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Love your Enemies, 
When on the fragrai t sandal-I ree 
The woodman's axe descends, 
And she who bloomed so courteously 
Beneath the keen stroke bends, 
E'en on tile edge that wrought her death, 
Dying, she breathes her sweetest breath, 
As if betokening in her fall 
Peace to her Ibes, and love to all. 
How hardly man this lesson learns, 
To smile and bless tile band that spurns 
To see the blow, to feel the pain, 
But render only love again ! 
This spirit not to earth is given ; 
ONE had it, but HE came from heaven, 
Reviled, neglected, and betrayed, 
No curse He breathed, no plaint Ile made ; 
But when in death's deep yang He sighed, 
Prayed tbr his murderers, and died. 
The Last Days of Rome. 
BY A.IIALE. 
FOURTH SKBTCH. 
ALTHOUGJI we must necessarily have much 
to say of Napoleon, as an individual, it is not 
to Napoleon that we suppose the two-horned 
beast to apply, but to France and Italy under 
Napoleon. Cabled by Providence to enact an 
important part in its great plans, he placed 
himself in a position to wield the new ele-
ments to which the age had given birth, with 
which, as M. de Calonne observes, " the men 
who governed in Europe were unacquainted ;" 
and thus he became the exponent of the will, 
the agent and representative of the body which 
he aided so much to develope ; though he did 
not create it. If the new state could do noth-
ing without Napoleon, Napoleon could do noth-
ing without that. new state. But he is no more 
the two-horned beast—France and Italy, as we 
view it, than the Pope is Babylon—the Papa- 
cy. The great act of this Franco-Italian state, 
and the next to be considered, is the creation of 
THE IMAGE OF THE BEAST. 
The first beast denotes the old political sys-
tem, the grand purpose of which was to main-
tain the Papacy. This image was to be framed 
by that system. As we have no other instance 
in the Word of God of an image of a sym-
bolic beast, we have no direct analogies to 
guide us. But it is a case where such analo-
gies are least needed. We have images of 
other things in abundance; and in all cases an 
image is the likeness—more or less exact—of 
that by which, as a model, it is formed. To 
assume that this image " must " denote an ec-
clesiastical body, because if a political body 
was to be symbolized it would be symbolized 
as a beast, and not an image of a beast, is to 
speak at least unadvisedly. No doubt civil 
bodies would be symbolized as beasts, if they 
I were not sometimes as birds, and other things : 
" an eagle," (Ezek. 17:3, 7,) ; " a cedar," (ib. 
3, 12) ; " a rod ;" " a sword ;" " a staff;" a 
" wash-pot," &c. &c. Everybody knows that 
the same thing is often symbolized by different 
figures, and that the same figure often denotes 
different things.—See Miller's " Rules of In-
terpretation," Horne, and others. 
The Word of God was not given to furnish 
the materials for manufacturing theories of in-
terpietation ; much less to exhibit our skill in 
violating our own theories. It was given to 
make us acquainted with facts : facts, on which 
rests the great plan of redemption, and the 
knowledge of which is essential to our salva-
tion ; facts of history, which illustrate the moral 
government of God among the nations, and 
his providence over his church. And inter-
pretations which mire us acquainted with 
these facts, without theories, are better than 
theories without facts. All theories apart, 
however, if there could be an interpretation 
presented which applies the prophecy to an ec-
clesiastical body, so as to make all that is said 
of this image, and of the relative bodies, har-
monize, no objection could be urged against it. 
But so far this class of interpretations appear 
to be essentially deficient. Can we find, then, 
in the doings of the Franco-Italian state under 
Napoleon such facts as will correspond with 
this section of the prophetic sketch before us ? 
We shall see, as we pursue the interpretation. 
V. 14.—" Saying to them that dwell on the 
earth, that they should make an image to the 
beast, which had the wound by a sword, and 
did live." The peace of Amiens, between 
France with her allies and the other powers of 
Europe, when the power of Napoleon caused 
the .earik—the Roman world—to worship the 
Ni,o,,Unded beast, was of short duration. To 
carry forward the counter-revolution, which al-
lowed the old system to " live," was not enough 
to secure fellowship for the new state by the 
supporters of that system. The new state 
must be governed by rulers who were " legiti-
mate," in the sense of the old courts ; and so 
a pretence for continuing war against France 
was found in her new boundaries and alliances : 
" From these sources, on the one hand, and 
on the other, from Napoleon's soldier-like te-
merity, to play. continually for all or noth-
ing,' new war flowed incessantly."—Rotteck. 
" A sudden revolution had taken place in the 
excitable and passionate spirit of Napoleon. 
From those prospects of a laborious and fruit-
ful peace on which but lately he delighted to 
feast his active imagination, he turned all at 
once to-those visions of war, of prodigious 
greatness attained by victory, of the renewal 
of the face of Europe, of the re-establishment 
of the empire of the West, which but too of-
ten haunted his mind. From the benefactor of 
France and of the world, as he flattered him-
self that he should be, he resolved to become 
the wonder of both. 
" From that moment, that is to say, from the 
day on which the message of the king of Eng-
land was received, are dated his first orders ; 
and then it was that his mind, led astray in 
politics by the feeling of his power, again be-
came the prodigy of human nature."—Con. 
Emp., vol. 1, p. 492. 
The position of Napoleon, of the nations at 
the head of which he stood, and of their al-
lies, was taken with the greatest enthusiasm : 
all rushed to arms, not now to erect republics 
on the ruin of monarchies, but to sustain or 
overthrow the new state and the new dynasty 
of Napoleon, which, for more than ten years, 
every struggle only served to enlarge and 
strengthen. The new " European system " 
created by these successes, we regard as " the 
image of the beast "—i. e., the image of the 
old system. 
The political pyramid, presented by the dif-
ferent sections of that old system, was on this 
fashion, The world, Europe, Rome, the Pope! 
The new system gave to it this fashion : The 
world, Europe, France, Napoleon! 
The state-
ment of Alison, whose national, political, and 
theocratical sentiments, often make it difficult 
to see, and of course to speak, the truth, gives 
the whole truth in this particular, in a few 
words : " To concentrate the world in Europe, 
Europe in France, France in Paris, and Paris 
in himself, was the perpetual object of Napo-
leon's ambition."—Hist. of Europe, c. lxx. 
Count Montholon gives the following as Na-
poleon's own statement of the case : " Those 
who are to hold the reins of such a kingdom 
should comprehend the full value and bearing 
of the favorable position which France enjoys, 
and never suffer a nation which is destined to 
be a sun to be a satellite. The whole of my 
policy was uniformly directed by this opinion, 
both during the Consulate and Empire. I was 
ambitious to effect the fusion of all the great 
interests of Europe, as that of parties had been 
effected in France—to become the arbiter be-
tween nations and their kings." Who can fail 
to see that the " policy " which created the old 
system was the same as that which created its 
image—the new system ? In the old system 
Rome was the sun ; all other nations the satel-
lites : in the new system ,France becomes the 
sun. Rome had become the sun by the arts 
of her ambitious lord, as arbiter between rm-
tions and their kings ; the modern lord of 
France and Italy was ambitious to perform the 
same office for the benefit of France. The 
" arbiter " in each case took the lion's share. 
The relation of the new state, with Napo-
leon at its head, to the new European system 
is thus stated by Rotteck : " But this empire, 
as the French publicists already declared open-
ly, was a double, a direct and indirect em-
pire. The first consisting of France with all 
incorporated countries, the second of the vassal-
states, which were governed as much as possi-
ble by princes of the house of Napoleon, at all 
events by grand-dignitaries or high functiona-
ries—always by subjects—of France and the 
emperor, or maintained by other, carefully tied 
bands, especially by the introduction of French 
laws, in dependence upon the mother state and 
its ruler. In this manner seventy million souls, 
one half belonging to the direct empire, and 
the other to the indirect, obeyed already the 
sceptre of Napoleon. 
" In order that all the relations possible 
should be concentrated in the person of the em-
peror alone, and in order that, out of him, not 
one spark of independent dignity should exist, 
the subjection of his own house was yet want-
ing. He effected it by the imperial family 
statute,' (March 30th, 1806,) whereby he tight-
ened equally the chains of the French empire, 
and those of the allied states. All the members 
of the imperial house were thereby put, during 
their lives, and although they occupied foreign 
thrones, into absolute dependence upon the em-
peror. The grand dignitaries of the empire, 
and the dukes, were also condemned at the 
same time to similar submissiveness. It was 
expressly and openly enjoined upon those whom 
the emperor elevated upon foreign thrones, that 
their first duty bound them to the emperor, 
their second to France, and then came the duty 
to their nations. And such nations, the slaves 
of. slaves, were audaciously called free and in-
dependent ! 
" France was, therefore, presented first in 
the system of the allied states, that is to say, 
vassal-states, as the power preponderating to 
the welfare of all ; a system which, according 
to its object and plan, was to embrace gradually 
all Europe, nay, the whole civilized world."—
Hist. of the World, vol.4, pp. 163, 165-6. 
Thus, says Rotteck, " the whole system of 
the European states was overthrown." 
The " new nobility "—" the members of the 
imperaial house "—have been spoken of in the 
extracts quoted. In the " Encyclopmdia Ameri-
cana " we are informed, that " all those who 
immediately belonged to the new dynasty, or 
were united with it, were to be attached to 
France by a federative system." For this pur-
pose a "family law" was carried into effect in 
1806. Fur particulars, on the members of the 
new nobility, the reader can refer to a work, 
entitled, " The Court and Camp of Napoleon." 
A few of the new kings, princes, dukes, counts, 
barons, ,Sec. &c., will show how extensively 
this new European system was laid out. Jo-
seph Bonaparte was made king of Naples and 
Sicily ; and afterwards king of Spain. Jerome 
was made king of Westphalia ; and Louis, 
king of Holland. Napoleon himself was at 
the same time emperor of France and king of 
Italy. Eugene, son of Napoleon's wife—Jo-
sephine—was made vice-roi of Italy, and suc-
cessor of Napoleon. Murat, who married one 
of Napoleon's sisters, was made a prince of 
the empire, and received the Grand Duchy of 
Berg. Bacciochi, the husband of another sis-
ter, received the principality of Lucca. Tal-
leyrand and Bernadotte were created dukes. 
And a general distribution of conquered king-
doms and provinces, among the French gene-
rals, under various titles, completed the list of 
the new nobility. 
Napoleon also obtained the title of " arbiter 
of Europe ;" and it is in this capacity that the 
inroads upon the old system were perpetrated 
on the broadest scale. 
In 1806 the Confederation of the Rhine was 
formed in Paris, after tearing asunder the old 
political union of Germany, and Napoleon, as 
its " Protector," became ruler of the greater 
part of that empire. The emperor Francis re-
signed his crown, that the plans of Napoleon 
might be carried out. A family quarrel arose 
in the Spanish Court. Napoleon became " me-
diator,"and Charles IV. resigned his crown, to 
make room for Joseph Bonaparte. The royal 
family of Portugal fled across the Atlantic to 
Brazil, because they preferred the favor of 
England to the adoption of the new system.—
And orders were issued to Junot, a French 
general, " to administer the government of the 
whole of Portugal in the name of the emperor 
Napoleon."—Alison. 'Thus, as Scott remarks, 
" kingdoms had become the cards, which he 
shuffled and dealt at pleasure, with all the in-
difference of a practical gamester." No lan-
guage could e*press more happily the resem-
blance between the office of Napoleon, as " me-
diator," in the new system, and that of the 
Pope, in the old system. 
V. 15.—" And he had power to give life unto 
the image of the beast, that the image of the 
beast should both speak, and cause that as ma-
ny as would not worship the image of the 
beast should be killed." It would be impossi-
ble to symbolize more exactly the history of 
Napoleon's political plans. He first secured 
the homage of the whole of revolutionary 
Europe to the old system—so that they wor-
shipped the first beast, and peace was ratified. 
England, at the instigation of his enemies, de-
clined to fulfil the terms of that peace : France 
and her confederates took their position : the 
necessary result was the new system, the plan 
and purpose of which was then announced ; 
as appears from the extract we have already 
given front Thiers. The new European sys-
tein was thus laid out, and must be animated by 
the spirit, and endowed with the authority of 
its creator. The manner of the coronation at 
Paris and Milan must suffice for an illustra-
tion :— 
" Napoleon, secretly cherishing the design 
of some day re-establishing the Empire of the 
West, wished his throne to be surrounded by 
vassal-kings. For the present, he had made 
his brothers, Joseph and Louis, grand digni• 
taries of the empire ; he intended soon to 
make them kings, and he had even now pre-
pared a throne in Lombardy for Joseph. His 
design was, that, on becoming kings, they 
should still remain grand dignitaries of the 
empire. They were to bear the same relation 
to the French empire of the West as the 
princes of Saxony, Brandenburg, Bohemia, 
Bavaria, Hanover, &c., bore to the Germanic 
empire. 
It was necessary that the ceremony of 
the coronation should correspond to that design, 
and be an emblem of the reality that was in 
preparation. He had not allowed that the 
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neither sorrow, nor crying, neither shall there 
be any more pain : for the former things are 
passed away."—Rev. 21:4. 
Note 6.—Only lessened ? The declaration 
of the prophet—we do not mean Dr. Cox, but 
" The inhabitant shall not say, I 
am sick."—Isa. 32:24. 
Note 7.—Marriage there ? Says the SA- 
VIOUR : " But they which shall be accounted 
worthy to obtain that world, and the resurrec-
tion from the dead, neither marry, nor are giv-
en in marriage : neither can they (lie any 
more : for they are equal unto the angels; and 
are the children of GoD, being the children of 
the resurrection."—Luke 30:35, 36. The Doc-
tor may think this quotation irrelevant: it 
however evidently synchronizes with the text 
on which this sermon is based, and which the 
Doctor correctly places at the commencement of 
the millennium. " That world," here spoken 
of, must be the world, or age, which succeeds 
the end of this (Matt. 13:39), to which time 
the children of the kingdom and the children 
of the devil are to grow together, and when 
the harvest will take place : " then," says the 
SAVIOUR, " shall the righteous shine forth as the 
sun in the kingdom of their Father."—V. 43. 
That kingdom must be the kingdom referred to 
in the text. 
Note 8.—Says ISAIAH : " There shall be no 
more from thence an infant of days."—Chap. 
65:20. 
Note 9.—Such a state of things in the pres-
ent dispensation will seem to reverse time SA-
VIOUR'S declaration : " Wide, is the gate and 
broad is the way that leadeth to destruction, 
and many there be which go in thereat : be-
cause strait is the gate, and narrow is the way, 
which leadeth unto life; and few there be that 
find it." What a pity it is that such incorrect 
views of " the bright and the blessed destina-
tion of the world " prevailed at the time the 
Bible was written ! ! 
Note 10.—The Bible, in that case, will be 
received as it is written ! 
spoke those words."—Thiers' Consulate and 
Empire, vol. 1, pp. 632-6, 664-5. 
This independence of all but " god," so 
conspicuously manifested in laying thfounda-
tion of the new " federative systerv," was 
maintained in the creation of all its parts.—
" He gave life unto the image." Emperors 
and kings had sometimes gone to Rome to re-
ceive their crowns from the Pope; and in all 
Papal states they received them from his ap-
pointed agents. But now the Pope goes to 
Paris, not to crown, but to grace the ebronation 
of the head of the new state. " Neier," says 
Thiers, " had such a thing been knojwn in all 
the preceding eighteen centuries of thd church !" 
(Continued from our last.) 
Do we believe God in his own worrls ; and is 
our faith so sincere, so luminous, so cordial, as 
to be operative and constraining too ? What are 
we. doing, each in his own sphere, and place, 
and example, public or private, direct or indi-
rect, praying or working, or both, or all of 
these, in the cause of Christ, and for his mani-
fested glory in the earth ? But, respecting 
what we are to do.—the connection of these 
coming results 
IV. WITH HUMAN AGENCY SUBORDINATE, 
claims our attention. 
Whatever the millennium may be in future 
history, we now view it as a predicted state of 
piety for long enduring ages ; [Note 1 ;] in 
which the truth of Christ, and the grace of 
Christ, shall predominate among all the nations 
of living men : making them Christians; res-
toring them to goodness and to God, as his 
worshippers and his children ; pacificating all 
the world ; banishing irreligion and false reli-
gion, superstition, bigotry, fanaticism, heresy, 
false philosophy, infidelity, ignorance, indo-
lence, oppression, persecution, and every false 
way, with mainly every wrong practice, from 
the world. " Every plant which my heavenly 
Father bath not planted, shall be rooted up." 
This consummation must occur in this world, 
since in that better country, to which we go, 
there is no such plant. [Note 2.] 
There violence shall never lift the sword, 
Nor cunning justify the proud man's wrong, 
Leaving the poor no remedy but tears. 
Then he that fills an office, shall esteem 
The occasion it presents of doing good 
More than the perquisite ; then law shall speak 
Seldom, and never but as wisdom prompts 
And equity ; not jealous more to guard 
A worthless form than to decide aright ; 
Then fashion shall not sanctify abuse, 
Nor smooth good-breeding, supplemental grace, 
With lean performance ape the work of love. 
