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WITH Goe.-s—A pious Scotch minister being 
asked by a friend, during his last illness, whe-
ther he thought himself dying, answered, " Re-
ally, friend, I care not whether I am or not; 
for if I die, I shall be with Gcd ; if I live, he 
will be with me." 
ineessemeremeataleitir 
J. V. HIMES, Proprietor. 
"WE HAVE NOT FOLLOWED CUNNINGLY DEVISED FABLES." 
OFFICE, No. S Chteraion.street 
WIIOLE NO. 630. 
BOSTON, SATURDAY, JUNE 11, 1853. 
VOLUME XI. NO. 24. 
at the present day, and that of a few years since. 
Then the student commenced his. studies in the 
family of some retired clergyman, living in a 
quiet, doniestic manner, working some, and ram-
bling over the hills more. After being prepared 
for college, the student went to the halls of 
learning with a feeling of the responsibility that 
rested upon him. After his course in college 
was gone through, he returned again into the 
family of the clergyman, visited with him the 
sick bed, attended funerals, was present at re- 
vivals of religion, took part in the prayer-meet- 
big and the humble duties of a pastor's life ; ,and 
if he became in the end less learned,he became 
a more useful and practical laborer in the vine- 
yard of his divine Master. Now all this was 
done away with; the theolosical student com- 
menced his career and ended it in the schools. 
He bestowed his time and talents in intellectual 
pursuits, and made it his aim to shine as a great 
light in the world of letters—to become a fine 
orator, and a man to be stared at and admired 
as an intellectual prodigy, rather than to be 
looked up to as a humble Christian teacher. 
The public seems likewise to have lost sight 
of the true mission of the clergymen, and to de-
mand a class of sacred teachers who preach to 
the intellect instead of to the heart. • The sacred 
orator has to set his sails to the popular breeze, 
in order to catch the attention of the public. He 
must preach great political sermons—great ca-
lamity sermons—great railroad disaster sermons 
—so that one would almost be led to conclude 
that a blow-up or a break-down was a real God-
send for the display of pulpit eloquence and ora-
tory. 
Intellect and money, the speaker said, were 
the gods of the present day ; and unless a man 
felt that he had rare 'intellectual endowments, 
he hesitated to assume the profession of a clergy-
man., from a sense of his inability to meet the 
demands of the public. Young men of respect-
able talents, generous impulses, pure lives, and 
noble hearts, turned away from the profession to 
become clerks in railroad offices, surveyors, en-
gineers, machinists, and to enter other depart-
ments of secular labor, when the Church was in 
need of their services. 
Others who had already commenced their ca-
reer as ministers, threw up their profession for 
similiar causes., and with similar results. Ano-
ther consequence of this predominating intellect-
ual influence, is the tendency to start new theo-
ries in theology—men seek and profess to find 
new truths, and imagine that they are profound 
just in proportion to the depth they dive, and 
the amount of Mud they bring up, and the re-
sults were schisms in the Church and an injury 
and a reproach to the cause' of religion. 
The speaker earnestly impressed upon his hear-
ers the necessity of Coming back to the original 
simplicity of the gospel teachings, and aim to be 
good rather than to be great ; to cultivate the 
heart instead of expending all effort upon the de-
velopment of the understanding, and he closed 
with an appeal to the young men about to enter 
the field of ministerial labor, to imitate the ex-
ample of their divine Master. 
THE STREAM OF TIME. 
Et JOHN SWAIN, 
Tr is a silent streams 
"Calm as a quiet sleep) 
To a strange repose, 
The still stream flows, 
Where the 'mourners cease "tt, eep. 
It is a wide-spread stream, 
And every valley fills; 
It covers the .plains, 
And the high domains 
Of the everlasting hills. 
It is .a ceaseless 'stream; 
For ever flowing fast ; 
Like a solemn tide 
To the ocean wide 
Of the far, unfathomed past. 
It is a mighty stream ; 
Resistless in its sway; 
The loftiest things, 
The strongest kings, 
It carries with ease away. 
1It is a precious stream ; 
Four pearls of .price untold 
Reward the care 
 
Of the searcher there; 
And its sands are sands of gold. - 19W 
Through silent realms of night ; 
Through every glorious clime s 
By night and day 
On its wide-spread way, 
Fast flows the stream of time. 
The Boston Anniversaries. 
AMERICAN SUNDAY-SCHOOL UNION. 
Tills Society held its twenty-ninth anniver-
sary at the Music Hall, at 9 Thursday forenoon. 
Notwithstanding the unpleasant weather, the at-
tendance was very large. in the absence of Mr. 
Choate, who it was expected would preside, the 
chair was taken by Nathan Bishop, Esq., the 
Superintendent of Public Schools in this city. 
He dwelt upon the importance of proper re-
ligious education of the young, and to do this 
the Society whose anniversary we are celebrat-
ing is laboring. It extends over our whole land. 
It goes wherever our population is extending in 
the West. It is the precursor and ally of the 
common school. The commonsschoOl cannot do 
all that must be done to educate the young. Af-
ter it has done all it can do, there still is the re-
ligious education of the young, and this pertains 
especially to the children of God. The soul of 
the young needs religious food. Intellectual food 
alone will not satisfy its wants. Unless the child 
is taught the great truths of the Christian roll-
. gion, his soul will be weak and crippled. 
NEW ENGLAND ANTI-SLAVERY CONVENTION. 
The discussion of the resolutions before the 
Convention was resumed at ten on Thursday 
. morning, Francis Jackson in the chair. 
Henry C. Wright made a long address, the 
nature of which can be judged by one statement 
—that he would trample upon the Almighty him-
self if he commanded him to hold in bondage a 
human being. 
George W. Putnam, who was an agent of the 
Society, complained of the makers-up of the an-
nual report in leaving his name out of the com-
plimentary notices which were made of the lec-
turers in that report, stating that he had received 
treatment from the Board of Managers such as 
a pickpocket would not receive front any true 
philanthropist. 
THE CONVENTION OF CONGREGATIONAL MINISTERS. 
This Convention met pursuant to adjournment 
in the Brattle-street church, at 11 on Thursday 
forenoon. 
The Rev. Mr. Todd, B. D., preached the anni-
versary-seri-nen, from the text contained in 2 Cor. 
11:3—" But I fear lest by any means, as the ser-
.pent beguiled Eve through his subtility, so your 
minds should be corrupted from the, simplicity 
that is in Christ." 
The speaker drew a vivid comparison between 
the manner of educating ministerial candidates 
THE MASSACHUSETTS SABBATII-SCHOOL SOCIETY. 
The twenty-first anniversary of the Massachu-
setts Sabbath-school Society was held yesterday 
afternoon in the Music Hall, commencing its 
session at three and a half o'clock.. In the ab-
sence of the President., the Hon. Samuel 
Walley, who is at this time in Earope, William 
T. Eustis, Esq., was called to the chair. 
The following is the balance sheet of the 
Treasurer's report for the year just closed : 
To salary of Secretary, Treasurer, and Assist-
ants, including travelling expenses of Secre-
tary, $4,440 61; rent, taxes, and insurance, 
$1,002 70 ; advertising and postage, $269 64 ; 
report, catalogues, and circulars, $337 94 ; 
copy-rights and literary labor, $1,075 48 ; pa-
per, printing, and binding, $16,917 91; sun-
dry expenses of the Society, $383 39 ; cash on 
hand credit new account, $4,054 31; total, 
$28,48198.. By balance on last year's account, 
$1,698 86; sales, $23,872 17 ; life member- 
ships and donations to the Society, $2,910 95 ; 
total, $28,481 98. Cash on hand May 1, $4,-
054 31. 
The Rev. Jonathan Edwards, of Woburn, 
glanced at the amount of juvenile depravity that 
existed to such a fearful extent in our great 
cities, and the waves of infidelity which were 
flooding our beloved land ; and he impressed 
upon the audience the necessity of redoubled ex-
ertions in the cause of the Sabbath-school. 
The Rev. Horace James, of Worcester, al-
luded to the important place little children held 
in the estimation of the Saviour, who took a lit-
tle child of Israel in his arms and said of such is 
the kingdom of heaven. 
A child, he said, could not understand the 
bodies of theology, but he could understand its 
spirit. The speaker illustrated the benevolent 
developments of the youthful mind, subjected to 
religious training, by an anecdote of the prayer 
of a little boy, who had a class of favorites on 
whom he desired the blessing of heaven. In ad-
dition to his parents, and brother, and sister, he 
had a little bird called Jerry, and a favorite 
cat ; and in his simple prayer, added on his own 
account and extemporaneously : " 0 Lord, bless 
my dear papa and mamma, and little brother and 
sister, and Jerry and the cat; and everybody—
amen." The great Jonathan Edwards, said the 
speaker, defined benevolence the wishing of gold 
to all beings, and he (the speaker) would like to 
know how far the little boy's sentiment differed 
from Dr. Edwards' definition. 
AMERICAN BOARD OF COMMISSIONERS FOR FOREIGN 
MISSIONS. 
The annual meeting on behalf of this Associa-
tion was held in the Music Hull the last even-
ing, and despite the falling of the rain in tor-
rents,. there was a large audience present. The 
chair was occupied by Wm. J. Hubbard, Esq. 
Rev. Mr. Bushnell, of the Gaboon Mission, 
Africa, said when the missionaries landed upon 
the banks of the Gaboon, ten years ago, they 
found a dark moral aspect awaiting them. The 
slave trade existed, and exerted its horrid influ-
ence. The tribes were reduced to a state of 
social and moral degradation. The belief in 
witchcraft was universal, and death was attri-
buted to it. The language was unwritten, and 
unknown to foreigners. The people were bound 
in superstition. They worshipped the spirits of 
their ancestors, fetishes,. and demons—and its 
influence was most debasing on them. The peo-
ple walked in darkness, and over their dwelling-
places death, spiritual death, cast its gloomy 
shadow. But now the aspect of things is differ-
ent. The slave trade has ceased — pleasant 
towns and villages have sprung up—European 
furniture and clothing have been introduced—
two languages have been acquired-books have 
been printed—eight hundred children have been 
educated in our schools, and some of them have 
become pious, and we hope will some day preach 
the gospel. Many of the people have thrown 
away their superstitions. The mind of the mass 
of the people seems to be waking up, being pe-
culiarly susceptible to moral impressions. The 
seed of the gospel truth has been extensively 
sown, and now the first fruits are being gathered. 
The missionaries have extended their labors for 
two handred miles on either side, and been ear-
nestly besought to teach the people of the " white 
man's God." The interior of Ethiopia is open-
ing to the missionary. Ile gave an interesting 
account of an interview with one of these in-
terior tribes. This interior portion of Africa 
presents a most encouraging and inviting field. 
It is the promised land of Ethiopia, which God 
has preserved for his Church to go up and possess. 
He is now calling her to go and take possession, 
and will she do it? Where are the soldiers- of 
the cross, to go and take possession of the land ? 
If he could make his voice heard by every 
American youth, he would tell them of the plea-
sure of laboring in these dark places in the 
Lord's work. Be not discouraged in regard to 
Africa. Furnish us with men and your prayers, 
and you may soon expect to see the banner of 
the cross waving over dark Ethiopia. 
RAILROADS. 
AT the opening of the Charles River Branch 
Railroad, at Needham on the 1st inst., the Rev. 
Mr. Oncken, of Germany, contrasted the situa-
tion of the people of his own country and those 
of the United States. A gathering like this 
would be impossible on the continent. At every 
point gendarmes would be seen, and the meeting 
would be regarded as the prelude of a revolu-
tion. The very object of railroads in Europe 
and in the United States is different. Here they 
are designed to develope commerce, the arts and 
manufactures, and to improve the condition of 
the people. There, one great object of railroads 
is to press down the masses—to transport troops 
to keep them in subjection. In the United 
States, the traveller is perfectly free. In his 
country, he cannot go ten miles from home with-
out a passport. On the arrival of the 'cars, a 
file of soldiers or police are drawn up before 
them, and no man or woman is allowed to step 
out without producing a passport ; and if they 
have it not, they are placed under arrest. And 
they are obliged to pass through the same ordeal 
a second time at the bureau of the police. The 
traveller' cannot go to the house of .a friend to 
remain over night; unless that friend has obtained 
a permit for that purpose. The people of the 
United States hardly appreciate the high advan-
tages—the inestimable blessings which they en-
joy, in their freedom from these and other bur-
densome restraints. Mr. Oncken, (who, it will 
be recollected, was one of the sufferers by the 
Norwalk railroad accident,) then alluded to the 
management of the railroads of this country, and 
said that the managers might learn a lesson from 
the companies on the continent. The latter take 
more care of their passengers and the public 
safety. At every highway crossing a gate is 
closed five minutes before the train is due, and 
no carriage or person is allowed to cross the 
track. Telegraphs are established at short in-
tervals along the line—the wooden arms of which 
being set in a certain position denotes safety ; 
and no engineer is allowed to proceed from one 
point to another unless this signal is set. No in-
dividual is allowed to walk on the track. These 
and other precautions are adopted for the safety 
of human life, and Mr. Oncken trusted the 
American roads would begin to imitate the roads 
on the continent in this particular. The mana-
gers of railroads, said he, should solemnly re-
member 'that the life of man is precious to the 
community— that it is preCious in the sight of 
God. 
CREDULITY OF ERROR 
THE celebrated Robert Owen, of Lanark, who 
has been amusing himself for nearly half a cen-
tury with bubbles and vagaries of infidelity, has 
in his old age become converted to a belief in 
a future existence of the soul, and another life 
besides this. It is a conversion however, from 
one form of error to another—for the belief he 
adopts, though apparently nearer the truth than 
that which he abandons, is in reality no more 
worthy of credence, nor accompanied with any 
better moral effects. He has become convinced 
of a future state by the revelations of the spirit 
rappers — a " medium " from America being 
brought to his access, who succeeded in delud-
ing the credulous infidel into believing that 
President Jefferson, Dr. Franklin, and others, 
communicated messages to him, took away the 
last vestige of his infidelity, and the veteran 
skeptic now begins the work of eating up a life-
time's hard speeches about a future state. Noth-
ing is more credulous than infidelity ; the readi-
est converts to new falsehoods, how-ever shallow, 
are those who are too shrewd and wise in their 
own conceits to believe in old truths. 
 saa 
THE ADVENT HERALD, 
186 
Sela in the Wilderness. 
(IsA.fall. 16:1.) 
THE word Sela I,Laa means a rock ; and by it 
here there can be no doubt that there is intended 
the city of that name which was the capital of 
Arabia Petrea. The city was situated within 
the bounds of Arabia or Idumea, but was proba-
bly at this time in the possession of the Moabites. 
Vitringa says that that desert around Petrea was 
regarded as 'a vast common, on which the Moab-
ites and Arabians promiscuously fed their flocks. 
The situation of the city of Sela, or ireTpa Pe-
tra meaning the same as Sela, a rock, was for 
a long time unknown, but it has been lately dis-
covered. It lies about a journey of a day and 
an half south-east of the southern extremity of 
the Dead Sea. It derived its name from the 
fact that it was situated in a vast hollow in a 
rocky mountain ; and consisted almost entirely 
of dwellings hewn out of the rock. It was the 
capital of the Edomites (2 Kings 14:7) ; but 
might have been at this time in the possession 
of the Moabites. Strabo describes it as the capi-
tal of the Nabatheans, and as situated in a vale 
well watered, but encompassed by insurmounta-
ble rocks (16, § 4), at a distance of three or 
four days' journey from Jericho. Diodorus 
(19, 55,) mentions it as a place of trade, with 
caves for dwellings, and strongly fortified by 
nature. Under Trajan it was subjected to the 
Romans, and Hadrian called it by his own name. 
Seetzen sought for it with great diligence. An 
Arab from that region once said to him, " Ah ! 
I must weep every time I see Wady Mousa, es-
pecially of Pharaun." Burckhardt, and the 
company of English travellers referred to above, 
visited it. The latter travelled about four days' 
journey from Karrak over Shubek to the village 
of Wady Mousa (vale of Moses), behind which 
a valley of the same name leads to the ruins of 
Petra. In this pass which is from eight to fif-
teen feet wide, and. from two to three miles long, 
there is found a temple of victory hewn in the 
rock, and on it a huge vase which the Arabs be-
lieved that Pharaoh had concealed in it great 
treasures. Between Sela and Jerusalem there 
now lies a very considerable desert, through 
which (properly down to which) they must send 
their tribute flocks to Mount Zion. 
