The Blessed Watchman. 
RY THB REV. JOHN CCMMINC, D. D., ENG. 
(Concluded.) 
" Behold, I come as a thief. Blessed is he that 
watcheth, and keepeth his garments, lest he walk 
naked, and they see his shame." 
(Rev. 16:1-5.) 
BUT as everything that occurs in the Apoca-
lypse has a chronological meaning, this passage, 
I will come as a thief," I have no doubt, speci-
fies that just at the period of the sixth vial, which 
began to take effect in 1820, and to exhaust its 
force afte-r 1848, there will be a much wider 
spread of the preaching of the second advent of 
Christ than before. 
And is it not fact, that this 
great doctrine, overlain, superseded, perhaps 
necessarily so, for Martin Luther had so much 
to do in resuscitating the truth of " Christ cru-
fied," that he had scarcely time to anticipate the 
glories of Christ crowned, during the last thirty 
years has been studied, and preached, and in-
vestigated to an extent, and with a success, an 
eloquence, and a force with which it never was 
investigated, stated, or explored before? And 
therefore the passage occurring just after the 
sixth vial, and previous to the seventh, denotes 
not only that God^s people should take cosola-
tion, but that the truth should be brought home 
to their convictions and their hearts to an ex-
tent and with a success with which it was never 
brought home before. 
And whilst they are awed 
as (rod's chartered judgments sweep the earth, 
they are cheered by the blessed hope of Christ's 
appearance upon Mount Zion, and taking to him-
self the kingdom and the glory. 
But when he 
comas, what will happen to the people of God ? 
We shall be like him, for we shall see him as 
he is. 
tt is the desire of God's people, not only 
to believe in an unseen Christ, but to see him 
just as he is. And remarkable it is, that the 
prediction, or rather the promise of God's Holy 
Spirit is, that we shall see him as he is. And 
what a blessed, what a glorious sight, that just, 
as he left the apostles, and ascended in the cloud 
—it is the definite article—:into heaven, as the 
angel said, " He shall come again," and we 
shall see him descend ! 
Christ wears this very 
nature of man, he has shared in my humanity. 
It is a blessed thought, that there is not a grief 
in my heart that has not its resounding echo in 
his—that there is not a sorrow of mine that he 
cannot sympathize with. And if I have found 
him such a Saviour to trust in, though unseen, 
how shall I be gladdened and electrified when I 
shall see him no longer through a glass darkly, 
but face to face, as he is! 
These very eyes shall 
see him, and the sight shall be so transforming, 
that the instant we see him we shall be like him, 
transformed from glory to glory, as by the Spirit 
of the Lord. 
Being thus made like him, that prophecy shall 
be fulfilled, which announces the. manifestation 
of the sons of God. 
At present, Christ's Church 
is hidden; not hidden in one sense, that there 
are no visible worshippers ; but hidden in this 
way—none can specify infallibly who are Christ's 
people and who are not, and therefore the peo-
ple of God are hidden—we cannot discriminate 
them. 
Put 1500 or 1600 people before me, and 
I cannot say who are Christians and who not. 
The sons of God are hidden—" Our life is hid 
with Christ in God;" but when we see him as 
lie is we shall be like him; and the contrast will 
be so vivid, so sharp, so unmistakable, that we 
shall then know, eyen as we ourselves are known 
of him. 
When he comes, this earth shall be re-cast, 
restored, re-constituted, re-beautified, and set in 
more than its first and pristine glory. I never 
can bring myself to believe that this beautiful 
earth, its beauties still outnumbering its blem-
ishes, is to be annihilated, I cannot bring my-
self to believe that the devil's success is to be 
crowned with victory at the last day, and that 
this orb, which God made fair, beautiful, and 
holy, and which sin has made as it is, and over 
which the old serpent has left his trail, so long, 
and so far, and so wide, he means to resign to Sa-
tan. 
But it is not a matter of conjecture, God 
has positively stated that it shall be restored. 
We have got a notion as if there were something 
essentially impure and hopeless in what is mate-
rial. 
We have the old Gnostic heresy, that 
•stone, tree, and flower must be, by their very 
structure and organization, bad and impure. 
But it is not so. 
Only exhaust from the earth 
the poison, sin—let the footfall of Him who 
made it be echoed from its hills and valleys 
once more, at dewy dawn and at eventide, and 
this earth of ours will be instantly transformed 
into an orb the like of which is not amid all the 
orbs of the universe besides. I could take you, 
even in this world as it now is, to scenes, to 
glens, and valleys, to wide-spread panoramas in 
it, so beautiful and so magnificent, that if you 
could only guarantee that no autumn frost shall 
nip those bright blossoms, that no winter winds 
shall rend and destroy those green branches, 
that there shall be no graves dug for the dead, 
no sick-beds spread for the dying, and no quar-
rels, no strifes, no aches, no other ills that flesh 
is heir to, I could wish and decide to live here 
for ever. All that is wanted is to remove sin 
from the world, and with it suffering goes, au-
tumn goes, winter goes, all that is the product 
and the progeny of sin instantly departs, and an 
immortal world becomes the holy home of an 
immortal and redeemed family. 
But anticipation is not all we have to in-
dulge in. A duty devolves upon us, " Watch." 
' Watch,"—that is, let every man be at his 
post. It is not sin to be at your post in the 
world, it is sin to desert it. 
WThatever your vo-
cation is, attend to it, be each at his post; the 
sentinel on his round, the sailor on his watch, 
the tradesman at his counter. 
Religion is not 
something for the Sunday or the pulpit, to be 
put off like a Sunday dress, and to be laid aside 
on the Monday, lest it should be rumpled or 
soiled with the wear and tear of the week ; it is 
to go with men into every employment, it is to 
give tone, direction, shape, coloring, form, power, 
to all that man is, and to all that man does. 
And hence the sailor on the deck, the soldier on 
the field, the tradesman at his counter, the law-
yer in his office, the physician by the sick-bed, 
and the shoe-black at the crossing, may as truly 
honor and glorify God as the minister can by 
preaching the gospel in his pulpit. 
Nay, the 
minister is but the officer to give the signal and 
to proclaim the duty, and the people are to carry 
the duty into practice. 
When the sermon is fin-
ished by the preacher, it is about to be begun 
by the people ; they are to go out into the world 
and prove that it was an eloquent and conclu-
sive sermon, by showing that it makes them bet-
ter husbands, better wives, better children, bet-
ter sailors, braver soldiers, tender physicians, 
honest lawyers. It is thus that our religion is 
to be exhibited in the world. 
Thus we are watch-
ing when we are each at his post. 
Wherever 
God in his providence has placed us, there we 
nebd not be afraid to let Christ' at his sdcond ad-
vent find us. There is no sin in filling the office 
which God has assigned, and there may be the 
greatest watchfulness for Christ's coming, whilst 
there is the greatest diligence in discharging the 
duties before us. We are all born, since the 
fall, with a great tendency to Romanism. 
Hence 
the origin of the notion that the monk who leaves 
this evil world, and lives in a desert, or in a 
cell, and scourges his flesh, and starves and stints 
himself, and wears rags, and wallows in filth,— 
which is surely a worldly, not a spiritual ele-
ment,—has gone out of the world, and that he 
only is holy and takes a right view of life. But 
he looks to me the reverse; he is the coward 
who leaves the place where the Captain of the 
faith has placed him ; he is the true soldier who 
stands by his post, and shows that his religion 
can serve him as truly when he sweeps a cross-
ing, as when he sits down at the communion 
table and commemorates Christ's death. The 
monk and the suicide are cowards, not champi-
ons. One runs because afraid of temptation, 
and the other dies because weary of trials. 
But combined with this there will be of course 
that resting upon Jesus, that yearning for his 
presence, that expectancy for him, that will ever 
cheer and lighten. 
And hence, the overtasked 
young man, toiling in the heated air, expending 
life and energy from seven in the morning till 
ten, and eleven, and twelve, at night—may, in 
the midst of it, weary and way-worn, not cease 
to try to reform that system, but have this con-
solation, Well, it must come to an end: the 
Lord will come, and the glory of his coming 
will make me like him, when I shall see him 
just as he is. My harness will be taken off. My 
rest will arrive; 
While at our post, in our place, let this bright 
hope cheer us, and lighten the load and the 
pressure of the trials we are called upon to en-
dure ; it is only for a season. It is the eternity 
of hell that makes it so terrible : the greatest 
agony is endurable if it has an end. 
Now, there 
is no toil, no drudgery, no exhaustion we are 
called to endure in this world, to which there is 
not an end, and the longer that the world lasts 
the nearer that end is. Let us then look with 
joyful expectancy, and brightening hope, for the 
glorious appearing of Jesus Christ, our great 
God and Saviour. 
But be sure, dear reader, that you are, in the 
sight of God, and according to the test and the 
standard, and the measure of the sanctuary, one 
of the people of God. 
When Christ comes it 
will be too late to repent,—the harvest is come, 
the summer is ended, and if not saved then, you 
cannot be saved at all. 
When Christ comes, it 
will be too late to believe—there is no faith pos-
sible—all faith ceases, because the object of it 
is seen. 
Faith is the evidence of things not seen, 
but when the things are seen, then faith, like the 
husk or calyx of the ripening fruit, drops off and 
disappears. 
Let me ask, Are you a Christian now ? If 
the farmer neglects the spring, there will be no 
autumn. If the invalid neglects his symptoms 
till disease becomes inveterate, there will be no 
cure. If the voyager misses the tide, he will 
lose his passage; and if you do not now seize 
the day of salvation, close with the offers of the 
Gospel, commit yourselves to the keeping, the 
cleansing blood, and the justifying righteousness 
of Jesus Christ, the Only Saviour, there will be 
no doing if^ then. 
Your lamp will be empty, 
and there will be no oil to be purchased—the 
bridegroom will have come, the foolish virgins 
will find their lamps gone out, and the blackness 
of darkness their only portion for ever and ever. 
If, then, we know not when Christ comes, but 
do know that he will come, and if the signs and 
tokens of the age, accumulating on all sides, and 
becoming more vivid, distinct, and defined with 
each day's progress, tell us that he is at the door, 
that the Judge is at hand, let us see that we have 
washed our robes and made them white in his 
blood, that we are his people, that we bear his 
signature, that we stand up for his cause, and 
by living faith, like the vine branches, are united 
to him, and then we shall not be ashamed at his 
coming. 
Thus will be found in his place, ever 
ready, the Blessed Watchman. 
The Last Battle in Europe. 
TUE letters of our London correspondents and 
the European journals enable us at last to ap-
preciate in all its bearings the prolonged struggle 
between the Turks and Russians, of which Tshet 
ale, a small village nine miles north of Kalafat, 
was the arena. 
Next to the fact that the series 
o,f sanguinary actions in question was character-
ized by great bravery and that the Turks came off' 
victors, the most striking feature of the whole is 
that it is without practical result, so far as the 
expulsion of the Russians from Wallachia is 
concerned. 
This comes from a mistake on the 
part of the Turks to which we have more than 
once had occasion to direct the attention of our 
readers. 
We allude to their sending a separate 
army to Kalafat, in order to shut up the road to 
Servia, while the presence of a strong and con-
centrated force near Rustchuk and Kirsova would 
have been the best guarantee against the Russians 
venturing into that province. 
Such a force 
would have menaced the communications of any 
Russian army marching westward, while a bridge 
arid bridge-head at Oltenitza or somewhere there 
abouts, fortified like that of Kakfafc, could have 
maintained a footing for them on the left bank 
of the Danube, But even without that, the 
Russians could not cross the Upper Danube and 
march into Servia, without leaving the Turks to 
cross the Lower Danube and march upon Bu-
charest. Of course, in saying this, we reckon 
the relative strength of the parties to be what it 
is in reality, and ascribe a decided superiority of 
numbers to the Turkish army of Roumelia, over 
the Russian army of Wallachia. 
Now the fact is that the Turks have used their 
superiority in the very way to nullify it and pro-
vide for being finally beaten. 
They did not. 
concentrate their forces on the Lower Danube, .' 
but divided them. 
While 30,000 to 35,000 men 
occupied Widden and Kalafat, the rest of the 
army remained on the Middle and Lower Dan-
ube. 
They occupy the arc of a circle, while 
the Russians occupy the chord of this arc. 
Thus 
the latter have less space to traverse in order to 
concentrate all their troops on a given spot. 
Moreover, the shorter roads of the Russians are 
through a level country, while the longer ones 
of the Turks pass over hills and cross many 
mountain torrents. 
The Turkish position is, 
then, as disadvantageous as can be, and yet it 
has been taken in order to satisfy the old preju-
dice that there is no way of barring a road against 
an enemy than by placing yourself across it. 
On the 20th of December Omar Pasha knew 
at Shumla, that the Russians were preparing a 
general attack upon Kalafat for the 13th of Jan-
uary. 
He had twenty-two days' time; yet such 
is the position of Kalafat with regard to tfee 
other stations of the Turkish army, that it does 
not appear that he could bring on any re-enforce-
ments except a few reserves from Sofia. 
On the 
other hand, that the Russians, without having 
received any considerable re-enforcements from 
home—on January 3d Osten-Sacken's ubiquitous 
corps was not yet at Bucharest—should venture 
upon a concentration so far west, shows that 
either the state of the weather and of the Dan-
ube did not allow the Turks to cross the river 
lower down, or that Gortschakoff had other 
reasons to be assured of their inactivity in that 
quarter. 
The Turks at Kalafat were ordered to 
attack the Russians while yet in the act of con-
centrating themselves. 
The best way to do this 
was to repeat the experiment of Oltenitza. Why 
was not this done ? The bridge at Kalafat 
stands, in spite of winter and floating ice, and 
there was no position lower down where a similar 
bridge and bridge-head could be erected. Or 
had Omar Pasha been ordered to keep on the 
right bank of the river ? 
There is so much of 
a contradictory nature in the Turkish proceed-
ings, bold and clever measures are so regularly 
followed by the most palpable sins of omission 
and commission, that diplomatic agency must be 
at the bottom of it, A tall events, Gortschakoff 
would not have stirred an inch towards Kalafat, 
had he not been certain that the Turks would 
not repeat the Oltenitza movement. 
Altogether some 30,000 Russians must have 
been sent against Kalafat, for with a lesser force 
they would hardly have ventured to attack a for-
tified position, defended by a garrison of 10,000 
men, with at least 10,000 more for purposes pf 
reserve or sally. At least one half, then, of the 
Russian active army in Wallachia was concen-
trated there. 
Where and how could the other 
half, spread over a long line, have resisted a 
Turkish force crossing at Oltenitza, Silistria or 
Kirsova? 
And if the communication between 
Widdin and Kalafat could be kept up without 
difficulty, then there was a possibility of cross-
ing at other points. 
Thus the Russians by their 
position on the chord of the arc, the periphery of 
which was held by the Turks, were enabled to 
bring a superior force to the field of battle at 
Tshetale, while the Turks could not re-enforce 
their corps at Kalafat, though aware of the in-
tended attack long beforehand. The Turks de 
prived of that movement of diversion which 
would have prevented the whole battle, deprived 
of 'the chance of succor, were reduced to theiir 
bravery and to the hope of cutting up the enemy 
I 
J. V. HIMES, Proprietor. 
S WHOLE NO. 667. 
DEVISiiD FABl.ES." 
OFFICE, No. 8 Chardon-street 
BOSTON, SATURDAY, FEBRUARY 25, 1854. 
YOLUME XIII. NO. 8. 
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iff detail before his concentration was completed. 
But' even this hope was slight, for they could 
not move very far from Kalafat, and every hos-
tile corps of inferior strength could retire out of 
the- circle of their operations. 
Thus they fought 
for five days, generally with success, but at last 
had to retire again to their entrenchments in the 
villages around Kalafat', the Russian forces be-
ing decidedly superior in strength at the end, 
when new re-enforcements arrived. 
The result 
is-that the Russian attack upon Kalafat is most 
probably averted or delayed, and that Turks 
have shown that in t>he open field, no less than 
behind ramparts and ditches, they can fight well. 
The murderous character of the encounters may 
be inferred from the statement1 of a letter from 
Bucharest, to the effect that in the engagements 
one whole regiment of Russian rifles, and all but 
465 men of a regiment of lancers, were com-
pletely annihilated. 
At Oltenitza the Turks were attacked in their 
entrenched positions by the Russians; at Tshet-
ale the Russians were attacked in their entrenched 
positions by the Turks. 
On both occasions the 
Turks have proved victorious, but without reap-
ing any positive results from their victory. The 
battle of Oltenitza happened just when the proc-
lamation of an armistice was on its way from 
Constantinople to the Danube. 
And the battle 
of Tshetale curiously coincides with the news of 
the Divan having accepted the last proposals of 
peace, imposed upon them by their Western al-
lies. 
