Luke 9: 28-30. 
" WE HAVE NOT FOLLOWED CUNNINGLY DEVISED FABLES, WHEN WE MADE KNOWN UNTO YOU THE POWER AND COMING OF OUR LORD JESUS CHRIST, BUT WERE EYE-WITNESSES OF HIS MAJESTY • • • • WHEN WE WERE WITH HIM IN THE HOLY MOUNT." 
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footsteps of the King of kings upon its bosom, 
and then its deserts shall rejoice, and its solitary 
places shall blossom as the rose. 
While the nations are bringing into this pal-
ace made with hands, what they think their 
glory, and what in its place is beautiful enough, 
let us try to bring a more excellent glory—not 
our bullets, and swords, and muskets from Bir-
mingham ; not our cottons from Manchester ; 
not our pottery from Staffordshire ; not our 
silks from Spitalfields—though in these things 
that nation that has the noblest religion, the 
open Bible—that has none it fears, and none to 
gain whose favor it would sacrifice truth—will 
bear its products to be compared with those of 
any nation in the world, and will carry off the 
palm too ; thus demonstrating to all mankind 
that the nation that has the grace of God in its 
heart, shows the greatest cunning in its fingers, 
and the greatest skill in its artizans. Right- 
eousness exalteth a nation in all its relations. 
But still we have something better wherein to 
glory. Those beautiful isles in the South Sea 
that the London Missionary Society has been 
instrumental in bringing to Christ—those en-
during gems are worthy to be placed in the 
Crystal Palace, and fit to be compared with 
that magnificent diamond which is the admira-
tion, the envy, the wonder of Asia.and Europe. 
Those Hindoos whom our Missions have been 
instrumental in bringing to Christ are our gems 
and our diamonds ; our Bible, our Missionary 
Societies, our City Missions, our Tract Societ e,, 
—these are rich fabrics, these are the true glo-
ries of Old England, which, alas ! alas ! France, 
and Spain, and Germany, and Asia, and China, 
and India, are not prepared to appreciate. These 
would be very dull specimens to them ; they 
would have no significance, because Christ has 
no beauty that the unpurged eye should desire 
him, and no comeliness that the unsanctified 
heart can admire. It needs the regenerated 
heart to appreciate the trophies of grace-, such 
hearts will one day be everywhere. A day does 
come when all shall be truly regenerated, and 
shall admire and appreciate that as the greatest 
glory which reflects the image and bears the 
superscription of the Lamb of 'God which taketh 
away the sins of the world. 
Such, then, is a brief contrast between the 
palace that occupies the newspapers, the thought, 
the conversation of the country ; and that better 
and brighter one which shall occupy the admira-
tion of angels, the thoughts and hearts of a re-
deemed and glorified universe.—(To be contin-
ued.) 
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THE SABBATH. 
0 day most calm, most bright, 
The fruit of this, the next world's bud, 
The indorsement of supreme delight, 
Writ by a friend, and with his blond ; 
The couch of time; care's balm and bay ; 
The week were dark, but for thy light: 
Thy torch loth show the way 
The other days and thou 
Make up one man : whose face thou art, 
Knocking at heaven with thy brow ; 
The working-days are the hack part; 
The burden of the week lies there, 
Making the whole to stoop and bow, 
Till thy release appear. 
Man had straight forward gone 
To endless death; tint thou (lost pall 
And turn us round to look on One, 
Whom, if we were not very dull, 
We could not choose but look on still, 
Since there is no place so alone 
The which He (loth not fill. 
Sundays the pillars are, 
On which heaven's palace arched lies 
The other days fill up the spare 
And hollow room with vanities. 
They are the fmitful beds and borders 
In God's rich garden: that is bare 
Which parts their ranks and orders. 
The Sundays of man's life, 
Threaded together on Tirne's string, 
Make bracelets to adorn the wile 
Of the eternal glorious King. 
On Sunday heaven's gate stands ope; 
Blessings are plentiful and rite, 
More plentiful than hope. 
This day my Saviour rose, 
And did enclose this light lbr his ; 
That, as each beast his manger knows, 
Man might not of his fodder miss. 
Christ hath took in this piece of ground, 
And made a garden there for those 
Who avant herbs for their wound. 
The rest of our Creation 
Our great Redeemer did remove 
With the same shake, which at his passion 
Did the earth and all things with it move. 
As Sainson bore the doors away.. 
Christ's hands, though nailed, wrought our salvation, 
And did unhinge that day. 
The brightness of that day 
We sullied by our foul offence: 
Wherelbre that robe we cast away, 
Having a new at His expense, 
Whose drops of blood paid the 14111 price 
That was required to make us gay, 
Awl fit for Paradise. 
Thou art a day of mirth: 
And where the week-days trail on ground, 
Thy flight is higher, as thy birth ; 
0 let me take thee at the hound, 
Leaping with thee from seven to seven, 
Till that we both, being tossed from earth, 
Fly hand in hand to heaven! Herbert. 
they are ready each for the battle again. Who 
does not know that in Europe every man stands 
with his hand on his sword-hilt, or with a lighted 
match by the cannon or great gun, ready for a 
battle which looms in the distance, the havoc 
and issue of which a statesman can calculate ? 
All things show that the era and age of peace, 
real peace, lasting peace, peace passing under-
standing, is in the future, not here. The gates 
are still open : the soldier is still a reality : war 
is still a possibility : but the true way to put an 
end to war, and to make the army obsolete, is 
not, as some most foolishly imagine, to refuse 
the supplies to the Secretary at War, but to 
give men something better to do, something 
nobler to think upon. You can drive out a bad 
passion only by bringing a good one to bear on 
it ; and, after all, if bad men were kept from 
war, they would only enter into something more 
mischievous. It is only in and from the truths 
of this book (the Bible) that pertnanent, real 
peace can be given to the humble heart. " Great 
peace have they that keep thy law." 
But it is further added that there shall be no 
curse there. It seems severe language to em- 
ploy, but however severe it may seen, it is true 
that we are all born under the curse. This is 
our state by nature : the world was cursed when 
tnan sinned : the instant that man lost his in- 
nocence, creation lost its beauty, its harmony, 
and its blessing. And that curse is to be seen 
by an inquisitive mind on every product that 
shall be exposed as the glory of the earth in the 
wonderful structure to which I have alluded.— 
There is not a rare or beautiful product of the 
forge; there is not an exquisite web or lace 
wrought with the greatest elaboration of the 
fingers of skill, that has not seen, in the history 
of its manufacture, tears, aching fingers, bowed-
down backs, ay, and sickness, and famine, and 
consumption, and death ! Little do we think, 
as we contemplate the beautiful creations of 
skill, how many heads have ached, and how 
many graves have •been opened, whilst these 
were being manufactured, by the weary and 
worn-out makers of them all ! It needs this to 
temper our excessive idolatry of these things. 
The curse rests upon the earth ; it rests upon 
man that walks it ; it rests upon all that man 
does. But in that better state there will be no 
curse. True, its glory is the purchase of blood, 
but that blood was shed eighteen hundred years 
ago, and the agony of him that shed it was 
ended when he cried aloud, " It is finished ;" 
and the recollection of the price of glory will 
not make us mourn, but cause us to praise the 
love of him who shed his blood to restore for-
feited paradise to man, and lost happiness to the 
human heart. 
It is also added, that there shall be no more 
death ; i. e., decay, disease, waste, wear, or 
tear. Blessed prophecy ! " There shall be no 
more death." The most beautiful fabrics that 
we examine in the Exposition of all Nations, 
are decaying while we are looking at them. 
There is rust on the purest gold ; there is tar-
nish on the brightest steel ; there is a worm in 
the loftiest cedar ; there is moth in the fairest 
and most costly robes. And if one looks to the 
history of the past, death shows that he has 
been the great agent in the era of that history. 
The purple of Tyre, and the cunning hands 
that made it, are all gone ; the Phoenician weav-
ers and the artizans of Memphis are all passed 
away, and nothing but their name is left; the 
products of the looms of Sidon, and the crea-
tions of the workshops of Tyre and Nineveh, 
have all disappeared, and nothing but the mere 
memorial remains ; the skill, the secrets, and 
the creation of the artizans that Cambyses 
brought captives into this country, and whose 
factories filled the whole valley of the Euphrates, 
from Nineveh to Persepolis, have all perished 
from the earth : the glory of illustrious Venice 
is gone ; the blades of Toledo and Damascus 
have ceased to command the admiration of the 
world ; the carved work of Verbruggen, and the 
lace and embroidery of Brussels and Valenci-
ennes, are fading. Death, decomposition, decay, 
are carrying on their processes in the Crystal 
Palace, while we are expressing to our neigh- 
bors the admiration that we feel as we view 
these wonderful structures. Death rides on the 
railway, walks amid the glories of the nations, 
breathes on the brightest, gathers the fairest: 
graves are his footprints, decay is his work, and 
disappearance from the earth and forgottenness 
the experience of all. But in that better rest 
there shall be no death. Its fairest things will 
not he its fleetest; its brightest things shall be 
its longest. Death shall wither no flower there : 
he shall not still one bounding heart; he shall 
riot leave or show any traces of his presence. 
There shall be no spider to weave his web amid 
the branches, or caterpillar to gnaw the leaves 
of the tree of life : there shall be no interrup-
tion of that river of life which makes glad the 
city of our God, nor one element of sin, decay, 
death, sorrow, or tears in that New Jerusalem 
which cometh down from heaven. 
It is further added, that " the nations of them 
that are saved shall bring their glory into it." 
" The nations of them that are saved," is the 
characteristic of those that shall be inmates of 
that better rest. The present great assemblage 
of the nations cannot he called an assemblage of 
the nations that are saved : would to God it 
could be really called so ! They are met, it is 
true, not for battle, but in peace; and one re-
gards this as a contribution towards permanent 
and lasting peace. But they are the nations, 
we fear, of some that live in scepticism, of others 
immersed in superstition. and of others that have 
no creed, or conscience, or faith, or hope, or holi-
ness of any sort at all. There is wheat, but we 
fear there will also be many tares. Turk, and 
Greek, and Syrian, and Russian, from the east ; 
English, Irish, Scotch, German, Portuguese, 
French, from the west, meet together, not on the 
ground of a common faith, but on the ground 
that we can applaud—of a common brotherhood, 
sympathizing with the beautiful which God has 
made us to admire, and with the useful that God 
has made us to employ. And so far we rejoice 
at it. But if one could open the inner chambers 
of imagery, and look upon that heaving mass 
that rolled like a mighty torrent through the 
streets of London on the 1st of May, and could 
analyze every motive, object, thought, feeling, 
imagination, that were to be found there, alas! 
shall I be thought uncharitable if I fear, that, 
if God looked down, he must have seen, in a 
vast proportion of it, what he saw in the ante-
diluvians of old, " that the imagination of man's 
heart was only evil, and that continually ?" 
But the worse they are, the more need have 
they to be prayed for ; the more needful it is 
that they should see a beautiful example in us : 
and he who feels their moral and spiritual con• 
dition the saddest, is just the man who will set 
before them the example of whatsoever things 
are just, and beautiful, and true, and who will 
contribute most liberally to provide means for 
their spiritual instruction, regeneration, and 
amelioration. But these nations of them that 
are saved shall bring their glory into this new 
palace. At present, the glory of the nations is 
riot true glory ; but then the chief glory of the 
nations will be that which is indeed their glory. 
Lyons and St. Etienne are bringing their glory, 
namely, their silks ; Bohemia brings its glory—
its glass ; Brussels and Valenciennes bring what 
they think their glory—their lace; Prussia is 
bringing its pottery ; Italy its beautiful mosaics : 
Algiers its arms; and America—interesting pe-
culiarity !-is bringing in a ship of war the tro-
phecies and the monuments of peace. Each na-
tion brings what it thinks its glory, and perhaps 
that glory is a foretaste of the true glory that 
shall be. Is that sixtieth chapter of Isaiah a 
poet's dream ? Is it a mere transcendental pre-
diction ? I believe that these glories, these lit• 
eral glories, will be in that future state. I do 
not believe there is anything in a beautiful 
flower inherently evil ; or that there is any ini-
quity in a brilliant gem ; or that there is any-
thing of God's curse inseparable from a precious 
diamond. All this earth wants is, not to have 
its matter annihilated, or transformed into some-
thing airy, visionary, spiritualized ; but to have 
sin, and its corrosive poison, entirely and utterly 
purged from it, and to have the consecrating 
Every-Day Mysteries. 
I believe nothing that I do not understand," 
is the favorite saying of Mr. Pettipo Dapperling, 
a gentleman who very much prides himself upon 
his intellectual perspicacity. Yet ask Mr. Pet-
tipo if he understands how it is that he wags 
his little finger, and he can give no reasonable 
account of it. He will tell you—for he has 
read books and " studied " anatomy—that the 
little finger consists of so many jointed bones ; 
that there are tendons attached to them before 
and behind, which belong to certain muscles, 
and that when these muscles are made to con-
tract, the finger wags. And this is nearly all 
that Mr. Pettipo knows about it. How it is 
that the volition acts on the muscles, what vo-
lition is, what the will is, Mr. Pettipo knows 
not. He knows quite as little about the sensa-
tion which resides in the skin of that little 
finger; how it is that he feels and appreciates 
forms and surfaces; why it detects heat and 
cold ; in what way its papillae erect themselves, 
and its pores open and close ; about all this he 
is entirely in the dark. And yet Mr. Pettipo is 
under the necessity of believing that his little 
finger wags, and that it is endowed with the 
gift of sensation, though he in fact know noth-
ing whatever of the why or the wherefore. 
We must believe a thousand things that we 
cannot understand. Matter and its combinations 
are a grand mystery—how much more so life 
and its manifestations! Look at those far off 
worlds, majestically wheeling in their appointed 
Anticipation and Contrast, 
BY FHE REV. JOHN CUMMING. D. D. 
(Continued from our last.) 
It is predicted that the gates of it shall not be 
shut. There will be no thieves to keep without ; 
and there will be no chance of plunder within. 
No police force will watch that city that bath 
foundations ; no possibility of what is dishon-
orable or dishonest can be there. But shut 
gates does not mean defence, or merely not 
being open for admission. The expression is a 
classical phrase : Shut gates " was a declara- 
tion of war, and " Open gates" a technical 
phrase that proclaimed the existence of peace. 
And when it is here said that " the gates of it 
shall not be shut," it simply means that there 
shall be no warfare, but perfect, perpetual, and 
pervading peace. How sadly does this contrast 
with what we see now ! Our present festival of 
nations, beautiful as it is, is yet kept amid bat-
talions of soldiers. What a significant symptom 
is here that the era of peace is not come ! And 
men that walk with olive branches in their 
hands, know that the barracks are charged with 
soldiers, lest the very possibility of war might 
occur to disturb a peace which is conventional, 
not real ; temporary, and by truce, not perpetu-
al, and never to be disturbed. The greatest 
peace that exists in Europe at the present mo-
ment is a peace made up by compact : nations 
have not gone to rest, they are only bivouacked ; 
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&c. One of the most interesting is the En- 
tombment of Christ, by Raphael. Two men are 
bearing the Saviour to the sepulchre. Around 
the corpse are Peter, John, and Mary Magda-
lene, with varied and characteristic expressions 
of intense grief. On the other side, the Virgin 
Mary has fainted in the arms of her attendants. 
The Palace SCIARRA, has the most select gal-
lery in Rome. One of the most beautiful pic-
tures is " Vanity and Modesty," by Leonardo da 
Vinci. Another that generally fixes the atten-
tion is " The Cheating Gamblers," by Caravag-
gio. 
The Palace DORIA DI PAMFILI is an immense 
building, entered from the " Corso," the prin-
cipal street of Rome, and has a very extensive 
collection of paintings. 
The Palace CORSINI, in the Transtevere, is 
one of the handsomest in Rome. It looks out 
upon Janiculum. Here we saw where Gari-
baldi's house was destroyed, but afterwards re-
built. Among the paintings, I have noted a 
fine " Ecce Hoino," by Guido ; another by Carlo 
Dolci, and still another by Domenichino. 
The Palace SPADA contains the celebrated 
" Statue of Pompey," a colossal figure holding 
the globe. It is supposed to be the statue which 
originally stood in the Curia of Pompey, at 
whose base " great Cmsar fell," thus apostro-
phized by Lord Byron : 
" And thou dread statue ! yet existent in 
The ansterest form of naked majesty, 
Thou who beheldest 'mid the.assassins' din, 
At thy bathed base the bloody Cwsar lie, 
Folding his robe in dying dignity, 
An offering to thine altar from the queen 
Of gods and men, great Nemesis !" 
The adjoining walls were pierced by the balls 
from the French batteries in the late siege. 
The Palace R03PIGLI0SI is famous for the 
" Aurora of Guido," a painting in frescoe upon 
the ceiling of the casino, or garden-house. It 
was painted three hundred years ago, but is 
still bright and beautiful. In the adjoining room 
are " The Expulsion from Paradise," by Dome-
nichino ; the " Triumphs of David," by the same 
artist, the "Death of Samson," by Lodovico Ca-
racci the "Bead of Guido," by himself, and 
many others. 
These may serve as specimens of the Roman 
palaces, of which no less than seventy-five are 
enumerated by Vasi. 
S. J. M. M. 
orbits, millions of miles away; or look on this matter in man's body, one portion of the ner-
earth on which we live, performing its diurnal vous system should convey volitions from the 
motion upon its own axis, and its annual circle brain to the limbs and the outer organs ; how 
round the sun ! What do we understand of the another part should convey sensations with the 
causes of such motions ? What can we ever suddenness of lightning; and how, finally, a 
know about them beyond the fact that such' third portion should collect these sensations, re-
things are so ? To discover and apprehend act upon them, store them up by a process called 
facts is much, and it is nearly our limit. To memory, reproduce them in thought, compare 
