WHOLE NO. 669. 
BOSTON, SATURDAY, MARCH 11, 1854. 
YOLUME XIII. NO. 10. 
(For the Herald.) 
The Little Horn. 
BY 
B E R E A X. 
(Continued from the " Herald " of Feb. 18<A.) 
HAVING briefly considered the general apos-
tacy of the visible Church, and the gradual de-
velopment of Antichrist from the conversion of 
Constantine to the year 500 A. D., we will, be-
fore prosecuting this part of the subject farther, 
turn our attention to the rise of this ecclesiasti-
cal power as a horn coming up among the ten. 
Perhaps, to all minds, there may be nothing 
convincingly definite in the symbols and descrip-
tive language employed by the prophet Daniel, 
as to the location of these ten horns, or in what 
part of Rome's universal empire they arose;—* 
it is simply predicted that, " the fourth beast 
shall be the fourth kingdom upon earth," " and 
of the ten horns that were in his head," they 
" are ten kings that shall arise." 
In the Apoc-
alyptical vision of these events, however, .that 
part of the empire subject to this ten-fold and 
disruption, is defined with remarkable clearness 
and precision. 
To the seven angels " were given seven trum-
pets," and at each war-blast, the appointed 
scourge-agents are imperatively summoned to 
their work of desolation, and the effects are con-
fined chiefly within their own geographical des-
ignation, hence the term, so frequently used, 
" the third part of men." 
Under the first four trumpets, the vast colos-
sal power of Rome in the West fell. It was ac-
complished by the rush of the northern Scythian 
and Gothic hordes, who swept into the Western 
Empire like the successive swelling waves of the 
ocean, breaking down before them every oppos-
ing barrier, sweeping away Rome's ancient po-
litical and civil institutions, rending asunder 
her Western territory, and upon each division 
erecting an independent regal government, sym-
bolized by the ten crowned horns upon the head 
of the wild beast from the sea. 
Under the fifth angel is given a more extensive 
commission, and the destroying agents are suf-
fered to roam where they will, in search of those 
men who " have not the seal of God in their 
foreheads;" they invaded Syria, Persia, Egypt, 
conquered northern Africa to the blue Atlantic, 
crossed the straits of Gibraltar into Spain, pene-
trated to the very heart of France, sailed up the 
Tiber and ravaged the suburbs of Rome, visited 
the principal isles of the Mediterranean, and 
thrice, at least, laid siege to the Eastern capi-
tal* Although the "smoke out of the pit," 
spread over a large part of the known world, 
like " the smoke of a great furnace," still. East-
ern Rome felt its power, and by its five months' 
torment, it became reduced, and was prepared 
for the fatal effects of the following scourge. 
The destroying agents under the sixth angel 
are, like the four first, limited to a special loca-
tion, and they have a concentrated power given 
them, " for to slay the third part of men." 
At 
the sound of the trnmpet, the " four angels 
are aroused along th£ banks of " the great river 
Euphrates," unite their forces, invade at once 
the territory of Eastern Rome in Asia Minor, 
cross into Europe, aud the thunder of their can-
non is heard in the palace of Constantine, the 
last of the Greek Emperors, and after a siege of 
fifty-three days, the Turco-Moslem power was 
firmly seated upon the throne of the East, and 
since the year 1453, the crescent has waved in 
triumph upon the walls of the Eastern capital. 
From this we learn, 1. That the prophetic 
scriptures are not so loose in their application 
of these important events, as to leave us the in-
definite task of wandering over the entire " old 
Roman territory " in search of the ten kingdoms: 
they point with remarkable exactness to the place, 
or portion of their territory, and say unambigu-
ously to every honest inquirer, You will find 
them there ! And " among them," the prophet 
Daniel plainly locates the " little horn." 
2. The work of destruction and dismember-
ment of Western Rome, was accomplished under 
the first four trumpets, therefore, we are to find 
the ten kingdoms within the chronology of, or 
within the time occupied by the events of those 
four trumpets. 
As to the event marking the sounding of the 
first trumpet, the great body of interpreters dif-
fer about twenty years. 
Mede, Sir Isaac New-
ton, Bishop Newton, Mr. Faber, with many oth-
ers, concur in fixing upon the Gothic invasion 
immediately following the death of Theodosius 
in 395. 
Other expositors who are worthy of our 
respect, fix upon the year 376, as the era of this 
trumpet, and certainly there are strong reasons 
for the earlier date. 
Gibbo\says, " In the dis-
astrous period of the fall of the Roman Empire, 
which may justly be dated from the reign of 
Yalens, the happiness and security of each indi-
vidual were personally attacked, and the arts 
and labors of ages were rudely defaced by the 
barbarians of Scythia and Germany." 
Valens died in 378, therefore from the fore-
going history, it seems evident that the empire 
was then trembling beneath the savage tread of 
these countless hordes, and at 376 should be 
dated the first step in the overthrow and ruin of 
the empire. 
On the sounding of the fourth trumpet, " the 
third part of the sun was smitten, and the third 
part of the moon, and the third part of the stars." 
Mr. Lord says, " That catastrophe was undoubt-
edly the subversion of the Western imperial 
government and its dependent organizations, and 
institution in its place of a new rule by the He-
ruli, in the year 476." 
Mr. Cunningham says, 
" This, in the language of symbols, evidently 
refers to the extinction of the imperial govern-
ment of Rome within the limits of the Western 
Empire, which was effected between the years 
455 and 476. 
In 476, the imperial govern-
ment was subverted, and Augustus, the last Em-
peror of the West, was deposed and banished 
from Rome by Odoacer, the General of the He-
ruli, who was elected, and reigned, the first bar-
barian king of Italy." Prof. Putzsays, " Odo-
acer, who had entered the Roman service as a 
mercenary, at the head of a band composed of 
Herulians, Rugians, &c., put an end to the em-
pire of the West by deposing the Emperor Romu-
lus Augustulus, and was proclaimed king of Italy 
by his German mercenaries, in 476." 
S. G. 
Goodrich says, " Genseric continued to wage 
war against the Romans till the fall of the em 
pire, twenty years after his first invasion. 
Dur-
ing this period, eight emperors were successively 
raised to the throne; but their acts were not of 
sufficient importance to entitle them to be men-
tioned here. The last of these named Augustulus, 
was dethroned in 476, by a German chief named 
Odoacer, who abolished the name and office of 
Emperor, and assumed that of King of Italy 
The ancient history of Rome terminates with 
this event, and here (476) begins the history of 
modern Italy." 
Fredet says, " The last Em-
peror of the West, by a singular coincidence 
bore the names both of the founder of the city 
(Romulus), and of the founder of the empire of 
Rome, (Augustus); being called Romulus-Au 
gustus. 
Odoacer, king of the Heruli, taking 
advantage of the apathy of the people, easily 
overthrew a tottering throne, the fall of which 
was accelerated by its weakness. 
He attacked 
Augustulus in Ravenna, and, having made him 
self master of the town, deprived him of the pur 
pie, though, through compassion for his age, he 
spared his life, and even granted him an honora 
ble retreat near Naples. The conqueror fouud 
no greater difficulty in subduing Pavia, Rome 
and all Italy, of which he was proclaimed king 
476. 
Thus was the Roman Empire destroyed 
in the West, twelve hundred and twenty-nine 
years after the building of Rome, five hundred 
and seven after the battle of Actium." Millot 
speaking of this event says : " Such was the end 
of the Western Empire 1229 years after the 
building of Rome." 
Gibbon says that Augustu 
lus " would be the least entitled to the notice 
of posterity, if his reign, which was marked by 
the extinction of the Roman Empire in the 
West, did not have a memorable era in the his 
tory of mankind," 
I have offered these superabundant historical 
extracts, in order to indelibly impress upon the 
memory of the reader, that in the year 476, at 
the sounding of the fourth trumpet, the last trum-
pet devoted to the northern scourges, the West-
ern imperial government was subverted—-extin-
guished; an end was put to the empire of the 
West—it was overthrown—destroyed; and the 
territory left entirely at the mercy of her desola-
tors. Therefore between theblast of the first angel 
at 376, [the first period of the Gothic invasion, 
which was followed by other irruptions of the 
northern invaders,] and the sounding of the fourth 
trumpet, in 476, [which marks " a memorable 
era in the history of mankind," the extinction of 
the Roman Empire m the West,] these hordes 
not only entered, ravaged and subverted the em-
pire of the West, but have also chosen their por-
tion of the territory, some larger and others 
smaller, and upon each erecting an independent 
government, and recognizing no sovereignty above 
their own. 
Mr. Lord remarks, " On the con-
quest of Italy and termination of the imperial 
rule by the deposition of Augustulus in 476, the 
barbarians held possession of the whole Western 
Empire, with the exception of a part of Britain 
and Gaul, and were distributed under ten kingly 
governments." 
Thus the prophetic scriptures not only deter-
mine the geographical boundaries within which the 
ten kingdoms are to be established, but also the 
chronological limits for the rise of the ten horns 
upon the head of the fourth beast, which is nearly 
half a century prior to 519! 
We again and again repeat, the prophetic scene 
of the " ten horns," and the rise and rule of the 
little horn " is laid in Western Rome. 
(For the Herald.) 
"That Day." 
WHAT day can it be that is so noted in the 
scriptures of the prophets,—so illustrious in the 
songs of Zion,—so interwoven with the prayers 
of saints,—so long looked for by the good, and 
so bright to the eye of hope, as to be referred 
to, by the great Apostle of the Gentiles, three 
times in one short epistle, (2 Tim. 1:12, 18; 
4:8,) and so well known to all Christians as to 
be immediately recognized, without being other-
wise designated ? It is a day that comes apace. 
Noiselessly it may be, but surely and rapidly it 
approaches. 
1. It is " the day of the Lord." (2 Peter 
3:10.) 
Men have had their day of grace and of 
power, and have wasted it. 
They have judged, 
condemned and executed the saifits of the Most 
High, till the blood of many millions of martyrs 
cries aloud for vengeance. 
This cry has entered 
the ears of the Lord of hosts and he will avenge 
them speedily. 
Soon will the knell of six thou 
sand years announce man's day ended and the 
day of the Lord begun. 
" For, behold, the 
Lord cometh out of his place to punish the in-
habitants of the earth for their iniquity: the 
earth also shall disclose her blood and shall no 
more cover her slain." (Isa. 26:21.) 
This will 
be "the day of judgment and perdition of un-
godly men." 
2. It is "the day of redemption." (Ephes. 
5:30.) 
It being the Lord's day it is also the day 
of the Lord's church. 
Adam in Eden sold away 
his possession. 
But " the land shall not be sold 
for ever." 
A redemption has been granted for 
the land, and a kinsman of ours has undertaken 
to redeem it. 
The second Adam, the Lord from 
heaven will do it. 
We have a good illustration 
of his work in the law of Levit. 25:23-25. 
The 
lost inheritance will be restored. 
Jesus and his 
glorified saints shall inherit the renewed earth 
their bodies being redeemed from death. (Hosea 
13:14.) 
To believers is now given "that holy 
Spirit of promise which is the earnest of our in 
heritance until the redemption of the purchased 
possession, unto the praise of his glory." (Eph 
1:13, 14.) 
3. It is '' the perfect day:' (Prov. 4:18.) 
The 
present state is one of imperfection. 
All Chris-
tians are one in Christ. 
They possess the same 
Spirit, trust in the same Saviour, have the same 
Bible as their directory, fight against the same 
foes, and are bound for the same kingdom, yet a 
diversity of opinion on minor points of doctrine 
exists among them. Their oneness with Christ is 
not yet fully manifested. 
The watchmen will 
not " see.eye to eye " till the Lord brings again 
Zion, and then " He shall appear in his glory." 
(Isa. 52:8; Psa. 102:16.) 
" For now we know 
in part, and we prophesy in part. 
But when 
that which is perfect is come, then that which is 
in part shall be done away .... For now we 
see through a glass darkly ,* but then face to 
face; now I know in part; but then shall I 
know even as also I am known." 
(1 Corinth. 
13:9-12.) 
4. It is " the day of Christ." (Philip. 1:0.) 
It is not the day of his humiliation and death, 
but of his exaltation and glory-. 
At the first 
advent he was the child born, and the son given 
to the men of Judah; but at his second coming 
" the government shall be upon his shoulder," 
and "the Lord God shall give unto him the 
throne of his father David, and he shall reign 
over the house of Jacob forever, and of his king-
dom there shall be no end." (Isa. 9:6, 7 ; Luke 
1:30-33.) 
His ascension to the throne will not 
be left to the vote of the world, for his enemies 
have said, " We will not have this man to reign 
over us." 
Neither will it be left to the choice 
of those who nominally are his people, for con-
cerning " many " of them, he will have to say 
at last, " I know you not from whence ye are. 
Depart from me all ye workers of iniquity." 
(Luke 13:24-29; 19:11-27.) 
If the occupancy 
of the throne by the Lord's Anointed, was to be 
decided by the vote of „the world or of the church 
(so called), we would despair of his enthronement. 
But " the zeal of the Lord of hosts shall per-
form this." 
Jehovah will set his " King upon 
his holy hill of Zion." 
He will " judge the 
quick and the dead at his appearing and his 
kingdom." 
It is written, " Abraham rejoiced 
to see my day:" [the day of Christ] " and he 
saw it and was glad." (John 8:56.) 
Surely it 
was not the time of Christ's humiliation and sor-
ow which made the aged patriarch rejoice, but 
rather the day of his exaltation. 
When he shall 
appear as a Conqueror, with his sword girt upon 
his thigh, and shall sway his sceptre over the na-
tions of the redeemed on the new earth, then 
Abraham shall see in reality, what he once saw 
by faith afar off, and which even there gladdened 
his heart. 
5. It is the day -of the King's espousals. 
(Canticles 3:11.) 
The church is the bride, the 
Lamb's wife. The day of her union with the 
Bridegroom is at hand. 
Now/he is "taken 
away," and she fasts and looks sad. 
But soon 
he will return, and then she shall rejoice, and 
her joy no man taketh from her. 
Now she ap-
pears as a beggar clothed in rags, but the King 
has set his affection upon her, and in robes of 
unfading beauty she shall soon be arrayed. Once 
she was crowned, but her crown lies in the dust, 
and none but the hand of the King of kings can 
purify it, and place it upon her head, and he will 
do it " in the day of his espousals, and in the 
day of' the gladness of his heart." 
Now she is 
despised by the wicked, "smitten" by "the 
watchmen," and often goes to secret places to 
weep; but by and by she will be honored by an-
gels and glorified by God. 
So strong is her at-
tachment to her absent Lord, that she calls this 
world a wilderness; herself, a stranger; and the 
time of her sojourning here, a night. 
She is 
waiting for the day to dawn, and the day-star to 
arise in her heart. 
(2 Peter 1:19.) 
She has 
sometimes been mistaken respecting the time of 
the return of the heavenly Bridegroom from the 
far country, whither he has gone, and therefore 
many have tauntingly said to her, " Where is 
the promise of his coming?" 
She has pointed 
them to the promise of Christ, of angels, and of 
inspired men ; and though she knows " not when 
the time is," she is determined to " wait" and 
" look for him," that it may be granted unto 
her, that she "may find mercy of the Lord in 
THAT DAT." 
' The church has waited long 
Her absent Lord to see ; 
And still in loneliness she waits, 
A friendless stranger she. 
OFFICE, No. 8 Chardon-street 
J. V. HIMES, Proprietor. 
"WIS HAVE NOT FOLLOWED CUNNINGLY DEVISED FABLES." 