What a blessed transformation of society will 
be everywhere effected, by the preponderating 
righteousness of those happy times. " Right-
eousness exalteth a nation," as nothing without 
it can. In every department of human inte-
rest, social and individual, what a reformation, 
what a melioration, what a metamorphosis ; 
truly " a new creation " of sentiment and cha-
racter, and action ! Think of those monster 
evils that continue for chiliads of time to haunt 
and mar our social welfare ; and which, law, 
and police, and jails, and gibbets, and military 
power, and worldly education, and worldly 
legislation, can never coerce or cure—they will 
all disappear and vanish from our view. Noth-
ing is wanting but sincere and enlightened 
faith in the gospel of Christ among all nations, 
to introduce the millennium and regenerate the 
world. [Note 3.] The spirit of love to God 
will diffuse that of love to man ; the very way 
for the development of true piety. Hence each 
will feel an interest in the weal of every other 
member of the species. The color of the skin 
will not then be the criterion of duties or of 
rights. Education will be honest, and Chris-
tian, arid universal, in the main. Mind will 
be everywhere informed, developed, invigo-
rated, and matured. ,The only monarchy on 
earth will be properly the theocracy of God 
our Saviour ; and under him, like Israel before 
monarchy was given them in his anger, every 
state will be a homogeneous and worshipping 
republic, a commonwealth of Christians. It is 
probable that a qualified and virtuous democ-
racy, without ambition, usurpation, envy, or 
military coercion, will generally prevail and 
endure. [Note 4.] Laws shall be few, rea-
sonable, useful, and well administered. Wars 
shall cease ; slavery be no more ; no duelling, 
no gambling, no internal profaneness, no lewd 
pleasures, no intemperance, no idleness, no ca-
lumnious assassination of character, no corrupt 
merchandizing or commerce, no sectarianism—
CHRISTIAN NI ill be all, the brotherhood of hu-
man nature will be restored, and physical com- 
bishops of the peers should hold the crown 
suspended above his head, or even that the 
chief of bishops, the Bishop of Rome, should 
place it on his brow. For similar reasons, it 
was his will that his brothers, destined to be 
vassal-kings of the Grand Empire, should take 
beside him a position which should plainly in-
dicate that future vassalage. He therefore re-
quired that when he, clad in the imperial 
robes, should proceed to the interior of the 
church, from the throne to the altar, from the 
altar to the throne, his brothers should bear the 
train of his robes. He required this not only 
for himself, but also for the empress. It was 
the princesses, his sisters, who were to perform 
to Josephine the service that his brothers were 
to perform to him. An energetic expression of 
his will was required to obtain this. Although 
his kindness rendered domestic quarrels pain-
ful to him, he was very absolute when his reso-
lutions concerned the views of his policy. 
" He was not to assume the imperial costume 
until he reached the Archbishopric, and at the 
moment of entering the church. Escorted by 
his marshals on horseback, he proceeded slow-
ly along the Rue St. Honore, the Quay of the 
Seine, and the Place Notre Dame, amidst the 
acclamations of immense crowds, delighted to 
see their favorite general become emperor, as 
though he had not himself achieved this with 
his excitable passions, and his warlike heroism, 
and as if some touch of a magic wand had 
done it for him. Napoleon, on arriving before 
the portico which we have already described, 
alighted from his carriage, proceeded to the 
Archbishopric, took the crown, the sceptre, and 
the imperial robe, and directed his course to 
the cathedral. Beside him was borne the 
grand crown, in the form of a tiara, and mod-
elled after that of Charlemagne. At this first 
stage of the ceremony he wore only the 
crown of the Caesars, namely, a simple golden 
laurel. All admired that noble head, noble be- 
neath that golden laurel, as some antique me- 
dallion. Having entered the church to the 
sound of pealing music, he knelt, and then 
passed on to the arm-chair, which he was to 
occupy previous to taking possession of the 
throne. 
" The ceremony then commenced. The 
sceptre, the sword, and the imperial robe had 
been placed on the altar. The Pope anointed 
the emperor on the forehead, the arms, and the 
hands, then blessed the sword, with which he 
girded him, and the sceptre, which he placed 
in his hand, and approached to take up the 
crown. Napoleon, who had watched his move-
ments, now, as he had promised, settled that dif-
ficulty on the spot, by firmly, though not vio-
lently, seizing the crown, and placing it upon 
his own head. This action, which was per-
fectly appreciated by all present, produced an 
indescribable effect. Napoleon, then, taking 
the crown of the empress, and approaching Jo-
sephine, as she knelt before him, placed it, 
with a visible tenderness, upon the head of the 
partner of his fortunes, who at that moment 
burst into tears. This done, he proceeded to-
wards the grand throne. He ascended it, fol-
lowed by his brothers, bearing the train of his 
robes. Then the Pope, according to custom, 
advanced to the foot of the throne to bless the 
new sovereign, and to chant those words which 
greeted Charlemagne in the basilick of St. 
Peter, when the Roman clergy suddenly pro-
claimed him Emperor of the West : " Vivat in 
eternum semper Augustus." At this chant, 
shouts of " Vive l'Empereur ! " resounded 
through the arches of Notre Dame; the cannon 
added their thunder, and announced to all Paris 
the solemn moment of Napoleon's consecra-
tion, with all the forms received among man-
kind. 
" Such was the august ceremony which con-
summated the return of France to monarcnical 
principles. 
" On the 26th of May, Napoleon was 
crowned in the cathedral of Milan, with as 
much pomp as that with which he had, six 
months previously, been crowned, at Paris, in 
presence of the ministers of Europe, and of 
the deputies of all Italy. The crown of iron, 
reputed to be the ancient crown of the Lom-
bard kings, had been conveyed from Monza, 
where it is carefully kept. After Cardinal Ca-
prara, Archbishop of Milan, had blessed it with 
the forms anciently used in the case of the 
German emperors, when crowned kings of Ita-
ly, Napoleon placed it upon his own head, as 
he had placed that of Emperor of the French, 
pronouncing, in Italian, these decisive words, 
" God has given it to me, let him beware who 
shall touch it !" (Dio me l' ha, quoi a chi la 
tocchera !) He sent a thrill through all pres-
ent by the significant accents in which he 
forts, it is supposed, will abound. Toe age of 
man will be lengthened ; [Note 5 ;] disease 
will be lessened ; [Note 6 ;] the productions 
of the earth will be abundant ; marriage will 
be honored universally as the institution. of 
God ; [Note 7 ;] the population of the world 
will be ten-fold, and earth itself will reflect the 
countenance of heaven. The Lord's day will 
be everywhere honored and obeyed. It will be 
richly enjoyed, appreciated, and blessed. —
What Christians will those ages produce, when 
men shall show themselves Christians, and 
Christians shall show themselves men ! How 
omnipotent will be the truth ; no madness left 
on earth to doubt it ! Children will be gene-
rally converted early, will grow in grace as 
they grow in years [8] ; and rare will be the mo-
ther, the sin of whose son, and perhaps his vio-
lent death, will break her heart !* IN hat a 
procession of glorified millions, in those ages, 
shall crowd the brightened way to the open 
portals of the realms of glory ! What a colo-
ny of multitudes, countless and beatified, will 
earth remit to heaven, fixing there at last the 
grand majority of the species, the glorious pe-
ctin= and the proper premium of the Son of 
God ! [Note 9.] 
Theology will be improved—that is, the 
truth of revelation, in itself unchangeable, will 
be more simply and fully studied, more per-
fectly undestood, with more purity inculcated, 
and with more wisdom used and applied. No 
impious hypocrite will ever attempt to super-
sede the truth, or alter it, or modify its heaven-
descended unity, or dare to prostitute as the 
mere medium of his own vapid self-glory. [10] 
No elaborate simpleton will ever aim at originali-
ty for its own sake, or make it an end instead of 
a means, in appearing as the exponent or the 
advocate or the oracle of the truth, vaunting 
himself to be somebody ; and none will be so 
squalid as to make a party, or even desire the 
pre-eminence among his peers; humility, that 
signal of wisdom, will then predominate, quali-
fying all, and making demonstration in all, of 
" simplicity and godly sincerity, not fleshly 
wisdom, by the grace of God," characterizing 
his ministers and all their works. There will 
be then no heresy-hunter, no heresy-finder, 
and no heresy-maker, to disturb the faith of 
saints and mar the devout peace of the church-
es of God. 
0 scenes surpassing fable and yet true ; 
Scenes of accomplished bliss! which who can see, 
Though but in distant prospect, and not feel 
His soul refreshed with foretaste of the joy? 
—(To be continued.) 
Note 1.—GOD says that " the saints of the 
Most High shall take the kingdom and possess 
the kingdom forever, even forever and ever."—
Dan. 7:18. Why speak only of ages? Is it 
more difficult to believe what GoD says of the 
future than it is of the past ? 
Note 2.—GOD has said how they shall be 
rooted up :— 
" Let both grow together until the harvest : 
and in the time of harvest I will say to the 
reapers, Gather ye together first the tares, and 
bind them in bundles to burn them : but gather 
the wheat into my barn. . . . The field is the 
world ; the good seed are the children of the 
kingdom ; but the tares are the children of the 
wicked one ; the enemy that sowed them is 
the devil, the harvest is the end of the world, 
arid the reapers are the angels. As therefore 
the tares are gathered and burned ; so shall it 
be in the end of this world. The Son of man 
shall send forth his angels, and they shall ga-
ther out of his kingdom all things that offend, 
and them which do iniquity; and shall cast 
them into a furnace of fire : there shall be wail-
ing and gnashing of teeth. Then shalt the 
righteous shine forth as the sun in the kingdom 
of their Father. Who bath' ears to hear, let 
him hear."—Matt. 13:30, 38-43. 
Believest thou this ? It is after this rooting 
up, that the kingdom appears in its predicted 
glory. 
Note 3.—Nothing wanted but this ? Why, 
then, does the blessed SAvIouR testify," Surely 
I come quickly "? 
Note 4.—On what Scriptures is that proba-
bility based ? " In that day the LORD shall be 
King over all the earth." 
Note 5.—Only lengthened ? The revelator 
says : " And GOD shall wipe away all tears from 
their eyes; and there shall be no more death, 
* Sometimes with augmented reason, when she 
neglected, or deceived, or corrupted his early educa-
tion, and the consequent remorse is felt. 
Lectures on Prophecy. 
Continued from the Herald of Dec. Sth. 
Friday evening, Nov. 16th, President Wee-
thee being detained in Boston by sickness, Mr. 
Southard commenced the subject of the Four 
Monarchies, succeeded by the kingdom of God. 
The Bible, he remarked, is not a history of 
all nations, but of a Pilgrim Family, the seed 
of Abraham, from the original promise B. C. 
1920, to the second advent of Christ. It por-
trays the trials and sufferings of that family 
with inspired accuracy. Other nations are 
brought to view only as they are associated 
with it. 
Under the old covenant, the members of this 
family are called Jews; under the new, Chris-
tians; under both, Israel, and the seed of Abra-
ham. The destiny of this family has been in-
timately blended with four great successive 
empires. With the fourth only, has it been 
concerned in its Christian form. 
Proposition 1st. Without a thorough know-
ledge of the four empires, the Old Testament 
cannot be fully understood. 
2d. A knowledge of the fourth monarchy is 
essential to the complete understanding of the 
New Testament. 
In proof of these propositions he gave a brief 
sketch of the four empires. 
I. Babylon. Its immense capital probably 
occupied the spot where the tower of Babel 
stood. A hundred years before the time of 
Nebuchadnezzar, it was foretold to Hezekish 
by Isaiah, that the treasures of the Temple and 
palace at Jerusalem should be carried to Baby-
lon. In the vision of Nebuchadnezzar, Dan. 
2d, it is represented by the head of glittering 
gold, and in Dan. 7th by the majestic winged 
lion. These are fit emblems for that city where 
the image of gold, more than a hundred feet 
high, was set up, and for that people which 
came down upon Jerusalem, with all the power 
and majesty of the lion, and with the swiftness 
of eagles. See Jer. 4 : 7, 13. 
2. In the night when Belshazzar was slain, 
Cyrus took the kingdom for his uncle Darius, 
and the Medo-Persian empire was established. 
This is represented by silver in the image, and 
by the bear which devoured much flesh : both 
THE ADVENT HERALD. 
1 
The barbarians were despised and kept sepa-
rate as much as the colored people have ever 
been in this country. A certain emperor chose 
a wife from among the barbarians, but he could 
not introduce her into society. 
In the book of Revelations, the fourth power 
has different symbols. In chapter 12th, it is 
seen as a great red dragon having seven heads 
and ten horns, and seven crowns upon its heads. 
The seven heads denote the chief officers of 
seven administrations, differing in name and 
character. The first head is the Regal. At 
time foundation of the Roman state, the supreme tion as this, and by which it would be attempt-
power was vested in one person called a king. ed to rule out the grand principle affirmed by 
Swedenborg, and constituting one of the dis-
tinguishing doctrines of the New Church.—
[Note 1.] The issue is to be distinctly made 
on the naked proposition above enounced by 
Mr. L., and by the decision resulting the 
whole controversy respecting the literal resto-
ration of the Jews is to be determined. We 
pause not for a moment before the filmy breast-
work of metaphors, metonymies, and hypoca-
tastases, behind which he would intrench him-
self. They are to us as so many spiders' webs 
in relation to time real merits of the question in 
debate. Have the terms Judah, Israel, Jeru-
salem, Zion, and a hundred others occurring in 
the Old Testament prophets a representative 
i. e., a spiritual import in multitudes of pas-
sages where they occur ? This is the point to 
be determined, and to this point we shall hold 
the debate in despite of all the centrifugal 
tendencies impressed upon it by Mr. L. The 
whole matter hinges exclusively upon the truth 
or fallacy of the position, that throughout both 
the historical anti prophetical portions of the 
Word there is an involved, inner, or spiritual 
sense, in addition to the outer, or literal sense 
—a sense which has respect exclusively to 
things of the Divine Spirit of the Lord in its 
regenerating influence upon the souls of men 
—and a sense which is not only not recog-
nized in Mr. L.'s system of figures and sym-
bols, but the existence of which he labors 
strenuously to disprove. 
In such an elaborate working up of the figu-
rative elements of Scripture as Mr. L. presents 
us withal, it is not a little surprising that he 
has nowhere attempted to found his system 
upon a philosophical basis. The idea of trac-
ing hack the laws of language to the psycho-
logical principles of our nature seems never 
once to have occurred to him, although it is 
indisputable that they lie at the foundation of 
the whole subject. At the present day, when 
every branch of research, scientific, msthetic, 
and theological, is re-mounting upwards to the 
sphere of first principles and primary causes, 
it were fairly to have been expected of one who 
claims to have opened new views of the genius 
of the sacred tropes and figures;that he should 
have aimed to cast some light upon that inte-
rior ground-work in the human mind upon 
which the true canons of exegesis necessarily 
build themselves. It is only by gaining some-
what of a clear insight into the relation be-
tween the moral and mental constitution of man 
and the principles which govern the structure 
of the Divine Word that we can obtain an ade-
quate clew to guide us in threading the laby-
rinth of its mysteries. Yet it is here that we 
are compelled to chronicle one of the most se-
rious defects in our author's lucubrations. His 
mode of treatment of the subject, notwithstand-
ing his astuteness in many particulars, is su-
perficial as well as fallacious, and fallacious 
mainly because superficial. 
Now, whatever else may be said of the in-
terpretations taught in the New Church, it 
cannot be denied that they profess to rest upon 
fundamental law's which refer themselves di-
rectly to the nature of man, intellectually and 
immorally considered, and it is only by an expo-
sition of the laws in question that we can hope 
to be able to detect and confute those dogmas 
of literalism asserted by Mr. L., which carry 
with them a total corruption and vastation of 
the revealed truth of heaven, [Note 2.] That 
with us there is an admitted claim of divine 
authority in the assertion, as there was of di-
vine illumination in the discovery, of these 
laws, is undoubtedly true, but we rest not the 
stress of our argument on this fact in the pres-
ent controversy. We rely upon the internal 
evidence of the soundness of the principles af-
firmed, and upon this ground alone do we claim 
to be met in the field of debate. 
A statement, in the briefest compass, of what 
we regard as the central and fundamental doc 
trine on the subject before us. would perhaps 
embody itself in the proposition, that man has 
a spiritual nature to which a spiritual sense is 
adapted. There is evidently in every human 
most appropriate symbols. As silver is less 
bright out harder than gold, and as the bear is 
less majestic but more ferocious than the lion, 
so did Persia compare with Babylon. 
When Alexander arose from the west, 
hurrying, like a leopard, to conquest, with his 
" brazen mailed Greeks," he overturned the 
Persian empire, then under Darius Codornanus, 
first defeating his generals, who with 600,000 
came against his little army of 30,000, on the 
Granicus, near old Troy, and completing the 
conquest on the plains of Arbela, near Nine-
veh. 
In Dan. 8th, these two kingdoms are ex-
pressed by name, in the interpretation of the 
vision of the ram and he goat. The rain was 
a fit emblem for Persia. whose kings wore a 
ram's head of gold and precious stones, for a 
crown, a ram being the armorial ensign for the 
empire. The Greek word Egece [for goat] was 
the name of the capital of Macedon two hun-
dred years before the time of Daniel. Their 
standard was a goat, and the people were called 
Egeade, or " the goat's people." 
The fourth or Roman empire was appro-
priately represented by the legs of iron and 
the terrible monster beast, with its ten horns 
representing the nations of Europe which have 
been formed out of it. 
Concerning its fate we are told that it shall 
be dashed in pieces—given to the devouring 
flame—broken without hand. We are also 
told that the little horn shall make war, and 
prevail until the saints of the Most High shall 
take the kingdom and possess it forever. This 
cannot be in a state of mortality ; but when 
the Lord shall be revealed from heaven with 
his mighty angels, when he shall send his an-
gels with a great sound of a trumpet to gather 
his elect from the four winds, from pne end of 
heaven to the other, when the dead shall be 
raised incorruptible, and the righteous shall 
shine forth as the sun, in the kingdom of their 
Father. The most important question for 
every reader is, Am I, by faith and obedience 
to Christ, an heir to that kingdom ? 
The Scriptures we have considered plainly 
teach that there is to be no temporal millen-
nium, so fondly dreamed, when the broad way 
will be the way to glory. He who would be 
saved must strive to enter the narrow way, and 
be willing to take up his cross and follow 
Christ, though all the world beside may deny 
him. 
Friday evening, (Nov. 23d,) President Wee-
thee-continued the subject of the four kingdoms. 