ultimate causes we can never ascend. But to them, philosophize upon them, embody them in 
have an eye open to receive facts and appre- books, is a great and unfathomable mystery ! 
hend their relative value, that is a great deal, 
that is our duty ; and not to reject, suspect, or 
refuse to accept them, because they happen to 
clash with our preconceived notion, or like .Mr. Sketches of Travel. 
Pettipo Dapperling, because we "cannot under-
stand " them. 
" Oh, my dear Kepler," writes Galileo to his 
friend, " how I wish that we could have one 
laugh together ! Here at Padua is the principal 
Professor of Philosophy, whom I have repeat-
edly and urgently requested to look at the moon 
and planets through my glass, which he perti-
naciously refuses to do. Why are you not 
here ? What shouts of laughter we should have 
at this glorious folly ! And to hear the Pro-
fessor of Philosophy at Pisa lecturing before the 
Grand Duke with logical arguments, as if with 
magical incantations, tocharm the new planets 
out of the sky !" 
Rub a stick of wax against your coat sleeve, 
and it emits sparks ; hold it near to light, fleecy 
particles of wool or cotton, and it first attracts, 
then it repels them. What do you understand 
about that, Mr. Pettipo, except merely that it 
is ? Stroke the cat's back before the fire, and 
you will observe the same phenomena. Your 
own body will in like manner emit sparks in 
certain states, but you know nothing about why 
it is so. 
Pour a solution of muriate of lime into one 
of sulphate of potash—both clear fluids ; but 
no sooner are they mixed together than they 
become nearly solid. How is that ? You tell 
me that an ingredient of the one solution com-
bines with an ingredient of the other, and an 
insoluble sulphate of lime is produced. Well, 
you tell me a fact ; but you do not account for 
it by saying that the lime has a greater attrac-
tion for the sulphuric acid than the potash has ; 
you do not understand how it is, you merely see 
that it is so. You must believe it. 
But when you come to life, and its wonderful 
manifestations, you are inure in the dark than 
ever. You understand less about this than you 
do even if dead matter. Take an ordinary, 
every-day fact ; you drop two seeds, whose com-
ponent parts are the same, into the same soil. 
They grow up so close together that their roots 
mingle and their stalks intertwine. The one 
plant produces a long, slender leaf, the other 
a short, flat leaf; the one brings forth a beau-
tiful flower, the other an ugly scruff; the one 
sheds abroad a delicious fragrance, the other is 
entirely inodorous. The hemlock, the wheat-
stalk, and the rose tree, out of the same chemi-
cal ingredients contained in the soil, educe, the 
one, a deadly poison ; the other, wholesome 
food ; the third, a bright, consummate flower. 
Can you tell me, Mr. Pettipo, how is this ? Do 
you understand the secret by which the roots 
of these plants accomplish so much more than 
all your science can do, and so infinitely excel 
the roost skilful combinations of the philosopher? 
You can only recognize the fact, but you cannot 
unravel the mystery. Your saying that it is 
the " nature " of the plant, does not in the 
slightest degree clear up the difficulty. You 
cannot get at the ultimate fact ; only the proxi- 
mate one is seen by you. 
and having a raised throne at one end, with a 
But lo ! here is a wonderful little plant ; you gorgeous canopy overhead. Here we were shown 
touch it, and the leaves shrink on the instant, a cannon ball thrown from the French batteries 
one leaf seeming to be in intimate sympathy in Janiculum, in the revolution of 1849. The 
ball entered the windows, struck the marble 
steps of the throne at the opposite end of the 
saloon, shattered them somewhat, and then 
rolled about on the floor. The grey-headed old 
custode described the noise which it made, and 
the alarm of the family. It was two hours after 
midnight. 
As we entered the large yard in front of the 
BARBERINI Palace, a company of French dra- 
goons were crossing it. Six hundred of them 
are quartered here. It is celebrated for its wind-
ing marble staircase. The saloon of the first 
floor is remarkable for the frescoes on its ceil- 
ing, consisting of allegorical representations of 
the glory of the Barberini family. Through an 
iron door in the side of the stair-way, we were 
admitted into the private apartments, where 
among the paintings we saw three female por- 
traits of exquisite beauty ; the 
Fornarina," 
by Raphael ; " L'Esclare," by Titian ; and 
"Beatrice Cenci," by Guido Reni. Here were 
also some fine portraits by Holbein, and land-
scapes by Albano. 
The BORGHESE Palace is an immense build-
ing, and has the finest collection of paintings in 
Rome. They are arranged in nine apartments, 
adorned with gilding and marbles, and sparkling 
fountains, and finished with lounges, and chairs, 
and catalogues, for the accommodation of visit-
ors. Here are some of the choicest works of 
Raphael, Correggio, Dornenichino,Rubens, Paul 
Veronese, Andrea del Sarto, Giulio, Romano, 
• 
(For the Herald.) 
with the rest, and all the leaves in the neigh-
borhood shrinking up at the touch of a foreign 
object. Or take the simple pimpernel, which 
closes its eye as the sun goes down, and opens 
as he rises again ; shrinks at the approach of 
rain, and expands in fair weather. The hop 
twines round the pole in the direction of the 
sun, and 
" The sunflower turns on her god when he sets, 
The same look that she turned when he rose." 
Do we know anything about these things further 
than that they are so ? 
A partridge chick breaks its shell and steps 
forth into its new world. instantly it runs about 
and picks up the seeds lying on the ground. It 
has never learned to run, or to see, or to select 
its food ; but it does all these on the instant. 
The lamb of a few hours old frisks about full 
of life, and sucks its dam's teats with as much 
accuracy as if it had studied the principles of 
the air-pump. Instinct comes full grown into 
the world at once, and we know nothing about 
it, neither does the Mr. Dapperlingabove named. 
When we ascend to the higher orders of ani-
mated being, to man himself, we are as much 
in the dark as before, perhaps more so. Here 
we have matter arranged in its most highly or-
ganized forms, moving, feeling, and thinking 
In man, the powers are concentrated, and the 
thinking powers are brought to their highest 
point. How, by the various arrangements of 
No. XXIII.—THE PALACES OF ROME. 
The Pope has also another palace for his sum-
mer residence on Monte Cavallo, the highest part 
of the Quirinal hill. It is called the " Palace 
of the Quirinal," or the " Palace of Monte Ca-
vallo." " Cavallo" is the Italian for horse, and 
the name is given to the eminence on account of 
the colossal equestrian group, commonly called 
" Castor and Pollux," which stands by the side 
of the obelisk upon the summit. 
A fine broad staircase leads from the court 
yard to the apartments of the palace. Over 
the door of the large chapel is a bas-relief of the 
Saviour, washing the feet of the apostles. This 
chapel is fitted up in the style of the Sistine 
chapel. High mass is performed in it on great 
festivals, when the Pope resides here. Here 
also the Cardinals meet in conclave to elect a 
new Pope. When there is no choice, the votes 
are put through a hole in the wall into a small 
furnace contrived for that purpose. The square 
below is full of the Cardinals' carriages, with 
their several friends anxiously awaiting the re-
sult. When the clock strikes twelve, all eyes 
are directed to the top of the funnel. If they 
see smoke coining out of it, then they know 
there is no Pope for that day, and they all go 
home. But if no smoke appears, all are in a 
flutter to know who the new Pope is. We stood 
in the balcony where the new Pope is first shown 
to the people by one of the Cardinals, after 
knocking down the temporary brick wall in front 
of the window. 
The French eagle appears on the walls in 
many places, having been put there when the 
walls were decorated for Napoleon. Among the 
pictures were Saul and David, by Guercino, an 
Ecce Homo, by Domenichino, a Madonna and 
Child, by Guido, St. Jerome, by Spagnoletto, 
and the Ascension, by Vandyke. The gardens 
in the rear of the palace are a mile in circuit, 
laid out in a very stiff and formal style. 
We also visited many of the private palaces 
for which Rome is celebrated. The plan is 
generally a quadrangle, with a large staircase 
opening into the court. The rooms of the first 
story are usually occupied as shops, or coach 
houses, or stables. The upper floors form suites 
running around the whole quadrangle, and often 
communicating with each other. Here are the 
apartments, and picture galleries, and audience 
rooms, and banquetting halls, wearing an air of 
faded magnificence, adorned with marbles, and 
frescoes, and gilding, but without much appear-
ance of domestic comfort. Indeed, the greater 
part of the establishment seems designed for 
public exhibition, rather than family use, and 
some princely hcuses derive no inconsiderable 
part of their revenues from the fees paid by vis-
itors. 
The Palace of the COLONNA family has a fine 
saloon, upwards of one hundred and fifty feet 
in length, adorned with painting and sculpture 
"And he brought Him to Jesus." 
What Andrew here did with Simon, we are 
to do with our fellow-creatures,—we are to bring 
them to Jesus. 
But can men be brought to him now ?—Did 
he not say, I am no inure in the world ? How 
happy were they who lived when he was on 
earth ! They could repair to him in every 
trouble, and tell him every distress. Ye benev-
olent neighbors! you could carry the paralytic, 
and place him beneath the very eye of mercy. 
You, anxious father ! you could go to him, and 
bay, " Sir, come down, ere my child die." You, 
Martha and Mary, as soon as Lazarus was af-
flicted, you could send to him, saying, " Lord, 
behold, he whom thou lovest is sick." And 
cannot you, my dear readers, cannot you ap-
prise him of your desire or grief ? Have not 
you at your disposal a messenger, that you can 
dispatch to him in a moment, in the twinkling 
of an eye ? " While they call, I will answer ; 
and when they speak, I will hear." And has 
he not said, Lo, I ant with you always, even 
unto the end of the world ? and wherever two 
or three are met together in my name, there am 
I in the midst of you ? If these words be true, 
he can be, he must be, he is with his ministers 
and people now. Though no longer visible he 
is accessible. We may apprehend him as to 
his essential presence, by which he fills heaven 
and earth. We may apprehend him also as to 
his peculiar presence by which he is nigh to 
them that are of a broken heart, and saveth 
such as be of a contrite spirit. He is to be 
found in the Scriptures ; in his house, at his 
table ; on his throne ; in the garden and the 
field— 
" Where'er we seek him he is found, 
And every place is holy ground." 
But can we bring souls to him ? Not effi-
ciently. This is the work of God only. " No 
man can come unto me, except the Father that 
bath sent the draw hint." And the sooner we 
are convinced of this, the better. We shall 
then make all our attempts in dependence on 
the agency of his Spirit ; and thus honoring 
him, He will honor us. But we may do this 
instrumentally. For God makes use of means ; 
and he employs men, and employs them not 
only to do good to their fellow-creatures tempo-
rally, but spiritually—not only to relieve their 
bodies, but to save their souls. And various 
and many are the ways in which we may thus 
bring men to Jesus. We may do it by inter-
cession ; for he hears prayers for others, as well 
as for ourselves. We may do it by the influ-
ence of example. Nothing speaks so loud as 
the eloquence of a holy, consistent, and lovely 
life. 
By this, wives may win their husbands 
without the word ; and servants may adorn the 
doctrine of God our Saviour in all things. By 
this, all may be useful ! All cannot be learned, 
all cannot be rich ; but all may be exemplary. 
We may do it by instruction. Thus Andrew 
brought Peter. We have found, says he, the 
Messias. And thus the woman of Samaria 
brought her neighbors, saying, " Come, see a 
man that told me all things that ever I did ; is 
not this the Christ ?" By a word fitly spoken 
—a letter—an invitation to hear the gospel—
the commendation of a good book—the diffusion 
of the Bible—the sending forth missionaries, 
supporting the ministers, whose office is to turn 
men from darkness to light, by all these, and 
many more, we may be the means of introduc-
ing souls to Jesus. 
But why should we be concerned to bring 
them ? Four things should make us alive to 
this work. First : To feel a concern for it, is an 
evidence of grace. There cannot be a better. 
Indeed, every other evidence is fallacious with- 
out this ; and this is always to be found in a 
real Christian. For, however he may walk in 
darkness, as to a knowledge of his own interest 
in divine things, and draw the conclusion that 
he has no part nor lot in the matter ; he never 
is insensible and indifferent to the success of the 
gospel and the salvation of souls. This makes 
the eye sparkle upon whose lid hangs the shad-
ow of death. Secondly : To attempt it is a 
duty. A duty that cannot be declined, without 
the greatest guilt. A duty arising front the re-
lation in which we stand to our fellow-men, as 
bone of our bone, and flesh of our flesh. A duty 
enforced by the will of God, clearly made known 
in the injunction, " as we have opportunity, let 
us do good unto all men ;" for what good can 
equal this ? Thirdly : To accomplish it, is the 
most glorious enterprise. What is the rescue 
of a whole nation from civil bondage, compared 
with the deliverance of one soul from the power 
of darkness, and translating it into the kingdom 
of God's dear Son ? Can a trifle throw heaven 
into ecstacy ? But there is joy in the presence 
of the angels of God over one sinner that re- 
penteth. The work, therefore, is its own mo- 
tive ; its success is its own recompense. And 
so the apostle deemed it, " If a man err front the 
truth, and one convert him, let him know that 
he which converteth a sinner from the error of 
his ways, shall save a soul from death, and shall 
hide a multitude of sins." Fourthly : To fail 
in it is no disgrace. Yea, failure here is infi-
nitely more honorable than success in any other 
enterprise. But wise and good efforts are never 
in vain. If they are useless as to the direct ob-
ject, they do good collaterally. If they relieve 
not the beneficiary, they bless the benefactor. 
His prayers and endeavors return not void into 
his own bosom. We are a sweet savor of 
Christ not only in them also that perish. The 
promise is not made to success—for this does 
riot belong to us ; but to exertion. " Be thou 
faithful unto death, and I will give thee a crown 
of life." 
But while we endeavor to bring others to 
Jesus, let us see to it that we have come to him 
ourselves. It is awful to think of being the hi. 
strurnents of his grace, while we are not the 
subjects. 
" Great King of grace ! my heart subdue ; 
1 would be led in triumph too, 
A willing captive to my Lord, 
And sing the victories of his word." 
Religion. 
Human happiness is the aim of every one ; 
but it is attained by but few. This is caused 
by the violation of certain laws, upon which all 
happiness is suspended. Divine revelation as-
sures us that God created man for his own hap-
piness and enjoyment, out of pure and disinter-
ested love. He placed him in a lovely garden, 
whose atmosphere was fragrant with sweet-
smelling flowers, whose trees were loaded with 
delicious fruits ; the birds of the air arid the 
beasts of the field were his. Indeed, his happi-
ness was complete. He and his spouse stood in 
the presence of Heaven, clothed in innocence 
and loveliness. Angels looked down and were 
glad. The birds sang the praise of God. Yet 
all this happiness was suspended upon their 
obedience to their Creator. It is hard to con-
ceive of two such holy beings consenting to the 
enemy of God. Yet they did do it, and their 
ruin was complete. All their happiness van-
ished in a moment as smoke. They were driven 
from the garden, and were condemned to hard 
labor all their days. Terrible change ! Man, 
by one act, has been transformed from a spot-
less creature and a dweller with God, to a vile 
wretch and a companion of demons. What 
must have been the feelings of our first parents 
as they looked back upon their past joy, and 
forward to their future sorrow ! What wealth 
would have been given to reclaim their past 
pleasures ! But the act was done, and justice 
was fulfilled, but with mercy ; for had God con-
signed the world to oblivion, his character had 
remained the same, pure and unsullied. But 
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tore bliss if he but returns to him, and prom-
ises him an advocate in the person of Christ. 
But, notwithstanding this exhibition of God's 
goodness, man becomes more sinful, until God 
determines to destroy the world. 
Then the Son of God, with his characteristic 
loveliness, descends from his throne, which fills 
all space, and which existed from eternity, and 
condescends to be born of woman, to be abused 
by his own creatures, and finally to be put to a 
cruel and ignominious death, after having suf-
fered every conceivable pang. And for whom 
was this done ? For you, for me, and for every 
one of us. What a lovely being must he be, 
and worthy object of our love, who has done so 
much for us ! Cold mug be the heart that can-
not appreciate his kindness. But the work is 
done : he bursts the bands of death,-and trium-
phantly ascends into heaven, leading captivity 
captive. What a delightful scene must his en-
try into heaven have presented ! The work 
was finished, and man was redeemed. What 
a terrible thing then is sin, which has caused so 
much misery and ignorance in the world, sup-
plied so much fuel to the flames of hell, and 
which cost the life of a God! After consider-
ing carefully these facts, how many incentives 
do we find to piety, and how few to vice ! Oh ! 
I am persuaded that no one but a fool and a 
hypocrite will cling to sin after reading the his-
tory of man. Would eternal torture be a cruel 
punishment to inflict on those who still continue 
in wilful disobedience ? 
Religion makes men love each other, and 
seek each other's good ; irreligion makes self 
the only object of one's regard. Religion puri-
fies the heart and mind, makes a man angelic, 
comforts him in sorrow with the hope of an 
eternal peace, and makes him happy in this life 
as well as in the next ; while irreligion cor-
rupts the heart and mind, makes man a demon, 
and plagues him in sorrow with the prospect of 
eternal death. Religion draws the soul into 
sweet communion with God in this life, and 
gives us access to the heavenly mansions in the 
next ; irreligion makes the devil the companion 
of the soul in this life, and forever in the next. 
My friend, which is true—virtue or sin ? I 
leave it for your conscience to decide. Would 
you escape the consequences of vice ? I can 
point you to Mount Calvary, there to beg the 
Lamb of God, in the name of his sufferings and 
death, to have mercy upon you. There wash 
his holy feet with tears of sorrow for having of-
fended this amiable God. There let those sa-
cred streams issuing from every wound wash 
you from your filth. Having put on the white 
garment of innocence, ever sit at his feet and 
learn of him. Thus, my friend, will you be 
safe from every enemy in this life ; and thus 
will you safely enter the heavenly mansions, 
and there forever taste the joys that shall for- 
