J. V. HlMES, Proprietor. 
OFFICE, No. 8 Chardon-street 
WHOLE NO. 677. 
VOLUME XIII. NO. 18 
But of all the professors of occult science, 
hermetic philosophy or spiritualism, the Rosicru-
cians were the most exalted and refined; with 
them the possession of the philosopher's stone 
was to be the means of health and happiness; 
an instrument by which man could command tbe 
services of superior beings, control the elements, 
defy the abstractions of time and space, and ac-
quire the most intimate knowledge of all the 
secrets of the universe. 
These were objects 
worth struggling for. The refined Rosicrucians 
were utterly disgusted with the coarse, gross, 
sensual spirits, who had been in communication 
with man previous to their day, so they decried 
the annihilation of them all and substituted in 
their stead a race of mild beautiful and beneficent 
beings. The spirits of the olden time were a 
malignant race, and took especial delight in do-
ing mischief; but the new generation is mild ai d 
benignant. 
These spirits, as this petition attests, 
indulge in the most innocent amusements and 
harmless recreation?, such as sliding, raising and 
tipping tables, producing pleasant sounds and 
variegated lights, and sometimes curing diseases 
which were previously considered incurable, and 
for the existence of this simple and benignant 
race our petitioners are indebted to the brethren 
of the rosy cross. 
Among the modern professors of spiritualism, 
Cagliostro was the most justly (o'ebrated. 
In 
Paris, his saloons were thronged with the rich 
and the noble. 
To old ladies he sold immortal-
ity, and to young ones he sold beauty that would 
endure for centuries, and his charming Countess 
gained immense wealth by granting attending 
sylphs to such ladies as were rich enough to pay 
for their services. 
The " Biographe des Contem-
pores," a work which our present mediums ought 
to consult with care, says there was hardly a 
fine lady in Paris who would not sup with the 
shade of Lucretius in the apartments of Caglios-
tro. 
There was not a military officer who would 
not discuss the art of war with Alexander, Han-
nibal, or Caesar, or an advocate or counsellor 
who would not argue legal points with the ghost 
of Cicero. 
These were spiritual manifestations 
worth paying for, and all our degenerate me-
diums would have to hide their diminished heads 
in the presence of Cagliostro. 
It would be a curious inquiry to follow this 
occult science through all its phases of mineral, 
magnetism, animal mesmerism, &c., until we 
reach the present latest and slowest phase of all 
spiritual manifestations; but I have said enough 
to show the truth of Burke's beautiful aphorism, 
"The credulity of dupes is as inexhaustible as 
the invention of knaves." 
After Mr. Shields had concluded, an interest-
ing question came up—what disposition should 
be made of the petition ? One Senator proposed 
that it be referred to the three thousand clergy-
men. 
It was finally agreed to lay the matter on 
the table. 
It seems that ex-Senator Tallmadge of New 
York, was one of the petitioners ; and the speech 
of Mr. Shield, and disposition made of the peti-
tion, called forth from him the following letter 
in the National Intelligencer: 
LETTER FROM EX-SENATOR 
TALLMADGE. 
MESSRS. 
GALES & 
SEATON :—My attention has 
been attracted to the proceedings of the Senate, 
published in The Intelligencer of this morning, 
on the presentation of a memorial by Gen. 
Shields, signed by myself and 13,000 citizens 
of the United States, on the subject of " Spirit-
ual Manifestations." The memorialists ask Con-
gress to appoint a scientific commission to inves-
tigate these extraordinary phenomena. 
General 
Shields has given a very good synopsis of the 
memorial and had he stopped there I should not 
have felt called upon for any remarks. 
But, 
contrary to my expectations, the General has 
attempted to ridicule a subject which appealed 
to his better judgment, and which, according to 
my understanding, was to receive very different 
treatment at his hands. 
When I first spoke to General Shields about 
presenting this memorial to the Senate, he treated 
it with great courtesy, and expressed his willing-
scientific investigation, and request the appoint-
ment of a scientific commission for that purpose. 
I have given a faithful synopsis of this peti-
tion, which, however unprecedented in itself, has 
been prepared with singular ability, presenting 
the subject with great delicacy and moderation. 
I make it a rule to present any petition to the 
Senate which is respectful in its terms, but hav-
ing discharged this duty, I may be permitted to 
say that the prevalence of this delusion at this 
age of the world, amongst any considerable por-
tion of our citizens, must originate, in my opin-
ion, in a defective system of education, or in a 
partial derangement of the mental faculties pro-
duced by a diseased condition of the physical 
organization. 
I cannot, therefore, believe that 
it prevails to the extent indicated in this petition. 
Different ages of the world have had their 
peculiar delusions. 
Alchemy oocupied the at-
tention of eminent men for several centuries; 
but there was something sublime in alchemy. 
The philosopher's stone, or the transmutation of 
base metal into gold—the elixir vitae, or " water 
of life," which would preserve youth and beauty, 
and prevent old age, decay, and death, were 
blessings which poor humanity ardently desired, 
and which alchemy sought to discover by perse-
verance and piety. 
Roger Bacon, one of the 
greatest alchemists and greatest men of the thir-
teenth century, while searching for the philoso-
pher's stone, discovered the telescope, burning 
glasses and gunpowder. 
The prosecution of that 
dalusion led, therefore, to a number of useful 
discoveries. 
In the sixteenth century flourished Cornelius 
Agrippa, alchemist, astrologer and magician— 
one of the greatest professors of hermatic phil-
osophy that ever lived. 
He had all the spirits 
of the air, and demons of the earth under his 
command. 
Paulus Jovious says that the devil, 
in the shape of a large black dog, attended 
Agrippa wherever he went. 
Thomas Nash says, 
that at the request of Lord Surrey, Erasmus, 
and othsr learned men, Agrippa called up from 
the grave several of the great philosophers of 
antiquity; among others, Tully, whom he caused 
to re-deliver his celebrated oration for Roscius, 
to please the Emperor Charles the Fourth. 
He 
summoned King David and King Solomon from 
the tomb, and the Emperor conversed with them 
long upon the science of government. 
This was 
a glorious exhibition of spiritual power com-
pared with the insignificant manifestations of the 
present day. 
I will pass over the celebrated Paracelsus, for 
the purpose of making allusion to an Englishman 
with whose veracious history every one ought to 
make himself acquainted. 
In the sixteenth cen-
tury Dr. Dee made such progress in the talis-
manic mysteries that he acquired ample power 
to hold familiar conversation with spirits and 
angels, and to learn from them all the secrets of 
the universe. 
On one occasion the angel Uriel 
gave him a black crystal of a convex form, which 
he had only to gaze upon intently, and by a 
strong effort of the will he could summon any 
spirit he wished, to reveal to him the secrets of 
futurity. Dee, in his veracious diary, says, 
'' That one day while he was sitting with Albertus 
Laski, a Polish nobleman, there seemed to come 
out of the oratory a spiritual creature like a 
pretty girl of seven or nine years of age, with a 
gown of silk of changable red and green, and 
with a train; she seemed to play up and down, 
and to go in and out behind the books, and as 
she seemed to go between, the books displaced 
themselves and made-way for her." 
This I call 
a spiritual manifestation of the most interesting 
and^ fascinating kind. 
Even the books felt the 
fascinating influence of this spiritual creature, 
for they displaced themselves and made way for 
her. 
Edward Kelly, an Irishman. who was pres-
ent, and who witnessed this beautiful apparation, 
•verifies the Doctor's statement, therefore it would 
be unreasonable to doubt a story so well attested, 
particularly when the witness was an Irishman. 
(Laughter.) 
Dr. Dee was the distinguished 
favorite of Kings and Queens, a proof that spir-
itual science was held in high repute in the good 
old age of Queen Elizabeth. 
ness to move its reference to a Select Committee. 
Without expressing any opinion in favor of the 
spiritual theory, be agreed with me that, whether 
spiritual or philosophical, it was worthy of in-
vestigation. 
After this understanding, 1 confess 
my surprise that he shouid have treated it as he 
did; that instead of an investigation by a Select 
Committee, of which, by parliamentary usage, 
he would have been chairman, and where those 
who have investigated the subject could have 
been heard, .he should have given in advance a 
rehash of what has so often been said before by 
the opponents of spiritualism ! My habitual 
respect for the honorable body of which he is a 
member will cause me to forego any remarks 
upon the attempted criticisms of himself and 
others pn this occasion. 
The General is pleased to characterize these 
manifestations'as a "delusion." 
Now, I do not 
pretend to any extraordinary power to understand 
a subject more than other men whose position in 
life would indicate a talent equal, if not superior 
to my own. 
Still, I do pretend, that when I 
have investigated a subject which they have not, 
I am better capable than they^of judging whether 
there is any " delusion " involved in the conclu-
sion to which I have arrived, and I cannot con-
sent to surrender my reason and the evidence of 
my own senses to their instincts. 
I have made 
it a rule of my life never to write or speak on a 
subject about which I knew nothing. 
That rule 
has saved me from much awkwardness and em-
barrassment, as it would also save others, were 
it adopted by them. 
But if it be a " delusion," then the greater 
necessity of investigating it and showing it to be 
such, 
I have as great an interest in ascertain-
ing that fact as any other man. 
If it be " spir-
itual," there is much less necessity for its inves-
tigation, because its march will be onward, and 
no human power can resist it. 
Do away with the 
"delusion," if it be one, and you do away the 
insanity which it is sometimes alleged is conse-
quent upon it; and although the honorable gen-
tleman's bill granting lands for Insane Asylums 
would still be necessary for the vast numbers 
rendered such by religious excitement, still they 
would have fewer inmates by reason of the hu-
mane principle adopted by this investigation, 
namely, of pteventing instead of curing or pal-
liating the disease. 
1 hope, therefore, that the " lame and impo-
tent conclusion " to which the Senate arrived of 
laying the memorial on the table may be recon-
sidered, and that it may receive that considera-
tion which its importance demands. 
Respectfully, yours, 
JN\ P. 
TALLMADGE. 
Washington, April 18, 1854. 
THE 
RESURRECTION. 
And he did rise ! 
Hear, 0 ye nations! hear it, 0 ye dead ! 
He rose ! He rose! He burst the gates of death. 
Lift up your heads ye everlasting gates, 
And give the King of Glory to come in. 
Who is the King of Glory ? He who slew 
The rav'nous foe that gorged all human race' 
The King of Glory, He whose glory fill'd 
Heaven with amazement at His love to man, 
And with divine complacency beheld 
Powers most illumined wilder'd in the theme. 
The theme, the joy, how then shall man sustain 1 
Oh, the burst gates! crushed sting! demolished 
1 throne ! 
Last gasp of vanquish'd death. 
Shout, earth and 
heaven, 
This sum of good to man ! whose nature then 
Took wing, and mounted with Him from the tomb. 
Then, then I rose ; then first humanity 
Triumphant pass'd the crystal ports of light, 
(Stupendous guest!) and seized eternal youth, 
Seized in our name. 
Young. 
Spiritualism in Congress. 
IN the United States Senate, on Monday, 
April 17th, Mr. Shields presented a petition, with 
some 15,000 names appended to it. asking that a 
scientific commission be appointed for the purpose 
of patiently, rigidly, and scientifically investigat-
ing the phenomen known as " spiritual manifesta-
tions." 
He said: 
The petitioners represent that certain physical 
and mental phenomena, of mysterious import, 
have become so prevalent in this country and Eu-
rope as to engross a large share of public atten-
tion. 
A partial analysis of these phenomena 
attest the existence: 
1. Of an occult force which is exhibited in 
sliding, raising, and arresting, holding, suspend-
ing, and otherwise disturbing ponderable bodies, 
apparently in direct opposition to the acknow-
ledged laws of matter, and transcending the ac-
credited power of the human mind. (Laughter.) 
2. Lights of different degrees of intensity ap-
pear in dark rooms where chemical action or 
phosphoresic illumination cannot be developed, 
and where there are no means of generating 
electricity or of producing combustion. 
(Laugh-
ter.) 
3. A variety of sounds, frequent in occurence 
and diversified in character, and of singular sig-
nificance and import, consisting of mysterious 
rapping, indicating the presence of invisible in-
telligence. 
Sounds are often heard like those 
produced by the prosecution of mechanical opera-
tions, like the hoarse murmur of the winds and 
waves, mingled with the harsh creaking noise of 
the masts and rigging of a ship laboring in a 
sea. 
Concussions also occur resembling distant 
thunder, producing oscillatory movement of sur-
rounding objects, and a tremulous motion of the 
premises upon which these phenomena occur. 
Harmonious sounds, as that of human voices, 
and other sounds resembling those of fife, drum, 
trumpet, &c., have been produced without any 
visible agency. 
4. All the functions of the human body and 
mind are influenced in what appears to be cer-
tain abnormal states of the system, by causes 
not yet adequately accounted for. The occult 
force or invisiblepower frequently interrupts the 
normal operation of the faculties, suspending 
sensation and voluntary motion of the body to a 
deathlike coldness and rigidity, and diseases 
hitherto considered incurable have been entirely-
eradicated by this mysterious agency. 
. 
Tlie petitioners proceed to state that two opin-
ions prevails with respect to the origin of these 
phenomena—one ascribes them to the power and 
the intelligence ef departed spirits operating up-
on the elements which pervade all material 
forms,; the otherrejects this conclusion, and con-
tends that all these results may be accounted for 
in a rational and satisfactory manner. 
The memorialists, while thus disagreeing.as to 
the cause concur in opinion as to the occurrence 
ot the alleged phenomena, and in view of their 
origin, nature, and bearing upon the interests of 
mankind, demand for them. a patient, rigid, 
The Destiny of the Earth. 
BY JAMES INGEIS. 
THE philanthropist of enlarged and compre-
hensive views, who surveys the present aspect of 
the world, depressed by the most mortifying con-
viction of abounding evil and the most despond-
ing thoughts of impending misery, may well be 
supposed to cast many an anxious glance into 
the more remote future to descry, if he may, some 
resting-place for weary humanity. 
He is but a 
superficial thinker, who is deluded by tbe -mar-
vels of the 'mechanical progress, and the in-
creased apparatus of economical prosperity which 
is the boast of this age, and who overlooks the 
rising tide of vice and'ungodliness, whosealarm-
ing advances are chronicled, side by side, with 
the triumphs of physical science and the expan-
sion of the area and the resources of commerce. 
Without entering into its saddening details, it ;is 
sufficient to refer to the columns of the most 
scrupulous journals, for the evidence that the in-
roads of that tide are setting both the wisdom 
and philanthropy of the age at 'defiance. 
Those who are now arrived at the maturity of 
manhood can scarcely fail to be struck by the 
contrast which the present attitv.de and aspect 
of the earth presents to the promise which flat-
tered the spring-time of their lives. Then, to 
say nothing of the fond anticipations of the 
THE ADVENT 
HERALD. 
recognition of the equal rights and liberties of 
mankind, the speedy overthrow of tyranny, and 
the universal reign of intelligence and virtue, 
which anticipations the occurrences of the past six 
years have sometimes vainly promised to lead to 
the very threshold of fulfilment; then, to say 
nothing of the mutual congratulations with which 
the advocates of Christian Missions, Sunday 
Schools, Popular Education, Mechanics' Insti-
tutes, and the various benevolent enterprises 
which aimed at the conversion or social amelio-
ration of the world, could shake hands in view 
of the milleunium which they fancied they were 
jointly introducing;' then, there was a general 
impression that the barbarous acts of war had 
become the humbling memories of a past folly, 
and that the gates of the temple of Janus were 
closed' forever. The world, it was thought, had 
outgrown the hideous infatuation. The bitter 
lessons of the past, the palpable interests of the 
present, and the1 dawning hopes of the future, 
seemed alike to rebuke the fear that the world's 
peace could be broken again. 
And yet, to-day, 
beneath a sky which is still gathering blackness, 
and while the hoarse mutterings of distant thun-
der impose awe on the listener, we are awaiting 
the most terrible storm-burst of fury that ever 
desolated the homes of art and civilization. 
The vastness of the consequences delays the 
issue. 