Burckhardt's description of this city, as it is 
brief, may be here given verbatim. "Two long 
days' journey north-east from Akaba [a town at 
the extremity of the Elanitic branch of the Red 
Sea, near the site of the ancient Ezion Geber], 
is a brook alled Wady Mousa, and a valley of 
the same name. This place is very remarkable 
for its antiquities, and the remains of an ancient 
city, which I take to be Petra, the capital of 
Arabia Petrea, a place which so far as I know 
no European traveller has ever explored. In 
the red sand-stone of which the vale consists, 
there are found more than two hundred and fifty 
sepulchres, which are entirely hewn out of the 
rock, generally with architectural ornaments in 
the Grecian style. There is found there a mau-
soleum in the form of a temple, [obviously the 
same which Legh, and Laborde call the temple 
of victory], on a colossal scale, which is like-
wise hewn out of the rock, with all its apart-
ments, portico, peristylum, &c. It is an ex-
tremely fine monument of Grecian architecture, 
and in a fine state of preservation. In the same 
place there are yet other mausoleums with obe-
lisks, apparently in the Egyptian style : a whole 
amphitheatre hewn out of the solid rock, and 
the remains of a palace and many temples." 
This city was formerly celebrated as a place 
of great commercial importance from its cen-
tral position, and its being so securely defended. 
De Vincent in his " Commerce of the Ancients" 
(vol. 11, p. 263, quoted in Laborde's Journey 
to Arabia Petrea p. 17,) describes Petra as the 
capital of Edom or Sin, the Idumea or Arabia 
Petrea of the Greeks, the Nabatea considered 
both by geographers, historians, and poets, as 
the source of all the precious commodities of the 
East. The caravans in all ages, from Minea in 
the interior of Arabia, and from Gerrka on the 
gulf of Persia, from Hadramont on the ocean, 
and some even from Sabea in Yemen, appear to 
have pointed to Petra as a common centre; and 
from Petra the trade seems to have branched 
out into every direction, to Egypt, Palestine, 
and Syria, through Arsinoe, Gaza, Tyre, Jeru-
salem, Damascus, and a variety of intermediate 
roads that all terminated on the Mediterranean. 
At a period subsequent to the Christian era there 
always reigned at Petra, according to Strabo, a 
.king of the royal lineage, with whom a prince 
was associated in the government. (Strabo, p. 
779.) The very situation of this city once so 
celebrated, was long unknown. Burekhardt, 
under the assumed name of Sheikh Ibrahim, in 
the year 1811 made an attempt to reach Petra 
under the pretext that he had made a vow to 
sacrifice a goat in honor of Aaron on the sum-
mit of Mount Hor near to Petra. He was per-
mitted to enter Petra, and to remain there a 
short time, and to look upon the wonders of that 
remarkable place, but was permitted to make 
no notes, or drawings on the spot. He was re-
garded as having come there to obtain treasures 
which the Arabs believe to have been deposited 
there in great abundance, and all who visit the 
ruins of ancient cities and towns in that region 
are regarded as having come there solely for the 
purpose of discovering and removing those trea-
sures. If assured that they have no such de-
sign, and if the Arabs are reminded that they 
have no means to remove them, it is replied 
" that, although they may not remove them in 
their presence, yet when they return to their 
own land they will have the power of command-
ing the treasures to be conveyed to them, and 
it will be done by magic." (Bur ckhardt , Trav-
els in Syria, pp. 428, 429.) In the year 1807 
M. Seetzen, a German, travelling under the name 
of Moosa, made an excursion into Idumea, but 
he did not approach the ruins of the capital. 
Mr. Bankes, in company of Mr. Legh, and cap-
tains Irby and Mangles, have the merit of being 
the first persons who as Europeans, succeeded to 
any extent in making researches in Petra. Cap-
tains Irby and Mangles spent two days amongst 
the temples, tombs, and ruins of that remarka-
ble place ; and have furnished a description of 
what they saw. But the most full and satisfac-
tory investigation which has been made of the 
ruins, was made by M. de Laborde who visited 
the city in 1829, and was permitted to remain 
there eight days, and to examine at leisure these 
remarkable ruins. An account of his journey 
with splendid plates was published. in Paris in 
1830, and a translation in London in 1836. To 
this interesting account of one of the most re-
markable cities of antiquity, the reader must be 
referred. It can only be remarked here, that 
Petra, or Sela, was a city entirely encompassed 
with lofty rocks, except in a single place where 
was a deep ravine between the rocks which con-
stituted the only entrance ; that it was watered 
abundantly by a stream that flowed through it, 
which stream was furnished by springs and foun-
tains from the surrounding rocks; that it was 
perfectly secure, it being impossible to approach 
it, except by the single entrance which was easily 
guarded ;, and that there are found there at pres-
ent the most remarkable ruins of any city of an-
tiquity. It is wholly uninhabited; except when 
the wandering Arab makes use of an excavated 
tomb or palace in which to pass the night, or a 
caravan pauses there. The rock which encom-
passes the site of the former city is a soft free 
stone. The entire site of the city almost is en-
compassed with tombs. These tombs are cut in 
the solid rock, and are adorned in the various 
modes of Grecian and Egyptian architecture. 
The surface of the solid rock was first made 
smooth, and then a plan of the tomb or temple 
was drawn on the smoothed surface, and the 
workman began at the top and cut from the solid 
rock the various pillars, entablatures, and capi-
tals. The tomb was then excavated from the 
rock, and was usually entered by a single door. 
Burekhardt counted two hundred and fifty of 
these tombs, and Laborde has described minutely 
a large number of them. For a description of 
these splended monuments the reader must be 
referred to the work of Laborde, pp. 152-193, 
Lond. Ed.—a work which will most amply re-
pay the purchase and the perusal. .That this 
is the Sela referred to here there can be no 
doubt ; and the discovery of this place is only 
one of the instances out of many, in which the 
researches of oriental travellers contribute to 
throw light on the geography of the Scriptures, 
or otherwise illustrate them. See also a full 
and interesting description of this celebrated 
city in Stephen's Travels to Egypt, Arabia Pe- 
trea, &c. 
Barnes. 
New York Heathen! 
TIIE Rev. Henry Ward Beecher at one of the 
late religious anniversaries in New York, is re-
ported to have said : 
To-day is the close of the anniversaries, and 
the American Board of Commissioners of For-
eign Missions held its session in the forenoon, a 
society that has in charge the sending of the 
Gospel to foreign heathen. You can find no 
heathen in India worse than in New York. The 
sediments of our Christian cities are worse than 
any you can find in any part of the world. 
When we take the Gospel we should go with it, 
in the spirit of our Master, to those who need it. 
To take men who had been brought up in the 
knowledge of Christianity, to well furnished 
churches, where they have the easiest seats and 
the finest music, is not difficult ; but where there 
are duties which are not agreeable, then you ap-
ply the force of Christianity, and exhibit its di-
vine power. There is no ordinary philanthropy 
that will incite men to work among the heathen 
in our cities. There has been an experiment in 
this work, and is there enough Christianity in 
this city to complete this work ? I went one 
night with Mr. Pease around the miserable 
haunts of this city, and I saw enough. I thought, 
what would it be, robbed of all its novelty and 
romance, if I should go with thy family as Mr. 
Pease has done, down among these people. In 
this work we find our model in the New Testa-
ment. Where Christ went where there were 
sick he healed them ; where there was actual 
want, he created bread, and came down to their 
physical condition. Take the Gospel to the 
miserable outcasts of our city, and no man can 
preach it unless he does more. It is as though 
he made a mark in the sand, and the first tide 
washes it away. Preach the Gospel, and the 
hunger of the man makes him forget it. There 
is a great deal more Gospel in a loaf of bread 
sometimes, than in an old dry sermon. If I go 
to a man and bring to him in his want ever so 
much philosophy, he will not hear it ; but, if I 
come down to him and give him bread, and 
clothes, and medicine, this will give him a cor-
rect idea of the Gospel—one which he can ap-
preciate and understand. This work requires 
liberal contributions. Among these people there 
is a new generation every week by importation. 
A meal does not last for a week, and these chil-
dren are fed daily. I commend this cause to 
your liberality and contributions." 
Moral Condition of Jamaica.. 
THE following statement was written by Mr. 
Richardson, a resident of sixteen months in the 
Island, and published in the American Mission-
ary for June 1853 : 
" Their moral condition is very far from being 
what it ought to be. Their progress—like that 
of the sun behind a cloud—has been alindst im-
perceptible. It may be compared to that of a 
ship beating up the harbor against wind and 
tide : she veers and turns—now sails this way, 
now that ; but though always in motion, she usu-
ally goes ahead but very little ; and sometimes, 
perhaps, after a deal of hard labor and skilful 
manoeuvring, the only result has been (to use a 
significant phrase) an advance backwards.'—
But, seriously, I regard the present moral con-
dition of the people of Jamaica as exceedingly 
dark and distressing. The mass of them are but 
a few steps removed from heathenism ; and their 
condition (in some of its aspects) is even worse ; 
the light they have had has only served to reveal 
the depth and extent of the awful degradation 
into which slavery has forced them. They have 
been bred to such habits of duplicity and lying, 
that it seems well-nigh a profanation of truth for 
them to take the word between their deceitful 
lips. They will boldly call heaven and earth to 
bear witness to the truthfulness of a most egre-
gious falsehood. And yet you can scarcely offer 
greater insult to one of them, than to intimate 
that you doubt his veracity. So ingrained and uni-
versal has this habit of speaking falsely become, 
that some of the professed disciples of the God 
of truth are not unfrequently betrayed into its 
practice. It may be truly affirmed, that the pro-
verb quoted by Paul respecting the Cretans is 
equally applicable to the Creoles not under the 
influence of the gospel. They are, emphatical-
ly, a nation of liars ! They will make promises 
and break them almost with the same breath, 
and with almost as little conscience about the 
matter as they would have about accepting a good 
dinner or a glass of rum, when offered them. 
'' Licentiousness also prevails to a most alarm-
ing extent among the people. Its, foul, pestilen-
tial breath has blighted, like the mildew of 
death, everything in society that should be love-
ly, virtuous, and of good report. The laws of 
chastity among the unmarried are almost totally 
disregarded, and where the legal relaxation ex-
ists, its restraints and obligations present but a 
feeble barrier to check promiscuous intercourse. 
Moral purity is yet known only in name. Adul-
tery, fornication, and all manner of vileness and 
uncleanness, reign triumphant. 
The almost universal prevalence of intem-
perance is another prolific source of the moral 
darkness and degradation of this people. The 
great mass among all classes of the inhabitants, 
from the Governor in his palace to the peasant 
in his hut, from the bishop in his gown to the 
beggar in his rags, are slaves to their cups. 
Statesmen and judges, lawyers, and doctors, 
planters and overseers, and even professedly 
Christian ministers—all seek to prop up their 
fainting hopes and declining fortunes by the 
stimulus of alcohol. Dram-shops are almost as 
numerous as the locusts of Egypt, and, as a 
plague, are ten-fold more destructive and ruin-
ous. The records of crime are (to a very great ex-
tent) the records of rum's doings, and the burden 
of taxes laid on the people to support paupers 
and criminals is a burden imposed by rum. 
"The attendance upon the regular means of 
grace, and also upon the instructions imparted in 
Sabbath and day-schools, is, I believe, as a gen-
eral thing, less than it was formerly, (although 
I am happy to add that, so far as the people con-
nected with this mission are concerned, I think 
there is commendable progress and increasing 
interest in this matter.) But the great body of 
the people seem to have grown weary of the res-
traints of the gospel, and careless about afford-
ing their children the means of education and 
religious instruction. As a result, they are doing 
comparatively little to support their ministers 
and teachers. There has been a most alarming 
decrease in their contributions for the maintea 
mince of the gospel, during the last few years.-
Church members are growing careless, worldly., 
minded, and covetous. Once they supported 
their ministers and teachers, and built extensive 
chapels almost without aid. Now many are 
doing nothing, and others give but sparingly and 
grudgingly for these objects. Instead of a spirit 
of Christian benevolence and philanthropy—a 
large hearted liberality, that loves self-denial, 
and luxuriates in doing good, a sordid, penuri-
ous, and money-loving spirit is rapidly develop-
ing itself. So intense and -absorbing has it be-
come, as in many instances to supplant natural 
affection, and lead parents to neglect to provide 
necessary food, clothing, and medicine for their 
children, to the detriment of health, and to the 
endangering of life itself. For these and many 
other reasons I might mention, I am forced to 
conclude that the great body of the people of 
this island are making little or no advancement 
in morals or religion. On the contrary, I greatly 
fear that they are hardening their hearts and 
(unless God's mercy interpose) ripening for des-
truction. I know the picture is dark and the 
prospect discouraging, but it would be strange if 
it were otherwise, when we take into considera-
tion the former condition and circumstances of 
this people. It must not be forgotten that we 
are fbllowing in the wake of the accursed system 
of slavery—a system that unmakes man, by war-
ring upon his conscience, crushing his spirit, and 
destroying his free agency—leaving naught but • 
the shattered wrecks of humanity behind it. If 
we may but gather up some of these floating frag-
ments, from which the image of God is well-
nigh effaced, and pilot them safely to that bet-
ter land,' we shall not have labored in vain. But 
we may hope to do more. The chief fruit of our 
labors is to be sought in the future rather than 
the present." 
Babylon. 
BABYLON was, according to the lowest account 
given of it by ancient historians, a regular square, 
forty-five miles in compass, enclosed by a wall 
two hundred feet high, fifty broad ; in which 
there were a hundred gates of brass. Its prin-
cipal ornaments were the temple of Belus, in 
the middle of which was a tower of eight stories 
of building, upon a base of a quarter of a mile 
square; a most magnificent palace; and the fa-
mous hanging gardens; which were an artificial 
mountain, raised upon arches, and planted with 
trees of the largest as well as the most beautiful 
sorts. . 
Cyrus took the city by diverting the waters of 
the Euphrates, which ran through the midst of 
it, and entering the place at night by the dry 
channel. The river, being never restored after-
ward to its proper course, overflowed the whole 
country, and made it little better than a great 
morass. This, and the great, slaughter of' the 
inhabitants, with other bad Consequences of the 
taking of the city, was the first step to the ruin 
of the place. The Persian monarchs ever re-
garded it with a jealous eye ; they kept it under, 
and took care to prevent its recovering its former 
greatness. Darius Hystaspia not long afterward 
most severely punished it for a revolt, greatly 
depopulated the place, lowered the walls, and 
demolished the gates. Xerxes destroyed the 
temples, and with the rest the great temple of 
Belus. (Herod. 8, 159, Arian. Exp. Alexandri, 
lib. 7.) The building of Seleucia on the Tigris 
exhausted Babylon by its neighborhood,- as well 
as by the immediate loss of inhabitants taken 
away by Seleucus to people his new city. (Stra-
bo, lib. 16.) A king of the Parthians soon after 
carried away into slavery a great number of the 
inhabitants, and burnt and destroyed the most 
beautiful parts of the city. (Valesii Excerpt. 
Diodori, p. 377.) Strabo (ibid) says, that in 
his time great part of it was a mere desert ; that 
the Persians had partly destroyed it ; and that 
time, and the neglect of the Macedonians, while 
they were masters of it, had nearly completed its 
destruction. Jerom (in loc.) says, that in his 
time it was quite in ruins, and that the walls 
served only for the inclosure of a park or forest 
for the king's hunting. Modern travellers, who 
have endeavored to find the remains of it, have 
given but a very unsatisfactory account of their 
success : what Benjamin of Tudela and Pietro 
della Valle supposed to have been some of its 
ruins, Tavernier thinks are the remains of some 
late Arabian building. Upon the whole, Baby-
lon is so utterly annihilated, that even the place 
where this wonder of the world stood, cannot 
now be determined with any certainty. (See 
also note on chap. 43:14.) 
We are astonished at the accounts which an-
cient historians of the best credit give, of the 
immense extent, height, and thickness of the 
walls of Nineveh and Babylon : nor are we less 
astonished when we are assured, by the concur-
rent testimony of modern travellers, that no re-
mains, not the least traces, of these prodigious 
works are now to be found. Our wonder willy1 
think, be moderated in both respects, if' we con-
sider the fabric of these celebrated walls, and 
 
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.the nature of the materials of which they con-
sisted. Buildings in the East have always been, 
and are to this day, made of earth or clay, mixed 
or beat up with straw, to make the parts cohere, 
and dried only in the sun. This is their method 
of making bricks. (See note on chap. 9:9„) The 
walls of the city were built of the earth digged 
-out on the spot, and dried upon the place ; by 
which means both the ditch and the wall were 
at once formed; the former furnishing materials 
for the latter. That the walls of Babylon were 
of this kind is well known; and Berosus ex-
pressly says, (apud. Joseph. Antiq. x. 11), that 
Nebuchadnezzar -added three new walls both to 
.the old and new city, partly of brick and bitu-
men, and partly of brick alone. A wall of this 
sort ttnust have a great thickness in proportion 
to its height, otherwise it cannot stand. The 
thickness of the walls of Babylon is said to have 
been one-fourth of their height, which seems to 
.have been no more than was absolutely necessary. 
