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may be good, and not be satisfied simply with 
doing good ; that God's way may be known up-
on earth, His saving health among all nations. 
Not that we may organize missionary societies, 
not that we may preach and speak, is our 
prayer, however important these are, but that 
God will be merciful unto us,and bless us; and 
cause His face to shine upon us ; that His way 
may be known upon earth. It is here assumed 
that the instant a man is made a Christian, his 
life is beneficially operative and influential. I 
need not tell you that there are just two influ-
ences that men exert—the voluntary and de-
signed influence, which may proceed from 
twenty different motives ; and secondly, the in-
voluntary or insensible influence, which goes 
forth from every look and action, as really as 
the blood circulates from every pulse of the 
heart. Now, this last influence is that which 
is alluded to here. What we purposely do is 
not so effective as what we unconsciously do. 
What we undertake to do may be misconstrued 
as proceeding from a wrong motive ; but what 
we undesignedly do is regarded as the real ex-
ponent of our character. 1 believe that what 
we are is far more important than what we do. 
What we are is far more influential in the face 
of mankind than what we attempt. Then, to 
be Christians first, is the greatest contribution 
we can make to the Missionary Society. Our 
sovereign is a poor contribution ; our donation, 
when most munificent, is paltry ; but the con;: 
tribution of our own personal influence has 
power, has action. It is true that our insensi-
ble influence, as I have ventured to speak of it, 
does not make speeches ; it does not let the left 
hand know what the right hand does—there is 
no bustle or stir about it ; but it is not the less 
strong or the less operative on that account. In 
fact, the most powerful forces are the most si-
lent, and the least powerful forces are the most 
noisy. We speak of the thunder and the light-
ning being powerful. So they are ; but there
is a power mightier still. Gravitation holds the 
orbs of the sky, and the atoms of the earth, all 
in their places; and if that mysterious power 
were to relax its grasp, the orbs of the sky, and 
the atoms of the earth, would explode, and fly 
asunder, and there would be universal ruin ; 
yet it is not heard. The thunder and the light-
ning are powerful, but there is another thing 
mightier still :—the light from heaven,—that 
light that comes down from the sun, traversing 
an enormous distance in a few seconds, that 
falls so gently on the infant's eye that it does 
not in the least disturb its delicate and exquisite 
organization ; and yet it has such power that. 
it clothes the earth with one joyous burst of 
flower, and fruit.—(To be continued. 
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ADDRESS TO WEALTH-GATHERERS. 
Why dost thou heap up wealth, which thou must quit, 
Or what is worse, be left by it ? 
Why dost thou load thyself; when thou'rt to fly, 
O man ordained to the ? 
Why dost thou build up stately rooms on high, 
Thou who art underground to lie ? 
Thou sowest and plantest, but no butt must see, 
For Death, alas! is sowing thee. 
Thou dost thyself wise and industrious deem ; 
A eighty husband* thou wouldst seem ; 
Fond man ! like a bought slave, thou all the while 
Dolt but for others sweat and toil. 
Officious fool! thou needs must meddling lie 
to business that concerns not thee! 
For when to future years thou extend'st thy cares, 
Thou deal'st in other men's affairs. 
Even aged men, as if they truly were 
Children again, for age prepare ; 
Provisions for long travel they design, 
In the last potat of their short line. 
Wisely the ant against poor winter hoards 
The stock which summer's wealth affords; 
In grasshoppers, who must in autumn die, 
How vain were such an industry! 
Of power and honor the deceitful light 
Might half excuse our cheated sight, 
If it of lite the whole small time would stay, 
And be our sunshine all the day— 
Like lightning that, begot but in a dont!, 
(Though shining bright and speaking booth) 
Whilst it begins, concludes its violent race, 
And where it gilds, it wounds the place. 
O scene of fortune, which dost fair appear 
Only to wen that stand not hear ; 
Proud poverty, that tinsel bravery wears, 
And, like a rainbow, painted tears! 
Be prudent, and the shore in prospect keep ; 
In a weak boat trust not the deep; 
Placed beneath envy, above eliv)ing rise; 
Pity great men, great things despise. 
The wise example of the heavenly lark, 
Thy fellow-poet, Cowley, mark ; 
Above the clouds let thy proud music sound, 
Thy humble nest build on the ground. 
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BY TOE REV. JOHN CUMMING. D. D. 
from the Fountain of life, which would be traced, 
not by stormy waves, not by cataracts and 
eddies, but by a belt of verdure and of beauty 
along its channel and on its banks, and the faith-
fulness with which it reflected village spires 
and the hamlet homes, and palaces and towers 
of great capitals. The feeling would be deep, 
the change would be real, the transformation 
would be complete ; while noise, violence, ex-
travagance, fanaticism, would be far greater 
strangers to it than to the world itself. Thus 
we will pray that God will be merciful to the 
whole Church, and bless her; and cause his 
face to shine upon her. 
In the next place, we should pray that God 
will be merciful to, and bless our Universities : 
that thus God's way may be known upon earth, 
and his saving health among all nations. I 
fear we often forget this. In Scotland, I know 
I never heard a prayer in the congregation 
which did not include the universities of the 
country. It is often forgotten here. Yet what, 
alas ! have been the teeming fountains of su-
perstition lately ? and where is there any other 
source of gigantic power to be compared with 
some of these great schools of learning ? We 
pray for their inspiration, not ruin. Who does 
not feel in the present day, that there never was 
more needed a highly educated and instructed 
ministry? *The result which one dreads, is that 
the pulpit will lag behind the age. Why does 
a bookseller tell you that the drug in his ware-
house is a sermon ? Because the parliament, 
and the press, and the other professions, are 
monopolizing talent; and some are found think-
ing, that, because the Spirit of God, and a 
change of heart, are essential to a true minis-
try, that, therefore, there need not be a highly 
educated and instructed ministry. The apos-
tles were some of them fishermen ; yet Luke 
the Evangelist was a most excellent scholar. 
The Gospel of Luke is mostly written in the 
most classical Greek. St. Paul was a master-
spirit of his day, accomplished in the learning 
of his own conntry, and of other countries. Still, 
let us remember that no knowledge of the clas-
sics, no acquaintance with science, no lofty dis-
tinction in mathematics, no thorough knowledge 
of all secular subjects, is alone a qualification, 
or even the main qualification, for being a min-
ister of the Gospel. The Holy Spirit alone can 
create a minister. Hence, if mere secular 
knowledge be required to be taught in our uni• 
versities, and no Christianity, arid no prayer 
enjoined, what has taken place in Germany will 
occur here—Hindoos, Socinians, Roman Catho-
lics, will occupy chairs in any one of the uni-
versities, and the results will be most disas-
trous. In 1848, German universities were the 
foci of revolution, of anarchy, and of disloyalty. 
When Christianity is expelled from the univer-
sities of a country, and theirchairs are not filled 
by religious men, we shall soon find that phe-
nomena will become the gods of the place, 
mathematics the articles of faith, and distorted 
science its creed. So long as there is no reli-
gion taught in our universities, nor living reli-
gious and Christian men required to teach it, so 
long our students will see indeed the successive 
links of that great chain a few of which are de-
posited in the Crystal Palace, and they will ad-
mire the beauty of each link, and trace its con-
nexion with its neighbor; but, unless they get 
the light of God, they will not see that the no-
ble chain has the staple that holds it, fixed to 
the throne of Deity. There must, then, not 
only be secular knowledge, which is power, but 
there must be Christian knowledge, which is 
life and peace. Let us by all means learn the 
wisdom of Solomon ; but let us learn, first and 
chiefest, the wisdom of Christ. Do riot let us 
go through Solomon to Christ—through science 
to Christianity ; but through Christ to Solomon 
—through Christianity to science. Both are 
Divine—the knowledge of Solomon, and the 
knowledge of Christ—both are necessary, both 
should be taught ; but what we protest against 
is, the separation and the dislocation of the one 
from the other. I do hope that no law will 
pass, as far as our National colleges are con-
cerned, renderingit possible for an infidel or 
tractarian or Romanist to teach languages, liter-
ature, or science in them : for, commit science 
or literature to the hands of the infidel and the 
Romanist, and theological chairs will be of no 
avail in counteracting the mischief that is done 
before they are reached. 
In the next place, let us pray that God will 
be merciful unto, and bless, and cause His face 
to shine upon the very humblest schools in our 
land, wherever they are, and by whatever name 
they are known. In these schools we must 
seek first the kingdom of God. A school is ei-
ther a spring that will refresh and invigorate, 
or it is the salt water that will destroy the very 
roots of our social prosperity and happiness. I 
believe, that the infant-school, which is made 
by some a plaything, is at least as important as 
one of our great colleges. The circumnaviga-
tor of the globe is not so much influenced by 
what he has seen and heard, as the ragged boy 
by his teacher's early and impressive lessons. 
The words that are spoken in the family to 
children, or in a school by a teacher, are like 
words spoken in a whispering-gallery, or like 
voices in the gorges of the mountains—they 
will be repeated for years to come in reverbera-
tions ; and the teacher's first lesson will see it- 
self re-produced when the child is covered with 
grey hairs, and with one foot in and the other 
outside the grave. If it be a solemn thing to 
preach, it is a solemn thing to teach. If the 
sanctuary be a place where great responsibili-
ties are, the school is not less so. * * We 
may depend upon it, the maintenance of Chris-
... 
tian teachers in our schools is a most vital 
thing. Let u.s then pray that on our schools, 
and on our universities, God's blessing may de-
scend ; and that He will be merciful to these 
and cause His face to shine upon these ; that 
His way may be known upon earth, His saving 
health among all nations. 
I would next say, that we ought to pray this 
prayer, and pray it fervently : that on the Press 
of our country God's blessing and mercy may 
descend ; that His saving health may thus be 
known among all nations. I believe the most 
gigantic power in our country is the public 
press. If an Apostle were living, lie would try 
to wield it for his Master's glory, and for the 
winning of precious souls. This does not ex-
cuse those who take their articles of faith from 
the newspaper, more than from the Word of 
God itself ; or others, who used to pride them-
selves of old upon splendid furniture, and now 
pride themselves upon newspaper reputation 
and renown. * * * It is one of the great 
mistakes of the age, that politics and literature 
should appear here, and religion be kept there. 
They ought never to be separated. The one 
ought to sustain the other. The life and the 
nutriment of the first should he the last. Reli-
gion should give strength and beauty to litera-
ture. If foreigners then see that we have 
newspapers, as I hope they will, not dependent 
upon vicious tastes,—upon silly romances,—
upon idle gossip,—upon stories about probable 
revolutions ; but upon their high moral tone,—
upon their pure and chaste writing,—upon their 
manly arid vigorous sentiments,—upon the 
Christian principle that runs through them : 
then they will believe that our Protestant reli-
gion is not a dead thing, nor an inoperative 
thing. They will see it, I trust, ruling in our 
families, the glory of them ; shining in our uni-
versities, the beauty of them ; and in the col-
umns of the newspaper press, giving tone, and 
character, and force, and excellence to them 
also. Let us then pray—why should we not 
pray ?—that on the press of our country there 
may descend a Christian influence. It is a fact, 
that wherever the press exists, it has power; 
and wherever there is great power, let us pray 
that there may be also great grace to regulate 
it. Who can tell the terrible result if the press, 
possessed of a giant's power, were to have infi-
del or atheistic hearts and hands to wield it ? 
Let us, therefore, pray that, in all its depart-
ments, the powerful press of this country may 
be blessed. 
Let me now state what is the summary and 
substance of this prayer is, in fact, that we 
The New Antagonism in Europe. 
It would be strange were a war to be kindled 
in Europe between two despotic, yet antagonis-
tic, principles of government. The thing ap-
pears incredible, yet there are strong symp-
toms and preludes it. These two principles are, 
the one of them divine hereditary right, and the 
other the right by universal suffrage. What 
divine right means, what it pretends to, and 
how it wields its power, we know pretty well. 
But until lately the world was totally ignorant 
of the purposes to which universal suffrage, 
might be turned, and the character it might as-
sume. Hitherto one had no example or experi-
ence of it save in the United States. The ex-
periment has now been tried in older countries, 
And the result is, than an executive chosen by 
universal suffrage may differ in spirit, aim, and 
interest, from a legislature chosen by the same 
universal suffrage ; and that, the one having the 
same basis as the other, but a more concen-
trated and personal right, can in difficult times 
aim at and establish a permanent dictatorship, 
to which universal suffrage can be got, in per-
plexity, in terror, or in ignorance, to lend its 
sanction. In other words universal suffrage has 
become for the first time known to the world, as 
a despotic principle. 
It happens, however, for the future freedom of 
" God be merciful unto us, and bless us ; and cause 
his face to shine upon us; that thy way may be known 
upon earth, thy saving health among all nations."—
Psa. 67:1, 2. 
(Continued from our last.) 
The Holy Spirit is not the lion or the tiger, 
but the dove. The voice of Jesus is not the 
thunder of Sinai, but the still small voice. And 
whenever that Spirit shall come down upon us, 
and this blessing shall come to us all, there will 
be no upsetting of duties, no rupture of earthly 
relationships. The descent of the Spirit of God 
will not stop one single railway, except, it may 
be, on Sunday, nor put an end to one single 
daily newspaper, nor shut one shop, nor make a 
tradesrnan less obliging, nor a merchant less 
anxious to pre-occupy the market. It will in-
terfere with nothing in itself essential to the 
constitution and the existence of society. The 
grace of God is not licence to leave society, but 
power - to go into it, and transform it. The 
grace of God sends its subjects into every sphere 
into which man should enter ; and in that 
sphere, to let their light so shine, that others, 
seaing their good works, may glorify their Fa 
ther which is in heaven. And were that Spirit 
to descend upon us all, and a sublime and lofty 
Christian character to be reflected from all our 
lives, then would the strangers from the ends of 
the earth see that the highest dignity of the 
man cannot exist, unless there be a basis for it 
in the grandeur and the glory of the saint. 
Were this blessing to descend upon us all, then 
along the little by-paths of individual life sweet 
streamlets would perpetually flow; along the 
broad and high roads of public life great rivers 
would run ; and all would blend in one grand 
stream,—one broad and deep Christian river 
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mankind, that this new and formidable despotic 
principle is not found to ally or harmonize with 
the old despotic principle of hereditary right, 
Could they but agree, they have only to divide 
Europe betwixt them. But there is antagonism. 
Louis Napoleon, although as absolute as the 
czar, and militarily absolute like him, is still not 
accepted by the czar as a brother. There is a 
dread, a mistrust, a repugnance. Louis Napo-
leon elected by the French people, is, although 
keeping down the French people, still suspected 
of being the agent and representative of French 
popular interests and national prejudices. The 
French when free, had the pretension of liberal-
izing, emancipating, and dominating Europe; 
and though M. Bonaparte has contracted their 
freedom, and choked the expression of their sen-
timents, he still can live and reign but by the 
adhesion of the popular and military masses. 
For he has no grace of God to fall back upon. 
Therefore the czar repudiates him. It is not 
merely because M. Bonaparte is likely to give 
reins to military ambition, and to be driven to 
disturb the peace of Europe for the selfish pur-
pose of acquiring name, fame, and the soldier's 
following, that Russia holds aloof from him. 
But it is considered the French Autocrat's reign 
is the embodiment of that predominance of the 
lower and uneducated classes over the higher 
and educated ones, which is the great French 
revolutionary principle. The Maupas, the Abat-
tuccis, and the Persignys, now rule in the place 
of the Moles, the Guizots, and the Thierses. 
The popular instinct is in the cabinet, an in-
stinct not the less dangerous for wielding a des-
potic sceptre. The Russian court, therefore, 
forbidding M. Kisselef to appear at the recent 
fetes of the French President, and protesting 
against any assumption of the imperial crown, 
sends its princes to compliment the Count de 
Chambord, and to treat the pretender to the 
crown of France with Royal honors. Some di-
plomatic complaint is made of this from Paris ; 
and the heir to the Russian throne, who had 
thus honored the Bourbon heir to the French 
one, is compelled to abandon his project of vis-
iting Rome whilst in the occupation of a French 
army. 
Previous to this, it had been the cue and the 
habit of the French Legitimists to support the 
President, at least as de facto ruler, and as one 
who had not ill deserved of the ultra-monarch-
ists. The relations of Louis Napoleon and the 
great legitimists had been those of coquetry, af- 
fection, and mutual respect. Whilst Orleanists 
and Republican plotters were proscribed and ex- 
iled without mercy, M. Berryer was allowed to 
say what he pleased, the legitimist journals 
were not suppressed and persecuted, whilst Or- 
leanist prints and writers were. This now has 
ceased. The Count de Chambord has issued 
this decree that no French royalist shall take 
the oath of fidelity to the President even for his 
ten years of presidential rule. The Bourbon 
prince denounced universal suffrage, to which 
at one time he himself, the pretender, had 
promised to appeal. The schism between Le-
gitimacy and Imperialism is complete. 
It is worthy of remark, that neither Russia 
nor the Bourbon made this move until they had 
made sure of Austria. Of its adhesion they 
were by no means certain in the days of Prince 
Schwarzenberg, who hated England and con-
stitutional government and Prussia so much, 
that he was ready to ally with any principle or 
prince of military despotism that would serve 
as instruments to annoy or destroy them. For-
tune has now taken the young and flexible Aus-
trian emperor from out the hands of Schwar-
zenberg, and placed him in the hands of Nicho-
las. And thus the bonds of the Holy Alliance 
are once more re-knit. 
No one can regret that there has sprung up 
a counterpoise and a barrier to the ambition of 
Louis Napoleon. But at the same time it can-
not but create anxiety to see the despotic and 
reactionary party growing more bigoted, rather 
than more liberal, by the passage of years. In 
1815 the absolute powers and courts of Europe, 
though repudiating constitutional government 
for themselves, did not proscribe it altogether. 
It was admitted into Poland and in Germany, 
and thought necessary in France. But now it 
is to be doubted if the Count de Chambord 
would octroy any constitution, or be inclined to 
grant much more ample liberties than what 
seem to content the French under Louis Napo-
leon. The belief that prevails in those councils 
generally, is, that Europe, in fact, has ceased to 
believe in constitutional government, Great 
court statesmen deem themselves entitled to 
pronounce, that the experiment has failed every-
where save in England, and ought not to be 
tried and repeated elsewhere. So we see consti-
tutional systems destroyed, arid for no reason 
whatever, in Prussia and in Spain. 
But this sweeping away of middle class liber-
ties, institutions, influence, and ideas, does not 
leave the two great extremes of society, democ-
racy and absolutism, in power. It is universal 
suffrage on one side, divine right on the other. 