In the one instance the machinations of 
diplomacy are nullified in the clash of arms 
while, in the other the bloody work of war is 
simultaneously frustrated by some secret diplo-
matic agency. • 
N. Y. Tribune. 
(Continued 
from 
our 
last.) 
Chronological Table 
OF 
EVENTS 
CONNECTED 
WITH 
THE 
PAPACY. 
1798 (Feb. 15)t "Rome, almost defenceless, 
would have offered no obstacle to the entrance 
of the French troops; but it was part of the 
policy of the Directory to make it appear that 
their aid was invoked by the spontaneous efforts 
of the inhabitants. 
Contenting himself, there-
fore, with occupying the castle of St. Angelo, 
from which the feeble guards of the pope were 
soon expelled, Berthier kept his troops for five 
days encamped without the walls. 
At length, 
Feb. 15, the Revolutionists having completed 
their preparations, a noisy crowd assembled in 
the Campo Yaccino, the ancient Forum; the 
old foundations of the capitol were made again 
to resound with the cries, if not the spirit, of 
freedom, and the venerable ensigns, S. P. Q. R., 
after the lapse of fourteen hundred years, again 
floated in the winds. 
The multitude tumultu-
ously demanded the overthrow of the papal 
authority; the French troops were invited to 
enter; the conquerors of Italy, with a haughty 
air, passed the gates of Aurelian, defiled through 
the Piazza del Popolo, gazed on the indestructi 
ble monuments of Roman grandeur, and, amid 
the shouts of the inhabitants, the tricolor flag 
was displayed from the summit of the capitol. 
—Alison's Hist, of Europe, v. 1, p. 545. 
General Berthier, on his arrival at the capi 
tal, delivered the following oration : 
" Shades of Cato, of Pompey, of Brutus, of 
Cicero, of Hortensias, receive the homage of 
free Frenchmen on that capitol where you have 
so often defended the rights of the people, and 
dignified the Roman republic. 
41 With the olive of peace come these Gallic 
sons, to re-establish on the same place the altars 
of liberty that were originally raised by the first 
Brutus. 
"And' youy Roman people, in re-acquirin 
your legitimate rights, you already feel what 
blood it is that flows in your veins, and you 
have only to cast! your eyes around you, to see 
those monuments of glory that represent the 
ancient grandeur and virtue of your fathers." 
The following proclamation declared the Ro 
mans free and independent: 
" The Roman people are now again entered 
into the rights of sovereignty, declaring their 
independence, possessing the government of an 
cient Rome, constituting a Roman republic, 
The general-in-chief of the French army in Italy 
declares, in the name of the French republic 
that he acknowledges the Roman-republic inde 
pendent, and that the same is under the special 
protection of the French army. 
" The general-in-chief of the army acknowl 
edges, in the name of the French republic, the 
provisional government which has been proposed 
by the sovereign people. 
W 
" In consequence, every other temporal au 
thority emanating from the old government of 
the pope is SUPPRESSED, and he shall no more 
exercise any function." 
" The general-in-chief will make all the dis-
positions necessary to secure to the Roman peo 
pie their independence. 
In order, therefore 
that the government may be well arranged, and 
that the new laws may be founded upon the ba 
sis of liberty and equality, he will take all the 
necessary measures to secure the happiness of 
the Roman people. 
"The 
French general, Cervoni, is charged 
with taking care of the police, and the safety of 
the city of Rome, as also to instal the new gov-
ernment. 
"The Roman republic, acknowledged by the 
French republic, comprehends all the country 
that remained under the temporal authority of 
the Pope, after the treaty of Campo Formio. 
"ALEXANDER 
BERTHIER. 
"Rome, the 15th of February, 1798? first 
year of liberty, proclaimed in the Roman forum 
and ratified on the capitol, with free voice, and 
subscribed to by innumerable citizens." 
On the same day, Feb. 15, 1798, the anni-
versary of the election and exaltation of Pope 
Pius VI. to the sovereignty of the Papal Gov-
ernment, the tree of Liberty was planted in 
Rome. 
And while his Holiness was in the Sis-
tine Chapel " celebrating his accession to the 
papal chair, during the ceremony, and while re-
ceiving the congratulations of the Cardinals, 
Citizen Haller, the Commissary General, and 
Cervoni, who then commanded the papal troops 
within the city, both entered the chapel, and 
Haller announced to his Holiness on his throne, 
that ' His reign was at an end: " 
" Immediately after the entry of the French 
troops, commenced the regular and systematic 
pillage of the city. 
Not only, the churches and 
the convents, but the palaces of the cardinals 
and of the nobility were laid waste. 
The agents 
of the Directory, insatiable in the pursuit of 
plunder, and merciless in the means of exacting 
it, ransacked every quarter within its walls, 
seized the most valuable works of art, and 
stripped the Eternal City of those treasures 
which had survived the Gothic fire and the ra-
pacious hands of the Spanish soldiers. The 
bloodshed was much less, but the spoil collected 
incomparably greater, than at the disastrous 
sack which followed the death of the Constable 
Bourbon. 
Almost all the great works of art 
which have, since that time, been collected 
throughout Europe, were then scattered abroad. 
The spoliation exceeded all that the Goths or 
Yandals had effected. 
Not only the palaces of 
the Vatican, and the Monte Cavallo, and the 
chief nobility of Rome, but those of Castel 
Gandolfo, on the margin of the Alban Lake, of 
Terracina, the Villa Albani, and others in the 
environs of Rome, were plundered of every ar-
ticle of value which they possessed. 
The whole 
sacerdotal habits of the pope and cardinals were 
burned, in order to collect from the flames the 
gold with which they were adorned. 
The Vati-
can was stripped to its naked walls ; the immor-
tal frescoes of Raphael and Michael Angelo re-
mained in solitary beauty amid the general deso-
lation. A contribution of four millions in money, 
two millions in provisions, and three thousand 
horses, was imposed on a city already exhausted 
by the enormous exactions it had previously un-
dergone. 
Under the directions of the infamous 
commissary Haller, the domestic library, muse-
um, furniture, jewels, and even the private 
clothes of the pope, were sold. 
Nor did the 
palaces of the Roman nobility escape devasta-
tion. 
The noble galleries of the Cardinal Bras-
chi and the Cardinal York, the last relic of the 
Stuart line, underwent the same fate. 
Others, 
as those of the Chigi, Borghese, and Doria pal-
aces, were rescued from destruction only by 
enormous ransoms. 
Everything of value that 
the treaty of Tolentino had left in Rome became 
the prey of Republican cupidity, and the very 
name of freedom soon became odious, from the 
sordid and infamous crimes which were commit-
ted in its name. 
Nor were the exactions of the French con 
fined to the plunder of palaces and churches. 
Eight cardinals were arrested and sent to Civita 
Castellana, while enormous contributions were 
levied on the papal territory, and brought home 
the bitterness of conquest to every poor man's 
door. 
At the same time, the ample territorial 
possessions of the Church and the monasteries 
were confiscated, and declared national proper 
ty ; a measure which, by drying up at once the 
whole resources of the affluent classes, precipi 
tated into the extreme of misery the numerous 
poor who were maintained by their expenditure 
or fed by their bounty. 
All the respectable 
citizens and clergy were in fetters; and a base 
and despicable faction alone, among whom, to 
their disgrace be it told, were found fourteen 
cardinals, followed in the train of the oppress-
ors ; and at a public festival, returned thanks 
to God for the miseries they had brought upon 
their country."—Alison, v. 1, p. 546. 
• " From the very day of his entry, the ancient 
government may date the epoch of its overthrow ; 
it nevertheless struggled for a few days in the 
arms of death. 
Such of the cardinals as had 
not already.fled from the city on the wings of 
terror, were assembled in council, and several 
were disposed still to uphold the authority of 
the pontiff." 
Finally, " with melancholy voice 
they pronounced their absolute renunciation of 
the temporal government."—Life of Fius VI. 
v. 2, p. 196. 
The pope proving obstinate, " Force was soon 
employed to dispossess him of his authority. 
He was dragged from the altar in his palace, 
his repositories all ransacked and plundered, 
the rings even torn from his fingers, the whole 
effects in the Vatican and Quirinal inventoried 
and seized, and the aged pontiff conducted with 
only a few domestics, amid the brutal jests, and 
sacrilegious songs of the French dragoons, into 
Tuscany, where the generous hospitality of the 
Grand-duke strove to soften the hardships of his 
exile."—Alison's Hist, of Europe, v. 1, p. 545. 
" Pius VI. besought his enemies to let him, 
an old man of eighty, die as he had lived, on 
that spot. 
He was answered that he might as 
well die in one place as another. His apart-
ments were plundered before his eyes; he was 
deprived of even the most trifling necessaries ; 
the ring he wore was pulled from his finger."— 
Ranke's Hist. Popes, p. 316. 
" At the same time, the ample territorial pos-
sessions of the Church and the monasteries, were 
confiscated, and declared national property."— 
Alison, v. 1, p. 546. 
" Meanwhile, the work of the revolution went 
on rapidly in the Roman states. 
The whole an-
cient institutions were subverted. The executive 
made to consist of five consuls, after the model 
of the French Directory; the legislative power 
vested in two chambers, and the state divided 
into eight departments. 
But to preserve the en-
tire dependence of this government on the French 
Directory, it was especially provided that an 
alliance, offensive and defensive, should be im-
mediately concluded between the French and 
Roman Republics; that no laws made by the 
Roman legislative bodies should either be pro-
mulgated, or have force, without the approval 
of the French General stationed at Rome; and 
that it might, of his own authority, enact such 
laws as might appear necessary, or were ordered 
by the French Directory."—lb. p. 547. 
The report of Berthier also on the occasion, 
is as follows : ' Citizen Directors. 
The Roman 
people have declared their resumption of those 
rights, which have been usurped from them, and 
have demanded of me the protection of the Ro-
man Republic, and Rome is free !' 
The Papal Government was abolished, and 
the ' Roman Republic' proclaimed. At the head 
of the government were placed five consuls, as-
sisted by a senate and a tribunate. 
But the 
heavy contributions imposed upon the people by 
the French army, and the shameless pillage of 
treasures of art diminished the joy of the liber-
ated. 
The pope, although he had signed his 
abdication in relation to his temporal power, 
was nevertheless conveyed to France as a pris-
oner, and treated with indignity. 
This aged 
man (he was eighty-two) bore his sufferings with 
fortitude, and died a prisoner in Valence, Aug, 
29th, 1799."—Rotteck, v. 4, p. 114. 
1799^ The Roman Republic which was created 
to succeed the papal temporal power, fell this 
year, with the other Italian republics, by tha 
successful arms of Suwarrow, the Russian gen-
eral. 
1799 (Aug. 29). Pope Pius VI. died. 
1800. Bonaparte having recovered Italy, by 
the battle of Marengo, instead of restoring the 
fallen Roman Republic, re-instated the papal 
supremacy upon its ancient foundation. 4' While 
the Neapolitans were thus compelled hastily to 
evacuate the Roman territories, general surprise 
was exhibited, when, instead of marching to 
Rome, and re-establishing the authority of the 
Roman Republic, Murat, according to the orders 
which he had received from the first consul 
carefully respected the territory of the Church 
and re-installed the officers of the pope in what 
had long been termed the patrimony of St. Pe 
ter's. 
This unexpected turn of circumstances 
originated in high policy on the part of Bona 
parte. * . . . Returned to Europe, he was no,w 
desirous to become the restorer of the temporal 
territories of the pope, in order to obtain such 
settlement of Church affairs in France, as might 
procure for his own government the countenance 
of the Sovereign Pontiff, and for himself an ad 
mission into the pale of Christian princes.'' 
Scott's Life of Napoleon, v. 1, p. 849. 
" The papacy . . . was apparently on the 
verge of complete extinction 
Bonaparte 
consul, who began to think of placing on his 
head the diadem of Charlemagne, and who an 
ticipated the period when he should want ano 
ther Leo III. to consecrate him, collected the 
scattered stones of the pontifical Babel, which 
the republic had almost razed, and anew recon 
structed it." 
On the 14th of March, the new 
pope was proclaimed by the title «of Pius VII. 
1801 (July 15). The Concordat between 
Bonaparte and the pope was definitely con 
eluded. 
The act of Napoleon, by which the pope was 
divested of his ancient prerogatives, is spoken 
by Sir Walter Scott in these terms: 
" This important treaty was managed by Jo 
seph Bonaparte, who, with three colleagues 
held conferences for that purpose, with the 
plenipotentiaries of the pope. 
The ratifications 
were exchanged on the 18th of September, 1801 
and when they were published, it was singular 
behold how submissive the once proud See of 
Rome lay prostrate before the power of Bona-
parte, and how absolutely he must have dictated 
all the terms of the treaty. Every article in-
novated on some of those rights and claims 
which the Church of Rome had for ages asserted 
the unalienable privileges of her infallible 
head." " Such was the celebrated compact, by 
which Pius VII. surrendered to a soldier, whose 
name was five or six years before unheard of in 
Europe, those high claims to supremacy in spir-
itual affairs, which his predecessors had main-
tained for so many ages against the whole po-
tentates of Europe. A puritan might have said 
of the power seated on the Seven Hills—" Baby-
lon is fallen, it is fallen, that great city !' The 
more rigid Catholics were of the same opinion. 
The Concordat, they alleged, showed rather the 
abasement of the Roman hierarchy than the re-
erection of the Gallics Church."—Life of Napo-
leon, v. 1, p. 502. 
Philadelphia, 1827. (See 
also Rotteck's History of the World, v. 4, p. 
148. 
Thiers' Consulate and Empire, pp. 326-
This important treaty " was signed at Paris, 
by Joseph Bonaparte and '4 the plenipotentiaries 
the pope," as Thiers tells us, in 44 July, 
1801," just 1290 years after the Council of Or-
leans was held by Clovis. 
Its ratification at 
Rome took place in September of the same year. 
1804. The pope visited Paris, at the request 
of Napoleon, and to crown him emperor. Na-
poleon, however, May 1st, 44 placed the imperial 
diadem on his own head, and then crowned Jo-
sephine." 
1805 (May 1). The Emperor Napoleon was 
crowned king of Italy, and thus became the 
regular successor of Charlemagne."—But. U. 
Hist. p. 354. 
1805 . 44 In October, 1805, during the course 
of the Austrian war, the French troops seized 
upon Ancona, the most important fortress in the 
ecclesiastical dominions ; and the remonstrances 
of the pope against this violent invasion were 
not only entirely disregarded, but Napoleon, in 
reply, openly asserted the principle that he was 
Emperor of Rome, and the pope was only his 
viceroy. The haughty and disdainful terms of 
this letter, and the open announcement of an 
undisguised sovereignty over the Roman States, 
first opened the eyes of the benevolent pontiff to 
the real intentions of the French emperor: he 
returned an intrepid answer to the conqueror of 
Austerlitz, that he recognized no earthly poten-
tate as his superior, and from that hour may be 
dated the hostility which grew up between them. 
Napoleon, so far from relaxing in any of his de-
mands, was only the more aroused, by this un-
expected opposition, to increased exactions from 
the Holy See : his troops spread over the whole 
papal territory ; Rome itself was surrounded by 
his battalions; and, within half a mile of the 
Quirinal palace, preparations were openly made 
for the siege of Gaeta."—Alison's Hist, of Eu-
rope, v. 3, p. 281. 
IEO'3. Napoleon thus wrote to the pope, when 
demanding that he should dismiss the English 
envoys :—44 All Italy must be subjected to my 
law: your situation requires that you should 
pay me the same respect in temporal which 1 do 
you in spiritual matters. 
Your Holiness must 
eease to have any delicacy towards my enemies 
and those of the Church. 
You are sovereign of 
Rome, but I am its emperor."—lb. v. 3, p. 281. 
The pope replied, 
14 The Supreme Pontiff 
recognizes no such authority, nor any power su-
perior in temporal matters to his own. There 
is no Emperor of Rome ; it was not thus that 
Charlemagne treated our predecessors."—lb. v. 
3, p. 281. 
1808. 44 On the 2d of Feb. a large body of 
French troops entered Rome, which ever after 
continued to be occupied by their battalions." 
—Ib. p. 282. 
Under what Alison calls the " entire assump-
tion of the government by the French," March 
16th, 1808, he says:—44 The French troops 
did not, indeed, blow open the gates of the 
Quirinal palace, but the entire government of 
his dominions were taken from him . . . while 
by an imperial decree shortly after (April 2d, 
1808) . . . about a third of the ecclesiastical ter-
ritories were declared to be irrevocably united 
to the kingdom of Italy." 
44 Violent as these aggressions were, they were 
but the prelude to others still more serious. 
The pope was confined a prisoner to his own 
palace. 