Maundrell, speaking of the garden walls of Da-
mascus,—" They are," says he, " of a very sin-
gular structure. They are built of great pieces 
of earth, made in the fashion of brick, and har-
dened in the sun. In their dimensions they are 
two yards long each; and somewhat more than 
one broad, and half a yard thick." And after-
ward, speaking of...the walls of the houses :— 
" From this dirty 
 of building they haVe this 
amongst other inconveniences, that upon any vio-
lent rain the whole city becomes, by the wash-
ing of the houses, as it were a quagmire."—p. 
124; and see note on chap. 30:13. When a 
wall of this sort. comes to be out of repair, and 
is neglected, it is easy to conceive the necessary 
consequences; namely, that in no long course of 
ages it must be totally destroyed by the heavy 
rains, and at length washed away, and reduced 
'to its original earth. Barnes' Notes on Isaiah. 
The Ed Scholarship. 
THE above is the title of a scholarship con-
nected with the Theological Seminary, at Prince-
ton, and as the meaning of it is not at once ob-
vious, we have obtained the following particu-
lars in explanation : 
The scholarship was endowed by Robert and 
Marian Hall, brother and sister, who were na-
tives of Scotland, and brought up under the min-
istry of John Brown, of Haddington. They emi-
grated to America about the year 1785 and set-
tled in Orange county, New York, where they 
taught school, until disqualified by the infirmi-
ties of age. By industry and economy they sub-
sisted comfortably, and were enabled at their 
decease to make several charitable donations, 
among which, was the sum of $2,500 for the en-
dowment of the ED Scholarship. 
The following characteristic sketch of a con-
versation was held with Marian Hall, at the time 
of making her will : 
" As your brother, and self have now founded 
a Scholarship, it can be called the Hall Scholar-
ship." She replied, " I dinna wish my worth-
less name to be remembered when I am dead and 
gone, but I do wish to do something for the cause 
of true religion, which shall maintain the truth, 
As long as the Kirk shall lead, and, therefore, I 
;wish the Scholarship to be named ED." 
She was asked the meaning of 
 name. Her 
reply was, " And dinna ye ken young mon, e'en 
go and read your Bible." " Well, I have read 
it, and still I do not recollect the meaning or 
use of El)." " Do you not recollect," said she, 
" that when the two tribes and a half, who had 
their inheritance on the east side of Jordan, had 
assisted the other tribes to subdue their enemies, 
and were about to return to their possessions, 
,before they crossed the river, they built an al-
tar. And do you not know that the other tribes 
were about to make war upon them for the erec-
tion of this altar, supposing it to have been in-
tended for an altar of worship distinct from that 
appointed by Jehovah. The two and a half tribes 
gave the others to understand that they were en-
tirely mistaken in their conjectures. The altar 
was not an altar of worship but an altar of wit-
ness, that Jehovah alone was the true God, and 
that it had been created in token of their views 
and desires." " And the children of Reuben and 
the children of Gad called the altar ED ; for it 
shall be a witness between us that the Lord is 
God."—Joshua 22:34. 
The Irish Insurrection. 
As for an insurrectionary movement, they did 
not contemplate it till early in the spring of 
1848. Two great events- conspired to bring this 
about-'-the Irish famine and the French revolu-
tion of February. The famine had wrought a 
hideous devastation. Not Egypt, when the dark-
ness came upon the land ; not the city of the 
Holy Temple, when the Romans crossed her 
walls ; not Venice, 'when the plague struck her, 
and she lay a blackened corpse upon the Adriat-
ic y not the gardens and the vineyards of the 
Lombards, when' the steeds of the Scythian 
trampled through them ; not London, in the days 
of which De Foe and Lingard, on imperishable 
pages, have left us paintings as appalling as the 
" Judgment" of Angelo ; not in any of those 
climes and cities, in those their days of deepest 
dismay and tribulation, did a scene so terrible 
meet the eye of heaven, as that which in the 
land of his fathers, in such hideous coloring, had 
been revealed. 
Finding the worst come—their country all but 
gone—her commerce gone, trade gone, credit gone 
—all her interests, all her faculties, destroyed—
bankruptcy, destitution, desolation, death—death 
by the minute, death by the million, utter ruin, 
utter annihilation, coming upon her, and coming 
with speed, and the howling of the gale in the 
tropics, they who had been true to the island, 
true to her in the face of all, the worst even—
the distrust and detestation of many amongst her 
own people, who had been " faithful to her free-
dom " as they now are " faithful to her fall," 
they felt the time had come to make a bold at-
tempt to cut adrift the dismantled craft, and, 
with the remnant of the crew and fortune, save 
her from the royal pirate to which she had been 
lashed. John Mitchell was the first to step on 
deck—the first to give the Word —the first to take 
the fire—the first to fall. The events then shak-
ing Europe to the centre, stimulated the new 
passion that had sprung up. Thrones were every-
where tumbling like the idols of the heathen. 
Crowns had been tossed around as though they 
had never been anointed; and the people in their 
irreverence so despised them, they would not 
pick the diamonds and rubies from them. And, 
as though the angel of the Lord passed over them, 
before the spirit of freedom, the armies of the 
kings fell prostrate to the earth. It might have 
been a wild belief—but men eager for the dis-
enthralment of their land might, in such a crisis, 
be pardoned for the belief—that the people had 
but to strike one blow to prevail and triumph. 
Meagher. 
Fifty Years Ago—Meeting Houses. 
FIFTY years ago, houses of worship were built 
for the whole population. They had in them the 
union galleries, which may be termed the court 
of the Gentiles. It is true these galleries needed 
two or three tythingmen, to preserve order among 
the younger class of the people who used to oc-
cupy them. No excuse in those days could be 
made for staying away because there was not 
room enough in the sanctuary. The poor were 
oared for and made welcome. Even the colored 
people were thought of; and the highest seats in 
the house provided for them. There was also 
the sounding-hoard over the minister's head, de-
signed to aid his voice, as it proclaimed the gos-
pel to his fellow-men ; the philosphy of which, 
in these modern times, seems to have exploded. 
On one occasion, this circular board served a 
good but different purpose from that which was 
dreamt of by the inventor. The shingles on 
the roof had been blown off; and in a shower, 
the rain-leaked through, to the great annoyance 
of the people, who had to shift their seats to 
avoid being wet. The preacher, all the while, 
stood secure, with his discourse safe and dry be-
fore him, the sounding-board performing the 
office of an umbrella. Two things belonging to 
those houses savored a little of superstition. 
One, they were built on the highest convenient 
spot of land in the town, in compliance as they 
supposed, with the Saviour's remark : " Ye are 
a city set on a hill." The other, just seven win-
dows were placed in a story as a paraphrase to 
the passage, " I turned and saw seven golden 
candlesticks." People in those days, literally 
went up to the house of God. After all, it 
might be said there was room in God's house, 
for all who could conveniently attend at a time. 
If all did not hear and regard the gospel, it was 
their fault. 
Amherst Express. 
( For the Herald.) 
Sketches of Travel. 
No. XL. 
BASLE TO STRASBOURG. 
BASLE, Bale, or Basel, the site of the ancient 
Basilea, built by the Roman Emperor Valentin-
ian I., is the capital of the canton of the same 
name, and contains about fourteen hundred in-
habitants. The Rhine, which rushes past in a 
full broad flood of a clear, light green, divides 
it into parts, Great Basle, and Little Basle, con-
nected by a wooden bridge. Of late years it has 
been declining in population and business, and 
an air of stillness and repose pervades its quaint 
old streets. 
While drinking my tea in the Dining Saloon 
of the " Three Kings," which looks out upon the 
Rhine, my attention was arrested by the familiar 
sound of my native tongue, characterized by the 
peculiar intonations of Yankee-dom. I looked 
up., and in the serious sensible-looking gentleman 
who sat opposite, found a brother clergyman, with 
whom I formed a most agreeable acquaintance. 
It was delightful to meet some one with whom I 
could get back to old congenial topics of con-
versation, from which I had been so long de-
barred. He had not travelled as far as I had, 
and moreover could not talk French, so that he 
was obliged to avail himself of my assistance, 
and being naturally of a humble and distrustful 
turn of mind, he readily deferred to my superi-
ority as a " travelled man," and I really began 
to emsider myself of some importance. After tea 
we took a stroll through the streets. A' saddened 
feeling came over us as we noticed the American 
flag, suspended from the window of the United 
States Consulate opposite, shrouded in crape, on 
account of the recent death of our President. I 
called at the Bureau and paid my passage through 
to London, amounting to one hundred and seven-
teen and a half francs. (First class.) It seemed 
to bring me so much nearer home. 
The next morning was the Sabbath—a beau- 
tiful day. B and I walked to the Min- 
ster, a curious old building of deep red sand-
stone, with two square towers surmounted by 
spires two hundred and five feet high. It was 
begun by Henry II. in 1010, and consecrated in 
1019. The front has two quaint old groups of 
St. George and the Dragon on one side of the 
principal entrance, and St. Martin and the Beg-
gar on the other. The cloisters are very exten-
sive, and contain the monuments of the, hree Re-
formers, Eeolampadius, Grynaeus, and Meyer. 
In the church above is the tombstone of Eras-
mus, who died here in 1536. The church is now 
used for Protestant service, but there was no ser-
vice this morning. 
Behind the Minster is a Terrace, seventy-five 
feet above the river, planted with noble Chesnut 
trees, and commanding a beautiful view over the 
Rhine, the town, and the country, bounded by 
the Black Forest hills. Near by is the Public 
Library, containing many interesting autographs 
of Luther, Melanethon, Erasmus, and Zwing-
lius, and a Gallery of the Paintings and Draw-
ings of Holbein. A very polite citizen, of whom 
we had made some inquiries respecting the Min-
ster, offered to show us some of the principal 
sights of the town, but we declined the offer, and 
sat down on one of the benches under the trees. 
and had a long talk about home matters, con-
trasting our situation with that of our congrega-
tions, and wondering how we should feel at re-
suminn
° 
 our ministerial labors. 
In the afternoon we attended service in the 
Minster. The congregation was small, and ap-
parently not very attentive, but the preacher 
seemed much engaged in his work, and spoke 
with a great deal of animation. Two infants 
were baptized—" Louisa Carlina," and " Sarah 
Carlina." The clergyman took them in his arms 
and sprinkled each three times in connection 
with the names of the persons of the Trinity. 
On calling at the Poste the next morning, I 
was greeted with the sight of my old green um-
brella, the faithful companion of all my travels, 
which I hardly expected ever to see again. I 
had missed it on arriving at Basle Saturday 
evening, and gave the conductor a charge to look 
for it on his return. He found it at Sissach, 
fourteen miles back, where I had left it, as we 
stopped to change carriages. 
At a quarter to 9 A. M., an omnibus took pas-
sengers from the hotel to the railway terminus, 
and at nine and a quarter we started for Stras-
bourg, passing through Mulhausen, Colmar, and 
Schlestadt, and arriving at a little after 2 P. M. 
The distance is eighty-six miles. I went in an 
omnibus to the Hotel de la Ville de Paris, and 
after dinner employed a commissionaire to show 
nie the principal objects of interest, as I had but 
little time for the purpose. He took me first to 
St. Thomas' church to see the Monument of 
Marshal Saxe, erected to his memory by Louis 
XV. which employed the sculptor Pigalle 
twenty-five years. It is of white marble, and 
the different figures are of full size. The princi-
pal figure is the Marshal with his baton in his 
hand, and his left a-kimbo, calmly descending 
to the tomb. On his right, cowering at his pres-
ence, are an eagle, the emblem of Austria, a 
leopard overturned, the emblem of England, and 
a lion emblem of Holland, nations over whom 
he had been victorious. On his left, flags of dif-
ferent nations, trophies of war, a little genius 
mourning his fate, and France in the person of 
a beautiful female, with one hand endeavoring 
to detain the. Marshal, and with the other to stay 
the approach of Death, a skeleton wrapped in a 
winding-sheet, opening the lid of a coffin. Mar-
shal Saxe was buried here rather than in Paris, 
because he was a Protestant. ,The sexton who 
showed us two embalmed bodies, discovered un-
der the floor in 1802, supposed to be a Count of 
Nassau, Saarwerden and his daughter, and to 
have been buried more than four hundred years. 
They are in full dress—the daughter with finger-
rings, necklace, and bracelets, and ruffles, which 
comport strangely with the dark shrunken fea-
tures, and the head sunk down between the shoul-
ders. 
On our way saw the statues of Gen. Kleber, a 
native of Strasbourg, one of Napoleon's gener-
als, whom he left in command of the army in 
Egypt—and of Guttemburg, the inventor of 
printing. The statue of Guttemburg is of bronze, 
and was modelled by the celebrated sculptor Da-
vid. By his side is a printing-press, and in his 
hands a scroll, with the following inscription, 
" Let there be light !" On one of thefour sides 
of the pedestal, appear in bas-relief the distin-
guished men of letters and science ; on another, 
the advocates of freedom, among whom it is easy 
to recognize the marked features of our own 
Washington, Adams, and Franklin ; and on ano-
ther, the form of Philanthropy, pitying and re-
lieving the oppressed ; and on the fourth, Reli-
gion and all nations receiving the gospel at her 
hands. As I stood contemplating it early the 
fbllowing morning, when it was surrounded by 
groups of market-women with their various wares, 
the momentous results of the invention here com-
memorated came thronging upon my mind ; I 
lost sight of everything around me, and seemed 
elevated to a height from which I could take in 
at one view the whole domain of Art, Science, 
Literature, and Human Improvement—and lo ! 
every dome, and pinnacle, and house-top, was ir-
radiated by the light which streamed from this 
central point. It was as if the Creator had laid 
his hand upon that majestic brow and uttered his 
almighty fiat, " Let there be light !"—and a new 
sun arose upon the benighted world ! We next 
visited 
THE CATHEDRAL. 
This is one of the finest Gothic edifices in the 
world. Its dimensions are three hundred and fifty-
five feet in length, one hundred and thirty-two in 
breadth, and the height of the spire variously es-
timated at from four hundred and seventy-four to 
five hundred and thirty feet. It is of solid stone 
from the foundation to the apex, and most elabo-
rately carved. The whole front is carried up 
to the height of two hundred and thirty feet, and 
from the top of this platform rises the spire 
nearly three hundred feet higher ! The oldest 
part of the building is attributed to the time of 
Charlemagne, but the principal part was de-
signed and begun by the architect Erwin of 
Stienbach, who died in 1318. The most remark-
able things in the interior are the vast and beau-
tiful marigold window over the principal en-
trance, the rich painted glass of the fourteenth 
and fifteenth centuries, the carved stone pulpit 
(of' 1487,) and the famous clock, made in 1571, 
which stands in the south transept. It is as high 
as an ordinary dwelling-house, and has a light 
stair-case leading to the top. The various dials 
show the year, the month, the day, the places of 
the sun and moon, and many other astronomical 
phenomena. The quarter-hour is struck by the 
figure of a boy, the half-hour by a youth, the 
three-quarters by an old man, and the full hour 
by old father Time himself. When the clock is 
about to strike twelve, a large gilt cock on a pin-
nacle claps his wings, opens his mouth, and 
crows lustily three times, a procession of the 
Twelve Apostles issues from one door, passes be-
fore the Saviour, each one bowing as he passes, 
and retires by another door. For fifty years it 
was out of order and stood still, but it has at 
length been repaired by a watchmaker of Stras-
bourg, and set in motion. 
Toward evening I walked out to, the principal 
promenade called the Ruprechtsau, an extensive 
space beyond the walls, laid out in walks and 
gardens. In passing through the fortifications, 
three draw-bridges are crossed. Indeed Stras-
bourg is considered one of the strongest fortre- s-
e m in Europe. The grounds were full of people, 
who had come to witness a balloon ascension. 
By paying a small fee I obtained admission to 
the Jardin Lip, within which the inflation of the 
balloon was conducted, but I was disappointed 
to find that it was to be raised simply by heat-
ed air. The balloon was large and decorated 
in the gayest style, but the process of inflation 
occupied a long time. At length everything 
seemed ready, the mronaut in fancy costume went 
around among the spectators with a contribution 
plate, took an affectionate farewell of his friends, 
seated himself in the wicker-basket attached to 
the balloon, heroically resigned to his' fate. But 
the balloon would not go up. It swung this side 
and that, and came very near catching fire sev-
eral times, so that the whole affair was a misera-
ble failure. 
The next morning while takinn
° 
 a walk before 
breakfast, I resolved to ascend the spire of the 
Cathedral. A commissioner whom I consulted, 
directed me to the Police officer whose special 
duty it is to accompany such persons as wish to 
make the ascent. This regulation has been pre-
scribed in consequence of several instances of 
suicide or accidental death, by falling from the 
steeple. We entered the south door in the un-
finished tower and toiled up the dark and weari-
some stair-case which leads to the Platform two 
hundred and thirty feet high. Here is a tele-
graph office and a station for watchmen, who are 
set to look out for fires, including several rooms 
with domestic conveniences. Then we ascended 
two hundred and thirteen feet higher to an iron-
grating trap-door, which my guide unlocked, and 
we commenced the more dangerous part of the 
ascent. The stair-cases are winding with such 
narrow steps that but part of the foot can rest on 
them, and one is obliged to go sideways. There 
is no railing to hold on by, and the spire is so 
open, that should the foot slip, the body might 
0 
(1,1)e 'abvent Ljemit. 
