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THE CHANGING WORLD. 
" The fashion of this world passeth away." 
written on the rolling sea, 
That holds no settled form ; 
stiaA,,,,y cloud, it. alai. dye., 
Its rainbow and its storm. 
'Tis written on the restless year , 
On spring arrayed in flowers, 
On summer bright, on autumn sear, 
On winter's stormy hours. 
'Tin written on the changing earth; 
Its valleys clothed with pride, 
Its towering hills of ancient birth, 
Its fields and forests wide. 
'Tis written on the surging sea, 
Whose waters will not sleep ; 
And on the counties, streams that flee, 
As restless to its deep. 
'Tis written on time's moving show 
That never is the same ; 
The living dreams that come and go, 
Remembered but iu name. 
'Tis written on thy dying form, 
Sweet mistress of this page ; 
The heart that plays within thee warm, 
Steals as it gives thine age. 
The Cherubim. 
FROM THE LONDON "QUARTERLY JOURNAL OF PROPHECY." 
everywhere the triumphant palm) the figures of 
the Cherubim appeared. 
7. But this leads us to speak more at length 
of Ezekiel's Cherubim. That prophet seems 
to confirm this last idea regarding the connex-
ion of these symbols with a renewed earth, or 
Paradise restored. 
Ezekiel (c. 1st,) saw first of all a cloud, a 
great cloud, driven along by whirlwind. The 
Lord was in that cloud and in that whirlwind. 
As it came near (v. 4) lo ! a sphere of fire, a 
globe of the brightest light, sparkling all around. 
He stood gazing, when, lo ! four living beings 
(v. 5) appeared in the midst of this light, or 
fire, all of them presenting the human face. For 
their front-face was that of man (vs. 5, 6) ; the 
front row of faces was the human. Their feet 
were flat and firm (its') ; yet as a calf * feels it 
no trouble to skip along its pastures, so to them 
motion was no toil.—(V. 7.) Their hands 
were inward (v. 8), as if they were not meant 
for work ; at least, as if that were not their 
special present business. Their wings (v. 9) 
formed a canopy over something within ;—was 
not this their position over the mercy-seat ? 
'Their wings were not spread out to fly. And 
their faces were (v. 10) the ox, lion, eagle, 
along with man, as if to say,—Here are beings 
who have to do with a world where the ox feeds 
on its grass and works for man; and where the 
lion, in stately majesty, rules the forest ; and 
where the etzke soars over t'i\e 'neao of man, 
the lord of that creation. You at your plough, 
0 man, are the kind of person meant ; you, 
O man, whose eye cannot follow the eagle in 
its lofty flight, but standest on thy mountains 
gazing at him with delight, you are the person 
meant. And this fourfold face looks north, 
south, east, and west. Once more also, they 
are guided in their motions by the Spirit of life. 
(Vs. 9, 12, 14.) It is not their own will that 
guides, and yet all is done with readiness, and 
ease, and pleasure. Their appearance, at the 
same time, is altogether glorious,—like the 
Lord's, as described elsewhere ; like that of 
their Master and King the Lord Jesus. Far if 
he is spoken of in Dan. 10th, as having "eyes 
as lamps of fire," so are theirs ; if his feet in 
Rev. 1st, are spoken of as like " burning brass," 
so are theirs. The beryl color, too, is here (v. 
15) as in Dan 10:6. 
But it is to the wheels that we' call attention 
chiefly, in connexion with the Cherubim. 'There 
was a wheel at (v. 15) each of the four faces. 
'These wheels were of great magnitude, their 
rim flashed fire ; and was " full of eyes." All 
the time this " chariot of the Cherubim " has 
still the Spirit for its mover (vs. 20, 21), and 
moves on under a very glorious sky. There is 
a firmament above it, clear as crystal, as pure 
and marvellous as the " sea of glass," in Rev. 
4:6. In that firmament was a throne with the 
rainbow ensign ; and on that throne one sat, no 
other than the Son of man, our Lord and King. 
Now, we throw out the thought rather as a 
subject of consideration than as a settled con-
viction of our own mind, but we feel led to the 
impression that this scene has much to do with 
the kingdom of the Lord and his saints. We 
ask our readers to inquire if indeed it can be 
the Spirit's purpose here to show us, in these 
Cherubim and the wheels, something as to the 
saints reigning with their Lord and governing 
the earth along with Him ? 
We have here a chariot of a sort ; it is called 
so by the Jews, and in the book of Sirach 49:8, 
it is named "Arma Cheroubim," Whether also 
1 Chron. 28:18 refers to something of this kind 
accompanying the Cherubim themselves, in Solo-
mon's Temple, we do not stop to inquire, though 
it is not unlikely, since it formed part of a new 
revelation given to his father David. May this 
chariot—these wheels, or wheel-work forming 
a chariot—be intended to show how the Lord 
will convey his redeemed ones from place to 
place, over the vast extent of his dominions ? 
If they are to be rulers and princes to Him, 
they must know their dominion well, and visit 
it often. Does, then, this chariot intimate some-
thing of the provision to be made by the Lord 
their King for enabling them to superintend 
their sphere of government, the new earth ? In 
Song 3:9, 10, there is mention made of the 
chariot of King Solomon for the daughters of 
Jerusalem, paved with love, its covering of 
purple, its pillars of gold, its wood of the ce-
dars of Lebanon. Was that a similar kind to 
this ? Was it intended for surveying the king-
dom in Solomon's company ? And can this 
chariot here be meant for the same end ? 
It is, of course, to be used for executing the 
behests of the King who is on yonder throne 
with the rainbow around it. In it the Cheru-
bim go to visit and survey the new earth. That 
" highway" of which Isaiah 35:8 may be for 
the men still in the flesh, to enable them to 
visit the glories of a restored earth ; but this 
chariot is for the glorified, for those that are 
Christ's kingdom, and it. may be intended to 
further the ends of their government. Every 
wheel was "full of eyes," as if to intimate ob-
servation and discovery ; wherever the chariot 
moves wonders are seen, and all things are seen 
carefully and accurately. 
The firmament (v. 22) evidently corresponds 
to Rev. 4:6, " sea of glass." 'There, seen from 
above, the sight that caught the eye of one 
looking from heaven was a pure transparent 
ocean at his feet; but here, to one like Eze-
kiel looking up, the sight was that of o pure 
transparent sky, awfully magnificent. Was 
it the sky of the New Heavens ? No dark 
clouds, no mists or intercepting vapors, no 
storms, no emblem of a frown or former tokens 
of gloom ? Under this firmament the Cheru-
bim move ; their wings (v. 23) were straight, 
or perpendicular, for they covered their bodies 
with them, as a token of homage to Him that 
sat on the throne which they saw above theni. 
The motion of their wings was pleasant, like 
" that of waters," even as their Lord's voice is 
said to be (Rev. 1:15); and like " the voice 
of the Almighty," perhaps speaking from the 
cloudly pillar ; and, once more, " like the noise 
of a host," intimating that many voices were 
there ; it was one only, or a few. It is the 
voice of the host of God ; and this host is so 
fully obedient, that at His word, lo ! they drop 
their wings and listen. (Vs. 24, 25.) 
They are near the throne; for vs. 26-28 des-
cribe it. 
It is like Exodus 24:10, a scene wherein we 
get the Old Testament view of what reconcilia-
tion by blood was to conduct to, viz., the pres-
ence of God the King, and a place in his pres-
ence at his throne. It is not of ivory, as Solo-
mon's, but it is of the sapphire hue ; the sky 
itself is the throne. And a man is on it ! Who 
but the Son of man ? The rainbow is there, 
round the throne, altogether as Rev. 4:3. It 
is surely a scene relating to this earth of ours 
whereon once deluge came ; but to our earth 
at a period when the flood is dried up, and its 
Noah, its true Noah, has looked forth upon it. 
It may be a question, though we cannot find 
means to settle it, whether or not the cloud of 
glory over the mercy-seat, between the Cheru-
bim, did not always assume the form of the 
rainbow ? 
But it is enough, perhaps, for us to have suggest-
ed these thoughts. We notice then, further, that 
this throne of glory, and the Cherubim under it, 
is represented soon after as leaving Jerusalem 
(chap. 10)th, darting forth (vs. 3-5) one bright 
parting beam. A cherub hands out the fire of 
judgment. The description is then repeated of 
the wheel-work arid the living beings, and a dif- 
ficulty occurs. At v. 14. " the first face was 
the face of a cherub," seems strange in a descrip-
tion of the Cherubim ; but the words are prop- 
erly, " the face of the cherub " as in v. 
7 : " The face of the cherub which I had seen 
giving out the fire." The face turned toward 
the man clothed with linen, in giving out the 
fire, appears to have been the ox-face, because, 
perhaps, of the connexion of the altar-fire with 
the ox of sacrifice. The full departure takes 
place, chap. 11:1, 22. But then, there is a re-
turn also. And when the return takes place 
(chap. 43:1-7 and 48:35), how well the idea of 
the Lord and his saints reigning suits with the 
whole scenery will appear to all who are accus-
tomed to advert to that subject in other prophets. 
If we are at all right, then, the first chapter 
of Ezekiel shows us the redeemed who are to be 
in the kingdom, and the close of Ezekiel brings 
them into the kingdom. We have no more 
than glimpses of these truths, but they are pleas-
ant glimpses of things which man cannot now 
comprehend. There is a day soon to dawn 
wherein we shall discover what now " eye has 
not seen, nor ear heard, nor the heart of man 
conceived." 
8. One other point remains. Are Isaiah's 
Seraphim the same as the Cherubium ? 
We 
think they are. There is but one reason for 
thinking the contrary, and it is this ;—the 
Seraphim in Isaiah 6th, have six wings, whereas 
Ezekiel's Cherubim seem to have only four. 
But, 1, John, in Rev. 4:8, distinctly gives the 
Cherubim " six ;" 2, and most important, Eze-
kiel does not say that they had not six. On the 
contrary, while v. 11 describes only four, two 
covering their body and two stretched above 
their head, yet v. 23 states that every one 
had " two to cover on this side, and two to cover 
on that side," a statement made in addition 
to the information that they had other wings 
straight under the firmament. There seems 
hero a hint of more wings than four only. 
Isaiah's Seraphim. quite correspond, in their 
song, to the view given of the Cheruoim and 
the chariot. They are anticipating " the whole 
earth full of his glory."—V. 3. It may be that 
their name is taken from the fact of the appear-
ance of the golden Cherubim in the most holy 
place being so bright. The root TT?, tneans " to 
burn ;" and the Jews have understood it as 
meaning " bright, or shining ones ;" and though 
Gesenius objects to this, that the word is not 
used anywhere in the sense of that burning 
which has brightness, yet this objection is ob-
viated if we suppose a reference to the appear-
ance of the Cherubim under the cloud of glory. 
Then they would appear " as if they burned in 
a furnace " (Rev. 1:15), and might hence get 
this other name, " Seraphim." 
It is not unworthy of our notice how far 
custom and mutual imitation may lead men 
astray, as illustrated by the Cherubim. Age 
after age men have consented to speak of one 
class of angels as " Seraphim," because full of 
fire and warmth of love, whilst other angels 
are "Cherubim," because fuller of the quality 
of wisdom. Painters have given angels wings ; 
sculptors have made Cherubim like little in-
fants, or winged Cupids ; both alike without 
one vestige of scriptural authority, and most 
men tamely follow them. Poets have found the 
words convenient for many purposes, and Chris-
tians have found it easier to assent to general 
opinion than to investigate for themselves, under 
the Spirit's guidance. But let us be more noble; 
let us be Bereans ; let us be like the ancient 
prophets, who inquired and searched diligently. 
There is much yet to be gleaned, we suspect, 
in this field ; and a recent writer may be in the 
right who throws out the hint, that it is to 
" the opening of the temple of God in heaven " 
(Rev. 11:19), when the ark (and, of course, its 
Cherubim) will be seen that we are to look for 
the full understanding of these, the most ancient 
of the symbolic figures. What a day of revela-
tion, in every sense, is the day for which we 
long and pray, and watch and wait, when the 
bright morning star shall arise " on our hearts," 
as well as on our world ! There is in reserve 
for us an enlightening of the eyes of our under- 
standing (Ephes. 1:18), in comparison of which 
all our present knowledge is dim, and our dis- 
coveries imperfect, and our insight into myste-
ries like obscurity, and our comprehension of the 
truth incomplete and feeble. " 0 thou that 
dwellest between the Cherubim, shine forth ."' 
No MAN ever offended his own conscience, but 
first or last it was revenged upon him for it. 
(Concluded.) 
The Cherubim were of one piece with the 
gold of the mercy-seat. They were not made at 
all of Shittirn-wood ; they were wholly of gold, 
and of the gold that formed the lid of the ark. 
We quite agree with those who say that this 
shows forth the union between Christ and his 
redeemed. He being the Ark, and his redeem-
ed resting their whole weight on Him, their feet 
touching his blood—which could not be said of 
angels. But there is more set forth here. The 
Snittim-wood of the ark, shew-bread-table, &c., 
seem to set forth not Christ's human nature, as 
has often been said, but Christ's state of humilia-
tion. And while the Shittim-wood, the growth 
of earth, and of earth's wilderness, set forth 
Christ in his state of humiliation, the gold sig-
nified, not his divine nature (for there is no 
type at all of what is divine), but his slate of 
exaltation. It reminds us of the golden streets 
of new Jerusalem, and the golden harps, and 
the golden crowns of glory. If so, then we 
have here a symbol of the redeemed united 
to Christ glorified ; to Christ who has obtained 
glory and honor for us. We. are shown the re-
deemed on the mercy-seat arriving at the height 
of honor through their Lord. We see them 
taken from the dust and set on the throne of 
glory. 
And this may suggest to us, that the re-
deemed in Paradise restored is an idea contained 
in the Cherubim. 'The Cherubim, when seen 
by Adam and Eve, would appear in the old Pa-
radise beyond reach of the flaming sword ; now, 
was not this designed to tell of a return to what 
they had lost ?—a return to an earth made Pa-
radise again ? It is not unlikely, surely ; es-
pecially as in Solomon's Temple we have the 
palm-trees in such abundance on the walls, 
amid which (as in an earth over which waved 
* It seems strange that writers should agree so 
well in representing the foot itself as a calf's foot in 
shape and form. No ; it was in its qualities only. 
The foot was probably the human foot. It is strange 
that this is so often overlooked. 
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larly of that which we call the future kingdom ous triumph to the church of God. And seeing, the devoted missionaries of the Gospel. And 
[Mr. BURNEI, a learned English writer and of Christ. 
in the New Testament, and in the prophecies thus, as we might have anticipated, the age of 
Secretary to King WILLIAM, was born A. D. The same pacific temper, innocency and jus- of St. John, the Christian church is still repre- the apostles was the great era of missions. 
lice, are celebrated by this prophet, when the sented as under persecution and distress, till the There was much in the social condition of 
1635. His " Theory of the Earth," from which a mountain of the lord shall be established in fall of Antichrist, and the millennial kingdom ; the world that was favorable to the spread of 
these extracts are taken, does not favor probation the top of the mountains, (chap. 2:2, 4.) And it is then, and not till then, that we must expect the new faith. The fulness of times predicted 
after the advent.] 
he shall judge amongst the nations, and shall the full accomplishment of these prophecies; by the prophets and apostles had come. It was 
(Continued from our last.) 
rebuke many people ; and they shall beat their the restoration that St. Peter says was spoken the only fit period for his reception. Had he 
But to proceed in this argument, it will be swords into plowshares, and their spears into of by all the prophets; and the mystery, which entered on his work centuries earlier, his reli- 
necessary, as I told you, to set down some notes pruning-hooks. Nation shall not lift up sword St. John says, (Apoc. 10:7) was declared by his gion would have had to encounter those wars, 
and characters of this reign of Christ and of against nation, neither shall they learn war any servants the prophets, and would be finished un- in which Rome was engaged for her supremacy; 
his saints, whereby it may be distinguished more." And as to righteousness, he says, in der the seventh trumpet, which ushers in the or had his mission taken place at a much ear- 
from the present state and present kingdoms of the 23d chapter, " Behold a king shall reign in kitigdom of Christ. 