ever last. 
Christian Intelligencer. 
Origin of Idolatry, 
Men are not satisfied with imagining for 
themselves unseen objects of worship. They 
wish to see their gods. We all find it more or 
less difficult to " walk by faith," [act on the be-
lief of things unseen, as of realities,] not " by 
sight." 
Hence the heathens set up, first rude stones, 
and then statues or pictures of their gods, to 
which they might show outward acts of rever-
ence in honor of their deittes ; just as soldiers 
salute the Royal Standard in honor of the 
Queen, whose arms it bears. But, from show-
ing such outward ,respect, they soon came to 
fancy that their details were, in some mysteri-
ous way, connected with those images, and that 
the power of their gods was in the images, so 
that the images were, to all intents and pur-
poses, the gods themselves. Accordingly we 
find that God expressly forbade the Jews to 
make any image of him, or to bow down to, or 
worship the likeness of anything whatever.—
And experience shows that whatever images 
are set up in places of worship, they generally 
become enticements to rank idolatry, " preach-
ing " idolatry often more effectually by their 
very presence, than the minister can preach 
against it by his tongue. Yet Christians, think-
ing themselves safe, because they had renounced 
heathen idolatry, began themselves to set up 
images and pictures, to help them, as they said, 
in their devotion, by keeping the thoughts of 
what those images and pictures represented be-
fore their minds ;—then they began to show 
outward marks of reverence to the pictures and 
images ; and then (like the heathens) to fancy 
that those pictures and images were possessed 
of supernatural powers, and to feel towards them 
as if Christ and the saints dwelt in them. 
Akin to this superstition of seeking visible 
objects of worship, is the tendency in corrupt 
human nature, (that is, of human feelings when 
not curbed and controlled by steady reason) to 
make worship itself consist in outward acts, 
rather than in inward dispositions. Each of 
these errors confirms the other, and they both 
spring from one root. We naturally look for 
some visible object to which to direct outward 
acts of worship. Thus the eastern part of the 
heavens, the most sacred part of a church,—
the cross, an altar, an image or picture,—be-
come objects towards which men bow or kneel; 
otherwise many would feel as if they were 
bowing or kneeling to nothing at all. Again, 
an outward object of worship seems to call for 
outward marks of respect, and does not, of it-
self, seem to require more. " God is a spirit," 
present to our minds, and therefore they " who 
worship him, must worship him in spirit and 
in truth," as our Saviour told the woman of 
Samaria, when she raised the question where 
men ought to worship God. But a picture 
or image does not immediately suggest the 
thoughts of inward worship of any kind ; still 
less, of the best kind of worship, inward purity 
and uprightness of heart and grateful love. It 
seems to us more like our fellow-men, who can 
see:only the outside ; and as the only way in 
which we can show it reverence, is by some 
'outward gesture, so the more our religion be-
comes a religion of visible objects, the more it 
becomes a religion of outward worship. Both 
superstitions are, indeed, at bottom the same. 
The same tendency which makes men put the 
sign of an unseen object in the place of that ob-
ject, makes them put the sign of inward wor-
ship in the place of inward worship. We are 
always apt to put the sign in place of the thing 
signified ; more especially when by so doing, 
we can get rid of what is very irksome to us. 
The Influence of Man over Man. 
The world is filled with the countless and 
interlacing filaments of influence that spread 
from each individual over the whole surface and 
frame-work of society. The infant that lies 
wailing and helpless in the arms of its mother, 
is already yielding an influence through the 
whole household, by his fretfulness, disturbing, 
or by its serene smiles, gladdening that entire 
home ; and as with added years his faculties are 
expanded, and the sphere of his activity widens 
itself, his influence increases ; and every man 
whom he meets, much more whom he moulds. 
and governs, becomes the more happy or the 
inure wretched, the better or the worse, accord-
ing to the character of his spirit and example. 
Nor can he strip from himself this influence. 
If he flee away from the society of his fellows 
to dwell alone in the wilderness, he leaves be-
hind him the example of neglected duty, and 
the memory of disregarded love, to curse the 
family he has abandoned. Even in the path-
less desert he finds his own feet caught in the 
thorns and entangled web of influence that 
bound him to society, and his cords remain 
wherever he was once known, sending home to 
the hearts that twined around him sorrow and 
pain. Nor can the possessor expect it to go 
down into the grave with him. The sepulchre 
may have closed in silence over him, and his 
name may have perished from among men, yet 
his influence, nameless as it is, and untraceable 
by the human eye, is floating over the face of 
society. As in the external and visible world, 
the fall of a pebble agitates, not perceptibly in-
deed, yet really, the whole mass of the earth, 
thus in the world of morals every act of every 
spirit is telling upon the whole system of moral 
beings to which God has bound him. No man 
leaves the world in all things such as he found 
it. The habits which he was instrumental 
in forming, may go on from century to century 
an heir loom for good or for evil, doing their 
work of misery or of happiness, blasting or 
blessing the country that has now lost all rec-
ords of his memory. In the case of some, this 
influence is most sensible. Every age beholds 
and owns their power. Such men have lived. 
The church yet feels throughout all lands the 
influence of the thoughts that passed, perhaps, 
in the solitude of midnight through the -bosom 
of Paul, as he sat in the shadows of his prison, 
an old and unbefriended man—thoughts which, 
lifting his manacled hands, he spread in his 
epistles before the eyes of men, there to remain 
forever. They feel the effect of the pious medita-
tions of David while roaming on the hill-side, 
an humble shepherd lad : of the family piety of 
Abraham, and of the religious nurture that 
trained up the infancy of Moses. Every nation 
is affected at this moment by the moral power 
that emanated from the despised Noah, as that 
preacher of righteousness sat among his family, 
perhaps dejected and faint with unsuccessful 
toil, teaching them to call upon God, when all 
the families of the earth besides had forgotten 
him. And if the mind, taking its flight from 
the narrow precincts of these walls, were to 
wander abroad along the peopled highways, and 
to the farthest hamlets of our own land, and 
passing the seas, to traverse distant realms and 
barbarous coasts, every man whom its travels 
met—nay, every being of human mould that 
has ever trodden this earth in earlier ages, or 
that is now to be found among its moving my-
riads, has felt, or is feeling, the influence of the 
thoughts of a solitary woman, who, centuries 
since, stood debating the claims of conscience 
and sin amid the verdant glories of the yet un-
forfeited paradise. 
A Picture of Priestcraft• 
It is not merely at the bedside of the dying 
that clerical meddlers come to curse or to " con-
vey." It is not merely in public politics they 
presume, but intrude into the household busi-
ness of every-day life, and invade the privacy 
of every man's borne with loathsome and pesti-
lent pertinacity. They will dictate to a father 
of a family what school he is to select for his 
sons, and quote canon law for the infraction of 
the simplest laws of human society and of God, 
the common Father of all, and founder of the 
sacred rights of paternity. What else is this 
canon law but an attempt to invalidate all hu-
man legislation, and to confound Christianity, 
in its relation to secular communities, with the 
exploded and superseded theocracy of the Jews ? 
Are not the doctrines of Christ compatible in 
the view of the divine Redeemer with every 
form of government ? Is not that the essence 
and boast of Catholicity ? Whence, then, is 
the Vatican at war with every free country, 
with Belgium, with Sardinia, with England, at 
peace with the despotisms of Kaiser and the 
Czar ? Catholic Poland is manacled by the 
encyclics of old Gregory, and ruthlessly deliv-
ered up to his brother Pope of Petersburg, while 
to the Kaiser our own heavenly laud is offered 
in holocaust of treacherous and ignominious 
homage to papal felony. Truly canon law 
reigns at Rome : a model land for prize legisla-
tion, where terror walks the streets, and the spy 
lurks at every keyhole ; where social inter-
course is a snare, and the domestic outbosom-
ings of the family circle so much grist for the 
mill of the confessional; where the greetings in 
the market-place are rioted down by the noon-
day devils of the police, and the shafts of yen-
omed denunciation are shot at random in every 
man's pathway ; the luxury of hidden woe, an 
indulgence of deepest dye ; and a clandestine 
press the only outlet of the national despair. 
One channel alone was open for the energies of 
the country to find issue ; the public robber was 
abroad ; the brigand, like the owl of Sultan 
Mahmoud, blessed the clerical government for 
unprotected villages and the utter dissolution of 
society. The banded plunderers of Passatore 
have established a formidable competition with 
the sacerdotal peculators of the capital, and set 
up a rival canon law, equally disastrous, but 
not more at variance with the rights and immu-
nities of the public. For, after all, what con-
solation is it to the dispossessed and defrauded 
citizens, that the brigand who makes free with 
their chattels and personal liberty wears a head-
gear of conical shape, with a jaunty feather, 
and perhaps an image of the winking Madonna 
for luck, or robs and plunders in a hat shaped 
like a bee-hive, with a cross on the top of it, 
and calls it a tiara. A pair of apostolic keys 
thrust under the nose of the victim are found 
quite as efficacious as a brace of pistols to make 
folks stand and deliver. What matters it that 
the bands of Passatore are only native outlaws, 
driven to the sad trade of robbery by the forci-
ble estoppage of every honest industry, and the 
crushing and withering effects of priestly do-
minion ; while the bands which the other brig-
and has brought to act on the country are trans-
alpine violators of international law, and regi-
mented aliens who rob in uniform ? The French 
gang, with the gallantry of their nation, are 
content to work as amateurs, but the Austrian 
footpads insist on their share of the spoil, and 
go halves with the priestly tax-gatherer, the 
Friar Tuck of Italy. Can this atrocious farce 
go on in the eyes of civilized mankind ? No ; 
by the God of justice ! The end is at hand. 
The doom of the House of Hapsburg and of the 
popedom hastens to its final catastrophe, with 
swift and precipitate audacity. Broken and 
bankrupt both, they have both outlived the 
means of their respective livelihoods ; and as 
they were equally lovely in their lives, so in 
their death they shall not be divided. The 
crash is inevitable. The whole human race is 
preparing to clap hands on their joint and asso-
ciated downfall. Hear ye not the ill-suppressed 
throes of their agony, and the death-rattle in 
their throats ? Are not the symptoms of their 
dissolution, the moribund groan of their de-
crepid senility, visible and auible to mankind ? 
The funeral toll of St. Stephen's belfry is re-
echoed by every steeple in broad Bohemia, in 
Hungary, in thecathedral of Lombardy, and the 
great bell of the Capitol begins to swing in sym-
pathetic vibration. Bayonets and bankruptcy, 
bayonets and bigotry, the changes have been 
rung to the disgust and abhorrence of the whole 
family of man. Prussia, for very shame, must 
shake off the pestilent connection ; even Tur-
key, tired of being the common jailer of Chris-
tendom, asserts the higher manliness of Moham-
medanism, and taunts us with the lost glories 
of Godfrey and lion-hearted Richard. Free 
and independent America had, by the majestic 
organ of Daniel Webster, expressed the full 
scorn of the Western hemisphere for that 
wretched Russian flunkey, Joseph of Haps-
burg, the Romulus Augustulus of the holy-Ro-
man Empire. To live and reign by the grace 
livelihood, but the kindred existence of the pope-
dom is reduced to expedients of still more des- 
picable turpitude. The quackeries of miracu-
lous imposture are the fitting concomitants and 
appliances of a system of which the rotten 
crutches are the crarnpulous Franzoni in Turin, 
the traitor Marilley in Switzerland, arid that 
transparent Tartuffe, Montalernbert, in France. 
The cheers elicited by these eloquent senten-
ces were tremendous ; and when Father Ga-
vazzi wound up with the following eloquent 
peroration, the excitement of the audience 
mounted to enthusiasm. 
The French are incapable of a serious emo-
tion, or they would feel the importance to Eng-
land of the present movement, worthy of the 
great and thoughtful nation in whieh it occurs, 
and caused by no trivial alarm. Let France 
look to her own condition. By what insidious 
arts and persevering craft has she not been 
dragged down from her social position to be a 
mere instrument of papal tyranny abroad, with 
a Roman expedition, a l'interieur, in full pro-
gress at home. 
Here began a splendid and highly poetical 
description of the great Norwegian whirlpool 
called the Maelstrom, buoyant on whose circling 
eddies the ship of France was very visible, 
though every hour sucked close and closer into 
the central vortex, where it was doomed to be 
engulfed arid disappear. Such was its present 
position with reference to the Papacy. Was 
not the British vessel, sailing beyond the influ-
ence of this dreadful phenomenon, warranted 
in crowding all sail to keep farther aloof from 
the focus of destruction I England sees the 
degradation of its neighbor, sees the operation 
of priestcraft, and sniffs the pestilential odor of 
the Vatican in the breeze that wafted o'er the 
channel. 
England instinctively feels that these foreign 
bishops bode no good either to her spiritual or 
temporal concerns. They come in flagrant vio-
lation or evasion of British laws ; they enter 
not at the door, but, robberwise, by the window ; 
emissaries of a power which, like the " Old Man 
of the Mountain," whose name is given to as-
sassins, sends forth its satellites, if not to pon-
iard kings, certainly to strangle the liberty of 
nations that are free ; to act as a remora to the 
onward march of civilization ; a clog to pro-
gress ; a drag on the social wheel in its joyous 
gyrations. Discord has already been the first 
result ; blood has been shed at Birkenhead.—
What heeds the court of Rome the social evil 
of her handiwork ? She seeks the pomp and 
pride of her delegates, reckless of consequences 
to the land they invade. Wherever there is 
wealth to gain, whether from the imbecility of 
her votaries when alive, or at the pillow of dy-
ing opulence, her agents are at hand—specula-
tors when they are not spies. Men of England, 
bless your Queen for repelling, in the face of 
Europe, these skirmishers of the forlorn hope of 
a foreign power. 
So ended the lecture, leaving the auditory to 
wonder, how such a mind as Father Gavazzi's 
should have been imprisoned an instant in the 
Romish Church. May he speedily break from 
its bondage, and employ his genius in a sphere 
where men love the light of Christianity, and 
shun error's gloom. 
Pen and Ink Pictures of the English Pulpit. 
The Successors of the Apostles. 
The London Times newspaper recently pro-
pounded a question which seems to be, indeed, 
difficult of solution, The writer in that journal 
asks :—" Are we ever to see the day when the 
Church of England shall be presided over by 
Bishops who regard the rich patronage at their 
disposal as a means of advancing the interests 
of the Church rather than that of their own fami-
lies ? Must despotism, and the love of pecu-
niary accumulation be forever the characteristics 
of men raised above their fellows for possessing 
superior sanctity of life and purity of morals ?" 
If, after placing the ministers of the Church in 
the possession of princely livings, admitting 
them to the ranks of the nobility, and creating 
them legislators in the supreme court of the 
realm—if, after placing at their disposal the in-
comes of hundreds of parsonages for distribu-
tion, at their pleasure, among their friends, the 
Times and other upholders of State Church isms 
expect to find these dignitaries displaying action 
other than the most worldly, selfish, and merce-
nary, they presume to engage in such a traffic 
as the disposal of church livings, the horrifying 
details of which are every week brought under 
the notice of the public, requires on the part of 
the mitred worldling not only an abnegation of 
the pure, benevolent precepts of the religion of 
Christ, but a renunciation of those beneficent 
and kindly feelings which are found often to 
characterize men who make no outward profes-
sion of Christianity. Find us among our busi-
ness men a man who could be guilty of such 
transactions as the Times reports of the Bishop 
of Durham, and he will be suspected, mistrusted 
and shunned by his neighbors as an unworthy 
of God and Cossacks is a contemptible line of I character. The Times says the Bishop of Dur- 
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ham, in presenting his son to a vacant Canonry, wrought therein—the pains and penalties from which 
obtained for him £576 per annum more revenue there was no escape for the transgressor—has been 
than the Canonry was legally entitled to." done away by the blood of CHRIST, for all who ac-
Now, we are ignorant how such a transaction cept him as their only and sufficient SAVIOUR. The 
might be characterized in Church language, but law was a glorious ministration : for it asserted Gon's 
in the ordinary terms of every-day life we should rectitude, and his hatred of sin. It was so glorious 
be apt to call it palpable, glaring dishonesty. that even the face of Moses, was more than the chil-
And does this improve apostolic descent ? If it 
does there must have been a strange degeneracy dren of Israel could gaze upon, when his counte-
nance was covered with a glory which was to be dune 
in the apostolic army. The Times goes on to 
away and abolished. And PAUL well asks, if they 
say, and the language is powerful, coming from 
such a quarter, " In all other professions, there is could not steadfastly look on MOSES because of the 
no lack of disinterestedness and a feeling superior glory of his countenance which is abolished, how 
to mere pecuniary considerations. Our minis- much more glorious is that which retnaineth. (See 
ters are contented to serve us at a loss. The 2 Cor. 3:6-18.) He does not say that which is sub-
army and navy are filled by men who pay stituted for it ; but that which remaineth, when pro-
dearly for the privilege of serving their country. vision is made for the pardoning of transgressors. 
The secular clergy are generous and disinter- " Do we then make void the law through faith? GOD 
ested ; but among Bishops, Deans, arid Canons, forbid : yea, we establish the law."—Rom. 3 : 31. 
we perpetually find instances wherein their own 
superfluities are preferred to the necessities of Now the sense in which the apostle here uses the 
 