THE ADVENT 
HERALD. 
Age after age has gone, 
Sun after san has set, 
And still, in weeds of widowhood, 
She weeps a mourner yet. 
Come, Lord, and wipe away 
The curse, the sin. the stain, 
And make this blighted world of oars 
Thine own fair world again. 
Come, then, Lord Jesus, come!" 
J. M, OKROCK, 
A Pious 
(For the Herald.) 
Soldier. 
DEAR BROTHER '—It is long since I bad the 
pleasure of other communication with you, than 
through the Herald. That faithful friend has 
never deserted its cause nor its patrons since 
1842 and '43. 
It has cheered many a pilgrim 
on his weary way, strengthened many a saint to 
hold fast the form of sound words, established 
many a disciple to heed the sure word of prophe-
cy, To the young it has been meat in due sea-
son ; to the aged, a beacon-light to expect that 
blessed hope: the bright appearance of our 
Lord, To the timid it has imparted courage to 
be not weary in well doing, in due time ye shall 
reap. To the doubting it assures, "''Behold I 
come quickly, and my reward is with me \ to 
give to every man as his work shall be," To 
the candid and sincere inquirer, after truth, it 
has opened its flood-gates of light, and ably de-
fended its Bible teachings. It has often put to 
flight' the ignorance- of foolish men—seducers, 
waxing worse and worse, A rebuke to the 
double-minded, who are unstable in all their 
ways. To its enemies it has been uncompromis-
ing. 
As forbearing and Christ-like, uniting the 
wisdom and the dove. To the " man of sin " it 
gives no place. No, not an inch of truth to 
court its smiles or fear its frowns. It never has 
been- lured to depart from the faith once deliv-
ered to the saints. Neither dubious or crooked 
in- its jou-rneyings, it has proved all things, and 
held fast that which is good. 
Its contributors 
have been men. of wisdom and of God. 
And 
hail it the very best religious newspaper of this 
sin-destroying age. 
And now my brother beloved ! I come to ask 
for it a place in the tent of a pious soldier, 
whose history I will give you briefly. He shall 
speak for himself. 
As subjoined I give an ex-
tract from a recent letter : 
" Fort Columbus. 
"ESTEEMED 
MOTHER 
IN 
CHRIST:—I thank 
you for the readiug of the Advent. Herald. It 
cheers my heart and encourages my way. 
It 
strengthens my mind to war with the Romanists, 
whom Satan has stirred up to resist the truth. 
They even threaten to burn my Bible, tracts, 
and other good books, if I persist in urging my 
poor degraded fellow-soldier to come to Christ. 
But their threats do not intimidate me. 
They 
only make me strong to fight against Satan and 
his imps, for I know more are tor me than for 
them. 
There are an innumerable host of angels 
and chariots of fire to fight with me, and I hear 
the voice of my Saviour saying, ' It is I, be not 
afraid..' And when I see men converted to God 
through my feeble means, (wha are ordered from 
Fort Columbus to some other part of the army,) 
go forth, filled with love to Grod, in their turn 
and measure to spread the good news of salva 
tion, it is then I feel a reward for all my toils 
and persecutions from the Romanists, and 
the name of the Lord I bid them defiance 
Though Satan stirs up an host against me, and 
I have fightings without, yet, my Christian 
friend,. I wish you to know, I am happy here in 
the work God has assigned me. 
" New York is the fountain-head of the army 
and what flows from, the fountain must either 
corrupt or purify. From all parts of the coun 
try men are gathered here, and then sent to dif-
ferent stations in the army; and if by the grace 
of God converted—think of the glorious cOnse 
queneeB ! I trust a general reformation of the 
poor soldiers- God's power is already visible 
amongst us, in subduing these poor sinners tore 
pentance and faith. 1 intend asking permission 
for a room, where we can have morning and 
evening devotions, removed from the hubbub of 
the camp and men of the devil. 
Once a week 
hold a temperance; meeting, and have forty 
signers to- the pledge; also a prayer meeting on 
Friday evenings. 
Some who attend are l 
claimed backsliders. 
0 ! pray for me, that 
may so labor as watching for the coming of the 
blessed. Saviour.. 
L. A. P. 
This promising young man shares largely in 
my Christian, affection, and earnest desires to 
promote his spirituality and usefulness among 
class of our countrymen difficult to reach by or 
dinary means.. His conversion was wonderful 
showing the power of God over human proba 
bilities- Chosen, of God, an instrument to her-
ald the great salvation among the soldiers in 
the American army; and truly he has gone 
forth to his great commission, enduring hardness 
as a good soldier of Jesus Christ. 
A pleasing test of his Christian fidelity oc-
curred when, called to meet several of his officers 
on duty, waiting commands. 
The officers were 
profane. 
At the suitable moment, he stepped 
forth, and modestly handed each the Swearer's 
Prayer—& tract which had been signally blessed 
to himself. 
My acquaintance with him commenced dur-
ing his sojourn on Fort Adams, (Newport,) and 
at a time when he walked with the multitude to 
do evil. 
His career of folly was arrested, and 
with intense interest I watched the Spirit's op-
eration on his heart, and when his darkness 
turned to light in the Lord, my songs of praise 
broke forth, of glory to God in the highest, for 
the work He hath done. 
In October last, he 
was baptized by Rev. H. Jackson, and joined 
the church under his care, in Newport. 
Shortly 
after this, he was ordered with the companies on 
Fort Adams,- to New York, Fort Columbus, des-
tined to go to California! 
Great exertions were 
made and petitions sent to Government for his 
discharge, as his term of enlistment expires in 
August next. 
With difficulties and discourage-
ments his transfer only was effected. Thus was 
he peculiarly preserved to escape the sorrows 
and perils of the ill-fated San Francisco. Since 
which time he has been steadily onward in his 
labors of love and reform on Fort C. 
I could 
specify some interesting cases of his faithfulness 
and successful zeal for God. 
But suffice for the 
present. 
I realize your time is precious. 
I 
bespeak for him your Christian interest and 
prayers, as an Advent Christian soldier—" a 
Green Mountain boy " from Vermont. 
I enclose a trifle I wish you to appropriate in 
sending him the Herald. Something on tem-
perance and Romanism would also prove accepta-
ble. 
Fare-thee-well, brother; maytheLordbe 
thy stay in the future, as he has been in the 
st. 
Believe me yours, in the blessed hope, 
C. A. LUDLOW. 
Newport, Feb. 8d, 1854. 
(Concluded.) 
Chronological Table 
OF EVENTS CONNECTED WITH THE PAPACY. 
1820. THE Cortes in Spain, again abolished 
the Inquisition there. 
1823 (April 2.0). Pius VII. died, and was 
succeeded by Pope Leo XII. 
1826. The Inquisition in Rome " condemned 
to death Caschiur, a pupil of the Propaganda, 
who was appointed Patriarch of Memphis, but 
not accepted by the viceroy of Egypt. 
The 
pope changed the punishment into imprisonment 
for life. His crime is unknown."—En. Am. v. 
7, p. 34. 
1829. The papacy " achieved a great victory 
in England 
The oaths were repealed or 
modified, to which alone the Protestant had as-
cribed its safety in the times of the restoration 
and of the revolution in England 
The 
measure was passed, the hazard was encoun-
tered."—Ranke's Hist, of the Popes, p. 320. 
Leo died, and was succeeded by Pius VIII 
1830. Pius died, and was succeeded by Greg-
ory XVI. in 1831. 
1846. Pope Gregory died, and was succeeded 
by Pope Pius IX. 
1848 (Nov.) Rome was the theatre of an in 
surrection, which resulted in the overthrow, for 
a time, of the pope's temporal power. 
" The conflict was the immediate result of 
the refusal of the pope to dismiss his minis-
try, at the demand of the people, though the 
latter, for some time past, have been urging the 
pope to adopt still more liberal measures. 
Count Rossi arrived in his carriage at the 
hall of the Assembly, and on alighting from his 
carriage he was loudly hooted by a crowd which 
had assembled for that purpose. 
He is said to 
have displayed contempt for the hootings of the 
mob, and a man then rushed from the crowd, 
and mortally stabbed him with a knife in the 
throat. 
" After the death of Rossi, a sullen pause en-
sued, though towards evening groups of mingled 
soldiers and citizens, with lighted torches, were 
heard singing in chorus along the streets,— 
"Blessed is the hand that stabbed the tyrant." 
But during the night the popular ringleaders 
were on the alert, and everything was organized 
for a demonstration on the following day. 
On 
the morning of the 16th, at half-past ten, a 
gathering began in the great square del Popolo, 
and symptoms of a menacing character were per-
ceptible in the leading streets. 
Printed papers 
were handed eagerly about, all having the same 
purport, and containing the following ' Funda-
mental points.—1. Promulgation and full adop-
tion of Italian nationality. 
2. Convocation of 
a constituent assembly and realization of the 
federal pact. 
3. Realization of the vote for the 
war of independence given in the Chamber of 
Deputies. 
4. Adoption in its integrity of the 
programme Mamiani, 5th June. 
5. Ministers 
who have public confidence—Mamiani, Ster-
bini, Cambello, Saliceti, Fusconi, Lunati, Sere-
ni, Galletti.' 
" Their ostensible object was to proceed with 
these five points to the Chamber of Deputies in 
a constitutional manner. 
But the chiefs finding 
themselves in such numbers, and many of the 
deputies being found mixed up with the crowd, 
the cry was raised to march to the pope's 
palace. 
At one o'clock the members of the 
Chamber presented themselves as the mouth-
piece of the multitude, and transmitted the five 
points to the monarch. 
In about ten minutes, 
the president of the late ministerial council, 
Cardinal Soglia, informed the deputa^011 that 
his holiness would reflect on the subjec^> 
take it into his best consideration. 
This an-
swer was proclaimed to the people, but a general 
murmur of dissatisfaction gave evidence of its 
insufficiency to meet the crisis, and the crowd 
insisted on the deputation getting a personal au-
dience with the pope. This was obtained, and 
in about a quarter of an hour, Galletti, the ex-
police minister, appeared on the balcony to ac-
quaint the people that the pope had positively 
declined adhesion to their request, and had 
stated that ' he would not brook dictation.' 
At 
two o'clock the position of the pontiff began to 
grow critical. 
All the avenues of the Quirinal 
palace were blocked up by dense crowds, and 
as no preparation had been made for this unan-
ticipated influx of visitors, there was but the 
usual small detachment of Swiss guards on 
duty. 
These men were known to be resolute, 
and had there been but a few more of them the 
monarch might have cut his way through the 
mob and gained Subiaco in the Appenines, 
whither it had often been a question of retiring 
from the rabble of Rome on previous outbreaks. 
As it was, one of the advanced sentinels having 
been seized and disarmed by the mob, the Swiss 
body-guard instantly flung back and barred the 
gates of the palace, presenting their muskets, in 
readiness to fire at once on the immense mass 
of multitude which beleaguered the Quirinal. 
" At this stage of the proceedings, it was evi-
dent that the die was cast. From the back streets 
men emerged, bearing aloft long ladders, where-
with to scale the pontifical abode; carts and 
wagons were dragged up and ranged within mus-
ket-shot of the windows, to protect the assailants 
in their determined attack upon the palace; the 
cry was, 'To arms! to arms!' and musketry 
began to bristle in the approaches from every di-
rection; fagots were produced, and piled up 
against one of the condemned gates of the build-
ing, to which the mob was in the act of setting 
fire, when a brisk discharge of fire-locks scat-
tered the besiegers in that quarter. 
The multi 
tude began now to perceive that there would be 
a determined resistance to their further opera-
tions, but were confident that the Quirinal, if 
not taken by storm, must yield to progressive in 
road. 
The drums were now beating throughout 
the city, and the disbanded groups of regular 
troops and carbineers, reinforcing the hostile 
display of assailants, and rendering it truly for-
midable. 
Random shots were aimed at the 
windows, and duly responded to; the outposts, 
one after another, being taken by the people, 
the garrison within being too scanty to man the 
out-works. 
Monsignor Palma, private secretary 
to his holiness, was killed, by a bullet penetrat-
ing his forehead. 
A shot is also said to have 
entered the room where the pope was. 
" As if upwards of 6000 troops of all kinds 
were not enough to reduce the little garrison of 
Swiss, two six-pounders now appeared on the 
scene, and were drawn up and duly pointed 
against the main gate, and a truce having been 
proclaimed, another deputation claimed entrance 
and audience of the pope, which the monarch 
ordered to be allowed. 
The deputation were 
bearers of the people's ultimatum, which was a 
re-production of the five points before stated; 
and they now declared that they would allow his 
holiness one hour to consider, after which, if not 
adopted, they announced their firm purpose to 
break into the Quirinal, and put to death every 
inmate thereof, with the sole and single excep-
tion of his holiness himself. 
Pius IX. no longer 
hesitated, but sent for Galletti, who was in-
structed to form a ministry in accordance with 
the wishes of the people. 
" On the morning of the 17th ult., at day-
break, the people pulled down the barricades 
which had been erected at Montacavallo, but 
the gates of the Quirinal palace were strictly 
closed. 
" A letter from the Consul of France to the 
Minister of Foreign Affairs, written at Marseilles 
on the afternoon of Nov. 28th, says that the pope 
left Rome, secretly, at five o'clock on the morn-
ing of the 24th. 
The Daily News says that he 
left in disguise, and had arrived at Leata, to 
which place the steamer Semure had gone to 
meet his holiness, who intended to go to France. 
Rome remained tranquil, and seemed indifferent 
to the pope's departure."—Ad. Her. n. s. v. 2, 
p. 168. 
The pope fled to Gaeta in the livery of a ser-
vant. A provisional government was proclaimed 
in Rome. 
The temporal deposition of the pope 
was also proclaimed, and his title limited to 
that of " Pope, Bishop of Rome." 
1849, " This event took place at one o'clock, 
on the morning of the 9th of February. 
It has 
been voted that he enjoy all the guaranties 
necessary for the independence of the spiritual 
power. The proclamation of the Republic closes 
thus : —' After so many ages we again possess a 
country and liberty; let us prove ourselves worthy 
of the gift which God has sent us, and the Roman 
Republic will be eternal and happy. 
The min-
isters of the Republican Government are : C. E. 
Muzzarelli, C. Annellini, F. Galcotti, L. Mari-
ani, P. Sterbini, P. di Campbello.' 
There is 
to be no President of the Roman Republic, but 
three consuls would probably administer the 
government. The constituent Assembly of Rome 
sat on the 11th and 12th. 
Mamiani's resigna-
tion was accepted. 
In the sitting of the 12th, 
it was resolved that henceforth the laws should 
be administered in the name of God, and of the 
people."—Ib. v. 3, p. 56. 
The Government found three prisoners in the 
dungeons of the Inquisition, and one of these 
was a bishop who had been confined in his cell 
for twenty-five years. 
The Roman Republic 
abolished that tribunal. 
In May the French sent an army into Italy 
for the restoration of the pope. 
In July, they entered Rome, and sent the keys 
of the city to the pope. 
In September, the pope quitted Gacta, and 
took up his abode in Naples. 
1850 (April 12). The pope returned to Rome, 
was enthusiastically received by the people, and 
resumed the exercise of his temporal powers. 
The Inquisition was, restored by the Papal 
Government; and Dr. Achili was for a time 
incarcerated there. 
Here closes our extract from various histori-
cal sources respecting the history of the Papacy. 
The Law Against Blasphemy. 
" O Lord, our heavenly King, 
Thy name is all divine !" 
THE tabernacle in the wilderness was finished. 
