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BOSTON, SATURDAY, JANUARY 15, 1853. 
VOLUME XI. NO. 3. 
JUDGE NOT. 
Judge not !—though clouds of seeming guilt may dim thy brother's 
fame, 
For fate may throw suspicion's shade upon the brightest name ; 
Thou can'st not tell what hidden chain of circumstances may 
Have wrought the sad result that takes an honest name away. 
Judge not ! 
Judge not !—the vilest criminal may rightfully demand • 
A chance to clear himself before a jury of his land ; 
And surely one who ne'er was known to break his plighted word, 
Should not be hastily condemned to obloquy, unheard. 
Judge not ! 
Judge not !—thou can'st not tell how soon the look of bitter scorn 
May rest on thee, though pure thy heart as dew-drops in the morn. 
Thou dost not know what freak of fate may place upon thy brow 
A cloud of shame, to kill the joy that rests upon it now. 
Judge not ! 
Judge not !—but rather in thy heart let gentle pity dwell : 
Man's judgments err, but there is One who "(teeth all things well." 
Ever throughout the voyage of life, this precept keep in view—
"Do unto others as you would that they should do to you." 
Judge not! 
Judge not !—for one unjust reproach an honest heart can feel 
As keenly as the deadly stab made by the pointed steel 
The worm will kill the sturdy oak (though slowly it may die) 
As surely as the lightning stroke swift rushing from the sky. 
Judge not! 
Ralph Erskine's Sword Sermon. 
and if your heart go in to the offer, and you 
make him your Elect too, by choosing him, then 
your election is sure. Are you afraid you have 
sinned the sin against the Holy Ghost ? I tell 
you, that as your fear of that says you was never 
guilty of it, so I offer the Man that is God's fel-
low ; and if you be content to have him, you 
shall never be guilty of it. Are you full of en-
mity against God ? I offer him as a Saviour 
that can kill your enmity : Do you consent that 
he do so ? Are you an impenitent creature, des-
titute of repentance ? I offer him as a Prince 
and a Saviour, exalted to give repentance and 
remission of sin. Do you consent? Have you 
received him formerly ? I offer him anew, that 
you may receive him again, and take a more 
large armful of him than ever. Have you never 
received him to this day ? I offer him after all 
the slights you have given him, to be now re-
ceived and believed in. Are you unable to be-
lieve in him ? have you no power to close with 
the offer ? Why, I 'offer him to you as the Au-
thor of faith, to work it in you powerfully. Do 
yell consent that he put forth his power for this 
effect ? What shall I say ? Are you willing to 
believe ? Though that be the greatest let and 
impediment of all ; behold, I offer the Man that 
is God's fellow, as a Saviour by power, as well 
as by price, to work in you both to will and to 
do. Are you content that he put forth his power 
to break your enmity, and make you willing ? 
God knows it is neither in you to will nor to do, 
and that you have neither will nor power of 
your own, and faith lies not in bringing forth 
some great things by your own power, but in em-
ploying the power of God to work all your works 
in you, and for you. Behold then, the power of 
God is in your offer, while the .man that is God's 
fellow is offered : the strength of God is offered. 
Let him take hold of my
,strength, that he may 
make peace with me, and he shall make peace 
with me ; and feeling the strength of God is of-
fered, Oh ! give it employment, saying, in your 
heart, 0 come, come powerful arm of Jehovah, 
and make me go in to his call." 
Pharisaism. 
BY ELIZA COOK. 
" He that is without sin among you, let him first 
cast a stone."—John 8:7. 
BEAUTIFUL eloquence, thou spea.kest low, 
But the world's clashing cannot still thy tones ; 
Thou livest, as the stream with gentle flow 
Runs thro' the battle-field of strife and groans. 
Thine is the language of a simple creed, 
Whose saving might has no priest-guarded 
bound ; 
If soundly learned, say, would the martyr bleed, 
Or such dense shadows fall on " hallowed 
ground ?" 
Oh, how we boast our knowledge of " the right," 
But blast the Christian grain with conduct's 
blight ! 
'Tis well to ask our Maker to " forgive 
Our trespasses;" but 'tis as we may bear 
The trespasses of those who breathe and live 
Amid the same temptation, doubt, and care. 
Oh ! ye who point so often to the herd 
Whose dark and evil works are all uncloaked, 
Is there no, other than condemning word 
For minds untaught and spirits sorely yoked ? 
Are ye quite sure no hidden leper taint 
Blurs your own skin, if we look through the 
paint ? 
Ye throw from ambush !—let,Truth's noontide 
light 
Flash on the strength that nerves such eager 
aims, 
Bring pigmy greatness from its giant height, 
Where would be then the splendor of your 
names ? 
Ye harsh denouncers ! 'tis an easy thing 
To wrap yourself in Cunning's specious robes, 
And sharpen all the polished blades ye fling, 
As though ye held diploma for the probes ; 
But if the charlatan and knave were dropped, 
Some spreading trees would be most closely 
lopped. 
Ye that so fiercely show your warring teeth 
At every other being on your way, 
Is your own sword so stainless in its sheath 
That ye can justify the braggart fray ? 
The tricks of policy, the hold of place, 
The dulcet jargon of a courtly rote, 
The sleek and smiling mask upon the face, 
The eye that sparkles but to hide its mote ; 
Tell me, ye worms, could ye well bear the rub, 
That tore the silken windings from the grub ? 
Ye lips that gloat upon a-brother's sin 
With moral mouthing in the whispered speech, 
Methinks I've seen the poison fang within 
Betray the viper rather than the leech. 
I've marked the frailties of some gifted one 
Blazoned with prudent doubt and virtuous sigh, 
But through the whining cant of a" saintly tone 
Heard Joy give Pity the exulting lie, 
As if it were a pleasant thing to filid 
The racer stumbling and the gaze-hound blind. 
Too proud, too ignorant, too mighty man, 
Why dost thou so forget the lesson taught ? 
Why not let mercy cheer our human span ? 
Ye say ye serve Christ—heed him as ye ought ; 
He did not goad the weeping child of clay, 
He heaped no coals upon the erring head, 
Fixed no despair upon the sinner's way, 
And dropped no gall upon the sinner's bread; 
He heard man's cry for vengeance, but he flung 
Man's conscience at the yell, and hushed the 
tongue. 
• 
Great teaching from a greater Teacher, fit 
To breathe alike in infancy and age ; 
No garbled mystery overshadows it, 
And noblest hearts have deepest read the page. 
Carve it upon the mart and temple arch, 
Let our fierce judges read it as they go ; 
Make it the key-note of life's pompous march, 
And trampling steps will be more soft and 
slow ; 
For God's own voice says from the eternal 
throne, 
" Let him that is without sin cast the first stone." 
BEAR HUNTING IN CAI-AFORNIA. 
A LETTER in the Sacramento Times, dated Dia-
mond Springs, Nov. 12th, gives the following ac-
count of an accident at a bear hunt : 
After dinner they mustered double barrelled 
guns and rifles to the number of fourteen shots, 
and started for the chapparal. Upon reaching 
it, the men very imprudently scattered, some 
venturing in to see if they could start her, while 
others climbed trees to be in a place of safety, 
and to get a view of the ground. Among those 
who took a tree was Charles H. Packard, who 
had gone a short distance into the brush, and, 
as he had no gun, placed himself in a sapling 
about six inches through. The tree forked about 
six feet from the ground, and Packard went up 
one of the branches, a distance of about twelve 
feet from the ground, and in reply to one of his 
companions, said he considered himself safe. 
At this moment he cried out " here's the bear 
within a rod of me," but hardly got the words 
out of his mouth before she made towards him 
furiously, jumped at and caught the tree a few 
feet below him, and with her tremendous weight 
split it at the fork, carrying man and tree both 
with her to the ground. He fell upon his back, 
the bear seized him by the left side of the head 
and face, tore his left ear completely from his 
head, laying bare his skull. She then seized 
him by the other side of the face, cutting a deep 
gash in the upper lip, and tearing the flesh from 
the right corner of the mouth to near the large 
artery in the neck ; then by the left fore arm, 
laying bare the tendons, breaking some of them, 
and biting his right hand through. 
She then left the tapper part of the body, and 
made an effort, seemingly, to tear open his bow-
els, as she left some fifteen severe wounds on his 
body, but none of them so deep as to enter the 
cavity, and finished her horrible work by taking 
out about two pounds of flesh from his right 
thigh. By this time Packard was so nearly ex- 
hausted that he lay as if dead, and the bear left 
him. Some of the company were within twenty 
steps of the wounded man, but were unable to 
render him any assistance. They saw the bear 
break down the tree; heard his cries for help, 
but after he struck the ground they could see 
neither bear nor man, so thick was the chappar-
al around them. 
Mr. Packard was carried to the house, and, 
notwithstanding he is so terribly mutilated, is in 
a fair way to recover. He said this morning that 
he thought he would be up in a few weeks. This 
bear is said to be one of the largest kind, and in 
consequence of being wounded, had become furi-
ous. She has not been captured. 
MORMON DOCTRINES. 
THE National Intelligencer states that Orson 
Pratt, one of the Twelve Apostles of the church 
of " Latter Day Saints," is preaching three times 
on Sunday and once on Wednesday, every week, 
at Temperance Hall, Washington, to about two 
hundred people. The editor of that paper, de-
scribing a sermon on one of thes6 occasions, says : 
" It consisted chiefly in giving the history of 
the rise of Mormonism, the discovery of the Mor-
mon scriptures, and the hopes of the sect for the 
future, which are very high and enthusiastic. 
In the expositions of Mormon ideas, doctrines, 
and practices, there appears no disposition to 
deny the polygamistic principles and habits that 
prevail amongst them. In reference to this, as 
to other points of Mormon doctrine, Elder Pratt 
refers to his journal " the Seer," of which the 
first number has appeared. In this he defends a 
plurality of wives as a Divine institution, from ar-
guments founded on the practice of three-fourths 
of mankind now, the customs of the old Jewish 
patriarchs, and the alleged tacit allowance of 
Christ. He also claims that polygamy is not 
proscribed by the Constitution and laws of the 
United States, but rather guarantied, when held 
under religious conviction, by that article of the 
amendments to the Constitution which affirms 
that Congress shall make no law respecting 
an establishment of religion or prohibiting the 
free exercise thereof.' This plurality of wives 
he styles the celestial marriage,' which, he as-
serts, is to be a union as well in eternity as in 
time. There would seem now to be no further 
„room for doubt about Mormon sentiments on this 
head ; they are not only acknowledged but pro, 
 
claimed and sought to be universally spread." 
Lessons for Physicians. 
NEARLY three centuries ago, the philosopher 
Palissy thus remarked on the errors of medical 
men : 
" Do you not think that it is a great blunder 
on the part of doctors to keep an unhappy pa-
tient shut up in a room, the windows close, the 
bed close, and forbid any one to give him air i 
When already the poor patient cannot get his 
breath, by reason of his malady, except with a 
great deal of trouble, you cause him to be fur-
thermore shut up and smothered. See how you 
blunder ; first, you rob him of his breath, and 
render him more melancholy than he would be 
made by his disease, through the foul odors which 
cannot escape, which pierce his brain, and ag-
gravate his illness; and if you grant to me that 
air aids the expulsive virtue, and that no ani-
mals having lungs can live without air, then man, 
however whole and cheerful he may be, cannot 
live without air, still less can he do so when he 
is sick ; wherefore I say that you blunder in for-
bidding air to patients, when it is good, and not 
too cold, or moist, or windy." 
MACAULAY gives the following as the medical 
treatment of Charles the Second, during his last 
sickness. All the medical men of note were sum-
moned, and one of the prescriptions was signed 
by fourteen doctors. " He was bled largely, a 
hot iron was applied to the head, and a volatile 
salt extracted from human skulls was forced into 
his mouth." He survived this treatment four days. 
" COME, come then before I close ; away with 
all your objections, and let God be glorified, to 
the'highest in your embracing this way of sal-
vation to your souls, and in this satisfaction to 
justice. Behold ! once for all, I make you the 
richest offer that ever was heard tell of; in the 
name of the Lord of hosts I offer you the Man 
that is God's fellow, to be a complete Saviour 
to you, to stand between you and the sword of 
divine wrath, and to be the Burden-bearer for 
you ; to bear the weight of all the curses of the 
law, the weight of all God's wrath, the weight 
of all your salvation for you ; and to do all your 
work in you and for you, 0 soul, am I not of-
fering a suitable and worthy match to you ? He 
is a Man indeed, but a wonderful Man, the Man 
that is God's fellow : What say you ? Will you 
go with this Man ? Will you match with this 
Man ? It is true, I am unworthy to offer the 
like of him ; for the latchet of his shoe no man 
or angel is worthy to unloose ; but, as I said, it 
was in the name of the Lord of hosts that I was 
making the offer : So I tell you again, it is the 
great Jehovah that is offering his Son to you this 
day; and it becomes such a glorious God to make 
such a glorious offer ; and it becomes no vile sin-
ner here to refuse the offer; and refuse or choose 
you must, there is no mids : for, be what you 
will, I again offer, in the name of the Lord of 
hosts, the Man that is his fellow. Are you a 
child of wrath ? I offer him as a Saviour to re-
deem you, and deliver you from the wrath to 
come. Are you a poor bankrupt ? I offer him 
who is the heir of all things, and has unsearch-
able riches to pay all your debt. Are you a 
poor ignorant creature ? I offer you him as made 
of God unto you wisdom ? Are you guilty ? I 
offer him as made unto you righteousness. Are 
you polluted ? I offer him to you, as made unto 
you sanctification. Are you miserable and for-
lorn ? I offer him to you, as made of God unto you 
complete redemption. Are you hard-hearted ? 
I offer him in that promise, I will take away the 
heart of stone. Are you contented that he break 
your hard heart, according to his promise ? Come 
then, put your hard heart in his hands. Are you 
a wretched backslider, that has backslidden an 
hundred times, a thousand times more than an 
hundred ? I offer him in that promise, I will 
heal your backslidings. Are your corruptions 
strong and prevalent ? I offer him in that prom-
ise, I will subdue your iniquities. Are you 
pleased that he do so ? Are you afraid, that 
you revolt more and more ? I offer him in that 
promise, I will put my Spirit within you, and 
cause you to walk in my statutes. I will put my 
fear in your heart, and you shall not depart 
from me. Are you afraid you was never elected ? 
Meddle not with that secret ; but according to 
the revealed will of God, I offer God's chief 
Elect to you, in whom his soul is well pleased ; 
K„.._ 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
THE ADVENT HERALD. 
 
entered this city in our sedans on the 2d of Sept., 
and occupied the official residence, which we 
called our Court, and where we permitted none 
to dwell. This Hung Siu-tsiuen received most 
of his knowledge of tactics from me, but my 
opinion did not accord with his, and I often 
spoke of this being a small spot, and asked 
where ,was the propriety of having so many per-
sons styled Kings ? Moreover, he had relied 
upon his magical arts for assistance, but no one, 
even in ancient times, ever reached the throne 
by them ; added to this, he was both a wine bib-
ber and a licentious man, having thirty-six women 
with him. I wished to hear of his destruction 
and defeat, for then I could myself succeed in 
obtaining dominion. 
At this time the Eastern King Yang managed 
the forces, sending them out and appointing 
their duties, and the officers who should be over 
them. Wei Ching had the superintendence of 
actual engagement with the troops, in which he 
was both skilful and Unwearied ; he was a most 
courageous man ; even ten thousand of the Im-
perialists were not a match for him with a thou-
sand men under him. During the several months 
we occupied Yung-ngan-chau, which we called 
our Court, all our officers memorialized us re-
specting the affairs of state ; a calendar was is-
sued under the direction of Yang, in which no 
intercalary month was inserted ; but in this mat-
ter I was not a party. 
Now, when it happened that the ingress into 
the city was stopped, and rice, gunpowder and 
other ammunition were beginning to fail, we re-
flected that the members of our Association in 
Kwang-tung and in the department of Wu-chau, 
were formerly very numerous, and plucked up 
heart to make the attempt to get out of our hole. 