It is the old antagonism of Eastern and Wes-
tern Europe, marshaling against and menacing 
each other. Such is the new aspect of affairs 
in Europe. It is pleasing to think how disin-
terested we are in such a quarrel. Repudiat-
ing alike the despotism based on hereditary 
right, and that raised upon universal military 
suffrage, we can but rejoice without joining, in 
their antagonism. We care not which gains 
the ascendancy ; but merely hope that in the 
collision of the two great incubi, the two princi-
ples and powers that oppress Europe, the force 
of both may be broken, so that the constitutional 
principle may once more raise its head betwixt 
and despite of them, and give the enlightened 
and the middle class once more their ascendancy 
over selfish and blind extremes. London Examiner. 
(For the Herald.) 
Sketches of Travel. 
No XXVI.—THE ROMAN FORUM. 
Between the Capitoline and the Palatine 
there is a small irregular space, which has been 
raised by the accumulation of soil from fifteen 
to twenty feet above the ancient level. Its mod-
ern name is the Campo Vaccino, or "cattle-field," 
from the use that has been made of it for several 
centuries past. Somewhere within this hollow 
lay the Roman Forum, but its precise locality 
and true boundaries have been the subject of 
much controversy for the last three hundred 
years. Recent discoveries, however, have satis-
factorily determined its principal land-marks. 
It was between the Capitol on the west and 
the Arch of Titus on the east—about 630 feet 
in length, and from 100 to 110 in breadth. At 
the eastern and narrowest extremity, about a 
third of the space was separated from the rest 
by a branch of the Via Sacra. This small por-
tion constituted the Comitium, a place of public 
assemblies. The Lacus Curtius — the gulf 
which suddenly opened in the Forum, into 
which the heroic youth Marcus Curtius leaped, 
in order that it might he closed,—is supposed 
to have occupied the centre of the hollow. 
On the slope of the Capitoline hill is a mas-
sive wall of peperino (a kind of volcanic rock), 
a fragment of ancient Roman masonry, which 
now forms the substruction of the modern pris-
ons. Upon it are the remains of Doric col-
umns and an architrave belonging to the ancient 
Tabularium, or Record Office. 
At the base of the hill are fragments of three 
temples. The three fluted columns in the Co-
rinthian style belonged to the Temple of Saturn. 
This point was settled by the recent discovery 
of the Milliarium Annum, or golden mile-stone 
Augustus, at its base, which, as we know from 
numerous classical authorities, stood immedi-
ately below the Temple of Saturn. 
On the left is a portico, with eight granite 
columns, which is supposed to have been the 
Temple of Vespasian. On the right, behind the 
three columns, partly covered by the modern 
ascent and by fragments of marble, is a massive 
basement, proved by inscriptions to have be-
longed to the Temple of Concord, erected in the 
time of Augustus. 
In front of this ruin stands the Arch of Sep-
timius Severus, which makes the north-west an-
gle of the Forum. This was erected A. D. 205, 
by the Senate and people, in honor of the Em-
peror arid his sons Caracalla and Geta, to com-
memorate their conquests of the Parthians and 
Persians. On the summit there formerly stood 
a car, drawn by six horses abreast, and contain-
ing the figures of the Emperor and his sons. 
Each front has a series of bas-reliefs, represent-
ing different events of the Oriental wars. In 
one of the piers is a stair-case of fifty steps lead-
ing to the top. The soil in which the Arch 
was half buried, has been excavated so as to lay 
bare the ancient pavement of the Elivus Asyli, 
by which the triumphal processions passed from 
the Forum to the Capitol. 
Along the left side of the Forum the line of 
the modern road is supposed to mark the posi-
tion of the' nova tabernce," the porticoes and 
shops of the traders. At the eastern end is the 
Temple of Antoninus and Faustina, now the 
church of St. Lorenzo in Miranda. The in-
scriptions show it to have been the temple dedi-
cated by the Senate to Faustina, the wife of An-
toninus Pius, and afterwards also to Antoninus 
himself. It consists of a portico of ten Corin-
thian columns, six in front and two returned on 
the flanks. The columns are beautifully pro-
portioned, and the frieze and cornice are exqui-
sitely sculptured with griffins, vases, and cande-
labra. 
On the other side of the Forum, beginning 
from the Portico of Vespasian, we notice first 
the single column, called by Lord Byron 
" The nameless column with a buried base." 
It is no longer nameless ; for in 1813 it was 
excavated to the base, and an inscription found 
proving it to be the Column of Phocas, and re-
cording that a gilt statue of that Emperor was 
placed upon it by the Exarch Smaragdus, A. D. 
608, 
Farther east are three fluted columns of Greek 
marble, which have been long regarded as mod-
els of the Corinthian style, supposed to be the 
remains of the Temple of Minerva Ckalcidica, 
built by Augustus. The mass of brick work be-
hind the church of St. Maria Liberatrice, is sup-
posed to be the remains of the magnificent Cu-
ria Julia, or new Senate-house, erected by Au-
gustus. Farther back, the church of San Te-
odois is supposed to mark the site of the Tem-
ple of Romulus. Along the line from the Por-
tico of Vespasian to this spot, were the " veteres 
taberna," or shops which Tarquinius Priscus 
allowed to be erected in the Forum, and where 
Virginius bought the knife that saved the honor 
of his daughter. 
Entering on the Via Sacra, we notice a small 
circular building on the left, now used as a ves-
tibule to a church, which is supposed to have 
been the .Edes Penatium. Next is the im-
mense ruin of the Basilica of Constantine. Close 
by is the Arch of Titus, erected in commemora-
tion of the conquest of Jerusalem, the most beau-
tiful of .all the Roman arches. The Via Sacra 
is supposed to have passed under the Arch of 
Titus to the Meta Sudans, in front of the Co-
liseum. 
PALACE OF THE CJESARS. 
One fine evening just before sunset, we paid 
a visit to the ruins of the Cmsars' Palace on 
the Palatine hill. Through a private house we 
obtained admission to a vineyard on the hill-side, 
at the further end of which appeared huge mass- 
es of brick-work in the form of arches, and cor-
ridors, and vaults, clothed with ivy and creeping 
plants, and diversified by laurels and ilex, Rude 
steps conduct to the summit, from which we had 
a fine view, and made out the seven hills of 
Rome. We were standing on the PALATINE, 
the seat of the earliest settlement in Rome, cov- 
ered with the ruins of the Palace of the Cmsais, 
in the midst of gardens and vineyards, the soil 
of which is composed of crumbled fragments of 
masonry, in many parts to a depth of twenty 
feet above the original surface. Here were the 
houses of Cicero, Hortensius, and Clodius. Here 
Augustus erected his palace ; Tiberius enlarged 
it ; Caligula • and Nero still farther ; and it 
was repeatedly re-built and altered by succeed 
ing Emperors. 
The CAPITOLINE hill is north of us. There was 
the great Temple of Jupiter Capitolinus, and the 
Citadel, and the Tarpeian Rock. 
On the east are the QUIRINAL and the VIM-
NAL. The ESQUILINE and CORLIAN On the south, 
and the AVENTINE on the west. 
Below us on the west is the CIRCUS MAXIMUS, 
the scene of the Sabine rape. It was founded 
by Tarquinius Priscus, and rebuilt with unusual 
splendor by Julius Caesar. The number of seats 
was not less than 200,000. 
Towards the south-west are the BATHS OF 
CARACALLA arid blue mountains, and the sea in 
the distance. 
We left the Palatine, and proceeded on our 
way to the Baths of Caracalla, under the eastern 
slope of the Aventine. These are the most per-
fect of all the Roman baths, and e,scept the Co-
liseum, are the most extensive ruins in Rome. 
They occupy an area not less than a mile in 
circuit. 'The external wall encloses a quadri-
lateral open area, of which the baths occupied 
nearly the centre. The mass of central ruins is 
six hundred and ninety feet long and four hun-
dred and fifty broad. It comprises a multitude 
of passages, chambers, halls, 'porticoes, with 
vaulted ceilings, fragments of mosaic pave-
ments, remains of aqueducts, and reservoirs, 
and conduits. Most of the walls have been 
stripped of their marble coating, and reduced to 
masses of brick-work. These baths have fur-
nished some of the finest specimens of ancient 
sculpture which now adorn the repositories of 
art—such as the Farnese Hercules, the colossal 
Flora, and the Toro Farnese, in the museum at 
Naples ; and the 'Torso Belvidere, the Atreus 
and Thyestes, the two Gladiators, and the Ve-
nus Callipyge, of the Vatican, with numerous 
bas-reliefs, cameos, bronzes, medals, and other 
treasures. 
These ruins were the favorite haunt of the 
poet Shelley. In the preface to the " Prome-
theus Unbound " he says: " This poem was 
chiefly written upon the mountainous ruins of 
the Baths of Caracalla, among the flowery 
glades and thickets of odoriferous blossoming 
trees, which are extended in ever-winding laby-
rinths upon its immense platforms and dizzy 
arches suspended in the air." 
Thence we proceeded to the Tomb of Scipio, 
the most ancient and interesting of all the tombs 
yet discovered. In 1780 the tomb and its sar-
cophagi were brought to light, after having been 
undisturbed for upwards of twenty-one centuries. 
Several recesses or chambers were discovered, 
irregularly excavated in the tufa, with six sar-
cophagi and numerous inscriptions. In one of 
the recesses was found the celebrated sarcopha-
gus bearing the name of L. Scipio Barbatus, 
now in the Vatican, and well known by mod-
els all over the world. We explored the recess-
es by the light of a candle, but found nothing 
save the inscriptions. All other memorials have 
been removed. 
" The Scipios' tomb contains no ashes now ; 
The very sepulchres lie tenantless 
Of their heroic dwellers." 
In the same vineyard, a little farther on, is the 
Columbctrium of Cneius Pomponius Hylas and 
of Pomponia Vitalina. These Columbaria are 
a kind of sepulchres, so called from the rows of 
little niches, resembling the holes of a pigeon-
house. These niches contained the ollae or 
urns, in which the ashes of the dead were de-
posited. In some cases the names are found on 
the urns, but more generally in inscriptions over 
the niches. These Columbaria were set apart 
for the slaves and freedmen, and were usually 
near the tombs of their masters. 
And here we will take our leave of the me-
morials of ancient Rome. Without describing 
everything I saw, I have endeavored to give 
the most interesting species of the various classes 
of objects. I have generally left the reader to 
his own reflections. But I cannot close with-
out saying, that the prevailing sentiment of my 
soul while viewing and recalling these scenes, 
has been that of sadness. I mean over Roman 
grandeur, not because it has departed, but be-
cause it was unsanctified. It was " without 
God," and therefore without a fitting aim, or 
guide, or end. All its splendor and glory can-
not blind me to the truth, that it was also " with-
out hope." No bright visions of immortality 
inspired its life, cheered its course and irradi-
ated its pathway to the tomb. Cold, dark, dreary, 
and desolate was the grave into which Rome 
sank. 
" The Niobe of nations ! there she stands, 
Childless and crownless in her voiceless woe: 
An empty urn within her withered hands 
Where holy dust was scattered long ago." 
S. J. M. M. 
The Child is Dead. 
It is hard to believe it : that we shall no 
more hear the glad voice, nor meet the merry 
laugh that burst so often from its glad heart. 
Child as it was, it was a pleasant child, and 
to the partial parent there are traits of loveli-
ness that no other eye may see. It was a wise 
ordering of Providence that we should love our 
own children as no one else loves them, and as 
we love the children of none besides. Arid ours 
was a lovely child. 
But the child is dead. You may put away 
its playthings. Put them where they will be 
safe. 1 would not like to have them broken or 
lost; and you need not lend them to other chil-
dren when they come to see us. It would pain 
me to see them in other hands, much as I love 
to see children happy with their toys. 
Its clothes you may lay aside ; I shall often 
look them over, and each of the colors that he 
wore will remind me of him as he looked when 
he was here. I shall weep often when I think 
of him ; but there is a luxury in thinking of the 
one that is gone, which I would not part with 
for the world. I think of my child now, a child 
always, though an angel among angels. 
The child is dead. The eye has lost its 
lustre. The hand is still and cold. Its little 
heart is not beating now. How pale it looks ! 
Yet the very form is dear to me. Every lock 
of its hair, every feature of the face, is a trea-
sure that I shall prize the more, as the months 
of my sorrow come and go. 
Lay the little one in his coffin. He was 
never in so cold and hard a bed, but he will 
feel it not. He would not know it, if he had 
been laid in his cradle, or in his mother's arms. 
Throw a flower or two by his side : like them 
he withered. 
Carry him out to the grave. Gently. It is 
a hard road this to the grave. Every jar seems 
to disturb the infant sleeper. Here we are, at 
the brink of the sepulchre. Oh ! how damp, 
and dark, and cold ! But the dead do not feel 
it. There is no pain, no fear, no weeping there. 
Sleep on now, and take your rest ! 
Fill it up ! Ashes to ashes, dust to dust ! 
Every clod seems to fall on my heart. Every 
smothered sound from the grave is saying, 
Gone, gone, gone ! It is full now. Lay the 
turf gently over the dear child. Plant a myr-
tle among the sods, and let the little one sleep 
among the trees and flowers. Our child is not 
there. His dust, precious dust, indeed, is there, 
but our child is in heaven. He is riot here ; 
he is risen. 
I shall think of the form that is mouldering 
here among the dead : and it will be a mourn-
ful comfort to come at times, and think of the 
child that was once the light of our house, and 
the idol—ah ! that I must own the secret of this 
sorrow—the idol of my heart. 
And it is beyond all language to express the 
joy, in the midst of tears, I feel, that my sin, in 
making an idol of the child, has not made that 
infant less dear to Jesus. Nay, there is even 
something that tells me the Saviour called the 
darling from me, that I might love the Saviour 
inure when I had one child less to love. He 
knoweth our frame ; he knows the way to win 
and bind us. Dear Saviour, as thou hast my 
lamb, give me too a place in thy bosom. Set 
me as a seal on thy heart. 
And now let us go back to the house. It is 
strangely changed. It is silent and cheerless, 
gloomy even. When did I enter this door 
THE ADVENT HERALD. 
without the greeting of those lips and eyes, that 
I shall greet no more ? Can the absence of but 
one produceso great a change so soon ? When 
one of the children was away on a visit, we did 
not feel the absence as we do now. That was 
for a time ; this is forever. He will not return. 
Hark ; I thought for a moment it was the child, 
but it was only my own heart's yearning for the 
lost. 
Rev. S. I. Prime. 
Immortality. 
that lies between the goodly character of a 
youth fresh from his father's family, and the 
daring heights of iniquity on which veteran 
libertines stand. The sober youth stands on 
the solid platform of religious and moral worth. 
No one can think it possible that he should go 
over to the other side. But from the brink on 
this side he darts over a thought which makes 
itself fast to something on these forbidden re-
gions. The film no one saw, as it sped through 
the air, but it has made good a lodgment in 
that kingdom of darkness, and the deeds of 
wickedness will quickly follow when the way 
has been prepared. " Out of the heart," said 
He who knows it (Matt. 15:19), " proceed evil 
thoughts." Exactly; that is what we expected ; 
but what come out next? " Murders, adulte-
ries, fornications, thefts, false witness, blasphe-
mies." That is a horrible gang. How quickly 
they come on ! How closely they follow their 
leaders ! Murders and adulteries march forth 
unblushing ; but they follow in the wake of 
evil thoughts. Oh, if the fountain were cleansed, 
the streams of life would be pure. So 
thought David, when, in agony of grief, des-
pairing of his own efforts, he cried, " Create in 
me a clean heart, 0 God !" This is the root 
of the evil, and no cure will be thorough or 
lasting that does not reach and remove it. 
rarely or never broken by a day of relaxation, 
shatters his nerves, exhausts his vital energies, 
and makes him grey-haired almost in middle 
age. To him the course of nature is reversed, 
and night is turned into day. He labors when 
others asleep. Nothing tells sooner on the con-
stitution than this. The close room in which 
he usually sits, the stifling odors of damp news-
papers from the mails, and the blinding glare of 
the gas lights, increase the wear and tear upon 
his system, so that he is a fortunate member of 
his profession if he does not give out entirely 
before he is fifty years old. Nothing but dis-
tinguished success, and the constant ability to 
lighten his toil by employment of substitutes, can 
save him from his irresistible doom. Some 
live, indeed, to drag on a miserable old age in 
poverty and mental labor ; some become decre-
pid in intellect, and some—God knows ! too 
many—by soaking in stirnulagt aids to labor, 
go down to drunkards, graves, or live degraded 
menials. Happy the editor who, by strict econ• 
omy in the noon of life, or brilliant talents in 
his profession, secures for himself a comfortable 
old age. But from what we know of our breth-
ren in the craft, we fear that a majority fall a 
sacrifice, either to their own errors, or misfor-
tunes beyond their control. It is a hard life—
there is none harder. 
The tremulous lip its own nepenthe press 
Upon the weary lid and aching brow. 
While prayerful watch I keep, 
Sleep, love, sleep ! 
On the pagoda spire 
The bells are swinging, 
Their little golden circles in a flutter 
With tales the wooing winds have dared to utter, 
Till all are singing 
As if a choir 
Of golden-nested birds in heaven were singing : 
And with a lulling sound 
The music floats around, 
And drops like balm into the drowsy ear; 
Commingling with the hum 
Of the Sepoy's distant drum, 
And lazy'beetle ever droning near. 
Sounds these of deepest silence born, 
Like night made visible by morn ; 
So silent, that I sometimes start 
To hear the throbbings of my heart, 
And watch, with shivering sense of pain, 
To see thy pale lids lift again. 
The lizard with his mouse-like eyes, 
Peeps from the mortise in surprise 
At such strange quiet after day's harsh din ; 
Then ventures boldly out, 
And looks about, 
And with his hollow feet 
Treads his small evening beat, 
Darting upon his prey 
In such a trickey, winsome sort of way, 
His delicate marauding seems no sin. 
And still the curtains swing, 
But noiselessly ; 
The bells a melancholy murmur ring, 
As tears were in the sky ; 
More heavily the shadows fall, 
Like the black foldings of a pall, 
Where juts the rough beam from the wall ; 
The candles flare 
With fresher gusts of air; 
The beetle's drone
" 
Turns to a dirge-like, solitary moan ; 
Night deepens and I sit, in cheerless doubt, alone, 
Decline of Romanism. 
A Good Deed. 