French guards occupied all parts of 
the capital; the administration of posts, the 
control of the press, were assumed by their au-
thorities ; the taxes were levied for their behoof, 
and those imposed by the papal government of 
its own authority annulled; the papal troops 
were incorporated with the French, and the Ro-
man officers dismissed." 
44 The pontiff continued, under these multi-
plied injuries, to evince the same patience and 
resignation : firmly protesting, both to Napoleon 
and the other European powers, against these 
usurpations, but making no attempt to resist 
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them, and sedulously enjoining both his clergy I of the night?" is the inquiry on every side. The 
and people to obey ^he intruded authority with-
out opposition 
The head of the faithful 
was no longer anything but a prisoner in his 
own palace."—-Ib. v. 3, p. 282. 
The popedom was thus conquered by the 
French, and the papal power subjected in 1808. 
1808 (July 31). The French in Spain were 
defeated by the Spanish patriots, and General 
Bupont surrendered, with an army of 14,000.— 
But. U. Mist. p. 359. 
1808 (Aug. 21). The French evacuated Mad-
rid.— lb. p. 359. 
Coming Events. 
THE world is a theatre. 
Its vicissitudes are 
so many scenes in the great drama of its history, 
presenting as they are exhibited, new phases of 
human folly, and developing the great fact, that 
there is one mightier than the mightiest, who 
conducts the whole, and who will overrule all 
events for his glory, and the consummate good of 
those who trust in him. 
What intelligence but 
one of unerring wisdom could have controlled 
the fires of human infatuation, or quenched the 
burning volcanoes of dreadful strife, which have 
so often poured forth their fury with terrific 
madness?—What hand but Omnipotence could 
have sustained the pillars of earth, or guided 
the destinies of this mundane system, while its 
brightest sun has been darkened by the foulest 
deeds, and its sweetest joy been mingled in the 
cup of woe ?•—'Who' can look upOn the past, and 
not have confidence for the future ? 
And though 
the darkness may grow thick, and human fore-
sight cease to discern the " coming events "—yet 
in the " lamp of Life "—the word of God, the 
future is marked with divine precision. 
We 
may err in relation to it—but God will bring it 
to pass; and hoary time shall not expire until 
the last fatal tragedy is enacted—or the last 
crowning event consummated. 
These reflections 
are induced, by what is now transpiring in the 
Old world. 
We think we may safely say there 
never was a time when events demanded a closer 
scrutiny than now. 
The condition of Europe, 
(and in fact the world.) indicates a momentous 
crisis. 
We live in mysterious and critical times. 
The revolutionary outbursts of 1848 shook the 
earth, and overturned some of the firmest thrones. 
That period was succeeded by an epoch, which 
has only prepared us for another, more dreadful 
than the former, because of its nearer approxima-
tion to the end. 
Every system has had its trial 
—Rome with her vile impieties and revolting 
superstitions, has had her day, and now the time 
of her end is at hand—her destiny is written in 
mourning, and lamentation and woe. 
What has 
the reign of infidelity been, but a reign of terror ? 
—its history is written in the annals of the 
French Revolution. 
The popular voice may 
shout democracy, and clamor for equal rights. 
But what is liberty with the fetters still binding 
—what is freedom to those, whom the Son of 
God has not made free. 
Popery had its trial, 
and humanity was crushed. 
Infidelity in all its 
phases is only a blot on the page of history 
Democracy may come to the rescue, but in vain 
—the human mind is not fitted for it; and the 
only hope of the world are those manifestations of 
God's government, which He will develope in his 
own way, time and manner. 
For these we now 
look. 
We will not at present hazard an opinion 
on what will transpire—let age and long experi-
ence epeak. 
But on some things we may be 
permitted to remark—The chords of political 
power are bursting asunder, and the masses are 
breaking loose from earthly restraint.» A new 
order of things must be introduced, for society 
in its present organization has become insane 
In this perhaps we exceed the bounds of youth-
ful modesty, but we feel impelled to give utter-
ence to sentiments which we have learned from 
the Gospel. 
Whether the events to transpire, be 
the universal spread of inspired truth, or the 
mightier manifestations of the judgment day, we 
cannot determine; but of one thing we are cer 
tain :—" Zion shall be redeemed with judgment, 
and her converts with righteousness. 
And the 
destruction of the transgressors and of the sinners 
shall be together, and they that forsake the Lord 
shall be consumed." 
Let the results be as they 
may—Christians have a duty 
May we not say 
—that already the angel of the everlasting gos-
gel has winged his flight, and apostacy, despot-
ism and death, have already started back in dis-
may. 
Need we remind our readers that not only 
the three hundred and sixty millions of China 
are panting for living water, but India, Africa, 
the islands of the sea, and the Continent of Eu-
rope, are all stretching out their hands to Prot-
estant England and America. 
If ever there was 
a time when those at ease in Zion needed to fear 
the woe of God—it is now. 
O where are the 
Christians that can lay up their treasures on 
earth, while the Bridegroom tarrieth—-while the 
Judge is at the door] 
The work of an age 
seems crowded into a day, and the whitened har-
vest field calls for labor of every kind. 
Zion's 
watchmen have no time to slumber now. 
1' What 
stewards of God—to whom have been committed 
the Lord's treasures, should wisely disburse their 
Lord's money. 
Not a gift in the church but 
may be judiciously employed to the glory of 
God. 
In conclusion : if the world stands we 
want a better world—a world governed aud con-
trolled by the motives and graces of the gospel 
—a world hallowed by the influences of truth, 
and stamped with the image of God. 
If time 
ceases, and the manifestations of the last day 
should burst upon us with terrific grandeur, we 
need to be prepared, and we are not without a 
startling admonition from the lips of him who 
spake as man never spake, and which has been 
borne to us above the madness and fury of eigh-
teen centuries—" OCCUPY TILL I COME." 
Religious Intelligencer, St. John, N. 11. 
No more Sea. 
" And there was no more sea " (Rev. 21:1). 
I. 
SUMMER Ocean, idly washing 
This grey rock on which I lean; 
Summer Ocean, broadly flashing 
With thy hues of gold and green ; 
Gently swelling, wildly dashing 
O'er yon island-studded scene; 
Summer Ocean, how I'll miss thee,— 
Miss the thunder of thy roar, 
Miss the music of thy ripple, 
Miss thy sorrow soothing shore,— 
Summer Ocean, how I'll miss thee, 
When " the sea shall be no more." 
Summer Ocean, how I'll miss thee, 
As along thy strand I range ; 
Or as here I sit and watch thee 
In thy moods of endless change— 
Mirthful moods of morning gladness, 
Musing moods of sunset sadness; 
When the dying winds caress thee, 
And the sinking sunbeams kiss thee, 
And the crimson cloudlets press thee, 
And all nature seems to bless thee ;-— 
Summer Ocean, how I'll miss thee,— 
Miss the wonders of thy shore, 
Miss the magic of thy grandeur, 
When " the sea shall be no more!" 
Mfe^aci^tollF- 
• 
And yet sometimes in my musings, 
When I think of what shall be ; 
In the day of earth's new glory; 
Still I seem to roam by thee. 
As if all had not departed. 
But the glory linger'd still; 
As if all that made thee lovely, 
Had remained unchangeable. 
Only that which marr'd thy beauty,— 
Only that had pass'd away, 
Sullen wilds of Ocean-moorland, 
Bloated features of decay, 
Only that dark waste of waters, 
Line ne'er fathom'd, eye ne'er scann'd, 
Only that shall shrink and vanish,— 
Yielding back the imprison'd land. 
Yielding back earth's fertile hollows, 
Long-submerged and hidden plains; 
Giving up a thousand valleys, 
Of the ancient world's domains. 
Leaving still bright azure ranges, 
Winding round this rocky tower; 
Leaving still yon gem-like island, 
Sparkling like an ocean-flower. 
Leaving still some placid stretches, 
Where the sunbeams bathe at noon, 
Leaving still some lake-like reaches, 
Mirrors for the silver moon. 
Only all of gloom and horror, 
Idle wastes of endless brine, 
Haunts of darkness, storm and danger,-— 
These shall be no longer thine. 
Backward ebbing, wave and ripple, 
Wondrous scenes shall then disclose; 
And, like earth's, the wastes of ocean 
Then shall blossom as the rose. 
London " Quarterly Journal of Prophecy." 
thrice welcome thou morning of beauty, before 
whose dazzling presence the darkness of untold 
ages shall flee dismayed; and light, blessed, 
joyous, brilliant light shall supply the place, 
where so late gloom and darkness reigned. All 
hail, happy morn! that shall with thy bright 
glory restore this fallen earth, and bid a holy 
Paradise bloom again, more lovely, and never to 
fade as the first. Pilgrim, rejoice, " the morning 
cometh," 
A few more of life's storms to brave, 
and thy frail tempest-driven bark shall anchor 
$afely within the harbor of rest. Be true. 
A 
crown for the faithful, brilliant with reflected 
glory from the Saviour's radiant brow. 
A robe 
for the upright, more dazzlingly bright than the 
white robe of winter gemmed with sunbeams. A 
home for the righteous—but here all language 
is inadequate. 
Dost thou love the beautiful of earth ? 
Canst 
thou drink in the melody of brooks and streams ? 
or dost thou rather love the bold free music of 
the mountain cataract ? 
Can the low whisper-
ing of the summer winds through the leaves of 
the forest speak to thy heart ? 
Dost thou cher-
ish the fair frail flowers, playthings of an hour? 
Dost thou love the face of beauty ? and can mu-
sic stir the deep fountains of thy soul with its 
soft measures, and cause thine eyes to swim in 
earth-born tears? 
Dost thou love all of beauti-
ful in earth or heaven ? 
Then rest thee ; for far 
more than thy fondest dreams shall be realized. 
Thy imagination in its boldest flight never dared 
soar high enough to paint the glories of the 
" better land." 
Nor could it; the full ideal is 
buried within the very heart of Deity, the soul 
and essence of beauty. 
But ye can dream of a glorious land, all light 
and beauty; of softest skies, with never a cloud 
to dim their azure loveliness. 
Of balmy winds 
that ever breathe through bowers brilliant with 
immortal bloom. 
Of clear bright waters mur-
muring ever, pictures of transcendent beauty. 
Of sparkling brooks and streams that laugh in 
the gay sunbeams, and sport amid the green 
meadows. 
Of wood and mountain, beautiful in 
solitary grandeur. 
Of every form of loveliness 
on which the mind best loves to linger ; nor fear 
that, like other dreams, it may prove the mere 
phantom of a heated brain. 
No, the most bril-
liant ideal can never vision one half the full daz-
zling glory of the real. 
"Eye hath not seen, 
nor ear heard, nor hath it entered into the heart 
of man, the things which God hath prepared for 
those who love him." 
No wonder, then, that 
the pilgrim of earth, amid the dark stormy scenes 
of life, ever looks to this bright star of hope and 
promise. 
No wonder that he hails with delight 
each token of approaching day ; a day that shall 
terminate his cares and sorrows ; a day of eter-
nal rest, free from temptation and sin ; a day of 
blessed light, with no night to dim its unclouded 
glory; and of whose immortal beauty, the eye 
shall never tire, the soul never weary. 
Happy future ! glorious destiny! 
Let it be 
our constant prayer, that we may remain firm 
and true, even unto the end, that when the bright 
beams of that fair "morning" shall dispel the 
gloom and darkness of this " night of weeping.' 
we may be deemed worthy to behold the beauty 
and revel in the joys of " Paradise restored." 
C. F. 
HAWKES. 
Lowell, February, 1854. 
Morning. 
(For the Herald.) 
NIGHT is with us now—dark and desolate, with 
terrible gloom and dim flitting shadows. 
Storms 
are ours, and the bright lightnings mock us with 
their horrible brilliancy, and hoarse thunders 
echo from the dark storm-clouds, while ever on 
our ear falls the roar of surges from the dark 
"ocean of time," now near, and terribly dis-
tinct, and again far distant, so far, that they 
seem but the echo of dying music. 
But now and 
then comes a blfessed ray of light and hope amid 
the dreariness, faint 'tis true, but ever thrice wel-
come ; for do they not presage to the poor weath-
er-beaten mariner who has been long tossed on 
the rough billows of " life's ocean," a brighter 
day? 
"The morning cometh!" glorious and 
beautiful. 
The day-star, its first bright messen-
ger, hath long since heralded its approach, even 
now its fitful blushes tipge the far hill-tops; al-
ready the faint flush grows brighter against 
the eastern sky. 
Welcome bright tokens. And 
(For the Herald.) 
The Christian's Rest. 
to dim its glory, with no grief to sadden its joy, 
and.no sin to taint its purity. 
Bat this blissful 
state of rest can only be enjoyed by those who 
have been willing " to enlist under the banner 
of King Emanuel, who have been good soldiers 
of the cross," and have " fought the g@od fight 
of faith :" these only will be sharers in that rest. 
Those who have refused to comply with the 
conditions on which it is to he obtained wil? of 
course be rejected. 
And it is to be feared "that 
many who are cherishing a hope that this endur-
ing hope will be theirs, are too anxious for a 
life of ease and enjoyment here, to do all that is 
requisite to obtain it. 
It would seem as if this promised rest Was de-
sirable enough to make all whose minds had 
ever been led to contemplate it ,(and especially 
every Christian) give all diligence to secure it 
for themselves; hut experience and observation 
prove that this is not always the case. 
Listen 
to the exhortation of the apostle, " Let us there-
fore fear lest a promise being left -us of entering 
into his rest, any of you should seem to come 
short of it." 
Let us think less of the transitory, fleeting ob-
jects of earth, and keep our eye steadily fixed on 
our glorious rest. 
Soon our deliverer will come, 
and then if found faithful to our Master's cause 
—firm at our post of duty, we shall enter upon 
that rest which remaineth for the people of 
God." 
S. A. GORTEN, 
Manchester, Feb. 1854. 
" 
THERE remaineth therefore a rest for the peo-
ple of God." 
(Heb. 4:9.) 
Sweet, precious, comforting words. 
What 
language could be more cheering to the weary 
pilgrim passing through this vale of tears, per-
plexed by cares and temptations, than this? What 
prospect so bright as that of a final rest, when 
life's uneven journey is complete, its storms buf-
fetted, its labor done? 
'Tis this that rejoices the heart of the humble 
follower of Jesus—that consoles him in affliction 
—comforts him in sadness, and buoys him up 
under all the trials which are incident to the 
present life; it leads him to look away from 
" the things which are seen and temporal, to 
those which are unseen and eternal." 
We all 
know how sweet is rest, even here; what should 
we do were it not for the night inviting us to 
calm and peaceful slumber ? 
What would the 
traveller pursuing his toilsome journey, per-
chance over the lonely desert, do, were there 
not here and there an oasis where he might take 
that rest which exhausted nature demands ? But 
what is the transient rest here, compared with 
that which shall be hereafter ? 
Here we cannot 
be sure of rest for a night or even an hour; how 
often are we disturbed by unpleasant dreams, 
the sudden approach of disease, and a thousand 
other causes; but there we shall enjoy an eter-
nal rest—a rest from everything that mars our 
peace and happiness; we shall not have to wait 
for a night to come, that we may rest from our la-
bors, for there we shall never tire, and therefore 
shall need no night in which to rest. 
O joyful thought, to enjoy a long eternal day 
of rest; a day without night; without a cloud 
Interesting Incidents.' 
THE following account is given by the Rev, 
Leigh Richmond, as having been related by a 
minister in a meeting of the British Foreign Bi-
ble Society, 
A drunkard was one day staggering in drink 
on the brink of the sea. 
His little son by him, 
three years of age, being very hungry, solicited 
him for something to eat. 
The miserable father, 
conscious of his poverty, and of the criminal 
cause of it, in a kind of rage, occasioned by his 
intemperance and despair, hurled the little inno-
cent into the sea, and made off with himself. 
The poor little sufferer, finding a floating plank 
by his side on the water, clung to it. The wind' 
soon wafted him and the plank into the sea. 
A British man-of-war, passing by, discovered 
the plank and child; a sailor at the risk of his 
own life, plunged into the sea, and brought him 
on board. 
He could inform them little more 
than that his name was Jack. 
They gave him 
the name of poor Jack. 
He grew up on board 
that man-of-war, behaved well, and gained the 
love of all the officers and men. 
He became an 
officer of the sick and wounded department. 
During an action of the late war, an aged man 
came under his care, nearly in a dying state. 
He was all attention to the suffering stranger, 
but could not save his life. 
The aged stranger was dying, and thus ad-
dressed this kind young officer: For the great 
attention you have shown me, I give you this 
only treasure that I am possessed of—(present-
ing him with a Bible, bearing the stamp of the 
British and Foreign Bible Society.) 
It was 
given me by a lady ; has been the means of my 
conversion ; and has been a great comfort to me. 