On the 7th of April we rallied our spirits and 
attempted the sortie, dividing the forces into 
three bands. About 8 P. M., Wei Ching sallied 
out with 6,000 men under him, followed by Yang 
and Fung Yun-Shan with 5,000 or 6,000 men 
about 10 P. M., to cut their way through ; these 
took Hung Siu-tsiuen and his women with them, 
thirty or more persons, with horses, sedans, and 
all. 
About 2 A. m., having more than a thousand 
men with us, I and Siu went out, being distant 
from Hung Siu-tsiuen about a league, and were 
attacked by the government troops and pursued. 
Siu would not attend to my orders or signals, 
and our forces were routed, more than 1000 men 
losing their lives, and I was taken prisoner. It 
was our intent to have gone by way of a place 
called Kuchuh to Chauping-hieu, (in the depart-
ment of Ping-lo,) and then to Wu-chau-fu, and 
thus get into Kwang-tung. The firing of the 
East fort, when we sallied from the city; was 
my fault, and I also directed putting fire in the 
city so as to facilitate our sortie. 
My original surname is not Hung, but it is 
only since I contracted a brotherhood-relation 
with Hung Siu-tsieun, that I changed it to Hung 
Tai-tsieun. I wore embroidered clothes and a 
yellow cap ; the four kings had red-bordered 
caps like mine ; the rest of' the high officers wore 
yellow embroidered aprons when they went into 
action, and carried yellow flags. In the Yamun, 
I wore a yellow robe ; and I did not of my own 
will desire to sit on the king's throne. 
This confession is true. 
. Paganism. 
THE GOSAIN, OR HINDOO DEVOTEE. 
IN the following description, the person who 
is acquainted with the history of the Monks and 
Friars of the Church of Rome, will trace a 
family likeness between them and the Hindoo 
Fakeers. It is also worthy of remark, that the 
Romish as well as Hindoo devotees, have sup-
plied some of the most zealous converts to Chris, 
tianity even fanaticism is better than indiffer-
ence—the man who is in earnest about religion 
can never be lukewarm. The contempt for the 
peculiarities of religious faith and observance 
which is called liberalism, and which is regarded 
by many as the perfection of religious character, 
is the fruits of' a concealed but deep-rooted infi-
delity. 
The religious devotees so numerous in In-
dia, are popularly known by the name of Fakeers. 
They' are divided into many different Orders, 
more or less distinguishable by their costumes 
and the modes of penance or austerity which they 
practise. The principal Orders in. Northern In-
dia are the Gosains ; the Bairagees ; Jogees ; 
and Sunyasies. But there are many other Or-
ders, the disciples of which abandon secular life, 
and devote themselves to that of Religious Ascet-
ics. Some of them remain almost always seated 
at one place, generally under the shade of the 
wide-spreading peepul tree, which is regarded as 
sacred by 'all the Hindoos ; but a still neater 
number travel about the country, and especially 
frequent holy places, such as Benares; Gaza, 
Allahabad, Juggernath,, and Burdwan. 
At some of these places many thousands of 
these devotees are often to be seen at once; dur-
ing, the great Hindoo Festivals. They subsist 
by the alms of the people, and these are often 
• 
own right hand of zeal will he omnipotently bring 
it to pass 
(To be continued.) 
Confession of a Chinese Rebel Chief. 
TIIE CHURCH COMPLETED. 
BY wa'y. of California we have the following 
confession of the Chinese rebel chief Tien-teh, 
captured by the government troops and executed, 
as previously announced : 
1 am a man of the district of Hang-shan, in 
the prefecture of Hang-chau ; I am thirty years 
of age ; my parents are both dead, and I have 
neither brothers, wife or children ; I have been 
from my youth devoted to letters, and have sev-
eral times entered the Examination ; but as the 
officers did not acknowledge my talent for writ-
ing, and repressed my abilities, I became a priest. 
I had not long left the priesthood, when I again 
entered the Examination, and as before, I was 
unsuccessful. This greatly irritated me, and I 
began to study books on the military art very 
carefully, in order to scheme against the Em-
pire ; I also made myself perfectly familiar with 
the topography of every part of the land. While 
I was a priest, I kept myself quiet and retired, 
diligently examining all the works on strategy, 
so that all the rules of discipline and war since 
the days of antiquity were familiar to me; and 
I was emulous to equal Kung Ming On the days 
of the Three States.) Thus I came to think I 
could carry out my plans speedily, and if I fol-
lowed the plans of Kung Ming, flattered myself 
that I could take the Empire as easily as turn 
my hand over. 
Several years ago, when I was a priest, I was 
travelling over Kwang-tung, and when in the 
district of Hwa, became acquainted with Hung 
Siu-tsiuen, (who is not my relative) and Fung-
Yungshan, both of whom are literary persons of 
great talents, and the former, like me, had been 
unsuccessful in the Examinations. He had for-
merly been through both the Kwang provinces, 
and formed an association of reckless persons of 
the Triad Society. Every one of those who joined 
it in Kwang-tung adhered to Fung ; and this was 
done several years, he deluding every one who 
joined the association to take their oaths that 
they would live and die with him, and exert all 
their efforts to assist him. They gradually in-
creased in numbers, and it was feared that there 
might be a want of hearty union in some of the 
members; so Hung Siu-tsiuen learned magical 
arts, and to talk with demons, and with Fung-
Pun-shan made up a story about " a heavenly 
father, heavenly brother and Jesus, narrating how 
the heavenly brother came down from heaven, 
and that all who would serve the heavenly fa-
ther would then know where the best interests and 
profit lay ; that when he sat it was in a small 
hall of heaven ; and when he had been put to 
death by men, he sat in a great hall of heaven." 
With these inflaming words they beguiled the 
members of the association, so that none of them 
left it; and this procedure, I was well aware, 
had been going on for many years. 
In December, 1850, when their numbers and 
strength became large, I went to Kwangs, where 
I saw Hung Siu-tsiuen ; he then had engaged the 
graduate Wei Ching, alias Wei-Chang-kwui, of 
Ping-nan and Siu, Yang, and others of Kwang-
Tung, to go out and begin to plunder and fight 
the government. The members of the brother-
hood willingly followed these men, giving them-
selves, their families, property, and all to them, 
so that they had funds for their purposes, and 
bought horses and engaged troops. Their hopes 
were now high, and they took at this time the 
name of the Shang-ti Association. 
When I reached Kwang-si, Hung Siu-tsiuen 
called me his worthy brd'ther. and honored me 
with the title of taking Tien-teh (Celestial vir-
tue,) and took all his lessons in the art of war 
from me. He called himself' King Taping, 
(Great Peace;) Yang was generalissimo of the 
troops, with civil powers, and had the title of 
Eastern King; Siu was deputy generalissimo of 
the right, with the title of Western King ; Fung 
Yun-Shan was general of the advance, with the 
title of Southern King ; and Wei Ching was gen-
eral of the reserve, with the title of Northern 
King. 
Ministers were also made; thus' Shih was ap-
pointed minister over the board of Civil Office, 
and king of the right wing ; Tsin was over the 
Board of Revenue and king of the left wing ; Wu 
Lai and Tsang were generals of guard ; Chu was 
judge advocate, and Tsang-Yuh-Siu Lo, lieuten-
ant-generals. There were many military officers, 
whose names I do not remember, some of them 
over 300 men, and others over 100 men. In 
action, whoever backed out was executed, and 
their officers severely punished : while rewards 
and promotion were given to those who were vic-
torious. The government troops killed many of 
our. men.. I called Hung Siu-tsiuen my elder 
brother, and those under our lead addressed us 
both as Your Majesty, : we addressed them by 
their names. 
On the 27th of 
. 7 
Auffs> 1851, we took Yungn- 
' gan, Wie Chung having before given battle to 
and defeated the Imperial troops. I and Hung 
The Church Completed, and the 
'World Conaemned. 
fROV TliE LONVOli ' QUARTERLY REVIEW OF PROPEIECY." 
IN our day of evil, when the Church moves 
over the wilderness in the shadow of a cloud,— 
hut there is sunshine upon the 'World ,--it is need- 
ful to inquire, repeatedly and carefully, what is 
God's design regarding both ? last we fail to es- 
timate as we ought, either the privilege of the 
one, or the peril of the other, as we are taught 
them iii the Scriptures. 
We piss our grieved eye hastily over the 
household of faith, and as we realize their few- 
ness, their estrangement, and their obscurity, we 
wonder what the end will he,—whereas the men 
of this life fill their mouths with laughter, and 
are strong upon their foundation. It would 
seem as if these were on their way back to para-
dise ; but of those, we ask, is not the oases nar-
rowing to a tuft ?—will not the tuft soon become 
a single blade ?---and, ere the Son of man comes, 
shall there be one spot that is not desolately 
waste ? 
Carnal vision is sure to draw' inferences such 
as these. But there is no room to fear. A sin-
gle prediction of Jesus, if we take fast hold of 
it, will enable us to understand with exceeding 
joy, alike what awaits the Church as its blessed 
portion, and the World as its oppressive doom. 
The prediction we refer to is in the seven-
teenth of John, and lies in the heart of these sup-
plications : " Neither pray I for these alone, 
but for them also which shall believe on me 
through their word; that they all may be one; 
as thou, Father, art in me, and I in thee, that 
they also may be one in us : that the world may 
believe that thou hast sent me. And the glory 
, which thou gayest me I have given them ; that 
they may be one, even as we are one : I in them, 
and thou in me, that their union may be made 
perfect ; and that the world may know that thou 
hast sent me, and hast loved them, as thou hast 
loved me. Father, I will—Volo, not Velim—
that they also, whom thou hast given me, be 
with me where I am ; that they may behold my 
glory, which thou hast given me before the 
foundation of the world." 
On a single reading of these verses, we are 
convinced that the sum of them is a prayer for 
a visible union among believers, with a view to 
the conversion of the ungodly. And such has 
been the exclusive use that has been made of 
them of late. • But this interpretation is both 
defective and erroneous. It is defective, inas-
much as it does not embrace the full detail of 
that assurance which is here given to the Church ; 
and it is erroneous, inasmuch as it does not ex-
hibit the true relation in which the Church stands 
to the world. There is Promise in the words, 
and that most overflowing. But there is also De-
nunciation, and Threatening, and Wrath. Right-
ly understood, our Saviour's prayer points us to 
the Church Completed, as his first desire ; and 
then to the World Condemned, as his eventual 
design. 
The foundation of the Church was only about 
to be laid in the great sacrifice of the cross. 
Many a storm would it need to weather, and for 
many an age. At times. it would seem buried 
amid the sands of the desert, and scarce a broken 
shaft might be discovered. The princes of earth 
will combine against it, and the gates of hell 
would open to engulph it. 
All this is known to the Son of Man. But 
on a Completed Church, nevertheless, his eye at 
this moment rests, and for a Complete Church 
he intercedes. 
Jesus realizes the Church Completed in regard 
to its number ; for his words are, " Neither pray 
I for these alone, but for them who shall believe 
on me through their word. " Only a few stones 
have been as yet prepared for the Temple. No 
more than eleven were in the immediate view of 
the Saviour at this moment, as already built in. 
This, however, will not satisfy the soul of Jesus, 
and be a recompense for his travail. Others 
must be added. Others will be added. Jesus 
" prays," the apostles preach ; and by the sup-
plication of the one, and through " the word " 
of the other, a multitude shall believe, in every 
age and every country, and be joined to the liv-
ing Church. 
Since the hour when Jesus stood by the side 
of Kedron, on his way to Gethsemane, up to this 
present time, this prayer has been fulfilling ; 
and it is not exhausted yet. He prays still, and 
prays for all who have been given Him. Neither 
has the truth which apostles announced lost its 
efficacy yet. They still preach, and preach over 
all the earth. The complement of the faithful 
is not yet made up. Christ's net is still'in the 
waters ; He still is gathering his own to land 
from day to day. And, even among the most 
hardened, there are some for whom He is lifting 
up his hands in heaven, and whom He will num-
ber with his chosen in the end. 
It looks a tedious process; and when the mul-
titude orthe unconverted is put in contrast with 
the Church of the converted, we may feel una-
ble to conceive that life shall yet cover all the 
earth. But there are means which cannot fail, 
and every one added to the Church will add 
others, Jesus sends forth the apostles. By the 
apostles many believe. These, faithful in their 
turn, spread the grace which has come to them, 
It spreads, It comes to us. We, too, believe; 
and, through us, others also. The life is perpet-
uated,—it is transmitted,—it is diffused. And 
one living soul quickens another. And still 
around and onward the life flows; until, as the 
answer of Emanuel's prayer, all who are or-
dained to eternal life believe, and the Church is 
perfected in its fulness ! 
In itself, the thqught of the Church in its fut-
ness is elevating. But it adds to the interest of 
the anticipation to remember, that, to this in-
crease and complement, every believer shall be 
found in the end to have contributed. Even 
" to walk among the nations of the saved" will 
be full of blessedness. But what an element of 
concord and delight will it be,—what love and 
praise will it awaken, if from the great apostle 
of the Gentiles, wearing the brightest crown of 
all, down to the lowest member of that glorious 
company,which covers the fields of heaven, there 
will not be so much as one who cannot rejoice 
in having saved a soul from death and polished 
a jewel that is set in the diadem of Jesus ! 
But Christ realizes the Church completed in 
regard to its fellowship, for, says He—" I pray 
that they all may be one, as thou, Father, art 
in me, and I in thee." " I pray, also, that 
they may be one in us ;" " I in them, and thou 
in me, that their union may be perfected." 
There is union among all believers, even al-
ready. There is union with Christ Himself, for 
" He that is joined to the Lord is one Spirit." 
(1 Cor. 6 : 17.) Yea, " We are members of his 
body, of his flesh, and of his bones." (Eph. 5 : 
30.) And There is union with one another, for 
" We being many," it is written, Rom. 12 : 5, 
" are one bOdy in Christ." And again, Eph. 
2 : 14, we read, " He is our peace, ,who hath 
made both one." 
Beyond this, however, there is a union which 
the Church has not enjoyed as yet,—which the 
earth has never witnessed; for what saith Paul, 
in Eph. 4 :12-16 ? " The perfecting of the 
saints, the edifying of the body of Christ, till 
we all come in the unity of the faith, and of the 
knowledge of the Son of God, unto a perfect 
man, unto the measure of the stature of the ful-
ness of Christ ;"—" that we may grow up into 
Him in all things, which is the head, even Christ : 
from whom the whole body fitly joined together 
and compacted by that which every joint suppli-
eth, according to the effectual working in the 
measure of every part, maketh increase of the 
body unto the edifying of itself in love." 
This is union,—union resting upon truth, and 
which has no fellowship with error; union which 
embraces all, and leaves not one single believer 
out ; union which will be gloriously realized on 
that day when we see Jesus and are made like 
Him. 
But it is this union which Jesus contemplates, 
and intercedes for. He prays for the union of 
ALL believers—of all who have believed, and of 
all who shall yet believe. It is not merely a com-
prehensive—it is a Universal union on which the 
heart of Jesus is set. His soul embraces the En-
tire Nation of the Saved. And no union short 
of this meets the terms of his prayer. 
Then—Jesus prays for a PERFECT union. He 
pleads that " the union of believers may be 
" perfected "—" perfected " as to its universal 
scope; but also " perfected " in regard to its na-
ture, and • development, and perpetuity—for he 
implores that it may be a union, even such as 
subsists between the Father and Son—between 
the Father as God, and the Son as the Man 
Christ Jesus. It was union of this character, 
and depth, and intensity, that . Jesus had re-
solved upon,—and what union could be more 
" perfect ?" It is intimate, consubstantial, iden-
tifying. The Father does not merely stand in 
a near relation to the Son. He dwells in Him ! 
Again—it was living, actuating, energetic union. 
The Father dwelt in the Son. And from the 
Father the Son received the Spirit without meas-
ure, to create Him when unborn—to anoint Him 
for his ministry—to quicken him from among 
the dead ! Further—it was afectionate, en-
dearing, blissful union. The Father loved the 
Son, and delighted in Him. And it was on the 
Father's bosom of kindness and sympathy that 
the Son found all his rest. Lastly—it was abid-
ing, uninterrupted, eternal union. A union 
which had its foundations in the essential Na-
ture of God, and which, as it never knew a be-
ginning, never would be marred by change. 