The internal condition of the nations of 
Europe and Asia, and the mutual relations of 
these nations which are to be dragged into the 
world-quarrel, render it certain that every ex-
pedient of mediation and diplomacy will be ex-
hausted, in the vain hope of averting the collis-
ion which will strew continents with ruin, convert 
the old world into a battle-field, and join the 
horrors of civil war to the devastation of inter-
national slaughter. 
But yet those who are most 
eager to ply these expedients are at heart most 
thoroughly satisfied that they must ultimately 
fail; the most they hope for is to gain time, and 
to hand over to their successors the awful re-
sponsibilities of deciding the world's fate. There 
may be fond dreamers and obstinate theorists 
who cling to the brighter anticipations of their 
youth, and believe that out of the desperate me-
lee, human freedom and happiness will come 
with the garland of victory and the spoils of the 
oppressor ; but they must be fond dreamers, in-
deed, and little versed in the history of nations, 
who can suppose that virtue and enlightenment 
can be promoted by violence and carnage, and 
that nations, now so little prepared to assert or 
to enjoy their liberties, will be trained for its 
noblest functions amidst the darkest crimes and 
the deepest misery of universal war. 
The re-
flecting must find it a question of aching appre-
hension and perplexity : What shall be the is-
sue of the coming struggle, and where will it 
leave mankind ? 
When, revelation aside, we glance over the 
history of man and see how large a space is oc-
cupied by crime and sorrow, which our vanity 
attempts to veil under the names of heroism and 
glory; when we look beneath the refinements of 
art, and see the depravity that lurks there; when 
we find that inventions and discoveries which 
prove of how much man is capable, do not change 
the sad truth of what man is; and when all the 
elegance of our literature and the scope of our 
speculations only show what a specious gloss 
can be shed over vice and error, and how ef-
fectually the pure gold of divine truth may be 
counterfeited or debased, it might well shake 
the confidence of the most credulous in the per-
fectibility of human nature. 
. If to tfliese we add the pitiful conviction which 
forces itself on the patriotic of every land, that 
public virtue is a name by which selfishness con-
jures, and the patriotism of statesmen is the thin 
disguise of placement; and the still more pitiful 
conviction, which forces itself on the pious of 
every church, that religious prosperity too often 
means but the secular advancement of a sect in 
proportion to its worldly conformity; and that 
tfhe' history of true religion is a desperate strug-
gle, not so much with the violence of open ene 
mies as the insidious corruption of professed al-
lies, it is difficult to' imagine what there is to 
sustain a last feeble hope of brighter days in the 
history of the world. 
The heart would not be human, indeod, that 
could willingly, look over the existing civiliza-
tion of the world and resign it to ruin ; over the 
glowing enterprises of philanthrophy, and aban-
don the in to defeat, or over the loving activities of 
Christianity, and anticipate the close of the day 
of grace.. But wo ought to remember that our 
civilization exists on soil beneath which lie the 
ruins- of empire, that our philanthrophy glows 
amid the darkness that has- swallowed up the 
fairest promise of centuries, and that our evan-
gelical activities-are promoted amid the infidelity 
and irreligion of the nineteenth century of the 
Christian era. 
And then, with whatever reluct-
ance we may admit our short-sightedness,, we 
may be fain to betake ourselves to some more 
certain source of information than our own fond 
hopes.. 
Hush the syren voice of earthly hope, and the 
intoxicating flatteries of human vanity, and from 
the frail beauty of the autumnal flowers that 
linger over the mouldering ruins of six thousand 
years, look to the storm that is gathering over 
the world! 
Revolution, war, slaughter, and 
universal conflagration, are not only the scenes 
that meet the eye of the observer, but are the 
very means by which the professed friends of 
popular freedom and elevation expect the higher 
destiny of the world to be achieved. 
But with 
the warmest sympathy in the object of these en-
thusiasts, with the highest indignation against 
wrong and oppression, and the tenderest com-
passion for the down-trodden and enslaved— 
with the most ardent longings for the universal 
acknowledgment of liberty, equality, and fra-
ternity, in the highest sense—can we for a mo-
ment be deluded by the dream that the masses, 
already debased, are to come out of the discord 
and carnage, purged and enlightened, and that 
the peaceful glories of the good time coming are 
to be inaugurated by the hands of leaders steeped 
in gore to the elbows ? The demon of vengeance 
will not perform the mission of the angel of 
peace. 
The great fight will be fought; the 
world-battle is as inevitable as to-morrow, and 
whatever be the order of the field, despotism 
will come up to meet the retribution of centu-
ries of wrong, and the people enraged beyond 
endurance, will come to inflict it. 
What a 
reckoning is then to be met by earthly power ! 
The daring corruption of the faith of the gospel 
and the prostitution of its ordinances, the impi-
ous thought that the people were made to be the 
tools of pride, the oceans of blood and tears 
poured out for passion or ambition, and the hire 
of the laborer kept back by fraud, cry out against 
king, noble and priest. 
They have lived in 
pleasure and been wanton, they have nourished 
their hearts as in a day of slaughter, they have 
condemned and killed the just, and they shall 
not escape. 
But the people—do they come with 
clean hands and pure hearts to the reckoning ? 
or will they come out of it regenerated or avenged? 
Leaving the word of God out of the question, 
what says history ? What says common sense ? 
In the view of ordinary sagacity the future that 
lies beyond the struggle, if not as terrible as the 
struggle itself, is more dismal than all that lies 
before it; and the most sanguine may pause be-
fore the question : How many degrees will the 
shadow go backward on the dial of the world, 
on that day when the trumpet shall sound to 
arms ? 
When we couple the bitterness and debase-
ment of the past, with these gloomy forebodings 
of the future, our natural feelings rebel against 
the conclusion. 
We feel as if the worn pilgrim 
of the wilderness should find rest at length, that 
centuries of wrong and oppression should find 
compensation in a future of prosperity, and that 
the world's day of storm should have a calm 
evening close. 
But such demands must always 
seek an answer in the world of, fiction, and not 
of fact. Dramatic justice is only dramatic, be-
cause it supposes purity and justice in the suf-
ferer, which is not found in the real world. We 
forget also that the human race is not a pro-
longation of individual consciousness; so that 
the freedom and happiness of succeeding gene-
rations, would be no real reparation of the 
wrongs and sufferings of past generations. 
Most 
of all—we forget that the awards of temporal 
destiny are not those for which man exists, and 
that the attempt to make them so, is the most 
obstinate rebellion against the gracious will of 
Him whose long suffering brings salvation, and 
who has sent his Son into the world, that who-
soever believeth in him should not perish, but 
have everlasting life. 
These reflections have led us round to revela 
tion for a key to the mystery of the world's 
present existence, as well as for a solution of 
the perplexity with which we look into the fu-
ture. 
The sad past is all in accordance with its 
view of the origin and nature of evil in the 
world ; the present condition of the world har-
monizes with its view of thp gracious purpose 
which God is working out in the face of that 
evil; and the coming struggle is but the fulfil-
ment of its predictions regarding the course and 
the close of temporal history. 
But that with 
which we have chiefly to do at present, is the 
clear and joyous light in which it presents the 
rest that lies beyond the struggle, the glorious 
day which is to break out of the darkest hour of 
this long, long night. 
When human sagacity is 
vainly calculating the years of darkness and 
toil through which man may travel back again 
to the point of civilization from which the storm 
will carry him, or despondingly picturing the 
dismal spectacle which the scathed and bleeding 
earth will present when the struggle is over ; 
or, with profane and rebellious impatience de-
manding if there is to be no peace until a groan-
ing creation sleeps the sleep of eternal oblivion 
and nothingness. 
Revelation lifts up the exult 
ing voice of hope amid all the gloom, and even 
when there is upon the earth distress of nations 
with perplexity, the sea and the waves roaring,, 
men's hearts failing them for fear and looking 
after those things that are coming upon the 
earth, it says to the believer: " Theu look up, 
and lift up your heads, for your redemption 
draweth nigh." 
Special Providences. 
LUTHER. 
LET us look at the career of Luther. 
Among 
the many incidents in this eventful life which 
illustrate a special Providence, we will only ad-
Vert to that decisive one which led him to aban-
don a secular life and enter a monastery. 
He 
is returning from Mansfield; the death of Alexis 
has greatly affected him, and made him feel the 
vanity of life and the nearness of death more 
than he has ever done before. Erfurth is near, 
when he will again have to plunge into studies 
and pursuits for which these thoughts have given 
him a distaste. 
A thunderbolt bursts from the 
sky, flashes by him, and buries itself in the earth 
at his feet. His decision is at once taken. 
He 
asks himself what his condition would have been 
if that bolt had struck him. 
He shudders at the 
thought, and thenceforward determines to devote 
himself to a life of religion and to a preparation 
for eternity. 
How different would the history 
of the world have been had the life of Luther 
ended there, or if it had not been turned into a 
new channel! 
Had his course been different, 
ours must have been so too. 
Yet on how many 
contingencies and chances did it seem to de-
pend ! That he should have got just to that 
spot and no farther; that the bolt should have 
fallen just where and when it did, and not strike 
him ; that it should have descended just at the 
moment when his mind was opened to receive 
such lessons and influences,—all these things 
suppose an overruling Providence, controling 
his footsteps, acquainted with his thoughts, 
launching the thunderbolt and directing its 
flight; thus preparing for the Reformation, and 
shielding the head of the great, but as yet un-
conscious reformer, from harm. 
PASCAL. 
Or take the case of Pascal. 
Just at the time 
when his hopeless passion for the sister of his 
friend and patron, the Duke of Roanness, had 
inspired in him aversion to the world, he was 
driving over the bridge of Neuilly, when, as he 
came to that part of which was unprotected by 
a parapet, his horses took fright, began to 
plunge violently, and sprang over the side of the 
bridge into the river. 
Had the carriage fol-
lowed them, Pascal must have perished; but, 
happily, on the brink of the descent the traces 
broke, the horses were drowned, he escaped. 
He now yielded to the entreaties of his sister 
Jacqueline, who was already an inmate of the 
celebrated Port Royal Academy, and devoted 
himself to the service of God; to this circumstance 
we owe the Provincial Letters, which were the 
first, and are still among the heaviest blows ever 
struck at the system of the Jesuits; and his 
" Thoughts," which take their place among 
the most precious gems in the treasury of the 
Church. 
GIOVANNI 
CELLINI. 
Cellini goes on to narrate that when he was 
three years old, as he was playing in the yard 
behind his father's house, a large scorpion fell 
out from behind a water-tank. 
Taking it for a 
crab, he seized it, but from its size and the man-
ner in which he grasped it, its two mouths pro-
truded beyond his little hand on one side, and 
its tail on the other. 
Running with it to his 
grandfather, he cried, " See my pretty little 
crab!" 
The old man called loudly to him to 
throw it down, at which he began to cry, and 
grasped it the harder. 
The father, attracted by 
the altercation, ran up, and perceiving that if 
the child attempted to do so, he would be fatally 
wounded before he could disentangle himself 
from its claws, seized a pair of shears which lay 
near, and cut off its head and tail. 
His life 
was thus preserved, and as he grew up he was 
distinguished not only for great talent as an art-
ist, but as one of the most daring swordsmen and 
best marksmen in Rome. 
In the twenty-sixth year of his age, the fa-
mous siege of Rome by the troops under the 
Constable de Bourbon occurred. 
Early on the 
morning ot the day on which the assault on the 
city was to be made, the constable was killed by 
a shot from the walls. 
The immediate and the 
ulterior results of his death were most important. 
Before the close of the day Rome would have 
been his—held for him by an army of forty 
thousand men, devoted to his person, for the 
most part enlisted from the Protestant States of 
Germany. 
His civil and military genius, which 
made him formidable even as a solitary exile, 
would have enabled him to keep what he had 
acquired, or at the least he would have been in 
a position to dictate terms to his enemies in 
France, and secure the restoration of his title 
and estates. 
In either case, the destinies of 
France, Spain, arid Italy would have been ma-
teriallyaffected. There can be but little question 
but that he would have joined his kinsman and 
party, who put themselves at the head of the 
Huguenot movement. 
With the accession of 
his genius, influence, and wealth, the issue of 
the bloody conflict must have been widely differ-
ent. 
Even as it was, the Huguenots were all 
but a match for their enemies, and were only 
crushed by one of the most atrocious crimes re-
corded on the page of history. 
Had he lived 
then, and thrown his weight into their scale, the 
massacre of St. Bartholomew and the revocation 
of the edict of Nantes would in all likelihood 
have been averted. 
But histories are agreed 
that these atrocities were among the causes of 
the French revolution, by the murder and exile 
of the Protestants who formed the best part of 
the French population. 
The same causes co-op-
erated in securing to England her manufacturing 
and commercial supremacy, by driving to her 
hospitable shores the fugitives, with their vari-
ous arts and industry, which France then lost, 
and England gained. 
It is vain, however, to 
speculate upon what might have been. It is 
sufficient to say, that the struggle between the 
Roman Catholics and Protestants was the turn-
ing-point in the history of France, and that, 
nearly balanced as the parties were, the life of 
Constable de Bourbon must have greatly influ-
enced the issue. 
But what, it may be asked, has this to do with 
the young artist Cellini ? Everything; for he 
declares that it was he who fired the fatal shot. 
If we accept his statement as a true one, what 
important events in the world's history hung 
upon that moment when as a child he grasped 
the scorpion ! Had he seized it by another part 
of the body, or had the reptile's sting been a 
few hair-breadths longer, its poison would proba-
bly have been fatal to him, and the whole course 
of European history must have been altered. It 
is true that if we look, as Protestants, at the 
disastrous consequences to the reformed faith in 
France, which in all probability flowed from the 
death of the Constable de Bourbon, we may at 
first sight be apt to think that it would have 
been better for the world that the scorpion's 
bite had been fatal to the child. 
But, doubt-
less, such a conclusion would be a short-sighted 
one. 
Important results, in addition to those 
already developed, may spring from it. 
In our 
ignorance of the tendencies of the present and 
the revelations of the future, we must wait the 
unfolding of His purposes " whose glory it is to 
conceal a thing." 
These incidents may surely prove that what 
reason and revelation teach as to the agency of 
Divine Providence, is yet further confirmed by 
an appeal to fact. 
Events which seem most 
trivial are made to work out the most momen-
tous results; and what men blinded by unbelief 
term accidental chances, are the workings of 
that Providence " that shapes our ends, rough 
hew them how we may." 
Death of Mr. Justice Talfourd. 
WE have never read anything more profoundly 
impressive than the account given by the Staf-
ford correspondent of the London News of the 
death of Mr. Justice Talfourd, almost literally 
upon the judgdment-seat, and in the midst of a 
charge, (or we'might say at its conclusion, for 
what more could have been added to the pro-
duction as it stands ?) full of the most noble, 
the most humane, the most generous sentiments. 
The correspondent states that his lordship ap-
peared in his usual health on entering the court, 
and had been out at six o'clock in the morning, 
enjoying a morning walk. 
His delivery of his 
charge, however, was characterized by much 
hesitation, and he evidently had difficulty in 
proceeding with his task. 
He was presiding in 
the Crown Court, had reviewed the calendar, 
and was directing attention to the number of 
charges of highway robbery which it contained: 
" These crimes," he said, " come—I will not 
say exclusively, but in the far greater majority 
of these cases—from those districts which are 
the most rich in mineral treasures, where wages 
are high, and where no temptation of want can 
for a moment be set up as an excuse or pallia-
tion for the crime ; on the contrary, I have ob-
served in the experience I have had of the cal-
endars of prisoners tried at these assizes—an ex-
perience, many of you are aware, extending far 
beyond my judicial labors—I have observed 
that in times of comparative privation crime di-
minishes, and that when wages are high and are 
earned by a less degree of work, there is a 
strong temptation to spend them in vicious in-
dulgences, and that crime has increased almost 
in proportion to the state of prosperity by which 
the criminals have been surrounded. 
This con-
sideration should awaken all our minds, and es-
pecially the minds of gentlemen connected with 
those districts, to see in what direction to search 
for a remedy for so great an evil. 