the Church ; and the rules of the Ecclesiastical term," the law," is indubitably marked in Rom. 7:7 : 
Commissioners, framed in a spirit far too favor- " I had not known sin but by the law ; for I had not 
able to the idle, and too little considerate to the known lust, except the law had said, Thou shalt not 
working classes, thwarted and eluded by rever- covet," which being a plain reference to the tenth 
end and right reverend gentlemen." Examiner. 
command of the decalogue, plainly shows that the 
 
 
 decalogue is the law of which he speaks. This law, 
then, is established by the gospel ; and this can mean 
nothing else but the establishment and confirmation 
of its authority. 
Having established the perpetuity of the Sabbath, 
having seen that the Sabbath in the decalogue is not 
specified in connection with any particular order in 
the reckoning of the septenary cycle ; that the order 
 adopted, was because of its national, and not on ac- 
count of its universal significance ; and that the 
" LORD of the Sabbath " was competent to make any 
 change in the commencement of the cycle; the next 
"BEHOLD! THE BRIDEGROOM COMETH!" inquiry will be whether there was cause for and an 
 
 acquiesence in such change? 
BOSTON, SATURDAY, JULY 10, 1852. The " LORD of the Sabbath " came to the nation, 
 
 
 whose deliverance from Egypt was commemorated 
All readers of the HERALD are most earnestly besought to giveit by its observance, and they received him not. He 
 
room in their prayers ; that by means slit God mat/ be honored and „ 
his tenth advanced ; also, that it stay be conducted in faith and love, would have gathered them in the arms of his love, 
with sobriety of judgment and discernment of the truth, in nothing 
carried away into error, or hasty speech, or sharp, unbrotherly d.s. but they would nut. They rejected him ; and con-
potation. 
 sequently he rejected them. The nation, as a nation, 
 
THE SABBATH. 
ceased to be recognized as GoD's chosen people ; and 
the national significance of the Sabbath ceased. But 
 
(Cancluded from our last.) 
as to as many as received him, he gave them power 
This brings us to the first advent, when the great to become the sons of GoD, and as his chosen people 
Lawgiver himself visits his church. He asserts his were to be thenceforth indiscriminately gathered from 
prerogative over the Sabbath, either to change, abro- every land, the Sabbath still had a significance as 
gate, or perpetuate its observance, when he declares expressed in the decalogue, and it was still to he oh-
that " the Son of man is LORD also of the Sabbath." served—in commemoration of GoD's resting from all 
—Mark 2:28. Does he abrogate the Sabbath, or his works,—on such seventh day as the " LORD of 
any of the ten commandments ? On the contrary, he the Sabbath " might designate. 
 
affirms the universality of the obligation for its itb- In connection with its original meaning there was 
servance, when he says, " The Sabbath was made to be a greater event, than the escape from Egyptian 
for man, and not man for the Sabbath."-2:27. It bondage, for which a day would be needed to corn-
was not an institution for which GOD had adapted a memorate. The Jews crucified the " Lord of the 
given nation, but he had made it for the wants of the Sabbath." While his crucifiers were hypocritically 
race. It was made for man, in every age, and in observing the day commemorative of their own de-
every clime. Thus he not only affirmed the perpe- liverance, he was the tenant of the tomb. That 
tuity of the Sabbatical observance, but he recognized day was not honored by his resurrection, but on the 
the binding force of the entire decalogue. The ten first day of the week he rose from the dead and be-
commandments were written by the finger of Goo, came the first fruits of them that slept. Here was 
on two tables of stone. The first table comprised the an event worthy of universal commemoration, and sig-
first four—those which have respect to our duties to nificant of the final resurrection of all the redeemed. 
 
GOD, our obligations to serve, love, honor, and obey With the death of CHRIST, all those observances 
him. The second table comprised the last six—those which typified his death ceased to be of any signifi-
which express the obligations we are under towards canoe. But the Sabbath was no type of CHRIST, but 
our fellow men. Each table comprising a separate of that rest which remains for the people of GoD, 
class of subjects,—the one our duty to Gm), and the which is " of CHRIST," (Col. 2:17) and constitutes 
other our duty to men,—the whole decalogue is sum- " the body " of which the Sabbath is a shadow. It 
marily comprehended in the answer of our SAviouR not being a shadow of CHRIST, but of the rest which 
to the question of the Pharisee, who, tempting him, will be of him, its observance does riot cease with 
said : " Master, which is the great commandment in his first advent, but with the coming of that rest 
the law r JESUS said unto him, Thou shalt love the which it foreshadows. That is still foreshadowed—
LORD thy GOD with all thy heart, and with all thy the first Sabbath being commemorated by its oh-
soul, and with all thy mind. This is the first and servance, whether the seventh day for rest, is reek-
great commandment. And the second is like unto oned to fall on Saturday or on Sunday. But doubt-
it, Thou shalt love thy neighbor as thyself. On these less the Christians were censured for observing Sun-
two commandments hang all the law and the proph- day ; and therefore the apostle speaks of the " blot-
ets."—Matt. 22:36-40. There is here no abrogation ; sing out of the hand writing of ordinances that was 
but, on the contrary, a re-affirmation of the whole of against us ;" and he shows that we are not to be cen-
the moral law, 
sured for not continuing to follow the Jews in their 
Under the Jewish dispensation there was no justi- notions respecting those ordinances. The Sabbath 
fication, only by a compliance with all the require- had now ceased to be a Jewish ordinance and had 
ments of the law ; " for it is written, Cursed is eve- become a Christian one, and must henceforth be kept 
ry one that continueth not in all timings which are on the day that would best commemorate the events 
written in the book of the law to do them."—Gal. for which it was instituted. 
 
3:10. The least disobedience must be followed by After this time we find no marked observance of 
the death of the transgressor. Under the New Tes- the Jewish Sabbath. As apostolic practice is equally 
tament, our sufficiency is of GOD. He has made significant with apostolic precept, we find after this the 
provision whereby penitent transgressors of the law recognition of " the LORD'S day." It was the" first 
may be restored to his favor. The law does riot cease day " of the Jewish week, but was none the less the 
to be obligatory, but GoD helpeth our infirmities, so " seventh day," in succession after six days' labor. 
that though we violate the law, he will have corn- It being still the resting day at the close of a weekly 
passion and forgiveness on those who truly turn from cycle of seven, it still commemorated GOD'S rest at the 
their transgressions. Without the death of CHRIST close of creation, and still foreshadows the millennial 
there could have been no such provision ; but while rest of the seventh chiliad. 
 
" the letter " still " killeth " all who violate it, the It was on the first day of the week that the SA- 
" spirit giveth life r' to all true penitents. The law VIOUR twice honored his disciples by meeting with 
which was graven on tables of stone still stands out them-. (John 20:19, 26.) It was honored as the 
as imperatively as ever, commanding the obedience of 4, LORD'S day," as the one in which JOHN, in the 
all, but the ministration of death which was in- isle of Patmos being in Spirit was permitted a view 
of his risen SAVIOUR. On the " first day of the ty, in distinction from Jews and Pagans. And if 
week," the disciples came together to break bread, they said they had, and would not recant, they most 
(Acts 20:7,) and on that day they laid by in store he put to death. And what, when they continued 
for their poorer brethren as the LORD of the Sabbath steadfast, was their answer?—" I am a Christian ; 1 
had prospered them. (1 Cor. 16:2.) 
cannot omit it." 
The first out-pouring of the Holy Spirit was on JUSTIN MARTYR, in his " Apology for the Chris- 
the Loan's day—the day of Pentecost being fifty tians," addressed to the Emperor ANToNiNes, A. D. 
days after the Passover, it fell that year on Sunday, 147, gives the following account of the practice of 
which was thus honored by the Holy Spirit, as it Christians in his day : " On the day called Sunday, 
had been before by the resurrection of Cilium These there is a meeting, in one place of all the Christians 
two great events, of more importance to the church that live in either the town or in the country ; and 
than any national observance, and both being of uni- the memoirs of the apostles,"—that is,their memoirs, 
versal interest, the day on which they occurred is as is supposed, of the SAVIOUR, in the four gospels—
clearly indicated by the providence of GOD, as the day " or the writings of the prophets, are read to them 
to be observed by all Christians, as their day of rest. as long as is suitable. When the reader stops, the 
In tracing back the history of the church to the president pronounces an admonition, and exhorts to 
resurrection of CHRIST we can find no period when an imitation of those noble examples ; after which 
it was not observed. No subsequent epoch is marked we arise and begin to pray."—Apol. 1, chap. 67. 
by its introduction. No era is distinguished as one He then describes the celebration of the LORD'S sup-
marked by discussions respecting it, in which its oh= per, and the collection which was taken up for the 
servance was resisted as an innovation, as was the poor : and closes by mentiouing several reasons why 
case with all additional rites imposed on the church they selected that day of the week for public worship. 
during the rise of the papacy. And it is certain that AMBROSE, Bishop of Milan, says : " The LORD'S 
the apostles and primitive fathers acted as if they day is sacred or consecrated by the resurrection of 
understood that Goo had sanctioned a change in the CHRIST." 
reckoning of the week, so that its seventh day of AUGUSTINE says : " The LoRD's day was by the 
rest should fall on what corresponded with the first resurrection declared to Christians ; and from that 
day of the Jewish cycle. In proof of this the follow'- very time it began to be celebrated as the Christian 
ing testimonies will suffice. 
festival." 
Mostinim says : " In the first century all Christians ATHANASIUS says : " The LORD transferred the 
were unanimous in setting apart the first day of the Sabbath to the LORD'S day." 
week, on which the SAVIOUR arose from the dead, for EUSEBIUS was the great historian of the ancient 
the solemn celebration of public worship. This pi- Church. He lived in the third century, was a man 
ous custom, which was derived from the church in of vast reading, and was well acquainted with the 
Jerusalem was founded upon the express appointment history of the Church fiorn the days of the apostles 
of the apostles, who themselves consecrated that day as any man of his day. 'Fill he was about forty 
to the same sacred purpose ; and it was observed uni- years old, he lived in great intimacy with the martyr 
versally, as appears from the united testimony of the 1)/041)1.111ms, a learned and pious man of Cesarea, and 
most credible writers The seventh day was founder of a very extensive library, to which EUSE- 
also observed as a festival, not by Christians in gen- BIOS had constant access. He was a learned and ac-
eral, but by such churches as were principally corn- curate historian, and had the aid of the best helps for 
posed of Jewish converts."—vol. 1, p. 45. acquiring information upon all subjects connected 
IGNATIUS, Bishop of Antioch, A. D. 101, who lived with the Christian Church. In his Commentary on 
contemporary with the apostle JOHN, only about half the Psalms he says : " On each day of our SAYiourt's 
a dozen years after his death, says : " Let us (Chris- resurrection, which is called Lotto's day, we may 
tians) no more sabbatize,"—that is, keep the seventh see those who partake of that consecrated food, and 
day, as the Jews did,—" but let us keep the LORD'S that body (of CHRIST) which has saving efficacy, 
day Let every one that loves CHRIST keep alter the eating of it, bowing down to him. 
holy the LoRD's day, the queen of days, the resur- " I think that he (the Psalmist) describes the 
section day, the highest of all days." 
morning assemblies in which we (Christians) are 
THEopHieus, Bishop of Antioch, about, A. D. 162, accustomed to assemble throughout the world."—
says : " Both custom and reason challenge from that Again he says: " Service is performed very early, 
we should honor the LORD'S day, seeing on that day and every morning of the resurrection day through-
it was that our Loan .TEsus completed his resurree_ out the whole world." And again, after observing 
Lion from the dead." 
that the sabbatical law was addressed to the Jews, 
IREN.mus, Bishop of Lyons, a disciple of PoLvcAttp, and that they often violated it, he says : " The Word 
who had been the companion of the apostles, A. D. (CHRIST), by the new covenant, translated and trans-
167, says, that the LORD'S day was the Christian ferred the feast of the Sabbath to the morning light, 
Sabbath. His words are, " On the LORD'S day every and gave us the true rest, viz., the saving Lotto's 
one of us Christians keep the Sabbath, meditating day; the first (day) of the light, in which the SA-
on the law, and rejoicing in the works of GoD." vioun of the world, after all his labors among men, 
DIONYSIAS, who lived in the time of IREN/EUS, in obtained the victory over death, and passed the por- 
writing to the Romans, A. D. 170, says : We ceie_ tals of heaven, having, achieved a work superior to 
brate the LORD'S day ;" and he informs them that the six days' creation. 
epistles of CLEMENT, their late bishop, were read in " The Scripture teaches that we are to spend the 
the church at Corinth," while they were keeping the LoRD's day in leisure for religious exercises, and in 
LORD'S day holy." 
cessation and vacation from all bodily and mortal 
CLEMENT, of Alexandria, A. D. 192, says 4, A works—which the Scripture calls Sabbath and rest." 
Christian, according to the command of the gospel, And again : "On this (Loan's) day, which is the 
observes the LORD'S day, thereby glorifying the res- first of light and of the true Sun, we assemble, after 
urrection of the LORD." And again he says : " The an interval of six days, and celebrate holy and spir-
LoRD's day is the eighth day ;" that is, according to itual Sabbaths,—even all nations redeemed by him 
the reckoning, on the day that came next after the throughout the world." 
Jewish Sabbath, viz., the first day of the week. " And all things whatsoever, that it was the duty 
TERTULLIAN, about the same time, says : " The to do on the Sabbath,"—meaning the Jewish seventh 
LORD'S day is the holy day of the Christian Church." day—" these we have transferred to the Loup's day, 
" We have nothing to do with the Sabbath,"—that as more appropriately belonging to it, because it had 
is, the Jewish Sabbath. " The LoaD's day is the a precedence, and is first in rank, and' more honora- 
Christian's solemnity." 
ble than the Jewish Sabbath." 
 