It is-this, union of which the union among all 
believers is to be the antitype. The united 
Church shall be united, even as the Father and 
the Son are united. And a less perfect union 
than this, Christ would not be satisfied with. 
Whilst,, therefore, we ought to long for union 
—as the predicted condition of believers, it is 
utterly vain for us to think that it lies within 
our means to accomplish the unity of the Church. 
The idea has come from God, and God only is 
fit to execute the plan. God has announced the 
grand event, and in his own time, and with his 
THE ADVENT HERALD. 
liberally bestowed on them upon such occasions. 
They include in their number men of all castes 
of Hindoos, not a few of them being Brahmins. 
The sentiment of the different sects vary, but 
their principal doctrine is, That sin has its seat 
in the bodily organs, and is to be destroyed by 
mortifications of the body, and by abstracting 
the mind from material objects. When the soul 
entirely escapes from the influence of Matter, it 
obtains absorption in the Divine Essence, which 
is, according to the Hindoo System, the highest 
form of salvation. 
SUPERSTITIONS OF THE CHINESE. 
The whole religion of the Chinaman, from be-
ginning to end, is purely and intensely selfish ; 
no reverence is felt for the object professedly 
worshipped—it is solely* on account of the good 
he is expected to bestow, or the evil from which 
he is able to deliver, that any devotion is paid 
to him. Of course, in a great proportion of 
cases, the votary is disappointed in his object in 
approaching the idol ; but this does not usually 
create disbelief of the system in general : it 
merely leads to the conviction that the particu-
lar idol invoked is not efficacious, and induces 
the worshipper to betake himself to another deity 
more powerful or more propitious. 
The general-idea that a Chinese has of these 
idols is, that they are the officers and ministers 
of State, employed by the Supreme Ruler ; with-
out whom he could as little transact the multi-
farious business of this lower world as the Son 
of heaven (the Emperor) could manage his vast 
empire without his Mandarins. For the common 
people always to worship God and God only, 
would be thought as absurd as for the inhabit-
ants of a distant province to decline all inter-
course with the magistrates of thedistrict, and 
seek constant audience only of the Emperor him-
self. To these deities he imputes passions and 
feelings exactly the same as men exhibit. The 
principal means, by which he propitiates their 
favor, are just those which he thinks would most 
likely weigh with his fellow-creatures. He sets 
before them as offerings, pork, fowls, fish, eggs, 
wine, to appease their hunger; burns incense be-
fore,them to gratify their olfactory nerves; and 
the gilt paper which he burns, he believes be-
comes good gold:and silver, and helps to defray 
the expense of living in the other world. Be-
fore removing the-eatables, and despatching them 
themselves, the worshippers throw up their di-
vining instruments, to ascertain whether the deity 
has had enough; and if, after many trials, the 
answer is unfavorable, they conclude he has been 
dissatisfied with his entertainment ; and, to dep-
recate his anger, promise him, next year, a far 
superior one, both in quantity and quality. 
Achill Missionary Herald. 
• 
The King and his Scotch Cook. 
BY GRANT THORBIIRN. 
THE witty Earl of Rochester being in company 
with king Charles II., his queen, the chaplain, 
and some ministers of state, after they had been 
discoursing on business, the king suddenly ex-
claimed : Let our thoughts be unbended from 
the cares of state, and give us a generous glass 
of wine, that cheereth, as the Scripture saith, 
God and man. The queen hearing this, modestly 
said she thought there could be no such text in 
the Scriptures, and that it was but little else 
than blasphemy. The king replied that he was 
not prepared to turn to the chapter and verse ; 
but was sure that he met with it in his scripture 
reading. The chaplain was applied to, and he 
was of the queen's opinion. Rochester, suspect-
ing the king to be right, slipped out of the room 
to inquire for a Bible, [a pretty king by the 
grace of God and defender of the faith, and a 
pretty chaplain to a king, that could not muster 
a Bible between them,] among the servants. 
Nohe of them could read, but David the Scotch 
cook, and he, they said, always carried a Bible 
about him. David being called, recollected both 
the text and where to find it. Rochester told David 
to be in waiting, and returned to the king. This 
text was still the subject of conversation, and 
Rochester proposed to call in David, who, he 
said, was well acquainted with the Scriptures. 
David was called, and being asked the question, 
produced his Bible and read the text. It was 
from the parable of the trees of the woods going 
forth to appoint a king over them. Judges 9th 
chapter and 13th verse. " And the vine said 
unto them, should I leave my wine, which cheer-
eth God and man, and go to be promoted over 
the trees." The king smiled, the queen asked 
pardon, the chaplain blushed. Rochester then 
asked this doctor of divinity if he could interpret 
the text, now it was produced. The- chaplain 
was mute. The Earl therefore applied to David 
for the exposition. The cook immediately re-
plied : " How much wine cheereth man—look-
ing Rochester in his eyes, your lordship knot-
eth, [ito doubt David had seen him fou a dozen 
times,] and that it cheereth God, I beg leave to 
say that under the Old Testament dispensation, 
there were meat offerings and drink offerings; 
the latter consisted of wine, which was typical 
of the blood of the Mediator, which, by a meta-
phor, was said to cheer God, as he was well 
pleased in the way of salvation, that he had ap-
pointed, whereby his justice was satisfied, his 
law fulfilled, his mercy reigned, his grace tri-
umphed, all his perfections harmonized, the sin-
ner was saved, and God in Christ glorified." 
The, king looked astonished, the queen shed 
tears; Rochester, after some very severe reflec-
tions upon the chaplain, gravely moved that his 
majesty would be pleased to send the chaplain 
into the kitchen to turn cook, and that he would 
make this cook his chaplain. Now, by way of 
conclusion to this historical fact, I will only re-
mark that this same cook is a true specimen of 
what the Scottish peasantry are, at this present 
day, few of them learn more at school than to 
read the Bible and write their own name, but 
thg beautiful and sublime language in which the 
narrative is conveyed, the true and concise de-
scriptions of men and matter, &c., make those 
whose Bible was their school book, and who 
make it their companion by the way, to be wiser 
than their teachers. Hence in the heather hills 
among the shepherds, and in the lowlands among 
the ploughmen of Scotland, you will find thou-
sands deeply read in almost every science and 
language. They are the most profound engi-
neers, the most scientific gardeners and bota-
nists, the most learned physicians, surgeons, and 
anatomists, learned, independent, and conscien-
tious preachers of righteousness, and by them the 
gospel is preached to the poor. 
Nov Mr. Printer, I challenge all the Popes, 
from the days of Miss Pope Joan the First, down 
to the present incumbent, to produce as many 
Bibles in any country under the sun, of the 
same dimensions, as are to be found in Scotland. 
It is therefore a fair inference, that the Bible 
alone makes them to differ from the restless 
Frenchman, the ferocious Spaniard, the German 
serf, the Russian boor, and other white slaves 
in Europe. The goddess of liberty, when sent 
from above, was nourished and cherished in the 
Bible shops of America. 
The present policy of the crowned heads in 
Europe, popes, priests, and cardinals, is to blot 
the name of Republic from the earth. No Bible 
no Republic is their watchword. Hence, when 
they see a Bible in the hand of a white slave, 
they tremble on their thrones. The Church of 
Rome, always the right agent of tyrants, 18 now 
in the full tide of successful experiment to drive 
the Bible from gur schools, colleges, and fire-
sides; this accomplished, the Republic dies. 
N Y. Observer. 
God in History. 
(Continued from the " Herald" of Jan. lat.) 
BUT Grecia was not only successfully to de-
fend her liberties from attacks of Persia ; she 
was in turn to attack and defend that mighty 
dominion, without which the prophecy respect-
ing the third kingdom would be unfulfilled. 
Before this, however is done, a decisive action 
is to be had in the west, for the protection of 
the germs of that power which was to become 
the " fourth kingdom on the earth." This brings 
us to the second decisive battle : 
THE BATTLE OF SYRACUSE. 
" The Romans knew not, and could not know, 
how deeply the greatness of their own posterity, 
and the fate of the whole Western world, were 
involved in the destruction of the fleefof Athens 
in the harbor of Syracuse. Had that great expe-
dition proved victorious, the energies of Greece 
during the next eventful century would have 
found their field in the West no less than in the 
East; Greece, and not Rome, might have con-
quered Carthage; Greek instead of Latin might 
have been at this day the principal element of 
the language of Spain, of France, and of Italy; 
and the laws of Athens, rather than of Rome, 
might be the foundation of the law of the civil-
ized world."—Arnold. 
Few cities have undergone more memorable 
sieges during ancient and mediaeval times than 
has the city of Syracuse. Athenian, Cartha-
ginian, Roman, Vandal, Byzantine, Saracen, and 
Norman, haie in turns beleaguered her walls; 
and the resistance which she successfully op-
posed to some of her early assailants was of the 
deepest importance, not only to 'the fortunes of 
the generations then in being, but to all the sub-
sequent current of human events. To adopt the 
eloquent expressions of Arnold respecting the 
check which she gave to the Carthaginian arms, 
" Syracuse was a breakwater which God's provi-
dence raised up to protect the yet immature 
strength of Rome." And her triumphant re-
pulse of the great Athenian expedition against 
her was of even more wide-spread and enduring 
importance. It forms a decisive epoch in the 
strife for universal empire, in which all the great 
states of antiquity successfully engaged and failed. 
A city built close to the sea, like Syracuse, 
was impregnable, save by the combined opera-
tions of a superior hostile army; and Syracuse, 
from her size, her population, and her military 
and naval resources, not unnaturally thought 
herself secure from finding in another Greek city 
a foe capable of sending a sufficient armament 
to menace her with capture and subjection. But 
in the spring of 414 B. c., the Athenian navy 
was mistress of her harbor and the adjacent seas; 
an Athenian army had defeated her troops, and 
cooped them within the town; and from bay to 
bay a blockading wall was being rapidly carried 
across the strips of level ground and the high 
ridge outside the city (then termed Epipolm,) 
which, if completed, would have cut the Syra-
cusans off from all succor from the interior of 
Sicily, and have left them at the mercy of the 
Athenian generals. The besiegers' works were, 
indeed, unfinished ; but every day the unfortified 
interval in their lines grew narrower, and with it 
diminished all apparent hope of safety for .the 
beleaguered town. 
Athens was now staking the flower of her 
forces, and the accumulated fruits of seventy 
years of glory, on one bold throw for the domin-
ion of the Western world. As Napoleon from 
Mount Cceur de Lion pointed to St. Jean d'Acre, 
and told his staff that the capture of that town 
would decide his destiny and would change the 
face of the world, so the Athenian officers, from 
the heights of Epipolie, must have looked on 
Syracuse, and felt that with its fall all the known 
powers of the earth would fall beneath them. 
They must have felt, also, that Athens, if re-
pulsed there, must pause forever from her ca-
reer of conquest, and sink from an imperial re-
public into a ruined and subservient community. 
At Marathon, the first in date of the great 
battles of the world, we beheld Athens strug-
gling for self-preservalion against the invading 
armies of the East. At Syracuse she appears as 
the ambitious and oppressive invader of others. 
In her, as in other republics of old and of mod-
ern times, the same energy that had inspired 
the most heroic efforts in defence of the national 
independence, soon learned-to 'employ itself in 
daring and unscrupulous schemes of self-aggran-
dizement at the expense of neighboring nations. 
In the interval between the Persian and the Pe-
loponnesian wars she had rapidly grown into a 
conquering and dominant state, the chief of a 
thousand tributary cities, and the mistress of the 
largest and best-manned navy that the Mediter-
ranean had yet beheld. The occupations of her 
territory by Xerxes and Mardonius, in the sec-
ond Persian war, had forced her whole popula-
tion to become mariners ; and the glorious results 
of that struggle confirmed them in their zeal for 
their country's service at sea. The voluntary 
suffrage of ,the Greek cities of the coasts and 
islands of the }Egean first placed Athens at the 
head of the confederation formed for the further 
prosecution of the war against Persia. But this 
titular ascendancy was soon converted by her 
into practical and arbitrary dominion. She pro-
tected them from piracy and the Persian power, 
which soon fell into decrepitude and decay, but 
she exacted in return implicit obedience to her-
self. She claimed and enforced a prerogative 
of taxing them at her discretion, and proudly re-
fused to be accountable for her mode of expend-
ing their supplies. Remonstrance against her 
assessments was treated as factious disloyalty, 
and refusal to pay was promptly punished as re-
volt. Permitting and encouraging her subject 
allies to furnish all their contingents in money, 
instead of part consisting of ships and men, the 
sovereign republic gained the double object of 
training her own citizens by constant and well-
paid service in her fleets, and of seeing her con-
federates lose their skill and discipline by inac-
tion; and become more and more passive and 
powerless under her yoke. Their towns were 
generally dismantled, while the imperial city, 
herself was fortified with the greatest care and 
sumptuousness; the accumulated revenues from 
her tributaries serving to strengthen and adorn 
to the utmost her havens, her docks, her arse-
nals, her theatres, and her shrines, and to array 
her in that plenitude of architectural magnifi-
cence, the ruins of which still attest the intel-
lectual grandeur of the age and people which 
produced a Pericles to plan and a Phidias to 
execute. 
With the capture of Syracuse, Sicily, it was 
hoped, would be secured. Carthage and Italy 
were uext to be attacked. With large levies of 
Iberian mercenaries she then meant to overwhelm 
Peloponnesian enemies. The Persian monarchy 
lay in hopeless imbecility, inviting Greek inva-
sion ; nor did the known world contain the pow-
er that seemed capable of checking the growing 
might of Athens, if Syracuse once mild be hers. 
The national historian of Rome has left us an 
episode of his great work, a disquisition on the 
probable effects that would have followed if Al-
exander the Great had invaded Italy. Posterity 
has generally regarded that disquisition as prov-
ing Livy's patriotism more strongly than his im-
partiality or acuteness. Yet, right or wrong, 
the speculations of the Roman writer 'ere di-
rected to the consideration of a very remote pos-
sibility. To whatever age Alexander's life might 
have been prolonged, the East would have fur- 
nished full occupation for his martial ambition, 
as well as for those schemes of commercial gran-
deur and imperial amalgamation of nations in 
which the truly great qualities of his mind loved 
to display themselves. With his death the dis-
memberment of his empire among his generals 
was certain, even as the dismemberment of Na-
poleon's empire among his marshals would cer-
tainly have ensued if he had been cut off in the 
zenith of his power. Rome, also, was far weak-
er when the Athenians were in Sicily than she 
was a century afterward in Alexander's time. 
There can be little doubt but that Rome would 
have been blotted out from the independent pow-
ers of the West, had she been attacked at the • 
end df the fifth century B. c. by an Athenian 
army, largely aided by the Spanish mercenaries, 
and flushed with triumphs over Sicily and Afri-
ca, instead of the collision between her and 
Greece having been deferred until the latter had 
sunk into decrepitude, and the Roman Mars had 
grown into full vigor. 
The armament which the Athenians equipped 
against Syracuse was in every way worthy of the 
state which formed such projects of universal em-
pire, and it has been truly termed " the noblest 
that ever yet had been sent forth by a free and 
civilized commonwealth." The fleet consisted 
of one hundred and thirtysfour war-galleys, with 
a multitude of store-ships. A powerful force of 
the best heavy-armed infantry that Athens and 
her allies could furnish was sent on board it, to-
gether with a smaller number of slingers and 
bowmen. The quality of the forces was even 
more remarkable than the number. The zeal 
of individuals vied with that of the republic in 
giving every galley the best possible crew, and 
every troop the most perfect accoutrements. 
And with private as well as public wealth eager-
ly lavished on all that could give splendor as 
well as efficiency to the expedition, the fated 
fleet began its voyage for the Sicilian shores in 
the summer of 415. 
*. 