BOSTON, JUNE 11, 1853. 
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Grammar, Rule XCIV. The parallel passage in 
Mark 8:36, presents the same construction. The 
Participle of the verb in the Aorist Passive occurs 
in Luke 9 : 25—translated " be cast away." The 
verb is also found in 2 Cor. translated " it might 
receive damage." In Philip. 3:8 the substantive 
zemia is used, and is translated " loss." The ren-
dering of the common English version in the use 
of this word in 1 Cor. 3 : 15, is in accordance with 
the Latin of Beza—" damnum faciet "—" h'e will 
suffer damage." The Latin of Castalio, " Is jac-
turam faciet" —" he will suffer (or literally, 
make) a loss." The Protestant French version ren-
ders the verb here, " Il en fern la perte "—" he 
will bear the loss of it "—i. e., of his work. The 
Vulgate coincides with the common English ver-
sion—" detrimentum patietur "—" he mill suffer 
loss," or " detriment." 
Others might be named, but it is unnecessary. 
The testimony of all competent translators is uni-
form, as to the mode of rendering this verb, and 
its cognate substantive. 
Virisaus. 
Ws. H.—We are sorry to have to say the same 
of this communication that we said last week Of 
the other. 
fall through the fretwork at the side. Up, up, up, 
the steps growing narrower and narrower, till at 
length you are obliged to step upon a small 
square stone clear on the outside of the spire 
without any protection, then stoop under an iron 
bar, up another set of steps like the side of 
a pyramid, terminating in a flat stone a foot 
square, upon which you sit down right under the 
carved rosette which forms the apex of the spire, 
and shudder at your temerity, as you look down 
and think of the descent. You have ascended six 
hundred and sixty steps, and may enjoy the satis-
faction of thinking that you are at the top of the 
highest spire in the world. But as you look 
again, it seems as if a gust of wind might des-
troy the equilibrium of the steeple, so slender 
and delicate is its structure, and your brain reels 
at the idea of such a catastrophe ! 
S. J. M. M. 
THE 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 'day 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, unbroth-
erly disputation. 
PROPHECY OF ISAIAH. 
CHAPTER XI. 
Ann it shall come to pass in that day, 
That the Lord shall set his hand again the second time 
To recover the remnant of his people, which shall be left, 
From Assyria, and from Egypt, and from Pathros, 
And from Cush, and from Elam, and from Shinar, 
And from Hamath, and from the islands of the sea. 
And he shall set up an ensign for the nations, 
And shall assemble the outcasts of Israel, 
And gather together the dispersed of Judah froni the four comets 
of the earth.—vs. 11,12. 
By substitution, the LORD'S setting his hand, ,is 
put for the instrumentalities he will use for the 
assembling of his people ; and his setting up an 
ensign, for the analogous manifestation, where 
they shall be assembled. Matt. 25:31-33—" When 
the Son of man shall come in his glory, and all 
the holy angels with him, then shall he sit upon 
the throne of his glory : and before him shall be 
gathered all nations ; and he shall separate them 
one from another, as a shepherd divideth his sheep 
from the goats : and he shall set the sheep on his 
right hand, but the goats on the left." 
To set his hand the second time, is in distinction 
from some former gathering, which was doubtless 
that from the Babylonian dispersion. At the end of 
'that servitude free permission was given to all the 
people of GOD, from under the whole heaven, to 
return to Jerusalem. Ezra 1: 2, 3—" Thus saith 
Cyrus king of Persia, The LORD GOD of heaven 
hath given me all the kingdoms of the earth ; and 
he bath charged me to build him an house at Jeru-
salem, which is in Judah. Who is there among 
you of all his people? his Gon be with him, and let 
him go up to. Jerusalem, which is in Judah, and 
build the house of the LORD GOD of Israel, (he is 
the Gon,) which is in Jerusalem." Artaxerxes, 
whose dominion was not less extensive, also said, 
(ib. 7:13), " I make a decree, that all they of the 
people of Israel, and of his priests and Levites, in 
my realm,which are minded of their own free will 
to go up to Jerusalem, go with thee." 
The result of these and like proclamations was 
the assembling of the remnant of Israel and the 
dispersed from various and distant countries, to 
'the sanctuary mountain from which they had been 
driven. Permission was given, not only ta the two 
tribes but to all Israel ; and those of the ten tribes 
who were pleased to. do so, returned with the tribes 
of Judah and Benjamin,. to their own cities. This 
was the first time that the LORD set his hand to ga-
ther his people. 
When he shall set his hand the " second time," 
not only the " outcasts of Israel." and " the dis-
persed of Judah " are to be assembled, but the en-
-sign is to be set up for the " nations," and he is 
-to " recover the remnant of his people." The 
'" people " of GOD are no longer limited to those of 
Abrahamie descent. For thus saith the LORD, 
(Zech. 2 10, 11,) '° Sing and rejoice, 0 daughter 
of Zion : far, lo, I come, and I will dwell in the 
midst of thee, saith the Loan. And many nations 
shall be joined to the LORD in that day, and shall 
be my people : and I Will dwell in the midst of 
thee." Hos. 1 : 10—" And it shall come to pass, 
that in the place where it was said unto them, Ye 
are not my people, there it shall be said unto them, 
Ye are the sons of the living. GOD.' Paul applies 
this scripture to those from Gentile nations, when 
The envy also of Ephraim shall depart, and the adversaries of Judah 
shall be cut off: 
Ephraim shall net envy Judah, and Judah shall not vex Ephraim. 
v. 13. 
" Depart," and " cut off " are metaphors denot-
ing the cessation of all envious feeling between the 
two divisions of the Israelitish nation. They de-
lighted to vex and annoy each other, while existing 
as rival powers. At this epoch all- cause of rivalry 
will have been taken away, and the dispersed of 
those envious nations, who shall come up in the 
resurrection will all be of one heart and one mind 
—subjects of the Prince of righteousness.. Nor 
will there be any to molest or to make afraid ; for 
all their adversaries will be destroyed, as in the 
text following. 
But they shall fly upon the shoulders of the Philistines toward the 
They shall spoil them of the east together : [west ; 
They shall lay their hand upon Edam and, Moab 
And the children of Ammon shall obey them.—v. 14. 
The act of flying upon the shoulders of the Phi-
listines, is shown, by the spoiling those of the east 
together, to be an act of destruction—as a bird of 
prey flies upon a helpless object to devour it. To 
lay their hand on the countries named, also implies 
their subjection. Philistia lay to the west of Ju-
dea, and Edom and. Moab to the east. They were 
the principal adVersaries of Judah in former times, 
and as the adversaries of the people of Gon are to 
he cut off in that day, the destruction of these na-
tions, which have long since ceased to exist, are 
put for all the nations which occupy a position an-
tagonistic to the people of Gon. Isa. 60:12—" For 
the nation and kingdom that will not serve thee 
shall perish; yea those nations shall be utterly 
wasted." 
Having shown the destrfiction of the adversaries 
of GOD'S people, the removal of all obstacles to 
the final gathering of the saints is next predicted. 
And the Lord shall utterly destroy the tongue of the Egyptian sea ; 
And with his mighty wind shall he shake his hand over the river, 
And shall smite it in the seven streams, autl make men go over dryshod 
And there shall be an high-way forthe remnant 
Of his people, which shall be left, from Assyria ; 
Like as it was to Israel in the day that he came up out of the land 
of Egypt.—vs. 15,16. 
When GOD led Israel from Egypt to the land of 
premise, they crossed the tongue of the Red Sea 
and the river. Jordan, on dry land, and he made a 
highway for them in the desert, leading them by a 
way that they knew not. By substitution, the de-
struction of the sea and river which impeded their 
departure from Egypt and, entrance into Canaan, 
indicates the destruction of all; opposing obstacles 
to Gon's gathering, together his elect, from the four 
winds, from the uttermost part of earth to the ut-
termost part of heaven ; and which by a simile, is 
likened to the departure from Egypt. To call the 
gulf of the sea a " tongue " is a metaphor. 
CHAPTER XII. 
And in that day thou shalt say, 
0 Lord, I will praise thee; 
Though thou wart angry with me, 
Thine anger is turned away, 
Arid thou comfortedst me. 
Behold, God is my salvation ; 
I will trust, and not be afraid : 
For the Lord Jehovah is my strength and my song ; 
He also is become my salvation. 
Therefore with joy shall ye draw water 
Out of the wells of salvation.—vs. 1-3. 
This is a song of rejoicing for deliverance. There 
is no such future period of deliverance referred to 
in the New Testament, except in connection with 
the coming of the Loan and the resurrection of the 
just, when all the saints are to be alike restored. 
This song must then synchronize with the rejoic-
ings referred to in the Apocalypse which will be 
over the destruction of the mystic Babylon ;—in 
the symbolization of which, there *as heard (Rev. 
19 : 1, 5-7,) "a great voice of much people in 
heaven, saying, Alleluia ; Salvation, and glory, 
and honor, and power, unto the Loan our GOD.. . 
And a voice came out of the throne, saying, Praise 
our GOD, all ye his servants, and ye that fear him, 
both small and great. And I heard as it were the 
voice of a great miltitude, and as the voice of 
many waters, and as the voice of mighty thunder-
ings, saying, Alleluia : for the LORD GOD omnipo-
tent reigneth. Let us be glad and rejoice, and give 
honor to him : for the marriage of the Lamb is 
come, and his wife bath made herself ready.", 
The figures in this song, are the apostrophe, in 
the direct address to the subjects of it ; a meta-
phor, in the use of " turned away," when applied 
to anger to denote its cessation ; metonymies in 
calling Gon their salvation, and JEHOVAH their 
strength, song, and salvation, when he is only the 
cause of them—not the effect ; and substitution, in 
the expression, " ye shall draw water with joy 
from the wells of salvation," to denote the abun-
dance of joy and blessedness in the eternal state. 
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Slake mention that his name is exalted. 
Sing unto the Lord 
For he hath done excellent things : 
This is known in all the earth. 
Cry out and shout, thou inhabitant of Zion 
For great is the Holy One of Israel in the midst of thee.—vs. 4-6. 
The former section of this chapter was an ascrip-
tion of praise to. Gon; in this, they are represented 
as mutually calling on each other to praise the 
LORD, at the epoch before described. 
The figures employed, are the apostrophe in the 
address to them, announcing what they will say; 
and the metaphor, in the use of " exalted," to de-
note the regard which will be had for the name of 
JEHOVAH. 
TO CORRESPONDENTS. 
A CORRESPONDENT of the Herald inquires whether 
1 Cor. 3:13-15 can be translated as follows : 
" The work of each man shall be made •manifest„ 
because by fire it is revealed, and the work of each 
one of what sort it is the tire shall prove it. If 
the work of any one rethains 'which he built thereon, 
he shall receive a reward. If the work of any one 
shall be burned, he shall be loSt nevertheless, man 
(he himself) shall be saved, but in like manner as 
through fire." 
The correspondent has accidentally (it may be 
presumed,) omitted part of the 13th verse—" for 
the day will declare (or showy it." Restoring 
these words to their place, the translation of the 
third verse is admissible ; still, the word " man," 
not being expressed in the original, but under-
stood, should be put in Italic, as a supplementary 
word. By following the Greek order of words too 
closely, the conclusion of the verse is a violation 
of the propriety of our own language—in other 
words, it is inverted. 
The 14th verse is correctly translated, if " man " 
is changed, to " he himself." But the 15th verse 
is a complete failure, in consequet46 of a wrong 
signification attributed to the verb ,attaweso-ssa& 
(zemiothesetai). The verb Zspaw (zeinwo), in the 
Active Voice, signifies, to injure, cause damage or 
loss, to impose a fine or penalty, to punish. In 
the instance before us, it is in the Passive Voice, 
and in that voice always signifies—to suffer loss, or 
injury, to suffer a fine, be mulcted. 
The substantive Zsata (zemia) signifies injury, 
damage, loss, and then, a fine, .a penalty, punish-
ment. The verb in • the Passive Voice, is• equiva-
lent to Z1Vbial, aapsw (zeinian labein), to ,tahe injury, 
to receive damage, or punishment. Hence the 
usual translatian of the word in the passage un-
der consideration—" he shall suffer loss "—or he 
shall take injury, is the proper one. A little re-
flection will enable your correspondent to see that 
his translation produces a contradiction, viz., " he 
shall be lost," and then " man (he himself) shall 
be saved." 
The verb in question occurs in Matt. 16 26—
" and lose his own soul ''—or " be punished with 
the loss of his own soul." For the grammatical 
construction of the original, see Anthon's Greek 
he says, (Rom. 9 : 23-26,) that GOD bath made 
" known the riches of his glory on the vessels of 
mercy, which he had afore prepared unto glory, 
even us, whom he bath called, not of the Jews 
only, but also of the Gentiles. As he saith also 
in Osee, I will call them My people, which were 
not my people ; and her beloved, which was not 
beloved. And it shall come to pass, that in the 
place where it was said unto them, Ye are not my 
people ; there shall they be called, The children 
of the living GOD." 
The " remnant " of GOD'S people, then, must be 
irrespective of any national origin, and must com-
prise all who are his, of every name and nation on 
the earth, who may be alive at the LORD'S coming. 
Assyria lay to the east of the Tigris river ; Egypt, 
on the Nile ; Pathros, was Upper Egypt ; Cush, 
was the south of Arabia in Asia, and Abyssinia in 
Africa ; Elam was the southern' part of Persia ; 
Shinar was the plain on which Babylon was built ; 
Hamath was on the Orontes river in Syria, and the 
Isles of the Sea were the islands in, and the coun-
tries bordering on the Mediterranean Sea. These 
were the.places in which the people of GOD were 
principally dispersed in ancient times, and are 
thus named, synecdochially, for all the lands from 
which they would ultimately be gathered. 
At that epoch, when an ensign is set up for the 
nations, not only the living saints, but the dead 
are to be gathered,—all the pious of the nations, 
as well as those of Abrahamie descent. Matt. 24 : 
31—" And he shall send his angels with a great 
sound of a trumpet, and they shall gather together 
his elect from the four winds, from one end of 
heaven to the other." Zech. 14 : 5—" And the 
LORD my GOD shall come, and all the saints with 
thee." Matt. 8:11—" Many shall come from the 
east and west, and shall sit down with Abraham, 
and Isaac, and Jacob, in the kingdom of heaven." 
1 Thess. 4 16, 17—" For the LORD himself shall 
descend from heaven with a shout, with the voice 
of the archangel, and with the trump of GOD : and 
the dead in Christ shall rise first : then we which 
are alive and remain shall be caught up together 
with them in the clouds, to meet the Loan in the 
air : and so shall we ever be with the LORD." 
The corners of the earth are a metaphor for the 
distant parts of it. 
• 
THE SIGN OF THE SON OF MAN. 
The question of the disciples which preceded the 
discourse of our LORD, to which this is a reply, 
was not, What shall be the evidence of the nearness 
of thy coming? but, What shall be the sign (crvkEtor 
—semion) of thy coming (3-apotiolui—parousias) 1 
the word semeion is literally a sign, mark, token, 
or proof of anything,—that by which anything is 
designated, distinguished, known. The word pa-
rouSia indicates the being or becoming present, the 
manifestation, the advent or coming again, the 
personal presence of the one to whom it is applied. 
It occurs twenty-four times in the New Testament, 
and in every instance where it is not used in refer-
ence to. CHRIST'S second coming, it designates the 
bodily presence of the one referred to,—as in 1 
Cor. 16:17, " glad of the coming of STEPHANUS ;" 
2 Cor. 10:10—" bodily presence (is) weak," &c,--
thus furnishing the strongest evidence, that when 
applied to CnaisT, it denotes his personal appear-
ing. The question of the disciples may then thus 
read : What shall be the token of thy manzfestationl 
i. e., how shall we designate thy appearing from 
that of false Messiahs ? 
In replying to this, the SAVIOUR said to them (v. 
24), that there should " arise false Christs, and 
false prophets, and shall show great signs and 
wonders, inasmuch that, if it were possible, they 
shall deceive the very elect." How would they 
deceive then? By palming themselves off as the 
predicted Messiah. How might they be detected? 
By the sign, or token the SAVIOUR gave them, by 
which his own manifestation should be designated. 
Therefore he said to them, " If any man shall say 
unto you, Lo, here is CHRIST, or there ; believe it 
not :" " behold, he is in the desert ; go not forth : 
behold, he is in the secret chambers ; believe it 
'not." Why should they disbelieve all such an-
nouncements of his coming ? Because they would 
be unaccompanied by the token which should dis-
tinguish the coming of the true CHRIST ; " for," 
said the SaviouR, " as the lightning cometh out of 
the east, and shineth even unto the west ; so shall 
also the coining (parousia), of the Son of man be." 