It stood on a plain, at the base of Mount Sinai, 
with its brilliantly dyed curtains of scarlet, and 
purple, and blue, waving gracefully—with its 
Ark once laid with gold—its mercy-seat of the 
same precious material—its crown and ephod of 
precious stones—its cherubim—and its brazen 
lance, and pillars sparkling in the sunlight. 
Never had the poor oppressed bond-men of Pha-
raoh, who had wrought perhaps upon the monu-
ments of Egypt, seen so splendid an edifice, for 
Jehovah himself had furnished the pattern, and 
so much wealth had been called into requisition 
in its construction, that some have wondered, 
that " the jewels of gold, and jewels of silver," 
borrowed by the Israelites of the Eyptians pre-
vious to their exodus, sufficed, together with 
their other meagre wealth, for its construction. 
Yet it was not the gold, the brass, nor the silver, 
that rendered it so splendid: the cloud had rested 
upon it, and the glory of the GREAT I AM, had 
filled it. 
Many and signal had been the displays of Di-
vine power, since those two millions of wander-
ers had turned their backs upon the fertile fields, 
watered by the Nile. 
The pillar of fire had led 
them by night—the cloud had guided them by 
day—they had been " manna fed, and Horeb 
supplied," in the wide, hot, and sandy desert. 
They knew that JEHOVAH was God. They could 
not doubt, and it would seem to us, that, depen-
dent as they were upon his goodness, they could 
not have failed " to sanctify him continually in 
their hearts." 
But alas! for the depravity of 
man! 
These wandering tribes again and again 
called down upon their heads the wrath of an 
offended Deity. 
No more striking instance of this wayward 
wilfulness is given, it seems to me, than is re-
corded in the eleventh verse of the twenty-fourth 
chapter of Leviticus. 
Shilometh's son, with the 
thunderings of Sinai over his head—with the 
tabernacle before his eyes, and displays of divine 
power all around him, strove with an Israelite, 
and while striving, " bltJsphemed the name of 
the Lord and cursed." 
God had fed him that 
very morning with manna—he was dependent 
upon the same gracious Being for his evening 
supplies, but still he " blasphemed and cursed." 
No wonder that the vast host of spectators, 
stood still at first, and gazed upon him as a mon-
ster. 
No wonder that they bound and brought 
him to their great lawgiver, Moses: no wonder 
that they thrust him into prison until " the mind 
of the Lord might be showed there." 
At last 
amid the muttering of Mount Sinai, God spake, 
and fearful was the sentence that he pronounced. 
" Bring forth him that hath cursed without 
the camp, and let all that heard him lay their 
hands upon his head, and let all the congrega-
tion stone him." 
It was done, and before evening the mangled 
corpse of Shilometh's son lay streaked over with 
blood, without the camp. 
The Jews, ever after this, seemed to have re-
garded blasphemy as the most heinous of offences, 
indeed they passed condemnation sometimes with-
out sufficiently examining into the guilt of the 
accused. 
When wicked Jezebel, in the days of 
THE ADVENT 
HERALD. 
Elijah, wanted the fruitful vineyard of Naboth 
for her husband the king, she wrote letters say-
ing, " Proclaim a fast, and set Naboth on high 
among the people; and set two sons of Belial 
before him, to bear witness against him, saying, 
' Thou didst blaspheme God and the king,' and 
then carry him out and stone him that he may 
die."' 
it was done—poor Naboth was stoned with-
out the city, and Ahab went down into his pleas-
ant vineyard, claiming it for his own. 
But there is another thought connected with 
this subject. 
At the time of Shilometh's son's 
death, was instituted that law, by which God's 
" only begotten Son," Jesus Christ, afterwards 
suffered condemnation and death. 
When he stood before Pitate, his Jewish ac-
cusers cried, " We have a law, and by our law 
he ought to die !" They determined that Christ 
was worthy of the death of Shilometh's wicked 
son. 
Ah ! fearful " law !" did not the angels weep 
in anticipation of this event, when it was given 
upon Mount Sinai, and Shilometh's son was led 
forth to die ? Did they know that Christ him-
self— God incarnate, should long years after-
wards, be accused of blasphemy, and be led 
without the gates of Jerusalem, to suffer a fel-
on's death ? If so, they must have watched with 
awe and grief the first execution that took place 
under this Divine law against blasphemy. 
St. Louis Presbyterian. 
"He Careth for You." 
IT is often hard to think so ; that in His al-
mightiness he should deign to have a thought 
towards us. 
Why, the heavens cannot contain 
Him, and if amid the immensity of His creation 
this little world were blotted fj-om existence, its 
loss would never be perceived; and here we 
are, worms upon its surface, poor, helpless, and 
worthless ; and yet he careth for us. 
" He careth for you." 
0 what a load it 
takes from these poor, weak shoulders. 
He that 
has lit up the starry heavens. 
He that has 
rolled forth the planets; that guides the sun in 
its course, and hath established the everlasting 
hills—He it is that careth for us, and upon 
whom we are to cast all our care—spiritual as 
well as temporal; anxieties wearing the body 
as well as corroding the soul; fears, gloomy as 
night; uncertainties, dark and distressful: the 
whole burden of our sins, of our temptations, of 
our doubts, trials and vexations—all to be cast 
upon Him who careth for us. 
Surely he must 
care a great deal for us to be willing to bear 
them all. 
And it is well for us poor mortals, 
that we have some one who is able and willing 
both to care and to bear. 
Yet we see some 
Christians go grovelling along as if such 
promise had never found a place in God's 
Word. 
They prefer to bear their own burdens 
instead of casting them upon the Lord. 
And 
they do bear them, and bear them till they are 
crushed under them; and not until they are 
crushed under them are they willing that God 
should take them to himself. 
" He careth for you." Children of affliction, 
hear ye this. 
What though the world forsake 
you, and leave you to mourn alone. 
What 
though a base ingratitude has stung you to the 
quick, and clouds of anxieties are clustering all 
around you. 
There is one that careth for you, 
and though all others should forsake you, He 
never will. 
True, the night is dark and the 
billows are strong, and the tempest thickens, 
yet look up; there is One walking on the bil-
lows by your side, who is mightier than you.; 
and it is to just such as you that He loves to ex-
tend his care—that precious care, whose watch-
fulness is never withdrawn; whose love is never 
dimmed. 
In the valley He will walk by your 
side, and along the steep and dreary road will 
take your burden to Himself. " Cast thy burden 
upon the Lord, He will sustain thee." 
" He careth for you." 
Child of perplexity, 
hear ye this. 
Why then take thought for to-
morrow ; the morrow is all His own. Can you 
make it better, and if you could make it better 
and take it out of His hands all to yourself, 
would you do it ?, 1 doubt it if you knew how 
much He loved you. 
Trials perhaps, but then 
trials producing patience, and patience experi-
ence, and experience, hope; and all producing 
what ? why a heart fitted to love and serve Him ; 
just such a heart as He wants you to have, 
just such a heart as He says you must have if 
you are to dwell for ever with Him. 
N. Y. Observer. 
« 
Study of Prophecy. 
" No prophecy of the Scripture is of any pri-
vate interpretation. 
For the prophecy came not 
in old time by the will of man, but holy men of 
God spake as they were moved by the Holy 
Ghost." 
Here we are commanded, in our pro-
phetic inquiries, 1o bear in mind that no prophecy 
is of any private, that is, solitary, or isolated 
interpretation. 
We must compare one passage 
of the prophetic Scriptures with another, in or-
der that we may obtain a correct, and at the same 
time, a more enlarged and comprehensive view 
of the predicted future. 
Each prediction is part 
of a great system of prophecy, and must there-
fore be viewed, not privately or alone, but in 
connection with other predictions of a similar 
kind. 
Had the numberless predictions which 
are inwoven at different places in the Book of 
Revelation been merely the utterances of men, 
they would not have exhibited such evidences of 
intimate concatenation or systematic develop-
ment,—there would have been found among them 
irreconcilable discrepancy, as well as much that 
was loose and disjointed. 
" But holy men of 
God spake as they were moved by the Holy 
Ghost." 
Therefore, whatever appearances may 
be presented by the word of prophecy, of inco-
herence, isolation, and want of unity,—it is most 
certain that everything, even to the most minute 
particulars, is arranged with consummate skill, 
so as to produce one harmonious, though compli-
cated, scheme of prophecy. 
Minute observation 
will enable us to discover in every prophetic 
passage some articulation or point of attach-
ment, which joins it, either directly or indirect-
ly, to every other collateral prediction in the 
inspired word. 
To facilitate inquiry, endeavor 
to find out the articulations referred to, and so, 
going from passage to passage, draw from each 
the new information which it communicates on 
the common subject. 
The principle thus laid down for our observ-
ance is, in relation to prophetic study, nothing 
else than what, in relation to other departments 
of knowledge, is known as the leading or char-
acteristic principle of the Baconian Philosophy. 
It demands an induction of facts, or extended 
basis of observation, in order that general truth 
may be satisfactorily ascertained. 
Seeing that 
the analogy which subsists between the word of 
God and the work of God is so close, why should 
not the same method of investigation be adopted 
in reference to the former, as has been so suc-
cessfully employed in reference to the latter? 
If you come to the study of nature with an hy-
pothesis already conceived, you will endeavor 
to accommodate facts to your hypothesis, not 
your hypothesis to facts; and, consequently, you 
will remain as ignorant of the true laws of na-
ture as you were at first. So, too, in the study 
of prophecy : if your belief be not based on a 
comparative view of collateral predictions, but 
brought with you at the outset of your inquiries, 
you will occupy your time, not in humbly learn-
ing the truth of God, but in endeavoring, by 
elaborate argumentations, to adopt in turn every 
prediction to your antecedent belief. To exam-
ine prophecy in connection with preconceived 
views, is a very different thing from examining 
one prophecy in the light of another. 
Let the 
latter examination be conducted with becoming 
diffidence and subjection of mind to the authori-
ty of Scripture,—and the result will be discov-
ery of truth, which, though it may seem to the 
ignorant or prejudiced highly improbable, or 
even positively absurd, is truth notwithstanding, 
and will, in due time be most certainly realized. 
Hewitson. 
Varieties. 
THE CHURCN'S HOPE. 
The Church has waited long ; but her waiting 
is not in vain. 
Yet a little while, and her hope 
shall be realized—her Lord will come to deliver 
her from all her enemies. 
Her dark night is 
drawing to a close, and the dawn of her glorious 
day is at hand. 
On the skirts of the dark cloud 
which is hanging, pregnant with disaster and 
ruin, over the ungodly nations, she may discern 
the streaks of dawn. 
Amidst the thunders which 
are rolling in the political firmament, she may 
hear, nearer and nearer, the footsteps of her 
Anointed King. 
Tossed in her frail bark upon 
the billows of this stormy sea, she may see the 
form of One walking upon the waters, and she 
may hear His " still small voice " saying, " It is 
[; be not afraid." 
If she know what is the 
hope of her calling, she will lift up her head 
amidst the growing troubles, for her redemption 
draweth nigh. 
be looked for until the resurrection and second 
coming of the of Lord. 
/ Yet again, the rule of Antichrist must con-
tinue until the second advent of Christ. 
I have 
already fully considered the passage in 2 Thes-
salonians, which declares that the Man of Sin 
shall be destroyed by the breath of his -mouth 
and the brightness of his coming. 
No other 
meaning can be fairly put upon these words than 
the personal coming of Christ. 
And therefore, 
as there can be no millennium while Antichrist 
continues to hold his sway, we need look for 
none until Christ comes the second time. 
Rev. W. Wood. 
THE WOLF DWELLING WITH THE LAMB. 
Though commentators seem to take it for 
granted that " the wolf dwelling with the lamb," 
&c., is a common figure for the union of men of 
fierce passions, &c., they give no parallel exam-
ple. 
We arc not aware of any similar picture. 
The figure which is evidently floating in their 
minds is one quite different. It is not that the 
wolf dwells with the lamb, but that the wolf be-
comes a lamb. This we admit to be a common 
figure of speech. 
The other we deny to be so. 
An instance of this we give in the words of the 
old Latin hymn upon the conversion of Saul, 
beginning, 
" Pastore percusso, minas 
Spirabat et caedes lupus," &c. 
In which, in the fifth stanza, the figure and the 
words are employed. 
" Ex hoste miles, ex lupo 
Agnus." 
And in that other Latin hymn upon the subject, 
of which we cite the third stanza, which has 
been thus translated or paraphrased : 
" He who, fill'd with threatenings, sped 
Chains and death preparing ; 
By a gentle hand is led 
"With a child-like bearing. 
Like a raging wolf he came, 
But he goes a gentle lamb." 
HORRORS OF THE INQUISITION. 
GAVAZZI, the celebrated Italian anti-Catholic 
lecturer, thus describes one of the modes of tor 
turn practiced upon heretics by the Romish In-
quisition. 
It is called the torture by water, and 
lasts thirty minutes: 
1 He would suppose himself the victim. 
One 
side of him stood the Inquisitors. 
On the other 
was the executioner. 
Above the poor viotim 
was suspended, at a considerable height, a fun-
nel filled with water. 
He was then bound upon 
a table on his back. 
A linen cloth was then 
drawn tightly over hi3 face. He could breathe, 
butnowthe water commences falling drop by drop! 
—the perspiration starts from the face—the cloth 
becomes damp—the small hole through which he 
breathes closes—suffocation commences ! 
" Then came the question of the Inquisitor. 
Are you guilty? 
He struggles for breath to 
speak, and faintly answers, No! 
Drop by drop 
falls the water for ten minutes; then comes ano-
ther question from the Inquisitor, Are you guilty? 
With great difficulty he answers, No ! Ten min-
utes more, and the same question is repeated and 
answered in the same manner. At the expiration 
of the next ten minutes comes the last question 
—Are you guilty ?—when with a last desperate 
effort, he barely whispers, No! and in another in-
stant he is no more—he is BEAB !" 
THE ABVENT BEFORE THE MILLENNIUM. 
The Church is warned to give heed to the signs 
of the Lord's advent. 
Can there be any sign 
more clear, more definite, more universally in-
telligible, than the millennium itself, if it is to 
precede the advent ? How, then, is it that it 
finds no place when these signs are enumerated 
by our Lord ? 
Again, the creation must continue " groaning 
and travailing in pain "until the "manifesta-
tion of the sons of God." Nay, even the Church 
—" those who have the first-fruits of the Spirit " 
—must continue to groan until the " adoption, 
to wit, the redemption of the body "—(Rom. 
8:19-23). 
The resurrection shall be the term of 
their misery. 
But there can be no millennium 
while the Church and creation are groaning and 
in misery : indeed, the millennial restoration of 
felicity is a favorite theme of Old Testament 
prophecy. 
And no millennium, therefore, is to 
often required in the acquisition of notoriety. 
We knew an Englishman, who once advertised 
in London that he would at a given time sail 
in a tub upon the Thames and under London 
Bridge, drawn by a parcel of geese in aquatic 
harness. 
When the day came, the man, geese 
and tub were there, and so were an immense 
multitude of spectators, curious to see the novel 
and ludicrous feat. 
It was indeed ludicrous 
enough, but it did «ot end so to many of those 
in sight, for the weight of the dense throng 
caused a orash, and the death of many of them, 
by mangling and drowning. 
The man was of 
course made notorious, he and his geese. When 
introduced, he asked if we knew who he was, 
and said he supposed so. 
We replied in the 
negative. 
"What!" he returned, in astonish-
ment, " never heard of me before! W'hy, I'm 
the great goose man !" 
GEMS. 
IT signifies nothing to say we will not change 
our religion, if our religion change not us. 