If left 'unprotected, the Athenians would have 
conquered Sicily, and thus have established their 
supremacy in the West. To protect the germs 
of the future " fourth kingdom " GOD used the 
arms of the Greeks against themselves. The 
Spartans, jealous of the growing greatness of 
Athens, sent a fleet to the assistance of Syra-
cuse. Thus strengthened, the besieged and be-
siegers met. The latter were seemingly on the 
point of victory. On the following night when 
Demosthenes formed his men in columns, each 
soldier taking with him five days' provisions, 
and the engineers and' workmen of the camp fol-
lowing the troops with their tools, and all porta-
ble implements of fortification, so as at once to 
secure any advantage of .ground that the army 
might gain. Thus equipped and prepared, he 
led his men along by the foot of the southern 
flank of Epipolm, in a direction toward the inte-
rior of the island, till he came immediately be-
low the narrow ridge that forms the extremity of 
the high ground looking westward. He then 
wheeled his vanguard to the right, sent them 
rapidly up the paths that wind along the face of 
the cliff, and succeeded in completely surprising 
the Syracusan outposts, and in placing his troops 
fairly on the extreme summit of the all-import-
ant Epipolw. Thence the Athenians 'marched 
eagerly down the slope toward the town, routing 
some Syracusan detachments that were quanered 
in their way, and vigorously assailing the unpro-
tected side of the outwork. All at first favored 
them. The outwork was abandoned by its gar-
rison, and the Athenian engineers began to dis-
mantle it. In vain Gylippus brought up fresh 
troops to check the assault; the Athenians broke 
and drove them back, and continued to press hotly 
forward, in the full confidence of victory. But, 
amid the general consternation of the Syracu-
sans and their confederates, one body of infantry 
stood firm. This was a brigade of their Boeotian 
allies, which was posted low down the slope of 
Epipol, outside the city walls. Coolly and 
steadily the Boeotian infantry formed their line, 
and, undismayed by the current of flight around 
them, advanced against the advancing Atheni-
ans. This was the crisis of the battle. But the 
Athenian van was disorganized by its own pre-
vious successes; and, yielding to the unexpected 
charge thus made on it by troops in perfect or-
der, and of the most obstinate courage, it was 
driven back in confusion upon the other divisions 
of the army, that still continued to press for-
ward. When once the tide was thus turned, the. 
Syracusans passed rapidly from the extreme of 
panic to the extreme of vengeful daring, and 
with all their forces they 'now fiercely assailed 
the embarrassed and receding Athenians. In 
vain did the officers of the latter strive to re-form 
their line. Amid the din and the shouting of 
the fight, and the confusion inseparable upon a 
night engagement, especially one where many 
thousand combatants were pent and whirled to-
gether in a narrow and uneven area, the neces-
sary manoeuvres were impracticable ; and though 
many companies still fought on desperately, 
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wherever the moonlight showed them the sem-
blance of a foe, they fought without concert or 
subordination ; and not unfrequently, amid the 
deadly chaos, Athenian troops assailed each 
other. Keeping their ranks close, the Syracu-
sans and their allies pressed on against the dis-
organized masses of the besiegers, and at length 
drove them, with heavy slaughter, over the cliffs, 
which an hour or two before they had scaled full 
of hope, and apparently certain of success. 
This defeat was decisive of the event of the 
siege. The Athenians afterward struggled only 
to protect themselves from the vengeance which 
the Syracusans sought to wreak in the complete 
destruction of their invaders. Never, however, 
was vengeance more complete and terrible. A 
series of sea-fights followed, in which the Athe-
nian galleys were utterly destroyed or captured. 
The mariners and soldiers who escaped death in 
disastrous engagements, and a vain attempt to 
force a retreat into the interior of the island, be-
came prisoners of war; Nicias and Demosthenes 
were put to death in cold blood, and their men 
either perished miserably in the Syracusan dun-
geons, or were sold into slavery to the very per-
sons whom, in their pride of power, they had 
crossed the seas to enslave. 
All danger from Athens to the independent 
nations of the West was now forever at an end: 
She, indeed, continued to struggle against her 
combined enemies and revolted allies with un-
paralleled gallantry, and many more years of 
varying warfare passed away before she surren-
dered to their arms. But no success in subse-
quent contests could ever have restored her to 
the pre-eminence in enterprise, resources, and 
maratime skill which she had acquired before 
her fatal reverses in Sicily. Nor among the 
rival Greek republics, whom her own rashness 
aided to crush her, was there any capable of 
reorganizing her empire, or resuming her schemes 
of conquest, The dominion of Western Europe 
was left for Rome and Carthage to dispute two 
centuries later, in conflicts still more terrible, 
and with even higher displays of military daring 
and genius than Athens had witnessed either in 
her rise, her meridian, or her fall. 
Thus was secured for Rome that greatness 
which GOD had declared she should attain to. 
(To be continued.) 
lac :thuent Licta. 
BOSTON, JANUARY 15, 1853. 
Tors 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 I. 
(Continued from our last.) 
"wash you, make you clean ; 
Put away the evil of your doings from before mine eyes I 
Cease to do evil ; learn to do well ; 
Seek judgment, relieve the oppressed, 
Judge the fatherless, plead for the widow."—vs. 16,17. 
THE command to wash, and thus become clean, 
is the completion of the figure—the hypocastastasis 
—commenced in verse 15 : " Your hands are full 
of bood." The stain of blood being put for the 
sin of murder, the figure is'completed by the com-
mand to wash themselves clean from that stain. 
There may also be here a reference to the legal 
ceremony of washing, which was commanded in 
the case of the leper, and which illustrates GoD's 
abhorrence of moral uncleanness : (Lev. 14:8, 9) 
" He that is to be cleansed shall wash his clothes, 
and shave off all his hair, and wash himself in wa-
ter, that he may be clean : and after that he shall 
come into the camp, and shall tarry abroad out of 
his tent seven days. But it shall be on the seventh 
day, that he shall shave all his hair off his head, and 
his beard, and his eye-brows, even all his hair he 
shall shave off ; and he shall wash his clothes, also 
he shall wash his flesh in water, and he shall be 
clean." 
We cannot literally take our evil doings, as we 
would any material object, and put them away ; 
but by the use of that metaphor can be expressed 
the abandonment of them. GOD here specifies what 
he requires of them to make their offerings accept-
able. Their conduct, and the affections of their 
hearts, must conform to the principles of the Di-
vine govment, or all external ceremonies would be 
worse than vain. 
The phrase " Relieve the oppressors," BOCHART 
renders—" amend that which is corrupted ;" and 
Bishop LOWTH adopts that translation—admitting 
that he is not perfectly satisfied with it. 
To seek judgment, is to seek justice. The Bible 
makes it an essential part of Christianity that we 
should strive for an equal and exact justice between 
man and man ; particularly when there are those 
in dependent and helpless circumstances. 'In the 
Mosaic law GOD said : (Deut. 24:17) " Thou shalt 
not pervert the judgment of the stranger, nor of 
the fatherless, nor take a widow's raiment to 
pledge." Ex, 22:21-24—" Thou shalt neither vex 
a stranger, nor oppress him : for ye were stran-
gers in the land of Egypt. Ye shall not afflict any 
widow, or fatherless child. If thou afflict them in 
any wise, and they cry at all unto me, I will surely 
hear their cry ; and my wrath shall wax hot, and 
I will kill you with the sword ; and your wives 
shall be widows, and your children fatherless." 
Impiety was manifested by oppressing the widow 
and fatherless. JOB said : (24:3) " They drive 
away the ass of the fatherless, they take the wid-
ow's ox for a pledge." GOD is therefore represented 
as the vindicator of their rights : (Psa. 68:5) " A 
father of the fatherless, and a judge of the widows, 
is GOD in his holy habitation." Jer. 49:11— 
" Leave thy fatherless children, I will preserve 
them alive : and let thy widows trust in me." 
"Come now, and let us reason together, saith the Lord : 
Though your sins he as scarlet, they shall be as white as snow ; 
Though they be red like crimson, they shall be as wool. 
If ye be willing and obedient, ye shall eat the good of the land 
But if ye refuse and rebel, ye shall be devoured with the sword : 
For the mouth of the Lord bath spoken it."—vs. 18-20. 
The service of GoD is a reasonable service. He 
requires nothing of his creatures contrary to the 
dictates of sound reason. GOD here offers to de-
bate the justice of his claims with them ; and he 
proceeds to present the conditions on which he is 
ready to extend pardon to them. By the use of 
the simile, four times repeated, he shows how the 
darkest crimes may be entirely effaced. 
Scarlet and red were among the most indeli-
ble colors,—the former words signifying " twice 
dipped, or double died." however indelible the 
stains of sin might be, GOD knew how -to entirely 
efface them. 
White is a metaphor illustrative of innocence. 
Sin would of course be illustrated by its opposite. 
While the sins are said to be thus changed in 
color, the idea expressed by this metonymy, is that 
the sinners should be thus made clean. Thus the 
Psalmist said : (Psa. 51:7) " Purge me with hys-
sop, and I shall be clean : wash me, and I shall be 
whiter than snow." 
" If ye be willing and obedient." That was all 
which Gon required of them. They had only to 
submit their will to his will, and to walk in ac-
cordance with his requirements. The goods of their 
land had been appropriated by strangers, who had 
burned their cities. A reformation on the part of 
the people would secure to them the possession of 
the increase of their fields for their own sustenance. 
But a refusal to do this would reduce them to the 
alternative of farther slaughter by their enemies,— 
which is the idea conveyed by the metaphor of 
being devoured by the sword. 
" How is the faithful city become an harlot ! 
It was full of judgment ; righteousness lodged in it ; but now mur-
derers. 
Thy silver is become dross, thy wine mixed with water 
Thy princes are rebellious, and companions of thieves 
Every one loveth gifts, and followeth after rewards : 
They judge not the fatherless, neither doth the cause of the widow 
come unto them."—vs. 21-23. 
In the time of DAVID and in ' the early part of 
SOLOMON' s reign, the inhabitants of Jerusalem, who 
are referred to by the metonymy of " the city," were 
comparatively faithful to GoD's service. They had 
so degenerated that GOD applie# to them the meta-
phor of " an harlot "—illustrative of their having 
become, like a wife to her husband, false and 
treacherous to him. That city, once actuated by 
principles of justice and righteousness, expressed 
by the metaphors of fullness and abiding, had be-
come the abode of murderers, whose hands were 
stained with blood. 
The 22d verse Mr. LORD instances as a hypocas-
tastasis. The terms silver and wine are substituted 
for their virtues ; and those of dross and water, 
for the moral deterioration which they had under-
gone. The same deterioration is literally expressed 
when they are called rebellious, and companions 
of thieves. 
As they could not literally follow after rewards, 
nor the cause of the fatherless literally come before 
them, those. expressions come under the denomina-
tion of .the metaphor. The course of justice had 
been frustrated by bribing the magistrates. They 
loved the gifts, better than they loved to adminis-
ter justice. All such conniving at wrong made the 
judges, as well as the parties, robbers of those who 
were thus defrauded. 
Therefore saith the Lord, the Lord of hosts, the mighty One of 
Israel, 
Ah, I will ease me of mine adversaries, and avenge me of mine 
enemies :"—v. 24. 
By the use of the metaphor, they are represented 
as a burden to the LORD, because of which the LORD 
would ease himself of them. GoD is not represented 
as taking pleasure in the punishment of the wicked, 
except when they have filled the measure of their 
sins and proved utterly incorrigible. Deut. 28: 
63—" As the LORD rejoiced over you to do you 
good ; so the LORD will rejoice over you to destroy 
you." Ezek. 5:13—" Then shall mine anger be 
accomplished, and I will cause my fury to rest 
upon them, and I .will be comforted." 
The determination expressed, seems to be as if 
suddenly arrived at. As though, there being no 
prospect that the nation would repent, GOD him-
self would meet the emergency by separating the 
bad from the good. Dr. BARNES gives as the Chal-
dee rendering of this text, " I will console the city 
of Jerusalem ; but woe to the impious when I shill 
be revealed to take vengeance the enemies of my 
people," &c. " But," he says, " this is manifestly 
a false interpretation ; and shows how reluctant 
the Jews were to admit the threatenings against 
themselves." 
"And I will turn my hand upon theee, 
And purely purge away thy dross, and take away all thy tin."-v. 25. 
Each line of this verse contains a metaphor—the 
turning of the hand not being an act literally ap-
propriate to GOD ; nor the purging away dross, nor 
the taking away of tin, being results consonant to 
the nature of those addressed. 
To turn the hand, conveys the idea of taking hold 
of any work for its accomplishment,—whatever the 
nature of it may be. The work to which GOD here 
determines to set himself, is the separation of the 
alloy and base metal from the good. Thus we read 
of CHRIST : (Mal. 3:2, 3) " But who may abide the 
day of his coming ? and who shall stand when he 
appeareth ? for he is like a refiner's fire, and like 
fullers' soap. And he shall sit as a refiner and pu-
rifier of silver ; and he shall purify the sons of LEVI 
and purge them as gold and silver, that they may 
offer unto the LORD an offering in righteousness." 
The time when this purgation is to be effected is 
not specified. It may be near, or remote, without 
affecting its connection; but the language oblige 
us to understand, that, when it is effected, the bad 
are to be separated from the good, and destroyed, 
as incorrigible,—as GoD said by EZEKIEL, (20:38) 
" And I will purge out from among you the reb-
els, and them that transgress against me : I will 
bring them forth out of the country where they so-
journ, and they shall not enter into the land of Is-
rael : and ye shall know that I am the LORD." This 
view is confirmed by the 28th verse ; and it is evident-
ly the purification referred to at the coming of the 
LoRD. Mal. 3:17, 18—" And they shall be mine, 
saith the LORD of hosts, in that day when I make up 
my jewels, and I will spare them, as a man spareth 
his own son that serveth him. Then shall ye return 
and discern between the righteous and the wicked, 
between him that serveth GOD and him that serveth 
him not." Mal. 4:1-3—"- For behold, the day com-
eth, that shall burn as an oven ; and all the proud, 
yea,and all that do wickedly, shall be stubble : and 
the day that cometh shall burn them up, saith the 
LORD of hosts, that it shall neither leave them 
root nor branch. But unto you that fear my 
name, shall the Sun of righteousness arise with 
healing in his wings ; and ye shall go forth, and 
grow up as calves of the stall. And ye shall tread 
down the wicked ; for they shall be ashes under 
the soles of your feet in the day that I shall do 
this, saith the LORD of hosts." In that day (Matt. 
3:12) CHRIST " will thoroughly purge his floor, and 
gather his wheat into his garner ; but he will burn 
up the chaff with unquenchable fire." Matt. 13: 
40-43—" 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 an-
gels, 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 king-
dom of their Father." 
Gon must have foreseen that all their attempts, 
as a people, to conform to his requirements would 
result only in a temporary service. Only five years 
subsequent to this wonderful celebration of the 
Passover, in the sixth year of HEZEKIAII, (2 Kings 
18:10) was Samaria taken by the king of Assyria. 
Both Israel and Judah had become very wicked : 
(2 Kings 17:12-20—" For they served idols, where-
of the LORD had said, unto them, Ye shall not do 
this thing. Yet the LORD testified against Israel, 
and against Judah, by all the prophets and by all 
the seers, saying, Turn ye from your evil ways, 
and keep my commandments, and my statutes, ac-
cording to all the laws which I command your fa-
thers, and which I sent to you by my servants the 
prophets. Notwithstanding, they would not hear, 
but hardened their necks, like to the neck of their 
fathers, that did not believe in the LORD their Gon. 
And they rejected his statutes, and' his covenant 
that he made with their fathers, andbis testimonies 
which he testified against them ; and they followed 
vanity, and became vain, and went after the heathen 
that were round about them, concerning whom the 
LORD had charged them, that they should not be like 
them. And they left all the commandments of the 
LORD their GoD, and made them molten images, 
even two calves, and made a grove, and worshipped 
all the host of heaven, and served Baal. And they 
caused their sons and their daughters to pass 
through the fire, and used divination and enchant-
ments, and sold themselves to do evil in the sight 
of the LORD, to provoke him to anger. Therefore 
the LORD was very angry with Israel, and removed 
them out of his sight : there was none left but the 
tribe of Judah only. Judah kept not the 
commandments of the LORD their GoD, but walked 
in the statutes of Israel which they made. And 
the LORD rejected all the seed of Israel, and afflicted 
them, and delivered them into the hand of spoilers, 
until he had cast them out of his sight," 
In view of these future rebellions, and backslid-
ings, nothing could be more proper than this refer-
ence to the day, of final retribution, when all the 
defilements of sin will be forever effaced from the 
Daughter of Zion. 
