J. V. HIMES, Proprietor. 
WHOLE NO. 670. 
BOSTON, SATURDAY MARCH 18, 1854. 
YOLUME XIII. NO. 11. 
OFFICE, No. 8 Cliardon-strect 
ciency of undeniable evidence. 
But, as this ap-
pears to be an important point in this part of 
the argument, we will give some quotations from 
a work entitled, " The Cabinet Cyclopedia:'' 
vol. " Outlines of History by Thomas Keightly" 
respecting the boundaries of the empire. 
" The empire over which Augustus now ruled 
extendedin Europe, to the ocean, the Rhine, 
and the Danube ; in Asia, to the Euphrates ; in 
Africa, to Ethiopia, and the sandy deserts. Sat-
isfied with this extent of dominion, Augustus 
sought not himself to extend it, and advised his 
successors to be guided by his example."—p. 116. 
Trajan " extended the bounds of the empire 
beyond the limits set to it by Augustus," but 
" Hadrian wisely gave up several of the con-
quests of Trajan, and reduced the empire to its 
old bowids of the Rhine, the Danube, and the 
Euphrates."—pp. 122, 123. 
" Julian restored the frontier of the empire." 
—p. 138. 
The line of fortifications erected by the Romans 
for the defence of their northern frontier. The 
attempts to save the Allemanni, as one of the 
ten kingdoms at 519 by denying the natural and 
long established boundary, the Rhine, and the 
Danube, and make it the line of defences built to 
protect the Romans from some of the German 
tribes, reminds us of the old saying, " that a 
drowning man will catch at a straw." 
What 
possible advantage is to be gained by the state-
ment, or change of terms of the boundary is 
certainly beyond our comprehension. 
It is not 
essential to trace the entire line of fortresses, 
walls, ditches, wall with towers constructed for 
the objects named, because it would be foreign 
to the point before us. 
The question is, how 
did these fortifications affect the boundary of 
"the old Roman territory" relative to the Al-
lemanni, and their political and civil state at 
519 ? 
* 
These constructions for the more effectual se-
curity of the empire from the predatory irrup-
tions of the Germans, were built by degrees, a 
portion only erected at a time. 
Gibbon says, 
" To protect these new subjects, a line of fron-
tier garrisons was gradually extended from 
the Rhine to the Danube. 
About the reign of 
Hadrian, when that mode of defence began to 
be practised, these garrisons were connected and 
covered by a strong intrenchment of trees and 
palisades. 
In the place of so rude a bulwark, 
the Emperor Probus constructed a stone wall of 
a considerable height, and strengthened it by 
towers at convenient distances. 
From the neigh-
borhood of Newstadt and Ratisbon on the Dan-
ube, [about fifty-eight miles east of the territory 
occupied by the Allemanni,] it stretched across 
the hills, valleys, rivers, and morasses, as far as 
Wimpfen on the Necker, and at length terminated 
on the banks of the Rhine, after a winding course 
of near two hundred miles." 
Now notice the 
additonal remarks of Gibbon : " This important 
barrier, uniting the two mighty streams [Rhine 
and Danube] that protected the provinces of Eu-
rope, seemed to fill up the vacant space through 
which the barbarians, and particularly the Alle-
manni, could penetrate with the greatest fa-
cility into the heart of the empire."—vol. 1, 
pp. 381, 382 
But what of the wall, or that portion erected 
to protect the empire against the Allemanni? 
Probus who built it died A. D. 282, and says 
Gibbon, " Within a few years after his death, it 
was overthrown by the Allemanni. 
Its scattered 
ruins, universally ascribed to the power of the 
Demon, now serve only to excite the wonder of 
the Swabian peasants."—Ib. p. 382. 
Frederick Kohlrausch, in his " History of 
Germany," speaking of these fortifications says, 
'' The repeated irruptions of the Allemanni hordes 
destroyed them." Therefore they had but a brief, 
temporary existence,— "a few years," — and 
were destroyed two hundred years before the 
bloody battle of Tolbiac, when 'they were de-
feated by the Franks and subjected to their gov-
ernment. 
We will, however, wave these facts, 
and admit the supposition that the wall consti-
tuted the proper boundary of the Romau Empire, 
and, then, the simple and only question to be 
(For the Herald.) 
The Allemanni. 
To evade the force of historical facts, respect-
ing the civil and political condition of this na-
tion in A. D. 519, the following statements have 
been publicly made by one of the timists: 
1. That the boundary line of " the old Ro-
man territory," as described by Elder Berick 
is incorrect, that it should be a line of fortifica-
tions erected by the Romans for the defence of 
their northern frontier. 
2. That the city of Metz was not the capital 
of the Allemanni, but Mentz. 
3. That they were governed by hereditary 
dukes of their own after their defeat by Clovis, 
and not by the hereditary dukes of the Franks. 
4. That although the Allemanni were a tribu-
tary people in 519, still, they could with pro-
priety be reckoned as one ol the ten kingdoms, 
for Egypt is called " the king of the South," 
when tributary. 
5. That these points were life and death to 
that theory, and if it could be proved that the 
Allemanni were conquered as far north as the 
line of defences built by the Roman Govern-
ment, the whole thing would be given up, and a 
public confession made of the error. 
We shall 
see. 
Elder Berick, in giving the boundaries of 
the Roman territory, has followed the general 
testimony of history. 
The rivers Danube and 
Rhine are by historians, without question, men-
tioned as marking the division between the Ro-
man Empire and Germany. 
Gibbon (Boston 
ed. v. 1, p. 3,) says: " On the death of that 
emperor [Augustus], his testament was publicly 
read in the senate. 
He bequeathed, as a valu-
able legacy to his successors, the advice of con-
fining the empire within those limits which na-
ture seemed to have placed as its permanent 
bulwarks and boundaries; on the west, the At-
lantic Ocean; the Rhine and Danube on the 
north ; the Euphrates on the east; and towards 
the south, the sandy deserts of Arabia and Afri-
ca. 
Happily for the repose of mankind, the 
moderate system recommended by the wisdom of 
Augustus, was adopted by the fears and vices of 
his immediate successors." 
" The only accession which the Roman Em-
pire received, during the first century of the 
Christian era, was the province of Britain. 
In 
this single instance, the successors of Caesar and 
Augustus were persuaded to follow the example 
of the former, rather than the precept of the lat-
ter."—^. p. 4. 
'' Such was the state of the Roman frontiers, 
and such the maxims of Imperial policy, from 
the death of Augustus to the accession of Tra-
jan."—Ib. p. 6. 
The conquests and additions of Trajan in the 
East was resigned by his successor Hadrian. 
He restored to the Parthians the election of an 
independent sovereign; withdrew the Roman 
garrisons from the provinces of Armenia, Meso-
potamia, and Assyria ; and, in compliance with 
the precept of Augustus, once more established 
the Euphrates as the frontier of the empire."— 
Ib. p. 8. 
" The general system of Augustus was equally 
adopted and uniformly pursued by Hadrian and 
by the two Antonines. 
They persisted in the 
design of maintaining the dignity of the empire, 
without attempting to enlarge its limits."—Ib. 
" The European provinces of Rome were pro-
tected by the course of the river Rhine and the 
Danube:'—Ib. p. 24. 
This historian, after describing each province 
of the Roman Empire agreeably to this bounda-
ry, says, " such was the state of Europe under 
the Roman emperors." 
And, if the reader 
will carefully examine the wars upon the north-
ern frontiers he will find that the river Rhine, 
down to the era of which we are writing, consti-
tuted the great division between the Western 
German tribes and the Roman Empire, and that 
the policy of Augustus was generally adopted 
by the emperors, as has been shown by a suffi-
settled is, Were the Allemanni entirely reduced 
to the sovereignty of the Franks within this line 
of military fortifications, before 419 ? 
Gibbon, speaking of their overthrow by Clo-
vis says, " The last king of the Allemanni was 
slain in the field, and his people were slaughtered 
or pursued, until they threw down their arms, 
and yielded to the mercy of the conqueror. 
Without discipline it was impossible for them to 
rally ; they had contemptuously demolished the 
walls and fortifications which might have pro-
tected their distress, and they were followed into 
the heart of their forests, by an enemy not less 
active, or intrepid, than themselves." 
Thus they 
were not only defeated on the Roman side, but 
pursued beyond the ruins of " the walls and for-
tifications " into the depths of their German 
"forests." 
The " Popular Encyclopedia " says, " In the 
fourth century, the Fmnks became as formida-
ble in the west of the Roman Empire as the 
Goths were in the east, and had already estab-
lished themselves in Belgic Gaul, and on the 
Somme, when Clovis put an end to the Roman 
dominion in Gaul, by the victory of Soissons, 
in 486. 
This conqueror reduced the Allemanni 
on both sides of the Rhine by the battle of Zul-
pich, A. D. 496." 
The " Outlines of History by Thomas Keight-
ley " says, " The Allemanni were broken by Clo-
vis, their king slain, and the people submitted to 
the rule of the king of the Franks."<—p. 157. 
Is it not by these authentic histories, (one of 
which the Librarian of Brown University in-
formed me was the most valuable of any in their 
extensive Library,) as clearly proved as any his-
torical facts can be, that the Allemanni within 
and beyond the river Rhine, and the military 
line of defence, were by Clovis reduced to servi-
tude ? 
2. That the city of Metz was not the capital 
of the Allemanni, but Mentz. 
Elliott says, 
"The Allemanni, with Metz as their capital, 
occupied both sides of the Rhine." 
(Yol. 3, p. 
118.) 
It makes no material difference which 
was their capital, as both cities were occupied 
by the Franks, before, at, and after 519. 
Mentz 
as well as Metz is on the Roman side of the 
Rhine. 
3. That the Allemanni were governed, after 
their reduction, by hereditary dukes of their 
own, and not of the Franks. 
If we suppose they 
were, how will that affect the argument ? The 
honest doubts of some have been quieted by such 
an explanation, but let us see. 
1. Will those 
who advocate this system of specific time, con-
sent to count all civil bodies within the Roman 
territory, governed by officers having a ducal ti-
tle, either hereditary or appointed as kingdoms? 
We think not. 
But if the principle is good in 
the one case, why not in another? 
2. There is no positive evidence that they 
were governed by an officer bearing this title at 
519. 
Gibbon says, " The Gallic territories, 
which were possessed by the Allemanni, became 
the prize of the conqueror; and the haughty na-
tion, invincible, or rebellious to the arms of 
Rome, acknowledged the sovereignty of the Me-
rovingian kings, who graciously permitted them 
to enjoy their peculiar manners and institutions, 
under the government of official, and, at length, 
of hereditary dukes." 
(Yol. 3, p. 573.) 
If 
they had been governed as early as 519 by 
dukes, the historian would not have used the 
term " at length," or at last, for there were only 
twenty-three years between the battle of Zulpich, 
when they were defeated, and 519, so that the 
probability is, that an officer with the ducal title 
did not govern them till long after that date. 
But suppose the Allemanni did, or were gra-
ciously permitted to enjoy the government of 
" hereditary dukes of their own," is it pretended 
that the permission to have one of their own 
number fill the highest governmental office, un-
der the dictation of the Franks, makes them any 
the more an independent nation ? 
Does not 
Gibbon say that " the event of the bloody day 
decided FOREYER the alternative of empire 
and SERVITUDE !" Then, dukes or no dukes, 
they were at 519 in servitude; a state of bond-
age, and governed by the supreme will of a 
master! 
3. That although tributary, still, as Egypt is 
recognized as the " King of the South " when 
tributary, so they may with propriety be reck-
oned as a kingdom when subject to another gov-
ernment. 
1. It is questionable if Egypt is called the 
" King of the South,'" when tributary and with-
out a regal government of her own. The King 
of the South, (D an. 11.40.) has reference to 
Egypt, on the same principle of interpretation 
that " the King of the North 
in the same verse 
refers to Syria: not Egypt or Syria directly, but 
the powers occupying the relative position to the 
land of Judea, that those kingdoms once held* 
2. A nation may become tributary to another 
and yet retain their own kingly form of govern-
ment, like the Burgundians, and may with some 
propriety be reckoned a kingdom, but the Alle-
manni, at the time of which we are speaking, 
were not only a tributary people, but their " last 
king " had been slain, and they reduced to ser-
vitude." 
After the death of Clovis, his empire 
was divided between his four sons, and " Thierry 
(Dietrich) had Austrasia, the eastern portion, 
embracing a great part of Western Germany, 
with Metz for his capital," and they were under 
him, no more than other distinct races, or tribes, 
subject to his immediate government. 
3. A conquered, reduced, incorporated, king-
less nation, as the Allemanni were before and 
after 519, without even the show, or pretension 
to any regal form of government, cannot by any 
fair, candid, or logical mode of interpretation 
or reasoning, be made to answer the 'symbol of a 
DIADEMED HORN, as those ten kingdoms 
are symbolized in Rev. 13:1—" And I stood 
upon the sand of the sea, and saw a beast rise up 
out of the sea, having seven heads and ten horns, 
AND UPON HIS HORNS TEN CROWNS." 
The point here at issue is so plain and simple, 
that none need fail of comprehending it, and 
moreover, it is capable of being proved beyond 
the possibility of a reasonable contradiction, and 
in a manner to preclude a justifiable doubt, that 
counting the Allemanni as one of the ten king-
doms at the time specified, is a palpable error. 
It has been well acknowledged by them that 
these points are life or death to their theory, 
for they constitute the basis upon which the fab-
ric is erected, and of its strength or frangibility 
judge ye, as those who " shall give an account 
thereof in the day of judgment." 
But will these authenticated facts respecting 
the Allemanni at 519, be longer evaded, or dis-
regarded, as has been the uncontradicted truth 
that only one kingdom is reckoned for four dis-
tinct independent regal governments, in order to 
preserve the required catalogue of ten at the era 
named ? We shall see. 
The Eastern Question. 
NO. I. 
THE papers relating to the Eastern question 
which have been submitted to the British Par-
liament, form a voluminous document of many 
hundred pages, made up of diplomatic notes, 
protocols, and projects, too numerous to men-
tion, and far too prolix to read. 
These docu-
ments give a complete history of the negotia-
tions upon the Eastern question. 
We find a sy-
nopsis of these papers in the London Times, 
from which we prepare the following digest, em-
bracing a sketch of the progress of the negotia-
tions which have been watched with so much in-
terest, and but very imperfect accounts of which 
have from time to time transpired. 
The origin of the Eastern quarrel was a dis-
pute between the Greek and Latin Churches, re-
specting certain prerogatives in the Holy places. 
Such disputes have been of frequent occurrence, 
but have not been of so serious a character as to 
involve nations in the controversy. 
In this case 
the Latins, represented by the French Ambassa-
dor at the Porte, had obtained from the Sultan 
certain concessions, conceived by the Greeks, 
who were represented by Russia, to derogate not 
only from their prescriptive rights, but from 
THE ADVENT 
HERALD. 
privileges recently granted by special firman. 
The Russian and French Governments therefore 
were, to some extent, embroiled—the former 
wishing to recover lost ground, and the latter 
desiring to preserve an acquisition. 
The privi-
leges to the Latins were granted under the coer-
cion of the French Minister, and when they were 
accorded the Russian Ambassador threatened to 
withdraw. 
Although affairs at this time wore a 
menacing appearance, and the Sultan was placed 
between two fires, yet only France and Russia 
were seriously involved. The British'Govern-
ment took no part in the quarrel, its position be-
ing one of impartial, but vigilant observation. 
At this stage of the dispute, while the French 
fleet was hovering in the Mediterranean, and the 
Russian battalions were mustering on the confines 
of the Turkish principalities, Prince Menschi-
koff was despatched from St. Petersburg to Con-
stantinople upon a mission which soon assumed 
a serious and alarming character. 
It was con-
ducted with circumstances of arrogance and even 
menace, and its objects and purposes being left 
indefinite and obscure, misgivings were created 
in all quarters at once. 
The Russian envoy ar-
rived at the Turkish capital in great state, with 
an imposing military cortege, and on the 2d of 
March last paid his official visit to the grand 
vizier, but omitted, in a most pointed manner, 
to offer the same compliment to Fuad Effendi, 
the minister of foreign affairs. Although the 
ultimate designs of Prince Menschikoff did not 
immediately transpire, yet the Sultan seems to 
have taken alarm, for on the 6th of the same 
month, he communicated to Col. Rose, who was 
then the British Charge d'Affaires in the absence 
of Lord Stratford de lledcliffe, the British min-
ister, his " strong apprehensions that the mission 
of Prince Menschikoff, far from being of a con-
ciliatory character, as pretended, was, on the con-
trary, intended to involve the Porte in serious 
difficulties, and that the Emperor's object ap-
peared to be to trample under foot the rights of 
the Porte and the dignity and independence of 
the sovereign." 
Colonel Rose seems to have 
recognized the importance of acting with prompt 
ness and decision in this emergency, and he im 
mediately sent requisitions to Admiral Dundas, 
at Malta, to bring up his fleet. The Admiral 
declined to obey, however, and his refusal was 
afterwards approved by the British Government. 
The vagueness of Prince Menschikoff's de 
mands; the alarming rumors put in circulation, 
and the visible military preparations in Russia, 
created some uneasiness in the British cabinet; 
but so emphatic were the assurances of the Czar, 
that credit was given to his declarations, and 
Lord Stratford de Redcliffe, who at this period 
returned to his post with special instructions, 
was charged only to mediate between the con-
tending powers, and to dispose the Sultan to 
prudent resolutions; to recommend him to sat-
isfy the reasonable requirements of Russia. 
At the beginning of April, although the origi-
nal dispute did not preclude hopes of a settle-
ment, yet the ulterior proposals of Prince Men-
schikoff were beginning to be perceptible. 
Lord 
Stratford informed his government that he found 
the Turkish ministry in a combination of" alarm, 
seeking for advice, and reluctant to tell the whole 
case frankly ;" but it gradually appeared that 
the prince had made a demand for a secret treaty 
which, over and above the particular question 
of the holy places, was to define certain general 
relations between Russia and the Porte. 
In this 
emergency Lord Stratford assumed the position 
of adviser to the Turkish Government. 
He sug 
gested that, if the demands of the projected treaty 
hould on examination be found to carry with 
them that degree of influence over the Christian 
subjects of the Porte in favor of a foreign power 
which might eventually prove dangerously or 
seriously inconvenient to the exercise of he Sul 
tan's legitimate authority," they might be de 
clined in favor of a less perilous arrangement 
He further expressed his opinion that it would 
not be reasonable or prudent to disoblige the 
emperor of Russia in matters which, might be 
conceded without any serious objection, and 
avowed a belief that the Emperor Nicholas would 
not proceed to extremities—that " he lies under 
the restraint of moral as well as political con 
siderations." 