It is untrue 
to say that the state of education—that is, such 
education as can be furnished by the Sunday-
schools, and other schools in these—is below 
the general average ; then we must search among 
some other causes for the peculiar aspect of 
crime presented in these cases. 
I cannot help 
myself thinking it may be in no small degree at-
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139 
tributed to that separation between class and 
class, which is the great curse of British society, 
and for which we are all more or less, in our re-
spective spheres, in some degree responsible, and 
which is more complete in these districts, than 
in agricultural districts, where the resident gen-
try are enabled to shed around them the bless-
ings resulting from the exercise of benevolence, 
and the influence and -example of active kind-
ness. 
««I am afraid we all of us keep too much 
aloof from those beneath us, and whom we thus 
encourage to look upon us with suspicion and 
dislike. 
Even to our servants, we think, per-
haps, we fulfil our duty when we perform our 
contract with them—when we pay them their 
wages, and treat them with the civility consist-
ent with our habits and feelings—when we curb 
our temper and use no violent expressions to-
wards them. 
But how painful is the thought 
that there are men and women growing up 
around us, ministering to our comforts and ne-
cessities, continually inmates of our dwellings, 
with whose affections and nature we are as much 
unacquainted as if they were the inhabitants of 
some other sphere. 
This feeling, arising from 
the kind of reserve peculiar to the English char-
acter, does, I think, greatly tend to prevent 
that mingling of class with class, that reciproca-
tion of kind words and gentle affections, gracious 
admonitions and kind inquiries, which often, 
more than any book education, tend to the cul-
ture of the affections of the heart, refinement, 
and elevation of the character of those to whom 
they are addressed. 
And if 1 were to be asked 
what is the great want of English society—to 
mingle class with class—I would say, in one 
word, the want is the want of sympathy." 
It was while giving utterance to these most 
impressive truths that the audience became 
alarmed by the changed aspect of the venerable 
speaker. 
His head fell on one side; he was 
seized with apoplexy. 
As quickly as possible 
he was removed to his lodging, where the best 
professional assistance was called in, but he 
breathed his last the moment he was laid on his 
bed. 
The event produced great consternation 
and the deepest regret. 
Sandwich Islands. 
THE native population are melting away like 
snow before a summer's sun. 
The "official re-
turns of James W. Marsh, Esq., to the Governor 
of Oahu, in the islands, for the year 1853, show 
the following results for the first district, in 
which Honolulu is situated : 
Births, 191 ; deaths, 3759; marriages of 
natives, 453 ; marriages of foreigners, 62. This 
district is comprised between Maunama on the 
east, and Moanalua on the west, a distance of 
some fourteen miles, and containing a population 
of about 10,$00 souls. The deaths from small-
pox, included in the above, are supposed to be 
about 2800—the balance from other diseases. 
In the same district during the year 1852, 
there were births, 337 ; deaths, 906; marriages, 
418. 
It is to be remarked that it was in this 
district that the small-pox first broke out, and 
was more fatal, perhaps, than in any other por-
tions of the islands. 
From the limited returns 
that have been collected, we infer that the popu-
lation does not exceed 70,000 souls on all the 
islands—a diminution of 10,000 since the cen-
sus of January, 1849. 
Statistics of the population of the Kona dis 
trict, from the official returns:—Natives, 10,-
186 ; foreigners, 1169—total, 11,355. 
In 
1850 the number was 14,484, showing a de-
crease of 3123 in three years. 
Patient Joe: 
THE NEWCASTLE COLLIER. 
BY HAXNAH MORE. 
HAVE you heard of a collier of honest renown 
Who dwelt on the borders of Newcastle town ? 
His name it was Joseph—you better may know 
If I tell you he always was called Patient Joe 
Whatever betided, he thought it was right, 
And Providence still he kept ever in sight; 
To those who loved God, let things turn as they 
would, 
He was certain that all worked together for good 
He praised his Creator whatever befell: 
How thankful was Joseph when matters went 
well; 
How sincere were his carols of praise for good 
health, 
And how grateful for any increase in his wealth 
In trouble he bowed him to God's holy will: 
How contented was Joseph when matters went 
ill; 
When rich and when poor he alike understood 
That all things together were working for good. 
If the land was afflicted with war, he declared 
'Twas a needful correction for sins which he 
shared; 
And when merciful heaven bade slaughter to 
cease, 
How thankful was Joe for the blessing of peace. 
When taxes ran high and provisions were dear, 
Still Joseph declared he had nothing to fear ; 
It was but a trial, he well understood, 
From Him who make all work together for good. 
Though his wife was but sickly, Ms gettings but 
small, 
Yet a mind so submissive prepared him for all: 
He lived on his gains, were they greater or less, 
And the Giver bfe ceased not each moment to 
bless. 
When another child came, he received him with 
joy. 
And Providence blest who had sent him the boy; 
But when the child died, said poor Joe, " I'm 
content; 
For God hath a right to recall what he lent." 
It was Joseph's ill-fortune to work in a pit, 
With some who believed that profaneness was 
wit: 
When disasters befell him much pleasure they 
showed, 
And laughed, and said, " Joseph, will this work 
for good?" 
But ever, when these would profanely advance 
That this happened by luck, and that happened 
by chance, 
Still Joseph insisted no chance could be found, 
Not a sparrow by accident falls to the ground. 
Among his companions who worked in the pit, 
And made him the butt of their profligate wit, 
Was idle Tim Jenkins, who drank and who 
gamed, 
Who mocked at his Bible, and was not ashamed. 
One day at the pit his old comrades he found, 
And they chatted, preparing to go under ground: 
Tim Jenkins, as usual, was turning to jest 
Joe's notion—that all things which happened 
were best. 
As Joe on the ground had unthinkingly laid 
His provision for dinner, of bacon and bread, 
A dog on the watch seized the bread and the 
meat, 
And off with his prey ran with footsteps so fleet. 
Now, to see the delight that Tim Jenkins ex-
pressed : 
Is the loss of thy dinner too, Joe, for the best?" 
"No doubt on't," said Joe; " but as I must eat, 
'Tis my duty to try to recover my meat." 
So saying, he followed the dog a long round, 
WThile Tim, laughing and swearing, went down 
under ground: 
Poor Joe soon returned, though his bacon was 
lost, 
For the dog a good dinner had made at his cost. 
When Joseph came back he expected a sneer, 
But the face of each collier spoke horror and 
fear: 
" What a narrow escape hast thou had," they 
all said; 
Thepithasfall'nin, and Tim Jenkins is dead." 
How sincere was the gratitude Joseph expressed, 
How warm the compassion which glowed in his 
breast; 
Thus events great and small, if aright under-
stood, 
Will be found to be working together for good. 
" When my meat," Joseph cried, " was just now 
stol'n away, 
And I had no prospect of eating to-day, 
How could it appear to a short-sighted sinner, 
That my life would be saved by the loss of my 
dinner ?" 
The Foreign News. 
BY the arrival of the Arabia at this port on 
the 26th of April, we have seven days later Eu-
ropean news,—bringing dates from Liverpool up 
to April 18th. 'Although no formal engage-
ments between the hostile forces are reported, 
either by land or sea, yet there has doubtless 
been some hard fighting on the Danube, and the 
news is altogether of the most stirring and im-
portant character. 
It is remarkable for what it 
suggests, ratner than for what it asserts as mat-
ters of fact. We have further accounts of the 
negotiations of the European powers. The Turks 
held Kalafat against a sanguinary attack, from 
the Russians, and we have reports—evidently 
confused—of battles and skirmishes. 
The allied fleets are at Varna, and in commu-
nication with the Turkish land forces. 
The most important news by this arrival is the 
report that the Russian fleet has got the start of 
Commodore Perry in the negotiations for the 
opening of Japan. 
It is asserted that the Japan-
ese Emperor had given a banquet to the Rus-
sian Admiral, and that he had sent ministers to 
treat with the Admiral—intimating a friendli-
ness on the part of the Japanese entirely at va-
riance with what is known of them, and which 
goes far towards throwing discredit upon the 
last statement, that "Japan will be opened," 
qualified as it is by the addition, " but it will 
be after some time:'' 
It will be remembered that it was reported 
some months since that the Emperor of Japan 
had died, and the laws of the Empire prescribe 
that no visitors can be received for three years 
after the death of the Emperor. 
Austria appears to be acting more in unison 
with the Western powers, while Prussia leans 
more to Russia, although temporizing with both 
parties. 
On the 9th, the protocol re-defining the in-
tegrity of the Ottoman Territory, was signed at 
Vienna by the four powers, including Prussia, 
but simultaneously therewith, Prussia introduced 
into her mutual alliance treaty with Austria, con-
ditions and limitations which would render the 
treaty a dead letter, and which Austria conse-
quently refused to accept. 
The military ar-
rangements arising out of the proposed treaty 
have been referred to a Commission, presided 
over by the Prince of Prussia. 
It has been announced via Southampton, that 
Chevalier Bunson, the Prussian Minister.at Lon-
don, was re-called, for which no reason was as-
signed; but the whole story is since contradicted. 
Hanover sides with the Western powers. 
All 
the minor States, except Bavaria, do the same, 
and will support Austria in forcing Prussia to 
declare herself, should the subject come before 
the Federal Diet. 
The Independence Beige announces positively 
that a treaty of permanent alliance, "offensive 
and defensive," has just been signed between 
France and England, independently of the trea-
ties of the present war. 
The Turkish Government has offered all Greeks 
who will consent to place themselves under the 
exclusive protection of the " Porte," permission 
to leave the Turkish territory within fifteen days 
from March 30th. 
This expulsion, it is said, 
was determined on by the advice of the repre-
sentatives of the Powers. 
On the 30th of March, an important attack 
was made on Kalafat , and a sanguinary encount-
er took place, lasting some four hours. 
The 
Russians were routed, and pursued for a con-
siderable distance. 
From March 30th to April 2d there were 
some engagements of greater or less severity, 
It was reported that an important battle was 
fought near Rassova which continued from April 
2d to April 4th—result unknown, but doubtless 
some fighting did occur. 
The British war steamer Cyclops, at Malta on 
the 7th, brings important news. 
The Turks 
purposely left a free passage for the Russians to 
Hirsova, but then attacked them in the rear, and 
after a hard fight one half of the Russians were 
cut to pieces, the remainder being obliged to 
cross the Danube. 
No date is given. 
The Turks had evacuated the fortress Czarna-
voda in the Dobrudscha, which was shelled by 
the Russians. 
It was further stated, without date, that 30, 
000 Russians had crossed at Galatz, without op-
position. 
Accounts of these occurrences are very con-
fused. By dates from Malta of the 7th, it is 
stated that an English brig in tow of a crescent 
steamer from the Danube, was fired into by the 
Russians. Also, that another English brig, name 
unknown, was sunk by the Russian batteries on 
the Danube. 
Gen. Canrobert, with 3000 French troops, ar-
rived at Constantinople on the 3d of April. 
The declaration of war by France and Eng 
land was known in Turkey, and caused immense 
enthusiasm. 
There is a report of the death of the French 
Colonel Dien, on a reconnoisance. 
He was a 
merritorious staff officer of Omar Pasha. 
St. Petersburg was illuminated and a Te Deum 
sung for the passage of the Danube. , 
Accounts from Iaziona of the 3d, state that 
the Greek insurgents had been repulsed. 
Turk 
ish re-inforcements had arrived at Trevesa and 
Bola. The insurrection makes no progress. An 
Austrian note of remonstrance had been for 
warded to Athens, holding the Greek Govern 
ment liable for all mischief that may arise 
through the Insurrection. 
Vienna letters convey the impression that the 
negotiations between Austria and Prussia will 
be broken off, which result is of course ascribed 
to Russian diplomacy. 
Paris papers speak in a 
very unsatisfactory manner of the negotiations 
of the German Powers. 
" It is stated, on reliable authority from Ber 
lin, that the secret convention just concluded by 
the Austrian and Prussian Governments at Ber 
lin, guarantees in effect the integrity of Russia 
more decidedly, than the protocol signed by the 
same powers with France and England at Vien-
na, guarantees the integrity of Turkey. 
One of 
its secret articles is believed to stipulate that 
Austria and Prussia will not permit a peace to 
be imposed on the Czar at the expense of a por 
tion of his territory. 
" The relations between Austria and Russia 
are daily becoming more distant. 
It is proba-
ble that Austria has proposed to Prussia a Ger-
man ultimatum, demanding the evacuation of the 
Danubian Principalities by Russia-." 
From the Danube, as well as the Baltic and 
Black Sea fleets, the following summary by the 
European Times covers the whole ground: 
' With regard to the operations on the Dan-
ube, it is now admitted that the passage of the 
fiver by the Russians, and their occupation ofthe 
Dobrudscha, is a movement of very doubtful 
success. 
The Anglo-French fleet has moved up 
to Kavarna, has landed troops, and it is said that 
the fleet has proceeded to Sebastopol. 
Other 
accounts intimate that the English marines have 
been landed to cover Varna. 
We cannot say 
positively how this may be, in the multitude of 
rumors which reach ns daily, but we are strongly 
of opinion that the -Anglo-Frenoh fleet will un-
dertake no formidable operation until the troops 
arrive. The story of Anglo-French troops march-
ing to Adrianople seems to us preposterous. But 
if they are to undertake any offensive operation, 
and the protection of our transports alone would 
be a formidable task whilst a Russian fleet is in 
existence. 
It is, therefore, of paramount im-
portance to obey Admiral Dunda's orders • to 
take, burn or destroy ' the Russian fleet wherever 
it is to be found. It is quite out of the question 
to attempt to enlighten our readers about the 
actual military operations. 
The Mmiteur inti-
mated that there was a report of a victory by 
the Russians, but we have no intelligible ac-
counts of even a battle. 
Wrhat we make out is, 
that the Turks have evacuated the country on 
the cocfst as the Russians advanced, but all this 
has been done deliberately, in obedience to or-
ders from head-quarters, and the object of the 
Turks in withdrawing is probably to entice the 
enemy on to his destruction." 
(For the Herald.) 
The Turkish Question. 
I APPREHEND distinctly but one faith in rela-
tion to Turkey, in the future; which is, Tur-
key, i. e., "HE, shall come to his end, and 
none shall help him." 
So it seems to me we have 
' Thus saith the Lord." 
Now whatever may 
be the result of the war against Russia, the ex-
tinction of the Ottoman Empire is certain. 
Tur-
key, as it once was, has long since ceased to be. 
The military renown ofOtbman, Bajazet, Ame-
rath, and Mohammed is no longer inspiring to 
this present generation of the worshippers of the 
false prophet. I have believed, since the " East-
ern Question " was first started, that in the se-
quel not one of the Western Powers would con-
senttothe integrity and unity of Turkey. France, 
as early as 1850, presented demands on Turkey 
in regard to the " Holy Shrines." 
Soon after, 
however, the fawning spirit of Napoleon drew 
back his pretensions, for the purpose of quieting 
the snarls and growls of the Northern Bear! 
But the great beast has risen up, and the eyes 
ofthe French eagle may as well again glance a 
wishful look towards the holy city, where the 
British lion has long since scented the prey of 
" Universal Empire!'"' 
There are many significant fadts alt the pres-
ent time, which, to my mind, prove conclusive-
ly the almost immediate fulfilment of God's 
book of prophecy in relation to Turkey. 
Their 
specific and ominous character may be learned 
from the history of Turkey for one hundred and 
fifty years past, since which, in no case, has she 
been a successful and aggressive power ait the 
same time 
For about the same period, too, 
fire, plague, and earthquake have decimated her 
population in fearful progress ; the onerous 
burdens imposed by the government on her sub-
jects have paralyzed industry, and made the na-
tion poor; anarchy and insurrection in'many of 
the provinces have been of frequent occurrence, 
and these are now more likely to prevail than in 
by-gone ages. 
The defeat of the-Montenegrians 
in 1852, by Omar Pasha, and its unfavorable 
influence on the Ottoman -Porte—then the haugh-
ty demands put forth by Prince Menscbikoff— 
then the negotiations transferred to Vienna-
then the visit of the Czar to 'Olmutz—then the 
rejection of the Vienna note—then the refusal of 
the Porte to accept Count-Nesselrode's commen-
tary—then the declaration of war by Turkey-
then the battle of Oltenitza, and the Turkish 
successes in Asia without producing any advan-
tage to the Sublime Porte—intermixed with all 
these, diplomatic intrigues, lies, plans, proposi 
tions, all apparently feasible, yet all .rejected-! 