(To be continued.) 
"THE THEOLOGICAL AND LITERARY JOURNAL. Edited by DAVID 
N. Loan. No. XIX. January, 1853. New York Published by 
FRANKLIN KNIGHT, 140 Nassau-street." 
THE January number of this Journal has been 
received, and contains valuable articles. The one 
with which we are the most pleased, is a review of 
Dr. HITCHCOCK'S late work entitled, " The Religion 
of Geology and its Connected Sciences," 
Mr. LORD 
is doing a very valuable work by his demolition of • 
the several geological theories which conflict with 
the Scriptures. He shows their insufficiency, by 
showing that they cannot be reconciled with geo-
logical facts, nor with philosophical and chemical 
Ii 
laws. He takes up Dr. rrcucocK's book, and 
shows its fallacies in the following particulars : 
" His theory erroneous—His judgment respect-
ing those who have opposed it mistaken—His error 
in regarding his theory as founded on scientific 
principles—His theory rests not on the facts of the 
science, but on assumptions that are groundless 
and in contradiction to the laws of matter—The 
arguments mistaken by which he attempts to prove 
the great age of the world—His error in treating 
his theory as a principle of interpretation—Instead , 
of reconciling the history of Genesis with his theory, 
he would alter it so as to make it contradict other 
parts of the Pentateuch—He is mistaken in repre-
senting his theory as an auxiliary of natural and 
revealed religion—Instead of confuting Hume, he 
yields to the pantheist and atheist the points for 
which they contend." 
Dr. HITCHCOCK pretends to be guided in his de-
duction by " the strictest rules of the Baconian 
philosophy." After quoting specimens of his rea-
soning, Mr. LORD thus disposes of that pretension : 
" He first adapts an hypothesis that the world 
originally existed in a state of which he has no 
proof, and that is inconsistent with the laws of 
matter. He next builds a theory of the formation 
of the strata out of the materials of that hypo-
thetical world, which is also altogether incompati-
ble with the constitution of nature, and denomi-
nates the period which he deems the process would 
have occupied a fact. That supposititious fact he 
proceeds to erect into a settled principle of the sci-
ence; and forthwith converts that principle into a 
law of interpretation. And finally, having wrought 
that metamorphosis, he employs that law—not to 
determine the meaning of the language of the first 
verse of Genesis, which is the proper office of a 
law of interpretation—hut to justify THE INTERPO-
LATION of an immeasurable period betwixt the event 
announced in that verse and that which is recorded 
in the verse that follows ! and all this in the lofty 
and authoritative names of Science and Religion ! 
Was such a tissue of monstrosities ever before pre-
sented to the faith of men? Did misconception and 
mistake ever before reign on such a scale ? If the 
conclusion at which he has arrived, by a process of 
false logic, from a false and unphilosophical hy-
pothesis, were admitted to be a fact, how could 
that fact become a scientific principle, by which its 
own existence is to be explained ? And if that ex-
traordinary transformation could be accomplished, 
how could that scientific principle then be con-
verted into a rule of interpretation, the office of 
which should be, not to determine the meaning of 
the language of the first chapter of Genesis, but 
to prove that a period of immeasurable length in-
tervened between the creative act that is recorded 
in the first verse, and that which is narrated in the 
second? What an extraordinary confusion of ideas 
in a scientific investigation, conducted according to 
" the strictest rules of the Baconian philosophy !" 
After referring to various positions of Dr. H., 
Mr. LORD closes as follows : 
" It is apparent, then, from these considerations 
that Dr. Hitchcock's speculative geology has no ti-
tle whatever to the character he arrogates for it, of 
a demonstrative science : nor his theory of the 
great age of the world any claim to be regarded as 
Ai established fact. So far from it, they are wild 
fantastic fancies that not only have no foundation 
whatever in the strata, but are in total antagonism 
alike to the facts of geology and to the laws of 
matter. Nor are they entitled in any manner to 
the praise he so zealously lavishes on them, of har-
mony with the Scriptures, and an effective corrobo- 
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THE ADVENT HERALD. 
21 
ration of the doctrines of natural religion. Instead, 
no doctrines in the whole circle of false specula-
tion afford a more direct and fatal contradiction to 
the teachings of revelation, or are' more natural 
and powerful auxiliaries of scepticism and infi-
delity. 
" To those who concur in this judgment, it can-
not hp necessary to dwell on the duty of openly re-
jecting these errors, and endeavoring to arrest the 
mischievous influences they are exerting. What 
louder call was ever addressed to good men to ex-
ert themselves to intercept the spread of a great 
evil ? It is demanded by the interests of learning. 
The wildest dreams of the alchemists of the dark 
ages, are not more unworthy of the learned of the 
present time, than the belief and support of this 
system, which sets at such open defiance the plain-
est facts and laws of every branch of physical 
knowledge with which it has any connexion ; and 
substitutes the fictions of false conjecture and hy-
pothesis in their place. The credit of their pro-
fession requires that the cultivators and teachers 
of geology should discard it, and enter on a re-in-
vestigation, and re-construction of the science. It 
is demanded also by the interests of religion. The 
credit of its ministers requires that they should 
vindicate the word of God, from the imputation 
which the theory casts on it, and protect their peo-
ple from the fatal prepossessions and errors into 
which it is adapted to betray them. May God give 
them fidelity and wisdom to fulfil this great duty." 
The following are the remaining articles in this 
number : 
Art. II.—" The Neglect of the Sacred Scrip-
tures." By R. W. Dickinson, D. D. 
Art. III.—" Dr. Wordsworth's Lectures on the 
Apocalypse." 
Art. IV.—" A Designation and Exposition of 
the Figures of Isaiah, Chapter XXIII. ' 
Art. V.—" The Fulness of the Times." By J. 
Forsyth, jr., D. D. 
Art. VI.—" Mr. Williamson's Letters to a Mil-
lenarian." 
Art. VII.—" The Re-establishment of the Napo-
leon Dynasty." 
Art. VIII.—" Literary and Critical Notices." 
On Article V., we shall take occasion to offer 
some remarks in another number of the Herald. 
We have only space in this number to notice Ar-
ticle III. 
Dr. WORDSWORTH, the author of the Lectures on 
the Apocalypse, it seems, is a Doctor of Divinity, 
Canon of Westminster, formerly Fellow of Trinity 
College, Cambridge, Eng., and Public Orator of 
the University. His work claims to be Critical, 
Expository, and Practical ; but is directed against 
the Pre-millennial Advent. As it has been re-pub-
lished in Philadelphia, Mr. LORD has done a good 
work in unveiling some of its sophisms. Mr. L. 
says: 
" He makes it the object of his two first lectures 
to show that no revelation is made in the Apoca-
lypse of a reign of Christ and the saints on the 
earth during the period denoted by a thousand 
years. To sustain this position, he alleges, in the 
first place, that the doctrine of a millennium was 
introduced into the church from the synagogue, or 
was founded on Judaic interpretations of the an-
cient prophecies and traditions ' • not on the teach-
-ings of the New Testament. No mistake, how-
ever—as we had occasion to show in a previous 
number—could be greater. Justyn Martyr, Tre-
mens
' 
 Tertullian, and Lactantius, expressly found 
their doctrines of the millennium on the twentieth 
chapter of the Apocalypse, and the prophecies of 
Isaiah, chap. 65th, Zec. 14th, and other passages 
of the Old Testament, that are alleged by Millena-
rians as foreshowing the reign of Christ and the 
saints on the earth. Not a hint is uttered by them 
that they were led to their belief in that reign by 
Jewish interpretations or traditions ; or that they 
drew their notions of it in any manner from the 
opinions that were entertained by the Jews of the 
reign of the Messiah'. "—pp. 425-6. 
" He next alleges as a proof that there is no au-
thority in the Apocalypse for the doctrine of the 
millennium, that the imputation to it of such a 
revelation was the reason that the prophecy fell 
into disrepute in the third and fourth centuries, 
and was rejected by some from the catalogue of in-
spired writings. But that—if it were so—instead 
of confirming, would confute what he attempts to 
prove from it. For why should they have pro-
nounced the Apocalypse a fabrication, because it 
was appealed to by the Chiliasts as authority for 
their doctrine of the millennium, unless it were on 
the ground that it actually presents a revelation of 
the reign of Christ and the saints on the earth for 
a thousand years, so clearly, that they had no 
method of escaping it, but to deny that the book 
was authentic and inspired. If they were able to 
show that, properly interpreted, it contains no 
revelation of a reign of Christ and the saints, the 
mere imputation of such a prediction would be no 
reason for branding it as a fabrication, and exclud-
ing it from the canon of authentic Scriptures."—
p.426; 
 
" He offers it as a third proof that a millennium 
is not foreshown in the Apocalypse, that Origen, 
Dyonisius, Jerome, and Augustine assign to the 
vision of the living and reigning martyrs (Rev. 
20:1-6) a merely spiritual or allegorical meaning. 
But in this he takes for granted the point in de-
bate, that their construction of the passage is cor- 
rect. Origen, Jerome, and Augustin do not deny 
that the prediction of the restoration of the Israel-
ites, the rebuilding of Jerusalem, the first resur- 
rection, and the reign of the Messiah, teach, if 
taken in their literal sense, what the Chiliasts as-
cribe to them. They admit it : but they maintain 
that that is not their true sense."—p. r*. 
Dr. WORDSWORTH'S most striking averment is 
that " The doctrine of the millennium is repugnant 
to Holy Scripture ; and that if it could be proved 
from the Apocalypse, the Apocalypse would not be 
Scripture." And therefore he calls on those who 
suppose they find the millennium in the Apoca-
lypse to be on their guard, lest they " lose the 
Apocalypse " ! On this Mr. LORD remarks : 
" What an exemplification of the extremity to 
which anti-millenarianism is driven to sustain it-
self ! No matter how clearly that reign is fore-
shown in a vision which John has recorded, it 
must be erased from the Apocalypse, or else that 
revelation itself must be discarded ! Instead of 
this astounding infatuation, counsels directly the 
reverse of those which he utters should have been 
urged by him on his hearers.. Beware, he should 
have said, how you allow prepossessions to sway 
you in determining what can or cannot have been 
revealed by God. Take care that you are not 
beguiled into the! fancy that the doctrine of a 
millennium is a mere Jewish fable, and cannot 
be contained in the Apocalypse ;—or that, if 
found there, it will prove that the work is not a 
genuine prophecy ; for as there is a vision in it, in 
which it is clearly foreshown that Christ and his 
risen saints are to reign a thousand years on the 
earth, that groundless prepossession will naturally 
lead you to reject the Apocalypse and brand it as 
a fabrication ; and therefore debar you from ,the 
blessing which is promised to those who read and 
hear its records, and keep the things that are writ-
ten in it."—pp. 434-5. 
IS ROME BABYLON, AND Wily I 
FROM THE LONDON " QUARTERLY JOURNAL OF PROPHECY." 
(Continued from our last.) 
IN Gaul, where the legions, recruited from abroad, 
seemed mere tools, and the people were disarmed 
and powerless, the laws of DIOCLESIAN were at least 
partially carried into effect. Iri$Britain, however, 
the legions, brigaded with mountain auxiliaries, 
had largely intermarried with them, and were 
probably in part also filled up by Christians, who 
were glad to find, under the shadow of the eagles, 
a refuge from the rack. Hence, when DIOCLESIAN'S 
edicts were promillgated by CONSTANTIUS, the offi- 
cers of the army generally threw up their commis- 
sions. To accept their resignation, would have 
been to grant the independence of Britain. CON- 
STANTIUS not only re-appointed them, but having 
thus secured their fealty, gradually expelled all 
who had shown any disposition to obey the Pontiff 
rather than himself. What could be more natural 
than that his wife's kinsmen should accept com-
missions in their sovereign's guards, as these com-
missions were thus rendered vacant ? 
The time at length arrived to strike. DIOCLESIAN 
had resigned the Empire. The army in Gaul, we 
may suspect, as well as in Britain, had been filled 
up with CONSTANTIUS' own clansmen and followers. 
Having intermarried with, he could not afford to 
despise them. Thus, for the first time in Roman 
history, the crown, instead of being despoiled by 
mercenary legions, was to be fought for by a na- 
tional army under its native king, and the strife 
was between the British people and the Roman 
Pontiff. 
The death of CONSTANTIUS brought matters to a 
crisis. His son CONSTANTINE, a Briton by birth 
and a half Briton by blood, was a proud chief and 
a daring one. The priesthood had sought to slay 
him. The Pontiff was his enemy. He felt that 
every moment's delay endangered his pontificate. 
He called on CONSTANTINE to put DIOCLESIAN'S edicts 
in force. The movement was no more a religious 
one than the Waterloo campaign, nevertheless the 
Roman Pontiff found it advisable to rely, in part 
at least, on religious ceremonies and moral force. 
The rites of Cybele were performed, and amidst 
slaughtered infants, and embowelled virgins, and 
youths hewn across by the imperial hands, the un- 
holy forms of the Alyss were believed to appear 
before the trembling tyrant, and assure him of 
their aid. 
When Satan thus clearly manifested his power 
on the side of evil, CONSTANTINE had but one course. 
All men allowed CHRIST'S power, although few ad- 
mired his holiness. The Christians already de-
spised heathen magic. Might not their general, 
by declaring that the aid of CHRIST was promised 
to his cause, animate the Basilidians, who did not 
deny his majesty, and believed his power to work 
miracles, although they did not allow him to be one 
with the Supreme ? Why not hoist as the stand-
ard of victory that badge dear to the Christian as 
emblem of his salvation, but known to the Gnos-
tic Isiacs as the mystic Tau, the key of knowledge, 
the emblem of initiation ? 
The battle of the Milvian Bridge followed. 
Here let us pause : we may gain more by con-
sidering what GIBBON does not mention, than by 
studying the facts he does adduce. What was 
then the real creed of the Roman people ? 
Most of them seem to have been believers in the 
unity of all creeds when fully understood, members 
of the mysteries, expectants of a future spiritual 
existence, totally ignorant of sin as a spiritual dis-
ease, and to have regarded things as evil only so 
far as they .proved injurious to man, not as they 
are offensive to the holiness of GoD. 
In other words, the great delusimi of the Semitic 
race, whether Boodist, Vishnovee, Brahmin, as dis-o 
tinguished from the Hamitic Seeva worship, Sooffee 
Moslem, or orthodox Turk, consists in regarding 
the body as the sole source of evil, overlooking the 
necessity of spiritual renewal, yielding to the be- 
lief that happiness consists in passive contempla-
tion, not in the gift of the Most High. Man's 
soul is placed on the throne of the Supreme. The 
delusion of the race of JAPIIETH has been, on the 
other hand, that of seeking salvation by active en- 
ergy and the might of their own right hands, by 
stern endurance and by destruction of the enemies 
of their Deity, by self-development rather than by 
self-negation. Both are equally open to tempta- 
tion, but the temptations most dangerous to each 
take an exactly opposite form. The one tends in- 
variably, when unrestrained by grace, to Virgin 
worship, as that of embodied purity and endur-
ance ; the other to reverence to some hero-king—to 
make an ODIN, a CHARLEMAGNE, a NAPOLEON, its god. 