BARNABAS, who lived in the apostolic age, says: THEODORET, speaking of the Ebonites, a party of 
" We (Christians) keep the eighth day,"—that is, Judaizing Christians, says : '' They keep the Sab-
the first day of the week—" as a joyful holy day, on bath according to the Jewish law, arid sanctify the 
which day, also, JESUS arose from the dead." LORD'S day in like manner as we do." — Herat. 
%PLINY, the younger, who was governor of Byth- Fab. 2, 1. " This," says Prof. STUART, " gives a 
nia, A. D. 107, not ten years after the death of the good historical view of the state of things in the 
apostle JOHN, writing to the Emperor TRAJAN, says early ages of the Church. The zealots for the law 
"They "—the Christians —o were accustomed on a wished the Jewish Sabbath to be observed as well as 
stated day to meet before dulight, and to repeat the Loan's day ; for about the latter there appears 
hymns to CHRIST, as to a god, and to bind themselves never to have been any questions among any class of 
by a sacred obligation, not to commit any wicked- Christians, so far as I have been able to discover.—
ness, but on the contrary, to abstain from thefts, rob- The early Christians, one and all of them, hold the 
beries, and adulteries ; also, not to violate their prom- first day of the week to be sacred." 
ise or deny a pledge ; after which it was their cos- Dr. CUMMING, in his Apocalyptic Sketches, says : 
tom to separate, and meet again at a promiscuous " The Sabbath was observed by apostolic precept 
and harmless meal "—that is, for the celebration of and apostolic example not upon the seventh, but upon 
the LORD'S supper. 
the first day of the week." Again he says : " We 
What " stated day " that was may be learned from find that immediately after the resurrection of JESUS, 
converts from the Jewish religion observed both the 
the foregoing testimony, and from the writings of 
the apostle PAUL. 
Saturday and the Sunday, though the Gentile con- 
Hence the fact, that their persecutors, when they verts unanimously observed only the first day of the 
wished to know whether men were Christians, were week." 
 
accustomed to put to them this question, viz., " Hast 
thou kept the LORD'S day ?" If they had, they were 
Christians. This was the badge of their Ch of all tame, a flatterer. 
ristiani- 
Johnson. 
'20uent tjcrcia. 
Of all wild beasts, preserve me from a tyrant ; and 
 
THE ADVENT HERALD, 
 
"PROVE ALL THINGS." 
BY J. C. KYLE. 
Prove all things: hold fast that which Is good."—I Thess. 5:2L 
Reader, You live in days when the text before 
your eyes is one of the first importance. The truths 
it contains are especially truths for the times. Give 
me your attention for a few minutes, and I will try to 
show you what I mean. 
There were thtee great doctrines or principles 
which won the battle of the Protestant Reformation. 
These were :—first, the sufficiency and supremacy 
of holy Scripture :—secondly, the right of private 
judgment ;—and thirdly, justification by faith only, 
without the deeds of the law. 
These three principles were the keys of the whole 
controversy between the Refbrmers and the Church 
of Rome. Keep firm hold of them when you argue 
with a Roman Catholic, and your position is unas-
sailable ;—no weapon that the Church of Rome can 
forge against you shall prosper. Give up any of 
them, and your cause is lost. Like SAMSON with his 
hair shorn, your strength is gone Like the Spar- 
tans betrayed at Thermopylae, you are out-flanked 
and surrounded. Resistance is useless. Sooner or 
later you will have to lay down your arms, and sur-
render at discretion. 
Remember this. The Roman Catholic controversy 
is upon you once more. You must put on the old 
armor, if you would not have your faith overthrown. 
The sufficiency of the holy Scripture,—the right of 
private judgment,—justification by faith only,—these 
are the three great principles to which you must al-
ways, cling. Grasp them firmly, and never let them go. 
Reader, one of the great principles to which I have 
referred appears to me to stand forth in the verse of 
Scripture which heads this article,—I mean the right 
of private judgment. I wish to say something to you 
about that principle. 
The Holy Ghost by the mouth of St. PAUL says to 
us, " Prove all things. Hold fast that which is good." 
In these words you have two great truths. 
I. The right, duty, and necessity of private judg-
ment. " Prove all things." 
11. The duty and necessity of keeping firm hold 
upon truth. " Hold fast that which is good." 
I propose to dwell a little on both these heads. 
I. Let me speak first, of the right, duty, and ne-
cessity of private judgment. 
When 1 say the right of private judgment, I mean 
that, every individual Christian has a right to judge 
for himself by the word of GOD, whether that which 
is put before him as religious truth is GOD'S truth, or 
is not. 
When I say the duty of private judgment, I mean 
that GOD requires every Christian man to use the 
right of which I have spoken ;—to compare man's 
words and man's writings with Gon's revelation, and 
make sure that he is not deluded and taken in by 
false teaching. 
And when I say the necessity of private judgment, 
I mean,—that it is absolutely needful for every Chris-
tian who loves his soul, and would not be deceived, 
to exercise that right, and discharge that duty, to 
which I have referred ; seeing that experience shows 
that the neglect of private judgment has always been 
the cause of immense evils in the church of CHRIST. 
Now the apostle PAUL urges all these three points 
upon your notice when he uses those remarkable 
words, " Prove all things." I ask your particular 
attention to that expression. In every point of view 
it is most weighty and instructive. 
Here, you will remember, the apostle PAUL is 
writing to the Thessalonians,—to a church which he 
himself had founded. Here is an inspired apostle 
writing to young inexperienced Christians,--writing 
to the whole professing church in a certain city, con-
taining laity as well as clergy,—writing, too, with 
especial reference to matters of doctrine and preach. 
ing, as we know by the verse preceding the text, 
" despise not prophesyings." And yet mark what 
he says : " Prove all things." 
He does not say, " Whatsoever apostles,--what-
soever evangelists, pastors, and teachers,—whatso-
ever your bishops,—whatsoever your ministers tell 
you is truth, that you are to believe." No! he 
says, " Prove all things." He does not say, " what-
soever the universal church pronounces true, that 
you are to hold." No ! lie says, " Prove all things." 
The principle laid down is this, " Prove all things 
by the word of God :—all ministers, all teaching, 
all preaching, all doctrines, all sermons, all writings, 
all opinions, all practices,—prove all by the word of 
GOD. Measure all by the measures of the Bible.—
Compare all with the standard of the Bible.—Ex-
amine all by the light of the Bible.—Test all in the 
crucible of the Bible.—That which can abide the 
fire of the Bible, receive, hold, believe, and obey. 
That which cannot abide the fire of the Bible, reject, 
refuse, repudiate, and cast away." 
Reader, this is private judgment. This is the right 
you are to exercise if you love your soul. You are 
not to believe things in religion, merely because they 
are said by Popes or Cardinals,—by Bishops or 
Priests,—by Presbyters or Deacons,—by Churches, 
Councils, or Synods,—by Fathers, Puritans, or Re-
formers. You ate not to argue, " Such and such 
things must he true, because these men say so." You 
are not to do so. You are to prove all things by the 
word of God. 
I know such doctrine sounds shocking in some 
men's ears. But I write it down advisedly, and be-
lieve it cannot be disproved. I want to encourage 
no man in ignorant presumption or ignorant contempt. 
I praise not the man who seldom reads his Bible and 
sets himself to pick holes in his minister's sermons. 
praise not the man who knows nothing but a few 
texts in the New Testament, and yet undertakes to 
settle questions in divinity which have puzzled Gou's 
wisest children. But still I hold with Bishop BIL-
soN (A. D. 1575), that " all hearers have both liberty 
to discern and a charge to beware of seducers ; and 
woe to them that do it not." And I say with Bishop 
DAVENANT (A. D. 1627), " we are not to believe all 
who undertake to teach the church : but must take 
care and weigh with serious examination, whether 
their doctrine be sound or not. 
Reader, men may dislike the doctrine of private 
judgment, but there is no doubt that it is continually 
taught in the word of God. 
This is the principle laid down in the eighth chap-
ter of Isaiah, 19th verse. These words were written, 
remember, at a time when GOD was more immediately 
king over his church, and had more direct communi-
cation with it titan he has now. They were written 
at. a time when there were men upon earth wino had 
direct revelations from GOD. 
Yet what does ISAIAH 
say? " When they shall say unto you, seek unto 
them that have familiar spirits, and unto wizards that 
peep, and that mutter : should not a people seek unto 
their Goo ? for the living to the dead ? to the law 
and to the testimony : if they speak not according to 
this word, it is because there is no light in them." 
if this be not private judgment, what is it? 
This again is the principle laid down by our Lord 
JESUS CHRIST in the sermon on the Mount. Remem- 
ber what he says :—" Beware of false prophets which 
come to you in sheep's clothing, but inwardly they 
are ravening wolves. Ye shall know them by their 
fruit."—Matt. 7:15. How is it possible that uteri 
shall know these false prophets, except they exercise 
their private judgment as to what their fruits are ? 
This is the practice you find commended in the 
Bereans in the Acts of the Apostles. They did not 
take the apostle PAUL'S word for granted, when he 
came to preach to them. You are told, that they 
" searched the Scriptures daily, whether those things 
were so ;" "therefore," it is said, '' many of them 
believed."—Acts 17:11, 12. What was this again 
but private judgment ? 
This isthe spirit of the advice given in 1 Cor. 10:15 : 
" I speak as unto wise men ; judge ye what 1 say :" 
and in Col. 2:8 : " Beware lest any man spoil you 
through philosophy and vain deceit :" and in 1 John 
4:1 : " Beloved, believe not every spirit, but try the 
spirits, whether they are of GOD :" and in 2 John 10 : 
If there come any unto you, and bring not this doc-
trine, receive him not unto your house." If these pas- 
sages do not recommend the use of private judgment, 
I do not know what words mean. To my mind they 
seem tosay to every individual Christian, " Prove all 
things." 
Reader, whatever men may say against private judg-
ment, you may depend it cannot be neglected with- 
out immense danger to your soul. You may not 
like it, but you never know what you may come to, 
if you refuse to use it. No man can say into what 
depths of false doctrine you may be drawn, if you 
will not do what Goq requires of you, and " prove 
all things." 
Suppose that in fear of private judgment, you re-
solve to believe whatever the church believes. Where 
is your security against error? The church is not 
infallible. There was a time when almost the whole 
of Christendom embraced the Arian heresy, and did 
not acknowledge the Lord JESUS CHRIST to be equal 
with the Father in all things. There was a time be-
fore the Reformation, when the darkness over the 
face of Europe was a darkness that might be felt. 
The general councils of the church are not infallible. 
When the whole church is gathered together in a 
general council, what says our 21st article ? " They 
may err, and sometimes have erred, even in things 
pertaining unto GOD. Wherefore things ordained 
by them to salvation, have neither strength nor au-
thority, unless it may be declared that they be taken 
out of holy Scripture." The particular branches of 
the church are not infallible. Any one of them may 
err. Many of them have fallen foully, or have been 
swept away. Where is the church of Ephesus at 
this day ? Where the church of Sardis at the pres-
ent time? Where the church of Hippo in Africa! 
Where the church of Carthage ? They are all gone ! 
not a vestige of any of them is left. Will you then 
be content to err merely because the Church errs! 
Will your company be any excuse for your error? 
Will your erring in company with the Church remove 
your responsibility for your own soul ? Olt ! reader, 
it were surely a thousand times better for a man to 
stand alone, than to err in company with the Church, 
and be lost. it were better to prove all things, and 
go to heaven, than to say, " I dare not think for my-
self," and go to hell. 
But suppose, that, to cut matters short, yon re-
solve to believe whatever your minister believes. Once 
more I ask, Where is your safety ?—Where is your 
security! Ministers are not infailible, any more than 
churches. All of them have not the Spirit of GOD. 
The very best of them are only men. Call us bish-
ops, priests, deacons, or whatever names you please, 
we are all earthen vessels. I speak not merely of 
Popes, who have promulgated awful superstitions, 
and led abominable lives. I would rather point to 
the best of Protestants and say, " beware of looking 
upon them as infallible,—beware of thinking of any 
man (whoever that man may he) that he cannot err." 
LUTHER held consubstantiation :—that was a mighty 
error. ZUINGLIUS, the Swiss Reformer, went out to 
battle, and died in the fight :—that was a mighty er-
ror. CALVIN, the Geneva Reformer, advised the 
burning of SERVETUS :—that was a mighty error.—
CRANMER and RIDLEY urged the putting of HOOPER 
in prison because of some trifling dispute about 
vestments :—that was a mighty error. 
WHITOIFT 
persecuted the Puritans :—that was a mighty error. 
WESLEY arid TOPLADY in the last century quarrelled 
fiercely about Calvan ism :—that was a mighty error. 
All these things are warnings, if you will only take 
them. All say, " Cease ye from man " All show 
us that if a main's religion hangs on ministers, who-
ever they may he, and not on the word of GOD, it 
hangs on a broken reed. Never make ministers 
Popes. Follow us so far as we follow CHRIST, but 
not a hair's breadth farther. Believe whatever we 
can show you out of the Bible, but do not believe a 
single word more. Neglect the duty of private judg-
ment, and you may find, to your cost, the truth of 
what WHITBY says, " The best of overseers do 
sometimes make oversights." You may live to ex-
perience the truth of what the LORD said to the Pha-
risees, " When the blind lead the blind, both fall 
into the ditch." Reader, be very sure no man is 
safe against error, unless he acts on St. PAUL'S in-
junction,—unless he " proves all things " by the 
word of GOD.—(To be continued.) 
TRANSATLANTIC CONFLAGRATION. 
The last English papers give an account of a fire, 
which roust be interesting to those who are acquaint-
ed with the localities over which it swept. The 
drought of the season was remarkable, and in Scot-
land and the northren parts of England, the moors 
were as dry as tinder. From the practice of burning 
the heather in the spring for the purpose of obtaining 
a crop of tender herbage on the sheep farms, the fire 
was occasioned, and when started it. swept over the 
country with a power perfectly unmanageable. Says 
the London Globe : 
In some parts a man 011 horseback could scarcely 
have kept pace with the fierce march of the fire. It 
seized the dry twig-like arms of the heather—blazed 
up and on a roaring storm of fire—realizing to the 
full the wild pictures drawn by the American novel-
ist, Cooper, of a prairie in flames. Seen in the dark-
ness of a moonless night, with great masses of dark 
wall rocks rising above the crackling flames which 
shoot along their base, now ceased a moment, anti 
fanned by a passing breath of wind, again blazed, 
roaring up—the scene was well likened to a siege by 
night of some strongly fortified town. 
The fire was not confined to the dry heather and 
grass on the moss land ; several corn and grass fields 
and some valuable meadows have been burned up. A 
considerable quantity of old peas in stacks were con-
sumed ; and there has been a serious destruction of 
game, especially of grouse now hatching their eggs. 
The flames sometimes spread more rapidly than a 
man could run, and the poor birds, sitting instinctively 
on their nests, were roasted to death. Of the woods 
destroyed in the highlands, the paincipal were the 
Farr Woods, the property of Col. Mackintosh, and a 
forest on the hill of Lochordie, six miles north of 
Dunkeld, more than a mile of which was swept away, 
and the reflection of the flames was seen fifty miles 
off. 
Extensive tracts of the moorlands and mosses in 
South Lancashire and Cheshire were also devastated. 
Half a mile of forest belonging to the Earl of Elles-
mere, and two large plantations and the Rainford 
and the Bickerstaffc game preserves, belonging to the 
Earl of Derby, were destroyed. The damage done 
to the property of the latter nobleman was very large. 
On Lindon moss a cottage and homestead was des-
troyed, and with it all the furniture and a cow. In 
Westmoreland, the property destroyed has been very 
great. The house and outbuildings of a farmer, 
named Dennison, at Whassett, were burned to the 
ground, and bonds to the value of £1,000 were des-
troyed with the furniture. On Shap Fells, a great 
number of sheep and lambs were burnt. 
All the accounts agree in stating that there has 
been an immense destruction of game : sitting par-
tridges and pheasants have been burned upon their 
nests, it being, in many cases, found impossible to 
scare them from their young ; and the hares were 
seen in several instances, in great numbers together, 
screaming in anguish as the flames approached arid 
consumed them. In Huntingdonshire, there was also 
a fearful conflagration, extending over lands to the 
distance of six miles, and with a breadth varying 
from half a mile to a mile. It destroyed hundreds, nay, 
thousands of acres of growing wheat, oats, potatoes, 
and other spring sown produce, besides hundreds of 
thousands of turf, piled for fuel, and for sale in the 
metropolis and elsewhere. 
THE CURSE OF FRANCE. 
THE CHRISTIAN.—The real Christian is the only 
prudent man. He Las laid up in store for the win-
ter of the grave. He has sown for eternity. Ile 
looks through all the future and provides fur it all. 
He sees the evils that are before him, and from all of 
them hides himself in Christ. He is prepared to 
die, to be judged, and to he glorified. The presence 
of Christ will be with him in death—the righteous-
ness of Christ upon him at the judgment, and the 
Spirit of Christ is sinctifying him for glory. He 
may have no treasure on earth ; and no matter if he 
has riot, he is only passing rapidly over it : and if he 
had, he could not take it with him.—But in heaven, 
his goal, his home, he has a treasure. It is where 
he is to be—where he will want it—where lie can 
use it. This is the prudent man. Mark him. Imi-
tate him. 
THE ARAB IN THE DESERT.—An Arab had lost 
his way in the desert, and was in danger of dying 
from hunger and thirst. After straying about for a 
long time, he found one of the cisterns, or water-pits, 
out of which the camels of the traveller drink, and a 
little leather bag lying upon the ground. " GOD be 
praised," said he, as he took it up to examine ; 
" they are undoubtedly dates or nuts; and how I 
will quicken and refresh myself with them !" In 
this sweet hope he quickly opened the bag, saw what 
it contained, and exclaimed in great sadness, " Ah 
they are only pearls!" 
A just and reasonable modesty does not only re-
commend eloquence, but sets off every great talent 
which a man can he possessed of. It heightens all 
the virtues which it accompanies : like the shades 
in paintings, it raises and rounds every figure, and 
makes the colors more beautiful, though not so glar-
ing as they would be without it. 
Rev. LEON PILLATTE, at a public meeting, in Lon-
don in May, said :—" It has been said that Popery 
does not reign any more in France ; and it is true 
that the people do not believe in Popery. More than 
ten years spent in the missionary career in France 
has shown me clearly, that Popery has lost its hold 
on the mind of the people—that it has fallen below 
the level of the public conscience. But there is. 
something worse, if possible, than Popery, and that 
is, the moral stain which it leaves behind it when it 
departs from a nation. Sometimes it is the case, 
that a disease which attacks the body is not so bad 
as the effects which it leaves. I believe this is so 
frequently in typhus fever. And let me say, the 
typhus is far from being, so had a thing physically as 
Popery is morally. We are not Roman Catholics 
now as a nation ; but Popery has made us what we 
now are. We have not yet washed away the mud 
with which it has covered us. My language is per-
haps strong when I speak of Popery ; but it is far 
from being so strong as my feelings about it. I was 
once held in the chains of Popery. I remember it. 
I have been under the grinding, iron rule of the 
priests. But my soul has escaped from the net of 
this destroyer of souls, and I am therefore authorized, 
perhaps, to speak of Popery as an accursed system, 
which has made France a nation of infidels. 
My experience as a man has been very much like 
the experience of the nation itself. When a child, I 
was sent to the priests as to the highest Divine au-
thority which was to teach me my duty. I went, 
listened to them, bowed before them, and believed 
everything. But I could not help reading, thinking, 
hearing, talking, looking about me, and seeing what 
was goingon in the world ; and when I detected false-
hood in Popery, and not thinking that Chi istianity was 
different from Popery, but believing that Christianity 
and Popery was all the same thing, I gave up Popery 
and Christianity too, and became a thorough infidel. 
This is the history also of the French nation. When 
a child, France fell into the hands of the priests, re-
ceiving Popery instead of Christianity, and grew up 
in it; but the nation has detected falsehood in Popery, 
and given it up altogether; and, guided by 'VOLTAIRE 
and the Encyclopdists, become a nation of infidels. 
What do we want? The gospel ! (Cheers.) Of 
revolution we have had enough—indeed, too much. 
In these fierce struggles much of the best blood of 
France has been shed, and the noblest hearts have 
been broken. Of glory in industry and the fine arts, 
we have had plenty. It is generally the share of 
heathen nations to have such glory also. The Greeks 
had plenty of it. Of military glory we have had 
enough—too much. I hate it, and cannot hear the 
thought of it. What do we want, then? We want 
the gospel. Oh, I wish I could communicate toevery 
heart in minis assembly the desire which I feel in my 
own to have the gospel preached throughout France. 
222 
THE ADVENT HERALD. 
when there is no peace to those out of Christ ?" 
This certainly is, so far as we are concerned, putting 
off to a more distant period the real prevalence of 
Christ's kingdom among us, and rendering the re-
demption of mankind from sin a thousand times more 
difficult and uncertain. 
If we have the religion of Christ we shall " mount 
up on wings as eagles," we shall soar even above 
the lightnings of the tempest into the pure empyrean ; 
but if we are content, and preach on other men's 
ideas of religion, we shall find ourselves in a prison 
of" systematic theology "—our wings will be clipped, 
THE RELIGION OF CHRIST AND THAT we shall be degraded to that system, and we shall 
OF THE NINETEENTH CENTURY. be, like thousands more in our churches, soiled with 
that such would hasten to Christ and hide under the 
covert of his wing, and then they will be sheltered 
and protected from every fearful gathering storm, 
and brought at last to the enjoyment of that pure 
world where sin and sorrow, sickness and death, can 
never enter. " They which shall be accounted wor-
thy to obtain that world, and the resurrection from the 
dead, neither marry nor are given in marriage : nei-
ther can they die any more ; for they are equal to the 
angels : and are the children of God, being the chil-
dren of the resurrection." 
BY O. It. FASSETT. 
resurrection of old, dead, and exploded errors, both in worn, self-seeking. Christ says," These things have 
 