—then the destruction of the Turkish fleet at 
Sinope—then the entrance of the Anglo-French 
fleet into the Black Sea—the admiral having 
one set of orders from the Home Government, 
and the resident minister at Constantinople ano-
ther! All this perplexity resulting in the break-
ing off of all diplomatic intercourse with Russia 
on the one part, and France and England on 
the other part. 
Now for the struggle—or some 
other phase to the question, which has assumed 
more already than there are signs in the politi 
cal zodiac. 
England and France shoulder to 
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THE ADVENT HERALD. I 
shoulder ! Austria and Prussia white to-day, 
black to-morrow! 
Diplomacy basking in sun-
shine at Berlin and Vienna to-day—to-morrow 
the hemisphere is full of black clouds, poften-
tious of the final storm ! The intrigues of Rus-
sia are succeeding admirably in Turkey-^Arta 
has fallen-—the Isle of Sam as is making an exo-
dus from Ottoman rale—Epirus, Macedonia and 
Thessaly are in arms! and What is the destina-
tion of those squadrons of soldiers which are 
daily leaving Athens ? Must not the Western 
Powers secure to England, by establishing a 
Protectorate at Constantinople, the maritime 
ascendancy of the shores of Southern Turkey 
and Western Asia ? Perhaps we shall see, per-
haps not! 
Will England and France cripple 
Russia in the Baltic ? Will Russia, with an 
overwhelming force, cross the Danube, and then 
the Balkan Mountains and sieze the capital ? 
Austria looks very kind in saving Servia for 
the Ottoman! 
Perhaps the bristling bayonets 
of France and Switzerland on the frontiers of 
Italy will for the present check the treacherous 
policy of Francis Joseph. 
" On- the earth dis-
tress of nations with perplexity." 
France and 
England are counting on the neutrality between 
Denmark and Sweden ! They do not understand 
that in the coming struggle God will pour con-
tempt on all human wisdom. The balance of 
power in Europe will be destroyed, and a war 
of interests—a war of passions—a war of fanati-
cism—a war of progress against corrupt govern-
ment, and a war of starving ambition against 
despotism and oppression ! But before all this, 
the time of the end, in Dan. 11:40, will be com-
plete—by the completion of Turkish rule—and 
God's people will be with him in the air} 
N. BROWN. 
fcfjc 
t 
BOSTON, 
MAY 
6, 
1854. 
THE readers of the Herald are most earnestly besought to give it 
room in their prayers; that by means of it God may be honored and 
his truth advanced ; also, that it may be conducted in faith and 
love, with sobriety of judgment and discernment of the truth, in 
nothing carried away into error, or hasty speech, or sharp, unbroth-
erly disputation. 
THE 
PROPHECY 
OF 
ISAIAH. 
CHAPTER XL. 
Who hath directed the Spirit of the Lord, 
Or being his counsellor hath taught him ? 
With whom took he'counsel, and who instructed him, 
And taught him in the path of judgment, 
And taught him knowledge, and showed to him the way of under-
standing 
D«. IS, 14. 
This illustrates God's wisdom and knowledge, 
as the other does his omnipotence. 
The Lord (Jer. 
32:19) is " great in counsel and mighty in work." 
Eph. 1:11—" who worketh all things after the 
counsel of his own will." 
Paul exclaims, (Rom. 
11:33,) "0 the depth of the riches both of the 
wisdom and knowledge of God I how unsearchable 
are his judgments, and his ways past finding out!" 
Paul then quotes this text. 
11:34-36—" For who 
hath known the mind of the Lord? or who hath 
been his counsellor ? Or who hath first given to 
him, and it shall be recompensed unto him again? 
For of him, and through him, and to him are all 
things : to whom be glory for ever. 
Amen." 
By the use of metaphors, " judgment" is de-
nominated a "path," and "understanding" a 
" way." 
To arrive at correct conclusions, it is as 
necessary to conform to immutable principles of 
wisdom, as it is for a traveller to walk in the way 
which leads to the place to which he is journeying, 
in order to arrive there. 
Behold, the nations are as a drop of a bucket, 
And are counted as the small dust of the balance: 
Behold, he taketh up the isles as a very little thing. 
And Lebanon is not sufficient to burn, 
Nor the beasts thereof sufficient for a burnt-offering. 
All nations before him are as nothing ; 
And they are couuted to him less than nothing, and vanity. 
vs. 15-17. 
By the use of similies, the comparison of the | 
nations to a trifling drop of water, and to the 
almost imperceptible dust, which, settling on scales 
or balances, does not affect their accuracy, illus-
trates their nothingness in the sight of Jehovah. 
By a metaphor, his taking up the isles as a very 
little thing, illustrates his omnipotence—Lebanon, 
is put by a metonymy for the wood growing upon 
it. 
The Chaldee has it, " And the trees of Leba-
non." 
That mountain was famed for its lofty and 
majestic cedars, which grew there in the time of 
Solomon in such abundance that in the preparation 
of timber for the temple, (1 Kings 5:15,) he had 
" fourscore thousand hewers in the mountains." 
(See notes on 10:34.) 
Such extensive forests natu-
rally abounded with wild animals—the multitudes 
of which would not suffice to constitute an obla-
tion, nor the wood to bum one which should be 
suitable to the greatness of the Divine Majesty, or 
sufficient to atone for the sins committed against 
him. 
An apochryphal writer has imitated this in 
Judith 16:16—-" For all sacrifice is too little for 
a sweet savor unto thee : and all the fat is not 
sufficient for thy burnt-offering." 
It is written in 
Psa. 50:7-12, " Hear, O my people, and I will 
speak ; O Israel, and I will testify against thee : I 
am God, even thy God. 
I -will not reprove thee 
for thy sacrifices or thy burnt-offerings, to have 
been continually before me. 
I will take no bullock 
out Of thy house, nor he-goats out of thy folds. 
For every beast of the forest is mine, and the 
cattle upon a thousand hills. I know all the fowls 
of the mountains : and the wild beasts of the field 
are mine. 
If I were hungry, I would not tell 
thee: for the world is mine, and the fulness there-
of." 
God being thus great, how little, in comparison, 
is man !—whose littleness, by a similo, is illus-
trated by the comparison of all nations to nothing; 
and whose utter insignificance, is declared by the 
hyperbole that they are less than nothing. 
" Vani 
ty," implies emptiness—the same word being ren-
dered in Gen. 1:2, " without form." 
Dan. 4:35— 
" All the inhabitants of the earth are reputed as 
nothing : and he doeth according to his will in the 
army of heaven, and among the inhabitants of the 
earth : and none can stay his hand, or say unto 
him, What doest thou?" 
Psa. 62:9—" Surely 
men of low degree are vanity, and men of high 
degree are a lie : to be laid in the balance, they are 
altogether lighter than vanity." 
To whom then will ye liken Qod ? 
Or what likeness will ye compare unto him i—v. 18. 
God being so great, (Acts 17:29,) " we ought 
not to think that the Godhead is like unto gold or 
silver or stone, graven by art and man's device." 
And therefore all attempts to represent God by 
paintings or images, are absurd and derogatory to 
his greatness; and are consequently offensive to 
him. 
The absurdity of image-worship is next illus-
trated by the manner in which images were made : 
The workman melteth a graven image, 
And the goldsmith spreadeth it over with gold, and casteth silver 
chains. 
He that is so impoverished that he hath no oblation chooseth a tree 
that will not rot; 
He sefcketh unto him a cunning workman 
To prepare a graven image that shall not be moved. 
vs. 19, 20. 
They made their gods of wood, clay, and of 
metals. 
Those cast in moulds were sometimes 
brought into a more perfect shape by the tools of 
the graver ; and if of inferior metal, were often 
overlaid with gold, especially when prepared for 
the wealthy. 
Silver chains were attached, by 
which to fasten them to the walls, or pillars, and 
also for purposes of ornament. 
The man who (as in the margin) was " poor of 
oblation," and unable to provide himself with so 
costly an idol had recourse to the wood of a dura-
ble tree. 
Isa. 44:14—" He lieweth him down 
cedars, and taketh the cypress and the oak, which 
he strengtheneth for himself among the trees of 
the forest: he planteth an ash, and the rain doth 
nourish it." 
This he had cut into shape by one 
skillful in the manufacture of heathen shrines, and 
instead of costly chains by which to suspend it, 
he fastened it to the wall with nails, and contented 
himself with a " wooden god." 
These wooden 
idols were sometimes also ornamented with the 
precious metals : (Jer, 10:3, 4,) " For one cutteth 
a tree out of the forest, the work of the hands of 
the workman with the axe. 
They deck it with 
silver and gold ; they fasten it with nails and with 
hammers, that it move -not." 
And when thus 
made, the silly idolator, (Isa. 44:17,) " falleth 
down unto it, and worshippeth it, and prayeth 
unto it, and saith, Deliver me ; for thou art my 
God." 
It should not, however, be imagined that they 
adored merely the wood or other material of which 
their god was formed. 
It was only an outward 
and visible representation of the supposed deity to 
whom it was consecrated, and which they fancied 
to be enshrined within it. 
The Lord apostrophizes the worshippers of idols: 
Have ye not known 
have ye not heard ? 
Hath it not been told you from the beginning ? 
Have ye not understood from the foundations of the earth ? 
It is he that sitteth upon the circle of the earth, 
And the inhabitants thereof are as grasshoppers j 
That stretcheth out the heavens as a curtain, 
And spreadeth them out as a tent to dwell in: 
That bringeth the princes to nothing ; 
He maketh the judges of the earth as vanity.—vs. 21-23. 
God holds no one guiltless for their ignorance 
of his attributes. 
Rom. 1:19, 20—" Because that 
which may be known of God, is manifest in them; 
for God hath shewed it unto them. 
For the in-
visible things of him from the creation of the 
world are clearly seen, being understood by the 
things that are made, even his eternal power ar,d 
Godhead ; so that they are without excuse." 
Psa. 
19:1-4—" The heavens declare the glory of God ; 
and the firmament sheweth his handy work. 
Day 
unto day utteretb speech, and night unto night 
sheweth knowledge. 
There is no speech nor lan-
guage, where their voice is not heard.- Their line 
is gone out through all the earth, and their words 
to the end of the world." 
Acts 14:17--God " left 
not himself without witness, in that he did good, 
and gave us rain from heaven, and fruitful sea-
sons, filling our hearts with food and gladness." 
In addition to what was evident from the works 
and providence of God, these inquiries imply that 
there was among the heathen, in the time of 
Isaiah, a general tradition of the creation, which 
had been handed down from generation to genera-
tion, which should have sufficed to teach them 
that God could not be represented by the work of 
men's hands. 
The " foundations of the earth " may refer to 
the time of the creation ; but it is more probable 
that its interior parts are thus denominated by an 
elliptical metaphor. 
The earth is often spoken of 
as resting on a foundation. 
Psa. 24:2—" For he 
hath founded it upon the seas, and established it 
upon the floods." 
Prov. 8:29—" When he gave 
to the sea his decree, that the waters should not 
pass his commandment; when he appointed the 
foundations of the earth." 
The words in the 
original, says Wm. Lowth, run thus " Have ye 
not understood, or considered the foundations of 
the earth ? i. e., by whom they were laid." Eim-
chi has the following comment on it : 
" The whole world may be considered as a house 
built up ; heaven its roof; the stars its lamps; and 
the fruits of the earth its table spread. 
The Mas-
ter of the house is God, blessed for ever ; and man 
is the steward into whose hand all the business of 
the house is given. 
If he always consider in his 
heart that the Master of the house is continually 
over him, and that he keeps his eye upon his 
work; and if in consequence he acts wisely, he 
shall find favor in the eyes of the Master of the 
house. 
But if he find wickedness in the house, 
then will he remove him ' from his stewardship.' 
The foolish steward does not think of this ; for as 
his eyes do not see the Master of the house, he 
saith in his heart, 1 I will eat and drink what I 
find in this hduse, and will take my pleasure in 
it; nor shall I be careful whether there be a Mas-
ter over this house or not.' 
When the Lord of the 
house marks this, he comes and expels him from 
the house speedily, and with great anger; there-
fore it is said, v. 23, He bringeth the princes to noth-
ing.'' 
By an elliptical metaphor, in v. 22, the heavens 
are denominated " the circle of the earth." 
Isa. 
66:1—" Thus saith tho Lord : The heaven is my 
throne, and the earth is my footstool." 
Psa. 113: 
4-6—" The Lord is high above all nations, and 
bis glory above the heavens. 
Who is like unto 
the Lord our God, who dwelleth on high, who 
humbleth himself to behold the things that are in 
heaven, and in the earth?" 
While God is thus exalted, the insignificance of 
the inhabitants of earth is illustrated by a simile, 
in their comparison to " grasshoppers " or locusts. 
The greatness of God is farther illustrated by his 
creation of the heavens,—it being metaphorically 
said that he " stretcheth," and " spreadeth them 
out," as, by the use of similes, a curtain or tent 
is spread out. 
Thus the Psalmist said of God, 
(104:2, 3,) " Who coverest thyself with light as 
with a garment: who stretchest out the heavens 
like a curtain : who layeth the beams of his cham-
bers in the waters : who maketh the clouds his 
chariot: who walketh upon the wings of the 
wind." 
And Job said, (9:8,) " Which alone 
spreadeth out the heavens, and treadeth upon the 
waves of the sea." 
Thus the dome of the heavens 
was regarded as a tent or curtain extended over 
the earth. 
No matter how great princes and kings may be, 
the Lord can bring them to nothing. 
Says Job, 
(12:21,) " He poureth contempt upon princes, and 
weakeneth the strength of the mighty;" and the 
Psalmist, (107:40,) " He poureth contempt upon 
princes, and causeth them to wander in the wilder-
ness, where there is no way. 
Psa. 75:7—" God is 
the judge: he putteth down one, and setteth up 
another." 
Dan. 2:21--" And he changeth the 
times and the seasons ; he removeth kings, and 
setteth up kings ; he giveth wisdom unto the 
wise, and knowledge to them that know under-
standing." 
By a simile they are compared to 
" vanity," to express their emptiness. 
MIXED 
MILLENARIANISM. 
0Continued from 
our 
last.) 
IN proceeding to the principal points of differ-
ence between mixed, and post-millenarianism, the 
writer first notices the nature of the millennium. 
He objects to the view that Christ's kingdom is to 
commence with it. 
He thinks the kingdom is now 
in existance, and is a spiritual kingdom,—to sus-
tain which he finds but three texts of Scripture, 
which he explains, not by Scripture, but in defiance 
of repeated and express declarations. 
' His first text is "My kingdom is riofl of this 
world j" but he well knows that the word " wofld," 
Is aitov (era, or age) and that it is explained by the 
Saviour to denote the dispensation this side of the 
resurrection. 
The Saviour said, (Luke 20:34—36,) 
The children of this world (u,wr) marry, and are 
given in marriage: but they which shall be ac-
counted worthy to obtain that world, (awy) and 
the resurrection from the dead neither marry, nor 
are given' in marriage : neither can they die any 
mofe : for they are equal Unto the angels; and are 
the children of God, being the children of the res-
urrection." 
It is the period during which he has 
given his ministers assurance that he will accom-
pany them in their mission of preaching the gospel 
to all nations; (Matt. 28:20,) " Lo, I am with you 
always, even unto the end of the world." 
(aion). 
And at this end, he has said, (Matt. 13:41-43,) 
" The Son of man shall send forth his angels, and 
they shall gather 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 
wailing and gnashing of teeth. 
Then shall the 
righteous shine forth as the sun in the kingdom of 
their Father." 
Therefore when Christ asserts that hi's kingdom 
is not of this world, he asserts that it is not of this 
period which terminates with the resurrection— 
that it does not precede that event. 
When this 
reviewer asserts that 
Christ's kingdom is the 
church militant, he affirms it to be in " this world " 
in disregard of his own text. 