The general negotiation continued to be di< 
rected to the original question of the holy places, 
and on the 22d of April the British Ambassador 
was enabled to report this dispute as virtually 
adjusted. But a few days afterwards, when the 
question of the holy places had been conclusively 
settled, Prince Menschikoff presented to the Turk 
ish Government that celebrated note which created 
the subsequent embroilment. 
This note con 
tained a project of a certain convention or treaty 
between the Turkish and Russian Governments 
for the settlement of their relations in future, 
The note stipulated for a general protection by 
he Sultan of all " the orthodox Eastern religion 
its clergy and possessions," with all " the privi 
leges and immunities assured to them •abantv 
quo," and an equal " participation in the ad 
vantages accorded to other Christian sects," 
such arrangements to be the subject of a formal 
treaty between the two governments. 
The requi-
sition was couched in peremptory language, and 
an answer demanded within the space of five 
days. 
This note altered the entire complexion of the 
quarrel. 
The question had previously concerned 
only the Holy Land and the conflict of the two 
rival churches on those scenes. But by the 
Menschikoff note the question was transferred 
to the entire Ottoman Empire. 
The objects of 
the Czar's interference were no longer the Greek 
priests at Jerusalem, but the Greek Christian sub-
jects of the Porte, numbering some 10,000,000 
or 12,000,000. 
Moreover, the matter was to 
be placed under the obligations of a treaty, 
which, by giving the Czar a title to enforce its 
conditions, would invest him with a perpetual 
right of intervention in the concerns of half the 
Sultan's subjects. 
This convention was deemed by the Turkish 
ministers to be inadmissible—" a virtual parti-
tion of the empire "—and was rejected. Lord 
Stratford approved of this determination, al-
though some stress is laid on the fact that he did 
not express an opinion thereupon until the Otto-
man Government had decided the question for 
itself. 
On the 3lst of May, Lord Clarendon, the 
British Secretary of Foreign Affairs, conveyed 
to the British Minister at St. Petersburg the 
opinions of the government on the existing state 
of the Eastern question. 
He declared the pro-
posals of Prince Menschikoff to be inconsistent 
with the dignity and independence of the Sul 
tan, giving to the Czar, as it would, " a perpetu-
al right to interfere in the internal affairs of 
Turkey." 
He added, "governed as the Greek 
ubjects of the Porte are by their ecclesiastical 
authorities, and looking, as these latter would 
in all things do, for protection to Russia, it fol 
lows that 14,000,000 of Greeks would hence-
forward regard the Enflperor as their supreme 
protector, and their allegiance to the Sultan 
would be little more than nominal, while his own 
ndependence would dwindle into vassala 
This despatch, or the substance thereof, was 
probably communicated to Prince Nesselrode, 
and the Russian Government was thus officially 
notified that, in diplomatic parlance, the Gov-
ernment of Great Britain would not look upon 
this Russian protectorate with indifference. 
On the 23d of May, M. Drouyn de Lhuys ad-
mitted, on the part of France, "the validity 
and force of the objections taken by the Otto-
man ministers." 
On the 30th of May, Baron 
Manteuffel acknowledged that " the opinions of 
Lord Clarendon's despatch quite coincided with 
those of the Prussian Government." 
The Aus-
trian Government was more hesitating in its 
expressions, but Count Buol confessed to Lord 
Westmoreland that the proceedings of Prince 
Menschikoff were " dangerous," and that they 
were " little to be expected from the assurances 
previously given." 
Finally, Lord Stratford an-
nounced from Constantinople, that all the Eu-
ropean representatives there were • of his own 
opinion in regard to the transaction, and even 
that the Greek synod and the more enlightened 
of the Greek laity were by no means well dis^ 
posed towards their Northern protector. 
The Menschikoff proposals were fully rejected 
by the Porte, though offered under two or three 
disguises, and the Russian envoy left Constant! 
nople in a huff. The Czar immediately (June 
1st) declared his intention of invading the Danu-
bian principalities, dependencies of Turkey, with 
a military force, and of occupying those prov 
inces as a material guarantee for the concessions 
he required, a threat which was soon after car 
ried into execution. 
This closes the first chapter in the history of 
the negotiations. 
The question was no longer 
one between Russia and Turkey alone, but had 
become a European question, and when negotia' 
tions were resumed other nations had become 
parties to the affair. 
Boston Journal. 
The Greek Insurrection in Turkey, 
THE Greek insurrection in European Turkey 
of which we have had some meagre accounts 
forms a new and remarkable constituent in the 
Russo-Turkish war, and adds a new complication 
to the Eastern question. 
This insurrection also 
exposes one of the elements of weakness which 
exist in the Ottoman Empire, and which threaten 
its ultimate dissolution. 
It has been said that 
the Turks were merely military colonists in Eu-
rope. 
Of the inhabitants of the provinces in 
European Turkey, not more than one-quarter are 
Mohammedans. 
In Albania, Servia, Bosnia 
Bulgaria, as well as in "Moldavia and Wallachia 
the great majority of the population are Greeks 
—or, more properly speaking, members of the 
Greek church. 
These people have no love for 
their masters. The iron rule of the Turks has 
been but too recently relaxed—the memory of 
persecutions and oppressive exactions is too vivid 
—the fanaticism and intolerance which has pre 
vailed in their government has left too many 
traces—to allow the Greeks to rest quietly under 
the authority of the Turks. 
Although the Otto 
man rule is less rigorous, and religious tolera-
tion is now accorded to the Christian subjects of 
the Porte, it need occasion no surprise that the 
Greeks of Turkish Europe should seize upon this 
opportunity to extort from the Sultan political 
well as religious concessions. 
Moldavia, 
Wallachia and Servia have already acquired a 
nominal independence. 
Albania, Montenegro,' 
and even, doubtless, Bulgaria, would gladly 
follow their example. 
We have not sufficient information in regard 
to the threatened revolution, or in reference to 
the actual outbreak in Albania, to form an 
opinion as to the extent, object, or probable suc-
cess of this movement. 
The insurrection is 
doubtless in part the result of the intrigues of 
foreign powers, but whether of Russia, Greece 
or Austria, does not clearly appear. 
Russia is 
most deeply interested in such an outbreak, and 
her emissaries have probably been busy in Eu-
ropean Turkey. 
But Austria seems to be im-
plicated in the conspiracy, for we find the agents 
of the Austrian government at Constantinople 
more than suspected of being leagued with the 
conspirators. 
The Greek nation has its dreams 
of ambition and territorial extension. 
The re-
construction of the ancient Byzantine empire, 
with its seat of government at Constantinople, 
as in olden times, is a national project which 
with young Greece bids fair to become " mani-
fest destiny." How far the government of Greece 
may be implicated in this plot for revolutioniz-
ing Turkey, remains to be seen. 
It is positively 
stated, however, that the Emperor Louis Napo-
leon has written a letter to King Otho, protest 
ing against his intrigues in Turkey, and there 
would seem to be no reason to doubt that the in-
surrection in Albania, which adjoins Greece, re-
ceived aid and comfort from that nation. 
The Greek element in the Ottoman empire has 
often been the instrument of Russian intrigues 
Th6 famous Greek project of Catharine II. in 
1769, first led the Greeks to look upon their 
Muscovite neighbors as their friends and protec-
tors, by whose aid they would ultimately achieve 
their political regeneration. 
In the days of 
Catharine, the Ottoman empire, although shorn 
of much of its ancient strength, was still a for 
midable power. 
The far-sighted and ambitious 
Empress recognized the importance of extending 
Russian influence over the countries between her 
territory and the Mediterranean, and in one of 
her wars with Turkey she formed the plan of re 
establishing the republics of Sparta and Athens, 
as a check to Ottoman power. 
She well knew 
that a nation thus established must necessarily 
be weak and dependent, and would be completely 
under Russian influence. 
This notable scheme 
failed through the opposition of the other powers, 
though the policy of Catharine has not been lost 
sight of by her successors. 
In 1783, at the commencement of the seven 
years' war with Turkey, we again find Catharine 
intriguing with the Greeks, and the attempt to 
induce them to shake off' the Turkish yoke was 
renewed by the Emperor Alexander in 1808. 
In 1814, the Society of the Hetseria—one of 
the most remarkable political organizations re-
corded in history—sprung into existence. 
The 
object of this society was originally the diffusion 
of Christian instruction and true religion among 
the Greeks. 
The society soon numbered 80,000 
members, and was not long in assuming a politi-
cal character, having for its object the emanci-
pation of Greece from the Turkish yoke, the ex-
pulsion of the Turks from Europe, and the re-' 
establishment of the Byzantine empire. 
It was 
this society which precipitated the Greek revolu-
tion. 
Ramifications of the Hetseria extended to_ 
St. Petersburg, and the society was encouraged 
by Alexander. 
Through the influence of the 
members in the Russian capital, an attempt was 
made in 1821 to revolutionize Wallachia, and 
soon after the Geeeks in Moldavia also revolted 
under Ypsilauti, a Russian General, and, at the 
same time. Czerni Djordji entered Servia, whence 
he had been outlawed by the Turks, for the pur-
pose of arousing the Sclavonic Greeks. 
But it 
was the policy of the Russians at that time to 
maintain peace with Turkey, and the designs of 
the Hetaeria were thwarted. 
The name of Ypsi-
lanti was struck from the rolls of the Russian 
army, for having engaged in this revolution with-
out permission. 
Djordji was assassinated by 
Milosch, who had headed a partially successful 
revolution in Servia, and was jealous of a rival 
in the affections of the people. 
The scheme of 
the Hetaerists was a magnificent one, but was un-
happily frustrated. It was only in Greece proper 
that the labors of the Hetaeria were attended 
with success. 
Here they struggled valiantly for 
freedom, and two legions which had enrolled 
themselves for active service, and fought with 
valor and furious zeal, were literally extermi-
nated at different times. 
The society became ex-
tinct during the revolution, though the seeds it 
had sown throughout European Turkey could 
not be eradicated from the soil. 
They are now 
fructifying, and are likely, as we have before re-
marked, to add a new complication to the East-
ern question. 
It is evident that the remembrance 
of the Greek project of the Empress Catharine 
which still lingers among the traditions of the 
Greek population of Turkey, must strengthen 
the ties of religious syihpathy which attract them 
to Russia. 
How far this may dispose them to 
lend themselves to the intrigues of the Czar, or 
to indirectly aid him by organizing a conspiracy 
under the auspices of Greece, remains to be seen. 
Boston Journal. 
An Exegesis on Eomans 8:19-23. 
THE following exposition was read before the 
Ministerial Conference of the Ontario Baptist 
Association, January 6, 1853, and a copy was 
solicited by the Conference, for publication in 
the New York Baptist Register, from which we 
copy it. 
• For the earnest expectation of the creature 
waiteth for the manifestation of the sons of God. 
For the creature was made subject to vanity, not 
willingly, but by reason of him who hath sub-
jected the same in hope; because the creature 
itself also shall be delivered from the bondage 
of corruption into the glorious liberty of the 
children of God. 
For we know that the whole 
creation groaneth and travaileth in pain together 
until now : and not only they, but ourselves also, 
which have the first-fruits of the Spirit; even 
we ourselves groan within ourselves, waiting for 
the adoption, to wit, the redemption of our 
body." 
The apostle Paul wrote many things hard to 
be understood, which some that are unlearned 
and unstable wrest, as they do other scriptures, 
to their destruction. 
And I will add, many that 
are learned also. 
This passage is considered by some as the most 
difficult in Paul's writings. 
As it has perplexed 
the expounders of the Scriptures more or less, it 
may be thought folly for me to attempt its ex-
position. But with this motto before me, " noth-
ing attempted, nothing done," I will commence 
the exposition required, knowing that my criti-
cal seniors will separate the gold from the dross, 
when it passes through their searching review. 
The greatest obscurity of the passage evidently 
lies in the word creature. 
It cannot mean the 
saints, for it says the " creature shall be deliv-
ered into the glorious liberty of the children of 
God," and " not only they, [«. e., the creature,] 
but ourselves also, which have the first-fruits of 
the Spirit, even we ourselves groan within our-
selves." 
The creature not only groans, but the 
saints also. 
The wide contrast between the creature and 
those who have the first-frui*s of the Spirit, is 
so perceptible that we cannot harmonize them. 
There are also strong objections to supposing 
that it means the Gentile or unbelieving world. 
The verses are too plain to admit of such a con-
clusion ; for it reads, " the earnest expectation 
of the creature waiteth for the manifestation of 
the children of God." 
Is this descriptive of the 
desires of the ungodly ? Are they desiring the 
manifestations of the children of God ? Are 
they earnest in their expectations of that event? 
Their feelings are very far from this. There 
would also on this supposition be a difficulty in 
the 20th versi—" For the creature was made 
subject to vanity not willingly." 
Is this true 
of unbelievers ? Were our first parents unwill-
ing to sin ? Are the impenitent unwilling to 
live in sin and folly ? The reverse of this is 
true. 
Wicked men love sin and folly. But a 
still stronger objection is found in verse 21st, 
" because the creature itself also shall be de-
livered from the bondage of corruption, into the 
glorious liberty of the children of God." 
If it 
means unbelievers, then we are assured they 
shall be brought " into the glorious liberty of 
the children of God." 
Then of course they will 
be free from the curse. 
Hence we have the sal-
vation of all men. 
The whole course of the 
Bible is opposed to such a conclusion. 
I will now present what 1 consider the more 
probable meaning of the term " creature." 
The 
whole terrestrial creature, spoken by a proso-
popeia, common in Scripture, by which that is 
ascribed to universal nature which is only prop-
erly applicable to intelligent beings." 
A few 
passages will be cited, showing that inanimate 
things are represented as speaking. 
Gen. 4:10, 
God says to Cain, " The voice of thy brother's 
blood crieth to me from the ground." 
Lev. 
26:34—"Then shall the land enjoy her sab-
baths." 
Deut. 32:1—" Give ear, 0 heavens, 
and I will speak." 
Psa. 19:1—" The heavens 
declare the glory of God, and day unto day ut-
tereth speech." 
Psa. 114:4—"The mountains 
skipped like rams, and the little hills like 
lambs." 
Isa. 55:12—"The mountains and the 
hills shall break forth before you into singing, 
and all the trees of the field shall clap their 
hands/' 
These are sufficient to show that inani-
mate creation is frequently represented in the 
Bible as animate. 
And such we think is the 
meaning of the verses under consideration. 
The 
natural world is introduced as a creature with 
sensibilities and desires—earnest expectation— 
waiting—unwilling to be made subject to vanity 
—groaning in distress—travailing in pain, &c. 
This is true—our world has been suffering for 
man's sake. Jehovah saidUo Adam, "Cursed 
THE ADVENT 
HERALD. 
the ground for thy sake." Isa. 24:4, the prophet 
says, " The earth mourneth and fadeth away." 
24:6—'1 Therefore hath the curse devoured the 
earth." 
24:19—"The earth is exceedingly 
moved." 24:20—" The earth shall reel to and 
fro like a drunken man, and shall be removed 
like a cottage; and the transgression thereof 
shall be heavy upon it, and it shall fall." 
So 
heavy that it groans under it. 
Jer. 4:28—" For 
this shall the earth mourn, and the heavens 
above be black." 
These quotations agree with 
the text, in representing inanimate physical na-
ture as sympathizing and suffering with man. 
Another important fact is brought to view, 
viz.: the purification of the creation from the 
efect of the fall. " For the creature itself shall 
be delivered from the bondage of corruption." 
A hope has been resting in earth's bosom more 
than 6000 years, that she will be delivered from 
that vanity, to which she has been unwillingly 
subjected. 
The great truth is here announced 
that the creation will finally be as free from the 
effects of the curse, as the spotless throng around 
the tftrone of God. 
Is this an isolated asser-
tion, or do the Scriptures elsewhere witness to 
the same truth ? The apostle speaks of the 
" restitution of all things." (Acts 8:21.) 
" And 
this word, yet once more signifieth the removing 
of those things that are shaken ; that those things 
that cannot be shaken may remain." (Heb. 12 : 
27.) 
The burden of sin that the earth has so 
long suffered will be shaken off, that the creation 
may appear in its former purity and beauty. 
" Nevertheless, we, according to His promise, 
look for a new heaven and a new earth, wherein 
dwelleth righteousness." (2 Pet. 3:13.) 
It will 
be purified from all sin, so that nothing but 
righteousness shall dwell there. 
" And 1 saw 
a new heaven and a new earth, for the first 
heaven and the first earth were passed away,' 
(Rev. 21:1); i. e.„ all its defilement and pollu-
tion. 
Its appearance will be new, like gold 
from the crucible. 
What a vast contrast be-
tween the earth of the gold region, and the newly 
coined medal. 
But far greater will be the con-
trast between the present earth and the purified 
one. The first heaven and earth passing away 
does not mean annihilation. 
The form and ap 
pearance of the world may change, but it cannot 
be annihilated. 
For how could the creature, 
the world or any part of it, be said to be deliv-
ered from the bondage of corruption into the 
glorious liberty of the children of God, if the 
whole frame of heaven and earth were annihi-
lated? 
The apostle saith also, that " the earn-
est expectation of the creature waits for the 
manifestation of the children of God," which 
could have no foundation, if the whole frame 
should be reduced to nothing. 
What joyful ex-
pectation can there be in any total ruin ? How 
could the world enjoy the glorious liberty of the 
children of God, in annihilation ? As the world 
for the sin of man lost its first dignity, and the 
beauty bestowed upon it at creation, so shall it 
recover its pristine glory, when he shall be fully 
restored at resurrection to that dignity which 
he lost by the first sin. As the believer will be 
freed from his corruptibility to receive that glory 
which is prepared for him, so shall the creature 
be free from that imperfection, or corruptibility 
those stains and spots upon the face of it, to re-
ceive a new glory suited to its nature, and an 
swerable to the design of God, when the glori 
ous liberty of the saints shall be accomplished 
As when a prince's nuptials are solemnized, the 
whole country echoes with joy, so inanimate 
creation shall have delight and joy from the 
renovation when " the marriage of the Lamb is 
come." 
Allow me to introduce the language of 
another, because it is better than my own. 
The 
apostle sets forth the whole world as a person 
groaning, and the Scriptures are frequent with 
such metaphors, as when the creatures are said 
to waikupon God and be troubled, the hills are 
said to leap, and the mountains to rejoice, the 
creature is said to groan, as the heavens are 
said to declare the glory of God, passively 
naturally, not rationally.' It is not likely an 
gels are here meant, though they cannot but de 
sire it, since they are affected with the dishonor 
and reproach God hath in the world. 
They 
cannot but long for the restoration of His honor 
. 
® 
.
.
. 
in the restoration of the creature to its original 
state and true end, and indeed angels are em 
ployed to serve men in this sinful state, and can 
not but in holiness wish the creature free from 
corruption. 
