form a better acquaintance with each other—to 
learn each others views, and also to hear reports 
of the state of the cause within the bounds of the 
State, and to provide for the destitute, &c. 
The 
meeting will be held in Louden Ridge, N. II., and 
will commence Sept. 7th, and continue over the 
Sabbath. 
Brethren will be provided tor, and it is 
hoped that there will be a general gathering, from 
all parts of the state. 
Elders Himes, Preble, Os-
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THERE will be a Camp-meeting, near the Second Fork, Elk county, 
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H. L. HASTINGS. 
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PROVIDENCE permitting, I will preach in Manchester, N. n., Wednes-
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Erancestown, Thursday evening, 17th. 
Claremont, Sabbath, 20th. 
Chelsea, Vt., Tuesday evening, 22d, as brother Gardner shall ap-
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Waterbury, Sabbath, 27th. 
Bristol, Sabbath, September 3d. 
A. SHERWIN. 
PROVIDENCE permitting, I will preach, 
At Portland, Me., Sabbath, August 20th. 
McGuire Hill (Poland), Friday, 25th and over the Sabbath. 
Kennebunkport, 30th, and 31st. 
Kingston Plain, N. H , September 1st, and over the Sabbath. 
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Essex, Mass., Sabbath, 17th. 
N. BILLINGS. 
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16th, and continue one week, or longer if the interest may war-
rant 
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reconciled to God, are cordially invited to meet with us. 
Elders 
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expected to be present. 
Committee of arrangements Ivory Col-
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ALBANY, N. Y.—W. Nicholls, 185 Lydius-stree'. 
AUBURN, N. Y.—Wm. Ingmire. 
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LOWELL, Mass.—J. C. Downing. 
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WATERLOO, Shefford, C. E—R. Hutchinson, M. D. 
WEST ALBURG, Vt.—Benjamin Webb. 
WHITE ROCK, Ogle comity, 111.—Elder John Cummings, jr. 
WORCESTER,Mass.—J. J. Bigelow. 
PROVIDENCE permitting, I will hold a meeting at the school-house, 
near the West Meeting-house in Hill, N. H., Sunday, Sept., 17th. 
If thought best, the meeting may continue two or three days. 
I will also hold a meeting at West Boscawen, Sunday, Septem-
ber 24th. 
T.M.PREBLE. 
NOTICE.—I expect to commence, Providence permitting, at Yard-
leyville, Buck's county, Pa., August 9th, to continue over the 
' following Sabbath. 
I trust friends from New York, Brookline, 
Newark, &c., will meet with us, and bring thuir tents. 'We ex-
pect a good meeting. 
J. LITCH. 
I EXPECT to go to Vermont about the first of August, and shall re 
main a few weeks ; those who wish me to visit them, will please 
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