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VOLUME XIV. NO. 18 
Glimpses of the Land, 
BY REV. A. C. THOMPSON. 
THE soul's dark cottage, battered and decayed, 
Lets in new light through chinks that time has 
made ^ 
Stronger by weakness, wiser men become, 
As they draw near to their eternal home, 
Leaving the old, both worlds at once they view, 
That stand upon the threshold of the new. 
WALLER. 
" It is the most beautiful island that eyes ever 
beheld." 
" As I arrived at this cape, there came 
a fragrance so good and soft of the flowers and 
trees ot the land, that it was the sweetest thing 
in the world." 
" The singing of the birds is such, 
that it seems as if one would never desire to de-
part hence." 
COLUMBUS. 
It is worthy of remark, that in the New Testa 
ment we have only one account of a saint's de-
parture for the Better Land. 
One reason, doubt-
less, is that attention may not be unduly turned 
to the closing scene; that a natural curiosity of 
that kind need not become excessive and profit-
less. 
The circumstances and feelings of a man 
in the hour of death merely are not of the great 
est moment. 
It is to Christ,s death and the 
Christian's life that the word of God gives special 
prominence. 
One instance of dying repentance 
is given, that of the crucified thief, in order that 
no one may presume or despair ; one instance of 
the experience of a departing Christian is sup-
plied, to teach believers how to die. 
" He, be-
ing full of the Holy Ghost, looked steadfastly 
into heaven, and saw the glory of God, and Je-
sus standing on the right hand of God, and said : 
Behold, I see the heavens opened, and the Son 
of Man standing on the right hand of God." 
This vision was not addressed to the outward 
eye so much as to the eye of the soul; it was a 
parting of the veil, which up to that moment had 
hidden the world of glory from his view. 
Hith-
erto he had walked by faith; now there was a par-
tial vision of that world into which he was soon 
to enter,—a preparatory glance, foretokening 
what his disembodied spirit was about to enjoy 
fully and forever. 
Such discoveries are not 
appropriate at earlier periods;' they are not com-
patible with the design of discipline, except 
near its close. 
It is, in the divine appointment, 
more a matter of epoch than of bodily condition. 
The martyr Stephen was in full possession of his 
powers. 
Violent hands had not yet been laid 
upon him when he saw the heavens opened. 
He 
was neither under the influence of disease nor of 
drugs; nor does there appear to have been the 
slightest degree of unhealthy mental excitement. 
If ever complete self-control and calmness were 
exhibited in the misdst of surrounding tumult, 
they were by the protomatyr. 
Dissolution had 
not commenced when his inward eye began to 
gaze on the glories of the other world. 
The sil-
ver cord was not loosed, nor the golden bowl 
broken, for the first stone had not yet been 
thrown. 
Still he was on the eve of departure. 
It was not martyrdom, nor was it perhaps mirac 
ulous inspiration, that so clarified his mental 
eye. 
Often is there something analogous in the 
latter experiences of God's people, though more 
usually when the process of dislod gment has 
actually commenced; when the first steps at 
least have been taken into the waters of Jor-
dan. 
" I have been," said one of England's and 
one of Christ's choicest ministers, Walker of Tru-
ro, ** I have been upon the wings of cherubim! 
Heaven has in a manner been opened to me! 
I shall soon be there! " 
And again : " 0, my 
friend, had I strength to speak, I could tell you 
such news as would rejoice your very soul !' I 
have had such views of heaven! But I am not 
able to say more." 
The jubilant testimony of 
John Janeway was : 
" Methinks I stand, as it 
were, with one foot in heaven, and the other 
upon earth r 
Methinks I hear the melody of 
heaven, and, by faith, see the angels waiting to 
carry my soul to the bosom of Jesus, and I shall 
be forever with the Lord in glory. 
And who 
can choose but rejoice in all this ? " 
And, in all cases where dissolution was at 
hand, and the powers of speech had failed, more 
than once have we seen a preconcerted signal 
given,—pressure of the hand and the like,—as 
the departing believer seemed to behold the 
heavens opened; and the face, pallid and dis-
tressed, has appeared "as it had been the face 
of an angel." 
That last lingering smile was a 
reflection of His smile who stands at the right 
hand of God. 
Often, too. we doubt not, is the apparent con-
fusion and incoherency of a Christian's death-
bed simply the the blending of impressions de-
rived from the other side with those derived from 
this; for the soul seems to pass almost uncon-
scious of the moment of a transit, and probably 
does not take note of the exact line of demar-
cation between two worlds. 
Often does the 
spirit seem to cross, and than retrace her steps 
along the neutral ground; or return briefly to 
her tabernacle, as you may yourself, when go-
ing from home you hasten back to leave a mes-
sage, or take one look more; or, as the travel-
ler ascending the Peak of TenerifFe, into the 
clear upper regions, may sometimes discern the 
plains beneath through a momentary rent in the 
clouds. 
" Stephen, beingfull of the Holy Ghost, look-
ed up steadfastly into heaven, and saw the glory 
of God. and Jesus standing on the right hand 
of God, and said, Behold, I see the heavens 
opened, and the Son of Man standing on the 
right hand of God." 
Whoever, like him, is 
full of the Holy Ghost, and full of heaven, can-
not be otherwise than full of Jesus Christ. 
And 
what can be more fitting than that the believer, 
who has been sprinkled with Christ's blood, 
clothed with Christ's righteousness, over whom 
Christ has watched, and for whom he has inter-
ceded, who has been feeding upon Christ as the 
true bread which came down from heaven, who 
has been communing with him by the way, should 
now, at the close of his journey, have a clearer 
discovery of him, whom not having seen he has 
loved? 
All their intelligent aspirations after 
heaven, all scriptural hopes of admission there, 
have had respect to him who is the everlasting 
glory of that abode. 
The New Testament knows 
nothing of a paradise in which he is not the cen-
tral object and all-attractive charm. 
Every con-
ception of the New Jerusalem dissociated from 
Jesus Christ, every anticipation which has its 
origin and end elsewhere than in the allegiance 
of faith and love to him who, as Son of God, 
and Son of man, is seated on the right hand of 
majesty in the heavens, is spurious and delusive. 
He it is who opens heaven, and from whom 
beams the light thereof. 
Who else, then, should 
attract all eyes and all hearts? 
"I 
had a 
sight of heaven," said a dying countrywoman of 
ours to her pastor ; •' I had a sight of home 
and 1 saw my Saviour! " 
A friend called to tell Dr. Owen that he had 
put to press his " Meditations on the Glory of 
Christ." 
There was a momentary gleam in his 
languid eye as he answered, " I am glad to hear 
it; but 0, brother Paine ! the long wished-for 
day is come at last, in which I shall see that 
glory in another manner than I have ever done, 
or was capable of doing, in this world." 
A 
few hours of silence followed, and then that 
glory was to him 'revealed. 
Another, whose 
anticipations of heaven have been already cited 
in part, as he was drawing still nearer Canaan, 
exclaimed: 
More praises yet: 0, help me to 
praise God ; 1 have nothing else to do! I have 
done with prayer, and all other ordinances; 1 
have almost done with conversing with mortals. 
I shall presently behold Christ himself, that died 
for me, and loved me", and washed me in his 
own blood. 
1 shall, before a few hours are over, 
be in eternity, singing the song of Moses and 
the song of the Lamb. 
1 shall presently stand 
on Mount Zion, with an innumerable company 
of angels, and the spirits of just men made per-
fect, and with Jesus, the mediator of the New 
Covenant; I shall hear the voice of much peo 
pie, and be one amongst them, which shall say, 
Hallelujah, glory, salvation, honor and power, 
unto the Lord our God; and again we shall say, 
Hallelujah." 
Stephen saw Jesus standing on the right hand of 
God: not sitting, not in the attitude of judge/but 
of helper and friend, risen to succor and welcome 
his approaching servant. 
He knew in whom 
he had believed. 
His confidence and fearless-
ness were not those of the soldier, rushing into 
battle, nor of the malefactor, under the influence 
of anodynes, or sunk in moral stupefaction. 
His is a living faith in Jesus Christ, as the "Just 
One," the Lord his 
righteousness, 
who had 
abolished death, so that to him it is swallowed 
up in victory. 
He has believed before; now he 
sees Him who is the faithful and true witness, 
and he cannot do otherwise than yield up his 
soul into the hands of Him who is able to keep 
that which is committed unto him. 
"Lord Je-
sus, receive my spirit." Thanks for that model 
prayer ot a departing saint! May it be the last 
that the writer and reader shall breathe, when 
we are called to follow ! 
''Lord Jesus, receive my spirit!" 
How 
many thousands, martyrs and others, have al-
ready breathed their last, uttering this prayer ! 
It would seem as if that leader of the Christian 
host, in their journey to the Better 
Land, 
were moved to this brief ejaculation that he 
' might supply the most appropriate formula for 
every dying believer. 
" Lord Jesus, have mercy 
on me! Lord Jesus, have mercy on me ! Lord 
Jesus, receive my spirit! " prayed Bishop Hoop-
er, in the midst of the 
flames. 
And on the 
same fiery couch, and in the same strain, pray-
ed Latimer, 
Patrick 
Hamilton, 
and 
Row-
land Taylor. 
With the penitent exclamation, 
"This unworthy right hand! 
this unworthy 
right hand ! " Cranmer intermingled the believ-
ing cry, "Lord Jesus, receive my 
spirit!" 
Woman too, gentle, constant, trusting woman, 
has sent up the same, in the hour of martyrdom. 
It was Margaret Wilson, in the reign of King 
James, whom the Papists took down to the Bay 
of Wigton, at low water, andbound.to a stake, 
there to await the advancing tide. 
The waters 
come slowly in, closing round her, and rising 
higher and higher. 
They reach Her throat; but 
that young martyr of eighteen still sings, with 
a loud, clear voice, the twenty-third Psalm. 
Her mouth fills; she gurgles forth, " Lord Je-
sus, receive my spirit.! " and goes to sleep be-
neath the tide. 
But this has not been used by 
those alone who have witnessed for Jesus with 
their blood. 
The venerable bishop and refor-
mer, Jewell, prayed, " Lord, take from me my 
spirit. 
Lord, now let thy servant depart in 
in peace. 
Break off all delays; suffer thy ser-
vant to come to thee : come and take him to be 
with thee,—Lord, receive my spirit!" 
And 
by many another has that brief petition been 
offered,—by the consumptive, as his breath 
slowly failed, and all utterance ceased,—by the 
prisoner expiring in his cell, and by the voya-
ger, sinking in the waves. 
" Saviour, into thy loving hands 
My feeble spirit 1 commit, 
While wandering in these Border-Lands 
Until thy voice shall summon it. 
These Border-Lands are calm and still, 
And solemn are their silent shades ; v 
And my heart welcomes them, until 
The light of life's long evening fades. 
I heard them spoken of with dread, 
As fearful and unquiet places ; 
Shades where the living and the dead 
Look sadly in each other's faces. 
But since Thy hand hath led me here, 
And I have seen the Border-Land ; 
Seen the dark river flowing near,* 
Stood on its brink, as now I stand,— 
There has been nothing to alarm 
My trembling soul; how could I fear 
While thus encircled with thine arm? 
I never felt thee half so near." 
bled hearts of men, He who had proved himself 
" the friend above all others," assured his disci-
ple!, previous to his ascension that he would not 
leave them comforless. 
True, he would walk no 
more with them, but he would send the "Com-
forter "—whose especial office it is to give " ev-
erlasting consolation and good hope through 
grace." 
In the day of conviction and penitential sor-
row, the Holy Ghost takes of the things of God 
and shows them to the awakened and inquiring 
sinner. 
By his gentle and unseen, but powerful 
influence, the heart is fixed upon the eternal 
Rock, and the mind filled with peace and joy in 
believing. The disquieted and perplexed inquir-
er is led to a sure refuge. 
Fear and anxiety 
give place to tranquil love, and the " comfort of 
the Holy Ghost" is his. 
The Holy Spirit com-
forts the people of God amid all their sorrows, 
temptations and infirmities. 
Never are they 
cast down beneath the reach of this watchful 
sympathy. 
Whether in exile like Joseph, or 
perscuted liktj Daniel, or bereaved like David, 
he is ever present to stengthen and uphold ; and 
though poverty and sickness, and desertion of 
friends—yea, death itself, may all come to the 
Christian, yet so great is the '' love of the Spirit," 
that he can enable the suffering saint to joy even 
in tribulation ; and like Paul, count the suffer-
ings of the present time not worthy to be com-
pared with the glory that shall be revealed. 
The world is full of sin, and therefore full of 
sorrow, trial, and distress. 
But let us not for-
get that God's love is mightier than sin, and 
that the Holy Comforter is ever ready.to hear 
our cries, assuage our griefs, dry up our tears, 
and make us conquerors through Christ our Re-
deemer. 
Chr. Intel 
The Comforter. 
THIS title was applied by our Saviour to the 
third person of the Trinity, to denote the effect 
which his agency would produce upon the trou-
Strife and Victory. 
THIS morning, at ten, I had»a strangely mixed 
time. 
At first I could do nothing but grope in 
the dark; my heart was sad and heavy, for God 
hid his face; but in one moment the veil seemed 
to be taken away, and my God smiled upon me, 
and 1 could feel that he was near. 
0, the bliss 
of that moment! 
1 felt such delight in asking 
him to look on me in Jesus, not to look at me 
at all except in his beloved Son ; for then, and 
only then, he can say, "Thou art all fair, my 
love, there is no spot in thee." 
0, it is blessed, 
when you leel very vile, to hide in Jesus, and, 
though still as vile as ever in yourself, to say, 
" Abba, Father !" 
In reading a chapter, the 
only part I could dwell on at the time was, '«this 
same Jesus." 
It seemed so sweet to think that 
it is the same Jesus who was so lovely, so lov-
ing, so gentle, so full of sympathy on earth, who 
is now in heaven, " the friend of 
sinners;" 
pleading for them at God's right hand; that is 
the same sweet voice that on earth said to the 
troubled sea, "Peace be still," that says, " Come 
unto me and I will give you rest." 
Bonar's Stranger Here. 
African Proverbs. 
PUTNAM'S Magazine for October contains a 
very interesting article on the Yorubas, a tribe 
in Western Africa, from which we make the 
following extract:— 
It is past question, that the most remarkable 
result of our knowledge, repecting the Yoruba 
language, is to be found in the wonderful rich-
ness and variety of their Proverbial Philosophy. 
We are aware, that this department of litera-
ture does not belong to the intellectual maturity 
of a nation. 
In fact, Lord Chesterfield avers, 
that no man of fashion ever uses jproverbs. 
But 
our Yoruba friends are by no means men of 
fashion. 
Yet nothing tests the natural quick-
ness and keenness of a nation more than its 
proverbs, and tried by this test, the Yorubas 
are triumphant. 
They have no poetry, no ora-
tory ; all the intellect of the race is condensed 
into proverbs. 
In fact, they constitute a sort 
of poetry. 
Every object affords its metaphor, 
every thought becomes an aphorism; and not 
138 THE ADVENT HERALD. \ 
this only, but the most elaborate of these sen-
tences assutne invariably that Oriental parallel-
ism, which is the primary formation of "poetry; 
Every feature of the Hebrew verse, as analyzed 
by Lowth and Herder, with all their classifica-
tion of " graditionalj antithetic, synthetic and in-
trovered," finds its corresponding trait among 
the Yorubas. 
