Resurrection Body. 
BY REV. A. C. 
THOMPSON. 
Shall I be left abandoned in tbe dust, 
When fate, relenting, lets the flower revive? 
Shall Nature's voice, to man alone unjust. 
Deny him, doomed to perish, hope to live? 
Is it for this fair virtue oft must strive 
With disappointment, penury and pain? 
No ; heaven's immortal spring shall yet arrive, 
And man's majestic beauty bloom again, 
Bright through theeternai year of love's triumph 
ant reign 
BEATTIE. 
THERE are four grand epochs in the history of 
every sinner saved by Christ. 
The first is that 
of natural birth, by which event another being, 
fearfully and wonderfully made, commences an 
existance that shall never end, yet under au-
spices dark and fearful, inheriting disease with-
in, discomforts without, and displeasure from 
above. 
The second epoch is that of the new birth, 
when this heir of sin and wrath becomes an heir 
of God; when the disordered 
soul, oppressed 
by the bonds of sin, is renewed and disenthralled, 
translated from 
the domain 
of Satan, 
nat 
uralized in a kingdom, united intimately and 
; indissolubly with the Lord Jesus Christ. 
The third epoch is that of natural death ; the 
termination of this probationary period, the 
separation of body and soul for a season,—the 
one returning to earth as it ^as, the other to 
to God, free from sin and sharing in all the 
blessedness possible till the last epoch, that of 
resurrection, which consummates the whole. 
By that event we understand the reproduction, 
at the last day, of the same bodies formerly 00 
cupied, and the re-union of the soul of each 
saint with his own body, thus raised and glori-
fied. 
We understand not a new creation, not 
the calling into existence of a body formed from 
substances which did not enter into the old; 
we 
understand not an indiscriminate occupation of 
tenements supplied at Christ's summons, but the 
refitting of the tabernacle of each believer for 
.the Everlasting inhabitation of his own spirit; 
neither of them, nor the united whole, having 
lost its identity. 
This doctrine appears to have passed insensi-
bly and extensively, from the thoughts and the 
literature of the Christian public; yet it is a 
fundamental article in our faith. 
To strike it 
out is to remove the corner-stone from the Gos-
pel fabric. 
" Because we have testified of God 
that he raised up Christ, whom he raised not 
up, if so be that the dead rise not, for if the 
dead rise not, than is not Christ raised, your 
faith is vain, ye are yet in your sin." 
It is the spirit of infidelity, alone, which can 
set aside the doctrine of a future resurrection, 
and which, carried out consistently, would over 
throw the Gospel system. 
There is no gainsay 
ing the apostle's summary logic: if Christians 
rise not, Christ rose not; if Christ rose not, 
he'and his apostles are false witnesses; we are 
out upon the gloomy, trackless sea of scepticism 
This is one of the test truths of our religion, 
because it is purely a doctrine of revelation 
The human mind, left to itself, would probably, 
never have conjectured such a thing. 
Nature, 
unaided, is not only dim, but wholly dark upon 
this poin* , and when its possibility is suggested, 
speculation is far more likely to reject this than 
the doctrine of the soul's immortality. 
As, then, this article of our belief is exclu-
sively one of revelation, we are to go at once, and 
with unhesitating confidence, to the Holy Scrip 
ture. 
" Marvel not at this, for the hour is com 
ing, in the which all that are in the graves shall 
hear the voice of the Son of Man, and shall 
come forth, they that have done good unto the 
resurrection of life." (John 6:40.) " And this 
is the will of him that sent me, that every one 
which seeth the the Son and believeth on him, 
may have everlasting life ; and 1 will raise him 
up at the last day," 
The clause, " and I will 
raise him up at the last day," is repeated in the 
44th and 54th verses, and one similar in the 
30th. 
"And have hope toward God, which 
they themselves also allow, that there shall be a 
resurrection of the dead, both of the just and the 
unjust." 
" Now if Christ be preached, that he 
rose from the dead, how say some among you 
that there is no resurrection of the dead ? 
But 
if there be no resurrection of the dead, then 
is Christ not risen ; and it Christ be not risen, 
then is our preaching vain, and. our faith is also 
vain." 
These passages establish the fact that at the 
close of this dispensation there will be a resur-
rection of all the righteous dead, who shall 
come forth from their graves as certainly as 
Christ did from his. 
Special stress is laid upon 
the event of Christ's resurrection, in proof of the 
resurrection of believers. 
" But now is Christ 
raised from the dead, and became the first of 
them that slept." 
Before him no one had come 
from the grave without being again subject to 
death; and, as the first fruits are a sample and 
pledge of the approching harvest, so our Lord's 
coming from the grave is the earnest of a like 
ingathering of his people. 
His was both type 
and guaranty of what shall be on the broad 
scale at their resurrection. 
His own re-appear-
ance from the tomb was the crowning evidence 
that he is the faithful and true witness, and that 
each of his promises for the future is as sure of 
accomplishment as those already fulfilled. 
But, beyond this, there is a security for the 
saints' resurrection in their union to Christ. 
" Now ye are the body of Christ, and members 
in particular." 
" Then they also that are fall-
en asleep in Christ are perished." 
" But in 
Christ shall all be made alive, yet every man in 
his own order; Christ the first fruits, afterwards 
they that are Christ's at his coming." 
" For, 
if we believe that Jesus died and rose again, even 
them also that sleep in Jesus will God bring 
with him." 
The peculiar, vital union, subsisting 
between 
believers and their risen Lord, war-
rants the assurance of their own triumphant 
awaking from the dust. 
Such are some of the more important declara-
tions of the New Testament which demonstrate 
the future resurrection of the bodies of believers. 
The Scriptures, moreover, furnish examples il-
lustrative of that event. 
Thus, the son of the 
widow of Sarepta, soon after death was again 
restored to life; the son of the Shunamite, after 
the arrival of the prophet from Mount Carmel 
and another while they were burying him in the 
sepulchre of Elisha. 
So, too, Jairus' daughter, 
and Dorcas, were restored to life soon after de-
cease ; the widow's son at Nain, while there' 
mains were on their way to the sepulchre, and 
Lazarus, after four days' corruption in the tomb 
In these instances, the bodies raised, so far as 
appears, were, in all respects, the same as be-
fore ; and no less subject to dissolution. 
Hence 
they were quite unlike those which will be re 
produced at the general resurrection; yet the 
main fact in the two cases is tbe same—a mi-
raculous reunion of the soul with the same body, 
re-constituting the same person as before. 
And a most august occasion will that be. 
"For the Lord himself shall 
descend from 
heaven, with a shout, with the voice of the arch 
angel, and the trump of God." 
" In a moment, 
in the twinkling of an eye, at the last trump ; 
for the trumpet shall sound." 
Without insist-
ing on the literal exactness of this description, 
we cannot understand less than that the occa-
sion will be one of surpassing grandeur; that 
our Lord will come, not only in his own divine 
^lory, but with the glory of his Father, attended 
>y the holy angels, with inconceivable splendor, 
majesty and power. 
Yet, though the resurrection shall be general, 
it will also be successive, believers enjoying fit-
ting priority, as it is written: " But every man 
in his own order; Christ the first fruits ; after-
ward they that are Christ's at his coining." 
The dead in Christ shall rise first." 
" But some man will say, How are the dead 
raised up ; and with what body do they come ?" 
The question is natural, and, keeping within the 
limits of revelation and sober judgment, a reply 
is due to the inquiry. 
The same bodv will be raised. 
Without wast-
ing time in disquisition upon what constitutes 
identity, or upon the changes which every liv-
ing creature constantly undergoes, suffice it to 
say, that, notwithstanding all its mutations, the 
same body which is born is the one which dies, 
and the one which dies is that which will be 
raised again. 
It would be deemed irrelevant, 
in this connection, to discuss abstruse questions 
relating to substances, atoms, and the like ; all 
that is important, or possible to know on the 
subject at present, is, that whatever may be es-
sential to identity will be preserved ; so that it 
is proper to affirm now, and will then be evi-
dently true, that the body which died is the one 
that is raised. 
The translation of Enoch and 
Elijah, the resurrection and ascension of our 
Lord, the testimony that they which sleep in 
their graves shall come forth,—indeed, all testi-
mony of holy writ upon this point, establishes 
the truth that the body raised is identical with 
that from which separation took place. 
The 
changes that occur at regeneration, departure 
from the body, and reunion to the same after 
having been in Paradise, do not affect the iden-
tity of the soul; nor do the revolutions effected 
by growth, dissolution and resurrection, destroy 
the identity of the body ; nor do all these com-
bined impair the identity of the person, when 
these two elements of his constitution shall have 
been reunited. 
Abraham will be forever con-
scious to himself, and known to his family as 
the same Abraham who bought the field of 
Ephron, and the cave which was therein ; and 
the precious dust first deposited there shall come 
forth, his own beloved Sarah. 
Samuel J. Mills 
was not buried irrecoverably, nor has any be-
liever been lost in the ocean. 
The sea shall ere 
long, give up its dead unharmed. 
Each saint in 
Christ Jesus may say, 
" In ocean cave still safe with thee 
The germ of immortality ; 
And calm and peaceful is my sleep, 
Rocked in the cradle of the deep." 
It will be a spiritual body. 
« And that which 
thousowest, thou sowest not that body that shall 
be, but bare grain ; it may chance of wheat or 
some other grain. 
But God giveth it a body as 
it hath pleased him, and to every seed his own 
body. 
All flesh is not the same flesh; but there 
is one kind of flesh of men, another flesh of 
beasts, another of fishes, and another of birds. 
There are also celestial bodies, and bodies ter-
restrial : but the glory of the celestial is one, 
and the glory of the 
terrestrial is another. 
There is one glory of the sun and another glory 
of the moon, and another glory of the stars ;• for 
one star differeth from another star in glory. 
So, also, is tbe resurrection of the dead. 
It is 
sown in corruption, it is raised in incorruption. 
It is sown a natural body, it is raised a spiritual 
body. 
There is a natural body, and there is a 
spiritual body." 
• By this we do not understand that the resur-
rection body will be a pure spirit,—which is a 
contradiction in terms,—but spirit-like compared 
with the present. 
(1 Cor. 15:50.) 
There will 
be a body still, as truly as there now is ; and 
without trenching upon its identity, Christ will 
mould it into a perfect adaptation to the heavenly 
world. 
What the precise character of its con-
stitution, what its specific properties and endow-
ments may be, we know not; for the future 
state is so necessarily unlike to the present, and 
such is the divine silence of the Scriptures in re-
gard to these details, that we shrink from all at-
tempts to anticipate the knowledge of that day. 
Idle curiosity may propound questions without 
number; adventurous speculation may attempt 
to solve them ; but it is generally useless, and 
may be mischievous. 
One hour after the arch-
angel's trump has sounded, believers will know 
more on this subject than all which they could 
have learned previously, by the most earnest, 
life-long study. 
The resurrection body will be incorruptible 
and immortal. 
It is sown in corruption, it is 
raised in incorruption. 
"For this corruption 
must put on incorruption, and this mortal must 
put on immortality," 
It will be inherently exempt from decay, and 
removed from all outward influences 
which 
might weaken or disorder it. 
It is a common and not improbable idea that 
all the redeemed will forever exult in undecoy-
ing youth. 
The school-men were accustomed to 
say that all will rise of the same age. 
How-
ever that may be, we are certain that the resur-
rection body will be healthful and vigorous. 
" It is sown in weakness ; it is raised in power." 
It will be perfectly and forever free from lan-
guor, weariness, and disease. 
"The inhabitant 
shall not say, I am sick." 
The eye of the pa-
triarch' shall never grow dim again; 
Jacob 
shall no longer halt, and Lazarus retain no trace 
of his malady ; for then "the eyes of the blind 
shall be opened, and the ears of the deaf shall 
be unstopped. 
Then shall the lame man leap 
as a hart; and the tongue of the dumb shall 
sing." 
They shall all be girded with strength, 
with immortal vigor to serve God, day and 
night, in his temple. 
The resurrection bodies of saints will be most 
beautiful and glorious. 
" It is sown in dishon-
or; it is raised in glory." 
No one of our race 
since the fall has had a body in all respects 
faultless. 
Every child of God shall hereafter 
possess one absolutely perfect. 
Yes; these vile 
bodies, subject to disease, distortion, decay, the 
instruments of sin, shall have an exquisite sym-
metry of features and proportion. 
No Grecian artist, however faultless his eye, 
and fervid his imagination, ever conceived of a 
form so ethereal, so stately, so enchantingly 
graceful, as shall then belong to the saint whose 
bcdy was the most unlovely and misshapen here. 
The resurrection body will be perfectly suited to 
the occupancy of a perfect soul, in the temple 
and immediate presence of the King of kings. 
Christ also loved the church, and gave himself 
for it, that he might sanctify and cleanse it with 
the washing of water by the word ; that ho might 
present it to himself a glorious church, not hav-
ing spot or wrinkle, or any such thing, but that 
it should be holy and without blemish. 
Yes; 
he " shall change our vile body, that it may be 
fashioned like unto his glorious body." 
And would we know what Christ's glorious 
body is ? Then must we see him on the mount 
of transfiguration, when, " His face did shine as 
the sun, and his raiment was white as the light," 
We must behold him in apocalyptic effulgence: 
"His countenance as the sun shineth in his 
strength." 
Such is the archetype of the be-
liever's resurrection body. 
The masterpiece of 
supreme power and wisdom will be those future 
bodies of the saints, and.the reunion with them 
of the spirits of just men made perfect. 
Why is it, then, that epitaphs should now so 
seldom recognize this glorious truth ? 
A false, 
unchristian taste on this point appears to have 
spread widely in our own land, and some other 
parts of Christendom. 
It is painful to observe 
to what extent recent cemeteries are devoid of 
all scriptural sentiment in their monumental rec-
ords. 
Formerly it was not so. 
Venom of Serpents, 
THERE is much in the history and habits of 
the reptile tribes, however repulsive they may be 
in appearance, that is very interesting. 
During 
a sojourn of two or three months in the interior 
of Arkansas, which appears to me to be the par-
adise of reptiles, I paid some attention to that 
branch of natural history called ophiology. 
I 
found four distinct varieties of rattlesnakes, (cro-
tahis) of which Crotalus Horridus and Crotalus 
Kartandii, are by far the most numerous. 
The 
former is the largest serpent in North America. 
The family of moccasin snakes (colluber) is also 
quite numerous, there being not less than ten 
varieties, most of which are quite as venomous 
as the rattlesnake. 
By dissecting great numbers 
of different species, I learned that the anatomi-
cal structure of the poisoning appratus is similar 
in all the different varieties of venomous ser-
pents. 
Is consists of a strong framework of 
bone, with its appropriate muscles in the upper 
part of the head, resembling, and being in fact 
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a pair of jaws, but externally to the jaws proper, 
and much stronger. 
To these is attached, by a 
gingly-moid articulation, one or more movable 
fangs on each side, just at the verge of the 
mouth, capable of being erected at pleasure, 
These fangs are very hard, sharp, and crooked, 
like the claws of a cat, and hooked backward 
with a hollow from the base to near the point, 
I have occasionally seen a thin slit of bone di-
vide this hollow, making two. 
At their base is 
found a small sack, containing two or three 
drops of venom, which resembled thin honey. 
The sack is so connected with the cavity of the 
•fang during its erection, that a slight upward 
pressure forces the venom into the fang at its 
base, and it makes its exit at a small-slit or 
opening near the point, with considerable force ; 
thus it is carried to the bottom of any wound 
made by the fang. 
Unless the fangs are erected 
for battle, they lie concealed in the upper part 
of the mouth, sunk between the external and in-
ternal jaw bones, somewhat like a pen-knife 
blade shut up in its handle, where they are cov-
ered by a fold of membrane, which encloses 
them like a sheath ;—this is the vagina 
dentis. 
There can be no doubt that these fangs are fre-
quently broken off or shed, as the head grows 
broader, to make room for new ones nearer the 
verge of the mouth j for, within the vagina den-
tis of a very large crotalus horridus, I found no 
lesa than five fangs on each side—in all stages 
of formation—the smallest in a half pulpy or 
cartilaginous state, the next something harder, 
the third still more perfect, and so on to the 
main, well set, perfect fang. 
Bach of these 
teeth bad a well defined cavity, like the main 
one. 
Three fangs on each side were frequently 
found in copper heads, vipers, and others. 