Read it and it will lead you in the way you 
should go. He went on to confess the wicked-
ness and profligacy of his life before the recep-
tion of his Bible; and, among other enormities, 
how he once cast a little son, three years old, 
into the sea, because he cried to him for needed 
food! 
The young officer inquired of him the time 
and place, and found here was his own history. 
Reader, judge if you can, of his feelings, to re-
cognize in the dying old man, his father dying a 
penitent under his care ! and, judge of the feel-
ings of the dying penitent, to find that the same 
young stranger was his SMI—the very son whom 
he had plunged into the sea, and had no idea but 
that he had immediately perished ! A descrip-
tion of their mutual feelings will not be attempt-
ed. 
The old man soon expired in the arms of 
his son. 
The latter left the Service, and became 
a pious preacher of the gospel. 
On closing this 
story, the minister in the meeting of the Bible 
Society, bowed to the chairman, and said, " Sir, 
1 am little Jack." 
" Till the Day Dawn." 
THAT is, the marriage day; in Hebrew, called 
" day," by way of excellence. 
To say the truth, 
it is a day, and called " the day of Christ," " the 
day of redemption." 
It is called so for these 
causes,—1st. It is the day when Christ is perfect 
in his members. 
Now Christ's body is mangled, 
arms, and legs, and hands, in sundry places; 
some not born, some born, but in the devil's ser-
vice; some rotting in the earth, some cast into 
the sea; Christ is bleeding in his members. 2d. 
That day Christ shall give in his accounts. As 
Chief Shepherd, he shall make an account of 
all his lambs, and tell his Father, " These be all 
my silly sheep ; they have win away with their 
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HERALD. 
I went through woods and waters, and 
briers and thorns, to gather them in, and my 
feet We're pricked, and my hands and my side 
pierced ere I could get a grip of them. But 
fiow, here they are !" 
Judge ye, if ye will not 
have a blythe heart to hear Christ and his Father 
count together, when ye shall be all standing 
under the broad scarlet robe of Christ's right-
eousness, and so many glorified angels looking 
on ! 3d. Every soldier shall that day shew his 
wounds to his Lord, saying, "Lord, 1 have lost 
this and this for thee." 
And God shall take us 
to his chamber of presence—all glorious tapes-
try there! 
" And the shadows shall flee away" 
This 
life is all night, because of tbe darkness of our 
mind. 
We see but the portrait of the kingdom 
in the glass of the Word and sacraments. But 
when that day dawns, we shall see him face to 
face. 
Cry ye to him, " Come," for he cries to you, 
" Come;" and thus ye will meet. 
Rutherford. 
BOSTON, 
FEBRUARY 
25, 
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 qf 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 XXXIV. 
AND the streams thereof shall be turned into pitch, and the dust 
thereof into brimstone, 
And the land thereof shall become burning pitch. 
It shall not be quenched, night nor day ; 
The smoke thereof shall go up for ever: 
From generation to generation it shall lie waste ; 
None shall pass through it for ever and ever.—vs. 9,10. 
Ry the use of metaphors, the turning of streams 
of water and the land into pitch, and the dust of 
the land into brimstone, illustrate the destruction 
of the men and animals in Idumea ; which will be 
as complete as if they were subjected to the action 
of those elements. 
And the affirmation that it will 
never be quenched, is equivalent to a declaration 
that the land shall no more be inhabited to the end 
of the world. 
About five years subsequent to the conquest of 
Jerusalem, Nebuchadnezzar humbled all the neigh-
boring nations, (see Jer. 25:15-26,) among which 
were " Edom, and Moab, and the children of Am-
nion." 
Malachi said of it, (1:2-4), "Was not 
Esau Jacob's brother? saith the Lord: yet I loved 
Jacob, and I hated Esau, and laid his mountains 
and his heritage waste for the dragons of the 
wilderness. 
Whereas Edom saith, We are im-
poverished, but we will return and build the deso-
late places; thus saith the Lord of hosts, They 
shall build, but I will throw down ; and they shall 
call them, The border of wickedness, and, The 
people against whom the Lord hath indignation for 
ever." 
In time, the kingdom of the Idumeans be-
came utterly extinct, and its mountains were left 
without inhabitants. 
Travellers who have pene-
trated into the country, find only desolate cities, 
and remains of fortified places. Says the infidel 
Volney : 
" From the reports of the Arabs of Bakir, and 
the inhabitants of Gaza, who frequently go to 
Maan and Karak, on the road of the pilgrims, 
there are to the south-list of the lake Asphaltites, 
(Dead Sea,) within three days'1 journey, upwards of 
thirty ruined towns absolutely deserted. Several of 
them have large edifices, with columns that may 
have belonged to the ancient temples, or at least 
to the Greek churches. 
The Arabs sometimes 
make use of them to fold cattle in ; but in general 
avoid them on account of the enormous scorpions 
with which they swarm."—Travels, v. 2, pp. 344-
346. 
Seetzen was told that " at the distance of two 
days and a half from Hebron he would find consid-
erable rufns of the ancient city of Abbe, and that 
for all the rest of the journey he would see no 
place of habitation ; he would meet only with a 
few tribes of wandering Arabs."—Travels, p. 46. 
Of the eastern part of Edom and Arabia Petnea, 
B'urckhart says : 
" It might with truth be called Petraea, not only 
on account of its rocky mountains, but also of 
the elevated plain " [of Seir] " already described, 
which is so much covered with stones, especially 
flints-, that it may with great propriety be called a 
stony desert, although susceptible of culture ; in 
many places it is grown over with wild herbs, and 
must once have been thickly inhabited, for traces 
of many towns and villages are met on both sides 
of the Hadj road, between Maan and Akaba, as 
well as between Maan and the plains of Haouran, 
in which direction also are many springs. 
At 
present all this country is a desert, and Maan is 
the only inhabited place in it."—Travels, p. 436. 
Burckhart describes many ruins'of places which 
he visited, and gives an interesting description of 
Petra, the ancient capital of Idumea ; for which, 
see note on chap. 16:1. 
As Idumea extended from the Dead Sea south to 
the gulf of Akaba, the'bastern fork of the Red Sea, 
the natural course of travel between Egypt and 
Assyria led directly through it. 
Petra, the capi-
tal of Idumea, was for a long time a great commer-
cial capital. Says Dr. Vincent: 
" The caravans in all ages, from Minca in the 
interior of Arabia, and from Gerrka on the Gulf of 
Persia, from Iladramont on /the ocean, and some 
even from Sabea in Yemen, appear to have pointed 
to Petra as a common centre ; and from Petra the 
trade seems to have branched out into every direc-
tion, to Egypt, Palestine, and Syria, through Ar-
sinoe, Gaza, Tyre, Jerusalem, Damascus, and a 
variety of intermediate roads that all terminated 
on the Mediterranean."—Commerce of the Ancients, 
v. 11, p. 263. 
(See Labord's Journey to Arabia Pe-
trcea, p. 17.) 
Idumea was thus a great thoroughfare for na-
tions. 
As early as the time of Moses, a way led 
through it, known as the " king's high-way/' 
which is the most ancient road referred to in his-
tory ; and when he asked permission of the king of 
Edom to pass through his country, he said, (Num. 
20:17,) "We will not pass through the field, or 
vineyards, neither will we drink of the water of 
the wells : we will go by the king's high-way, we 
will not turn to the right hand nor to the left, 
until we have passed thy borders." 
Israel, as be-
fore shown, was inhumanly denied a passage 
through the land ; and now, a part of the maledic-
tion uttered against it, was, " None shall pass 
through it for ever and ever,"—i. e., it should 
cease to be a thoroughfare for nations and even for 
individuals. 
So literally has this part of the prophecy been 
fulfilled, that of travellers who h&ve penetrated into 
it Volney said :—" The country has not been visited 
by any traveller, but it well merits such an atten-
tion."—Travels, v. 2, p. 344. 
Burckhart, when 
in the north-east of it, said he " was without pro-
tection in the midst of a desert where no traveller 
had ever before been seen."—Travels in Syria, p. 
421. 
Thinking to pass through it to Jerusalem, 
he was told that it was impossible. 
Captains 
Irby and Mangles offered five hundred piastres to 
an Arab tribe to conduct them to Wady Mousa, 
but could not gain their consent, for any amount 
—the Arabs " observing that money was of no 
use to a man if he lost his life."—lb. p. 349. 
But the cormorant and the bittern shall possess it; 
The owl also and the raven shall dwell in it: 
And he shall stretch out upon it the line of confusion, and the stones 
of emptiness.—v. 11. 
The cormorant (Heb. kath) and bittern, were, 
evidently occupants of desolate places, as the owl 
and raven are known to be. Their possession of the 
land, shows its abandonment by man. Burckhardt 
says: " The bird katta is met with in immense 
numbers; they fly in such large flocks, that the 
Arab boys often kill two or three at a time, merely 
by throwing a stick among {hem." 
" The fields of 
Tafyle " (near Edom,) " are frequented by an im-
mense number of crows."—Trav. pp. 405, 406. 
And Irby and Mangles say: "The screaming 
of eagles, hawks, and owls, which were soaring ki 
considerable numbers above our heads, seemingly 
annoyed at any one approaching their lonely hab-
itation added much to the singularity of the scene." 
—Trav. p. 415. 
There are metaphors in this text, in the denomi-
nation of confusion " the line," and emptiness, 
" the stones," or plummets. 
A parallel passage 
is found in 2 Kings 21:13—" I will stretch over 
Jerusalem the line of Samaria, and the plummet 
of the house of Ahab "—instruments in building, 
being used to illustrate the bringing upon it of 
disorder and desolation. 
They shall call the nobles thereof to the kingdom, 
But hone shall be there, and all her princes shall be nothing.—u. 12. 
The entire population of Idumea was not de-
stroyed at once, when conquered by Nebuchadnez-
zar. The remnant was afterwards subdued by 
John Ilyrcanus, who compelled them to be circum-
cised ; and they continued subject to the Jews, 
till that country went into the possession of the 
Romans. 
Some of them removed within the boun-
daries of Judah; and those who remained near 
Mount Seir became mingled with the Nebatheans, 
descendants of a son of Ishmael, and were called 
Nebatheans, till they became extinct. 
The king-
dom was thus blotted out. The text represents 
the remnant of the people before they had all dis-
appeared, as calling to the nobles and princes to 
resume the government of the land, but finding 
none there to govern : the kingdom was at an end. 
The wild beasts of the desert shall also meet with the wild beasts of 
the island, 
And the satyr shall cry to his fellow; 
The screech-owl also shall rest there, and find for herself a place 
of rest. 
There shall the great owl make her nest, 
And lay, and hatch, and gather under her shadow: 
There shall the vultures also be gathered, every one with her mate. 
vs. 13-15. 
There are no tropes in these texts, which repre-
sent Idumea as entirely abandoned by man, as 
overgrown by weeds and a useless vegetation, and 
as being possessed by the most wild and doleful 
creatures. 
Where the land was depopulated, many of the 
dwellings of the inhabitants, being built of stone 
were left standing, (see note on vs. 9, 10,) and be-
came overgrown with weeds and the haunts of 
birds and beasts. 
Petra, its capital abounds in 
temples, tombs, and ruins, hewn from the solid 
rocks of the mountains which enrich it. 
(See note 
on 16:1.) 
And Stephens, calling to mind this 
prophecy of Isaiah, wrote : 
" I would that the skeptic could stand as I did, 
among the ruins of this eity among the rocks, and 
there open the Sacred Book and read the words of 
the inspired penman, written when this desolate 
place was one Of the greatest cities in the world. I 
see the scoff arrested, his cheek pale, his heart 
qUaking with fear, as the ancient city cries out to 
Jhim in a voice loud and powerful as one rising from 
the dead ; though he would not believe Moses and 
the prophets, he believes the hand-writing of God 
himself, in the desolation and eternal ruin around 
him."—Incidents of Travel in Egypt, &c. v. 2,p. 76. 
The " dragon " is supposod to be a large spe-
cies of winged serpent, famous in the dark ages, 
that should take possession, with the owls, of their 
deserted dwellings. 
The " wild beasts of the deserts," are animals 
that abound in dry and desolate places—supposed 
by Bochart to be wild-cats, or catamounts, remarka-
ble for their cry, which resembles that of an in-
fant. 
By the " wild beasts of the island," he supposes 
the jackal is signified, which is distinguished for 
its howlings in the night. 
" Satyrs," are rendered 
by the LXX. demons or devils; but it doubtless 
means some kind of animal, which joins its voice 
to the cry of the wild-cat, the howlings of the jack-
al, and the screaming of the owl—all serving to 
make night hideous. The owl's laying, &c., shows 
that they would be undisturbed by man ; and the 
whole description exhibits a desolate region abound-
ing in ruins, and animals that make such their 
abode. 
Seek ye out of the book of the Lord, and read : 
No on j of these shall fail, none shall want her mate : 
For my mouth it hath commanded, and his spirit it hath gathered 
them. 
And he hath cast the lot for them, and his hand hath divided it unto 
them by line: 
They shall possess it for ever, from generation to generation shall 
they dwell therein.—us. 16,17. 
The Lord, by an apostrophe to the people and 
nations addressed in the commencement of this 
chapter, demands their careful consideration of 
this prophecy, and a comparison of the prediction, 
with its fulfilment, between which is promised an 
agreement in every particular. 
The expression, " none shall want her mate," 
appears to refer to the animals before spoken of, 
by which their several kinds should be continued 
in the possession of the land. 
There is a metonymy in the use of the word 
/" mouth " which is put for Jehovah who had com-
manded these events, and would gather, or assem-
ble these birds and animals to that deserted coun-
try,—" gathered " being a substitution for the acts 
of his providence which should effect such a result. 
Conquered countries were usually surveyed or 
divided into suitable portions, which were appor-
tioned among the victors by lot. 
By a reference 
to this, to " cast a lot for them " and to " divide 
it to them by line," are substitutions for the Di-
vine arrangement which should secure this forsaken 
land to the possession of these creatures to the end 
of time. All travellers testify to the exact fulfil-
ment of this prophecy,—which, from the 4th verse, 
is an evident digression from the subject of the 
previous portions of this chapter, of which the next 
chapter is a continuation. 
And thorns shall come up in her palaces, 
Nettles and brambles in the fortresses thereof; 
And it shall be an habitation of dragons, and a court for owls. 
THE 
LITTLE 
HORN. 
BV THE EDITOR. 
DAY OF SPECIAL PRAYER.—The General Assembly 
of the Presbyterian church (O. S.) appointed the 
last Thursday in February (last Thursday) as a 
day of special prayer, in reference to the increase 
of candidates for the ministry. The following is 
the resolution, recommending the observance of 
the day. 
" Resolved, That the lamentable dearth of candi-
dates in the Church, while the call both from the 
Home and Foreign fields is becoming more frequent 
and pressing, is the subject of serious alarm ; in-
volving great responsibilities on all concerned, and 
demanding in the most urgent manner the immedi-
ate and particular attention of ministers, elders, 
parents, and pious young men ; and the Assembly 
express the opinion that constant and earnest pray-
er should be made to the ' Lord of the harvest,' 
both in public and private, until a gracious answer 
is given in his holy providence; and that the last 
Thursday of February next, be recommended as a 
day of special prayer and public instruction on 
this subject in all our churches." 
UNDER this head in another column, is an article 
signed LA., which has suggested the following 
comments on the paragraphs with corresponding 
notations: 
1. If the writer meant to assert that the Papal 
hierarchy never attained absolute ecclesiastical 
power, it would not accord with history. 
If he 
meant that the attainment of such supremacy did 
not constitute it "the little horn," it is not ex-
pressed. The papacy was first connected with the 
civil power, as early as the reign of Constantine, 
who in A. D. 312 took it under his protection and 
issued an edict allowing Christians the free exer-
cise of their religion. 
And Bower says that it was 
" under the benign auspices of Constantine that the 
ecclesiastical hierarchy was first formed and settled in 
the manner it continues to this day—the new form of 
government introduced by that prince into the 
state, serving as a model for the government of the 
church."—p. 47. 
(See Chron. Table, *.. D. 314.) 
A still closer connection of the civil with the 
ecclesiastical power was made when Theodosius 
" dictated a solemn edict, which proclaimed his 
own faith, and prescribed the religion of his sub-
jects. 
4 It is our pleasure (such is the Imperial 
style,) that all the nations, which are governed by 
our clemency and moderation, should steadfastly 
adhere to the religion which was taught by St. 
Peter to the Romans; which faithful tradition has 
preserved; and which is now professed by the 
PONTIFF DAMASUS, and by Peter, Bishop of Alexan-
dria, a man of apostolical holiness. 
According to 
the discipline of the apostles, and the doctrine of 
the gospel, let us believe the sole deity of the 
Father, the Son, and the Holy Ghost; under an 
equal majesty, and a pious Trinity. 