Nor is it meant of the new crea 
tures, which have the first-fruits of the Spirit 
these he brings in afterwards, groaning and wait 
ing for the adoption, where he distinguished the 
rational creature from the creature he h£d spoken 
of before. If he had meant the believing crea 
ture, by that creature that desired the liberty 
the sons of God, what need was there of that 
distinction, " and not only they, but we also 
groan within ourselves ?" 
Whereby it seems he 
means some creatures below rational creatures 
—-since neither angels nor blessed souls, can be 
said to travail in pain, who perform the work 
God joyfully. 
If the creatures be subject 
vanity by the sin of man, they shall also partake 
of a happiness by the restoration of man. 
The 
earth hath borne thorns and thistles, and venom-
ous beasts. 
The air hath had its tempests and 
infectious qualities. 
The waters have caused 
their floods and deluges. 
The creature has been 
abused by luxury and intemperance, and tyran-
nized over by man contrary to the end of its 
creation. 
It is desirable that some time should 
be allotted for the creature's attaining its true 
end, and that it may partake of the peace of 
man, as it hath some of the fruits of his sin ; 
otherwise it would seem that sin had prevailed 
than grace, and would have had more 
power to deface, than grace to restore things to 
their true order. 
Again, why should the Psalmist exhort the 
heavens to rejoice, and the earth to be glad when 
God comes to judge the world in righteousness, 
if they are to be sunk for ever into nothing? 
It 
would seem, saith Daille, " to be an impertinent 
figure, if the Judge of the world brought to 
them total destruction. 
An entire ruin could 
not be matter of triumph to creatures, who natu-
rally have that instinct or inclination given 
them by their Creator, to preserve themselves 
and effect their own preservation." 
Again, the Lord is to rejoice in his works. 
We read in the 104th Psalm, " The glory of the 
Lord shall endure for ever ; the Lord shall re-
joice in his works." 
Not hath rejoiced, but 
shall rejoice, in the works of creation which the 
Psalmist had enumerated, and which is the whole 
scope of the Psalm, and intimates that it is part 
of the glory of the Lord that endures for ever, 
that is, his manifestive glory to rejoice in his 
works. 
The glory of the Lord hei?e, must be 
understood with reference to the creation he had 
spoken-of before. With that joy God had in his 
works after he had sent them beautiful out of 
his hand. 
How soon, however, did he repent, 
not only that he had made man, but was grieved 
at the heart also that he had made other crea-
tures that man's sin had disordered! 
What joy 
can God have in them since the curse upon the 
entrance of sin into the world remains upon them ? 
If they are to be annihilated upon the full res-
toration of his holiness, what time will God have 
to rejoice in the other works of creation ? It is 
the joy of God to see all his works in their due 
order, every one pointing to their true end— 
marching together in their true excellency, to 
his first design in their creation. 
Did God create the^rorld to perform its end 
only for a day ? Scarce so much, if Adam fell 
the first day of his creation. 
What would have 
been their end, if Adam had been confirmed in 
a state of holiness, as the angels were ? Proba-
bly that end will be answered and performed 
upon it, in the restoration of the bodies of the 
saints to perfect holiness. 
Wrhat artificer com-
piles a work by his skill, but to rejoice in it? 
And shall God have no joy in the works of his 
hands ? Since God can only rejoice in goodness, 
the creature must have that goodness restored to 
it, which God said it had at first, or God can-
not rejoice in it. 
The goodness of creation is 
the glory and joy of God. 
I will conclude with one inference. We may 
learn what a base and vile thing sin is, which 
lays the foundation of the world's change. 
Sin 
brings it a decrepid old age—sin overturned the 
whole work of God, so that to render it useful 
to him there must be a a kind of new creating 
of it. This causes God to burn the earth for its 
purification from the infection and contagion 
brought upon it by the apostacy of man. 
It has 
served sinful man, and therefore must undergo 
a purging flame, to be fit to serve its holy and 
righteous Creator. 
As sin is so riveted in the body of man, that 
there is need of change by death to raze it out, 
so hath the curse of sin got so deep into the 
bowels of the earth, that there is need of a 
change by fire to refine it for the Master's use. 
What a joy to the saints that there is hope for 
this sin-burdened earth. 
With what delight 
will they behold its beauties, when beaming 
with its Eden lustre. 
What Christian does not 
desire to behold this vast creation enjoying the 
liberty of the children of God ? Who can say 
that the saints will not enjoy the renovated 
earth ? It was man's dwelling place before sin 
defiled it, and will it not be after it has been 
purified from sin ? " The meek shall inherit the 
earth." 
The Preparations for War. 
to the chief command of the expedition. 
The 
Government have chartered the followiug steam-
ers :—From the General Screw Steamship Com-
pany :-—The Golden Fleece, 2,500 tonnage, 00 
horse-power; the Jason, 2,500 tonnage, 300 
horse-power; the Cape of Good Hope, 700 ton-
nage, 100 horse-power; the Propontis, 600 ton-
nage, 80 horse-power. 
From the Peninsular and Oriental Company: 
The Himalaya, 3,500 tonnage, 700horse-power; 
the Manilla, 650 tonnage, 400 horse-power; the 
Ripon, 900 tonnage, 400 horse-power. ' 
From the Cunard Company:—The Cambria, 
the Niagara. 
From the Australian Company:—The Vic-
toria. 
From tbe Irish Companies, it is stated by Mr. 
James Hartley, that three or four steamers can 
be obtained for transport service. 
The General Screw Company have also re-
ceived notice to hold at the disposal of the Gov-
ernment the following ships of their fleet, now 
on their way home:—The Queen of the South, 
1,850 tons, 500 horse-power; the Hydaspes, 
1,850, 300 horse-power; the Harbinger, 921, 
120 horse-power. 
From the ports of London, Liverpool, South-
ampton, and Glasgow, a further supply of steam-
ers can be procured to any extent that may be 
required. The chartered Companies, except" the 
General Screw," have -their fleets almost un-
broken by the assistance thus far supplied. From 
200 to 250 tons register will be allowed to every 
100 men, so that the whole force will reach the 
point of rendezvous in the best possible condition. 
For the heavier munitions of war, and probably 
the artillery horses, sailing-vessels will be em-
ployed. 
Some of Mr. Green's and Mr. Duncan 
Dunbar's finest ships have been engaged. 
The 
naval preparations are now chiefly directed to 
the formation and complete equipment of the 
fleet which is to be sent early next month to the 
North Sea and the Baltic, which is to consist of 
the following ships: 
Duke of Wellington (screw), 131 guns, West-
ern squadron; Neptune, 120 guns, Portsmouth; 
St. George, 120 guns, Devonport; Royal George 
(screw), 120 guns, Devonport; St. Jean d'Acre 
(screw), 101 guns, Western squadron; Princess 
Royal (screw), 91 guns, Portsmouth; Caesar 
(screw), 91 guns, Portsmouth; Nile (screw), 91 
guns, Devonport; James Watt (screw), 91 guns, 
Devonport; Prince Regent, 90 guns, Western 
squadron; Monarch, 84guns,Sheerness; Cressy 
(screw), 81 guns, Sheerness; Majestic (screw), 
80 guns, Sheerness; Boscawen, 70 guns, Ports-
mouth ; Cumberland, 70 guns, North America ; 
Blenheim (screw), 60 guns, Portsmouth; Hogue 
(screw), 60 guns, Devonport; Edinburgh (screw), 
58 guns, Portsmouth; Ajax (screw), 58 guns, 
Cork; Imperieuse (screw), 51 guns, Western 
squadron; Euryalus (screw), 51 guns, Sheer-
ness ; Arrogant (screw), 46 guns, Western squad-
ron ; Pique, 40 guns, Devonport; Amphion 
(screw), 34 guns, Western squadron; Dauntless 
(screw), 33 guns Portsmouth; Tribune (screw), 
30 guns, Western squadron; Leopard (paddle), 
18 guns, Portsmouth; Magicienne (paddle), 16 
guns, Western squadron ; Valorous (paddle), 16 
guns, Western squadron ; Desperate (screw), 8 
guns, Western squadron. 
This list speaks for itself, and requires no 
comment. 
Portsmouth, Feb. 12.—The preparations for 
war here are upon a stupendous scale. 
An enor-
mously heavy battery has been lately thrown up 
on the site of the well-known platform prome-
nade. Vans, omnibusses, and other vehicles may 
be seen rolling along the main thoroughfares 
from the railway terminus as each train arrives, 
containing seamen and volunteers in fifties, all 
greeted with the warmest reception by the popu-
lation. 
In a few days a matchless fleet will be 
formed at Spithead. 
Rear-Admiral Martin, 
Superintendent of this dockyard, continues very 
unwell. 
This is most unfortunate at this press-
ing moment. 
The belief is universal, in naval circles, that 
the Nile will be selected as the flag-ship of Vice-
Admiral Sir C. Napier, K. C. B., on his appoint-
ment to the command of the Baltic fleet. 
Major-General Sir De Lacy Evans, K. c. B., 
is, it is stated, to command, and Major-General 
Sir Richard England, K. C. B., and,Major-Gener-
al Bentinck, are to have divisions. 
London Daily News. 
ing himself to keep faithfully the oath, he should 
lame the words : viz., say uro, suppressing the j} 
it is the same as saying I bum, instead of juro, 
which means I swear ; and in this case it is only 
a little falsehood, which is easily pardoned."— 
Sanchez, Jesuit. " If you firmly believe that 
you are ordered to lie, lie."—Casnedi, Jesuit-. 
"jThe Pope can admonish the king and punish 
him with death."—Father Gabot. "A man 
that is proscribed by the Pope can be murdered 
everywhere, because the Pope has a jurisdiction, 
at least indirect, all over the world, even over 
civil governments."—Busembaum. 
"It is per' 
mitted to kill a proscribed person by the Pope, 
by means of treachery.'Escobar. 
" A 
subordinate, obeying with a good intention his 
prelate, acts meritoriously, although, in reality, 
he acts against the laws of God."»— Ib. '' Lately 
was accomplished in France an important and 
glorious discovery, for the instruction of impious 
principles. 
Clement in murdering the king- has 
made for himself an immortal reputation. 
He 
perished, but he became the eternal exemplar for 
France."—Mariana. 
"There are times when 
the Pope has a right to deprive heretical and 
rebel kings of their power. 
A monarch deposed 
by the Pope is no longer a legitimate prince; if, 
after having been- dethroned, he persists in his 
opposition to the Pope, he becomes a tyrant, and 
can be murdered by any person."—Suarez. 
"It 
is not for religious persons or other ecclesiastics 
to murder the king by secret means, and the sov-
ereign pontiffs are not accustomed'to use such 
means to admonish the princes; but, after having 
been reprimanded by threats and excommunica-
tions, they must be slain by some lay believer." 
—Bellarmine. Clement XIV. published against 
the Society of Loyola the famous bull " Domi-
nus ex Redemtor," which abolished this religious 
order! 
In signing the bull, the Pope said, "I 
sign my death-warrant, but I obey my con-
science." Clement XIV. was poisoned soon after 
by a female Jesuit. 
THE announcement has been already made 
that the Government had resolved, and were tak-
ing the necessary steps to send out to Malta, as 
the first division of the British contingent des-
tined for the defence of Turkey, a body of in 
fan try 10,00 strong, and a proportionate force of 
cavalry and artillery. 
It is not expected that 
the brigade of cavalry will leave until March. 
Its destination will be Constantinople, and it 
will comprise the Scots Greys, the Carbineers, 
the 17th Lancers, the 11th Hussars, the 8th 
Hussars, and the Enniskillens. 
The Duke of 
Cambridge will take the command, assisted by 
General Brotherton and the Earl of Cardigan. 
Lord Raglan, we understand, has been appointed 
Maxims of the Jesuits. 
THE Nations of Brussels, Belgium, publishes 
the following maxims, which are the professed 
rules of the Order of the Jesuits. 
They contain 
some curious principles as to the mental reserva-
tion and oaths of those Fathers, called the van-
guard of the army of the papacy. 
" To cut short with calumnies, it is permitted 
to murder the calumniator, but in secret, in order 
to avoid scandal."—Airault, Jesuit. " Men can 
attack each other, without any shade of tender-
ness of conscience, by means of slanders, calum-
nies, false swearing, when religion requires it." 
—lb. 
" If any person will swear, without bind-
Clairvoyance. 
THE Hartford Times states that Professor 
Grimes, who has given twenty years' attention to 
mesmerism, psychology, &c., has been lecturing 
in that vicinity. 
He sternly opposes modern 
spiritualism, and thinks the raps are always 
humbugs. 
The principle of clairvoyance, how-
ever, he contends for; and the editor of the 
Times, who usually deals in realities, states facts 
to support it. 
From that paper we copy the fol-
lowing respecting Mrs. Mettler, a clairvoyant, 
resident at Hartford: 
" A week or two back, Miss Agnes Comstock, 
of Sherburne, Vt., visited Mrs. Mettler, accom-
panied by her mother. 
Thirteen years ago a 
bone was misplaced in the shoulder of Miss Com-
stock, and she had suffered much from it. 
Sev-
eral distinguished surgeons had been called to 
attend to the case, and they did all they could for 
it, supposing the bone had been properly set. 
Still she could not use her arm, and so intense 
was the pain that something like an abscess was 
formed below the joint, and the physicians had 
decided to cut off her arm. 
As a last resort, 
before consenting to amputation, she came to 
Mrs. Mettler, to ascertain the condition of the 
bone in her shoulder. She entered Mrs. Mettler's 
dwelling an entire stranger, Mrs. M. not know-
ing that any such person was about to visit her. 
She did not even hint at her difficulty, but sub-
mitted to an examination. 
Mrs. Mettler'shand, 
as she was in the clairvoyant state, rested for a 
moment on Miss Comstock's head, and then 
slowly passed to her shoulder. 
After some prep-
aration, with directions as to position, and as-
sistance in holding Miss Comstock, Mrs* Mettler 
wrenched the shoulder, producing a loud crack, 
which was heard in the adjoining room. 
The 
patient screamed with pain, but it was all over. 
The young lady, for the first time in thirteen 
years, placed her hand on the back of her head. 
The shoulder was bathed, and the next day Miss 
Comstock returned home, able to use her arm, 
nothing save a soreness about the shoulder, which, 
was fast disappearing at the last accounts from 
her. 
When Mrs. Mettler came out of the clair-
voyant state, sh*. did not know that she had 
touched Miss Comstock. 
This is a wonderful 
case. 
First, Mrs. Mettler found the precise dif-
ficulty at once, without asking a question. 
She 
seemed to see it, and to comprehend the precise 
movement that would place the dislocated bone 
where it belonged, and this by the clairvoyance. 
This is a remarkable fact as showing that there 
is such a principle as clairvoyance, and that the 
person possessing it, as Mrs. Mettler does, can 
see and comprehend that which cannot be seen 
or comprehended by the ordinary powers of vis-
ion. 
The facts in the interesting case we have 
here narrated, can be established to the convic-
tion of the most skeptical." 
A Story with a Moral. 
MANY years' ago, a merchant, worth near a 
million of dollars, stood upon a wharf, watching 
THE ADVENT 
HERALD. 
the approach of a rich ship, just arrived in port 
of which he was the owner. 
He was elevated 
with his good fortune, and looked lofty and arro--
gant. 
A poor seaman, suffering under grievous 
maladies stood near, and having experienced how 
changeful is life, he ventured to remark to the 
triumphant merchant, that "riches had wings." 
" Pooh !" said the merchant, '' there t you see 
that diamond ring I take from my finger ? See 
me fling it into the river. 
As well may you ex-
pect ever to see that ring again, as to see me a 
poor man!" 
Some days afterwards, the merchant gave a 
great dinner to his friends. Among the luxuries 
provided for the feast was a salmon from the 
river. 
The cook happening to open the stomach of 
the salmon, found there, to her great surprise, 
the merchant's diamond ring! 
She carried it to 
him. 
His countenance fell, for he remembered 
his boastful language. 
The dinner was heartless and tedious to him. 
The rich wine only made his thoughts more poig-
nant. 
He slept none that night. He became an 
" altered man." 
His speculations were all un-
fortunate. Loss succeeded loss; and in a few 
years he was a poor man. 
Wealth is the gift of God, and given for a 
good purpose. Not to be squandered—not to 
make its possessor hard of heart;—but to teach 
him benevolence, to enable him to benefit his 
fellow-men. 
®l)c Ttimwt §erali>. 
BOSTON, MARCH 18, 1S54. 
THE readers of the Herald are most earnestly besought to give it 
room in their prayers; that by means of it God may be honored and 
his truth advanced; also, that it may be conducted in faith and 
love, with sobriety of judgment and discernment of the truth, in 
nothing carried away into error, or hasty speech, or sharp, unbipth-
erly disputation. 
THE PROPHECY OF ISAIAH. 
CHAPTER XXXVI. 
AND Rabshakeh said unto them, Say ye now to Hezekiah, Thus 
saith the great king, the king of Assyria, What confidence is this 
wherein thou trustest i I say, sayest thou, (but they are but vain 
words,) I have counsel and strength for war: now, on whotn dost 
thou trust, that thou rebellest against me ? Lo, thou trustest in the 
staff of this broken reed, on Egypt; whereon if a man lean, it will 
go into his hand, and pierce it: so is Pharaoh king of Egypt to all 
that trust in him. But if thou say to me, We trust in the Losrt our 
God : is it not he, whose high places and whose altars Hezekiah 
hath taken away, and said to Judah and Jerusalem, Ye shall wor-
ship before this altar ? Now therefore give pledges, I pray thee, to 
my master the king of Assyria, and I will give thee two thousand 
horses, if thou be able on thy part to set riders upon them. How 
then wilt thou turn away the face of one captain of the least of my 
master's servants, and put thy trust on Egypt for chariots and for 
horsemen ? And am I now come up without the Lord against this 
land to destroy itThe Lord said unto me, Go up against this land, 
and destroy it.—us. 4-10. 
Of the figures in these texts, there is in v. 4, a 
metaphor in the use of the word " great," expres-
sive of the extent of the king's power and dignity; 
and " confidence," is put by a metonymy for means 
of defence—the source of confidence. In v. 6, 
Egypt, by a metonymy, is put for the Egyptians ; 
who by a metaphor, are denominated " the staff 
of this broken reed." 
And by a simile, Pharaoh's 
gervice, to those who look to him for aid, is com-
pared to a splintered staff's piercing through the 
hand of him who leans on it. 
In v. 9, the turning 
away of one of Sennacherib's captains, is put by 
substitution for his defeat; " least," is a meta-
phor expressive of weakness ; and Egypt, is, by a 
metonymy, put for the Egyptians. 
And in v. 10, 
" land-,"' is twice used, by a metonymy, for its 
cities,, inhabitants, &c. 