If a man lives and dies a mere professor, it 
had been better for him if he had lived aud died 
a mere heathen. 
It is not talking, but walking with Ged, that 
gives a man the denomination of a Christian. 
Darkness may as well put on the name of 
light, as a wicked man the name of a Christian. 
It is our main business in this world, to se-
cure the happiness of the next. 
'A desire of happiness is natural^ a desire of 
holiness is supernatural. 
If we are willing, God will help us; if sin-
cere, God will accept us. 
A serious remembrance of God is the foun-
tain of obedience to God. 
Four things a Christian should especially la-
bor after, namely, to be humble, thankful, watch-
ful, and cheerful. 
If we would not fall into things unlawful, we 
must sometimes deny ourselves in those that are 
lawful. 
Salvation then draws near to man, when it is 
his main care. 
Religion must be our business, then it will be 
our delight. 
It will cost something to be religious ; it will 
cost more not to be so. 
The gate which leads to life is a straight gate, 
therefore we should fear; it is an open gate, 
therefore we should hope. 
THE CHANGE. 
THE gifts of this world may increase our pos-
sessions, but they make no alteration in our-
selves. individually, we are just the same af-
ter receiving the gift as before. Not so with the 
gift of the Saviour; for, on the reception of that, 
there is a change wrought in us personally. We 
are not the same afterwards that we were before 
So complete is the change, that the word of God 
designates it as a new birth. 
" If any man be 
in Christ, he is a new caeature." 
He occupies 
a new position in the scale of created intelli-
gences : whereas, before, he was among them 
who hate God, and, of course, obnoxious 
God's eternal vengeance; now he is numbered 
among the saints. 
His voice is mingled with 
the voices of saints and seraphs ; and, little as 
it may be thought of on earth, makes melody in 
heaven ! Men may give us gold, but the gospel 
turns us into gold; men may open to us new 
springs of delight, but those springs are without 
us, and we must repair to them when we would 
drink their waters; and "whosoever drinketh 
of them shall thirst again;" but "whosoever 
drinketh of the water that I shall give him 
shall never thirst; but the water that I shall 
give him shall be in him a well of water spring-
ing up into everlasting life." 
NOTORIETY. 
DR. 
JOHNSON used to say that nothing was 
easier than to draw a crowded house; let a man 
announce that he will preach standing on his 
head, and thousands will assemble to see him 
do it. 
Tho above reminds us of how little merit is 
Christ's Absence. 
" I WAS telling a friend," says one of God's 
children, when recording the feelings of her 
despondent hours, " that 1 could not praise 
Christ for anything." 
" Praise him," was the 
reply, "that you are miserable without him." 
The answer was pungent, but proper and con-
soling. 
The vacancy in the heart, when Christ 
has withdrawn himself, is a very sad and fearful 
3; but it is well when it is a felt, palpable 
vacancy. 
For " the ungodly are not so." 
No sense of 
want reminds them constantly of something lost. 
They do not miss what they never possessed. 
The soul finds satisfaction, inadequate indeed, 
but largely sought for in visible things and 
earthly gains. 
Power-, or gold, or voluptuous 
pleasure, or ambition's dreams, or the nobler 
pursuit of science, fill up the mind or heart, and 
there is no consciousness of a mournful vacancy, 
since for Christ there is no room. 
But to the 
Christian the want of Christ's sensible presence 
is the deepest, most momentous want. 
No earth-
ly waat can satisfy the craving which the re-
deemed heart has for communion with its Re-
deemer.. To be with him and near him: to look 
upon his face; to rest upon his everlasting arm; 
to be sheltered under his mighty wings.; to walk 
by his side and be guarded by his hand ; this is 
joy and peace and life. When he withdraweth 
himself or hideth himself, then cometh trouble,; 
but a trouble that by its very existence proves 
the existence of a living affection. We mourn 
Christ's absence, because we love his presence. 
We are sad in the darkness, because the light of 
his countenance was sweet to our souls. 
And 
though we may not cease to struggle upwards 
towards the light, or cease to pray for the Sa-
viour's return, we may thank him for the last 
consolation which remains for the deserted-saint, 
and 
praise him that we are miserable without 
Jjjjjj " 
South. Presbyterian. 
Happiness and. Duty. 
0, HOW easily God might-have placed us KT 
comfortable circumstanoes from the commence-
ment of our existence! 
Indeed he might! 
And 
if passive enjoyment had been the grand -end of 
or being, he would have done so. 
But mere en-
joyment is not the end of our being; it is duty. 
Ah-! duty is often hard, and its rugged pathway 
often lies through tangled thorns and. briers, and 
is an exceedingly self-denying, cross-bearing way.. 
0! how much there is that is inhospitable all 
around us, and soattered all over this universe 
76 
THE ADVENT HERALD. I 
and from time to time we must encounter the 
worst. 
Still ours need not be a life of misery. 
God has constituted us in such a manner that we 
may find our highest happiness in doing our duty, 
however toilsome. 
Does not he who has, by long 
habit, become passionately fond of a certain 
kind of labor feel happier in it than he could 
feel in passive enjoyment? How he who has 
learned the great lesson of finding his highest 
happiness in duty—has made the improvement 
which the training of his whole life was intended 
to teach—fulfils the design of his being, and can 
be happy irrespective of outward circumstances. 
God knew there were outward circumstances 
enough to make a hill of any plain, especially 
in this world, and hence it was his design to 
educate his child, man, in such a manner, that 
he coultl find a hill nowhere. No! were it pos-
sible for one who makes it his meat and drink to 
do the will of God, to descend to the lowest re-
gions of the world of darkness, it would be a 
heaven to him, since he would carry a heaven in 
his own bosom. Must not he who has made this 
arrangement be himself good! 
Rev-Dr- N°yes-
m^o 
BOSTON, MARCH 11, 1854. 
THE readers of the Herald are most earnestly besought to give it 
room in their prayers; that by means of it God may be honored and 
his truth advanced ; also, that it may be conducted in faith and 
love, with sobriety of judgment and discernment of the truth, in 
nothing carried away into error, or hasty speech, or sharp, unbroth-
erly disputation. 
THE PROPHECY OF 
ISAIAH. 
CHAPTER XXXV. 
AN'D an high-way shall be there, and a way, 
And it shall be called, The way of holiness ; 
The unclean shall not pass over it; but it shall be for those •, 
The wayfaring men, though fools, shall not err therein.—v. 8. 
" A highway," and " way," are put by substi-
tution for the means of access to the regenerated 
inheritance. 
By the use of a metaphor, "holi-
ness" is denominated " the way," to illustrate that 
the will and law of God, the mediation and interces-
sion of Christ, and the sanctification by the Holy 
Spirit, are the only means of access. 
Thus John 
cried in the wilderness, (Matt. 3:3,) " Prepare ye 
the way of the Lord, make his paths straight." 
The direct way from the wilderness of Sin in 
which Israel had wandered, to the earthly Canaan, 
was through Idumea " by the king's highway " 
i. e., the highway of the king of Edom, (see Num. 
20:17), who refused them a passage through his 
country. 
But to the heavenly Canaan, holiness is 
a highway, leading from the wilderness of sin to 
that better country, which no Idumean king can 
obstruct, nor forbid God's Israel a passage over. 
" The unclean," by a substitution, is expressive 
of those who are morally unfitted for the kingdom, 
into which such can never pass, or enter. 
Thus 
Isaiah said of the restored " Jerusalem, the holy 
city," (52.1) " henceforth there shall no more 
come into thee the uncircumcised and the unclean.' 
The Lord said by Joel, (3:17,) " So shall ye know 
that I am the Lord your God dwelling in Zion my 
holy mountain ; then shall Jerusalem be holy 
and there shall no strangers pass through her any 
more." And the revelator has added, (Rev. 21:27,) 
" There shall in no wise enter into it anything that 
defiletb, neither whatsoever worketh abomination 
or maketh a lie ; but they which are written in the 
Lamb's book of life." 
The expression, " but it shall be for those," lias 
reference to the ransomed of the Lord," in v. 10 
who alone are to pass over it; unless we adopt the 
marginal reading: "for he shall be with them,' 
i. e., God will be in that way to guide and protect 
them,—which Robert and William Lowth, Barnes 
and others, think the probable meaning of the pas-
sage. 
" The way-faring men," are put by substitution 
f >r those who walk in that way—i. e., in the way 
of holiness ; and 
fools " is expressive of the sim 
pie and unlearned. 
The way to God by Christ, is 
so plain and direct, and God's presence with his 
children is so constant, that those who walk in the 
path which he has marked out for them will be 
kept and guided in the right way, till they shall 
have entered the heavenly country. 
No Hon shall be there, 
Nor any ravenous beast shall go up thereon, 
It shall not be fuund tliere ; 
But the redeemed shall walk there: 
And the ransomed of the Lord shall return, 
And come to Zion with songs, and everlasting joy upon their heads: 
They shall obtain joy and gladness, 
And sorrow and sighing shall flee away.—v». 9,10. 
The high-ways of the East were often dangerous 
to travellers by reason of lions and other beasts of 
prey which infested those countries: but of the 
redeemed, the Lord hath said, (Ezek. 34:25,) " I 
will make with them a covenant of peace, and will 
cause the evil beasts to cease out of the land: and 
they shall dwell safely in the wilderness, and sleep 
in the woods." 
Again in Ilosea 2:18—" In that 
day will I make a covenant for them with the wild 
beasts of the field, and with the fowls of heaven, 
and with the creeping things of the ground : and 
I will break the bow and the sword and the battle 
out of the earth, and will make them to lie down 
safely." 
Thus there will be no evil beasts there 
to molest; for, (Isa. 11:6-9,) "The wolfa4soshall 
dwell with the lamb, and the leopard shall lie 
down with the kid; and the calf and the young 
lion and the fatling together ; and a little child 
shall lead them. 
And the cow and the bear shall 
feed; their young ones shall lie down together: 
and the lion shall eat straw like the ox. 
And the 
sucking child shall play on the hole of the asp, 
and the weaned child shall put his hand on the 
cockatrice's den. 
They shall not hurt nor destroy 
in all my holy mountain ; for the earth shall be 
full of the knowledge of the Lord, as the waters 
cover the sea." 
It is by the resurrection, that the ransomed of 
the Lord shall return to Zion. 
God has promised, 
(Hos. 13:14,) to " ransom them from the power 
of the grave," to " redeem them from death," at 
his coming. 
Said the apostle, 1 Cor. 15:50-53— 
Now this I say, brethren, that flesh and blood 
cannot inherit the kingdom of God ; neither doth 
corruption inherit incorruption. 
Behold, I show 
you a mystery; We shall not all sleep, but we 
shall all be changed, in a moment, in the twink-
ling of an eye, at the last trump : for the trumpet 
shall sound, and the dead shall be raised incorrup-
tible, and we shall be changed. 
For this corrupti-
ble must put on incorruption. and this mortal must 
put on immortality." 
And in 1 Thess. 4:14-17, 
he adds : " If ye believe that Jesus died and rose 
again, even so them which sleep in Jesus will God 
bring with him. 
For this we say unto you by the 
word of the Lord, that we which are alive and re-
main unto the coming of the Lord shall not pre-
vent them which are asleep. 
For the Lord him-
self shall descend from heaven with a shout, with 
the voice of the archangel, and with the trump of 
God : and the dead in Christ shall rise first: then 
we which are alive and remain shall be caught up 
together with them in the clouds, to meet the Lord 
in the air, and so shall we ever be with the Lord." 
They " come to Zion with songs," expressive of 
the joy with which they will return. 
When all 
Israel assembled at Jerusalem, on the occasion of 
their solemn feasts, they went up with songs and 
rejoicings. 
In like manner will the redeemed sing 
(Rev. 5:9,10,)" a new song, saying, Thou art wor 
thy to take the book, and to open the seals thereof: 
for thou wast slain, and hast redeemed us to God 
by thy blood out of every kindred, and tongue, 
and people, and nation ; and hast made us unto 
our God kings and priests : and we shall reign on 
the earth." 
They will sifig (Rev. 15:3, 4,) " the 
song of Moses the servant of God, and the song of 
the Lamb, saying, Great and marvellous are thy 
works, Lord God Almighty; just and true are thy 
ways, thou King of saints. 
Who shall not fear 
thee, O Lord, and glorify thy name? for thou only 
art holy : for all nations shall come and worship 
before thee; for thy judgments are made manifest.' 
Also, (19:7,) they will " be glad and rejoice, and 
give honor to him : for the marriage of the Lamb 
is come, and his wife hath made herself ready." 
Joy," is evidently a metonymy for the emblems 
of joy. 
They wore crowns or garlands of 
flowers 
on their heads on joyful occasions. 
Thus we read 
in Cant. 3:1, ofthe crown wherewith his mother 
crowned him on the day of his espousals, and in 
the day of the gladness of his heart." 
And the 
apostle inquires, (1 Thess. 2:19,20,) " Whatisour 
hope or joy, or crown of rejoicing 1 
Are not even 
ye in the presence of our Lord Jesus Christ at his 
coming ? for ye are our glory and joy." 
On occa-
sions of grief, they put ashes on their heads ; but 
on festive occasions they anointed their heads with 
oil; 
Joy also shines out in the face, and brightens 
up the countenance. 
There is a metaphor in the use of the words 
" flee away," to illustrate the entire absence of 
all " sorrow and sighing." 
Thus we read in lsa. 
25:8—" He will swallow up death in victory ; and 
the Lord God will wipe away tears from off all 
faces; and the rebuke of his people shall he take 
away from off all the earth : for the Lord hath 
spoken it." 
Isa. 65:19—" And I will rejoice in 
Jerusalem, and joy in my people: and the voice of 
weeping shall be no more heard in her, nor the 
voice of crying." 
And the revelator has said, 
(Rev. 21:4,) " And God shall wipe away all tears 
from their eyes ; and there shall be no more death, 
neither sorrow, nor crying, neither shall there be 
any more pain : for the former things are passed 
CHAPTER XXXVI. 
Now it came to pass in the fourteenth year of king Hezekiah, that 
Sennacherib king of Assyria came up against all the defenced cities 
of Judah, and took them.—v. 1. 
The 14th year of king Hezekiah corresponded 
with B. c. 712. 
In the previous chapter of Isaiah 
there are many predictions, of which the historical 
facts recorded in this and the following chapters, 
show a fulfilment. 
Their insertion in this connec-
tion is therefore very appropriate. 
A parallel his-
tory of these events, is found in 2 Kings 17:20, 
and in 2 (Jhron. 32,—the former of which is al-
most identical with that here recorded. 
In the time of Ahaz, the kingdom of Judah be-
ing threatened an invasion by the kings of Israel 
and Syria, (2 Kings 16:7, 9,) " Ahaz sent messen-
gers to Tiglath-pileser, king of Assyria, saying, 
am thy servant and thy son ; come up, and 
save me out of the hand of the king of Syria, and 
out of the hand of the king of Israel, which rise 
up against me." 
Ahaz's sending to Assyria for 
help was needless ; for the Lord had promised to 
defend him. (See Isa. 7th chap.) But Ahaz doubted 
the Lord's protection, and relied on the Assyrians 
for help,—hypocritically pretending (7:12,) that 
he would not " tempt the Lord." 
In compliance 
with the request of Ahaz, the Assyrians came up 
and put an end to the kingdoms of Syria and Is-
rael ; and for this the king of Judah acknowledged 
himself a vassal of and paid tribute to the As-
syrians. 