From experience in the last few years we had 
supposed the " milk of human kindness" in the 
breasts of most people about dried up, but the 
following incident shows that there is one 
breast, that has not become callous to the woes 
and wants of others. On Saturday last two 
poor young American boys, sons of widows, 
feeling their want of pocket money for the com-
ing Monday, were tempted to take, without 
leave, from a store a couple of bundles of twine. 
They were immediately discovered, and taken 
by an officer. A kind hearted gentleman, of 
our acquaintance, who witnessed the arrest, fol-
lowed the officer and boys to the police office, 
where they confessed the deed, declaring it was 
their first crime, and pleading with cries and 
tears that they might be set at liberty, as they 
said, " It will break the hearts of our mothers !" 
This gentleman knowing they would be obliged 
to be in jail over Sunday and Monday, before 
they could be examined, and feeling it might 
be the destruction of the boys to be once placed 
behind the barred window, stepped forward and 
plead with the kind hearted officer in their be-
half, who felt that he could not consistently 
with his duty, allow them to go without the ap-
probation of the merchant from whom they had 
stolen, and agreed to go with the gentleman 
and see him. The merchant upon learning all 
the facts in the case, readily consented to their 
discharge provided the gentleman would talk as 
earnestly and faithfully to the boys as he had 
plead with him. This the gentleman promised, 
and lost no time in hastening back with the 
message of liberation. The boys on learning 
the message immediately left the office, feeling 
that this was the first offence of the kind, and 
that it should be the last time they should ever 
be found taking what was not their own ; and 
feeling too, the full force of the common remark, 
that " a friend in need is a friend indeed." 
The gentleman who had so opportunely be-
friended these little fatherless boys, no doubt en-
joyed his Sabbath and 5th of July infinitely 
better than if he had not heeded their distress, 
and had allowed the law to take its course. 
Boston Christian Observer. 
The idea of immortality is fitted to elevate 
the mind and enlarge its view:e Immortality 
is an idea vast and sublime. The contempla-
tion of it raises the mind above the objects of 
this world, and carries it over the boundaries of 
time, beyond the visible and present, into the 
invisible and future. Eternity, vast eternity, 
rises to view in all its magnitude, grandeur, and 
sublimity.—" The wide, the unbounded pros-
pect lies before us." Immortality ! How does 
the thought elevate and expand the soul, and 
fill it with great and sublime emotions ! And 
when we reflect that this immortality is the 
duration of our own personal being, that we are 
immortal beings, we cannot remain unaffected 
by the prospect which opens to our view. 
The immortality of our being invests the hu-
man soul with dignity, and points to a noble 
destiny. Man shall, indeed, lie down in the 
grave. But his grave is not the dark grave of 
the brute, from which there shall be no resur-
rection. " If a man die, shall he live again ?" 
Yes, he shall live again. He is not the brother 
of the worm, an insect of an hour, an epheme-
ron, a bubble that floats a moment on the ocean 
wave, and then disappears forever. As he con-
templates the frail, the flower-like delights of 
earth, its forms of fading light and beauty, and 
marks the swift flight of the hours as they pass, 
he is not oppressed with the sorrowful thought, 
" I am still frailer and briefer than ye." Nor 
is he overpowered by a contrast of his own mo-
mentary existence with the duration of the ma-
terial universe which surrounds him, the earth, 
the sun, and the stars. True, he must die, and 
short is his life on earth. 
But though he die he shall live again. The 
sun may shine upon a thousand generations of 
mortal men, as in long succession they come 
and pass away. But they shall live again for-
ever, when his beams are quenched, no more to 
shine. The ocean has been pealing " its solemn 
organ tone since the song of the morning stars " 
at the creation of the world. The cataract has 
been pouring " its mighty anthem from the birth 
of time." But the man of faith shall sing the 
hymn of life, when the organ of the ocean is 
silent, and " Niagara has given up her harp to 
God." As he surveys the stars by night, and 
the idea of eternity descends from the shining 
universe in solemn grandeur on his soul, he 
knows that their destiny is temporary, while 
his is everlasting. Through the suffering and 
triumph of Christ " there opens on him a des-
tiny that shall outlive, out-sing, outshine them 
all." Beyond the sun's expiring beam, " be-
yond the curtain work of the visible," his soul 
" shall flourish in immortal youth." The An-
cient of days is his Father, eternity is his home. 
Such is the nobleness, the dignity of man, as 
an heir of immortality. Surely, there is noth-
ing within this material, visible, perishing uni-
verse, which can fill his capacities and satisfy 
the wants of his immortal nature. Something 
nobler, greater, higher, more enduring than 
earth is needful for him, as an object of supreme 
trust, and love, and joy. God, and God only, 
can be the supreme good, the portion forever of 
the immortal mind. Compared with his favor 
all the objects of this world are insignificant. 
What are its pleasures, its honors and its riches, 
compared with immortal joy ? Empty as the 
bubbles of the deep ! The voice of Divine In-
spiration calls, " Seek first the kingdom of God." 
" Lay up a treasure in heaven." " Lay hold 
on eternal life." Seek by patient continuance 
in well-doing for a glorious and honorable Mi. 
rnortality. 
congregationalist. 
We lately gave some statistics on this subject, 
showing that by the admissions of Romanists 
themselves, they have lost about two millions of 
members in this country within the last twenty-
five years. As confirmatory of this statement, 
we annex an extract from the speech of the 
Bishop of Cashel at the late anniversary meet-
ing in London, of the British and Foreign Bi- 
ble Society. 
Banner of the Cross. 
" 1 have here The Annals of the Faith,' the 
great Roman Catholic Book for the details and 
statistics of the Romish Church. This work 
contains amongst other things, the statistics of 
that Church in the United States ; and it ap-
pears that the sum total of Roman Catholics in 
the whole of the United States is 1,663,500. 
They did not much like the sum, it appears, 
when they had made it out, for in a note it is 
added, that the real total far exceeds this 
amount ; and that the Roman Catholic popula-
tion of the United States is generally estimated 
at 2,000,000. For my purpose I would just as 
soon call it 2.000,000 as 1,663,500. A lecture 
was given at the end of last year by a Mr. Rob-
inson, at a place near New York, on the statis-
tics of the United States. That gentleman 
states the population of the United States at 
23,000,000. He further states that there are in 
the United States 3,000,000 of born Irish, and 
4,500,000 of the descendants of the Irish ; so 
that there are in all 7,500,000 Irish ; or 1,000,-
000 more than are now supposed to be in Ire-
land. Yet not 2,000,000 of the whole-popula-
tion, which came out of a Popish country now 
belong to Romanism ! I have another authority 
on this subject. Here is a letter from a priest 
at New Orleans, dated February 1852, to a 
priest of Ireland, on the subject of the dreadful 
falling off in the Roman Catholic Church in the 
United States. The writer says that, consider-
ing the number who came over, there ought to 
be 3,9'70,000 Roman Catholics in the United 
States, whereas there are only 1,980,000. He 
is a little under the 2,000,000. I do not quar-
rel with him about the excess over the other 
Romish statements, where he says the number 
lost to the Roman Catholic Church is 1,990.000, 
so, that in round numbers, 2.000.000 are lost 
to the unscriptural Church of Rome, even ac-• 
cording to this statement. What this priest ac-
knowledges is, doubtless, vastly under the re-
ality ; vet it is a startling revelation, especially 
when it is remembered that these 2,000,000 of 
Irish Roman Catholics have been lost to the Ro-
mish Church in less than a quarter of a century. 
When I first saw those statements my eyes were 
certainly opened to the truth of what many lit-
tle things had led me to believe, namely, that 
of the emigrants who were flying from Ireland 
to America, a large proportion were not merely 
going from poverty and distress, but were go-
ing also from spiritual despotism and persecu-
tion." 
The Tempters Within. 
The sinners that entice from within are the 
man's own thoughts and desires. There is 
quite an army of these sinners in a young 
man's breast. Thoughts have wings. They 
pass and repass unobserved. They issue forth 
from their home in the heart, expatiate over 
every forbidden field, and return like doves to 
their windows, through the air, leaving no track 
of their path. These thoughts become ac-
quainted with sin. They are accustomed to 
visit the haunts of vice wihout detection. They 
revel unchecked in every unclean thing. They 
open up the way, and prepare a trodden path on 
which the man may follow. A gossamer thread 
is attached to an arrow, and shot through the 
air unseen, over an impassable chasm. Fixed 
on the other side, it is sufficient to draw over a 
cord ; the cord draws over a rope ; the rope 
draws over a bridge, by which a highway is 
opened for all corners. Thus is the gulf passed 
The Watcher. 
The following is from a forthcoming volume of po- 
ems by Mrs. E. C. Judson (Fanny Forrester.) It 
bears (says the Independent) the unmistakable marks 
of its Asiatic origin, describing the emotions of a 
true woman's heart, as she sat by the bedside of her 
dying husband, in the midst of scenes and sounds and 
airs so truly Oriental. 
Sleep, love, sleep ! 
The dusty day is done. 
Lo ! from afar the freshening breezes sweep, 
Wide over groves of balm, 
Down from the towering palm, 
In at the open casement cooling run, 
And round thy lowly bed, 
Thy bed of pain, 
Bathing thy patient head, 
Like grateful showers of rain, 
They come ; 
While the white curtains, waving to and fro, 
Fan the sick air : 
And pityingly the shadows come and go, 
With gentle human care, 
Compassionate and dumb. 
The dusty day is done, 
The night begun ; 
While prayerful watch I keep, 
Sleep, love, sleep ! 
Is there no magic in the touch 
Of fingers thou dost love so much ? 
Fain would they scatter poppies o'er thee now, 
Or with a soft caress, 
Life of an Editor, 
Few employments are so unfavorable to care-
ful reading, mature reflection, and elegant com-
position as those of an editor, especially an edi-
tor of a daily paper. This fact, even when un-
derstood, is but rarely acknowledged by the 
reader. The public has no mercy for the short-
comings of an editor. He is expected to be 
wise, yet witty ; learned, yet eloquent; pro-
found, yet brilliant. He must always be accu-
rate, yet not delay his judgment. If a bill is 
laid before Congress, he is looked to for an opin-
ion before the telegraph has finished repeating 
the provisions. If a railroad is projected, he 
must immediately point out its advantages, its 
cost, and its demerits. If a revolution break 
out abroad, he is questioned as to its probable 
consequences, and condemned in the end if he 
has not foreseen any contingency. When he is 
right, he scarcely receives credit; when he is 
wrong, he is censured without end. The pul-
pit orator prepares his sermon in the quiet of 
the closet. He may refer to his library for a 
doubtful fact, and revise his composition in af-
ter hours. Even the lawyer has usually the 
respite of a night in which to collect his thoughts 
and arrange his arguments. But the editor must 
speak on the spur of the moment. He cannot 
stop either to fortify his memory, digest his 
opinions, or to polish his style. He flings off 
his sheets of manuscript as the news comes in, 
or the clamor of the compositors increase, and, 
like a thorough-bred in a desperate race, he is 
under whip and spur from the starting point to 
the goal. But this is not all. His bones may 
be racked with cold, his head may throb with 
pain, his tongue may be parched with fever, he 
may be unnerved by excessive labor, yet he 
must write, write, write. 
He is, as it were, chained to a wheel that 
whirls and whirls forever. He must leave the 
wife of his bosom on a sick bed, even when un-
certain whether he shall find her alive on his 
return. He must come from the coffin of his 
child, from the tears and agony of a bereaved 
mother, and while his heart is almost break-
ing, and his brain reeling in the effort to think, 
he must write, write, write. 
Oh ! if the public knew with what sufferings 
he is often served, if the secrets of but a single 
day of newspaper life in one of our great cities 
could blaze out in letters of fire behind his ordi-
nary type, what revelations there would be ! 
revelations of mental torture and physical pain, 
of failing nerves and wearied eyesight, often pe-
cuniary'distress, and even positive want. For 
the editorial profession, alas, does not always 
requite its followers. There is no time, per-
haps, when our great cities do not contain one 
or more editors who struggle with failing hopes 
and empty purses, to establish a newspaper for 
themselves, or who are compelled, by savage 
necessity, to write for a mean salary that can-
not always be paid. He wears out before his 
time. The exacting toil he pursues, which is 
On Storing Liquor in Churches. 
It is a good maxim—" a place for every thing, 
and every thing in its place." But is a church 
a place for every thing ? and least of all is liq-
uor in its place when stored away in a church ? 
The other day, on entering a house of wor- 
ship in the village of a very disagreeable 
sensation was experienced. " What can it be ?" 
said the nose to the brain. The question, how-
ever, was answered before the brain had time 
to communicate with the tongue. The bad 
smell came out of liquor casks stowed away in. 
the vaults of the church. Several questions 
arose in my mind : 
1st. Whether or not does the use of a church 
for storage of any kind come under the con- 
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THE ADVENT HERALD, 
V. 39—" By faith, the walls of Jericho fell down, after having been 
encompassed seven days." 
" Now Jericho was straitly shut up, because of the 
children of Israel ; none went out, and none came in. 
And the LORD said unto Josuett, See, I have given 
into thine hand Jericho, and the king thereof, and 
the mighty men of valor. And ye shall compass the 
city, all ye men of war, and go round abont the city 
once : thus shalt thou do six days And seven priests 
shall bear before the ark seven trumpets of rams' 
horns : and the seventh day ye shal1, compass the 
city seven times, and the priests shall blow with the 
trumpets. And it shall come to pass, that when they 
make a long blast with the rams' horn, and when 
ye hear the sound of the trumpet, all the people shall 
shout with a great shout : and the wall of the city shall 
fall flat, and the people shall ascend up every man 
before him."—Joshua 6:1-5. Having faith in this 
promise of the LORD they obeyed. " And JOSHUA 
rose early in the morning, and the priests took up the 
ark of the LORD. And seven priests bearing seven 
trumpets of rams' horns before the ark of the LORD 
went on continually, and blew with the trumpets : 
and the armed men went before them ; but the rere-
ward came after the ark of the LORD, the priests going 
on, and blowing with the trumpets. And the second 
day they compassed the city once, and returned into 
the camp. So they did six days. And it came to 
pass on the seventh day, that they rose early about 
the dawning of the day, and compassed the city after 
the same manner seven times : only on that clay they 
compassed the city seven times. And it came to pass 
at the seventh time, when the priests blew with the 
trumpets, JOSHUA said unto the people, Shout ; for 
the LORD hash given you the city. . So the people 
shouted when the priests blew with the trumpets : 
and it came to pass when the people heard the sound 
of the trumpet, and the people shouted with a great 
shout, that the wall fell down flat, so that the people 
went up into the city, every man straight before him, 
and they took the city."—Ib. 12-16, 20.—(To be con-
tinued.) 
1 
demnation of the Saviour, who complained that 
his house had been made a house of merchan-
dize ? 
2d. is the storing of liquor under a church an 
illustration or not of the great maxim, " All 
things are lawful, but all things are not expe-
dient ?" Admitting the lawfulness of storing 
this kind of merchandize, is it expedient to take 
it under ecclesiastical care ? 
3d. Would not the Maine law make terrible 
work with the rents of this house of God ? One 
morning the pastor, in passing along, observes 
a concourse of constables, workingmen, and 
boys rolling barrels out of his church, and 
knocking them on the head, amidst a stream of 
the " good creature " tumbling into the gutters. 
" Stop ! stop !" cries the ingenuous pastor. 
" Let me consult the trustees, and the barrels 
shall be removed." " No," replies the consta-
ble, " you ought to have done that before ;" and 
the minister walks off amidst the cracking of 
barrel heads, and the glee of temperance folks. 
Take care, minister, elders, deacons, Sab-
bath-school teachers, communicants, and pew-
holders ! I say, take care, or there will be 
strong revelations some of these days ! Now 
is the best time to get rid of the evil. 
Presbyterian Magazine. 
Cjicra16. 
"BEHOLD! THE BRIDEGROOM COMETII!" 
BOSTON. SATURDAY, JULY 31, 1852. 
All readers of the HERALD are most earnestly besought to give i t 
rosin in their prayers ; that by means slit God may he honored and 
his truth advanced ; also, that it may be conducted in faith and love, 
with sobriety of judgment and discernment of the troth, in nothing 
carried away into error, or hasty speech, or sharp, unbrotherly dis-
putation. 
one of time Hebrews ; and when he " was grown, he 
went out unto his brethren, and looked on their bur-
dens : and he spied an Egyptian smiting a Hebrew," 
and he slew the Egyptian. (Ex. 2:11, 12.) STEPHEN 
says that " MOSES was learned in all the wisdom of 
the Egyptians, and was mighty in words and in 
deeds. And when he was full forty years old, it 
came into his heart to visit his brethren the chil-
dren of Israel. And seeing one of them suffer 
wrong, he defended him, and avenged him that was 
oppressed, and smote the Egpytian : for he sup-
posed his brethren would have understood how that 
GOD by his hand would deliver them : but they un-
derstood not. And the next day he showed himself 
unto them as they strove, and would have set them at 
one again, saying, Sirs, ye are brethren ; why do ye 
wrong one to another ? But he that did his neighbor 
wrong, thrust him away, saying, Who made thee a 
ruler arid a judge over us 1 Wilt thou kill me, as 
thou didst the Egyptian yesterday ? Then fled Moses 
at this saying, and was a stranger in the land of Mi-
lian, where he begat two sons. And when forty years 
were expired, there appeared to him in the wilder-
ness of Mount Sinai, an angel of the LoRD in a flame 
of fire in a bush. When MOSES saw it, he wondered 
at the sight ; and as he drew near to behold it, the 
voice of the LORD came unto him, Saying, I am the 
GoD of thy fathers, the GOD of ABRAHAM, and the 
Gun of ISAAC, and the GOD of JACOB. Then Moses 
trembled, and durst not behold. Then said the LORD 
to him, Put off thy shoes from thy feet : for the place 
where thou standest is holy ground. I have seen, I 
have seen the affliction of my people which isin Egypt, 
and I have heard their groaning, and am come down 
to deliver them. And now come, I will send thee 
into Egypt. This MOSES, whom they refused, say-
ing, Who made thee a ruler and a judge? the same 
did GOD send to be a ruler and a deliverer by the hand 
of the angel which appeared to him in the hush. He 
brought them out after that he had shewed wonders 
and signs in the land of Egypt, and in the Red Sea, 
and in the wilderness forty years."—Acts 7:22-36. 