We authorize 
the followers of this doctrine to assume the title of 
Catholic Christians ; and as we judge, that all 
others are extravagant madmen, we brand'them 
with the infamous name of heretics ; and declare, 
that their conventicles shall no longer usurp the 
respectable appellation of churches. 
Besides the 
condemnation of divine justice, they must expect 
to SUFFER THE SEVERE PENALTIES, which our authority 
guided by heavenly wisdom, shall think proper to 
INFLICT upon them.' "—Gibbon, v. 2, p. 156. 
We presume, however, the writer means some-
thing more than a mere connection, but has neg-
lected to express it. 
2. Claiming independence, and being in a posi-
tion to maintain it, are distinct questions. 
Every 
well read ecclesiastical historian is aware that the 
see of Alexandria, had had recourse to the see of 
Rome previous to 521, for protection against the 
patriarchs of Constantinople. 
3. This writer has virtually conceded that the 
see of Rome was not in A. D. 521 independent of the 
civil power, or in a position to dictate to and con-
trol it. 
If it was not so in A. D. 521, such power, 
if commenced in 519, was short-lived ! ! This con-
cession overturns all the argument for 519 from 
the other writers in its defence, to whom we have 
before replied, and against whom we advanced this 
fact as an insurmountable obstacle to their posi-
tion. 
They should have a better understanding 
with each other. 
4. A supremacy over other churches was given 
by the civil power in 533, by the decree of Justin-
ian, making the Bishop of Rome the head of all 
the churches. (See Chron. Table.) The prophetic 
period refers, not to the existence of the horn, but 
to its dominion over the saints of the Most High. 
5. If a horn could symbolize only civil govern-
ment, there would be reason for recurring to such, 
as the representative of the " little horn ;" but if 
a horn may symbolize government, or power irre-
spective of its being civil or ecclesiastical, then 
that distinction does not hold good. 
In the Herald 
of Jan. 14, " Berean " has an argument on this 
point worthy of consideration. 
A horn is an em-
blem of power, and as such it is used variously, 
both as a symbol and trope. 
The government 
symbolized, is ordinarily of a political nature ; but 
this little horn is shown to be no common one, 
symbolizing ordinary civil rulers, but is possessed 
of unusual characteristics not common to ordinary 
horns, viz., " eyes " and " mouth " and a " look 
more stout than its fellows." 
These, in the sym-
bol, are constituents of the horn, and' not an or-
ganism separate from it of which it might be di-
vested without violence to its completeness. 
Ihey 
are as much a part of this horn, as the head is a 
part of the beast, and are as essential to its integ-
rity. 
Being thus constituted, it can symbolize no 
ordinary succession of rulers ; but those symbolized 
must be regarded as prophetic and priestly, as well 
as kingly ; and as such, the subjects of the papacy 
have venerated the possessors of the Roman see. 
That see has been in all essentials, an ecclesiasti-
cal kingdom: and as such it has been regarded by 
I""'"1".*1" 
61 THE ADVENT HERALD. 
I 
all the great writers on prophecy. Even the Catho-
lics themselves so denominated it. 
Bellarmine de-
votes his first book " of the Pontiff" to prove that 
such is and ought to be its government. 
He says, 
" All Catholic doctors agree in this, that the eccle-
siastical government committed to men by God is 
a monarchy."—De Rom. Pont. lib. i. c. v. 
The 
papal hierarchy, small and puny at first, attained 
to territorial possessions, made and executed its 
own laws, had its own courts of adjudicature, and 
possessed all the appliances of an effective mon-
archy. 
The papal hierarchy is denominated in 
the Apocalypse, " An image of the Beast "—being 
" patterned, after the government of the state." 
It is expressly stated in Daniel 7:24, that the 
king or kingdom, symbolized by this horn " shall 
be diverse from the first" ten ; of which Bishop 
Newton says : 
It " signifies that his kingdom shall be of a dif-
ferent nature and constitution : And the power 
of the pope differs greatly from that of all other 
princes, being an ecclesiastical and spiritual, as 
well as a civil and temporal authority.—' And be-
hold in this horn were eyes like the eyes of a man,' 
(v. 8.) 
To denote his cunning and foresight, his 
looking out and watching all opportunities to pro-
mote his own interests : And the policy of the Ro-
man bierachy hath almost passed into a proverb ; 
the pope is properly an overlooker, or overseer, f7ri<r-
x.07r<>5 or bishop, in the literal sense of the word.— 
' He had a mouth speaking very great things,' (vs. 
8, 20.) 
And who hath been more noisy and blus-
tering than the pope, especially in former ages, 
boasting of his supremacy, thundering out his 
bulls and anathemas, excommunicating princes, 
and absolving subjects from their allegiance?— 
' His look was more stout than his fellows," (v. 20.) 
And the pope assumes a superiority not only over 
his fellow bishops, but even over crowned heads, 
and requires his foot to be kissed, and greater 
honors paid to him than to kings and emperors 
themselves.—' And he shall speak great words 
against the Most High,' (v. 25,) or as Symmachus 
interprets it, he shall speak great words as the Most 
High; setting up himself against all laws divine 
and human, arrogating to himself godlike attri-
butes and titles of holiness and infallibility, exacting 
obedience to his ordinances and decrees, in prefer-
ence to, and open violation of reason and Scripture, 
insulting men and blaspheming God. 
In Gratian's 
decretals the pope has the title of God given to 
him.—' And he shall wear out the saints of the 
Most High ;' by wars and massacres, and inquisi-
tions, persecuting and destroying the faithful ser-
vants of Jesus, and the true worshippers of God, 
who protest against his innovations, and refuse to 
comply with the idolatry practised in the church of 
Rome.—' And he shall think to change times and 
laws ;' appointing fasts and feasts, canonizing 
saints, granting pardons and indulgences for sins, 
instituting new modes of worship, imposing new 
articles of faith, enjoining new rules of practice, 
and reversing at pleasure the laws both of God 
and men.—' And they shall be given into his hand, 
until a time, and times, and the dividing of time.' " 
Dis. Proph. pp. 220, 221. 
6. The fourth beast of Daniel 7th, and the scar-
let-colored beast of Rev. on which the woman was 
seen, are not in all respects corresponding symbols. 
The analogies of the former are partially repre-
sented by the dragon, partially by the beast that 
came out of the sea covered with blasphemy, and 
partially by the scarlet-colored beast. 
The fourth 
beast in Daniel is the representative of Rome 
through all its stages of progress; while distinct 
eras in its history are respectively marked by the 
successive beasts of the Apocalypse. 
The three 
last enumerated, are in a measure one ; but the 
period terminating with the imperial rule is indi-
cated by the crowns encircling the heads of the 
dragon, while its decem-regal state is shown by 
the transfer of the crowns to the horns of the bias 
phemous beast, and the supremacy of the papal rule 
is shown by the woman on the scarlet beast. 
The 
ten horns of Daniel's fourth beast, correspond to 
the ten horns on the several apocalyptic beasts ; 
while the " little horn " of Daniel's fourth, corres-
ponds to the " image " of the blasphemous, and to 
the woman on the scarlet beast of John. 
7. The territorial distinction attempted to be 
made between the head and body of Daniel's fourth 
beasts, cannot be sustained by the principles or 
usage of symbols. 
To make the head to symbolize 
one portion of the Roman territory, in distinction 
from that symbolized by the trunk and other parts 
of the body of the beast, is destitute of all analogy. 
The head is the directing power—the executive of 
the beast; and in the corresponding kingdom, 
there must be an analogous relation : it symbolizes 
the government that rules the state. 
In Daniel, 
the distinctions in the forms of government that 
preceded the imperial in Rome, are not designated, 
as they are on the beasts of the Apocalypse, by a 
plurality of heads, successive in their administra-
tions till they are superseded by the contemporane-
ous horns ; so that in the former, the same head 
Symbolizes the government of Rome during the 
whole period of its undivided forms—the govern-
ment which controlled its entire possessions. 
There is a distinction attempted to be made be-
tween the conquered and the unconquered parts of 
the Roman empire, which will not abide the test 
of criticism. 
We know not by what principle un-
conquered countries may be included as parts of 
the empire. 
The position of the horns on the head of the 
beast, is instanced as indicative of the territorial 
position of the kingdoms thus symbolized. 
But 
that is without significance. 
It is in accordance 
with the laws of propriety, that the head of the 
beast, rather than the back or belly, should be the 
seat of its horns. 
The head being the executive of 
the-beast it is fit that a division of the government 
of the Roman empire among ten contemporaneous 
ruling dynasties, should'be symbolized by horns 
proceeding from the symbol of united empire—the 
head. 
The-position of the woman on the scarlet-colored 
beast, is also made significant of territorial loca-
tion ; but with no more reason than the former. 
The distinction based on it, is entirely fanciful; 
for nothing would be more awkward than to seat 
a woman on the head or on the rump of the beast. 
The prophecy is silent respecting the part of the 
beast on which she was seen to be seated ; and her 
pkce is only inferred from the usual position of a 
rider on a beast. 
To assume what her position 
was, and then to attach significance to that assump-
tion, is drawing a conclusion without premises. 
The symbol of the woman on the scarlet-colored 
beast, corresponds with the little horn of Daniel's 
fourth beast, which " came up among them," i. e., 
among the ten horns: so that it also proceeded 
from the head of the beast. 
If then its position on 
the beast is indicative of the territorial position of 
the government symbolized, it should also be looked 
for among the ten kingdoms. 
But we locate it 
there for a better reason. 
It is only Western 
Rome that is symbolized by the blasphemous 
and by the scarlet-colored beasts. 
The Eastern 
empire, succeeding to the place occupied by Dan-
iel's third beast, and symbolized by the exceeding 
great horn that came out of one of the four horns 
of the he goat (Dan. 8:9), finds its representative 
in the two-horned beast of John. 
The image to 
the ten-horned beast of blasphemy, corresponds 
to the woman on the scarlet-colored beast, and 
is made by the command of the two-horned. While 
therefore the papacy is limited in its supremacy to 
the sees of the Western empire, she is first denomi-
nated " universal bishop " by the decree of the 
emperor of the Eastern—harmonizing in all par-
ticulars with the prophecy. 
The papal hierarchy 
has been emphatically a Latin church ; and no ex-
tended supremacy has been long admitted by the 
sees beyond the limits of the Latin kingdoms. 
And it is in that locality that the conditions of 
the prophecy oblige us to look for the supremacy 
of the little horn. 
On this point Bishop Newton 
very incontrovertibly remarks : 
The little horn, is to be sought among the ten 
kingdoms of the western Roman empire. 
I say of 
the western Roman empire, because that was prop-
erly the body of the fourth beast; Greece and the 
countries which lay eastward of Italy belonged to 
the third beast; for the former beasts were still 
subsisting, though their dominion was taken away. 
' As concerning the rest of the beasts, (saith Dan. 
v. 12,) they had their dominion taken away; yet 
their lives were prolonged for a season and a time.' 
' And therefore,' as Sir Isaac Newton rightly in-
fers, ' all the four beasts are still alive, though the 
dominion of the three first be taken away. 
The 
nations of Chaldsea and Assyria are still the first 
beast. 
Those of Media and Persia are still the 
second beast. 
Those of Macedon, Greece, Thrace, 
Asia Minor, Syria, and Egypt, are still the third. 
And those of Europe, on this side of Greece, are 
still the fourth. 
Seeing therefore the body of the 
third beast is confined to the nations on this side 
the river Euphrates, and the body of the fourth 
beast is confined to the nations this side of Greece ; 
we are to look for all the four heads of the third 
beast, among the nations on this side the river 
Euphrates; and for all the eleven horns of the 
fourth beast, among the nations on this side of 
Greece. 
And therefore, at the breaking of the 
Greek empire into four kingdoms of the Greeks, 
we include no part of the Chaldeans, Medes and 
Persians, in those kingdoms, because they belonged 
to the bodies of the two first beasts. 
Nor do we 
reckon the Greek empire at Constantinople, among 
the horns of the fourth beast, because it belonged 
to the body of the third.' 
For the same reason, 
neither can the Saracen or the Turk be the little 
horn or Antichrist, as some have imagined them to 
be ; neither do they come up to the character in 
other respects."—Dis. Proph. p. 215. 
8. Having shown that the distinction attempted 
to be made in the respective position of the horns 
on the head of Daniel's fourth beast, and of the 
woman on John's scarlet beast, is entirely with-
out signficance; ft follows that the conclusion drawn 
from it must disappear with the premises. 
And 
therefore the position that it requires the union of 
the woman with the wnconquered parts of the em-
pire to correspond to the little horn, is fanciful 
and without support. 
To make the woman, equivalent merely to the 
•< eyes " and " mouth " of the little horn,—to make 
the trunk of the beast, Rome's unconquered terri-
tory,—to make the supposed seat of the woman on 
the beast, a connection with that unconquered 
part, while the position of the horns on the head, 
are made significant of a location in the con-
quered parts, may be very ingenious, but merits 
no higher praise. 
For if the eyes and mouth cor-
respond to the woman, the horn, dismembered of 
them, to be symbolic of the unconquered parts, (as 
is necessary to make good such an argument) 
should correspond to, and grow out of the back of 
the beast, instead of being on the head among the 
other horns ; and on the same argument the eyes 
of the horn should have been where the woman 
t, on the back of the beast! 
If they, without the little horn, constitute a cor-
respondence with the woman, either the woman 
should have been perched on a little horn, or the 
eyes and mouth should have been disconnected 
with it. 
For if the woman is only eyes and mouth, 
where is the horn of the scarlet beast to which she 
sustains such a relation ? Both beasts have bodies; 
but the scarlet beast is as destitute of a correspond-
ing horn, as it is of eyes and mouth appropriate 
to it! 
It will be labor lost to attempt to evade 
the position that the blasphemous beast of John 
corresponds to Daniel's fourth beast as it existed 
before the rise of the little horn ; and that the 
scarlet beast with the wowan, corresponds to that 
of Daniel after the little horn arose. 
Hence the 
conclusion is unavoidable, that the woman corres-
ponds to that horn—distinguished as it is from the 
others by its eyes and mouth. 
These were as much 
constituents of the little horn, as the head was of 
the beast; and they could no more be separated 
from it and preserve their significance, than the 
head could be, severed from the body. 
A horn 
might be plucked from the head of the beast with-
out the destruction of the beast, or the woman 
might be unseated from her position on it; but 
for a pair of eyes and mouth to exist, disconnected 
with any organism, would be an anomaly for which 
there is no analogy. 
It was the position of these, 
that constituted the diversity of this horn, from 
the others that preceded it. 
9. That the acquisition of power, is the basis of 
the Papal supremacy, or that it was in connection 
with civil power, is not to be denied. 
But that 
civil power was to be controlled by the ecclesiasti-
cal, and not that by it—a distinction worthy of 
being pondered by those ambitious to discuss the 
significance of symbols. 
Over the Latin kingdoms 
the Papacy did acquire this supremacy, and be-
come itself a temporal power ; and thus was ma-
tured the Little Horn. 
It was not an alliance of the civil with the ec-
clesiastical, but the dominion of the latter over 
the former, that gave the Papacy its supremacy. 
The connection of the Papacy with the Eastern 
Empire, was not a permanent connection. 
As it 
did not continue during the period that the horn 
was to have dominion over the saints, it fails to 
fulfil the conditions of the prophecy, and therefore 
it is to be looked for in another locality. 
The eyes 
and mouth were appendages of one horn, and were 
not transferable from one to another ; so that the 
same power which is first recognized as symbolized 
by the horn, must continue as the representative 
of that symbol during its whole continuance. 
It 
was to the horn as a whole, that the dominion of 
the saints was to be given, and not to its appen-
dages. 
The civil power of Rome was exerted 
against heretics long before the time of Justin, 
a fact no one will betray a want of acquaintance 
with history by denying. 
As early as 388 " the 
Emperor Theodosius, at the request of Nectarius, 
Bishop of Constantinople, enacted a law, dated 
the 10th of March, 388, forbidding the Apollina-
rists to hold assemblies, or to dwell in cities. 
As 
this law was executed with the utmost rigor, at 
least against the leading men of the party, who 
were banished the cities and confined to the deserts, 
the Apollinarists were in a few years reduced to a 
very small number, when they begged to be admit-
ted to the communion of the Catholic Church, 
which was in the end granted them by Theodosius, 
who governed the Church of Antioch, from the 
year 416 to 428."—Bower, p. 97. 
The war dogs which have executed the will of 
the Papacy in the slaughter of proscribed believers, 
were the Latin kingdoms. 
10. As a quotation is made from Milton, we 
will copy the whole of his admired sonnet, and 
fully join in the sentiment expressed. 