Another text quoted, is, " The kingdom of God 
is righteousness, and peace, and joy in the Holy 
Ghost." 
This declaration, it should have been 
stated, was made to contrast with another, that 
the kingdom of God is not meat and drink f 
Christ 
is evidently speaking of the enjoyments of and 
qualifications for the kingdom. 
As he also is, in 
the 3d text quoted : " The kingdom of God is with-
in you,"—spoken to wicked Pharisees ! 
Those three are all the Scriptures usually ad-
duced in support of the claim that the kingdom is 
already set up. 
To rest the question there, is to 
ignore those Scriptures which assert that" flesh and 
blood cannot inherit the kingdom of God," (1 Cor. 
15:50 ; read the verses following in the same chap-
ter) ; " that the Lord Jesus Christ will judge the 
quick and the dead at his appearing and kingdom," 
(2 Tim. 4:1) ; that the resurrection of the just is 
to be " at the last trump," (1 Cor. 15:52) ; that 
when the seventh—the last—trumpet sounds " the 
kingdoms of this world are become those of our 
Lord and of his Christ," (Rev. 11:15) ; that when 
he takes to himself his power to reign, " the time 
of the dead that they should be judged " will have 
come, (lb. vs. 17, 18) ; that the kingdom is to be 
given to Christ and the saints in connection with 
the judgment, and the subversion of, all human 
governments, (Dan. 7:13,18, 22,26,27); and that 
all the way through this dispensation, we are to 
pray " Thy kingdom come ,"&c. 
The " Review " next differs from Millenarians 
respecting the means of introducing the kingdom. 
Here he confounds the preparatory process for the 
kingdom, with its full establishment—using the 
favorite figures of the leaven in the meal, and the 
stone in the 2d of Daniel. 
The last he asserts 
grows into a mountain. 
Daniel says it becomes a 
great mountain, without defining whether it is by 
a gradual accretion of kindred elements, or an 
instantaneous one. 
But other Scriptures settle this 
point; Paul declares that " we shall not sleep,.but 
we shall all be changed, in a moment, in the twinkl-
ing of an eye, at the last trump : for the trumpet 
shall sound and the dead shall be raised incorrupti-
ble, and we shall be changed. 
(1 Cor. 15:51, 52). 
And this is in connection with the declaration that 
flesh and blood cannot inherit the kingdom of God. 
Daniel shows that the stone becomes a mountain, 
when the kingdoms of this world are suddenly de-
molished, which is symbolized by the smiting of 
the imago on its feet, (Dan. 2:34,35, 44, 45). 
He 
also shows that it is to be effected when the Ancient 
of days shall sit, and the thrones are cast down, 
(lb. 6:9,)—after the Papal horn is destroyed by the 
coming of the Ancient of days. 
(v. 22). 
Other 
Scriptures abundantly demonstrate the same man-
ner and epoch of the establishment of the kingdom ; 
but they are all as much ignored by the " Review " 
as if the Holy Spirit had never indited them—no 
reference being made to them. 
" Our millenarian brethren," says the Review, 
" maintain that, previous to the millennium, the 
moral condition of the world is to receive no sub-
stantial improvement, but rather that things are 
to wax worse and worse, until the measure of the 
world's iniquity is full. 
They sneer contemptu-
ously at the Church's professed hope of converting 
the world by the agency of Bible and missionary 
societies, or by any diffusion of truth, or in any 
possible way in which the church can now convey 
the gospel to mankind. 
They do not object to these 
benevolent movements—individual souls will be 
saved by them—and then they hold that all these 
efforts to propagate the gospel are made essential, 
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in the purposes of God, to the introduction of the 
promised kingdom : that this is the witness-bear-
ing age, and, before Christ can come, the gosple 
must be preached to all nations for a testimony 
against them; that there is just so much prepara-
tory gospel work to be done; therefore, let the 
Church be in earnest, for the better and the faster 
Christians work, the sooner will Christ come. 
But 
they kindly caution the Church against being de-
ceived by harboring any unwarrantable expecta-
tions of evangelizing the world by these efforts," 
" Sneer " is a word which should not be used in 
this connection. 
Millenarians claim to be gentle-
men as well as Christians ; and gentlemen never 
"sneer" at the religion of other people. 
They 
believe that the Bible teaches no such results as 
the Church anticipates, and boldly but respectfully 
announce their belief. 
The Review makes no ef-
fort to show that millenarianism is unscriptural 
in this particular; but states the fact, as if its 
being opposed to the common view made it a here-
sy. 
The Saviour in no instance ever referred to a 
period of prosperity to the Church previous to his 
personal coming. 
As it was before the flood, and 
in the days of Lot, so, he has told us shall it be in 
the days of the coming of the Son of man. 
He 
gave us an outline of this world's history ; but in 
no place made mention of this long time of peace 
before the judgment. 
Did Paul preach such a 
doctrine? 
He says, "In the last days perilous 
times shall come," &c.—men " shall wax worse 
and worse"—they "will not endure sound doc-
trine "—will" turn away their ears from the truth, 
and shall be turned unto fables." 
When he gave 
his reasons to the Thessalonians why the Lord 
would not then come, he gives but two : " the 
great falling away," and the revelation of " the 
Man of Sin," " whom the Lord will destroy by 
the brightness of his coming." 
If Paul believed 
in the world's conversion, he must have been very 
absent minded not to allude to it. 
Yet he was so 
confident that he preached the truth, and the whole 
truth, that he says, " If any man or angel from 
heaven preach any other gospel, let him be ac-
cursed." 
James was ignorant of such a doctrine. 
He does not mention it, but is very particular to 
direct the minds of the brethren, when oppressed, 
defrauded, and condemned, to our Saviour's re-
turn ; and he exhorted them to be " patient unto 
the coming of the Lord." 
Peter expressly declares 
that in the " last days " scoffers should come, say-
ing, We see no " promise " of the " Lord's com-
ing ;" " all things continue as they were from the 
creation." 
But he passes over any time when all 
aro to be converted, and reign a thousand years 
before that day. 
The Review next objects to the state of things 
during the millennium ; and here its reasons bear 
with force against the mixed state. 
Millenarians correctly teach that the elect Church 
which is to constitute the bride is to be complete 
before the Lord comes ; but yet claim that conver-
sions are to go on during that period ! 
They teach correctly that the death of Christ 
was the anti-type of all sacrificial observances ; 
but claim that Jewish rites aro to be resumed un-
der the new dispensation ! 
They correctly teach that the conflagration pre-
dicted in the 3d of 2 Peter, will precede the estab-
lishment of the kingdom; but look for men in the 
natural body to survive that epoch ! 
They correctly teach that death will then be de-
stroyed ; but suppose that men will continue to 
die in the kingdom ! 
Paradoxes like the above seem to make the doc-
trine more objectionable, than it otherwise would 
need be. 
The Review we think very justly remarks 
as follows: 
" We are curious now to know what those will 
be who are to be converted to Christ after his com-
ing—for the number of the saved up to the time of 
his appearing will be as nothing compared with 
the number afterwards brought in. 
Who are all 
these ? They cannot, if millenarians are consist-
ent with themselves, be a part of the Church of 
Christ \ for it -\yill be ' glorious in its complete-
ness ' at his coming. 
They cannot belong to his 
elect, whom the Father gave him from eternity— 
cannot be of those for whom Christ in a special 
manner, gave himself. 
Who are they ? What re-
lation do they sustain to Christ? 
To get over this 
difficulty, millenarians make a fanciful distinction 
between the Church, and the whole number saved. 
The Church they call the Bride—this will be com-
plete and glorious at Christ's appearing. 
If we 
u 
u * °ther union there is of sinners to Christ 
than that represented in the fifth chapter of Ephe-
sians, Mr. Bickersteth gives the following answer: 
there may be, and doubtless are, a thousand 
stages and varieties of union with Christ, distin-
guishable from the glory of the Church of the first-
born.' 
" To our mind, this maiming of the body of 
thnst-the introducing of this non-descript class 
of the redeemed, is one of the most repulsive fea-
tures in all the ugly compound of millenarianism." 
The Review next objects to two resurrections 
one thousand years apart. 
It does not weigh the 
scriptures which assert it, nor bring others to op-
pose it, but rests this point on the feature in mixed 
millenarianism that the just being raised at the 
beginning of tha't period, and the wicked at the 
close, no provision is made For the resurrection of 
penitent believers who die during that period! 
The objection is pertinent, but does not weigh 
against our theory. 
The next objection is to the millenarian view of 
the judgment, which it does not show to be un-
scriptural. 
And lastly it objects to the final con-
dition of the race, which only bears against the 
mixed state. 
In conclusion, the writer thus refers 
to millenarians and their laws of philology : 
" They will not hear a word of objection to their 
doctrines, except what may be made through an 
examination of their principles of interpretation. 
They may safely look out and deride and defy 
through the loop-holes of this retreat; for few, we 
should hope, will ever think it worth while to 
drive them out of those unseemly places. 
" The objection they make to our mode of criti-
cism goes upon the assumption, that the Bible is 
so different from all other compositions, that, 
without the application of their peculiar laws of 
literal interpretation, only a small portion of it 
can be understood. 
It will be difficult to convince 
the pious world that this is just so. 
We believe 
that the man with a new heart who can understand 
the spelling-book, and can read intelligently the 
history of his country, can understand the greater 
and most essential portion of the word of God. 
If 
so, hq can understand quite enough to test millena-
rianism by. 
It is as absurd to complain of our 
criticisms, because we have not gone directly to 
work to demolish the enginery with which they 
forge their doctrines—viz., their peculiar system 
of hermeneutics—as it would be to complain of 
him who cries out against the cholera as an evil, 
before he examines into its causes, and under-
stands the laws of its operation ; or of him who 
condemns the Upas-tree before he has examined 
the acorn from which it grows. We answer them, 
that a tree may sometimes be known by its fruits, 
as well as its roots." 
The above conveys a wrong view of the case ; 
for it assumes that the laws of philology on which 
Millenarians rely for the interpretation of prophe-
cy, are different from those which are applied by 
the common sense of mankind to the interprata-
tion of all other writings. 
Now the reverse of this 
is the fact. 
Millenarians deny that a system of 
hermeneutics should apply to the Bible, which 
is never applied to the writings of every day life. 
They claim that the real sense of Scripture is so 
generally its obvious sense, that " the man with a 
new heart and a knowledge of the spelling-book," 
may read the Bible intelligently—not only its his-
torical, but its prophetical portions; and that 
taking the natural and obvious sense of Scriptural 
declaration, such readers would only arrive at 
pre-millennial conclusions. 
And they accuse the 
post-millenarians of mystifying the language of 
Scripture, and deducing conclusions from the dec-
larations of prophecy not conveyed by the ordinary 
laws of language—that, in the language of Prof. 
Bush, they " subject clear predictions to an exe-
getical alembic 
that effectually subtilizes and 
evaporates their meaning." 
When post-millena-
rians plead that the prophecies are poetical and 
figurative, and therefore not to be taken in their 
obvious, but in a mystical sense, then it is that pre-
millenarians challenge reference to the laws of 
philology ; showing that the laws of tropes and 
symbols do not admit of any such mystification ; 
that figures are used, not to obscure, but to illus-
trate the subject; and that such mystification is 
a departure from all established laws of language. 
Therefore when the Review makes such a reference 
to those laws, as if they were something strange 
and untenable, it is not only disingenuous, but 
misleads its readers, and virtually confesses that 
po8t-millenarianism will not bear the test of criti-
cism, if the ordinary laws of language are to gov-
ern in prophetic investigations. 
They are no 
loop-holes to serve the purpose of a retreat, but 
the open champaign country, where millenarians 
court honorable combat 
To refuse to come out 
there, is to fight in ambush, and from loop-holes. 
BOOK 
NOTICES. 
" THE PREMIUM ESSAY on the Characteristics and 
Laws of Prophetic Symbols. 
By the Rev. Edward 
Winthrop, A.M., Rector of St. Paul's Church, Nor 
walk, Ohio. 
New York : Published by Franklin 
Knight, 140 Nassau-street. 
1854." 
Our readers may remember that in 1851 we 
published a Circular in which a premium of $400, 
was offered for the best Essay on the Characteris-
tics and Laws of Prophetic Symbols—the chief 
points to be discussed being : 
1. The .Nature and Office of Prophetic Symbols: 
2. The Marks by which the Symbolic Prophe-
cies are distinguishable from those of which Lan-
guage is the Medium: 
3. The Classification of the Symbols : 
4. The Principles on which they are employed: 
5. Their Laws: 
6. Whether the Symbols that are interpreted in 
the Prophecies are interpreted by these Laws : 
7. Whether Interpretations are given in the 
Prophecies of one or more of each class of Sym-
bols : 
8. Whether these inspired Interpretations are'to 
be regarded as a Revelation of the principle on 
which Symbols are. employed, and the Laws by 
which they are framed, revealed Laws. 
9. The Results to which they lead—whether they 
obviate Difficulties, remove uncertainties, supply 
important Defects, give consistency and certainty 
to Interpretation, and lead to a clear and demon-
strable Explication of many Symbols of which np 
satisfactory Solution is obtained by other Systems 
of construction. 
10. The Ease with which they may be mastered 
and made the means of a large and useful Knowl-
edge Of the Prophecies. 
11. Their claims to the consideration of Minis-
ters of the Sacred Word, and of Christians gener-
ally. 
The following are the Laws of Symbolization 
which are discussed : 
1. " The First Law t The symbol and that which 
it represents resemble each other in the station 
they fill, the relation they sustain, and the agen-
cies they exert in their respective spheres." 
2. " The Second Law: The representative and 
that which it represents, while the counterpart of 
each other, are of difierent species, kinds, or rank, 
in all cases where the symbol is of such a nature, 
or is used in such a relation, that it can properly 
symbolize something different from itself." 
3. " The Third Law: Symbols that are of such 
a nature, station, or relation, that there is noth-
ing of an analogous kind that they can represent, 
symbolize agents, objects, acts, or events of their 
own kind.*' 
4. " The Fourth Laio: When the symbol and 
that which it symbolizes differ from each other, the 
correspondence between the representative and that 
which it represents still extends to their chief parts; 
and the general elements or parts of the symbol 
denote corresponding parts in that which is sym-
bolized.". 
5. " The Fifth Law: The names of symbols are 
their literal and proper names." 
6. " The Sixth Law: A single agent, in many 
instances, symbolizes a body and succession of 
agents." 
To these six laws of symbolization enumerated 
by the editor Of the Theological and Literary Jour-
nal in the number for April, 1851, may be added 
for the sake of perspicuity, a seventh, though it is 
perhaps comprehended in the first. 
7. " The Seventh Law : The periods of time dur-
ing which a representative agent performs certain 
representative acts, symbolize the periods during 
which the agents denoted by the symbols perform 
the corresponding acts: and, in all cases where 
such an interpretation is not contrary to analogy, 
days symbolize years."—Prem. Essay, pp. 22,23. 
These are discussed in a very able manner, and, 
—excepting his view of men in the natural body, on 
the earth after its conflagration ! and some other 
particulars—we are happy to find so valuable an 
addition to Pre-millennial literature. 
The sub. 
jects discussed, and conclusions arrived at, may 
be learned from the following statement of its con-
tents : 
Introduction—design of the present Essay—the 
Holy Scriptures, the paramount authority in this 
inquiry—mode of argument, and line of discussion 
adopted by the author—Nature and Office of Pro-
phetic Symbols—they are not figures of speech—dif-
ference between symbols and metaphors —their 
representative import proved by various examples 
from the Scriptures — Marks by which Symbolic 
Prophecies are distinguishable from those which are 
verbal. 
Classification of the symbols—principle on which 
symbols are employed. 
Seven laws of symbolization—discussion of the 
first law. 
Discussion of the second law. 
Discussion of the third law. 
Discussion of the fourth law. 
Discussion of the fifth law. 
Discussion of the sixth law. 
Discussion of the seventh law. 