Observe, lor instance, the following coup-
lets :— 
If you have no m oney (to give,) you may pay 
visits ; 
If you catmot visitj you may send kind mes-. 
sages. 
Again: 
No man can cure a monkey of squatting; 
So no one can deprive a man of his birthright. 
Again (we spare the reader the original:) 
A pistol has not a bore like a cannon ; 
A poor man has not money at his command like 
the rich. 
A wild bore in place of a pig, would ravish the 
town ; 
And a slave, made king, would spare nobody. 
Sometimes we find a triplet: 
The world is arfocean, 
Mankind is the (lagoon) Ossa, 
One cannot swim, so as to cross the world. 
Again: 
Sorrow is before weeping, 
Mortification is after trouble, 
All the community assemble, they find no sacri-
fice against mortification. 
Sometimes the verses are even longer, and 
sometimes the arrangement of the lines is re-
versed. 
The following illustrates this, and also 
shows the accuracy of the national ear : 
Three elders cannot all fail to pronounce tha 
word ekulu ; 
If one says ekulu, 
The second may say ekulu ; 
And the third will say ekulu. 
Once more, still more elaborately: 
When the day dawns, 
The trader takes his money, 
The spinner takes her spindle, 
The warrior takes his shield, 
The weaver takes his batten, 
The farmer wakes himself and his hoe, 
The hunter wakes, with his quiver and his bow. 
This final rhyme is an irresistible temptation of 
the translator. 
The original has rhythm—but 
not rhyme. 
The following example shows the 
nearest approximation to rhyme, in a sort of 
unmeaning metrical jingle— 
Ojo pa batta. 
Bata batta bata, 
Li ori apatta; 
Li ode ajalubata, 
Bata ni iggi, batta li awo. 
The rain on the batta (shoes) 
Goes patter, patter, patter ; 
As on the apatta (rock;) 
In the street of the ajalubata (head drummer) 
The bata (drum) is of wood, the batta (shoes) of 
skin. ' 
As it is the maiA object of this essay to give 
a full exhibition of these aphorisms, we proceed 
to make a copious selection from the mass. 
Those who have read Mr Trench's recent " Les-
son from Proverbs," will find an especial inter-
est in these specimens, though they have been 
most wholly overlooked by that agreeable writ-
er. 
We have arranged these under approxi-
mate heads, and added some explanations and 
references. 
1. PRACTICAL 
PROVERBS. 
He runs away from the sword, and hides him-
self in the scabbard. 
( " Out of the frying-pan 
into the fire.") 
The stirrup is the father of the saddle. 
He who has no cross-bow but his eyebrow will 
never kill anything.- ("Barking dogs never 
bite.") 
If your stomach is not strong, do noteatcock-
roches. 
("Moderation.") 
. If one cannot build a house, he builds a shed. 
("Haifa loaf," &c.) 
One lock does not know the wards of another. 
A bald-headed person does not care for a ra-
zor. 
The thread is quite accustomed to follow the 
path of the needle. 
The sword shows no respect for its maker. 
(" Bad actions return to plague the inventor.") 
The sole of the foot is exposed to all the filth 
of the road. 
(" Evil communications," &c.) 
The pot-lid is always badly off; the pot gets 
the sweet, the lid gets the steam. 
Without powder a gun is only a rod. 
When the man on stilts falls, another gets the 
bamboo (stilts)—li. e., " pride shall have a 
fall.") 
The pestle and the mortar have no quarrel be-
tween them—(i.e., they are only instruments of 
another.) 
The covetous man, not content with gathering 
the fruit of the tree, took an axe and cut it down. 
(" The goose with the golden egg.") 
I almost killed the bird, said the fowler. 
Almost never made a stew, was the reply.(" Al-
most takes away half.") 
It is only the water which is split; the cala-
bash is not broken : 
(that is, all not lost.) 
He chokes me like ekuru. 
( said of a tedious 
person. 
Ekuru is a very dry cake;—" the re-
mainder biscuit.") 
He who waits for chance will have to wait a 
year. 
God made different creatures diflerently. (The 
orignal has a jingle to it, like " many men 
many minds." 
Want of consideration and forethought made 
six brothers pawn themselves for six dollars. 
He who marries a beauty, marries trouble. 
Though a man may miss other things, he never 
misses his mouth. 
We wake, and find marks on the palm of our 
hand, but we know not who made them; we 
wake, and find an old dept, and cannot remem-
ber how we incurred it. 
If the poor man'a rafters does not reach the 
roof in the morning, it will reach it in the even-
ing. 
( This refers to a traditional poor man who 
advised splicing two rafters in raising a house ; 
and whose advice was at first despised, and final-
ly followed.—See Eccl. 9:5.) 
The bill hook cut the forest, but with no prof-
it to itself; the bill-hook cleared the road, with 
no profit to itself; then it was broken, a ring 
was put on its handle, and it was still kept at 
work. 
Montgomery's Last Poem. 
WRITTEN THE DAY BEFORE HIS DEATH. 
0 
COME all ye weary, 
And ye heavy laden, 
Lend a glad ear to your Saviour's call: 
Fearing or grieving, 
Yet humbly believing, 
Rest; rest for your soul he offers to all. 
0 than sing hosanna^ 
With jubilant voices 
And follow his train with willing accord ; 
Like him, meek and lowly, 
In heart ai^d life holy, 
Own Christ, as good servants, your Master and 
Lord. 
How easy his yoke is, 
How light is his burthen ! 
But what he suffered no language can tell— 
His grief in the garden 
To purchase our pardon, 
His pangs on the cross to save us from hell; 
Hence loud hallelujahs 
Shall sound without ceasing; 
And till they all meet in the kingdom above, 
The living, the living, 
Prayer, praise and thanksgiving, 
Shall joyfully render their love for his love; 
* 
The Mount, April 29,1854. 
The Remains of Sir John Frank-
lin's Party. 
A LETTER from Dr. Rae, the explorer to whose 
labors is owing the recent developments relative 
to the fate of the party of Sir John Franklin, 
to Sir George Simpson, the Governer of the 
Hudson Bay territory, published in the Montre-
al Herald, 
contains some interesting details 
respecting the discoveries which in all proba-
bility have at last cleared away the maze of 
doubt and uncertainty in which the fate of that 
gallant band of men has for a long period been 
involved. • 
Dr. Rae started in the summer of 1853 on his 
expedition of exploration, and having wintered 
at Repulse Bay, again took up his line of march 
to the northward in the early spring of the pres-
ent year. 
The following extracts from his let-
ter are dated at York Factory, at the mouth of 
the Hayes river, Hudson's Bay, whither he re-
turned after accomplishing as far as possible the 
objects of his expedition 
" On the 31st March my spring journey com-
menced, but in consequence of gales of wind, 
deep and soft snow, and foggy weather, we made 
but very little progress. 
We did not enter Pel-
ly Bay unil the 17th. 
At this place we met 
with Esquimaux, one of whom, on being asked 
if he ever saw white people, replied in the neg-
ative, but said that a large party (at least 40 
persons) had perished from want of food, some 
10 or 12 days journey to the westward. 
The 
substance of the information, obtained at vari-
ous times.and from various sources, was as fol-
lows : 
• 
" In the spring, four winters past, (spring 1850,) 
a party of white men, amounting to about forty, 
was seen travelling southward over the ice, and 
dragging boats with them, by some Exqui-
maux who were killing seals on the north shore 
of King William's Land, which is a large Is-
land named Kei-ik-tak, by the Exquimaux. 
None of the party could speak the native lan-
guage intelligibly, but by signs the natives were 
made to understand that their ships or ship had 
been crushed by the ice, and that the whites 
were now going to where they expected to find 
deer to shoot. 
From the appearance of the 
men, all of whom, except one officer (chief,) 
looked thin, they were then supposed to be get-
ting short of provisions, and they purchased a 
a small seal from the natives. 
" At a later date, the same season, but previ-
ous to the disruption of the ice, the bodies of 
about thirty white persons were discovered on 
the continent, and five on the island near it, 
about a long day's journey, (say 35 or 40 miles) 
to the N. W. of a large stream, which can be 
no other than Back's Great Fish River (named 
by the Exquimaux, Out-koo-hi-ca-lik), as its 
description, and that of the low shore in the 
neighborhood of Point Ogle and Montreal Is-
land agree exactly with that of Sir George Back. 
Some of the bodies had been buried, (probably 
those of the first victims by famine,) some were 
in a tent or tents, others under a boat that had 
been turned over to form a shelter, and several 
lay scattered about in different directions. 
Of 
those found on the Island, one was supposed to 
have been an officer as he had a telescope 
strapped over his shoulder and his doudle bar-
relled gun lay underneath him. 
"From the mutilated state of many of the 
corpses and the contents of the kettles, it is evi-
dent that our miserable countrymen had been 
driven to the last resource—cannibalism—as a 
means of prolonging life. 
" There appears to have been an abundant stock 
of ammunition, as the powder was emptied in a 
heap on the ground by the natives, out of the 
kegs containing it, and a quantity of ball and 
shot was found below high water mark, having 
been left on the ice close to the beach. 
There 
must have been a number of watches, telescopes, 
compasses, guns, (several double-barrelled,) &c., 
all of which appear to have been broken up, as 
I saw pieces of these different articles with the 
Exquimaux, and together with some silver spoons 
and forks; I purchased as many as I could ob-
tain. 
" A list of the most important of these I en-
close, with a rough pen-and-ink sketch of the 
events and initials on the forks and spoons. 
The articles themselves shall be handed over to 
the Secretary of the Hon. H. B. &Co., on my 
arrival in London. 
"None of the Exquimaux with whom I con-
versed had seen the ' whites,' nor had they ever 
been at the place where the dead were found, 
but had their information from those who had 
beenthere, and those who had seen the party 
when alive." 
Among the articles which were purchased by 
Dr. Rae from the Exquimaux, and said by them 
to have been found at the place where the party 
of men starved to death in the spring of 1850, 
were four or five chests, ten silver-forks, five 
silver spoons, and a small silver plate. 
Upon 
four of the forks were the initials" H. D. S. G.," 
" A. McD.," " G. A. M.," and " J. F.," 
A dessert spoon was marked J. F. B., or J. 
S. B., and upon the plate was engraved " Sir 
John Franklin, K. C. B." 
A number of other 
articles of minor importance, and having no 
particular marks upon them by which they 
could be recognized, were purchased with these 
from the Indians. 
The Loss of the Arctic. 
THE steamer Osprey, which arrived at Phila-
delphia on Saturday, had on board the metallic 
life boat of the A, ctic, in which the purser and 
others were saved. 
A Philadelphia correspond-
ent says, " We have been to see the life boat 
this afternoon, and pronounce her capable of 
containing from fifty to sixty persons." 
On 
this the N. Y. Express remarks: " If this be so, 
then the persons^ who took possession of that 
boat are answerable for at least the thirty 
lives they might have saved, had they had the 
manliness and courage to lay by, instead of run-
ning away from the sinking ship," 
In the Minerve, of Montreal, we find an ex-
traordinary narrative by the French sailor who 
escaped from the Vesta to the Arctic. 
It is evi-
dently damaged by the translation, but it is a 
thrilling story. 
After narrating the circum-
stances of the collision, and how he and his 
companions in the boat were thrown under the 
wheel of the Arctic, he says: 
"I alone was able to catch a rope, and get 
on deck of the American vessel, where a gener-
al confusion and panic reigned. 
I soon learned 
that the vessel was in danger, and I cast my 
eyes around me to find some means of safety. 
There were near me about thirty bottles; I got 
a rope and attached them to my person, but one 
of them being broken, I soon saw that it would 
not be possible to throw myself into the sea with 
them ; that is why, finding a box near me, I fast-
ened myself on it with strong cords, and cast 
myself into the sea. 
By good luck, there ap-
peared to be close to the vessel a floating piece 
of the wreck, which I seized hold of, and aban-
doned myself to the mercy of the waves. 
In 
company with me on this raft was a young 
American, of from 2(Ho 22 years of age : this 
young man died on the morning of the 28th, 
from the effect of cold and hunger. 
The cold 
had taken such a hold of him that it became 
impossible for him to utter a single word. 
I 
took him in my arms and supported his head on 
my shoulder. 
When he breathed his last sigh, 
he gave me such a violent shock that he was 
near upsetting me into the sea. 
1 attached him 
to the raft with cords, and I kept him for about 
twenty hours, at the expiration of which, find-
ing that he was really dead, and apprehending 
the visit of some large sharks, I threw him 
into the sea. 
After being at the mercy of the waves for a 
couple of days and nights—that is to say 52 
hours—on the 29th towards ten in the morning, 
I perceived to the west a sail which seemed to 
be approaching me ; then with the small plank 
which had served me as an oar, I was enabled to 
make some signals, which did not seem to be no-
ticed by the vessel, 
I continued to swim for 
another hour, and then I became convinced that 
the vessel was coming directly towards me. 
This gave me a little courage, for my strength 
had begun to abandon me. 
I made a fresh sig-
nal, and I saw that they perceived me, for the 
vessel came straight towards me. 
I was hoisted 
on board, and I gave them to understand as 
well as I could by signs and a few words of 
English, that there were to the leeward a great 
number of persons awaiting help, and the cap-
tain accordingly changed his course and steered 
in that direction. 
We picked up eleven per-
sons, who had got on floating pieces of wreck, 
as also, Capt Luce. 
We then made sail, and 
proceeded to Quebec. 
It was in this way that 
I escaped the waves which threatened to engulf 
me every instant. 
I was in the sea fifty-two 
hours, without food or water of any sort, with 
the exception of one small sailor's biscuit, which 
my companion in misfortune gave me before he 
expired." 
Irish Emigration. 
THE extraordinary emigration movement in 
Ireland, to which the famine of 1848 gave a 
new impulse, continues to increase, and threatens 
to depopulate that country of its present race of 
inhabitants. 
The following from the Ballinaslor 
Star exhibits a singular picture : 
" We do not remember to have witnessed so 
many of the peasantry leaving the country; nor 
have we ever heard of prepartions so extensive 
as are being made at present by numerous parties 
intending to emigrate. 
It is not alone the United 
States and the Canadas that are being replen-
ished with the self-expatriated Irishman; Aus-
tralia seems to attract almost all who are able 
to muster the amount of a passage. 
From the 
vicinities of Ballinasloe, Lawrencetown, Kiltor-
mer, and Eyrecourt, we hear of numbers, pos-
sessing substance and comfort, about to try 
their fortunes by a voyage to the southern hemis-
phere. 
The prospect of an abundant harvest is 
no inducement to remain. 
There seems to be 
an infatuation in the minds of the rural classes, 
and, as if in dread of some woeful disaster im-
pending over the country, they leave it with an 
impetuosity unequalled in the annals of history. 
Well may we exclaim, ' What will the end be V 
While the emigration w'as confined to the mere 
peasantry, who were in a great measure assisted 
by their friends already across the Atlantic, we 
felt but little alarm ; now, however, that large 
numbers of young men and women of respecta-
bility, and in the possession of capital, are about 
to leave their homes, we have grave ideas as 
respects the result of such a movement upon the 
country. 