Now let us calmly examine the exact position of 
CONTANTINE at this juncture. We may best un- 
derstand it by comparison. Let us for a moment 
suppose that a British NAPOLEON, with a small 
army composed of English and Irish Episcopalians, 
Scotch Presbyterians, Welsh Methodists, and Irish 
Roman Catholics, had conquered the whole Roman 
Empire, and that, in order to heal all dissensions 
and unite all parties, he allowed the College of 
Cardinals to elect and consecrate him as Pope, 
with a view of combining and governing all creeds 
under one head. This would be precisely the po- 
sition of CONSTANTINE. His first step would proba-
bly be to license the celebration of Episcopalian 
and Presbyterian worship everywhere on the Con- 
tinent, as lawful forms of dissent ; to encourage the 
Italian people rather to join the new worship, and 
thus to quit their own nationality. lie might then 
go further, and treat both Presbyterian and Epis-
copalian ministers as validly ordained, and might 
conclude with each a sort of concordat, similar to 
that contracted with IGNATIUS LOYOLA. If in any 
place Protestant worship had been suppressed, and 
Protestant estates confiscated, he would of course 
restore them. In the Church of Rome, he would 
himself promote the most tolerant and liberal- 
minded of the priesthood. lie would, in fact, en- 
deavor to reconcile, or rather to keep all parties in 
harmony as much as possible. He would be in 
the position of King LEOPOLD, the nominally Prot- 
estant head of the Roman Catholic Church in Bel-
gium. And it is possible that motives of worldly 
expediency might lead men in general to approve 
this system and to support the rule of the new 
Pontiff, and that even good and pious men, finding 
themselves a mere handful in the mass; might sub-
mit without publicly attacking what in heart they 
disapproved. 
Now this position, of course, could only be held 
by a man naturally great, but not savingly con- 
verted. He might have much respect for truth, 
great anxiety for its diffusion, but, it is evident, 
not enough love for the SAVIOUR to risk empire on 
his behalf. He would act on the principle of 
worldly expediency, to do the utmost possible good 
to others at the least possible danger to himself. 
Now his first task to restore the whole of the 
property and 'funds of which the Church had been 
deprived, of itself led to fresh troubles. Let us 
suppose that the entire wealth, not only of the 
English Church, but of all other Christian denomi- 
nations, including the private fortunes of their 
members, having been confiscated for many years, 
an order was suddenly issued restoring it simply 
to all Christians. Can we doubt that a vast num- 
ber of " Christians" would at once start up, and 
that millions who cared little about the cross would 
come forward to divide the coin ? But there could 
exist no touchstone. For ten years there had been 
nd regular pastors, no fixed congregations. Any 
man who pronounced the creed, and stated himself 
to have been baptized, was, of course, a member of 
the Church. But their pastors had perished. New 
ones had to be chosen. The Pontiff named the 
Heathen priesthood ; he left the licensed churches 
to choose their own pastors, just as the Pope now 
lets the Jesuits and Franciscans and Maronites 
elect their own chiefs. But 'were those pastors 
chosen by Christians? Neither popular elections 
nor state patronage can secure the appointment of 
holy pastors, unless the Spirit of GoD be vouch-
safed. 
No one can, we think, doubt that under such 
circumstances the Basilidians would call themselves 
Christians, or that their secret organization would 
enable them to exercise great weight in the selec-
tion of " priests " and episcopoi. We use the word 
" priests" purposely, for the Basilidian heresy of 
a sacrificial priesthood had sunk deep into the 
Church. We believe further that nothing would 
be more easy, under such circumstances, than for 
the same men carefully drilled, to attend a dozen 
congregations successively. At this epoch, accla-
mation, or show of hands, elected the priesthood, 
boys and even women shouted, and, of course, at 
each election the voices of these men could be 
brought to bear. Hence it appears almost uncon-
testable that vacancies in the Christian Church 
would, in nine cases out of ten, be filled up by Ba, 
silidian worshippers, whilst, on the other hand, 
these Basilidian 'worshippers would be compelled 
to mask their real creed, to cover it with a show of 
Christianity, and to lead the Emperor and the peo-
Ple.to believe that they were Christians at heart as 
well as in name. True Christians, under such 
circumstances, who had for ten years been left 
without spiritual communion and without the Bi-
ble, would hesitate to come forward as pastors, 
lest they might ignorantly mislead. 
However this may be, Gnosticism, from this mo-
ment, nearly disappeared. What, then, became 
of the Gnostics ? They had till now, by all ac-
counts, outnumbered the orthodox five-fold. They 
surely did not all die off. We can hardly believe 
that they, at the tap of the drum, became convert-
ed into genuine Christians. They did not merge 
into the mysteries of Isis worship, for these were 
no longer recognized as lawful by the state. What, 
then, became of them ? They must have united 
with the Church, just as, continuing our compari-
son, the Roman Catholics of Ireland would merge 
into the Established Church, if a king of England 
were elected Pope, and the Established Church, 
without any legal change, without any corporate 
act of her own, would thus find herself insensibly 
swamped by foul and abominable idolatry, which 
she would have no power to expel or reject. 
(To be continued.) 
LETTER FROM NEW YORK. 
BROTHER HIKES returned from Philadelphia on 
Tuesday last, in health, and left for Exeter and 
Kensington, N., H., on Thursday. 
DEAR BRo. BLISS ;—Bro. naffs has just left us, 
after spending the Sabbath and a part of the week 
with us. We had a large attendance on Sunday, 
and the audience listened with attention to two ex-
cellent practical discourses. 
It seems to be a law. of our nature, that a va- 
riety of spiritual food, as well as a variety of food 
for the body, is necessary to the healthful condi-
tion of our souls. And it would not be strange if 
we should fall into an error, similar to that into 
which other professed churches have fallen, and in 
our high appreciation of some truths, in giving 
them due prominence;, should neglect others. It is 
important that we have the word of GOD " rightly 
divided," and that the whole Christian manhood' 
be developed by it. 
A symmetrical Christian is a rare production. 
We find many Christians, who in some respects are 
models, to be very deficient in other things. This 
is owing, in part, to the fact, that man is greatly 
perverted in some respects by nature, and the 
proper remedy is not apprehended by the miud,—
the word of GOD adapted to his wants is not un-
folded to him. We need all the great truths of the 
Bible in order to our completeness of Christian 
chdracter. Professed Christians neglect very gen-
erally those truths which we feel and preach to be 
of superlative importance. But this is no .reason 
why we should, in our turn, neglect other portions 
of divine truth. 
The Advent doctrine is a mighty motive to cor- 
rect practice, but it does not follow from that fact, 
that Christians do not need to be shown from the 
Bible what correct practice, or holiness, is. The Bi-
ble declares our duties,—tells us what we should 
do, and what we should not do ; what temper of 
mind to cherish, and what to avoid ; what are " the 
fruits of the Spirit," and what are " the works of 
the flesh." Now, these things should be preached 
earnestly and fully ; and it should not be taken for 
granted that these things will follow on belief in 
the theory of the Second Advent, for if they would, 
there would have been no necessity for their being 
placed on record in the Bible. The fact of 'their 
being placed these shows that the Church needed • 
them, in connection with the great motives which 
are drawn from the sublime and glorious plan of 
GOD in respect to the " restitution of all things." 
The doctrine of CHRIST'S coming is a practical doc-
trine, not because it indicates in itself what ought 
to be practical, but because it is the mightiest con 
ceivable motive to influence us to do what the 
Scriptures teach us to be our duty. This doctrine 
is the motive power,—the effect of it will depend 
upon the machinery to which it is attached. 
Yours in CHRIST, L. D. MANSFIELD. 
P.S. I would say to ney friends, that my health 
is much improved. 
L. D. M. 
January 6th, 1853. 
THE ADVEN T HERALD. 
22 
CORRESPONDENCE. 
CHRISTIAN UNITY. 
BY. 0. R. FASSETT. 
The humility of Jesus Christ is a subject at 
which angels may wonder, and the inhabitants of 
the earth be paralyzed with astonishment. Far 
above men and angels, was the height from which 
he stooped. Being in the form of God he thought 
it not robbery to be equal with God. He was 
rich with the glory he had with the Father before 
the world was. He the Alpha and the Omega, the 
beginning and the end, the first and the last. Who 
is the image of the invisible God, the first born of 
every creature : for by him were all things created, 
that are in heaven, and that are on the earth, visi-
ble and invisible, whether they be thrones, or do-
minions, or principalities, or powers : all things 
were created for him and by him : and he is before 
all things, and by him all things •consist. Thy 
throne 0 God, is forever and ever. Though Christ 
was thus excellent, high, and glorious, he humbled 
himself—took the form of a servant and became' 
obedient unto death. His humility appears in his 
birth and parentage. He was born of a woman—
a poor woman—in a poor country village. Christ 
the Lord, at whose birth the angels chanted their 
hosannas on Judea's plains, was born in an abject 
place—a stable, their being no place for them in 
the inn. Christ's parents were not able to bring a 
lamb for a burnt-offering ; but offered sacrifice ac-
cording to the provisions of the law in such cases. 
" And if she be not able to bring a lamb, then she 
shall bring two turtles, or two young pigeons." 
These they brought when they presented him to 
the Lord. (See Lev. 12:8 ; Luke 2:24.) 
The circumstances in which Christ was placed 
evinced his humility. He lived in comparative ob-
scurity for many years ; and probably worked at 
the trade of a carpenter. After he commenced his 
mission we hear from his own lips—The foxes have 
holes, and the birds of the air have nests ; but the 
Son of man bath not where to lay his head. Also 
he was oppressed with poverty, while he went about 
preaching the gospel. Christ's humility is seen in 
his becoming of no reputation, while hated with-
out a cause, and loaded with .the most abusive 
railing—in his being falsely accused, mocked and 
set at naught. See this heavenly spirit shine forth 
while he is scourged,—crowned with thorns,—of-
fered gall and vinegar to drink. In his death cru-
cified between two thieves, and having no burying 
place of his own—his body is deposited in the tomb 
of another. 0 wonder of wonders that the Lord 
of glory should condescend thus for our salvation .! 
No angel or man ever equalled him in his humili-
ty, though he was the highest in dignity and honor. 
Christ would have been under the greatest tempta-
tions to pride if it had been possible for anything 
" Behold, how good, and how pleasant it is for 
brethren to dwell together in unity !"—Psa. 133:1. 
(Concluded from our last.) 
5. The early disciples.—After the ascension of 
our Lord, the first that we hear of his disciples is 
that they were all with one accord in one place, and 
" suddenly there came a sound from heaven as of ae 
rushing mighty wind, and it filled all the house 
where they were sitting." Next we hear, on the 
spread and success of the gospel, that " all that 
believed were together, and had all things common ; 
and sold their possessions and goods, and parted 
them to all men, as every man had need. And 
they, continuing daily with one accord in the temple, 
and breaking bread from house to house, did eat 
their meat with singleness of heart, praising God 
and having favor with all the people." 
We might refer to many other instances in the 
history of the New Testament Church as illustrat-
ing the blessedness of unity. Those familiar with 
church history, will call to remembrance many ex-
amples when even life has been sacrificed in behalf 
of brethren, and thus has the Saviour's command 
been heeded, " This is my commandment, that ye 
love one another as I have loved you." " Greater 
love hath no man than this, that a man lay down 
hit life for his friends." And the apostle in its 
application says, " Hereby perceive we the love of 
God, because he laid down his life for us : and we 
ought to lay down our lives for the brethren." What 
love is this ! " My little children, let us not love in 
WORD, neither in TONGUE, but in deed and in truth." 
III. Let us consider the language employed by the 
prophet, expressing the true blessedness of unity. 
" Behold, how good."—We ascribe goodness to 
" those physical qualities which constitute value, 
excellence, or perfection," and those" moral quali-
ties which constitute Christian excellence, moral 
virtue ; religion." — ( Webster.) " Behold, how 
good." How excellent, how much of value, and 
what perfection and virtue, does unity exhibit. 
It is like that holy anointing oil which the Lord 
told Moses to make, and of which he gave him the 
ingredients, telling him to " compound it after the 
art of the apothecary," that none other should be 
made like it, " after the composition of it," but that 
it should be " holy ;" that " whosoever compound-
eth any like it, or whosoever putteth any of it upon 
a stranger, or man's flesh," should " even be cut 
from his people." 
This was to " anoint the tabernacle of the con-
gregation, and the ark of the testimony, and the 
table and all his vessels, and the candlesticks and 
his vessels, and the altar of incense, and the al-
tar of burnt offering, with all his vessels, and the 
laver and his foot, and that then" whatsoever touch-
eth them " should " be holy." With this he was 
to " anoint Aaron and his sons, and consecrate them, 
that they might minister unto the Lord in the priest's 
office." Aaron and his sons were first washed in 
water, and then Aaron had put upon him " the 
coat, and the robe of the ephod, and the ephod, and 
the breast-plate," and was girded with " the curi-
ous girdle of the ephod," and then on his head was 
placed the " mitre," and the " holy crown upon 
the mitre," and then the " anointing oil " was 
poured upon his head, and it ran down upon the 
beard, and went down to the skirts of the garments." 
Such is " brotherly love " and " unity." It is a 
holy, consecrating, and anointing oil, and fits and 
prepares the church for usefulness. And a church 
without it can effect no good. She is unholy to 
the Lord, and cannot be used by him till this anoint-
ing oil is poured upon her. 
" As the dew of Hermon."—How delicious and 
fragrant are the beautiful fields in the morning, 
when the dew is upon them and evaporating before 
the rising sun ! The fragrance fills the entire air. 
How delightful and invigorating to inhale the rich 
and pure mountain air ! To leave the crowded 
metropolis,—the pent up and stifled atmosphere of 
the city, and seek a retreat for a season beside the 
fertile fields, mountains, and valleys of the country ! 
" Hermon " was a beautiful mountain on the other 
side of Jordan, and rising from the plains of that 
river. It was located in that region where was 
the half tribe of Manasseh, at the northern ex-
tremity of the territory portioned out to them. It 
was a mountain rich with spices, and its remarka-
ble fertility shed a sweetness and fragrance, to-
gether with that of Lebanon, lying to the west of 
it, over the entire land, as the northern winds 
swept over them toward the south where the tribes 
of Israel lay. 
" And as the dew that descended upon the mountains 
of Zion."—Those still more rich and fertile moun-
tains of the land of promise, then were covered not 
only with beautiful forest trees, " the fir, the pine, 
and the box," and spices of various description, 
but with grass and flowers. There was the " ex-
cellency of Carmel," the beauty of Tabor, and 
Gerazim , &c. There too grew the rose of" Shar-
on," and all are likened to the new earth. " It 
shall blossom abundantly, and rejoice with sing-
ing : the glory of Lebanon shall be given unto it, 
the excellency of Carmel and Sharon, they shall see 
the glory of the Lord, and the excellency of our 
God." Think of the descent of dew upon these 
mountains in the days of Israel, when the blessing 
of the Lord was upon that land " from on end of 
the year even unto the other." Such is b.rotherly 
love. 
" For," adds the prophet, " there the Lord com-
manded the blessing." The giving of the dew and 
rain in their season was a token to Israel of God's 
blessing, the withholding, of his displeasure. And 
the reason why those mountains were so fertile and 
luxurious, was because the Lord commanded his 
blessing upon them. So where unity prevails, there 
the Lord will command his blessing to descend, as 
on those mountains of Zion. The refreshing dews 
of his divine grace will distil upon them, and they 
shall flourish under his blessing. 
" Even life for evermore."—This is the richest 
blessing of all. It is there, upon the mountains of 
Zion that he " commandeth the. blessing, even life 
forever," to descend. There Jesus came. There 
he descended as the Babe of Bethlehem, the " Man 
of Sorrows," the crucified. There he came " to 
finish the transgression, to make an end of sins, 
to make reconciliation for iniquity, and to bring 
in everlasting righteousness." There'he descended 
to make an atonement for the sins of the world, 
to bring life and immortality, and there will he 
appear the second time, and his people shall enjoy 
with him in that land, and a restored world, ever-
lasting life, " even life for evermore." So, also, 
upon that church and those brethren where it can 
be said, " Behold, how good, and how pleasant it 
is to see brethren dwell together in unity." Then 
the Lord will command his blessing, " even life for 
evermore." 
IMPROVEMENT. 
First. We should endeavor to cultivate and pos- 
to have tempted him. The temptations of the an-
gels that fell was the dignity of their nature and 
the honorableness of their circumstances : but 
Christ was infinitely more honorable than they. 