Moses' course was the result of the faith he had 
in the future. Said the Psalmist : " I had rather he a 
door-keeper in the house of my GOD, than to dwell 
in the tents of wickedness. For the LORD GOD is a 
sun and shield : the LORD will give grace and glory ; 
no good thing will he withhold from them that walk 
uprightly."—Psa. 84:10, 11. So Moses also chose 
present affliction that he might receive the coming 
glory—knowing that there was in reserve " a better 
and an enduring substance " (10:34), for which lie 
was willing to go " without the camp bearing his re-
proach."-13:13. 
By faith, he forsook Egypt, not fearing the wrath of the 
king for he endured, as though he saw him who is invisible." 
This refers not to the first departure of Moses 
from Egypt ; for after he had slain the Egyptian he 
" feared, and said surely this thing is known," and 
he " fled from the face of PHARAOH."—Ex. 2:14,15. 
Afterwards GoD said to to him, " Go return into 
Egypt, for all the men are dead that sought thy life." 
lb. 4:19. His leaving Egypt must therefore refer 
to his final departure from there, a short time before 
which PHARAOH said to him : " Get thee from me, 
take heed to thyself, see my face no more : for in that 
day thou seest my face, thou shalt die."—Ib. 10:28. 
Afterwards, at midnight, when a corpse was found in 
the house of each of the Egyptians, PHARAOH " called 
for Moses and AARON by night, and said, Rise up, 
and get you forth from among my people, both ye 
and the children of Israel : and go, serve the LORD. 
as ye have said. Also take your flocks and your 
herds, as ye have said, and be gone : and bless me 
also. And the Egyptians were urgent upon the peo-
ple, that they might send them out of the land in 
haste ; for they said, We be all dead men."—Ib. 
12;31-33. 
By faith, he kept the passover, and the sprinkling of blood, 
that he, who destroyed the first born, might not touch them." 
den at all with water, but roast with fire ; his head 
with his legs, and with the purtenance thereof. And 
ye shall let nothing of it remain until the morning : 
and that which remaineth of it until the morning ye 
shall burn with fire. And thus shall ye eat it ; with 
your loins girded, your shoes on your feet, and your 
staff in your .hand : and ye shall eat it in haste ; it is 
the LORD'S passover. For I will pass through the 
land of Egypt this night, and 1 will smite all the 
first-born in the land of Egypt, both man and beast : 
and against all the gods of Egypt I will execute judg-
ment : I am the LORD. And the blood shall he to you 
for a token upon the houses where ye are : and when 
I see the blood, I will pass over you, and the plague 
shall not he upon you to destroy you, when I smite 
the land of Egypt. And this day shall be unto you 
for a memorial ; and ye shall keep it a feast to time 
LORD throughout your generations : ye shall keep 
it a feast by an ordinance for ever. Seven days shall 
ye eat unleavened bread ; even the first day ye shall 
put away leaven out of your houses : for whosoever 
eateth leavened bread, from the first day until the 
seventh day, that soul shall be cut off from Israel. 
And in the first day there shall he an holy convoca-
tion, and in the seventh day there shall he an holy 
convocation to you : DO manner of work shall be done 
in them, save that which every man must eat, that 
only may be done of you. And ye shall observe the 
feast of unleavened bread ; for in this self-same day 
have I brought your armies out of the land of Egypt : 
therefore shall ye observe this day in your genera-
tions by an ordinance for ever. In the first month, on 
time fourteenth day of the nionth at even, ye shall eat 
unleavened bread, until the one and twentieth day of 
the month at even. Seven days shall there be no 
leaven found in your houses : for whosoever eateth that 
which is leavened, even that soul shall he cut off from 
the congregation of Israel, whether he be a stranger, 
or born in the land. Ye shall eat nothing leavened : 
in all your habitations shall ye eat unleavened bread. 
Then Moses called for all the elders of Israel, and 
said unto them, Draw out, and take you a lamb, ac-
cording to your families, and kill the passover. And 
ye shall take a bunch of hyssop, and dip it in the 
blood that is in the basin, and strike the lintel and the 
two side-posts with the blood that is in the basin : 
and none of you shall go out at the door of his house 
until the morning. For the Loma will pass through 
to smite the Egyptians ; and when he seeth the blood 
upon the lintel, and on the side-posts, the LORD will 
pass over the door, and will not suffer the destroyer 
to come in unto your houses to smite von. And ye 
shall observe this thing for an ordinance to thee and 
to thy sons for ever. And it shall come to pass, when 
ye be come to the land which the LORD will give you, 
according as he bath promised, that ye shall keep 
this service. And it shall come to pass, when your 
children shall say unto you, What mean ye by this 
service? that ye shall say, It is time sacrifice of the 
LORD'S passover, who passed over the houses of the 
children of Israel in Egypt, when lie smote the 
Egyptians, and delivered our houses. Amid the peo-
ple bowed the head and worshipped. And time chil-
dren of Israel went away, and did as the LoRD had 
commanded Moses and AARON, so did they. And it 
came to pass, that at midnight the LORD smote all 
the first-born in the land of Egypt, from the first-born 
of PHARAOH that sat on his throne, unto the first-born 
of the captive that was in the dungeon ; and all the 
first-born of cattle. And PHARAOH rose up in the 
night, he, and all his servants, and all the Egyptians; 
and there was a great cry in the land of Egypt : for 
there was not a house where there was not one dead." 
—Ex. 12:1-30. 
By faith, they passed through the Red Sea as by dry 
land : which the Egyptians attempting, were swallowed up." 
" Moses stretched out his hand over the sea ; and 
the LORD caused the sea to go hack by a strong east 
wind all that night, and made the sea dry land, and 
the waters were divided. Arid the children of Is-
rael went into the midst of the sea upon the dry 
ground : and the waters were a wall unto them on 
their right hand, and on their left. Arid the Egyp-
tians pursued, and went in after them, to the midst 
of the sea, even all PHARAOH'S horses, his chariots, 
and his horsemen. And it came to pass, that in the 
morning-watch the LORD looked unto the host of the 
Egyptians through the pillar of fire and of the cloud, 
and troubled the host of the Egyptians, and took off 
their chariot-wheels, that they drave them heavily : 
so that the Egyptians said, Let us flee from the face 
of Israel ; for the LORD fighteth for them against the 
Egyptians. And the LoRD said unto Moses, Stretch 
out thine hand over the sea, that the waters may come 
again upon the Egyptians, upon their chariots, amid 
upon their horsemen. And MOSES stretched forth 
his hand over the sea, and the sea .returned to his 
strength when the morning appeared ; and the Egyp-
tiansfled against it ; and the LORD overthrew the 
Egyptians in the midst of the sea. And the waters 
returned, and covered the chariots, and the horse-
men, and all the host. of PHARAOH that came into the 
sea after them : there remained not so much as one 
of them."—Ex. 14:21-28. 
"PROVE ALL THINGS." 
BY J. C. KYLE, OF ENG. 
" Prove all things ; hold fast that which is good."-1 Thess. 5:12. 
(Concluded.) 
If we would hold fast the truth, we must be ready 
to unite with all who hold the truth, and love the 
Lord JESUS CHRIST ill sincerity. We must be ready 
to lay aside all minor questions as things of subordi-
nate importance. Establishment or no establishment, 
—liturgy or no liturgy,—surplice or no surplice,—
bishops or presbyters, all these points of difference, 
however important they may be in their place and in 
their proportion,—all ought to be regarded as subor-
dinate questions. I ask no man to give up his pri-
vate opinions about them. I wish no man to do vio-
lence to his conscience. All I say is, that these 
questions are wood, hay, and stubble when the very 
foundations of the faith are in danger. The Philis-
tines are upon us. Can we make common cause 
against them, or can we not ? This is the one point 
for our consideration. Surely it is not right to say 
that we expect to spend eternity with men in heaven, 
and yet cannot work for a few years with them in this 
world. It is nonsense to talk of alliance and union, 
if in a day like this there is no co-operation. The 
presence of a common foe ought to sink minor differ-
ences. We must hold together—depend upon it—
all Protestants must hold together if they mean to 
" hold fast that which is good." 
Some men may say, " This is very troublesome." 
Some may say, " Why not sit still and be quiet?" 
Sonic may say, " Oh, that horrid controversy ! What 
need is there for all this trouble? Why should we 
care so much about these points of difference ?" 1 
ask, what good thing was ever got or ever kept with-
out trouble? Gold does not lie in English corn-fields, 
brit at the bottom of California rivers. Pearls do not 
grow in English hedges, but deep down in Indian 
seas. Difficulties are never overcome without strug-
gles. Mountains are seldom climbed without fatigue. 
Oceans are not crossed without tossings on the waves. 
Peace is seldom obtained without war. And CHRIST'S 
truth is seldom made a nation's property, and kept a 
nation's property, withont pains, without struggles, 
and 
le. 
Let
' without 
 titile
oi nn whotalks of " trouble " tell me where 
iit 
man 
roilb 
we should he at this day, if our forefathers had not 
taken some trouble? Where would be the Gospel 
if martyrs had not given their bodies to be burned! 
Who shall estimate our debt to CRANMER, LATIMER, 
HOOPER, RIDLEY, and TAYLOR, and their brethren 1 
They held fast that which was good. They would 
not give up one jot. They counted not their lives 
dear for the Gospel's sake. They labored, and they 
travailed, and we have entered into their labors. 
Shame upon us, if we will not take a little trouble to 
keep with us what they so nobly won ! Trouble, or 
no trouble,—pains or no pains,—controversy or no 
controversy,—one thing is very sure, that nothing 
but CHRIST'S Gospel will ever do good to our own 
souls. Nothing else will ever bring down GoD's 
PAUL'S EPISTLE TO THE HEBREWS. 
CHAPTER Xl. 
(Continued from the Herald of July 17th.) 
V. 23—" By ftith Moses, being born, was hidden three months 
by his parents, because they saw that the child was fair ; and they 
feared not the king's commandment." 
A king having arisen in Egypt who knew not Jo • 
SEPH, and fearing that the children of Israel would be- 
come more numerous and mighty than the Egyptians. 
he ordered, that on the birth of any child, " if he he 
a son they shall kill him ; but if it be a daughter, 
then she shall live."—Ex. 1:16. Moses being born 
while that edict was in force, and being " a goodly 
child " (Ex. 2:2)—" exceeding fair " (Acts 7:20), 
" of a very excellent beauty," as WHITBY renders 
the last text, " of a divine form," as JOSEPHUS says, 
" of art angelical form," as say the Jews, or " very 
beautiful " as reads the Septuagint—his parents had 
sufficient faith in GOD, to refuse obedience to the 
king's commandment. The story of the child's pres-
ervation is very simple and touching : " His mother 
first hid him three months. And when she could 
not longer hide him, she took for him an ark of bul-
rushes, arid daubed it with slime and with pitch, and 
put the child therein ; and she laid it in the flags by 
the river's brink. And his sister stood afar off to 
wit what would be done to him. And the daughter 
of PHARAOH came down to wash herself at the river ; 
and her maidens walked along by the river's side : 
and when she saw the ark among the flags, she sent 
her maid to fetch it. And when she had opened it, 
she saw the child : and behold, the babe wept. And 
she had compassion on him, and said, This is one of 
the Hebrews' children. Then said his sister to 
PHARAOH'S daughter, Shall I go, and call to thee a 
nurse of the Hebrew women, that she may nurse the 
child fur thee? And PHARAOH'S daughter said to 
her, Go. And the maid went and called the child's 
mother. And PHARAOH'S daughter said unto her, 
Take this child away and nurse it for me and I will 
give thee thy wages. And the woman took the 
child and nursed it. And the child grew, and she 
brought him unto PHARAOH'S daughter, and he be-
came her son. And she called his name MOSES and 
she said, Because I drew him out of the water."—
Ex 2:2-10. The simple beauty of the child was 
made the divine instrument of affecting the heart of 
the king's daughter. And to that doubtless the 
mother looked as the means of its preservation, when 
she placed it in its little bulrush basket, and laid it 
among the reeds of the river to be discovered by the 
first passer by. She left the event with Goo. 
Vs. 24-26—" By faith, Moses, being grown up, refused to he called 
the son of Pharaoh's daughter ; choosing rather to suffer hardship 
with the people of God, than to enjoy the pleasure of sin for a sea-
son ; esteeming the reproach ofChrist greater riches than the treas-
ures of Egypt ; for he looked away to the reward." 
Having been given to his mother to be nursed, 
Moses was early instructed respecting his parentage : 
and though he was recognized for many years as the 
son of the king's daughter, yet he knew that he was 
The Passover was kept in anticipation of their de-
parture from Egypt that night, and was thus an act 
of faith. " The LORD spake unto MOSES and AARON 
in the land of Egypt, saying, This month shall be 
unto you time beginning of months : it shall be the first 
month of the year to you. Speak ye unto all the con-
gregation of Israel, saying, In the tenth day of this 
month they shall take to them every man a lamb ac-
cording to the house of their fathers, a lamb for a 
house : and if the household be too little for the 
lamb, let him and his neighbor next unto his house 
take it according to the number of the souls : every 
man according to his eating shall make your count 
for the lamb. Your lamb shall be without blemish, 
a male of the first year : ye shall take it out from the 
sheep or from the goats : and ye shall keep it up 
until the fourteenth day of the same month : and the 
whole assembly of the congregation of Israel shall 
kill it in the evening. And they shall take of the 
blood, and strike it on the two side posts, and on the 
upper door-post of the houses, wherein they shall 
eat it. And they shall eat the flesh in that night, 
roast with fire, and unleavened bread ; and with bit-
ter herbs they shall eat it. Eat not of it raw, nor sod- 
THE ADVENT HERALD. 
245 
blessing. Remember the apostle's words, and" hold 
fast " firmly the Gospel, and refuse to let it go. 
And now, reader, I have set before you two things. 
One is the right, the duty, and necessity of private 
judgment. The other is, the duty and necessity of 
keeping firm hold upon truth.—It only remains for 
me to apply these things to your own individual con-
science by a few concluding words. 
out. They fade. They droop. They wither. They 
decay. The longer we have them the more worth-
less we find them, and the more satisfied we become, 
that everything here below, is " vanity and vexation 
of spirit." But as for hope in CHRIST, that is al-
ways good. The longer we use it the better it seems. 
The more we wear it in our hearts the brighter it 
will look. It is good when we first have it. It is 
better far when we grow older. It is better still in 
the day of trial, and the hour of death. And best of 
all, depend upon it, will it prove in the day of judg-
ment. 
Reader, if you have not yet laid hold on this hope 
in CHRIST, seek it at once. Call on the Lord JESUS 
to give it to you. Give him no rest till you know 
and feel you are his. 
If you have laid hold on this hope, hold it fast, 
Prize it highly, for it will stand by you when every-
thing else fails. 
THE PROPHECY OF NAHUM. 
TRANSLATED FOR THE HERALD BY N. N. WHITING. 
INTRODUCTION. 
Nineveh, the ancient capital of the Assyrian em-
pire, was distinguished for its wealth and strength 
long before Babylon became the mistress of the 
world. But few particulars respecting its history 
have reached us. In Gen. 10 : 10, 11, it is said to 
the most probable,) the verses should be read thus : 
" And the beginning," &c.—" out of that land he 
(i e., NIMROD) went forth to Assyria (Heb., Asshur) 
and builded Nineveh," &c. The correctness of the 
Greek historians, who have represented the ancient 
Assyrian empire—which ended with the death of 
SARDANAPALUS, during the reign of UZZIAH king of 
Judah—as one of the most powerful states of ancient 
times, is justly questioned, as being at variance with 
the inspired writers. DIODORUS SICULUS, iu the sec-
ond book of his Historical Library, ascribes the build-
ing of Nineveh to NINus, an Assyrian king, who 
having conquered almost all the then known world, 
resolved to build a city, which should be as far supe-
rior to those then in existence, as his own warlike 
deeds transcended those of other conquerors ; he even 
hoped that none who might live after him would be 
able to equal the great work which he was about to 
undertake. Having dismissed the Arabian king, who 
had been an auxiliary in his campaigns, NINus drew 
his army to the bank of the Euphrates, (really the 
Tigris,) and having collected all the necessary mate-
rials, he traced the plan of the city, in an oblong 
form. The two longer sides extended to one hun-
dred and fifty stadia, or about seventeen miles, the 
shorter measured each ninety stadia, or nearly ten 
miles. The area of one hundred arid seventy square 
miles—supposing the account of DIODORUS to have 
been accurate—could never have been covered with 
houses erected in the compact manner common in 
modern cities. It is highly probable that the most 
ancient cities contained, as we know Babylon did,. 
large tracts of land designed for cultivation, so that, 
in the event of a siege, the inhabitants might find re-
sources for resistance within their walls, after all 
communication with the adjacent country had been 
cut off. Dimentes says, that the walls were raised 
to the height of one hundred feet, and were of suffi-
cient breadth to permit three chariots to be driven 
abreast, and that there were fifteen hundred towers 
erected on the wall, which measured (probably from 
the foot of the wall,) two hundred feet in height. 
At the period, when the destruction threatened 
against Nineveh by NAHUM and ZEPHANIAH occurred, 
SARACUS was king. CYAXARES I., king of Media, 
laid siege to Nineveh B. c. 633, but was compelled to 
abandon his enterprize by the Scythians, who invaded 
and overran all Upper Asia. He was defeated by the 
Scythians; but more than twenty years afterwards, 
the Medes, by treachery, massacred the greater por-
tion of these barbarians. CYAXARES then contracted 
an alliance with NABOPOLASSAR (father of NEBUCHAD-
NEZZAR,) king of Babylon, and the two kings uniting 
their forces, besieged and took Nineveh in the year 
B. c. 612—in the 29th year of JOSIAH king of Judah. 
Theie is considerable uncertainty as to the era 
when NAHUM prophesied. The most probable opin-
ion is that, which assigns a date not far from the 
year B. c. 715—or about one hundred years before 
the time when Nineveh was destroyed. The prophecy 
of ZEPHANIAH against that city, as found in chap. 2 : 
13-15, was delivered in the reign of JOSIAH, who as-
cended the throne R. c. 640. 
In the following translation, the author has aimed 
at faithfulness, as the most important object, in every 
version of the inspired text. 
CHAPTER I. 
The burden of Nineveh. The book of the vision 
of Nahum the Elkoshite. 
2 God is jealous and avengeth ; Jehovah aveng,eth 
and is wrathful ; Jehovah taketh vengeance on his 
adversaries, and keepeth anger for his enemies. 
Jehovah is slow to anger, but mighty in power, 
and will by no means continually pardon. Jeho-
vah !—in tempest and storm is his way, and clouds 
4 are the (lust of his feet. He rebuketh the sea 
and drieth it up, and rnaketh all the rivers dry. 