Brief recapitulation, in which it is shown that 
the symbols interpreted in the prophecies are in-
terpreted by these laws—that interpretations of 
one or more of each class of symbols are given in 
the prophecies—and that these inspired interpre 
tations are to be regarded as a revelation of the 
principle applicable to all the symbols, and the 
laws by which they are framed, revealed laws. 
RESULTS OF THESE LAWS. 
1. These Laws obviate difficulties, and give con-
sistency and certainty to interpretation—proof and 
illustration of this by various examples, and par-
ticularly by an exposition ol the drying up of the 
symbolical Euphrates. 
(Rev. 16:12.)' 
2. These Laws show that to spiritualize the sym-
bolic prophecies is altogether wrong. 
3. The slaughter of the two apocalyptical wit-
nesses, Rev. 11, foreshows a real, literal slaughter 
of the faithful followers of Christ thus represented 
—a slaughter which is yet future. 
4. The anti-Christian powers are to be destroyed, 
not converted. 
5. There will be, anterior to the millennium, a 
real and literal resurrection of departed saints. 
6. The second coming of Christ will be before the 
millennium. 
7. There will be men living in the natural body 
on the earth after Christ's second coming. 
ANSWER TO OBJECTIONS AGAINST THE SEVENTH RESULT. 
1. Objection from what is said in 2 Peter 3d., 
respecting the perishing of the earth by fire. 
2. Objection from the parable of the sheep and 
the goats, Matt. 25:31-46. 
The verbal prophe-
cies confirm the view taken in the preceding chap-
ter. 
3. Objection from Christ's declaration: "My 
kingdom is not of this world."—John 18:36. 
4. Objection from Christ's delivering up tie 
kingdom.—1 Cor. 15:24-28. 
5. Objection from the post-millennial revolt, 
—Rev. 20:7-9. 
6. Objection from the limited extent of the earth, 
and the insufficiency of its means of nutrition. 
Moral impressiveness of the view here presented. 
RESULTS—CONTINUES. 
8. The millennium is to continue three hundred 
and sixty thousand years. 
9. A series of the most stupendous events is not 
very far distant. 
CONCLUSION—Practical Reflections—the impend-
ing crisis—state of the visible Church—duty of in-
vestigating all the Scriptures—testimony of the 
Holy Ghost to the utility of studying unfulfilled 
prophecy—grandeur of redemption—the ease with 
which the laws of symbolization may be mastered, 
and made the means of a large and useful knowl-
edge of the prophecies—the claims of the subject 
upon the attention of Christians in general, and 
especially of ministers and teachers of the word— 
exhortation to trust and obey the Lord—origin, 
grandeur, and duration of the kingdom of Christ. 
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FOREIGN 
NEWS. 
FOUR days later from Europe. 
The Collins' 
Steamship Pacific arrived at New York on the 1st 
inst., bringing dates from Liverpool to April 19th. 
When making up our paper for the press, on Tues-
day, we had received only the following summary 
of intelligence. 
There had been no large battle reported up to 
that date. 
Admiral Napier's whole fleet had gone eastward, 
to attack the Russian fleet. 
Navigation was open in the Black Sea, and the 
allied fleets had sailed direct, with the intention 
of attacking Sebastopol. 
By advices of the 6th of April, it is understood 
that sanguinary skirmishes occurred daily on the 
Danube. 
Omar Pasha was said to be waiting the arrival 
of the allied armies before he would make a gen-
eral attack. 
The reports of the Austrians having entered Ser-
via are not confirmed. 
England and France have entered into a treaty 
" offensive and defensive." 
The recall of the Russian Minister from London, 
was on personal, not political grounds. 
A large Russian force was said to have entered 
Servia. 
All the Russian ports were declared blockaded. 
From Syria, April 8th, a dispatch states that 
the Greeks had been beaten at Amiro, where they 
lost 300 in killed. 
Dissensions prevailed among 
their leaders, who began to accuse each other of 
treachery. 
The Russians having been driven from the Cir-
cassian coast, and brave mountaineers, who had 
been supplied with arms and ammunition, having 
fallen upon the garrisons and put them to the 
sword. 
The London Times of the 17th says :—" We 
have received from our correspondent at Copenha-
gen a dispatch dated yesterday, with the following 
gratifying and important intelligence : ' The Tri-
bune frigate has just arrived from Admiral Plum-
ridge's squadron, having taken five Russian prizes, 
and a number of prisoners.' " 
ELDER J. LITCH.—An arrangement is now made 
for brother L. to visit Illinois, in the month of 
June and July, and hold a series of grove and other 
meetings, in connection with Elders Chapman and 
Cummings. 
Brethren will receive him as a sub-
stitute for myself. 
Duties at home prevent my 
visiting them -this season. 
I can fully commend brother L. as an able minis-
ter of the New Testament. 
He is also a true and 
reliable friend of the Advent cause. The churches 
and pastors will find him a fellow-helper indeed. 
I doubt not he will be received and " helped on 
his waj after a godly sort." 
Brother Cummings 
and Chapman will arrange the appointments and 
send to the Herald soon. 
They must not , forget 
Moline, III., or Burlington, Iowa, and other places 
which were neglected in my tour. 
J. V. HIMES 
142 
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Therefore articles not dissented from, will not 
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Herald. 
BE YE ALSO 
READY. 
THAT Christ will come personally to judge the 
world is clearly proved by the Scriptures of truth. 
That coming is evidently nigh at hand, even at the 
doors. 
The magnitude of this event, and its bear-
ing upon the destinies of the human race, is deci-
sively presented by our Saviour. 
In the parable 
of the tares and wheat, t^e harvest is said to be 
" the end of the world." 
" As therefore the tares 
are gathered and burned in the fire ; so shall it be 
in the end of this world. 
The Son of man shall send 
forth his angels, and they shall gather 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 wailing and gnashing of teeth. 
Then shall the righteous shine forth as the sun in 
the kingdom of their Father." 
In the parable of the net, we are taught that as 
the net when full is drawn to the shore, and the 
" good " separated from the " bad;" " so shall it 
be in the end of the world: the angels shall come 
forth, and sever the wicked from among the just." 
From Matt. 25:31-46, we learn that this separa-
tion will be eternal. 
The righteous will shine as 
the Bun for ever in the kingdom which they shall 
inherit—they will go into life eternal. 
The wicked 
shall be cast into a furnace of fire, where there 
shall be weeping, wailing and gnashing of teeth. 
" These shall go away into everlasting punish-
ment." 
" Depart from me, ye cursed, into ever-
lasting fire, prepared for the devil and his angels." 
We must all stand before the judgment seat of 
Chri st. 
Each must give account of himself to God. 
" I charge thee before God, and the Lord Jesus 
Christ, who shall judge the quick and the dead at 
his appearing and his kingdom." 
These passages 
show the solemn grandeur and the awful magni-
tude of the events of the day of God ! 
At the coming of Christ the condition of each 
individual of the human race will be fixed for ever ; 
according to the character of each will the eternal, 
just judgment of Jehovah be awarded. 
Those who 
by patient continuance in well doing, seek for glory, 
honor, immortality, eternal life ; but unto them 
who are contentious, and do not obey the truth, 
but obey unrighteousness; indignation and wrath, 
tribulation and anguish, upon every soul of man 
that doeth evil. 
To be ready, therefore, for the coming of the 
Son of man, is of the first importance ; in remain-
ing unprepared, we hazard our eternal salvation, 
we jeopardize our well being for eternity. 
On no 
subject should more care and attention, greater 
diligence and prayer be bestowed than this. 
To 
fail in this, is to peril our all. 
No loss can be 
compared with the loss of the, soul. 
" What," said Jesus, " will it profit a man if 
he shall gain the whole world and lose his own 
soul." 
The Saviour did not tell; man cannot 
tell—it is vast as eternity. 
God only, and the an-
nals of the world to come, can disclose the awful 
fact! 
The question then comes home to the heart with 
momentous import, " What must 1 do to be saved!" 
What is necessary in order to be prepared for the 
coming of Christ ? It will not do to trust man in 
a case of this importance. 
Cursed is man that 
trusteth in man. 
To the law and testimony. 
Thy 
Word is a lamp to my feet, and a light unto my 
path. 
Thou shalt guide me with thy counsel and 
afterward receive me to glory. 
The Romanist teaches we cannot be Baved out 
of the Catholic Church. 
The Universalist says all 
will be saved whether good or bad. 
There are 
some of so limited acquaintance with God's re-
deeming plan, as leads them to think that to reject 
their cry that the Lord will come this year, is tan-
tamount to being a foolish virgin ! 
It is under-
stood by some, and it seems to be the most, or at 
least a part of their creed—to be saved one must 
believe in " definite time.'''' But, however, these 
conclusions and conjectures labor under one in-
curable defect—they rest wholly on man. 
Cease 
ye from man, whose breath is in his nostrils; for 
wherein is he to be accounted of? 
What saith the 
Lord? 
1. Repent.—Repentance 
toward God. 
2. Faith.—Believe 
on the Lord Jesus Christ 
who of God is made unto us wisdom, righteousness, 
sanctification and redemption. 
3. Confession.—That 
if thou shalt confess with 
thy mouth the Lord Jesus, and shalt believe in 
thine heart that God hath raised him from the 
dead, thou shalt be saved. 
And they overcame 
him by the blood of the Lamb and the testimony. 
4. Holiness.—This includes the washing of re-
generation and renewing of the Holy Spirit; a 
new creature in Christ. 
The faith which justifies 
will manifest itself in a holy life. 
Without holi-
ness no man can see the Lord. 
Our holiness iB 
complete in Christ; his blood cleanseth us from 
all sin ; his Spirit renews and sanctifies us. 
Add to your faith virtue, knowledge, temper-
ance, patience, godliness, brotherly kindness and 
charity. 
A genuine justifying faith in Christ will 
lead to Christian diligence, prudence and care, 
in the cultivation of these moral excellencies, so 
that they will appear at least in some humble de-
gree in the character. 
By sustaining these char-
acteristics an abundant entrance will be given us 
into the everlasting kingdom of our Lord at his 
appearing. 
We are the children of God by faith 
in Christ, saith Paul; God's adopted sons: and 
because ye are sons', God hath sent forth the Spirit 
of his Son into your hearts, crying, Abba Father : 
having his spirit, we shall be spiritually minded, 
which is life and peace. 
The fruits of the Spirit 
will manifest themselves in a holy life; love, joy, 
peace, long-suffering, gentleness, goodness, fidelity, 
meekness. 
A holy mind or heart is described by 
our Saviour as one poor in spirit, " mourns," is 
" " hungers and thirsts after righteous-
ness," is " merciful," " pure," " peaceful," &c. 
He that doeth these sayings of Jesus uttered in 
his sermon on the Mount, builds on the Rock of 
Ages, sure. 
Such will love the appearing of Christ 
•will watch and pray that they maybe accounted 
worthy to escape the things that shall come to 
pass, and stand before the Son of man. 
Repent of sin—believe in Christ—confess his 
name—live holy—watch and pray always, and 
thou shalt eternal glory gain. 
A belief in " definite time " simply, will not, 
cannot save you: but a positive spiritual union to 
Christ our living head. 
The plan of redeeming 
and saving men, has not changed since Jesus died 
on the cross. 
Some talk about God's having in 
every age what they call a present truth; but one 
part of God's truth will not overthrow or conflict 
with another part of his truth. 
All that Christ, 
the prophets and apostles have said, touching the 
time of the judgment, never will destroy the truth 
that, " without holiness no man can see the Lord." 
There are some persons who talk long and loud 
about a definite time for Christ to come, whose char 
acter is a disgrace to themselves, and the Chris-
tian profession. 
Let such repent, cleanse your 
heart, and hands, be modest, meek and humble ; 
seek that which is pure, and without which you are 
like a sounding brass, or a tinkling cymbal. 
Be 
not deceived; God is not imposed upon—is not 
mocked ; for whatsoever a man soweth, that shall 
he also reap ; for he that soweth to his flesh, shall 
of the flesh reap corruption ; but he that soweth 
to the Spirit, shall of the Spirit reap life everlast-
ing. 
A. SHERWIN. 
Lowell yMass.), April 8th, 1854. 
EXPOSITORY. 
BRO. HIMES :—I find in an old paper under the 
heading " Scriptural Expositions " the following 
discourse on Ephesians chap. 4th, which I like so 
well because of its truthfulness and its importance, 
that I send it to you for publication in the Herald, 
if you think proper. 
I. C. WELLCOME. 
'' This I say therefore, and testify in the Lord, 
that ye walk not as other Gentiles walk, in the 
vanity of their mind.' 
(Eph. 4:17.) 
" ' In the Lord,' by his authority—' that ye walk 
not as (those) other Gentiles walk, in the vanity 
of their minds,' or in their vain imaginations. 
These vain imaginations the apostle describes: 
(Rom. 1:21,) ' When they knew God they glorified 
him not as God . . . but became vain in their im-
aginations, and their foolish heart was darkened. 
Professing themselves wise they became fools, and 
changed the glory of the incorruptible God into an 
image made like to corruptible man,' &c. 
Their 
vain imaginings were in placing the incorruptible 
God on a level with corruptible man. 
The form 
of these ' vain imaginings ' is changed in this age 
of the world, and now attempts to make out the 
equally vain imagination, and approaching nearer 
to blasphemy, viz., That' corruptible man ' is im-
mortal, i. e. made like to the incorruptible God. 
To walk in such doctrine is to walk in the vanity 
of our minds, or in vain ' imaginations.' 
" ' Having the understanding darkened, being 
alienated from the life of God through the ignor 
ance that is in them, because of the blindness of 
their heart.' 
(v. 18.) 
" This vanity of mind, spoken of in the previous 
verse, tends directly to darken the understanding, 
so as to make the man ignorant of his own true 
character, standing, and wants; hence it is no 
wonder that he is alienated (separated) from the 
life of God, for that life is a spiritual life,—or life 
produced in man by the Spirit of God, through Je-
sus Christ, by regeneration, and not by Adamic 
generation which produces nothing but a corrupti-
ble man. 
But vain man judging himself immortal, 
or aB having the principle of endless life in him-
self—his ignorance of his total and utter corrupti-
bility, keeps him from understanding^ seeking the 
life of God, and this ' because of the blindness of 
their heart," as to the absolute necessity of having 
this life communicated by the second Adam—Je-
sus Christ who has ' the quickening spirit,' and 
by whom alone this spiritual life, or life of God, 
can be obtained. 
"' Who being past feeling, have given them-
selves over to lasciviousness, to work all unclean-
ness with greediness.' 
(v. 19.) 
"' Who being past feeling,' became insensible 
through the blindness, or hardness of their heart, 
and (?) the necessity of the ' life of God,'—(?) or, 
having hardened themselves, by their own imagi-
nations, they ' have given themselves over to las-
civiousness '—their animal or Adamic nature— 
' to work all uncleanness—such gratifications as 
such a nature is alone capable of—' with greedi-
ness,' with inordinate desire, all habits gaining 
strength by indulgence or practice. 
As they had 
practiced according to the flesh—first Adam, or 
animal nature—as they had resisted and quenched 
the spirit—the bestowment of the spiritual life by 
the second Adam—they were given up to their 
own choice. 
(See Rom. 1:24, to the end.) 
" ' But ye have not so learned Christ, if so be 
that ye have heard him, and been taught by him, 
as the truth is in Jesus.' 
(vs. 20, 21.) 
" Christians have not learned of Christ to live 
after the flesh,—the animal nature or first Adam. 
If they arc so living it is conclusive evidence they 
have not given attention to the voice of Christ and 
' been taught by him,' for the ' truth is in Jesus— 
the true doctrine of life, or life of God,—was both 
taught by him and exemplified in his life conver-
sation, and tempers of mind, and that truth teach-
es us: 
" ' That ye put off concerning the former con-
versation the old man, which is corrupt according 
to the deceitful lusts, and be renewed in the spirit 
of your mind, and that ye put on the new man, 
which after God is created in righteousness and 
true holiness.' 
(vs. 22-24.) 
" ' Put off concerning the former conversation,' 
or course of life—the 'old man,'—Adam, or ani-
mal nature,—renouncing its dominion, put off its 
government, so as not to be subjected to its rule— 
which government or rule ' is corrupt,' or tends 
only to corruption and death,' according to (the 
natural course of) the deceitful lusts,' or desires 
of the animal nature. 