the church, which ought to be " the pillar of 
and in the scientific world. I need not specify, or and that your joy might be full." 
 
We live in a truly wonderful age, we have a great the bars of our prison, ever doubting, plodding, care- 
,,, I spoken to you that my joy might remain in you, 
particularize, much less enumerate, as every keen Yet in our short lives how many Bible Christians, 
observer of the times, and every true admirer of un- in the strict sense of the word, shall we find ? How 
disguised truth will understand my allusion. These many open, noble, trusting, cheerful, independent, 
old errors in this new life are becoming very proud, heavenly, self-forgetting spirits among men? God 
and perverted science very popular; so much so, that knows how many, I don't. In all my journeyings 
in many places truth is driven away, or is even strick- and travels f found a " few," and they were very 
" Thy rod and thy staff they comfort me." 
It was en down in our streets and churches. Falsehood " far between." There is a glory and a power, a 
the promise of God and his oath in confirmation, clothes herself in the garb of truth, and religion it- beauty and a depth of blessedness in the joy which 
upon which he leaned. He had " hope in his death," self, in a form of mere earthly aggrandizement, pomp, Christ spoke of, but how seldom do we see it real- 
and that was of final deliverance when " the Son ofand formula, is becoming one enormous lie. ized. And yet it is the only description of piety we 
Righteousness should arise with healing in his The subject of our piece is a theme which at the have in the New Testament ; this is the religion— 
wings," and when light should break front the east-
the angelic experience which Christ intended, and 
present time is engaging the attention of many minds, 
ern horizon and light up that dark valley. " My and well it may, for there is evidently a wide gulf the apostles believed was to fill the world. The ex-
flesh shall rest in hope." " Thou shalt redeem my between the religion of Christ and the religion of perience of Christ's own joy is the only true offspring 
soul from the power of the grave." " As for me, I Christians who are proud, intolerant orsellindulgent. of Christ's own words, studied in all its native pow-
" Ile leadeth me." 
Not only shall we see our Re- will behold thy face in righteousness ; I shall be sat- True Christians believe that the world is to be saved er and glory. And truly if all professing Christians 
deemer there, and enjoy the rich and unspeakable isfied, when Iawake with thy likeness."—Psa. 17:15. 
 Christianity, 
7 7, 
by ,,rts“anity, not by Citurcniontly ; by realities, not had this experience, and lived in it, and upon it, the 
pleasure of conversing with him in that world of " For thou art with me." How pleasing and heart- by forms and empty shadows ; by simplicity, not by light and brilliancy of such religion would fill the 
blessedness and light ; hut there, too, we shall walk cheering is the reflection, that Jehovah is omniscient splendid churches, soft seats, and precise preachers. world. This is the power of God's word to salva-
with him. 
He will go forth at the head, and in the and omnipresent, that lie is everywhere taking cog- They know and feel that truth is from God, and can lion, and no man ever believed and realized its living 
midst of his flock, to enjoy the refresging, invigora- nizance of every minute circumstance, and that his be found pure only in his word ; they don't want to truths and felt otherwise,—that would be impossible, 
ting, air, and animating scenes of " the new earth, eye watches over the very dust of his people, and take any mere man's divinity. But that is not the from their nature. Christ's religion is to live in and 
paradise." We will range those blissful fields to- that he has given the assurance that not a hair of case with our fashionable Christians; away they run, up. n God's word ; modern religion is to know about 
gether with him. " Who are these which are ar- their head shall perish. David could entrust himself one and all, after human names, and thus they become it ; but all the biblical knowledge in the world will 
rayed in white robes? and whence come they ? into the hands of his Redeemer, though he knew that mere exponents of other mens' ideas ; and morever not strengthen the spirit. In short, we need a new 
These are they which came out of great tribulation, he must decay, die, and his dust commingle with its they will tell men " that they cannot be converted, baptism from heaven in the faith which appreciates 
and have washed their robes, and made them white mother earth. The Shepherd of Israel, who never except they.become recipients of the samesecond-hand the power of divine truth, and sees and feels its re- 
in the blood of the Lamb. Therefore are they be- sleeps nor slumbers, now knows where lies the dust ideas as themselves!" Is this carrying out the alitY• If we had this faith we should be very differ- 
fore the throne of God, and serve him day and night of him who uttered the sentiment of the text, though Saviour's command to " search the Scriptures t!' ent creatures. Any one of the great truths revealed 
in his temple : and he that sitteth on the throne shall he has long since, many centuries, yea, near three Search the Scriptures, and find the truth, not make in God's word, distinctly seen, and fully believed and 
dwell among them. They shall hunger no more, thousand years, been mouldering and passing away. a system of theology, and then go to the Bible and appreciated, would change the whole character. It 
neither thirst any mote ; neither shall the sun light David knew that though he should thus die and be choose such parts as will give it the appearance of would possess the mind, enlist all the faculties ; it 
on them, nor any heat. For the Lamb which is in consigned in dust, yet that his Redeemer and Lord truth. if I wanted to study astronomy, or contem- would lift the soul from earth to heaven. Baptized 
the midst of the throne shall feed them, and shall would still live and live forever, and would pre- plate the heavens, should I look directly to the into its power as a spiritual element, it would raise 
lead them unto living fountains of waters : and God serve and ultimately raise him from the grave ; here skies, or should I retire to some mountain lake, and us above the fear of man, and the temptations of the 
shall wipe away all tears from their eyes."—Rev. was his trust. " My days are like a shadow that study in the reflection thrown into its bosom? Would world ; make us insensible to fatigue, we should be 
7:13-17. 
declineth ; and I am withered like grass. But thou, you ? I think you would not, and that for the same ever ready for the " labor of love." That ought to 
" Beside the still waters." Those quiet and tin- 0 Lord, shalt endure forever. . . . Thou art the same, reason that 1 should give, viz., that if even the lake be our spiritual existence, a powerful, practical life, 
agitated streams and rivers that intersperse and flow and thy years shall have no end."—Psa. 102:11, 12, was clear and pellucid, and the night. very still, yet and not a mere barren speculation. 
through the valleys of the new earth. No boisterous 27. So could Job entrust himself into the hands of it is subject to accidents ; and the slightest breath of The apostle Paul was a Christian of the first order, 
seas or impetuous torrents are there ! no floods, nor him who has since declared himself to be " the res- wind might ruffle its surface, or some object might and a bright example for us ; and why ? simply be-
fearful dashing billow's to destroy the lives and prop- urrection and the life," and has since said, " I am obscure the crystal clearness of its waters ; and cause he saw and felt the truths of the gospel. He 
erty of its peaceful and quiet inhabitants ! No swift he that liveth, and was dead ; and behold, I am alive should never have the image of truth. The stars had a lively and spiritual sense of God's word, his 
and roaring cataracts pouring their swelling and im- for evermore, Amen ; and have the keys of hell and would seem double arid dim, the planets would trem- mind was arrested and unchained beneath its influ-
petuous waters over rugged and fearful precipices ! of death."—Rev. 1:18. " For, " says Job, " I know ble, and lose their brightness ; and moreover, I should ence, and he acted with an exhaustless energy for 
but there the still waters glide and flow smoothly that my Redeemer liveth, and that he shall stand at not have much credit for my astronomical know-l- the salvation of his fellow beings. But Christians 
and gently along, making " glad the city of our the latter day upon the earth : and though after my edge, because if I spent my whole life in such inves- of the nineteenth century, they fall into a genteel 
God," and the countries of the redeemed. skin worms destroy this body, yet in my flesh shall tigations I should not have a true system. But sup- lukewarmness—they get into a spiritual sleep—they 
" He restoreth my soul." When forfeited, lost, I see God."—Job 19:25, 26. Here is faith and a pose 1 was a student, and was studying that science dream of their richness in self-acquired virtues, they 
and lost forever as it were, " he restoreth " it ! He joyful trust and confidence in God. And though for a diploma, and studied after that fashion ; when imagine that they are clad in a wedding garment, 
reclaims it, rescues it from under the curse of the this ancient man of God has long slumbered in the I came for an examination, would not the professors ready to meet the Saviour at his coming, when the 
law, from the grasp of death, from the power of the ground, yet his hope is not lost, nor is he forgotten. laugh at both me and my system, and send me away awfully solemn fact is, they are sleeping in poverty, 
grave ! He restoreth it to its original purity and " The Lord will raise him up at the last day." The vvithout one, to learn wisdom by my folly ? in rags, in nakedness. Ye men who " handle the 
perfection as in Adam before the fall, when he stood prophet Isaiah had the same faith of assuraace when We are studying religion here for eternity ; and word," " ambassadors of Christ," we charge you in 
up in the majesty and image of his God, the Lord of contemplating the same scene, and when called to die if we look to men for our system of truth, we may, his name, do your duty, clear your skirts of blood, 
creation. Says David, " Thou shalt not leave my a martyr's death, for he says : " Thy dead shall live, and it is nearly certain we shall, see things double arouse them if possible, by the apocalyptic call, 
soul in hell." " Thou shalt redeem my soul from the together with my dead body shall they arise. Awake and dim ; and when we come to be examined at that " Repent," for the day of elitist is at hand. Let 
power of the grave," and hence he could say, " My and sing, ye that dwell in dust : for thy dew shall be great examination, we may be laughed at when " our your minds be absorbed with one idea, and that the 
flesh shall rest in hope." 
as the dew of herbs, and the earth shall cast out the fear cometh," and sent away to suffer throughout cross of Christ. If the world should think you mad, 
" Yea, though lwalk through the valley of the shad- dead."—Isa. 26:19. 
never mind, they said that Christ had a devil. Oh 
eternity the remorse of conscience for having been 
ow of death, I will fear no evil: for thou art with me; IMPROVEMENT.—Let us as the people of God culti- such fools ! Oh let us contemplate the form of reli- that we were all thus mad !—that we were thus 
thy rod and thy staff they comfort me." 
Here is Ian- vate the same confidence and trust in our Redeemer, gion, of truth in its native brightness, as is manifest transfigured with power and glory—that we had the 
guage showing his confidence and trust, his triumph and exercise all faith in him as our great Shepherd in Christ ; for what can it avail us to study truth in wings of a seraph, the freedom and swiftness of a 
of faith in view of the darkest hour of conflict which and deliverer. He will supply us with all things the obscurity of mens' lives, in a dim, turbid reflec- celestial nature. This is our privilege, and although 
the Christian is called to pass through. Hope cheers necessary for us in the present life. God has prom- lion, in the troubled waters of a fashionable religion. it might darken the world to us, yet it would let 
him even here, when the darkest cloud that hides ised " a hundred fold" here " with persecutions," Not that our great theologians are not good men,— floods of rapturous, heavenly light into our souls ; 
the future shuts down upon him in the blackness of and " in the world to come life everlasting." Let they are ; but Christ tells us to " search the Scrip- we should see things in their true light, this world 
night ! 
us be grateful for his past and present care and faith- tures," and Paul warns us by the example of those and its vanities would appear as such, and conse- 
This world in its present state might be justly fulness, arid trust in him in the future conflicts of 
who, ,4 measuring themselves by themselves, and quently have no weight with us. If Christians were 
considered but " the valley of the shadow of death " life, and if called like those that have gone before us, comparing themselves among themselves, are not to do this, we should have a new reformation, and 
—for what is it but one of sorrow and death ! We to " pass through the dark valley of the shadow of 
wise."-2 Cor. 10;12. Common sense tells us, that we need it as much as in the days of Luther ; there 
walk amid graves, and graveyards, the dying and death," let us " fear no evil," but entrust ourselves if we come into the habit of looking at the religion is the same anti-christ, and he feeds and lives by the 
the dead ! Our kindred lie mouldering in dust, oth- into His care who is " the resurrection and the life," of Christ through a medium, or rather at the reflec- hiding, corruption, ignorance, and inexperience of 
God's word. Do this and live, do it andehe spirit of 
ers are wasting by disease, and must soon pass away. and has the " keys of hell and of death," and who 
lion in it, no matter how pure that medium may be, 
Sorrow and mourning fill up the history in our world, has said, " I will ransom them from the power of the we shall soon lose the sense of its native power and Rornaniam and formalism must die ; they could no 
and has for near six thousand years. But the fan- grave ; I will redeem them from death." —Hosea glory. We shall be filled with a sickly, stunted, more stand against the powerful fire of the spirit of 
God's word, than the dead leaves in our forests can 
guage is more expressive of real and actual death— 13:14. 
dwarf-like, superstitious theology, instead of the free, 
the tomb and the grave. Thus says Job, " Before The sinner sees from this discourse that there is noble, healthful growth of the Scriptures. resist a mighty conflagration. No longer use the 
I go whence I shall not return, even to the land of here an experience that he has not yet attained, and what can Christians of the present day be think- word of God merely as an external lamp to guide us 
darkness and the shadow of death." Here he has which he greatly needs. He is harassed with pres- ing about that they are content to be so " lean," and in the path of duty ; but as an inward fountain of 
reference, no doubt, to the grave, but lie proceeds : ent care and anxiety, and he looks upon the future feed on " husks," when there is " enough and to light inciting us to the " labor of love." " Search 
" A land of darkness, as darkness itself ; and when with fearful forebodings. Death is a gloomy and spare," in our " Father's house :" what can possess the Scriptures." It is not what any man has felt, 
the light is as darkness."—Job 10:21, 22. What a sad place, for he sees no hope to cheer and light tip ministers that they practice this spiritual quackery that can constitute power in our souls, but what the 
description of the tomb and the grave ! It is indeed its dark domain ; and a corning judgment is a day of on such a big scale, " healing the hurt of the daugh- Spirit of God teaches us to feel—makes us to feel. 
" a land of darkness, as darkness itself." No light fearful terror, for he is not prepared to meet it. Oh ter of my people slightly ;" " crying peace, peace, We may have seen trees remain standing in the for- 
"The Lord is my Shepherd I shall not want. He rnaketh me to 
lie down in green pastures : he leadeth me beside the stilt waters. 
lie restoreth my soul: he leadeih me in the paths of righteousness 
for his name's sake. Yea, though I walk through the valley and 
shadow of death, I wilt tear no evil for thou art with me; thy rod 
and that stair they comfort me."—Psa. 
(Concluded from our last.) 
" Ile maheth me to lie down in green pastures," or 
" pastures of tender grass " (margin.) 0 how de-
lightful the thought ! His people and the sheep of 
his pasture he will bring to the enjoyment of that 
" new world where all is fair," where the ever green 
grass shall as a rich and beautiful carpet be spread 
over it forever ; where perennial spring, with its 
lively and thrilling scenes, will be seen and enjoyed 
in a world without end. 
" 0, the transporting, rapturous scene, 
That rises to my sight ! 
Sweet fields arrayed in living green, 
And rivers of delight. 
"There generous fruit that never fail, 
On trees immortal grow ; 
There rocks, and hills, and brooks and vales, 
With milk and honey flow." 
CONFIDENCE AND TRUST IN GOD, 
CORRESPONDENCE. 
there, the light of day is excluded : it is the black-
ness of night, where the " light is as darkness," 
and " without any order." How true ! see the pal-
lid and sunken cheek, the closed eye, the failing 
breath ! see the mould, the worm and corruption !—
see the loosened joints and scattered bones ! what a 
wreck of what was once beauty and form ! But now, 
alas, all is confusion and disorder—no arrangement, 
nor symmetry, or proportion there. Yet says David, 
" Though I walk " down in that dark valley, " I 
will fear no evil." What a triumph and victory of 
faith is this. I imagine the figure illustrative of 
this is something like the following : He, like a trav-
eler on a pilgrimage, is passing down a declivity 
from the high lands above, where the rays of the set-
ting sun still shine and give light; as he passes down 
into the deep valley below, the rays of the sun are 
more and more excluded, until at last, when he has 