Tier period, his disciples would have had to con- 
the world ; and these characters are chiefly righteousness, and princes shall rule in judg- We must not imagine that the prophets wrote tend with the savage fury of the northern hordes, 
three, justice, peace, and divine presence, or con- ment," etc. 
like the poets ; feigned an idea of a romantic before they had gained a sure foothold in the 
duct, which uses to be called theocracy. By The next prophet that we mentioned, as a state, that never was, or ever will be, only to empire. But the Roman power was at its 
these characters it is sufficiently distinguished witness of the future kingdom of Christ, is Da- please their own fancies, or the credulous peo- height and in its glory. Peace without much 
from the kingdoms of this world ; which are vid ; who, in his Psalms, seems to he pleased pie. Neither is it the state of heaven and eter- interruption reigned from the Danube to the 
generally unjust in their titles or exercise, stained with this subject above all others; and when he nal life that is here meant or intended : for, Euphrates, from the Pillars of Hercules to the 
with blood, and so far from being under a par- is most exalted in his thoughts and prophetical besides that they had little or no light concern- Great Sahara. Within these limits the mis-
ticular divine conduct, that human passions and raptures, the Spirit carries him into the king- ing, those notions, in the Old Testament, the sionaries of the cross might journey, protected 
human vices are the springs that commonly give dom of the Messiah, to contemplate its glory, prophets, generally, in their description of this in their person and property from the thief, the 
motion to their greatest designs : but more par- to sing praises to its King, and triumph over his happiness, either express the earth, or at least ruler, or the foreign foe. 
ticularly and restrainedly, the government of enemies. Psa. 68—" Let God arise, let his give plain marks of a terrestrial state. Where- Every colony and every province under this 
Christ is opposed to the kingdom and govern- enemies be scattered ; let them also that hate fore, the only question that remains, is this, government was accessible to all. Great high-
ment of Antichrist, whose characters are diamet- him flee before him ; as smoke is driven away, whether these happy days are past already, or ways extended from the gates of the capital to 
rice lly opposite to these, being injustice, cruelty, so drive them away ; as wax melteth before the to come ? Whether this blessed state of the the remotest bounds of her dominion. Many 
and human or diabolical artifices. 
fire, so let the wicked perish at the presence of church is behind us, or b,fore us ? Whether of them were splendid works of art, paved 
Upon this short view of the kingdom of God : but let the righteous be glad," etc. The our predecessors have enjoyed it, or our posterity with stone for hundreds of miles, penetrating 
Christ, let us make inquiry after it amongst the plain ground he goes upon, in this Psalm, is is to expect it? For we are very sure that it is through solid masses of rock, crossing vast 
prophets of the Old Testament; and we shall the deliverance out of Egypt, and bringing the not present. The world is full of wars, and marshes, arching ravines, and bridging rivers. 
find, upon examination, that there is scarce any Israelites into the land of Canaan ; but when rumors of wars ; of vice and knavery, of op- The Aurelian way followed the coast eastward 
of them, greater or lesser, but take notice of he is once upon the wing, he soars to an higher presison and persecution : and these are things to Genoa and the southern shores of Gaul; the 
this mystical kingdom, either expressly, or un- pitch, (v. 18) from the type to the antitype ; to directly contrary to the genius and characters Flaminian way extended north to the Cisalpine 
der the types of Israel, Sion, Jerusalem, and the days of the Messiah, the ascension of our of the state which we look after. 
Gaul, and covered the country with its network 
such like. And therefore I am apt to think, Saviour ; and, at length, to his kingdom and And if we look for it in times past, we can go of branches ; the Appian way—" that Queen of 
that when St. Peter, in his sermon to the Jews, dominion over all the earth.—v. 32, etc. The no farther back than the beginning of Christi- Roads "—issuing from the great Roman Fo-
(Acts 3d) says, all the holy prophets spoke of 45th Psalm is an Epithalamium to Christ and anity : for St. John, the last of the apostles, rum, ran to the extreme limits of Italy, inter-
the restitution of all things, he does riot mean the church, or to the Lamb and his Spouse. prophecied of these times, as to come; and secting that great promontory with its numerous 
the renovation of the world separately from the And when that will be, and in what state, we placed them at the end of his system of proptie- cross paths, in every direction. In connection 
kingdom of Christ, but complexly, as it may may learn from St. John, (Apoc. 19:7, 8, and cies ; whereby one might conclude, that they with these great roads, the navigation of the 
imply both. For there are not many of the old chap. 21:2, 9) namely, after the destruction of are not only within the compass of the Chris- Mediterranean was free and easy. It is true 
prophets that have spoken of the renovation of Babylon, in the new Jerusalem's glory. The tian ages, but far advanced into them. But the ancients had not the mariner's compass nor 
the natural world, but a great many have spoken words and matter of the two prophets answer however, not to insist upon that at present, chart; nor did they possess the means of ascer-
of the renovation of the moral, in the kingdom to one another. Here, in this psalm, there is a where will you find a thousand years, from the taining the latitude and longitude of the ship's 
of Christ. These are St. Peter's words, (Acts fight and victory celebrated as well as a mar- birth of Christianity to this present age, that position at sea. But they could well dispense 
3 : 19-21), " Repent ye therefore, and be con- riage ; and so there is in that 19th chapter of St. deserves the name, or answers to the characters with these in sailing over that lung but narrow 
verted, that your sins may be blotted out, John. Here the prophet says, " Gird thy sword of this pure and pacific state of the church ? lake, which the provinces of the empire so com-
when the times of refreshing shall come from upon thy thigh, 0 Most Mighty, with thy glory The first ages of Christianity, as they were the pletely enclosed. For in this sea numerous 
the presence of the Lord. And he shall send and thy majesty. And in thy majesty ride most pure, so likewise were they the least islands and the projecting cliffs of land would 
Jesus Christ which before was preached unto prosperously, because of tiute, and meekness, peaceable; continually, :more or less, under the guide them on their passage; or when these 
you ; whom the heavens must receive until the and righteousness ; and thy right hand shall persecution of the heathen emperors ; arid so ' failed, which was seldom for more than a few 
times of restitution of all things." The apostle 1,,,,,A thee terrible things. Thy throne, 0 God, far from being the reign and empire of Christ days, the clear sky revealed a brilliant chart, ' 
here meat ens three things, the times of refresh- is for ever and ever : the sceptre of thy king- and his saints over the nations, that Christians which could never mislead the experienced and 
ing, the second coming of our Saviour, and the dom is a right sceptre," etc.—Psa. 45:3, 4, 6. were then everywhere in subjection or slavery; watchful seaman. Besides, their vessels were 
times of restitution of all things : and to the last There St. John says, having described a con- a poor, feeble, helpless people, thrust into prisons, not unsuited to the navigation of this inland 
of these he immediately subjoins, " which God queror on a white horse, " Out of his mouth or thrown to the lions, at the pleasure of their lake, protected as they were, by good natural or 
hath spoken by the mouth of all his holy proph- goeth a sharp sword, that with it he should princes or rulers. It is true, when the empire artificial harbors, and by well situated light-
ets, since the world began." This restitution smite the nations, and he shall rule them with became Christian, under Constantine, in the houses. The trade and commerce carried on 
of all things, I say, must not be understood ab- a rod of iron : and he treadeth the wine-press fourth century, there was, for a time, peace and along these lines of intercommunication was 
stractly from the reign of Christ, but as in con• of the fierceness and wrath of Almighty God : prosperity in the church, and a good degree of immense. Rome was the great market of the 
junction with it ; and in that sense, and no and he hath on his vesture, and on his thigh a purity and piety ; but that peace was soon dis- world. The numerous wants and luxuries of 
other, it is the general subject of the prophets. name written, King of Kings, and Lord of tubed, arid that piety soon corrupted. The her millions invited the merchant from all qua- 
To enter therefore into the schools of the Lords."—Apoc. 191.15, 16. This is the same glowing pride and ambition of the ecclesiastics, ters of the known world. The north countries 
prophets, and inquire their sense concerning glorious conqueror and bridegroom in both and their easiness to admit or introduce super- brought their furs, Spain sent her silver, Sicily 
this mystery, let us first address ourselves to places ; and this victory is not gained, nor stitious practices, destroyed the purity of the and Egypt their grain, the opposite shores of 
the prophet Isaiah, and the royal prophet David ; these nuptials completed, till the second coming church. And as to the peace of it, their con- Africa, their wild beasts for the arnphithea- 
who seem to have had many noble thoughts or of our Saviour. 
tests about opinions and doctrines, tore the tre, and India its spices, its silks, and its pre- 
inspirations upon this subject. Isaiah, in the In many other Psalms there are reflections Christians themselves into pieces ; and, soon cious stones. This vast business, with the 
65th chapter, from the 17th verse to the end, upon this happy kingdom, and the triumph of after, an inundation of barbarous people fell trades, the useful and ornamental arts which it 
treats upon this argument ; and joins together Christ over his enemies, as Psa. 2d, 9th, 21st, into Christendom, and put it all into flames and created, not only opened the empire to the mis-
the renovation of the natural and moral world, 24th, 47th, 85th, and 90th, and others. In these confusion. After this eruption of the Northern sionaries, but gave currency to the Greek and 
as St. Peter, in the place fore-mentioned, seems and such like Psalms, there are lineaments and nations, Mohammedanism rose in the East, and Latin languages, and diffused a general intelli-
to do : and accordingly the prophet, having set colors of a fairer state than any we have yet swarms of Saracens, like armies of locusts, in- Bence among all classes of people, and thus 
down several natural characters of that state, as seen upon earth. Not but that in their first in- vaded, conquered, and planted their religion in prepared the way for the spread of the gospel. 
indolency and joy, longevity, ease, and plenty, stances and grounds they may sometimes re- several parts of the Roman empire, and of the The moral state of the empire also betokened 
from v. 18 to the 24th, he there begins the spect the state of Israel; or the evangelical Christianized world. And can we call such a crisis in human affairs. Its civilization, ele-
moral characters of divine favor, and such a state: but the eye of the prophet goes farther; times the reign of Christ, or the imprisonment vated as it was in its outward form, was rotten 
particular protection, that they are heard and this does not terminate his fight : his divine en- of Satan ? In the following ages, the Turks at the core. It bore in its own bosom the semi- 
answered before they pray. 
over-ran the eastern empire and the Greek 
And lastly, he rep- thusiasm reaches into another world ; a world 
nal principles of disease and death, The tal- 
resents it as a state of universal peace and inno- of peace, and justice, and holiness; of joy, and church, and still hold that miserable people in ent, the intelligence, and the accumulated wealth 
cency, v. 23, " the wolf and the lamb shall feed victory, and triumph over all the wicked ; and slavery. Providence seems to have so ordered of Rome was lavished on every form of 
affairs, that the Christian world should never be 
sensu- 
together," &c. 
consequently such a world, as neither we nor 
ous indulgence. The appetites arid passions 
This last character, which comprehends peace, our fathers have yet seen. This is an account without a woe upon it, lest it should fancy itself were stimulated and gratified by a depraved 
justice, and innocency, is more fully displayed of two prophets, David, and Isaiah ; and of already in those happy days of peace and pros- and heartless ingenuity. Selfishness, always 
by the same prophet, in the 10th chapter, where what they have more openly declared concern- perity, which are reserved for future times. short-sighted, but now more refined, and hence 
he treats also of the kingdom of Christ. Give ing the future kingdom of Christ. But to veri- Lastly, whosoever is sensible of the corruptions more destructive than ever, reigned supreme. 
me leave to set down his words, (vs. 4-9)—" But fy St. Peter's words, in that fore-mentionedand persecutions of the Church of Rome, since 
she came to her greatness; whosoever allows All must fall to pieces before the impendjag 
with righteousness shall he judge the poor, and place, (Acts. 3:21), that all the holy proph-
shock of the Gothic tribes. There was no IV 
reprove with equity, fa 
her to be mystical Babylon, which must fall be- 
 
the meek of the earth : ets, since the world began, have spoken of the 
generative power either in the arms or religion 
and he shall smite the earth with the rod of his 
fore the kingdom of Christ comes on, will think 
 
restoration of all things at the second coming 
of the savages. Enfeebled in body and soul 
mouth, and with the breath of his lips shall he of Christ ; I say, to verify this assertion of St.
by new an 
that 
 vices, they could only rush 
that kingdom duly placed by St. John, at the 
slay the wicked. And righteousness shall be Peter, we must suppose that, where the proph- end of his prophecies, concerning the Christian into the ruins to perish with their conquered 
the girdle of his loins, and faithfulness the gir- ets speak of the restoration and future glory of church ; and that there still remains, according 
the lamb, and the leopard shall lie down with types, represent to us the glory and happiness 
foes. 
which society was exposed. The old systems of 
die of his reins. The wolf also shall dwell with 
to the words of St. Paul, (Heb. 4:9) a sabbatism 
 
Judah and Jerusalem, they do, under those 
But sensualism was not the only danger to 
to the people of God.—(To be continued.) 
the kid; and the calf and the young lion, and of the church in the future kingdom of Christ: 
idolatry were losing their hold on the more in- 
the fatling together, and a little child shall lead• and most of the prophets, in this sense, and un- 
telligent of the people. The temples began to 
them. And the cow and the bear shall feed, der these forms, have spoken of this kingdom, The Apostolic Age. be neglected, and many of the far-famed oracles 
their young ones shall lie down together; and in foretelling the restoration of Jerusalem and 
had ceased to give responses. Men began to 
 
the lion shall eat straw like the ox. And the. Zion ; and happy days, peace, plenty, and pros- Christianity is diffnsive in its spirit. It awa- reject the religion of their fathers, and from 
suckling child shall play on the hole of the asp, perity to the people of Israel. 
kens in its converts a self-sacrificing love for that point began to be skeptics. As we see in 
and the weaned child shall put his hand on the Most of the prophets, I say, from Moses to their fellow men. It excites in their heartsthe some of the oriental countries, a rejection of the 
cockatrice den. They shall not hurt nor de- Malachi, have spoken of this restoration. Mo- most ardent desires for their salvation—desires old ancestral faith prepares the way for a corn-
stroy in all my holy mountain; for the earth ses, in the 30th of Deut. vs. 4, 5, 9; David, in similar in their nature to those which led the plete skepticism. This is but a natural process 
shall be full of the knowedge of the Lord, as many of those Psalms we have cited ; Isaiah, Redeemer to the garden and the cross. In their with many minds to pass from one extreme to 
the waters cover the sea." Thus far the proph- besides the places fore-mentioned, treats amply aims to subdue the world to Christ, they are its opposite. This infidelity was increased by 
et. Now if we join this to what we noted be- of this subject, chap. 51st, and in several other encouraged by his precepts and his example; the speculative doubts of the philosopher. In 
fore, from: his 65th chapter, concerning the same places. So likewise the prophets Ezekiel, Dan- and their hopes of ultimate success rest on the close connection with this spirit of indifference 
state, it will be impossible to understand it of iel, Hosea, Joel, Amos, Obadiah, Micah, Zepha- promises, the Word, and the aid of the Spirit. and unbelief, there arose a fanatical clinging 
Concerning the New Heavens and any order of things that is now, or hath been ny, Haggai, Zechary, Malachi. All these have, The truth of this is confirmed by history. It 
New Earth. hitherto in the world ; and consequently it muet either expressly, or under the types of Jerusa- tells us that where the religion of Jesus has 
be the idea of some state to come, and particu- hem and Zion, foretold happy days, and a glori- appeared in its purity, it has always called forth 
 
 
 
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to the national religion—a superstition as vio-
lent as it was desperate. It is easy to see that 
this two-fold tendency must accelerate the ruin 
of society. The religion of Jesus could wily 
save it from overthrow, and preserve its trea-
sures of wisdom and genius l'or future genera-
tions. 
But not only did these moral dangers invite 
Divine interposition, but there were elements 
that favored it. There were those who could 
be neither fanatics nor infidels. Their intel-
ligence forbid the one, their strong craving for 
truth, the other. Here and there might be 
found men of earnest minds feeling after God, 
if haply they might find him. To these, Chris-
tianity would come with a new and divine 
power; and these seem the first who embraced 
it in the Gentile world. But a better prepara-
tion than even this is found in the dispersion of 
the Jews over the empire. They had gone to 
the most distant cities of their own accord, or 
had been carried thither as colonies and cap-
tives by Roman generals. Their peculiar views 
and rites made an impression on the heathen. 
Very many, even from the higher walks of life, 
became converts to Judaism. Those who adopt-
ed the ceremonial law and were circumcised, 
were called Proselytes of Justice; those who 
received only the moral law with its doctrinal 
teachings, were termed Proselytes of the Gate. 
Thus the Jews, with their views of one God, 
their expectation of a Messiah, the Old Testa-
ment, and their numerous synagogues, not only 
invited the missionary of the cross to labor with 
them, but prepared the heathen mind also to 
receive the truth. 
After the ascension of their Lord, the apos-
tles with their associates returned to Jerusalem. 
Here in prayer and supplication they waited for 
the promised Spirit. Their hopes were soon 
realized. As they were assembled on the day 
of Pentecost, the sound from heaven, the fiery 
tongues, and their own elevated thoughts and 
feelings, revealed to them the presence of the 
Holy Ghost. They at once broke their silence, 
and began their labors. Their prayers, their 
preaching, and their miracles carried the truth 
home to the hearts of the people. The apostle 
Peter took the lead, as his age, his zeal, and his 
ministerial talent entitled him to hold the first 
position among the immediate disciples of the 
Saviour. We find him in the courts of the tem-
ple, in private houses, before the people and be-
fore the council, holding forth the words of eter-
nal life. In a few days thousands were added 
to the assembly of believers. Though the con-
verts were for the most part taken from the 
people, yet there was a great company of priests 
who were obedient to the faith. Thus the Lord 
added to this model church daily such as should 
be saved. 
But this state of uninterrupted success did 
not last long. The evangelical spirit and bold 
preaching of Stephen excited to the highest 
pitch the slumbering rage of the priests. And 
the Lord did not interpose, as in the case of 
Peter, and save his servant from their threat-
ened violence. It was fit that the power of the 
gospel to sustain and sanctify the Christian in 
the trying hour of a cruel and violent death, 
should now be exhibited ; besides the church in 
Jerusalem had gained too strong a hold to be 
easily or suddenly uprooted ; and the time had 
fully come, when the truth ought to be made 
known throughout the adjacent regions. The 
persecution, which God wisely permitted, thus 
burst upon his people, drove them through Sa-
maria, and even to Antioch. The leading spirit 
was Philip, a man endowed with the gift of 
working miracles. His labors soon enlisted 
Peter and John, whose missionary efforts among 
the Samaritans served to break down their nar-
row views of the gospel of Christ. But this 
idea that a man must first become a Jew before 
he could be a Christian, did not die away even 
in the minds of the apostles till Peter's remark-
able vision and interview with Cornelius, and 
until God had converted many of the Gentiles 
in the city of Antioch. 