" Avenge, O Lord, thy slaughtered saints, whose bones 
He scattered on the Alpine mountains cold, 
Even they who kept thy truth so pure of old, 
When all our fathers worshipped stocks and stones, 
Forget not; in thy book record their groans, 
Who were thy sheep, and in their ancient folds 
Siain by the bloody Piedmontese, that rolled 
Mother with infant down the rocks. Their moans 
The vales redoubled to the hills, and they 
To heaven. Their martyred blood and ashes sow 
O'er all the Italian,fields, where still doth sway 
The triple tyrant; that from them may grow 
A hundred-fold, who having learned thy way, 
Early may fly the Babylonian woe." 
We will not dismiss this subject without com-
menting on the principle by which this new theory 
constitutes the little horn. 
The Church is assumed 
to be only the eyes and mouth, and when united 
with the Eastern Empire, the union is assumed to 
be the " little horn." 
The fallacy of this will be 
seen in the following particulars : 
First. The Eastern Empire was as much a horn 
without its connection with the Church as with ; 
and if it was the kingdom represented by the sym-
bol, the union of the Church with it could not be 
represented by the rise of the horn, but by a union 
of the eyes and mouth with it. 
For no principle 
of hermeneutics is better settled than that things 
symbolize things ; acts, acts ; and events, events. 
But in this new theory a horn, contrary to all 
analogy, is made to represent an event!! 
Second. As events symbolize events,' the rise of 
the little horn among the ten, can only symbolize 
the establishment of the kingdom which it repre-
sents ; and as it came up among, and after the 
ten, the kingdom which it represents must become 
a kingdom after the establishment of the previous 
kingdoms. 
But the Eastern Empire was a sepa-
rate and independent kingdom long before the es-
tablishment of any of those represented by the ten 
horns, and therefore cannot be the kingdom sym-
bolized by the little horn. 
And hence even the 
connection of ecclesiastical power with it, cannot 
be symbolized by the addition of eyes and mouth 
to the little horn. 
Third. The little horn at the time of its rise is 
characterized by the possession of eyes and mouth; 
-and therefore, however long the eyes and mouth 
may be claimed to have been in existence before 
their connection with the civil power, the civil 
power with which the ecclesiastical becomes con-
nected, has such connection at the time of its rise. 
And hence the Eastern Empire which existed as a 
kingdom two centuries before 519, cannot have be-
come the correspondent of the little horn by any 
event transpiring so long after its existence. 
Fourth. For the same reason, viz., that this horn 
at the time of its rise rs thus characterized, and as 
its rise is subsequent to that of the ten, its cor-
respondence must be looked for, not by the union 
of the ecclesiastical with some previously existing 
civil power, but by the acquisition of power by it: 
which acquisition of power is to be subsequent to 
the existence of the ten kingdoms which are sym-
bolized by the horns which the little horn came up 
among. 
And it is the acquisition and exercise of 
this power, by and of itself, however obtained and 
by whomsoever granted, that is marked by the rise 
of this little horn ; which represents, not the king-
dom or kingdoms that make grants of power to the 
Papacy, but the power of the Papacy which is ob-
tained by grant or usurpation from them, and af-
terwards exercised by it independent of them. 
Fifth. The little born exists as a horn, charac-
terized by its symbols of priestly functions, during 
the whole of its period of 1260 years. 
But the 
Eastern Empire was subjugated by the Turks in 
1453, and has since then existed only in connec-
tion with the false prophet, having no connection 
with the Papacy. 
And as from 519 to 1453, does 
not constitue a period to correspond with the con-
ditions of the symbol, it can by no rule of correct 
interpretation, be recognized as the correspondent 
of the little horn. 
Sixth. A connection of the Papacy wdth some 
other civil power, after the termination of a con-
nection with the Eastern Empire, would not be a 
perpetuation of the same little horn ; for a transfer 
of such connection, even on the principle of the 
new theory, could only be represented by a transfer 
of the eyes and mouth from one horn to another. 
But as no such transfer is indicated in the symbol; 
and as the prophet saw that " the same horn made 
war with the saints and prevailed against them 
until the Ancient of days $&me ;" it follows that a 
kingdom which ceased to exist as such more than 
four centuries before that event, cannot be the one 
represented by the little horn. 
These and many other fallacies which exist in 
connection with this theory, are too apparent to 
leave logical and thinking minds with any valid 
excuse, when they violate such plain conditions of 
symbolization. 
To CORRESPONDENTS.—W. W. WHEELER—There 
is in our opinion no reason whatever for supposing 
Mohammedanism .to be represented by the little 
horn of the 7th of Daniel. 
It did not come up ia 
the geographical locality—the western kingdom, 
where the correspondence to that horn must be 
found, and therefore cannot be represented by it. 
See article in this paper on the same subject. 
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EXPOSITION OF DANIEL 11:40-44. 
(Continued from the "Herald " of Feb. 11.) 
" THE king of the North shall come against him 
like a whirlwind, with chariots, and with horse-
men, and with many ships." 
While in Egypt, a fearful storm is rising in the 
North: the whole of Asia is aroused, backed -up 
by the powers of Europe, and aided by them to 
destroy the French in Egypt. 
The following his-
tory (from Abbott's " History of Napoleon," 
in 
Harpers Magazine for Feb. 1852,) will elucidate 
this prophecy: 
The agents of the British government succeeded 
in routiing Turkey to arms, to recover a province 
which the Mamelukes had wrested from her, be-
fole Napoleon took it from the Mamelukes. 
Rus-
sia also, with her barbaric legions, was roused by 
the eloquence of England, to rush upon the French 
Republic in this day of disaster. 
Her troops 
crowded down from the north to ally themselves 
with the turbaned Turk, for the extermination ol 
the French in Egypt. 
Old enmities were forgot: 
ten, as Christians and Mussulmans grasped hands 
in friendship, forgetting all other animosities in 
their common hatred and dread of Republicanism. 
The Russian fleet crowded down from the Black 
Sea, through the Bosphorus, to the Golden Horn, 
where, amidst the thunders of artillery, and the 
acclamations of the hundreds of thousands who 
throng the streets of Constantinople, Pera, and 
Scutari, it was received into the embrace of the 
Turkish squadron. 
It was indeed a gorgeous spec 
tacle as beneath the unclouded splendor of a Sep-
tember 8un,this majestic armament swept through 
the beautiful scenery of the Hellespont. The shores 
of Europe and Asia, separated by this classic strait, 
were lined with admiring spectators, as the cres-
cent and the cross, in friendly blending, fluttered 
together in the breeze. 
The combined squadron 
emerged into the Mediterranean, to co-operate with 
the victorious fleet of England, which was now the 
undisputed mistress of the sea. 
Religious ani 
mosities the most inveterate, and national antipa-
thies the most violent, were reconciled by the pres-
sure of a still stronger hostility to those principles 
of popular liberty which threatened to overthrow 
the despotism both of the Sultan and the Czar. 
The Grand Seignor had assembled an army of 
twenty thousand men at Rhodes. -f.rThey were^ 
be conveyed by the combined fleet to the shores of 
Egypt, and there effect a landing under cover of 
its guns. 
Another vast army wtis assembled in 
Syria, to march down upon the French by way of 
the desert, and attack them simultaneously with 
tho forces sent by the fleet. England, and the emis-
saries of the Bourbons, with vast sums of money 
accumulated froirr the European monarchies, were 
actively co-operating upon the Syrian coast, by 
landing munitions of war; and by supplying able 
military engineers. 
The British Government was 
also accumulating a vast army in India, to be con-
veyed by transports up the Red Sea, and to fall 
upon the French in their rear. 
England also sue 
ceeded in forming a new coalition with Austria, 
Sardinia, Naples, and other minor European states, 
to drive the French out of Italy, and with count-
less numbers to invade the territory of France. 
Thus it would be in vain for the Directory to at-
tempt even to send succors to their absent general. 
. And it was not doubted that Napoleon, thus as-
sailed in diverse quarters by overpowering num-
bers,would fall an easy prey to his foes. 
Thus 
suddenly 
and portentously peril frowned upon 
France from every quarter. 
Mourad Bey, animated by this prospect of the 
overthrow of his victorious foes, formed a wide-
spread conspiracy, embracing all the friends of the 
Mamelukes and of the Turks. 
Every Frenchman 
was doomed to death, as in one hour, all over the 
land, the conspirators, with scimetar and poniard, 
should fall upon their unsuspecting foes. 
In this 
dark day of accumulating disaster the genius of 
Napoleon blazed forth with new and terrible bril-
liance. 
Early in January, Napoleon received intelligence 
that the vanguard of the Syrian army, with a for-
midable artillery train, and vast military stores, 
which had been furnished from the English ships, 
had invaded Egypt, on the borders of the great 
Syrian desert, and had captured El Arish. 
He 
immediately resolved to anticipate the movement 
of his enemies, to cross the desert with the rapidity 
of the wind, to fall upon the enemy unawares, and 
thus to cut up this formidable army before it could 
be strengthened by the co-operation at Rhodes. 
The English, to divert the attention of Napoleon 
from his project upon Syria, commenced the bom-
bardment of Alexandria. 
He understood the ob-
ject of the unavailing attack, and treated it with 
disdain. 
He raised a regiment of entirely a new 
kind, called the dromedary regiment. 
Two men 
seated back to back, were mounted on each drome-
dary ; and such was the strength and endurance 
of these animals, that they could thus travel ninety 
miles without food, water, or rest. 
This regiment 
was formed to give chase to the Arab robbers who, 
in fierce banditti bands, were the scourge of Egypt. 
The marauders were held in terror by the destruc-
tion with which they were overwhelmed by these 
swift avengers. 
Napoleon himself rode upon a 
dromedary". 
The conveyance of an army of ten 
thousand men, with horses and artillery, across 
such an apparently interminable waste of shifting 
sand, was attended with inconceivable suffering. 
After having traversed a dreary desert of an 
hundred and fifty miles, the whole aspect of the 
country began rapidly ,to change. 
The soldiers 
were delighted to see the wreaths of vapor gather-
ing in the hitherto glowing and cloudless skies. 
Green and flowery valleys, groves of- olive-trees, 
and wood-covered hills, ros'e, like a vision of en-
chantment, before the eye, eo long weary of gazing 
upon shifting sands and barren rocks. 
As they 
approached the mountains of Syria, clouds began 
to darken the sky, and when a few drops of rain 
descended, a phenomenon which they had not wit-
nessed for many months, the joy of the soldiers 
was exuberant. 
A murmur of delight ran through 
the army, and a curious spectacle was presented, 
as, with shouts of joy and peals of laughter, the 
soldiers, in a body, threw back their heads and 
opened their mouths, to catch the grateful drops 
upon their dry and thirsty lips. 
But perils were now rapidly accumulating around 
the adventurous band. 
England, with her invinci-
ble fleet, was landing men, and munitions of war 
and artillery, and European engineers, to arrest 
the progress of the audacious and indefatigable 
victor. 
The combined squadsons of Turkey and 
Russia also, were hovering along the coast, to pre-
vent any possible supplies from being forwarded 
to Napoleon from Alexandria. 
Thirty thousand 
Turks, infantry and horsemen, were marshaled at 
Damascus. 
Twenty thousand were at Rhodes 
Through all the ravines of Syria, the turbaned 
Mussulmans, with gleaming sabres, were crowding 
down to swell the hostile ranks, already sufficiently 
numerous to render Napoleon's destruction appa-
rently 
certain. 
Still 
unintimidated, Napoleon 
pressed on, with the utmost celerity, into the 
midst of his foes. 
Napoleon now prepared to march upon Acre, 
the most important military post in Syria. 
It 
was the only fortress in Syria which could stop 
him. 
Its subjugation would make him the undis-
puted master of Syria. 
The Turks were not idle 
By vast exertions they had roused the whole Mus-
sulman population to march, in the name of the 
Prophet, for the destruction of the. " Christian 
dogs." 
An enormous army was marshaled, and 
was on its way for the relief of the beleagured city 
Damascus had furnished its thousands. 
The scat-
tered remnants of the fierce Mamelukes, and the 
mounted Bedouins of the desert, had congregated 
to rush, with resistless numbers, upon their bold 
antagonist. 
Napoleon had been engaged for ten days in an 
almost incessant assault upon the works of Acre 
when the approach of the gieat Turkish army was 
announced. 
It consisted of about thrity thousand 
troops, twelve thousand of whom were the fiercest 
and best trained horsemen in the world. 
Napo-
leon had but eight thousand effective men with 
which to encounter the well-trained army of Euro-
peans and Turks within the walls of Acre, and the 
numerous host rushing to its rescue. 
It was early 
in the morning of the 16th of April. 
The un-
clouded sun was just rising over the hills of Pales-
tine, and revealed to his view the whole embattled 
Turkish host spread out before him. 
The eye was 
dazzled with the magnificent spectacle, as proud 
banners and plumes, and gaudy turbans and glit-
tering steel, and all the barbaric martial pomp of 
the East was reflected by the rays of the brilliant 
morning. 
Twelve thousand horsemen, decorated 
with the most gorgeous trappings of military show 
and mounted on the fleetest Arabian chargers, were 
prancing and curveting in all directions. 
A loud 
and exultant shout of vengeance and joy, rising 
like the roar of the ocean, burst from the Turkish 
ranks, as soon as they perceived their victims en 
ter the plain. 
The French too proud and self-con-
fident to retreat before any superiority in numbers 
had barely time to form themselves into one of Na 
poleon's impregnable squares, when the whole cav-
alcade of horsemen, with gleaming sabres and hide-
ous yells, and like the sweep of the wind, came 
rushing down upon them. 
There were occasional lulls in this awful storm 
during which each party would be rousing its en 
ergies for more terrible collision. 
The besiegers 
burrowed mines deep under the foundations of 
walls and towers, and with the explosion of hun 
dreds of barrels of gunpowder, opened volcanic 
craters, blowing men and rocks into hideous ruin 
In the midst of the shower of destruction darken 
ing the skies, the assailants rushed, with- sabres 
and dripping bayonets, to the assault. 
The onset, 
on the part of the French, was as furious and des-
perate as mortal man is capable of making. 
The 
repulse was equally determined and fearless. 
The siege had now continued for sixty days. 
Napoleon had lost nearly three thousand men, by 
the sword and the plague. 
The hospitals were full 
of the sick and the wounded. 
Still, Napoleon re-
mitted not his efforts. 
" Victory," said he, " be-
longs to the most persevering." 
One afternoon in May, a fleet of thirty sail of 
the line was descried in the distant horizon, ap-
proaching Acre. 
All eyes were instantly turned 
in that direction. 
The sight awakened intense 
anxiety in the hearts of both besiegers and besieged. 
The French hoped that they were French ships con-
veying to them succors from Alexandria or from 
France. 
The besieged flattered themselves that 
they were friendly sails, bringing to them such aid 
as would enable them effectually to repulse their 
terrible foes. 
The English cruisers immediately 
stood out of the bay to reconnoitre the unknown 
fleet. 
Great was the disappointment of the French 
when they saw the two squadrons unite, and the 
crescent of the Turk, and the pennant of England, 
in friendly blending, approach the bay together. 
The Turkish fleet brought a reinforcement of twelve 
thousand men, with an abundant supply of mili 
tary stores. 
A horrible scene of slaughter ensued. 
The troops, from the ships, in the utmost haste, 
were embarked in the boats, and were pulling, as 
apidly as possible, across the bay, to aid their 
failing friends. 
Sir Sydney himself headed the 
crews of the ships, and led them armed with pikes 
quired no especial genius, and could be very cred-
itably performed by any respectable government. 
It is a well-known fact, that the institutions of 
learning in France are, to this day, enriched with 
to the breach. 
The assailants gained the summit the precious things obtained in this expedition. 
of the heap of stones into which the walls had been 
battered, and even forced their way into the garden 
of the pasha. 
But a perfect swarm of janizaries 
suddenly poured in upon them, with the keen sabre 
in one hand, and the dagger in the other, and in a 
few moments they were all reduced to headless 
trunks. 
The Turks gave no quarter. The remorse-
less butcher sat in the court-yard of his palace, 
paying a liberal reward for the gory head ol every 
infidel that was laid at bis feet. 
He smiled upon 
the ghastly trophies heaped up in piles around him. 
On the 20th of May, Napoleon, for the first time 
in his life, relinquished an enterprise unaccom-
plished. 
And why compelled to relinquish this enterprise 1 
Prophecy had declared it. 
Here he lost the flower 
of his army, several of his best generals, and was 
compelled, in his flight, to cast his cannon into the 
sea, or bury them in the sand. 
" He shall enter also into the glorious land," &c. 
This refers to the prominent prophetic power in 
these verses, which is Rome, or its active agent, 
Bonaparte, and not the king of the North. 
As a 
(To be continued.) 
THE LITTLE HORN. 