The distinguishing characteristic of CHRIST'S com-
ing, over that of false Christa, consists in its being 
like the lightning's flash, illuminating. the entire 
heavens— shining from the east, even unto the 
west, from the one part under heaven even unto 
the other part under heaven. This,•then, must be 
the sign of his coming, the evidence of his appear-
ing, the token of his manifestation,. the sign of the 
Son of man in heaven,—the proof to the astonished 
inhabitants of earth that CHRIST is indeed revealed 
from heaven,—has come in all the Father's glory. 
He had already taken them down past the de-
struction of Jerusalem, and the tribulation which 
should follow during the days of the pagan and 
papal persecutions ; and he adds (v. 29), " imme-
diately aftei the tribulation of those days, shall 
the sun be darkened, and the moon shall not give 
her light, and the stars shall fall from heaven, and 
the powers of the heavens shall be shaken." All 
MATT. 24: 30,31—" And then shall appear the sign of the Son of. 
man in heaven ; and. then shall all the tribes of the earth mourn, 
and. they, shall see the Son of man coming in the clouds of heaven 
with power and great glory ; and he shall send his angels with a 
great Sound of a trumpet; and they shall gather together his elect 
Iruni the four winds, from one end of heaven to the other L. from the 
uttermoSt part of earth to the uttermost part of heaven 
THE predicted darkening of the sun &c., were to 
foreshadow CHRIST'S coming. The sign of the Son 
of man, will be the evidence that he has come. 
Mr. Brooks renders this : " The Son of man in 
heaven—the sign of his advent." This, he says, 
" is also the opinion of John Buxtorf, and other 
critics.—(See Vossins, Thess. Theol. p. 228, ed. 
1658." Abdiel's Essays, p. 240.) 
THE ADVENT HERALD, 
I; 
those occurrences, Ella place in the order of events 
which were to intervene between the destruction 
of Jerusalem and his second appearing. They are 
no part of the sign of the Son of man in heaven—
' are no evidence that his advent has transpired. 
" When ye shall see all these things, know that it 
is near, even . at the doors "—they were to be as 
certain evidence of its approach, as the leafing 
out of the trees in the spring is of the approach of 
summer—but not a sign of CHRIST'S appearing. 
" Then," says the Say-Iona (v. 30), " shall appear 
the sign (rry,Eoy—semezon, what the disciples in-
quired respecting,) of the Son of man in heaven : 
and then "-when that shall appear, when the evi-
dence of his manifestation shall be apparent to all—
" shall all the tribes of the earth mourn, and they 
shall see the Son of man coming in the clouds of 
heaven with power and great glory. And he shall 
send his angels before him with a great sound of 
a trumpet, and they shall gather together his elect 
from the four winds, from the one end of heaven 
to the other." 
Such token was needed, that the elect might not 
be left tokenless, to run after the false Christs 
and false prophets who should previously, from 
time to time, appear. They, therefore, for evi-
dence of CHRIST'S coming, are to look for the ac-
companying glory and splendor in which he is to 
be manifested. The illumination of the heavens, 
as the lightning flashes athwart a cloudless sky, 
by his resplendent glory, may precede for a little 
space the visible manifestation of his person ; but 
so conclusive will be the evidence that it is the ac-
companiment of his appearing, that all the tribes 
of the earth shall mourn, and they will call for 
the rocks and mountains to shelter them from their 
coming Judge. But. no shelter will they find : they 
shall see the Son of man coining in the clouds of 
heaven. When the Say-Iona says, they shall see 
the, sign of the Son of man in heaven, it pre-sup-
poses that a sign is referred to, the nature of which 
had been already defined. This is done in. y. 27th, 
where the coming of. CHRIST is distinguished from 
that of false Christs, by its being compared to the 
lightning, illuminating the entire heavens. If there 
had been no previous definition of it, there could 
be no particular force in speaking of it as the sign. 
If its nature had not been defined., it could be no 
sign, token, or proof of anything. If it was not 
clearly defined, some might imagine it one thing, 
, and some another ; and when one should behold 
some remarkable occurrence, he might suppose he 
had seen the sign, and another might fancy it in 
something else. .To make it a sign, it became nec-
essary to provide against all such liabilities, by 
giving a sign, so distinctly marked, that on behold-
ing it, none could mistake respecting it. This has 
been done only in the likening of it to the lightning 
of heaven. And hence we conclude, that the sign 
..of the Son of man in heaven—that embraced in the 
question of the disciples, What shall be the sign 
of thy coming ?—is the glory in which the Saviors 
shall be revealed, as the light shineth out of the 
east,- and shineth even unto the west. For he 
" shall be revealed from heaven with his mighty 
angels, in flaming fire, taking .vengeance on them 
that know not GOD, and obey not the gospel of our. 
,Lord JESUS CHRIST.”-1 Thess. 1:8. May GOD 
:grant, dear reader, that we all may be so obedient 
. unto the heavenly warning, that the appearing of 
the sign of the Son of man, may be to us a token 
of glad recognition, and not the prelude of everlast-
ing destruction from the presence of the LORD, and 
from the glory of his power : when he shall come 
to be glorified in his saints, and te,bpiadmired in 
all them that believe in that day. 
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My late tour West—a brief account of which 
has already been •given in the Herald—was one of 
considerable interest to me. Much had been said 
and done to destroy my influence in many parts of 
this field ; but GoD has overruled it all for good. 
" My enemies and foes came upon me to eat up my 
flesh," but " they stumbled and fell." 
That which gave me the most pain, was the condi-
tion in which I found many of the tried flocks, who 
were scattered and destitute of shepherds. There 
never was a time when the Adventists were more 
ready to do for the cause than now. The public 
ear also is open to the truth. All that is :now 
wanting is " faithful laborers to. enter into the 
harvest." Who. is willing to sacrifice all to labor 
in such a field ? Who ? 
April 17th.—Preached in Portsmouth, N. IT. 
The day was dull, but there was a good attendance. 
Brother Crowell was absent on a short tour. 
-! April 19th-22d spent in New York city and New-
'ark, N. J. I gave two lectures in the chapel in 
the Seventh Avenue, the 20th and 21st. Had art 
appointment in Forsyth-street, but a thunder-storm 
prevented the gathering of the people. 
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the basis of the common version." It is printed in 
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new translation, with copious notes. 
Not having received a copy we are unable to speak 
farther respecting it. 
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My visit was a pleasant one. 
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FASTING AND PRATER. 
(Concluded from our last.) 
BESIDES rendering the mind more clear and spir-
itual, another point is to be gained by fasting or 
abstinence. human nature is ever prone to feel 
its own importance and independence of the divine 
aid. Thus it is said, " Jesliurun waxed fat and 
kicked." And Agar prayed, "Give me neither 
poverty nor riches ; feed me with food convenient 
for meelestd be full and deny thee, and say, Who 
is the Lard :or 'lest I be poor and steal, and take 
the name of the LORD my GoD in vain." Bodily 
weakness produces a sense of dependence, and is 
favorable to a spirit of humiliation before GOD, 
which is the object to be attained in all these ob-
servances. 
" Humble yourselves under the mighty hand of 
GoD, and he shall lift you up." " GOD resisteth 
the proud, but giveth grace to the humble." When 
we most feel our weakness, sinfulness, and un-
worthiness, we are most pleasing in the sight of 
GOD. Satan and our own unbelieving hearts would 
persuade us at such times, that we are farthest off 
from him ; whereas he assures us he is then the 
nearest, even dwelling with those who are of a 
"broken heart and contrite spirit." Our safest 
and happiest position, therefore, is, one of deep 
humility. 
There is such a thing as carrying fasting to ex-
cess, and not only injuring the bodily health, but 
fearfully endangering reason itself. Many reli-
gionists, probably, who have become insane under 
religious influences, have become so from excessive 
fasting. But this is not one of the dangers which 
we are now to guard against ; danger at the pres-
ent time is in an opposite direction. There is far 
more need of rousing the Church to the observance 
of this duty than cautioning her against its abusive 
excesses. 
" The days will come," said the Saviour, " when 
the bridegroom shall be taken from them, then 
shall they fast in those days." Those days now 
exist, our adored Redeemer, the heavenly bride-
groom, has been long absent, and left his Church 
to mourn his absence, and long for his return. 
Why then should we not fast and pray ? 
One objects, this observance was an Old Testa-
ment institution, and is not binding on Christians 
To this I reply : 1. Our Saviour fasted to prepare 
his soul to meet and resist temptation. 2. He said 
his disciples should fast after he should be taken 
from them. 3. They did fast on special occasions, 
and Gon honored the act. It was after the disci-
ples had fasted and ministered to the LORD, the 
" Holy Ghost said, Separate me Barnabas and Saul 
to the work whereunto I have called them." (Acts 
13 : 2, 3.) They then had another season of fast-
ing and prayer before their ordination. Cornelius 
the centurion had been fasting and praying, when 
the angel came to him and directed him to Send 
men to Joppa and call for Simon Peter to tell him 
the way of salvation. (Acta 10:30.) 
Paul had used long abstinence, when the angel 
of GOD appeared to him and promised deliverance 
from 'the shipwreck on his voyage to Rome. And 
it was after a fast of fourteen days by all the ship's 
company, that they were promised deliverance. 
(Acts 27:21, 33.) And besides, the very direction 
CHRIST gave his disciples, not to fast like the hypo-
crites, but to fast to GOD, is a sanction for the ob-
servance. 
But another objects, " I am unable to fast on ac-
count of my health, and always have the headache 
whenever I attempt it." Probably Satan or his an-
gels have much to do with such cases, as this cir-
cumstance would seem to indicate :—many can go 
all day without their meals when their worldly 
business calls theni to do it without feeling any 
very great uneasinesaor disagreeable results. But 
let those same persons fast on a religious account, 
and they will complain all day of heMache, and 
their. appetite constantly clamoring for food. It is 
a serious question whether ChristianS should yield 
to such temptations. There are others'who cannot 
fast for any cause without feeling the effect serious-
ly. Wisdom in such cases is profitable to direct. 
If any one cannot fast or go without food entirely, 
they may at least abstain in part from their or-
dinary meals, although it is exceeding difficult, and 
not to he attained without a Steadfast purpose and 
GOD'S help. For the appetite is generally more 
than ordinarily strong when abstinence is proposed, 
and instead of eating less, the individual is fre-
quently tempted to eat more than usual. 
In the observance of this duty the tempter is usu-
ally concerned for the punctual observance of 
CHRIST'S direction, not to appear to men to fast, 
that is, " It will look' very much like ostentatious 
display for you to absent yourself from your meals, 
and you had better go tolhe table and go through 
the form of eating." So he urges, and alas too 
frequently with success. The truth is, he well 
knows that the absence of a decided and consistent 
Christian from the table, when it is known that it 
is from a conscientious sense of duty to GOD, car-
ries reproof and conviction to a whole household. 
He had rather men would do almost anything than 
in earnest set about fasting and prayer. For he 
knows as well as CHRIST did, that there are some 
demons who can be dislodged with no other weapon 
than " fasting and prayer." Hence the hue and 
cry he makes, rousing all his forces, when such a 
thing is proposed. Nothing is more common than 
temptations to impatience and irritability, almost 
irrepressible, on such occasions. And again, an 
unusual press of worldly duties will come up and 
it will seem nearly impossible to find time for 
prayer, self-examination, confession of sin to GOD 
and man if we have injured any. A powerful 
temptation with many is, I have not lived right 
before my family or associates, and if I pretend to 
fast they will think it hypocrisy, and the cross is 
too heavy for me to bear." This is the very thing 
you need, then, to break the current of worldly- 
mindedness, and lead you to confess your backslid-
lugs and unfaithfulness to GOD and man. And I 
hope and pray that many such stumbling blocks 
will be removed ou the day of our appointed fast. 
For be assured GOD will accept your fast and 
prayer on no other condition, " Wherefore have 
we fasted, say they, and thou seest not ? Wherefore 
have we afflicted our souls and thou takest no 
knowledge ? Behold, in the day of your fast ye find 
pleasure and exact all your labors. Behold, ye fast 
for strife and debate, and to smite with the fist of 
wickedness." " Is not this the fast that I have 
chosen ? to loose the bands of wickedness, to undo 
the heavy burdens, and to let the oppressed go 
free, and that ye brake every yoke ? Is it not to 
deal thy bread to the hungry, and that thou bring 
the poor that are cast out to thy house, when thou 
seest the naked that thou cover him ; and that thou 
hide not thyself from thine own flesh ?" " Then 
shall thy light break forth as the morning, and thy 
health shall spring forth speedily." . . . " Then 
shalt thou call and the LORD shall answer." I 
hope the reader will turn to the passage, Isa. 58th, 
and read the whole of it, and lay it to heart. 0 
what promises ! If we wish the LORD to go before 
us, we must, like Joshua in the camp of Israel, 
search out and put away the accursed thing. And 
if the day of fasting shall result in such a clear-
ing of ourselves as a people, searching out and 
confessing of sin and turning from it, we may ex-
pect such results to follow as will send thrills of 
joy through all the heavenly courts. 
" What," says some covetousness tempted world-
ly minded souls, " do you expect me to leave my 
work and attend church on that day ?" Most 
certainly I do, if you do not wish the blight, and 
curse, and mildew to seize upon you, and your 
soul to be dried up and withered. Poor pitiful 
miserly Christian ! Who gives you all your bless-
ings, your wealth, yortr health, your all ? And can 
you not devote one, day to him whose name you 
bear ? " But I am poor and can scarce live with 
constant toil," says another. The Lord replies : 
" It is vain for you to rise up early, to sit up late, 
and to eat the bread of carefulness, for so he giv-
eth his beloved sleep." 
0 ye of little faith? Up, 
0 up ! and prove the LORD " herewith and see if 
he will not open to you the windows of heaven and 
pour you out a blessing." 
Is it a wonder that as a people we have met with so 
many reverses, when we have never as such, spread 
abroad, turned ourselves to him with our whole 
heart,. searching out and confessing all our sins ? 
And dare you, reader, or you church of any place, be 
the Meroz or inhabitant thereof, whom the angel 
of the LORD bitterly cursed because they came not 
up to the help of the LORD, to the help of the LORD 
against the mighty ? I trust there will not be a 
church in the land which will excuse itself from 
meeting on that appointed day for prayer and fast-
ing ; nor an individual Advent believer, isolated and 
alone although he be, that will not observe the day 
to Gon., to the utmost extent which a conscientious 
regard for God and in view of his cirouinstance 
will permit. Offer no sacrifice which costs you 
nothing. " Sanctify a fast, call a solemn assembly, 
assemble the elders, gather the congregation.," 4:c., 
" and cry mightily unto the LORD ; it may be he 
will turn and repent, and leave a blessing behind 
him." Ministers of 'JESUS, help ! Will you not 
throw yourselves into the breach, and stand as be-
tween the living and the dead, and discharge your 
duty, appoint your meetings everywhere, and call 
on the people of your respective flocks to come to 
the house of GOD, and humble themselves before 
him ? If two or three, only come together in one 
place let none be disheartened ; remember that thou-
sands are of one accord with you all over 'the land 
confessing their sins and seeking GoD's blessing, 
and prayer will prevail. No matter if you are 
tempted that it is of no use ; perserere: The scat-
tered of the flock, standing alone, have peculiar 
interests in this work ; for it is for their benefit we 
ask the LORD to send forth laborers into his har-
vest ? Will they not unite with us in crying to 
GOD for help, as well as to cry to us to send help 
which we have it not in our power to send? None 
can be excused who have any faith in GOD'S word 
or the power of prayer. 
Read this item from the letter of brother P. B. 
Morgan, in the Herald of May 21st : 
" Our brethren in Bristol (Vt.), awhile since be-
took themselves 'to fasting and prayer—the word 
took effect. The Congregational and Baptist church-
es were opened for us. Our meetings were largely 
attended, and during the thirty discourses that were 
preached, it was said that some thirty or more pro-
fessed to find peace in believing in our Lord Jesus 
Christ." 
How many more such reports we might have if 
the same course were pursued ! The history of 
the Church is full of such incidents. And not the 
Church alone, but the state. What has given to 
New England its unparalleled prosperity, its world- 
24th, preached in Chardon-street chapel, and in 
North Attleboro' the 27th, evening. There are a 
few faithful ones left in this place, and we hope 
they will revive their meetings. 
April 18th to May 1st.—Gave a series of six dis-
courses in Providence, R. I. .The church in this 
place is in a state of prosperity. Elder Geo. W. 
Burnham is their pastor, and the relation is a 
happy one. 0 that we had more faithful and ju-
dicious laborers for the suffering flocks. 