Basilan droopeth, Carmel arid the shoots of Leba- 
5 non droop. The mountains tremble before him, 
and the hills melt down ; the earth is moved at 
his presence, even the world and all its inhabi- 
6 taros. Who will stand before his indignation, 
and who will stand before his fierce anger? His 
wrath is poured forth like fire, and the rocks are 
7 torn down before him. Jehovah is good, a for-
tress in the day of trouble, and regardeth those 
8 who trust in him; but with a rolling flood he will 
make a final end of her place, and darkness will 
9 pursue his enemies. What will ye contrive 
against Jehovah? He will make a final end ; 
10 distress will not rise up a second time. For while 
they are entangLd like thorns, and when they are 
drunken like drunkards, they will be consumed 
11 like stubble thoroughly dried. From thee bath 
gone forth one, who contriveth evil against Jeho- 
12 vah, a wicked counsellor. Thus saith Jehovah ; 
Though they are secure, and also numerous, yet 
they will be cut off, and lie will pass away. Now 
I have afflicted thee-1 will afflict thee no more. 
13 Now I will break off his yoke from thee, and tear 
14 off thy bonds. Jehovah bath commanded respect-
ing thee, that no one of thy name he sown here-
after. I will cut off the graven images from the 
house of thy gods. I have prepared the grave 
15 for those who became vile. Behold on the moun-
tains the feet of him, who proclaimeth good news, 
who publisheth peace! 0 Judah, keep thy fes-
tivals, perform thy vows ! For the Destroyer 
shall pass through no more : he is utterly cut down. 
(To be continued.) 
NOTES.—V. 1—" The burden." The word Massa (bur-
den) seems to be applied to prophecies which threaten ca-
lamities. This usage is nearly uniform. Perhaps an excep-
tion may he found in Prov. 30 :1 and 31 :1, where the Eng-
lish translation renders it " prophesy." An interesting pas-
sage in reference to the use made of this word among the 
Jews, will he found in Jer. 23:33-40. 
V. 9—" Distress will not rise up a second time." In other 
words, the ruin shall he complete ; there shall be no room 
for a second calamity. 
TROUBLE WITH ENGLAND IN RELATION 
TO AMERICAN FISHERIES. 
LOUIS NAPOLEON—CURIOUS ANECDOTE. 
The political leader in the July number of Black-
wood, written probably by ALISON, the Historian, 
represents in a most striking light the danger to 
which England is exposed of invasion, sooner or 
later, from France. It relates the Wowing curious 
anecdote, which we have never before seen in print, 
and which strikingly illustrates a very remarkable 
feature in the character of Louis NAPOLEON. 
" Prince Louis Napoleon, like his uncle, is very 
superstitious, and always carries an amulet, taken 
from the tomb of Charlemagne, on his person. Ile 
is known to have said in this country, long betbre he 
left it to accept the Presidency of the French Repub-
lic : It may appear presumptuous in me to wear 
that amulet, but I have an inborn conviction in my 
mind that I am one day to be the ruler of France. 
When I am so, I shall first extinguish the license of 
the Press in Paris, and then attack England. I shall 
do so with regret, for I have been kindly received 
there, and it contains many of my best friends ; but I 
must fulfil my mission, and carry out that which Iknow 
my uncle had most at heart-1- owe that to his memory.' 
In pursuance of these views, he has just decreed 
80,000 men to his regular army." 
The whole history of LOUIS NAPOLEON'S life shows 
beyond all possibility of doubt, that a thor(mgh-go- 
ing fanaticism,—an unbounded confidence in his own 
destiny,—is one of the most prominent features in 
his character. Persons who met him in England 
durin,g his exile, and all who saw him during his im- 
prisonment at Ham, know that he constantly felt and 
expressed the most perfect conviction that the re- 
verses he was then suffering could not last ;—that it 
was his inevitable destiny to become the ruler of 
France ;—and that no power on earth could prevent 
that consummation. This was the secret of his re-
peated attempts at the invasion of France ; attempts 
so absurd and puerile as to render inevitable the con-
viction of his insanity, except when viewed in the 
light of this marked trait in his character. 
All history shows that this kind of fanaticism,—
seeming sometimes to approach absolute lunacy,—
gives prodigious power to the will, and often leads 
to the accomplishment of marvellous results. It was 
the main basis of the wonderful achievements of JOAN 
of Arc, and formed no inconsiderable part in the re-
sistless energy and determination of CROMWELL and 
NAPOLEON. When any man is once thoroughly con-
vinced that he is marked out by heaven for the 
achievement of great deeds, he is not to be deterred 
from prosecuting them by trifling obstacles. He 
feels that he is under special protection, and this 
conviction supplies that courage and fearless har-
dihood of endeavor, which are usually the surest 
pledges of success. Louis NAPOLEON, since his 
usurpation, has repeatedly evinced the extent to which 
he is under the influence of this faith, in his pnblic 
addresses, as well as by the whole course of his 
policy. 
AusoN, in the article alluded to, exposes at 
length, and with great ability, the circumstances in 
the present condition of England which seem favora-
ble to such an attempt. He lays special stress upon 
the disposition of the Irish to avail themselves of the 
first opportunity that may offer, to achieve their own 
deliverance, and quotes from various leading jour-
nals to show, that the moment England should be-
come involved in any European war, would be seized 
by Ireland as the occasion for tier own redemption. 
N. Y. Daily Times. 
A "Medium " on the Bench. 
Mr. RIPLEY, one of the editors of the New York 
Tribune, who has been sojourning in Greenfield, re-
lates the following : 
" The monotony of village life has been somewhat 
diversified here (Greenfield) by the prevalence of 
spiritual manifestations,' so called. They take the 
form chiefly of moving tables, though rappings in 
answer to questions are not wanting. The people 
are as much in the dark with regard to their origin 
and character, as you and I are, and for the most 
part preserve a discreet non-cornmittalism. Thank 
heaven, it is out of fashion to hang witches now-a-
days, or I don't know how many of the best pact 
of the population would get strung up. 
" Some persons. I find, are mediums, who had 
previously taken no interest in the subject, and who 
are now quite puzzled by the strange powers of 
which they find themselves in possession. Among 
these I fOund one of the Massachusetts judges, a man 
of eminent ability and of the highest character, but 
of whose gifts as a medium' I have the most in-
dubitable evidence. Under his influence, quite as 
extraordinary things have been done as have ever 
been related of the professed mediums in this city or 
elsewhere. I could describe some curious feats of 
this weird power, such as tables passing out at the 
door of a room, descending a flight of steps, and 
finally landing in the door-yard bottom side up. This 
is hardly exceeded by the witches of old riding 
through the air on a broom-stick." 
The Springfield Republican says, " the Judge al 
luded to as having become a medium ' of spiritual 
communications, and a believer therein, we hear is 
the distinguished Chief Justice of our Common Pleas 
Court." 
C. A. Thorpe—The letters are all received—please accept 
our thanks. No. 23 is now sent. The Testament to which 
you refer, being and English reprint, cannot be sent to Great 
Britain. You can get the English edition at home. 
For one thing, be it your duty to " prove all things," have been founded by ASSHUR, according to our trans-
let me beseech and exhort you to arm yourself with lation of the Hebrew, or according to another render-
a thorough knowledge of the written Word of God. ing, by NIMROD. If the latter is adopted, (which is 
Read your Bible regularly. Become familiar with 
your Bible. Prove all religious truth when it is 
brought before you by the Bible. A little knowledge 
of the Bible will not suffice. Depend upon it, a man 
must know his Bible well, if he is to prove religious 
teaching by it ; and he must read it regularly if he 
would know it well. There is no royal road to a 
knowledge of the Bible. There must be reading, 
daily, regular reading of the book, or the book will 
not be known. As one said quaintly, but most 
truly, " Justification may be by faith, but a knowl- 
edge of the Bible comes only by works." The 
devil can quote Scripture. He could go to our LORD 
and quote Scripture when he wished to tempt him. 
A man must be able to say, from his knowledge of 
Scripture, when he hears Scripture falsely quoted, 
" Thus it is written again," lest he be deceived. 
Neglect your Bible, and nothing that I know of can 
prevent your becoming a Roman Catholic, an Arian, 
a Socinian, a Jew, or a Turk, if a plausible advocate 
of any of these false systems shall happen to meet 
you. 
For another thing, if it be right to " prove all 
things," take care to try every Roman Catholic doc-
trine, by whomsoever put forward, by the written 
Word of GOD. Believe nothing, however speciously 
advanced,—believe nothing, with whatever weight of 
authority brought forward,—believe nothing, though 
supported by all the Fathers,—believe nothing, ex-
cept it can be proved to you out of the Scripture. 
That alone is infallible. That alone is light. That 
alone is GOD'S measure of truth and falsehood. " Let 
GOD be true, and every man a liar." The New Zea-
lander's answer to the Romish priest who went 
among them is an answer never to be forgotten. 
They heard these priests urge upon them the wor-
st:lip of the Virgin MARY. They heard them recom-
mend them to pray to saints. They heard them ad-
vocate the use of images. They heard them speak 
of the authority of the Church of Rome, the supre-
macy of the Pope, the antiquity of the Romish com-
munion. They knew the Bble, and they heard all 
this calmly, and gave one simple but memorable an-
swer:—`` It cannot be true, because it is not in the 
Book." 
All the learning in the world could never 
have supplied a better answer than this. LATIMER, 
or KNOX, or OWEN, could never have made a more 
crushing reply. Let this be our rule when we are 
attacked by Romanists, or semi-Romanists, let us 
hold fast the sword of the Spirit, and say in reply to 
all their arguments, " It cannot be true, because it is 
not in the Book." 
Last of all, if it be right to " hold fast that which 
is good," let us make sure that we have each laid 
hold personally upon CHRIST'S truth for ourselves. 
Reader, it will not save you and me to know all con-
troversies, and to be able to detect everything which 
is false. Head knowledge will never bring you and 
me to heaven. It will not save us to be able to ar-
gue and reason with Roman Catholics, or to detect 
the errors of Pope's bulls or pastoral letters. Let 
us see that we each lay hold upon JESUS CHRIST for 
ourselves by our own personal faith. Let us see to 
it that we each flee for refuge, and lay hold upon the 
hope set before us in his glorious Gospel. Let us 
do this and all shall be well with us, whatever else 
may go ill. Let us du this, and then all things are 
ours. The Church may fail. The state may go to 1 
ruin. The foundations of all establishments may be 
shaken. The enemies of truth may for a season pre-
vail. But as for us, all shall be well. We shall 
have in this world peace, and in the world which is 3 
to come life everlasting, for we shall have CHRIST, 
and having him we have all. This is real good, 
lasting good, good in sickness, good in health, good 
in life, good in death, good in time, good in eternity. 
All other things are but uncertain. They all wear 
On Monday last an important official document from 
Mr. WEBSTER, respecting the American Fisheries 
and the right claimed by Great Britain to exclude 
American fishing vessels from the bays of the Prov-
inces, was published in the papers, and gave rise to 
some apprehensions of trouble between the United 
States and England. The difficulty is this : 
The American Fishermen have always claimed 
and exercised the right of fishing off' the shores and 
in the bays of what are now the British Provinces, 
and this right was in part acknowledged by Great 
Britain in the treaty of 1783. After the war of 1812, 
when the treaty of Ghent was negotiated, the British 
Government claimed that all privileges granted by 
former treaties were rescinded—the treaty being abro-
gated by war. This was not admitted by the Ameri-
can Commissioners, and nothing was said about the 
fisheries. Soon after, the British claimed that no 
fisherman should come within sixty miles of their 
shores. This caused some difficulty, and negotia-
tions were entered into between the two Governments, 
which resulted in the treaty of 1818, in which the 
United States renounced their right of taking, fish 
within three marine miles of any of the coasts, bays, 
creeks, or harbors of the British dominions, except 
of certain unsettled territory mentioned in the treaty. 
This clause has not been interpreted to exclude 
American fishermen from the large bays and indents 
of the Provinces, provided they did not approach 
within three miles of the shore. The colonists, 
however, have from time to time insisted that this ar-
ticle did exclude our fishermen from such bays and 
indents, and that they must not approach within three 
miles of a line drawn from headland to headland of 
any such bay. The British Government, though 
often requested by the colonists, have not put such a 
construction upon this article, until the present min-
istry assumed to do so. In 1845, Lord ABERDEEN 
admitted the right of American fishermen to exercise 
their calling in the Bay of Fundy, hut, though it was 
urged that the same reasons applied for the same con-
struction in relation to other hays, it does not appear 
that it was admitted or altogether denied. 
The present ministry have taken the ground urged 
by the colonial authorities arid parties interested, and 
have put a construction upon the article referred to 
in the treaty of 1818, which our Government has 
never admitted, and has not before been really claimed 
by the British Government, viz., that the three miles 
is to be taken from a line drawn from headland to 
headland of the bays. This excludes our fishermen 
from some of the best fall fishing grounds, which they 
have heretofore enjoyed, and will materially affect 
that very important interest of the Eastern States, 
and especially of Massachusetts. The British Gov-
ernment and the colonial authorities seem disposed 
to enforce this construction of the treaty, and quite a 
number of armed vessels belonging to the Govern. 
merit, and to the colonial authorities, are employed 
in the service. There have been two or three seiz-
ures of our fishing vessels—but this is a matter which 
has occurred from time to time for violation of the 
fishing laws of the Provinces. It is probable, how-
ever, that other and numerous seizures may now take 
place for alleged violations of the treaty. 
The document of Mr. WEBSTER was published to 
give notice to our countrymen of this state of affairs, 
and to caution those engaged in the fisheries against 
the risk incurred. It also says that this Government 
does not admit the construction claimed by the Brit-
ish Government, and that the subject will engage the 
immediate attention of this Government. 
In the hands of Mr. WEBSTER the honor of the 
country arid the important interests of our citizen will 
be fully maintained, and we have no doubt that he 
will be able to adjust the difficulties in such a man-
ner as will secure to our fishermen their just and 
reasonable claims. It may be, however, that before 
this is accomplished, numbers of our fishing vessels 
may he seized. or their success much affected by the 
action of the British Government, which will cause 
considerable irritation, and possibly jeopard the 
friendly relations of the two nations. We may hope, 
however, that the matter may be brought to an ami-
cable settlement, through the efforts of Mr. WEBSTER. 
Norfolk County Journal. 
246 
THE ADVENT HERALD, 
CORRESPONDENCE. 
SIGNS OF THE TIMES. 
BY J. W. BONTIA51. 
aged every building in Zante, burying great numbers 
of human beings under the ruins." 
"In the beginning of 1841, a portion of Mount 
Ararat was dissevered by an earthquake, which in 
falling destroyed several thousand houses and huts, 
with their inhabitants. On the 22d February, of the 
same year, the city of Reggio, in Calabria, was al-
most entirely destroyed by an earthquake ; and in the 
following September one occurred at Cartago, in Cen-
tral America, which, with 10,000 inhabitants, was 
entirely destroyed." 
" In April 1842, another took place in Greece, 
which overturned at Androusa several churches and 
public buildings, together. with many private houses, 
and numerous lives were lost. On May 7th, an earth-
quake occurred at St. Domingo, which perhaps has 
not been exceeded in its calamitous consequences 
since that which destroyed Lisbon in 1755. The 
town of Cape Haytien, containing, 15,000 inhabitants, 
was entirely swallowed up ; and some accounts state 
the loss of lives in the districts which suffered at 
from 70 to 80,000 souls : whilst, to add to the afilie-
tion, savages from the neighborhood murdered the 
wounded, plundered the living, and set fire to the 
houses that remained." 
In 1845 there was an earthquake, the shocks of 
which were terrible. Another took place three days 
after, and lasted forty seconds. In Honan, China, a 
terrible earthquake destroyed about 10,000 houses, 
and killed more than 4000 inhabitants. Iii 1846, at 
Amboyna, on July 20th, and the two following days, 
there were seven shocks of earthquakes. On April 
23d, the town of Cuba, in the West Indies, was vio-
lently shaken by an earthquake, causing the greatest 
consternation and alarm amongst the inhabitants. In 
June 1846, four villages were destroyed by repeated 
shocks of earthquakes, at Messina, in Greece. Sev-
eral plantations were ruined, and the ground opened 
in various places, and vomited forth torrents of water 
and mud. In the same year, twelve or fifteen shocks 
of an earthquake were felt in the Island of Trinidad. 
Buildings were much damaged, and the ground 
cracked in several places. On the 4th of August, 
there was a violent shock of an earthquake in Italy, 
which produced very alarming disasters in certain 
territories in the destruction of life and property. 
There were about thirty-three earthquakes in 1846, 
and others have occurred since that year. It will 
thus be seen that earthquakes of a very extraordinary 
character, and of an unusual number, have occurred 
within a very few years, showing a striking and literal 
fulfilment of our Saviour's prediction. The great 
famines and pestilences, in connexion with the earth-
quakes of the last twenty years, particulars of which 
would almost sicken one, all prove that we are on 
the eve of the advent of the Son of man.—(To be con-
tinued.) 
" But can ye not discern the signs of the times ?" 
—Matt. 16:3. 
These words were addressed to certain Pharisees 
and Sadducees, who, during our Saviour's ministry, 
wished him to show them a sign from heaven, pro-
bably to satisfy their unbelieving minds that he was 
what he professed to be, viz., the Messiah. Read 
from v. 1 to v. 4. The text implies that those learned 
Pharisees and Sadducees had the power and the op-
portunity of discerning the signs of the times, which 
were so striking, so various in their nature, occur-
ring so frequently, and agreeing exactly with the 
predictions contained in the Old Testament, that had 
they not been wilfully blind, and desired the reliza-
tion of their own carnal notions, instead of submit-
ting and acquiescing in the will of God, they would 
not have tempted the Saviour to exhibit to their un-
believing gaze additional signs, but would have be-
lieved the words of Moses and the prophets, arid re-
ceived Jesus of Nazareth as the true Messiah, of 
whom Moses in the law and prophets did write. 
In taking a survey of God's government and his 
dealings with the children of men, it will be found 
that each generation living on the.eve of important 
changes, have had signs and premonitions that some 
change or great event was about to occur ; but while 
some believed in Jehovah's revelations of warnings, 
and discerned the signs of the times, others—the ma-
jority—believed not, and closed their eyes against 
them. At our Saviour's first advent, the class who 
more particularly acted thus were those who professed 
to be the children of God—the heirs of his promise 
—yea, some were masters in Israel, and assumed to 
be correct expounders of the law, and the interpreters 
of prophecy. Therefore, in virtue of their office and 
their professions, it was their duty not only to " dis-
cern the signs of the times," but also to sound the 
note of alarm in times of approaching danger. The 
people looked to such for instruction and example, 
and hence arose the important and significant inquiry, 
" Have any of the rulers or of the Pharisees believed 
on him?"—i. e., Christ. (John 7:47.) 
