OFFICE, No. 46 1-2 Kneeland-ttrcet 
NOVEMBER 11, 1854. 
VOLUME XIV. NO. 19 
dying believer before his soul leaves its tene-
ment. 
"This is heaven begun." said Rev. 
Thomas Seott; "I have done with darkness, 
forever—forever. 
Satan is vanquished. 
Noth-
ing now remains but salvation, with eternal 
glory—eternal glory." 
Come to the veranda of 
a Braminic temple. In the last spasms of Asiatic 
cholera, Gordan Hall cries, " Glory, glory, 
glory!" and he 
" Passed through Glory's morning gate, 
And walked in Paradise." 
" Blessed are the dead that die in the Lord, 
from henceforth !" 
Blessed are the dead—not 
survivors,' not the most favored of those who re-
main here, still sinning and repenting, and so 
imperfectly serving God—but blessed are the 
dead in Christ who have ceased from sin, are 
made perfect in holiness, and have passed into 
Paradise. 
Transplanted trees flourish best. 
Shall we 
grudge those plants of righteousness their better 
soil and purer air ? Shall we grudge an escape 
from the hovel into the palaee of the Great 
King ? 
" Children," said the mother of John 
Wesley, the last thing she uttered, " Children, 
as soon as I am released, sing a psalm of praise 
to God." 
Music sounds best after sunset, 
It 
is no time to mourn here, while angels clap their 
wings, and the whole family above cry, Wei 
come home ! 
Who would keep his tears for the 
coronation day ? 
Blessed are the dead that die in the Lord! 
" Thus sW by star declines, 
Till all are passed away; 
As morning high and higher shines 
To pure and perfect day. 
' 
Nor sink those stars in empty night, 
But hide themselves in heaven's own light." 
Shall not this abate the dread of dying ? That 
dread is instinctive; it is deep. 
By most, death 
is regarded as ultimum 
terribilium.—the 
ex-
tremest of things terrible; but is it not gain, 
great, unspeakable gain, to the child of God, to 
die ? And shall we hesitate to encounter tfre 
little inconvenience of stepping ashore from this 
shattered vessel ? 
Why so in love with perils ? 
Whence this aversion to enter the haven of ever-
lasting bliss? 
For all saints in Christ Jesiis, 
death has been unstinged. 
What if the serpent 
deprived of its fangs, do hiss ?—he is harmless. 
" How hard it is to die!" remarked a friend 
to an expiring believer. 
" 0, no, no !" he re-
plied; "easy dying, blessed dying, glorious 
dying!" 
Looking up at the clock, he said, " 1 
have experienced more happiness in dying, two 
hours this day, than in my whole life. 
It is 
worth a whole life to have such an end as this. 
0,1 never thought that such a poor worm as I 
could come to such ai glorious death !" 
Chrysostom, when banished, said to a friend, 
" You now begin to lament my banishment, but 
I have done so for a long time; for-since I 
knew that heaven is my country, I have esteemed 
the whole world a place of exile. 
Constantino-
ple, whence I am expelled, is as far from Para-
dise as the desert whither they send me." 
A few moments before he expired Edmund 
Auger said to a friend, "Do you see that 
blessed assembly who await my arrival ? 
Do 
you hear that sweet music, with which those 
holy men invite me, that I may henceforth be a 
partaker of their happiness ? 
How delightful is 
it to be in the society of blessed spirits! 
Let 
us go. 
Let me go." 
0, death ! where is thy 
sting ? 
What is it to die? 
To lean on the Almighty 
for a few steps down a narrow valley; to step 
out of Jordan, upon the borders of the Better 
Land; to pass up to the New Jerusalem; to 
enter by one of those gates of pearl into the 
city; to have ten thousand angels come and 
utter their cordial welcome; to see=—0, let me 
die the death of the righteous!—to see the Sa-
viour smile benignantly, and to hear him say, 
" Well done, good and faithful servant; enter 
thou into the joy of thy Lord!" 
That is to die. 
But, in order to do that, there needs be " an 
anchor to the son], both sure and steadfast,"— 
a most earnest " looking unto Jesus, the author 
and finisher of our faith," 
It was not in the 
hour of martyrdom that Stephen first beheld the 
Lamb of God. 
The religion that is good for 
nothing in life, is good for nothing in death. 
The time will come, when we shall need a 
strong arm near, and a firm faith to grasp it. 
The sentimentalities-of fading flowers, and fall-
ing leaves, and of moonlight musing, all the 
prettinesses of poetry, all natural amiabilities, 
and mere natural charities, however cultivated, 
will avail nothing in the day when God shall 
require the soul—in the day when we stand at 
his bar. 
Faith alone will suffice,—an "appropri-
ating, justifying faith; an operative vitalising 
faith ; a hearty, adoring faith in the Lord Jesus 
Christ, who stands as Redeemer and Advocate 
at the right hand of God. 
Absalom's Rebellion. 
FOR a thousand years Israel's faith had been 
tasked by a promise to Abraham, " that he 
should be heir to the world." 
An empire from 
the Red Sea to Damascus, and from Euphrates 
to the Mediterranean, seemed great in those 
early days, before the arts and sciences of mod-
ern times had annihilated space, and rendered 
continents microscopic. 
Beside, Palestine is the geographical center of 
three continents, and its possessor may yet prove 
to be by position the military heir of the world. 
But how could the national faith rise so high ? 
Were they not for five hundred years before 
David without metropolis, without army, with-
out a visible king ? Where were their arts, 
manufactures, commerce, arms, 
and navies ? 
Was not the military power*of the world cen-
tered on the Nile, or in Nineveh ? Was not com-
merce securely seated in Tyre and the merchant 
cities of the Phenician coast? How could Israel 
compete with these stupendous dynasties ? 
Was 
not faith in tjie promise to Abraham so difficult, 
so absurd, almost, as to be well-nigh miraculous? 
Yet how soon, when the hour arrived, the fulfil-
ment rushed upon them ! 
One generation is hid-
ing and skulking unarmed in caves and moun-
tain ; the next generation sees a king 
firmly 
throned in an impregnable metropolis, with a vic-
torious army marching on from conquest to con-
quest. 
Old men in David's day could yet remember 
how, in their father's time, they hid from the 
enemy in the holes and glens. 
Now they beheld 
that shephard-prince wave his lion-banner on the 
walls of Palestine's proudest cities, and sheathe 
his sword over the ashes of Amelek and Edom. 
They saw his chariot-wheels rush eastward by 
the river Euphrates, the astonished Assyrian 
veterans discomfited before him ; they saw him 
at the gates of Damascus, Syria trembling at his 
tread, and the Prince of Tyre claiming his friend-
ship with lordly gifts. 
Scarce fifty years were 
necessary, when once his hour was come, for 
God to do what he had purposed, transforming 
Israel from one extreme to the other of the 
scale of nations. 
At the summit of so much 
greatness, in the momentum of such divinely-
communicated 
impetus, what 
could 
prevent 
David from now realizing the promise to Abra-
ham, a thousand years old, and becoming the 
heir of the world ? Could SIN do it ? 
Could the 
folly of an hour, a moment's madness, interrupt 
so large renown, and strew with ashes a path so 
glorious? 
Mark the consequences of the with-
drawal of divine restraint from so large a family 
as that of David. 
The slumbering elements of 
evil, that only heavenly power can repress in the 
volcanic heart of man, burst into sudden con-
flagaration. 
Behold the beatiful, the accom-
plished Tamar the victim of Amnon's disastrous 
passion ! Watch deadly vengeance smouldering 
concealed in the breast of Absalom ! 
Hear the 
word brought to the king like a sudden thunder-
stroke," Absalom hath slain all the king's sons!" 
Behold the beautiful, the favorite son flying, a 
fratricide, from his native land ! 
How in that 
family, thatshould havebeen'a heaven on earth, 
has hell broke loose ! How, in ever-widening 
train, do private transgressions draw on publie 
J. V. HIMES, Proprietor. 
WHOLE NO. 704. 
BOSTON, SATURDAY, 
The Passage. 
BY REV. A. C. THOMPSON. 
THE heir of heaven, hene'eforth I fear not death, 
In Christ I live ; in Christ I draw the breath 
• Of the true life ;—let, then, earth, sea and Sky, 
Make war against me! 
On my heart I show 
\ 
Their mighty Master's seal. 
In vain they try 
To end my life, that can but end its woe. 
Is that a death-bed where a Christian lies ? 
Yes ! but not his—'tis Death himself there dies ! 
COLERIDGE. 
The expiring believer does not see death; he 
sees the heavens opened, and Jesus Christ stand-
ing at the right hand of God. 
It is no dark 
valley throtfgh which he passes, but he moves 
along the highway of the Lord, to the palace of 
the great King. 
He escapes out of this Gol-
gotha into the only true land of the living. 
Stephen was not vanquished on the field of mar-
tyrdom ; he came off victor over enemies human 
and Satanic; yea, he was more than conqueror. 
Amidst the shouts of an infuriated mob, and a 
shower of stones, " he fell asleep." 
None of 
these things move him, neither counteth he his 
life dear unto him. 
He is full of the Holy 
Ghost, and so is full of joy and peace. 
He was 
not killed; he has only fallen asleep in Jesus; 
" Like one who draws the drapery of his couch 
About him and lies down to pleasant dreams." 
Never did evening shadows lengthen more quiet-
ly, nor the dews comedown more benignly, than 
he, than every true believer, sinks to rest. 
" He 
is not dead, but sleepeth." 
" They which sleep 
in Christ are not perished." 
They live; they 
live in him, and with him,—a life higher, holier 
far than this. 
The protomartyr, now opening 
his eyes as never before on the glory of God, 
and on the Son of Man standing on the right 
hand of God, can say, " I laid me down and 
slept; I awaked, for the Lord sustained me." 
The French Assembly may vote "Death an 
eternal sleep;" 
the atheist Mirabeau, when 
speech fails, may spend his last strength in writ-
ing, " Death is but a sleep ;" the atheist Dan-
ton may play off his horrid levity on the scaffold 
—" Let me go to sleep;" but that is to fall 
asleep in sin, sorrow, wrath; it is to fall into 
outer darkness, " where their worm dieth not, 
and their fire is not quenched." 
_ Stephen, in holy calmness, in the quiet sub 
limity of a triumphant faith, prays for himself 
—"Lord Jesus receive my spirit;" prays for 
his murderers, " Lord, lay not this sin to their 
charge ;" bids earth good-night, and sinks into 
the repose of heaven. 
"So he giveth his be 
loved sleep." 
In the hour of dissolution, every 
saint in Jesus Christ, whether sinking under a 
shower of stones, or the as3aults of disease, hears 
a voice saying, "Come up hither!" 
Before 
escaping from this prison, light begins to break 
in. 
Gleams from the sunshine of everlasting 
glory find their way to his cell, 
" 0 what joy!" exclaimed Dr. Gordon. "Peo-
ple have said that death is frightful. 1 look on 
it with pleasure. 
I see no monsters around me. 
Death! 
I see. no death at my bedside. 
It is 
that benign Saviour waiting to take me. 
I 
could not have a fear. 
This is not the testimony 
of one who has nothing to live for. 
I am in the 
prime of life, with comforts and friends around 
me. 
But the prospect of heaven is more than 
all," 
" I fear I am sinfully impatient in so 
longing after heaven; but it is so glorious! 
Christ, not death, is about to take me from 
earth. 
There is no death to the Christian. 
That 
glorious gospel takes away death." 
Such a de-
parture is mors sine morte,—a 
dying without 
death ; it is the believer's birth-day of eternity, 
his last, best birth-day, his birth into glory 
unutterable and unending. » 
The saint, no less than the sinner, must depart 
this life. 
Of all the millions who have yet lived, 
two only have been translated; and, in time to 
come, those only who are alive at the coming of 
our Lord, shall in the twinkling of an eye°be 
changed, without tasting death; but the law is 
—and these exceptions are hardly to be named 
—that all must die. 
The most eminent saints, 
the men and women after God's own heart; the 
beloved disciple—the one just referred to—who, 
on the eve of departure, saw the heavens open 
and the Son of Man standing on the right hand 
of God; and he who, years before decease, was 
caught up to the third heaven, have alike been 
obliged to pass through the same door into the 
unseen world. 
It was revealed unto venerable 
Simeon that he should see death before he had 
seen the Lord's Christ; but the sight of him 
who is a light to lighten the Gentiles, and the 
glory of Israel, made it no less necessary for him 
to behold the King of Terrors. 
That is the epoch of dissolution when soul and 
body part company till the resurrection. 
The 
substance of the soul suffers no harm, and its 
consciousness no abatement, by that change. 
" Then shall the dust return unto the earth as it 
was, and the spirit shall return unto God who 
gave it." 
" And-it came to pass that the beg-
gar died, and was carried by angels into Abra-
ham's bosom." 
Paul speaks of death as the 
hour of his departure, and departure to be with 
Christ. 
The believer's soul is then disembodied, 
not destroyed. 
His tent is struck for the last 
time, and he passes over Jordan. 
The ship goes 
to pieces, but the passenger is safe. 
The be-
liever may one moment be in the agonies of dis-
solution, the next reposing calmly in Abraham's 
bosom. 
Many tribes of men have imagined that for a 
long time, if not forever, souls linger about the 
bodies or the dwellings they formerly occupied. 
The belief has been very extensive, that they as-
sume a shadowy but visible form, and thus pre-
sent themselves as spectres. 
Even a Christian 
council, in the fourth century, forbade to kindle 
a light in burial places, that the spirits of de-
parted saints might not be disturbed. 
Roman-
ists imagine their souls are cleansed by fire. The 
Council of Trent decreed, " If any man shall 
say that after justification the fault is so blotted 
out that there remains no guilt of temporal pun-
ishment to be endured in this life, or in the fu-
ture life of purgatory, before the soul can be 
admitted into the kingdom of heaven, let him 
be accursed." 
But Christ said to the penitent 
thief, " To-day shalt thou be with me in Para-
dise;" and thus our Lord himself comes under 
the anathema of the Man of Sin, exalting him-
self above all that is called God. 
Not a shadow of support does that dogma of 
purgatory find in the word of God. 
It has been 
built up by fancy alone, aided by popular 
heathen notions concerning a land of shades 
where souls are stretched out in the wind, or 
thrust into water or fire, for purification. 
Thence 
comes this Limbus Patrum, with prayers and 
masses for the dead. 
The souls of believers do immediately pass 
not into purgatory, not into other bodies by 
transmigration, not into a long lethargy, not in-
to annihilation, nor into any other state which 
paganism has conjured up, but into glory. 
They 
pass into a glorious world,—a glorious city, 
where is a glorious temple ; where is none but 
the most exalted society, holy angels, and glori-
fied saints, where their occupations and the 
songs are most ennobling, none being lower than 
glory to God in the highest. 
They are made 
kings and priests unto God; the palm-branch is 
put into their hands; the'crowns of glory are 
placed upon their heads. 
But who are received to that abode ? 
There 
shall in no wise enter into it anything that de-
fileth : it is to the spirits of just men made per-
fect that they are come ; they are clothed with 
white linen, which is the righteousness of saints. 
Immediately upon entrance there they find their 
character perfectly congenial to the holy occu-
pations and society of the place. 
It is the effulgence of Clirist's person which 
lights up that whole far-stretched world, and 
sheds a quickening radience on every resident 
there. 
If, two thousand years before Christ's 
coming on earth, Abraham rejoiced to see his 
day, what must be the joy of seeing him as he 
now is, at the right hand of majesty, in the 
heavens! 