The design of Rabshakeh in this address, was, 
1st,, to- impress the Jews with a belief of the weak-
ness and treachery of the Egyptians, so that Heze-
kiah might not resist the Assyrians on the expec-
tation of aid from Egypt; 2d, to make them think 
that the Lord had forsaken Jerusalem, and that 
Sennacherib had eome against it by the command 
. of, and therefore would be aided by Jehovah ; and 
3d'r to make them feel their own weakness, which 
was evinced by the taunting offer to give them two 
thousand horses, provided they could find that 
number of riders for them—the pledges or host-
ages demanded r being security for the supply of 
the horsemen named. 
They also said, (,2 Chron 
32:10, 11,X" Whereon do ye trust, that ye abide 
in the siege in Jerusalem? 
Doth not Hezekiah 
persuade you to- give over yourselves to die by 
famine and by thirst, saying, The Lord our God 
shall deliver us out of the hand of the king of As-
syria?" 
Judah abounded with false gods and1 idolatrous 
worship when Hezekiah began his reign ; and un-
der his administration, (2 Chron. 31:1,) " they 
went out to the cities of Judah, and brake the im-
ages in pieces, and cut down the groves, and 
threw down the high places and the altars out of 
all Judah and Benjamin, in Ephraim also and Ma-
nasseh, until they had utterly destroyed them." 
Hezekiah even, (2 Kings 18:4-6,) " brake in pieces 
the brazen serpent that Moses had made : for unto 
those days the children of Israel did burn incense 
to it: and he called it Nehushtan." 
Jehovah was 
known to tho surrounding nations as the national 
Elohem of Judah ; and in the general destruction 
of the idols and groves throughout the land, the 
Assyrians may have supposed that the altars over-
thrown were Jehovah's, and that he would be of-
fended in being limited to the altar at Jerusalem. 
They also evidently regarded the Lord as no more 
than the gods of the heathen ; and the pretended 
command of the Lord to destroy Judea, may have 
been what they mistook for the direction of their 
own divinities, which they always consulted before 
invading any nation. 
Thus of another occasion 
we read, (Ezek. 21:21, 22,) that " the king of 
Babylon stood at the parting of the way, at the 
head of the two ways, to Use divination ; he made 
his arrows bright, he consulted with images, he 
looked in the liver. 
At his right hand was the 
divination for Jerusalem, to appoint captains, to 
open the mouth in the slaughter, to lift up the 
voice with shouting, to appoint battering rams 
against the gates, to cast a mount, and to build a 
fort." 
Sennacherib probably had had a like re-
sponse, when consulting his gods whether to pro-
ceed against Jerusalem ; and now had the impu-
dence and blasphemy to pretend to the Jews, that 
the Lord had directed him to come up against the 
land to destroy it. 
The messengers of Hezekiah saw that the words 
of Rabshakeh were well calculated to intimidate 
the Jews, who were assembled in large numbers 
on the wall: 
Then said Eli-'kim and Shebna and Joah unto Rabshakeh, Speak, 
I pray thee, unto thy servants in the Syrian language ; for we un-
derstand it: and speak not to us in the Jews' language, in the ears 
of the people that are on the wall.—v. 11. 
To speak in a language unintelligible to the 
Jews, would not accomplish the designs of Rab-
shakeh, who expected to effect more by working 
on the fears of the people, than by the rulers. 
Therefore he had spoken in the ears of the people 
—" ears " being put by a metonymy for their hear-
ing ;—and he would not comply with the request 
of the messengers. 
. 
But Rabshakeh said, Hath my master sent me to thy master and 
to thee to speak these words ? hath he not sent me to the men that 
sit upon the wail, that they may devour their vilest excretions with 
you ?—v. 1*2. 
The design of Rabshakeh was, (2 Chron. 32:18,) 
to cry " with a loud voice, in the Jews' speech, 
unto the people of Jerusalem that were on the 
wall, to affright them, and to trouble them ; that 
they might take the city." 
Jerusalem was besieged by Nebuchadnezzar, Jere-
miah (21:9) counselled the people to go out to the 
Chaldeans, saying : " He that abideth in this city 
shall die by the sword, and by the famine, and by 
the pestilence : but he that goeth out, and falleth 
to the Chaldeans that besiege you, he shall live, 
and his life shall be unto him for a prey." 
And 
(2 Kings 24:14) Nebuchadnezzar " carried away 
all Jerusalem, and all the princes, and all the 
mighty men of valor, even ten thousand captives, 
and all the craftsmen, and smiths : none remained, 
save the poorest sort of the people of the land." 
The gods of the heathen, which were unable to 
deliver the nations that worshipped them, are 
enumerated in 2 Kings 17:30, 31—" The men of 
Babylon made Succoth-benoth, and the men of 
Cuth made Nergal, and the men of Hamath made 
Aehima, and the Avites made Nibhaz and Tartak, 
and the Sepharvites burnt their children in fire to 
Adrammelech and Anammelech, the gods of Sephar-
vaim." 
The words of Rabshakeh convinced the ambas-
sadors sent to him by Hezekiah, that Sennacherib 
was determined to conquer Jerusalem, and that 
there was no hope of his being induced to depart 
from the city. 
But they held their peace, and answered him not a word: for the 
king's commandment was, saying, Answer him not.—v. 21. 
They were not sent to debate the question, but 
to hear what the Assyrian had to say, and to re-
port his words to Hezekiah. 
" Held their peace," is a metaphor expressive of 
their maintaining silence. 
Then came Eliakim, the son of Hilkiah, that was over the house-
hold, and Shebna the scribe, and Joah, the son of Asaph, the re-
corder, to Hezekiah with their clothes rent, and told him the words 
of Rabshakeh.—v. 22. 
They had to make a most disheartening report ; 
and the despair of these messengers was indicated 
by their rent clothes, expressive of their grief. 
So hopeless, to all human appearance, was the 
fate of the city, that Shebna, seeing no way of de-
liverance, smarting with his degradation from the 
office of treasurer, (see note on Isa. 22:15-19,) to 
which Eliakim had succeeded, and hoping to ad-
vance his own interests, determined, according 
to a Jewish tradition, to betray the city to the 
Assyrians. 
(See note on Isa. 33:18.) 
Hezekiah, 
however, had other resources than an arm of flesh, 
as is recorded in the following chapter. 
Then Rabshakeh stood, and cried with a loud voice in the Jews' 
language, and said, Hear ye the words of the great king, the king 
of Ass) ri i. Thus saith the king, Let not Hezekiah deceive you: 
for he shall not be able to deliver you. Neither let Hezekiah make 
you trust in the Lord, saying, The Lord will surely deliver us : this 
city shall not be delivered into the hand of the king of Assyria. 
Hearken not to Hezekiah: for thus saith the king of Assyria, Make 
an agreement with me by a present, and come out to me: and eat 
ye evtry one of his vine, and every one of his fig-tree, and drink ye 
every one the waters of his own cistern; until I come and take you 
away to a land like your own land, a laud of corn and wine, a land 
of bread and vineyards. Beware lest Hezekiah persuade you, say-
ing, Xhe Lord will deliver us. Hath any of the gods of the nations 
delivered his land out of the hand of the king of Assyria ? Where 
are the gods of Hamath, and Arphad ? where are the gods of Sephar-
vaim ? and have they delivered Samaria out of my hand ? Who are 
they among all the gods of these lands, that have delivered their 
land out of my hand, that the Lord should deliver Jerusalem out of 
my hand ?—vs. 13-20. 
Of the figures in this speech, there is a metaphor 
in the use of the word " great," in v. 13, expressive 
of power ; " hand," in vs. 15,18,19, and 20, is, 
by metonymy, also put for the power of the king 
of Assyria; and by the same figure, in v. 16, 
" vine," and "fig-tree," are put for their fruits. 
Rabshakeh, in this address sought to convince 
the Jews that neither Hezekiah nor the Lord could 
protect them against Sennacherib; and that the 
best thing they could do would be to desert Heze-
kiah, and by a present, show their submission to 
Assyria—promising, if they would do so, to let 
each one retain his own possessions, till it should 
be convenient to remove them to another land 
equally good.. And lest Hezekiah should persuade 
them to trust in the Lord for protection, he re-
minded them that none of the gods of the other 
nations had saved them from being conquered by 
Sennacherib—placing the Lord on a level with the 
gods of the heathen. 
The conquerors of those days were accustomed 
to remove the inhabitants from the conquered 
countries, and to settle them in other lands, and 
to supply their places with another population. 
Thus, (2 Kings 17:23 , 24,) "was Israel carried 
away out of tl air own land to Assyria unto this 
day. 
And the king of Assyria brought men from 
Babylon, and from Cuthah, and from Ava, and 
from Hamath, and from Sepharvaim, and placed 
them in the cities of Samaria instead of the chil-
dren of Israel: and they possessed Samaria, and 
dwelt in the cities thereof." 
Subsequently, when 
THE KINGDOM OF GOD. 
"THY kingdom come. Thy will be done on earth as it is done in 
heaven." (Matt. 6:10.) 
The kingdom of God may be considered in two 
aspects—1st. In its preparatory ; and 2d. In its 
perfected state. 
In its former, the Commonwealth of Israel, was 
a hierarchy—subject to the direct government of 
God, through the instrumentality of Judges. From 
God they received their laws ; and when the peo 
pie wished to supersede Samuel by a king, that 
they might be like surrounding nation, (1 Sam. 
8:7,) " The Lord said unto Samuel, Hearken unto 
the voice of the people in all that they say unto 
thee: for they have not rejected thee, but they 
have rejected me, that I should not reign over 
them." 
In answer to their cry, the Lord gave them a 
king and designated Saul for that office. 
1 Sam 
9:17—" And when Samuel saw Saul, the Lord said 
unto him, Behold the man whom I spake to thee 
of! this same shall reign over my people." 
Saul however sinned, and it pleased the Lord 
(2 Sam. 3:10,) "To translate the kingdom from 
the house of Saul, and to set up the throne of Da 
vid over Israel." 
The Lord then covenanted with David, saying 
(2 Sam. 7:12-16,) " I will set up thy seed after 
thee, which shall proceed out of thy bowels, and 1 
will establish his kingdom. 
He shall build an 
house for my name, and I will stablish the throne 
of his kingdom for ever. 
I will be his father, and 
he shall be my son. 
If he commit iniquity, I will 
chasten him with the rod of men, and with the 
stripes of the children of men : but my mercy shall 
not depart away from him, as 1 took it from Saul, 
whom I put away before thee. 
And thine house 
and thy kingdom shall be established for ever be-
fore thee : thy throne shall be established for ever." 
The Lord recognized the throne as his. 
Thus 
when Solomon succeeded to David, we read, (1 
Chron. 29:23,) " Then Solomon sat upon the throne 
of the Lord as king instead of David his father, and 
prospered; and all Israel obeyed him." 
When Solomon sinned, the Lord took from his 
house the ten tribes, and left him two tribes for 
David his servant's sake. 
But his successors had 
so far departed from the ordinances of God's gov-
ernment, that when Zedekiah, the last prince of 
the house of David was on the throne, we read, 
(Ezek. 21:25-27,) " And thou, profane wicked 
prince of Israel, whose day is come, when iniquity 
shall have an end. 
Thus saith the Lord God : Re 
move the diadem, and take off the crown : this 
shall not be the same ; exalt him that is low, and 
abase him that is high. 
I will overturn, overturn, 
overturn it: and it shall be no more, until He come 
whose right it is ; and I will give it him." 
The future descendant of David to whom the 
kingdom was to be given was Christ. 
Thus we 
find it recorded of Jesus, in Luke 1:32, 33—" He 
shall be great, and shall be called the Son of the 
Highest; and the Lord God shall give unto him the 
throne of his father David. 
And he shall reign 
over the house of Jacob forever ; and of bis king-
dom there shall be no end." 
And Nathaniel said 
to him, (John 1:49) " Rabbi, thou art the Son of 
God ; thou art the king of Israel." 
John, Christ's forerunner, came, (Matt. 3:2,) 
saying, Repent ye: for the kingdom of heaven is 
hand." 
Jesus followed, preaching the same, saying, 
(Matt. 4:17,) " Repent, for the kingdom of heaven 
is at hand." 
He came, (Mark 1:14,15,) " pleach-
ing the gospel of the kingdom of God, and saying, 
The time is fulfilled, and the kingdom of God is at 
hand : repent ye, and believe the gospel." 
He sent forth his twelve disciples, with the com-
mand, (Matt. 10:7,) " And as ye go, preach, say-
ing, The kingdom of heaven is at hand." 
And to 
the seventy he said : (Luke 10:0,) " Say unto them, 
The kingdom of God is come nigh unto you." 
The kingdom, however, was not to be set up dur-
ing the Gospel dispensation. 
Jesus said to Pi-
late, (John 18:36,) " My kingdom is not of this 
world: if my kingdom were of this world, then 
would my servants fight, that I should not be de-
livered to the Jews : but now is my kingdom not 
from hence." 
On another occasion : (Luke 19:11, 
12,) " He added and spake a parable, because he 
was nigh to Jerusalem, and because they thought 
that the kingdom of God should immediately ap-
pear. 
He said therefore, A certain nobleman went 
into a far country to receive for himself a king-
dom and to return." 
It is to be set up on the overthrow of earthly 
governments. 
Daniel said to Nebuchadnezzar, 
(Dan. 2: 34, 35,) "Thou sawest till that a stone 
was cut out without hands, which smote the im-
age upon his feet that were of iron and clay and 
brake them to pieces. 
Then was the iron, the clay, 
the brass, the silver, and the gold, broken to pieces 
together, and became like. the chaff of the summer 
threshing-floors; and the wind carried them away, 
that no place was found for them : and the stone 
that smote the image became a great mountain, 
and filled the whole earth." 
His interpretation 
of this in v. 44, is, " And in the days of these kings 
shall the God of heaven set up a kingdom, which 
shall never be destroyed : and the kingdom shall 
not be left to other people, but it shall break in 
pieces and consume all these kingdoms, and it shall 
stand forever." 
1. It is set up at Christ's second coming. 
Dan. 7:13,14—" And I saw in the night visions, 
and behold, one like the Son of man came with the 
clouds of heaven, and came to the Ancient of days, 
and they brought him near before him. 
And there 
was given him dominion, and glory, and a king-
dom, that all people, nations, and languages, should 
serve him : his dominion is an everlasting domin-
ion, which shall not pass away, and his kingdom, 
that which shall not be destroyed." 
Matt. 16:27—" For the Son of man shall come 
in the glory of his Father, with his angels; and 
then he shall reward every man according to his 
works." 
,.';•,] 
Matt. 25:31-34—" When the Son of man shall 
come in his glory, and all the holy anggls with 
him, then he shall sit upon the throne of his glory; 
and before him shall be gathered all nations : and 
he shall separate them one from another, as a 
shepherd divideth his sheep from the goats : and 
he shall set the sheep on his right hand, but 
the goats on the left. 
Then shall the King say 
unto them on the right hand, Come, ye blessed of 
my Father, inherit the kingdom prepared for you 
from the foundation of the world." 
John 14:3—" And if 1 go and prepare a place 
for you, I will come again and receive you unto 
myself; that where I am there ye may be also." 
2. The gospel of the kingdom is to be preached 
till the end of the world. 
Matt. 24:14—" And this gospel of the kingdom 
shall be preached in all the world, for a witness 
unto all nations ; and then shall the end come." 
Rev. 14:6, 7—" And I saw another angel fly in 
the midst of heaven, having the everlasting gospel 
to preach unto them that dwell on the earth, and 
to every nation, and kindred, and tongue, and peo-
ple, saying with a loud voice, Fear God, and give 
glory to him ; for the hour of his judgment is come: 
and worship him that made heaven, and earth, and 
the sea, and the fountains of waters." 
Matt. 13:19—" When any one heareth the word 
THE ADVENT 
HERALD 
85 
of the kingdom, and understandeth' it not, then 
cometh the wicked one, and catcheth away that 
which was sown in his heart. 
This is he which 
received seed by the way-side." 
3. Its condition during this preparatory state, is 
variously illustrated by the Saviour's parables : 
Matt. 13:31-33—" The kingdom of heaven is 
like to a grain of mustard-seed, which a man took, 
and sowed in his field : which is indeed the least 
of all seeds : but when it is grown, it is the great-
est among herbs, and becometh a tree, so that the 
birds of the air come and lodge in the branches 
thereof. 
Another parable spake he unto them ; 
The kingdom of heaven is like unto leaven, which 
a woman took, and hid in three measures of meal, 
till the whole was leavened." 
4. During this period the wicked continue on the 
earth till Christ's Coming : 
Dan. 7:21, 22—" 1 beheld, and the same horn 
made war with the saints, and prevailed against 
them : until the Ancient of days came, and judg-
ment was given to the saints of the Most High ; 
and the time came that the saints possessed the 
kingdom." 
2 Thess. 2:8—" And then shall that Wicked be 
revealed, whom the Lord shall consume with the 
spirit of his mouth, and shall destroy with the 
brightness of his coming." 
Matt. 13:24-30—" Another parable put he forth 
unto them, saying, The kingdom of heaven is 
likened unto a man that sowed good seed in his 
field: 
but while men slept, his enemy came and 
sowed tares among the wheat, and went his way. 
But when the blade was sprung up, and brought 
forth fruit, then appeared the tares also. 
So the 
servants of the householder came and said unto 
him, Sir, didst not thou sow good seed in thy field? 
from whence then hath it tares? 
He said unto 
them, An enemy hath done this. 
The servants 
said unto him, Wilt thou then that we go and 
gather them up? 
But he said, Nay ; lest while 
ye gather up the tares, ye root up also the wheat 
with them. 
Let both grow together until the har-
vest : and in the time of harvest, I will say to the 
reapers, Gather ye first the tares, and bind them 
in bundles to burn them: but gather the wheat 
into my barn." 
5. The kingdom is to be consummated at the end 
of the world. 
Matt. 13:37-43—" He that soweth the good seed 
is the Son of man ; the field is the world ; the good 
seed are the children of the kingdom ; but the tares 
are the children of the wicked one ; the enemy that 
sowed them is the devil; the harvest is the end of 
the world; and the reapers are the angels. 
As 
therefore the tares are gathered and burned in the 
fire ; so shall it be in the end of this world. 
The 
Son of man shall send forth his angels, and they 
shall gathewout of his kingdom all things that of-
fend, and them which do iniquity ; and shall cast 
them into a furnace of fire : there shall be wailing 
and gnashing of teeth. 
Then shall the righteous 
shine forth as the sun in the kingdom of their 
Father." 
— 13:47-50—" Again, the kingdom of heaven 
is like unto a net, that is cast into the sea, and 
gathered of every kind : which, when it was full, 
they drew to the shore, and sat down, and gath-
ered the good into vessels, but cast the bad away. 
So shall it be at the end of the world : the angels 
shall come forth, and sever the wicked from among 
the just, and shall cast them into the furnace of 
fire : there shall be wailing and gnashing of teeth.'' 