At this period, when the early disciples began 
to have clear views of the comprehensive nature 
of the gospel, God called into his service a 
man fitted by his character and culture to carry 
the offers ,of mercy to heathen lands. The first 
of the apostles soon quietly yielded to the su-
perior influence of Saul of Tarsus. Antioch, 
where the disciples were first called Christians, 
is made the great central station of the new 
apostle's labors. In his first missionary tour lie 
takes with him Barnabas, and passes by sea to 
Cyprus, and thence to Perga, and visits the 
southern provinces of Asia Minor. It was in 
this his first preaching in foreign lands, that 
Paul announced the great principle which should 
govern his labors as a missionary. " That it 
was necessary that the word of God should 
first have been spoken to you (the Jews;) but 
seeing ye put it from you, and judge yourselves 
unworthy of eternal life, lo, we turn to the 
Gentiles." 
Notwithstanding the persecution Paul had to 
meet with, and the opposition from many of his 
Jewish brethren, who still clung to the neces- 
sity of receiving the Mosaic rites in order to 
being saved, he is soon ready to engage in a 
second attempt to spread the Gospel. In this 
great apostolic journey he takes with him Silas, 
and not long after, Timothy and Luke. He 
crossed the centre of the great Asiatic penin-
sula to Troas, and then in obedience to the heav-
enly voice he passes to the opposite shore, and 
preaches in the great towns of Macedonia, from 
thence he sails to Athens, and stops at Corinth. 
It was while here that he wrote his epistles to 
the Thessalonians; the first in the order of 
time of those which we find in the New Testa-
ment. This long journey of the apostle is 
marked by the same signal success, the same 
providential interference, and the same relent-
less persecution, which distinguished the first. 
Nothing but a living faith in Christ could have 
made the apostle patient and persevering in all 
his trials. 
Paul seems to have taken a third tour to the 
scenes of his former labors. He plants himself 
iu Ephesus, and from this city, by his own per-
sonal efforts and by his numerous assistants, 
extends the Gospel to the northern portion of 
Asia Minor, and even to Illyrium. It was 
while engaged in these travels that he wrote to 
the Galatians, to the Corinthians, and that 
greatest of all his epistles, the letter to the 
church at Rome, in defence of the doctrine of 
justification by faith. 
He now returned to Jerusalem, and after a 
two years' imprisonment in Cesarea, is carried 
for his trial to Rome. While here, during his 
first mild imprisonment, he writes his epistles 
to the Ephesiatis, the Collossians, and Philippi-
ans, and soon afterward he is released, and 
pays a hurried visit to the eastern churches, 
and goes on his rerurn, according to Clement, 
to "the limits of the West." He is again ta-
ken as a prisoner, and writes that heroic letter 
to his old associate, Timothy, in which he gives 
his last advice, and in which he exults in the 
prospect before him. 
It would not be in place here to notice the 
traditions in regard to the apostle's labors in dis-
tant lands and among savage tribes. We may 
be sure that many an humble convert on the 
day of Pentecost, or during the persecution raised 
by Stephen's preaching, carried the Gospel into 
distant lands. In this way, Rome may have 
received the light, and from Rome, Carthage. 
We know it was early introduced in Egypt. 
Indeed, during the apostolic period Christianity 
had extended nearly around the entire shores of 
the Mediterranean Sea. Peter, Paul, and John 
had been the chief instruments in accomplish-
ing all this. In their fitness for the work, they 
remind one of Luther, Calvin, and Melancthon. 
We have the preacher, the thinker, and the pas- 
tor, laud tkoy "ach °Choy iri ju.* Chic 
order. 
Watchman and Reflector. 
David our Example. 
" What shall I render unto the Lord for all his 
benefits towards me? I will take the cup of salva-
tion, and call upon the name of the Lord. 1 will 
pay my vows unto the Lord now in the presence of 
all his people. Precious in the sight of the Lord is 
the death of his saints. 0 Lord, truly I am thy ser-
vant ; I am thy servant, and the son of thy handmaid : 
thou hast loosed my bonds. I will offer to thee the 
sacrifice of thanksgiving, and will call upon the name 
of the Lord. I will pay my vows unto the Lord 
now in the presence of all his people. In the courts 
of the Lord's house, in the midst of thee, 0 Jeru-
salem. Praise ye the Lord."—Psa. 116:12-19. 
Who, of mankind, are exempt from trouble ? 
What age or rank is placed beyond the shafts 
of disease and death ? 'The infant of days and 
the sire of years, the sinner and the saint, are 
alike liable thereto. " Man is born unto trouble 
as the sparks fly upward." Disease not only 
infests the hovel of the poor, but invades also 
the mansions of the rich : nor are the thrones 
of monarchy passed by unscathed, and crowned 
heads are laid low by affliction. Nor is Zion's 
King, Israel's sweet singer, the man " after 
God's own heart," an exemption, as we find in 
this Psalm that even he had been the subject of 
great affliction, bodily aod mental. 
But here we find him brought out of it. In 
his trouble he sought unto the Lord, and the 
Lord heard, and saved him out of all his dis-
tresses. 
Now that he is healed, how is his heart affect-
ed, and what do we find him doing ? Is his heart 
insensible of and unaffected by the goodness 
of God ? or like the nine lepers who were 
cleansed, does he forget to return and give 
thanks ? No ; but alive to his great obligations, 
and with a heart full of gratitude to his heal-
ing, helping God, we find him in the tabernacle, 
in the courts of the Lord's house, in the pres-
ence of all the people, paying the vows which 
he made in his trouble. 
Reader, let us stop for a moment to notice, 
1. What is being done. 
Who is doing it. 
Where he is doing it. 
Why he is doing it. 
I. What is being done ? 
1. He is inquiring, " What shall 1 render 
unto the Lord ?" His heart is oppressed with a 
sense of its obligation; so oppressed, that it 
cries out, " What shall I render ?" Afraid he 
should not give enough, he asks the priests, he 
asks his friends, he asks his own heart, " What 
shall I render ?" Reader, are you putting the 
same inquiry, " What Shall /render unto the 
Lord ?" Observe, 
What he resolves upon. 
" I will take the cup of salvation." A cere-
monial and expensive cup to take. It must be 
filled at his own cost, and with the best of 
drink-offerings. Nor was this all the expense 
he would be at in his rendering unto God, but 
he would also offer unto him the " sacrifices of 
thanksgiving " from the best of his flock and 
of his herd. No expense was to be spared, 
no cost counted, when he " rendered unto the 
Lord." 
Reader, do you so render unto the Lord ? 
Say not you have no such rich offering to lay 
on his altar. You have richer, better far, 
" your own self." Lay that on his altar, "a 
living sacrifice, holy and acceptable unto him." 
No rendering unto the Lord is so acceptable. 
" They first gave their own selves unto the 
Lord," and then laid out what they had for his 
honor, in works of piety and charity. Doing 
good and communicating, are sacrifices with 
which God is well pleased. Observe, 
He would call upon the name of the Lord. 
Giving without prayer, and prayer without 
giving, are vain. 
Reader, are these joined together in you ? 
Do you give and pray ? Do you pray and 
give ? David did both ; offered the " sacrifices 
of thanksgiving, and called upon the name of 
the Lord." " I will call upon the name of the 
Lord." 
One is almost tempted to say, Have you not 
given trouble enough unto the Lord by your 
calls already made, that you resolve to trouble 
him still farther by them ? Strange conduct 
this, after the help the Lord has rendered thee. 
Is this the manner of man to man ? Rather, 
if we have received a kindness from the hand 
of a friend, do we riot tell hint that we hope 
never to trouble him again ? But David re-
solves otherwise; yea, resolved that he would 
" call on the name of the Lord " as long as he 
lived ; and well he might, when he knew that 
" the prayers of the righteous were His delight." 
But he would do more than give and pray, for 
observe, 
He would oblige himself to be a servant 
unto the Lord. 
Having asked, " What shall I render ?" he gives 
his own self, which is more than whole burnt-
offerings or sacrifice. " 0 Lord, truly I am thy 
servant." I choose to be no. 
I resolve to be 
no. I will 
1, -,,..„;ce. Lt. 
calls others the saints of God, but himself the 
servant only. 'Though a king, he glories in 
being even a servant unto God. Nor does he 
say so in mere compliment, as men do to each 
other, when they say, " Your servant, sir." No ; 
but says, " Truly I am thy servant," and "Thou 
that knowest all things, knowest that I am so." 
Let others serve what master they will, " I ant 
thy servant ;" truly I am so. And as if he was 
afaaid God would deny him the honor of being 
his servant, he establishes the fact and pleads it. 
Under the law, there were but two ways in 
which men came to be servants; first, by birth, 
and secondly, by redemption. Then, "Lord, I 
am thy servant," for I was born in thy house ; 
" I am the son of thy handmaid." 
Oh, what a mercy to have pious mothers! to 
be born in God's house ! 
He that procured the release of a captive, 
took him for his servant. Very good. "Lord, 
thou hast loosed my bonds ;" thou hast dis- 
charged me from those sorrows of death snd 
pains of hell that had laid hold upon me and 
compassed me about ; therefore I am thy ser-
vant, under thy protection, and obligated to do 
thy work. 
He would pay his vows now. Not only 
in presenting to the priests meat and drink-of- 
ferings, prayers and praises to God, but all that 
which he had promised to do in the day of af-
fliction. Nor would he, like sorry debtors, de-
lay payment, but he wou d do it now. 
Reader, is there nothing here that reproves, 
instructs, and stimulates ? On whom is he to 
call ? Who is he to serve ? And when is he 
to do both? Now., 
 
a sacrifice of thanksgiving, how much more the 
wise, the learned, the rich, and especially 
the kings of the earth ! " For who maketh 
thee to differ ; or what bast thou that thou hast 
not received from God, the Father of all mer-
cies, from whom cometh down every good and 
every perfect gift ?" All kings in heaven do as 
king David is now doing—lay their crowns 
down at his feet ; nor is the time far distant, 
when all kings on earth shall bow before him, 
and all the kingdoms of the people worship and 
serve him. Whatever some may think to the 
contrary, 
" Religion is the chief concern 
Of mortals here below." 
It, and it only, is " profitable unto all things, 
haiiing the promise of the life that now is, and 
that which is to come." How truly spake the 
poet of it when he said : 
" There's nothing worth a thought beneath— 
But how we may escape the death 
That never dies; 
How make our own salvation sure, 
That, when we fail on earth, secure 
A mansion in the skies." 
Will not, therefore, the character of the wor-
shiper reprove, rebuke, and instruct all who 
heretofore have thought religion befitting others, 
but not themselves ? 
III. Where did he take the cup of salvation, 
make this acknowledgment to God, and pay his 
vows ? In some private place, where no eye of 
man could see him, as if ashamed to be known 
and recognized by others as a pious and devoted 
servant of the most high God ? No, but " iri 
the presence of all the people; in the courts of 
the Lord's house," and in the midst of that Je-
rusalem of which he was the king and ruler. 
If this was to make David vile in the sight of 
the people, he was resolved to be more vile. 
Whatsoever others might say or do, as for him, 
he would serve the Lord, and that openly, fer-
vently, and not with that only which cost him 
nothing. And has not Jesus said, " Whoso-
ever is ashamed of me before men, of him will 
I be ashamed before my Father and before his 
holy angels ?" Man ashamed of his God! 
Ashamed of his Saviour! Heaven weep! From 
such a sight, sun, moon, and stars, with blushes 
turn away ! 
" Jesus ! and shall it ever be, 
A mortal man ashamed of thee! 
Ashamed of thee, whom angels praise, 
Whose glories shine through endless days! 
" Ashamed of Jesus ! that dear friend, 
On whom my hopes of heaven depend ! 
No ! when I blush, be this my shame" 
That I no more revere his name. 
" Ashamed of Jesus !—yes I may, 
When l've no guilt to wash away, 
'Pars to wine, no good to crave 
No feu,. w quell, no s<,..1 to nave'' 
" Till then, nor is my boasting vain. 
Till then I boast a Saviour slain ; 
And Oh, may this my glory be, 
That Christ is not ashamed of me." 
IV. Why was he doing all this ? 
Duty to God, to himself, and to others, de-
manded it. He owed to God a public acknowl-
edgment; his soul panted to give expression 
to its gratitude and praise ; arid by so doing he 
intended, no doubt, to teach others by his ex-
ample. By this he would say, " Let all the 
people praise thee, 0 God. Let all the people 
praise thee." Does not David's conduct, in 
this instance, admonish all and reprove many ? 
Where now are our Davids ? Whither shall 
we look for piety like his ? And if deliverance 
from the ills of this life calls for an expression 
of gratitude like this, what does deliverance 
from the wrath to come call from us ? 
Reader, have you paid your vows, performed 
your frequent resolves, and taken the cup of 
"so great salvation," with a desire thereby to 
glorify God, edify the Church, and be an exam-
ple to others ? Oh, how distressing ! It makes 
the heart bleed, on sacramental days, to see 
some purposely staying away from church, oth-
ers walking out of it, and others sitting at a 
distance and looking on, when the cup of "so 
great salvation" is being taken by others, and 
ought to be thankfully taken by all. What do 
angels in heaven think of such conduct? And 
how will it make those who are guilty of it 
think and feel on a bed of death ? Is it what 
the Saviour takes pleasure in ; delights to look 
down upon ? Rather does he not cry to such, 
II. Who is doing all this ? 
" How often would I have gathered thee !" " Is 
A poor, a mean, an ignorant, or weak-minded this thy kindness to thy friend ?" 
man ? Many think religion fit only for such. What is heaven's whole worship but a taking 
The yonng think religion befitting the aged on- of the cup of salvation ? Do any there stay 
ly ; the rich think it good enough. for the poor, away from the banquet of love, retire from the 
and the wise and learned agree to think it a fit temple, or sit at a distance and look on, while 
subject only for the weak-minded and illiterate. others take it ? Do any there despise it, or re-
But who find we here taking the cup of salvo- fuse to take it ? No. All the kings and priests 
tion ? Who is he that is offering his sacrifices of heaven show forth their obligation to their 
of thanksgiving in the courts of the Lord's Lord's death; and if any here are too worldly, 
house and before all the people, paying his too proud, or too careless to take the cup of sal- 
vows and calling on the name of the Lord ? vation, and to pay their vows in the courts of 
Who is he ? An aged, a poor, a mean, a weak- the Lord's house, in the presence of all the 
minded or ignorant man ? Nay, but monarchy people, never, never shall they take it in heaven. 
itself. And right, and only right, it should be Dear youthful readers—beloved adults also— 
so. For if the poor and unknown owe to God and all who neglect to take the "cup of satva. 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
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Scripture, were fitly symbolized by the bitterness 
that followed time eating of the hook. From this 
epoch, also was revived a system of religious teach-
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roj ittnoaas !um 'amnion, polls n .utaq plasm! aqd, 
tittA, ut readde loo op an relit Logi am 'mom Ino 
pus 'so tittm aztqledwAs oqm asoqr od, •S[rdwold 
smq Lteaq Ino paw o1 prapieua ale an retit asayi 
JO was aqi Aq &Flo st iT 'Iapuas wit at Hews tifnoqi 
Ioj 'papiemioj Atiduroad ay HIM sanp shill 9S3111 
leyt adoq am •wateur ayt uo pamew it pug llLvv 
&tato° •adoianua Itatit aptsut aqi Ito palaaut 
snit pug 'um leas aituts a ur waded Ita9 antaa 
oqm asom, •ggst 'Samar Jo isag ay) `;fartmo 
Siattpaadsai ay (Um Aatit sums aqt odoianua aqi 
fro Io &laded atatp Jo utthetu aqi uo portant pug rum 
ppm." aqi .orj patqaput usoqi,—.suartraassas od, 
EXPOSITION OF REV. X. 
the whole world would be startled, and lend to them 
a listening ear. 
The singleness of his cry, is also symbolic of the 
simplicity of the truth, which is never symboliied by 
discordant multitudinous sounds. 
The responsive thunders, unlike the single voice of 
the angel, are multitudinous and discordant, and are 
consequently symbolic of errors. 
Their following so immediately on the shout of 
the angel, shows the proximity of their promulga-
tion, to the utterance of the truths to which they are 
responsive. 
JoHN's readiness to write what the seven thunders 
uttered, shows that what they uttered was professedly 
in harmony with the truths previously announced, 
and that men would be liable to be deceived, by their 
promulgation. 
His being forbidden by the cloud robed angel, to 
write what they uttered—while he was commanded 
to " seal not the sayings of the prophecy of this book," 
(22:10), and a blessing was pronounced on those who 
read, hear, and keep them (1:3)—shows that their 
utterances were not heaven inspired, and constituted 
no part of the " record of the word of Goo, and of 
the testimony of JESUS CHRIST " which JOHN bare 
" of all things that he saw."-1:2. 
The subsequent oath of the angel, by Hint who liv-
eth forever, that " the time is not yet," shows that 
those thunders, however erroneous in their form and 
manner and in connection with other errors, had re-
spect to some great event foretold in Scripture ; but 
which the thunders had antedated, and had presented 
in an unscriptural form. 
His further announcement that it would be fulfilled 
under the sounding of tl.e " seventh trumpet" and 
that then the mystery of GoD should be finished in 
the manner foretold to his servants the prophets, 
show that the great event, the time of which was be-
fore announced to be " not yet," under the sixth 
trumpet, was the coming kingdom of GOD—the fifth 
universal empire ; and that at a period anterior to 
the time when it might rationally be expected, it 
would be proclaimed in a form repugnant to the teach-
ings of the prophets. Also, that when thus heralded, 
it would be met by the party uttering the heaven in-
spired truths, with the denial that the true time had 
arrived, and by arguments to show its true nature, 
and its true epoch under the seventh trumpet. 
The command to rake amid eat the little book shows 
that the contents of the book were such as the soul 
might feed on, which should be sweet to the believer's 
taste, hut the receiving of which would subject him 
to hitter persecution. 