He read Dan. 7 : 9-12.—" I beheld till the 
thrones were cast down, and the Ancient of 
days did sit, whose garment was white as snow, 
and the hair of his head like the pure wool: 
his throne the fiery flame, his wheels burning 
fire. The judgment was set, and the books 
were opened. I beheld then because of the 
voice of the great words which the horn spake, 
1 beheld till the beast was slain, and his body 
given to the burning flame. As concerning 
the rest of the beasts, they had their DOMINION 
taken away, but their LIVES were prolonged.—
One like the Son of man came to the Ancient 
of days, and there was given him dominion, 
and glory, and a kingdom 
his dominion is an 
everlasting dominion which shall not pass 
away, and his kingdom that which shall not be 
destroyed." 
This prophecy is an expansion of that which 
had recently been given by Ezekiel. Speak-
ing of the crown, or diadem, as the representa-
tive of dominion, he says, in the name of Je-
hovah, " I will overturn, overturn, overturn it, 
till he shall come whose right it is, and I will 
give it him." Three successive earthlyrn 
domin-
ions were to rise, after the time of Ezekiel, who 
prophesied in the days of Babylonish suprema-
cy. These are represented by the bear, the 
leopard, and the nameless terrible beast. Of 
all but the last, it is said their " lives were pro-
longed " when their dominion was taken away. 
This will be easily understood, by remember-
ing that each of these governments had its own 
proper territory, and its own capital; and one 
after another gained the supremacy over the 
surrounding nations. When that supremacy 
was lost, the people remained on their own 
territory, though in a subordinate position—but 
the fourth beast is utterly destroyed, when the 
kingdom of Christ is established. 
By the eleventh horn in the fourth beast, so 
diverse from all the others, nearly all Protestant 
commentators understand a power connected 
with the Papacy. 
In the parallel prophecy in Dan. 2d, the clay 
mingling- with the iron evidently represents the 
barbarians mingling with the Romans, which 
they did, 1st, as slaves, 2d, as soldiers, 3d, as 
allies, 4th, as conquerors. " But they shall not 
The regal administration included the reign of 
seven kings, and covers a space of 240 years—
terminating with the tyranny of the last Tar-
quin, B. c. 513. 
Second head—Consular, to B. c. 499. 
Third head—Dictatorial, to B. c. 493. 
Fourth head—Decemvirate, to B. c. 449. 
Fifth head—Tribunitian. 
Sixth head—Imperial. The Imperial ad- 
ministration commenced under Augustus Cee-
sar, after the battle of Actium, B. c. 31, and fell 
A. D. 476, and was again restored Dec. 25th, 
A. D. 800. 
During these administrations, the civil rulers 
belonged to the Pagan church, and were there-
fore clothed in its peculiar garb. Up to the 
time of our Saviour there was no special per-
secution on account of religion. At the time 
of the first advent, the Romans had legalized 
nearly all the superstitions of the world. The 
idols of the conquered nations were introduced 
into the family of gods, until the number arose 
to 300,000. But that body of rulers, which 
had been the patron of all gods, became an 
enemy to the religion of the ONE GOD. In three 
hundred years there were ten general persecu-
tions. In the time of Thedosius the Great, 
A. D. 385, the Pagan ceased to be the religion 
of the Senate. 
This brings US to the LEOPARD or TRANSITION 
age, (Rev. 13th,) extending from A. D. 384 to 
540. Two hundred years had now transpired 
since the clay—the Germans—had begun to 
mingle with the pure iron—the Romans. The 
Senate had cast off its ancient religion, and 
adopted a new form of worship. The period 
is remarkable for the struggles between two 
dynasties, which eventuate in the transfer of 
the diadem to the Romano-German family.—
The period is aptly represented by the leopard's 
spotted coat. The first seven nominal Chris-
tian emperors were really the high priests of 
Paganism. They may be represented by the 
beast having two horns like a lamb, which 
spake like a dragon. 
The period we have passed over is also 
marked by the first four trumpets, of which 
Alaric, Genseric, Attila,,and Odoacer, were the 
executive agents. 
We now come to the third or scarlet age. 
(Rev. 17th.) From this chapter we draw four 
noted events. 1st. The rise of the little horn 
to supreme power. 2d. The legal establish-
ment of the Roman hierarchy. 3d. The re-
establishment of the imperial power. 4th. The 
twelve hundred and sixty years' war with the 
saints. The crown, which was at first on the 
heads, and next on the horns, is now on neither, 
but on the head of the woman. Lack of space 
forbids enlargement here. 
The discourse was designed to illustrate this 
proposition : a knowledge of the fourth empire 
is, to Christians of this age, of the first con-
sequence. 
Because its destiny is intimately blended 
with that of the Christian church in every age. 
Because of its religious aspect ;— now 
Pagan, and then Christian. It has been always 
religious, but requiring close attention to detect 
the counterfeits. 
Because of its enmity to our Saviour.—
The Romans crucified Christ, and persecuted 
his followers—first as Pagans, and next as Pa-
pists. 
Let the following propositions be carefully 
weighed. 
Cmsar was never a friend to Christ. 
He never will he. 
Nor can we be in friendship with both.—
" Ye cannot serve God and Mammon." 
Earthly kingdoms are to be all destroyed, 
and succeeded by the everlasting kingdom of 
God. Are you an heir of that kingdom ? —
Providence lilirrror. 
The Letter and the Spirit, 
BY PROFESSOR BUSH. 
(Continued from our last.) 
Now we would have it understood that it is 
to us of no kind of consequence what arbitrary 
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The application of this is easy. By the di-
vine influence operating on the soul, in con-
junction with man's action in putting away 
evil, the internal spiritual nature is quickened 
into incipient vitality, and begins to crave the 
appropriate food upon which it must live when 
separated from its present fleshly integument, 
like the butterfly from time caterpillar.* The 
natural man, answering to the creeping worm, 
receives the grosser literal sense. The spirit 
ual man, within the natural, extracts his need-
ful pabulum out of a sense interior to that of 
the letter, but it is a sense of which the letter 
is the receptacle or continent. The letter must 
have the finer element essentially included in 
the grosser, and this interior element is the spi- 
* In a letter lately received by the editor from a 
friend and relative, now a missionary in Siam, the 
writer remarks that a butterfly, in the language of 
the natives of that country, is-indicated by two terms 
signifying, " A spirit's robe." 
cleave one to another," says the prophecy.—Idefinitions of figures Mr. L. may adopt and being the potentiality of the opening of an in-
parade with such dogmatic assurance. The I terior faculty by which he becomes conversant, 
simple question is, Whether there is in fact with that class of subjects denominated spirit-
such a spiritual or representative sense as is ual, and having relation to the Lord, to his 
denied in the following sentence occurring kingdom, to the life after death, to regenera-
above :—" There is no possible or conceivable tion, and to the Holy Scriptures. This is, in 
process by which the names, Israel, House of fact, the grand distinction between the natural 
Jacob, Judah, or Jews, when they are the sub- and the spiritual man. The one has a percep-
ject of time affirmation, can mean anything else lion of these spiritual truths which the other 
than what they literally denote,—the descend- has not—truths entirely removed beyond time 
ants of Jacob, the Jewish people." We care sphere of the natural and the sensual, which 
not au rush what asserted laws of figures or constitute the more congenial element of the 
symbols are arrayed in support of such a posi- unrenewed or natural mind. Such an one 
consequently not only has new views of truth, 
but he exercises a new class of affections, and, 
in a word, lives a new life; and as all life is 
supported by appropriate nourishment, he ne-
cessarily hungers and thirsts for that species of 
sustenance which is suited to the newly-devel-
oped appetencies of his soul. This sustenance 
is treasured up in the written Word, as grain 
is treasured up in the garner. It is not found 
merely in the sense of the letter. [Note 3.]—
A new-born instinct prompts him to penetrate 
beyond the letter to the spirit. Having now a 
spiritual principle awakened within him, he 
extracts from the Word a spiritual sense, for 
in this he finds the nutriment of his life. Un-
der the promptings of this higher impulse, such 
an one in uttering, for instance, the petition in 
the Lord's prayer, " Give us this day our daily 
bread," does not limit his ideas to the thought 
of the natural bread by which the body is sup-
ported, but advances onward and inward to the 
idea of that spiritual food by which the soul is 
nourished to eternal life ; according to the di-
vine declaration, that " man shall not live by 
bread alone, but by every word that proceedeth 
out of the mouth of God." Consequently the 
words convey to him a spiritual sense super-
added to the sense of time letter, and it is a 
small matter with him whether such a sense is 
recognized by the rules of rhetoric, or whether 
it will come into any such categories as he 
finds detailed in Mr. L.'s hermeneutics. But 
he cannot withhold a smile at the intimation, 
that the same word cannot have both a literal 
and spiritual meaning at the same time, when 
he looks at the word " bread " in the Lord's 
prayer, and so in thousands of other instances. 
[Note 4.] 
The matter may receive a familiar illustra-
tion. It is well known that the caterpillar, 
grovelling on the earth, has enwrapped within 
it an embryo butterfly, which is finally to be 
developed out of it, and, when developed, is to 
enter upon another mode of life, and to be sus-
tained by another medium than that of its pa-
rent worm. It is thenceforth to live in the air 
instead of creeping on the ground, and is to 
draw its nourishment from new sources. The 
caterpillar may stand as the emblem of the 
natural, and the butterfly of the spiritual man. 
Suppose, now, that the butterfly life should be-
gin to be quickened in the caterpillar body, and 
there to put forth its new instincts, is it not 
clear that it would crave something for its sus-
tenance more sublimated and ethereal than the 
gross food of the worm ? But situated as it is 
—enfolded within the caterpillar form—it can 
only receive the nutriment of its life through 
the medium of the reptile organization. Yet, 
upon this, in the crude state in which it enters 
the body of its parent, it cannot live. The raw 
material must be, by some process, elaborated 
and refined, in order to be adapted to the sus-
tentation of the delicate life within. By and 
by, when developed and detached from its 
present tenement, it will seek its food itself 
from such sources as will yield it; but until 
the period of its elimination arrives it must 
subsist upon elements received through another 
medium, and adapted by a mysterious chylo-
poietic process to his wants. 
164 
THE ADVENT HERALD. 
ritual sense. That there is such a spiritual 
sense within the letter of the divine Word is 
just as certain as that there is a spiritual nature 
in man. [Note 5.] The one is the necessary 
correlate of the other. 
It is obvious, from the vein of the above re-
marks, that man, considered in reference to the 
spiritual department of his being, is in close 
relation • with the inhabitants of the spiritual 
world ; that he is, in this respect, abiding un-
der substantially the same conditions and laws ; 
and consequently, that any reliable light which 
might be thrown upon the state of spirits dis-
embodied, would naturally reflect itself upon 
the conditions of the spirits sojourning in flesh ; 
just as the more we know of the butterfly as a 
butterfly, when released from its grovelling 
shell, the more we know of it in its rudimental 
germ within the primitive organism. Of this 
advantage we deem ourselves to be possessed 
by means of the special revelations made 
through a chosen instrument to the Lord's New 
Church. [Note 6.] 
Note 1.-While we dissent from Mr. LORD in his 
conclusions respecting the Jews, we deny that Swe-
denhorgianism can get any advantage from the prin-
ciples on which the denial is based. 
Note 2.-Here again human reason is placed above 
revelation. 
Note 3.-How can man gather from the letter a 
sense not conveyed by it, in accordance with estab-
lished usage I 
Note 4.-Professor Bust' offers no proof of a spi-
ritual scree here! Why should we look for more 
than the letter expresses in' bread, when full forgive-
ness and complete protection are expressed by the let-
ter of subsequent portions of the same prayer. 
Note 5.-Perhaps not ! Assertion is more easy 
than proof. 
Note 6.-As we see no evidence of the truth of 
SWEDENBORG'S declarations, it would be irrelevant for 
us to copy his testimony. Disputed evidence will 
riot decide a contested point. If the Professor has any 
evidence in Scripture, we shall be happy to present it. 
"BEHOLD! THE BRIDEGROOM COMETH!!" 
BOSTON, SATURDAY, DECEMBER 22, 1849. 
1)e lbuent (*ca. 
not, and is about to ascend from the abyss, and to go pp. 381-2,) and Dr. Haus' Analysis of Chronolo-
to perdition, i. e., it is the same wild beast which had 
before been exhibited in its dragonic form, and thus 
was; which ceased for a time to be visible,-when 
the government of Rome was subverted by the bar-
baric irruption from the north ; and which after that, 
should come up out of the abyss into which the 
dragon descended, with its diadems removed from its 
heads to its horns-denoting that then, they would 
represent the seat of power,-and that under that 
form it should continue till it should go into perdition, 
at the end of the world. As in the 13th chapter they 
wondered after the beast ; so here JOHN is given to 
understand that this is the same beast after whom 
the world wondered-all whose names are not written 
in the book of life from the foundation of the world. 
He proceeds to explain : " The seven heads are 
seven mountains where the woman sits on them, and 
are seven kings."-Lord's Translation. That is, 
the seven heads in this vision are the same as the 
seven mountains where the woman sits on them in the 
preceding unrecorded vision ; and are seven kings, or 
forms of government :-these seven forms of govern-
ment are symbolized by both the heads and the moun-
tains. Thus the mountains are not an explanation 
of other symbols, but are identified with them as the 
symbols of a previous vision, and are both explained 
in connection. 
These forms of Roman government we have be-
fore presented ; but as some may read this who have 
not the exposition of the 13th chapter at hand, we 
will again present them. 
The entire beast, being a symbol of the fourth, or 
Roman kingdom, the heads are the forms of gov-
ernments administered in the kingdom. Says Mr. 
LORD :- 
" The commentators who regard the wild beast as 
symbolizing the Roman empire, unite generally in ex-
hibiting the forms of government which its first six 
heads denote as the Kingly, Consular, Dictatorial, 
Decemviral, Tribunitial, and Imperial ; but differ in 
respect to the seventh."-Exp. of Apoc., p. 394. 
Says Mr. ELLIOTT 
" In explanation, then, of the first six heads, I 
adopt, with the most entire satisfaction, that gene-
rally-received Protestant interpretation, which, fol-
lowing the authoritative statements of Livy arid Taci-
tus, (the latter great historian St. John's own con-
temporary,) enumerates Kings, Consuls, Dictators, 
Decemvirs, and Military Tribunes, as the first five 
constitutional heads of the Roman city and common-
wealth ; then, as the sixth, the Imperial head, com-
mencing, with Octavius, better known as Augustus 
Caesar."-Horn Apoc., vol. 3, p. 99. 
The supreme power was at one time vested in a 
king-the regal head, till B. c. 513. From B. c. 509 
to B. c. 499 it was vested in two annual magistrates 
called consuls, with nearly regal power. It was vested 
in a Dictator five years, to B. c. 493, and was after-
wards resorted to in an emergency. It was wielded 
by ten men-a decemvirate, till B. c. 449. It was 
vested for one year in the hands of five men elected 
by the people-the tribunitian. Then followed the 
emperors, till the accession of CONSTANTINE, when 
the form of government underwent a change equal 
to any of the preceding. 
Five of these had fallen, or passed away, when 
JOHN wrote-the five first-named. One then was-
the first form of the imperial ; and the next, the sec-
ond form of the imperial, was to continue for a short 
time, when the empire was overwhelmed by the in-
cursions of the northern barbarians. When this 
wild beast, thus overwhelmed, should be not for 
a season, it should after appear, coming up out of 
the abyss under another form of government-even 
an eighth, or the kingly. Thus in the preceding, in 
the re-appearance of the beast the diadems had been 
transferred in the symbols from the heads to the horns. 
They were of the previous seven, and sympathized 
in the same blasphemous assumptions of prerogative. 
And under this form of government the beast goes 
into perdition. 
" The ten horns which thou didst see are ten 
kings, who have not yet received a kingdom, but re-
ceive power as kings in one hour with the wild 
beast."-Lord. That is, they are kings who are con-
temporary, and act harmoniously and in concert, so 
that, although under these separate divisions, they 
shall in the uniformity of their policy constitute a 
whole, and make the beast as efficient, and as much 
of a unit as it was under the succession of the heads. 
These ten coming up in the same hour, they are not 
successive, like the heads. 
There has been great agreement among Protest-
ant writers respecting the ten horns of this beast. 
The first ten kingdoms which existed in Western 
Rome. According to MACCHIAVELLI, the historian, 
(Hist of Flor., h. 1,) and Bishop LLOYD, an excel-
lent chronologer, (in LOWTH'S Com. on the Proph., 
tions, and tongues. And the ten horns, which thou 
didst see, and the wild beast, these will hate the har-
lot, and will make her desolate and naked, and will 
eat her flesh, and burn her tip with fire. For God 
hath put it into their hearts to perform his purpose, 
and to agree, and give their kingdom to the wild 
beast, until the words of God shall be fulfilled. And 
the woman whom thou didst see is the great city, 
which reigneth over the kings of the earth."-Rev. 
17 : 1-18. 
We are indebted to Mr. Lortn's Exposition of the 
Apocalypse for some thoughts on this chapter, which 
make plain and clear what has been by former ex-
positors left inexplicable-viz., that portion of this 
chapter which refers to the heads and mountains.-
It is said, " the seven heads are seven mountains 
where the woman sitteth ;" from which it has been 
argued that the mountains, being an explanation of 
symbols, were not symbols, but literal hills,-the 
hills on which Rome is built. To this exposition, 
however, there had always been the following diffi-
culty. The mountains being the same as the heads, 
what is true of the heads, must be true of the moun-
tains. But five of the heads had fallen ; had five of 
the mountains of Rome fallen ? One of the heads, 
in a former vision, was wounded to death : was one 
of the hills of Rome thus wounded ? One of the 
heads had not appeared at the time JOHN wrote did 
a new hill subsequently come up in Rome, and con- 
tinue for a short time ? These difficulties weigh 
against such an interpretation. Again, as that sym-
bolized by the body must bear a relation to that sym-
bolized by the heads, analogous to that sustained by 
the corresponding symbols, it follows that if the 
heads symbolize the mountains of Rome, the body 
roust symbolize the rest of its territory. But the 
territory is not bloody or blasphemous : it is the gov-
ernments which exist on that territory which perform 
the acts symbolized ; and consequently the heads of 
the beast 'mist be the successive heads, or forms, of 
that government. In explaining this, we fulfil seve-
ral pledges heretofore made, when correspondents 
have alluded to this subject. 