2 Thess. 1:7-10—" And to you, who are troubled, 
rest with us, when the Lord Jesus shall be revealed 
from heaven with his mighty angels, in 
flaming 
fire taking vengeance on them that know not God, 
and obey not the gospel of our Lord Jesus Christ: 
who shall be punished with everlasting destruction 
from the presence of the Lord, and the glory of his 
power ; when he shall come to be glorified in his 
saints, and to be admired in all them that believe 
(because our testimony among you was believed) 
in that day." 
6. The kingdom is to be set up on the earth, and 
is to continue for ever. 
Dan. 7:18, 27—" But the saints of the Most 
High shall take the kingdom, and possess the 
kingdom for ever, even for ever and ever. 
And the 
kingdom and dominion, and the greatness of the 
kingdom under the whole heaven, shall be given 
to the people of the saints of the Most High, whose 
kingdom is an everlasting kingdom, and all domin-
ions shall serve and obey him." 
Matt. 5:5—" Blessed are the meek: for they 
shall inherit the earth." 
Rev. 5:9, 10—" And they sung a new song, say-
ing, Thou art worthy to take the book, and to open 
the seals thereof: for thou wast slain, and hast 
redeemed us to God by thy blood out of every kin-
dred, and tongue, and people, and nation ; and 
hast made us unto our God kings and priests : and 
we shall reign on the earth." 
Psal. 37:9, 11, 22—" For evil doers shall be cut 
off: but those that wait upon the Lord, they shall 
inherit the earth." " But the meek shall inherit the 
earth, and shall delight themselves in the abund-
ance of peace." 
" For such as be blessed of him 
shall inherit the earth ; and they that be cursed 
of him shall be cut off." 
Rev. 21:1-4—" And I saw a new heaven and a 
new earth : for the first heaven and the first earth 
were passed away; and there was no more sea. 
And I John saw the holy city, new Jerusalem, 
coming down from God out of heaven, prepared as 
a bride adorned for her husband. 
And I heard a 
great voice out of heaven, saying, Behold, the 
tabernacle of God is with men, and he will dwell 
with them, and they shall be his people, and God 
himself shall be with them, and be their God. 
And God shall wipe away all tears from their 
eyes; and there shall be no more death, neither 
sorrow, nor crying, neither shall there be any 
more pain : for the former things are passed 
away." 
Psal. 2:8—" Ask of me, and I shall give thee 
the heathen for thine inheritance, and the utter-
most parts of the earth for thy possession." 
Isa. 60:21—" Thy people also shall be all right-
ous: they shall inherit the land for ever, the 
branch of my planting, the^ork of my hands, that 
I may be glorified." 
7. It is to be the inheritance of all the saints. 
Matt. 5:3—" Blessed are the poor in spirit : for 
theirs is the kingdom of heaven." 
James 2:5—" Hearken, my beloved brethren, 
Hath not God chosen, the poor of this world rich 
in faith, and heirs of the kingdom which he hath 
promised to them that love him ?" 
2 Peter 1:11—" For so an entrance shall be min-
istered unto you abundantly into the everlasting 
kingdom of our Lord and Saviour Jesus Christ." 
Luke 12:32—" Fear not, little flock; for it is 
your Father's good pleasure to give you the king-
dom." 
1 Thess. 2:12—" That ye would walk worthy of 
God, who hath called you unto his kingdom and 
glory." 
8. It is to be bestowed on all at the same time. 
Heb. 11:13, 14, 16, 39, 40—" These all died in 
faith not having received the promises, but having 
seen them afar off, and were persuaded of them, 
and embraced them, and confessed that they were 
strangers and pilgrims on the earth. 
For they 
that say such things declare plainly that they seek 
a country. 
But now they desire a better country, 
that is, an heavenly: wherefore God is not ashamed 
to be called their God : for he hath prepared for 
them a city. 
And these all, having obtained a 
good report throngh faith, received not the prom-
ise : 
God having provided some better thing for 
us, that they without us should not be made per-
fect." 
1 Thess. 3:13—"To the end he may establish 
your hearts unblamable in holiness before God, 
even our Father, at the coming of our Lord Jesus 
Christ with all his saints." 
2 Tim. 4:8—" Henceforth there is laid up for 
me a crown of righteousness, which the Lord, the 
righteous Judge, shall give me at that day : and 
not to me only, but unto all them also that love 
his appearing." 
THE BRIDE OF CHRIST. 
' 
IIER BHTROTHMENT. 
(Concluded.) 
THE Church was betrothed to dhrist " in right-
eousness, and in judgment, and in loving kindness, 
and in mercies." 
He called her " as a woman for-
saken and grieved in spirit," and chose her though 
poor and lowly for his bride. 
She was a subject of 
sorrow, she was a subject of poverty and persecu-
tion, and yet he loved her, for he laid down his own 
life for her sake. 
For her sake " he was despised 
and rejected of men." 
For her sake he became " a 
man of sorrows and acquainted with grief." 
" He 
was wounded for her transgressions, he was bruised 
for her iniquities; the chastisement of her peace 
was upon him and with his stripes 6he was healed." 
For her sake he withdrew himself from the busy 
haunts of men, sought the secluded garden, and 
with an aching heart poured forth his spirit in 
prayer while the big drops of crimson blood drawn 
forth by the awful agony of his soul, rolled down 
upon the sod at his feet. 
For her sake he stood 
arraigned before the bar of Pilate, without one 
friend to plead his cause, or whisper one word of 
consolation. 
For her sake he wore the scarlet 
robe, and the platted crown of thorns. 
For her 
sake he bore patiently the mockings of the furious 
crowd, and groaned under the burden of the cross. 
For her sake he ascended Mount Calvary, suffered 
the cruel nails to pierce his tender hands and feet, 
and himself to be suspended between heaven and 
earth as the worst of malefactors, and the vilest of 
slaves. 
For her sake he endured a death of hu-
miliation, while " men and devils rejoiced and all 
heaven wept." 
For her sake he bowed his aching 
head, and cried aloud: " It is 
finished." 
The last 
expiring groan was hushed ; the beaming eye was 
closed ; it wept no longer over the sins of a per-
verse race ; those gentle and lovely features were 
robed with the paflid hue of death, and the heart 
that melted at the sorrows of mankind beat no 
longer. 
The grave, the cold grave, rejoicing closed 
its dreary portals upon his sacred form, and he, the 
lowly and despised Nazarene, who found no resting 
place for his weary head, slept quietly in a borrowed 
sepulchre. 
But rejoice now, O sorrowing bride ! 
for he sleeps no longer. 
Let thy glad songs of 
praise and adoration reach the skies, for thy Lord 
is not among the dead; he has risen. 
"Rejoice 
greatly, O daughter of Zion ! shout, O daughter 
of Jerusalem !" for thy Saviour has burst the iron 
bands of death, and has come forth a mighty Con-
queror. 
For thy sins he laid himself down in the 
icy tomb, he rises again for thy justification. 
For 
thy iniquities he suffered, died and was buried, he 
comes forth again that thou mayest be a sharer of 
his glory. 
He has hallowed the dreary tomb by 
his own dear presence, and now he has ascended to 
his " Father and your Father, to his God and your 
God." 
He has taken his seat at the right hand of 
the Majesty on high, and there, despairing soul, 
trembling under thy burden of sin and guilt, he 
pleads for thee. 
He points to the cross upon 
Mount Calvary, dripping with his own precious 
blood, and in a voice of tender compassion and 
mercy he exclaims,'' Father, I died for that wretched 
sinner, spare, O ! spare him for my sake." 
He 
has entered into the holy place by his own blood, 
having obtained eternal redemption for thee, O 
daughter of Zion! 
Thy dearly loved one hath left 
thee for a little while, and thou seest him not, but 
let not thy heart be troubled, neither let it be 
afraid, for he has gone to prepare a place for thee; 
he will come again and receive thee unto himself, 
•hatywhere he is there his bride may be also. 
The 
death of her Lord was the only foundation upon 
which the Church of Christ built all her hopes of 
future happiness and glory. 
His merits were her 
only boast, his blood spilt for her sins her only 
plea. 
While the eager throng around her wor-
shipped at the shrine of pleasure, while the gay 
and thoughtless mingled in the giddy dance, and 
the sound of revelry broke the stillness of the quiet 
evening air, she would steal away unseen and un-
observed, to wander alone upon the heights of Hal-
vary. 
Trembling with emotion she would pluck 
the precious flowers that bloomed there in rich pro-
fusion, press them again and again to her beating 
heart, and then bursting into tears sink upon her 
knees, and with outstretched arms embrace the 
Cross. 
That cross was infinitely dearer to her than 
ten thousand worlds. 
It was twined around her 
heart with ties that nothing could ever loose; 'twas 
her all, her consolation, and her only hope. 
She 
wept but they were mingled tears of joy and sorrow. 
Sorrow, for she mourned that her sins had cost the 
life of the Son of God; joy, for she knew that that 
sacrifice had made a perfect atonement for her 
She knew that the Father had forgiven her iniqui 
ties, and that he would no longer remember her 
sins. 
And as she clung around the cross a bright 
beam of glory shone aroi^nd her ; she raised her 
tearful eyes, and a crown of everlasting beauty met 
her admiring gaze. 
And she knew that crown was 
kept in reserve for her, she knew that on her bridal 
day her Lord would place it upon her own brow. 
The world might frown, persecution and affliction 
might follow closely in her steps, but she was hap-
py ; happy in the midst of sorrows and trials, 
happy in the love of One whom she fervently adored. 
She loved him, " because he had first loved her 
and in return she had given him all he demanded— 
" her heart." 
She tore from her soul its dearest 
idols, she freely sacrificed whatever was dear to 
her before, and counted all things as loss that she 
might win Christ. 
She was no longer permitted 
to gaze with her mortal eyes upon his cherished 
form, for he had left her for a season, but he had 
not left her comfortless. 
He had left on record 
many, many precious promises, and she knew that 
they would yet be fulfilled. 
She knew that though 
separated now, a union had been promised by Him 
whose word cannot fail, she knew that their be-
trothment was registered in the book of heaven, 
and she knew that their engagement was firm as 
the throne of God. 
She knew that he remembered 
her still; she knew that he loved her no less than 
when he sojourned with her, for since his departure 
she had received many sweet messages in which 
breathed the very soul of affection. 
The Comfort-
er whom he had promised had already arrived, and 
had brought with him from the hand of the Lord 
tokens of remembrance and unabated love; and 
through the instrumentality of that Comforter she 
had often held holy and undisturbed communion 
with her absent Master, had poured forth all her 
cares and sorrows into his sympathizing ear, and 
felt that though unseen he was bending over her 
and whispering sweet words of hope and consola-
tion. Then new courage and a stronger love sprang 
into existence; and with perfect confidence and 
unshaken faith she leaned upon the invisible arm 
that supported her, and with a swelling heart ex-
claimed : " My beloved is mine, and I am his." 
" The Lord is my light and my salvation ; whom 
shall I fear ? the Lord is the strength of my life, of 
whom shall I be afraid?" 
She loved him; she 
trusted in him; and she longed for his return; and 
often the petition was wafted up to heaven from an 
overcharged heart and a fervent spirit, " Come, 
Lord Jesus." 
He heard her petition ; it was pleas-
ing to her Lord, for it spoke of her love and devo-
tion to himself, and in his owrn tender voice he re-
plied, " Behold, I come quickly." 
H. M. J. 
Waitiug the Promise. 
CHRYSOSTOM (A. D. 400) in his homily on Heb. 
11 :«9, 40, " These all received not the promise," 
says :—" Still they had not received it, still they 
waited for it, and even after they had ended their 
life in such tribulation. So much time had passed 
after their victory, and still they had not received 
it! And should we already sigh, that we stand 
yet in the conflict ? Remember what is said, that 
Abraham and the apostle Paul sit and wait until 
thou art made perfect, that they may then also re-
ceive their reward. Until we come, has the Sa-
viour said, he will not give the reward to them ; 
just as a tender father would say to good sons who 
had finished their work : I will give you to eat 
when your brother also comes. And shall we 
complain, that we are not placed beyond the reach 
of calamity, and that we have not attained com-
plete blessedness ? What should Abel say, who 
conquered before all, and has not yet been crowned ? 
They have preceded us in this warfare, but they 
receive not the crown sooner than we. The Lord 
does no wrong to them, but yet he does honor to 
us. They cheerfully wait for their brethren, for 
we are all one body, and therefore this body en-
joys a greater glory if all are croWned in common 
and not a part by itself. It is characteristic of 
the righteous Jo rejoice over the happiness of their 
brethren in like manner as over their own ; and it 
is exactly after their mind to be crowned in con-
nection with their members, for to be glorified to-
gether is great blessedness." 
GENERAL CONFERENCE OF ADVENTISTS.—The 
Fif-
teenth General Conference of Adventists will be 
held in Providence, R. I., commencing Tuesday 
evening. May 16th, and continue over the 19th. 
This will no doubt be one of the largest meet-
ings the Adventists have held for many years. 
Let prayer go up to the great Head of the church 
that it may also be the best. 
An address on the 
subject from the committee may be expected soon. 
II. 
PLUMMER. 
J. PEARSON, JR. 
A. 
SHERWIN. 
L. OSLER. 
' 
J. V. HIMES. 
MINISTERIAL CONFERENCE.—The next conference 
of Advent ministers will be held at Lowell, (in 
Masonic Hall, Merrimac-st.,) commencing March 
28th, at 10 o'clock A.M., and continue several days. 
Preaching each evening as brother Sherwin shall 
appoint. 
It is hoped that all the members of the 
conference will be in attendance. 
Brethren will 
call at J. Low's, No. 7 Marion-street. 
J. PEARSON, JR. 
L. OSLER. 
J. V. 
HIMES. 
ELDER S. CHAPMAN.—We have received an inter-
esting letter from this brother, dated Feb. 25th, 
near Cooperstown, 111. 
He had been enjoying a 
good season in the neighborhood of brother Twom-
ley. 
He wishes us to say that be intends being at 
the Central Conference, to be held at the St Al-
bans'meeting-house, Hancock county, 111., to com-
mence on Friday before the third Tuesday in April, 
to hold over the Sabbath. 
Due notice will no 
doubt be given by the secretary. 
We trust our 
brethren will have a happy and prosperous meeting. 
ELDER G. W. BCRNHAM informs us that the good 
work is progressing among the people of hischarg 
in Providence. 
Their house is crowded with seri-
ous and anxious hearers. 
On Sunday evening 
last they could not provide seats for many who 
came. 
The church have given a cordial invitation for 
the session of the General Conference to be holden 
with them this year. 
Though this place is not as 
central as some, it is nevertheless very easy of ac 
cess to all by both railroad and steamboat; and 
all will find a cordial welcome. 
86 
THE ADVENT HERALD. I 
CORRESPONDENCE. 
CORRESPONDENTS are alone responsible for the correctness of the 
views they present. Therefore articles not dissented from, will not 
necessarily be understood as endorsed by the publisher. In this de-
partment, articles are solicited on the general subject of the Advent, 
without regard to the particular view we take of any scripture, from 
the friends of the 
Herald. 
TYPES AND SHADOWS. 
WHAT use did he who instituted the types of the 
covenant intend his church should make of them ? 
Paul, in giving instruction on this subject, seems 
to talk very differently from many of his pupils. 
We hear him saying in Heb. 10th, " For the law 
having a shadow of good things to come, and not 
the very image of the things, can never . . . make 
the comers thereunto perfect." 
In Gal. 3d, he 
says again, " The law was our schoolmaster to 
bring us unto Christ, that we might be justified by 
faith. 
But after that faith is come, we are no 
longer under a schoolmaster." 
We listen to him 
again in Heb. 9th, while he showe^ the ordinances 
and types of the first covenant, in the first taber-
nacle, " which was a figure for the time then 
present, . . . imposed on them until the time of 
reformation." 
H^ then argues that the reforma-
tion being come, the types of the law were fulfilled in 
Christ, that the " shadow " had been traced to 
the substance, and the glory of the shadow done 
away by that glory that excelleth. 
From the 
above we learn that we are no longer to be led by 
the types and shadows of the law, although they 
once served a good end until the substance was 
obtained, which is Christ, the reformation, the 
new covenant. 
Why then, let me ask, are Ave re-
quired by some to return to the shadows of the 
law to lead us, under the light of the glorious gos-
pel of Christ, and thus to control our faith in 
the last and clearest part of that " glory that ex-
celleth?" 
This looks like progressing backward. 
And yet this form of progress is adopted by per-
sons of various ideas, to force their creeds into 
public favor, and many of us have been, at one 
time or another, led into the dark by it. 
I do not 
accuse any of dishonesty in the above remark, but 
of a want of understanding in the gospel. 
My 
present purpose is to look at this subject in con-
nection with our experience in the 10th day move-
move of '44, for it was then claimed by many to 
be a God-sent movement, and although we see we 
made a mistake in our calculation, and taught er-
ror with much positiveness, and some very injuri-
ous and disastrous results followed, yet because 
God blessed his children in their submission to his 
commands, in living right and obeying every point 
of duty as they saw it, and becabse they felt glory 
in it, many still believe God sent that time mes-
sage, and are now seeking to mend up the error by 
applying a number of texts of Scripture so as to 
appear that that movement was a fulfilment, and 
consequently right, and then to make it serve the 
purpose of strengthening another movement now in 
progress, which by the way, we think needs no 
such help, unless it be to raise an unhealthy and 
injurious excitement, which we do not believe is de-
sired by any. 
We then ask, what evidence have 
we that after the passing of the time in '43, when 
we expected the prophetic periods to end, we should 
go to the types under Moses' covenant, to correct 
our mistake and teach that the end would be on the 
10th of the 7th month '441 
The process of doing 
it, and the results following it, with the good in-
tention we had, many of us well know. 
It was 
thought as our time had run out, there must be a 
tarry after it, as some interpret Hab. 2d, and Matt. 
25th. 
The types of the law were then examined, 
and it was seen that the high priest and his work 
were a type of Christ and his work, and as the high 
priest entered into the inner court of the temple 
to offer sacrifice for the people, and came out to 
bless them on the 10th of the 7th month, so Christ 
must come out of " heaven itself" on that day of 
the same month, Jewish time; consequently we 
went to learning to compute Jewish time, and 
threw our whole confidence on the shadow, expect 
ing the substance, while it could not be shown that 
the types already fulfilled in Christ's first advent 
were fulfilled in observance of any order of time 
included in the anti-types. 
Nor is there any scrip-
ture that I can learn, which gives an inference 
that any such observance of time is to be expeeted 
in fulfilment of the type of the high priest's com 
ing out of the holy place. 
Then we conclude that 
the specific cry of the 10th of the 7th month '44 
was not of God, but was an error of fallen man 
by going to Moses for light on so great and impor 
tant a subject as the second coining of our Lord, 
while Christ himself had clearly taught that we 
" know not when the time [day] is," and that it 
would come, finding some of the saints in the field, 
some in the mill, some in bed, and thus they meet 
their Lord and be taken up. 