And the announcement that the subjects of this 
sweetness and bitterness were to prophecy before 
„„d ...a tongues and kings, 
marks this as the commencement of an era when the 
Gospel should again begin to go forth into all lands. 
All of the above particulars harmonized in the 
time of the reformation of LUTHER in the 16th cen-
tury, and with no other epoch. 
The great truths then promulgated, of which " jus-
tification by faith " was the great cardinal principle, 
had electrified the whole world, as the loud roaring 
of a lion would startle the passer by. These were 
immediately responded to by the multitudinous errors 
of the Anabaptists, who thought to set up the king-
dom of GOD in this world, and before the resurrec-
tion, by putting to death every ungodly person in 
the world and sparing only the saints ; and whti under 
THOMAS MUNZER, and other fanatics, took possession 
of Muhlhausen, appointed a new city council, pil-
laged the houses of the rich, proclaimed a community 
of goods, and committed various excesses, but were 
finally defeated in a pitched battle, with a loss of 
from 5000 to 7000 killed. 
The nature of the violent expressions of thought 
and passion, symbolized by the seven thunders, may 
be seen in any history of those times. D'Auffiests, 
in his History of the Reformation, and others, have 
drawn most vivid pictures of those scenes. As in all 
efforts for good Satan is careful to attempt a counter-
feit, or mingle impure elements, to draw the minds of 
men away from the truth, so in the Reformation 
there were false reformers.* THOMAS MUNZER, and 
others, in 1525, incited vast nnnabers on the borders 
of the Danube to make physical war on the Papal 
ecclesiastics. He denounced LUTHER, also, with the 
same violence that he did the Pope. In his mad at-
tempt to slay the ungodly, lie and a vast number per-
ished. Others succeeded him, teaching that GOD 
spake to them in person, instructing them how to act. 
They professed the most extravagant doctrines, set-
ting aside both LUTHER and the Bible. The former 
did not go near far enough for them : and the latter 
was in their view insufficient for man's instruction, 
who could only be taught of Goo. They taught that 
the world was to be immediately devastated, and no 
priest or ungodly person. be left alive, and that then 
the kingdom of GOD would commence, arid the saints 
possess the earth. Those who adhered to LUTHER, 
united with him in hearing a faithful testimony against 
such extravagancies, adhered to the written word, 
denounced new revelations, and showed from the Bi-
ble that Antichrist was to be overthrown by the per-
sonal advent of CHRIST, and not by the sword of man. 
We make the following extracts from Mr. LORD : 
" The pretences of the Anabaptists to inspiration 
were in like manner denounced by Melancthon.—
The Anabaptists, infatuated by the devil have boast-
ed of a new species of sanctity, as though they had 
left the earth, and ascended to the skies ; and given 
out moreover that they enjoy extraordinary inspira' 
tion. But as the pretence was hypocritical, and de-
signed merely to subserve appetite and ambition, they 
soon plunged into debauchery, and then excited sedi-
tious, and undertook to establish a new Jerusalem, as 
other enthusiasts have often attempted. A like trage-
dy was formerly acted at Pepriza in Phrygia, which 
fanatical prophets denominated the New Jerusalem.' 
" He also refuted by the Scriptures the expectation 
of the Anabaptists of the immediate establishment of 
Christ's millennial kingdom. He regarded the term 
Antichrist as denoting both the Mohammedan empire 
and the Papacy, and held that they were not to be 
overthrown till the time of the resurrection of the 
dead, arid that a considerable period was to pass before 
that event. God showed to Daniel a series of mon- 
archies and kingdoms, which it is certain has already 
run to the end. Four monarchies have passed away. 
The cruel kingdom of the Turks, which arose out of 
the fourth, still remains, and as it is not to equal the 
Roman in power, and has certainly, therefore, al-
ready nearly reached its height, must soon decline, 
and then will dawn the day in which the dead shall 
be recalled to life.' He then repeats the saying as-
cribed to Elias, that six thousand years were to pass 
before the advent of Christ ; two thousand before the 
law, two under the law, and two tinder the gospel : 
and proceeds to show that four hundred and fifty-eight 
years were therefore to intervene before the advent 
of the Redeemer, the destruction of Antichrist, and 
the establishment of the kingdom of the saints. It 
is known that Christ was born about the end of the 
fourth millenary, and one thousand five hundred and 
forty-two years have since revolved. We are riot, 
therefore, far from the end. Daniel asked in respect 
to the time of the end, and a number was given 
which, although it seems to respect the time of the 
Maccabees, yet undoubtedly has a reference to the 
end of the world, and the application is easy, if days 
be taken for years. They will be two thousand six 
hundred and twenty-five. We do not endeavor to 
ascertain the moment when the last day is to dawn. 
That is not to be sought. But inasmuch as this 
number happily agrees with the words of Elias, I 
regard it as denoting the years through which the 
world was to subsist from the time of Daniel. There 
were six hundred, or near that, from Daniel to the 
birth of Christ. There remained, therefore, two 
thousand years as the last age of the world.' 
" Luther also founded his Supputation ' of times 
on the saying of Elias, that the world was to con-
tinue seven thousand years, and regarded the sixth 
thousand as having commenced with the eleventh 
century, and as therefore little more than half passed 
at his publication of that work in 1545. 
" Flacius, in his Catalogue of Witnesses,' repre-
sented the twelve hundred and sixty days of the 
wild beast as having commenced in 606, and conse-
quently referred its destruction and the advent of 
Christ to the year 1866. 
" These views corresponded so conspicuously with 
the symbol, continued to be repeated by a crowd of 
writers, till at the distance of sixty-seven years from 
the death of Melancthon, the celebrated Joseph Mede 
published his ' Clavis Apocalyptica,' hr which he 
showed from the coincidence of the periods of the 
wild beast and the witnesses, that the advent of the . 
Redeemer, and the destruction of the anti-Christian 
powers were riot to be expected until twelve hundred 
and sixty years had passed from the rise of the ten 
kingdoms, and that near one hundred of them there-
fore were still to revolve. As that period expired 
and the knowledge of the prophecy advanced, the 
catastrophe of the wild beast was referred to a later 
time. Many recent expositors regard the twelve 
hundred and sixty years as having reached their end 
in 1792 ; arid must refer the fall of the anti-Christian 
powers to the last half of the present, or the beginning 
of the next eentnry."—Ex. of Apoc. , pp 238-240. 
By reaching D'AusieNs's history of the Reforma-
tion, it will be seen that all the vagaries of the vari- 
ous sects of heretics were connected with an expec-
tation of the immediate establishment of CHRIST'S 
kingdom. That the seven thunders which were not 
to be written gave utterance to such an expectation 
is evidenced by the response of the angel, when he 
lifted up his hand to heaven, and with the solemnity 
of air oath, by Him who liveth forever, affirmed that 
" the time should not yet be ;" but that " in the days 
of the voice of the seventh angel, when he delays to 
sound,* the secret of Goo will be finished, as he 
bath announced to his servants the prophets." Why 
such an annunciation at this stage of the vision ? It 
must he to correct a misapprehension which should 
exist at a corresponding time in its fulfilnient respect-
ing the immediate appearance of the kingdom. Thus 
did PAUL correct the Thessalonian brethren, when he 
wrote to them in his second epistle not to be hastily 
shaken in mind, as that the day of the LORD was 
then impending. 
The little book was at this epoch first opened to 
the common people. Before it was only found in 
languages which they were entirely ignorant of, and 
it was as effectually closed to them, as if it had been 
hermetically sealed. It was translated by LUTHER 
* See margin of Whiting's Testament. Lord has it, " when he 
can be ready to sound," i. e., not yet sounded. 
tion," our hearts bleed for you. Disease will 
overtake you and end in death, it may be soon ; 
and how can you meet an offended God, or 
make your bed in hell, lying down in everlast- 
ing burnings ? • Christian Intelligencer. 
To Correspondents—A. G. JENNINGS.—We do not 
recall what article you refer to as that " published 
in the New Observer of Nov. 20th;" but we can give 
our understanding of the Scripture referred to in 
Rev. 10:6—" that there should be time no longer." 
The words as thus given in our translation, do not 
express our understanding of the original. It is lit-
erally " The time is not yet "—i. e., the time had 
not yet arrived, when would be accomplished the 
mystery which would be --Anr -,uortdio, 
of the seventh trumpet—that being tittered under the 
, 
tcnciors rho last clause 
of the 6th and the commencement of the 7th verses : 
the angel swore by Him who liveth forever " that 
the time should riot yet be, but in the days of the 
voice of the seventh angel."—See translation. 
To understand fully the harmony of this interpre-
tation with the connection, it is necessary to consider 
the prophetic and chronological import of this entire 
chapter. It commences with the symbol of the cloud 
robed angel, his head o'erarched with the splendors 
of the rainbow, his face luminous as the sun, and his 
feet as pillars of fire. This cannot be at the advent ; 
for we learn by the last text in this chapter, (v. 11) 
that after this, the prophecy is to be uttered " before 
many people, and nations, and tongues, and kings." 
Consequently some anterior event must be thus sym-
bolized. It is under the sounding of the sixth trum-
pet, and therefore cannot precede the sounding of the 
seventh, by many centuries. 
The cloud, the rainbow, the sun-like face, and the 
fire-like feet of the Mighty Messenger attest the 
heaven inspired origin of his utterances ; for only 
GOD " maketh the clouds his chariot," whose "pa-
vilion round about him was dark waters, and thick 
clouds of the skies." His resemblance to that of 
one whose " eyes were as a flame of fire, and his feet 
like unto fine brass, as if they burned in a furnace," 
who had before appeared unto JOHN, (Rev. 1:14, 15) ; 
which was recognized by EZEKIEL (1:28) as " the ap-
pearance of the likeness of the glory of the LORD ;" 
and before whom the " comeliness" of DANIEL (10:8) 
" was turned into corruption," could not be assumed 
by one who came to announce other than heaven in-
spired truths. 
The open book in the hand of the angel fixes the 
chronology of the fulfilment of this vision at an 
epoch when the Scriptures cease to be a closed and 
sealed book, and the people are permitted to have 
free access to them. 
His position—one foot resting on the sea, and one 
on the land,—attest the universality of the movement 
which is to date from that epoch. 
His shouting with a loud voice as a lion roareth, 
must symbolize the manner in which will be put 
forth, at the crisis symbolized, the great truths then 
.o be uttered—truths, at the announcement of which, 
* 
 Moses had a Jannes and Jambres to withstand him, so Pan) 
teaches that truth will be alwt4s withstood by those who profess 
to be with, but are not of it. Net•good movement can exist without 
a corresponding counterfeit one. Even the Advent cause cannot be 
of God, unless there also exist a tulse ntovement,claiming is he in 
effect the sante, and vet continually endeavoring to‘ oppose, neu-
tralize, and thwart it. -ED. 
THE REDEEMED INHERITANCE, AND ITS 
RIGHTFUL OWNER. 
(Concluded from oar last.) 
But this awful preliminary work has not yet been 
done, and therefore, in the prophetic sense of the 
words, the earth is not yet the Lord's, nor are they 
that dwell therein his people. Voices in heaven 
have not yet been heard proclaiming " the kingdoms 
of this world are become the kingdoms of our LORD 
and of His CHRIST." The time is not yet come for 
that anthem to be sung which shall be louder than 
the thunder's mightiest tones and ocean's loudest roar 
combined : yet sweet as " harpers harping with their 
harps," " Alleluia, for the Lord GOD omnipotent 
reigneth." GoD does not now reign in the sense 
which this song celebrates. That kingdom is not 
come for which the church has prayed so long. The 
fullness of the earth is not devoted to GOD, nor hath 
the earth such a fullness to be devoted as it will have, 
when " the times of refreshing shall come from the 
presence of the LORD." Satan is still the prince of 
this world, its god, and its king. The Lord JESUS, 
its rightful Sovereign, is still rejected ; and Goo the 
Creator and Preserver of all, unknown to, or unac-
knowledged by the vast proportion of earth's popu-
lation. The earth is not yet founded as it will be. 
(Psa. 89:11-13.) The world is not established that 
it cannot be moved.—Psa. 93:1. It is now all dis-
jointed and out of place. The faithful and true wit-
ness testifies, " The earth and all the inhabitants 
thereof are dissolved : I bear up the pillars of it."—
Psa. 77:3. Before it is founded and established it 
must be dissolved still more. Such passages as the 
following have yet to be made good : " The founda-
tions of the earth do shake. The earth is utterly 
broken down, the earth is clean dissolved, the earth 
is moved exceedingly."—Isa. 24:18, 19. " The 
heathen raged. the kingdom. were moved : he uttered 
his voice, the earth melted."—Psa. 44:6. " Yet 
once more, I shake not the earth only, but also heav- 
en. And this word, Yet once more, signifieth the 
removing of those things that are shaken, as of things 
that are made, hat those things which cannot be 
shaken may reniain."—Heb. 12:26, 27. 0, it is a 
great and terrible day of which these and many like 
Scriptures speak. And though men may say, 
" Where is the promise of His coming ? . . All 
things continue as they were ;" yet the day of the 
Lose will conic ; the day of melting and re-casting ; 
the day of dissolving and of re-union ; the day of 
destruction and of deliverance. And blessed are 
they " whose hearts are not overcharged with sur-
feiting and drunkenness, and the cares of this life," 
but who stand with girded loins looking for the 
blessed hope, and receiving, while communicating 
with Him, a " kingdom which cannot be moved." 
Let us now propose the second question, and in-
quire how far do the actions of men agree with their 
own acknowledgment ? The front of the Royal Ex-
change, and the catalogue of the Great Exhibition, 
are made to herald forth GOD'S supremacy and man's 
subjection ; to declare that Goo is the proprietor of 
all, and that man possesses nothing ; that GOD is a 
Sovereign, and that man is a steward. This is 
well, as far as it goes, and is a thousand times bet-
ter than the fearful state of things which obtained 
in a neighboring nation, when GOD was rejected, for-
tune enthroned, and the Bible trodden under foot. It 
is also a cause for rejoicing, that thousands in all 
classes of society delight to acknowledge GOD in all 
things, and to trace his hands in all events. But 
still the question returns,—Do men generally feel 
the force of the acknowledgment professedly made 
in these words? Do the merchant-princes who crowd 
the Royal Exchange act as in GOD'S sight? Do they 
show to all around that they are influenced by the 
glorious words which may meet their eyes every day,. 
if they will. but lift them up, from earth to heaven 
Do they, by a, course of unselfish and upright con 
duet, give a key-note worthy of being responded to 
throughout the commercial world ? Are they aim-
ing to answer in sonic goodly measure to the des-
cription which is found a verse or two below their 
adopted motto—" He that hath clean hands and a 
pure heart ; who hath not lifted up his soul to vanity, 
nor sworn 'deceitfully ?" If they adopt the holy mot- 
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I 
to on their noble building, they say well,-but whom 
do they serve, Gon or Mammon ? If they serve the 
latter, then are the words an idle compliment, which 
GOD will not accept. 
An in,-Do those myriads who visit the Great 
Exhibition find other things in agreement with the 
glorious motto on the cover of the book which they 
carry in their hands? Are they reminded, by the 
manner in which the whole affair is managed, by 
the objects and things exhibited, and by the position 
assigned to them, that the promoters and conductors 
of the Great Exhibition habitually acknowledge GOD 
in the affair? Is the motto on the hook, and are the 
prayers at the opening, things which stand alone and 
distinct from all beside ? Is GOD'S glory, or man's 
greatness, most prominent here l GoD's name is used, 
His right is acknowledged,-Is His will consulted, 
His authority reverenced, His word obeyed ? If it be 
so, what meaneth much that we see around us ? Can 
GOD be pleased when art employs her highest skill 
to perpetuate the memory of heathenism, or to deck 
with beauty that most hateful and destructive sorce-
ress, Popish superstition? Surely it seems rather 
anomalous for Christian prayers to be breathed over 
Heathen statues, and Protestant hymns sung amidst 
Popish trumpery ! Is there not some reason to fear 
that while we acknowledge GOD in word, He may 
say to us, " This people draweth near to me with 
'the mouth, and lionoreth me with the lip, but their 
heart is far from me." It is well to shun all pro-
fanity and contempt of Gon, but we should also trem-
ble at hypocrisy and formality. It is a solemn fact, 
that just before GoD swept away the Jews from their 
own land, first by the Babylonians, and next by the 
Romans, they were very strict in outward services 
and general acknowledgments of GOD. The kreai 
charge brought against them was, that the heart was 
not with Him ; that those 1' who with their mouth 
showed much love were given to covetousness " 
(Ezek. 33:31) ; and that they trusted to their forms 
and ceremonies instead of leaning on the living GOD. 
(ha. 1:10-18.) 