THE more I examine the history of the rise and 
progress of the Church of Rome, and its unceasing 
attempts to become connected with the civil power, 
the more I become satisfied that it is impossible to 
identify it as the little-horn, until it accomplishes 
that object. To attempt to establish the supremacy 
of the Roman bishops as the head of an ecclesiasti-
cal, absolute power, will be seen to be a waste of 
words, when viewed in the light of facts. 
[Note 
1.*] 
In A. D. 521, the bishop of Alexandria scorned 
to receive laws, or be governed in any sense, by 
the see of Rome ; claiming absolute independence, 
in all matters of ecclesiastical importance. 
[Note 
2-] 
If supremacy existed in either of these two con-
tending sees at this period, it must have been in 
precedent in tnis prophecy, see v. 5. 
Is " one of I the see of Alexandria, for the emperor compelled 
his princes" that "shall be strong above him,'" the bishop of Rome, to yield to his rival; andthus 
&c., to be understood as one of tho princes of " the a reconciliation was effected in spite of the pope, 
king of the South 1 No : v. 6th shows him to be | —Bower vol 1st page 321. 
[Note 3.] 
the king of the North." 
Again : 
Are " his sons," (vs. 9, 10,) to be un-
derstood to be the sons of " the king of the South 
No—v. 11 shows them to be the sons of the " king 
of the North." So in the prophecy we are consid-
If independent ecclesiastical government, con-
stitutes a horn, then it is certain that we have two 
or more su,ch little horns before A. D. 520. 
Pre-
vious to this date, innumerable quarrels had arisen 
in the church, with regard to the right of spiritual 
ering. 
The prophetic power is Rome, as verse 45 jurisdiction ; and there is not the slightest evidence 
proves. 
It is a power which is said to " prosper | that this question had^ been settled as yet—in fa-
till the indignation be accomplished," &c.—v. 46. 
Bonaparte, at the head of power " at the time 
of the end," did "enter into the countries "of 
the king of the South," and " the king of the 
North ;" did " overflow and pass over," though re-
pulsed by the " king of the North." 
He did " en-
ter into the glorious land," pass through Pales 
tine, and subjugate many parts by his arms. 
The 
vor of the church of Rome; were we to admit, for 
(the moment,) that the church of Rome is the 
little horn, we should then even—be compelled to 
wait until the development of its ecclesiastical su-
premacy. 
[Note 4.] 
I cannot discover why the principle of interpre-
tation given us in the 7th of Daniel, which makes 
ten horns represent ten kingdoms, does not com-
subjugation of Egypt and Syria to Rome in the Pel us 
to the conclusion, that the little horn is a 
days of the Csesars, was by their entering into kingdom, as much as the other ten. 
By wbatpre-
those countries. 
" But these shall escape out of his hand, even 
Edom, and Moab, and the chief of the children of 
Ammon."—v. 41. 
It was the design of Bonaparte to have followed 
in the track of Alexander the Great, and to have 
passed on to the East Indies, and founded an em-
pire in the East of the most magnificent character; 
but being repulsed at Acre, he waa compelled to 
abandon his plans. 
Says Mr. Abbott, quoting the 
words of Bonaparte to Bourrienne : 
" Yes, Bourrienne, that miserable fort has cost 
me dear. 
But matters have gone too far not to 
make a last effort. 
The fate of the East depends 
upon the capture of Acre, 
Constantinople or of India. 
cedence of interpretation are the ten horns made 
to represent civil governments, while the little horn 
must represent a church 1 [Note 5.] 
It is evident to the most superficial reader, that 
the fourth beast and little horn of Dan 7th, are 
synonymous with the scarlet-colored ten-horned 
beast of Revelations, on which the woman was 
en. *'[Note 6.] 
Daniel saw the ten horns standing upon the 
head of the fourth beast, when the little horn came 
up among them ; John saw the woman sitting 
upon the scarlet-colored beast, while as yet—there 
existed ten horns upon its head ; the beast must 
represent the empire of Rome, the body of the 
That is the KEY of I beast, the unconquered part of that empire ; that 
If we succeed in tak-| the unconquered part5 or Byzantium kingdom, was 
ing this paltry town, I shall obtain the. treasures 
* 
of the Pacha, and arins for three hundred thousand 
the 
first 
that 
took 
uPon lt8el* th* right to maintain 
men. 
I will then raise and arm the whole popu- the pretensions of the woman, needs no confirma-
lation of Syria, already so exasperated by the cru- tion. 
[Note 7.J 
elty of Achmet, and for whose fall all classes daily 
supplicate Heaven. 
I shall advance on -Damascus 
and Aleppo. 
I'will recruit my army as 1 advance, 
The little horn of Dan 7th must therefore repre-
sent the same as the union of the woman, with the 
by enlisting all the discontented. 
1 will announce unconquered portion of the empire ; the eyes, and 
to the people the breaking of their chains and the 
m0uth, which distinguish it from the other ten, 
abolition of the tyrannical governments of the I 
t be the same as the WQman that disti 
ishes 
Pachas. The Druses wait but for the fall of Acre, 
*> 
to declare themselves. 
1 am already offered the the beast of the l,th Revelations, from that of the 
keys of Damascus. 
My armed masses will pene-
trate to Constantinople, and the Mussulman do 
minion will be overturned. 
I shall found in the 
East a new and mighty empire, which will fix my 
position with posterity." 
This destruction of Napoleon's magnificent an-
ticipations of Oriental conquest must have been a 
13th. 
[Note 8.] 
That an alliance between the civil, and ecclesias-
tical powers is the basis upon which stands that 
mighty engine of bigotry, superstition and cruelty, 
is evident from every record of suffering and tor-
ture. 
For 1260 years, the eyes and mouth have 
bitter disappointment. 
Itwas^e termination «/fckimed 
the prer0gative to see heretics, and sen-
the most sanguine hope of his life. 
And it was a 
\ 
° 
' 
lofty ambition in the heart of a young man of 
t(=nce them with great words to temporal, and eter-
i 
i 
, 
-L.r: 
t.: .L v—j 
' nal death ; not daring to execute their own sen-
twenty-six, to break the chains which bound the 
countless millions of Asia, in the most degrading 
slavery, and to create a boundless empire such as 
earth had never before seen, which should develop 
all the physical, intellectual, and social energies 
of man. 
• " He shall stretch forth his hand upon the coun-
tries : and the land of Egypt shall not escape 
But | 
^ 
hunted the flying remnant, in 
lie shall have power over the treasures of gold and 
& 
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• 
, 
, .„ 
of silver, and over all the precious things of Egypt: every wild seclusion, and mountain haunt, 'till 
and the Lybians and the Ethiopians shall be at his their bones lay bleaching in almost every climate 
tence, they have delivered them over to the civil 
and thus this cruel compact has carried for-
ward its horrid designs of extermination. 
As soon 
as the union was formed, the soldiers of the civil 
power became the war-dogs of Catholicism, and 
steps."—vs. 42, 43. 
Says Mr. Abbott: 
under Heaven. 
[Note 9.] 
When we take a retrospective view of this long 
" Avenge O Lord, Thy martyred saints, whose 
bones 
Lie bleaching, on the Alpine mountains cold!" 
[Note 10.] 
i. A. 
After several terribly bloody conflicts, Desaix pe™d of tyranny, and blood, we feel to adopt the 
took possession of all of Upper Egypt as far as the language of Milton, 
cataracts. 
Imbibing the humane and politic sen-
timents of Napoleon, he became widely renowned 
and beloved for his justice and his clemency. 
A 
large party of scientific men accompanied the 
military division, examining every object of inter-
est, and taking accurate drawings of those sphinx-
es, obelisks, temples, and sepulchral monuments, 
which, in solitary grandeur, have withstood the 
ravages of four thousand years. 
_ 
l gtm intere8ting. 
Our protracted effort has closed 
Egypt was now quiet. 
Not a foe remained to be 
° 
rUi, 
. 
encountered. 
No immediate attack, from any j -good has been done. 
At the same time we com-
quarter, was to be feared. 
Nothing remained to 
be done but to carry on the routine of the adminis- 
* For comments, see article with the same head 
tration of the inlant colony. 
These duties re-1 on the editorial page with corresponding notations. 
Letter froui J. L. Clapp. 
BRO. HIMES :—Our meetings liave been and are 
THE 
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HERALD. 
menced our meeting, the Baptists and Methodists 
did likewise, and they continued them as long as 
we did ; by this we see the fear they have of a few 
despised Millerites. 
During 
the meeting, the 
Methodists had a minister amongst 
them that 
gave out word that on such a night he would 
preach on the coming of Christ; he did so, and 
raised the peace cry by making four comings of 
Christ after his first : 1st, at the destruction of 
Jerusalem ; 2d, at death ; 3d, the spiritual reign 
of Christ for a thousand years'; 4th, to judge the 
world. 
This we supposed was designed as an 
attack upon us, and therefore brother Robinson 
gave public notice that upon the next Sunday even-
ing he should review the gentleman's sermon. 
The time came and our house was full to overflow-
ing, and many went away for the want of room 
The Universalists with their teacher were present; 
but though brother Robinson replied to the Metho-
dist minister, the Universalist teacher got wound-
ed—this was shown by their 
fluttering. 
After the 
benediction was pronounced, he gave notice that 
he should review brother Robinson's sermon on 
next Lord's day evening, inviting all to attend, 
promising to show that great errors had been 
preached that night. 
The time for the review 
came—we had' our meeting as usual with a full 
house, they also—but as it happened the wounded 
remain still wounded, for so the Universalists 
themselves are ashamed of the course their minis-
ter took ; but he is not through yet, next Sabbath 
evening he is to finish up. 
The Baptist church at Cortlandville, two and a 
half miles south of this place, have requested 
brother Robinson to come and preach to them. 
"We gave way, and he is now there, and feels 
much encouraged ; he thinks that a work of grace 
has commenced. 
Some of the members of this 
church had been up to our meeting and tasted of 
the good grapes growing in Canaan, who told their 
brethren of their deliciousness ; this gave them a 
desire to taste likewise, and they are now being 
fed. 
Glory to God for the hope of the Gospel. 
Yours, waiting, 
J. L. CLAPP. 
Homer, Feb. 2d, 1854. 
and the poor, with a prayer that it may do good, 
and be the means of glorifying God. 
Truly the 
Lord is good to those who put their trust in him. 
" Let us bring all our tithes into the storehouse of 
God, and prove him, and see if he will not pour 
us out a blessing, till there shall not be room 
enough to receive it;" not forgetting that the 
widow's mite will weigh as much with the Lord as 
the abundance of the rich. 
I have been very much interested and gratified 
of late while pursuing the journal of your West-
ern tour. 
I do believe the Master has been with 
you, and your labors have and will be more abun-
dantly blessed, to the glory of our coming King. 
Courage, dear brother: the trials and the cross 
will last but a short time, while the crown will be 
eternal. 
Let the poor have the Herald. It is more 
blessed to give than to receive. 
Yours, 
c. L. 
Letter from Robert Chown. 
BRO. HIMES :—It seems that God is giving to his 
children tokens of his faithfulness, so that we have 
no need to be in doubt as it regards the position 
we occupy. 
Surely God is faithful. 
The signs of 
the times, thus far, have literally fulfilled his word, 
not only in the "scoffers" of Peter, and the 
"mockers" of Jude, but also in Paul's Jannes 
and Jambres. 
He tells us of their overthrow, and 
shows us their characteristics, and where we are 
to find them, and that " their folly shall be mani-
fested to all men as theirs was." 
Methinks the 
antitype is now gathering for their overthrow, and 
the time for God's children to come. (Psa. 149:3.) 
Dear brother, I have been endeavoring to hold 
up the Bible position of the world since I saw you ; 
but alas! how few there are that will look at 
truth ; and even amongst those of us that profess 
to believe in the fulfilment of the prophecies, there 
is a lack of union. 
I fear that some are looking 
at certain points of time, and are not ready now, 
while others think that there ie yet a great work 
to be done before the Lord comes. 
Can such be 
waiting? 
I speak of this for fear that some of the 
lambs of the flock might be led astray. 
Some that 
call themselves " watchmen," tell me that Christ 
cannot come yet, because the scriptures of the 
prophets are not fulfilled yet, viz., that the armies 
must be gathered on the mountains of Israel. Per-
adventure, may not Christ gather his army prior? 
Is not Gideon's army a type of Christ's army, and 
is not Josh. 10:10 a type of Rev. 16:21 ] 
If so, let 
us see that we are fulfilling Luke 12:35-40. 
Dear 
brother, I never saw the time that we needed so 
much watchfulness as at present. 
The Saviour 
pointed out our position, (Lu. 21:34-36,) " Watch 
ye therefore, and pray always." 
I do not think 
that we can be safe, unless we carry out the 
Saviour's commands. 
May God, of his infinite 
mercy, grant us grace so to do, that we may have 
a right to the tree of life, and enter through the 
gates into the city, is the desire of your brother, 
in hope of speedy redemption. 
R. CHOWN. 
EXTRACTS 
PROM 
LETTERS. 
[THE expressions of confidence and hope in the 
following note, are acceptable and cheering in this 
time of trial.] 
DEAR BROTHER :—I have been praying for a long 
time for more means than I have yet had to con-
tribute towards spreading the good news of the 
kingdom at hand, that precioug truth which 
dearer to me than this poor life, or all earthly 
things. 
I thank the Lord that I am able to send 
you a small sum, to be devoted to the Herald office 
BRO. JOHN PEARCE, of Pickering, C. W., writes, 
Jan. 27th, 1854:—" [ have been engaged of late 
with Elder D. Campbell in holding meetings, in 
which some good has been done. Backsliders have 
been reclaimed, sinners converted, and God's dear 
waiting ones comforted. 
Brother C. is a good sol-
dier, but needs help—help, however, of the right 
kind, or none; for it would be better to be alone 
than have those who would pervert the cause. We 
visited London, and had an interesting interview 
with brother Morrill, who helped us on our way 
after a ' godly sort.' 
I hope you will visit us ano-
ther year. 
We were glad to hear of your safe re-
turn from the West, and trust the cause was ad-
vanced by your visit. 
" Things in the old world are speaking in thun-
der tones to us to buckle on our harness, and work 
while the day lasts. 
May God revive his work, 
and gather many souls, ere the storm burst upon 
a devoted world." 
D. A. KENT writes from Clinton, Feb. 6th, '54 : 
It is my desire to strive to make my calling and 
election sure—to know and do my Master's will, 
that when he appears I may be among the re-
deemed ones, who shall hail him with joy, and be 
accepted of him, and admitted into that kingdom 
with all his dear ransomed ones, to praise God and 
the Lamb for ever and ever. 
This glorious hope 
of salvation through Jesus, is good. 
Praise God, 
it is near. 
Thanks be to his dear name. 
The 
faithful ones tfill soon get home. 
Will not 1854 
usher in that day for which all others were made? 
Are not the righteous this year to see the King in 
his beauty, and be made like his glorious body 1 
This truly is an important truth, or an important 
error. 
I must be wise for myself. 
I would not 
eject truth, but be sanctified by the Spirit through 
a belief of the truth. 
There are evidences to my 
mind that I dare not consider as error, or of no 
interest. 
I feel the need of heavenly wisdom to 
lead me just right, much of the Holy Spirit to 
make me Christ-like ; but it is safe to trust in God 
always, for he will lead his children like a father. 
Hoping to meet you in the kingdom, I close by say-
ing, let us be prepared for the marriage-supper of 
the Lamb." 
J. W. PHILBRICK writes from Rye (N. H.), Jan. 
3d, 1854:—" The brethren and sisters in this place 
remain steadfast in the faith, looking for redemp-
tion soon. I believe there are none that have great 
confidence in this year as specific time; but we 
can say with great confidence, that we believe tho 
Lord is near, even at the doors, while the signs 
thicken and light increases, especially from tho 
fulfilment of prophecy, we rejoice in prospect of 
what is before us, and have hope that when Ho 
who is the believer's life shall appear, we also 
shall appear with him in glory." 
, 
i 
BRO. HIMES :—Will you do me a favor, by giv-
ing this piece of poetry a place in your paper, tho 
Advent Herald. It was composed by myself, while 
meditating on the promised land, and you will 
greatly oblige me by giving it a place in the Her-
ald. It may cheer some pilgrim on their way, or 
lead some poor sinner to seek the pearl of great 
price, that they too may have a home in the better 
land. 
Your sister in the Lord. 
L. G. 
The Promised Laud of Rest. 
There is a beautiful land, called the home of tho 
blest, 
Where the weary will be forever at rest; 
There, sin will ne'er enter .their pleasures to mar. 
But Jesus will be there, the bright morning star ; 
Death will never come their hopes to blight, 
In that lovely land of immortal light, 
There sorrow and temptation will never be known ; 
0 there would we rest, and never more roam. 