made his full descent, the blackness of night overtakes 
him, and he is lost amid the surrounding darkness. 
So it is as we draw nearer and still nearer death and 
the grave. But David could say in view of this, " I 
will fear no evil " when I go down into that dark 
valley. 
THE ADVENT HERALD. 
223 
During the few past years the subject of the 
speedy Millennial Advent of the Saviour, and accom-
panying events, has excited much attention in Eng-
land. About eleven years since certain Christians in 
Scotland, who felt interested in the study of the pro-
phetic word, issued the following :—" Prospectus of 
an association of Christian friends, united for the pur-
pose of promoting the study and elucidation of the 
prophetic Scriptures, and of drawing the attention of 
Christians generally to the important subjects con-
tained therein." 
" As a blessing is pronounced in the word of God 
on the study of prophecy, which is as a light shin-
ing in a dark place until the day dawn and the day 
star arise, a few individuals, desirous of forwarding 
the great cause of truth, have concurred in the idea 
of forming an association of those friendly to this, 
important object ; and, accordingly, have considered 
it advisable to circulate the following prospectus 
amongst those who are likely to assist in sodesirable 
a purpose. 
" As the great day of the Lord approaches, arid 
the distress and perplexity of the nations increase, it 
behooves all those who are looking for the appearing 
of our great God and Saviour Jesus Christ, to have 
their lamps trimmed, and themselves prepared for 
the great events of that day ; and it is difficult to 
conceive how these objects can be better forwarded 
than by the serious, diligent, and prayerful investiga-
tion of the word of prophecy, that we and others may 
riot come under the condemnation of the .lews, who, 
neglecting the Scriptures of troth, became blind to 
the signs of the times, and rejected that Saviour who 
at his first advent came to redeem them from their 
sins ; and so, in like manner, that day about which 
so much is written' by the holy prophets, should come 
upon us unexpectedly, like a thief in the night. 
" Without further preface, it is deemed advisable 
to submit, for the consideration and support of such 
as may he disposed to aid in its object, the following 
plan of a series of lectures, to he delivered in Edin-
burgh, on subjects connected with prophecy, to be en-
titled, The Edinburgh Lectures on Prophecy.'" 
Following this prospectus were the rules of the 
association, eight in number, and also the subjects of 
the proposed lectures, thirty-two in number, and em-
bracing the whole field of the Advent question. I 
understand that the plan of the association has been 
harmoniously carried out,and that though the members 
of the association belting to different denominations, 
ministers are invited to deliver lectures annually, on 
stated subjects, and the lectures are published, for the 
benefit of the public, under the auspices of the Ed-
inburgh Association for the Study of Prophecy.—
( 7 o be continued.) 
"WATCHMAN, WHAT OF THE NIGHT:" 
Earth toils and groans; her night is dark, 
And thicker still the gloom appears : 
But, can the Christian's eye no spark 
Of brightness catch, when flow the tear 
Shall wrong triumphant ever reign, 
And error rule with hideous sway— 
Each new device still fraught with pain 
For those who seek some better way 
All no ! amid the gloom a voice 
I hear in cheering tones resound : 
" *Ye mourning souls, rejoice, rejoice ! 
For evil reaches soon her bound. 
Darker the night may grow ; so draws 
The morn of glory ever nigher : 
Lift up your head—eternal laws 
God's intervention soon require. 
And Ile shall come, whose right it is 
O'er earth to reign with boundless sway : 
Chaos and light alike are His, 
And he shall bring the world's new day. 
He caused the light at first to shine 
Where all before was dark and dint : 
He only contrasts can combine, 
And make his work resemble Him. 
For he is light, and life, and love, 
His impress in his works we find : 
Who formed and guides the worlds above, 
Shall not he rule the creature mind? 
Peace, foolish child : thy Father's hand 
Checks but to guard thee from thy hurt ; 
Be still, nor chide, but patient stand : 
He only can thy ill avert. 
Kiss thorn his rod, nor idly ask 
Why smarts thy flesh beneath the stroke, 
Thy lesson's far from Calvary's task, 
When vengeance on thy surety broke. 
With wonder on that anguish gaze 
That quenched the human soul of Him 
Whose glory's bright and steady blaze 
Defies the glance of cherubim. 
And as thou gazest, bow, adore 
Such majesty of deepest love, 
That .lesus from his glory bore 
To win thee hence to him above. 
What ! 'tis too low for thee to how 
Where highest angels humbly kneel—
Poor, vain one! must it then be thou, 
Round whom creation's laws should wheel ? 
Wilt thou that seat of power fill 
Whence shine the gleam thou canst not bear? 
Shall all be subject to thy will, 
And thou the Lord of glory there ? 
Not yet so mad thy blindness, praise 
To Him whom thou hast dared defy ! 
Oh haste—thy cry for mercy raise ; 
For lightnings fill the troubled sky, 
And soon the thunderbolt must fall 
On pride's uplifted rebel head—
God's Christ acknowledged be of all 
Who now his quaking footstool tread. 
He comes, he comes ! Faith pierces thro' 
The thick'ning darkness—He is nigh—
t) rebel mortal, woe to you, 
For terror glitters on His thigh ! 
But waiting ones ! lift tip your heads, 
Sorrow shall soon in gladness end : 
The morn of glory thicker spreads 
Its dawn—He comes, your mighty Friend ! 
Lord, may we patient wait, till Thou 
In glory cleave the thick'ning gloom : 
Our hearts glad subjects to thee now, 
Tim' heaven seem tar off to loom : 
Yea, wait, as those who know thy word 
Soon to return, has surely past : 
Who know a rich and full reward 
Shall crown their humble works at last. 
Thus may we wait ; our hearts meanwhile 
E'er in thy Spirit's training be, 
And, till thou come, the hours beguile 
In learning to be more like thee. 
Thins shall the bud of glory here 
That hast'ning morn in freshness bide, 
And sudden at thy dawn appear 
In blooming beauty at thy side. 
Then, Bride of Christ, no more repine, 
He whom thou lov'st but now is nigh. 
Watch—that the trumpet's welcome sign, 
Find ready all to mount on high, 
There Him to see, like Him in love, 
One spirit with the hosts above. 
M. M. MONTGOMERY. 
Letter from P. B. Morgan. 
tire -subject kept prominently in view, notwithstand-
ing a short time since they looked upon the propheti-
cal books as inexplicable mysteries. Many in the 
churches believe the truth, and cherish the " blessed 
hope," and, therefore, imagine not that in order to 
believe in the Advent near, it is absolutely necessa-
ry to sever ecclesiastical connections. Be not so nar-
row-minded as to imagine that there are no true be-
lievers in the Advent but those identified with us, and 
with whom we are acquainted. 
The Advent Herald may be referred to as another 
efficient instrumentality, accomplishing considerable 
towards the spread of the truth of the Saviour's 
speedy, personal, and pre-millennial return ; a paper 
conducted with ability, according to the conviction of 
competent judges. The Herald is not perused mere-
ly by Adventists, but by ministers and members of 
other denominations ; and despite the malice of its 
enemies, and the crude notions of those who are ever 
learning, but never coming to the knowledge of the 
truth, it exerts a due share of influence—an influence 
that such men cannot destroy nor counteract. True, 
they have tried to do so, but have most signally 
failed. The Herald is extensively circulated, and in 
some places produces a more salutary effect than the 
voice of the preacher; while, on the other hand, it 
reaches many places and families where preachers 
cannot go, or gain access if they could. 
I will riot, however, dwell longer on the means 
used for the spread of the truth in this country, nor 
spend time in referring particularly to those ministers 
of other denominations who cherish and proclaim the 
theme which is so dear to us ; but we would not for-
get that such are in existence. 
But may I not claim your indulgence, while I ad-
vert to the spread of the truth in England, and the 
machinery in operation there? It is true, that when 
I think of England, and how the best of causes has 
been trodden under foot and ruined by the fanaticism 
and misconduct of reckless men, my heart feels sad, 
and thoughts of gloom pervade my mind. In certain 
places interesting gatherings of brethren and sisters 
have been broken up, and with but few exceptions, 
churches, as far as they were identified with us, have 
to a certain extent become extinct, through the pro-
mulgation of strange doctrines, and the inconsistent 
conduct of their advocates. But I will not recrimi-
nate. Fven there, as well as here, there is a bright 
side, and a few remain who are faithful and continue 
to look for the Lord. 
DEAR BROTHER :—In looking over the extensive 
field that spreads itself out before us, I can but feel 
greatly to rejoice in the encouraging prospect every-
where presented. The reports of our late Conference 
were deeply interesting to me ; and although we have 
but few laborers to occupy the field, and reap this 
glorious, ripening harvest, yet, let our daily and fer-
vent prayer be that God may raise up and send forth 
more laborers into his harvest. 0 let us pray fer-
vently s for what we do must be done quickly. Yes, 
let all those who have the truth be diligent, be ear-
nest, instant in season and out of season. Let the 
pastor feed the flock ; let the evangelist speed his 
course, and proclaim the glad tidings to benighted 
men. Yes, 
" Fly, fly on wings of morning, 
Ye who the truth can tell, 
And sound the awful warning, 
To rescue souls from hell!" 
The plan recommended at the Hartford Confer-
ence, for the promotion and advancement of the cause, 
I most heartily approve, as being a good one. To 
advance this cause requires prompt, energetic, and 
harmonious action. However energetic we may be, 
without harmony of co-operation we fail in a great 
measure. I do hope that our brethren in their seve-
ral fields, will awake to the importance of this mat-
ter. Let every one begin to work. "Curse ye Me-
roz, said the angel of the Lord ; curse ye bitterly the 
inhabitants thereof-, because they came not to the 
help of the Lord, to the help of the Lord against the 
mighty." 
Yours. 
Portland (Me.), June 26th, 1852.. 
est, long after they are inwardly and completely 
dead and rotten, solely by the strength and thickness 
of their bark ; arid just so a strong envelope of forms, 
with the " (itar of sanctity," inherited front some 
great name, may keep the Christian and the church 
in the position of life long after the spirit has departed. 
Shall this reproach never be from the Scriptures, 
that they boast a power the world has never seen 
exerted ? Do we expect the millennium, and is this 
imperfect, crude, sorrowful, uninviting, world-con-
forming religion, to be the realization of Christ's 
righteousness on earth No ! you believe that the 
religion of Christ will prevail—the Bible says it ; 
then act the religion of Christ. 
WILLIAM D. SANDS. 
INSTRUMENTALITIES FOR THE SPREAD 
OF TRUTH. 
BY J. W:
BONHAM. 
It is not so easy as some may imagine to travel 
from place to place, and sound the warning, " Be-
hold, the Bridegroom cometh !" and although the 
work is glorious, there are many obstacles and dis-
couragements connected therewith. Imagine your-
self a hearer of this message, travelling from city to 
city, and from town to town, alone, with no settled 
home or certain resting-place ; in some of which you 
may, perchance, he viewed as an impostor, be looked 
on with suspicion, and pointed at as you pass along 
the streets. Or, if you please, entering a populous 
city, with its magnificent dwellings, wealthy inhabit-
ants, commodious churches, with their lofty towers, 
pointing to the skies, and overflowing congregations; 
but with every pulpit door closed against you, and 
but few apparently desirous to hear the truth. Even 
lecture rooms, open for nearly every other purpose, 
unless the proprietor be a lover of money, and feels 
unwilling to lose the amount he may receive for their 
use, may, on some occasions, be closed against you. 
When you succeed in obtaining a suitable place, you 
must advertise, and issue bills aneouricing the sub-
jects, and invite people to attend and listen to a theme 
in which the majority take but little or no delight. 
What feelings crowd upon the mind, when you 
feel that you are alone, and have to commence a se-
ries of lectures on subjects the most important to a 
mixed congregation, the majority of whose minds 
may, for a time, he prejudiced. When you consider 
that, to be faithful, you must utter truths that will 
clash with their various opinions, and show the un-
scripturalness of theories, that have become as popu-
lar to the worldling as to the professor of religion—
theories presented to the masses in the most attrac-
tive forms, and proclaimed by tongues the most elo-
quent and captivating. 
While soliloquizing thus, feelings arise in the 
mind similar to those that may be experienced in a 
heathen land. But should he view the difficulties to 
be surmounted, and look simply at himself as the 
advocate of truths, which, although scriptural, yet 
unpopular ; and the agent of a message of solemn 
warning, to be uttered in the ears of many, who will 
give no heed thereto, but reject it, he must feel sad, 
unless his self-esteem preponderates over his other 
faculties, and that his work appears as difficult as to 
attempt to roll back the flowing tide, hush the raging 
storm, obscure the lurid lightning's glare, or drown 
the rumbling thunder. 
But then, the matter must hot be wholly viewed in 
a human light, or the work as if to be accomplished 
by human greatness. For although many pulpit 
doors may be closed against you, lecture rooms re-
fused, and heavily salaried, worldly-minded ministers 
block up your way, other pulpits will he opened, and 
other ministers will receive you cordially ; and then, 
in addition, the truths we proclaim are Divine, our 
master, Christ, and the battle the Lord's. Jehovah 
frequently accomplishes his work by the use of the 
feeblest agency and instrumentalities, in order that 
he may have the glory. If we are weak, he is 
strong; if our message is unpopular, through his 
blessing it will accomplish all that God designed ; 
and although some professors of religion may despise 
us, false brethren misrepresent us, and the obstacles 
in our way reach to the skies, through grace they 
may be surmounted. The weapons of our warfare 
are not carnal, but mighty -through God to the pulling 
down of strongholds. 
The doctrine of the Saviour's return is spreading 
in this country, in England, and in other parts of the 
world. All that is being accomplished is not being 
done by us, or under our auspices. God has various 
instrumentalities at work for the spread of his truth, 
and should we become extinct as a body, in conse-
quence of unfaithfulness, the truth will live—the 
truth will have its faithful advocates. 
All are familiar with some of the instrumentalities 
in active operatiorn for the spread of the truth in this 
country. The valuable works and ably-written pa-
pers from the pen of D. N. Lord, have been exten-
sively circulated in this country, and somewhat in 
England. They have been perused by ministers and 
individuals of influence whom we could, not reach, 
and have excited the attention of some to examine 
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THE ADVENT HERALD. 
BOSTON, JULY 10, 1852. 
Camp Meeting. 
We propose to hold a camp-meeting in the vicinity of Bos-
ton, about the last week in August, in which we hope the 
churches in Worcester, Salem, Lynn, Lowell, Westford, 
Westboro', Fitchburg, Newburyport, Haverhill, Lawrence, 
Nashua, Providence, R. I., Hope, and other places, will par-
ticipate. The location will be selected with reference to 
the greatest convenience, the least expense, and the protec-
tion it will afford against the lawless. 
We hope a committee from each church will unite with us 
in arranging the details of the meeting, so that all things 
shall be conducted in " decency and order." 
It is designed that each church shall bring a tent, or pro-
vide fur themselves in any other where room may be had. 
When not impracticable, it would be better for each church 
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The prime object of this meeting will be to arouse the 
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Due notice will be given of the time and place of the 
meeting. 
Counsel for Bro. B. 
[We have received several letters responding to the re-
quest we made ; but the following is so pithily expressed, 
has so much point to it, and is so expressive of the general 
advice received, that we give it.-a.] 
Bro. B. wants counsel in reference to a certain "emer-
gency." Suffer me to give mine opinion. 
If they will stop, now and forever, then let them ; but 
if they won't stop, and don't mean to, why then-stop 'em ! 
If they have employed " Cmsar's bull-dogs," (as I 
once heard Needham call lawyers, &c.), and set them to 
hunt the innocent like a " partridge on the mountains," and 
the " dogs " would not, because they were fed, (" bribed,") 
and were then called off (" discontinued,") for fear they 
would not bite the intended victim ; and still keep sounding 
the horn (slander and libels, by verbal reports and the press) 
through the land for another hunt, (suit,) why, our advice 
is, just let the " dogs " louse again, and then let them call 
them off again if they can, or let them get bit ! 
If they have been permitted to hunt the field over for 
these fifteen years, and " pick up" and " dig up" all the 
" clubs " and " stones " they could not find, and throw them 
at the fruit trees, and one in particular, and still persist in 
digging up the ground to find some " buried hatchet," " with-
out any handle," to cut it down, and then scold because their 
efforts are fruitless, why, we think that patience and forbear-
ance, in their case, any longer, would cease to be a virtue ; 
therefore we would advise that the " fence be put up" to 
" keep the black bull out." 
If they will keep stirring tip the "stagnant pool" of 
their own vileness, baseness, and corruption, so that its 
" fetid exhalations" are carried on every breeze that moves, 