The process of robbing serpents of their ven-
om is easily accomplished by 'the aid of chloro-
form, a few drops of which stupifies them. 
If, 
while they are under its influence, they are 
carefully seized by the neck, and the vagina 
dentis held out of the way by an assistant, with 
a pair of forceps, and the fang be erected and 
gently pressed upward, the venom will be seen 
issuing from the fang, and dropping from its 
point. 
It may then be absorbed by a bit of 
sponge, or caught in a vial, or on the point of a 
lancet. 
After robbing several serpents in this 
manner, they were found, after two days, to be 
as highly charged with venom of equal intensity 
with that first taken. 
During the process of robbing several species 
of serpents, I inoculated several small but vigr 
urous and perfectly healthy vegetables with the 
point of the lancet, well charged with venom. 
The next day they were withered and dead, look-
ing as though they had been scathed with iight-
ning. 
In attempting to preserve a few drops of 
venom, for future experiments, in a small vial 
with two or three drops of alcohol, it was found 
in a short time to have lost its venomous proper-
ties. 
But after mixing the venom with aqua 
ammonia or spirits of turpentine, or oil of pep-
permint, or of cinnamon, or of cloves, or with 
. nitric or sulphuric acid, it. still seemed to act 
with undiminished energy. 
It is best preserved, 
however, for future use by trituration with re-
fined sugar or sugar of milk. 
A very fine, large cotton mouth snake, being 
captured by putting a shoe string around him, 
became excessively ferocious, striking at even 
the crack of a small riding whip. 
Finding him-
self a prisoner, without hope of escape, he turned 
his deadly weapons on his own body, striking re-
peatedly his well charged fangs deeply into his 
flesh. 
Notwithstanding this, he was put in a 
small basket, and carried forward. 
In one 
hour he was found dead, and no amount of irri-
tation could excite the least indication of life. 
Four hours after, while removing the skin for 
presevation, the blood oozed slowly from the 
vessels in a dissolved state. 
No violence was 
done to his snakeship, except what he did to 
himself. 
Another moccasin, shot by a pistol about two 
inches back of the head, and' skinned immedi-
ately, gave decided evidence of vitality four 
hours alter being flayed, by writhing the body 
whenever it was irritated by a scalpel. 
A large rattlesnake, beheaded instantly with 
a hoe, would, an hour and a half after, strike at 
anything that pinched its tail. 
Of several per-
sons who were testing their firmness of nerve by 
trying to hold the hand steady while the serpent 
struck at it, not one could be found whose hand 
would not recoil in spite of his resolution; and 
one man, a great bully, by-the-by, was struck 
on the naked throat with considerable force by 
the headless trunk of the serpent, and staggered 
back, fainted and fell, from terror. 
Mr. Stew-
art, of Mississippi, tells me he once witnessed a 
similar scene. 
An old hunter shot a rattle-
snake's head off, and after reloading his gun and 
standing some time, he stooped to pull off the 
rattles, and the bloody but headless trunk of the 
snake struck him on the temple, and he fainted 
and fell down with terror. 
Seven venomous serpents, belonging to five 
different species, were made to fraternize, and 
dwell amicably in one den. 
A beautiful pair of 
long bodied speckled snakes, known as king 
snakes, found to be fangless, and consequently 
without venom, were duly installed as members 
of the family. 
Some uneasiness was perceivable 
among the older members, but no attempt was 
made to destroy the intruders, though they might 
have been killed instantly. 
The next morning 
four of the venomous serpents were found to 
have been destroyed by the king snakes, and was 
still within their coil, and the remaining ones 
would make no effort at self defence. 
A large 
rattlesnake seemed stupid and indifferent to his 
fate. 
He could not be made to threaten or give 
warning even with his rattles. 
The smallest 
king snake was afterward inoculated with the 
poison of one of the serpents he had destroyed, 
and died immediately after—thus evincing that 
they must have exercised some power besides 
physical force to overcome their fellow creatures. 
In short, the result of a great number of ex-
periments performed with the venom of a great 
variety of serpents, seem to lead to the following 
conclusions : 
1. That the venom of all serpents acts as a 
poison in a similar manner. 
2. That the venom of some varieties is far 
more active than that of others. 
3. That a variety of the coluber, known as 
the cotton mouth, is the most venomous serpent 
in Arkansas. 
4. That the venom of serpents destroys all 
forms of organized life, vegetable as well as ani-
mal. 
5. That alcohol, if brought in contact with the 
venom, is, to a certain extent, aft antidote. 
Qj That serpents do possess the power of faci-
nating small animals, and that this power is iden-
tical with mesmerism. 
7. That the blood of small animals, destroyed 
by the venom of serpents, bears a close resem-
blance to that of animals destroyed by lightning 
or hydrocyanic acid; it loses its power of coag-
ulation, and cannot be long kept from putrifac-
tion. 
Br- Gilmanip St. Louis Medical and Surgical Journal. 
sick man run cold, by ealling oat incessantly, 
in a deep hoarse voice, " O, the great and dread-
ful God!" 
Through the months of July and August, and 
September, the Great Plague raged more and 
more. 
Great fires were' lighted in the streets, 
in the hope of stopping {he infection; but there 
was a plague of rain too, and it beat the fires 
out. 
At last, the winds, which usually rise at 
that time of the year which is called the equinox, 
when day and night are of equal length all over 
the world, began to blow, and to purify the 
wretched town. 
The deaths began to decrease, 
the crosses slowly to disappear, the fugitives to re-
turn, the shops to open again, pale, frightened 
faces to be seen in the streets. 
The plague had 
been in every part of England, but in close and 
unwholesome London it had killed one hundred 
thousand people. 
The Great Plague. 
IN Dickens' Child's History of England, we 
find the following respecting the great plague 
that prevailed in the 17th century in the city of 
London : 
For this was the year and time of the great 
Plague in London. 
During the winter of 1664, 
it had been whispered about that some few peo-
ple had died here and there of a disease called 
the plague, in some of the unwholesome suburbs 
around London. 
News was not published at 
that time as it is now, and some people believed 
these rumors, and some disbelieved them, and 
they were soon forgotten. 
But in the month of. 
May, 1665, it began to be said all over the town 
that the disease had burst out with great violence 
in St. Giles'; and that the people were dying in 
great numbers. 
This soon turned out to be aw-
fully true. 
The roads out of London were 
choked up by people endeavoring to escape from 
the in!ected city, and large sums were paid for 
any kind of conveyance. 
The disease soon 
spread so fast that it was necessary to shut up 
the houses in which sick people were, and to cut 
them off from communication with the living. 
Every one of these houses was marked on the 
outside of the door with a red cross, and the 
words, " Lord have mercy on us! " 
The streets 
were all deserted, grass grew in the public ways, 
and there- was a dreadful silence in the air. 
When night came on, dismal rumblings used to 
be heard, and these were the wheels of the death-
cart, attended by men with veiled faces, and 
holding cloths to their mouths, who rang doleful 
bells, and cried in a loud and solemn voice, 
Bring out your dead ! " 
The corpses put into 
these carts were buried by torchlight in great 
pits, no service being preformed over them—all 
men being afraid to stay for a moment on the 
brink of the ghastly graves. 
In the general 
fear, children ran away trom their parents, and 
parents from their children. 
Some who were 
taken ill died alone and without any help. 
Some were stabbed or strangled by hired nurses, 
who robed them of all their money, and stole 
the very beds on which they lay. 
Some went 
mad, dropped from their windows, ran through 
the streets, and in their pain and frenzy flung 
themselves into the river. 
These were not all 
the horrors of the time. 
The wicked and desso-
lute, in wild desperation, sat in taverns singing 
roaring songs, and were stricken as they drank, 
and went out and died. 
The fearful and super-
stitious persuaded themselves that they saw su-
pernatural sights—burning swords in the sky. 
gigantic arms and darts. 
Others pretended that 
at night vast crowds of ghosts walked round and 
round the dismal pits. 
One madman, naked, 
and carrying a brazier full of burning coals up-
on his head, stalked through the streets, crying 
that he was a prophet, commissioned to denounce 
the vengeance of the Lord on wicked London. 
Another always went to and fro exclaiming, 
'1 Yet forty days, and London shall be destroyed!" 
A third awoke the echoes of the dismal streets, 
by night and by day, and made the blood of the 
Abide With Us, 
Tarry with me, 0, my Saviour \ 
For the day is passing by ; 
See! the shades of evening gather, 
And the night is drawing nigh ! 
Tarry with me ! Tarry with me I 
Pass me not unheeded by ! 
Many friends were gathered round me, 
In the bright days of the past j 
But the grave has closed above them, 
And I linger here at last! 
I am lonely; tarry with me 
Till the dreary night is past, 
Dimm'd for me is earthly beauty ; 
Yet the spirit's eye would fain 
Rest upon thy lovely features; 
Shall 1 seek, dear Lord, in vain ? 
Tarry with me, 0, my Saviour! 
Let me see thy smile again ! 
Dull my ear to earth-born music : 
Speak thou, Lord, in words of cheer: 
Feeple, tottering my footstep, 
Sinks my heart with sudden fear : 
Cast thine arms, dear Lord, around me. 
Let me feel thy presence near. 
Faithful memory paints before me 
Every deed and thought of sin ; 
Open thou the blood-filled fountain, 
Cleanse my guilty soul within : 
Tarry, thou forgiving Saviour! 
Wash me wholly from my sin ! 
Deeper, "deeper grow the shadows, 
Paler now the glowing West, 
Swift the night of death advances ; 
Shall it be the night of rest ? 
Tarry with me,0, my Saviour! 
Lay my head upon thy breast! 
Feeble, trembling, fainting, dying, 
Lord, 1 cast myself on thee ; 
Tarry with me, through the darkness! 
While I sleep, still watch by me, 
Till the morning, then awake me, 
Dearest Lord, to dwell with thee. 
the gospeL 
You have grown tip amid the privi-
leges of a- christian land, and truth has been ad-
dressed to you in every variety of fofm. 
God 
has showered upon you many blessings, that 
your gratitude might be awakened and his good-
ness.lead you to repentance 
and occasionally 
perhaps, he has afflicted you, that in the expe-
rience of earth's vanity you might seek heaven's 
bliss. 
He has visited you by his Spirit. 
You 
have heard the Holy Ghost knocking at the door 
of your heart. 
At the grave of a friend, on a 
sick*bed, or under an impressive discourse, you 
have felt his secret influence, and have been al-
most persuaded to be a Christian, 
And yet, af-
ter all, you remain impenitent and far' from 
God. 
Oh! would it be surprising if even a 
long suffering and compassionate God should be 
wearied and prevoked to anger by such treat-
ment, and should leave you in total obduracy ? 
Then your case would be desperate, and nothing 
could produce sincere repentance. 
At the pros-
pect of death you might be alarmed, and wring-
ing your hands in anguish, you might cry for 
mercy, but such fear would be only the forebod-
ings of eternal sorrow, and God will have for-
gotten to be gracious. 
You might be over-
whelmed with alarm and terror, but, like Esau, 
who sold his birthright, find no" place for re-
pentance, though you sought it carefully with 
tears. 
Be cautious, lest, by the too oft repeated re-
jection of the proffers of love, your heart become 
callous and indifferent under the most melting 
exhibitions of truth; lest the blessed Spirit of 
God, offended at the ungrateful requital re-
quired at your hands, should go away forever, 
and your life he continued only to glorify the 
power and justice of an insulted and incensed 
God, by adding sin unto sin, and treasuring up 
wrath against the day of wrath. 
A Soul Forsaken of God. 
IF the soul be forsaken of God—if the Holy 
Spirit, by whose power alone the heart can be 
renewed, take his departure—how utterly hope 
less is his condition ! 
It stands as a monument 
of Divine wrath, to whom the Lord says, as he 
did of the accursed fig-tree, " Let no fruit grow 
thereon forever." 
Already its doom is fixed be 
yond change, and its everlasting ruin as certain 
as though it were shut up in the prison of des 
pair. 
What! is there no efficacy in the blood 
of Jesus ? Ah ! his atoning sacrifice has been 
rejected. 
Is' there no power in the grace of 
God ? That grace has been despised. 
Is there 
no love in the heart of God ? 
His love and pa 
tience have been so long slighted and abused 
that the very heart which once melted with pity 
is now insensible to the sinner's guilty state 
Will no cries for meroy reach his ear ? 
Ah 
timg was when he said, " 1 love them who love 
me, and those who seek me early shall find me 
but now he is regardless of the sinner's prayer 
and though from the borders of the grave he lift 
his agonizing cry to heaven, the Lord replies 
" Because I called, and ye refused ; 1 stretched 
out mine arm, and no man regarded; 1 also 
will laugh at your calamity ; I will mock when 
your fear cometh. 
Then shall they call upon 
me, but I- will not answer : they shall seek me 
early but they shall not find me." 
Dear reader, what an affecting appeal does 
this subject make to your heart, urging you to 
immediate repentance! 
I might enforce this 
obligation by a consideration of approaching 
death. 
But suppose God should spare your life 
for many years, is there not. danger that you 
may grieve away the Holy Spirit, and exhaust 
the forbearance and patience of God ? 
Reflect 
how long he has been calling you by the awful 
threatenings of his law, and4the mild accents of 
The Power of Temptation. 
WE start on the voyage of life. 
We flatter 
ourselves that we are able to meet temptation. 
We confide in the strength of our principles. 
We trust to the sincerity of our own hearts. 
Guileless ourselves—I do not mean guiltless, in 
the sense that we have no propensity to evil, but 
guileless, in the sense of sincere and confiding 
—we suspect no frand in others. 
Suspicion is 
not the characteristic of youth. 
It is the un-
happy work of experience ; the influence that 
comes into our hearts, notwithstanding all our 
efforts to resist it, from long acquaintance with 
the insincerity of mankind. 
The world flatters 
and a thousand temptations, adapted with 
consummate skill to the young, allure us. 
Pro-
fessed friends meet us on the way, and assure us 
that there is no danger. 
The gay, the fashion* 
able, the rich, the winning, the beautiful, the 
accomplished, invite us to tread with them the 
path of pleasure, and to doubt the suggestions of 
experience and of age. 
We feel confident of 
our own safety. 
We suppose we may tread se-
curely a little farther. 
We see no danger near. 
We take another step still, and yet another, 
thinking that we are safe yet. 
We have tried 
our virtuous principles thus far, and thus far 
they bear the trial. 
We could retreat if we 
would; we mean to retreat the moment that 
danger comes near. 
But who knows the power 
of temptation ? Who knows when dangers shall 
rush upon us so that we cannot escape ? 
There 
is a dividing line between safety and danger. 
Above thundering Niagara, the river spreads 
out into a broad and tranquil basin. 
All is 
calm, and the current flows gently on, and 
there even a light skiff may be guided in safety. 
You may glide nearer and nearer to the rapids, 
admiring the beauty of the shore, and looking 
upon the ascending spray of the cataract, and 
listening to the roar of the distant waters, and 
be happy in the consciousness that you are safe. 
You may go a little farther, and may have 
power still to ply the oar to reach the bank. 
But there is a point beyond which human power 
is vain, and where the mighty waters shall seize 
the quivering bark, and bear it on to swift de-
struction. 
So perishes many a young man by 
the power of temptation. 
You may drink a so-
cial glasfc, you think, with a friend, and be safe. 
One more glass, and you may be safe still, and 
another may be taken, you think, without dan-
ger. 
You may go to the theatre once, you sup-
pose, and be safe. 
You may be pleased, and 
think you may go again, and be safe still. 
You 
are fascinated with the scenery, the acting, the 
sentiment, and you go again. 
The acting; the 
sentiment, is not such as you saw and heard at 
the fireside of your childhood; not such as a 
mother would love ; not quite such as you would 
wish a sister to see. 
You cannot help perceiv-
ing that it is indelicate and profane. 
But you 
will be sensible of less and less horror at the in-
delicacy and profaneness there. 
There is a point where no young man is safe, 
and where no unconverted heart is secure from 
the power of temptation. 
1 need not describe 
the result. 
One allurement does not 
stand 
alone. 
None have b^en injured by staying awaj 
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i 
from such scenes. 
Bat oh, how many hearts 
have been broken as the result of a visit to such 
a place of allurement! 
The Papacy and Protestantism. 
How it was that Protestantism did so much, 
yet did no more—how it was that the Church of 
Rome, having lost a large part of Europe, not 
only ceased to lose, but actually regained nearly 
half of what she had lost—is cerainly a most cu-
rious and important question. 