Why then should we 
not open our eyes to the light, and see and confes 
an error, which, though honestly held, has led 
some into the no mercy, no work, and no gospel 
system, and thus brought ruin on themselves and 
disgrace on the gospel? 
But instead of doing this, 
I am surprised to see the Law system kept 
up 
and God charged with leading forth his host to be-
lieve that which was false, and which caused the 
ruin of many, to fulfil a tarry, and to cause a re-
writing of the vision. 
I cannot be made to believe 
that God is honored in this, nor that it can mani-
fest the truth to every man's conscience in the 
sight of God. 
If we have the evidence on the time 
of Christ's coming from the prophetic periods and 
the signs, let us give it, but never prop up truth 
with error, for this will make the truth odious. 
I. C. WELLCOME. 
DEFINITE 
TIME. 
A NOBLEMAN went into a far country and placed 
his servants over his household, giving them in-
structions relative to their management of his af-
fairs in his absence, with a promise that he would 
return at a future time and reward them. 
Now 
it seems that he knew his servants loved him, and 
would long for his return, therefore to comfort 
their hearts in time of perplexity and trouble, he 
informed them that previous to his coming he would 
cause certain things to take place by which they 
might know that the time was at hand. 
He then 
explained to them what those things should be, 
and commanded them to watch, for said he, "Ye 
know neither the day nor the hour when I shall 
come." 
But says one servant, " Master, shall we 
not know the exact time of thy coming?" 
Ans. 
' Ye know not when the time is." 
" But," says 
the servant again, " we want to know the time, we 
shall get worldly minded, and our affections will 
grow cold, unless we know just when thou art com-
ing." 
Ans. 
" Watch ye therefore, for ye know 
not when the master of the house cometh, at even, 
or at midnight, or at cock-crowing or in the morn-
ing: lest coming suddenly he find you sleeping." 
O Master thou knowest we cannot watch under-
standing^ unless we have the definite time. 
We 
may see the signs but cannot believe fully that 
thy coming is near unless we know when it is to 
be." 
Ans. " When ye see all these things come 
to pass, then know it is nigh at hand, and take 
heed to yourselves lest at any time your hearts be 
overcharged with surfeiting and drunkenness, and 
cares of this life, and so that day come upon you 
unawares. 
For in such an hour as ye think not, 1 
shall come." 
Now, should the servants say after 
his departure, " The Master told us we should 
know the time of his coming, and should therefore 
watch," would it not be a perversion of his words? 
My mind has been considerably exercised upon 
this subject of late. 
I have read the " Crisis " 
from week to week, and although I have found in 
it no stronger evidence of the immediate coming of 
the Lord than I before possessed, I have found that 
many are embracing the new views of definite time 
and rejoicing in them. 
It is no wonder that the 
waiting, watching, tried and tempted ones should 
rejoice in the thought that the coming summer is 
to usher in the year of the ransomed. 
All the lit-
tle flock would rejoice no doubt, if they could feel 
it to be truth. 
But what looks like evidence in-
controvertible to one, may be no evidence at all 
to another. 
Faith must have a foundation, or it 
is presumptuous and worse than nothing. 
To em-
brace a doctrine because another says it is truth, 
and we want to have it so, is not to act under-
standing^, as God would have us. 
But says one, 
" I have neither the time nor ability to examine 
this theory for myself, and men of God who know 
far more than I, have come to such and such con-
clusions, and I believe they are right." 
Be as-
sured of this, my dear brother or sister, your Mas-
ter will never cast you off for not embracing a 
theory you cannot understand. 
But says another, 
" The Holy Spirit has sealed the truth upon my 
heart, I feel it must be so." 
Many have said the 
same before, and did the Lord come then ? 
We are sometimes told by our more sanguine 
brethren when we dissent from their definite time 
"You talk just as the old churches did previous 
to 1843, and as they were condemned for their 
course, so will you be now." 
I reply, the churches 
were not condemned for not believing that the Lord 
would come in '43 or '44. 
God never rejected any 
one for disbelieving an untruth. 
It would have 
been better for us if we had examined the Scrip 
tures more carefully for ourselves, and leaned upon 
our teachers less. 
I believe the day of God is near, and hasteth 
greatly. 
I have good evidence of this, and fear no 
disappointment, but I no more dare to say the 
Lord will come next summer, or autumn, or win-
ter, than I would dare to say he will not come be-
fore. 
I have seen the tokens which were given, 
and I hope by the grace of God to watch and be 
ready now, for I " know not when the time is." 
I 
know that some think without definite time they 
cannot serve God acceptably, and wait for his Son 
from heaven. 
I also know that multitudes came 
up shouting to the tenth of the seventh month in 
'44, who in all probability would never have made 
a move if the time had not been preached, and 
who, after the time passed had not grace enough 
to prevent their turning their backs upon God and 
his cause. 
Whether they had enough at the time 
to carry them into the kingdom, if the Lord had 
come then is not for us to say. 
I love the doctrine 
of the soon coming of the blessed Saviour. 
I love 
to get any new evidence of his coming; and with 
me the question is not so much whether the Lord 
will come this year, as whether the position of our 
brethren who are on time is a scriptural one. 
Dear brethren and sisters, examine for your-
selves, and O, be sure and keep the good Spirit 
We are all children of one family, emphatically so, 
and although we may differ in our views let us 
not become estranged, but love as brethren. 
May 
we be found of the Saviour in peace when he comes, 
that we may have fulness of joy in his kingdom, is 
the prayer of 
A WATCHER 
LETTER FROM P. B. MORGAN. 
DEAR SIR :—After taking leave of my dear friends 
in Hancock county (111.), I was kindly conveyed 
by brother W. S. Moore (whose lady, with brother 
Stilts, accompanied us,) to Brown county. 
Had 
the pleasure of preaching once at the house of 
brother M. Winslow, where we were very kindly 
greeted, and made welcome; and then attended the 
conference at Ripley, in company with Elders Hig-
gins and Battersby. 
This was not a time devoid 
of interest, and afforded opportunity to become ac-
quainted with many a warm-hearted brother, who 
too is waiting the coming of the King—an ac-
quaintance which I trust shall be renewed in the 
Better Land," 
" When all the saints get home." 
After this had the very unpleasant task of wait-
ing nearly a week on the Illinois River for a steam-
boat. My appointments had gone before me, some 
two hundred miles distant. 
My accommodations 
within were most miserable. 
The sky became 
overcast with clouds, the air was damp and chilly 
and ever and anon rent with the almost unearthly 
screaming and screeching of innumerable water-
fowl ; my digestive apparatus became suddenly 
disobedient, and I felt more than ever to " sigh for 
home," as " a pilgrim in a strange land." 
Finally 
the week being nearly passed, 1 resolved to alter 
my course, and get to the first depot, and spend 
the following Sabbath in Springfield, which for-
tunately I was able to do with no greater mishap 
than to have stolen my best coat. 
But remember-
ing the provision made for such an exigency (Matt 
5:40,) and perhaps withal a little selfish, I went 
on, thankful for the old one left me, and that I had 
not been sued at the law. 
This to me was a te 
dious lesson, but not without its moral. 
Would 
that when Jesus comes I might be found a,s earnest-
ly waiting his advent, as I have waited' for the 
steamboat. 
At Springfield 1 met a most kindly reception 
and very directly felt amongst my own father'i 
family, beneath the hospitable roof of our estima 
ble friend, Dr. Helm. 
On Lord's day had the 
pleasure of preaching to the little flock to whom 
brother Battersby had been wont to administer-
and also had the pleasure of listening to a dis 
course from Elder Alexander Campbell, President 
of Bethany College, editor of the Millennial Har-
binger, and popularly known as the founder of the 
sect calling themselves Disciples, or Reformers 
which now number some hundred and fifty thou 
sand communicants, embracing some of the most 
wealthy and popular churches of the West and 
South. 
Mr. Campbell is now sixty-five years of 
age, I should judge, (and if I mistake not was in-
formed to this effect,) hair quite white, of rather 
more than ordinary stature, with a predominance 
of the motive and mental temperament; his style 
of address rather didactical, his elocution though 
usually chaste, attractive, and scholar-like, at 
times partakes of the more rustic cast—he fre-
quently thrusting both hands into his trowsers 
pockets, etc. 
Mr. Campbell seemed in the enjoy-
ment of most excellent health, and I was told had 
not seen a sick day for forty years—never allow-
ing himself to sleep but six hours in twenty-four, 
and habitually bathes with cold water every day. 
He is evidently a man of no common power, being 
beside a zealous preacher, President of a flourish-
ing college, editor of a popular journal, post-mas-
ter, a farmer, &c. 
Mr. Campbell's discourse at this time was upon 
' The kingdom, or reign of Jesus Christ," from 
John 18:37. 
He introduced the subject with some 
critical remarks upon the text, also upon the Greek 
word, Bao-iXiia. of Matt. 6:11. 
After carefully ex-
amining the Septuagint and the Vulgate, he was 
of the firm conviction that this word should be 
rendered reign, and the text read, " Thy reign 
come." 
He then raised the inquiry, 
What is 
Christianity 1 Christianity is the life of a Chris-
tian—has its own facts, precepts and doctrines. 
I. Facts.—Faith rests on facts only; there are 
three upon which rests the Christian faith. 
1. 
Christ died for our sins. 
2. Was buried. 
3. Rose 
again the third day. 
II. Three precepts.—1. Believe. 
2. Repent. 
3. 
Be baptized. 
[This is the order in which he ar-
ranged them.] 
III. Three promises.—1. The remission of ple-
nary sin. 
2. The gift of the Holy Spirit. 
3. An 
inheritance incorruptible, etc.—a new heavens and 
a new earth. 
By the last expression, I inferred his views were 
somewhat in accordance with those of Adventists. 
But the kingdom, I was informed he understood 
to be the Christian Church. 
The subject he was 
to conclude the following evening, which I did not 
hear. 
Afterward called on the brethren in Lassalle and 
Dekalb counties, after which I took leave of this 
most interesting field, to return again to Vermont. 
Should time last, I may yet be permitted to enter 
these crying fields again. 
But should this never 
be, my most fervent prayer shall ascend to God to 
send more laborers into his fields. And too, espe-
cially for that man of God whose labors have 
been so signally blessed in the West, Elder S. 
Chapman. 
I formed an acquaintance with this 
beloved servant of God in Connecticut—his and 
my native state—and on account of whose Chris-
tian-like deportment and untiring zeal, there are 
few men whose acquaintance I am favored with, 
that I more highly esteem. 
May God keep him in 
this trying hour. 
Since my return to Addison we have been blessed 
with a refreshing from the Lord, the result of 
which has been some twenty, we trust, have been 
made to confess Jesus; a number of whom have 
already been baptized, and others we expect will 
go forward before long. 
Brother M. L. Bentley 
was with us during this series of meetings, and 
preached the word with muoh power. 
I have recently given a number of lectures in 
Brooksville, the result of which is a number, per-
haps some twenty, have for tlie first time confessed 
the faith, and others are inquiring. 
The Lord be 
praised ! 
I am glad our churches are waking up 
to the importance of revivals. 
The Lord grant 
this feeling may be universal. 
I am, yours, &c. 
P. B. MORGAN. 
Berean Cot, Feb. 20th, 1854. 
LETTER FROM JAMES P. MALLORY. 
" EXHORT one another daily, and so much the 
more as you see the day approaching." 
(Heb, 
10:25.) 
Dear brethren, seeing the mighty developments 
that are now making in the earth, I cannot refrain 
from exhorting you to watch unto prayer, and to 
gird on the whole armor of the Gospel. 
The signs 
are truly portentous. 
Yea, the world is big with 
events that tell for eternity. 
They tell the in-
habitants of the earth, that the long restrained 
wrath of an insulted God is about to be poured 
out without mixture upon the heads of a guilty 
generation. 
If such be the fact, my brethren, it 
should lead us to a se/f-examination. 
We should 
inquire of ourselves, have we " purified ourselves 
through a belief of the truth," and by obedience 
to the requirements of the gospel ? Do we live 
daily in the attitude of watchfulness that would 
entitle us to the approbation of " well done, thou 
good and faithful servant ?" 
I hope there is a 
people that will be unlike the antediluvian of old, 
who will be willing to receive the warnings of the 
faithful, and take heed to the signs of the times. 
Ihey could not be induced to believe the preach-
ing of righteous Noe, that the judgment of God 
was about to overwhelm them ; even when they 
saw the gathering clouds and gloom that enshroud-
ed creation, and the mighty thundering of Jehovah, 
from on high, that shook the foundation of earth 
beneath, they repented not, but sunk, as a just 
retribution, beneath the frown of an angry God. 
" So shall it be at the coming of the Son of man." 
Our Master, while upon the earth, taught the 
little household the importance of watchfulness. 
He told them he was going away; but, says he, I 
will not leave you comfortless. 
I will come to 
THE ADVENT 
HERALD. 
87 
you. 
Yea, " I will come again and receive you to 
myself, that where I am, there shall ye be also." 
" The Son of man is as a man taking a journey 
into a far country, who commanded the porter to 
watch, lest coming suddenly he find you sleeping." 
Watch therefore, " for what I say I say unto all, 
watch." 
He did not leave them here ; he gave them 
signs whereby they might know when his coming 
was near, " even at the doors." 
" There shall," 
says he, " be signs in the sun, and in the moon, 
and in the stars, and upon the earth distress of 
nations with perplexity, the sea and the waves 
roaring, men's hearts failing them for fear, and 
for looking after those things that are coming 
upon the earth, for the powers of the heavens 
s' all be shaken." 
(Luke 21:25, 26.) 
To tell 
then in what period of the world's history we 
live, let these signs be fixed upon our minds, 
while we glance over the present vacillating, un-
settled, and up-heaving commotions among the 
nations of the earth. 
The flames of discord are 
kindling east, west, north and south. 
The un-
clean spirits are going forth to the kings of the 
earth, to gather them together to the battle of the 
great day. 
" A noise," says Jehovah, " shall 
come even to the ends of the earth, for the Lord 
hath a controversy with the nations, he will plead 
with all flesh ; he will give them that are wicked 
to the sword, saith the Lord. 
Thus saith the Lord 
of hosts, Behold, evil shall go forth from nation to 
nation, and a great whirlwind shall be raised up 
from the coasts of the earth. 
And the slain of the 
Lord shall be at that day from one end of the earth 
even unto the other end of the earth: they shall 
not be lamented, neither gathered, nor buried; 
they shall be dung upon the ground." 
(Jer. 25 : 
31-33.) 
The " king of the North " has commenced his 
mighty onset against the " false prophet." 
The 
war-cry has gone to the ends of the earth. 
The 
lion power, the mistress of the seas, has caught 
the sound, and is roaring forth her mediation. 
But in vain; the " frog " power has fixed his 
eager eye upon the " beast," and is wire-working 
and plotting her destruction. 
Well may the poet 
exclaim— 
" We are living, we are dwelling, 
In a grand and awful time ; 
In an age on ages telling, 
To be living is sublime. 
Hark ! the waking up of nations, 
Gog and Magog to the fray ; 
Hark ! what soundeth ?—is creation 
Groaning for its latter day?" 
The revelator, in depicting these solemn scenes, 
in connection with the sounding of the seventh 
trump, says, " The nations were angry, and thy 
wrath is come, and the time of the dead, that they 
should be judged, and that thou shouldest give re-
ward unto thy servants the prophets, and to the 
saints, and them that fear thy name, small and 
great; and shouldest destroy them which destroy 
the earth." 
(Rev. (11:18.) 
Now in conclusion 
let me say, the Lord said, 
When ye see these 
things begin to come to pass, then look up, and 
lift up your heads, for your redemption draweth 
nigh." 
That that day may not come upon us un-
aware, let us diligently " take heed unto the sure 
word of prophecy." 
It will lead us the unerring 
way, and if faithful, will ere long place us beyond 
the tempest, where death cannot come, and sor-
row is unknown. 
But praise will be the song of 
the redeemed for ever and ever. 
Amen. 
I sub-
scribe myself a pilgrim, looking for that " blessed 
hope," and the glorious appearing of the great 
God, and our Saviour Jesus Christ. 
And that 
' 
11 
this hope may soon be realized by all that love his 
appearing, is my prayer. 
Amen. 
JAMES P. MALLORY. 
Cooperstoum (111.), Jan. 26th, 1854. 
EXTRACTS FROM LETTERS. 
BROTHER THEODORE F. BOYER writes from Harris-
burg (Pa.), Feb. 22d, 1854 :—" I feel thankful to 
my heavenly Father for the privilege of communi-
cating to you a few thoughts. 
It is truly encour-
aging to the weary pilgrim, while passing through 
this dreary earth, to know that this long night of 
toil will soon be past; that our redemption draw-
eth very nigh, when we shall be permitted to ' lay 
our armor by,' and enjoy a fulness of all that 
our blessed Head has promised to us in the new 
heavens and new earth wherein dwelleth righteous-
ness. 
I was glad to learn that your labors in Elk 
county and elsewhere, the last year, were not in 
vain. 
My prayer is that all your efforts to spread 
the news of a coming Saviour may be crowned with 
success. 
I am still' contending for the faith once 
delivered unto the saints,' or that blessed hope 
that cheered the hearts of all the good that have 
gone before us. 
Religion is at a low ebb in this 
place, wickedness seems to abound. All my friends 
unite in sending our love to you and to all that 
love the truth. 
I remain your friend and brother 
in Christ." 
Note.—Inquire about Bible. 
J. V. H. 
THE following is from the poor widow to whom 
the Herald was recently sent free, from this office, 
and for which several of our friends sent money to 
pay the subscription: 
" DEAR BRETHREN HIMES AND BLISS :—What shall 
I say to you to express my gratitude to you and 
others in your vicinity, and much more to a 
heavenly Father, for favors received by your kind-
ness and benevolence to a pilgrim and stranger in 
a strange land. 
A few weeks since I sat pensive 
and lonely, and among 
the many things that 
rushed into my mind was this, how highly privi-
leged were those who wer.e able to support their 
families and also to pay for a religious paper, es-
pecially in this day of peril and trial. 
I thought 
it would help very much to illumine one's path 
though this dreary wilderness. 
I had been accus-
tomed to paying my way in this world in dollars 
and cents. 
Provisions were very dear and rising, 
and my own health was fast giving way in conse-
quence of over exertion to support my family, in 
obedience to the injunction ' owe no man any-
thing.' 
Every ray of hope was cut off for the 
present of paying for a paper. 
It seemed like pre-
sumption to write for a paper without money ; but 
all at once I seemed to get strength, and said, I 
will write and risk the consequences. 
I wrote 
with a trembling hand and heart. 