None will feel disposed to dispute the fact, that 
the mass connected with the Church at our Saviour's 
first advent erred in consequence of depending too 
much upon the infallibility of their teachers. With 
such a fact staring in the face, is seen the import-
ance of searching God's word, of discerning the signs 
of the times, instead of depending for instruction and 
warning from those who are too blind to see, and too 
indolent to investigate. 
'Time would fail to show the fulfilment of the 
Scriptures in reference to our Saviour's birth, life, 
work, death, burial, and resurrection. Many predic-
tions contained in the Old Testament in reference to 
the Messiah received their literal accomplishment, 
and yet the Scribes and Pharisees refused to exer 
cise the faculty which they possessed of discerning 
or believing them. They were slow of heart to be-
lieve what Moses and the prophets had said should 
come to pass ; in consequence of which, they perse-
cuted the Saviour, cried, Away with him ! away with 
him ! and release unto us Barabbas the murderer ! 
They crowned his sacred brow with thorns—they 
pierced his sacred hands and feet,—they murdered 
him, and then penetrated his side with the cruel 
spear ! We fear that there is a striking similarity 
existing between professors of religion who lived at 
the period of the Saviour's first advent, and some 
who now live on the eve of our Saviour's second ad-
vent. 
The signs more particularly to be here referred to, 
are recorded by Matthew the Evangelist, in his 24th 
chapter, vs. 29-35 ; also by Mark, chap. 13th, vs. 
24, 31 ; also by Luke, chap. 21st, vs. 25:33. The 
signs referred to may be classified as celestial, terres-
trial, moral, religious, arid political. 
The signs mentioned could not be intended as the 
signs of Jerusalem's destruction, inasmuch as they 
were not to receive their accomplishment until after 
that event. The chronology of their fulfilment was 
to be after the fulfilment of the prediction of a time 
of great tribulation to come upon the Church, the 
days of which were to be shortened. The greatest 
tribulation through which the Church has passed was 
under the intolerance and bloodshed of the Papal 
hierarchy. " Immediately after the tribulation of 
these days the sun shall be darkened," &c. 
I. The celestial signs, include those unnatural or 
extraordinary manifestations connected with the sun, 
moon, and stars, and other appearances in the heav- 
ens. The first great sign was the darkening of the 
sun on May 19th, 1780. 
" In the month of May, 1780, there was a terrific 
dark day in New England, when all faces seemed 
to gather blackness,' and the people were filled with 
fear. There was great distress in the village where 
Edward Lee lived : men's hearts failing them for 
fear ' that the judgment day was at hand, and the 
neighbors all flocked around the holy man, for his 
lamp was trimmed and shining brighter than ever, 
amidst the unnatural darkness. Happy and joyful 
in God, he pointed them to the only refuge from the 
wrath to come, and spent the gloomy hours in ear-
nest prayer for the distressed multitude. His nephew, 
who was then a little child, in after life retained a 
lively recollection of that scene, and his childish feel-
ings are an interesting exhibition of the mariner in 
which Mr. Lee was regarded, for he felt not the least 
alarm in his presence, thinking that lie was perfectly 
safe where his good uncle was, even if the day of 
judgment had come."—Life of Edward Lee, of Mass. 
Tract No. 379, Am. Tract Society. 
" 1. The darkness of the evening following the 
dark day was probably as gross as ever has been ob-
served since the Almighty first gave birth to light. I 
could not help conceiving at the time," says the 
writer, " that, if every luminous body in the uni-
verse had been enshrouded in impenetrable darkness, 
or struck out of existence, the darkness could not 
have been more complete. A sheet of white paper 
held within a few inches of the eyes, was equally 
invisible with the blackest velvet."—Rev. Mr. Ten-
ney, of Exeter, N. II., quoted by Mr. Gage to the His-
torical Society. 
There have been several other striking signs con-
nected with the sun and moon since 1780. 
The falling stars, or showers of meteors, some 
of which have occurred within a very few years.—
Says the Christian Advocate and Journal, of Decem-
ber 13th, 1833. 
" The meteoric phenomenon, which occurred on 
the morning of the 13th of November last, was of so 
extraordinary and interesting a character, as to be 
entitled to more than a passing notice The 
lively and graphic descriptions which have appeared 
in various public journals do not exceed the reality. 
No language, indeed, can come tip to the splendor of 
that magnificent display ; and I hesitate not to say, 
that no one who did not witness it can form an ade-
quate conception of its glory. It seemed as if the 
whole starry heavens had congregated at one point, 
near the zenith, and were simultaneously shooting 
forth, with the velocity of lightning, to every part of 
the horizon ; and yet they were not exhausted—thou-
sands swiftly followed in the tracks of thousands, as 
if created for the occasion, and illuminated the fir-
mament with lines of radiating light. Some corus-
cated in their course, and thus connected themselves 
with others by lateral paths of brightness ; while 
many sped their way in straight and equal lines, and 
left luminous streaks behind them, which continued 
some seconds after the meteors were lost in the dis-
tance or extinguished in the density of our atmos-
phere. They differed both in magnitude and velocity, 
some appearing as mere points, and others of the size 
of Venus and Jupiter." 
The falling stars mentioned in Matthew could not 
mean the falling of the fixed stars, many of which 
are much larger than this earth, but meteors. Prof. 
Olmstead, of Yale College, a distinguished meteorol-
ogist, has remarked : 
" The extent of the shower of 1833, was such as 
to cover no inconsiderable part of the earth's surface, 
front the middle of the Atlantic on the East, to the 
Pacific on the %Vest ; and from the northren coast of 
South America to undefined regions among the Brit-
ish possessions on the North. The exhibition was 
visible, and everywhere presented nearly the same 
appearance. In nearly all places, the meteors began 
to attract notice by their unusual frequency as early 
as eleven o'clock, from which time they gradually 
declined, but were visible till lost in the light of day. 
The meteors did not fly at random, over all parts of 
the sky, but appeared to emanate from a point in the 
constellation Leo, near a star called Gamma Leonis, 
in the bend of the Sickle." 
The Connecticut Observer, of November 25th, 1833, 
copied from the Old Countryman the following : 
" We pronounce the raining of fire, which we saw 
on Wednesday morning last, an awful type, a sure 
forerunner, a merciful sign of that great and dreadful 
day, which the inhabitants of the earth will witness 
when the sixth seal shall be opened. The time is 
just at hand, described not only in the New Testa-
ment, but. in the Old. A more correct picture of a 
fig-tree casting its leaves when blown by a mighty 
wind, it is not possible to behold." 
Burnet, author of " Sacred Theory of the Earth," 
published in 1697, referred to this in the following 
language : 
" The last sign before the coming of Christ is the 
falling stars." " No doubt there will be all sorts of 
fiery meteors at that time, and amongst others, those 
called falling stars, which, though they are not con-
siderable singly, yet if they were multiplied in great 
numbers, falling as the prophets says, as leaves from 
the vines, or figs from the fig-tree, they would make 
an astonishing sight." 
The Aurora Borealis, or, " Northern Lights." 
" Fearful sights and great signs shall there he from 
heaven," in connection with the prophecy in Joel 
2:30, 31—" And I will show wonders in the heavens 
and in the earth, blood, and fire, and pillars of smoke, 
before the great and terrible day of the Lord come." 
THE AURORA BOREALIS. 
" Ye gorgeous visions of the northern sky, 
Mysterious and sublime !. 
Who lit your brilliant light on high 
Stream ye alone in idle revelry, 
Alone, o'er cloudy clime ; 
Without an aim, or nature, more 
Than mortal vision can explore ? 
" Or have ye some high, unknown ministry 
Whence sprang ye into birth ? 
In distant realms unseen ? 
Or claim ye sisterhood with earth ? 
And will your strange etheral sheen 
Fade with her fading sphere ? 
"Man's wisdom has not told— 
Ye are a mystery, 
Which time perhaps shall ne'er unfold ; 
Philosophy, whose eagle pinion bold 
Has conquered space, and brought the planets near 
To her expecting eye, 
Has sought in vain to fathom you, 
Or tell the office that ye do. 
" Ye are of later date— 
Say, are ye for a sign, 
Lit by the hand Divine, 
Whence earth should read her coming fate? 
Signs shall be set in heaven, 
And wonders meet the eye, 
And flaming prodigies be given 
Within the upper sky. 
" Ye may be such—yet man would be 
Most backward thus to interpret ye, 
Who glides in blind security, 
Down time's exhausting tide; 
Puts far away the evil day, 
Or dreams that he shall dwell for aye, 
In all his lust and pride. 
" Whate'er ye are, ye have an arm, 
For He has lit your wondrous flame 
Who fashions not a flower in vain ; 
And howe'er fruitlessly we pry, 
Into your inward mystery, 
One feature still is plain— 
Like as in all his works, sublime or fair, 
We trace the glories of the Godhead there." 
The signs referred to may be considered the ful-
filment of certain prophecies, and indicative of the 
nearness of the judgment. A portion of Joel's 
prophecy received its accomplishment at the out-
pouring of the Holy Spirit on the day of Pentecost— 
the latter portion within a secret period. 
Should any object to the signs referred to as being 
the premonitions of the nearness of the judgment, 
and say they were mere natural occurrences, and that 
such things have always been, I reply, that if this 
statement be true, it will not alter the truth of our 
Saviour's predictions, which stated that such signs 
would occur. Therefore, if you refuse to receive 
them as signs of his near approach on that ground, 
should there be future manifestations of similar ter-
restrial phenomena, they would fail to convince you, 
inasmuch as you could raise your old objection, that 
similar exhibitions had occurred before ! Therefore, 
by rejecting the signs that are past, none future would 
convince you. 0 beware, lest you be numbered with 
those who discern them not, and the day of Christ 
burst upon you as a thief ! Say not, " All things 
continue as they were from the beginning of the crea-
tion." 
Some may conscientiously object to this literal view 
of the subject, in consequence of supposing that the 
signs mentioned by our Saviour must be understood 
figuratively, or metaphorically ; and that if correctly 
interpreted, must refer to revolutions in the Church, 
and in the governments of the earth. But if this 
point were conceded,—which I see no reason to 
do,—nothing would be gained, inasmuchas the rev- 
olutions among the nations, or their distress, are 
mentioned in plain language. And then again, if we 
admit that the signs are to be understood figuratively, 
they have and are receiving their accomplishment, 
and from convincing facts must be considered as ful-
filled in a twofold point of view, in view of which 
they give no warrant for saying, " My Lord delayeth 
his coming." 
II. The terrestrial signs. These include or em- 
brace the eruptions, inundations, earthquakes, shocks, 
and extraordinary changes connected with the habi-
table globe ; but more particularly earthquakes. The 
earthquakes, and shocks of the same, which have oc-
curred within the present century have increased to 
an alarming extent, and may be considered unparal- 
lelled ! This may be seen from the following ex-
tract from an English writer : 
" In regard to earthquakes, scarcely a year elapses 
without several occurring ; and a reference to a good 
chronicle or register of events would prove, 1 appre-
hend, that more earthquakes have been recorded in 
the half century which has elapsed since the com-
mencement of the French Revolution, than during 
the whole period from the days of Titus." 
" The frequent occurrence and extensive prevalence 
of all the foregoing signs in these latter days is in-
deed very striking, compared with the forty years 
which have elapsed from the death of Christ to the 
destruction of Jerusalem." 
" In 1812, the large city Caraccas, in South 
America, was destroyed by an earthquake; 10,000 of 
its inhabitants were buried in its ruins, and 10,000 
more in the province of Venezuela." 
" In 1822, an earthquake in Syria destroyed An-
tioch, Aleppo, Latakia, Scanderoon, and many vil-
lages ; and in 1836 another in the same country des-
troyed 2,395 houses, and upwards of 4000 human 
beings." 
" In 1840 Zante was entirely desolated by an earth-
quake, and a small island adjoining, with all its 
houses and inhabitants, totally disappeared. Ninety-
five severe shocks were felt from October 30th to 
November 4th, which seriously threw down or dam- 
BRO. HIMES :—We are often led to inquire, why 
it is that we do not hear more frequently from many 
of our brethren, and especially those in the ministry, 
through the Herald? Some may have excused them-
selves because older and experienced brethren do 
not ; and therefore it would be improper for those 
who are comparatively young and inexperienced to 
write, while so many abler pens are almost silent. 
But perhaps this is not a justifiable excuse. Peter 
once inquired of our Lord, after having been told to 
feed the sheep and lambs of Christ, concerning John : 
—" And what shall this man do What is that to 
thee? follow thou me," said the Master. If we all 
had willing hearts, and the ruling, pervading spirit 
of our souls was to serve the cause, and our breth-
ren for Jesus' sake, rather than attract notice to our-
selves, there would be but little, if any, lack in this 
respect. If we were possessed continually of such 
a state of mind as the Psalmist describes, where he 
says : " They that sow in tears shall reap in joy. 
He that goeth forth and weepeth, bearing precious 
seed, shall doubtless come again with rejoicing, 
bringing his sheaves with him." If our souls were 
filled with this spirit, how many would be cheered 
who have no preacher, aside from their Bibles and 
the Herald, from whom they can obtain instruction 
and comfort on the subject of the coming and king-
dom of Christ. Paul wrote to the Romans, to the 
Corinthians, Galatians, &c. He sent consolatory 
letters to the Thessalonians ; instructive communica-
tions to Timothy and Titus ; to the Hebrews also 
he sent one of his most valuable epistles. How vast 
were the labors of the apostle, not only in preaching 
abundantly, but in writing to the saints scattered 
abroad. While the living preacher has some ad-
vantages over written communications, still, written 
communications have advantages above the living 
speaker. 
Speaking of the general characteristics of the 
Bible, says Dr. Cumming 
It is written. This is no ordinary ground of 
g,rititude. Had the inspired truths of Christianity 
been left to the transmission of oral tradition, they 
had perished from our earth long before they had 
reached us. The perverting tendency of tradition is 
not only traceable in history, but revealed in Scrip-
ture : Then went this saying abroad,' this is the 
oral tradition, among the brethren, that that disciple 
should not die ; yet Jesus said not unto him; He 
shall not die ; but, If I will that he tarry till I come, 
what is that to thee ?'—John 21:21. Thus the writ- 
LETTER FROM A. SHERWIN. 
provisionamay be divided intothree parts, i.e., MANU-
FACTURE, SALE, and PENALTIES. 
MANUFACTURE. No person is allowed to manu-
facture any intoxicating liquors except duly licensed 
so to do by the County Commissioners, or Mayor and 
Aldermen of the City of Boston, The sale by such 
manufacturer must be in quantities not less than thirty 
crallons, to be exported out of the State, or for me-
chanical and chemical purposes, or to the duly au-
thorized agents of towns and cities. Such persons 
are licensed on the first Monday of May, or as soon 
after as practicable, and the license runs one year. 
Bonds, with two sureties, in the sum of $6000, to 
'obey the provisions of the law. The County Com-
missioners have power to revoke said licenses, upon 
breach of the law, and to put the bonds in suit. 
SALE. The sale of intoxicating liquors other 
than is provided above, is confined to agents duly ap-
pointed by towns and cities. Such agents must give 
bonds with two sureties, in the sum of $600. No 
person by himself, his clerk, his servant, or agent, is 
allowed to sell any spirituous or intoxicating liquor, 
or any mixed liquor, part of which is spirituous or in-
toxicating. Clerks, servants, and agents are held to 
be equally guilty, if they violate the law, with their 
principals, and all the parties may lie included in one 
complaint, warrant, or indictment, and may be tried 
at the same time. " The fruit of the vine " may be 
sold for the communion. 
PENALTIES. The penalty for manufacturing 
and selling liquors, or for being a common seller 
thereof, is a fine of $100 and costs, or in default of 
payment, 60 days imprisonment in the common jail or 
house of correction. The party convicted must also 
give bonds in the sum of $2,000 that he will not 
again violate the law. The fine on a second convic-
tion is $200 and costs, or four months in the jail or 
house of correction, with like bonds as on the first 
conviction, if it be more than one year from the same. 
On a third conviction the penalty is $200 fine, and 
four months imprisonment. Bonds are to be sued 
promptly, and actions of scire facial are not to he con-
tinued. Three several sales make a common seller. 
Delivery is prima facie evidence of sale. A delivery 
in or from a dwelling house, with payment, or the 
promise of it, express, or implied, is held to consti-
tute a sale. 
The first offence for selling by the retailer is pun-
ished by a fine of $10 and costs, with bonds in $1000 
not to violate the law within one year. On the sec-
ond conviction the fine is $20 and costs, with like 
bonds, if more than a year has elapsed from the first 
conviction. On the third conviction the fine is $20 
and costs, and imprisonment riot less than three, nor 
more than six months. No person can " swear out " 
until he has been imprisoned two months. Money 
received goes to the town or city where the convict 
resides. Forfeitures and penalties may be recovered 
before the Police Courts, or any Justice of the Peace. 
Parties appealing must give bonds in not less than 
$100, with two sureties, to prosecute the appeal. 
Cases arising under the act in all courts, take prece-
dence of all other business, except criminal cases in 
which parties are under arrest awaiting trial. No 
nolle prosequi can be entered without permission of 
the court. 
When three persons make complaint on oath, that 
liquors are kept in any building or vessel, except 
dwelling houses, intended for sale, a search warrant 
issues and the liquors are seized. The liquor and 
implements of traffic may be used in evidence. To 
search a dwelling house, some person must swear 
that he believes that liquors have been sold there 
within one month ; unless the person owning or 
keeping the house shall prove that the liquors are of 
foreign importation and in the original packages, 
(arid custom house marks are not conclusive evi-
dence) the same are to be destroyed. If the owner 
is unknown, the liquor is not to be destroyed until it 
has been advertised two weeks. If the owner appeals, 
lie must give bonds in $200, with two sureties, to 
prosecute the same, arid abide judgment. 
Pulpit Exchange Extraordinary. 
The Rev. Mr. Dutton, Orthodox Congregational-
ist, of New Haven, preached in the pulpit of Rev. 