There is not, and there never was, on this 
earth, a work of human policy so well deserving 
of examination as the Roman Catholic Church. 
The history of that Church joins together the two 
great ages of human civilization. 
No other in-
stitution is left standing which carries the mind 
back to the times when the smoke of sacrifice rose 
from the Pantheon, and when cameleopards and 
tigers bounded in the Flavian amphitheatre. 
The proudest royal houses are but of yesterday, 
when compared with the Supreme Pontiffs. 
That line we trace back in an unbroken series, 
from the Pope who crowned Napoleon in the 
nineteenth century, to the Pepin in the eighth ; 
and far beyond the time of Pepin the august dy-
nasty extends, till it is lost in the twilight of fa-
ble. 
The republic of Venice came next in an-
tiquity. 
Bat the republio of Venice was modern 
when compared with the Papacy; and the re-
public of Venice is gone, and the Papacy re-
mains. 
The Papacy remains, not in decay, not 
a mere antique; but fall of life and youthful 
vigor. 
The Catholic Church is still sending 
forth to the fartherest ends of the world mission-
aries as zealous as those who landed in Kent 
with Augustin; and still confronting hostile 
kings with the same spirit with which she con-
fronted Attila. 
The number of her children is 
greater than in any former age. 
Her acquisi-
tions in the New World have more than com-
pensated her for what she lost in the Old. 
Her 
spiritual ascendancy extend over the vast coun-
tries which lie between the plains of the Missouri 
and Cape Horn. The members of her community 
are certainly not fewer than a hundred and fifty 
millions; and it will be difficult to show that all 
the other Christian sects united amount to a hun-
dred and twenty millions. 
She saw the com-
mencement of all the governments, and of all the 
ecclesiastical establishments, that now exist in 
the world; and we feel n\> assurance that she is 
not destined to see the end of them all. 
She was 
great and respected before the Saxon had set his 
foot on Britain—before the Frank had passed 
the Rhine—when Grecian eloquence still flour-
ished at Antioch—when idols were still wor-
shipped in the temple of Mecca. 
And she may 
still exist in undiminished vigor when some trav-
eller from New Zealand shall, in the midst of a 
vast solitude, take his stand on a broken arch of 
London Bridge, to sketch the ruins of St. Paul's. 
We often hear it said that the world is con-
stantly becoming more and more enlightened, 
and that this enlightening must be favorable to 
Protestantism, and unfavorable to Catholicism. 
We wish that we could think so. 
But we see 
great reason to doubt whether this be a well-
founded expectation. 
We see, that daring the 
last two hundred and fifty years, the human 
mind has been in the highest degree active—that 
ithas made great advances in every branch of natu-
ral philosophy—that ithas produced innumerable 
inventions tending to promote the convenience of 
life—that medicine, surgery, chemistry, engi-
neering, have been very greatly improved—that 
government, police, and law have been improved, 
though not quite to the same extent. 
Yet we 
see that, during these two hundred and fifty 
years, Protestantism has made no conquests 
worth speaking of. 
Nay, we believe that as far 
as there has been a change, it has been in favor 
of the Church of Rome. 
We cannot, therefore, 
feel confident that the progress of knowledge 
will necessarily'lie fatal to a system which has, 
to say the least, stood its ground in spite of the 
immense progress which knowledge has made 
since the days of Queen Elizabeth. 
Indeed, the argument which we are consider-
ing seems to us to be founded on an entire mis-
take. 
There are branches of knowledge, with 
respect to which the law of the human mind is 
progress. 
In mathematics, when once a propo-
sition has been demonstrated, it is never after-
wards contested. 
Every fresh story is as solid a 
basis for a new superstructure as the original 
foundation was. 
Here, therefore, there is a 
constant addition to the stock of truth. 
In the 
inductive sciences again, the law is progress. 
Every day furnishes new facts, and thus brings 
theory nearer to perfection. 
There is no change 
that either in the purely demonstration, or in 
the purely experimental science, the world will 
ever go back, or even remain stationary. 
No-
body ever heard of a reaction against Taylor's 
theorem, or of a reaction against Harvey's doc-
trine of the circulation of the blood. 
Bat with theology the case is very different 
As respects natural religion—revelation being 
for the present altogether left out of the question 
—it is not easy to see that, a philosopher of the 
present day is more favorably situated than 
Thales or Simonides. 
He has before him just 
the same evidence of design in the structure of 
the universe which the early Greeks had 
We 
say just the same ; for the discoveries'of modern 
astronomers and anatonists have really added 
nothing to the force of that argument which a 
reflecting mind finds in every beast, bird, insect, 
fish, leaf, flower and shell. 
The reasoning by 
which Socrates, in Xenophon's hearing, confuted 
the little atheist Aristodemus, is exactly the 
reasoning of Paley's " Natural Theology." 
So-
crates makes precisely the same use of Zeuzis, 
which Paley makes of the watch. 
As to the, 
other great question—the question, what becomes 
of man after death—we do not see that a highly 
educated European, left to his unassisted reason, 
is more likely to be in the right than a Black-
foot Indian. 
Not a single one of the many sci-
ences in which we surpass the Blackioot Indian, 
throws the smallest light on the state of the soul 
atter the animal life is extinct. 
In truth, all 
the philosophers, ancient and modern, who have 
attempted, without the help of revelation, to 
prove the immortality of man, from Plato down 
to Franklin, appear to us to have failed deplora-
bly. 
Macauley. 
Baptized Infidelity. 
THE Devil rarely compasses a great deal of 
mischief among men of sense, when he introduces 
himself with " horns andhoofs. " 
The " cloven 
foot" when fully exposed, is generally speaking, 
a sufficient token of Satanic presence, to put 
most people a little on their guard. 
It is when 
the Prince of evil assumes the form of an " An-
gel of Light" 
that he succeeds best, in deceiv-
ing those whom he would destroy.' 
When the 
Cloak of Religion is put on to cover the ugly 
deformities of bald infidelity, we have most to 
fear. 
Such men as Voltaire, Paine, and Knee-
land are heeded only as an oflensive wind. 
They 
make little or no impression, for the reason that 
such men are honest enough, to tell the world 
that they are infidels, and so the world are ad-
vertised to look out for them and their teachings, 
and treat them accordingly. 
But when infidels 
turn preachers, and profess to be Christian min-
isters, and pretend to preach the Gospel, it is 
then that they are in the way of doing infinite 
mischief. 
We have frequently called attention 
to the infidel sentiments which Theodore Parker, 
of this city, puts forth from time to time, under 
color of preaching the Gospel, as a minister of 
Christ. 
It may be that some persons who are not 
fully aware of this man's sentiments, and the in-
jury which they are doing in the world, are in-
clined to the opinion, that he has been over se-
verely dealt with by those who ought to look 
upon him and his doctrines,*with the eye and 
heart of a large charity. 
The best arguments 
wherewith to convince such people of their error 
are the facts, as they come forth, from time to 
time, in the wild declamations of this gifted but 
most misguided man. 
The last infidel sentiment which we have met 
with as coming from this*preacher of death, is 
the following shameless piece of blasphemy. 
In speaking of the Protestant churches, in his 
Anti-Nebraska sermon, he says:—"The fore-
most sect of them all debated, a little while ago, 
whether it should have a litany,' and on what 
terms it should admityoungmen to the commnnion 
table—allow them to drink" grocers' 
wine,"and 
eat " bakers' bread " on the Lord's " day " inthe 
Lord's " house." 
Did the blistered lips of the vilest infidel ever 
distil a more deliberate sentence of sarcastic con-
tempt of the most solemn ordinance instituted by 
the Lord Jesus Christ ? 
A man who can utter 
such a sentence, and pretend to be' a preacher of 
the gospel, may well lay claim to the distinction 
of a degree of godless boldness, which would 
put a whole regiment of French infidels, to the 
blustl. 
Witness and Advocate. 
"There Remaineth a Rest for the 
People of God.—Heb. 4:6-
WE may notice that there is one word here 
which conveys an idea of the character of those 
who enter into this rest. 
It is the word translated 
" rest." 
It is said that there remaineth a 
" Sabbatismos " for the people of God; literally 
translated, "a S.bbath keeping;" as if there 
were something so holy, beautiful and sweet 
in the earthly Sabbath, that a Christian by 
the enjoyment of his Sabbaths upon earth, an-
ticipates and covets as his dearest joy, an ever-
lasting Sabbath when time shall be no more. 
And it is very much by what you feel of pleas-
ure in the Sabbath now, that you may estimate 
your fitness for the everlasting Sabbath. 
The 
man to whom the Sabbaths upon earth have no 
beauty, to whose ear the chimes of Sabbath bells 
have no music, and to whose heart the exercises 
of the Sabbath sanctuary comes home with no 
stirring eloquence and influential force, gives 
but poor evidence that he is ripening for that 
everlasting " Sabbath*keeping " that remaineth 
for the people of God.". The Sabbath upon 
earth is a fragment of heaven set like a gem in 
the brow of this world ; it is, as it were, an isl-
land struck off from the continent of eternity, 
cast down into the roaring torrents of human 
life, standing upon which we can see the sun-
shine of the better land, hear the chimes of its 
jubilee, and by our experience of the sweetness 
of our Sabbath here, rejoice that there will one 
day be a Sabbath which shall never be disturbed 
by the sound of the railway whistle, or dark-
ened by the cloud of the manufactory smoke; 
or disturbed by our sins, or clouded by our pre-
judices, or interrupted by our infirmities; where 
necessity and mercy, which are now just pleas 
upon earth, shall be no pleas, because not needed 
at all, forever. 
Reader, do you enjoy the Sabbath—not as a 
penance, but as a festival—after the weary week 
is done? 
Are you thankful for the Sabbath 
light ? Is it to .you the brightest day of the 
seven, the day that you most enjoy—which you 
would not give up for all the days of the week 
besides ? 
Dr. Cummings' " Voices of the Night." 
. 
The Plain Truth. 
THE New York Times, in discoursing upon the 
late Schuyler robbery, tells the plain truth in 
the following extract we make from the columns: 
" Talk of the moralities of the false issue of 
stock, and the hosts of other fraudulent transac-
tions ! 
Talk of railroad manias and the many 
reckless pursuits of speculative life ! 
The evil 
is not with them. 
It is not in Wall street. 
It 
is not in Bonds and Brokers. 
Look to your 
splendid avenues—your palaces named hotels— 
your five thousand dollar parties—your silks and 
wines—your whole system of modern American 
show. 
There you have the root of this consum-
ing cancer—there, and there only, are the flesh 
and blood that feed its spreading poison.—What 
is the use of wasting words on our system of busi-
ness—on excessive credit—on fictitious negotia-
tions, so long as vain and silly wives are urging 
on their vainer and sillier husbands to this all-
devouring ruin! 
The cure is needed at home 
and until our domestic vices are reformed, we 
are whistling down the wind in every effort made 
to rectify the monstrous error. 
A great part of 
this tremendous evil is due to our women. 
It is 
hard to think it—harder to write it—but never-
theless it is plain, honest truth. 
They are the 
money maelstroms—they and their silks, wines, 
carpets, hangings and equipage—and in them 
are swallowed up the millions that are reported 
in our financial disaster. 
Psalms for their souls 
—liturgies of sorrow—requiems of death—any 
thing in the way of thunder and lightning would 
be, justnow, the next thingto aGospel,ifit could 
arouse our women to arrest the enormous drafts 
they are making on the exchequer of the world." 
THE whole frame of the body and soul bears 
the impress of the infinite power and wisdom of 
the Creator. 
A body framed with an admirable 
architecture; a soul endued with understanding, 
with judgment, memory, imagination. 
Man is 
the epitome of the world, contains in himself 
the substance of all natures, and the fulness of 
the whole universe; not only a regard of the 
universality of his knowledge, whereby he com 
prehends the reasons of many things; but as all 
the perfections of the several natures of the world 
are gathered and united in man, for the perfec-
tion of his own in a smaller volume. 
In his soul 
he partakes of heaven, in his body of the earth. 
We need not cast our eyes any farther than our-
selves, to behold a God. 
He shines in the ca-
pacity of our souls, and the vigor of our mem-
bers. 
We must fly from ourselves, and be strip 
ped of our 'own humanity, before we can put off 
the notion of a Deity. 
Chamock. 
An Irish Riot. 
THE First Annual Parade of the American 
Protestant Association Lodges in the State of 
New-Jersey, mostly composed of Irishmen, took 
place in Newark on Tuesday, and was in honor 
of the first session of the American Congress. 
Lodges from New York and Brooklyn united in 
the demonstration. 
The procession was long 
and imposing, having numerous bands, Danners 
and flags interspersed. 
The badges of the mem-
bers are a red scarf, with silver stars emblemati-
cal of our Union, eagles, rosettes, &c. 
The 
banners were large and handsome and were dec-
orated with patriotic insignia and the devices of 
the Association. 
The procession was composed 
probably of 2,000 persons, four abreast. 
After 
finishing the line of march they proceeded to 
Military Hall for a collation. 
Previous to 3 
o'clock in the afternoon, the Association had 
dinner at Military Hall in Market-st., after 
which they again formed in line to finish their 
parade. 
Their route lay through the western 
portion of the city. 
While passing through 
William-stM near High-st,, in the immediate vi-
cinity of the Roman Catholic Church, a neigh-
borhood thickly populated with Irish, a collision 
occurred between the residents there and those 
in' the procession, which led to serious conse-
quences. 
We ascertained from several sources 
that as the last part of the procession was pass-
ing the church, 
shots were discharged, and 
stones were thrown from the windows. 
One of 
the shots passed through the banner of Henry 
Clay Lodge No. 10 of New-York, and one of 
the stones struck a man in the procession. Some 
of the Protestants, feeling enraged at the outrage 
committed upon them, left the ranks of the pro-
cession and made an onslaught upon the church. 
A party of about thirty first broke into the 
church, and it is asserted that they found a Cath-
olic priest and about twenty Irishmen in the 
building. 
The priest and some of his party got 
out of the church immediately by a back way, 
and ran off. 
The Protestants proceeded to sack 
the church. 
They destroyed the organ, demol-
ished the altar and seats of the church, broke 
out the windows, and otherwise injured the 
building, to the amount of $500 to $800. 
A 
crowd entered a few minutes afterward, and 
when they had finished the work of destruction, 
the building was completely riddled, and pre-
sented a most desolate appearance. 
A large 
number of pistol-shots were fired in the church 
against the walls and ceiling by the Protestants. 
One Catholic Irishman named Thomas McCar-
thy was shot outside the church immediately af-
ter the commencement of the affray. 
He re-
ceived two balls in the lower part of his abdo-
men, out of about twenty shots said to have been 
fired at him. 
He died at 10 on Tuesday night. 
Another Catholic who had knocked down one of 
the Protestants that entered the church, was in 
turn knocked down and jumped upon, and some 
person drew a knife, the blade of which was 
eight inches in length and struck him, as if in-
tending to " pin him " to the floor. The knife 
cut the prostrate man badly in the neck. 
Others 
were seriously wounded, but how many were in-
jured, or how much they were hurt, could not be 
learned. 
N. y. Tnbuue. 
Annexation of the Sandwich Isl-
ands. 
LATE news from California, reports that the 
American Commissioner has concluded a treaty 
for the annexation of the Sandwich Islands to 
the United States, and that the treaty is coming 
forward in the mail steamer, via. Panama. 
No 
details are given, but it is known that all the 
King's Council were strongly in favor of annex-
ation, and the king was one of the most active 
promoters of the treaty. 
The mining news from California was never 
more favorable than at present. 
The editor of a San Francisco paper, in re-
ferring to the treaty with the government of the 
Sandwich Islands, says that nothing has trans-
pired relative to the terms of the cessions but 
the treaty is forwarded to Washington to-day by 
the steamer; and enough is known to establish 
the fact that the terms are advantageous in the 
extreme, and there is no doubt they will be 
readily accepted by the general government. 
All the members of the Hawaiian Privy Coun-
cil, except two, are in favor of annexation, and 
the old King himself, fanxious to be divested of 
the cares of unsubstantial royalty, is one of the 
chief promoters of the measure. 
The heir ap-
parent, however, is very unwilling to see the 
sceptre pass from his illustrious house, and by 
no means relishes the idea of being reduced to 
the level of a plain American citizen. 
An active trade is springing up between San ' 
Francisco and the Sandwich Islands and the 
splendid' new steamer Polynesia now plies regu-
larly between San Francisco and Honolulu. 