Already 
our markets have been 
thinned, and in remote districts the Roman 
Catholic chapels are half deserted, while, in the 
streets of some country towns, a volley of grape-
shot might be discharged without occasioning 
much loss of human life. 
Ever since the coun-
try began to recover from the effects of the fam-
ine, the spirit of emigration has been on the in-
crease among the peasantry. 
It is strange, in-
deed, that, in the midst of prosperity, and with-
out a redundant population, the people of this 
country should manifest such signs of restless-
ness. 
There must be something radically wrong 
in the social economy of the country—some 
chronic disease which politcal empiricism has 
been able neither to discover nor eradicate." 
Foreign News. 
THE mails brought by the steamship Africa 
reached this city on Saturday evening, the 21st. 
We give below- some matters of interest addi-
tional to the despatches published by us last 
week. 
Among the passengers by the Africa, were 
the wife and daughter of the Rev. Dr. Jonas 
King, the well-known missionary of the Ameri-
can Board at Athens, Greece. 
As our readers have already been' informed, 
the destruction of the Russian fleet, the blowing 
up of Fort Constantine, the 18,000 Russians 
dead, and 22,000 prisoners, and the fall of Se-
bastopol, are all false—purely imaginary; in 
fact, the whole story, with the exception of the 
347 THE ADVENT 
HERALD. 
\ 
battle of Alma, the grandest hoax of the age. 
The " moon hoax," the Slievegammon affair, the 
assassination of Louis Napoleon, &c., are all 
eclipsed by the Sebastopol humbug. 
No expla-
nation is given of the affair, and the public are 
in ignorance of its authors. 
Of what has really been done by the allies in 
the Crimea, the despatches We published last 
week give everything We find in the papers. 
With the exception of the victory at Alma, but 
little is known. 
The following is the substance 
of a despatch from the British Minister at Con-
stantinople : 
" The allied armies established their basis of 
operations at Balaklava on the morning of the 
28th, and were preparing to march without delay 
upon Sebastopol. 
The Agamemnon and other 
vessels of war of the allies were in the port of 
Balaklava. 
There were facilities there for dis-
embarking the battering train. 
" It is stated that Prince Menschikoff was on 
the field at the head of 20,000 men, expecting 
reinforcements; that the fortified place of Anapa 
has been burned by the Russians ; and that its 
garrison was marching to the scene of action." 
Of this despatch, and the other stories floating 
about, the reliable London correspondent of the 
N. Y. Commercial Advertiser writes as follows. 
The conclusions he arrive's at are sustained by 
the London News: 
" To understand the utter preplexity created 
by this message, a partial glance at the map of 
the Crimea will be necessary. 
It will be re-
membered that the allied armies landed at a 
place called Old Fort, about 26 miles north of 
Sebastopol, that they advanced about 10 miles 
to the Alma, where the defeat of the llussians 
took place on the 20th of September, and that 
the report was, that they had afterward advanced 
nearly 10 miles farther—namely to Belbek, 
where a new struggle was begun and carried on 
until the Russians were driven to their entrench-
ments around Sebastopol. 
The whole of this 
statement involved, at all events, a natural or-
der of progression. 
But every idea which would 
be gathered, by estimating their most possible 
and likely route has now been 
overturned. 
South of Sebastopol, and about 8 or 10 miles 
distant from it, lies the port of Balaklava. 
From the spot at which the previous accounts 
left the allies, this place could only be reached 
by a coasting voyage round Sebastopol or by 
marching a distance of 13 miles on a road in 
which Sebastopol stands almost half way. 
The 
astonishment, therefore, may be conceived, with 
which an announcement that the allied armies 
were at Balaklava on the 28th of Sept., and 
were 1 preparing to march without delay upon 
Sebastopol,' was received. 
Yet this is the pre-
cise nature of Lord Stratford's despatch! 
" Its additional points are, that Prince Mens-
chikoff was stated to be in the field with 20,000 
men, expecting reinforcements; that Anapa, the 
last Russian stronghold on the coast of Circas-
sia, has been burned by the Russians them-
selves ; that its garrison was marching to the 
scene of action, and that a convoy of ammuni-
tion escorted by Cossacks, had been taken and 
destroyed by an English detachment. 
" Every word of this, (although the intelli-
gence conveyed, except from the disappointment 
of its being apparently irreconcilable with the 
Former accounts, is highly favorable,) adds only 
to the existing confusion. 
If Prince Menschi-
koff is in the field with but 20,000 men, he must 
have lost more than half his force; if Anap 
has been destroyed by the Russians, that event 
is the most important that would have remained 
for the allies to achieve, perhaps with some loss 
of life, after the fall of Sebastopol; and if a 
convoy of ammunition has been destroyed by the 
English, the allies must be in full possession of 
the road by which Prince Menschikoff could 
alone hope for reinforcements. 
" The port of Balaklava„moreover, is believed 
to be one of the finest in the Crimea, and the 
one that the allies would have chosen of all 
others for their landing, if It had been originally 
deemed practicable, more especially as it opens 
the road for an attack on Sebastopol from the 
south, where its means of defence are extremely 
weak. 
But how is the statement to be accounted 
for that Prince Menschikoff was understood to 
be in the field with twenty thousand men ? 
Surely, after the battle of the Alma, the allies 
must have known whether he was in the field or 
not. 
Again, why should the army, after having 
passed by Sebastopol from the north, have gone 
seven or eight miles to the south of that place, 
merely for the purpose of 'marching upon it 
without delay ?' 
If, after arriving near Sebasto-
pol, they had been driven south by any reverse, 
the thing might be explicable, but after a re-
verse, they would not be in a position to capture 
ammunition trains, and much less to take pos-
session of an important port which they had pre-
viously deemed unsafe to venture upon. 
More-
over, English generals, in reports to their own 
government, are not in the habit of concealing 
reverses, and at the same time the possibility of 
anything of that sort is placed out of the question, 
since an already beaten army, reduced to twenty 
thousand men, and waiting for reinforcements, 
cannot have inflicted any damage upon victori-
ous forces of more than double their number ! 
" Under these circumstances, we are driven to 
every conceivable theory to impart consistancy 
to any one of the contradictory statements now 
before us. 
The only tangible supposition seems 
to be that instead of all being false, the whole 
will be found in some degree capable' of being 
put together. 
'' It is known that, after the landing of the 
allies, part ot the fleet returned to Varna for the 
reserve of 15,000 men. 
The possibility is that 
these were ordered to disembark at Balaklava, 
which would then be rendered a safe place, by 
the Russian troops being engaged elsewhere. 
The enemy would likewise be threatened in their 
rear, and their communication also would be cut 
off from their expected reinforcements. 
This 
portion of the army, landing early in the morn-
ing of the 28th, might be wholly ignorant of 
the events which had taken place on the other 
side of Sebastopol, between the 20th and the 
26th, and it is even possible, although highly 
improbable, that the fall of Sebastopol itself 
might have occurred on the evening of that day 
in the manner described, without any announce-
ment of it having reached Balaklava, up to the 
morning of the 28th—the period at which the 
allies are described, as ' preparing to march' 
upon that fortress. 
A circumstance that gives 
some reasonableness to this impression is, that 
the details forwarded by Lord Stratford are not 
described as having been furnished to him by 
Lord Raglan, the commander-in-chief. 
"Postcript. 
Since the above was written, 
various fragments of intellsgence have arrived, 
which seem to indicate that the movement to 
Balaklava was part of a general arrangement of 
the allied forces, consequent upon the total rout 
of the Russians at Alma and Belbek and the re-
treat of Prince Menschikoff into the interior. 
The allies appear to possess the entire country 
around Sebastopol, from Belbek to Balaklava, 
and the place is completely invested, 
Prince 
Menschikoff's escape with half his army, is ow-
ing to the allies being at present almost totally 
without cavalry,, 
The nature of their flight after 
the battle of Alma, is demonstrated by their 
having been obliged to leave their wounded on 
the field, 300 of whom have already arrived at 
Odessa, whither they were sent by the allies 
under.a flag of truce." 
A Vienna letter says i 
" At last the Government of the United States 
has appointed a Minister Resident here instead 
ot a simple Charge d' Affaires, and it is only a 
matter of astonishment that it was not done long 
ago. 
In a country like Austria, Mr. Henry 
Jackson can render far better service to his gov-
ernment as Minister Resident than as Charge'd 
Affaires." 
Two hundred Russian prisoners, officers and 
men, with their wives and families had been sent 
to one of the prisons in Devonshire. 
Marines, afloat and on shore, are now per-
mitted to wear moustaches. 
The Queen and her court are still at Balmo-
ral, in the Scottish highlands. 
An express mes-
senger arrived at Balmoral on the 4th, bringing 
the telegraphic report of the fall of Sebastopol, 
which caused great sensation in the royal house-
hold. 
Two thousand stand of arms taken at Bomar-
sund, have been deposited in the armory of the 
tower of London. 
The Phoenix, Captain Inglefield's Polar ex-
peditionary ship, discovered an abundant mine 
of coal on the Waygat side of the island of Dis-
co, took on board 80 tons, and steamed to Cork, 
where, as may be remembered, we have already 
announced her arrival. 
The Kings County Journal observes that sev-
eral emigrants, influenced by the accounts of an 
improved state of affairs in Ireland, have re-
turned from America, to settle in their native 
land, considerably bettered in their circum-
stances. 
The Newry Telegraph says : 
"We have had the gratification of hearing 
that John Martin, permitted to depart from 
Van Dieman's Land in pursuance of the recent 
act of royal clemency, arrived in Paris on Sat-
urday, having reached the French capital via 
Marseilles. 
Smith O'Brien had parted com-
pany with his fellow exile on the coast of India, 
proceeding to Madras to visit a near relative in 
the Indian army. 
Mr. Martin is still posssesor 
of a small property in one of the Northern coun-
ties." 
LATER.—The steamship Niagara reached her 
wharf, at East Boston, about noon the 26th 
inst, 
By this arrival we have India and Liver-
pool dates of Oct. 11th. 
The papers contain but little of importance, 
else than the progress of the war. 
Sebastopol is not yet taken, but its ultimate 
fate is made more apparent every day. 
It is 
supposed that the seige artillery was entirely 
mounted in battery around Sebastopol on the 4th 
of October, and a bombardment of the place be-
gan on the 5th. 
The place was completely in-
vested on the south side. 
On the 2d the allies 
had destroyed the aqueduct and cut off the sup-
plies of water from the city, which is supplied 
by reservoirs. 
It was expected that an assault 
would be made soon, probably on the 8th. 
The 
Russians had erected sand batteries mounted 
with ship's guns; but they could be of little 
service, the range of the artillery of the allies 
being so much greater. 
The trenches of the al-
lies are within sixteen hundred yards of the 
walls, and already were mounted with fifty 
guns. 
A private despatch says that two breaches 
were made in the quarantine fort on the 6th, 
while another statement, quite as reliable, says 
that no bombardment had occurred up to the 
8th. 
The French and English generals have official-
ly notified their governments that on the 23d of 
September, immediately upon the knowledge of 
the result of the battle of Alma, by the orders of 
Menschikoff, five line-of-battle ships and two 
frigates were sunk in eight or ten fathoms of 
water, thus completely blocking up the entrance 
to the harbor of Sebastopol, preventing the pos-
sibility of an attack by sea. 
These ships were 
sunk with their guns and stores on board, and 
their masts and rigging standing. 
The English 
are much incensed at this costly expedient, as it 
has contributed greatly to cause their generals 
to change their plan of operations, and to make 
the attack on the south instead of the north side 
of the city. 
The Russians are also said to be 
holding the remaining ships in readiness to be 
sunk, if necessary, and their crews (10,000 men) 
have been added to the garrison of Sebastopol. 
It is said that the Russians have also sunk 
ships across the Straits of Yeni Kaleh. 
The allied fleets are by these operations, ren-
dered of little or no service, and Admiral Dun-
das has sent the marines on shore to join the 
army. 
A letter in the Times suggests that the power-
ful iron steamer Simoon, which under steam, is 
equivalent to a force of about 4000 tons, should 
be employed as a steam battering ram to force a 
passage over the sunken vessels, 
This expedient 
will probably be tried. 
From the present disposition of the allied 
forces between Balaklava and Cape Chernese, 
it would appear that the north side of the harbor 
of Sebastopol was not invested at all, and that 
the whole of the country north of Sebastopol had 
been evacuated by the allied forces, which, 
however, it is very likely, passed through it. 
This supposition is confirmed by a statement in 
despatches from Admiral Dundas, dated Sept, 
28, in which he states that having sent the 
steamers Albion and Vesuvius to Alia to collect 
the wounded Russians and convey them under a 
flag of truce to Odessa, as all the British hos-
pitals were full, his men were threatened by a 
force of 6000 Russians, and had to re-embark 
under cover of the ships guns. 
All the reserves of the allies had left Varna 
for the Crimea. 
Two Frenc'i and one English 
regiments had left Malta to occupy the Pirceus. 
The Russians are reported to have blown up 
the fortresses of Anapa and Lonchim Kaleh, and 
sent their garrisons, 15,000 strong, to reinforce 
Menschikoff, 
Odessa advices of the 7th state that Menschi-
koff's right wing was at Baktchi Serai, and his 
centre at Simpheropol, where reinforcements from 
Perekop will concentrate. 
Gen. Ostensacken 
has been at Perekop since the 2d, and expected 
to join Menschikoff with his force by the 15th. 
The Patis Debats estimates the Russian forces 
in the Crimea at 85,000 men, and that of the 
allies at 90,000, including seamen. 
The two Russian generals taken at the battle 
of the Alma^ere named Gonikoffand Tcbitchan-
off. 
Both Were wounded, and one has since 
died. 
They say that the Russians had but 35,-
000 men at the Alma, and considering that 
number was sufficient for the defence of the po-
sition, Menschikoff, who was sick, sat upon a 
chair on the heights and directed the battle. 
The Turks massacred all the wounded Russians 
they fell in with, calling out to them " Sinope!" 
The Emperor Napoleon's new artillery was found 
very serviceable in the field. 
On the death of Marshal St. Arnaud, Lord 
Raglan took the chief command of the allied 
armies, and Gen. Canrobert took St. Arnaud's 
place in command of the French. "He is con-
sidered very energetic and adventurous, but as a 
tactician he is somewhat doubtful. 
There are grievous complaints made that the 
commonest surgical requisites are utterly want-
ing in the British army. 
The Battle of the Alma. 
A 
CORRESPONDENT of the London Times, writ-
ing after the battle of the Heights ot Alma, 
gives a good idea of the fearful carnage attend-
ing a bloody battle, together with some interest-
ing details of the dress and accoutrements of 
the Russian soldiers. 
We quote •: 
" The Russian regiments engaged against us, 
judging from the number on the caps and but-
tons of the dead and wounded, were the llth, 
12th, 16th, 17th, 18th, 31st, 32d, 33d, and 
some of the Imperial Guard. 
The Russian 
regiment consists of four battalions, and each 
battalion may be said to be 650 strong. 
The 
soldiers were mostly stout, strong men. 
Sever* 
al of the regiments, the 32d and 16th, for ex-
ample, wore a black leather helmet, handsomely 
mounted with brass, and having a brass cone on 
the top, with a hole for the reception of a tuft, 
feather, or plume; others wore simply a white 
linen foraging cap. 