Mr. Huntington, of Boston, lately, who is classed 
with the Unitarians. It is said that Dr. Huntington 
has preached by invitation in Mr. Dutton's pulpit, 
New Haven. This is something unusual, and may 
lead to something more remarkable. Mr. Hunting-
ton is regarded by Orthodox divines as almost, if not 
quite Orthodox, especialy on the point of the di-
vinity of Christ. He has a very large and interest-
ing congregation. This same gentleman was invited a 
few years ago to become a colleague pastor with the 
Rev. Mr. Dewey, then of New York. 
Congregational Journal. 
And so this is noticed in a Congregational paper 
merely as " something unusual," without a word of 
censure. Let us place it by the side of another para-
graph clipped from a Universalist paper. Truly the 
fathers of Congregationalism would have thought such 
things likely to" lead to something more remarkable." 
Gospel Messenger. 
" At his Wednesday evening lecture, last week, 
he [Rev. W. H. Beecher] addressed his Church 
upon their duties to other Churches, and, finally, on 
their duties to sects not regarded usually as Ortho-
dox or Evangelical ; their duties toward Universal- 
ists and Unitarians. I am not a Universalist,' he 
said,' their leading principles are wrong, and if car-
ried out would lead, perhaps, to bad results. But 
there are many good people and excellent Christians 
among them, I doubt not. It may be looked upon 
as a general rule that wrong principles may lead to 
wrong practices, but there are a great many excep-
tions to that rule, and it is not safe to rely blindly 
upon it. Why there is my Bro. Chapin; I know 
him ; lie is alive ; a temperance man ; an advocate 
of freedom, and a hater of oppression and wrong ; he 
goes in for all these movements that are to regenerate 
and bless the world ; and I would much rather he 
would come here to Brooklyn, and build up a con-
gregation of Universalises, straight out and cut, than 
to have one of your old stiff-necked, conservative, 
vinegar-faced Evangelicals come and build up a 
Church in our midst.' " 
THE ADVENT HERALD. 
This paper having now been published since March, 1840, the his-
tory of its past existence is a sufficient guaranty of its future 
course, while it may be needed as a chronicler of the signs of the 
times, and an exponent of prophecy 
The object of this periodical is to discuss the great question of the 
age in which we live—The near approach of the Filth Universal 
Monarchy ; in which the kingdom under the whole heaven shall be 
given to the saints of the Most High, for an everlasting possession. 
Also to take note of such passing events as mark the present time , 
and to hold up before all men a faithful and affectionate warning to 
flee from the wrath to come. 
The course we have marked out for the future, is to give in the 
columns of the Herald-1. The best thoughts from the pens of origi-
nal writers, illustrative of the prophecies. 2. Judicious selections 
from the best authors extant, of an instructive and practical nature. 
3. A well selected summary of foreign and domestic intelligence, 
and 4. A department for correspondents, where, from the familiar 
letters of those who have the good of the cause at heart, we may 
team the state of its prosperity in different sections of the country. 
The principles prominently presented, will be those unanimously 
adopted by the " Mutual General Conference of Adventists," held at 
Albany, N. Y., April 29, 1845 ; and which are in brie— 
f. The Regeneration of this earth by Fire, and its Restoration to 
its Eden beauty. 
The Personal Advent of CHRIST at the commencement of the 
Millennium. 
His Judgment of the Quick and Dead at his Appearing and 
Kingdom. 
His Reign on the Earth over the Nations of the Redeemed. 
The Resurrection of those who Sleep in Jesus, and the Change 
of the Living Saints, at the Advent. 
The Destruction of the Living Wicked from the Earth at that 
event, and their confinement under chains of darkness till the Sec. 
and Resurrection. 
Their Resurrection and Judgment, at the end of the Millen. 
nium, and consignment to everlasting punishment. 
The bestowment of Immortality, (in the Scriptural, and not 
the secular use of this word,) through CHRIST, at the Resurrection. 
The New Earth the Eternal Residence of the Redeemed. 
We are living in the space of time between the sixth and sev 
enth trumpets, denominated by the angel " QUICKLY :" " The sec-
ond woe Is past ; and behold the third woe cometh quickly"—Rev 
11:14—the time in which we may look for the crowning consumma-
tion of the prophetic declarations. 
These views we propose to sustain by the harmony and letter o, 
the inspired Word, the faith of the primitive church, the fulfilment 
of prophecy in history, and the aspects of the fhture. We shall en-
deavor, by the Divine help, to present evidence, and answer objec-
tions, and meet the difficulties of candid inquiry, in a mariner becom-
ing the questions we discuss ; and so as to approve ourselves to 
every man's conscience in the sight of Gon. 
These are great practical questions. If indeed the Kingdom of 
Gon is at hand, it becometh all Christians to make efforts for re-
newed exertions, during the little time allotted them for labor in the 
Master's service It becometh them also to examine the Scriptures 
of truth, to see if these things are so. What say the Scriptures ? 
Let them speak ; and let us reverently listen to their enunciation. 
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ten Scripture corrects the unwritten tradition. No her untimely figs, when she is shaken of a mighty 
such calamity can befall the inspired truth of God. wind."—Rev. 6:13. 
They are in the shape of an indestructible stereotype. 
an immutable fixture—proof alike against the attacks 
of open foes and the corruptions of pretended friends. 
The comments may vary, like the clouds of the sky 
—the truths remain, like the stars, fixed forever." 
What a blessing, that God has been pleased to give 
us his written word. John the Revelator was told once, 
twice, thrice, to write the glorious truths announced 
'Twas on a lovely vernal morn, 
Sol shone in glorious light, 
And spring, with beauties, did adorn 
The earth, so fair and bright. 
I saw a dark and angry cloud, 
In madd'ning fury rise ; 
I heard the groans of nature loud, 
Far in the distant skies. 
to him. Ought we not, therefore, to hear from those 
who are commanded to let the message entrusted to 
them .fly through the midst of heaven, especially 
when we have such increased facilities for spreading 
the word of God ? Have we all done our duty in 
this matter Some, no doubt, have; for others we 
fear. God will require of us in the day of reckoning 
according to our ability. The judgment hasteth 
greatly ! God's people require the bread of life, and 
sinners the warnings of the gospel, 0 that the de-
cisive hour may find us with our work well done in 
the Lord. Yours in hope. 
Lowell (Mass.), July 23d, 1852. 
Letter from J. Litch. 
BRO. &Ns :—Yesterday was with the Advent 
Church in this city a day of joy and gladness. We 
have for many years been tossed to and fro, first in 
one hall and then in another, as a place of worship. 
We have made several effbrts to either erect or pur-
chase a church edifice, but every effort has proved 
abortive until the last two weeks. The Lord has at 
length heard and answered our prayers and given us 
a neat and commodious house of worship, which we 
yesterday had the pleasure of opening for religious 
service. Bro. Himes was with us to receive, after 
his severe trials and bufitings, the cordial greetings 
and congratulations of many of his old, tried, and 
faithful friends, and to give us three appropriate, in-
structive, and interesting discourses on the occasion. 
The house is located in Schuylkill 6th street, between 
Chesnut and Market-streets, and has lately been oc-
cupied by a Baptist Church. It is in a rapidly im-
proving neighborhood, with a good chance for build-
ing up a congregation, and we can but believe that 
the Advent cause is on a firmer basis than ever be-
fore, and destined to live till the Lord in glory comes. 
Philadelphia, July 19th, 1852. 
Bro. Wm. Ryan. 
Bro. R. sailed on the 8th, in the steamer Merlin, 
for St. Thomas, W. I., in feeble health. I received 
for him per mail—from John Lang, Boston, $10 ; 
Mrs. S. M. D. C., $5 ; A. P. C. Andrews, Provi-
dence, $1—$16 00—for which he expresses his grati- 
tude in the following letter : L. D. MANSFIELD. 
DEAR BRETHREN AND SISTERS:—My heart over-
flows with gratitude and thankfulness when I contem-
plate the promptness with which you have so kindly 
responded to my necessities. 
You have, dear brethren arid sisters, truly followed 
the injunction of our great apostle, in remembering 
those who suffer adversity, as being yours,lves also 
in the body. May the Lord reward you for your kind-
ness ; may lie add to your basket and to your store ; 
may he withhold no good thing from you in this 
world, nor in that which is to come. 
Oh ! may the Lord hasten the time when sickness, 
and sorrow, and want will be felt no more ; when 
we shall all meet in that kingdom prepared for us 
from the foundation of the world, is the prayer, dear 
brethren and sisters, of your affectionate brother in 
Christ. 
WILLIAM RYAN, 
New York, July 5th, 1852. of Antigua, W. I. 
Bro. B. F. BROWNELL writes from Esperance, N. Y. 
Bro. HIMES :—Bro. G. W. Burnham was at our 
place and spent two days, much to our and all the 
people's satisfaction. The evening was pleasant, 
and quite a number came to hear him, and are very 
anxious to hear more on the subject. 
Prejudice is giving way to reason. The Methodists 
offered to us their lectute room. We should like to 
have some consistent brother come here and spend 
a few days, or as many as he can ; we think he 
would get a good hearing, and good might be done. 
The person whose name I send you as a subscriber, 
was out to hear Bro. Burnham, and was much grati-
fied. The subject of discourse was on the text, 
" Fear not, little flock, it is your Father's good plea-
sure to give you the kingdom." Yours in hope of 
eternal life. 
BRO. 'TIMES :—Having been solicited by a friend 
to write an article for the Herald, I have selected 
from among my papers the following verses, com-
posed some time since, which you are at liberty to 
publish, if you think them worthy of a place in your 
esteemed paper. 
E. P. 
" The sun shall be turned into darkness, and the 
moon into blood, before the great and terrible day of 
the Lord come."—Joel 2:31. " And the stars of 
heaven fell unto the earth, even as a fig-tree casteth 
And soon the sky was overspread 
With pall of blackest night ; 
While terror filled the earth with dread 
At such a fearful sight. 
But see ! the fowls to rest have fled, 
The beasts to groves retired ; 
By nature and by instinct led, 
While earth was thus attired. 
The wise men * sat in council grave, 
Making the laws of State ; 
" Adjourn," some cried, but one more brave, 
Desired them to wait. 
" My friends," said, he " be not alarmed, 
Did duty call you here ? 
What then can bring you any harm ? 
What cause have you to fear ?" 
Though very dark the day had been, 
At night it might be felt ; 
And many souls might then be seen 
Around the altar knelt. 
'Tis thus that man when trouble comes, 
Unto his God will fly— 
Fearing the summons, hasten home—
Rebel, thou too must die. 
But soon upon the eastern sky 
Is seen another sight ; 
The moon, at full, of deep red dye, 
Gives but a flick'ring light. 
Ere long, in heaven, another scene 
Is opened to the view, 
The stars, in brilliant beauty seen—
As snow flakes, so they flew. 
Gaze now, vain man, on heaven's array 
Of fireworks, grand, sublime, 
Precursors of a glorious day, 
A happy, joyful time. 
Behold ! in heaven the work of God ! 
Behold ! and then adore, 
Flee then to his atoning blood, 
Believe, and sin no more. 
That when the heavens together roll, 
And earthly things remove, 
No terror shall invade the soul— 
Truth shall a fortress prove. 
The Connecticut Legislature. 
OBITUARY. 
"I am the RESURRECTION and the LIFE he who believeth in 
ME, though he should die, yet he will LIVE: and whoever liveth 
and believeth iu one, will never die."—John 11:25, 26. 
ELLEN MARIA, little daughter of JOHN and SALOME 
DEAN, of this ciiy, died Wednesday morning, the 
14th inst., after a short illness of only six hours. 
The babe was seventeen months of age, and had so en-
deared itself to its parents and the family, as to cause 
great sadness and sorrow when the afflictive provi-
dence occurred. Only thirty-six hours from the time 
it was taken, and they were called to bury it out of 
their sight, and to hid it farewell till the resurrection 
morn. They sorrow, but not without hope : it' shall 
come again from the land of the enemy." 
0. R. FASSETT. 
DIED, at Rochester, Vermont, June 18th, Bro. 
STILLMAN C. HARWOOD, after an illnes of twenty-
four hours, of inflammation of the bowels, aged 25 
years. He died trusting in his Saviour. 
I'm weary of staying-0 when shall I rest 
In that distant land of the good and the blest, 
Where sin can no longer her blandishments spread, 
And tears and temptations forever are fled ? 
I'm weary of sighing o'er the sorrows of earth, 
O'er joy's glowing visions, that fade at their birth, 
O'er the pangs of the lov'd that we cannot assuage, 
O'er the blightings of youth, o'er the weakness of 
age. 
I'm weary of hoping, where hope is untrue, 
As fair, but as fleeting as morning's bright dew, 
I long for that land, whose blest promise alone 
Is changeless and sure as eternity's throne. 
I'm weary of loving, for all pass away, 
The brightest and fairest, alas ! cannot stay ; 
I look tow'rd the place, where the partings are o'er, 
Where death and the tomb can divide us no more. 
JULIET HARWoOD 
THE LIQUOR LAW. 
The new liquor law of Massachusetts went into 
operation on the 22d inst. The following summary 
of its provisions, from the New Bedford Mercury, is 
of value for reference: 
" An Act concerning the Manufacture and Sale of 
Intoxicating Liquors," is the legal title of this law. 
It is chapter 322 of the General Laws of 1852. Its 
THE ADVENT HERALD. 
FOREIGN NEWS. 
The Collins steamship Baltic arrived at New York on Sun-
day last, with dates from Liverpool to the 14th inst. 
England. 
The Parliamentary elections, as fir as heard from, up to 
Tuesday night, the 13th, foot up to 358 members elected, of 
which 117 are supporters of the Government,199 opposition, 
and 42 liberal conservatives, who may be called neutral. The 
county and the Irish members have yet to be returned. 
France. 
The Government exempts the clergy from taking the oath 
of allegiance. 
The 15th of August is to be celebrated in Paris, much as 
the 10th of May was. 
Gen. Changarnier was on his return to Munich, the Aus-
trian Government having intimated that his presence at Vi-
enna was not desirable. 
It is reported that a certain number of the exiled represen-
tatives are to be allowed to return to France, among them 
Victor lingo. It is also reported that several more members 
of the Mountain are about to become supporters of the Gov-
ernment. 
It is said that a definitive rupture of the negotiations be-
tween the branches of the Bourbons, to effect a ffision be-
tween them, has taken place, caused by the Count de Chant. 
bard insisting, as a sine qua non, that before negotiations 
should be opened upon any other question at issue between 
himself and the princes of the house of Orleans, that the lat-
ter should acknowledge him as king. 
The Arab cltiefs, Abdel Kader and Hametben Rufa, state 
prisoners in the fort of St. Louis, at Cette, had a quarrel, 
when the former stabbed the latter in the bowels, from which 
wound he died. 
The demand made by Louis Napoleon upon the Govern-
ment of Switzerland for the extradition of M. Thiers, was 
vindictive and retaliative. It must be remembered that dur-
ing the reign of Louis Philippe, whilst M. Thiers was For-
eign Minister, he deinanded the expulsion of Louis Napoleon 
from the canton of Thurgovia, in Switzerland, where the ex-
iled rebel had enrolled himself in the army, and had obtained 
the rank of lieutenant of artillery. 
Italy. 
After the month of July, it is said that the French Govern-
ment will charge the Court of Rome with the expenses of the 
French occupation, in the same way as Austria charges fir 
her troops employed in the Legations. The charge made by 
Austria is £16,000 per month, which sum has been paid 
with tolerable punctuality ; but a bill of extras has been pre-
sented, amounting to about 1300,000. It may be easily imag-
ined that to a small State like that of Rome, already very 
embarrassed in its finances, unable to collect the taxes it has 
thought necessary to impose, and alarmed at the prospect of 
having to pay the French also, such claims on the part of the 
Austrians are very staggering. 
A collision between the people and soldiers took place at 
Ellera, in Piedmont, relative to the cutting down the Com-
mercial forests. Arms were used on both sides, and many 
were wounded. A reinforcement of soldiers from Savona 
quelled the riot. 
Australia. 
Since the first discovery of gold in Victoria, towards the 
end of Sept. last, the total yield has been 653,270 ounces, 
the value of which, at £3 per ounce, would be £1,959,810. 
This would be at the rate of about 1775 lbs. per week for the 
whole period. It is stated, however, by the captain of the 
barque Posthumous, which left Melbourne on the 15th of 
March, that gold was arriving at that place at the rate of 
about two tons per week, or say 4,400 lbs. Within the last 
three weeks the amount of gold consigned to and received in 
London exceeds in value £1,250,000. 
The Liverpool Courier says the emigration from that port 
to Australia is amazing. Two thousand persons left during 
the week ending June 26th. There were eight regular lines 
of packets, comprising between fifty and sixty ships, with a 
united tonnage of about 80,000 tons ; in addition to which 
there are several other first-class ships advertised to sail in 
a short time, increasing the tonnage, exclusive of steamers 
engaged in the trade, to an aggregate of 100,000 tons. Nearly 
every berth in the steamship Great Britain was taken up 
within a fortnight after she seas announced upon the line, and 
the steamer Sarah Sands has also been lately added to the 
list. The emigrants include all classes of society-laborers, 
mechanics, and artizaos, highly respectable tradesmen, con-
fidential clerks of mercantile houses, and the sons of mer- 
chants, who go out for the purpose of establishing themselves 
in commercial pursuits. 
Miscellaneous. 
At the late meeting of the Republicans and Royalists in 
Neufchatel, Switzerland, stringent resolutions in Ihvor of 
preserving the canton against the claims of Prussia were 
passed by the Republicans, who. far outnumbered the Roy-
alists. 
The Emperor of Austria is said to have been well received 
on his recent journey to Hungary. 
Letters from Constantinople state, that the relations be-
tween the Divan and the Austrian Government are re-estab- 
lished on their former footing of harmony, and the two Cabi-
nets are on the,best terms. 
The engineer-in-chief who was conducting the railway 
by which the life of the Emperor Nicholas was placed in 
great danger, on his return from Berlin to Warsaw, had been 
condemned to Siberia, but the Emperor has since commuted 
the punishment to a few days' imprisonment. 
At the late fire at Bzvernehorg, in Russia, 295 houses, the 
church, the salt magazines, three military store-houses, and 
the public school, were completely destroyed. The loss is 
estimated at about 3,000,000 francs. 
THE ADVENT HERALD. 
BOSTON, JULY 31, 1 8 5 2. 
NEW WORK. 
" The Phenomena of the Rapping Spirits, &c. : A revival 
of the Necromancy, Witchcraft and Demonology forbidden 
in the Scriptures : Shown by an exposition of Rev. 15-18 
to be symbolized by the Frog-like spirits which were to pro-
ceed from the mouth of the Dragon, Beast and False Prophet. 