Is there not reason to fear that the great danger 
of th present day is " a form of godliness and a 
denial of the power ?" This, we are told, will be a 
characteristic of " the last days," and against this we 
do well to watch. Another description found in the 
same catalogue is, " lovers of pleasure more (or 
rather) than lovers of Gon." Here also this pres-
ent generation are in great danger. The Crystal 
Palace is undoubtedly a place of pleasure, and many 
there are who love it only on that account ; and many 
think that there can he no harm or danger in loving 
it, because nearly all persons approve, and many 
among the good and pious consider it .3 the beginning 
of a new and glorious era. Without indulging in 
general censures and gloomy fears, or saying a word 
to dissuade any one from going to look at this triumph 
'of science,-this wondrous collection of earth's treas-
ures, a fear may be expressed lest the present ex-
citement should vitiate the taste of Christians,-pro. 
duce a dissipated state of mind among the people,-
create a thirst for change, and novelty, and show,-
indispose the mind for spiritual things,-tend to 
magnify this present evil world, and to hide from 
view the awful words of Goo concerning the dark 
future that is impending. It sounds rather strange 
to hear good men utter such language as the fol-
lowing :-" Philosophers and politicians and social 
economists are all regarding the Exhibition as con-
stituting the beginning of a new era and of better 
times, and as embodying in itself something like a 
prophecy of a brightened and improved future for 
the nations." " From such a lesson it is hoped and 
expected that the crowds will disperse wiser and bet-
ter, more loving and more fraternal, and that a basis 
will be laid for such future peaceful and profitable 
intercourse as shall render war an utter impossibili-
iy." It is no use to delude ourselves with expecta-
tions unwarranted by the word of Got. Hope must 
have some ground to rest upon. The reason for a 
Christian's hope is found, not in man's doings, but 
in GOD'S sayings,-not on present appearances, but 
on the sure word of prophecy. That a time of uni-
versal peace and fraternal love will surely come we 
cannot doubt, but how it will come we have already, 
in some measure, been instructed. Alas! what 
throes of anguish must precede the birth of this 
glorious era. The world is filled with apostate 
churches and tyrannical kingdoms ; against these and 
that great master-spirit of evil who presides over 
sheen, and who energizes throughout the whole, 
Gag's most terrible threatenings are levelled. These 
words of vengeance are many and weighty, and none 
of them can fall to the ground. But, notwithstand-
ing all Gon's declarations, men will continue to say, 
Peace and safety, until sudden destruction shall 
come upon them, and they shall not escape."-1 Thess. 
5th. Those who believe in these threatenings, who 
look for the storm before the calm,-" the day of 
vengeance," before " the year .of the redeemed,"-
can truly say, with the weeping prophet, 1' I have 
not desired the woeful day, 0 LORD thou knowest." 
But though they do not,-cannot desire it, and would 
do all in their power, by prayer and Christian effort, 
to avert coming evil and turn sinners to GoD, yet they 
dare riot disbelieve words so often repeated., and which 
are always placed by GoD Himself in connexion with 
the promises of coming glory. Though we are ex- 
pectants, we are not prophets; and a firm belief in 
coming jud.sments should not make us thankless as 
regards GOD'S temporal mercies, or heedless of life's 
relationships, or insensible to the beauties of Gon's 
creation and the productions of human genius ; but 
certainly this belief should wean from earth as a por- 
tion, produce watchfulness of spirit, and endear the 
cross and coming of JESUS ; the one our glorious 
remedy, the other our blessed hope. 
Having examined the words of the Psalmist in 
connexion with the two questions at first !proposed, 
I can but conclude that the popular application of 
this passage is not in agreement with its primary 
meaning ; and also that man's conduct generally is 
not in correspondence with his own acknowledgment. 
Nevertheless, while believing this, far he it from me 
to wish the words removed from the situations they 
occupy. Let them stand ; they form a glorious sen- 
tence worthy of being sounded forth to the ends of 
the earth. Let the words stand, and that for a two- 
fold purpose. First, to proclaim the rights of God 
and His coming glorious reign. The words may thus 
be considered as preceptive,-teaching us what should 
be; and as prophetic,-telling us what shall be. Let 
the wealthy and the wise, the contriver and the la-
borer, the inventor and the purchaser, all remember 
the supremacy of GOD. Let them bear in mind that 
His hand framed all the material ; that He alone 
gives the inventive mind, and the cunning hand ; 
and that, as from Him all wisdom and strength is 
derived, so to Him all the glory should be given. 
Let riches he used for his honor, and his love be 
sought to sweeten all possessions. Let the ear be 
ever open to listen to GOD'S voice,-" Whatsoever 
ye do, do all to the glory of Goe,"-for, if this is 
neglected, it will be terrible to read in fiery charac- 
ters the fearful sentence, " The Gun in whose hand 
thy breath is, and whose are all thy ways, thou bast 
not glorified." Alas ! this has been the case hith- 
erto with most. The great and the mighty have 
possessed the earth and left GOD out of their reckon- 
ing. GOD is now giving all who thus usurp His 
prerogative notice to quit; and He will soon eject 
those, with irresistible power, who refuse to " kiss 
the Son " and bow to his sceptre. That merciful 
ONE looks on with great long-suffering,-warns, in-
vites, entreats, but after all He has still reason to 
say,-" They know not, neither will they understand; 
they walk on in darkness : all the foundations of the 
earth are out of course."-Psa. 82:5. But " the 
earth is the Loire's " by purchase ; arid He will 
claim it for his inheritance. He created it not in 
vain. He formed it not for Satan to rule over, or 
sin to riot in, or man to use as a battle-field, or death 
to carve into a sepulchre ! He formed it to be in-
habited (Isa. 45:18) ; He created it for His people's 
good, and for His glory ; and to His pleasure the 
earth and its fullness, man and his habitation, shall 
at length minister. All shall eternally reflect His 
glory and be vocal with His praise. He will soon 
assert His claim ; He will soon fulfil his promise,-
" Then the creature shall be delivered from the bon- 
dage of corruption ;" " the merehandize of 'Pyre 
shall be holy to the Lord ;" and man's possessions 
and inventions, with all his faculties and powers, 
shall be presented to God as a living sacrifice. Then 
man shall no longer " worship the work of his own 
hands, or bow down to that which his own fingers 
have made ;" but in the knowledge, love, and imita- 
tion of God, shall hisd true and enduring happiness. 
Then " the loftiness of man shall be bowed down, the 
haughtiness of man be laid low, the idols be utterly 
abolished, and the Lord alone exalted."-Isa. 2. Let 
the words we have been considering stand as a pro- 
test against man's selfishness, pride, and spirit of mo-
nopoly. Man is prone to fbrget his fellow, or to use 
him only as an instrument of his own gratification. 
He is ever ready to consider himself as a centre into 
which all earth's joys should be gathered, instead of 
aiming to be a fountain whence streams of blessings 
should flow to others. Read these well-known words, 
O man, and learn your derivation and dependence ; 
learn your dignity if you come up to the great end 
of your being, and your fearful destiny if by selfish- 
ness you come short of it. Live to God, live for 
others, and life will be a prelude to, and preparation 
for, a glorious immortality. Neglect to do this,-
live for pleasure, or Mammon, and your short exist-
ence here will lie a passage to an eternity of woe. 
Does the trembling, anxious heart inquire,-How 
may I shun the danger, perform the duty, and attain 
the dignity ? There is but one reply : " Behold the 
Lamb of God." 
Nothing but a real connexion with 
His cross will cast out the demon of selfishness, 
throw down the great idol of pride, or control the 
raging passions of the bosom. The fullness of earth 
affords no balm to heal your wounds, no riches to 
satisfy the cravings of your spirit ; but there is 
another and more glorious fullness to which you may 
have free access. Hearken, 0 bankrupt sinner, to 
the testimony of mercy :--11 It hath pleased the 
Father that in Him all fullness dwell." " In Him 
are hid all the treasures of wisdian and knowledge." 
" In Him dwelleth all the fullness of the Godhead 
bodily." And, " Ye are complete in Him." To 
HIM, then, let the lost and the needy repair ; and in 
Him you shall find righteousness to justify from all 
things, and strength to enable you " to do the will of 
Gods" The Holy Spirit of God will come down 
and take possession of your hearts, and " build you 
up to be a habitation of GOD." And then, when the 
earth is the Lord's by possession, and the fullness 
thereof His by consecration, those who have received 
the atonement and aimed to glorify God here, '° shall 
shine rs the sun in the kingdom of their Father," 
and be the kingly rulers and priestly ministers of the 
world to come. 
London "Quarterly Journal of Prophecy." 
NEW VERSION. 
(Continued from our laqt.) 
5. Many words are evidently mistranslated. One 
tenth of the number cannot now be specified. 
Cheirotoneo, in Acts 14:23, is rendered to ordain, 
and in 2 Cor. 8:19, it is rendered to choose. The 
word is derived from cheiros, hands, and toneo, to 
raises elevate, or lift. 
Episcopos, when it implies honor, is translated 
op.-1 Pet. 2:25 ; Tit. 1:7. When the idea of labor 
is attached to the term, it is rendered oversee.-Acts 
20:28. When a caution and rebuke are given to 
those unto whom the term applies, it is translated 
busy-body in other men's matters,-Allotrioepiscopos. 
-1 Pet. 4:15. 
Soteeria-a Greek word which occurs not less 
than forty-five times, is translated salvation at least 
in forty-two instances. It. occurs in Acts 27:34, 
where it is rendered health. Gon never intimated 
that soteeria meant health. 
Apoleia occurs twenty times in the New Testament, 
and is translated destruction, (Matt. 7:13,) waste, 
(26:8,) perdition, (John 17:12,1 perish, (Acts 8:20,) 
to die, (Acts 28:16,) damnable, (2 Peter 2:1,) dam-
nation, (2 Peter 2:3,) and pernicious ways.-2 Pet. 
2:2. Are these exponents of apoleia synonymous ? 
Can to die and to damn, mean the same thing? 
Pseephos in Acts 26:10, is translated voice; but in 
Rev. 2:17, it is rendered stone. 
The word soma is used in the New Testament 
one hundred and forty-six times, and is invariably 
translated body : but in Rev. 18:13, it is rendered 
slaves. No other version extant has rendered the 
term in that way. 
A great discrepancy is found in the translation of 
ek ton ergon sou, in James 2:18-" Show me thy 
faith without thy works-I will show thee my faith 
by my works." The first and second members of 
the sentence are in the same words in the original. 
A literal translation would be, " Show nie thy faith 
out of thy works,-and I will show thee my faith 
out of my works." The English version makes the 
apostle require an impossibility-" Show me thy 
faith without thy works." Who can do it? 
Apodidomai is translated to pay 'in Matt. 18:25 ; 
to restore, in Lnke 19:8; to yield, in Heb. 12:11 ; to 
reward, Matt. 6:18 ; Rev. 18:6 ; and to sell, in Acts 
5:8 ; 7:9. 
Ginomai is rendered arise, assemble, befall, behave, 
continue, divide, marry, ordain, and by thirty-six 
other words. No argument is necessary to convince 
the candid, that no one word can meen so many dif-
ferent things. Words are the signs of ideas, and if 
the same word can be translated into scores of terms 
widely different in their signification, where lies the 
certainty that the original idea is conveyed at all? 
The English version of JAMES I. is distinguished 
sometimes by a redundancy of English words being 
used, as exponents of a Greek term, and at other 
times by rendering many Greek terms by a single 
English word, as if the Greek terms were strictly 
synonymous. This opens a wide field for the cavil-
ler and errorist. The preacher can prove from " the 
original " any doctrinal whim lie pleases. Suppose 
for illustration that the preacher selects Mark 16:15, 
-11 I-reach the Gospel to every creature." He be-
gins by defining the words of the text. To preach 
means, 1st. To declare, fur the word is so rendered 
in Rev. 10:7. 2(1. To bring good tidings, for so it 
is rendered in Luke 2:10. 3d. To show good ti-
dings, Luke 1:19. 4th. To signify; for diangello is 
rendered to preach in Luke 9:60, and to signify in 
Acts 21:26. 5th. To dispute; for dialegomai is 
translated to preach in Acts 20:7, 9 ; and to dispute 
in Acts 17:17. 6th. To teach; for katangello is ren-
dered to preach in Acts 13:5, and to teach in Acts 
16:21. 7th. To proclaim or publish ; for keerusso is 
rendered to preach in Matt. 3:1, and to proclaim, to 
publish, in Rev. 5:2; 5:20. 8th. And finally, To 
speak, or talk, for laleo is so rendered in Acts 8:25, 
and to speak or talk in John 3:11 ; 4:25 ; in Job 4:25. 
The most important words in theology meet the 
same destiny in the hands of forty-seven men of the 
Universities : and the foregoing may be taken as a 
fair specimen of the manner of many modern preach-
ers, who " have taken away my LORD, and where 
have they laid him?"-(To be continued.) 
BLUE LAWS. 
FROM PETER'S HISTORY OF THE CONNECTICUT COLONY. 
[The following laws are going the rounds of the 
press, as those actually passed by the Connecticut 
colony. It is however a well known fact that this 
entire code is a forgery-no such laws ever having 
been pasSed in that state.. R. H. HINMAN Esq., for-
merly Secretary of that state, when he compiled his 
" Antiquities" found no trace of them on the records. 
Its early records have been lately printed entire, un-
der the supervision of Mr. TRUMBULL, a clerk in the 
Secretary's office, but contain nothing of the kind. 
The author of " Peter's History " was an Episcopal 
minister, and a Tory who fled to England during the 
revolution, because of his tory principles. He was 
so exasperated against the colony, that, while in 
England he concluded to write its history, in which 
he vented his spleen against it to his heart's content. 
To ridicule it he invented the following laws, which 
he published in his history as those of the Connecti-
cut Colony; but every man at all familiar with the 
history of that state, as we claim to be, knows that 
no such laws ever existed there. We copy them, 
with this explanation of their origin, on account of 
the interest connected with them as a historical fraud. 
ED. Advent Herald.] 
1. The governor and magistrates, convened in Gen-
eral Assembly, are the supreme power, under God, 
of this independent dominion. 
From the determination of the Assembly no 
appeal shall be made. 
The governor is amenable to the voice of the 
people, 
The governor shall have only a single vote in 
determining any question, except a casting vote when 
the Assembly may be equally divided. 
Time Assembly of the people shall not he dis-
missed by the governor. but shall dismiss itself. 
Conspiracy against this dominion shall be pun-
ished with death. 
Whoever says there is power and jurisdiction 
above and over this jurisdiction, shall sufler death and 
loss of property. 
Whoever attempts to change or overturn this 
dominion, shall suffer death. 
The judges shall determine controversies with-
out a jury. 
No one shall be a freeman, or give a vote, 
unless he be converted, and a member in full com-
munion of one of the churches allowed in this do 
minion. 
No man shall hold an office in this dominion 
who is not sound in the faith and faithful to this do-
minion ; and whoever gives a vote to such person 
shall pay a fine of £1 ; for a second. offence, he shall 
be disfranchised. 
Each freeman shall swear by the blessed God 
to bear true allegiance to this dominion, and that Je-
sus is the only king. 
No Quaker, or dissenter from the establshed 
worship of this dominion, shall be allowed to give a 
vote for the election of magistrates, or any other 
officer. 
No food or lodging shall be afforded to a 
Quaker, Adamite, or other heretic. 
If any person turns Quaker, he shall he ban-
ished, and not suffer to return upon pain of death. 
No priest shall abide in this dominion; he 
shall be banished, and suffer death on his return. 
Priests may be seized by any one without a warrant. 
No one to cross a river hut with the author-
ized ferryman. 
No one ;hall run on the Sabbath day, or walk 
in his garden, or elsewhere, except reverently to arid 
from meeting. 
Here is the law-Laws of Connecticut, 1750. 
" Nor shall any person go from his or her place of 
abode on the Lord's day, unless to or from the public 
worship of God, unless it be on some work or busi-
ness of necessity or mercy." 
No one shall travel, cook victuals, make beds, 
sweep house, cut hair, or shave on the Sabbath day. 
No woman shall kiss her child on the Sabbath 
or fasting day. 
This was the law : " If any man shall kiss his 
wife, or wife kiss her husband, on the Lord's (lay, 
the party in fault shall be punished at discretion of 
the count." 
" Tradition re'ates that this was put into execu-
tion upon a man who, having been absent some time, 
and arriving home on Sunday morning, presumed to 
kiss his wife." 
The Sabbath shall begin at sunset on Sat-
urday. 
To pick an ear of core growing in a neigh-
issies garden shall be deemed thpft_ 
A person accused of trespass in the night 
shall he judged guilty, unless he clear himself by 
his oath. 
When it appears that an accused has confed-
erates, and he refuses to discover them, he may be 
racked. 
:25. No one shall buy or sell lands without per-
mission of the selectmen. 
A drunkard shall have a master appointed by 
the selectmen, who shall debar him from the liberty 
of buying or selling. 
Whoever publishes a lie to the prejudice of 
his neighbor, shall sit in the stocks, or be whipped 
fifteen stripes. 
.28. No minister shall keep a school. 
Every ratable person who refuses to pay his 
proportion to the support of the minister of the town 
or parish, shall be fined by the court £2, and £4 
every quarter, till he or she pay the rate to the min-
isters. 
Men stealers shall suffer death. 
Whoever wears clothes trimmed with gold, 
silver, or bone lace, above two shillings per yard, 
shall be presented by the grand jurors, and the select-
men shall tax the offender at £300 estate. 
A debtor in prison swearing he has no estate, 
shall be let out arid sold to make satisfaction. 
Whoever sets a fire in the woods, and it burns 
a house, shall suffer death ; and persons suspected of 
this offence shall be imprisoned, without time benefit 
of bail. 
Whoever brings cards or dice into this domin-
ion, shall pay a fine of £5. 
No one shall read common prayer, keep 
Christmas, or saints' days, make minced pies, dance, 
play cards, or play on any instrument of music, ex-
cept the drum, trumpet, and jewsharp. 
No Gospel minister shall join in marriage ; 
the magistrates shall join in marriage, as they may 
do it with less scandal to Christ's Church. 
When parents refuse their children convenient 
marriage, the magistrates shall determine the point. 
The selectmen, in finding children ignorant, 
may take them away from their parents, and put 
them in better hands, at the expense of their parents. 
Fornication shall be punished by compelling 
marriage, or as the court may think proper. 
Adultery shall be punished with death. 
A man that strikes his wife shall pay a fine of 
£10, and a woman that strikes her husband shall be 
punished as the court directs. 