The reader will perceive that the subject is com-
menced in the 17th chapter abruptly,-as if it had 
been under consideration, and now something addi-
tional was to be presented in relation to it. Says the 
angel, " Come here, and I will show thee the judg-
ment of the great harlot who sitteth on many waters, 
with whom the kings of the earth committed fornica-
tion, and they who dwell on the earth have been 
made drunk with the wine of her fornication."-
What harlot? None had been before recorded. Nor 
does he now show him a woman in the condition re-
ferred to ; but shows her on a scarlet-colored beast. 
It is very evident that a harlot sitting near many 
waters, had before this been a subject of considera-
tion, and that he now proposes to show her judgment. 
It is therefore very certain that a vision which is not 
recorded had been presented to the eye of the reve-
lator, in which the woman exhibited on the scarlet-
colored beast in the succeeding vision, was seen sit- 
ting near many waters, and in connection with which 
were seven mountains. The reason that this vision, 
is not recorded, Mr. LORD suggests, is because the 
woman is there exhibited holding illicit commerce 
with the kings of the earth, and inflaming the people 
with the wine of her fornication-exerting an agency 
which was unsuitable for description, but which is 
sufficiently indicated by the express reference to her 
position and acts, in the offer of the angel to show her 
doom. After such a representation, as that supposed 
to he exhibited in the unrecorded vision, the judg-
ments to he inflicted on her would be the natural se- 
quel, and thus naturally follows. But instead of 
again presenting the woman in that position, he show's 
her in still another position-on the scarlet-colored 
beast. And this, from its resemblance to a like beast 
in the 13th chapter, enables the revelator at once to 
recognize its identity with that, and the relation 
which the woman sustains to it. 
In the subsequent vision she is seated on the seven-
headed and ten-horned beast which appeared in the 
vision of the 13th chapter. That the beasts are the 
same, needs no argument : it is admitted by all com-
mentators. When the revelator sees her in this new 
position, a position so different from that in the un-
recorded vision, he wonders with great wonder.-
Why did he wonder? There was something myste-
terious in the new position of the woman. He had 
seen her unhallowed intercourse, and had gone to see 
her judgment. Instead of beholding her suffering 
the vengeance of Divine indignation, he sees her 
seated on the beast which before he had seen the 
world wondering after and worshipping ! Therefiire 
the angel proceeds to explain the mystery of the 
beast and woman in the new symbolized relation.- 
gy, (v. 2, b. 1, pp. 536-8,) the first ten kingdoms 
were as follows: 1. The Huns, in Hungary, A. D. 
356. 2. The Ostrogoths, in Mysia, in A. D. 377. 3. 
The Visigoths, in Pannonia, A. D. 378. 4. The 
Franks, in France, A. D. 407. 5. The Vandals, in 
Africa, A. D. 407. 6. The Sueves and Alans, in 
Gascoigne and Spain, A. D. 407. 7. The Burgun-
dians, in Burgundy, A. D. 407. 8. The Heruli and 
Rugii, or Thuringi, in Italy, A. D. 476. 9. The 
Saxons arid Angles, in Britain, A. D. 476. 10. The 
Lombards, in Germany, A. D. 483. 
These ten have but one mind-one system of in-
ternational policy-the laws of nations being the 
common law, which regulates their intercourse with 
each other. 
They shall make war with the LAMB: they shall 
oppose his interests, and the establishment of his 
kingdom. But the LAMB shall overcome them. The 
stone cut out of the mountain without hands will 
smite the image of Dan. 2d, on these, its feet, and 
they, with the preceding portions of the image, will 
be broken to pieces together, and no place be found 
for them. 
We now turn to the woman : She is seated on the 
wild beast. In the 13th chapter, when the same 
wild beast was presented, it had its counterpart, not 
in the presence of the woman sitting on it, but in the 
image which was made to it. Here the woman takes 
the place of, and synchronizes with, the image of 
that vision. She sits on the beast, and is sustained 
by its governments. The Papacy, or Roman hier-
archy, was sustained by the secular arm. She was 
seated on the nations symbolized by the beast. She 
is decked in the attire of the harlot-showing her 
departure from the simplicity of the white robes in 
which the bride, the LAMB'S wife, is arrayed. She 
has in her hand a golden cup full of abominations-
the impurities of her fornication-the false doctrines 
with which she had intoxicated the nations, and 
made them subservient to her impure purposes; arid 
thus by an unhallowed union with state, accomplished 
for it, to the dishonor of her Master, what she should 
have striven for to advance His honor and glory. 
On her was a name written, Mystery, the great 
Babylon, the mother of harlots and abominations of 
the earth. She is the maternal parent of all eccle-
siastical combinations, which, living in unhallowed 
connections with the civil power, are more anxious 
to serve their political and secular ends, than to glo-
rify GoD. As Babylon of old was the great op-
pressor of the saints, so during the reign of the wild 
beast the Papacy was the great instrumentality by 
which the true church was persecuted and enthralled. 
Acting the part of the Babylon of the old dispensa-
tion, it is fitly termed the mystic Babylon of the 
new ; and as such is appropriately symbolized by the 
Babylon of the Apocalypse-having become intoxi-
cated with the extent of her power and success, in 
shedding the blood of the saints. Fifty millions is 
the common estimate of the numbers martyred by the 
sanction of the Roman hierarchy. 
" The waters which thou didst see, (in the pre-
vious unrecorded vision,) where the harlot sitteth, 
are peoples, and multitudes, and nations, and 
tongues." That is, they are the nations, and sym-
bolize the same that in this vision the beast does on 
which she sits. 
The ten horns will hate the harlot, and make her 
desolate and naked, and will eat her flesh and burn her 
with fire. The support they rendered to her should 
be changed to hatred. Says Mr. Loan :- 
" When, however, she has nearly run her career, 
the kings are to hate tier, to rob her of her wealth, 
divest her of her ornaments, make her naked, devour 
her flesh, and burn her with fire ; God has put into 
their hearts to fulfil his will, and act the part which 
is ascribed to them as they are symbolized by the 
horns of the wild beast, until his words are accom-
plished. The conversion of the kings to hatred and 
disarray of the great idolatress, devouring her flesh 
and burning her with fire, has already in a degree ta-
ken place, in the disallowance and scorn of her impe-
rious claims in most of the European states, the con-
fiscation of her property in France and slaughter of 
many of her priests, the robbery of the churches, 
monasteries, and ecclesiastics, of their wealth, wher-
ever the French armies penetrated during the wars 
of the Revolution, the conquest of the Papal states, 
and dejection of the Pope from his throne by Bona-
parte, the secularization of many of the ecclesiastical 
territories in Germany, the dissolution of the reli-
gious houses and confiscation of ecclesiastical prop-
erty in Spain and Portugal during the revolutions in 
those countries, the resumption by the civil rulers of 
Austria and other kingdoms of the nomination to 
bishoprics and other rights which had been conceded 
to her on the erection of the image in the eleventh 
and twelfth centuries, and in the abrogation in Great 
Britain of the monopoly of civil offices by the mem-
bers of the establishment; and these retributive judg- 
The Judgment of the Harlot. 
INTERPRETATION OF SYMBOLS, FIGURES, &C. 
" And one of the seven angels, who had the seven 
howls, came and talked with me, saying, Come here ; 
I will show thee the judgment of the great harlot 
who sitteth on many waters; with whom the kings 
of the earth have committed fornication, and the in- 
habitants of the earth have been made drunk with 
the wine of her fornication. And he carried me 
away in spirit into a desert : and I saw a woman 
seated on a crimson-colored wild beast, full of names 
of revilings, having seven heads and ten horns. And 
the woman was arrayed in purple and crimson, and 
decked with gold and precious stones and pearls, 
having a golden cup in her hand full of abominations 
and the impurities of her fornication : and on her 
forehead a name was written, A SECRET, BABYLON, 
THE GREAT, THE MOTHER OF THE HARLOTS AND THE 
ABOMINATIONS OF THE EARTH. And I saw the wo-
man drunken with the blood of the saints, and with 
the blood of the witnesses of Jesus : and when I saw 
her, I wondered greatly. And the angel said to me, 
Why dost thou wonder? I will tell thee the secret 
of the woman, and of the wild beast that carrieth her, 
which bath the seven heads and ten horns. The 
wild beast, which thou didst see, was, and is not ; and 
will asceril out of the abyss, and go into destruction : 
and those, who dwell on the earth, will wonder, 
(whose names were not written in the book of life 
from the foundation of the world,) as they behold 
the wild beast that was, and is not, and will be. And 
here is the mind having wisdom. The seven heads 
are seven mountains, on which the woman sitteth.-
And they are seven kings : five are fallen, and one 
is, and the other is not yet come; and when he com-
eth, he must remain a little while. And the wild 
beast that was, and is not, even he is the eighth, and 
is of the seven, and goeth into destruction. And the 
ten horns which thou didst see are ten kings, who 
have not yet received a kingdom; but they receive 
power as kings, one hour, with the wild beast. These 
have one mind, and will give their power and strength 
to the wild beast. These will make war with the 
Lamb, and the Lamb will overcome them : for he is 
Lord of lords, and King of kings ; and those with 
him are called, and chosen, and faithful. And he 
saith to me, The waters, which thou didst see, where He says: The beast that thou sawest, was, and is 
the harlot sitteth, are peoples, and crowds, and na- 
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ments, are doubtless to be continued and carried to a 
'greater severity."—Exp. of Apoc., pp. 498-9. 
For GoD hath put it into their hearts to give their 
kingdoms to the wild beast—not to the woman—until 
the purpose of GOD shall be fulfilled against the wo-
man, when she is to be destroyed by the brightness of 
CHRIST'S coming. There is then still to be a uni-
formity of purpose among the nations of Europe 
against the Papacy—the great city—the mystical 
Babylon which has empire over the kings of the 
earth, and the doom of which is unfolded in the next 
chapter. 
The Advent Season. 
We are now in the season of the year set apa'rt by 
the liturgy of the Episcopal Church, for the presenta-
tion of the evidence of the second coming of CHRIST ; 
and denominated by it the Advent Season. It com-
prises the four Sundays preceding Christmas. To 
the existence of this feature in that liturgy, is proba-
bly to he attributed the fact, that so many of the 
clergy of that Church in England (more than five 
hundred, it is said,) are advocates of the doctrine of 
the personal pre-millennial Advent. It is well to 
have the mind called occasionally to the subject of 
the first Advent, as well as the second. The annual 
recurrence of Christmas, though not known to he the 
precise anniversary of the SAVIOUR'S birth, yet being 
as likely to be that as any, it is very suitable to make 
it an occasion of recalling to mind the great facts in 
the history of his birth, life, death, resurrection, and 
ascension ; and this by a law of association necessa-
rily brings to mind the declaration of the angels on 
that last occasion : This same JESUS that ye have 
seen go into heaven, shall so come again in like man-
ner as ye have seen him go into heaven. 
The liturgy of the Episcopal Church was arranged 
in its present form more than two centuries since, 
with subsequent trifling alterations. Being written 
so long since, it is interesting to notice, by its con-
tinued reference to the resurrection and personal ad-
vent, what a prominence was then given to these 
subjects. 
In every morning church service is chanted the 
anthem, closing with— 
" For He cometh, for He cometh to judge the 
earth ; and with righteousness to judge the world, 
and the people with truth." 
Also in every morning service, the entire congre-
gation repeat the following creed, which for its anti-
quity is called the Apostles' Creed :"— 
" I believe in God the Father Almighty, Maker of 
Heaven arid Earth : and in Jesus Christ his only Son 
our Lord ; who was conceived by the Holy Ghost, 
Born of the Virgin Mary, Suffered under Pontius 
Pilate, was crucified, dead, and buried ; He descended 
into Hell [or went to the place of departed spirits] ; 
The third day he rose from the dead ; He ascended 
into Heaven ; And sitteth on the right hand of God 
the Father Almighty ; From thence he shall come to 
judge the quick and the dead. I believe in the Holy 
Ghost ; the Holy Catholic [or universal] Chuich ; 
The communion of saints; The forgiveness of sins; 
The resurrection of the body, and life everlasting. 
Amen." 
In another creed following it reads :— 
" He suffered and was buried, and the third day 
he rose again, according to the Scriptures, and as-
cended into heaven, and sitteth on the right hand of 
the Father ; and he shall come again, with glory, to 
judge both the quick and the dead ; whose kingdom 
shall have no end." " And I look for the resurrec-
tion of the dead, and the life of the world to come." 
From time immemorial, there has been one sea-
son each year, commencing four Sabbaths before 
Christmas, and extending to Christmas day, called 
the " Advent " season, which is set apart for a more 
particular contemplation of those Scriptures which 
bring to view CHRIST'S second Advent. During this 
season, the following collect is ordained to be repeated 
each day :— 
" Almighty GOD, give us grace that we may cast 
away the works of darkness, and put upon us the 
whole armor of light, now in the time of this mortal 
life, in which thy St n Jesus Christ came to visit this 
earth in great humility ; that in the last day, when 
he shall come again in his glorious majesty to judge 
both the quick and dead, we may rise to life immor-
tal, who liveth and reigneth with thee and the Holy 
Ghost, now and ever. Amen." 
For the third Sunday in Advent is the following : 
" 0 Lord Jesus Christ, who at thy first coming 
didst send thy messenger to prepare thy way before 
thee; grant that the Ministers and Stewards of thy 
mysteries may likewise so prepare and make ready 
thy way, by turning the hearts of the disobedient to 
the wisdom of the just, that, at thy second coming 
to judge the world, we may be found an acceptable 
people in thy sight who livest and reignest with the 
Father and the Holy Spirit, even our God, world 
without end." 
The manifestation of CHRIST to the Gentiles is 
called the Epiphany, arid its anniversary is still ob-
served. On the sixth Sabbath after, is used the fol- 
lowing collect :— 
" 0 God, whose blessed Son was manifested that 
he might destroy the works of the devil, and make 
us the sons of God and heirs of eternal life ; grant 
us, we beseech thee, that having this hope, we may 
purify ourselves, even as he is pure ; that when he 
shall appear again with power and great glory, we 
may be made like unto him in his eternal and glo-
rious kingdom," &c. 
Again, in another collect, we read :— 
" Mercifully grant that we both follow the example 
of his patience, and also be made partakers of his 
resurrection, through the same Jesus Christ our 
Lord." 
Again :— 
"Grant," &c., " that through the grave and gate 
of death we may pass to our joyful resurrection, for 
his merits, who died, and was buried, and rose again 
for us, thy Son Jesus Christ our Lord." 
The appointed service for the burial of the dead 
begins with— 
" 1 am the resurrection and the life, saith the 
Lord ; lie that believeth in me, though he were dead, 
yet shall he live : and whosoever lived' and believ-
eth in me, shall never die."—John 11 . 25, 26. 
" I know that my Redeemer liveth, and that he 
shall stand at the latter day upon the earth : and 
though after my skin, worms destroy this body, yet 
in my flesh shall I see God : whom I shall see for 
myself, and mine eyes shall behold, and not another." 
Job 19:25-27. 
Then follows the reading of the 15th chapter of 
1 Corinthians. Then, when the body is committed 
to the grave, the minister says :— 
" Forasmuch as it hath pleased Almighty God, in 
his wise providence, to take out of this world the 
soul of our deceased brother, we therefore commit 
his body to the ground ; earth to earth, ashes to 
ashes, dust to dust: looking for the general resur-
rection in the last day, and the life of the world to 
come, through our Lord Jesus Christ; at whose sec-
ond coming in glorious majesty to judge the world, 
the earth and the sea shall give up their dead ; and 
the corruptible bodies of those who sleep in him shall 
he changed, and made like unto his own glorious 
body ; according to the mighty working whereby he 
is able to subdue all things unto himself." 
The foregoing presents us the doctrine of the Ad• 
vent in its purity, as it was delivered to the saints, 
and as the church has earnestly contended for it.—
And although it is presented to that church " every 
Sabbath day," and " read in their hearing," yet 
many, it is to be feared, no more realize its import 
than did the Jews his first Advent, predicted in 
" the words of the prophets which were read every 
Sabbath day " to them. 
Christianity a Failure. 
In reference to a charge made by the Hartford 
Calendar, some weeks since, that the President of 
one of the New England Colleges had pronounced 
Christianity a failure, a writer in the Puritan Re-
corder of this city says :— 
" If the charge were intended for the President of 
Dartmouth College, it is false testimony. On theo-
logical doctrines, Dr. LORD is strictly Calvinistic. In 
regard to the second coming of CHRIST, his senti-
ments vary from the great body of the Congrega-
tional ministry of New Hampshire. He sympathizes 
with Judge JONES, of Philadelphia, with Dr. Due-
FIELD, of the Presbyterian church, at eo omni genere. 
" Their theory in part, as I find from Judge JONES' 
publications, is, that the world will never be con-
verted, nor any great advance made towards it ; at 
least, not greater than has been made from age to 
age since the first advent, until CHRIST, the Restorer, 
comes again to set up his kingdom and reign per-
sonally on the earth. In this sense, they may believe 
Christianity, in its present form and with its present 
appliances, is a failure ; i. e., fails, and always will 
fail, to subdue the world to CHRIST. 