But as a punishment to Judah, for their 
hypocrisy and unbelief, the Lord threatened to 
bring up the king of Assyria (Isa. 7:17,) against 
them. 
After Hezekiah came to the throne (2 Kings 
18:7,) " he rebelled against the king of Assyria, 
and served him not." 
The Assyrians, by other 
wars, were unable for a time to press their demand 
for tribute ; the refusal of which prepared the way 
for the fulfilment of the prediction of their inva-
sion. 
God was about to use the Assyrians for the 
chastisement of Judah, as he said of them, (Isa;. 
10:5, 6,) " O Assyrian, the rod of mine anger, and 
the staff in their hand is mine indignation. 
I will 
send 
him 
against an hypocritical nation, and 
against the people of my wrath will I give him a 
charge, to take the spoil, and to take the prey, and 
to tread them down like the mire of the streets." 
In fulfilment of this, (2 Chron. 32:1-8,) " Sen-
nacherib king of Assyria came, and entered into 
Judah, and encamped against the fenced cities, 
and thought to win them for himself. 
And when 
Hezekiah saw that Sennacherib was come, and that 
he was purposed to fight against Jerusalem, he 
took counsel with his princes and his mighty men 
to stop the waters of the fountains which were 
without the city : and they did help him. 
So there 
was gathered much people together, who stopped 
all the fountains, and the brook that ran through 
the midst of the land, saying, Why should the kings 
of Assyria come, and find much water? 
Also he 
strengthened himself, and built up all the wall that 
was broken, and raised it up to the towers, and ano-
ther wall without, and repaired Millo in tlfe city of 
David, and made darts and shields in abundance. 
And he set captains of war over the people, and 
gathered them together to him in the street of the 
gate of the city, and spake comfortably to them, 
saying, Be strong and be courageous, be not afraid 
nor dismayed for the king of Assyria, nor for all 
the multitude that is with him : for there be more 
with us than with him. 
With him is an arm of 
flesh ; but with us is the Lord our God to help us, 
and to fight our battles. 
And the people rested 
themselves upon the words of Hezekiah the king of 
Judah." 
There was not however at this time an 
implicit trust in God's protection, on the part of 
the king and people; for God afterwards said to 
them, (Isa. 22:8-11,) " Thou didst look in that 
day to the armor of the house of the forest. 
Ye 
have seen also the breaches of the city of David, 
that they are many : and ye gathered together the 
waters of the lower pool. 
And ye have numbered 
the house of Jerusalem, and the houses have ye 
broken down to fortify the wall. 
Ye made also a 
ditch between the two walls for the water of the 
old pool; but ye have not looked unto the maker 
thereof, neither had respect unto him that fash-
ioned it long ago." 
This want of confidence was 
also indicated when (2 Kings 18:14-16,) "Heze-
kiah king of Judah sent to the king of Assyria to 
Lachish, saying, I have offended ; return from me : 
that which thou puttest on me 1 will bear. 
And 
the king of Assyria appointed unto Hezekiah king 
of Judah three hundred talents of silver and thirty 
talents of gold. 
And Hezekiah gave him all the 
silver that was found in the house of the Lord, and 
in the treasures of the king's house. 
At that time 
did Hezekiah cut off the gold from the doors of the 
temple of the Lord, and from the pillars which 
Hezekiah king of Judah had overlaid, and gave it 
to the king of Assyria." 
The receipt of this tribute by Sennacherib, was 
a virtual stipulation on his part to withdraw his 
forces from Judea ; but disregarding the treaty, 
when he had secured the tribute, he still main-
tained his position. 
Therefore it was said of him, 
^Isa. 33:8,) " He hath broken the covenant, he 
hath despised the cities, he regardeth no man." 
And he called forth the malediction, (33:1,) " Woe 
to thee that spoilest, and thou wast not spoiled; 
and 
dealest treacherously, and they dealt not 
treacherously with thee ! when thou shalt cease to 
spoil, thou shalt be spoiled ; and when thou Bhalt 
make an end to deal treacherously, they shall deal 
treacherously with thee." 
And the king of Assyria sent Rabshakeh from Lachish to Jerusa-
lem uuio king Hezekiah, with a great army. And he stood by the 
conduit of the upper pool in the high-way of the fuller's field.—v. 2. 
Sennacherib did not proceed himself to Jerusa-
lem, bub sent (2 Chron. 32:9,) " his servants to 
Jerusalem ; but he himself laid siege against La-
chish and all his power with him." 
Lachish was a border town of Judea south-west 
of Jerusalem on the way to Egypt. 
While he re-
mained to war against that city, he sent (2 Kings 
18 : 17,) "Tartan and Rabsaris and Rabshakeh 
from Lachish to king Hezekiah with a great host 
against Jerusalem : a«d they went up, and came 
to Jerusalem : and when they were come up, they 
came and stood by the conduit of the upper pool, 
which is in the highway of the fuller's 
field." 
" And when they had called to the king," i. e., to 
Hezekiah, (18:18), 
Then came forth unto him Eliakim, Ililkiah's son, which was over 
the house, and Shebna the scribe, and Joah, Asaph's soil, the re-
corder.—v. 3. 
This " Shebna " is evidently the one referred to 
in Isaiah 22 :15, who was then the " treasurer " 
and "over the house." 
In that chapter it was 
predicted that he should be pulled down from his 
station, and his office be given to " Eliakim the 
son of Hilkiah," who at the time of this siege 
was " over the house," as Shebna had before been. 
(See notes on chaps. 22:15-19 and 33:18.) 
THE BRIDE OF CHRIST. 
HER EDUCATION. 
(Continued from 
our 
last.) 
SHE was born amid scenes of sorrow and perse-
cution, and placed in the school of Christ. 
She 
sat at his feet and learned of him who was meek 
and lowly in heart; she embraced the doctrines 
that he taught, and received his precepts with a 
willing and obedient mind. 
He laid down rules, 
and she followed them ; he made commandments, 
and she obeyed them. 
She was proud and rebel-
lious when she first came under his discipline, but 
he taught her humility. 
Her spirit was haughty 
and unforgiving, but he taught her to forgive men 
their trespasses even as her heavenly Father had 
forgiven her. 
He taught her " to love her enemies, 
to bless them that cursed her, to do good to them 
that hated her, and to pray for them which despite-
fully used her, and persecuted her." 
He taught 
her " to place her affections upon things above,' 
and to lay up for herself "treasures in heaven, 
where neither moth nor rust doth corrupt, and 
where thieves do not break through nor steal." 
He taught her that by the deeds of the law " should 
no flesh be justified," that she was saved not by 
works of righteousness which she had done, but 
according to the mercy of God, by the washing 
of regeneration and renewing of the Holy Spirit." 
He taught her that she " had sinned and come 
short of the glory of God ;" but that " if she con-
fessed her sins, he was faithful and just to forgive 
her and to cleanse her from all unrighteousness." 
He taught her that " without faith it is impossible 
to please God;" but that even " as the body with-
out the spirit is dead, so faith without works is dead 
also." 
He unfolded to her the nature and power 
of religion ; that " pure religion andundefiled be-
fore God and the Father was this, to visit the 
fatherless and widows in their affliction, and to 
keep herself unspotted from the world." He taught 
her to live in peace with all men ; to cultivate a 
spirit of love and meekness ; to shun the honor and 
glory of the world, and to seek that honor alone 
which cometh down from God. 
He taught her to 
wear the yoke and to bear the cross; to go unto 
him without the camp bearing his reproach. 
He 
taught her to be patient under every affliction ; " to 
be sober, to be vigilant;" to put away " all wrath 
bitterness and anger," and to " have no fellowship 
with the unfruitful works of darkness." 
He 
taught her to resist temptation even as her Master 
had done ; for " he was tempted in all points like 
as she was, and yet without sin." 
Ho taught her 
to put on the whole armor of God ; for " she was 
to wrestle not only against flesh and blood, but 
against principalities, against powers, against the 
rulers of the darkness of this world, against spir-
itual wickedness in high places." 
Therefore 
THE ADVENT 
HERALD 
77 
taught her " to gird her loins about with truth, 
and to put on the breastplate of righteousness; to 
have her feet shod with the preparation of the gos-
pel of peace; and above all to take the shield of 
faith, that she might be able to quench all the fiery 
darts of the wicked; to bind upon her brow the 
helmet of salvation, and to fight with the sword of 
the Spirit, which is quick and powerful," and 
" mighty through God to the pulling down of 
strongholds." 
He taught her how to put her ar-
mor on, and he taught her how to keep it bright; 
for he taught her " to pray always with all prayer 
and supplication in the Spirit," " to continue in 
prayer and to watch in the same with thanksgiv-
ing ;" " to pray without ceasing and in everything 
to give thanks." 
He taught her that prayer was 
the only means by which she could obtain access 
to the throne of grace, and that the object of that 
prayer must be God alone, through Jesus Christ 
her only Mediator, that she must address the Father 
in the name of the Son, depending " upon the 
Spirit which helpeth her infirmities, and which 
maketh intercession for her with groanings that 
cannot be uttered." 
And he taught her to pray 
in faith nothing doubting; to ask and he promised 
it " should be given her ; to seek and she should 
find ; to knock and it should be cpened unto her." 
He taught her " that denying ungodliness and 
worldly lusts, she should live soberly, righteously 
and godly in this present world, looking for that 
blessed hope, and the glorious appearing of the 
great God and our Saviour Jesus Christ." 
She 
yielded to his teachings ; she treasured them up 
in her heart; and yet oftentimes she suffered her 
armor to grow dim, the dust of unbelief would 
begin to gather upon her shield, and then her Lord 
and Master spared not the rod. 
Oftentimes she 
broke his statutes and departed from his command-
ments ; then he visited her iniquity with stripes, 
and in faithfulness he afflicted her. 
And yet he 
loved her still; with a father's pity he beheld her 
wanderings, " for he knew her frame, he remem-
bered that she was but dust." 
He rebuked her, 
but it was for her " profit, that she might be a par-
taker of his holiness." 
He chastised her, "for 
whom the Lord loveth he chasteneth, and scourg-
eth every son whom he reeeiveth." 
But though he 
thus unsparingly used the rod of correction, still he 
presented to her view many a great and precious 
reward which she might ultimately obtain,if "by 
patient continuance in well doing she would seek 
for glory, and honor, and immortality;" if she 
would but continue faithful to the last great day, 
when he himself would appear in person, to exam-
ine her works, and to give to every one according 
to his deeds. 
The rewards were great, they dazzled 
her admiring eyes, they filled her soul with love 
and devotion for him who had purchased them for 
her with his own precious blood. 
With renewed 
diligence she improved the talents that he had en-
trusted to her care ; with new vigor she bore the 
cross of Christ, and esteemed the reproach thereof 
I greater riches than the treasures of the whole 
earth ; and with a yearning heart she longed for 
; the great day of examination. 
She knew that in 
; that day she could stand acquitted before the Judge, 
for her Master would be by her side, he would ap-
pear there as her righteousness, he would confess 
her name before his Father and all the holy angels, 
and from his own dear hand, the hand which had 
been nailed upon the cross for her, she would re-
ceive the glittering prize. 
She looked forward 
through the lapse of time, and with an eye of faith 
beheld her tasks all completed, her labor at an end, 
the great consummation of her hopes obtained. 
Then impatience almost took possession of her long-
ing soul, when in a reproving tone her Master softly 
whispered, " Be ye patient unto the coming of your 
Lord." 
H. H. J. 
(To be continued.) 
THE SEAT OF WAR. 
MAP OF TURKEY AND THE CONTIGUOUS COUNTRIES. 
WE have drawn the above map, to aid our 
readers in appreciating the locality and import-
ance of the present difficulties between Russia and 
Turkey. 
EXPLANATION.—" Moldavia " is indicated on the 
map by the letter A; and "Wallachia," by B. 
These provinces are nominally dependent on Tur-
key, but have a certain independence of their own. 
Their invasion, was an invasion of the Turkish 
Empire ; and it is those which the Russians have 
taken possession of. 
The present seat of war is 
near Kalafat (28) on the Danube River. 
The fol-
lowing are the names of places indicated on the 
map by figures. 
1. Constantinople. 
2. Scutari. 
3. Eregri. 
4. Amaserah. 
5. Ridros. 
6. Ineboli. 
7. Sinope. 
8. Bafra. 
9. Samsun. 
10. Unich. 
11. Trebizonde. 
12. Rizeh. 
13. Derbent. 
14. Anapa. 
15. Sevastopol. 
16. Odessa. 
17. Akerman. 
18. Ibralia. 
19. Matchin. 
20. Silistria. 
21. Varna. 
22. Bourgas. 
23. Adrianople. 
24. Shumla. 
25. Tutukai. 
26. Bucharest. 
27. Nicopoli. 
44. Kutaia. 
28. Kalafat. 
45. Smyrna. 
29. Widdin. 
46. Adalia. 
30. Timesvar. 
47. Adana. 
31. Belgrade. 
48. Antioch. 
32. Vienna. 
49. Aleppo. 
33. Laybach. 
50. Damascus. 
34. Trieste. 
51. Acre. 
35. Zara. 
52. JERUSALEM. 
36. Ragusa. 
53. Suez. 
37. Joanim. 
54. Damietta. 
38. Corinth. 
55. Rosetta. 
39. Athens. 
56. Alexandria. 
40. Lerissa. 
57. Cairo. 
41. Salonica. 
58. Babylon. 
42. Seres. 
59. Nineveh. 
43. Sophia. 
The portion of the globe here represented, has 
been more fruitful of interesting incidents than 
any other portion of Earth's History. 
General consent has placed within its limits the 
location of Eden's garden, where God conversed 
with Adam, and where man fell; but on that sub-
ject, speculation is vain ;—the reliable geography 
of history only commences with the landing on 
Ararat from the waters of the deluge. 
This celebrated mountain is to the north of 
Nineveh (59) and south of east from the Black 
. 
In the neighborhood of this mountain, Noah 
appears to have spent the remainder of his life ; 
and by emigration from this spot were all the vast 
regions of the earth populated—the sons of Noah 
being allotted their several inheritances, and the 
bounds of their respective habitations. 
In the first emigration, they appear to have 
moved in a body. 
They left the hill country, and 
doubtless proceeding down the winding current of 
the Euphrates River to the land of Shinar, and 
stopped for a permanent location on the plain in 
the neighborhood of the Euphrates and Tigris 
Rivers—on the east of the map. 
And the ruins of 
Babylon (58) and Nineveh (59) on those rivers, 
mark the sites of two of the first cities built on the 
globe. 
In the former place, attempting the erec-
tion of the tower of Babel, the Lord frustrated 
their impious designs, confounded their speech, 
and scattered them forth abroad over the face of 
the earth. 
The family of Abraham lived in Ur of the Chal-
dees, far up on the waters of the Euphrates. 
From thence the Lord led him into the land of 
Canaan, which bordered on the east end of the 
Mediterranean Sea; and there he made an ever-
lasting covenant with him,—promising 
to him 
and his seed its everlasting possession—extending 
from the Euphrates to the river of Egypt. 
The small lake to the east of the Mediterranean 
Sea, hardly visible on the map, according to general 
tradition covers the site of the guilty cities of the 
plain of Jordan,—the fate of which, and the sud-
denness of their destruction are held up as admo-
nitions for us to be also ready against the day 
when the Son of man shall be revealed. 
Egypt on the south, Avitnessed the cruel bondage 
to which the seed of Jacob was subjected, and 
there tbe Lord heard their cry. 
There too is seen 
the western arm of the Red Sea, between the part-
ed waters and on the dry bed of which Israel jour-
neyed on their way to the promised land. 