May, ,8th.—Preached in Chardon-street chapel, 
and baptized. The 11th, 12th, 13th, preached in 
Salem, preparatory to the Conference, Bro. Osier 
and his church being desirous that they, with the 
community, should he in a condition to receive 
good, by the means of grace, through the Confer-
ence. Brother 0. is in health, and labors much to 
build up and sustain his happy flock. 
May 15th.—Preached in Worcester, Mass., to a 
good audience. Had a pleasant season. 
May 17th to `MIL—Attended the Conference in 
Salem. There was a good gathering of brethren 
and sisters from nearly all parts of New England, 
and some from the South and West. They came 
together in the spirit of faith and love ; and al-
though the trials of the past had chastened and 
humbled them, they were still joyful in hope of 
soon seeing the " better land." 
May 22d.—Preached in Chardon-street chapel. 
We had our usual audience, and a good season. 
We have had it in contemplation for some time 
to change the location of our place of worship. 
The chapel is surrounded with stables and work-
shops, which have been erected within a few years, 
and which are a nuisance to the church. Besides 
this, those people whom we should be likely to ef-
fect and benefit, reside, mostly, in other parts of 
the city. Indeed, the greater. part of the society 
live quite a distance from their present place of 
worship. These considerations, With the fact, that 
the lease of the chapel will soon run out, have in-
duced us to make a change and dispose of it. 
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THE ADVEN T HERALD.T 
formed Christians were standing with their hands 
uplifted, and tears falling from their eyes, while 
with one consent they all devoted themselves to the 
Lord. 
" Such scenes might be witnessed everywhere. 
In the Highlands especially, this Evangelical alli-
ance was joyfully welcomed. The king and the 
prelates, with the view of getting rid of the most 
pious and steadfast ministers-Bruce, Rutherford, 
Dickson, and others-bad banished them to those 
wild districts ; but by the instruction of these 
godly ministers, vital Christianity had been widely 
spread abroad. Rival clans, which had never be-
fore met, except in strife, now saluted each other 
as brethren, and, after signing the Covenant, de-
parted in charity and peace. The bishops were 
thunderstruck. ' All that we have been doing these 
thirty years,' exclaimed they, ' is thrown down in 
one day.' "-Germany, England, and Scotland, pp. 
116-118. 
Such examples as this, of the power of prayer, 
when joined with fasting, by the united voice and 
action of the children of God, are, worthy of our 
remembrance, and full of encouragement to go and 
do likewise. 
JOSIAH LITCH. 
" I am the true vine, and my Father is the hus-
bandman. Every branch in me that beareth not 
fruit he taketh away : and every branch that bear-
eth fruit, he purgedh it, that it may bring forth 
more fruit."-Jno. 14:1, 2. 
It was prophecied concerning Messiah that he 
should open his " mouth in parables," and " utter 
dark sayings of old."-Psa. 78:2 ; Matt. 13, 34, 35. 
And this prediction received a remarkable accom-
plishment in our blessed Redeemer. His discourses 
abounded with parables. In Matt 13th chap. we 
have no fewer than eight recorded, as delivered by 
him. And our text contains a similitude which is 
simple and comprehensive. Let us consider- 
The Vine. " I am the true vine." This ex-
pression of our Lord would convey the idea that 
there was a false vine in existence, and that he 
placed himself in contradistinction to it. That 
this was the case is obvious from the following pas- 
sages. The Psalmist prays : " Turn us again, 0 
God of hosts, and cause thy face to shine ; and we 
shall he saved. Thou hast brought a vine out of 
Egypt : thou hast cast out the heathen and planted 
it. Thou preparedst room before it and planted 
it, and didst cause it to take deep root, and it filled 
the land. The hills were covered with the shadow 
of it, and the boughs 'thereof were as the goodly 
cedars. She sent out her boughs into the sea, and 
her branches into the river. Why hast thou then 
broken down her hedges, so that they which pass 
by the way do pluck her ? The boar out of the 
woods doth waste it, and the wild beast of the field 
doth devour it. RetUrn, we beseech thee. 0 God 
of hosts : look down from heaven, and behold and 
visit this vine."-Psa. 80 : 7-19. 
The prophet Isaiah speaks of this vine : " Now 
will 1 sing to my well-beloved a song of my be- 
loved touching his vineyard. My well-beloved bath 
a vineyard in a very fruitful hill : and he fenced 
it, and gathered out the stones thereof, and planted 
it with the choicest vine, and built a tower in the 
midst of it, and also made a wine-press therein : 
and he looked that it should bring forth grapes, 
and it brought forth wild grapes." The vineyard 
and the vine are thus explained : " For the vine-
yard of the Lord of hosts is the house of Israel, 
and the men of Judah his pleasant plant : and he 
looked for judgment, but behold oppression ; for 
righteousness, but behold a cry."-Isa. 5 :1-7. 
Again, the Lord said to Israel : " I had planted 
thee a noble vine, wholly a right seed : how then 
art thou turned into the degenerate plant of a 
strange vine unto me ?"-Jer. 2:21. 
In the light of these passages, we conclude that 
our Lord, in calling himself the true vine, intended 
to place himself in contrast with the strange vine 
of the Jewish nation. Jehovah was the husband-
man of both vines. 
We next consider- 
The Branches. Many vines in the East ob-
tain a much greater growth than people generally 
are aware of, as the following quotation from Pax-
ton will show : 
" In some parts of Persia it was the custom to 
turn their cattle into the vineyards after the vin-
tage, to browse on the vines, some of which are so 
large that a man can hardly compass their trunks 
in his arms."-Bush's Scrip. Plust.-Remarks on 
Gen. 49:11. 
The branches of the true vine are mentioned in 
v. 5 : " I am the vine, ye are the branches." By 
comparing this with chap. 17:20,-" Neither pray 
I for these alone, but for them also who shall be-
lieve through their word,"-we learn that all genu-
ine Christians are living branches of this vine. A 
branch of a tree may be near a vine, and even sup-
port it, without being a vine-branch : so a person 
may be almost persuaded to be a Christian, and 
even give of his earthly possessions to support 
Christians, without being one himself. Tieing a 
THE TRUE VINE. 
nowned celebrity? Ever since its settlement, GOD 
has twice a year been publicly recognized by the 
sovereign authority, calling on the people to unite 
in thanksgiving to him for mercies received, and 
by prayer and fasting to implore his favor on our 
labors. But it is said, " Those who have pro-
claimed those days were not interested,-they slid 
it for custom's sake !" That is not for me to de-
cide. However that may be, thousands in these 
favored States were sincere and earnest in seeking 
and praising GOD. So also it was when the cholera 
was sweeping over the land, and carrying off its 
thousands of victims, the President of the United 
States called a fast, and thousands sincerely ob-
served it, and the desolating scourge was almost 
instantly stayed. There is help in Con, and he de-
lights in being sought unto to do these things for us. 
In the days of Scottish persecution, when the 
King of England had imposed the Roman Missal 
on the Scotch Church, and determined to bring their 
necks under the iron yoke, the nation rose up in 
resistance, and made their appeal from England's 
monarch to the King of kings and Lord of lords. 
It is thus related by D'Aubigne in his recollections 
of his visit to Germany, England, and Scotland. 
It resulted in a most glorious work of Gon. Read 
and ponder it well, all you who are disposed to 
ask, What good will it do to fast and pray ? 
" But, first of all, they remembered that the 
Lord had said, ' If my people shall humble them-
selves, and pray, and seek my face, and turn from 
their wicked ways, then will I hear from heaven, 
and will forgive the
ir sin, and will heal their land.' 
(2 Chron. 7 : 14.) A solemn fast was proclaimed 
and observed, to confess the sins of the church. 
And then, gathering into one document the Old 
Covenant of 1581, which King James himself, the 
Father of the reigning monarch, had signed, and 
all the acts condemnatory of Popery, with an ad-
dition applying them to the present circumstances. 
the Scotch laid hold of these legitimate charters of 
their nation, and presented them before heaven. 
" On the 28th February, 1638, a great crowd 
filled the Gray friars church in Edinburgh, and in 
the burial-ground 60,000 Presbyterians had assem-
bled. Henderson, the minister, fervently invoked 
the Divine blessing on this vast meeting, and the 
Earl of Loudon stated the motives which had 
brought them together. Johnstone unrolled the 
parchment on which these Scottish charters were 
inscribed, and read them in a clear, calm voice. 
When he had finished, there was a deep and sol-
emn silence : a few explanations were demanded 
and given ; then, again, all was still as the grave. 
" But the silence was soon broken. An aged 
man of noble air was seen advancing ; it was the 
Earl of Sutherland, one of the most considerable 
of the Scottish barons, whose possessions included 
all the northern parts of the British Isles. He 
came forward slowly, and deep emotion was visi-
ble in his venerable features. He took up the pen 
with a trembling hand and signed the document. 
" A general movement now took place. All the 
Presbyterians within the church pressed forward 
to the Covenant and subscribed their names. But 
this was not enough ; a whole nation was waiting : 
the immense parchment was carried into the church-
yard, and spread out on a large tombstone, to re-
ceive on this expressive table the signature of the 
church. Scotland had never beheld a day like that. 
The heads of the people then said, as Joshua once 
did, ' As for me and my house, we will serve the 
Lord. And the people answered and said, God for-
bid that we should forsake the Lord.' (Josh. 24 : 
15, 16.) They rushed to the tomb which covered 
the ashes of one of Caledonia's sons, and on which 
was spread that charter by which the nation, in 
signing it, became ' witnesses against themselves, 
that they chose the Lord to serve him.' (lb. v. 22.) 
Some sobbed, some shouted ; some, after their 
names, added, till death,' and others opening a 
vein, wrote their name with their own blood. 
There was no confusion, no tumult. After these 
hours of strong emotion, this immense multitude 
dispersed quietly, and each one returned to his 
home in peace. 
" On the following day, the parchment, to which 
it became necessary to add several more sheets, 
was carried to different parts of the town, that the 
inhabitants of the respective districts might affix 
their signatures. Crowds accompanied it from 
place to place, shedding tears and imploring the 
Divine blessing on these acts. At the same time a 
remarkable improvement took place in the life and 
manner of those who signed. With the exception 
of one instance of trifling importance, no injury 
was anywhere done either to the prelates or their 
partisans. 
" The Covenant then began to make the circuit 
'of Scotland. John Livingston was at Lanark, his 
father's parish, when it was read and sworn to by 
the minister, elders, and people. Livingston, yet 
a young minister, having been called upon to preach 
in the church of Shotts, in the year 1630, on a 
e.mmunion day, had passed the whole night, from 
Sunday to Monday, in prayer. In the morning, 
standing on a tomb-stone, he preached in the 
churchyard to a great multitude, on Ezek. 36: 25, 
26-"rhen will I sprinkle clean water upon you, 
and ye shall be clean.' rhe pouring out of the 
Spirit of God was such, that five hundred persons 
could date their conversion from that day. Soon 
after, on a similar occasion, a thousand persons 
were either converted or remarkably confirmed ; 
the preceding night having, in like manner, been 
devoted by the young minister and some pious 
friends to fervent prayer. The Covenant now ar-
rived at Lanark ; and the servant of the Most High 
again witnessed those powerful emotions which the 
Spirit of God had formerly excited in the church-
yards of Shotts and Holywood. Thousands of re- 
branch of a tree to a vine would not make it a 
branch of the vine ; neither will enrolling our names 
on a church book make us saints. Observe, 1: 
Branches are united to the vine : so Christians are 
united to Christ by faith. 2. Branches receive sap 
and nourishment from the stock : so believers have 
the spirit of Jesus. " Now if any man have not 
the spirit of Christ, he is none of his."-Rom. 8:9. 
" But we have the mind of Christ."-1 Cor. 2:16. 
And 3. Branches resemble the stock : so believers 
are morally like Christ ; but this will more fully 
appear as we consider- 
HI. The Fruits. Jesus said to his disciples : " Ye 
have not chosen me, but I have chosen you, and or-
dained you, that ye should go and bring forth fruit, 
and that your fruit should remain : that whatso-
ever ye shall ask of the Father in my name, he may 
give it you."-v. 16. It is to the honor of the hus-
bandman, that his trees bear good fruit, and so we 
hear our Lord say : " Herein is my Father glori-
fied, that ye bear much fruit ; so shall ye be my 
disciples."-v. 8. The living branches of the true 
vine produce various kinds of fruit, a list of which 
is given in Gal. 5:22, 23. 
The fruits of the Spirit are, 1. Love. This em-
braces love to God for the gift of his Son, and the 
innumerable blessings with which we ate surround-
ed. Love to Jesus for the glorious work of redemp-
tion. " We love him because he first loved us." 
Love for the word of God, for it is a light to our 
feet and a lamp to our path while travelling in the 
night of this world. Love to the people of God. 
We can say , of them as Ruth did of Naomi : 
" Whither thou goest I will go ; and where thou 
lodgest I will lodge, and naught but death shall 
part thee and me." Love for the ordinances of 
God's house. And, in short, he who has the love 
of God shed abroad in his heart by the Holy Ghost, 
loves everything that God loves and commands. 
2. Joy. It is true that " religion never was de-
signed to make our pleasures less." Though the 
believer has many trials and difficulties to pass 
through, yet he can rejoice in tribulation and often 
say, 
" From Pisgah's top, the promised land 
I now exult to see, 
My hope is full (0 glorious hope !) 
Of immortality." 
 
2. Peace. " Being justified byfaith we have peace 
with God, through our Lord Jesus Christ."-Rom. 
5:1. Sometimes the mind is troubled by the cares 
of the world and the temptations of Satan, but 
meditation upon the promises of God, brings peace 
to the troubled soul. As the voice of Jesus calmed 
the stormy lake of Genesareth, so his voice, which 
is heard in the Scriptures, now calms the 'feelings 
of the penitent heart, and gives peace which is con-
stant as a river, and more abiding than the waves 
of the sea. It is a peace which will be felt in the 
hour of death, and which will not fail when the 
heavens pass away with a great crash, and the ele-
ments melt with fervent heat. It is the peace of 
Jesus. (John 14:27.) 
Long suffering. The Christian is in posses- 
sion of that charity which " suffereth long and is 
kind," and which enables him to bear with the in-
firmities of others. 
Gentleness. He is " gentle toward all men," 
and in this respect imitates his divine Redeemer. 
Goodness. We have seen a lovely flower spring 
from a stinking roots, and sometimes a worthy deed 
is performed by an unregenerate man, but habitual 
goodness is not a plant which grows in nature's 
garden. 
Faith. The man who possesses this grace takes 
God at his word, and like Abraham " staggers not 
at the promises of God," though he cannot fully 
understand how they shall be fulfilled. 
Meekness. This fruit keeps good company. It 
could not be found on the " strange vine." Pride 
is its opposite, and grew on " the degenerate 
plant," and was known by its boasting,-" stand 
by thyself, for I am holier than thou." Jesus was 
" meek and lowly in heart," and as is the vine 
such are the branches. 
Temperance. This fruit though mentioned last 
is not least. It looks as well on the vine-branch 
as any of the others. " Temperate in all things," 
is characteristic of the Christian. It is not pro-
duced by a temperance society, but by the Spirit 
of God. 
These are the fruits borne by the living branches. 
We bear them if we are Christians. Let a man ex-
amine himself and see whether he is in the true 
vine or not ; and if he is let him listen to the words 
of Christ : " Abide in me, and I in you. As the 
branch cannot bear fruit of itself except it abide in 
the vine, no more can ye except ye abide in me."- 
v. 4. We next consider- 
1V. The Purgation. " Every branch that bear-
eth fruit he purgeth it, that it may bring forth 
more fruit."-v. 2. Every branch bears fruit.' 
Some branches bear more than others. They bear 
alike in quality, though not in quantity. Let us 
IMPROVEMENT. 
From this subject we learn, not only the danger 
of being an unfruitful branch, but also the blessed-
ness of being a living branch in the true vine. Such 
are under the care of the great Husbandman. We 
also learn submission to the divine will. The 
crosses, trials, and afflictions through which we 
have to pass are designed to purify and prepare us 
for a better land. The Husbandman knows we 
could not do without them and yet be saved, and 
therefore uses them for our purification. 
We rejoice in the hope that the whole vine will be 
immortalized and flourish forever on the new earth. 
Here the branches are tossed to and fro, by winds 
of opposition, and grow in an uncongenial clime ; 
but there no. stormy winds shall endanger their 
safety. There no unfruitful branch will be seen 
upon the vines. There the fruit of every living 
branch will be brought to perfection, and " right-
eousness, peace, and joy in the Holy Ghost," 
abound through everlasting ages. 
"Who, who would live alway, away from his God ? 
Away from his kingdom, that blessed abode, 
Consider what the means are, employed by the hus-
bandman in purging or cleansing] his vine-branches. 