They were all dressed in 
long drab coats with brass buttons, bearing the 
number of the regiment. 
These coats fitted 
loosely, were gathered in at the back by a small 
strap and button, descend to the ankles, and 
seemed stout, comfortable garments, though the 
cloth was coarse in texture; the trousers, of 
course blue stuff, were thrust inside a pair of 
Wellington boots, open at the top, to admit of 
their being comfortably tucked down j the boots 
were stout, well made, and serviceable, 
Their 
knapsacks astonished ouf soldiers. 
" On opening them, each was found to contain 
the dress uniform coatee of the man, blue or 
green, with white facings, and slashes like our 
own, a pair of clean drawers, a clean shirt, a 
pair of clean stout mits, a case containing a 
good pair of scissors marked " Spain," an ex-
cellent penknife with one large blade, of Rus-
sian manufacture, a ball of twine, a roll of 
leather, wax, thread, needles and pins, a hair 
brush and comb, a small looking-glass, razor 
strop and soap, shoe brushes 
and blacking. 
The general remark of our men was that the 
Russians were very " clean soldiers;" and cer-
tainly the men on the field had white fair skins 
to justify the expression. 
Each man had a loaf 
of dark brown bread* of a sour taste and disa-
greeable odor, in his knapsack, and a linen roll, 
containing a quantity of brown coarse stuff, 
broken up into lumps and large grains, which is 
crushed biscuit or hard granulated bread pre-
pared with oil. 
" This, we were told by the prisoners,, was 
the sole food of the men, 
They eat the bread 
with onions and oil: the powder is " reserve " 
ration; and if they march they may be for days 
without food, and remain hungry till they can 
get fresh loaves and more " breadstuff." 
It is 
perfectly astounding to think they can keep to-
gether on such diet—and yet they are strong, 
muscular men enough. 
The surgeons remarked 
that their tenacity of life was very remarkable. 
Many of them lived with wounds calculated to 
destroy two or three ordinary men. 
I saw one 
of the 32d regiment on the field just after the 
fight, 
He was shot through the head, and the 
brain protruded in large masses at the back of 
the head and from the front of the skull. 
1 
saw with my own eyes the wounded man raise 
his hand, wipe the horrible mass from his brow, 
and proceed to struggle down the hill towards 
the water! 
<< Many of the Russians were shot in three or 
four places; few of them had only one wound. 
They seemed to have a general idea that they 
would be murdered; possibly, they had been 
told no quarter would be given, and several de-
plorable events took place in consequence. 
As 
our men were passing by two or three of them 
were shot or stabbed by men lying on the 
ground, and the cry was raised'that 
"the 
wounded Russians" were firing on our men. 
There is a story, indee'd, that one officer was 
severely injured by a man to whom he was in 
the very act of administering succor as he lay in 
agony on the field ; be this as it may, there was 
at one time a near chance of a massacre taking 
place, but the men were soon controlled, and 
confined themselves to the pillage which always 
takes place on a battle-field. 
" One villain, with a red coat on his back, 1 
regret to say, I saw go up to a wounded Russian 
who was rolling on the earth in the rear of the 
7th regiment, and before we could say a word, 
he discharged his rifle right through the wretched 
creature's brains. 
Colon al Yea rode at him to 
cut him down, but the fellow excused himself 
by declaring the Russian was going to shoot 
him. 
This was the single act of inhumanity I 
saw perpetrated by this army, flushed with vic-
tory and animated by angry passions, although 
the wounded enemy had unquestionably endan-
gered their lives by acts of ferocious folly. 
Many of the Russians had small crosses and 
chains fastened round their necks. 
Several 
were found with Korans in their knapsacks— 
most probably recruits from the Kasan Tartars. 
Many of the officers had portraits of wives or 
miitresses, of mothers or sisters inside their 
coats. 
" The privates wore the little money they 
possessed in purses fastened below their left 
knees, and the men, in their eager search after 
the money, often caused the wounded painful 
apprehensions that they were about to destroy 
them. 
Last night all these poor wretches lay 
in their agony; nothing could be done to help 
them. 
The groans, the yells, the cries of de-
spair and suffering, were a mournful comnien-
348 
THE ADVENT HERALD. \ 
tasty on the exultation of the victory and on the' 
joy which reigned along the bivouac fires of our 
Wen. 
" Of the' Russians one thing was remarkable, 
the prisoners are generally coarse, sullen and 
unintelligent-looking men. 
Death had ennobled 
those who fell, for the expression of their faces 
was altogether different. 
The wounded might 
have envied those who seemed to pass away so 
peacefully.' 
" The soldiers are all shaven cleanly on the 
the chin and cheek ; only the moustache is left, 
and the hair is cropped as close to the head as 
possible.- 
The latter is a very convenient mode 
of wearing the hair in these parts of the Jivorld. 
The officers (those of superior rank excepted,) 
are barely distinguished from the men, so far as 
uniform is concerned, but the generals wore 
sashes and gold epaulettes. 
The subalterns 
wore merely a lace shoulder-strap, instead of 
the cloth one of the privates. 
Most of them 
spoke French, and the entreaties of the wounded 
to be taken along with us, as the officers moved 
up the hill, were touching in the extreme. 
The 
poor fellows had a notion that our men would 
murder them if the eye of the officer was re-
moved from them. 
" An old general, who sat smiling and bow-
ing' on a bank with his leg broken by a round 
shot, seemed principally concerned for the loss 
of his gold snuff box. 
This, I believe, has 
since been restored to him. 
The men say they 
were badly handled, and had no general to di-
rect them. 
Menschikoff lost his head in a figura-
tive sense. The officers displayd great gallantry, 
and the men fought with a dogged courage 
characteristic of the Russian infantry, but they 
were utterly deficient in elan and dash." 
$1)e ^iroeut fjemlfc. 
BOSTON, NOVEMBER 4, 
1854. 
THB readers of the Herald are most earnestly besought to give it 
room in their prayers ; that by Means of it God may be honored and 
his truth advanced ; also, that it may be conducted in faith and 
love, with sobriety of judgment and discernment of the truth, in 
nothing carried away into error, or hasty speech, or sharp, uubroth-
erly disputation. 
THE PROPHECY 
OF 
ISAIAH. 
CHAPTER 
LI. 
I, EVKS I, ana he that comforteth- you : 
Who art thou, that thou shouldest be afraid of a man that shall die, 
And of the son of man which shall be made as grass ; 
And forgettest the Lord thy maker, 
That hath stretched forth the heavens, and laid the foundations of 
the earth ; 
And hast feared continually every day, because of the fury of the 
oppressor, 
As if be were ready to destroy ? and where is the fury of the op 
pressor ?— vs. 12,13. 
The repetition of " 7," gives emphasis to the 
declaration that God would defend them. 
With 
such a Protector, who need be afraid of a mere 
mortal?—" son of man " by the synecdoche being 
put for men, and " man," by a similee, being 
compared to grass, to illustrate how soon they may 
wither and pass away. 
1 Pet. 1:24, 25—" For all 
flesh is as grass, and all the glory of man as the 
flower of grass. 
The grass withereth, and the 
flower thereof falleth away : but the word of the 
Lord endureth forever." 
Tbe Lord rebukes his people for forgetting the 
Creator of all things, and fearing every day, when 
he would deliver those who call on him. 
By a 
metaphor it is said that God " stretched " forth 
the heavens, as if they were a tent curtain, to 
illustrate that he was their Maker, 
By an elipti-
cal metaphor the lower parts or interior of the 
earth are denominated its "foundations." 
And 
by metonymy, the fury of the oppressor in the last 
clause, is put for its manifestation. The enquiry, 
where it is, being to affirm its non-existance. 
Job 
20:8, 9—" He shall fly away as a dream, and shall 
not be found : yea, he shall be chased away as a 
vision of the night. 
The eye also which saw him 
shall see him no more; neither shall his place any 
more behold him." 
The captive exile hasteneth that he may be loosed, 
And that he should not die in the pit, nor that his bread should fail. 
—». 14. 
William Lowth says.' " The Hebrew runs plain-
ly thus : ' the captive exile shall be quickly deliv-
ered, he shall not die in the pit [or prison] neither 
shall his bread fail.' " 
The pit is the dungeon of 
the prison. 
Jer. 38:6—" Then took they Jere-
miah, and cast him into the dungeon of Malchiah 
the son of Hanimeleeh, that was in the court of the 
prison: and they let down Jeremiah with cords. 
And in the dungeon there was no water, but mire: 
so Jeremiah sunk in the mire." 
" The Athenians, and particularly the tribe of 
Hippothoontis, frequently condemned offenders to 
the pit. 
It was a dark noisome hole, and had 
sharp spikes at the top, that no criminal might 
escape; and others at the bottom, to pierce and 
torment those'unhappy persons who were thrown 
in. 
Similar to this place, was the Lacedemonian 
Kuiu^u? into which Aristoinenes the Messenian 
being cast, made his escape in a very surprising 
manner. 
This mode of punishment is of great an-
tiquity : for the speakers in the book of Job, make 
several allusions to it. 
' He keepeth back his soul 
from the pit, and his life from perishing by the 
sword.' 
' Deliver him from going down into the 
pit; for I have found a ransom.' 
'He will de-
liver his soul from going down into the pit, and 
his life shall see the light.' "—Paxton. 
The confinement of the captive exiles in a pit and 
their deliverance, are put by substitution for the 
previous condition and subsequent restoration to 
Zion of the redeemed, refered to in v. 11-
But I aui the Lord thy God, that divided the sea, whose waves 
roared: 
The Lord of hosts is his name. 
And I have put my words in thy mouth, 
And have covered thee in the shadow of mine hand, 
That I may plant the heavens, and lay the foundations of the earth, 
And say unto Zion, Thou art my people.—ui. 15.16. 
Instead of " But," most commentators render 
this, " For " I am the Lord ; which explains the 
cause of the deliverance of the captive exile in v. 
13. 
For, he was the same God who (Job 26:11,) 
" divideth the sea with his power, and by his un-
derstanding he smiteth through the •proud." or 
through " Rahab," as in the Hebrew. 
To put the words of God in the mouth of the one 
addressed, is to illustrate, by a metaphor, that he 
was constituted the oracle or medium of communi-
cation to others—the apostrophe being evidently 
to the Messiah,—the one refered to in 49:2 and 
50:4. 
For " covered thee in the shadow of mine 
hand," see note on 49:2. 
To " plant the heavens " is a metaphor illus-
trative of its creation—i. e., its re-creation. 
So by 
the same figure to lay the foundations of the earth, 
illustrates its regeneration. 
Says Wm. Lowth : 
The words " imply a promise of that new state of 
things, called afterwards a new heaven and a new 
earth (65:17 and 66:22,) wherein Christ will re-
ward his saints and eminent servants, and where 
he himself will immediately preside over them." 
" Zion," is put by a metonymy for its inhabitants 
—tht ooaverts that are redeemed of her with right-
eousness,—on whose heads shall be everlasting 
joy-
Awake, awake, stand up, 0 Jerusalem, 
Which hast drunk at the hand of the Lord the cup of his fury ; 
Thou hast drunken the dregs of the cup of trembling, and wrung 
them out.—v. 17. 
This address is evidently to the down-trodden 
and forsaken city, which, by a personification is 
represented as a woman that had drank to intoxi-
cation, who is told to wake from her stupor and to 
stand up—illustrative of God's promise to restore 
Zion. Thus we read in 51:1—" Hearken to me, 
ye that follow after righteousness, ye that seek 
the Lord : look unto the rock whence ye are hewn, 
and to the hole of pit whence ye are digged." 
" Hand " is put by a metonymy for the power 
which God had exerted against Jerusalem—his 
judgments being denominated by an elliptical meta-
phor, the " cup of his fury "—" cup " being put by 
metonymy for its contents. 
Psa. 75:8.—".In the 
hand of the Lord there is a cup, and the wine is 
red ; it is full of mixture, and he poureth out of 
the same : but the dregs thereof, all the wicked of 
the earth shall wring them out, and drink them." 
(See Jer. 25:15-18.) 
Jerusalem's having drank 
of it, is a metaphor illustrative of its having suf-
fered the infliction of deserved punishment, which 
by an elliptical metaphor are denominated " the 
dregs of the cup of trembling." 
" Wrung them 
out," says Mr. Barnes, " properly means to suck 
out, to suck greedily." 
Zion had experienced the 
greatest severity of punishment. 
There is none to guide her among all the sons whom she hath 
brought forth ; 
Neither is there any that taketh her by the hand of all the sons she 
hath brought up. 
These two things are come unto thee ; who shall be sorry for thee ? 
Desolation, and destruction, and famine, and the sword : by whom 
shall I comfort thee ? 
—vs. 18,19. 
Still continuing the figure of. an intoxicated 
woman, the city is represented as desolate and be-
reft of her children,—to guide and to take her by 
the hand, being metaphors to illustrate that she 
has no one to extend to her succor and aid, and 
therefore, as in v. 22, is dependent on the Lord 
for deliverance. 
The " two things," are evidently the two kinds 
of calamity which came upon the city—or, as in 
the margin " happened " tj it—viz., famine and 
the sword. These caused its desolation and de-
struction, or, as in the margin, its " breaking." 
The interrogations, " Who shall be sorry for 
thee?" and "By whom shall I comfort thee ?" 
imply that there were none to mourn for her, or 
to administer consolation. 
Thy sons have fainted, they He 
At the head of all the streets, as a wild bull in a net: 
They are full of the fury of the Lord, the rebuke of thy God. 
—v. 20. 
Jerusalem is represented as a mother, and its 
inhabitants as her sons. 
Their having fainted, 
and lying at the head of all the streets, are put by 
substitution for the helpless condition in which 
all who had escaped, the famine and sword were 
left. By an elliptical metaphor, the entrance or 
the most conspicuous places in all the streets are 
denominated their " head ;" and by a simile, a 
wild bull entangled in a net illustrates the impos-
sibility of their extricating themselves from their 
hopeless condition. 
There is a metaphor in the 
use of the word " full," to illustrate the abun-
dance of their punishment. 
Therefore hear now this, thou afflicted, 
And drunken, but not with wine : 
Thus saith thy Lord, the Lord, 
And thy God that pleadeth the cause of his people, 
Behold, I have taken out of thine hand the cup of trembling, 
Even the dregs of the cup of my fury ; thou shalt no more drink it 
again : 
But I will put it into the hand of them that afflict thee ; 
Which have said to thy soul, Bow down, that we may go over : 
And thou hast laid thy body as the ground, and as the street, to 
them that went over.—vs. 21-23. 
" Afflicted and drunken" are metaphors ex-
pressive of Jerusalem's desolate and broken condi-
tion (v. 19)—the result of the dregs of the cup of 
trembling which it had drank. 
Jerusalem, (Luke 21:24,) was to " be trodden 
down of the Gentiles until the times of the Gen-
tiles be fulfilled ;" which limitation, implies that 
then its bondage shall ceafce. Its cessation, is il-
lustrated in v. 22, by the metaphor of the removal 
from her hand of the cup of trembling, &c., which 
it had so long drank. 
Putting the cup into the hands of those who had 
afflicted Jerusalem, is a substitution for the in-
fliction of like judgments on them. 