The human nature of Christ was so honored as to 
be in the same person with the eternal Son of God, 
who was equal with God ; and yet that human na-
ture was not at all lifted up with pride. Nor was 
the man Christ Jesus at all lifted up with pride, 
by all those wonderful works he wrought, of heal-
ing the sick, curing the blind, lame, and maimed, 
and raising the dead. And though he knew that God 
had appointed him to be the King over heaven and 
earth, angels and men, as he says, Matt. 11:27—
" All things are delivered unto me of my Father ;" 
though he knew he was such an infinitely honora-
ble person, and " thought it not robbery to be 
equal with God ;" and though he knew he was the 
heir of the Father's kingdom : yet, such was his 
humility, that he did not disdain to be abased and 
depressed into lower and viler circumstances and 
sufferings than ever any other elect creature was ; 
so that he became least of all, and lowest of all. 
The proper trial and evidence of humility is, stoop-
ing or complying, when called to it, with those acts 
or circumstances which are very low, and contain 
great abasement. But none ever stooped so low 
as Christ, if we consider the infinite height from 
which, or the great depth to which he stooped. 
Such was his humility, that though he knew him-
self to be infinitely worthy of being honored ten 
thoushnd times as much as the highest prince on 
erth, or angel in heaven, yet he did not think it 
too much when called to it, to be bound as a male-
factor, to become the laughing stock of the vilest 
of men, to be crowned with thorns, to have a mock 
robe put upon him, and to be crucified like a slave 
and malefactor, as one of the meanest and worst of 
vagabonds and miscreants, and an accursed enemy 
of God and men, who was not fit to live. And this 
not for himself, but for some of the meanest and 
vilest of creatures, even some of those accursed 
wretches that crucified him. Was not this a won-
derful manifestation of humility, when he cheer-
fully and most freely submitted to.this abasement ? 
—Edwards. 
Christ in his humility has left us an example 
that we should follow his steps. Let this mind be 
in you which was also in Christ Jesus. Pride ill 
becomes such sinful creatures as we ; besides we 
are dependent upon God for all we are, and pos-
sess. All the temporal blessings and enjoyment of 
time, as well as the present favor of Cod, and the 
hope of his eternal glory, are from him. Again 
man is mortal, corruptible, and dying. How in-
consistent, therefore, that we should be lifted up 
with pride and vanity. God abhors the proud, 
and knoweth them afar off, but is nigh unto the 
lowly. To the Lord even a proud look is said to be 
an abomination. The period is approaching when 
the proud shall be stubble, and the day that com-
eth shall burn them up, saith the Lord of hosts. 
But the humble shall be exalted to the throne and 
kingdom of Jesus Christ. 
" Humility is the effect of divine grace operating 
do the soul, and always characterizes the true 
Christian. It does not oblige a man to wrong the 
truth, or himself by entertaining a meaner or worse 
opinion of himself than he deserves—nor does it 
oblige a man right or wrong to give everybody 
else the preference to himself. A wise man cannot 
believe himself inferior to the ignorant multitude : 
nor the virtuous man that he is not so good as those 
whose lives are vicious. - Nor does it oblige a man 
to treat himself with contempt in his words or ac-
tions : it looks more like affectation than humility, 
when a man says such things in his own dispraise 
as others know or he himself believes, to be false : 
and it is plain also, that this is often done merely 
as a bait to catch the praises of others. Humility 
consists, in not attributing to ourselves any excel-
lence or good which we have not—in not overrating 
anything which we do—in not taking an immoder-
ate delight in ourselves—in not assuming more of 
the praise of a quality or action than belongs to 
us—in an inward sense of our many imperfections 
and sins—in ascribing all we have and are to the 
grace of God. True humility will express itself 
1. By the modesty of our appearance. The hum-
Me man will consider his age, abilities, character, 
function, &c., an act accordingly. 2. By the mod-
esty of our pursuits. We shall not aim at anything 
above our strength, but prefer a good to a great 
name. 3. It will express itself by the modesty of 
our conversation and behavior : we shall not be lo-
quacious, obstinate, forward, envious, discontented, 
or ambitious."—Buch. 
To the humble God bath made many promises of 
grace and glory. One of the most sublime passages 
found in the Scriptures is of this character. " For 
thus saith the high and lofty One that inhabit-
eth eternity, whose name is Holy : I dwell in the 
high and holy place : with him also that is of a 
contrite and humble spirit, to revive the spirit of 
the humble, and to revive the heart of the contrite 
ones." Says Job : " He will save the humble per-
son!' Daniel says: "He forgetteth not the cry of 
the humble." He that humbleth himself shall be 
exalted. Before honor is humility. Better is it 
" Behold, how pleasant." — i. e., " agreeable ; 
grateful to the mind or to the senses ; as, a pleasant 
ride ; a pleasant voyage ; a pleasant view. Light is 
pleasant to the eye ; an orange is pleasant to the 
taste ; harmony is pleasant to the ear ; a rose is 
pleasant to the smell."—( Webster.) " How good 
and how pleasant it is for brethren to dwell together 
in unity." 
IV. To what is it likened ? 
1. " It is like the p;ecious ointment."—How fra-
grant and grateful is the odor of precious and costly 
ointment ! How sweet to the smell ! Mary Mag- 
daline " took a pound of ointment of spikenard, 
very costly, and anointed the feet of Jesus, and 
wiped his feet with her hair : and the house was 
filled with the odor of the ointment." Another 
evangelist says, " she had an alabaster-box of very 
precious ointment and poured it on his head as he 
sat at meat." Thus she anointed his head and his 
feet, and wiped his feet with her hair. But when 
his disciples saw it, they had indignation, saying, 
to what purpose is this waste ? for this ointment 
might have been sold for much " (three hundred 
pence -- (John) " and given to the poor. When 
Jesus understood it, he saieunto them, Why trou-
ble ye the woman 1 for she bath wrought a good 
work upon ,me. For in that she hath poured this 
ointment on my body, she did it for my burial. 
Verily I say unto you, wherever this gospel shall 
be preached in the whole world, there shall this 
also that this woman hath done, be told for a me-
morial of her." Such is " unity and brotherly 
love." Like this precious ointment that Mary 
poured upon the head and feet of her Lord. " The 
house was filled with the odor of the ointment." 
And says the Saviour, " By this shall all men know 
that ye are my disciples, if ye have love one for 
another." Love and unity make the church a 
" sweet savor " to all around. 
" Upon the head." Ointment is put upon the 
head, also, to beautify the hair ; it serves the 
double purpose of emitting a sweet fragrance and 
of beautifying and adorning the person. So is 
" brotherly love." It is a.precious ointment which 
perfumes and beautifies the entire body of Christ 
which makes her attractive ; and the world say, 
" See how these brethren love one another." 
" It is like THE precious ointment upon the head 
that ran down upon the beard, even Aaron's beard : 
that went down to the skirt of his garment." 
sess this unity. " Let brotherly love continue," says 
the apostle, and where it does exist, the churches 
should guard against the destruction of the precious 
and heaven-born plant. And when it does not, 
they should endeavor to restore the principle, that 
they may be prepared for the descent of the bless-
ing of God's grace and Spirit upon them. How 
much good we may do. How much may we still 
accomplish, before the fearful day of the Lord, by 
this course. By this, we shall recommend ourselves 
as Christians and our faith as the people of God. 
" By this shall all men know that ye are my disci-
ples, if ye have love one to another." Without 
this unity, the Lord will not bless us. " In unity," 
especially in this instance, " there is strength." 
United we stand ; dividgd we fall." " A house 
divided against itself cannot stand." 
Second. Those who endeavor to cultivate and 
promote unity in the body of Christ may expect the 
blessing of God upon them in time, and in eternity : 
his grace here, and " life for evermore " hereafter ! 
It will as certainly descend upon such, as the dews 
descended upon the mountains of Zion in the days 
of Israel. " Blessed are the peacemakers : for they 
shall be called the children of God." 
Those, however, who do not do this, but cause 
strife, discord and division, may expect God's curse ! 
It will follow them as certainly as it did Cain, Ish-
mael, Saul, Judas, and a host of others in every 
age. Such destroy the peace and harmony of the 
church, hinder the work of God, and ruin their 
own souls. Says our Lord, " It must needs be that 
offences come, but woe to that man by whom they 
come." There are " six things " which the Lord 
hates, and the " seventh " is no less an abomina-
tion unto him :—" He that soweth discord among 
brethren."—Psa. 6:16-19. 
HUMILITY. 
" Let this mind be in you, which was also in 
Christ Jesus : who, being in the forni of God, 
thought it not robbery to be equal with God : but 
made himself of no reputation, and took upon him 
the form of a servant, and was made in the like-
ness of men : and being found in fashion as a man, 
he humbled himself, and became obedient unto 
death, even the death of the cross. Wherefore 
God also bath highly exalted him, and given him a 
name which is above every name."—Phil. 2:4-9. 
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to be of an humble spirit with the lowly, than 
to divide the spoil with the proud. Blessed are 
the poor in spirit, saith the Saviour, for theirs is 
the kingdom of heaven. This grace is of such im-
portance, that we are told to be clothed with hu-
mility : For God resisteth the proud, and giveth 
grace to the humble. Humble yourselves there-
fore under the mighty hand of God, that he may 
exalt you in due time. He bath showed thee 0 
man what is good : and what cloth the Lord require 
of thee, but to do justly, and to love mercy, and to 
walk humbly with thy God. 
" Humility makes a man peaceable among breth-
ren, fruitful in well-doing, cheerful in suffering, 
and constant in holy walking. Humility fits us 
for the highest service we owe to Christ, and yet 
will not neglect the lowest service to the meanest 
saint. Humility can feed upon the meanest dish, 
and yet is maintained by the choicest delicacies, as 
God, Christ and glory. Humility will make a man 
bless them that curse him, and pray for those that 
persecute him. A humble heart is a habitation 
for God, a scholar for Christ, a companion of an-
gels, a preserver of grace, and meet for glory. Hu-
mility is the nurse of our graces, preserver of our 
mercies, and the great promoter of holy duties." 
A. SHERWIN. 
Lowell, Jan. 4th, 1853. 
LETTER FROM ILLINOIS. 
BRO. RIMES :-We are now enjoying a precious 
revival of religion, and I am so constantly employed 
in visiting from house to house that I find no suit-
able leisure to say a word for the coliNons of the 
Herald. Yet having written twice before since the 
date of my last published letter, and now having 
occasion to write again, ordering the Herald to new 
subscribers, (saying nothing for publication,) I 
consider it my duty at this time, though in a hasty 
manner, to speak a word to the brethren of the 
" household," assuring them that in the midst of 
persecution we are yet alive, and that the cause in 
this portion of the " far west" is in a prosperous 
state. 
Directly after the date of my last, Oxford, Sept. 
15th, we returned to Hampton, Rock Island county, 
and' spent some two weeks in the family and neigh-
borhood of brother L. Edwards. On the Sabbath, 
Sept. 19th, I preached in the Protestant Methodist 
church, from Matt. 3:2. Brother Crompton, the 
minister, and most of the church received the word 
joyfully. Brother C. followed me in speaking, and 
frankly acknowledged that he believed that " the 
kingdom of heaven " was now in every sense of the 
word " at hand," and liable to come at any mo-
ment. Through that medium I am confident the 
church there, and that entire community will be 
duly admonished of the approaching judgment, 
and when the Lord comes it will be said to that 
dear brother, " Well done, good and faithful ser-
vant."-Matt. 25 : 21. After preaching several 
times, and visiting the brethren in the several dis-
tricts where I had formerly labored, (leaving them 
all in a hopeful state,) brother Edwards kindly 
conveyed me to Pain's Point, seven miles north of 
here, (some eighty miles north-east of Hampton.) 
There I found a pleasant home in the family of 
brother J. King. It was by his special request I 
consented to visit Ogle county. Brother • K. em-
braced the Advent faith under our labors in the 
State of New York, in '46, and removed to the 
far west " in '48. 
We entered upon our work there on Thursday 
Sept. 30th, had respectable congregations till the 
following Sunday, P. M., when several rude men 
clubbed together, seemingly for the purpose of 
breaking.up our meetings. During public service 
they continued to laugh and whisper to each other, 
as if the plan had been previously concerted. Sel-
dom. have I spoken where the congregation gener-
ally appeared more anxious to hear. Several times 
we stopped and entreated those gentlemen rowdies 
to desist, and give others opportunity to hear, if 
they were determined not to hear themselves, but 
this was all in vain. At the close of the meeting, 
brother Wood the class leader, gave me an intro-
duction to one of the principal actors in that dis-
turbance, saying, " This is Mr C. the Methodist 
minister that preached to us this morning." I 
looked him directly in the eye, and remarked, 
" Well, sir, you are the last man in the congrega-
tion that I should have picked out for the minis-
ter." We then left the house, saying no more to 
the minister. But he remained it is said, and en-
tertained his company with what he professed to 
know of the " fanaticism of '43," referring doubt-
less to all the newspaper slander of those times, of 
which we ourselves were entirely ignorant, al-
though we were in the midst of it all. We con-
tinued our meetings at the school-house till Wednes-
day evening, October 6th. The congregation at 
that time seemed eager to hear, but that evening 
(being exceedingly dark) the house was surrounded 
by a crowd of ruffians, who as soon as I commenced 
preaching began to tear down the shade in front of 
the house, and with the materials of the same com-
mence beating the house, making a hideous yell. 
But perceiving that we paid no attention to them 
at all, more than to elevate our voice, so as to be 
distinctly heard by those within the walls, they 
seemed the more enraged, and (for want of stone 
probably,) commenced throwing tufts of grass and 
other hard substances through the windows, mani-
festly aiming their thrusts at the speaker. Our 
position that evening being in the centre of the 
house, most of the shot were received by the con-
gregation instead of myself. During the assault 
the friends went out several times, hoping to de-
tect the rowdies, but it being so exceedingly dark, 
it was utterly impossible. Under existing circum-
stances it was decided that we should adjourn our 
meetings to brother King's private house. This 
reminded us of the words of Martin Luther, the 
great reformer, when speaking of the final consum-
mation, which he supposed must occur in about 
three hundred years. At that time he says, " This 
gospel will be shut out of all the churches and 
confined to private houses." And it is well known 
that Martin Luther, that man of God, died in A. D. 
1546, (about three hundred years since.) In the 
main we confidently believe he was correct, and 
with regard 'to the time. 
We continued our meetings at brother King's 
without interruption for three days. The result of 
which was, brother Wood the class leader, and sev-
eralpther intelligent men and women, heartily em-
braced the faith, and became exceedingly blessed in 
confessing the same. A few souls were manifestly 
converted to God, (one extreme and almost hope-
less case.) While there we received an earnest 
call to visit White Rock, a settlement some four or 
five miles east. 0. Cheaney, Esq., who presented 
the call, having already become deeply interested 
in the great subject, kindly furnished a building, 
and fitted it up as a sanctuary for us. I preached 
there to respectable and attentive congregations 
twenty-one times. The result was good. Quite a 
number received the word joyfully, they publicly 
declared their faith. in the soon coming of the Lord, 
and sinners were converted to God. Among the 
number were those who for years had sheltered 
themselves under the " fable " of universal salva-
tion. Seven precious,. souls received baptism at 
our hands. The Lord's supper was administered. 
Tfie friends being present from P. Point and other 
directions, the season was very refreshing. The 
brethren in each neighborhood having established 
their meetings of worship, it was very pleasant to 
witness the interest they manifested in each oth-
er's prosperity, by covenanting to visit back and 
forth on Tuesday and Friday evenings, so as to 
mingle together in their worship. 
While our meetings were in progress at the 
" Rock," brother C. having business in this neigh-
hood (six miles south,) fell in company with Mr. 
J. W., a confirmed infidel. After giving him an 
account of our meetings at the Rock, the doctrines 
we taught, &c., Mr. W. was induced to return with 
him and hear for himself. But before they left he 
said, " All the priests in the land cannot change 
my religious views." After listening to the first 
discourse, and being about leaving for home, brother 
C. inquired of him, " Well, Mr. W., what do you 
think now ?" His reply was, " Don't say a word." 
On the following Sabbath he came again, with a 
large wagon load of friends, and listened atten-
tively to the word through the day. At the close 
of our evening service, Mr. W. gave me a hearty 
invitation to hold a series of meetings at Jefferson 
Grove (this place,) kindly offering me a home in 
his own family. Having previously had an intro-
duction to Mr. W., and knowing his religious sen-
timents I could not refuse, although at that time we 
had pressing calls from other quarters where the 
people were daily expecting us. 