Many a toil-spent day, we have wandered weary, 
Through this wide world, all dark and dreary ; 
Pilgrims and strangers here, we ask not to stay, 
We are looking for the dawn of that eternal day, 
When earth will be restored to its Eden-like state, 
By him who first did it in beauty create ; 
Then earth's weary ones will wander no more, 
But joyfully rest on that radiant shore. 
' I am the resurrection and the life: he that believeth in me 
though he were dead, yet shall he live: and whosoever liveth, and 
believeth in me, shall never die.''—JOHN 11: 26,26. 
Rest from their trials and labors all done, 
Rest with their Saviour forever at home, 
While seraphs unnumbered tune their sweet lays, 
To God and the Lamb ascribe all the praise; 
Sinner, would you enter that sweet land of rest, 
And there have a home with the holy and blest 1 
Then haste to life's fountain, 0 make no delay, 
Go wash and be clean while 'tis called to-day. 
SLNNIEA. 
©bituari). 
MIRIAM CHARLOTTE IJATES (our youngest daugh-
ter,) departed this life Jan. 23d, 1854, aged four 
years four months and eleven days. 
I. R. GATES. 
THE enemy has again visited the dwelling of sis-
ter ALLARD, late of Canada East, and taken from 
her two lovely babes, born six months after the 
death of their father. 
Clara Helen died the 10th 
of September, and Charles Henry the 28th, aged 
about three months. 
Thus sister Allard has been 
bereft, within a few months, of husband and three 
lovely children. 
Well might we exclaim— 
" How long shall death the tyrant reign, 
And triumph o'er the just; 
While the rich blood of martyrs slain 
Lies mingled with the dust." 
R. C. 
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DIED, at Stanbridge, C. E., Dec. 28th, 1853, sis-
ter MARGARET SKAKEL, aged 76 years and 8 months. 
The deceased had for two years been afflicted with 
a cancer in the breast, which caused her much suf-
fering, and at last terminated in death. 
Her end 
was sudden, yet peaceful, and in faith triumphant. 
She died as she had for years lived, a calm, happy 
Christian, believing that the King of kings will, 
ere long, be here, to rescue her from the narrow 
house for ever. 
Sister S. was converted to God in 
1842, and fully received the hope of the Advent; 
and from that time was an intelligent believer of 
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writer's acquaintance with her was short, but he 
believes her to have been a child of God, and that 
she sleeps in Jesus. 
A sermon was preached by 
the writer from Job 14:14, to a large and attentive 
congregation. 
Her children are comforted in their 
bereavement, with the hope of the speedy resur-
rection of the saints of God at the coming of 
Christ. 
They believe that 
Soon the sleepers will arise 
From their dark, dreary cells, 
And join to chant the praise of Him 
"Who doeth all things well." 
B. WEBB. 
DIED, in this city, February 4th, JOHN WILLIAM 
PEPPER. 
Brother Pepper was born in Battle, Sus-
sex county, England, the 30th of May, 1799. 
He 
came to this place about thirty years ago. 
He 
made a public profession of religion about fourteen 
years since, under the labors of Elder Cummings, 
of the Christian denomination. 
From that period 
until the present, brother Pepper has maintained 
a Christian walk. 
His acts of benevolence are only 
fully known to God. 
His unassuming, consistent 
deportment, rendered him respected and loved by 
all who knew him. 
He leaves a wife, ten children, 
a mother of more than eighty years of age, and a 
large circle of friends to mourn his loss. 
In the 
language of one of his sons, " our loss is bis gain." 
And as remarked by his mother, " He honored his 
father and mother, and therefore it shall be well 
with him, and he shall dwell long on the earth 
" Blessed are the dead who die in the Lord." 
L. OSLER. 
FELL asleep in Jesus, at Warrensville, Lyco-
ming county, Pa., Feb. 1st, 1854, ORIGEN WHEELER, 
aged 68 years. 
The decease was father-in-law to 
Elder Osier, brother Pottle, and myself. 
He was 
born in Pittsford, Vt., and removed to Pennsylva 
nia at the age of twenty-two, and engaged in th^ 
employment of school-teaching, which he followed, 
more or less, for over forty years. He experienced 
a hope in the Saviour thirty-five years ago, under 
the labors of Elder Mathew Gardner, and united 
with the Christian church in Ohio. 
In 1843 he 
embraced the general principles of the Second Ad-
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He was also a constant reader of 
the Advent Herald, which he prized more highly 
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the world has said so many things, good and bad, 
but never had the privilege until last summer, 
when he heard you and brother Litch at the Cen 
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He thought that he had never 
heard any such preaching before, nor witnessed 
such lively meetings. 
It was his uniform prac-
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with between seventy and eighty scholars, under 
the most favorable auspices. 
But last Friday, 
while in school, he was taken with inflammation 
in the lungs, and although he received the best 
treatment and care, he died on the Wednesday 
night following, with no relative nigh him. 
In-
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he had breathed his last. 
We conveyed the body 
to his late residence at Salladaysburg, where the 
funeral took place on Saturday last. 
Salladaysburg, 
Feb. 6tH, '54. 
I. R. 
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Contents of this No. 
MISCELLANEOUS. 
The Blessed Watchman 
57 
The Last Battle in Europe.... 57 
Chronological Table of Events 
connected with the Papacy. 58 
Coming Events 
59 
No more Sea (poetry) 
59 
Interesting 'Incidents........ 59 
Till the Day Dawn 
59 
Foreign News 
64 
EDITORIAL. 
The Prophecy of Isaiah 
, 60 
The Little Horn 
60 
CORRESPONDENCE. 
Morning 
59 
Christian's Rest, The... 
59 
Exposition of Dan. 11: 40-44. 82 
The Little Horn....:........ 62 
Letter from J. L. Clapp 
62 
" 
" 
Robert Chown ... 63 
Extracts from Letters— 
John Pearce 
63 
D. A.Kent 
63 
J. W. Philbrick 
63 
The Promised Land of Rest... 63 
OBITUARY. 
Miriam Charlotte Gates 
63 
Clara llellen Allard 
63 
Charles Henry Allard 
63 
Margaret Skakel 
63 
John William Pepper 
63 
Origen Wheeler 
63 
Mrs. Mary Billings 
64 
FOREIGN NEWS. 
THE "WAR IN THE EAST.—Count Orloff is reported 
to be dissatisfied with his reception at Vienna and 
Berlin. 
It is further said that the Emperor of 
Austria will regard the Russians crossing the 
Danube as a declaration of war, but the report is 
most unlikely. 
It is said that the Russian Minister has with-
drawn from Paris, and the London Minister was 
to leave on the day subsequent to the sailing of 
the Canada. 
The English government has sent some small 
steamers to take soundings at the entrance of the 
Baltic. 
A Constantinople letter says that the allied fleets 
had returned and anchored at Besicos Bay on the 
22d ult., causing much astonishment. 
It is elsewhere mentioned that this was merely a 
portion of the fleet which had been employed to 
escort stores to Varna. 
The destinies of Europe are now pending on the 
decisions of Prussia and Austria. 
Orders are understood to be sent to the British 
and French ambassadors at St. Petersburg, to de-
mand their passports. 
The answer from Great Britain and France to 
Russia's inquiries respecting the entry of the fleet, 
was delivered February 1st to the ministers in Paris 
and London. 
The terms of the reply did not tran-
spire, but, as they could not have differed from the 
communication already addressed verbally by Sir 
Hamilton Seymour, for Great Britain, and M. 
Castlebac, for France, to the Cabinet of St. Peters-
burg, it was considered that the Czar's instructions 
left his ministers no alternative but to leave Lon-
don and Paris, although it might not be for some 
days. 
Count Orloff's mission to Vienna, is said to be 
to ask permission for a Russian force to pass 
through Hungary. 
It is further reported, that if 
Count Orloff fails, the Czar will himself visit Ber-
lin and Vienna to use his influence with the courts. 
No symptoms are apparent that he will yield. 
On the Danube, although abstaining from great 
operations, the Turks will allow the Russians no 
rest. 
Fighting had occurred at Giurgevo, near 
Oltenitza, 
near Kalaresch, 
Silistria, 
Turtukai, 
Matschin, Palanka, Rahodia, Islas, Tprnou, &c. 
On the 24th, there was no change in the state of 
affairs at Kalafat. 
From Asia we have nothing, except that Gen. 
Guyon was to cross the frontier on the 2d, to attack 
Ahatchick, and General Stein to attack Alexan-
dropolis. 
Colonel Dien, who had been sent by the French 
government to report on the condition of the Turk-
ish army on the Danube, pronounces it fit to keep 
the Russians in check for a long time, although 
deficient in cavalry. 
Two French officers are sent 
to report on the Turkish Asiatic force. 
A rumor was very current of a naval battle be-
tween the allies and the Russians in the Black Sea, 
with the destruction of the Russians. 
It is, how 
ever, not yet confirmed. 
A part of the allied fleet 
had returned to Constantinople to escort the Turk-
ish supplies to Varna. 
A portion of the Turkish 
fleet has gone to Egypt to ship twelve thousand 
well trained troops, including one regiment of 
heavy artillery, much wanted, and one regiment of 
riflemen. 
Tho Russian regiments of the Guard are ordered 
to the Baltic provinces by March 1. 
The Russian Vice Commander of Sebastopol has 
been cashiered for not preventing the English frig-
ate Retribution from entering that port. 
Mr. Bell, 
an English engineer, is released. 
FRANCE—A council was held at the Tuilleries on 
the 30th , upon the question of sending an expedi-
tionary land force to Turkey, which was fully dis-
cussed. 
It is proposed to send 80,000 men in four 
bodies, under the command of Generals Caurobut, 
MacMahon, Pelissier, and Bousquet. 
England 
will send only a small force, but will pay half the 
expenses. 
Prince Napoleon has been sent to the Court of 
Belgium, it is reported, to impress on the king the 
necessity of acting firmly with the allies against 
Russia, as Belgium cannot maintain her neutrality 
without incurring the displeasure of France. 
The Prince will go on a similar mission to Prus-
sia and Germany. 
To the 29th of January, neither Austria, Bava-
ria, nor Saxony had made any communication to 
the Germanic Diet respecting their neutrality. 
SWEDEN.—The temper of the people is increas-
ingly hostile to Russia. 
The Chambers granted 
with enthusiasm all extra supplies required to put 
the country in a state of defence. 
FOUR DAYS LATER.—Since the above was in type, 
the Baltic has arrived at New York, with the fol-
lowing additional news: 
The most important features of the news are the 
departure of the Russian Ministers from London 
and Paris, and the recall of the English and 
French Ambassadors from St. Petersburg ; the 
open preparations for war by England and France; 
and the debate irf the House of Lords on the East-
ern question. 
The greatest activity is reported in the navy 
yards of Great Britain, and every vessel available 
for sea service is being fitted out. 
The forces of 
the navy are to be increased by the addition of 
10,000 seamen and 3000 marines. 
In the army, 
there is equal activity displayed, the proposed in-
crease of which will amount to 11,000 men. 
The London Morning Post of the 4th inst., points 
out the probable course affairs will take in regard 
to the war: 
We _ understand that, as soon as the official 
notification (now on its way) of the breaking up of 
the Vienna conference reaches London and Paris, 
the Western powers will at once address a sum-
mons to Russia to evacuate the Danubian princi-
palities, and, in the event of her refusal, they will 
declare war. 
Did they wait for Russia to do so, 
they might wait an inconvenient time, and as all 
the world knows who is the real de facto aggressor, 
they have no fear of being considered so, when 
they resort to a necessary and really defensive act, 
on behalf of the equilibrium of Europe already 
materially shaken by the Czar. 
" On the declaration of war, which appears now 
so near, we may expect to see large forces, naval 
and millitary, put in action. 
Already Sir John 
Burgoyne and Colonel Ardent are on board the 
Caradoc, on their way to Constantinople, to make 
there preparations for the combined forces which 
will follow them. 
" The official notification of the demise of the 
Conference of Vienna will probably arrive here by 
Monday next. 
The summons to Russia to evacu-
ate the principalities instantly, and her refusal to 
do so, may .consume some score more days, and 
then we may expect the declaration of war to which 
we have referred, and the prosecution of active 
hostilities, which, being followed up with continu-
ous vigor, may possibly cut that' Gordian knot' 
which the efforts of diplomacy have hitherto failed 
to untie." 
The despatches between the East and West of 
Europe have been.busy in conjecturing what Count 
Orloff'8 mission was, which is perhaps of but little 
consequence after the statement in the House of 
Lords that it had signally failed. 
From the des-
patches it appears that Count Orloff's proposals 
were successfully and peremptorily rejected by the 
Emperor of Austria in person, by the Austrian 
Ministers, and by the representatives of the four 
powers in conference at Vienna, who have signed 
a further protocol to that effect. 
Count Orloff did 
not, however, leave Vienna on receiving this refu-
sal, but under the plea of sickness, deferred his 
departure. 
From this circumstance it is supposed 
that he had still power to treat on a wider basis. 
According to Berlin accounts of the 3d inst., Count 
Orloff's proposal was as follows : 
" That the German powers should draw up a 
joint declaration of neutrality under all circum-
stances. 
If any one member of the Bund be at-
tacked, Russia would make cause with the rest in 
her defence. 
Should any territorial changes arise 
through war, Russia undertakes to conclude no 
peace without duly considering the interest of the 
German powers." 
A Berlin despatch of the 5th says : 
" The Emperor Nicholas has returned his answer 
to the Turkish proposals, which were backed by 
the Vienna Conference. 
He declares them to be 
quite unsatisfactory ; that he will allow of no me-
diation between himself and Turkey; and that if 
the Porte wishes to treat, it may send an ambas-
sador to St. Petersburg. 
For any further informa-
tion, the members of the Conference are referred 
to their respective Courts." 
From Vienna, Sunday 5th, was telegraphed this 
despatch : " This Government has determined to 
observe an independent neutrality." 
The Paris Patrie says : 
" The Oriental question is on the eve of entering 
a new phase, which, after all, will only be the de-
velopment of the actual situation in the sense of 
the policy pursued by the two great Western 
powers. 
The energy and prudence of the Govern-
ments at London and Paris have borne their fruit. 
This mission of Count Orloff, which may have been 
taken for a symptom of peace, and which, on the 
contrary, was only the last effort of the Russians 
to gain over a paf-t of Europe, to share in a work 
of spoliation—the mission of Count Orloff has 
totally failed, baffled as it has been by the good 
sense of Austria and Prussia. 
They who fondly 
dreamed of another treaty of Pilnitz, and who 
made their arrangements in consequence, will find 
how their imagination has misled them. 
History 
is sometimes re-enacted, no doubt, but is always 
corrected in the process. 
At Vienna, the efforts of 
Count Orloff have produced a result directly op-
posed to the one contemplated by the Czar. 
The 
German party has secured its grasp of power, giv-
ing the preponderance of Count Buol over M. Fi-
quelmont, the head of the Russian party. 
* " The defeat has been no less signal at Berlin, 
and the arrangements of that Court have assumed 
such a character that Count OrlofF will very proba-
bly abstain from visiting that capital. 
People 
even go so far as to talk of an autograph letter 
sent from King Frederick William of Prussia to 
the Emperor Nicholas, in which he roundly declares 
his inability to join in the Russian views. 
" The situation of 1849 has returned. 
The 
quadruple alliance will be formed this time with 
France." 
' 
' 
' 
The right wing and centre of the Russian corps 
in Little Wallachia are, it is stated, advancing on 
Kalafat, from which it is inferred that the long 
contemplated attack on that strong position, was 
about to take place. 
Omar Pasha is directing all 
his energies to the breaking up of the Russian lines. 
A great engagement is therefore looked for. 
DIED, in Roxbury, Mass., Feb. 2d, 1854, Mrs. 
MARY BILLINGS, wife of Elder N. Billings. She had 
been afflicted with disease for many years, which 
she endured with patience and resignation. 
Her 
last sickness was brief, and she died without a 
struggle. 
Her husband was absent, so that he 
was prevented from being with her in her last 
hours, and also from attending.her funeral. 
Bro. 
B. is much afflicted by this bereavement; but he 
has the arm of God for his support, as well as the 
sympathies and prayers of numerous friends. 
Sis-
ter B. was converted in this city, under the labors 
of Dr. Baldwin, more than forty years ago, and 
afterwards united with the Baldwin Place church, 
of which she remained a member until her death. 
Within the last ten years she embraced the Ad-
vent views, and sympathized with her husband. 
Though our brother mourns, yet he sorrows not as 
those who have no hope; for he looks forward to 
a world where sickness, and sorrow, and death, 
shall never come. 
"In the floods of tribulation, • 
While the billows o'er me roll, 
Jesus whispers consolation, 
And supports my fainting soul. 
Sweet affliction, sweet affliction, 
That brings Jesus to the soul." 
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