The word of God is used. The discourse of 
which our text forms a part, was delivered by our 
Lord a short while before his betrayal and cruci-
fixion. In connection with the washing of the dis-
ciples' feet, we hear him say to Peter : " He that 
is washed needeth not save to wash his feet, but 
is clean every whit : and ye are clean, but not all. 
For he knew who should betray him : therefore 
said he, Ye are not all clean."-John 13 : 10, 11. 
Shortly after, '° he was troubled in spirit, and tes-
tified, and said, Verily, verily I say unto you, that 
one of you shall betray me."-v. 21. This re-
mark led to the discovery of Judas, the traitor, 
who went out immediately and prepared to betray 
his Master into the hands of the chief priests. 
When he was gone out, Jesus said, Now is the 
Son of man glorified, and God is glorified in him." 
-v. 31. And the verse that follows our text reads : 
" Now ye are clean through the word which 1 have 
spoken unto you." As the word of Jesus led to the' 
purgation of the little group of disciples, by the 
departure of Judas from their midst, so the word 
of God leads to the cleansing of every believer's 
heart. Hence Jesus prayed : " Sanctify them 
through thy truth : thy word is truth."-chap. 
17:17. And David asks : " Wherewithal shall a 
young man cleanse his way ? by taking heed thereto 
according to thy word."-Psa. 119:9. 
The Spirit of God is employed. " Seeing ye 
have purified your souls in obeying the truth 
through the Spirit unto unfeigned love of the breth-
ren, see that ye love one another with a pure heart 
fervently."-1 Pet. 1:2, 22. And Paul speaks of 
his brethren at Thessalonica as chosen unto " sal-
vation through sanctification of the Spirit and be-
lief of the truth."-2 Thess. 2:13. The word of 
God chews us our duty and the Spirit of God in-
clines our hearts to do it. The word and Spirit 
agree. 
The chastening of God is required. On this 
point, see Heb. 12 : 5-11. " My son, despise not 
thou the chastening of the Lord, nor faint when 
thou art rebuked of him ; for whom the Lord lov-
eth he chasteneth, and scourgeth every son whom 
he recciveth." But he doeth it " for our profit, 
that we might be made partakers of his holiness. 
Now no chastening for the present seemeth to be 
joyous, but grievous, nevertheless afterward it 
yieldeth the peaceable fruit of righteousness to 
them that are exercised thereby." Afflictions are 
designed to benefit the child of God. The Psalmist 
says : " Before I was afflicted I went astray, but 
now have I kept thy word." 
We thus have the word, the Spirit, and the provi-
dence of God combined in the purification of the 
vine-branches. As fishes which are found in salt 
water are fresh, so God would have his people holy 
though living in an unfriendly world. Observe- 
V. The Excision. "Every branch in me that 
beareth not fruit he taketh away." " If a man 
abide not in me, lie is cast forth as a branch. and 
is withered ; and men gather them and cast them 
into the fire, and they are burned."-vs. 2, '6. 
Such is the destiny of the unfruitful branches. 
Such will be the end of those Who have a form of 
godliness, but deny the power thereof. They shall 
be " cast into a furnace of fire, where there shall 
be weeping and gnashing of teeth." For " these 
shall go away into everlasting punishment." They 
shall be sentenced " to dwell with everlasting burn- 
ings," having " the devil and his angels " for their 
companions. (Matt. 13 : 49, 50 ; 25:41, 46 ; Isa. 
32:14.) What an awful ending this will be to many 
years' profession of godliness ! And yet how many 
will thus be lost ! How important is is that we 
should know whether we are in Christ, or not ! 
The time is at hand when this point shall be set-
tled 'forever. 
Obituarl). 
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191 
Where rivers of pleasure flow o'er the bright 
plains, 
And the noon-tide of glory eternally reigns." 
Those pleasures of glory, 0, when shall I share, 
And crowns of celestial felicity wear ; 
.And range o'er those landscapes exempt from a 
sigh 
The home of our fathers, now specially nigh." 
J. M. ORROCK. 
THE SCRIPTURES. 
NO. I. 
MUCH has been, still is, and while time contin-
ues will be written on this important topic ; yet 
I am disposed, however feeble the effort, to con-
tribute my mite in presenting a few thoughts cal-
culated,J trust, to elevate the affections of the pi-
ous toward their Author, and arrest the attention 
of the thoughtless. The term Scripture means 
writing, and` may be attached to any manuscript. 
We have a collection of Sacred Scriptures from 
God under the general term " Bible," and they 
are denominated " Holy," which distinguishes 
them from all others. Says Paul to Timothy (2 Tim. 
2:15,16,) " And that from a child thou bast known 
the Holy Scriptures—all Scripture is given by in-
spiration of God," &c. The word " Bible " signi-
fies " the Book by way of eminence," for which 
reason it is attached to the sacred volume and is 
emphatically the Book of books. It should receive 
our highest encomium, it deserves our strongest 
commendation. It commands, and proclaims the 
penalty if disobeyed. It encourages the seeker af-
ter God—the young disciple in Christ—the way-
worn, steadfast pilgrim ; it warns the unruly, un-
stable, and such as turn aside for lies and false 
hopes, and will not come to the truth or light 
because their deeds are evil. It contains songs, 
prayers, exhortations, and the best sermons ever 
r 
p eached . It contains experiences in times of 
—
af- 
fliction, and times of rejoicing ; in it is revealed 
all that is for man's great and lasting good—all 
that is calculated to supply man's spiritual wants. 
Heavenly food for the hungry, water of life for the 
thirsty, a raiment of righteousness for the naked, 
an abiding home for the homeless, true riches for 
the poor, a skilful physician for the sick, healing 
medicine for the diseased, strength for the weak, 
work for the idle, reward for the laborer, rest for 
the weary, wisdom for the simple, light for those in 
darkness, a chart for the voyager, a refuge from 
the storm, a shadow from the heat, exaltation for 
the low, honor for those without honor, a crown 
for the crownless, victory for the warrior, and an 
eternal government in the everlasting kingdop of 
God on the new earth that shall be filled with his 
glory, for 6,11 foreigners from the commonwealth 
of Israel who will repent of their sins and submit 
themselves to the Lord Jesus Christ : who will not 
love such a volume of Scriptures and call it the 
Book of books. It is a treasure, and all in this 
Christian land may possess a part, if not all of it. 
I close this number by introducing the following 
'eXtraet : 
" What a comfort is it to think that the best of 
all books should be the cheapest. Formerly, in 
the days of Edward I., King of England, between 
'five and six hundred years ago, a Bible, with any-
thing approaching a comment upon it could not be 
bought for less than #150; this would be as much 
as a laboring man could earn in fifteen years, for 
wages then were only one penny and a half a day. 
At a much later period, in the time of Henry the 
VIII., about three hundred years ago, a load .of 
hay was given for a part of the epistle of St. James. 
But now twenty Bibles may be bought for less than 
a sovereign ! About five dollars !" 
" Give me a Bible in my hand, 
A heart to read and understand 
That sure unerring word ; 
I'd urge no company to stay, 
But sit alone from day to day, 
And converse with the Lord !" 
J. I'. F. 
LETTER FROM RACINE, Wis. 
BRO. HIMES :—Having received from some friend 
the tract of brother Clarke, of Melbourne, C. E., 
and given it a particular perusal, and again hav-
ing read your criticism on the same in the Herald 
of the 26th of March, and not being able to har-
monize the seventy weeks with the 2300 day vision, 
yet cannot see how they can lie parted, a thought 
has arisen in my mind could not there be two coma 
'manditents, the one under Cyrus to restore the 
temple and worship, together with the Jewish 
policy, from which we could date the seventy 
weeks, which would harmonize with the crucifix-
ion of Christ, or about 33, and the other under 
Nehemiah in 445 B. C., from which we could date 
the 2300 days, which would terminate in 1855 for 
as Gabriel was fully commissioned to make Dan-
iel to understand the time, and told him in the 8th 
chapter and 19th verse, that at the time appointed 
the end should be, and as by dating the 2300 days 
from the 7th of Artaxerxes, we are now some ten 
years gone by, which is not like the way in which 
God works, ought we not to look for some other 
date for the commencement of the 2300 days? The 
thought struck me, if the Hebrew word for com-
mandment cannot be found to have a plural termi-
nation, and so read from the going forth of the 
commandments. For if my recollection is right 
neither Bishop Newton, Sir Isaac Newton, and 
many others of early date do not place them to-
gether as one vision having the same commence-
ment, but as the placing together as one vision is 
of comparatively late date, your strict examina-
tion of the Hebrew text, and giving the rendering 
of the same would not only oblige myself, but per-
haps many other sincere inquirers into the coming 
of the Lord. Wishing you all prosperity in the 
cause, I remain, your brother waiting for redemp- 
tion. 
J. G. MEDER. 
The Hebrew word is dah-vahr, which occurs 
more than 1500 times in the Scriptures, but is of-
tener translated " the word" than by any other 
rendering. It is therefore from the going forth of 
the word to restore and re-build Jerusalem that the 
seventy weeks are to be dated. In this place, it 
is in the singular number. If the 2300 days may 
be reckoned from one commandment, and the sev-
enty weeks from another, then the one is not cut 
off from the other.—ED. 
" COME unto me all ye that labor and are heavy 
laden," &c.—Matt. 11:28-30. 
Come ye weary, sick of sin, 
Who eternal life would win ; 
Heavy laden though ye are, 'k44 `- 
From your Father's house afar; lo 
Tried and tempted, sore distressed ; 
Jesus says I'll give you rest. 
Wear the yoke, 'tis easy quite, 
Ile will make the burden light 
Foes without and fears within, 
May betray thee into sin— 
This shall soothe thy troubled breast : 
Jesus gives the weary rest. 
Learn of him, and ever seek, 
To be humble, lowly, meek, 
Gird thine armor, watch and pray ; 
Peace shall lead thee on thy way ; 
In the mansions of the blest 
Thou shalt find eternal rest. 
E. B. SHERMAN. 
EXTRACTS FROM LETTERS. 
Bito. M L. DUDLEY writes from Dunham, May 
28th, 1853 :—" I have been a reader of the Herald 
since '43, and a believer in the Advent doctrine, 
and the kingdom of God at hand. Your visit to 
Canada last fall was highly valued by many, and 
I think should you visit us next summer you would 
have a large hearing. There are but a few be,-
lievers in the soon coming kingdom in this section, 
but nevertheless the Advent preaching brings out 
more people than any other doctrine. 
" I am so situated at present that my services 
are somewhat limited as to preaching, but am in 
hopes it will soon be otherwise. Yours, looking 
for the Lord." 
SISTER MARY WINKLEY writes from Aurora (Ind.), 
May 17th, 1853:--" I wish to say to the friends 
that 1 still rejoice in the glorious cause of the com-
ing Saviour. I rejoice in the prospects of Zion. 
Having obtained help of God I continue to this 
day, in the confidence of the glorious hope. I can-
not express my love, my joy and peace. If I should 
attempt to express the half that I have received of 
the goodness of God, I could not. I trust that we 
shall meet face to face when our trials shall be 
ended, and our bliss shall be complete. I feel to 
hold on the gospel and the truth as we have re-
ceived it." 
BRO. P. V. WEST writes from Sutton (C. E.), 
May 12th, 1853 The Advent cause is still 
rising in this place. There is a good degree of in-
terest felt in our preaching places, and a goodly 
number have professed faith in the doctrine we 
hold and advocate from the Bible. 
" I had the pleasure of attending a baptismal 
season where five humble souls (young converts) 
were buried with Christ by baptism, and others 
aro expected to follow them soon. The brethren 
feel like thanking God, and to, take courage ; look-
ing for redemption soon." 
A HARD CASE.—A worthy brother in stopping 
his paper says :—" The reason of my making this 
request is this. I have been entirely blind for 
about eight years. My wife and children do not 
wish to read to me, so for this reason I make the 
above request. Although I am blind, I. can spiritu 
ally see the hand of God moving, and would not 
exchange places with any one living. I am ex-
pecting and waiting for the day when the blind 
will see, and the lame will leap as an hart. I re-
main your unworthy brother in tribulation." 
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. 
BRO. HISSES :—My mother, widow JANE BARRY, 
died in Pittsfield, Mass., May 14th, 1853, aged 70 
years. . She has been a constant reader of the Her-
ald, and has sustained a most exemplary Christian 
character. She was happy during her sickness, 
and longed for the time to arrive when she should 
take her departure, believing that she should sleep 
but a short time ere she would awake to immor- 
tality. 
MEHITABLE DAVIS. 
Holyoke, May 21st, 1853. 
DIED, of consumption, in Claremont, on Mon-
day April 25th, 1853, MARY ANN, daughter of Hub-
bard and Lucy Hadlock, aged 18 years 9 months 
and 13 days. In the fall of '43 while brethren 
Sherwin and Lyon held a tent-meeting at North 
Springfield, Mary Ann with a sister younger, be-
came interested in the hope of salvation, that when 
he that is to come, comes, then they shall be like 
him. In all the walks and acts of life this hole 
has shone forth. Her sun went down without a 
cloud, to rise once more, again on the glorious 
morn of the resurrection of the just. Death had 
no terror to her, for she feared not blow, hut 
as the time of her departure drew near her whole 
mind was absorbed in brighter scenes that were 
before her, and exclaiming from time to time that 
she had seen Jesus and angels, and 0 how lovely 
they appeared. She longed to join them and be 
with and like them, and when the last hour came 
she bid all her friends good bye, and desired them 
to meet her in heaven, and then turned to her 
mother and said, " Good bye, mother, I'm going 
home ;" then laid her head on her bosom and fell 
asleep in Jesus, " blessed sleep from which none 
ever wake to weep." Mary Ann has gone, left are 
parents, sisters and friends to feel the loss of her 
society while here, but to rejoice in hope of soon 
meeting in a fairer clime. 
Mary, thou art gone to rest, 
And this shall be our prayer, 
That when we reach our journey's end, 
Thy glory we may share. 
What a rich, blessed and glorious hope is that of 
the Christian ; in all events of life it smoothes the 
rugged pathway, as in the case before us. In con-
versation with her mother she said that it did not 
seem as though death had been there, so peaceful 
had Mary gone to rest. 
J. Han. 
DIED, in Fairhaven, December 16th, 1852, sis-
ter Louisa THOMPSON, wife of Capt. John Thomp-
son, aged 39 years. At the age of twenty-three she 
made a public profession of religion by uniting 
with the Congregationalist church in West Haven, 
at which place she continued to reside until a few 
weeks previous to her death. Since her public con-
secration to the cause of Christ she seems to have 
been one of those " living epistles known and read 
of all " with whom she associated ; indeed she ap-
pears to have been among those denominated by 
the Saviour " the salt of the earth." Active and 
energetic in the cause of Christ, the prayer and so-
cial meeting were her delight. But her solicitude 
was intense for the conversion of her own family, 
especially for her companion, whose life was often 
in peril by sea, for whom she spent many days in 
fasting and prayer, until her physical strength was 
nearly prostrated,—but Jacob-like, she refused to 
let go, until she obtained the promise of the bless-
ing. About one year since, her ears were first sa-
luted with the delightful sound of the speedy com-
ing of the Lord. Through the instrumentality of 
our much respected brother A. Hotchkiss, who with 
his family became her neighbor, she attended the 
little prayer meetings held at his house. Here she 
learned that there was a people looking for the 
glorious appearing of the Son of God. Her humble 
and chastened soul loved the first note of this de-
lightful strain ! Yes, the first sound of the speedy 
return of the Bridegroom to resurrect and immor-
talize his bride, was perfect music in her ears. 
Brother Hotchkiss induced her husband Capt. T. 
to attend the camp-meeting held in Winstead, Ct., 
last September. With a heart made joyous in an-
ticipation that her prayers were about to be an-
swered in the conversion of her husband, she glad-
ly accompanied him to that feast of tabernacles. 
Here for the first time she listened to public lec-
tures on the speedy coming of Christ. Here, thank 
God, she was not only comforted with the evidences 
elicited from the word of God by able ministers of 
the gospel, that the full fruition of the Christian 
hope was about to be realized, but here the stern 
proud heart of her husband was brought to bow to 
the mild sceptre of Prince Immanuel ! Upon their 
return to their home he joyfully participated in 
those family devotions, which for many years had 
been sustained by our dear departed sister. At this 
time gratitude preponderated over every other feel-
ing of her nature, as was remarked of her by a 
friend, " She is the happiest woman I ever saw." 
A few weeks subsequent to this my husband had 
the pleasure of burying in baptism this blessed sis-
ter with her husband and oldest son, with others 
who professed faith in Christ, while he and broth-
er Grant labored in West Haven. She was enabled 
by divine grace to maintain " the rejoicing of her 
hope firm unto the end." I received a letter from 
her bearing date of Nov. 8th, in which she says : 
" I think it is a blessed and glorious hope to be 
looking for my blessed Saviour." She adds : " I am 
on the rock Christ Jesus, though the rains descend 
and the floods come, I shall not be moved, for he 
is my hope and my exceeding great reward." 