Entered upon our work here Nov. 10th. At the 
commencement we met with violent opposition from 
those who had once professed better things. Dur-
Sing, and more especially at the close of one of our 
first meetings the enemy raged to such a degree 
the authorities had to interpose. Esq. B., the 
magistrate, who was the most active in suppress 
ing the mob, was himself an infidel, but a gentle-
man, (now a Christian.) After that evening perfect 
order was observed in all our meetings. The sanc-
tuary crowded and the best attention paid to the 
word. Preached to this people in all thirty-one 
times. Broke away in the time and spent a week 
with the Christian Church at Washington Grove, 
(six mile west.) Minister and people received the 
doctrine in the love of it. This whole community 
for miles around us (with comparatively few ex-
ceptions,) are awake to hear on the all-important 
subject. Hundreds it is said in the different neigh-
borhoods have confessed faith in the doctrines we 
teach. Many precious souls have been converted 
to God, mostly men and women of middle age, 
among whom were Mr. W. and Esq. B., our in- 
fidel friends. Clearer cases of conversion I have 
seldom witnessed. 
Twenty-four happy souls (besides those at White 
Rock,) have received baptism at our hands. Elder 
Noah of the Wesleyan order, and Elder Rice of the 
Christian, have heartily embraced the " blessed 
hope," and say they shall preach the doctrine. 
Each in their turn have appointed to preach to the 
Advent brethren when I leave the field. The good 
work is still going on 'gloriously. 
The brethren came together to-day, and after a 
season of solemn prayer twenty-six decided believ-
ers cheerfully subscribed to a brief declaration of 
faith and covenant, thus constituting the Second 
Advent church at Jefferson Grove, Ogle county, 
Illinois. Quite a number of the brethren being ab-
sent on business, a church meeting was appointed 
one week hence to give others an opportunity to 
unite therewith. We know of about the same num-
ber who are waiting only for an opportunity to 
subscribe their names. It was truly encouraging 
and heart-cheering to find brother Noah in the 
company to-day, all ready to leave his own people 
and identify himself with the Advent brethren. He 
was unanimously chosen as moderator and pastor 
of the church ; he is a man of acceptable talent 
and much religious experience. Besides preach-
ing to the church, he will take the oversight of the 
Advent interest in this community. 
Expecting to leave here soon, and being quite un-
certain what field I shall enter next, let my address 
for the present remain Springfield, Ill., care of I r. 
M. Helm Love to the brethren. Hope for a con-
tinued interest in their prayers, for surely we are 
in perilous times. Yours as ever, looking for, and 
expecting redemption soon. S. CHAPMAN. 
Ogle county, Dec. 21st, 1852. 
LETTER FROM PHILADELPHIA, Pa. 
BROTHER RIMES :-We have been blessed with 
some mercy, drops, during the last six weeks, in 
Philadelphia. For some time past there had been 
more than ordinary spirit of prayer in the church, 
for a revival of the work of God, and a spirit of in-
quiry began to manifest itself. We commenced a 
series of meetings on the 21st of November, which 
continued three or four weeks, during which about 
ten precious souls submitted themselves to God, 
and found peace in believing, and others were res-
tored from a state of great spiritual coldness. 
We were favored during the first two weeks with 
the presence and labors of brother J. W. Daniels, 
whose efforts were owned and blest of God. 
Brother Edward Matthews, from Cleaveland, 
Ohio, is spending the winter among us, and we 
find in him a true and faithful helper in the work 
of the Lord. 
As the new year dawns on us our prospects are 
more cheering, and commence it with new courage, 
to labor in this blessed cause, and to hold up the 
great truth of the coming kingdom of our Redeem-
er. Yesterday we had a great day, and seven fol-
lowed the Lord in baptism. 
With respect to my views of the times and sea-
sons, I do not know as I can speak of any change. 
I never felt more deeply nor believed more strongly 
in the near coming of our Saviour than at present. 
It is to my mind a living and vivid reality. The 
state both of the moral and political world declare 
us to be in the last times, just at the close of the 
" times of the Gentiles." 
And the position we occupy, never called more 
loudly for vigorous effort to hold up and spread 
the doctrines we entertain. The labors of God's 
servants are owned and blessed of him ; and he 
that reapeth receiveth wages and gathereth fruit 
unto everlasting life. 
On the prophetic times, I cannot express myself 
more fully than brother D. I. Robinson has done 
in his recent article. While I acknowledge with 
him my inability to harmonize the commencement 
of the seventy weeks in the 20th year of Artaxerxes, 
with the time of Christ's birth and death, yet I am 
persuaded that is the true date of the periods, at 
least so much so that I shall look for the times of 
the Gentiles to end 2300 years from that point, 
and mystery Babylon, the city and temporal gov-
ernment of Rome to fall, as the literal Babylon 
and its government fell at the expiration of the 
seventy years. 
All beyond the times of the Gentiles is darkness 
and gloominess, clouds and thick darkness till the 
great prince of Israel shall be seated on this throne 
in Zion. May we all improve the lingering mo- 
ments. 
J. LITCH. 
Jan. 3d, 1853. 
"I am the resurrection and the life: he that bclieveth in me, 
though he were dead, yet shall he live and whosoever liveth, and 
believeth in me, shall never die." Joins 11: 25, 26. 
DIED, in Wilton, N. H., Dec 1st, 1852, SAMUEL 
SMITH, aged 65 years. 
Ah ! he is gone-there enshrouded he lies, 
Hushed is his voice, and bedimmed are his eyes. 
Cold is that form, and all motionless now, 
Death's fatal seal on his calm, pallid brow. 
Mournful we gazed on the face of the dead, 
Many the tears that in sorrow we shed ; 
Deep was the anguish then rending the heart, 
Sad was the hour, when we saw him depart. 
Slowly away moved the burial train, 
Severed one link in affection's fond chain ; 
Low in the earth have they laid him to rest, 
Precious the treasure enclosed in thy breast ! 
Mother ! the loved from thy bosom is torn , 
Children ! our father has left 'us to mourn. 
Lonely the hearth-stone-for one is not there-
Broken the circle-and vacant the chair. 
Peaceful thy slumber ! 0, sweet thy repose ! 
Safe from life's turmoil, its cares and its woes. 
Short is the silent embrace of the tomb ; 
Hope, pointing upward, disperses its gloom, 
Soon will the King in his glory descend, 
Triumph o'er Death, and the grave's fetters rend ; 
Kindred and friends shall we meet as they rise, 
Bright and immortal, ascending the skies. s. 
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Appointments, &c. 
D. W. SORNBERGER, Providence permitting, will meet with the breth-
ren in Eaton, Jan. the 14th, and over the Sabbath ; Caldwell's 
Manor, Bay Shore, 22d ; brick school-house (by brother Young's), 
23d, at 11 o'clock, and at Clarenceville in the evening. Perhaps 
brother West will accompany him East. 
CHASE TAYLOR will preach at Scituate Harbor, Mass., Jan. 14th, 
evening, as brother Asa Curtis may arrange, and continue over 
the Sabbath ; Hingham, (at the house of brother Moses Tower,) 
Sabbath, 23d. 
LEVI DUDLEY will preach at Swanton Falls, Vt., Sabbath, Jan. 23d, 
when the ordinance of the Lord's Supper will be celebrated. It is 
hoped that brethren from adjacent places will be present. 
W. H. EASTMAN will preach, Providence permitting, in Landaff, N. 
II., Jan. 19th, 20th, and 22d, evenings. 
ItzmovAL.—My address is, north-east corner of Eleventh and Cherry 
streets, Philadelphia.—J. Errol. 
MY Post-office address for the present is Champlain, Clinton county, 
N. Y.—B. WEBB. 
BRO. Hufrues—Please say in Herald DAN. KENDALL and ALVAH SEV-
ERANCE'S address is West Brattleboro', and you will greatly ob-
lige—D. K. 
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THE ADVEN T HERALD. 
InEr1=231111.1,k„, 
FATAL RAILROAD ACCIDENT. 
WE exceedingly regret to be called upon to an-
nounce the sudden and instantaneous death of 
BENJAMIN PIERCE, 11 or 12 years of age, tin son and 
only child of General FRANK PIERCE, the President 
elect. The sad event was caused by an unavoida-
ble accident on the Boston and Maine Railroad, 
and the circumstance relating to it are painful in 
the extreme. The following are the particulars, 
which were kindly furnished us by Mr. EDWARD C. 
THOMPSON, one of the conductors on the Mston 
and Maine Railroad, and Mr. HALL, depot master. 
Upon the arrival at Andover Thursday after-
noon, 6th inst., of the express train, which left 
the depot in this city at quarter past 12 o'clock 
Gen. PIERCE, his wife and son, who had passed 
the night at Andover, at the house of his brother-
in-law, Mr. AIKEN, took passage for Concord, N. 
H. The train consisted of the locomotive and ten- 
der, a baggage car, and one passenger car, in 
which were about sixty passengers. 
The train proceeded with its usual speed until it 
reached the Poor House Ledge, nearly opposite the 
Andover Poor House, and about half way to Law-
rence, when the forward axle of the passenger car 
broke, turning the truck and dragging the car 
about twenty rods in that condition, when the 
coupling which attached it to the baggage car 
carted, and caused the passenger car to ran off the 
track and down an embankment of ten or twelve 
feet. The consternation of the passengers can 
hardly be imagined, much less described, as in far 
less time than is occupied in penning the fact, the 
car, in its descent down the embankment, had turned 
end for end, and upon reaching the foot of the bank, 
complet Ay upset, so that the bottom was up, and 
the top stove in pieces on the rocks. 
At the moment of the accident, Gen. PIERCE and 
his wife were seated on the forward seat but one 
on one side of the aisle, while his son sat on the 
forward seat on the opposite side. At the instant 
of finding that something was wrong, Gen. PIERCE 
threw one of his arms around his wife, and extend- 
ing the other towards his son, called him by name, 
but in ,an instant the car rolled over and down the 
embankment, and death had forever sealed the lips 
of their much loved child, who was soon after found 
with his head shockingly crushed. 
Gen. PIERCE and his amiable lady very fortu-
nately escaped with only a few very slight scratch- 
es and bruises. Their deep distress upon learning 
the sad fate of their son, was sorrowful to witness, 
especially that of the almost heart-broken mother, 
As soon as the painful circumstances in which 
they had thus suddenly fallen would permit, Gen. 
PIERCE and wife, together with the remains of their 
son, were conveyed back to Andover, to the resi-
dence of Mr. AIKEN, which they had but a very 
short time before left in their usual health and 
spirits. Here every attention in the power of kind 
hearted friends was afforded to the deeply afflicted 
parents. Mrs. PIERCE seemed almost inconsolable, 
and was nearly frantic with grief ; and at last ac-
counts it was feared that through excess of grief 
she might be bereft of her reason ; but it is to be 
hoped that she will be preserved in her right mind, 
and be enabled to bear up under the heavy afflic-
tion which has so suddenly befallen her. 
Mr. NEWELL, an elderly gentleman, who resides 
in West Cambridge or Somerville, Mass., near 
Winter Hill, was considerably bruised, and is be-
lieved to have one or two ribs fractured, besides re-
ceiving internal injuries. Mr. BAILEY, of Law-
rence, had one of his legs broken, besides being 
badly bruised. A lady, whose name and residence 
were not ascertained, had a foot badly crushed. 
With the exception of these, none of the other 
passengers were seriously injured, although seve-
ral received slight contusions and bruises, but not 
to such an extent as to prevent them from extricat-
ing themselves from the ruined car, and in some 
cases to render assistance to others. 
Scarcely an instant before the accident occurred, 
MICHAEL DONNEVAN, brakeman, was standing on 
the forward platform of the passenger car, when 
he had occasion to step across to that of the bag-
gage car, and before he had fairly turned about, the 
coupling had broken, and the car he had just left 
was rolling down the embankment. His escape 
was indeed a very narrow one. Boston Journal. 
AN INDIAN WAR IN PROSPECT.—The Washington 
correspondent of the N. Y. Herald, reports the fol-
lowing intelligence from BILLY BOWLEGS •and the 
Seminole Indians :—" Private letters have been re-
ceived here from Florida, statnig that BILLY Bow-
LEGS and the rest of the Seminole chiefs had refused 
to ratify the treaty made with General BLAKE, 
and that BILLY and his followers, after gathering 
all the arms they could, had fled. General BLAKE 
had proceeded to the Florida Legislature, and 
asked for the immediate raising of a large number 
of volunteers to quell the war. It appears that 
when BILLY got back, and informed his people that 
he had signed a treaty agreeing to leave Florida, 
they at once refused to ratify it, and as a means of 
reducing BILLY to obedience, took his wives away 
from him, and threatened to place another man at 
the head of their affairs. BILLY stood to his word 
for about four weeks, when he gave in, and, telling 
General BLAKE that he could not help it, fled. The 
War Department has not yet received official no-
tice of the matter, but will, as soon as it is re-
ceived, order all the available troops to the scene 
of difficulty." 
TERRIBLE EARTHQUAKES.-,-The earthquakes at the 
East were more destructive than previously re-
ported. The Pekin (China) Gazette of August, re-
ports thap in the province of Kansuch, 20,000 
houses had been destroyed, 300 of the inhabitants 
killed, and 400 wounded. During the early part 
of September there were several slight shocks of an 
earthquake experienced at Manilla. On the 16th, 
at 6 o'clock in the evening, a shock occurred which 
nearly destroyed the city. Many houses were en-
tirely thrown down, and others rendered unsafe to 
inhabit. Two churches were destroyed ; one of 
them the fine church of the Company of the Phil-
lipines. Many inhabiting the houses of the river 
side sleep in the arched godowns of their buildings, 
but the greater part of the citizens are encamped 
in bamboo houses in the suburbs. The palace, 
the town-hall, and the custom-house, are so much 
damaged as to be uninhabitable. Three lives were 
lost, and one person wounded. Accounts received 
from the provinces tell of great injuries committed 
in all directions ; many of the churches were par-
tially or wholly thrown down, and the damage 
done is very great. The inhabitants who, on the 
night and on the morning of the 17th of Septem-
ber, fled to the country districts, or sought an asy-
lum in boats on the river, have returned to the 
city ; but it is impossible to conceal the fact, that 
a general apprehension prevails that the terrific 
phenomena have not yet ended. 
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THE YELLOW FEVER AT ST. THOMAS.—A letter from 
WALTER A. C. BRIGHAM, of Worcester, a passenger 
in ship Palmyra, at St. Thomas, dated Dec. 18th, 
states that the yellow fever was raging to a ter-
rible extent. He himself, and Captain PERKINS, 
of the Palmyra, had been down with it, but were 
recovering. Five of the crew, however, had died. 
There were other vessels in port, from which all on 
board had been buried—captains, mates, and sea-
men ; and the terrible disease was hourly destroy-
ing new victims. Among those who had , fallen, 
was the American Consul, who died a few days 
previous. The atmosphere had become so infected, 
that even turkeys, ducks, and other fowls, are dy-
ing with the epidemic. Mr. BRIGHAM was about 
to sail in the ship Art Union, Capt. STUBBS, for 
Mobile or Apalachicola. We hope and conceive it 
to be highly Probable that the description of the 
ravages of yellow fever given above, will prove to 
be greatly exaggerated. 
Capt. PERKINS, of the ship Palmyra, writing to 
his wife in 'Worcester, under date of Dec. 19th, and 
speaking of the ravages of the yellow fever there, 
says :—" That there were lying directly around 
him no less than seven American- vessels which had 
lost their captains, mates, and crews, including all 
on board, and also among them five of the wives of 
the captains, who accompanied the vessels to the 
Island ; and all of these were victims of the pre-
vailing epidemic. One of these ladies was intend-
ing to have returned with Mrs. PERKINS, who ar-
rived home a few days since by steamer from St. 
Thomas, but unfortunately some occurrence pre-
vented ; and thus the former is numbered with the 
dead." 
Boston Journal. 
ADVENT HERALD. 
BOSTON, JANUARY 15, 1853.