I had never 
seen the Boston brethren, although my mind had 
often been refreshed by their communications in 
the Herald, in days that are past. 
I knew we 
had a rich Father, the earth was his store-house, 
and giving did not impoverish, nor withholding 
enrich. 
And brethren, after this long preamble 
you will please accept my thanks and gratitude 
for the receipt of your paper since the first of Jan. 
'54. 
They come to me richly laden. 
I assure you 
the tears fell fast while I read, and still read. 
I 
feel grateful to the contributors in my behalf in 
paying for the paper. 
May they with you be re-
warded a thousand fold in this life, and in that to 
come with ' everlasting life.' " 
BRO. T. BROWN writes from McConnell's Grove 
(Stephenson county, 111.), Feb. 17th 1854 :—" I 
inclose in this my mite, desiring you to send me 
some tracts, such as will be calculated to promote 
practical Christianity, and cause men to observe 
these' signs of the times.' 
My mite for the tracts, 
and the mite I send you to help you in your work, 
8 the fruit of a victory I have gained over a vice I 
fell into some twelve years since. 
That was the 
use of tobacco, which I have found by experience 
to be injurious to the health of body and mind, 
and which has also laid a tax on my resources, 
which, since I have been made the subject of God's 
saving grace, I have felt strongly convicted should 
be laid out in such a way as would promote the 
Gospel, instead of the violation of the laws of na-
ture and of God. 
And by being able to overcome 
the temptation I pray that God will ever hereafter 
so take the lead of my heart and mind, that I will 
give of my substance a portion equal to that which 
was necessary to satisfy the vice, for the promo-
tion of the truth and to supply the wants of the 
needy. 
" It is nine months since I and my family came 
to this Western country. 
Our object in coming 
here was to have a comfortable home, and to try 
in our weakness to cause some poor soul to become 
acquainted with those blessed truths which are 
the hope of the Christian, trusting that God would 
water the seed and it would spring forth and bring 
fruit unto everlasting life, and that we might re-
joice together in hope of a speedy deliverance. 
And also to enable the Lord's servants to proclaim 
the unsearchable riches of Christ to saint and sin-
ner. 
There are no Adventists in this neighborhood. 
Our prayer is to God for to send some of his faith-
ful servants into this field of labor.' And it will 
afford us much pleasure in aiding them in their 
labors of love. 
A brother in hope." 
BROTHER J. 
H. 
STEVENS writes from Loudon, 
Feb. 23d, 1854 :—" We are still striving to perse-
vere in the good cause of Christ. 
We have a little 
company of faithful brethren here, who stand fast 
in the liberty. 
We cannot say, as some do, that 
the Lord is coming this year ; our motto is, ' nigh 
even at the doors.' 
We think we should watch 
and be ready, and hope soon to see him, and be 
with him for ever. 
We hold meetings every Sab-
bath day and Thursday evening. 
We have no 
trials with any of our brethren in our little flock, 
all is love. 
Pray for us. 
Yours, in hope of soon 
meeting on that better land." 
BROTHER DAVIS GUILD writes from Holden, Feb. 
21st, 1854 :—" It is fourteen years I think, some-
time next month, since the first number of the 
Herald was issued. 
I well remember with what 
emotion of feeling I received it. 
My feelings are 
still the same, desiring the advancement of the 
cause it advocates. I believe it to be an instrument 
under the hand of God for the spread of his near 
coming and kingdom. 
It has an awakening influ-
ence on his people, and comforts his saints. 
It is, 
and has been, peculiarly guarded against strife, in 
respect to different views and sentiments, which 
have been so prevalent amongst some professed 
Adventists, and from that wild fanaticism which 
has, and does still exist among too many. 
I de-
sire that the Lord may still bless you and your 
coadjutors with wisdom,light, and understanding, 
and all necessary blessings, that you may continue 
to be a blessing to his church and the world." 
BROTHER J. L. CLAPP writes from| Homer, Feb. 
20th, 1854 :—" Our meetings are still interesting, 
and a good state of feeling exists. . Sinners are con-
victed that God is with us. 
Yesterday we had no 
preaching but our own, brother Gross being ab-
sent, yet we had a good congregation. 
Our prayer 
meeting in the evening was attended by more than 
four times as many as we could get together on a 
like occasion last winter. 
There have been some 
conversions here since our protracted 
meeting 
closed. 
Eleven have united with the church with-
in a few weeks, and more will soon. 
The work 
has been characterized by stillness and solemnity, 
and little that may be called enthusiasm. 
God 
grant that it may go on, and the saints exhibit 
more and more that firm unwavering reliance on 
God and his word, that characterized primitive 
saints. 
How good it is for brethren to dwell to-
gether in unity, even that unity which is the re-
sult of being united to Christ as the branch is to 
the vine. 
This we.need, to be prepared to meet 
the King, and ' see him in his beauty."' 
©bituartn 
' I am the resurrection and the life: he that believeth in me, 
though he were dead, yet shall he live: and whosoever liveth, and 
believeth in me, shall never die.''—JOHN 11: 25,26. 
DIED, in Loudon, N. H., Jan. 27th, of consump-
tion, Mrs. 
MELINDA, wife of Mr. 
CHARLES 
DEAR-
BORN, aged 39 years. 
She was a kind neighbor, 
and an industrious, laboring woman, but was in-
firm for several years. 
Funeral on the Sabbath 
following at the Advent chapel. 
Discourse by the 
writer, from Rev. 20:12. 
J. H. 
STEVENS. 
DIED, in Cambridge, Vt., Feb. 26th, 1854, sister 
MARTHA DAVIS, in the 56th year of her age. 
Her 
disease was consumption. 
Sister D. was a con-
sistent believer in the doctrine of the Second Ad-
vent. 
She was anxious to live to see the Lord 
come in the clouds of heaven ; but when she found 
it was otherwise determined, she submitted, and 
calmly fell asleep in Jesus, believing that God will 
bring her with him when he does come. 
She has 
left two brothers and three sisters to mourn their 
loss, and with them we all mourn, but not as those 
who have no hope, for we believe that God will 
bring her from the land of the enemy to her own 
borders. 
D. II. 
WATKINS. 
DIED, March 2d, at Derby Line, Vt., of a chro-
nic complaint, in the 41st year of her age, sister 
MARIA FOSTER, wife of brother Stephen Foster. Sis-
ter F. experienced religion in 1842, under the min-
istry of brother Columbus Greene, and ever since 
has been a devoted disciple of Jesus, a lover of 
God's word, and of all the truly humble. 
She 
was a great sufferer the last few days of her life, 
yet she bore all with great patience, and her dying 
words were, " Whether living or dying, I am the 
Lord's." 
She leaves a husband, son, father, mo-
ther, sister, and a large circle of other friends and 
relatives to mourn her loss. 
The house of brother 
and sister Foster has for a long time been a place 
of rest for the pilgrim, and especially for preach-
ers of the gospel. 
Her father and mother residing 
in the family, and devoted to the same blessed 
hope, none could fail of being interested in their 
society, and hence this bereavement is unusually 
painful to many. 
But we sorrow not as others 
that have no hope. 
i. H. S. 
FELL asleep in Jesus, in East Weare, N. H., 
Jan. 23d, 1854, sister H. ADELINE FARLEY, wife of 
brother Daniel Farley, and daughter of Elder Ben-
jamin and Mary Locke, aged 22 years. 
Her dis-
ease was a scrofulous humor, which had troubled 
her for almost three years, terminating in consump-
tion. Her sufferings were long and severe, but she 
bore them with patience. She experienced religion 
in 1842, and became a firm believer in the imme-
diate coming of Christ the second time, " without 
sin unto salvation," in which faith she remained 
until she died. 
She was a consistent disciple of 
Jesus, and all who knew her can testify that she 
faithfully warned them of the approaching judg-
ment. She has left a companion to mourn her loss, 
(with whom she had been united but six months,) 
together with parents, two sisters, and a brother. 
Although we feel her loss deeply, yet we sorrow 
not as those who have no hope; for we believe 
that ere long she will come forth from the grave, 
clothed with immortality. 
May we prove faithful 
to our Saviour, that in that bright resurrection 
morning wre may meet her, with all God's saints, 
to spend an endless day in praising our Redeemer. 
The funeral services were attended by brother T. 
M. Preble, who gave a comforting and instructive 
discourse from 1 Thess. 1:14. 
" Dearest sister, thou hast left us; 
Here thy loss we deeply feel; 
But 'tis God wrho hath bereft us, 
He can all our sorrows heal. 
" Yet again we hope to meet thee, 
When this night of death is fled, 
Then with joy we expect to greet thee, 
Where no farewell tear is shed." 
HARRIET M. LOCKE. 
AYER'S PIUS. 
For all the Purposes of a Family Physic. 
THERE has long existed a public demand for an effective purgative 
pill which could be relied on as sure and perfectly safe in its opera-
tion. This has been prepared to meet that demand, and an exten-
sive trial of its virtues has conclusively shown with what success it 
accomplishes the purpose designed. 
It is easy to make a physical 
pill, but not easy to make the best of all pills—one which should 
have none of the objections, but all the advantages, of every other. 
This has been attempted here, and with what success we would re-
spectfully submit to the public decision. It has been unfortunate 
for the patient hitherto, that almost every purgative medicine is acri-
monious and irritating to the bowels. This is not. Many of them 
produce so much griping pain and revulsion in the system as to 
more than counterbalance the good to be derived from them. These 
pills produce no irritation or pain, unless it arise from a previously-
existing obstruction or derangement in the bowels. Being purely 
vegetable, no harm can arise from their use in any quantity ; but it 
is better that any medicine should be taken judiciously. Minute di-
rections for their use in the several diseases to which they are appli-
cable are given on the box. Among the complaints which have been 
speedily cured by them, we may mention Liver Complaint, in its 
various forms of Jaundice, Indigestion, Languor and Loss of Appe-
tite, Listlessness, Irritability, Bilious Headache, Bilious Fever, Fe-
ver and Ague, Pain in the Side and Loins ; for, in truth, all these 
are but the consequence of diseased action in the liver. 
As an ape-
rient, they afford prompt and sure relief in Costiveness, Piles, Colic, 
Bysentery, Humors, Scrofula and Scurvy, Colds with soreness of the 
body, Ulcers and impurity of the blood ; in short, any and every 
case where a purgative is required. 
• 
They have also produced some singularly successful cures in 
Rheumatism, Gout, Bropsy, Gravel, Erysipelas, Palpitation of the 
Heart, Pains in the Back, Stomach, and Side. They should be freely 
taken in the spring of the year, to purify the blood and prepare the 
system for the change of seasons. An occasional dose stimulates 
the stomach and bowels into healthy action, and restores the appe-
tite and vigor. They purify the blood, and, by their stimulant ac-
tion on the circulatory system, renovate the strength of the body, 
and restore the wasted or diseased energies of the whole organism. 
Hence an occasional dQse is advantageous, even though no serious 
derangement exists ; but unnecessary dosing Bhould never be car-
ried too far, as every purgative medicine reduces the strength, when 
taken to excess. The thousand cases in which a physic is required 
cannot be enumerated here, but they suggest themselves to the rea-
son of everybody; and it is confidently believed this pill will an-
swer a better purpose than anything which has hitherto been availa-
ble to mankind. 
When their virtues are once known, the public 
will no longer doubt what remedy to employ when in need of a ca-
thartic medicine. 
Prepared by JAMES C. AYER, Practical and Analytical Chem-
ist, Lowell, Mass. Price, 25 cents per box ; five boxes for $1. 
Ayer's Cherry Pectoral, 
For the rapid cure of Coughs, Colds, Hmrseness, 
Bronchitis, Whooping-cough, Croup, 
Asthma, and Consumption. 
This remedy has won for itself such notoriety from its cures of ev 
ery variety of pulmonary disease, that it is entirely unnecessary to 
recount the evidences of its virtues in any community where it has 
been employed. So wide is the field of its usefulness, and so nu-
merous the cases of its cures, that almost every section of the coun-
try abounds in persons publicly known, who have been restored from 
alarming and even desperate diseases of the lungs by its use. When 
once tried, its superiority over every other medicine of its kind is 
too apparent to escape observation, and where its virtues are known, 
the public no longer hesitate what antidote to employ for the dis-
tressing and dangerous affections of the pulmonary organs which 
are incident to our climate. And not only in formidable attacks 
upon the lungs, but for the milder varieties of Colds, Coughs, 
Hoarseness, &c.; and for Children it is the pleasantest and safest 
medicine that can be obtained. 
As it has long been in constant use throughout this section, we 
need not do more than assure the people its qualtity is kept up to 
the best that it ever has been, and that the genuine article is sold by 
J. BARNF.T, Boston, and by all Bruggistseverywhere. 
[d. 10-6m. 
ValwAble Religious Reading. 
W
E have completed our arrangements for republishing from the 
latest London editions, the very valuable writings of the learned 
and eloquent minister of the Scotch National Church, at Crown 
Court, London, Rev. JOHN CUMMIN®, D. B. The first volume is 
now ready, and is entitled, 
U BENEDICTION, OR, THE BLESSED LIFE.1' 
A truly excellent contribution to our Religious Literature, as are 
all the writings of this distinguished man. This volume will be fol-
lowed by others at intervals of about four weeks. Each volume is 
complete in itself, and will be sold independently of others. The 
succeeding volumes will be published about as follows : 
" Scripture. 
Readings 
on Genesis." 
(March 1st.) 
" Voices 
of the Night." 
(April 1st) 
" Scripture 
Readings 
on Exodus(May 
1st.) 
*' Voices 
of the Day." 
(May.) 
" The 
Apocalyptic 
Sketchesand 
uScripture 
Readings 
on 
the New 
Testament, 
with the continuation of the Old Testament 
Readings, jrill follow immediately, together with other valuable 
works by uie same author. 
Br J. Ross Dix, the highly popular author of "Pen and Ink 
Sketches," thus describes this celebrated preacher and writer: 
" At the present time Br. Cumming is the great pulpit lion of Lon-
don, as Edward Irving was some twenty years Since. But very dif-
ferent is the doctor to that strange, wonderfully eloquent, but erratic 
man. There could not by possibility be a greater contrast. The one 
all fire, enthusiasm, and semi-madness ; the other, a man of chas-
tened energy and convincing calmness. The one, like a ineteor flash-
ing across a troubled sky, and then vanishing suddenly into the 
darkness; the other, like a silver star, shining serenely, and illumi-
nating our pathway with its steady ray." 
Published by JOHN P. JEWETT & CO-, Boston. 
JEWETT. 
PROCTOR & WORTHINGTON, Cleveland, Ohio. 
For sale by all booksellers. 
[f. 4-t.f. I 
SORE THROAT SPECIFIC.—This remedy for that troublesome and 
frequently dangerous and fatal disease, I have treed for some time 
with uniform success. In recent cases it effects a very speedy cure ; 
in older cases, it is more slow,, bat rarely fails. A package will be 
sent by mail, free of expense, to any part of the United States, for 
one dollar, 
forwarded to me postage paid. It is also a valuable 
remedy for liver complaint. Patients should state whether the sore 
throat is attended with cough, or any other complaint. 
J. LITCH, 45 North 11th street, Philadelphia 
THE ADVENT 
HERALD. 
Contents of this !Vo. 
MISCELLANEOUS. 
The Eastern Question 
• 81 
Greek Insurrection in Turkey 82 
Exegesis on Rom. 8 • 19-23... 82 
The Preparations for War .... 83 
Maxims of the Jesuits 
83 
Clairvoyance 
83 
A Story with a Moral 
83 
EDITORIAL. 
The Prophecy of Isaiah 
84 
The Kingdom of God ..... 
Waiting for Christ. . 
85 
My Journal 
CORRESPONDENCE. 
The Allemanui 
81 
The Bride of Christ 
85 
Types and Shadows 
86 
Definite Time 
86 
Letter from P. B. Morgan .... 86 
James P. Mallory 86 
Extracts from Letters— 
Theodore F. Boyer 
87 
A Poor Widow 
87 
T. Brown 
87 
J. II. Stevens 
87 
Davis Guild 
87 
J. L. Clapp 
87 
OBITUARY. 
Charles Dearborn 
87 
Martha Davis 
87 
Maria Foster 
87 
H. Adeline Farley 
87 
ADVENT HERALD. 
BOSTON, MARCH 18, 1854. 
TO AGENTS AND CORRESPONDENTS. 
1. In writing to this office, let everything of a business nature be 
put'on a part of the sheet by itself, or on a separate sheet, so as not 
to be mixed up with other matters. 
2. Orders for publications should be headed "Order," and the 
names and number of each work wanted should be specified on a 
line devoted to it. This will avoid confusion and mistakes. 
3. Communications for the Herald should be written with care, in 
a legible hand, carefully punctuated, and headed, "For the Herald. 
The°writing should not be crowded, nor the lines be too near to-
gether. When they are thus, they often cannot be read. Before 
being sent, they should be carefully re-read, and all superfluous 
words, tautological remarks, and disconnected and illogical sentences 
4. Everything of a private nature should be headed " 
Private." 
5. In sending names of new subscribers, or money for subscrip 
tions, let the name and Post-office address (i.e., the town, county, 
and state) be distinctly given. 
Between the name and the address, a comma (,) should always be 
inserted, that it may be seen what pertains to the name, and what to 
the address. 
, , 
, 
Where more than one subscriber is referred to, let the business of 
cach one constitute a paragraph by itself. 
6. Let everything be stated explicitly, and in as few words as will 
give a clear expression of the writer's meaning. 
By complying with these directions, we shall be saved much per. 
plexity, and not be obliged to read a mass of irrelevant matter to 
leain the wishes of our correspondents. 
IMPORTANT PUBLICATIONS. 
Memoir of William Miller—Containing 
many expo-
sitions of Scripture and illustrations of prophecy, 
relating to the personal coming of Christ and 
the millennium at hand. 
Price, in cloth, $1; 
gilt, $1,50. 
Postage, 19 cents. 
Commentary on the Apocalypse. By Sylvester Bliss. 
This is a valuable work to all seeking a knowl-
edge of the correct principles of interpretation, 
and calculated to expose many of the unsound 
views that are afloat at this time concerning the 
Apocalypse. Price, in cloth, 60 cents. Postage, 
12 cents. 
* 
The Inheritance of the Saints, or, the "World to 
Come. 
By H. F. Hill. 
This is a doctrinal and 
practical work, embracing twenty dissertations 
on the millennium, the true inheritance, the 
earth renewed, &c. 
The subjects are ably dis-
cussed, and the book has found its way pretty 
extensively among church members of all de-
nominations, turning many to the true faith and 
hope of the Lord's kingdom. 
Price, in cloth, 
$1 ; gilt, $1,37. 
Postage, 16 cents. 
Fassett s Discourses on the Jews and the Millennium. 