Stray beams of his lustre often fall on the 
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THE ADVENT HERALD. \ 
development^ and end in the convulsions of a 
kingdom! 
There are eyes that see that the eXild is not 
forgotten; 
Joab, coo^> ci'ftfty, ambitious, sends 
his wise women of Tekoa with her parable, and 
the king yields to the strength of "his general, 
and the weakness of his hearts 
The dangerous 
young man is brought back, and after a few years 
reinstated at court, 
Alas! for DaVld! 
That 
child be so doted on, loved not in return. 
It 
was himself the young prince loved, when he 
sought an interview with his father, and humbly 
sued for pardon. 
Hence, the instant his position 
was secured, a system already cogitated in his 
mind, sprang into execution. 
Whether counting 
on his father's removal, or only to secure succes-
sion, one thing he was resolved on, and that THE 
THRONE. 
He was seen now with splended equip-
age, chariots, horses, and fifty men to run before 
him. 
Is not this the heir apparent ? His hours 
are filled with disinterested_ concern for the 
business of every body. 
His station is by the 
way of the gate. 
Does an applicant for royal 
favor draw nigh ? 
" Of what city art thou?" 
"Thy servant is of such and such a tribe." 
"See now"—exclaims the young man with 
a tone of regret, having first inquired the nature 
of the business—" See, thy matters are good 
and right, but none will hear thee, from th king 
downward J" 
As much as to say, " Your case is a hard one, 
honest friend. 
If you had your rights, you would 
be attended to. 
But in this court, merit is not 
the thing. 
Plain, hard-working men like you 
must stand-aside." 
And then, as if by way of 
soliloquy, he would break forth in a patriotic 
strain, "Oh! that I were made a judge in the 
land, that every man that hath any suit, or cause, 
might came to me, and I would do him justice /'" 
And if the countryman should offer to do obei-
sancs, after oriental fashion, the young man 
would hasten to prevent him ; taking him warm-
ly by the hand, and kissing him. 
„ 
The duties of patriotism seem to have been 
almost as well understood in those days as in 
our own. 
Such disinterested benevolence could 
not fail of its reward. 
" Absalom stole the 
hearts of the men of Isreal." 
Unhappy David! 
Loving a heartless mon-
ster ! Confidingly cherishing a treacherous as-
sassin ! Could he dream what was to happen 
when that beautiful countenance turned humbly 
to him, aud piously said, " I pray thee let me go 
pay my vow which'I vowed in Syria, saying, 
• If the Lord bring me again to Jerusalem, than 
will I serve the Lord !' " 
" Go in peace!" the king replies. 
And the 
youth departs to send spies through all the realm, 
saying, " As soon as ye here trumpet s.ound, then 
say, ' Absalom reigfoeth in Hebron!' " 
A messenger broke in upon the king's repose 
" The hearts of Isreal are after Absalom ! " 
In an instant the agonized father saw through 
the whole. 
A thousand incidents,#unthought of 
till now, recurred to him, and revealed at once 
the deadly nature of the enterprise, its fearful 
extent, and his imminent danger. 
Not a moment 
was to be lost. 
Not in vain had David been an 
outlaw in younger day§. 
Intuitively his mipd 
flashed along, all the tangled chains of cause and 
effect, and pronounced on the spot what must be 
the result. 
" Arise I let us flee; for we shall not else 
escape. 
Make speed ! depart! lest he over 
takfe u» suddenly, and smite the city with the 
edge of the sword," 
And preceded by his escort 
of Philistine troops, Cherethite and Pelethite 
he crossed the Kedron. 
Here a toutching dia 
logue occurs between David and his veteran 
lieutenant, Ittai, 
" Return to thy place, and abide with the 
king" 
said David, with a lip quivering with 
agony; "thou art a foreigner, and an exile 
should I make thee a vagabond like me ? 
Re 
turn ! take back thy brethren. 
Mercy and 
truth be with thee. 
"As the Lord liveth," answered the faithful 
Phenician, " and as my Lord THE KING liveth 
surely in what place my Lord THE KING shall be 
whether in death or in life, even there also will 
thy servant be ! " 
David and Ittai were old comrades. 
They 
had campaigned together. 
They had slept in 
caves together as proscribed men, 
David seems 
to say: 
" Ittai, do you not see I am king no longer? 
Do you not so Absalom is king ? Are you not 
tired of following my unfortunate career ? Do 
you not wish to stay and make your fortune 
Leave me, if you wish," 
And Ittai answers, by calling him " MY 
LORD 
THE KING," twice over, and telling him he will 
die rather than desert him. 
That was one drop 
of consolation in the cup of gall and wormwood 
David was drinking. 
Than &adok and the Le 
vites came, with the ark, to share his wander 
ings. 
" Carry back the ark of God into the city 
said David. 
" If I shall find favor with the 
Lord, he will bring me again and show me both 
it, and his habitation ! Art thou not a seer ? re 
turn into the city, and your two sons, Abimaax 
and Jonathan. 
See, I will tarry in the plain of 
the wilderness till there come word from you." 
So David went up Olivet, bare-footed, with 
head covered, weeping, and all the people weep-
ing with him. 
" Ahithophel is among the conspirators !" 
said one. 
" Oh ! Lord !" groaned David, as if smitten by 
an arrow, " I pray thee turn the counsel of 
Ahithophel to foolishness !" 
And at the instant 
Hushai met him, his other confidential adviser. 
" If thou goest with me thou shalt be a burden to 
me," said David, whose promptitude never failed 
him. 
" But if thou returnest, thou mayest for 
me defeat the counsel of Ahithophel." 
For 
well David knew that what he had chiefest to 
fear was the advice of that unerring sage. 
Just 
then a fellow on the opposite side of the way be-
gan hurling stones at the fugitive king. 
Come out! come out! thou bloody man ! 
Thou man of Belial! The Lord hath returned 
upon thee the blood of the house of Saul. 
And 
behold thou art taken in thy mischief, for thou 
art a bloody man ! " 
Thus, in the bitter hour of a good man's ca-
lamity, does every Shimei vindicated his sonship 
to the devil, by turning "accuser of the breth-
ren," and casting stones. 
Short shrift would Abishai have made. " Why 
hould this dead dog curse my Lord the King ? 
Let me go over and take off his head ! " 
" Let 
im alone," said David. 
" Let him curse. 
The Lord hath bidden him. 
It may be the Lord 
will requite me good for his eursing this day." 
Men have no mercy. 
When a good man falls, 
they are like fiends in the ferocity of their pious 
denunciation. 
But the Lord has pity, and for-
gives; especially when he sees the good man's 
heart thus trod and trampled in the dust of hum-
iliation. 
So went David forth from all his hon-
So fell in ruins the fair fabric of his life's 
fortunes—and SIN was the canse. 
Sin forfeits 
the protection of God. 
Sin weakens the whole 
man. 
Sin opens the door to the evil one. 
Sin 
admits a train of ghastly consequences that are 
never visible on the honr of solicitation'and of 
lawless indulgence. 
Good men sin. 
And the 
sins of good men are more envenomed in their 
smart then any other sins in the universe. 
There 
are no sorrows like the sorrows of the sinning 
David. 
Grey 
A Case of Circumstantial Evidence. 
FROM THE 
GERMAN. 
IN a small town of Saxony lived three young 
men, whom we will call George, Ernest and Lewis, 
and who from their infancy were strongly at-
tached to one another. 
George and Ernest were 
merchants;'Lewis studied the law, and prac 
itsed in his native place. 
One summer's day Ernest and George set 
out on horseback for a town about thirty miles 
off, where they had business to transact. 
Er-
nest was weak enough to be fond of discoursing 
with his friend on religious subjects, on which 
they were of different opinions, and had often 
had warm disputes, though George was as irrita 
ble and passionate as he himself was obstinate 
in maintaining his notions. 
During the journey 
Ernest led the conversation to this unlucky top 
ic. 
They fell as usual into altercation, which 
was kept up till they reached the inn where they 
had agreed to dine. 
The dispute was continued 
over a bottle of wine, but with temper on both 
sides; and the travellers pursued their journey 
Ernest renewed the subject of their former con 
versation, and both being rather elevated with 
the wine they had taken, the dispute became 
more and more violent as they proceeded; so 
that by the time they had entered a wood through 
which their road led, it had degenerated into 
downright personality and abuse. 
George's passion knew no bounds; uncon 
scious of what he did, he pulled oat a pistol 
and presented it at his companion. 
The pistol 
went off and Ernest fell from his horse, which 
frightened by the report and relieved from his 
rider, scampered away into the wood. 
George, pale as death, immediately alighted 
to assist his friend, who was Weltering in his 
blood ; the paroxysm of passion was over, and 
had given place to bitterest repentance. 
He 
stooped trembling to Ernest, who just then 
breathed his last sigh. 
Overwhelmed with despair and anguish, he 
tore his hair, and afterwards galloped back to 
the village, to surrender himself into the hands 
of justice as the murderer of his friend, that he 
might put a speedy end to a life which was now 
the most oppressive burden to him. 
The officer 
to whom be delivered himself up sent him under 
a guard to the town where the friends resided 
The body of Ernest, whose pockets were found 
rifled, was also conveyed thither and interred 
The legal proceedings against George com 
menced. 
He repeated his confession before the 
judges, and implored a speedy death. 
His ex-
amination was closed, and he was informed that 
be was at liberty to choose an advocate to de-
fend him, as the law requires; but he declined 
to avail himself of this privilege, and with tears 
besought the Court to hasten his execution. 
Being, however, again urged to appoint an 
advocate to conduct his defence, he named his 
friend Lewis. 
" At the same time," said he 
still, " there needs no defence; I wish only for 
death ; but 1 submit to the required formality. 
My friend may undertake the bootless task, and 
thus show his attachment to me for the last 
time." 
With profound emotion, Lewis entered upon 
the most painful duty that had ever fallen to 
his lot in his whole professional career. 
Though 
he despaired of being able to save his unhappy 
friend, he determined of course to make every 
possible effort to accomplish this end. 
With this view he objected that Ernest's 
body had been committed to the earth without 
any previous judical examination and dissection. 
The judges replied that this ceremony seemed 
unnecessary and superfluous, as the murderer 
had voluntarily confessed the deed; but if he 
(the advocate) insisted on the examination of 
the body, it should be taken up. 
By the desire 
of Lewis, this was accordingly done. 
The town 
surgeons attended, and declared that as the ball 
had passed right through the heart, death must 
naturally ensue. 
Lewis wished, to know if the 
ball were still in the body ; the surgeon sought 
for and found it; upon which the advocate .sent 
for the pistol with which tho deed had been per-
petrated, and tried to drop the ball into the bar-
rel. 
It seemed too large—he accordingly tried 
it in all possible ways— still it would not go in. 
That this ball could not be fired by that pistol 
was evident to every observer; the judges looked 
at one another and shook their heads. 
There 
was not a person but had completely made up 
his mind respecting the guilt of the prisoner; 
but this circumstance quite confounded them 
all. 
The confession of the prisoner, made with-
out the employment of the slightest fear or 
force, was corroborated by every circumstance 
that had previously come to light; the ball 
alone seemed to proclaim his innocence 
Lewis began to conceive the strongest hopes, 
and was nearly overpowered with the excess of 
his joy ; his judgment. 
He proposed that the 
proceedings, together with the ball and pistol, 
should be sent to the supreme tribunal, that it 
might decide in this extraordinary affair. This 
proposal was the more readily accepted, as the 
local court was puzzled how to act, and abso> 
lutely unable to pronounce any judgment what 
ever. 
While the papers were in the hands of the su-
preme tribunal in the metropolis, a highway-
man, who had shot and robbed a traveller on 
the road not far from the birth-place of the 
friends, was brought to that town. 
Convicted 
by sufficient evidence, he acknowledged his 
crime; but that was not all; he confessed, on 
further examination, that two months before, he 
had murdered another man on the same road 
This circumstance had excited suspicion, and 
being still further questioned, he related the 
following particulars: 
"About that time I happened to be in a vil 
lage public-house. 
Two men on horsback came 
in after me; I remarked that one of them had a 
heavy girdle filled with money fastened round 
his body underneath his waiscoat. 
1 began to 
consider whether it was not possible to possess 
myself of this rich booty: but then, how was 
this to be done, as he had a companion ? How-
ever, thought I to myself, I have a brace of good 
pistols. 
If I shoot one, the other will probably 
run away in a fright, and before he can give 
the alarm and fetch witnessess to the spot, my 
fleet horse will have carried me far enough out 
of their reach ; if, contrary to expectation, the 
survivor should stand by his companion, what 
hinders me from giving him the other ball 
Such was my determination, which I resolved 
immediately to execute. 
I had overheard them 
talking of the way they should take, rode off 
before, and having tied my horse to a tree, con 
cealed myself in a thicket by the road-side. 
No 
sooner had I taken my station than the travel 
lers approached. They were quarrelling violently 
I had already taken aim at the man with the 
girdle, when the other took out a pistol and dis-
charged it at his companion. 
1 fired at the 
same moment. 
My man fell just as the other 
ball whizzed past my ear; he then sprang from 
his horse, was engaged for a short time with his 
dying fellow-traveller, and at the instant when 
I was going to fire at him, he mounted again 
and galloped away. 
I had now time to rifle the 
pockets of the deceased, and having done this 
I rode off as fast as I could." 
He described the time, the place, and the two 
travellers so minutely, that there remained not 
the slightest doubt of his having actually com 
mitted the murder of which George accused him 
self. The latter trembling with rage had fired at 
random, and was innocent of the death of his 
friend. 
The local tribunal transmitted all these par 
ball exactly fitted the pistol which were found 
upon the murderer at the time of his apprehen-
sion. 
9 
Let the sympathizing reader now endeavor to 
form some conception of the transport of Lewis 
on having saved his friend ! Let him figure to 
himself the joy of George, when the painful 
consciousness of an atrocious crime was thus re-
moved from his bosom ! He was unanimously 
declare innocent of the murder ; his passion cost 
him two months' imprisonment; and it was long 
before his tears ceased to flow for his departed 
friend. Lewis begged the ball, the instrument 
George's deliverance, as a memorial of this 
extraordinary event. 
The forms of legal proceedings may often 
seem troublesome or useless, but let them not be 
arraigned on that account. 
Now and then, in-
deed, a criminal may through their means escape 
the punishment due to his guilt; but if, in the 
course of a century, they save the life of only 
one innocent person, the wisdom of the legisla-
tor ought to command our gratitude. 
The Spirit Rapping Delusion-
REV. Dr. Pond, of the Bangor, Me. Theologi-
cal Seminary, publishes in the current number 
of the National Preacher, a sermon on " the 
sin of consulting familiar spirits." 
He analyzes 
the phenomena piesented by modern "spirit 
rappers," and arranges them in three classes, 
as trickery, the effects of natural causes, and 
the influences of the devil and those he has in 
his power. 
Dr. P. has evidently paid very pa-
tient attention to the subject he discusses, and 
candid readers will quite generally adopt his 
conclusions. 
On the 
EVILS attending the delu-
sion, his warnings are impressive. 
He says : 
That they are evil and sinful, the Scriptures 
most unequivocally teach. 
They are sternly 
forbidden, as 1 have already shown, in all parts 
of the Bible, both the Old Testament and the 
New. 
And if any are disposed to ask, What is 
the harm of them ? 
Wherein does the evil of 
them consist ? The answer to these questions is 
suggested; in part, in what has been already 
said. 