" They hold the sentiment, that there were to be 
three dispensations in the world : the first, the Jew-
ish, extending to the first advent of CHRIST ; the 
second, from the first to the second advent ; the 
third, the reign of CHRIST personally on the earth, 
under which he will destroy his enemies, and give 
the church its triumph. 
" Under the second dispensation, CHRIST was to 
have an elect church ; the offer was first made to the 
Jews that they should compose that elect church ; 
but when they rejected the offer, they were excluded, 
and the Gentiles were made subjects of the gracious 
gift. This elect church is to be composed of a defi-
nite number ; and as soon as that number is made up, 
CHRIST will come and assume his reign in person.—
There is inducement, then, to use effort for the con-
version of sinners, that the day of his coming may 
be hastened. But Christianity in its present form, 
they think, will fail to convert the world ; and for 
that reason, ' is a failure.' 
"I have penned the above statements from recol-
lection, not having seen the works referred to within 
the four years past. I have not made a full state-
ment. 
" Now, I am aware that the belief of such theo 
ries must modify, or cast a shade over the ministra-
tions of any man ; and yet, it may not affect his 
piety. It does influence the preaching of Dr. LORD. 
But no man that knows him would dare to allege that 
he was not ardently pious, nor say that his whole in-
fluence was not in favor of goodness. 
" There is a tinge of melancholy overspreading his 
views, when he thinks or speaks in relation to the 
condition of this upside down world,' as he terms 
it ; and this belief is a discouragement to effort ; al-
though he, Dr. L., would not admit that such was 
the case. But if he could catch the spirit which ani-
mated the meeting of the Board at Pittsfield, it would 
dispel the gloom, and urge him on to increased effort 
for the spiritual welfare of the young men of his 
charge. 
I am aware that his sentiments have abated to-
wards him, in some degree, the cordiality of the min-
istry of the State, unjustly, I think. They may be 
assured by one who has opportunity to know, that 
he does not attempt to impose his views upon those 
under his charge. 
" The writer of this article is a voluntary witness, 
he has consulted no man as to the expediency of it. 
He has no sympathy with the views of Dr. L. in re-
lation to the personal reign of CHRIST on earth. But 
justice and truth require a flat contradiction of the 
supposition, that Dr. L. means by saying that Chris-
tianity is a failure, what the accuser understands by 
it. He believes that Christianity, in a renovated 
form, under the reign of CHRIST on earth, will be 
the power of GOD to salvation." 
PANORAMA OF THE BIBLE.—Having been favored 
with an exhibition of this noted panorama, we shall 
be allowed to express its impressions on our mind.—
We seemed like passengers in a vessel moving upon 
some smooth sheet of water, so that our own pro-
gress was imperceptible, except in the ever-varying 
scenery tending in an opposite course. Our voyage 
began at Chaos, and terminated at the Captivity in 
Babylon, extending over thirty-six hundred years of 
time. The painting is nearly a mile long, by ten 
feet in breadth, and has thirty-one distinct scenes, 
each of which is from fifteen to thirty feet long.—
Leaving Chaos, we were suddenly startled by the 
first flashes of light, which served only to bring more 
distinctly in view the amorphous masses of a world 
unfasliio4ed. Soon the dry land appears, and the 
waters are gathered. The earth, at first naked and 
rocky, is now clothed in a green vesture. Plants 
and trees appear, and the earth smiles in its Eden 
beauty. The creation of animals and the fowls of 
heaven, and their gathering before ADAM to receive 
their names, are graphically represented. The man-
sion being fitted up and furnished, man is brought 
forth in the image of his Maker, as the lord of crea-
tion. At length the Garden of Eden heaves in view. 
Its hills, its dales, its grove of evergreens, its mellow 
sky, lit up with the smiles of early morning ; its 
flowers of every species and hue, its fruit trees 
loaded, its bower, and its limpid streams, combined 
to render it a scene of no ordinary attraction. Ar-
riving at the east side of the garden, sadness gathers 
over the mind as we look upon our first parents ta-
king leave of their lovely home, to wander amid the 
wild and desolate haunts of a world withering under 
the curse. The martyrdom of ABEL is truly affect-
ing,. After progressing through centuries of moral 
depravity, we at length arrive in the vicinity of the 
Flood. The ark is completed ; the animals, gath-
ered by divine instinct, are entering. A caravan is 
passing, regardless of the long-threatened flood.—
They are " eating, drinking, marrying, and giving 
in marriage." How expressive of the era of the 
second advent of our Redeemer !—" So shall also 
the coming of the Son of man be." They enter—
the door is shut—the storm gathers—" the windows 
of heaven are opened "—" the fountains of the great 
deep are broken up." The world, with its wicked 
population, is submerged. The ark rides securely, 
as the wailings of the perishing die away amid the 
howlings of the unmitigated tempest. Mount Ararat 
at length appears, with the ark resting securely 
near its summit, while the animals are wending their 
way to the plains below. Goo places his how in the 
clouds, and remembers his covenant. The scene of 
the separation of ABRAHAM and LOT is truly impress-
ive. The storm which destroys the cities of the plain 
is seen discharging its fury-floods on Sodom. Pass-
ing by the interesting scene of HAGAR and ISHMAEL, 
and of ABRAHAM offering up ISAAC, and of REBECCA 
at the well, we are introduced to the scene of JACOB 
at Bethel. The scene of the ladder, with the angels 
ascending and descending, is one of great interest. 
Moses in the ark of bulrushes is presented in an in- 
teresting manner. The burning bush is striking.—
The Israelites crossing the Red Sea is truly grand. 
The scene of Moses breaking the table of stone 
brings to the mind many solemn reflections. The 
scene of JosxuA commanding the sun to stand still 
is sublime. We at length arrive at the Captivity.—
This is a scene of great interest. The representa-
tion of the Hebrew captives by " Babel's streams " 
is truly pathetic. 
In conclusion we remark, that to the Bible student 
this panorama presents attractions of the highest or-
der. The artist has displayed much taste in his se-
lections, and great skill in his execution. Its influ-
ence on the young is decidedly good. One instance, 
illustrative of this point, we give.—A Sabbath school 
scholar, on leaving the scenes, exclaimed, " I should 
like to go to heaven, if it is handsome as paradise!" 
His sister replied, that " Heaven was more lovely ; 
for the street of the New Jerusalem was paved with 
gold !" 
FIRST BAPTISMS IN CONNECTICUT.—" There was 
no Baptist church in the colony of Connecticut pre. 
vious to 1705, but there were a number of baptisms 
which took place in Waterford, (then New London,) 
as early as 1674. The administrators were regular 
Baptist ministers from Rhode Island. Two years 
after, a portion of these converts 'fell into the errors 
of John Rogers, and were theneeforward known as 
Rogerines, who were severely persecuted for their 
interference in the worship of other bodies of pro-
fessed Christians. It has been too common to con-
found all the early Baptists of that vicinity with this 
singular sect. A considerable number of those first 
Baptist converts never were connected with the 
former, whom they disfellowshipped. The only 
sympathy they felt for them was, that they disap-
proved of the severity of the authorities towards 
them, and in this respect, they but shared in a feeling 
which was common to a respectable minority of the 
' standing order.'"—Hartford Christian Secretary. 
On reading the above, we were forcibly reminded 
of an article we read a short time since in the pe-
riodical from which we make this extract. It was 
showing that the Adventists had embraced various 
errors, without making any exceptions, when its con-
ductors well know that not one of those errors re-
ferred to have the least countenance from Mr. MIL-
LER, or those in his confidence. Why not be as just 
to us, as you wish others to be to the Baptists ? 
THE CLASS FOR MUTUAL IMPROVEMENT.—At a 
preliminary meeting of the class at No. 8 Chardon-
street, Dec. 18th, there were present Brn. OSLER, 
WEETHEE, EASTMAN, DANIELS, CHILDS, GUILD, 
SOUTHARD, BLISS, BILLINGS, and HALE. it WaS 
agreed to meet once in two weeks, and spend two 
days in each, in the endeavor to obtain a more tho-
rough knowledge of the Scriptures, by the study of 
the Word, and an examination of such sources of 
information as will aid in its study. 
The next meeting is to he on Monday, Jan. 7th, 
at half past 10, A. M. Lectures are appointed on 
Chronology by S. Berss, on Geography by N. 
SOUTHARD, on History by J. P. WEETHEE, on Rhe-
toric by the same, and on Grammar 'by A. HALE.—
All brethren interested are invited to be present. 
TO CORRESPONDENTS.—W.—We have a rule riot 
to commence articles to be continued till Ave receive 
the whole. So long a-series as fourteen letters looks 
somewhat formidable. And we do not like the plan 
of addressing a third person in the columns of a pe-
riodical. The custom is to write directly to the con-
ductors of the paper ; or on a subject. The episto-
lary style to a third person requires too many words 
to get to the point. Would it not be best to re-write, 
confine yourself directly to the subject, and condense 
into three, or four, or five articles, and have each one 
disconnected from the others. Long-continued let-
ters, except written with peculiar point, lose their in-
terest. Besides, the ground you propose to cover 
would be better adapted to those just looking at the 
subject, than to the generality of our readers. We 
throw out these hints for your consideration. 
J. LENFEST—Your statements in the Sheet Anchor 
respecting C. DEALTRY,—his assumed name, his il-
legal second marriage—his first wife being living and 
undivorced,—appear to be in accordance with the 
facts. 
T. krwATER—We do not find a copy of the obit-
uary. Please send a paper containing it. 
FATHER MILLER'S HEALTH.—Receiving a tele-
graphic despatch from Low Hampton on Saturday 
last, that Mr. MILLER was but just alive, Bro. HIMES 
left immediately for that place. Another telegraphic 
despatch, received on Wednesday, the day before we 
go to press, announces that Bro. H. has arrived, and 
Mr. M. is barely alive. 
In consequence of the above, Bro. Mates recalls 
all his appointments until further notice. 
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Correspondence. 
MY HOME IS IN HEAVEN. 
My home is in heaven, I care not to stay 
Where all things around me are doomed to decay ; 
I wish for a mansion most safe and secure, 
Whose foundations are holy and long to endure. 
My home is in heaven, I wish not to stay 
Where earth's sweetest pleasures but live for a day, 
Though we find a bright oasis, wandering here, 
It but to be left with a sigh and a tear. 
The pleasures of earth may charm for a while, 
And oft a sad heart with their secrets beguile, 
Their power soon lost, like sweet incense they fly, 
As roses yield up their rich treasures to die. 
Here health may forsake me, and trials annoy, 
Like shadows they darken my sunshine of joy, 
Yet sweet is that hope—a rare solace in pain, 
" If we suffer, so likewise with Him we shall reign." 
My home is in heaven, there bright like a star, 
The prize glistens proudly, through shades not afar; 
Afflictions like clouds may indeed veil the sky, 
But brighter the day, when the night has passed by. 
My home is in heaven, there free from alloy, 
Await me rich treasures of unfailing joy, 
More precious indeed than all earth's diadems, 
Yea, not to be measured by gold or by gems. 
I long for that country where skies are all fair, 
Where all things most lovely we ever may share, 
Where streams of pure crystal flow sweetly along, 
From life-giving fountains most joyful with song. 
There beauty is fadeless among the green bowers, 
And breezes are soft with the breath of sweet flowers, 
There rich tones of melody fall on the eat, 
Which angels themselves are delighted to hear. 
Then earth will be beautiful, richly arrayed 
In robes far more gorgeous than Eden displayed ; 
Each prospect shall smile with its rare wonders 
crowned, 
And dew-drops like diamonds shall sparkle around. 
I long for that region of unfailing bliss, 
Where all will he perfect, so unlike to this, 
Where holiness, like a rare jewel divine, 
In a breastplate of love most conspicuous shall shine. 
That city so glorious I long to behold, 
So garnished with rubies, with sapphires, and gold, 
Whose light is the Lamb, in the midst of the throne, 
Whose glory all nations with wonder shall own. 
No tears shall be there ; not a gloom shall prevail, 
Nor sorrows be known, nor temptations assail, 
For Jesus shall gather his flock with his arm, 
Forever to shield them from danger and harm. 
I long for that country : 0 ! soon may I share 
That home where can come no pain, sorrow, nor 
care ; 
There soon by my Saviour eternally blest, 
May I find, with his saints, that most glorious rest. 
Portsmouth, N. H. 
HEIRSHIP. 
BY G. NEEDHAM. 
" If children then heirs, heirs of God and joint-
heirs with Christ ; if so be that we suffer with him 
that we may be glorified together."—Rotn. 8:17. 
The epistle to the Romans, contains within itself 
a complete system of theology. After an introduc-
tion, by a most easy and natural transition, the Apos- 
tle proceeds to state the foundation of moral obliga-
tion ; the ground of condemnation ; the wide and 
awful departure of men from God ; the cause of it, 
viz., their unthankfulness and pride of healt; the 
course of God with them, giving them up to follow, 
unrestrained, their depraved desires; the wide spread 
and universal desolations of sin among the Gentiles ; 
the inexcusableness of the Jew, who, having superior 
light, and looking on the conduct of the Gentiles, 
condemned him, yet practiced the same thing, him-
self; and finally comes to the dreadful Judgment 
day, with the sharp sword of God's justice, drawn 
against all the workers of iniquity, whether Jew or 
Gentile, as unrelenting as the grim monster himself, 
with no avenue of escape for one " soul of man that 
doeth evil." 
But is there no way of escape from condemnation? 
Must the whole race of man perish ? Nay : verily— 
blessed be God ! But how ? Not by the law ; for 
by its deeds, no flesh shall be justified." But there 
is a promise. That promise was given to Abraham— 
it involves a posterity, and a possession, for that pos- 
terity. " Abraham believed God " and was justified 
—" it was counted to him for righteousness." The 
possession promised was the WORLD. Abraham 
became " heir of the world." The will, secured to 
him a " seed," who, on one side, should be of hea- 
venly origin. Strange and anomalous as it might 
seem, that SEED was to become the proprietor of the 
world, and Abraham his father, inherit it, by virtue 
of his relationship to him. 
The promise, made to Abraham, extends alike to 
all, circumcised, or uncircumcised, whe believe, as 
Abraham did. Thus, by the same easy transition 
we are led on, step by step, from the fall of man, 
his depravity, the certainty of judgment, the prom-
ised inheritance, the means of attaining that inherit-
ance, viz., justification by faith in the promised seed, 
and sanctification through his blood, to adoption, on 
trial, into the family of God, with the Spirit of our 
elder' brother, which is the spirit of adoption, sent 
forth into our hearts, crying Abba [father] father ; 
and thus constituting us children of God. " And if 
children then heirs, heirs of God and joint-heirs with 
Christ." 
Let us inquire— 
What is an heir? 
What is God? 
To what are the children heirs? 
W. Is time heirship conditional, or unconditional? 
V. When will the heirs receive their inheritance? 
I. What is an heir? 
He is not a possessor. No. He may be heir to 
millions, and yet starve for want of possession. He 
lives in hope or expectation of what he dues not, now 
possess. 
He is, therefore, 1st, one " who succeeds, or is 
to succeed another in the possession of landti, tene-
ments, and hereditaments, by descent," i. e., legally 
entitled " to succeed another :" or 
2d. He may become so by the gracious gift or 
bestowment of the owner. 
Let us then keep in mind, that, unto whatever a 
man is an heir, of that, he is not a possessor, or in-
heritor. 
Let us then inquire— 
II. What is God? 
(Our text says, God's children are " heirs of 
God.") 
He is the efficient cause of all things. It is vain 
to suppose that matter originated itself. Some power 
must have produced it—that power was its efficient 
cause, and that cause, we call God. 
Being then, the great producer of all things, all 
things by right, in Him, inhere. 
He is, consequently, the great proprietor of all 
things. No man disputes the title to, or proprietor-
ship of another, in a thing, who has been the lawful 
producer of that thing, even when producing it from 
something else. How much more must we acknow-
ledge the infinitely just right of God, to the owner-
ship of all beings and things, he, having originated 
them from nothing. In Him, and him alone they in-
here. He is by just and natural right the world's 
great landlord, and it, his domain. 
3 He is the rightful disposer of all beings and 
things. 
It is the insanity of nullification and anti-rentism, 
to deny Gud the right to dispose of all things, as in-
finite wisdom, shall dictate. Yea, it is infinitely 
worse. In the former case, the claim is set up 
against man. The rights of an equal, only, are in-
vaded : but in the latter, the rights of I AM are 
questioned. No man doubts the right of his neighbor 
to dispose of his horse or his farm, as his judgment, 
or interest shall dictate. Why? Ans., Who else, 
forsooth, may dispose of it, except the owner? 
The tornado sweeps over some portion of the earth, 
laying prostrate all that is beautiful, and leaving only 
desolation in its track, arid the poor inhabitants es-
caping with their bare lives, fall on their faces and 
thank God, that these are spared to them.—The 
mighty earthquake sinks a whole city, with all its 
riches ; and its splendors are buried beneath some 
brackish pool ; its busy multitudes have gone down, 
with their possessions, into the abyss, and the mid-
night winds sing their requiem, and time rolling surges, 
as they dash against the shore, echo back the mourn-
ful strains, over the spot, where, was wont to be 
heard the idiotic laugh, and the jocund mirth. 
The few half naked, bruised and frightened wretch-
es who escape, cast a doleful look behind them, as 
they hie away to a place of refuge, trembling with 
fear, but the last thing they dare to do, is, to suffer 
a murmur to escape from their hearts, against God 
for what has happened to them ! There go those 
possessions, and there let them go, is the response 
that spontaneously bursts forth from every lip, if 
nothing worse befalls them. 
He casts roan into a furnace of affliction, till, lilts 
Chaldea's proud monarch, he is e Wing to confess 
that " he doeth according to his will in the army of 
heaven, and among the inhabitants of the earth, and 
none can stay his hand." He touches the springs of 
life, and man—mortal man withers, like the green 
bough, cast into the burning flame, and none dare 
" say unto him, What doest thou?'" 