Praise the Lord she never was moved away from 
the hope of the gospel, though in a few days from 
this disease laid his iron hand upon her which 
terminated her existence, until the trump of God 
shall awake the dead.. During weeks of aceute suf-
fering, she sweetly acquiesced in the divine will. 
She delighted to talk over the hope of the gospel 
until the last. She calmly gave herself, family, arid 
her all, into the bands of him who is the resur-
rection and life of his people, bade adieu to this 
earth until it shall be purified and made meet for 
the saints of the Most High, leaving a husband and 
six children to deplore her loss. I would say in the 
language of the poet, _ ;() 
" Sweet be thy rest, dear sister, till he bid thee 
arise, 
To hail him in triumph descending the skies." 
Then we hope to meet thee" where no farewell 
tear is shed." Her funeral occasion was improved 
by brother Grant discoursing from 1 Thess. 4:13. 
B. MATHEWSON. 
11111111NIMMINIIIIM. 
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while it may be needed as a chronicler of the signs of the times, and 
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The object of this periodical is to discuss the great question of the 
age in which we live—The near approach of the Fifth Universal 
Monarchy, in which the kingdom under the whole heaven shall be 
given to the saints of the Most High, for an everlasting possession. 
Also to take note of such passing events as mark the present time, 
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The course we have marked out for the future, is to give in the 
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The principles prominently presented will be those unanimously 
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Albany, N. Y., April 29, 1845, and which are, in brief, 
The Regeneration of this Earth by Fire, and its Restoration to 
its Eden beauty. 
The Personal Advent of CHRIST at the commencement of the 
Millennium. 
His Judgment of the Quick and Dead at his Appearing and 
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His Reign on the Earth over the Nations of the Redeemed. 
The Resurrection of those who Sleep in Jesus, and the Change 
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VIII. The bestowment of Immortality (in the Scriptural, and not 
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IX: The New Earth the Eternal Residence of the Redeemed. 
X. We are living in the space of time between the sixth and 
seventh trumpets, denominated by the angel " QUICKLY j" — " The 
second woe is past ; and behold the third woe cometh quickly" — 
Rev. 11: 14— the time in which we may look for the crowning con-
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ITALY.—Milan letters mention that the Austrian 
commission of inquiry, now sitting, has totally 
failed to establish any evidence connecting the 
Lombard emigrants in Sardinia with the recent 
revolution. 
The Pope has gone to Anzio. 
Magnetic table moving is now all the rage in 
Rome. The POPE and Jesuit College have been ex-
perimenting.* 
Rumor was widely spread that another dagger 
revolt would transpire at Milan on Sunday, the 
8th, but the day passed off quietly. 
The council of war, in session at Mantua, had 
condemned nine school boys of Ostiglia to imprison-
ment in irons for uttering " subversive language." 
Eight of them, from thirteen to fifteen years of age, 
were afterwards pardoned on account of their 
youth and previous good conduct. 
PRUSSIA.—The Prussian Minister of the Interior 
has ordered the adoption of rigorous measures 
against the Mormon missionaries, who are endeav-
oring to make proselytes throughout Germany ; if 
considered necessary, power is granted to the proper 
authorities to expel them. 
* The kings of the earth, then, are beginning to be deceived by it. 
(Rev. 16:14.) 
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still act as agent for the Herald. Our published 
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of the principal places. It would fill up too much 
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CONFERENCES, Re. 
THE Lord willing, them will be a Camp-meeting in EaSt Claren-
don, Vt., on land owned by a Mr. Congden, to commence Tuesday, 
June 21st, and hold over the following Sunday. The spot selected is 
a beautiful marine grove near the dwelling of brother T. A. Cheney. 
It is situated near the Wagon- road, and less than half a mile from 
the Rutland and-Iffirlington Raila•oad depot, aboutoneMile from the 
Western Vermont Railroad depot, and about six miles from Rutland, 
Vt. A general invitation t i9 given to all of, the household of faith, 
and it is hoped that there will be a large gathering of the, friends 
of the Odd close;' with 'tents: 'and provisions, prepared to take 
care of themselves,., Such as cannot do thus, can be provided 
for on reasonable teams at Mr. Crossman'k tavern, a few rods from 
the grouniL. Horse keeping, both pasturing and stabling,,can be had 
near by on easy terms. Arrangements have been made with the 
Superintendent of the Rutland -and.Burlington Railroad, also with 
the Western ;Vermont Railroad, to carry passengers to and from the 
meeting at half-price. We expect the saute on. the Washington 
road. Ask for a ticket to camp-meeting at Clarendon, Vt., as they 
are to have them expressly for this purpose. Those coming in the 
cars will stop at the Clarendon depot. 
This is new ground, and it is hoped all will come up to labor for 
the instruction and salvation of this people. .As,the object of this 
meeting is to save souls by the foolishness of preaching God'S pres-
ent truth—the gospel of the - kingdom at hand—all discordant and 
distracting' elements, such as "Seventh-day Sabbath," and the like, 
will receive no countenance. (For the bt,thren.) 
0. D. GIBSON, 
B. MUNN, • Committee. 
A. CHENEY, 
A Tent-meeting will be held in Waterloo, C. E., commencing on 
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THE ADVENT HERALD. 
The King of the Belgians, with his son, has been 
received at Berlin with every demonstration of res-
pect, and has proceeded to -Vienna. The visit of 
his Majesty to Germany is considered to be of the 
highest political importance, and the great German 
powers seem to have received him with all the con-
sideration due to a sovereign of the highest rank. 
Rumors have been raised thereupon that alliances 
of a strictly defensive character have been formed, 
bringing Belgium within the limits of the Great 
European Confederacy, which, united, would 'be 
able to cope successfully against any aggression of 
France. 
The Belgian marriages are thus arranged by gos-
sip : the Emperor of Austria to marry the Princess 
Charlotte of Belgium ; King Leopold of Belgium 
to marry the Austrian Princess of Modena ; and 
the Duke of Brabant, his son, to espouse one of 
the Archduchesses. 
The intelligence from the Hague respecting the 
result of the elections is unfavorable to the Catho-
lic party up to the present time. 
Appointments, .fie. 
RUSSIA. — St. Petersburg papers report a vic-
tory over the Circassians on the Hill of Razelama, 
April 1st. 
TURKEY.—The Porte has refused to accept the 
Russian ultimatum. Menschikoff had embarked 
at Constantinople on board a Russian ship of war 
for Odessa 
The Ambassador of France had ordered the 
French fleet to the Dardanelles ; supposed to pre-
vent any attempt of Russia to seize or pass the 
Straits ; but on the 20th, the French squadron was 
still at Salamis. 
The British fleet remained at Malta, 18th, await-
ing re-inforeements from England. Despatches to 
British Admiral Dundas stated that Menschikoff 
remained on board steamer, and had given the Porte 
eight days longer to re-consider—threatening if 
again rejected, he will finally withdraw. 
Conflagration in Canada. 
THE Bytown Gazette gives some interesting par-
ticulars in regard to the fire which laid waste a con-
siderable portion of the Upper Ottowa country, in' 
Canada. The fire commenced on the 13th of May. 
How long the fire raged we are not informed, but 
it burned over a tract of country seventy miles in 
length by forty miles in breadth, nearly one half 
of which has been laid waste. The scene was of 
the most terrific and appalling nature. Hundreds 
of families, embracing persons of all ages and 
sexes, literally pursued by the flames, had to flee 
in all directions with nothing saved excepting the 
clothes in actual use, which in many instances, 
were scorched and partly consumed on the backs of 
the fugitives. The scene of the calamity being in 
the vicinity and on both sides of the Ottawa, many 
individuals took refuge in the river to protect them-
selves from the intense heat. A small steamer as-
sisted some of the inhabitants in making their es-
cape.—Even they were compelled to abandon her, 
owing to the excessive heat of the woods, burning 
en both sides of the river. Only one death has 'as 
yet been heard of, that of an aged man named 
Thrasher, who perished in a vain attempt to save 
some of his property. The Gazette says : 
" Upwards office hundred families, according to 
our informant, have been reduced from tolerable 
competence to a nearly destitute condition, in nu-
merous instances without food for present neces-
sities, clothes to, cover, or houses to shelter them-
selves ; and what is, if possible, even worse, with-
out the means of pursuing the necessary agricul-
tural operations of the season. A large proportion 
of the sufferers are persons .i,YhO ti few years ago 
settled in that quarter, after emigrating from 
- 
rope, and who were by steady persevering industry 
progressing towards independence. The situation 
of these people is distressing in the extreme, and 
unless prompt assistance be rendered, and with no 
sparing hand, will be still more lamentable. The 
wholesale extent of the calamity will be better com-
prehended, when we state, that in one place, known 
as the ' Garden of Eden,' a name conferred upon it 
from its wonderful fertility, out of forty houses, 
only two are left standing, and in the Des Allu-
ruettes Island, out of ninety-seven dwellings, the fire 
has spared only four. 
" The provisions that were by the unfortunate 
sufferers proVided for their support till the fall and 
winter seasons, are totally destroyed ; and the very 
seed intended for sowing the spring crop, and the 
farming utensils necessary for tilling the land, have 
411 been consumed. A case is here presented that 
calls loudly for the assistance of the benevolent, 
and no doubt throughout Canada, when the extent 
of the suffering is understood, there will be no lack 
of sympathy and of more substantial aid." 
Some £600 or £700 have been raised for the suf-
ferers in Bytown, and liberal aid is expected from 
other quarters. 
ENGLAND.—Business in Parliament of local in-
terest, chiefly respecting the collection of church 
rates. Tuesday night, 28th, questions were put 
to Government in both houses, to ascertain the 
position of England with relation to the critical 
state of Turkish affairs. Lord Clarendon in Lords, 
and Lord John Russell in Commons, stated that 
French and English representatives in Constanti-
nople were acting in concert ; that the integrity of 
the Porte would be maintained ; it was hoped Rus-
sia would insist on nothing incompatible therewith, 
but in the present condition of the matter, the 
British Government could not give further indica-
tion of the course they would pursue. 
The Ministry sustained a defeat on an important 
question, relating to the Maynooth grant—the ma-
jority against it being twenty, in a house of 128 
members. The question was on making an appro-
priation for the repair of the college buildings. 
In reply to Lord Jocelyn, Lord John Russell 
stated that the Emperor of China had applied to 
Great Britain for assistance, but no orders had 
been given to interfere in any way, except for pro-
tection of British property and subjects. 
FRANCE. — Constantinople news caused violent 
agitation on the Bourse, which was increased by 
false rumors that the Russian force had entered 
Turkey. It is generally believed, however, that 
Napoleon had assured the Russian Minister that 
much as he desired peace in Europe, he would not 
hesitate to change his policy if Russia forced mea-
sures hostile to France and the East. 
No answer yet received to the note sent by Gov-
ernment to the Holy See. Meanwhile, Catholic 
prelates are active. 
The report that the French fleet had been ordered 
to the Dardanelles, had caused great excitement on 
the Paris Bourse. 
The arrest of General St. Arnaud, reported in a 
letter from Paris, on a charge of killing General 
Cormeuse, is said to be not wholly unfounded. 
'The Washington Union learns that some time ago 
a fatal affray did take place in the presence or the 
Emperor ; that the matter was hushed up, and the 
victim secretly buried. 
SWITZERLAND.—The Austrian Charge d'Affaires 
has notified the federal Government that Austria, 
convinced of the uselessness of further negotiations 
with Switzerland, had ordered him to withdraw. 
The Swiss envoy at 'Vienna, M. Stingee, is con-
sequently re-called, and diplomatic relations com-
pletely broken off. The brave attitude taken by 
Switzerland attracts attention. 
Letter from Rochester, N. Y. 
BRO. Buss :—You will.doubtless be glad to hear 
how we are getting along in Rochester. We have 
been for some time past in a very low state of re-
ligion, discouraged and disheartened, almost ready 
to give up all hope of doing anything again in the 
Second Advent cause ; but through the kind provi-
dence of our heavenly Father, brother Mules has 
been again permitted. to, visit us, and break unto 
us the bread of life. Last Sabbath he gave us three 
excellent discourses, in the course of which he 
showed the true position of Adventists. Never, to 
my knowledge, has he been listened to with more 
profound attention, or by a more respectable and 
candid audience, than on this occasion. 
Having been somewhat encouraged by seeing a 
letter from brother Burnham, and a call for a Con-
ference in the Herald, to hope that arrangements 
might be made whereby we might have preaching 
at least occasionally, if not all the time, the friends 
of the cause met, together after the afternoon ser-
vice, and appointed brethren Seelye, Johnston, 
Busby, and others, to attend the Conference in 
Buftnlo, to counsel with the brethren there as to 
the best method of providing ministerial labor in 
future. 
Yours, W. BuSBY. 
May 21st, 1853. 
SPIRIT RAPPINGS.—We learn from the Taunton 
Gazette, that Miss Nancy Sherman, of Plympton, 
who died on the 15th inst., starved herself to' eath. 
She had been quite noted as a medium of spiritual 
communication, and by constant ministration in 
that office, had become so completely imbued with 
its hallucination as to be wholly unfitted for the 
ordinary duties of life. About a month since, she 
attempted to hang herself, but was prevented from 
accomplishing her design. She then announced 
that the spirits had forbidden her eating any 
more, and for three weeks she studiously abstained 
from partaking of any food, living on water alone, 
although at times so tortured by the pangs of hun-
ger as to writhe in agony. The last week was 
passed in fearful alternations from convulsions to 
momentary consciousness with constant relapses, 
until death finally put an end to her sufferings. 
APPOINTMENTS.—I go to Canada East on the 8th, 
and will prea,Ch in North Danville and vicinity (as 
brother Reynolds may appoint,) from June 17th to 
30th ; Sugar Hill, N. II., from July 1st to the 4th ; 
Low Hampton, N. Y., July 9th and 10th. Brother 
Taylor may appoint for me in Waterbury from 
July 14th to the 17th, as he may think best. 
After filling the above, I purpose to visit Centre 
county, Pa. I should be glad if brethren Boyer 
and Laning would give me as early a notice of their 
meetings as they can. They may dispose of three 
weeks of my time, from the commencement of their 
first meeting, which they may arrange from about 
the second week in August, or as they may think 
best. After this, I shall arrange to go to the far 
West. In the meantime, I shall be glad to hear 
from friends in Ohio, Indiana, Illinois, Michigan, 
and Missouri. Depending on the support of the 
Divine arm, I hope at Iast, (after being many times 
hindered,) to be able to visit this vast field, and 
break the bread of life to the anxious crowds who 
are desirous to hear the evidences of our faith and 
hope.. I expect to start in September—due notice 
will be given. 
J. V. Hums. 
CmxA:'—Advices from China state that, at the 
urgent request of the Emperor, the American, 
FrenCh, and English ships of war had undertaken 
to protect Nankin and Shanghae against the rebels. 
Contents of this No. 
The Stream of Time 185' 
The Boston Anniversaries " 
Railroads 
 
Credibility of Error 
Selah in the Wilderness 186 
New York Heathen 
Moral Condition of Jamaica " 
Babylon 
 
The Ed Scholarship 187 
'The Irish Insurrection 
Fifty Years Ago 
Sketches of Travel 
The Prophecy of Isaiah .... 188 
To Correspondents 
The Sign of the Son of Man, " 
My Journal . 
 189 
3.4 
Fasting and Prayer 180 
The True Vine 190 
The Scriptures 191 
Leiter from Racine 
Extracts from Letters— 
N. L. Dudley 
Mary Wiokley 
P. V. West 
A Hard Case 
Obituaries— 
Jane Barry 
Mary Ann Iladlock 44 
Louisa Thompson 
Foreign News 
 192 
Conflagration in Canada " 
Letter from Rochester 
FOREIGN NEWS. 
A meeting will he held in La Chute, C. E., commencing Thursday 
June 238, at 5 r. at., and continue over the Sabbath. Discourses 
will be delivered on prophecies which are connected with the second 
coming of Christ. 
R. Itu'rcinNsox, J. M. Onoen. 
re,1101EI 91, 3590 
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N. BILLINGS will preach in Waterbury, Vt., Sabbath, June 12th ; 
Bristol, 15th, and remain over Sunday ; Middlebury, (where bro. 
Elijah Ilurd may. appoint,) 21st ;- Fairhaven, (where brother R. 
Miller Inay-apPoint) 228; Greenfield, N. Y., 238—will the friends 
be present from- Middle Grove and elsewhere ? Saratoga Springs, 
21th ; West Troy, Sabbath, 26th—will the friends come in from 
abroad ? will attend to the communion service in the afternoon, at 
Essex, Mass., on Sabbath, July 3d ; at Holden, Sabbath, 10th. 
Evening meetings: at 7 P. IM. • 
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The present condition of affairs reqsiiies renewed exertions to in-
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