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' 1 need say but a few words to show the evil 
of these practices, cn the third mode of ac-
counting for them, viz: that they are produced 
by demoniacal agency. 
For who are those " fa-
miliar spirits," to whom, on the supposition, 
persons give themselves up, and to whom they 
are given up to God ? They are spirits of dark-
ness—liars from the beginning, and the fathers 
of lies—the first and greatest enemies of the hu-
man race. 
And can it be otherwise than evil 
to have commerce with such beings; to receive 
and follow their suggestions ; pleasing ourselves 
in the meanwhile with the thought that we are 
conversing with departed friends, or receiving, 
it may be, revelations from heaven ? I can 
conceive of nothing more terrible that this— 
more perilous in all its influences, both upon 
the individual and society, upon the body and 
the soul. 
In a state of society like that in Is-
rael, requiring that the penal code should be 
stringent and severe, 1 wonder not at all that 
these, and the like practices, should have been 
punished with the utmost rigor of the law. 
I have said that the practices, which have 
been considered were of heathen origin. 
They 
originated with the heathen; they were early 
spread over the greater part of the heathen 
world; and they continue to pervade and curse 
it to the present time. 
In various portions of 
heathendom, at this very day, scarcely an afflic-
tion occurs, a dearth, a flood, a fit of sickness, 
or an instance of death, but some poor creature, 
and often more than one, is accused and put to 
death as being the cause of it. 
The sick man, 
it is said, is bewitched. 
Who has bewitched 
him ? His death, if he chance to die, has been 
brought about by evil spirits. 
Who has sent 
the evil spirits upon him ? To answer these 
questions, some old hag or conjurer is consulted ; 
the cause of the mischief is soon discovered; 
and an innocent person is put to death. 
Proba-
bly hundreds die every year in this manner 
among the heathen, even in this nineteenth cen-
tury. 
And the case would soon be no better 
among ourselves, if we were to go extensively 
and confidently into the practice of consulting 
with familiar spirits. 
For the spirits would un-
ravel all mysteries; they would reveal all se-
crets; and not a man, or woman, or child, 
would be safe from their malicious accusations. 
' An elderly gentleman in Indiana was living 
in peace and harmony with his family, until the 
spirit rappers visited the neighborhood. 
He at-
tended their exhibitions and believed their rev-
elations. 
And it was revealed to him, among 
other things, that his second wife, with whom 
he was living, had caused the death of his for-
mer companion. 
From this moment his peace 
was fatally interrupted. 
He was living with a 
And if the community around him 
murderer. 
ticulars to the supreme court; the proceedings, I had been deluded like himself, the poor woman 
with accompaniments, were returned, and the 1 must have suffered ' 
355 THE ADVENT 
HERALD. 
\ 
" Some years ago the Lunatic Asylum in Maine 
took fire, and a portion of the inmates were 
smothered and consumed. 
And there are hun-
dreds of persons among us who affirm that the 
building was set on fire by the keepers. 
They 
know it was so; they have not a doubt of it; 
not because they have a particle of evidence to 
that effect from this world, but because the 
spirits have so informed them. 
Now let these 
utterences become common, and be commonly 
received, and how long would it be bfefore these 
keepers, every one of them, would be dragged 
to the gallows, or the stake, while they were as 
innocent of the charge preferred against them, 
as a child unborn, 
" I cite these instances juSt :to show the sin, 
the evil, exceeding peril of indulging in those 
practices which have been exposed. 
Let all 
who hear me, then, beware of them, and shun 
them. 
I feel solemnly called upon to lift up a 
voice of warning on this subject. 
Let us have 
no fellowship with the unfruitful works of dark-
ness, but rather reprove them. 
If any of us 
are capable of becoming what are called medi-
ums, we had better -not know it; or, if we know 
it, we had better refrain from all experiments. 
To tamper with such a power is to tamper with 
an already shattered nervous system, the only 
effect of which will be to shatter it the more. 
Or it is to tamper with infernal spirits—to have 
communion with tfie Evil One. 
" Or, if any person will consent so to abuse 
and degrade themselves as to atft as mediums, 
let no one follow them. 
Let them have their 
revelations all to themselves. 
' Their policy 
is to awaken curiosity, and then cry, investi-
gate; and if you will only attesd their sittings, 
at a dollar a visit, for the purpose of investigat-
ing, their end is accomplished. 
They have 
your money, and have your example, to induce 
others to go and do likewise.' 
" They can tell you nothing which is of the 
least importance to you. 
They never have told 
anything which was of any importance. 
I chal-
lenge all the workers with familiar spirits to 
show, that a single disclosure has ever been 
made, which was of the least importance to the 
world. 
They can tell us nothing which we 
have any reason or right to believe, at least on 
their testimony. 
And if any do believe them, 
and put confidence in them, they will surely be 
led astray. 
" The Bible has faithfully warnd us on this 
subject, as on almost every other where there is 
danger. 
' Regard not them which have familiar 
spirits, neither seek after them, to be defiled by 
them.' 
' Give no heed tovseducing spirits, and 
doctrines of devils.' 
' Have no fellowship with 
the unfruitful works of darkness.' 
" Indeed, the result of this whole discussion 
should be, to lead us to prize the Bible more, 
and give heed to it with the greater dilligence 
and confidence. 
It is ' a light unto our feet, 
and a lamp unto our path.' 
It is ' a light shin-
ing in a dark place.' " 
Tho Sum of Religion. 
TIIE following written by Judge Hale, Lord 
Chief Justice of England, was found in his clos-
et amongst his other papers, after his deceases 
He that fears the Lord of heaven and earth, 
walks humbly before Him, thankfully lays hold 
of the redemption by Jesus Christ, and strives 
to express his thankfulness by the sincerity of 
his obedience—he is sorry with all his soul when 
he comes short of his duty ! He walks watch-
fully in the denial of himself, and holds no con-
federacy with any lust or known sin. 
If he 
falls in the least manner he is restless until he 
has made his peace by true repentance ; he is 
true to his promises, just in his dealings, char-
itable to the poor, sincere in his devotion. 
He 
will not deliberately dishonor God although se-
cure of impunity. 
He hath his hopes and con-
versation in heaven, and dares not do anything 
unjustly,"be it ever so much to his advantage; 
and all this because he sees him that is invisible, 
and fears Him because he loves Him—fears him 
as well for His goodness as His greatness. 
Such a man, whether he be an Episcopalian, a 
Presbyterian, an Independent, or an Anabaptist 
—whether he wears a surplice or wears none, 
whether he hears an organ or hears none— 
whether he kneels at the communion or for con-
science sake stands or sits, he hath the life of 
religion in him ; and that life acts in him, and 
will conform his soul to the image of his Saviour, 
and go along with him to eternity, notwithstand-
ing his practice or non-practice of things indif-
ferent. 
On the other side, if a man fears q.ot 
the Eternal God, he can commit sin with pre-
sumption, drink excessively, swear vainly or 
falsely, commit adultery, lie, cozen,'cheat, break 
his promises, live loosely; though at the same 
time He may be studious to practice every cere-
mony, even to scrupulous exactness; or may 
perhaps as stubbornly oppose them. 
Though 
such an one should cry down bishops or presby-
tery, though he should be re-baptized every day 
L or declaim against it as herasy—and though he 
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fast all the Lent or feast out of pretence of 
avoiding superstition—yet notwithstanding these, 
and a thousand eternal confirmities, or zealous 
oppostion of them, he wants the life of 
religion. 
Oh. Times. 
"Tho Arctic's Lost." 
A WAIL is wafted o'er the Atlantic's billows, 
and its mournful tidings are bringing pain and 
deepest sorrow to many stricken hearts, and the 
echo of its grief-fraught tale is throwing a pall 
of more than midnight gloom over recent happy 
homes, and making desolate joyous 
circles. 
" The Arctic's lost," is the burden of the ocean's 
moan; 
and its mournful 
cadence, like the 
simoon's breath, strikes pallor and death-like 
fear to many a trembling heart. 
How many are the loved ones lost ? A ven-
erated father is sleeping beneath the surging 
billows, and his kindly voice is hushed forever; 
his words of counsel are ended, and his protect-
ing hand is " still in death." 
A fond mother, 
too, has made her home amid the ocean's depths, 
where peacefully she sleeps, while weeping child-
ren of mortality she hath left behind, to grope 
about a little longer, among the miseries and 
sorrows of this life, and then to share her home 
—not beneath the dark waves of ocean, but 
amid the purified on high. 
A sister's gentle 
form, weary with battling with the angry sea, is 
peacefully at rest, perhaps beside a kindred 
form; where free from every angry wind and 
darkening storm on life's tempestuous ocean, 
they will quietly await their Maker's mandate. 
A brother too lies there; his manly brow bears 
the signet-seal of death ; those gentle lips, which 
spoke the last 
Good-bye," are closed forever, 
and the lonely sea-winds must forever sigh his 
requiem. 
A devoted husband there is numbered 
with the dead; for many weary hours, the 
thought of loved ones far away inspired his soul 
with a death-defying energy, and long and man-
fully he.battled with the rising billows, but ex-
hausted nature at last gave way and he sunk to 
rise no more. 
A tender wife is there : no earth-
ly arm could rescue her; and with an up-rising 
prayer for a weeping family left behind, she re-
signed her body to the unsounding sea. 
The 
helpless child is also resting on the bosom of the 
deep; the rocking waves must pillow his tiny 
form, and the low sea-winds forever chant his 
cradle hymn. Yes! they have all gone,—father, 
mother, sister, brother, husband, wife, child,— 
all gone ! and the dark waves must ever hide 
them from our sight. 
No urgent prayer will 
bring those loved ones back; the chance has 
gone forever, and is past the reach of prayer. 
Could human sympathy fill the void, how soon 
would the aching heart find rest: but no, the 
tears of weeping America cannot fill again that 
gentle voice to cheer the lonely fireside. • Mourn-
ing Europe cannot send home that parental 
hand, or give back the sacred admonitions of a 
father. 
But ye afflicted, mourning ones, we may weep 
with you; aye more, we may lift the supplicat-
ing voice to Him who "wounds to heal," and 
He shall give "the oil of joy for mourning," 
and whisper to your bleeding hearts, " They are 
not dead but sleeping." 
Then think of them hot 
as lost. 
True, no marble slab shall mark their 
quiet resting place, nor can the hand of affection 
plant the sacred mound with flowers, or drop the 
silent tear at twilight hour, but He who " holds 
the winds and walks upon the sea," shall guard 
their sleeping ashes, and when the archangel 
soundeth, the deep shall give up his dead and 
every conscious essence greet his 
individual 
frame. 
Then shall ye recognize again through 
the beautiful mask of their perfection, the d'ear 
familiar faces ye loved on earth, and talk with 
grateful tongues of storms and perils past, and 
praise the mighty Pilot, that hath steered you 
safely to the " Port of Peace." 
True, they are 
gone; but still are with you : are they not min-
istering spirits ?" 
Can you not feel the light 
touch of their wings, in hours when the world is 
nought, and your own lonely spiritual existance 
everything? 
They may be even nearer than 
before. 
Let this glad thought whisper " Peace, 
be still," to your troubled spirits. 
" In living hope with those unseen, 
Walk as in hallowed air, 
Where foes are strong, and trials keen, 
Think,' What if they be there.' " 
N. Y. Observer. 
Foreign News. 
NEW YORK, Oct. 30.—The Collins steamship 
Pacific, Capt. Nye, from Liverpool 18th., arrived 
here this forenoon. 
SUMMARY OF NEWS.—There is absolutely no 
news from the seat of war, the despatches, such 
as they are. being altogether conflicting. 
It is, 
however, authentic that up to the 9th nothing had 
been accomplished. 
The Allies now number 90,000 men in the 
Crimea. 
They occupy a strong position south 
of Sebastopol, and have all their seige appara-
tus landed. 
ggggagsaw 
Menschikoff continues to hold the field north 
of Sebastopol with 30,000 men. expecting a re-
inforcement of 313,000 more. 
Latest dates state that Gen. Canrobert had 
ordered the Russian outposts to be driven in on 
the 9th, and seige batteries erected. 
Ten thousand additional French troops are to 
be shipped immediately form Marseilles, to the 
Crimea. 
It is confirmed that the Baltic fleet will re-
turn home without further operations. 
Omar Pasha is preparing to operate on three 
Doints, the Pruth, Dobrudscha and the Black 
Sea. 
Messers. Oliver's and Mctlenry's affairs look 
more unfavorable. 
Messers. Perrins & Wright, and five other 
firms in Dublin, have failed, and a panic prevails 
there, which is considered only temporary. 
The latest despatch from Lord Raglan states 
that the Allies would open their fire upon Sebas-
topol about the 9th. 
Russia continues to amass troops on the Rus-
sian frontier, while she has scarcely a regiment 
on the frontier of Prussia. 
It is confidently asserted that a secret treaty 
has been made between Russia and Prussia. 
The total Russian forces available for the de-
fence of Sebastopol are 90,000, the same num-
ber as those of the Allies both land and sea 
force. 
The Allied fleet is positively on its way home 
from the Baltic. 
Rumors are gathering strength that England 
and France are about re-organizing the Inde-
pendent Kingdom of Poland, or considering its 
^practicability. 
The cholera is spreading in Dublin.. 
The recent failures in England are causing 
disastrous effects. 
All foreign refugees have been ordered to 
leave Madrid, within eight days. 
China letters mention that three attempts had 
been made to capture Canton, but without suc-
cess. 
An attempt to effect a Compromise with 
the insurgents had failed. 
Fighting continued 
at Shanghae, without any decis ive results. 
In addition to the summary of news tele-
graphed from New York, we append the follow-
ing : 
AUSTRIA.—" On the 5th inst. Prince Gorts-
chakoff had an interview with Graf Buol for the 
purpose of asking for explanations on the subject 
of his master's congratulations to the Western 
powers ; also explanations of the order sent by 
the Emperor to General Hess not to throw any 
difficulties in the way of any operations against 
the Russians on the part of the Turks, on which 
occasion the Prince inquired if the Austrian 
Cabinet would permit the Turkish army to at-
tack the Russians in Bessarabia, seeing that 
Russia had, in evacuating the whole of Molda-
via and Wallachia, made Austria a sacrifice, 
which enabled Austria to take up a medial posi-
tion. 
To which Graf Buol answered that 1 Aus-
tria had not entered into any engagement by 
which she had it in her power to control the 
Turks in their movements. 
If the Turkish army 
was moving forward towards the Bessararabian 
frontier, it must also be looked on as a strategi-
cal measure, like that one in consequence of 
which the Russians evacuated the principalities. 
In the same way Austria might have been called 
upon to prevent the Western powers from attack-
ing the Crimea.'" 
, 
THE BALTIC.—The leading government jour-
nal has announced that the campaign in the 
Baltic may now be considered at an end for the 
season, but that the main body of the fleet will 
not leave the Gulf of Finland before the possi-
bility of the Russian ships coming out into the 
open sea is precluded by natural causes. 
At 
Sweaborg. the ice is beginning to form in-shore; 
at Cronstadt it will do so in the course 'of ano-
ther fortnight; and before the end of the month 
it will have accumulated sufficiently to prevent 
the egress from any of these ports of the naval 
forces of the Russians. 
The floating batteries in course of construction 
in England, will be the most formidable ever 
projected. 
They are forged or hammered iron 
plates, four and a half inches thick, lined inside 
with wood, and will measure 1500 tons. 
From 
actual experiment it has been proved that they 
will be impervious to any shot or shell. 
A dozen 
at least (French and English) of these floating 
batteries will be in the Baltic next spring. 