The advantages to be derived from annexation 
are too obvious to need comment. 
Advices from 
Washington will be anxiously looked for. 
Foreign News. 
NEW 
YORK, Sept. 
7. 
The British steamship 
Africa, Capt. Harrison, from Liverpool Aug.26, 
arrived at half past 7 o'clock this morning. 
Thenews, so far as relates to the war, is wholly 
unimportant. 
Almost the only incident of the 
least interest is the undoubted fact that the Aus-
trians have taken possession of Wallachia. 
The Africa 
left Liverpool at noon 26th ult. 
Steamship Indiana 
arrived at noon the 23d; 
the Alps on the forenoon of the 24th. 
Full particulars of the capture of Bomarsund 
have come to hand. 
No further operations have 
taken place either in the Baltic or Black Sea. 
On the 20th, the Austrian army of occupa-
tion entered Wallachia. 
The whole of Walla-
chia, and perhaps Moldavia, will be occupied. 
The 
Russians are still concentrated on the 
Pruth, and the Turks at Bucharest. 
No imme-
diate battle is expected. 
The expedition to the 
Crimea had not yet sailed. 
THE ADVENT 
HERALD. 
The Turks met With a terrible defeat at Kars, 
atld lost 2000 men as prisoners. 
®f)e Hkbmxt f)eral&. 
BOSTON, SEPTEMBER 16, 1854. 
THK readers of the HeraW are moat earnestly besought to give it 
room in their prayers ; that by meansof it God may be honored and 
his truth advanced ; also, that it may be conducted in faith and 
love, with sobriety of judgment and discernment of the truth, in 
nothing carried away into error, or hasty speech, or sharp, unbfoth-
erly disputation. 
THE PROPHECY OP ISAIAH. 
CHAPTER XLVIII. 
Hearken unto me, 0 Jacob and Israel my Called; 
I am he ; I am the first, I also ato the last. 
Mine hand also hath laid the foundation of the earth, 
And my right hand hath spanned the heavens : 
When I call unto them, they stand up together.—vs. 12,13. 
This is a solemn apostrophe to the Jews, exhorting 
them to recognize Jehovah as the only God. 
They 
are denominated " My called " in allusion to their 
being a chosen people; or, as William Lowth says, 
because of their descent from Abraham who was 
called out of an idolatrous country into the land 
which God gave to him. 
" Hand " and " right hand," are put by me-
tonymy for the power by which God created the 
heavens and earth ; and by a metaphor, the central 
parts of the earth are denominated its " founda-
tion." 
The declaration that the heavens, when 
called, stand up together, is also a metaphor, to 
illustrate that as servants respond to the call of 
their master, so the hosts of heaven present them-
selves in obedience to his word for the accomplish-
ment of bis purposes. 
All ye, assemble yourselves, and hear ; 
Which among them hath declared these things ? 
The Lord hath loved him : he will do his pleasure on Babylon, 
And his arm shall be on the Chaldeans. 
I, even I, have spoken; yea, I have called him : 
I have brought him, and he shall make his way prosperous. 
—vs 14,15. 
" Which among them," refers to the heathen 
deities, of which the enquiry is made whether any 
of them, or those who spoke in their name, had 
foretold any of these predicted results 1—the answer 
being implied that none of them had so done. 
God 
alone ha<l foreseen, and foretold this, and He only 
would accomplish it. 
" Him " whom the Lord hath loved, has evident 
reference to Cyrus, whom God had chosen as a fit 
instrument to punish Babylon and deliver Israel. 
God's " arm " is put by a metonymy for his power 
and his haying " called " and " brought" Cyrus,. 
&c., are substitutions for the arrangements of His 
providence by which Cyrus was caused to come 
against Babylon. 
Corae ye near unto me, hear ye this ; 
I have not spoken in secret from the beginning; 
From the time that it was, there am I; 
And now che Lord God, and his Spirit, hath sent me. 
-u. 16. 
The commencement of this text presents God as 
the speaker, who*reminds the Jews that he had not 
announced these things ambiguously, &c., after 
the manner of the heathen. 
(See Note on 45:19.) 
The- prophet then speaks in his own person, and 
announces himself as commissioned of Jehovah— 
which he presents as the reason why his revelations 
should be pondered by them,—which he proceeds 
to announce : 
God's earnest desire was for the obedience and 
consequent happiness of Israel. 
Thus we read in 
Deut. 32:29, 50, " 0 that they were wise, that 
they understood thisj that they would consider 
their latter end! 
How should one chase a thous-
and, and two put ten thousand to flight, except 
their Rock had sold them, and the Lord had shut 
them up." 
And in Psa. 81:13-16—" Oh, that my 
people had hearkened unto me, and Israel had 
walked in my ways. 
I should soon have subdued 
their enemies, and turned my hand against their 
adversaries. 
The haters of the Lord should have 
submitted themselves unto him ; but their time 
should have endured for ever. 
He should have fed 
them also with the finest of wheat; and with 
honey out of the rock should I have satisfied thee." 
By the use of the substitution, the act of listening, 
in verse 18, is put for conformity to God's teach-
ings ; and by similees, the exemption from all war 
and disquiet, and the prevalence of purity, love 
and holy living which would have resulted from 
obedience, are illustrated by the quiet flow of a 
fertilizing stream, and by the fulness with which 
the waters fill the bed of the sea. 
In v. 19, the descendants of Israel are by a meta-
phor denominated their " seed :" and by similees, 
the number to which the nation would have in-
creased had they conformed to God's requirements, 
is illustrated by the innumerable sands that line 
the sea shore, and by the particles of gravel which 
constitute its bed. 
Thus God said to Abraham, 
(Gen. 13:16) " I will make thy seed as the dust of 
the earth : so that if a man can number the dust 
of the earth, then shall thy seed be numbered." 
lb. 15:5—" And he brought him forth abroad, and 
said, Look now toward heaven, and tell the stars, 
if thou be able to number them : and he said unto 
him, So shall thy seed be." 
' His name," refers to that of the nation,—its 
being cut off, being a metaphor to illustrate their 
conquest at which they ceased to be numbered 
among the nations. 
Their obedience would have 
preserved their national existance to the end of 
time. 
Go ye forth of Babylon, flee ye from the Chaldeans, with a voice 
of singing 
Declare ye, tell this, utter it even to the end ot the earth ; 
Say ye, The Lord hath redeemed his servant J acob. 
And they thirsted not when he led them through the deserts : 
lie caused the waters to flow out of the rock for them ; 
He clave the rock also, and the watei s gushed out. 
—vs. 20, 21. 
The infliction of the threatened judgment on 
Babylon, was to be the signal to Israel for their 
restoration to Judea ; and hence the Divine in-
junction to flee from Babylon, which is repeated in 
52:11 ; in Jer. 50:8, and 51:6, 45 ; and in Zech. 
2:6,7. 
In like manner Christians are exhorted to 
come out from the defilements of the mystical 
Babylon, in Rev. 18:4. 
In accordance with this prediction, on the con-
quest of Babylon by Cyrus, the Jews there were 
restored to their own land. 
See Ezra 1:1, 
They were not only to return, but they were to do 
so with great rejoicings, which were characteristic 
of eastern nations. 
By a metaphor distant coun-
tries are denominated " the end of the earth "— 
the design being that all people should be informed 
of the deliverance which God had effected for his 
people from Babylon. 
By a reference to the manner in which their 
drink was furnished in the wilderness of Sinai 
(Ex. 17:16; Num. 20:10, and Psa. 105:41), their 
exemption from want when returning from Baby-
lon is assured them—the preperfcct being also used 
for the future tense. 
Thus saith the Lord, thy Redeemer, the Holy One of Israel; 
I am the Lord thy God which teacheth thee to profit, 
Whioh leadeth thee by the way that thou shouldest go. 
O lhat thott'hadst hearkened to my commandments : 
Then-had thy peace been as a river, 
And thy righteousness as the waves of the sea: 
Thy seed also had been as the sand, 
And- the offspring of thy bowels like the gravel thereof; 
His name-should not have been cut off nor destroyed from before 
me,—vs. 17-19. 
To- teach to profit, is to teach for ones best good 
—God^ alone being able to determine what is for 
the best good of his children, and all his require 
merrts being, adapted to their greatest happiness 
if complied with. 
His leading them in the way 
in which they should go, is put by substitution lor 
the arrangements of God's providence by which 
he showed them that their individual happiness 
was dependant on their compliance with the in-
structions which he had communicated for the 
regulation of their conduct. 
When the Psalmist 
said, 22:7, " Thou art my hiding place ; thou 
shaft preserve me from trouble ; thou shalt com-
pass i»e about with songs of deliverance;" the 
response was, (,vs. 8, 9) " I will instruct thee and 
teach thee in the way which thou shalt go : I wilt 
guide thee with mine eye. 
Be not as the horse, 
or as the mule, which have no understanding : 
whose mouth must be held in with bit and bri-
There is no peace, saith the Lord, unto the wicked.—v. 22. 
As their deliverence from Babylon was to be 
consequent on their obedience, so their complience 
with God's wishes is further secured by reminding 
them of the consequences of persisting in their re-
belion. 
T1 e truth here uttered is one of serious 
and awful import, and should be often pondered : 
for, (Isa.57:20) " The wicked are like the troubled 
sea, when it cannot rest, whose waters cast up 
mire and dirt." 
Rev. 14:11—" And the smoke of 
their torment ascendeth up for ever and ever : and 
they have no rest day nor night, who worship the 
beast and his image, and whosoever receiveth the 
mark of his name." 
SPIRITUAL GIFTS. 
MOSES had again expressed his doubts of succes 
by alleging his conscious deficiency of eloquence 
or the power of utterence ; and therefore that he 
was not fit to go in to Pharaoh, and try to persuade 
him to'let the people go. 
God replies to that ob-
jection in his own majestic and impressive terms, 
which we may thus paraphrase: 
"The Lord said 
unto Moses, this is the answer to all your difficul-
ties ; this is- to be your encouragement; I have 
made thee to-be a god to Pharaoh ; and Aaron thy 
brother shall be thy prophet." 
In the Hebrew 
Scriptures, magistrates, as representing a portion 
of the jurisdiction of God, are called gods. 
The 
expression was very commonly applied to those 
who were possessed of dignity or official power," ye 
are gods ; " and in this sense Moses is said to have 
been made a god unto Pharaoh ; and Aaron his 
brother was to be his prophet. 
You are already 
aware of the reason of this distinction between the 
two brethren. 
Moses complained that he had no 
power of eloquence, or was, uncircumcised of lip ; 
and God's reply to that was, " You, Moses, shall 
be the oracle or depository of truth ; and Aaron, 
who has the gift of eloquence, shall unfold and ex-
press it." 
God did not alter their constitutional 
characteristics ; but he made use of their existing 
constitutional peculiarities to do his great work. 
So still, when God employs men to execute his 
purposes, he does not recreate them, but he sancti-
fies them, he uses them as they are. 
Anybody 
reading the New Testament, will see that each 
writer has a style of his own ; so much so, that if 
you were to read a few verses from one or the oth-
er of the writers, I should be able to say whether 
they were written by Matthew,or Mark, or Paul, or 
Peter. 
God did not destroy the idiosyncracies of 
the sacred penmen, but he retained their variety 
of style, and consecrated that variety to be the 
more eloquent vehicle of important and precious 
truth. 
So, when God sent Moses and Aaron to do 
his work in Egypt, he did not make Moses eloquent, 
which he was not, nor did he make Aaron learned, 
which he was not; but he made Aaron, the elo-
quent man, draw upon the stores of Moses, the 
learned man, and thus each did efficiently and 
naturally the work that God had assigned them. 
So, at the era of the Reformation, Luthers's elo-
quence and energy would have been extremely de-
fective, if he could not have fallen back upon the 
rich atores of Melanchthon's learning. 
So in the 
Acts of the Apostles, the energy and boldness of 
Peter were shown in his speaking ; and the love, 
patience, perseverance, and piety of John, were 
shown in his keeping silence. 
God thus takes dif-
ferent men of different constitutional peculiarities 
for different purposes. 
'" Now there are diversities of gifts, but the 
same Spirit 
For to one is given by the 
Spirit the word of wisdom ; to another the word of 
knowledge by the same bpirit ; to another faith by 
the same Spirit ; to another the gifts of healing by 
the same Spirit; to another the working of mira-
cles ; to another prophecy ; to another discerning 
of spirits; to another divers kinds of tongues ; to 
another the interpretation of tongues; but all 
these worketh that one and the self-same Spirit, di-
viding to every man severally as he will." 
God instructs Moses and Aaron as to what they 
should do ; but he adds, " I will harden Pharaoh's 
heart." 
I explained to you, on a former occasion, 
that God is often said in Scripture to do things di-
rectly, when the context shows that he did them 
indirectly. 
To be the occasion of a thing, is totally 
distinct from being the cause of the thing. 
I build 
an hospital for the cure of the sick; but in the 
course of its erection, a scaffolding gives way, and 
a workman is killed. 
The hospital was not the 
cause, but the occasion of that death. 
Jesus came 
into the world, not to send peace, but a sword. 
He came directly to send peace; but he came in 
directly and incidentally to send war. 
The Gos-
pel is not the cause of the war, but the occasion of 
it. 
And so, when God said, " I will harden Pha-
raoh's heart," it implied, " I will show such signs, 
and bring to his conscience such motives, that if 
he is not moved, melted, and subdued, the reac-
tion of that influence will end in his being hardened 
more and more." 
Another evidence of this would 
be the fact, that, in some passages it is said that 
Pharaoli hardened his own heart; and in the 14th 
verse of this chapter, where our translation unfor-
tunately is wrong, we are told that " the Lord said 
unto Moses, Pharaoh's 
heart is hardened; " it 
should be translated, " is heavy ; " and in the 22d 
verse again it is said, " Pharaoh's heart was hard-
ened, neither did he hearken unto them." 
The 
13th verse should be rendered the same as this. 
You see a great variety of phrases employed, but 
all imply that the influences that were employed by 
God hardened Pharaoh's heart, and not that God 
did it directly. 
Nothing can be so absurd as to 
say that God showed to Pharaoh reasons of repent-
ance, which he prevented him by physical power 
from accepting. 
That is not, and cannot be the 
meaning. 
It means simply that God was the inci-
diental occasion of hardening a heart which would 
not yield to forces, motives, and reasons, adequate 
in themselves to melt and subdue it. 
But God says, " While you shall not succeed in 
touching Pharaoh's heart, my word shall not re-
turn unto me void; for the Egyptians shall know 
that I am the Lord." 
The message was sent to, 
the monarch : it failed in producing its legitimate 
influence upon him ; but the residue of that influ-
ence reached the people, and muny of the Egyptians 
knew and learned fo? the first time that God was 
Jehofah. 
At this time, we are told, Moses was eighty 
years of age, and Aaron eighty-three. 
This was 
not old age. 
Moses lived, as I have said before, 
to be one hundred and twenty. 
He was, therefore, 
now just at the close of the meridian of life. 
1 
mentioned also before, that there ia na evidence in 
the Bible that man's life has been shortened sinee 
Moses' de&th ; and that, as far as we can gather 
fromDivine interposition, one hundred and twenty 
is the proper age of man. The 90th Psalm describes 
an abnormal state of life in the wilderness. 
There 
Moses himself complains that their life was short-
ened to threescore and ten, by ihe existing severity 
and pressure of their circumstances, not by the 
ordinance of God. 
And it remains a problem, 
whether, if men were not less oppressed by anxious 
cares and thoughts, ambition, vain glory, and pride, 
and wrath, and malice, they would not live to a 
much greater age; and whether it be not true, 
that, in proportion aa Christianity gains in its 
sanctifying influence on the soul, the whole social 
and physical system will not be correspondingly 
elevated and ameliorated also. 
Pharaoh said," Show a miracle for you." 
Now 
that was not at all an 
unreasonable request. 
When a new revelation is made, you require, not 
simply that it shall be suitable and agreeable to your 
judgment, but that it shall be accompanied with 
such credentials as prove it to have come directly 
from God. 
A miracle has always been regarded 
as the evidence of a revelation from on high. 
It 
is not itself the revelation, but the evidence of it. 
The wax upon the deed, and the seal of one of the 
parties, is not the deed ; but it is the evidence that 
that deed is accepted and identiffed by the party 
whose seal is attached to it. 
The miracles in the 
New Testament were, if I may so speak, the pedes-
tals of great truths. 