A wife shall be deemed good evidence against 
her husband. 
No man shall court a maid in person or by let-
ter, without first obtaining consent of her parents; 
£5 penalty for first offence, £10 for the second, and 
imprisonment during the pleasure of the court for 
the third. 
Married persons shall live together, or be im-
prisoned. 
Every male shall have his hair cut round, ac-
cording to a cap. 
Obituary. 
" I am the RESURRECTION and the LIFE: he who betieveth in se, 
though be should die, yet he will LIVE : and whoever livethand he. 
lieveth in me, will NEVER die."—John 11: 25, 25. 
 
 
 
 
 
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this earth, the Slanderer is the most vile. He who 
knowingly will lie about another, shows that his 
heart is most depraved. The darkest, blackest stains 
are on his soul. Slander is the very leprosy of sin—
the gangrene of all iniquity ; and he who feasts his 
heart on such unholy food, shows that he loves what 
other beings hate. The Slanderer should be held up 
to public scorn ; and virtuous minds should shun him 
as they would the poisonous adder, or a viper in the 
path. Where'er he prowls, no man is safe ; and 
none can tell how low a depth in crime his soul will 
find. He that will stoop thus low, gives no assu-
rance that he here will stop, or that the tempter will 
not push him farther. He who can make such fiend-
ish meals of others' reputation, might steal your 
purse, which is but trash,' compared with your 
good name,' or he might stoop to any act of vil-
lany, if stoop lie can, who is so far beneath a blush-
ing sense of shame. The bitter, withering curse of 
God rests on his soul, and all despise his name. Yes, 
he might loath himself, abhor his very presence, and 
strive to flee away from where his footed heart pol-
lutes the air. When he looks down upon himself, 
and sees his rottenness, how he must hide his head, 
and blush for shame, and once more wish (vain 
wish !) he was a man ! But he has lost his man-
hood, and nothing but the grace of God can save him. 
The drunkard may forsake his cups, the thief his 
pelf, but he whose second nature 'tis to lie, and 
whose heart feasts on others' reputation, can scarce-
ly hope. The leopard might as soon his spots ex-
change, or Africa's darkened sons their skin ; for he 
is steeped in moral putrifaction. His very breath 
must he impregned with odors dire ; and all the filthi-
ness of sin his soul has wallowed in, must make his 
brother Slanderers loath and shun him." 
upon and censure the denunciation of the United 
States by their leaders. Of course, under the cir-
cumstances, Judge Brocchus made no reply. Such 
was the temper of the people before him, such the 
rage that Governor Young had aroused in their bo-
soms, that his appearance again as a speaker upon 
the stand, would have been the signal for a personal 
assault and battery upon him, and perhaps for his 
assassination. The other officers of the territory 
who were not Mormons, and who were present on 
the occasion, would probably, in that event, have 
shared his fate. The dense mass of people which 
crammed the building to suffocation, filled the doors 
and windows, and hung in crowds around the vast 
church, were, to all appearance, filled with the fierce-
ness of demons, and seemed only to await the com-
mand of Brigham Young, in order to commence a 
general onslaught upon the Gentiles present. 
Fears were entertained that Judge Brocchus, in 
pursuance of the bold spirit which had characterized 
his speech, would arise to reply to Young's invec-
tives. In that event personal violence—" the pull-
ing of hair, or the cutting of throats "—would have 
been inevitable ; and in that violence any Gentile 
within the walls of the building at the time would 
have been a sharer. But prudence prevailed, and he 
held his peace, preferring to have his speech unex-
plained rather than rush madly upon the fearful tor-
rent of indignation which had been lashed into a tern-
pestuous convulsion by the Governor's furious reply. 
After the congregation had been dismissed, and while 
the people were moving toward the doors of the 
Bowery, Brigham Young vociferated, " Yes, Zach-
ary Taylor is in hell, and who can help it !" At this 
moment Heber C. Kimball, an elder in the Church, 
and second in standing and authority, touched Judge 
Brocchus on the shoulder, and said, " And you will 
see hire when you get there." Such impertinence is 
a very common thing amongst this people. 
OOMM07011DIEEM. 
LETTER FROM J. W. BONHAM. 
DEAR BRO. Hums :—The following truthful de-
lineation of the slanderer may be interesting to such 
of this class who may not feel amiss to take an occa-
sional look at their moral daguerreotype, and at the 
same time be " meat in due season " to those who, 
in consequence of their purposes being frustrated, 
condescend to the most contemptible acts of mean-
ness, in order to wreak on the subject of their dis-
pleasure the dregs of their malice ; and at the risk 
of reputation here, and heaven hereafter, take plea-
sure in misrepresenting all that such may say or do. 
But if we wish to frustrate such, we must " keep 
cool," and we shall soon see that the pit some are 
digging for others, ere long they will fall therein 
themselves : 
Salem, Nov. 28th, 1851. 
" THE SLANDERER.—Of all the beings who infest 
Letter from E. A. Heath. 
DEAR BRo. IN CHRIST :—Consider me not an in-
truder if 1 converse a little through the medium of 
the pen. I view the Lord's true Israel as a city set 
on a hill, whose light cannot be hid. They will 
make known instrumentally the time in which they 
live. So in these days, an unwavering, increasing 
faith in the prophecies of God's revealed word will 
give warning, and invite to watchfulness. The im-
minent danger, and the bright prospect, the inability 
of man, and the power and wisdom of God, move to 
action, and lead us to say, great are the responsibili-
ties of the waiting position we now occupy. 
As a pioneer in this work, your case often rests 
with great weight upon my mind, and my exhorta-
tion to you is, in the language of St. Paul, " Be 
careful for nothing, but in everything, by prayer and 
supplication, with thanksgiving let your request be 
made known unto God. And the peace of God, 
which passeth all understanding, shall keep your 
heart and mind through Christ Jesus." The battle 
is not our's, but the Lord's. " The weapons of our 
warfare are not carnal, but mighty through God to 
the pulling down of strong-holds." He that is for 
us is more than all that can be against us. Trust 
riot, then, my brother, in the wisdom of men, but in 
the power of the Lord, which is like Ezekiel's wheel 
within a wheel. And while, like St. Paul, you are 
set for the defence of the gospel, (good news of the 
kingdom,) may you in nothing be ashamed or terri-
fied by your adversaries, but with all boldness preach 
the word, and suffer, if need be, for Christ's sake. 
Paul desired his Philippian brethren to be " blame-
less and harmless, the sons of God without rebuke, 
in the midst of a crooked and perverse nation, among 
whom ye shine as lights in the world, holding forth 
the word of life." May this be your lot while look-
ing for the Nobleman's return, and may the Lord 
supply all your need according to his riches in glory, 
by Christ Jesus. Be assured that you have our sym-
pathy and prayers. Your sister in Christ. 
Lunenburg (Mass.), Nov. 25th, 1851. 
DIED, in Perry, N. Y., Aug. 31st, 1851, THOMAS 
R. COLLIER, son of Charles S. and Eliza C. Collier, 
aged 10 years. He died after art illness of eight 
days. Thomas was a good boy, and we have reason 
to believe that it is well with him, and that we shall, 
if faithful, be soon re-united. 
c. S. C. 
DIED, in Union county, Ind., Oct. 9th, 1851. JoHN 
CREEK, aged 77 years and 24 days. Father Creek 
was one of the first settlers of Union county. As a 
citizen, he was praiseworthy, and did much to im-
prove the neighborhood in which he lived. As a 
husband and father, he was kind and affectionate, ril-
ing and governing his own house in the fear of God. 
As a Christian, much might be said of him. His 
Bible and his Saviour were his companion and his 
theme. For several years past his language was, " I 
wait daily for the coming of the Son of God." Ev-
ery morning and night he offered himself and family 
to God around the family altar. The last time he 
attended family worship, he had to be helped from 
his knees, when lie told them that it was the last 
time he would be able to how with them around the 
altar of prayer. His disease was dropsy, from which 
he suffered much ; but he bore his affliction with 
Christian fortitude, praying that the Lord would con-
tinue his grace to him, that he might patiently wait 
the Lord's soon coming. The nearer he drew to the 
shores of time, the more abundant evidence he gave 
that he had not followed cunningly-devised fables, 
but that the grace of God was sufficient to destroy 
the fear of death, and give a hope that reaches be-
yond this vale of sorrow. About half an hour be-
fore his death he called his companion to him, and 
clasping his arms around her neck said, " Meet me 
in heaven." Thus he died, full of years and of the 
grace of God, and has gone to enjoy the rest pur-
chased for him by the blood of Christ. Blessed be 
the Lord for such a salvation, which makes us happy 
in this life, will save us in death, and in eternity 
bring us to the habitations of the blest, where we 
shall sing the songs of redeeming grace and dying 
love. May the grace and mercy of God sustain the 
afflicted widow and children, and bringthem to enjoy 
again his society in another and better world. The 
funeral discourse was preached by Rev. Thos. Carr, 
from Rev. 14:13—" And I heard a voice from heaven 
saying unto roe, Write, Blessed are the dead who 
die in the Lord from henceforth ; yea, saith the Spi-
rit, that they may rest from their labors; and their 
works du follow them." R. E. FULTON. 
THE OUTRAGE AT SALT LAKE. 
The St. Joseph (Mo.) Gazette has an interesting 
letter from Utah, under date of Sept. 28th, giving an 
account of the late revolutionary proceedings in that 
territory, and confirming in every particular the state-
ments heretofore received. We gave in our last the 
statement of an United States Judge, in which he 
described the spirit of the Mormons towards the Gov-
ernment, and the effect of a speech -he made in de-
fending it against the denunciations of their lead-
ers. The following extracts foolish a more detailed 
account of the proceedings that took place on the 
occasion. 
At the close of the speech, the audience, astonished 
at the boldness of the speaker in daring to allude to 
the denunciations of the General Government by their 
leaders, remained silent, apparently awaiting their 
cue from his Excellency Brigham Young, President 
of the Church. After a deep and ominous silence of 
a moment, he arose, and in substance spoke as fol-
lows : 
He would have but little to say. He did not ex-
pect that Judge Brocchus [the gentleman who spoke] 
would come there to teach them their duty. He 
would he instructed by no such boys. He could buy 
a thousand of them, and bring them there in band-
boxes, and place them upon the stand. He could 
prove that Judge Brocchus came there to run for 
Congress, or to be elected Delegate to Congress from 
their territory. He could have the papers in proof 
of this charge produced, but he would not. Judge 
Brocchus was ignorant of the facts in relation to the 
action or conduct of the United States Government 
concerning the Mormon battalion, or else he was wil-
fully wicked—" as corrupt as the Government offi-
cers at Washington, who sat and saw the Mormons 
murdered, plundered, and driven into the desert, and 
never opened their mouths, the damn scoundrels." 
Gen. Taylor was dead and in hell, arid who could 
help it? He knew as much about General Washing-
ton as Judge Brocchus did. He had more talent and 
wisdom than Washington ever had. He would pro-
tect this people from imposition. He was there. He 
was the boy that could use the sword. 
The proceedings in the Church during this outra-
geous harangue was singular and alarming. The 
utterance and gesticulation of Brigham Young be. 
came violent in the extreme. He strode madly upon 
the platform on which the United States Judges and 
the officials of the Church were seated. He gave 
notice that there should be no further discussion upon 
the subject; there was to be no reply to his speech ; 
and that, if anything more were said, there would be 
a pulling of hair and a cutting of throats. Here the 
scene beggared description. The audience was thrilled 
with the power of Governor Young's vehement and 
invective oratory, and convulsed with feelings of in-
dignation towards the officers of the Government, and 
especially the one who had just dared to comment 
The excitement resulting from the Judge's speech 
has been deep and intense, and fears have been enter-
tained for his personal safety ; and so much reason 
has there been for such apprehension, that he has 
been waited upon by a number of persons and ap-
prised of threats that had been made toward him, and 
advised to keep within doors at night, and to avoid 
being alone in retired places as much as possible. 
The people of the United States can form nothing 
like an adequate conception of the bitterness of the 
feelings of this people against the General Govern-
ment. Their almost constant theme, in and out of 
church, is denunciation of the United States, and of 
all sects of Christians whose faith and practice are 
different from theirs. 
On Sunday last, an individual called Elder Snow, 
lately appointed Missionary of the Mormon church 
to England, arose in the Bowery to make his valedic-
tory address to the congregation. After having ad-
verted to his mission and its interests, and to the suc-
cess which had attended the labors of the " perpetual 
emigration society,"—to which he had the honor of 
helonging,—he remarked that when he saw the re-
port of the donations to the funds- of the society, his 
surprise was unbounded ; " for," said he," what sum 
do you think the United States—the whole United 
States—the great United States, donated to the relief 
of the poor saints? Why, the enormous, the egre-
gious SUM of tine hundred dollars ; damn them !" he 
shouted, in a great rage, " we don't want it—we 
won't have it. But now they come to us and want a 
million for their great Washington Monument.—
Damn their nasty, stinking souls! Brethren, if this. 
be swearing, I can't help it." Then in a low voice, 
and with a look of great cunning, he added, " But I 
won't talk this way when I get into the United States. 
Oh, no!" 
" What," said Governor Young, laughing, and by 
the tone of his voice evidently approving the contem-
plated deceit, " you will act hypocritically, will 
you!" 
" Well," answered. Elder Snow, " I will riot be 
so much of a hypocrite as you may suppose, unless 
(turning reverentially to that gentleman) brother 
Brigham tells me to." And this ci-devant disciple 
of our Saviour continued : " Brethren, I have two 
wives; and whose business is it?" And this man 
is now on his way to England as a messenger from 
the Church of Latter Day Saints. 
In his way to the place of his destination, he must 
pass through the United States, and, inasmuch as 
these missionaries travel " without purse or scrip," 
he must necessarily be the subject of the hospitali-
ties of the people whom he so indecently abuses. 
His remarks were received with smiles by the wo-
men, and loud applause from the men, who composed 
the congregation. At the close of Elder Snow's re., 
marks, Brigham Young arose and said : " Brethren, 
1 will say but little, and that little is for the world. 
Now there is a rumor that the Judges and other 
United States officers are going to leave. 1 hope 
they won't go. I am not angry with any one but 
Judge Brocchus; and with loin I will always he an-
gry, for he came here upon this stand, and degraded 
this people to the nethermost hell. But some of my 
people have said to me, 0 ! we shall be ruined.' 
Now, my friends, don't be scared. 1 am not scared. 
Let 'ern come !" 
This strain of remarks was continued for some 
time, when the congregation was dismissed to rneet 
again on the coming Sabbath, for the usual purpose 
of hearing the United States and the officers of the 
General Government abused in the most seditious and 
indecent manner. 
I cannot commit to paper, nor would you publish 
if I were to write, the obscene and vulgar expres-
sions that have been used and are commonly used by 
the Mormon preachers here—especially Brigham 
Young—in their denunciation of the United States. 
We never hear a syllable of pure evangelical preach 
ing within the walls of their Bowery, which is their 
place of worship. They never peach the cardinal 
Christian virtues ; never inculcate pious duties ; never 
urge their congregations to repentance and humility, 
or to the practice of true Christian principles. Their 
favorite theme is denunciation of the United States, 
and, in the elegant language of Governor Young, of 
" the damned corrupt set of scoundrels at the head 
of the United States Government." 
The plurality wife system is in full vogue here. 
LETTER FROM D. BOSWORTH. 
BRO. BLISS :—Seeing in the " Herald " for a few 
weeks past a commendatory notice of an " Analysis 
of the 24th chapter of Matthew," by the Rev. Hi-
ram Carleton, 1 availed myself of an opportunity I 
had in passing through the place of his residence to 
obtain a copy. 
1 was much pleased with the manner in which Mr. 
Carleton disposes of the arguments of Univeisalists, 
and spiritualists of all classes, concerning the " per-
sonal coming" and " literal kingdom " of Christ, 
and I thought, after establishing the fact that Christ's 
coming was personal, not providential, that his king-
dom was literal, not spiritual, and to be established 
under the whole heaven at his second coming, he 
would have done well to remember his own argu-
ments. On p. 36 he attempts to show that the king-
dom was set up, in some sense, eighteen hundred 
years ago. He admits that the disciples understood 
that the kingdom of God would begin to be when 
Messiah should appear in his glory ; but he argues 
the establishment of the kingdom, in a subordinate 
sense, at the commencement of the gospel dispensa-
tion, and cites the parable of the Nobleman (Luke 
19th) to prove it. Whereas, that parable was spoken 
to correct an idea that had obtained among the disci-
ples, that the kingdom of God should immediately 
appear. Had I not seen the keenness of his percep-
tions in other things, I should have thought our au-
thor's intellect obtuse indeed. As it was, I was pre-
pared to hear him talk of promised redemption (or 
" deliverance "—see Campbell,) a4 being nigh at 
hand when the " great tribulation " commenced. 
Whereas Christ speaks of it as being nigh not till 
they should see those events take place which should 
announce the closing of the times of the Gentiles. 
(See Luke 21:25, 28.) 
Again. Mr. Carleton speaks of the return of the 
Jews, and the re-building of Jerusalem, when " the 
times of the Gentiles " are ended ; as though God 
works in a circle, giving to the Jews two days of 
probation, and to the Gentiles only one, thus making 
him a respecter of persons, in the worst sense of the 
word. 
Again. Mr. Carleton argues that we cannot know 
anything about the period of Christ's coming, be-
cause the antediluvians " knew not till the flood came 
and took them all away." Now why did they not 
know ? God told Noah of the flood. lie was a right-
eous man, a preacher of righteousness, and the Spirit 
of Christ in him went and preached to the spirits in 
prison, when the long-suffering of God waited while 
the ark was preparing. The time that would elapse 
before that judgment should come on the world God 
announeed—ona kee‘lsed and twenty yeaTS. Can it 
be supposed that Noah piaaelied repentance to that 
wicked generation, and said nothing of the accom-
plishment of the time when it should take place? 