The 
construction of these engines of war is a very 
difficult and extensive task. 
FROM THE CRIMEA.—There is no authentic ac-
count of any attack having been made upon 
Sebastopol as late as the 9th inst. 
The allies 
were making preparations for the bombardment, 
and the most extravagant expectations prevailed 
as to the date when the capture would be effected. 
The Paris correspondent of the London Times 
says: 
" It is said that letters have been received at 
St. Cloud which, whatever may be the precise 
date of the bombardment, would fix the capture 
of the place for the 10th or 12th, and that we 
may have news of the fact on the 18th, or there-
about. 
Anothef account is, that a letter from 
Gen. Canrobert states, that it will require a 
seige of fifteen days before Sebastopol can be 
taken; and the comment said to be made on 
thi3 announcement by the Emperor, was, that 
no doubt Gen; Canrobert meant to take him by 
surprise. 
From this, if correctly reported, we 
may infer that the Eftjperor is of opinioh that a 
much shorter period will suffice." 
Large re-inforcements have been despatched 
from both France and England to the Black 
Sea.. 
It is stated that in their advance fVom tlie 
Alma to the Katcha, the Allies were guided by 
the Tartar Prince, Achmed Giari, a descendant 
of the Khans of Tartary, with a troop of follow-
ers. 
They passed the fortification of Belbec, 
and advanced to the Batyklava road south of 
Sebastopol. 
It does not appear that there has been any 
fighting since the battle ofs Alina^ and the fact 
that the Russians have allowed the allies to 
occupy a strong position to the south of Sebas-
topol, without molestation, is a pretty strong 
evidence that they have fyeen strongly beaten. 
The following is the Russian account of the 
movements which succeeded the battle of Alma: 
The St Petersburg 
Journal of the 8th con-
tains the following notification as to the war in 
the Crimea: Prince Menschikoff, in a report 
made to the emperor, and dated 30th Septem-
ber, states that after having executed his flank 
movement from Sebastopol towards Bakshiseka-
ris, he was ready to take the offensive on the 
first favorable opportunity. 
This plan promised 
to be still more successful, because the allies 
had divided their forces. 
When the French ap-
proaehed the fortifications on the north of the 
Bay of Sebastopol, the English troops betook 
themselves to Balaklava by sea, where they ef-
fected a landing. 
Prince Menschikoff, informed 
of what was taking place, made a movement in 
advance; but the French, declining the combat, 
abandoned the north of Sebastopol, and effected 
a junction with their allies on the south. 
On 
the 30th, Prince Menschikoff had arrived with 
the greater part of his troops at the fortifications 
at the north, and established himself there, wait-
ing until the intentions of the allies were more 
plainly manifested. 
Up to the 30th no move-
ment had been made. 
The statement that the English betook them-
selves to Balakava by sea is known to be false, 
and probably the report that battle had been 
offered to the French may be classed in the 
same category. 
FROM THE DANUBE.—Omar Pasha was march-
ing his forces against the Russians in Bessarabia, 
who were'reduced in numbers by the withdrawal 
of the troops to reinforce Menschikoff at Sebas-
topol. 
A letter from Peru of the 4th gives the fol-
lowing account of the death of Marshal St. Ar-
naud: 
" The day after the battle of the Alma— 
where, eveiy one admits, the marshal was wor-
thy of all admiration, for he remained twelve 
hours on horsback, displaying a superhuman 
energy and activity—he was mortally attacked. 
He embarked on board the Berthollet on the 
29th. 
He had there a moment of improvement, 
but it was only a last rally before death, as in 
three hours after he expired in the midst of the 
officers who accompanied him. 
It has been as-
certained that he died of cholera, and of an 
aneurism of the heart." 
DENMARK.—The struggle between the King 
of Denmark and his people -has reached an anx-
ious crisis. 
The king has refused to recognize 
the constitutional veto of the representatives of 
the people upon his appointment of bad minis-
ters ; and the representatives of the people have 
resolved to impeach the ministers who have in-
stigated their sovereign to such an unconstitu-
tional resolve, and have been his instruments 
in carrying it into effect. 
At their last sitting 
they voted by a majority of 80 to 6 the appoint-
ment of a committee of nine to draw up the ar-
ticles of impeachment. 
POLAND.—Large bodies of troops are being 
concentrated in Russian Poland. 
The imperial 
guard is advancing in forced marches to War-
saw ; the Polish army is moving towards the 
frontiers of Gallicia, and several of the regi-
ments which were in Podolia and Bessarabia 
are on their way to the Crimea. 
CHINA.—The despatches by the 
overland 
mail have arrived. 
The dates from Hong Kong 
are to the 22d August 
The following letter 
from the Hong Kong correspondent of the Lon-
don News, dated 22d, gives a lamentable account 
of the state of affairs in that quarter: 
" The present mail leaves China with intelli-
gence of a sad state of things—a complete disor-
ganization of the political, social and commer-
cial policy of the Celestial Empire. 
The insur-
gents are paramount. 
The insurgents too,. arc 
close to our doors. The whole province ofQuang-
tung is in their hands; for although Canton still 
continues in the hands of the imperialists, the 
troops, from • disaffection and scarcity of provis-
ions, will not be able to hold the city much 
356 
THE ADVENT HERALD. \ 
longer ^ indeed the place would long since have 
fallen had the insurgents the guns now in course 
of being manufactured. 
On the 11th instant, in 
a heavy fall of rain, the insurgents attempted the 
capture, but were compelled to withdraw, leav-
ing 500 to 600 imperialists dead on the field. 
" Numerous parties, some few hundred strong, 
have left Hong Kong to' join the rebels, and 
share in the plunder the city of Canton will of-
fer to its captors. 
The European ladies at Can-
ton have proceeded to Macao, and as all the boats 
have disappeared from the river the only communi-
cation with the city is kept up by the small river 
steamers. 
The Blenheim Fort is now held by 
the insurgents, and the other forts in the river 
will inevitably fall into their hands; so that 
Canton is now completely invested. 
Not a chest 
of tea or silk can be ob tained. 
The teas and silks 
are stored about threte,miles above the city and 
no boats dare venture clown, so that all commer-
cial business is at a stand. 
In this part of China 
the rebellion is fast spreading, but the insurgents 
are divided into so riiany parties, apparently with-
out any general object, that it will be some time 
before quiet can be restored. 
Hong Kong itself 
is closely pressed by the insurgents, who a few 
days since captured the strong.fortress of Kow-
loon, which is on the opposite shore of Hong 
Kong. 
The attacking party consisted of 2000 men 
and their principal object appeared to be to pos-
sess themselves of the arms and ammunition 
known to be within the fort, and to expend both 
in the capture of Canton. 
It need not surprise 
your English readers that the utmost alarm and 
confusion prevail here ; large numbers of the la-
boring classes have quited for the scene of 
plunder. 
It was expected that a great battle 
would have taken place at Canton, on the 18th, 
on the occasion of the annual festival in honor 
of the deity of the city; but the authorities ju-
diciously postponed the celebration sine die, and 
so prevented the insurgents availing themselves 
of the season of revelry and joyous festivity for 
attacking the city. 
It is, however, generally 
reported that a great battle will take placc this 
day, and it will probably come off, for the 
Chinese are singular in invariably giving notice 
of their attacks without any disguise." 
—" sold " being pit by substitution for the loss 
of their liberties for which they had received no 
adequate compensation. 
In a corresponding man-
ner, they were to be rescued from their bondage, 
without their captors receiving any remuneration. 
When Jacob and his family removed to Egypt, 
they did not go to abide permanently, but to sojourn 
for a while—with God's promise, (Gen. 49:4,) " I 
will surely bring thee up again." 
And yet the 
Egyptians unjustly made slaves of them. 
In like 
manner the Assyrian, which is put by a synecdoche 
for the Assyrians, under Tiglath-pileser, Salmane-
ser, and Sennacherib, had without cause oppressed 
and plundered them. By a reference to these, their 
present bondage, by which the Babylonian captivi-
ty seems to be referred to, is shown to«be without 
any just reason on the part of their captors. 
Now therefore, what have I here, saith the Lord, 
That my people is taken away for nought t 
They that rule over them make them to how), saith the Lord ; 
And my name continually every day is blasphemed.—v. 5. 
The expression, " what have I here," shows that 
state of things existed which demanded God's in-
terposition. • When the Lord gave Israel to the 
Babylonians, he gave them no right to tyranize 
over his people ; and yet no mercy was shown to 
thein. The Lord said, " Isa. 47:6—" I was wroth 
with my people, I have polluted mine inheritance, 
and given them into thine hand : thou didst shew 
them no mercy ; upon the ancient hast thou very 
heavily laid thy yoke." 
So severe were the exac-
tions of their masters, that they elicted from the 
oppressed Jews exclamations of lamentation and 
grief; which would give occasion to the heathen to 
reproach Jehovah as unable or unwilling to deliver 
them, and thus to blaspheme his name, which re-
quired his interferance in their behalf. 
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ISfelfc: 
Therefore my people shall know my name. 
Therefore they shall know in that day 
That 1 am he that doth speak : behold, it is I.—t). 6. 
To know the name of Jehovah, seems to be put 
by substitution for a recognition of his agency in 
their redemption. 
After this digression, by a referance to their op-
pressions by the Egyptians and Assyrians which 
were past, and by the Babylonians which were 
still long in the future when the prophet spoke, he 
again recurs to the main subject and brings to 
view the final redemption of Zion, when it sl^uld 
be no more polluted. 
$!)e QUtocnt Cjerato. 
BOSTON, NOVEMBER 11, 1854. 
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 may be conducted in faith and 
love, with sobriety of judgment and discernment of the truth, in 
nothing carried away into error, or hasty speech, or sharp, unbroth-
erly disputation 
THE PROPHECY OF 
ISAIAH. 
CHAPTER LII. 
AWAKE, awake ; put on thy strength, 0 Zion ; 
Put on thy beautiful garments, 0 Jerusalem, the holy city: 
For henceforth there shall no more come into thee the uncircum-
cised and the unclean. 
/ 
Shake thyself from the dust; arise, and sit down, O Jerusalem: 
Loose thyself from the hands of thy neck, O captive daughter of 
Zion.—vs. 1, 2. 
Jerusalem is still by a personification repre-
sented as in the condition described in v. 17 of the 
preceeding chapter .—the direction to awake and to 
array herself in beautiful garments, &c. &c., im-
plying that Zion is to be restored from its broken 
and desolate condition. 
Tho' " uncircumcised " 
and the " unclean" are put by substitution for 
those who are morally defiled ; who, from the epoch 
here anticipated, shall DO morft have admittance 
within its gates. 
Rev. 21i23-27—" And the city 
had no need of the sun, neither of the moon, to 
shine in it: for the glory of God did lighten it, and 
the Lamb is the light thereof. 
And the nations of 
them which are saved shall walk in the light of it 
and the kings of the earth do bring their glory and 
honor into it. 
And the gates of it shall not 
shut at all by day : for there shall be no night 
there. 
And they shall buing the glory and honor 
of nations into it. 
And there shall in no wise en 
ter into it any thing that defileth, neither whatso 
ever worketh abomination, or maketh a lie ; but 
they which are written in the Lamb's book of 
life." Isa. 60:21—" Thy people also shall be all 
righteous : they shall inherit the land forever, the 
branch of my planting, the work of my hands that 
I may be glorified." 
Nah. 1:15—"The wicked 
shall no more pass through thee ; he is utterly cut 
off." 
For thus saith the Lord, Ye have sold yourselves for nonght} 
And ye shall be redeemed without money. 
For thus saith the Lord God, 
My people went down aforetime into Egypt to sojourn there: 
And the Assyrian oppressed them without cause.—w. 3, 4. 
To be sold for nought, is to be sold without price 
How beautiful upon the mountains are the feet of him that bring-
eth good tidings, 
That publisheth peace; 
That bringeth good tidings of good, that publisheth salvation ; 
That saith unto Zion, Thy God reigneth !—v. 7. 
This text is applied by the apostle to the preaeh-
eis of the gospel of the kingdom. The Saviour 
said, (Matt. 24:14.) " This gospel of the kingdom 
shall be preached in all the world, for a witness to 
all nations: and then shall the end come." 
And 
Paul said, (Rom. 10:15,) " How shall they preach, 
except they be sent? as it is written, How beauti-
ful are the feet of them that preach the gospel of 
peace, and bring glad tidings of good things!" 
The prophet, then, here anticipates the time 
when the gospel of the kingdom should be pro-
claimed in all the world, preliminary to the final 
gathering of the redeemed. He beholds the preach-
ers of righteousness coming over the distant hills 
to announce the conditions of salvation—one of 
the essentials of whichis the new birth, (John 3:5,) 
without which no one can " enter into the kingdom 
of God." The " feet " of the messengers of the 
gospel, are put by a synecdoche for the messengers 
themselves—the idea being that they come to an 
nounce tidings of great joy, and that therefore 
their coming may be hailed with joy. John writes 
of them, (Rev. 14:6, 7,) " I saw another angel fly 
in the midst of heaven, having the everlasting gos-
pel to preach unto them that dwell on the earth, 
and to every nation, and kindred, and tongue, and 
people, Saying with a loud voice, Fear God, and 
give glory to him ; for the hour of his judgment is 
come: and worship him that made heaven, and 
earth, and the sea, and tbe fountains of waters.",-
" Thy God reigneth," is the announcement that 
terminates the gospel dispensation, of which John 
said (Rev. 11:15-18) " The seventh angel sounded 
and there were great voices in heaven, saying, The 
kingdoms of this world are become tbe kingdoms 
of our Lord, and of his Christ, and he shall reign 
for ever and ever. 
And the four and twenty elders 
which sat before God on their seats, fell upon 
their faces, and worshipped God, Saying, We give 
thee thanks, O Lord God Almighty, which art, 
and wast, and art to come; because thou hast 
taken to thee thy great power, and hast reigned. 
And the nations were angry, and thy wrath is 
come,, and the time of the dead, that they should 
be judged, and that thou shouldstgive reward unto 
thy servants the prophets, and to the saints, and 
them that fear thy name, small and great; and 
shouldst destroy them which destroy the earth." 
The watchmen shall lift up the, voice •, 
With the voice together shall they sing: 
For they shall see eye to eye, when the Lgzti shall bring again Zion. 
—v. 8. 
" Watchmen " are those who- guard the city, 
and are here put by substitution for the preachers 
of righteousness refered to in the preceeding text. 
WJiatever conflicting views they may entertain 
during the preparatory announcement of the gos-
pel of the kingdom, all those diversities of opinions 
will be ended and they will acquiesce in one view 
when the kingdom shall have been consummated— 
seeing eye to eye, being put by substitution for a 
perfect agreement of opinion when the Lord re-
tores Zion. 
" Lift up" the voice, is a metaphor 
expressive of loud exultation. 
The Ascension. 
ON the part of those who witnessed the ascen-
sion, all doubt was now removed. 
They doubted 
when they saw Him driven as an outcast—when 
they saw Him whom they had begun to regard as 
the Holy One sent from God, wandering without 
shelter and without home,—they doubted though 
they followed Him still. 
When at last he was 
delievered to the murderer's hands, they doubted 
not then,— they felt assured that he was not the 
Messiah,—they all forsook Him and fled. When 
the dark day of the crucifixion was past, though 
they still lingered around His tomb, and would 
pay the last offices of respect to Him they had 
loved and followed, and whom they believed to be 
a good man, yet not as the Christ would they em-
balm Him. 