This work meets and refutes the Judaizing no-
tions advanced against the doctrine of the Lord's 
near coming, and overthrows the theory of a 
mixed race of mortals and immortals during the 
millennium, with sickness, sorrow, and death 
still existing on earth. 
Price; 33 cents. 
Post-
age, 5 cents. 
Benedictions, or the Blessed Life. 
By John Cum-
mind, D. D., F. R. S E., minister of the Scottish 
church, Crown Court, London. In this work are 
set forth the constituents of the blessed life, in 
harmony with the blessed hope. 
We are also 
shown, that the grace of God upon the heart 
will alone send forth a holy and happy influ-
ence, transforming and renewing, causing life's 
parched places to freshen, and its deserts to blos-
som like the rose. 
Every Adventist should pro-
cure this work. 
Price, 75 cts. Postage, 18 cts. 
land, containing a complete refutation of the 
popular notion concerning the millennium. 
$2 
per hundred ; 4 cents single. 
The Duty of Prayer and Watchfulness in prospect of 
the Lord's Coming. 
A very important work for 
Christians at this time. 
$2,50 per hundred ; 4 
cents single. 
First Principles of the Second Advent Faith. This 
tract is illustrated by copious scripture refer-
ences. 
$2,50 per hundred; 4 cents single. 
The Bible a Sufficient Creed. By Rev. Chas. Beecher. 
This tract clearly exhibits the proper use of 
creeds. 
Price, $2,50 per hundred ; 4 cts. single. 
Promises Concerning the Second Advent.—This lit-
tle work contains daily food for the soul. Price, 
50 cents per dozen ; 6 cents single. 
Phenomena of the Rapping Spirits.—This tract will 
be sent by mail, postage paid, at $3 per hundred, 
30 copies for $1, or 4 cents single. 
Eternal Home. By J. Litch. 
Price, $3 per hun-
dred ; 5 cents single. 
Tracts for the Times—Nos. 1, 2, 3—" Hope of the 
Church" — " Kingdom of God," and, 
"The 
Glory of God filling the Earth." 
Price, $1,50 
per hundred. 
Time of the Advent, or, What do the Adventists 
, Teach now on Time1! 
$1,50 per hundred. 
The Sainour Nigh—$1 per hundred. 
That Blessed Hope—$1 per hundred. 
Motives to Christian Duties in view of the Lord's 
Coming. $1 per hundred. 
Declaration of Principles. 50 cents per hundred. 
Kelso Tracts—Nos. 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6—" Do you go 
to the prayer-meeting?" 
" Grace and Glory," 
" Night, Day-break, and Clear-day," " The City 
of Refuge," "Sin our Worst Enemy, and God 
our Friend," " The Last Time." 
$1 per hun-
dred—comprising an equal number of each. 
Knowledge for Children—a package of twelve tracts 
Price, $1 per doz. packages; single package, 10 
cents. 
The postage on the above tracts is one cent each. 
MY JOURNAL. 
Advent Tracts (in two vols.)—Containing twenty-
one dissertations on nearly all the important 
subjects relating to the personal coming of Christ 
and the duties connected therewith. 
Price, 58 
cents. 
Postage, 8 cts. 
Morning of Joy. 
By H. Bonar. 
A work of prac-
tical and experimental teaching, in harmony 
with the Lord's speedy coming, "it is a work of 
rare merit, and suited to the present time.— 
Price, 40 cents. 
Postage, 8 cents. 
Night of Weeping, and, Story of Grace—By H. 
Bonar—These two works are of the same char-
acter and worth as the above. 
Price of each, 
30 cents. 
Postage, 7 cts. 
The Advent Harp—Containing 
about five hundred 
hymns on the Advent of our Saviour and kindred 
subjects, together with over two hundred pieces 
of choice music. 
This work has been warmly 
commended wherever used, and is regarded as 
the only Advent hymn book published. 
Price, 
60 cents. 
Postage, 9 cents. 
Hymns of the Hvrp (without the music)—New edi 
tions of both just out. 
Price, 37 1-2 cts. Post-
age, 6 cents. 
TRACTS. 
The World to Come—the Present Earth tQ be De 
stroyed by Fire at the End of the Gospel Age 
This tract contains a clear and strong argument 
$2 per hundred ; 3 cents single. 
Glorification. By Rev. Mourant Brock, a. A., of 
England. 
A sound and convincing illustration 
of the question. $2,50 per hundred ; 4 cts. single 
The Lord's Coming a Great Practical Doctrine. By 
the same author. 
This tract will commend the 
Advent doctrine to any candid reader. 
$2,50 
per hundred ; 4 cents single. 
The Second Advent Introductory to the World's Ju-
bilee. A Letter to the Rev. Dr. Raffles, of Eng-
OUR POSITION IN THE PROPHETIC CALENDAR. 
MANY calculations have been made concerning 
the time of our Saviour's advent, which have 
turned out erroneous. 
These failures have had 
a tendency to destroy the confidence of a large 
number in the computation of all propheth: times, 
and tO lead them to reject everything that may 
be associated with them. 
While our confidence in 
definite, or exact calculations of time, has been 
impaired by these attempts, our confidence in the 
near termination of the prophetic periods is not at 
all shaken. 
Our inability to make an exact calcu-
lation, does by no means imply that we cannot de 
termine when the end of the gospel dispensation 
is near its close. Our Saviour may come this year 
we can see nothing to hinder. 
We have no dis-
position to engage in a warfare with those who do 
rely on definite calculations; and if anything that 
we have said has led any one to think otherwise, 
we would simply say, that all that has been written 
in review of such calculations in the Herald, has 
been written at the request of those most interest-
ed in them. 
Without doubt, the coming of Christ is " nigh, 
even at the door." 
Those who cannot occupy this 
position, and at the same time lead a life of prayer 
and Watchfulness, would not be likely to do so by 
an excited belief in definite time. 
It will not be 
denied, that men may be very much excited on the 
subject of definite time, and yet not be particu-
larly distinguished for piety. 
Who does not see, 
that of all men in the world, those who believe in 
a definite point of time for the judgment should 
have pure hearts and hands ? While a simple be-
lief in time does not make a saint, a firm belief in 
the Lord's near coming, connected with a life of 
truth, honesty, and piety, will. This last position 
we can maintain without doubt or fear. 
Holding 
this, the Church can suffer no disappointment, or 
be cast down. 
We can fully adopt the words of 
Mr. Cunningham, of Scotland, a distinguished stu-
dent of prophecy, who remarks: 
" If we, who have watched every sign in the 
spiritual horizon for a long series of years, were 
now asked, ' Is any sign of his [Christ's] coming 
yet to be accomplished?' we should be constrained 
to answer, ' To our view, not one sign remains un-
accomplished ' 
If we were further asked, ' Shall 
he come this year?' our answer would be, 'We 
know not; but this much we know and believe, 
that he is at hand, even at the door.' " 
Also the words of Mr. John Cox, of England : 
" This, I conceive, is the next great event that 
we are now to look for. 
So far as I can discern, 
no further signs are to be expected, as it seems to 
me we have entered into that last period of awful 
expectation, during which the church is likened 
unto virgins." 
And we would add, in the words of Dr. Elliott: 
" ' Surely I come quickly.' 
God grant it may be 
our privilege, whether summoned to meet him by 
death, or by the brightness of his own personal ad-
vent, to be enabled each one to answer the sum-
mons with the inmost soul's welcome, ' Amen 
even so ! come, Lord Jesus.' 
AT HOME.—On arriving home, Dec. 28th, I found 
important duties to be attended to connected with 
the office, the church, and a new place of worship. 
My first business was to attend to the finances of the 
office. 
Large bills were to be met, and provision 
made for the publication of such new works as the 
cause demanded. 
Our patrons and subscribers 
have to some extent responded to their bills, there-
by enabling us to meet in part our own. 
But we 
are obliged to say, that while some have been 
prompt, many are still in arrears, rendering it im-
possible for us to meet the demands against the 
office, or to keep pace with the wants of the cause. 
To the calls for tracts, and for help in various 
ways, we have not been able to respond as we de-
sired. 
VVe have hesitated about making any state-
ment on this subject, or even to call publicly on 
those indebted for our dues. 
The year last past, 
has been one of much personal labor, being in the 
field and abroad nearly the whole time. 
We have 
visited Canada East and West, New York, New 
Jersey, and Pennsylvania, as tar as the Allegany 
Mountains; Western New York, Ohio, Michigan, 
Wisconsin, and Illinois. 
Our labors have been 
chiefly of a missionary character; and what we 
have received has not been adequate to our wants, 
yet we trust the cause has been somewhat aided 
by those labors. 
We are still in the field, and know 
no other interest, and hope to continue faithful, by 
God's grace, to the end. 
But we have need of 
help to carry out our plans of usefulness for the 
progress and health of the cause. 
We have no 
other financial claim than the just dues of the 
office ; but as we shall not realize many of these, 
we must trust in the future, as we have done in 
the past, Jehovah-Jireh—" The Lord will pro-
vide." 
(Gen. 22:14.) 
A new source of embarrassment has also come 
up of late. 
With the high price of provisions and 
rent, and an increased price for the paper on which 
the Herald is printed, and for book-making, our ex-
penses will be increased several hundred dollars a 
year ; and this, too, without being met by a cor-
responding increase in the subscription price of 
the Herald, or the cost of the publications of the 
office. 
But we do not wish to dwell on this sub-
ject. 
Those who are indebted to the office will, we 
trust, see the necessity of paying their just dues; 
and those whom God has prospered, and given an 
abundance, will have an opportunity of aiding a 
public servant who has ever, to the best of his 
ability, endeavored to be faithful. 
It remains to 
be seen, whether we shall be sustained, in connec-
tion with our faithful fellow-laborers, in our pecu-
liar work, in this time of trial. 
We acknowledge 
with gratitude the voluntary aid received of late 
from two or three friends, which will be devoted as 
they have directed. 
The next thing to which our attention was called 
was the church in Chardon-street, in which we need 
not say we have ever felt the most lively interest 
In all its misfortunes and trials, we have ever been 
able to say, "'If I forget thee, O Jerusalem, let my 
right hand forget her cunning. 
If I do not re-
member thee, let my tongue cleave to the roof of 
my mouth ; if I prefer not Jerusalem above my 
chief joy." 
This church was raised and nurtured 
by our toils and tears, through the grace of God. 
It has been one of the most faithful, liberal, and 
important churches to the Advent cause from the 
beginning ; and yet it has been one of the most 
unfortunate, in several of its pastors and leading 
men, who has fallen away from the cause, and 
each in turn have carried away a disaffected por-
tion. 
But still the little church remains, like a 
" spark in the midst of a tempestuous ocean." 
It 
still lives and shines, though in great weakness. 
Two things are now wanted to revive and build 
up this faithful flock. A place of worship in an 
eligible position, and a faithful pastor, who will 
care for the 
flock. 
These two things they are 
now making an effort to obtain. 
A lot has been obtained at the corner of Hud-
son and Kneeland-streets, near the Worcester De-
pot, on which an effort is to be made to put up a 
building, that will accommodate the society and 
the Herald office ; leaving the stores, forming the 
ground floor, to be rented, which will pay the in-
terest of the money required in the erection of the 
building. 
The enterprise is thought by good judges 
in such matters to be a feasible one, and if we suc-
ceed, it will, by God's blessing, place us in this 
city in a position of strength and usefulness we 
never before enjoyed. 
Our entire plan will soon 
be made known to our friends abroad, who take so 
deep an interest in all that concerns our welfare. 
During the months of January and February, we 
have preaehed mostly in Chardon-street on the 
Sabbath. Have also visited Worcester, Westboro', 
Salem, Lowell, Providence, and Lawrence, and 
preached many evenings. 
The churches in these 
places are doing well. 
Some of them are having 
revivals of much interest. 
And, indeed, a new in-
terest of life and fiealth is manifest in all the 
churches. 
The character of the preaching, and 
the general influence of our pastors are such as to 
give health and permanence. 
The fickle elements 
of society find no food, or congenial associations 
among us, as they once did. 
We have but few 
travelling preachers among us, and can supply 
but a Bmall part of the calls from abroad. 
It is 
still the prayer of our churches, that the Lord would 
raise up true, faithful, and efficient laborers. 
ELDER J. CUMMINGS, of Paine's Point, Ogle coun-
ty, 111., informs us of the happy and prosperous 
state of the cause in his field of labor. 
If it be 
practicable, we shall visit them as they request; 
but if not, some one else will who will do better. 
MANCHESTER, N. II.—I spend the last Sabbath 
with the church in this place. 
The chapel was 
filled. 
In the evening eight or ten rose for prayers. 
The church are much encouraged and revived. 
We 
are glad to learn that Elder Henry H. Eastman 
thinks to make them a visit of a few weeks soon. 
FOREIGN NEWS.—We have nothing since our last 
affecting the condition of things in Europe, up to 
the making up of our paper on Tuesday night. 
NOTICE.—Friends ordering tracts by mail, will 
remember that under the present law each tract, 
however small, has to pay a postage of one cent. 
Appointments, &c« 
ELDER HIMES will preach in Nashua, N. II., Saturday evening and 
Sunday, March 18th and 19th. 
At Newburyport, Wednesday evening, 22d. 
At Portsmouth, Thursday evening, 23d. 
At Kennebunk, Friday evening, 24th. 
At Portland, Sunday, 26th. 
N. BILLINGS will preach at Haverhill, Mass., 21st; Lowell, 24th ; 
Manchester, N. II., Sabbath, 26th, as brother Clement may ar-
range ; Lake Village, 28th ; North Haverhill, 29th; Peacham, 
Vt., 31st, as brother Wheeler may arrange; Cabot, Sabbath, April 
2d, as Elder Thurber may arrange; Calais, 4th—will Elder Davis 
make appointments as he may think best ? 
J. M. ORROCK will preach in Bristol, Vt., March 18th, and Sunday, 
19th ; Johnson, 22d ; South Troy, 23d ; West Derby, 24th ; Derby 
Line, 25th, and Sunday, 26th ; Outlet, C. E., April 2d ; Waterloo, 
8th, and Sunday, 9th. 
I. H. SHIPMAN will preach in Worcester, Mass., Sabbath, March 19th. 
BUSINESS DEPARTMENT. 
BUSINESS NOTES. 
C. B. Turner—You and brother Spencer were credited $1 each in 
March, 1853, to No. 638 ; but none was received at the time' you 
mention. 
J. C. Downing—A person of that name ordered his paper sent to 
the West, without saying where it then went; and we supposed 
it was brother S. French, of Lowell, and sent it accordingly. 
J. Cummings—Have credited $1 on Y. G.; $1 to A. A. Turner; 
and $8 on acc't. 
J. B. Knight—Your buoks will be delayed a few days, in order to 
procure all that you have ordered. 
G. W. Clement—Sent you books the 13th by Cheney & Co. 
Wm. T. Moore, $1—Book sent, and new subscriber entered as you 
dirocted, paid to 685. 
DELINQUENTS. 
It. ROTHWELL, of Great Falls, N. II., stops his paper, 
owing 
2 50 
THE 
ADVENT 
HERALD 
IS PUBLISHED EVERY SATURDAY 
AT NO. 8 CHARDON 
STREET, 
BO STOW 
(Nearly opposite the Revere House,) 
BY JOSHUA Y. HIMES. 
Trans.— $1 per semi annual volume, or $2 per year, in advance. 
$1.13 
do., 
or $2.25 per year,ai its close. 
$5 in advance will pay for six copies to one person ; and 
$10 will pay for thirteen copies. 
Single copy, 5 cts. 
To those who receive of agents, free of postage, it is $1.35 
for twenty-six numbers, or $2.60 per year. 
CANADA SUBSCRIBERS have to pre-pay the postage on their paperg, 
26 cts. a year, in addition to the above ; i. 
$1 will pay for twenty-
three numbers, or $2.25 a year. The same to all the Provinces. 
ENGLISH SUBSCRIBERS have to pre-pay 2 cts. postage on each copy, 
or $1.04 in addition to the $2, per year. 6s. sterling for six months, 
and 12s. a year, pays for the Herald and the American postage, which 
our English subscribers will pay to our agent, Richard Robertson, 
Esq., 89 Grange Road, Bermondsey, near London. 
POSTAGE.—The postage on the Herald, if pre-paid quarterly or 
yearly, at the office where it is received, will be 13 cents a year to 
any part of Massachusetts, and 26 cents to any other part of the 
United States. If not pre-paid, it will be half a cent a number in 
tha State, and one cent out of it. 
To Antigua, the postage is six cents a paper, or $3,12 a year. 
Will send the Herald therefor $5 a year, or $2,50 for six months. 
RECEIPTS. 
The No. appended to each name is that of the HERALD to which 
the money credited pays. No. 659 was the closing number of 
1853; No. 685 is to the end of the volume in June, 1854 ; and 
No. 711 is to the close of 1854. 
M.T. Currier, 704; Elder B. Locke, 685; S. Holmes, 694; G. 
Cutting, 679, and Y. G. to 96 ; O. F Cain, 716 ; J. Pratt, 694 ; A. 
A. Trimper, for book, all right; M. L. Dudley, 681; P. E. Reiuter, 
691; F. Calker, 694 ; J. Shelly, 690—only $1 enclosed—you said 
five ? W. E. Hitchcock, 691, and $2 on acc't; C. L. Salisbury, 694 ; 
I. Hyatt, 659 ; S. J. Dow, 694 ; R. R. liill, 685 ; J. S. Stone, 685 ; 
II. Woodbury, 685; M. Sweet, 685; C. Russell, 697; S. S. Jack-
man, 694—each $1. 
S. Shank, 685 ; Wm. Koile, 698 and tracts ; J. Cain, 669; J. T. 
Palmer, 659 ; T. Marshall, 690 ; A. Andrews, 704 and Y. G. ; C-
Marshall, 688 ; H. Bush, 600 ; J. Burnett, 720 ; J. McNilly, 720 ; 
B. Morley,on acc't; Mrs. E. Wallace, 710; N. Howe, 716 j V. R. 
Leonard, on acc't—each $2. 
N. W. Spencer, on acc't, and Y. G.; Vt. Wilson,676 and book ; 3. 
T. Home, 705-; P. V. West, to balance acc't, and tracts; J. Whit-
more, 685 ; G. Book, and postage, 720 ; R. Polly, 729, and Y. O. to 
96 v J. 
Clapp, sabs, for Y. G. to 96 ; O. W. liurnham, on acc't— 
each 83. 
J-T. Lantng,on acc't—$13. A. A. Rathburn, 669—$2,7&. N. 
Luther, 670—$2,25. S. Greeley, 659—$1,25. Wm. Winn, 659— 
$3,77. J. B. Larrabee, (book sent,)—$1,20. Dr. F. A. Cutter, (nine 
copies,) 685—$8. L. Allen, 711—$1,50. N. Smith, 682—50 cts.