Between 
the two forks of that sea, is the terrible wilderness 
where they wandered,—where the Lord miracu-
lously fed them forty long years. 
And down near 
their junction stands Sinai, where Israel listened 
to the voice of Jehovah, and the Law was given to 
Moses. 
And east of there also is the land of Midi-
an where Moses had before gazed on the burning 
bush. 
On the east of the Mediterranean, in the land of 
Canaan, Israel found rest from their wanderings, 
and became in time the flourishing kingdom of 
David and Solomon. 
Theirs was the " Pleasant 
Land," 
the 
" Glorious Holy 
Mountain," 
the 
" Goodly Heritage," the " Goodly Mountain," 
the " Sanctuary " to which the Lord had led them, 
and from which he cast out the heathen before 
them. 
Those hills and valleys were the homes of 
the prophets and of the kings whose acts and lives 
are preserved to us in scriptural history; and 
there the Saviour came and atoned for the sins of 
a lost world; for it was the land which the Lord 
had chosen from all lands to put his name there. 
But now it is in subjection to the Gentiles, and is 
to be trodden under foot of the Gentiles till the 
times of the Gentiles are fulfilled. 
On the Euphrates is Babylon (58), the seat of 
the first great monarchy which was permitted to 
tyrannize over captive Israel. 
To the east of that 
is seen on the map a section of the Medo-Persian 
Empire. 
On the extreme left, is a portion of 
Italy, the seat of Daniel's nondescript beast, and 
of tbe dragon, blasphemous, and scarlet-colored 
beasts of John. 
But the main portion of the map 
comprises the greater portion of Alexander's Em-
pire. 
While therefore it gives a glimpse of all the 
four great powers which were in turn to rule over 
Israel, it is properly a Map of the Third, or Gre-
cian kingdom—that of Alexander and his succes-
sors. 
All the countries here presented,—which are 
eaBt of Maeedon, south of Circassia, and north of 
Arabia,—were subjected by Alexander. 
A short 
period subsequent to his death his colossal empire 
fell to pieces ; and the four kingdoms of Thrace, 
Maeedon, Syria, and Egypt came up, as seen on 
the map, " towards the four winds of heaven." 
(Dan. 8:8, 22; and 11:4.) 
Of these Maeedon was 
conquered by Lysimachus and annexed to Thrace ; 
and he, in turn, was subjected by Seleucus, who 
added Maeedon and Thrace to Syria. 
Egypt, in 
the south, had enlarged itself by the conquest of 
Cyprus, and Phenicia, and other islands 
and 
cities, and was " strong" (Dan. 11:5) ; but the 
other three divisions of Alexander's Empire being 
in subjection to the king of Syria, this northern 
king was still " stronger " than he (lb). 
These 
two powers denominated " the king of the North," 
and " the king of the South,"' are then described 
with great minuteness in the 11th of Daniel, till 
the Roman poweT began its encroachments on the 
Grecian territory, by the conquest of Maeedon., 
B. c. 168—symbolized by the little horn of the 
goat, that " Waxed exceeding great." 
Afterwards 
inheriting by the will of Attalus what remained of 
the kingdom of Thrace, this Roman horn began to 
progress towards the south, subjecting Egypt, and 
towards the east and pleasant land, subjecting 
Syria and Palestine, so that by B. C. 30, it had 
" waxed so exceeding great " as to have obtained 
the control of the four divisions of Alexander's 
Empire. 
In 395 this Eastern Empire was finally and per-
manently dissevered from Western Rome; 
and 
when the latter was overrun by the northern bar-
barians, it remained the most potent empire on the 
globe. 
In the seventh century there arose in the south 
the Saracens—the famous Mohammedan Empire, 
which soon extended from the Atlantic Ocean to 
the Euphrates—including Egypt—and thus be-
coming " the king of the South." This " pushed " 
at and sorely wounded the Grecian Empire, but 
failed to subject it. 
But the Saracens had, in 
turn, to give place to the Tartars from the north, 
who subjected, with many other countries, Syria 
and Thrace, and thus became " the king of the 
North." 
These celebrated horsemen, aided by 
vast armaments, " like a whirlwind " entirely 
overwhelmed the Grecian kingdom, and took pos-
session of Constantinople, A. D. 1453. 
These are the present occupants of the choicest 
portion of Alexander's dominion, now known as 
the " Turkish Empire," as presented on the map 
before us ; and the fate of which the whole civil-
ized world are watching with no little anxiety. 
What its fate may be we profess no ability to 
solve ; but no student of prophecy can fail to ob-
serve, the present movement of the nations in that 
locality, with intense interest. 
It is very clear that 
the Mohammedan power will continue in some 
form till the end of the world ; for in the final 
battle,—which follows the second advent,—when 
" the beast and the kings of the earth and their 
armies " are gathered together to make war against 
the King and his army, we read, (Rev. 19:20,) 
that "the False Prophet "is taken alive with the 
beast and consigned to the lake of fire. 
Also the 
power that comes to its end with none to help 
him, (in Dan. 11:45,) is to be in possession of the 
" holy mountain " as the Turks are now; 
and 
when he thus comes to his end, Michael stands up 
and " many of them that sleep in the dust of the 
earth shall awake." 
(Dan. 12:1, 2.) 
So that 
evidences of the near dissolution of the kingdom 
of the Turks, cannot fail to be of thrilling interest 
to those who " search the Scriptures," in accord-
ance with the Divine injunction. 
It would appear from Rev. 19:19, 20, that the 
beast and false prophet are allied at the time of 
their overthrow : both being taken alive together. 
The " beast " undoubtedly is Western Rome in its 
divided form ; and it is now a singular coincidence, 
that England and France—the only twp effective 
powers of those divisions—are shoulder to shoul-
der with the Turks in endeavoring to prolong his 
dominion. 
The present danger apprehended by the Turk, 
is from Russia and Persia—in the north and east 
—the very directions from which " tidings " (Dan. 
11:44) were to trouble the power whose " end " 
synchronizes with the standing up of Michael and 
the resurrection. 
The only things predicted to 
follow the trouble which he shall experience from 
the receipt of those " tidings " is to go forth with 
great fury and slaughter, and then to plant the 
tabernacles of his palace between the seas in the 
glorious holy mountain, where his " end," is evi-
dently to be consummated—i. e., in Palestine. 
At the present moment, the Turk, unaided by 
the Western powers, would hold its European pos-
sessions by a very feeble tenure. 
How trivial a 
circumstance might cause them to leave him to his 
fate, man cannot foresee. 
But should any such 
thing occur, the Turks would speedily be driven 
by Russia in the direction of the " Holy Land," 
which would be an ominous event. 
It is however useless to speculate. 
An unseen 
Power directs and moves all these events, and 
will, in his own good time, accomplish all his pur-
poses. 
Man may be unabls to account for the ra-
pidity with which things may be consummated, 
and yet be equally unable to solve the reason of 
unexpected delays. 
. 
^ 
When the Russian army came 
down to Adrianople (23) in 1828, it is inexplicable 
why it was recalled again to the frozen north and 
spared the prey which could have been easily 
seized,—only as we may conclude that God's time 
had not arrived. 
So may God again interpose de-
lays, inexplicable to man ; or he may bring things 
to a sudden crisis, while man is waiting to learn 
tidings of expected preliminary movements. 
These 
things admonish us that we may not calculate with 
precision 
the times or the seasons which the 
Father hath put in his own power," and are liable 
to make sad mistakes when assuming a positiveness 
respecting them ; and yet, that events are as likely 
to anticipate, as to disappoint our expectations. 
So that when there are movements among the na-
tions, like those transpiring at the present mo-
ment, if Ave aot wisely we shall watch them with 
interest, note them as harbingers of the approach-
ing consummation, and be " like unto men that 
wait for their Lord. . . . And if he shall come in 
the second watch, or come in the third watch, and 
find them so, blessed are those servants." 
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TRADITIONS.—2 THESS. 2:15. 
"THEREFORE, brethren, stand fast, and hold the 
traditions that ye have been taught, whether by 
word, or our epistle." 
Here then we have a com-
maild to stand fast in the traditions taught by Paul, 
whether oral or written. 
This must refer to the 
instruction given to the Church, relating to their 
duty to God, and one another, as recorded in the 
doctrine of the New Testament. 
And as there is 
such a thing as false tradition, and we are in danger 
of doing as did the Jews, " make VOID the LAW by 
OUR traditions," it therefore becomes us to examine 
and observe all the traditions taught in the gospel, 
as doctrine, or duties of the Church of Christ. 
In 
the 3d chapter, 6th and 7th verses of this epistle, 
Paul says, " Now we command you, brethren, 
in the name of our Lord Jesus Christ, that ye 
withdraw yourselves from every brother thatwalk-
eth disorderly, and not after the tradition which 
ye have received of ua. 
For yourselves know how 
ye ought to follow us; for we behaved not our-
selves disorderly among you." 
Please read the 
whole chapter. 
It is true that we who are now identified as Ad-
vent believers, have seen and felt the evils of false 
traditions, in doctrine, and in church usages, and 
many of us have withdrawn ourselves from our 
former associations, because they did not follow 
APOSTOLIC doctrine, nor practice. But are we at 
liberty to condemn others as disorderly, while we 
walk disorderly ? 
" Thou that teachest a man 
should not steal, dost thou steal?" 
We hear 
much, very much said by some of our brethren 
about doing all our duty, observing all the ordi-
nances, and following all the apostolic examples 
but none too much, if they would practice what 
they teach, or at least, all that is truly taught as 
traditions, and examples for us to follow. 
But 
while some are in great earnest to have all see the 
truth about the coming of the Lord, and many other 
things, there is a great, a sad neglect of some of 
the most important practical duties of Christianity 
I shall here only specify one, for this one neglected 
duty is the object of my remarks. 
In apostolic times, after the old Jewish system 
of worship and order of priests was abrogated, it 
was soon seen by the apostles that some system of 
order was needed to preserve a healthful state in 
the body of Christ—the Church. 
They therefore 
chose deacons first, to attend to certain duties 
This is apostolic. Some of those deacons we find 
are preachers soon after. 
We next find that after 
the gospel had spread so that believers were mul-
tiplied in various cities, the apostles visited them 
" confirming the souls of the disciples, exhorting 
them to continue in the faith," and " ordaining 
elders in every church." Soon we find Paul giving 
and address to the elders, showing his example 
among believers, and charging them to " feed the 
Church of God." 
(Acts 20:28.) 
Not long after 
we find that two epistles are addressed to Timothy 
and one to Tifcus, a large part of which is occu 
pied in giving the qualifications for deacons and 
elders, with their duties. 
In one case he says to 
Titus, " For this cause left I thee in Crete, that 
thou shouldest set in order the things that are want-
ing, (or left undone, margin,) and ordain elders 
in every city, as I have appointed thee." 
Here is 
apostolic example. Again, we find among Paul 
traditions, that the elders should give themselves 
wholly to the work, and that " they who preach 
the gospel should live of the gospel." 
There is as 
clear and sure argument for church order in the 
New Testament, as there is for the salvation of 
sinners. 
If God has given " apostles, prophets 
evangelists, pastors, and teachers, for the perfect-
ing of the saints, for the work of the ministry, for 
the edifying of the body of Christ," we conclude 
there should be order in the various congregations 
of the Lord, and that there should be an organ 
by which the body can act, and with whom it can 
co-operate, and " put away that evil person from 
among them," and to enforce the discipline Christ 
gave, and to " see that none render evil for evil, 
that " no root of bitterness spring up among them 
and thereby many be defiled." Without this, there 
can be no regular observance of the ordinances 
and in fact, there will not often be interest enough 
to have the ordinances at all, attended to. 
There 
will not long exist any concert of effort to meet the 
proper expenses of public worship, nor anything 
else properly, no united action for the salvation of 
sinners. 
While I see the general neglect of this 
duty, which only opens the way to neglect many 
others, and see the palsied efforts of many breth-
ren who labor and toil to little or no effect, until 
they become discouraged and fall back, and feel 
more and more sensibly the great evil that has al-
ready resulted from neglect to set the churches in 
order. 
And while some argue with much zeal, 
thestraitness of the way, and duty of observing the 
apostolic examples, and often teach traditions, and 
make tests of them, contrary to God's word, my 
heart sickens at the thought of the frailty and 
folly of man. 
And I pray God to show me my 
folly, that I may become wise unto salvation. 
In close conversation with brethren who walk in 
disorder, they 
will generally admit the truth. 
But then."—Well, what? 
" Why all who have 
organized in the past have apostatized and got out 
of order." 
So then, if that is good logic, I would 
say, that the Roman Catholics profess to be Chris-
tians, and we believe they are heretics, so we must 
not profess to be Christians. 
If others have gone 
wrong, let us go right, and not go as far wrong 
the other way. 
" But it is now too late ! 
We 
have enough to do to sound the cry,' The Lord is 
coming!'" 
No, no, it is never too late to do 
right, and the sooner we begin the better. 
The 
Lord's soon coming should be an inducement to 
set us about this duty. 
We ought to feel shame, 
to think of our Master's coming to his house and 
finding all in disorder and confusion. 
We should 
observe order in an earthquake, in a tornado, or 
any violent occurrence; how much more when the 
King of kings is coming to inspect his subjects— 
the Bridegroom to receive his bride. 
0 let us, 
brethren, be found in all the ordinances and com-
mandments of the Lord blameless at his coming. 
I. C. WELLCOME. 
Note.—We 
think brother W. has the right of 
this important subject.—ED. 
for ridicule, wit or levity, the kingdom of Christ 
is the last subject, and the pulpit the last place to 
be chosen for that purpose. 
The query was instantly raised in my mind, is it 
possible that the Advent people believe in such a 
doctrine ? 1 have been an Advent believer for ten 
years, and know the greater part of his quotation 
to be correct but the last. 
How is this ? Is it possi-
ble that any of the so-called Advent people believe 
such an absurd doctrine is taught in the Bible ? 
Being new to me I have concluded to forward it to 
you for correction. 
I take it for granted that a 
man's religious belief is by general consent con-
sidered sacred, whatever it may be, or at least should 
be so to himself and to his God; and where a 
preacher of the gospel mixes a little truth with a 
little falsehood and polishes it with a little clerical 
profanity to raise a laugh, may as safely be re-
garded as profane in a religious discourse as the 
kind of profanity made use of quite too often in 
common conversation; and if ministers of the gos-
pel allow themselves to make use ot language 
which under other circumstances would be down-
right profanity, how can it be expected that pro-
fanity will ever be driven out of the language of the 
sinful? 
D. 
LETTER FROM THOMAS HUNTINGTON. 
CERICAL PROFANITY. 
SOME time last summer my business led me over 
into one of the counties of the military post in 
the State of Illinois, and during my stay there it 
so happened that a quarterly, or camp-meeting 
was held on the Sabbath in a beautiful grove, far 
enough from the ordinary travelled roads to make 
the place quite retired. 
The meeting was con-
ducted by the presiding Elder of the district, who 
stated that he had been a preacher more than forty 
years, and that he had not prepared himself for 
preaching that day so well as he should like ; in 
fact, he had not selected a text but a few minutes 
before commencing his discourse, but it made but 
little difference with him as he should preach from 
the Bible. 
1 f I mistake not, his text was from these 
words of our Saviour, " The kingdom of God com 
eth not with observation." 
His subject was the 
nature of Christ's kingdom, a subject which has 
interested me more than any other in the Bible for 
ten years, and I promised myself a rich feast of fat 
things, but went away hungry, thirsty and starv-
ing. 