Whfn they found His body gone, and 
none could tell where He was laid—did they doubt? 
There is the sad and mournful strain of disap-
pointed hope in the words, " we trusted that this 
had been He which should have redeemed Israel." 
The Words He uttered while He tarried yet among 
them, renewed their faith and assured them that 
He was indeed the Christ. 
And now, to'dissipate 
doubt forever—to furnish as it were a landmark 
for their faith, to which they could ever after look 
amidst all the discouragements and trials which 
assailed them, they saw the heavens opened, they 
saw the cloud descend, they saw their long, de-
spised, their crucified, their now risen Lord, as-
cend in triumph to the right hand of His Father 
in heaven. A proof of His divine mission ? What 
further proof could they require? 
His miracles 
were proof—His whole life was proof that he was 
from God. But that his miracles were not wrought 
by the power of a magician's spell—that His pure 
life could not have been hypocrisy only to enable 
Him the more successfully to deceive—that His 
death and His resurrection had not been an im-
posture ;—the conjectures, if such they were, were 
dissipated now, for God had accepted, God had 
received Hin ; and to this their own eyes bore wit-
ness. It was as the last, so the crowning act of 
His life ; as the last, so the greatest proof that He 
was indeed tho Holy One sent from God. 
But not only was it to the Apostles a proof of 
His divine mission, it is to us also a confirmation of 
our hope. That the identical bodies we have now 
shall rise from the grave—that the same bodies 
of the faithful shall be caught up to meet their Lord 
in the air,—is one of the most cheering and con-
soiling doctrines of the Gospel. 
Barely to tell us 
this, and upon the authority of God's word, were 
indeed sufficient. 
For, strange and mysterious 
though it be, yet we know, with God nothing i6 
imposible. 
But here has He given not only His 
word, but the evidence of sense. Christ was laid 
in the tomb where our bodies must lie—yet that 
same body, as those of all the faithful shall do, 
awoke from tbe slumbers of death, and clad with 
immortality, ascended up on high—" Flesh and 
blocd shall not enherit the kingdom of God." 
But human frailty and corruption are the flesh 
and blood that shall not enter there. 
Gospel Messenger. 
It is plesant to the Christian to think that as 
Christ rose from the dead and ascended on high, 
so will every child of his be raised in bis likeness, 
and ascend to meet him in the air. 
There is how-
ever one great truth not noticed in the " Messen-
ger," and apparently unknown to those who hold 
not to the premillennial advent, that after the as-
cension of the saints, this earth wherein they have 
been pilgrims and strangers, is to be cleansed from 
all its sin corrupting principles, and is to become 
a new earth upon which the New Jerusalem will 
come down from heaven, on which the righteous 
will ever dwell, in the kingdom of God which 
flesh and blood cannot inherit. 
(N. H.,) and something remarkable of thunder 
and lightning in that town in the year 1727. 
By 
Nathaniel Gookin, M. A. pastor of the Old Church 
in Hampton, New Hampshire. 
' God has sent earthquakes as the forerunners of judgments, &c. 
[Luke 21,11th.'" 
" The earthquake which was throughout tbe 
night between the 29th and 30th of October, 1727, 
was in this town (Hairipton, N. H.) much as it 
was in other places of which there are divers ac-
counts ; only, as I suppose, it was weaker here 
than in those towns that lie upon the river Merri-
mack, so I believe, it was stronger here than in 
Boston and the thereabouts. 
" The shock was very hard and was attended 
with a terrible noise something like thunder ; the 
houses trembled as if they were falling; divers 
chimneys were cracked, and some had their tops 
broken off; it was especially so in the South Par-
ish, where the hardest shake seemed to be on tbe 
bill where the House of God stands; three houses 
on that hill had their chimneys broken, one of 
which was the house of the Rev. Mr, Whipple. 
When the shake was beginning some persons ob-
served a flash of lightning at their windows, and 
one or two saw streams of light running on the 
earth, the flame seemed to be of a bluish color. 
These flashes, no doubt, broke out of the earth, 
otherwise it is probable they would have been • 
seen more generally, especially by those who were 
abroad. 
The sea was observed to roar in an unu-
sual manner. * The earth broke open near the 
south bounds of the town (as it did in divers 
places in Newbury,) and cast up a very fine bluish 
sand. AC the place of the eruption there (now 
about two months after) continually issued out 
considerable quantities of water; and for %,bout a 
rod round it, the ground is so soft that a man can-
not tread upon it without throwing brush or 
something to bear him up ; it is indeed in meadow 
ground, but before the earthquake it was not so 
soft but that men might freely walk upon it. 
A 
spring of water which had run freely for four score 
years and was never known to freeze, was much 
sunk by the earthquake and froze afterwards like 
standing water. 
" There were divers other shocks the same night; . 
yea the sound was heard, and sometimes the shake 
felt every day, for a fortnight after ; afterwards 
it was heard, but not so often. 
" On the 24th December at night, just eight 
weeks after the beginning, there was two shocks ; 
the first which was very loud. 
This shock, I am 
informed, extended ftom Charles river to Casco 
" But these were not the last that we have had. 
This present year (1728) is begun with the voice 
of God to us, it being heard the first of January 
about two o'clock aiternoon, and divers times Jan-
uary 6th at night. 
We heard the sound again on 
the 16th, and last night (this is written 25th Jan-
uary) we had two shocks, which made our houses 
tremble. 
So that the Lord's hand is stretched out 
still. 
"It is hard to express the consternation that 
fell upon men and beastB, in the time of the great 
shock. The brute Creation ran roaring about the 
fields, as in the greatest distress. 
And mankind 
were as much surprised as they, and some with 
great terror." 
EARTHQUAKES IN 1727. 
FROM an appendix of an old book, entitled : 
" The day .of trouble near ; the tokens of it, 
and a due preparation for it: in three sermons on 
Ezekiel 7.7 : with an appendix, giving some ac-
count of the earthquake, as it was in Hampton, 
SPEECH OF BR. 
DUFF. 
DR. 
DUFF, of Scotland, who lately visted this 
country, on his return made a speech before the 
General Assembly of the Free Church of Scotland, 
giving his impressions of the «United States and 
Canada. 
It closed with the following remarks 
respecting the speedy results of Christian efforts : 
" Surely the present crisis is constraining us to 
arise, and that with our whole heart. 
Surely it-
looks as if, in response to the sighing of the whole 
creation groaning in uneasiness and pain through 
long by gone ages, for.tho times of the restitution 
of all things—surely, in answer to the plaintive cry 
of tbe myriad martyrs from under the alter, who 
age after age have been uttering their longing cry, 
" How long, O Lord, how long?" 
He who is seated 
on the throne on high is now indicating by no or-
dinary signs that He is to arise and assume His 
great power, and to manifest Himself as really 
King and Governor among the nations. 
Surely, in 
the language of one of old, the great Messiah 
is about to come forth from his royal chamber— 
a|)out to put on the invisble robes of his imperial 
Majesty, and to take up the unlimited sceptrc 
which his Father has bequeathed to Him. 
Even 
now, in the ear of faith, and almost in tbe ear of 
sense, we may hear the distant noise of the char-
iot wheels of the mighty Saviour King, coming 
forth conquering and to conquer, amid the shaking 
of the nations from pole to pole. Every nation has 
of late been upheaving from its ancient settled 
foundations ; and there will be mightier upheavin 
THE ADVENT HERALD, 
357 
still, and that right speedily—all preparing the 
way for the new heav6n and the new earth, in 
which righteousness will for ever dwell. And in 
the midst of these grand, glorious, and consum-
mating scenes, shall we fritter away our energies 
on endless, petty, paltry questions, not fit to be en-
tertained by men of tense even, not to speak of 
men of large Christian understandings and still 
larger Christian hearts? 
(Hear, hear.) 
The 
time is coming, and is at hand, when we shall 
look back and be ashamed at wasting so much 
precious time, sound strength, sound thought, 
sound feelings, sound energy, upon questions which, 
even if they were solved, would be but so many 
paltry littlenesses in comparison with the mightier 
questions that bear directly on the establishment 
of the Saviour's kingdom over the subjugated na-
tion—questions, too, many of which God in his 
providence will soon solve and settle for us, if we 
only wait for it. (Hear.) Let us then arise, with 
one heart and one soul, and in union with the 
whole Christian men in America, in Canada, in 
England, in Geneva, and the Continent; let us 
pray that we may be melted and fused into one 
living, burning, glowing mass, and go forth as 
" Jehovah's sacramental host," carrying forward 
the standard of the Great Messiah from one battle 
field to another, and unfurling His glorious banner, 
in the assurance that the standard shall not be 
taken down again, nor the banner of victory furled, 
until it is found waving upon the citadel of the 
last of the rebel nations now prostrate at His feet. 
(Applause.) 
Ah, then, let us not only pray, but 
labor with intense, all-consuming devotedness for 
the speedy coming of the time when 
One song employs all nations ; and all cry, 
Worthy the Lamb, for he was slain for us. 
The dwellers in the vales and on the rocks 
Shout to each other ; and the mountain tops, 
From dilierent mountains, catch the flying joy ; 
Till nation after*nation taught the strain— 
Earth rolls the rapturous hosannah round. 
—Amen, Lord Jesus, come speedily, amen and 
Inquiries. 
1. CAN you tell whereabouts in the natural year 
was the commencement of the first year of Ar-
taxerxes Longimanus ? 
2. if it was in the latter part,—then does not 
any given month of Nisan in his reign fall on a 
different and later year in the era B.C., than any 
given year of his reign would be dated ? 
3. If so, and if the first year of Artaxerxes com-
menced in the latter part of B.C. 464, does not the 
month Nisan in the 20th year of the king's reign 
(when the letters to Nehemiah were given) fall in 
B.C. 444? 
4. If the 2300 year-days should have their date 
in B.C. 444, (where by the way, a chronological 
table in Brown's Bible Dictionary places the com-
mandment to Nehemiah,) will it not take all of 
A.D. 1856, and as much of 1857 as it was late in 
B.C. 444, to complete the prophetic periods ? 
5. Is there any more probable point to com-
menced the 2300 years, than the time of Nehemi-
ah,—even admitting that the 490 years have no 
connection with the 2300 ? 
A. MERRILL. 
ANSWER.—1. The years of the Persian kings are 
reckoned in the Canon of Ptolemy, from the Thoth, 
or new year's day of the Nabonassarian year in 
which their reign commenced. 
The Nabonassarian year was a movfable one of 
365 days, and with the Julian year regraded one 
day every four years. 
The first year of Artaxerxes thus synchronizes 
with the Nabonassarian year 284, and the Julian 
year B.C. 464, which commenced Dec. 17th. 
2. It would of the Gregorian, but not of the 
Julian or Nabonassarian years. 
Thus while Chis-
leu in his 20th year was in B.C. 446 of the Grego-
rian year, Nisan, in the same 20th year, was in B. 
c. 445. 
(See chronology in the margin of Neh.) 
3. But it do$s not commence in the latter part 
of B.C. 464. It commences with Dec. 17th, which 
commenced the Julian year B.C. 464, but which 
was 14 days before the close of what would syn-
chronize with the solar year B.C. 465, according to 
the Gregorian calendar. 
4. That is answered by the correction of your 
error of one year, which is made by disregarding 
the regration in the Julian year, when the 20th ot 
Artaxerxes synchronizes with the Julian year B.C. 
445. 
5. We do not regard the events ot the 20th of 
Artaxerxes, as commencing the vision of Dan. 8th. 
CHARDON 
ST. 
CHAPEL.—In our notice of last 
week, relating to the Advent society and their 
leaving Chardon St. Chapel, there were several 
things omitted, and some typographical errors also 
which made the article incomplete. 
The following 
paragraph should have read: "We have been 
proved by suffering for the truth ; and the God of 
truth has saved us." 
' 
There should have been a word of explanation 
also on the hymn, which was given in the notice. 
It was composed by Rev. John Pierpont, and sung 
a§ patt of the services at the dedication. 
Reference was made to three pastors during the 
ten years of our advent history, who proved to be 
" wolves in sheeps clothing." 
But it should also 
have been added, that in the course of that period 
we had a number of faithful and devoted men, who 
sought the b.est interests of the church. 
The fol-
lowing brethren, among others, (though not all 
settled as pastors) deserve honorable mention. 
Elders J. R. Gates, I. H. Shipman, J. W. Bonham, 
D. T. Taylor and others. Brother Taylor was 
with us the longest of any, and was truly devoted 
to our interests in a dark and trying time. 
FOREIGN NEWS. 
NEW YORK, NOV. 
3d.—The Cunard steamship 
Arabia, Capt. Judkins, from Liverpool with dates 
to the 21st ult., arrived here betweeu 8 and 9 o'clock 
this morning. 
Government employees say that serious intellL 
g'ence must not be looked for before the beginning 
of November. 
In the absence of news of active operations, the 
papers are mainly filled with accounts of the posi-
tions and projected operations of the various forces .. 
Odessa accounts of the 8th, say that Gortscha-
koff, was at that place, and that Menschikoff, who 
could not maintain his position at Batchi Serat, had 
sent his army to Sebastopol, and gone himself to 
Perekop. 
A Russian corps of 15,000 men was posted on 
the Ichernaya, near Sebastopol, and the opening 
of great operations was daily expected. 
It is said that Gen. Canrobert has notified the 
French Government that the position of the Allies 
is impregnable, being defended by 80,000 men and 
200 guns, and that it could easily be held against 
200,000 Russians. 
Constantinople letters of the 12th say that three 
thousand of the Eoreign Legion and four thousand 
Turks had just left for the Crimea. 
It is true that on the 11th of September an at-
tack was made by the Mohmoudie, Turkish flag 
ship of 120 guns, together with several of the 
allied fleet, on Fort Constantine, but it was merely 
to cover the advance of the allies along the land-
ward side of the river. 
In consequence of correspondence found among 
Menschikoff's effects, when his carriage was cap-
tured, after the battle of the Alma, several impor-
tant arrest have been made at Varna. 
Two small British steamers have been ordered to 
the Sea of Azof to bombard the town of Kertch. 
Lord Stratford de Redcliffe, British minister 
to Constantinople, has succeeded in procuring a 
firman to suppress the trade in Circassian and 
Georgian slaves. 
A large portion of the French "Baltic fleet had 
returned to Cherbourg. 
A rumor was current that the Danish Govern-
ment would probably permit the Britioh fleet to 
winter at Kiel. 
The Journal of St. Petersburg, of the 14th, con-
tains a telegraphic despach from Vienna, stating 
that the Commissioners of the Western Powers, 
and of Austria and Turkey, had met at Constan-
tinople to arrange the question of the protectorate 
jn the basis of the proposals made by the Austrian 
cabinet. 
THE OPERATIONS ON THE CRIMEA.—The following 
account of the operations of the allies about Sebas-
topol, is compiled from the despatches to the Lon-
don papers. 
These furnish accurate and detailed 
accounts of the movements of the army before Se-
bastopol up to the 3d of October. • The later reports 
are telegraphic: 
" On the 28th of September, the sccond, third 
and fourth divisions of the army were orderd to 
move up to the heights above Sebastopol, where 
they encamped. 
The first division remained at 
Kadikoi, behind the port of Balaklava, for the pro-
tection of that important post, while the light 
division rested on the heights above the harbor, 
which it had occupied before the surrender of the 
fort. At the desire of General Brown, the light 
division also moved forward on the following day, 
and now occupies a position in the line of the be-
sieging army. 
The engineers and artillery pro-
ceeded at once to land the siege train. 