" Soul " is 
put by a synecdoche for the person, under which 
by the figure Jerusalem is addressed—the direc-
tion to whom, to " Bow down that we may go 
over" &c., is a substitution to illustrate their 
treading it under foot, as a street, by a simile, is 
trodden. 
In illustration of this passage, Bishop 
Lowth quotes from Lactantius, that " The Empe-
ror Valerianus being through treachery taken 
prisoner by Sapor, king of Persia, was treated by 
him as the basest and most abject slave : for the 
Persian monarch commanded tbe unhappy Roman 
to bow himself down, and offer him his back, on 
which he set his foot, in order to mount his chariot 
or his horse, whenever he had occasion." 
And 
Mr. Lane gives the following as an annual cus-
tom : 
" ' A considerable number of Durweeshes,' says 
he, (I am sure there were not less than sixty, but 
I could not count their number), laid themselves 
down upon the ground, side by side, as close as 
possible to each other, having their backs upwards, 
having their legs extended, and their arms placed 
together beneath their foreheads. When the Sheykh 
approached, his horse hesitated several minutes to 
step upon the back of the first prostrate man ; but 
being pulled and urged on behind, he at length, 
stepped upon them ; and then without apparent 
fear, ambled with a high pace over them all, led 
by two persons, who ran over the prostrate men, 
one sometimes treading on the feet, and the other 
on the heads. Not one of the men thus trampled 
on by the horse seemed to be hurt; but each, the 
moment that the animal had passed over him, 
jumped up and followed the Sheykh. 
Each of 
them received two treads from the horse, one from 
one of his fore-legs, and a second from a hind-
leg."—Modern Egyptians, p. 199. 
FINAL ADIEU TO CHARDON ST. CHAPEL. 
LORD'S day, the 22d of October, 1854, was a day 
of deep interest to the Chardon St. Church. 
On 
this day they were to bid a final farewell to the 
place rendered sacred by years of the most peculiar 
personal experience and social religious history. 
But never had the hand of Providence, which had 
been strikingly manifested in every period of their 
pilgrimage, been more marvellously and mercifully 
interposed, than at the present time. 
A few 
months before, this church had held several meet-
ings to enquire if anything could be done to obtain 
a place where they might meet together a little 
longer, for the worship of God. The lease of the 
Chardon Street property would soon rUn out. 
To 
renew this lease, or to purchase the property, was 
equally beyond their power; and to obtain any 
other place seemed nearly as hopeless. 
To some 
of the members, it seemed as if they must give up 
their existance as a religious body. It was re-
solved, however, to make an effort, wishing to 
leave no ground for self-reproach in case of a fail-
ure, and knowing that, by the blessing of God, 
they might succeed, dark as the prospect then ap-
peared. But now, through the smiles of Provi-
dence, on the only plan which gave any promise 
of success, the prospect before them, so far as a 
place of worship was concerned, was better than 
before. And since they must leave Chardon Street, 
how pleasant was it to mark the good hand of God 
in giving them a building which, in its general 
arrangements, was all they could desire, in a most 
desirable location, and under pecuniary responsi-
bilities which could hardly be felt! 
In comparing the past with the present, even so 
brief a period, " we are like them that dreamed." 
The day was improved by the pastor, in a man-
ner worthy of the occasion. 
The text was from 
Deut. 8:2, 3—" And thou shalt remember fill the 
way which tbe Lord thy God led thee these forty 
years in the wilderness, to humble thee, and to 
prove thee, to know what was in thine heart, 
whether thou wouldest keep his commandments or 
no. And he humbled thee, and suffered thee to 
hunger, and fed thee with manna, which thou 
knewest not, neither did thy fathers know ; that 
he might make thee know that man doth not live 
by bread only, but by every word that proceedeth 
out of the mouth of the Lord, doth man live." 
The morning discourse was in illustration of the 
providential doctrine of the text, and our duty to 
remember it. In the afternoon the same discourse 
was continued, in a detailed history of the church, 
and the cause, with which he had been So promi-
nently identified. The following brief sketch of 
the whole subject presented, will doubtless be 
gratifying to the readers of the Herald. 
Closing sermon ondeaving Chardon St. Chapel, 
Sabbath, Oct. 22, 1854. 
Text—Deut. 8:2, 3. 
" Thou shalt remember all the way the Lord thy 
God led thee." 
I. The church of God, has ever been led by him 
—His dealings with them are not always under-
stood at the t'me. But unerring in his work, he 
does all things well. The Israelites were led by 
pillar and cloud by day and night. 
So are we led 
by his word and providence. 
II. The object of God's painful discipline was, to 
prove and try his people, to see whether they 
would walk in hio way, or not. 
There is, 1st, the 
reception of truth ; and, 2d, the trial in it. 
We 
have been led into deep trials ; put into the fur-
nace, to try us, and see if we would adhere to 
truth ; or whether we would choose the popular 
side, and live at ease in Zion. 
How few were found in Israel that were true to 
God and truth ? 
How few among the hosts of Adventists ? 
III. The duty to remember all the way—and its 
blessings—vs. 3, 4. All the deliverances of'his 
hand, see vs. 4-10. So let us remember all God 
has done for us. 
With all our trials, we still live 
and enjoy much—and more, in prospect. 
IV. The warning—if we forget God. See vs. 
19, 20. 
So with usf if we forsake God. 
How 
many have fallen at every step of the way we have 
passed, as the Israelites fell in the wilderness ! 
We must cling to him and his institutions, if 
we would live and be sustained. 
» 
AFTERNOON DISCOURSE. 
This morning we dwelt upon the great princi-
ple and leading points brought to view in the text. 
This afternoon it will be our object to present a 
particular history of this church, as an illustration 
of the great principle of Providential guidance. 
To simplify the subjeet, I call your attention to 
the history of this Church in its several periods. 
FIRST PERIOD. 
I commenced my labours with the First Christian 
Society in Aug. 1829, and labored with them about 
seven years. 
I began with seven families and a distracted 
and scattered Church. 
But the Lord blessed us, 
and added 200 to our Church, and gave us a full 
audience, with general prosperity. 
But circum-
stances which I need not here dwell upon, led me 
to resign the pastoral charge of this Church. 
God has wrought good out of this change, and 
his hand was in it. 
I desire to recognize it. 
Thus seven of the best years of my life were spent 
in indefatigable labor for the cause of God among 
the Christians, at tlje corner of Summer and Sea 
streets. 
SECOND PERIOD. 
I then commenced a New Society in Lyceum 
Hall, Hanover street, which continued there for 
more than a year, in great prosperity. 
We began with 12 young men—all mechanics, 
and poor as to this world's goods. 
The fiflst year, we added about 50 members. 
We paid a rent of about $500, which made us 
feel the necessity of getting a new place of worship. 
But we had no means to build. 
It seemed like a 
mountain which we could not ascend. 
At length 
[ saw this place, then a stable, and my first 
thought was only to put up a temporary place-
but as we went on, it resulted in this building in 
which we meet to-day. 
The dedication took place on Nov. 7th, 1838. 
No curtains drawn, nor tent, nor shed, 
Shut out the over arching skies, 
When Jesus, in his manger bed 
First turned to heaven his infant eyes. 
But quiet stars looked down, and threw, 
From diamond cups, on all the ground, 
Their blessed gift of light and dew, 
While oxen fed or slept around. 
349 THE ADVENT 
HERALD. 
\ 
Tha babe, that in thU manger lay, 
Hath brought a gift more blessed for 
Than night dews, or the brightest ray 
That ever dropped from sun or star. 
The light of truth, the dew of grace 
He giveth to a world of sin : 
And, to his name, we give this place, 
That once a manger'd stall hath been. 
Not as the Magi came, of old, 
With offerings to the new-born King, 
Of myrrh, and frankincense, and gold, 
Come we ; but, Lord, this house we bring. 
To Thee:—and, since thou dost prefer, 
Before '11 temples, hearts sincere, 
We pray that many a worshipper 
May kneel and lind acceptance here. 
The first year, I find by a sketch of ray Adver-
sary sermon of 1839, we had added seventy-five 
souls to the Church, the most of whom were ad-
ded by conversion. 
Also, much improvement had 
been made in the gifts and graces of the Church. 
One special object had been gained,—that of " To-
tal abstinence," which then was not very common 
among church members. 
The Sabbath school had been much enlarged. 
In temporal matters we had been prospered, and 
met our annual expenses. 
We also had paid towards our house $2300. 
In 1840, the second anniversary, I preached 
from 1 Sam. 7:2-17—" Hitherto the Lord has 
helped us." 
This year was marked with greater success than 
the former. 
One hundred and fifty souls were added to tho 
Church this year. 
We lived in unity. 
We raised 
liberal sums to Bupport the cause, at home and 
abroad. 
We foiled the attacks of sectarian enemies, and 
kept the church crowded with hearers. 
THIRD PERIOD. 
In the beginning of this year I introduced Wm. 
Miller to my people, which commenced the Advent 
interest in .Boston. 
The crowd.who came to hear Mr. Miller were 
under the necessity, in order to obtain seats, to 
come to the place of worship long before the hour 
for beginning service ; and such was the interest, 
that those who firsts obtained seats held them. 
This, interfering with the rights of those who held 
pews, some took offence. 
The regular meetings of the church were in-
terrupted by the meetings for those who came to 
hear on the Advent question, which caused much 
derangement of the established affairs of the soci-
ety. 
This gave dissatisfaction to another class. 
The larger part of the Church, however, bore 
with it all, and joined heartily with me, in bear-
ing the burdens, which the new interest created. 
After some months, from my connection with Mr. 
Miller, in visiting and lecturing in other places, it 
became necessary that some other person should 
supply the Chardon street pulpit. 
The one with 
whom the arrangement for this purpose was made, 
appeared to be every way trustworthy. 
This per-
son was John Starkweather, who had borne the 
character of a respectable minister, in the Congre-
gational body. 
He was strongly affected by the 
Oberlin views of Christian perfection, which he 
continued to make prominent after he professed the 
Advent faith ; and it soon appeared that his chief 
object was of a sectarian and selfish character. 
Though his purpose was kept secrert from most of 
the members, order and decency soon gave way to 
confusion, disorder and strife; and, when every 
thing appeared to be in danger, I stood forth, de-
termined to make an effort to save what might be 
ffl^ed. But the separation of his faction from the 
main body followed, which was felt for some time 
as a serious affliction. All the former members of 
the church came back, and soon we found the place 
to strait for us, which led to the erection of the 
tabernacle in Howard street. 
This 
introduced 
the 
FOURTH PERIOD. 
This large building, capable of accommodating 
some four thousand persons, was erected at the 
height of apparent prosperity to the Advent cause. 
The place was frequently crowded, and meetings 
were generally very orderly and profitable. 
The 
pulpit was often supplied by the most gifted and 
efficient men in the cause, and the whole commun 
ity was moved by their ministrations. 
This period 
of prosperity was not, however, unattended by se-
vere trials. 
At length the time at which it was 
supposed the prophetic periods must terminate, 
passed ; the interest subsided; and the number 
who attended our meetings fell away. 
The expense 
of sustaining so large a place was a heavy burden ; 
and after occupying the tabernacle for about three 
yerrs, it was sold. 
THE FIFTH PERIOD. 
which commenced at the time of leaving the taber-
nacle, was of an unsettled character as to our place 
of worship. 
During a fe^ months we occupied a 
large hall under what wa,s then the Museum, on 
Tremont street, from which we removed to a hall 
oi Washington street, where we also remained but 
a few months. 
The meetings at these places were 
well attended, and very good. 
From Washington 
street, we removed to Central Hall, Milk street, 
which was rented at 1200 dollars a year, and intro-
duced the 
SIXTH PERIOD. 
We remained in this place two years. 
The 
cause was quite prosperous for some time; but 
unfortunately we got a pastor who proved to he 
a bad man ; and whose influence was of the most 
disastrous character. 
A more serious division was the result, so that 
we have never fully recovered from the blow. 
The separation of so large a number, who left at 
this time, imposed a burden on those who remained 
that they were poorly able to bear. 
They were 
filled with discouragements ; but quite unexpected-
ly Providence interposed by opening the way for 
our return to Chardon St., where we have now wor-
shipped for more than six > years, which maybe 
considered the 
oi1 
SEVENTH PERIOD. 
In July 1848,1 re-purchased Chardon St. chapel, 
in which we now are, and said to the Church in 
their great discouragements, to come and worship 
here. 
I only asked for their good will and unity 
among themselves. 
They came, and an effort 
was made to build up the society. 
We secured as 
we supposed a good man for this object. 
He 
also proved to be unworthy of our confidence ; and 
inflicted a more serious injury than the Church had 
ever before suffered, as you all know. 
This last wound was the worst of all—it could 
never be healed. 
While almost in despair, and 
ready to give up without hope, as a last effort, 
means were adopted to build a place for our ac-
commodation, and the new chapel which is now 
nearly ready for our use has appeared. 
It almost 
seems like a miracle. 
We trust the change we 
are about to make under circumstances so cheer-
ing, will be the last before we enter the everlast-
ing kingdom. 
Thus has this branch of the Church of God been 
led by Him. 
Thus we have been tried. 
And 
under our greatest trials and discouragements He 
has sustained us, or we should not be so full of 
heart as we are to-day. 
In looking over the past, and counting up the 
numbers that are left, while we rejoice in the tes-
timony of so many faithful ones, who have fallen 
asleep in Jesus ; how painful is the fact that such 
multitudes turned aside from our holy profession. 
We have been proved by suffering for the truth, 
and the God of truth has made us. 
And now may we not expect that God has some-
thing more for us to do. 
When I look at those 
who remain, and at what they have endured, I am 
reconciled to the loss of so many who have gone 
after fables. 
We have enough to enter upon our 
new position with confidence and hope, if we are 
faithful to our responsibilities. 
Let us go to our 
new place proclaiming the same blessed doctrine 
of the coming of Christ; and honoring our pro-
fession by all the Christian virtues, zealously la-
boring for the salvation of those who may come 
within our influence ; and continue in this glori-
ous work, till we all, with those we may win to 
Christ, shall be called to meet him in his glory! 
At the close of this discourse, the society was 
called to order by ELDER A. HALE, the chairman, 
who presented the following preamble and resolu-
tions which were unanimously adopted. 
Whereas, in the wise and merciful providence of 
God, over us as a religious society, the efforts 
which have been made to procure a new place of 
worship have proved, notwithstanding the great 
discouragements to be encountered, so far success-
ful, that we meet, probably, in this place—the 
scene of so many hallowed and instructive associa-
tions to ourselves, and the radiating point from 
which so much light has been diffused to others— 
for the last time ; it becomes us on such an occa-
sion, to remember all the way which He has led 
us to humble and to prove us. to know what was 
in our heart, whether we would keep his command-
ments or no. 
Therefore 
Resolved, That we heartily ascribe our continued 
existence as a society, under the numerous and 
sore trials through which we have passed, to the 
mercy and grace, the long-suffering and watchful 
care, of the God of all grace ! 
Resolved, That we at this time profess our re-
newed confidence in the truth by which we have 
been distinguished in the religious world, as in ac-
cordance with the plain teachings of the word of 
God, and the ancient faith of his most approved 
people, since the personal departure ot our Lord 
from Mount Olivet, to the right hand of the Majes-
ty on high. 