In the course of his remarks, he made use of 
this language, which I took down with pencil and 
paper at the time. 
" There are," said the elder, 
' a great many isms in this world of ours that 
pretend to tell what the kingdom of Christ is. 
There is ' Swedenborgianism,'' Mormonism,' and 
last of all,' Millerism.' 
We have preachers down 
in my district who pretend to believe that heaven 
is not good enough for their poor souls to live in 
but that this beautiful world of ours is to be burnt 
up, the wicked cut off in their sins and eternally 
lost, a new world built up out of the ruins, where 
sin can never enter; to be no night, no frost, no 
blight, no mildew, no sickness or sorrow, where 
fruits of every kind spring up spontaneously and 
grow without care, and men to propagate to all 
eternity, and never, never die. 
Such my brethren 
is the doctrine these jack Millerites believe and 
intend to practice in their new world, but I tell 
you, 1 believe in a heaven and a hell, and that the 
righteous will go to heaven just as sure as the 
wicked will to hell. 
But that men who believe 
such an absurd doctrine can never be damned, for 
it is contrary to the plenary wisdom of Almighty 
God to damn a fool. 
No, my brethren, the king-
dom of Christ is the Church in its different organi 
zations in this world, and all the wicked are in-
cluded in that kingdom." 
Such was the substance of a discourse on the 
kingdom of Christ, by a man who according to his 
own statement had been a preacher of the gospel 
more than forty years. 
One of the most sublime 
subjects of which the Bible treats, one which should 
never be named but with the most profound rever 
ence; for of all subjects which a man may choose 
BRO. BLISS :—The apostle says 
(2 Cor. 3:6), we 
are made " ministers of the new testament; not 
of the letter, but of the spirit." 
Now it is com 
paratively an easy matter to minister the letter of 
God's word. Any one, theologically educated, can 
do that; but to minister that word in the spirit 
of its meaning, and bring out its hidden treasures, 
" new and old," is a very different thing. 
Here is 
a field in which the natural man is not called to 
labor. 
An impassable barrier is thrown round 
the enclosure, and none can enter, " as workers," 
but such as are endued with the Spirit of God. 
For this he gives us a satisfactory reason. 
1 Cor. 
2:11—" What man knoweth the things of a man, 
[human things,] save the spirit of man which is in 
him : even so the things of God [Bible truths] 
knoweth no man, but the Spirit of God." 
This 
Spirit, he continues, we have received that we may 
know these, otherwise hidden things. 
Now di-
vest this language of all needless ambiguity, and 
we have the plain, but unpalatable doctrine, that 
all those who would be considered as competent to 
teach, under the new testament dispensation, must 
themselves be taught of God. 
Human learning, 
however extensive, human intellect however pro-
found, will not alone answer. 
A something is 
requisite, of Heaven's own furnishing, to fit the 
minister of the go^iel of Christ to impart its in-
structions to any practical effect. 
Now if this is 
the real fact—if such is the meaning of the apostle 
how cautious should we all be in our attempts to 
impart light on the heaven-revealed truths of God's 
word! Well may the apostle say, "Let every man 
be swift to hear, and slow to speak." 
But I may 
be thought as needing my own advice ; and while 
1 venture to place myself before the Christian com 
munity as an instructor, I shall hold myself sub-
ject to the same scriptural test which I have ap-
plied to others. 
" To the law, and to the testimo 
ny ; if we speak not according to this word, it will 
be because there is no light in us." 
The passage of scripture on which I would at-
tempt to throw some light, is Rev. 8:3-5—"And 
another angel came and stood at the altar, having 
a golden censer; and there was given unto him 
much incense, that he should offer it with the 
prayers of all saints upon the golden altar which 
is before the throne. 
And the smoke of the in-
cense, which came with the prayers of the saints 
ascended up before God out of the angel's hand 
And the angel took the censer, and filled it with 
fire of the altar, and cast it into the earth ; and 
there were voices, and thunderings, and light 
nings, and an earthquake." 
Although the apostle does not say here, as in 
some other places, that he saw a " door opened in 
heaven," still the language used is such as to lead 
us to the supposition that the view presented to 
his mind was designed to exhibit the Lord Jesus 
as acting the part of our great High Priest in the 
tabernacle above, where he ever stands to present 
our petitions before the throne of the Father 
Each and every part of the symbolic language con 
veys this, and no other idea. 
The prayers pro-
ceed from the pure heart of the saints on earth 
(represented by the golden censer,) and ascending 
with the incense shows them to be indited by the 
Spirit of God, (symbolized by the fire,) and thus 
presented, they are perfectly acceptable. 
The 
Lord Jesus presents them himself, and whatever 
comes in his name prevails. 
So much for the first 
part of the scenery. 
The next thing he sees is 
the angel filling the censer with fire from the altar 
and casting it (the fire) upon the earth. 
Now if 
this fire is an emblem of the Divine Spirit, as I 
suppose, we can readily see why just such results 
follow as is represented, viz., " voices and thun-
derings." 
But what are we to understand by 
these ? T answer, precisely what was exhibited, 
in the Roman earth, at the time here symbolized. 
This time I take to be just prior to the sounding 
of the first trumpet, and meant to represent, by 
the voices and thunderings, the violent contentions 
and disputes which succeeded the combining of 
Christianity and politics by Constantine, and which 
eventually resulted in the division of the empire 
into two parts, represented by the earthquake. 
But I may be told that this is a singular result to 
be ascribed to the Holy Spirit! 
Well, let us then 
look at it as it really was at the time represented. 
The people of God had passed through a direful 
period of persecution and suffering under the pa-
gan emperors ; and their earnest prayers had been 
ding to God all this time for deliverance. 
These prayers are here represented as accepted, 
and after a period of patient waiting, they are 
answered. 
The Spirit is poured out from on high, 
paganism is overturned, Christianity ascends the 
throne of the Caesars, and the Church has rest. 
But what then ? Relieved from the outward afflic-
tion they commence a religious warfare among 
themselves, (voices and thunderings,) and the final 
result is an earthquake, which rends the empire 
into two parts. 
This done, the way is opened for 
the Northern hordes of barbarians to descend suc-
cessfully. 
If we compare with this the represen-
tation in the 16th chapter, where the last vial of 
wrath is poured upon the wicked, we find a simi-
lar result—voices, and thunderings, and light-
nings, and an earthquake. 
The only difference 
clearly is, that in the one case the effect produced 
is a religious contention, and in the other, a purely 
wicked combination to oppose and overcome, if 
possible, the cause of truth and righteousness. 
In 
the one case, the Christian empire is split into 
two parts; in the other, the great city is divided 
into three. The one precedes the corrective judg-
ments of the Lord, the other the destructive ven-
geance of an outraged God. 
Before we leave the 
subject, a thought presents itself which we shall 
present for the consideration of all. 
The Church 
at large is looking and praying, most earnestly, 
for a state of profound tranquillity and rest; but 
when, in the history of the world, has such a state 
ever resulted in the good anticipated ? Facts have 
always shown that a state of trial, and even perse-
cution, has been the condition in which true re-
ligion has most flourished ; and so long as man is 
an inheritor of a fallen nature, and consequently 
liable to be wrought upon by the great adversary, 
he must be satisfied to abide in such a condition 
as the All-wise God sees to be best for him. 
And 
if he expects to reach the rest remaining, and 
promised to the people of God, there is but one 
way marked out for him to travel, and that always 
has and we believe always will lead through " the 
great tribulation." 
Yours, in the hope, 
THOMAS HUNTINGTON. 
Brooklyn (Conn.), Feb. 8th, 1854. 
LETTER FROM C. R. GRIGGS. 
BRO. HIMES :—Your visit to this place, though 
short, was productive of good. 
Among the multi-
plied reports in relation to " the cause," it is of 
the utmost importance that we know what cause 
is referred to. 
" There are gods many and lords 
many," but after all there is but one true Lord 
God. 
So in relation to " the cause;" there are as 
many causes as there are bigoted notions, or sec-
tarian prejudices in relation to the great common 
cause of our Lord and Saviour Jesus Christ. 
This 
cause I love in all its benevolence. 
No isolated 
portion will produce perfection in its adherents, 
however zealous they may be who press the doc-
trine it inculcates. 
God is one—his Bible one— 
his doctrine one—the cause it advocates is one, 
and the people interested in that cause are one. 
They have no insurmountable barriers between 
them because they do not view alike all the doc-
trines in, or measures for, in carrying forward the 
interest of this cause; but with the " charity " 
that is 
kind," " thinketh no evil," " beareth all 
things and never faileth," will heartily engage in 
the great work of saving men, instead of spending 
their time and strength in quarrelling " about 
words which gender strife." 
It is too ofter the case that men feel that their 
truth is the "great" or "present truth," and 
their cause is the " great cause ;" and if a word 
is said, directly or indirectly, designedly or with 
the innocence of the lamb, which may in its influ-
ence militate against them, they feel that the 
cause has suffered, whereas God's cause may have 
been highly honored. 
The cause of God in Westboro' is not as prosper-
ous as I could wish. 
Various are the elements of 
which our congregation is composed. 
Some 
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HERALD. 
very zealous in spreading the Lord's coming in 
'54. 
Some hold their faith kindly, with the 
charity of the Bible. 
Some I think have more 
zeal than knowledge, and may be " wise in their 
own conceits." 
Some of us (I am of this class) 
feel that the Lord may come this year, or he may 
not; we cannot tell. 
We are believing that " he 
is near, even at the door ;" and " not knowing the 
time " when he will open the door and come in, 
we are watching and waiting in expectation of 
soon seeing him whom our souls love. 
There are 
a goodly number who are not particularly identi-
fied with us, who are very favorable, and I think 
will ere long be numbered with us. 
I hope yet to 
see the cause of God prosper in this place. 
The 
Lord hasten it in his time. 
Yours, in the hope 
of the glory to be revealed, 
C. R. 
GRIGGS. 
Westboro' (Mass.), Feb. l&th, 1854. 
Letter 
from Moses Winslow. 
BRO. HIMES :—After you left us I continued to 
pray that the Lord would send some one of his 
watchmen who would " Blow the trumpet in Zion, 
and sound an alarm in God's holy mountain : let 
all the inhabitants of the land tremble: for the 
day of the Lord cometh, for it is nigh at hand." 
(Joel 2:1.) 
About the 8th or 10th of January I 
wrote to Elder S. Chapman, then in Springfield, to 
come over and help us. 
Elder C. came here on 
Thursday, the 12th of Jan., and commenced his 
labors on Friday evening in a large school-house, 
three-quarters of a mile from my house, where he 
faithfully showed his hearers from God's word 
that they were sinners, and that their probation 
was about to end, that soon, very soon Christ 
would leave the mercy-seat, and then there would 
be no hope in the case. 
Many felt the force of 
that truth, and were constrained to cry out as on 
the day of Pentecost, " What must I do to be 
saved?" 
They were pointed to the " Lamb of 
God that taketh away the sin of the world." 
Elder C. has baptized fourteen who had given evi-
dence that God had for Christ's sake forgiven their 
sins ; some of them had been sceptics previous to 
their conversion. 
This is the Lord's doings, and 
is marvellous in our eyes. 
On the 31st of Jan. 
Elder C. constituted a church, to be called the 
Second Advent Church, on McKee's Creek, Brown 
county, 111. 
The church was constituted of thir-
teen members. 
Three more have been added, so 
we now number sixteen. 
We have covenanted to 
meet on Wednesday evenings for prayer, and on 
the Sabbath day twice for religious exercises. 
0, 
that the Lord would bless our meetings to the sal-
vation of souls. Elder C. left us to fill his appoint-
ment five miles north of Mount Sterling on Friday, 
the 3d of February, then to Walker's Neck, after 
which we expect him to return and spend another 
Sabbath with us, and then leave for Hancock 
county, perhaps. 
Long have I prayed that God 
would send some one whose 
labors might be 
blessed to the good of souls here. 
I can rejoice with those who rejoice, and I feel 
to mourn and weep for those who have not repent-
ed of their sins, and are unprepared to meet Christ 
when he comes. 
1 hope the ministering brethren, 
who preach the Advent doctrine as taught in thp 
Bible, and as brother Miller and others who in 
time past wrote for the Herald, will call on us when 
they come West. 
Yours, in the blessed hope, 
MOSES WINSLOW. 
Perry (Pike county, 111.), Feb. 1th, 1854. 
EXTRACTS FROM 
LETTERS. 
A GOOD EXAMPLE.—Feeling somewhat interested 
in the great and glorious truths contained in the 
doctrine of the Second Advent, I feel it my duty to 
do what I can for the spread of this all-important 
truth. 
I believe " the time is at hand, even at the 
doors," and what is done must be done quickly. 
I 
can think of nothing better than some of your ex-
cellent tracts to turn the attention of some whose 
minds are already half-awakened to this important 
subject. 
My circumstances will not permit me to 
send for a large amount at present. 
I hope soon 
to be able to send for more. 
I mean to make some 
sacrifice in order to do it. 
The Lord works by 
small means sometimes, and I hope that he will 
bless the effort and make it productive of good, 
and my object is gained. 
I live in a dark corner 
of the vineyard ; we never hear an Advent sermon. 
There are a few brethren here, and there is a pros-
pect of having our number increased. 
We trust 
the Lord will raise up laborers in his vineyard. 
SIMEON T. CORBY. 
Carbondale (Pa.), Feb. 18th, 1854. 
BROTHER RICHARD R. WATKINS writes from Bal-
timore, Feb. 21st, 1854 :—" Brother, I do assure 
you that I still believe most firmly in the glorious 
doctrine of the advent nigh, even at the doors. 
I 
believe the signs of the times are now more omi-
nous than ever, and those who cannot see, in the 
events now transpiring, infallible indications of 
the proximity of the second advent of our Lord and 
Saviour, cannot, with any consistency, reprove 
those who neglected the evidences which so clearly 
demonstrated the first advent of the Son of God. 
Could the human family but realize the awful con-
sequences of being ashamed of the Lord and of his 
words in this sinful and adulterous generation, 
how changed would be their course. 
Methinks 
the watchmen on the walls of Zion would then 
faithfully blow the trumpet in Zion, and sound the 
alarm in all God's holy mountain; and that the 
inhabitants of the land would tremble, and make 
no delay in preparing for the great day of the Lord 
which hasteth greatly. 
" My brother, it is a source of great consolation 
to know, that though the multitude have neglected 
and continue to neglect all the evidences of the 
nearness of the second coming of our Lord and 
Master, yet they will never have the power to de-
lay the advent one moment beyond the appointed 
time. 
And though we are ridiculed, and despised, 
and scoffed at, for our adherence to this soul-
cheering doctrine, yet we will love it; yes, and 
preach it too, until he who is our life shall appear, 
and then, blessed be the name of the Lord, we will 
appear with him in glory. 
Yours, in the hope." 
BROTHER 
THEODORE 
MATTHIESSEN writes 
from 
Charleston (S. 0.), Feb., 1854:—" The Advent 
Herald still continues to be as meat in due season 
to my soul. 
We have here no such doctrines pro-
mulgated. 
The general state of things in Europe 
show that a great crisis is approaching, no doubt 
the downfall of the Ottoman empire, and the way 
paved for the dissemination of the only true Gos-
pel, which is 1 hid to them that are lost.' 
I can-
didly confess that in the course of a few years, we 
shall see greater signs than you or I have ever be-
held, of the truths of our doctrine, which are 
gradually increasing in the hearts and minds of 
ministers of various denominations, and the second 
coming of Christ being near, even at the doors, 
will be more generally acquiesced in, and also 
proclaimed in our pulpits. 