For they are the spirits of devils winking miracles, which 
go forth unto the kings of the earth and of the whole world, 
to gather them to the battle of that great day of God Al-
mighty.' "-Rev. 16:14. 80 pp. Price, 121 cts. single-
$8 per hundred, or ten copies for $1. Postage on single 
copy 2 cts. fur each 500, or any part of 500 miles. 
This will be published the corning week at this office. It 
begins with the 15th chapter, and gives an exposition of that 
and the three chapters next following-ending where the 
tract called the Approaching Crisis begins. It gives : 
The Victors on the Sea of Glass.-Rev. 15:1-4. 
The Angels with the Seven Vials.-15:5-8 ; 16:1. 
The First Vial.-16:2. 
The Second Vial.-16:3. 
The Third Vial.-16:4-7. 
The Fourth Vial.-16:8, 9. 
The Fifth Vial.-16:10, 11. 
The Sixth Vial.-16:12. 
The Unclean Spirits.-16:13, 14. 
The Admonition.-16:15. 
The Success of the Spirits.-16:16. 
The Seventh Vial.-16;17-21. 
The Judgment of the Harlot.-17;1, 2. 
A Woman on a Scarlet Colored Beast.-17:3-18. 
The Fall of Babylon.-18:1-3. 
The Voice from Heaven.-18:4-8. 
The Destruction of Babylon.-18:9-24. 
The evidence is given that we are under the sixth vial-
that at this time there were to be the manifestations symbol-
ized by the Unclean Spirits-that it was to be a body of re-
ligious teachers, who should present a belief common to Pa-
ganism, Romanism and Mohammedanism, which religions 
are respectively the mouth-piece of Imperial Rome, deem-
regal Rome, and the eastern Roman Empire,-that demon-
worship is coalition to those three religions-that the teach-
ings of the rapping spirits, are in accordance with that de-
mon-worship-that as the necromancy of the Canaanites 
(Dent. 18th) preceded their destruction, so these are to be 
instrumental in gathering the nations to the battle of Arma-
geddon-that this battle still commence in a violent conflict 
between the opinions of men and the word of God-that 
these new lights have arrayed themselves in direct conflict 
with the Bible-and that it will terminate by the destruction 
of the wicked from the earth. 
Camp Meeting. 
We propose to hold a camp-meeting in the vicinity of Bos-
ton, about the last week in August, in which we hope the 
churches in Worcester, Salem, Lynn, Lowell, Westford, 
Westboro', Fitchburg, Newburyport, Haverhill, Lawrence, 
Nashua, Providence, R. I., Hope, and other places, will par-
ticipate. The location will be selected with reference to 
the greatest convenience, the least expense, and the protec-
tion it will afford against the lawless. 
We hope a committee from each church will unite with us 
in arranging the details of the meeting, so that all things 
shall be conducted in " decency and order." 
It is designed that each church shall bring a tent, or pro-
vide for themselves in any other where room may be had. 
When not impracticable, it would be better for each church 
to provide a tent for themselves. A table will be set for 
strangers on reasonable terms. 
The prime object of this meeting will be to arouse the 
churches and ministry to the great work of bringing sinners 
to Christ. We need a revival among ourselves in this great 
work. 
The time arid place of the meeting cannot be named, posi-
tively, till our return from the South, the last of July. In 
the meantime, we should be glad if any who know of a spot 
such as described, would apprise us of it. 
Bro. J. W. Bonham. 
BRO. HIMES :-Our beloved Bro. BoNtrAm preached his 
last sermon in this city last Sabbath. He has labored with 
the church here for the eight months past with eminent 
ability and success ; and it is to him, as the servant of God, 
that we are indebted for the good degree of prosperity which 
we enjoy. The church would be glad to retain him, if pos-
sible, but duty calls hint to other fields of labor, where, we 
doubt not, his ministrations will be blessed. 
In this city Bro. Bonham leaves many warm and ardent 
friends. By his able advocacy of the truth, and fearless ex-
posure of error, many have become strongly attached to hint, 
and will remember with gratitude to God his efforts to pro-
mote the welfare of his church and congregation. 
Bro. Bonham leaves the church in a most excellent condi-
tion, its members being united and steadfast, without that di-
vision and discord which afflict so many churches around us. 
And it is our earnest desire and prayer to God that his health 
may be spared, that he may live long to bless the church, and 
point perishing men to the Lamb of God, who taketh away 
the sin of the world. Yours, ALBERT A. COREY. 
Worcester, July 26th, 1852. 
MR. PAYNE'S OPENING ARGUMENT.-In the absence 
of evidence that funds will be raised for an early publication 
of the trial, we have concluded to comply with the wishes of 
those who have requested the publication of Mr. Payne's 
opening argument at the late trial. Those who heard him, 
were much gratified with the fullness, clearness and elo-
quence of his presentation of the case to the jury. We in-
tend to publish it in a single number of the Herald, in three 
weeks frotn the present issue-i. e., in No. 8. We shall 
print an extra quantity of paper, so as to supply the orders 
which may be received from those who wish for it to distri-
bute. The papers will be afforded to such, at the rate of $3 
per hundred, or thirty-two copies for a $1. As only enough 
extra copies will be printed to supply the orders, they should 
be sent in immediately. 
To Correspondents. 
Z. W. Hoyt-We have no additional considerations to 
present respecting the 2300 days. It is very evident that 
their termini are involved in some obscurity ; but that does 
not make them valueless. The fact that twenty-three centu-
ries are thus marked off, and that they must have commenced 
not far front twenty-three hundred years ago, make them suf-
ficiently significant, and ode of the most important of the 
prophecies. 'Po undervalue it, because God has not made it 
more definite than he has, would be showing a want of re-
gard for the use which it already serves, in indicating the 
probable nearness of the end. The obscurity respecting their 
precise termini, would not be permitted did not God's wis-
dom sanction it. 
CAUTION,-We learn that a letter has been shown in 
New York and other points farther West, purporting to be 
from two of the jury on the late trial, certifying that had the 
case been submitted to them, they should have given a ver-
dict to the plaintiff. At our request Bro. A. Pearce has seen 
the jurymen referred to, who deny the statement entirely. 
They offer $1000, fir the production of any such letter with 
their signature. If, therefore, any such is shown, it is a 
forgery. 
This is not improbable ; for J. G. Hamblin testifies, that 
the certificate on p. 128 of the Pamphlet purporting to come 
from him, was not written, signed, or seen by hiin, till it ap-
peared in print. 
NEW MCSIC.-" Uncle Tom's Glimpse of Glory, words 
written by Eliza, and by her respectfully dedicated to Mrs. 
Harriet Beecher Stowe, author of Uncle Tour's 
Music by Frank Howard. Boston : Published by E. H. 
Wade, 197 Washington-street. Price, 25 cts." 
We have received front the popular Music store of Mr. 
Wade, a copy of the above. The poetry which we are per-
united to publish we give below. It speaks for itself. The 
music is spoken of as finely adapted to it. Those who have 
read Uncle Tom's Cabin, will see the appropriateness of the 
words. Those who have not read it had better do so. 
Gently as hadeth the glad light of day, 
Little Evangeline ',assent away ; 
No more her lent through the flowers will roam, 
Slowly but surely she neareth her home 
Now all her loved ones she calls round her bed, 
And gives each a curl from tier fair, drooping head ; 
And bids them remember to meet tier above, 
And Linn who so loves them, lorget not to love. 
Why seeks the verandah, the good Uncle Tom, 
And leaves his own cabin, though midnight has come ? 
He knoweth the Bridegroom ere long will be here, 
And watcheth and waiteth till he shall appear. 
0, when he cotneth amid taken) his own, 
He knows, while the gates shall be wide open thrown, 
He may catch, mil the world without sorrow or sin, 
A glimpse of the glory, as Eva goes in. 
" Christian Parlor Magazine, devoted to Literature, Sci-
ence and Religion. Rev. F. James, Editor. New York : 
Jas. H. Pratt & Co., 116 Nassau-street. 1852." 
The August number of this monthly has come to hand, 
with its usual variety of well selected and original articles. 
ANNIVERSARY OF THE " AMERICAN BIBLE UNION." 
The Animal Meeting of the American Bible Union will be 
held in the meeting-house of the First Baptist Church, on 
the corner of Bromine and Elizabeth streets, in the city of 
New York, on Thursday, the 7th of October next. The ex-
ercises are expected to continue through several days. 
Among the speakers appointed for the occasion are, Pres. 
Lynd, of Covington Seminary ; Pres. Shannon, of Missouri 
University ; Prof. Adkins, of Shurtleff College, III. ; Prof. 
Duncan, of Louisiana University ; Elder Win. B. Maxson, 
New York ; Rev. John L. Waller, Editor of the " West-
ern Recorder," Ky. ; Rev. James Pyper, Editor of the 
" Christian Observer," Canada ; Elder R. L. Coleman, 
Editor of the " Christian Intelligencer," Va., and Rev. 
Messrs. J. 0. Stearns, C. P. Sheldon, William S. Clapp, 
Thomas Armitage, A. Wheelock, W. W. Everts, J. I. Ful-
tou, and others. Discourses upon the Bible are expected to 
be delivered by Rev. Dr. Lyntl, A. Wheelock, amid J. Pyper. 
Phe morning hour of Thuraday, from eight to nine o'clock, 
will be occupied as a prayer-meeting, in which brethren from 
all parts of the country will wide to seeking the blessing of 
God upon the plans and operations of the American Bible 
Union, especially in reference to the revision of the English 
Scriptures. 
The business meeting will commence at 9 A. M. in the lec-
ture-rootn, and the anniversary exercises in the body of the 
house at 10 A. nI. Wm. H. Wvcxore, Cor Sec. 
Fatal Accident with a Reaping Machine.-While Harvey 
Pritchett, son of James Pritchett, living in Looking-glass 
Prairie, Madison county, Ill., was engaged in cutting wheat 
with a reaping machine, his horses took fright and started to 
run. Springing from his seat to stop them, he fell in front of 
the reaper, which caught him and dragged him along some 
distance, severing one of his thighs almost entirely from hie 
body, and otherwise wounding him so severely. that he died 
in about six hours after the accident occurred. 
The Montreal Fire.-Thomas Woods,a private of the 20th 
regiment, at Montreal, is under arrest for arson. It is 
charged that he set fire to the Hays House, by which all the 
Quebec Suburbs were destroyed, at the last fire. 
Appointments, &c. 
NoTicE.-As our paper is made ready for the press on Wednes-
day, appointments must be received, at the latest, by Tuesday 
morning, or they copilot be inserted until the following week. 
Providence permitting, I will be in Rochester on SundaV4 Aug. 
15th, and will preach, it desirable, as Bro. Busby shall arrange. In 
Sanford, or Lansing, Mich., about Thursday, the 19th, and continue 
over the following Sabbath, as Bro. Chatterton shall arrange. In 
Warrenville, Ill., about Wednesday, Aug. 25th, and spend soni e 
time in that vicinity, as Bro. Langdon Miller shall arrange. 
Brethren in the north part of Illinois, or south part of Wisconsin, 
who wish me to preach to them, will write me immediately at 
Warrenville, 111., care of Bro. Langdon Millen-D. Bosworrrti. 
Bro. N. Billings will preach at Northfield Farms, Sabbath, Aug. 
1st ; at South Vernon, Vt., 3d ; Grafton, 4th, and remain in the vi-
cinity one week, and hold meetings as Bro Sherwin may appoint ; 
North Springfield, 12th and 13th, at 5 P. M. ; Claremont, N. H., Sab-
bath, 15th ; Hartland, Densmore Hill, Vt., 17th-will some brother 
call fiir me at Hartland depot on the arrival of the first train from 
Bellows Falls ? at Sugar Hill, N. H.' Aug, 19th, and will labor for 
a time in the destitute churches in that vicinity, as Elder ;Shipman 
may appoint. My P. 0. address is Roxbury, Mass.-N. BILLINGS. 
There will be a Conference at North Danville, corninencing Oct. 
6th, and continuing over the Sabbath. All ministering brethren and 
delegates trout every church in this section, are requested to be 
present on Thursday, Oct. 7th, as the Conference will be opened for 
business. 
 
B. S. REYNOLDS, S. W. TRunnna, 0. DAvts. 
Bro. P. Hawkes will preach in Templeton, Mass., on Sunday, 
Aug. 8th ; Lynn (Dye-house), Sunday, 15th. 
Camp-;Meetings, &c. 
A Camp-meeting of Adventists will be held in South Weymouth, 
to commence Aug • 3d, and continue till the 7th. Services will also 
be held oil the butt (Sabbath), at li) A. M. RBEI 2 P. M. The meeting 
is to be located very near the South Weymouth depot, on the line 
of the Old Colony Railroad from Boston to Plymouth, fifteen miles 
from the former place. Fare !loin Boston, 45 cts. 
The Advent churches of Abington and Weymouth have got up 
this meeting to advance the cause in this region, there being a dis-
position on the part of malty in the community to favor it, and who 
are anxious to hear. 
Brethren and sisters from the surrounding towns are respectfully 
invited to attend, and those who can to bring tents. A provision 
tent will be provided on reasonable terms for those who may not 
have provided for themselves. 
Brn, I-limes, Edwin Burnham, and others, will assist in the ser-
viceose 
 
South Weymouth, July 9th, 1852. 
CitesE TAYLOR. 
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A Camp-meeting will be held in Vernon, Vt , on land owned by 
T. F. Burroughs, in a beautiful grove about one hundred rods front 
the North Vernon depot, and four miles smith of Brattleboro', to 
commence Aug. 24th. and continue over the following Sabbath. 
We hope there will be a general rally for a large meeting. We 
think the prospects are, that more good might be accomplished here 
than south, where there have been many meetings of this kind. 
while 'natty in this region have heard but little preaching on the 
speedy coining of Christ, and some none at all. We hope that all 
who can will come with tents and provisions, prepared to stay on 
the ground. There will he a tent for the accommodation of those 
who wish to provide for themselves. Arrangements have also been 
made with Mr. Burroughs for ail who may desire 
ing, &c., on reasonable terms. Elders '1'• A1 Preble and Edwin 
Burnham are earnestly invited to attend. (For the brethren.) 
board, 
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The Lord willing, a camp-meeting will be held in Winsted, com-
mencing Aug. 30th, to continue one week or more, upon the scone 
ground occupied last year. The camp ground is about two miles 
from the depot at the terminus of the Naugatuck Railroad ; and 
those coming by cars or stages will be accommodated with cheap 
conveyance to and from the meeting. 
We invite every friend of Jesus, and all who are willing to seek 
ewteorrViplittehethGrojohf Ihiehanv,eitio meet with us in the tented grove, to 
Board and horse keeping on reasonable terms, with an invitation 
to the poor pilgrims to come and eat, without money and without 
price. S. G. AlviatiEwsox, 11111AM MUNGER, A. D. SMITH, MILES 
GRANT, Committee. 
A Camp-meeting will be held in Elk county, Pa., on the Senne-
mahoning river, near the junction of Driftwood and Reimers, on 
land owned by Mr. John Coleman, to continence Aug. 13th, and 
continue one week or more. Elders J. Litch, I. R Gates, J. 'I'. 
Lolling, .1. 0. Boyer, and others, will be present. The brethren and 
sisters within this and adjoining counties are requested to make the 
meeting a subject of prayer, that sinners may be converted, saints 
quickened, and the truths of the everlasting gospel spread abroad 
more extensively. (By order of the committee.) Wm. NELSON, 
THEO. BOYER, WM. LANE, J. D. BOYER. 
A Camp-meeting will be held on the ground owned by Mr. Steel 
and others, five miles front Bellefonte, and three miles boon M iles-
burg, Pa., to continence Aug. lath, and continue over the following 
Sabbath. They unite in soliciting all to draw near unto Hint who 
is the fountain of living waters, with devout and importunate pray-
ers, that a pentecostal shower of divine grace may descend upon 
the faithful servants of God, that they may be instrumental in guid-
ing saint and sinner to the Lamb of God. Elders J. Each, 1. R. 
Gates, J. T. Luning, and J. D. Boyer will he present. (By order of 
the committee.) J. T. LANING, JOSEPH EZKLEY, ROBT. MCMUL-
LEN, JACOB SHEARER, J. D. BoYEa. 
"Youth's Guide." 
The July number (No. 3, Vol. 6) of this interesting and beautiful 
little tit with] y pamper is published. 
CONTENTS. 
Richard Bakewell. A Warning to Boys. 
A Sensible Landlord. Nobility of Mind. 
Use of Cat's W hiskers. Keep out 01 Debt. 
Suffering in London. Youthful Neglect. 
Parental Government. The Atmosphere. 
A Dream of Death. The Gold Sovereign. 
Carelessness. 
The Schoolmaster at Home. 
For the Curious. 
Enigma, &c. &c. 
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D. Sawyer, 606 ; 11. F. Hill, 606 ; 1M. White, 586 ; H. B. Baldwin, 
586 ; H. Durkee, 612 ; J. Beckwith, 602, and book to be sent next 
week ; E. Ougley, 612 ; P. Hottgdon, 586 ; W Justice, Sob ; L. 
M'Cusick, 612 a C. Bailey, 606 ; Thu. Chase, jr., 606 ; 1.. H. Perkins, 
606 1). Churchill., 606-each $1. 
Leander H. Brigham, 625 ; E. L. Clark, 632 ; S. Webb, 632 ; R. 
Rounds, 612 A. Dillingham ; S. Newhall, 606 ;, J. Leached, 612 ; 
L. Crocker, Sob ; A. Hoxie, 612 ; .1. Winner, 628 ; A. Benedict, 612 ; 
G. Sutton,. 638 ; Wm. Downes,560-77 cis. due; R. Williams ,606; 
J. Beardmore, 580 ; W. Chamberlin, 566 ; 1.. Randall ; J. Giflbrd, 
586; Airs. S. Blanchard, 612 ; W. Woodbury, 534-and book with 
postage-$1 77 due ; A.111. Morrison, 632 ; J. T. Hone, 627 ; L. R. 
Parker, 606-each 52. 
L. Perry, 649 ; A. Tucker, 586; J. A. Varney, 573 ; C. Platten,. 614 
-25 ems. for Y. G. ; A. B. Lu bard, 586 • S. French, 566-each $3. 
J. S. Axe, 625-51 51). J. Root), 580258 50. J. Wise, 560 ; S. N. 
Fowler, 580; W. Boardman, 560-each 77 cents. I). Heath, 606-
$1 al. J. C. Downing, 560-50 cts. S. Dalton, 580-40 cts.