Resolved, That we believe it to be still binding 
upon us, in our united capacity, to proclaim to the 
world our faith in the Divine teachings, historical 
evidences and providential indications, concerning 
the personal return of our Lord in hiR glory, as 
now constantly to be expected. 
Resolved, That it also becomes us on this occa-
sion, while we make mention of the merciful deal-
ings of God towards us, to acknowledge our obli-
gations to those of his faithful servants, on whose 
labors we have been specially dependent, in the 
enjoyment of our public and social religious privi-
'eges. 
And 
1st. That we express the deep sense of obliga-
tion which rests upon us to our indefatigable pas-
tor, Joshua Vaughan Himes, who has been to us, 
in many dark hours of peculiar adversity, a 
Joshua, or deliverer, in truth; and who has never 
failed to care for us, even as a father for his child-
ren. 
But for his agency, under God, we have rea-
son to fear that we should ere this have ceased to 
exist as a society. 
2d. That we tender our warmest thanks to those 
whose voices we have so long and constantly heard 
in our hymns of praise; and especially to our 
brethren, W. P. Butler and J. G. L. Himes—the 
first as chorister, the second as musician—for the 
parts they have so faithfully and worthily per-
formed, without any pecuniary 
compensation. 
And 
3d. That we now repeat our sense 'of indebted-
ness to brother W. L. Hopkinson, for the many 
labors he has so faithfully and gratuitously per-
formed for our comfort, especially in taking the 
oversight of our place of worship as sexton. 
Resolved, That we devote ourselves anew to the 
service of God, hoping that our new place of wor-
ship may become a new pledge to us of the better 
than all earthly things which remains for the peo-
ple of God! 
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Barnes. 
Spiritual Telegraph. 
The above, if a fact, is a very singular one ; but 
there is room to question whether the avoidance 
by the mice of those papers, was because of the 
regard which the mice had for the truth they con-
tained, or for the distaste which they had for their 
errors. 
If, however, those papers are mice-proof, 
they can be made very useful in lining bandboxes, 
trunks &c. We hope that further experiments 
will be made with them, that it may be ascer-
tained whether they would in like manner deter 
cockroaches, ants, moths, bedbugs &c. ; for should 
they prove useful in this way, they might be of 
great benefit to the human race. 
JEWISH SEVENTH 
MONTH. 
I wish to ask a few questions in relation to the 
Jewish second year—crucifixion of our blessed 
Lord, and the tenth day of the seventh month, &c. 
1. Is it, or is it not, generally understood that 
our Lord was crucified on or about the 3d day of 
April ? 
2. If so, must not the Jewish second year have 
commenced with the vernal equinox, or there-
abouts ? 
3. If the crucifixion occurred on the 14th day of 
the first month ofthe Jewish year, (between two 
evenings,) and the crucifixion took place on the 
3d of April, how can these points synchronize with 
extending the 10th day of the seventh month to 
November 1st or 2d day, which is calculated by 
our time brethren, to be the time when our Great 
High Priest will come and bless all the waiting 
people, and receive then* to himself. 
Will you give us something authoritative and 
definite on the above points, and oblige your anx-
ious and waiting brother, 
THOMAS SMITH. 
Eddington, Me., Oct. 23d, 1854. 
REMARKS.—It is true that the crucifixion is gen 
erally assigned to the 3d of April; but there is 
room to question it. 
The Jewish passover was al-
ways kept in connection with the ripening of the 
barley harvest, and their year began with the new 
moon at the full of which the barley is ripe,—a 
sheaf of that grain being necessary, to be waved be-
fore the Lord as a^wave offering on the morrow af-
ter the Sabbath following the killing of the pascal 
lamb.—see the 23d of Leviticus. 
The barley is ripe in the plain of Jericho in the 
beginning of April. 
In all other parts of Pales-
tine it is in ear at that time, and the ears begin 
to turn yellow about the middle of the month— 
See Advent Shield p. 375. 
It will thus be seen that the Jewish year was move-
able and did not commence.at any fixed point, and 
it sometimes consisted of twelve, and sometimes, 
about once in three years—of thirteen moons. 
Since the dispersion of the Jews the Rabbins have 
commenced their year with the new moon nearest 
the vernal equinox, irrespective of the time of the 
barley harvest—which is a manifest disregard of 
the requirements of the Mosaic law. 
On the con 
tary, the Caraite'Jews at Jerusalem, wait till the 
barley is ripe in April, before they observe the pas-
sover, which is ordinarily a month later than the 
Rabbins celebrate it, which is usually in the month 
of March. 
Occasionally, however, the first full 
moon after the vernal equinox comes so late in 
the season that the barley is then ripe, in which 
case the Rabbins and Caraite, observe the passover 
at the same time. 
This is the case the present 
year. 
Last year the first full moon came on the 
25th of March, when the barley was still in the 
ear, so that the Caraites did not show their pass-
over till the second full moon on the 23d of April, 
But this year the first full moon came on the 13th 
of April, when the barley was ripe, and the Ca-
raites and Rabbins alike observed it. 
That being 
the 'first month, the seventh month commenced 
this year on the 23d of Sept. and ended on the 20th 
of Oct., according to the Caraite reckoning. 
This 
whole subject is fully explained in an article in 
the Shield on the seventh month movement; show-
ing that it nearly synchronizes with our October. 
Spiritualism Proof Against 
Mice. 
MOSES W Newcomb, of Clay, N. Y., is a sub-
scriber for several newspapers, and among the rest 
for 
the 
SPIRITUAL TELEGRAPH, and 
the New 
Era. 
As these papers have been read by his family they 
have been thrown into a certain box behind a sofa^ 
which serves also as a comfortable habitation for 
mice. 
On a recent examination by Mrs. New-
comb, she found that those meddlesome little var-
mints had completely cut to pieces nearly all the 
Irish Servant 
Girls. 
A WRITER in the Detroit Tribune says that Bish-
op Le Fever has a 
Soceity ofthe Guild " in that 
city (secret of course) the object of which is to di-
rect the conduct of Catholic servant girls living 
in Protestant families, so that they may gather 
from them and report to him the private affairs 
and views of every such family in Detroit. 
There 
are hundreds, perhaps thousands of Irish girls em-
ployed in Protestant families is this city, through 
whom Bishop O'Riley can, if he desires it, ac-
quaint himself with tho affairs of a large majority 
ofthe Protestants in Hartford.. 
The Newburyport Herald suggests the following 
remedy for this evil. 
' American girls must be substituted in the 
kitchen for the Irish help—excellent as the latter 
is in many cases. 
Pianos must be played less, 
and pots and kittles looked after more ; fewer 
silks and more calicoes used, less walking in the 
streets will be seen, and more walking in the suds 
about washtubs—and then when a man marries, 
he will marry a wife,—one that can cook his din-
ner, wash his shirt, and mend his clothes, and not 
an overgrown baby, to set in the parlor, spend his 
money without thinking that it must be earned, 
and play lady until husbands are bankrupt. 
Most 
people will go for the native movement thus far at 
least, but how many mothers will approve it?— 
how many daughters will vote for this new era?" 
Hartford Christian Secretarv. 
THE REIGN OF ART.—In this wonderful age, Art 
lays her master touches on almost every thing. 
The ceilings over us and thg carpets we tread on, 
are hallowed by Art. 
Art winds the railway 
through the mountain and the mud: makes her 
machines of wood and iron, to act as if with knowl-
edge and annihilates space with lightning tamed 
to the tutelage of a boy. 
Nothing is too lofty for 
her touch and nothing too humble. 
A new proof 
of this old conviction, has just fallen under our 
notice, in the shape of a CATHARTIC PILL, from tho 
Laboratory of that world renowned Chemist Doct. 
J. C. AYER. 
If we understand the subject, he has carried that 
article to the fartherest perfection of which it is 
capable. 
Instead of employing Drugs in its com-
position, as we had always thought the necessary 
and only way, he has with consummate skill ex-
tracted the virtues of the medicines to be employed 
and combined them alone in their purity together. 
The composition is then mixed and rolled by ma-
chinery and steam power, into:a speroid pill which 
is wrapped in an envelope of gelatine, for pro-
tection from the effiects of time, and then thickly 
coated with sugar, to serve as its passport over the 
palate. 
Notwithstanding all this labored perfec-
tion they are offered to the Public at less than one 
cent each. 
However humble the department, we 
think this may be safely characterized as the con-
summation of Art in its line. 
Morning News, Bait. 
GENERAL CONFERENCE OF ADVENTISTS IN MAINE.— 
There is a desire for a general gathering of Ad-
ventists in Me., on the part of many of the early, 
steadfast, and faithful friends of the cause. 
It is 
proposed, therefore, to hold a conference, to com-
mence Nov. 9th, and continue over the Sabbath. 
Some of the objects of this meeting will be to 
form a better acquaintance with each other—to 
ljarn each other's views, and also to hear reports 
of the state of the cause within the bounds of the 
State, and to provide for the destitute, &c. The 
meeting will be held at Richmond. 
Brethren will 
be provided for, and it is hoped that there will be 
a general gathering, from all parts of the State. 
The " reasons of our hope," and the evidence of 
the speedy coming of Christ will be fully given. 
J. V. IIIMES. 
THE DEDICATION.—Time altered from Nov. 29th 
to Dec. Oth. See notice in another column. 
142 THE ADVENT HERALD. \ 
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 
he friends of the 
Herald. 
AN ABOMINATION UNTO THE LORD. 
" THESE si x things doth the Lord hate; yea, sev-
en are an abomination unto him : a proud look, a 
lying tongue, and hands that shed innocent blood, 
an heart that deviseth wicked imaginations, feet 
that be swift in running into mischief, a false wit-
ness that speaketh lies, and him that sqweth dis-
cord among brethren."—Prov. 6:16-19. 
The above scripture should be well considered 
by us all, and our conduct carefully compared 
with it. 
It is plain language, it needs no com-
ment. 
Those who are not guilty, will not apply it 
to themselves. 
Those who are guilty of any of 
these sins, will probably say,." He means us;" 
and those who sympathize with such, having been 
deceived by them, will say, " He means us." 
The 
first, will apply it correctly. 
I quoted it for their 
admonition, hoping they would see it, and be 
benefited by their application. 
1 make none. The 
second, will be wrong, and should not apply the re-
proof to themselves, only as they sympathize with 
wrong doers, or their wrong doings. 
THE ISSUE NOT 
UNDERSTOOD. 
There are many devoted Christians, of honest 
intentions who are often and most grievously de-
ceived, because they do not learn -to look at the 
roots, or the real causes of matters, before they 
make up judgment, or adopt the judgment their 
teachers have made for them. 
The truth of this 
principle will be clearly seen in the case of which 
I am about to write, and I write to undeceive 
some honest souls, who may see this, and whose 
hearts are distressed for those they are deceived 
about. 
Often, within a few months have I been greeted 
by those dearest to me by Christian ties, in lan-
guage like this: "I am sorry brother W., that 
you are so opposed to the Lord's coming this 
year," or, " I am astonished that you should try to 
argue that Jesus won't come this year.. I am 
•grieved to hear thai you and brethren, 
and 
Elders 
, have written much to show the Lord 
won't come. 
This is just what the churches done 
in '43 and '44," &c. Now I have to say, that some 
false principle has been taught these persons, by 
which to test evidence, " false balance " to weigh 
the coin, or they would never say these things. 
For I have never presented an argument nor an 
evidence, or a reason attempting to show, nor that 
could, by any just inference, bo called an attempt 
to show that the Lord would not come this year 
I did once say to a brother, the only reason 1 could 
present would be, that the Lord might rebuke such 
arrogance, and blasphemous dogmatism, as was 
manifested by some, yet the Lord would not post 
pone the time for that. 
I with others, have been 
constantly preaching and teaching the evidences 
and producing arguments, that Christ is irnme 
diately to come,—all signs past—he may come to 
day, to-night, and must come soon. 
But when 
testimony has been urged upon us that the end 
must be this year, and that we and all others must 
believe it, or be lost, and we often urged to take 
an unseriptural course, to live out, or as one 
brother has justly called it " idle out " this faith 
and do other things in reproach of Christianity 
we have listened to all their arguments, and 
weighed, and measured all their evidences, read 
their books and papers, and become nearly as fa-
miliar, if not as fascinated with their whole sys-
tem as themselves. 
(Did the churches do this in 
'43 and '44 ?) But we have failed to see the value 
of the testimony they bring from history, and 
chronology, and its perfect relation to the point 
in question, to suspend the destiny of the Church 
on its belief—that it teaches " the Lord must come 
this year, or the Bible fail, as very many have 
taught. 
We have argued to show that this class 
of testimony had not the value in it that the Bible 
had. 
It might fail, the Bible never. 
We have 
likewise argued to show that some of the prac-
tices enjoined by many, were " the command-
ments and precepts of men," causing " vain wor-
ship." 
But when brethren tell me that they are 
told, I spend my time trying to prove that time 
will continue, or that the Lord will not come this 
year, * I can only answer, unqualifiedly, " You 
have been told falsehoods," my record is in heaven. 
Such things cause " discord among brethren," 
The principle of value of testimony may be il-
lustrated in the case of a man I once knew, who 
had a good farm, and a large bluff of rock on it. 
One day he found some yellow mettle in the rock, 
he examined and found it abounded; he pronounced 
it gold, and decided he had a fortune ; he then pre-
sented it for his neighbors to decide, that he and 
they were rich for it was on their farms too. They 
did not know but there was gold on it, they were 
uncertain. 
Some professed to know that it was 
not all gold. 
But he was so fascinated by his pros-
pect, that he was troubled because his neighbors 
did not fully endorse his opinion ; they did not at-
tempt to prove that it was not of some value, nor 
that their farms were not of great value, but they 
had no good evidence that this was gold ; it looked 
just like it, until it had been tested by one that 
knew how to do it. 
It was finally sent a great 
distance to be tested ; it proved to be, not gold, 
yet their farms were worth none the less; there 
was real value in them, but they had to get it 
from other sources than the mettle, the value was 
not in that. 
So we say of the evidence adduced on time, it 
may be of some value, but it has not the sanction, 
of a thus saith the Lord, and we do not make a 
test of it, nor allow others to do so, without warn-
ing them of the impropriety of putting human tes-
timony and deductions on an equal with the word 
of God, and say they will rise or fall together. 
This has been the cause of " discord " by some 
who teach. 
I was much surprised not long since, while il-
lustrating to a devoted and much esteemed, though 
misguided brother, (whose name 1 will not reveal, 
he is a teacher of some notoriety,) the want of 
evidence to make the time argument a test of man's 
salvation. 
" Well," said the brother, " The argu-
ment is big enough to upset your cause in Maine. 
It has ruined it in this state, your cause has gone 
before it, glory to God:" 
I earnestly asked an 
explanation, asking him if he and I had not la-
bored and spent our money together for years, to 
promote the same cause ? I am now in the cause 
of God. 
" Yes, we did," said he. 
What then do 
you mean, I asked. 
" Our time argument is 
strong enough to upset your cause in Maine," was 
the reply. 