On the 
29th some of the guns were dragged up the heights 
and temporarily placed in the field about a mile in 
the rear of the position occupied by the troops. 
From this elevated encampment, which was occu-
pied by the British troops without any opposition 
on the part of the enemy, a view may be obtained 
ofthe^fhole port of Sebastopol, with its harbors, 
arsenals, ships, and forts lying within a circle of 
three or four miles, at the feet of the vast arma-
ment which already threatens the devoted city. 
" In the military harbor the Russians have 
moored a three-decker so as to direct its fire up the 
ravine which descends to the arsenal and the docks. 
They were also busily engaged in throwing up 
works of earth around the south of the town, which 
sufficiently denotes the absence of any regular line 
of fortifications or bastions impassable by an enemy 
until a breach has been made by artilery. 
On the 
east of the town, however, and consequenly imme-
diately in front of the Biitish lines, a strong.horse-
shoe redoubt has been constructed ; and this, it is 
said by the Times, will be the point against which 
the attack must first be directed. 
The Duke of 
Cambridge's division, consisting of the Guards and 
Highland Brigade, remained in the rear of the ar-
my near Balaklava until the 2d of October, in 
order to cover the base of operations from the pos-
sibility of an attack. 
Meanwhile, the roads and 
tracks through the hilly country south of Khutor 
Mackenzie, by which the allied armies made their 
flank march on Balaklava, have been broken up 
and put into a state of defence by the British forces. 
The right flank of the army is effectually covered 
by the defile leading into the valley of Tchernaya, 
by that stream, and by the marshy ground about 
it; and so satisfied was Lord Raglan on the 1st o 
October of the strength of this position that he' 
caused the first division to advance to the right of 
the army, and to take up the position it will occu-
py during the seige. 
" The Valley of Inkerman (continues the Times) 
is a deep ravine about one mile in breadth, formed 
by the stream of the Tchernaya before it falls into 
the western extremity of Sebastopol harbor. 
This 
valley is, in fac£, the continuation of the deep inlet 
by which the harbor itself is formed. On the 
eastern side of this valley the ruins of Inkerman 
still retains traces of the fortifications erected by 
the Greeks, or Genoese, on this position ; and, for 
the defence of Sebastopol against an attack by land, 
these heights ought to have been crowned with 
strong batteries, which would have rendered the 
place almost impregnable, since they would have 
enfiladed the whole position now occupied by.the 
besieging armies. 
This precaution appears, how' 
ever to have been neglected. 
Along the course of 
the valley, and parallel with the stream of the 
Tchernaya, runs the aqueduct which supplies the 
docks and part of the town with fresh water ; and 
so abruptly do the rocks rise- over the ravine on 
the western side, that, on turning towards the 
harbor, this aqueduct is carried through a tunnel 
in the freestone rock 300 yards in length. 
Rather 
more than a mile to the south of this tunnel, and 
upon a height which rises almost perpendicularly 
above the valley, the first division of the British 
army, has taken up its position. 
It forms, there-
fore, the extreme right of the allied forces, and it 
is protected by a-steep wall of rock, which is inac-
cessible to the enemy. 
We presume that the 
ground thus occupied is beyond the range of any 
guns which the Russians might be able to mount 
on the opposite side of the valley, which is still 
for the present in their possession. 
The French 
army occupies the left of the British position, and 
extends to the coast immediately south of Sebasto-
pol, where the deep and navigable bays offer the 
greatest facilities for landing the siege train and 
the stores'of our allies." 
The following letter to the London Morning tier-
aid contains some additional facts and speculations 
of interest: 
" BALAKLAVA, Oct. 2.—From some deserters who 
have come over to us, and from some prisoners 
who have been taken, it appears that Prince Mens-
chikoff succeeded in effecting his escape from Se-
bastopol with 21,000 men, so that our forced 
maich to intercept him was, after all, ineffectual, 
except in so far as it cut off most of his baggage 
and £30,000. 
He has left a garrison of 30,000 
picked troops in Sebastopol, with instructions to 
Bodakoff and Grotschakoff to defend it to the last 
stone, as he will come to its relief. A courier 
was sent on the 15 th instant, to Oaten-Sacken at 
Odessa, with orders to spare nothing, but move 
30,000 into the Crimea at all risks and v'ith all 
speed. But armies are not moved with a word; 
and supposing the message to have reached by this 
date, it will be at least five weeks bafore.the Odes-
sa contingent can arrive, and even then must make 
such forced marches as 
ill not leave them above 
15,000 effective men. 
Yet, though no one has 
much fear of "Osten-Sacken, the escape of Menchi-
koff gives some uneasiness. 
There are, doubtless, 
garrisons dispersed about the Crimea, which, if 
collected, would reinforce the 21,000 under his 
command to an army of 40,000 or even 50,000 
men. The arrival of such a force might compel 
us to raise the seige of Sebastopol for a week while 
we advanced and fought Menchikoff, and then, 
heaveq knows, how the season might be for recom-
mencing our work. 
"In Sebastopol they are evidently determined to 
fight hard. 
All the sailors have left the ships of 
war to man the walls, and most of the heavy guns 
have been taken to assist in the defence of the out-
works. All stores of every kind not absolutely nec-
essary to the besieged are being burnt. 
" From what we hear from deserters, it seems 
that the whole of the aristocracy, and indeed all 
the Russian population of South Crimea, have 
sought refuge in Sebastopol. 
So great is the con-
course of inhabitants that thousands sleep in the 
streets each night. 
As a preliminary operation 
we have turned aside the little stream of water 
which supplied the town, so that the garrison 
must soon begin to suffer. I expect that as the 
siege is pressed, the great mass of the inhabitants 
will be removed by the north side, and most likely 
with their escape we would not interfere, as we 
have no idea of starving out the fortresses, but 
storming them." 
The latest accounts, though not authentic, state 
that the bombardment commenced on the 13th. 
The Porte, it is stated, has sent 10,000 additional 
men to the Crimea, and 4500 French have left the 
Piraeus for that quarter. 
On the 10th the beseiged 
attempted a sortie against the seige works but 
were vigorously repulsed. 
Prince Menschikoff is 
said to be at Perekop, where he has probably gone 
to hasten reinforcements. 
His army is said to be 
at Sebastopol, probably to the North of the place. 
St. Petersburg advices of the 18th state that up to 
the 12th the allies had not moved from Balaklava, 
nor undertaken anything against Sebastopol. This, 
however, is contradicted by every letter from that 
quarter. 
THE WAR ON THE DANUBE.—There is but little of 
interest from the Danube, where there are now no 
regular correspondents : 
ODESSA, Oct. 14.—All the Turkish cavalry is re-
pairing to Bourgas, for embarkation to the Crimea. 
All the troops from Shumla are on their way to 
Varna, where a camp of 10,000 men is to be 
formed. 
WARSAW. Oct. 16.—The emperor nominated 
Prince Gortschakoff (formerly commander-in-chief 
of the principalities) commander of the corps d' ar-
mee to be concentrated on the Austrian frontiers. 
IBRAIL, Oct. 10.—Zadik Pasha arrived here with 
1000 cavalry. 
The whole army will be in the 
neighborhood of Ibrail on the 17th inst., will cross 
the Danube, and attack Bessarabia. 
The Morning Chronicle, noticing that an im-
pression appears to prevail that Omar Pasha will 
immediately assume the offensive in Bessarabia, 
says that it may perhaps be doubted whether such 
a movement is actually contemplated ; but even it' 
the Turkish-commander should not cross the front-
ier, the menacing attitude which he maintains in 
its vicinity will be almost equally efficacious in 
detaining in compulsory inactivity a large Russian 
army ot observation. 
It may be added, that offen-
sive operations on his part would at this moment 
be unavailing for the immediate purpose of effect-
ing a division in favor of the allies, since any Rus-
sian force designed for the relief of Sebastopol, 
must long ere this have reached Perekop. 
'Thirty thousand Russians have crossed the Dan-
ube into the Dobrudscha. 
The vanguard is at 
Babadach. 
Twelve thousand Russians under Us-
chaoff occupied the Danube ferries near Toultwli. 
THE 
GERMAN POWERS 
AND 
RUSSIA.—A 
VL.IUA 
despatch of 18th, says : 
" The answer of the Prussian cabinet to the 
Austrian note has arrived at Varna. 
Prussia 
maintains the views 6he has previously expressed." 
The VTienna correspondent of the London Chroni-
cle writes as follows: 
" Those who are necessarily well informed in 
matters of diplomacy assure mu that the relations 
between Austria and Russia are on the eve of an 
absolute rapture. 
It is not thought possible that 
their respective ambassadors at Vienna and St. 
Petersburg can remain much longer at their posts. 
This state of things has been long foreseen, and, 
I may add also, duly prepared for by these gov-
ernments. 
Indeed, a war between Austria and 
Russia has become inevitable. 
For many months 
past it has only been a question of time and rela-
tive convenience." 
Count Ruol has addressed a private despatch to 
Prince Esterhaxy at St. Petersburg, defining the 
position and purposes of Austria, relative to the 
Allies, the Turks and the Russians, with a defi-
niteness that admits of no misunderstanding. 
The 
Turks and the A'lies are not to be interrupted or 
interfered with by the Austrians in their opera-
tions in the Principalities; but if the Russians 
cross the Pruth they will encounter the active hos-
tilities of the Austrian army of occupation. 
PARIS, Oct. 19.—The ^confidential despatch of 
Count Buol to Count Esterhazy, which is in the 
Independence of Brussels of yesterday, has excited 
a very strong sensation here, and has materially 
changed the opinion of those who imagine that the 
Emperor of Austria was tricking the Western 
Powers. The language of this despatch is consid-
ered not merely firm, but dignified ; and some as-
tonishment is expressed that the Emperor should 
after such declarations as have been made to him 
by the Austrian Cabinet, still keep up the force of 
diplomatic intercourse. 
Cor. London Globe. 
VIENNA, 19th.—The German press everywhere 
gives indications of the approaching rapture be-
tween Austria and Prussia. 
Great anxiety exists 
at Berlin. 
358 
THE ADVENT HERALD. \ 
CORRESPONDENTS are alone responsible for the correctness of the 
views they present. 
Therefore articles not dissented from, will not 
necessarily be understood as endorsed by the publisher. In this de-
partment, articles are solicited on the general subject of the Advent, 
without regard to the particular view we take of any scripture, from 
he friends of the 
Herald. 
LIGHT 
SHINING. 
" BUT the path of the just is as a shining light, 
that shineth more and more unto the perfect day." 
—Prov. 4:18. 
This text has been used in connection with oth-
ers, to prove that God's economy of grace was so 
arranged, as to shed new light, by the word giving 
the track of truth for the Church, more clearly, 
constantly, even to the eternal day. 
1 believe this is the doctrine of the text, and 
while God has so fulfilled his word as to cause 
light to " increase more and more," it has been 
painful to see so many of the professed people of 
God having less light on revelation than genera-
tions before them. 
Strange indeed it is, that 
while the word of God is unfolding by fulfilment, 
enlightening our eyes, and shining so clearly about 
our path that we can be sure that the " perfect 
day " is near, others grope their way in darkness. 
By careful study we see the mind of God. 
One 
event after another tells us the mystery of God is 
nearly finished, and the advent of Christ is near ; 
yet the multitude do not see this. 
" They have 
eyes, and see not, ears have they, but hear not, 
hearts that do not understand." 
There are those 
too, who had much light a few years ago, who 
have lost it, and confess their darkness now ; 
while there are yet others, who stood well by the 
light that shone all along for a time, but who re 
cently seem to be turned back (like Israel in the 
wilderness, who after long wanderings and mur-
murings, in disorder and disunion, were turned 
back to the place, or near it, when God performed 
his mighty acts of dividing the sea for them and 
confounding their enemies before them,) to the 
first end of the journey, and are now walking in 
the false lights and illusions that for a time at-
tracted our attention, and led many of us into er-
ror, and some who persisted in the pursuit to de-
struction. 
It is painful indeed to see this retro-
grade movement in the camp, not only causing 
disorder and contention, but leading many of the 
recruits to follow the backward march.. It is not 
strange that young converts who are instructed in 
the same erroneous expositions of a few texts, as 
we were ten years ago, should follow the same il-
lusive lights we did, and it will not be at all 
strange, if some fall into the same snares, and 
make shipwreck of their faith as others before 
them have done, on the same reefs. 
But that 
those who have once travelled the ground over, 
and proved the arguments unsound, the evidences 
not good, on certain points of doctrine, should go 
back to walk after such light, does not look like 
an increase of light, nor like " holding fast that 
which is good." 
The light of truth now shining 
on our path, is so much greater than that of ten 
years ago, that we cannot for a moment think of 
exchanging this for that. 
What was then good 
and true, is profitable for us still, but that which 
has proved false, we should reject; and as we have 
confessed that we had not all this light then, and 
that we had errors of doctrine, we should forsake 
the wrong and " walk in the light." 
Those who 
have been willing to abandon exploded errors, 
have been thereby better prepared to follow the 
path of light, and to see the nature of the truth 
relating to the coming of our Lord, and the true 
position the Church should occupy to meet him in 
peace. 
Then our ideas were crude and improperly 
arranged ; we had jus?awaked from a long sleep 
and the brilliant light dazzled our eyes, many of 
us only " saw men as trees walking." 
Since then 
God's word has been opening, " and the path 
shining more and more." 
Much experience, with 
candid study and sober investigation, in carefully 
weighing truth, should teach us not to be dog-
matical on unsettled questions, and to have less 
confidence in nice chronological calculations, but 
much more confidence in the clearly defined scrip-
tural doctrine of this great subject. 
It should 
teach us to cleave more closely to the words of 
our Lord, and to see more clearly the weakness of 
men, and to rest lightly on human deductions 
We should shun mere formality on the one hand 
and also confusion on the other. 
We should cease 
to turn to the law, to live out the types of Elijah's 
going to Jordan, to Gilgal and Bethel; of Israel's 
mourning thirty days for Moses' death, as some 
have done in my recollection. 
Also the type of the 
high priest making atonement on the tenth of the 
seventh month, does not claim our faith at all, as 
a doctrine teaching that Christ, our High Priest 
will come out of heaven on that day. 
It may be 
he will do so, even this year, but who will show it 
to be an idea demanding faith. 
We should be-
lieve all that is proved to be truth, and " live by 
every word of God," then shall we be looking for, 
and loving the appearing of Jesus, and be ready 
for his coming. 
Let us go forward in the plainly 
increasing, ever shining light, 44 in all holy con-
versation and godliness." In all sobriety and meek-
ness, long-suffering and gentleness, growing " with 
the increase of God," understanding 44 the true 
light that lighteth every man," " walking in the 
light as he is in the light, we have fellowship one 
with another ;" and then we shall stand ready to 
say," Lo, this is our God, we have waited for 
him, and he will save us." 
I.JC. WELLCOME. 
Hallowell, Me., Sept. 6th, 1854. 
GOOD MEN MAY BE DECEIVED. 
DEAR BROTHER :—I find the following article in 
the Advent Herald of Sept. 10th, 1845, headed, 
" Good men may be' deceived," which. I think 
would be well to re-publish at this time. 
Please 
examine it. 
There are many now who are led by 
the same fatal errors there alluded to, who are in 
this time influence, and if published, brethren who 
take the paper would be able to show it to their 
friends whom they wish to help out of this notion 
of being infallibly led by impressions. 
"Yours, in 
gospel bonds. 