The idea is preposterous—no man can believe it. 
Such an argument, to escape the conclusion that the 
coming of Christ is at hand, carries its own refuta-
tion on the face of it. 
But when 1 took tip my pen, I did not intend to re-
view or notice the arguments of the writer in any 
way, but simply to ask you to explain how far you 
agree with the writer ; whether you are prepared to 
call all those false teachers who think they under-
stand these times ? (See p. 28.) Also, if you agree 
with the writer in the " glorious doctrine of the 
Age to come,' " &c., &c.? Yours. 
Low Hampton (N. Y.), Nov. 19th, 1851. 
REMARKS. — Candidates for office, when asked 
their opinion on points, explained by their published 
speeches and recorded votes, deem it sufficient to re-
fer to those. At this day, we might with propriety 
do the same. We have not changed, and we are not 
aware that we have modified our views respecting 
the nature of the glorious future age—the Golden 
Age. We dissent from that exposition in all points 
wherein it differs from our own expositions. We 
understand that Prophecy was given as a light to the 
future, and, shining as it does, to show us when we 
are approximating the consummation of all prophetic 
declarations—at which time we understand that pro-
bation ceases, and the earth, inhabited by resurrec-
tion saints, will succeed the present. 
Because other persons cannot embrace our views 
in all respects, while we are satisfied of their hon-
esty, piety and ability, it is no reason why we should 
withhold from them our good wishes and commenda-
tions.—En. 
LINES 
RESPECTFULLY INSCRIBED TO ELDER J. V. HIMES. 
Hope on, brother—nothing fearing, 
Though thy trial-day is nearing, 
Truth will triumph,—falsehood clearing : 
Only lean on Jesus's arm. 
Let thy foes, with daring faces, 
And with unprovoked menaces, 
Seek thy ruin, yet God's grace is 
All-sufficient—none can harm. 
Still press on in duty's calling, 
Waver not though friends be falling 
From thy ranks ; with spirits galling 
Challenging to unfair test ; 
Let them threaten and defy you, 
And with impious tongues belie you, 
Jesus' love they can't deny you, 
Nor your look'd-for promis'd rest. 
He is true who 's promis'd never 
To forsake, though friends dissever, 
For His love endureth ever ; 
Trust alone in Jesus' name. 
Yes, though friends despise and leave you, 
And with poignant untruth grieve you, 
Yet His love will not deceive you ;— 
He is cantina—suit the same. 
Still, earth's friendships are endearing—
There is naught below so cheering 
As the voice of friends—appearing 
Kindliest 'mid the darkest hour. 
Such thou hast,—friends else than seeming—
Winter friends, with warm hearts beaming, 
With regard the kindest teeming— 
Armed with truth's prevailing power. 
Then press onward, nothing fearing, 
Truth will triumph—falsehood clearing ; 
And the distant port you're hearing, 
Where the wicked ne'er infest. 
Yes, hope on, though trials greet you, 
Falsehood never can defeat you ; 
Soon thy Father's smiles will greet you 
In the land of promised rest. 
THE ADVENT HERALD. 
The President gives a clear account of the ill-
starred Cuban expedition, but which contains no new 
facts. Where so much has been published in rela-
tion to this expedition, of a contradictory character, 
a statement of facts from an authentic source cannot 
fail to interest. In connection with the mission of 
Commodore Parker, to ascertain the facts in relation 
to the American prisonets in Cuba, the President 
says that, according to the record of the examination, 
the prisoners who were executed all admitted the of-
fences charged against them, of being hostile in-
vaders of the island. Of those who were still in the 
field at the time the prisoners first taken were exe-
cuted, and who were subsequently captured, none ap-
pear to have been tried or executed. Of the final 
disposition of those sent to Spain, no official informa-
tion has been received. 
The President speaks of this expedition as illegal 
and ill-fated, and of those who took part in it as 
thoughtless young men, who were induced by false 
and fraudulent representations to violate the law of 
the country. Too severe a judgment, he justly re-
marks, can hardly be passed by the indignant sense 
of the community, upon those who deceived them. 
Although these offenders against the laws have for-
feited the protection of their country, yet dictated by 
sympathy for their families, and compassion for them-
selves, no proper effort has been spared to procure 
the release of such as are citizens of the United 
States. Congress is called upon to consider whether 
further legislation is necessary to prevent the perpe-
tration of such offences in future. He also says the 
Govern rnenr of the United States has at all times since 
its establishment, endeavored to enforce the ditties of 
neutrality anti non-intervention in controversies be-
tweeo other powers. 
The policy of our Government in relation to the 
struggles in other countries, is very concisely stated. 
Every people should choose for itself and make and 
alter its political institutions to suit its own con-
venience. 
Copies of correspondence with the Ministers of 
Great Britian and France, in relation to the orders 
issued to the naval commanders on the West India 
station, to prevent by force the landing of adventurers 
on the Island of Cuba, are transmitted. In this cor- 
respondence our Government re-asserted the principle 
that the American flag is a protection to every regu- 
larly documented merchant vessel, and no American 
vessel can he allowed to be visited or searched. 
Suitable assurances were received from the repre-
sentatives of both Great Britain and France that the 
flag of the United States should be respected. 
The Message alludes to the outrage ;upon the 
Spnaish Consul at New Orleans, and sets forth the 
rights of foreign ministers and consuls to especial re-
spect and protection. The President, on receiving 
Governor Young is said to have as many as ninety 
wives. He drove along the streets, a few days since, 
with sixteen of them in a long carriage—fourteen of 
them having each an infant at their bosoms. It is 
said that Heber C. Kimball, one of the Triune Coun-
cil, and the second person in the Trinity, has almost 
an equal number,—amongst them a mother and her 
two daughters. Each man can have as many wives 
as he can maintain, that is, after the women have 
been picked and culled by the head men. The Judges 
and Secretary of State have had the honor of being 
introduced by his Excellency, the Governor, to seve-
ral of his wives ; and also by Kimball to several of 
his. 
Will the American people—can they—tolerate 
such a blot upon the fair fame of their country 1 
All the United States officers who do not belong to 
the Mormon Church, have resolved to leave the ter-
ritory, being unable to reconcile it to their sense of 
patriotism and self-respect to remain in the midst of 
the sedition and lawless vice that pervade this com-
munity. In view of their departure, the people have 
become greatly alarmed — fearing the adoption of 
some severe measures by the General Government. 
Governor Young, accompanied by a number of the 
elders of the Church, a few days since formally called 
on Judge Brandebury, Mr. Secretary Harris, and 
H. R. Day, Indian Agent, and entreated them to re-
main. Finding entreaty in vain, a resort was had to 
threats and attempts at intimidation. The Legisla-
ture was accordingly convened in a hasty and infor-
mal manner, and a joint resolution adopted, declar-
ing that the Secretary of State was about to abscond 
with the money and other property belonging to the 
Government, and authorizing and requiring the Dep-
uty Marshal to seize the said money and other prop-
erty, and take into his custody the person of Mr. 
Harris, unless he surrendered the funds in his pos-
session as Secretary of State. The Deputy Marshal 
waited upon Mr. Harris, and served upon him a copy 
of the joint resolution. Mr. H. thereupon applied 
to the Supreme Court, then in session, for a writ of 
injunction, which was promptly granted, forbidding 
the removal of the public money from the possession 
of the Secretary of State by the Deputy Marshal, or 
any other person. Seeing the difficulties into which 
they would plunge themselves, by persisting in vio-
lent measures in spite of the Judiciary, they paused 
in their mad career, and Brigham Young then in 
writing asked the opinion of the Supreme Court as 
to the right of the Legislature to take the money 
from the possession of the Secretary. This was in-
tended as a mere show of a law-abiding spirit ; for 
the question had before been fully answered by the 
injunction the Supreme Court had granted. 
The entire pages of your paper might be filled 
with the surprising and disgusting details of the 
state of affairs here, but as the officers of the Gov-
ernment intend to make a full report upon the subject 
to the President of the United States, I will conclude 
by saying, that these people have no idea of ever 
yielding a loyal obedience to the laws or jurisdiction 
of the General Government, and that they must ei-
ther be sternly forced into submission to the laws of ' 
decency and justice, or else abandoned to their vile 
and seditious practices and feelings. Which of the 
two things shall be done is a question, the answer to 
which, in no small degree, involves the dignity and 
honor of the people, and the Government of the 
United States. 
THE PRESIDENT'S MESSAGE. 
intelligence of the outrage, directed the U. S. At-
torney at New Orleans to inquire into the facts, and 
the extent of the pecuniary loss sustained by the con-
sul, with the intention of laying them before Con-
gress, in order that indemnity may be granted. The 
President in this connection suggests that the legisla-
tion of the country is deficient in not providing suffi-
ciently either for the protection or punishment of 
consuls. 
Attention is again invited to the subject of recip-
rocal trade between the United Sates and Canada. 
Overtures for a convention upon his subject have 
been received, but the President thinks reciprocal 
legislation preferable. 
A convention for the adjustment of the Portuguese 
claims has been concluded, and the ratifications ex-
changed. The first instalment of the indemnity has 
been paid by Portugal. The President of France 
has been selected as the arbiter in the case of the 
Gen. Armstrong, and has accepted the trust. It 
does riot appear from the Message that a decision has 
been given against the claim, as has been reported. 
The President recommends Kossuth and his com-
panions to Congress. 
In connection with our relations with Mexico, it is 
stated that the Tehuantepec treaty has not been rati-
fied by that country, but that the administration is de-
termined to exert all proper efforts to bring about the 
necessary arrangements for the speedy completion of 
the railroad. 
A condensed and clear statement of the finances of 
the country is given, and it appears that they are in 
a prosperous condition. A constantly accumulating 
surplus is applicable to the extinction of the public 
debt. The condition of trade and commerce, how-
ever, is not so satisfactory, and shows that the coun-
try has not been benefitted by a policy which dictated 
a low rate of duties. A modification of the tariff 
and specific duties are recommended. We shall 
look with interest to the report of the Secretary of 
the Treasury for the statistics of our commerce. It 
appears by the brief statement given by the President 
that, deducting the specie exports and imports, there 
is a balance of trade against us of $22,472,844, not-
withstanding the great increase in the value of our 
cotton exports. The exports of specie over the im-
ports, for the year ending the 30th of June last, have 
been $24,263,979, but what is more alarming, the ex-
ports for the first quarter of the present fiscal year 
are largely increased, and if continued in the same 
ratio during the year, it will drain from our metallic 
currency the enormous amount of over fifty-eight mil-
lions of dollars. 
The Texas stock has not yet been issued, the con-
ditions upon which it is to be delivered not having as 
yet been complied with. 
The President recommends an increase in the com-
pensation of the California Land Claims Commis-
sioners. He advises, on mature consideration, that 
the mineral lands of California he permitted to re-
main as at present, a common field, and the survey 
and sale of the agricultural lands. The establishment 
of an agricultural bureau is again recommended. Also, 
that judicious appropriations be made for the improve-
ment of rivers and harbors. 
Reference is made to several important subjects in 
the reports of the Departments. 
With regard to the protection of our Southern 
States and of the adjacent Mexican frontier from the 
incursions of hostile Indians, the President's remarks 
fully confirm that everything has been done to check 
the incursions of the Indians, which could be done 
with the limited force at the disposal of the Govern-
ment. It devolves upon Congress to make further 
provision, if any is required, to carry out our treaty 
stipulations with Mexico. It is evident, however, 
from the statements of the President, that in stipu-
lating to prioect Northren Mexico from the incur-
sions of hostile Indians, we have assumed a task 
which is absolutely impossible to perform to the sat-
isfaction of Mexico. 
An increase of the army is recommended jor the 
better protection of the inhabitants of Califoiftia and 
the new territories from the Indians. Such an in-
crease appears to be absolutely necessary. 
The President recommends that the officers and 
seamen of the American Arctic expedition receive 
extra pay and emoluments. A re-organization of the 
navy is again recommended. Also that the subject 
of punishment in that branch of the public service 
be investigated, with a view to the correction of cer-
tain evils which have grown out of the abolition of 
corporal punishment. The establishment of a navy-
yard on the Pacific is recommended. The esti-
mates for the navy for the current and ensiling fiscal 
years do not vary materially from the appropriations 
of last year. 
The recommendations of the Postmaster General, 
that the present rate of postage on letters be adhered 
to, and that a more simple and uniform rate on news-
papers be adopted, are sanctioned by the President. 
A revision of the statutes of the United States is 
strongly recommended. The reasons adduced fur 
this revision are cogent and conclusive. Congress is 
again urged to establish a commission for the settle-
ment of private claims against the United States—a 
most wise and necessary measure. 
The Message concludes with some remarks with 
regard to the enforcement of the Fugitive Slave Law, 
and to the compromise measures. The President 
again recommends an adherence to the adjustment 
measures, not because they are perfect, for no human 
legislation can be perfect, but because wide differ-
ences and jarring opinions can only be reconciled by 
yielding something on all sides. 
The Message cannot be regarded as a partizan 
document, although unscrupulous party prints may 
cavil at some portions of it. Some of these prints 
never see anything to he commended in the acts of 
the administration, and condemn the most trivial mea-
sures of public policy with the same rabid zeal that 
they denounce the roost important acts. But the 
people generally, irrespective of party, will take a 
less contracted view of the policy of our government, 
and will cheerfully give the due meed of praise to 
an administration which has conducted the affairs 
of the nation, both internal and external, with an 
eye solely to the public good and to the welfare of the 
nation. 
Dr. Chalmers on Millenarianism. 
The life of the Rev. Edward Bickersteth, as an 
evangelical minister of the Established Church of 
England, has just been published in England. The 
English correspondent of the New York " Independ-
ent " says of it : 
It is a portraiture of a holy and laborious man, 
who grew almost as much as it is possible to grow 
within the Establishment. Mr. Bickersteth held 
Millenarian views. He believed that the second 
coming of Christ will precede the Millennium, and 
that the " first resurrection " is not spiritual, but lit-
eral, and that Christ will establish a kingdom and 
" reign in righteousness " on the earth, before the 
resurrection of the wicked and the general judgment. 
These views Mr. Bickersteth brought under the no-
tice of Dr. Chalmers, which elicited from him the 
following letter, now first published : 
MY DEAR SIR :—I should have acknowledged 
much sooner the receipt of your kind note, and of 
the precious volume which accompanied it. I ant 
now reading it with great interest, and think I shall 
accord more fully with its views than with those of any 
author I have yet read who has ventured on the field 
of unfulfilled prophecy. 1 lately finished the peru-
sal of all Mede's and all Cunninghame's prophetical 
works, and certainly have been much impressed by 
them. I sympathize, however, far more with your 
doubts than I do with his decision on the subject of 
a personal reign. But of this, on the general, I am 
well satisfied that the next coming (whether in per-
son or not, I forbear to say,) will be a coming, not to 
the final judgment, but to precede and usher in the 
millennium. 
I utterly despair of the universal prev-
alence of Christianity, as the result of a pacific mis-
sionary process, tinder the guidance of human wis-
dom and principle. But without slackening in the 
least her obligation to help forward this great cause, 
I look for its conclusive establishment through a 
widening passage of desolating judgments, with the 
utter demolition of our present civil and ecclesiastical 
structure. 
Let me advert to the practical character and unc-
tion of your work, as stamping an additional virtue 
upon it ; being throughout a powerful address to the 
conscience, instead of a mere entertainment, which 
too many of our works on prophecy are to the cu-
riosity of men. 
Feb. 17, 1836. 
THOMAS CHALMERS. 
The Pharisee's Prayer Analyzed. 
.This prayer consists of two parts. 
The first is occupied with an enumeration of his 
neighbor's bad qualities—" I am not as other men 
are, extortioners, unjust, adulterers, or even as this 
publican." 
The second with a statement of his own good 
qualities—" I fast twice in the week ; I give tithes 
of all that I possess." 
This is done by way of comparison—" I am not 
as other men are." He seeth his own supposed ex-
cellence in contrast with the vileness of " other men." 
All his supposed goodness he ascribes to God's 
grace—" God, I thank thee that I am not as other 
men are." 
The prayer contains neither confession of sin, nor 
petition for mercy, but only thanksgiving. He mani-
festly considers himself as " rich, and increased in 
goods, and having need of nothing," save only to 
thank God for his abundance. 
REFLECTIONS. 
It is a certain mark of Phariseeism that one re-
gards himself with self-complacency, and his neigh-
bors with contempt. 
Pharisees always compare themselves not with 
God's law, but with •‘ other men." 
Pharisees never look to the state of the heart, 
but only to their outward performances. It is not 
humility, or faith, or purity of heart which this man 
boasts, (things of which men are not apt to be proud,) 
but of fasting and alms-deeds—outward works, which 
the most wicked of men can perform. 
Pharisees are quite willing to thank God for 
their superior goodness, provided only that it be ac-
knowledged without contradiction. But if you at-
tempt to show them that they are not so righteous 
as they supposed themselves to be, then they are of-
fended. 
A prayer without either confession of sin, or 
petition for mercy, is very suspicious. 
The Pharisee will always meet with an awful 
repulse at the throne of grace. This man, who 
" trusted in himself that he was righteous, and des-
pised others," was rejected, while the publican was 
graciously accepted. 
Lutheran Observer 
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BY REV. D. H. MANSFIELD. 
T
HE popularity of this excellent Collection of Music is sufficiently 
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passengers injured. 