The miracles which our 
Lord wrought were not mere freaks of omnipotence, 
but exhibitions of power and benevolence, made to 
attest that a certain doctrine or a certain message 
was from God. 
In the case of Moses and Aaron, 
every miracle that they wrought was, first, to 
prove to Pharaoh that they hiid a Divine commis-
sion to call Israel out of Egypt; and next, if they 
had not beneficence in them, they were all fitted to 
humble Egypt, by awakening them to a sense of 
the idolatry in which it indulged, and to prove to 
that nation, by overthrowing the ground and foun-
dation of their hopes, that they were worshipping 
only lying vanities. 
For 
instance, the second 
miracle recorded in this chapter—that of turning 
the river into blood—was not simply an exhibition 
of God's power to be a credential to Moses and 
Aaron, but it was also a punishment inflictedn pon 
the national deity of the Egyptians themselves. 
The Nile was their god. 
Its waters is recorded to 
have been the sweetest that ever was tasted ; and 
it is said that, in these'modern times, the Turks are 
so fond of it, that they are known to eat salt before-
hand, in order that they may enjoy this delicious 
water more. 
It was, no doubt, in the days of 
Pharaoh equally delicious ; and it is this fact that 
gives such emphasis to this expression, " The 
Egyptians shall loathe to drink of the waters of 
the river." 
But the first miracle recorded here is that of 
turning the rod into a serpent, or rather a crocodile 
—it is not nahash, but tannin,—and the Egyptian 
magicians doing so likewise. 
The question which 
will occur in the course of our subsequent reading 
of Moses' doings in Egypt, is, Did the magicians 
really do supernatural things 1 This has been a 
great controversy in every age. 
Some passages 
seem to show that they really did supernatural 
deeds, and others seem to show that they only made 
the attempt to do them. 
I do not see any difficulty 
in supposing that they did supernatural deeds. 
Grant this, that the existence of Satan is a reality, 
that he is a fiend armed with an archangel's force' 
and capable of yielding an archangel's wisdom, and 
I cannot conceive ifcto be very difficult to believe 
that he may do upon the earth deeds that are su-
pernatural, as well as what all admit, succeed in 
touching the human mind at every point, and per-
suade it to deeds and thoughts that are sinful; 
I 
think it is even a greater miracle that Satan should 
be able, in spite of my will, to touch my mind 
and tempt it, than that he should be able to 
turn a rod into a serpent, or the serpent back 
again into the rod. 
I think the former is evidence 
of as great power as the latter any day. 
It is said 
that Aaron's rod became a serpent, and that the 
magicians, wise men, or sorcerers, for all these 
phrases are synonymous, " did in like manner 
with their enchantments." 
These enchantments 
were supposed to indicate connection with superior 
powers in the invisible world; and the statement 
here that their rods became serpents, but that the 
victory was gained by Aaron's rod swallowing up 
their rods, seems very literal and natural. 
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does rot lik3 to dilute and to describe deeds done, 
not attempted, and waste down the force of express 
Scripture statement into figures, unless there be 
very clear and satisfactory reasons for doing so 
But, then, the other miracle seems to tell in the 
opposite direction. 
Aaron's rod was stretched 
over the river, and it was turned into blood. 
What an awful spectacle it must have been to the 
Egyptians to see the illustrious Nile, whose wafers 
were the source of the fertility of their land, and 
whose deliciousness was to them so refreshing, 
and which they worshipped and adored as a god, 
turned into blood, and all its fish die ! If they 
drank, they died of poison; if they drank 
not, 
they died of thirst. 
The milder exhibition did not 
melt the heart of Pharaoh. 
God has recourse to a 
severer. 
I do not think that those rationalistic 
commentators are to be followed, who say that the 
river merely assumed the appearance of blood. 
The statement is express and distinct; and so many 
items are given of the resulting consequences of 
this change, that one canhot suppose that it was 
not literally turned into blood. 
We then read, that 44 the magicians of Egypt 
did so with their enchantments." 
Now here it 
seems as if they had not power to do these mira-
cles ; because if all the water was turned 
into 
blood, what water was there left for the magicians 
to act upon ? 
What could they do that could at 
all correspond with the stupendous feat that Mo-
ses and Aron had just preformed ? 
This last would 
seem, therefore, to have been an attempt on their 
part in which they failed ; and this might lead 
one to suppose that their other supposed miracle 
might have been merely attempts that beguiled 
and deceived the few that were ready to be deceived 
but not really and truly miracles. 
How interesting is the contrast to all this that 
is presented in the Gospels ! 
The Levitical econo-
my dawned in water turned into blood, in judg-
ment, in punishment. 
The Christian economy 
beautifully dawned in water turning into wine, and 
the very first miracle that Jesus wrought was at a 
marriage feast, as if he would go forth to sympa-
thise with nature's bright things before he went 
out to weep with them that wept; as if he would 
enter into life's sunny spots, in order to show that 
Christianity sweetens and sanctifies them ; before 
he went into life's darker and sadder ones, carry-
ing there those consolations that the world cannot 
give, and that the world cannot take away. 
Dr. Cumming on Exodus. 
NEW WORKS. 
READINGS ON EXODUS. 
" Sabbath Morning Read-
ings on the Old Testament. 
By the Rev. John 
Cumming, 
D.D., 
F.R.S.E., minister of the Scottish 
National Church. Crown Court, Covent Garden, 
London. 
Book of Exodus. Boston : Published by 
John P. Jewett & Co.; Cleveland, Ohio : Jewett, 
Proctor & Worthington ; New York: 
Sheldon, 
Lamport & Blakeman. 
1854." 
This volume is a very valuable one, and is of the 
same general character with that on Genesis. 
The 
following is its Preface, which presents a very fair 
statement of its aims and objects : 
" This Volume consists of expositions of the 
second book of the Pentateuch—the Book of Exo-
dus. It elucidates customs and explains difficulties, 
if not with learning, at least with simplicity and 
clearness. 
It goes over ground consecrated by stu-
pendous manifestations of the presence and glory 
of God, and records the sin and sufferings—the 
waywardness and unbelief— of a people more fa-
vored than any. 
" But it is not a dry statement of the past. 
It is full of practical and instructive applications 
to usj on whom the ends of the age have come. 
4 All these things,' says an apostle,4 happened un-
to them for ensamples, and they are written for 
our admonition.' 
" The Jew has in reserve for him a more majestic 
Exodus. 
We, the Gentiles, are now in our desert 
and accomplishing ours. 
May we reach the true 
Canaan, the heavenly rest—the New Jerusalem! 
" As in the Readings on Leviticus, which will 
follow this Volume, many very deeply interesting 
rites and ceremonies occur, replete with evangeli-
cal truth, for which I cannot find room, I propose, 
if spared, during 1854, to issue, for those who 
choose to have it, a small, cheap, occasional vol-
ume, to be called 4 A Companion to the Sabbath 
Morning Readings on the Old Testament,' which 
will contain special illustrations of important pas-
sages in Leviticus. 
14 May it.please God to make these Readings helps 
to us, to ' read, mark, learn, and inwardly digest' 
his own precious Word. 
, " LIFE 
OF JOHN 
CHRYSOSTOJI, based on the inves-
tigations of Neander, Bohringer, and* others. 
By 
Frederic M. Perthes. 
'Translated from the Ger-
man. 
By Alvah Hovey and David B. Ford. 
Bos-
ton : Published by John P. Jewett & Co.; Cleve-
land, Ohio : Jewett, Proctor, & Worthington ; 
New York : Sheldon, Lamport & Blakeman. 1854." 
Chrysostom, 
or 44 Gold-Mouth," was the name 
given to this man, by grateful Christians, because 
of the golden truths which he so eloquently ut-
tered. 
In a careful reading of this biography, we 
have been particularly 
charmed and edified. 
It 
has all the apparent novelty of a romance, while 
it possesses the merit of veritable history. 
It gives 
the reader an insight into the character of Chrys-
ostom and his times, which cannot be found in so 
small a compass in any other work. 
The following is the Preface : 
44 4 The following work,' in the words of its au-
thor, 4 is neither a romance nor a history in the 
form of a romance, but a "piece of biography" 
containing therefore, good and evil intermingled, 
as they were developed in the fourth and fifth cen-
turies of the Christian church. 
To exhibit truth 
and facts, irrespective of the pleasure 
or pain 
they might produce, was the design of the narra-
tor ' 
" The translators believe this work to be adapted 
in character and style to the general reader no less 
than to the professional scholar, and are confident 
that the subject itself, and the happy treatment of 
it by Perthes, will render this volume an acceptable 
offering to the reading public. 
While its pages 
are eminently truthful and instructive, they also, 
breathe a catholic spirit, and contain nothing at 
which any Christian may justly be offended. 
41 In translating it has been our aim to give the 
sense ofthe original in plain, intelligible English. 
A few passages, mostly containing local references, 
have been omitted. 
An occasional note has also 
been inserted, and a closing chapter, drawn from 
Paniel's History of Christian Eloquence, has been 
added to the original work. 
44 This book is now sent forth to the'public, with 
the hope that it may serve to awaken a fresh in-
terest in the early history of the Christian church, 
and especially in the life and labors of one of its 
chiefest ornaments, well denominated by Neander, 
the Christian Hero. 
TRANSLATORS." 
44 ORGANIC CHRISTIANITY ; or, The Church of God, 
with its Officers and Government, and its Divisions 
and Variations, both in Ancient, Medieval and 
Modern Times. 
Embracing a thorough Exposition 
and Defence of Church Democracy. 
By Leicester 
A. Sawyer. 
Boston : Published by John P. Jew-
ett & Company ; Cleveland, Ohio : Jewett, Proc-
tor & Worthington ; New York : Sheldon, Lamport 
& Blakeman. 
1854." 
This is a valuable contribution to ecclesiasticle 
literature, inasmuch as it furnishes an excellent 
analysis and classification of the different forms of 
church polity or government, and creeds which 
have prevailed in the church, and the history of 
their rise from the earliest times. 
We know not 
where can be found so condensed and yet extensive 
view of the subject elsewhere, as in this volume. 
We have read the volume very carefully, and so 
far as it is historically presented we find nothing 
to dissent from; and we regard it as a valuable 
compendium of historical research. 
There are, however, two points from which we 
very decidedly dissent. 
First, The author sup-
poses that the church, is the predicted kingdom of 
God ; and, Second, That by a presentation of truth 
the whole church will be led to adopt a common 
faith and polity, and as such occupy the whole 
earth. 
Had we time, it would be easy to show the 
fallacy of both these positions. 
We will notice 
only the first. Mr. Sawyer, says : 
44 Its more common title was the kingdom ofthe 
heavens and the kingdom of God. 
Matt. 
3:2— 
The kingdom of the heavens is at hand.' 
4:23 ; 
6:10.—' Thy kingdom come.' 
13:11.—4 To you 
it is given to know the mysteries of the kingdom of 
the heavens.' 
Verses 24, 31, 33, 44, 47, 52; 
Luke 19:11; John 18:36.—' My kingdom is not of 
this world. 
If my kingdom was of this world, my 
servants would have fought for me. that I should 
not have been given to the Jews.' 
Luke 17:20, 
21.—' Being asked by the Pharisees when 
the 
kingdom of God should come, he answered them, 
and said, The kingdom of God cometh not with ob-
servation ' (that is, with imposing array,) 4 nei-
ther shall they say Behold it is here, or behold it 
is there. 
For behold the kingdom of God is among 
you.' 
44 The doctrine of the kingdom of the heavens 
and tho kingdom of God on earth seems to have 
been taken from Dan. 7:18.—>' But the saints of 
the Most High shall take the kingdom, and possess 
it forever, even for ever and ever.' 
Verse 27.— 
4 And the kingdom and dominion, and greatness 
of the kingdom under the whole heaven, shall be 
given to the people of the saints of the Most High, 
whose kingdom is an everlasting kingdom, and all 
dominions shall serve and obey him.'—Micah 4 ; 
Isa. 11:52, 53; Ps. 2:110. 
' 
44 This amazing kingdom of God and glory was 
organized by Christ, under the title of the kingdom 
of the heavens and of God. 
It continued to be 
preached and extended under these titles after the 
pentecostal outpouring of the Holy Spirit (Acts 
19:8: Col. 1:13,) when they gradually fell into 
disuse, and were supplanted by the less imposing 
title of the Christian church. 
The above is in con-
formity with Bretschneider, Rosenmu)ler, Robin-
son, and the English and German interpreters gen 
erally. 
The Second Adventists contend for the re-
striction of this title to the church in its more per-
fect development, yet to be attained." 
To show the absurdity of this, it is only neces 
sary to substitute the word church for kingdom, 
wherever the latter occurs in the Bible, which 
would be proper if both signify the same thing. 
Matt. 3:2, 44 The church of the heavens is at 
hand." Matt. 6:24. 
44 Thy church come." 
What 
a prayer that would be for the church which is al-
ready here to keep offering to the end of time 
Some have seen the absurdity of this ; and so they 
take out of the Lard's prayer a word which he 
placed there and substitute one of their own,— 
praying for the advancement of the kingdom. 
John 
18:36. 
44 My church is not of this world." 
Dan 
7.18. 
44 The saints " that is 44 the church, ofthe 
Most High shall take the church and possess it for-
ever," v. 27 . 
44 And the church and dominion, 
and greatness ofthe church under the whole heaven 
shall be given to the people of the saints,"—i. e., 
it shall be given to the church 44 of the Most High, 
whose church is an everlasting church, and all do-
minions shall serve and obey him." 
John 3:3. 
44 Except a man be born again, he cannot see the 
church." 
1 Cor. 15:50. 
4• Flesh and blood can-
not inherit the church." 
Luke 19:11,12. 
Christ 
spake a parable 44 because they thought the church 
should immediately appear." Luke 12:32. 
44Fear 
not, little flock," i. e., little church ; for it is your 
father's good pleasure to give you the church." 
Luke 18:38. 
44 There shall 
be weeping," &c., 
44 when ye shall see Abraham and Isaac and Jacob 
and all the prophets in the church of God, and you 
yourselves thrust out." 
2 Tim. 4.1. 
44 Who shall 
judge the quick and the dead at his appearing and 
church." 
These show the absurdity of calling the church 
the kingdom of God ; and if so, no future perfec-
tion of the faith and polity of the church can be 
the promised kingdom prepared for the saints from 
the foundation of the world.—See Matt. 25th,— 
which sets aside the second point referred to. 
SPIRIT-RAPISM, alias PAGANISM. 
To define the terms at the head of this article, we 
mean by 44 Spirit-rapism " the religious belief of 
those who profess to receive revelations from de-
parted spirits, accompained by audible 
sounds, 
moving of furniture &c., which is called by its ad-
vocates, Spiritualism. 
As this last term, does not 
specify anything that is peculiar to that form of 
religious belief, we adopt as more expressive that 
at the head of this article. 
Nor by ''Paganism " 
do we mean any thing contemptuous, or different 
from the refined mythology of intellectual Greece 
and Rome. 
We do not propose to go into any labored com-
parison of these two systems at the present time; 
but simply to express our convictions, from all we 
have been able to learn of them, that the two are 
essentially identical—both in the objects of their 
worship, and the tenets of their faith. 
In the early history of the Church, Paganism 
was the great antagonism of Christianity, as Infi-
delity has been of later years; but now, strange 
as it may seem, that which Christianity met and 
defeated, is being propagated as Christianity by 
multitudes of its advocates. 
And those whohav e 
become convinced of the doctrine of a future state, 
by the phenomena of spirit-rapism, have been pro-
claimed as converts to Christianity by it—such a 
result being hailed as evidence of its divine origin. 
A belief in a future state, is however no pecu-
liarity of Christianity,—it being alike believed by 
Christians and Pagans. 
The Egyptians represented the soul as brought, 
after death, into the presence of its judge, attended 
by accusing and approving spirits. 
The Greek my-
thology, which was likewise adopted by,their imi-
tators in everything, the Romans, carried the soul 
across the river Styx, in the boat of Charon, to the 
bar of three righteous judges, under whose award 
it passed to an appropriate abode, according to its 
works on earth,—those 
44 Who suffered wounds 
In fighting for their country's cause ; and priests 
Who kept their souls unspotted whilst their lives 
Endured ; and pious bards who warbled strains 
In honor to Apollo ; those who polished 
Life by invented arts ; and such as made 
Their memories dear to others by the deeds 
Of goodness," 
were admitted to 
44 The realms of joy, 
Delightful haunts of never-fading green, 
The blessed seats in groves of happiness, 
Where ether more diflusive, robes the fields 
In purple glory." 