Will any dare to question the justice of God's final 
disposition of his great estate, or of its inhabitants? 
We shall see. 
He is the Ruler of all things. 
Whether in the moral or physical world, he, alone, 
is the Sovereign. He, alone, possesses the requisite 
qualifications. He is fitted by his infinite wisdom, 
benevolence, justice, and power. his wisdom quali-
fies him to legislate for the highest good of the great 
whole. He is qualified to weigh actions, with per-
fect exactitude. Seeing all things that ever have 
been, are, or will be, he understands all relations, 
however nice they may seem to us, and the exact 
bearing one thing has upon another, the extent and 
influence of each upon the other, and consequences 
of their fulfilment or violation. He knows what re-
ward to bestow, on one hand ; and what penalty to 
inflict, on the other. 
His infinite benevolence, restrains him from vindic-
tiveness, and his equally infinite justice, prompts him 
to the administration of punishment without partiality, 
and in measure according to desert. 
His Almighty power, fits him to bestow the re-
ward, or inflict the penalty, without let or hinderance. 
All events past, present, and future, were, are, and 
will be fulfilled, under the all-controlling agency of 
the Efficient Cause of all things. Although he has 
suffered evil to enter his government, yet, he has not, 
neither will he ever give up the reins to Satan,—
" God of this age " though he be. Government is, 
and is to he, in his own hands, forever. 
The fact that the order of his government has been 
interrupted in the present, militates not a whit against 
him as an infinitely wise, benevolent, and almighty 
Ruler, seeing He has revealed the origin of it, and 
the final termination of the same. 
He alone hath eternal life. 
He has revealed himself as " from everlasting to 
everlasting." This can be said of no other being. 
Man, is compared to " the grass "—to " the flower 
of the field "—" soon cut down." Decay is stamped 
en every thing, of which we have knowledge. All 
tends to one end—a termination. Not so with the 
uncreated God. " He is the same " (morally and 
physically) " yesterday, to-day, and forever." 
As uncreate, eternal life is an inherent quality.—
All created beings, if they live forever, possess this 
quality, as one derived. 
With these remarks, we are prepared to come to 
the inquiry — 
III. To WHAT ARE THE CHILDREN 'isms? 
Before answering the question, let me premise this 
great fact, viz. : that God has appointed Jesus the 
Anointed, the seeond Adam, "heir of all things" 
lost by the first. We say appointed, because neither 
Jesus, nor his disciples yet possess, the first jut of all 
God has promised, in redemption, to them, if we ex-
cept the " first fruit " and what may pertain to that. 
We answer, then- 
The children are heirs to an everlasting kingdom. 
That kingdom, is the one lust by Adam in his trans-
gression. It has, sometime in its history, been the 
summon property of all the fallen posterity of Adam, 
regardless of God and each other. For near eighteen 
hundred years, from the creation, i. e., till the days of 
Peleg, the kingdom, (the earth,) was the common 
property of each. Every one occupied so much as 
lie desired, or as his stronger, or less violent neighbor 
(see Gen. 6:11) might permit. 
Afterward, men began to associate in communities; 
and in communal capacity, to claim and exercise ju-
risdiction over such portions as they might acquire 
by original seizure, or afterward, by conquest of the 
thus stolen possessions, of others. Thus time whole 
race lived, till the days of Abraham, except the Pa-
triarchs and their families, they, understanding the 
true position of men, and the present posture of af-
fairs, only looked on this world as a preparatory place, 
and themselves as pilgrims and strangers in it. 
Two hundred years from the days of Peleg, and 
God called Abraham out of one of those predatory 
communities, and gave him a farm, for his posterity, 
and made himself heir to it, also. 
That farm, was then in the possession of squatters, 
which, in process of time Gud " drove out," by the 
hands of Moses and Joshua, and put the true heirs 
in possession of it. 
This is the only positive grant, from God, of any 
part of the kingdom, to men, since the days of Adam. 
The descendants of Abraham inherited it thus, about 
one thousand years, but being so unfaithful that God 
could endure with them no longer, (see Matt. 21:33-
43,) he gave their possession into the hands of a 
" base" family, and in theirs, and the hands of their 
successors, the whole kingdom has remained, till the 
present time. The times of possession, are called 
" the times of the Gentiles." 
The conditions of grant may be found in Jer. 27 : 
6-8, Eze. 21:26, Dan. 2:37-41. They live on it as 
usurpers, yet by the sufferance of God, rendering to 
him no return fur his kindness or forbearance to them. 
The kingdom, is the subject of prophecy in the 
8th chap. of Dan. There, the robbers of the earth 
and God's people, the heirs, are represented by the 
symbols of four great ferocious, wild beasts, the last 
of which is said to " tread down the whole earth and 
break it in pieces, and devour " it. The last holds 
possession of it, till " judgment is given to the saints 
of the Most High, and the time comes that the saints 
possessed the kingdom." Then " the kingdom and 
dominion, and the greatness of the kingdom under 
the whole heaven, shall be given to the people of the 
saints of the Most High. 
Isaiah tells us of the kingdom (9: 7). The privi-
leged angel, who announced the first advent of Mes-
siah, annexed nearly the words of Isaiah relative to 
the kingdom.—Lu. 1 : 34. James tells us, 2:5, to 
listeu! He has a fact to tell us. " Hath not God 
chosen the poor of this world, rich in faith and heirs 
of the kingdom which God hath promised to those 
that love him." 
The whole domain inheres in God, and through 
Abraham, he has secured it by promise, to our Lord 
Jesus Christ, (see Rom. 4:13, Gal. 3:17,) " the heir 
bf all timings." It is thus held in fee simple till the 
time of majority, of the youngest heir, being sealed, 
when they believe, as " heirs of God and joint heirs 
with Christ." 
The children are heirs of eternal life. Whether 
Adam had in him, qualities, that might have secured 
eternal life, is not quite so certain : but it is quite 
certain, that had he continued obedient, he would not 
have died. Hence, existence would have continued, 
somehow, forever. 
But whatever was, or might have been true of the 
first man, his race are all dying beings. Their "days 
are swifter than a weaver's shuttle "—" they are like 
a shadow that declineth "—" as a shadow that pass-
eth away." How few their years ! They are like 
the bubble, cast up on the great ocean strand, des-
tined to glisten a few moments in the sun's rays, and 
if not blown away by the next breeze, to be broken 
by the successive surge, as it dashes against the shore. 
So of man. He comes up as it were in a day, and 
in a night he is gone. He twinkles like the dew 
drop or frost gem, in the sun beam, for an hour, and 
he is not. Earth's caverns, are vast charnel houses, 
and its plains, grave yards. But is earth forever to 
be the receptacle of its inhabitants? Is its vast maw 
always to swallow up, yet never to he full ? If not, 
who shall arrest the progress of death? Shall thou-
sands of years yet roll on. and men have an oppor-
tunity to bring into requisition all the improvements 
of modern science and art, and thus grapple with his 
grim majesty? Will he fall, by their hand ? Alas 
for the science of medicine ! With all its boasted 
attainments, it is a barrier of sand, thrown up on 
some point of land, which the next tide sweeps 
away, scarcely leaving, even the spot where it lay. 
For six thousand years, human life has been con-
tinually shortening. In a little time, it would become 
extinct, by the same causes that have wrought hith-
erto. Who, or what, shall arrest it, in its downward 
course? Thanks be to God, there is a physician ap-
pointed—one well skilled in all the maladies that af-
flict the human race. He is only waiting fur the 
time appointed. Then the work will be done. Until 
that time death must reign. But the children live, 
or die, as the case may be, in hope. They are heirs. 
Abel, Moses, Abraham, Daniel, and Job, died heirs 
of eternal life. 
But I hear one say, " I understand eternal life to 
be a state "—" that we enter it at conversion or sanc-
tification "? Yes: do you believe it possible to fall 
from that state of grace, even, if you are not finally 
lost? " 0 yes : I suppose it possible." How long 
is eternal, with you! Your eternal life or state, must 
be like time religion of those who follow for the loaves 
and fishes. 
We deny that a state of grace is ever called eter-
nal life, in the Bible. 1. Terms would be without 
meaning, on this principle. Eternal would mean 
just nothing at all. It might be one day long, or one 
year, or a moment. 2. Take away the terms eternal 
life from the proof texts of future existence, and you 
have nothing left. You cannot prove it. You have 
nothing by which to designate it. 3. He who once 
enters that state, he it in the present or future, has 
nothing to fear. 
He CANNOT fall. Then, away 
with all the cautions to " fear lest, a promise being 
left us of entering into his rest, any of you should 
seem to come short of it." And so of a host of 
others. 
But let me prove positively that time children of 
God are only heirs, and now in their minority. Keep 
in mind, that an heir is not a possessor, but one wait-
ing in hope or expectation. The first text to which 
I invite your attention is found in 1 Pet. 3:7—" Like-
wise ye husbands, dwell with them according to 
knowledge, giving honor unto the wife, as unto the 
weaker vessel, arid as being heirs together of the 
grace of life." Here the apostle flatly affirms that 
the children are heirs, consequently not possessors. 
We will take others. Tit. 1:2—" In hope of [in 
hope of what you already have ?] eternal life, which 
God that cannot lie, promised from eternity." 3:7—
" That being justified by his grace, we should be 
made heirs according to the hope of eternal life." 
1 Tim. 6:19—" Laying up in store for themselves, 
a good foundation against the time to come, that they 
may lay hold on eternal life." 
In all these passages, the children of God, are rep-
resented as waiting in expectation, of what they, 
already, had not, viz., eternal life. 
You are convinced, yet you do not know how to 
reconcile those texts in John, which affirm that " he 
who believeth on the Son hath everlasting life." We 
answer, the whole probation of the triumphant, vic-
torious children of God, is there taken into the ac-
count—not one single, simple act of faith, but a se-
ries of acts—a continual exercise of faith from the 
beginning to the end. This is, so to believe, as to 
secure eternal life.—( To be continued,) , 
" ARMAGEDDON "—"MARK OF THE BEAST "— 
" COME-OUT-ISM "—UNITY OF VIEWS. 
Armageddon.—A work, with the foregoing ti-
tle, has lately been issued from the office of the " Ad-
vent Herald," Boston. As its contents have not been 
understood by some of its readers, and, therefore, by 
them perverted, the author feels it his duty to ex-
plain. 
The principal design of that book, is to present a 
connected history of the fourth monarchy of Daniel, 
from its origin to its overthrow in the " battle of that 
great day." The author has endeavored to explain 
all its Scripture symbols, and their agencies. He 
has traced the policy of the beast in gathering his 
forces to the final conflict. In delineating the fea- 
tures of that policy, he has shown ghat bodies he 
considers members of the aforesaid family. As mem-
bers of this family, he has classed all chartered insti-
tutions, whether civil, social, or religious, and no 
others whatever. 
Mark of the beast.--ln the work aforesaid, the 
author has explained what he understands to he the 
" mark of the beast." As beasts never symbolize 
ecclesiastical rulers, but civil riders only, he has not 
called the Roman hierarchy, nor any Protestant 
church, the beast, and consequently, he does not 
teach that Protestant and Roman Christians have the 
mark of the beast in virtue of their membership in 
said church. The mark is civil, and not ecclesiasti-
cal. The mark is explained in pp. 150-163. To 
those illustrations we refer the reader. In the 
view of the author, no person, nor body of per-
sons, can have the mark of the beast, unless they are 
in some way connected with his family. All incor-
porated churches being connected vvith the family, 
and under his tuition and control, have his mark.—
Churches which are not chartered, have no civil mark, 
and are not legally known, for the civil government 
recognizes no bodies as churches, except those of its 
own make. Persons may belong to unchartered 
churches without having the mark of the beast. 
" Come-out-ism."—What is its popular defini-
tion ? With this term the author has had but little 
acquaintance, before his visit to the land of the Pil-
grims. He has found, however, that it is something 
as much feared and hated in New England as " Mil-
lerism." It is at length hinted that the author of 
" Armageddon " is a teacher of " come-out-ism ! !" 
If so, it is high time that he knew the meaning of 
such an unpopular phrase. 
", Come-out-ism !" 
Come out of what? Who 
come out ? If by it is understood the expression of 
Rev. 18:4—" Come out of her, my people," we must 
learn who " her " is. Come out of her—Bab.ylon. 
And what is Babylon ? " That great city that reign-
ed) over the kings of the earth "—the Roman priest-
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are here intended, and no others. This kind of 
" come•out-ism " the writer has taught, and still 
teaches. In that sense, all Protestants are teachers 
of " come-out-ism." 
If by the term is understood that every church 
should come out and be separate from all civil bodies, 
the author of " Armageddon " is a teacher of that 
doctrine, and thus he wishes to he understood from 
this time and onward. 
If by '' come-out-ism " is intended, that it is the 
duty of every Christian to come out and be separated 
from all corrupted and anti-Christian bodies, whether 
civil, social, or religious, the author teaches that doc-
trine. In that sense, every Protestant church which 
has been formed since the days of Luther has been a 
practical " come-outer." 
But if by that term is understood, the separation 
from every organization, whether Bible or anti-Bible, 
the author of " Armageddon " disclaims all such 
doctrine. He believes in order—Bible order--no 
more, nor no less. He believes it more sinful to come 
short of that order than to go beyond it, as it leads to 
more confusion. He believes in calling things by 
their proper names,—in calling bodies of Christian 
worshippers, not " bands," nor " societies," but 
churches—chartered churches, acting up to the Bible 
as their charter ; in naming the officers of said bod-
ies, not " committees," and " chairmen," but " dea-
cons," and " elders. " Because a body named 
" church " has become corrupted, shall I reject the 
name? It is not the name that persecutes, but the 
thing that has the name. Because many called 
Christians have murdered, shall I refuse the name? 
If a man by the name of Weethee once murdered, 
shall I change my name to Smith ? For this species 
of " come-out-ism " I have never had any sympathy. 
Order I teach—gospel order—the whole gospel order, 
and nothing bet that order. My sentiments on church 
order have been published. (See Chardon-street 
Lectures, No. 1, and " Armageddon," p. 127.) 
4. Unity of Views.—Many are confused at the va-
riety of prophetic views which appear in the " Her-
ald." But who will propose a satisfactory remedy? 
Our people must have the prophecies. The "Ad-
vent Herald " is a prophetic Herald. If the people 
must read, some must write. All say that those who 
can, should write ; but those who write do not think 
alike. What is to he done? We can propose a 
remedy, very simple if acceptable. The remedy, is 
this : one person shall he appointed to write, and all 
others stand with open eyes and mouths, hound to 
devour whatever thoughts may issue from his imagi-
nation. This is the only way in which we can se-
cure unity. If this method is not approved, will any 
one please suggest a better? There never has been 
unity of opinion on the great Setipture doctrines in 
any age of the Christian era. There were disputes 
among the apostles. What contentions on the Son-
ship, the communion, baptism, state of the deal, the 
nature of the resurrection, the kingdom, and the fu-
ture condition of the wicked. Who can propose and 
carry out a plan of unity in these doctrines? Much 
less should we look for unity on the prophecies.—
Truth is elicited from the examination of a variety of 
opinions, To learn the size and shape of objects, 
we must examine them from various positions. Some-
times the mediums through which we look are de-
fective—some refracting, or reflecting, and the ob-
jects are frequently in this manner distorted. The 
prophetic subjects should be examined from various 
posiions, always, however, looking through the tel-
escope of the prophets. Many must examine, many 
must write.—" Many shall run to and fro, and 
knowledge shall be increased."—Dan. 12 : 4. If 
we differ, let us do it in the spirit of the true 
Christian. While we " see through a glass dark-
ly," we shall not " see eye to eye." i for one 
am much disposed to let my pen drop. For the first 
four years of my preaching the Advent, no one heard 
much from me, and it would be very easy to listen 
and read again—and he silent, if it should be thought 
to be more for the honor of our divine Master. 
J. P. WEETHEF:. 
Boston, Dec. 10th, 1849. 
IDLE CONVERSATION. 
" Only let your conversation be as it becometh the 
gospel of Christ." 
These words have been suggested to my mind very 
powerfully of late, by observing, when in company' 
with professors of religion generally, and even among 
those who profess to he looking for the appearing of 
their Lord, a proneness to trifling conversation, which 
ill accords with the profession they have made, and 
which must ultimately, if persisted in. result in their 
serious injury. The apostle says, "For our conver-
sation is in heaven, from whence also we look for the 
Saviour;" and that Saviour for whom we are look-
ing, has plainly told us in his holy word, that every 
idle word that men shall speak, they shall give ac-
count thereof in the day of judgment. For by our 
words we shall be justified, and by our words we 
shall he condemned. I think Christians are not aware, 
oftentimes, of their liability to this fault, nor how 
soon one idle word makes room for another; and 
when they begin to lose their confidence in God, 
which, as a consequence, they must certainly do, 
they know not the cause, and wonder why they do 
not enjoy the smiles of their Saviour as formerly.—
There is no surer way to become cold and backslid-
den in our affections to God, than by foolish talking 
and jesting, which are not convenient, and thereby 
causing a disrelish for secret devotion, and holy com-
munion with our Maker, which has been a source of 
joy and rejoicing to our souls. " Let your speech 
be always with grace, seasoned with salt, that ye 
may know how ye ought to answer every man," is 
an injunction which should not he forgotten, espe-
cially in these latter days. Speaking of the coming 
of Christ, Peter says, " Seeing then that all these 
things shall he dissolved, what manner of persons 
ought ye to be in all holy conversation and godli-
ness?" It is my earnest prayer ar►d desire to God, 
that his true children may humble themselves under 
his mighty hand, that he may exalt them, and that 
they may cast themselves upon his mercy, knowing 
that he careth for them, and will enable them, through 
faith in his name, to resist every evil influence, so 
that " when the Chief Shepherd shall appear, they 
may receive a crown of glory that fadeth not away." 