My cause, well, I know no cause but 
God's if that sinks I must go down with it, I have 
put my trust in him ; God's cause will not be 
upset " nor " ruined," and when the cause in 
which 1 labor, and for which I»have spent my all, 
and with which I sympathize, is " upset," and 
ruined," I will be convinced that there are no 
Christians in my acquaintance, and I have not 
found the cause of God. 
That dear brother is la-
boring under the error, that God's cause has 
changed hands on the definite time light. 
But, say some, "Why do you meddle with this 
subject, if you think the evidence not good to make 
it sure, and yet, thi^k it may be the Lord will 
come this vear?" 
Because it is made to take the 
place of Christ and his word. 
We have but one 
Lord, his " word is to judge us at the last day," 
not a definite time faith,—or argument, command-
ments of men cannot be a true rule to judge and 
justify us. 
Should a teacher come among us, and preach 
Caziba, Julian, or Mohammed, as our Saviour,— 
the only way we eould be saved, all would not be 
well with us, to hold our peace, according to Paul. 
So, although we do not object to, but approbate 
time argument, yet when it is taught as a Saviour 
and a Saviour's words, it becomes the watchman's 
duty to show the error, not to save the cause of 
God, but to care for the flock, and save sinners 
Dear brethren and sisters, let us remember that 
the times in which we live are " perilous;" let us 
" take heed," not to fall at the right hand nor to 
the left; live daily a whole sacrifice to God, 
"trust also in him." 
Remember "it is better 
to trust in the Lord than to put confidence in 
princes." 
Jesus is our High Priest, gone to the 
Father with his own blood to offer for us, by 
him, and him alone, shall we find mercy. 
" His 
blood cleanseth from all sin." 
His word is to 
judge us at the last day." 
We must believe it 
all, and obey it. 
Soon the secrets of all hearts 
will be discovered ; our Saviour, our judge, our 
king, is about to come to take his afflicted Church 
to himself, to make his saints all immortal, and 
"give unto them eternal life." 
Grudge not one 
against another lest ye be condemned. 
" Behold 
the judge standeth at the door." 
He may come 
at any day, are we ready ? His word attests that 
he will come soon, his Church " is not in dark-
ness," the time is at hand, let us be " watching, 
for in such an hour as ye think not, 'the Son of 
man cometh." 
My dear brethren, who have been so misled as 
to laugh and scoff at the saints who anxiously 
look, and daily wait for their returning Lord, I 
beseech you to refrain from reproaching the word 
of Christ. 
0, who would have thought a few 
years ago, when you told the world and Church 
you constantly expected your Lord, that you would 
so soon join the great company of scoffers, and 
speak so tauntingly about " every day lookers," 
and you on time too. 
Be not mockers, lest your 
bands be made strong. 
Do, I pray you, leave the 
" seat ot the scoffers," ancl stand ready to meet 
the Lord. 
I. C. WELLCOME. 
Hallowell, Me. Oct. 22d, 1854. 
LETTER FROM DEA. JOHN SMITH, IN RE-
SPONSE TO ELDER J. COLE. 
—* I also find it the same in the case of many 
others who are constantly reported by these " sow-
ers of discord," or those they deceive, to be op-
posers to time, putting off the day of the Lord, &c. 
i. c. w. 
BRO. HIMES :—I saw by the last Herald a propo 
sition by Elder Cole, to relieve the*Herald from its 
present embarrassment, which gave me much plea 
sure; but instead of raising one thousand, I think 
it ought to be Iwo thousand, to put it on a solid 
basis. 
He proposes to be one of the twenty to 
raise a thousand dollars by the 15th of January 
next. 
I will be another, and will do it as freely 
as ever I gave my children a piece of bread; for 
it proposes to help God's cause, which is dearer 
to me than money, and even all other causes. 
Now brethren, you who profess to believe in the 
neaj approach of the Saviour, who will come to 
restore all things and set up his everlasting king-
dom, and profess to love his appearing, does it 
look as though we were sincere in our profession, 
to let brother Himes suffer for the want of pe-
cuniary aid, when we have it in our power to re-
lieve him ? One that has stood in the front of the 
battle from the time we first entered the field, and 
has endured all the reproach and persecution, and 
slander that could be heaped upon him from " foes 
without, and foes within," and many too, strange 
to say, that professed once to be his greatest 
friends. He has notwithstanding kept a straight-
forward course from the beginning, " turning nei-
ther to the right hand or the left," but proclaim-
ing the near approach of the Lord from heaven, 
and those great and glorious truths connected 
with that event; while many that started with 
him and run well for a season, have turned aside 
to fables, following their wild imaginations, and 
proclaiming for truth that which time has proved 
false. 
Instead of advancing the Advent cause they 
have brought a reproach upon it, and opened the 
mouths of infidels, and caused the enemy to blas-
pheme. 
Brother Himes has suffered most from 
this class of enemies, although they still profess 
to belong to the Advent cause. 
The Saviour says, 
" The tree is known by its fruit;" but 1 have 
never seen any fruit from that tree which I think 
the Saviour would pronounce good fruit; for a 
large portion of the fruit has been to " sow dis-
cord among brethren," which is said to be an 
abomination to the Lord. " Nevertheless the foun-
dation of God standeth sure, having this seal", the 
Lord knoweth them that are his." 
According to brother Himes' statement, there is 
due from subscribers to the Herald, about two thou-
sand dollars, and those subscribers profess to be 
Christians, and to be^eve the Lord is soon to be 
" revealed from heaven in flaming fire, to take 
vengeance on them that know not God and obey 
not the gospel." 
The gospel teaches that we 
should be honest to God and one another. 
If we 
are not, we must expect to suffer loss by the fire, 
if we are saved at all; and it is as much of a dis 
honest act to subscribe for a paper and then re 
fuse to pay for it, as it would be to give a note of 
hand to be paid in a certain time for value received, 
and then refuse to pay it, when it was in our power 
so to do. Those that profess to believe that the 
Lord will come this year, and refuse to pay their 
honest dues, had better not make known their 
faith, for their conduct will give their profession 
the lie. 
Such professions will have but little 
weight with an honest man. 
" Lord who shall 
abide in thy tabernacle, who shall stand in thy 
holy hill ] he that walketh uprightly, and work-
eth righteousness, and speaketh the truth in his 
heart; he that backbiteth not with his tongue, nor 
doeth evil to his neighbor, nor taketh up a re 
proach against his neighbor, in whose eyes a like 
person is contemned, but he honoreth them that 
fear the Lord. 
He that sweareth to his own hurt, 
and changes not; he that putteth not his money 
to usury, nor taketh a reward against the inno-
cent ; he that doeth these things shall never be 
moved." 
Brother Himes has my sympathy and 
prayers that God will support him under all his 
trials and burdens, and preserve him from all evil, 
and still make him useful in pfoclaiming the 
" Gospel of the kingdom," and of winning souls 
to Christ. 
My proposition to raise the other thousand, is 
this: if there can be found two hundred sub-
scribers who love the Herald, and the cause, that 
have it in their power to give the amount of five 
dollars, that they should send it in to brother H. 
and thus make up the one thousand. 
Who will 
begin 1 This would make two thousand dollars, j 
which would put the Herald office beyond embar-
rassment. 
Such an act will be noble on our part, 
and will take a great burden from brother Ilimes' 
shoulders, and will be a great thing for the " Ad-' 
vent cause " at this time. 
I very much doubt 
whether we shall ever have so good an opportunity 
of doing good to the cause as now. 
If we withhold 
now, in such a time of 'need as this, " God will 
bring deliverance from some other quarter," and 
we shall lose the blessing-; for it is more blessed 
to give than to receive. 
Brethren, we that believe 
that the Lord will soon come as he has promised, 
and take his people to himself, that where he is, 
there they shall be also, should manifest it by our 
works; " for faith without works is dead," and 
dead faith is of no account. 
If we have a mind to 
work, by uniting together for that purpose, We 
can do a great deal through Christ strengthening 
us. 
We are living in the most important period 
of this world's history, thafc-has ever been wit-
nessed by mortal man. 
It looks as though we 
were fast approaching to the great event, when 
the Lord will not only " shake the earth, but the 
heavens also, that the things that cannot be shaken 
may remain. 
Then it will be said, " he that is 
unjust, let him be unjust still, and he that is filthy, 
let him be filthy sitll; and Behold I come quickly, 
and my reward is with me, to give to every man 
according as his work shall be." 
One great difficulty with the Second Adventists 
is, that they are not systematical enough as yet in 
their plans to raise money for the advancement of 
the cause. 
Other benevolent institutions have a 
system for raising funds, and have stated times 
to collect for the different benevolent institutions; 
and men only in moderate circumstances think 
nothing of giving five or ten dollars at their quar-
terly collections for these different objects : to con-
vert the world, and to have a temporal millenni-
um, which to me is no more'than a Jewish fable. 
But we who do profess to believe that the Lord 
will soon make his appearance to set up his ever-
lasting kingdom, when we know that our money 
will be of no use to us then, for we can carry none 
of it with us, for it will not be needed in the " new 
earth,"Jit only wants a good system to put the 
truth even on the right track, and I think they 
would come up to the work, and give such aid as 
would be needful. 
I proposed some time past in a letter to brother 
Himes, that if there was two thousand-good sub-
scribers, and each one would advance one dollar 
extra for the Herald, it could be done without dis-
tressing any one, and I sent ten dollars to com-
mence with, but there was no response. 
, 
In conclusion, I say to brother Himes, with Da-
vid, " Fret not thyself because of evil doers, nei-
ther be thou envious against the workers of iniqui-
ty ; for they shall be cut down as the grass, and 
wither like the green herb. 
Trust in the Lord and 
do good ; so shalt thou dwell in the land ; verily, 
shalt thou be fed. Commit thy way unto the 
Lord ; trust also in him, and he shall bring it to 
pass ; and shall bring forth thy righteousness as 
the light, and thy judgment as the noon-day." 
Cincinnati, Oct. 20th, 1854. 
JOHN SMITH. 
PS. You may put down my wife for fifty dollars, 
to be paid the 15th of next April. 
j. s. 
LETTER FROM WM. E. HITCHCOCK. 
BRO. HIMES :—1. If the ten Dukedoms of Italy 
are symbolized by the ten horns of the scarlet-
colored beast, (in Rev. 17:3,) as some assert, 
would not the kingdom of Italy be the beast, and 
must not the seven heads be located in the same 
territory T 
2. Upon; the same principle, must not the leopard, 
beast (in Rev. 13:2,) symbolize another kingdom, 
and where are the heads and horns of itsjocation? 
3. Also; upon the same principle, must not the 
dragonic beast (in Rev. 12:3,) have a third king-
dom and territory, and where ? 
4. Do not the crowns upon the heads of the 
dragonic beast indicate their authority to reign 
before the horns do, or did the horns of this beast 
reign at all V What is meant by the heads of the 
beast, and when do they reign 1 
5. Do not the' crowns upon the horns of the-
leopard beast indicate their authority to reign 
next in order after the heads of the dragonic beast 
have accomplished their reign, or did the seven 
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heads of this boast ever reign, as there are no 
crowns to intimate it? 
6. As there are no crowns upon the heads nor 
horns of the scarlet-colored beast (described by the 
word of God,) on which the woman sitteth, do not 
some misrepresent the truth by affixing crowns 
upon the heads (illustrating upon Charts) of those 
kingdoms which they say are symbolized by this 
beast, and does not the description of the woman 
show that she reigns next in order after the ten 
horns ? 
7. Do not these three different kinds of beasts 
symbolize one and the same kingdom under its va-
ried forms of government, representing only one 
set of seven heads, and one set of ten horns, in-
stead of three ? 
8. Are not the ten kingdoms of the Western 
Roman Empire symbolized by the ten toes (Dan. 
2:42,),of tbe image, and by the ten horns of the 
fourth beast which Daniel saw in vision ? are they 
the same as identified by the scarlet-colored beast ? 
—when they reigned one hour (or a short time) 
with the beast, (Rev. 17:12) was it not when there 
were crowns upon their heads as seen by the leop-
ard beast, and was not the period of their reign-
ings about A.D. 476, and after, previous to the first 
three being plucked up by the roots? 
Will they 
not (with the. exception of the three,) make war 
with the religion of Christ, and continue in exist-
ence from this time until the Lord comes and qets 
up his everlasting kingdom (Dan. 2:44.) in the 
days of these kings, &c. ? 
9. If the Eastern Roman Empire, or Greek king-
dom was the power or little horn that plucked up 
three of the ten, in what sense does it constitute a 
horn and a head at one and the same time ? 
10. And if the power identified by the little 
horn was located in Italy, or at Rome, in what 
sense and how could it have existed until the Os-
trogoths were subdued, and in what year was its 
date? 
I believe questions of like import, and their an-
swers given to explain the relative position these 
beasts occupy to the Roman kingdom, would elu-
cidate much light and add interest to the subject. 
Yours, 
WM. E. HITCHCOCK. 
Brimfield, Oct. 10th, 1854. 
REMARKS. 
The first question commences with, an if. We 
do not recognize any symbolization of dukedoms in 
Italy by the horns of the beasts in Revelation. 
Those dukedoms not only lack the number of ten, 
but fail in other particulars to correspond with 
the conditions of the prophecy. 
The Roman Em-
pire is evidently symbolized by the dragon of the 
12th chapter, by the leopard beast of the 13th, 
and by the scarlet-colored beast of the 17 th,—its 
seven forms of government previous to its division 
into ten kingdoms being represented by the seven 
heads of the several beasts, and its ten divisions 
by their horns. 
The crowns being on the head of 
the dragon, and not on its horns, indicates that it 
is used to represent, chronologically, the condition 
of Rome previous to its decem-regal state; which 
is symbolized chronologically by the transfer of 
the diadems to the horns of the leopard beast. 
And the woman seated on the scarlet-colored beast, 
which is not represented as diademed, shows that 
the period made prominent by it, is that of the 
papal supremacy. 
This answers the first seven 
interrogations. 
8. In reply to the 8th, we say that the number 
of the toes of the image is not specified ; and we 
suppose that they merely indicate the divided con-
dition of the Roman Empire, irrespective of the 
number of kingdoms which should arise, but which 
correspond to those designated by the horns of the 
fourth beast of Daniel and those seen by John. 
You are doubtless correct in the epochs of their 
rise and termination. 
9. The Eastern Empire is symbolized by the 
horn of the 8th of Daniel, that waxed exceeding 
great, and not by the little horn of the 7th, which 
represents the papacy, nor by the heads of the 
beasts in Revelation. 
10. It might exist without being dominant. In-
deed it must have previously existed, or the Ostro-
goths could not have been plucked up by it, which 
was effected in A. D. 538. 
you with pleasure the name of another new sub-
scriber. 
I would express my gratitude to God for-the 
blessed privilege we.enjoyed at the camp-meeting 
at Perry's Mill, N. Y. There it was manifested 
that faith cometh by hearing, and hearing by the 
word of God. I believe that for the gospel truths 
there preached, some will praise God in eternity. 
It did my soul good to see sinners tremble at the 
word of God, confessing their sins, and believing 
on the Saviour ; backsliders returning from their 
wanderings, and also to see converts move forward 
in the ordinance of baptism, and not wait to see 
if they could live religion without obeying God. 
Your brother in-tribulation. 
0. ROCKWELL. 
Fairfield, Vt., Oct. 23d, 1854. 