Here they gave them selves up to the more ra-
tional pleasures of our nature, following at tho 
same time, such paths to happiness, and such oc-. 
cupations, as had been dear to them in life. 
But 
the wicked were cast down into hell,—a place in-
habited by care sorrow, disease, want, fear, hun-
ger, toil, &c., and in which 
44 An hundred tongues, 
An hundred mouths, and speech by iron lungs 
Inspired, could not enumerate the names 
Of all their punishments." 
The Scandinavians taught that the brave were 
to revel forever in the halls of Valhalla, and drink 
mead offered them by maidens, from the skulls of 
their enemies. 
Some of the Pagan Arabs said, 
ths>t of the blood near the brain a bird was formed, 
which once in a century visited the sepulchre, 
and others believed a resurrection. 
The first na-
tives of this continent seen by the 
Spaniards, 
taught that the souls of good men went to a pleas-
ant valley, where all kinds of fruit were abundant; 
and that the dead walked abroad in the night, and 
feasted with the living. 
Charlevoix says, that the 
Indians paid a great regard to dreams, as embrac-
ing an intercourse with spirits. 
They imagined a 
paradise in the West, a land where nature glowed 
with an internal sunset.—The Mexicans supposed 
three places for the departed : the house of sun, 
for such as fell in battle, or died captives, 
and 
women who perished, in childhood ; the place of 
the god of water for the drowned, for children, 
and for those who died of dropsy, tumors, and sim-
ilar diseases, or of accidental wounds ; and the 
place of darkness, in the centre of the earth. 
The 
Patagonians, in mentioning the dead, call them 
those who are with God, and out of the world, 
The Tongo people suppose the souls of their dead 
to be in a delightful island of shadows. 
The Yu-
catanese represent the abode of the good as a pleas-
ant land of plenty, under the shade of a mighty 
tree. 
The Chickasawe believed that the souls of 
red men walked up and down near the place where 
they died, or were laid; and said they often heard 
cries and noises where prisoners had been burned. 
The Indians of Cumana supposed echo to be the 
voice of the departed. 
It is a common belief of the 
Indians of America, that the spirit of the slain 
haunted their tribe till they were avenged. 
To convince an infidel merely of a future exist-
ence, is to do very 
little 
towards 
making 
a 
Christian of him. 
Christianity is the way of sal-
vation effected by the death and resurrection of 
Christ, faith in him. 
Ministers Conference. 
AT an informal meeting of the Ministers present 
at the Conference of Churches, held at Salem, 
in August, it was the unanimous desire that the 
next 
Ministers 
meeting should be convened at 
Westboro', Mass. 
A note 
to that 
effect was 
promptly addressed to the Pastor of that Church, 
and by him the proposition was laid before its 
members, which received their hearty approval. 
Notice, is therefore given, that the next Confer-
ence of Ministers, will he held at 
Westboro', 
Mass., to commence Tuesday, Sept. 26, at half past 
10 o'clock, A.M. 
A punctual attendance of all its 
members is earnestly requested. 
J. 
PEARSON, 
JR., 
Secretary. 
THEY DON'T 
GIVE BACK 
THE CHANGE.—The Irish 
4help" of a neighbor of ours being called on by her 
priest, the girl applied to her mistress to change a 
dollar bill that she might give the priest a quarter 
Wards the Church. 
The mistress did not have the 
change for the bill, but told her to let the 
priest 
change it. 
44 And," said the girl,44 if I should give it to 
him, not a cint of change should I git back agfn." 
THE 
NEW-HAMPSHIRE 
CONFERENCE, which com 
menced Sept. 7th,and continued over the Sabbath, 
proved to be a most interesting and profitable meet-
ing. 
It was fully attended, and on the Sabbath, 
overflowing. 
Saints were refreshed, and sinners 
were converted. 
One was baptized as the fruit of 
the meeting. 
Many left under a deep and power-
ful conviction of the truth. 
CORRESPONDENTS will be patient; I will answer 
all letters and inquiries soon. 
TOUR in Pennsylvania, was one of great interest; 
notice next week. 
A SINGULAR FATAL ACCIDENT.—On Monday after-
noon, as a boy named Macey, and a son of the late 
Judge Barculo, were playing around the academy 
at Poughkeepsie, during recess, on turning a cor-
ner their heads came in collision with such violence 
as to rupture a blood vessel and cause the death 
of young Barculo. 
The other boy was seriously 
injured and taken home insensible! 
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CORRESPONDENCE. 
CORRESPONDENTS are alone responsible for the correctness of the 
views they present. Therefore articles not dissented from, will not 
necessarily be understood as endorsed by the publisher. In this de-
partment, articles are solicited on the general subject of the Advent, 
without regard to the particular view we take of any scripture, from 
the friends of the 
Herald. 
SECOND ANNUAL CONFERENCE OF THE 
MASSACHUSETTS CONFERENCE OF 
CHURCHES. 
THIS Conference convened in the Advent Chapel, 
Sewell-street, Salem, Mass., August 9th, 1854, at 
half past ten, A.M., the President, Elder J. V. 
Himes, in the Chair. 
Thirteen Churches were 
represented by their pastors and delegates as fol-
lows : Boston ; Elder J. V. Himes, Dea. P. Ho-
bert, Elder N. Billings ; North Abington : Elder 
C. Taylor, John 0. Gay ; Westboro' : Elder C. R 
Griggs, V. Streeter, Dea. E. Haskell; Worcester 
J. A. Trowbridge; Salem : Elder L. Osier, C 
Turner, C. Willey ; Lynn : Elder S. J. Roney; 
Lowell: Elder A. Sherwin, T. D. Bailey, M. M. 
George ; Haverhill: Elder H. Plummer, Brown ; 
Holden : Elder E. Crowell, A. Smith, T. Parker ; 
Lawrence : Brother Peter Parridee; Newburyport: 
Elder J. Pearson, jr., Dea. J. Pearson, J. 
H 
Dockham, L. D. Wheeler; Providence, R. I. : El-
der George Burnham, Dea. W. A. Munroe, A. P. 
C. Andrews ; Kingston, N. H.: Elder W. Burn-
ham, Dea. F. Gale, N. C. Brown. 
Elder 
Henry 
Plummer, of Haverhill, Mass., was chosen Presi-
dent for the ensuing year, and Elder J. Pearson, 
jr., and Charles Wood, were elected to the offices 
they filled the past year. 
Thursday, 
A.M. session.— The written reports 
were read to the Conference, as presented by the 
delegates of each church, in the following order : 
BOSTON 
CHURCH. 
To the Conference of Churches assembled at Salem, 
Mass.: 
— At a meeting of the 
Chardon-street 
church, of Boston, Mass., on August 16th, breth-
ren P. Hobert, N. Billings, and J. G. L. Himes, 
were appointed delegates to your body. 
A collec-
tion, amounting to five dollars, was taken up and 
placed in the hands of the Secretary of the church 
to be given in at your meeting, as the contribution 
of this church to the Missionary cause. 
The condition of our church is very similar to 
what it was when the last report was made. 
There 
has been, during the last year, neither increase nor 
dimunition in the number of bur members. 
The 
cause languishes for a number of reasons, among 
which the most important is the lack of pastoral 
labor, of which the church has been destitute for 
a considerable period. 
There is besides lack of 
numbers, and of interest. 
Still the few remain 
steadfast, and delight in the privileges, as well as 
in the duties of the service of the Lord's house ; 
and are determined by God's grace thus to do to 
the end. 
(Signed) 
JOHN G. L. 
HIMES 
Secretary of the church. 
Boston, August 1th, 1854. 
KINGSTON 
CHURCH. 
The.Advent church of Kingston, N. H., was 
organized in October 1852, with six members 
since then we have had accessions so that we num 
bered 17. 
Two of these have been disfellowshiped 
and one has died in the faith of the gospel. 
We 
hold meetings every Sabbath in the hall of the 
academy, with occasional preaching by good, sound 
stable minded preachers ; we have no fellowship 
for any others. 
Our sympathies are with the pub 
libber and editor of the Advent Herald. 
We have 
a Bible class in which all generally take a part 
and two prayer meetings a week. 
At a meeting of the Second Advent church of 
K., held to-day, Deacon Franklin Gale, of Newton 
and N. Cornelius Brown were unanimously chosen 
as delegates to attend the Massachusetts Confer 
ence of Churches, to be held in Salem, August 9th 
Oth, and 11th. 
N. BROWN, 
Clerk. 
Kingston, 
N. H., August 2d, 1854. 
SALEM 
CHURCH. 
The Church in this place, during the past year, 
have dismissed 7, erased 1, buried 1, and added 7 ; 
leaving the present number of members, 92. 
Our 
Sabbath school is still prospering, and exerting a 
salutary influence. 
As a Church we are enjoying 
peace and union; and we are looking to the Great 
Head of the Church, for the opening of a more 
effectual door of usefulness in this city, with con-
fidence that we shall not look in vain. 
Elder L. 
Osier, Elijah Turner, and Charles Willey, dele-
gates. 
CHARLES WILLEY, 
Clerk. 
August 9/A,*1854. 
LOWELL 
CHURCH. 
The Second Advent church in Lowell, to the 
Massachusetts Conference of Churches, to be con-
vened at Salem, August 9th,1854, sendeth Christian 
salutation. 
Beloved Brethren :—In the year which 
has 
passed since the last meeting of the Conference, 
we have enjoyed some manifestations of God's 
favor. 
Last winter we were blessed with a few 
hopeful conversions to Christ. 
Since that time, 
we have continued to enjoy our usual interest. 
Trials, which are the common lot of all true 
Christians, and especially of»those who are look-
ing for the immediate coming of our Lord, we 
have also experienced; but to the praise of God, 
we have been safely brought thus tar. 
Besides one social meeting on the Sabbath, we 
have two in the week * these have usually been of 
an interesting character, but at the present time, 
as is usual at this season of the year, there is not 
that interest manifested which is desirable. 
Our Sabbath school, though small, has been 
sustained. 
During the past year, six have been 
baptised, one excluded, dropped two, died one. 
Our whole number is forty-four. 
Market Hall, to the second Annual meeting of the 
Massachusetts Conference of Churches assembled 
in Salem, Mass. 
Dearly beloved Brethren 
'This church through 
their delegates beg leave to submit, this their an-
nual report. 
Since the last Conference this church 
has enjoyed a tolerable degree ot peace and prosper-
ity and there is union and co-operation with our 
well beloved and highly esteemed pastor. 
The time 
question has made some inroad upon our numbers, 
a few have withdrawn from us on account of hav-
ing embraced the " definite time," but not from 
any feeling of ailination towards the pastor par-
ticularly, other than the difference in respect to the 
time. 
Our present number of members is 86, 
there have been 19 added the past year, one removed 
by death, and ten dismissed at their own request. 
The average attendance in the Sabbath school of 
teachers and scholars is about 50. 
have more and sometimes less, 
bonds of Christian love and union. 
ANTHONY PIERCE, 
Clerk. 
Providence, 
R. I., August, 
1854. 
NORTH ABINGTON 
CHURCH. 
At the present time we are in a state of peace. 
We have been able, by the grace of God, to 
maintain our identity, and have continued to sus-
tain our regular meetings ; we have been favored 
with the labors of Elder Farrer and others which 
have been appreciated. 
We have purchased a 
convenient chapel, and number about fifty mem-
bers, our congregation is good, and there is some 
interest. 
The brethren seem determined to sustain 
the cause at all hazards : this is our settled and 
fixed principle. 
We have men and women that 
can be depended upon, and who will not be moved 
by every wind of doctrine that sweeps the land, 
We feel the need of such an association as this 
and feel to co-operate in its deliberations, and to 
advance its declared object. 
It has already exerted 
a salutary influence upon the church. 
We antici-
pate the pastoral care of Elder D. T. Taylor. 
We have the time preaching by the side of us, but 
We sometimesi it does not affect us, and only one w7ho attended 
Yours in the | our meeting have left on that account. 
We trust 
that whatever may be done by this Conference, 
will be for the glory of God, and the good of the 
cause. 
Our Sabbath school numbers about thirty. 
HAVERHILL CHURCH. 
Elder Plummer said, The delegates were brethren 
at present. 
Elder Pearson still continues to labor 
the advent doctrine, gospel order, decency and 
earnes% 
hoPin§ 
for 
better 
times 
with us as our pastor, and his labors are more 
than ever appreciated by us, and the community 
in which we live. 
We have enjoyed some seasons 
of prosperity, and have also experienced some 
trials the past year. 
Our numbers are about the 
same as at your last annual session. 
Six have 
been added to us and four dismissed and excommu- 
our trust has been in the " living and true God," 
couragement and prosperity. 
We are firm in the faith of the speedy return of 
DurinS the fore ?art of the 7ear 
Pas*ed thr°ugh 
Brown, Haskell, and Russell. 
We number about 
some severe trials, caused, for the most part, by 
the game ag kgt yeaj>) are united 
amQng 
ourgelve8 
the injudicious course of some-but, we are happy 
and love the cau8e 
of Chrigt 
The 
gabl)ath 
wQr. 
to say the cause is removed. 
We have lost one I,... 
congtantly 
maintained, and generally we 
member by death, three have been expelled, two L 
preaching. 
From 
thirty to forty 
are 
organ. 
dismissed, and one has been baptised and added to • J-^VJ 
i 
u 
.. „ 
v. 
' 
v 
lzed into a body, and about as many more who are 
the church. 
We number at the present time l
R 
Non(J among U8 believe the present specific 
thirty-five. 
We are still favored with the pastoral 
time theorj) and 
r 
feel 
thankful 
that 
u 
ifJ 8Q> 
fo]f 
labors ot brother Chase Taylor. 
Preaching twice 
• 
, .. 
4 
,, 
u 
• .. 
r ... 
e TI 
J 
° 
\it is not the truth ; we are happy in the faith of His 
on the Sabbath—attendance good. 
Our confer- 
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XV 
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6 
I speedy advent, and are waiting for the coming of 
ence meetings have been sustained though not as| the Lord Jegu8 Qhrjst 
fully attended as we could desire, owing to the 
scattering abroad of our brethren. 
We have a 
small Sabbath school, also a library. 
Though 
lacking in spiritual interest yet still we love Jesus 
and are looking for his appearing. 
Elder Chase 
Taylor, pastor, John 0. Gay, delegate. 
M. 
L. 
JACKSON, 
Clerk. 
our Master from heaven; and though we cannot 
fix upon any definite time in the future for his ap-
pearing, still we believe he is nigh at hand, and 
will soon come fo* the deliverance of his church, 
the glorification of his people, and the establish-
ment of his everlasting kingdom under the whole 
heaven. 
We have chosen as delegates, with our 
Pastor, 
brethren, T. D. Bailey, and M. M. George. 
WM. 
WATSON, 
Secretary. 
NEWBURYPORT 
CHURCH. 
To the Second Annual Meeting of the Massachu-
setts Conference of Advent Churches assembled in 
Salem. 
Dear Brethren:—By vote of the church after 
our communion service, August 6th, Dea. J. Pear-
son, sen., brethren J. H. Dockham and L. D. 
Wheeler were appointed delegates to meet with 
you in Conference the present week. 
We have no items of special interest to report 
LAWRENCE 
CHURCH. 
Bro. Peter 
Parridee 
being called upon 
said, 
About three months since, I returned from a short 
residence in Canada. 
Soon after, brother Farrer 
preached his farewell discourse; with the exception 
of three Sabbath's labor of Elder Bently, we have 
had no regular preaching since. 
Last 
Sabbath 
This church numbers about a dozen members! we had a Sood meetin^ 
We 
are few 
and 
alwa^ 
LYNN 
CHURCH. 
all healthy and " sound in the faith." 
They love 
peace. 
Have had preaching, and prayer-meetings 
and a Bible class weekly, until recently; we have 
suspended them until September when we expect 
to resume them again ; have no Sabbath school. 
Have had many trials and discouragements from 
foes without and from professed friends within, but 
have been few, but are steadfast in the faith, and 
We love God 
with all our hearts, and are looking for his Son 
from heaven. 
On motion of Elder Himes, Elders Plummer, 
Sherwin, and Pearson were appointed to consult 
with the Lawrence church, and see if some meas-
ures cannot be devised which will be for their en-
nicated during the year. 