Those desires promise hap-
piness, but deceive those who remain under their 
government. 
" ' And be renewed '—become a new person—' in 
the spirit,' temper, disposition, affections, feelings, 
inclinations,' of your mind, and that ye put on ' 
—come under the government of ' the new man,' 
the second Adam, through Christ, and ' which af-
ter '—according to (denoting the source, or author) 
' God is created in righteousness, and true holi-
ness,—not merely a ceremonial or professional ho-
liness, but real holiness, or god-likeness—the life 
of God in you, readily existing and ruling there. 
." ' Wherefore putting away lying, speak every 
man truth with his neighbor ; for we are members 
one of another.' 
(v. 25.) 
"'Wherefore'—on this account, viz., having 
put on the new man—' put away lying '—all4 de-
ceitful ' conduct and 
conversation —' speaking 
every man truth '—the opposite of lying—' with 
his neighbor '—fellow-being—' for we are mem-
bers one of another '—therefore, whoever injures 
his fellow-being by lying, injures himself. 
" How little do men—even Christian men—think 
of this. 
Are any of us trying to injure or des-
troy our fellow-beings by deceitful conduct or con-
versation—let us remember we are thereby des-
troying ourselves. 
Thus has God ordained that 
sin shall bring its own punishment, and, Hainan-
like, shall the perpetrator, sooner or later, perish 
on his own gallows. 
" ' Be ye angry, and sin not: let not the sun go 
down upon your wrath : neither give place to the 
devil.' 
(vs. 26, 27.) 
" ' Be ye angry, and sin not.' 
The true mean-
ing of the original, we think, is the reverse of that 
which appears in the first part of this verse. 
The 
apostle had prohibited lying, he now adds,' and 
by no means,'—on no account—' sin by anger'— 
if it arises ' let not the sun go down upon your 
wrath '—upon your irritated state of mind—put it 
away at once—.for anger engenders hatred, and ' he 
that hateth his brother is a murderer.' (1 John 
3:15.) 
Indulging in this spirit, which is ' giving 
place to the devil'—he, like Cain may commit the 
art—therefore ' put away anger,' (see verse 31) 
let it have no place in you. 
" To talk about becoming angry and not sinning 
is a palpable contradiction ; no cloak can be af-
forded for anger as is plain from verse 31. 
" ' Let him that stole, steal no more : but rather 
let him labor, working with his hands the thing 
which is good, that he may have to give to him 
that needeth.' 
(v. 28.) 
" This verse enforces the duty of honest indus-
try, and that not merely for selfish ends, but that 
we may have to help those less favored than our-
selves, or who may be in need. 
Christianity re-
gards all men as one brotherhood, and especially 
those who are of the household of faith, and hcnce 
all are to be objects of our concern. An idle Chris-
tian who will not work, is no Christian at all—he 
is unlike Christ. 
Such an one is, necessarily, a 
thief—he lives by stealing. 
' Let him steal no 
more : but labor, working with his hands,' then 
shall he know that' it is more blessed to give than 
to receive.' 
" ' Let no corrupt communication proceed out 
of your mouth, but that which is good to the use 
of edifying, that it may minister grace unto the 
hearers.' 
(v. 29.) 
"'Let no corrupt'—depraved, vicious, foul, 
impure —' communication ' — discourse, speech, 
language—1 proceed out of your mouth,' and that 
because it is corrupting to others, and defiles him 
who utters it, (see Matt. 15:18-29,) 'but that 
which is good '—kind, profitable, fertilizing, pure, 
virtuous—' to the use of edifying '—improvement 
in the divine life, conducing to spiritual advantage, 
' that it may minister grace '—holy dispositions, 
or beautify with holy qualities—' unto the hear-
ers.' 
" ' And grieve not the Holy Spirit of God, 
whereby ye are sealed unto the day of redemption.' 
(v. 30.) 
" 4 And grieve by no means ' (so the Greek prepo-
sition rendered 4 not' signifies) ' the Holy Spirit of 
God, whereby '—by which Spirit—' ye are sealed ' 
— heaven's impression, mark, or witness, 
(see 
chap. 1:13)—' unto,' or for ' the day of redemp-
tion '—or the day when deliverance from corrupt 
tion shall take place, and those sealed for it shall 
receive ' the adoption of children to God by Jesus 
Christ.' (chap. 1:5.) 
Without this seal, or im-
press, on us, we cannot attain to that high ' call-
ing of God ;' then how appropriate the apostolic 
injunction, ' by no means ' to ' grieve the Holy 
Spirit of God.' 
We must have its impress or im-
age, or we are not of the family ; if we grieve it, 
we shall fail to obtain or retain that image. 
" ' Let all bitterness, and wrath, and anger, 
and clamor, and evil-speaking, be put away from 
you, with all malice.' 
(v. 31.) 
"' Let all bitterness '—that which imbitters— 
harshness, ' and wrath,'—violent passion—' and 
anger '—indignation—' and clamor ' — outcries, 
vociferations—' and evil-speaking ' (Greek ' blass-
phemia ')—railing, reviling, calumniating—' be 
put away from among you.' 
" Who in view of this verse will say, like Jonah, 
' 1 do well to be angry.' 
The conduct and dis-
positions here enjoined to be put away, assuredly 
' grieve the Holy Spirit of God,' and therefore di-
rectly militate against our even attaining to the 
adoption of children.' 
4 And be ye kind one to another, tender-heart-
ed, forgiving one another, even as God for Christ's 
sake hath forgiven you.' 
(v. 32.) 
" ' Be ye kind'—loving—' one to another, ten-
der-hearted '—compassionate—' forgiving one ano-
ther '—freely—1 even as God for (Greek en, by or 
through) Christ (the anointed) hath forgiven you.' 
We find no word in the original to correspond to 
that of'Bake' in our translation. 
God forgives 
us, when we repent and do works meet or suitable 
for repentance, by or through Christ, and he does 
it freely—of his own free will. 
As God freely forgives us, so we are freely to 
forgive one another, and thus further manifest the 
truth and reality of our being his children by faith 
in JesuB Christ." 
THE TIME NOT REVEALED. 
THERE are those who entertain the idea that the 
time of Christ's second advent is given in the Scrip-
tures, yet cannot be arrived at to be clearly under-
stood, because of the darkness which envelope the 
chronology of the prophetic numbers. 
That it is 
no easy thing to get at the true chronology of the 
prophetic numbers is indeed obvious, but with re-
gard to the Saviour's coming the more I look at 
THE 
ADVENT 
HERALD. 
the subject the more I am convinced that the time 
is nowhere given in the Bible. 
Now it will be 
admitted, I think, that any search for definite time 
must be fruitless, save through the 2300 and "1335 
days of Daniel. 
And is it given here ? Ana. No, 
for both of these periods reach beyond the coming 
of Christ. 
The 2300 days reach to the cleansing 
of the sanctuary an event which according to the 
Word cannot take place until after his coming. 
How long after is unknown to man. 
At the end 
of the 1335 days Daniel is to stand in his lot. 
Now that Daniel's lot is the same with that of all 
the righteous is too plain to need proof—which is 
the new earth. 
This is the lot of their inheritance 
wherein they shall stand. 
When ? Not at, but 
after the coming of Christ. 
The time of this event 
therefore remains unknown, even if we arrive at 
the chronology of these prophetic numbers. 
The 
above sentiments, I think, are in accordance with 
the teachings of Christ, as recorded in Mark 13th. 
Hear him : 
But of that day and that hour knoweth no man, 
no, not the angels which are in heaven, neither 
the Son, but the Father. 
Take ye heed, watch 
and pray; for ye know not when the time is. 
For 
the Son of man is as a man taking a far journey, 
who left his house, and gave authority to his ser-
vants, and to every man his work, and commanded 
the porter to watch. 
Watch ye therefore : for ye 
know not when the Master of the house cometh, 
at even, or at midnight, or at the cock-crowing, or 
in the morning : lest coming suddenly he find you 
sleeping. 
And what I say unto you, I say unto 
all, watch. 
How strange that men will declare in the face 
of such a declaration, that they know all about the 
time, and thus profess more wisdom than their 
Master before them. 
Again, we see in the above quotation a com-
mand to watch for the coming of the Son of man 
until he shall appear. 
But does not the very idea 
of knowing the time, preclude the necessity for 
watching, and result therefore in the violation of 
a plain command? 
For how can we be watching 
for the coming of a friend to-day, who has assured 
us that he cannot come until next month, or next 
year? 
0, let us remember that consistency is a 
jewel! 
In drawing these remarks to a close, I would 
say, that, although I have no faith in definite 
time, I am fully convinced that the coming of 
Christ is indeed nigh, even at the door. 
It is this 
blessed truth which cheers and animates my heart, 
amid the varied and conflicting scenes of life. 
And may the Lord enable us all to tcatch and en-
dure to the end, that we may with all the ran-
somed hosts break forth in songs of everlasting 
praise to our deliverer. 
G. 
PILLSBURY. 
East Kingston (N. H.), March 25th, 1854. 
CONFERENCE MINUTES, 
Of the Central Conference in Illinois. 
St. Al-
bans, Hancock county, 111., April 14th, 1854. 
At 2 o'clock, p. M. 
After a season of prayer 
the Conference was called to order by Elder S. 
Chapman, who was appointed Moderator protem— 
brother Moses Winslow, Clerk. 
Letters were read 
from Elders P. B. Morgan and J. T^Laning. 
Ad-
journed. 
Saturday 15th, 11 o'clock, A. M. 
After a dis-
course from Elder D. B. Winslow, met pursuant 
to adjournment. Prayer by Elder Chapman. Let-
ters were received from churches wishing to unite 
with this conference. 
Brother Moses Winslow 
presented letters from the church on McKee's 
Creek, Brown county, 111., (the delegates invited 
•to a seat,) and from the Walker's Neck church in 
Brown county, Illinois. 
There are four churches 
in this Conference, about eighty members, one or-
dained preacher, and four or five public speakers. 
A constitution was unanimously adopted. 
And 
in accordance with it, Elder D. B. Winslow was 
chosen Moderator, and brother Lee Stone, Clerk. 
The officers appointed protem were requested to 
act at this sitting of the Conference. 
Appointed D. B. Winslow, Wm. S. Moor and 
James A. Nott a business committee. 
Chose Moses Winslow, William S. Moor, and 
R. Shellhouse, together with the Moderator and 
Clerk, to constitute a board of Directors to trans-
act business pointed out by the constitution—viz., 
to receive funds, to employ an itinerant preacher 
to preach within the bounds of this Conference, to 
call meetings of tiie Conference, &c., &c. 
The Chairman of the business committee report-
ed that in view of the destitution of the churches, 
they recommended that the Conference take effici-
ent measures to support an itinerant preacher 
within the bounds of this Conference. 
Appointed a committee of one from each church 
to circulate a subscription paper to raise funds to 
be put into the hands of the board of Directors, 
to support itinerant preaching between the four 
churches—brethren C, Twombly, from the Walk-
er's Neck church, R. Shellhouse, from the St. Al-
bans' church, John Fry, from the Bear Creek 
church, M. Winslow, from the McKee's Creek 
church. 
Voted that the minutes be sent to the Advent 
Herald Office for publication. 
Voted to hold the next Conference with the Mc-
Kee's Creek church, Friday before the 3d Sabbath 
in October, time continuing. 
Adjourned to that 
time and place. Prayer, &c. 
Preaching by Elder D. B. Winslow, Saturday 
evening. 
Prayer meeting on the Sabbath at 10 
o'clock A. M. ; preaching at 11, by Elder S. Chap-
man, from Rev. 8:13, and followed by several 
brethren present, after which the Lord's Supper 
was administered to a large number of brethren 
and sisters belonging to different denominations. 
At candle-light there was a discourse from Elder 
S. Chapman, followed by others present. 
S. CHAPMAN, Moderator. 
MOSES WINSLOW, Clerk. 
FOR EVER WITH THE LORD. 
IT is a sweet and consoling thought to those who 
have chosen Christ for their portion—who find in 
him their all in all, that though now seperated 
from him who is the object of their fondest love, 
gratitude and praise, that the time is coming when 
they shall be for ever with him, that by and by they 
shall gaze on that meek and lowly one, who left 
the bright abodes of glory, and came to earth, lived 
a life of spotless purity, and then suffered and died 
an ignominous death on the cross, that man, sinful 
man might have a way of access to God ; that 
through him he might come and receive the pardon 
of sin, and the gift of eternal life. 
O how great 
the gift; how rich the love : and it is ours if we 
will but comply with its easy conditions. 
And 
best of all, we are to spend this eternity with our 
Jesus. 
Then will our longing ^hearts be satisfied; 
for we shall be permitted to enjoy his presence for 
ever, who is to me the " chiefest among ten thous-
and and the one altogether lovely." 
Then sad and 
dejected one cheer thee up; though thou wanderest 
a pilgrim and stranger here, in the bright world to 
come thou shalt enjoy the sweet companionship of 
the blessed Redeemer. 
If thou hast given thyself 
to him, thou hast even now a " friend that sticketh 
closer than a brother ;" and through eternity his 
love will remain unchangeable; thou shalt enjoy 
his everlasting friendship. 
Let the world leave and 
forsake us ; if we have Jesus for our friend we are 
rich in all that we need to make us happy, both 
here and hereafter. 
For ever with the Lord : yes that will be a meet-
ing of eternal duration if we are so happy as to be 
numbered with the friends of Christ, in the day 
" when he shall make up his jewels," he will re-
ceive us to himself, that where he is we may ever 
be : ever to enjoy the company of Jesus, and the 
faithful and good of every age. 
What a happy change from the present state. 
Here we have friends whose society we enjoy, 
whose presence makes life desirable; but alas! 
how few, if any, of these can long remain with us. 
We just begin to enshrine them in our affections, 
to bestow upon them our love, when the relentless 
hand of death snatches them from our midst; the 
poison of envy, slander or jealousy alienates them 
from us ; or business oft calls them to go far from 
us; this is so frequently the case that life is a 
continued scene of meetings and partings. 
But it 
will not be SO in the eternal state ; no deaths will 
be known, no tombs will be there tenanted by un-
willing subjects, and no sin will separate us from 
each other, and from our Jesus. 
We shall not only be with Christ, but be shall 
be like him ; we shall be encumbered with none of 
these clogs of mortality, but a glorious, immortal 
body like his will be ours. 
Nothing will mar our 
peace or happiness, but we shall for ever be with 
our Saviour, amd share the bliss of Eden restored. 
What a soul-inspiring hope ; what a joyful antici-
pation ; it lifts us above the cares and perplexities 
of this world, bidding us ever look forward to the 
joys which wait us. 
Christian friends, is this in-
deed our hope ? are we in reality expecting to spend 
an eternity with Jesus, and to be made like him? 
how then ought we to live? 
O, let us be more 
faithful, more devoted to the cause of this blessed 
Redeemer. 
Should the eye of any chance to fall on these 
lines, who have no well-grounded hope that this 
state of future blessedness will be theirs, I would 
affectionately ask, do you see no beauty in this 
Jesus that you should desire him! do you not 
want to dwell for ever with him? 
Come then, 
forsake your sins, give yourself up to him, and 
this blessed hope may be yours. 
Soon our Saviour will come; not much longer 
shall we have to wait, ere we shall see him de* 
scending in the clouds and we (if truly his children) 
be caught up to meet him. 
Let us gird on our 
armor anew, continue steadfast yet a little while 
and soon we shall be with him—-
u Whom absent we love, 
And not having seen we adore." 
Manchester, April, 1854, 
S. 
A. 
GORTEN. 
Rest for the Weary. 
THERE is a blessing for the meek, 
A " comforter " for those who mourn, 
A perfeet rest in glory bright, 
For Christian pilgrims travel-worn. 
Is the yoke heavy? Murmur not! 
In fervent faith, in hope, in prayer, 
Seek wings to waft the soul above 
The crushing weight of dark despair. 