Letter from C. F. Luce. 
BRO. HIMES : —We learn through the Herald that 
brother Samuel Chapman is about returning from 
the West, to visit the New England States, and the 
brethren desiring to see their brother, whom we 
have known so well by his letters published in the 
Herald. Therefore the churches of the Elk county 
Conference, Pa., in connection with their pastor, 
Elder J. D. Boyer, request that brother Chapman 
pay us a visit when returning from the West to 
the New England States, and remain with us two 
or three weeks. Brother Chapman will please in-
form us, either through the Herald, or by letter 
addressed to Caledonia P. 0., Elk county, Pa., 
whether he will comply -with our request. 
If 
brother Chapman visits us, he will come direct to 
Olean, New York, thence to Caledonia, by way of 
Smith Port, McKean county, Ridgeway, Elk coun-
ty, Pa., to Caledonia. If brother Chapman could 
make his arrangements so as to be at Smith Port, 
on Saturday evening, he would thus meet the stage 
which leaves Smith Port on Monday morning for 
Ridgeway and Caledonia. 
If brother Chapman 
could state what day he would be at Olean, N. Y., 
or Smith Port, McKean county, Pa., we would be 
much obliged. The stage runs from Olean, N. Y., 
to Smith Port daily. 
C. F. 
LUCE. 
Secretary oj the Elk county Conference. 
Caledonia, Elk county, Pa., Oct. 2Ath, 1854. 
©bitaarin 
Letter from O, Rockwell. 
BRO. HIMES :—In the midst of the last day-per-
ils, we find a few who are earnestly contending 
for the faith once delivered to the saints ; but how 
few compared to the multitude who are giving 
heed to seducing spirits and doctrines of demons, 
believing a lie that they might all be damned, who 
believe not the truth, &c. There are a few in 
Fairfield, who are holding on by faith to the prom-
ises of God, hoping for deliverance, to whom the 
Herald ia a welcome messenger, which we recom-
mend to all honest inquirers after truth. I send 
l mend to 
' I am the resurrection and the life: he that believeth in me 
though he were dead, yet shall he live: and whosoever liveth, and 
bellevethin me.shallnever die."'—JOHN 11: 25.26. 
a word to you, viz. : It was perhaps fortunate or 
providential, that the subiect of the above notice, 
was intimately acquainted with you while you 
ministered to the " Christian " Church at Fall 
River, Mass. 
By that means, as soon as he ascer-
tained that I was also a friend and acquaintance 
of yours, he cordially invited me to his house 
where 1 improved the opportunity of preaching to 
him and others personally, till he and they were 
specially blessed in the reception of the truth; 
since which, that house has been to me, and oth-
ers, a pilgrim's home. Oh how often have I heard 
that dear brother speak of you in terms of kind-
ness and brotherly affection. 
Let us together 
praise the Lord that the time is at hand, when 
brother H., and all the dead in Christ will live 
again. 
" Then we who are alive and remain, will 
be caught up together with them to meet the Lord 
in the air, and so we shall be forever with the 
Lord." 
N. B. My post-office address is now Pain's Point, 
Ogle county, 111., care of Joshua King. 
S. CHAPMAN. 
DIED, suddenly of cholera, brother ROBERT M. 
HATHAWAY, of White Rock, Ogle county, Illinois, 
Oct. 13th, 1854, aged 42 years 1 month, and 5 
days. 
Brother Hathaway embraced the religion 
ot Jesus at an early age, and united with the 
" Christian " Church in New Bedford, Mass. 
At 
the age of 21 he entered upon a sea-faring life, to 
which he dovoted himself for several years. Some 
ten years since he with his family, settled here in 
the far West, where he has dilligently employed 
his time in tilling the land to the day of his death. 
In October '52 I gave a course of lectures at 
White Rock, on the subject of the soon coming of 
the Lord. 
Brother Hathaway was a constant at-
tendant, and although like many others was in a 
" luke warm " state when our meetings com-
menced, he soon became revived, heartily embraced 
the faith, and with his companion united with the 
(then infant) Advent Church at Jefferson Grove, 
of which he remained a consistent and active 
member till the day of his decease. 
On Wednes-
day evening, the day before he expired (being in 
usual health) he attended the weekly prayer meet-
ing, and as his custom was took an active part in 
the services. 
When meeting closed he returned to 
his home and retired to bed as usual; and at 3 
o'clock in the morning was suddenly attacked 
with sickness at the stomach which was attended 
with desperate cramping, or spasms; these con-
tinued with but little mitigation till an hour or 
two before his death. 
Brother 0. Cheany anl 
other dear friends were with him to administer 
both medicine, and gospel consolation to the last 
moment. Brother H. was conscious, calm, and 
perfectly composed, till four P.M., when he fell 
asleep in Jeaus. 
During his sickness he expressed 
no desire to recover, only for the benefit of his 
dear wife and seven small children. They are 
sorely afflicted, and yet " they sorrow not even as 
others which have no hope." 
We sympathize 
deeply with that afflicted family. In the death of 
brother H., not only his family, but the church of 
which he was a member, and the community in 
which he lived, have experienced a great loss. 
On the Sabbath, (15th) the funeral services were 
performed at the sanctuary near the late residence 
of the deceased. 
A large number were present on 
the occasion, who listened with solemn attention 
to a discourse by the writer, from Job 14:14—" If 
a man die, shall he live again ?" 
SAMUEL CHAPMAN. 
Pain's Point, 111., Oct. 18th, 1854. 
PS. With permission, brother Himes, I will add 
DIED, in West Greenwich, R. I., Oct. 11th, at 
her father's residence, of consumption, Mrs. LYDIA 
L. WAITE, wife of Mr. James Waite, and daugh-
ter of John and Hannah Greene, in the 32d year 
of her age. 
Her funeral was solemnized at her 
father's residence, with a large circle of mourning 
friends. An appropriate discourse was delivered 
by Perley Champlain, from Isaiah 26:19—" Thy 
dead men shall live, together with my dead body 
shall they arise. 
Awake and sing, ye that dwefl 
in dust: for thy dew is as the dew of herbs, and 
the earth shall cast out the dead." 
The deceased 
was a member of the Adventist Church at War-
wich Plains. 
She was one that embraced Christ 
as her Saviour in the morning of life. She was a 
firm believer in the speedy coming of Christ. 
She 
was a meek, humble follower of Jesus. 
Her long 
distressing sickness she bore with patience and 
great fortitude, and manifested that she was per-
fectly resigned to the will of God. She spoke with 
great firmness in the conference room a few even-
ings previous to her death, and said that if it was 
her lot to fall asleep before her Saviour come, she 
should take but a short nap in the grave. 
The 
church deeply feel their loss of one that was a 
bright and shining light among them ; one that 
stood by them in adversity as well as in prosperi-
ty ; one that labored with them for the salvation 
of _souls, during the past winter, with that zeal 
which God was pleased to bless in the pouring out 
of his Holy Spirit in the salvation of souls. 
She 
was one that popular opinion never swayed. 
Her 
home was the pilgrim's home ; it was where the 
poor, the despised, the trodden down, always found 
a happy reception. 
The bereaved husband mourns 
his loss of all that he held dear on earth ; one that 
always consoled him in all his trials; one that 
made his darkest hours pleasant; one with whom 
he had endeavored to walk in all the commands of 
God blameless. 
May he view the rod and Him 
that hath appointed it, and say, " I will trust in 
God though he slay me." 
May the bereaved pa-
rents have the consolation of the grace of God, to 
console them in this heart-rending affliction. May 
the affectionate sister, and kind brother, remember 
the counsel of one so dear to them, and be in ac-
tual readiness to meet her, when they shall behold 
her robed in her beauty. 
DIED, in East Hartford, Oct. 3d, of consump-
tion, my cousin ELIZABETH 
ERVING, in the 
27 th 
year of her age—a devoted Christian, and for the 
last three or four years a firm believer in the speedy 
advent of the Saviour whom she loved. She bore 
her last sickness with fortitude and resignation, 
though she suffered much the last few days of her 
life. She loved the Advent meetings, but had 
been deprived of attending them most of the time 
the past year by ill health. 
We expect she will 
soon be delivered from the land of the enemy, to 
enjoy immortality and endless life, in the new 
earth, where sickness, sorrow, pain or death, never 
more shall be felt. 
JOHN KELSEY. 
Hartford, Ct., Oct. 11 th, 1854. 
DIED, in Fairfield, Sept. 27th, METHUIN, infant 
son of brother and sister White. 
While they 
mourn the loss of their little one, they are cheered 
with the blessed hope of soon meeting him in that 
land where there will be no more thence an infant 
of days. 
The writer endeavored to comfort the 
afflicted in speaking from Jer. 31:16, 17. 
" How long shall death the tyrant reign, 
And triumph o'er the just; 
While the rich blood of martyr's slain 
Lies mingled with the dust?" 
0. 
ROCKWELL. 
I have been to a land, a Border Land! 
Mny oblivion never roll 
O'er the mighty lessons which there and then 
Have been graven on my soul! 
I have trodden a path I did not know, 
Safe in my Saviour's hand : 
1 can trust Him for all the future, now 
I have been to the Border Land. 
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Voices of the Day. 
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The Church Before the flood. 
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Scripture Readings on Genesis. 
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, 
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THE ADVENT HERALD. \ 
Contents of this No. 
MISCELLANEOUS. 
Glimpses of the Land 
345 
The Comforter 
345 
African Proverbs 
345 
Montgomerys's Last Poem.. 346 
The Loss of the Arctic 
346 
Foreign News 
346 
Battie of the Alma 
f... 347 
EDITORIAL. 
The Prophecy of Isaiah 
340 
Pinal adieu to Chardon St. 
chapel 
348 
Spi.itualism proof against mice 
348 
CORRESPONDENCE. 
An abomination unto the 
Lord 
350 
Letter from ,T. Smith 
350 
" 
" 
W. E. Hitchcock 350 
" 
" 
0. Rockwell 
351 
" 
" 
C.P.Luce 
351 
OBITUARIES. 
R. M. Hathaway 
351 
E'. Frving 
351 
M. White 
351 
ADVENT HERALD. 
BOSTON, NOVEMBER 4, 1854. 
PROPOSITION OF EIDER J. COLE, 
To be one of twenty to raise one thousand, dollars to aid 
me in my missionary labors, and the Herald. 
Jonathan Cole 
$50. 
S. F 
$50. 
John Smith 
$50. 
L. II. Smith 
$50. 
REMOVAL OF THIS OFFICE. 
03^46 
1-2 
Kneeland Street. 
46 
1-2.^ 
HAVING removed from Chardon street to our 
rooms in the building of the " Boston Advent As 
soeiation," the office of the Advent Herald is now 
located at No. 46 and 1-2 Kneeland st., between 
Hudson and Tyler streets. 
Kneeland street ex-
tends from 534 Washington street, to 151 Sea st. 
The passenger Depot for the Worcester and Western 
roads, is on the corner of Kneeland and Albany 
streets, one street east of the new Chapel. And the 
depot for the Old Colony and Fall River road, is on 
Kneeland and South streets, four streets east of 
the Chapel. 
Kneeland street, is also a continua-
tion of Eliot-street, which extends from the depot 
of the Providence and New Bedford Railroads, to 
Washington street. 
Sea street, in which Knee-
land street terminates, is now the principal avenue 
to South Boston ; but a new one has been ordered 
to be built, which commences at the foot of Knee-
land-street. 
It will therefore be apparent that 
Kneeland and Eliot streets constitute a continuous 
thoroughfare across the city, extending from the 
Providence depot, past the Chapel, the Worcester 
and Old Colony depots, to South Boston ; and it is 
the only continuous thoroughfare across the city, 
in that part ot it. 
It is therefore the principal 
street extending east and west in that neighborhood 
and can easily be found by those visiting Boston. 
Those coming in the cars on the Providence, New 
Bedford, Worcester, Old Colony and Fall River 
roads, landing on the line of the street, will need 
no guide to it. Those coming in on any other road 
will first inquire either for Washington or Sea 
streets and then proceed up or down to No. 534 of 
the former or 151 of the latter, where they are in-
tersected by Kneeland street. 
Hudson street, on 
the corner of which the Chapel is situated, is the 
third street east of Washington-street and the sixth 
street west of Sea street. 
We have thus been particular because strangers 
sometimes find iWifficult to find places in the city 
with which they are not familiar ; and we have of-
ten had complaints of the difficulty of finding our 
office where now located. 
Special 
Noticc. 
THE.DEDICATION.—The new chapel at the corner 
of Hudson and Kneeland Streets, in this city will 
be opened for public worship on Wednesday, Dec. 
6th, at half past 2 o'clock, P.M. ; 
services will be 
continued over the Sabbath. 
We cordially invite 
all our bretheren and friends from all parts of the 
country to participate with us in this feast of the 
dedication. 
It will continue four days. 
We ask the prayers of all the brethren and sis-
ters, that the blessing of God may attend our 
meeting, and that it may be a feast indeed. 
The stockholders will hold a meeting at the 
time, of which d ue notice will be given. 
The work is intended to be a clear and forcible 
illustration of the doctrine of the pre-millennial 
advent and reign of Christ, unraveling the intrica-
cies and mysteries of the vexed Jewish question in 
all its lights and shades. 
The following synopsis 
will give a general idea of the nature of the works. 
1. The first and second Adam :—the relation of 
each to the globe we inhabit, and to the human 
race who did originally and shall finally and for-
ever inhabit the earth. 
2. The Jews and Jewish economy—its bearing 
on and relation to the Christian and future ever-
lasting dispensation. 
3. The Jewish relation to the land of promise. 
A purely conditional relation, to continue only 
while they conformed to the covenant under which 
they went in to possess it ; Christ being the true 
heir. 
4. The Jewish relation to tho kingdom of the 
house of David, conditional, and might have con-
tinued eternally had they comformed to the condi 
tions ; not doing so, they lost it. 
5. Christ, the true literal king of the Jews; 
he came to them literally, in his own proper per-
son as king, and asserted his claim ; and for that 
reason was rejected and crucified. 
And for this 
rejection the Jews were rejected and ejected'from 
the land of promise, and the sceptre departed from 
Judah. 
6. The Jews : the sense in which they were re-
jected of God when scattered,—1. the ten tribes, 
2. the two tribes. 
7. The relation of the Jews to the everlasting 
kingdom of Christ: they will be restored to the 
land and kingdom in the resurrection and regenera-
tion ; " the house of Israel" to consist of ail be-
lieving Jews, of all ages and climes, divided into 
their own tribes; the twelve apostles their chiefs. 
8. The Messiah, the Christ, the anointed, synon-
imous, and belong to prophet, priest and king.— 
The first two offices are acknowledged to have been 
filled by Christ at his first advent, in the most liter-
al sense ; the last therefore will be as fully realized. 
9. The new birth, its nature and absolute necessity 
in order to inherit the kingdom of God. 
The 
means and condition of its attainment. 
10. The eternal heaven of the saints to be in 
the new earth. 
The regeneration to precede the 
millennial. 
11. The millennial reign, its introduction, na-
ture, end ; and the everlasting reign. 
12. " Times of the Gentiles," its import, progress 
and termination. 
13. The gospel of the kingdom, its nature, pro-
gress and design. The signs of the times, 
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here enumerated. 
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