We believe the 
truths 
we maintain were never viewed in a clearer light 
in this community. 
Our Sabbath school and Bible 
class is still continued, though not in so prosper-
ous a condition as at other times, but we hope it 
is exerting a good influence on the minds of the 
children. 
The number of volumes remain 
the 
same as last year. 
Our people are united heartily 
and though we are not at all interested in the time 
of our Saviour's coming, as specially advocated 
by some, yet we believe the Judge standeth before 
the door. 
May God give us grace to be steadfast 
and be always abounding -in the work of the Lord. 
In behalf of the church, 
HENRY 
LUNT, JR., Clerk 
Newburyport, 
August 8th, 1854. 
HOLDEN 
CHURCH. 
The Advent church in Holden to the Massacu-
setts delegated Conference, sendeth greeting. 
An invitation was here extended to the members 
of the other Churches in good standing, who may' 
be present, to take part in the deliberations of th» 
Conference. 
MANCHESTER 
CHURCH. 
Elder Morse said, In common with all others we 
have had our trials. 
Our prospect at times is en-
and consequently we have not been in despair 
Wish to be remembered in the prayers and sympa 
thies of God's people. 
S. J. RONEY, 
Pastor. 
Lynn, August, 
1854. 
There were verbal reports as follows : 
* 
WESTBORO' 
CHURCH. 
The pastor, Elder Griggs, said, Deacon Haskell,! couraging, and what few we have are faithful, and 
brother Streeter and myself were chosen as dele- are becoming more and more inrerested in the 
gates to this Conference. 
The reason we have no cause of Christ, and mean to continue to the end 
written report to present is, that our clerk resigned of the Christians race, 
his office, on the day the delegates were elected, 
. 
NASHUA 
CHURCH 
and no arrangement for the purpose could have 
Elder Thompson remarked, I fear that I cannot 
been conveniently made in season for this meeting. 
8ay anything that would be interesting to the Con-
Since the last annual Conference we have been ference. 
In Nashua the cause holds its own. 
We 
called to pass through some trials, still we have have some discouragements, but the saints are 
enjoyed some prosperity. 
Our union formed last i00king, waiting, longing, and praying for the 
October with those who had embraced specific kingdom to come. 
We number from 15 to 20, we 
time, and who were not in favor of church organi- Lre considerably scattered so that it is rather diffi-
Dear Brethren:—A year has passed since we met I zation did not prove quite as profitable as some 
cuit t0 meet, as we desire, in our social gatherings, 
in Conference, and now it becomes our duty to re- 
imagined that it would. 
When the coalition was Uye trust the time is near, when the cause in 
port by letter our doings conditions and prospects, 
effected I resigned my pastoral charge ; because I Nashua, and in all New Hampshire will be revived. 
Brother Crowell has been preaching for us one 
could not approve the policy adopted. 
Pledges jy[ay the prayers of this Conference be in our be-
year. 
Our public meetings have been well at- 
were given that their peculiar veiws connected half, that we may be kept unto the day when all 
tended and we trust good has been done. 
How 
with definite time, should not be made a test of 
the children of God shall be gathered from land 
much and to whom God only knows, and the day j fellowship, or Christianity ; and two persons were j and from 
ocean. 
added to the church committee to accommodate 
the timists. 
This arrangement 
continued 
till 
Fast day ; then they felt as if they could not sup-
port men who did not preach the " whole truth," 
and two distinct committees were chosen, and sep-
erate, and divided interests have since been main-
tained. 
Feeling that it was not a virtue to con 
tinue thus longer, we made them the proposition 
to take the place of worship, or leave it to us 
Amid all these internal preplexities, we have 
that cometh, alone will disclose. 
Owing to our I 
scattered condition we are not able to meet often 
in social meetings, so we are deprived of this 
means of grace; so that we know in reality but 
little about each other's spiritual interests. 
We 
have had but few trials for the past year, though 
not entirely free from them. 
In our church there 
has been no changes of any consequence. 
There 
has been no addition, no dismissals, no deaths, no 
exclusions, though some have moved out of town, | 
which affects us some, as our number is small. 
Our Sabbath school numbers some 20 or 30 chil-1 
dren besides adults. 
Wo purchased a. small libra-
ry at a cost of 20 dollars to begin upon. 
The state 
of religion is low among us and our future pros-
pects are not very flattering, but with the resolute 
few we mean to go through. 
KINGSTON CHURCn. 
Bro. Rowell said, A year ago last winter, Elder 
Himes visited us, which gave the cause an increase 
of interest. 
He was followed by Elder 
Bently, 
with good results. 
Afterwards a Conference was 
Jield there by those who are opposed to brother 
Himes and the Herald, which produced no salutary 
influence in the community. 
The spirit or action 
manifested by those believing the time are no bet-
. ter than exhibited by others. 
We have preaching 
been sustained, and ihave experienced the favor 
. 
, 
oeeassionlv 
and presence of the Saviour. 
Ten have been bap- 
0n motion of Elder Roney, Elders Osier, Himes 
tized, eleven have united with us-seven of whom | and peargon wefe chogen ft eommittee for 
the dis_ 
are heads of families. 
We number now thirty 
faithful and devoted members. 
Our Sabbath school i 
has nearly come to-naught owing to the frequent I 
absence of the superintendent, and other influences. 
bursement of the Conference funds, the following 
year. 
On motion of brother Andrews, 
Resolved, That the Treasurer make an annual re-
We send as delegates to act with you, for us, 
Our church voted unanimously to secure the labors pOTt 0f the condition of the funds. 
Elder E. Crowell and brother Amos Smith. 
August 8th, 1854. 
TIMOTHY PARKER, Clerk. 
PROVIDENCE 
CHURCH. 
The Second Advent church worshipping at New 
The following note and aecount from the Treas-
urer, brother Charles Wood, was received and 
of a pastor, which they have done. 
WORCESTER 
CHURCH. 
Bro. Trowbridge said, The clerk of our church [read; 
did not give me a written report, but I Mill give, 
Circumstances render it quite impossible for 
so for as I can its true condition. 
| me to attend the Conference at Salem. I am there-
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HERALD 
295 1 
fore compelled to send in my report, as Treasurer, 
by letter. 
I have charged myself as follows : 
Cash received Oct. 9, 1853, from the Providence 
Church, 
$30 00. 
Cash received July 31, 1854, from 
the Holden Church, 
3 45. 
Total, 
$33 45. 
All of which remain in my hands, and is re-
spectfully submitted. 
CHARLES WOOD, 
Treasurer. 
At the Conference the Secretary received contri-
butions for the fund as follows : 
From the Lowell Church, 
$4 00. 
" 
» 
Boston 
do., 
5 00. 
« 
" 
Westboro'' do., 
3 00. 
" 
" 
Haverhill 
do., 
4 00. 
Contributed by the Conference, 
16 77. 
Total, 
$32 77. 
Which was forwarded to the Treasurer, and 
acknowledged by the Treasurer in the Herald ot 
August 26. 
Thursday, 
A.M. session.—On motion of Elder 
Osier, seconded by Elder Crowell, 
Resolved, That we raise the sum of $300, to be 
placed at the disposal of the Committee, to be used 
according to their discretion, either in employing 
(a missionary to labor within the influence of this 
Conference, or in 
otherwise assisting 
indigent 
Churches, members of this association. 
Resolved, That we earnestly recommend, at least 
a quarterly collection to be forwarded to the Treas-
urer, by each Church, for this purpose. 
After some exceedingly interesting remarks in 
favor of the above resolutions, by brethren Himes, 
Osier,Crowell, Billings,George W. Burnham, Sher-
win, Dea. Pearson, and Heath, it was voted that 
the resolutions be laid upon the table for fur-
ther discussion at the next meeting. 
Friday, 
A.M. session.—The resolutions on the 
disposal of the funds for the object specified were 
again called up, and the time most profitably 
spent in favoring their object. 
There seemed to 
be a missionary spirit pervading the entire confer-
ence, which demonstrated that a deep, earnest, fer 
vent desire was cherished in the hearts of its mem-
bers, and needing only the favorable occasion to 
draw it forth. 
It was truly an encouraging and 
interesting season, and one not soon forgotten by 
those present. 
The spirit of Christ, and his apos-
tles was there, and the good effect of union, of sys-
tematic effort was apparent. 
On motion of Elder Osier, seconded by Elder Sher-
win, it was 
Resolved. That a minister be appointed to pre-
pare a discourse on the subject of missions to be 
delivered at the next annual meeting of the Con-
ference. 
On motion of Elder Osier, seconded by Elder 
Crowell, Elder Sherwin of Lowell, was appointed, 
Elder George W. Buinham,'of Providence as a sub-
stitute. 
•Friday, P.M. • ssion.—On motion of Elder Osltr, 
seconded by brother Heath, brethren Himes, Crow-
ell and Griggs were appointed Committee of ar-
rangements for the coming year. 
On motion, of Elder Osier, seconded by Deacon 
Pearson, 
Resolved, That the next annual Conference be 
held in the month of September. 
On motion of Elder Crowell, seconded by Elder 
Sherwin, 
Resolved, That the thanks of this Conference be 
expressed to the Church and society worshipping 
in this place, for their kind reception, and ample 
accommodations furnished to this Conforence. 
At the close of the afternoon services, the col-
lection before named, for the Conference fund, was 
taken up, and perhaps it will not be deemed amiss, 
in order to shojv the benevolent and 
Christian 
feeling which seemed to fill each heart, if we give 
the contents of a note cast into the contribution 
. box by a female, which reads thus : 
" I was very much gratified while listening to 
the Resolution drawn up and adopted by your 
Churches, with regard to the Missionary 
Cause. 
I 
will pledge myself to give four cents a week as long 
as I am able to work. 
I have always felt a deep 
interest in the cauoe of Missions, and have always 
given what I felt able to, or as much as I have felt 
to be my duty, through another source. 
I enclose 
one dollar and four cents for six months, and will 
pay every six motiths, to some one who will hand 
it to the Treasurer." 
No name signed. 
The Conference was well attended, the congre-
gation was good, the preachiug instructive, and 
we may say with truth, uncommonly interesting. 
• If time continues, we shall be anxious for another 
such a feast of good things. 
The general expres-
sion of the brethren, when parting, was, " We 
have had an excellent Conference." All was peace, 
union and brotherly love. 
ELDER HENRY PLUMMER, 
President. 
J. 
PEABSON, JR., 
Secretary. 
TOUR WEST. 
BY JOSUH LITCH. 
(Continued 
from 
No. 4.) 
TUESDAY, June 20th.—Yesterday came from Rock-
ford to Paia's Point, where we had an appointment 
for the evening in the Lutherean church. 
Found 
a goodly company gathered to hear the word. 
The season was refreshing. 
It is encouraging to 
see the disposition of the people in these short 
evenings, after the toils of the day, come three or 
four miles to attend an evening meeting. 
It mani-
fests an interest in the cause of the Redeemer, and 
his great salvation. 
TUESDAY, June 21th.—Our 
meetings at Genesee 
Grove, AVhiteside county, closed last night. 
We 
spent the night of Wednesday, 21st, at Dixon, a 
flourishing 
village on the Rock River ; and having 
obtained the use of the M. E. Church, lectured in 
the evening. 
Thursday night, commenced meet-
ings at Genesee Grove. 
Before our arrival the 
small pox had broken out in the neighborhood and 
the people were panic stricken. 
In their alarm, 
the report was circulated that the meeting would 
not be held; consequently many who had proposed 
attending were prevented. 
Hewever, the meeting 
went on, and Saturday and Sunday a good attend-
ance was secured. 
The result as far as we are 
able to learn was good. 
The truth took hold of 
many minds, and Christians were aroused and 
stirred up to put forth new efforts in the cause of 
their master. 
Members of different churches have 
heartily embraced the advent faith, and work to-
gether. 
June 29th.—Preached this afternoon at Wash-
ington Grove in the M. E. Church to an interested 
audience. 
There are a few also here who love the 
blessed hope, but no church. 
Those who have re-
ceived the advent faith belong to the Methodist 
and Christian churches. 
July 
2d, Sunday 
evening.—The 
session of the 
Northren Illinois Second Advent Conference closed 
this afternoon. 
It has been a meeting of deep in-
terest and we have reason to hope, of profit to the 
cause. 
Brethren from Ogle, De Calb, Whiteside 
and Winnebago counties were present. 
The re-
ports from the churches were generally of an en-
couraging character, and the brethren firm in the 
faith and deeply interested in the cause. 
The arrival of brother Janes, from Richford, Vt., 
during the session of the Conference,—the relation 
of his experience in reference to the work of the 
ministry, the manner in which God had thrust him 
out into the field, added new interest to the meet-
ing. 
May his labors be abundantly blest in Illi-
nois. 
Also the formation of a tract and missionary 
Society constitutes a new era in the history of the 
cause in the W est. 
Much good can be done there 
through the instrumentality of tract distribution. 
And it is high time we as a people, take this work 
in hand with greater fnergy. 
No people on earth 
ever had greater motives set before them to prompt 
to activity in these departments of religious enter-
prise than Adventiste. 
Why then should we be 
dilatory, and suffer others to out do us in the good 
work f 
That they have larger numbers and more 
wealth, should be DO excuse for us, from doing 
what we can. 
Why should there not be one peo-
ple whose whole business it is to do good, whose 
study in their business arrangements it shall be, 
to labor singly for God and devote all gains to him 
and his cause ? 
And if all Adventist would do 
thus, there is no bounds which could be set to the 
amount of good they might accomplish. 
And this 
is our reasonable service. 
In doing it, God would 
abundantly provide for us 
My labors are now closed in Northorn Illinois ; 
and I leave to-morrow for the West and South. 
On looking over this field and the labors of the 
past month, I feel grateful to God for the privi-
leges T have enjoyed of meeting and forming ac-
quaintance with so many of God's deaT children in 
this Western world. 
And I have been constrained 
to say " What hath God wrought V' 
The interest 
and attendance on the meetings has been far greater 
than my most sanguine expectations, considering 
the season of the year, and the calle of business in 
an agricultural region. 
The Lord hasa cause here 
which will live till Jesus comes. 
Our leading 
brethren feel that their work is missionary and are 
disposed to deny themselves of preaching, that the 
glad tidings may be carried to others. 
July 9th.—The meetings appointed for Hampton, 
Rock Island county, were held in the Methodist 
Protestant church, about seven miles from Hamp-
ton. 
We found brother Luther Edwards full of 
interest on the great subject of the coming reign 
of the Saviour, but standing quite solitary as to 
religious associations. 
Our meetings were not 
large, but were, we have reason to hope, Beasons 
of profit to those who did hear. 
Brother Chap-
man's labors, while in this section, were blest to 
the saving ol souls ; but the interest is now greatly 
abated. 
Yesterday for the first time came in sight 
of the Mississippi River, nearly opposite La Clair, 
some fourteen or fifteen miles above Rock Island 
City. 
Although at that point the river itself is 
not either very wide or deep, yet the associations 
connected with it, its vast extent, the great valley 
through which it flows, the mighty 
commerce 
carried on upon its waters, together with other 
associations, produced a profound sensation, as the 
great father of waters first hove in sight. 
A few 
years ago age and " The Upper Mississippi " was 
a waste wilderness, untraveled except by the hardy 
hunter, or the Red man of the forest. 
Now it is 
skirted with rising cities, towns and villages, to-
gether with all the concomitants of civilization. 
Forty-eight hours now suffice to pass from Boston, 
New York, Philadelphia, or Baltimore, to the 
banks of this mighty river. 
It is an interesting 
feature of this rapidly increasing country, that 
wherever a town is built, the first subjects which 
claim attention are, the -school-house and 
the 
church. 
Humble though they be, yet they are 
there. 
The provision for papular education in Illi-
nois has been liberal. 
Each township is six miles 
square, and is divided into sections a mile square, 
containing 640 acres. 
The 16th section of each 
township is devoted to educational purposes in that 
township. 
This public provision has given an 
early impulse to the cause of education. 
I have 
also been highly gratified at the power of Prottst-
antism in the valley of the Mississippi, compared 
with Popery. 
Her rising institutions as yet are 
decidedly Protestant and bear an evangelical cast. 
But the foe is in the field, and early and late he 
plies his task with the hope of an early victory; 
and Protestants in the West and elsewhere, will 
.yet learn that " The price of liberty is eternal 
vigilence." 
Catholics will leave no stone unturned 
to gain the ascendency in that Eden country, the 
garden of the world. 