I. C. WELLCOME. 
It is well known that when the pious Whitefield 
was laboring in this country, he had to encounter 
the most inveterate hostility, and that even from 
ministers and churches. 
One great cause how 
ever, of this hostility was, the indiscretions of 
those who were ostensibly laboring in the same 
cause with him. 
Hugh Bryan, of South Carolina, 
was praised highly at one time by Whitefield ; but 
afterwards makes the following confession. 
This 
letter is dated March 1st, 1742. 
He begins : 
" It is with shame, intermixed with joy that I 
write you this. 
I find that I have presumed, in 
my zeal for God's glory, beyond bis will, and that 
he has suffered me to fall into a delusion with Sa-
tan,—particularly in adhering to the impressions 
on my mind; though not, to my knowledge, in 
my reflections and other occurrences of my jour-
nal. 
This delusion I did not discover till three 
days past, when, after many days converse with 
an invisible spirit, whose precepts seemed to be 
wise, and tending to the advancement of religion 
in general, and of my own spiritual welfare in 
particular, I found my teacher to be a liar, and 
the father of lies ; which brought me to a sense of 
my error, and much abused my soul with bitter 
reflections on the dishonor I have done to God, as 
well as the disquiet which I may have occasioned 
to my country. 
Satan, till then, appeared to me 
as an angel of light, in his spiritual conversation 
but since I have discovered his wiles, he has ap-
peared a devil indeed, showing his rage." 
It seems, he still believed he had been convers 
ing with an invisible spirit. 
After some details 
of confession, not worth transcribing, he concludes 
and adds: 
" PS. May we all keep close to the law and to 
the testimony of our God, and hearken to no other 
revelation for divine truth, and watch and pray 
that we enter not into temptation, is a further 
prayer of your most unworthy servant, H. Bryan.' 
This was published by order of the Commons 
House of Assembly, passed March 3d, 1742. 
As 
published in the Boston Postboy of May 3d, it was 
accompanied with a statement on the authority of 
his brother,—perhaps Jonathan, of the means by 
which he was undeceived. 
The invisible spirit 
bade him go, by a direct course, and without look-
ing on the ground, to a certain tree, and take 
thence a rod, with which he must smite the wa 
ters of the river, and they must be divided, so that 
he should go over on dry ground. 
He started to 
obey ; and after several falls from not looking at 
the ground, found the tree and procured the rod 
With this he began to smite the river, and press 
forward towards the farther bank, till he was up 
to his chin in the water, and his brother, who had 
followed him as fast as he could, but just saved 
him from drowning. 
His brother then urged him 
to go home ; but the spirit had assured him that 
if lie went home that night, he should be a dead 
man before morning. 
However, the sharp weather 
and his wet jacket prevailed. 
He went home; 
and, finding himself alive in the morning, con-
cluded that the spirit which had lied to him 
twice, must be the 44 father of lies." 
The account 
is found in the second edition of " A letter from 
gentleman in New England to his friend in Glas-
gow," 44 on the State of Religion in New England 
since the Rev. George Whitefield's arrival there." 
— 0. S. Ch. Lib. 
Mr. Davenport himself, one of the most godly 
ministers connected with Whitefield, ran into many 
excesses. 
By invitation he visited N. London, Ct., 
March 2d, 1743, to organize a church. 
Says Mr. 
Tracy: 
41 Immediately on his arrival, in obedience to 
messages which he said he had received from God 
in dreams and otherwise, he began to purify the 
company from evils which prevailed among them. 
To cure them of their idolatrous love of worldly 
things, he ordered wigs, cloaks and breeches, 
hoods, gowns, rings, jewels, and necklaces, to be 
brought together into his room, and laid in a heap, 
that they might, by his solemn decree, be commit-
ted to the flames. To this heap he added the pair 
of plush breeches which he wore into the place, 
and which he seems to have put off on being con-
fined to his bed, by the increased violence of a 
complicated disease. 
He next gave out a cata-
logue of religious books, which must be brought 
together and burned, as unsafe in the hands ofthe 
people. 
March 6th, in the afternoon, all things 
being ready, his followers carried a quantity of 
books to the wharf and burned them, singing 
around the pile,4 Hallelujah,' and • Glory to God,' 
and declaring that, as the smoke of those books 
ascended up in their presence, so the smoke of the 
tormfent of such of their authors as died in the 
same belief, was now ascending in hell. 
Among 
the authors were Beveridge, Flavel, Drs. Increase 
Mather, Celman, and Sewall, and that fervid revi-
valist, Jonathan Parsons, of Lyme." 
Mr. Davenport was finally convinced of his er-
rors, and made a full confession, from which we 
make the following extract: 
I confess I have been much led astray by fol-
lowing impulses or impressions as a rule of con-
duct, whether they came with or without a text of 
Scripture ; and my neglecting, also, duly to ob-
serve the analogy of Scripture. 
I am persuaded 
this was a great means of corrupting my experi-
ences and carrying me off from the word of God, 
and a great handle, which the false Spirit has 
made use of with respect to a number, and me es-
pecially. 
I believe, further, that I have done much 
hurt to religion, by encouraging private persons 
to a ministerial and authoritative kind or method 
of exhorting, which is particularly observable in 
many, such being much puffed up and falling into 
the snare of the devil, whilst many others are thus 
directly prejudiced against the work." 
DIVINE DIRECTION.—As an instance of the lia-
bility of men to be deceived in supposing them-
selves under Divine direction, we give the follow-
ing extract from a pamphlet by Robert Ross, pas-
tor of the church in Stratfield, Ct., published in 
1762: 
44 A family by the name of Dutartes, consisted 
of father, mother, four sons and four daughters. 
They received their religious impressions from 
Christian George, who is said to have been a Mo-
ravian. 
After two or three years, they withdrew 
from all religious association with others, believ-
ing that they alone had the true knowledge of God, 
and were taught by him by signs and impulses. 
Peter Rombert, who had married the eldest daughv 
ter, a widow, was their prophet, like unto Moses, 
as they thought, whom they were to obey in all 
things. 
He predicted the impending destruction 
of all men, except that family. He afterwards de-
clared that God commanded him to put away his 
wife and take her younger sister, and predicted 
that after the destruction ofthe wicked, God would 
raise his wife's former husband, so that the whole 
family be preserved entire. 
The father hesitated, 
but Peter gave him a sign, that, on going to ano-
ther plantation, the first animal that he should 
see should be such an one as he mentioned. 
The 
sign came to pass, and the change was made with-
out further ceremony. 
They refused to perform 
militia and highway duty, pretending a divine 
command, and threw off all obedience to the civil 
magistrates. 
Justice Simmons issued a writ for 
Judith Dutarte to answer concerning the child 
which she was expected to bear. 
By direction ot 
Rombert, the family armed, fired upon and de-
feated the constable and his attendants. 
Another 
attempt was made, attended by the Justice and 
ten or twelve men. 
The Dutartes fired upon the 
company, and killed Justice Simmons ; but after 
a battle, their doors were forced, one, Mrs. Lesard, 
was found dead, six were carried prisoners .to 
Charleston, and on the 30th of September, 1724, 
five were sentenced to be hanged for murder. 
On 
trial, they freely acknowledged all the facts, de-
clared that they acted by divine command, and 
were about to die as martyrs, but should be raised 
on the third day; and, in the steadfast profession 
of this faith, Dutarte senior, Rombert and Boineau 
were executed. 
Daniel and John Dutarte, aged 
eighteen and twenty years, remained sullen till 
the third day was passed, when on the failure of 
tho prophecy, they confessed their error and were 
pardoned. 
One of them afterwards, by pretended 
divine direction killed a man with whom he had 
no quarrel, and was executed for it ; but in the 
opinion of Mr. Garden, who as chaplain, attended 
on them all when under sentence, died penitent." 
THE 
CHAPEL. 
WE are receiving from time to time kind epis-
tles from brethren abroad in relation to our new 
enterprise in Boston. 
We give the following from 
brother Pearce as a specimen. 
He has,taken a 
deep interest in our welfare, for which he, with 
our many friends will accept our thanks. 
BRO. HIMES :—I see you are calling upon the 
shareholders for the second instalment of stock. I 
send you an order for the balance of mine. 
I see 
by the Herald that you are advancing with the 
edifice. Let us be thankful to our Father who is 
in heaven. 
May the pleasure of the Lord rest 
upon the house ; his spiritual presence fill it. 
May his ministers who officiate in it, have an unc-
tion from above, and have souls for their labor as 
seals added to their crown. 
And may the church , 
who shall worship there, 41 sanctify the Lord God 
in their hearts, and be ready to every good word 
and work." 
May you all be blest in Boston, with 
all the graces of the spirit, that you may neither 
be barren nor unfruitful. May you be like a city 
set upon a bill that cannot bo hid. 
May your 
light shine, and you, brother Himes, have the 
meekness of a Moses, the love of a John, the cour-
age of a Joshua, the boldness of a Paul, the wis-
dom of a Solomon, and the strength of a Sampson. 
And Oh, may you be clad with righteousness as 
with a cloak. 
I hope to meet you and all the faithful in the 
kingdom. 
May our work be done, and well done, 
when the Master comes, so that we may get our 
reward. 
I remain yours, in the blessed hope of 
the gospel. 
JOHN PEARCE. 
Pickering, C. E., 1854. 
THE NEW VERSION OF THE BIBLE. 
THE following article has been sent us by the 
Secretary of the 44 Bible Union." 
44 American Bible Union Rooms, 350 Broome 
Street. New York, Oct. 23d, 1854. 
44 The following extracts are taken from a long 
and learned critique in the Nonconformist of Oct. 
4th, 1854, published in London, England. 
The 
Nonconformist is the chief organ of the Dissenters 
in England, and is edited with great learning and 
ability. 
4 4 4 The work before us is an instalment of what 
we hope riiay prove speedily a complete revision 
of our common English version. 
The 44 American 
t 
a 
Bible Union " is unknown to us, but we, on the 
evidence of this thin quarto, must regard it as a 
most valuable association for the promotion of the 
best of purposes ; and we trust its labors may be 
adequately sustained, and accomplish the great 
ends proposed. 
The special instructions given to 
the revisers of the English New Testament, and 
observed bv the author of the portion now before 
us. are,—to retain the present version as the ba-
sis of their revision, and to make that revision 
from the received Greek text, critically edited, 
with known errors corrected,—to cite all authori-
ties for alterations made, and to give the views of 
the reviser as to the translation of the same word 
or phrase of the original, not only in the place be-
fore him, but in every other place in which it oc-
curs. 
Should this plan be carried out, provision 
is more effectually made for gaining the concur-
rent authority of Biblical scholars for the revised 
version, than existed amongst the fifty-four trans-
lators of Kiqg James ; and the result could scarce-
ly fail to be successful, and to secure public con-
fidence. 
44 4 We cannot here critically examine at large 
such a work as this; we must be satisfied with 
describing it carefully and illustrating iis contents 
by a quotation.' 
44 After making several citations from the work 
of the Union, the reviewer thus concludes : 
4 4 4 This thodgb the valuable quotations are left 
out, will give a good notion of the plan and exe-
cution of the work. 
It is remarkably thorough, 
learned, and minutely careful; and the reviser 
evidently unites to a strong, elear mind, a high 
order of scholarship, and a deep insight of the 
modes of thought and expression characteristic of 
the New Testament writers. 
* We hoped to find room for a selection of 
THE 
ADVENT 
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359 €1 
emendations, but must briefly give the volume an 
emphatic commendation to biblical students, min-
isters, and scholars.' " 
Extract from a Lette* of Bro. J. B. Mitchell. 
I AM so tired and sick of the sermonizing and 
spiritualizing of the churches, that anything on 
the blessed hope, the glorious appearing of the 
King Eternal, is more cheering and gratifying 
how thg,n ever. I hear nothing of this hope in the 
churches, and sometimes think 1 will go no more; 
will stay at home and read my Bible, if I can get 
no help. Read, sing, pray, and try to teach my 
family the best I can, and leave the result with 
God. 
Why do not the brethren write more about 
our hope and practical religion, as preparatory, in 
the Herald? They ought, for the comfort of the 
scattered flock; for truly they are scattered and 
peeled. Yours in hope, 
J. B. MITCHELL. 
Warren, Pa., 1854. 
Sure enough, why do they not write more. 
The 
correspondent department is poorly sustained. 
I 
would that brethren generally, would feel the in-
terest that brother Wellcome has for some time 
past. 
Will they not wake up? come, brethren 
and sisters, look up your pens. 
CATHOLICS: 
THEIR EARLY SETTLEMENT AND 
PRESENT POSITION IN 
THIS COUNTRY. 
THIRTEEN years after the landing of the Puritans 
on Plymouth Rock, Catholics (emigrating from 
England) commenced the settlement of Maryland, 
under the guidance of Lord Baltimore, a distin-
guished member of the Romish Church. 
Shortly afterwards, Catholics from Spain com-
menced the settlement of Florida, and for a long 
time were almost the exclusive occupants of that 
section of our Union. 
At an early period, Lou-
isianaj Arkansas, and Missouri were settled by 
French Catholics, introduced by Jesuitical priests, 
who were the first to explore that extensive region. 
Texas, New Mexico and California, also, were set-
tled by Catholics ; and till annexed to the United 
States, Protestant influence was for the most part, 
excluded. Moreover, our northern frontier, from 
the mouth of the St. Lawrence to the upper Lakes, 
has, from an early period, been exposed to the ag-
gressive movements ot the Catholic population 
from the opposite shore; and not a few of the 
towns and villages along our nothern border, were 
first settled by Catholics from the Canada shore. 
With such a beginning at so many different 
points in our vast territory, the expectation might 
very naturally have been indulged that, in process 
of time, the faith of Rome would become univer-
sally diffused, and the power of her priesthood re-
ceive undisputed homage through the land. 
Such 
expectation, however,"has hitherto been very much 
"like a dream when one awaketh." 
Still they 
are not altogether disheartened with respect to 
their future ascendancy; so, at least, we infer 
from some of their more recent assumptions, and 
newspaper predictions of what may be expected 
from them when a controlling influence shall have 
been secured. 
This apparently growing confidence in respect 
to the future, which recent movements, as well as 
predictions, have evinced, is based, not so much, 
probably, on their early occupancy of large por-
tions of our country, as on the fact, that within a 
comparatively limited period, vast multitudes of 
Irish Catholics have emigrated to our shores. 
Several millions, it is suppdsed, have found a 
home in this land within the last fifty years. 
And 
now, German Catholics are pouring in upon us, 
in equal or greater numbers. 
This growing ac-
cession to their numerical strength, very naturally 
awakens the expectation that by and by the scep-
tre of universal dominion will be in their hands. 
Intimations to this effect are not unfrequently 
given out. 
Catholic journals already speak boast-
ingly <jf their growing strength, and significantly 
insinuate their intentions as soon as the favorable 
moment for action shall arrive. 
Such being their views of prospective elevation, 
it may not be amiss to whisper in their ear, that 
however seemingly auspicious the future may now 
appear, it is possible that their flattering anticipa-
tions may have no other realization than that of 
sheer disappointment. 
It may be safe, at least, 
to admonish them that " lie that putteth on the 
harness, should not boast himself as he that put-
teth it off." 
For their sake, and for the sake of our native 
population, who sometimes indulge in fearful ap-
prehensions respecting the coming future, it may 
not be out of place to lay before them a few sta-
tistics, gathered from the last United States census, 
touching the comparative ecclesiastical strength 
of both our Protestant and Catholic population at 
the present time. 
That the former have no great occasion for 
alarm, or the latter for boasting, may be inferred 
from the following recorded facts. 