Already England and 
Scotland are waking up to a right position, and 
many of their distinguished divines are preaching 
the truths of ' that blessed hope' which animated 
and encouraged the great apostle to the Gentiles. 
We have nothing to fear in regard to our faith 
being shaken, as long as we have on our side such 
living apostles as the Rev. Dr. Cumming, Hugh 
McNeile, Bonar, Dr. Tyng, and a number of others 
who are coming up to the great work. May the Lord 
still continue to add to their number.". 
BROTHER Z. W. 
HOYT writes from Griggsville, 
(111.,) Feb. 14th, 1854 :—" After having had the 
privilege of reading brother Litch's reply to my 
article on the Discussion, I believe I got more fully 
his view on some points than I had before. 
There 
is surely some plausibility in the system he has 
embraced ; but I would suggest one inquiry, not 
for controversy, but for instruction. 
' The cove-
nant is confirmed with many for one week;' now 
how does the confirmation of that covenant go on 
through the last half of that week, when, accord-
ing to his view, the sacrifice and oblation ceases, 
or, in other words, Christ leaves the mediatorial 
throne,"and probation ends? 
Will he please to 
make it plain to us? 
And now, rather than mul-
tiply on this subject, I would prefer to respond to 
the interrogations and remarks of our aged brother 
Cole, in the last Herald. Yours truly." 
BROTHER GEORGE W. THOMPSON writes from Nash-
ua, Feb. 20,1854 :—" The cause still holds its own 
in this place. As usual there are still warm-hearted 
friends of the cause. 
Although generally we do 
not endorse the time this year, we are looking 
steadfastly for the coming King, and for the Re 
deemer to come out of Zion to turn away ungodli-
ness from Jacob, and to roll back this tide of mis-
ery and wickedness that has flooded our earth for 
almost six thousand years last past. 
We have 
some preaching, but not all we need. 
Truly we 
are living in perilous times. 
And that knowing 
the time, it is high time to awake out of Bleep. 
Something must be done ; may God lend a helping 
hand, and give not his heritage to a reproach, but 
revive his weary, care-worn church, and give us 
victory over Satan and his armies. 
0, my dear 
brother, I hope you will hear the Macedonian cry, 
Come over and help us, and you will come without 
delay. 
Yours, in hope of the soon coming King." 
BROTHER WM. M. INGHAM writes from Portland, 
(Me.,) Feb. 17th, 1854:—" I have spent the last 
few weeks in Rye, Portsmouth, and Portland; had 
some interesting meetings, especially in Rye. 
I 
spent about four weeks there; some wanderers 
were reclaimed, the children of God were revived, 
and there was quite an interest to hear on the sub-
ject of the speedy coming of the Lord. 
I think 
much prejudice was done away, and I hope that 
some good was accomplished in the name of Jesus. 
I am still striving to do my Master's will. 
I shall 
leave for Nova Scotia this week if the Lord will. I 
must close with my love to all who love the Lord, 
expecting speedy redemption. 
I think the evidence 
is quite clear that the 1335 days end this year." 
T. G. SPRAGUE writes from Coal Run, Feb. 15th, 
1854 :—" We were very sorry you could not have 
made it convenient to have given us a call while 
you was out West, and " strengthened the things 
that remain." 
There are a few remaining here 
that are trying to hold on to the blessed hope of a 
soon coming Saviour; but alas, the cause has been 
on the decline in this place ever since the death of 
our beloved brother J. Y. Butt. 
Since that time 
we have had but little Advent preaching, and from 
various causes our number is much reduced. 
Still 
there are a few left that have the cause at heart 
and earnestly desire a living ministry. 
0 that the 
Lord would raise up more faithful laborers and 
send them out to warn a slumbering Church and 
sinful world of an approaching judgment. 
We 
greatly desire that if any of the ministering breth-
ren that are sound in faith, are passing through the 
Western country, that they would give us a call at 
Coal Run. 
We wish to know when you think of 
taking another Western tour. 
I. have read your 
journal with a great deal of interest; my heart 
has been made to rejoice to think what a goodly 
number has been gathered under the labors of bro. 
Chapman and yourself in the far West. 
God 
grant the good work may go on until the Master 
comes. 
Yours in hope of the gospel." 
Note.—I regretted much that I could not visit 
you, and others in the southern part of Ohio. 
I 
hope yet to visit the brethren in that part of the 
state. 
j. v. H. 
ZIOX'S COMING GLORY. 
THE King in his beauty, vast glory unfolding, 
Majestic in grandeur is riding sublime ; 
His coming to earth soon the nations beholding, 
The end of the fulness of time. 
See Zion in beauty and glory arising, 
0 hail with rejoicing her conquering King! 
Hear anthems of rapture from myriads surprising, 
Exultingly swell as they sing. 
Now Zion in loveliness tells her glad story, 
As beauties celestial her palaces fill; 
Glad voices in triumph exult in her glory, 
Reflected from valley and hill. 
The kingdoms of this world to Jesus are given, 
His sceptre of righteousness he will maintain ; 
God's will is now done upon earth as in heaven, 
All kingdoms submit to his reign. 
The fair " Tree of Life " every month her fruits 
bearing, 
And leaves for the healing of nations around ; 
Earth's Eden-like beauties all voices declaring, 
Melodiously echo the sgund. 
' I am the resurrection and the life: he that believeth in me 
though he were dead, yet shall he live: and whosoeverliveth, and 
believeth in me, shall never die."'—JOHN 11: 25,26. 
BRO. HIMES :—It has become my painful duty to 
inform you of the death of a beloved sister. 
I do 
not expect to find language to express through the 
Herald those interesting qualities which she pos-
sessed, and which I feel are due to her memory. 
Sister SUSAN died Oct. 2d, aged about fifty years. 
She embraced the Saviour in early life, and he was 
her support in death. 
I don't know that I ever 
saw an individual more ready to forego their own 
ease and pleasure for the sake of making others 
happy and comfortable, than 6he was. 
An ac-
quaintance of about thirteen years with her, and 
favored with her society for the most part of that 
time, has taught me to feel that we sustain a loss 
in our family that is irreparable. 
Her natural 
temperament was even. 
She was usually fiheerful 
and happy, and always greeted her friends with a 
smile. 
She was always ready to sympathize with 
the afflicted and rejoice in the prosperity of those 
who prospered. 
She was willing to assist the 
needy wherever she felt that duty called. 
For a 
few years past she has expressed a desire to live to 
see the second appearing of our Saviour, and be-
lieved she should, till disease had so firmly fast-
ened upon her that she felt her stay must be very 
short without immediate help. 
She suffered ex-
tremely, in the latter part of her sickness espe-
cially. 
For more than a year before her death I 
think she began to decline. 
But she had such a 
complication of diseases it seemed beyond the reach 
of medicine to cure. 
God alone, the great phy-
sician of soul and body, could have preserved her 
from death ; but he has seen fit to order otherwise. 
And like Job I will try to submit and say, " The 
Lord gave, and the Lord hath taken away ; blessed 
be the name of the Lord." 
The blessed hope of 
soon meeting her in the resurrection is all that 
sustains me under this sore affliction. 
Then these 
vile bodies shall be changed and fashioned like 
unto Christ's most glorious body, to die rid more. 
T. BROWN. 
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THE ADVENT HERALD. I 
Contents of this No. 
MISCELLANEOUS-
Chronological Table of Events 
connected with the Papacy. 74 
The Law against Blasphemy. 74 
He Careth for You 
Study of Prophecy...... 
Varieties 
Christ's Absence 
Happiness and Duty .... 
Foreign News 
EDITORIAL. 
, 
The Prophecy of Isaiah.. 
The Seat of War 
CORRESPONDENCE. 
The Little Horn 
73 
That Day 
73 
A Pious Soldier 
73 
The Bride of Christ. 
'76 
Traditions 
78 
Clerical Profanity • 
7S 
Letter from Thos. Huntington 78 
" 
" 
C. R. Griggs 
78 
" 
" 
Moses Wiuslow .. 79 
Zion's Coming Glory (poetry). 79 
Extracts from Letters-
Simeon T. Corby... 
79 
Richard R. Watkins 
79 
Theodore Matthiessen 
79 
Z. W. Hoyt 
79 
Geo. W. Thompson.: 
79 
Wm. M. Ingham 
79 
T. G. Sprague 
79 
OBITUARY. , 
Susan Brown 
79 
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THE steamer Nashville arrived at New York on 
Sunday last, bringing dates to Feb. 15th. 
The preparations in England for the Eastern war 
are still active. 
It is stated that in addition to the 
steamers already taken, the government had decided 
to take the remainder of the Cunard steamers as 
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Many East India 
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The Baltic fleet of 36 ships, 
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to assemble in the Downs on the 6th of March, 
where it would be joined by ten French vessels of 
the line, of from 80 to 100 guns each. 
The whole 
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The steamer Ilecla had already left 
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The French squadron under Admiral Bruat wis 
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The first battalion of the Coldstream Guards 
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to Chichester, prior to their embarkation for the 
Mediterranean, and were received by the people 
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Rumors of peace, however, were still in circula-
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The Paris correspondent of the London 
Times says that fresh negotiations are on foot, and 
hopes are generally entertained they would be sue 
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The new propositions said to be adopted 
by the fout- powers, make a concession to the Czar, 
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It is also 
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on the basis of the Vienna note modified by Tur-
key, and that negotiations should take place direct 
between the Russian and Turkish plenipotentiaries 
Nothing new had been received from Kalafat 
since our last advices. 
The correspondent of the London Times states 
that the Russians were committing dreadful ex-
cesses on the peasants of Wallachia, who had re 
fused to submit to the burdens imposed upon them 
The women and children of three villages had been 
massacred. 
The French government had addressed a strong 
note to King Otho, in consequence of the discovery 
of the Greek conspiracy. 
Advices from Asia state that Schamyl was push-
ing forward his armaments with great energy 
Nearly all Abasia has declared for him. 
One of the most interesting portions of the news 
by this arrival is the letter which the Emperor 
Napoleon addressed to the Czar on the 29 th of 
January. 
The Emperor details the state of affairs 
between Russia and Turkey, and the negotiations 
that have taken place, and concludes as follows : 
" Such, Sire, is the real result and a statement 
of the fact. 
It is clear that, having arrived at this 
point, they must either bring about a definite un 
derstanding or a decided rupture. 
" Your Majesty has given so many proofs of your 
solicitude for the tranquillity of Europe, and by 
your beneficent influence has so powerfully arrested 
the spirit of disorder, that I cannot doubt as to the 
course you will take in the alternative which pre-
sents itself to your choice. 
Should your Majesty 
be as desirous as myself of a pacific conclusion 
what would be more simple than to declare that an 
armistice shall now be signed, that things shall re-
sume their diplomatic course, that all hostilities 
shall cjjase, and that the belligerent forces shall 
return" from the places to which motives of war 
have led them ? 
" Thus the Russian troops would abandon the 
principalities, and our squadrons the Black Sea. 
Your Majesty, preferring to treat directly with 
Turkey, might appoint an ambassador, who could 
negotiate with a plenipotentiary of the Sultan a 
convention which might be submitted to a confer-
ence of the four powers. 
Let your Majesty adopt 
this plan, upon which the Queen of England and 
myself are perfectly agreed, and tranquillity will 
be re-established and the world satisfied. 
There is 
nothing in the plan which is unworthy of your 
Majesty—nothing which can wound your honor ; 
but if, from a motive difficult to understand, your 
Majesty should refuse this proposal, then France, 
as well as England, will be compelled to leave to 
the fate of arms and the chances of war that which 
might now be decided by reason and justice. 
" Let not your Majesty think that the least ani-
mosity can enter my heart. 
I feel no other senti-
ments than those expressed by your Majesty your-
self in your letter of the 17th of January, 1853, 
in which you write, ' Our relations ought to be 
sincerely amicable, based, as they are, upon the 
same intentions—the maintenance of order, the love 
of peace, respect for treaties, and reciprocal good 
feeling.' 
This programme is worthy of the Sover-
eign who traced it, and I do not hesitate to declare 
that I remain faithful to it. 
" I beg your Majesty to believe in the sincerity 
of my sentiments, and it is with these sentiments, 
that 
" I am, Sire, your Majesty's good friend, 
" 
NAPOLEON." 
The London Times refers to this extraordinary 
document in fitting terms. 
It says it cannot see 
the use of offering terms to the Czar which he has 
already rejected, and rebukes the Emperor for pre-
suming to speak in the name of the Queen of Eng-
land. 
The rumor by the previous arrival, of a great 
battle, is not confirmed. 
The moment it was known that the English and 
French squadrons had returned to the Bosphorus, 
a division of the Russian fleet darted out, and pro-
ceeded to attack Fort St. Nicholas (Shef katil), 
which had been taken by the Turks ; but the Rus-
sians were repulsed. 
The news caused the great-
est sensation at Constantinople, and a conference 
was held by the admirals and ambassadors, at 
which it was then determined that cruisers should 
be permanently kept in the Black Sea to prevent 
the repetition of a similar event. 
The accounts from Wallachia are most deplora-
ble. 
The Russian " protectors," it seems, treat 
the protected somewhat in the same fashion as the 
Spanish conquerors treated the Indians when they 
refused to work or find gold for their haughty 
masters. 
It has been already stated that the Wal-
lachians have been obliged to do the work in which 
beasts of burden are usually employed, and that 
crowds of the peasants and farmers have fled their 
homes, have passed into Austria, or have crossed 
the Danube and joined the Turks, rather than sub-
mit to the cruel corvee imposed by their task-mas-
ters. 
The inhabitants of several villages near the 
Danube had fled from their houses. 
The Russian 
general had ordered that young women and young 
girls should do the work imposed on them by the 
troops. They refused. Cossacks were sent amongst 
them. 
The Cossacks were resisted by a numerous 
body of peasants, armed only with scythes or clubs. 
The generai sent troops who inflictsd on them " an 
exemplary chastisement." 
If we are to believe 
the evidence of a Wallachian gentleman who has 
just arrived in Paris, who is to have an interview 
with the Minister of Foreign Affairs, and who was 
on or near the spot, the " exemplary chastise-
ment " was nothing less than the massacre of the 
women and children of three villages in the neigh-
borhood of Giurgevo. 
STILL LATER.—On Tuesday the Alps arrived at 
this port from Liverpool, but too late to get the 
news into this paper, which went to press on 
Wednesday morning. 
It reports no new move 
ments of importance on the Danube ; but brings 
fears of an outbreak among the Christian popula-
tiort in Turkey against the Mohammedan govern-
ment. 
This would greatly peril the continuance 
of the Turk in Europe 
any subject; but if the difficulty consists in being 
ourself misapprehended, we shall not hesitate in 
all kindness to point that out also. 
" 
THE SCHOOL 
AND 
FAMILY 
GAZETTE." 
Boston : 
Published by Asa Fitz—a specimen number. 
We are glad to see that our old friend Fitz again 
purposes to furnish a paper for the children in 
common schools. 
We know of no one than he, 
better adapted to issue a weekly paper for the 
purpose of interesting and instructing children. 
It will be published weekly after the first of April 
at 32 Congress-street, Boston, at $1 a year. 
A HORRID catastrophe occurred in Hartford, Ct., 
on Thursday, the 2d inst. 
The bursting of a steam 
boiler in the car factory of Fales & Gray, resulted 
in the death of eighteen persons, the wounding of 
quite a number more, and the destruction of from 
thirty to fifty thousand dollars' worth of property. 
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" Our remarks had no reference to a removal of 
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pope. 
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