And it is worthy a struggle 
for the mastery in such a land. 
Nor is the crisis 
far removed from us, " We should be all at it and 
always at it." 
TUE CROPS ABROAD.—From all parts of Europe 
come reports of a most abundant harvest. 
©bitttam 
' I am the resurrection and the life: he that believeth in me 
though he were dead, yet shall he live: and whosoever liveth, and 
believeth in me, shall never die.''—JOHN 11: 25.26. 
DIED, in this town, August 22d, sister 
MARY 
RUSSELL, wife of brother O. B. Russell, aged 53. 
The subject of tbe above notice experienced the re-
ligion of Christ about 20 years since, and soon 
after united with the Baptist church. 
She em-
braced the faith of the speedy coming of Christ 
in '37 or '38, when Father Miller lectured in this 
town. 
She continued her connection however with 
the Baptists till '43 or '4, when circumstances oc-
curring, which rendered her connection unpleas-
ant, she left them and identified herself more nearly 
with the Adventists with whom she remained asso-
ciated as far as her health would permit until her 
decease. 
Her disease waS cancer on the bowels ; 
with which she had been afflicted for 18 years. 
Afterwards dropsy set in, which rendered her a 
very great sufferer indeed. 
But she kissed the rod 
that smote her and as her companion remarked to 
me, she was never heard to murmur or complain. 
A few hours before her death, her husband told 
her he thought she could not live through 
the 
night, she only replied, " It is a great thing to be 
always ready." 
She died on the morning of the 
22d, without a struggle pr a groan, and we feel 
assured that the loss of mourning friends is her 
eternal gain ; for " Blessed are the dead that die 
in the Lord, yea, saith the Spirit for they rest from 
their labors and their works do follow them. 
Ml. Holly, Sept. 4th, 1854. 
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Voices of the Day. 
Voices of the Night. 
Voices of the Dead. 
The Church Before the Flood. 
The Tent and the Altar. 
Scripture Readings on Genesis. 
Romanism and Tractareanism. 
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The Wesleyan, Syracuse, N. Y. 
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. 
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• 
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1 
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. 
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THE ADVENT HERALD. \ 
Contents of this No. 
MISCELLANEOUS. 
Resurrection Body 
289 
Venom of Serpents 
289 
The Great 1'iague 
290 
Abide with Us.. .(poetry) .. 290 
A Soul Forssken of God 
290 
The Power of Temptation... 290 
The Papacy and Protestant-
ism 
.'...' 
291 
Baptised Infidelity. 
291 
The Plain Truth 
291 
An Irish Riot 
291 
Annexatisn of the Sandwich 
Islands 
291 
Foreign News 
291 
EDITORIAL. 
The Prophecy of Isaiah 
292 
Spiritual Gifts 
292 
New Works 
292 
Spirit-rapism, alias Paganism 293 
Book Notice 
296 
Inquiries Answered 
296 
CORRESPONDENCE. 
Conference Notice 
294 
Tour West 
295 
OBITUARY. 
Mary Russell 
295 
ADVENT HERALD. 
BOSTON, SEPTEMBER 9, 1854. 
INQUIRIES ANSWERED. 
BRO. IIIMES :—During a number of years I have 
perused your paper with pleasure, interest and 
profit. 
There are some points connected "with the 
theory taught by the majority of Adventists, con-
cerning which, I should be highly gratified to learn 
your opinion ; and I think it would be pleasing to 
many who are interested in reading the 
Herald. 
Please give a clear and explicit reply to the follow-
ing propositions. 
1. Has the sun been darkened to fulfil Matt. 
24:29 ? 
2. Was it darkened after the " tribulation of 
those days ?" 
. 3. When did the " days of tribulation " end, 
spoken of by the Saviour in this connectionT 
Most Respectfully, 
ALICE 
BURNIIAM. 
Newburyport, 
Mass., Sept. 9th, 1854. 
DEAR 
SISTER :—I cheerfully comply with your 
request to give an " explicit " reply to your in-
quiries. 
I give you the best light I have upon the 
subject. 
ANS.—1. To the first of the above inquiries, I 
would reply that it has; see long article on 
Celes; 
tial Phenomena " in the Advent 
Herald of May 
13th, in which it is shown that while there has 
been no single occurrence of the kind that was 
either novel, universal, or supernatural, those con-
ditions are not requisite to make a fulfilment of 
the text refered to. 
2. It was, in the series of like occurrenccs 
which are specified in that article, as transpiring 
in A.D. 1716 ; 1732; 1762; 1780 ; 1782; 1783 ; 
1785 and 1789—the several occurrences being seen 
in different places of Christendom, and the aggre-
gate of these being equivilent to one universal 
darkening. 
3. The darkening specified was not to be after 
the ending of the " days ;" but the Saviour said. 
(Mark 13:24.) "In those days after that tribula-
tion, the sun shall be darkened," &c. The " days " 
I understand to refer to " the times of the Gen-
tiles," (Luke 21:24,) during which 
"Jerusalem 
shall be trodden down of the Gentiles." 
The trib-
ulation was to be in those days; and I understand 
that it was arrested by the Protestant Reformation, 
which commenced under Luther in 1517, and tri-
umphed over the papal arms in 168S. 
In 1685 
was revoked the memorable edict of Nantz, when 
Lewis XIV of ErancS, as Butler says, " put forth 
all his efforts to establish Popery upon the ruin 
and conversion of Protestantism. . . One twentieth 
part of the whole number [in that kingdom] fell 
a sacrifice to these barbarous and impolitic meas 
ures," and the " remainder were hunted like the 
Avild beasts of the forests." 
The cruelty and vin-
dicativeness of Lewis, caused the Protestants of 
Germany to form the famous league of Augsburg. 
" The war became general, and raged in Hungary, 
Germany, Flanders, Spain, and Italy. 
Europe 
had never before witnessed such splendid armies 
under such splendid Captains, together with such 
displays of valor and millitary tactics. . . . This 
war gave A GENERAL TRIUMPH to the Reforma-
tion over Popery leagued with the infidels, and great-
ly facilitated the progress of the arts and sciences." 
—Uni. Hist. pp. 196-200. 
Since this general war between the Papal and 
Protestant armies of Europe when the former tri-
umphed, Protestantism has gained no accession of 
territory on that continent—See article by Macau-
lay on another page. 
Nor has there been any gen-
eral persecution. 
There have been local persecu-
tions since then, and individual cases have occured 
down to the present time, as in the imprisonment of 
the Madai two years since; but the waves of per-
secution were so effectually stayed by that triumph, 
that it has never since been general. 
J. 
V. 
HIMES. 
AVorcester Church. 
BROTHER 
HIMES :—I have at last come to Wor-
cester, where I expect to remain for a time, and 
labor with the • Advent Church, worshipping at 
T iomas Street. 
I had a pleasant meeting yes-
terday to commence with, and the prospect is good 
for the up-building of the cause here oh a perma-
nent and reliable basis. 
The brethren are encour-
aged, and hope for better days. 
We hope to be 
rememberedby our sister churches everywhere and 
desire prayers for our prosperity in the Lord and 
a meekness for His soon coming and Kingdom. 
My Post-Office address is Worcester Mass. 
Yours fraternally, 
Worcester, 
Sept. 11, 1854.. 
D. T. TAYLOR. 
• 
NOTE.—We cordially welcome Brother T. to 
this new field of labor. 
Many blessings rest on 
him and his. 
We congratulate the church in Wor-
cester, in their new and cheering prospects. 
How 
true it is, even in this State, sometimes, that they 
who " go forth bearing precious seed, shall return 
with their sheaves with them." 
Forget the sor-
rows of the past, and cheer up. 
May heaven bless 
the union of Pastor and people, and give a large 
ncirease of souls to the church. 
Prospectus of the 
Scientific American." 
[BY publishing the following, two or more weeks, 
newspapers are promised a copy of the " Scientific 
American " in exchange. 
As it is a really valua-
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though twice in previous years we have failed to 
receive it as promised. 
A year since we gave it, 
but have not received a copy till the present week.J 
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Book Notice. 
'' PROPHETIC VIEWS OF THE CONDITION OF THE 
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Advent, 
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Price $2 50 per 
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This important tract is now issued. 
It is an in-
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An extensive circula-
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of the events which are to usher in the consumma-
tion of the Christian's hope. 
THE Youth's Guide for August lias been issued 
The following are its contents : 
Old Rover. 
The Angler. 
Richard Bakewell. 
Adventure with a Tiger. 
Truth and Error. 
How Mariners take Reckoning. 
An Honest Boy. 
Energy. 
Elephantine Frolics. 
The Cruel Boy. 
Music at home. 
The Plans of God. 
Scraps. 
Enigmas. &c. 
Notices. 
NOTICE.—The subscribers to the chapel, who 
have not paid the enstalment due on their shares, 
are requested to remember us as early as conveni-
ent. 
We now have special need of all due. 
I wish also to say to any of our friends who may 
have funds on hand which they could loan on good 
security, with interest, that I wish to obtain a few 
hundred dollars for six months, or more, as it may 
best suit them. 
Will any such write to me, with-
out delay 1 I am in spccial need at this juncture. 
J. 
V. 
IIIMES, 
A Family Killed. 
A correspondant of the Detroit Free Press, writing 
from Pecatonica, Winnebago county, Illinois, on 
the 14th ult., says : 
" I witnessed yesterday one of the most melan-
choly scenes I ever beheld. 
In the town of Lysan-
der, one mile south of Pecatonica depot, there lay 
enshrined in five coffins, a Mr Merchat, two sons 
and two daughters, all of whom were struck by 
lightning during a thunder shower, about two 
o'clock, A.M.—leaving in the 
family 
only the 
wife and one son, about 8 years old : they being 
both much injured by the shock, the woman remain-
ing mentally deranged, and continually bemoaning 
the loss of her family. 
The night being 
warm 
they took off their beds and placed them on the 
floor in a cool room, where stood a stove, and the 
lightning coming down the stove pipe, divided on 
the stove hearth, and struck the whole family of 
seven, of whom only two survived." 
IJNIVERSALISM by its own papers is said to be as-
suming somewhat of a new type. 
Tho New 
York 
Universalist paper says: 
" It is no longer necessary the fact should be over-
looked, that the major part of Universalists believe 
in a future state of discipline. 
This jumping into 
glory, as a man pulls off his clothes and dives in-
to the bath, is to me unreasonable. 
Analogy, 
facts, the scheme of salvation revealed in the Bible, 
the relation existing between God and his crea-
tures, all prove to my mind the position that there 
must be a disciplinary process, to induce a pro-
gress in holiness—that there must be a difference 
of moral character and spiritual excellence, of 
purity and happiness, when men enter the future 
state in accordance with their moral condition at 
death." 
Foreign News. 
JUST as we were preparingfor the Press, the tele-
graph announces the arrival of the St. Louis, 
at 
New York on the 12th inst. 
It brings no news of 
importance. 
Constantinope dates to August 17 do not con-
firm the account of the serious defeat of the Turks 
at Kara, already published. 
Omar Pacha, with 25,000 men, entered Buchar-
est 22d, and was most enthusiastically received. 
The cholera was raging very badly at 
Bomar-
sund. 
It is rumored that Gen. Baraguay de Hilliers 
offered a large subsidy to the King of Sweden, -to 
be paid on his actively joining the Westorn Pow-
ers. 
It is supposed that a descent on the Coast of 
Finland is meditated. 
The French troops have reembarked at Bomar-
sund, and part of the fleet had sailed towards Fin-
land. 
German papers announce the approaching con-
clusion of a treaty, offensive and defensive, between 
Austria and the Western Powers. 
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PROVIDENCE permitting there will be a Grove meet-
ing at White Rock Grove, Ogle county, 111. 
Com-
menceing Sept. 21st at 2 o'clock P.M., to continue 
over the Sabbath. 
Elders Samuel Chapin, and N. 
W. Spencer, G. W. Mitchell, J. Cummings jr. and 
others are expected to be present. 
We cordially 
invite our brethren and sisters from a distance to 
come and unite with us in endeavoring to provoke 
one another to love and good works, and laboring 
for the conversion of sinners. 
J. 
CUMMINGS, JR. 
J. M. ORROCK will preach at Durham (in brother 
James Blake's neighborhood) the 19th ; Lawrence 
ville, 22d ; Waterloo, Sunday the 24th, during 
the day, and in North Shefford at half past 5, P.M. 
Meetings will commence at 4 o'clock on week-day 
evenings or at a later hour as brethren may ar-
range. 
I. H. 
SHIPMAN will'preach at Cabot, Vt., Lower 
Branch, Sabbath, Sept. 17th. 
Appointments, &c. 
Providence permitting, I will preach at 
Brompton, C. E , Friday, Sept. 22. Once as brother Wm. Chandler 
may appoint. 
Will brother C. call for me at the Windsor depot 
on the arrival of the first train from Island Pond v at Melbourne, 
and vieinity, ten days. Melbourne Village, Sabbath, 24th ; even-
ing meetings arranged while present; will brother Oilman call for 
me at the Richmand depot on the arrival of the first train of airs 
on Saturday, 23d. 
Back part, Sabbath, October 1st, as brother M. Clark may appoint; 
Danville, Thursday the 5th, and over the Sabbath, as brother S. 
Davis may appoint. 
Compton, the 10th, at the Harvy school-house ; will brother Lemuel 
Harvy call for me on the arrival of the first train from Richmond? 
At Hatley, 12th and 13th, and over the Sabbath as Elder Warreii 
may appoint. 
Barnston, 17th, 18th and 19th, as Elder Thurber may arrange ; by 
request, I will deliver an address on the nature, importance, and 
benefits of Sacred Music, at the last meeting. A full attendance 
is desired. No meetings on Mondays or Saturdays. 
Week-day 
meetings at 7 o'clock, or otherwise as brothers in charge may 
think best. The above appointments are made by the kind direc-
tion of brothers Clark and Elioi. 
N. BILLINGS. 
ELDER CHAS. P. Dow will preach at 
No. Adams, Mass., 16th and Sunday 17th. 
Charlemont, 18th. 
North field Farms, 19 th. 
Hardwick, 20th. 
Ware, 22d. 
Three Rivers, 23d and Sunday 24th. 
Chickopee Falls, 25th. 
Springfield, 26th. 
' 
Jawbuck, 27th. 
Warehouse Point, 28th. 
Hartford, 29th. 
Week evening appointments at 7 and a half P.M., unless 5 P.M. be 
preferred. 
As brother Dow is a stranger in many of the above 
mentioned places, I would hereby commend him to the brethren 
as a minister worthy of their confidence and Christian fellowship. 
D. T. 
TAYLOR. 
CAMP-MEETING 
AT Peace Dale, Rhode Island, commencing Tuesday, Sept. 19th, 
continuing over Sunday. 
Brethren will come on the Providence 
and Stonington Rail-Road ; stop at Kingston depot, where Stages 
will.convey the passengers to the encampment. 
Kingston is mid-
way between Providence and Stonington, about 25 miles from either 
place. 
An effort will be made to reduce the car fare. Boarding on 
the ground, and provision for the poor. 
Come with tents. Let 
ministers come in the fullness of the gospel blessing. 
In behalf of the Church, 
11. L. HASTINGS. 
PROVIDENCE permitting, I will hold a meeting at the school-house, 
near the West Meeting-house in Ilill, N. II., Sunday, Sept., 17th. 
If thought best, the meeting may continue two or three days. 
I will also hold a meeting at West Boscawen, Sunday, Septem-
T. 
M."PREBLE. 
ber 24th. 
Providence permitting, there will be a meeting in Eaton. C. E., Jor-
dan Hill, Sept. 28th, at 2 o'clock, P.M. Also at, or near Sawyer's 
mills, as brother Willey may appoint, Friday 29th, at 10 o'clock 
A.M., and continue over the Sabbath. 
J. M. ORROCK. 
D. W, 
SORNBERGER. 
The Lord willing,! will preach at Nashua, N. II., Sabbath, Sept. 
24th ; at Westforri, Mass., 26th and 27th ; at Westboro', 28th ; at 
Lake Village, N. H., Sabbath, Oct. 1st. 
I, D. THOMPSON. 
MOSES CHANDLER will preach at East Kingston, Saturday and Sun-
day, the 16th and 17th of this month. 
I. C. WELLCOME will preachat Newcastle, in brother Ilarley's neigh-
borhood, Sunday, Sept. 24th. 
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