" In Maryland, where Popery in this country 
first gained a footing, there are now about 800 
Protestant churches, and only sixty-five Catholic. 
" In Florida, where their next permanent settle-
ment was commenced, there are 147 Protestant 
churches, and only five Catholics. 
In Louisiana 
there are 223 Protestant and 55 Catholic. 
In 
Texas, 151 Protestant and 13 Catholic. In Cali-
fornia, where a little time since the Catholic reli-
gion exclusively prevailed, it now hardly has any 
foothold, while Protestantism is beginning to ex-
ert a predominant influence through all parts of 
that extensive country." 
The census just published reveals the further 
fact, that in all the United States, the Catholics 
have but 1,112 churches, accommodating only 
621,000 persons, which is about one-eleventh of 
the number of the Methodist denomination of the 
country, and scarcely one-eighth that of the Bap-
tists, and not one-fourth that of the Presbyterian 
population. 
The entire Protestant population of 
the country, compared with that of the Catholic, 
is about as twelve to one. These are facts which 
should be uuiversally known that the former may 
be encouraged and the latter disheartened in their 
respective aspirations. 
Genesee Evangelist. 
Commonwealth of Massachusetts-
A PROCLAMATION, 
FOR A DAT 
OF 
PUBLIC THANKSGIVING AND PRAISE. 
PRAISE is the instinctive impulse of a grateful 
heart. 
There are periods when even the heart of a 
nation swells with emotions of gratitude for signal 
mercies, and finds utterance in songs of thanksgiv-
ing. Such were the manifestations of God's Ancient 
People, when, in his sensible presence, they lifted 
up their voices in a nation's anthem. Such was the 
feeling with which the early men of New England, 
in a scarcely less communion with the Most High, 
came together at periods of general prosperity or 
of special mercy, and in the Congregation offered 
to him tljeir sacrifice of praise. 
And such are the 
offerings which this favored community should 
now bring before Him. 
The season has been crowned with his goodness. 
Amidst the alarm at the withholding of the latter 
rain, He has not forgotten the promised harvest, 
and the husbandman is rejoicing in the fruits of 
his labor. 
Health has been vouchsafed to us, and 
while disease and pestilence have shed gloom and 
sorrow over other portions of our land, the de-
stroyer has not been suffered to come nigh our 
dwellings. 
Industry, in every department of honest labor, 
have been successful, and upon sea and land, in 
the workshop and on the farm, has found a compe-
tent reward. 
While the physical wants of the 
community have been supplied, the great ends of 
civil government have not been suffered to fail; 
under the guardianship of wise laws, the people 
have reposed in safety. 
Our schools and colleges have been accomplish-
ing their work in the education of the young, and 
the Christian religion in its power, has been seen 
in the lives and conduct of men restraining vice 
and turning the sinner to repentance. 
The cause 
of human freedom has gained new strength from 
trials, and, in the light of God's Providence, we 
may be assured of its ultimate triumph. 
While these blessings have been showered upon 
this community, there are few who have not shared 
in these bounties, of Providence. 
Few are the 
homes to whose inmates poverty denies the means 
of enjoying the return of that holiday which our 
fathers inaugurated, and their posterity have con-
secrated to the rites of hospitality and the re-un-
io'n of scattered households. 
To celebrate the goodness which has marked 
the closing year, to render the devout tribute of 
grateful hearts to the Author of all good, to cher-
ish the love of country, and strengthen the ties 
that bind society together, and to foster the kind-
lier instincts of our nature, that minister to each 
other's wajits, I do, by and with the consent of 
the Council, appoint THURSDAY, THE THIR-
TIETH DAY OF NOVEMBER current, a day of 
Public Thanksgiving and Praise. 
And I do earnestly reconnnend that the people 
should assemble in their respective places of wor-
ship on that day, and in a spirit which He shall 
approve, dedicate it to the praise and worship of 
Almighty God. 
And while remembering His mer-
cies, let them seek for His guidance and His aid 
in all the affairs of life. Let them unitedly and 
devoutly ask for blessings on our common coun-
try, and for the hastening of the day when the 
knowledge of the Lord shall fill the whole earth, 
and from every nation and tongue there shall go 
up a song of Praise and Thanksgiving. 
Given at the Council Chamber, in Boston, this 
first day of November, in the year of our Lord 
one thousand eight hundred and fifty-four, and 
in the Indedendence of the United States the 
seventy-ninth. 
EMORY WASHBURN. 
By His Excellency the Governor, with the advice 
and consent of the Council. 
EPHRAIM M. WRIGHT, Secretary. 
God save the Commonwealth of Massachusetts ! 
THE fear of the Lord is to hate evil: pfide and 
arrogancy, and the evil way, and the froward 
mouth, do I hate. 
' I am the resurrection and the life: he that believeth in me 
though he were dead, yet shall he live: and whosoever liveth, and 
believethin me, shallnever die.''—JOHN 11: 26,26. 
DEPARTED this life, at sea, November 14th, 1853, 
on his passage from New York to San Francisco, 
via Cape Horn, when within six davs sail of San 
Francisco, GEORCEW. CATLIN, son oforother Leon-
ard and sister Lucinda Catlin, of this place, aged 
23 years and 10 months. 
The subject of this no-
tice in very early life embraced the Saviour, (when 
about 12 years of age,) and although, like many 
other youthful minds, in time was affected more 
or less by the influence of the world, and perchance 
lost his ardor, and love for the interests of Christ's 
cause in a measure, yet in his last sickness, his pa-
rents have reason to believe, to their consolation, 
that there was a revival of interest and love in his 
heart, for Jesus and his word. 
His last illness 
being of consumption, continued three months. 
His mortal body sleeps in a watery grave, while 
his spirit has returned to God, waiting for the 
resurrection. The following lines written on his 
death by his brother, Charles T. Catlin, you will 
please publish in connection with this notice. 
tWest Troy, N. Y., Nov. 3d, 1854. 
j. p. F. 
A BROTHER'S LAMENT. 
My brother, when we parted last, 
My mind with grief was overcast, 
That thou should'st roam ; 
A certain something seemed to say, 
You'd not return another day, 
To visit home. 
Alas! the sad prediction's true, 
Thou'rt gone forever from our view, 
Till judgment day; 
But then at God's command, we hope 
The sea will yield thy body up, 
In new array. 
Among immortals—if you stand, 
On that great day, at God's right hand— 
'Twill matter not 
1 
How deep within the sea you lay, 
And siumber Time's fleet hour's away, 
Where pain's forgot. 
But still, we can't forbear to weep, 
Although we are aware you sleep 
Without a sigh, 
Or troubled dream, to mar your rest, 
Beneath the ocean's heaving breast, 
Where many lie. 
Though young in years, yet many cares, 
Had sown thy field of life with tares, 
Most bitterly ; 
A wand'rer on the stormy main, 
You'd circled earth, once and again, 
Far out at sea. 
Twice round the dismal Horn, before 
This last, you sailed, but never more 
Shall sail agffin ; 
For, in thy last, sped from on high, 
The shafts of death did thickly fly, 
And thou their aim. 
'Twas winter, and the rain was chill, 
Which did thy every garment fill, 
And pierce thy core ; 
For duty called thee to maintain 
Thy watch in spite of sleet and rain, 
And not give o'er. 
And thou wast faithful to the last, 
We hear you shrunk not from the blast, 
Till forced below 
By lack of strength your post to fill, 
And not by lack of heart or will, 
Thy work to do. 
Well done! what better meed of praise 
Could I award thee in my lays ? 
—Memorial just— 
But then, my task is not to tell 
How well you battled till you fell— 
I mourn, and must. 
Oh, when thy last sad ho&r drew nigh, 
Could'st thou have had thy mother by 
To soothe thy pain ! 
Or other k'in, thy griefs to share, 
And give advice against despair, 
'Twere better then. 
But one consoling thought's behind, 
We learn that you did comfort find 
In God's good word. 
This friend of friends, we do believe, 
Did of sin's burden you relieve, 
And hope afford. 
So now, dear Brother, rest in peace, 
Till Christ, descending shall release 
You from the sea, 
And give you place among the blest, 
In that new world, where saints shall rest, 
Eternally. 
CHARLES T. CATLIN. 
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Voices of the Day. 
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Voices of the Dead. 
The Church Before the Flood. 
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Scripture Readings on Genesis. 
Romanism and Tractareanism. 
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The Wesleyan, Syracuse, N. Y. 
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Vermont Chronicle. 
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Canada Christian Advocate. 
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Puritan Recorder, Boston. 
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Schenectady Reporter. 
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Evening Traveller, Boston. 
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Zion's Herald, Boston. 
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Content* of this No. 
MISCELLANEOUS. 
'The Passage 
353 
Absalom's Rebellion 
353 
A Case of Circumstantial 
Evidence 
354 
The Spirit Rapping Delusion. 354 
The Arctic's Lost 
355 
Foreign News 
355 
EDITORIAL. 
The Prophecv of Isaiah 
356 
The Ascension 
356 
Earthquakes in 1728 
356 
Speech of Dr. Duff 
356 
Inquiries 
357 
Foreign News 
357 
CORRESPONDENCE. 
Light Shining 
358 
Good Men May be Deceived. 358 
The Chapel 
358 
The New Version of the Bible 358 
Extract from a Letter of 
J.B.Mitchell 
359 
Catholics 
359 
Proclamation 
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Book Notices. 
" THE CHARACTERISTICS AND LAWS OF FIGURATIVE 
LANGUAGE. 
By David N. Lord. 
Designed For use 
in Bible Classes, Schools and Colleges. New York : 
Franklin Knight, 138 Nassau St. 
1854." 
This is a very valuable work, on a subject which. 
is greatly overlooked by most interpreters of 
prophecy. 
It has been considered enough to say 
that any given passage was figurative, to exhoner-
ate the one who thus denominated it from any at-
tempt to elucidate it. 
Many do not seem to real-
ize that tropes are susceptible of classification, 
and are used in accordance with laws that are as 
uniform and intelligible as are other laws of lan-
guage. 
This work is designed to so simplify the 
characteristics of figures that their nature and use 
will be apparent to all who study its pages. These 
are so elucidated in the volume before us, that the 
intelligent reader can easily learn to discriminate 
between the different kinds of figures, and tearn 
the peculiar use and meaning of each. We copy 
the following from p. 156 : 
" The knowledge of the laws of figures is as nec-
essary to the. just interpretation of language as the 
knowledge is of the literal meaning of words, or 
the rules of grammer. 
They are the vehicle of 
the thoughts which those who employ them aim to 
express ; and not to understand the principle on 
which they are used, is to lose not only much of 
the beauty with which they invest the objects to 
which they are applied, and the distinctness with 
which they set them forth, but often the whole 
meaning which it is their officp to convey, and per-
vert them to the expression of a wholly different 
and false sense. This is pre-eminently true of the 
Scriptures, in which they are more frequently 
used than in any other writings. 
They are not 
only important auxiliaries in determining the 
sense, and raising it to a clear certainty, but they 
present it, in most instances, with a beauty and 
power to which untropical language is wholly in-
adequate. 
No tolerable understanding of the lan-
guage of the prophecies, especially of the Old Tes-
tament—as those of Isaiah, Jeremiah, most of 
those of Ezekiel, and, with the exception of parts 
of Daniel and Zechariah, all the other prophets— 
possible, without a knowledge of the principles on 
which their figures are used ; while of i\ large 
share of their predictions, a true explanation of 
the figures is an exposition of their whole mean-
ing, and sets it forth with a beauty and force that 
are seen in no other method of interpretation. 
It comprises 300 pages, and is for sale at this 
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1854." 
This is a volume of very pleasant reading on 
every day subjects by one who has a mind to con-
cieve of, and a pen to delineate the beautiful. 
We planted our feet on these blessed truths, and 
consecrated ourselves, and the vestry, unto God. 
From that time, we have taken a new start. 
God 
has been with us, and his glorious presence has 
cheered us. We are full of hope and courage, 
and determined to do all we can to build up the 
cause of God, and bring souls to Christ. 
In a few weeks we shall occupy the Chapel which 
will enlarge our means of usefulness. 
Brethren 
will remember us in their prayers. 
Wolsteiiholine's Gas Light. 
BRO. HIMES :—I would like your opinion of the 
economy and utility of the new light, or Self-Gen-
erating Gas Lamp, which you advertise ; and if in 
your opinion, it is likely to go into general use, 
&c. 
Yours truly, 
SAMUEL GRANNIS. 
he Roy, Genesee county, N. Y., Oct. 30, 1854. 
I cheerfully comply with your request. 
I re-
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As to its going into general use, I can-
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proper amount of capital in it, and give it his 
whole attention, I could have no doubt of it. 
I 
have used the lamp, and like'it much. 
J. V. HIMES. 
THE 
OWE NOTHING.—A southern editor adver-
tises that he wishes to unite himself to an " Owe 
Nothing Society," and hopes all his subscribers 
will do likewise. 
We should be glad to join such 
a Society ourself, but cannot do so without the co-
operation of all our subscribers. 
Christian Secretary 
The establishing of such a society is much needed. 
We have several subscribers however, win} we 
fear, would not be eligible to it 
BRO. HIMES :—Have the spirit rappings ceased? 
Don't hear any more of them in this quarter. 
JOSEPH BURROWS. 
Branchton, C. W., Oct. 31s/, 1854. 
ANS.- NO. They continue about the same in 
mogt places. 
We doubt however whether they are 
gaining new adherents where they have been fully 
BRO. HIMES :—I have been in this city two Sab-
baths, laboring with the church at Forsyth Street, 
and there has been a rising in the minds of the 
church I think from the first. Last evening one 
soul was hopefully converted, and others arose for 
prayers. 
I expect to tarry and labor with them over the 
Sabbath. Pray for us. 
I. H. 
SHIPMAN. 
New York, Nov. 6th, 1854. 
Special 
Notice. 
THE DEDICATION.—The new chapel at the corner 
of Hudson and Kneeland Streets, in this city will 
be opened for public worship on Wednesday, Dec. 
6th, at half past 2 o'clock, P.M. ; services will be 
continued over the Sabbath* We cordially invite 
all our bretheren and friends from all parts of the 
country to participate with us in this feast of the 
dedication. 
It will continue four days. 
We ask the prayers of all the brethren and sis-
ters, that the blessing of God may attend our 
meeting, and that it may be a feast indeed. 
The stockholders will hold a meeting at the 
time, of which due notice will be given. 
Dedication of the Vestry of the New Chapel. 
Having bid adieu to Chardon St. Chapel, and 
the new Chapel being yet unfinished, we<removed 
to the vestry, which had been prepared for our 
reception, and use, till the Chapel should be done. 
Oct. 29th was a day of much interest and joy to 
the Advent Church in Boston. 
For the first time 
we convened in the place, which we suppose will 
continue to be our place of worship until the 
" Chief Shepherd shall appear." 
I gave the opening discourse from Zach. 4:6. 
" Not by might, nor by power, but by my Spirit 
saith the Lord." 
1 endeavored to show that the 
cause of God could not be built up, 1, By human 
legislation. 2, External force. 3, By large num-
bers,—bimply. The few are better than the many, 
if in obedience to God. 
Instance, Gideon's Army. 
4, worldly, or camil policy. 
But Secondly, 1 
argued that the work of God could be carried for-
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Divine Spirit. 
1, The Word of God,—which is 
" quick and powerful." 2, The posession and agen-
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none of bis ;'•' and " can do nothing." 
His quick-
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health, and success. 
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