Idle words of little meaning 
Far too oft our lips express ; 
Words which surely cannot profit, 
And which Jesus cannot bless. 
Say, shall those who love their Saviour, 
And his precious word believe, 
Shall they still be so unmindful, 
And God's Holy Spirit grieve? 
0! that all professed believers 
In the dear Redeemer's name, 
Might at once abjute a practice 
Which ofttimes has caused them shame. 
Let our thoughts and words be holy, 
Undefiled like God's dear Son ; 
So that in the last great conflict 
We may say, the victory's 
LETTER FROM S. I. RONE 
DEAR BRO. RIMES :—I am still looking for "that 
blessed hope," and the downfall of all earthly mon-
archies, when the King of kings shall conic, who 
will show, in his time, who is the only potentate. 
I prize the " Herald " much ; I read it with inter-
est. I would that I was able, or had the means that 
some have, to send it to the many poor that rejoice 
in the precious truths therein contained, but who are 
deprived of the privilege of perusing it. There are 
professed Adventists who are hoarding up their dol-
lars and cents, while the poor all around them are 
hungry for the bread of life, (if, indeed, they do not 
for the bread that perisheth) ; and still they heap it 
up, and say that they are looking for the " better 
and enduring substance !" It might be well for 
such persons to read James 5: 1-7 occasionally.—
There is another class, that do not seem to do just 
right in one particular, viz., in not paying for their 
paper. It seems to me that one of three things must 
he true. 1. They are not able ; or, 2. They are 
very negligent ; or, 3. They are like an individual I 
have heard of, who, in speaking of church order, 
said it was too late in the.day to organize. So some 
appear to think it is too late to pay fur their paper! 
If they are not able to pay for their paper, all that is 
required of them is to say so, is it not If they are 
negligent in ibis one particular, they may he also in 
others; and I have my doubts about such careless, 
indifferent ones being received into everlasting habi-
tations—don't you ? If they think it is too late in 
the day to pay their honest debts, 1 fear they will 
find it a little too late for them to have an abundant 
entrance 'administered unto them into the everlasting 
kingdom ! Come, brethren, one and all, see to this 
matter. Try and have your work done, and well 
done. Yours, strt ing for the kingdom. 
LETTER FROM H. TANNER. 
DEAR BRO. }LIMES :—I have now been from home 
about four weeks, and yesterday and last night en-
joyed what was as unexpected as it was a heart-felt 
pleasure to me, of a visit with our Father Miller.—
Finding myself with a little leisure for a day, I could 
not forego the satisfaction Of going to see the now 
almost worn out old saint, and once more to look 
upon that face that I had so often loved to look upon 
when it beamed with intelligence and love, as he used 
to stand up in presence of thousands and dispense the 
word of life and salvation, with warnings, entreaties, 
and tears. But 0 how changed ! The same good 
old man was calm, quiet, and patient, but yet suffer-
ing, sinking, dying. At the time I was with him, 
his bodily pains were not so severe as they have been. 
He was helped up soon after I got there, and sat and 
talked with a brilliancy of thought I was unprepared 
to find, knowing how long he had been sick, and how 
much he had suffered. But he soon had to rest again 
for a short time, after which he allowed himself to be 
taken up, and by his own request was drawn up to 
the table, and once more in this world sat by my side 
at a table spread for our daily wants. And as the 
same voice now weak and tremulous e utly in- 
voked God's blessing upon the food and to were 
to partake of it, I felt that his was n nviable 
lot who spent his bread► casting reproach on that 
good man of God. I would not have exch ed the 
pleasure I found in that moment of once more listen-
ing to his invocation, and of sitting by his side, for 
a seat among all that are called great in this world. 
In the evening his sons, and daughter, and son-in-law, 
came in and sung for him some of the sweet hymns 
from the new hook : the one ending with the chorus 
" I long to be the there " was his chosen one. But 
he taxed his strength I fear too much by trying to 
visit with us. He passed a very poor night, while 
his son William watched with him, who, with all 
his children, seemed to anticipate his wishes, and to 
strive to add to his comfort. May God bless them 
for their kindness to their father,—our dear brother, 
of whom it may most emphatically be said, he has 
had all manner of evil spoken against him falsely for 
Christ's sake, :rut great shall be t►is reward in heaven. 
When I parted with him this morning, I could not 
wish him a long stay in this world of suffering. I 
felt I had looked upon him fi►r the last time in this 
life, and the effort was on my part to be ready to 
meet him in the kingdom of our dear Lord. His fer-
vent " God bless you," was a sweet cordial to my 
feelings, as I turned and left him in his affliction. 
His body is very much swollen by the dropsy, and 
his eyes so nearly worn out, that he can scarcely dis-
tinguish the countenances of his friends. He is worn 
out in the cause of his Master, and cannot, in the 
nature of the case, suffer long. Indeed, I should not 
he surprised to bear of his departure from this world 
at any time. But he is ready, and He whom he has 
served when in health, is by his side in his sickness. 
He said to me, " I have fought the fight, and I be-
lieve, too, that I have kept the faith." God, by his 
servant Paul, has added the rest : " From hence-
forth there is laid up for such a crown of righteous-
ness," to be given in the day when he shall appear. 
0, my God, grant me faith, that I may again meet, 
in the kingdom of God, this good and faithful father 
in Israel, and to my God amid Saviour shall be all 
the glory. 
I expect, the Lord willing, to be again with my 
dear family this week. During my absence, they 
have been again afflicted, in the death of my aunt, 78 
years of age, whom you will recollect as an invalid 
when you was last with n►e in Buffalo. I left her as 
well as usual, but she now sleeps by the side of my 
sister. There graves are side by side, and were made 
within two weeks of each other. 
May God prepare us for his kingdom, and speedily 
iver us from this land of death, is my fervent 
yer. 
Cohoes, Dec. 11th, 1849. 
GEORGE W. MILLER writes front Fort Ann, under date of 
Dec. 10th, 1849. 
DEAR BRO. Hiress :—In looking over the last No. 
of the " Herald," my heart was made sad in reading 
your notice to subscribers and agents. I am surprised 
with the thought, that any who have the privilege of 
perusing the rich columns of the " Herald," should 
let the office become embarrassed by their negligence 
to pay their subscriptions. I cannot bear the thought 
of having the " Herald " stopped, for I am never 
disappointed in getting a rich feast when it comes. I 
know what it is to try to get along without it, with 
the poor excuse that I was not able to pay ; but Inn 
do it no longer. I am in rather straitened circum-
stances, but what of that? I feel as though the 
cause of truth demanded an extra effort from all. It 
is truly a dark time that we are living in, and were it 
not for the light which God has given a few to hold 
up, how great would he the darkness! I believe the 
truth as it is now proclaimed in the " Herald," and 
which I believe to be the faith once delivered to the 
saints. Inclosed I send you my feeble mite, hoping 
that all your subscribers will do no less. 
Yours, waiting for the kingdom. 
Obituary. 
THE church in this section has been called to part 
with a dearly beloved, and devotedly pious sister in 
the Lord, in the death of Mrs. S. SIMMONS GUILD. 
She departed this life on the 6th of Sept. last, after 
an illness of nine months and eleven days, being in 
the 31st year of her age. Sister Guild was the 
d.sughter of Joseph and Lydia Foster, of Kingston, 
Mass. Her mother was truly a pious woman, " train-
ing up her children in the nurture and admonision of 
the Lord." The instructions that Sister Guild re-
ceived from her led her, early in life, to receive reli-
gious impressions, so that she embraced the Saviour, 
and joined the Baptist church in Kingston, then un-
der the pastoral charge of the Rev. John Allen, at 
the age of fifteen years. She maintained a consist-
ent Christian walk during the whole period of her 
connection with that church, is hich lasted till the 
year 1843. She embraced the Advent doctrine in 
the year 1840-1, and like most of us, felt that she 
must give up every connection and tie, in order to 
follow and sustain the truth, She resided the first 
four years of her Advent experience in the family of 
Bro. J. S. White, in order that she might enjoy the 
privilege of attending conferences, and hearing the 
truth in the various places where he labored. Her 
whole heart was absorbed in the enjoyment and pro-
mulgation of the truth. in her Christian experience 
from the beginning, she enjoyed much of the pres-
ence and favor of God, having that full assurance of 
faith which enabled her to know that she was a child 
of his. During her last sickness, which was pro-
tracted, and from the first accompanied with extreme 
pain, she did not at , all times have that assurance 
which she had so constantly enjoyed in the days of 
health. Such was the state of her body, and the 
nature of her disease, that she could not, as before, 
lay hold of the promises of God's word. Yet she 
never expressed a doubt as to her experience, but 
often remarked, that she knew that she loved the 
Lord with all her heart, that she still trusted in the 
merits of a crucified and risen Saviour for forgive-
ness and salvation. When we consider her suffer-
ings, and her experience under them, it may be truly 
said, that she had grace given her according to her 
day. The last few days of her life were spent in 
conversing considerably with others, her mind being 
calm and clear. She expressed great desire for the 
salvation of sinners, and talked much on the hope of 
a resurrection. When one by her bedside quoted 
certain passages of Scripture on this subject, she 
seemed for a moment carried away, and so enrap-
tured with the idea of a resurrection to immortality, 
that she cried out, " Stop, stop! I cannot bear it,—
my little heart will burst at the idea." At another 
time, when the passage was quoted, " Our light af-
fliction, which is but for a moment, worketh for us a 
far more exceeding and eternal weight of glory," 
she responded, " Glory ! glory ! glory !" repeating 
the word three times, as though she began to grasp 
its meaning as she had never before. She seemed 
very desirous to fall asleep in Jesus ; and feeling that 
her husband was still unwilling to part with her, she 
thus addressed hie► : " Are you not yet willing to 
give me upt" He answered, "Yes, Mary Ann, if 
you can never be any better." She remarked at once, 
" I now feel like a little child that has asked its pa- 
rents to go, and was permitted." Her last, dying 
words were, " I'm going !—Praise the good Lord !" 
repeating the expression three times in succession, 
when she fell asleep in Jesus. 
" So fades the summer cloud away ; 
So sinks the gale when storms are o'er; 
So gently shuts the eye of day ; 
So dies a wave along the shore, 
" A holy quiet reigns around— 
A calm which life nor death destroys ; 
Anti nought disturbs that peace profound, 
Which the delieving soul enjoys. 
" Farewell, conflicting hopes and fears, 
Where lights and shades alternate dwell ; 
How bright the unchanging moon appears! 
Farewell, inconstant world, farewell !" 
Sister Guild, shortly before she expired, addressed 
the family and friends, embracing them, and giving 
to each appropriate advice and counsel. Her sur-
viving and bereaved companion thus addressed me in 
a note : " She was a tender and an affectionate wife, 
and one to w horn I was bound by the strongest ties 
of affection and sympathy. In her I feel I have bust 
a treasure which this earth can never make up to me 
again. I hope her death may be sanctified to my 
good, and that ere long, through grace, I may meet 
her in a better world than this." 
Wrentham, Mass. 0. R. FASSETT. 
DIED, of consumption, in Buffalo, N. Y., Dec. 4th, 
Bro. HECTOtt CUTLER, an elder in the Advent church 
in this city, aged 43 years. Bro. Cutler embraced 
the Advent doctrine seven or eight years ago, and 
was one of the first to tally to its defence in this 
city. He was very firm in his religious opinions, 
and yet he treated those who dissented from his views 
with respect and kindness. He has given many 
proofs of his warm attachment to the truth, and to 
those who walk in it. I saw him on Sunday, the 2d 
inst., when he had given up all hope of recovery. I 
said to him, " Your work is done." He replied, "I 
guess it's not very well done—but the Lord will for-
give." He requested me to preach his funeral ser-
mon, and suggested these words—" I am the resur-
rection and the life," for a text, remarking, " It is a 
pleasant text—that is the life I want." I watched 
with him Sunday night, and about 2 o'clock, as I 
stood over him, he spoke of his own accord, and 
said, " What a bright prospect there is before the 
Christian ! 0, bless the Lord !—he bore our sins 
in his own body on the tree !—he has had a great 
many to bear from me; but I cleave to him with all 
my heart. Come, Lord Jesus!" Previous to this 
time he had talked to his family and friends, and was 
then longing to be at rest. He sunk away at last 
peacefully and gently, like the setting sun. " Pre-
cious in the sight of the Lord is the death of his 
saints." In the resurrection morning, his material 
form will wear the beauty and glory of immortality, 
and his voice, clear and melodious as an angel's trum-
pet, will swell the song, " Great and marvellous are 
thy works, Lord God Almighty; just and true are 
thy ways, thou King of saints." 
Widowed sister, there's a balm 
For thy wounded, bleeding heart; 
Jesus comes to give the palm 
To him from whom you part. 
Orphan children, let your choice, 
Your father's God to love ; 
Be changeless, till the trumpet's voice 
Shall call you hence above. 
(Har. please copy.) 
B. MORLEY. 
DIED, in Worcester, on Lord's-day, Nov. 18th, 
after a short, but most distressing attack of croup, 
SUSAN KENNEY, infant daughter of Bro. Charles and 
Sister Hannah E. Wood, aged two years and six 
months. How consoling it was, while beholding the 
little sufferer, gasping for breath, and nature strug-
gling against the fell destroyer, to know that this 
was all it would ever suffer. The next event with 
it, will usher it into the glorious kingdom of God. 
On Monday, the 19th, FRANCIS EUSTIS, infant son 
of Bro. William and Sister Elvira Desper, of paraly-
sis, aged one year and nine months. The last was 
very sudden and unexpected, but we hope found its 
parents ready to bow to the mandate of Jehovah. 
Thus two lovely flowers have been nipped, just as 
they began to expand their little gems, and fallen to 
earth, but not to waste and perish forever. " Thy 
children shall come again from the land of the 
enemy." 
G. N. 
(Har. cop.) 
FELL asleep, at Mechanicsville, N. Y., on the 
morning of the 20th ell., ESTHER ELIZABETH W AL-
LArE, wife of Robert B. Wallace, and daughter of 
Calvin and Mary Gleason, in the 23d year of her age. 
She retained her reason to the last, and cheerfully 
resigned her spirit to God who gave it, in the blessed 
hope of a glorious immortality. 
C. G. 
se Rev. THOMAS Dice, LL. D. — Elihu Burritt's 
" Christian Citizen " calls for subscriptions on behalf 
of Dr. Dick, the philosopher, who is eighty years of 
age, and destitute, on the edge of the grave. Con-
tributions may be either confided to some gentleman 
of responsibility, (Burritt, for one,) in this country, 
or sent direct to Thomas Dick, LL. D., Broughty 
Ferry, Dundee, Scotland. 
THE RONGE REFORM. — The German Catholic 
Church, which, under the lead of Ronge, made such 
a sensation a few years ago, and excited so much in-
terest in the United States, is on the decline, and es-
pecially in South Germany. The Bavarian papers 
have recently noticed the dissolution of several con- 
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THE ADVENT HERALD. 
BOSTON, DECEMBER 22, 1849. 
" The Church Member's Hand-Book : a Guide to 
the Doctrines and Practice of Baptist Churches. By 
Wm. CROWELL, Pastor of the First Baptist Church 
in Waterford, Me.,"—late editor of the Christian 
Watchman. 
From a cursory examination of this work, we 
should judge it might be well adapted to the use of 
Baptists. But knowing what we do of the proscrip-
tive, illiberal, and cruel course of Mr. CROWELL 
respecting the Adventists—many flagrant false state-
ments having been published by him respecting 
them, and when the wrong has been pointed out, he 
wilfully persisting in the falsehood, adding insult to 
injury—we feel compelled, till we see penitence and 
reparation, to say of anything good which may come 
from his pen, as CHRIST did of the teaching of the 
Pharisees: " All, therefore, whatsoever they bid you 
observe, that observe and do ; but do not ye after 
their works : for they say and do not."—Matt. 23:3. 
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gregations of that sect. The distinguishing doctrine Bern, had embraced the Mohammedan faith. It was 
of the sect is the rejection of the supremacy of the said that Russia also required the expulsion of a cer- 
Pope. 
tain number of Poles who have been for many years 
inhabitants of the Ottoman states. The Porte re-
ceived these propositions in such a manner as to show 
they would not be accepted, and a council will be 
held on the 7th, to take them into consideration. The 
Russian minister was excessively annoyed by the 
presence of the British fleet in the Dardanelles, a hich 
he declared a violation of the treaty, and he has, it 
was said, refused to enter into negotiations until the 
English fleet should have quitted the straits. 
The Vienna correspondent of the " Daily News," 
writing on Nov. 21st, says that letters of the 10th 
from Constantinople mention fresh subjects of dispute 
between Russia and Turkey, in consequence of the 
energy with which the united diplomacy of England 
and France has followed up its victory on the refugee 
question. It is said that the Porte not only insists 
upon the withdrawal of the Russians, but is also de-
termined, at thin expiration of the stipulated term, to 
withdraw those concessions in future to Russian com-
merce over other nations which at present exist. Our 
Vienna correspondent's letter, dated Nov. 29th, says, 
" I also hear the Porte has proposed to send the'Hun-
garian refugees to Bagdad." 
To OUR SUBSCRIBERS AND AGENTS.—OFFICE AF-
FAIRS.—It becomes necessary, in order to sustain the 
credit and interests of this office, that we should 
have a settlement with all our agents and subscribers 
at the close of this volume. Let all make an effort 
to square their accounts by the 1st of January. '['his 
can be done, if an effort is made. Let every one 
concerned begin now. If every one resolves that his 
account shall be square by the 1st of January, it will, 
no doubt, be done. Try ! 
THE Anglo Saxon, Vol. 2, No. 15, whole No. 67 
—a monthly paper. JOHN F. Titow, publisher ; S. 