Then drooping Spirit bear thee up * 
A few more sad and weary years, 
A few more fiery furnaces, 
A few more sighs, a few more tears. 
A few more storms thou yet must brave, 
A few more surging billows breast, 
And then wilt safely glide into 
The harbor of Eternal rest. 
MARY. 
Speak Gently. 
SPEAK gently, it is better far 
To rule by love than fear; 
Speak gently, let not harsh words mar 
The good we might do here, 
' I am the resurrection and the life: he that believeth in me 
though he were dead, yet shall he live: and whosoever liveth, and 
believeth in me. shall never die.''—JOHN 11: 25.26. 
DIED in Newburyport, Mass., on the 29th of 
March, 1854, CHARLES HALE PEARSON, aged 4 years, 
and 4 months—youngest child of Elder John Pear 
son, Jr. 
A funeral discourse was preached by 
Elder L. Osier. 
Thou hast passed from us away, and thy little life 
is ended, 
While the colors of the lilly, and the rose is richly 
blended, 
In thy soft and downy cheek; and thine eyes of 
azure hue, 
Sparkling in all their beauty, fond affection seemed 
to woo. 
Thou hast passed from us away, and thy voice no 
more will greet us, 
In accents soft and gentle, and thy smile no more 
will meet us; 
Oh ! there's sadness in our dwelling, for a vacant 
seat is there, 
A budding flower has faded, though beautiful and 
fair. 
Thou hast passed from us away, and in yonder 
churchyard, weeping, 
We laid thee down to rest, and thy little form is 
sleeping, 
By the side of one still younger, and as beautiful 
as thou, 
A darling little sister, with death's signet on her 
brow. 
Ye were early called away, ere sin had longer 
blighted, 
Or the earth's delusive charms, your affections had 
invited; 
And the grass will wave above you, and your slum-
ber will be sweet, 
Till the resurrection morning, when the saints of 
God will meet. 
Oh ! then in glorious beauty, immortal and divine, 
These little forms so fragile forevermore shall 
shine; 
And with the ransomed millions, on earth from 
every land, 
Unite to sing God's praises, a pure and holy band. 
Then dry your tears ye mourners, ye saints of God 
be glad, 
That glorious day is drawing nigh, let not your 
hearts be sad : 
Gird on the gospel armor, and faithful strive to be, 
And in God's heavenly kingdom, yoji shall dwell 
eternally. 
c. M. s. 
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AUBURN, N. Y.—AVm. Ingmire. 
BASCOE, Hancock county, 111.—Wm. S. Moore. 
BUFFALO, N. Y.—John Powell. 
CABOT, (Lower Branch,) Vt.—Dr. M. P. Wallace. 
CINCINNATI, O.—Joseph Wilson 
DANVILLE, C. E.—G. Bangs. 
DUNHAM, C. E.—D. W. Sornberger. 
DURHAM, C. E 
J. M. Orrock. 
DERBY LINE, Vt.—S. Foster. 
DETROIT, Mich.—Luzerne Armstrong. 
EDDINGTON, Me.—Thomas Smith. 
HALLOWELL, Me.—I. C. Wellcome. 
HARTFORD, Ct.—Aaron Clapp. 
HOMER, N. Y.—J. L. Clapp. 
LOCKPOBT, N. Y.—R. W. Beck. 
LOWELL, Mass.—J. C. Downing. 
Low HAMPTON, N. Y.—D. Bosworth. 
MILWAUKEE, Wis.—Dr. Horatio G. Vunk. 
NEWBURYPORT, Mass.—Dea. J. Pearson, sr., Water-street. 
NEW YORK CITY—Wm. Tracy, 246 Broome-street. 
PHILADELPHIA, Pa.—J. Litch, N. E. cor. of Cherry and 11th streets. 
PORTLAND, Me.—Wm. Pettengill. 
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ROUGH AND READY, Hancock county, 111.—Larkio Scott. 
* 
SALEM, Mass—Lemuel Osier. 
SNABBONA GROVE, De Kalb county, 111.—Elder N. W. Spencer. 
SOMONAUK, De Kalb county, 111.—Wells A. Fay. 
SHEBOYGAN FALLS, Wis.—William Trobridge. 
TAYLORSVILLE, Christian county, 111.—Thomas P. Chapman. 
TORONTO, C. W.—D. Campbell. 
WATERLOO, Shefford, C. E.—R. Hutchinson, M. D. 
WEST ALBURG, Vt.—Benjamin Webb. 
WHITE ROCK, Ogle county, 111.—Elder John Cummings, jr. 
WORCESTER, Mass.—J. J. Bigelow. 
DIED, at Three Rivers, April 11th, ALONZO 
MIX-
TER, aged 28 years. 
The deceased experienced re-
ligion under the preaching of brother Miller in 
'42. 
His Christian character was exemplary for 
several years. 
He was a consistent believer in the 
Advent doctrine and though a backslider a number 
of years before he died, always advocated its truth. 
Eor ten or twelve years he has been out of health. 
He suffered much but was able to ride out, till 
about two weeks before his death at which time he 
gave up all hope of recovering. 
His last sickness 
was very distressing. 
He would often exclaim, 
" mother do you think the Lord will forgive such 
a sinner as I am?" 
He prayed often and asked 
others to pray with him. 
His last words were, 
Bread of Heaven feed me till 1 want no more." 
He leaves a wife and child and parents to mourn 
his loss. 
His funeral was attended at the Baptist 
Church in this place by Elders Wakeman and 
Powell. 
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THE ADVENT 
HERALD. 
Contents of this No. 
MISCELLANEOUS. 
The Resurrection (poetry)... 137 
Spiritualism in Congress.... 137 
The Destiny of the Earth.... 137 
Special Providences 
138 
Death of Mr. J ustice Talfourd 138 
Sandwich Islands 
139 
Patient Joe (poetry) 
139 
The Foreign News 
139 
Great Freshet 
144 
EDITORIAL. 
The Prophecy of Isaiah 
140 
Mixed Millenarianism ...... 140 
Book Notices 
141 
CORRESPONDENCE. 
The Turkish Question 
139 
Be Ye Also Ready 
142 
Expository 
142 
The Time Not Revealed..... 142 
Conference Minutes 
143 
For Ever With The Lord 
143 
Rest For the Weary (poetry) 143 
Speak Gently 
4'.... 143 
OBITUARY. 
Charles II. Pearson 
143 
Alonzo Mixter 
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ADDRESS OF THE COMMITTEE. 
BELOVED BRETHREN :—The notice for the 15th 
General Conference has appeared, and doubtless 
claimed your attention but who among us sup-
posed when convened at our first general meeting, 
that we should have remained as " prisoners of 
hope," until an announcement like the above should 
apprise us of the lapse of years ! 
The perfect so-
lution of this mysterious problem is alone left for 
Him with whom " one day is as a thousand years 
and a thousand years as one day." 
Jehovah had his purpose in keeping Isreal in 
the wilderness forty years, though the carrying 
out of that design was a sad disappointment to 
that people ; they supposing that their exode from 
Egypt would only be the prelude of their introduc-
tion to the promised inheritance; but after the 
Lord had taken them through a thorough course 
of disciplinary providence, he made known to them 
through Moses, the reasons for his thus dealing 
with them: " And thou shalt remember all the 
way which the Lord thy God led thee these forty 
years in the wilderness, to humble thee, and to prove 
thee, to know what was in thine heart, whether 
thou wouldst keep his commandment or no. 
And 
he humbled thee, and suffered thee to hunger, and 
fed thee with manna which thou knewest not, nei-
ther did thy fathers know ; that he might make thee 
know that man doth riot live by bread only, but by 
every word that proceedetb out of the mouth of the 
Lord, doth man live." 
If appears to us brethren, unless we have greatly 
mistaken our position, that the connected circum-
stances of Israel's case, present some strikingly 
analogous features to our past history, and pres-
ent condition ; and that lessons of wisdom may be 
learned from a due appreciation of the facts in 
both cases. 
Brought then, as we are, to the pres-
ent time, and surrounded as we realize ourselves 
to be by the increasingly interesting developments 
of the times ; we cannot fail to be interested in an 
appointment for the assembling together of those 
who with equal concern and interest are watching 
the unfolding purposes of Him who hath declared 
the end from the beginning. 
There has been a period in our brief history as 
a people, when connected with an anticipation of 
an annual gathering there was a mixture of hope 
and fear, with a predominance of the latter. 
But 
to the praise of Him who overruleth all things for 
the good of his people, that time is past, and now 
we have all to hope and nothing to fear. 
We 
therefore have no misgivings in saying that our 
anticipations are high for one of the best confer-
ences we have ever enjoyed : 
1. Because we doubt not that you, brethren, 
will daily invoke the Divine blessing to accompany 
it, and the Saviour declares that if two of you shall 
agree on earth as touching anything that you shall 
ask, it shall be done for you of my Father which 
is in heaven. 
2. We shall except that every friend of the Ad-
vent cause for whom it will be practicable, will 
1 
attend without fail, allowing no unlawful excuse 
to keep them away. 
Your time and money can-
not be better employed than by using both to come 
to this meeting. 
3. It is hoped that every Advent Society having 
a minister, will defray his expenses to and from 
the conference ; and that no poor minister will be 
compelled to remain at home for the want of funds. 
This will be a good investment, for which an am-
ple recompense will be given you in due time. 
Thus we shall have the tried and faithful servants 
of God present. 
4. Our present position will be fully 
presented 
during the conference. 
This we consider is in 
justice due to you, to the world, and ourselves. 
We do not think that the present condition of 
things is sufficiently enigmatical to justify a very 
great diversity of sentiment but a correct under-
standing of which is calculated to unite our hearts 
more fully in our one faith and work. 
5. The accumulating evidences of our approach-
ing redemption fully show that we have not be-
lieved nor labored in vain ; but that the position 
taken by us years ago, is fully justified by the 
events of the present; and this consideration will 
be an important incentive to bring us together, 
and when together, united in mutual cousultation 
on the further prosecution of the great work in 
which we have jointly labored and suffered as heirs 
of the grace of life. 
The cburch in Providence has kindly invited the 
Conference there, where ample accommodations 
will be found for, and a hearty welcome given to 
all the friends who may attend. 
It is hoped, that all our ministering brethren 
who cannot possibly attend, will address a letter 
to the Conference. 
II. PLUMMER, 
L. OSLER. 
J. PEARSON JR. 
A. SHERWIN. 
J. V. HIMES. 
greatest on record, the water rising fifteen inches 
gher than in 1801, but it is now falling. 
Rail-
road communication South is entirely suspended ; 
North partially. The Western road is unobstructed. 
The mails and passengers for New York go by way 
of Albany. 
No great damage in this city. 
A large part of West Springfield is flooded, and 
many houses partially under water. 
The railroad between here and Hartford, is in ^ 
very bad state; uncertain how soon it can be re-
paired. 
Three small houses at Warehouses Point have 
been caried off. 
APPOINTMENTS OF ELDER J. V.' IIIMES.— 
Boston, Chatdon-street, Sunday, May 7th. 
THE ANNUAL SECOND ADVENT CONFERENCE FOR 
CANADA 
EAST AND 
NORTHERS VERMONT, will be held this year, in the '"Old Meeting 
House," in Hatley, C. E., to commence on Thursday, June 8th., 
at half past 10 A. M. Meetings will continue over the Sabbath. We 
hope as many ministering brethren as can, will attend. 
Letthere 
be a general gathering of all who are "looking for that blessedhope." 
Endeavor to be present when the Conference commences. The 
brethren will da what they can to accommodate those who come 
from a distance, with board and lodging. Make this meeting a 
subject of prayer, and we hope it will be one of great inter -st and 
profit. 
J. M. ORROCK, Sec'y of C. E. Conf. 
Tremendous Freshet 
on the Connecticut and 
Farinington Rivers. 
N. Billings will preach at Mt. Holly, Vt., April 27th and 28th—will 
some bro. call for me at Kimball's Crossings, on the arrival of the 
first train from Middlebury, Thursday the 27th ? at Low Hampton, 
N. Y., Sabbath the 30th; at Greenfield, May 2d—will the friends be 
present from Middle Grove and elsewhere ? at Waterford, the 3d ; 
at West Troy, the 5th; at Albany, Sabbath, the 7th; at Worcester, 
Mass., the 8th; at Westboro', the 9th. Week-day meetings at 7 
o'clock, p. M., or as may be thought best. 
HARTFORD, May 1—10 A. M.—The greatest flood 
ever known in this city or vicinity has visited us, 
the water being two feet higher than in the memo 
rable flood of 1801—having reached to a height of 
30 feet above low water mark. 
In the lower part 
of the city all the houses are full of water to the 
second story, including Colt's armory, Tracy & 
Phail's car shop. 
Woodruff & Beach's machine 
shop, and all other manufacturing establishments 
in their vicinity. 
Houses, barns, and every des-
cription of property, are bound down the stream 
Portions of the New Haven and Springfield Rail-
road are three to four feet under water, and of 
course impassable. 
There is no means of knowing 
the amount of damage done South of the city. 
The Railroads are much damaged, but will proba-
bly be made passable to-day or to-morrow. 
The 
Willimantic road is impassable. 
The damage to property in this city will be very 
heavy and involve much suffering to the poor peo-
ple that have been driven from their homes. 
The 
Mayor has ordered the public buildings of the city 
to be thrown open for their use, and also ordered 
out boats to rescue such as are in danger. 
The 
water is now rising 11-2 inches per hour. 
The 
usual roads of travel leading to the city are im-
passable, so that the extent of damage in the ad-
joining towns cannot be ascertained. 
The water is upon the floor of the Willimantic 
Railroad bridge and also the bridge opposite this 
city, and fears are entertained that they may be 
carried away. 
Masses of timber are floating down the river, 
supposed to be the Enfield bridge across the Con 
necticut, several miles above this <;ity. 
There is difficulty on the Springfield railroad 
from this city, and probably the trains there will 
be interrupted. 
There is also an unprecedented freshet in the 
Farmington valley, and we Jiear of railroad abufc> 
ments and culverts having been carried away. 
The freshet has done a vast amount of damage 
in the lower part of the city. 
The wholesale mer 
chants, though active in removing goods, have suf-
fered considerably. 
The aggregate loss cannot 
now be ascertained, as a great many goods are un 
der water, and it is not known how much they will 
be injured. 
Much of the machinery of Colt's pis 
tol factory, Fales & Gray's car factory, and Wood 
ruff & Beach's foundary and machine shop, are 
under water, and their damage will be very heavy 
A large number of boats are employed in remov 
ing families, the flood rising to the second story of 
some of the dwellings. 
The water is now (11 A 
M.) rising nearly an inch an hour, but as it is fall 
ing at Springfield, it will probably reach its high 
est level here about 4 o'clock this afternoon. 
Springfield, May 1st.—The flood has proved the 
MONTHLY REPORT OF NEW SUBSCRIBERS. 
New subscribers in April 
Stoppages 
Net gain 
25 
Total new subscribers since Jan. 1st 
236 
Total stoppages 
199 
Total net gain 
37 
HERALD 
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A. SMITH 
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POST OFFICE ADDRESSES. 
M. ORROCK, (Cafe of Stephen Foster, Esq.,) Derby-Line, Vt. Or 
Outlet, Magog, C. E., as may suit the convenience of the writer. 
Appointments, &c. 
M. ORROCK will preach in Melbourne, C. E., Sunday, May 14th. 
BRO. HIMES:—I see by the Herald of the 22d, that there is an ap-
pointment for me to be at Derby-Line, Vt., the 23d. I should have 
been there, but sickness in my family prevented. I now purpose 
to preach at Lyndon Centre, Saturday evening, April 29th, and 
Sabbath the 30th; Wheelock Hollow, Tuesday evening, May 2d; 
Sheffield, Wednesday evening, 3d, where bro. E. Davis may ap-
point; at Derby, in the Neighborhood of Moses Blake, Esq , Satur-
day eveniug 0th; at Derby Liue, Sabbath, 7th.—I. HARVEY. 
M. L. BENTLEY will preach in the Chardon-street chapel, Sunday, 
April 30th; at Lawrence, Mass., the first and second Sabbaths in 
May. 
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