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the train. But no notice was taken of it—the engineer said 
the signal was not given. The consequence was that the 
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thirty or forty miles an hour. 
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through the second—completely demolishing both cars, and 
burying all the passengers (sixty or seventy) in the ruins. 
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hour before all the passengers were rescued from the ruins. 
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though many were badly injured, by having their ribs, arms, 
legs, &c., broken. This accident was the result of the most 
criminal carelessness. 
Fire in a School-house, N. Y. 
On Monday night, Dec. 1st, about 9 o'clock, while the 
evening school, in the ward school-house No.13, in Fortieth 
street, near the Eighth Avenue, was in session, on the third 
floor, a fire broke out in the lower portion of the building, 
and opportunely was discovered by the janitor, (a colored 
man named Smith,) who instantly ascended to the apartment 
in question, and without any excitement or alarm, gave to 
the teachers, Messrs. Boyce and Finch, information of the 
danger they were all in. The colored man then left, and pro-
ceeded to check the blaze with pails of water. In the mean-
time, not a single scholar knew a word of the fire, and the 
teachers very coolly and judiciously dismissed the classes, 
and all of them reached the street before the alarm was 
(rounded. The building being cleared of all human beings, 
the fire-bells struck, and in a few seconds the flames burst 
through the second floor. The fire was not subdued untilthe 
premises had sustained damage to the amount of $3000. 
In this school there were near five hundred scholars, con-
sisting of small children, and half-grown persons, all of 
whom reached terra firma without a bone broken, or the least 
excitement or panic being manifested, which was the result 
of the praiseworthy acts of the colored man, Smith, and 
Messrs. Boyce and Finch, the teachers, who are deserving 
of great credit for the calm and cool judgment they displayed 
during the occurrence. 
The building is heated by means of two furnaces, one in 
the front, and the other in the rear part of the building. The 
trustees, finding these insufficient to heat the building, had a 
small stove put up in each recitation room, the pipe of which, 
by an unaccountable want of foresight, they haul put into the 
air-flues connected with the ventilators, instead of running 
them into the chimney. These flues have valves opening 
outward for the admission of air, through which the wind 
entering, caught the sparks from the stove-pipe, and carried 
them back among the beams and timbers on which the floor 
is laid. At 4 o'clock on Tuesday morning, the smouldering 
ruins of the interior of the building again blazed up, and but 
for the prompt arrival of the fire department the second time, 
the entire premises would have been demolished. Quantities 
of water were, however, played upon the burning fragtnents 
until the fire was cotnpletely deadened.—N. Y. Times. 
The city authorities of New York, among other demon-
strations of welcome to Kossuth, it is said, have hired some 
sixty young maidens, who are to be attired as " Liberty God-
desses," and are to be set up on high pedestals at different 
points along the route of the procession ! From these eleva-
tions they are to shower the great Hungarian with flowers as 
he passes. Sixty goddesses of liberty! Are not the New 
Yorkers rather overdoing the matter 'I and is not such a 
detnonstration in had taste 1 The custom of introducing 
goddesses of liberty into public processions and demonstrations 
originated in the days of ancient Greece, and was revived by 
the French Jacobins at the time of their first revolution. The 
shameless manner in which the Parisian " goddesses" were 
attired, and the bloody orgies in which they figured, dis-
gusted the friends of decency, and the custom has again gone 
into disuse. We are sorry to see this heathen practice revived 
on this side the. Atlantic.—Journal. 
A NUT FOR THE GEOLOGISTS.—Hiram Dewitt, of this 
town, who has recently returned from California, brought 
witlt him a piece of the auriferous quartz rock, of about the 
size of a man's fist. On Thanksgiving day it was brought 
out for exhibition to a friend, when it accidentally dropped 
upon the floor and split open. Near the centre of the mass 
was discovered, firmly inbedded in the quartz and slightly 
corroded, a cut won nail, of the size of a sixpenny nail. It 
was entirely straight, and had a perfect head. By whom 
was that nail made? At what period was it planted in the 
yet uncrystalized quartz '7. How came it in California? If 
the head of that nail could talk, we should know something 
more of American history than we are ever likely to know.—
Springfield Republican. 
The English papers contain accounts of fearful inundation 
in the Austrian Tyrol, caused by the bursting of a water-
spout in Carinthia. The accounts ti-ornall parts of the crown 
lands are very distressing. In many parts dreadful devasta-
tions have been caused. The rushing masses of water, as 
they passed through Murbutg, carried with them gigantic 
trees, which were torn up by the roots, fragments of houses, 
mills, carriages, timber , utensils, boats, and numerous ani-
mals. Many places in Carinthia are quite destroyed, churches 
and hospitals were broken down by the fury of the water, 
and were speedily reduced to a mass of ruins. Many corpses 
have been found in the Tyrol. The accounts from Agram 
are of the same melancholy character. 
Accounts are published of violent earthquakes along the 
Albanian and Dalmatian coasts. The waters of the river 
Yoiussa, six miles from Vallona, rose two feet above the or-
dinary level, and many houses in the town fell. The town 
of Beratti, about thirty miles from Vallona, is a heap of 
ruins ; its castle has also been destroyed. Some villages 
have literally disappeared, leaving scarce a vestige of their 
former existence. The shocks, though weaker, continued to 
be felt up to the latest date, being the 26th of Oct. 
Millennium of the Russian Empire.—Next year, 1852, Rus-
sia will celebrate, throughout the vast expanse of her empire, 
the completion of the thousandth year of her national exist-
ence, which will be kept with all the solemnity due to the 
importance of the event. The Russian empire was founded 
in 852, in which year the Russians, or Russians, probably of 
Scandinavian origin, made their first appearance on the 
shores of the Bosphorus, as Warangiens. 
Progress.—The Sultan of Turkey has issued a firman 
respecting the Protestants of his empire, considering Chris-
tianr, who shall so declare themselves, as a separate and 
united body, and as such entitling them to claim protection of 
the officers of the Turkish Government, to demand pass-
ports, register births, and make such representations as they 
require through the means of a common agent to the Sub-
lime Porte. 
The American Chapel in Rome Closed.—The Pope has or-
dered the Protestant American chapel in Rome to be closed. 
Two rooms of the American legation are opened for divine 
worship each Sabbath, under the protection of the Ameri-
can flag. 
"Gvtvxvmt's Es s A s ."--Bro. Himes : Permit me through 
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It consists of twelve essays on subjects connected with the 
glorious advent and reign of Christ on earth; beginning with 
the purpose of God in the creation of the world, tracing its 
history through the fall, the great work of redemption by 
Christ, the recovery of believers from guilt and pollution, as 
a preparation for the kingdom, the relation of the Jews to 
the promises of the everlasting inheritance, the nature of the 
kingdom of heaven, the evidence of the speedy approach of 
the kingdom, and all its glorious concomitants, as evinced by 
the fulfilment of the long chains of prophecy, &c. The work 
is designed, and admirably calculated to lead the mind, step 
by step, to the grand awakening, and, to the Christian, soul-
cheering conclusion, of the speedy personal manifestation and 
reign of the Saviour with his redeemed saints, on a renewed 
and glorified earth. It is a manual such as every Adventist 
would do well to keep by him, to put into the hands of those 
who are inquiring after truth; or those whom he may wish to 
lead to its investigation ; and I earnestly hope it will have 
an extensive circulation among us. 
J. LITCH. 
Philadelphia, Nov. 18, 1851. 
To Correspondents. 
A. R. C.—We do not understand what you mean by being 
grieved at our refusal to give notices to promote the " com-
mon cause." We have never refused to give any notice for 
any one engaged in the "common cause" of the Advent. 
True, we have refused a few, very few,—but all of them 
were from persons who had no fellowship for us, and were 
open opposers of the Herald. Would not you have done the 
same You have, we doubt not, been misled in this matter. 
L. A. Brass—Shall be happy to have you act as agent, as 
you suggest. 
OUR WINTER CONFERENCES.—I shall arrange for 
those soon. I shall visit Connecticut first. Shall be glad 
to hear from others in New England, who wish my labors. 
At present, I am laboring under the effects of cold and sore 
throat ; but hope to be better soon, and able to speak as 
usual. I spent Sabbath, the 7th, in Providence. The Church 
there is in prosperity, and cheerful in hope. They have 
my most sincere thanks for their sympathy and aid, under my 
sufferings arising from the malignant persecutions of the ene- 
mies of the Advent cause. 
T. V. H. 
THE TRIAL.—We are thus far unable to learn when this 
will come on. We now presume that our prosecutors do not 
mean to bring it to a trial at the present term. We would 
like to have the case heard and disposed of, but suppose we 
shall have to wait the law's delay. 
NOTICE.—Bro. I. ADRIAN is expected to commence a 
course of lectures in Truro, Mass., the last Sunday in De-
cember, and labor in that place and vicinity for some time, as 
God shall open the door. 
Rev. F. C. Ewald, chaplain to the Protestant Bishop of 
Jerusalem, states that there are about 12,000 Jews, in all, in 
the Holy Land. 
To whom it may concern.—This is to certify, that I this 
day give my son, Franklin Washington, Ward, his time,and 
shall neither claim his wages nor pay his debts, from this 
date. 
ALVAN WARD. 
Ashburnham, Nov. 24th, 1851. 
PROVIDENCE, NOV. 23d, 1851. 
The Church of Adventists in Providence to those of like precious 
faith, and to all sister churches, greeting : 
Encouraged by repeated expressions of your union with us 
in faith and object, we take this method of appeal to you in 
relation to the prosecution now pending against our beloved 
brother J. V. Hines. Bro. Hinges was with US when the 
suit was instituted. The whole of the circumstances are 
known to us. The leading facts have been already laid be-
rme you in the " Herald ;" but we wish here to recall your 
attention to them. 
Bro. [limes was faithfully and laboriously endeavoring to 
;Advance the cause so dear to us all in this city and in a neigh-
boring village. A certain pamphlet was being circulated gra-
tuitously and with characteristic zeal—and which had been 
often repeated, in defiance of our most urgent remonstrances 
—much to the annoyance of the friends of our holy cause, 
and greatly to the detriment of the religious interests of our 
respective meetings. In the judgment of the friends, anti of 
Bro. Rimes himself, it became his duty briefly to expose the 
nature of said pamphlet, and those repeated annoyances, in 
which he nobly stood in defence of our religious rights and 
privileges. For thus exposing that pamphlet, and defending 
our religious freedom from those aggressiveannoyances, with 
the approbation of the brethren and large audiences of the 
public, front the pulpit, he has become subjected to the labor 
and expense of defending himself in the Court of Common 
Pleas of this State, against what we verily believe to be a 
malicious prosecution. 
Brethren, and friends of religious liberty, we feel that the 
burden thus laid upon Bro. Hirnes should be borne by those 
in whose behalf he was laboring. Otir religious privileges 
are worthy of the sacrifice ; and duty to our brother calls 
liar it. We need make no further appeal, — this simple 
statement will insure your response. 'l'o defend himself tri-
umphantly, will require a large expenditure for counsel and 
witnesses. This Church would delight in the privilege to 
endure the whole of this, if we were able ; but knowing our 
pecuniary inability, and being assured that very many who 
ardently love our brother, our glorious cause, and our reli-
gious freedom, will esteem it a privilege to aid, we have 
appointed a committee to raise a "Relief Fund," with which 
to enable Bro. Hitnes to meet these expenses. The follow-
ing brethren are appointed said committee :—Chester S. 
Wood, Arnold W. Brown, James Wolstenhohne, John H. 
Lonsdale, Charles Sisson, Thomas Snow, George S. Har-
wood, William A. Munroe, Anthony Pearce. 
Any funds for this object may be forwarded to ARNOLD 
W. BROWN, the treasurer of this fund, who will, under the 
direction of this Church, see that it is appropriated to this 
object. Or if more convenient, funds may be sent to the 
"Herald " oflice. 
At a 'Peeling of the Second Advent Church, held in New-
market Hall, Providence, Nov. 23(1,1851, the foregoing ad-
dress was adopted, with a request that it be published in the 
" Advent Herald " for several weeks. 
A. PEARCE, Sec'y. CH ESTER S. WOOD, CVm. 
BUSINESS NOTES. 
T. Ware—Your Children's Herald is mailed regularly. 
We have many such inquiries, arising, we suppose, from the 
fact, that as it is sent only once a month, it is mislaid in the 
offices before called for. We apprehend this is the chief if 
not the only difficulty. 
W. E. Hathaway. —The money is received—all right. 
Do the best you can. 
P. S. Higgins—Has the Herald been sent to you at any 
other office previous to this? If so, please let us know 
where. In every instance where a change is made, it should 
be stated distinctly where it was formerly sent, as well as to 
where it 'in us be seat. 
J. W. Daniels—You can keep the pocket Harps on sale. 
We very much regret the mistake. Have now sent the Sup-
plement to Harp is Bro. Litch's bundle. 
We have received $2 front a sister in Roxbury, Ct., with-
out any signature to her letter. If the money is to be cred-
ited to any one on their Herald account, they will please in-
form us to whom. 
J. Beardmore—Please do so. 
DELINQUENTS. 
If we have by mistake published any who have pair+, nr who are 
poor, we shall be happy to correct the error, on being api,rised of 
the fact. 
Dr. W. W. NELSON, of Red Rock, Ia., does not take 
his paper from the office-he owes 
 
Total delinquencies since Jan. 1st, 1851 
 177 77 
HERALD OFFICE DONATION FUND. 
From June 4th, 1851. 
Previous receipts 
 36 25 
Previous donations 
 
67 45 
S. Campbell 
 5 00 
Excess of donations over receipts 
 51 45 
FOR THE DEFENCE. 
Previous donations 
 65 25 
.1. Nocake I 00 
B. F, Brown 300 
Dr. A. G. W. Smith 1 00 Jane Jackson 1.00 
N. Gould I 00 
APPOINTMENTS, 6i.e. 
NOTICE.-As our paper is made ready for the press on Wednes-
day, appointments must be received, at the latest, by Tuesday 
evening, or they cannot be inserted until the following week. 
Brn. Wesley Burnham and Philo Hawkes will be at New Dur-
ban) Ridge, N. H. Sunday, Dec. 21st ; Loudon village, 22(1 ; War-
ner, (Waterloo villa
ge), N. H., 24th ; Claremont, 26th, 27th, and. 
Sunday, 28th; Mount Holly, Vt., 29th ; Low Hampton, N. Y., 31st; 
Addison, Vt., Jan. al and Sunday, 4th ; Bristol, 8th, 901, 10th, and 
Sunday, 11th; Waterbury, lath, 110th, 17th, and Sunday, 18th. 
Bro. N. Billings will preach in Mount Holly, Vt., Dec. 17th and 
IStli; Claremont, N.H., third and fourth Sabbaths in Dec.; Vernon, 
Vt.,129th; Athol, Mass., 30th; Templeton, 31st; Lynn, first Sabbath 
in Jan. 
Bro. J. M. Orrock will hold a conference with the Advent church 
iu Cabot, Vt., to commence Dec. 24th ; Dorrill, 31st ; Hardwick, 
Jan. 7th-each to continue over Sunday. 
Bro. T. M. Preble will hold a conference on London Ridge, N. 
H., commencing Wednesday evening Dec. 17th, and continue over 
the Sabbath. Bro. J. Cummings is requested to attend. hi behalf 
of the brethen. 
J. CUTTING. 
Bro. K. S. Hastings will preach at Kent, Ct., Dec. 14th ; Rox-
bury, 15th; Bridgeport, Slat. 
The Church of Adventists in Lowell, Mass , hold their meetings 
three times on the Sabbath, and on Wednesday and Saturday even-
ings, at Masonic Hall, (third floor,) corner of Worthen mid Merl-
mack-streets. 
Receipts from Dec. 2d to the 9th. 
The No. appended to each name below, is the No. of the Herald to 
which the money credited pays. By compering it with the 
present No. of the Herald, the sender will see how far he is in 
advance, or how far in arrears. 
T. Ware, 560-the $1 was credited ; II. Holmes, 560 ; J. Buzzell, 
580; S. Braley, 580; A. P. Nichols, 568; M. T. Currier, 593; H. Jack-
man-books sent ; C. K. Farnsworth, 560 ; P. Blood, 680 ; J. Mc-
Clellan, 567; S. B. Gleason, (and C. H.), 554 ; C. S. Collier, 689; R. 
Ireland, 606; F. M. Berry, 580; Dr. A. G. W. Smith, 599; A. Smith, 
586 ; D. Sawyer, 580 ; N. Brown, 560 ; S. Holman, 580 ; N. Milton, 
586-each 81. 
M. S. Whiting, 664 ; M. M. Maxwell, 622 ; J. C. Downing, 500 ; 
D. Eaton, 508-81 77 due ; Dr. C. C. Arms, 534-77 cts. due ; L. H. 
Cole, 586:.1. Crosby, 534-77 cts. due : C. Tucker, 580 ; S. Cahoon, 
586 ; S. Aldrich, 586 ; J. Dickerson, 513 ; Mrs. S A. Williams, 612 ; 
J. J Johnson, 512 ; S. Potter, 517-$1 371 due ; A. Weldon, (C. 11. 
to No. 72, and to) 585 ; G. Randall, (Testament, and to) 554 ; 14. 
Knowlton, 528-$1 due ; E. Crowell, on acc't t L. M. Richmond, 
711-each 82.1 
J. Andrews, (books and C. H., sent), 580 ; J. Alexander, 638 ; T. 
0. Cole, 599 ; B. P. Ravel, (and C. H.), 606-each $3. M. Martin, 
jr., 664 ; S. Wright, 580-each $5. T. Freeman, 560-31 77. Jane 
Jackson, 606-$2 77. H. Rogers, 554-50 cts. 
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