P. ANDREWS, and A. F. BOYLE, editors. Terms : 
25 cis. per annum, payable in advance. Office 49 & 
51 Ann-street, New York, date Dec. 1, 1849. 
A copy of the above has reached us. We had for 
some time missed our old friend from our table, and 
knew not vaiat had become of it—whether it was 
dead, or had cut our exchange. We judge, however, 
that it has only been hibernating for a while. It ap-
pears now much reduced in size, and in price. At 
first, we were at a loss whether it was our old ac-
quaintance, or a stranger with a stolen name. We 
were, however, re-assured by the well known names 
of its fditors. We judge that they are about making 
a vigorous effort to advance the science of " Steno-
phonography." We wish them much success in 
their work. 
THE Pulpit Reporter.—Published every other Sat-
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Fulton-street, New York. 
This is a new periodical, of which we have re-
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by Revs. ALBERT BARNES, KIRK, WELCH, and Prof. 
Bum. It is designed to report the American Pulpit 
on a large scale—giving discourses of the most distin-
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vance, and $ 1 in six months. 
" Snow's Monthly Express List."—The December 
number of this convenient pocket express directory is 
out, and for sale at No. 5 Washington-street, and 
elsewhere. 
Foreign News, 
From England and Ireland there appears to be no 
general news worth transmitting. 
Austria is threatened by the Piedmontese with a 
fresh outbreak, the Parliament at Turin showing the 
most hostile feeling against their late conquerors, and 
, 
 
 being but too well disposed again to try their fortune 
by an appeal to arms. The Piedmontese chamber 
has been dissolved, and everything betokens intestine 
commotion, if not a foreign war with Austria. 
The Pipe, finding tat his friends in Paris are no 
longer in the ascendant, has become alarmed, and re-
fuses to return to Rome. Gen. Baraguay De Hil-
liers has assumed his functions, in lieu of Gen. Ros-
tolan, but the policy of the French has not advanced 
one step towards the solution of the Roman difficulty. 
From Constantinople the news only confirms the 
previous pacific course of events. it is confidently 
stated that the British fleet has orders to withdraw 
from the Dardanelles, and that it is indeed at this 
time at Malta. Nothing further has transpired res-
pecting the whereabouts of the POlish and Hunga-
rian fugitives. 
The news from Spain and Portugal possesses little 
interest, but we have official information that the dis-
pute between the French and the emperor of Morocco 
is satisfactorily adjusted. 
The German Empire and Prussia.—A telegraphic 
despatch received from Berlin by way of Cologne, 
announced that the Austrian cabinet had made a 
formal protest against the convocation of a German 
Parliament at Erfurt, and that in the despatch con-
taining the protest the Austrian government alluded 
to the probability of armed interference by Austria in 
the affairs of Germany. The same telegraphic ac-
count stated that the Prussian government had an-
swered the Austrian despatch by a declaration that 
Prussia would maintain the Parliament. These ac-
counts have since been substantially confirmed. 
A letter from Berlin to the " Morning Chronicle " 
says : " At the end of October Prince Schwartzen-
berg, in a despatch to the Prussian government, 
pointed out the dangers that were likely to arise 
from the convocation of the Parliament, insisting on 
the revolutionary tendencies to which it would give 
birth, and on the re-action that would be felt, not on-
ly in the Austrian States, but in Prussia. Likewise 
on the 30th October Prussia replied, that she had du-
ly weighed all those considerations, but that more 
elevated and pressing motives urged her to persevere 
in the plan. As regards real dangers, she would 
know how to meet them. Austria has now gone a 
step farther. She has formally protested against the 
convocation of the Parliament. 
" The last despatch addressed by Prince Schwart-
zenberg to the Prussian government insinuates that, 
even should the ease require it, Austria will not hesi-
tate to have recourse to an armed intervention — 
Behold us once more on the eve of a serious compli-
cation"! A Cabinet Council was held the day before 
yesterday. The Council first adopted the electoral 
law of the Parliament. Each state will introduce 
such modifications as its communal organization May 
require. The Cabinet Council was then occupied 
with the reply to the Austrian note. The ministry 
adopted a most important resolution. A despatch in 
reply to that of Prince Schwartzenberg has already 
been sent to Count De Bonsdorff, the Prussian envoy 
at Vienna. Prussia in this document maintains with 
energy her right to carry out the limited federation, 
a right formerly guarantied. 
" To the Austrian threat of armed interference, 
Prussia replies that she awaits it. Accounts from 
Berlin of the 24th ult• state, that after a debate of 
several days, the Upper Chamber has declined to re-
turn its old constitution. They divided no less than 
sixteen times, eight of which were by name. The 
proposition for a peerage was rejected by 105 
against 40. The various amendments, proposing ei- 
ther direct or indirect election by the highest au- 
thorities, were severally rejected by decided majori-
ties. In addition to the regulation that the number 
of elective members shall in no case exceed one hun- 
dred and eighty, the following most cautious propo-
sition was adopted. It runs thus: The constitution 
of the Upper Chamber is to be fixed by a future law, 
which must receive the sanction of both Chambers, 
and will then become part and parcel of the conven-
tion of the country.' 
" The Cologne Gazette' announces a telegraphic 
message from Berlin, that the king has signed the 
law for the election of representatives to the German 
Parliament to be assembled at Erfurt." 
Turkey.—A letter from Constantinople dated Nov. 
7th, and published in the Paris " Constitutionnel," 
states that the diplomatic relations between the Porte 
and the representatives of Austria and Russia have 
been resumed, M. De Titoff, the Russian minister, 
having paid a visit to the Minister for Foreign Af-
fairs on the 5th, and the Austrian internuncio having 
visited him on the day following. According to the 
" Constitutionnel's " letter, they stated to that minis-
ter that their respective sovereigns having heard the 
explanations of the ministers of the Sultan, were 
willing to resume negotiations. These advances on 
the part of the Austrian and Russian representatives 
were met with cordiality by the Turkish minister.—
Austria appeared satisfied with what Turkey had al-
ready done, by transporting the Hungarian refugees 
to the interior, and did not demand anything further. 
Russia, on the contrary, demanded that the Polish 
refugees should he expelled from the Ottoman empire, 
and that the chiefs should he imprisoned in a fortress, 
the Porte being responsible fur their safe custody, 
without excepting- even those emigrants who, like 
MEANING OF WORDS.—Some people make them-
selves very ridiculous through ignorance of the mean-
ing of words. During the late effort in California 
to adopt a State Constitution, some section being be-
fore the Convention, declaring that every citizen ar-
rested for a criminal offence, should be tried by a jury 
of his peers, a member, unfamiliar with such tech-
nical terms, moved to strike out the word " peers." 
" I do n't like that word tpeers,' " said he ; " it 
a'int Republican ; I'd like to know what we want 
with peers in this country—we're not a monarchy, 
and we've got no House of Parliament. I vote for 
no such law." The poor man did not know that a 
peer was simply an equal. Two-thirds of the crude 
and ill-formed unscriptural notions which are afloat 
originate in ignorance of the meaning of the words 
of the English language. 
STUDENTS of prophecy make sad blunders when 
they mistake metaphors for symbols. A symbol is 
en in prophetic vision. A law of sym-
invalidated by bringing the use of 
es, metaphors, &c., as an exception 
symbols. To liken a body to an object 
is widely different from presenting the object in vis-
ion as a symbol of the body. 
NEW WORK.—" Questions on Bible Subjects, de-
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of our views of the great plan of redemption. Price, 
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SUMMARY. 
Dr. Parkman.-The Coroner's jury have decided that the remains 
discovered in the Medical College are those of Dr. Parkman, and 
that he was killed by Prof. Webster. Tito property. of Dr. P. is es-
timated at about $500,000. " The Doctor was in the habit of carry-
ing large eons of money about his person. A gehtleman who once 
went to him for $1(10(1, was answered by the Doctor thrusting out 
his forefinger, and remarking, "fliere is just the sum.' On examina-
tion, the gentleman found that the Doctor had a thousatal dollar bill 
wound round his linger The Doctor was a large owner of real es-
tate, and had numerous poor tenants, front whom he made his col-
lections himself. He was punctilious in his busi mess habits, but 
bestowed much charity in an unostentatious way. A politician once 
stopped him in the street, and asked hint to subscribe to a fund for 
firing a salute in honor of some party victory. 'Just step with me 
round the corner,' said the Doctor. 'faking him up a dirty alley, 
through a dark doorway, and up three flights of rickety stairs, the 
Doctor tapped at a door, which was opened by a wretched, pale-
Steed child. A poor woman, apparently in the last stage of con-
sonnalen, was sitting propped up in bed, and feebly attempting to 
sew upon a shirt. There was no fire in the stove, although it was 
a cold March day. ' Now,' said the Doctor, turning to the politician, 
here are ten dollars you may either fire them away in powder, or 
give them to this poor woman. I won't attempt to bias you ' The 
Doctor darted out of the room and down stairs, leaving the non-
plussed politician standing by the bedside of the invalid. He did rim 
hesitate long as to his disposition of the money. Ile deposited it in 
the hands of the sufferer, and departed a wiser man." 
Dr. P. appeared at tunes somewhat absent-minded. A few 
months since, suer he had been in our office one day, we could not 
find our hat ; but in its place was one containing letters and pap.rs 
addressed to Dr. Parkman. Having to mail a letter before the mail 
closed, we were obliged to wear his hat. On going down Court 
street we met him returning with ours, and made an exchange-he 
detecting the mistake at the Post Office, where he had gone to mail 
a letter he had in his hut. 
Lost in the Chursh.-L" Let a man examine himself, and so let 
hint eat," &c.-We wish we could tell the reader who drew the 161-
lowing graphic picture, which we find in one of our coteinporuries 
unfairly credited only " Exch." It is worthy to be remembered.-
Christian Intelligencer. 
We wish we could tell you who drew the picture you refer to ; 
we made a vigorous search on reading our proof, but could not dis-
cover the paper from which we had cut it, and so credited it 
" Exch." 
An Extraordinary Meteor.-On Friday evening, the 7th instant, 
soon alter sunset, the attention of many persons in town was at-
tra.aed towards the west by the blaze of it large meteor in that 
direction, about 45 degrees above the horizon. Some say that it shot 
upward; anti others that its course was either downward or diago-
nal. But the most remarkable appearance was that which succeeded 
the flight of the body. About ia the place were it was first seen, 
there was visible• for the space of at least fifteen minutes, a very 
bright trail of light, of irregular farm, something of the zig-nag 
shape. It was as though a streak of lightning had been daguerreo-
typed on the sky. The length of the luminous trail was to appear-
ance three or four rods. NA e do not remember to have read ally 
account of 110 right of a meteor remaining so long visible. We have 
not under at any report was heard, but we doubt not there 
was forth than this. -Wilmington (N. C.) Chronicle, 
On Sun Laing Mayor Jones, of Philadelphia, tell on the 
sidewalk ke his arm. 
Willis unt, Postmaster at Erwina, Pa . has been arrested 
bar robbi e 
and a colored population of 42,855 ; number o electors, 25,393. 
'file State census of Texas shows a white population of 115,501, 
In New Buffalo, Mich., William Maudlin, aged 16 years, cut his 
throat because his motheodised Though the wound was 
sewed up by a physiciani hied tour days afterwards. 
BUSINESS NOTES. 
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to No. 482, and the balance two copies C. H. to No. 48. 
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send. Please give us specific direction. Bro. D. Reelan will give 
its his direction also. 
J. Lenfest-Saw no hearer. What we received from you came 
through the Post Office-no money received. 
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in Bro. Adapts' bundle, for you. 
S. 1. Roney-Yours of Dec. 1st was received. 
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MEETINGS. 
MISSION OF BRA. E. BURNHAM AND I. H SHIPMAN TO CANADA. 
-Providence permitting, there will be a conference iit Derby Line, 
beginning on Vv editesday even ing , second week in January', and con-
tinue each day over the Sabbath. 
Also in Waterloo, beginning on Vueduesday evening, third week 
in January, and continue over the Sabbath. Brethren in V1 merle° 
will do all they Call to accommodate It lends front a distance, except-
ing the keeping et horses, though this may be had at the hotel on 
reasonable terms. 'Flte remaining meetings of the mission will he 
announced hereafter. he sustaining of these uui Stings will require 
the co-operation of all interested in them. It. 11LTcutasoa. 
Brit. H. Plummer and 1. R. Gates will hold conferences as follows : 
Meredith Neck, from the 25th to the %ill'. 
Holderness, from the Stall to the Stith. 
Tuttonborough, Jan. 3d, and continue over the Sabbath. 
VY ill the breihret. please make arrangements? Bro. Plummer 
will have a supply of burps, dm 
Providence permitting, a conference will be held in Cambridge 
Centre, V t., commencing Thursday evening, Jan. 3d, and continue 
over the Sabbath. 1 rethren and fi tends are cordially invited Let 
us rally to the aid of the cause. Bro. D. '1'. Taylor, jr., is expected 
to attend. 
A conference will be field in Build, N. Y., Friday, Dec. 26th, and 
continue a 1...w days. bre. Wendell and Gardner are 
reejxuppescole:pd.to 
be present. The meeting is to be held in the new house of worship, 
which is expected to be finished by that time. 
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I will attend a conference in Sutton, N. II., January 111th, at I0 A 
M, to continue over Sunday. 'The brethren may arrange iutccomr:NtiGn:ly. 
Bro. Sherwin is expected to visit Canada East in February next. 
J. 
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DELINQUENTS. 
If we have by mistake published any who may have pail, or who 
are poor, we shall be happy to correct the error, on being apprised 
of the fact. 
S. BABCOCK, of South China, Me., stops his paper, 
owing 
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APPOINTMENTS. 
Wednesday-Several appointments came too late for this week. 
Bro. D. Campbell will preach in the following places : Carrying- 
place Dec. 31st, 7 ; Colborne, Jan. lot, p ; Cobol's, ad, 7 p 
M ; Varlingtou tat Young's), 3d, 7 P M ; i'erce, 4th, 6 P M ; 
5th, 6 P M ; Toronto (near Oakville. at Bro. Griggs'-Bro. Forman 
see to it), 6th, 7 e st ; Nelson, 6th, 6PM; Father Cant obeli's, 9th ; 
6 P M Burrows, halt, 6 it ; Elder Wolverton's, 1101,6 P M: Oral, 
12th, 6 P M ; Loudon, 13th, 5 p -Bro. Morrill see to it, ; Gibson, 
14th, 6 x • Burdan, 15th, 6 e M ; Ireland, 16th and 15th, 6 P m ; 
Finegal, Wit, 6 P M ; Bantam 19th, 6 P a, and the 2oth, A M ; Nor-
wich tat W ilcox'a), 22d, 6 p m ; Deacon Howard's, 23d, 6 P M ; La- 
banCirandel's, 24th, 6 P M ; Bro. Tiusdel's, 25th, P M ; Credit, 26th, 
6r,. 
 
Bro. King S. Hastings will preach in Willington Sunday, the 23d; 
Thompsonville 24th, evening ; Glastenbury 25th ; South Glasten-
bury atith ; New Britain ninth ; Bristol 30th and 31st vwatch night) ; 
Litchfield (near Bro. Austin's), Jan. 1st, evening ; near Bro. M. 
Beach's, ad ; Roxbury 3d and 4th ; East Kent 5th, and Sunday, 6111 ; 
Pleasant Valley, Stir conference at South Hawley Friday evening, 
Ilth, and continue over the Sabbath ; Savoy (near Elder hIcCul- 
lock's), 14th near Bro. Meekins', 15th ; near 13ro. Still's, 16th; 
Plainfield, 17th ; conference at Ashlield Cowls' corners,, evening 
of lath, and continue as long as thought best. 
Bro. N. Billings will preach at East Kingston, N. II , evening of 
Jan. ad ; South Berwick, Me., 3d do t Great Falls 4th ; New Dur-
ham Ridge, N . H., Sabbath, 6th ; Pittsfield, Sabbath, 13th ; Concold 
14th , Manchester 15th. 
Bro. L. D. Thompson will preach at Walden, Vt.. four corners, 
the first Sabbath in January ; Pierniont, N. H., then cord ; Grafton, 
N. 16th`; Luke Village 17th ; New Durham Ridge lath ; Forts- 
mouth, Sabbath, ::0111 ; Abington, Mass., 22d and ; Barnstead, 
N. H. (at the red schoolhouse), Sabbath, 21th• 
Bro. A. Brown will preach in 'Vernon, Vt., Dec. 24th ; Northfield 
Farms, 25th ; Athol, 26th ; Templeton, 271h ; Wktstiniester, ; 
Northborre, 29th, and spend the Sabbath in that neighborhood ; 
Berlin vat Bro. J. Barns'), J an lot ; Marlboro' 2d-each at 6 1-2. 
Bro. .I. Cummings preach nt Troy, Vt„ Dec. 24th; Johnson, 
25th ; Morristown, 26th ; W aterbury, 27th ; East Bethel, abth, each 
in the evening ; Woodstock, evening of 29th, and Sunday ; Clare-
mont, N. if., January 1st, 2d, and 3d ; North Springfield, Vt., even-
ing or 5th, rind Sunday. 
Bro. S. W. Bishop will preach at Conway, 25th (at the house of 
Bro. Rice) ; Ashlield, 26th ; Plainfield, 29t1i, and remain over SUB-
(lay ; Savoy (where Bro. Meekins may appoint„ Jan. let ; Cheshire, 
5th, and continue over Swaim,. The evening meetings at 6 P M. 
Bro. Hale may be expected to preach in Lunenburg, Sunday, 23d ; 
Fitchburg, Tuesday evening, •.:51.11 ; Ashburnhain, Friday evening, 
lath. 
Bro. Jonathan Wilson will preach at Providence the fourth Sabbath 
in December ; Russell Baptist meeting house the Litth ; Hartford, 
(A., the first in Jan. 
Bro. J. W. Britton will preach in Three Rivers the fourth Sunday 
in Dec. 
Bro. C. R. Griggs will preach in Athol Sabbath, Dec. 30th.