to the annoyance of every friend of the cause, we think it 
would be a blessing to all concerned, if the proper authori-
ties would bury them so deep in the "stagnant pool" of their 
own corruption, that that and they would cease to be a " nui-
sance " to all decent people. 
The foregoing counsel is gratis, of course. SIMON. 
Sunday School Libraries. 
The ,Sunday School Union has recently published two new 
libraries. The first contains one hundred volumes, from 72 
to 288 pages, substantially bound, with muslin backs ; each 
volume is regularly numbered and ready for use, and with 
each library a catalogue of the sante is furnished. Price, 
$10. 
The second library contains one hundred books, bound in 
seventy-five volumes, from 52 to 172 pages, with muslin 
backs and marbled-paper sides ; each volume is regularly, 
numbered, the whole accompanied by twelve catalogues. 
Price, $5. 
The books composing the above libraries have been se-
lected with excellent taste and judgment. Sunday Schools 
desiring libraries, will find in the above just what they want. 
If any of the Advent Sunday Schools wish to procure either 
or both of them, if they will transmit their orders to us, we 
will see to the forwarding of the books. 
DEAR BRO. H1MES :-Having received a call from the 
brethren in Springfield, to become the pastor of the Advent 
church in that place, I have concluded to comply therewith, 
and, the Lord willing, shall commence my labors with them 
at Currier's Hall, Spring-street, near the United States Ar-
senal, on Lord's-day, July 11th. The cause thee is feeble, 
having suffered much from distracting elements. Yet we 
trust there is hope ; and we are well aware that without 
Christ we can do nothing, but in his strength we can do all 
things. We need the prayers of the faithful scattered abroad, 
that his truth may triumph, and many be added to the church 
in S., such as shall be saved in the day of the Lord Jesus. 
Yours as ever, J. P. FARRAR. 
Boston, July 1st, 1852. 
We are glad that our brother has concluded to locate at 
Springfield, and hope that Adventists in that vicinity will 
give him their co-operation and support. Bro. F. is worthy 
of the fullest confidence, and will prove, we doubt not, a 
blessing to those among whom he is to labor.-J. Y. H. 
ADVENT CHURCH IN PORTLAND.-We had the pleas-
ure of spending last Sunday with this church, of which Bro. 
Morgan is pastor. There was a good attendance of both 
Adventists and citizens. We delivered three discourses, to 
which the best attention was given. Bro. M. is laboring 
among them with a commendable zeal, and with tokens of 
good. 
Letter from Bro. Southard. 
DEAR BRO. HIMES is a week to-day since I ar- 
rived at this beautiful spot, near which I first entered upon 
life, and where, at no very distant day, I shall, in all human 
probability, bid fitrewell to the trials and toils, the pains and 
cares, of mortality. To the kind friends who enabled me to 
sojourn at the South, I owe a debt of gratitude I can never 
pay. May they all lie recompensed at the resurrection of the 
just. The question is often asked, whether my journey was 
a benefit to me or not. I reply, that 1 regarded it as a great 
privilege to be saved from the endurance of the severe winter 
experienced at the North, and to he where I could enjoy the 
open air. It is true, I have lost strength since the heat of 
spring commenced. I think, however, I am gaining again, 
slowly, under the influence of delightful weather, and all the 
privileges of a kind brother's home, where my wants are 
provided for by willing hearts and free hands. 
I am able to write but little, but I shall be happy to hear 
from friends who may feel sufficient interest to correspond 
with me. I remain yours in faith, hope, and love. 
Lyme (N. 11.), July 2d, 1852. N. SOUTHARD. 
" The Phenomena of the Rapping Spirits, &c. : A revival 
of the Necromancy, Witchcraft and Demonology forbidden 
in the Scriptures : Shown by an exposition of Rev. 15-18 
to be symbolized by the Frog-like spirits whiCh were to pro-
ceed froth the mouth of the Dragon, Beast and False Prophet. 
Fur they are the spirits of devils working miracles, which 
go forth unto the kings of the earth and of the whole world, 
to gather them to the battle of that great day of God Al-
mighty.' "-Rev . 16 :14. 
This is the title of a pamphlet, which we have in course of 
publication. It will be about the size and price of the tract 
called the Approaching Crisis. 
" Mesmeric and Spirit Rapping Manifestations, Scripturally 
Exposed," 4-c., by an " Impartial Examiner." 
We have received a copy of this pamphlet, which goes 
strongly against these manifestations, and is so far right. But 
the author has failed to perceive the meaning of the word 
demon, on which the whole question of the nature of the 
agency turns. We have gone fully into this in the tract we 
have in course of publication. l'he tract here noticed may 
be had of R. T. Young, bookseller, 140 Fulton-street, New 
York, at $2 50 per hundred, 50 cents per doz., or 6 cents 
single. 
"-Youth's Guide." 
The July number (No. 3, Vol. 6) of this interesting and beautifui 
little monthly paper is published. 
CONTENTS. 
Richard Bakewell. A Warning to Boys. 
A Sensible Landlord. Nobility of Mind. 
Use of Cat's VViiiskers. Keep out ot Debt. 
Suffering in London. Youthful Neglect. 
Parental Government. The Atmosphere. 
A Dreain of Death. The Gold Sovereign. 
Carelessness. 
The Schoolmaster at Home. 
For the Curious. 
Enigma, &c. &c. 
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Post Office Robbery. 
For several months past, letters and packages containing 
money, directed to persons in Baltimore and elsewhere, from 
the region of Snowhill, Maryland, and other post-offices in 
that vicinity, as well as in different parts of Delaware, have, 
many of them, been greatly delayed, whilst others never 
came to hand. The annoyance was so great, that it became 
a matter of serious complaint, and was alluded to in the pub-
lic prints. The attention of the Post Office Department was 
finally arrested and directed to the matter, with a view to de-
tect and remedy, if possible, the evil. 
The matter was given in charge of James L. Maguire, 
Esq., one of the special agents of the department, and we 
are happy to say he has, by perseverance and good manage-
ment, been enabled to discover and arrest the cause of com-
plaint. 
Mr. Maguire having his suspicions, wrote several decoy 
letters, addressed to persons in Baltimore, in some of which 
he enclosed money, carefully marked. These were dropped 
into the mail at points where they would be required to pass 
through the office at Millborough. One of the decoy letters 
was dropped in at Snowhill, directed to Messrs. Metcalfe, 
Spurr & Co., Exchange Bankers of Baltimore. It contained 
a small amount of money, designated by peculiar marks. 
This was traced to the office at Millborough, but could not 
be found beyond that. A similar letter was also directed to 
M. W. Mearis, lottery dealer, in Baltimore, which was like-
wise traced to the same point. This was so folded up as to 
give it the appearance of containing money. These, with 
other baits directing suspicion irresistibly to Postmnster Hast-
ings, induced Mt. Maguire to visit his office, and institute 
further examinations. He found that the entire Baltimore 
package from Snowhill, of the date containing the decoy let-
ter to Messrs. Metcalfe, Spurr & Co., had been detained, 
broken open, and the money taken from the said letter. 
Other letters and packages which had been due in Baltimore 
and other places South, were also limnd to have gone as far 
as Millborough, but no further. The evidence had now be-
come so strong, that Mr. Maguire openly charged Hastings 
with perpetrating the robbery. Finding it impossible to con-
ceal his guilt, he acknowledged the offence, and restored to 
Mr. Maguire the letters which had been written as decoys to 
the gentlemen in Baltimore, with their contents, which Mr. 
Maguire easily identified. The letters had been broken open 
and the money taken out. 
On further examination, a number of packages containing 
letters were found, and the letters broken open. Quite a 
number of letters and packages directed to Baltimore, Wash-
ington, and other points South, which had to pass through 
the Millborough office, for six Or seven months past, have 
been entirely missing, and others detained several days be-
yond their regular time, thus causing numerous complaints 
and much dissatisfaction with the mail arrangements in that 
quarter. 
Hastings is a man about thirty-eight years of age, has a 
wife and four interesting children. He professed to belong 
to the Methodist church, and claimed to be a great advocate 
of temperance, but confessed to Mr. Maguire, that the cause 
of his misfortune was secret drinking, to excess, of ardent 
spirits. He had previously borne a good reputation in the 
community, andrthe only thing unfavorable to him that had 
caused remark, was an unusual and seemingly foolish ex-
travagance. He gave dinners, and entertained with unusual 
liberality. 
The scene at his arrest is described as almost heart-rend-
rending. His wife and children were bathed in tears, and 
neatly frantic at so unexpected a reverse in their fortunes. 
The prisoner was conveyed to Georgetown (Del.) jail, 
where, in default of $5000 bail, he was committed to prison 
for trial. 
Fluency in Conversation. 
Roll an empty barrel down a hill, and what a rattling noise 
it makes ! So with an empty carriage over the pavements. 
So also with an empty head. When it contains but a few 
scattering ideas, everybody can hear them rattle. You al-
'most see them, when that fellow who carries such a head 
passes by you. Have yon not such an individual in your 
mind's eye I We have. His name may be Dick, or Jim, 
or Bill, or Joe-but he is the same everywhere-he wags 
the same tongue, and shoots forth the same ideas. He thinks 
he is wise, but everybody else thinks otherwise. Had he 
real knowledge, he would talk less and say more. Generally, 
a man of sterling talents talks but very little, yet every word 
tells. Addison was a person of that description. He was 
always embarrassed in company. Some of our best living 
authors-men of genius and talent-have been noticed for 
their paucity of words in common conversation. Yet men 
who know scarcely more than that twice two make four, are 
always rattling off words, and pass for persons of some con-
sequence. They utter sentences without meaning, and words 
that puzzle an editor to understand. 
An incessant talker we always avoid. In his presence we 
feetabout as happy as on the brow of a cataract-only there 
is some sense to the hitter. In an office or store, what is 
more trying than a person with a gift of gab ?-what but a 
straggling musician under your window, or a fiddler in your 
garret. 
Organ Grinders' Resort. 
The large number of organ grinders now in our streets 
daily, with their instruments, and the death of one of their 
number by tile hand of one of his fellows, has attracted the 
attention of the public, and the question is often asked-
Where do these people come front I and where do they live 1 
These two questions we propose to answer. First, most of 
the organ grinders are Italians by birth, or parentage. Sec-
ond. their residence leads out of Ann near Cross-street, 
where is a place called Fulton Court. At the lower end of 
this court there is a large two-story wooden building, which 
once was a warehouse or a barn. This ancient building has 
been subdivided into four dwelling houses, and each house 
nto six rooms, besides garret and cellar. 
Into this old building, subdivided as above, nightly congre-
gate about two hundred souls, besides some forty or fifty mon-
keys in assorted toggety, a large number of hand organs of 
different degrees of harmony, according to age and use, many 
of them accompanied with varied and curious lantoccini, 
also a host of tionborines, and some few other instruments 
called musical, from which they grind and force sounds har-
monious or otherwise. Thus mixed up they live and multi-
ply, and thus, by a sort of vagrancy, they force from a will-
ing populace a doubtful existence, but apparently a happy 
one. l'he old men and women remain at home to take care 
of the little children and of the household, while all the oth-
ers are out about the city and vicinity, with their instruments 
and monkeys. 
They are established in families at the resort, each room 
having a married pair to preside over its occupants, and to 
board, lodge, and care for them. Each apartment is pro-
vided with a fire-place ; the fitrniture consists of a table, a 
few chairs, or benches, and their bunks for sleeping are the 
least downy of any we have ever seen. The children are 
numerous, and of all ages. They appear healthy and dirty, 
and with infancy, almost, partake of the tastes of their pa-
rents. Little ones, not more than three years of age, sing, 
dance, and play the jingling tamborine with some accuracy. 
They appear to be in favor of early marriages, and to fulfil 
the command that the world must be peopled. The females 
are given in marriage at thirteen or fourteen summers. Their 
religion is Catholic, and they appear to respect and obey its 
precepts. So much for the organ grinders' resort in Fulton 
.Court.-Boston Herald. 
Discovery of a Cave.-A wonderful natural curiosity, in 
the shape of an extensive cave, has been fund in Calaveras 
county, California, on the south bank of the south branch of 
Sutter's Creek. The following is a description by a visitor : 
"'The entrance is through a small opening in the hill, just 
sufficient to admit a man's body. The descent is easy, the 
many projections of the rock affording ample means for safe 
footing. Neither is it of very great depth, the top of the 
platform not being more than ten feet from the entrance, 
whence it slopes gently down till the centre is reached, form-
ing a chamber of about thirty feet high and about fitly long. 
The floor is composed of octagons, of calcareous formation, 
along which, in a narrow bed, silently glides a crystal stream, 
rising from a spring in one of the lateral Chambers. The 
roof is divided into compartments, the centre being a large 
circle, from which depend clusters of stalactites of every va-
riety, some crystalline, others opaque, while some again par-
take of a variegated hue, as if tinged by coloring matter in 
the rock through which they have percolated. The grain-
ing of the roof is as perfect as if moulded by the hand of art, 
terminating in massive pilasters, with richly adorned capi-
tals, strongly reminding one of an ancient Gothic cathedral. 
From the main chamber branch two galleries, leading into 
small apartments, rich in groups of the most fanciful petrifac-
tion, varying from the massive block to the most delicate and 
finely-pointed crystalline needle." 
A Newly-Discovered Lake.-Some of the palters doubt the 
statement recently published, of a newly-discovered lake, of 
considerable size, within fifteen or twenty miles from the 
Falls of St. Anthony. The St. Anthony's Express gives a 
circumstantial account of the discovery :-"Calvin a Tuttle 
and John H. Stevens, two of the oldest and most reliable 
settlers in Minnesota, together with several others, including 
the writer hereof, some two weeks since spent three days in 
the exploration of this lake. They found it to be thirty or 
forty miles in length, and full fifteen miles in width, contain-
ing an area of four hundred and fifty square miles. They 
also found numerous islands in this lake, many of which they 
visited, and one in particular, that will be found on survey to 
measure full 3,000 acres. The explorers, furthermore, Bond 
the lake to contain an innumerable multitude of fish, and to 
be the resort of myriads of wild fowl, countless as the sands 
of the sea-shore. They found its scenery indescribably beau-
tiful. They found, moreover, a splendid belt of timber skirt-
ing the borders of the lake, to the width of from three to 
five miles, rich in every variety of hard wood." 
PLEDGES 
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to be paid in case $600 shall be pledged, and to receive pay in 
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NOTICE.-As our paper is made ready for the press on Wednes-
day, appointments must be received, at the latest, by Tuesday 
evening, or they cannot be inserted until the lidlowing west. 
Bro. Sornberger desires us to recall the appointment of himself 
and Bro. Orrock at Stanbridge on the 16th. 
Bro. Motes will preach in New York and Brooklyn Sunday, July 
kith-Brooklyn in the A. M., Hester-street P. am., and Seventh Ave-
nue in the evening ; Philadelphia, Sunday, July loth, as Bro. Litch 
shall arrange. Intermediate places-Newark, N. J., Monday even-
ing, July lath ; Alorrisville, July 13th ; Y unite) ville, 14th. 
Bro. D. T. Taylor will preach in Claremont, N. H., Sunday, July 
dllatyli,;25%;tIll'aterbury, Vt., Sunday, 16th; Rouses Point, N. Y., Sun- 
Bro. Daniels will preach in Newark, N. J., the second Sunday in 
July, and in Morrisville, Pa., the third. 
Elder Isaac Adrian will preach in Providence, R.I., Sundays, 
July 11th and loth. 
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th.. Eastman will preach in Grantham, N. H., Sunday, 
daByTii. Sjinitihy.erland will preach in Wallingford, Ct., time second Sun- 
Bro. A. Merrill will preach in Fairfield Sabbath, .July 16th. 
Bro. L. Kimball will preach in Ifristol, Vt., Sunday, July 18th. 
Bro. I. Adrian will peach in Conway the third Sunday in July. 
The Lord willing, a camp-meeting will be held in Winsted, chn-
mencing Aug. 30th, to continue one week or more, upon the same 
ground occupied last year. The camp ground is about two miles 
from the depot at the terminus of the Naugatuck Railroad ; and 
those coining by cars or stages will be accommodated with cheap 
conveyance to and from the meeting. 
We invite every friend of Jesus, and all who are willing to seek 
eternal life through him, to meet with us in the tented grove, to 
worship the God of heaven. 
Board and horse keeping on reasonable terms, with an invitation 
to the poor pilgrims to come and eat, without money and without 
price. S. G. MATHEWSON, HIRAM MUNGER, A. D. SMITH, MILES 
GRANT, COMIllilIee. 
A grove meeting will be held in South Weymouth about the 1st 
of August. Notice will be given hereafter. Bro. Chase Taylor and 
the brethren will arrange for the meeting. 
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